Overview
Cabaret Voltaire enCrypted is a personal video channel that lets you watch a blockchain governance summit the way an attendee in the room saw it. Its Convention uploads include the opening minutes and the first show of hands on Article 11, a cut from the middle of the delegates' roll-call vote2, and a one-minute clip from signing day3. What makes the channel unusual is where that material sits: over its life the channel is split roughly half and half between Cardano recordings and the same owner's everyday video of sunsets, cats, drives around Florida and travel clips from Buenos Aires4.
The event is the Cardano Constitutional Convention, which ran from December 4 to 6, 2024 in two rooms at once, one in Buenos Aires, Argentina and one in Nairobi, Kenya, where delegates worked through the wording of the network's constitution and voted to approve the draft5. This channel filmed the Buenos Aires side, hosted at the University of Buenos Aires6. Alongside that footage the channel keeps recordings of meetings from Project Catalyst, the community fund that awards grants on Cardano, working-group calls run by Intersect, and screen-recorded walkthroughs of wallet apps, the software people use to hold coins and approve transactions7. The channel publishes no description of itself, links to nothing outside YouTube, and does not name its owner.
Key Features
- The opening minutes on camera. A three and a half minute clip catches Charles Hoskinson opening the event and the first show of hands on Article 1, the informal check used to read the room1.
- Delegates casting their votes. A five-minute cut from the middle of the roll-call records representatives stating their votes one by one, the kind of procedural detail that summaries leave out2.
- A short session with the host university. One video, running under five minutes, was filmed with Dr. Silvia Nonna, Vice Dean of the University of Buenos Aires law school, at the venue hosting the Argentine half of the event6.
- A back catalogue of working meetings. Project Catalyst and Catalyst Circle sessions sit next to 33 GameChanger Wallet walkthroughs, the largest collection on the channel8.
- A short reading-group series. The Cardano Lore Book Club is a two-video collection of community discussion, opening with the network's Byron era9.
What to Expect
Expect a personal video diary that happens to contain primary-source footage, not a governance channel. Both halves are real and about the same size: over the full catalogue, close to half the uploads carry Cardano material and the rest are everyday video. Most of that personal side is Florida, with beaches, wildlife, night skies and traffic, but it is not only Florida: the 2024 stretch also holds street scenes, a tango balcony and a graduation from Buenos Aires. The balance has shifted over time. Of the 59 videos posted in 2026, about one in five touches Cardano, and 14 of the 15 most recent uploads are personal4.
The playlists are not a reliable way in. Seven of them cover 47 of the channel's 274 videos, and none holds the Constitutional Convention footage; the one called Florida Things contains a single video, so the personal clips are not gathered anywhere either8. To reach the Convention material, search the channel for Convention or Constitution, or scroll the videos tab back to December 2024.
The production is what one person with a phone can manage. Sound depends on where the camera happened to be standing, clips range from a few seconds to a little over an hour, and titles are short and sometimes contain misspellings. The channel adds no captions or written summaries of its own, though YouTube's automatic captions are available.
The channel publishes no About text, no website and no other social account, and states no editorial purpose10. For anyone researching how the constitution was debated and approved, that first-hand footage is the point.
