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Cardano Updates

“Hard Fork” Combinator Event

Confirmation for our delegators that all nodes in the ADAvault passive and active clusters have been upgraded and are running version 1.24.2. We are ready for the “Hard Fork” Combinator Event at the end of Epoch 235 on the 17th December. No blocks or rewards will be affected as we transition to Allegra.

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Musings

The ‘problem’ with Altcoins

We’ve been spending some time lately looking through the Nakamoto Institute web site. You could perhaps say (unfairly?) it’s the spiritual home of the “Bitcoin Maxi”. It has a large amount of excellent references hosted that relate to the goals and design decisions that fed into Bitcoin. For example publications by Ludwig Von Mises on…

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Cardano Community

A reflection on progress

On Ada Lovelace’s birthday Charles reflects on Cardano progress over the last 5 years, and shares goals as we go into 2021.

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Cardano Updates

Daedalus 3.0.0 released

A new Daedalus version is out and if you are a Ledger or Nano user then you will be very happy with this release. From the notes: The Daedalus 3.0.0 release brings Ledger Nano S, Ledger Nano X, and Trezor Model T hardware wallet support to Daedalus. You can now use your supported hardware wallet…

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Cardano Updates

Cardano Node 1.24.2

A new version of the node has just been released. From the release notes: This release provides support for the upcoming Allegra and Mary hard forks and the new features they bring. The Allegra hard fork adds some features needed to support the Catalyst treasury scheme. It extends the existing multi-sig script language with predicates…