My name is Tanja Burgaard. I am the Acting Head of the Research Census Unit at the Leibniz Institute for Psychology and responsible for a platform for open and cumulative meta-analyses called Psych Open Karma. I will present this platform to you now. It is a test version that will be released within the next few weeks. For further questions on the project, you can contact me via email or have a talk after the presentation. Why do we need a platform for open censor sees at all? Whereas the results in a printed meta-analysis are fixed, access to the data allows the replication of the analyses and, moreover, subjective decisions as the use of the statistical model and moderator variables included in the model can be varied to check the robustness of results. The data collected can furthermore be used for further analysis purposes. For example, if a researcher is only interested in a certain subgroup included in the data, especially in rather active research areas, the evidence of meta-analysis may outdate fast. Access to the data set and the rough documentation of the methodology makes it easier to update a meta-analysis. The basic concept of a community augmented meta-analysis system that has already been implemented by other initiatives as Metabas or Metalab, uses meta-analytic data in a repository within a graphical user interface offering meta-analytic outputs. Researchers can provide data to implement their meta-analyses on the platform or to extend existing meta-analyses. At the same time, researchers can use the functionalities of the graphical user interface to get a quick overview on the evidence on a topic and to replicate a meta-analysis. Most karmas rely on our shiny architectures up to now. To make the architecture more robust and scalable, to meet the needs of an infrastructure institute as ours, Psyc OpenKarma is a PHP web application. Requests from the user are translated and sent to an open CPU server. On this server, we have a self-maintained R package comprising standardized Karma data as well as meta-analytic functions for the web application. The data have to be standardized concerning naming and data structure for interoperability with the functions of the package. The computations are executed within the R server and the corresponding outputs are given back to the user via the graphical interface. Now I will give you a quick demonstration of the look and feel of the platform by using our test version that is almost ready for release. First, we select the dataset in the domain of personality. The documentation tells us that the original publication is a master thesis on the dark dried of personality. The dataset that we will look at now is on sex differences and psychopathy, measured with Hedges G. We can filter for subgroups and sort the data table according to each variable. Thus we can easily find out that the data includes effect sizes from 2002 to 18. In data exploration, we get an overview of the distribution of the effect sizes of interest and various moderator variables. Choosing publication year as a numeric and publication status as a categorical moderator, we get a grouped scatterplot. There are only few effect sizes before 2010 and there are unpublished results included from 2010 on. With a growing number of effects, the variation of the outcomes also increased. Here we have violent plots for different subgroups. Many studies in the field are conducted in the laboratory of Jonathan. The results from this lab are more coherent than the results of other labs. Next we go to the basic analysis for mid-regression models. We choose the random effects model with two moderators, number of items and laboratory. A growing number of items increases the sex difference in psychopathy significantly.  The model with two moderators accounts for about 9% of the heterogeneity in effect sizes. We want to look at potential publication bias. The contour-enhanced funnel takes into account the statistical significance of the results. There are only few studies with non-significant results and there is no asymmetry suggesting missing studies due to publication bias. With a p-curve, the evidential value of published findings is assessed by only looking at the distribution of significant p-values. The p-curve resulting here is the blue one. There is no indication of p-hacking and the power estimate based on p-curve analysis is 99%. Finally, we want to estimate the power of a prospective new study with a sample size of 50 and a significance level of 5%. The estimate from the meta-analysis is assumed as true effect size and represented as the curve in the middle. Based on this information, a study with 50 participants would find a true effect with a probability of 89%. For 80% power, which is a common threshold, a sample size of 39 would be needed. There are still challenges and developments needed to increase the benefit of PsiC-OpenKana. On the side of data acquisition, we can use data of pre-registered studies collected in our laboratory PsiC Lab if the studies are eligible for an already existing meta-analysis. For meta-analysis published in one of the journals of PsiC Open, authors could be asked to share the meta-analytic data of the meta-analysis. To assist data submission from the users, we want to use our own submission tool within PsiC Archives. To make data use for further analyses easier, we will connect PsiC OpenKana to PsiC notebook of a Jupyter Lab notebook for PsiCology that will also be released soon. Users will be able to use the meta-analytic Kana data in a free R environment within their own accounts. As we can see, as a central research infrastructure institute for PsiCology, we and our users can greatly benefit from synergy effects with other tools and services. Thank you for your attention.


Most, if not all of my videos, focus on the principle of nutrient density. You would think the vitamin and mineral content of the diet is the most important thing, specifically vitamin content, but I can't convince people on a carnivore diet to consume organ meats, let alone the average person. In every indigenous group we saw incredibly high amounts of foods that contained these fat-soluble vitamins. The natural human diet has super high amounts of these that we don't see in modern diets, and it can attribute and explain a lot of the problems we have. So to loosely sum up why nutrients are so important is, the vitamins I talk about, retinoic acid, the animal form of vitamin A, vitamin D3, regulate gene expression, which turns genes on and off and decides what cells your body makes. Obviously, it's important that cell proliferation and differentiation, the amount of cells you make and what cells you make, is the most important thing in the body. Regulating how your cells are made isn't the most important metabolic function, then I don't know what it is, hundreds of genes regulated by retinoic acid and D3. So the main four I'm going to focus on are retinoic acid, D3, K2, and omega-3, because those are the vitamins that I advocate consuming, and those are the vitamins that people are usually deficient in, and other diets tend to actually have all of the other vitamins. Those aren't as much of a concern. Every bullet point I have here has a study that I linked in the description, so I apologize if I'm going to be brief, but my goal is to just, you guys have to understand this whole idea, every cell metabolism in the body, retinoic acid, vitamin D3, and then I just want to let you guys know how to actually get these vitamins and an easy way to do it. So retinoic acid, specific studies I have for this, it's shown to differentiate stem cells in human bodies, as well as germ cell differentiation in embryonic development. We know vitamin A is very important.  Super important, and it regulates 500-plus genes in the body. Vitamin D3, it's shown to be beneficial in actual cancer therapy and cancer treatment. Bone homeostasis, we know vitamin D3 is needed for calcium to be absorbed in the kidneys. Of course, vitamin D3 is a hormone that are some hormone regulatory processes there. Bites autoimmune diseases, important for cardiovascular health, and again, cell proliferation, the creation of cells, and differentiation. If your body needs a white blood cell or a red blood cell, it helps regulate that. Vitamin K2, the animal form of vitamin K, is probably one of the vitamins we need the most in our diet because the calcium RDA is too high, and this helps remove calcium from the bloodstream as well as decalcify the pilot. So it's important for bone mineral density, overall cardiovascular health, and people that take vitamin K2 have increased cardiac output. Oh, I believe it was an eight-week study. Omega-3, and the rest of these vitamins, guys, I don't really have to talk too much about. The three I'm trying to get people to consume and that people are skeptical about are these first three, but almost everyone agrees that omega-3 fatty acids are super beneficial for your health. They vary in breast milk, especially important for developing babies, DHA, fetal, weight management, cognition, all important for those things, reduced cardiac risk, lower rates of heart disease, and improved blood flow are some of the many benefits of omega-3. B vitamins are literally involved in every single enzymatic process for cells in the body. Almost everyone benefits from supplementing vitamin B12, well, and all the B vitamins, and that says something about the lack of animal foods in our diet in general that we could also attribute to a lot of these other things. So, saying, it's kind of an argument against veganism, so to speak, I mean, there's plenty of arguments against it, but B vitamin deficiency, one of the most important vitamins in the human body in general that most people are deficient in even on a standard American diet, definitely something to be said about that in regards to plant-based diets. Vitamin C, there's plenty of benefits that people know about vitamin C for fighting colds, but people don't realize every cell in your body needs to be regulated by red and oak acid and vitamin D3. That's why when I get sick, I'll eat a super high amount of liver or take vitamin D3, and I don't want to jinx myself, but I haven't been sick in about, I think a year and a half now, and when I do get sick, it's just mild cold-like symptoms, and then it passes very quickly. So, definitely something to be said about the importance of these vitamins in immune system health, as opposed to just vitamin C, but, you know, vitamin C, I have a study that has many, many things in it. Tissue healing, iron absorption, iron metabolism, fertility against actual sclerosis, cancer, diabetes, immunity, maintenance of homeostasis, so many benefits, antioxidant properties.  