https://cardano-foundation.gitbook.io/stake-pool-course/reference/shelley-genesis
If you really want to understand Cardano network/blockchain, what better way than to actually build one?
I havenāt looked at beyond the title, but I wonder if this blockchain is pre-configured or if it gives you total freedom, like to mess around with the amount of fake-ADA and the various parameters.
I havenāt looked at it yet - too busy trying to get this $&#**^% testnet pool up and running.
Iām reading the spiel you sent me and it looks fairly complicated. Even more than the rest! Letās be utterly honest here, it is going over my head! Lol
I think I gotto go and do some other things now. Iāll touch base with you later.
Iāve sent a ticket to the foundation with a few questions about testnet, will let you know what they say.
Night night
Anyway, itās lateā¦cya to tomorrow, Adremā¦ 
Iām basically here everyday, until and even after I get mainnet nodes up and running.
Even though I lack the IT background, I really want to succeed with stake pool because itās still very early days for blockchainā¦donāt want to miss out like I did on .com boom, but more than that I really believe in this tech to change the world for better, if the politicians, regulations donāt get in the way.
ah ah ah! that was gold, sorry mate, I name my nodes! So Frank is my node in Frankfurt, which is connected to yours in FL (Iāve named it Scarface).
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lolā¦yeah, say hello to my little friend! Scarface makes sense if youāre running nodes on laptops.
I had an issue yesterday with ubuntu power save mode on my laptop, even though I started the build as a server and added desktop support later.
Now I might be having the same issue with the relay which is console-only serverā¦I find it hard to believe my laptops are shutting down after installing ubuntu servers on them - maybe itās something thatās automatic, if this system detects you have a screen regardless if itās a console-only or desktop GUIā¦a bare metal server doesnāt have a screen,so maybe ubuntu picks up on thatā¦I donāt knowā¦but thereās a sleep-issue on my console node which causes disconnections.
At least the daedalus testnet wallet is doing better today up to 99.68% synced, but stuck at that value, so close, but so far away. 
daedalus wallet still having syncing issuesā¦itās actually snycing backwardsā¦itās down to 99.67%ā¦the same thing happened yesterday, the ābackwards syncā.
We canāt do anything tonight eitherā¦the wallet is dead.
Hey mate,
Not sure if this helps for your disconnection on sleep issue:
There may be other ways in systemd to force awake or disregard screen status.
As to Daedalus, yep, same here. I am still waiting for IOHKs reply. In the meantime I have clean uninstalled Daedalus and will reinstall later. If this fixes the issue Iāll let you know.
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Thanksā¦I donāt know what the issue isā¦maybe itās just an anomaly. It was running 15 hours before that without issues, but I was also spending a lot of time working on both nodes. Maybe they didnāt have enough time to go into sleep mode.
Iām sort of tired of testnetā¦too many issuesā¦I think I would rather open a mainnet poolā¦one with low pledge and high margin 100% for practiceā¦doesnāt matter if I lose moneyā¦at least it will work. Once I get proficient on that oneā¦I can maybe re-register under different name, IP, etc., and if not, just unregister that one and start a new poolā¦this testnet is killing me.
lolā¦the test wallet is actually ābackwards-syncingāā¦itās down to 99.66%. Weird, same thing happened yesterday.
Iāll send in a support ticket, but if testnet has basically been abandoned, I think it might be better to just practice on mainnet with minimal pledge and 100% margin.
Thanks for lending a hand with the posted link. What about your walletā¦are you able to sync?
If youāre stuck as wellā¦what percentage are you at? Are you getting ābackwards snycingā as well?
Last i had a look it was stuck at 99.69. I think it goes backwards because the chain keeps growing.
I will reinstall shortly and let know if it fixes it. I still think the amount of txns on testnet is really unusual. I have no idea how to explain it, but I think the two observations are related. Testnet epoch 84 already has over 800 txns and itās 10% in.
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I already tried the reinstallā¦no effectā¦Iāll try rebooting the computer. Maybe is a type of internal (to Cardano network) DOS or DDOS attack, to keep others from connectingā¦after allā¦itās only tADAā¦there is no real value at stake, but 800 Txs wouldnāt do that. More likely is an external (D)DOS attack I supposeā¦how decentralized is the testnet? Gonna rebootā¦brb.
Got the following ips for relays-new.cardano-testnet.iohkdev.io:
Name: relays-new.cardano-testnet.iohkdev.io
Address: 54.241.77.32
Name: relays-new.cardano-testnet.iohkdev.io
Address: 54.248.196.117
Name: relays-new.cardano-testnet.iohkdev.io
Address: 3.9.80.183
Name: relays-new.cardano-testnet.iohkdev.io
Address: 3.129.133.68
Name: relays-new.cardano-testnet.iohkdev.io
Address: 54.151.49.138
Name: relays-new.cardano-testnet.iohkdev.io
Address: 13.250.156.57
Name: relays-new.cardano-testnet.iohkdev.io
Address: 54.250.11.33
Name: relays-new.cardano-testnet.iohkdev.io
Address: 18.159.64.253
Only 8 servers at mostā¦donāt know how many of them are activeā¦they canāt be pingedā¦even the ones Iām connected toā¦and Iām not going to use nmap to see how many could be onlineā¦lol
Anyway, that mainnet idea is starting to look better each day; i.e., just practice on mainnet. Much less effort involved I would suppose. I know external DDOS attack is less likely than wallet issues, which sorta makes me think that they have abandoned maintaining the testnet because mainnet wallet doesnāt have those issues. Thereās no need for them to maintain testnet network anymore - they already have more than 1,000 registered pools, with the majority of them producing few if any block per epoch.
Thatās likely the reason they want to raise the k value so soonā¦they donāt want to lose the pools that have invested a lot of time, but canāt afford to stay online, by forcing delegates of saturated pools to move to less used pools, thus decreasing the number of ātrained on testnetā SPOs that theyāll lose over time if k remains low too long.
I think a number of delegates donāt careā¦they are either ābrandā loyal or just busy with other things. Letās see what happens when k value gets raised.
Getting late again here, Adrem. Letās see if tomorrow bring us more luck. cya
on pooltool.io there is a switch at the bottom of the page - by default it is mainnet but can be modified to testnet by clicking on it.