Yo, yo, what's up, folks? This thing is finally working. We're just gonna do a real quick meeting today. I wanna add, answer some questions. In the future, we're gonna have some topics. We're gonna make this real interesting. Folks, in the future, we're gonna have some topics. Mix vision, what's up, man? What's up? Let's see how we can get this thing going. Get this thing going. I-O-D, what was that? I appreciate that day most music. The general, Gabriel, I see y'all, I see y'all. We're gonna do a good 15, 20 minutes, man. I just wanna be able to answer questions. If there's some topics y'all are interested in, there's so much we've, I've learned. All right, just working with all of our clients over the last three months have been ridiculous from TikTok and advertising from breaking artists through all platforms, working on some NFTs with some people. So many different things going on. Elos, what's good with you, man? Good to hear from you. So there's any topics that y'all are interested in. Just drop them in the chat and I'll just riff on it. That's how we're gonna do a lot of these sessions. I'm gonna actually start bringing some topics when I do these YouTube lives and make it more of a show. I'm gonna experiment, see how it goes, just for the fun of it. But hey, right now, like I said, I just wanna see if there are some topics that people are interested in. But here's, while people are still hopping on, here's one big thing that I really want people to understand who are getting interested in NFTs. NFTs, I've seen a lot of artists try to just hop into it and think, oh man, I'm gonna be able to make a lot of money. And if you don't have a fan base, it's still a hard thing to do, right?  And then you're gonna have to market that project and create some value for that project in the same way you would as an artist trying to create value for you and your brand. So you're gonna still have to market and build some type of hype and excitement, first and foremost. I remember I was talking to a guy who said some people said for $600, we'll get you minted as an artist and we'll release your project and you'll be able to make your money back. I would not believe that, all right? I would not believe that. The guy told me this and I advised him not to do it. I don't know if he ever went and did it, but people reaching out to y'all as artists like, yo man, I'm gonna help you drop an NFT and make a lot of money because a lot of people are making a lot of money on NFTs. Nah, you still need a fan base. If you don't have anything, if you feel like you aren't in a position where you can sell five T-shirts, you probably shouldn't be worried about selling an NFT. So, yes, NFTs music by Jellison. I hope I read that right. NFTs 100% benefit artists from five, so many directions. So one of my clients, she's dropping NFTs and she's a legacy actor named Macy Gray and she's dropping an NFT on, well, actually went on to March 15th and another one March 31st. And one thing she talks about a lot is the creative aspect where now they have a more direct relationship with their fans again where there's more of a feeling of ownership. All right, back in the day, people would buy CDs, but that disappeared when they start consuming through streaming. So now when you have an NFT, if you release your music as an NFT, artists still feel like, the fans feel like they own something, right? There's a deeper connection with you because I own this thing. They don't own your streams. There's no relationship there. So that's one way, just a fan relationship. Number two, the labels have made it so hard to make money. I'm talking about even for big acts, like a lot of the big acts that I've been around or even worked with, still talk about, yeah, we have a fan base, we can tour, but to actually make money on music is very difficult. But what you get to do with an NFT is when you drop your music, one, you directly can now make money from that again, just like you were selling a CD, but two, you have this tangible thing that actually can go up in value. And this is why a lot of artists mess up. They think, I'ma just drop an NFT and then when, if you dropped an NFT and sold 100 of them, and then nothing happened after that, it sounds exciting, oh, I sold 100 NFTs, but you're missing out on the value of NFTs. The value of NFTs is you sell that 100 and then you continue to build value. So then that 100 becomes worth three times, whatever it was when people initially bought it. And now people are interested in it just like a collector. So now let's say I bought your NFT at $5, you became bigger as an artist and now that $5 NFT is worth $100. So I just multiply my money times 20 and this other guy says, yo, I really liked that artist and I wanna buy your NFT. I'm like, ah, I don't wanna sell it, but I've been holding onto it for a while and I think I might want the money. So let me go ahead and sell it. That $95 difference, you get a split of that $95 difference too. So you're not just getting money one time, right? This is why it's important to understand you're not just trying to make one time sales. Artists are selling themselves short and they're not creating value. When your community continues to see value in you, you'll be able to keep selling as they trade among themselves, you're still getting money from that. So that's the biggest part of NFTs, all right? That's one of the biggest parts. There's a lot of different nuances but we'll like go deeper into that. I'll start going deeper into that stuff on this channel because I'm still on my NFT journey, I'm still learning. I'm still learning myself. We have best way to utilize, maximize a thousand dollar budget towards a single. The best way to utilize a thousand dollars towards a single is first, actually make sure you got your content getting strong. And what I mean by contents is you need to be posting on TikTok, posting on Instagram, primarily TikTok. If you figure out TikTok first, the rest of your marketing becomes so much easier. We can do things with a thousand dollars, right? But when you have strong content, all of our clients that have their content together are doing three to five times better with the same marketing budget as people who don't. So I would advise, especially if you know, like, hey, I'm not gonna just have another thousand dollars after I get rid of this thousand dollars. My money doesn't grow in trees. Push that down the field, take your time, get your content system together and get good at creating organic content that gets used on TikTok around your brand and then start marketing. That's the way I would approach it because also after outside of that a thousand dollars being spent, you'll have a lot of organic attention being brought to your audience and your music as well. Those are my thoughts. Hopefully we have a conversation. We can go even deeper than that. Are we taking on new clients? You can check out contrabrand.agency. We might have some openings, but you have to apply first and we have to go through that process. So that's www.contrabrand.agency, apply there. On that side of things. Is it a good strategy to become an influencer who does nothing about music and then become an artist? Yes, that is a good strategy. Cal Her beats or Cal Her. I don't know if I said that right, but this is what people get wrong about content. People believe in this idea, oh, I got known for this other thing and now people won't pay attention to my music because they've known me for something else. That's not how it works. There's literally, there's a girl named Bella Portch. She blew up on TikTok just doing POV videos that I don't understand why those videos were so fascinating that they blew up, but they did, right? They did, all right? So she blows up on the platform, literally just doing these POV videos as point of view for those who don't know and it's just showing your face and she's like acting to something or making funny faces. She blows up on the platform. That's like the first three to five months probably of people even knowing her and understanding her on the platform. And then she drops music and the song was called Build a Bitch or something like that.  I'll look up the streams right now. Let's see, Spotify, I'm gonna see what Bella Portch's streams look like. Then I'll get into some details. So Bella Portch has 6.3 million monthly listeners. She has two songs, Build a Bitch, which has 294 million streams and Inferno, which has 101 million streams. She literally blew up just doing a face to chest type style video, having nothing to do with music. It's what you do when you get that attention and understanding what to do when you have that attention. There's a way to go about it. And that's what artists run into, right? They don't know how to translate that attention over or you're working with a quality of music that's not good or there's another thing, sometimes your music isn't as good as the thing that blew you up, right? Maybe your Cardi B is always my go-to example for this. She was known as this great personality. People loved her and that was cool. It was amazing actually. Her music that she was dropping was okay. It was okay music until she dropped Bodak Yellow. Bodak Yellow was so undeniable of a song, the way it was hitting culture that it actually superseded how good people loved her for her personality. So if you have, let's just say great comedy or you're great at, I don't know, karate, right? You're really great at something to translate into something else, you're getting judged off of that measure. So you do something okay, all right? Or trash, then it's not gonna hit as that thing that we already knew you for that you were great at. Stick to the thing that you were great. So sometimes it takes an artist some time to develop and now, oh, I've got a great song or I have great music that's as good as the thing they already know me for or maybe even better. That's one of the problems that artists go through but it's, it's a, there's other nuances as well as well but that's a go-to explainer overall. Happy Thursday, Brian. Who you calling Brian? Thanks for the info. I'm not Brian, man. You mean, Brian, man? Hey, Sean, what are your tips for growing Instagram engagement? I didn't post for a long time and now my engagement has dropped a