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It has been said many times that the Coordinator is not necessary because its confirmations will be rejected by other nodes if it acts maliciously. It follows that if other nodes can tell if the ...
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We know that there is a coordinator, which helps to secure the network in order to prevent attacks in early stages of adoption. What does it do exactly, how does it work?
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I decided to preserve the original post in a pastebin for reference but the edits here address pretty much everything i think. Here is the link to the original post. There is also a link to a fresh ...
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Billy, how likely is it from your current point of view to expect Coordicide on mainnet within 2021? Virtually certain (>99%) Very likely (>90%) Likely (>66%) About as likely as not (33 to 66%...
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I have a private tangle with a Hornet Coordinator node. I am trying to make zero-value transactions using Python API but get an error "Command [attachToTangle] is protected. This the code which I'...
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At the moment, a node can be defined as 'sync' with the network based on the last solid subtangle Milestone. Without the Coordinator issued Milestones, how will a post-COO node know if it is in sync? ...
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per the white paper In order to identify nodes, it is necessary to introduce global node identities. Tothis end, we envision using common public key cryptography to sign certain dataand to ...
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What conditions need to be met for the central coordinator to be shut down? Is there a number of transactions per second, a number of full IRI nodes or an update to the algorithm necessary?
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All milestones are just signed transactions with teh address KPWCHICGJZXKE9GSUDXZYUAPLHAKAHYHDXNPHENTERYMMBQOPSQIDENXKLKCEYCPVTZQLEEJVYJZV9BWU. My understanding is that to sign a transaction, you do ...
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How is the 'Relativity of simultaneity' in observing the best confirmed double-spend in a COO-less Tangle resolved? For example, in answering this question, it was answered that the double-spend "...
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A comment was posted in the internet that the Coordinator doesn't make IOTA any more centralised than Bitcoin because Bitcoin has checkpoints. Someone even said, The purpose of the checkpoints was ...
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With the coordinator, the MCMC random walk tip selection algorithm starts with a milestone as its entry transaction. Without the coordinator, there are no milestones. How is the entry transaction for ...
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As the title says i am interested in the block finality of IOTA. In the long run there seems to be no instant block finality in IOTA because it is only considered confirmed as some number of tips are ...
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Currently node sync status is determined by milestones which are issued by the coordinator. Once autosnapshots, and removal of the coordinator occurs, how will we know if the node is in sync with the ...
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According to Come-From-Beyond in the emails send to DCI: The Coordinator is used as an extra protection measure. Particularly, it stores all transactions that reach it, this allows us to recover ...
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Many promises that the Coordinator code would be open sourced. It was stated that when the IOTA Foundation was formed, that the COO would become open sourced. This was also confirmed by David on ...
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This question is about a) iterating milestones starting from the latest and b) most efficient way to find if it references the transaction. Note, that a milestone not necessary refers to previous ...
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Looking at traviota.iotalt.com, the fastest confirmation time encountered in the last 7 days was 29 seconds. This looks likes the approximate same duration between Coordinator issued Milestones. This ...
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In CfB's recent blog post on Economic Clustering and IOTA, he looks at a possible future of IOTA and envisions two different types of IOTA clusters: Cluster 0: A a set of Full Nodes that are ...
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Some people argue that Iota is centralised because of the use of a coordinator to issue milestones which, in turn, are used as a root of trust to verify transactions. What would happen to the network ...
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As per the recently released The Stability and the Security of the Tangle, a 2018 ICUBE - University of Strasbourg "study of the stability and the security of the distributed data structure at ...
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Apparently we are still in "testnet" including a "coordinator" responsible for the validation of all transactions until the tangle reaches sufficient size. If so, what is the "road-map" on this point?
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This is a controversial post I found in the IOTA slack. The concerns are regarding IOTA's security. How does IOTA approach the specific statements? IOTA is fundamentally broken. It's a PoW ...
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In the Original white paper of the IOTA there is no mention of the Milestone. In reality however, the IRI code is so tangled (pun intended) with the use of Milestones, that I was not able to run an ...
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This question might have risen out of not enough knowledge about the role of the Coordinator. But.. Due to its one-time nature, the security of funds in an address decreases rapidly if you sign ...
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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 ...
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Is the public key of the Coordinator hard coded into the current implementation of IRI? I can't find that part in the code.
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As far as I understand Milestones are done by the Coordinator to verify transactions. What do Snapshots do? Do they serve as backup? Do they clean up dead tips? Who issues them?
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I am listening for new transactions on the ZMQ stream published by the iri. Is there a way to identify transactions that were created by the coordinator?
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