Running A Cardano Stake Pool Operator: From The Horse's Mouth
AG: My name is Alessandro. I am a back-end web developer from Vancouver BC (immigrated from Germany in 2009) and I am the creator & operator of Sprout Pool, a Cardano stake pool. My main goal is to run a reliable stake pool while educating people new to the crypto space through educational content on youtube and other social media outlets.
I went from learning what it means to run a stake pool to getting our pool’s first delegator in about 3 months; something I am super proud of and excited about. I have an extensive list of short and long-term goals that will elevate my project from being “just another stake pool” to being an essential hub for the community.
AG: A Cardano stake pool is a cluster of servers responsible to process transactions for the Cardano network. Most of the time, someone is the owner/operator of a stake pool but anyone who owns ADA (Cardano’s currency) can choose to delegate their ADA to any of the available stake pools.
All “delegating” means is someone chooses to join (or “pool”) their ADA with others who picked the same stake pool. The collective amount of ADA helps the pool be more likely to be selected to “mint” a block (aka add a block of transactions to the existing blockchain).
