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The IOTA Foundation understands the need to fundamentally reshape the requirements of our software ecosystem to attend to the demand for the adoption of our technology. Partners and established companies from different industries expect a…

A few months ago I started exploring the ESP32, a tiny though powerful microcontroller with built-in WIFI. I found numerous great examples for ESP32, especially those provided by Sam Chen on Github helped me a lot. But they all share one…

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…

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…