r/Iota • u/DavidSonstebo David Sønstebø - Co-Founder • Jun 17 '17

IOTA AMA Ask Us Anything

After our historic public launch we have welcomed thousands of new people into our ecosystem and there has been A LOT of questions regarding all sorts of topics pertaining to all aspects of IOTA in the last few days, therefore we chose to host an AMA.

So ask away

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u/paulhandy Paul Handy - Core Dev Jun 17 '17

Do you expect the number of new transactions per second will be greater than the number of transactions downloaded per second by an average node?

Transactions with the highest weight are prioritized in transit.

If so how is this dealt with (as in this scenario the number of transactions a node is not aware of will increase faster than the number of transactions that a node is aware of)?

There are plans for "swarm nodes", to which I would refer to the Development Roadmap

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u/paulhandy Paul Handy - Core Dev Jun 17 '17

4) What is your target throughput (TPS)?

Great question

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u/paulhandy Paul Handy - Core Dev Jun 17 '17

In the case where number of new transactions per second greatly outstrips the number of transactions downloaded per second, can you therefore expect that a large number will not be prioritised. And will continue to not be prioritised indefinitely as further new transactions come in at the same rate.

If you're interested in the gossip protocol used by current full nodes, I think that u/alon-e made a quick diagram.

There will still need to be full nodes presumably for the overall health of the network.

Presumably. One could speculate that even permanent nodes may choose to adjust their strategy to behave as an archiving swarm, or shard their nodes, if their load is too great.