Hello, thanks for joining me. I'm in my home village of Chalfonson, Peter today and what we're doing is we're going to do a follow-up to some videos I did back in 2020 when you you know had your daily exercise and you had to stay local. I Re-explored the whole of Chalfonson Peter. I think I went down every road every footpath There is and one thing I discovered and was quite fascinated by was dotted around the village are These plaques and what they do they show what they used to look like and what it looks like now See there's that bus stop That is actually a different bus stop, but that view there is That today there's the precinct. It's Where that view so I visited all of the plaques back in 2020 and you know, I had quite a good time I enjoyed doing it. There were four videos There was one sort of centered around the village center I called it the lost village because you know a lot of the buildings have gone the village used to continue out We'll go over there later on in the video to what is now the bypass So it's a funny way how the village has changed a lot of the original villages disappeared under a bypass And yet we've got that huge new precinct This is of course the parish church probably one of the few buildings that hasn't changed as we're about to Even though it's had extensions as we're about to discover Some of the churches in the village have changed Considerably since 2020 because as we leave the churchyard here, we're just going to go and find the first of these new plaques So in today's video, we're going to look at all the new plaques There's just a couple of other changes that have happened to the village. I wanted to point out since 2020 So this is the village car park. There is a plaque over there So as I said, if you want to see there's a whole playlist of the first four and then this one has now been added So if you want to see them, you can have a look at the playlist. Now as we turn this corner here There's this building here Which wasn't here back in 2020. Well, I think they were just starting to build it this is I Think it's called the hub that is what's replaced Gold Hill Baptist Church Now we're going to go up to Gold Hill Common have a look at the Baptist Church Effectively about this church has moved to here. So you've got two churches in the village center has for us fetics I can't say It's the best-looking church. In fact, I don't even know to does it look like a church? But yeah, if the people inside are enjoying it, then that's that's great I personally think it looks like an old bus or tram depot I can almost imagine, you know buses coming in and it looks like an old bus depot It's been converted into a church which in some places has happened. I did sort of joke back in the summer I was in Gamundan in Austria, which funny enough is about the same size as Chalfons and Peter and The station is about the same distance away from the town as George Cross is and I said And I did a driver's eye view of the tramway There's a tram from Gamundan station down to the village and I basically compared it to Chalfons and Peter They wouldn't it be great if Chalfons and Peter had a tramway running from here to George Cross I think Buckinghamshire must be the only county in Britain or one I can't think of any others I don't think has ever had any electric trams because all of the big towns like High Wickham and Ellsbury didn't have trams There were trams in Uxbridge once Stony Stratford in Northbuck's had a steam tram, but that wasn't electrified So anyway, there's not going to be any trains or trams in today's video. We're going to cross the road That's new as well. They've refurbished St Peter's garden, but that that little lich gate that's new that Walk past here like well in the last couple of weeks. I'm fairly sure that wasn't there Let's cross the road and have a look. So there is a plaque here. This is Church Lane There we go. It's the first of the new plaques Now this gentleman, he lived at the Chalfon Park I have also made a video at Chalfon Park in the past. Now he supplied land from Chalfon Well, he lived at Chalfon Park. He owned a lot of land ofage. He supplied this land here as a burial ground So have a look at that So we're going to walk through this new lich gate Yeah, the wood smells brand new and obviously you can't smell it on screen, but that's nice And we're going to walk up now into St Peter's Garden Which as I said has been completely refurbished since our last visit from here We're going to go up to Goldhill Common because I want to show you what's happened to the old church. It is still At the time of filming it's still there. Well, it is it's staying. It's not going anywhere But it's not church anymore. So I'll show you what's happening. So as we get to here This is St Peter's Garden So we're just walking now through St Peter's Garden as you can see they've made like a Circular area here that wasn't there before So that's that's all completely changed since we was last here back in 2020 I think a lot of the gravestones are from where the carpark was They've moved the gravestones up here when they built the carpark And there was also a fence down here So that was different So they've they've changed a few things here And then here you go get quite a good view Of the of the garden So this is St Peter's Garden what I'm going to do now. I'm going to walk on up to Goldhill Common I'm going to follow The driveway up here Let's go have a look at Goldhill Common Here we are on Goldhill Common This side of things doesn't look really any different to as it did in 2020 But it's the Baptist Church, which I want to show you because that's changing a lot As mentioned before it's been replaced. It's no longer the Baptist Church So there's quite a lot changes going on up here. So there's no actual plex to see I just thought we'd use this opportunity to record the changes to the village as they happen So as we come to up here, I can't help but thinking I mentioned if there was a tramway in Charleston, Peter I know it's my fantasy idea, but it would run say from the village probably taking the route of the buses I almost imagine tram's running along there to George Cross. Anyway, um, half of my fantasies Let's have a look because as we come along here Well, firstly There's the Baptist Church I know it looks a bit different. You can see a hoarding beside it That's because everything but the church itself has been demolished The church is being converted into flats. I understand they're going to be building houses It's all around it. So there'll be quite a few new dwellings there So we're going to have a close look at that. I guess there's a plaque here That shows That's looking across So look there You can see Those cottages Uh Must be those cottages and then that house has Either been altered considerably or been rebuilt I was thinking there was one obviously one on the other end Showing how the Baptist Church looked. No, there isn't. Okay, so The Baptist Church kind of looks how it would have done Originally, that's why I really wanted to come up here today because it hasn't got its adventures It's a bit sad in a way to see it like this because I went through a stage of going to the youth club there when I was a teenager And there was a lot of happy memories. We had a lot of fun in that Baptist Church And the youth club was held in the hall behind. We'll cross there in a minute Now one of the things we used to sometimes do was We would go look at that it's a rock house Which unfortunately is being demolished now It's that it was an old people's home and we used to go and visit the people there And they used to really really like the company of a load of teenagers coming to visit them It seems a shame to see that being demolished I understand it was originally two big semi-detached houses and They got converted into the retirement home out the back was Graham house. That was where the more And I was the word like the ones who looked after themselves lived And then the one in front was more the care or the nursing home. Just have a look to see if we can see Can't go in but have a look. Oh, wow. Look. There's the church. So if I could go in it'd be great We like doing an urbex, but Yeah, it looks exactly the same. I can smell that hardcore demolition Sort of smell so the extension used to be here Now I started going there as a very young child My mother used to go to something called popping which was where