February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 58m
English
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Iota GitHub analysis
If you go to GitHub and search for Iota, you will get to a page that links the repositories of Iota cryptocurrency. The GitHub page of Iota consists of three main repositories, namely wallet, Iota reference implementation (IRI), and Iota JavaScript library. Figure 11.9 depicts these repositories:
Figure 11.9: Iota GitHub (https://github.com/iotaledger)
Among these three repositories, IRI is the most interesting repository. So what is IRI? It is a reference implementation of the Iota protocol. Much like bitcoin, Iota is also a protocol operating on a DAG-based database called Tangle and not on a blockchain. Now, IRI represents ...