Governance exception in this period only because of MyAlgo hack

One account I have was hacked and drained a few days ago. It was of course disqualified from governance because of the account balance going to zero. My other account had not yet been hacked, but I was in a big hurry to secure the funds. I didn’t have time to figure out rekeying first, so I just cre…

Confidential Token on Algorand

I think it would be good to add a confidential feature to any transaction, where either the source, destination wallets or the transaction amount - or all three - are concealed unless both parties agree to reveal the details to an inquiry. Is that something that could be done with a smart contract s…

Pre-installed Nodes

I’m not sure what a node wallet is but it sounds like an interesting idea. I’m sure someone could just containerize a configured node and make it really simple to deploy one on AWS or Azure. You would still have to maintain it, keep it online, update it, and pay for it though. The setup isn’t too di…

Identity based governance

Maybe a “bicameral” system with 1d1v in the “House” and 1p1v in the “Senate”? Still would depend upon the validation of each unique person. They do it for Binance or other trading platforms, so it could be possible to create a registry or validated wallets, so it would really be 1vp1v - 1 vote per v…

How to increase the speed of Algorand mainnet data loading

Algorand #node-runners
from @Urtho 4/25/22:
"try adding
"AccountsRebuildSynchronousMode": 0,
"LedgerSynchronousMode": 0,

to the config.json and see if this speeds things up"
I’m having the same issue. If you do make this change, I recommend saving a copy of the config.json so y…

Error when attempting to update to latest release on Ubuntu relay node - please help

Ok, done. The node is running 3.4.2. Thanks for the help. It is odd though - I ran the add key command last night and the update failed. Everything checks out ok now though, so all good. Thanks for the assist.

Error when attempting to update to latest release on Ubuntu relay node - please help

I have attempted to update an Ubuntu relay node that uses default locations for binary and data directories. According to the documentation, it should automatically update to the current release 3.4.2. That didn’t happen, so I tried to run apt-get update to force the update. When I run the command, …