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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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…
Faster, stronger, better
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It was a rocky road…
… 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…
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…
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! 🙂
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…
