Casper Eicke Frederiksen is a journalist and communications consultant who initially started writing about politics, social issues, culture and sports, but throughout the years moved on to welfare technology, robotic / digital impact on the labour market, machine learning and AI. Casper studied Journalism at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus, Denmark, although he managed to spend most of his time studying and working in Copenhagen, Prague and Melbourne. After moving to Berlin in 2016 he immediately…

After several months of study, design and testing, we are proud and excited to finally make delion:api public. The delion API enables developers, startups and established companies to easily kick-start and prototype new business models based on the Next-Generation Distributed Ledger called “Tangle” (More information iota.org). In 2011, we firstly recognized the blockchain technology as a decentralized distributed and public ledger. Although its primary use is a distributed ledger for cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin,…

We have been hard at work for the past couple of months, making some significant changes to the JavaScript library. The goal was to make the library easier to maintain and make the codebase more developer-friendly. So that not only us, but anyone from our community can easily make changes and add new code. Now, we are happy to release a beta version of the new JavaScript library, which will be released as version 1.0.0-beta. See the release page for more information. What’s new? The new version of our JavaScript…

Martyn is a great person who shows the Iota space with his simple ideas, and one of his ideas has been fundamental for transparency in the Ecosystem. He earns one of the first funding in Iota Ecosystem. I hope you enjoy. Clato Martin Writer & Editor, IOTA Hispano If you like what we are doing help us to continue working! Donate: http://www.iotahispano.com/donate/ Tell us a little about your background. How is the team made up? I am a developer through and through and have been for 30 years. As a…

Rihards Gravis is the lead developer of the Trinity desktop wallet and long standing member of the IOTA community. After graduating from The Vidzeme University of Applied Sciences he has been gaining development-related experience over the past 10 years. He started as a front-end developer and recently led the technical team of an award winning digital agency. For the past three years he was the technical co-founder of a web design communication platform. By creating this product he not only gained technical experience on…

Preamble This article is based on the Ph.D defense held by Anton Shirobokov. Anton worked with the WZL for approximately 6 years before undertaking a new challenging role with Robert Bosch GmbH in June 2018. Abstract The possibilities and challenges of the Industrial Internet of Things have been investigated for years at the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL of RWTH Aachen University under the topic of Internet of Production (IoP). The IoP focuses on interdisciplinary…

While it took many months (many more than we would have hoped) to establish the legal framework and internal governance model for the IOTA Ecosystem Development Fund (EDF), we are very pleased to put these tasks behind us and finally begin putting these community donated resources towards their intended purpose: fostering a vibrant ecosystem of community development around the IOTA core protocol. Before we unveil the first cohort of grantees, we would like to first update the community on what we have been working on behind…

The Tangle is a complex mathematical object. It has a random structure defined by a separate random agent: the random walk. This makes its study challenging, but also very interesting. In order to systematically study the Tangle and its associated problems, we must first understand its structure. This post presents a brief introduction on the different behaviors we expect from the Tangle depending on alpha, the parameter of the random walk, especially considering the number of tips and of stability its structure over …

IOTA Newsletter #2 — New Board Members, Ecosystem Development Fund & Trinity Wallet Trinity Desktop Release Introducing the beta release of the Trinity Desktop wallet. The mobile wallet design has been optimised for desktop with some neat additions, while maintaining a familiar flow. The app has been audited to assure its security, and theming adjusted to optimise usability. Read more… A Message from the Board Welcome Sergey Ivancheglo and Serguei Popov to the Board of Directors! The addition of two…

Serguei Popov is a research mathematician working in the field of Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. He graduated from and attained his Ph.D. at the Moscow State University under the supervision of Professor Mikhail Menshikov, with whom he still happily collaborates. Around 20 years ago he moved to Brazil to do a postdoc, and then progressed to professorship first in the University of Sao Paulo, and then in the University of Campinas. Serguei began his interest in cryptos in late 2013 when, after stumbling upon an…

Introduction I’ve recently been working on an IOTA Ecosystem - Proof of Concept project called TaPs. This blog post aims to explain a little bit more about the project, its purpose and the key learning point from this exercise. What is it? TaPs is an iOS application written in Swift that demonstrates a simple and frictionless way to tip and pay people around you by using the ease of Bluetooth to share limited information: Avatar, Avatar Name, Payment Address and the power of IOTA to provide: fast, secure and feeless…

Mycelium – the underground fungal network that connects trees in a forest – is nature’s own DLT 1. When designing machine ecosystems, mimicking the principles of these natural networks give us a good head start in creating resilient autonomous assets. We’ve looked at aspects of natural ecosystems as an inspiration before, but this time we dive deep into the inner workings of interaction in ecosystems. This post looks at two things; how and why these natural networks work. Looking at how they work are for example resources…