On the breakfast, Senator proves the amendment of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act. Also on the breakfast, Germany knocked out of the World Cup after a German bid Spain in a stunning upset. We'll have a further conversation with a sports analyst as regards Japan and Spain. Don't forget, we'll also be looking through today's newspapers analyzing the biggest stories of the day. It's the breakfast in plus TV Africa. Welcome, I am Masya Boko. I mean, it would be great to say compliment of the season. Maybe, Merry Christmas already. Well, the countdown has already started and we're looking forward to 2023, but today's the second of December has always started conversation with what's making the rounds, what's having people, what conversations are people talking about, what are people engaging with offline, online and what have you. Now, one of it is that, you know, the court has ordered an arrest and imprisonment of the Chief of Army staff. That's a lot, quite dicey, but let's delve into it. A high court sitting in Minah, Niger State, has issued a warrant of arrest for Farouk Yahya, the Chief of Army staff, for contempt. Now, a warrant of arrest was also issued against Ulubengau Lubanji, a commandant of training and doctrine command in Minah over the same offense. The issue is contempt. Now, this would not be the first time we're talking about contempt. Let's not forget, there's contempt, the issue, there's also been an arrest talking about the IGP, Usmin, the spin issue of contempt, as you've got, as well. We also want to talk about the EFCC boss and now the issue of contempt. So it seemed like we probably might just be in that era and this has gotten a lot of Niger talking. Now, following the ruling on the application, Halima Abdul Malik, the presiding judge, said that an order has made comete in the Nigerian Army Chief Abegyapardin of Staff, General Farouk Yahya, and the commander training and doctrine command in Minah, so sixth and seventh respondent, into the custody of correctional center for contempt of the other of this honorable court made on the 12th of October 2022. I'm sure that, you know, because we've talked about the issue of contempt over time, you probably would be asking, what is contempt of the court? So it's a case where a person who is a party to a proceeding in a superior court of record fails to comply with an order that's made against him. Now, the reason why this is dicey, I mean, when we start this conversation is because it's very dicey. We're talking about the Chief of Army Staff. I need to emphasize, he's the Chief of Army Staff. He's the Chief of Army Staff. Can the Chief of Army Staff or a military personnel high ranking be tried in a civil court? This is some of the conversation that's been going on online. Can he be arrested? And if he can be arrested, who should arrest him? Should he be the police or a military police? Now, where lies the military of, or where lies the rule of law? Because we talk about the, this is, this is a, I mean, a democratic dispensation. We can't take that out. Now, so far, it's important to note that the military is governed by both the civil and military law. However, the civil court does not have the power to try an active military officer, unless he has undergone a court martial by the military and dismiss, you know, respectively from the service. It brings us back to the reality of the issue of being in a democratic dispensation when a democracy, and that's what it is. Now, if you have a military which is governed by the military and the civil law, now whose report, where should it tilt to, which, you know, which would hold sway? It's because, of course, the military would have code of conduct that governs the affairs. There are procedures and laws and what have you. There's also a martial court for the military. But where lies, you know, the constitution? You want to begin to ask the constitution and the military code of conduct, which is supreme, because this is a case, a case of disobedience. And the judiciary over time has been queried and there's been a lot of conversation about all the judiciary is not functional. There's a lot that's going on. There's executive riskality that has actually translated or is affecting the functionality of the judiciary. On the other hand, we begin to ask how can the judiciary be effective in all of this, being, you know, another, you know, I'm of government and what have you. So the conversation is going on. And also, this is something that has happened in almost a span of less than three weeks or almost a month. There's been several order and we're looking at high personnel. EFCC, you have police officer and now you have chief of army staff. But is the constitution supreme or is the code of conduct supreme? I mean, really, can he be arrested? That's the question. Can he be even be tried in a civil court? What exactly? I mean, if he can be tried, then where does the issue or the conversation about the rule of law? Because when we talk about the rule of law, the principle of separation of powers, we begin to say that no one is above the law. So is the chief of army staff above the law? Can he be arrested? It's not a question that I have, you know, a lot of answers, but these are the conversations that are going on. At the end of the day, if you say that the military, the chief of army staff cannot be arrested because he has to be tried by martial court. And therefore, where will we, what we talk about the respect for the rule of law? Because of course now, if you say there's contempt, there's a disrespect to the judiciary. There's an order that should be respected. And so far, it seems that that has become, you know, a thing for us as a country. If you look at Nigeria now, and if you look at these administrations, which is led by President Muhammad Al-Bawari, there's a lot of court disobedience, if you want to say. Court orders are not respected. What exactly is going on? And this case is highly sensitive, especially when you say it's the chief of military staff, and you look at the laws that are governing. You know, the military, like I rightly mentioned, is also still governed by civil rules. And so, you know, no answer to that particular one. But we hope that, you know, our constitution would constantly go through all of the reviews that it should, you know, go through. Now, another top trending is another interesting conversation, very, very nice. It talks about a language. And over time, people have said, what should be the lingual franca for Nigeria? Some people think that Nigeria should adopt Pijin language.  What have you? The Federal Executive Council, which usually converge every Wednesday, approved the adoption of mother tongue as a compulsory medium of instruction in primary schools in the country. So the government in all of this said, yes, they've agreed to the fact that the implementation would be a difficult issue. Of course, Adamu, who's a minister of education, said that mother tongue would be used exclusively for the first six years of education, while it would be combined with English language, junior secondary schools level. So, expressly, the government has said that mother tongue is to be used in each schools, and it will be, you know, by the dominant language spoken by a community. What institution, you have, so for instance, I'd like to cite an example. They're saying, for every time you have a language used in that institution, it would be a language that's dominant in that community. So if you have a school in a certain community, the language that is dominated by that community would be the language that would be, you know, used for learning and teaching, and what have you, you want to go on with all of that. So, but in all of this, if you look at the rationale, if you look at the rationale behind all of this, it's very interesting. But let's also look at the interest, the purpose for this. The government is saying that this, in theory, is a policy that has already taken, you know, effect, waiting for implementation when the government itself would actually develop instructional materials and qualified teachers, engaged qualified teachers, you know, to get ahead with it. So that's exactly what we're looking at. But you also need to know that 625 languages is what we're talking about in Nigeria as at the last count. And the objective, like I said, is very brilliant because it's meant to promote and enhance cultivation and the use of Nigerian languages, protect our culture, values, and the list is almost endless. It is really brilliant. But don't we think that this also might further divide us as a people, as a country? It's also good that the government has admitted to the fact that, hey, it would be difficult to implement. So for instance, I'm looking at a state. I really don't understand any states in Nigeria that has diverse languages. One is Corsica State. So let's say there's a school that's in Corsica State. Corsica State has 18 local governments. And in all of these 18 local governments, they have various languages. Some people have said, you know, jokingly that maybe the tall Babel, looking at the story of the Bible, you know, that's where it started saying Corsica State because you could probably have a, you know, a community. And in the community, the road would be a divider. So this community community A and community B, I'm speaking different languages or different language. So what happens? How do we, you know, foster unity with all of this? Will this not further promote this unity and marginalize the minority that have already been marginalized? So that's a lot. I think it would have been a policy that should have been thought through by the government. If we're talking about major issues that we're faced with as a country, which is not rocket science, you don't need any medical, I mean, a native doctor to tell you about it as an issue of unity as a country. So if unity seemed to be a major issue, how do we unite the country? Is this policy going to solve the problem? Is it further going to divide us as a country? Would he, you know, continue with the issue of agitation? Because when you now begin to see a dominant language for certain communities, your host community, that would be the language. Let's not forget that you have in a particular community, one community that might have different languages depending on, you know, the practices. So it's going to be a lot, really difficult. And one or the other thing that the government should say, okay, it's that we would introduce all of these languages, these courses, so you can take a certain course, there will be a course in Yoruba, there will be a course in Igbo, there will be a course in Hausa, there will be a course in Ajagam. There are different languages. You just begin to say, yes, people can offer all of these courses, whatever it is that they are, rather than say that we're going to be lecturing them, there will be two taught in this language. Then do we still have a crop of persons who can speak this language? Because we're talking about transfer of culture, knowledge and what have you. There's a lot to grapple with, but however, fingers across, let's see how this pans out. Away from that, let's look at another one. Very interesting is that the court has remanded or the court remanded students for a tweet against the wife of the president Aisha Buhari. Justice Yusuf of the