Some community related updates:
- We are currently working on resolving some of the issues related to the recent stresstest, which has lead to less than optimal confirmation rates and times. We are assisting some of the exchanges in reducing their backlog and should have everything normal soon. If you want to assist here: all full node providers please make sure to remove "bad neighbors" and instead look for new ones. More instructions soon. This right now has top priority internally.

- The users who had to do the reclaim process, we will be back on schedule soon with releasing those funds. We've been caught up with some unrelated work (exchanges + launch of a new product), and didn't want to rush anything, considering how security critical this is. More updates soon.

David Sønstebø [3:03 PM]


The IOTA Data Marketplace is announced

https://twitter.com/iotatoken/status/935508864530878465

Dominik Schiener [3:27 PM]
https://datum.iota.org is now live. Keep in mind that this is a *real life demo*, so all the transactions are happening on IOTA in real time from your browser. Things can break, but lets see where this experiment will go 😉

Huge shoutout to the IOTA team that has made this possible: @lewi @th0br0 @chrisd @alon.elmaliah. 🎉 :clapping:

Dominik Schiener [8:42 PM]
As a final announcement of the day (I hope): The IOTA Stackexchange is *finally* live! This will truly open up new possibility for ease of access to information surrounding IOTA, especially for developers.

https://iota.stackexchange.com

@DomSchiener on Twitter

1/ Really happy to be able to finally say that our Data Marketplace initiative has launched (http://data.iota.org ).The launch is only the first step in this massive, globally collaborative project. I will give you a quick dive into what to expect over the next few weeks #IOTA

2/ First and foremost, this is a public, real life demonstration. Everyone that visits the website, is assigned a wallet can with that start making payments directly to the sensors for their data.

3/ Because of the huge potential of the data marketplace, together with a few partners, we will be doing "thought leadership", where we outline the concrete use cases and business models for different industries (Energy, Mobility, Supply chain, Industry 4.0) and more.

4/ Apart from the corporate focus, the goal is to make this a true global, collaborative effort. We will be releasing the API and instructions on how to participate in December, this means that anyone with a sensor can start contributing to this experiment.

5/ In Berlin, we will work together with a partner on setting up a LoRaWAN network coupled to the marketplace. So if you're in Berlin and have a LoRa sensor: great, you can now sell your data!

6/ With the API, people will be able to build applications on top of it. We encourage the community to let your imagination run free and start building awesome prototypes with the marketplace. All of this will be ended with a big, global (virtual) hackathon in March.

7/ As one of the most requested end results: we will be publishing a report on the data marketplace itself, the limitations and some of the open technical and legal challenges. GDPR will be a big topic here.

8/ With all of this, we hope to launch a production ready marketplace in 2018, and are already now working with selected hardware providers on integrating MAM in their SDK's.

9/ As a final word: interoperability is everything! With IOTA, and with this marketplace, we hope that we enable application developers to use various technologies (Ethereum, Hyperledger, etc.) to solve existing problems and work towards scalable, production ready apps.