See Also
ELI5 Proof of Stake (PoS) – How does PoS work?
In the cryptocurrency universe, Proof of Stake (PoS) is one of the most popular alternatives to the Proof of Work (PoW) family of consensus mechanisms. While PoW systems invest large amounts of energy to make sure transactions are legit, PoS does not require mining hardware. Proof of Stake “miners” (stakers) must lock a financial stake […]
Cardano Network Tools – CNT
Welcome to the crypto.bi Cardano* Network Tools – CNT home page. crypto.bi CNT is a Python implementation of the Cardano P2P protocol. Think of it as a programmable Cardano node but without the staking and block verification components – just the P2P networking code. You can pick different network message types and develop your own […]
Building the Haskell cardano-node on Linux
tl;dr; Jump straight to the build instructions The Details Looking forward to the Haskell mainnet, the next step in the Cardano project, I’ve begun exploring the cardano-node Haskell implementation. I find that exploring source code is much easier if you actually watch the program run for a while. So, the first thing a developer has […]
ELI5 What’s the minimum amount of XTZ required to stake Tezos?
Is there a minimum amount of XTZ required to begin staking? A lot of new Tezos users ask this question because there certainly is a minimum amount of XTZ required to bake Tezos. tl;dr; No, there is no minimum amount of XTZ required to bake Tezos. To be precise, there is a minimum but it’s […]