Of all the lawyers that are on movies and TV, these are my top 10 black female lawyers. Keep watching to see if your favorite has made the list. It's Kyla Denigno and today we're talking about my 10 favorite black female lawyers on TV. So this video is going to end with my favorite. Okay? So make sure you keep watching so that you can find out who is my absolute favorite. So number 10 is Annalise Keating of How to Get Away with Murder. So How to Get Away with Murder was on air from 2014 to 2020. So when this show came out, I was already in law school. I was in law school from 2012 to 2015. So I tried to watch it, but let me tell you, I was busy. I was right in the throes of all of it, but there is one thing that I remember. For one, Annalise was a law professor. She also had her own practice on the side and she was including some of the students. So there were some problematic parts, right? If they were getting internships as 1Ls and I remember distinctly being told that I could not work as a 1L, right? You had to be an extreme exception to work as a 1L or either you were in school part time. But nonetheless, I remember when I tried to watch the show and a lot of the cases that they mentioned in the show were actual cases that we read as 1Ls and 2Ls. So I was like, okay, I do remember some of those cases from my criminal law, criminal procedure courses. I'm right. I had either just taken the bar or was about to. I wasn't trying to hear about all that. But I do remember Annalise being an incredible professor, also owning her own practice. So at number 10, Annalise Keating is my 10th favorite black actress on TV. So coming in at number nine is Rachel Zane. Rachel Zane is a character on the show Suits, which was on air from 2011 to 2019. So Rachel Zane has a special place in my heart because Rachel was apparently won the show. And really, we're seeing how Rachel knew her stuff. Her dad was a lawyer, so she had that pressure on her back of trying to live up to him and probably even wanting to step into his shoes. But Rachel does eventually go to law school, take the bar exam and become a lawyer. And so Rachel's trajectory was so important because it reminded me of a lot of stuff that I saw in law offices all the time. First of all, paralegals are incredible. There are so many memes out there where first and second year lawyers run to the paralegals to find out what's happening, right? Because the paralegals have been there for so long. They know their stuff. They know the people. They know the judges. They know where to file. They know the margins. They know all of it, right? And when you are a lawyer, you can turn in a memo. If it is not size 14 fine and your margins are not correct, it's being thrown out. But guess who will know? Your paralegal. And even if you forgot it from law school or never learned it, right? Paralegal tasks are different than lawyer tasks. And so maybe you didn't even learn it. But all that to say, the paralegal will know. So Rachel Zane was a paralegal and by the time the show ended, she actually had become a fool on attorney actually. Not even a lawyer and a law school graduate, but she actually passed the bar exam and became an attorney. So Rachel Zane is number nine on my list of top 10 black female lawyers on TV. Coming in at number eight is Renee Radick from the show Ally McBeal. Ally McBeal was on air from 1997 to 2002. So Renee Radick was a district attorney. So Ally McBeal was a lawyer and Ally McBeal worked at this big kooky law firm and all this other stuff. But then Renee was actually on the public sector side working as a district attorney. And so it was interesting to see the relationship. It was interesting to see the different stresses that they both had because they were on different sides of the table technically. And so the time that the show was on, I don't remember if I watched it real time because that was when I was in high school, you know, not to age myself too much. And then I remember that Renee was one of the first characters that I remember looking at and being like, I could be a lawyer. Oh, I could definitely be a lawyer. Oh my God, look at her. I was like, she's not toning herself down to go to court. Her hair doesn't always have to be pulled back and perfect. And I'm like, she used to be her. She used to be curly hair, red curly hair. She used to be doing this stuff. She is her in law. So yeah, I would definitely say that Renee Radick was one of the people that had me thinking, I bet law school would be pretty awesome. All right. So number seven of my favorite black women lawyers is Molly Carter. Now, Molly Carter is from the show Insecure. Insecure was on air from 2016 to 2021. So she was an associate. And one of my favorite things about Molly as a black woman lawyer on TV was the honesty in her character. So Molly off jump winning, she was the lawyer, right? And it was a really good justification to see Molly and Issa and how Issa didn't have her stuff together. But then Molly had her stuff together career-wise, right? And you've got to see all the different levels and the different struggles of Molly, right? So you've got to see her get jealous when co-workers were getting engaged. You've got to see a time where she picked up someone's check and it wasn't her.  