| IOTA |
IOTA is an open-source, permission-less distributed ledger. Its protocol is a directed acyclic graph (DAG) called the "Tangle” |
wikipedia:IOTA(Distributed Ledger Technology) |
| DAG |
Directed acyclic graph(有向無環圖) |
Directed Acyclic Graph |
| Tangle |
The Tangle is a public ledger within which IOTA transactions are stored. It is decentralized such that no central entity is in control of the network, which is maintained by a network of nodes, organized according to mesh networking topology. |
wikipedia:IOTA(Distributed Ledger Technology) |
| minWeightMagnitude |
The amount of validation that you require before considering a transaction confirmed |
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| indirectly approves |
No directed edge between transaction but there is a directed path of length at least connected. |
IOTA-Whitepaper-ver-0.6-page-2 |
| genesis transaction |
Approved (directly or indirectly) by all other transactions. |
IOTA-Whitepaper-ver-0.6-page-2 |
| sites |
transactions represented on the tangle graph |
IOTA-Whitepaper-ver-0.6-page-2 |
| nodes |
nodes are entities that issue transactions |
IOTA-Whitepaper-ver-0.6-page-2 |
| weight |
the weight may assume only values 3^n, where n is positive integer and belongs to some nonempty interval of acceptable values |
IOTA-Whitepaper-ver-0.6-page-4 |
| tips |
unapproved transactions |
IOTA-Whitepaper-ver-0.6-page-4 |
| nonce |
an arbitrary number that may only be used once. often random or pseudo-random numbers |
Cryptographic nonce |
| Quantum Proof |
IOTA uses hash-based signatures instead of elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). Not only are hash-based signatures much faster than ECC, they also greatly simplify the signing and verification process and reduce overall complexity of the Tangle protocol. |
An introduction to IOTA |
| testnet |
The IOTA Foundation will utilize this testnet to thoroughly review and test more experimental features (automated snapshotting and IXI for example will be tested soon) |
iotaledger/iri |
| Snapshotting |
Grouping several transfers to the same address into 1 record, which leads to a smaller storage requirement overall. |
IOTA Development Roadmap |
| revalidate |
sometimes the growth of MilestoneIndex value may stay for hours or stop for some reasons (for example - database corruption), If the value stop but all neighbors are working well (observed by the getNeighbors Restful API command) a command line options of iri (IOTA reference implementation) –revalidate may be helpful for check and fix the issue. |
IRI.java |
| MCMC(Markov chain Monte Carlo) |
In statistics, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are a class of algorithms for sampling from a probability distribution based on constructing a Markov chain that has the desired distribution as its equilibrium distribution. |
wikipedia:Markov chain Monte Carlo |
| Coordinator |
Protect the network until it grows strong enough to sustain against a large scale attack from those who own GPUs.(until 2017-07-05, all) |
THE TECH BEHIND IOTA EXPLAINED |
| transactionsToRequest |
Is the queue of transaction your node know about (by their hash), but doesn't have them yet.for example, you attach a transaction - it references 2 transactions - branch & trunk by their hash, if a node doesn't have one of those referenced transactions, it will add it to request queue.these transactions are requested from neighbors. |
@alon.elmaliah says in developer channel of IOTA slack |
| IRI |
全名為 The IOTA Reference Implementation (IRI)，以 Java 開發，作為 IOTA 核心節點(client node) 的用途。主要功能在於與 IOTA 網路進行通訊、遞送交易資訊，而因為安全的因素，僅開放有限的 API 給使用者，以及用來連結遠端的其他節點之用。 |
IOTA Glossary @iota.readme.io |
| iota.lib.* |
IOTA 函式庫，提供給開發人員開發 IOTA 相關應用時使用，包含交易處理、加密相關功能 … 等等，目前以 iota.lib.js 此函式庫最為成熟 & 完整。 |
IOTA Glossary @iota.readme.io |
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