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I held IOTA from when it was $0.30 and always kept it on Bitfinex as to me, the wallet was unusable (sorry, I’m not an engineer). I hodl’d until a couple of months ago but couldn’t take having my coins on an exchange.

I even tried setting up the mobile wallet but kept getting errors, like in this post.

I’m over it. But I think you need to see this from a layperson’s point of view. It’s difficult to use and overly complex. Until that changes, I won’t be back.

I'm the author of the blog post. Thanks for posting! I can answer any questions you have about the IOTA review or other shitcoin reviews.
I love this idea, can I write some guest shitcoin reviews? :)
That could happen! Send me a Twitter DM, @abrkn
I love learning about cryptocurrencies through shitcoins. It helps keeping perspective in check. Keep up the great work.
Thanks! If you have a shitcoin you want me to review, I'm open to suggestions.
Don't know if it's a shitcoin, but can you review XRP / Ripple?

The company claims that 100s of banks and financial institutes are using their technology, but ALL 100+ institutions are only evaluating / doing pilots.

Company has been around since 2011, I am very curious why there isn't a single big name that has put it's weight behind this for real production use.

I interviewed to work at Ripple in 2013! I don't know how interesting the review would be. Ripple is completely centralized. I'll think about it.
Few days ago there was a post in HN basically saying "centralized = no need blockchain" -- why they need to do in blockchain then?
Blockchains seem to be really good at raising capital.
These days I feel like it's more "if it's even a little bit decentralized and uses public key cryptography then you can call it a Blockchain and people will throw money at you". It's the new "Cloud Computing" basically.

Cryptocurrencies are pretty mainstream nowadays, everybody and their grandfather want to be a crypto-millionaire. Very few have the skills to decide whether experimental technologies like Ripple or IOTA have a future[1], it's just speculation for speculation's sake. Ask the average Ripple owner what they think of the "trustlines" and the risks associated with it. Actually, just ask them what a Ripple trustline is. I doubt you'll get many answers.

[1] Honestly I feel pretty knowledgeable about how cryptocurrencies work and yet it's not rare for one of these whitepapers to lose me. For many of them you need a pretty good technical background on cryptography, game theory and economy (with maybe a hint of sociology) to really be able to gauge whether an idea has merit or not.

> Ripple is completely centralized

Except for the validation of transactions done through their distributed consensus protocol, which is done through validator nodes sitting across the world at places like MIT and Microsoft.

My impression was that even those aren't using XRP (the token) but are using non-cryptocoin stuff from the same company.
> but ALL 100+ institutions are only evaluating / doing pilots

No... That's just not true. Cuallix isn't. Moneygram finished their initial pilot and is beginning its deployment to internal transfers, which could be folowed by deployment to everywhere else.

> I am very curious why there isn't a single big name that has put it's weight behind this for real production use.

Banco Santander: https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/31617/banco-santander-p...

How about a review of one that is marketed as anonymous or privacy-friendly? For example Monero or PIVX. Many people still incorrectly believe that Bitcoin transactions are anonymous (yes, I know they can be anonymous if you make an effort to make them anonymous, but by default they are not).
A review on siacoin would be great..
Great blog idea. I really enjoy how you are reviewing the hands-on user experience of working with a coin and chain.
Thanks! It takes quite a while to do it this way, but lets people scroll through and look at screenshots of the nightmare they will now hopefully avoid.
I hate how all the coin subs on reddit call anything that's not postive about their coin as F.U.D.

Someone posted this 'rebuff' to your blog post on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7we3x0/rebu...

Direct link: https://medium.com/@ralf/andreas-brekken-proves-he-has-no-cl...

IOTA an insane cult driven by fear of losing money. No one uses the software. They use social media to attract more bag holders.

I read the "rebuff". He looked up the wrong company named "Helix"... I'm not affiliated with the entity he mentions.

Thanks for the clarification. I posted your review on r/cryptocurrency and was quickly down-voted to oblivion.

