cardano-sl VS daedalus

The daily developments were reduced by August but resumed vigorously in September. The whole of September was a busy month for developers as the daily submission rates for most coins were very high. At this time, ETH, DOT, and ADA were the leader as SOL followed closely behind. It was not till towards Mid-October that the daily developments reduced.

So, uh, the two things the blog post covers are actively awful practices. Let's look at Logging. Logging boils down to ServantLogConfig, which carries a function Text -> IO (). This is bad. Text is not a great type for logging, since it's relatively slow and encodings aren't guaranteed to be sensible (cf this bug where logging to a file was broken based on environment encoding). You want something like LogStr from fast-logger, or even a ByteString.Builder or Text.Builder even.

oops I want my Daedalus wallet (actually very surprising it's not there as Cardano uses Nix). Meanwhile this packaging request has been Open since 2017.

Otherwise you can use the following instructions for adding the caches to your local Nix install: https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-sl/blob/master/docs/nix.md#binary-cache

For what it's worth, coincheckup is tracking https://github.com/input-output-hk/cardano-sl which is the old repo from before they split up a lot of the infrastructure into their own repos.

You can download daedalus from https://daedaluswallet.io/

First, you'll need to download and install the Daedalus wallet on your computer from https://daedaluswallet.io/

I don't think Daedalus has the option anymore (there's an open request to reimplement it) so you'll need to use a different wallet that supports it.

Use https://daedaluswallet.io/ for ADA. Add your stake to a pool that's not in the high percentage share for a fairer reward

Apple M1 has been working for some time, but those binaries are not yet signed apparently. Check the hash after download: https://github.com/input-output-hk/daedalus/issues/2677

Daedalus (Desktop) - Resource heavy, no DaPP capabilities, safer than web wallets

Daedalus is a full node wallet, which means that it takes a while to sync up to the blockchain. It will probably ask you to run an upgrade, which is fine. Be aware that there are scammers that try to get you to download fake wallets, so make sure the source is from: https://daedaluswallet.io/. Once the application runs, you can restore your wallet, create a new wallet with your own keys, and then transfer your ADA to your own secure wallet. Otherwise, you just have to trust me - but crypto is about trusting nobody! Take control over your own money.

Download from: https://daedaluswallet.io/