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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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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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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Cross Chain Communication
This YouTube clip from Charles was released about 3 months ago, but does a great job explaining the approach to interoperability between chains, tokens, and native assets on the Cardano blockchain. This links back to the previous post on Open Source which touches on tokens. It explains how NiPoPoWs (Non-Interactive Proofs of Proof-of-Work) will be…