lot. One, use reels. Two, ignore reels and use TikTok first. If you can figure out TikTok, reels become so much easier but if you just want to use Instagram, use reels, use reels, literally Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, right? CEO of Facebook, as many of you know, literally said, we're ignoring everything else to just focus on reels and everything else will suffer. The performance of everything else will suffer while we're focusing on reels in this phase. Mark Zuckerberg said that like straightforward. It's not an assumption how, you know, we have all these conspiracy theories or just theories in general on what's going on on the platform. He literally said that. So reels is the only thing you should be focused on because everything else will suffer especially if you don't already have momentum in that brand space. Reels, but if you really want to figure out the formula because reels is copying TikTok, YouTube shorts is copying TikTok, Twitter is testing some things copying TikTok, Snapchat is releasing features that have copied TikTok. Just figure out TikTok first and translate it to everything else to become so much easier from there, all right? Cool. Now, how long should an artist spend time creating TikTok content before releasing anything? I just finished the TikTok course, by the way. Which one? Was that a 21 TikTok post to boot streams or are you in the boot camp? But how long? I would like to... I need more nuances on that question, right? Because I would think less about lift of time but also established audience, all right? So you want to have a certain amount of audience that you build and get good. Not just say, hey, I've been posting TikTok content and I feel like it's time to release some music but you have 200 followers and you actually haven't gotten good at creating TikTok content that people love. So once you get good at creating TikTok content that people love, like you're sure of that, one, double down on the momentum that you're with that. And from there, it becomes relative in terms of when you drop music, especially relative in terms of, I'm just speaking to the general public and not knowing your specific situation. But once you know how to create content that people love, you understand it. You are sure that you understand it. You keep seeing great performance, great performance. Now you can focus those learnings on how to do that around your music. Because it's not just, hey, drop music and say I gotta post out. That's what a lot of artists are doing in big thing. Oh, I've got followers on TikTok and then they drop a video that's not even a TikTok style video saying, hey, my song is out now. No one cares. You still have to post it in a format that gets attention and drives viewership on TikTok. So that's what I'll focus on. Know the skill set and then translate that into marketing or music. Of course, you can learn the other way around how to market your music from the beginning on TikTok, but that's hard to train. I can't give that advice right here. We work with artists personally for that. I meant how long as far as should I be stockpiling content before I release anything. Aha, stockpiling content. Again, time is arbitrary thing. It's more about how many. So if you had 20 songs, then I think you're more than ready to start releasing. All you need is one song, right? So I wouldn't even think, oh, I gotta release a song a week. TikTok is a different platform. That song a week thing was great for hacking SoundCloud and Russ did a great job with that and sharing his narrative and now so many other people have copied that. But it's not necessary for TikTok, right? I would say, no, I'm not saying don't drop a song a week, but what's more importantly when it comes to marketing and bringing awareness is drop a song and then give it time on TikTok. Maybe at least three to four posts within a week. See how that does. And then drop another song, three to four posts within a week. See how that does. And these might be three to six posts over two weeks. Once you do that for a period of time, you should have an idea of what good engagement looks like for you. And based on that, you should start noticing if a song is doing better, has a better type of engagement. You should get a feeling based on the comments. And then you don't say, hey, I'm going to move on to the next song. You say, I'm going to do maybe, yeah, I'm going to do 15 posts for this song, probably over two months. Again, it's hard to just talk generally, but two months. And then you're still dropping other stuff in between the way it works. We're talking about TikTok content. Now, in general, if you just had 20 songs and you start releasing, I just say drop one song every two weeks, but you need some type of marketing. Dropping music without having a marketing related to it is just doesn't make any sense. It's not worth it. That's why I say TikTok, because you can do that for free. No one has the, a lot of people don't have the budget to run ads for every single song they release or get influencers for every single song they release. All right. Now, how do I answer two more questions? Bro, watch your channel grow like crazy. Appreciate it. God battle. You got a lot more growth to go, man. We got a lot more. How do you feel about letting a larger platform post your music videos until you build a fan base? Starting from zero. I would, I'm not against it, but a lot of times these larger platforms don't have the benefits that it looks like anymore. But, and also music videos aren't as beneficial as they used to be. Content, social media content is what people care about more than anything and getting that relationship and engagement. Music videos is like a special packaging that you do every once in a while to mark up a period of time, to mark a brand that you wanted to express along with the song. But I wouldn't focus on music videos heavily and because music videos are less valuable than they used to be, dropping them on other people's platform is not much of a problem. I wouldn't think about it one way or another. If you want to try to use their following, go ahead and do that for, you know, why you build momentum for yourself. But ultimately, of course, the goal is to have everything on your own page. Because, you know, why not? You want to have control of everything. But yeah, now go ahead and drop on other platforms. Um, let's see. Got time for two more. I'm gonna try to do it quick. How do I boost my Spotify and stuff? All the people listening to my music, just watch the YouTube visualizer or on SoundCloud. You might have an audience that doesn't have Spotify like that. That could be one thing. What I would do is focus on ads at the beginning for you, just so you can see, like, can I run ads and get decent conversions in the amount of people to actually translate it over to Spotify? Like, it does my audience tend to have Spotify and interact that way. That's what I would check on. And if that shows, then we can go to another level. Like, are the people who listen to your music, do you consider them fans? Can you follow up with them and just hardcore engage the unskillable stuff? Like, hey, can you check out my song on Spotify? Check out my song on Spotify and actually DMing them? For someone in a box like you, to get out of that box, which is like just my fans aren't listening in this category, but they are listening in these other spaces, you just need to see are people even willing to go who are currently listening. That's one thing. But the biggest thing is still run some ads directing specifically to your link page, Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, Apple Music, see where they go naturally. Because if you have Spotify at the top and still most people are going to YouTube and SoundCloud, it tells you something about your audience or where you are right now. So I check that out. I check that out. Last thing, any tips for making TikToks? People for TikToks feel more genuine or authentic. That's hard because genuine and authentic, that's such an abstract thing, but just makes something you think is dope like that you actually care about. That you think, oh, this was actually funny or you actually think that if you saw it, you would love that somebody packaged their music in that way. Like, oh man, I know that he wants me to listen to his song but he did an acapella version and he made it unique and he brought me in. What do you like? What draws you in? That's the biggest thing when it comes to authenticity. Because a lot of times, like talking to y'all, I'll see people get in their heads. All of a sudden, when you decide to be the artist side, you start to do all these things that you would never react positively to as a fan because you think that that's just what it is. Or you're so desperate to get people to listen and just take the action. You're not willing to do the smaller in between actions that ultimately are gonna get people to where you wanna go. You skip those steps and you can't skip those steps. So that's my biggest thing about being, I think, like be the guy that you would like to see, period, and whatever you create. All right, so I gotta hop off. Right now, I see someone says that we help create content. Yes, we help create content and we do market music. We do both of those things. If you go to BMN, matter of fact, I'll type it real quick.  We have a streaming training, free training session that we hosted. So you can watch that free training session while it's still streaming. You can pick a few times and which one you wanna watch. And we break down everything and approach the way we think about content strategy. And at the end, we also talk about how we help people personally on TikTok. Where we work with you, coach with you one-on-one, all of those things. So you can check that out for anybody who's interested in that. Big Bang, good to see you, man. Can't answer your question because I do gotta go. Appreciate y'all for hopping on. Maybe we'll do more of these more often. Just wanted to hop on today's been a while and we're gonna get back to this content. Make sure y'all put recommendations in the comment section when that appears after this because I always read those and we'll probably make some cool content because of it. All right, y'all be cool.


