Just a note to all delegators that the first payment for delegating has been delayed an epoch (5 days) until 23 August 2020 due to the bug in Daedalus (not showing all pools) and that quite a few exchanges are still waiting to be integrated into the new Shelley system. We guess that in the …
Just a quick update to give our latest status. After looking at the end of the first epoch and the performance experienced by the nodes we decided to increase the specifications on all the nodes and have moved to a different VPS provider to enable this. This gives us more RAM and processing power above …
We are live on the mainnet along with approx 500 other pools!! Many thanks to those of you who have already delegated, we appreciate you faith in us and we believe we are ready to start producing blocks. Awards are returned to you the stakers at the end of each epoch (5 days) but as …
Well it’s time for the big one! The Shelley hard fork takes place tonight and ushers in a new chapter in the Cardano story. It is an exciting time and will be busy for the stakepool operators to bring up their nodes on the mainnet. We have participated in some of the Shelley testnets and …
We continue to run our nodes on the new Shelley testnet and things are going well. We have monitoring in place using grafana to monitor all nodes as well as developing a script which runs locally on all the servers to monitor the cardano-node application. If no blocks or transactions are processed for a certain …
We are live on the Shelley testnet. A few teething issues along the way but we are producing blocks so all looks good. The general stability of the node is fantastic and a lot different experience than at the start of the ITN (Incentivised Test Net) where we struggled to get stability of the node …
Well it’s been some time since the last update and things in the Cardano ecosystem are moving quickly. We have had the dates for the release of the Shelley mainnet as well as the opening of the Friends and Family testnet to others outside of the pioneer group and their invites. So on June the …
Well the golden ticket was removed 10 epochs ago so we are back down to trying to get a block every other day but thanks to CF/IOHK/Emurgo for moving these stakes around to smaller pools it sure is appreciated. We are now heading to our 160th block produced so that is some achievement. We are …
The golden ticket has returned! What does this mean – well it means we have 10.5 million stake added presumably from IOHK/Cardano Foundation/Emurgo. So many thanks to whoever rotates this as we are always grateful to get a good amount of stake to check pool operation and get some extra pool rewards to help with …
Just a quick update to say we are currently running the node on our VPS (Virtual Private Server – cloud based server) backup server for a couple of reasons. We want to monitor the performance where there are slot and height battles as this node is closer to the internet core and located in Germany …