EOS Telegram Summary 1/23/18 - $325 Million Announcement and Much More

Today's $325 million announcement made way for Q&As with both Brendan and Dan in EOS general chat. Dan continued his lengthy session with thrilled token holders until well after midnight DST (Dan Standard Time) - the second half of that will be available in tomorrow's Telegram Summary.

As with yesterday's sentiment, investors found the wait before an announcement very difficult:

Guesswork:

Many "when announcement?" questions were answered about 90 minutes before the big moment:

Finally, Brendan came on the live stream:

And then it was made official:

Users were mostly excited:

Just as he did after the last big announcement, Brendan hopped off stage and onto Telegram:

He went away for a bit and came back:

And launched into a mini Q&A session for delighted token holders:

On VCs and whether they deploy some of their own capital:

The exact percentage split between VCs and block.one:

The VC profit model:

And then he was gone again. Later, the EOS Go team released a sneak peek from their video editor of Dan's upcoming video series:

Excitement for the full video, to be released this week:

Dan has taken to Twitter in a big way and is looking for folks to follow him there. He came in with his latest tweet:

EOS on CNBC:

And then Dan was back to enjoy some time with general chat:

On whether block.one was working on a wallet or community developers should start on one:

Questions about Android:

Perhaps Apple:

Some resistance and Dan clarifies intentions:

On whether he'll be enjoying a vacation at Anarchapulco:

More on wallets:

No question left unanswered:

Identity on the blockchain:

Staking for storage and block producer numbers:

More staking:

Progress update:

Novogratz and more:

Taking questions on two at a time:

Users won't have to hold EOS to interact with dapps:

Finally, in the interest of keeping this summary manageable - part 2 of Dan's extraordinary Q&A session will come tomorrow. Dan offers one of the many opportunities available within EOS:

EOS Go is a community effort to launch EOS blockchain as envisioned by the creators of EOS.IO.

Anyone can participate in this historic event on June 3rd, 2018. Thousands of token holders will be required to vote for EOS to successfully launch; you can become part of EOS Go by educating others, writing articles, making videos, attending/hosting meetups and launch parties, writing the EOS constitution, picking data centers for block producing, and more.

If you're interested, please start by finding your role on the community forums and resteem or tweet EOS Go to help spread the word.

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Go EOS!