Charles hosted a surprise holiday AMA this weekend. You can watch it here and see a list of the questions answered below.

First, Charles started with two announcements. Firstly, he shared a bit of information about the IOHK Summit. In past years, this was an annual event, which was ordinarily only for IOHK employees. In 2018, it was held in January in Lisbon, Portugal. Following this event, there was overwhelming feedback from the community that it should be opened up to the public. Therefore, in 2019, the IOHK summit will do just that! It will be moved a little later in the year from January to the end of Q1/beginning of Q2. The public portion of the IOHK summit will have presentations on the research and ideas of Cardano as well as other announcements. Keep an eye out for the coming website that will have further details.

Secondly, Charles gives an update on the research side of things. There are still lots of papers being published and many are working their way through peer review. IOHK is also hiring cryptographic engineers. This role will look after implementing the more exotic and next generation protocols (such as SGX and NPC; like the papers on Kaleidoscope and Royale). These protocols are more complicated as they require multi-party computation so they need specialized teams. If you’re interested in working for IOHK, please do check out their Careers page (https://iohk.io/careers/) .

Now onto his AMA: