Show HN: Very basic blockchain-free cryptocurrency PoC in Python
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#2Are there any blockchain-free cryptocurrencies currently on any exchange?
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#3Are there any blockchain-free cryptocurrencies currently on any exchange?
Ripple, Stellar.
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#4Are there any blockchain-free cryptocurrencies currently on any exchange?
maidsafe
edit: I thought Ripple and Stellar had blockchains?
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#5Are there any blockchain-free cryptocurrencies currently on any exchange?
IOTA:
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/iota/
Here's the related white paper: https://iota.org/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf
Website is here: https://iota.org
Re: Show HN: Very basic blockchain-free cryptocurrency PoC in Python
#6Yeah, I'm done with this "scientific" tone, this PDF thing and so on. What is in this paper that couldn't be posted as HTML in a web page? How is PDF better compared to that?
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#7Yeah, I'm done with this "scientific" tone, this PDF thing and so on. What is in this paper that couldn't be posted as HTML in a web page? How is PDF better compared to that?
Are you trolling? It's a scientific paper.
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#8Yeah, I'm done with this "scientific" tone, this PDF thing and so on. What is in this paper that couldn't be posted as HTML in a web page? How is PDF better compared to that?
Are you trolling? It's a scientific paper.
He's right about those generally not actually needing PDF for non-print purposes though - simple text and a few images is way more web-friendly as HTML. Sadly only very few repositories make HTML versions available as well.
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#9Yeah, I'm done with this "scientific" tone, this PDF thing and so on. What is in this paper that couldn't be posted as HTML in a web page? How is PDF better compared to that?
Are you trolling? It's a scientific paper.
What makes it "scientific"? The fact that it is a PDF and the impersonal tone?
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#10Yeah, I'm done with this "scientific" tone, this PDF thing and so on. What is in this paper that couldn't be posted as HTML in a web page? How is PDF better compared to that?
The project was inspired by the paper. Which is in fact a real bonafide scientific paper.
The kind of publication that has a distribution model based around print. Something that has usually been best served by PDF rather than html.