Hedera Chair Brett McDowell, TOKO Founder Scott Thiel, and Hedera Co-Founder Dr. Leemon Baird join SVP of Communications Zenobia Godschalk to answer questions directly from the community in this Q2 Town Hall Webinar. 0:00 Introductions 1:00 What's the progress on windows of downtime when upgrading the network? 1:33 All DLTs must have a path to financial self-sustainability. Does Hedera believe that it has a path to financial self-sustainability, and what is that path? 4:01 How do you feel about current market conditions and how Hedera is performing? 6:52 Are you going to publish a docker or similar to implement community nodes? Are you going to make a community poll or KYC to let it running? More details: https://github.com/hashgraph/hedera-local-node 9:55 Can you talk about the importance of Environmental, Social, and Governance to the Hedera ecosystem, some examples of ESG projects on Hedera, and some key differentiators as to why people should build ESG solution on Hedera vs other DLTs? 15:21 In the past, Mance and Leemon have talked about the need for Hedera to be interoperable with other chains. Hedera is a general purpose network. Why, therefore, is interoperability with slower, less scalable, and less secure networks necessary? 18:20 Is a minimum amount of HBAR needed for staking? If so, how many? 19:28 If the regulatory authorities in the U.S. continue to dither or outright turn against DLTs, would Hedera consider incorporating in a more progressive jurisdiction? If not, why not? 22:15 What is the status of TOKO developments? When will we see tokenized assets on the network? 26:03 Is there a way to build a public or private network on Hedera that would thwart ransomware attacks? If so, are there companies currently offering this service? 28:05 Is Hedera involved in any way with FIDO Alliance? 31:36 Based on the achievements Hedera has made so far, what one or two things that you can think of that Hedera is missing before we can truly become recognized, respected or dominant in the crypto space? 36:01 Once full-nodes resolve the order of transaction, how are those transactions stitched together? 38:56 What is the plan to recruit more Council members and have more Council member use cases on the network? 42:04 Does it benefit adoption for HBAR prices to stay low? I.e. do higher HBAR prices mean increased costs for start-ups to build on the network? 43:04 With the current market cap of Hedera low with respect to the financial resources of potentially malicious actors - nation-state, large hedge fund etc. - how does the Council ensure that a 1/3 stake of coins is not already currently being accumulated? 46:14 The US Senate recently outlined proposed broad regulation for crypto which will result in most assets qualifying as commodities under the CFTC's purview. Is Hedera confident that under the Senate outlines that HBAR token will not qualify as a regulated security? Was there anything included in the Senate's proposed regulation that was unexpected or that might require a change in the current strategy or its implementation? 48:30 Does Hedera have the ability to grant or revoke HBAR transactions of individual account holders using a KYC key operation? More info: https://help.hedera.com/hc/en-us/articles/4625209270685-Can-the-Council-freeze-an-account-or-roll-back-a-transaction 52:37 Avery Dennison made announcement of billions of transactions beginning in June but since then there are less and less TPS on the mainnet. Why is this? 53:38 Can you provide more details about implementation of just approved HIP-415 (Introduction of Blocks)? Developer resources: Quickstart: https://hedera.com/get-started Create a Testnet Account: https://portal.hedera.com/register Repo: https://github.com/hashgraph Docs: https://docs.hedera.com/guides​ Whitepapers: https://hedera.com/papers​ FAQ: https://help.hedera.com/ Chat: https://hedera.com/discord​ Join our community to learn more: Twitter: https://twitter.com/hedera​ Telegram: https://t.me/hederahashgraph​ Discord: https://hedera.com/discord​ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hashgraph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hashgraph​ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Hedera YouTube: null #Hedera #Hashgraph​ #HBAR