Vitamin E, most people actually get too much of, and if you look up sources of vitamin E, they are mostly plant sources, and animal foods do contain them. It's just not really an issue. Vitamin C, I think most people get as well, and vitamin C is in certain carnivorous animal foods. Minerals, I can't really touch on all the minerals, guys, it's too much to do in this video, but I can safely go over that all the minerals are pain by just eating muscle meat and liver, potassium, selenium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, copper, manganese, choline, and one thing I wanted to touch on, which I will touch on further in my RDA video, is that calcium RDA is way too high. So, if you want to understand why I'm not listing 1000 milligrams of calcium here, which is completely ridiculous, check out that video. So, hopefully those several hours of studies can kind of hammer home the importance of these vitamins. If not, just the presence of them in indigenous diets should be enough to say, hey, maybe I should at least try consuming these foods. And the nice thing is, if you get just rhinoic acid, vitamin K2, and omega-3 in your diet, you will get all the vitamins because these foods that contain those three vitamins inherently have the other vitamins. Of course, D3 is from the sun and D3 can be obtained from foods, but check out my Look Like a Greek God video for any more information on D3. So, let's say you want to get some rhinoic acid and some vitamin A. The best source of rhinoic acid is liver. And liver inherently has every single vitamin and mineral you need and a decent amount of omega-3. So, shouldn't we just say, isn't that enough? Well, if the liver is low quality, it might not have a large amount of vitamin K2 and omega-3. Let's move on to K2. Let's say you want to have egg yolks or cheese for vitamin K2, some of the best sources of K2. So egg yolks have all the vitamins besides vitamin C and a decent amount of omega-3. So, so does cheese and cheese even has vitamin C. So, Frank, why would we need to go further than that? Well, hypothetically speaking, if you have really low quality liver and really low quality cheese and egg yolks, then maybe you might need some omega-3s. And then, for eating high quality fish, we knock out the omega-3s and any other vitamin concerns. And each of these foods individually can have all of these vitamins if they are high quality enough. What I mean by quality is the quality of the pasture, how the animal is raised, correlates directly to the vitamin content of the food and that varies between foods. I'll try to link to a German database where you can look up various foods. I have to do more videos focused on the actual nutrient content of certain foods, but you could achieve nutrient density by just eating oysters and egg yolks, by eating liver and salmon roe, by eating brain tissue and liver, marrow. Basically, what you have to do to achieve nutrient density is you have to eat a whole animal, whether it's a whole oyster, a whole fish, including the organs, a whole ruminant, including the organs, a whole egg. If you consume a whole animal, you will get a balanced fat-soluble vitamin profile. One thing we didn't really touch on is the plant form of vitamins versus the animal form. In order to get any of these vitamins in high enough amounts, warranted in indigenous diets, you need to consume the animal form. That's one argument for it. The other argument for it is carrots and oids have a very low conversion rate to red-nilic acid and this being one of the most important vitamins, we should be on the safe side and get more. Vitamin D3, you need cholesterol, fat, and various other animal vitamins to metabolize vitamin D3 in the blood. Vitamin K2 is only found in animal foods or natto, fermented soybean. That's a very specific argument, but no one eats natto for the most part, so we got to get this from fermented foods like cheese or egg yolks or vitamin K2 is also in liver and animal foods outside of fermented foods. Omega 3 fatty acids, DHA, we know we can't really get it from plant foods. You want to drink two cups of flax seed oil, go ahead.  The B vitamins, that's kind of self-explanatory. They're in every animal food we eat. You can't really get them from plant foods. People on vegan diet supplement B12, they say they're getting all the B vitamins from plant foods, yet they're still deficient. Vitamin C and vitamin E, they can be obtained in both plant and animal form. The nice thing is foods like salmon raw, egg yolks, liver, have complete nutrient profiles and there's adequate enough of these to get in your diet to reach the RDA. And same thing with minerals.  So I think I've kind of covered the basis of information and kind of given you guys a good starting point to research, whether you want to go more specifically into the functions of each of these vitamins or whether you want to try to find out what the vitamin composition of certain foods is. I definitely want to work on getting some nutrient testing done, getting some high quality animal foods to really get concrete data because we know these foods have these vitamins, but I'm curious, the egg yolks at the highest quality also have vitamin C, you know? Does fish roe have higher amounts of K2 than we thought? There's definitely some more nutrient testing that has to be done. But outside of that, if you guys would like to support me, please just share the video. If you guys would like to check out my Patreon for discounted diet stuff. And I also have an Amazon shop with some of my products that I buy. I'm surprised you guys kind of jumped on that real quick. I should have done it sooner. And then outside of that, if you guys want to contact me for one-on-one, show me an email frankatufano at gmail.com. And let me know if you guys would like to see any videos, anything pertaining to this to add to my list and maybe put it as a top priority. One thing I just wanted to throw in, guys, cod liver is an excellent source of all the vitamins I just mentioned.  Just by consuming cod liver, you literally would not have to take any other foods or try to supplement any sort of vitamins through foods in your diet.


All right, thanks for sending us now. October 26th, National Financial Crime Fighter Day recognizes the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundry professionals, because not all superheroes wear capes. Sometimes they wear business suits, dresses, or jeans, and serve in the back offices of financial institutions. These are the people who protect the United States financial industry. They include law enforcement officers and other government personnel. Very important people. I think we need to ship some of them here in Nigeria. There is so much financial crime in this country. It is alarming. We cannot be wondering how the human beings are bringing by themselves. Absolutely. And on that note of financial crime, I want to quickly take a story that I found in the news. Because I have two stories today. One is the CBN governor. Right? There is a circulation that has gone out that said the CBN governor would release new Naira bank notes. Yeah, new notes. New notes. And I think this is supposed to happen on the 22nd. OK, so the new bank notes, once circulation begins, mid-December 2022, all banks are therefore expected to keep open their currency processing centers from Monday to Saturday, so as to accommodate all cash that will be returned by their customers. So what they are saying, if you have any cash that you are stolen, that you are going to hide somewhere, CBN is rebranding the Naira notes. They are redesigning some Naira notes. So I mean, as I said earlier, the kind of financial crime we have in this country, I just need these experts to come to Nigeria. Well, we're having an expert that will come to talk to us about this on Friday, but I just thought to mention it that we've seen the story. We're just waiting for our SME and Business Finance Day, which is Friday, to discuss it. So here you go. If you have any money that is with you, old Naira notes, go and return it to the bank. Absolutely. So Alera, what did you find there? I'll take my second story. Oh, my God, the news, my news is they beat. In fact, it's sad and disheartening and scary. So this morning, a police began investigation on as max gunmen allegedly abducts Lagos motorists on broad daylight. Apparently this happened today right in front of slots in computability in the Kedja legal states. Some unknown gunmen, they were holding guns and cutlass and they actually abducted a man that was just on his way to work. Apparently the kidnappers actually used cutlass to dismember his leg. And in fact, this thing happened in broad daylight and people were just looking and they couldn't do anything about it. And that also boils down to where is this country really heading to? Because if this kind of thing is happening, and I'm sure there are police stations around that location, there's like two or three around that medical road. And this happened in broad daylight. Human beings, people were watching another human being abducted and being dismembered by a kidnapper. And like this is security now. It's a call for alarm that nothing is happening and things are still going on. Well, to ask Alero, are you sure this is a case of kidnapped or outright murder? Like maybe somebody just sent the people to assassinate because if you're kidnapped by someone, right, why would you dismember the person's body parts? Exactly. Exactly. But in broad daylight, these people are not afraid of the law. They are not afraid of the law. So these are the things that we talk about when we say that Nigerians should be a bit wiser as we draw close to the 2023 general elections. Because you see, these things are real. And some people will say, no, it can never happen. You can never tell, because by the time it comes to your nose, you will then know that these things are actually possible and it does happen, right? So it's really sad. I was really scared when I saw that story and I was wondering, hey, where is safe? Where is safe in this country? Exactly. So I mean, this morning, as early as 4.30, I woke up because I didn't get feel yesterday. I had come back from out of state and I didn't even realize there was scarcity until I got into Lagos and I realized there was scarcity. So I had a very low fuel tank. But thankfully, I called my, you know, these kind of people just make sure you just give them some more money because they come in handy one of these days. So I called him. He was so excited to hear my voice. Oh, madam, yes, they are discharging. So as early as 4.30 this morning, no, not 4.30. I tell the lie, I said to my love for 4.30, but I didn't wake up at 4.30. I woke up at 5.30. I woke up at 5.30 and I went straight to the fuel station to get the fuel and as early as that time, the queues was really, really long. So my story last night is warning motorists, right? And telling them that please, they should not cause great luck. Cause now, you know, automatically when there's few crises, there's mass traffic. Like the thing does not correlate in my head. Is it not why you do not have 4.30 and say, you know. And you know, people will be on the queue now and then you know how Lagosians are. They are, everybody's inpatient and everybody expect to be treated special. With VIP. They say queue, but you will drop the queue because you are going to the front one and give one of the VIP before like 10th and morning so that you can quickly jump queue. And before you know, the people in front will not come and cause chaos and say, we met you here, we met us here.  Why are you throwing, why are you throwing jobs at me now? After I told you, I called somebody. Hi yo. But hey, the Lagosian management, traffic management authority has cautioned motorists queuing up for fuel at different fuel stations against causing traffic grid luck to other road users. The general manager of LASMA biology, Ori Agba in a statement said that while deploying more officers to monitor the traffic around fuel stations across the state, it disclosed that the deployment became imperative following reports of long queues around fuel stations causing motorists parking indiscriminately and blocking roads while queuing up and waiting to buy fuel. So please motorists were just begging, you know, do it with decency. I cannot speak to what Allero said, because it's like she was there when I was buying fuel. I was sharing it in the end. But hey, my dear, I'm a woman. Early 5.30 in the morning. No, it's the people that we all like to be baby girls now. No, it's not even that. I had called ahead of time. And guess what, immediately I got there. I was the first person to just drive into the fuel station. Okay. But hey, I did not cause any grid luck. All right, so directly the pressure. Yeah, nobody abused you now. It's fine. All right, thanks. We're going to break now. I mean, let's discuss relationship matter. Honestly speaking, are these things are really troubling for me? But hey, we have to talk about it. Stay with us. We'll be right back.


