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by Tuxer 3069 days ago
Why does everything crypto related feel the need to create a whitepaper following scientific conventions, even when there is nothing scientific about it...
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> 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...

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