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4,006 entries across all AMAs, in chronological order, showing the first 150.
5:01 Knowing no one in the space, teaching a free Udemy Bitcoin course under Creative Commons brought 70,000 students and a network.
1:22:25 Jokes about wanting to spar with Roger Ver over Dan Larimer, praising Ver's salesmanship despite disagreeing with Bitcoin Cash.
1:48:11 Driving a Cadillac XTS instead of a Lamborghini and rank supercar prices against upkeep costs.
1:49:19 Praises the 2019 Cadillac CT6 twin turbo V8 and recent Corvettes as underrated American performance cars.
1:51:14 Jokes about liking the Porsche 918 when asked about cars.
1:51:29 Declines to fully unpack the Craig Wright question, teasing it as a topic for another time.
39:00 Jokes about tolerating quirky beliefs among friends, recalling a flat earther who runs the Tokyo Bitcoin meetup group.
0:03 Kicks off the AMA before flying to South Korea and Japan, promising to work through a batch of pre asked bonus lifestyle questions first.
1:15 Answers a fan in Germany asking how he runs a company, travels hundreds of days a year, and copes with the stress.
1:31 Admits he came from a family of workaholic doctors and picked up their worst habits, including getting gout at 27.
2:23 Recalls gaining over 60 pounds in four years and realizing the trajectory was heading toward 300 pounds and an early heart attack.
2:59 Credits nephrologist Dr. Jason Fung's intermittent fasting advice with an eight hour eating window for losing 22 pounds.
3:34 Moving toward a ketogenic diet and the mental clarity he noticed once fasting pushed him into ketosis.
4:23 Shows off a Muse EEG headband he uses for mindfulness meditation, which gives real time feedback on calm versus active brain states.
5:24 Tries floatation therapy, floating in dense salt water in a pitch black soundless tank, and says it has improved his sleep.
6:55 Recommends lifestyle resources including Tim Ferriss, the Joe Rogan podcast, and the books Stealing Fire and How to Change Your Mind.
7:51 Credits probiotics and gut health work for easing his acid reflux and food allergies, citing the books Grain Brain and The Good Gut.
1:17:33 Takes a break for a fun question about giraffes, recounting one that begged for potato chips on a South African safari.
1:23:05 Shares that switching to LastPass and two factor authentication improved his personal security at the cost of some control.
1:36:44 Recounts having his own phone number SIM swapped by hackers and references Michael Terpin's multi million dollar theft case.
1:40:38 Shares his grandfathers' stories, including one with Alzheimer's, as examples of how elderly people become scam targets that crypto's design doesn't protect.
0:03 Open the AMA broadcasting live from a Toronto hotel and apologize for the shaky Wi-Fi.
1:34:11 Confirms plans to visit India in 2019.
1:36:05 Confirms plans to visit Australia and New Zealand, noting several IOHK staff already based there.
1:43:33 Closes with a joke about Colorado's decade of legal cannabis and Canada being late to catch up.
7:22 Runs through the travel schedule ahead: Mexico, Thailand, Vegas, Scotland for Plutus Fest, Abu Dhabi and Uganda.
20:11 Muses about ADA sponsoring the 2020 Tokyo Olympics once the treasury system exists, joking about a Dogecoin style bobsled sponsorship.
42:31 Jokes about not taking care of his health while traveling and a running bet about losing weight in 2019.
47:16 The Hawaiian shirt: he used to live on Maui.
47:29 He'll be attending a crypto event in Ohio, though he can't recall its name.
49:06 He doesn't like coleslaw and invites any off topic questions.
50:59 Traces his path into cryptography through a CU Boulder course and later Coursera classes from Dan Boneh and John Katz.
1:00:15 Recommends Ron Chernow's biography Grant and begins telling Ulysses S Grant's underdog origin story.
1:02:20 Continues the Grant story through his alcoholism, poverty and failed attempt at farming before the Civil War.
1:03:20 Follows Grant's rapid Civil War rise from colonel to lieutenant general, then to president.
