Re: Quantum


Can signatures themselves actually do the trick?   

They're going with Lamport as opposed to Winternitz...   not that I know what any of that means of course...   lol   

I kind of figured that out because the one-time thing was mentioned, but, can one actually get the job done by just using a signature scheme?

Bitcoin and other blockchain-based crypto-currencies do not easily scale to process a high throughput of transactions, or to quickly approve individual transactions. When block creation rates and block sizes are accelerated, networking delays cause many conflicts to occur and the security of the protocol quickly degrades.

We present a new "chainless'' protocol for the consensus core of crypto-currencies that remains secure even when delays are substantial. During the talk, we will present various attacks and naive attempts to solve them that slowly develop and lead to our current approach.

Much like IOTA.

What's the exact name for this chainless protocol, dag?

Really interesting, they talk about DAG too!

So in different places of the world the idea of DAG start to appear at the end of 2015.

It's extremly importand to launch iota in January - the winner takes it all.
Everyone knew who was the first man on the moon... but majority don't remember who was the second one.  

The paper was presented at Scaling bitcoin in English. Probably easy to find on youtube but I don't have a link. Though from my recollection of the talk, the slides pretty much cover it.

EDIT: here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fst1IK_mrngt=9949

The page45 of the PowerPont mentions what is still missing for their POC -

Interesting article with Marc Andreessen's thoughts on IoT:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/12050185/Marc-Andreessen-In-20-years-every-physical-item-will-have-a-chip-implanted-in-it.html