tangled-curl

IOTA is amateur hour. The author implemented their own hashing algo, "curl", which is used all over the place in IOTA, until recently including signing transactions. Researchers were able to produce distinct transactions with colliding signatures [1]. Depending on whether you believe the author, either they did it intentionally for the implied purpose of attacking competing forks (as they claim), or unintentionally because they're incompetent. Neither situation sounds good to me. IOTA also relies on a closed-source "coordinator" for consensus. They call it "training wheels". Who knows if their "tangle" will actually work in production. Crazy to me that people are pumping so much money into it w/o any due diligence. [1] https://github.com/mit-dci/tangled-curl/blob/master/vuln-iot...