1:04:03 Grant being swindled in a Ponzi scheme, dying of cancer while finishing his best selling memoirs, and his legacy fighting the Ku Klux Klan.
1:05:39 Two more recommendations: Moonwalking with Einstein on memory training and Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life.
1:13:56 Jokes that Ron Paul is too old to run in 2020 but praises Rand Paul.
1:14:15 He's tried flotation tank therapy and plans to buy his own tank.
1:17:08 Jokes that Chinese mining farms could someday be rows of people meditating in headsets instead of running rigs, dubbing the idea tranquil chain.
0:03 Opens fresh off a world trip, recapping Plutus Fest in Edinburgh with the Plutus and Marlowe team and finally shaving off the long beard.
24:04 Reflects on a year of travel to 30 countries and roughly 60 events, meeting fans who got Cardano tattoos, planted trees, and named children after the project.
0:06 Shares a personal update: moving from a two-bedroom apartment to a 50-acre ranch, regrowing his beard, and posting a giraffe photo for the holidays.
32:55 Brushes off a request about an unrelated coin called AOS and thanks the audience for the Christmas well-wishes.
1:31:39 Shows off an ancient Babylonian clay tablet complaining about copper quality as proof that internet trolling is nothing new.
1:39:25 Wraps up the AMA, thanking everyone for participating and wishing them a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
0:06 Opens the AMA live from a conference in Switzerland after traveling from London through Zurich, joking about being tired late at night.
1:16:07 Shares a personal aside about doing judo as a kid and college classmates at Metro State Denver who went into Brazilian jiu jitsu.
1:25:38 Jokes about wanting to embed goofy images like David Hasselhoff on a jet ski somewhere in the product.
1:34:09 Wraps up the AMA, thanking viewers for their time before signing off for the night.
0:10 Open the AMA late at night in Colorado since fans around the world are in different timezones.
1:23:30 Jokes that his famously long, meandering answers have driven some viewers away while others love them.
1:24:42 Trades banter with a viewer from Turkey and jokes about a rival project's papayas.
1:50:20 Jokes about a dystopian ad filled HoloLens future and greets viewers watching from Vietnam.
1:09:03 Miami Beach in April also means the Everglades, Disney World and a Caribbean island an hour away, and if only the IOHK crowd shows up you get to hang out with them anyway.
6:04 Order is a tool of the older: his math office was hundreds of half filled yellow pads of organized chaos, and he only started tidying as his attention to detail declined.
7:11 For the 10 Year Challenge, 2009 meant studying mathematics, jogging daily and being happier, and he will tweet a picture at some point.
0:53 Opens the AMA live from Hong Kong, jokes about a pet kangaroo joey from Australia and luggage lost by the airline.
24:58 Shares personal news: his mother's knee replacement recovery and his grandmother's death while he was traveling.
40:51 Jokes that almost nobody knows what homotopy type theory even is.
52:39 Recounts his own math research into additive number theory and prime factorization, joking he counts as a failed mathematician.
1:00:00 Recommends the Netflix animated series Bojack Horseman.
1:05:03 Jokes about possibly running into Justin Sun at Token2049 for a photo.
1:05:25 Picks Marvel over DC, naming Doctor Strange and Iron Man as favorites.
1:05:50 Jokes that Qantas lost his luggage again and he is stuck wearing the same clothes.
1:08:25 Riffs on doing a Joe Rogan podcast someday, praising the Alex Jones episode as unbeatable.
1:09:22 Jokes he knows absolutely nothing about Lagrange multipliers.
1:11:03 Banters with a troll asking which avoided question he should answer, cannot place a Nostradamus reference.
1:12:09 Jokes about being accused of a Jekyll and Hyde personality.
1:20:16 Muses on the untranslatable Voynich Manuscript and recommends the medieval Codex Gigas.
1:21:16 Jokes that Cardano's dog mascot is basically Disney's Pluto.
1:21:47 Names Legends of Valour as his favorite childhood video game and its accidentally missing ending as a life analogy.