But she was still super underpaid compared to the white men and the other white associates in the office, right? And so then she makes lateral moves, which is to a different firm. So her track was so honest. And I would say that Molly is at number seven because Molly is what people want lawyers to be, which is you go to school, you hustle, you grind, you study, you make all this money afterwards. That doesn't always happen. I talk to lawyers every single week on my podcast where we talk about how's life, what happened after law school, how are you doing? That doesn't always happen. So I mean, she was crushing it, but yeah, Molly is number seven on my list of top 10 black boyers on TV. All right, so coming in at number six of the list is Joan Clayton. Joan Clayton is a character on the show Girlfriends, which was on from 2000 to 2006. And Joan was an associate at a law firm. She's trying to work her way up. She's trying to become partner. She's really good friends with one of the black male lawyers. He ends up being partner. So there's a whole dynamic there. And I love to see her trajectory and how she even transitioned away from the law into owning a restaurant and doing all these other things. So Joan was definitely a well-rounded and kooky character. So she was great to see. And it definitely was nice to see another lawyer portrayed on TV. So coming in at number five, the dearest Claire Huxtable. So Claire Huxtable is a character on The Cosby Show, which was on air from 1984 to 1992. Now, Claire Huxtable is my all-time favorite because she's Claire Huxtable. She is, she is it. I promise you she was my first impression of black women lawyers. I promise you she was the first time I saw a black woman lawyer on TV. I know it, I know it, I know it. But listen, she was Rudy's mom. I was young, 1984 to 1992. She was just Rudy's mom. It did not mean not dare nothing to me that she was a lawyer. I saw it, but it definitely wasn't until I watched reruns of the show where I was like, oh yeah, she was a lawyer. No, I wanted to make her higher up on this list, but she is Rudy's mom. Yes, she's awesome, yes, she's so witty, but important black female lawyer on TV, absolutely. But she comes in at number five for me on this list because that's Rudy's mom. So coming in at number four is Lola Carmichael. Lola Carmichael is a judge on the show All Rise, which started in 2019 and is still currently running in 2022. Now Lola Carmichael is so important because she's a judge. Kyla, I thought this list was black women lawyers. Wait a minute. So, did you know you can become a judge without being a lawyer? It's true. It is true. There are a number of states where you do not even have to be a lawyer to become a judge. You can either be elected to judge or you can only do misdemeanor cases. It's a whole, Google it, it's out there. You do not have to be a lawyer to become a judge in the United States of America. So there. So the fact that Lola Carmichael was a lawyer, she talks about being a lawyer is a huge deal, right? So Lola is in this list because when I was a little girl I wanted to be a judge. I had no idea what that meant, but I definitely used to wear my dad's black cotton robe around the house and act like I was a judge and boss my two brothers around. I remember it very distinctly and I was like, being a judge is so cool. And it wasn't until I got older where I realized, oh, to be a judge I have to have a legal background. You have to go to law school. There's more to it, right? When she become a judge or get elected, you go to judicial college. That's where you learn the nitty-gritty details. But in most states and definitely in the state of Ohio, I would have to have a law degree and sometimes practice even, be a practicing lawyer to become a judge. So yeah, Lola Carmichael can make this list of black women lawyers on TV because she definitely is a black lawyer on TV. So coming in at number three is Kate Sacker. Kate Sacker is a character on the show Billions, which started in 2016, and which is still currently on the air, okay? So Billions is this crazy drama about billionaires and district attorneys fighting and all of this big tech money stuff. But Kate Sacker is an assistant district attorney. So she's on the public sector side fighting to protect the people. And you get to see her learn from her absolutely kooky, intelligent, genius boss. Chuck Rhodes is a hot mess. And one of my favorite things about Kate is the reaction she gives, okay? She will read you with her eyes and you will be like, I don't like your tone of voice. I have just cut you completely out, right? But she's respectful.  So one of my favorite things about Kate is that she moves from being the assistant district attorney to actually going in-house right in the most recent season. She actually moved and went in-house and decided to work with a corporation. And that is not unlikely, right? A lot of times people will learn, get a lot of information from the public sector and then go in-house because a lot of times the money is different or if you have ambitions of running for office, you'll go to the private sector or vice versa. You'll start private sector and then go public, you know? But she has this big wealthy family that she has a lot of money. She has this big wealthy family that she came from, all of these demands, all of these pressures to be amazing and she still creates her own path, right? It was not the obvious choice for her to go work in-house but I love that she did it. And bonus for you, if you did not know this, the actress playing Kate Sacker, Condola Rashad is the daughter of Felicia Rashad and Amad Rashad. Take a look at this picture. She looks just like her mama. And so in loving the show and then doing the research for this list, I was like, look at you, you get it, honest. So I absolutely love Kate Sacker on the show, Billions. And that's why she is in at number three.  