Intro

Milestone 2: DNO (Dando Node Operator) funding - 50.000 ADA

1. Distribute test 1 ADA on mainnet

2. Ratio is now producing green blocks. Connected with nginx and certbot certificates. This script works outside of the docker infrastructure.

   1. https://github.com/GameChangerFinance/dandelion-lite/tree/feat/nginx

3. Q sync status?

   1. Check SSD

4. Bought a dual core Xeon as extra dandelion node. Cost

   1. Corsair 5000D Airflow Tempered Glass Black Corsair RM1000x 2024 PSU / PC voeding Arctic Cooling Liquid Freezer III 240 (Black) (2x) Samsung 990 EVO PLUS 2TB M.2 SSD
      Cost: € 496.28

   Machinist X99 D8 MAX Dual CPU moederbordset met Intel LGA 2011-3 Xeon E5 2696 V3 *2 en DDR4 128 GB (8 * 16 g) CC RAM 2400 MHz **Cost: € 450,74

   Total: € 947,02**

5. Generated some more NFT images

6. Mordicus, Lumethis, Feyren, Cronocx, Selandor

Milestone 4: Maintenance

1. Added a script for csnapshot.io With this you do not need to sync mainnet from the start
   1. https://github.com/GameChangerFinance/dandelion-lite/tree/feat/csnapshot
2. Bought a Synolgy just for hosting dandelion backups. Synology DS723+ + 2x 8TB Seagate Ironwolf. Cost € 850,41 Stopgap for building fully distributed backup sharing. This provides a webDAV service where backups of dandelion can be downloaded
3. Adriano explored Yaci
4. Building a containerized version with nginx integration.
5. Switched my AWS to also use IPv6 and it’s great. IPv6 no more NAT. Be careful. When your provider switches your router to uses this all your devices are accessible online. But maybe hard to discover.
6. Blockfrost has been added to Dandelion. https://github.com/GameChangerFinance/dandelion-lite/blob/feat/blockfrost-4.1.0/README.md