We're really pleased as government to announce that there'll be $100,000 to support a grandparents raising grandchildren support line. And it'll be a toll free line for grandparents around the province who are raising their grandchildren a place to go to ask questions, a resource guide if you will. There's an awful lot of people that aren't on computers that can't go online and this is a way to get that human connection between a social worker and the grandparent to give them the information they need. If there's upwards of 10,000 kids in the province who are being raised by their grandchildren then they'll certainly benefit. So if we can do anything to reduce stress you know open doors for people it's got to make kids and families lives better. This is something that has been very near and dear to my heart and I am so glad that it has all come to play. Sorry I get emotional but thank you so much and I really am happy that we're starting to make this journey where grandparents have got a resource and I don't say just grandparents grand relatives as well that have got this resource where they can not only find resources but maybe have an ear just to vent and just air their frustrations and get some assistance.


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My name is Ulrich Parkl, I serve as convener of CMA, Traditions of Yoga and Meditation. And as such, I'm well positioned to answer questions about today's taster lecture as well as about the program in the broader perspective. In today's talk, I have selected a topic that I think is of very great relevance to many of us. And good number will have heard of the concept of mindfulness or modern mindfulness as it is sometimes used, or it's as it is sometimes called. And I'd like to introduce modern mindfulness through its role in the public discourse and modern mindfulness has matured over the last 3040 years or so the concept itself was coined in 1979 or so. I'll just look at my slide for some reason it doesn't go through. I think I might have used the wrong. Yes, here we go. Modern mindfulness is a concept that is increasingly well known. It has entered public discourse it has began to appear in a great number of domains in our life in society in general, and the first slide gives you indication of its popularity perhaps but certainly of its presence in modern society. It appeared on Time Magazine we have a congressman Tim Ryan speaking about mindfulness that appears in the FT magazine and then a number of other publications that are not normally considered to be noted meditation journal at all but these are mainstream publications that all now begin to take note of modern mindfulness for its different applications, different functions in the modern world so clearly modern mindfulness is no longer a niche phenomenon but something that has gained increasing presence over the last few years. Now mindfulness is of course not only modern mindfulness but mindfulness is a concept that goes back to the historical Buddha himself he coined the term or the point or use the Sanskrit or Pali equivalent or Sati or Smriti or mindfulness and it is interesting to see to explore the degree to which the modern version of mindfulness correspond to the classical interpretations of mindfulness. So, we probably need first to look at some of the definitions that we encountered today. The, the, the best known definition is probably that, which was articulated by founder, John Kabat-Zinn, who in 1994, described mindfulness as a mean as a means paying attention in a particular way on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally. So there are two key aspects or into or features of mindfulness in this interpretation. And that is that it needs to be according to Kabat-Zinn, focused or located in the present moment, and that it needs to be non-judgmentally. And these are very controversial attributes, because according to the canonical interpretations of mindfulness the Buddhist interpretation of mindfulness. It is above all an act of remembering both Sati in the Pali or Smriti the Sanskrit really mean to remember or memory recollection. They do not, in essence, refer to the act of focus or attention. Yet Kabat-Zinn firmly locate modern mindfulness in the present moment and this raises an interesting problem to which we shall return in a minute. So the second interesting element is non-judgmental. Kabat-Zinn said that modern mindfulness generates or produces a sense of non-judgmentality. He introduces this concept in order to create a buffer between the event in which we encounter and the habitual judgment that we form about those events. And he said modern mindfulness is essentially a practice that removes judgment from the experience. This is also very controversial and very difficult to align with traditional Buddhist concept because in traditional Buddhist concept judgment forms a key part of the individual's brutal training. The individual needs to judge what is virtuous and what is non-virtuous and then needs to embrace what is virtuous. The idea that mindfulness somehow has become non-judgmental as it travels down the centuries into modernity is a difficult quality to reconcile with the classical or ancient interpretations of mindfulness. Let us look at, let us introduce modern mindfulness. It goes back to 1979. It was founded by John Kabat-Zinn, who then introduced it or made it core to a mindfulness-based stress reduction clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. It was designed to treat parent patients with physical or mental illness. And it grew over time into a center for mindfulness in medicine, healthcare and society at the University of Massachusetts again. 20 years past since the inception of modern mindfulness as a therapy in 1979 and the foundation of the center for mindfulness in medicine. It was achieved through a series of government grants, government grants that were aimed at the clinical application of mindfulness as a therapy. In order to secure those grants, Kabat-Zinn was very skillful in removing all Buddhist connotations from mindfulness. The ritual, the mythology, the religious practice were perceived to be a danger to the broadening popularity of mindfulness. So Buddhism was really extracted from mindfulness or mindfulness was extracted from Buddhism and was presented as a universal therapy that had very little bearing on religion or on Buddhism in particular. Kabat-Zinn then set out to train certified MBSR teachers, mindfulness-based reduction therapy teachers that became then active in over 30 countries. And he did this in order to secure the authenticity or the authority of his program. So he fairly rapidly moved on to a formal system of teaching, to a formal system of hearing that relied on lineage, on programs, on certification. The question then needs to be asked, what is mindfulness for? In Buddhism, the answer is very easy. It's one single answer. In Buddhism, mindfulness serves to achieve enlightenment, enlightenment which reduces suffering. So in Buddhism, mindfulness has a very clear religious, sociological purpose. Modern mindfulness in current society is much more varied in its application. It features in healthcare, it features in education, it features in the penal system, in the workplace and so forth. And many of these aspects were brought together in the Mindful Nation report that was produced in 2015 in the Houses of Parliament. Broadly speaking, in modern times mindfulness serves to prevent depression, to support well-being, to introduce resilience across the population. It serves in education to produce academic attainment. In mental health, it serves to achieve emotional regulation, to prevent depression again, to build character, perhaps even. So mindfulness has a very broad well-being health and attainment purpose in today's applications. The early areas of modern mindfulness practice were not quite as broad. When Kabir didn't set out in his practice, he really wanted to reduce physiological effects of stress, pain or illness. So he identified very concrete areas of the absence of well-being and so to mitigate them. He needed to do that in order to generate a set of criteria by which modern mindfulness could be assessed, could be judged for its effectiveness. A good amount of his early work centered on the experimental exploration of those experiences and how emotional reactivity to those experiences could be better managed or possibly altogether eliminated. So equanimity was introduced as an objective of mindfulness practice or equipoise, perhaps as a better term. He sought to introduce a buffer between an event in our life and our reaction to that event. And this was then believed to generate a sense of clarity, a sense of serenity where the emotion would no longer override or govern our experience of a particular event. This led to a series of emerging or in part new, a very well-known one formulated by Bishop in 2004 read the follows. Well, a kind of non-elaborative non-judgmental present-centered awareness in which each thought, feeling or sensation that arises in the attentional field acknowledged and accepted as it is. What do we have here? The key word is accepted as it is. So we have the emphasis on non-judgmental awareness that combat and over identifying with the experience that we undergo. It is non-elaborative, that is to say, it is an awareness that does not discursively seek to respond to the impulse. It aims to disengage from habitual compulsive patterns of reactivity that many of us experience in their life, of course, as a matter of routine. So once again, the notion of the creation of a space, a buffer or zone that somehow separates or isolates us from the experience that we undergo and thus sort of cuts through the tendency of reaction and interpretation and the emotional response to those events. The roots of modern mindfulness do not go back to Massachusetts. The roots of modern mindfulness go back to the vipassana movement of Southeast Asia. Here, the Burmese teachers of Lady Sayodo and Mahasi Sayodo were key contributors. They reformulated in many ways vipassana meditation in the middle of the 19th century and prepared the way for vipassana meditation to be adapted to a new set of parameters. Their teachings were carried over from Southeast Asia by American students like Jack Fawnfield, Joseph Goldstein, Sharon Salzburg and others. This happened a few years before Kabidzin developed or if you like invented modern mindfulness and Kabidzin did so really in continuation of the vipassana tradition that these teachers Goldstein and so forth had brought back from Southeast Asia. So there's a very close link between the vipassana movement of Southeast Asia in the 19th century. The encounter of those traditions by a small group of Americans who then brought vipassana to the West, to