It is doubtless that in recent weeks more and more speculations have flared over when IOTA’s mysterious project “Q” is finally released. This speculation was certainly fueled by members of the IOTA Foundation itself. “Q”? What is that anyway. At this point I do not want to repeat the same things that you can find in detail about a search on the net. But for those who are new to IOTA, or have not been concerned with speculation about “Q”, here is a very good link that summarizes the basics.…

IOTA for beginners IOTA is a new and groundbreaking distributed ledger that uses no blockchain. IOTA’s innovative, quantum-proof protocol, also known as Tangle, enables unique features such as no transaction costs, fast transactions, infinite scalability, secure data transfers, and more. IOTA initially focuses on serving as the backbone of the Internet of Things (IoT). As an introduction, I have picked out 2 different videos. A short version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivWqqfzunhI and a long detailed version:…

Ralf Rottmann is a serial entrepreneur who sold his last company to Alcatel-Lucent and now serves as the Managing Partner at grandcentrix which he co-founded. Incorporated in 2009, grandcentrix has become Germany’s largest system integrator focussing entirely on large scale Internet of Things and Smart Products development. At grandcentrix, Ralf has built an engineering organization with more than 150 full-time experts covering Ideation and User Experience Design, Electronic- and Embedded Development, Cyber Physical Systems…

Whilst peer-to-peer distributed renewable energy techniques rapidly turn into a reality, challenges stay in terms of transaction expenses and throughput of the distributed ledgers. Both these problems are in the core of tomorrow’s energy world. Several DLT developers, scientists (electric engineering, math, AI), and power specialists has formed the Selber group to handle these challenges, following #Hack4Weather 2017.Selber check setup 02/2018, managing different consumption and production components of a distributed…