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say your statement about shitcoins using social media to attract bag holders sounds about right.

I've noticed the mods on r/ripple are even worse. They ruthlessly delete any post that raises legitimate concerns about XRP and it's so called touted use of providing liquidity for cross border payment, that not a single bank appears to be using in a production environment.

If this was IOTA in its final form the value of IOTA should be 0. It's great that this is not the case!

And yes, statements like "IOTA an insane cult driven by fear of losing money" are FUD, regardless of how much sense your argument may or may not make.

Nano is the first crypto I've been really excited about that's just a currency, and a hold quite a bit of it. Would love your opinion (or a post) on it. It's still fairly new and there hasn't been enough thought out criticism.
Why didn't you use a lightnode? Or the most recent exe? I did it the other day and it took a few minutes--your article made me feel like a genius.
> Why didn't you use a lightnode? Or the most recent exe?

It says why right in the article: "A blockchain client has to be open-source for the users to predict its behavior."

The most recent is exe is opensource--it's right there on the top of the git. In fact, he probably had to scroll past it to download v2.5.6

I looked: https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/releases

Also, a few user-friendly wallets are going to be released soon, but he chose to not wait? The whole thing smacks of deliberate attempt to fail. He couldn't have made worse choices--unless he had decided to wear a blindfold and rewrite the code.

The exe is likely built from open source code. Maybe someone modified the code to insert a back door before building? If you use precompiled binaries, you have to trust

* the maintainers of the project, who built the executable, and

* that the build process itself hasn't been compromised.

Since a selling point for cryptocurrencies in general is that it's a system that works without having to trust third parties, the argument being made is that it should be easy to build things from scratch.

No, you can peruse the code for yourself if you need to look for backdoors. He was obviously choosing the path of most resistance so he could prove his own conclusion--not that small devices need to run a wallet or the process won't be automated in the future or it won't be competent IOT developers performing these task--still not sure how P2P usability equates to M2M usability, but let's skip over those details and rationalize why he spent more time finding ways to screw up than to honestly perform the task of using a wallet--in any case, his bungling hardly seems genuine.
> No, you can peruse the code for yourself if you need to look for backdoors.

...and the conclusion that the source is back door free is only relevant if you then actually build the software yourself. You can only assume that the exe was built from the unmodified source code if you trust those who built it.

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Gotcha, assumed he would be trying to create a review pertinent to the normal user (given the memeness) as most will use an exe--still doesn't excuse his bungling (read Paul's response on why) or the strange conclusion that his P2P experience is pertinent to an argument as to IOTA's suitability as an IOT network. This is the major criticism that's been glossed over by most here. Can anyone try to rationalize why that assumption isn't absurd?
Of course it's not meant for IoT. It's written in Java, has the whole ternary nonsense going, and uses custom crypto, which would be really slow to implement, compared to hardware-accelerated RSA or AES most cheap embedded chips have nowadays.

I, for one, am excited for the moment a cryptocurrency arrives that is actually usable for its supposed use. Every time someone claims to be a cryptocurrency for X (be it file sharing, IoT, attention, etc.), X is really just speculation.

They've had some other scandals too! "Emptied IOTA Wallets: Hackers Steal Millions Using Malicious Seed Generators"[1]

[1] https://www.ccn.com/a-number-of-iota-wallets-emptied-by-hack...

That's not IOTAs fault.
It kind of is, since this functionality should've shipped with the wallet, like it does with every other crypto.
They've never been focused on P2P and have made that clear to users--obviously they didn't hear, "Be your own bank." when that was said.
Well that's what happens with any digital currency if you share your private key with a malicious party.
Any in particular you think might pull that off?

There's a few I follow (VeChain, Monero, Nano, GET) but like you I find it quite hard to imagine more than a handful that could realistically achieve the aim(s) they've set out to do.

