and then turn it over to Mona. Okay, you were live. Great, thank you very much, David. Okay, everyone, well, welcome to the latest Denver Meetup virtual discussion, and we have the pleasure of having Mona Rassouli join us today, and she's gonna be talking about building a next generation digital identity and verified credentials system using hyperledger Aries and Indy, which is wonderful. And I'm really looking forward to this great discussion, and it seems like we had some wonderful discussions here about verified credentials and tokens. We had a nice presentation last time by Eddie, and I'm looking forward to firing off into this one, and Mona, I'll turn it over to you to kick us off with a discussion. Sounds like a plan, thanks, John. So I'm gonna start by sharing my screen. And if anyone has any questions while we're going along here, feel free to post them in the chat. And if you also wanna post where you're coming in from, that'd be good as well. Okay, please let me know if you can see my screen. Yes, it shows up perfect. Perfect. Okay, hi, everyone, nice to meet you. My name is Mona Rassouli. I am a full-stack blockchain engineer at OneUp, and I'm also the founder of HapticSao. Today's talk is about a next-generation identity system. The specific title is Building a Next-Generation DID and VAC System Using Hyperledger Indian Aries. I've structured this talk to begin more at a higher level overview of decentralized identity and SSI. And then gradually, as the talk continues, we're gonna narrow it down to our solution and our specific use case, which is in the context of an ecosystem for a brand and loyalty. So to start, we're gonna do an intro on decentralized identity. Then we'll cover the general design of self-sovereign identity. Then I wanna talk about a topic that I think is personally extremely important, which is accessibility. Then as I said, we're gonna talk about our solution at OneUp, our model, our design. We'll briefly then touch on a little bit of forward-thinking, some exploration of forthcoming ideas, and then I'll leave room for Q&A. Okay, so let's get started on an intro on decentralized identity. And to start, I wanted to bring up a term that came up very recently. It was actually last week at Chainlink SmartCon. It was delivered in Serkin-Azerov's keynote. And that term is the idea of the verifiable web. And I think this idea may transcend and be perhaps a bit more accurate when we talk about Web3. And I think it's a powerful means for reshaping how we think about the internet and the state of how we want this to evolve into over time. And so there's been a decade of work by W3C. And I also wanted to cover a really good quote by Philip J. Windley, he's a former sovereign chair, and that is from his book, excerpt from the O'Reilly book. Because the internet is missing an identity layer, every website service provider and application has solved the problem in a unique way. As a result, people are subject to cognitive overload, friction, increased costs, loss of privacy, and even outright fraud. So this is kind of over time become a systemic problem where every website application or UI has this issue and this comes at a cost for both teams and users. So as we think and discuss the verifiable web, I wanted to list out some very specific key elements. There are some more, but these five are really crucial to this idea of the verifiable web. And so the first part is that it's a meta system. It works best if it's a layer atop the current internet. As previously quoted, it's like an identity layer atop everything. It's its own protocol, the same way we have TLS and SSL. And so what this does is this enables kind of a continuous system rather than isolated central systems. We have a continuous layer that it's more that when teams implement their identity solutions, it's just instances of a larger system rather than isolated. So this allows for more robust infrastructure, contributes to better security and privacy. And it's less a worry about moving users between different authentication pools. And it's really interesting, it's more about users moving themselves with their identities. And so this kind of continues into the next element, self-sovereign identity. Users have control of their own data. They control who they share their credentials with and to what extent. This gone is the notion of third-party trackers or business models that operate at the cost of privacy, of user privacy. And the idea again is that it's user consent driven. This is guaranteed thanks to cryptographic verifiable truth, which is enabled by a mixture of zero knowledge proofs, their use case specific methods. And that is what the cryptography is what allows us to establish integrity and credibility in the system. Interoperability of course, ties back into the meta system idea. We're gonna have many, there's many blockchains and applications and systems. And so this is like a decentralized means of interacting with all of them. They're complimentary rather than isolated. This also additionally makes sense when you think of the identity layer as a global system. Each jurisdiction has its own laws and regulations and their own credential types. So we really want it to be interoperable, not just that a technology layer, but like between different countries. And then the last one is like very crucial to just any form of blockchain design that's to have modular design. So specifications evolve, technology evolves. You really want to be able to update to new standards, update, have your system be scalable. And this is also vital when you even get deeper into it, when you're thinking about quantum resistance. So being able to change out certain things to make them more resistant to quantum attacks. Okay, so that kind of sets the stage for this talk at a very high level. I wanna now cover the general design of self-sovereign identity. So I have the technology stack for SSI. This graphic has taken from the trust over IP. And starting, there's four layers to this, but starting from the bottom, we first have a public utility layer, which I also call the network layer. This layer consists of ledgers, it consists of DIDs and the idea of everything being interoperable. There's different DID methods. Centralized identity methods may usually correspond to the ledger with which they're interacting with. So whatever method you're using defines how DIDs are read and written to the ledger for that specific ledger. And I'll, I have a slide for this next. So I'll get more into it. The concept of a universal resolver then becomes key to enable this interoperability. You need to be able to resolve for whatever blockchain you're using so that it's not that like, oh, I can only verify if I'm on this specific blockchain for this specific platform, it follows throughout the system. Layer above the network layer is the peer-to-peer communication layer. There's this concept of agents. Every user has one or more agents with which they can connect to other agents with and have this peer-to-peer interaction. And then these agents also help manage their wallets. So the protocol for this and the in the area stack is didcom. And in the same way that you can connect from person to person, you can have organization to organization connect and organization to person connect. And another powerful thing that enables this is the concept of pair-wise DIDs where everyone has a DID but when you're making a connection for that connection pair specific DID can be issued. And this also helps with privacy. Another key thing with the connections is that when you connect, it's essentially indefinite but you can opt into a connection or opt out of a connection at any given time. Okay, so those are the lower levels, those first two. A layer above that is the verifiable credential model which is secured thanks to zero knowledge proofs. I have a dedicated slide to this so I'm not going to spend too much time at this time. Layer above then of course is your application ecosystem. This is where your business logic will be written for how you want to deal with credentials just so you know when we're talking about the business application, it's referred to as a controller for the agents for here. Okay, so going back then next to first the idea here of DIDs and TIT docs, there's different DID methods and so the string is like this. It goes, you have DID, you have the method you're using which corresponds to most like the specific type of ledger you're using and then you have the actual like ID parts that is generated from your method of choice. So here's two examples, there exists DID ether which actually has a corresponding EIP. It's stagnant but there's the repositories active. You have another example of DID SOV which is for the software network that's an indie based network DID method. And then so this string can be resolved to what's referred to as a DID doc and it's like a specific thing that it gets resolved. So this on the right is an example of a DID doc and to draw an analogy for understanding in the same way that NFTs have metadata that tells you details about that specific NFT. Each person's DID has a DID doc which is sort of like metadata for that DID. Okay. So now I wanna cover the verifiable credential model which if you recall was layer three and this is where the credential issuance occurs. So there's three major key players in this and that's so agents that act as issuers, agents that act as holders and agents that act as verifiers and these are Aries based agents. So the issuer is an entity organization that will be issuing the credentials. The holder is the user and then the verifier is another entity or organization that would be verifying those credentials. So the basic flow is that an issuer will issue credentials to the holder based on some information that the holder provides. The issuer will determine if it's valid and then issue it to the holder's wallet and then at a given moment, whenever the verifier would like to request that they can get a proof which is thanks to zero knowledge proof technology, ZKP. And there's trust in the system in this flow because we have an underlying ledger, we have an underlying blockchain that can help the verifier validate that, oh, this issuer legitimately issue these credentials to the holder. It's not the case that there was forgery. Okay, so the model specific to our organization, one of has one of as the issuer and as the verifier and this is the design right now at inception. The longer term goal is as we onboard more clients that are in the brand and loyalty space to onboard them to our network as issuers and verifiers. And I'll talk about this a little bit more when we get more into our design. Okay, so again, covering the credential process, users gonna provide some information, organizations gonna determine the validity of this information and issue the user credential. The user holds the credential in their wallets and then whenever there is a need to prove their identity, either this could be a formal request or this could be triggered by a restricted action on a user interface, it could be designed that way. They're gonna have to share their credentials to provide the validity. And then if it's valid, it's done. And it's a simple flow, but realistically under the hood, it's actually, it consists of a very quick back and forth facilitated by a web hook. It's like almost like a six step dance between these two actors. So here would be like a six step back and forth of like requesting, offering the credential. And then over here as well, requesting the proof, validating the proof and so forth. And part of the validation check also is to check that the credential has not been revoked. Okay, and what allows for the privacy and security of this is ZKP, specifically ZKSNARX, which are