What if YOU could put 1 feature, change, whatever, into the Bitcoin protocol?

[coinableS]

How about a GUI for multisigs in the core wallet?
Right now you have to create them in the console and spend via rawtransactions, unless you want to use some 3rd party.

[R2D221]

we also have SPDY 3.1 and HTTP 2.0 but who's counting.

Which have no interaction with the Bitcoin protocol at all.

[runam0k]

An incentive for full nodes, perhaps.

[coinableS]

An incentive for full nodes, perhaps.

Yea sadly I only run my bitcoin core when I need to, I can't do the 24 hours always on thing. Those that do should get a reward or have an incentive like no transaction fees or something.

[r3wt]

we also have SPDY 3.1 and HTTP 2.0 but who's counting.

Which have no interaction with the Bitcoin protocol at all.

True, but peer discovery could be more efficient with an official seednode client rather than IRC

[Hazir]

I would not change much with bitcoin. I feel that it is pretty well done concept in general and do not need that much tweaking. I am not a hardcore techie as well, so maybe people who wasts bigger blockchain fork or some other technical change that will laugh at me. But all I want to change is instant confirmation times. That is all.

[Grim]

Pool mining resistance.  I want cryptographic proof that nobody can efficiently find hashes unless they have the key that can be used to spend the coinbase; this would insure that whoever finds the nonce has the power to spend the coinbase tx.  Pools would no longer be able to rely on cryptographic security to get their block payouts.  The easiest way to do it would be to add a required signature by the private key on the block header including nonce, and hash on the whole block header including the signature.  So without the key it would be impossible to evaluate the hash and see whether it falls below a target.

Hasn't Spreadcoin implemented that?!

[jyakulis]

I don't know at first the pre set number of coins didn't bother me. But now I wonder what would happen if it slowly expanded after the 21 million. I just worry about lost coins. It's funny I didn't at first but now I think of it. Who knows though.

[Kprawn]

I would like normal people with low spec computers. {CPU/GPU's} to be once again able to mine Bitcoins. It should have built in code to detect mining farms and throttle/reduce their income, to make it less viable for them to mine on such a big scale. {ASIC proof}

Then, companies like DELL can pre-install mining software with every computer the sell, to be enabled by the user, when the computer is not in use. {The user will then get rewarded for sharing his CPU/GPU to help with mining and he can pay his electricity bill automatically} In a perfect world, this should cover his full bill, with the added electricity he used for normal use and the extra electricity he used for the mining.  

This will put some money back into the pockets of MANY people, who are in debt and enable projects where electricity costs are a issue and also help with sustaining Bitcoin mining.

We can just dream.    

The idea is very interesting and I think you are trying to tackle a very important problem, but building specialized machines (ASICs) in order to solve a PoW-based task will always be possible, I believe :-/

Even if you have ASIC-resistance, big companies can buy thousands of CPUs and have mining farms as well. It may not be as efficient as ASIC, but they will certainly have an advantage over the common users.

As I said, we do not live in a perfect world, so my idea might be a bit far fetched... ASIC-resistance is just one of the solutions... but more complex features could be introduced or developed to prevent farm dominance in the mining sector.

I think it might be a bit more expensive for companies to buy huge amounts of powerfull CPU's/GPU's and if you combine the reduced yield from CPU/GPU mining, it might not be economical to do it on such a large scale.

We have many talented dev's to sort that part out. 

[crazyivan]

I would like to find a way to remove anonymity. It attracts scammers and ponzi pumpers and brings nothing to honest people. If are not a criminal, what do you hide from?

[dothebeats]

I would like to find a way to remove anonymity. It attracts scammers and ponzi pumpers and brings nothing to honest people. If are not a criminal, what do you hide from?

Wouldn't that be against the feature concepts of bitcoin? Identity and credentials are a very vital part of ones' life--particularly people who are surfing in the internet. It can cause security implications if ever your personal information leaked in the interwebs.

[Amph]

I would like to find a way to remove anonymity. It attracts scammers and ponzi pumpers and brings nothing to honest people. If are not a criminal, what do you hide from?

usually anon is wanted because of taxes also, not only for criminal things, and you can add privacy to that, not everyone use facebook and want to shouts to the world his identity

[crazyivan]

I would like to find a way to remove anonymity. It attracts scammers and ponzi pumpers and brings nothing to honest people. If are not a criminal, what do you hide from?

Wouldn't that be against the feature concepts of bitcoin? Identity and credentials are a very vital part of ones' life--particularly people who are surfing in the internet. It can cause security implications if ever your personal information leaked in the interwebs.

