A cryptocurrency without a blockchain (Tangle) [pdf]

Posted by sukeesh on Thursday December 14, 2017 @10:30PM
from the iotatoken.com dept.

http://iotatoken.com/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf

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Re:A cryptocurrency without a blockchain (Tangle) [pdf] by posix_compliant on Friday December 15, 2017 @03:07AM (#15930340)

I find myself confused about the tangle's tip selection algorithm. It seems that a new transaction must choose non-tip sites to confirm, otherwise the overall number of tips would decrease (since only one new tip is created while two become verified). The tip selection algorithm only seems to mention selecting "edge" sites.

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Re:A cryptocurrency without a blockchain (Tangle) [pdf] by stevedekorte on Friday December 15, 2017 @12:36PM (#15933462)

https://medium.com/@lyaffe/scaling-a-blockchain-vs-scaling-a...

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Re:A cryptocurrency without a blockchain (Tangle) [pdf] by kybernetikos on Friday December 15, 2017 @06:23AM (#15931060)

I would very much like to hear a detailed analysis of this idea because it seems too good to be true.

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Re:A cryptocurrency without a blockchain (Tangle) [pdf] by DrJid on Friday December 15, 2017 @11:23AM (#15932882)

Other than the white paper, this could be an interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpNvfct2jlg

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Re:A cryptocurrency without a blockchain (Tangle) [pdf] by hsxd on Friday December 15, 2017 @09:26AM (#15931997)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15860970

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