Know Your Crypto #5 - IOTA
We thank each and everyone who have shown immense love and support to our knowledge series Know Your Crypto.Continuing on our promise to create awareness about the crypto world we bring to you another installment of the series where we discuss about one of the most sought after and valuable crypto project with a marketcap of around 2.7Billion$ at the time of writing the article, IOTA the decentralised IoT token.
About
IOTA is a Decentralized Internet-of-Things Token.IOTA (MIOTA) is based on a new blockchain technology designed for the Internet of Things (IOT) of the future.It proclaims itself as the fuel for the IoT growing economy and is named after the mathematical symbol used in imaginary numbers.It provides an infrastructure suitable to carry out micro-transactions for the Internet-of-Things ecosystem.Transactions are free and the platform is ‘Quantum Secure’.The project features a brand new consensus mechanism called Tangle.
Team
The core founding team of IOTA includes Sonstebo, Sergey Ivancheglo, Serguei Popov and Dominik Schiener.The Core developers include Alon Elmaliah who has a BSc. in Computer Science & Electronic Engineering from Tel Aviv University,Alfred Keller who has a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering at ETH [Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich],Paul Handy among others.The team now has evolved and has developers, cryptographers, activists and general community members.
Token Distribution
Theres exist no mining for IOTA, all 2,779,530,283,277,761 IOTA or roughly 2,800,000 Gigaiota (Gi) existed in the beginning.These tokens were sold to investors in an ICO which started on 25th November to 21st December 2015.All the tokens were sold/distributed,no tokens were kept by the developers.The developers instead used the collected Bitcoin to finance themselves and the technology.Around 48% of all Iota was claimed by their owners by November 27th . Until the 4th of February, additional 12% of Iota was claimed for a total of 60%. According to one estimate the IOTA ICO raised 3000 bitcoins in a presale, a remarkable amount of value .On it's first day of trading on 13.06.17 it reached a market capitalisation of $1.5 Billion on Bitfinex creating records.
Strengths
The world’s first ‘blockless blockchain’
Instead of a regular blockchain IOTA has created something a new consensus mechanism called Tangle which is based on a Directed Acyclic Graph(DAG) structure. It enables further decentralization of the network and also greatly enhances the scalability. IOTA doesn't have any fees which makes it optimal for real-time compensation.Tangle has a mesh of transactions and verifications. In Tangle every time a transaction is sent it verifies two other transactions behind the current.
Quantum computing is rapidly increasing and will continue to disrupt the crypto discussion more and more. IOTA's quantum resistant algorithm will ensure the protection of its network, data, and transactions.IOTA uses hash-based signatures instead of elliptic curve cryptography.IOTA also makes use of Winternitz signature which makes IOTA quantum proof. The hash function is called Curl.
Market Perfomance
At the time of writing the article IOTA has a market cap of $2,718,413,971 and a circulating supply of 2,779,530,283 MIOTA.The current price of 1 MIOTA stands at $0.977560 or 0.00023101 BTC .
The current market stats for IOTA can be found here
The IOTA foundation has established the IOTA Ecosystem Fund, a fund dedicated to supporting the development of new proof of concepts and applications built for the Tangle. The IOTA Foundation has now teamed up with F6S, the world’s premier platform for founders, startups, and accelerators which boasts a roster of over two million developers.
The IOTA protocol with it's new technological capabilities is an extremely exciting new approach to distributed ledger technology. It definitely promises huge scalability and economic improvements over traditional blockchains.
For the whitepaper you can visit here
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Ive been thinking about getting some IOTA, what is the best wallet?
The commonly used is the Light Wallet:
http://iotasupport.com/gui-lightwallet.shtml
I use it myself
Please be sure to use the latest Wallet (2.4.0), if you use the previous version you will not be able to receive transfers.
Just use the main one....and link https://iota-wallet.org/
I couldn't figure out the wallet and had to sell my Iota off Bitfinex :(
the best part of iota as an investor , is simple mathematics.
IOTA wants to be back the bone of IOT. now in next 5 years IOT will encompass around 25 Billion devices handling upwards of 50 trillion gigabytes of data.
now if IOTA is able to capitalize even small part of this market the gains will be astronomical.
i am not throwing these numbers out of thin air. i did my own analysis when i purchased IOTA at 5 cents. below is the Forbes article.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2015/05/10/in-search-of-the-true-value-in-the-internet-of-things/#6e468b28135a
now baring this you need to focus on its scalability, the unit beeing sold is Million /mega IOTA (MIOTA) so you can understand that even 15 years from now when a Cruise ship docks in Mumbai dock it can be charged 5 MIOTA that could be worth $5000 and when my car passes a toll it can be charged 500 IOTA ( not MIOTA)
the tech needs to be looked upon as well ... its the only Currency to transfer 100 percent of value and it does not require miners to authenticate it. Tangle tech can make block chain tech outdated.
these were the solid reasons that led me to trust in IOTA ...
DISCLAIMER : i have purchased IOTA at 5 cents , 12 Cents , 42 cents and 79 cenr=ts ... so my opinion (although candid) could be biased.
Very useful @punzee. Upvoted! And followed!
your welcome buddy ..jus playing my part to help others.
no fun in making money alone :)
Like every crypto , it has its point of rising , now it's falling and it's a great time to invest for when it will rise in the future
All cryptos are future before our eyes. But IOTA....is Star Trek!
True that!!!
Exaclty, if IOTA stick to it's roadmap and delivers, your watching the future unfold before your eyes
followed, i love your post thank you
Can u do an insite on verge too XVG
I can help out with that. I have been researching verge and it's applications. Check me out @tswoop
I like it! upvote!
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Funny story, I was going to invest in IOTA about 2-3weeks ago(~0.25$/MIOTA) so I signed up for Bittrex thinking they have it, they have like every coin in universe XD, ofc they didn't. After some research I invested in NEO and it went well but not as well as it could with IOTA.
I really like what devs want with IOTA and I will buy it in my next investing cycle.
Bitfinex has it. It was a great place to put some money a few weeks ago.
Yes, i now have account but it will have to wait for now. Long summer you know XD