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What are Oracles and what do they do?
What are Oracles and where are they needed for? And are they already Oracles, because everbody talks about them in the Future
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IOTA Light Wallet returns Request Error when sending funds
I am running IOTA Light Wallet 2.5.4 and am connected to my own full node that is in-sync with 4 healthy tangle connections. The minimum weight magnitude (MWM) is set to 14.
When attempting to send funds from the wallet the UI displays Sending...…
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What is IOTA trading off giving up Blockchain and adopting DAG?
I read a lot of documentation about the pros of DAG over Blockchain. What are the trade-offs of adopting DAG?
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How is address reuse prevented in the current wallet implementation?
When trying to send to a foreign address, I got the following error recently:
How does my wallet know, that this address has already been used for sending? It's quite an old address, so I assume I don't have the transaction in my local Tangle any…
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How exactly are transactions verified and confirmed in IOTA
What I understand is when I purchase an IOTA the source which I make my purchase is one of the node in the network of nodes. This node uses the Monte Carlo algorithm to pick two previous transactions at random. This transaction can be anyone e.g.…
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What is the "latestSolidSubtangleMilestone"?
In the documentation I found the following description for "latestSolidSubtangleMilestone":
The latest milestone which is solid and is used for sending
transactions. For a milestone to become solid your local node must
basically approve the…
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Scalability of IOTA network and nodes
IOTA is scalable in the sense that the more transactions are being made, the faster transactions will be confirmed.
But what I fail to understand (for any crypto-currency really) is that if every node needs to receive all transactions how will IOTA…
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Is there any zero-value iota test network?
I would like to play around with iota transactions without putting real value tokens at risk.
Is there any zero-value iota test network?
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How is ensured that a message sent in a transaction is immutable?
Zero value transactions can send a message instead of a signature, using the transactions signatureMessageFragment.
However, as far as I understand the mechanism, only value, currentIndex, lastIndex, obsoleteTag, timestamp and address are part of…
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Can an address be used to encrypt data?
In IOTA a private/public key is derived deterministically from the seed, security level, and an index. As far as I understand the mechanism, an address is in fact the public key.
In typical asymmetric cryptography, the public key can be used to…
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How to get the cumulative weight (and score, height, depth) of a transaction?
I know that I can get the weight of a transaction by converting the transaction hash into trits and count the trailing number of zeros.
import iota
def get_transaction_weight(transaction_hash):
transaction_hash_trits =…
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What is the difference between Swarm Client vs Core Client vs Light Client?
How does each client work in general? Pros and cons of using each client?
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IRI: What are the differences between and purposes of --rescan and --revalidate?
When we run full nodes (IRI) there are some occasions where we should run java with the flags --revalidate and/or --rescan.
In which cases should we add those flags and what exactly are the technical differences?
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Full Node Set-Up Issue: UnsatisfiedLinkError
I'm trying to set up a full-node but I keep getting this error message:
11/28 [main] INFO com.iota.iri.IRI - Welcome to IRI 1.4.1.2
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:…
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What is the max possible transactions/second rate in IOTA?
Did anyone calculate the max amount of transactions per second which is possible in IOTA?
As far as I understand the transactions rate is only limited by network's bandwidth of full nodes.
Let's assume that all full nodes have 10 megabit per second…
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