IOTA

[John_Paul]

two useful resources (/tutorials) to get started with IOTA - http://iotasupport.com/ and https://iota.readme.io/v1.1.0/docs

[oldisoft]

Snapshot today:
https://forum.iotatoken.com/t/new-snapshot-04-01-2017-public-validation/1108/1

and new GUI released:
https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/releases/tag/2.0.2-1

New great step! IOTA is working more and more smoothly!

Cheers

[CryptKeeper]

Byteball vs IOTA-token. Basic features and field of application explained!
http://www.tangleblog.com/2017/01/03/byteball-vs-iota-token/

[dzarmush]

Hi, how can I buy IOTA tokens ?

subscribe here: https://slack.iotatoken.com/
then go here: https://iotatangle.slack.com/messages/trading/

what's the average price these days?

[ImI]

Hi, how can I buy IOTA tokens ?

subscribe here: https://slack.iotatoken.com/
then go here: https://iotatangle.slack.com/messages/trading/

what's the average price these days?

About 6BTC/Ti

[dzarmush]

Hi, how can I buy IOTA tokens ?

subscribe here: https://slack.iotatoken.com/
then go here: https://iotatangle.slack.com/messages/trading/

what's the average price these days?

About 6BTC/Ti

That makes Iota capitalization around 16K BTC? Looks pretty good, still some room to grow.

Could you point me to pages or an article when everything changed? I remember there was a regular ICO with total supply of 1 billion Iota if I'm not mistaken. Now there are Gi, Ti etc. I missed that.

[ImI]

Hi, how can I buy IOTA tokens ?

subscribe here: https://slack.iotatoken.com/
then go here: https://iotatangle.slack.com/messages/trading/

what's the average price these days?

About 6BTC/Ti

That makes Iota capitalization around 16K BTC? Looks pretty good, still some room to grow.

Could you point me to pages or an article when everything changed? I remember there was a regular ICO with total supply of 1 billion Iota if I'm not mistaken. Now there are Gi, Ti etc. I missed that.

That might help: http://www.iotasupport.com/

[valley365]

Byteball vs IOTA-token. Basic features and field of application explained!
http://www.tangleblog.com/2017/01/03/byteball-vs-iota-token/

This article is wrong to say there are 10^12 bytes, lol. There are 10^15 bytes, isn't it? The author is apparently weak in Math and does not count zeros correctly.

I am not familiar with IOTA, is there 2.78*10^15 IOTA? unless the author counted digits wrong again, I read somewhere 40K IOTA worth 1 BTC? this mean IOTA market cap worth 70 billions BTC??? I must missed something here...

[CryptKeeper]

Byteball vs IOTA-token. Basic features and field of application explained!
http://www.tangleblog.com/2017/01/03/byteball-vs-iota-token/

This article is wrong to say there are 10^12 bytes, lol. There are 10^15 bytes, isn't it? The author is apparently weak in Math and does not count zeros correctly.

I am not familiar with IOTA, is there 2.78*10^15 IOTA? unless the author counted digits wrong again, I read somewhere 40K IOTA worth 1 BTC? this mean IOTA market cap worth 70 billions BTC??? I must missed something here...

You're right:

The total number of bytes is 10¹⁵, all bytes will be issued in the genesis transaction. Since the fees paid are returned into the circulation, the money supply will remain the same.

[SteveoMB]

Byteball vs IOTA-token. Basic features and field of application explained!
http://www.tangleblog.com/2017/01/03/byteball-vs-iota-token/

I am not familiar with IOTA, is there 2.78*10^15 IOTA? unless the author counted digits wrong again, I read somewhere 40K IOTA worth 1 BTC? this mean IOTA market cap worth 70 billions BTC??? I must missed something here...
This article is wrong to say there are 10^12 bytes, lol. There are 10^15 bytes, isn't it? The author is apparently weak in Math and does not count zeros correctly.

the author just copied it wrong. will change it soo. thanks for the hint.

you miss something.
 

[rage1337]

I will try to regularly summarize the news and the status as it is relatively difficult to keep track of everything over Slack.

