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The result was keep. ( non-admin closure) Michaelzeng7 ( talk) 02:54, 30 December 2013 (UTC)
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Another altcoin debate. Are you excited?
I started a debate to merge earlier due to two sources being from Forbes and what seems like an academic paper published by the coin's developers. Everything else seems to be forum posts or tweets by the authors. I do not think that the academic paper (which I think is okay to keep as a source, because it also provides for references on it's own) or the Forbes source alone can warrant even a stub article. I am neutral. [ citation needed] 14:43, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
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- Keepish. There's also an article in
IEEE Spectrum
[1], which does appear independent (well, it's mostly an interview) and
The Verge gave it a bit of coverage too
[2] (as I pointed out in another discussion). Also covered in
New Scientist
[3] and little bit a NYT journalist's blog
[4] and by
Business Insider a little bit
[5]. Given the precedent with
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ripple (payment protocol), I'm getting the impression that the nominator doesn't put much effort in finding sources for this type of article before nominating.
Honestly, I would not object to nominating this again a couple of years from now because the press coverage might be a flash in the proverbial pan due to their extreme focus on Bitconin this year. (Compare to the focus on P2P in the early 2000s and the coverage that one can find for stuff like Mnet (peer-to-peer network), aka Mojonation.) On the other hand, the academic paper was published at the top conference in security (IEEE S&P 2013), so chances are decent it might turn up influential enough in the academic realm, which is mostly just getting started to focus on crypto currencies. Someone not using his real name ( talk) 23:46, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
- Haha, I do have that reputation now, don't I? Actaully, I think I was supportive of Primecoin's inclusion in addition to my own article just a couple of days earlier. [ citation needed] 13:28, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
- Keep per above, WP:GNG -- Surfer43_ ¿qué pasa? 18:16, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
- Keep Seems to have some media coverage, and the anonymity feature is technically notable. Thue ( talk) 19:52, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
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