1:23:26 Thanks the audience and signs off ahead of Token2049 in Hong Kong.
37:35 Traveling he never checks his boots or laptop bag since luggage is lost once or twice a year, and clarifies ADA is not a security and pays no dividends.
49:02 Shares that his K-12 education was homeschool and he finished high school early, lamenting states outlawing it when unlimited curated knowledge exists online for building critical thinking.
8:20 Jokes about needing a haircut after a 23 day world trip.
31:53 Jokes about his choppy webcam, explaining he is stuck on a 4G connection while his co-founder gets gigabit fiber in town.
40:11 5G health concerns fall outside his expertise but admits they give him a little pause.
49:44 He likes his steak medium with salt.
54:49 Confirms he has been bitten by plenty of mosquitoes growing up in Hawaii.
1:10:10 Jokes that Chris Pratt should play him if the Ethereum books being written ever become a movie.
1:11:03 Names Albert Camus over Marcus Aurelius and calls Tulsi Gabbard the least offensive of the Democratic field.
1:12:37 Won't say whether he owns 52 identical shirts.
1:13:09 Names Boston as his favorite band and previews Steve Miller Band and CCR playing the IOHK Summit.
1:14:55 Rates Game of Thrones season six a masterpiece and season seven weak, and wants George R.R. Martin to finish the books.
1:15:53 Reveals he bought the Jinja Hippos soccer team in Uganda despite knowing little about the sport.
1:16:31 Talks pen habits, growing his own hay on 50 acres, and choosing yaks and alpacas over cattle so he never has to slaughter them.
1:21:29 Explains why his ranch raises yaks instead of bison and shares a story about betting on yak versus bull fights in Mongolia.
1:23:18 Debates the merits of rival Pink Floyd tribute acts booked for the summit after the real band declined.
1:24:16 Wants to watch a movie about the man who killed Hitler and Bigfoot.
1:25:10 Agrees the Nexo spokeswoman is likeable, joking it helps with markets and demeanor.
1:26:18 He is never having kids.
1:26:50 Keeps his LinkedIn profile intentionally incomplete just to annoy LinkedIn trolls.
1:29:48 Muses that Trent Reznor could be the best electronic musician alive if he focused on it, citing his Social Network film score.
1:30:37 Details plans for geothermal HVAC on the ranch, five times more efficient than gas heat and paired with radiant driveway heating.
1:34:54 Recalls glow in the dark research plants tagged with jellyfish genes and imagines a bioluminescent night garden.
1:36:30 Doubts flying cars will ever happen but likes the paraglider fan packs used to commute in remote Alaska.
1:37:59 Recommends Paul Stamets and shares his own habit of drinking mushroom coffee and taking lion's mane.
1:38:56 Mycelia linking trees into a communication network nicknamed the wood wide web.
1:39:30 Points curious viewers toward the Voynich manuscript and the devil inspired Codex Gigas.
2:26 Reads aloud a handwritten letter and an Einstein essay a fan gave him at the summit, The World As I See It.
48:15 Chats about office decor, a Pink Floyd poster and a painting, and explains how he caught an eye infection shaking hands.
1:14:04 A large painting on his office floor, depicting a Roman emperor deciding a defeated foe's fate.
1:32:36 Recounts convincing Steve Miller to headline the summit concert, including playing Take the Money and Run.
1:38:02 Being interviewed for the Banking on Bitcoin documentary, though his footage was cut from the final film.
1:40:56 Plans to binge Game of Thrones after it finishes airing, recalling watching season six on a flight to Japan.
0:32 Plans to catch a 2 30 am Avengers Endgame showing right after wrapping up.
7:32 Names fried scorpion as the best thing eaten while traveling.
8:34 Getting pygmy goats for the ranch.
18:50 Gives a quick tour of the home office.
24:46 Drinks black bulletproof coffee in the mornings.
29:22 The eye has healed well after a hemorrhage.
