Short Update

hi this is charles hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny colorado always warm always sunny sometimes colorado i am back from alabama in georgia enjoyed my weekend off and i had a lot of fun with the giorgio mushroom festival really a wonderful place wonderful people and i learned so much my favorite presentation was done by bill yule and he talked about bugs slugs and thugs and it was mostly a presentation about how insects have co-evolved with mushrooms and basically they harvest or live within the fruiting bodies of mushrooms really fascinating event met a lot of great people like fungi farms they're they're based down in the south and they provide a lot of the substrate material to actually grow oyster mushrooms and lion's mane and all kinds of really cool things also i met william and alan rockefeller william is a really prominent kid running around and he's just a mad scientist in the mushroom space had a nice backpack with a pcr tester and he's going around taking samples of things sending it out for four bucks a pop to see to see if he's discovered a new species and alan is also a legendary mycologist in the psychological community many of i'm very passionate about gardening and a litany of other topics for example this lovely book on aquaponics and i'm actually going to be setting up a hydroponic aquaponic facility very soon and a gourmet mushroom farm very soon and i've been learning about all these things acro tech is going through a renaissance right now and in fact peter thiel has a mushroom company that has a two billion dollar valuation there's a lot of companies with vertical farms that are in the billions of dollars of valuation and covert really demonstrated why that's important when the supply chain shut down we're having a hard time getting toilet paper much less a meal to eat and this was relatively minor pandemic compared to existential crises that could happen and because of globalism the world is very fragile and slight perturbations of the supply chains can cause huge problems so local production of food and supplies is a national priority and turns out you can get fabulous margins on these things a lot of these aquaponic growers are getting a 10 to 20 roi so if you got a bunch of money to dump somewhere and you're looking for some delta it's a good place to put it so it's a passion of mine and it's something i think i can explore throughout the many decades it also gives me something to talk about when i travel throughout africa and other places a lot of these countries are always concerned of how do we create sustainable agriculture and it turns out there's a really cool solution to that and it turns out that that cool solution could be quite profitable and allow a lot more diversity without destroying the local biodiversity i care a lot about nature and environmentalism we live in one environment and the things that other people do have impact upon us and if we don't take care of the world around us then what we leave behind will be much worse than what we have inherited if you don't believe me just google human fertility rates male fertility rates and look at how they plummeted over the last 40 years that's mostly due probably the plastics and forever chemicals that stick around in your body for the rest of your life after you get them so it's a dark tunnel to go down but i'd encourage a lot of people to do so okay on to cardano i'm back in the saddle ready to [ __ ] some [ __ ] up we're doing well may is a big month for us we passed a huge amount of internal testing and the integration of pollutus is going very well with with the node and what i'm going to be doing is throughout the week talking to nigel jer rahman and other people who are directly involved in delivery and we'll do some sort of mid-month update about where exactly we're at where we imagine the pioneer test net to hit where we imagine more public test net to hit and how we're going to onboard all these people as many of we have 1500 people who are right now training in a 10 week course with pluto's pioneers and they're getting really ready to start deploying code on the pioneer test net we're going to see tons of applications and edge cases and use cases we also brought on some very specialized very expensive people to mostly just work with performance tuning because right now everything is built for correctness then you do performance tuning later premature optimization is one of the greatest evils of engineering so we're at that stage where optimization is prudent in anticipation of the large group of people coming on we were going to do the plutus update and give some dates but we decided to not do that in the africa special because it just been too crowded there's a lot to discuss and at the end of the month we have the regular cardano 360 episode but it would be nice to give a mid-month update as we get past the next sprint and give you guys where we're at at the end of this month we'll also do a presentation on mithril and a presentation on the new hydra paper as well as a presentation on where we're at with the hydra prototype so we have a whole skunk works that's just sitting down thinking about hydra writing code for hydra and that team's been scaling up over time and my goal is to get something really cool on the test net before the end of the year and so you guys will be able to see real time where that's at now if mithril for those of you don't know is our like client protocol and magic of mithril is that it's kind of a roll up of all the techniques tools and good thoughts about how to build light clients with full node security it's a very high priority for me when we look at the re-architecture of daedalus to have data lists in the browser and the mobile and on the desktop and have it start as a light client upgrade into a full node where that makes sense that means your user experience will be significantly better but we wanted to do it the right way and there's many different ways to do a light client and you could maybe have a federated data feed from the state pool operators or you could have a central server and that's what uroy does or you can evolve crypto a little bit and use much more sophisticated cryptographic primitives and if you do it just the right way you have a trustless experience with relatively full known security similar to what mina and these other people are chasing so we chose the third option for the mithril inquiry and we've been moving down that road for quite some time there's about three years of thought that's gone into this and now we've gotten to a point where we think we have something really cool and we'll be submitting to ccs i believe and we'll see what happens with that but there's a litany of new research that's coming down the pipe for summer i also signed off as many of you aware a 1.