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What is the propagation time in IOTA?
For Bitcoin we have the following information about the propagation time from here:
12.6 seconds is the time it takes for a new block to propagate to 95% of nodes.
Is there any observation on how much time it takes for a transaction to propagate…
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Does Broadcasting a Bundle on Both MainNet and TestNet Facilitate Brute Forcing the Seed?
I have made an open source airgapped device for signing bundles offline.
A main purpose is to address the possiblity that the components we use to make our devices are already compromised before they are purchased and yet we still need to use…
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iota-workshop functions on devnet only
There is an IOTA tutorial hosted at the following:
https://github.com/iota-community/iota-workshop
There is a video tutorial showing how to use various NodeJS examples from the above.
https://youtu.be/Z-NN0rRcwY0?t=179
Together these show how to…
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What are the criteria for a transaction to be confirmed in the light wallet?
I've been exploring the tangle, but I can't seem to find out why some transactions are confirmed while others are not.
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Transaction is inconsistent. Reason: tails are not consistent
i'm trying to promote a transaction by using the following code
const spamTransfer = [{address: '9'.repeat(81), value: 0, message: '', tag: ''}]
iota.promoteTransaction(hash, 10, 9, spamTransfer, {interrupt: false, delay: 0});
but i receive this…
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ZeroMQ subscription to address not working
is any of you able to subscribe to ZeroMQ with address as a topic? According to the documentation this should be possible by putting the public address as a topic in socket.subscribe(). I have no problem with any other topics such as 'tx', 'sn' and…
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Is there a way to access a list of all bundles?
Is there a way to iterate through all bundles in a block explorer, or is there a way to get access to a list of all bundles?
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When will the 1,048,577th Milestone happen using the current issuance schedule?
The Coordinator can sign 1,048,576 Milestones before it runs out of new keys and has to resort to key reuse.
At that point there would be a serious security vulnerability in the system due to address reuse by the Coordinator.
According to how many…
user1543
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IOTA and Tangle relation
I used to think that IOTA is the cryptocurrency which uses the Tangle Direct Acyclic Graph. But today I spend some time on the IOTA official and there is no single appearance of the word "cryptocurrency". It is said that IOTA is a "Distributed…
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Where did the Wikipedia page for IOTA go?
I can't find the Wikipedia page for IOTA. I thought there used to be one. What happened to it? Did it get deleted? Why? Is there a place where more information on this can be found?
user1543
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Real incentives for running a full node?
IOTA requires a widespread global network consisting of a large number of nodes in order to function properly.
Someone has to pay for the nodes that require bandwidth, memory and disk space. They are not free resources to the network.
However,…
user1543
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Sybil attack with IOTA?
The solutions to attacks proposed by IOTA white paper seems unclear, in particular, in case of double-spending, it remains unclear what stops a computationally powerful adversary from conducting a double spending attack as follows:
Adversary can…
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physical clock or logical clock for timestamping
Timestamps in Tangle are already mandatory and must have a value in a certain range, which seems to be between the last snapshot time (epoch 1517180400, which is GMT: Sunday, January 28, 2018 11:00:00 PM) and 2 hours in the future relative to the…
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How many bytes do I need to store an IOTA seed?
IOTA seeds consist of 81 trytes. Assuming a balanced trinary system, the tryte domain is $[-1, 0, 1]$. The maximum decimal number of a single tryte is 13, because $1\cdot3^0 + 1\cdot3^1 + 1 \cdot 3^2 = 13$. Consequently, I would need 4 bits to store…
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what happen if we are in an untrusted network
I am discovering Iota and I am trying to find out if I it can be applied to securely send command between iot device, being 100% sure the command has been received. My concern is about the network, what happen if we are in an untrusted network with…
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