America, where Kabidzin encountered it and then modified some of the vipassana elements into modern mindfulness. So Kabidzin is part of a much broader transmission, if you like, reaching from the jungles of Burma to the West coast of America and the East coast afterwards. And much of that influence because it comes from Burma enters around the Theravada tradition that can be no doubt about. But in Kabidzin's case, his influence was not limited to the Theravada tradition of Burma. He too was influenced by other lineages within the Buddhist tradition, the Vietnamese tradition, the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and then Buddhism. The most important influence on his early life was probably the Vietnamese linear shoulder in the Tien tradition, which has some commonality with Japanese then Buddhism. And Vietnam is, in Buddhist terms, one of the most interesting area of Southeast Asia because it brings together Mahayana Buddhism of East Asia of China and the Theravada tradition of Southeast Asia and if you look on the map you will see that Vietnam is really sitting on the cusp of those two traditions of those two areas. As a result, Tich Nhat Han adopted Theravada mindfulness exercises but gave them a Mahayana especially Zen interpretation. Tich Nhat Han in the tradition of mindfulness was probably one of the most important disseminator his book The Miracle of Mindfulness published in 1976 was one of the landmark events. But his work extended well beyond that he founded terms like engaged Buddhism. He was the first to use terms like interbeing or even mindfulness in a global context. And Kabidzin had studied Tich Nhat Han and he really read his works and became influenced by his thought. Even though most identify John Kabidzin as the founder of modern mindfulness, that is not entirely true because Tich Nhat Han was through his publications really one of the first person to identify mindfulness as a therapeutic tool. So here we have the master himself, John Kabidzin. Kabidzin was not a spiritual person by education by training he was a biologist, molecular biologist so he was firmly rooted in medicine. I think he studied with a number of meditation teachers, the health Korean teachers, Sang San was important, but he also studied with the Zen tradition and came himself a teacher in Zen Buddhism. He had a vision in 1979 as he was participating in a vipassana meditation retreat, organized by Cornfield, and as part of that vision he saw the potential of mindfulness as a stress reduction tool. And this led them to the foundation of the stress reduction clinic in Massachusetts. The scholarship to begin with focused mainly on insight vipassana, in particular on the vipassana influence on mindfulness. You can see very clearly the link between modern mindfulness on the one hand, and the vipassana tradition as it had been brought to the US by Cornfield in the in the early 1970s. So if we look at Kabidzin as a as a founder of modern mindfulness as a religious man, perhaps, we not only see the terravada tradition of vipassana, but we also see then there we see Tibetan Buddhism in the form of two game and we see the Vietnamese tradition of Vietnam. And some of this may seem like a footnote, an observation of not great importance but but it does matter in fact because it helps understand some of the features of modern mindfulness that would not be explainable through a terravada background alone. He describes his own practice in fact as a mix of Zen vipassana elements now even by Dzogchen and the MBSR method as vipassana practice with the Zen attitude. So, all elements are present in those definitions then vipassana terravada and Tibetan Dzogchen. He based all of his early teaching in the clinical setting. He focused on patients with chronic pain with AIDS with cancer, and the the aim always was to reduce suffering to reduce stress chronic stress at the result of those medical conditions, and while he understood as a man of science that mindfulness could not cure cancer, it provided in his view, an instrument a tool who deal with the suffering with the pain that sprang from those chronic physical conditions. He published his finding very eagerly. Many of these findings were published in scientific and medical journals. So he was very early on position mindfulness in the medical sector this was his environment this was where his upbringing had taken place. Now, in order to succeed in science and scientific work in order to succeed in a clinical environment. Whatever you propose needs to be easily replicable. It needs to lend itself to scientific study. So the eight week MBSR course that he developed was very formulaic in its conception. It was for formulaic in large matter so it could be replicable so it could be tested by medical scientific studies. He adopted his training course in other words to the environment within which he hoped to develop and in which he hoped to secure funding for it. His best selling book was full catastrophe living published in 1990 and that became somewhat of a Bible or modern mindfulness. The attitude towards Buddhism developed over the years initially he was firmly grounded in the scientific framework of his work. But then later on he came to search that mindfulness based stress reduction must be grounded in universal Dharma understanding that is congruent with the Buddha Dharma. In other words, he began to introduce Buddhist elements that will probably have shaped his very early ideas about mindfulness but that he then needed to withdraw from modern mindfulness in order to gain acceptance. And in his most recent publications he is quite quite open to acknowledge the significant impact of Buddhism on his thinking and the way it shaped many elements of modern mindfulness application. And therefore, people have now began studies on habits in and his exposure to Buddhism and it seems to be increasingly clear that his own mind Buddhism always played a role in in mindfulness. What does mindfulness based stress reduction look like it consists of a combination of formal practice on the one hand, and informal practices the formal practice consists of a body scan of mindful movement walking. or other movements. It involves fitting meditation where the individual observes the breath observes the body the sounds of the thought. And which is then called a choiceless awareness awareness that does not engage in choice or selecting loving kindness becoming increasingly integrated into mindfulness based stress reduction and that tells it's a very interesting addition because loving kindness as such as an emotive practice has really no role in the Buddhist context of mindfulness but loving kindness has a key role in vipassana or at least in modern vipassana. On which habits in ruin his early work so the inclusion of loving kindness is is probably the result of the influence of his early vipassana contacts in the in the mid 1970s. All practices about their bound in particular in the daily life about mindful eating mindful routines or watching the tease. Getting dressed. Having awareness to the daily experience and thought whatever it is, and help us analyze whether an event is pleasant or unpleasant, and then introduced a buffer to the emotional response to that experience. Normal practices often take place in group sessions. We have normally eight times two and a half hours plus a retreat day teachers and participants. We collaborate to interrogate each other. The teacher plays a very key role in those sessions and home practice usually is encouraged to last about 45 minutes a day. So we have an eight day training session of two and a half hours each day, followed or accompanied by teacher participants interaction. And then that is continued at home, be it at a reduced level. And these practices apply wherever you encounter mindfulness based stress reduction therapy. No matter whether you take a course in the US or you take a course in the UK or elsewhere, you will encounter a high degree of consistency in those practices. Mindfulness. Look off as a result of cupboards in success, significantly and here in front of this chart, you have a graph of the research studies per year between 1994 and 2015. It could be extended to 2021 with a similar trajectory. So you can see that in 1994 only a small number of studies have taken place that began to rocket really around 2004. 2004 was an important event because it marks the foundation of the Mind Life Institute. The Dalai Lama became interested in modern mindfulness Richard gear contributed. So, sometimes in the mid 2000s, a great deal of publicity was given to mindfulness, modern mindfulness, and the interest in research surrounding mindfulness as a result spiral. There are one other form of modern mindfulness that we need to examine and that is mindfulness based cognitive therapy. This is a type of mindfulness practice that involves elements of psychotherapy cognitive therapy. It is essentially designed to help participants to guard themselves against mood changes to deal with the recurrent depression. It was founded by seagull and Williams, as well as Steve Dale, who all come from the clinical domain of psycho therapy. Based mainly in the UK where we have the Oxford mindfulness center, which is the hub of all mindfulness based cognitive therapy in the UK. It was approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, which meant that it could be prescribed to the NHS, but provision is very. And we seem to have lost Ulrich there with internet connection difficulties. But while we're waiting for him to get back online, if anybody has any sort of general questions about so I do feel free to enter those in the Q&A section. I'm also joined by Nahidah here as well. He's a current student. So if you have any questions for her about her experiences as a current student, do let us know. I'm the student ambassador. Don't be shy at all. Anything you want to ask. That's what I'm here for. Whether it be student life or just the general vibe that so as I can give you answers and I'll try and be as honest as possible. So don't be shy. How have you found your year this year of online learning, Nahidah? Well, it's been different. And because it's kind of like the first of its kind, it's hard to compare to anything. So from my experience, I'd say it's going well, but you never know. Each year we'll just get better and better. And hopefully, corona dies down a little bit. So we won't have to get to the point where it has to get better and better. But, you know, even 1% of progression is improved. Even 1% of improvement is still progression. But yeah, I think at the beginning of the year, everyone was struggling because we just weren't used to it. But especially where uni is like us, we're being very campus based, because you have unis like the open university who have