Federal Capital Territory High Court has remanded one Amino Adamo, a student of the Federal University of Dutsej, Jigawa at the Suleja Correctional Centre in Niger State after tweeting about the wife of the president, Mrs Aisha Buhari. The student was arraigned for cyber-stalking, where he was denied bail despite pleading not guilty to the charges filed against him. You also need to know that this student in question, Muhammad Adamo, is a 500-level student who was arrested by security officials on the order of the president's wife a few days before all of this actually happened. And that also is an issue because we say if someone has broken the law, of course the law talks about libel and defamation, all of that. It's within the constitution, but has the president's wife or the presidency acted contrary to the law before, you know, having another court or whatever, so it's really very sensitive. But like everyone would say, we're a nascent democracy, we're developing and we hope that we get it right. Now, like I mentioned earlier on, he was arrested. Muhammad was arrested just because of that tweet that he had put out in June in Hausa. The interpretation says that the president's wife was feeding fat on poor people's money and that comment was underneath a picture of the president's wife where he's added weight. You know the thing with weight is it's really very sensitive, especially with women. You probably don't want to tell a woman that she has added weight because it doesn't even really add up if you want her to devour you or whatever. But biologically, some people will tell you that weight comes with the age and not necessarily what you consume. You get to a certain stage and maybe your DNA, your composition and what have you. It's possible that you get to that point. But how this was handled, does it really reflect a democratic governance or democratic process? Is it in accordance with the law from start to open to the point that have we acted as the wife of the president or the presidency on those who are acting? Lawmakers, I beg your pardon, those who are supposed to enforce the law, security officials, have they acted in accordance with the law or they have acted contrary? All of these are the issues that are on the forefront and Nigerians have been talking about. However, they will be remanded in the Suleja prison pending the hearing and determination of his bill application. Very, very unfortunate. But does not take out the fact that we need to understand what the law talks about. We need to be very careful and cautious. Not necessarily because we're afraid of being in jail or being in prison for whatever it is, but that we should be careful in our thoughts, in our reactions and how we get to express ourselves on social media as regards people, whether or not they are highly classified, they are the elites or not the elites, we should be very kind with our words. We can still go ahead and make statements and make valid preposition without having to be very, very defamatory in all of that. We take a break and when we return, it will be time for us to go through the pages this morning. We call it Author Press. Julia Johnson will be joining us. Please stay with us.


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Who makes the cream cheese? Philadelphia. Have you heard that thing? They're paying people not to buy them. There's a shortage. I might just buy some. There's a shortage on cream cheese apparently for cheesecakes. And thankfully, there wasn't one mom made one for us for our wedding because we got to have it. It was delicious, but she actually did it for Thanksgiving. But yeah, Philadelphia cream cheese is paying people not to buy cream cheese. The other thing that's flying off the shelves? Not kidding. Rice Krispies. Really? Everybody's making Rice Krispies streets. We went, no joke, the other night. We went to Rouse. Then we went to CVS. Then we went to... Like everybody had Rice Krispies like the cereal? The cereal boxes. Then we went to Stater Brothers. That's weird. Then we went to Walmart. Then we went to Target. Every one of them sold out all sizes, empty shelves. No Rice Krispies. And they're still gone. What's worse, the Rice Krispies shortage is toilet paper shortage. Man, we've had so many shortages lately. That's a tough one. Well, they're toilet paper. I've tried to wipe my butt with Rice Krispies. It doesn't work. Today we got a quickie video. You know. What? When I was little, I did a Rice Krispies commercial. I wish I could find it somewhere. I talked to Snap Cracklin Pop.  Go find my Rice Krispies commercial. It would have been circa 1979-ish. Great year. We went to the moon. 77? We went to the moon. We might have gone to the moon in 79. I don't know. We went to the moon July of 1969, July 20th to be exact. We went to the moon many times. The first time. It was a beautiful Oliver Stone set. Yes, exactly. This is a... Cricut video. This is Top 10. Say this name for me. Top 10. Malinga's Unplayable Yorkers in Cricut. Malinga, he's a... I believe he's Sri Lankan actually, but he's actually played for a couple IPL teams in India before as a pitcher. So he's played all around there because he's apparently known for the Yorker. I will look up right now what exactly the Yorker is. Not to be confused with the new Yorker, myself. In Cricut, a Yorker is a ball-bold which hits the Cricut pitch around the batsman's feet. Okay, so it's down at the feet. When a batsman assumes the normal stance, this generally means that the Cricut ball bounces on the Cricut pitch on or near the batsman. The batsman's popping crease. We don't know what that is. The popping crease. Yeah. I do love a good popping crease. Yeah. Don't you? I do. It needs to be lubricated. Of course. Of course. I have found that if it's not lubricated, the popping can be quite chafing. Let's just start this video. It's scary. Okay. Yeah. So, does it have to hit the ground before it hits the wickets? Or could you just throw it in straight at the wickets? I think you can throw it straight. But that's the thing, because oftentimes it bounces way, way, way, way before. So this is like, this is down at the feet. That must be hard to hit. I like his hair. He's got epic hair. Well, I just can't kick him, can I? I mean, he's getting... That last one, 125Ks. Here it is. Side spinner again. And the bat comes down. It goes around it. It's the off-stump. And why you go to the bottom? Oh, there are lights in the... Oh, this is hard. Yeah. To confirm it's been hit. That's cool. Yeah. I like that. Oh, jeez. Man, watch this. Oh! That's missing the next stop. That's a good thing for the picture. Yeah. Did it go... In between his feet? Did it? Show it again. Oh, right in front of him. I thought it went between his legs. That's got to be scary. I'm surprised it didn't have a covering on the top of their foot. I wonder if they're like steel-toed. That's crazy. It's got to be... Because one thing to obviously have it hit right in front, and you have a little more time to figure out where it's going. Yeah. As a batsman. The last minute it came back in. Yes, it's just... I think he was playing for it to continue. At least walk in. Maybe 20, 30 foot runs. So he was fully committed and blew it. Yeah. So that's... That's... It's so different from... What was it called, the Yorker? What was the original guy? Yeah, what's that come from? What was the original guy named Yorker? Because that'll happen. Obviously, it's obviously hard enough, obviously, what we talked about when you throw a normal bowl and it hits kind of far in front of the batsman. Right. You at least have a little time, even though you still, as we've seen, they can curve, it can kind of do whatever it wants, because the ground's kind of a wild card of what the ground can do to the ball.  Right. And you have very little time to react to that. And does it so, like... There's only a few ways you can hit it, too. Yeah. And the only way I would think about it, as far as, like, a batsman's concerned is the kind of philosophy I would have as a hitter in baseball. Can a batsman step up toward the bowler? Like, for example, if they see on release, I don't even know if they could tell, that it's coming in as a yorker, and they don't want it to kind of jimmy them up as it hits down at their foot, or maybe it doesn't even matter, could they step up a little bit and hit it before it hits the ground? Yeah, I think so, because I think you can... But I see none of them did it. Maybe it's just because it's coming in too fast and you cannot make the adjustment fast enough to step up or not when it's coming in. You may not be able to make the adjustment. Yeah, it just depends on, like, you can see exactly what he's doing. And also another question I have. Why do they always run so far? What's the advantage? I had the exact same thought watching this video. What's the advantage of running, like, as opposed to, like, 10 meters? Yeah, half of the distance. Yeah. Because you do hit terminal velocity with your run at some point, where you're taking 10 extra steps at the same speed you did the prior 10. Is it just a preference based off of what the people like? Like, I just feel comfortable running 30 yards? I bet it's comparable to, like, a pitcher's wind-up and the way they feel with the way that they do it from either the stretch or the full wind-up. They like taking 12 steps before they throw or something like that. Yeah, I was wondering that. Me too. I was watching this and thinking, why do some of them run so far? Yeah. It seems counter-intuitive because you're not going to add any velocity to the ball and you're expending energy with the extra steps. But I'm sure there's a reason. Yeah, let me know. I don't know. And let us know other cricket videos. Put them down in the comments below. And what's a yorker? And up vote like them. Why was it called? Why is it called the yorker? Yeah. And give us other videos that we can react to in Indian continent or others, other cricket things so we can learn a little more. What's been your favorite cricket movie? Lagan? Oh, yeah. Where's it? It was a great film. That was very good, but Lagan? Yeah, it's classic. This is classic. It's classic. Those two for sure. I think Kaipoche was a really good movie. We'll see if 83 in Jersey get added to the next film. I've always seen one version of Jersey. Yeah, but that wasn't part of the equation. For me at least. Yeah. Yeah, we shall see. Shahid and Ranveer duking it out. Somebody said, Deepika is only in four minutes of the second half. Of the second half of the film. Right. So she's in it a lot in the first half? I don't know. Maybe she's not in it a lot at all. Who's keeping track and why? I don't know. Well, it's people that have already seen it. Yeah, but why does it's like... I don't know. Fahat Fasil is in like 15 minutes of... Pushbuck. People keep track of it. India has this thing that I've noticed as well that's unique to them. They'll often, when they see a new movie, they'll put out a review of the first half of the film and do reviews by halves. Because I... It's something strange I've noticed. Because we don't do that here. No. You review the film as a whole. And do they take into account screen time minutes? Like someone's there... Oh, there are people that do it. Yeah, it's crazy. Wow. Yeah, it's weird, right? Anyways, let us know more cricket videos so that we can react to you down below.


