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From: Tim Ruffing <tim.ruffing@mmci.uni-saarland.de>
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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:19:43 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] New paper: Research Perspectives and
	Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
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This is great to see.=20

On Monday 02 March 2015 11:48:24 Andrew Miller wrote:
> One of the main goals of our work is to build a bridge between the
> computer science research community and the cryptocurrency community.=

> Many of the most interesting ideas and proposals for Bitcoin come fro=
m
> this mailing list and forums/wikis/irc channels, where many academic
> researchers simply don=E2=80=99t know to look!=20
This is indeed a problem in the research community. Often ideas from he=
re are=20
just overlooked, and e.g., re-invented or not properly acknowledged. Of=
=20
course, this is (in almost all cases) not intentionally. It's just diff=
icult to=20
keep track of everything.

Your paper is a definitely the right approach to bring the researchers =
closer=20
to the Bitcoin community.

Best,
Tim