The other day @BongInma1 pointed my interest towards one of IOTA’s main fields of operation besides Internet of Things (IoT; although the two are obviously linked): Decentralized Digital Identity. One has to distinguish between Identity of Things (which I have touched upon in my previous article) and Decentralized IDs (DID, mainly human beings’ identities). I shall first explain what this is actually about and second what IOTA has to do with it. 1. Decentralized Identity — what is it after all? I will follow Outlier…

The IOTA ecosystem is one of the most vibrant I’ve ever been part of. Lots of brilliant developers are working on exciting projects to explore the opportunities of the Tangle and the level of innovation is astonishing at times. If you manage to ignore the FUD — which unfortunately seems to go along with all-things-crypto these days — actively engaging with this community is a technology enthusiast’s dream come true. There’s one aspect, however, that causes sort of a dilemma: How to deal with third party wallets? Wallets…

#IotaAlias The alias problem After solving the IOTA donations problem in a previous article I was left with one more enigma: how to solve the IOTA alias problem. People have been requesting for a while now to be able to use a simple alias to denote IOTA addresses because the addresses themselves are 81 trytes long and that makes them not very handy to say the least. To combat typos we even had to add a 9 tryte checksum to the address, which only makes it more tedious to type it in. And yes, of course you can copy/paste…

I honestly hate this.Today, Andreas Brekken published what he considers being an IOTA review. The “article” mostly comprises an endless stream of screenshots showing how an obviously not-so-tech-savvy guy tries to compile and run an IOTA fullnode.At the end of his journey, he concludes, that IOTA won’t help the Internet of Things and adds a few more discrediting comments.Fortunately, all the article proves is, that Andreas has absolutely no clue about the Internet of Things.I’m not linking back to the very crappy…