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December 3rd Cardano monthly update

Tim and Aparna have a great show this month. Another recommended watch. These two are really polished hosts and they help bring out the best in the guests on the show. And there really are some great topics and guests this month. Hard to keep up with the partnerships and progress the product team are…

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The Island, The Ocean, and The Pond (Soon)

Charles has just recorded a whiteboard session that helps explain how smart contracts will be coming to Cardano. Really inspiring stuff (as ever). The Pond is Ethereum, The Island is Cardano Plutus/Marlowe, The Ocean is all development languages… Sometimes it’s a bit hard to take in the scale of Charles and the IOHK guys vision.…

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Coin Bureau Cardano update

Coin Bureau have a great Youtube channel. Really enjoyable presentation, technically strong, and good analysis. This recent update on Cardano is well worth watching.

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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…