distributed-ledgers

In this blog, we talk about the number of direct approvers a tip can receive. In the Tangle, each transaction approves exactly two tips. While this implies that the average number of direct approvers is equal to two, the actual number of…

Year in review 2018 kicked off in the midst of a crypto craze reminiscent of the dotCom one almost 2 decades ago; the grand promise and vast potential of distributed ledger technology had finally started to reach the mainstream and…

The perfect brainstorm: Smart city infrastructure monitoring While this proposal by far doesn’t address one of the important challenges humanity faces, it might make a good case to demonstrate the benefits of DLTs — and in particular of…

When my 8 year old twin nieces asked me what I do at my new job, I told them a story: “Imagine you meet a person who is traveling through the whole world. If he told you he started traveling an hour ago, you’d guess he started in the same…

While search neutrality might be open for discussion, it is pretty clear that Google’s centralized search engine with a market share of above 90 % and quarterly earnings of above 30 billion dollars are far from ideal. Monopolies not only…

Even with bleeding edge technology such as IOTA, we must balance the need for innovation, with the need to pursue standardisation and operationalisation of more developed streams. The concept of bimodal IT has become increasingly popular in…

For those whom just the blockchain is not enough. About the same time a year ago I had my “leap of faith” in crypto world. I read tens of whitepapers, thousands Reddit posts, visited numerous meetups until I have discovered IOTA and joined…

DLT, DAO, dAPP, ASIC, PoS, P2P, PoW. Is the future of decentralised systems all alphabet soup and acronyms? It seems so. If you haven’t added ‘DAG’ to your list, you’re going to want to.DAG DLT Let’s start with DLT, as in ‘Distributed…

Luca Moser is a self-taught full-stack software engineer based in Zurich, Switzerland, with a strong interest in web technologies and backend systems. At an early age, he began to experiment by building his own computers. Later in his…

(BERLIN, GERMANY — October 31, 2018) — HIGH MOBILITY and the IOTA Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the integration of IOTA content, blueprints and tutorials into HIGH MOBILITY´s developer platform.…