Luigi Vigneri Ph.D. is a computer scientist with experience in network modeling, graph and queueing theory, large-scale optimization and performance evaluation of networks. He will be joining the Foundation as a senior research scientist. In 2014, Luigi received his Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. During his studies, he joined a double degree program and obtained a Master of Science in Computer Science from Télécom ParisTech, France. In 2017, he obtained his Ph.D. in Mobile…

William Sanders is an academic from the realm of pure mathematics. William undertook his undergraduate studies at The University of Nebraska, and his Ph.D. and The University of Kansas. Three years ago, he arrived as a postdoc at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. After completing this postdoc, William has decided to stay in Trondheim. Before joining IOTA, William’s research focused on commutative algebra and category theory. Commutative algebra studies algebraic structures where multiplication…

Andreas Penzkofer is an electrical engineer and physicist, specializing in analytical and numerical methods. He completed his Ph.D. and post-doctoral research in Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK, developing models for novel complex electrical machines in large-scale wind turbines. He comes from a physics background, having graduated at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and completed his thesis in particle physics as part of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre research group in…

For those whom just the blockchain is not enough. About the same time a year ago I had my “leap of faith” in crypto world. I read tens of whitepapers, thousands Reddit posts, visited numerous meetups until I have discovered IOTA and joined the crypto-rage. As a dry residue now there is a knowledge that I’d like to share with the audience. Inspired by the accessibility and easiness of such blockchain tutorials like this or this and the lack of similar tutorials for Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG), I thought to contribute as…

A few weeks ago we posted in our blog on publiciota.com following post. To give further attention to this article, we publish it now, a bit overworked, here. In this article, we will continue our journey into the future with the Smart Cities. In particular, we will discuss the role that IOTA can play in this. public IOTA contacts experts for the respective topics in order to carry out a basic research. We are particularly pleased that we were able to receive guest authors Nina Pfuderer and Lena Papasabbas from the…

ICT is a project currently developed by CfB (Come_From_Beyond, aka Sergey Ivancheglo), co-founder et co-director of IOTA. There is currently few information about the exact nature of ICT and its role in IOTA’s ecosystem. One of its main characteristics seems to be that it relies on sharding. That means it should be constituted of many small edge nodes (e.g. Raspberry Pis) that work together and act as it they were one single full node. Anyway, more information and explanation will be given by CfB in due time, once the…

How an ecosystem development bridges the XDK and IOTA. “The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed. It’s a reliable e-cash. A method where buying on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A. And you may get that without knowing who I am. That kind of thing will develop on the Internet.” Milton Friedman (1999) Cryptocurrencies are evolving The quote above from economist and Nobel Prize winner Friedman dates back to 1999, when the Internet itself was still in its…

BiiLab’s Identity System based on IOTA supports Taipei City digital citizen cards and Deloitte’s blockchain applications. publicIOTA researches this very exciting topic and conducts an interview with Yichen Chu, aka Lman, co-founder and CEO of BiiLabs On January 30th the IOTA Foundation announced its partnership with Taipei City in order to help reach its smart city goals. In accordance with its smart city milestones, the capital of Taiwan partners up with the IOTA Foundation and BiiLabs to incorporate distributed ledger…

Pierre Hoffmann is a business developer who has worked for companies such as TOTAL and Microsoft. Pierre was initially interested in Artificial Intelligence and the way it reshapes the economy, before diving into IoT & Distributed Ledger Technologies, where he has been active for more than a year. He brings his dynamism and understanding of the European ecosystem to help develop and foster IOTA’s local footprint. On a broader scale, he will also help support various Business Development activities across industries. On…

Currently, we do not need any measure of acceptance of a transaction, since the coordinator issues milestones, which provides us a simple rule to decide whether a transaction should or should not be accepted. But what would happen after the coordicide (what we are calling the death of the coordinator)? For this purpose, the confirmation confidence (which will be called CC hereafter) was defined in the Whitepaper as a post-coordicide metric of a transaction’s acceptance by the nodes. In this post, we will present how this…

Anne Smith is a Senior Project Manager with an extensive background in Software and Hardware Quality Management. She has managed international projects and technical teams in the US, Finland, China, India, Netherlands, UK, and Germany. After graduating from the University of California Santa Cruz with a Bachelor’s in Mathematics, Anne started her career in Silicon Valley as a TCP/IP stack QA engineer at TGV (Two Guys and a VAX). She has held roles of increasing complexity and responsibility, in tiny startups to tech…

To update open Trinity -> Check for updates or download at https://trinity.iota.org/#download Release 0.4.1 changelog: - Update: Highlight receive address checksum - Update: Complete address tooltip on Send page address input - Update: Ledger device accounts can send 0 value transactions - Update: Prefix SeedVault export file name with Account name - Update: Increase request timeout for all network calls to IRI - Fix: New account addition results in crash on node errors - Fix: Unresponsive login button if keychain…