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j"1LAnZuoQdcKCkpDBKQMCgziGMoPC4VQUckM<div class="post">If the problem you are identifying is that too much attention is<br/><div class="quoteheader">Quote</div><div class="quote">too much attention is focused on "winning the block generation lottery" and the process of choosing these winners is highly inefficient and resource intensive.<br/></div><br/>I would tend to agree with you on the first part, but disagree on the second. <br/>Chosing the 'winners' is a side-effect of the security of the system, if we were to choose the winners just based on picking a random address out of the transaction list this would certainly be less resource intensive, but you still need to make sure that the that the blocks cannot be easily forged by an attacker.<br/><br/>Perhaps you could contribute your ideas on how bitcoin should be publicized. <br/>We (the bitcoin community) don't have a large corporate PR department who are paid to sit around and come up with good ideas. <br/><a href="http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=697.0">Bitcoin video bounty thread</a> might be a good place to start.<br/><br/>Another problem is that there is no one controlling focus group to set the direction of Bitcoin publicity and there are people who want to use bitcoins for all kinds of different reasons. <br/><br/>P.S. Thanks for the tip.</div> text/html