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-# Αυτόνομο κοινωνικό δίκτυο βασισμένο σε τεχνολογίες αποκέντρωσης
+# Concordia White Paper
+> A decentralized social network that supports democratic polls
 
-*WIP*
+This repository contains the Latex code for the final report of the diploma thesis "Autonomous social network based on distributed technologies". This report doubles as the white paper for Concordia, the proof of concept application developed during the research part of the thesis. Unfortunately, the report is only available in Greek.
 
-## How to run
-`xelatex.exe -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape "thesis".tex`
+## How to compile
+
+Make sure you have xelatex and pygmentized installed. In windows run:
+
+```bash
+xelatex.exe -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape "thesis".tex
+```
+
+In linux (with latexmk):
+
+```shell
+latexmk -bibtex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape -xelatex thesis.tex
+```