Recap of the May 31st Telegram AMA

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Dear community,

On May 31st, the ITC founding team held a live AMA in Telegram where we answered top questions from the community. These questions were collected over the past several days. The top 5 submissions were awarded 5 ITC tokens each for their contributions, and a total of 12 questions were answered. For those who missed the live event, we have summarized those questions and answers for you below.

Rest assured, we will be hosting similar AMA events in the near future help ensure the community remains connected to our progress and strategic vision.

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Q1. Do you think your project will be better than IOTA?

IOTA is a well known project that has been around for over two years. They have a great marketing strategy and have been able to continuously engage their community with news and hype. However, from a technical standpoint, IOTA has some serious issues. Because there is no transaction fee, it is easy to carry out a Sybil attack. Moreover, their coordinator code is private, which is integral to the security and decentralization of the entire network. In contrast, IoT Chain awards a small transaction fee for each transaction to witness nodes, making it costly to carry out a Sybil attack. We will make all of our code public before the main network is released. We also have a fantastic business development team which will help IoT Chain prosper and keep the community up to date. For these reasons, we believe IoT Chain has more potential and will deliver higher returns than IOTA.

Q2. It has been requested by the community to have more transparency about the ongoing development, notably in Github. What are the steps that the team is taking or has taken concerning this matter? One member suggested daily screenshots of the private repository pulse and commits page, what are your thoughts on this?

In the past several months, we have published the latest updated roadmap. We chose a new development stack, and are now mainly using Scala. And we have released some code in Github, and today you can find our basic framework and modules. The framework is quite clear now, including consensus algorithm, storage, light node, wallet, and smart contract. We have started providing daily commits in Github to keep the community up to date. We encourage you to take a look! We are now implementing smart contracts, specific consensus algorithms, and storage mechanisms. We will also add more documentation later on to help better explain the code.

Q3. How is ITC going to adapt their chips to every device? What is the technology used to connect them?

Basically, there are two key functions of the chip. One is the blockchain identification and the other is data processing. We give each IoT device a blockchain identity, which is an achieved by assigning a public and private key to each device. This is similar to a Bitcoin address or Ethereum address.

By using the assigned identity, we can control sensitive actions by only allowing authorized devices to interact with the device, like your mobile phone. And for any sensitive data created, it has to be permissioned for use.

The connecting technology is known and established, like Bluetooth, Zigbee, and WiFi.

Q4. HTC is launching a blockchain phone, the HTC Exodus. They were looking for blockchain partners. Has IoT Chain tried to contact HTC to establish a partnership? Is IoT Chain actively monitoring the sector for such opportunities?

We are preparing to connect with HTC. Our business development team is looking at the opportunity. At the same time, we will build partnerships with other companies like HTC. As a matter of fact, we have contacted many partners and are already designing solutions for some of them. We will make it public once everything is settled.

Q5. While the market is not as stable, does your development team now have a new direction to gain people’s trust?

Price volatility has plagued cryptocurrencies from the beginning, but you can bet on the combination of Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain. We want to focus on blockchain as a powerful tool to bring scalable, decentralized security and trust to IoT devices, applications and platforms, which are similarly distributed and decentralized.

Q6. ITC is still seen as a very Asia-focused project. What initiatives do you have in mind to expand the brand globally?

We have offices in Singapore and Shanghai. Our marketing strategy is global-first. We attended Consensus in New York recently and established a meetup at Fordham University. You can follow our progress in our official Medium: https://medium.com/@IoT_Chain

Q7. Does IoT Chain use a better technology than blockchain and is there any other technology that is being developed that is better than what IoT Chain is using?

In IoT Chain, we rely primarily on DAG technology instead of blockchain data structure. We believe that DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) is a better data structure. Due to its block-less nature, the transactions run directly through the DAG networks. Thus, the speed of the whole process is much faster than a traditional blockchain. At this point, it is easy to see that DAG is much more scalable than earlier technologies, however most projects using DAG today are not decentralized enough which threatens the safety of the network. In IoT Chain, we choose special nodes called witness nodes to help maintain the whole transaction order using a decentralized algorithm called PBFT.

In the IoT industry, small payments and transactions occur frequently placing emphasis on transaction confirmation time. By combining DAG and PBFT, we can build a network that satisfies these requirements.

