How Cardano works: all about transactions and ADA

Girolamo Cardano was an Italian mathematician, physician, and academic who is credited with inventing the namesake suspension, nautical compasses, and dozens of other devices.
He is also reported to have been an excellent statesman, and it is probable that it was for these reasons that Charles Hoskinson, a former co-founder of Ethereum, created the eponymous Cardano project in…