non-interactive, allowing to limit the interaction between, if we go back, the prover and the verifier, the holder and the verifier. This also enables minimal selective disclosure. You may have a credential with many attributes, but you don't need to necessarily disclose all of them. You can even disclose a fact about them. That would be considered a predicate. And then a key aspect of ZKSNARX specifically is that they're distinct. So no matter how big the amount of credentials are, the proof is always kind of a smaller message, which allows it to be a lot more efficient. And so CL signatures are specifically what's used to generate the proof. And you can also combine these with some blinded identifiers to get more privacy. Okay, so that was a quick overview of self-sovereign identity and decentralized identity. Now I wanna cover accessibility. I wouldn't be the founder of Aptixtow if I didn't cover this. And I think that this idea of an identity layer really contributes to this. So let's discuss that. So traditionally we have a lot of issues with verification. Specifically when you talk about CAPTCHA, it's not accessible to everyone. So for example, a blind user CAPTCHA is not exactly accessible. There's even RECAPTCHA or CAPTCHA V3, which was designed to be more accessible. However, it has issues for the deaf-blind community. And also any type of CAPTCHA or authentication system that is puzzle-based actually goes against WCAG recommendations for cognitive accessibility. And then from a usability perspective as well, every platform again has its own platform-specific verification. So you may have noticed on LinkedIn very recently they had the driver's license validation. Twitter has Twitter blue, but these are platform-specific. And so reach leads to my next point. It adds at a UX level, it adds friction and it's a bit tedious to do on every website or application or any of these platforms that also have KYC processes. They're often inaccessible and user has to ask for additional help each time they want to validate themselves on a platform. Stepping away from that as well, we have malicious actors, there's third-party tracking, there's bots, there's spam. There's also, I put social engineering on there because very recently chat GPT was able to, there was an article about this in May. It was able to trick a team member of some platform that it needed help, it was a blind user and it needed help to get past CAPTCHA. And so it actually, through social engineering, the AI was able to trick the person that it was corresponding with. So what SSI then provides as a benefit for accessibility is of course increased privacy thanks to zero-knowledge proof technology, increased security, central providers have data leakages all the time. If you own your credentials and you choose who you share those with, that prevents against that. It's not an essential location. Again, user has control of data, it helps avoid the third-party tracking. It's no longer your data that makes you the products. And probably the most important point for accessibility is inclusion and equal participation in a much larger system. And you have this idea of true universal login, okay? So now I wanna cover our solution. We'll have a couple of questions here, Mona, before we move on here. Oh, sure thing, sure thing. And then we'll come back to the discussion. So a couple of points in the chat that were posted about that other section you were going through was. There's a question here from Imran that says, does this mean that the entire, let me get back to it here. Credential is encrypted using zero-knowledge proof when presented to the verifier. Correct. Okay. And then another follow-on question that they had was, what is the CL signature? So that is an ECDSA base. It's an elliptic curve, sorry, excuse me. It's elliptic curve-based signature. You can kind of look into it. It's based, so it's called CL because it's based on two individuals in cartography that came up with it. I called it CL signatures because their names are kind of long. It's the common, I'm not gonna try to pronounce it. But that's what's used to sign on the proofs. Okay, perfect. And then we've got one more question then we can move on to the next section here. Looks like Bright has a question about, can the digital wallets function with mobile phones and tablets with SIM cards? Yes, yes they can. So there's actually, there's like two flows to this. There's a desktop flow and a mobile wallet flow. And so the difference is like you have like right, so a desktop flow would be like a server-side environment and then mobile flow would be mobile environment. So like how you handle the credentials is a little bit different. Perfect. Okay, Mona, thanks for answering those couple of questions and I'm ready for the next section. Awesome, yeah, thank you guys so much for asking questions and thanks, John. Okay, so next part I'm gonna zoom in now on our solution. So up until this point in the talk, this is more of like a shaping our thinking or self-sovereign identity and decentralized identity. Now it's more specific to what we did at Wanao and what we are specifically operating within, which is like a microcosm of the larger macrocosm that has been presented up until now. So I wanna, this is a very quick architecture snapshot of Hyperledger Indie and Hyperledger Aries specifically. So I'm gonna break it down, but this is the quick picture. You have the Hyperledger Indie blockchain and I'll go through that. Then you have your agents, which interact with the blockchain. You have a tail server, which is separate for handling the revocation of the credentials. And then remember in the TOTIP stack, we have the controller, which is where the business logic sits and interacts with the agents. Very much so outside of this, not so much an architecture concern is the Indie CLI for some setup, but it's not connected or interacting with the network. It's just it's on separate CLI. So starting again, we're gonna start, it's bottom up, but on this picture, it's top down. Let's talk about the Indie Identity Ledger. So Indie Ledger is a public permissions network. And what this means is that anyone can read from it, but not everyone can write. That's what permission means. This contrasts to Ethereum, for example, which is public and permissionless. But I do want to mention that we shouldn't think of these as isolated. Remember to think of it as more of a meta system that you can interact with these guys. So again, zooming in on Hyperledger Indie. Public permission ledger, it serves as a decentralized source of trust that anyone can read from, but for brands, loyalty or more enterprise use cases, they want a stricter ledger where not everyone can write, especially when you're thinking about issuing credentials, you want a little bit more of that restriction. And so what do we actually persist to this ledger while public data, so like public DIDs, schemas, some application info, what we are not publishing, of course, is just like the credentials, private keys, like obviously anything sensitive. Paralyzed DIDs, for example, are nowhere near the ledger. Ledger components. So you have Indie Plenum, which is like the engine of Hyperledger Indie. It's the consensus protocol. It's the core ledger components. So the consensus protocol for Indie is Plenum Byzantine Vault Tolerance, which assumes a malicious BFT Vault Tolerance. So what this means is the equation is three F plus one, where F is the number of nodes you can handle being malicious. So another key thing to this is that a Markov Patricia tree is used for state. This is similar to Ethereum actually. They use also a Markov Patricia tree. Indie node, then, which is dependent on Plenum, handles more the identity logic for the ledger part and handles identity-specific transactions. The nodes themselves are actually communicating thanks to ZMQ. And I've included the idea of the sub-ledgers because Indie is truly for sub-ledgers. It's a domain, config, pool, and audit ledger. Domain is where we have our credential definitions or schemas or identity. Config is where we can set some governance and some other network settings configuration. And then pool is where we have node discovery, network, any time in node joins the network, you would be, the transaction would be quoted in the pool. And then audit, literally audit, just have better integrity in the system. Some additional technical info. Ursa previously provided a lot of the cryptographic primitives, but it's been since deprecated. It's still used for individuals that are actually using Indie SDK, which is like using an identity system without the use of the agents. Now we just focus on a non-creds and like I mentioned, the CL signatures going forward. And this is effective from the agent version of 0.8.xup. Another key thing to know as well, this is pertinent to the agents. You are required to use Ascar wallets, not Indie wallets with the agent. And then I've also just included the library lip sodium, which is used for cryptographic operations in this. Okay, so that was snapshot of the Indie ledger. For one of that's our private identity blockchain network. Next, let's cover the agents. So this is the architecture for an agent. The picture on the left is a simplified photo of the picture on the right, which is also a simplified photo. So you have your Occupy agent, which has core capabilities for interfacing with your ledger. It also contains the core capabilities of interacting with other agents. And that's again via Ditcom. So what happens is your agent serves all of this functionality via REST through Swagger. And then you would write your business logic on the controller to interface with this, which then interfaces again with the Indie ledger. And then also in between your controller application, which in our case is a Django application, you have a web hook that helps speed up the back and forth interactions. So if you recall, when I was showing the verifiable credentials model, I said there's actually a little bit more to it when between the issuer and the holder and the holder and the verifier, there's a very quick back and forth. And that's what the web hooks there for. It helps facilitate those really quick back and forth requests. Okay, so that was the agents, that was the ledger. I want to very quickly talk about the tail server. The tail server exists for the use case of revoking credentials. So if you issue a credential, you either want it to have an expiration date or you want it to be revoked for whatever reason. It's its own dedicated registry and it also plays on the idea of cryptographic accumulators. They're designed to be also horizontally scalable because tail servers have like a very finite amount of credentials with which they can hold for revocation. So you need to keep deploying more as your system grows. And again, it's meant to run alongside the network. And this serves as a point of reference when you're actually doing the verification step that you want to verify that the user's credential has not been revoked. It is possible as well to issue non revocable credentials, but again, this is like an interplay of what is your use case for those specific credentials. Okay, so again, continuing for one of specific our technical stack up until now we've covered indie blockchain, which is our official public permissioned blockchain. It's optimized for identity. Aries agents handle the requests to our identity chain and interact with our controller. We use hash corp vaults because our architecture also consists of multi tenants mode for the others. We need seed management in the vaults, which is very secure and also some backend token management. I've mentioned that our controller is written in Django. This helps to communicate between the agents and then our UI is reacts. I'm gonna cover it very quickly in the forward thinking part, but we're also looking at React Native for mobile agents. So whoever asks about mobile agents that React Native would be pertinent to that.  