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Re:Here is why nobody has succeeded at running IoT on the bl... by fazkan on Monday April 09, 2018 @08:59AM (#16792582)
What about IOTA, its trying to implement IOTish solution on blockchain. There are some security issues but its well backed...
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Re:Here is why nobody has succeeded at running IoT on the bl... by ddrdrck_ on Monday April 09, 2018 @10:48AM (#16793387)
Not on blockchain. Blockchain technology is just not efficient enough (scaling, throughput, fees, processing power) to support IoT use cases. It uses a different approach based on Direct Acyclic Graphs (DAG) that they decided to rename "Tangle" (a pretty poor marketing decision imho)
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