The Tangle is an interesting concept, but I'm highly skeptical of IOTA as long as it requires a central authority to protect itself from double spends. As far as I know even IOTA's tokens are centrally issued, but that might be a misconception of mine that I'll gladly have debunked by someone with more insight on IOTAs architecture.
No you could well be right but we are already more or less forced to trust some 3rd part like Coinbase as it is
so i could trust some type of decentralized central servers to stamp coins somehow without owning them.
I don't mind helping to authenticate two transactions to keep my transaction free but i cannot afford to
keep a copy of a 200gb block-chain on my little PC and to then process all the history for a coin.
Must be a way of using some type of digital stamping of autonomous coins/tokens without then having to be owned
by brokers using a private key pair but i do think we need to separate the value of the coins from the infrastructure
because any currency needs a stable prices regardless of how well the infrastructure is doing.
You can keep adding advancements to a formula one sports car but there comes a time where you have to scrap it and stat again
or end up out of the race is my thinking and we know by now we are heading for trouble anyway.
Just now i think more people would be happier if fees were based on value and not byte size and if the public do arrive en-mass
then they will be dipping toes in the water with $100 and they will not take to $20 transaction fees i don't think
