Just want to toss this out, perhaps some of you have the resources to make it happen (I'm tied with other projects..):
There's an effort put up to clarify the legal status of Bitcoin around the world:
http://bitlegal.net/Nice looking site, and I love the concept and the idea, however, I'm not sure how up to date the content is. To the best of my understanding, there's 3 people (see about section) behind the site, and I would guess they've got limited resources.
Now, my idea is that there should be a site for bitcoin purchase, much like tripadvisor is for travels (hotels, restaurants..).
The site could cover many fields like bitcoins businesses (see
http://www.thebitcoinreview.com/ for an example), where to buy bitcoins, which banks are bitcoin friendly etc. While thebitcoinreview.com is a good initiative, I think the site itself has potential for becoming more user friendly.
Check out
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ for an idea about what I mean. I know that however tripadvisor have much more resources to spend on making their site great and thebitcoinreview.com probably is a one-man project in his spare time.
But since I've seen so many newbees that complain about it being difficult to get bitcoin, perhaps a site where countries are listed, like bitlegal.net, where you can just click on the name of a country and immediately get a list of options for purchasing bitcoins/and see a list of merchants (online/meatspace) would be a good idea?
Example: A german user clicks on Germany and sees bitcoin.de ranking on the top of the list, he then proceeds to read the user reviews, and being satisfied with what he reads, he choses to proceed with a 50 EUR purchase at that site.
The idea here is that as a community, instead of always repeating ourselves in threads were users asks how to get bitcoins, just point them to that site which will be the most exhaustive resource for getting bitcoins. And also perhaps give users an incentive to give feedback, so the community can benefit from it.
PS: If anyone find links in this post offending, please remove them, they're just examples. And I haven't thought much of a revenue model for such a site, but the baseline must be that it must be someone genuinely interested in said subject that is the driving force behind such a project.
