Everybody forced here ripping the sports cart Almanac ultra high-end multi sport volume 10 case number four and This is a live hit draft style break. This is cards and memorabilia Almanac So live hit draft two minutes per pic. I'll have the timer on my phone. I'll be checking both chats YouTube and Twitch I'll be typing in them as well When you're making your pick when if you're in Almanac use your Verify your pick when you use your zip code or order number Just so we know who you are who you say you are Let's see what else we'll do two randoms here in a moment the first random is going to determine the case number So this is break four should have seven cases left to random between I did not actually do that yet Seven ten five two eight nine Okay, there we go and in the second random is gonna be for the draft order So we know the order of picking please know discussing card values during the drafts and no Influencing the draft while it's taking place You're allowed to say things like nice hit. That's a beautiful car. That's an awesome card Just know talking specific card values or you'd prefer this over that or this is better Whatever it may be That's pretty much it guys Someone cannot attend the draft we'll pick for them To the best of our abilities we're not responsible for picking the perfect card for somebody though So good luck, let's do these randoms A six three and three we can first one is for case number one Two three four five and six case seven will be lucky Sorry, Rick. Yeah, put you down easy now Sound pretty bad. Put him down Any last word Lane sounds like he's in red-air redemption You should do it all right six times to determine the draft order again We'll randomize six times and whatever is there after six. That's the order one through ten top to bottom. Good luck one two three four five and six John H with first pick Brian M to Third Mike s fourth Jim D fifth Richard K Sixth John a seven Hilton T eight Brian s nine Brandon a and ten Thomas J. I'll move these over Make it bolder and bigger so you can see it better That is your draft order There you go. Good luck everybody. Let's go ahead and get started Take he mantles the most famous one. Yes a person that was for sure alive while the Marlins existed Mickey Mantle Thank you guys have all lost it That's how I treat all the top-loaders and incredibly abusive I Said two sugars in my coffee Sorry treat them all. Oh, we start off with a nice one here 2019 select football Justin Herbert 2020 XRC prism PSA 10 That is a noise Herbert PSA 10 XRC Herbie I like that. I like that yours design Ty Cobb was a terrible Marlin. That's such a pretty card 2021 Bowman draft Jordan Loller chrome draft picks auto Aqua Lava Refractor PSA 10 number 94 of 1999 first Bowman Aqua Lava Did it would hot magma color match? All right, that's it At what point do we start banning everybody lane? How many real Marlins fans are there come on now. Yeah, this is heavy. This is this this has some weight to it It's a gold bar and I'm just It'd be a lot heavier, but I mean This might be a surprise 2017 tops transcendent auto Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Well then 725 95 Gen mint 10 money Mayweather Centering nine corners 10 edges and surface both nine fives All servers check out this money Mayweather Yeah, I was not expecting that either. That's actually really freaking cool. You have a young years in that photo Take an old photo for 2017 transcendent and what? That's pretty cool, man They should do that again.  Just who we needed to add to add to all this chaos All servers can I don't know if this is your first time seeing Almanac, but I Try and include some surprises throughout Yeah, I got it. Gotta keep it fresh some days Another each row in the run here a one-of-one definitive defining images auto from 2022 tops definitive baseball Red one-of-one that was from his farewell series in Japan Julian I agree Sandy should win sayonk. Yeah Alcantara. Oh, yeah Oh actual Marlins. Oh, yeah, that's right there Each you're a one-of-one. That's sick. It's the second one of one each row in the run That we stay we know of that we know of cofax. No Alcantara guts Almanac instant memorabilia redemption KB KB KB toys. I remember KB toys memorabilia, sir Sir, there you go, sir. I've never 2018 game use Chris Bryant cleats Oh, man, you got an authentication sticker right here from the MLB Should I smell them guys and then fanatics authenticated the auto just to verify Yeah, the fanatics authenticated the auto right there as we got that so the game used is authenticated from MLB and the auto is authenticated from fanatics They're pretty clean They're pretty clean KB game use 2018 cleats both autoed. I mean This is just one they get one of them. I'm just kidding. Yeah, you have to pick one so It's a dirt on them. Yeah, there's like dirt scuffs and everything That's pretty cool 18 that was not his MVP year. I think 16 Wow, that's pretty cool spikes on Many Machado's biggest weapon is his spikes They don't smell like feet Like Chris Bryant is he's very GQ, you know, or at least back in those days He was so at both cleats sign in and scribe game use 2018 Yeah That's pretty unique right there Still tied to The wonder if we just let him off or if they retied over I don't know. That's a good question. I never I didn't think about that Was this in the preview? I think it was Thanks, sir. Hey PSA 10 2020 tops definitive Ryan a trout ohtani triple auto And again that is a PSA 10 Colesaw, baby Wow, all the autos look really good PSA 10 on it all servers. That's how you yeah, that's not numbered cream. It's not the base triple variation I was given the option about this one 95 96 flair hot numbers Michael Jordan PGS pristine 10 Such a cool card. Is there a more 90s card than this right here? The edges are what kept it from being a black label. Everything else got a 10 edges 95 That's right hot numbers Michael Jordan from 95 96 flair That's so cool Looks better than all the holographic cards at hologram cards to make today. That's so cool. I I've never seen that card before until Lane showed it to me the other day. You have one of those back in the day So cool man I already know this one is I'm not gonna put it yet. I'll leave it here and then we'll show it to you that it is this piece of merubilia and authentic Now this is a really cool one. It's got an inscription. It's like a little Patriots logo right there It's like an old Patriots logo 70k Yards Club inscription Tom Brady That is forever ago for Tom Brady by the way Holy cow this thing is also really cool. This is numbered three of six by tri-star three of six Nope, there's one more almanac case for tonight 70k yards inscribed Tom Brady helmet and it does say Brady throwback You just didn't want to spoil that one. That's that's a sick one Whoo, that one's got that's that's really authentic Old heavy helmet. All right two more items. I'll say this case is pretty insane 2002 SP game used Extra significance Kobe Bryant Jason kid dual signature 23 of 25 Really good grade on this nine minutes and the autos are authenticated not graded Wow, dude black mamba Jason kid that's kind of insane Two of the best to ever do it this is crazy One more and then it's draft time read our own draft music. Yeah, we probably can't use that Yeah, cracked ice 2021 contenders basketball Cole Anthony rookie ticket Man 14 of 25 bgs 9 5 10 Corners 9 everything else 9 5 service centering and edges Cole world right there. I see in the Cole world That's so cool 9 5 10 our guy Cole Anthony Caleb's boy Cole Anthony Can I say that now? Wow, man Okay Who throws a shoe honestly? Yeah, he was he came in the shop, and he actually participated in a case break or box break over with late in gaming and Caleb Who's live right now for a huge double release? But Cole and Caleb got to rip a vintage box booster box of Pokemon Cole Caleb everybody but me I think got to I didn't open any cards That's true rich open the bag. Yeah Every time packs openings going on Rick has to be involved. Oh, you know that I mean it makes sense. I Would hope so likes open packs. Who's talking about food. I'm sorry. Stop talking about food Oh god Drop the shoe. He'll be back illegal. All right, so we have John H with the first pick Well, you'll so rude all the time this guy pick number one again two minutes Let's limit the chatter a bit and when you're making your pick, please include your zip code or your order number John H Now that's some variety right there. You know yep Lane puts these together When beniyama do it at the magic when beniyama.  So John's going with the Triple here. He's good. He's going with the triple angels Ryan shroud Ohtani Hard to pass that up PSA 10 at that Again, this is not numbered from 2022 definitive So cool. It's all on card to that's got definitive is honestly such an amazing product Thank you again, John Congrats on that Brian M pick number two is Limited I see I mean obviously there's just not a high pop of that So triple autos. I don't think they numbered but they did number the duals a lot of them Two minutes Brian M Did not show up in twitch. Oh Did just by the way that is pop one Nice pop one for you too, John Lane just looked it up pop one. All right minute and a half of Brian M Good variety here. You got some baseball boxing Good memorabilia. Oh They do have parallels that's interesting It's weird they didn't number all of them then There's base of all the triple And then there's a number of parallels. All right, cool Brian. Just need the other six zero five Cool Brian's going with the the Kobe and kid. What a great pick Congrats on that Brian PSA nine again on authentic autos O2 game used to 25 What a card man awesome PC item right there and And then we're going pick three Gonna be for Mike s Mike s pick three What did you want it? What did you want to see I can show? Whatever here. I'll show the Jordan flair pristine 10 It looks a lot better in person really does pop in person Cracked eyes Cole Anthony 9 5 10 14 of 25 and the serial number if you go Oh boy XRC Justin Herbert PSA 10 so 19 select right there 2021 Bowman draft Aqua Lava first bowman auto Jordan Jordan Loller PSA 10 2017 top transcendent auto Floyd Mayweather jr. Thumbs up 9 5 10 on the auto Thank you Mike congrats on the Jordan what a sick card hot numbers PS10 PS10 better Okay, so five cards and still all the mem left both will both mem I'll say Jim D up now Congrats Mike again Jim D gets interesting now I Was interesting the whole way when take your cards you can see some something like that. They just don't do a lot of them You know pop on the Jordan at all Whoa, yeah, lo is at the 10, but we don't know for sure. I'd guess around 2025. You go look it up Yeah, this is all like It really is but I mean hey like Lane has always said that it should be difficult to choose Should be difficult Jim D about a little over a minute Jim and guys five more cases tomorrow Five more cases tomorrow with spots left. Yes. Yeah, of course So it is again. It's number three of six Three of six It is authentic. This is an authentic helmet. This thing is heavy 70k yards club Tom Brady inscribed No noticeable like big scuffs or scratches on the helmet looks great 70k yards man. That's something like five years ago more than that. There's that Brady Yeah, I knew there was I knew there was at least one black label Yeah, someone said that in a YouTube tattoo, Jim, thank you Jim Jim's going with the helmet Thanks again, man such a nice one, okay Shoes and cards shoes and cards Richard K pick number five Richard K five cards two shoes. They go together though Who throws a shoe? Cole Anthony Each year old lullar Mayweather. What size shoe? That's a good question. We find that out real quick Big that's what that's You can say yeah, there's a 10 13 and a half Stephanie feet man So it was like six three most ballplayers I would say like size 12 or oh Rick the grade on the Herbert is a PSA 10 My missing chat there's nothing I see him asking what's the grade on the Herbert and now he just said can we see the