Today we would like to talk about a very interesting program that originated in South America, specifically in Brazil, and it's called Exporta Fácil. And it's a program that has been expanding throughout South America thanks to the generous collaboration and assistance of Brazil and other important actors in the region, including the restricted union, the postal union for the Americas, Spain and Portugal. The project was born through the designated operator under the coordination of the Ministry of Communications of Brazil and it was developed together with other Brazilian authorities involved in the export process. This is an important aspect. It's not enough to introduce this type of project with a designated operator alone. If other authorities involved in exports such as customs, small and medium-sized enterprises are not involved in the project, the export project is a governmental project, not only a postal sector project. In Brazil, the designated operator wanted to provide this Exporta Fácil service. Exporta Fácil is the brand of the designated operator. There are other operators in Brazil who can benefit from this project from Exporta Fácil and they use other brands as well. Since we introduced this project some 10 years ago, volumes have increased and continue to increase. We have exported, through Exporta Fácil, through the simplified process more than $1.8 billion. In 2012 alone, we have reached $170 million and we export to numerous countries and some 12 million businesses use Exporta Fácil in Brazil. For a small business, to export a container is very difficult. The postal logistics ensure that all parts of the process make it possible for small businesses to export in various products. The logistics takes care of customs, transports the product to the country of destination right through to a final buyer. It's a very successful project. Many countries asked Brazil to cooperate at a technical level with this project. Brazil wanted this project to be rolled out to other countries in South America. Don't you have heard of UNISOL? The project became a priority for this organization through the Inter-American Development Bank, the IDB, which provided financial support to develop Exporta Fácil and Brazil provides technical coordination for its introduction to other countries. In South America, we've introduced Exporta Fácil in Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador, Colombia and it's currently being developed in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. It's a project which can help local economies and can help the range of products being exported to be diversified. Exporta Fácil has the merit of involving new businesses in the export business and involving more products and diversifying the situation within the region. Last November, we've got a representative of the UPU here. He'll speak about this, but we signed a cooperation agreement with the Minister of Communication in Brazil and the UPU to develop a methodology and to introduce a program in other countries worldwide. There is an interest for international institutions such as a PUASP and the UPU, WTO and to give visibility to a project and the project is interesting for other regions of the world. Now we'll move to an actual case, well a second case in addition to Brazil obviously but a concrete case of Ecuador and I'll ask Mr. Tadana to tell us about his experience in his country with Exporta Fácil. Ecuador has not been using it for a year yet but throughout this year the Exporta Fácil service has been successful at the government level as well as the most forgotten sectors of our country. That's to say craftsmen and small businessmen. This initiative and we should thank our friends from Brazil for this wonderful idea which involves governments and craftsmen and in some countries in the region it's been really successful at all levels. In Ecuador throughout 11 months the service has been launched now there are some 5,000 exports which have been successfully conducted. We've generated some one million dollars through Exporta Fácil and clearly it's a service which everyone's happy with because it's growing on a daily basis. It's growing really in an exponential manner in the country. Craftsmen are joining Exporta Fácil and there's no need for major advertising. The Ecuadorian Post has not had sufficient resources to invest the money exclusively in this Exporta Fácil service. But despite this the result has been extraordinary. In no province of Ecuador no province has people not being interested in it. The craftsmen are involved in every province. The Ecuadorian government has looked on favourably on this initiative and this service continues to develop and grow and it's to the benefit of craftspeople but it's also the benefit of the people who receive the Ecuadorian products which are exported. This stimulates people to export. There is an economic advantage of exporting through this channel and during the first six months there was a cost of some 50% reduction in the export tariff. The Ecuadorian government has wanted to set out in black and white the figures and they wanted to introduce this system to reduce the cost of exporting so that the service could be sustainable over time. We've provided a response to the Ecuadorian government and we are seeking to increase export three or four fold compared to the current rates. For revenue for a country in figures we're thinking for every million we invest in exporting. The country could receive seven to ten million dollars in return. And I think this is an extraordinary service which can benefit all parties not only craftspeople but the government and the country and the post. We too have increased our volumes thanks to exporter facile and also the people who buy the Ecuadorian products in other countries. As Rosemary said I think the introduction is positive. We are pleased with the exporter facile service. Thank you. I'll ask Alassan Piro from UPU headquarters in Switzerland to tell us a little bit about the UPU strategy for helping the member countries expand with these types of programs. We at the UPU level we have the obligation to act as a center of excellence to the world. To be in a position to do so we have to look at all of the best initiatives and projects around the world initiated by a personal organization and see how at the UPU level we can add more value to national initiatives to make it worldwide solution throughout the personal network. The challenge for us personal individual personal organizations, UPU International Bureau it's more or less the same in the trade area because it is about delivering economic and social development focusing on the need of countries countries that are striving to boost the exploitation creating employment creating health for the economy. We also focus on companies that are striving to export to have more access to foreign markets. We focus also on citizens because they want to access goods from anywhere in the world. Therefore we have to take the individual initiatives at country level study them and add value to them to make it a universal personal network solution to the world, to the people worldwide, to companies worldwide. I was fortunate enough to go to Brazil to work with the people there to understand what it is, what is exporter facile. I went also to some other countries that have adopted exporter facile to see what they are doing exporter facile if also their experiences some difficulties that we may address all together to make it the best solution for the industry, for the economy. You may all know that there will never be any easy export solution if there is no easy import solution. If you send a good from one country and in a transit country the goods are stranded or in the destination country there are bottlenecks then that's a problem to the exporting company and that unfortunately happens from time to time due to specific national regulations or difficulties.