And it's our primary authorization point. It allows users to sign up and access 30 centralized identity. And all of these messages and flow is really orchestrated and facilitated thanks to Kafka so we can produce and consume identity, firefly and fabric messages in our system. It really makes it a lot faster. Quickly covering our specs. So we're running agent version 0.9.x and up. Of course, using ask our wallets. As mentioned, 0.8.x and up, you should be on ask our wallets. We're using multi-tenant design, which allows for really good scalability and better desktop UX for the user. CL signatures, we are using indie credentials and we're working towards a non-credits 2.0. At the time we had developed the solution, it wasn't quite there yet, but now it's forward to thinking what's what we wanna be. We use standard agent connections to connect the agents. Our deployments is thanks to Kubernetes charts. So that's for both the agent and the tail server. Currently open sourced is OpenShift charts. So our DevOps guys, Nathan and Corey, shout out to them, wrote some Kubernetes charts for our specific deployment. And we're also using AWS cloud for our indie network, expanding into other cloud providers just to have more opt-time. And then agents, all of our agents are currently occupy-paste, so it's all like in a server-side environment. On the right, I also have a quick chart for multi-tenant occupy instance. The idea is that there's like a big wallet that relays into each user's specific wallets. They're all tenants, since the multi-tenancy. Okay, so what does our registration flow look like for users? Well, very seamless UX. Users simply signs up. They can sign up with their social provider. They can sign up with a traditional account, email. They are first registered into Key Cloak, which is important because it helps with accounts and kind of social recovery mechanisms. Then they are registered in our identity system, which again, so they get their DID created, sub-wallet created, and then sensitive details are stored in hash-corp vault. Then specific to our wider platform, they're using FabConnect. They have wallet creation and wallet enrollment for our private fabric chain. And then also our team is also using Firefly, so they have a Firefly registration. Once these three pieces are complete, or sorry, four pieces if you include Key Cloak, the user is successfully created. And I actually omitted a demo from this talk because as I was like looking at our system, it's actually, it's so seamless, the UX, that it didn't really add value to have a demo for this, just to show messages going back and forth. And so yeah, so beyond the registration flow, it would go back to the credential issuance flow. So this is a fantastic design for brands and loyalty because we can readily support multiple chains. The DID and the user account works across brand platforms. So again, think of it as like a micro ecosystem of brands and loyalty organizations that the user can kind of travel through. And so that creates a smoother onboarding. You can choose which brands you wanna be involved with. Stronger CRM is enabled by this. Actually our CTO, Eddie did a talk on this previously. And then also if anybody has a side note is interested, Dennis and Eddie also did a talk on Teslas Connector. So when we talk about multiple chains. So and then this also considering brands and loyalty creates better user engagement because they feel more involved with earning, rewarding sweepstakes, ticketing, gamification. Interesting use case for sweepstakes could be that, let's say a sweepstakes has a requirement that you have to be 18 years or older to enter the sweepstakes. You have already had your age credentials issued to you. But without having to reveal your age, you can use predicate and it'll just verify whether you're above 18 or under 18. It's not, you don't need to know your exact age. And then yep, just also I believe I mentioned this, that I do have cross, oh no I didn't, cross brand loyalty programs. This is also something else that's interesting. So you could have shown loyalty to multiple brands. You could have something as interesting as a flow of where you verify you have tickets to a concert. You can have a specific hotel brands get a benefit boost from using that specific brand. So you get hotel accommodations for that concert. And then you could also use a specific merch provider to get like a triple loyalty boost, okay? Now, quick mention of future work and exploration for our team. So- Well Mona, maybe let's just jump back in and take another quick look at some of these questions before we move on to that section. Yeah, sure thing, sure thing. And I'm just trying to interleave some of these within the presentation here. So let's go back here and it's and some of this you may have already covered but let's just go through it quickly. Yeah, sure thing. So where do you have the mediator server for the mobile agents and is this part of the tail server? Okay, so mediation is separate from that. That is when you want a service to act on behalf of the user's agent. We're not using a mediator in our flow. Multi-tendency you can, there's so there's two flows of multi-tendency you can have a mediator or you can have a relay. We're using a relay where requests are relayed to the appropriate sub-wallet. Great, and it looks like Wade also kind of weighed in here as well on that question. Okay, another question we have from Colin is as you mentioned, there is a mobile wallet and desktop wallet. Can you sync verified credentials between the two wallets? Yeah, so that's interesting. So we started with the multi-tenant design. So right now we're on desktop only. I was going to cover it in the future work, but that's something we're looking into to have not so much a sync, but more of like an export for mobile wallet. We could certainly explore a sync mechanism as well. It's kind of, it's more in like something we'd have to sit and like flash out more though. Yeah, that's perfect. And then Colin had a follow-on question, which was, which version of DITCOM protocol are you using? The latest, so you'd have to look up that one. I'd have to get back to you on that one. Okay, yeah, no problem. And then Jim's got a good question here. He's asking, does your solution have interoperability with DITS on CHAPI networks, CHAPI networks? It could be made to, to my knowledge, but we haven't had that come up in any discussion so far. Okay, great. I'm going to go a couple more here and then we'll get back into the section four here. Next one is from Wade. Why did you choose to host your own IndieNode network rather than use one of the existing services like Sovereign or Indicio? So Sovereign and Indicio are, and by the way, hey Wade, he's a fantastic member of the hyper leisure community. I've always asked answering questions for individuals. So shout out to Wade. So Indicio and Sovereign are fantastic networks and they serve their own purpose. We specifically chose to host our own Indie network because we see our use case as more specific to like a platform for brands and loyalty. We would certainly be interested in working with Sovereign and Indicio net-based networks. We've actually had some like conversations a little bit but like want to get back to it later. We wanted to build this out first. But so because ours is specific to like one of our clients, for example, I can talk about this publicly as Warner. So like Warner's our first clients, they're in our identity network. It's specific to their mechanisms and their needs. Okay, perfect. Then got a couple more here and then we'll go back to the presentation. Got one here from Neil. Is there a link where they can try out the registration process? Any type of demo for him? Yeah, absolutely. Carter, I think you answered that in line by the way. Okay, it looks like Carter did answer it in line and thanks Carter. So yeah, this is the Warner music group rewards. And this is one that Eddie went through on his great presentation previously. So thanks. Okay, we're gonna do two more and then we'll go back to it. So Jim's asking another question about do you support DIDs from other networks? We can. Currently we're using sovereign DID, DID SOV. But yeah, so like again, as I mentioned in the beginning of the talk, ideal situation is when you, it's irrelevant, you just support whichever ones. Okay, perfect. And then the final question is, have you looked at Civic Pass? I have not. Feel free to share any links. Perfect. Okay, Mona, looks like that's the current question. So I'll turn it back over to you to go through the presentation. Sure thing. So we're getting towards the last one is very quick and thanks Eddie and Carter for the assistant answering questions. So future work exploration. So exploring mobile design. A lot of questions have been asked about mobile design. So we're looking at AFJ and by-folds. Also going back to accessibility, I think it's very important if possible to support both desktop and mobile and users can decide which their preferences. Next then as well, a non-creds V2. Recently in the community, there was a mention of the hyperledger agora projects with additional CKP properties, additional signature schemes. So that's something to at least explore and look into. And then beyond that, just expanding out our use cases. Like I kind of mentioned a sweepstakes use case, but other ones outside of that. And so now we hit the Q and A. Okay, perfect. So go ahead and feel free to post it in the chat and if you need to articulate the question, just let me know in the chat that you wanna talk as well. But one of the questions I had for you, Mona, is you had that great run-through about inclusiveness and making sure things like accessibility are in play for the internet. And so one of the things I was thinking is, is there any type of legislation that's coming down that's really going to force some of these players to adopt verified credentials for accessibility purposes? Yeah, for sure. I mean, there's definitely updates in legislation. They've been a lot stricter recently. You've seen maybe in the news of some more lawsuits as well for organizations. I think California specifically is quite strict with that. So legislation definitely contributes and I wanna say like maybe incentivizing teams to start with better accessibility practices and accessibility is really good because you're involved, like Web3 is built on community. So when you involve your community and you get feedback, it not only makes your products better, it contributes to everyone having a sense of like loyalty and enjoying the product more. And the sooner you start with that and keep these things in mind, the better off you are versus trying to like redo everything from scratch after like being out for many years or... Perfect, and then kind of a follow-on to that is, I know that KYC is always a big issue, know your customer, whether that's coming to banking or whether that's with exchanges or crypto exchanges. So what are you seeing as far as more adoption in that space of maybe even cross protocol, KYC acceptance? So at the moment, it still seems to be more like isolated cases where you just go on a platform and you have to KYC for that specific platform. So right, as we talked about the idea of like universal login, universal authentication, I think that'll definitely help with that. KYC is a very tricky process. I know there's like some takes on both sides about the necessity of KYC. It's definitely important. It definitely serves its purpose. It just has to be made as accessible as