Oh, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, here's sorry. Here's the intro. I May have missed one It's a one-of-one defining images. So that photo is from I think his farewell series at the beginning of Whatever season he retired. It was in Japan 2022 definitive baseball and then the other Herbert is a PSA 10 select XRC prism Would you say this is greatable? There was no major flaws. I just I didn't look it over for grading. There is a Noticeable like tiny ding on this top left corner Typically, you don't grade definitive. It's really tough to say I mean the edges will have a lot to say about and you really can't see edges through a mag because it's about a 100-point card or so I'm nothing crazy about the surface that you can see without getting up super close to it So going with the Herbert Thanks, Rick Rick's going with the really awesome PSA 10 19 select Herbert XRC Thank you again, Rick. Congrats on that. John. A is up now on a XRC is Traditionally, it's for the past, you know decade or so. It's their first rookie card in their pro uniform Forever, so forever then Lane saying for pretty much Modern cards and even before that They basically stands for like extra rookie card. Yeah, it's their first actual like card is what it's supposed to signify Yeah, this year was different with select because it was pushed back so far, but typically it comes out around the draft a little after and then Go to like XRC quarterback redemption one quarterback one or quarterback two or quarterback three or whatever and you would get You know, whichever quarterback is taken for a second or third, you know what I mean? All right minute left Got KB cleats each row one of one Floyd Mayweather transcendent Loller Aqua Lava first bowman and a crack dice Cole Anthony. Oh Nice going with the KB cleats Thanks again, Aiden Go with the KB game use cleats again auto authenticated by fanatics and the game used authenticated by the MLB so Yeah, those are pretty sick Pick seven Hilton so Adrian should be picking for Hilton number seven Yeah, we got you Aiden Going with the each year. Oh That's a great pick. All these are great picks one of one each row can't go wrong Thank you again Adrian nice pick for Hilton there Brian s Lane showing me cards. I didn't know existed with that Floyd right there. I Met the guy too didn't even know Yeah, we did Still still weird Travis. He is I'm breaking through eternity Monday breaking through Monday Then we'll give him a day off a few hours off Ryan s pick number eight Yeah, a few for sure came in Taylor, but I'm it's crazy. We when we woke up this morning there were a bit to go on these two but We started getting a few hours away from it. They flew 30 seconds That's a good point claws. All right timer is up Usually it's Julian Julian was here Both the crack dice Cole. You got it. Nice. Thanks again Julian. Congrats to you there 14 to 25 crack dice Cole Anthony and the last pick is going to Brandon a Two very different cards here. Hey guys, if you like the stream like the stream, thanks again Julian Bran is quick on that one going with the luller the laula Go with the luller aqua lava first woman PSA 10 Thanks again Brandon, and that means Thomas Jay gets this really cool 2017 top strand send in Floyd and Mayweather Auto 9 5 10 number to 25 there we go. Thanks again everybody one more case for tonight coming up next


I'm happy to welcome you to this talk Hacking Vein Recognition with Starbucks and Julian. The whole subject of biometrics has been one of the KS Computer Clubs for quite a while. Do you remember Iris Recognition that was hacked with a photo of our Chancellor? Fingerprints made it to the media as well. Mr. Schäupler's fingerprint was taken from McGraths and now we're going to talk about Veins. I'm curious to see how that's going to work. There have been countless talks and press articles about this. I know one of the things Starbucks is very proud of is that his name was mentioned in the German built tabloid. But of course, Starbucks is not here on his own tonight. He's with Julian, one of his colleagues who wrote about Vein Recognition in his bachelor's thesis.   Enjoy! Thank you Karina and welcome to the probably last talk about hacking biometrics. We simply haven't got any more systems left to do. This one's about Vein Recognition. I've been looking at the two systems I'm going to show you tonight for a few years, but I didn't really make any progress. But then Julian came and he said that he was interested in hacking biometrics and was looking for a topic where it's bachelor's thesis. And it was a very productive collaboration. Vein Recognition is a fairly new technology. It comes mainly from Asia, Japan, and also the companies that develop these systems, Fujitsu and Hitachi are Japanese companies. Nobody's really looked at these systems in detail yet, which is strange because it's a very rewarding target, which you're going to see later. I assume that it's because one of the few biometric features that are hidden inside the body and not easy to see, unlike, for example, fingerprints. But let's start with the basics. Veins develop in the sixth week of pregnancy. The rough structure from the heart to the lungs and the splitting is determined by your genes. But the detailed features is random. And that's why it's useful as a biometric feature because it's individual and it's different for each finger, but also different in twins. The hardware works like this. It's simply a camera, like the camera you might have in your phone or like an SLR. But you take away the infrared filter, so it also covers the near-infrared range. And the two systems work, both work with 850 nanometers and for recognition of veins in the hand. You have LEDs in this sensor. They're reflected by the skin. But the veins absorb it and that's why the skin is bright and the veins are dark. There's a normal camera in the bottom and the veins are visible as black lines. Recognition of veins in the fingers works a bit differently because the veins in the fingers are a bit deeper. This reflective method wouldn't offer high enough contrast. And that's why the LEDs are usually at the top of the device. They're scattered in the skin. Even though there's a bone in between, you can still see the veins which absorb the light and there's a normal camera in the bottom that takes the picture. There are newer methods as well that don't use LEDs, but lasers and micro mirrors. We'll be talking about those towards the end. They're used for detecting blood flow as well to check for signs of life. But the two systems that we have here cover 95% of the global market and they use normal LEDs. How does the software work then? All the systems use the so-called mayoral tracking. It's the picture you see on the top right here. It's what these camera pictures look like. The system looks for a random point and then draws an intersecting line and looks for changes in the intensity. And when it finds a ghost curve like this, it assumes that it's a vein. From there on, it looks from the nearest dark pixel and uses this to recognize veins and it does that a few hundred or thousand times. Once it finds enough points, it assumes that it's found all the veins. It then does post-processing, the so-called skeletonization, where it takes the veins which are quite wide and nose them down to one pixel and the resulting picture looks like you see at the bottom. You have these minuscule points that are the features that are actually detected and you can identify people by their position and by their angle. I mentioned that this is a very rewarding target. It's mainly used in Asia where many computers have the system but also methods of access control in hospitals because they don't require touch but also in ATMs. When we visited Japan, we noticed that all ATMs have these systems but also Brazil, Russia, Turkey and Poland, so also quite close to home, have open bank branches where you can with grow money with vein recognition. But the largest market and the most interesting market are high-security areas. Power plants, banks and also the military. And interesting enough in Germany at the Secret Service, the BND. So if you need some taps, maybe pay them a visit after this talk. We assume that few places use these in Germany but the new BND building actually does as our research showed. But unsurprisingly, they were unwilling to comment about this. How do you hack the biomedical system? There are two parts of the process. In the first part of the step, you record the features and you generate template data and a photo of that. And in the second step, you make the dummy to get features through the SNF. That's very interesting. There are two systems that have encrypted communication between them. But somewhere in the software, of course, the image is unencrypted in the memory and you just find someone who is good at the eater and has a hook and extracts the imagery. And that's our starting point. And if in doubt, you can see, oh, that doesn't really look like skin or tissue. So you just adapt to that and maybe use a different type of paper. But you can also use this paper to make a... So the real attack works like this with a regular camera. And that's what surprised us. You can actually make pictures of veins with a DSLR. The only thing that you have to do is to remove the infrared filter. It's a regular Silicium silicon chip, but it has an infrared filter that you have to remove and you just take pictures with it. It sounds very simple, but it took us a bit of time because we tried various cameras. A grayscale camera with various resolutions, various lenses. How far can you be away from the target? Camera settings, aperture and filter, no filter, different light sources. Flash, no flash, infrared, handheld light. We made about two and a half thousand pictures and the results speak for themselves. These are the images that we got from the DSLR. One for the finger veins with the flash behind the finger. The hand was in between the light source and the camera and on the right side for the hand vein recognition. And there we had the flash light from the front. And that was from a distance from five or six meters and there was no problem. You could probably zoom even more, but at some point the flash stops being useful. Since this worked so well with the digital SLR, we thought, oh, we have to try this in a more sneaky way. And we just used a Raspberry Pi camera module with infrared LEDs and infrared camera and looked at various places where we could use them. And these hand drives are perfect because you just move them up and down. Has anyone dried their hands at the Congress already? That's what it looks like. We didn't manage to set this up here at this venue, but we tried to stage this as realistically as possible. And those are the pictures from the Raspberry Pi camera with the LEDs in the camera. And for the fingers, we have a small infrared illuminator that we placed on the other side. And I think it's very obvious that you see the hand veins. It's basically not possible to do this better. The manufacturers, the vendors have pictures that look worse than this. And in the next step, we thought, oh, we have good pictures. We need some kind of software to extract the raw vein patterns. So we wrote a small Python script. It's basically very simple image processing that we try to display here. It just takes the image as the input and we increase the contrast and segment the picture in small tiles, increase the contrast. And we have a very homogenous picture in the final step. In the next step, we're applying a threshold. Everything that's darker gets assigned dark pixels and everything in the slider is white. That's at the top right. And there's a lot of noise in there and a lot of shadows. And we filter that with a Gaussian blur. And then we blurred that a bit more because it's better if there are no hard corners. And because it was a bit thicker during our image processing, we skeletonized the result. And compare this. This is a DSLR picture from five meters away. And the