Good morning, Luke,

(Maybe afternoon where you are? ;)

I'm glad I tripped over your presentation in my feed today. I've just listened to the talk you gave at Discon... BTW, I found it entirely intelligible, no real problem with the audio.

Where do I begin?

I value your video because I am a generalist, and have not taken the time to dive deeply into understanding blockchain mechanisms--yet--even though I am fascinated by and can clearly see the immense value of the space.

I've been here on Steemit for two years now, and have applied myself far more to content creation than to learning. What I have learned, however, has impressed me deeply... the speed of Steem transactions, scalability, frictionless and costless exchanges. During some deep economic need, I've even exchanged a little Steem for cash via some private global exchanges with others who wanted it. I've also exchanged some of my products for Steem, as well as spending some Steem to purchase other products. Amazing utility in the Steemit blockchain!

Until your talk, I did not realize just how important the account recovery mechanism is. Thanks for that.

I'm a survivor of MtGox, having lost far more than the friend you mentioned, and learned the very hard way how significant counterparty risk is. There is still some hope of at least a partial recovery.

I'm excited by your presentation, especially in the area of potential for collaborative teams and projects, with distributed governance. Just in the past few days, I've been contemplating the possibility of selling an enterprise that I've developed during the last decade. Your description of the beauty of a DAC governed, tokenomic organization has me wondering whether it might be possible to "sell" it to a collective, while retaining part ownership. I think the right group of owner/employee/consumers with the right combination of skills could ultimately move the enterprise into the future in a spectacular way.

Thanks for sharing an amazing presentation. As a fellow voluntaryist, I find myself standing up and cheering when you talk about the ability of these technologies to take power away from central "authorities."

😄😇😄