At this weekend’s Rare Evo blockchain community event in Dever, Colorado, Hosky and a handful of his [Rug Pool operators](https://adafolio.com/portfolio/f9a01dd0-8f3b-11ec-b375-0242ac190002 "Rug Pool Operators") appeared on a Panel Discussion. It was a lighthearted peek into this corner of the Cardano ecosystem, where people are having fun doing work that they are serious about. Four Rug Pool operators appeared on the panel, including the moderator, and I spotted several more in the audience, including EPOCH, VEGAS, and LIDO. For this article, we will refer to all the participants by their community-facing monikers, including of course Hosky, as well as the stake pool operators.

The panel was moderated by [HERO pool](https://twitter.com/HEROsPool "HERO"), who is also known as one of the founding hosts of the Twitter/X space show Cardano over Coffee. Hero kicked off the discussion by asking [SALT pool](https://twitter.com/saltstaking "SALT") how he got started with Cardano. Salt shared that he got introduced to Bitcoin and Ethereum in the early days, and said that he found the technology interesting, but saw some flaws in those projects that left him looking for something different. When he heard about Cardano and the Proof-of-Stake concept, he decided to participate, starting with the ITN (Initial Test Network). He…