I was speaking about byteball at a meetup tonight and i was told that it is inspired by iota. I can see iota is referenced in the whitepaper. So i am assuming the statement was correct. What makes it different. Im sorry if this has been asked before. perhaps you can point me in the right direction to learn more.
While I have outed myself as a massive FANBOY of Byteball I want some basic information availabe to everyone. I would point out that your meetup is a good representation at the current level
of awareness.
There may at some point arrive hard pissing matches who was the first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graphThe concept is as you can see ... older.
It is hard to say who started development first.
Iota was the first to announce their project.
Byteball was first to arrive on marketplace.
Here you can look at some of the early mostly impartial or partially partisan writeups which are only somewhat outdated:
mostly impartial but be aware that tangleblog has a "buy Iota" written on its front page.
http://www.tangleblog.com/2017/01/03/byteball-vs-iota-token/ with related discussion
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/honest-comparison-of-iota-vs-byteball-1888773byteball partisan
https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@jimmco/byteball-vs-iota-battle-of-two-dag-cryptocurrenciesHere is another discussion the Iota reddit had on the topic of comparision
https://www.reddit.com/r/Iota/comments/6l06su/iota_vs_byteball/you can use it to contrast the previous two articles.
Takehome messages here is for example that "Byteball 1% premine" vs. "IOTA 5% Devfund" are again partisan statements.
Portabella (one of the byteball witenesses) wrote the following summary:
https://byteroll.com/comparison-iotaIf i can add my 2 cents to the current situation:
Both are independent projects. So comparisions are a bit ... funky.
Iota is a full funded ICO "foundation driven" investment vehicle with a 'mostly' clear cut specific (read: limited) usecase in mind.
It has made a lot of people alot of money and expect that any attack on it is an attack on them. Most of the links I have
given you are from Iota related webpages. They discuss the issue alot more than the Byteball community.
Byteball is a community driven ambitious young fresh take on what a Cryptographic Project can be and is currently
bootstrapping itself into existance. It has a long way ahead of itself and the projects I have seen myself convinced me
to take a strong stand in it. Future is already here, it is being distributed as we speak and more independent development is
in several chaotic pipelines. We can see what sticks. And we can get it done without running after any ICO maddness.
I cant express enough how much i appreciate your thorough explanation. Thank you very much.
I guess the issue i have now that i see the reality is that yes i agree, i love that this project is community driven and not ICO driven. Because ICO driven fanboys usually blindly follow the money. In short, his comment also suggested that iota first came up with "DAG" which given the thread i was shown, it seems is a false statement to accredit iota.
Cheers for your direction and guidance and yes it seems that IOTA are the ones more concerned about the comparison. He seemed really eager to stop my talk and suggest his ideas on IOTA being the inspiration to Byteball.
Oh well, now i know.