right part is what the software outputs. And the same thing for the finger veins. This is basically the same. You just have to adjust the parameters a bit because the light is from the other side. And for the next step, we have our method of obtaining the patterns. So now we have to build the dummy. And what we did, we tried it with an inkjet printer, but you don't see anything. That's basically like a blank sheet of paper. And at some point we found that a laser toner is very apparent and that's where we started. We started to look for some material and started to stack the paper because the main problem was that the recordings were way too bright because it was way too bright. And we knew that we have to somehow subdue it. So we used latex gloves and by coincidence we found that B wax basically looks like humans tissue. So we built this mold and filled it with B wax and had the print out of the laser toner on top and another layer of bright red B wax. And if you present this to the scanner, it recognizes it without any problems. So we have a live demo and I hope this works. All right. So you can assign an ID, a four digit ID here. My hand is going to be zero. Okay, that was very clear. Hold on, we have to plug the USB. That is the perfect demo effect. All right. That was my right hand and the same with the wax dummy. Show effect. All right, darken the stage a bit please. If need be, we have a video, but it's a bit shaky. Access denied, please place your hand above the sensor. So we just tried this a couple times and it always worked. Well, I would say we'll continue with the finger wanes. So we have prepared a video so that you actually believe us. As we said, it's a bit shaky. That's the hand at the sensor. And now at the bottom of the screen, you should see the number four times seven with a hand. And now we place the wax dummy. And again, you see the four times seven. We'll retry the demo at the end of the presentation. We're sure we'll get it to work. It might be the lights. All right. Due to the lighting situation, we'll retry under the table. Ah, success. So we guess that it's the stage lighting that casts enough infrared lighting and stops the sensor from working. So the next thing we want to talk about is finger veins. And first I'll demonstrate with my own finger to show that it's enrolled. Starbucks right pointing finger. And the demo in the first time with the wax dummy. What's going on? So what you see here is the same cast we used for the finger dummies. Same principle. We used beeswax for a base plate. Then a printout and wrap that in red wax. Works wonderfully with the sole difference for the finger vein. What we did was mirror the output and wrap it from the other side using the wax as a dampening material between the printout and the scanner. During all of our work, we had this open question of how does it do a life detection? You can read in carrots and wax, especially the hand vein scanners. The vendors advertise that they have a life-less detection, both of them. And apparently that's not the case. Looking into this, there's a lot of papers that explain how something like that could be accomplished. For example, one could use an infrared laser to detect blood motion. There's papers where people demonstrate comparing the size of different parts of the vein. What you see at the right edge of the screen is looking at the structure of the paper, of the actual toner on the paper. Some extra thoughts for what we thought about. If vendors improve their devices, we need to improve our attacks as well, obviously. One idea that we could use is to laser edge or mill this into other materials to have more fine-grained detail or 3D print the dummies. It could be possible to scan 3D models of veins and of course print them. In theory today, it's possible to actually print blood vessels, so that should also work. In the end, I'd like to thank everyone who helped us, people who sponsored the cameras. Thanks to the audience for listening to us, and I'd like to close it with a Q&A. As always, the microphones are spread throughout the room. If you have questions, please walk up to one. The most important remarks are questions should be one sentence ending in a question mark. If you're speaking into a microphone, please walk up to it closely. I think there's someone at mic number six. How probable is it that this would work under real conditions? Do you mean the actual authentication with a fake finger? With a fake finger, yes. These are old systems, but we also tried with newer hardware and software.   There's about an 80% chance that the environmental conditions are right. So these weren't simply the wrong environmental conditions. But we are planning to try this in a more practical way. For example, Poland is not far away and we're already in touch with people. Have you ever done an entropy analysis of the data? How different are veins in hands? We didn't, but there are papers on this. I think we have it in our collection of papers. I can probably send you a link. I have a general question. How do tattoos affect this? There are some problems with this, particularly thick fingers. For example, the problem hair on the fingers can be a problem. And tattoos might be a problem if they absorb in the infrared range. But I don't have any experience with this. If you have a tattoo, you can come up to us and we can see what happens. The question was probably half answered. So my question is what can you do to stop the finger from being recorded? Injuries or dirt are fairly unproblematic as long as it doesn't absorb infrared light. But if you paint your fingers with markers, then you're probably on the safe side. So we expect Congress to happen with blackly painted hands now. The question from the internet. The question is, which politician's hands will end up in the next datenschleuter, a CCC magazine? We did try to make some, but the photographer unfortunately didn't have as much time as they did last time. But ministers of the interior, of course, are always a target. Have you ever talked to the manufacturers and what do they say? We talked to both of them. We were able to speak to the people at Hitachi in Tokyo directly, in fact. And they were very interested and said that they hadn't seen this before either and they're working on a solution. But it still worked as it did. Fujitsu was a bit different. They had people here in Berlin and we met at the club. They brought their own devices, looked at it and nodded. It was an interesting experience of responsible disclosure, how large a difference in reaction can be. Hitachi was very interested in improving, whereas Fujitsu is likely to publish a statement on our talk, stating that it's only reproducible under laboratory conditions and not relevant to security. You don't have that much more work to do. A question for your fantasy, what other biometric points of this huge body could one use in 5, 10, 15 years? There was one interesting system that took heartbeat curves, but it was broken by somebody last year. The shape of the ear can be measured using white noises and its reflections. DNA will be coming, but I don't really see anything useful that can come out of this. What's the difference between a liveness detection? What are the vendors selling? Do they mean just basic detection or what is it? They actually are stating that you can't use severed limbs for this, so that really seems to be the meaning of a liveness detection. But the fact that laser toner ink or laser toner can work as well, nobody really did seem to be aware of that. I have a question. Did any of the systems detect the dummy as a dummy? We can't say anything about this. We met with Hitachi and tested things, but that was confidential. There is one more question from the internet. So, in the dummies is yellow the bottom and red above? The red side is presented to the sensor. Alright, one more question, Mike, number six. How long did you work on this? About half a year, three quarters of a year, but not full time after work and family. So, in total might have been a month of work in total. We refined our approach quite a bit, but once you found out how to do this, it takes a matter of 15 minutes. You take a photo, post-process it a bit and make the wax hand and there you are. All you need is a good idea. Have you looked into which companies use vein detection as a stand-alone of any patient in the method? I work for critical infrastructure and they use vein detection space and the temperature of the hand. So, is this research still relevant or did the state of the art already advance beyond it? In Germany I know of only one company that uses vein detection and there is the only feature they use together with an access card. Otherwise you have to overcome all these features in separation. Face recognition has been cracked, temperature might be a bit more difficult. Wax is not going to melt because your body temperature is rarely 60 degrees. And cash machines in Japan use very simple vein scanners, so they don't use anything fancy. But tell us where you work, tell you personally after it. On one of the slides with the ATIN there was a finger scanner without the grid jack top. How does that work? It can't light through my finger, how does it, what's the method? You're talking about this one. You can also shine infrared light from the side and because it gets scattered it will work as well, so if you have space with tricks you can also shine the light from the side. We didn't have any systems that worked in the same way, but I would assume that there would be minimal changes required in building the fake hand. Did you have any other materials that could be used in this? Carrots work very well. The three-dimensional structures are sometimes sufficient that you naturally find in carrots. No, using drawing them manually is far more difficult than printing them. And we'll see how the vendors improve their systems and then we'll see how we can improve our cracks. Can your method be applied to retinal scanners as well? Very good question. I mentioned that there are nearly no systems left to crack. Retinal scanners are the last thing we're going to have to look at. The problem is getting your hands on one of these devices, so if any of you have one of these devices lying about we wouldn't mind getting to play with it. Mike, number seven. You had this image of a hand dryer with a special sticker on it. Did that have a special significance? Possibly, yes. Probably. When we google these images, the first four images look like this. There has to be a reason for these stickers to exist. Time for one or two last questions. How many talks do you have to continue to hold so that the vendors will recognize that biometrics is identification but not authentication? I would like to leave that question unanswered. Question from the internet. The internet would like to know what the added factor is that one should add to make the system secure. Aliveness detection is a good idea, but it simply makes circumvention more expensive. You could use fingerprints at the same time, fingerprints plus veins in the finger, but that's a combination, so you have to build both of these separately into the same fake hand. I don't see much problems with that. You said you were roughly half a year. How difficult is it to take the photo that you need to create the dummy? With the small Raspberry Pi camera, that's fairly easy. We haven't shown you this. Maybe we'll have time to test this, but you can run a video as you move your hand over the sensor. They're pretty good pictures and you can just sit them together. With the DSLR, the hand has to be exposed. But we did it in our living room, so we didn't have to go to a dark room or anything. You can do it on the street. We tested this earlier under real life conditions. This was two hours before this talk. You can see it. It's not quite as nice as it would be under controlled conditions, but you can do it. You might be able to take several photos of the hand or take a video. Thank you very much.


