Back in the office: AMA 08/09/2024

Recaps an August trip through Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Guatemala, meeting the Central Bank of Brazil, the Cardano LatAm community with Rafa, Milei's government, and Globant.

The prestigious University of Buenos Aires law school is secured for December's Constitutional Convention, with thanks to JJ, Intersect's Alex Banker, and the LatAm community.

Recounts a Guatemala jungle-warfare trip climbing a 13,000-foot volcano in hail and torrential rain, camping until a widowmaker crushed their hammocks and rained scorpions.

His 10,000-square-foot Gillette clinic is expanding to 70,000, including an Infinity Room for patients larger than Yayoi Kusama's in Los Angeles, and that Cardano's extended UTXO makes it the best place to learn UTXO development.

On UK speech arrests, says he will never accept people jailed for a Facebook post or tweet, since punishing words not actions is the first move of every totalitarian regime, and a showdown could even target Elon Musk.

On handling hate, says you can never win with critics who would tear you down even after a perfect helocast, so you must not take it personally, calling out a Forbes crypto director's article branding him a cult leader.

Social media fights human tribal DNA that relies on others' opinions, and the healthiest response is to treat your public persona as an avatar while being deeply discriminating about your real inner circle.

Defends leaving a dead baby bear in Central Park as environmentalist awareness of humanity's impact, like the bleached Great Barrier Reef forcing people to see the cost of modernity.

A decentralized social network needs a meta-protocol above the networks with truth marketplaces and prediction markets, citing Robin Hanson, plus reputation and veracity-bond systems instead of deplatforming.

Veracity bonds where a publisher stakes money on an article's truth, asking if the New York Times would risk a million dollars on the Hunter Biden laptop story, since confidence is cheap only when it is free.

Points to Daniel Miessler's Unsupervised Learning substrate framework as a cognitive structure for hierarchizing claims, arguments, and sources, combining it with veracity bonds, prediction markets, and large language models into a truth meta-protocol.

Demonstrates fact-checking an anti-EV mining meme in Claude, noting the woke bias in models and that an agentic workflow across Claude, Grok, and GPT-5 lets a non-expert derive truth with the right tools.

Misinformation like the JD Vance couch joke or Walz horse-semen claim spreads because people believe what confirms their bias, so automating and gamifying truth discovery is the fix, and praises community notes.

Rebuts a Plutus-is-back-in troll by explaining UPLC runs hundreds of dApps via Plutus, Aiken, and TypeScript, and that developer experience is exponentially better than 2021, so you pivot a roadmap rather than follow a failed one.

Peer review gives Cardano objective grounding journalists can trust and, more importantly, a decentralized brain, so the ecosystem is not dependent on one founder's compromisable genius.

The faceless global innovation engine spans labs at Stanford, CMU, Wyoming, Edinburgh, Athens, and Tokyo with 168 scientists, 200-plus papers, and 10,000 citations that cannot be manipulated or compromised.

Cardano and Midnight give the best voting platform for any ballot architecture, but he will take no state voting deal unless it also modernizes the identity system with DIDs, or you just build a very secure way to cheat.

On the Ripple SEC case, says the judge's split ruling gave little clarity but Ripple is essentially through it, and that XRP paid 125 million for a partial answer after 300 million in legal fees.

His clinic uses Athena Health since Epic will not work with clinics, and he is interested in a Midnight module combining fully homomorphic encryption with an electronic health record.

Key-man risk must be eliminated because humans die, so if you believe in decentralization you plan for succession no matter how much you love someone.

Rebuts that ADA has been stuck, saying there is no correlation between progress and price, the first lesson in crypto, since Nike the pig hit a 15-million market cap while a technological marvel like Ergo languishes.

The only two options are changing the world's systems or being someone's fool, since handing crypto to centralized custodial actors under full government compliance makes it no different from PayPal or Chase.

Cardano was not written in Rust because it started in 2015 when Rust was immature, and research papers translate easily into the math-like purely functional Haskell, while Rust is used in the cryptography and partner chains.

Jason Scott filmed the alien documentary in Papua New Guinea over a year ago for a Netflix release with no date yet, and he will do Joe Rogan eventually with no rush.

His stem-cell lab under cardiologist Dr Lesser is operational in September with hyperbaric monoplace chambers first, then FDA phase-one trials in Wyoming, growing to a 600-person study across Wyoming, Colorado, and Florida.

The last family-owned multi-specialty practice was Mayo Clinic by the father-son Charles and William Mayo, mirroring him and his brother William, since history rhymes.

