Most people learn about Cardano from headlines. Almost nobody actually understands why the extended UTxO model is interesting.
A new free interactive course fixes that. From “what is a UTxO?” to building your first eUTxO transaction.
https://t.co/RALFFqSbnP
Our accountant hates this one trick. I'm giving away free blockchain timestamps. Follow @CommitProof and get a free proof.
No card. No catch. Just proof.
But so she doesn't fire me, I had to limit it to 25 codes 💀
https://t.co/RW3TVU22YG
No serious VC will sign your NDA before a pitch meeting.
That's not rude. That's standard.
What you can do: timestamp your pitch deck, business plan, and key ideas before every meeting. If something leaks, you have proof you had it first.
https://t.co/O3s65oDtyL
Things Cardano needs to succeed:
1. Killer apps and experiences
2. Marketing (of apps and experiences)
3. Investment rails to help scale and market apps and experiences
4. Large scale (real) enterprise partnerships and integrations
5. Presence, ubiquity, real connection
6. Infrastructure to support all of the above
7. A community that builds each other up
You don't drive to the next town over to go shopping for the same goods and services you can get locally unless the product is: something you can't get locally, cheaper or better quality enough to justify the cost (time+fuel) of acquisition. But you definitely don't drive to the other town and hope to find what you're looking for, the stores need to let you know they exist. The store can't market and advertise it it's barely scraping by, so it needs to have access to capital to scale and attract new shoppers. If the store carries major, well-known brands it builds trust in the quality of their products or services. When you get to the store, if you don't know where you're going, the difference between a good experience and a bad one is a friendly and helpful staff person to show you where to go and help you find the right product. If there are no roads, cars/trains, gas stations, power, water, etc then the trip itself may be impossible. Finally, if you've received a warm referral from a friend who told you to shop there, it's practically a done deal.
We need all of these things, the question is how much should be allocated in total and to each category or facet to drive success. Fortunately (or maybe not) we're all the "CEO of Cardano" and get to make these decisions collectively. Everyone's answers will likely be slightly different, that's okay, as long as we can have constructive conversations and work to find the middle ground.
Designers: you send a mood board to a client, they ghost you, and 6 months later you see your concept on their website.
Sound familiar?
Timestamp your work before every client share. If it ever matters, the blockchain doesn't forget.
Few people probably know that the animated 3D header on Cardano's website isn't random. It's a visualization of @IntersectMBO's ouroboros-consensus repo on GitHub.
Every dot is a file, every line connects it to its parent directory, and colors represent different directory clusters.
We've now made that a bit more obvious on the site. Did you know? Share this and let others know!
Everyone is back at work after a few weeks for the holidays. The Rust team should deliver a network patch for the ITN sometime this upcoming week. And then business as usual with lots of weekly production. Thanks for your patience throughout the holidays.