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So for smooth tasting, smooth tempered breakfast that baby your budget, ask for delicious thrifty Grape-Nuts Flakes in the big 12-ounce package. Since we're at the Army Air Base at Santa Ana, we would like to re-enact the scene which took place last Thursday when two cadets from this very field paid a visit to Jack Benny at his home in Beverly Hills. Oh, Don, who wants to hear about that? Jack and Rochester were hard at work in the kitchen, as I understand it, little suspecting that anyone would drop here. Oh, boy, that sure smells good. I got spurs that jingle jangle jingle as I go riding. See what else? Tomatoes, vinegar, onions.  Rochester, did you cut up those onions? Oh, pull yourself together. How many onions you got there? About five more if you want any more. Yes, get busy. And stop crying. Look, Rochester, if the onions make you cry while you're chopping them up, don't stand so close to them. Close to them? I'm using a hoe now. All right, I'll do the onions. And you get these jars ready. Have you got the labels? Here they are. Mother Benny's old-fashioned homemade chili sauce. Hey, they're pretty fancy, aren't they? Yeah, and I like our new slogan, aren't chili as hot on rump roast apart? Get us plenty of customers. Well, I might as well finish these onions myself. And this sauce don't look just right. You know, boss, I don't think we got enough tomatoes in here. Tomatoes in here. Shall I put some more tomatoes in, Mr. Benny? There's plenty of tomatoes in there. Well, the onions are ready. Dump them in, Rochester. Okay. I want to get all this stuff cooked and bottled before Ms. Livingston gets here. I promise to take her shopping. It's only $10.30, boss. $10.30? Oh, my goodness. Tune in the radio, Rochester. Tune it in. What's the matter? It's time for that program. Tune in the radio. Oh, yes! Yes! Sally Sutton! I don't want to miss today's episode. Here's the station, boss. Thank heaven. And so, she in up, but with tear the endow. Sally Sutton has given up hope of a reconciliation with her husband, Paul, and decided on the most drastic of all steps, a divorce. Her husband has been playing around, Rochester. That's all she can do. Isn't she got a razor? No. As we fade in on the Sutton cottage, a cottage that was once a happy American home, we find Sally in conference with her friend and advisor, old Judge Hooper. Sally is speaking. I can't go on, Judge Hooper. I can't go on like this. It's too much. There, there now, Sally. Hey, Sally, honey. And I have to admire the way you've gone through all this. Shin up, but with tear, dim dyes. You said it. Tell me, old Judge Hooper, what shall I do about Paul? You might as well face it, Sally, honey. Paul's a drinking man. And if when there's one thing I can't stand, it's a drinking man. Well, what's that? I think the old Judge is loaded. Oh, he couldn't be. And your advice, Judge? You just got to get a divorce, Sally, honey. Oh, my goodness. Sally's house is on fire. That's us, boys. The chili sauce just boiled over. Yeah, it's from Sarah. Come in. Why, it's old Doc Thompson. Hello, Sally. Hello, old Judge Hooper. Hello, old Doc, honey. He calls everybody, honey. I've got bad news for you, Sally. It's about your husband, Paul. Paul, what about Paul? The emergency hospital called just now and told me. Yes? The true husband. Yes, yes? The true husband, Paul. Yes, yes, yes? There goes that gold darn radio again. Fix it? Yes, hit it. Take it. Shake it. That's the way you fix your alarm clock. Oh, man. All the time for this thing to go haywire, I want to know what happened to Paul. Oh, hello, Mary. Hello, Jack. You ready to take me shopping? I can't take you now, Mary. Paul's in the emergency hospital. Paul Whiteman? No. Paul Sutton. The darn radio went on the blink. Right in the middle of the heartache of Sally Sutton. Fix it, boys. Good. Good. It's working again. Quiet now. Quiet, Rochester. And so, don't forget to tune in tomorrow morning, for another installment in the heartaches of Sally Sutton. Well, I'll be... Till then, this is Truman Clap Saddle. Au revoir. Wait a minute. What happened to Paul?  I'll just have to wait until tomorrow morning, I guess. Let's get back to our canning, Rochester. What is that stuff, Jack? Home-made chili sauce. Come on, Rochester. Let's start pouring it in the bottles. You hold the bundle. Oh, fine. Chili sauce and Bromo Seltzer bottles. Well, I have a lot of them around. You know how I worry. Now, come on, Rochester. Let's get this stuff all bottled. I got spurs, that jingle, jingle, jingle. I got spurs, that jingle, jingle. As I go riding, Marilyn. As I go riding, Marilyn. What happened when the two cadets from Santa Ana visited Jack's home? As you remember, Jack, Mary, and Rochester were bottling chili sauce in the kitchen. As I go riding, Marilyn. There, that's that.  Three dozen, not counting the two that blew up. Blew up. I didn't hear any of them blow up. Look for yourself, boss. That ain't a sunset on the ceiling. Well, wipe it off. Come on, Mary. I'll take you shopping. The car's out in the driveway. Okay. And, incidentally, Mary, this will be your last ride in the Maxwell. I'm turning it in next week to the junk salvage drive. Do you think they'll take it? Yes. Come on, grab a few of these bottles. I got a rush order from the farmers market.  Oh, all right. I'll take it. There.  He's not crazy. Well, hello, Mr. Billingsley. Hello, Mr. Benny. Taking some of your blood to the Red Cross, I think. Hello, Mr. Billingsley. This is chili sauce. By the way, would you like to go to the farmers market with us? Oh, thank you. I must go out to my laboratory and work on my new parachute idea. Uh, what's that? I'm putting rip cards on mushrooms. Mushrooms for rip cards? For parachutes. Oh, my goodness. My goodness. Isn't that dangerous? Oh, yes. You might get a toast to. Well, goodbye, Mr. Benny. Goodbye. Bye, Joe. You certainly are. Now it's parachutes. That, Mr. Billingsley, certainly is a genius when it comes to inventing things. Oh, yeah. How about that wristwatch he made for me? What's the matter with that watch? Every time I go to wine, it's a hand get fresh with me. Don't stop dreaming things up, will you? See who's at the door, Rochester? OK, Mother Benny. That's only for the label. Now see who's at the door? OK. That Rochester is so lazy today. Well, naturally, it's Thursday, a day off. Not so loud. I didn't tear Wednesday off the calendar. Well, look who's here, Phil Harris. And he's got his baby with him. Hello, Phil. Hello, Jackson, Mary.  What? You brought a five-month-old baby all the way from Encino on a motorcycle? We only made one stop, Jackson. Changed oil and diapers. That kid's probably scared to death. Ah, Jackson, she loved it.  Hereditary? He means the runs in the family, Lily. I know what he means. Ah, there she goes giggling again. Oh, let me hold the baby, Phil. Ah, no, Mary. Just let her sit on the table here and play with these bottles. Careful now, darling. Careful now, sweetheart. Make a note of that, Rochester. One bottle of chili sauce to Mr. Harris, 15 cents. Sorry, Phil. Wait a minute.  This baby's a miner. I don't care if she's John L. Lewis. You're paying for that. Come on. Walk over. Now, now, baby. Here's another bottle of chili sauce to play with. Your daddy can afford it. Here. Here, take the bottle. There now. Look out. Smoke, she knocked him out. Quick, run. Sorry, Jackson, but my baby conked you with a bottle. Did the bottle break? Absolutely not. No sale, Jack. Now, I had listened, Phil. It's all right for you and your baby to come over and pay me a friendly visit.  I got a gal in Kalamazoo. I don't want to boast, but I know she's the toast of Kalamazoo. You some non-buy. My mind. But I like her looks when I carry the books in Kalamazoo.  Am I dreaming? I can hear screaming. Hiya, Mr. Jackson. Everything's OK.  She's something real. I'll make my bid for that freckled-faced kid I'm hurrying to. I'm going to Michigan to see the sweetest gal in Kalamazoo.  