2021-02-26 · timestamps by NORWAY Stake Pool
AMA 02/26/2021
- Announced Babel fees, letting any native token pay its own transaction fees and positioning Cardano as a leading stablecoin platform.
- Highlighted Cardano's global momentum: growing institutional interest, expansion in Africa, Mongolia, and Georgia, and a meeting with a major US telecom.
- Called Catalyst a lifestyle, not a passive vote, celebrating 10,000 active participants and a deal pipeline outpacing what IOHK alone can service.
- Fired back at Vitalik Buterin's dismissive comments, arguing Cardano's strength is its community and decentralized brain trust, not any one person.
- Took an extended round of viewer questions covering personal life, favorite books and games, travel, philosophy, and Cardano trivia.
- Closed the show funding a Kiva microloan for a Cambodian fishing entrepreneur and thanking the community for 70 percent audience growth.
127 entries
Broadcasts live from a snowy Colorado week, poncho and all.
Recaps the February 2021 Cardano 360 episode covering the whole ecosystem.
Unveil Babel fees letting any native token pay its own transaction fee.
A fund taking a $750 million position in Cardano and Polkadot while dumping Bitcoin.
Points to growing mainstream attention from Kim Dotcom, a Lex Fridman interview, and a New York Times mention.
Announces the multi-asset era arriving with a Daedalus wallet update in March 2021.
Previews March Glow devnets and new dApp development.
Plans to publish DeFi challenge papers modeled on Elon Musk's Hyperloop paper.
Teases the Alpha Frontier Suite and introduces Tom from Runtime Verification.
Hint at a major announcement for Yoroi arriving months ahead of schedule.
Highlights expansion inroads in Africa, Mongolia, and Georgia plus a meeting with a major US telecom.
Catalyst's deal pipeline growing faster than IOHK can service it.
Plans to redirect commercial deals the company can't service into Catalyst proposals.
Calls Catalyst a lifestyle, not a passive vote.
Fires back at Vitalik Buterin's dismissive comments about Cardano.
Cites 10,000 people now active in Catalyst as a milestone for the month.
The Cardano ecosystem as a crucible built and owned by the community.
Recalls the hard early days when Cardano was written off.
Celebrates 70 percent audience growth and thanks the community.
Open the floor to viewer questions.
Picks Lord of the Rings over what he calls Star Wars' woke wars.
An upcoming Real Vision interview.
Confirms his poncho is alpaca wool from Ecuador.
Praises Brave and BAT for reaching 50 million users.
Confirms the fire behind him is real.
Calls Fortune 500 adoption of Cardano inevitable.
Talk Korean barbecue and plans to return to Seoul.
Praises Stargate SG-1 and Richard Dean Anderson.
Denies getting a haircut, joking about his hair.
His special K metaphor referencing Elon Musk and the movie Se7en.
Cardano's name honors mathematician Gerolamo Cardano.
Names Richard Feynman as his favorite scientist for his artistic side.
Picks self healing and instant finality as his favorite Ouroboros Omega features.
He'd still work with Gavin Wood and Polkadot despite past grievances.
Recounts visiting the Kigali genocide museum in Rwanda and a lesson in forgiveness.
Advises a Golang developer to build Cardano tooling and Go libraries.
Teases a big Yoroi wallet update coming at the March 2021 Cardano 360.
Credits staying positive to the power of daily thought.
Shouts out an Okinawa Japan meetup and teases an Ouroboros hardware update.
Calls Ron Paul the only boss he ever truly loved.
Plans for smart contract developer certification with the Cardano Foundation.
Admiration for samurai bushido and Miyamoto Musashi.
Picks Tupac over Biggie.
He probably won't have time for the Diablo 2 remaster.
Admits losing a childhood fist fight.
Jokes he has no visible tattoos.
Estimates over half of ADA holdings sit with Cardano's Japanese community.
Argues against software and protocol patents in open source ecosystems.
Welcomes future Cardano development in Egypt and North Africa.
Recommends Hibiki as his favorite Japanese whiskey.
Reciting Fibonacci is easy since it's computable, unlike memorizing pi.
Recalls presenting at an ETC summit in Vancouver draped in a Canadian flag.
Reassures that ADA's price will get there with patience.
Traces his Norwegian ancestry and trips chasing the northern lights.
Challenges the community to build an open marketplace like OpenBazaar on Cardano via Catalyst.
Points to the Ouroboros paper Consensus Redux for the self healing feature.
He livestreams because thousands of people show up to watch.
