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Re:Show HN: Very basic blockchain-free cryptocurrency PoC in... by pollyannas on Sunday July 09, 2017 @02:36PM (#14731024)
What makes it "scientific"? The fact that it is a PDF and the impersonal tone?
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Re:Show HN: Very basic blockchain-free cryptocurrency PoC in... by SolarNet on Sunday July 09, 2017 @03:31PM (#14731260)
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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