Am I dreaming? I can hear screaming. Hiya, Jackson. Everything's OK.  She's something real. I'll make my bid for that freckled-faced kid I'm hurrying to. I'm going to Michigan to see the sweetest gal in Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo. Hi, Phil Harris in the orchestra.  Why not serve your husband a bang up breakfast treat? Just try him on Grape Snuts Flakes. There you go again. Don, that's great, great. And now let us continue with our story of what happened when the two cadets from Santa Ana visited Jack in Beverly Hills. As we left Jack, you'd been knocked cold by a pack.  I'm glad Phil took the baby home. Believe me, the next time that kid starts after me, I'm going to be set. I'm going to be ready. Oh, put your fist down, killer. Well, I'm mad. Come on, let's take these bottles over to the market. You take the bottles, our Rochester. I'll answer the door. Coming, coming. I gots fur, that jingle, jingle, jingle. Oh, my head. As I go riding. Well, well, well, a couple of soldiers. Hello, fellas. Hey, we're cadets from Santa Ana. We're visiting the movie star's homes. You are? Yeah. Can you tell us where Miss Barbara Stanwick lives? Barbara Stanwick? Uh-huh. Yes, yes. She lives about four blocks down the street. But as long as you're visiting some of the big movie stars, this happens to be Jack Benny's house. I'm Benny. Oh, is your son at home? I'm Jack Benny, me. I mean, great. Not this place again. This is Jack Benny. Come on, come on in, boys. Say, what do you got that dress on for? Oh, this is an apron. I've been making chili sauce. Come on in. Oh, well, thanks just the same. But we're especially anxious to meet Barbara Stanwick. Oh, yes, yes. Babs. She's a swell girl. Babs? Who's Babs? That's Barbara Stanwick. You see, all of her close friends call her Babs. I'll tell you what, fellas. It's only a short way. I'll walk you over there. Come on, Jack. Let's go shopping. Oh, Mary, come here a minute.  She's a stooge on my program. What was that? Don't sneak up on me. Mary, these boys are cadets from Santa Ana. Oh, hello, fellas. Gee, Mary Livingston. Wow, a woman. I didn't know we had so many people in our front yard. Mary, Mary, I promised to take the boys over to Babs' house. Would you like to come along? Who's Babs? Babs Stanwick, Barbara. Come on, come on, fellas, let's go. I hope Babs is home. Guts furs, that jingle, jingle, jingle. Are you excited, boys? Oh, we sure are. Good afternoon. I'm Jack Benny. These two cadets would like to meet Miss Stanwick. Come on, fellas, let's go in. Just a moment, please. Miss Stanwick is taking a bab. Oh, oh, then I'll wait. You certainly will. You'll, uh, you'll love Babs, fellas. She's my favorite, too. Who's that at the door down there? Down there is the butler's name. It's me, Jack Benny. Hello, Barbara. There are people in her house, too. What do you want to see about? Jack, I told you yesterday. I've got enough. That's from Santa Ana with me. They want to meet you. Oh, then I'll be right down. Won't you step in and wait, folks? Thank you. My job, you certainly are. He must be a friend of Mr. Billings, please. Oh, oh, here's Barbara now. Hello, Mary. How are you, fellas? Hello, Barbara. Gee, glad to meet you, Miss Stanwick. We've sure been looking forward to this. Hiya, Barbara. Good heavens, Jack. What are you doing in that apron? Oh, Mary, why didn't you remind me to take off this apron? I didn't know if he had any pants on. I've got pants on, but you can't see them. That Rochester got so patriotic, he cut my cuffs away up to the knees. Sit down, fellas. Yes, please do. You know, the boys were over at my house, but they were a little impatient. They were just dying to meet Babs. Babs? Who's that? You are your close friends called you Babs. Well, I'll be darned. Well, by the way, would you boys care for a sandwich or something? Oh, no, thank you, Miss Stanwick. Just looking at you is enough. Well, how about your buddy? Do you like a sandwich? I'm looking at Miss Livingston. Say, I'm hungry, Barbara. I can stand a sandwich. Well, why don't you go out in the kitchen and make one? You're all dressed for us. Good, good. Well, never mind. I'll just have some of these walnuts here. May I? Head up, I'm not too late. Thanks.  My name is Bill Orr, and I'm going to be a bombardier. My buddy here, Peter Hayes, is studying to be a navigator. Well, that's wonderful. A bombardier and a navigator. I'd like to be a pilot. That's for me. Oh, gee, these nuts are good. Wait a minute, Jack. Well, how many did I eat? I don't mean that. I mean that the bombardier and the navigator are just as important as the pilot. Their jobs are equally as interesting and require just as much training. I can't be a... I can't be a pilot anyway. I'm over 26. Or did they raise the age limit to 36? Till they put wings on rocking chairs, you don't have to worry. I don't know about that. Boy, these are the best walnuts. Gee, Miss Stanwick, you sure got a beautiful home here. Well, I'm certainly happy you dropped in. Oh, by the way, where are you boys from? Well, I'm from Shranton, Pennsylvania. I've only been out here about two months. Shranton, Pennsylvania. And where are you from? I'm from St. Joe, Missouri. St. Joe, they love me there. Well, fellas, you've seen dabs or babs. Come back to my house. I'll call up some girls and the three of us will step out. Now, wait a minute, Jack. The boys will have a better time right here. Besides, I've seen those girls you go out with. Did you ever get a load of that one that floats around Beverly Hills on a broomstick? Oh, I know. Say, Mary, why don't you and I take the boys to the Brown Derby? There's usually a lot of picture people there. Oh, boy, the Brown Derby? Now, we can't go to the Brown Derby. They don't use my chili sauce. Oh, you and your chili sauce. I've tried it and it's awful. Oh, yeah? Have you ever tried it on lobster? Yes, and the lobster thumb display is at me. Well, naturally, a lobster has to be boiled. Boiled or sober, he didn't like it. Well, then I guess I better tear up that testimonial I signed your name to. Say, I've got an idea. Why can't we all go over to Bob Murphy? Now, look, Jack, you're not coming with us. You and I are going to have lunch with the two boys alone. Yes, and later this evening we'll go dancing at the Macambo. I can't go dancing. No, I'm asking you to go. Oh, they didn't, eh? Well, let me tell you something. These boys came all the way to Beverly Hills to see me, and I'm going alone. If you do, you'll pay the check. We'll see about that, sister. Now, shoot, Brooklyn bombshell. When it comes to showing these cadets a good time, I know the hotspots too. I didn't get these bags under my eyes for nothing. Two cadets from Santa Ana came to visit Barbara Stanwyck at her home in Beverly Hills. They came to visit me, Playfield. Gee, these nuts are good. And they're the result of food power. That's why it's so very important for every man and woman in America to eat nourishing food in this war emergency, especially the vital protective foods, food such as whole grain cereals. And that's why it's important to see the grape nut flakes appear regularly at your breakfast table.  This means that grape nut flakes supply important whole grain food values, including three essential nutrient developments, iron, niacin, and vitamin B1. In fact, grape nut flakes contain more B1 than you'll find in the whole grain itself.   The last number in the second program of the new grape of the new grape nut flakes program. Grape nut flakes. And we're with you at the same time next Sunday. I want to thank Barbara Stanwyck for coming over here to Santa Ana with us. Thanks, Barbara. Oh, you can call me bad. Hmm. Well, you see folks, and she loves my chili sauce too. Good night, everybody. Peter Lindhays and fellow art who appeared in our program are cadets here at Santa Ana. The presentation of the broadcast and the Army air base at Santa Ana is for the enjoyment of the officers and personnel and does not constitute an endorsement of our product by the War Department.