Hello, my name is Aspen Lute. I am an Norwegian 3d generalist Visual artist I guess and I like to use Blender to make videos and for the past two years I've been posting videos on YouTube where I've been making tutorials step-by-step guides and just how to make stuff in Blender But we're not going to be talking about my YouTube channel today We're going to be talking about something that I care about and I think about every single day and it's for realism the process of taking something Virtual on your computer and turning it into a scene that feels real and has some authentic feeling to it So we're going to start out by looking at this scene here. We have a car It's just going to be added more more details until we have an environment that looks That it could be realistic in every single angle so We add some grass we had turn on the cycles rendering which looks amazing and then we add more trees This is from Botanic and the car is from traffic and then there's another blender out on called real city So these are all assets that are available to find online But what we want to do is that we want to turn this into a scene that looks Real in any direction. So now I'm gonna play a video and it's probably gonna need some Need some help because I messed up the embedding of the video There we go. So as you can see we're using the Nishita sky texture to get this beautiful Hard sunlight in cycles. We add in a car. We make sure that every direction that you watch It's gonna be Forealistic backdrop so we're making this environment and the reason why we're doing this is we want to add a camera And if you can add a camera, then we can start making this photo realistic scene So we want to build this scene up and we also want to add some backstory to this So to the ground of this scene. We're adding this road So here you can see I'm using these curves just add some roads So the grass will be sort of pushed down like this. There's cars been driving here So when we see this car here, we can understand what has happened So now we can place a camera wherever we want. So we want to try and place a camera up here and animate it But something about this just doesn't look real, you know, I'm not feeling this so When you're looking at this render now It can be tempting to ask yourself the question Why doesn't this look real? Let me just go to the next slide here Yeah, this question. Why doesn't this look real? And what I think is the problem with this question and this question is going to hit you like a truck It's like a really Difficult question to answer and it's a comprehensive question And what I want to do is that I want to Present to you today some questions that are easier to ask So instead of why doesn't this look real which I think is the wrong question I have prepared some questions that I think are a lot easier to ask And that is what this presentation is all about So I want you to treat the virtual scene like a real life recording situation So we're going to ask ourselves question based on the real life And yeah, so the first question is who is recording this The second question is why were they filming? So let's break this down who is recording this by asking yourself this question You will learn more about the technical context of your scene So for example, who is the camera operator? What camera are they using? What's the experience of the cinematographer? Have they done it before what is happening here quite technically? And then it will also give you more about the camera equipment quality If it's an expensive camera, what's the dynamic range? Do you have any chromatic aberration here? What's going on technically with the camera? And the second question is why were they filming? And this question will reveal intention about your scene For example, has it happened before? Is it something that's been rehearsed? Is it a documentary? Is it an event that is quite unusual? And by asking these questions and really stepping outside the box You can learn quite existential question What is the reason for this video to exist? And if you can truly understand this Then I think that's the step in the right direction if you want to achieve through for realism So let's try this let's use our clip and let's try and ask ourselves this question But now you might be thinking this is a little bit difficult because This is just a camera in London. No one really There's no cinematographer here. This is just hypothetical and it's just a virtual scene So to make this question give a little bit more sense, let's try and practice by asking them on a real scene instead So I'm going to pull up another video. This is from the Shibuya crossing in Japan in Tokyo And we're going to try and extract as much data as you can from this video file So I might help. I might need some help playing this video Yeah, sorry. I embedded the videos in the wrong format. I think so they have to do this manually. I'm sorry Okay, so here you can see we have the video of Shibuya crossing Let's ask ourselves these questions. Who is recording this? Okay, I'm thinking it's Maybe an amateur because it's a little bit shaky And the dynamic range isn't really good or at least it seems to be a little bit overexposed And the lens isn't the sharpest in the world and it's It seems to be on a 70 millimeter shot. Okay, why were they filming? It's a pretty Interesting event in Shibuya. All these people come rushing into the street I'm thinking that what we just saw is a clip where Where someone is just trying to Film what's happened. It's a tourist that got excited about an unusual situation. So Some Some of the details that we see some noticeable camera details Just the next slide. Yeah, we got a soft lens and we got some overexposed areas Not necessarily overexposed but the dynamic range of the camera isn't high enough to be able to see the details in the Car paint for example Some and we also got some shaky footage. No tripod or stabilization And I'm guessing it's a medium budget digital camera So what we have here is that we have a video recording of an unusual event that a tourist got excited about And if you're a little bit confused as to why we're doing this, why are we asking these rudimentary questions these fundamental questions about these video clips is that I think this is a great process So if it doesn't make sense right now, let's just trust the process and let's try this one more time So I have another video clip which is Perhaps I should tell you in advance that it's a video clip, but yeah So what I can see right away just from the thumbnail layer is that this actually has a little bit of lens distortion so we're probably dealing with a cheap lens and It's quite dark outside. So It's excited to see what's going to be the um Light sensitivity of this sensor Okay, so we can see that yeah this this camera is quite light sensitive and we're moving around we're filming this couch which I don't think really matters because As you can see of the camera motion here, it's sort of sliding around it's floating around a little bit Which kind of feels like it was shot on a gimbal. So I'm guessing that this is some sort of Hobby filmmaker trying out this new gimbal and it's actually it's a little bit unstable still so it's probably an improperly balanced gimbal Shot with a DSLR. Oh, and the the bokeh in the distance there is also a little bit uneven And yeah, we can actually see the camera operator in reflection there so If we look at what we got now we got On the next slide. Yeah, we got some severe lens distortion Which tells us that this is a cheap lens and we got some ugly bokeh not necessarily ugly But definitely asymmetrical and not round that you would expect to see in more premium cine lenses And we also got our gimbal. We can see that there's a gimbal being used there So we know that it's an we can assume that improperly balanced gimbal It is a camera with strong low-light performance probably the a7s mark 2 And what we have is that the video is a recording of an inexperienced cinematographer testing a gimbal camera stabilizer So why are we doing this? Why are we trying to look at these video clips and ask ourselves these rudimentary fundamental questions This is what I think is the beautiful part of this process. So let's just let's just have a look at what we did So what we have done is we've taken a real video and we've asked ourselves the questions Who is recording this? Why were they filming? We tried to extract this information And we are trying to learn more about the recording situation We don't know what happened But we're gonna have to try to assume and try to come up with a reason why could this happen And what we have is we have some sort of idea of what the recording context could be And this next part is the entire reason why I'm standing here is the whole point of my presentation I want you to take this process that we just did and I want to reverse it I want you to start out with the recording situation. I wanted to imagine Somehow someone brought a real camera to a real place and they started recording this And I want you to try and fill the gaps and add the context Who might be recording this situation and what could possibly be a reason to bring a camera to this place And then I want you to apply all those thoughts into your 3d scene And that will just change your mindset completely because now you have to deal with the consequence of having one of these guys in your scene This is the camera operator cinematographer person holding the camera And they are they bring so much to your scene they every time a person picks up a camera something magical happens They have an intention. They have hopes and dreams stuff. They're afraid of they have stuff They want to do stuff. They don't want to do stuff. They're being told to do but don't want to do anyways And stuff they're being paid to do and stuff. They're being not paid enough to do so We want to try and recreate this. Let's go back to our first scene And let's try and add a real life cinematographer or camera operator or just a person with a phone To our scene and let's see how we're able to Capture this scene in a perhaps more photo realistic way than the first render that we started up with But we have to ask ourselves this cam this question first Why would you film a camera? Now? Why would you film a car? What could possibly be a reason to film a car? And we have to take this question very seriously because if you're if you're not able to use proper logic Then everything falls apart. So what could possibly be a reason for someone to film a car? Okay, so let's try and use our brain and try and actually think logically about this I have prepared three examples for just what could possibly be reason first example It's an ad for the car. Okay. It fits an ad for the car that we have placed in our scene I'm thinking that someone is paying money to Show that car in a really nice way.  