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How is the IOTA project now? Can we use it for a real project?
Could you please tell me how the iota project is now?
I've read some good research papers and interesting proof of concepts, but it also seems some initiatives, like the ecosystem, are no more.
So ...
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IOTA Seed less then 81 characters
i bought some iota late 2017 but the seed i created at the time on the desktop wallet was less then 81 characters and it worked fine, i thought id wait until the official wallet came out and would ...
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What is an “apiEndpoint” in poc-ipfs config file
In the poc-ipfs app blueprint from IOTA’s GitHub, they have a config file on the client side (link below), one of the parts of the script contains “apiEndpoint”, I do not know what would go there for ...
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How secure is storing IOTA in Ledger Nano S?
Is storing IOTA in Ledger Nano S completely secure?
I am asking because IOTA doesn't use elliptic-curve cryptography.
Does storing and using IOTA in Ledger Nano S may make it easier for an attacker ...
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Is it possible to secure the data of an IOT idevice in an ICS by using MAM?
The idea is to add IOT devices to an ICS (industrial control system), send and retrieve the data of these devices through the tangle.
The data will be sent through the IOT device using MAM and be ...
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Tangle explorer transaction value
What does the "value" field of the tangle explorer indicates?
The linked transaction reports a value of 1+ B USD. What is this value referring to?
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How do I keep IOTA secure? [closed]
I am setting up a website where users buy and sell IOTA with USD. I've gotten some general safety tips about keeping your seed secure but I wanted to know what I could do to be safe from hackers, ...
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Coordicide: Would using public key encryption as a mechanism for node identity impact Iota's quantum resistance?
per the white paper
In order to identify nodes, it is necessary to introduce global node
identities. Tothis end, we envision using common public key
cryptography to sign certain dataand to ...
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Iota dollar balance not displayed
I have not accessed my IOTA 2.5.7 light wallet in quite a few months, however I was finally able to get my full balance after a few attaches. I downloaded the Trinity Wallet (with Ledger) and ...
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IOTA Trinity Wallet Installation fails
the installation of the Trinity Wallet does not work. After the download, a white window appears without input possibility or registration
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How can I get back my balance showing in my IOTA wallet?
I use IOTA Wallet Version 2.5.7 (2.5.7). I know I had 101.89800000 IOT in my wallet (my cointracking.info account confirms). I was able to log into my account, but my balance is showing 0. I tried ...
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Best Place To Post Tutorial Announcement
I made a tutorial for working with IOTA at the BASH console running NodeJS scripts.
Can someone please tell me the best places to anounce the tutorial and also the best places to ask for people ...
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how to trace the iota tip from the milestone transaction when there is no reference to the future transactions
As written in multiple forums, IoTA tips are chosen using the random walk method starting at the milestone transaction.
The milestone transaction will have the reference to the old transactions. Tip ...
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IOTA "C" version (CClient) and feasibility of signing transactions on ESP32?
An article recently has been published entitled "Running the IOTA "CClient" library on ESP32" (>>>Link to Article<<<).
It is not clear to me if by using this C version of IOTA is ...
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IOTA API command to request transaction details
I use Curl to familiarize myself with the IOTA API. By using findTransactions you can query the transaction hashes of addresses, bundles, tags and approvees.
But which command returns the details of ...
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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 ...
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Making An Offline Transaction At The NodeJS Console
I am making an offline wallet web app to use with my open source airgapped encrypted device - the PrivateKeyVault.
The web app will be modeled after this one which is seen used in this video. The ...
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Cracking seed with list of addresses and indexes
I have an open source offline airgapped encrypted device for signing transactions.
Seeds are stored on this device.
Signed transactions are passed to an online machine as a parade of qr-codes for ...
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How to attach a message multiple times (say 200 times) with the tangle using MAM
What I am trying to do is to attach a payload to the tangle using MAM protocol. If I run this loop for k=5 times it works fine i.e., data is attached to the Tangle. I confirmed that the data is ...
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How can I make my Bluetooth enabled IOT device sign a transaction so that POW and everything else can be done by another device?
Is there some kind of IOTA C library just for signing transactions? The IOT device in question does not have Wifi and is too weak computationally to do POW.
I want the device itself sign the tx so ...
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Querying iota from browser or non-full-node
Do nodes typically allow you to query them for transactions? Is this something that is blocked by default? It seems like it would increase communication in the network, but I understand that this ...
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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 ...
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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....
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How many confirmations are required for funds to be received?
If I am not mistaken no single block in the public tangle is ever fully confirmed.
What exactly determines the treshhold when funds are actually received, making
the transaction relatively ...
