Questions tagged [white-paper]

What is the difference between approving a transaction and confirming transaction in IOTA? Does confirmation of a transaction indicate finality? How are these concepts different from that in Blockchain.

In coordicide whitepaper in section 3.3 the mana system is introduced. It is stated that an averaged version of mana will be used. While I think I understand the necessity to use the averaged mana I wonder how this affects malicious nodes. Do…