Florian Doebler is an Economist and Entrepreneur with a focus on behavioral science and international development. He joins the IOTA Foundation as Social Impact & Donor Relations Coordinator at our headquarters in Berlin. During his studies in Munich and Vienna his academic interest centered around the sustainable governance of commons throughout economic history and the intersection of innovation, cultures, and institutions. Florian is a co-founder of a social start-up with the aim of bringing transparency to…

The discussion covered topics from the current status of Tangle and Qubic development to how IOTA differs from other cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. The talk finished with a Q&A session involving the audience. Much of the discussion centred around the collaboration between IOTA and the corporate world, and the potential for adoption of IOTA into business and society. As it currently stands, there is no IOTA ‘product’ as such that can be picked up and integrated by businesses. Therefore, collaborations…

Changelog 0.3.4 New: Drag&drop seed text support Update: Trigger 2fa verification once necessary code string length is reached Update: Seed in memory format update Update: Adjusted auto promotion timing Fix: Reattach only if transaction falls below max depth Fix: Mixed filled and empty paper wallet templates Fix: Resizing wallet window using top corners not working on Windows Update: Adds address local spend status (cannot be overridden) Fix: Fixes…

Real world adoption of the Tangle technology is happening at an increasing speed as IOTA works its way into industrial and academic circles. The Industrial IOTA Lab Aachen (IILA) at the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Product Engineering (WZL) of the RWTH Aachen University happens to connect both of them. Therefore, it’s a great example worth exploring in more depth. As an open laboratory, IILA invites students, lecturers, hobbyists, and industry experts to collaborate on IOTA’s real industrial use-cases. The focus is…

The IOTA Qubic team recently released an update of the ongoing developments. The team is made up of Samuel Reid, Eric Hop, Paul Handy, and Donald Kelly. Together, they have been working on the concept of Quorum-Based Computations (QBCs), which they are building on the IOTA Tangle platform. The Qubic Protocol was designed to be used in the development of trustless applications that make it possible to create new economic models. In addition to that, it supports the broad landscape of the industry as well as Web 3.0. What is…