you know, the mothers used to go to their children and You know the very young the babies went upstairs And the children I was very about three or four went in the in the hall out the back I remember one day they were making a layout of a brio train set and The young lady didn't know how to put the brio track together and Four-year-old Henry showed her how to do it And there's yeah, look at that rock house half a rock house. So for those of you don't know Yes, I came past here yesterday and I'm fairly sure All of that was standing so this morning. They've been really busy Imagine a mirror image of rock house if I can find the old pictures of how it looks I'll put them on screen so you can see what it looked like And I think the scaffolding is is to protect the houses behind it because that's where graham house the more modern Building would have stood now if we have a look here There was an extension to the church here and up there was what was known as the upper lounge It was a long thin room and when I was a bit older maybe about 14 15 We used to go to a youth club up there So that yeah, it all seems a bit sad really seeing it disappear and as I said one of our activities was to go and See the people in rock house. So I remember one time there was an england football match on and I think I was the only boy That went to rock house because all of the girls, you know want Yeah, the girls went and the boys wanted to watch football. I don't think there's any more to see here There used to be a house here. I remember on the side There was a building or out the building There used to be like a fire escape ladder and I always intended to climb down it when one of the youth club leaders Wasn't looking but that was something I never got round to doing interestingly behind there There was when I first started there. There was a small house and it was known as the haunted house It was derelict that got demolished and they built two flats on there. They have also now been demolished They didn't last long. They lasted not even 20 years So here's all rather sad Seeing the changes now the next place we come to is somewhere else that has seen a massive change Not since 2020 but in the last 10 years. We're going Take our last look. This may well be the last time actually see rock house Yeah, it's it's not going to be there much longer Um, we're going to go to the Grange now now that I always think is a very sad Story it was that it was the convent of chaff and st. Peter for a long time It was a girl's school and then They demolished all but the chapel there I always think it's a real shame that they That they demolished all but the chapel because That the house there was a historic house But that for some reason wasn't listed. So they just demolished it. So that's a real shame But at least with gold hill baptist church at least the church is going to stay there So, you know from that view of I'm not going to go back over there, but on the common And looking across to the church that view won't change Also, as I said, I used to go to that um youth club Another thing we used to sometimes do all my memories are coming back now We used to sometimes sneak out and go on what we called expeditions And you know go and climb trees and play in the park and that and then I think once you got into the summer They just basically let us do it. Oh and another really Good evening was um snowed one evening. So I turned up with a sledge. I happened to have like a Swiss mountain rescue sledge and we had a few Yeah goes up and down the hill and I remember at the end of the evening They they all sort of says to me. Oh, you know, you've entertained as all of your sledge You sit down and all my friends call me back to the church and I just sat there on the sledge So, yeah, there's a lot of happy memories from the old baptist church. Anyway, I'm going to go down there now Down into those trees and we're going to go and have a look at this new plaque at the Grange Here we are at the bottom of gold hill. That's the hill I said used to like sledging down whenever we had any snow We're now going into the Grange or the old Holy Cross Convent site Leaving the common behind us. So it's all a bit sad really what happened here They demolished pretty much all of it except the chapel The only sort of good thing that's come out of is this woodland here is now, you know public can walk around there There's a path that goes off in a minute. And that's the old stations of the crosswalk Which the nuns would have done now a few years ago. You could still see, you know evidence that that's what it was I think today. I doubt anyone, you know, would realize that's what it was But if you were to go off up that path up there I have done a video a few years ago before the site kind of became What was finished in its new guys and The chapel which like I say survives and is here. I'm not sure what's going on, but it always seems to be locked But when I came here then it was still a bit of a building site And the doors were open so I walked in had a look if you want to see that video have a look at the link on the screen now And it was fascinating. It was just like how the Baptist church was That we saw today. It was just sort of empty and as if people had just walked out and left it And I remember there was newspapers in there from in this little room. There was some newspapers about 1964. They've just been there all that time It's the small tower so They've kept the chapel supposedly for community use although I've not ever seen any community events taking place there. That's not to say they don't I just haven't seen any So here we are. That's the So the reason for the horrendous walled areas is because that's where they've been joined onto our buildings So most of the school I think was sort of here. I can understand them knocking that down But the grange The historic house that was there, you know, that's terrible.  I can understand them building the houses It's progress whether we like it or not But there's been numerous other developments where they've managed to incorporate a historic Building into today's Development, you know, they could have just come up with a different road So the road basically goes right through where the house would have been to think, you know, the house That dated back years and years was standing here Until only a few years ago. It just sort of seemed so wrong They demolished it that up there. That's the old nun cemetery. They've obviously known Not to build on that And and let's say they've kept the chapel but as for the house That they demolished. Well, there's a plaque here and I can show that to you now So as you can see the estate it was dates back to 1224 And we can see what it says. But you know, it's that's how historic we're talking. We're not talking Of, you know, an attractive Turn of the last century house that got demolished, which unfortunately happens a lot We're talking about something very very historic. Anyway Unfortunately, this is what it is today, but at least that plaque's there We can see what it looked like and I'll probably always remember the old building I used to stand in like where I could and look into the site and watch them demolishing it It was a shame just a bit like I mean rock house. Yeah, it's a shame that's going but this is like 100 times better than Rock house just watching it disappear every time Came past until it all gone. Anyway, I'm going to go and find some more plaques now So here we are. We're now down in the village centre. It's looking up market place That way's the high street and then looking that way is Harris church where we started as a new plaque I'll show you this one just because we're here And that would have featured the first time round looking down the high street So that was in the video the first time round now the one we're going to Is well, there's two others. We'll just have a quick look at these ones just because they're here There's one obviously this is very quite an interesting one that shows the fourth These they're forward here and these are the buildings that were here before the precinct Look at that completely different There was also this 16th century house Which was also demolished unfortunately to make way for the precinct So, I mean really I think when they got rid of the precinct or when they got rid of these made the precinct They're effectively made Chavos and Peter into a town. What