IOTA didnt take off because it was mainly media hype of investment into IOTA but not much business meeting with device manufacturers to actually get it implemented(no mainsteam device plan)
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the guy above advertising 'concordia' suffers the same problem. wasting time advertising another PoS coin for investment and throwing in a few buzzwords people want to see. but absolutely no detail/content of who/what manufacturers/businesses they have partnerships with or in negotiations with future businesses
and thats how these crapcoins always fail
over promising the offer but not following through with any promise
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so here is my idea of the next 5-10 years
manufacturers will have their own systems that then can interconnect to some master 'reserve' blockchain. this is what the hyperledger project was aiming for.
I was not really aware of this issue that IOTA had with their clients. I do recall they had a problem with using unproven cryptography primitives. They could never really decentralize the coordinator. This may actually be a problem with all blockchain products. Organizations want to deploy their own rather than pay the software provider for the service. The democratization of programming know-how is probably one reason that companies want to cut corners this way.
Couldn't agree more as to why these coins fail one after the other. No proven use cases and no examples of a real deployed product. Just a lot of hype about interconnectedness, decentralization, immutability etc etc.