Billy Sanders

I am the Director of Research at the IOTA Foundation. My background is in pure math, specifically commutative algebra and category theory.

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

Our comms department has suggested that I begin tweeting again...

So, I suppose it makes for me to tell people about this video I did explaining how IOTA 2.0 works. IF you have questions, join our discord for an AMA tomorrow at 6:00 CET
https://t.co/kSpO4GcBVN

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

@hus_qy @nonamedsd123420 @navinram999 We would be remiss if we did not study the implications of either option, even if we do not pursue one.

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

@hus_qy @nonamedsd123420 @navinram999 want to clarify here. As with any delegation system, we would like to incentivize token holders to pledge consensus mana. Obviously, this involves rewarding behavior with something: the choices really are either mana or IOTA tokens....

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

With all the excitement of last week's Nectar release, another significant achievement may have been over looked: we released the research specs! Now anyone can learn how the protocol works in detail https://t.co/4TqWIIEAj2

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

Einstein purportedly said that if you cant explain something, then you dont understand it. So I wrote a simple explantation of the #IOTA 2.0 protocol! https://t.co/cf6OsUDHHH

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

The Nectar wallet for the IOTA 2.0 DevNet is out! Go have some fun making your own tokens :) https://t.co/W4M0rJ4otV

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

After a lot of work, we completed the IOTA 2.0 DevNet (Nectar) -our research prototype- and also finished a draft of the research specifications!! Now a decentralized version of #IOTA is running with all the key experimental components operational! https://t.co/xdxmnyPKD0

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

This post explains mana through a series of rich analogies. Its a great read for all audiences!

[IOTA @iota]

Decentralization within the #IOTA network is enabled through #mana. Mana protects the network against Sybil attacks.

Too complicated? With the help of a community member, we got you covered with a (mostly) non-technical blog explaining how mana works: https://t.co/Z5J7T2ZmOH

[IOTA @iota]

The path towards full decentralization with #IOTA 2.0. Years of peer-reviewed research together with our academic partners is coming to life with the upcoming launch of the IOTA 2.0 DevNet.

Feeless + Scalable + Decentralized = IOTA 2.0

It’s happening! https://t.co/OemWZ0NZZP

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

The paper "Utility maximization in the Coordinator-less #IOTA Tangle" won the best paper award at the Unet2021 networking conference. Congrats to the authors on a great paper! https://t.co/n8AjWZTV52

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

Yesterday I spoke at the Wolfram Blockchain Center's conference on DLTs and Distributed Consensus and Cellular Automata. It was a fascinating event with lots of great speakers! My talk is at 4:03:00.
https://t.co/kPx2BYJK17

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

The #IOTA congestion control algorithm is now implemented into GoShimmer! This is a novel piece of technology in the DLT space. Soon we will be able to release Nectar! https://t.co/ofVBnxGRpw

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

Do you remember when I solicited questions for me to answer? Well, I have finally answered them :) https://t.co/wSxy5ZqNjt

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

@mthcl_crypto wrote the following piece, which excellently explains a central tenet of the #IOTA research department. https://t.co/mhWxTGOnxS

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

In the long march toward the new decentralized economy, the leather jackets and the lab coats will walk side by side, argues mathematician and researcher Serguei Popov. https://t.co/Ob8kxdVYQ9

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

I recently met the amazing professor Claudio Tessone at @uzh_blockchain, who will teach an international #blockchain summer course. With such a provocative teacher, I encourage any eligible students to apply! Also, the #IOTA Foundation will speak there too.https://t.co/EzPF3ijfdP

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

Good News Everybody! We are hiring a new research scientist! Maybe I will finally have more time to think more about sharding :) https://t.co/N6tdN0cHrf

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

We've been busy bees this last month trying to get all the coordicide components implemented into the test net. Nectar is nigh! https://t.co/NNO3MepsWf

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

@godblessallkids That was a "silent release" where we just fix some bugs.

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

Before Easter, we actually had a new Pollen release, implementing mana into FPC and Autopeering. We can now actually test byzantine behavior during double spends! Sorry for not tweeting sooner... https://t.co/bN38Y49SPw

[Billy Sanders @BillySandersIF]

Initially, we considered using CA in coordicide, but since CA is beastly complicated we opted for FPC. This fall, we funded research to tame this CA beast with physics: using temperature to introduce random fluctuations to break metastable states. https://t.co/7AiOfUSW4d