Okay, before we continue with our polynomial long division, because we're going to do one really large one right now, just to finish off a long division of polynomials, just a quick little update. At the beginning of this series, I mentioned that I was going to grow the beard again, and as of October 1st, I decided to kick dad into gear. So I'm going to be bearded chicho again, and instead of a clink cut chicho. So you're slowly going to see beard growing. And for anyone that can grow a beard, or who has thought about growing a beard, I highly recommend living with a full beard for at least one year in North America anyway, at least in North America.  It's just a side note, because when you grow a beard, other people see you as bearded, but when you look out out of your eyes, you don't see a beard. So you're still the same person as you are. When other people look at you, they see a beard instead of a clean cut.  So again, just a side note, if you've ever thought about, or if you can grow a beard, and if you've ever thought about growing a beard, I highly recommend living with a beard for at least one year in Canada and the US. I'm not sure what the situation is like in the rest of the world. Couple things before we start off on the long polynomial, the long division, right? I already mentioned that you have to put your terms in descending order, right? So if you have X to the power of four, that has to go first and then X to the power of three, two, one, zero, or your constant, right? So all the X's, all your terms have to be in descending order, both for your product, your divisor, and your dividend, and your divisor, okay? So all your terms have to be in descending order. Another thing that you have to keep in mind, which goes back to series two, really, where we talked about, you know, adding like terms, right? If you have X to the power of two, you can't add that to X to the power of three. This comes, this is really important when you're doing long division of polynomials, because sometimes you're missing terms. For example, you could get a polynomial where you have X to the power of four and then X to the power of two, so you're missing your X to the power of three. What happens is you might not have your terms lining up with the proper order. One thing you can do is just keep in mind that, you know, you can't add like terms, so the highest order goes first when you're adding it. The other thing you can do, which is what we're going to do, is put a place marker for the terms that are missing. And the place marker would just be zero X to the power of whatever that is missing. The reason we're going to do this is because it comes in really handy with synthetic division. Synthetic division, you can do it without place markers, and we will talk about that. But it comes in super handy for synthetic division. And we're going to do it for polynomial long division as well, okay? So we're going to put place markers for any terms that we're missing when we're putting them in descending order, okay? So for example, if we have the following, now this isn't the one that we're going to complete, okay? This is just to show you how you place the place marker or put in the place marker, okay? So if we had the following long division that we had to do. 12 X to the power of four minus 5X squared plus five divided by 3X squared plus 2X minus one, okay? So they ask you to do that long division, right? So you're going to set it up in your long division format. And again, you're going to look for, what do you multiply 3X squared by to give you 12X to the power of four? Well, that's just going to be 4X squared, right? So you're going to put that thing up there. So we multiply 3X squared by 4X squared, and we're going to get 12X to the power of four. Now four are dividend here. We didn't have the X cubed term, and we didn't have the X term, right? We're missing the X cubed term and we're missing the X term. So what we did when we laid it out here, we put in 0X cubed and we put in 0X here, and those are our place markers. That way we don't make a mistake of adding 8X cubed with my negative 5X squared, right? Because if we didn't put those place markers there, this guy would be here, and the five would be here, and we might make a mistake of doing that, okay? So what we do, we put place markers there. That way everything lines up with descending orders. Now, if your first term in your numerator, you're in the top here, it was a really high order, let's say it was X to the power of 27, the next one at X to the power of 12, you're not going to sit there and put zeros, place markers for all the descending orders going down, right? All you're going to do is make a mental note that from series two, you already know that you can only add like terms, right? So you have to keep in mind that you cannot add terms that don't have the same power, you can only add like terms, and you would forget about putting the place markers in. And just keep that in mind, and when you're doing your subtraction or addition, what you would do is just make sure you're adding like terms, right? Right now, and the odds are you're not going to get too many questions or you're not going to deal with too many polynomials, where you have X to the power of 27 and X to the power of 11 or something like this, right? You're not going to be missing too many terms between your terms, right? So what we do initially right now, just to get the process going. So we learn how to do it and then later on for more complex polynomials, we can just keep a mental note that you can only add like terms. So for these types of polynomials, all we do, questions that are low power, all we do we put place markers here, okay? So what we can do right now is we put the place markers and multiply the whole thing out. And if you had anything missing in your divisor as well, right? In your denominator, you would also put place markers in the denominator as well, right? So what we do is multiply the four X squared by, this guy, this guy, this guy. We get this term here, change all the signs and add them. So when you change all the signs and add your terms together, your first term just kill each other, this one add it together. Zero X cubed is just zero, right? So all you're doing is just taking negative X cubed and just bringing it down, right? The other term, you add negative five X squared plus four X squared. It's gonna be negative X squared. And what I do, as soon as I finish that, I bring all the terms down, okay? Over on this side, I bring everything down. That way, you don't have to continuously look up, right? So again, what you're gonna, your question you're gonna be asking yourself is what are you gonna multiply three X squared by to give you negative X cubed, okay? Now, these three and eight don't go together very evenly, right? And some people have a problem with this. So one thing you gotta keep in mind is you can always get fractions up here. And we're basically gonna stop doing this right now. But what I'm gonna show you is how to figure out what you multiply three X squared by to give you negative X cubed, okay? And this is the way you should be really thinking about it, right? So what you're asking yourself is what, the box is what, you know? What are you gonna multiply three X squared by to give you negative eight X cubed? So all you do to figure out what goes inside the box is divide both sides of the equation by three X squared.  Negative eight X cubed divided by three X squared. The X squared reduces the X cubed down to X. So it just kills down, kills the power in the three to one. And these guys, you can't reduce anymore. So it just stays negative eight on top and three in the bottom. So what goes up top is gonna be negative eight X divided by three. So what you can do is figure out what you multiply three X squared by to give you negative eight X cubed. And you just put that thing there just by doing, you know, you wouldn't do this exactly at the bottom of, you know, your long division format. You would take this and do it on the side, right?  So that's how you figure out if you have fractions, if you have things that don't multiply evenly together, that's how you figure out, you know, what you're gonna multiply and buy to give you your, you know, terms that you need to be able to eliminate your first term in, you know, whatever the process is when you're doing the long division, okay? So keep this in mind.  It might be X to the power of four, it might be X to the power of three that you're missing X, that you're missing or whatever it is that you're missing. We're gonna put zero X to the power of whatever it is that we're missing to put place markers. That way our terms line up so we can add or add and subtract them, okay?  What it means graphically when you're writing out the division statement, which is just basically taking one function, multiplying by another function and then adding another function to give you your, you know, numerator, your original function or whatever you're starting with in here, okay?


