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Please do not use comments to answer these questions. This proposal is not part of a Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define what is on and off topic for a site. Comments are here to help improve the questions; not to answer them. See What is the rationale for deleting answers? Thank you. – Robert Cartaino Jun 20 '17 at 12:33

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added by Luca Dionisi Jun 20 '17 at 8:09

<comments removed> Please do not use comments to answer these questions. This proposal is not part of a Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define what is on and off topic for a site. Comments are here to help improve the questions; not to answer them. See What is the rationale for deleting answers? Thank you. – Robert Cartaino Jun 20 '17 at 12:34

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added by Mike Jun 20 '17 at 9:09

IOTA, even though it does not use a "Blockchain", is still built on the same principles. At its core, it's a distributed, append-only database (just like any other distributed ledger / blockchain out there today). As such, you still have to store data locally and you have a database (we use RocksDB). The unique aspect of IOTA is that we do "snapshots", which basically makes it possible to discard the entire history (i.e. delete the database) in a trustless fashion. It's basically aggregating all transactions to an address -> balance map and have the entire network agree on it. – Dominik Schiener Jun 22 '17 at 8:54

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added by luey Jun 20 '17 at 8:40

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added by Luca Dionisi Jun 20 '17 at 8:52

The incentive for running a full node are exactly the same as with any other distributed ledger. You participate in the constant validation of the network and in addition to that, you have no trust requirements when executing a transaction (as is the case with a light node). – Dominik Schiener Jun 22 '17 at 8:57

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added by xula Jun 20 '17 at 8:33

Run full nodes and make transactions. – Dominik Schiener Jun 22 '17 at 8:56

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added by Lewi Jun 20 '17 at 9:22

IOTA uses Winternitz signatures, which are seen as quantum-resistant. See crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/8979/… and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_signature for further discussions. Why is it relevant? Because quantum-computers are imminent, which means that ECC and most of other modern cryptography is broken. – Dominik Schiener Jun 22 '17 at 8:59

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added by Alfred K. Jun 20 '17 at 10:18

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added by luey Jun 20 '17 at 8:43

this question is unprecise. Do you mean "How many transactions per second can the IOTA network process" or "How long does it take to get reasonable confirmation for my tx" – brenzi Jun 21 '17 at 16:03

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added by Luca Dionisi Jun 20 '17 at 8:58

Why do you think this is not a valid question? It seems to me that many users on our Slack ask exactly this. If this question is not upvoted I can remove it and add another one: please comment instead of simply downvoting. – Luca Dionisi Jun 20 '17 at 13:09

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added by meinhard Jun 20 '17 at 9:06

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added by osoleole Jun 20 '17 at 22:01

We are working on something like that on two ends, for one by enabling interoperability with other Blockchains (such as Ethereum and Rootstock), and for another with our new oracle platform you will be able to achieve something very similarly. – Dominik Schiener Jun 22 '17 at 9:03

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added by Luca Dionisi Jun 20 '17 at 8:13

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added by bluedigits Jun 20 '17 at 8:22

<comments removed> @toruKazama Please do not use comments to answer these questions. This proposal is not part of a Q&A site, and the task at hand is to help define what is on and off topic for a site. Comments are here to ask for clarification or otherwise help improve the post; not to answer the "example questions". See What is the rationale for deleting answers? Thank you. – Robert Cartaino Jun 20 '17 at 16:46

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added by Luca Dionisi Jun 20 '17 at 8:25

	Have a look here: iotasupport.com/whatisiota.shtml There you can find also some other information about IOTA. – TylerDurden Jun 20 '17 at 23:48
	More of a google and see it at the top question rather than a good Q&A question. – Helmar Jun 21 '17 at 22:12

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added by luey Jun 20 '17 at 9:27

The answer would be the first google result. Not a good Q&A question. – Helmar Jun 21 '17 at 21:30

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added by meinhard Jun 20 '17 at 9:30

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added by meinhard Jun 20 '17 at 9:34

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added by luey Jun 20 '17 at 9:37

In what regard? Available iotas? Possible transactions at the same time? Speed? Number of nodes? – Helmar Jun 21 '17 at 21:33

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added by Mike Jun 20 '17 at 9:40

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added by luey Jun 20 '17 at 9:41

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added by bluedigits Jun 20 '17 at 10:29

How about asking "Why does iota not need to reach a consensus" ? – Helmar Jun 21 '17 at 22:08

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added by AronVanAmmers Jun 20 '17 at 11:54

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added by AronVanAmmers Jun 20 '17 at 11:57

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added by Alfred K. Jun 20 '17 at 13:09

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added by Alfred K. Jun 20 '17 at 13:26

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added by Mark Bradshaw Jun 20 '17 at 14:01

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added by bitofagoob Jun 20 '17 at 14:08

Duplicate: area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/110603/iota/… – Helmar Jun 21 '17 at 21:32

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added by Blumudus Blog Jun 20 '17 at 15:08

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added by user173848 Jun 20 '17 at 17:29

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added by user173848 Jun 20 '17 at 17:36

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added by osoleole Jun 20 '17 at 22:09

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added by noxyal Jun 20 '17 at 22:36

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added by Frere Daran Jun 20 '17 at 22:40

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added by feux Jun 21 '17 at 8:30

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added by brenzi Jun 21 '17 at 15:39

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added by TILuigi Jun 20 '17 at 8:54

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added by meinhard Jun 20 '17 at 8:55

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added by AronVanAmmers Jun 20 '17 at 12:05

Asking for example use cases is not helpful (cf meta.stackexchange.com/a/66378/338924); If you asked Why employs iota masked ... that would be an interesting question. – Helmar Jun 21 '17 at 21:50