would be really nice Is the mizborn actually flows underneath there if they're close to car park and just made it into a plaza And uncovered the mizborn a bit like they did in Hemel Hempstead with a river gate The river gate was culverted they uncovered it and you've got a really sort of nice Town centre they could do that here and have like a really really nice Town centre, you know where you could sit and drink coffee from the coffee shops and just be pleasant Anyway, the plaque I want to show you the new one. I think is this one here And it says it's looking up marketplace. So look at that Preparing With today's view it's quite different what we're going to do now We're going to go across the road and there's one over by the Greyhound pub. So we'll cross here Passing the church again I'll say this is like the one bit of the village that's still You know not original, but it's got quite a few of the original buildings or the older buildings And then of course you've got the precinct there. So this is where The Ford would have been so that vehicle there would have been making a big splash And no doubt this coach here would have made an even bigger splash had it still been there It's just starting to rain now Which is probably a good thing because if you look at the River Mistborn you can see It's got no watering. I did a video series where I explored the whole of the River Mistborn and That was quite exciting And I remember I was Sort of knowing it was going to start drying up and I think it had Parts of it had dried up by the time I got to this part of Charleston, Peter Anyway, we're now heading out So if you look at that building there It stops there The high street would have continued out into what is now the roundabout So this is like the lost village. All of that would have been part of the high street as these cracks Rounds here will show us Make a way between these two cars. So I think this one was here last time Swan Farm So that was demolished to make way for the roundabout. I'll look at that And then a new one was this one here Swan Cottage Swan Cottage would have been about where the corner of the roundabout is And then if we go back up onto the road There's one more again. It was already here, but since we're walking past it Our Martyrs will show it to you. I'll show you that one then I've got to go up there join as Lane So have a look. There's a new one up until up there. So have a look at that. That's the high street Transformed into not really a high street at all. Just a busy road junction. Right, I'm going to go up Join as Lane and we're going to go and find the one more new plaque Well, here we are on the other side of the roundabout. I just thought we'll stop here before I go off up join as Lane.  So it's good to see it back again That's how different join as Lane was. Look at that You know, it really was a little country lane, not the The busy sort of residential road here today Which I'm now going to walk up when we get to the top and find this one more new plaque somewhere up there So here we are. We're almost now at the top of join as Lane and we're coming to our final plaque Interestingly, it's about the house behind this fence now until fairly recently This house never had any fence. So you could look straight in So the house we're about to have a look at from what we can see Where it's just by the beginning of the Chalfont Heights estate. It's a private state But it's a footpath so you can walk through it. So we'll be able to have a look This house here. Look at this So George Gooch lived there. Now he was an MP So he lived in he says that Winston Churchill actually came and visited him here in this house That house there now it's interesting to see it's been altered a bit If you look at the house here the extension has been built out this way And if you look at the normal window it's that little one there that's been filled in so that one that one Are there and then there'll be another new one about here. So we'll just wander into Chalfont Heights And if we stand here you can see so Looking at the house. Yeah, the that window there that's the extension That one was in the picture that one wasn't just there you can just see They've bricked it up. So it's been quite recently extended and altered quite considerably But to think that Winston Churchill has been inside that house. It looks like it's been extended out the back But as I said for a long time it always never had any fence on the other side used to see Straight into the garden So we're now in the Chalfont Heights estate and we're pretty much coming to the end of Today's video. It's a pleasant walk back down to the village. So I think I'll walk back to the village this way If you want to do this trail you can get as this leaflet here as a nice map. Well, this is actually the old leaflet Now there's been more added. I think you can pick them up in the library I think this is where fairly sure it's where I got this one from So this one had a map inside Of all of the plaques, but like I say there's been Quite a few new ones added So it's worth doing it whether you're local and live in Chalfont St Peter and want to discover more about where you live Or if you you know would like to If you're visiting Chalfont St Peter You could come and you know discover a bit about it There's plenty of you know shops and cafes and places to get lunch if you wanted to make a day of it So, you know do do come and Do this walk for yourself. You don't have to do it in one big go It's worth doing. Anyway from the rather pleasant Chalfont Heights with the ubiquitous sound of a lawn mower Thank you very much for watching. Please do feel free to Like subscribe and comment and from Chalfont St Peter. Goodbye


As we talk more about the Yankees now with Michael Kaye and Michael you heard Jack and I have a little conversation about the Yankees and the roster construction right now and I want to hang on a minute. We might have some breaking news from Meredith Morakovitz. Let's hear from that first Mike. Well Bob no breaking news here just wanted to wish Michael Kaye a very happy 60th birthday. We all know how much he loves getting out on the golf course just kidding but he did say he's interested in learning. So Michael I'm taking some swings for you today enjoy your day happy birthday. Michael John Flaherty here word on the street is that it's your birthday today and it's just not any other birthday this is a big one a milestone number so with that I wanted to send you a little message congratulations you have a great day with your family happy birthday Michael it's kidding just want to wish you a very happy birthday down here in Florida. It's a little chilly can't wait for you to get down here get started with baseball happy birthday Michael. Just want to wish you a happy birthday obviously I am not in snowy New York so best wishes from Florida and happy 60th yeah I said it 60th happy 60th to you man. Happy birthday Michael the middle tier of the Super Senior Discount 60 years old way to go big Michael the Super Senior Discount you've you've elevated your game now. Do you guys realize for the last five years I continue to throw away all AARP mail I just I will not accept it I will but five more years I'll be on Medicare it's I cannot believe that I'm 60 because Jack knows me I think like a 12 year old but that's the number that's what I got to accept. I've got to chime in to Michael I know three of your favorite people in baseball so I'm going with baseball uniform numbers happy Don Mattingly slash David Cone slash Billy Martin birthday do the math folks that's the number it adds up to the big six zero. It's a big number. All right so Michael I've got a question for you let's say Jack and I were baking in the yes kitchen right now we want to make you a cake what flavor cake would that be. I like seven layer cake I also like red velvet but you know anything other than the red velvet anything with chocolate is the way I would go chocolate is good now people know you don't eat condiments etc would it be slathered and frosting. No I love mayo on top of the cake that's the one exception that I make that's a that's a great point. Michael I guess that you would go chocolate and I also tell Bob let's let's throw a little carrot cake out there and see him act like a five year old when he says no chance that he would eat any carrot cake. No I do like carrots but I don't like carrot cake.


