hi everybody the girls Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny hopefully Corona free Colorado anyway I have a very brief update I wanted to do for you guys just a few minutes you may have noticed that we released today the first of our monthly series on product updates it's card on development monthly update it's on our youtube channel and is also on my Twitter feeds so if you guys just go to the prior tweet you can find it basically the point of these updates are for each of the people who are on a product management role doing directly work on card on o to provide a window into what's going on that month what they're doing the point of their project and so forth it's also a two-way communication mechanism where effectively it's like a community AMA so hopefully the next month we should be able to do a live version of the update or something akin to that or the very least be able to solicit questions and answer those questions in addition to doing a community broadcast so I'd highly recommend that you guys start watching those they're gonna get deeper and more more time is going to be spent and you're going to just meet lots of people the product team as I've repeatedly mentioned that Cardno is an iceberg there's tons of stuff going on underneath the surface very delicate stuff very interesting stuff and in often times it doesn't get broadcasts the community so it's super super important that we start building a single source of truth and a single big broadcast for that so so please do watch this please do participate please start asking questions and of course start asking for changes or giving advice we're always looking for that ideal format but it's a good opportunity to get to know each of our product team second I will be in London next week for the PWC workshop that we're doing with the Cardinal foundation and amer go to align all of our commercial strategies and anticipation for the launch of Shelley that said it looks like we're starting to cancel some of our events we were planning on a meetup group and I was also planning on a tour of Africa we've decided to move that tour of Africa tentatively to May principally because of travel restrictions in the spread of corona we're right now globally at a tipping point where in the next four to six weeks we're going to either determine whether Corona is a global pandemic which will likely spread to millions of people and cause major disruptions or like SARS outbreak in 2003 it'll eventually get contained burn itself out and become us not not too big of a concern there's a variety of opinions on this from what the w-h-o is saying the CDC is saying to what the White House is saying to other public health organizations and unfortunately it looks like we will not have a vaccine available for SARS cocolate why to and so as a consequence that basically means that containment is the only way to to prevent spread and it remains to be seen if containment is possible unfortunately because of the long incubation period and because of the lack of infrastructure in places in Africa South America and Southeast Asia there's a very strong possibility that SARS will gain a foothold in these places and remain in circulation until the flu season next year 2021 the good news is we'll have vaccinations available by then but the bad news is that this will cause considerable supply chain travel and other disruptions for those traveling to those jurisdictions so as much as I love traveling to those places it would be very problematic for me to do so at the moment so I'm gonna move the Africa trip tentatively from March to May I'm going to a conference in South Africa that two melanoma poses putting on he's a very good friend and my hope is that I should be able to go and visit all the other places that we were planning Tanzania Uganda Rwanda and Ethiopia and give an extra time I believe we can even get more out of that trip and do more interesting things but as now stands unfortunately I won't be able to spend March doing that so I'll come back to warm sunny Colorado and we'll just keep chipping away at what we're doing we have a lot of cool things in the pipeline it looks like the viral reboot is indeed going to come out this upcoming month it's the most significant update to you the consumer and the history of Cardinal completely new code we've deserialized everything and we might even have a new address format and I think we'll have back 32 with that or shortly thereafter and the product team will hopefully be able to make an announcement soon about the first Haskell's shall we test that for for migration purpose is to help people redeploy their infrastructure the incentivize test that likely will reach end of life meaning will stop issuing patches and updates to it at the end of March and will keep it online until the showing main net runs launches but end of life is likely coming at the end of next month because that team's gonna be moved on to the next big thing for Cardinal so a lot of great news those product development updates are where you're going to start hearing that it is less from me more from the product team and a lot of releases coming out this month we'll continue with the weekly release cadence of Jormungandr so every Wednesday you'll get an update there and then what we're getting used to is the following Monday to do a top date to Daedalus in the wallet back-end we're still on a weekly release cycle for the wallet back-end lots of goodies coming we'll make an announcement of the vendor we've chosen for the ledger update to bring cold staking and multi-sig to the ledger and as you can see there's a lot of things happening on the Daedalus side as well so look for all those things coming out pretty much every week now we're also starting two big initiatives one is to create a single source of truth for all of the web assets for cardinal so there's only one place you have to go for everything and we're working very closely with the Cardinal foundation for that it'll likely be the either Cardinal Harbor Cardinal org page and then we're also trying to redo all of the Cardinal documentation for anticipated for the launch of Shelly so that documentation has been elevated to be a first class citizen along with everything else and dedicated development time is being put to it to make sure that the documentation is comprehensive and accurate so Cardinal Docs is badly out of date and it really needs a lot of tender loving care so we're certainly working on that and it's definitely going to take a quite a bit of time to get all that done so it'll be a few months before it's finished that said once it's fun we feel it'll be the best documentation in the space and they'll be quite commensurate with what we've accomplished with the code sign so this is our brief update as again I'd highly highly recommend you guys have a chance to watch the Cardinal development monthly update on our Channel I think it's only about 18 minutes long so not a huge amount of time but they are going to get a lot longer they it wouldn't surprise me if they start converging to about an hour the release cadence will be every month in the principal people involved will be the product team so the peach product manager I ohk also just recently brought on its first CTO I served a dual role as CEO and CTO for quite some time I decided to separate it out because we're getting so busy and we have so much stuff so he'll probably start integrating into these presentations after he's had the chance his feet wet lovely French man named Roman we we really like it he has done some great work throughout his career and we're of course increasing our capacity to deliver more interesting things to market we're also having a lot of fun talking about sources of funding for community driven efforts and projects I've requested that the foundation start publicly talking about its grant strategy for 2020 and we've also started identifying what we feel is commercially critical Cardinal infrastructure so that's infrastructure within the Cardinal ecosystem that is critical for us to compete with not only existing crypto currencies but the ones coming on market later as well as as centralized their permissions offerings and so so we'll make a statement a little bit later about the CCC I the commercially critical card on infrastructure what we feel is in that category and how we're rolling these things out take a little while to you know get that in a place where we'd like to talk about it but it's certainly part of that iceberg that we're doing things with so brief update for those of you affected by coronavirus hang in there I know terrifying and scary these things can be and hopefully it it ends up like SARS in 2003 and burns itself out we're like the Ebola epidemic in Africa alas not too long ago but there is certainly a chance that it could become a global pandemic and there are many who believe it's headed in that dress so there are some great resources if you want to follow what's going on at a day to day basis dr. John Campbell has a YouTube channel and he does a daily update on the co v 19 issues and then also the WH o and the CDC both have dedicated websites specifically for coronavirus that are updated daily and have a lot of timely information that's quite good so we're going to be a little bit more careful on our end about travel and I'll to be traveling less over the next few months that I normally travel just to see what direction things are going and I hope that by the middle part of this year it's a bad memory and if not of course we still are going to show up to work and being a decentralized company in 20 countries and most of our people working at home it actually means that pandemic would not substantially disrupt IO HK operations so until next time thank you very much and I'll see you guys in London