obviously done it online. But I think so I just picked it up really well. And we've caught up because I haven't had that many issues, other than the slight technical issues on my part, like my wife, I will be down or something. So I think that's just a general worldwide issue. Other than that, you know, so it's been really good in terms of keeping up with the time. And perhaps it could you mention a little bit about sort of any extracurricular things that you do it so as any society. Actually, when I joined because of how the year was going to be, I knew it was going to be more I had, I had low expectations, I'll be honest of extracurricular societies because I just assumed most things will be, you know, when you're in person. But that was completely the opposite. I'm a part of quite a few societies. The first one, the first thing I joined was the spirit, which is kind of like our newspaper, our school newspaper, which is completely student run. And at first I was a bit confused. I was like how are we going to put together a whole paper from from our homes. I was very confused. But it was very innovative actually like we do it on Google Docs and well then the editors can edit on the Google Doc and it was actually very interesting. I've written two pieces so far for the newspaper, which was really interesting because I do want to go down the journey and then pass. And then I also am part of this peer mentoring scheme. So me and my mentor she's in, she's currently in year, the third year, and she does politics. And she, we will have like zoom sessions quite often just to, she checks up on me and she just asked me how I'm finding stuff and I remember I was when I was first assignment in turn it in. I was completely confused. I did not know what I was doing at all because I was, because I missed one of the buttons, it was just completely, I just did not see it. So I remember my mentor took control on my screen and she was like, I can literally see the button. I was like, Oh, I was like, Oh, no, she's like, No, that's fine. That's what I'm here for.  But it was nice to have a student body that was really engaging. So that really helped me in the beginning. And how do you sort of find the social community, I guess, it's the eggs. It's a bit tricky if you've not been on campus this year and not had that experience on campus this year but in general, what's the social community like for you. I'm like you said we haven't been on campus so I don't know how the campus community is in terms of social community in general. It's actually considering we're online it's actually quite. What's the word I'm looking for. There is a community that's why I'm trying to say, because we have WhatsApp groups for each of our subjects and then we have many WhatsApp groups that stem from there for our tutorials and then you'll hit it off with someone because we're going to break out rooms quite a lot, but it's something that you wouldn't really get if you were in like on campus you'd have to obviously you'd have to be more organic but this way it forces you to talk to people. And so people I've spoken to and I've actually become quite close to and I remember them saying, oh, if we were in real life and I probably wouldn't have spoken to you because I'm quite shy and I don't really like talking I was keep to myself because when the breakout room, I was forced to talk to you.  Great. Thank you. So if anybody does have any any more questions for either of us please do please do let me know. I work in the student recruitment team so if you have any questions about missions or any other aspects of so as do you let us know in the Q&A. We are trying to get Eric back but it does look like he's having a new internet connection difficulties. And so, if we aren't able to get him back this evening, you can always contact Eric on his email address, which is up one at so ask dot AC dot UK so that's up and then the number one at so ask dot AC dot UK. So if you did want to ask him any questions about anything he's spoken about this evening or about the program, you can contact him that way. But as I said we are trying to get him back just for a short Q&A at the end of the session. So, bear with us just a couple of moments. But if you do have any other questions in the meantime do let us know. Perhaps you could talk a little about your contact hours and he's there and how many contact hours you have a week and sort of roughly how much study you do outside of your class time week. Well, because of the way we are online right now. So half of my, because I do a double I do a joint on this so I do development studies and politics. So half of them are reported and then half of them are live. So first I make sure I do my reading beforehand and I'm a slow reader. So I think you'll expect. It looks like you're back with us Rick. You may be on mute though at the moment. So what happened to the connection. I'm not too sure I'm not too sure what happened to the internet connection, but we're back now so that's good. When, when did you lose me. I lost you on the slide regarding. I'm not too, I'm not too sure but it was about it was about two minutes ago but we lost you. Okay, so it's not too bad and perhaps very good so I'm available for questions now. I don't see the Q amp a is yet where would that be. The Q amp a is on the on the bottom of this. Now he does just been talking a little on her experience of being a student at so asked as well in the meantime. At the moment I don't see any question. Doesn't look like we have any questions just yet from the participants this evening but if you do if you do come up with any questions do feel free to write them in the Q amp a box and whether they're related to all ricks talk this evening or more generally about the program in the structure of the program, or more generally about so as as well. Maybe, maybe in the interim I can say a few words about the program. The program, both really into components on the one hand we have a number of modules or courses that focus on very specific aspects of yoga and meditation one module is called the Buddhist. In addition, in India and Tibet and other one is called deals with the origins of yoga and its development in ancient India. So these are fairly closely prescribed modules on top of that as at all. So as you have the opportunity to select open modules, open modules in principle give you access to any masters course masters module that is being delivered at source and then the degree yoga meditation, a very popular combination or very popular choices open module would for example be learning Sanskrit or Tibetan or any other language that connects to your own interest in your meditation and picking up Sanskrit through this may will allow you to measure your own research much closer with the traditions of yoga and meditation in India and Tibet or possibly even beyond that is that is a very good opportunity to deepen your skills that you may want to develop as part of your study. The dissertation is the the the crowning production of your masters. It accounts for a third of your credits and it provides you with a unique opportunity to really develop and to engage with your topic of your personal interest in yoga meditation you could write for example the dissertation on modern mindfulness you could write the dissertation on the potentially yoga sutra you could explore specific aspects of Tibetan meditation, and we will provide you with the skills and the supervision to realize those dissertation plans and and if you if you succeed if they succeed at the very highest level as I said earlier you, they could lead to publications we had so far. We have three for public MA dissertation that were published in peer review journals and that then led to PhD work and and further studies. So the MA can both be a degree independent for its own benefit with its own value but it can also become a stepping stone in a much broader development of your studies and every year I have students who take up that opportunity. Thank you, it doesn't look like we have any questions but if anybody does. Oh, okay, we do have one from Miranda who's asked what is the difference in the ways mindfulness is practiced in Kabadzin style compared with the cognitive therapy style. Yes. Thank you, Miranda. It's a very, very good very important question the, the, the cognitive therapy aspect is much more focused on on depression. It does not really set out to engage with with physical stress physical pain and as a result, the form of mindfulness that is developed or promoted within the cognitive therapy is has a much stronger sort of mental or emotional focus, let's say, than than than the physical focus the, the principles that underlie cognitive therapy are very similar to the, if you want to the mainstream or regular mindfulness based reduction therapy but the, the, the, the, the objectives of focus is different and some aspects of the training as a result of the underlying principle is very similar it's a creation of a buffer between an event and the emotional reaction to that event mindfulness based stress reduction in his cognitive and non cognitive facility is really designed to sever that near automatic response that that most of us maybe all of us have events that that that we experience and by doing so it allows the patient or the participant to manage those experiences better. Okay, I think, I think that might be all of the, all of the questions that we have. Unless anybody has any last questions. If there's nothing coming through today then just let me, let me conclude by saying that I'm, of course, available for further inquiries further further questions outside this webinar. I have routinely office hours that are used to talk about the program with prospective students we can hold them in zoom we can hold them by email or hopefully before long they can take place again on campus although we're not quite there yet. Students come to mindfulness come to meditation to yoga with very individual very specific study aspirations and I'm most happy to talk you through those aspirations and find out with a source. It's the right place for you to realize those aspirations I have access to a number of students from the current pool. I'm most happy to to care with you their experience studying towards the program, either as part time students or full time students. My email address is probably available through the event today but you can simply Google me on my in my source email address will then pop up very early on in your search. Great. Thank you so much for it for really engaging presentation this evening. And thank you as well and he does for being here as well and thank you to all the attendees for coming along to the session. I hope it's been really useful and enjoy the rest of your evening. Thank you. Thank you.