Filecoin is the only one I looked into that seems like it could pan out. Its goal is to be an incentive layer on top of IPFS, that would make mirroring data ("pinning") over that protocol profitable.
Have you looked into Stellar Lumens? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on it and if it fits your requirement of being usable for its supposed use. It seems so on the surface to me, but I don't know what the look under the hood reveals.
Stellar Lumens make sense. They have a small burn fee to limit network spam and their consensus algorithm is partially centralized through node federation, but it's a reasonable tradeoff used to achieve low cost, high throughput. This means it can work well in mobile environments, etc.
If I was to fork a cryptocurrency codebase, I would start with Stellar. Their architecture and code quality are probably the best out there.
Ripple, for cross-border payments. Already in use by several banks, Moneygram, LianLian, Western Union is rumored as well. Bank of England is a customer, a few other central banks are rumored to be getting into it. They have several pieces of software, all of which lead to using their cryptocurrency XRP.
The Bank of England is not a customer of Ripple. Their fintech accelerator used Ripple for a proof of concept, which "was a useful exercise to develop the Bank’s understanding of synchronisation and possible technical solutions.".

No bank would use such a volatile currency for payments, for obvious reasons. If someone ends up using a technology based on the Ripple codebase, that's another story, but it is more like company X hiring the people behind Ripple for a consulting gig, then company X betting their fortunes on XRP.

IOTA also claimed to have a partnership Microsoft, when in fact it turned out they used Azure for hosting. The lack of any journalistic standards in cryptocurrencies is a huge issue.

How many other cryptos did they do a Poc with?

Ignoring BoE, Ripple's customers that are using XRP in production are:

Moneygram, Cuallix, Mercury FX, and IDT.

There are also 100 customers using xCurrent (the pre-XRP product that's used to transfer fiat). Upgrading to xRapid would increase the speed and decrease the costs of such transfer, so I imagine there will a conversion of some of those 100 customers to using xRapid, and thus, XRP.

Ripple is totally centralized. There is no better to use Ripple than a centralized any database.

Ripple is just a old fashion money-wiring business, but uses the XRP as internal booking Symbol.

> Ripple is totally centralized

You are completely wrong. Ripple is decentralized by way of validation of transactions done through their distributed consensus protocol, which is done through validator nodes sitting across the world at places like MIT and Microsoft.

It is actually really frustrating. The Tangle idea is pretty good, but the rest of it is crap. The product is getting such a bad reputation that using the good ideas for a better product later will be hard.
You clearly don't know much about IOTA. IOTA will require hardware that is customized to operate in trinary and perform IOTA PoW in a fast, energy-efficient manner. This hardware component is being tackled by JINN.

No blockchain will work with IoT. Any decentralized ledger whose throughput cannot rise with transaction volume will not be scalable.

I advise you read up on IOTA before saying outlandish things like "Of course it's not meant for IoT." The FUD is strong with IOTA because it threatens the success of so many other projects.

To borrow a phrase from reddit: name checks out.
IOTA will require hardware that is customized to operate in trinary and perform IOTA PoW in a fast, energy-efficient manner

This must be the most insane "Internet of Things" project ever. How did they come up with this nonsense?

Is it really that insane? There is already a plethora of companies working with IOTA. No one knows much about the status of JINN due to prospective NDAs that would prevent any sort of chip production deals from becoming public. Companies are actively seeking out the foundation to see how they can become involved, not vice versa.

An IOTA efficient IoT device would simply have a tiny JINN ASIC to perform the PoW necessary to attach a transaction to the tangle.

I will add that I did mis-speak in that sentence. The hardware is not necessarily required, but will make the PoW for IoT devices negligible in terms of both transaction attachment times and energy usage. The tangle is expected to be running smoothly without the coordinator before any adoption of JINN hardware takes place.

Yes. If you expect commercial iot products to use unusual custom hardware you are out of your mind.
Commercial IoT products will be built to work in the world of IoT. If IOTA becomes the standard method of data and value transfer among IoT devices, manufacturers will implement them. Remember, device manufacturers will only include tiny JINN chips in their devices, nothing more.

