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by aero- 1944 days ago
I think IOTA in this case is a better project focusing on a more important problem in the future (IOT) and machine to machine transacting.
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With Nano you have fast transactions. With IOTA you have fast and fee-less transactions and a whole ecosystem to build things on top of.

Franfurt Airport has been using IOTA to track COVID results[1]

IoT hardware that works through the Tangle (IOTA's network)[2]

And other nice things like fognet[3]

[1]https://cointelegraph.com/news/iota-blockchain-used-to-track...

[2]https://theindependentrepublic.com/boschs-new-iot-adaptor-xd...

[3]https://fognet.world/

> Comparing IOTA to Nano is like comparing a rock with an atomic bomb (being IOTA the bomb).

For future, when comparing A1 with B1, it's nicer if the order is maintained when comparing A2 with B2 (instead of stating that you're comparing B2 with A2, and that A2 is equivalent of A1)

"Comparing Nano to IOTA is like comparing a rock with an atomic bomb."

Combined with your follow up sentence, describing how Nano has one feature, while IOTA has that same one feature, as well as more features, there's no requirement to explicitly state that you view IOTA to be the bomb in this analogy.

I have no view on the substance of what you wrote, just the way it was written, and wanted to help. I hope this helps, and apologise if it doesn't.

You're the one who needs some writing advice.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33514.The_Elements_of_St...

Haha, I love that one of the top questions asked on that book is "Why is this book praised so much? At least textbooks have pictures", which mostly speaks to the absurdity of the platform that goodreads has become.

Either way, thanks for the tip, will add to the list!

You're right, thanks.
Doesn't IOTA use a ternary number system for some strange reason? To me it seems like it's shitcoins all the way down
No, they wanted to but in the end they've decided not to.

Why do you thinks it is a shitcoin?

IOTA is centralised
It is not production ready so yes, there is still a part that is centralized and it is being worked on. It is not a secret, they are very transparent about it.

You can read the white paper. https://files.iota.org/papers/20200120_Coordicide_WP.pdf

Decentralization is not jet mentioned on the roadmap

https://roadmap.iota.org/

IOTA wants to ditch its most centralized component, but the timeline is still murky