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Welcome to Jalassette News, the top stories in cryptocurrencies and Jalassettes, and a big amount of bite-sized pieces today. This is actually the video that I had previously recorded on June 30th, 2020. The reason I'm uploading this again is because it was mysteriously deleted. I've already contacted YouTube, I did an investigation, and from what they tell me, the person who deleted the video was me. And I can tell you right now, I did not delete this video. It was a pretty good one. It had a lot of views, a lot of engagement, and people were enjoying it. So it made no sense to me. However, I'm going to have you watch it, and you be the judge, and let me know if you think there's anything in here that would cause this video to be mysteriously deleted by the powers that be. Alright, let's jump right in. Got some interesting stuff. First up, helicopter money is coming, and it's actually going to be good and bad for Bitcoin and the rest of the economy. Also an update to the mainnet launch provided by Charles Hoskinson, where he also talks about how Cardano differs from Bitcoin and Ethereum. And finally, we're going to take a look at a fantastic interview brought to you by Unchained Podcast. This was Mike Novigratz and Raoul Pal, and they sat down and talked with the host about what is going on with Bitcoin, where it's going to go, and what, potentially, we can all expect in the next months and years to come. But first, what's going on with the market? Well, it looks like everything is going pretty much sideways. Bitcoin is at 91.30, and over the past 24 hours, there has been approximately 0.0 percent change. So that's fantastic. Seven days, though, down 6 percent. Ethereum, over last week, down almost 8 percent, Tether's Tether, XRP, 17 cents, wow. Bitcoin, Cash, SV, everything else, pretty much the same. Stellar, up by 2.7 percent. So nothing really fantastic, just pretty much a sideways days. Except for Compound, they took a little bit of a dip, 7.6 and 24 percent over the last week, which is not really surprising. We'll see how that project works out. I think it should do good things for us DeFi, but my money's un-Selcius. All right, before we start, I wanted to make mention of, I did a poll and I actually had a post on the community where I had asked a question about eToro. If you don't know, in the description of pretty much all of my videos, I had a referral code for eToro. The problem was is that I kept getting responses by people because they were having problems. So I actually reached out to eToro and I had a couple of issues myself. It is still unresolved and it's been now going on two and a half weeks. And that was actually an issue that I have with finances. There's another issue I had that we were going back and forth as far as like providing a dollar cost average versus trader challenge. I want to do a couple of things and kind of bring attention to eToro. And this has been going on for three months. And so that's one issue. But financial issue shouldn't take two and a half weeks to really clarify. And the customer service, in my opinion, has been catastrophic, we will say. So I just asked the question to everybody else. I thought, well, maybe it's just me. You know, maybe I just have a problem. But then so the first one, I had 29 responses and it was all pretty much negative. And then I want to step further and I just said, hey, for those of you who had interaction with eToro, tell me how bad it is. And I was expecting to be somewhere between three and four. And one was awful and five was outstanding. And I thought maybe it gets, you know, majority fours and then some threes. But really what it is, is 28% of you said it's awful, like the worst, the worst. And then 17% said it's really bad. I mean, not the worst, but it's pretty bad. And you look at that, I mean, that's like, that's a huge amount. We're looking at what, 45%, somewhere around there, 44, 45, 46. And then the next biggest one was 40. So if you have customer service, that is, you know, 85% awful. Or just, you know, kind of crappy. I can't promote that. So I've already gone through most of the videos and I don't have, I won't have an affiliate link with that. Same thing with Coinbase because, you know, why would I promote something that sucks? So that's it. So thanks for giving me your feedback. Really appreciate it. Let's jump into today's stories. So first up, helicopter money, everybody's favorite. A U.S. stimulus backed rebound could fuel a Bitcoin bull rally. Here's why. And this whole article is great. It's well written, everything else. But the thing is that you have to understand that helicopter money, it can only take you so far. And really, it's going to be bound to fail. I'm going to tell you why. So what's going on is that the benchmark cryptocurrency, and they are talking about Bitcoin, surged 0.78% to a whopping 9184, a move that aptly tailed the recovery sentiment in the S&P 500. I love that word surged. I think it was just so fantastic. Cryptocurrency digital asset market, it is not the S&P 500. So when we get a 1%, less than 1% surge, that's not a surge. That's a blip. Let's say yawn. That's nothing. So it's something that we're not used to. And maybe in the traditional fans, that's awesome.  So anyhow, it goes on to state about speculative optimism. S&P 500's Wall Street peers NASDAQ composite and Dow Jones also inch higher by 2.3% and 1.2% respectively. The Wall Street Journal credited pure speculative optimism for the S&P 500's rebound, knowing that expectations of a new stimulus package kept traders bullish about the index. So here's the thing. This to me is scary on many levels. You've got a bunch of people who, they know one thing by the dip because they've heard it for so long by the dip, by the dip, by the dip. But the problem is that you've got people who have really no idea what they're investing into, like Hertz is a prime example. You got a ton of people who invested into that because there was a huge dip. Problem was Hertz went into bankruptcy. So good luck getting your money back. And that was a big FOMO type of thing and people are gonna end up getting wrecked. So we see this type of thing where people get stimulus money. They get helicopter money. They're like, well, I gotta do something with it. And I hear this thing to buy a dip and Robin Hood is really easy to use and boom, I was gonna just dump it all on that. And then it's just not a good thing to do. I believe. So when we get this stimulus package and then the S&P 500 goes up, people are like, oh, the economy's doing fantastic. No, that's not how it works. So I think the smart money is still going to invest because I know it's gonna go up because the Fed's gonna bail everything out. But if you are actually trying to invest for the long term, that is insane. I see a lot of problems coming up and I don't know exactly what's gonna happen because I'm not noticed for Domus, but I can tell you that this cannot last forever. So I don't think that helicopter money is sound economic policy for growth, but let me know what you think in the comment section. I just don't see it. Moving on, the S&P 500 peaked at 3,200 points in June. That's amazing. It's on track of reaching its all-time high even as conflicting poor fundamentals led by the rise in COVID infections, jitters investors. So imagine that. During this time when we had over 41% of small businesses actually closing, which we covered yesterday, and we have record unemployment and all these different problems that are happening in the economy, yet the Wall Street still goes up. And I understand that people are always telling me, well, the Wall Street and NASDAQ and the S&P 500, they're betting on the future. Well, how far in the future are you betting?  Because I gotta tell you this growth, I don't see a V-shaped recovery. I mean, W at best. So we will see. But observers at states that, observers believe that the Federal Reserve and the US Congress will keep injecting money into the economy to help sustain the rebound. And just so you know, for those of you who are out in the United States, Trump, President Trump is facing a reelection coming up on November. So we're like, what, five months away, six months away, somewhere around there. So he's gonna pull out all the stops. And what he is trying to do then is there's been huge talk about a second stimulus check coming about. And this was put out by the Forbes and they say that they don't know all the details, but we can walk you through everything we know so far, including the stimulus check details found in the HEROES Act, which passed the House and is awaiting a vote in Congress. Finally, keep in mind this is an election year. Several reports say that President Trump is in favor of a second stimulus check. We understand that a second stimulus check may help his chances at another election. So I mean, if I was at another election, sure. I'd be like, hey, let's just throw some money, see how it all works out. Moving on, it states, this is a quote, there's a safety net under the bond market and the market or the equity market, said Philip Blancato, the president of Ladenburg Thalman Asset Management. And there's a saying which goes, it's cool until it's not. Everything's good until it's not. So if the Fed is going to be bailing this out, I mean, really the question is how long can the Fed keep bailing everything out? How much money can they print? How long can this go for? Because if you haven't stayed up to the news, just you know, here in the States, we just had 15 states have paused or reversed the plans to reopen. Even in my state of Texas, everything now is now back to lockdown. So you got North Carolina, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Nevada, also Montana. Arizona was another big one that just said, nope, we