USuser5454·Feb 28, 2018
Wow! Speaking of trust, unsigned installers [1]?!?
[1] https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues/1084
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| Dec 11 | 2017-12-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-12-18 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Dec 18 | 2017-12-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 25 | 2017-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 8 | 2018-01-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-15 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 15 | 2018-01-15 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-22 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 22 | 2018-01-22 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 29 | 2018-01-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 5 | 2018-02-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-12 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Feb 12 | 2018-02-12 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 19 | 2018-02-19 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-26 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 26 | 2018-02-26 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
7 sourcesI Abandoned IOTA months ago after looking at their Github issues page. https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues
Great idea, just a little too early for massive adoption.
In Cryptographers Urge People to Abandon IOTA After Leaked EmailsThe 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.
In IOTA: Cannot be used for IoT, loss of funds may occurNot really deep into this, and haven't even read the whitepaper, but looking from the outside there are a lot of red flags around this project:
- Use of ternary logic [1]
- Writing their own hash function [1]
- Claiming that the flaws in the hash function were 'copy protection' [2]
- The Github issues page for their wallet client [3]
I've heard that the DAG approach has merit, but from what I've seen I would not trust this team to execute on it.
[EDIT]: Almost forgot the black-box closed source 'central coordinator' [4]
[1]: https://medium.com/@neha/cryptographic-vulnerabilities-in-io...
[2]: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Come-from-Beyond/a84ab861...
[3]: https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues
[4]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/7c3qu8/coordinator_ex...
In Fog.sh – decentralized content publishing on the IOTA ledgerThis is possibly the best bug report of all time.
https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues/762
In IOTA: A tangled messhttps://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues/631
https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues/577
https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues/511
https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues/416
In IOTA: A tangled messIOTA wallet is full of really bad bugs, just look how bad it is on first pages, the more pages you skip, the worse it is. It still doesn't work on Linux, for many users wallet crashes or shows green screen and nothing more. Doesn't work through Wine either.
https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/issues
Issues on github have no responses from developers since early November and there were no commits since than, what's surprising, there were a lot of blog posts on their domain and many subreddits how great they are (!!??)
BitFinex two week ago had problems paying out IOTAs, payouts were cancelled without any reason. Didn't try again since that time.
A lot of domains explaining how to buy IOTA look dodgy, like they were made by 14yo in '90s. There are dozens of domains like supportiota, forumiota, iotasupport.com, howtobuyiota.co.uk ? Why do t
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hey all exist and duplicate content?
Watch out out there.