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I'm wondering if you could talk about the slot or the, you know, the nickel corner, what attributes you think are most important in a nickel corner now, and how difficult is it to learn if you haven't played much of it before? It's a unique position, obviously, with teams now being heavy 11 personnel. That nickel position is a starter. So that guy has to be able to fit in the run game. He has to be able to blitz. He has to be able to cover. He has to be, you know, also be smart. So it's a guy we look at.  We're actually going to cover him. So it's a very important position for us. And any of the guys that you have right now that, you know, you think have a sort of a natural inclination for that, you know, have the skills to do a lot of that? Well, we got several guys we're just repping now. Obviously, you know, we just recently were able to get on the field with the guys on, you know, now. So we're just starting to look at these guys. Obviously been meeting with them in the meeting room. And I think all the guys have had great attention and detail and focus of what we're asking them to do in the walkthrough. So I'm excited about when we get ready to get the practice to see who steps up and take the position. Jim, why? Coach, appreciate your time. I got two for you. One on Kristen Fulton, just kind of what your initial impressions have been of him and how does he kind of fit into the group so far? Um, Kristen has been great. He's come in, you know, we started in the off season of virtual meetings. Um, he's come prepared. He's put in time. He's a really smart player. And you know, he comes in, he listened to the vets and he doesn't say much and which is good. He just comes in with his head down and just trying to learn every day. So I've been really impressed by that, what he's been doing thus far. And Jonathan Joseph, I guess one of the vets probably that he listens to. You're very familiar with him. What kind of an influence do you expect him to have on not just Christian, but on the other guys in the group?  We've been in the same division, but they have a lot of respect because this is a guy that's had longevity plan as long as he has in the league and he's a great influence. He's a great mentor to the younger guys. All he cares about it in part is much knowledge as he can onto other guys and he's been a great fit in the room and he's really, you know, taken on a, um, you know, a role where he's, you know, giving those guys some tips and those guys are listening to him. And the door has been really great together. So I'm excited about what he's bringing to us. Terry McCormack. Anthony, talk a little bit about, uh, Mike Vrable and just what, what your impressions have been of him as a head coach and, uh, in terms of, uh, how he runs things and those sorts of things. Um, you know, cause me and Vrable came in together when we were in Houston. So you could just tell right, right away, Vrable just had natural leadership skills. He commands the room and he has a great, you know, relationship with the players and that's, you know, I've just come here and just, I see the same thing. A guy that commands the room and very knowledgeable with what everybody's doing on the field from offense, defense, special teams to every position a guy that's involved and, you know, and really interacts with the player. So, um, that doesn't surprise me cause I saw it when we first got together, when we first started working together. Is there anything about him that's different now from when he was an assistant coach in Houston with you? Well, you know, right to me, he's the, he's the same guys. Just, you know, he's cause he, he was basically the head coach of his position when he was a position coach with, with us in Houston. And he was a coordinator. You just saw a guy that can be a future head coach and not just come in here and just send him in that position. I mean, he's the same guy, very thorough, very demanding of the players, great relationship, and the player's going to, you know, play with great effort and finish cause that's what he demands. And the guys respect that from a guy that's been there and did that. Um, and trying to have the longevity that he had in the league as well. Uh, Paul Karstin. Hi, Anthony. Can, uh, can you tell us a little bit about, about Shane and, um, maybe leadership characteristics that he has, the guys have been telling about and, and that prompted Mike to, to elevate him to kind of be the voice of the defense when Mike's not able to be. Well, I was fortunate enough to be with Shane when he first came in with rapes, brought him into Houston with us. And you can just tell he was very knowledgeable. He has a great, um, feel for what grapes want. Have a great relationship with grapes, understand the defense of what we're trying to get accomplished. And he has a great, um, you know, uh, relationship with his players. It does a great job of his teaching. So, you know, Shane does a good job of leading us, um, for what we need when rates not around. And I'm excited for the opportunity that Shane has. He seems to have a pretty good sense of humor. Is that an accurate read? And can you illustrate that for us maybe?  We were in a meeting the other day and, you know, at this position, know, we got coaches sometimes have to fill in and coach as was feeling, filling in a little bit and Shane was just critiquing his technique on the field the other day. So, you know, that's the type of stuff Shane brings to it. He's young, you know, he's energetic, but he's very knowledgeable and the players respect him as well as us as coaches. Thanks. Uh, Toronto, you may have jumped out, uh, Teresa. Hi coach, uh, how much does it help coming into a new team with this, you know, virtual off season, but having that veteran secondary, uh, and it's apologies if you've already been asked that. No, um, it's actually really good. You know, we talk about it as a unit, you know, it's great to have to, you know, those guys back have some experience and have guys that are played together, but we understand as quickly as we can put last year behind us and move forward and we can use that to our advantage. Then it would be a benefit, but it does us no good for us to have guys back and we don't come back and play up to the expectations that we have. And, um, you know, those guys in the room, us as a unit have high expectations of where we want to be and what we want to accomplish, but we know it does help that we have guys in the room that has played in this system, has familiarity with this system. Uh, Joe Rexha, Anthony, I'm apologize, apologize as well. If you've been asked this, uh, but how do you view this group of corners in terms of versatility and in particular in terms of moving guys inside and outside? I mean, do you look at this as, you know, Christian is coming in and we're working him in the slot and seeing how that works out? Or, or are you looking at like maybe a Dory in certain matchup, certain situations works better there? I mean, how do you look at that whole picture right now? Well, it's actually pretty good because we have a lot of guys who preach being versatile. So we, we have a lot of guys that can play inside and outside. So we're giving guys multiple opportunities to do both, um, within, you know, the scheme of, you know, the practices that we have had. So we're just looking at a lot of guys, but we have a lot of guys that are able just to play on the inside and outside and not just pigeon, pigeon hold, just playing either on the outside or inside. So we have a lot of versatility at that position. And just to follow up on Christian in particular, um, and I think I came in, you were, uh, talking a little bit about him, but, uh, do you, how, how was he adapted everything? Again, I know that it's very early in terms of seeing guys play football, but what are your impressions of, of his ability to pick things up so far? I've been really impressed. He's done everything from the virtual classrooms that we've asked of him and even more, always come to the meeting, prepare it. If you, you know, make a correction with him, he tries his best to get it corrected and not make the same mistake over again. So I've been really pleased with, um, his attention to detail thus far. Thank you. Uh, Terrence with us now, Toronto. I was going to coach a question about a Dory and well, you know, when you look at his ability, how does that match up? At least for what you've seen now that you've got to watch more tape with them, how does that match up to a possible role as a guy that you're going to assign, you know, and cat covers to travel with the pose and receivers? Well, Dory has a lot of ability and we have, you know, I've talked to Dory. We have, you know, really high expectations for Dory this year. And the one positive I, you know, we just talked about Jonathan Joseph is those guys relationship where not only me, but certain things that Jonathan is seeing on the field that he's, um, sharing with a Dory. And I think that's going to help him as well. But just, we just talked about being consistent and coming in, competing every day. And a Dory, a Dory has all the ability in the world to be, you know, as good as he want to be. And, um, we're going to drive him and try to get the best out of him this year. Thank you. Um, any other questions? If so, let me know in the chat. Otherwise, um, let's see if we have one here. Uh, Teresa Walker. Uh, Anthony, as somebody of color, what are your hopes and thoughts of the, of being able to work your way up the pipeline? Uh, and, and do you have aspirations of being a coordinator head coach in the NFL? I think, you know, everybody is in a position to have goals. I do have goals and, you know, that I want to accomplish. But my main focus and objective right now is doing the best and being the best, you know, secondary coach I can be for the Tennessee types and getting these guys ready to go to play Denver, the Denver Broncos on, you know, Monday night. And I'm not worried about, you know, my career path.  And those things will take care of itself. Uh, Paul Caharsky. Any, uh, technique changes, just, uh, even small, tinkering wise that, that you're bringing in for the corners? Well, my thing is when you got guys, you know, I take for instance, Jonathan Joseph, so I've been with him, but he's been in this leave a long time and then I got everything from him to a rookie and Christian Fulton and Chris Jackson. So my thing is I'll look at these guys and see what they do well. And me, I have to be flexible as a coach, you know, what may, what may work for Jonathan Joseph may not work for Malcolm. So I got to do a great job of, um, you know, studying those guys, getting to know them. That's what I've been doing. That's what we've been doing me and Booker, you know, as a unit. So it's just my job to see what one guy does well and get the best out of that way and kind of tailor it to each individual guy and not put all those guys in one basket.


