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Staking lifecycle

A generic version of the staking life cycle infographic as an SVG format vector file that you can modify and use. If you improve please share back with the community.

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Bitcoin Power Consumption

Some really nice work on the energy consumption of Bitcoin from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge University. The current estimate is 10GW, with a lower bound of 3.94GW, and upper bound of 16.78GW. That’s 5 orders of magnitude higher than Cardano. If we assume approximately 50W per pool (reasonable for an efficient modern…

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Cardano Updates

Cardano Node 1.23.0

Now this is properly exciting. The new Cardano Node has been released which sets the stage for the transition to Goguen. From the release notes: This release includes a substantial amount of internal changes to support the upcoming Allegra and Mary hard forks and the new features they bring. This is not the final release before the…

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Daedalus 2.5.0

A new week, a new Daedalus release. Daedalus 2.5.0  brings the ability to save transactions to CSV files. It also introduces new sharing functionality for receiving addresses, with QR codes and exporting addresses to a PDF file with a personalized note. More solid improvements in functionality to the best Cardano dark mode wallet on the…

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Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace, in full Ada King, countess of Lovelace, original name Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Byron, (born December 10, 1815, Piccadilly Terrace, Middlesex [now in London], England—died November 27, 1852, Marylebone, London), English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer. Inspiration for the major and minor…