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Cardano Updates

New Daedalus release

A new release of our favourite wallet (do those guys ever rest?). From the release notes: Daedalus 3.1.0 delivers support for the upcoming ‘Cardano app for Ledger’ hardware device functionality and is required for continued use of Daedalus with Ledger hardware devices . This is to support users who upgrade their Cardano app on their Ledger hardware…

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Happy Birthday Bitcoin

12 years. Birthday wishes from Charles, who captures the sentiment and spirit perfectly. The cryptocurrency innovation that the Bitcoin has unleashed is just starting. Here’s looking forward to the next 12 years.

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Cardano Community

Cardano Node Networking

Some notes on the network structure for Cardano as this is not very clear from the official documentation. Syncing the blockchain depends on outbound connections to other nodes The node needs to connect to other well-synchronised nodes to collect the latest blockchain slots. There are a few ways to acheive this: Connect to the IOHK…

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Musings

Best wishes for 2021

It’s been an eventful 2020 in so many ways; from the ongoing pressures of climate change, the COVID virus that has swept across the world, the U.S. Elections, Brexit, market turmoil (new lows and new highs) and of course significant developments in the Cryptocurrency world including Cardano. Cardano has taken some really important foundational steps…

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Site Announcements

Pool tuning

We’ve been tuning the ADV and ADV2 stake pool architecture over the last few days. It has been running well since we implemented at the end of July 2020 when the ADV pool went live, but we have recently invested in upgraded hardware for the primary and secondary clusters and took the opportunity while rebuilding…