The obvious choice is in at number two. And that's Olivia Pope. Olivia Pope? It's Olivia Pope. This don't gotta be your top 10 list of mine and Olivia Pope is in at number two. Olivia Pope is a character from the show, Scandal which was on air from 2012 to 2018. Now, Olivia Pope is a lawyer.  Her whole thing was a scandal. It was handled because she was a lawyer and lawyers get it done. But she was a lawyer. She had her group of other lawyers who were with her. She also had her group of investigators, right? So you have Huck over here and they were doing a lot of stuff but most of them were also lawyers. And so Olivia had this entire life, this entire really public relationship and all of this going on. But one of my favorite things about Olivia Pope is that she was a legal MacGyver, okay? If you watched the show MacGyver, the new one or the old one, okay, I'm old. If you watched either of them, MacGyver would just find a way to get it done. And that was Olivia Pope. That was part of her saying it's handled. You tell me the issue? Stop there, say less. It's handled. She will find a way to work it out and in every single episode, the conflict would present itself. She would handle it, it was done. I'm a lawyer, I'm knocking it out, right? And so that was one of the things I loved about Olivia Pope. When she came into a room, she stole all the attention. She stole all the energy. Every black woman I knew wanted to be walking into a room, walking so hard that her hair is pushing back like we walk with our own fan just owning it, right? We were like, do it, do it, Livy. And so yes, Olivia Pope is definitely in at number two for my top 10 black women lawyers on TV. So here we are at number one. Number one for me is Maxine Shaw, attorney at law.   Maxine Shaw is a character from the show Living Single which was won air from 1993 to 1998. And Maxine Shaw was dope, hands down. I can watch Living Single every single episode right now from the beginning. That show was brilliant. Living Single walked so that Sex and the City could run, okay, four characters, a lawyer is one of them. You got the kooky one like Sinclair and Cary. You got the really flirty one like Regine and Samantha. And he has the goody, goody sweetheart like Charlotte and Khadija, right? So you have all of those four types going on based in New York. And I was just, everything about it, yes. And so Maxine Shaw, we always saw her in these suits. We saw her with the briefcases, but most importantly, the hair. She had dreadlocks, they were short, they were asymmetrical, they were long, they were in a bun, they were Maxine Shaw and this hair, listen, this is so relevant because it's 2002 when this is coming out and there was recently an act passed by Congress called the Crown Act, which says that people cannot be discriminated against based on their hair. Because you can have cornrows and still be intelligent and an amazing lawyer. You can have dreadlocks and be a lawyer. You can be bald, you can have purple hair, you can have whatever you want. You can have a giant puff. And you cannot be discriminated against because of your hair, but guess what? It wasn't on the books. And why is that important? Because sometimes when things are written down, people think they don't have to acknowledge them, okay? But Maxine Shaw crushed it. And of course there's more than your outfits to being a lawyer, right? And we did see some scenes of her going to work or her doing all of her stuff, definitely when she would be arguing with Kyle, who also was a lawyer, but it was just like Maxine Shaw was it. She was always given the good advice. She was always setting people straight and she just had a commanding presence where you were like, oh, if Maxine said it, it's the Bible truth. Maxine Shaw, number one in my book, a favorite black woman lawyers on TV, okay? So if you are still here, thank you for hanging out with me. Thank you for watching this. Give me a comment. Let me know. Do you agree with my list? Do you think that Claire Huckstable should have been hired? And please like this video. That really does help YouTube share this video with a bigger audience, okay? So thank you for hanging out with me today and I will see you next time. Bye.


I'm in Bacar Lau Kai in the northern mountainous regions of Vietnam. I'm Luke Nguyen and I'm here to see how Australia's aid program has been supporting the local people and improving their livelihoods. I'm also here to try all the delicious, wonderful foods, discover new produce and learn how they cook it. This busy, colourful and vibrant scene is Bacar's Sunday Market. It's about anything produced in this region of Vietnam you can find for sale right here. From livestock to beautiful fabrics. Some people spend the whole day travelling here just to sell their wares. I want to know more about where all these beautiful fresh vegetables come from. So I'm going to talk to Ms Min who is at the market to sell produce from her garden. This is your market? That's mine. This is cat's vegetable. This is local vegetable.  