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RE: I just added IOTA to my trust fund portfolio

in #bitcoin7 years ago

But why did you do it? Do you understand how it works? What are the pros and cons? I am interested in IOTA, but as of now - I have more questions than answers. Right now I have doubts it can actually work.
I read the whitepaper and some blogs on it, however, most bloggers just blindly repeat what they read on IOTA blog.
IOTA is vulnerable to Sybil attack - at least in the beginning. The claim that there will be no fees - is IMO ridiculous - as people will mine the PoW on dedicated miners with GPU and then sell those services to those who want to transact for ... fees. If you really want to transact a lot - like millions of micro transactions per day - you will find it is more efficient to do the PoW on GPUs instead of runing it on some micro chip that is not dedicated to mining. Someone will do just that - the miner will collect transactions from others and then send them to the tangle and validate other transactions with GPUs. But wait - do you think the miner will pick the transactions he needs to validate randomly? No, he will pick his own transactions.
Now, let's assume the miner stumbles upon a transaction that was already "validated" by some other miner but the transaction is actually invalid. Do you think the miner will be motivated to declare this transaction as invalid? What if the evil miner will retaliate by declaring his transactions to be invalid? What if the evil miner is actually a lot more powerful than you? Probably, it is safer to just ignore this transaction and pick some other one.
So, there are a lot of issues with IOTA - we need answers.

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