possible. And if we can reduce the amount of times you are required to do it, that also contributes in accessibility. Okay, perfect. Looks like we got a link for Civic in there. So we can check it out if you wanna look at that link. And then let's see what Jim has to say here. Jim, you wanna come off and ask a couple of your questions that you have in here? Come up here. One of them is, again, back to the idea of interoperability, which you certainly hit upfront, which is really critical. And I think eventually when I'll say all of the concepts of a standard did VC and so on, an anonymous credential, once those are all fully interoperable or recognizable across multiple systems, a lot of problems go away. But one of the benefits is there's something called the Glyph Network. So most financial institutions now, because they're responsible for KYC, AML, compliance kind of thing, are looking at Glyph dids, if you will, for legal entities, which is sort of very different than a sovereign did, if you will, which doesn't have those same issues and same responsibilities I'll say. So as a result, like companies will, sorry, I can think of many financial institutions that issue these Glyph dids and say, okay, this is now the IBM's did. We've issued that for our company and we have a credential that has a relationship with them as a vendor or whatever it is. All of that stuff is going on now actively. And so the argument would be, it would be great at some point to be able to leverage that instead of having to re-enroll a company again in another network, which as I guess the solution now you wind up with multiple separate identities in the SSI world, I guess to accommodate it. The only other thought was around wallet services. So different than wallets, which is sort of not a winning strategy long-term for a lot of things, where you're actually holding your own wallet. It's much like your 401k, your IRA is not in your wallet.  And so wallet services under that EAP 4337 allow the idea of custodial wallet services as well instead of metamask or something. Yeah, for sure. Thank you so much for sharing that, Jim. Yeah, account abstraction definitely contributes to better accessibility in UX. Yeah, thanks. Perfect, thanks, Jim. Appreciate that. We have another question here is about how is fabric for storing and retrieving information at scale? And what layers is it best compatible with for multi-tenancy enablement? Okay, so fabric, by the way, tends to be more like raft consensus-based. We're using fabric as our private chain. So that's how we handle minting NFTs and all that functionality. Okay. Then Colin's got another question here and he just wants to double check.  Do you mean like on board onto our network or he wants to get started with like hyperlitraindy and iris? Colin, if you want to come off mute and ask a moment of the question directly that maybe would help. Hey, can you hear me? Yeah. Okay, what I mean is you have mentioned something like the Helm charts and where it's working. So this implies kind of to me that I can get the services and deploy it on my own infrastructure, which I'm running and then connect to your blockchain, of course. That's what I meant. Okay, so we do have some Kubernetes charts. They're currently not open source. I can, I believe the intention was to open source them. No, no, no, not only open source in general. If you have such an option, I don't know, prepaid plant or some subscription plant, that's what I'm more asking. That doesn't mean to be only an open source. Oh, I got you. Do you want me to cover that? Yes, please, Eddie. That's what this is for. Yeah, so we are actually putting together an offering for doing the essentially digital wallet as a service at the dead level and then also the wallets underneath on the multi-chain configuration. So we will have that out in the publicly available market in the near-term future. And part of that is if you want to be on the network is running a node. So yes, if you wanted to run a node on the network and you wanted to pay a fee per wallet, we are allowing additions onto our network and the support for it. I got you in. Thanks, I mean, let's just answer perfectly my question. Thank you. All right, perfect. Thanks for checking in on that. Okay, next one we have is from Brett. And Brett wants to know if there's any preference with DAPS such as MetaMask or Trust Keys? Preference from like just like a personal preference or like a system. Brett, if you want to come off mute and just ask Mona the question directly, that'd be great. I don't know if Brett's still with us. I don't see him in the, he's there. Maybe he's not on video right now. If he comes off, we can revisit that question. How's that? Yeah. Okay, next one is going to be from Neil. If there's any way for a website app to discover an anonymous user may have an available wallet. Anonymous. So kind of no, because actually when you look at multi-tenant design if you connect to a multi-tenant wallet you actually it's, you won't know if it's multi-tenant or not. Like that's how it was designed. So I think if I understood the question correctly, yeah. Yeah. And I think it's probably something like, you know it comes in through an anonymous browser and some way you can detect that there's a wallet available to use through the browser. Okay, let's look at the next question then. Areeb has a question about what's the benefit of hyperledger in terms of dids compared to polygon or optimism? So I like a very neutral stance on that. They're all fantastic pieces of technology and it's all part of a larger broader, I guess more like a better technical vision for how we handle these things. So I rather than, so like treat it as more of like what's specific to your use case and what you want to use. The technology is sound between all of these solutions. What's important is what's your use case and just making it as interoperable as possible so that it's like seamless for users. For example, going back to, I mean our platform against specific to Indian areas I just want to mention this. User can sign up for whatever brand or loyalty client in our ecosystem. They can sign up from their site but then it's as if they've signed up for the ecosystem and then they can choose which brands and loyalty clients they want to interact with, they have that choice. So it's like actually like a multi entry point system if you think about it that way. But that was a bit of a tangent going back to your question. Yeah, just treat it as compatible technology really drill down to what is your use case. There's benefits for both having it on a public permissionless chain and benefits for having it on a public permission chain. Okay, perfect. Next question we're going to look at is going to be, are there implementations for SSI and what are the use cases that are implemented for SSI and banking BFSI sector? If you need clarification, we can get the person in post of that come off mute and talk about it. Looks like it's Abilash, does that sound correct? Hey, hello John, can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you perfectly. Thank you. Right, a quick question. So SSI, self sovereign identity. I'm aware of an implementation which happened in NHS UK. Apart from that, are there any other implementations? The answer is probably banks are probably doing. Yeah, some more like enterprise institutions often like either they're not super public about it. It's more like a secret projects or some are outright public about it. Definitely banking is working with a lot of these blockchain technologies, not just SSI, just other things in general. Yeah, yes, I'm aware banking is working in a blockchain because I believe the predecessor to blockchain, the Bitcoin, they first attacked the, what can I say, international payments via bank and the banks were the first one who picked up blockchain. That's my sense of reading it, but I may be right, I need not be right as well. Okay, so thank you for your answers. So hopefully there are more implementations in SSI. Let's hope by next January or by next year, next mid-year, therefore they are public on it. So just look curious to know about it. Thank you. Yeah, thanks for asking. Okay, next thing Mona, there's been a little sidebar discussion here with Jim and Eddie jumping in about the API gateway access and an SDK, so maybe Eddie and Jim, you wanna talk a little bit about that and Mona, maybe you wanna give your thoughts on it as well? My question is just that a lot of networks I've worked on, we wind up saying, okay, don't worry about having to become a member of, note on the network that's not needed or an SDK. Using the API gateway is the most common way to access networks and usually in large networks with many different participants, and API gateway is a pretty basic thing that you would say, yeah, we gotta enable that. Maybe that's already enabled in the solution, I just didn't know. Yeah, sounds like Eddie responded that they're gonna publish their SDK sometime next year. So I think that's coming forward pretty quick. Yeah, we have one of our clients that is going to be onboarding to the platform early next year and they are insistent on it being a publicly available SDK, so that is being driven by a client need in the first, probably first quarter, but I'm gonna say first half to keep us from getting in trouble. Sure, thank you. And then just to add on those two points, yeah, SDK-based, which- Yeah, that's perfect. It may be better than API gateway. Conversation that was going on in the chat that needed to be covered in the video so we can preserve it. And then Areeb's got another comment here. He's working on DIDS on optimism and he would love to connect around, let's see what he's looking at here. Folks working on DIDS and using other chains and their use cases. So he's basically saying, reach out to him on LinkedIn if you wanna catch up. And then Wade also did a great job of posting the Hyperledger Discord link and I'm always wanting to do a shout out to the community because engaging with the Hyperledger Discord channel is a great way to get involved and really learn about these great new projects. For sure, it's a wonderful community, very responsive and it's like a treasure trove of information. You can actually go in and before you even ask a question, search. Probably someone has had similar issues, struggle. You can get an answer. You can even follow up on threads if like something changed between versions. Okay, and then got one more question in here. It's talking about, sounds like they're referring to brands being your customers and what specific problems are you solving? And Eddie, I know Wade in with loyalty and we had a great presentation that Eddie did previously around what you're doing with Warner or music group and that whole idea. But if you have any other ones you wanna add, feel free to add those. I know what you mean, mom. I think that's the only one we can actually publicly talk about at this point. That's what I thought. Okay, no problem Eddie. And I understand the confidentiality there. I'm just going to address the question and make sure we're covering everything. Okay, well, that looks like all the questions we have in chat, if anyone has any other questions they wanna bring up quickly, just come off mute and ask the question. Otherwise, I'm gonna thank Mona for her time this morning and such a great presentation. We really appreciate it. And also to the other community members that have joined us today like Eddie and Jim for jumping in and talking about this great presentation. And I'm not seeing anything new. So Mona, thank you very much. Wonderful presentation. And we look forward to catching up with you in the community. Thank you as always John. Thank you so much. Thank you. Have a great day. Thanks everybody.


