IOTA's price increase is due to the blockchain technology approach as well as the project partner. 'The fact that IOTA seems to be from nothingness and then to grow out can only be explained by it, in some way, a giant who is sleeping,' Sonstebo said.
'IOTA solves three basic problems of blockchain - fees, expansion and focus limits - and building projects with partners that are the world's leading companies.'
Blockchain is a huge, decentralized database that records virtual money transactions, making ledgers for all bitcoin transactions. But IOTA's blockchain is different from other blockchain networks, because it uses encrypted blocks.
Blockless ledger inspired by IoT technology allows free transactions.
The world's largest virtual currency, Bitcoin, has faced many criticisms of speed and transaction costs. The market has been required to upgrade to increase the block size as well as the digging speed. Maybe this is also an opportunity for other currencies.
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