It's just waving this around with no attention. You want an experienced cinematographer So we just have to extend our logic from the beginning of the Start where we have it's an ad for the car. So we have to Apply the logic in every step of the way. So now what we're going to try and make Is we're going to try and make a video that exists because someone got paid to make the car look as good as possible So the first thing we do we go to google and we search for expensive camera We get the rlx lf for example, it is a beautiful large sensor It's going to produce some nice shallow depth of field and it has a really high dynamic range So we will see all the details in the highlights or not all but enough You know and then we have this beautiful lens and now we don't want this camera to be shaking around on an unstable gimbal We want it to be really heavy and we want it to move slowly So we're adding one of these bad boys this heavy Goes on the rails and it's just it's almost difficult to mess this up, you know so Yeah, and i'm going to play another video just uh Yeah, so what we're going to do now is we're going to take this concept of our heavy expensive camera And we're going to add it to blender. So that means that we're going to just take our Cameras and add a few keyframes. Just keep it going really slowly So let's have a look Yeah, so there you can see the camera is just crawling Super slowly. I'm not sure if you can even see that it's crawling super slowly toward the car And if you were a cinematographer you would think a lot about where you're placing the camera here So we're placing the camera far away So when you're rendering this you get this beautiful shallow depth of field And the camera is sort of creeping towards the car and You're you're revealing that the car is in a forest for example by going side to side So let's have a look at what we just did we have added a um The camera allows us to have um We have a telephoto lens. So we're separating our our um Object a little bit from the background by we're getting this beautiful depth of field And also since we have to go in the mindset of what would a professional cinematographer do They would probably not want to reveal that this is a production So in the reflection of the car, you can't really see the camera crew And that's deliberate because that's the stuff that you have to think about So you're that's why you often maybe see a car filmed from a little bit um diagonally, you know That can sometimes happen at least unless you have a higher budget then you can just remove it in post, I guess Okay, so we have to come up with another reason to film a car in the forest How about someone got a new drone Okay, so we got a Lightweight camera and want to attach the camera to the drone and now this camera is going to be significantly cheaper So we can have Lower dynamic range we can have uh, for example a lot of barrel distortion lens distortion and we can have Chromatic aberration we can even add some more sharpening and we can add a lot of noise So and that since it's a new drone We're probably going to have an inexperienced camera operator So what we're going to have to create now is that we're going to make a video that exists because someone bet their friend They could fly through their car without crashing So let's see if that works Yes, we're going to start off by importing the drone to our scene because that's really nice just to get some reference So you can actually see the size and the scale of the drone and get a feel of what it would actually look like moving around this car So once you have the drone in your scene you can for example add the camera to the drone and give it a similar feel of you So now when you animate it the camera is Following the drone and you have to give the drone some weight And if you try to fly a drone without any stabilizers before You can know that it actually moves a little bit like a robot and we can lower the car windows And the drone will actually fly fly through So now this is the part we can go completely crazy by adding a lot of Lense distortion a lot of sharpening and just blowing up the skies completely and having a lot of noise in the shadows And if you've tried to fly a drone before you know that once you start messing around with this axis Where you're going side to side as we'll see in a second. Yeah, it's really difficult to keep it going and you probably end up crashing the car Okay, so let's just quickly review what we did We added some severe lens distortion to our scene So we get this barrel distortion effect because this looks a little bit like a barrel I guess And then we have a lot of Clip highlights because it's just way too bright for our tiny little cheap sensor And then there's also going to be a lot of noise in the shadows So we're going to have a lot of You didn't really see this in the video because the video compression was so harsh But that's just fine Just feel free to add a bunch of noise in the shadows And then the video compression will treat the video just as it would with a similar Photorealistic video with an actual video clip and also if you notice since we had our drone in the Actually physical 3d model of the drone or not physical virtual 3d model You can actually see it in the reflection of the car which opens the door for some mind games Is it why would you include the reflection of the drone in the car? And we might even explore this thought even further Okay, so the final reason or not the final but one more reason to film a car enforced What if it's someone got a new car and I want to show it off to everyone Okay, so what if I'm thinking that immediately if you want to show off your car You don't have time to just go and grab a nice camera So maybe just pick up your phone and if you want to show it off right away you might even be live streaming it so That means that we're going to get some seriously distracted camera work because you're focusing a little bit on the live stream when you're focusing on trying to just Show off your new car. So we are going to get A video that exists because an influencer got a new car and want to show it off to your fans Okay, so I think this is Yeah, this is going to play a video So we're going to use our phone and that means that we're going to get a vertical video And what we can do in blunder which is really nice is that you can just always parent stuff to stuff which is probably the most powerful way to For me at least make stuff Make sense in a way. So here for example, you can parent the camera to an actual human being So here you can see you have the phone levitating which is impossible So we're going to need an actual person holding the phone So we're importing just this mixamo model and now when you're using an iK constraint You can rotate the phone around and it will feel a little bit like there's actual someone Moving this so let's add some animation and let's just not care about the legs sliding around And now you can see that they're checking out this car So now let's just add this Live stream filter on top of this and you've got this Situation where someone is trying to feel in their car And then the big brain move is to actually keep this camera operator visible in the reflection So now you can see that we will be able to see this person holding Yeah, so that's peak photo elism or at least Some mind games we're playing with our audience Okay, so to summarize keep asking yourself logical questions about the world you want to make real So for example, we're going to try and start with the easy questions And then we're going to just zoom out until we get quite existential So we're going to start out with the simple question Who is recording are they experienced with cameras? And then we just take a step back and we look at the entire recording situation What camera did they use what lens is the full frame sensor and then we keep going well What's actually happening in this video? Is this real? Is it rehearsed as it happened before? Hang on who cared enough about this to record this? Why were they filming and then finally you get to the question that you really want to try and answer Why does this video exist? And if you can answer this question Your way to photo elism is going to be a lot easier than if you just try and focus on Textures and surface imperfections all day, which is what I hear a lot of people talking about when I talk about photo elism So, um, yeah, what I really like about having these Yeah, it's another video. Sorry, but it's the last one. So Yeah, so my favorite part about blender is that you can add whatever camera you like you can just Do some googling find out the spec sheet of the camera. What's the sensor size? What's the lens characteristics and stuff like that and it's it's free to add whatever camera you want. So It's it's such a liberating feeling to just pick a scene set up a realistic scene in your In your in your project file and then you can just discover how you want to show this off to the audience How do you how would a camera operator affect? the scene that you have and Yeah, that's pretty much my message today. So, uh, thank you so much for being here. Please enjoy the rest of the conference. Thank you