This is from the factory. Do you store them in your market? It's safe to eat. It's a bit spicy. Yes, it's spicy. Ms Min said she'd take me to visit her vegetable garden. Soon as she'd finished selling everything, so I thought I'd better lend a hand. This is your product? Thank you. Thank you very much. Hello. My first 10,000 dong. This is a lollipop. This is a lollipop. Everything she sells at her market is grown right here. How do you know how to do this? I have a government project. This is my business. This is my business. This is my business. So Ms Min and other local women have received training from the Australian government through the Australian Centre for International Agriculture Research known as ACR. On how to grow safe healthy vegetables with minimal use of chemicals as well as how to develop and reach markets as far away as Hanoi. ACR does research for development style projects. A research for development project is one in which we take the issues that these farmers are facing, the problems that they're facing and come up with solutions that are practical, that work, and are that economic. Vegetable producers in Northwest Vietnam face many challenges such as rapidly changing markets, competition with lowland producers and regional producers, poor infrastructure and issues with transport logistics for getting product to market in good condition. To see where the vegetables are prepared for the wholesalers, we need to head to the women's cooperative. One cabbage won't make it to the dinner table in Hanoi though. This means picking this one for our lunch. I was so impressed with the range of fresh, safe vegetables already to be transported to Hanoi. There is a real demand in Vietnam these days for safe produce. All it took was to ensure the quality of the vegetables and then connect the growers to the buyers. The result is a higher profit for these hard-working women in Laokai and of course healthier food for Vietnam. I love this. This is a great co-op supported by the Australian government bringing them together but giving them ideas, marketing ideas, entrepreneurial ideas and giving them confidence that yes, we can do this ourselves and have a better profit. It's absolutely fantastic, loving it. Now the moment I've been waiting for. Time to try cooking with some of these fresh local produce. Miss Min showed me how to make a local specialty, cabbage rolls with minced pork. Then it was my turn. A rice noodle only found in this region of Baka. This purple coloured noodle is typically served in a broth. Now I don't think Miss Min had seen a fried like this before. Just smash it like that so it's flattened. I'm going to throw that in, cook the garlic. I want to get nice colour on that. Put in some of that gailan that's slightly blanched that goes in and that buffalo I cooked before that goes in too. Loves a lot of flavour. Elegant, that goes all over the dish. I love the produce of these northern mountainous areas. Very unique. Now I've told all of my chef friends about the wonderful fresh produce grown here in Baka. Grown safely and sustainably. We can't wait to bring it back together and cook up a feast. Thank you. See you later. So much fun.


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Andy Hibachi talk. Gordo the techs are here by myself again. So Mr. Lanning is off scuba diving in Palau. Some people have it tough and some have to work. I'm working. Anyway, thanks for joining us here in Hibachi talk. Grab yourself a libation, pull up, sit down and we're going to do something a little different today. I've been asked a number of times because I talk about cryptocurrency and Bitcoin. If I could ever explain to someone what cryptocurrency and Bitcoin are in less than 30 minutes. So that's going to be my task today, but without talking super, super fast. So we'll sit down here and we'll talk about cryptocurrency and what it is, how it works. And then maybe in a future show, if I get more responses and so on, we can talk about the governmental ethic issues related and surrounding this particular form of currency. So anyway, sit down. We'll spend the next few minutes and we'll talk about cryptocurrency and Bitcoin. And I'll talk about what that is and I'm going to try to make this easy for you. So in order to do this, so we got to step back in time. We got to take a little step back in time. So let's go back in time and talk about in the early days. And unfortunately, I can remember these days when we used to use barter.  And then you would be trading these different things in order to keep yourselves alive, but also it kept whatever the existing economy was alive at that time. And then over time, you know, governments got involved and they created this wonderful thing called cash. Now, believe it or not, I remember a time in my life when there was no such thing as a credit card or an ATM machine. And then as we've matured and evolved over the over the centuries and decades, centuries for me maybe, but decades for most of you, credit cards came about. And this is another form of currency that you could not have to take the cash out of your wallet and you could buy something and then you would accrue a debt, but then you would pay it back at the end of a certain period of time. And then it matured even further. You could accrue the debt and then you'd make the credit card companies a lot of money. And that was how that that evolved. And then along came this new form of currency. It's a cryptocurrency. And I'm going to get into this cryptocurrency and what that means and how that works around the how it works around the globe today. I mean, it's something that works around the globe today. So think of this and I'm going to try to turn this into something that will make it easy to understand, but I'm going to use a digital currency known as Bitcoin. Now, there are a number of different digital currencies out there. One is Bitcoin. That's been around for probably the longest. It came out in 2009 and a Bitcoin in 2009 was valued at about 13 cents. I'm going to save for you to the near the end of this program what a Bitcoin is worth now. Now, there are other currencies out there, digital currencies out there. One coin is a latest one. It's a new one. Bill Gates is very much involved in this one. Ethereum was one that I followed for a while because I thought the banks might be getting into this, but there's over 20 different types of digital currencies. But I'm just going to talk about the Bitcoin and how it works underneath the foundation of all digital currencies, the blockchain. And we'll talk about that as we move forward in this program. So let me tell you, you all have, not everybody, but anyone that travels and saves airline miles, you already have a form of digital currency. You have airline miles and they have value. I mean, you use them to buy plane tickets. You use them to rent cars.  