Apr 25An update on Iagon and its liquidity poolFor the reader who has followed my Twitter account for a while, they know I am a supporter of Iagon for the simple reason I believe Cardano needs a storage provider solution. For full disclosure, as part of my work, I also started running a staking pool for Iagon for…Staking3 min readStaking3 min read
Nov 9, 2022In honor of Cardano on the rocksThis article is meant as an update on the excellent “CARDANO on the ROCKS” article, historic recap and video by Markus Gufmar from 2019. Here Markus showed that a RockPi 4 with 8GB RAM could run Cardano Node extremely efficiently with under 5watts of energy consumption per node. If you…Staking6 min readStaking6 min read
Aug 2, 2022Virtual Cardano part 2. Guide on adding peers to topology and further monitoring of relay.This is a continuation of the previous article Virtual Cardano. Guide on setting up Cardano relay node on a Proxmox Virtual machine. If you followed those steps you would have an up and running Cardano relay node on your virtual machine inside the Proxmox host. If you like this article…Cardano6 min readCardano6 min read
Aug 1, 2022Virtual Cardano. Guide on setting up Cardano relay node on a Proxmox virtual machine.First things first: This is a continuation of my series on Proxmox that started with Virtualization and optimization for node operations with example of practical use. So if you want to set up and tune Proxmox then you could read that guide first to set it up. If you like…Cardano6 min readCardano6 min read
Jul 31, 2022Virtualization and optimization for node operations with example of pratical use.Proxmox is a virtual environment where you have a host Debian distro running virtual machines on top of it. This article wont go into all the details of this but focus on optimization and tricks learned for node operations such as on the Cardano network or in the future World…Cardano7 min readCardano7 min read
May 18, 2022Server hardening and optimization for the would be node operatorIn this article we will look at some measures you can do to harden your Ubuntu server from attacks. We will also look at a few tweaks to system performance to help with node operations. The article is not ment as an exchaustive list as server hardening is a huge…10 min read10 min read
May 16, 2022Proof of stake , a small guide on securing login with Secure Shell (SSH)Example of SSH login to an Ubuntu 22.04 server with a custom made login banner Secure shell cryptographically protects remote logins and is an important tool to understand for a would be node operator as it will allow you to have relays or even core nodes hosted in datacenters or…9 min read9 min read
Jan 29, 2021Ergo Nvidia miner on Windows 10 / Windows WSL with stratum poolThis is a community member made guide and is not an offical Ergo source.Ergo5 min readErgo5 min read
Jan 28, 2021ErgoStratumProxy on Windows WSL for mining Ergo cryptocyrrency to a mining pool.This is a community member made guide and is not an offical Ergo source. V2 29th January 2021 — updated for new ErgoStratumProxy method of passing along arguments to client.jsErgo3 min readErgo3 min read