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All right, ladies, gentlemen from around the globe. Thank you for tuning in today. This is the exclusive coin telegraph AMA with our newest partner, Nitro Network. Today we're gonna be chatting with Anup Vukuri, who is the CEO of Nitro Network. We are super excited to chat with him to learn about what's happening inside of a lot of the trends in the space right now and we wanna learn about Nitro Network and what they are doing in the crypto sphere. Anup Vukuri, welcome to today's AMA. How are you, how's it going today? Hey, what's up, Benton? How's it going? Super, super pumped to be here. I mean, this is the first AMA I'm doing with you guys and I mean, this partnership has been amazing so far. I think I'm super excited to tell you guys more about what's happening with Nitro and I mean, to interact with the community and let's get started. Awesome. Yeah, we're gonna have a good time today. For those that are tuning in chat, we're gonna actually let you ask questions as well. So if you have some burning questions, make sure you are chiming into the chat today because we're gonna take some time throughout today's AMA to field those questions from the audience. But I wanna go ahead and kind of dive into things first. I know we've talked about this big partnership with Nitro Network and Cointelegraph, but I wanna know the reason why behind this thing. Anup, walk us through, why is this partnership important for Nitro Network and why did you feel there was a lot of value and synergy between the two organizations? Right, so I mean, personally, I've been following Cointelegraph for a very, very long time and it's my go-to source for all the exciting stuff that's happening in the space and Cointelegraph has the most unique marketing and brand recognition in the space and we wanted to align Nitro Network with such a well-established brand and especially when we are introducing such innovative technologies such as the digital mining and non-fungible miners, the nesting. We needed this kind of a partner who can educate the crowd, like reach out to the audience and tell them how the value is being created and how they can participate. And I don't see a better partner than Cointelegraph for this and it's a perfect match. Awesome. And I know speaking from the Cointelegraph perspective is when we kind of originally were able to understand Nitro Network and meet a few folks on the team, I think we immediately saw that value of Nitro Network and the innovation that they're bringing to the space which we're gonna dive into here in just a little bit. We're gonna talk about what they have cooking up with some of these new NFTs, this crypto mining and this decentralized internet that they are planning on building out. And so I wanna get into the next set of questions that we have here. But first, if you're tuning in today, drop your questions. For those who are just kind of jumping in a little bit late, we have a new curry who is the CEO of Nitro Network. We're gonna be asking him a lot of questions about what Nitro Network is doing in the space. And then I also wanna get some perspective about what's happening from your perspective and where the next innovations are gonna be happening. So when it comes to what we are looking at in the space currently, we've seen IoT even talked about a lot recently. We've seen Web 3 thrown around. These kind of are these big buzzwords. Anup, what does like IoT mean to you and then specifically for Nitro Network? Right, so just to begin with what IoT means. So anything that can be connected to the internet is basically an IoT device. And when I say that, I'm talking about literally anything. You know, even in our day-to-day lives, we've already come across a lot of IoT devices. Some of the most popular use cases have been the Amazon, Alexa, Google as a couple of products. And we're talking about even smartwatches. Smartwatches are IoT devices. These are more consumer facing. But when you're talking about what we are trying to create and where IoT is actually heading. IoT is this massive, massive sphere in itself. Like, you know, when we are talking about all the exciting things like driving efficiency, using autonomous cars, smart cities, industry 4.0, even the Metaverse. This, all these will require an infrastructure setup which will create a very, very robust network. And all of that will be triggered by low byte transfers and high speed transfers. And that is what IoT can deliver. And what that means for Nitro is, you know, we are developing and building a lower van and 5G infrastructure utilizing the technology for crypto. And we want to build a decentralized internet where users can control their own data and opt in for certain experiences. And this is in multitude of ways. It's not only IoT, it's also the 3.0 which I will talk about a little more in detail. So, you know, we are building this interconnected future for everyone and everything that can be connected to a network.  And so anything that basically wants to get connected to a network will become a part of our ecosystem eventually. And the starting point is getting on the Nitro network and utilizing the NFT technology that we have innovated, the non-fungible miners. Awesome, all right. So we have a lot to unpackage there. So, Amy told me about the internet of things. So what is that? I think you described that to everyone watching today because I think that can be a very vague term like it's thrown around a lot, everyone kind of talks about it but I think you kind of clearly painted that picture of what that actually means for Nitro network. So now that we talked about the infrastructure and what that decentralized internet could look like, all the connectivity between all the devices. Now, I want to learn what is Nitro network? Who is Nitro network? You're building a decentralized internet but I think there's a couple other components that are worthy and noteworthy here. So how would you describe Nitro network to the average everyday person who maybe doesn't have a super technical background with understanding a lot of these other terminologies? Yes, absolutely. So I'll give you a small background on how we got here, right? So to start with Nitro network was building this customer intelligence and interaction platform which could revolutionize the retailer's experience and the way they could interact with the customers. And we have six global patents around it which we launched and at that point we realized something very interesting. IoT has been around people I've been talking about it for so long now but clearly there is a very, very strong need for infrastructure. And when I say infrastructure I'm talking about network. So for example, you're talking on a phone you need to be connected to a Verizon or AT&T, right? And the same way even machines need to communicate to the internet and process information bytes and that was a very, very crucial part in IoT taking off and it was missing. And parallely, when that was happening I was also working on another micro rental or micro real estate startup where we were building IoT enabled micro rentals and that would mean a lot of things that could be DOH that could be vending machines and a lot of things. But even I came across the same situation and that's when we got introduced to blockchain and Nitro Network acquired Jiffy Charge and we put together the technologies that we've built and we had like this amazing and futuristic vision of creating a decentralized and most robust and efficient network which would connect the unconnected if that would that make sense. Which is so hold on. So I wanna like boil this down a little bit more and so like help me paint this picture. When you're thinking ahead, the vision of Nitro Network I know you've mentioned like being this decentralized version of like AT&T or Verizon, like what is the impact and what is the vision of the end goal for Nitro Network? What will it become in five, 10 years from now? Right, so there are, so there is a very strong need for infrastructure of telecom industry in general and that's one of the most monopolistic and one of the biggest industries in this space. And when I talk about decentralized systems, I'll just give you a small example of why a decentralized system is so important in this space and that would be, there is a very, very high requirement of transactions when we are using IoT networks and when it comes to centralized systems there is a lack of auditability and lack of control over people's data which means a lot of things because people already have been talking about privacy issues, scalable issues with networks and that is exactly the problem statement that decentralized systems could defeat or solve and for Nitro, the ultimate vision would be to, there are going to be tons of decentralized systems and networks in the world in the coming years and Nitro will be and should be the top project in this space and that's exactly where we want to position ourselves. We want to be powering smart cities, industry 4.0, smart healthcare, autonomous cars, be the layer zero for all the Metaverse companies and that's exactly what we think and that's where we think we can go. Okay, so I think a light bulb just kind of went off for me and so if you kind of think of where we are right now and where the next five years could bring us, you mentioned autonomous vehicles, you mentioned augmented reality, virtual reality, Metaverse, having that interconnectivity in that layer zero like you mentioned, I think it's going to be huge. Now I want to circle back though and you mentioned these kind of centralized sources like the AT&T's and the Verizon's that hold all of this data on their networks. What are like the biggest pain points for that kind of model? They've been around for a while and why do you feel that Nitro could potentially disrupt or bring on this new revolution of this decentralized internet? Right, so the first thing I would say in this, you know, one of the biggest pain points in any centralized system, especially like telecom is there's a change in infrastructure every few years. When you're talking about a frequency change, you're talking about changing infrastructure and it's going to catch up and it's going to be a massive, massive amount of infrastructure and if a centralized system invest that kind of money, they will have to charge you the same way and it's going to be a very expensive network. And when I earlier said like, you know, IoT networks require huge, huge volumes of data and it's extremely expensive for centralized systems. So distributed ledger system is the most logical approach for this robust and efficient systems. That's, and I think that is going to be the biggest differentiator between what the Verizon's and AT&T's are building versus what Nitro is building. All right. And so then you mentioned Nitro network will be one of these top decentralized networks. So if we kind of use the blockchain space as an example, you know, it started with Bitcoin and then the Ethereum blockchain guy and the other chains started to get built as well. And now everything is kind of coexisting in this new ecosystem. Is that what your kind of internet could also become? Is a space where there's tons of different decentralized