Want to know about Oracles and how they will work on Cardano? This is the introduction you have been waiting for…
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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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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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Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace, in full Ada King, countess of Lovelace, original name Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Byron, (born December 10, 1815, Piccadilly Terrace, Middlesex [now in London], England—died November 27, 1852, Marylebone, London), English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer. Inspiration for the major and minor…