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…
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 frenetic๐๐ผ๐ธ… 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…
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!! ๐บ
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! ๐
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…