You would have probably said the same about bluetooth chips when they first came out.

Trinary logic hardware will perform better for the PoW in low energy environments, which is extremely important for IoT. It's either ambitious and visionary, or else insane. Personally I think it's the former, cutting edge technology always seems insane until it doesn't. Time will be the judge.
They've never actually shown that trinary logic hardware will work better in low energy environments. CMOS transistors can be very efficient at switching, but waste power like hell if used at intermediate voltages. You REALLY don't want to be running your MOSFETs in the triode region. Which leaves the option of making trinary logic out of bi-state FETs, which requires extra die area and wastes power, or inventing an entirely new process/transistor type that is more efficient than modern CMOS and happens to be trinary... Good luck with that.
I'm aware of that. I don't really see the relevance to modern semiconductor engineering for cryptographic applications though. Differences in radix economy are typically only significant for very small numbers, far smaller than those used in cryptography. The decrease in number of required transistors is rapidly overwhelmed by the increased voltages required to discriminate between states and the resistive (heat) losses incurred by having a mid-valued state. If IOTA were a cryptocurrency for vacuum tubes where the power use is dominated by the cathode heater it might make sense to use trinary. But the last time I checked pretty much every processor around used CMOS FETs...

Edit: Idea! Hipstercoin - Trinary cryptocurrency for tube amplifiers! Play your vinyl and mine for hipstercoins at the same time!

> I, for one, am excited for the moment a cryptocurrency arrives that is actually usable for its supposed use.

Well, I have this feeling with Nano. Intstant, free and scalable transactions. The first 2 are definitely there. The last one looks promising, and some load tests for that are scheduled.

That the entire network should be able to handle 7000 tps with the power of a single windmill is also cool.

To me, this is potentially the internet money that was promised with bitcoin.

I noticed sometimes these posts get downvoted, so here is an interview with the main developer. Decide for yourself: https://youtu.be/hAy4GDV7tvQ

>I noticed sometimes these posts get downvoted

If you wonder why people are downvoting you, its because at least this post reads like you are promoting some random cryptocurrency here and you haven't even bothered to say whether you have a vested interest in it succeeding (because you hold coins or otherwise).

Yes, I also own those coins.

I guess if someone is interested incrypto and talks positive about a certain coin, there is a 99.99% chance they own it.

I never saw this requirement with companies though. "My macbook is great because of x and y". Let's downvote him because he probably owns Apple stocks without telling.

Great article. I chuckled quite a bit. This reminds me of my attempts to check out Cardano. There was no working Linux client. (I checked again today: Still no Linux client. The latest release of the software appears to be from September 2017).

I then tried to build from source. I'm doing some Node development so I have Node v8.x installed (the current LTS version). Turns out the wallet requires Node v6.

At that point I gave up. I also read that Cardano has some great concepts but right now it's still in its first, centralized phase.

> its first, centralized phase

Yikes.

There is a working Linux client. Note that the "wallet" is a Haskell-based node (cardano-sl) that serves a restful http server that the front-end app (Daedalus) connects to.

I built both components back in November and could run it, I just did the same now.

Official Linux packaging would be great but until they get there you can build and run everything yourself.

You make it sound like switching Node versions on Linux is a hassle. Allow me to introduce you to nvm: https://github.com/creationix/nvm
I do love nvm, but I'm a little surprised that the source requires an older version of node. I wonder if it doesn't actually require it, but the package.json has the engines prop pinned to v6 anyways.
There's a lot of beating the dead horse for laughs, though. I had a friend who wanted to send me some Iota, and I installed everything on Ubuntu without any trouble. If you screenshot every step of any process, it becomes absurd (and maybe it really is, but we've gotten used to jumping through a lot of hoops).
I guess you installed from binary then?
I chuckled too, but mainly because he didn't download the most recent exe file and tried syncing to his own out of sync node when he could have more easily used a lightnode. It was almost like he was going out of his way to make it difficult. Hmmm, wonder why he'd do that?
For anyone interested, there's been a response to this article by Ralf Rottmann: https://medium.com/@ralf/andreas-brekken-proves-he-has-no-cl...
so basically an ad hominem attack that doesn't really respond to anything.
I have no dog in the IOTA fight (or in cryptocurrencies at all), but FTA:

