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With IRI version 1.5.2, how does the prevention of lazy tip selection change the tangle's partition tolerance?
One of the features of IOTA is that sub-tangles can be constructed and then attached to to the main tangle in the future.
With IRI version 1.5.2, how does the prevention of lazy tip selection change the tangle's partition tolerance?
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In IRI version 1.5.2, is the prevention of lazy tip selection a further entrenchment of the Coordinator?
For background, please read:
https://blog.iota.org/coming-soon-iri-1-5-2-52114ca67a70
Under the hood, while doing validation, IRI will now remember the most
recent milestone referenced by each transaction. This piece of
information allows the…
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What happens to the Iota network if the coordinator vanishes?
Some people argue that Iota is centralised because of the use of a coordinator to issue milestones which, in turn, are used as a root of trust to verify transactions.
What would happen to the network (with the current IRI) if the coordinator…
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How are nodes incentivised to be honest when approving transactions?
I am new to IOTA and would like to understand how nodes are incentivised to be truthful when approving transactions?
Bitcoin:
Say a miner approves a tx that is invalid (say bc it double spends). It mines it into a block. It gets X btc for doing…
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Why do I need to create an IOTA instance to use the library functions?
Let the IOTA node instance be iota variable in the following context:
var IOTA=require("./node_modules/iota.lib.js/lib/iota")
var iota=new IOTA({ 'provider': 'https://iotanode.us:443'})
If I want to make a digest of a SEED="ABC...XYZ", I do the…
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How do real world applications deal with IOTA snapshots?
IOTA is constantly mentioned in the news about new cooperations between IOTA and other business partners. But how do applications such as the over-the-air proof-of-concept of IOTA and VW handle snapshots? What problems do they have? And if they…
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How to stream XDK 110 data via MAM
I just got my Bosch XDK 110 and have been playing with the workbench. Everything works smoothly. Now I want to stream this data via MAM to the Tangle. Are there any pointers on how should I do this? Maybe someone already did this? I would love not…
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PearlDiver: why are these values hard-coded?
I'm reading the PearlDiver class written in the IRI.
Each 243 trits long block of the transaction is absorbed except the last one.
Now only 243 trits remain: 162 are absorbed, then the workers are initialized for the nonce search.
Just before the…
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Validation of Transaction
What information must be stored in a node so that it validates a particular transaction?
Also which node information must be stored and how that is relevant in validating a transaction?
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How can I interpret these node statistics?
How can I interpret the given stats please? It is clear that the first node is syncing OK. The second is down—I can see this also in logs. But what about the other two? They're only sending but not receiving.
Is that normal?
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Nelson 0.4.0 crash
I run a full node with the Nelson tool, version 0.4.0, for neighbor management.
For a while now Nelson frequently crashes with the message:
Error: Invalid URL: ws://[iota.kun.com:14600]:NaN
This problem persists also with the newest (1.4.2.4)…
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Problem uploading message to Tangle
I'm working on a project for sending sensor data to the tangle and up to now I've managed to do the following
Collect environment data from a sensor attached to a Raspberry Pi
Send that data via MQTT
Set up a linux client subscribed to the MQTT…
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What smart contract language does IOTA use?
What smart contract language does IOTA use? Solidity?
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When and how is computed the attachment timestamp (and its upper/lower bounds)
In the transaction trytes there are these fields:
timestamp (9 trytes);
[...]
attachment timestamp (9 trytes);
attachment timestamp lower bound (9 trytes);
attachment timestamp upper bound (9 trytes);
The timestamp represents the moment of…
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What does the number behind "synced?" mean?
If you go to https://field.deviota.com/ and check for the node "codepleb", you notice that the node is not synced, but there is some kind of number at the end (even if it might be synced at this point you look at it). What does that number mean? It…
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