Surprise AMA 10/10/2020

Opens October 10th 2020 with a surprise AMA after a crazy busy month.

He is coming off a one-week water fast, lost three pounds of fat, and stresses breaking an extended fast carefully with greens the day before.

Marketing director Lisa has had a trial by fire, and that new hire David Orr, a podcaster, will drive product comparison marketing and a 2021 campaign.

Almost 3000 people are participating in Catalyst, with marketing proposals working into the DC Fund.

Announces a signed seven-figure contract bringing Runtime Verification back to work on the KEVM and Yella, one of his favorite projects.

On Goguen, says it is not a light switch but comes over a series of hard-fork combinator events, each adding functionality.

Metadata was the first Goguen-era functionality, already enabling Prism, 30 commercial deals, and the Georgia credential management deal for 50000 users a year.

Each HFC event adds multi-asset, extended UTXO, and more programmability, with details coming at the October 29th product update, since Goguen is a spectrum like Ethereum's ongoing EVM changes.

RINA, the recursive internetwork architecture, saying they built RINA-light for the Cardano network stack, the best self-healing stack in the business, with peer-to-peer coming soon.

The network stack took over two and a half years, influenced by Cloud Haskell and RINA, and is some of the most advanced Haskell code you will ever see.

Marvels that a community project already runs voting over the Cardano blockchain on its own, and that staking guilds are forming.

On stake pool scammers, says SMASH, the stake pool metadata aggregation server, shipped with Daedalus 2.3 and will later fold into Prism.

On the roughly 98 commercial projects, says these are deals still in negotiation and press releases come when noteworthy deals close, noting the UN relationship took years before they could talk about it.

An 80 to 85 percent likely seven-figure Africa deal is coming, and that he announces deals when they close like SingularityNET and New Balance.

On the KuCoin hack and stolen coins, says Cardano's superpower is governance as a service, letting token issuers vote on upgrades, refunds, and theft recovery.

Prefers clear blockchain-enforced voting over ad-hoc beneficent leadership, since governance is hard, so they build tools and APIs so your coin gets governance too.

On whether the Federal Reserve will go to negative interest rates, says 100 percent, a train barreling toward the cliff that no president can turn around, and it is not sustainable.

Someone wanting to help Cardano to learn IdeaScale, submit a ballot, and contact projects, like how he was dragged into a Skype channel to co-found Ethereum.

Jack Dorsey never took up the signed-tweets offer and Twitter's platform is 15 years out of date, so he will inevitably build a better Twitter.

On the Venus Project by Jacque Fresco, says its post-scarcity economy concept converges toward universal basic income projects.

His brother, a Wyoming doctor and general contractor, may start a construction company for 3D-printed homes, inspired by South Africa's Indlu project building 30000 dollar concrete homes.

On whether IOHK is building a privacy coin, jokes that if they were, they would keep it a secret.

On the order of peer-to-peer and Goguen, says metadata already shipped, peer-to-peer needs no hard fork and is testing on the testnet, and full peer-to-peer will land before d hits zero.

On quantum resilience, says the renewal will include a full quantum agenda, and that they researched XMSS, SPHINCS, and lattice-based CRYSTALS but need a post-quantum VRF and to rebuild SNARKs like Sonic.

Quantum resistance is two to three years of work, not urgent since no quantum computer threatens them now but an emerging 2030 threat, and post-quantum crypto is still too slow with signatures 10 to 30 times larger.

On fear of crypto being over-taxed, says the US taxes it as an income event like anything else, so vote for lower-tax politicians since Biden wants capital gains treated as ordinary income.

Reads Biden's tax plan of capital gains as ordinary income, a top rate from 35 to 39 percent, and no payroll exemption above 400000, pushing effective rates over 60 percent in high-tax states.

Crypto gets no special carve-out and is taxed like any investment, since Microsoft and bond dealers cannot escape it either.

On Jeff Bezos's wealth, credits Amazon's scale and says he is a big fan of the estate tax since intergenerational wealth is bad for society.

On a treasury private key, says funds move to a special account distributed by threshold permissioning only on ballot success, so the Catalyst voters control the keys.

He is growing lion's mane and reishi mushrooms and will sell them as supplements, worth about 16 times as much per pound.

Addresses the paint-chip brigade who blame him for giveaway scams that impersonate him, Vitalik, Musk, and Gates on hacked channels, pointing to Steve Wozniak suing YouTube and coining don't be like Sebastian.

On whether he will never leave Cardano, says he cannot promise since after finishing he will make a five-year proposal the community votes on, like a kid growing up and moving out.

Refuses to give an opinion on Vitalik Buterin, and discusses hemp concrete, used since the Gauls, for a possible insulated concrete form home.

Praises Canada, naming chief of staff Tamara Haasen and marketing director Lisa Andrea among about a dozen Canadians on his team.

Jack's decentralized Twitter is good for him but questions why his shareholders would let him compete with the business model, then turns to a question about burning ADA.

Circulating supply is irrelevant to value since the total is the same regardless of unit price, and asks whose ADA he would even burn.

Cites Stellar's burn that killed years of roadmap for a short-term 20 percent boost, and notes over half of Bitcoin may be lost yet the price does not reflect it, calling proof of burn a gimmick from scammers with no dapps or vision.

On a dating app using Prism, describes zero-knowledge threshold proofs to verify age or STD results without revealing identity, a viral decentralized Tinder 2.0 with a built-in payment system.

A web of trust of hospitals and clinics issuing certified records you can selectively reveal via zero-knowledge proofs, DIDs, and blockchain.

On Litecoin and Chainlink, says a Litecoin Improvement Proposal is being written and he has an early-stage oracle idea that would make Chainlink look like a toy, though Chainlink is welcome in oracle pools.

IOHK is partnering with the UN on a hackathon to end poverty, hunger, and climate change, with Cardano as the platform solutions are deployed upon.

He is most excited for the Goguen launch and Voltaire fully waking up, with tens of thousands participating each round and hundreds of projects funded every month.

As a classically trained pianist who loves Beethoven, Chopin, and Bach, says he is most excited about algorithmic music generation assisting composers toward a classical renaissance.

Gives extended fasting tips: start with 16:8 intermittent fasting, then a three-day fat fast into ketosis, then a four-day water fast, recommending Dr. Fung's book.

Fasting benefits like autophagy eating old cells and gluconeogenesis making glucose the brain needs, plus mental clarity and loss of visceral fat.

Extended fasts reveal food allergies like his to avocado and molasses, and recommends the What I've Learned YouTube channel on fasting.

He stopped watching the NBA over sports going woke, suggesting rugby, MMA, and Muay Thai instead.

Defends fielding non-crypto questions since life is a composite of all things and the AMA puts the audience in charge, an idea he got from Rush Limbaugh's Open Line Friday.

Answers Rogan after Gogan on going on Joe Rogan, and says he met Wim Hof and will do iceman training with him.

Hyper-specialization is unfortunate, describing his hydroponic flowers, mushrooms, gardens, donkeys, horses, and owls, and that everything in life is ephemeral like his six months as CEO of Ethereum.

Polkadot will not make Cardano obsolete since they borrow Cardano's work, and that he likes Gavin Wood and the Web3 team.

Names number theory, set theory, logic, and philosophy of mathematics as his favorite subjects, joking he may become an ultra-finitist, and says he races his Lamborghini Huracan against McLarens and Ferraris at over 150 mph.

Recommends David Allen's Getting Things Done, the Pomodoro method, and minimizing context shifting for productivity, praising the new Daedalus desktop update.