AMA 06/29/2020

Open the AMA live from Colorado, calling the five year push to mainnet a marathon nearly over.

Highlights over 6,000 registrations for the Cardano Summit, six times the 2019 turnout.

The AMA's free for all format, letting the community pick every question.

Defends the Twitter response to Catalyst voting criticism, insisting the process improves every cycle.

Points to the upcoming book The Infinite Machine, with three chapters on leaving Ethereum.

Names Full Metal Jacket and 2001: A Space Odyssey among favorite Stanley Kubrick films.

Shares a passion for collecting artwork, each painting telling its own story.

Dismisses Bitcoin maximalism as ignorant thinking.

Blast a Senate bill to weaken encryption, vowing to fight it to the Supreme Court and fund primary challengers.

Details plans to promote ADA in South Africa through personal contacts there.

Riffs on a possible Goonies sequel with Josh Brolin.

The former ETC team has moved on to something bigger inside Cardano.

Confirms using a Ledger hardware wallet.

Admits to reading up on lucid dreaming.

He has studied apiculture but has not started beekeeping yet.

Researching fantasy magic systems and consulting game developers for a personal game project.

Traces the Ethereum name back to World of Warcraft and names the capybara his spirit animal.

Claims a perfect escape room record.

Jokes Twitter will verify him once Cardano puts them out of business.

Confirms Cardano's Haskell codebase, joking Haskell is 'so 2020' next to PureScript.

Names Bertrand Russell as his favorite philosopher.

Advises a finance masters student to take computer science classes and write a thesis on tokenomics.

Jokes he has no apocalypse bunker and would ride it out like Slim Pickens.

Suggests a law student write a legal analysis of proof of burn ICOs.

Needle Vitalik Buterin with a one line 'GG' if ETH ever flips ADA.

Stephen Wolfram's Cardano Summit speaking slot isn't finalized yet.

Jokes that Satoshi is 'dead and gone' when asked if he is Satoshi.

Reports slow but steady progress on a music composition in G minor, praising a Zimmerman recording.

Touch on network interoperability design working beyond a purely federated model.

Patented tech automatically disqualifies a project from being real competition.

Considers visiting Wales someday despite the weather.

Shrugs off ETC community patent attacks, noting they still concede Cardano's novelty.

Fields a request to burn ADA quarterly.

Condemns Zimbabwe's land seizures and currency collapse under Mugabe as a case for Cardano adoption.

Recalls meeting Gary Gygax when asked about playing Dungeons & Dragons.

Predicts Biden would win the 2020 election today but call his platform just 'not Trump'.

Admits to playing piano badly.

Recalls meeting Weird Al Yankovic at Comic Con.

Jokes he has no private jet yet but is eyeing a Gulfstream G700.

Names Baldur's Gate as a favorite RPG.

Confirms attending a very left leaning University of Colorado Boulder.

Recommends Dr. Jason Fung's YouTube videos for learning about fasting.

Clarifies a Cardano component name honors Ada Lovelace, distinct from Plutus.

Recalls an interview where the screen went blank and he ended up talking to himself.

Shares meeting Devo, praising Whip It.

Names Ulysses S. Grant his idol, calling him the most American American.

The hoodie design honors the Norse god Tyr.

Recounts quitting the Denver Nuggets fandom after they fired coach George Karl.

Confirms book offers are on the table and an Antarctica trip is still planned for 2021.

Wax on Indonesian coffee and proper hand drip brewing technique.

Jeffrey Epstein was killed, not a suicide, calling him a leverage operative.

Insists Cardano is built to last 50 years, not just five.

Renew criticism of Joe Biden as an empty suit after decades in government.

Mark Cuban's Biden endorsement and speculate on a cabinet role and a 2024 run.

Teases good news coming soon on African adoption progress.

Predicts Nikki Haley will run for president.

Predicts a second COVID wave in flu season, citing over 140 vaccine candidates including AstraZeneca and Moderna.