That's a form of digital currency. Now, you're not holding the miles in your hand. You don't have them under your pillow. You just trust that the airlines that you have been flying with and the credit cards that you have been using and the car rental companies you've been going to have been accruing those digital miles for you. So that's a form of digital currency. So if you keep that in mind, you're kind of familiar with it already. Now, Bitcoin, though, by example, is not attached to any bank. There is no federal agency. There's no bank. There's no central issuing authority for Bitcoin. Now, we'll get into a little bit later in the program, but realize that if there's no central authority that can issue bitcoins. So now we'll go to the next thing. That's also when it comes to bitcoins from an organization standpoint. There's no government agency or whatever deciding when to make more bitcoins. Now, think about it. Governments can decide to print more dollars. They can print more lira. They can print more yen. It's up to the governments to decide when they want to print more. And when they do that, it impacts the value of that particular currency. You get inflation, deflation, all of those kinds that happen. So with that happening, there's no one trying to figure out how many bitcoins to make. And I'll talk later how bitcoins get created. But there's no one person out there saying, there's a lot of bitcoins out there. Let's make some more so that the value goes down or we need to have more of this. We can buy more. There's no one doing that. There's also a very unique way of keeping track of where the Bitcoin values are located. So there's no one out there keeping track of where they are. It's just not out there.  But then if that's the case, then why would you even want to get involved in Bitcoin? And we're going to talk about that next. And Bitcoin is monitored by people, you and I, not by governments. It's monitored by people on the internet and the worldwide web. They use a technology called cryptography. And that's a way of concealing the messages that go back and forth. There are hundreds of thousands of computers on the web that are tracking and monitoring what's going on in the cryptocurrency field. Again, I'll talk to you a little bit later like why would you even do that? And it's on this giant peer to peer network of computers all around the globe. So let's talk about peer to peer, because that's really kind of the point of it. Think about the day when and you're still doing it, but I can think of days when people were actually sharing music, not legally, people were sharing videos, not legally, and they're removing videos and music throughout the worldwide web and across across the world. And so that was happening. But Bitcoin is not quite like music or our video because video, you can make a copy music, you can make a copy of Bitcoin, or any other cryptocurrency, you cannot make another copy, you cannot duplicate it. It is what it is. There's one. And that's all that that's it. So now we take a look at so we've talked about Bitcoin, the currency itself. Now, but how does it work? How does it work within the worldwide web? And how do we secure it? And how do we make sure that it has value? Well, there's a thing called the blockchain, and it can get very complicated.  And you may want to come back and look at this video a couple of times. And if you look at a couple of times, hopefully it'll it'll set in. But Bitcoin is an entry in a huge global global ledger. So if you think a ledger is a book, right? So it's an entry about this Bitcoin in the ledger. Now, how am I going to explain to you how that how that's going to work? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to move forward and talk about things. So record the ledger, which I talked about was this book, records every Bitcoin transaction that ever happens throughout the entire worldwide web. So every single Bitcoin transaction. At the end of 2016, the ledger was 107,000 was 107 gigabytes of data was on that ledger. Think of the size of the ledger you would have to have to be doing this. But it's out there and it's it there's multiple copies of it. So here is this ledger. So now what do I do? How do I how do I send a Bitcoin? So I want to let's say I'm going to send a Bitcoin to Angus and how does the the blockchain and the ledger track that Bitcoin that I have that it knows I have and sends to Angus who has the ability to receive that Bitcoin. So we'll talk about that next. But how am I going to do this? So I'm going to use poker as an example. I'm assuming that most people that are watching this know how to play a game of poker.  But what happens if you have no money or no chips? How are you going to track what goes on? So what we'll do is we'll give everybody a piece of paper, a ledger, and they can write on that the bets.  