There is also this idea of multi-sensory stimming, which I've heard about from a couple of people talking about it on Instagram. One good example would be listening to some music that you like over and over again, and watching a music visualizer while you're looking at it. You could be wearing a weighted blanket at the same time. So you're compiling different stims from different areas into one kind of stimmy thing. One that I really highly recommend anyone to do is if you are okay with the water, of course, and if you feel like you can do this safely. Like, I love to just sink myself to the bottom of the pool and just like set myself off just like spinning. I absolutely love that. It's like the noise reduction from the water as well as like the weird kind of gravity feelings. It's just really nice and lovely and I really, really enjoy it, especially if there's like light coming through the water. You can see like the streams of light. Great sensory experience.


Here we go, Kasperzak in red is this the moment where he takes the silver medal a win for him And he will take it Pedersen off gate two in blue Troy bachelor gate three in white and Chris Harris off the outside Pedersen of course off game number two in blue Desperate for points to give him a real chance of a bronze medal Which would be a fine achievement in a year where he's been affected by injury as has Hancock the new champion Wolfenden the outgoing champion and Kasperzak here who's going for silver. This is he number 18 And away from the start Kasperzak has made a good one off game number one Now the back on the backsies Harris switch up the inside bachelor comes through and Pedersen's in the back right now But Chris off Kasperzak looking good here. Don't ride off Pedersen. He's gonna come back for more. Charges on the inside and doesn't leave any room at all No that's all hard move for Pedersen to get himself from last to second Harris now coming back at him Kasperzak out in front that's good news for him three points. We'll see him through to the silver medal How Harris's work brilliantly to get it to second place to get the better of Pedersen brilliant speedway I think Chris Harris is slightly wound up here He's number 18 Chris off Kasperzak Now he'll be in on the silver medal in the 2014 world speedway championship He's got the one leg to go. He missed the round in Tampana in Finland back in May. He was in the title hunt He's gonna make do with silver. It's a fantastic achievement Christoph Kasperzak is now officially world number two Brilliant speed back from Kasperzak lost his confidence midway through the series his bounce back Bound form he's been soaking system making finals all the time and fully deserves to celebrate It's been an outstanding season for the Polish national champion, of course World number two


Privacy and Coin Selection Algorithms Fungibility isn't optimal at the moment, with all addresses and transactions publicly visible in the rise of blockchain analytics firms. One area that seems to be of interest while we wait for confidential transactions and other privacy-enhancing implementations is improved coin selection algorithms. Could you explain how Samurai Wallet and other privacy-focused services choose their coin selection algorithms? What UTXO selection and change address creation best preserves privacy? Is there anything you can do yourself to obfuscate your transaction or mixing services the easiest and best way to go? This is a great question. At the moment, there aren't that many privacy-focused wallets. I think Samurai deserves credit for being the most privacy-focused wallet. It is one that I use quite regularly, because I really do like some of the features. Up to now, Samurai was using a technique called BIP 126, which had to do with how you organize change addresses and coin selection in order to maximize privacy. As of maybe two days ago, they announced a change in that strategy, which is a new protocol or method for organizing transactions called Stonewall, which is something they've introduced. Stonewall is a mechanism for evaluating the entropy of every transaction, and looking for potential information leak within that transaction. Every wallet leaves behind a signature in some way. The way that a wallet selects coins can leave behind various signatures that coin analytics firms can use, very effectively, to do correlation between different transactions. As far as I can tell, the Samurai team has been working on this problem, evaluating the randomness of each transaction in order to see if the wallet is inadvertently creating a signature that can lead to identifying the source of these transactions. Together with that, they've implemented some techniques that make a regular payment that you make with your wallet look like a coin join transaction, which means that your wallet will use a number of inputs and a number of outputs by creating effectively fake change. Now, if you add a number of outputs to a transaction that pay change back to other addresses that you control, from the outside, that transaction with lots of inputs and lots of outputs looks like a coin join transaction. By varying the values in the inputs and outputs and carefully selecting the coins, the wallet can make this transaction look like it's a mixture of multiple transactions from different people. That better preserves your privacy. I do know that even in the past, Samurai was one of the wallets that was very careful about how it selects change and receive addresses from your UTXO set in order to make sure that it doesn't associate things that should not be associated with each other. So, associate one UTXO with another by putting them together in a transaction where previously they came from two different transactions. Obviously, if you receive two payments to two different UTXO with two different addresses, then your wallet takes those two payments and uses them in the same transaction as inputs, that's advertising to the entire world that those two addresses belong or are controlled by the same person, which then allows people to correlate the previous two transactions to each other. Samurai does some of that. Another technology used within privacy-focused wallets, including Samurai, is a technology called Ricochet. This is a specific term that Samurai uses, but the concept is really simple. Most analysis firms do something called tainting, where they track coins that they believe are involved in bad transactions. For example, they may track coins that have been used in a gambling site, or coins that have been used in a sex-related site, or whatever else the morality police is currently considering evil. Obviously, if your coins come from a wholesome source like selling weapons to the Saudi government, not a problem whatsoever.  What these services do is track these evil coins. If you do a transaction that previously came from someone who did something naughty, then you might find that your exchange account gets blocked or locked, or even worse, completely shut down. Your funds are seized in some cases. This is a dangerous practice of blacklisting. The way some privacy-focused wallets get around that is by ensuring that if the analysis firms are checking four or five transactions back, you add extra hops by making transactions between your own controlled addresses. Instead of sending from you to, let's say, an exchange, you send from you to you to you to you to you to you to the exchange, chaining these transactions together so that when the exchange checks five addresses back, or six addresses back, they find an address that is not blacklisted because it's yours, and it's clean. It's one that's never been used before. The funny thing about this cat-and-mouse game is that if the chain analysis firms go six hops, the privacy wallets can go seven. If the chain analysis firms go seven hops, the wallets can go eight. We continue like this, but the problem is that this is asymmetric for the chain analysis firms, because if they start looking eight hops back, they start pulling in all addresses in the Bitcoin space, and then ten hops back, everything's related. I don't know if you remember the old meme of six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon. The same concept at work here, which is that if you go far enough back, if you check enough hops back, every coin has touched almost every other coin, unless it