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Payments & Smart Contracts
Can I build a payment platform with escrow features (smart contracts), for free money transfers on IOTA?
Eddie Sanders
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When are transactions stored (to disk)?
Are transactions only stored to RocksDB after confirmation?
And unconfirmed tx are just passed around between neighbors and kept in memory?
GJEEE
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My Iota got transferred without my consent
This morning a transfer was completed with a transaction and the funds ended up at this address.
Needless to say I haven't made this transfer and that I am puzzled by this. I had my seed done by a recommended Iota source (can't remember which).
Any…
vincentpineau
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Getting error: "Invalid Response: The deployment could not be found"
I'm trying to get account data with the following code:
const iota = new IOTA({
'host': 'https://testnet140.tangle.works',
'port': 443
});
const seed = //my seed
iota.api.getAccountData(seed, function(error, accountData) {
if (error) {
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EpicButterz
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How will IoT devices know the state of the network?
I understand that the plan is to have specific hardware to allow IoT devices to perform the PoW, but how will they know the state of the network in order to perform the MCMC? Wouldn't that require more resources?
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For the past month, I haven't been able to get this transaction to go through
I have this transaction that won't go through, and because of address reuse, I'm not able to create any new transactions until I get this transaction to go through.
Before the newest version of the wallet came out, I tried reattaching and…
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What needs to be done to backup the IOTA wallet?
What needs to be done to backup the IOTA wallet?
Is it sufficient to keep the seed in a backup location (such as maybe Password Safe or KeePass), or is it also necessary to backup any file from the system where the wallet is installed?
Eddie
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IOTA Whitepaper: What is z in Section 4.1?
Everything in the equation is defined except z. Is it supposed to be another parameter that is chosen like alpha? I want to actually use some reasonable sample variables and test this.
Bill Bisco
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IOTA Whitepaper: What is δ?
In Section 3.1 of the IOTA Whitepaper it refers to small delta (δ) but does not actually define what it does. Can you help define δ and explain what the equation is trying to tell me?
Bill Bisco
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Finding a double-spending inner conflict referencing two tips
I think that IOTA Transactions, Confirmation and Consensus is a very good reading. It helped me a lot on understanding IOTA protocol working.
Nevertheless I have a doubt: regarding the Double Spend slide how would transaction 5 see the conflict…
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Iota Whitepaper: What is "k" in Section 3?
The IOTA Whitepaper in Section 3 does not seem to define k. Is k the number of verifications required by a transaction as noted earlier in the Whitepaper or something else? If it's the former I do not understand. Can someone people please help me…
Bill Bisco
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What is a transactions obsoleteTag used for?
Why is there a tag and obsoleteTag in a transaction? In the code, I could find one usage (iota.lib.js) of the obsoleteTag being incremented if the normalized hash is considered insecure. This implies that one can't be sure that the obsoleteTag, or a…
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IRI node syncing very slowly
I am running full headless node. The problem is that the syncing process is taking very long.
Being very optimistic it will take about one month.
What can be wrong?
Node specs:
- Core 2 duo 4 GB 650 GB
- Good broadband
- Running linux headless…
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What happens with transactions e and f in this example?
I was looking at the best answer of the following thread (Without the Coordinator, how will the network decide which double-spend succeeds?) and asking myself what will happen to the transactions e, f and all previous ones in the red zone?
Will they…
philszalay
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Walking the tangle—How to get the parents?
Looking at Pseudocode to walk the tangle?, in order to walk the tangle you look at the open tips and then you look for the parents. getTips gives you a list of all the open tips. What API call is needed however to get the parents?
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