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This article discusses how we can assess the validity of a transaction in a distributed ledger, and the particular issues we face in the case of the Tangle. To begin with, let’s look at blockchain data structures. In a blockchain, before…

IOTA tokens are stored in private, pseudo-anonymous virtual ‘wallets’. Each wallet is identified and protected by a unique access key known as a ‘seed’. Although we call them wallets, they do not actually store the tokens. Think of them as…

First off, excuse the complex headline. You have to understand that this is a quite abstract thing to talk about because it all happens on a 4th layer: 1st Layer: IOTA (data transmission, data integrity, data persistence) 2nd…

Special thanks to Paul Handy, Serguei Popov, Navin Ramachandran The Qubic Team at IOTA (Samuel Reid, Paul Handy, Eric Hop, Donald Kelly, CFB) has been developing the concept of Quorum-Based Computations (QBCs) on the IOTA Tangle. The…

In the future, millions of networked machines must communicate and act securely.A promising approach here for third-generation blockchain technology. thereset to a distributed, decentralized data structure that transparently,stored…