Billy Sanders
@BillySandersIF
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I am the Director of Research at the IOTA Foundation. My background is in pure math, specifically commutative algebra and category theory.
Joined February 2021
Our comms department has suggested that I begin tweeting again... So, I suppose it makes for me to tell people about this video I did explaining how IOTA 2.0 works. IF you have questions, join our discord for an AMA tomorrow at 6:00 CET https://t.co/kSpO4GcBVN
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With all the excitement of last week's Nectar release, another significant achievement may have been over looked: we released the research specs! Now anyone can learn how the protocol works in detail
blog.iota.org
This post aims to briefly introduce the research specifications which we made available with the release of the IOTA 2.0 DevNet (Nectar). The specifications can be found here [https://github.com/io...
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Einstein purportedly said that if you cant explain something, then you dont understand it. So I wrote a simple explantation of the #IOTA 2.0 protocol!
blog.iota.org
While IOTA 2.0 is a complex protocol with various modules, its core idea is actually quite simple. This post summarizes how IOTA 2.0 achieves consensus and maintains the ledger. Data and transactions...
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The Nectar wallet for the IOTA 2.0 DevNet is out! Go have some fun making your own tokens :)
github.com
Restyle the GUI
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After a lot of work, we completed the IOTA 2.0 DevNet (Nectar) -our research prototype- and also finished a draft of the research specifications!! Now a decentralized version of #IOTA is running with all the key experimental components operational!
blog.iota.org
TL;DR: Today we launch the IOTA 2.0 DevNet, the first fully decentralized IOTA network without the need of a Coordinator, together with our new Digital Assets framework. We invite everyone (and every...
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This post explains mana through a series of rich analogies. Its a great read for all audiences!
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The path towards full decentralization with #IOTA 2.0. Years of peer-reviewed research together with our academic partners is coming to life with the upcoming launch of the IOTA 2.0 DevNet. Feeless + Scalable + Decentralized = IOTA 2.0 It’s happening! https://t.co/OemWZ0NZZP
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The paper "Utility maximization in the Coordinator-less #IOTA Tangle" won the best paper award at the Unet2021 networking conference. Congrats to the authors on a great paper!
researchgate.net
PDF | On Mar 9, 2021, Mathilde Jay and others published Utility maximisation in the Coordinator-less IOTA Tangle | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Yesterday I spoke at the Wolfram Blockchain Center's conference on DLTs and Distributed Consensus and Cellular Automata. It was a fascinating event with lots of great speakers! My talk is at 4:03:00. https://t.co/kPx2BYJK17
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The #IOTA congestion control algorithm is now implemented into GoShimmer! This is a novel piece of technology in the DLT space. Soon we will be able to release Nectar!
blog.iota.org
This article explains in some technical detail the IOTA Congestion Control Algorithm (ICCA) used in the IOTA 2.0 protocol (Coordicide). We wanted to offer this overview to clarify the relationship...
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Do you remember when I solicited questions for me to answer? Well, I have finally answered them :)
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I recently met the amazing professor Claudio Tessone at @uzh_blockchain, who will teach an international #blockchain summer course. With such a provocative teacher, I encourage any eligible students to apply! Also, the #IOTA Foundation will speak there too. https://t.co/EzPF3ijfdP
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Good News Everybody! We are hiring a new research scientist! Maybe I will finally have more time to think more about sharding :)
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We've been busy bees this last month trying to get all the coordicide components implemented into the test net. Nectar is nigh!
blog.iota.org
This month has been quite busy for us, as we enter the home stretch on our way to delivering Nectar, the first feature-complete implementation of our fully decentralized, Coordinator-free network,...
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Initially, we considered using CA in coordicide, but since CA is beastly complicated we opted for FPC. This fall, we funded research to tame this CA beast with physics: using temperature to introduce random fluctuations to break metastable states.
blog.iota.org
As you might recall, in November of last year we announced a grant for studying Cellular Automata and Autopeering Optimization [https://blog.iota.org/iota-announces-coordicide-grant-for-improvement...
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Before Easter, we actually had a new Pollen release, implementing mana into FPC and Autopeering. We can now actually test byzantine behavior during double spends! Sorry for not tweeting sooner...
blog.iota.org
We are happy to release a new version of our Pollen testnet v0.5.5 [https://github.com/iotaledger/goshimmer/releases]. After introducing Mana in our testnet a couple of weeks ago, we are thrilled to...
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Also, if you have questions, ask them here. Ill be making a video soon to answer them!
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Im still figuring out how to use this Twitter thing. The comms department suggested Goshimmer updates. So here it goes: We will soon have #Mana implemented into FPC and the autopeering in #GoShimmer! Check this out if you have questions about mana.
blog.iota.org
Last week, we released a new version of our Pollen testnet [https://blog.iota.org/pollen-testnet-v0-5-0-starting-our-journey-with-mana/] which contains mana. With this release, we demonstrated the...
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Despite the lock down, I finally managed to get a haircut! Now I can make a video where I answer questions about Coordicide. Ask me anything in the link below: #AskTheExperts:
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