Well if you want to do a private submission:

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It depends on the quality of the answer. I've been paying a lot of bounties these days I'm considering launching an altcoin after seeing the success of my last venture (protoshares is at 24 million market cap in just a month). I want to test a bunch of ideas and new technology that's materialized over the past 4 years. It really is refreshing to see how fast this ecosystem has grown since the early days.

Alright, let's play the hypothetical game that I was to invest a large sum of funds (1000 bitcoins) into the development of a revolutionary new cryptocurrency. What features would you like to see in it? What problems need to be resolved? What annoys you most about Bitcoin.

Everybody worked hard and thus should get something


https://blockchain.info/tx/bbe71e390166a1beb6edb8fb0d5eca1beaa58c446c5ea352f864f2c14e67eea8 Paid

I really do appreciate the hard work everyone submitted. The goal really was to find a designer that has a style most similar to my taste. It's more of a preference thing than anything else and 11 really connected with what I want. Thus, I didn't want to have a drawn out contest.


https://blockchain.info/tx/3909743dfdd62d44e47d25ae81a5fb5b4b302bf5222186343d9737c97003a6d1 Paid

No, it was never designed to accommodate that use case.

Paid

https://blockchain.info/tx/39319fd2ed2184b406d232b601f808f9bc6a77743c04de010026f327e6837c86


It's going to be a comprehensive intro to Bitcoin gear towards curious adults with at least a high school education. I'll make sure you get a signed copy.

Hi all apologies for the delay and no I wouldn't burn my rep. I was in discussions with the book's author and there were some delays on that front. I really love the design 11ams has done. So instead of having a contest here is what I'm going to do. 11 you win the bounty. I'll give you 0.75 bitcoins for the cover and another 0.25 for all the necessary polish. Contact me over skype Charles_Hoskinson. Everyone else who posted a cover, post an address here and I'll pay you 0.03 bitcoins for the effort. Thanks for participating and sorry about the delays

(Clarifying edit) no more submissions 

Peter doesn't seem to understand that information actually has value. He makes me a sad panda.

Futures contracts exist under the same structure and can be purchased years out. Imagine buying oil futures for 2017.

11ams, I truly adore what you have designed it. It is amazingly creative!

Yes the contest is still open. Please make submissions prior to 11/21/2013. The top 3 will be moved to another thread and a voting contest will be held. The best voted candidate will receive 0.75 bitcoins for the cover and logo and another 0.25 to polish the cover with all the necessary fine details (author names, publishers, etc).

You expect BFL to be involved in anything other than misery, lies, damage to the community and bitter insults? This is yet another house of cards built to attempt to avoid the inevitable faith of all snake oil salesmen. 

Given the recent developments:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1qmbtu/mike_hearn_chair_of_the_bitcoin_foundations_law/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/11/13/sanitizing-bitcoin-coin-validation/

I'm wondering if the time has come to seriously examine the issues of blacklists, coin taint and anonymity outside of an academic or would be nice to have discussion. When I entered the ecosystem, my concern was fiat to cryptocurrency conversion and now PAUV, Mastercoin and BitShares are running well as funded evolving projects. I believe the next issue that needs to be resolved is the fungibility issue.

My hope for this thread is to start a discussion about fungibility, where it is threatened and the current technology that can ensure it. Like the Project Invictus thread that resulted in a VC funded company, I'd like to find something that makes sense and get it developed.

We will  survive and  get stronger. Bitcoin is an idea. Nothing is stronger than ideas that are necessary for both freedom and liberty. 

As a cryptographer who worked for a government agency that shall remain nameless, I agree completely with Adam's statements. Fungibility is a core tenet of our ecosystem and attacks upon it present massive challenges for us.

We need to take this threat seriously and react quickly with both innovation and education.

Damn you guys are making this hard. I'm glad it's a contest. I'll post some ideas tonight.

Thanks guys, contact me at charles.hoskinson@gmail.com or via skype at Charles_Hoskinson and let's get something setup

Sorry all for my tardiness. I've had some health issues that have really slowed me down, but I'm feeling better now thanks to some good stomach meds. I really like newflesh's symbol , but it needs more detail and color. Perhaps get a gradient and some black?  duxZero your cover is really amazing . I love the use of color and the simplicity. Keep working on it. Bitcoinomics needs to be the largest element of the title. Remove the bitcoin where you have placed it and move the symbol somewhere else. I agree that it needs to be in the cover somewhere, but just not there.

For the second versions, really zero in on what dux has done. I like elegant simplicity. It's hard to get right, but once you see it, you love it. On an interesting note, it appears that the bounty is now worth 400 bucks .

The book is a comprehensive introduction to the bitcoin space. It also will be used by a university for courses thus something somewhat conservative, yet reflects our cryptoanarchy roots.


Exactly, this is kinda the beginnings of a visual brand and I'd like to see what the community can offer. I'm open to most ideas and I'm really excited about the creativity.


Scale to Folio, Quarto and Octavo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_size. Use vectors. No visual brand has been established thus use your imagination and we'll work together to get there.


Blacks and blues are nice, imagine a book containing all the information of Bitcoin within. The bible of the movement that will be referred to as the Bitcoin book. What would it look like? What should it feel like. What's the texture.


Above


Yep