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!
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Come to the mine!
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! 🙂
Surviving the storm!
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…
The pool is ready…
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…
Let us show you our ID…
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….
A new node has hatched!
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…
The chill pill
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…
