Billy Sanders (@billysandersif) 's Twitter Profile
Billy Sanders

@billysandersif

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

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Despite the lock down, I finally managed to get a haircut! Now I can make a video where I answer questions about Coordicide. Ask me anything in the link below: #AskTheExperts: iota.stackexchange.com

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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... blog.iota.org/pollen-testnet…

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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. blog.iota.org/research-grant…

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We've been busy bees this last month trying to get all the coordicide components implemented into the test net. Nectar is nigh! blog.iota.org/iota-research-…

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Good News Everybody! We are hiring a new research scientist! Maybe I will finally have more time to think more about sharding :) iota.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?…

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Do you remember when I solicited questions for me to answer? Well, I have finally answered them :) youtube.com/watch?v=DZHrl6…

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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! blog.iota.org/explaining-the…

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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. youtube.com/watch?v=cS4u-V…

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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! researchgate.net/publication/34…

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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! blog.iota.org/path-towards-f…

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! blog.iota.org/path-towards-f…
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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! blog.iota.org/iotav2devnet/

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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! blog.iota.org/fully-decentra…

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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 blog.iota.org/iota-2-0-resea…

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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 youtube.com/watch?v=4087BF…