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by rodarmor 3209 days ago
The IOTA devs are deluded. Here's there justification:

"Creating a new cryptographic hash function is no trivial undertaking, even when it is being built on preexisting world class standards. “Don’t roll your own crypto” is a compulsory uttered mantra that serves as a good guiding principle for 99.9% of projects, but there are exceptions to the rule. When spearheading technology for a new paradigm this statement is no longer axiomatic. Progress must march on."

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"we are the .1%"
"Or, sometimes, back."
But always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!