What Comes Next for IOTA Following the Multi-week Shutdown?

Many cryptocurrency enthusiasts are wondering how things will progress for IOTA. Following an outage of nearly three weeks, the coming weeks may prove crucial for this ecosystem. Shutting down a financial system for nearly three weeks is always unacceptable. Is There a Future for IOTA? This is especially true in the cryptocurrency world, where decentralization … Read more

IOTA Network Down for 11 Days – Devs Claim Mainnet Will Be Operational Next Month

The IOTA network has been down for approximately 11 days and the IOTA Foundation doesn’t expect the mainnet to be reactivated until March 2. On February 14, our newsdesk reported on the beginnings of the IOTA outage, when the network status page indicated that it was down. The page still warns IOTA’s mainnet is “not … Read more

What is the IOTA Academy?

It is pertinent for individual cryptocurrency projects to keep evolving. Especially when it comes to getting more developers excited about certain ecosystems, no efforts should be spared. The IOTA Foundation has recently unveiled its IOTA Academy., which is designed to accelerate the development of this ecosystem There are also three different course formats to choose … Read more

Ion Is a Tangle-Based, Decentralized Version of Skype

Peer-to-peer communication is very difficult to achieve without centralized companies. Skype was originally designed to be such a tool, yet it is fully controlled by Microsoft these days. Ion aims to be different, as it is entirely based on IOTA’s Tangle for decentralized P2P communication. Ion Merges Skype With IOTA One has to commend blockchain … Read more

IOTA Tangle Transactions Nosedive as Spammers Create Parasite Chains

IOTA Foundation Head, Lewis Freiberg, attempted to explain alleged scalability and transaction issues at the project. The world’s number 9 cryptocurrency by market capitalization is under some pressure to clarify why its answer to traditional blockchain technology, the Tangle, is increasingly having to deal with spammers who create parasite chains or ‘Side Tangles.’    Also … Read more