Is Iota dead? Their devs are very scammy and put viruses on their open source code and there are many fishy things
it is also slow too and their network seems to be dead
IOTA's team is extremely unprofessional and their claims are pure hype. It is everyone's responsibility to counter misinformation wherever they encounter it, especially when a lot of people are being suckered in by it.
Next, and in my mind most damningly, Sergey Ivancheglo, Iotas cofounder, claims that the flaws in the Curl hash function were in fact deliberate; that they were inserted as copy protection, to prevent copycat projects, and to allow the Iota team to compromise those projects if they sprang up.