consensus

In this part of the blog post I want to finally talk about the new voting scheme that enables nodes to come to an agreement without exchanging additional votes or having to abandon transactions. Overview of the status quo Currently a…

In the last part we talked about the ledger state, which is used to track and manage conflicts by booking conflicting spends into different git-like branches. The nodes then use virtual voting to decide which one of these branches becomes…

In the first part of this series of blog posts, I have described the fundamental ideas and concepts behind this new approach but all of the descriptions have been pretty philosophical and the descriptions rather vague. I now want to use the…

I have long thought of a way to properly present and explain the ideas behind this new approach to a broader audience. I first thought about doing it in a video to explain all the reasoning behind it but a video would maybe not be concise…

In the first blog post of the series “A week in the life of an IOTA Research Intern,” I told you how I got involved with the IOTA Foundation and described my first week working with the IOTA team. In this second edition, I will give a quick…