Recalls recruiting Phil Wadler onto the team with a single phone call.

Confess to enjoying Macallan 30 whisky and running short on sleep.

Predicts ADA overtaking Bitcoin's market cap someday.

Predicts Neuralink will eventually work.

Jokes he'll write Ethereum a song if they ship by September.

Runs through favorite presidents Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, and Garfield, blasting statue removals.

Recounts Ronald Reagan's multiple presidential runs against Romney's father and Nixon.

Calls actuarial science as rigorous as a math PhD.

Admits developing agoraphobia during quarantine.

Brushes off QAnon theories as a 4chan thing with no real answers.

Week long fasts using extra salt.

Confess a bee and wasp allergy and phobia.

Waves off Pizzagate pedophile ring theories as far fetched.

Calls Alex Jones entertainingly unhinged, with claims that are all made up.

Names a gladiator painting by Julian Jerome as a favorite piece.

Picks music and vacation cities by mood, naming Prague and Zurich.

Lists ranch crops like broccoli and sweet corn plus a planned aquaponics facility.

Admits becoming an Audi fan despite not favoring European cars generally.

Accuse John McAfee's Ghost coin of copying an earlier privacy project, claiming he could build a far better one.

Praises Libertarian VP candidate Jo Jorgensen for losing with grace and dignity.

Riffs on Bitcoin SV's origin story tied to Calvin Ayre.

Reveals he passed on investing in StarkWare, calling Eli Ben-Sasson's tech impressive.

Warns there is no real Instagram account, calling any found fake and asking for reports.

Hint IOHK may work with Emurgo on a stablecoin.

Hopes a well known crypto figure eventually joins Cardano, noting the backlash he gets for saying so.

Looks forward to celebrating past critics once the Cardano Summit ships.

Recommends permaculturist Paul Wheaton.

Recalls nearly buying a Ugandan sports team and building an African crypto soccer league before COVID canceled it.

Proof of unique human as civil resistance, citing a university paper on its unsolved problems.

Speculates the SEC might appoint 'Crypto Mom' Hester Peirce to a bigger role.

His unexpected celebrity status in Japan, with his face on merchandise.

Denies any active Cardano partnership with Hanson Robotics despite viewer claims.

The incentivized testnet vote failed on low turnout despite 99 percent support, with new governance tools coming.

Shrugs off a rival forking the ITN distribution, joking he now competes with 5,000 coins.

Slam Craig Wright's autism defense as an insult to people actually diagnosed with autism.

Hopes to bring SingularityNET onto Cardano, praising Ben Goertzel's OpenCog.

Recounts IOHK vetoing a Blade Runner branded testnet name and a Harrison Ford summit cameo idea.

Denies facing many lawsuits despite the rumor.

Advises against a Surface tablet for art, recommending a cheap Intel tablet, a big monitor, and a Wacom instead.

Blames the stock market and real economy disconnect on it being a rich person's game, urging HDI over GDP.

Promises to return to a certain YouTuber's channel after Shelley ships.

Estimates 6 to 12 months to feel confident after starting with Python, plugging a free coding channel.

Canceled plans for Japanese archery lessons with an instructor who once taught the Emperor.

Confirms Deckard was a replicant per Ridley Scott, tying it to the unicorn dream.

Teases a homebrew mead project.

Admits barely speaking one language plus a little Toki Pona.

Calls Ben Shapiro smart and disciplined for building a direct to consumer media empire.

Recommends the book Moonwalking with Einstein.

Refuses to reveal mantis meadery plans, quoting 'never gonna tell'.

He does not gamble, naming Arturo Fuente Hemingway as a favorite cigar.

Picks Chris Pratt or Jack Black to play him in a biopic.

Jokes he'll probably be dead by 50, confirming a tri flame beard for Colorado winters.

Admits he has not yet read The Price of Tomorrow but promises to.

Praises Chuck Norris's earning power and debating skill.

Cites a special friendship with Lars at Concordia.

Prefers QLED's quantum dot tech over OLED.

