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3rd Relay Node launched
CardanoCafe has launched an additional relay node.

Jan 3, 2021, by Chris

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Review of previous two weeks
CardanoCafe is happy to look back at two fabulous weeks. In just two weeks we created more blocks than we did in total during the four months before.

Dec 11, 2020, by Chris

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We minted our 10th Block!
It's finally there: Our 10th block! Thanks to all our delegators for your loyal support!

Dec 2, 2020, by Chris

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New Block per Epoch Record & CardanoCafe Updated to 1.23.0
CardanoCafe achieved new records in epoch 232: for the first time, we achieved three blocks per epoch.

Dec 1, 2020, by Chris

Knowledge Base

How to setup prometheus and grafana on a dedicated machine to monitor your cardano nodes
Prometheus and grafana are helpful tools to monitor your nodes. They have a built-in alert function which notifies you about arising problems. This guide will show how to setup your infrastructure to do this monitoring with a separate machine thus not requiring additional installations on your vital cardano nodes.

Nov 21, 2020, by Chris

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Project Page released
The new project page of CardanoCafe is online which shows what charity organizations get support from CardanoCafe.

Nov 15, 2020, by Chris

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Third Block Found
We have good news: After a long period of waiting we have finally minted our third block.

Nov 9, 2020, by Chris

Knowledge Base

Converting YAML to JSON when configuring RTView
RTView is a new monitoring tool released by IOHK. When configuring or installing RTView, you might need the help of yaml to json converters.

Nov 8, 2020, by Chris

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Pledge doubled, Fee decreased to 0% + 340 ADA
I am happy to announce good news for you. We doubled pledge and reduced the fees of our pool.

Oct 27, 2020, by Chris

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Additional relay node added
CardanoCafe updated its infrastructure. Our block producing node is now secured by an additional relay node. This helps minimizing maintenance downtimes.

Oct 15, 2020, by Chris

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CardanoCafe updated to 1.21.1
New versions of cardano have been released on GitHub by IOHK. We updated our relay and block producing nodes to newest version 1.21.1 accordingly.

Oct 7, 2020, by Chris

Knowledge Base

Cardano Stake Pool Course
A great way to help new stake pool operators in setting up their own stake pool is learning from the docs of the official Cardano Stake Pool School. It was launched by the Cardano Foundation in August 2020.

Oct 3, 2020, by Chris

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