IOTA Demystified

Is a memorable sentence a safe IOTA seed?

Here’s one that I get asked more often, and there’s a lot of nonsense ‘wisdom’ about it out there, so I am doing the calculations for you.

Here is the initial hurdle for anyone trying a seed: you will need to convert the seed into…

How IOTA addresses are generated from seeds.

A seed and an address are both 81 trytes long. That means that in the best case…

IOTA vs DCI, or how an innocent hash collision became a huge ego collision

This article describes my view on the IOTA vs DCI situation and explores why I would happily use Curl to secure IOTA.

Help! My IOTA balance is zero!

(Steps to help you find your balance after a snapshot)

This is the latest incarnation of an article I wrote around the time of the October 2017 snapshot. I had been helping so many people find their balance again that I decided that my time would be…

IOTA cheques: sending iotas anywhere without requiring a receive address

Limiting the overlap of IOTA signatures when double spending

IOTA deep linking: A proposal for standard deep links to increase IOTA wallet UX

This article explores how we can use deep linking to invoke specific functionality in the IOTA wallets in a standardized way.

What are deep links?

Best practices for using the IOTA light wallet safely

IOTA is a protocol designed for use by IoT devices. These devices will happily follow any rules to use the protocol strictly, optimally and safe. Sadly, humans are not so good at following rules -if they know them at all- and they often…