Questions tagged [dag]

For questions related DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph)

IOTA’s DAG implementation would enable micropayments for the Internet of Things.

9 questions

votes

2 answers

A blockchain is a specific type of DAG, true or false?

Blockchains are similar to tree-like data structures. In best case list like. One can argue that both lists and trees are graphs with certain restrictions. And because blockchains are directed and acyclic, they are directed acyclic graphs. Is the…

dag

asked Dec 31 '17 at 21:38

Bayequentist

vote

1 answer

IOTA not a blockchain but uses directed acylic graph (DAG) which is what ethereum ethhash is based on (dagger)

IOTA claims that it is not a blockchain. IOTA uses directed acylic graph (DAG) which is what ethereum ethhash is based on in its early variant (Dagger, an algorithm by Vitalik Buterin which uses directed acyclic graphs). Can someone explain?

dag