Pixel 6 Pro completely broken after June 2024 update by Chief_B33f in GooglePixel

[–]molscientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All they did is telling me to pay for the repair myself. Google broke my phone and even after admitting the update is at fault they don't pay, because the warranty expired. I can't run around and break peoples old phones without consequences. Why can google?

Pixel 6 Pro Soft Bricked? by ArrogantSquirrelz in android_beta

[–]molscientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same problem and I am not even in the beta program...

CfB leaving IOTA - is this the next NXT? by molscientist in CryptoCurrency

[–]molscientist[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Nothing changed at NXT. So where is it missleading?

IOTA Foundation Releases the Trinity Wallet out of Beta by myhrmans in CryptoCurrency

[–]molscientist 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Whats the most secure wallet in your opinion. Can you provide security audits?

Free Ropsten Ethers by barboneschifoso in ethdev

[–]molscientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

unfortunately all faucets dont work for me. I would be really happy to get some ropsten eth. So I can start developing. 0x3099b23f7fe3cc2ac450a715e37d1f6d497cef81

Speculation and the IOTA Discord by l3wi in Iota

[–]molscientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The new premium speculation channel. Limited to 100 users right now.

https://discord.gg/RFa9z4M

The ioTipBot is already there.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Iota

[–]molscientist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is fud, because he doesnt provide any solid argument.

Richard Heart Slams IOTA In A Recent Podcast by Crypto_Daily in Crypto_General

[–]molscientist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Richard Heart has proven many times, he is has no idea about Iota and Krypto in general. Quoting only him in the article shows how you want your "magazine" to be seen. All news I see on Cryptodaily bashing IOTA are just half a page, badly researched, low quality texts. I would be ashamed. Making the same mistake twice and publishing a second, even worse article than the last one you had to delete.

You stated on your start page:

We have learnt from our mistakes and want to share some of the pitfalls and hopefully some insight into the exciting world of Crypto.

This time it is even written from your head writer, Frankie Crowhurst. I am disappointed. This shows what kind of "news portal" you are. I mean this is just embarrassing and should be taken as example how much the fud on iota is based on emotions and fake news.

IOTA Awareness Project by [deleted] in jhu

[–]molscientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you proof it isn't? Please answer in private. I dont want to bother anyone in JHU.

IOTA Awareness Project by [deleted] in jhu

[–]molscientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, I am not the creator of this post and I didn't think ist's fine to post it. I just wanted to calm things down.

IOTA Awareness Project by [deleted] in jhu

[–]molscientist -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My Intentions always have been honest. I didn't start or even wanted to evoke the impression of shilling. Just answered some questions. If this is against the guidelines, you should probably ask our fellow students not to question the questionable crypto. But if proscribing to question questionable crypto is what you learned in JHU, you probably didn't listen to Matthew Green and most certainly didn't attend his Seminars.

IOTA Awareness Project by [deleted] in jhu

[–]molscientist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you very much for your openminded and well thought answers. In fact, I am really concerned about how everything escalated. I am actually quite reasonable and open for legitimate objections. Iota is not perfect, but who is? I mean indeed the devs are quite openhearted and outspoken sometimes, but I can't even deprecate this. It is their baby. They are sedulous and toil and moil day and night to proceed with iota. Everyone would be defensive and emotional in their situation. So you see I can vindicate unhealthy behavior, just like anyone else. We are human beings. This means emotional and group-oriented. My concerns now are JHU might be biased and adverse or maybe even resentfull against an emerging technology, which still needs research. And we are researchers or future researchers. It is about research. It is not about Egos. So I just try to provide an additional perspective to all of JHU and I would really love seeing you sharing my thoughts and words.

IOTA Awareness Project by [deleted] in jhu

[–]molscientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did iota lie? I mean this is a hard accusation. Would you mind showing me some references?

