[amckenna]

Take a few minutes to read the blog posts by the creator. Writing aside the general process and motivation around creating a custom hashing algorithm is very strange -

"Curl-P was created by following the idea of simplicity. While de-jure I can say that it was me who created Curl-P, de-facto it was created by a primitive AI created by me. That wasn’t AI of general purpose; an improved version of the AI is working on the final version of Curl now while I’m writing this post. This situation is quite funny because it look unusual, interesting if in the future we’ll see cases similar to https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/06/monkey-selfie-... but with an AI instead of an animal. By the way, there are a lot of attempts to create a lightweight hashing function, I’d be grateful if someone confirmed or refuted my observation that Curl-P is winning this competition.

IOTA was created to be immune to quantum computer attacks, today I have revealed that it was also created to be immune to attacks from an AI. IOTA was the very first distributed ledger technology to consider imminent threat from technologies which look exotic now. NSA already validated our prediction regarding quantum computers. I think that the both threats (QC and AI) have equal chances to become real in the near future and I’m confident that in few years we’ll see confirmations that the prediction about AI was prophetic too. If someone hasn’t got it yet – IOTA is about the future and it relies only on those paradigms which pass the test of critical thinking."

- http://come-from-beyond.com/time-for-a-paradigm-shift-has-co...

[tuxxy]

Honestly, this sounds like the blog of a borderline schizophrenic or delusional person.

I'm sure he's a very capable developer, but this just doesn't sound... sane.

Edit: Okay, after reading his "About me" page, I honestly am not sure if he is joking or ill: http://come-from-beyond.com/about-me/

"Things started by in the 1980s. I developed a time-machine which was engaged through a complex series of early ternary devices (very early prototypes of Jinn). Things have evolved since then, as the latest iteration of this function is now built into something else (undisclosed).

I went back in time in the mid-eighties to Ancient human times, and constructed a complex of pyramids using some technology I put together in my early teens. When I returned, all history of humans with regards to human development had changed drastically, with this so called ‘mystery creation’ in Egypt."

[solotronics]

interesting, IOTA is the timecube of cryotocurrency

[minipci1321]

Seems sane, didn't forget the shop.

[wyldfire]

I believe that CFB could be an extraordinary talent and could possibly have created something valuable that is tremendously unlike anything we have ever seen.

But I also think that it's much more likely that they are just rolled their own crypto which might be BOTH novel/groundbreaking and critically flawed.

Stay away from IOTA, it's off the charts risky.

[matthewdgreen]

The problem is not that they rolled their own crypto. I mean that is a problem, but it's not the problem. The real problem is that these people have a substantial degree of control over the IOTA network (centralized coordinator, control of wallets and clients, access to funds), and their actions and words are not those of a competent, reasonable technical team. They're at best bizarre. There are real people who have invested a ton of money into this currency, and they stand to be really hurt if this blows apart.

[Slartie]

I am very skeptic with regard to IOTA myself and consider it an overhyped piece of tech that probably will not deliver on any of its various promises. And CFB seems to be a questionable person as well. But...you really should not fall for this elaborate prank site ;-)

The thing about the AI that wrote the algorithm is already pretty crazy, but you really need to take a look at the shop's contents. “Tangelized Viagra“, yeah, sure. I had a good laugh while exploring the entire thing!