And we are live. What's up everybody and welcome to my makeshift ghetto studio As you can see I have a mic in my hand my office is Inaccessible at the moment and but the reason why I'm here is like I'm a good friend Matt and you know I know each other for I don't know a year and a half something like that right now give or take Yeah, something like that and You know lately we've been talking a lot about NFTs and I in my mind I think Matt's probably one of the top guys in the world when it comes to NFTs It's a non fungible tokens and so the premise of our kind of talk today or episode today It's kind of talking about what our NFTs where we are currently NFTs and where do we have to go with NFTs for them to actually be? I would say accessible plus also usable on a global aspect so Matt like based on your let's say Research lately I'll ask you two questions. Number one is in your words. What are NFTs and then number two? Where are we currently? Well, we lost your audio technical difficulties Literally we had it a second ago That's odd Bear with us guys While we try to figure out the audio It was all working in Pre-production testing, but for some reason it's not look working in live. Very odd Huh? Ugh, this mic moves around too much Hmm. You want to log out and log back in maybe that'll work Let's do that bingo All right guys bear with us Matt will log out log back in it's cool hangouts. What do you expect? So much like invent like a legitimate Video podcasting solution where it's like an all-in-one suite We're like you log in the guests to side-by-side and there's transcripts and audios, but yeah Alright, so we see your mic is muted. Oh We hear something You might get some feedback. Can you hear me? We can hear you Okay, um, that's interesting because I've shut down all apps. I can't even see myself We hear you but your feedback, okay, hold on. Yeah, no worries this This should work. I'm just gonna turn you down really quiet. Can you hear me sure feedback? We're good. We're good Okay So we're talking about yeah, what our NFTs and where we are currently with them Yeah, exactly. So first of all an NFT is a non-fungible token What does that mean? Well, it's kind of hard to understand without understanding fungibility So fungibility is just simply a property of of money. So it's like cash. So ERC 20 tokens which obviously the standardization of those led to a big boom in Basically the ICOs and the token sales because everyone and their dog could could basically publish in the ERC 20 Now those tokens are fungible Which means that you know if a mirror has 20 of the 20 of a Particular token and then I have you know 20 of a particular token and we swap those tokens then basically We're right back where we started. So fungible tokens are kind of like cash It's no different than you know thousands of years ago people used shells salt silver coins and Basically these are these are just this is just money. So non fungible tokens are a bit different They're more like baseball cards or stamps. So each one is unique. It's part of maybe a limited edition run It's got a unique kind of image or attributes or properties. So in a kind of a tribal sense It's a bit more like like masks or jewelry and these kind of denote maybe that somebody is more More special or higher ranked than another person because of the attributes of the of the mask or the jewelry And in modern day sort of stuff It's kind of like baseball cards or or magic cards And that that's non fungible tokens right now. So what's really interesting is we're at an interesting time in the space The standard just got finalized There was a last-minute kind of breaking change But but it got it kind of got pushed through and it's actually kind of good that it does it helps with a lot of extensibility If we want to get more technical we can go into that But let's just stay on the surface for now and just say, you know ERC 721 on Ethereum has been standardized. There's a there's a great standard interface a lot of really smart people were involved in that it was originally proposed by By Dieter Shirley from axiom Zen also known as the company that produced crypto kiddies He originally proposed it back in September and then it got standardized by the community and William and Rickon is one of the guys or as he's better known as at full decent was one of the guys who really Kind of took up the torch and finalized the standard. So that's what's going on right now Where would you where would you say most people are kind of focusing on the use cases for it? That's a good one. So right now the use cases. I mean games are just exploding right now. So Basically, the reason is is anyone can kind of create characters that are represented by NFTs These NFTs can can level up So, you know as you play the game in a in a provably fair way the characters can kind of gain attributes and and kind of go up in rank and then You know, this is all done. It's provable through sort of a master game contract that That governs how upgradeable these tokens are so that's kind of how That that's a really big part of how NFTs are being used But there's other interesting aspects of them like identity Like sort of representing an avatar on different websites. So right now we could do that with our ethereum wallet But I guess, you know, Amir you'll understand this this this drawback right away If I use my ethereum account to use that as a login or to represent my identity on a website and then Let's say I want to pass you the credentials I mean with with an ethereum account if I give you the private key you You have no idea or sorry You have no way to change that private key and you don't know if I've copied it down somewhere So now we have this sort of leaky account kind of Issue right where you know, you don't know if I still have the private key and you don't know if you have kind of full Control over this account now and and nobody else is going to log into it But with an NFT we could actually transfer the ownership of an identity from one account to another so that's something that I think is is a really powerful aspect of of a Non-fungible token so a unique token to represent Avatars represent identity represent logins represent software licenses I see we're going on a tour now Where we headed you're gonna walk into my apartment are you? No addition We're going over to see horizon I'm not gonna bug me yet. No, that's cool. Go back to Go back to the identity part kind of dive into a bit more because that's a fascinating aspect of it Right so the same challenges that face identity on the blockchain with something like civic or status And you port it's the same challenges, you know, basically you take some account some unique hash Some unique public key and you need to verify it. You need the same level of KYC Let's call it claims attestations or or whatnot about that unique hash you you ID for that that identity You still need to do the same amount of work now if you just do it with a non-fungible token then And basically the identity is not something, you know something really really truly Scarce in the real world. So let's say it's just a virtual avatar And then this avatar gets access to software licensee is or gets access to special areas in a video game or special Experiences online then you can actually transfer it and you can't do that with With a public like a public private key pair because I explained before, you know We would have that sort of leaky leaky private key issue So that's where I think NFTs really shine.  Units, but they're indistinguishable.  