01-26-2022, 12:21 PM
Tried DYOR by reading a Whitepaper. Honestly I had no idea what i was looking at.
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>DYOR and whitepapers are self-exclusive for me. I tried to read the whitepaper of a promising top 50 project and barely was able to go through half a page. Everyone saying DYOR but how do you do it if you are a newbie looking at the most important document of a Crypto Project, the Whitepaper.</p> <p>Here is a very short example which: </p> <ol> <li><p>A leader sends an init message with the hash of the last block H(B ) to all the validators. n−1 </p></li> <li><p>For each validator i , after receiving the init message, a VRF is computed to create a random number r and a proof : , where is the i pi (r , p ) RF(sk , H(B ), v) i i = V i n−1 ski secret key of validator i and v is the current view number of consensus. Then, each validator sends back (r , p ) to the leader. i i </p></li> <li><p>The leader waits until it receives at least f + 1 valid random numbers and combines them with an XOR operation to get the preimage of the final randomness pRnd . </p></li> </ol> <p>I honestly have no idea what happens here. Is it me or all you guys go through this and understand everything?</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Slainte042"> /u/Slainte042 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/sclktv/tried_dyor_by_reading_a_whitepaper_honestly_i_had/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/sclktv/tried_dyor_by_reading_a_whitepaper_honestly_i_had/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>DYOR and whitepapers are self-exclusive for me. I tried to read the whitepaper of a promising top 50 project and barely was able to go through half a page. Everyone saying DYOR but how do you do it if you are a newbie looking at the most important document of a Crypto Project, the Whitepaper.</p> <p>Here is a very short example which: </p> <ol> <li><p>A leader sends an init message with the hash of the last block H(B ) to all the validators. n−1 </p></li> <li><p>For each validator i , after receiving the init message, a VRF is computed to create a random number r and a proof : , where is the i pi (r , p ) RF(sk , H(B ), v) i i = V i n−1 ski secret key of validator i and v is the current view number of consensus. Then, each validator sends back (r , p ) to the leader. i i </p></li> <li><p>The leader waits until it receives at least f + 1 valid random numbers and combines them with an XOR operation to get the preimage of the final randomness pRnd . </p></li> </ol> <p>I honestly have no idea what happens here. Is it me or all you guys go through this and understand everything?</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Slainte042"> /u/Slainte042 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/sclktv/tried_dyor_by_reading_a_whitepaper_honestly_i_had/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/sclktv/tried_dyor_by_reading_a_whitepaper_honestly_i_had/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R