First of all, if you write a whitepaper and add footnotes, you have to reference them in the text...But of course you cant because you reworded the text too much.
Isn't this the exact same thing they did with the cryptonote white paper and ShadowSend? Seems to be a pattern of behavior.
shady as shit.
Indeed
I think the whitepapers were rushed out, so they could focus on coding. The crypto space is a competitive race, and I suppose the code was more important than the whitepaper.
So the explanation is that they made the exact same accidental error twice, including a footnote for the thing they copied but not referencing it in the text,
even after this was pointed out to them the first time?
While at the same time referencing things like zerocoin (somehow they didn't forget that one), which have minimal relation to the actual technology used, but a lot of value as something that can be hyped?
I'm not buying (coins or story).
shady as shit.