With March being Women's History Month, we sat down with Fleet Master Chief April Beldow and discussed how the Navy has changed over time and how you can succeed no matter who you are or where you come from. When I first joined we didn't even have females on aircraft carriers. Not until 1994. Having the opportunity to serve in any specialty that we have, to serve on any platform, to have equal opportunity. I believe I've seen that happen. I see it today. And again, if you can succeed in whatever job that you're doing, you will be afforded every opportunity no matter what your minority is. A diverse Navy means we can continue to be the great fighting force that we are today. To find out what other commands are doing for diversity, visit Navy.mil.


Hello and welcome to a video summarizing everything you need to know when it comes to government and politics. My name is Barbara and in this video we will be looking at constitutions, what they mean, why they're important to countries and we'll especially look at constitutions as they relate to the UK in this video. We'll also look at the structure and the layout of parliament and how the UK's constitution or the different governing principles in the UK have set out and influenced how parliament is like today. So let's get started. Now firstly, when it comes to constitution, what does it really mean? Now a constitution is essentially a set of basic laws that set up and establish how a government is run in any country and a constitution essentially sets out how different parts of a government should look like. Now do bear in mind that in Britain it has an uncodified, in other words an unwritten constitution. This is in contrast to the USA which has a codified, a written constitution and you can see an image of this constitution to the left. Now Britain's constitution is not one document which we can refer to but actually several documents and several laws and this is of course as I've mentioned opposite to countries like the USA which has two constitutions but of course is governed by one main constitution which set out how the government should be run. So make sure also you check out our videos that look at how the US is set out and how its constitutions operate. Now when it comes to Britain, Britain's constitution is quite flexible and there's no actual special procedure for changing or amending the constitution. In contrast when it comes to the US, the constitution is actually quite inflexible. It's really hard to change. There's for instance the Fifth Amendment, the rule which can change it but this is a difficult process, in other words two thirds majority are needed and we're going to outline this on our video looking at the US, its politics and its constitution. Now there also are other countries like Germany which have constitutions with parts which are impossible legally to change. So Germany's first 20 articles can actually never be changed. So in contrast to countries like Germany and the USA, the British constitution is fairly flexible. Now what this therefore means is that because it's quite flexible there's no procedure for changing it and of course in contrast to the US, Britain has seen lots of changes and it's still seeing lots of changes today. Now what is the UK constitution made up of? As I've mentioned it's an uncodified constitution primarily made up of six major documents. These are the Magna Carta which was created in 1215, the Bill of Rights which was created in 1689, the Act of Settlement in 1701, Acts of Union in 1707, Parliament Acts which are two separate acts in 1911 and then passed also in 1949 and then finally the European Communities Act in 1972. So let's have a look at each of them starting with the Magna Carta in 1215. So this is important because it was essentially the first document to state that the king and his government was not above the law. Also what this did is it prevented the king or queen from exploiting their power. So really this is the first bit of very important legal document that influenced Britain and how it is today. The second of course is the Bill of Rights of 1689 and this essentially set out the idea that Parliament can meet and decide laws for elections and freedom of speech in Parliament. Now the third document is the Act of Settlement of 1701 and essentially what this is we can see it almost as an update to the Magna Carta. It just simply put more limits on the powers of kings and queens in the UK. Fourthly there was the Acts of Union in 1707 and this was passed by both the English and Scottish Parliaments and this led to the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and it was later expanded from just simply Britain and Scotland to Wales and Northern Ireland as it is today. Now the fifth is the two Parliament Acts of 1911-1949 and what they did was put limits on powers of the House of Lords who are chosen by Queen and Parliament and these Parliament Acts also gave more power to the House of Commons who are elected by us and finally the European Communities Act in 1972 essentially what it did is it made the UK a member of the EU in 1973 which was then known as the European Economic Community. However now the UK has officially left the EU. Now how does this influence how UK's Parliament is structured? Now when it comes to understanding Parliament you need to understand that there are four main components of Parliament that you need to be aware of. The first is the Crown. This is basically the monarch where the king or queen sits and today as of 2020 Queen Elizabeth II is our monarch and she's the longest reigning monarch in history. Then in Parliament there's the House of Lords so historically speaking the House of Lords was created by the king a long time ago and he would choose the members of it and they would debate laws and so on and even today the House of Lords includes unelected members. Also in Parliament of course is the House of Commons and this is really the part of Parliament today which has a lot of power. This is where our Prime Minister sits and of course 650 elected ministers sit and finally the select committees. So let's look in detail at different components of Parliament starting with the monarchy or the Crown. So as I mentioned this is the oldest form of government in the UK. It's unelected so this is Hereditary the Queen will pass on the Crown to her children. However today the monarch really doesn't have that much power they just have a very ceremonial role. They don't have really any power today to change laws. Also the monarchy after each general election invites the Prime Minister to form a government. So of course in the last 90 or so years or rather 60 or so years that Queen Elizabeth has been in power she has invited each Prime Minister when they have been elected to form a government. And finally when a bill, a law has been approved by majority of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. It's formally agreed to by the Queen or the King. Now when it comes to House of Lords firstly it's the non-elected side or the non-elected chamber of Parliament and they make and shape laws with and alongside the House of Commons. The House of Lords has 800 members known as life pairs, hereditary pairs and bishops. However they do not have MPs. As I mentioned members of Parliament we elect them they don't sit in the House of Lords. Now in the House of Lords their people are chosen because they are experts in their specific fields and they look at laws in detail which are passed by House of Commons and they can challenge them. Of course as I mentioned the House of Commons is arguably the most important and essential part of Parliament because we have all as citizens in the UK had a role in electing these people that sit in the House of Commons. Now this is the elected chamber of Parliament and it debates huge issues, proposes and changes laws and criticises things that the government isn't really doing well. It has 650 members of Parliament who represent constituencies in other words boroughs, especially boroughs in London. Each member of Parliament belongs to a political party however some can also be independent but these are quite few. Furthermore the political party which has the most MPs then chooses the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister in turn chooses a cabinet of 20 senior ministers. This is where we've got our Minister of Defence, our Minister of Foreign Affairs, Home Secretary and so on. Also the parties that are not in power are known as the opposition and therefore in other words the party which has the second most amount of seats in the House of Commons forms the opposition party and they can also form a shadow cabinet and the leading party and the opposition party usually debate and the Speaker moderates it in the House of Commons which you can actually watch on TV and finally any bill passed into law becomes an act of Parliament. Now the final chamber of Parliament is the select committees. Now the select committees are essentially smaller groups formed that look at what the government does in detail. They check and report on areas ranging from the work of the government departments to economic affairs. Now committee members can also include people from the House of Lords and the House of Commons both the elected House of Commons but also the elected or rather the unelected House of Lords and the right of report with recommendations after looking into issues. So that's all. If you found this video useful really appreciate it if you gave it a big thumbs up but also make sure you visit our website www.firstreadtutors.com that you will find lots of useful revision materials to help you in this and indeed other academic areas in your studies. Thanks so much for listening.


What's up everybody, Jason here for JaspysKageBase.com, giving away the last five spots in the hip parade mixer with this 2023 Kenini Legacy Football One Box Break Rantains Number Two. So first we'll do the box break, then at the end we'll randomize the names and the top five win spots in the hip parade mixer. So let's roll the dice and it's a four and a one, five times. One, two, three, four, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, five, Chris at the top, down to Chris at the bottom. It's just two cousinry guys, Chris sold it out to unlock it and then Kaiam in there earlier. And then five times one, two, three, four, five, five, five, five. The card goes out of the browns and again alphabetize it and then basically it calls everybody but the Carolina Panthers. Wow, what a randomizer. Jesus. Well technically any Bryce Youngs you can probably get those man. That's not a bad randomizer at all. I'm assuming, well I'm sure there's no trades in any ways to pack the box break. Let's rip the legacy box. I think it's just eight cards per pack or yeah, eight cards per pack, 12 packs per box, so just total 72 cards. It's not a crazy heavy base box. No. I was hoping that I didn't have to print out any more labels, put a new label, roll in, but sad to sound. I don't know, I was supposed to get two autos. The last one we did actually gave us two autos and a redemption. So we have here for the Chargers, Generations, Eckler and Tomlinson to 50. Bryce Young, Rookie, Jayden Reed to 249. Nice one there for the, give me a package in Chris. Little patch autograph. B. John Robinson. Negative Dominance to 249. John Riggins numbered card for the Washington Commanders. And then we got Roy Williams to 100. Holographs for the Cowboys. Nice hit there. It's going to Chris. We got Jamar Chase to 150. Mike Evans. Little Minnie there. Quentin Johnson. Then we got Jackson Smithman, Jigba for the Seahawks. Got a numbered here of Chris Godwin for the Tampa Bay Bucks to 299. We got a mini numbered out of 75. Travis Kelsey. Little CJ Straub. Rookie. Awesome, awesome. All right, so there you go. A lot of numbered cards and two autographs. So let's now switch scenes and let's randomize the names and top five get a spot in the mixer. Roll it. Five out of three. Eight times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. Eight times, eight, eight. Start off the way. Comes down here. So Carl. There you go. All yours, buddy. Congrats, buddy. And again, starting in the next video is the mixer. Good luck.


After obtaining certain samples of Western air defense systems, the armed forces were able to target hypersonic and ballistic missiles used by Russian occupiers. The Ukrainian air defense forces have already intercepted dozens of such types of weaponry, reports the spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuri Ionat, in an interview with Navinarnia. Currently, we have already downed 15 kinsols, plus dozens of downed ballistic missiles headed for Kiev. The Patriot has proven itself, said the Colonel, the representative of the armed forces notes that as of September last year, the defense forces have already had no Western models of weaponry, only Soviet. Yes, the S-125 system, in small quantities. Yes, OSA is in the air defense forces. Yes, Shoka, anti-aircraft artillery. There were no mobile firing groups. We began destroying enemy missiles and drones mainly with Buk-M-1 and S-300 missiles, he said. At the beginning of the large-scale invasion by Russian occupiers, Ukraine consistently appealed to partner countries either to close its skies or provide defense tools. In October 2022, we received the first complexes from partners. When Russian shelling of Ukrainian infrastructure began, the first Nasims arrived. Two batteries, with only three installations. This was very little. Then the IRST battery arrived. It also went in the capital direction because everything was flying toward Kiev at that time, and that explained, previously, Ukrainian air defense could not shoot down kinsols, but with the appearance of the Patriot-Sams system in the army, it became possible a defense express reported that the Ukrainian military could first shoot down a kinsol on May 4 and published photographs of debris from a certain missile. Later, this information was confirmed by the Air Force. After that, during the night of May 16, the Russians again attacked Ukraine with kinsols, and the air defense forces shot down all six enemy missiles of this type additionally, on July 26, over the Khmelnitskyi region. The Ukrainian air defense forces also shot down Russian kinsols, and the regional military administration reported on the consequences of the missile attack.


Please don't be guys, I'll go back to another one if you're new to the channel. I'm Golf Pony, adding new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube and today we're in the brand new 2023 Nissan Pathfinder courtesy of younger Nissan in Frederick, Maryland for more information on their inventory. Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. So we're in this one today because this thing has excellent exterior styling no matter what trim level that you go with. And also there is one major change for the 2023 model year and I bet you buy the thumbnail you guys might already know what that change is. But ultimately in this video we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering wheel, ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it and as always, let's start with pricing. And so as you can imagine, there are several different trim levels for the 2023 model year. One being the S starting at $35,000, SV for $37,820, SL for $41,420, Rock Creek, which is a new trim level that we have today for the 2023 model year. That one goes for $42,820 and the Platinum for $47,970. And by the way, every trim level but the Rock Creek comes standard with front wheel drive. Rock Creek obviously comes standard with four wheel drive. You can add four wheel drive though to any of those other trims. If you wanted to do that, simply add $1,900 to any of those prices. But regardless of trim level that you go with, power plant is going to be the same but the power numbers are bumped for the Rock Creek trim level. And so here's how that works out, 3.5 liter direct injected V6 for all trim levels. 284 horsepower at 6,400 RPM, 259 pound feet of torque coming in at 4,800 RPM. But if you were to go with the Rock Creek that bumps it up 11 horsepower, 11 pound feet of torque to 295 horsepower, 270 pound feet of torque then. But since the front wheels are all wheeled through a nine speed automatic with paddle shifters, which we will be testing out here in a little bit, 0 to 60 time is going to come in at approximately 6.7 seconds, which is actually very impressive for the size of an SUV on paper. Top speed 119 miles per hour in case you were interested. And MPG numbers coming in at 20 in the city, 27 on the highway for the front wheel drive, 20 city, 25 on the highway for the all wheel drive and then 20 city, 23 on the highway for the Rock Creek. But so then before we do any kind of fun acceleration or paddle shifter test here in the Rock Creek Pathfinder, I wanted to mention to you guys, the drive modes, there is a circular dial directly behind the shifter kind of to the left of the cup holders that will give you sport, eco, mud and rut, snow, tow and off road specifically for the Rock Creek, adjusting things like the shift points, the throttle response, steering sensitivity for wheel drive system engagement and the VDC tuning then as well. So now having got all of that out of the way, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway list, put the paddle shifters and acceleration here to the test and let's see how quickly we can get this one up to speed and let's see how quickly the paddle shifters are actually going to react for us here. All right. So first thing I want to mention before we do this acceleration with the paddle shifters as well, slide the shifter all the way to the back because you full manual shift mode and actually we'll display what gear you're in up in the digital portion of the gauges. Having said that, we are in sport driving mode. I just put it in there. I just put it in first gear as well. I believe this is going to be our straightaway still holding first. Nice. Here we go. Whoa. Whoa. Six quick. Delight to the paddle shifters. I will say that. But having said that, this thing is dang quick and quite honestly, I don't think many people are going to be using the paddle shifters in the past five years if I were to take a shot at that. But honestly, this thing is plenty quick. You're definitely not going to have any issues emerging onto the highway.  I like that acceleration. That was nice. Anyways, to go along with that acceleration as always, braking is equally important. So upfront, you will find 13.8 inch ventilated front discs in the back, 13 inch solid rear discs. As far as that 60 to 0 stopping distance goes, it's going to come in an insanely impressive 114 feet. So typically with SUVs, you get 120s. If not 130s, I've seen as high as 139 feet. So 60 to 0 and 114 feet, that is luxury SUV good. That's typically what I see in Volvo's or Mercedes-Benz. So 100% on point when it comes to the braking of the Pathfinder without any doubt. And braking feel feels perfectly fine. It's maybe a little bit on the softer side, but honestly, that 60 to 0 number, you have nothing to worry about with that. This thing is instantly going to bring you to a stop. Anyways, the touching on suspension and handling upfront, you're going to get an independent strut type front suspension in the back, independent multi-link rear suspension front and rear stabilizer bars. And if you were to go with the rock creek that we have today, you will, in addition to that, get off-road tuned suspension as well. So overall, when it comes to ride quality, honestly, the roads are pretty good. So it's been perfectly fine for me today. But it will say when it comes to cabin noise, you can hear kind of that tire noise because of the upgraded tires that we have. And I'll get more into the wheels and tires because these are actually beadlock wheels, which is pretty dark cold. This thing is definitely made for off-roading. But because of the off-road tires, you do hear a little bit of that road noise. But quite honestly, if you're getting the rock creek anyways, probably it's not going to bother you. But I will say if you don't get the rock creek, you're not going to probably have any issues whatsoever with any type of road noise really. So the touching on steering fields, honestly, it's a little bit on the heavier side of things, which I personally prefer. So I am the actual big fan of the steering field on this thing. Touching on visibility, we do have a third row up right now. But the cool thing about the third row headrest is they actually do fold down. So that's going to assist with visibility big time. A lot of times that won't be the case. So for that particular reason, if you