Hooter (American), a comparative for anything worthless or trifling. (American.)-A corruption of 'iota' : e.g., 'I don't care a HOOTER for him.'Īlbert Barrère & Charles Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant (1889) reaches a similar conclusion, with an additional interesting a potentially very significant observation: John Farmer & William Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present, volume 3 (1893) endorses Bartlett's etymological analysis of hooter: It is the truth that politicians who pretend to have such regard for the dear people don't care a hooter, so long as their own selfish ends are attained.- Dow's Sermons, Vol. Common in New York in such phrases as "I don't care a hooter for him," "this note ain't worth a hooter." How could the phonological leap from "iota" to "hooter" take place? Is this a strong case of folk etymology? Was there a sufficient phonological proximity historically?ĭictionary coverage of 'hooter' and 'hoot' in the sense of 'minuscule amount'Įtymology Online cites the entry for hooter in John Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms, fourth edition (1877), but the entry first appears in the second edition of Dictionary of Americanisms (1859): How could "iota" become "hooter"? The explanation above sounds logical, but not quite phono-logical. (Vaguely, I used to think that I don't give a hoot had to do with hooting as the sound, but admittedly that does not make much sense, either.) Unlike "hooter", which does not seem at all to be self-explanatory as a measurement of anything. Now " iota", of course, is a plausible metaphor for a smallest amount of particle.
Common in New York in such phrases as "I don't care a hooter for him." "This note ain't worth a hooter." "Ye know all this rumpus wont do nobuddy a hoot o' good-not a hoot." "A dod blasted ole fool!" answered the captain, who, till now, had been merely an amused on-looker.
Slang sense of "smallest amount or particle" (the hoot you don't give when you don't care) is from 1891. On the "hoot" that we do not give, Etymonline has this to say: The IOTA Foundation is currently researching ways to overcome the Coordinator's limitations, while still providing the machine economy with a feeless protocol that facilitates the low-processing, low-energy and low-cost exchange of both value and information.We say we do not give a hoot or care a hoot when we do not care very much or at all. In response to concerns that IOTA’s security is not as strong as Blockchain’s, proponents of IOTA maintain the tradeoff of IOTA's lower processing overhead makes it a viable way to log the immense volume of autonomous interactions conducted by IoT devices.
The role of the Coordinator, however, is somewhat controversial because it has the potential to be a single point of failure ( SPoF). The result is that IOTA provides users with the advantage of storing transactions on a public network because it replicates data across a distributed architecture, while also giving users the advantages of a private network by making the Coordinator the gatekeeper. The centralized node, which is called the Coordinator, reviews the PoW and decides whether or not the transaction should be added to the database. Instead of paying multiple third parties ( cryptominers) to verify transaction blocks like Blockchain does, IOTA asks each new transacting party to verify two previous transactions and send proof of work ( PoW) to a centralized node run by the IOTA Foundation. The collection of all messages is called a directed acyclic graph (DAG) and is referred to by practitioners as the Tangle. Data and transactions are stored in storage objects called messages, and each message can be linked to multiple parent and child messages. While a Blockchain ledger links blocks of transactions together in a linear, sequential manner, IOTA’s ledger uses a graph database structure. Techopedia Explains IOTA (Distributed Ledger Technology) The digital currency that supports IOTA micropayments is spelled Iota.
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