Q will likely have little to do with wallets. Trinity and a few more wallets are being released that will address usability--Trinity should be in BETA testing in a few weeks, don't know the time frame for the other wallets.

Fujitsu announcing they are presenting IOTA prototypes at the Hannover Messe:

https://twitter.com/kaipasing/status/976023826592075776?s=19

Hanover Messe is one of the world's trade fairs:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannover_Messe

Here's the early Foundation list (42 listed): http://untangled.world/iota-founders/

I think 12-18 have been announced since then, many I've listed in this thread. I think there's bit more, but many are working as freelancers or on their own projects or haven't been formally made Foundation members.

IOTA adds Madjid Nakhjiri to the Foundation: https://blog.iota.org/welcome-madjid-nakhjiri-to-the-iota-foundation-e3fe448c367c

Madjid Nakhjiri has the responsibility for end to end roadmap, architecture, as well as future technology solutions for Samsung ARTIK platform security. Madjid is also a member of executive board for IOT security foundation. Prior to Samsung, he initiated and led Security Engineering team for MediaTek IOT business unit and led security design of next generation chipsets. Madjid has been involved in IOT standards since 2011 and has over 15 years of experience in security architecture and standards, chairing and authoring for many industry standards activities in IOT, IPTV/DRM, Internet mobility, and wireless connectivity, and smart cards and has authored and delivered many widely used standards. He is the author of book “AAA and security for Mobile Networks”, many conference papers, 18 issued patents and 20+ pending.

Madjid is an expert in public key infrastructure and factory and field provisioning of identities credentials and personalization of devices and has spent years in the area of device and user authentication and related key management schemes for both mobile Internet connectivity and service authorization. He was one of pioneers in the area of heterogeneous seamless network mobility and the IETF work on the overlap of mobility and security that was the basis for cellular-WiFi interoperability in mid-2000s.

AFAIK there is no hash for ternary, so you would have to roll your own crypto, so that isn't a valid criticism in and of itself. Now if you want to criticize them for not getting an outside group (they have highly qualified mathematicians and access to a super computer) to vet it, that's a valid criticism--though we'll see how valid when cybercrypt finishes their research. Though as an investor, I was only interested in how they took the threat seriously (they removed it) despite not getting the data they wanted from DCI.

As for making your own seed, Bitcoin didn't have a seed generator in early wallets, so why did they get a pass when their goal was P2P? The IOTA team wasn't even going to have a human wallet (wish they had stuck to that), but made it very clear that the wallet they did issue would be bare bones and users should understand how it works (they obviously didn't), but no one was complaining until something bad happened, so it seems like rehashing a pain point rather than an "I told you so."

Fujitsu article on IOTA: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.de.ts.fujitsu.com%2Fallgemeines%2Finsiderwissen-das-sind-die-groessten-trends-in-der-internationalen-industrie%2F&edit-text=&act=url

Great piece on why Julie Maupin is a pivotal figure for IOTA: https://oracletimes.com/why-julie-maupin-is-important-for-iota-miota-and-the-broader-blockchain-scene/

TLDR Excerpt:

• In addition to her appointment at Max Planck, she holds external research appointments with the Centre for International Governance Innovation and the University College London Centre for Blockchain Technologies.
• She has recently been advising IOTA on the incorporation and governance set-up of the foundation and is actively helping to develop projects to be carried out by the social venture fund.
• Julie Maupin is not just another corporate link with industrial players like Volkswagen and BOSCH. Of course, both companies are sitting on the top of the hill when it comes to technological advancement and innovations around the machine economy and the internet of things (IoT), which is IOTA’s key element, but Dr. Maupin will help IOTA Foundation to establish global governmental level relations that no other blockchain-based project could even talk about.

I'm still amazed at how myopia doesn't let people pull charts out from more than 6 months or read more than one listing on CMC--they just see whatever confirms their bias and go, "Welp that's my research, look how well I proved that!"

Gur Huberman added to Foundation: https://blog.iota.org/welcome-gur-huberman-to-the-iota-foundation-f801dd6e5410

Gur Huberman is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance at Columbia Business School where he has taught since 1989. Prior to that, he taught at Tel Aviv University and at the University of Chicago. Between 1993 and 1995 he was Vice President at JP Morgan Investment Management responsible for research on quantitative equity trading. In that capacity, he also helped develop tax aware strategies for the private bank. He earned his Ph.D. (with distinction) in operations research from Yale in 1980 and his B.Sc. (cum laude) in mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1975.

