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Andreas Penzkofer 3 posts

Having spent time intensively engaging with the crypto-landscape I was immediately drawn to IOTA for two reasons. Firstly, I believe its unique approach can overcome key challenges facing blockchain technologies. Secondly, I am fascinated by the beautiful complexity of the Tangle.

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One Step Closer to Coordicide: IOTA Releases Fast Probabilistic Consensus Simulator

Andreas Penzkofer Sep 27, 2019

In a previous blogpost, the IOTA Research Department, with the collaboration of one of our research grant recipients, Dr. Sebastian Mueller, published simulation results of the FPC protocol, short for Fast Probabilistic Consensus, which was…

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Open Sourcing of the GoShimmer Prototype

Andreas Penzkofer Jul 24, 2019

Open Sourcing of the GoShimmer Prototype At IOTA we strongly support the decentralized and transparent nature of DLTs. Not only within the technology we develop, but also within our own Foundation. Most of us work remotely from all over…

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The structure of the Tangle — Number of approvers

Andreas Penzkofer Jan 4, 2019

In this blog, we talk about the number of direct approvers a tip can receive. In the Tangle, each transaction approves exactly two tips. While this implies that the average number of direct approvers is equal to two, the actual number of…