The Foundation IOTA ensures that you already solved the software problem that had been affecting their clients. According to what I’ve said, this problem caused for 15 hours, the transactions could not be confirmed. Last Sunday, a developer of IOTA discovered a problem in the software. As reported by GitHub, this error in the node resulted in a “state accounting corrupt”. The publication of this developer and user of GitHub, claimed that: “There is an extreme case in which IRI (reference Implementation of IOTA) did not account for a transaction that is shared between two separate packages. Once it is marked as ‘counted’ in a package, was ignored for the next package”. But there was no need for someone to inform the users on that something was wrong, they already had noticed. On the same Sunday, a large number of clients of IOTA reported the problem. The team of the Foundation IOTA responded quickly to the calls of their users, ensuring that he would take care of fix error software. However, it took 15 hours until the situation was completely controlled and users were able to make your transactions normally. In addition to that, IOTA asked its users running on the nodes IRI to provide increased security. These updated to a new software version that corrects the error that caused this situation.
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Founder of IOTA ensures that was a mistake, “minor”
Despite of all the procedure that had to perform to solve the problem, the president of IOTA, David Sønstebø, said that it was a mistake, “minor”. Even he stated that the situation “really is no different from the periods in which the network has been spam and, therefore, transactions (tx) real decreased significantly.” For his part, the vice president of the company, Dominik Schiener, explained by email why he had caused the problem. According to him, everything originated with the “software of the primary node, the primary current”. This means that had nothing to do with the “Coordinator”, a special node operated by the Foundation, responsible for the final confirmation of transactions in the decentralized network of IOTA, known as the Tangle. He also explained that, in future plans, have planned to remove the “Coordinator”. However, this will not be made until it has been tested and fully resolved any possible problem of network with a new update: “Coordicide”. It is important to mention that, after you reported the error, the president of IOTA defended the Foundation and its projects. In particular Coordicide, ensuring that you are on the right track for your implementation, but this will take time. “(…) precisely why Coordicide takes time, you can’t run it until you have resolved all possible problems”. In spite of this, to the critics, IOTA has another big problem: they Tangle. Its nature centralized, for them, which reduces the performance and makes it vulnerable to the network. However, the members of this company continue to believe faithfully in the way that they are doing things, is the best for the future of IOTA. The following two tabs change content below. I am a student of International Studies, interested in new technologies and their impact on the world. A true believer that tenacity is the foundation of success.