![]() ![]() So what's the big mess? It's pretty clear that both parties messed by being sloppy at emailing each other. What if someone has no perspective of how these communications usually take place? It looks like (upon the assumption that IOTA's team member was indeed in an 'incomprehensible' state when he typed that email out) MIT's team member without a second warning, just went ahead with publishing the paper. So we at HN look at some emails from IOTA and call out their unprofessional behavior, and Reddit does the same thing with MIT's team. ![]() Because if you read the 124 pages, it becomes clear that both the IOTA team, as well as the MIT team were bad at communicating with each other, the purpose of this bad communication is unknown, but both are at fault. What I don't get, is HOW this became a bipartisan issue with HN/Reddit. Lots of holes in my knowledge there, but I got the jist. ![]() Apparently, this violates a EU-CMA security protocol, and this is an issue. The whole thing started with someone finding something wrong with the 'Curl' wrapper around a packet that's being sent from A->B. I am in the tech industry however, so I can follow about 30% of the technical jargon that's going on. I'm a person with no background in cryptography. The correct link for the post should have been: But, any criticism of cryptocurrency devolves into either personal attacks or a know-all attitude which ensures not many people want to lend their expertise.Įdit: After re-reading the blog post, I realized the agenda of this leak was to show evidence of conflict of interest. Lot of expertise on money, economics, cryptography, programming language etc is out there. This whole saga seems to be symptomatic of the cryptocurrency scene. > Hi Ethan, I can't get a single reply from you, looks like you put me on ignore on Twitter. They expect him to reply back a month later? I can be wrong but the suggestion here seems to be that Coindesk journalist reaching out to the Iota team was a ploy to force them to pay a bounty.īut, after devolving into a personal attack. Ethan is clearly in complete conflict of interestĪnd pushing this for his own gain, this is no longer about academic merits, but aĭesperate attempt by Ethan to make money. This may be the biggest scandal I have ever heard of from what has been portrayed asĪ professional 'responsible disclosure'. By a CoinDesk journalist that Ethan contacted in an attempt to rush out this publication. ![]()
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