don't have a third row in use, visibility right now is 100% on point. I don't have any issues there. Did what I also mention when it comes to forward visibility, rain-sensing windshield wipers do come on the platinum trim level. In addition to that, that platinum trim is also going to give you a head-up display, projecting your speed, speed limit, and safety features up onto your windshield. So also going to assist with visibility there as well. But that pretty much ends up the performance segment that's review you guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2023 Nissan Pathfinder. All right, so here she is, you guys, the new 2023 Nissan Pathfinder, specifically the Rock Creek trim level. And I'll get more into why I'm emphasizing that in a second here. But this particular spec is going to be finished in gun metallic in case anybody was curious of our exterior color name that we have with us here today. But anyway, so let's go ahead and start up front. Let's start just above the Nissan logo on that front grille here. This is one of the specific kind of characteristics to the Rock Creek trim level. There's three little indentations there. They're not actually functional ventilation, sending air to the engine or anything like that. But still, they look good. And again, they're specific to the Rock Creek trim level. So also, there's some fog lights down below. You guys can see that all the way kind of surrounded by that silver outline there. That is, again, specific to the Rock Creek trim level. And they're LEDs, by the way, as well. But anyway, let's go ahead and get back to the up front here. So Chrome V motion front grille is typically going to come standard for all trim levels with the exception of the Rock Creek because obviously you guys can see we have a gloss black V motion front grille up front there. LED headlights then to the side. They will come with LED daytime running lights and the automatic feature and automatic high beams as well, meaning if you have your high beams on at night, and since it's a vehicle coming in the opposite direction, it's going to automatically dim those back to low beams. Then when that vehicle is gone, it's going to automatically bump it then back up to high beams. So kind of a safety feature there in itself. But as always, a very good looking front end and the Rock Creek trim level just made it even better in my personal opinion. I got to love the white surrounds on that Nissan logo as well. I think I mentioned that last year. I just like the look at that. But anyways, they're pretty much around at the front end of this one. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the side of the Pathfinder. All right, so now since we are around to the side of this one, black roof rails do come standard on the SV. Silver roof rails then coming standard on the Platinum. And you will kind of get this roof rack if you were to go with the Rock Creek trim level that we have with us here today. Chrome Beltline Molding is going to come standard unless you go with the Rock Creek. Everything essentially is typically going to be found in Chrome. It's going to be swapped out for the Gloss Block if you were to go with the Rock Creek. I'm just going to put it that way. Roof Privacy Glass does come standard for all trim levels across the board. You got that little floating roof line towards the C pillar there, finished in Gloss Black. That will come standard on all trim levels across the board as well. One of the cool things though, that we get up a little closer is on every single Pathfinder, you're going to get this Pathfinder lettering kind of etched into the side skirts there on the back door. I think that's a pretty cool look and a nice little added touch. And of course we got the Rock Creek badging up front there on the front doors because we got that trim level. So both of them, very nice added touch here on the Pathfinder. Then moving out a little bit, taking a look at the sign mirrors. They will be body color power adjustable sign mirrors for all trim levels across the board. They will be heated on the SV trim level and up. LED integrated turd signal. Still coming standard on every single trim level of the Pathfinder. Got to love that. And if you were to go with the Platinum, they will be power folding with the reverse tilt down feature as well. So when you put it in reverse, you can better see what is behind you. So anyways, let's take a look down at the wheel setup. 18 inch dark painted aluminum alloys for the S and SV. 18 inch machine finished alloys for the SL. 20 inch machine finished aluminum alloys for the Platinum and then 18 inch beadlock style aluminum alloys for the Rock Creek that we have today. And they're finished in gloss black kind of with that machine finished look as well.  Definitely capable of going off road in this thing just based off the tires alone. So wonderful looking side profile as always. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the back. All right, so now since we are around to the back of this one, body color shark fin antenna all the way to the top there. Your spoiler with an integrated brake light does come standard of course. Do you have that rear window wiper? You got some very thick Pathfinder lettering spelled out horizontally. That's for all trim levels. So I'm a big fan of that. Again, some more Rock Creek badging force back there today. Did also want to mention LED tail lights come standard for every single trim level across the board. That isn't always the case. So I'm a big fan of that. But one of the best selling points about the Pathfinder in general is the towing capacity. So if you do plan on towing, if you were to compare this to just about every other SUV in its segment, a lot of them will give you a towing capacity of 5,000 pounds, but this one actually gives you a towing capacity of 6,000 pounds. So 1,000 pounds more, which is pretty impressive for an SUV of this size quite honestly. And you're actually going to get all of the connectors if you were to go with the Rock Creek trim level. It's all going to be optional though, on the other trim. So I didn't want to mention that. And there is a single exhaust outlet tucked away underneath on the passenger side there. So having said that, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next. As always here is that exhaust clip. All right, so now since we are around to the back of the Pathfinder, when it comes to opening that rear tailgate, it's going to be a power tailgate for the SL trim level end up. So we do actually have the manual tailgate for the Rock Creek trim level. That's how that works.  So if your hands are full with groceries, that's definitely going to help out there. But once opened up, this is a three row SUV. So behind that third row, you will find 16.6 cubic feet. If that was not enough space, of course that folds down, bumping it up to 45 cubic feet. And then with all rows folded, that is going to come in at 80.5 cubic feet. So a decent amount of space there. There's some cargo lighting in the back. Of course, there are four cargo tie-down anchors. There's a 12-volt power outlet available. There are some grocery bag hooks back there. And if you were to lift up underneath of that cargo floor, there's a ton of in-floor storage. More so than I typically find on other SUVs that I review. So good bit of in-floor storage. I'm a big fan of that. But they'll make your way to the third row legroom that is going to come in at an even 28 inches. So not a whole lot. For reference, I mean even six feet tall. This is how much space I had back there. So better left for small children. But it will save for the third row passengers to get back there. It was super easy to get back there. You simply just press one button on the side of the second row seats and it just automatically folds completely up for you. So very, very easy to get back there. But having said that, rear ventilation does come standard for all three rows. It's going to be found at the ceiling or the roof of this path finder here. Cup holders, of course, you can find back there. And there are some USB charging ports that are available next to the cup holders. And typically they'll come with cover. So last year's Pathfinder reviewed how them, the Rock Creek does not unfortunately, but they are available. But they make our way to the second row legroom, 35.5 inches. Again, for reference, I mean even six feet tall. This is how much space I have back there. As far as the captain's chairs versus bench seating goes, captain's chairs is going to come standard on the platinum. It is going to be optional, however, on the SV and SL and Rock Creek trim level. So we do have that. So we got a bunch of storage in between those two center seats with us here today. So that's pretty cool. But heated second row is going to come on the platinum. Rear window sunshades coming on the SL and platinum trim levels. There are dual USB charging ports for the second row passengers, a USB-A and a USB-C to be exact. And tri-zone climate control is actually going to come standard for all trim levels. So the rear passengers do get to set their own temperatures back there, which is pretty darn cool as well. But then making our way up to the front seats, manually adjustable cloth seating coming with the S trim level, 10-way power adjustable driver seat for the SV trim level and up. And their seats will be heated for the SV trim level and up as well. SL trim level is going to add to that a four-way power adjustable passenger seat with leather, quilted leather then coming on the platinum. And then the platinum is also going to add memory settings and ventilated front seats as well. But honestly, seating was plenty comfortable for me. And the Rock Creek trim that we have today, it's kind of a leather cloth mixture with the Rock Creek embroidered into the upper portion of the seats. Definitely looks very nice, but very comfortable. I should have put it that way. So then taking a look at the steering wheel, it is tilt and telescoping and is going to be leather wrapped for the SV trim level and up. It is a flat bottom, which I absolutely love for all trim levels. And it will be heated for the SL and platinum trim levels if you wanted to go that route. So I like the orange contrast stitching as well. Again, it's specific to the Rock Creek here, but then making our way to the startup, let me start by showing you guys the key here. This is actually a new style key for Nissan for 2023. It is pretty cool. All of your buttons are located on one side of the key. Got your Nissan logo at the top. Of course, the remote start, that's that circular button towards the top that is going to come on the SV trim level and up. So you can warm this thing up before you actually get inside. But it is all keyless entry with a push button start. So all I'm going to do here, simply put my front of the brake and press the engine start button located just to the left of those air vents there. And so once started up, if you wanted a full digital gauge