Some Housekeeping

hi everyone this is charles hoskinson your crypto fellow traveler live from warm sunny colorado always warm always sunny sometimes colorado although maybe at some point it'll be rough and rugged wyoming that i get to do these at you never know love wyoming anyway i figured i'd do a little bit of housekeeping before the weekend yay housekeeping weekend [Music] okay so just a few items first off we'd like to welcome the newest member to aydah nation gene simmons he's a very famous rocker took me completely by surprise yesterday i just had gotten home i was going through some of my piles of things to do in fact i was ready for my second reading of andrew miller and r jewell's wonderful paper on candid yay it's a wonderful thing about dids andrew shout out to you you're just such a great writer i really enjoy his work i always have and actually our company and our affiliates are one of the few people around who implement some of the things that andrew writes in fact ergo was one of the first projects to explore non-outsourceable puzzles anyway i look at my phone it's lit up kiss is apparently on board and buying cardona buying ada i said well okay i don't know whether laugh or cry this is this is fun anyway it's a big event for us because they're incredible marketers he has over a million followers and kisses an incredibly strong brand they even sell a kiss coffin so gene is a brilliant guy and really a phenomenal businessman and i'm glad to see that he's decided to wander into our tribe now it seems he's enamored with the price action and the prospects of appreciation in the marketplace but we have a way of converting people to care not so much about that and actually care a lot more about the mission and the vision there were a few people on reddit who said well this is a bad thing because we don't want people around are in it for the money the vast majority of people who start usually start being in it for the money but what happens is they have a conversion they realize that there's more to it than just appreciation returns there's some magic there and i i have to admit i'm quite enamored with the thought that some future funding round and catalyst will have gene sitting on by his computer thinking deeply about whether to vote yes or no on a proposal and if other rock stars get on i can see a conference call about a particular ballot or vote i mean this is a weird fantasy but it might actually happen so if it does i'll be a very happy guy in any event we're incredibly glad and happy if he's here permanently or just as a fair weather that he took the time to talk about our community and it's a good event all things around and i love talk with his people at some point about non-fungible tokens given that he sells so many collectibles and themed stuff and branded stuff it makes a lot of sense to test out mary using his things and i there's actually a lot of cool frameworks inside the ecosystem that we could very easily port over to cardano specifically for people who want to do all kinds of cool things whether it be backstage passes or reductions in concert tickets whenever they get to play again or to collectibles and so forth so welcome aboard in a nation we love having you here just as a reminder we never pay anybody for sponsorships or endorsements so this one came as a complete surprise to us and i don't think we'll ever pay anybody for sponsorship or endorsement people just come because they like us we got a good mission or they think that we're worth something either way good to have them good to have him around another thing is there's some fake news floating around that we have some sort of deal with the ministry of peace in ethiopia as many of we do have a office in ethiopia we do a lot of business there and we are negotiating several significant deals in africa one of which is in ethiopia but that is not that news that's reported so so sorry crypto media you got it wrong yet again and if we have something big to announce either we're going to do it or we're going to deal with a big partner like reuters in new york times or something like that you're not going to catch it we appreciate the attempt at investigative journalism and getting the scoop but no no no no disruptions or anything like that we're still in very very deep negotiations late stage like change this sentence to this sentence and there's a lot of pr discussions and we're trying to figure out the best way of doing that we will do some filming here in a little bit because i'd like to actually get people on camera and talk about deals that we're doing and we got a lot in the pipeline now that mary is out in in five days we should initiate the hfc there's a lot of people are going to start building things on the network and also catalyst is really starting to heat up and there's a lot of conversion heating up as i mentioned in march we should be winnowing down that list of dev firms to start writing a lot of stuff on in plutus to test out the infrastructure how we're going to roll out pollutus is we're going to do it kind of like how we did shelley where we'll have pluto's pioneers some internal some external and we'll have them beat the hell out of a private network and then we'll roll it to a public beta and then we'll roll that into the mainnet but there's a just a huge amount of usability things that we need to get sorted out that always come up with a new language so we'll talk a lot about that in march the cardano 360 show here in february is going to be all about mary's something about mary that girl is going to get a lot of attention and basically we're going to talk about everything from how do you issue your own token we're invite people who are migrating over to cardano to talk about that and basically what's going to happen with the native multi-asset standard including how to pay transaction fees in the native asset itself so our chief scientist is even going to do a presentation specifically on that and i think everybody's going to enjoy it i believe that episode is coming out on the 25th so look for that there's other things that are going on i i have some incredible meetings on my schedule that still are pretty surreal and we're certainly talking to a lot of people but again those are early days on things and as i to manage expectations a big africa deal takes three to seven years to do right from start to finish with all the dynamics the ppp setup the tendering process and so forth so a lot of these things that are starting to pop in africa we started in 2019 or 2018 some even longer we started the ethiopia stuff in 2017 okay so i do understand the enormous time horizon on these things so there's a pipeline that's there and as the months come by more things pop in that pipeline that we seeded years ago now in the fortune 500 suite it depends on how you do it but some of these things are looking quite nice it's just we had to kind of ride out corona and now that there's a light at the end of the tunnel a lot of things that were put on hold are starting to open up again so you'll see some things there but what gets me most excited are the catalyst deal flow because there's just so much volume that's going to come through catalyst that was one of the birds for february the launch of the fun million dollars available a goal of 10 000 people deadliest 3.