players in the space? Absolutely. I mean, see what blockchain did, right? It basically gave power back to the communities and what they could build. And I think that is one of the strongest proposition what even we at Nitro see it as. And you know, the best part about distributed ledger networks or decentralized networks like Nitro is anybody can control their own data and anybody can create their own network. That is where it gets so much more exciting. For example, today, if you want to be a part of the Nitro network, you can basically own, operate and earn from the ecosystem, right? So that becomes, that's where we see the real value proposition. And see, I mean, of course, competition is healthy and there are a couple of people in the space coming up and I see that as a great thing because this ecosystem for something like this to be done there needs to be a great evolution which Bitcoin and blockchain already started. And I think they're all byproducts of what is the next logical step. Exactly. And so I do want to kind of pause here. I see the chat is flooded with questions but I thought this one in particular was a solid one. Kola Gopinath asked the question, what are the revenue models for Nitro network? So as Nitro network continues to grow and expand, where do you plan on kind of like driving revenue into the organization as you kind of build out the infrastructure? Right, so that is, that's a great question, Gopinath. Thank you for that. So you know, that's actually one of the strongest places why Nitro network will be a game changer. If you think about it, the way we are building it is we're using this Nest technology, the Airbnb of mining technology, to say, hey, we will go to the strategic locations where we have already partners, where we know where there is visibility and predictability where we can create revenue. We are not trying to just create a network and then start giving people rewards. That's not the game here. So we, the way we are building our, the LoRaVan and 5G networks in the future is we are going to be deploying these networks with contracts in hand with partners that we know who require this kind of technology. And there are so many kinds of companies today that would require it because, like, you know, just on top of my head, I cannot use a couple of our brand names, which we will be announcing very, very soon. But we're talking about, yeah, we're talking about, you know, smart meeting systems. We're talking about smart lighting systems. We're talking about a lot of interesting things that drive a lot of efficiency. And that's exactly what we are also achieving and what we are trying to achieve at least. We drive the revenue from them and we come back and you like burn the in cash off the market. That's the game. Very fascinating. Okay, and so like if participants, if I, for example, I'm an individual and I'm kind of looking and assessing the project, what kind of ways can people participate in the Nitro network itself? So there are tons of ways that people can participate in Nitro ecosystem view. So our ethos is to keep a community at the center of it all and we are creating a lot of value for them by creating lots of incentive programs. But just our major products are the nesting platform and the non-fungible miners. So I'll just try to break them down a little bit so that there is everybody here understands. So when I talk about nesting, so nesting is this very, very unique concept where we are trying to create, we are going to find strategic locations so that we can send a miner and create this uniform coverage. So the reason why we should or we would do that is pretty straightforward. We don't want any network congestion and we don't want people or miners to be competing against each other for reports, which I see in other, I mean in other projects and we wanted to give the community decide, I mean community to actually get empowered by doing this over a long and sustainable period of time. And that's nesting for instance. And on the other side, yeah. Real quick, and so for nesting though, like that's where you actually receive like a physical mining device. What does that process look like and like how do I get my hands on one of those? If for example, like I want to become a nester, what does that process look like? Great, so our nesting portal is already live.  You go, you basically select your address. You select what kind of miner you want to select. I mean, right now we're only live with Lora Vann and 5G will be out in a few months. You basically select it and we will on the back end, we've developed this unique one by one kilometer grid technology where we know exactly how to create a uniform coverage area. And we select saying, hey, like this guy, this area would be perfect to be here. And we start taking locations off that way and we send them an actual physical miner for free. And once the miner is sent to them, they just set it up and they start making money off it. Or sorry, they start mining in cash. There you go, okay. And so there's nesting. And so just to kind of like break that down, I can opt into this and elect to kind of host this device in my apartment or my office or whatever location is most optimal. You all are essentially deciding like, hey, based on the grid location, how we're trying to build that network, you know, person A versus person B has the most optimal spot to host that. Is that kind of like a safe categorization of how that functions? Exactly, that's exactly what we're doing. Right, so. Very interesting. And I think on the other side, on the other side we have the non-fungible miners. Right, and. We need to get into those. So I hear this phrase, NFMs, non-fungible miners, what are these things? Break this down for us. Right, so non-fungible miners are basically NFTs with a lot of utility, which basically represent the actual infrastructure that is being deployed on the ground. What I mean by that is basically all the infrastructure that is the miners that are being sent out to Nes with our partners and with the individual locations are going to be represented by an actual NFM. And the NFM is basically the ticket or the access point for anybody to start earning from the entire ecosystem and effortless earning all the way, right? Exactly, okay. So all right, I wanna do a screen share here. We're gonna, we're gonna screen share some of these designs. And I actually see, I see some of the NFMs behind you, but just so the audience is aware when Cointelegraph decided to partner with Nitro Network, they brought us in and we conceptualized, helped them build out the actual NFTs, the design, the look, the feel, the rarity traits, the supply, et cetera, et cetera. So Pasha, if you wouldn't mind just pulling up my screen share. And so these are some of the designs and there are three tiers there. And so right here, you're looking at the standard tier, the tier threes. These are kind of like the baseline models. So now each of these NFTs, can you kind of walk us through some of the dynamics, some of the characteristics, I guess Anup, what's the difference between the three tiers? And we can kind of scroll through some of the actual NFTs themselves. Correct, so the way we thought about the entire space, I mean, Cointelegraph is the brains behind it, I think. But there are going to be three different tiers in our entire ecosystem. And when you're talking about tiers, the way we've divided is, the tier will decide how much or what is the strategic value and what is the revenue generation capability each NFM has. So for example, a tier one might reflect the infrastructure deployed in Manhattan in New York versus maybe tier three that is going to be deployed in a suburban location somewhere near Bronx. I mean, I don't know, I'm not saying that's the differentiation at this point, but that's how we're looking. The revenue generation capability is going to decide where the tier is going to be. And all this art is so cool, man. I mean, out of, on top of all of this, just looking at this, it's getting me distracted. This is so cool. I just want to chime in here. I just want to chime in here. From the Cointelegraph perspective, the way that we design these NFTs and what you're looking at here on the screen is the hyper rare. This is a supply of only a hundred inside of the collection of 25,000. And so this is actually, I think like 0.4% of the actual supply. These are the rarest of the rarest. These are the 3D nitro bots. So we're calling this collection nitro bots. Each tier has a different look and feel. You saw those tier threes with the baby robots, the tier twos are a little bit more elevated 2D cartoon feel and then tier ones. You saw what those look like. These are the hyper rare tier ones. And so when we were developing these and kind of conceptualized them, we wanted to encapsulate like a lot of different angles. So one is utility. Gotta have utility when it comes to NFTs. We see a lot of projects today, not a lot of them have great utility. And so that utility for these NFMs is that earning potential, that earning rewards from the actual network. And then number two, we wanted to come up with the aesthetics. The aesthetics we felt like bots were a perfect relation between the human and the future. And so we wanted to kind of encapsulate that with a lot of the rarity traits, the characteristics, the backgrounds, the cards that you see on the outside. So there's those rarity elements that are incorporating into the actual NFTs. And then thirdly, there's a social component. And so when we talk about, and we see what's happening in the NFT space right now, there's a lot of hype around getting your PFP or having a certain level or rarity around your actual NFT ownership. And we wanted to kind of bundle all of those in this first drop in teaser. There will be a few more drops coming up in the future. But for this one, this one's gonna be native on the Nitro Network website, which does bring me into the next round of questions there. Is there anything else you wanted to add in for the NFMs there? No, I think I'm pretty excited. I hope I can get a couple of hyperrace myself, but I don't think I'm allowed to, unfortunately. I was gonna say, I think the tier ones are already sold out, right? Exactly. And the great part is the pre-orders, the tier ones got sold out in the pre-orders. So I think that's pretty encouraging and exciting. I'm looking in the chat right now. Crypto John says he's got 10 of these NFMs. I do wanna pull one question out of the audience here. It looks like, will Nestor's benefit from upgrading the antenna? I know this has been an issue with other projects and people buying new antennas so that they can get better coverage. I thought this was a very good question from Shaman says. So is this antenna, is there gonna be any kind of upgrades for the actual nesting device? That's a great question.  