Gatotech has just contracted out its second Bare Metal server, this time it was decided that this node should be located outside of the city of London and from a different hosting provider to meet the decentralisation goals of the networks we are proud to serve at the moment (Polkadot & Kusama) and to continue working towards the net-zero commitments of the Crypto Climate Accord and the networks we plan to serve in the future (e.g. Aleph Zero).
Today Gatotech have joined the testnet of Aleph Zero as one of the first community validators to spin their nodes and sync the blockchain. We wish all fellow validators success in their operations and commit to the Aleph Zero Foundation to follow their community guidelines in the testing stages and beyond. cheers to that!! 😺
… 9 days ago our RAK Miner v2.0 stopped syncing… Now we are back in business!! For all fellow miners our there, we feel you… so we tell our story in hopes that any information here below eventually results helpful to you. Our stock miner came with a SanDisk High Endurance 32Gb SD card, and…
Honouring our commitment to prioritise trust, transparency and accountability, we continue formalising our identity in the applicable networks and services as a way to show our faces to you. This time, we proudly announce that Gatotech’s Polkadot (DOT) on-chain identity and several of our social media handles have now been successfully attested by Registrar #1….
Kusama’s untold motto is “expect chaos“… and you better believe that its community embrace such a motto with passion!, however, the rollercoaster sometimes gets a bit to frenetic🙀😼😸… A new Polkadot binary (v0.9.18) was just released, and this binary included some minute changes to the experimental database called ParityDB which, in fact, broke its functionality…
It is easy to survive the storms when you have built a good shelter for yourself.. Our backup node in London was targeted by an apparent DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack earlier today. These kind of attacks can see massive amounts of requests being sent by multiple sources orchestrated by an entity, or syndicate…
Yes, we spun our first node yesterday for the Polkadot (DOT) network and it is synchronising the database (50% progress at the time of publishing this note)… exciting times lie ahead!