Surprise AMA November 2nd, 2019

hi this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny Colorado it's about 6:05 p.m. and there's snow outside but I still was able to run around and enjoy life here I'm just fresh back from Vegas I went to three different conferences a very short period of time coin agenda the litecoin Foundation official summit conference thingy and of course CCE something anyway that won't listen too good but it was great to meet a lot of interesting people Charlie Shrem was there a lot of old friends were there they had a poker tournament at the old Mike Tyson mansion apparently there was something involving cardi B but I didn't have a chance to go because she performed it two o'clock in the morning and I liked sleep more than cardi B sorry cardi and anyway it was just a wonderful wonderful diversion and a great opportunity to get to meet some new faces see some old faces and kind of see what the state of the crypto space happens to be I I did miss blockchain week in San Francisco so if any of you attended that or as someone who attended send me a tweet or sent a telegram me and let me know how that event was alright so where are we what's going on it's November this is the month that we'd like to actually start doing some stuff with the incentivize test that and I think you guys want to do that too okay so here's where rat we launched the instead of AI the network to test net last month and we've learned an enormous amount since we launched it we've done I think probably 20 releases or something like that it's I'm losing track at this point both internal and external we've managed to correct an enormous amount of bugs we've also mentioned learn a lot about certain protocols for example poulter casts in general was a protocol that we really wanted to prototype we have a relationship with one of the principal author bureaus and we really wanted to see what that protocol could be there's also in January when we released the shellye test net we're going to learn a heck of a lot there - from what the Haskell team has come up with on the network side and my hope is some sort of Hegelian dialectic some sort of hegelian sis assist where these two different approaches can be blended together and create a really cool peer-to-peer system with pub/sub that's quite scalable and it dynamically adjusts pure connections and bandwidth throttling and blacklisting and all kinds of things that you need to have a DDoS resistant gossip system so we did learn a lot and I thank the community for their tremendous patience and their desire to tear up as much as they possibly could they they certainly had a lot of fun playing with in network testing that I think we have now almost 3,000 people in the channel and every time I check if there's at least 500 messages I check it quite often so it's super cool to see that level of engagement over 1,000 issues were reported from questions comments concerns actual bugs design suggestions and so forth and we're already starting to see a whole ecosystem materialized of people who are getting ready to run state pools as a service Marcus has created a 3d printed case for a 5 watt of power rock pie enabled state pool we're right now collecting business requirements and starting to design the preliminary GUI for a state pool dashboard and making it much easier for people to have turnkey stateful deployment we're almost ready to launch our Explorer our Shelley Explorer and there'll be kind of two versions without a basic one and a more advanced one with more features and functionality and we've learned a lot about user experience we've learned a lot about requirements from those who desire to stake so where are we well right now we're trying to get the network test net as stable as we can and then we're going to branch into to test nets one of them will be kind of the stable test line the long-term release and that's the one we're going to do the air drop from the other ones that are kind of our experimental test net where we're just going to rapidly change things and add things including breaking changes so after 0.