Julia Schulz joins the IOTA Foundation as Assistant to the Board. She lives in Berlin, Germany. Julia holds a Bachelor of Arts and has worked at the Swedish energy company Vattenfall for the past 9 years.Starting her career as a team assistant for the Editorial Service, she soon progressed to a role as project manager for the company’s various publications. Moving to Sweden in 2013 she joined Vattenfall’s trading and asset management department as executive assistant, and then became the business department’s…

Even with bleeding edge technology such as IOTA, we must balance the need for innovation, with the need to pursue standardisation and operationalisation of more developed streams. The concept of bimodal IT has become increasingly popular in traditional industry. Traditionally bimodal IT has split a department into 2 parts, one dealing with maintenance and support issues, while the other concentrates on innovation and expansion.As the entire IOTA Foundation is tasked with ongoing innovation, we must approach this problem…

Bitcoin is probably the best known implementation of a blockchain technology. However, blockchain is about much more than digital currency: It’s about guaranteeing confidence in data, ensuring the immutability of data, and resource-saving, localized storage systems and networks. All three properties will allow data to be handled like commercial goods in the future, perhaps even independently between the specific processing machines. Exploring this step was the aim behind the establishment of the Industrial IOTA Lab…

The last few months many news about partnerships between IOTA and different companies have been announced in order to optimize the standardization, development and implementation of IOTA in different areas. We are witnessing how IOTA walks and get’s closer and closer to becoming the protocol for a decentralized Internet of Things, and that there are no doubts when we see that, in addition to the intentions to achieve goals, there are facts.Gabriela Jara Content Coordinator & Writer IOTA HispanoMany times we…

“Open Source Software (OSS) is by far the most exciting lever + trend for major structural change in technology over the past decade and little has been written about how this works from a data-driven lens: several $X00B+ to $1T+ industries are getting disrupted by OSS (enabled fundamentally by the internet and connectedness — Marc Andreessen aptly describes the internet itself as “the next Silicon Valley”).Mega-industries getting eaten by OSS: finance/payments (Blockchains), cloud computing (Kubernetes), machine…