Daily Tech News Show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you, including Michelle Serju, Miss Music Teacher, and James C. Smith. Coming up on DTNS, what you need to know about the Ethereum merge, why the crypto folks are oligog about it, and what it might mean for you. Plus, Scott breaks down the first hands-on reviews of the PSVR2, and why laptop users lie, at least more than phone users. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, September 14th, 2022 in Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Reptile, I'm Sarah Lane. In Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Who's ready for the merge? Or for most of the audience? I mean, I think it's gonna happen whether we are or not. I was gonna say, for most of the audience listening to this, how did it go? Cause it hasn't happened yet while we're recording this. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Microsoft Patch Tuesday came with a fix for two zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which is being actively exploited. So it's worth getting up to date right away if you haven't already done so. Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability is the one that is being actively exploited if you're following along. Researchers at DB App Security, Mandiant, CrowdStrike, and Descaler all discovered it. Mandiant told Bleeping Computer that it was discovered during a proactive offensive task force, exploit hunting mission. Or in other words, they went looking for something and found somebody exploiting it in the wild. In other other words, patch your windows right now. Yeah, exactly. Right this second, thank you. If you didn't understand anything else, that's the thing to understand. Trio of Legal Actions, a hat trick of Legal Actions affected Alphabet and Meta over the last day or so. The EU General Court has ruled to uphold the European Commission's antitrust fine against Google, though they did reduce it from 4.3 billion to 4.1 billion euros, quite a savings. The court agreed that Google's requirement for handset makers to pre-install Google Search and Chrome in order to be able to license Google Play was against the law. Court found there was not enough evidence related to Google paying OEMs to exclusively pre-install Google Search, hence the reduction in the fine. The decision can be appealed, probably will be appealed to the EU's Court of Justice. Over to the West for part two, US District Judge P. Kevin Castell for Southern New York allowed a case to proceed where 17 US Attorneys General accused Google and Facebook of unlawful restraint of trade related to the Jedi Blue Agreement. That's a 2018 agreement on advertising. And for number three of three, we keep going West to South Korea where the Personal Information Protection Commission find Google $69.2 billion won. It's about $50 million US and they find meta $30.8 billion won for privacy law violations saying they did not obtain prior consent when collecting user behavioral information. But wait, one more thing, Amazon didn't want to be left out. So California filed suit claiming Amazon's contracts with third party sellers and wholesalers raise prices and violate antitrust and unfair competition laws. Amazon requires its sellers to always list the lowest price they sell something at on Amazon. I love the idea that Amazon's like, well, what about us? Hey, we want to be safe. Also antitrust. Yeah, we're big. Come on. Nikkei Asia sources say that Apple will be the first company to use TSMC's new N3E chip making mode and upgrade to its three nanometer process. This will be used initially on the A17 chip for the 2023 iPhone. I mean, we're guessing anyway. And then later on in an M3 chip for laptops, TSMC also reportedly delayed Intel's orders on the updated node until 2024. If you don't know in China, you got to get the government's approval to publish a video game and they haven't been given those out, but that finally changed. China's National Press and Publication Administration granted publishing licenses for 73 online video games, including titles from Tencent and NetEase. It had last approved new paid games from either of those companies July 2021. Big day for action camps. DJI announced the Osmo Action 3, which ditches the modular design of its predecessor, can also shoot up to 4K 120 frames per second video with its rock steady 3.0 stabilization on and natively supports vertical video as well. It's available for pre-order now for $329, but not to be outdone. GoPro also announced the HERO 11 Black and 11 Black mini cameras, which can record up to 5.3K video and an OpenGate 8 to 7 aspect ratio. The HERO 11 Black is available now for $500 with GoPro subscribers able to get it for 400. So, you know, if you're already in the mix. The mini retail is for 400, available to subscribers for 300, shipping October 25th. All right, so one of the reasons we didn't get Max Coville yesterday, but are getting him tomorrow is because Sony and Nintendo both had bunch of announcements he had to cover. And among those Sony announcements was letting press get their hands on the PSVR too. People have been able to finally try it out in person. Still not coming out till next year, but Scott, what are some of the things people found? Well, it's exciting stuff. It's the only console manufacturer to make a viable and successful VR. So the follow-up is very anticipated. Here's what we know and here's what they found with their hands on. This is a USB-C cabled device. This is not going to be a wireless option like you're maybe used to with your MetaQuest. So you've got to plug this into your PlayStation 5. No option for any kind of wireless stuff. But just the one wire. Not the 17. Correct, one wire. Exactly. And no towers. But either one is different than none. That's true. No towers, no outside tracking. It's all inside, outside tracking based on the device, which is a very, very big leap forward. Features PS5's Tempest 3 audio tech to simulate surround sounds. This is cool sound stuff going on there. Used as a really interesting optics technology called foveated rendering. We've heard this before and probably around the time it was announced. What this essentially is is it's a way to reserve rendering power and resources by making it so the person using the VR headset at the time, what they are looking directly at is fully rendered at whatever, rendering the game or the experience requires.  The best way I could explain this would be the tilt shift effect you see in photos sometime.  And it's all kind of one experience whereas this is going to change dynamically as you look at new objects. I mean, it's not unlike how I feel like my vision is all the time. Yeah, it's a little time ago. I'm looking right at you, Scott, then stuff in my peripheral is still there, but I'm not focusing on it. It's taking advantage of that, right? It's saying we're only going to resolve the stuff you're looking at. We don't need to spend computer power on the stuff in your peripherals. Sony's not the only one doing foveated rendering and it's kind of becoming a standard on VR. Yeah, I think you're going to see a lot more of this because it makes a ton of sense. Some of the people on the ground were saying that, hey, it gives you the sense a little bit of tunnel vision and I didn't like that. Others have said it did feel like my vision isn't as good as it is in the real world.  