comes directly from a coinbase transaction, meaning part of the mining process. If you keep pushing the chain analysis firms to incorporate more and more hops eventually, their data becomes horribly polluted because every transaction is tainted, and they can't simply advise the exchanges to stop accepting all coins, because all of them touched something naughty at some point. This is a strategy that the analysis firms are going to lose. Those are some of the things you need to consider when you're doing a coin selection in your wallet. This is not something the user can do. Preferably what you should be doing is picking a wallet that incorporates the privacy principles that you really care about, and then configuring that wallet by going into the settings and saying, yes, I want to use ricochet, yes, I want to use stonewall, yes, I want to mix up my change addresses, yes, I want to route everything over a tour. Not many wallets offer that today, so you have an opportunity to make choices that encourage wallet developers who follow these practices, perhaps even contribute to their projects with documentation and bug reports, or even by giving them a donation if you really appreciate the wallet that they're building. Resolving inconsistencies in your stance on privacy. Peter says, sometimes you say that Bitcoin is good because it achieves privacy, or at least future implementations will achieve full financial privacy. I've also heard you dismiss the Pito Nazi's argument against Bitcoin by pointing out that blockchains actually help trace back transactions once you have a suspect's IP address or Bitcoin address. These propositions are not really compatible. Could you be more specific about the level of privacy you would like to see in Bitcoin? Thank you, Peter, for this opportunity. First of all, let me disclaim this fanciful idea that all of my thoughts, opinions, and ideas are 100% internally consistent and provable true. I will use the good old defense and say that either my statements are incomplete or they're inconsistent, but they can never be both complete and consistent because I would violate Gato's theory. So let me try and be more specific. I think the fundamental difference here is a matter of scale. You see, I believe that we should have privacy in Bitcoin that allows every individual to maintain their financial privacy against broad-based, blanket, indiscriminate surveillance by central parties. So broad-based, blanket, warrantless, unconstitutional, in violation of the human rights charter and broadly accepted human rights. That kind of unconstitutional, illegal, immoral surveillance that violates human rights should be impossible to do in Bitcoin. On the other hand, if someone is doing something that involves criminal activity, it's not going to be broad-based surveillance that catches them. That's a fallacy, and it's a fallacy that's being sold to us primarily to persuade us that as long as we give a little more power and give up a little more privacy, crime will finally be beaten, terrorism will end, pedophiles will no longer exist, abuse of children will stop, all of the bad things will go away.  That authoritarian lie is basically designed to give more and more and more power. And in the end, it doesn't make the world a better place. Arguably it makes the world a terrifying fascist autocracy. So, what do you do about crime? The truth is that the vast majority of crime is solved by investigation and primarily by human factors. So, the person who's committing these crimes, who's abusing children, or committing fraud, or stealing money, or extorting people, or holding people to ransom, or whatever else you might be thinking of as one of the horrible things that will be committed on blockchains with money, just like they're committed with every other currency in the world, most of the time there's going to be a trail of evidence, it's going to be on their computer, it's going to be evidence that their co-conspirators know about. And I think law enforcement has traditional tools that they can use in the case of a crime where there is probable cause, where you can get a magistrate to sign a probable cause warrant, and a person can be investigated and their privacy stripped under due process of law, then that evidence will be sitting right there on their computer. And not only will they leave a trail, and their co-conspirators will know about this and can be flipped, and all of the other traditional law enforcement techniques, but also, once you have their computer, their private keys, and various other things that you got through due process and a properly signed warrant, well, now you have forensic evidence on the blockchain that they committed a crime. So, my stance of privacy is simple. I am against blanket, indiscriminate, warrantless, unconstitutional surveillance that violates human rights, and gives enormous power to centralized actors who will abuse that power, and ultimately erode and then destroy democracy. I don't believe that criminals should have privacy, but in order to strip someone of privacy and declare them a criminal, you need due process of law and you need a warrant. And the idea of stripping everyone of privacy in order to protect against crime means that in the end only criminals will have privacy, because they'll simply break the law that requires them to use the currency that's under surveillance. None of us will have privacy, except the criminals, and crime will never go away, because crime has nothing to do with the currency you use, or the computer technology, or the tool. It's a fundamental part of human nature. So, claim your privacy. There's a difference between indiscriminate, broad-based, warrantless surveillance, and the appropriate application of justice through due process and properly signed warrants, and the protections we have under all of the human rights charters in every civilized place on Earth. Pachelek. I believe I'm pronouncing this name correctly. Pachelek asks, Bitcoin will never add default privacy or fungibility within quotes. Ari Paul believes that it's highly unlikely that Bitcoin adds default privacy or fungibility, and again within quotes, because this would likely tank the price, since it means that all institutional and regulation-conscious money will have to dump it. So, apparently this is a quote from Ari Paul, and I don't know if this is an accurate quote, or if it's a paraphrase, so please take that with a pinch of salt. The question continues, there are many other reasons why people might not support a default privacy update as well. Realistically, do you think it's in any way plausible for the main chain to add default privacy, or would there almost inevitably be a separate cryptocurrency that provides the fungibility use case, whether it be the result of a contentious hard fork or a separate crypto such as Monero? Honestly, I disagree. To me, Bitcoin has never been about the investment and use of institutional and regulation-conscious money. Institutional regulation-conscious money already has plenty of investment avenues and plenty of currencies to choose from. So, if the addition of privacy and fungibility features actually did reduce the price of Bitcoin, I'm okay with that. To me, it's more important that this is a currency that is usable by the vast majority of human beings, who do not have access to stable, reliable, and private currencies, because they don't have access to stable, reliable, and democratic institutions, or stable, reliable, and non-mafioso-run bankers.  I certainly don't think the developers who are involved in implementing features, the cypherpunks of Bitcoin, really give a damn about what investment-conscious money does. So, there will be additions of privacy and fungibility. They are very much on the roadmap. And if that causes regulation-conscious money and investment-conscious money to leave Bitcoin, well, that's a very good indication that those privacy and fungibility technologies are effective and working correctly, they're going to have to find some other kind of surveillance coin that they can pump and dump for a get-rich-quick scheme. Ripple sounds like a good idea. Maybe they could go to that one and let Bitcoin do the privacy things that it needs to do. To serve the other 6 billion people who are not interested in playing this game of crony surveillance capitalism, thank you very much. Bye-bye.


