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Story: IOTA Blockchain Lets start the Engine – Next Stop Mars and the Digital Green Certificate

By James Thorp

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The new IOTA transaction format introduced with Chrysalis can carry a payload of up to 32 KB.

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Someone who read this information stated:  What does this mean? Don’t understand the value in this information.

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Another community member clarified stating, well it's just a lot of data.  I think an Ethereum transaction is like 220 bytes, and this is 32768 bytes.

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Some of them were left wondering:  That's a lot of data for a transaction.  As long as it scales, I'm fine with it.

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Further clarification was like most of it will be encrypted data so you can't read it anyway. Scaling is pov.

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There was also some confusion with regards to this information:  The header says 32kB (kilobyte), but in the graph it says 32kb (kilobit) - which one is it?

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Others in the community who were not too technically sound were simply like Lets start the Engine – Next Stop Mars.

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IOTA spoke about the Digital Green Certificates, which try to be an answer to queries like:  what is the best way to allow people to travel again, given the restrictions…

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Several governments are waiting to take a position and others are analyzing and testing to identify the best solutions which the market has to offer.

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The aim of this certificate is to provide for safe and free movement of citizens within the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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This certificate will further enable the travelers to avoid the otherwise applicable quarantine restrictions and therefore freely move between the EU Member States.

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