2025-08-31

Surprise AMA 8/31/2025

77 entries

Opens back from Monroe, reporting the Glacier Drop at 89,575 claims and 1.764 billion Night, 7.35 percent of supply, right on the models.

Roadmap & Product

Gives the claim breakdown: 57.8 percent Cardano, 22.4 percent Bitcoin, 9.15 percent Ethereum, and 6.1 percent XRP, with a redemption surge expected on the tail.

Roadmap & Product claimsBTCETH +1

IO commissioned a forensic audit of the ADA voucher program, with a website releasing the AVVM software, the original CF audit reports, and the 108,000 Bitcoin reconciliation addresses.

Company & Team Input OutputIOHKIOG +2

Reports major progress on Ouroboros Leios, with a CIP now open for review after seven months of prototyping.

Cardano Tech & Research Cardano Improvement ProposalCIPs

Summarizes the Leios CIP: 30 to 65x throughput, latency rising from 20 to 40 or 60 seconds, modest four core hardware, and 1 to 1.5 years to market.

Leios is the heart of a long arc scaling agenda toward a one minus delta protocol that is network constrained, not consensus constrained.

Cardano Tech & Research Ouroboros Leios

Implementation uses a follow the sun 24/7 model with AI enhanced coding and handoffs, a first in Cardano's history.

Cardano Tech & Research AI codingartificial intelligence

Leios drops in alongside Praos as the operating mode, failing back to Praos, forcing a test suite across the Amaru, Rust, Haskell, and Go nodes.

Cardano Tech & Research Ouroboros LeiosOuroboros Praos

The network stack needs a universal pub sub, event brokering, and data availability system as they build up the stack.

Cardano Tech & Research

The Monroe Institute and Project Stargate, the CIA remote viewing program from 1972 to 1995 born from a Soviet psychic program.

Personal & Off-topic

Cites the Stargate remote viewing win of spotting the Typhoon submarine inside a building 5000 feet from the sea, and studying under Joe McMoneagle.

Personal & Off-topic

The remote viewing method: clear your mind, get a target, and draw impressions from gestalt shapes to sensory then spatial detail.

Personal & Off-topic

Shows his remote viewing drawing of a timekeeping structure with arches, green glass, and gears matching a blind target envelope.

Personal & Off-topic

Lays out the metaphysics remote viewing requires: a panpsychic conscious universe, a holographic information field, real block time, and the brain as a quantum computer.

Vision & Philosophy panpsychismquantum brain

Plans to scan remote viewers' brains with an fMRI and Brian Johnson's Kernel helmet to study the patterns behind successes.

Personal & Off-topic remote viewing

Associative remote viewing for market prediction, citing the 1982 silver futures project that made 120,000 and a 13 year study by a Polish operator.

Personal & Off-topic

Rebuts the CF, saying Midnight had to spend 23 million on custodians like Copper that the Foundation should have paid for.

Governance & Catalyst Cardano Foundation

Stresses that supporting Midnight means supporting Cardano, since Midnight lives on Cardano, so its integrations are Cardano's integrations.

Roadmap & Product

The 108,000 Bitcoin made him a made man, and IO money builds products and integrations that live on Cardano, not a Charles piggy bank.

Recounts again the Swiss administrator forcing the board choice, arguing the CF's personal liability structure handcuffs it from taking risks.

Governance & Catalyst Cardano Foundation

Accountability means falsifiable outcomes like shipping Leios or launching Midnight, unlike the subjective goal of promoting the brand.

Governance & Catalyst Ouroboros Leios

Marcus's ADA redemption tweet was retaliation for being yelled at when the CF tried to derail the constitutional convention with its own constitution.

Governance & Catalyst Cardano Foundation

The Leios CIP was delayed because the person writing it was hired by the CF to build a competing client, so a captured organization derails progress.

Building products like the Glacier Drop, Midnight, and Lace gives IO the same lived developer experience as builders, aligning them with the community.

Company & Team DevXInput OutputIOHK +1

IO is firing on all cylinders with Leios, Hydra, Plutus V4, StarStream, Midgard, partner chains, and a 19 person Bitcoin DeFi team under Omar.