Welcome to Digital Asset News, the good top stories in crypto, current digital assets, and break them out of bite-sized pieces today. We've got a lot of bullish stuff to talk about. First up, Twitch director Shaun Puri moves a quarter of his net worth into Bitcoin to front-run wave of institutional capital. Is this guy a genius or is he falling victim to FOMO? Also, Plan B from the stock-to-flow ratio says Bitcoin is going to enter an enormous bull run year in 2021 and outlines his price, targets, and biggest risk to Bitcoin. And here's a hint, it's at $300,000. And we'll go over those two bullish articles. But first, I just want to say thanks to everybody who is delegated to the DNews Cardano Stake Pool. We're almost come up at $7 million, so not too shabby in five days. I just want to say thanks to everybody. Just so you know, once we hit $63 million, that means it'll be saturated and we can't do any more. It'll look something like this. This is AVLT Two Pool. And once you go above $63 million, you get saturated and you start to lose reward. So before that happens, we'll let everybody know. If you're still interested in delegating your Cardano to the Stake Pool, I made a very simple web page, which I will link in the description below. It looks something like this. And when you're on the page at the very top, all you have to do is just click on wallets, or you can just scroll down and show you what you want to do. And then there's a video right here, about 13 minutes, and I'll show you how to stake with Daedalus, Yoroi, or ADA Light Wallet. So first, let's get into what's going on the market. So today it is Sunday, December 13th, and it is around 1 p.m. El Paso, Texas time. And things are up. Usually that's not how it goes on Sunday. Usually we take a dip on Sunday, almost every Sundays. But here we are, two and a half percent up, and we're at $20,000 for Bitcoin. Five percent for a three and we're almost going to break that $600 barrier. I like that XRP. Watch out, 50 cents above. Actually, I'm sorry, 50, almost 52 cents. Wow. Three percent up. Amazing. Tethers tether nobody cares. Litecoin is up mass, pretty big, eight percent. Again, they're part of that PayPal Quadrant, which is Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin. So they're going to do well for the entire year moving forward. Chainlink up $7.9. Wow. What are you, $13? Bitcoin Cash, making a run up to $78. A lot of good things are going on with Bitcoin Cash. I'm trying to get the director of Bitcoin.com to come on here. Danish, hopefully he's not too busy. He can come on. Cardano, wow. Hey, Cardano up 15 cents. It's pretty good. 4.2 for Pocadá, Financecoin, and Stellar. Wow. Stellar's making money moves. Look at that. Almost 10 percent. I like to see that. Bitcoin SV 2.7. Yeah, sure. EOS. I don't even know why. Honestly, between us, I don't know why EOS is here. I don't get it. NEM1, Bitcoin Cash, whatever else. Okay, not really that big. So let's take a look at what it would be as we take a look at switching from USD to Bitcoin. How would we have fared if we would have invested into altcoins? And guess what? We would have been up 2.5 percent on Ethereum, 0.6 for XRP, 5 percent for Litecoin. That's pretty big. 5 percent for Chainlink, Cardano, Financecoin, almost everything. If you would have invested in anything outside of Bitcoin, you'd have been up pretty good. And this isn't usually the case all the time. And only time will actually tell who is the genius who decided to pick that low-cap gem that had a thousand X or whatever else it is. Or if you just want them better just to go all in on Bitcoin. That is the real story. And that will be determined in the future. So speaking of the future, I want to talk to you about this article. This, this right here, this was pretty, pretty fascinating to me. Twitch director, Shandpuri. I think I hope I'm saying his name, right? But twitch.com, if you don't know, it was acquired in 2014 with Google for immediately billion dollars. And the gaming platform, Social Network continues to break its own high scores. Twitch boasts a valuation of about 3.79 billion. So this guy, director of Twitch, I'm not sure if he was involved in that acquisition back in 2014, but chances to say, he's probably got a good amount of money. I don't know how much it is, but it looks pretty good. But this guy says, Hey, I am going to put a quarter of my net worth into Bitcoin, a quarter. And I mean, I'm pretty bullish on Bitcoin. I only got a quarter in my end Bitcoin. I just don't. But I mean, that's pretty amazing. Just to go, you know what? I think it's going to happen. And he did it. And here's his reasoning. He says, I think it's a rare opportunity to front run a wave of institutional capital that will come into Bitcoin in the next two years. And you know, he's got to be right. I mean, look at Grayscale. I mean, they're buying up things left and right like nobody's business. And then MicroStrategy, don't even get me started about that. I mean, that guy, Sailor, has convinced everybody Bitcoin is the next big play. Then we got Square and we got Galaxy Digital. And he got, I mean, even like the big players on TV or the investment legends like Paul Tudor Jones and Duck and Mill and all those guys, I mean, they're all saying the same thing. We want Bitcoin. So what he's saying here is like, I want to get ahead of it because these institutions can't move that fast to buy these things. And I want to, I want to be that before it all gets in on top of the fact that also PayPal apparently is buying up like almost 70% of the new Bitcoin. That's a lot. So this was a pretty good, pretty good play. But the question was he just said 25% and then they're like 25% of what your whole whatever. And so with his initial tweet, he said 25% and then a user asked him if they referred to his entire net worth and purely replied, Yup, that's a ballsy move. So that's what he said. People think this time it hits 20 K is just like last time, but it's not for many reasons. And he, he goes into some other things and it kind of gets a little bit dull here, but that is really the truth.  And that's not the case. You have to remember back in 2017, which I was there, actually went through that whole process. You have to realize that it was just based on a lot of FOMO and there was nothing, there was no really no ground really put down. It was just a bunch, like I said, white paper and hopes and dreams. And there wasn't really much there to really propel us to the next level. And it was nice. I mean, he could show it was there to kind of show us what it could be, but it went down because we didn't have the infrastructure put in place. We didn't have the things that we have now. We didn't have the people behind us, the capital, the institutions really in here. And this is how it is. So when people say, well, it's going to crash back down. I mean, not only is it different than that time frame, and this, and this is just a quick little, little snippet of time from really the beginning of 2013 all the way to 2020, you can just see how it was pretty flat. But to really delve into the details, we have to take a look at the halving. And when we take a look at the halving, because people say, oh, it's just going to go up and then come back down just like it's done before. But you have to understand, we are in a whole new halving. So when this all happened, the very first halving, because Bitcoin was around 2009, right? 2012, it had the halving. And then about a year later, it hit an all-time high. And of course, it corrected, right? And then we had this beautiful, when I came around in 2017, it just hit this all-time high, and then it came back down. And what I think it is, I truly believe it, this is what's going on, is that we are right here, right just like in 2016, and right just like in early 2012, late 2011, where there was just a bunch of, there's a big dip here, but a lot of sideways action right here, right? A lot of sideways action right here, right?  So you have to understand that even if we go all the way back up to $20,000, just look at the very first one. Because when it hits, let's see, let me break down even more, the all-time high, which was in 2013, the first halving was in 2012, November. It took about a year. And then the price itself was about $1,000. Here's the reward, the reward era, the all-time high, and the price was $12. Someone from $12 to $1,000. So we take a look at this. That's pretty high from, I mean, to them back then, I wasn't around then, I don't know if you were, but it was probably mind-blowing. They're like, that can't last, and of course it didn't. So it went back down, but it never went back down to $12. That's the thing, that's the thing you have to remember. No, it didn't hit $1,000, it just stayed $1,000. It took a little while, but it just moved sideways at around $400, $500, which was about half the price. Wasn't that about what it was for Bitcoin? Around $9, $10, $11, $12. Someone there for the longest time.  