The Full History of Solana (Crypto Documentary)

Seriously not financial advice! This video is just meant to tell an interesting story about a deeply technical founder who's solving hard problems. The crypto markets are crazy and I have zero interest in trading. Be careful out there!

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ABOUT JOHN COOGAN:

I've been an entrepreneur for the last decade across multiple companies. I've done a lot of work in Silicon Valley, so that's mostly what I talk about. I've raised over 10 rounds of venture capital totaling over $100m in funding.

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Disclaimer: This video is purely my opinion and should not be regarded as a primary source. I am not a financial advisor and this is not a recommendation to buy or sell securities. Always do your own due diligence.

[JohnCooganPlus]

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[devgajjar]

The amount of editing, the violin the background, the cinematic tone of telling story, there are no words to express them. The video was more then perfect!!

[kgotit]

Great video! From what I understood, Solana's main objective doesn't seem to be to takeover the crypto as money reserve industry but they trying to become an interface to everyday solutions. What I mean by this is that since they are attracting developers, the developers will build applications and the applications can become famous, If a lot of them succeed solana might become the standard for blockchain dev

[qgil]

Bro you're becoming one of Youtube's most interesting and well produced information channels. Keep up the good work, you ROCK!

[deoarlo]

This is the first time I'm honestly mad not more people know about your channel. This truly is a gem

[chrisb.]

Underated channel. Im glad the algorithm finally brought this channel my way

[zaired]

I've been investigating crypto and solana for a few months, and it seems there are a couple fatal flaws in their system...
First, the amount of tps they boast is mostly internal voting, and not actual transactions, the real money transaction can only like around 2%-5% of the total 50ktps they promote, granted, it's still a lot but definitely not capable of the entire financial system as you say.
Second, solana has a flaw where it can basically be DDOSed or simply overwhelmed by a new protocol launching and crashing the whole network for almost a week like it happened a couple weeks ago...

[JesseMichels]

Awesome explanation! DeFi is just becoming open finance. And a better consumer UI + progressively more decentralized backend might end up beating fully decentralized backend with progressively better UI (eth). Also having a more centralized team as solana does helps. John always breaks this stuff down so effectively!!

[dax]

Not the best crypto, solana is highly centralized, its TPS is extremely inflated, more than 80% of trasaction volume is validator comunication, not user transactions.
Also only 33% of validators is enough to take over the network.
Cost to running a node is extremely high.
The network is unstable, it stopped 6 times in last year.
All this was not mentioned in the video...

[Davld]

Man, your f*cking video quality/edits/context blow some of the biggest YouTubers out of the water. Amazing product, amazing content….you will win

[AlexM]

I always look forward to seeing what new great content you are going to drop on Mondays 🙌 Solana has some promising attributes. I think in the future there will be a dozen or so cryptocurrencies that will gain mainstream acceptance. People will regularly interact with multiple of them. Each crypto will tend to have specific uses i.e. Bitcoin as a store of value, ETH for smart contracts and NFT's, Solana for super fast transactions. For me, it's less about a race to the top (which crypto will be the largest) and more about the ecosystem and how the they will play into it.

[kishorgartaula]

John, I see you reaching that 1 milli mark real soon. The level of quality content you produce here is phenomenal

[turbodump]

I own some, but I'm skeptical that this will have staying power. With the attacks and restarts of the blockchain, I'm not sure if I can trust having a ton of money locked into the token. They have said this blockchain is in beta, so just another reason to be skeptical of investing in it. Hopefully it can get through growing pains and become more stable, otherwise I'll only invest small amounts into Sol. With the crazy competition in the space, it's a rough road for any project.

[joja]

So we are calling clean ads documentries now?

[ldgaetano]

Do a video on Alexander Chepurnoy. Also one on Charles Hoskinson and his company IOG would be really interesting and insightful. I think it's a good contrast between the research approach and the "move fast and break things approach" of Sol and others.

[Dunixify]

overall, interesting video.

A couple confusing points though:

- why compare 30m crypto users having self-custody to facebook user base? I don't get the comparison... it doesn't help understand the % of crypto users that have self custody; fb user base statistics don't seem related at all?
- you claim solana has built a more vibrant community due to the ease of getting SOL off of exchanges and onto a wallet which lets you own your private keys. Is that even relevant? every crypto in the top 50 market cap list should have such a wallet. On the other hand, your point about hackathon attendance growth definitely makes the point of a growing vibrant community very well.

[AparnaJain]

Do you edit the videos yourself? Even the stock footage looks so beautiful because of the transitions and how they fit so well with the story 🙌🏽

[vyomaran]

I don't understand why this channel is not far more popular.

[leesullivan]

Got through about 28 seconds of the video and thought to my self God dang, the editing on this video is serious. Good job on the graphics

[toknownow]

Solana is crushed so many times one time shut down 17 hrs the speed is centralized that is why it is crushed.
Cardano is the most decentralized blockchain and never crushed.
Solana is for billionares