cardano-ledger-specs VS cardano-node

Integrates with the ledger, consensus and network components that power the Cardano network. (These are also written in Haskell, and we work closely with these teams.)

I'm not a big Cardano fanboy but this doesn't appear to be the case https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-ledger-specs/commits/master

Another thing I should mention is that, if you look at the Cardano smart contract integration formal specification, it actually contemplates the potential co-existence of multiple smart contract scripting languages, of which Plutus V1 is merely the first one.

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https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-ledger-specs/blob/master/shelley/chain-and-ledger/executable-spec/src/Shelley/Spec/Ledger/API/Wallet.hs#L70

This is the repository with the ledger specifications: https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-ledger-specs

Cardano (ADA) – The Sustainability-Focused Blockchain

Hoskinson decided to support Ethereum classic after that and also launched Cardano.

This sluggish activity is hitting smaller cryptocurrencies like Cardano and Solana, which are seeing much slower growth than bitcoin. Trading platforms popular with retail investors, such as Robinhood, are moving to end support for trading these tokens, and the risk of an SEC crackdown has made institutional investors even more leery of them.

Cardano Node 8.1.1 is out. https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/releases/tag/8.1.1

Documentation on that can be found in https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/blob/master/doc/reference/configuring-a-node-using-yaml.md and https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-node/blob/master/doc/reference/cardano-governance.md.