So the same thing here. So $20,000, it went down to about $10, $11, $12. And now we're back up to $20. So we're kind of like from this point to this point, somewhere around here, I guess, actually, we're about the same price, $1,000. Well, now it would be $10,000, $12,000. So as time moves forward, we're going to start to do this part right here because I believe we're in 2016 again. It all just repeats in a big cycle. And the big difference though is that it's just not a bunch of retail because back down here, it was just a bunch of anarchists and libertarians are like, you know what, down with the system, and Bitcoin is the best thing of all time. And then of course, retail picked it up and go, you know what, we'll take it from here. And they did pretty well. And now what's happening is that you still have anarchists, you still have libertarians, you still have retail, they're all three there. But now we got a fourth member and they're called institutions. And those are the ones are going to blast us way above this, this 20k, which is, I think is just like going to be a sideways channel for a little bit. And to help me clarify that point, I'm going to move on to the very next article where it talks about plan B, he's the one for the stock to flow ratio says Bitcoin's going to enter this big huge bull run in 2021, which is exactly the same thing I've been saying for the last, since I started this actual channel, I've always said 2021 is going to be a very big year. That's when it actually has to go. And that just is what history is repeating itself as far as like the havings from one, two and three. And here we are. So this article, I think is real big. So let's just move down here. And the reason why I want to do this, because I want to make sure that everybody just knows exactly where we were and where we are going. You don't know where you're going until you know where you've been. So when people talk to me like, you know, Rob, I think it's going to be the same thing. It's not, it's not. So this is what plan B says. This is a little piece snippet that he had talked about in one of the interview. He says, if you look at the trajectory of what we had the last 10 years, where it could go to the level of gold and real estate, then I expect Bitcoin to enter 10x or 20x, it will go north of 100, another 1000, 100,000. And that is my prediction. My prediction is by the end of 2021, it'll be around 150,000. Some people say that's super conservative. Some people say that's ridiculous. But I think it's in that sweet spot where I don't think I'm going to be way wrong if I'm down 50 or up 50. It could be 100. It could be 200,000. But I think 150 right around there. But he says it'll be above 100,000 and maybe even above 300,000 before Christmas of next year. Isn't that crazy to think about? Well, yeah, it's like super crazy. But remember this? It was 12 bucks to 1000 bucks. Do you think that wasn't crazy? That was unbelievable back then. So when he starts talking about this, we're like, that could never happen. It already happened. It happened before it could happen again. So moving down, there's another piece that he said that was pretty interesting. And this is the thing that always blows my mind about Bitcoin maximalist because I'm not a Bitcoin maximalist. I talk about a lot. So I think it's gonna do very well in the mid to near term. I don't know. But I do think I can't tell what's going to happen in like 20 years. No one can.  But I think in the very early parts to the midterm, it's going to do very, very well because it's under the hearts and minds and the tips of every tongue. And it's in the public consciousness of what people expect to happen. So the big thing I could always always question is like, why are Bitcoin maximalists so much of there's so maximalism? I think there's always two reasons. One is that they have a lot of it. It's been around for a long time. And when you own something, you get biased. I get biased when I start to own a bunch of things. I'm like, well, that doesn't make any sense. When I first started this channel, go watch my earlier videos. I was so bullish on XRP. I was like, you can't tell me nothing. But it took a long time for me to go, you know what, there might be a couple of cracks there. Not for sure. And then of course, here we are. Not that it's not going to do well. I'm just saying, I don't think it's going to be like the number one crypto anytime soon. But this is what he says. And this is what I think most of these maximalists thinks. They think this, he says, I think it's a winner take all game. I think that lots of the confusion there comes from the fact that some people see Bitcoin and other coins as products or companies. You can have multiple products and some products will win. Any other products will lose or multiple companies can coexist together. That's very logical. But Bitcoin is not a company. It's a protocol. It's a protocol. And of course, you can only have one protocol, especially a money protocol. And my eyes doesn't make sense to have in 2020 and beyond multiple currencies. And that's the big thing. That's why on this channel, I always say crypto currencies and digital assets, because when people say crypto currencies, they just think of currencies that are on the blockchain. So to me, yes, it only makes sense. You could have like one, maybe two currencies, right? But in all reality, you only need one currency. You only need one world reserve currency. You only need one currency that everybody can interact with and actually use and just be the best thing. But that's just it. Like things like VeChain and Theta and those types of projects and Cardano, they're not currencies. They are also a protocol. And you can build so many things on top of them. They can do such different aspects than Bitcoin can. Bitcoin is not going to track some medication in Sri Lanka across the borders to make sure that it hits the right place and it goes on the right temperature and all. And it's not going to be an oracle. It just doesn't make any sense. But to maximalism, then that totally makes sense because it's all about cryptocurrency. They don't care so much about digital assets. And that's what was the hardest thing to wrap my head around. But I get it. So the last piece here and we'll wrap this up. He talks about the risks and I can see his point here for sure. But again, I don't think it's going to happen. I'm going to tell you why. So the biggest risk that people see is a government ban or regulation. Governments have been against Bitcoin openly. But also trying to kill the predecessors of Bitcoin. Bitcoin was not the first. It was the fourth or fifth or even the sixth. All of those were shut down. And he says you can even take a look at Facebook Libra. He goes so in a way Bitcoin was designed for this risk. And the reason is because with Facebook Libra, you have a place to go to. You can go to California. You can go see Mark Zuckerberg. You can go shut it down. Or you can say incentives going there.  Sit in front of all us and tell us exactly what you think. And then we'll shut it down, which is exactly what happened with Bitcoin. You can't do that. There is this was the smartest thing that Satoshi ever did. He just disappeared. I don't know if he's alive or dead. But I think even if he is alive, he knows he can't come back. He knows that he just cannot materialize now because that would be a single point of failure and you cannot have that. So there is no CEO. There is nobody running the show. It's just a decentralized network of 10,000 plus nodes across the entire globe. And you can't stop that. They can ban exchanges. But guess what? If you ban an exchange in America, well, guess who's going to pick that up? Other countries. Just like, you know what? If you guys want to do it, we'll do it. And we'll run this whole show. So thanks a lot suckers for dragging your feet and missing the whole boat because now we know what to do. And the last thing I want to say is this. It's about when he talks about $300,000, it sounds ridiculous, right? It sounds crazy. So I want to break up the old market cap calculator. So the current price today, so let's put this in. So it's about $19,000, right? About $19,000, right? And it's circulating supply is roughly $18,500,000, somewhere around there. And I can just tell you right now, it's not even right because in the early days, a lot of people threw away their Bitcoin because they didn't really know it was even valuable. They lost things on hard drives. So I would say if I had to guess at minimum $2 million, that's the low number, high number, probably $6 million. The circulating supply is not $18.5. There's no way. There's not a snowball chance in hell. That's true. But that's what we're going with. Let's just stick with that. So if that's the case, then the market cap would be $351 billion. So let's take a look real quick at CoinGecko and Bitcoin, $356 billion. Okay, close enough because we're at $19,200,000. So if we go back, plan B says we're looking at $300,000. That's pretty crazy, right? $300,000. So the circulating supply would be the same. You're looking at $5.5 trillion. $5.5 trillion. Is that insane? Is that insane? Well, let me remind you, here's the market cap of gold. It's at a whopping $11 trillion, and that to me is worthless. I mean, I own gold, silver, and Bitcoin, and gold is not going away. But $11 trillion, that's kind of high. So if we just get, I don't know, 10%, so we're looking at what? Over a trillion? All right. What about if we grab into some tokenization of stock markets? What if we get into actual currency currency? Well, just the money supply itself is $95 trillion and growing rapidly. And then here's debt. Let's say we do something again. How about with real estate, $280 trillion? What about, I don't really care about the rest of this stuff. How about derivatives? How about futures, options, and swaps? Well, this is the low end, $558 trillion. In the high end, it's over a quadrillion, which I didn't know that number even existed until I saw this little piece here. So if we talk about $5.5 trillion is crazy? No, it's not, just how it is. So look, that is it for today. I know there's a lot of information to go over, but I just want to try to calm people down and just make sure they have strong hands. Look, all the institutions are out there. They're waiting for you to sell. They cannot wait. They are dying for you to sell what you have so they can snatch it all up and go, thanks a lot, sucker. And off the way they go. So keep your hands strong. Everything should be okay. Also, as a quick reminder, the 12 days of Christmas starts tomorrow. So all you got to do is just show up and watch the video and I'll tell you what the comments and like tomorrow we're going to we're giving away four stone books. And then after that, a couple of nanoledgers, then a couple of little bit of money, then some swag and all this good stuff. So it's going to be great. All you do is just show up, watch the video, I'll tell you what the comments, and then I'll just draw them randomly. Also Swiftx, the Australian exchange, they're doing the same type of thing where, but they're, they had a lot more cooler stuff than me. Like on the 25th, they're giving away at one full Bitcoin. That's crazy, one full Bitcoin. So to get to this, just go to the exchange of wall fees. There's a link in the description. It looks just like this and the one, two, three, the fourth column down. There's a little link right there says 12 days of Christmas. Just click on that and it'll take you right back to what we just saw. So that's it for today. So thanks so much for watching all the way to the end. I really appreciate it. If you like these types of videos, there's gonna be two more that's going to pop up on your left and right. I'll let YouTube do all their magic. And that's all she wrote. So thanks again. I appreciate it. I'll see you on the next one. Bye.


