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🚀P R E M I E R E📷

Now #IOTA payments via @MosquitoPay are possible.

Be part of the first #IOTApayments in the ecosystem in a real #webshop.

Be one of the first 5 #testers to use @iota and enjoy a 50% #discount on one bottle @Crypto_Gin21 🍸

Next step: @shimmernet payments.

[Crypto-Gin @Crypto_Gin21]

🚀The time has come!🌟
Now accepting #IOTA payments via @MosquitoPay on our webshop
https://t.co/LCnRznvzKy
Be one of the first 5 testers to use IOTA and enjoy a 50% discount on one bottle Crypto-Gin🍾
Use code "MOSQUITOPAY" at checkout.
Don't miss out and Cheers🍸

@DomSchiener

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@_einundzwanzig_ Nice

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@_einundzwanzig_ @KainerWeissmann Nice

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Nice, @hus_qy.

[Hans Moog @hus_qy]

Thank you so much for the warm welcome - I can not express how excited I am to work with Kaspa!

It is one of the few projects in the space that intuitively understands the value proposition that Satoshi Nakamoto brought to the table and that is willing to go the extra mile to deliver on the original promise of crypto to create a truly decentralized and unstoppable network that would survive even in the most adverse scenarios.

Instead of delegating the task of maintaining the ledger to a small number of highly specialized actors (gradually excluding everybody else), Kaspa is committed to creating a network where anybody can participate and run a node.

I have to admit that I was initially not sure if I even wanted to stay in the crypto space as it felt like the entire space was slowly pivoting away from the ideals and values that once fascinated me so much, but after talking to people like @hashdag, @michaelsuttonil and a large number of really brilliant people that are already involved with the project, I realized that this original vision is far from dead.

Instead of endless discussions there was a feeling of mutual understanding and a shared fascination with DAG based systems that in my opinion capture the very essence of how our world functions at its most fundamental level.

I am absolutely amazed by the amount of talent and expertise that is already present in the project and what is even more fascinating is how the project managed to attract such an incredible amount of talent starting as a complete grass-roots movement without any form of VC backing or extensive funding.

It feels like the entire team and community is comprised of people that really care about creating a technology that could potentially serve as a settlement layer for all of humanity.

Kaspa is destined to prove to the world that performance, security, robustness and openness don't have to be mutually exclusive features of a DLT but can be combined into a single L1 by leveraging insights of years of research.

Instead of being the first, there is real value in doing things right and trying to be the best - let's prove to the world that true decentralization not only matters but is superior to any form of benevolent dictatorship!

If you want to collaborate or contribute - please reach out to me here on X or via e-mail at: [email protected]

[DLT.GREEN® 💚 @dlt_green]

#DLTGREEN #INFRA #DLT #IOTA #IOTARebased #Decentralization

Our validator is more than just a service,
it's a commitment to the community:

->

[Hans Moog @hus_qy]

Since there were a lot of comments to my last post and I cannot really answer all of them individually, I want to take the time to reply to the most common remarks / questions in a separate thread.

1. When I said that we were informed about this decision a few weeks before being done with IOTA 2.0, I meant the time in march shortly before releasing IOTA 2.0 in april earlier this year.

2. Would it be an option to roll out IOTA 2.0 on shimmer instead? I proposed and asked for exactly that back in march but was told that the IF had no interest in pursuing or supporting that direction.

Considering that we haven't worked on the code for several months and lost a number of people that were part of the team that built IOTA 2.0, I don't think that this is any longer a viable option (we simply lost too much time). It would take time to get back into the flow and the remaining tasks are also mostly touching on things like adjusting the wallet + tooling and integrating the Move VM which can hardly be done by a few people on the side.

3. I am not sure why the IF stated that it would take 2-3 years to integrate an existing VM as the original estimates I heard in january this year were closer to one year and it sounds somewhat unreasonable to assume that integrating existing code would take longer than the entire research and development of our own node software (and the time should be measured from the point of time where we stopped working on our code and not from the point of time where we made this decision public).

4. I think that the community should approve the vote as we simply can not afford to lose more time. If this decision would have been discussed in march, I would have voted for a different option but now there isn't really a choice.

5. If the community is serious about the idea of continuing Shimmer on their own in the pursuit of the original vision of IOTA, then a better option might be to actually build on top of IOTA's cleaned-up SUI fork.

Rust is the better programming language and integrating a simplified version of IOTAs consensus into the SUI code base could actually be done by a small team with a limited amount of time and resources. Being able to piggy-back on the developments of both IOTA and SUI, would allow the network to stay competitive in respect to features without requiring a huge treasury or being constrained by the fact that things might take longer as people are only able to work on this on the side.

6. However, people need to be aware that once this work would be completed, it could easily be copied by both SUI and IOTA, which means that it would maybe make more sense to actually work on this as a community project for IOTA that explores the possibility of a future protocol upgrade that replaces the existing consensus mechanism with something that supports liveness via ebb-and flow + the eventual possibility for users to add blocks directly to the replicated datastructure again (I think liveness should be the main focus for now if people really care about a DAG that doesn't halt as this is the only thing where blockchains are still superior).

This would most probably be my favored option as it not only shows that the community takes the promise of the project becoming decentralized (and therefore open to outside contributions) serious, but it would also prevent the splitting of efforts and communities across multiple projects while leaving room for the possibility to eventually return to previous ideals in the future (if shown to be practically feasible within the context of the current codebase).

I am not sure if such a community driven engineering effort would be embraced by the IF as there are already ongoing efforts to improve certain aspects of the existing consensus mechanism but it would surely send a strong message about not only the quality and strength of our community but also about its commitment to crypto ideals.