Hi, Jeff Frick here from the Cube offices in Palo Alto, California, welcoming you to a special Cube conversation that we're going to have today on Bitcoin. As you may have seen last week, Greg Stewart and I took the Cube gear out to Stanford Stadium to cover the California Classico, the fourth annual contest between the San Jose earthquakes of Major League Soccer versus the LA Galaxy. It's a big event game. They have it at Stanford Stadium, 50,000 people showed up. A lot of pomp and circumstance, parachutes, et cetera, but we went out there as the Cube to really see what impact tech was having on the game, on the fan experience, et cetera. Really a follow up to the conversation we had with David Koval at SportsDataSV at AT&T Park earlier this year. So we had a great time going out there, but one of the interesting innovations that we covered was the earthquake's introduction of Bitcoin, both as a way for fans to purchase merchandise right there out of the little fan, merchandise cart, as well as tickets. So we met with Richard Fidesco, who was the Senior Director of Business, Intelligence and Sports Science for the earthquakes, a great little interview. He's doing not only Bitcoin, but other things, and I think you'll find it of interest. We're going to roll the interview and then have some conversations with Marcus and Hopkins, our own internal Dr. Bitcoin, after this segment. So we'll run this segment. Greg's got it queued up and we'll be right back. Welcome back. This is Jeff Rick here from the Cube. We're out at Stanford Stadium for the San Jose earthquakes versus the LA Galaxy, the California Classico. And I'm here with Rich Fidesco, Senior Director of Business, Intelligence. Rich, thanks for spending a few minutes with us. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it. Awesome. So what Rich is working on, which we thought was pretty interesting, we know the audience is really interested. Bitcoin, right? A lot of talk about Bitcoin, it's a lot of speculation about Bitcoin, what's Bitcoin? People doing crazy back alley stuff with Bitcoin. But here, what can you buy with Bitcoin from the earthquake? You can buy any merchandise you want. You have, you know, we partner with Coinbase. So anybody that has Bitcoin, they can just download the Coinbase wallet from there. They just go to our merch stand here, pick out whatever they want. And it's a really simple, probably like one minute transaction, just really similar to credit cards and whatnot. We have a tablet that we just punch in the amounts. And from there, all you're doing is scanning your phone with the encrypted Bitcoin amount. And with the push of a button, you send the Bitcoin to us and we send the receipt. And there you go. You have your merchandise with Bitcoin. So talk a little bit about this initiative. I don't know that I've ever heard anyone taking Bitcoin at the stadium. And I'm a huge sports fan, I go to a lot of games. So where did this come from? Was it initiated from the Fanbase? Was it some innovation internally? What kind of made this happen? It was a combination. I mean, for us, I mean, Dave Cavill, our president, you know, really interested, he understands and as an organization, we understand we're in Silicon Valley. You know, this is the hub. This is the incubator for technology. And Bitcoin is obviously an interesting piece to that. And, you know, I know that in Palo Alto here, there's coffee shops that take Bitcoin and whatnot. And it just, you know, we talked to Coinbase who, you know, kind of brought it to our attention that it was a relatively easy transaction. And we partnered with them and they've been a great partner with us. To, you know, make it a seamless, easy opportunity for our fans. And, you know, we've done it, we did it a month ago at our last home game. We had 15 to 20 transactions. And we have a ton of people taking signs of, you know, we accept Bitcoin and stuff. So there's definitely, you know, a lot of interest and a lot of curiosity. So it's been it's been great so far. And we're interested to see where it's going to go. And with the new stadium, you know, the opportunities there. Yes, one of the things why we like to have in the earthquakes is because you guys are so progressive, right? 15 to 20 transactions, not a big transactions. Probably didn't cover the cost of putting the systems in. But it's innovation, it's excitement, it changes the flavor. People like it. Absolutely. I mean, I think that right now, yeah, you're seeing 15 to 20 transactions. We haven't really, you know, promoted it too much. But we think there's an opportunity for it to continue to grow. And it is an interesting thing.  You know, people hear about Bitcoin. We're kind of educating our fan base a little bit. And they're educating us in regards to if they want to do it or not. Yeah. So talk a little bit about the transaction itself, because most of the buzz or a lot of the buzz about Bitcoin is about the way that the price moves and fluctuates and is a speculation vehicle and what's going on. How do you work with that? You know, I just want to buy a $20 hat or a $100 jersey. How does that work? Well, it's pretty simple.  You can buy partial things, but you go on download the Coinbase app. You can buy Bitcoin via Coinbase. And then from there, you know, during the time that you're buying it, you know, the day of purchase, there's a dollar figure assigned to it. So on our end, all we're doing is using the Coinbase merchant app. We're just typing in the price of the actual merchandise. And it's then generating the actual price in Bitcoin. And from there, the fan is scanning it. And then they accept that this is how much it costs. And this is the Bitcoin equivalent. And then it transfers to us. And for us, because of Coinbase, you know, they're actually the intermediary. As the earthquakes, we don't really want to, you know, deal with the fluctuating market as much. So Coinbase allows it to immediately at that point of transaction deposit into our bank account in the cash equivalent that we sold our merchandise in.  But if it goes down, we don't want to, you know, worry about the fluctuating market. Right, right. So, Richard, title, Senior Director of Business Intelligence. So I want to shift gears a little bit away from Bitcoin and talk about some of the other business intelligence initiatives that you guys are doing to help the fan experience, to help run the organization from the team perspective or from the business perspective. What are some of the initiatives and things you guys are working on?  We've over the last year, we've implemented a new CRM system, Microsoft Dynamics and used other software, you know, our ticketing system, tickets.com, along with, you know, pulling in different marketing initiatives that all, you know, we want everything to talk to each other so we can get a full picture of the fan, what they're doing. And then as an organization, understanding it, you know, the full picture of costs and profits, you know, everything going into one. On the fan side, for next year at the new stadium, we're going to be launching a new stadium app, which we hope will be a great leap forward for our fans. We're really pushing mobile ticketing. So that, you know, the hub of that will be allowing our season ticket holders and our people who buy on the web to start out with, allow them to, you know, literally have their mobile phone and that's all they need. They can, you know, using, we're partnering with Parking Panda so people can buy their parking, reserve their parking, using their phone and then actually have it right there so an attendant can scan it. Then they can walk into the stadium or go to the, you know, as they're walking in, their ticket will pop up, they'll be able to scan their ticket. And then inside will have more, will have some personal notifications or some geofencing type things to, again, help fans understand where things are and potentially do some other things as well. Geofencing, I haven't, geofencing, there's a new one. So I just want to kind of follow up on that. Talk about the innovation of the company. What is it about the earthquakes and how do you foster an environment where you can really drive this kind of innovation? What's kind of the secret? What's the process? Why do you guys continue to try to stay out on that cutting edge? You know, it's a top down, you know, Dave came in our president and he, he laid it out there.  You know, there's a lot of other great ballparks out there. I mean, the Giants of AT&T Park, obviously Levi's is going to open up, you know, in August we're actually going to be the first event there. We hope to be there with you. Yeah, it'll be great.  And so, you know, that was the initiative put out there. And we are trying to follow through and listen to the fans, you know, at our current stadium, which isn't a great isn't great. But we're even doing, you know, we have mobile, you know, a lot of people to buy food and merchandise on their on their phone to get it delivered to them at games. So that was, you know, we really understood that our fans are tech savvy and they want this and for us to be, you know, good business people and to make sure our fans keep coming back, we have to feed that and keep pushing the envelope and that's it's critical for us as an organization. And is he charging you with like assigning 10% of your time to do something new?  I mean, you know, talk about kind of down in the weeds. How do you keep coming up with with new things? Is it huge, huge steps forward? Are you just continuing innovation? A lot of the honesty, Dave has amazing connections.  We're in Silicon Valley. There are so many startups and Dave is on so many different boards. He's constantly getting all these different startups and, you know, organizations that really want to push technology, you know, coming to him. And then what ends up happening is he'll then kind of direct them to me. And I sit down with, you know, 10, you know, I'm on the phone or in person meetings with, you know, like 10 or 15 of these, probably a week. And, you know, trying to understand realistically, is there an opportunity? How far along are they? You know, we love being beta clients for different opportunities because, you know, it's it's an opportunity to learn from people that really want to do it and push forward. And also, you know, it's a good it's costly for us. We doesn't cost us very much, you know, to be to help them.  And so from there, I'm kind of sifting through and seeing realistically what might make sense for the organization, what might not. And, you know, from that, we've we've gotten these different opportunities to the the order, which is the the seat, you know, order at your seat and whatnot.  I mean, we're going to be working with Nomi, which is another, you know, company that does mobile and things as well. So like it really is. I mean, a lot of connections, a lot of people just telling us, hey, here's different options for you and us sitting down and seeing if they make sense and trying to work with them, because a lot of them have good ideas and some of them are going places. And for those that are, we want to be a part of it. Yeah, that's great. And I'm sure some percentage of those things, you know, wash out or it doesn't work out, but really a great, you know, kind of culture of innovation to listen, take the call, hear what people have to say and give it a try. Absolutely. Now, we love interacting and talking and learning. So it's been it's been great, you know, and we anybody else out there that has these great ideas, we're always looking for him. Awesome. Awesome. So, Rich Fidesco, thanks for stopping by at the Cube. Tell us a little bit about Bitcoin. Greg's behind the camera. He's going to buy a hat.  