There is a lot of buzz around cryptocurrencies  – will BTC be over $20,000 by the time this blog post goes live?  – these days, but beyond the hype, one thing is pretty clear: it enables a decentralized economy that is particularly interesting to look at from an IoT perspective. For the Internet of Things, I believe the role of cryptocurrencies and distributed ledgers is threefold: monetization of IoT data – cryptocurrencies make it really easy to implement scenarios where data producers can get a financial compensation…

Robert has a lot of experience creating tutorials. This time he tells us some of his thoughts about IOTA. Take a moment and enjoy a few of his ideas, and dont forget to visit his channel. 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 I have studied aircraft engineering and after my study, I have done my Dutch mandatory military service. My first job was at Fokker Space…

My personal takeaway from the Blockchain Mobility Hackathon During the Blockchain mobility hackathon, I had lots of great discussions with different people about IOTA. However, I sometimes got the feeling that most people still believe it will take like 5 or 10 years for IOTA to be used in real-world applications. I definitely can’t predict the future, but I think that a lot of problems, which were mentioned around IOTA can be solved today. For example, the project we developed during the hackathon “Pac-Man on wheels”…

The 4th part in a series of beginner tutorials on integrating physical devices with the IOTA protocol.Introduction Introduction This is the 4th part in a series of beginner tutorials on integrating physical devices with the IOTA protocol. In this tutorial we’ll be adding a couple of new features to our IOTA payment system. These features are related to how we manage the price of our service in a volatile IOTA market and how we deal with the IOTA one-time signature problem. If you haven’t read the first and the third…

IOTA is seemingly applicable to an endless array of real-world use-cases, many of which have yet to be explored. Among these is politics, an area where IOTA has seemingly already gained a reputation among key players. Politics are an often overlooked aspect of technological advancement. Cryptocurrencies suffer from a bad image when it comes to politics. It’s tough to talk about crypto without drugs, fraud or Mt. Gox coming up in the first sentence. It’s no wonder why politicians are reluctant when it comes to implementing…

Yesterday, 25th of July, we had our third IOTA Meetup in Argentina with the participation of Serguei Popov, IOTA Cofounder. This edition was sponsored by the IOTA Ecosystem and took place in Instituto Baikal, that kindly allowed us to use their spaces as venue. Despite the fact of having to deal with a heavy rain night, around 60 persons came to see what this IOTA thing was about. Let’s quickly review how things went. We are already working to upload each talk individually to Youtube. What is IOTA? by Gabriela…

Berlin, July 25th, In its efforts to build a permissionless mobility ecosystem, the IOTA Foundation just started a one week Google Design Sprint with Audi Denkwerkstatt — which is Audi’s Think Tank — in Berlin to explore Tangle-based use cases, build a low level prototype and to gather customer feedback. The Audi Denkwerkstatt team consists of seven Audi employees who support 15 colleagues from all business areas, levels and age groups in generating, validating and implementing ideas about premium mobility within six months.…

On May 22, the start of cooperation between UNOPS and the IOTA Foundation was signed. In many cases, I only read in the press that IOTA cooperates with the UN. I would like to use this article to examine the facts a little more closely and bring more clarity. I have already written in several articles that IOTA has the potential to contribute to solving the important challenges of our time. The global approach, combined with cross-border real world IOTA applications, Big Data and Industry 4.0, paves the way for users to…

We now take a look on IOTA wallet. IOTA Overview IOTA is another public ledger targeting the IOT economy: huge amount of users / devices while transaction amount is small. It resolves the challenges by introducing Tangle, a Direct Acyclic Group (DAG) approach claimed to be superior to conventional blockchains. The Tangle is constructed by every participants and therefore it is transaction fee free. IOTA also comes with some specific encoding mechanism (Ternary). This article is more focusing on user account and address…

Tomorrow, Wednesday 25th of July, we will be having our official first IOTA Argentina Meetup, sponsored by IOTA Ecosystem. To be strict this is not the first time we are having an IOTA Meetup in Argentina. This is, actually, the third month in a row in which we will be conducting Meetups in Argentina. Despite the fact that our previous Meetups were not as important/big/organized as the one coming tomorrow, I would like to quicky review this activity. May Meetup at Taringa! HQ Our first Meetup took place at…

Anes Hodžić is Vice President Digital Transformation and Internet of Things (IoT) at Digital Transformation Office of Airbus Group. He is responsible for strategy and execution of IIoT initiatives across Airbus divisions and drives Digital Transformation of the company on the Group level. He is an execution driven professional with a strong entrepreneurial mindset, strategic thinking, passion for digital disruptions and new business creation. He managed strategic corporate projects, led customer engineering of electric and…

The Industrial IOTA Lab Aachen (IILA) was established in April 2018 at the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL of RWTH Aachen University. IILA is a community driven laboratory which offers students, lecturers, industry representatives and enthusiasts for research in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Economy, Machine-to-Machine communication, Distributed-Ledger-Technologies (mainly IOTA), and the Industrial Internet of Things. Our team consists of doctoral students, technicians, graduate students and…