He uses ethical adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells with unlimited self-supply rather than fetal-tissue pluripotent cells that would drive fertilization factories, and pairs them with hyperbarics to avoid the tumor risk of induced pluripotent cells.

Partner chains bridge to Cardano via eventually-recursive SNARKs for trustless bidirectional transfer, with Ouroboros Peras giving fast finality and a two-token model where SPOs validate the partner chain and ADA holders earn.

Ouroboros Genesis is nearly finished and Tweag, who implemented it, will roll onto implementing Peras once the CIP details land, delivering fast finality bootstrapped from Genesis.

Defends supporting RFK as a centrist who takes a little of the left and right to force a reset, arguing the country needs someone with compassion who addresses the 35 trillion dollar debt where half of taxes service interest.

Says when RFK's uncle was president 6 percent of Americans had a chronic ailment versus over 60 percent now, with microplastics and plummeting fertility, a public-health crisis costing 4 trillion a year, alongside endless unwinnable wars.

Attacks the military-industrial complex, saying the trillion-dollar F-35 is a Frankenstein failure while deployed troops use Vietnam-era hand-me-downs and are not cared for after being shot.

Calls Ukraine the wet dream of wars with no political consequence, where 200 billion in hardware becomes a trillion in procurement of new Abrams X and Raytheon and Lockheed kits, while Putin keeps the territory.

Argues that taking US money, weapons, and NATO support means Ukraine does not solely decide its borders, citing the Gulf War where Dick Cheney wanted Baghdad but the coalition stopped at Kuwait.

Cites the 1945 Yalta Conference where a dying FDR gave Poland to the Soviets despite its sacrifice, showing small nations lose sovereignty in great-power conflicts, and traces NATO's expansion from 20 to 32 countries toward Russia.

The war's roots trace to Reagan and Gorbachev managing the Soviet collapse in 1986, and that without a stated mission you are just buying time with young lives, as in Vietnam from 1968 to 1973.

Critiques Trump's Bitcoin conference speech as 45 minutes of bluster around five minutes of policy, contrasting it with RFK's specific strategic Bitcoin reserve, and says he could have shown humility toward young innovators.

Trump's promise to fire Gary Gensler on day one is a check he cannot cash, since a president can only request a chairman's resignation, as Hester Peirce shows by serving out her Trump appointment under Biden.

Atala Prism is Midnight's preferred but not mandatory DID framework since DIDs are a standard, and that the Pentagon expects China to take Taiwan around 2027.

Calls one-token-one-vote a good starting point of minimum viable governance, not the endpoint, since a perfect government needs multiple resource pools and ballot mechanisms, rated on integrity, efficacy, and efficiency.

Advises a listener whose girlfriend has unexplained migraines to try a keto diet, since migraines can link to the microbiome, diet, and seed oils, as he saw with a friend's epilepsy.

He cannot wait for Intersect's budget to fund marketing to fight ecosystem misinformation, and that unlike Brian Johnson's gene therapies and Minicircle he sticks to stem cells, hyperbarics, and jungle warfare.

He is setting up an AMA with RFK and Nicole Shanahan around RareEvo, and remains 100 percent convinced 2025 will be Cardano's year with the roadmap nearly done and the on-chain government live.

Holders in losses it is not his job to reverse the price of a decentralized protocol, and that if they think a CEO will save them they want Microsoft, not crypto, since this is about changing the world's systems.

Reiterates that ADA is not a financial investment but infrastructure to rebuild money, voting, and identity so you own your assets and can retire on sound money, with the token as the fuel for that system.

Price is random and stochastic, since Luna went to 50 billion and vanished and a 90-percent-premined coin run by Russians in Abu Dhabi has value, so holders must decide why they are really here.

Bringing USDC to Cardano is not a money problem, that Circle has not given a fair shake, and he trusts the Foundation's patient negotiators while pushing homegrown sovereign and private stablecoin options.

Answering how to prepare an eight-year-old for Cardano development, says teach a love of three things, a maker mindset via Raspberry Pi tinkering, data science and Python for the AI world, and the intersection of networks, crowds, and markets.

Recommends Kleinberg's book Networks, Crowds, and Markets, which convinced him to enter crypto full-time in 2011 by showing that if information is free, value transfer must be free too.

Points to the Santa Fe Institute for complexity theory and Joel David Hamkins's philosophy of mathematics to show even math is malleable, so if math is not fully complete, neither are laws or society.

Closes after two hours that the only constant is change and everything resets, so his last advice is to teach a child that failure is fine as long as they get back up, thanking the smartest community in crypto.