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Stunned by that comment. Stunned.
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Perhaps I'm just an old fool.
EDIT : Just to say I've ensured my email is in my bio now.
It still baffles me that the official response from the IOTA foundation is that the vulnerability was inserted intentionally as copy-protection. And even more baffling that their flagship partner Bosch does not seem to have problem with this practice.
I doubt that any of the decision makers at Bosch have enough theoretical knowledge to be able to form any sort of opinion about it.
"transactions in IOTA are 10KB (in contrast, Bitcoin transactions are on average 600B)" [1]
https://medium.com/@neha/cryptographic-vulnerabilities-in-io...
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Yet there are some resources that are hard to privatise, for instance the atmosphere. Government regulation is what turns the commons (which are open to tragedy) into either tightly regulated (for example, dumping of hazardous materials) or a free market (for example, emissions trading). Without the government interference, the market wouldn't exist. To some extent that goes all the way down to buying your groceries,…
> nothing would be stopping someone with a bigger gun coming in and stealing whatever groceries they want That's why we need government - to prevent violence and stealing. Free market can work only in non-violence environment. However, government tries to do much more than that. And this I consider as a problem, namely excessive regulation.
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> This conflict over IOTA has been unfolding for a long time and the guys on that subreddit defend it fanatically, accusing DCI of "FUD"ing IOTA It's not just IOTA. It's more or less any of the top 10 / 20 (by MarketCap) Crypto-currencies on the respective sub-reddits. It's especially bad on r/Ripple where anything critical of Ripple / XRP is instantly deleted by the mods in the name of F.U.D (Fear, Uncertainity, Dou…
There may be people in on it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's overwhelmingly just people defending their position. I've seen the exact behaviour I see at r/cryptocurrency in video games. No Man's Sky pre and post launch was exactly the same. Sensible people casting doubt on what it is you actually do with the game, being shouted down by those who are convinced it's going to be the greatest thing ever. Then lots o…
As an aside, is there anyone else extremely disappointed with the quality of discussion over at /r/cryptocurrency? This conflict over IOTA has been unfolding for a long time and the guys on that subreddit defend it fanatically, accusing DCI of "FUD"ing IOTA. I am not sure if the subscriber base is technically illiterate or users that hold a given coin have a strong incentive to dismiss any criticism. As someone fasci…
> This conflict over IOTA has been unfolding for a long time and the guys on that subreddit defend it fanatically, accusing DCI of "FUD"ing IOTA It's not just IOTA. It's more or less any of the top 10 / 20 (by MarketCap) Crypto-currencies on the respective sub-reddits. It's especially bad on r/Ripple where anything critical of Ripple / XRP is instantly deleted by the mods in the name of F.U.D (Fear, Uncertainity, Dou…
That's just not true at all. Why are you even going after Ripple?
The amount of brigading by IOTA community also shows how toxic it is. Just look at the comments on the ieee article. Or the some of the tweets. They were also spamming the /r/MIT subreddit about the DCI. Just watching this all unfold is making me realize how toxic parts of the cryptocurrency community is and it's making me really sad.
As an aside, is there anyone else extremely disappointed with the quality of discussion over at /r/cryptocurrency? This conflict over IOTA has been unfolding for a long time and the guys on that subreddit defend it fanatically, accusing DCI of "FUD"ing IOTA. I am not sure if the subscriber base is technically illiterate or users that hold a given coin have a strong incentive to dismiss any criticism. As someone fasci…
As with basically every cryptocurrency (or technology, for that matter) related sub on reddit, the answer is both.
Irrespective of whether IOTA has issues or not their constant hostility is surprising to say the least. If you run something in public domain there are going to be people coming after you. And people need to learn to adapt which IOTA is sorely lacking.
I appreciate how the example collision (page 18 in the email dump) uses the lyrics of "Push it to the limit" by David Hasselhoff. The number 9 seems to be appearing a lot both in the collision raw text and previously when they refer to the bleed. I guess it has something to do with the function being based on trinary logic - could there be another flaw there related to this? Also kind of amusing seeing the different…
My favorite part was the IOTA folks insisting that their 'higher level' protocol would fix all their rookie mistakes. (Yes! We intentionally built our castle on quicksand! But look how hard the walls are!) It's a great example of why you need to start from sound foundations.
The amount of brigading by IOTA community also shows how toxic it is. Just look at the comments on the ieee article. Or the some of the tweets. They were also spamming the /r/MIT subreddit about the DCI. Just watching this all unfold is making me realize how toxic parts of the cryptocurrency community is and it's making me really sad.