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According to the white paper for IOTA the initial own weight of any transaction is 3n, where n is a positive integer. However, in section 4 it says that the own weight value is capped to one to prevent double-spending attacks. That disproves the initial premise of weight.

What is the actual own weight value of a transaction in IOTA then?

Helmar
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Saurav Das
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  • You quoted where the initial own weight was 3^n. But can you please quote the section that caps the weight at 1? I don't mean the paragraph that discusses it capped at 1 (I found that) but the passage that actually caps own weight at 1. Maybe the context will help us to understand it better. – WDS Jan 12 '18 at 05:54
  • I'm sorry I couldn't understand what you're asking for exactly. The discussion about capping own weight to 1 is with reference to the double-spending attack scenario and also making IOTA Quantum attack proof. Not sure which passage you're looking for. – Saurav Das Jan 12 '18 at 12:12
  • "However, in section 4 it says that the own weight value is capped to one to prevent double-spending attacks."

    This is your own quote, man. Show me where in section 4 it says this.

     – WDS Jan 14 '18 at 23:41
  • Yes my quote is exclusively mine and the whitepaper only implies that rather than saying the exact words. The whole idea of preventing double-spending attack is based on weight capping. – Saurav Das Jan 17 '18 at 14:29

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The current implementation sets the own weight of any transaction to 1 for reasons of simplicity.

Future plans might introduce a more sophisticated weight calculation algorithm, but this is still part of on-going research.

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  • I was going through the Anatomy of a transaction as given here - https://iota.readme.io/v1.2.0/docs/the-anatomy-of-a-transaction. I didn't see weight as part of the transaction fields which seemed strange to me. How is weight even considered for any transaction then? – Saurav Das Jan 14 '18 at 14:06
  • Weights are calculated on the fly, and only used for tip selection, which is why once you've got your tips there is no need to store the weights. – Phil-ZXX Jan 14 '18 at 14:57