goshimmer VS hornet

I highly recommend searching for "IOTA 2.0 devnet" - it's a *public* test net running for an year with a new OTV consensus entirely without Coordinator. This is the result of literally years of research (link to research papers: https://www.iota.org/foundation/research-papers ). This is the exact link to the git repo of IOTA 2.0 devnet node software: https://github.com/iotaledger/goshimmer The purpose of Shimmer is to test out these solutions (that already exist) in a real live network - Coordicide will land on Shimmer in a series of modules, which should start happening in the next few months.

Goshinmer: https://wiki.iota.org/goshimmer/welcome

Who cares about discord and twitter. He is working even on weekends. https://github.com/iotaledger/goshimmer/commit/3e27a8cb7f128c67244c3d44914b62c078febbd1

That's exactly what the iota foundation is doing, they have built a network where there are no blocks, no commission fees, no miners, the protocol is leaderless, everyone can write on the ledger with their own node. Essentially the network is not competitive (miners trying to mine the block first) but contributory, like bittorrent. Notable fact about congestion, the network exchanges messages that can be only data or economic transactions, the exchange of messages is so fluid that they had to implement a complete congestion protocol in the node with algorithms similar to the TCP layer and a message scheduler. If you're interested in learning more about the technical side, here's a link to their wiki. https://wiki.iota.org/goshimmer/welcome

GOSHIMMER (Coordicide Testnet)

As far as the IOTA ecosystem as whole, we primarily use Rust. Go is being used for prototyping IOTA 2.0 with the GoShimmer node along with some other projects I believe, but Rust is used in the main ones (e.g. client libraries (iota.rs and wallet.rs), Streams, Identity).

[GoShimmer 0.8](https://github.com/iotaledger/goshimmer/releases/tag/v0.8.0) is now out, which means that a working prototype of the final "OnTangleVoting" consensus mechanism is now running on the DevNet.

-CLI: https://github.com/iotaledger/goshimmer/releases

The most popular IOTA node software is HORNET (https://github.com/gohornet/hornet) in case you want to give it a try ;-)

The Coordinator has been restarted and milestones are now being issued. Community nodes will need to update to Hornet 1.1.3 or make the configuration change shown in the release notes: https://github.com/gohornet/hornet/releases/tag/v1.1.3

If you are using our APT repository (stable), run sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade to update to the latest version. We also did a lot of code cleanup, see the release notes https://github.com/gohornet/hornet/releases/tag/v1.0.5 @hornet

IOTA has technically always been open source as there was an open source, official coordinator you could run in your own tangle.

I'm currently running a Hornet node on a Raspberry Pi 4. Just make sure to install a 64bit OS on it and you should be good to go. I installed Ubuntu server for example. You can easily install it via APT. Here you can see the repo: https://github.com/gohornet/hornet

Which you can find here: https://github.com/gohornet/hornet

Wget the Hornet_Linux_ARM64 from github (currently https://github.com/gohornet/hornet/releases/download/v0.5.6/HORNET-0.5.6_Linux_ARM64.tar.gz)