Hello, everyone. I'm Sanjay Gupta. I welcome you on Sanjay Gupta Tech School. In this video, I'm going to demonstrate a scenario related to screen flow. Let's understand the requirement of the scenario. So in this video, I'm going to demo you how you can post chatter through screen flow. So the requirement is on creation of opportunity. We need to tag a related account owner and we need to post below message to chatter, right? So the message will be containing the account owner. So I will be tagging that account owner and the message like opportunity is created. And we need to display opportunity name, close date and stays in the message, right? So this is our requirement that we need to implement. So I'm going to create the screen flow. So in this screen flow, basically I will be adding a screen where I will be receiving the opportunity information. So I'm quickly creating a screen. So label of screen is opportunity info. Now here, first of all, I'm putting a text component so that I can receive name of opportunity. If it is required, then I'm selecting date so that I can receive close date of opportunity. I'm making it as required as well. And then I need to pick up pick list. Pick list will be for stage. And it is also required. And here we need to create new choice resource. And we need to have pick list choice set. So the stage pick list is already available with opportunity object. So I just, I'm just going to link that pick list that is available under opportunity object with this flow. So naming it as stays name, then searching for opportunity object data type is pick list and pick list name is stays name and done. Okay, the stage name pick list that is actually available under opportunity object is now linked with this pick list that is available in the flow. So I clicked on done. Now I'm creating one resource as a variable API name will be record ID, data type text and available for input. So I created this record ID so that whenever I will be placing this opportunity flow on account record base. So account record ID will be available automatically in this record ID variable. Okay, so now we have record ID of that particular account. Now, what we need to do, we need to have owner of that account as well. So I'm going to use get record element. So through this get record element, I'm going to get account information. So here I am providing the filter condition so wherever ID is equals to record ID. So account record ID will be matched and that particular record will be query. So only the first record and automatically store all the fields. And then I'm clicking on done. Now, I need to create opportunity record. So for that I am selecting create record. So create opportunity, how many records to create one and then use separate resources and literal values and select opportunity from here. Then you need to map the field so opportunity name will be having value from this screen component name. So close date. So I mapped close date with close date. Then I need to map stage with stage. So screen component and then I'm adding account ID with record ID, right. So this account record will be created. Sorry, opportunity record will be created. Now when I will be using post to chatter element or action. So I need opportunity ID as well because on opportunity I will be posting that chatter masses. So here I need to enable this checkbox so that I can store the newly created opportunity ID. So I'm going to create new resource variable and API name will be opportunity ID. It's data type is text and done. So the opportunity that we are going to create its ID will be stored in this open ID variable and I'm clicking on done. Now after this, I need to have one action. So I'm clicking on this action and here I am searching for post to chatter. Right. So here you can see in post to chatter action, we need to provide label API name and here we need to create a message. So first of all, I am providing the label so post to post chatter to opportunity. Now I need to create a message that will be posted on the chatter. So I'm clicking on new resource and from here I'm going to select text template. So chatter post and here I need to write the message. So I'm selecting view as plain text. Now here I need to set up that message. So I need to have account owner. I need to tag. So if you want to tag someone so you need to use at the rate and then square packet inside this, you can have that resource. So through that get account, we can have the owner ID. Right. And here I'm writing the message opportunity is created. Right. Now here we need to like show the name close date and stays. So I'm writing as a plain text opportunity name and then opportunity name we can have through screen component. Then opportunity date we need to put. So here I'm going to search close date. So it should be close date. And after this, I need to provide stage name. So I am having stays name from here. Right. So this way I created this text template and I'm clicking on done. So here you can see this message is available. Now here I need to provide the ID of the target record. So if you remember like in create record element, I created one resource as opportunity ID. So I'm having that opportunity ID so that this chatter post will be posted on that opportunity. And then I'm clicking on done. So this way the flow is ready to test. So I'm just clicking on save. So labeling it as post to chatter through screen flow clicking on save. Now I'm going to activate it moving to accounts and opening a particular record. So here you can see one flow is already available. So I'm going to replace it. So I am going to edit this page and I'm going to replace this flow. So maybe what you can do you can just search flow here and you can just drag and drop it. But on my record page like this flow component is already available. So I'm just going to change the name. So it is post to chatter. I'm selecting it then enabling this checkbox and save moving back. So here you can see I need to provide name close date and stage. So I'm providing OPP name as one two zero one. I'm populating a close date. I'm populating a stage and clicking on next. So here you can see a related opportunities created if I open this opportunity. So in the details you can see opportunity name is available. Account name is available closed date and stays that we provided. Now if I go to chatter. So here you can see chatter post is available and account owner is my record. Right. So here you can see if I open this account. Okay. So here you can see account owner is already showing through this look up in the compact layout. So Sanjay Gupta is the account owner. So that's why this user is available here and this message is available. Opportunity name, opportunity closed date and stage name. Everything is available. So this way if you want to post to chatter through screen flow. So this way you can implement post to chatter action. Right. And if I go here and check my email. Okay. So there is no notification. So when you post to chatter. Some user. So that user receives a notification. So maybe like in some time I will be receiving a notification as well. So if you had mentioned any user in the chatter post. So that user receives a notification as well. So this is all about how to post to chatter through screen flow.


In this module, we will continue with our discussion on treatment of credit and credit cards in an Islamic framework. In the previous module, we established or we argued that credit sales are permitted in Islam. And we gave examples of Bamu Ajjal, Ba Salam and Ba Istisna. So, sales of Istisna, sales of Salam, sales of Murabahamu Ajjal, these are acceptable in Islam. We also argued that money can also be lent but without charging interest. And we established the fact that different currencies can be exchanged but only on spot. There might be some very awkward questions around this third point but we would not go into the technical details. Our focus is on credit and credit cards in this part of the course. Let us relook at the thing. We said that this is a spot sale whereby the commodity, the object of sale is delivered now in exchange for the price paid now. This is a spot sale. This is a base level sale contract in Islam which is acceptable. Then we look into the credit sale Bamu Ajjal and we said Bamu Ajjal is acceptable. And in fact, in case of Bamu Ajjal, it is quite possible for the seller to charge a higher price because the price is going to be paid on a future date. So, it is possible to charge a price P plus which is higher than P given that this is a credit sale. Let me repeat, in credit sales it is possible for the seller to charge a higher price than the spot price of the commodity and this is acceptable. In case of Baselam where the price is paid upfront and the delivery of commodity takes place on a future date, it is quite acceptable for the Selam price to be lower than the prevailing market price. And this is acceptable as well in an Islamic economic framework. Now, I am referring to these examples because there is an implicit reference to credit and its treatment in these sales. In case of Istisna, the price is paid progressively and this price P star can actually be different. It can be higher or it can be lower than the prevailing market price of the item if it happens to be available in the market. Remember in case of Istisna, the item is manufactured is made over a certain time period and this could be a unique item. However, if similar kind of items are available in the market, the price charged by the seller could be higher because the seller may say that I am coming up with a bespoke item for you hence I have to charge higher. Or in certain cases, the seller might agree to a lower price because the cost of production could be lower for that seller. Now, when it comes to exchanging money, Islamic law becomes very strict. Even on spot basis, it is prohibited to exchange 10 dollars for more than 10 dollars even on spot. Can you give me an example of this kind of exchange whereby one person is giving you 1000 rupees and you are receiving only 900 rupees on spot? Can you come up with an example? You might think that this is crazy. No one would agree to this one. But actually, this happens in the market around each time. That is actually prohibited because even on spot, this is not accepted in Islamic law. Now, if some amount of dollars is given by party A to party B now in exchange for a higher amount of dollars, of course, this is an interest based loan. This is not accepted in an Islamic legal framework. And this remains prohibited even if the payment of the loan is in installments. Some money is paid at T1, some money at T2 and so on. But this would remain prohibited as long as dollar star or dollar plus is greater than dollar i.e. as long as unequal amounts of dollar are exchanged between the two parties. Now, spot exchange is this example where a certain amount of dollars is exchanged for certain amount of rupees on spot. Now, when it comes to spot currency exchange, Islam is slightly relaxed if the exchange rate today is 1 dollar is equal to 175 rupees per example. And if I want to do a spot currency exchange today, it is permitted for us to go for an exchange rate which is different from the market exchange rate. So, if I want to sell 1 dollar for 200 rupees to someone and that person is willing to pay 200 dollars, then this is okay. However, the transaction should take place on spot. So, this is very, very important. Now, the sale or exchange where 1 amount in dollars is exchanged for an amount in rupees to be paid later, we have said this is not acceptable. And of course, even if the amount of rupees in future is paid over time, this would remain prohibited as well. So, this is slightly more information about these exchanges than the previous module. I want you to spend some time on these fundamental concepts so that you understand the treatment of Islamic credit cards and treatment of risk later on in an Islamic economic framework.


Hello everybody and welcome to the Friday live stream. So today is like a title and thumbnail suggest it looks like Bitcoin has done something that has never done and that is good news for people who are into the ETF and that big news is BlackRock Bitcoin ETF edges grayscale Bitcoin in daily trade volumes for the very first time Now before I get into this article, you would look at this and go. Oh, that's extremely bullish That means that everything should be going up and it's gonna be awesome than rainbows and mad No, so like today. Just so everybody knows Bitcoin is actually down zero point seven percent in the hour and in 24 hours is actually down 0.2% so even though we have some extremely bullish news. That's just the way the market goes However, the overall trend is where I'd like to see it. So here's what we have Grayscale Bitcoin trust ETF has dominated trading volumes in the first three weeks of the spot ETF And I gotta tell you I did not think that that actually get approved and it did and of course everybody thought it was gonna be fantastic I still didn't think it would be that great and it wasn't and here we are because of the fact that unfortunately grayscale had a lot of I'd like to say Cancerous investors and some of those would be the FTX trying to dump and you know having to get things back for their creditors Which is not there's no problem with that It is that we had to go through this whole process to get to where we are at today So while grayscale Bitcoin notch trading volumes of about 292 million on Thursday Black Rocks I share as Bitcoin trust saw saw volumes of a three hundred and two million dollars yesterday So this is extremely good news. We knew this would actually happen We knew that there at some point would be some kind of supply issues because some as some people would say a supply shock And we all pretty much know Where things are going now this is just a generalized assumption everything could go to zero, of course I have to say that yeah as a responsible Non-financial advisor. I have to tell you these things but I think again like we're in the right place at the right time and You know we take a look at this and we talked to this yesterday on the NFA live show Which this is from Tomas. Hey Apollo comm and it just there's an overall trend and it made sense It's like, you know, I know that it's not at 50,000 like some people thought it would I know It doesn't seem like we'll ever get back to the all-time highs I know it feels like the having that's coming up may not be a big event Trust me when I say this it was the exact same thing back in 2020 when we got the corona sickness and nobody thought We would ever hit all-time highs when Bitcoin was sitting at three thousand dollars in March of 2020 However, just seemed to work out. So yeah, again, there was a the trend as The the grayscale outflows order to decrease and this is going back to January 29th Of course, you know at a couple of days later and now here we are Right where we are supposed to be so let me just think about that in the comments section and before we talk about a Concerning issue about Bitcoin and electricity. I'll get to all that as an there's an emergency Declaration by the government and what they want to investigate. I just want to talk about Jupiter real quick and The narrative Jupiter if you don't know it is a Solana dex and I've been talking about it for a while it works quite well and There's a lot of dexes that work just fine I mean, I have no problems with any other dexes that are out there mim swap or trader Joe or you know I don't I mean I use them all because I have to get into some degenerate place. It's just the truth but There's always a narrative around These occurrences especially air drops and especially anything that's that's new and then and the narrative usually is at first. It's elation Everybody's happy and then it's this is the worst thing of all time and then we look deeper and we're like, oh, that's really how it's supposed to go So here's what we got Jupiter airdrop draws criticism, but support remains strong So if you don't know Jupiter if you had used the Jupiter dex before I think it was November 23rd 2023 using any kind of Wallet that you had if you had done that you were eligible for the airdrop I did not use Jupiter before that actually is orca a lot before I discovered Jupiter So I wasn't involved in this wish I would have but I still bought a little bit because I think I think Jupiter is gonna do pretty well Anyhow Jupiter team aim to use jupe as a cornerstone For DeFi 2.0 focusing on expansive growth ecosystem initiatives and a governance model that would evolve to incorporate Significant community decision-making. Well, that sounds good. I like that. Here's where things went wrong a key issues raised My observers set around the Jupiter teams method of offering jupe on the open market They say it has doubled as a capital raising strategy And this is Lord ashrick. No idea what this is but somebody on X that people were commenting on He said, yeah, we were literally bought into an old open market sale for jupe Basically open market equals fundraising only that rather than buy the seed round round ABCD seed pre-seed Private round we bought a freaking IPO'd on the stock market day literally Whatever he says. So, you know when you see this, you're like, ah Gotcha It's the worst thing of all time They're dumping on us and of course because that's the natural inclination trust me when I read this I'm like these sons of And I was like, maybe it is however. There's always two sides of the story So another ex user Jupiter team had put in Another ex user our Twitter user Stated that Jupiter team had put in a moon protection on the jupe token launch that prices would not exceed zero points Or 70 cents Intel the Jupiter team reached 100 million then bus they could dump on everybody people are participating in a sale That even realizing it the founder of Jupiter now Sure wrote an ex post the team would have received more funds had they opted for an over-the-counter deal or a regular IDO. All right They launched their token to ensure that airdrop recipients will be able to sell into a massive pool while prospective buyers would have their Assurance that there would be a big enough pool to absorb selling pressure from airdrops now reading right this right here You probably think to yourself There's you know, of course there's two sides every story, but that's just one person's opinion Of course, the founder is gonna come and you know go to bat for his team and then leave everybody out in the cold And I can see it however Blockwork research analyst Ren Yu Kong noted that much of the criticism around the Jupiter airdrop has been unwarranted Fundamentally Jupiter set a price and evaluation that they were willing to launch at in this case four to seven bucks or billion fully diluted value It's no different to investment bankers setting an IPO price Which essentially they're just guessing which a company is willing to sell shares at no one is forcing participants to buy If they don't like the valuation in the launch pool granted Maybe one of preferred more free market price discovery, but that's easier said than done This is the big thing when you're gonna get into stuff like this. Just know that airdrops are great It's free. We're gonna do an airdrop actually today over on my second channel Dan DJ And this will be the third airdrop with my row. I'm gonna give away 10,000 my row again, which were probably about thousand bucks So stick around I'll share that with you, but it really just comes out of this It's risky if you're gonna get into this just understand that there are people behind the scenes pulling lovers They may be pulling two three forward time and you'll never know exactly what's going on The only way to really get around this of course is to do as much research as you can And I know what you're thinking. I've done as much research I possibly can I still get screwed over and that's true And it's gonna happen So if you're an investor just know that these things will continue to happen And one of the safest things you can probably do is get into a project that you like Some of the people that you actually trust and hold on for dear life because it's only really what it comes down to Just sticking around for quite a long time But the last thing comes out of this all this stuff gets wiped away if the price is good How's Jupiter doing? But doing better than Bitcoin today. I'll say that it's up roughly almost 5 percent 4.4 So and that of course is over 24 hours. So even with all the controversy and things like that Hey, if you got in around 40 cents, what it was still doing pretty good. Now if take a look at seven days, I Had understood that actually the price at the beginning was 40 cents But coin get go has it a 74 cents. All right So maybe you didn't buy at the very top when it actually launched just weighed a little bit like a reasonable rational person What actually do You would have got it like 50 cents 60 cents. You've been just fine. Anyhow, I bought some somewhere around 60 cents And I'm happy. Let's see what actually happened. So let me just think about that in the comment section and then lastly I Really thought it was an interesting piece, which is you as the part of energy demand demands consumption stats from Bitcoin miners I find that interesting because sender Lummis from Wyoming came out and said that there is Some very delicate negotiations going on behind the scenes for stable coins and crypto legislation Then there was also a story about Senator Elizabeth Warren who comes out and states that she's going to Re-invigorate her campaign for the illicit activity that's being done by Bitcoin and digital assets And now we have this US Department of Engineers consumption stats. Why did they do this? Let's take a look So the survey which was filed as an emergency collection of data requests was authorized by the office of management and budget on January 26 And I linked this in the description. You can view it yourself if you're bored I suppose but yeah office of information regulatory affairs Cryptocurrency mining facility survey OMB approves the emergency request Consistent with requirements for emergency approval. I find it very odd that it's that Pressing but here we are so the OMB wrote this recognizing that this emergency collection is experimental and Provisional with the understood intention that EIA the energy investment authority That's not right. Yeah, the energy off the energy The energy efficiency office something like that wants to build to a new standard collection the only wrote in its approval Correct me the comment section. I know that I said that wrong We'll specifically focus on how the energy man for crypto mining is evolving identify geographic areas of high growth and Quantify the sources of electricity uses to meet crypto mining demand in 2022 lawmakers Clinton said Elizabeth Warren asked federal regulators to make crypto mining disclose their emissions and energy tax usage so coming all through this Somebody reading this from the outside would probably think themselves. Oh The energy office wants to know a lot of information about Bitcoin that can't be good it is I think a normal occurrence and If you look at it like that it looks pretty, you know, like, oh, maybe they're gonna try to crack down That's what everybody would think right but I will tell you if you look behind the scenes as to far as like because that's one of the biggest misnomers about how much electrical usage Bitcoin actually uses as opposed to the renewable resources and the resources that would just be wasted and Because of this actually put together this there was a form actually it was a Google slides and it was from a question that crypto tea put out and the whole This whole piece was all about why Bitcoin and crypto tea says I was speaking with a co-developer for a bank and asked him about Bitcoin He said the idea of losing all your money from a hack or corrupted hard drive is not worth the risk I said, that's why you don't store your keys on a computer He said so this is the future of digital tech and you want me to use a pen and paper And it bugged me a lot to think about like what would be the appropriate response and I I was gonna put this out on the weekend and I still will but there was just this one piece that I wanted to go With you which is electrical usage which is a 100% relevant to what we just talked about as far as the emergency From the OMB office, but they want to know the information. So this is the same thing going over over again This is the same thing that in 2017 Bitcoin uses more energy than most countries and it's destroying the environment. Well, first of all They're not that far off It does use as much as much electricity as a country I'm gonna this is from Cambridge Bitcoin electricity index and it says very clearly For the energy usage it is between South Africa Egypt and Poland and Malaysia Sitting right there. I think of the 26th it's spot somewhere around there. So that's true But it uses a boatload of electricity. However, just know this a lot of it is renewable use resources and then also More than a billion dollars a natural gas goes up and smoke every year through flaring and this flaring process You have two options. You can flare this for natural gas and blow it off into the actual Our environment, which is very detrimental Or you can capture those resources and use those for Bitcoin miners and the reason why this actually works out so well is because you can get Bitcoin miners and Move them into those areas to transport that into Bitcoin mining because the problem is ah That's what is yeah energy information administration. Finally, I got it If you take a look at it, there's three things here First of all to move energy from one source to another Did you know that more than 60% of energy used for elect for generation is lost in conversion So to get it from what you're actually doing to the homes or to the businesses of people you're losing 60% Anyhow, and I'm not gonna move my house right next to the through the actual centralized power grid It just does not gonna work, but I can't even move all my Bitcoin miners So in that situation energy that would have been lost Is now being used for Bitcoin mining fantastic also In the great set of taxes where I live roughly three months four months out of the year What they do is they use it extra energy and they actually pay for it And then as time goes on if it's too hot or it's too cold then they shut down and actually the Texas Energy office actually pays them to do so because they're using this excessive energy So yes, it does use a boatload of energy But it uses it in a conservative manner and lastly and I want to talk about this. This is a great piece When I'm talking about moving the Bitcoin miners to the location to actually use the excess of energy Which would all otherwise be wasted it can also do a Circular a circular economy through electrical usage and selling of Bitcoin to say port Different areas of the globe. This is what I'm talking about. This was a great piece from Bitcoin shooter and I linked his Profile in the description. This is about four minutes and it's gonna make this is gonna be crystal clear as to electrical usage Of why the energy demands of what it's used what it can actually do and why this form that is being asked by the U.S. Government it could be potentially a big nothing burger. So I want you to make sure that you hear this crystal clear Again, this is about four minutes. Just take a listen to this pretty good 400 million Africans live without electricity, but that's changing. I have three cats When using a machete for chopping that fodder out of use two or three hours to chop enough food for my cat But with these ten minutes It is very fast Time is so important most important most important our kids have been proved in their studies They couldn't study well because we were using candles and kerosene which will damage our eyes because of the smoke And we also see the benefit because We charge our funds well we watch TV things have been perfect a comfortable life How did they get power it starts with naturally running water which feeds into a hydro power plant Problem is it's normally not profitable to build a rural power plant like this My name is Thomas Pullman's I'm the co-founder and CEO of hydro box we produce power for the local community This site is located in Moranga County. That's in central Kenya We were producing power but back in the day only able to sell 40 percent and and of course economically That doesn't make any sense. I got to know Eric and I was talking to him about our challenge He said okay. What if we came in and we gave you a hundred percent usage right away our job at gridless is Bitcoin mining We'll walk in a 20-foot container with 130 miners in it we turn it on All of a sudden their finances are different just like the villager who's getting electricity for the first time And now they can envision a different future same thing happens with energy providers Immediately they can start thinking about the future and they can start thinking about oh, there's that other site I wanted to go and energize I have been able to get the money because I haven't been able to prove That I will be able to pay it back now. I can't there's at least 90 Locations that we've disqualified because they're simply not enough demands So if now Bitcoin mining can come in then all of a sudden it becomes viable for us to develop a project That's a fundamental paradigm shift for company like us. We win because we're mining Bitcoin The power generation group wins because they're finally financially viable and because of that more people can be connected to electricity Right away. It's absolutely phenomenal What are your goals in life? goals Expanding my farming, rearing chicken Another business is like welding before power. Were you thinking about these goals? No, no, no Impossible. Thank you so much. I'm happy for you. Thank you. I hope you grow your family very big. Okay, 20 kids, okay It's finally profitable to build rural power plants Thanks to Bitcoin mining as a result Electricity is coming to Africa All of a sudden our market has opened up to the entire African continent because the Bitcoin mining can basically come anywhere we go Then all of a sudden we can be developing 5100 200 300 megawatts if we deploy 300 megawatts in rural Africa Then we're able to change and impact lives between seven and ten million people Yeah, so and then it's gonna ask you, you know if you want to support the next next project Which I would like to do you can go ahead and do that in the link for Bitcoin shooter and those Those documents that he is producing there is a link in the description. You can follow him and go from there but again, this is all about just Trying to get as much information as we possibly can out to everybody that we possibly can especially when we're talking about You know when the US department comes out and says hey You guys using too much energy you want if we want to figure out just how much it is now We know that it's not just about taking a bunch of energy from everywhere and of course leaving people in the dark It's actually a very easy Topic to tackle anyhow, let me what you think about that in the comments and then lastly before we take off and do a little my row Freebie for everybody Good news for Celsius users. So this is from Ionic digital community Which apparently was one of the Celsius mining Operations and they are taken over the company now. They were rebranded to Ionic digital Celsius claim distribution in the US dollars will be distributed by issuing and mailing some Celsius creditors a check if in this category you should have received or should receive below the email and goes through all the different things That what you should actually do on top of that Celsius creditors you also have Venmo Distribution started some sales credit held the liquid crypto distribution through Venmo are confirming starting to receive their claim Coding distribution now. Let me make this clear. You're not getting today's prices Unfortunately, you're getting prices beforehand So overall generally you're gonna lose out But what is pretty good is that we're getting our funds back and I can met and I for one am ecstatic If you want more learn more about it I linked in the description Ionic digital community You can verify and follow them and figure out exactly what they want if you have not found or it have not Getting your information it would probably behoove you to follow these guys and fall along to get everything else Also, if you have other questions follow Simon Dixon and Aaron Bennett Those are the guys are the real ones with the real alpha and we go from there And now let's do a little Q&A and we'll go from there But if you're so inclined we're going to be doing a live giveaway in the next 17 minutes over on the Dan D gen channel for my row my row is one of the top three stable stable coins Excuse me. Nothing stable than my row meme coin on Solana ecosystem, and it's down a good 69 percent over seven days So congratulations if he took some profits or maybe it's not your opportunity to get in a little bit early as time goes on Excuse me not early, but as it takes a big dip. So we're gonna do a giveaway 10,000 my row. This will be our third one We've given away Two days ago three days ago we gave away 10,000 which was roughly about at that point like 1,400 bucks And then the day after roughly $1,200 and today it's worth whatever it's worth So that's just how it goes again as a link in the description follow over there But that's it for this piece. So look if I like today's video give it a thumbs up consider subscribing Or let me talk about his time-sensitive


From around the globe, it's theCUBE with digital coverage of IBM Think 2021, brought to you by IBM. Hello, and welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of IBM Think Virtual 2021. I'm John Furrier, your host of theCUBE. We're here at Kirsten Kraft, who's the global head of business development and marketing at Prolifix. Kirsten, great to see you. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Thanks so much, John. It's great to be here. I love the fact that we're getting the content out there. We're still remote, soon in real life's coming back, but what a time it's been in the past year and a half or so. A lot of change, a lot of action. You guys are in the middle of it here at IBM Think. Let's get into it. But first, take a minute to explain what you guys do at Prolifix and your business model. Sure. So thanks, John. So Prolifix, we've been in business actually for over 40 years, which is pretty amazing when you think about technology and everything that's happened in 40 years. We are a global service provider. We've got over 1,000 people worldwide. And we are 100% focused on software and almost 100% focused on IBM, right? Of course, nobody's focused on a single technology stack these days. So we work with our customers across many different products, but we've been with IBM for a very long time. When we look at our business model, when we talk with our clients, we find that organizations today, they've got really complex challenges, especially now, right? In what all is happening right now. They've got a lot of really interesting opportunities as well as problems that they have to solve in front of them. And those types of situations, they can't just be addressed by just buying a product. And Prolifix approach is we work with our clients to get really above the technology conversation and to really understand what are they trying to accomplish, right? At the end of the day, why is this an important initiative for you? And we help them develop roadmaps and then we help them get there. So of course, we're selling technology along the way and in that implementation path. So I would say from a business model perspective, we're very services focused. We're very consultative. And of course our resulting technologies are running on IBM. You know, about eight years ago, Dave Vellante and I started a little small little section which is looking at an angle called services angle. And our premise was is that services were going to be a big driver. Now what we missed was cloud had to set up first and it did. And now we're seeing a boom in services, but cloud services, you're seeing new kinds of services with the edge and other things. So what's your take on this? Because now IBM has this global view. The pandemic has proven that the scale of virtual and digital is so much more compelling. No one's going back. The economics are too good. The values being realized as clear visibility into unit economics of projects. Projects are obvious to double down on some, not to maybe. So a lot of these things are going on. What's your take on all this? So it is interesting because that is both an opportunity as well as a challenge, right? For clients at Proliphix, we've been, we were actually pretty blessed because we're very virtual. We're a virtual company anyway, right? So we didn't have one facility where all of our developers are housed. So it was really kind of business as usual for us in terms of how we work with our customers with the exception of the fact we couldn't go into their offices, right? Anymore, which is a bit of a challenge. But as they look at, how do they really harness the cloud? How do they harness those technologies? You know, IBM as well as business partners like Proliphix, we're in a great position to help them with that because a lot of where IBM is going with cloud packs and containerization, that's where our customers want to be. Now, some of them are a little bit more aggressive than others in terms of how quickly they want to adopt that technology, which is where road mapping comes into place and helping them really set up, not just for short term, how do they solve what's in front of their face? But let's look a year or two years down the line. How do you make sure that you're really building an agile type of environment that's going to work across data, which is really the center of all things nowadays as well as working across other systems? You know, I've been covering IBM for a very, very long time. Actually, once I was an employee as a co-op student back in college, remember those glory days? And you mentioned you guys been with IBM for a very, very long time. You got up, they've always had a business focus. They've always had great technology, got great technologists and experts there. But I think now more than ever, you're seeing the theme at the show this year as hybrid cloud edge data AI as a kind of an underlying system software for business. So you're starting to see a new era of software driving business at a level that's been completely transformed. As an IBM platform, software provider, you've been there for all the IBM over the years. What's it like? What's your take on this? What opportunities do you see with the hybrid cloud? You got Red Hat now under the covers. You mentioned containers. Is it a pinch me moment where people are like, wow, there's so much here to integrate or cloud is going to provide a new clean sheet of paper to do things. What's the vibe? What's the sentiment? You know, it's interesting. We're actually seeing more customers starting to look at themselves as technology companies. So even companies that don't think that historically they're not in a technology industry, they're now identifying internally. They're talking to their staff about, we don't sell widgets. We're a technology company that happens to sell widgets. So it's really an interesting dynamic. And I would also mention that one of the themes we're seeing across a lot of customers, almost all of our customers, is this insane focus on data. I say insane in like a good way, right? So how do we use our data to help inform our processes? How do we make sure that we're sharing data effectively and efficiently with all of our trading partners? We're seeing a lot of modernization when it comes to integration. But again, integration is all about exchanging data. We're seeing customers start to dabble more with AI in terms of how can we get smarter by using the data that we have available to us? Again, I think that's going to be the next wave because we're seeing a lot of our customers start to dabble in that, but not fully embrace it just yet. But they really want to get that underlying platform around data and integration ready to go so that they can do some amazing things in the future. How is the hybrid cloud and data impacting prolific business? What does this take you guys for the next chapter? Well, it's actually perfect for us because that's almost 100% of what we do. So we, as I mentioned earlier, we are 100% focused on software, right? Software and software-based solutions. We're not a hardware provider. We don't have a data center, but we help customers design and implement software-based systems. And our expertise is squarely in data, business intelligence, analytics, AI, and also integration and business process automation. Those are really our core, especially as it comes to IBM technology. Now we also have a testing practice, which is technology agnostic, but it's really critical as you, especially as you look at rapid development cycles, because that's another theme we're seeing with customers, right? Nobody's got the patience to go through a long waterfall model, right? You've got to get into production as the Apple model, right? Get it into production, get feedback, make modifications, and go.  So we integrate testing into everything that we do as well. But the data and the hybrid cloud message and all of the innovation that IBM is doing, fits perfectly in with what we're seeing with our customers and where we've invested for so long as far as skills and expertise. You know, that testing example really kind of speaks to the state of the art right now, because people can get into production with the cloud and then they realize that they're adding services pretty quickly and things break. They call it day two operations is the term that they've been kicking around. I call it essentially DevSecOps, but there's a lot of kind of new things that you just got to kind of watch that were traditionally IT-like functions that are now cloud ops, cloud operations. So super new. How are you guys seeing that with the customer base that you guys have as they start to see benefits? Does it impact their staffing, their support levels? What's the impact to the customer when they start to realize some of these benefits? But then understanding that with scale comes a whole nother set of operating challenges. Yeah, you know, it is interesting with that scale it does present other challenges as you mentioned from an operations perspective. And we have seen customers that go out there, go live. Well, you remember the commercial? I think there was a commercial many, many years ago back when the internet was kind of a new thing where it was a startup company and they put an e-commerce site out there, right?  They're like, yay, we have 10. Oh, crap, we have 10,000, right? So, you know, you see customers like this they get excited to put something out there but they haven't fully performance tested it, right? So that's also where we try to help our customers take that step back and say, okay, how are you going to actually plan not just for day one to get it out there but longer term? And that's where we also put our performance testing as a part of all of our solutions because, yes, it's a good problem to have but you really don't want to have that problem in the first place. So how do you make sure that you plan and prepare for that and incrementally deploy and make sure that your underlying technology is prepared to support that kind of volume? Awesome, Kirsten. I want to ask you kind of the important question this day and age in the modern era with cloud and now this new cloud scale. And it's always kind of been true in the past but now more than ever you're starting to see the role of the ecosystem of partners as a super important because now integrations are happening, you're bringing point solutions into a platform where tools are integrating with other tools. So as a partner of IBM, how is the ecosystem role that you guys are playing and how important is that? And what are the new things that are needed to be successful in the ecosystem with the premise that rising tide floats all boats which is kind of what we're seeing that happen now certainly coming out of the pandemic it's going to be a whole new game but there are ecosystems that are now evolving around IBM, around these big mega trends like cloud edge and data. What's your take? So first of all, you mentioned IBM's focus on ecosystem, right? And so Arvin has been very vocal about the importance of the ecosystem and how he really wants to change IBM's model out there to embrace partners. And I have to say I think that's one of the smartest things I think I've heard IBM say in years and I know that that sounds self-serving because we are a partner but the reality is there's several different layers where that's really important. One is the value of the partner. And you mentioned that there's a need to integrate across different systems, right? So IBM is not gone are the days when customers only have IBM technology it's just not a thing. And so partners have the ability to work across different vendors, very hybrid, very unique types of environments and make sure that the IBM interest, the IBM footprint is well deployed, well represented and set up for future success so that customer is going to want to buy more in the future but in the context of what that customer's overall landscape is. So that's a big reason why IBM wants business partners involved with customers and we're a little bit more or at least we can work with customers from a consultative perspective, right? And make sure that they are comfortable with the decisions that they're making that isn't just the manufacturer telling them to buy our stuff. From a partner's perspective one of the biggest things that we struggle with in the marketplace is being known, right? I mean, we're a decent size partner with over a thousand employees but at the end of the day how many people know prolifics as a brand name versus how many people know IBM? So opening those doors partnering with the IBM sellers that have kind of an easier way in to introduce a partner and give us the credibility that, hey, we know prolifics. We've seen them be successful and help very large companies that are just like you be successful with our technology let them help you end to end is it's just a really good synergy as far as how you can actually how IBM can scale with their customers and how customers can realize that benefit of a broader ecosystem as well and skill sets. A great point. Arvin is very savvy on cloud. I know he loves hybrid cloud. He loves the cloud model. He's changing it with Red Hat. I think you're so smart and accurate on this whole change over around network effects, organic ecosystems playing a power dynamic in how people buy and nurture themselves. So I think there's going to be a nice change over there. I think you're onto something pretty big with that because look it it's multi-vendor at many levels now.  You will know now you're on the cube. So we're going to get the word out here. But it's you're in a team. It's a group. It's not just about the customer. This is now a different mindset. This is what customers want because they're out in the organic field too. They're not just getting email sent to them. They're out and engaging. This is a new model. And you know, one of the things that's interesting that we're seeing from our customers as well is they're no longer looking to buy a product and then have somebody come in and install and implement. They're actually looking for guidance. They want ideas. Here's what I'm trying to do with my business. How can you help me? They're looking for an answer to that. And that requires a very different skill set. It's not just somebody who knows how to come in and spin up CDs and do some configurations. It's somebody who's worked in their industry before has worked with similar types of customers has a little bit of that road rash can provide some of that guidance. And in order to really do that, you can't find that just in one organization. So I would tell you actually, I mean, Proliphix is a, we're a pretty good sized company with a wide skill set but even we partner. We also partner with other partners to help complement our skills when there's particular expertise that's needed. So it really is a very interesting ecosystem development and a different way of thinking that it's not just about you and being able to do everything. It's about you being able to bring the right solution and the right ideas to a customer and to help them be successful for the longterm. Awesome insight, Kirsten Kraft, global head of business development and marketing at Proliphix, great to have you on and power of networks, power of partnerships, power of the ecosystem. The new world is here. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Thank you, great to be here. Okay, this is IBM Think 2021 coverage. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. Thanks for watching.


Beyond that point where electioneering stops, there was some of the freest air to breathe that there has ever been. Standing in the sun on the safe streets of their towns, the American voters in 1944 knew that wars can begin in polling places. Wartime shortages and priorities had turned the clock back for transportation and some of the means of travel on the roads that day had taken voters to the polls for the election of Woodrow Wilson. There's never been anything pretentious about the looks of the places where you cast your vote. Firehouses, laundries, buildings as different as the ways of life and the kinds of country we have served as polling places for the people of the United States to make a decision that will be respected in the conference halls of London, Paris, Moscow and eventually in the ruins of Berlin and Tokyo. The enemies of democracy have always claimed that a people is independent in their sympathies as varied in their origins and religious beliefs as the people of America can never choose a leader for themselves. Instead of these orderly lines, the enemies of democracy predicted riots and disorders of the polling places in 1944. Instead of a record-breaking registration, the enemies of democracy predicted apathy or disinterest or no election at all. Name? Helen Shaw. Occupation? Secretary. Race? Income? None of the rest of it matters. Lewis Stone. Occupation? Actor. Occupation housewife and mother. Occupation farmer. Occupation actress. Occupation manicurist. Florist, clerk, steam-fitter. Occupation shipyard worker. USO entertainer. On November 7th, the free voter in the United States. Voters tracked alkali dust from Texas into the polling places. Georgia red clay. New England gravel. Soot from Pittsburgh sidewalks. California sand and New York dirt. 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At 9.30, Vice President Wallace predicted a Roosevelt victory, leading the other forecasters by a good three hours. At 10 o'clock, Pittsburgh's Allegheny County turned in a lead for Roosevelt, upsetting Republican predictions in a vital state. And from then on in, the president began to gather the lead that brought him victory. You could hear the shouting of the crowds for 15 blocks in either direction. Picked up by the airwaves, you could hear them above the noise of the rain in Hittkin Forest. You could hear them on the China airstrips, where the B-29s were warming up for the blow at Tokyo. They were cheering the victory of their candidate, and they were living proof that government, even in a time of war, can be a question of conscience, and not a matter of force. Pollutions are a string of island bases extending over a thousand miles westward from the Alaskan Peninsula. These islands, the Japs once considered a back door to the United States. 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But wind or no wind, nothing can stop this man from the accomplishment of his mission. The problem of getting over snowy terrain has been solved by converting vehicles into so-called snowgoes. One of the greatest hazards to fliers in the Arctic is the sudden formation of ice on the plains. Well, what's this? Oh, it's him again. Strips present a serious problem. It's almost impossible to keep their surface entirely free of moisture. That's the way things are up here. Unbelievable conditions. Unbelievable. I mean, nevertheless, conditions that prove...