Having only been in the Crypto space for a short time, common consensus is that Charles is an ego maniac. After 5 hours of uninterrupted conversation nothing could be further from the truth. Having someone with his vision and temperament in this revolutionary space gives me a lot of hope for its future. Thanks Lex for a very thoughtful interview.,(reply>), @Alex I’m a year late in this thread but Alex I just want to say your responses were so concise and your Jesus analogy was on the money. Rarely do I see such a cogent thinker lurking in threads like this, you have a skill for breaking things down for people. Hope you’ve found a way to implement that in your life/career.,(reply>), @Alex it’s not like that.. the history is that Charles was in the group that Vitalik let in to help get Ethereum going in the beginning. The stories from a number of people go that Charles came in to this small group, tried to nominate himself as CEO, wanted Ethereum to be a business instead of not-for-profit. Made serious claims of being Satoshi. He was one of just 2 people Vitalik fired from Ethereum. Too many harmless coders and unpolitical contributors from those days have said he is a sociopath and toxic person to ignore. <br>Doesn’t mean he might not still succeed, I guess.,(reply>), He is scamming you bro. Hot air vapourware always has been always will be.,(reply>), @Alex Hi! I have invested a fair amount of time (much more than other minor investments) and gone down many wormholes. I've caught most of this, but never put together so cogently and stated so succinctly. Thank you - your response is much appreciated. I feel like I could explain it reasonably to a fellow dummy, lol, which is really the test.,(reply>), @Bryan Lindenberger What level of understanding do you have of cryptocurrency, blockchain and smart contracts? <br><br>On a very basic level you could say Cardano is a decentralized banking system where anyone in the world can create a bank account in a few minutes and you can send money all around the world in seconds for little costs. On top of that people can create their own coin and apps on cardano, so called dApps. Dapps are websites/apps that have a coin integrated. Like a money lending app, a exchange where you can trade coins, a game where you can earn items that are stored on the blockchain (nfts) that you can sell to everyone. There are literally 100000 of possible applications. <br><br>Cardano specificially tries to solve the blockchain trilemma where it wants to stay decentralized, stay cheap and stay safe. The leading blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum did explode in transactions and did not solve this problem yet and there you pay 10-50$ in fees to send money.<br><br>One big plus of cryptocurrencies in general is that it is resistant against goverments printing money. There is a fixed amount of coins that are available and a fixed amount of new coins is released over time. So if goverments print money all the time, the price of cryptocurrencies will rise anyway, because they devalue their currency (USD,EUR,..) and probably print more and more to save the economy and pay back the debt.