Quote from: StarkTony on July 13, 2018, 08:05:23 PM

I'm currently comparing other IoT projects to IOTA, and it seems to me that IOTA really lacks critical features.

One of these is privacy: I mean, how can IOTA ever become the infrastructure of IoT if it can't guarantee privacy? Connecting IoT devices to a global network means sharing very personal informations, possibly more than what we share now on socials by means of our smartphones. What about our home devices? And health data?

Also I've been left to the status of IOTA in October 2017: at that time the wallet was having huge problems connecting and transactions didn't go through. How is the transaction time at the moment? Is it like 2 minutes as someone wrote above? If so, how do you expect IOTA to support IoT transactions? In IoT scenarios, embedded devices are expected to react relatively quickly to changes in the environment (think of house doors closing when I leave my apartment... 2 minutes looks like enough time for a thief to make it into my house).

There are excellent blockchain solutions popping up out there, look at IoTex: is IOTA going to be up to it? Honestly, I don't think so.

Quote from: BitcoinArsenal on July 13, 2018, 11:04:28 PM

I doubt you really did a proper comparison or your research was sloppy.

Well, I didn't say I did a comparison, I said that I'm currently doing it, and that's the reason why I'm asking these questions.

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Anyone interested in privacy and anonymity is recommended to read it.

https://blog.iota.org/research-on-private-transactions-in-iota-cd546751e2c4

I checked out your link, so based on what I can read there IOTA was not designed with privacy in mind, and research is ongoing to find a solution to implement some level of privacy, at leat transactions mixing, but that's made difficult basically because the missing "consensus/mining" concept of IOTA does not allow such feature development.

So I think we can safely say IOTA is missing a privacy feature at the moment and adding it, even a partial privacy implementation, is made complicated by the initial IOTA design.

What about transactions speed? Can anyone provide numbers on how fast transactions are getting confirmed on average, and how the confirmation speed is expected to change in a real IoT scenario where billions of devices are connected and transacting?