>On the Internet of Things, edge nodes are mostly low-powered, occasionally connected devices, sometimes with just a few kilobytes of on-device memory. Nobody expects those devices to be in sync with anything. That is, why IOTA has a concept of nodes. Fullnodes and permanodes. These nodes stay in sync with the Tangle. Or, if you consider use cases which require offline-capabilities, even just with subparts of the Tangle, which can be attached back to the main Tangle at a later point...

Andreas seemed to be suggesting that no IoT device would be able to take part in the IOTA network, because his attempt to run a full-node required lots of data.

To be fair, the main argument in the response article is that Andreas's troubles installing a full-node wallet doesn't relate to how an IoT device would use it, so the article's conclusion isn't well established.

All the arguments about "how can something that's pre-alpha be worth billions of dollars" are perfectly valid, but the original article seemed to address IOTA's worth for IoT devices, and seems to have missed the plot on that.

When you see someone mention Bosch, ask them what Bosch are actually using it for. Not in, but for.

What is the utility that IOTA provides, that Bosch are deploying at production, and where is this used?

You won't get a decent answer because as far as I can tell there isn't one.

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Ok, I'll split the question into 3 and make it clear that you didn't answer it.

What is the utility that IOTA provides?

There's nothing in your link that talks about the utility that IOTA provides. There's machine to machine payments, but that's not really utility because currently machines don't pay each other, users do. There's no actual demand for machines to pay each other. This isn't unsurprising because it's a new technology and sometimes technology has to develop the demand.

What are Bosch are deploying at production?

The link you supplied has nothing being deployed at production. There's talk of the XDK, but that's a developer kit, not a final product. If you go to the XDK site and search for IOTA, iota or tangle you get no results. This is not contingent with the importance that IOTA supporters place on the Bosch relationship.

Where is this used?

According to the link you've posted, there are a number of Proof of Concepts, but no actual deployments at production scale. It's not being used outside of PoC at this stage.

The thing is, you could've just tried answering the question but posting an AMA that doesn't answer it is frankly, shitty. If you believe it does answer the above 3 questions, at least do the decent thread and link to the comments with the answers.

His experience is what I would expect from anybody trying pre-alpha software which is probably what IOTA is right now (at least, that seems to be the common defense from it's proponents, "it's temporary, it's going to change"). The absurd part is that it's pre-alpha software that has a market cap in billions of dollars thanks to the wild speculation around cryptocurrency/blockchain stuff.

I mean, the simple fact that IOTA currently de-facto centralized, doesn't plan on using PoW to secure the chain and promises almost-free transactions should make investors very cautious. They're promising what nobody has managed to achieve yet and the only thing they have to show for it is a whitepaper and the promise that very clever people are working on it.

Why would something that is "pre alpha" be worth billions of dollars? Just doesn't make sense. IOTA has no utility today.
That was my point yes, sorry if I was being unclear. Thank you for your articles by the way, they're always insightful. It's nice to see somebody actually using those cryptocurrencies instead of merely speculating about them.
IOTA has no utility today. Neither does any crypto. Neither does the Boring Company. Yet they all have value.

It's foolish to think IOTA is worth nothing even though it is not production ready, because when it is, it will be worth much more than it is today.

Before we get to the fact that it's effectively poorly written pre-alpha garbage, let me make something abundantly clear:

There is no IoT use case for IOTA.

Let me repeat that.

There. Is. No. IoT. Use. Case. For. IOTA.