Then we get our next set of cards and someone says, OK, I'm going to bet two chips. They see or don't. This one does. Again, and we all write it in the ledger until the hand is played out and then the winner wins.  And we all make a note of who that is and we say, yes, OK, Susie, you won. That's in the ledger and we're going to make note. We know that you deserve this amount of money. That gets recorded into the ledger and also gets recorded then into the blockchain. So we've just taken that and pushed that into the blockchain. So now what happens is that there are other people looking at that ledger besides the people here at the table because people are playing poker all over the world and everybody's watching all the different games and tracking all the different things that are going on and they're comparing the ledgers to make sure everything is OK and that those non-physical dollars or chips are being transferred all around the worldwide web and around all the players that are in there playing the game. Can you imagine after if you've got hundreds of thousands of poker games going on there's a lot of transaction happening because every bet is a transaction that's happening. So let's now we'll go to the notes. We'll just kind of elaborate a little bit further on the blockchain. So millions of people are playing poker. We don't have money. We're all tracking the blockchain. Some are playing. Some are playing but some are just watching. Some are just watching the games but they're also recording them and making note of what's happening. Those are called miners and I'm going to talk to you in a little bit about miners and the importance of who the miners are. So everyone is looking at all the different poker games going on. Everybody's making entries into the ledger. Every time there's a winner that gets moved into the from the ledger and is entered into the blockchain so that the rest of the world knows that Susie won that particular hand in poker and we're letting everybody know that it's there but there's also people checking the checkers to make sure that this was all valid. So that's what's happening within the blockchain.  So what happens is you end up having to get yourself an account number. Well we're all used to getting account numbers. You have an account number at your bank, you have an account number at your credit card, you have account numbers everywhere.   So how many and they know how many bitcoins you're sending, they know when you're sending them, all of those kinds of things. So your account number, your account number of the person you're sending the bitcoins to and how many bitcoins you are sending. So now we move on. Hopefully you're following this but it's happening but how secure is it? I mean we all know with our credit card transactions that you've got people monitoring and watching what's going over there. So account numbers, which is the one I just talked about, is not enough. So in the cryptocurrency world, Bitcoin world, there's a cryptography piece that's added which means the transactions that are being happening over the worldwide web are encrypted so no one can see what's happening. But also what's happened on that, keys have been added to make it even more secure. So there's another set of another layer that's in there. So and then to make it even more secure, there's a thing called mathematical chunks of information that can be used to compute whether this transaction is real. And I'm going to get into those in a little bit more detail as we move along. So let's take a look and see what you've got here. So you've got your account number, which will be like an electronic wallet. So hold that spot. 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But I hope that you come back and visit us and watch our show Education Movers, Shakers and Reformers here on ThinkTech Hawaii. It's at noon every Wednesday. See you then. How you doing? Welcome back to Hibachi Talk. Go to the Tech Star here and today by myself and we're talking about cryptocurrencies and bitcoins. So I'm trying to do a Bitcoin 101 if you will here to try to introduce people to what this really is. So we talked earlier on at the beginning of the program about cryptocurrency. We talked about the ledger. We talked about Bitcoin and we talked about the blockchain and how those all fit together. So now let's talk about how we execute and move forward with a transaction.  So it's a wallet that's on your mobile device. It looks like a QR code and that's your unique private key. So call that your signature. And we all have our own unique signature when we sign a paper or whatever. They always check to make sure that's your signature. This is your unique signature and it's on your mobile device. So you're carrying this around and that is carrying your private key. But there's also a public key that everybody else can see that can verify that your signature and you are who you are. And that's what's sitting out there in the public and that's what everybody sees. It's the combination of this private key and public key that helps make this secure. So the head of again, so the private key has data about you. Let's call it your signature. The public key is used to verify that that signature is really you. Just like when you go to sign it when you sign your banks, right, you have the notary to check what you're doing. And they verify that that's your signature. So the public key is verifying that your signature. Then everyone knows that every time I try to do a