What's up? It's Rachel here. And today I'm doing a live AMA with ArcIO. Today, we've got the co-founder of ArcIO, Travis Walker with us. And we've also got Justin Rincon. He's the senior brand manager of ArcIO. Hey, guys, how are you? How are you? Good, good to see you. So, yeah, definitely. I'm excited for this AMA. Let's just get started with the first question. What is ArcIO? And how is it different from other blockchain ecosystems? Justin, do you want to take that? I will definitely take that. Yeah, I've been taking this question for years. Yeah, well, Arc is the simplest way to blockchain. I mean, what we're doing at Arc.io is we're building a platform of cohesive products that allows both users and developers to harness blockchain technology in the simplest and easiest way possible and the fastest, really. We're working on products like the Deployer, which allows any developer to deploy a blockchain in just one click, where all the background processes happen in the background automatically and you have your own blockchain fully customized to your specs while you're sipping a coffee. And that's just one example. But we also have desktop and mobile wallets, really easy to use for everyday people. We have platform SDK for developers to interact with many different blockchains, popular chains, and get data out in a very efficient way. And as well, we're launching a new platform called MarketSquareSoon, which is a social platform designed to bring users and developers together with blockchain-powered projects and businesses so that they can build community together. Very cool. I mean, it sounds like the Arc ecosystem is pretty vast. Travis, do you mind kind of explaining maybe the different elements and systems that you guys tend to focus on within the ecosystem? Yeah, well, we're focused on our core. This is the coding behind the blockchain itself. But we're also focused on growing our community and our projects. Like Justin mentioned the Deployer MarketSquare coming up, the platform SDK. But platform SDK, I wanted to jump on that real quick. If you're familiar with Coinbase and their Rosetta API, it's something similar to that, a universal way to interact with all kinds of different protocols and make it easier to interact with them. We're also focusing on like node management for brand new blockchains that are spinning up in the Arc ecosystem. We're focused on our new desktop wallet just coming out what's gonna be multi-asset, not just Arc. And there's much more in the background and more coming in the future. Awesome, great. Before I go on to my next question, I just want to remind our audience to subscribe to the YouTube channel and to please start sending your questions because Justin and Travis are ready to answer anything. So feel free to send those in the chat. And yeah, so next question, Justin, Justin, I'd like you to take this one. I know that Market Square is kind of a big deal right now within the ecosystem. Can you kind of further explain what that is? Yes, definitely. And it's true that Market Square is a pretty big deal in the ecosystem right now because it allows Arc to have a springboard to offer value in communicating with other projects and businesses in order to form strategic relationships with the rest of the industry. So it's already nice that we have this really powerful toolkit for developers. JavaScript and TypeScript developers can use our toolkits to build blockchains, customize chains, integrate with the Arc public network, and the Arc crypto asset, do all that stuff. But Market Square is kind of taking care of the dark side of the moon if that was one side of the moon. And that is the social aspect of bringing the entire industry together. So what we've been doing in the later half of 2020 and now is really reaching out to many different projects and businesses and protocols as well. We've been doing a lot with the Hive ecosystem that's running a lot of social media apps such as 3Speak and D.Buzz and Dappler, but also different businesses, like even e-tailers like cryptos. They sell these crypto themed socks that you can wear and Dogecoin cuff links, they got it all. But really it's kind of like a cooler version of LinkedIn for the crypto and blockchain industries. So that users and developers who wanna discover real services that they can use with blockchain can do that and connect with their favorite blockchain powered projects and businesses. And as we roll out more features to this platform after the initial public beta launch, we're going to be integrating Arc technology into the Market Square platform directly with crypto fueled transactions and payments for things like promotional posts, advertising and other features like that. Very cool. Can we talk a little bit about the Arc token? How can people earn the Arc token to businesses accept that? Travis, maybe do you wanna go into detail there? Yeah, the Arc token is, it runs on the Arc blockchain. It can be used as a payments system. It can be used for transfers like any cryptocurrency can. But it also is used in a governance aspect on the Arc network itself to vote in delegates, which is, some people call them validators but Arc call them delegates. Every Arc token that a user holds equals one vote for a delegate, push them into a forging position. So if you feel that you're comfortable with a certain delegates running the Arc network for you, you vote for them and you put their trust into them. At any point in time, you can change your votes. You can swap between your Arc wallets into mobile and you can vote from your ledger hardware wallets. Going into the side of work, you use Arc, sites like travel law accept Arc. There's things like now payments that integrate Arc for retailers or websites. There's a lot of different uses. So if a business wanted to actually accept the Arc token, is it easy for them to just like set up and do that? What's the process like? Yeah, there is. We had something called Arc pay. It's on our GitHub. People can utilize that. But like I was mentioning now payments, they have a great system to just integrate with websites like Shopify type of websites and stuff like that. Yeah, and cryptocurrencycheckout.com as well, I believe also has that. And just recently, Arc was integrated into Travala.com as well. Very well-known platform for booking travel and flight hotel accommodations using cryptocurrency. That has also been integrated as well. So yeah. Awesome, that's really, really cool. I'm gonna take some questions or a question from the audience real quick. So let's see here. Jermaine Medant Dima is asking, what's the difference with coin market cap and market square? Oh yes, that's a good question. I like that question. Travis, I got this one if you don't mind. So yeah, the key difference between coin market cap and market square really lies in the vision of what we want people to do on our platform. So when you go to coinmarketcap.com, they do a pretty good job at showing you all this different information about different projects and you can learn about what they do in the descriptions of each project, right? Each crypto asset and ecosystem that lies under it. However, the difference is coin market cap seems to have a bit more focus on valuations, market capitalizations, financial information, price histories, that kind of thing. I guess more like a speculator resource, right? Even in the name, right? coinmarketcap.com, that's what they're doing. With market square, we're focusing on utility first. So we're showing our users that come to market square what you can specifically do with different crypto assets, with blockchain projects, which DApps are running on which networks and organizing that information so that somebody with a specific interest set can access all of the real services that would interest them quickly and easily. So like with coin market cap, it's more like filtered by the biggest market cap. But like, if I'm somebody who wants to find really cool blockchain games, I'm not really gonna find games that are really cool like Splinterlands or Town Star by sorting by biggest market cap, right? So market square is more like, what do you like to do? Who do you like to hang out with? What are you interested in? Where do you see blockchain technology going? Like what examples do you wanna see of blockchain technology enriching real people's lives right now? That type of experience is what we're trying to give people with market square. Got it, Travis, did you wanna add anything to that? I think he nailed it. Cool, well, just based on that, I'm curious, are you guys doing anything with NFTs because obviously that's huge right now and I think it's a great real world use case. So Justin, did you wanna take that? Yeah, sure, yeah, NFTs are definitely big right now. And it's interesting, you know, because Arc, like Arc.io, we're kind of like OGs in the space, you know, Arc started mid to late 2016. Now it's after 2020, right? So we're into 2021. So we've seen like the ICO craze come and we've seen the DeFi craze come and now we're seeing the NFT craze come. Each wave brings with it real utility, of course, but there's definitely a lot of buzz and hype going on with NFTs right now. Earlier last year, Arc launched the Enterprise Blockchain Services Division called Protocol. Protocol is designed to help enterprises and