And I think your mileage may vary depending on your vision and what you sort of notice about things you're not focused on. So that's kind of interesting. Here are some actual features of the device. The headset features our 2000 by 2040 OLED screens with approximately 110 degree field of view and up to 4K HDR. These are massive jumps over the previous model. Support for 90 Hertz and 120 Hertz frame rates. Nice. You can expect the 90 is the minimum, that's good. That's where we need to be as a baseline. Lens separation is adjustable. So that wasn't true with the previous device. The headset has four cameras built into the front and that's in the front of the display for the headset and controller tracking. Again, no need for external trackers or cameras anymore. There are two IR cameras for eye tracking, one IR camera per eye and six-axis motion sensing system, three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer in there as well. And an AR proximity sensor, AIR, I keep saying AR, IR proximity sensor as well. Early impressions, by the way, and this headset itself is that it's comfortable like the previous model. People like PlayStation 1 VR's comfort, generally speaking, compared to the competition. But most are saying, yeah, but after a couple hours, you're still kind of craning your neck. You're feeling the weight of it. It's giving you creases where you don't want them. So it sounds like we're not quite to the, that stage of VR where this thing is gonna be super light on your head. The controllers is an important point. Before this, it was move controllers. Now they have their own dedicated controllers. Right hand has the PlayStation button, options button, two action buttons. Of course, your R1 and R2 buttons, right stick and R3 button, which is depressing that stick. Left controller, same thing for the left side. Haptic feedback across both of these two devices, the two controller devices, one actuator per unit and can also detect finger touches. Although it sounds like it's mostly thumb and finger. For the thumb and forefinger, I should say. Adaptive triggers to register different levels of force. That's a lot like their DualSense controller and a very cool feature of that controller. I might add six-axis motion sensing. Again, we talked about that. Capacitive sensor for finger touch direction. IR LED for position tracking uses Bluetooth 5.1 and it is a lithium ion rechargeable battery. It's a lot. What are you laughing about, Tom? Well, it's a funny spec. Like what isn't a lithium ion rechargeable battery? That's a good point. One of the batteries we use in it is interesting. Yeah. The thing that's interesting is all of these external cameras are designed to help do the positioning. This is a huge leap forward. You saw it first with the MetaQuest as far as something that was available for people at home. That is being used here. So you'll put it on, you'll do an initial scan of your room and there can be some additional adjusting after that but it's supposed to be pretty good at telling where you're at and what you're doing and create these boundaries. You can also very easily flip it so that you can see immediately outside in case something happens.  So if you've done that with the Quest, you kind of know what you're getting into. The big standout in terms of demos because they did have some games and some stuff to have hands on with was Horizon Call of the Mountain. That one that seems to impressed a lot of people. It's based on the Horizon Zero Dawn series, the regular game series and then the upcoming VR version of Resident Evil Village apparently is very impressive with this device. I think my big overall takeaway is good for Sony. It's a great sounds like a great follow-up. They're the only ones that will be able to successfully make and market a VR solution for the average home owner before the Quest. The question is now, can they in the wake of the Quest and possible upcoming headsets, can they maintain that? I think they have a chance to, if they can sell enough PS5s to make it so you can actually attach one of these to it. So there's that whole issue but a good showing from Sony overall, I think. Yeah, I mean, as a MetaQuest user, used to be a Facebook Quest, I really like VR. I talk about it all the time, but I know that this is not the only solution that's out there and going forward, it's going to be one of many solutions that's going to get better and better. Some of the stuff that you talked about, Scott about eye tracking and whether or not this is appropriate for people who might have different eyesight needs, very much a problem in VR. I mean, I am for sure part of that demographic. I mean, I wear contacts, if I didn't, I'd be super blind, but even with that thing on my head for a while, like even an hour, I mean, an hour is really pushing it because I'm mostly doing exercise stuff and I don't want to do that for an hour. But I'm kind of used to everything being like slightly blurry and then you just get used to it. What I assume will happen is that it will not be the case going forward, but what you're talking about for the PlayStation demo is obviously these games. And if you've got a cord, got to plug it into the PS5, you want to play your favorite game, super fun, you're not going to care about the cord. Yeah, the games are going to be less than that. I mean, it would be great if you didn't have to have it, but you're not going to care about that. Kind of wish they had a mode. I wish they had a mode in a store that lets you do it wirelessly, but that is not part of this plan. The one cord two is going to be easier to forget about than the 15. I know I just said 17. I don't know how many there were, but the old one is a lot. The old one had a lot of cables. There's no question about it.  There are lots of things you can do in VR where you're not even like jumping up and down. It wouldn't matter at all.  I guess it depends on the game and how much movement you're doing. But games typically are a little bit more focused and you're less likely to yank that thing out. So I think they're going to be okay with the cable. All right. Let's talk about lying liars and the lying laptops they use. Let's do it. Scientists from Rutgers and DePaul published a study in the International Journal of Conflict Management. I'm going to read that. Finding that quote, using a laptop prompted more self-serving behavior than using a cell phone unquote. It's very interesting. Or as they put it in their article on the conversation, quote, lies are more common on laptops than on phones. Explain this please, Sarah. All right, I will do my best. So the study used a common research activity called the ultimate game. If you're in the study, you're given a certain amount of money and then you're told to split it with another person. The other person doesn't know how much you've been given. You could be given $100 or $1,000 or a million dollars. You can tell them whatever you want. Maybe I say, Scott, I only have 10, but I really have a million and offer them any percentage. However, if they reject the offer that you offer them, neither of you get anything. So in their first study, they told 137 graduate students that they had $125 to share with another student, assigned to them at random.  They just got paired up with somebody. In other words, a stranger. Half of those participants used a laptop to communicate, half used a smartphone. What's interesting here is that 82% of the people using laptops lied about the amount that they had to share, you know, because they wanted to keep more for themselves, compared to 62% who were using phones. But Tom, there is more. Yeah, Scott, it's got me showing the chat is asking the pertinent question. Did they write the study on a laptop? How do we, how do we know? Yeah, liars. So yeah, so they did the first study. They found that everybody lies, but laptop users lied more. So then they divided 222 students into buyers and sellers for a pretend semiconductor factory. The buyers in the study were told, confidentially, that the property was worth $21 million. Remember that $21 million is what they were told. The buyers were then told to tell the seller what the fair market value was, and then make an offer, start a negotiation. $21 million was what it was supposed to be. Laptop users lied that the fair market value was 16.7 million, while people using phones said it was 18.1 million. So everybody was rounding down. So again, everybody lied, but the laptop users lied more. Now, these are imaginary situations, but people do tend to behave like they would with real money in these kinds of studies that's been shown over decades. But do keep in mind that changing the kinds of tasks might change the results. More study is warranted. It's just an interesting first study. And these were conducted with strangers. So if you're doing it with someone who you have even a business relationship with, or your friends with, it would probably change the dynamics. I have a theory. I hope you guys are okay with me presenting one, but I have a tiny theory. And they didn't come to this conclusion. So this is Scott theory 101. But I get the feeling this might have some subconscious thing going on in my own head even, where what I say on a phone feels more vulnerable because the phone can be lost easier. It can be misplaced. It can be picked up. Someone knows my access code. They see what I just typed. You just have a general feel, generally less feeling of security on a phone. Yeah. Like I'm not, it feels like the phone is vulnerable in all those ways. And it feels like a notebook or a laptop isn't. It's locked down with a password. Not everybody knows. You can't just, your wife doesn't know your four digit code to get into it. Like there's just, it just feels like a more sturdy stable thing that's almost stuck to a desk, even though it's portable. And I just feel like people get more confident in their lies there than they would on this other thing where it feels much more public. Yeah. I tend to agree with you on that, Scott. I, you know, as somebody who, I use my phone when I'm out and about, but when I'm kind of at home base, I'm almost always in front of a laptop, you know, and I've been chided for that a little bit in the past. People say, what are you doing on your laptop all day? I'm like working. I don't know. Whatever, whatever people do on the internet. It's not different than what you're doing on your phone.  But, but there maybe is a little bit more of like, well, if I'm on a laptop and I've paid all this money for this.  This is kind of my home base and I can get away with more. And I'm guessing they weren't using their own equipment. They were using a lab's laptop too, so. Sure. So that probably factors into it as well. Oh, good point. Yeah, I thought of that, yeah. I think you're both onto something that the confidence when you're at a laptop is more, and maybe this is just me, but I feel like I'm better at everything on a laptop. There's more room. I feel more control on the keyboard than I do on the tiny little keyboard. And maybe folks who have grown up using phones won't feel that gap like I do. I'd be curious if this breaks down by age, but confidence leads you to feel like, maybe I can lie a little more, maybe I can get away with a little more. And if you're on the phone and you're like, you know what, I always screw this up and autocorrect messes with me, so I'm not gonna risk it as much. I think that could definitely weigh on. That's the case that kind of leans into this idea that this entire study isn't just about where people are lying or where they're not lying. It also is where perhaps where they're more confident and where they're less confident. Yeah, yeah. Because it doesn't have to necessarily be lying. I think that's really the bigger takeaway. It's less about like who's lying and why. It's more of just like, yeah. They all lie. Everybody lies. Everybody wants the money, okay? Sure.  I mean, sometimes I'll get proofs back from somebody. You'll say, you know, if you proofread this, if you looked at this or whatever. And if I'm on a phone, I don't feel confident in saying, well, let me just look out on my phone and I'll let you know. I wanna get home where I can get like a big screen and go, okay, let's see here, what do we have? So I don't know, there's something, there's gotta be something to that. I wish there was, maybe we'll get more data down the road after whatever we learned from this, but it's fascinating. Well, we want you to be honest about what you wanna hear us talk about on the show. So whether you're on your phone or your laptop, go to subreddit, dailytechnewshow.reddit.com, submit some stories and vote on it right now. All right, everybody, on Wednesday, September 15th, around 1 a.m. Eastern time, which we are before that at this point, but you might be listening to the show after the fact, the Ethereum blockchain will experience something called the merge, which will switch from proof of work to proof of stake. One of the advantages of a blockchain is that it's really hard to manipulate and alter the ledger. So if you are part of a typical database, you could get right privileges and kind of do whatever you want. We all do this. Well, many of us do this in work scenarios. But when people ask, how is a blockchain different from a database, that is one of the answers. The blockchain does not work the same way. Part of the way a blockchain achieves this, being a little bit more locked down is by dividing up the maintenance of the records among many participants. So it's really hard to just be the participant that writes the latest record to the chain because that requires a lot of approval of those changes. You can't just go in and say, I'm just gonna change the sentence or whatever. It doesn't work that way. Proof of work is the way that Bitcoin and up until now Ethereum managed to qualify people, aka nodes, to write the records, aka blocks. Proof of work requires participants who run nodes on the blockchain to solve intense computer programs in order to qualify to write to the chain. So with Bitcoin, you get rewarded with a coin for doing this. Hence the term miners been going on for a while. Hence the need for lots of energy using computers to crunch away doing really nothing else but solving these computations so that you get past that particular point. There's a lot of concern though about energy use of proof of work, especially as cryptocurrencies are used more widely. So the people who use Ethereum decided to switch the entire blockchain to proof of stake. Now you might say, okay, proof of work we get, but what is proof of stake? I'm gonna do a whole episode of Know a Little More on proof of stake later this year, but here's the short version. It can work in different ways, but none of them require the use of a lot of energy to crunch computer problems. That's the big takeaway. Ethereum is doing it by requiring you to have a stake of 32 ETH tokens and those tokens are around $1,500 each right now. So not be a millionaire, but you've gotta have some money to become a validator.  Now, participation just means running your software most of the time. So if you get knocked offline for a short period of time, it's a minor penalty, you're not gonna lose a lot, you'll probably make it all back really fast, but if you just turn it off and you're not a validator, you could lose your stake. So it's an incentive to keep you in the game. Instead of the first node to solve a problem, getting to write a block, like Sarah described with proof of work, in Ethereum's proof of stake system, committees are chosen at random. 128 nodes are chosen at random, so it's never the same group. You can't predict whether you're gonna be in it or not. They then validate the block of transactions to encourage folks to operate nodes, everybody who participates in one of those committees gets a fee paid in ETH. So you make some Ethereum while you're validating Ethereum. You're making interest off that stake. When two thirds of the 128 validators on a committee validate a particular block, it is then added to the chain and Ethereum estimates they have around 420,000 validator nodes ready to go after the merge. Okay, so let's talk about what the merge actually is. For almost two years, validators have been running a test version of the Ethereum blockchain on a proof of stake system called the beacon chain. This one will be merged into the official Ethereum blockchain. There's no set time for this merge, but nodes are upgrading to the new system right now. As more of them switched to proof of stake, the mining difficulty of the old proof of work system rises. It's just harder, something represented by a value called terminal total difficulty or TTD. Once TTD passes a certain very large number, the proof of work chain should stop. I mean, if you still wanted to use it, you could, but it wouldn't make a lot more sense. And within 12, yeah, within 12 to 15 minutes, the proof of stake system will take over. That is expected at around 1 a.m. Eastern time, September 15th, which may or may not have happened, depending on when you're listening to this. Now, if it hasn't happened, you can get up-to-date predictions on when it will happen at mortal.w2f. We're just searched at the merge on Google, because lots of people are talking about this. And Google has a countdown clock on the search, right at the top of the search. Right, yeah, see, it's either five minutes left or it already ended. Once the merge is done, it's estimated that the energy use on Ethereum will fall by around 99.95%. That's a lot. Proof of work miners can keep doing what they're doing. Like you said, Tom, but their blocks will be rejected by upgraded clients. So then what? Yeah, so once proof of work stops, new blocks will be proposed on the proof of stake system every 12 seconds to those committees I was just talking about and what's called slots. And slots are grouped into epochs. And an epoch happens every 6.4 minutes. It's just a way of grouping stuff up for processing. A block is considered finalized. In other words, you're never gonna be able to question it. You're never gonna be able to reject it. It's part of the blockchain forever after two epochs are confirmed by two thirds or more of the validators. When the second epoch after the merge is finalized without incident, that means the first post merge transaction will be considered finalized. And that means things are off to the races. Things are going smoothly. Now, of course, in reality, it might take longer to finalize. People may have bugs, participation rates may waver, maybe people having problems getting connected or something. None of that is necessarily fatal. In fact, most test network merges have seen 10 to 20% drops in blocks, errors that then need to be remedied. They don't get lost forever, but it slows things down. But they generally get back to a normal pace within an hour. So the thing to watch for, if you're looking at this stuff, will be do you see the logs go block, block, block? Or do you see empty slot, empty slot, empty slot? If you see empty slot, then there's problems. You'll also wanna see high participation, meaning everybody's systems are working, they're connected to the network properly. A participation rate above 67% means things are good. The beacon chain, that test chain Sarah mentioned, has been seeing participation rates consistently at 99.5%. So that's probably what you'll see. And you might be asking yourself, well, okay, who made this decision? You know, at what point did we all decide to go into Ethereum version two? Pretty democratic decision. Years in the making, most ethereal nodes are on board. However, some folks still look at expensive mining equipment that they bought and wonder, hmm, can I still do something with this? Small group plans to fork Ethereum and keep going on proof of work. They're calling that forked token ETHW. They also plan to give it a 24 hour pad after the merge until they start seeing their new main net. So it's not antagonistic really, it's more opportunistic. So we'll see if that gets traction. Okay, back to the merge. Let's assume that it is a little messy. But the things get finalized, bugs get worked out. And by the morning of the 15th, when most of you are listening to this episode, everything is running relatively smoothly. I'll pause for your laughter just in case it's not. But let's say it eventually is running smoothly. What will be the effects of this change? All right, here are some things folks are expecting. One, you're gonna save a lot of power because you're not using proof of work. We mentioned that 99.95% power reduction. Instead of investing in equipment and provisioning all that energy, you just need money to get into Ethereum mining. So it's gonna attract a lot more traditional financial people who didn't wanna mess with buying Asics and hooking themselves up to solar plants. So you're gonna see different people get involved in being validators. Transactions will go faster. You don't need mining computers cranking away. That alone will speed things up, but there's also a procedure called sharding, with a D, that lets 64 validator committees work at the same time. That means Ethereum should process transactions at least 64 times faster than it did under proof of work. You can do that under proof of work, but it actually reduces security. Staking is expected to return about 4% of your Ethereum as you get those fees, could go up, expect businesses that offer to hold your ETH in their stake wallet for you and then pay you a little interest for the privilege. You're gonna see a lot of interest bearing accounts on Ethereum. And unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum is not just a coin or a store of value. It's used for smart contracts. So a lot of people build their crypto businesses on it. You've probably heard of DAOs, decentralized autonomous organizations. A lot of those operate on Ethereum. The ability to earn returns on your staked ETH expands what kind of businesses people can try. And a lot of people think that ETH might even be able to pass Bitcoin in value. Finally, because staked ETH looks more like a traditional financial investment, inspect regulators to pay attention to it again. The USACC may reevaluate their hands off stance and are more likely to view it as a security now that you can earn interest on it than they did when it was proof of work. But in the end, it's going to make Ethereum faster. That's a big one for you. It's going to take away the objection of energy usage because it doesn't use more energy than a typical computer. And it's going to be able to use for more things. So you are more likely to run across folks using it. Whether regulatory effects make it easier or harder to use remains to be seen. But it's going to change the way Ethereum is used and potentially make it more useful for everybody. And no more hoarding GPUs, right? That helps with that. Not for Ethereum. For Bitcoin, you'd still need that. But for Ethereum, no, you don't need those ASICs anymore. That's good. It's good for us gamers. What is also good for us, Scott Johnson, is to have you on the show every week. Oh, yeah, I know. But let folks know what you've been up to lately. Well, if you would like to hear more about the Sony presentation, the state of play that Sony just did, or the Nintendo Direct that also happened, there was big news across the board, not just PlayStation VR2, but a bunch of games. So if you want to hear about the breakdowns and what happened and what we think of those things, check out the podcast called Core. I host that with my friends, Beau and John. We do this every Thursday. And tomorrow's going to be a big one. You can find all the details at frogpants.com. Or just search for it wherever you get your podcasts. And give it a listen. I think you'll like it. Good stuff, as always, Scott Johnson. Also, good stuff from two of our brand new bosses, Eric and Shweta. They just started backing us on Patreon. Eric, Shweta, we're so glad to have you along for the ride. Yeah, they heard the call yesterday. And now, because they are patrons, they'll get to hear our extended conversation about Ethereum and whatever else we talk about. Tacos, who knows? True. Speaking of patrons, stick around for our extended show, Good Day Internet. We talk about all the things. You can also catch this show. DTNS is live Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. Eastern. That's 2,800 UTC. Find out more at dailytechnewshow.com at slash live. We're back doing it all again tomorrow. We're talking summer game news with Max Govill. Hope you can join us.


Green Turtle Classic powered by SFM sports net Glenn Clark with you and now join here post game by Cabrini head coach Steve Colfer After a 7-4 loss to Stevenson here tonight coach You are up 3-1 at the end of the first quarter How much of what happened from there was about what Stevenson did defensively versus what you guys weren't able to do offensively Yeah, I would give most credit to Stevenson's defense. I thought their defense played great and I thought their goal We played great. I was just joking with them here in the hallway. I said tell me That's the most saves you had all season in the game. He said he thinks it is what makes me feel a little better But I thought he played great and I thought defensively they just clamped down on us You know, we're we're very young on offense You know, we play for freshman a lot of times and I think that showed a little bit But that's not a you know Stevenson to their credit played great, you know, I thought they played as a unit They played great. They didn't give us life You know, we didn't really ever get into a flow offensive I thought we moved the ball well in the first quarter and then all of a sudden that stopped and a lot of times That's more about what other teams are doing and then do we counter punch and how do we counter punch and we didn't do a great Job doing that. So hats off to them and to their defensive coaching staff and their players They just they put the clamps on us and we have to learn from it and and move forward and get ready to play tomorrow What can you do as a coach when you look down and you're out shooting your opponent? You're out ground balling. Yeah, you're dominating them in the face-off department There's nothing that you look at and say your goalie played well Tyler Morel Yeah, it's it's got to be tough to sort of look at all that stuff and say what what do what do we do better? Yeah I mean, I was joking again with with with coach he was up here and I just said look at the stat sheet You know and I said I mean that you know The game is different now because of the pace of play Yeah, because of the shot clock you play with a different mentality back in the day if you had 14 out of 15 Face-off wins there was just not enough possession time for another team to score goals to beat you now with the way The rules are played that that stat is not as overbearing as it once was So, you know, you got to take you got to finish your shots and we didn't do that and the one the good looks that we had Their goal we made saves, you know, and so you just got to keep shooting you got to keep trusting in your system and in your process and And that's really it. I mean, yeah, I mean trust me. We don't have Plays in the back of the playbook that we pull out in those situations You are what you are in those moments You got to go back and go to the right on the things that you do each day and tonight It just wasn't good enough and again the credit goes to Stevenson their coaching staff and their defensive players and and and And then they're often scored when they had to well You guys don't even get the full benefit of 24 hours before you have to get back out on the field And not only that but when you get back out on the field, you're gonna be facing. Oh Really really good team the number three team in the country Yeah, and they put a stay stress you because they just do something some things and and they're very good at some Things that not a lot of teams that you see play and so we knew that and we knew that coming in I said to our team all week no matter what happens this weekend We will be a better team Sunday regardless of what happens because of the challenge that this tournament puts on you physically mentally You know as a coaching staff as a play as a player, you know So those are the that's why these we come and that's why these other teams come because of that challenge Would you love to go home to an oh sure the best we can go home now is one-on-one And that's got to be our goal. We got to be one-on-one tomorrow We got to learn from tonight and move forward and and you know I'm confident in our kids, you know I think the best part about us being young is that they won't hold on to this very Yeah, you know that they just want to go they're gonna go home get a meal They're probably looking forward to pizza and hoagies and go home and you know get a shower relax And and we'll get up tomorrow have breakfast and start you know and re-engage our conversation about our it Well, Steve, I know it was a tough one We appreciate coming up and spending a couple of minutes with us best to look tomorrow I appreciate thank you very much from the green turtle classic. It's Glenn Clark for SFM sports net


How's the contingent, ladies? Good morning. How are you? Well, thank you, sir. Thank you very much. I'm okay. All right. Thank you for your reason for the moment. Well, first and foremost, let's make the position very clear that it's a tradition for in our region, Sadiq, on our continent, that when a new president comes in office, he or she needs to pay cutters' calls to neighbors. I'm sure you know Zambia has eight neighbors. So I've only done South Africa, Botswana. So today, I'm going to Kongodia. Kongodia is important because President Shisekete is the chairman of the African Union. So hopefully soon I'll be visiting the chairman of Sadiq, who is President Shapira, next door here. So this will go on for a while until we've visited all our neighbors, mainly to reinforce good neighborhoodness, security, peace, and of course trade and investment. But never leave that behind because that's what will change our country and the world here. So I am going there for a cutters' call to visit the chairman of African Union, free to talk about our common interest issues you are aware. So the secret that Kongo and the Kongodia and Zambia have issues in the border in Chiangyi, in Chief Putta. So Chief Putta, Chiangyi, Chief Kaputa, Chief Tsutsama, and all the way up to Lekhtanganyi with issues that are all the issues there. So I'd like to resolve those issues. Lastly, to talk about trade and investment. I think that's the story you know very well. And the new issue with regard to climate change, that they move away from fossil fuels to electric cars. And one of the things we are discussing with President Shisekedi is to use our resources, copper, cobalt, tantalite, lithium in the electric car business which is the future of motor vehicles. And we two countries have a lot of resources endured between us, Kongodia and ourselves. So we want to organize ourselves so that we can start bringing investments there to take our place, who allow us to take our place in the new electric car industry as the gravitation takes place. Wonderful, isn't it? We want to establish the electric car batteries right here in our country, the two countries. So we are talking. I'm sure the official show for official business is what you know. It's about electric car batteries. Wonderful, isn't it? Would you have a problem with that? Would anyone in this country who wants a country to be reorganized have a problem with that? Absolutely not. And let somebody who wants to talk to politics. That's okay. Democracy allows those guys to talk. They are welcome to talk. They keep focused so we can take care of the economy, which will take care of you and take care of the sick, the old, the young and the students who need a lot of things, a lot of support, like I got support when I was a student. I guess now I've given you a full story around why we are going to this country. So this will continue for a while and obviously it doesn't mean neglecting the domestic responsibility. You're not hearing this, are you? It's up to you, isn't it? Another question. Happy to take another question. There are allegations of an invisible hand from the executive in matters of election at parliamentary level that the courts have been pronouncing themselves wrong. And in addition to that, sir, you're pretty strong against the former president's immunity. I'm laughing. Why am I laughing? A lot of the UPND candidates lost their petitions in the same court and the UPND members started saying that, oh, HH is doing nothing. How come we are losing cases in court? I'm sure you followed that. Now a few cases are lost. The opposite is the talk now. It means there's a balance, self-balancing act. That's my answer. The immunity is not a subject. It's not a subject for me to address. Why would I address that subject now? Our focus is to rebuild the country's economy. But people are free to talk. They are free. That's the freedom we granted people four months ago. You wouldn't ask the president then the questions you're asking. You'd be scared yourself. Now it shows that we've brought the freedom. I'm sure you feel free. If you feel free with me, I feel free with you. You can ask me any question you want. Any question. There's no question that is taboo for me. Any question is okay. But what we want is to enshrine that freedom. One side of the coin is freedom. Ask the bill of rights. The other side is the rule of law. The rule of law. You took something from the state, bring it back. So that we can take care of those who need to be taken care of. There's a question here. Yes. You've monopolized the question. Now that we've talked about freedom, they've given it to us. They've given themselves through us. They elected us, then we've given the freedom. There's been a red flag so far. Bring the information. Bring the information. Take it to the anti-corruption commission. You know a minister? Really surprised? Under the UBND government? Who is corrupt? I encourage you to take the information to the ACC, Drug Enforcement Commission, Financial Intelligence Center. You can go directly to DPP. That's the freedom you have now. Go and report it. I've encouraged you to go and report it to those institutions. And the institutions should do their job professionally. You should be happy. Feel happy. You know anything of the old government, the PF government reports. Anything with the UBND government reports. No sacred cow in the fight against corruption. Corruption of the past, of today, of tomorrow will be pursued vigorously. Because corruption is a thief. Steals your money. And steals someone else's money. So you don't have to raise that issue with me, but you have raised it. My answer is that go and report. Very free. You're encouraged. You need a few more money to go there. I'm happy to provide a few more. Thank you. Anything else? Thank you. The lady's position. So the Custom Minimum Emerald I know it's the UBND Commission, Custom Minimum Emeralds. Yes. Is it part of it? Come again. You said it's yet to be? Commission. It's part of the discussion My hand is ready to sign off that project. That's the way to go. Opens up the route. Congo. Wednesday area. Reach there. Road up to Naconde. Fantastic. That is what we're here for. To open up the country for investment, for trade. And we value that road. It's long overdue. The people who didn't pay attention to it immediately we came into office. We touched best. We talked with my counterpart. We are ready. We are even late. But not that long. We are looking at Colwezi, Umanasolwezi Road. Looking at that road. We want it. It will happen. But we will do these roads in a smarter way. In a cheaper way. Two, three. In a way that does not create new debt. Because our country is already dead by then. Smart, isn't it? Very smart. Very important. That we do roads like that. So that we open up the country. And you see when that road is done properly there will be first and foremost an economic zone around there. Fantastic. And we can look at our manganese in Mansa, all those areas and begin to create value. This is where you should be spending time asking me questions, my friend. Ask me, look at this lady. She's very smart. Those are the questions. Those are the issues the country and the people are looking for. Things that will grow the economy. Things that will bring more money. Things that will allow us to sell more, by the way. I'm going there. I'm negotiating a market for our products here. I'm the chief salesman, isn't it? I said so. We are living by that. Anything else, guys? Feel free. You are free. Anything else? We are friends. We are done for today. Have a good day. Thank you very much. Thank you.


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Welcome to digital asset news take a top stories and cryptocurrency digital assets and break them down a bite-sized pieces today I just want to go over what's going on as far as the weekend and as far as some negative news some Neutral news and I think some positive news Just kind of give everybody a little bit of insight about what is going on thus far as it pertains to what we're looking at here as a increase in shorts also The impending what would be called a death cross which is where the 50-day moving average crosses Well, the 200 a moving average and everybody's all excited about that Not in a good way and then we'll just take a look at how these indicators are not always accurate and finally we're gonna finish up with a little Ted Cruz senator from the United States on Fox News talking about Crypto and what this all means and where I think things are going so we'll go over all those things But first, let's take a look at what's going on the market and before Anybody gives me a thumbs down just because I'm talking about Ted Cruz If you give me a thumbs down for this video give it because the video is just awful and you learned absolutely nothing Don't give it because you don't like Ted Cruz had nothing to do with it. Now. Let's just talk about crypto We're not here to talk about politics. We're just here to talk about the things that are going on in the crypto currency world So Like I said, it's June 12th. It's about 6 p.m. I'll pass with Texas time and we're looking at a little bit of a slump. What can I say? Bitcoin is down 4% as Predicted by the experts. We're looking at 35 6 Ethereum 2300 down actually up 0.9 percent. It's pretty good BNB up a little bit Cardano up 3.4 Percent, so we'll take it and then just a little bit of Well, she's not too bad 1.7.6 for Matic 3% for ICP 4% so, you know in all honesty We're looking pretty good except for rap Bitcoin, but that makes a lot of sense So that's what's happening on the market. The market cap is 1.57 trillion down from I think it's all-time high around 2.4 trillion So that is that is not so great, but you know when I take a look at these these numbers And people talk about this flipping all the time Hey, maybe this is the time when Things do get flipped as far as what's going on because it seems like everything that's happening What is having negatively to Bitcoin, which is quite odd. We'll get in that a second So let's just break into the news and the news right now This is a website by BT comm and it can tell you all the difference Bitcoin features market perpetual and also futures and everything else and this is what we got There was an increase in shorts That came up which mean people believe that Bitcoin is going to go down over the next days, weeks, months Whatever they are for whatever that time frame is and it breaks it all down by exchanges So in Binance as far as percentage wise goes There's a little bit more on the short side shorts over 24 hours long 24 hours By bit same thing FTX a little bit more on the other side and then Binance bit max pretty much The majority are a little bit more on the short side So that's what it says to me and what it says I think to a lot of people is that hey People don't have a lot of faith in Bitcoin. They all think it's gonna go down And it's a funny thing about the market It seems like when everybody thinks it's gonna go one way does the exact opposite. It's just just one of those things now Just a couple of weeks ago Remember we were supposed to have this huge tremendous drop and it didn't happen So right now we're on Saturday and we haven't really blopped too much in market cap per se But Bitcoin has gone down. Will that affect the alts? Well historically it does but you have to you have to wonder like What's the point because if everybody thinks is that everybody's talking Bitcoin Bitcoin Bitcoin? Maybe it's a Bitcoin's cross to bear speaking of crosses Let's take a look at this thing called a death cross and these don't happen too often Like I said, it's one of the 50-day moving average crossable the 200-day moving average I'm not a big TA guy guys over mark for a billionaire helping me But this is what it is a death cross occurs in the 50-day moving average crosses below the 200-day moving average if that happens Bitcoin can enter bear market territory similar to what happened in 2018 and If I let me blow this up Speculative reports suggest that Bitcoin could soon drop to 20,000 referencing the looming bearish cross the 15 200 Moving average blah blah blah. Okay, so this is what they're talking about here so last time this bear cross happened and you can see it right over here in 2017 the very end when we reached our all-time high over on 20,000 for Bitcoin good days. Happy days Everybody's was pretty ecstatic then and 2018 You just saw a big drop-off and of course that was because everything got too high and people said, you know what? We got a cool off and it's not sustainable and then you'll awfully go So once the price starts to drop then the moving average starts to drop and then you have the 50-day on the blue And then the red it says hey, you know what? the averages are Gonna catch up to you and once that crosses over it just really what it is. It's a lagging indicator and it just says People aren't buying. There's a lot more sellers and buyers. That's really what it comes down to But then when that once that happened you had a drop of 70 percent for a very prolonged time and that was The crypto-winter as you could see right here pretty long time then it also happened again around 2019 somewhere around about September October November December somewhere around there crossed again and it was 47% For a little bit of time not as long as long as 2018, but it did happen in 2020 Well, 2019 and 2019 in 2020 and then off we go until here. We are again making massive gains and We're right about to cross it yet again. So that is one of those things where we're like well That's not too great. So don't worry. I'll get to the good stuff. So that's what's happening This is the number you have to watch out for a resistance to seen around 40,000 which is cap short-term prices over the past week and That's really it $40,000 and here's what I'm gonna say about this all these things that we just talked about These liking indicators everything that that has been said right here. I can just say that It really is it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy if everybody talks about it and says this is gonna happen this is gonna happen guess what it happens and these things that are going on it's just a like I said, it's a lagging indicator and What it means quite simply a lot of sellers out there who don't have a lot of faith in the market Why don't they have a lot of faith that astounds me myself because we've had Nothing but a ton of good news. I do not care about China. I do not care about them Moving Bitcoin miners me personally. I think that's a positive. I do not care about how they have been silencing influencers and You know to shine on these exchanges. That's China. It's only and it's this is gonna sound ridiculous when I said it say it It's only 1.6 billion. Why do I say that because that's the amount of people in China But guess what we've got five and a half billion left over so I just don't really see much of an issue I know that the government is talking about regulation. This is what we want to we want clarity I don't know what is the problem with people like we shouldn't have regulation We shouldn't it gives clarity, but everybody we know we're going businesses can get in this makes a lot of sense And of course everything else that's happening in the other countries even the great set of texts I live in that Governor Greg Abbott a pretty conservative fellow just comes out and says that he Signed a master plan that puts in the law for blockchain. So I'm like, this is all good news Where is this coming from? Manipulation whales people moving around people scared and that's just what it comes down to so let's talk about some On the flip side. So this is from investopedia and it's just you just do a search term What is death cross and this is gonna come up death cross the signal that short-term momentum in a stock or stock index is slowing But it is not always a reliable indicator that a bull market is about to end There have been many times when a death cross appeared such as in the summer of 2016 when it proved to prove to be a false indicator Those who got out of stocks during the summer of 2016 Missed the sizable stock market gains that followed through 2017 and of course Here's their example right here and they're gonna give you a prime example of Facebook. So here's a great example of again the 200 a The 50-day moving average 200 a moving average that they cross over here's a death cross and This is for Facebook in around 2018. Everybody's freaking out. They're like wow No a death cross and then the price Exploded all the way up here and then it kind of came down and then we kind of bounce around here And then there was another death cross and this one proves to be accurate so to me TA has its place and I believe in TA, but it's like my friend CJ says or microbiome TA works great and tell it doesn't and That's it. It is not a crystal ball. I can't tell you everything But it is one of those things where you're like, hey, you know what I really should be a little more careful about what's going on So that is essentially the whole death cross what's going on so then to finish this up Um Examples of a death cross to Facebook. Yeah, that's about it. Actually, no, that is the last part of it But I will say this Just to finish up here and that is that It could be true This death cross could be like The end all be all and we could enter another crypto winter that is Essentially what it is that is true. So the thing is is that you could get out on this show I cannot tell you what to do. I'm not a financial advisor. This is financial opinion not financial advice I can only tell you exactly what I am going to do and And what other people are gonna do though for you I'm not gonna sell anything because I just don't like to play the games of getting out and then you know watching it Maybe go down maybe trade sideways for a long time or heck even maybe go up I have no idea but I always think back to the original people who invested and remember when the people got into Bitcoin when it was 10 15 bucks and it went all the way to a thousand and You know, they're like, this is great and then a drop down to 120 bucks and they're like, I'm out of here This is ridiculous lost 90% of my value. This thing's junk. I'm gone. They just left now It took a little bit of time to get back to where they were But they did and if all those people just would have said, you know what I don't really care You know, I don't this isn't something that I have to have I didn't sell my house and My all my cars and my kidneys and my children to buy Bitcoin So if it goes down a little bit, I'm not gonna lose anything unless I sell into Fiat So I'm just gonna let it ride. So for me, I will probably not sell and it has nothing to do with diamond hands and that Religious type of thing that people will always say you have diamonds. You have diamonds. Look, I Don't really It's what's best for you. Your goals are not my goals Okay, so if you feel like I got to sell I'm on I'm in profits. It's best my family then go ahead and sell I will never call anybody paper hands again I think that's a very dumb Way to to say it because it just gets in people's heads like they got to hold on forever You don't have to hold on forever. So what if Bitcoin goes to a million and you sell and someone goes You got paper hands who's going to 2 million in 10 years. You're like cares. I got a million bucks So, I mean and then there's the argument about you know, everything's going to crypto. Sure. Alright, anyhow That's what I got and the other thing that I will say is that you know, some people will look at this and they'll say well Maybe I'll just get out right now. And if it if it goes all the way down, I'm protected Sure, you can do that or if it's actually just trade sideways and I'm out What does one Maddox trade in sideways or if he even goes up and starts a rally Then I'll skip back in and pay a 5% penalty. That's another option But again for me, it's not my it's not my thing. I have an exit strategy For most of my altcoins some of my Bitcoin. I'll be updating that very soon But this is just how I see things and and that is it. So let me entertain the comment section Let's move on to our our last piece. So our last piece here is just about good old Ted Cruz And if you're not from America, you probably don't know this guy. He's the US senator He's a Republican and it's a funny thing because the ex-president United States Trump came out again Do not give me a thumbs down because you don't like Trump. This is not with Trump. It's not a political channel I'm just referencing it as a crypto. So With Trump he came out and said that he believes that Bitcoin is a scam and he doesn't trust it But he did say he thinks it is a competition for the US dollar as it is a currency. I'm like, hey, great. Call it a currency Thanks, man. And that's it.  I don't care about Elizabeth Warren and her politics. I don't care any politics.  She has no idea. She has no way She has some idea. She's not She's not that dumb, but she just said a lot of a lot of fallacies But it's amazing how she will come out and say that and then the other's political side will say, you know what?  If you're talking positively about cryptocurrency, I want to talk to you So this is what happened after they started to bash everything on Channity show the conversation turned to crypto and Sean Hannity says, okay, you've been hearing about it Bitcoin cryptocurrency. What is it? Why is it so big? What's Bitcoin? What's blockchain? What's doggie coin? First of all Any people who have no idea what? Crypto is just go here Dan teaches crypto.com 100% free. I made it 100% free It will all be 100 always be 100% free. That's because I don't want anybody to pay for anything I want just to learn understand and then go out of the crypto world and understand what you're actually investing into So that's why I made it free. I don't want anybody to pay for anything so send those people there that way and So Sean Hannity or Ted Cruz says I think part of the reason we're seeing people go to Bitcoin is because we're in the verge of an inflation crisis True inflation crisis true and Joe Biden has proposed seven trillion dollars in new spending I don't know the exact number, but it is trillions. So true We're seeing inflation which we're seeing lumber go up homes going up oil going up gasoline going up energy going up Commodities go up and I think people are going to Bitcoin as a hedge against that and I think there is that part You know as far as inflation, but there's also a supply chain breakdown as well So that will also contribute to these rising prices That's not the whole point the point is he's correct because we are gonna see some inflation There is no way you can print that much money You can print 30% of the entire amount of fiat cash or US dollar in the last year or year and a half and not have inflation I think that's incredibly Impossible, but I could be wrong because I am not an economist But it doesn't make any sense to me to just keep adding money into it So I think this is a positive part and hopefully you know the thing that President Trump ex-president Trump said about crypto was saying that it's it's false and it's a scam Then the other part other side of the party will say also Republicans. Hey, it's actually pretty good You should look into it. Just be careful and that's it great I like to hear that so these are the positive things that I like to hear about and even Sean handy at one point He changes or he was gonna change his Twitter profile with the laser eyes pretty funny And that's it for for those pieces. So let me know what you think about that in the comment section Is that a good thing to actually offset? Senator Warren for whatever she said goofiness and then Ted Cruz who was also goofy That said something positive. So that's it. So let me just think of the comment section and lastly I just want to make mention of Digital asset news the channel is only for news and the basics So I shake create another channel for Dan called Dan Clips It's the advancements in cryptocurrency and we talk about new projects and this one we went over Card starter for the Cardano network. It's a launchpad. It's very interesting how they're doing things It's it's an insured launch pad So these they they vet out these new Cardano projects that are being built on Cardano because as we know Smart contracts are coming in August and looks like they're on time. So I'm pretty happy So it was me a man has show she and then we had Brandon and Owen from card starter and it was a long Good interview so you can check it out. Check it out over at Dan Clips and I Just got to tell you just as a spoiler All's I'm gonna do when I invest into more Cardano projects I'm just gonna let card starter do the vetting process and let them launch it and I'm gonna invest into those and that's That's really it. So watch the whole thing on top of that. Just you know a man hash Whoo, look at that hash has got 1.5 million in his new Cardano stake pool. So if you want to check that out, I will link that in the description below D news also has a stake pool as well And we've got a nice handy dandy video down here Which explains exactly how to do it and we're running the industry average which is four to six percent return on Ada and very simple That your cardano never leaves your wallet. There's no slashing nothing crazed like that And we show you how to do it on deadless Yoroi and Ada light and you can also substitute that for hash show She's a stake pool as well. So either one if you want to either one this fine or both a great That's great. And that is it for today. So Good luck on the weekend. Let's see what happens tomorrow death cross might happen then or Monday I don't know somewhere on there and we'll see how things go If you liked the video give it a thumbs up also consider subscribing everything we talked about on this channel is time sensitive So that's it appreciate it. Enjoy your weekend. See you on the next one