Quote from: sinner on July 12, 2017, 03:13:27 PM

This thread deserves a bump. Have IOTA or Byteball made any recent improvements to address Shelby Moore's concerns?

Neither byteball or Iota can be truly trustless or decentralised; they are flawed.

Byteball requires witnesses which are trusted super users in order to form a consensus:

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Looking   for   a   reality   test, observe   that   some   of   the   participants   of   our   network
are   non-anonymous   reputable   people or   companies who   might   have   a   long
established   reputation,   or   they   are   businesses   interested   in   keeping   the   network
healthy. Well   call   them   witnesses

Iota requires what they used to refer to as checkpoints, now known as 'coordinators' in order to maintain consensus until the currency is 'bootstrapped', which is years to never.

You cannot have a trustless concensus like bitcoin's without a mining reward - that is what creates convergence.