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Board Scam Accusations
Re: IOTA: Snake oil insecurity with a centralized kill switch to shut off your money
by
nullius
on 19/02/2020, 21:03:41 UTC
For those who need a TL;DR:  There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!  (Link for Tor users, whom that website blocks—or see Wikipedia.)

That is just common sense, the general concept of which has been the stuff of proverbs for thousands of years.  Crypto newbies may not know Schneier’s warning signs of snake oil cryptography.  Whereas every reasonable person should know that “free” is the most expensive—especially when it comes to financial investments.

From iota.com blog

https://blog.iota.org/instant-feeless-flash-channels-88572d9a4385?gi=9eb5072573c4

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Instant & Feeless— Flash Channels
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Free and instant transaction.  Fully scalable.

But everything has a price. Looks like iota price is very expensive [...]
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Response Three:
Orcutt’s claim that IOTA is free of fees is misleading. [,,,]
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People need MIT wizards to lay that out for them?  Roll Eyes