Senior Director of Business Intelligence. Good luck tonight. And we look forward to hoping to see you leave eyes and then at the new stadium, I guess in March, right? Absolutely. All right, thanks a lot. All right, take care. Oh, great. Welcome back. So I hope you enjoyed that segment with Richard. I thought it was pretty informative and we'd like to introduce for the the next part of this show, calling in from Dallas, Marcus and Hopkins, the founding editor, Silicon Angle, and also the the writer of the popular blog post Dr. Bitcoin. So, Mark, can you hear me? I can hear you. Yes. Great. So, I don't know if you'd seen that before. I'd love to get your reaction to the interview with Richard. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, I'd watched it when it hit the YouTube channel. I hadn't I'd missed the last couple of minutes of it where he was starting the first watch through when he was talking about geofencing. That was an interesting thing. I actually use geofencing with my limited. I've been working on automating my home. And so I use like a little thing whenever we the family gets to the house. We turn on the the Nest thermostat with with a geofence. And I but I hadn't seen any like commercial application that. So it's kind of cool to see that them kind of applying technology innovation across the board. Yes. So it's interesting to note. I don't know that I would consider the earthquakes to be, you know, a very, you know, big brand. Obviously, a real reflection of kind of mainstream adoption of of Bitcoin. But I wonder if it is if not a mainstream, certainly part of leading indicator and and before the call, you shared some some sites of some other companies that are starting to take Bitcoin. Obviously, we all saw the Tesla announcement.  But I wonder if you can talk a little bit about how the adoption of Bitcoin as a payment method is starting to gain traction in the marketplace. And who are some of the other examples that you can cite? Yeah. So I mean, you're you're seeing two types of commercial Bitcoin adopters and you're seeing it not not just like as in company types, but as in types of in ways they adopt. And he talked about the way that in segment, he talked about the way that they handle the Bitcoin transaction and the price volatility. And they allow Coinbase essentially to take the to de-risk it for them and immediately deposit the cash equivalent of the Bitcoin as the transaction occurs or the day of the transaction occurs.  So that that that right there in my mind is one type of Bitcoin adopter. And you're seeing a few of those. You're seeing I think the Kings adopt that model as well. You're seeing probably I haven't heard word from this, but I've heard. But I think one eight hundred flowers is most likely doing that as well. Companies that allow Coinbase and BitPay and other middleman transaction, merchant services companies that facilitate Bitcoin are tending to do this sort of thing. They allow these companies to kind of act as a PayPal for them and not really let BitPay and Coinbase assume the risk and then not hold Bitcoin. And then you're seeing folks like Overstock.com, like Tesla, like, let's see, well, New Egg just announced this week. And of course, Tiger Direct has been around for a little while. Where you're seeing these companies where they're in varying degrees going whole hog into the Bitcoin ecosystem and not only holding Bitcoin from customer transactions, but also trying to set up their supply chain to accept Bitcoin so that they don't have to change in and out of multiple currencies. They can just live in a Bitcoin centric world and changed into other currency types as need arises. So it's interesting because one of the main tenets of a Bitcoin economy or a cyber currency economy is the fact that there is no trusted intermediary required that basically the encryption algorithm fulfills that fulfills that that role. So is that kind of breakdown in the example that the earthquakes use where you are using Coinbase as kind of that trusted third party intermediary? Yeah, well, I mean, I wouldn't say it breaks down, but it definitely it it mitigates the the benefit to a certain extent. I mean, Bitcoin is still fundamentally decentralized, but the way Bitcoin is served up to the user with services like and by user, I mean merchant in this case, the way it's served up to the user is in a centralized sort of way. Now, there are other kinds of web wallets that are out there and web merchant services that are more, I guess, you could say, Bitcoin native, but Coinbase, in particular, kind of serves as like a Bitcoin bank. Like they basically have a virtual vault where the bitcoins are stored and secured and it creates, you know, a central point of attack. I guess, so to speak, if Coinbase goes out of business, you know, so goes, you know, the horde of bitcoins.  I certainly don't want to speak ill of them. But at the end of the day, you do have to trust them. Whereas Bitcoin, you have to trust the algorithm, not a company. So I've got I've got a theory I want to run by you. And it's and I ask it on most of my Bitcoin conversations.  One is just a way to hold value so you can carry it around. The second way is to exchange value for a burrito or whatever else you're trying to buy. And the third value is really the speculative value of that unit versus other ways of holding a value, whether it be a euro or another currency of Bitcoin, etc. And it seems to me that on the Bitcoin side, there's just a lot of activity, noise, discussion around the speculative nature of the way the price is fluctuated quite wildly at times versus the former two ways, holding value and trading value that I think is ultimately the best role that a currency can play. So to me, it seems like the adoption of Bitcoin will accelerate when there's less emphasis on the speculative piece in terms of making money on on the raise in value of a Bitcoin versus an alternative way, an anonymous way to hold value and exchange value. So I wonder if you've got any any opinions on that perception and and can you validate are we moving more towards the discussion around holding value and exchanging value versus the speculative nature as an alternative currency to dollars? Yeah, certainly. I mean, in Bitcoin, there's a there's a million you could spend. You could sit around all day and discuss all the interesting aspects and what makes Bitcoin unique. And I think that's that's the first thing you have to address when you talk about Bitcoin is the fact that this is this is really like no other financial instrument that's ever existed because it reduces so many would have kind of been like ivory tower functions of banking functions that were reserved for a small subset of of the populace, you know, the banking elite, and it puts it in the hands of everybody. So that speculation is no longer just, you know, a few thousand people that live on Wall Street or that work on Wall Street in New York City and other financial centers around the world. It's it's the whole planet that has an interest in Bitcoin can now speculate on it. So that does unique things to any market, you know, let alone Bitcoin market. So but putting that aside for a second, I think that we are progressing towards a more mature cryptocurrency market. I think by virtue of the fact, you're seeing such large and I went for the, you know, increasingly risk averse companies. I mean, Tesla, which was one of the first major brands to accept Bitcoin, you can't you can call the many things that risk averse is not one of them. But you look at a company like New Egg, which has been around for what, like a decade, decade and a half, they're, you know, that's that's a significant risk for them, like they're putting a business on the line on, you know, on a currency that hasn't been tested in the courts, you know, like if, you know, how the IRS is going to react to certain accounting practices, I mean, they've said what they want to do. But, you know, it's not been there's not a lot of precedent for that. The things can certainly change because it's early days. But because of the benefits, particularly for merchants, are you're seeing you're seeing a lot of increasingly risk averse companies jump into Bitcoin. And I think as the price goes up, because of speculation, you're going to see less and less emphasis on speculation. And the reason why is well, like anybody on a minimum wage salary could have bought in a Bitcoin, maybe dropped 500 Bitcoin, $500 on Bitcoin in 2009, 2010. And today they could, you know, buy their own yacht in a small island in the Caribbean, right? That can never happen again. The price of Bitcoin right now is in the six hundreds. That puts Bitcoin fundamentally out of the price range of the average Joe, you know. And so they can't there's not a temptation or this this this possibility of everybody, you know, speculating and becoming an overnight millionaire. I mean, yes, there are significant gains to be made as as Bitcoin progresses. But you're going to see that that potential pool of investors and those guys, people with dollar signs in their eyes are going to decrease as time progresses, just because of the price of Bitcoin puts it out of the reach of the average person. I don't know. You raise all types of interesting questions. There are one one is kind of the role of the government. And at the end of the day, it's going to be the taxing authority who's going to flex their muscle, as we saw with with pretty much every innovation. The government, you know, wants to get their piece, especially when it comes to the taxation. And I'm wondering in terms of the accounting, how that's how that's taken care of, where's it tracked? You know, has there been any interesting court cases? And the second part, which you just mentioned about the price of Bitcoin getting more expensive and kind of out of the realm of the ordinary guy. I would say that would potentially create more potential abuse as you do now kind of get back to a concentration of power, which you said originally was was part of the Bitcoin issue was to get it out of a small group of hands of control. But will that in fact happen as the price of Bitcoin gets to a point where it's going to be well financed people that can go in and potentially move the markets either illegally, maliciously or to their own benefit? So, A, give us an update on what's happening with government and taxation and specifically around merchants having to pay the sales tax back to the government, which they're going to want. And B, is there now a consolidation of power based as a function of the pricing of Bitcoin that's now moving it away from, as you said, the guy making minimum wage. You can't buy any bitcoins, at least at six hundred bucks a unit. So, all right, I'll address the government thing first, because that's easier. That's an easier question to answer. That that's there's been a lot of announcements this year by various government agencies. And there are two prevailing ways that there's two ways, one of them prevailing and that of how the government use Bitcoin. Most government agencies, particularly when it comes to, you know, prosecuting people for violations of the law, most government agencies regard Bitcoin as a, quote, unquote, digital currency or a, quote, unquote, foreign currency. So they're regarding it in one of those two ways. And that's fairly universal around the world. Notably, notable exceptions to that regard of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is China and the IRS, who the China Banking Authority have an IRS, kind of have a similar opinion that Bitcoin is a property or a commodity to be invested in. And that's how the IRS wants you to report Bitcoin and it gets into a very complex, almost untenable way of reporting, unless you're using computer-assisted accounting.  Some sort of weird first in, first out capital gains tax type situation that even I have a hard time articulating. But it's, I mean, it's really one of those consult your account in situations and then go buy the software that makes it work right, because otherwise you're going to owe a lot of money and or be liable for a lot of money that you don't understand, you know, how to calculate. Now, with regard to your other question, and I should say as a kind of a bookend to that, I think there's still more, quote, unquote, innovation in the regulation to go. The IRS clearly does not understand how Bitcoin works or they're being intentionally obtuse to kind of push people away from it, which I don't think is working actually. So my guess is if I had to make a prediction today that they're going to drastically change the way that they approach the taxation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies down the line. And to answer your other question, your other question kind of about centralization of power, I think that's interesting. And I will preface anything I say that intelligent minds can disagree on this. There's a lot of discussion here, like almost philosophical discussion, certainly economic system discussion. But my personal opinion is, you know, and is based on a couple of facts that I can back up is that I don't think that you'll see any kind of quote, unquote, centralization of power. Not in the way that we see in the current financial markets at any rate. And that's because the way Bitcoin is regulated, self-regulated, self-governed, it doesn't have much to do with who has the money. It has more to do with, you know, the way the algorithm works, the way the mining markets are working and the way the the open source is being updated.   It's to Bill Gates advantage into the Bitcoin core code. He's still, even after that's done, you still have to get the buy in of the entire Bitcoin mining community. And if it's not in their best interest to and that's thousands and thousands, if not millions of people around the world. And it's not in their best interest to, you know, muck about in the core code of Bitcoin, then they're not going to do it. And it doesn't matter how much money Bill Gates throws at the problem. I mean, unless he throws that throws at the problem, more money than it's in the entire Bitcoin ecosystem, which at that point, it's a little bit self-defeating. Now, market manipulation is another matter. And I, you know, that is Bitcoin is certainly vulnerable in that department because it is an open market and the market cap of Bitcoin itself is below the market cap of many rich people in the world alone, rich governments. So it is susceptible to manipulation, certainly, over the long term. I don't see that as an issue because, you know, as an advocate or almost almost an evangelist, I won't call myself an evangelist for Bitcoin, but as someone who's extremely interested in it and would like to see it continue, my thought is that it's going to grow. It shows so many advantages to so many people that it's going to grow bigger than any one bad actor could manipulate past. You're going to see a lot of people unorganized, you know, like you see like the Winklevoss, you're going to see other rich people, other investment groups jumping in, and it'll be just like any other market. All kinds of people trying to manipulate markets, but because it is decentralized nature and it's almost foreign nature, right? It's not like any other stock market on the planet. High frequency trading isn't really a thing that the effects of HFT are much more mitigated in Bitcoin due to a number of factors than they are in actual markets or in Wall Street markets. So I think that I guess this is just kind of a broad answer to everything, but in many ways, the effects of traditional market manipulation are just plain old mitigated due to the decentralized nature and the chaotic nature of the beast. Yeah, I guess I guess time will tell what what right now is the size of the Bitcoin market. How many Bitcoins are there in terms of value? You said it's less than. Well, let me see. I can figure up right now. Let me take me just a second. But then while you're pulling that out, how, how, how often and what's the rate of new value being added, not in terms of changes in the value of a Bitcoin, but in terms of new coins being mined, I guess is the right vocabulary.  Well, I mean, it varies. So every every few minutes, you get another 25 Bitcoin. So if you go to blockchain.info. You can kind of there's a there's a real time updating screen there where you can see right on the top age of like, let's see, this is the transactions. You want to go to the stats. So time between blocks is roughly 8.73 minutes. It was, you know, kind of set up to be about 10 minutes. But about every 8.73 minutes, you've got a new block, a new block of transactions that is verified by Bitcoin miners out there. And there's roughly 20, I mean, there's well, not roughly, there is exactly 25 Bitcoins created with every new block. And, you know, over time that will decrease that that is the amount of Bitcoins created by a new block. It's on a set scale that decreases over time until we reach the maximum amount of Bitcoins that will be minted ever. So that's already prescribed. There's already prescribed number that once it hits that there's no more to be created 21 million Bitcoins is the maximum number of Bitcoins that will ever be minted 21 million. Yes. And that's what makes it deflationary over time, is that like like any other limited resource as demand goes up and supply remains the same, the cost or the the product will go up. And what's to stop somebody from making the 21st million and first and one Bitcoin? 21 and well, the core code of Bitcoin. And like I said, the core code would have to be modified and then all Bitcoin miners and Bitcoin users that use the wallet to prevent a hard fork would have to agree to basically update. Everyone have to update their code to accept a change in like the supply of Bitcoin. OK, OK. So looking at the trends, you know, you follow this very closely. You watch what's going on. You're on top of the news. What is kind of the next big hill for the Bitcoin phenomenon to take in terms of its its adoption or, you know, kind of mainstream adoption? What what's the next significant thing that's going to happen? That'll be an indication of that. Well, I think it's going to be. So in terms of mainstream adoption, you've got to see some more brick and mortar adoption right now. And you've got to see more successes in brick and mortar. And one thing that I heard from from from your interview there with the earthquakes that was a little bit disappointing with me was the volume of transaction that happened there in person. What was it, like 21 transactions? Is that right? Am I remembering that number correctly? Yeah, something like 15 to 20. 15 to 20, right? What time frame was that? Was that like the day opening day or was that like over all time? Or I don't know if it was per event or all time. I mean, it's a very small number. Clearly it's it's almost more of a PR move than it is a real, you know, business move. And it's it's a reflection of I think the earthquakes desire to be, you know, cutting edge and, you know, they're in Silicon Valley, they want to be that way. But clearly it's not, you know, it's not a big number. You know, I would say it's it's not really meaning. And that was what surprised me, right? Because if you look at like one of the one of the articles that I sent you and I think we cover this in Silicon Angle as well was a coin desk. They wrote an article on Overstock. They interviewed CEO Patrick Byrne, 1.6 million Bitcoin 1.6 million in Bitcoin sales over the course of like, I don't know, it was like a weekend or the week.  And that was what stunned everybody and kind of got other legitimate brands interested in paying attention to Bitcoin. So but again, Overstock is an online only brand, right? So they're they're they're playing to a global market. So, you know, I think so when you ask me, what's the mix big hurdle for Bitcoin for on its way to mainstream adoption is there has to be a solid brick and mortar win, right? You're seeing is particularly in Silicon Valley, which is surprising to me. You're seeing Bitcoin brick and mortar adoption lagging. There are other cities that we visit on the spring tour with the cube that had a lot more Bitcoin. Las Vegas has more Bitcoin adoption than in certain cities in Silicon Valley, which, you know, is interesting, maybe not surprising, given the gambling aspect of things, but it's definitely interesting. And so once those successes start to get reported with brick and mortar and become more widely widely known about, then I think you're going to see that's going to be the next big uptick and the other major watershed event that's going to have to happen is the realization of the value of supply chain integration with Bitcoin. And that is because one of the main benefits for Bitcoin for a merchant is avoiding charge backs. I mean, plain and simple, that could be like up to 20 percent or more for other businesses of the cost of running the business is charge backs and Bitcoin eliminates that because it's an irreversible transaction just like cash. So once you see and that's great, but once you see integration of a company that does accept Bitcoin, where they're not just buying it and cashing it out the dollar, but holding it and then using it to pay their suppliers with and thereby avoiding even more banking fees, you're going to see a lot more a lot more kind of adoption across the board. Once the realization of the benefits of B to B Bitcoin as opposed to B to C. It's interesting. I again, I think for that to happen, it's got to be much more steady in its value fluctuation because if most merchants not big ones, obviously, but a lot of them are not in the business of arbitrage and currency. And that's a very different business than buying and selling t-shirts or buying and selling groceries. So I think once the volatility of the pricing reduces and so that it becomes a little bit better and a little bit more consistent holder of value, then potentially you'll see more adoption of actually holding Bitcoin and doing more back end transactions on Bitcoin versus kind of a front end novelty, which it still seems to be a lot of these places, obviously not all of