businesses design business models around blockchain and then integrate it into their existing processes. So as a mechanism for that end goal, they're doing a lot of experimenting and looking into working with NFTs. And in specifics, I'm talking about things like the sports entertainment industry. There's lots of applications for NFTs there. We've seen that with things like NBA Top Shots, right? Esports is something that I think the traditional markets are overlooking a little bit because only recently has esports been starting to get as much notoriety as regular sports. And so the cool thing about esports is it's already E, right? So the collectibles can also be E by way of NFTs. And so Protocol is doing a lot of work with that. The cool thing that Market Square has been doing with NFTs is releasing some content, educational content that makes NFTs understandable and gets people's gears turning about what NFTs can really do. We have a video series on the Market Square YouTube channel called The Blockchains of, where we take a look at popular movies and TV shows and figure out how blockchain can power that fictional technology. We recently released an episode called The Blockchains of Ready Player One during Digicon, a blockchain gaming festival. And it was a widely received video. It became the number one video on our channel within one day. So that's just one example of the power of NFT buzz. But the video itself is really great, very well done, teaches you a lot about NFTs, blockchain, real life VR, experiences powered by blockchain. So definitely recommend anybody to check that out on the Market Square YouTube channel. Cool, yeah, it sounds like you guys are definitely doing a lot in terms of educating the public about blockchain and cryptocurrency. I was also reading that there's something called on your platform a blockchain glossary. Is that correct? Travis can talk about that if he likes. Actually, I like Justin's talk about it because I'm pretty sure he used the main guy for that whole project, so. Thank you. Yes, we've compiled a glossary of over 300 blockchain terms to help beginners in both the user space and the developer space get into the blockchain industry quickly and easily. So what we ended up actually doing was collaborating with the community. And I run this little thing called the Arc Community Committee where I got a bunch of people together in the community who was like, hey, you wanna help us do cool stuff? You wanna get some Arc, then join the committee. So part of that project was having the committee go out and find all these different blockchain terms, help define them and kind of work together to create this collaborative glossary. And once that was done, we're starting to now make videos about each term. So on the Market Square YouTube channel, which also acts as an educational resource and platform, as well as all the other things I talked about, we're creating videos for each term so that people who are just getting into blockchain and they're like, well, what does that word even mean? They'll be able to access quick, short, concise videos that gets right to the point for each term. So yeah, it's a very cool thing. I think a glossary is a cool way to kind of get people involved to learn because every time you read one sentence about blockchain it has like two or three terms in it where you're like, what does that mean? And then you read the next sentence and that spawns nine more terms. And you're like, what do those mean? So we figured that glossary would be a cool way to kind of tackle that. Yeah, definitely. I mean, especially as more of the mainstream starts to enter the crypto space, we need things like glossaries and educational resources where people can just easily see what these terms mean. I'm gonna take another question from the audience real quick. This is actually a really interesting question. Alessandro Perilla is asking, can ARC solve the problems of Ethereum? That's not a solid day. That's not a solid day. You wanna answer that? Yes and no, I guess. Transaction wise, yeah, I don't see why it wouldn't be a great alternative. We're not trying to replace anyone by any means we run our own path. But the way ARC is designed is multiple chains. So it's one chains fast, but when you have parallel blockchains that can offload multiple transactions in between interoperable blockchains, you start solving scalability. It's, that's kind of how we've been designing it in the background since 2016. And with our new core V3, we're in the last step making this actually happen. Very cool. Justin, did you wanna add anything to that? Yeah, sure. The scalability issue of Ethereum, which is a very widely adopted decentralized computer blockchain, right? That's kind of one of the driving forces that attached me to ARC in terms of its vision because as a speculator, it's a great thing to have everything run on one network and it all relies on one crypto asset by force through gas fees. That's a great thing for speculators because then it kind of like strong arms the utility of the main crypto asset. But for a user, it might be less than fair from time to time. If, for example, like I wanna use Ethereum to pay somebody to mow my lawn, if the fees are really high because some random application I've never heard of is getting really popular on the same network, then that doesn't seem fair to me or the person I'm paying to mow my lawn. So that's where I was starting to ask questions about scalability and I found ARC's vision to be really elegant in terms of giving each use case or each even decentralized application on its own its own standalone blockchain and then allowing interoperability to take care of the glue that makes that ecosystem up. And then with the ARC crypto asset at the middle of that ecosystem, it's running on the ARC public network which is not bogged down by specialized code that has been put there by other developers who want to run specific applications. So I can pay somebody to mow my lawn using ARC in a very cheap and efficient way while also enabling an ecosystem, a thriving ecosystem of hundreds of applications running on ARC technology at the same time. So I saw that as kind of a win-win there. Got it, got it. I'm gonna take another question from the audience real quick that's kind of related to what we were just talking about. So this is from hard classic records. He's asking, is it possible that Ethereum developers are moving their projects to the ARC blockchain easily? Travis, do you wanna answer that one? Yeah, it certainly can. I know a lot of Solidity developers right now would rather stick with Solidity though. So they're going to Ethereum clones at the moment but there is a very easy way to actually make this happen. We have an ERC-20 token, a conversion system. Really use that with the new ARC Deployer and you convert your Ethereum tokens into an ARC-based blockchain and token. It's called the ARC Migrator and it'll be coming along with the Deployer. So yeah, you could be an Ethereum DAP and then you could convert all your stuff onto an ARC chain easily with the Migrator and you can launch the ARC chain really easily with the Deployer, then you can manage nodes really easily using Notom, another product in our platform family. So yeah. Awesome, just a reminder to the audience please keep sending your questions. These guys know everything so please send them our way so we can answer them. I'm gonna go back to one of my questions real quick. I wanna talk a little bit about open source because I know the ARC platform is open source and I think that this is really important for the blockchain ecosystem in general. So Travis, what are your thoughts on open source and the importance there? It's extremely important. That's what this whole industry is about. We wouldn't be here without it. Everything that we do is all open source except when we're developing it but when we release it to the public it is all open source. We believe in that. We're actually, I believe we are part of the COPPA, correct? Yeah, the Crypto Open Patent Alliance. So yeah, it's an organization designed to put forward a culture that doesn't try to iron fist, grip all the intellectual property in the blockchain space. Yeah, yeah, definitely. Definitely a cool thing to be a part of that organization. There's a video about that on our YouTube channel as well. Awesome. Okay, so a comment from the audience from Harshji Tiwari, he's saying, hey Travis, can I get an ARC cap? I'm a believer in ARC since day one and I would love to wear it to college. So just throwing that out there, you guys have a lot of fans that want hats. Shop.arc.io. Nice. Just off an ARC hat. Yeah, I got my tan one over there. I'm not wearing it right now, but yeah, the hats are really cool. Yeah, that hat is awesome. Okay, back to a question from the audience. Let's talk a little bit about the new wallet. So audience member Dissociative is saying, will the new wallet allow to hold stable coins? Oh. The new wallet is running on our, combined with our platform SDK, which is supporting Ethereum. It will support Ethereum. So everything built on Ethereum will eventually holding stable coins can be added to the multi-asset wallet, yes. Justin, did you want to add anything to that? No, yeah, Travis got it locked down, yeah. Yes. Can you guys also just talk about the