I appreciate your guys's patience with me while I try and build up the strength to make this video. Because these last few days have been very tough, not only for me, but I know for so, so many other people, basically everybody in the community. I guess kind of this whole week has been very tough. But basically, if you haven't heard the news somehow already, Scott Cawthon, the creator of FNAF, Five Nights At Freddy's, is officially retiring. Now I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about in this video, but just like the last one, it's not going to be scripted, so hopefully I can get out all my thoughts. Because these last seven years have been the best of my life.   This is actually my first piece of FNAF merchandise I decided to wear for this video. Very faded, as you can see, but I got this back in, I want to say May 2015, but yeah, it's a very sad time right now, a very stressful time, I'd say. It's unfortunate to see so many people be happy about Scott's retirement just because of the controversy. I hate to get into it now because I think this time should more be focused on the good memories with Scott and his creation over the last seven years, but yeah, it's really upsetting to see so many people be happy just because of where he decided to put his money. And I guess quickly I should clarify some things about my last video because I know there was some confusion and honestly I'm shocked that I haven't disabled the comments on that video.  But yeah, I have said this so many times and I'll continue to say it, I always, always, always will stand by anybody and everybody in the LGBTQ plus community. And I think when I said it was something along the lines of like, I've lost respect for Scott, that wasn't because of what he believed in, that was more of, again, where that money went towards all those, you know, anti-LGBTQ plus politicians. But again, it's like in his post he said that's not the reason why he donated to those people, he did it for other reasons. But yeah, I don't want to talk about that, I'd rather focus on the good things that Scott has brought to the community and to millions of people because you just cannot ignore the absolute impact that this guy has had on, again, millions of people and kind of the gaming scene in general. And so that's why it's very saddening to hear that after seven years on the seventh anniversary of the first games trailer that he's retiring. I've had so many good memories, I've met so many amazing people, made so many amazing friends, I've been able to interact with people I never thought in my wildest dreams I'd ever be able to interact with and talk to and work with and I never thought that my passion for the games and the franchise would be able to get me where I am today on YouTube with all you guys. I mean, I look around the serum and all I see is good memories. I look back on the seven years and all I can think of is good memories. I hate to ramble on but I can think of every single game and I can pick out like one solid good memory about all of them. And after one, when I first got introduced to the game, the first thing I saw was the show stage and it was actually on this very iPad. You can see just how dusty it is that I played the first game. The second one as well. I remember playing it on this very iPad with my best friend at the time who introduced me to the franchise and someone who I'm still very thankful to be able to still talk to today. We're still very close friends and I even messaged him the other day and I was like, hey man, you know, Scots are tiring. I just want to say how appreciative I am of you and for all of our friendship over the past years. I played FNAF 3 on this thing too. It wasn't until FNAF 4 that I finally played on a PC or what I should say, a very shitty laptop. I remember exactly what I was doing the day FNAF 4 came out. FNAF's sister location, all the build up, the secret teasers, the trailer, which blew everybody away. I completely forgot about FNAF World actually. I guess I just saw a lot of people play it. GT Live, Dantidian back then. And then Pizza Sim is where I started to do YouTube and so I'm happy that I can look back on some of my old videos and see, you know, all the memories. I was chilling on my couch one afternoon, looked at my phone, oh it's a taco notification. He uploaded a YouTube video. Biggest surprise ever, FNAF 6, rushed upstairs, went to record. You know, the build up to UCN, I was in Florida at the time. And then I guess Hope Wanted and Special Delivery and now Security Breach and, you know, Fury's Rage and Freddy in Space 2. It's all documented on the YouTube. I just have so many memories. I know Scott said that FNAF is not going to be over. I will quickly go over his message on scottgames.com in a quick second. But it's been an incredible seven years at Freddy's. It was only supposed to be five nights turned into seven years. And again, I know he said FNAF's not going to be over, but it just won't feel the same with us guys. He is still going to be here, he said. He will be passing off the franchise to someone new. Not entirely sure what that entails if he's just not going to be making any games.  Or if he's just dropping it all together and giving everything to somebody new. We don't know. He said he's going to make an official, you know, post very soon. But it's just, it's really tough right now to kind of, I guess, take it all in. The night of the post, I was so bad.  I mean, I was just, I was bawling my eyes out. This franchise means so much to me and just to get that news that night was crushing. I mean, my fingers were numb. I thought I was going to pass out. I was, I was crying that much. But now it's like, I feel fine, you know, I guess it just hasn't properly set in. I guess I'm just thankful for Scott and for the games and for the community and for everything. Again, this franchise and the memories, it's something I'll never forget. It's just, it's been so amazing. I know it seems like I'm probably about to cry. I probably should be crying right now. It's just, I can't help but smile when I think back at all the memories, you know. But let's read over Scott's post. Something that I don't know about you guys, but it's a post I've read hundreds of times at this point. Before I say anything else, check out this awesome piece of fan art. I don't know about you guys, but I think I've been trying to figure out who this is supposed to be for the past, what, two days at this point. It's Ennard, but it's Mangle. That's insane. Also, it has the Sands Eye. I don't know, but it's awesome. Pretty amazing stuff, right? I have boxes and boxes of artwork like this from fans that I've saved over the years. I've tried to answer as many letters as I could and I apologize to anybody that I missed somehow. Someday when I have a bigger living room, maybe I'll make a giant collage of all of the fan art I've collected. Stuff like this has made it all worthwhile to me over the last seven years. I've had a blessed, fulfilling, and rich career. I've been shown great kindness, and I've tried to show great kindness in return. I've tried to make some good games, let the debate ensue, and I've witnessed the creation of possibly the most creative and talented fan base on the planet. But here, on the seventh anniversary of the first game's trailer, as I realized that I was in my mid-thirties when I created the series and now I'm approaching my mid-forties, I realized that I missed a lot of things that I got to focus on before FNAF became such a success. I missed making games for my kids, I missed doing it just for the fun, and I missed making RPGs even though I stink at it. All of this to say that I'm retiring. I've been shown tremendous love and support over the last week, a lot of which has come from the LGBTQ community. The kindness shown to me has been surreal. Is this the end of FNAF? No. This just means that someone else will eventually be running the show, someone of my choosing and someone that I trust. We'll have to wait and see how it all plays out, but an announcement will be made at some point. I have six kids now, although one of them is currently the size of a blueberry. I love them dearly. They are my whole world and my whole universe. I want to focus my attention on them, focus on protecting them and spend my time making things for them. I only ask that my fan base respect my decision. I will still be around, just not in the capacity that I used to be, what a blessed career I've had, what wonderful people I've met, and what a tremendous blessing to have been able to know all of you. Thank you so much. See you on the flipside. Damn, that's the first time I've actually read that out loud. Man, that's equally as crushing as it was the other hundred times I've read it. But yeah, that is the latest and what is most possibly the last teaser on scotchemist.com. It's so crushing to say that. A couple things to dissect in the post. I think while this is sad, I am also very happy and very content with this. Again, I wish it could have ended on maybe a better note. I know a lot of people are saying that he's retiring because of the drama and the political controversy and all that. I don't think that's the case. I think this has probably been apparent since UCN. We just didn't want to admit it. Because really, when you think about it, the last proper game we got from scott that wasn't like, you know, a troll game or I guess a game dedicated to an event of something, right? We got furious rage because, you know, security breach had been delayed so many times. Um, then we had the two charity games, ferdy and space two. Um, and also the, well, it's not really a game, but the crowd control UCN.  So yeah, I think, I think he even mentioned it back then. He was like, you know, when I retire, I hope I can look back at all the videos and, and, and stuff like that. I, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't remember the exact quote, but yeah, I think this, this drama was kind of the final nail on the coffin, the final nail on the scott coffin. Again, I wish it could have gone out on a, on a better note, but I'm happy that he gets to spend time with his family. I'm content knowing that it's out on his own accord. And I'm happy to know that he'll, he'll still be making games, even if they're not for FNAF, even if they're not for the public, just for his family. I think it's happy to know that he'll still be creating and showing tremendous amount of love towards his six kids. Dude, that's insane. But yeah, I think a lot of people are concerned that this is going to kill FNAF because Scott's leaving. I think this is more so just the end of an era. We don't know who he's going to give it to. A lot of people think it's going to be Steel Wall. I definitely see that as an option. Again, I don't know if he's just leaving, like making games or if he's leaving, you know, the whole business side of things, you know, dealing with merchandise and running the movie. But yeah, looking back, it's just, it's nothing but happy memories. You know, of course, there was drama. There were incidents, misfortunes. I don't know what I'm saying. There were bad times, but looking back, all I can think of and all I want to highlight are all the good times for the past seven years with this community and Scott. And so I think all I have left to say, even though I've said it for the past 22 minutes is thank you, Scott, for everything. Again, Scott has changed the lives of millions. He's created careers. You know, he's helped lives. He's saved lives. And I just thank you for the amazing memories over the past seven years. It's good to know that he's still going to be around, I think. I don't think things will change all that much. Again, it's been a bit since we've had a game by Scott. A little sad to know that we won't have a, like a Fredbear game by him or what, Into Madness, though, I think that got passed on to Stuart Wool. I don't know. Again, it's saddening, but I'm happy to know that he's not completely just outright leaving. So yeah, thank you, Scott, for everything over the past seven years. Thank you so much, guys, for the whole community being here with me and being here with everybody. It's the end of an era, but hopefully the next one is just as impactful. And I guess my outro really hits differently now, but I'll see you on the flip side.


