Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]
Interesting to see the range of opinions about IOTA.<p>The conclusions on HN are (so far) completely at odds from those on the cryptocurrency subreddit: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7zztey/full_emails_of_ethan_heilman_and_the_digital/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7zztey/full...</a><p>Meanwhile the commercial world seems happy to engage with IOTA:<p>"Volkswagen CDO will join the supervisory board of the IOTA foundation. And now, Volkswagen is going to utilise this technology in their automobiles." -- <a href="https://coingape.com/iota-volkswagen-partnership-raises-hopes-for-investors/" rel="nofollow">https://coingape.com/iota-volkswagen-partnership-raises-hope...</a><p>"Bosch makes first investment in distributed ledger technology, purchase of IOTA tokens to support creation of new business models for the Internet of Things" -- <a href="http://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/robert-bosch-venture-capital-makes-first-investment-in-distributed-ledger-technology-137411.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/robert-bosch-ve...</a><p>"Taiwan's capital city of Taipei is working with the IOTA Foundation to bring Tangle - IOTA's answer to blockchain - to its citizen identification plans." -- <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/city-of-taipei-confirms-its-testing-iota-blockchain-for-id/" rel="nofollow">https://www.coindesk.com/city-of-taipei-confirms-its-testing...</a><p>So what to make of all this?