39:15 Jokes about banning a resident troll from the chat.
39:55 The limited rural internet options at the ranch: DSL, 4G, and satellite.
42:47 Pushes back on calling Chromium garbage, noting Edge and other browsers also run on it.
57:33 Recalls the great cover band at the summit and the resulting hearing loss.
1:20:00 A $500 rescue horse compared to million dollar dressage horses.
1:22:21 Gives a take on the Theranos scandal and whether its CEO should go to jail.
1:24:11 Theranos duped Silicon Valley despite lacking published science or FDA approval.
1:38:31 Explains why a Cadillac CT6 won out over a Tesla.
1:38:57 Quick Colorado football banter about the Rams and Buffaloes.
1:39:23 Argues battery recycling and future chemistries make EV batteries no worse than fossil fuel extraction.
1:43:07 Riffs on direct air capture turning CO2 into oil and battery power as a form of energy independence.
1:44:04 Explains why oil companies favor hydrogen fuel cells since they preserve the existing supply chain.
1:45:27 The US is the largest natural gas producer and that he has never personally owned Ether.
1:47:07 Big Westworld fan, listens to the Wisecrack podcast about the show.
1:48:51 Admits gaining weight since starting the company, citing 100 hour work weeks and heavy travel.
1:50:23 Beer and whiskey picks: Sam Adams winter lager, Glenmorangie Signet, and a 30 year Hibiki.
1:50:56 Best ramen recommendation in Tokyo's Shibuya district.
1:52:11 Closes with the story of narrowly missing Bill Gates at a hotel bar in Miami during the summit.
9:19 He's finishing his last day in New York before flying home to Colorado, then lays out a busy travel schedule including Tel Aviv in June, a possible Uganda trip in July, and a Japan keynote around June 8 to 14.
10:04 Plans to cut travel sharply after July, spend more time in Colorado, and focus on losing weight and getting healthier.
0:03 Recaps a rough trip through New York and Mongolia, catching a stomach bug that forced him to skip Eurocrypt in Germany and head home to recover.
1:19 Rainy Colorado weather, building a chicken coop, and getting geese to keep raccoons away from the chicks.
35:04 Jokes about the Pink Floyd poster in his basement and insists he is not a fake Steve Jobs, just Charles Hoskinson.
35:29 Shares his hobbies: taekwondo and horseback riding in his youth, and a return to playing piano on a new Yamaha Clavinova.
36:22 Confirms horseback riding is real exercise, joking you never see a fat professional dressage rider.
36:40 The story of Lamborghini starting as a tractor maker before its founder, annoyed by Ferrari, decided to build supercars instead.
37:45 He has stuck with jiu jitsu rather than following his employees down the Joe Rogan fuelled rabbit hole into it himself.
48:47 Wishes he had been asked about Babylon and Mesopotamia, showing off cuneiform tablets he owns, including one used for ancient calculations.
55:28 Wraps the short AMA, heading off to a meeting in seven minutes.
0:06 Live from a warm Colorado ranch, driving the land and posting the video on Twitter.
35:59 Greets Portugal, points out the many Brazilians at IOHK, and confirms that yes, this is a rancher shirt.
44:28 There are eleven chickens on the ranch for eggs, geese to guard them and a chicken coop nearly finished.
45:15 You do not build a landing strip for a Gulfstream G650, you build a helipad and keep the plane in a hangar at a real airport.
1:02:01 On who would win a sumo match: he has about a hundred pounds on the questioner.
1:09:44 A big fan of the ketogenic diet, he finds veganism evolutionarily unconvincing since hunter gatherers were likely in ketosis by default.
1:11:14 He was 180 to 190 pounds before starting his businesses and is now around 235, so traveling less and staying in one place is the key to getting healthy.
1:12:47 Lab grown meat within 25 years will force the ethics question, and until then the vegan moral superiority is hard to take.
1:13:23 Bulletproof coffee is great, resveratrol suffers from bioavailability, and 16:8 intermittent fasting is the easiest to maintain.