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>It is a great example of someone (the "expert") convincing a non-technical person that they are the "ninja rockstar 11x post-quantum hash function expert".

It's hilarious that he thought that would work with a security researcher at MIT.

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Sonstebo isn't a developer and the conversation continued well after this. What is your point.

My point is it’s funny. It’s a group of charlatans dealing with a competent person for the first time.

He's not an MIT researcher AFAIK. He's affiliated with DCI, which runs under the MIT banner. MIT actually had a favorable article in their review that DCI took issue with--but of course they were both going after a Swedish contract to create an e-money. IOTA survived the cut, which probably infuriates them even more.

One can find good cryptographers outside MIT, you know.

Not my point, but yes.

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