That's actually one of the biggest reasons why we are building what we are building. We don't want people to compete against each other. We are building a network where it's going to be equally distributed. So there is no requirement for additional upgrades or top-ups.  And there is no requirement for upgrades. We don't need to buy any antennas. Obviously we are building our custom product and our custom product is gonna come up with a fiberglass antenna. And that should be very, very good for the coverage that we are talking about. Cool. And I'm gonna grab one more question here from the audience from BGF. Hi, sir. Can users breed robots in the future? That's an interesting question. What does an evolution look like for these potential NFMs and what may lie ahead in the future? Wow, that's actually a first thing. I mean, that's a fantastic question. I'm thinking about it and I think that's something we should definitely incorporate, right, Benton? What do you think you should be thinking about it? Gamification, anything that we can do with these NFTs could be very, very exciting. And I know one of the big topics in the NFT space this year is the collateralization of NFTs. So borrowing and lending against the value of an NFT. So it's gonna be interesting to see, I think what happens when the marketplace launches, the NFMs go live because that secondary market is ultimately gonna dictate that secondary market price. So what does that look like? And then potentially what may lie ahead? Could there be collateralization of NFTs in the future for Nitro Network and OOP? You got it, Bill. No, I'm kidding, let's see. You never know. This is phase one, you don't know what's in phase three yet. Awesome. All right, we're gonna ask, I wanna learn this question. At the end of the day, why do you believe in Nitro Network so much? You mentioned earlier that it's gonna be one of the most innovative projects in this particular space. Why do you believe that? Okay, so a little bit that goes back to from where I'm coming from. Being an industrial engineer and my inclination towards technology and entrepreneurship and creating value, I started my career in a manufacturing background. And when I was running the entire production unit and the sales, and I had massive experience in retail and understanding what could drive efficiency on a floor. And something which stuck with me was how much automation could really save, like in terms of just direct dollars. I mean, we're talking about real dollars being saved, real manpower being reduced. And that's when I got into IoT and IoT, and I just couldn't stop thinking about why IoT would not be the future. And it is, and I started diving deeper. I saw massive potential in where IoT was heading and realized that the infrastructure for such a high volume transaction and efficient networks was not in place. And now with all the conversations about talking about metaverses, it's such a, obviously metaverse is such a grand, grand topic. All the autonomous cars, they require such a diligent and robust network because they cannot afford to lose internet even for a second if you think about it, right? And when you look at all of these, I just knew that it was a logical next step in where humanity was going, where the world was going. And I knew and I was 100% sold on the fact that we are heading towards this hyper-connected world where everything is going to be connected to each other, augmented reality, smart cities. I mean, smart homes is already thing. Like if you think about it, everybody's home these days is fully connected. And that's my strong, strong conviction on why what Nitro is building can be so huge. And Nitro has the right team and the technology to deliver something like this. So I wanna know, and again, thank you for everyone that's tuning in today. Ask your questions in chat. We're gonna be fielding those throughout the rest of this AMA, but Anup, I wanna know what is the special sauce behind Nitro Network? When you boil all of that down, you told us what Nitro Network is gonna do and what they are doing, but why do you believe in your brand, your team, your company, your vision so much? What is the driving force behind a lot of that? Right, so I have two very, very strong points to that. And first is, of course, we have a very, very hardworking and efficient team, but that aside, first is we are thinking of creating a hyper-connected world in a very, very different angle. We are not going to the normal direction of, hey, let's go and set up infrastructure. We are trying to take a step back and say, hey, we are going to build an Airbnb for mining. We are going to build a micro-real estate company. We are going to realize massive potential, massive earning potential and different kinds of utilities using networks, connecting all these networks together and then build it. I think that is where we are completely different and where we are completely thinking differently from all the players in this space. I mean, that I feel is the biggest, biggest strong suit we have. And second is we have six global patents, man. I mean, I think that is also, that also becomes one of the biggest strengths we have. And I don't see why we wouldn't be able to do this. Awesome. All right, so now I also want to kind of dev into next some of the technical aspects for those crypto, nerds in the audience they appreciate you tuning in. So Nitro Network just recently migrated from Ethereum over to the Avalanche chain. I want to unpackage this.  And then the second question is, why did you select Avalanche and why did you feel like that was going to be a great option for Nitro Network? Right. So Nitro Network, the system we are building is a crazy high volume transaction chain.  And when you're talking about that kind of reward structure, we just didn't want the community to lose out so much value in being a very expensive chain where, I mean, nobody like the value is being lost on the chain. It's not coming to the enterprise or the project or the people. And that's when we wanted to, we went back to the drawing board and thought, let's do this because Ethereum, the biggest problem that Ethereum is facing as everybody here knows is very high gas fees and network congestion. And that obviously pushed us to say, let's move. And why Avax or Avalanche? See, I've been following Avax for a long time. They're a great, great ecosystem. They've been growing at a phenomenal speed, phenomenal rate. The finality rate on Avax is one of the best. Their TPS is super high. It's I think around 6,000 or 5,000 transactions per second and that's exactly the kind of network we needed where it's a very scalable partner because like we're looking at it in the future where there are going to be hundreds and thousands of community members on the ecosystem, in the ecosystem and there is going to be millions of transactions happening every single week to month. And we didn't want to lose too much value. And I think Avax is the perfect partner for us. Yeah.  And so we all know Ethereum and what that's like. And so I was curious to see too, like when we were going to Avax, Nitro Network removes Avax, it seems like that's a much more scalable solution if you're doing hundreds of thousands of transactions every second, if not every minute. I mean, I just read today that Avalanche is promoting its subnets a lot more than they were. I think the technology is fantastic. Subnets are going to change the way they are once they're going to work. Interesting. All right, I wanna take a second here. Thank you everyone again for tuning into this AMA. We're here with Anupu Curry who is the CEO of Nitro Network. If you're just jumping in, we've covered a multitude of topics from non-fungible miners to nesting, to what is Nitro Network doing to the massive partnership with Cointelegraph and Nitro Network. I'm gonna go ahead and pause here and field a question from the audience. It looks like we have from Belgian POV, what is the plan to increase the awareness around Nitro and its awesome utility? It looks like they tagged Cointelegraph, but... Yeah, I think... Do you want me to take this or do you wanna jump in? I mean, I'll probably say one thing or two and then you can probably take it. So, I mean, I think the plan with Cointelegraph is Cointelegraph is the beast. I mean, these guys have all the ammo in the book, like they know exactly what to pull at the right time to actually take it to the next step. And I'll let Benton step here and actually talk about it a little more. So, the awareness plan right now is a... It's... We're starting this kind of like grassroots phase and so it's a brick by brick process. And so what does that mean? Well, that means social media infrastructure. That means community management infrastructure and building out the programs and getting those messages and narratives out to everyone so that there is that awareness. So perfect example, we're doing this AMA today. We're gonna be doing tons more of Twitter spaces, AMAs. Be on the lookout for Cointelegraph articles that should be coming out on Tuesdays, explaining what's going on with the Nitro Network, the latest updates, and what is the next evolutions and steps for the Nitro Network. On top of that, we're gonna be making some other big partnership announcements in the weeks and months ahead. And so from the awareness and marketing perspective, we are gonna be knocking on every single door to make sure that everyone in the crypto space knows who Nitro Network is. And today is the day when this all starts and it starts with you all watching today. We appreciate every single one of you that are here because we are your fans, you are our fans. And at the end of the day, that's what we're building is a community around each and every single person that's tuning in today. And that's where it all begins. And so again, just saying, it is the brick by brick process. Rome wasn't built in a day. It's a process and we are trusting in that process. And I believe in the Cointelegraph team, the Nitro team, both are just brilliant