Recalls a memorable trip to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Recalls living in Zug, Switzerland.
Teases writing a book about what happened from 2014 to 2016 after Ethereum.
Names his Ford Taurus as his favorite car for the memories.
Credits the ledger combiners paper for shaping Ouroboros Omega alongside Praos and Genesis.
Lists his daily vitamin stack, D3, K2, and coconut oil.
Highlights Cardano's research relationship with the University of Connecticut and Alexander Russell.
Picks Denis Villeneuve and Stanley Kubrick as favorite directors.
Names a chocolate massage as his biggest guilty pleasure.
Wishes a viewer named Sonny happy birthday.
Recommends the Zettelkasten note taking system and SQ3R for studying.
Jokes that he left the Ethereum Foundation because he liked Coke and they liked Pepsi.
Calls empathy for others the most valuable lesson he's learned.
Debunks a viral photo of him with 'hookers' in Vegas as just hanging out with a longtime friend.
Picks Cobra Commander as his favorite GI Joe figure.
Voice support for decentralized voting since Cardano already does it.
Reveals where he buys his ponchos, joking about a 'poncho warehouse'.
Recalls trips to both islands of New Zealand and thank Kim Dotcom for his support.
Challenges the community to bring decentralized storage like Filecoin's model to Cardano.
Confess a love for floppy drive music over modular synths.
Cardano's applied utility work in Romania with community members.
Praises Amsterdam and its waffles.
Picks boxing for Tyson fights, otherwise MMA, and addresses a stalled ITN vote.
Jokes about being told he sounds a bit British.
Confirms he's been to Denmark.
Jokes that the SEC investigating Elon Musk happens every Tuesday.
Names Samurai Jack and Fullmetal Alchemist among anime he's seen.
Points viewers to the IOHK YouTube channel for Cardano learning videos.
Jokes about his Scottish accent and reputation in Edinburgh.
Shares fond memories landing in Frankfurt, Munich, and Berlin.
Praises Belgium for its chocolate and waffles.
Recalls spotting kiwi birds and moa skeletons in New Zealand.
Calls his relationship with Ben Goertzel and SingularityNET great and offers to back their Catalyst bid.
Picks a Greek curse word as his favorite for its backstory.
Vow to build a new Twitter alternative if Jack Dorsey won't verify his account.
Confirms Haskell isn't required to build on Cardano, teasing more languages coming in March.
Complains that Daedalus drains his MacBook battery.
Defends algorithmic trading as adding market efficiency, not parasitism.
Picks Guns N' Roses over AC/DC, citing a friendship with Matt Sorum.
Recalls Wittgenstein's friendship with G.H. Hardy.
Jokes that his poncho is available on Amazon for $40.
Gives D&D advice for defeating a beholder by collapsing its cave.
Put the Legends of Valor game on hold to focus on Cardano.
Shares his childhood nickname, Passwordbandit123.
Clarifies the question was about soccer, not the game Legends of Dragoon, and picks the NFL.
Names Arcanum as his favorite video game and says he'd clone his dog.
Picks systems theorist as the profession he'd choose instead.
Calls Mark Zuckerberg a pretty good android.
The King Edward VII funeral photo on his Twitter profile.
Compares Europe's fallen monarchies to a slow growing social sinkhole.
Calls choosing between bears and otters an unbearable choice.
Spar with Big Pay's host about too many mid roll ads on shared content.
Denies being a robot, riffing on Luke Skywalker and a liar's paradox.
Admits he never beat Diablo's secret cow level.
The Cardano logo was designed from a gyrocycloid animation by Emurgo.
Jokes about feeling like an old curmudgeon at 33.
Names There Will Be Blood as a favorite film depending on the day.
Confirms trips throughout Southeast Asia.
Declines a shroom trip and names judo as his favorite sport to play.
Names Antarctica as the continent he'd most like to visit.
Unveil his RATS stake pool built with Samuel Leathers around RISC-V hardware research.
Proceeds from the RATS pool fund his shenanigans and a friend's land purchase.
Picks Avengers Infinity War as his favorite MCU film.
Attribute the Ethereum community's hostility to hate rather than substance.
Denies getting fetal tissue anti-aging injections in Florida.
Recommends The Creature from Jekyll Island on the Federal Reserve's history.
Makes his case to a self-described Ethereum maxi for a cooperative Cardano-Ethereum relationship.
Kick off the show's Kiva peer to peer microloan segment.
Funds a Cambodian fishing entrepreneur's Kiva loan live on air.
Closes the show thanking the community and looking ahead to March.