Hans Moog11 posts

Scaling IOTA Part 1 - A Primer on ShardingThe following blog posts are going to introduce some of the fundamental ideas and concepts behind a new sharding solution for the IOTA Tangle. We will discuss how the proposed mechanism works…

Scaling IOTA Part 2 - Untangling the TangleTo solve the problems mentioned in the first part of this blog post, we need a completely different form of sharding.In the following sections, we will make a step-by-step introduction to the…

There has been a lot of discussions of the new proposal since I released the fourth part of this blog post. I have somewhat expected something like this to happen, which is the reason why I planned to have a separate part that addresses the…

In this part of the blog post I want to finally talk about the new voting scheme that enables nodes to come to an agreement without exchanging additional votes or having to abandon transactions. Overview of the status quo Currently a…

In the last part we talked about the ledger state, which is used to track and manage conflicts by booking conflicting spends into different git-like branches. The nodes then use virtual voting to decide which one of these branches becomes…