Friends,
let me clarify my initial post.

I am *not* talking about parallel currencies, a suggestive topic, though, with notable derivatives, but not clearly related with initial post [Personally, I think if any P2P social-free-currency becomes clearly successful, the World's owners will react minting their own digital currencies; likely hard-linked with national physical currencies and promoted by their propaganda media].

I am *not* talking about another clients or a standarized API too. Although seemingly it is a quite sense proposal, may be the computational-logical machinery cannot be easily encapsulated within a library. Estimating such a proposal is beyond my present knowledge of the Bitcoin's application.

I am talking about another architectural implementations. Let me to put forward using two questions:

a) Fast generation of new blocks is key to time-stamp pending transactions and each new block is a heavy computational-statistical issue, Therefore, why not to distribute such a computational effort among idle CPUs?

b) Broadcasting of the block chain is other key aspect. Therefore, why use a single network/mechanism to communicate among peers?

From my modest point of view, implementations based on stand-alone executables cannot address above questions or similar ones.

However, I have not got a clear idea if the Bitcoin's community will accept several Bitcoin architectural implementations working all together.

This is my first post, my first impression on Bitcoin after prowling around during days.

I am impressed with the mathematical machinery, hardly impressed.

On the other hand, a recurring question strikes me.

Seemingly the Bitcoin's implementation was born as a stand-alone executable, a main loop driven GUI. Additionally, from 0.2.6 version, JSON-RPC events can be fed into the main loop allowing integration with a variety of environments; however the stand-alone nature remains.

I have seen some topics proposing Firefox plugins or a standardized API (likely as a C++ library). But, ... there could be one question beyond.

What about another Bitcoin's implementations? Of course, I am talking about conformant ones.

Particularly, interesting implementations could address disadvantages of the monolithic, stand-alone solution. Examples of such advantages could be distribution of the heavy computational effort, additional concurrent networks to boost broadcasting of Bitcoin's blocks, and so on.

I would like to know the position of Bitcoin's community regarding of several Bitcoin implementations working all together.

Make sense? Is it acceptable? Are any such initiatives out there?