I think Google's being evil today They're practicing their number one slogan They say don't do evil. Let's the opposite. Yeah, no audio everyone saying that. Hmm. You know what we can do If this is giving us problems, man, we can just reschedule to make things easier You want to do that or no, I should be back. Oh, I think you are back man. Yeah, we're good Can you hear me? Yeah, we can hear you. Okay. Can you hear me? Yeah, we're good. We're good. Can you hear me? I can hear you Okay Sorry about that, you know when in doubt switch to the phone Um, here we go. There we go. Okay. I'm back So, yeah, just talking about Identity use cases and for NFTs, there's also lots of other other use cases So you see a lot of things happening in games. So rare items and basically People are using them to do, you know, there's a there's a few different types of blockchain games. I Forget the write-up, but it basically had, you know, sort of there's full blockchain games So everything is happening kind of on-chain about the game then there's sort of Different layers on top of that. I think it was one of the guys when user feeds was publishing some some information about that So, you know, the the scarcity happens on-chain and then and then you build user Interface layers on top of that what I think is really interesting about the fact that some aspects of blockchain games can exist on-chain and Other aspects can happen in game contracts and then even more aspects can happen in the user interface is that you can have these scarce assets actually Actually move from game to game. So someone could jump into a game They start as a peasant and they go around, you know Beating sheep over the head and earning some experience points and they choose to become You know a warrior or a wizard and then they they get more experience points They move themselves up in the ranks and then they lift that character out of the game They sell it on a decentralized marketplace like rare bits or open C for NFTs And then another player buys it and then they drop it into another game and all of a sudden they're You know, there's some mechanic in a game like Team Fortress and they're building turrets. So it's It's really interesting to see that these these assets could be could be granted Sort of like visibility in other interfaces other games and buy other game contracts So the question comes up and I've received this question before why would an indie game developer do this? And I I basically said, okay. Well, you've got instant players, you know Why why did somebody build a game an interface game on top of crypto kiddies called kitty race? because they they've made money because people race their cats so It was a it's a whole kind of new realm of permissionless innovation It brings up for games. It brings up some interesting Questions and that is one of them is if a player can immediately drop into your game And let's say it was a role-playing game as a level 17 warrior How do you start the story from there? How do they find out everything that happened to them if they simply just bought a level 17 warrior on a Decentralized marketplace and then dropped into this brand new game experience So there's there's a lot that's gonna be unpacked in the next the the next few years. So it's really interesting space That's pretty cool. But you were mentioning something before how you can have NFT that owns other I can't believe it Go ahead Is what you told me earlier is pretty interesting not earlier today But before where you're mentioning how an NFT can be an can be an owner of multiple different tokens Yeah, that's right. So Basically, I'm also working on a standard called composables and that would be for composable non-fungible tokens and it I'll kind of introduce the concept.  So you could put a few crypto kitties And then you could also fill them up with with ERC 20s of different projects So you could have a bunch of balances of ERC 20s all from different contracts and the reasoning behind this or one of the key motivators is that Right now if if you or I if I wanted to give you a basket of a bunch of Crypto assets and I wanted to say okay, here you go Amir I'm gonna start off, you know your crypto your crypto account with a bunch of this stuff and it was you know a crypto kitty and another an ether bot or an ethmoji a couple of other non-fungible tokens and some ERC 20s of some really Cool projects where you would be able to try out their betas. So if I wanted to start that off again I share you my private key of this account, but then you don't know if what I'm doing You don't know if that wallet is safe. So I You know in any event you would have to transfer out each one of those in order for it to be safe So you still face the same problem. So I think that Composable non-fungible tokens solves this problem of basically having one token Where you can transfer the ownership of that wholly and sort of provably on the blockchain Trustlessly and then from there you're free to do with those tokens Whatever you want and the idea with the standard is that you don't actually have to take them out of the bag to transfer them out Or to do anything with them you can actually reach inside that bag and and grab the items that you're interested in and Use them in those specific projects. So that's the the motivation behind that standard not from a like a tech standpoint like how far away do you think we are from Using this from a scalable aspect like crypto kitties obviously cause a congestion and theorem network You know in our office, we have a great video game company building something for building off-chain solutions but in your best Let's say judgment how far off do you think we are from actually having Scalable solutions to build on a grand scale Do you are you do you mean NFTs or just kind of like blockchain games the space in general? So sorry say that again. Are you are you asking about scalability of for example blockchain games? Just the space in general or just For example an empty with blockchain games one example when they can do with their own unique variation But then you have an FT for all these different you can have an FT for example with Tickets, you know Substituting for like ticket masters. You can have an FT as you mentioned for identity Generally speaking per se like based on these ERC 721 contracts You know need to how far off do you think we are from at least getting some momentum on to the scalability aspect of it Sure, so that's a really interesting question. Um, as far as I know Um, a lot of the state channel tech that's being built right now is based around Basically fungible tokens and sort of making transfers between parties now. I think that There's not there's not too much Sort of that that's not that's not a similar situation to that a bunch of parties would need to jump on to To a state channel and basically All agree that they're going to to swap non fungible tokens and then basically we're moving around the ownership of these UU IDs or integers of these tokens In these in these in simply a one contract So a non fungible token is is just a contract Like a like a fungible token is so I think that the As far as I know, I I don't know anyone building those state channels right now I do know of sort of the generalized state channels and counterfactual and and things like this And I don't know how far we are away from that, but But yeah, that that's sort of what would need to happen is somebody needs to make a sort of uh An abstract or generalized state channel just simply around non fungible tokens That would obviously be the first step off Are you gonna do that? Sorry You're tired. Are you are you talking to lia or something? Uh, but no, that's it. Yeah, it's for me. It's always like I see so many amazing use cases for For me, it's like, okay. It's a timing correct What's the adoption curve for this? How easy it is to implement in a legacy system? Is it difficult to implement? It's like You know all these like unknown questions come into play Absolutely, um, so I