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Great welcome digital asset news take a top stories in crypto and break them down into bite-sized pieces So today just the thumbnail suggests we're gonna take a look at why the things that are being asked for by the government are literally Impossible to do and we're gonna take a look at the reason why it's impossible for the things that being asked for and why I think we're gonna win these crypto regulations It's because of ignorance and just ignorance and just the ability or the inability to educate themselves about what's going on We'll take a look a little bit of history as to how that could really affect us also take a look at what I call clown news Where the US is trying to pass another bill and it doesn't make any sense Me how what they're doing and lastly we'll take a look at a cardinal price prediction But be careful because all price predictions are just are just that predictions and nobody knows But there is one thing they talk about they do have a good point and at the very end We'll do a little Q&A so hold all your questions till the very end and then as you may notice We're in a little bit of a different location This is in my living room because right now they're doing construction outside pretty loud and as much as good as As Mike is it would still pick up a lot of the noise So no one wants to hear that so real quick if you're here for the live show Hey, thanks for stopping by so early or late depending where you're at for these live stream But if you're watching the replay Just know that there'll be timestamps below so you can fast forward go ahead all that good stuff the news takes around 15 minutes Then the Q&A we do it really quickly. We do five questions in five minutes So shouldn't take too long and hopefully we can pack in some really good stuff So having said all that let's get into the first part, which is the market itself So today's a bad day. I'll just be honest with you. It's it's real bad. It's not real bad I've seen worse go back to March 2020 when we dropped like 60 percent 70 percent in like 48 hours or something like that for that thing called coronavirus is Bitcoin plunged to around I'm gonna say three or five thousand just ridiculous and today we just Continue on this downward slide and I can understand how When you're new to this space, this is scary stuff, especially if you just got in 2021 I feel you I was in the same boat in The beginning of 2018 after I got in to bitcoins all-time high and I can just tell you from experience that if you don't like the prices just wait because they do change and This is another example of these days of when things are going down You're gonna hear a lot of people say by the dip well It's real hard to buy the dip if you haven't taken any profits if you haven't taken any profits That's an issue. So I'm going to be reiterating the fact of what goes up And it eventually will go up must come down So during that time probably not a bad idea to take a little bit of profits. This is not investment advice It's just investment opinion, but this is what we got. So today Bitcoin's down a theorem really down 5% Finance coin Cardinals down 4% look at these numbers over seven days Then we really took a massive not a massive pretty big hit I mean if you're from traditional finance, this is like the worst day of all days But no, this is we just called this a Saturday. So yeah, 6% 5% 10% some down so on and so forth So the question is how do you see this? Do you see this is the worst thing of all time? We see this opportunity. There's always two sides the same story Also, we take a look at the S&P 500 because unfortunately we are tethered To the traditional markets and yesterday they took a big hit I mean for them 0.72 and 1% down for his Nasdaq. So how awful is that? So, yeah, I feel your pain I've been going through this pain I know how it is and the reason why it doesn't affect I I still remember what it was like going through these days so again There is no get rich quick scheme There is no free lunches and it's just one of those things where the real question is and Peter Lynch even said it He said everybody has the mentality Investments but the question is do you have the stomach and that's really what it comes down to so it's got check time And the only you can answer that so let's get into it. Let's talk about a Whole point of this video. This is gonna go a little bit deeper than usual and I just want to start With this a little history So I know Most of you Some of you I can't say most but some of you don't remember what it was like when the internet was coming around But I do because I'm old I remember these things and one of these Was articles like this and we really do think this was gonna happen Telephone industry moves to ban internet phone software ask Alex Mishinsky over Celsius He was part of this growing VOIP voice over internet protocol and when things like this came out We're like, yeah, they're gonna they're gonna ban it because how in the world would we be able to have I mean It sounds ridiculous right now, but phone service or talking to somebody when Institutions when corporations when governments they kind of control everything how are they gonna let us do these types of things? Well, the reason was is because when people get together they can do some pretty amazing things and here's another another example So this actually came out in 1996 When voice over internet protocol was coming about and of course this went to many different layers or levels of The court system until they finally won and it was one of those things where people like we don't think the internet's gonna last Well, it did and it worked out pretty well in a long run and also If you take a look about what's going on now, this was I mean just in just in Russia alone Russia actually gets it Ukraine just got it India is understanding the EU is getting it and I think America is really on board banning crypto is Like banning the internet. So good luck with that. I mean now if you were Like in China, of course, you can do whatever you want to do because of the way that it's all structured And of course people will say well, Robby understand because the government do or that No, they can't do whatever they want to do the remember the government works for us and people say well That's naive just wait. So this comes down even the Finance minister says we can't do it. So the best we can do is hope to regulate it. That leads me to my next point Which is the whole point of I don't think that These regulators get it. They just don't understand what they're up against and it's already too late in 2014-15-16 you probably could get away With with banning crypto, which would be Bitcoin back in the day because there wasn't enough traction There wasn't enough people into it There wasn't enough nose and they could have really shut it down But now you can't put the genie back in the bottle and I think the problem here is that They are trying to control what they can't control. So here's a little example. This is from the Ontario Canada Superior Court of Justice and what this is this is a Mareeva injection which is mains means that they want you to freeze accounts and they sent this to a lot of Different wallets out there and these wallets. They said look We want you to do this The court orders that the entities listed and scheduled be apparently nunchuck as well as any banks financial institutions money service businesses Fundraising platforms or websites crypto exchanges or platforms or a custodian of any crypto wallets keyword Shell upon being provided with notice of this order right now Freeze and otherwise prevent any removal dissipation alienation transfer assignment Incumbent transaction or similar dealing with any assets to this order This court orders that the intermediaries intermediary shall Fourth with disclose and deliver up to the plaintiffs any and all records held by the intermediary concerning the Respondents assets including the existence nature value location of any monies or assets of credit So basically they're saying like this look give us all the information freeze their accounts because we want you to do it And this is a court order Here's the thing Now I need to make this abundantly clear This is a government agency This is the Ontario Court of Justice where they have I would assume sufficient manpower and a lot of people that would stay up at night Doing all their due diligence and research to understand exactly what crypto and digital assets could potentially do in the market itself so they should have a Concrete understanding of exactly how this works. So when they send out these types of notices They should be like yep, we can do it legally. We can do it and it should be done because we say it can be done and We put all the time in to do it. So here's the thing It's not the that's not the case and actually nunchuck, which I think is a funny name for a wallet They they told them this let me blow this up Like I say dear Ontario Superior Court of Justice nunchuck is a self custodial Collaborative multi-sig Bitcoin wall like a lot of wallets are out there a lot of wallets out there We're a software provider not a custodial financial intermediary Which is kind of weird Because they pretty much said you're a wallet give us all the information our software is free to use it It allows people to eliminate single points of failures and store Bitcoin the safest way possible while preserving privacy again I don't think they understand exactly what that means. I think don't they they understand the whole point of the blockchain I don't think they understand exactly how everything works and that's just ignorance We do not collect any user identification information beyond email. We also don't hold any keys Therefore, we can't freeze our users assets. We can't prevent them from being moved We do not have knowledge of the existence nature value location of the users assets This is by design and this last sentence really sums it up Please look up how self custody and private keys work When the Canadian dollar becomes worthless will be here to serve you to sincerely the nunchuck team. So look When it comes down to it These agencies and the people that the regulators that are actually out there They should have a solid understanding of exactly what's going on, but they don't They don't because of whatever reason it is and I think if they did understand They wouldn't waste everybody's time by trying to put out any type of regulation or these types of notices That cannot be performed because it is impossible to do and I will say this I was complaining yesterday or two days ago about how I was really really bitching about it But how many different wallets are out there and I said damn it You know, I wish they would just have one or a couple wallets to actually do these things And now I realize just how wrong that was we really should be embracing the fact that we have so many wallets out there Because if we have one wallets to control everything, that's just one point of failure. So yeah, bring on all the wallets I know it sucks, but you know what?  