new wallet? Are there any cool features that you want to discuss? Anything like that, Justin, Travis? Yeah, just looking at the, as we continue to look at the designs and how the development is coming together for the actual functionalities of the wallet and seeing the wallet in action, what I've noticed that's a huge improvement in the wallet is we've really improved the user flow for doing common actions in the wallet, things like sending funds, receiving, adding a new address. It's much more user-friendly in terms of it takes you on a little bit of a journey through the steps, and it doesn't expose you to too much information at once. When we're designing things like the wallets, we have people who have never used crypto in mind. And one of the really cool things is that, even though there are some really great wallets out there that have a great user experience, the wallets like, for example, Abra, Spend, Exodus, Atomic Wallet, all great wallets, all great user experiences, we take extra pride in being the business entity responsible for helping to maintain the code base of a blockchain project directly, but also being able to release these types of products that have really great user experiences. I mean, when Arc first started, it was like 2016, and wallet experiences were far worse than they are now. And so the Arc wallet coming out in 2017 really helped us earn a trusted place in the industry as being a user first, and really valuing the user experience as a blockchain project natively, which was kind of like a new, innovative thing at the time. So definitely some really cool things coming to the new wallet. And I think the Arc fans and people just discovering Arc, both will really enjoy what we've got going on with the wallet. I think my favorite thing coming is the sheer speed of it, just connecting to a ledger. If anyone has a ledger wallet with multiple addresses, it takes some time to pull those addresses and bring them up into the wallet. It is lightning fast now. Awesome. I have a question about the new wallet. Also we're seeing a lot of these wallets integrate with tax platforms to help make crypto taxes easier. Are you guys doing something like that already or are you planning to do that moving forward? So one of the cool things is MarketSquare allows us to forge relationships with entities that handle crypto taxes, things like token tax, come to mind, joining MarketSquare. And so that kind of opens doors for Arc to add more functionalities to the wallet and other products. So the wallet is unique for us because of the plug-in manager that we're integrating into the wallet. So this plug-in manager will allow both Arc.io and third parties to release applications that enhance the wallet experience. Similar to when you use the Google's Play Store or the iOS Store to use apps to enhance your phone, you can do that same thing, enhance your wallet with the plug-in manager. So plug-ins can include things like tax-based applications that help you manage your activities within the wallet. It's definitely within the realm of possibility and capability using Arc technology. Awesome. Cool. I'm gonna take another question from the audience. Cam CYJ is asking, will the multi-asset wallet have swaps? If so, is it looking to compete with stuff like Atomic and Exodus? Travis, do you wanna answer that? I don't think that's gonna be a feature right out of the gate. It's not something I wouldn't say no to at the moment. I'm just thinking of getting the coins into the multi-asset wallet, getting the wallet out first before we start looking at it like a built-in dex or something like that. It's not a no, but it's not our focus to get out right now. Okay. The roadmap is showing that we're laying the foundations to include decentralized communications between different blockchains. So we have this technology called HTLC SmartBridge that is currently functioning on the Arc development network, which is not the Arc main network, the Arc public network. That technology would allow Arc public network to swap decentralized with new blockchains that are powered by Arc technology. So if you had, for example, let's say like a blockchain developer wanted to launch an Arc-based chain to power their decentralized application, or maybe somebody launched it with their own crypto asset name called like game or something, then Arc HTLC SmartBridge would allow swaps to happen between the Arc public network and that games blockchain. And so naturally, like eventually, the wallet would be able to help facilitate those swaps and people could do those swaps within the wallet. But like Travis said, it's not a priority number one right now because we're still fleshing out the total product platform offering kind of overall. And then we'll be iterating that over time. But I wanted to add that right now in the wallet, you can already use the plugin system. Like there's like change now is already in the plugin system. So you can do swaps using the change now. They'll be in the new wallet as well. And anyone can really build any kind of plugin they'd like to put into the wallet. Cool. So I have a question that I wanted to ask. It sounds like because the ecosystem is so vast, I'm wondering what's the best use case for Arc IO? I mean, is it payments? Is it enterprise? In your opinion, what would you say is the best and maybe most common use case that you guys are seeing? Justin, do you wanna answer that? Yeah, sure. It's interesting because we are building a toolkit that developers can use to do anything, but also do that easier than they could with something like Solidity. So we have what's called Arc smart transactions, which are discrete TypeScript modules that developers can integrate into their new blockchain that they're creating with Arc. These transactions can be designed to do anything. Any developer that knows TypeScript can design functions that they can integrate into their version of the Arc core and do whatever they wanna do. For example, there's a project right now that's built and powered by Arc called Compendia. And Compendia is essentially using Arc technology to implement DeFi applications as well as decentralized Oracle networks. So Compendia is doing something kind of similar to something like a chain link using Arc technology. And they're using Arc smart transactions to do that and get that job done. So I guess the shortest way to answer it would be as Arc.io, we're trying to build a library of tools that developers can use to do anything. However, as we notice developers doing more and more specific things, we can start to integrate quick launch use cases into what we're already deploying. So for example, Deployer, the product that you can use to make a blockchain, you would be able to customize that blockchain, things like the number of delegates, things like the block time, things like the tokenomics of the blockchain. And so in the future, we can deploy modules in Deployer that says, oh, are you making a blockchain that you need NFTs on? We have an NFT module already done for you. You can just press this button and it's already on your blockchain too. Or something like, do you wanna have like what's it called? Document storage, like a way to store documents on the blockchain itself instead of using something like IPFS. Like we have a module for that. Like you can just put that on. So like as we assess the use cases and the needs of both our partners and new people coming to Arc Technology, we can expand our product suite to include those types of use cases. Awesome, great. Just another reminder to the audience, keep sending questions. I'm gonna take another one right now, actually, which is relatable to what we were just speaking about. It's from Cam CYJ. He's asking, when someone deploys a chain via Arc Deployer, what is the upper limit of TPS? Travis, do you wanna take this one? Upper limits. I mean, that would be hardware-based, I guess, at the moment. It's tough. The best would be to sandbox it and run a test simulation.  