Do you know alpha.pool.pm/ by @pool_pm? The video shows the mempool filling up with transactions, and the Hamster Stake Pool validating a block. Thanks to @SmaugPool for this cool feature. #Cardano #CardanoCommunity

People say crypto has no use case. Well I completely disagree, because the use case that drew me here is doing exactly what it's supposed to do. I came here for NFTs, because as someone who was a commercial filmmaker at the time, it was the first time digital artists had something they could put their art on that could act as ownership. Yes, it's a link to an IPFS, or a small file on chain. It's put on a date and time on a blockchain as record or provenance, and essentially documentation of ownership. And the great thing is people went to SOL, where they literally destroyed their NFTs to degen into memecoins, destroying supply. I got to get art from literal legends like Earl Einharm, a generative artist from the 70s who inscribed on Bitcoin ordinals. I got to hang out on Discord with Jesse Moynihan, the artist for Adventure Time, as he made a bizarre fever dream of short film funded by NFTs, I still have the full set of and meticulously collected. I even own a Damien Hirst piece. Even the grifts are of interest to me -- an early art AI grift from the original Midjourney engine that stole data from an artist and was winning art competitions, that's absolutely still gorgeous fully accepting that fact. I also have a fraction of a Warhol Soup Can painting that the creator couldn't sell out to save his life and probably rug pulled. Still historically documented. And I got to see the emergence of new art in the space like aeoniumsky, unsigs, MIO, and Charles Manchin -- and mint their works for nothing or buy for dirt cheap from the secondary market like Yasen, who was one of the first people run out of the space by the IOG cabal. pool.pm is STILL the killer app of Cardano from @SmaugPool. I got all this for practically nothing, because no one appreciated it because they only cared about quick flips and dumping for more mint gambles, or as a weapon to hurt artists. And I have the provenance of storing them all in my cold wallet and not touching it. It's like a snapshot of culture over the past 5 years. So crypto served me well, because as a collector of many things, I've seen and experience true value explode of simply holding and forgetting things and letting them gain time value ✌️

After serving the Cardano ecosystem since 2021 and sharing an incredible journey with thousands along the way, we’ve reached a point where the JPG Store & Comet platforms have to be sunset. While we deeply value the people who have supported us, the platforms have reached a stage where they are no longer sustainable to operate. JPG Store & Comet will continue to be online until the 23rd of May. After which, the website will be shut down, though the smart contracts will continue to live on. 🧵1/6

Thanks @AndroDevs for noticing x.com/AndroDevs/status/20414…

Slow blockchains are better! High-TPS chains are actually just L2s in denial and real wealth will always flee to the "slow" lane. 🧵1/6

What about Cardano rewards decline over time? Here is a chart with all delegators rewards average and SMAUG rewards. SMAUG is well above average which is now < 2% annualized ROA. Note that pool owners are excluded as they also get pool margin cost, unlike most delegators.

Work in progress on the pool․pm redesign. alpha.pool.pm Now truly realtime and also shows its mempool.

Pool_pm has been relying on NFTCDN since 2022. This is a huge milestone🔥

Dear Artists & Collectors, With a broken heart, we are sunsetting Kreate. We have been running at a loss since the beginning. The lack of traction for CNFT, especially appreciation for Fine Arts, has made it even more difficult to grow in the past 2 years. 1/3

If you were unaware, It does feel good to see your 1 of 1 paintings getting minted on pool.pm Happy Holidays

Troubling after all this time how many still get CIP25v2 NFTs wrong. Just from a quick check of today mints, I found non-compliant NFTs from @DanogoFinance, @FluidTokens and @OptimFi. Remember that the `policy_id` and `asset_name` must be raw bytes in CBOR with v2, not hex strings or utf8 strings. I guess JSON intermediary representation for CBOR does not help, nor tools tolerance for errors. What library do you use to mint your assets? It might be an issue with it, its documentation, or parameters validation. DM me if needed.

SM₳UG just produced its first Midnight🕛 testnet block💫 Dec 01 16:35:48 UTC 🎁 Prepared block for proposing at 2728862 (18 ms) [hash: 0x8ae1f8b7b7620674f3c0008a32c08c3bfa1f2af46bf4e60c896b70c9b329d712; parent_hash: 0x8eaa…fa69; extrinsics (6): [0x2acb…1220, 0xb846…40f7, 0x3579…6bbd, 0x7899…1797, 0xf807…67f0, 0x4cc8…f82d] 🔖 Pre-sealed block for proposal at 2728862. Hash now 0xc0f2fdbc3e506988ab3c8f4d447946c1677688e283e6ab54ace3811112fc88d6, previously 0x8ae1f8b7b7620674f3c0008a32c08c3bfa1f2af46bf4e60c896b70c9b329d712. 🏆 Imported #2728862 (0x8eaa…fa69 → 0xc0f2…88d6)

Jesus 2 is on the official Oscars nomination short-list. Voting to be nominated starts January 12th. cartoonbrew.com/awards/2026-…

I am gonna go out on a limb and actually say this is pretty cool. Nakamoto style consensus without proof of work is extremely hard to build. The protocol functioned as designed in the presence of bugs.

⚠️ Be careful if you receive an email about a new Daedalus release, it's just another SCAM⚠️ PS: It looks like scammers don't follow the IOG/CF drama😅