<story><title>Cryptographers Urge People to Abandon IOTA After Leaked Emails</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/cryptographers-urge-users-and-researchers-to-abandon-iota-after-leaked-emails</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boreas</author><text>As an aside, is there anyone else extremely disappointed with the quality of discussion over at &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;cryptocurrency? This conflict over IOTA has been unfolding for a long time and the guys on that subreddit defend it fanatically, accusing DCI of &amp;quot;FUD&amp;quot;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.&lt;p&gt;As someone fascinated by the technology in the crypto space but very skeptical about the real-world usefulness of many of these projects, I wish I had a better forum to read beside the odd HN post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justboxing</author><text>&amp;gt; This conflict over IOTA has been unfolding for a long time and the guys on that subreddit defend it fanatically, accusing DCI of &amp;quot;FUD&amp;quot;ing IOTA&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not just IOTA. It&amp;#x27;s more or less any of the top 10 &amp;#x2F; 20 (by MarketCap) Crypto-currencies on the respective sub-reddits. It&amp;#x27;s especially bad on r&amp;#x2F;Ripple where anything critical of Ripple &amp;#x2F; XRP is instantly deleted by the mods in the name of F.U.D (Fear, Uncertainity, Doubt), and even a small +ve news is posted several times in a day, even trials of Ripple that doesn&amp;#x27;t even use XRP for the transactions.&lt;p&gt;And then there was this self-proclaimed shill who described in great detail how he made tons of money shilling various coins on reddit. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;CryptoCurrency&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;7xkm0z&amp;#x2F;i_was_a_paid_cryptocurrency_shill_iam_here_to&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;CryptoCurrency&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;7xkm0z&amp;#x2F;i_wa...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;From what I&amp;#x27;ve observed on r&amp;#x2F;Cryptocurrency and related coin subs on reddit over the past month or two, Reddit is being carefully manipulated by whales and scam coin creators to attract bag holders and manipulate the markets for a quick profit. And many of the mods engage in circle-jerk postings, maybe they are in on it too. Who knows.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cryptographers Urge People to Abandon IOTA After Leaked Emails</title><url>https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/cryptographers-urge-users-and-researchers-to-abandon-iota-after-leaked-emails</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>boreas</author><text>As an aside, is there anyone else extremely disappointed with the quality of discussion over at &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;cryptocurrency? This conflict over IOTA has been unfolding for a long time and the guys on that subreddit defend it fanatically, accusing DCI of &amp;quot;FUD&amp;quot;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.&lt;p&gt;As someone fascinated by the technology in the crypto space but very skeptical about the real-world usefulness of many of these projects, I wish I had a better forum to read beside the odd HN post.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>logicfiction</author><text>&amp;gt;  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.&lt;p&gt;Both of those are highly representative of the demographic that want to discuss such things on reddit. Others are often even moderated against from some of what I&amp;#x27;ve seen and thus discouraged from discussion. I don&amp;#x27;t know about that specific sub-reddit, but it certainly happens in some. It&amp;#x27;s an important echo chamber for exuberant hype so people have a vested interest in protecting that in the mostly unregulated market.</text></comment>