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My favorite part was the IOTA folks insisting that their 'higher level' protocol would fix all their rookie mistakes. (Yes! We intentionally built our castle on quicksand! But look how hard the walls are!)

It's a great example of why you need to start from sound foundations.

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My favorite part is that they don't seem to understand the concept of hash collisions at all! ("ONE collision, nah that's nothing" [1]) and when JP Aumasson explains a possible attack the response is basically "Who would do such a thing?" [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/c___f___b/status/967511451442302976

[2] https://twitter.com/c___f___b/status/966315009071607809

I mean that logic works for a lot of network stuff. Like you can have a nice fast torrent even though all the packets are UDP.

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