well, they arent the first, thats for sure. we had tor nodes long before them.. but i like our i2p network better.. plus theyre using ecdsa which has had serious bugs before, and lots of bitcoins were stolen as a result.. as well as it being POS (proof of stake), which everyone knows is terrible, just makes the rich richer..
Could you post a link to some information about this please? I thought most coins used ecdsa.
they do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Digital_Signature_Algorithm#Security
you can actually do a side by side comparison if you like:
https://github.com/doged/dogedsource/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ecdsa
https://github.com/industrialcoinmagic/crave/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ecdsa
heres a paper on the flaws:
https://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2014kul/materials/D1T1%20-%20Filippo%20Valsorda%20-%20Exploiting%20ECDSA%20Failures%20in%20the%20Bitcoin%20Blockchain.pdf