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What is the exact stitching process that is being done on the tangle and side-tangle and who is doing it?
As a matter of transparency and of user and community education, I think it is important to properly catalog and make public the side-tangle-to-tangle stitching process that has been conducted by either the IOTA Foundation (IF) or a private…
user1543
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When can a transaction be considered irreversable? (without COO)
In an interesting exchange between Come-From-Beyond (CFB) and a Nxt developer, the question is asked:
DEV. So when can a transaction be considered irreversable?
CFB. Never, look at formula #14 in http://188.138.57.93/tangle.pdf. Just like in Bitcoin…
user1543
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As per "The Stability and the Security of the Tangle", how will IOTA ensure that all honest nodes are continuously using their hashing power?
As per the recently released The Stability and the Security of the Tangle, a 2018 ICUBE - University of Strasbourg "study of the stability and the security of the distributed data structure at the base of the IOTA protocol, called the Tangle", a…
user1543
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Do nodes reject a spam of zero-value transactions from a single node if it's getting too much?
What is considered "too much"?
How could one circumvent this?
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Latency in transaction confirmation is usual?
I sent some transactions to the IOTA Tangle.
However, according to thetangle.org website, they are not confirmed yet. You can see one of them here…
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What happens if we generate a "seed" that already exists?
According to this answer,
"our seed is as the combined username and password that grants access
to our bank account. If anyone obtains our seed, they can login and
access our funds."
Despite some existing approaches to generate a safe seed,…
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How to compute the % of network computing power the attacker hold?
It is known generally that Tangle is susceptible to 34% attack(of total computing power) that gives a 100% successful attack. The example given on page 19 of white paper says that an upper limit to the probability of a successful attack is 29% given…
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Where can someone view the source code for the new Trinity wallet?
The Trinity Wallet (aka UCL IOTA Wallet) is to be released very shortly.
Where can someone view the source code to the Trinity wallet?
user1543
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how to relate computing power of attacker to transaction rate of attacker?
Assume that the merchant accepts the legitimate transaction when its cumulative weight becomes at least w_0, which happens t_0 time units after the original legitimate transaction. let μ stand for the computing power of the attacker and λ_a be the…
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How to send a sidekey securely to the subscriber for my channel
Sending the sideKey and channel-id is important for new subscribers to read my stream. How can I securely transmit them over the network? Shouldn´t be the key exchange algorithm also quantum proof?
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Which bundles are attached to the tangle when closing a Flash Channel?
I have a general question about closing a flash channel. My understanding is that when closing a flash channel the final bundle (the transfer from a leaf node/multisig to output addresses) is published and attached to the tangle. However, to my…
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maybe lost funds
Sometime in Q4 2017 I sent my MIOTA to the wallet. I verified then that the funds had arrived. Now I am logging in and the balance says 0. I am having a hard time interpreting the transaction history. Can someone take a look?
My address is…
andrew
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How do I send a transaction using only POST requests?
On small boards like arduino micro, NodeMCU(esp8266), or teensy, I cannot run an iota node or wallet. I can only transmit POST requests to a iri server.
Given a seed, and a message, how do I attach it to the tangle using a POST request?
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What is Zero Message Queue? (ZMQ or ØMQ)
I read about real-time message stream (ZMQ) on iota docs:
https://docs.iota.org/introduction/testnet/endpoints#realtime-message-stream---%C3%B8mq
Anyone able to explain in a few words what it does and why it is offered/required ?
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Access my IOTA balance to send and receive
I see my iota balance but I have a few pending bundles in the History section (two confirmed out of 7).
Question: If I see my balance, does that mean everything is ok and I can move the balance out safely? or do I need to have all items confirmed…
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