can't because the round of infections is on the rise. And if you have those type of infections up and it keeps happening, it keeps happening, then you're gonna have a pullback. And this is another report which talks about this from the WHO, the World Health Organization. And I know the World Health Organization hasn't been on the most solid of footings because there are different problems with China and favoritism and whatever else is going on. However, I will say this, the things that they are talking about now have actually come true. And when the WHO says, hey, look, this isn't the worst is yet to come. Everybody's like, you're crazy. This thing is gonna go away in the summer and no problems. Well, guess what happened? It is 103 today here in El Paso and we have doubled our infection rate since yesterday. And then in my other city that I live in, in Houston, they've had a massive influx and they were having problems as far as like the ICU and ventilators because they were getting maxed out. So if we think about these things and we look at what's gonna happen, what's gonna go on, this pandemic, which was supposed to kind of sputter out in this timeframe is not doing that. It is actually doing the opposite and accelerating in certain parts of the world. Now, every part of the world is not gonna accelerate. We're gonna have some kind of downtrodden but if you look at what's going on, it does not look too fantastic. So in this article, it states another wave of panic could be devastating for markets as well. The stock market's V-shaped recovery could be in jeopardy. Other crash could make the structure from a W rather than a V-shape. And again, I've been saying this for a while now. I just don't see a V-shape recovery from all the different things that are happening. I mean, if you look at retail and hospitality and public health and sports and gyms, I mean, all these different businesses are slowing down which is really the backbone of most of the economy and especially here in America. So I don't see how we can actually spend our way out of this or print our way out of this. I think there's gonna be a lot of problems coming up. But again, I mean, I could be wrong. Who knows? Let me know what you think in the comment section. But I will just say this, I, if there is going to be a big dip, make sure you have some money on the sidelines to buy that dip. I never am a big fan of going all in and just putting all my chips in on one day. Dollar cost average in. And then when you see some slides come, especially like big ones, if you were ready for the March slide, the March dip, you made a killing. And it's, I see it happening again. So that's what I will do. And that's maybe you should, maybe you could look into that, not financial advice, all that good stuff. And then here's a something from Willie Wu comes up with some model, which predicts another bull run in a month. And, okay, sure, right, whatever. I gotta tell you, like I talked about TA yesterday and I just had a couple of people go, I can't believe you don't believe in TA and it's just ridiculous and da, da, da. If that's your belief, that's your belief. Sure, go ahead.  Anyhow, let's move on. Next up, Cardano. This is how it differs from Bitcoin or Ethereum. This was a pretty good one. Charles Hoskinson is fast becoming my favorite CEO because he just makes like, he just kind of says what it is.  This is all I can say. So he goes on his talk about, he says, look, this was an interview from Altcoin, but he says, with Bitcoin, this was the first mover. This was the first generation. Really, it was the concept of, can you have decentralized money, decentralized transfer value, decentralized ledger and somehow, some way a dynamic and decentralized network will maintain that. This was not the case before Bitcoin. No one ever pulled it off. The problem with Bitcoin is that it's so simplistic. It's not a criticism. It was a design feature that the architecture system were trying to push. He was gonna state that with Bitcoin, you can't issue assets. You can't do a complex contractual relationship or a smart contract. You can't do dApps and define all those things. I know that people are gonna be like, no, no, no, Bitcoin can do smart contracts. Sure. But from here, what he's talking about is like some type of complex, contractual relationship, whatever he means in that regard, maybe different, higher level things. I don't know. But when he's talking about these things, it's just very interesting. And I'm gonna show you a video in a second of why I think he's actually right. So he was gonna state that the point of Ethereum, which was the first second generation crypto, was to try to understand what that model looked like. So it took everything from the prior generation to centralized ledger, the dynamic and decentralized control, but then it said, hey, now all of a sudden your transactions are programmable. And he said, while Ethereum is programmability, opening doors, Hoskinson says the second largest cryptocurrency is limited by its inability to scale and shared data with traditional systems. But there's a way around that, Ethereum 2.0 is coming out with the sharding.  So it's a two-prong system, but you can't do it. He says, it's not good enough to just say, hey, we're gonna build a system that's blind and deaf. It doesn't really understand or see the world around it. We need to build a system that's aware that there are other systems and can communicate with more and more value and information. So finishing up, Hoskinson says that the limitations he sees in both Bitcoin and Ethereum led to the creation of Cardano. So when you bundle these three things together, interoperability, scalability and sustainability, that functionality creates what we call a third generation cryptocurrency, makes sense. So that's Charles in a nutshell. And there's two things that I wanna make mention. First of all, I kept mentioning that the timeline was, you know, the launch was end of June and then maybe if we needed to July 7th was the last part, but actually I was incorrect. So this was an article which was written on May 29th and I think I just let some things out. So someone corrects me yesterday. I forgot it was, I'm sorry, but thanks for correcting me, I appreciate it. But there was, here was the timeline essentially. Hoskinson talks about these things take place in 11 steps. So the first one was May 11th, which was the launch of Friends and Family Test Network. Next one was June 9th, Haskell Shelly Test Network. They can run a stake pool. June 16th, public test network will be open all users and the wallet and the known all it's up. June 23rd, the commonator hard fork took place. And so that's all been done, right? So we're there. Provided this test runs smoothly and I think it has. The Shelly client will be released on June 30th when we available for anyone to download. As a precaution in case there are problems, July 7th is available as a backup. So that's where I was going, okay, July 7th. States here, users will have four weeks or three weeks from that date to upgrade their software until the Shelly may not hard fork on July 29th. So I guess I was right, but not right. So just to make sure we're all clear, we're going all the way to July 7th in case there's some hiccups. Then July 29th is the hard fork and that's when everything is supposed to be fantastic. So we'll see how that goes. So that's the first thing. The second thing I want to talk about is when Charles is talking about how great Cardano is, the question that in my mind is first mover advantage and is that really true? And is Cardano, is that going to be like the Google Chrome or is it going to be Microsoft Edge? I want to talk about can be fantastically illustrated by our friends over at Data is Beautiful. They do fantastic work here. And what they're talking about is the most popular internet browsers, 96 to 2019. And I put this on double X speed because you want to watch the whole thing. It's kind of boring, but at do X, it's actually kind of interesting. So what we're going to do is we're going to start this little guy right now. And remember Netscape Navigator? Well, if you do your old license, but here's the internet explorer. This was a 99, mind you. And once Explorer came about, because Netscape Navigator was the first and some people will say, well, that's what Bitcoin is. It's Netscape Navigator. I don't know if that's true, but maybe it's like an explorer. Who knows? One of the first ones and it was dominating what four years, five years, six years, seven years. Then came Firefox. I remember Firefox and it was awesome. So fast. It worked out pretty well. And before you know it, you're like, oh, Firefox is going to be like V1 to take over everything over. And then there's this thing called Chrome. And Chrome came from nowhere and all of a sudden just started to get market share. And now we're coming up to 2010, 11, 12. And look what happens. Chrome starts to dominate. And then Explorer, which had done so much for so long, a decade, falls the wayside. Now that's Microsoft. Microsoft said, you know what? We're going to make Microsoft Edge and we're going to get rid of Explorer because that's going to be the new wave and we're Microsoft and we can do anything we want to because we're awesome. Well, the problem with Edge is it never just gained traction and it just kind of fell the wayside and that's a problem if you are one of these big conglomerates who then they can do whatever they want to. Big innovation really doesn't come from like these big, huge companies. It comes from smaller companies which are nimble and quick. They don't have to be saddled with all these different levels of leadership or management and they just make things happen. So when we see, let me reverse this, we see something like this. Google Chrome came from nowhere. So the question really is, is Cardano Google Chrome and they're going to start to take over? Maybe they take over Ethereum because of what they talked about all those different three aspects or are they Microsoft Edge? That it sounds great and they made this fantastic product just didn't work out for whatever reason.  