think that uh, you know, one of the things that was really um, really unfortunate was Something like crypto kiddies did clog up the ethereum blockchain I mean and and you know, if you're going to do this all just with smart contracts on the main chain It's obviously not the best approach. Um I think that projects especially if you're doing games, especially if you have to look at where the actual digital scarcity is being transferred. So and when the transfers are happening, um So I think that blockchain games where you can find items and their non fungible tokens You can go to the the the store in the game and you can trade your game gold for non fungible tokens You can meet another player and you can trade non fungible tokens inside a marketplace inside the the game I think all of that Needs if it's going to be happening rapidly like let's say somebody's playing for two or three hours And it's going to be happening non fungible token transfers, maybe a dozen 24 of them Then you scale up and think about you know games that have a lot of adoption even just with A thousand players. I mean it's it starts to become Uh pretty wild right so that we have one game on the ethereum blockchain attributing to uh, you know tens of thousands of Non fungible token transfers not only that the cost to your to your users is is quite high So I think we need to explore those scaling solutions and thankfully, you know in in generalized state channels and Um and other sort of more specific state channel tech that we've already seen rolled out in betas on the main net It's very exciting time right now to be developing on ethereum And these this state channel tech is is just evolving every day. It's getting better and better So I think that seeing a non fungible token State channel a specific one that can be used for different projects right away would be Uh would be coming down the pipe like shortly And then seeing an actual sort of generalized one that can be used for multiple non fungible tokens and maybe fungible tokens purchasing non fungible tokens from something like a Like a market or a store contract inside a game. I think that that could be happening. Um, probably I don't know. I don't want to make any predictions. But like, you know, maybe three months on test snatch six months Make the prediction. I was about to ask you that's your prediction. Okay. I got my my crystal ball here And I have an interesting thought though, uh, for example, we're gonna have ethereum We're gonna have all these like side chains coming out and or ethereum competitors coming out. Whether that is polkadot, you have cosmos you have aeon, etc, etc It's like, okay If I want to create like say nfts on all these different platforms, are we able to communicate with these nfts from cross platforms? That's something I I think I would really like to see. I mean right now Can we can we export and import erc20s across chains? I know that the metronome project was working on that basically saying that, you know, they wanted to create a fungible token Um, and the sole purpose of the fungible token was to be basically be able to live on any smart contract chain that can in fact encode Fungibility in a smart contract kind of way. So whether that's a, you know, a non-turing complete scripting language that still allows you to create Fungible tokens on like general purpose kind of fungible tokens on on this general purpose blockchain Or whether it's sort of like an EVM like a root stock or something like that So, I mean that was a really interesting project for me And I dove deep into that just to just to sort of figure out and obviously it was Jeff Garcic So you had to kind of pay attention a little bit And I just kind of looked into the tech behind that and I thought hey, you know what that that's really not that uncommon because you know chains like Like one chain they you know, they kind of do a token sale They sell in the rc20 and then when they launch their main net they do a they do a token swap Right, so they let you kind of they let you import your rc20. They burn it They they create it on their end on their own chain Um, so I think that hopefully we're getting to that kind of cross chain functionality I know that the team on aon is working on that as well and there's there's an interoperability alliance between One chain Zillica a on and maybe some others. Um, so it's exciting stuff. I think NFTs Just around the corner, but again, it all comes back to Maybe having a proper sort of standard around around these tokens and and like I mentioned when we first jumped on the call ERC 20 obviously got standardized pretty quick Fungible tokens on a general purpose blockchain great idea, right? basically We have the main chain with our accounts and balances of ether and then we've got our Our other tokens that we launch on top of the ethereum blockchain In a smart contract. So every smart contract that is an ERC 20 token Simply launches another mapping of accounts and balances that maintains this this new Fungible token. So that's an incredible sort of You know rallying behind a standard interface by the community. What does that mean? That means that applications Wallets exchanges can all implement any ERC 20 token that conforms to that standard By simply adding another address or letting the user add another address. So I don't know You know what your audience is like, but I mean You know, I've added custom tokens to my metamask Especially when I was learning solidity and I wanted to you know Go through the tutorials make my own ERC 20 token and just see what it was like So this is a really interesting aspect. So Now that ERC 721 is finalized you could see the same thing happening with non-fungible tokens and then this leads to interoperability. I mean it's it's sort of like, you know Basically a consistent data And functional interface that we can we can rely on across chains Um, I think even neo and maybe you could clear that up for me. I'm here. I think neo implemented like the n e p 5 Which is their fungible token standard as well right, so it's It basically has the same kind of properties or at least there's a mapping there. Um between the two so You know, could you actually burn? Some project that was on neo. I can't think of any off the top of my head Could you burn those tokens and then and then bring them on to the ethereum blockchain? Could you actually do it? You think we could you think we can do it like, you know, they have atomic swaps Well, we're super early in the atomic swaps, but you think it'd be possible to do like atomic swaps NFTs in the future I think so. I think actually that would be uh That would be a really cool Really cool use of them and I think that actually, uh, you know Not quite an atomic swap across chains But something that that kind of was funny that came out a couple of weeks ago was that There's a project called crypto dragons or something like that and they were basically offering people to uh to burn their crypto kitty um in exchange for a brand new shiny crypto dragon and you know, that's kind of like, uh That's where um This whole permissionless innovation I was describing earlier with all these different game layers and things can be used across different games I mean, maybe that's perhaps a different a different take on permissionless innovation than than most but it's still Ah, it's kind of you know, it's playful. It's kind of funny. Uh, it's interesting Cool man. So if you had to say, um Your predictions the next three months in the whole space. What what do you see? So I actually, uh, I I have a bit of a Uh, kind of a strong opinion around this and and that a lot of a lot of the early exuberance and projects from from 2017 Um, they were building protocols. So basically, you know, their own token powered protocols