Roadmap & Product Input OutputIOHKIOG +4

Chainlink is a hard negotiation because non EVM integration needs nine contracts, but Sergey is a smart businessman who knows his worth.

Ecosystem & Partnerships Ethereum Virtual Machine

IO let go over 100 people in 2022 when its commercial team failed, some of whom founded Apex Fusion, and now needs an oracle for Midnight Cardano.

Company & Team layoffsInput OutputIOHK +1

Abu Dhabi offered to change its law for the CF to become an ADGM DLT foundation with incentives, but the CF stays in Switzerland with personal liability.

Governance & Catalyst Cardano Foundation

He hopes Coinbase gives its users the Midnight drop, as even Scaramucci asked where his Night is.

Roadmap & Product

Lace 2.0 is a unified node architecture building to full node, mobile, and browser, with a Mithril node syncing in under an hour, targeting November.

Cardano Tech & Research

Cardano has zero representation in Silicon Valley and the Ethereum world, which is why people like Balaji think it is a dead chain.

Community & Media ETH

Rebuts the lie that everyone hates him, asking how Midnight made all its deals if that were true.

Community & Media reputation

Clarifies Midnight has no CEO and is an open audited protocol, and Iran Barak, who built IDF satellites and ran Symphony, only runs the Shielded side.

Roadmap & Product

Defends working with Israelis, noting Avi Loeb and their deep integration into cryptography, aerospace, and biotech.

Vision & Philosophy Israel

Recommends Bob Harmon as the best vet stem cell expert, who did stem cells for Sheikh Mohammed's horses and got FDA approval for a PRP process.

Personal & Off-topic veterinary

Brian Johnson's Kernel Flow fNIRS headset that shoots light into the brain to measure cognition, part of the biohacker world with Dave Asprey and Tim Ferriss.

Personal & Off-topic biohacking

Bioelectricity: every cell has a voltage fingerprint tied to ion channels, and changing it can turn a cancer cell normal, with DARPA's BETR program studying it.

Cardano Tech & Research

The crypto porn overlap from Operation Chokepoint debanking, and how zero knowledge proofs enable age verification without revealing identity.

Regulation & Legal ZKzero knowledge proofZKP

DARPA predicts and promotes technological surprise since Sputnik, works with private industry, and turned the CALO program into Siri.

Cardano Tech & Research

DARPA's Project PROCEED on homomorphic encryption led to Galois, which writes software in the Cardano ecosystem.

Cardano Tech & Research

Reframes the Swiss coercion argument, saying being told to pick your replacements or face receivership is not free will.

Governance & Catalyst board

Repeats the Digital Asset Foundation Isle of Man origin, saying he never intended Switzerland and better structures exist like the Abu Dhabi DLT foundation and Wyoming Duna.

Governance & Catalyst

Dispels a rumor that Cardano refuses to work with Constellation, saying he has a good relationship with its founders who work with the DoD.

Ecosystem & Partnerships

Gives a web3 dev path: build the Haskell node from source, run a stake pool and DRep, and deploy an Aiken project on the testnet, recommending the book Mastering Cardano.

Cardano Tech & Research test netstakepooldelegated representative +1

Rebuts a quantum resistance troll, citing NIST FIPS 203 to 206, the Halo 3 lattice folding scheme, and the Princeton one shot signatures paper.

Cardano Tech & Research

Lays out the postquantum roadmap: checkpointing, then quantum signatures with Mithril, folding for StarStream, ledger signatures, then consensus, about 5 to 10 years.

Cardano Tech & Research road mappost-quantumpost quantum +1

Uses the armor in the desert analogy: postquantum signatures are 10x larger, so you prepare for the quantum horde without wearing heavy armor now.

Cardano Tech & Research post-quantumpost quantum

Rebuts an Ethiopia question by pointing to the 2023 blog post explaining the war zone work that yielded Atala Prism and led to the RealFi team in Kenya.

Adoption & Africa Identus

His contact list includes many senators, CEOs, and David Rothschild, who invited him to his workshop and built the Plastiki plastic boat.

Personal & Off-topic

Proposes a Nike feeding machine like the Hydra vending machine, calling on Adam Dean to build feed the pig with Nike Coin.

