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Does the chance of getting your transaction confirmed increase with faster CPU?
It can be painfully difficult to get a transaction confirmed, so I've found various suggestions to improve this, as:
choose a well synched full node
choose a full node with low ping time
use promote button (why the wallet can't do this on its own…
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Why aren't timestamps validated?
So, I understand transactions are only validated syntactically, but I'm struggling to understand why that is the case? To be more specific, why isn't there an exactly once (and current timestamp > prior timestamp) semantic for timestamps? Wouldn't…
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Why is the bundle hash normalized?
What is the technical reason for normalizing the bundle hash in IOTA?
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Why not switch to NIST SHA3
Currently we use the draft sha3 standard which specified LFSR of 0x01, however NIST's approved SHA3 is set to 0x06. If we switched to using this hash method it would allow many more options of crypto libraries to be used. Surely the next major…
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Pending Transaction
I know this question has been here before but I did what was already mentioned and still nothing happened.
Problem: I sent 250 Miotas 24hrs ago from an exchange (Coinone) to my Wallet (V. 2.5.7 - IRI 1.4.2.1).
The transaction appears as pending.…
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What's the point of using the Merkle Tree in MAM instead of just single private key?
The transaction address could be just a hash of public key instead of the Merkle Root (if I understand correctly how it works). In this case we still could use Winternitz OTS, but the signature size would be smaller, and we wouldn't need to store…
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What does "invalid consistency" mean?
I found a bundle, which shows invalid consistency. The Tangle explorere says, it would never confirm.
My suggestion is that the Bundle input value is higher then the overall bundle output value.
But, what did the user do wrong?
Could this happen…
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(WebJS) MAM Channels using Channel ID's
For info I am using the web version of:
https://github.com/l3wi/mam.client.js
I am looking to use MAM for a web-only project. I really read all about setting up different channels. I have read all code but I don't see any way how to make different…
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What Proof of Work function does IOTA use?
When you submit a transaction to the network, you have to perform some proof of work.
Bitcoin uses Hashcash and Ethereum uses Ethash as their PoW algorithms, but what does IOTA use, and in what way is it different?
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Why are Oyster Pearl's transactions clumping like this, and not getting confirmed? Is this an issue with the tip selection algo?
It appears that Oyster Pearl, a data transmission service built on the tangle, has launched their testnet and is submitting transactions to IOTA tangle live and tagging them (see above image).
As we can see, the transactions are heavily clumped…
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Distribution of Number of Approvers
Every transaction directly references two previous transactions. But I was wondering, does this also mean that every transaction will be referenced by exactly two transactions or will it be random? If it is random, what does the distribution look…
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On average, what % of my private key is compromised on the first address re-use, and what exponential effect does it have on security?
Each time we use an address, 50% of your private key is revealed at random.
When 50% of the private key is revealed, a computer would have to do 2^256 computations to crack it, similar to the SHA-256 standard, which is considered cryptographically…
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How does a new user verify he's getting the correct tangle?
How does a new user verify he's getting the correct tangle from others in the network? Unlike blockchain protocol in which the user can rely on the growing chain to be sure he is not been fed with fake transactions, I'm not seeing an obvious way to…
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How to attach an address to tangle programmatically?
Say I have a script to generate addresses automatically, how can I attach it to the tangle using the library?
From the Javascript library I see that these are the parameters:
* @param {string} trunkTransaction
* @param {string}…
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Data Marketplace Piracy
What prevents somebody from purchasing a data stream and then dumping all the data online somewhere, allowing others access without paying?
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