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World Mobile deployment plans

A lot of positive World Mobile news lately, including this article by CNN. You may recall that World Mobile (connect the unconnected) are tightly linked with Cardano (bank the unbanked) and will use the blockchain to faciliate operations, identity, payments and services with a similar model to the Stake Pool model used by Cardano. The…

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Ethereum 2.0 analysis

A recent blog post by BitMEX research on Ethereum 2.0 caught our eye recently and we though it was worth sharing. A while ago we noted that Cardano had a window of opportunity before Ethereum moved to Proof of Stake. It looks like that window may be longer than we initially anticipated. The blog post…

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World Mobile and IOHK in Zanzibar

We meant to load a link to this on the blog a while back, but in the rush around the time managed to miss. World Mobile have a goal to make internet access ubiquitous and cheap for everyone, and they think that integration with the blockchain (i.e. Cardano) offers a way to do this in…

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Network traffic levels

…have been increasing a lot of late. In fact even with the recent increase in block size from 64kB to 72 kB (an increase of 8kB or 12%) there are periods where mempool is saturated and transactions are queued before being processed. And while this is a good thing as it shows Cardano adoption is…

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Slow and steady wins the race

A really good summary of the design considerations for performance that have driven the development of the Cardano blockchain by John Woods, the IOHK Director of Cardano Architecture. All blockchains face a choice between decentralisation, speed, and security; the so called blockchain trilemma. He notes: From its conception, Cardano has been architected as a platform…