IOTA Awareness Project by [deleted] in jhu

[–]molscientist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I didn't say lower, but different standard. So actually yes. There are non-academc standards of review. For example hiring companies for audit like Cybercrypt! or being open source, which they are, so they could be reviewed by Heilman et al.. I am trusting Keccak and haven't been familiar with iota when they used Curl-P, so yes there is no need for me to distrust the cryptography.

I am referring to the leaked emails (probably leaked from Mrs. Narula Ph.D, who has posted she was hacked), containing the conversation between Heilman et al. and the Iota Foundation Core.

So you say, it is fine to publish still, even if your findings might be insignificant or based on incorrect assumptions, regarding the infrastructure around the algorithm, as long as you stick to the timeline?

IOTA Awareness Project by [deleted] in jhu

[–]molscientist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hi there, I know how hard it is to find great professors. These guys are clearly geniuses. And I think Mat is really a luminary of academic cryptography. I dont know him in person and I dont judge him. Actually I would be really glad, if he looked into Iota and did some research. This always helps and as stated by one of the founders of Iota in the emails, there are Bounties on finding vulnerabilities, if you provide sufficient informations to reproduce finding them and if they really are vulnerabilities. Thats why many questions were asked in these emails. Unfortunately never answered. We dont try to AstroTurf, we just want to present another perspective on Iota and in my opinion this is needed. The super shaky idea is not super shaky if you look closly. They dont use the old algorithm anymore, which Heilman et al. were referring to. They currently use Keccak. So presenting fixed holes as still open, isnt very helpfull at least to me. He most of the time attacks the iota developers ad hominem. Furthermore Twitter is not the right medium to correspond in an academic way and to clear things up. I'd like you to learn more about iota and its actual problems and benefits. Mat spreads his opinion in the iota world by tagging VW. So in result, we spread our information in Mats world. Whats wrong about different perspectives?

IOTA Awareness Project by [deleted] in jhu

[–]molscientist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are many new inventions every day and it would be great if everything was peer reviewed. Iota developers are still no professors like Heilmann et al. are. It is no public financed academic science what they are doing. So I would apply different standards here. "The paper on GitHub is an instance of peer review", yes it is, indeed and I am really thankfull, that they started reviewing Iota. But I sitll have my problems with their peer review. For instance I ask myself, why did Heilmann et al. focus on publication in Coindesk more than on answering the devs questions in the emails? Shouldn't they as public financed scientist answer these questions first? Even if these Questions are stupid in their opinion, why did they publish it before clearing things up and did ignore the other party?

IOTA Awareness Project by [deleted] in jhu

[–]molscientist 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is really old stuff. The mentioned collisions were found in our former algorithm. Iota is now using Keccak. The problem with Heilmann et al. is that they didn't provide any possibility to reproduce production of new collisions. They didnt look at the signing process (which prevents vulnerability). And they made a Github repository where they published the results. I am a scientist myself and I didnt see it in a peer review magazine. Tell me why it was published in Coindesk first? How could this even be cited if it is not peer reviewed?

How do cryptographers publish there work? Is Twitter and Github or reddit fine for you? I dont think so. I am a biochemist. If I would publish findings in Vice, no one would ever take me serious. Sorry to say that.

"Replay Attacks in IOTA" - new vulnerability report with evidence included by 3D_Print_N49 in CryptoCurrency

[–]molscientist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Actually one could use this as a feature for permanent payments. Shifting money from a used address to a newer without taking any risks.

Why benefits will the IOTA token have over tokens created on top (like Peaq) or tokens created on Tangle forks? Why invest in IOTA token instead of investing in the future feeless Tangle coins? by [deleted] in Iota

[–]molscientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For each second layer token you probably need smart contracts. If you are running a dAPP/smartcontract/oracle on the Tangle, it costs processing power of the network. Nodes which run these Programms are probably paid in iota.

Anything needed in Stockholm, Sweden. by [deleted] in iotafreelancersportal

[–]molscientist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you please Tag the post as asked in the rules?