Is it just transactions? Are you sending multi-payments? So are you sending NFTs? Is there a lot of data being sent back and forth? It depends, really. Yeah, it does. It does depend. I mean, as your number of delegates goes down, your blockchain will get higher throughput because there's less block propagation that's needed, but it kind of depends on the use case. So the developer who's designing and customizing the blockchain will need to kind of understand these types of parameters, like how they would affect performance and then what performance they need and what specifications they need. You could create a blockchain with just five delegates and everybody's voting on five delegate slots and all the delegates are located in one country in Europe or something and they're all right there, like maybe on a university campus and you could have transactions per seconds of as high as you can think, but then if you had another blockchain that's running on slow internet in all different continents, then that's gonna affect the performance of that blockchain. So I guess like to answer that question like simply, we haven't executed our own experiments on what the limitations of transactions per seconds could be in different environments. However, we know that we can always raise the TPS as needed and it's remained stable. Like right now the ArcPublic network is, Travis correct me if I'm wrong, is it at 500 transactions per block right now and each block is eight seconds? Because we were always increasing it, so. The DevNet I believe is on 500 right now. The ArcMainNet right now is at 150 with multi payments that you're looking up at 2,000 plus TPS. Yeah, yeah. And then that can just be increased as needed because of delegated proof of stake makes it really easy to do those types of scalability actions. You're also fighting centralization versus decentralization too when you're thinking about TPS. Hire the TPS most likely to lower the decentralization. Because now you're like he's talking about latency hardware which is great for like an enterprise blockchain. They don't need decentralization. They can push a million transactions between their two servers that are running. But when you're looking at centralized blockchain and environment, then you start pushing real world testing as opposed to centralized enterprise blockchain simulations. Right, yeah. That kind of leads into the next question that I'm gonna take from an audience member in K. He's asking why did Arc choose DPOS instead of POS? That's Travis all day. He was there. I mean, he was there. I didn't come in until like 2018. It was something that we knew. We knew DPOS. We all came from a DPOS background. We knew it could be better than it was. Like there was voting issues in the past. There was address creation issues in the past. We saw the actual need for a DPOS system and we went with that. Got it, makes sense. Okay, another question from an audience member. Rose Lovely is asking, what is it about ETN and Arc partnership? What is it about? What is the partnership about? Yeah, I suppose maybe that's what Rose Lovely meant. Okay, yeah, sure. Well, that is largely due courtesy of MarketSquare, reaching out to a lot of different projects, businesses, protocols, and Electronium and any task was a really great grab that MarketSquare had. We have a strategic partnerships manager, Ray Alvarez, pounding the pavement, constantly bringing in new projects that are joining MarketSquare. And then as I mentioned earlier, doing it like this and having a product like MarketSquare allows us to open doors to start conversations with other entities in the industry to really create a lot of synergy and build something even cooler than we could have done separately. So if we go to the blog article, which is at blog.arc.io, you have a cool article about this partnership with Electronium and any task. And any task is a really great platform that Electronium is doing. And it's basically like this Fiverr-type solution for freelancers, but also integrated with blockchain technology. And it's using the Electronium platform to facilitate all the payments for all the freelancers, which allows them to make money from all over the world without needing a bank account. So as we kind of move forward with projects such as anytask.com and Electronium, we can figure out more things that we can do with these types of entities. Like for example, like having Arc as part of the payment mechanism is possible. So like having this type of relationship allows that door to be opened. But I guess without taking too much of the time here in the AMA, there's already a blog article about this. You can just check it out on blog.arc.io. Great. I'd like to also talk a little bit about the roadmap and what we can expect moving forward. Are you guys able to kind of discuss that and maybe some features that we can expect to see? Travis, do you wanna take that one? Yeah, most of what we've discussed so far is roadmap items like the new wallets, new core code base, MarketSquare. All of this is all roadmap based. Okay, well, based on, I mean, so an audience member is asking, invisible, the audience member is asking, when will the new Explorer be released? The new Explorer is gonna come with core V3. It's pretty much ready. I think it's the newest, the last version, the updated version is on the test net right now or DevNet. Yeah. But I think they're gonna be polishing some new designs when we release the core V3 with it. Yeah, very true. There's like a first look at the functioning new version of the Explorer at dexplorer.arc.io. So dexplorer.arc.io is where you can go and see this first look at the new design. But as Travis said, there's probably gonna be some additional tweaks and improvements before core V3 goes to the Arc Public Network. But yeah, the new Explorer is really clean. I'm looking at it right now. That's why I'm not looking at the camera, Rachel. Sorry. I'm enamored. The design is really clean. It looks beautiful. And it really is cohesive along with the other products that we'll be releasing. The new wallet, Market Square, it's just all just like this really clean look. So definitely a lot of credit goes to the design team for that. Yeah, that's awesome. I wish you could share your screen, Justin, and show us that. But I mean, obviously I'll check it out after this. It just, you make it sound so amazing. So I'm excited to see it.  And what does that data point mean? And how much crypto is here? And where did this crypto go to? And it was difficult for me to get my hand around other explorers. I think it's probably largely due to the UTXO model, which can get kind of like convoluted. But with architecture technology, like you can go to the Explorer and you can like clearly see like, okay, here's the address, here's what it is, copy to clipboard, like see what happened with all these different funds, see all these different transactions where they came from, where they're going to, the dates and all that. Like it's really just nice and clean. So that's one of the things that I really liked. I remember that from my early days. So I wanna bring that up. Yeah, exactly. I mean, we need more user-friendly applications. That's for sure, because if we're gonna get mainstream adoption, that's like one of the major elements here. So I think what you guys are doing, it's great on top of that with the blockchain glossary, market square. I mean, this is all I think, these are all the elements needed in order to drive adoption to blockchain networks. I couldn't have said it better myself, Rachel. Yeah, we're hiring. No, I'm just kidding. Well, actually someone was interested, an audience member, Jeroenick is asking, how many developers do you have right now? Oh, yeah, Travis, do you know? The easiest answer for that right now is to go to arc.io slash about and click the expand button to look at our entire team. We keep that updated as much as often as possible. Arc.io forward slash team. Yeah, arc.io forward slash team. Yeah, we've got, I mean, nearly 16 on the development team right now. And the design teams got four people on it, including Eugenie, who works on the motion design, works closely with me because I do like the arc YouTube channel at youtube.arc.io and he makes off like the cool like visual video graphics for that, which I really like. And then the protocol team, which is, as I mentioned earlier, the subsidiary of arc.io, working on enterprise blockchain solutions also has a completely separate roster of team members, including developers. So there's a lot of developers on the team. And of course, we're always hiring and looking for the newest talent to join our team. So if you're proficient in TypeScript, you can check out arc.io forward slash careers and take a look at what we've got going on over there. Awesome. And I'm trying to encourage more women to enter the space. So ladies, if you're watching this AMA, arc is hiring, they're a great company. They're a great team. Be sure to check out that site with the openings. Cool. So I'm going to take another question from the audience. And I also just want to remind the audience to keep sending questions. We've still got some time here. So Justin and Travis can answer those questions. Jermaine Medima is asking, when will Nodem be released? Nodem's basically done. Like I said with the Explorer though, it's kind of like a bundle deal with the new Deployer and Core V3 coming out. It's all coming at once. Yeah. Got it. I'm going to take another. Justin, did you want to add to that before I go on to another question? Oh, not much. I was just going to say that to fully appreciate the value that each of our products brings to the blockchain space, they all kind of need to work together in tandem. So like to see the value of my grader, it really helps to have the Deployer already ready for you right now. To see the value of Nodem, it helps to have something else ready right now. To see all these things. So it's all kind of interconnected. Not unlike Adobe Creative Suite. Like Adobe Creative Suite, they have all these different products like Photoshop and Premiere and After Effects. But when they all work together, you can really understand the true power of creation. And so like the Arc blockchain platform is kind of like that to have all these different complementary products working together. And so yeah, as we're building them, we have to rely on each one and all the features of each one as we're building them. And then we'll be releasing them kind of like bang, bang, bang, basically. At least that's the plan at least. Cool. I'm gonna take another question from the audience. It's actually an interesting question