I appreciate this video and I'm glad you did the AMA and pulled this clip out.

I believe I represent what I call a "Hive/Crypto/DeFi 'layman'." I'm basically a 'common man.' I've been on Hive for about a month and so far I understand almost nothing about Speak, nor the complex moving parts, nor the diagrams in the post above. This isn't your fault, it's my ignorance and lack of knowledge, but I believe it's the same ignorance and lack of knowledge many other people will have.

For example, I can't follow any discussion because there are countless terms thrown around that all seem like greek to me.

• I don't know what a 'pool' is or what it's for.
• I don't know what an 'IPFS' is, what it stands for, or what it's purpose is for.
• Same goes for SIP. I have a vague grasp of miners, but most of the friends I'd like to bring to have care about incentives a lot and mining not at all.
• I don't understand why there's 1000s of coins/tokens, and more created every day.
• These are issues & barriers to entry for @cynshineonline & my off-Hive friends, as well.

I'm not saying this to be a d**k, nor to get others to explain SPK to me (hopefully my Beginner's Guide To Hive demonstrates my passion for Doing My Own Research,) I'm mentioning it because when a new initiative is aiming for mass adoption, 'dumbing it down' into easily-consumed and understood messages is extremely important.

I get a great vibe from SPK, and I'd love for it to gain a lot of traction fast. In fact, I'm excited to be collab'ing with @theycallmedan , @eddiespino , and @starkerz on a related project, but I wanted to point out that for someone like me, it feels like I'm going to have to take a University course and studying coding & crypto mechanics to understand it.

Now, a hiver like me may not be the target audience at all, and I totally get it if I'm the poet who accidentally wandered into an engineering convention, but I figured I'd share my perspective.

Anyway, gonna try and wade through the SPK whitepaper for a bit and revisit when I'm more knowledgeable.

Wishing SPK tons of success and I'll do what I can to help. Wishing you a great day. 🙏