I like and would support your idea very much. It can't be done with Bitcoin though--because every time you mention this idea, the senior members reply (often derisively as you have seen)--that basically it can't be done and that besides, the computing power thrown at Bitcoin is useful enough in its own right in that it creates a beneficial new world economic order.
But that doesn't mean it can't be done!
I have there concluded, after following these threads with much chagrin, that those of us who support this idea should not bring it up in a general way as something Bitcoin should become. Rather we should seek support to start an Alt coin with these principals.. The vested interests of this community will not support it because it can't (according to them) be done within the framework of Bitcoin and Bitcoin, according to them, doesn't need it anyway to justify its existence. Which is really short hand for it can't be done within the design parameters of the model and it wasn't the goal anyway--so stop trying to rock the boat with these ideas.
I say that if one wants a crypto currency to catch on globally --one which fulfills the goals of Bitcoin economics, that something more useful must be done with the mining computing power--in addition to the usefulness the mining process itself bestows to the model.
So it can only be done by designing a new coin from scratch with precisely the goals the author of this thread has put forth.
Such a coin would be the ultimate last large one standing because it would be conceptually much more easy to sell the idea to the public and it would clean up the "Silk Road" image cryptocoins have had from the start --it might even soften government oppression of the project. It is the one new thing an new Alt coin can bring to the table!
My gut tells me, by the nature of how much this topic bugs the senior members--that the idea is worthy enough to really be a threat to Bitcoin. I say this because enough people have said it can be done, and because there is such a loud lobby against it within the community.
Please read up on the threads in which individuals have volunteered expertise.
The recent thread below, I recall, had a link to another post in which someone spoke with some seeming authority on the feasibility. The thread also included a lot of the typical panning this idea gets from very senior members.
can mining algorithyms be changed to benefit humanity
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232106.msg2443496#msg2443496So if one is interested in developing a, let us say "Boincoin" (after the Berkley organization which was behind mainlining crowd computing for research purposes--I think we should approach the organizations who could benefit--while we look for technical expert individual volunteers now with Botcoin--but who have the vision to expand the project-- to come up with a way to make it happen. Do this not as Bitcoin enthusiasts in particular--but as crypto currency enthusiasts looking for a better model.
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