Well, you can have it both. You can have anonymity but then you have tons of scammers and ponzi pumpers as well which devastate BTC community. They do it exactly cause they are able to hide behind that anonymity. Bunch of portals, cloud mining websites and investment schemes run by these people and there s no way of knowing who s behind it or trace their transactions.

I m not talking about you or I being able to trance them but police or any other law enforcement agency cant do it either. On the other hand, people share photos of their children on Facebook. How come?

[Bitware]

I would add a CheckBox-suppressible ('never show again' and 'remind me later') popup that prompts users to encrypt their wallets,  write down their passphrase so they dont forget it, and present them with an option to download a wallet copy to any media source (cd, floppy, thumb drive, local file, memory chip/card, external device etc.)

What's a floppy? lol

My TRS-80 uses these: http://www.freeimages.co.uk/galleries/transtech/informationtechnology/slides/quarter_inch_disk.htm

I still got a bunch of them. They were an upgrade from the cassette drive. haha

That could actually be one of the best ways to store a Bitcoin wallet safely. No one will be able to read that disk these days Then again, these disks are rather soft and I wouldn't trust magnetic media with a Bitcoin wallet.

Yes, flexible magnetic media was sketchy. The going rule was to create 3 copies of your work, keep one Master Copy securely-stored in a humidity and temperature-controlled environment, then alternate usage between the working copies to decrease rate of deterioration and data corruption.

[ensurance982]

An incentive for full nodes, perhaps.

Yea sadly I only run my bitcoin core when I need to, I can't do the 24 hours always on thing. Those that do should get a reward or have an incentive like no transaction fees or something.

This is a very nice idea, but unfortunately very very difficult to implement. Basically it's impossible, since you can't prove you're running a full node. Historically, the benefit of running a full node were the transaction fees.

[ensurance982]

I would add a CheckBox-suppressible ('never show again' and 'remind me later') popup that prompts users to encrypt their wallets,  write down their passphrase so they dont forget it, and present them with an option to download a wallet copy to any media source (cd, floppy, thumb drive, local file, memory chip/card, external device etc.)

What's a floppy? lol

My TRS-80 uses these: http://www.freeimages.co.uk/galleries/transtech/informationtechnology/slides/quarter_inch_disk.htm

I still got a bunch of them. They were an upgrade from the cassette drive. haha

That could actually be one of the best ways to store a Bitcoin wallet safely. No one will be able to read that disk these days Then again, these disks are rather soft and I wouldn't trust magnetic media with a Bitcoin wallet.

Yes, flexible magnetic media was sketchy. The going rule was to create 3 copies of your work, keep one Master Copy securely-stored in a humidity and temperature-controlled environment, then alternate usage between the working copies to decrease rate of deterioration and data corruption.

Ha yeah, I remember when I downloaded something onto 3.5" disks, back when I didn't have Internet access at home. And for the important stuff I made sure to have the data on redundant disks.

[smolen]

I would add a CheckBox-suppressible ('never show again' and 'remind me later') popup that prompts users to encrypt their wallets,  write down their passphrase so they dont forget it, and present them with an option to download a wallet copy to any media source (cd, floppy, thumb drive, local file, memory chip/card, external device etc.)

What's a floppy? lol

Unlike HDD, SD cards and flash thumbdrives, floppy is data storage without embedded microcontroller.

[fryarminer]

I would like to find a way to remove anonymity. It attracts scammers and ponzi pumpers and brings nothing to honest people. If are not a criminal, what do you hide from?

Isn't anonymity removed enough already? You can't buy btc using fiat without having to tell them your grandmother's maiden name! I'm finding it hard to KEEP anonymity in BTC these days!

[fryarminer]

I would add a CheckBox-suppressible ('never show again' and 'remind me later') popup that prompts users to encrypt their wallets,  write down their passphrase so they dont forget it, and present them with an option to download a wallet copy to any media source (cd, floppy, thumb drive, local file, memory chip/card, external device etc.)

What's a floppy? lol

Unlike HDD, SD cards and flash thumbdrives, floppy is data storage without embedded microcontroller.

Remember the 90 min cassettes to load programs back in the Commodore days?

[orsotheysaid]

How about a GUI for multisigs in the core wallet?
Right now you have to create them in the console and spend via rawtransactions, unless you want to use some 3rd party.

I would have thought about this: "Why is the Core Wallet so damn simple looking? it has no features". But I realized the core wallet is not really meant to use for mass adoption, it's meant to used for node runners, which basically means the more basic it is the better to do its job.