from Dissociative. He's asking, is Polkadot copying architect Travis? What do you think? I don't think anyone's copying anyone really. We all have the same thoughts of interoperability and our own ways of going about it. Each project is focused on interoperability, but I don't see anyone copying anyone. Everyone's going their own directions. We're all here to work together. That's what interoperability is, right? Right. And you guys were also just talking about the importance of open source for the blockchain community. So I think that kind of relates to that as well. I totally agree with that. Moving on to another audience question. I like this question, because Justin, I was commenting on the poster behind you. So this is a fun question. How did you come up with the design for the poster behind you, Justin? Or I don't know if you can type this design, but it's a pretty awesome poster. Thank you, thank you. Everybody be asking me about this poster. I went on the Coin Republic to do an interview earlier this week. They were asking me about the poster. I saw you, Rachel, today. The first thing you said was, whoa, what's up with that poster? So this poster is a commission that I commissioned for a delegate on the Arc Public Network. The delegate's called Delegate the Golden Horde and they're responsible for different creative acts and they do like a lot of artwork type stuff. So I came to them and I said, hey, can you make me a poster like from nothing? And I want it to be like the LA skyline and then like me and some people being cool with Arc and then like have the logo and have like some palm trees. And they were like, yeah, sure, no problem. So they came up with this, which looked 10 times cooler than I ever thought it would be. I thought it was gonna be like way more basic than this. So I created two editions of it. I minted two editions of it. One of them's in LA as a winning prize for a Crypto Trivia show that I did in 2019. The other one's right behind me. So who knows, maybe I'll NFT this someday, but for now it's just a cool poster in my room. Yeah. Thank you Delegate Golden Horde. It's really great. I love it. And I wanna see that as an NFT Justin. That's awesome. Love that poster. Okay, back to a serious question now. So I'm curious to know, obviously there's still a lot of challenges and work that need to be done in the blockchain space. So I wanna know from both of you, what in your opinion, what are the biggest challenges that still need to be overcome within the ARC ecosystem? So Travis, do you wanna go first on that? Biggest challenges, I guess interoperability itself is a huge, that's a huge issue, but also the user side of it, not just the back end, but the easy to use, getting somebody, like having your grandma be able to cross chain transaction by clicking a button instead of researching what that even means. That's a huge hurdle in the industry that I see right now. Justin, do you have that? Yeah, I mean, ease of use and user experience is always gonna be a massive hurdle in this space. I mean, regardless, the hurdle is the same for every single entity that's involved in this space. I mean, we're constantly battling, like Travis said, constantly battling that user experience problem of how do we make blockchain as easy as possible for the most people possible? And so there's that. But also in recent years, like 2020, as we start to re-strategize and release products as their own brands, like for example, MarketSquare is its own brand. It's not like Arc Marketplace and like Nodom is its own brand. It's not Arc Node Manager, right? Deployer is its own brand now. It's not Arc Deployer. We're releasing products that appeal to the entire industry, but that comes with it, that brings with it the challenge of breaking into that industry, cutting through the noise with a new brand, right? It's almost like that startup mentality. I mean, Arc is a well-funded entity that's already been around for four years and it's probably gonna be around for at least 10 more years based on funding we have now. But at the same time, we're launching new brands that appeal to the entire industry, not just the Arc ecosystem, that are, I get, I mean, in one way, competing with existing brands, but in another way are brands that nobody knows about yet. So we have to do a lot of work to get the word out there and build the brand awareness with those brands as we have with Arc as well. So yeah, those are challenges as well. Very, very true. Got it, okay. Just wanna remind the audience, we've still got a little bit of time. Please send your questions. And if you haven't done so already, subscribe to the YouTube channel for more very awesome AMAs like this. I'm gonna take another question from an audience member. Bradley Henry is asking, will the Explorer have an API? Travis, do you wanna answer that one? Yeah, it will. Very simple, yes. Justin, you wanna elaborate on that or is it just? Yeah, I mean, yeah. But also like the Arc API itself that interfaces with the Arc core is really elegant API. And it's been getting some tweaks over the years. Like we've redesigned the API. Now I think it's on API v2. But if you're not a developer and there's probably people watching the AMA that aren't developers, it's a lot harder than you think to get data out of like a standard issue popular blockchain in the top 10 right now. And there's like a lot of like random hoops and hurdles that developers have to go through to use the APIs of certain blockchains. So this is why there's a huge need for things like Coinbase's solution and R solution platform SDK. But the cool thing is that the Arc API is just natively easy. I mean, everything we're doing is trying to live up to our vision of the simplest way to blockchain. Like that is what you see in big texts when you come to Arc.io, you see the simplest way to blockchain. So everything we do is trying to live up to that. And the API is definitely no exception. So developers have specifically said how easy it is to work with the API. Like for example, Delegatefun is a delegate that operates Arcfun.io, which is a suite of blockchain powered games that you can play online and win Arc every day. It's a pretty cool use case of Arc technology. And Delegatefun said that, you know, Arc is so simple to use, I barely even needed to read the documentation. So it's definitely a testament to how simple it is. But yeah, that's a longer version of, yes, there's an API for the Explorer. I didn't forget the question, but I wanted to add a couple of those things because I know we're running out of time. Yeah, definitely. So I think I'm gonna take one more question from the audience. Cam CYJ is asking, can you explain Arc logic? Justin, I think you kind of touched on this just now with saying, you know, blockchain simplicity, but is there something else that you guys wanna add to that in terms of the logic behind Arc? Yeah, yeah, sure. So Arc logic is our name for the technology that developers use to implement decentralized logic into a blockchain, okay? So on Ethereum side, they call that like Solidity and smart contracts, right? On our side, we call that Arc logic and Arc smart transactions. That might be, that might be a, you know, swap that. Solidity equals Arc smart transactions and smart contracts equals Arc logic. Okay, right. Now Arc logic allows developers to work with TypeScript, which is a very common programming language that 11.6 developers know in the world. So very common, unlike Solidity, which is a little more difficult to work with, but it lets developers design their own transaction types and integrate them into their version of the Arc core. So really easy to do that. And you don't need to worry about like making mistakes with coding using a new language, which can lead to very, very serious security vulnerabilities because you're dealing with blockchains value on the internet, other people's money in some cases too. So, yeah, Arc logic is designed to make decentralized applications easier for developers. Travis, what were you gonna say? I saw you making a face a little bit. I think you forgot to say million. 11.6 million? 11.6? Yeah. Exactly, 11.6 developers know. 11.6 developers. That's a lot, Rachel. That's a lot. I mean, we're going places with JavaScript and TypeScript right here. Yeah, it sounds like it. Awesome. Well, that's good to know. I'm sure everyone's excited to hear that. I know we're running low on time, so Travis, any final thoughts that you wanna add before we end the AMA? Yeah, if you have any other questions, you can find me on Twitter. You can find me in the public Arc Discord too. Jump in, learn, read our blog, follow. If you have, like I said, any questions at all, I'm always in Discord. It's true. He lives there. I think. Well, since we can't go anywhere basically, it's like what else are we gonna do, right? But Justin, what are your final thoughts that you wanted to add? Yes, final thoughts. I just wanna thank everybody out there who supports the Arc ecosystem. It definitely does not go unnoticed. Sometimes your support gets me through the day. It's really hard to work in this industry sometimes. There's a lot of stress, there's a lot of pressure. So thank you very much for your support. Also, I'd like you to help us out and join the MarketSquare.io public beta mailing list. You can do that at MarketSquare.io. MarketSquare is not available yet. However, the MarketSquare video channels are cranking out real content that can help you today. So you can go to any of the MarketSquare video channels on YouTube, on Threespeak, Decentralized, on Library, Decentralized, on Bitshoot, Decentralized, and you can learn all about cool blockchain stuff and watch more episodes of the Blockchains of, which is in my opinion the coolest video series to reach the blockchain industry that I've ever seen. It's so fun and cool. So check it out and make sure you watch a couple of episodes. Awesome. I'm gonna check that out also. That sounds really cool. Mm-hmm. That is correct. Great. Well, Justin and Travis, it's been a pleasure. It's good to see you again. I know that we ran into each other a few years back at World CryptoCon, so it's always a pleasure catching up and seeing the ecosystem grow. So thank you so much for joining us. And I just wanna say, yeah, and I just wanna say thank you to the audience for joining us. Please be sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel and yeah, it's been a pleasure.