What do you do then? Wow? That's the whole point of wallets So let me just think about that in the comment section and then there was a This other piece I wanted to to bring to your attention, which really kind of brings it home. This was a statement From Jesse Powell, you know Jesse Powell. He is the CEO of Kraken and it goes like this It was a big long thread But the question was posed to Jesse not just Powell CEO Kraken was Is it possible that Kraken would put in a position where told the freeze assets by police without judicial consent? And will you comply and Jesse Powell said 100% yes It would it has and will happen and 100% yes We will be forced to comply because they are a sec a CEX a centralized exchange. They're not a wallet They don't they store everything custodial wise. So yes, they're a point of failure If you're worried about it, don't keep your funds with any centralized regulated custodian We can't protect you get your coins and cash out and only trade P2P or peer-to-peer So that really drives it home This is the CEO of a centralized exchange telling you if you don't like it and take it off the exchanges If you're worried about it, then you can't keep it here. I got to respect somebody that builds an entire Multi-million maybe a billion. I don't know Kraken does pretty good a lot of volume and just says hey If you don't if this is some of the concerns that you shouldn't be using it and just go someplace else You got to respect somebody who's like shooting himself, you know, biting my hand that feeds him essentially, but he's right so The thing I'm saying here is again, it's very hard to regulate things You don't know it but just so you understand that yes an essential as exchange they can and they will do these things It's not a fear mongering type of thing. I'm just telling you that is the truth So if you don't like it, this is one of the few times in the history of the world Where we actually have options, you don't have to rely on fiat and that's why all the gold bugs talk about so much gold and things like that I have gold and silver. I don't see why they can't have Bitcoin to I own three gold silver and Bitcoin I don't get it but whatever all right, and It was one more piece though. I thought this was interesting which was Just as a reminder I Know these are the place to try to ban it but at least on on one point I will give it this up to the United States at least the the Federal Reserve has said hey We have no plans to ban Bitcoin and crypto which is good But again, you have to understand there's always a story behind the story So look at that and then there is of course This is gonna be coming up pretty soon Biden and his agenda and remember this is just I think it's interesting that When you come back To hear and you just see how How Ignorance and it's it's not a it's not a a derogatory term.  So I have to applaud oops Joe Biden here by saying hey, we don't want to be too hasty Let's get everybody together and get the State Department the Attorney General the CFTC the SEC The SFO see and any kind of kind of demonic you want to use and put together a commission and see where we actually stand here And the best way to do these things. So at least they didn't come out and say, okay Let's just get rid of everything at least they're putting together task force and still and so forth So again, let me know what you think about that in the comment section Let's get into Ah The clown news so the clown news I Put these things out because you have to understand that again some people just they don't get it And this is another example of such things. So US lawmakers introduce a bill to mitigate risk from El Salvador adopting Bitcoin as legal tender They want to do this For El Salvador. Okay. Here's what's going on. So this part right here. We've got US concerned about risk from El Salvador's Bitcoin law. Why are we concerned about this? Here's why do they say? US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations introduced a bill titled the accountability For cryptocurrency in Salvador acts. Well, isn't that great? Senator rish commented El Salvador's adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender raises significant concerns about the economic stability and financial integrity of a vulnerable US trading partner in Central America. Well, that's nice. Look at us looking out for other people This new policy is the potential to weaken US sanctions policy. Aha Aha That's a big thing. It's tough to impose sanctions On a country that has gotten off the US dollar Tough to do. Let's just be honest and before anybody asks. Yes. I am an American This is empowering malign actors like China and organized criminal organizations. That's pretty that's good lumping in China and criminal organizations. I mean They are countries. So what are you gonna do? Our bipartisan legislation seeks greater clarity on El Salvador's policy and requires the administration to mitigate potential risk to the US financial system El Salvador recognizing bitcoin as official currency opens the door for money laundering cartels and undermines US interest before we go on I need you I need you to help me because I can't do this by myself and what it is Is that you're going to hear this a lot? Cartels laundering money and we all know that it is the problem and if you go and tell somebody that's not true You need to back it up with something. You just it just helps to do that. So there's two things that I put in the description this is from Beacon global strategies and this was written by Michael moral. He's the senior counselor Beacon global strategies. He's not just some guy. He's the forming acting director Deputy director and director of intelligence at the CIA so Guy's got a pretty good handle about how to grab data And really get some information out there and there's just one part here. I'll just scroll up here Or it gets to And he says this Based on our research and discussions with industry experts, I have confidence in two conclusions One the broad generalizations about the use of bitcoin in illicit finance are significantly overstated like laundering money like Funding terrorism and such and you know, of course tax evasion The blockchain ledger on which bitcoin transactions are recorded is an underutilized forensic tool That can be used for more widely by law enforcement and the intelligence community to identify and disrupt illicit activities But simply blockchain is a highly effective crime fighting and intelligence gathering tool. When was this written? This is april 6 2021 And uh, he's right. First of all, there's two things he's right on You can also I also link this in the description below. This is by cypher trace And what they talk about is just how Ridiculous that close claims are so here's the highlights and you can read all 37 pages. Have fun But this one right here us exchanges sent 41 million worth of bitcoin directly to criminals in 2020 true 41 million dropping the bucket Cash anonymous of liquid has long served the tool for criminals despite illicit transactions making up less than 0.5 of bitcoin's yearly volume in 2020 So he's right on that and the second thing he's right on is why the fbi did this fbi to form digital currency unit just department taps new cryptos are this just came out a couple of days ago Just like what he said It's a great tool to use to understand illicit activity as forensics fbi is launching a unit for blockchain analysis and virtual asset seizure fbi's virtual asset exploitation unit So I think america is getting on board going. You know what? Maybe it's not such a bad thing. Maybe we can use this to actually root out These illicit activities because guess what if you are the bad guy the terrorist the the tax evader You don't want to put this on the blockchain because we just figured it out that guess what? It actually isn't a public ledger that everybody can see as opposed to the banking records Which we have to subpoena and do all that stuff and get those things and then of course That's where the whole thing money laundering comes from because we're going to use the usd l so That's that part Then to finish this up and this is the great part Responding the bill's introduction. El Salvador is president. I am naib bukeli nailed it tweeted Okay, boomers.  