I'm not having a pop at the parent here, I just want to make it clear that there is no reason for IOTA to exist.

IOTA not only fails to solve a problem, it's failing at solving a problem that IoT doesn't have.

I'd be interested to see an actual application of IOTA for any IoT device that can only be, or is optimally solved by IOTA.

But there isn't one.

Because there's no freaking use case that can't be done more optimally using already production-level alternatives.

Does repeating it hard enough make it true?
How do you allow machine to machine payments in a trustless manner without some sort of value transfer protocol? How do you make these transactions with periodic internet connection? Are you saying IoT devices will not need to pay each other?
In the finest blockchain tradition, this posits a convoluted solution that doesn't work, to a problem that nobody actually has.
So, IoT devices will not need to pay each other? No need to repeat a point without actually adding anything new to discussion. Companies are reaching out to IOTA, perhaps you should tell them their desire for this technology is irrational?

Additionally, while IOTA is designed for IoT, it will obviously work with non-IoT devices. If IOTA works, there is no need for many other cryptos to exist.

> Companies are reaching out to IOTA

In all the cases so far that IOTA put forward of this happening, the company came back denying it.

That is false. Either you are not doing your own research, or you are intentionally spreading misinformation.
> How do you allow machine to machine payments in a trustless manner without some sort of value transfer protocol?

Can you explain to me why this is needed? I genuinely can't think of instances where machines need to pay each other, let alone in a trustless manner vs a centralized solution. People, sure. Machines, no. I'm not trying to be difficult, I've spent weeks trying to think of a situation I've worked on within the IoT space where the machines need to pay each other and haven't been able to come up with one.

> How do you make these transactions with periodic internet connection?

Again, why would you make such transactions with periodic internet connections? What is the size of the market for semi-connected IoT devices to bill each other, as opposed to the organisations or people using them?

> Are you saying IoT devices will not need to pay each other?

I'm not saying that. I genuinely haven't been able to think of a situation where a decentralized payment mechanism is necessary. I'll give you a quick rundown of some of the things we can consider IoT that I've done security work on over the past 15 years, and perhaps you can give me some use cases where decentralized machine to machine payment is needed.

1. Process control system for natural resource management - so there's pipes, stuff going through the pipes and PLCs managing the flow.

2. Home routers connected to the Internet with Wifi networks (Think Linksys etc)

3. The Sphero Spiderman kids toy (This was for a third-party, I didn't work for Sphero on this).

4. An Internet-capable TV running different apps like YouTube, Vimeo etc.

5. An in-car location tracking device used to reduce car insurance payments based on speed, areas driven in and types of road driven on.

I can kind of see some sort of situation where some of the above might have payment integration useful, but none where it needs to happen on the device itself. If you have any use cases for IOTA where a centralized alternative won't beat it or doesn't already exist, I'd genuinely love to know. It's my biggest stumbling block.

Are you familiar with the term "fog computing?"

This is one of the main reasons for which IOTA was created. The term was invented by Cisco and since then there has been a lot of effort to come up with a solution.

How do you achieve fog computing with no means of transaction of value? Devices will need to pay each other for resource sharing, be it computing power, storage, data, or electricity. Your neighbors will not provide resources to you if you cannot pay them.

The problem with centralized payment systems is that they are not permissionless. If you hook your IoT device to your VISA card, your device needs to establish a connection with VISA every time it needs to make a payment, and you need your counterparty to accept payments from VISA. In addition, a large percentage of IoT transactions will be microtransactions. A centralized payment system will have to process insane amounts of transactions whose value are << $.01. IOTA flash channels allow for the streaming of data and payments in real time.

A unique property of IOTA is that it is partition-tolerant. Offline nodes can form local subtangles and attach them to the main tangle once internet connection is restored. This is impossible with a centralized payment system.

Finally, IOTA is just as much a data transmission protocol as it is a payment protocol. Data transmission on the tangle helps data become more tamper-proof, another important issue in the world of IoT.

