Synchronising!
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!
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!
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…
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 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!! 😺
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…