And it's taking what the non-Muslims say. And they heedless about the Hadith of the Prophet ﷺ, where he said واللدي نفسي بيدي I swear by the Lord in which my soul is in his hand. لا تدخلوا الجنة. You're not going to enter Jannah حتى تؤمنوا until you believe. ولا تؤمنوا حتى تحابوا and you're not going to believe until you love one another. Then the Prophet ﷺ said أولا أدل لكم shall I not tell you على شيء إذا فعلت موت حاببتم. Shall I not tell you of something if you do you would love one another. The Prophet ﷺ said أفشو السلامة. Spread the greetings. أفشو السلامة. Spread the greetings. So we have as Muslims already have a greeting where unique in everything about the Zard sisters. As Muslims where unique in every way. When we meet we have our own code of what we need to say. Where unique in the way we dress. Where unique in the way we talk. Where unique in the way we look. Everything about us as Muslim is uniform. And we don't follow them. We have our own thing going on. So when we meet one another we say السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته. The Prophet ﷺ says وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله وبركاته. And when we want to go our separate ways we say السلام عليكم and we say وعليكم السلام. We give each other the greetings. There is a hi, bye, ciao and all of these people use. Doesn't mean that it's haram saying that. No, no, I'm not saying it's haram. I'm just saying why would you leave off what you have for you. Stated by your Prophet ﷺ. Why would you leave it for اتحية which is اعجمية A foreign greeting. Or what grounds would you do that? Isn't that not a contradiction? Wow. You're going to greet this person anyways. Why are you deliberately choosing to leave the greeting of the Prophet ﷺ. The greeting of an Islam. And go to greeting made by non-Muslims. Or things that they say. I'm going to stop there إن شاء الله و تعالى anything which I have said that was wrong or incorrect. It's for me and Shaytan and Allah his messenger are both free from it. سبحانك الله وبحمده أشد ولا إله إلا الله أستغفروا كواتوب إليه. السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته How can you do a two second action right now that will give you a share of the reward of everything we're doing on this YouTube channel. Simple. Like this video and click subscribe. Why? It will allow YouTube to recommend our videos to other users. And imagine the huge amount of reward that could be waiting for you on the day of judgment if you did that with a sincere intention of spreading the Dean of Allah. You'll be rewarded for every single person who benefits from one of our videos as a result of your like or subscribe. That's an easy two second action that you definitely don't want to miss out on. Do it now. Click like and subscribe and don't forget to make that intention.


Let's take a look at something national. I'm going to take a look at the US presidential race by clicking on US right here in the feed. Here we can see the candidates for US president. As I said earlier, you can very easily compare money raised, money spent, and independent expenditures spent supporting and opposing candidates using a page like this. What you can see here is that Hillary Clinton has about $19 million supporting her and about $30 million opposing her. Donald Trump, on the other hand, has less money supporting him, $14 million, and $110 million opposing him, which is over three times as much as Hillary Clinton's. You can dive into Donald Trump's page, click on the outside spending link, and see more information including the PAC spending money against Donald Trump. If you want to see more information about the US presidential race like search trends, you can see that Donald Trump dominates search trends just like he dominates the news cycle.


Live from the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering .next conference 2016. Brought to you by Nutanix. Now, here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. We're back, Laura Padillas here. She's the Senior Director of Alliances at Nutanix. Laura, welcome to theCUBE. Thanks for coming on. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here, first time. The first women in tech guests this week. Really, I am honored and saddened as well. Yeah, right, the penultimate guest. Well, thank you very much for being here. So the ecosystem, it's burgeoning around us. Got to feel good about that, a lot of momentum. Yeah, so we started our first Elevate Technology and Lines program last year at last.next with about 10 partners signed up and we're not over 50 partners who have signed up to our ecosystem and we're really excited this year because this year is going to be another revision to our program. We're talking a lot more about the platform story with partners, just like as you've been hearing Sunil and Diraj and everyone talk about our platform is really important to the Nutanix story overall. Our partners are now going to move from working with us and interoperability story to working in us and really writing to those APIs and helping us build that platform. What makes a platform a platform? Well, I think what it is is really what I just mentioned. Before partners would kind of run in a VM on us and really just interoperate with us without really truly integration, what you're going to see now is partners being able to, we're going to open up our platform and some APIs around networking and security and prism. So partners can now feed data and information into Nutanix to be able to visualize that more do visualization, do orchestration and now customers are going to be able to really look at us as a platform for all these other technologies such as Commvault who's written to our APIs for backup, right? And now I've integrated with our snapshots and also at the hypervisor layer as well. Citrix, we talked about our Citrix integration with ZenApps and desktop and MCS as well as Acropolis hypervisor, those all are engineering level integrations that are going to help customers really be able to roll out solutions in a much more seamless manner on Nutanix. Can you talk about the evolution of the partnership of ethos, the programs? I'm sure in the early days there was a lot of push, hey, we gotta go get some partners, get people to write to our platform. As you guys ascend into the stratosphere, you probably get a lot more inbound. What's the balance? How are you adjudicating there? Yeah, that's a great question. I think we're all still trying to figure it out and find what the best way is to balance all the partners. We do get tons of requests, which is great. What we're trying to do is really figure out from customers what are the use cases that they want to see on Nutanix? Where are the product gaps that our partners are helping to fill on our platform? So reaching out both to partners who help us address some of those concerns from customers, as well as those different product areas that we think we need to fill that we need to partner versus build today.  I talked about Commvault with backup. You know, you're going to see also with our Asterix release, which Rajah talked about in our keynote, much more opening up of different frameworks and APIs around networking. So you're going to be able to see some of our partners like Brocade and Juniper, Rista, some of our networking partners being able to do more visualization and feed more information into Prism. So again, we're prioritizing partners who are doing more of that engineering level work and working with us to really build that platform story versus just interoperability. When you talk about that mix of the partners in the ecosystem, I'm curious, how many partners are coming to you because Nutanix is something different. And therefore the customers that are looking for some modern infrastructure are open to something new. I mean, many of the partners you talk about are startups themselves. Right, right. So could we be your question? So you know, how many of the partners are coming to you because there's customers that are willing to try something different versus, you know, just the typical vendors that are just trying to say, okay, I just want to increase my market share. Yeah, so actually the former is most of the case, right? So we have everything from companies like F5, who have been around for a really long time, a really strong install base saying that they want to modernize and move more from legacy three tier sand and support their customers into modernizing their data center. So we get a lot of partners who want to do that and come to us just because they see a trend and their customers are moving that way so they need to align with that. That's probably what we see most of versus just companies coming to us just for no other reason. Okay, so can you unpack for us a little bit the Elevate program itself? Sure. What does the partner get? What do