Twitter seems sadly popular among this crowd. Sadly because it lends itself to flamewars.
In general I give up after I get the first "you don't know what you're talking about" without any kind of actual argument behind it. Note that you find several of these in the comments of TFA:
>i find it deeply alarming everybody and their graindma has to write bad stuff about iota without beeing informed themselves enough.
>I learned a lot today, but not from this article. The comment section has some good information.
>you’re way too late for the fud party.
>Wow…another clear case of awesome journalism. Another case of the misinformed trying to mislead people with another mudslinging article.
>Just a question: does it ever occur to you to pick up the phone and may get in touch with someone who actually knows the topic at hand before writing this kind of garbage…say the IOTA…
Truly enlightening.
I love this comment too: https://medium.com/@dfalkman/i-think-this-article-sums-the-p...
>The bottom line is that IOTA is embarking on something new. Like a lot of things in crypto, it is theoretical and academic and working towards becoming practical. It is very early.
Then:
>We all rise together, so we should more encouraging of one another’s endeavors in crypto and blockchain. IMO these concerns would have been best voiced in the IOTA slack channel instead of on the interwebs for all to FUD about.
In other words: it's experimental academic endeavor but don't criticize it publicly because it hinders my ability to pump it.
There’s your tip-off for a scam: don’t ask questions, and be encouraging to each other, because it’s us against a skeptical world. Cults, penny stocks, Amway, and now crypto currency scams apparently: I’ve observed similar patterns in all. Not that we shouldn’t support each other in our mutual endeavors, but if that’s the only thing with any substance that you hear and money is on the line, run away.
Tip-off #2: “You don’t know what you’re talking about.” “Enlighten me.” <crickets>
Learned that one from a biodiesel nut, a suburban boy with clean fingernails trying to convince this ex-mechanic who grew up on a farm that growing food crops for fuel is energy net positive, and otherwise a good idea. Not that his heavy financial investment in a local biodiesel company would color his opinion at all.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_energy_balance), growing sugarcane for ethanol is 8x net energy positive.
1. Token Economy is a weekly crypto newsletter run by two crypto VCs (https://tokeneconomy.co/). I think it is extremely good at separating the signal from the noise. Highly recommend.
2. Twitter is unfortunately indeed the easiest place to follow what's going on. Naval Ravikant, the founder of AngelList, recently published a list of the people he follows in the space (https://twitter.com/naval/lists/crypto/members). It has a large overlap with my own list, but neither he nor I endorse everyone's views that are on it. But it probably includes most of the active developers, VCs and thought leaders in the space.