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Does Iota share its consensus algorithm with google ai?
I noticed when initially googling "Monte Carlo Algorithm", google artificial intelligence was first to come up, providing no specifics on its workings. Is this
proclaimed algorithm the same as used in ...
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Is it possible to extend IRI to answer to an HTTP GET?
There are some use cases where the distributed ledger is extremely useful to store security information in a decentralized storage. But those information need to be pulled out from the tangle by a web ...
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How can I fork MAM channel?
This https://blog.iota.org/introducing-masked-authenticated-messaging-e55c1822d50e says that any channel can be splitting.
Also this https://medium.com/coinmonks/iota-mam-eloquently-explained-...
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Hub Build fails
Building the Hub with bazel fails for me with error, can't find a solution by searching:
/root/hub/hub/service/BUILD:12:1: C++ compilation of rule '//hub/service:attachment_service' failed (Exit 1)
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IOTA and LoraWAN: Proof of Concept of storing data in the Tangle
I found an article here :(Link to the article) entitled "LoraWAN and IOTA: Proof of Concept of storing data in real time in the Tangle" , written by Harm van den Brink (IOTA foundation member).
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Enable ZMQ in docker IRI node
I've set up a private tangle following the guide on iotaledger/compass. Now I'm trying to enable zmq. I tried to change the following in the 03_run_coordinator.sh file. Changes are adding the 5556 ...
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How to use "iota.lib.js.powsrvio" via a small device supports LoraWAN?
If we want PoW is not performed in the device (in particular for low energy devices) we can use iota.lib.js.powsrvio.
How to use powsrv.io? And what are prerequirements ? (Assume we want to use it in ...
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How to install IOTA in a small device supports LoraWAN?
I found an article here :(Link to the article) entitled "LoraWAN and IOTA: Proof of Concept of storing data in real time in the Tangle".
The thing is not clear to me is that if IOTA has been ...
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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, {...
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toTrytes() does not work
I'm always getting this error without understanding why.
TypeError: Cannot read property 'toTrytes' of undefined
Code:
// Require the use of IOTA library
const Iota = require('@iota/core')
// ...
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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 ...
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Relativity of simultaneity in observing the best confirmed double-spend in a COO-less Tangle
How is the 'Relativity of simultaneity' in observing the best confirmed double-spend in a COO-less Tangle resolved?
For example, in answering this question, it was answered that the double-spend "...
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getAccountData returns undefined
it is a few days ago that getAccountData has stopped returning value (returns always undefined). Does any of you know why?
This is the code:
iota.getAccountData(seed, {start: 0,security: 2})
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Integrating IOTA into UNITY
I'm trying to integrate IOTA into the Unity game engine although whenever I try running the code I get "Insufficient value submitted" I have made sure that my seed is accurate and that I have enough ...
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How can the transactions in the Tangle be ordered temporally?
I do not understand how the IOTA Tangle DAG indicates by its structure the temporal order when two spends are on separate, independent, branches.
It is possible that two transactions occur and are ...
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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 ...
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Without Coordinator issued Milestones, how will a post-COO node know if it is in sync?
At the moment, a node can be defined as 'sync' with the network based on the last solid subtangle Milestone.
Without the Coordinator issued Milestones, how will a post-COO node know if it is in sync? ...
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How does Trinity know if an address is being reused on a fresh install AND a new Snapshot?
If a user reuses an address, then the funds might be in jeaporady. Given that, at the moment, the Trinity wallet knows that the user has an active address from the snapshot, and from any recorded ...
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Tip selections and acceptance
If I select any two tips randomly, without a full knowledge of the tangle, will it change the probability that my transaction will be selected by other transactions?
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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 "...
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Is the IOTA Coordinator and Milestones similar to Bitcoin checkpoints?
A comment was posted in the internet that the Coordinator doesn't make IOTA any more centralised than Bitcoin because Bitcoin has checkpoints.
Someone even said,
The purpose of the checkpoints ...
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How are random walk entry transactions chosen in a coo-free tangle?
With the coordinator, the MCMC random walk tip selection algorithm starts with a milestone as its entry transaction. Without the coordinator, there are no milestones. How is the entry transaction for ...
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How to understand if a transfer is an ingoing or an outgoing one by calling getAccountData?
I'd like to know how I can check if a transfer is an ingoing or an outgoing one, and know the respective sent/received amount by calling getAccountData from the Iota JavaScript library.
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IOTA network actual usage
My understanding is that IOTA is mostly useful to communicate data rather than to store data, given that the network undergoes periodic transaction pruning (snapshots). Is this correct? If so, is ...
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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?
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