them. And then I think too, 21 million is just it's not a big number in terms of if this thing ever really rocks and rolls. It'll be interesting to see if that ever gets readdressed. But but we've been running a lot of work here before we sign out. So, you know, so with with with regard to the Bitcoin 21 million thing, you don't have to have like I have right now in my my wallet on my phone. I've got two point nine one and a bunch of numbers past the decimal point, bitcoins. So you don't have to spend whole bitcoins at a time. And you don't you can even own like less than a hundredth hundredth of a Bitcoin as and if that that hundredth of a Bitcoin, you know, in 15 years could be worth, you know, $5,000, right? You know, that's it's infinitely divisible. And that that's an easy thing to make. So I don't think that's that's that's not too big of a stumbling block for Bitcoin. I don't see that they may add more decimal points as time goes on. You know, God willing, that means those that hold Bitcoin today are going to be very, very rich. But the with with regard to the fluctuation, there's an exact number that you can put on that, right? So 20 percent is kind of the average loss for a normal, non quote unquote, non risky business that they lose to charge backs. So if you see Bitcoin fluctuation not within the range of like a swing of less than 20 percent, then that is the exact point in which Bitcoin becomes less risky. Then using credit cards as a primary way of interacting financially with your customers. I mean, just that's the simple math. That's a number as a quantifiable number because you're losing, you know, 20 percent of all value held to use, you know, to use credit card systems and fighting bad actors. And if your price is staying relatively stable, which it is, if you look at Bitcoinity.org, which tracks the Bitcoin price historically going back four years, you can see the price over the last, let's see, the last seven days and the last month has only swung. Let's see, let's look back 30 days. It's only swung point oh seven percent in either direction in the last 24 hours and three percent back and forth in the last 30 days. So stability is here, right? We're much more stable, you know, at Bitcoin being, you know, $600 a coin than we were back when it was $11 a coin shooting up to 1200 and back down to 600. I mean, this and it's been like this for for many months now. So especially given all the crazy news that's coming out of the Bitcoin world, this is remarkable that it's become this stable this quick. Most credit card transactions are nowhere near 20. Where's the 20 coming from? Is this just like I've read reports kind of circulating around. So there was a report that the it's like kind of like a big global economy thing that the IMF put out that kind of talked about merchant merchant accounts and remittance remittance markets a few weeks or a few months ago, actually, that talked about, you know, how much of the world. I mean, it's like the ones like how many billions are in the remittance markets and, you know, where the margins were on that. And, you know, how it was it was it was a report strip, particularly about the opportunities for cryptocurrency. And one of the things that it mentioned was, you know, online businesses fighting fighting charge backs. That's a lot higher than kind of a typical good U.S. company plays to a typical bank. But but anyway, so there's a lot of things are moving. So thanks, Mark, for joining us. Thanks everyone else for tuning in. We will continue to update the story as we go out to talk to more merchants as Bitcoin adoption continues to increase. Thanks for Mark for joining us again. Great interview with Richard Fidesco at Earthquakes. I'm Jeff Frick. We're a CUBE Conversation in Palo Alto, California. We'll catch you next time. Thanks.


It's a 3% done of 365 climate edits. So hello, my name is Jan Einle, or user Einle on the Wikis. I'm the co-founder of Wikimedia for Sustainable Development, and I've been around in the movement for quite some time. Hello. And this project was inspired by a very great project, 100 Wikidays challenge, which is a challenge where you compete towards yourself or with yourself to create one new article a day for 100 days in a row. And many people have done this, and it's become a thing, and there's people doing it over and over and so forth. And two years ago in Wikimedia, I was giving a talk about how we should use the Sustainable Development goals as our topics for impact, which is part of the strategy recommendations to select all that and what topics to write about. And these two ideas sort of connected in my head. So for 2022, I had a New Year's resolution, which I talked about in a podcast I'm creating, that I should make one new article about the climate per week. And I was giving myself just one per week instead of one per day, because I knew I was very busy. But even that turned out to be too hard, because writing articles about the climate, it's a tricky topic, it requires a lot of research. So I failed quite miserably, and I knew quite early. So I need to rethink this, because I didn't want to give up on the idea. So what I came up with instead was, well, if I just make a small edit, then I can build a habit. And if I make a small edit, I can make it more often. And that will also be better to build a habit. So why don't I try to make at least one edit every day for a full year? And that was the idea behind the 365 climate edits. To really get into the topic space and get a feel for what's happening, always stay up to date and always adding and improving incrementally like we do on the Wikimedia projects. So how is this going then? Well, it's quite fun. And it's actually building a habit. And the edits themselves aren't that hard. It's usually quite quick to make the edit. And the fun and the tricky part is to figure out what to edit in, because there's so much things that you can do. And I'll show you a few examples later. Life is also unpredictable and hard sometimes. And my father passed away, but thanks to already building a habit, this also helps me in a sense to get a sense. I managed to edit even through that period. However, falling in love was even harder because that made me miss one day. So I'm one day not done with this edit. But it's not only me who's on this challenge on this journey. So there's 14 other people to join and anyone can join at any time. It hasn't to be an exact calendar year. So you can join in whenever you want and you just note your date and then try to go for 365 days in a row. And you can be as hard on yourself as you want to. This is mostly a challenge for yourself to build a habit in the 100 Wikidays challenge. People are usually very hard on themselves and start over, so you do as you want with that. But it's also very hard to get good statistics on this because we're doing this across all different projects. There is a tool, a hashtag search tool where if you add a hashtag in your edit summary, you can search for them there. But it has a few drawbacks. So for one, it doesn't scan Wikidata at all yet. I don't know why, but that's the case. So those edits are sort of missing in the tool and I edit Wikidata a lot. So the challenge is not to prove to anyone else, it's to prove to yourself. So if you know you've made an edit, that's fine. And then it's also hard, like if you upload a Wikimedia image to Wikimedia Commons, that won't give you normally a chance to do an edit summary and the same if you use the translation tool, then you can't. And then you might think, why aren't you using a dashboard? But of course, this is just one edit per day and most Wikimedians are much more active than so. So that would sort of totally be a mess in that if you try to track one Wikimedians edits for an entire year, it will be all over the place. Or you would have to sort of manually add each article and even that would be messy. So I see this mostly as a way for yourself to complete the challenge and we'll take your word for it if you do. And then if we think about edits, it's very hard. So we can sort of estimate that on this Thursday when this is on Wikimedia, if taking consideration when people were joining, then we should have over 3,000 edits. No one has reported themselves to have dropped out. And if everybody completes a year, these 14, that will be over 5,000 edits. But of course, you can also join right now and make this number even higher. But then again, it's not about the number per se. I think this is about building a habit to be connected to the topic area, to get your feels for what's going on and what's needed, what's missing and what you like to be doing because even if this is a challenge, it's supposed to be a fun challenge and edit out of joy. So let's show a couple of example of what people have been doing over the time. And very straightforward thing is to correct grammar or correct typos. Here we see just a verb being changed and you see the 365 climate edits hashtag in the edit summary. So that's how we can find them like this. Or you can add sources, always valuable. Even if you don't need add extra text to it, that will be super good for the next reader that comes here. Or you can add media. If you find on commons not being used, there's even campaigns about this. I think it's called WPWP campaign, Wikipedia, wanting pictures or something like that. So that is also very good. And you can sort of compete or be in two challenges at the same time. Or you can go out and take photos of things that are connected. And here's an electric car with solar roof which is sort of connected to climate but you can also in WikiLabs Earth find this or there are other campaigns like Wiki for Human Rights. Also fits into this even though that's not a photo challenge. And you can edit Wiki data and those are very atomic so it's quite easy but it's often also very valuable to add these small things because that connects the net and makes things queryable. So even this edit that seems quite small makes it possible to connect which laws are connected to global warming which might be a super interesting query in the future. Or you can do something a little bit more with sources which is always good. And here we can also see me trying to use the 365 climate edits on Wiki data but it does not show up in the two hashtags search too. And then of course you can create like scenes on Wiki data and here's an example of something I did in one day but of course this is there are maybe 10 edits to get it because it's so, but they're also quite small. So sometimes I like to just do like a small task in Wiki data even if it's more than one edit. I think that's quite fun and it's also fun, fine and fun. And then we have our great translation tool which I really enjoy working with but it also has the drawback you can't really add a hashtag in it but often you also need to go in and polish it afterwards there's a few things and sometimes you some things you might be missing some templates that you use in your Wiki that wasn't in the source Wiki that you go in it and then of course you can add the hashtag in those edits. So I invite you all to join the 365 climate edits. It's a challenge for yourself and you just sign up and you start and you can start today or you can start tomorrow or in a week, it doesn't really matter.  Thank you.


