Quote from: GuruChris on June 20, 2014, 09:50:59 PM

Whats is this whitepaper thing?

As I understand it the white paper is just a document that outlines the vision for Silkcoin in detail.
It is often used in business as a proposal.
Effectively it is a marketing tool.

It is famous in crypto world because of Satoshi's use of the white paper to explain Bitcoin.
This was needed because it was new and foreign to people.
My impression is that most coins now are forced to deliver a "whitepaper" since it has become standard in promotion of a coin.

For me the white paper is not that important.
What I like to see is active development and the effects of innovation in action.

So far the devs here have delivered a new and innovative wallet that keeps getting better.
It is obvious that they did not get lucky in doing this, it is because of ability and hence I expect that it will continue.
This is how crypto will grow and get to be used by the masses.
They have also handled the malice and extortion attempts quite well. Satoshi luckily never had to deal with that kind of nonsense or I am sure Bitcoin would have struggled even more.

The community has been great (I'm looking at you Wulf, Judge, Quantum) very positive and managing to stay calm. It shows adults are involved and this makes me happy.

All of this means that even if the devs publish a whitepaper that says:
1. plan to make the best wallet and keep it up to date
2. integrate useful features from other working coins

I will be all on board the camel.

What I expect it will probably say apart from those 2 things is.
3. work on creating an ecosystem accessible through the wallet
4. some integration of a marketplace possibly