consensus

The Tech Behind IOTA — Part 2 (Consensus) I’ve long thought how to structure these tech series. It’s hard to chose a technical level of proficiency that everyone can follow, because everyone comes from a different background. If you’re…

The Tech Behind IOTA — Part 1 (Introduction) In this article I’ll try and explain how IOTA will work in the post Coordicide (the removal of the coordinator) era. Most probably there will be many series on this topic, each covering part of…

The monthly IOTA Research Status Update will contain news and updates about our major projects. This month’s update is about the status of our major task, Coordicide. Our team is split into several subgroups, each of which is focused…

The IOTA Research Department recently published the Fast Probabilistic Consensus Simulator. Today, we are excited to share with you the corresponding research paper on arxiv that studies various properties of the FPC. We invite you to…

There has been a lot of discussions of the new proposal since I released the fourth part of this blog post. I have somewhat expected something like this to happen, which is the reason why I planned to have a separate part that addresses the…