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Story: Polkadot (DOT) Kick Starts the 6-Week Virtual Hackathon with Hundreds of Hackers

By Steven Anderson

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Polkadot (DOT) Simplification Required

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Polkadot have announced, starting today, hack on the Polkadot challenges in #BlockHackGlobal2020, hosted by @BitcoinBay!

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The latest Polkadot Digest is out.  The news has published that due to latest validator election, some low-balance nominators were removed.

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Council-proposed Referendum 7 is now up for voting. This will increase the size of the optimum active validator set by 1 every era (day) for 100 days.

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You can interact with a Substrate-based node (including Polkadot or Kusama) with Python using Polkascan's Python interface.

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In response one of the commentators queried, where is the information on this? I can't find it in governance.

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Further expressed, my nomination was set to inactive on the 24th September - is this related? No rewards for 6 days in an undersubscribed pool.

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Those who are serious about making an impact in the governance should be keen about checking in to what is happening with their nominations.

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Sydney Ifergan, The crypto expert, “Polkadot (DOT) is surprising, it is out in the sky shining bright all of a sudden in the rank ladder.

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Reportedly, there is a Council motion to gradually increase the number of validators in the active set, one per era (day), for the next 100 days.

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Of note, The Polkadot Ledger application is compatible with both the Ledger Nano S and the Ledger Nano X devices.

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There is a Walk through available for how to set up the Polkadot app on the Ledger device and on how to connect it to the Polkadot-JS app.

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One of them expressed, It's been tough for me to navigate myself in Polkadot environment. Even basic operations seem geekily complicated.

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Several users feel that a simplification of Polkadot is required.

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Of note, The next Substrate developer community conference is coming October 15th.

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