Let's not forget that Hornet (our previous mainnet node) originally also started as a community project. Maybe it is time for the community to reconsider their role in this entire endavour and take back some responsibility - not by rejecting the path forward out of protest or by getting bitter, but by taking initiative and by trying to think about ways to constructively work together to propose tangible solutions for possible protocol improvements that can then be considered to be integrated into the protocol.

Let's just try to make IOTA a success instead of dwelling on negative thoughts - that's really the only thing that matters as software can always be updated and improved over time (and you actually no longer need the approval of the IF to build things - that's the beauty of permissionless innovation).

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@DomSchiener Customized immutable #web3‌‌ ID-Management solutions on IOTA #EVM, see MVP:

https://t.co/QLA5LuXulm

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👀

[IOTA Deutsch @IOTA_Deutsch]

Wir haben der Community versprochen Ende Oktober gemeinsam mit ihr auf Iota zu schauen, dieses versprechen lösen wir am 25.10.24 um 17 Uhr ein.
Das ganze findet im https://t.co/EYucSJggCd
statt.
Wir freuen uns auf anregende Gespräche.
Sei live dabei!
#Iota #IotaEVM

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👀

[Tanglebeast @tanglebeasts]

The first little insight into the upcoming Tanglebeast NFT marketplace👀

Once it’s live everyone will receive all their Soonaverse NFTs automatically on IOTA EVM🤝

$BEAST is playing a significant role in this universe🪙

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@WilfiCon @DomSchiener @WilfiCon
IOTA 2.0 should be backward-compatible with IOTA Stardust, the latest running system.

If not, to be honest, switching to another EVM is an option. This is what our partners in the industry want: predictability.

Today, we use the #IOTAEVM and develop smart contracts.

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@MAdolf13 @DomSchiener Agree.
Our solutions set an impact in the industry with offering real value.

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@zel_ulose It's about the IOTA community and its latest happenings.

The spoken word is German, FYI.

Best regards

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Es lohnt sich hineinzuhören 💯

[IOTA Deutsch @IOTA_Deutsch]

Wir haben der Community versprochen Ende Oktober gemeinsam mit ihr auf Iota zu schauen, dieses versprechen lösen wir am 25.10.24 um 17 Uhr ein.
Das ganze findet im https://t.co/EYucSJggCd
statt.
Wir freuen uns auf anregende Gespräche.
Sei live dabei!
#Iota #IotaEVM

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@Crypto_Gin21 Wir wären gerne dabei gewesen.
Das nächste Mal hoffentlich.

[DLT.GREEN® 💚 @dlt_green]

https://t.co/s8B0MX5Xx2 official project status update:
I have been working in critical infrastructure for more than 20 years in the field of high quality road construction. That is why I have been supporting IOTA as an investor since 2017. We have always tried to solve problems brought to us by the community. In the beginning, the problem was with people's domains, so we just gave them subdomains. Yes, it is clear that this was not the most secure option, but it was the easiest way to let people play with the nodes. There are now some https://t.co/s8B0MX5Xx2 OGs that I really appreciate, recognisable by these https://t.co/s8B0MX5Xx2 domains. Basically we used the Nuriel script to install in the beginning, which worked great at the time, and later SWARM because it was easy to install all the nodes on one server and you had a cool dashboard. When the dashboard went away and some people missed it, we decided to create our own overview. That was the birth of the NodePool, which to this day tracks, rates and ranks all nodes and gives each node a vote and a value.

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@HolgerKoether @GoogleAI ChatGPT:
Most used prompts are
"check for grammar and style" (German, English).

And

"Translate every input automatically into the language XYZ": it runs amazingly great as instant translator.

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Sadly,
some honest,
self-motivated and optimistic
projects do NOT get the support they deserve.

Really sad.

[DLT.GREEN® 💚 @dlt_green]

https://t.co/s8B0MX5Xx2 official project status update:
I have been working in critical infrastructure for more than 20 years in the field of high quality road construction. That is why I have been supporting IOTA as an investor since 2017. We have always tried to solve problems brought to us by the community. In the beginning, the problem was with people's domains, so we just gave them subdomains. Yes, it is clear that this was not the most secure option, but it was the easiest way to let people play with the nodes. There are now some https://t.co/s8B0MX5Xx2 OGs that I really appreciate, recognisable by these https://t.co/s8B0MX5Xx2 domains. Basically we used the Nuriel script to install in the beginning, which worked great at the time, and later SWARM because it was easy to install all the nodes on one server and you had a cool dashboard. When the dashboard went away and some people missed it, we decided to create our own overview. That was the birth of the NodePool, which to this day tracks, rates and ranks all nodes and gives each node a vote and a value.

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@GarrettBullish, fully correct.

[Garrett @GarrettBullish]

Big thank you and respect! https://t.co/e4ShDhwD25 provides one of the most important infrastructure services free at the highest standard. It’s disappointing to see builders that have proven their value and faith in the ecosystem are not getting any support

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@HolgerKoether and @KimmoNurmisto,
Have a good time there.
Enjoy the wheather and the great mindsets you are going to meet.

[Holger Köther ✨ @HolgerKoether]

GM Bali! My first day (& coffee 🖤) after arriving in Bali, to join the @XFounders_camp, with @KimmoNurmisto and @HAVN_network.

More founders are arriving by the hour and first decorations for the event are already underway. @beincrypto is already setup 👀

I'm excited to share exclusive behind-the-scenes snapshots daily, offering you sneak peeks and insider glimpses 😉 into the preparations and atmosphere over the next month. Stay tuned! 🤫📸

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@lemalive @ProfRieck ✨ @lemalive der Vortrag war spitze.

Es lohnt sich live vor Ort zu sein, denn Fragen aus dem Publikum werden 1a beantwortet.

✨ Wir hatten nämlich das Vergnügen