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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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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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Innovation and Governance

Economist Robin Hanson writes on his blog Overcoming Bias about the impact of the Overton Window and the art of the possible in politics. The Overton window is defined as the spectrum of ideas on public policy and social issues considered acceptable by the general public at a given time. He starts: The main thing that…

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Open Source Matters

Flicking through r/cardano and noticed this post which compares Cardano and ERC-20 (the Ethereum Standard for on-chain tokens). The comparison is interesting, although most seasoned Cardano followers will already know that the approach to native assets will be very strong compared to other implementations. What stood out more was a comment that Polkadot had reused…

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Cardano Global Adoption

At ADAvault we use Cloudflare for DDoS protection and CDN caching. An interesting byproduct of this that we get data for use of the Daedalus wallet access on a per country basis. This is because the wallet checks the json files on our site for data on the ADV stake pool, and therefore this gives…