people have an abundance of computational power and can process IOTA transactions
there is no lowered balance of IOTA for performing this or sending more IOTA to a destination
the article goes on about how the computational power is a fee for no other reason except to discredit the IOTA devs
would be stronger if that point was removed, it isn't a point of contention and can be explained elsewhere
Well someone has to buy hardware and pay for electricity to run the computers.
Computational power is not free, unless you're running a botnet or something.
> people have an abundance of computational power and can process IOTA transactions
And they get in return... ?
A warm fuzzy feeling for having paid money for hardware and electricity so someone else can put something on a blockch-- whoops, I mean a "Tangle."
On IoT devices?
Plus they state that having to participate in the network as a full node (fridge using 99% of your bandwidth) is also a "fee" in this context.
> ...for no other reason except to discredit the IOTA devs
They seem to be doing a fine job of that on their own -- reading the linked page where people can't recover their coins (plus having to jump through a bunch of hoops) because they were focused on unrelated projects seems bad.