cluster, go with the platinum trim level. That's the trim that's going to give you that. Otherwise, you're going to get what you're looking at right now, which is tachometer on your left speedometer is on your right. It's a fairly large digital display front and center to control what is on that digital display. There are steering wheel mounting controls found on the left side of the steering wheel there that's going to give you things like outside temperature, how many miles you have left until you hit empty. There is a digital speedometer if you wanted to go that route. That's probably what I would leave it on. When do you do your next oil change? There's some radio information. The list goes on. Pretty much everything you could possibly want on the digital portion of the gauges up there that make our way to overall interior quality. There is going to be a panoramic moon roof that comes on the platinum. It's going to be optional for the SB and SL, so can't show that to you guys today. Overhead sunglass holder though will come standard on this thing. So I do like that. Autodimming rear view mirror with homelink controls for the SL and platinum trim levels. And that's for up to three different garage doors. Interior accent lighting coming on the platinum, wireless phone charger coming on the platinum as well, but it's going to be optional on the SL. And again, specific to our rock creek trim level, we do have a bunch of orange contrast stitching found on the doors, found on the seats, found just above the passenger side glove box. Speaking of that glove box, just above the passenger side glove box, directly above, you have some rubberized storage because this is kind of an off road vehicle, so everything should be rubberized so things don't slide around as easily. So I like that. Just in front of the shifter, you have two USB charging ports, 12-volt power outlet, more rubberized storage. Just kind of to the right of the shifter, you have your dual cupholders and a little slot to put your cell phone or a key if you wanted to go that route. And with the center armrest, decent amount of storage there. And I like the rock creek badging found on the actual center armrest here as well as pretty dark coal. A lot of rock creek badging, kind of making a name for itself. So I'm a big fan that they added this trim level because this thing is stinking cold. But anyways, so now go ahead and make our way to the infotainment screen. You're gonna get an eight inch color touch screen display for the SSV and rock creek trims, then a nine inch color touch screen display for the SL and platinum trims, Bluetooth and audio streaming coming standard either way, Android Auto, Apple Core Play. But it will say with the nine inch screen you do get wireless Apple CarPlay, not wireless Android Auto, but just the wireless Apple CarPlay only for the nine inch screen. So that's available if you wanted it. Bluetooth and audio streaming either way. Factory navigation system, again, coming with only the nine inch screen up there. You can check out your stocks and weather information if you wanted to as well. And of course your radio information to go along with that. And so when it comes to the sound systems for the Pathfinder, you will get six speakers for the SSV, rock creek and SL trims, essentially all trims, but the Platinum, I should have said it that way, but 13 speaker Bose sound system with the Platinum, that's obviously not the one we have today. So what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and turn on the radio, see what we got playing today, and let's test out the six speaker sound system that we have with us here today. That is insane that this is a six speaker sound system. Probably the best six speaker sound system I've ever heard. The bass, it's clear that there is a subwoofer in here somewhere. There's a ton of bass. I don't know if my camera was rambling. Ton of bass with this thing, plenty of clarity. For that being a six speaker sound system, I am insanely impressed. Like that is plenty for me. Honestly, if you wanted more of a sound system, go with the Bose, I guess, but that will definitely get the job done without a doubt. But anyways, let's think I want to mention you guys on the infotainment screen is when you do put the Pathfinder in reverse, you will find a rear view camera coming stated across the board. But not only that, you do get a surround view monitor as well. It's going to be that bird's eye view to the right for the rock creek, the SL and the Platinum trim levels. Letting you know who or what is all around you, which as always is going to lead us into safety. And so, IIHS top safety pick plus, which pretty much says it all right there. It's the best you can get from my IIHS. Front side side career day bags do come standard, driver and passenger knee air bags as well. In the back, you're going to have latch, AKA though we're anchors to tether your children for the rear car seats. Rear child door locks, tire pressure monitoring system, but also coming standard, adaptive cruise control, forward collision warning, autonomous emergency braking with the pedestrian detection, lane departure warning, lane keep assist, blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert, rear parking sensors and reverse automatic braking then, as well, that's a ton. Then if you were to go with the SL and Platinum trims, you're going to add to that front and rear parking sensors and traffic sign recognition then as well. But dang, when it comes to my final thoughts, I do love the addition of the rock creek trim level. This is so stinking cool. So many people are looking for an off-road SUV like my sister for example, but don't want to necessarily get the four runner or a Jeep Wrangler. So this is one of the options that I would probably suggest because it comes with an off-road suspension and you get the beadlock wheels and the off-road tires. So this thing should be plenty fine to go through the sand and Acetic Island or a beach or something like that. So that is pretty darn cool. Excellent styling, I always like the styling of this thing. Digital gauges are great for the Platinum trim level. However, I do wish they would have come on more trim levels than just the Platinum, but the only other thing I could think of is multi-color ambient lighting would look dang cool. Specifically, I would probably make it orange to go with all of our orange accents in this thing. So I would like that, but anyways, let me know what you guys think of the new Pathfinder, specifically the rock creek in the comments section below and that is about it for this one. You guys, thank you so much for watching. Feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen if you wanna see what's coming next on the channel before it gets to YouTube. Be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're in the new car reviews. 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Right guys how we doing welcome back to yet another reaction video today We look at Bill Russell the 12th ranked NBA player of all time, and I'm going to be watching him until I'm impressed but first Let's have a look through his Career well, I don't really know what you call it, but it is a blur But it's a paragraph or two about the big man real Bill Russell and and and to be fair I'm fairly sure he's still alive. I'm fairly sure he played for the Celtics, and I'm fairly sure Well, he's he's in the top 12 NBA players of all time.  I'm gonna watch him till I'm impressed You want to talk about underrated Bill Russell is grossly disrespected when talking about the greats Not only is he the greatest winner in all of American sports Russell is also both the smartest and best defensive player to ever pick up a basketball like Kareem Skyhook Bill's a knack for keeping balls in play after a block is a lost start as players would rather Swat it into the stands and flex on their opponent instead of making the right play, okay? We're talking generations here. We're talking gen X as opposed to gen Q His signature play of tapping the ball to a teammate Through I'm led to believe a block helped him invent the fast break He invented the fast break would you believe blocks and steels weren't tally back then what? Excuse me, let's have a look at his photo. Oh, yeah, it is black and white Wowie that must have been the 50s That's incredible blocks and steels weren't tally back then but there are researchers that claim Russell averaged anywhere between 8 to 12 blocks per game Not only did Russell win 11 NBA titles The last two were as player coach and he's undefeated in game 7s going 10 and 0 when it's win or go home So you're telling me that 10 of his 11 NBA titles went to the went to game 7 Wilk Chamberlain is ranked higher on this list because his numbers are just too ridiculous But he couldn't beat Bill even with Jerry West the logo and Elgin Baylaw's help The only player in history to come close to matching his winning is Michael Jordan players don't choose the era they play in All we can do is look at who dominated it That is a fucking that's a fantastic sentence and nobody on this list comes close to what Russell and obvious MVA 75th anniversary team members has done. There's a reason why the finals MVP award is named after him He was truly ahead of his time Okay 11 titles now that Eclipses Michael Jordan 6 that eclipses Tom Brady's 7 soon to be 8 Where we would you look at that? Let's go blocks and steals weren't counted back in the day But experts will say that he got from 8 Could be from 8 to 11 8 to 11 blocks per game 8 to 12 Russell Bill Russell highlights first video in 4k Which how how have they remastered this shit? How honestly? It's absolutely incredible. I love it and we're gonna watch this until I'm impressed Looks like it was shot yesterday in my estimation the guy that has to be there would be Bill Russell You want 11 championships is unbelievable the idea of What excellence is 11 championships? Russell covers an incredible area of the court Look at that. His stride length is incredible. You think you say bolt strides long quick-hands fine balance Russell of course gets the rebounds of struts that fast break so McLean 43 30. Mr. Fast break I was the best athletes on the planet.  I can run the phone in meetings in the 40s You know what bro some of these stats bro some of these stats At that height with that type of athleticism with the speed to come down the court Oh, he's just absolutely dominating You can get his eyes above above the rim When my vertical was I could get my eyes Above the rim and I can touch the top of the back Bra and that's a vertical jump that's from that's from a standing start right Holy shit, I want to watch the entire video. That's that's where these these these videos really Cut me deep is because I feel like I'm cutting them off too early, but I am impressed I'm very impressed Bill Russell 11 NBA championships. I had no idea absolutely no clue Jeepers creepers Where where'd you get those papers? Thanks guys and I'll see in the next one