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IRI solid milestone tracker crash: GC overhead limit exceeded

When running with Xmx3G you are limiting the memory to 3Gb. In Java, when memory consumption raises up to the limit : a process called the GC (Garbage collector) start to try to free memory (by relea …
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Remove the necessity of Milestones

From my understanding, today milestones impact the IRI at (at least) 3 (more or less critical) points : Milestones indicate fully confirmed transactions. … If you ignore completely milestones you must find another way to peek a starting point for the random walk. …
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Is the fastest confirmation time limited by the frequency of the Coordinator issued Milestones?

There is a link between milestone frequency and average confirmation time. But the time interval between milestone is not a lower bound for confirmation time. If you submit a tx, and if you are luck …
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Is the IOTA Coordinator and Milestones similar to Bitcoin checkpoints?

Removing Milestones/Coo is discussed in IOTA community, but it is not so easy because it expose the network to double-spend attacks. …
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Without Coordinator issued Milestones, how will a post-COO node know if it is in sync?

So far, the solution isn't found/decided yet. In other words there is no implementation yet. That being said, every transaction have a "height" property defined as the length of the shortest path to …
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Decentralized milestone issuance scheme?

EDIT Here is a suggestion to get rid of centralised milestones. Basically, it's just a suggestion to implement a decentralised coo, based on auditable IRI and reputation. … The milestones issued by the central-coo are auditable. i.e. anyone can trace the milestones and check that any new milestone don't contradict a previous one (that's what IRI do). …
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Pertaining to the required sequence, how can the requested transaction hash be the same as t...

Broadcast a tx/Request a missing tx When IRI broadcast a transaction to neighbors, it can append to the transaction data the hash of a transaction to request (i.e. the hash of a transaction unknown b …
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Relativity of simultaneity in observing the best confirmed double-spend in a COO-less Tangle

The time to propagate a transaction through gossip is orders of magnitude smaller that the time required to accumulate a significant cumulative weight (so that it start to be relevant to look at the c …
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