Welcome, everyone, last session of the last day of Domains 101. We're excited to be here. We're talking about beyond domains, no lampshade. So we're going to talk about things that you can't or that you may think aren't compatible with domains. And how does that fit? How do those applications or anything like that? How does that fit into domains? Talk about different use cases and all that stuff. But before we even get into what you can't do or what you might not have thought you can do or what you might not have thought about, we kind of have to define the boundaries we've set ourselves here in. So Domain 101 Zone and Shared Hosting had reclaimed. And frankly, most companies that offer shared with web hosting services are using what's like industry-wide known as the LAMP stack. And LAMP is an acronym that stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and Perl. And sometimes Python. Sometimes Python, but kind of rarely Python. But it feels like anyway. So I'm just kind of. Dammit, you're right, Taylor. Just kind of mentioning here. And I pulled this up. I just Googled like LAMP stack. And I found this IBM page. So we're in the realm of international business machines, so you know we're correct, probably. So they define LAMP as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. Like I said, usually Perl as well, almost always. But Perl isn't given as much love. So sometimes people forget it in the acronym. But what does that mean? Linux is the operating system that the server is running. So it needs to be an application that can run on Linux. We're talking about what you can run in a LAMP stack. So what can you run on shared hosting or domain in one's own? Needs to be Linux compatible. Apache is the web server. Apache is like a prolific piece of software at this point in terms of what it can do, what it enables for the web. It's very much tied into open source in terms of establishing like licensing. It's kind of wild. We use it and shared hosting uses it because it's really efficient and good at allowing a lot of people to do a lot of different things all on one server, which allows you to do things in an economical way from in terms of resources. So Apache can handle all kinds of different web pages, all kinds of different applications. But there are some limitations. Applications you run need to be written with Apache in mind at least or be compatible with. And some applications aren't that way. MySQL is the database. So it's just one type of database. There's all kinds of other databases. MySQL is probably one of the most popular databases in the world in terms of how many instances it's running. But again, are some features that it may or may not provide or implement differently than things like Postgres or I don't know, like Heaven Forbid, like Oracle SQL or something proprietary. So your application that you're running also needs to be compatible with MySQL. And then finally, PHP is the programming language that if your application is written with a programming language, maybe you're just doing static HTML or something, then you're not concerned about it. But if you're running a CMS WordPress, you probably need some programming language available to you. PHP and Perl are typically the choices for a lot of reasons that are somewhat historical, somewhat based on performance and managing multiple things running. But basically, this is the structure that you have available to you if you want to run an application. So what that results in is a lot of applications available to you, but not every single possible web application. So what we're wanting to talk about is like, what if the application you want to run doesn't work with say Apache or PHP or MySQL or something like that. We aren't gonna talk about things that don't work with Linux just because I, and I don't, Jim, I don't know if you do, but I don't have any experience with like Windows Server stuff. That's a whole other world, but there are some services that you may wanna run maybe on a different cloud or something that run not on Linux. But even outside of this, there are still a lot of kind of cool and creative things you can do with Domino One's own or shared hosting. Before we even get into some of the more advanced stuff, the first thing I wanna mention is that there's a lot of stuff you can do with just DNS basically. So I'm here on my shared hosting account, but this worked the same on any Domino One's own account. Say, I've got Taylor.stateu.org. I'm on jaden.me over here, but keep in mind that you can always make a lot of things happen with just DNS. So if you're using, if say you have someone that wants to use a service like GitHub Pages and they wanna map a domain to it because they're using something like like Jekyll or something like that, GitHub Pages has documentation on mapping a custom domain. And they could easily follow this guide and use the DNS tools available in C-Panel to hook up maybe a subdomain or something to GitHub Pages. You can also do a lot of real simple things with subdomain. So I use subdomains all the time to, in fact, I've got probably too many, to just do redirects. So maybe you've got a need to link to like a special conference site. Let's say this one. So we're on watch.reclaimed.tec slash d-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o one Oone dash fall 22. Maybe you've got like a really long, like a super long NURL and you, would use something like Bitly, but you want to make a nicer looking link that you have more control over. Maybe I wanna make domains.jedem.me, go to that site. I can go into C-Panel, go to subdomains, pick create, wait for it to do the DNS and the page magic in the background Then once that's created, I can actually go in here and set up a redirect right from here. So it says not redirected and go to manage redirection, paste in my link, and now domains.jd.me should go to our watch site. There we go. Inception. Yeah. I think that maybe that's underappreciated how easy that is. I think a lot of people don't even know that that's an option. But it is a thing. I've seen folks hook up like all kinds of services via DNS. You can do mail services. You could do other web hosting services if you really want to. But there's all kinds of things you can do. But Jim, do you want to take us into the next generation? Sure, absolutely. I'll take a moment and just say, there was an article I think you shared, and I shared it in Distance Gord, and it actually is by a site called TDM and it talks about the long really invaluable history of LAMP as a sturdy infrastructure for folks to use. I think there's a lot there. Even seeing you do the redirects and talk a bit about the title, I Love LAMP. It is a great article if you're interested in that history and how the stack came together. It's been really the default stack from much of the web for well over 20 years. And for that, it's a very powerful thing, maybe even more. So well worth a read if you're interested. But the thing about LAMP that I've always loved and you pointed to is the ability, in particular with C-Panel, which is the flavor of LAMP that is branded to give us a GUI interface so we can do stuff like redirects is domains and DNS. So let's just say you have a domain and you're running it in LAMP and the application you wanna run, and I'm gonna actually share my screen. Well, I'm not gonna actually share my screen. I'm just gonna go and put it behind me. And I don't know, did I already mention my Ant-Man abilities?  