distributed-ledgers

In today’s blog post, we’ll have a closer look at the journey of random walkers. Similar to one of our previous posts on mixing time in the Tangle, we are interested in understanding how long random walkers have to walk to select a tip and,…

This article gives a short introduction to blockchain’s scalability problem and how Tangle solves it. Introduction to the Scalability Problem Blockchain as a decentralized and cryptographically secured database is one of the new…

The world is headed for a future dominated by the Internet of Things. As an Internet of Things enabler, IOTA opens a door for the management of climate change.IOTA homepage Image-iota.orgThe world of blockchain opened up to humanity…

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…