and building a layer in between Um, so I'm gonna use my hand here There's sort of the core ethereum blockchain and then there's sort of the the application layer So wallets exchanges decentralized apps They were building their their protocols in between there and trying to kind of provide Uh, a level of service and and you know, some of the projects were, um You know, I don't want to offend any projects out there But they were they were a bit naive and you know, they're saying that they're going to offer Um, something that is very very kind of abstract in general. So something like um Something like a fungible token or offering a protocol Um, where they said, you know, we're gonna we're gonna basically offer Non fungible tokens, but in order to get these non fungible tokens, you'll have to get our fungible token first So these kind of uh projects are, you know, they're they're kind of selling themselves as protocols when they're really abstract And and they're really they really should be sold as standards So I feel strongly that in between core the core ethereum blockchain Um or other blockchains, um There's a lot of work that needs to be done on scaling, uh, you know, they're working on sharding They're working on changing consensus mechanisms and all sorts of stuff and that and adding new op codes to the to the smart contract language And and the the ways that you can publish contracts and call functions on the blockchain in between core And in between the application layer, which we all know and experience through wallets and exchanges and dApps um, there's sort of there there is protocols or sorry, there are protocols like uh, like zero x for trading tokens And it provides a token that allows you to collect fees from trading tokens But there's also standards. So there's also erc 20 and erc 721 now and a bunch of other standards So I kind of see this space Is sort of emerging as sort of a a wavy space where we're starting as a community to figure out the lines between You know, what should be abstract general purpose standard on top of core? That can be leveraged by protocols to do something that is truly unique truly bespoke and special Um with their smart contract protocol. So I see that that this is still in between core and application This is still a wavy kind of space of sort of standard and protocol and I think that we're going to start to see um more standards being proposed because it actually helps more uh of the of the genuinely useful protocol projects Uh, basically get adoption and traction. Um And now why would you standardize? You know something like a fungible token or a non fungible token? Well, as I mentioned before it allows wallets and apps and and decentralized exchanges to basically instantly add new Um new tokens to their to their interface Um by basically just adding another contract address So I think that standards really help to to alleviate the burden on the application layer And then of course, you know, if if those applications don't have to worry about how they talk to the ethereum blockchain and these different protocols And they can basically speak through standard interfaces Then they can focus on what's really important Which is user adoption and good ui ux and basically onboarding new users into crypto assets So that's sort of where I kind of see the space going is an increase increased importance in standards alleviating the burden on application developers so that any Any web developer in the future should literally be able to you know MPM install marketplace and then take it from there and create Some kick-ass ux and and get a lot of people on board their their dat Well said man, I pretty much concur with everything that you said, uh, people want to get a hold of you or get a contact Are you what's what's the best resource? Sure. Yeah, uh, you can find me on twitter. Um, it's it's a little long But uh, it's it's m-a-t-t matt uh d And then my last name is l-o-c-k y-e-r or you know lock your lock your lock your tokens up And you can also find me on medium under the same handle matt d lock here Um, yeah, that's that's the kind of the two main spaces that I sort of I'll make sure that I put in the show notes below so everyone has access So then how do you recommend you guys follow matt like he puts out amazing information on twitter And is a really good writer as well and specifically if you're into nfts or anything within the erc 721 family Fuck and follow him. Trust me Sounds great, uh, thanks for having me on amir and uh, yeah, lots of interesting projects in the nft space coming out Um, just a quick shout out if if you don't mind, um So a lot of really good works being done by by the zero excerpt team and sort of those identity tokens I mentioned earlier and validating the kyc for those tokens. Um, that's that's really interesting Just some breaking stuff like coming out literally today And they've got william and ricken as an advisor and he's the gentleman. He's at full decent who basically wrapped up the The 721 uh standard literally last week. So this is all just happening right now, which is exciting times for the space um, and then also, uh, I'd have to mention, um, the nifty conf happening in hong kong July 24th to 26th.  Thanks for the oh, that's awesome. Yeah, that's right. I saw free education Yeah, um, so that's actually, uh, it's a cool. You mentioned blockies It's actually a conference and a hackathon and we've got a lot Like we've got some of the best projects in the space coming The guys from loom are doing you mentioned state channels. They're doing incredible work on state channels axi affinity incredible looking game and game design coming out coin artist from neon district, which is a game that's a it's it's a bit in teaser stealth mode right now They're they're on there. They're coming out soon and uh, they're they're all going to nifty and they're all hacking And they're all getting together as a community, you know to figure out how we actually Build these things together and like I said, you know Different projects are going to do very unique and different things with non fungible tokens But we should really come together around the abstract standards and the interfaces that Make it easier for for wallets and exchanges to kind of support these assets because that's where That's where a lot of the the permissionless innovation and and stuff is going to happen Also, want to give a shout out to my own channel that I've been working Really hard on and my own standard basically composable non fungible tokens. It's erc 998 So or cnfts or crypto composables And all the discussion for that is happening on a discord channel called nifty magicians that has about Over 180 members now and there's a some fierce discussion about the future of the space and and a lot of it's around games So if you're if you're into blockchain games and you're into nfts Check out nifty magicians and I'll I'll throw a mirror that the link for the show notes as well Awesome, man. Thank you, brother. Like always talk to you soon then Talk to you soon. Take care. Bye


