Hedera Community Town Hall | May 2021

Hedera Co-founders, Dr. Leemon Baird, and Mance Harmon join SVP of Communications, Zenobia Godschalk, to answer questions directly from the community in our monthly Town Hall.

0:00 Welcome
2:18 100,000 followers on Twitter!
2:38 Community Town Hall format
4:22 Do you see hashgraph revolutionizing the Internet as we see it today?
7:01 What is the possibility that the Digital US Dollar will be based on Hedera Hashgraph?
10:20 Has Hedera solved the 'blockchain trilemma'?
12:15 How do you spell hbar correctly and when do you use different variations?
13:28 Does the Hedera Governing Council have a trust and safety team?
15:08 What happens when a Governing Council member leaves before their term ends?
16:05 Progress of various Decentralized Identity (DID) projects within the Hedera ecosystem
18:22 How will micropayments work on the Hedera system if they are smaller than the transaction cost?
20:32 What does a node look like?
21:34 What are some of the limitations of Hedera nodes?
25:03 After a period of time away, are Governing Council members allowed to rejoin the council?
26:59 If there were a CBDC that ran on the Hedera network, would it run with hbars?
29:34 Does Hedera have insider trading prevention policies?
30:58 Can blockchain ever be as good as hashgraph?
33:31 Can HBAR holders participate in NFTs and DeFi in the near future?
35:45 Which Hedera services are open source?
38:22 Is Hedera a layer 0 solution?
41:17 Is it possible to build a DEFLATIONARY token-type using HTS and/or HCS?
42:43 Why does Hedera not offer a non-Turing complete smart contract service?
44:01 Do you envisage a way of getting non-profits on the Hedera Governing Council?
44:53 Can you elaborate on Hedera's vision of interoperability with other blockchains?
46:41 Could you expand on Hedera’s involvement with InterWork Alliance?
47:43 Is there any way to store data and make sure that it is not tampered with?
50:26 How does news such as new council members joining Hedera gets released?
52:16 Any plans for building a bridge to The Graph?
52:58 Do you have any plans to have a company from Saudi Arabia as a governing council member?
53:44 With 20 Governing Council seats still to be filled and 8 months left in the year, is this guidance still valid?
54:40 Does Leemon's name have an origin story?
55:46 Is Hedera centralized or decentralized?
59:31 Any more info on the Turbo Encabulation Algorithm?

Developer resources:
Chat: https://hedera.com/discord
Docs: https://docs.hedera.com/guides
GitHub: https://github.com/hashgraph
Testnet Access: https://portal.hedera.com

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