Evil-K has found hard bugs before, he's proven he's capable. I think he should have been taken very seriously from the beginning.
On another note, I'm really shocked that there isn't a strong bounty system in place for catching bugs in the bitcoin code-base. shocked! If bitcoiner's wanted serious hard looks at the code, then IMO they'd consider looking into implementing a rewards/bounty program.
If you feel strongly about this, then you should start one. The only reason that a strong bounty system doesn't exist is because nobody has bothered creating one. It's an open system, feel free to be the guy that is responsible for creating and maintaining a reliable and trustworthy bounty program.
That's BS. Why wouldn't the "Foundation" have one?
"The Foundation" is simply a private club of bitcoin enthusiasts. There is nothing official about them. You are welcome to start your own club and call it "The Bitcoin Association" if you want. Unless you are a member of their club, they are not beholden to any of your personal interests. If you want them to have a bounty program, then join their club and campaign for it.
You expect random users to start an important security related program for BTC?
Yes. The bitcoin system is decentralized and open. There is no "Bitcoin Company". If
anything ever gets done in the bitcoin community, it is
only because a random user decided that it needed to be done, so they did it.
Perhaps we wouldn't have issues like malleability if the Foundation was more proactive about this kind of stuff.
Malleability was known about from very early on. It wasn't addressed because there weren't any "random users" that felt it was important enough to address.
I guess they can discuss it at their Caribbean retreat
meanwhile hacks continue.
It's their retreat. They can discuss whatever they want. Meanwhile, you are welcome to sit on your whining butt and continue to complain to the universe about how it doesn't operate the way you want it to.
