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ANP makes first block on mainnet during the first epoch where community pools can make blocks

In an emotional moment for me as I have been waiting quite long for the pool to produce the block yesterday ADA North Pool finally made a block. This means delegtors will recieve full rewards in epoch 210 as in the first epoch your performance will be 100% if you produce any blocks.

Pooltool verification of first block from https://pooltool.io/pool/0000fc522cea692e3e714b392d90cec75e4b87542c5f9638bf9a363a/awards
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General security

ADA NORTH POOL modernize server software / 2nd pass over security

In preparation to the soon first block producing epoch (granted after some delays) I have modernized software to be as up to date (for example only latest long term support distros) and had a 2nd pass with a critical eye on security. We also made several optimizations so everything is as rigged and ready as can be. Security is certainly nothing I will ever be relaxing on and I am constantly trying to evolve in this area to have as much safety as possible. While I wish I could detail all the new security enhancements I have added the fact is that another security measure is to have as much hidden information as possible when it comes to security measures. Hopefully this is understandable.

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ANP removes public monitoring

Out of an abundance of safety measures I have withdrawn monitoring of some of the relays though the public. While I truly love to make everything as transparent as possible I also have to consider security at every step. Initially when I made the monitoring I also considered the security measures and made sure to only monitor what was safe and in a way that was safe. However I have recently got some convincing arguments that make me adjust my stance. Feel free to get in touch with me if you think the monitoring service is very important to you as a delegator and I will try to look at my options.

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General Media

ANP participated in The Cardano Effect episode 100

During the hard fork party that was later termed “the fork of July” I participated in The Cardano Effect episode 100 representing ANP. Link to episode 100: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tEbLDCDHSk

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ANP Security competiton / contest

ANP / ANPNL is offering a security competition or you could call it a contest where I will pay 2500 ADA if you can reach the proof file and tell its content and notify me how to fix the security vounerability. An additional 2500 ADA is there for the taking if someone can actually reach the core server (adanorthpoolserver) and diclose the proof located in teh securitycore folder and tell me how to fix the vounerability. This is a first come first serve offer so whoever discloses to me first the proof will recieve the reward and no additional rewards will be given to 2nd to report in the vounerability. The forum thread https://forum.cardano.org/t/ada-north-pool/29983 will be updated if there is a winner.