hi this is charles hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny colorado always warm always sunny sometimes colorado so today is april 29th 2021 and we are now on the other side of the africa special ratings are coming in almost a hundred thousand people i think watched it or knew about it today and we had a very high peak watch rate uh there were a lot of watching parties that happened so we'll stitch together the numbers but it's really amazing to see uh this is our most popular show we've ever done in the history of cardano uh we receive well wishing everything from former heads of state to ambassadors to uh ministries uh and uh really just absolutely amazing to see the the outpouring of support and love as well as well wishing for the mission and for the activities so that's just incredible and i have a heartfelt thank you to the entire team that put the production of the africa special together uh they had very limited time less than three weeks to put that show together and they had to coordinate filming people uh throughout africa rwanda and tanzania cape town south africa ethiopia and the time of cove getting camera crews around getting people scheduled synchronized was just extraordinary so thank you so much dominic hicks and adam bates and tim harrison and danelle patel and john o'connor and the many others who came together to get this done i'm just so incredibly proud of them and the community obviously loved it it's great uh david orr is going to do a mini card africa special so you know five ten minutes long and highlighting all the announcements and uh the various things that were done for those of you who don't want to spend the two hours of time looking through the whole thing although i highly recommend if you have two hours do it long form is great media response was incredible as well uh we were interviewed by financial times uh we coined telegraph my lord they actually covered it and there's good city am new york times uh and dozens of others and more news will come trickling out um notably absent i can't see it right now i don't know if i'm gonna cover or not i didn't check my media list with his coin desk in fact the deputy managing editor uh had a very strange tweet i got it right here where he said we exist in a market where the new york times is less scrupulous about crypto partnership news than the industry publications and that's uh zach seaward apparently having the minister appear on camera talking about the relationship the official government channels tweeting about the relationship and major publications like new york times is not good enough for this editor at the at coindesk for an official announcement of a relationship we did have a press release as well and i believe april 6 the agency we use probably did reach out to coindesk maybe he just wasn't aware because coindisk is such a large important organization that this deal had happened and the nature of it and decided just to talk about it on twitter it's part of a broader problem uh in the cryptocurrency space there's really this bizarre juxtaposition where there are some who are very polite and treat us with respect and dignity and those are normal well-functioning human beings uh and when we talk to the economist or the new york times or the financial times or large corporations we get treated with respect and dignity and we have great productive conversations not always converging to uh some understanding or a deal but we at the very least treat each other like humans then there are some people in the cryptocurrency space who in the face of overwhelming evidence have decided to respond to that by treating us like dirt i'm sorry that to assert that we would lie about a relationship like this as a news agency and a representative of that 5 million people is not a small commitment sir that's larger than the population of a lot of small countries that's largely the population of a lot of u.s states that's a big deal and that's going to grow over time and this is the first country to do something like this didn't happen in the united states it didn't happen in germany happen of all places ethiopia which is a tremendous piece of news for the adoption of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency you might not like it because you think i'm an or cardano is in some way inferior technology to ethereum but it is newsworthy and the only response is to assert that we've lied as if we're a drive by night operation even though we've been around for a long time have big community to have people appear on prominent podcasts and say nothing has been done or accomplished again you might not like the project or think the things that we've spent our time on are substandard or not worth that time but to assert that nothing was done or that car cardano's a blatant scam it's bizarre and this is not how a normal industry works apple doesn't wake up and say the products microsoft builds are fraudulent or scams they say that our products are better google doesn't wake up and say that the products that apple and microsoft make are fraudulent or they're scams or the ceos of those companies are criminals they say our products are better and here's why yet the people who compete with us or could partner with us in this nascent industry have decided to now cross that threshold in the face of overwhelming evidence and accuse us of being criminals accuse us of being dishonest in some cases representatives of media agencies i've never worked in an industry where this is the case and it just makes me wonder if the people who maintain these positions are qualified to hold them and truly understand the magnitude of the allegations they levy we go to work every day it's hard work and there if you watch the africa special you'll see the passion the excitement and the profound amount of investment that has gone in to these endeavors now it's a commercial enterprise with a social good behind it we believe the path we're taking is going to be successful but there's always a chance of failure that said everybody who's involved has signed up for the long haul including our community and there's good will there and what we have done with this africa special is announced to the entire blockchain world that five million people will be given decentralized identifiers dids interoperable with the dead standards that are being deployed on ethereum bitcoin and other systems in addition to cardano we just brought five million people into our industry this is good for us all whether you like me or not you think i'm a piece of human trash but yet the response by people who occupy prominent roles in certain places in this industry are to pretend like it didn't happen diminish it attack it grow up have some maturity i say harsh things on twitter from time to time i tell people to go themselves from time to time especially when i feel that those people have been blatantly unfair and dishonest i never do it to defend myself if a person goes to say i'm fat ugly and horrible human being great good for them you'll notice i only do it to defend others or the cardano project or my company especially in matters of where people have made tremendous personal sacrifice to accomplish the things that we've done you don't know how many lost weekends missed birthdays missed anniversaries over time work over the last several years has gone into the creation of cardano and the things that we've done commercially than deals we've negotiated each and every one of those people who went the extra mile deserves better than some person who is in our industry who should occupy some degree of humility and respect to be shit-posted and told that the totality of the things that they've done in the public domain is nothing it's not like we're hiding all this it's not like we're claiming that there's some secret