IOTA Beta Testing Reveals Node Is 6X Faster Than Bitcoin

The IOTA Beta testing results show that the IOTA nodes are 6 times faster than the ones of Bitcoin as we are reading in the IOTA news today.

The lightweight node of IOTA known as the Hornet has been under a lot of tests and the tests revealed that the network can process over 40 TPS which is almost 6 times the speed of Bitcoin and 3 times the speed of Ethereum. This remarks huge progress for the network and the supporters can’t wait to express their optimism and can’t wait to see how this will turn out for IOTA to strengthen its position as a true Internet-of-Things-platform that will be scalable, feeless and decentralized.

The Hornet was developed by a few different programming systems and released by the IOTA Foundation in December 2019. The idea was to have as many software implementations as possible by trying to align with the project’s goal for continuous improvement in readiness and mass adoption. The IOTA Beta testing is still ongoing and as the foundation stated:

“To evolve and diversify our node software offering, the IOTA Foundation has been supporting the development of a node implementation written in Go. This implementation — called Hornet. This is a more lightweight take on our Java node implementation (IRI). The functionality is on par with the latest version of IRI.
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At the time of writing, the Hornet TPS was 48 TPS and the earlier observers noted that processing speed was at about 35-40 TPS which is considered as an improvement in the central coordination and not designed to help scale the network but to achieve milestones and secure the network:

 “It’s been fluctuating between 30-40 TPS, not bad. Great to see these numbers and the network running fine thanks to the new Hornet nodes being tested etc. I remember when the network would average 3TPS and couldn’t handle much over 20 using the older IRI. Now it’s handling that daily without issue. Great to see how much the project is progressing over time.”

IOTA is a blockless network and it continues to develop with the view of being the true IOT network. The Tangle mechanism is scalable as the number of users increases so the more activity there is, the more scalable it will become.