[aaron-lebo]

The cryptocurrency community is hilariously bad (well, it would be funny if people weren't getting fleeced) about putting blog posts through Latex and acting like they've written a "paper".

The people who have written dozens of real papers that end up in a dustbin somewhere are jealous. The funny thing is most of these docs would be more accessible as blog posts, but those don't provide the same faux-academic thing con men need.

Not sure if they're actually that amateur or it's more cynical and they know it's the way you do business - probably both.

[Snackchez]

The reason some ICOs release a white paper in LaTeX is that there is often a lot of math to be written out. Take for example IOTA's white paper: https://iota.org/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf

Often, it's easy to spot the ones that are doing the faux-academic thing.

[tekromancr]

IOTA's paper was what I was thinking about while reading OPs remark about blogpost to LaTeX conversion.

I'm not sure if I'm dumb, or its dumb (trinary, whaa?) but I had a really hard time getting through it without rolling my eyes a whole bunch. I still have 77 MegaIOTA, just in case someone ever figures out a use for it.

[quickthrower2]

Could be a new idoimatic phrase:

"And if you believe that then have I got a paper for you..."