There are people who say that blockchain doesn’t solve real life problems. They think it is too difficult to build a reliable connection between real-world articles and digital information. Therefore, they believe blockchain is not suitable for industries such as the traceability of foods and luxury goods. However, when IoT is combined with blockchain, we have a real chance to solve problems in this industry. IoT can greatly increase the cost for the bad guys to tamper with data. And by using Trusted Execution Environment technology, we can make it very difficult to falsify data. Once the transaction is complete, it is essentially tamperproof.

Q8. What are ITC’s best characteristics? What can investors look forward to in order to drive growth in Q4 2018 and 2019?

One of the goals for this year was to build a strong development team, which we have already accomplished. Besides the release of the main net at the end of this year, we will be offering complete, user-friendly tools for developers. At the same time, we are devoted to building relationships with IoT industry partners. We have already designed solutions for companies in the supply chain and sharing economy industries.

In terms of development in 2019, we will integrate some other technical solutions to scale and optimize the main network, similar to the lightning network for Bitcoin. However, the most important task for 2019 is to build the DApp ecosystem, and to bring more IoT use cases to the IoT Chain network. We will publish our strategy to our partners in the next month in order to establish more powerful relationships, allowing us to build the IoT Chain ecosystem together.

Q9. What are some strategies you guys are implementing to attract investors?

I think the biggest growth strategy is the functioning IoT Chain solution. This is where influencers are incredibly effective. They have the ability to bring a group of people together around that specific use case. And it’s not just individuals. It also attracts new business partners to build new infrastructure together for the future.

Q10. Where will all the IoT device data be stored? On chip? Or on the user/client side?

There are three kinds of storage: local storage, on-chain storage, and distributed storage. Users can choose how to store their data. For very sensitive data, it would make sense to store this offline locally, or encrypt it using a private key on distributed storage. For data generated on the network that will be shared with other parties, it would make sense to store the data on-chain or again through distributed storage systems.

The blockchain itself is not designed to store all of the data. As such, there must be other sources as well including offline and distributed storage.

The data market will function the same, as the method of data storage will only have a small impact on the time to access.

Q11. What is the value of the ITC token in the ecosystem as a whole? What is the logic of appreciation?

In the IoT Chain ecosystem, the ITC token acts as a carrier of value and ownership, exchanged among intelligent devices. Once an ITC-enabled device is connected to the network, users can obtain the right to use that device through the payment of tokens (think sharing economy like Ofo, a popular Chinese bicycle sharing service). These connected devices generate large amounts of data that can be used for AI, machine learning, business analytics and more. Those who want access to the data can purchase it from the users with ITC tokens. As more devices join the network, the demand for ITC tokens grows as people need tokens to facilitate transactions. This is compounded by the demand for the additional data generated. Companies who wish to test and use the IoT Chain network will need to purchase ITC tokens OTC which adds to the demand as well.

Q12. The popularity of the Chinese community is very ordinary. How do you plan to expand the popularity of this community?

Due to regulations out of China, we have spent the past several months focused on the rest of the global community. But we are now starting to shift some of that focus back on the development of our Chinese partners.

(1). We will be holding a series of meetups in mainland China, getting in touch with our investment partners.

(2). We will be joining popular blockchain conferences frequently to promote our technology and development.

(3). We will be cooperating with local media and influencers to update the public on our progress.


Thank you for your support! Be sure to follow our official channels to participate in our next AMA!

Telegram: https://t.me/IoTChain
Reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/iotchain/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IoT_Chain
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IoTChain/

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Thanks for sharing. i totally missed it, but it's good that i can read all the answers now

This network has so much potential, i hope they continue to do the ama's as they got a good response and seems that they are growing, so the more informations and questions they can answer the better the information will spread.

Are their going to be any future AMA's anytime soon guys? I missed this one!

I think the was one recently. We might likely get an update on that soon

ITC has a lovely concept that tends to help solve a critical issue in the IoT industry and i love the fact that users can choose where to store their data

I am more concerned about the ITC chip i read in the whitepaper that ITC OS can run on any device including light bulbs so long it has ITC chip embeded. The AMA session helped explained how it will happen thanks a lot looking forward to the next AMA

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