Community & Media

He is extensively vaccinated from a medical family but regrets the COVID vaccine, still feeling injection site pain, part of why he started the clinic.

Personal & Off-topic vaccines

Praises RFK Jr as a high integrity man fighting to remove high fructose corn syrup and food dyes, lamenting Trump derangement making the left defend processed food.

Draws his red line: critics can call him anything, but accusing him of a crime, unlike Laura Shin's book, is why the audit report is coming.

Community & Media

He has met Eric, Ivanka, and Don Trump and found them high integrity, and hate for Trump comes from 24/7 negative media coverage.

Personal & Off-topic Trump family

Says Trumpcoin created problems for passing crypto legislation, a timing mistake, and notes the appeals court quietly overturned Trump's fraud judgment.

Regulation & Legal fraud case

Criticizes the left for accepting Kamala Harris with no primary, urging protest votes instead of legitimizing an undemocratic process.

Regulation & Legal democracy

The new French revolution is blockchain, taking back money, payments, custody, identity, and political systems from the middlemen.

Vision & Philosophy block chain

Advises builders to find their ecosystem interfaces, Rafa at the CF, JJ at IO, Phil at Emurgo, and start small like a Twitter space, not a marriage proposal.

Ecosystem & Partnerships Input OutputIOHKIOG +1

His 250 kilowatt solar farm with 400 kilowatt hours of LG battery banks and a propane generator backup, advocating mandatory solar shingles.

Personal & Off-topic LG batteries

Demonstrates using Grok to fact check a false claim that solar panels damage roofs 50 percent of the time, showing the real failure rate is about 0.05 percent.

Personal & Off-topic

Talk radio programs people with untrue claims, and his own 250 kilowatt field lost only two panels to hail in three years.

Personal & Off-topic solar

The most important entrepreneurial negotiation is the founders agreement, which forces hard conversations before he takes a startup seriously.

Vision & Philosophy entrepreneurship

The Trump Musk triumvirate failed because they had no founders agreement defining the rules of their relationship.

Regulation & Legal Elon MuskElon

Critiques Neuralink: wires in the brain get walled off by glial cells and corrode in a caustic environment, and neurons run on ions not electrons.

Cardano Tech & Research

Praises Synchron, which reads brain signals via a stent through an artery, avoiding drilling and already implanted in more people than Neuralink.

Cardano Tech & Research

A good venture investor talks to the experts then decides the bet, as he did choosing adipose over blood stem cells and filing a patent.

Personal & Off-topic adipose stem cells

The real regeneration question is whether stem cell fate is chemical, DNA, or electrical, which Michael Levin studies.

Cardano Tech & Research stem cells

DARPA's BETR bioelectronics program that closes the loop with actuators and sensors to guide tissue regeneration after blast injuries.

Cardano Tech & Research

Michael Levin's xenobots, biological robots grown from frog and human cells that could program the body better than electrical implants.

Cardano Tech & Research

Argues humans co evolve with a microbiome of foreign cells, so engineered organisms could clear arterial plaque or calm cancer cells that live in a network.

Personal & Off-topic nanotech

Warns about mirror life, chiral synthetic organisms human immune systems cannot recognize, which are being worked on in a lab right now.

Vision & Philosophy biosecurity

His clinic pursues foundational stem cell science, an electrome and exosome program, and dissolving lung scar tissue first, before spinal cord repair.

Personal & Off-topic stem cells

Shows the Vielight photobiomodulation headset for traumatic brain injury, which shoots light to activate neuron mitochondria, studied with Harvard and the VA.

Personal & Off-topic TBI

The 12 hallmarks of aging on his company's website, from mitochondrial dysfunction to stem cell exhaustion, arguing aging is not one thing.

Personal & Off-topic mitochondria

The story of Pontichelli, who lied about his age to fight with the Arditi knife fighters through mustard gas in World War I and lived to 110.

Personal & Off-topic longevity

The body can live long through chemical, electrical, psychological, and genetic factors, so the goal is extending health span alongside lifespan.

Personal & Off-topic longevity

Closes the AMA covering everything from World War I trench fighting to the audit and Bitcoin DeFi, with 21,000 people listening.

Community & Media closingBTCdecentralized finance +2