Professor Huberman’s published work is widely read and cited (A LOT), and covers a broad range in finance and economics. He contributed to the theory of equilibrium return-risk tradeoff, to the theory of contracts, to the study of individual’s portfolio selection, especially in the context of retirement savings to the theory of liquidity and trading, and to Behavior Finance. More recently he has turned his attention to FinTech and cryptocurrencies.

Professor Huberman was a founding managing editor of the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance. His co-authored paper won the 2006 Journal of Finance Distinguished Paper award of the Smith-Breeden Prize. He was a member of the Academic Advisory Board of Morgan Stanley Equity Market Microstructure Research.

I have yet to see someone banned from Discord for not being an ass (though I'm sure they would think otherwise).

Web Developer Alexey Sobolev added to Foundation: https://blog.iota.org/welcome-alexey-sobolev-to-the-iota-foundation-5fbec98b696e

Dominik Schiener will speak at annual press conference of  Federation of German foundations: https://www.facebook.com/bundesverband/posts/1594723887231892

Dominik Schiener guest on German Talk Show Marcus Lanz (3/20): http://www.fernsehmacher-tickets.de/shows.php

I'm not German, so the last two have no context for me.

What issues?

As far as Nano goes, IOTA can trivially switch their focus to P2P--it's just a matter of adding human frindly wallets--Nano can't say the same thing about M2M.

Interesting speculation on Q. Essentially the speculation is that Q is an oracle that will allow for smart contracts--this in turn creates a link between current banking and cryptocurrencies with IOTA's network doing the brunt of the work--it's speculative, but of the theories I've read, this one has a basis on what little the Developers have said and actions taken by the Foundation (specifically additions that seem strategic to this end): https://medium.com/@claudio_69833/iotas-ixi-module-q-the-rise-of-incredible-interoperability-maybe-339ffdf3bd12

Write-up on IOTA's partnerships within the IOT market: https://www.bitguru.co.uk/notable-iota-partnerships/

There's a dispute between the DCI researcher and CFB on if there is a real vulnerability with Curl-p. It makes no difference ATM as it was removed and is being reviewed by one of the foremost cryptography teams in the world. It's more about egos and who has to eat humble pie--though both sides are trying to cast the other as incompetent/arrogant/malicious.

Harm van den Brink added to the IOTA Foundation: https://blog.iota.org/welcome-harm-van-den-brink-to-the-iota-foundation-41295c7f0ccf


Harm van den Brink is an entrepreneur and always looking for practical and useful implementations of new and disruptive ideas. He has a master’s degree in Information Science from the Radboud University Nijmegen and has a professional background in energy, e-mobility and cybersecurity. In the last few years he has been working for Enexis (Dutch grid operator) and ElaadNL (a foundation focused on e-mobility).

In his role as IT Architect Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles, Van den Brink gained a lot of knowledge about the energy and electric mobility domain. Combining this knowledge with his expertise in IT allows him to build the energy (eco)system of the future.

Van den Brink is known for building the IOTA charge station, a proof of concept of a charger for electric vehicles running fully on IOTA, and IOTA only.

The DataMarketPlace has grown from 31 to 55 participants in five months: https://medium.com/@goelz83/data-marketplace-growth-20e0cf52509a

It was on 400k volume, so didn't take much to move the price.

Ralf Rottmann added to IOTA Foundation: https://blog.iota.org/welcome-ralf-rottmann-to-the-iota-foundation-157c86011438

Ralf Rottmann is a serial entrepreneur who sold his last company to Alcatel-Lucent and now serves as the Managing Partner at grandcentrix which he co-founded.

Incorporated in 2009, grandcentrix has become Germany’s largest system integrator focussing entirely on large scale Internet of Things and Smart Products development. At grandcentrix, Ralf has built an engineering organization with more than 150 full-time experts covering Ideation and User Experience Design, Electronic- and Embedded Development, Cyber Physical Systems Security, IoT Platform Development, System Integration, Frontend-Development and carrier-grade 24x7 operation.

Ralf will join the IOTA Foundation as a member on the Board of Directors