 You have been, you know, letting the Hyperledger project for a while. So can you just tell us the update what's going on since you joined and where we are now? Sure. Well, I joined Hyperledger about six months after it started, and I've been there now for just over two years. And the project has grown in a way that mirrors a lot of the growth of the blockchain industry, right? I mean, when we started, all of the excitement was around Bitcoin, was around, I mean, Ethereum was just launching at the same time. This was 2015, December 2015 when it was announced. But there are a lot of people saying there's more to this than just spending money and moving money around. Could we use this as a way to re-establish how trust works on the Internet and try to decentralize a lot of things that today would lead to being centralized. It might be okay to be centralized if you're talking about a ride-hailing application or you're talking about a social network, right? But if you're talking about a banking network, if you're talking about supply chains, you might not want to be so centralized. So the blockchain industry has grown and at Hyperledger, we realized pretty early, we needed to be a home for a lot of different ways to build a blockchain. It wasn't going to be like the Linux kernel project with one singular architecture. It was going to be a couple of different ones. And let's explore and see what happens. Does this look like MySQL and Cassandra and Redis? Or is there really just one logical architecture? Now at Hyperledger, we have ten different technology projects. Five of those are what we call frameworks. These are software that a bank would run or a company would run to participate in a blockchain project in a distributed ledger with a bunch of other organizations they want to do business with. Two of those are now production quality. Hyperledger Fabric, which is kind of the basis for a lot of IBM's work, Oracle, Huawei, they've all hosted kind of blockchains of service offerings. A lot of companies now provide products and services on top of this, as well as Hyperledger Sawtooth, which is a pretty novel approach. It's one that borrows even a little bit more of its kind of DNA from the cryptocurrency community. And that has been led by Intel, but now there's a bunch of companies behind that as well. And these two platforms now drive about 40 production networks that we see out there and about 60 different vendors and other companies building on top of it. So one way we've grown is by growing the commercial ecosystem around this code. And that's also led to lots of pilots and proofs of concept. And as I said, about 40 different production networks. The other eight projects at Hyperledger, some of them are other frameworks. So Hyperledger Indi very much focused on digital identity, which has been a very hot topic for us. Everyone's asking what's next after Aadhar, the system in India to attract digital identity. What's next when it comes to e-passports and those sorts of things? And how do we do that in a way that doesn't create privacy concerns or meets concerns of the GDPR, for example? And so Indi is very hot and we're starting to say even here in the government of British Columbia, there's a pilot involving business registrations using Hyperledger Indi. The other one I'll mention is Hyperledger Burrow, which is an implementation of the Ethereum smart contract language called Solidity. It's a way to run Solidity smart contracts, both standalone on its own kind of blockchain or on top of sawtooth and now on top of fabric. So lots of interesting mixing, lots of interesting kind of brownie in motion of good ideas coming in and the idea is to take this and put it down a kind of conveyor belt to production software that people can use to actually build real blockchain systems. They don't have to wait for some day, you know, something's going to solidify. And we're all non-cryptocurrency, non-ICO kind of oriented. But I like to call it token agnostic at this point. And so as awareness has grown and people have really started to deploy, we've also seen lots of new users come in, contributors. We have over 600 different people who've contributed software in one form or another, like a patch or for many people it's their full-time job now. And finally I'll mention we've put up some free training materials on edX, courses that have now been started by over 100,000 different people registering for and starting the learning curve and we're about to launch training and certification for hyperledger fabric and hyperledger sawtooth to really help professionalize kind of the talent pool that's out there around us. So what are the other use cases that you're also excited about which you did not kind of thought about in the beginning? Well I think for me the biggest one I didn't anticipate going in that I think is going to be the place we have the biggest impact is on digital identity. This idea of turning your identity being defined by all these things known about you on a remote server and you have a name and password to that, to instead being about data you have locally and claims, things like your passport, things like your health care records, things that you hold close to you and it's something that looks like a wallet, something that looks like a folder of some sort. And then you decide when to share with somebody else, when to present your passport to a border agent or your history of prescriptions to a doctor that you're seeing while you're on vacation so you can get a prescription. And then knowing who you shared it with and being able to pull that back, no matter what happens on the servers, no matter it's not like you have to log into Facebook to share that information. This reinvention of digital identity goes under the name self sovereign identity and hyperledger indie is an implementation of that and it's something we're building in conjunction with a lot of different non-profits, four-profit companies building that infrastructure and we're seeing even governments take a strong interest in. So that for me is like, I know it's not a use case, it's like a whole sector digital identity but that's going to be perhaps the most impactful kind of change I think we'll see in the next five years from blockchain technology. Are there certain regions of the world where you're seeing adoption of blockchain or hyperledger more than other parts? The interest isn't really strong in China. In mainland China the Chinese government has actually said this is a top level priority for us to figure out how to make distributed ledgers work and blockchain technology work as a way to help build auditability to market, so a way to modernize their own kind of marketplaces but also build trust and confidence in a country where that's often either take it for granted or ignored. And so we have about 20% of our members are based inside China, companies like Baidu and Tencent and Huawei and they are actually contributing code which is great to see and we have a technical working group focused on communicating in Chinese with developers who are there, getting them involved in the projects, getting bug reports in and improvements and that sort of thing, that's great and helping cross the Great Firewall in many ways. And in the rest of Asia another 20% of our members are based there, so 40% total of our kind of development efforts, of our activities out there, right? But this is also not a Silicon Valley-driven type of phenomenon, amazing, I mean there's a few Silicon Valley companies involved but it's New York, it's London, it's Singapore, it's incredibly broad and that's been pretty reassuring because open source is a global phenomenon and really should be about kind of uplifting all regions, so that's been great.