AMA 01/07/2023

Broadcasts live from the Colorado ranch on a raspy voice, still recovering from the flu at the start of 2023.

The right click NFT ownership scandal and clarifies buyers do not own image rights unless explicitly granted.

The FTX fallout is still rippling through the industry via DCG and Genesis, and questions whether outlets like CoinDesk stay objective.

Lays out the early 2023 roadmap: CIP-1694, the input endorsers and Ouroboros Leios paper, tiered pricing, and continued Plutus evolution, expecting another year of small incremental gains.

Would love to do another Lex Fridman podcast once there is enough new to talk about.

It is impossible to get objective news on what is really behind Andrew Tate's arrest.

Denies wanting to control system parameters, explains CIP-1694 is meant to hand parameter tuning to the community through self-governance.

Confirms Bruno Sartori has left IOG while Duncan McCrae is still around, would enjoy a fireside chat with him after the Warhorse layoffs.

Jed content is now mostly dubbed by Cody, with John Frederick co authoring.

Lists New Year resolutions to write down this weekend: lose weight, practice piano again, and start growing cactuses alongside his mushrooms.

Gives a construction update on the ranch and the Hoskinson Health clinic in Wyoming: roads, buried power lines, geothermal parking lot, and a February opening for primary care.

Wants to dive into productivity systems like Obsidian and a second brain, and hopes to build his own biohacking headset combining EEG and photobiomodulation.

Plans to return to cnft con in Vegas later in 2023.

The story of a bison that got stuck in a cattle guard and had to be lifted out unharmed with a tractor.

Gives a woolly mammoth de-extinction update after visiting Colossal's Dallas lab, hints at unannounced work on other animal lines.

Believes Cardano can scale to a billion people through the combined evolution of Leios, Mithril, and Hydra.

Directs a viewer to email hoskinsonhealth.com about donating a painting for the new clinic.

Would love to sit down with Crypto Crow again.

Reviews Avatar 2: great visuals, garbage plot, still worth the money.

Two upcoming CIPs for tiered transaction pricing and congestion control, one bundled with Leios and a standalone for the Genesis era, alongside fixing Babel fees.

Praises the Algorand team including Silvio Micali, former colleague John Woods, and Dan Boneh's students, and sees room for cross chain collaboration.

The Lace wallet is still on track for Q1 as the team gets back up to speed after the holidays.

DC legislative efforts stalled after the SBF fallout poisoned the regulatory conversation for crypto.

Jokes about why he supposedly killed himself, tying it to an old fake death prediction.

He manages his workload with multiple EAs and COOs including Chere Maroney, JJ Seiler, and Tom Hassan, but still needs a better system.

Jokes about caramel and chocolate massages.

Rejects the claim that Cardano is decentralized with one percent of wallets holding a majority of coins, calling it a lie.

Would happily appear on Tim Pool's show if invited.

He is not pissed off, feeling pretty good.

Carries two pens in his shirt pocket in case one runs out of ink.

Will never accept the Huskies token, calling it worthless by design.

He would be fine going bald like Bezos and would just shave his head like Bryan Cranston.

He is not aware of any Gavin Wood debacle.

Confirms he has lifted weights in 2023, with a trainer starting in mid January 2023.

Advises building a business and laying its foundation before taking on a serious dating life, since doing both at once means something suffers.

Research into growing tissue engineered hair grafts and how current hair transplants work, comparing scars to Elon Musk's.

Shows off his collection of plague doctor toys.

Confirms he lost 14 pounds during a 14 day fast, 12 days of fasting plus two days of refeeding.

Jokes he would let a viewer tag along to Antarctica's Mount Terror for a bottle of Macallan 30.

Admits he forgot about the promised Quant code release and will make a note to follow up.

Gives a CIP-1344 update, thinks the 70 percent stake pool operator threshold may already be hit and expects it to land in February.

He very rarely drinks soda.

They are looking into cultivating cordyceps mushrooms and sourcing chitin without harvesting it from insects.

Argues the agricultural supply chain is intentionally being pushed toward processed food and insects, driving small producers out of business.

Recaps the viral video of a bison stuck in the cattle grate and how it was freed.

Compares eating insects to eating crustaceans like lobster.

The clinic will focus on mitochondrial health through red light therapy and photobiomodulation to boost ATP.

Recommends James Nestor's book Breath, describing nostril linked nervous system effects and taping your mouth shut while sleeping.

Meditative states can be measured on an EEG by comparing experienced monks' brainwaves to a normal baseline.

Debunks the idea of a hidden cancer cure, walking through how mutated cells hide from the immune system and replicate.

Shares a personal story of losing someone to colon cancer and criticizes pharma incentives that reward survivability drugs over cures.

Highlights promising next generation cancer treatments: immunotherapy, targeted chemotherapy, ultrasound activated micro bubbles, and mRNA cancer vaccines.

Confirms he is currently reading James Nestor's breathing book.

Argues the media suppresses vaccine risk debate, pointing to low vaccination rates in Haiti and Uganda without matching outbreaks.

Criticizes the lack of informed consent around vaccines and a California law punishing dissenting doctors, cites the Died Suddenly documentary.