It's like Ant-Man, but instead of a factor of thousands, it's a factor of like one or two. Thank you for diminishing my superpower. You're welcome. As I diminish myself. This is a good example, and we're talking about the next generation apps like you mentioned. This is Reclaim Hosting's monthly newsletter. Driven brilliantly by Pilot. And this is a collection of all the work we've done in announcements, et cetera. And this is running in an application called Ghost. Now, Ghost, if we do a lot of, and Tim, the co-founder and my partner actually figured out a way to get it run in C-Panel, but it was so hard that it was kind of, unless you were a programmer, it was next to impossible. And it was difficult to maintain over time too for folks to update and stuff like that. So you could pull a Rube Goldberg and get some of these apps running in LAMP, but at the point of supporting this for a community, it became impossible. And Lauren can attest to this as well when people would come to us and say, can we run Ghost? Can we run discourse? Can we run dataset? Can we run, in the applications people would keep coming to us, can we run Shiny apps? And we would be like, no, because it doesn't run in C-Panel. No, no, we would be saying no a lot. And so what we did, and the we is royal, because Tim really did, it found this service that we use driven by Jelastic, which is now Virtuo. So, which is actually basically an alternative stack that runs not only PHP apps, but runs Ruby apps, Node apps, Go apps. And I don't wanna get too much into the kind of app soup, but the idea is these are applications that would have dependencies that would not work in the LAMP environment. And Ghost is one of them. And it actually runs brilliantly on Reclaim Cloud, even to the point where Taylor built a really elegant one-click installer. So it's almost like having an installatron-like access to these next generation apps. And we firmly believe that this will be the kind of future of allowing these open source, because they're often open source, not only apps that can run not in just PHP LAMP environments, but in a whole host of environments, Java, Ruby, as I said, Node, et cetera. So we're super excited about that. Ghost is one example. And this is kind of, I know it's gonna be, but this is kind of what the dashboard looks like. If you're more interested in containers and Reclaim Cloud, Taylor drove a really great understanding containers session that we have video recordings of. That is really a great overview of what this means and how to run it. I run not only stuff like Ghost, Dataset, which is a small app that data analysts love, but also one of, I think Taylor and I's favorite tool. It's kind of a YouTube clone, and it's called PeerTube. And it's an open source video management tool that allows you to upload videos. And it's a one-click install in Reclaim Cloud. It runs on a fairly complicated stack that you could never run in LAMP in a million years. And it would be terrible performance if it was. Exactly. It would either be slow itself or slow everything else on the server down. So it's tools like PeerTube, it's tools like Ghost, these what we'll call next generation apps, although they've been around for a while now, that makes stuff beyond the LAMP exciting. But the DNS piece that you pointed to, and I will redirect it back to you Taylor, because I know you have stuff to share, is crucial because you can still have C-Panel app and more efficiently run PHP apps. But at the point where you wanna run, videos.jimgroom.com or whatever your domain is, you can actually point that DNS to an instance, whether it's on Reclaim Cloud, DigitalOcean, or some other app-based hosting provider. It really does change the way in which you think about C-Panel, not only is it a place to host your apps, but also is a place to route to the apps that you're running in a variety of places. So I do love not only DNS and the ability there, but the idea of being able to say yes to folks when they come to us and say, can we run this, can we run that? Unless it's on a Windows server like you said, we don't say no that much anymore, which is, it's quite nice. Yeah, I think it's a great thing to think about in terms of, we've said like next generation hosting and stuff like that. And I think that's not a perfect metaphor in the term of, and we talk a lot about this, I think at Reclaim and we sometimes get that question from folks of like, well, like I see Reclaim Cloud can do all of these things. And of course it can host a LAMP stack. In fact, if you're like, if you're a domain of one's own school, there's like a decent chance that your domain of one's own is hosted in our own cloud, right? Yeah, exactly. But I don't think it's fair to think of this as a replacement, right? Because I personally would not bet against LAMP for a lot of different reasons in terms of longevity because I think this is really a compliment. Like you said, like it allows us not to say no, it allows us to do, it allows us to run these applications where a developer said, no, I don't wanna do this in PHP or it wouldn't be easy to do or possible or it needs more resources than are possible in the LAMP stack. But the flip side of that is important. For things that don't need a lot of server resources or could benefit from being on a server that's hosting many different things, you can't really beat the efficiency and commodity angle of a LAMP environment. Like we can host, you know, like say your domain of one's own server is provisioned for 500 accounts. Say you had that full at 500 accounts. The odds are that's thousands of websites, right? On one server, one large server, right? But one server, that's super efficient. I don't think the need or want to do things like that is going away, possibly ever. You know, the containers have a lot of benefits and allow us to run all kinds of applications but they do require just inherently by the way they work, they require more resources. So there is an efficiency aspect that I think is going to keep LAMP around for possibly longer than you or I will ever care about. You know? It's true. And I think one of the things there that's worth mentioning is a lot of times it is niche. Like there are niche research tools, there are niche, you know, needs that whether it's a digital humanist or a data analyst or whatever, they need this one thing. And the thing about Reclaim Cloud and the next generation sandbox, if we call it that, is a lot of times it's not always on like a LAMP stack. Totally. You can use it and, you know, cost 20 cents to do what you needed to do and then turn it off. And in that way, it has a very different on and off utility-like feel. Like you turn on the heat when you need it, turn it off and that's all you pay for. So I'm interested in that piece. I just think it's interesting to say LAMP and, right? Exactly. Rather than LAMP or. One thing I want to kind of show a quick here is, okay, well, that's, you know, conceptually we've kind of talked about why and in a little bit of how, but I want to mention like, well, what does that actually look like? Say I've deployed PeerTube, how do I map my domain to it and what does that actually look like? So here I've got one set up already that's a PeerTube instance. I mean, I'll kind of show that. Depending on time wise here, I'm going to try another one here as an example. So I'm going to get a ghost installer ready to go and so we can do this live here. You just want to show off your ghost installer. But I am going to potentially be racing against the clock here. So we're going to do this kind of two different ones. Let's do it. Ready? Go. So I'm going to make a ghost installer, or sorry, a ghost environment. We'll call it Taylor test domains 101. And we'll give it that environment. So that'll be the URL of it. I'll give it the same display name just because let's put it in, I don't know, put it in the UK. Why not? So I'm going to let that install and do its thing. But in the meantime, let's look at like my PeerTube here. I have a PeerTube install at video.jadend.me. And so there it is. Jadend.me is my main domain name. And so it's really nice that I can put this totally different application in a subdomain off of another application. Jadend.me, this site is hosted from cPanel and video.jadend.me running and reclaim without cloud. And to point out, not only is it a subdomain, I can also, of course, link to it, right? So I have a link on my main site to it as well. Just to kind of drive that point home of how these things can interoperate in a way that a person visiting doesn't need to know or care where things are hosted. So to make that video.jadend.me, I just grabbed after I had the site ready to go, like ready to use, I found its public IP address in the Reclaim Cloud interface. This is a little bit small, but, and I copied it. I went to my DNS zone editor in cPanel. I added a A record. Well, I'm not actually gonna do this because it already has an A record, but video test.jadend.me, let's say, and then I pasted the address in and I hit add an A record. You can also just go to manage here and actually show you this A record as it exists right now. So there it is. And if I ever say needed to make some changes or clone this environment in my video.jadend.me and I got a different IP address, I could actually just update the IP address and it would in place make that change in DNS. So that's what that actually looks like. But there's a lot of permutations of this that are slightly in different. So another good example here is perhaps role4cheese.com. So this is a domain I registered actually on Cloudflare to use for a DND group that I'm a part of. And we're running a application in Reclaim Cloud to power our weekly tabletop, basically it's a digital tabletop. This one's not handled in C-Panel at all in that particular case because I registered that domain elsewhere and I pointed an A record in Cloudflare in that case. So that's a totally, totally separate one. My point being you don't have to have your domain in Reclaim to point a domain in Reclaim Hosting's shared service or C-Panel or anything to use Reclaim Cloud, you could do something totally separate. In this case, I don't even own that domain, somebody else owns it. And I just helped them set up the record for it. And while Ghost is finishing up its install over here I've also got a radio station. So this one radio.jn.me, if you load it has this site and then my player embedded in this particular case. I don't even have the DNS mapped. This is actually just an iframe. So radio.jn.me is a ZuraCast that's hosted over here. It has the URL radio.ca.reclaim.cloud. And I simply have a subdomain made through the subdomain's feature but I'll show it off here in the file manager that actually is just pulling in the little player webpage via a iframe.  