After considerations and something I have deliberated for the last 3 months I have decided ANP is going to have a 2nd staking pool called ANP Northern Lights. While we are supporters of decentralization and certainly we will not be going massive amount of 1%pools on you guys like 1percent did during the ITN, for competitive reasons we believe a model with 2 pools allow us a lot more flexibility in what cost structure we can offer our delegators. One main reason is we are not in this for charity in itself (but certainly will support charitable efforts if we can afford it like we have done so far with Kiva lending and folding@home) and we are trying to be profitable to such a degree we can continue do do supportive causes like patroning pooltool.io and developing the ecosystem further with our own projects in the future. If you think this is terrible you are free to delegate to others. If on other hand you can see the value I am trying to contribute to the ecosystem like for example my latest presentation during the Cardano Virtual summit we hope you will consider delegating to us or remaing a delegator with us if you have so during the ITN.
Category: General
ADA North Pool will be presenting at the Cardano virtual summit 2 July 22:30 UTC. The title of the presentation is going to be ‘Let’s do better’ and I will discuss collaborative mechanisms in the Cardano ecosystem such as for example voting.
ADA North Pool Introduction video showcasing some reasons why you should consider staking with ADA North Pool and why Cardano Pool Operators are not your average pool operators.
In this video I share with the viewer some of the experiences I have had with my time in the Friends and Family testnet. This time we go through the relationship between keys, addresses and certificates and then look briefly at exercise 5 and 6.
Here is the link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPW1aosPjhA
Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgI9xDjZokACviiFt2PTNKo4773VczYCW
In this video I share with the viewer some of the experiences I have had with my time in the Friends and Family testnet period for cardano-node and walk the viewer through making a node certificate, creating staking keys and as bonus contents we look more into docker swarm, pro’s and con’s of docker containers for cardano-node and community scripts.
Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhx6IQRrbBA
ADA North Pool is quite honored to invite two Scanadinavian pool operators that have been around for the ITN and that have the technical skills and hardware to get going into the family and friends testnet full speed ahead. It was not an easy decicion to make and actually weighted quite heavily on me. But I think for the long run the best I can do is .. do what I do best and know best. I want to encourage my own region and that we have adoption here for Cardano so I decided that me as a Norwegian pool operator should try to encourage scandianvian adoption. That definitively does not mean I would not help other pool operators far from it – I simply also want to see Cardano thrive in my own backyard here in Scandinavia.
So without further ado we decided to go with AHL and JAWS1. You can find them on twitter as well: https://twitter.com/JawsAda https://twitter.com/olaahlman
Welcome aboard lads and lets show them that viking spirit !
PS: We are also encouraging a Cardano Scandinavian Pool Operators collaboration (CSPO) so might hear more from this space going forward 🙂
ANP walkalong video for ff testing
In this video I share with the viewer some of the experiences I have had with my time in the Friends and Family testnet period for cardano-node and walk the viewer through building a node, configuring it, making transactions and finally also looking at docker images as a method of deployment for cardano-node.
Here is the link https://youtu.be/2N8pJW6v85Q
If you want to follow live the progress of my nodes and relays you can find the monitoring links in the menu now where one is named “Monitor Cardano-node” and the other is named “Monitor Docker-relays”
https://adanorthpool.com/grafana/d/Oe0reiHef/cardano-application-metrics-v2?orgId=2&refresh=1m
http://relay4.adanorthpool.com:8080/
They say one of the best ways to learn how something truly works is to build it from the ground up. So I took that to heart and decided to build some scripts instead of using some of the other great scripts out there. And I could not resist putting in some ASCII for ANP logo in there as well 🙂
Create address and .vkey .skey:
https://gist.github.com/Willburn/32fb6c5bf69e85258320bc7be7a24db5
Simple send transaction script:
https://gist.github.com/Willburn/b91cde5227826be465e21bcc6be9cf88
Multiple (2) transactions:
https://gist.github.com/Willburn/5240f6f2fc45e49a1bc01af183ae5dfd
Ada North Pool had the great honor of being asked to join the friends and family testnet. The TLDR is the progress is great. Overall the experience has been great and documentation, features and overall experience is shaping up well in the opinion of this pool operator.
We also added a hardware encryption usb drive in preperation of cold staking key storage.
The nodes come prebuilt with a lot of features that can be enabled. For example the EKG view that you can set to a port on your localhost.