place where all the code gets committed and all the papers are written and trust us one day it's going to be released you just go to our website and look at the paper library you go to eprint and search for the scientists last names you go to google you go to github and do a basic search and look at the 300 repositories you go to cardanoupdates.com and see how we're number one for github commits this is all done in the open domain for everyone to see and that doesn't matter by these purported experts and i hold journalists to a higher standard i hold project founders to a higher standard because they control the minds and capital and attention of many innocent people who are just trying to sort out fact from fiction and when these lies happen what do you do about it people say turn the other cheek but that can be very damaging to a project because a perception will develop and then that perception becomes reality people believe that it's a ghost chain people believe that nothing's been done it's very hard to change people's minds if someone hears that election fraud has happened or a vaccine has a quantum dot and mercury in it and even though it doesn't they'll just believe it and then they'll tell all their friends that and the amount of damage that does commercially to the adoption of the project the growth of the project is catastrophic just look at the dominion voting company they're right now suing the people who spent months for 1.6 billion dollars for slander and fraud slander and libelous action fraudulent statements to courts and otherwise in the media the defense of these people isn't we have evidence that you didn't it's well it was hyperbole it was puffery no one reasonable person would have believed the things we said anyway there's no accountability because the damage is done if you pull certain groups of people meaningful percentages now believe that company actually committed election fraud so when you allow these things to persist in the open domain where people say these types of things they cause damage to a project in some cases irreparable damage to a project amongst certain demographics there are some who will never in the entire life and history of cardano use cardano because of preconceived notions and beliefs it's an open ecosystem the things we've accomplished whether you love me or hate me as a person are here to stay i could go outside and get my car get hit by a truck and be dead tomorrow cardano still operates the road map still goes on the technology's still there and free to use but because of a blind hatred i don't know where it's from but a blind hatred for me for my company and for the past there are some people that believe that cardona will just magically disappear and it can never be a viable real project we just announced the largest blockchain deal in the history of our industry at least to my knowledge and certainly if it's not the largest it's one of the largest five million people that's a big deal and there are some who won't believe it who claim otherwise refuse to cover it out of spite and hatred and it hurts the whole industry we're here to stay get used to it every single week the caravan moves on we're going to bring millions more millions more millions more into cardano and one day we're going to wake up and have hundreds of millions of users and before i die over a billion the sun will never set on this protocol and this protocol is now fully decentralized in terms of block production which means no one is able to do a damn thing about it whether you love me or hate me so this is a message to you those who are the haters those who are the deniers those who refuse and overwhelming evidence to acknowledge that we exist thanks for doing that because all you've done is decred yourself told the world who not to listen to just like those who said the internet's going to die and given us a lot more fire and passion to keep moving forward we're doing this because we're changing the world we have hope i'm tired of reading negative articles on new york times and wall street journal and the washington post and all these other places about how bad the world is all the things that are wrong scandal this scandal that systemic this social this warming that i for once would like to be in a position where we can wake up and make the news instead of reading the news and it's good news we can wake up and realize that we're lifting people up we're giving them new systems we're helping them achieve greater things and you know what a lot of people are now on board for that rise millions of people in the cardano ecosystem believe in that too so this is now a movement and it's a movement of positivity it's a movement of empathy it's a movement where we have faith that we can get there even if the path isn't clear at times even if there are huge challenges even if we have to take the longer road at times what else are we going to do with our lives what else is more meaningful than this work and the places that we go after all this is our world right we have to live in it and wouldn't you rather live in a world where all the headlines are nice instead of a world where all the headlines are bad wouldn't you rather live in a world with transparency and honesty and systems that behave predictably reliably and with integrity then a system mired in opacity and corruption and chaos wouldn't you have live in a world with peace instead of war and the people in this movement are committed to that they're committed to making the world a better place they wake up every day with this anticipation so in essence i suppose if we said this concisely ours is a war on cynicism and it's a movement based upon a desire to do better for all not just a few today was a major milestone in demonstrating not to just our industry because to be frank i think we've outgrown them now to the world that this is something real and it's going to happen which is why the new york times covered it and it's why other mainstream media is covering it but our industry is ignoring it they're so obsessed and focused with dogecoin and the price of the day uh so obsessed and focused on personalities and wars and fights of this person versus this person that they've lost sight of the true meaning of the technology that we have all become custodians of it is to give the world new systems and that's what we're doing and you know what there's going to be a lot more africa specials from time to time and every time they'll get bigger and grander and every time more diverse and more interesting there'll be them in french and in other languages because the world speaks more than english and there's more to say and the wonders that will be built over the next three to five years by this movement will truly change things and at some point none of it matters anymore because this becomes what matters this becomes the standard i'm just truly sad that it's been so hard it's extraordinary to have to wake up every day and feel like you have balls and chains on your legs things that shouldn't be hard allies you should have you don't have and i guess that's just the way it's going to be it prepares us for the bigger fights to come so to all of you who are with us thank you so much for being here and thank you so much for believing that we can change the world together and so those of you who ignore us lament us hate us criticize us you no longer matter that's what we proved today cardano is not a cryptocurrency project cardano is a world operating system and every single day as we gain millions and millions of users we're going to remind you of that and as a world operating system we play a different game and in a different industry thanks for leveling up thank you so much for listening and thank you so much for the love passion faith and support let's get this done together cheers
