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Re:Why I find IOTA alarming by drcode on Monday January 29, 2018 @10:15AM (#16257912)
Especially true since parallelizing the processing of transactions is orders of magnitude easier than parallelizing STORAGE of transactions in decentralized systems- he's deflecting the criticism towards an easier problem.
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Re:Why I find IOTA alarming by api on Monday January 29, 2018 @10:33AM (#16258028)
... which is the opposite of what a good engineer does. A good engineer focuses first on the hardest aspects of the problem, and tends to guide discussion there.
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Re:Why I find IOTA alarming by kruhft on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:44AM (#16258541)
They perform 'tip selection' using a random walk. Given the nature of the Tangle Tips as a nebulous cloud, could there be any better way?

And you can't enforce tip selection.

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