News beginning from 01.01.17:
Year-review: https://medium.com/iotatangle/iota-year-in-review-year-in-preview-6de510696e02
Byteball vs IOTA-token. Basic features and field of application explained! http://www.tangleblog.com/2017/01/03/byteball-vs-iota-token/
Artikel from bitcoin magazine on NASDAQ (short mention): http://www.nasdaq.com/article/blockchain-technology-to-power-next-generation-distributed-supercomputers-cm728742
Current revealed Foundation members: https://forum.iotatoken.com/t/current-revealed-foundation-members/1098
German article: Wie mit Blockchain völlig neue Ansätze im Cloud-Computing verfolgt werden können
Article from Carsten Stöcker (foundation member):   Thomas Birr and Carsten Stöcker of innogy SE look at how transportation will meet blockchain transactions


Wallet/Nodes:
Actual wallet (GUI), v2.0.2-1: https://github.com/iotaledger/wallet/releases
IRI (for nodes without GUI): http://85.93.93.110/iri-1.1.2.3.jar

Guide for a headless node: http://iotasupport.com/headlessnode.shtml
Guide for the GUI: http://iotasupport.com/guiwallet.shtml

In slack is an active community, nevertheless if you have a problem with the GUI or your node you can contact me directly and I will try to help you! "Mark W" @rage1337
https://iotatangle.slack.com

Actual I rent 4 nodes (all 24/7 VPS) and can also provide you a neighbor IP. I would be glad if you support me, one single node is not that expensive but many are  
I would use your donation exclusively to operate further nodes with which I support the community and IOTA, thank you!
BTC: 15x2uRCvRah8dogXNguCEVKxr94JhTkBWm

Light-wallet tests are expected to start next week! Should I be selected as a tester I try to report


Misc:
Good start for newcomer: http://iotasupport.com/
View current transactions, network load and the tangle graph http://iota.cool/

[solix]

Is there a market anywhere yet for those of us that want to buy in and missed the initial distribution?

[50cent_rapper]

Is there a market anywhere yet for those of us that want to buy in and missed the initial distribution?

Currently here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1550236.0
Use escrow.

[SatoNatomato]

How does Iota deal with spam?

Ive run an Iota node and seen much spam transactions. There is a PoW for sending a transaction? Is that PoW difficulty adjusted, whats stopping a bitcoin miner or other asic/gpu from spamming everything with dumb transactions?

How does Iota solve the "parasite tangle" problem?

[50cent_rapper]

How does Iota deal with spam?

Ive run an Iota node and seen much spam transactions. There is a PoW for sending a transaction? Is that PoW difficulty adjusted, whats stopping a bitcoin miner or other asic/gpu from spamming everything with dumb transactions?

Each transaction requires a PoW. The more transactions/spam is in the network the more secure is the network (it's like putting more mining power into bitcoin blockchain) and the faster is confirmation time. You are welcome to spam as much as you like!  

How does Iota solve the "parasite tangle" problem?

Section 4.1 A parasite chain attack and a new tip selection algorithm
in whitepaper is a good starting point.

[SteveoMB]

Chris Skinner joined the IOTA-Foundation

https://medium.com/iotatangle/welcome-chris-skinner-to-the-iota-foundation-6015f19f05#.hvn9b85gn

[KimNg]

I see some of our foundation members doing a great job of actively promoting IOTA. http://blockgeeks.com/author/pclind1/

Sensor data from each autonomous vehicle will be generating approximately 4 terabytes of data a day.
https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/krzanich-the-future-of-automated-driving/

Intel's hardware platform for automated driving. http://intel.com/automotive/GO

3,000 four-passenger cars could serve 98 percent of taxi demand in New York City, with an average wait-time of only 2.7 minutes.
https://news.mit.edu/2016/how-ride-sharing-can-improve-traffic-save-money-and-help-environment-0104
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWrRci0H54

The solution for these automotive M2M transactions is IOTA Inside.

[oldisoft]

Chris Skinner joined the IOTA-Foundation

https://medium.com/iotatangle/welcome-chris-skinner-to-the-iota-foundation-6015f19f05#.hvn9b85gn

Welcome Chris Skinner to Our Great IOTA Team!

[SatoNatomato]

Why would anyone be buying Iotatokens when they can just run their own instance of Iota, for their own purpose?

As Iota is IoT, M2M oriented.

For instance, BWM could run it for their cars and sell access/data to others who want their data - and take a higher fee than just relying on your instance Iota?

Or any other purpose where you need M2M communication, you would run your own instance, and call it a day, why waste money buying something is is free anyway?

[Scott J]

Why would anyone be buying Iotatokens when they can just run their own instance of Iota, for their own purpose?

As Iota is IoT, M2M oriented.

For instance, BWM could run it for their cars and sell access/data to others who want their data - and take a higher fee than just relying on your instance Iota?

Or any other purpose where you need M2M communication, you would run your own instance, and call it a day, why waste money buying something is is free anyway?

Because the IoT needs to be interoperable. Every corporation having their own network will not work.