transaction and move a Bitcoin from one place to another, it gets verified on the worldwide web using, in addition to other things, these keys. And we talked about what those other things were earlier on. So now this has to be confirmed. This is where we're going to get into some really kind of cool stuff. So I have sent a Bitcoin to Angus. Angus has a private key and there's a public key out there that confirms who he is. There's my key. This private says this is me. And that's my public key as well. It also confirms and verifies that I do have the bitcoins available to me to be able to send them to Angus. So there's people out there that track that on their ledger. Remember we talked about the ledger? Track that on their ledger to make sure that that happens. That transaction is confirmed. And once that transaction is confirmed, it's added to the blockchain. The moment it goes to the blockchain, this is where some exciting things happen. But what has to happen first is a win factor. And I call it a win factor because when did this transaction happen? Because let's say I have 10 bitcoins. I could say okay, let me do this. I'm going to give 10 to Angus and 10 to Andrew and 10 to Zuri and then 10 to somebody else. But I may only have 10. So there's a win factor in both the Bitcoin network and your digital wallet automatically checked for previous transactions to verify that you have the amount of bitcoins available to you that you're going to move on to the next person. So again, another layer that goes in there to ensure that this digital currency is available. That's still not enough. The system is still designed is still not enough. And what they've added to it is a math problem to every single transaction is called a cryptographic hash function that must be solved by these track, well those tracking the transactions. So remember I told you there's miners tracking the transactions and there was other people monitoring the transactions like the poker game. This is another piece that has to happen in order to verify that this transaction can occur. So hash function, you know this gets to be really tough and I tried to simplify this as best I could. So what it does is it takes multiple input sizes and turns them into a single output. So for example 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 equals 10. So there's right, multiples 1 plus 2 plus 4 equals 10. You know the answer is 10. Well that's easy to figure out. But here's the big challenge. How do I know what was used to create the answer 10? And this is what happens with the hash function. It's a algorithm that computers use to determine that what created this transaction to get the answer 10 was either 1 plus 2 plus 3 or 4 or it was a 5 plus 5 or was 3 plus 2 plus 5 could be any one of those combinations. And that's known as the hash, it's hashing. That's what happens. Not the hashing you use on Twitter. They're different. So it's different than that. So you end up with 1 plus 2 plus 3 or 4 to get the answer 10. But we have to determine the miners or those viewing it which one was used to create the transaction. And so hash functions have been around for a period of time. The one that we use or Bitcoin uses I should say is hash function SHA256. And so it's it's just that the tool that computers use to try to determine what gave the answer number 10. So pages and pages are in your ledger and notebook.  Some are playing and some are monitoring what's going on trying to solve this equation. Now why would they want to do this? Well you'll find out in just a second. So everybody's doing this to verify that I really did transfer my one Bitcoin to Angus. I had it. I hadn't given it to someone else and Angus had the right to take it. So secure hash algorithm 256 comes in. It was divided developed by the United States of America National Security Agency. And it takes a computer on average 10 minutes to verify that how I how I created the number 10. Whether it was one plus two plus four or five plus five. So the computer system goes through all this and it makes the determination and it takes about 10 minutes. So think of hundreds of thousands of computers around the world tracking my Bitcoin going from me to Angus with all the security I mentioned earlier and then saying OK I figured it out this is what they used to create the number. I should get a price. Well they do get a price. Whoever solves the problem gets 12 today at this point. 12.5 new Bitcoin. Now think about it. I solved the problem. I verified that Texar sent Angus one Bitcoin. I verified it. You give me I get from the system or we get added to the system 12.5 new bitcoins. Once that 12.5 new bitcoins go into the system the same thing happens. They have to verify that those 12.5 bitcoins are available and the 12.5 bitcoins get to go to the miner that found them. So now we're back into the circle and that's how that's how new bitcoins get added to the system. Remember earlier on I talked about a government can say we're going to add more currency. This is how bitcoins get added to the system. And this is this goes back into the blockchain and another transaction occurs and they go through the whole verification process again. Another miner finds that one goes back to square one and away we go. And in the meantime people are moving bitcoins all over the globe back and forth to each other buying and selling things and every time they do that this is happening. So this whole whole series of organizations out there that do nothing but mine bitcoins to get their 12.5 bitcoins. There's millions of computers doing