and we are agile, nimble. We're able to pivot on the spot. I couldn't be more proud to be partnering with a project like Nitro Network. And so I wanna kind of get into our next question here. What are some of the biggest challenges that lie ahead for Nitro Network? And then how do you plan on overcoming those? Right. So when I say, when you say challenges that are going to be in the future, I'll break this down into two things. One is what was the challenge that Nitro saw and what is the challenge I really think is going to be the big thing. So, you know, when all this conversation about metaverse, augmented reality, autonomous cars, smart cities, it's all great. I mean, we want to be talking about it and envisioning a future where all of this is a reality. But the truth of the fact, and unfortunately is, you know, not a lot of people are actually talking about the infrastructure side of it. And the reality of actual hardware devices to be placed, software operating systems and all of this coming together and playing together, I think that is where it's all going to start. And that is the biggest challenge that Nitro network saw in the network industry and that is what we're trying to solve to begin with. But on the other side, I mean, if there is a challenge that I really think it's not really a challenge. I think, you know, we're innovating the space by introducing so many new technologies, the digital mining technology, which is new to the audience. I see a lot of questions around it and how NFT technology could help crypto mining and all these questions, right? So there is a certain walkthrough and education curve or consumer needs and understanding what Nitro is doing today. Like I said, I wouldn't call it a concern, but it is definitely something that I would give like a top priority as of today to make sure the community understands what it is and actually benefits from all the amazing products and value that we are offering. Excellent. And so I do wanna learn a little bit more about this migration. What kind of tips or tricks, like what are some of the step-by-steps you might be able to walk folks through here in getting their tokens from Ethereum over to Avax? Is that a pretty easy process? And I think we might be able to actually do a screen share as well. Let me go ahead and pull that up for us. Yeah, that'll be great. I mean, what we see here, guys, Benton, if you don't mind me, just giving like a quick walkthrough. So this is obviously the swapping portal where people can come with their old Ethereum and cash tokens to change to their new smart contract and people who are swapping their tokens are going to get a 5% reward fee on whatever they're swapping. And I think we want to create as much value as you can and as we can. And we thank you for all the amazing support that we are getting. And yeah, I mean, so this is a pretty standard process. You connect to your wallet, you connect to your MetaMask wallet, and then you add in the liquidity or add in the cash what you need to swap and that's about it. And then you get the new tokens back and then add it back. This is going to be in the new Avax token. Am I missing anything, Benton? That's pretty straightforward. I think it's as easy breezy as it gets. And for folks that have navigated around the DeFi space, it seems it is as easy as setting up your MetaMask on the Ethereum network and then being able to switch from the Ethereum network over to the Avalanche network, which is fairly easy to get set up. A quick Google search will get you all the information that you need to know to get that MetaMask set up. I wanna talk a little bit more about token management. And one more thing I would want to add is all the people who have staked in our staking program as of today and continues staking for the next 45 days are going to directly get the new EnCache tokens post the staking program. So you guys can quickly go stake on a 150% APR or APY and then that's about it and then you get the new tokens. Sorry Ben, I just wanted to clarify that too. So I do wanna dive around a little bit about tokenomics to better understand how that will work in function now that things are gonna be moving over to Avax. What can you kind of tell us about the tokenomics for the Nitro network? Right, so we are following a model called Burn and Mint Equilibrium Model which we've basically learned from one of the biggest players in this space, Helium where they've definitely Helium pioneers in the space. They, I think something that we saw that could work in the network industry. We are following a Mint and Burn Equilibrium Model where we are going to be creating EnCache tokens to give all the rewards to the NES, the NFMs and staking programs but we're also going to be burning every month through the revenue that is being created in the market in the on the ground and coming back and burning it. So I think it's a very, very detailed model. I think it took a lot of time to actually build this mathematical model but I think it works and it's going to be pretty fantastic. Awesome, all right. So we covered a lot today. We talked a lot about Nitro Network, the partnership with Cointelegraph, what's been happening, the move in migration over to the Avax ecosystem. Where can folks find out more information about Nitro Network, some of the latest updates and is there any kind of nuggets you might be able to tell our audience today about what might be coming up next for Nitro? Man, there's so much coming. There's a lot coming. So I will say like, you know, just to begin with obviously we've migrated to Avax now and we just partnered with Pangolin, one of the top dexists on the Avax chain. We are creating a superfarm yield which is going to start at a 1200% return guys. And that's going to, you guys have to read about superfarm yielding. It's going to be a beast and you're going to make, the returns are phenomenal, like I just said. And on top of that, we are creating liquidity in a lot of places we are trying to, we're talking to a lot of central exchanges, we are already listed on UoB and UoB is doing the token swap. So people on UoB will be directly given the new and cash tokens without any swap process. So that's something that the community needed to be educated. And on the other side and on a lot of other things, the website is being revamped at the moment. The NFM marketplace is going to be launched in the next couple of weeks. Guys, that's going to be awesome because the minute the launch happens, we are talking about these super cool NFMs that Benton just shared, them being minted and the reward process starting. So that's going to be a big moment in what we are trying to build. And on the other side, nesting registrations are going to be live very, very soon. We are going to start looking at the strategic locations and start telling you guys who are the partners. We are going to be deploying the machine like the infrastructure maybe April, mid to April end. That's where we are looking. We've already partnered with a couple of manufacturing units, who is also one of the biggest players in this space. We are building a custom product with them and we are going to be announcing that also in the next week or so, most probably in the next week. So that's a lot of things happening. And these are all just the tip of what we are trying to build and there's so much more coming in. It's one last question for you. So what does it look like? Is NitroNet we're going to be also partnering with more traditional businesses to get their devices and build these infrastructures with these type of companies? For example, Dunkin Donuts or gas stations or malls, is that in the playbook for Nitro? Absolutely, absolutely. As long as we are creating strategic locations. As a matter of fact, we are right now talking to players where we are digitizing their entire retail store. I mean, I'm talking about automating their personal stores apart from the fact that they are also going to act as the hub and create coverage in that area. So, I mean, that's going to be a super, it's going to be a win-win for all and I'm super excited for that. Awesome. This has been a eye-opening experience for me learning a lot today about NitroNetwork. I want to thank every single one of you for tuning in today. I see people are just chiming in on chat today, asking their questions, great questions all around. If you have more questions, Anup, where can folks go to interact with the community and community managers inside of the Nitro ecosystem? What's the best place for folks who have more questions? Right, so I'll say I'll, so just to begin with, if you guys have been following as you know, we've been super, super active on all social channels. We are on, our Discord is live. We have, the community managers are active 24-7, just for you guys to, and clear all your questions. We've opened a ticketing system where if anybody has any concern, can come in and put it there and we are going to try to solve it as fast as we can. And on top of that, you want to learn more. You should be following us. You should go to our website and look at our Githbooks. There's a whole bunch of documentation where we cover everything. Like I'm talking about technology, I'm talking about token economics, I'm talking about what is, how are we going to build this entire phase, even the details of how our Sentinel system, so that is what our entire Nitro operating system is going to be called. And the Sentinel system is something very, very interesting, which is going to be the main system for making sure the network is live. So you can find all of these details. Just check out the Githbooks on our website and I think there's a lot of things coming up. I was going to say that sounds like some matrix revolution stuff. That's really exciting. If you haven't given a Nitro network a follow, go ahead and do so now and like and subscribe, coin telegraph on YouTube. This has been awesome. Anup, thank you for joining us today. Hopefully we'll be able to do this again in the future once things are starting to go live and there's a lot more updates to provide the community. Again, for those just tuning in, this is the end of the show, but coin telegraph has partnered with Nitro Network. We are super excited to be here. And until next time, thank you for joining us today. I'm your boy, Benton. Thank you for jumping in. Thanks Anup. Hey, thank you so much guys. Thank you so much. We will be here back soon. All right.