Welcome to Chicando

Chicando is a Chicago based and completely independent stakepool. Supporting an open and decentralized world.

About this pool

In the spirit of a healthy decentralized cryptocurrency ecosystem I am not using any centralized "cloud" resources to run this stake pool, nor am I using centrally maintained "helper" scripts.

Despite being 100% self hosted; I've taken numerous measures to ensure 99.9% uptime and 0 missed leader elections and have been successfully running this way for more than a year. This includes redundant hardware, automated deployments, monitoring and alerting, backup power, test systems, infrastructure as code, firewalling, etc...

About me

A Canadian/American Engineer with 15+ years of backend software engineering, architecture, and system admin experience.

Future

I'm a fairly private person but please keep checking this site in the future for better branding and public engagement.

About the name

The name is a loose portmanteau of "Chicago Can Do" and is intended to capture the hard working sprit of this amazing city and its people.