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Staking in Cardano

A welcome post by the “Architect of Staking”: Prof Aggelos Kiayias (Chief Scientist, IOHK), which acknowledges the importance of pledging in the protocol in order to achieve the objectives of the Cardano ecosystem: Engage all stakeholders – This is important since the more stakeholders are engaged in the system, the more secure the distributed ledger will be. This also means…

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Decentralisation

Decentralisation of the Cardano ecosystem is important because it helps the network maintain operational resilience against denial of service attacks and other forms of network and service outages; for example the Dyn DNS outage that took a large amount of the internet offline a few years back. It also helps ensure that the network is…

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Steve Jobs- Lost 1995 interview

Not a Cardano post, but this is a very interesting interview by Bob Cringely as part of his series Triumph of the Nerds (which is well worth watching to understand the development of the computer industry), and whether you are an Apple fan on not gives a real insight into what made Steve Jobs tick,…

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IOHK Sponsors New Haskell Foundation

The independent, open, non-profit body will support tools, libraries, education, and research. Simon Peyton Jones has just announced the launch of the Haskell Foundation at the Haskell eXchange virtual conference. The foundation is an independent, open, non-profit organization dedicated to broadening the adoption of the Haskell language, by supporting its ecosystem of tools, libraries, education, and research.

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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…