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Re: [NXT] Vitalik B. confirms the NXT algo is secure.
by
vlad12
on 08/04/2015, 18:05:36 UTC

Wait for peer review (at least in the community). There's this weird reverence towards certain individuals in this community from people who don't understand shit. Let the experts evaluate and criticize and withhold your opinion until something reaches some sort of expert consensus.

Everyone now-days in crypto see a fucking PDF paper in academic format and treat it like a fucking bible. Speaking from a scientific background I've seen plenty of beautiful looking papers which 'look' like they got a lot of good stuff to say only to be complete and utter bullshit. Too bad this isn't my field of expertise.

No scientist's paper is worth shit unless its been "peer reviewed", which means a big gang of experts all need to have checked it out and agreed with it before it gets published. Most scientific journals are peer reviewed and all the papers in them have been checked by a gang of experts beforehand. We need more experts to check out NXT.

What about white papers? Are they typically peer reviewed? I know it's good practice to peer review academic papers published in journals (which is what this one seems to be minus the journal part) but what about white papers?


What about whitepapers? Especially whitepapers! Everything needs to go through a bullshit filter. Right now, this community is young, so it will take some time to build up a bunch of experts with actual achievements to back up their criticisms. Until then, I wouldn't be so on-board with believing the first positive thing you hear about your favorite coin.