"doesn't plan on using PoW to secure the chain" - IOTA uses PoW to secure the network (it's not really a chain), that's exactly how the network is secured. Every transaction performs a small PoW.

"the only thing they have to show for it is a whitepaper" - say whaaat? IOTA is a functioning digital currency with feeless transactions. You can watch the transactions on the network here: https://thetangle.org/live

Nano is a great alternative and was thought out before IOTA. It was one of the first paper to be published about Block Lattice.

It is what Bitcoin said it would be fast and fee-less cryptocurrency.

https://github.com/clemahieu/raiblocks

Bitshares did low cost transactions at high volume years ago, so I'm never quite sure why Nano gets so much attention because those features aren't novel.

Furthermore, free transactions with minimal POW don't create proper incentives and will not scale because there is an extremely low cost to spam the network. This means you can essentially use full historical nodes as a data storage for anything you want.

Adding to this, representative nodes (DPOS) do not get any rewards for being online and behaving correctly. Which is a recipe for tragedy of the commons. Worse yet, a voter can issue two conflicting votes, and the system has no mechanism let alone penalty for handling this. The defense against these attacks seems to be, reps have stake, therefor they wont take actions detrimental to coin value..

The marketing is strictly speaking false. A transaction is not instant, as you must wait for sufficient time to ensure that a conflicting transaction has not been published (and hope that you are not network partitioned). Otherwise, you might as well settle for "instant" BTC 0-conf transactions. Free, is debatable, considering the difficulty of POW that would be required to effectively deter spam.

It's funny how many of the cryptocoins pretend that they have some domain-specific use case (here IoT, which for reasons(?) needs a distributed ledger) that justifies their existence. Guess people can make a business out of thinking up ever more creative justifications for new coins.
IOTA is a fantastic example of how far a heap of shit (yes, we're talking unary logic shit-tier) can get with a home run marketing wise and an absolute lack of ethics.

The IOTA team deserves every bit of backlash coming their way...

While IOTA is not anywhere near production ready, it is important to realize that the value of IOTA is based on the expected value of utility that the tangle provides. This form of valuation is not unique to IOTA; it applies to all cryptocurrencies (and assets like growth stocks, for that matter). For this reason, IOTA's current user experience is not of the utmost importance. The author seems to think otherwise.

It is clear to me that the author has an inclination to portray IOTA in a negative light, and that he does not understand how IOTA works. It will take time for the tangle to grow to the level that the IOTA foundation envisions, and it does not take a genius to realize that fact.

People in this thread are mocking those who call articles like this one FUD, but that's simply what it is. Nothing about this article supports the argument that IOTA will not be able to be used for IoT in the future.

"Are you making a blockchain product and want me to advise or review? I can be bought. Send me a paid message at https://earn.com/berken/" What is this guy, some kind of digital extortionist?
Where does this claim in the title come from?

>IOTA: Cannot be used for IoT

The author has this caption under the screenshot of the official documentation:

>They also write that you can’t use IOTA for IoT

...but they clearly don't write that, I can read it in the screenshot. They say it doesn't work on smaller IoT devices, and that this will change when you can compile from source. So that's out as a source of this claim.

The other source:

>I upgraded to this machine after reading on the Discord chat that people were unable to stay in sync with less powerful hardware [citation needed]

That's the requirements for running the Wallet GUI on Linux, not IOTA core (which as the author mentions, has been implemented in python and JS).

Nuance matters, concluding "IOTA cannot be used on Internet-of-Things devices" at the end seems like an oversimplification; especially for an article that seems overly-specific when it's trying to make IOTA seem complicated (Is setting up an AWS instance of Ubuntu for your Windows host a concern for EVERY user of IOTA? Is it really important that you set up your firewall incorrectly?).

Another strange omission is not mentioning IOTA as being in beta, which is the reason it can't run on smaller devices:

>This means that the current Java implementation is a reference implementation

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