At one point the author is provably wrong.
Whether or not IOTAs ledger is tamper-proof, the entire IOTA network went down in November, and was completely inoperable for about three days. That this has never happened in Bitcoin or Ethereum suggests the extent to which the IOTA network relies on the coordinatora single point of failureand is not truly decentralized
Back in 2010, a Bitcoin miner was able to create billions of Bitcoins because of an
undiscovered bug. Therefore, a hard fork of Bitcoin was conducted. Furthermore, Ethereum had centralized pillars at the beginning as well, before and partly while
Frontier release.
So what should one think of a writer - even if s(he) is related to MIT in some way - who does not even know these two simple facts - or even worse - does not want to know them.