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IMO bounties offer questionable ROI

It would be great to have more detailed information\evidence of your team having worked with these major corporations.

go to B2 press release where some features are explained more completely.

Only requires plugging one of them into the internet, and the rest hook up to eachother

This is the second in a series of "How do you evaluate?" posts for each aspect of evaluating a cryptocurrency project.

The end-goal of this series is to develop an exhaustive set of research goals and evaluation practices for investigating a crypto\blockchain project. Once the exhaustive research goals are well detailed, we can break it down into: "The Short List," "Due Diligence," and "Exhaustive." In part, this is in response to the various ratings agencies with non-transparent evaluation guidelines.

This series of discussions will detail "How do you evaluate" the following categories:

• ANN Post(s) \ BCT
• Official Website(s)
• Whitepaper
• Project Background \ Technology Used \ Current State of the Project
• Team
• Github
• Competitors \ similar projects
• Partners \ who plans to use the tech
• Community \ Network Effects
• Advertising
• Revenue
• Roadmap \ History \ Upcoming Events (past\present\future)
• Research guidelines specific to ICO phase \ pre-launch
• The difference between evaluating a whitepaper for an Ethereum based project, and one with its own chain

For this post I've combined Whitepaper Evaluation and Website Evaluation because the website evaluation is a pretty small list.

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Website

is it useful \ helpful \ professional? Is it missing info, broken? alexa ratings?

Is it informative enough to give you a good idea of what the goals are and how they will achieve them?

Does it have links to whitepaper github social media?

Who is it registered to, where is it registered?

Whitepaper - To be clear, this is simply for evaluating the presentation of the whitepaper. Evaluating the project itself, the team, etc will be in additional posts.

Grammar\Font (does it look professional or like flashy ad copy?)
Comprehensive?
Readable?
Transparent?

Does it make unverifiable claims?
does it look\read like a marketing tool\powerpoint?

Presentation of Tech and Business Plan
Does it make sense \ Is it understandable?
Does it contain:
* References
* Information about what team will do with tokens
* describes attacks against the cryptocurrency, and how they are countered
* describes the mathematics and cryptography adequately and technically


should include things like the consensus mechanism, total number of coins, inflation rate, block times, transaction fees.

shouldn't promise insanely good returns

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I'll be very grateful if you can offer any additional advice or guidelines for evaluating the website and\or the whitepaper of a crypto-project. And please check out the other sections linked above. When complete we will have an ultimate set of research goals for evaluating crypto-projects, and be one step closer to a community standard.

I'm working on a set of exhaustive research guidelines for evaluating a cryptocurrency project. Partially as a response to the various cryptocurrency ratings agencies, and evaluation initiatives, with non-transparent evaluation standards.

This is the first in a series of "How do you evaluate?" posts for each section or phase in evaluating a cryptocurrency project. As I create each new post, I will link them all together.

This series of discussions will detail the following categories:

• ANN Post(s) \ BCT
• Official Website(s)
• Whitepaper
• Project Background \ Technology Used \ Current State of the Project
• Team
• Github
• Competitors \ similar projects
• Partners \ who plans to use the tech
• Community \ Network Effects
• Advertising
• Revenue
• Roadmap \ History \ Upcoming Events (past\present\future)
• Research guidelines specific to ICO phase \ pre-launch
• The difference between evaluating a whitepaper for an Ethereum based project, and one with its own chain

Over the next few days, each bulleted point above will have it's own individual thread detailing the guidelines I've already collected, in hopes of crowd-sourcing crypto-vetting techniques, and eventually creating a complete and exhaustive set of research goals for investigating a cryptocurrency project.

Once the exhaustive guide is assembled, the intention is to create three tiers of research goals thereby establishing a community standard. 1. The short list 2. Due Dilligence 3. Exhaustive

For this post, please respond with any expansion on these research guidelines for evaluating a bct ANN thread, and its bitcointalk presence in general. Not necessarily the steps that take us away from bitcointalk, unless you think its very important to mention here.  This thread is for detailing the evaluation of an ANN post\thread, any other threads created for the project, as well as any other BCT presence the project has.

Also helpful would be if you can let me know if you think that I've left out any important section of crypto research in the above bulleted list.

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ANN Thread(s) \ BCT

Collect a list of all relevant btc posts related to this project.
Also, include a link to bounty threads or any other official threads.
Links for any non-official threads about this topic if they exist and are significant.

Note author reputation

For younger projects \ ico phase:
Sending devs a personal message inquiring about the project to see how responsive they are may be a good idea.

Make note of presentation of the post, including images and spelling.
Make note of whether relevant links have been included in OP, as well as that they are all working.

I'd like to see links to chat\social media\github\whitepaper\website(s) on the ANN post

read through the thread to find out how responsive team has been to questions \ criticisms. make note of any significant anomalies with attention to forum rank of the message sender

Be aware of experienced writers comments, and also look for negative messages, sometimes it could be a warning sign. Use Select [All] to see all comments in the thread and use CTRL + F (Windows) to search for red flag words like ‘scam’, ‘con’, ‘MLM’.]

If multiple ANN posts for the same project, make note of the reason.  It might be that project leads are trying to sidestep detractors\scandal, or there has been a re-branding.

I'd like to hear some opinions on bounty threads as well. What makes a bounty a good what makes a bounty bad?

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That's it, pretty short, but all I have for ANN Thread research goals. In the coming days I will continue with the process by creating new posts which will be connected by links. It's going to be a big guide by the end and will be easier to discuss in separate topics. I'm trying to generally keep the sections in order that project research might logically progress.

Any additional tips or guidelines you can offer on evaluating an ANN Post\thread(s) would be gratefully appreciated.

I'm looking for red flags or any other indicators that you might look for in the confines of bitcointalk.org.
Especially helpful would be things that you look for, but only if you encounter a particular warning sign.

Thank You!

Interestingly enough, quantum computing began to be developed specifically because our current computers are not powerful enough to model quantum processes.  A bit of a catch 22, we don't understand quantum reality so we need to use it to make computers that will explain it to us better

yes of course that would be a fairly simple way to solve... I'm just curious that I've not heard about any blockchains doing so, especially with all of the Quantum hype... cryptos love to ride hype trains...

But seriously, it would make more sense to implement quantum resistant cryptography before a quantum computer is created than after. Although I suppose if the practice had developed very far we'd already be using them for everything.

Not that I think practical quantum computing is so close... but, ya never know.

I understand there is some movement in cryptography to create code that will be viable and secure in a world with quantum computers.

As skeptical as I am about the likelihood of practical quantum computing in the near future, it seems like a proactive approach would be appropriate for the entire blockchain sector.

I'm actually surprised I haven't seen any projects working in this direction. Then again, maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

Has the bitcoin developing community made any moves towards post-quantum algorithms?

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of course, there is no whitepaper! there is no project.  but they know if they build this webpage and tell you where to send money, that people will do it.

Hahahahaha.  This is HILARIOUS!!!!!!  You want to recreate the idea of steemit, which is on one of the most efficient blockchains ever designed, and move it to ethereum!!!!

This is such an obvious scam.  The scary part is people are going to actually give you money!