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Hey guys, how are you today? All right We are gonna make I mean, we're gonna do a little watercoloring in our my year 2017 journal or At least you could I'm gonna actually do it on a piece of watercolor paper. This is a piece of Artistico Fabriano artistico paper. It is soft press 140 pounds soft press is something between Hot press and cold press. There doesn't have as much texture as cold press, but it's also not completely smooth this was gotten as a sample at a little seminar I did at a local arts and crafts store, so I'm gonna whack off a hunk of Paper from the sample about two inches wide You can make your bookmark any size and or you could do this in your directly in your journal if you want to now This piece of paper is Because I know somebody is gonna ask Just a little bit less than six inches long about an eighth of an inch less than that I'm gonna put this back away My other pieces of paper Maybe there we go There's samples, okay? So we're gonna just do a little quick easy. Don't freak out. It's gonna be an easy watercolor tutorial because you know really You guys should know you better than that all right, so This is my Daniel Smith muted palette use what you have you don't have to use watercolor paint So you could use any water soluble materials that you may have in your art room. Maybe you have Neocolors, maybe you have Crayola watercolor pencils whatever you have use what you have all right and do some playing We're gonna zoom in a little bit Okay There we go So first I'm gonna do Some pen work, and I'm trying to decide what I want to draw Let's see I kind of want to just do flowers because you know, and they're kind of organic and they're easy So let's do that. Let's do kind of a flowery shape I'm not gonna sketch the whole thing out Because I want the watercolor to be to do some speaking on that page But I want the pen to help define what's going on. I think that's good. I actually like that We're gonna need a watercolor brush. I'm going to use this Princeton select filbert number eight brush it looks like that a filbert is like a flat with a rounded end Use what you have though Okay, I'm gonna start grabbing a rag. I'm gonna start by That pen that I used is a pilot varsity Disposable fountain pen and as you can see it is water soluble, which I love That's text message to hear that So I'm going to Activate some of the pen I'm gonna put the water where I want the ink to go the ink is only gonna go where you put the water So that's one way to control what's going on in your picture and then we're going to take our Muted palette which I love and find challenging to work with in a good way and There's this Napsal maroon color. We love so I'm gonna See now this is wet. So I'm putting it in the water where the pen was That's my brush off and push the pigment around and then I'm gonna zoom in some more Let's see so you can really see And then I'm gonna take a little bit of the red that's in here and the quite own red I think it's which one it is and I'm probably pronouncing both of those incorrectly That wouldn't surprise me. I'm just barely touching the brush to the paper Barely barely lift some of that off. So I'm taking a damp, but dry brush and Going over the pigment and just lifting some of it off. I'm gonna take the quid awkward on the gold It was my phone again Then I'm going to take some of my greens. I have this one called undersea green. It's a beautiful beautiful muted green color Just gorgeous Again, just put a little bit of pigment and then rinse my brush off I'm blotting it on the Reg I have under my arm, but you can't see because it's off camera Because I want you to really just see what I'm doing As far as the painting is concerned Okay, and then I'm gonna take a little bit of our turquoise because you know, I rarely paint anything Without putting turquoise in there. I just don't this is ultramarine turquoise. I think what I want to do Is get it wet and puddley and then do this Well, it'd be nice if I got it on that. There we go on the bookmark. It's going everywhere except the bookmark Isn't that always the way? So there you have it quick easy. It took like five minutes. I'll zoom out a little bit for you There we go So quick and easy took about five minutes. It's not complicated Maybe you just want to do it doodle it and you want to do as like a Zentangley thing and you want to draw and not paint whatever you feel Like doing as I've said in the beginning and I will keep saying until you guys are sick of hearing it There's no right way. There's no wrong way. There's only your way So think about doing a little piece of artwork Create if you're following the book club But maybe make yourself a bookmark that you can use in your books that you're reading If you're not doing the book club Then just make a little piece of artwork in your journal or one that you can put in your journal and Make sure you've sized the paper if you're going to put it in later either tip it in or paste it in that you've sized The paper to be something that will fit in your journal before you get started And so that you don't have to cut down your artwork. That's it for today, everybody Don't forget to like share and subscribe. Please. 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What I would say about selection boards is in my 32 years in the Navy It is the fairest process and the cleanest process and the most honest process that I have ever experienced in my life It is very very Very pure It's not you know, let's throw up the records and whoever's lands on the table. Those are the ones we're going to select Everything is pure It's 100% we take an oath at the selection board. We raise our hand and we swear to all of that So I want everyone to know that this is a very clean process You are responsible for maintaining your record. You must maintain your record Because that's all we're looking at is your service record and what you send us to the board Only you can communicate with the selection board You must make sure that if you're sending something to the board, it's explained well Fill in the gaps if something's missing tell us why if you've done something odd in your rotation Like back-to-back staff duty Or the same platform in the same area for three tours. You must tell us why Put it in your evil. It should be in your evil that says Transferring to another staff duty down the road because specifically requested by the chief of staff for their Expertise for a mission they're coming up and working on in the next 18 months or would have gone to see duty You know kind of a deal that tells the board why you did that So sending your stuff that you've done that's not in there sending corrections Let us know you've done a correction letter to the boards in order to purge to get something uploaded Go to the briefs go to the briefs go to the briefs in Most fleet concentration areas or at commands Someone like us is doing a brief for you on how to write enlisted evals how to put together a package If you're going up for a selection board and you're a chief senior chief or going up for master chief Sit down with someone who has sat on the board or call them I get email packages all the time from people I've worked with in the past that say hey fleet Can you look at my package? Here's my letter to the board am I saying this correctly? So talk to the people that are out there Really quick. I get a lot of questions same question from a lot of sailors. Why can't the board tell me why I wasn't selected? We can't there are thousands of you and so we can't do an individual brief with you But predominantly because what the selection board looked at this year may not be what they're going to look at next year So if I tell you this and this was something you didn't have and we were looking at then that's all you're going to work on For next year and the next year the next year's board is going to look at this and this and you avoided it Sustained superior performance is key. I thought that was a load of hokey when I was coming up and growing up in the Navy And people would say to me you know Ortloff it's sustained superior performance. Does it matter where you're assigned? It's what you do while you're there. You must fill in those blocks of the eval You must fill in those blocks of the brag sheet You have 12 months to show us in a documented format cause and effect meeting all these things It's up to you. How can we help you? We can help assign you collaterals and so forth.