Quantum resistant ledger support is still on the research roadmap.

Calls Bitcoin OG Trace Mayer a smart maximalist and gold bug.

Calls 5G better than 4G and audiobooks as valid as reading in the right context.

Walks through Bob Lazar's Area 51 anti-gravity claims and notes nearby government labs are spookier.

Recommends the Zettelkasten slip box note taking method.

He smells a cover up with coronavirus, calling it a big stinky dead rat.

Favor da Vinci's broader genius over Michelangelo.

Hopes to guest lecture at the University of Wyoming again.

Traces Apple's chip journey from PowerPC to Intel to custom ARM silicon, crediting Steve Jobs' hard bargaining.

Microsoft beat Apple to ARM laptops with the Surface Pro X's SQ1 chip.

Credits AMD CEO Lisa Su for reviving the company against Intel.

Jokes about getting an Illuminati invite in the mail.

Riffs on Tupac conspiracy theories and ongoing Fukushima leaks.

Mississippi should drop its Confederate flag symbol though it is not his call.

Praises the Babylonian solar lunar calendar's leap year system over the Gregorian calendar.

Names Dave Chappelle a favorite comedian and Ubuntu his Linux distro of choice.

Confirms the Cardano Doric website, the first output of the McCann agency partnership, launching around month's end.

Blast Black Lives Matter era cancel culture as intolerant of dissenting views.

Dismisses a rescission class action lawsuit as opportunistic since buyers already profited.

Soap bubbles are round as the lowest energy configuration, recalling summiting Machu Picchu without oxygen.

Cites George Carlin as an inspiration for saying the unsayable.

Calls the Mongol Empire the strongest in history, undefeated except by Vietnam.

Warns regulators can and likely will try to cancel crypto.

Details Wikipedia's refusal to host a Cardano page, blaming anti-crypto editor David Gerard for the censorship.

Calls out Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales for ignoring the bias despite Bloomberg, New York Times, and Congressional citations.

Wikipedia downplays a VISA digital dollar patent citation without naming the protocol.

Calls the iPhone the most influential hardware release of his lifetime, recalling early skepticism before the HTC Incredible converted him.

Confirms he has tried and failed to crack the CIA's Kryptos sculpture, likening it to the Goldbach conjecture.

Praises Jordan Peterson's ideas.

Reveals he graduated high school early at 15 after being homeschooled.

Predicts rival chains raising billions more still will not catch up once Cardano ships.

Argues social media has hurt society more than it has helped.

Recalls a disappointing Bob Dylan show at Red Rocks.

He is unaware of Germany's crackdown on staking pool operators but will look into it, naming Red Dawn a favorite 80s movie.

Reveals a flamethrower drone on order, joking about coyote hunting.

Recalls the HTC Incredible as his favorite phone he ever owned.

He could take Justin Sun one on one but Sun's entourage would win on numbers.

Jokes that Adam Back is Satoshi per Eric Weinstein, naming Donatello his favorite Ninja Turtle.

Cardano smart contracts will support multiple languages beyond Haskell, including a JVM path and an F# like language.

Shares plans for his first child due in a month, urging them to study hard and value wisdom.

Praises The Witcher on Netflix.

F# as a great functional language similar to OCaml.

Admits no time for gaming these days, doubt IPFS will replace the web, and confess he has never seen The Wire.

The stake pool saturation parameter k was chosen and will keep rising with ADA's price.

Confirms reading both the Bible and the Quran.

The ADA circulating supply discrepancy between CoinMarketCap, CoinGecko, and Messari over core holdings accounting.

Rank Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival highly while anticipating Dune.

Confirms WebAssembly support is coming if the Asterius project lets Haskell compile to Wasm.

Suggests thinking of ADA's circulating supply in kilohela units for a friendlier number.

Praises the Assyrian and Hittite empires for surviving the Bronze Age collapse.

Wraps the AMA thanking everyone for a rapid fire 'fast facts' style session.