The tangle may be novel because it's useless for a distributed ledger: thus far IOTA has relied on a centralized coordinator.
The tangle, like trits and many other IOTAisms, appear to be the perfect basis for a scam: too complicated for non-experts to fully understand yet just enough plausibility to sell it.
Even if the creators were not conciously trying to create a scam, so far it has been indistinguishable from one.
(I'm interested in a peer review of tangle as just searching for it only uncovers page upon page of marketing drivel.)
I was also trying to find actual info. https://iota.org/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf is the closest i found. Its still a bit annoying and meandery but its much better than the rest of their marketing drivel.
The tangle, like trits and many other IOTAisms, appear to be the perfect basis for a scam: too complicated for non-experts to fully understand yet just enough plausibility to sell it.
Even if the creators were not conciously trying to create a scam, so far it has been indistinguishable from one.
(I'm interested in a peer review of tangle as just searching for it only uncovers page upon page of marketing drivel.)