Radix - Tempo Whitepaper

[witch]

Concerning the patent, what is your strategy about the fact the the European Union doesn't recognize software patents?

Quick Google search suggests otherwise, so much so that there's a campaign against them amusing as that is. Which is not really surprising considering Radix is or was an EU project at the time of the patent application.

[Drokzid]

After quickly viewing WhitePaper, would this project be considered in anyway similar to HashGraph? ie regarding timing.. Pooling timestamps and selecting the mean average? Plus, a cluster of nodes gossiping, handling shards?

[Big Naturals]

The whitepaper states that Radix is a new form of distributed ledger technology; it is not a blockchain, nor a directed acyclic graph. The question is, what is the foundational architecture used by Radix (the mathematical structure to store information, i.e. custom hashed link list for blockchain type DLTs)?

Good question, the one we're all waiting to have answered. From my research radix will start with a humungous number of shards, or network subdivisions, and each address will exist in a single shard, and then nodes in each shard will be constantly communicating their state to other shards, so no node will ever have a complete picture of the network, but as addresses exist in only one shard space, double spends can still be detected quickly. I know that doesn't go anywhere near answering your question, but the key (i think) is radix is starting out with a design that scales using shards. The datastructure is something new.

As regards the double spend problem, the network cannot easily invalidate a conflicting transaction when there aren't common nodes that processed it; furthermore it is described a mechanism to address this issue involving periodic 'commitments' made by all nodes from any given shard, however the conflicting transactions are stored locally by the nodes that issued them, thus impacting the immutability property of the ledger.

This talk by radix CEO might help you understand the consensus architecture, much better than anything I could explain on a forum post.


https://youtu.be/t46NIbOsztg

[ProfessorZ]

This talk by radix CEO might help you understand the consensus architecture, much better than anything I could explain on a forum post.

https://youtu.be/t46NIbOsztg

I want to bring into discussion the following paper, "On Stake and Consensus" link here: https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf

More specifically, chapter 3.4 "No Universal Time":

[...] there is no well-defined clock time in a distributed system. Network latency gives a finite speed of information propagation, which we know from special relativity means different observers cannot agree on the time-ordering of events that occur closely in time [...]

With respect to the time-ordering mechanism that is mentioned in earlier posts to prevent double-spend attacks;

[...] Network latency is not something that can be bounded in an adversarial setting. An attacker may be able to slow systems by arbitrary amounts using denial-of-service measures, and may be able to physically partition the network by other means. In relativistic terms, this means that there is no amount of waiting that will assure somebody that they are no longer spacelike separated from other participants in the network [...]

How this can affect the finality of transactions and how does Radix address network partitioning?

[...] Users who are new to the network or have been offline recently need access to historical data.   But  there  is  no  way  to  verify  after-the-fact  what  order  transactions  occurred  in,  so they cannot be assured that the transactions they are receiving actually occurred before any conflicting ones [...]

This can impact the permissionless property of Radix as an open, public cryptocurrency.

[witch]

I have a question. Will all Radix nodes on the network have published IP's as opposed to a gossip or onion type protocol?  For the radix payout, will the node hold any sort of private key?

[witch]

I think open source and open licences are one of the foundation of internet culture, and of cryptocurrency. If someone has a good idea based on Tempo, it would beneficial for the whole community that he can implement it. You could just adapt it to another use case, without even being a direct challenger.

I understand the concern about forks, but see for example IOTA they also tried to fight fire with fire (with their hidden voluntary obfuscated bugged code, meant to avoid forks), and it backlashed against them. What makes a cryptocurrency good is the capacity of coders to constantly improve the product, if I fork Radix tomorrow Radix would still be better than my fork on its next iteration, because I could not deliver the same quality as their team.

[witch]

Any reason why there is not any activity in here? I mean, Radix is one of the most promising crypto projects out there right now.

Or is there another thread where the real discussions take place?

[Peachy]

Any reason why there is not any activity in here? I mean, Radix is one of the most promising crypto projects out there right now.

Or is there another thread where the real discussions take place?

We gave up on bitcointalk looooong ago as it devolved into more of a pump-n-dump cesspool.

My apologies to those die-hard fans that still continue to hang out here as there are still some gems that can be found and some highly-upstanding and intelligent individuals still lurking around.

Primarily, you can find substantial dialogue and conversations on Radix DLT within our Telegram and Discord channels.

Nearly all of the team members regularly post and are engaged with the over 17k members on Telegram.

I'm one of the Admins and (while it has been challenging on some days) we have kept the channel VERY free of noise and off-topic convos such that the entirety of the thread contains a wealth of knowledge around the project and CTO's insights.  A worth-while read if you have the time.

Telegram:
https://t.me/radixDLT

Discord:
https://discord.gg/7Q7HSZZ

[Last of the V8s]

An echo chamber, if you will.

[Ulermom]

Testnet is great yet completely useful open DLT is better.

Do you think to run a security test with any settled organizations to get results or you are certain that isn't worth as framework is secure and it is difficult to assault and hack it?

[Asujmule]

All in all, when Radix DLT will begin to work freely and tokens will be accessible to purchase and offer?

[TITI45555]

WHAT WAS THE PRE-ICO PRICE ??

[iskren_cryptodev]

After PARSEC algorithm (invented by MaidSafe team) all crypto projects have no any chance especially a patented one like hashgraph, radix and etc, because it is FREE/OPEN and has no scaling limits at all.

[Yolikerum]

The whitepaper states that Radix is another type of conveyed record innovation; it's anything but a blockchain, nor a coordinated non-cyclic chart. The inquiry is, what is the fundamental engineering utilized by Radix (the numerical structure to store data, i.e. uniquely hashed interface list for blockchain type DLTs)?