[Delta0]

I don't think that Airbnb is really giving back to the community: they might IPO this year or the next and most of the value created will go to VCs, founders and employees, while guests and hosts still pay up to 20% fees.

That's why I've built CryptoCribs (https://www.cryptocribs.com) to enable repeat users to share their homes without paying a middleman

[Tuxer]

Why does everything crypto related feel the need to create a whitepaper following scientific conventions, even when there is nothing scientific about it...

[spookthesunset]

> Why does everything crypto related feel the need to create a whitepaper following scientific conventions, even when there is nothing scientific about it...

That is how you bamboozle all the rubes into buying your worthless garbage. If it sounds all high tech and futuristic, it has to be awesome, right? See also: Ethereum and all it's weird futuristic terminology like "gas" and stuff...

[Delta0]

i agree, i actually wrote it to make fun of the whitepaper craze. if you look at it, the abstract is basically an adaption of the Bitcoin whitepaper