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…
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Cardano Node 1.23.0
Now this is properly exciting. The new Cardano Node has been released which sets the stage for the transition to Goguen. From the release notes: This release includes a substantial amount of internal changes to support the upcoming Allegra and Mary hard forks and the new features they bring. This is not the final release before the…