this right now. So why would I want to do this? Well today a bitcoins worth a thousand US dollars. One bitcoin is worth a thousand US dollars. In 2009 a bitcoin was worth 13 cents. You just do the math. So right now one bitcoin is worth a thousand US dollars and I can buy things with it and I'll talk about that in just a few minutes. So miners get 12.5 new bitcoins for solving the problem. They also and that's the math problem and they also get a small tip. And the reason they get a small tip because at some point in time 2140 because it's all math in the year 2140 there will be no more bitcoins being added to the system and the only thing that the miners are going to get is the tip. And the anticipation is that the value of the bitcoin will be significantly more at that point in time. So every so every time these transactions or ledgers are going into the blockchain they're counted. When we get 210,000 blocks new ones added the number of bitcoins that the miner will get will get cut in half. So they'll go from 12.5 to 6 and a quarter and then when 210,000 hit again it'll drop again and drop again. But based on the math and what's happening it's 2140 we will go to no more bitcoins being added into the system. So who takes bitcoin? Why do I want to do this? I mean like who really cares? Is anyone taking bitcoin? Well if you go online and you can just google it on Bing or Bing it on Google you can just say who takes bitcoin and there's all kinds of ways that and options out there. Microsoft takes bitcoin, Subway takes bitcoin, Expedia takes bitcoin, Remax London in the UK take bitcoin for real estate transactions. Tessa will take bitcoin for you're buying your car. Bloomberg now Bloomberg are huge investment organization they take bitcoin. Walmart takes bitcoin, Home Depot takes bitcoin, Kmart save the children, nonprofits takes bitcoin, GJB and Associates that's me takes bitcoin, Hibachi Talk takes bitcoin. If you want to tip us for doing this program you can go to the Hibachi Talk website and it says right up there give Hibachi Talk a bitcoin and or a portion of a bitcoin. You can give us a millionth of a bitcoin. I don't care and tip us for putting on the show. Go to Think Tech of Why and give them a bitcoin. If they won't take it give it to me and I'll give it to Think Tech of Why. So there's just a whole number of things that can happen in that space. So is investing bitcoin a good idea? Don't ask me. I'm not I am not going to tell you whether or not it's a good idea to invest in bitcoin. It is shaking up the globe on how currencies are being passed around the globe and here's I'm going to give you a couple of examples of things that make it kind of very unique. Poor countries who are making $2 a week in their salary and dollar amounts, they can't afford the costs of credit card transactions. They can't afford the cost of banking but what you find they do can't afford and have been affording across across the nation are mobile devices. These countries many of the people have mobile devices and if they can use cryptocurrency like a bitcoin to do a transaction with their friends or their business associates they can do that and there's literally minor minuscule charges for it not three or five percent like next to nothing percent charges for doing that. So now all of a sudden a $2 transaction can be handled well within the bitcoin model or cryptocurrency model because if they get broken down into a millionth of a bitcoin and they can start moving these things around. So you're seeing a lot now in Mexico, you're seeing a lot now happening in North Africa, in Somalia, India, the Philippines. A lot of those countries now are using bitcoin as a form of transaction of money even though we can't see it to buy and sell their goods. The other thing that I find is interesting and I have a business associate who is working for a company that's in the bitcoin business and he he's working not in the U.S. he's working in another country and his total paycheck is given to him in bitcoin. So his pit his salary is bitcoin and he works there because that's how he wants to get paid. Think about the implications of that. No government is managing, controlling, and tracking bitcoin. That's tax-free money. I'm not telling you it's legal or illegal, I'm just telling you right now it's tax-free money. So if he's making the equivalent of a hundred thousand U.S. dollars per year in bitcoin that he can use to transact almost anything, guess what? He gets a hundred thousand dollars. It's not a hundred thousand dollars, that's 25 or 35 percent. Based on your income bracket it's a hundred thousand dollars. So just think about what those implications are doing. The state of Hawaii is talking about now taxing all of your online transactions. So what if I start now saying instead of my online transactions being taxed I'm going to start doing with bitcoin. I'll give you another example. Amazon. Amazon does not take bitcoin but there are sites where I can go and buy Amazon gift cards at a discount and then use that gift card to buy my amazon product. All kinds of different ways to work around it. Anyway, so I kind of walked you through in 30, well less than 30 minutes how cryptocurrencies work, how the bitcoin works. You'll probably have to go back and look at this a couple of times. Think about the poker game and think about what it is. But don't ask me if you should invest in bitcoin. And as I like to thank you guys for watching this again. I watch you talk. We'll see you next week. We got a super guest next week by the way. It's gonna be awesome.