hi this is Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from cold gloomy Sweden it's a lovely day outside 3 o'clock 4 o'clock the Sun is already down and ice rain everywhere you go it's your standard Scandinavian country during the winter time but I love it I'm a quarter Norwegian and this is just as much home as Italy is so anyway for the launch of Jormungandr I figured it'd be really cool to to do a presentation and the land where Jormungandr is from so Sweden's a very good country to do it and we have a great community here in Stockholm and it's going to be great to talk to Ivan on tech and others while we're here with the Cardinal foundation so we have begun the incentivized test net launch sequence there's a series of stages and steps that have to be done but we've frozen the release of Jormungandr so 0.82 should be it if you're running a stake pool go ahead and pull 0.82 and begin your configuration throughout the entire weekend you'll have an opportunity to get everything set up so you have a few days to learn how that works and the team will be ready on Monday for the launch of the installers for Daedalus with everything bundled together so it's been an incredibly long road to get here guys there were a few delays along the way I really wanted to actually get the incentivized test that out in November but there's just so much software that had to be pulled together and so many people who had to work together but overall it was a great experience to actually to go through all of this the last time we did a release as significant was September of 2017 it's a very different team very different processes very different things today but overall we're really proud that everybody was able to actually get there and move into the right direction and I let make sure my mic is working properly can everybody hear me all right Daniel says pour pitcher and buzzing noise well anyway sorry if the mic quality is not so good I doing my best here and sweet on Wi-Fi and I got a little portable travel bike with me but anyway were we're moving forward and we're getting it done so the Shelly launch sequence has begun Genesis hash will be shipped here in a little bit point eight two is frozen so if you're running stake pool go ahead and use that and other than that we should have installers ready for you guys on the other side of the week so Monday I and then you should be able from the command line or from Daedalus to go ahead and stake and actually start making some rewards so it has been a very long road there's been thousands of bugs we've contented with design decisions we've had to contend with we had to build a stake pool dashboard there is a lot of updates we did to the Explorer I think we've written more software in the past six weeks than we've written as an organization the past three months when you factor all of our different code bases from the Haskell code base to the infrastructure to the DevOps stuff to our QA platforms to the rest side and I'd like to take this as an opportunity to say how incredibly proud I am of the team for coming together and getting these things done it's extremely hard to launch this type of software and it's extremely difficult to pull all of these things together in these ways but it's pretty amazing what we've been able to accomplish in the last six weeks and I'd also like to thank the community for keeping us accountable and pushing things along testing things breaking things we've gotten just as much feedback if not more so from the stateful tasks for its channel and the developers and people curious about running mistake pools in fact over 150 the last time I counted state pools have registered and we expect many more to come over the ensuing months and this is really a major milestone for the project as I've said many times as I consider what we're launching today to be the birth and beginning of Shelly the Shelly era has begun people are delegating people are going to re registering state pools rewards are flowing these are this is this you know the first major milestone towards the centralization and it takes a little time for people to learn how to use the software and for people to want to use the software and for competitive equilibria to form for peer-to-peer to really get to where it needs to go but it's it's the beginning of that and so it's a much cleaner beginning than we had with the Byron era and the certainly the code is a lot better and we've learned a lot along the way ton of documentation to write you know a ton of things to to do between now and the launch of the main net we have to talk to a lot of exchanges we already have been and there's a lot of services that we have to roll out there we're updating the ledger code so you guys can do cold staking multi-sig is on the way you know a lot of improved