they have to put into it? Absolutely, so what we have is a program with three different levels. The new program, it's really open to anyone to end from entry level point of view can join the program, very low barrier to entry. Again, they'll just have to do some interoperability testing. We have a program called Nutanix Ready. They'll do some testing on there. If they interoperate and they have at least one joint customer a year do the testing, then they can stay in the program. Now, if they actually want to graduate up the program, they're going to have to support the Acropolis hypervisor and they're going to also have to support right to our APIs and these will also be Nutanix Ready, but they'll get different designation. So Acropolis or HV designation, as well as an integrated designation with tags. They'll have to do an appropriate test kit and some development work to be able to get those tags within the Nutanix Ready program. And then also be able to have at least three to five referenceable customers invest in marketing funding with us and as well as do some training as well if they actually want to move on up in the program. Now, as a reward for that work, we're spending a whole bunch of time on supporting partners now on go-to-market. So how do they engage with our channel? How are they able to build joint programs together and roll that out once they have a solution? Sales kits, marketing plans, marketing programs, field marketing, us spending time on annual business plans with them, measuring that in regards to ROI, executive sponsorship. So once they do that work, we'll reward them with much more of our time and hopefully ROI in the business.  Yeah, absolutely, uh-huh. How much training certification things, what's going on at the show for the partners? Yeah, so earlier this week, there was a boot camp for people who wanted to actually do MPX training, more technical training. At the show this year, we're doing an Alliance Summit actually right now from one to five that's really showing partners how they can engage more with us from go-to-market to support, to technical, and helping them start really outlining out that business plan. There's tons of opportunities we've built for partners to be able to meet with us, to sponsor the show and meet our customers, so tons of different areas for involvement. So how do you measure success? Is it number of partners, productivity of the partners? Yeah, yeah. Other subjective, objective terms? Yeah, so a few things. One is partners who integrate with Acropolis Hypervisor HV and integrated. We're measuring that as a milestone this year. Also, it is a return from Pipeline in different marketing activities that just demand gen programs, as well as closed business together. And the partner, how would you characterize the partner? So you mentioned, like for instance, Commvault and Backup, Rubrik, you see those guys here integrating. What other types of partners? Is it all technology partners in the technology, elevate technology as pure technology partners? Yes, I just run the technology alliance. Okay, so no channel partners are in there, is that right? No, we work with them on the go-to-market piece, but the program's for technology partners. And is there a line between sort of pure technology, sometimes integrators look like technology guys, are you guys pretty strict about that? Yeah, I would say the definition is a company that has their own product that they sell in market could be a technology alliance partner, versus a partner like an SI that would integrate products together and that roll that out. Do you quantify how many you have at this point? How many technology partners? Do you share that, yeah. Yeah, I think we have like 50, 53 partners. 53, okay, and it's probably growing like this. Mm-hmm, yeah, absolutely. If you set, you know, targets, I mean you don't have to share them with us, but is it more just the productivity of those partners? Exactly, yeah. We don't necessarily set targets. I mean, if we have 50 amazing partners, I'm happy with that. I don't need to have a hundred. I think, again, we're really aligning that what we think makes the most sense to our business is going to help our customers use us more as a platform, be stickier from a use case point of view. And predominantly US partners, I presume? No, it's global. And we have partners like Kopersky, that's a Russian security company, you know, to US partners. Great, so what's next? I mean, what should we be looking for? Out of the program? No, I think just the things I touched on already, you know, really aligning much more with the platform story. How do we use our partners to differentiate us from some of our competitors? And how do we also help use our partners to add more value to our product and our platform? And so I think you're going to see much more of those use cases and customer stories. Yes, I'm curious, you have AHV in there for kind of that higher level. I mean, most of those partners you mentioned, they're also doing VMware, Microsoft's also a partner of yours. I know like on the NPX certification, you've got to do two environments.   I mean, we move from, you know, making storage invisible to, you know, compute invisible and in the hyper-converged story to now, which is really kind of the enterprise cloud and thinking about being able to open our customers up and be able to really use this more as a platform. And so we would encourage our partners to also think of AHV as another industry-leading hypervisor that we think adoption will grow fast enough that they would spend time writing to that and integrating to it just like they would ESX or Hyper-V. Now, from a customer point of view too, you know, that gives also customers choice, right? If they want to be able to use Nutanix with any of those hypervisors, they're able to do that now. So our partners should support that story. What are you hearing at the events? I mean, what are the partners asking you for? What are the conversations like? I mean, I think one thing our partners constantly ask for is more engagement with us and with our customers. So I think the show really lets them do that, right? They've had some really great customer conversations. They've got to meet with our executives. They've got to meet with all of us and really start working out plans for next year and the future. And so I think those are the main things that we are hoping the show gave them. And how about things like joint engineering? How does that decision get made as to whether or not that actually should be done, can be done?  So I think it just all comes back to use case and market opportunity. You know, if we think of that, if there's a huge market opportunity for a specific use case and customers are going to demand it, then we'll work with a partner to build that engineering level. So what happens? So a partner will come to you and say, hey, I got this great idea. We integrate this huge market of you. It's just going to be unbelievable. And say, okay, great. Let's put pen to paper and do a business case and we'll vet it and test it. That's what we'll do. And you guys agree and you'll either shoot it down or say, wow, this is great. Let's go. And then at that point, both sides will allocate engineering resources and make a plan. Absolutely, yeah. If we think the business case makes sense, we will. Is it common to do that? Or is it more one way? I want to say it's common. It's common to get the requests, but it does take a while to vet them out and but we don't do that with everyone just because of bandwidth. So we have to prioritize. Right, but something like, I think I heard joint engineering with Microsoft, for example. So with Microsoft is a great example. So Microsoft, we launched our CPS product together. There's obviously engineering level and engagement there. Commvault and Juliena level engagement. Again, because they support our propolis hypervisor, they're the first backup partner to support a propolis AHV. So why that was really important. And so in Citrix, again, I mean, VDI is still a huge use case for us as a company. And again, they're supporting AHV again. There was engineering level and engagement there as well. So in the Commvault integration, that says they're really the only backup company now that can back up all platforms. All hypervisors that are utilizing Nutanix infrastructure. Exactly, right. That's interesting. Yeah. All right, so time to market. You're going to get a flood of other people doing that now, which is great. We are, which is great, yeah. So you're going to get a lot of inbound increase on this. Excellent. All right, Laura, well, thanks very much for coming to theCUBE. I know you got to run, but appreciate your time. Great, thank you guys so much. All right, you're welcome. Okay, thanks. Thanks everybody. 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