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Are there any blockchain-free cryptocurrencies currently on any exchange?

maidsafe edit: I thought Ripple and Stellar had blockchains?

They have "ledgers". Each ledger is based on the previous ledger, but the previous ones are discarded as soon as the next reaches a state of consensus.

How does MaidSafe work, by the way?

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Are 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

Wow, their website literally murdered my browser, anyone have a JS;DR? I don't like my laptop sounding like its about to take off, considering it is usually silent...

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So this is basically a blockchain, but with transactions instead of blocks, and diverging-then-converging graph instead of a linear sequence of blocks (like a real family graph instead of just one-parent-one-child families common in blockchains). Looks nice, what are the problems with the approach? (the paper only lists the benefits).

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So this is basically a blockchain, but with transactions instead of blocks, and diverging-then-converging graph instead of a linear sequence of blocks (like a real family graph instead of just one-parent-one-child families common in blockchains). Looks nice, what are the problems with the approach? (the paper only lists the benefits).

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Yeah, 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.

Do papers submitted to electronic-only repositories like ePrint really still have a "distribution model based around print"? They might have if they are submitted to traditional journals as well, and having a PDF version as well is desirable for various purposes, but IMHO it's not so clear cut.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you trolling? It's a scientific paper.

What makes it "scientific"? The fact that it is a PDF and the impersonal tone?

It was peer-reviewed and published in a journal.

You are probably thinking of the advertising whitepapers of scammy alt-coins and crypto-tokens. This is actually research.

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Are 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

Be warned about IOTA though, it still is not decentralized, see https://medium.com/@ercwl/iota-is-centralized-6289246e7b4d and the reaction of devs/foundation-members to that article, does resemble the reaction when somebody has something to hide. And https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/6jzfak/whats_wrong_wi... and some others, but also the official channels are moderated/censored.

Seems to be more promise, hype abd marketing, than what it says on the tin.

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Yeah, 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.

Are you trolling? HTML was invented for scientific papers.
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