Modern security practices require a balanced focus between prevention, detection and response capabilities. Implementing Cardano Node on Linux gives a secure base to start, with some basic things that should be in place to lock down access for relays and block producing nodes: But even the best security defences can be breached. And this is…
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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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Cardano Foundation 2020 Review
Nice summary video of achievements during 2020, and some great shots of the sights around Zurich where they are based. Lots of energy and improvements from the foundation during 2020, it seems as though the organisational changes they made a while back are starting to come together now under Frederik Gregaard’s leadership. There’s more in…
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Cardano ‘Elevator Pitch’
Charles covered ‘Why Cardano?’ in a recent AMA. In 2 minutes he explains the Cardano mission and how it aims to change the world to using a single financial system, empowering people without access to identity, banking, insurance, and other financial services that many people in the ‘West’ take for granted. This mission goes back…
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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.