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Eric Hop 36 posts

Having been in crypto space since 2013 I soaked up everything I could find. I read most of the whitepapers out there and quickly identified a bunch of serious shortcomings in blockchain technology. When a friend pointed me to IOTA in June 2017 I was blown away at how far this tech was beyond anything out there.

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Best practices for using the IOTA light wallet safely

Eric Hop Mar 7, 2018

IOTA is really a protocol created for use by IoT gadgets. The unit will happily follow any guidelines to utilize the protocol strictly, optimally and secure. Sadly, humans are not so excellent at following guidelines -if they understand…

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Is a memorable sentence a safe IOTA seed?

Eric Hop Mar 7, 2018

Here’s one which I get asked more regularly, and there’s plenty of nonsense ‘wisdom’ about any of it out there, therefore i am carrying out the calculations for you personally. Here may be the initial hurdle for anyone attempting a seed:…

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Help! My IOTA balance is zero!

Eric Hop Mar 7, 2018

(Steps to help you find your balance after a snapshot) This is the latest incarnation of an article I wrote around the time of the October 2017 snapshot. I had been helping so many people find their balance again that I decided that my time…

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IOTA vs DCI, or how an innocent hash collision became a huge ego collision

Eric Hop Mar 4, 2018

#cryptoanalyst This article describes my view on the IOTA vs DCI situation and explores why I would happily use Curl to secure IOTA. Having read the leaked emails between IOTA and DCI entirely it seems very clear to me that DCI crossed…

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IOTA cheques: sending iotas anywhere without requiring a receive address.

Eric Hop Mar 2, 2018

The donation problem For the longest time one of the problems with IOTA has been the impossibility of having a secure and fixed reusable donation address. This is entirely due to the single-signing nature of IOTA addresses. You cannot…

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