What's going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here So we're going to be talking about totally killer in this video here today This will be a spoiler free review for totally killer which releases on prime video later this week This is directed by the notch cacan. I believe this is how you pronounce this individual's name It's written by David Melodin, Sasha Pearl raver and Jen D'Angelo Now this is starring Kiernan shipka Olivia Holt, Julie Bowen, Randall Park Lyanna Liberardo and several others so after Jamie's mother's friends are Murdered by the sweet 16 killer on Halloween. She travels back into time to 1987 Where she pairs up with her mom to stop the young would-be killer and get back to her timeline before she's trapped in the past forever Now totally killer is most definitely back to the future mixed with all the lovable qualities of scream while also taking a page out of films like happy death day Friday the 13th 80s horror in general and Films like freaky as well. Yes, the final girls is similar to this, but this was certainly more on par with Chris Landon's happy death day movies More specifically that first one the former love has led to a rather heartwarming slasher comedy that fans of the slasher genre like myself should enjoy Which I did enjoy this I do like it I say should though because I didn't particularly love the film the way I was hoping I would it's just not a poorly made project either the Influence from that films like mean girls had on this project are undeniable and aid in keeping me invested in its story But aspects of it just felt undercooked is all I wish I did love it But I still liked it for what it was the writers are delivering a likable protagonist and Jamie Who has an arc reminiscent of trees and happy death day minus the mean girl aspects? Over time she slowly begins to appreciate things in her life like her mother that she initially is taking for granted someone who was very overprotective and for reasons we do find out in the movie a Familiar but still effective way to get your audience to invest in your main lead like obviously having her go through these challenges with her mother and going through challenges of Having somebody in your life who you initially are kind of just taking for granted And then you over time as the film progresses are learning that you need to start listening to your mother stuff like that It's very simple, but still very effective and heartwarming pulling at all of the emotions for anyone who loves their mother obviously Which I hope most of you do as well-rounded as Jamie is the same cannot be said for everyone else Who just becomes forgettable or barely stands out despite the solid acting? But that bring these roles to life Kiernan ship that did a great job fantastic job I would say as Jamie, but there was this one scene where I'm convinced They just decided to use the worst take of her fake crime because it was awful when you see it I hope I'm not the only one who thinks that I just thought that that was the one instance from a performance That was completely awful Otherwise Kiernan was very convincing in this role. The most humorous aspect of this film is Jamie's reactions to the 80s culture Yes back then people made jokes that wouldn't be accepted today So naturally we get a lot of humor that always landed for me Probably the screenplay strongest asset to be honest since it's a compelling examination of teens of old Versus teens today totally killers pacing sacrifices an opportunity to really dig into Jamie and her mother's Relationship which makes it challenging to fully invest in the obvious riff that exists Still Olivia Haltz who plays a younger version of Jamie's mother was a wonderful addition to the cast For those of you asking about liana liberardo. She did an amazing job She's part of this group called the mollies.  I want to see what happens to you. What happens to you matters to me I didn't care the gore in the film though And some of the scenes that happened involving stabs and water beds all of that stuff was Very satisfying to see to me Especially with some of the individuals that they were doing it with because while some of them were un Were one-dimensional most of them were one-dimensional a lot of them were also not very Likeable to me. So I took pleasure in seeing some of them get killed the way that they did now A lot of the mystery aspect was kind of flat and really felt secondary despite Jamie taking time to Them are her way out of this situation. The killer reveal was Shocking cohesive and relevant to the times they were in now. I say shocking as someone who actually Knew who the killer was going into this. Thanks to the draft notes. I was sent a few months ago. However They still managed to dig up something That I didn't see coming and that was what still made the killer reveal shocking cohesive And it also aided in keeping me Off the radar of a particular individual because of the fact that I was like, whoa I didn't see that coming then it came and I was like, ah, that makes sense So nice job there from the writing department screen fans. You should love this again the pacing For the movie. I really think it's killing a lot of the aspects because the reveal It's very underwhelming since it's just breezing through allowing allowing almost no time to ingest it all So I was kind of just like, oh well while that was cool. It's also again one of the more forgettable aspects of the movie I would say this has solid direction I would say it has again solid performances. It has a solid screenplay there's just aspects of the direction that are taken away from The film's obvious attempts to have a more heartfelt angle such as the fact that her mother and her The mother daughter rift. It's just not going to invest be worth investing in fully for a lot of people When you barely dig into and that's what totally totally killers mistake primarily is for me Other than that, it's a very good movie. I would honestly give this a 6.5 out of 10 You guys can let me know what you think about totally killer down the conversation Well, some of you might have already seen it if you were at fantastic That's I just had a screener since me earlier this past week on like friday or so But let me know again what you think about this down in the comment section below If you haven't already, of course, make sure you subscribe turn on post notification I can never miss a video in the description. 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Nurses we wear many hats. There's many roles and you just slide into that role whatever is needed at that time. The hybrid nurse I think just elevates it a little bit more because now we're mixing standard care and research. Historically many institutions the nursing department and the research department are two separate departments in any institution. We want research and nursing to be more connected if you're at City of Hope. The idea of the hybrid nurse is a nurse who can do everything. Research as well as you know standard of care, procedures, transplants. We are part of this whole extraordinary team working with the principal investigators working with the positions, the clinical nurse research nurses, the coordinators. You know we all work together for the patient. It's all a team effort. We read up on you know the disease itself, the studies to make sure that we're prepared and make sure that you know whatever the patient needs like you know we're ready. Nurses we spend quite a bit of time with the patients. We develop relationships with them and we can provide one-on-one teaching and it helps support patients to continue coming for their study, follow-up visits, reinforcing why you know this research is being done when it gets difficult coming to that appointment. As a patient I would expect you know when I'm when I need care I want the best care and that involves an organization that's very good at doing established care that's safe as well as the new innovative research therapies that are coming along. That's the concept of the hybrid nurse. Nursing has evolved over these years you know what we're able to do, what we're able to get trained on. For many nurses there are two worlds that just kind of ran parallel and I think we're seeing it intersect now a little bit more and it's just really exciting to be in that to be involved in the beginning of that. This paper we've written is just all the things we've done accelerating therapies for patients with unmet needs from HIV, sickle cell, hemiphilia, glioblastoma. I don't envision it's limited to these diseases you know the future is every disease that's out there.


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