So there are basically unlimited permutations of this stuff. So my point being if you're looking to mix and match this stuff and you're not sure how that's when you reach out and we can help you figure out what would be the smartest or easiest or best or whatever way that you're looking for. The kind of interesting thing with this the reason I did this ZuraCast install this way is this means I can actually turn off my own radio station save some money and if you go visit my webpage it still exists but just gives you a message that the station is down so it'll say streams currently offline. So all of those permutations like Jim was saying you can turn things off and change a DNS record or point things, all those options are options. So let's check out if we have any time left we have a little bit. So this is my ghost site that I just created. So it's just a basic blank site. I'll just go in and like set up the account on it just to give it a title. So test sites, that's the name. Do my email address in there, set a password. I'm actually really never gonna even log in so I don't care what that password is. Great, so the site is set up. And let me just go back to the homepage. But you'll notice that it is actually at Taylor testdomains101.uk.reclaim.cloud. Maybe I wanna map this to a new domain and I call it, I don't know, myghostsite.jdn.me I wanna use my main domain. Okay, so all I need is I need that IP address first. So I'm gonna get that from Reclaim Cloud.  I'm gonna add a record under my jdn.me domain that I have here. Well, what did I say Taylor? Well, we'll do TaylorGhost.jdn.me paste in that record. So now DNS is set up to go there. However, we do need to let ghost know to expect connections basically. Because out of the box, if it gets traffic from like a place it doesn't expect kind of. But basically when your browser goes there, it's gonna say, hey, I'm looking for TaylorGhost.jdn.me and ghost is gonna go, I don't know that person or that and it'll deny the traffic. So we now just need to tell ghost to expect traffic from there. So we'll go to the add-ons menu in Reclaim Cloud. And this is specifically for our ghost and a couple other installers. Sometimes you have to look into the documentation of the particular app you're running to see how it wants you to make these types of changes. This is one of those advantages of lamp, right? As you can do a lot of this stuff in a standard way. But when you have developers using almost any programming stack, then these settings are done in different ways. So for ghost, we have a domain configuration tab. I'll do the change there. Now we just need to tell it the domain that I just set up, which I have already forgotten. I have TaylorGhost.jdn.me is the one I just set up. You can see I have a couple out of these. And then apply it. You might get in right under the bell. You might make it. We'll be even better as it works. I'll try to visit it. Oh, it's updating right now. After these messages. Gonna take a second because it's probably issuing certificates and things like that. Sometimes this takes a little bit. Yeah. The Nginx, if you do install ghost. There we go. There it is, yeah. Nice. So I was a little bit impatient with reloading it. You should wait at least 10 seconds before trying to load it. But yeah, so showing that first of all, I think DNS can be scary when you're new to it, but it doesn't have to be. And if you have questions, just ask. We can help you figure out that stuff before you make those changes. So, but it lets you do really powerful things in mixing and matching your tools, where they're hosted, all that kind of stuff. Yeah. And it's funny because you brought up Cloudflare on DNS. And I hadn't thought about it before this session, but there's something like when you go to we'll call it the next generation, like Sandbox, where you're using stuff beyond LAMP, given LAMP has become the standard. One of the things you start to realize is, one of the trickiest piece of that is knowing how to point your domain or a subdomain of your domain to that app. And once that connection is made, you could use a tool like Cloudflare or DNS Manager in C-Panel to manage a whole fleet of different apps in different spaces with the DNS really being the glue that integrates it. And that's simply just a link, right? So, in some ways, it goes back to the link nature of the web. Totally, totally, it absolutely does. And that's the thing that is like, once you realize that potential, you realize that there's a reason why DNS is complicated is because it needs to offer those use cases. Those are important, right? Like we have some schools that have domain of one's own that are on a subdomain of their main EDU, right? Like I used, like for example, UNF has domains.unf.edu. If the DNS system didn't work the way it did, they wouldn't be able to set up domain of one's own as a subdomain like that. Other schools have a custom domain that may be that like, for instance, SNC has night dot domains and that's where the domain of one's own is. That flexibility enables people to make those choices in whatever way makes sense for them or their project or their institution or whatever. It is a little bit complicated DNS, but ask those questions so we can help. And I'll say once you do this once or twice, it doesn't seem as complicated. I think the main thing I always got me when I first started making DNS changes is the caching thing, knowing that when you make a change that your browser and your computer and your network and your ISP even hang on to what it thinks the state is and for a time that you can't always control. So sometimes when you make a change you have to wait for it to go through properly depending on how you did it. That's the only thing that can be a little bit nerve wracking. It's a good piece of literacy to DNS whether it's C panel or LAMP stack or beyond. Like DNS does remain a consistent piece to understand. So as you're trying to support whether it's faculty, students and staff one of the things to kind of think about and maybe dig into a little bit is how does DNS work and how can it work for you? So super cool. Maybe this is not about LAMP shades at all. Maybe it's all about DNS in the end. Yeah, there's an article. Different shades of LAMP. Shades of LAMP? Oh, no. I'll have to link if I can find it in the article in and I'll put it in Discord if I can find it. But there's a what is like how does DNS work kind of thing? And it's really just, you know, it's like a network of computers asking each other effectively, but it's a hierarchy. Right there? Yeah, do you know about this? Nah, I'll ask Billy Bob if they know. And it goes down the line until somebody knows and then that's why the caching works the way it does. And once you kind of see that, at least once I saw that visually laid out, I was like, ah, I mean, I'm not gonna pretend to be an expert at this, but I do understand why sometimes I can load something. And the perfect example is say you're about to map a ghost site like I just did. Let's say I was like, huh, I should do ghost.jadon.me. And you may have noticed as I was setting up, I actually already had that one set up before. If I would have modified that one, it's very likely that when I visited it, it wouldn't have worked immediately because we probably would have had to wait half an hour, hour, maybe even two hours for an existing record to be changed. And the same thing can happen for new records in certain cases if someone's tried to visit them before. So it can be a little bit tricky, but that's what our support is for. We can help you kind of navigate that and it's powerful. So. Totally. Cool. Awesome. Well, it was great to step out of LAN for a second and look beyond. Yes. Yeah, like I said, we should have made some kind of bed bath and beyond. You know, maybe, maybe. But I don't have enough time. Yeah, we don't have enough time. All right. That's beyond domains, no lampshade. And that's the end of day two and that's the end of domains 101. So really thankful to have everyone who is able to participate. Maybe you're watching this later. If you have questions, post them in the Discord channel where we'll still be hanging out there or you can post them anywhere in our Discord or our support or support forums, all kinds of things we can help you with, all kinds of places to get help. So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, the bell. We hit the bell. That's, there we go. It's not a workshop without one. So we'll see everybody later. It's been real. Thank you all.


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