Hey people,
Just a very short pool update today. Some information for technically interested people in advance: Recently version 1.24.2 of the cardano-nodes has been released which offers support for the upcoming Allegra and Mary hardfork. I will upgrade all nodes during the next few days. But no worries, you shouldn’t see any interruptions of the pool 😉
Check out the github release page for more information.
As you may already know, unlike many other blockchains hardforks are no problem at all on Cardano. Everything works nearly automatically without major interruptions of the network. This is made possible by the so called “Hardfork Combinator” which you can learn more about in the section “About hardforks” of the official documentation and in the video “Hard Fork Combinator: full tech demo“.
Let’s now take a short look at the last epoch: We produced all two assigned blocks in epoch 233, which leaves us at about 105% luck for that epoch.
+----+------------+----------+---------------------+--------------------------+
| # | Status | Block | Slot | SlotInEpoch | Scheduled At |
+----+------------+----------+---------------------+--------------------------+
| 1 | confirmed | 5028643 | 15403790 | 110990 | 2020-12-03 04:34:41 UTC |
| 2 | confirmed | 5029261 | 15416220 | 123420 | 2020-12-03 08:01:51 UTC |
+----+------------+----------+---------------------+--------------------------+Leader Schedule for 234
+----+---------+--------+---------------------+--------------------------+
| # | Status | Block | Slot | SlotInEpoch | Scheduled At |
+----+---------+--------+---------------------+--------------------------+
| 1 | leader | - | 16048664 | 323864 | 2020-12-10 15:42:35 UTC |
+----+---------+--------+---------------------+--------------------------+In epoch 234 we’re looking at one block. So this epoch is somewhat unfortunate for us and is below the expected number of blocks. Remember that the blocks in smaller pools fluctuate more than in large pools, but overall a comparable return can be expected as long as a pool reliably produces it’s assigned blocks (which we did; we never missed a single block).
Stay tuned! Talk to you soon 🙂