Explains why he would not pay Paul Oakenfold's management for a collaboration but worked for free with Snoop Dogg, and refuses to pay for celebrity endorsements.

Frames the Jordan Peterson Canadian re-education order as a free speech test, posing a hypothetical liberal doctor punished for criticizing Trump.

Details the actual Peterson case: forced re-education over social media posts that had nothing to do with patient care.

Warns that politicizing professional licensing bodies is dangerous no matter which political side does it.

The pendulum always swings back the other way, and radicalizing one side radicalizes the other.

Input endorsers may raise stake pool hardware requirements, with simulation work ongoing and an answer expected by May.

Confirms meditation is one of the guiding principles of his life.

Finds the Ancient Apocalypse evidence for an advanced ice age civilization destroyed by a celestial impact interesting but ultimately unprovable.

Agrees that a Russia and Ukraine escalation, or a Taiwan conflict, could trigger a world war.

Confirms the Collatz conjecture, also called the 3x plus 1 or Syracuse problem, is still unsolved.

Expects someone will eventually genetically engineer bacteria that eat plastic pollution.

Predicts cash will be banned and CBDCs forced on the public tied to social credit, urges voting against politicians who back them.

Traces the drift from two weeks to slow the spread to vaccine passports, warns money will get tied to speech, and points to Operation Choke Point.

Wants to spend time digging into Balaji Srinivasan's Network State concept, calling him a longtime friend.

He is not surprised the Twitter Files revelations got zero mainstream media coverage.

Admits staying positive is genuinely hard, describes recognizing propaganda by people's automatic emotional reactions to polarizing topics.

Argues wedge issues distract the public from real topics like energy, money, and education while the powerful decide unchallenged.

Claims legacy outlets like CNN, Fox News, and the Wall Street Journal no longer practice real journalism, just narrative construction.

Calls for empathy and organic deprogramming from propaganda, saying technology could deliver utopia if people stopped hating each other.

He has met Fabian Vogelsteller, creator of the ERC-20 standard, and has no personal issues with him despite the Ethereum rivalry.

Doubts Jack Dorsey's Block will ever favor Cardano over Bitcoin's Lightning Network given Bitcoin maximalist leanings.

Calls transhumanism unavoidable given how far people already go chasing small biological edges through supplements and implants.

Defends red light therapy as legitimate rather than crazy, citing over a thousand supporting studies.

Identifies the paintings behind him as a Waterhouse and a Klimt.

Confirms the puzzle cube on the shelf is a Hellraiser Lament Configuration replica.

Admits he has definitely had pens leak in his shirt pocket before.

He would take an AR-15 over a Henry 1873 rifle, but likes both.

The Vietnamese monk who calmly self immolated in protest as an extreme example of total commitment.

Jokes about writing a Prince Harry style tell all memoir about his own life of luxury.

Confirms he has eaten wild boar and is currently wearing boots.

Brushes off a troll calling Ada trash with a joke about it not being very Buddha of them.

Likes the idea of doing a political compass test live on stream sometime with JJ.

Jokes about Saturday plans involving Saturday Night Fever and the surviving Bee Gees.

Jokes that the crypto forest is filled with shitcoins.

Cites a nature published phase three trial showing MDMA delivers breakthrough results for anxiety and PTSD, with the FDA weighing rescheduling it.

Plans to attend the MAPS multidisciplinary association for psychedelic studies conference in Denver in June.

The theory behind psilocybin assisted psychotherapy: clearing traumatic memories stuck in the brain's processing queue.

Psychedelics are contraindicated for conditions like schizophrenia and jabs at the double standard of dismissing MDMA trial evidence while trusting vaccine trials.

Confirms he has always been anti-SBF and is glad Cardano was never listed on FTX.

Congratulates a viewer on having a baby on January 1st.

Blue Zone plant-based diets like Okinawa's and argues genetics and microbiome play a bigger role in longevity than diet type alone.

Argues processed and refined food is the real problem rather than meat versus plants, mentions DNA based diet companies like Genopalette.

He certainly enjoys alligator tail as a meat option.

Meat quality depends heavily on how the animal was raised, contrasting grain-fed cattle linked to mad cow disease with his grass-fed bison.

Brings up The China Study and its widely cited low-fat, plant-based conclusions.

Even salmon can carry parasites, reinforcing that no single animal protein is perfectly safe.

Inflamed blood vessels, not cholesterol itself, are what cause atherosclerosis and plaque buildup.

Traces historical heart attack spikes to free wartime cigarette rations and mass smoking rather than dietary animal fat, blaming Ancel Keys for bad science.

Compares refusing to learn Plutus to a surgeon refusing proper technique, arguing protocol design matters far more than language choice for smart contract security.

Links rising youth suicide to untreated illness and a lack of meaning, quoting Nietzsche on enduring any how if you know the why.

Victor Frankl's logotherapy and cites evidence that having a clear purpose lowers suicide risk.

Speculates untreated bipolar disorder may explain public meltdowns like Kanye West's and Charlie Sheen's.

Criticizes society for gamifying and being entertained by people's downfall instead of valuing their recovery.

Signs off early to rest his voice, promising to be back to normal next stream.