Moments from the calls
Short moments from the recorded sessions, in no particular order. Tap a clip for sound; the round button opens the whole call at that moment.
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When China banned mining, Bitcoin just adjusted
“The network didn't need any voting to happen. This for me is really elegant and apolitical.”
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You own the book, not a login
“You're buying a digital property title that is a bearer asset that is going to be on your wallet.”
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Eight years without missing a block
“Temos 8 anos de blockchain a correr sem falhar um bloco, sem downtime, de forma descentralizada.”
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I own a city in Portugal
“I am the owner of this little bit of a map which is actually the real world map of Portugal.”
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Set up a testnet wallet in a sandbox browser
“Switch it from Cardano Mainnet to pre-production.”
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Why 45B is called 45B
“Cardano, ADA, will only ever have 45 billion units. That's where the name 45B comes from.”
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Crop insurance that pays out when it rains
“The blockchain doesn't go online. Google it, right?”
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Your balance is a pocket of coins and notes
“Esta carteira tem 870 ADA. Isto é um total das moedinhas e das notinhas que eu tenho dentro da minha carteira.”
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Watch a hash change as you type
“Every time that I'm changing the content of my block, this fingerprint is being regenerated.”
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Who actually votes on Cardano
“We can see here a bubble map of all the delegate representatives that voted.”
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How a hardware wallet signs
“It sends a transaction draft to the physical device. The physical device signs the transaction.”
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Free test ADA from the faucet
“You drop your address, you select the right network, pre prod, and then you request the funds.”
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Bitcoin doesn't care, Cardano does
“Nós temos uma t-shirt na 45B que diz literalmente Bitcoin doesn't care, Cardano does.”
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30 billion ADA asleep at the wheel
“We have 30 billion ADA that are asleep at the wheel.”
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A smart contract is a wallet without keys
“It still has an address, but it doesn't have keys.”
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A balance sheet published on Cardano
“All these balance sheet variables are in one transaction.”
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Posted on the internet vs posted on a blockchain
“If I post it on the blockchain, that has completely different utility and guarantees.”
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From Bitcoin to scams: the crypto spectrum
“Eu pus aqui de uma ponta o bitcoin como uma coisa mais sólida até do que real estate; no outro ponta do espectro temos a scams.”
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The blockchain as a cartoon
“You see the blocks and the transactions passing by and every 20 seconds there is one more block.”
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Sending tokens, live, in Portuguese
“Mostra-me uma estimativa da taxa, que neste caso são 18 cêntimos da moeda ADA.”
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Anyone can mint a coin for 17 cents
“It would cost me 17 cents to create Lucas Coin on Mainnet... it doesn't mean anything.”
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A layer two is your bar tab
“That one drink that you still haven't paid at the bar is something between you and the barman.”
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The rules are enforced by the blockchain, not the app
“The logic is enforced by the blockchain, not by the app. That's a huge difference that you can trust.”
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The exchange held my ADA. The blockchain never does
“Blockchain, you submit it, it's always functioning... tick tock, next block.”
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Sending a transaction, live
“I'm going to demo sending to your wallet so I can just press the send button.”
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Tipping cents, instantly, over Lightning
“Faço um click, mandei dois cêntimos, cinco cêntimos e dez cêntimos para o autor.”
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Cardano is a spaceship of knobs
“Cardano is like a spaceship of knobs and variables that don't move on their own.”
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Are you Lucas? The validation script asks
“No one can spend it if it's not Lucas.”
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A huge, infinite train of numbered blocks
“It's just like a huge infinite train of numbered blocks.”
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A whole blockchain running on a laptop
“You can run a small blockchain in your computer very easily.”
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Governance as a prototype for real democracies
“Real democracies could be ran on Cardano only, I would argue, when we have all of this.”
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Only sold for more than 100 ADA
“You only get this asset out of here if you put in 100 ADA.”
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In Web3, your ticket is in your wallet
“People get to own their things. So their ticket is now in their wallet.”
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A swap with no one to trust
“Instead of them trusting each other and sending it to each other, they are going to send it to the smart contract.”
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Proof of work is push-ups for computers
“All the proof of work is doing is this. It's really, really very, very stupid.”
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A name for your wallet
“This is basically like buying a domain, but it's an identifier for your wallet.”
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The blockchain as a train of information
“A blockchain é como se fosse comboio de informação que vai sendo acumulada.”
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Crypto is not just one thing
“We have this little diagram on a high level that we use to explain to people that crypto is not just one thing.”
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A database that is everyone's and no one's
“A blockchain é uma base de dados neutra, que é de todos e não é de ninguém.”
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The blockchain as a graffiti wall
“Publishing it on the blockchain like graffiti... I'm using the blockchain as a writing wall.”
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Same token, different issuer: Apple vs a scammer
“The difference in these two things is how much do you trust Apple and how much you trust the scammer.”
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The café owner has to understand it first
“O dono do café antes de mais precisa de estar educado.”
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Why 45B is called 45B
“Por isso é que 45B se chama 45B, são os 45 bilhões de ADA na Cardano.”
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Where your transaction really goes
“Your wallet app uses the private keys to send the transaction to the blockchain.”
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Can it be built, is it legal, can it go to market?
“Can it be built, can it be made legal, and can we take it to market?”
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A smart-contract swap, drawn step by step
“Temos dois atores, do lado esquerdo e do lado direito, e temos um smart contract, que está representado com uma adresse.”
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What goes in must come out
“The blockchain is a bit like an accounting system that says what goes in must come out.”