I was like, oh, it's for Microsoft is both take over and explore. They're actually going to get rid of Microsoft Edge and go to some other thing called Chromium something or other because it's just not working out. And the reason they did that was because they said, oh, Microsoft Edge is going to be so much faster and we're going to have interoperability and it's going to be fantastic for the internet and people can build on it. Well, guess what? Nobody use it. So the question again now is, is Cardano Google Chrome or is it Microsoft Edge? That's the big question. All right. Let me know what you think of the comment section and let's move on. Lastly, Unchained podcast. I had seen this around and I catch them every so often but they're very long. Usually they're like an hour. Sometimes they're 30, 45 minutes but mostly it's like an hour. It's a podcast, right? It's a long format. So, but this one was exceptional and I have to give it to Laura Shin. She did a fantastic job here. And if you don't know Unchained podcast you can subscribe to it. It's fantastic. Actually, I'm going to be there right now. Subscribe. And who is Laura Shin? Let's just get it out of the way because we always want to know who's put in pen to paper or who's talking and who's going to tell the information. So, Laura Shin is a crypto blockchain journalist, host the podcast we just talked about. She's a former senior editor at Forbes, first mainstream reporter to cover crypto, graduated at Phi Beta Kappa with honors from Stanford, master's arts from Columbia, school of journalism. And when she is interviewing people you can tell she's like a real journalist. Like she's not like me. I'm just an opinion person. I give you some information. I inject my opinions or whatever else. She's smart and she's got really great questions and she puts out the right information. So what she's got is two of the heavyweights these days. Mike Novigratz, Raul Powell and a couple and she actually recovered her a couple of videos ago when she had a Shemath by Appetite on where we discovered that Shemath had no idea what DeFi was, which was interesting. So here, I'm not gonna play the whole thing. Obviously it's just an hour, but there was three things to go over. One, I was wrong about Mike Novigratz because when Mike Novigratz here who is the CEO of Galaxy Digital, Raul Powell is a macro economist and we've featured him on the channel before. When he's talking about, Mike Novigratz here is talking about, hey, it's really difficult to buy Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. I was like, what is this guy talking about? But I get now why he said that when he talks in a little bit. And then we're talking about quantitative easing and the reason for the Bitcoin rise and then they're gonna talk about all that helicopter money and why it's good and bad. So let's just take a listen. And listen, this is an adoption story. And if Bitcoin was easy to buy, it would be a lot higher. And so we've dealt with a few hedge funds that are buying it, right? They've got to go through all the new diligence for their funds and it's a two to four week process for their back office to feel comfortable. And so it's not like pick up the phone and call. Then they gotta usually talk to their board, hey, we're gonna buy crypto for the first time. And so that's a great point. I never thought about that. I'm like, okay, this is my problem. I always think about me and how I do things but I have to look at it from the other side. So Novigratz is in that traditional market type of place. So when he's talking about these hedge fund managers and these institutions, there's a lot of steps they have to take to actually buy things. They can't just go, hey, you know what? I'm just gonna go to Gemini and just pick up some Bitcoin for my clients. They can't do that. So they have to go through a lot of hoops. So when he says it's difficult to buy Bitcoin, he's talking about institutional investors and he's right, I get it. The next thing I wanna bring up was he has his pulse on the next big buyers and I thought about this group and now I really see it. Once this group gets in, things should take off. Let's take a listen. A new group of buyers that are coming. They're not here yet. The financial advisor community is giant. The bulk of the wealth in America and in Europe is not owned by Gen Z or Millennials, though they like it. It's owned by Gen X and Baby Boomers and older, the 50 to 80 year olds. They don't have bread wallets or coin-based wallets or Venmo apps. And so getting the financial advisors to feel comfortable to then sell it to them is a process that GalaxyNet we're already working hard on. That's being amped up in a big way, not just... And I gotta tell you, there's no reason why if natural analysts, as things start to move and start to really get in place, why they would not put that out to their investors, to their clients. So if you haven't seen this one yet, this was actually put together by, it was James Todaro MD. I found this through Twitter. Actually it was sent to me by a subscriber and I had to actually slow it down because it was just too much all over the place. But this is the best performing investments over the last decade, as far as percentage ROI. And if you look at it real quick, if you look at, first of all, Domino's Pizza, 23% return on investment. Amazing, it's Domino's, Netflix. This is February, 2010 is where we are starting. But if we go through this, I just wanna show you that once Bitcoin gets in there, which is going to be around 2013, I believe. Whoops, went too fast. So look at Bitcoin, just pop up, pop up, pop up. And now we're going at 1000X, around 1000 in 2013. And it falls about Domino somehow, over takes it a little bit. But if you're starting to think about these financial planners, these financial analysts and the people that actually recommend certain assets to their clients, when they do, and they come in there and they're like, hey Pete, here's the thing. There's a lot of things going on with the market. We don't know what's gonna happen. All this helicopter money's coming in. There's a lot of uncertainty, especially with the Federal Reserve printing to quantitative easing. We don't know what's gonna happen. However, there is this asset and it is the best performing asset class of the last decade. It's new, it's a little volatile, but we think it's gonna have huge gains. And over the last 10 years, it's done 1000X percentage of ROI. So what we wanna do is we wanna take one 3% of your portfolio and put it in this thing called Bitcoin. All right, sounds good, John. I think if you can just do that, these planners, there's no reason why they wouldn't do that or even put it into Ethereum. Let me take a look at Ethereum and see how much that goes up. So when Novogratz is talking about these big players, these people, I was like, that's true. If they can get in the game, then it would be game over. So we will see. Anyhow, now Mike's gonna talk about institutional FOMO and I think this is gonna be the big catalyst. So let's take a listen. So I think in the next few months, you're gonna see a lot of FAs putting their clients into this. And also, Mike, as you know, is the whole, the structure of this is everyone's got the right on it. And if the price moves up, everyone gets FOMO and has to get involved. And that's at institutional level now. Yes. So if it goes up further, the more it goes up, the more the market cap goes up, the more they can justify it to their trustees and the more people get involved. So I think we're at that tipping point of a virtuous cycle that can continue for a while, but we just need to get through these levels first. But I think essentially every institution, every RAA is almost kind of short the upside calls. Not really, I mean, obviously there's a bunch of people who are, but really what it's all about is people don't have it and they need to get it, but they wait for the price for confirmation. So it makes sense, right? So I can see all that. And then Laura's gonna ask a very smart question. She's a very smart person, journalist, right? And she's gonna ask him like, okay, what are the driving factors? What's really gonna push these people over the edge? What is the determining situation that's gonna lead to Bitcoin to go to wherever you could call it the moon? The decision makers have made the decision. It's just kind of a matter of time to let those decisions play out in the market and we should see the price rise. But I'm wondering like, so what is it that's driving those decision makers? Like what is it about Bitcoin that makes them think that this is the investment to make now during the time of the coronavirus? Is it just as simple as like, Bitcoin is scarce and we're about to see unlimited quantitative easing or is there anything kind of more... It's just that simple. And that's pretty much it. So if you have a chance, I highly recommend to listen to the whole podcast. It's an hour long, a little bit long, but hey, if you've got nothing else going on because you're on lockdown like me, why don't you take a listen? So that is it for today. Thanks for sticking with me. I really appreciate it. And as always, I want to say thanks to the supporters. So level ones, they give me a tip of a couple dollars and I really appreciate everybody that does that. Thanks so much. Level two, hey a little bit more and they get a shout out. So all right, soft. When Mullet, myself, who else? 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