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Possibility of sending a IOTA transaction from a "micro-controller"?
Since IOTA is designed specifically for IoT, is there a specific library for micro-controllers such as ESP, such that we can interact (send a transaction) directly from a micro-controller to the IOTA Tangle?
And if yes, is there an existing…
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Removing pending transactions or not after local snapshot?
We know full-node will remove all pending transactions but keeps value address after global snapshot. In the local snapshot, after reading the article: Coming Up: Local Snapshots, we know full-node maintainer need choose a confirmed transaction that…
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How do I do remote POW with iota.js
With the recent iota.js update, how would I do remote POW?
If my device is too weak but the server I am connected to has POW enabled.
I have transaction objects.
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Why is the Coordinator necessary if its confirmations will be rejected by other nodes if it acts maliciously?
It has been said many times that the Coordinator is not necessary because its confirmations will be rejected by other nodes if it acts maliciously.
It follows that if other nodes can tell if the Coordinator acts maliciously, then in fact they do not…
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Will the total supply of IOTA tokens ever increase?
When wealth is created through work, shouldn't the currency supply also increase to ensure the liquidity of wealth?
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The total supply of IOTA tokens right now is (3^33-1)/2. The circulating supply of tokens will most likely decrease with time…
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What is the blowball problem and what causes it?
According to IOTA Engineering:
IRI 1.5.3 addresses the blowball problem seen on Mainnet.
What exactly is the blowball problem and what causes it?
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What is the lower limit of energy usage for an IOTA transaction?
It has been stated here that an IOTA transaction currently uses around 0.0005kWh or 0.5Wh.
In their work example for a smart-meter sending data every 10s using MAM, that is 500kWh in a year. This is significant energy consumption.
Take for example a…
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Decentralized milestone issuance scheme?
I decided to preserve the original post in a pastebin for reference but the edits here address pretty much everything i think. Here is the link to the original post. There is also a link to a fresh chat at the bottom where we can continue the…
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How to sign a data transaction?
I am wondering if it is possible to sign a data transaction, i.e. generate a signed bundle whose inputs have a balance of 0. If so, how could I construct such a bundle?
I am asking because I would like to know how a zero value transaction can be…
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IRI gets stuck after a while
I run a node I setup after the manual of http://iota.partners/
I recently completely wiped it and installed the newest lubuntu 18.04 on it, but I had the same problems before. Yesterday I set everything back up and it worked flawlessly! But…
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How much memory is needed on a full-node?
A full-node contains all transactions from the last snapshot but I'm wondering how can it contain everything (that's a lot of data).
Does a full-node store every transaction completely? (the whole 2673 trytes?)
On average how many transactions a day…
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IoTA full node setup done but all transactions pending
I have followed http://iota.partners/ to setup a full node on my AWS. I am pretty sure that my security policy has opened the port for IoTA.
The neighbor status:
and then when my program status check
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MAM: What is the purpose of the nonce in the masked_payload?
I am researching how Masked Authenticated Messaging (MAM) works.
The masked_payload is created in the create function in file: https://github.com/iotaledger/MAM/blob/master/mam/src/mam.rs
masked_payload =
[
Encoded
Index,
Encoded Message…
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Why does IOTA use a post-quantum signature scheme?
There is an existing question about why Iota chose their specific post-quantum signature scheme. But my question is, why use a post-quantum signature scheme at all? Were the motivations discussed anywhere?
My understanding is that many of IOTA's…
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Is it intended that getTransactionsToApprove can possibly return non-tips as well?
If one calls the API function getTransactionsToApprove() one expects to receive 2 tips. To this end it calls the randomWalk() method two times. However I noticed that the randomWalk() routine contains some stop-conditions (like !checkSolidity or…
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