IOTA Fixes 'Minor' Network Bug Following 15-Hour Mainnet Downtime

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The IOTA Foundation said it has resolved a software bug that prevented transactions from confirming on the IOTA network for 15 hours.

According to a GitHub submission from an IOTA developer Sunday night UTC, a bug in the node software created a "Corrupt ledger state."

Users first reported the problem on Sunday, which took IOTA's engineering team some 15 hours to fix.

IOTA founder David Sønstebø said the bug was "Minor" and "It's really no different from periods where the network has been spammed and thus real tx slowed down significantly".

IOTA has asked users running IRI nodes to update to a new software version that patches the bug.

IOTA's co-founder Dominik Schiener said in an email the issue originated with the "Current primary mainnet node software" and had nothing to do with the Coordinator, a special node that's operated by the Foundation, which is responsible for the final confirmation of transactions on IOTA's decentralized network, known as the Tangle.

Following reports on the bug in the network on Sunday, Sønstebø defended the current set-up, arguing this was "Precisely why Coordicide takes time, one can't execute it until all possible kinks have been ironed out."

The IOTA Foundation designed Tangle as a transaction platform for new internet of things initiatives.

The Taiwanese capital of Taipei partnered with IOTA in early 2018 to test a new tamper-proof citizen identification system.

In April 2019, Jaguar Land Rover revealed it was trialling an incentive scheme to reward drivers who reported road condition data with iota tokens.

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