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!! 😺
Polkadot and Kusama networks’ demands have been growing dramatically during the past couple of months. During validation of para-chains activity the consensus committees run a healthy competition to collaboratively confirm that the information can be registered on the relay chain, and the validators are encouraged to confirm that very quick! To better serve the networks,…
Today Kusama activated the runtime version v0.9.22 which brings the feature of Nomination Pools to the network, as described in details here. Gatotech truly believes that this is a great opportunity to help secure, decentralise and democratise the network, thus we are glad to contribute to these objectives and have registered a nomination pool where…
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…
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…
… 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…
Today, Gatotech’s node “UK1” for the Kusama Network has raised to be the 2nd most profitable in the ranking of active validators, this is a huge achievement and we cannot be more proud and grateful for that, MANY THANKS TO ALL OUR KIND NOMINATORS!, including Web 3 Foundation and Parity Technologies from the Thousands Validators…
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…
Dear all, Happy New Year 2022!!.. we are starting January with excellent news for the Kusama community, our validator node has passed all internal tests, raised enough capital to successfully apply for the “Thousand Validator” programme, and it is now in full operating conditions, and completely open for nominations. We are proud to provide world…
Arrived today, last day of the year, our RAK Hotspot Miner 2.0! and we are super excited to be soon part of Helium People’s Network… more updates will be posted on due course… Have some great New Year’s celebrations out there you all! 🙂