You can't control mic drop So It all just comes together So again cloud news. I think there's some things that a little bit overreaching people have to understand what's going on And hopefully they can get those task force together with biden Let me know what you think about that in the comment section and that is it for cloud news. Let's finish up With a little sweet Price prediction So here's the thing I made some price predictions last year didn't work out too. Well, I called for bitcoin at 150k Then I loaded 200k. It didn't hit that I called for I did call for a chrono at three dollars and it did hit that and I said, well, maybe go to five That didn't work out. I did call voyager In january when it was 29 cents to go to 30 bucks I went to seven didn't hit that but there's some other ones that actually did Make out but I want to be clear on these things these price predictions. Nobody knows what's going on And if you Base your investment strategy about price predictions, I think you're going on the wrong path They're great for sensationalism. They're great for clicks. They're great for views But they're worthless almost However, there are some good points and I want to bring this to your attention I thought it was a pretty good one So this one right here cardinal price prediction actually came from here Cardinal to reach 58 bucks by 2030 according to finders poll So Cardinals future is bright according to latest latest analyst poll made by finder The comparison website and money app and it's latest cardinal central report blah blah blah And I'm like well first of all, who are these people and why they make these predictions and how do they get there? That's what I want to know because if you ask five people At a walmart, what do you think cardinals going? So go on the books, buddy. Okay. Let's put that out done That's the thing that I worried about So this is why I like to dig into things. So cardano price prediction for 2022 Cardano will jump to $2.79 by the end of 2022 according to finders panel of fin tech specialists First of all, who are these people? I don't know these people. Here's who they are All right. So you got Bahamad CEO of index the organizations are what's important coin flip roger international rogue ventures university of east london This guy's from actually from finder block ventures. Thanks for a group boss and trading company Decred, I don't know coin smart finder again finder bit bull capital So these are people that just aren't off the street. They're actually work in some part of the industry ear that traditional finance or Our spot crypto finance so What it says here, I was like, okay. Well, I'll keep I'll keep looking at here in july Our panel expected aida to hit a value of $7 by 2025 and then go to $26 by 2030 The panel now expects aida to hit eight bucks in 2025 and $58 by 2030. So here was the original one Hold on Nah, this is the new one the original one doesn't show up. It doesn't matter So again, they thought it was gonna $27 by 2030 now. They're thinking 58. So I'm thinking myself. Well, these must be like some super Moon boys Or cardano lovers or or or aida enthusiasts, but no, it's not Uh, the other end of the spectrum Balthas our CEO john Stefanitis know that sees cardano's price dropping slightly by the end of 2022 due to a lack of execution and poor tech private investor Veronica Mihai shares a similar view giving incrementally smaller price forecasts for aida over the next 10 years And she states unless they achieve great tech advances and a significant user base It may suffer the same fate as most p.o.s coins of mic The user base is why I think one of the biggest things cardano's got a thriving community Just like xrp and the xrp. All right, but sure and then joseph Uh, rizinski a tech and futurist at thompson reuters also points out the slow growth mentioned by harris He says I believe cardano will fade away in the coming years They have failed on their promise of delivery For the last several years. You got to tell me what that is in the comment section. I'm not sure about that I think they've done what they said they're going to do A little bit slower, but they did do it. But this is the thing since cardano's alonzo upgrade Its price has dipped. However, our panel is unable to agree on just what was the cost All right, the panel attributed the price decline to a myriad reasons including absence of market share in terms of tvl Saying it's just early stages post update general volatility and other reasons not specified so that you can take a look here But i'm like total value locked up. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Is that true? Is that true? Actually, they do have a point on that one. So if you take a look over here That's a total value locked up. It's only like 125 million, but that's based get a remember Uh, we they cardano just released their first decks Well, actually their second if you count mooseley swap is the first mooseley swap and sunday swap, but they don't have by finance and meld Uh tallied in there should be some but it really is total value locked as far as defi goes. They're right It's not that much as compared to Ethereum 115 billion Versa 125 million Now, does that mean it's a ghost chain? Does that mean it's a scam? No, just means that they haven't hit hit it yet And I will say this if you're talking about total value locked up or just locked up on the on the blockchain This is from staking rewards and the top Well, I guess top three that are actually as far as like the mounts that that are staked Solana's number one That's 75 percent Ethereum 2.0 for some reason. I don't know how they calculate this is number two at seven percent all right, and then cardano That's 68 percent. So 68 percent of people are staking cardano, which means it's locked up Although you can take it in and out any way you want to As long as a bit different in ethereum 2.0 That's really locked up because you are stuck until e2.0 actually comes out which Who knows when that's going to happen? So Again for these price predictions just be we're wary about them. It was just interesting that they think it's going to go that high I don't think it's going to go that high But hey, who knows we'll see how it goes and that's my friends Is it for today? So look oh man that that took a long time.  I consider To hit a like if you liked it if you made it this far hit the like button If you disliked it hit the dislike button But tell me why you disliked it as far as a comment and maybe I can change some things So that's up to you and then uh for everybody has to leave. Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate it Now let's do five questions in five minutes. Let's do a quick q&a, huh? All right Let me get this out of here All right Thank you. This is a crazy question Well, no this this one's a okay. Let's start with charles. Hello charles In your opinion, what's the difference between buying the dip? And dca versus catching a falling knife It seems that one needs a dca and buy the dip to really make it good info. How did I hello Chloe and shui say hi So this is a good question and it comes down to this when you're catching as I say catching a falling knife This is the stuff that like james and ben try to do they look at charts a lot Have fun. It's not my thing and they go. Okay. It's really wicking down and I'm going to catch that that That wick that candle as it goes from like 40 000 down to 38 000 And if they have and if it's if it's not bots and they can actually catch it because there's there's liquidity They can make a pretty good amount of money imagine making imagine if you had 40 grand On hand or 38 000 and you give me 38 000 It drops to 38 000 you buy it goes to 40 000 and you Sell or whenever you want to sell and you make 2000 bucks in like, I don't know Half an hour. It's pretty good. Now. You also got to think about the time that they have to invest into that the Uh potential short term capital gains that you have to pay on that depending on where you live And then also you got to remember that doesn't happen all the time. So that's catching a falling knife buying the dip is Just that so let's say that we went down from 3 trillion which we were and then it goes to you know 2.8 trillion you're probably like well, I'm gonna buy that. I'm gonna I'm gonna buy a little bit more aggressively today And that's what I'm gonna do DC yang in my opinion is what is what I is This is how I do things Every single day I have an order set and that order buys the same stuff every single day No matter if it goes up. No matter if it goes down. I think we're in a bear market So I want to load up and what am I loading up on the basics bit coin Ethereum chain link Algorand And I think I had cosmos not for sure forgot So I buy those every single day now because I'm just like I don't care if it goes up or down because I know like in member In three or four years these prices are gonna be way different. Are they all gonna go up? Maybe not, but I don't have to have them all go up I just have to have one or two big winners and I'm set or I'm fine and that's the difference I hope that answered your question A little bit better. Okay That's first question second question. Can soul take over ethereum? Sure. Why not anything gonna happen? These 2.0 seems to not solve their current problems and sol keeps growing as adoption the thing that uh that concerns me James even point this out. He's talks about uh how the The amount that is actually locked up for ethereum looks pretty good But the dominance is slipping and why not because have you used ethereum to buy nfts? Have you used ethereum to transfer anything around? Have you used it? Have you used ethereum for I mean just to move stuff from wall to wall? It's super pricey On some days you might get it for like 20 bucks. Congratulations But is that gonna help out everybody? No Really what I see ethereum is is for really rich people to get even richer Because you can't dollar cost average with With with that you can't pay like I paid six seven bucks last week just to move things around I'm like really and that's just one way and I had to do like two transactions awful And even to get on to the mattock platform, you know or the yeah mattock You have to use the bridge and when you transfer it over because it's super cheap on mattock But you still got to pay the gas fee if you're going to move a bunch of ethereum over so you better move a boat load over so to answer your question Console take over a theorem. Sure. And besides it's backed by some pretty big players One of those is sam bakeman freed and who did sam bakeman freed? Who is the CEO of ftx? Who did he donate a ton or he was one of the top two? Person who actually donated to This presidential's election president joe biden. He was one of the top two people to give the joe biden's campaign Just saying okay Let's see Yeah, smash the like Party on legend just wait for the moon. Yeah, exactly. Just wait for the minute. It's gonna Oh Oh, this is a good one So hey rob. Thanks for this is question number three effort to aligning all please shed some light on iota What are your views on iota after doing an interview with dom? Dom's a good guy. Probably just looking pretty good. I know they've made some partnerships but The thing is is that some Some crypto Some cryptos just won't make it.  You're like, this is a good restaurant. Nobody here. It's weird And they have good staff the very attentive the food is fantastic The prices are reasonable and then you come back a month later and it's closed down Sometimes things just don't make it and that's what you have to understand about crypto cryptos nothing It's the same thing. It's a business Not you are guaranteed absolutely nothing and that's why you have to do a ton of research and that's why when you see some opportunities you should try to grab them as best as possible and Remember any of these projects don't owe you a dime Or they don't owe you anything. So remember that whole thing about diamond hands and stuff like that It's not it's not it All right. Oh, so this is a great So what's your thoughts on anchor protocol staking for 20% apa thoughts on the ust in general? As far as we're going to stable goes not back by used to like most tables are I just watched this great video from guy over at coin bureau and I would recommend you guys go watch this It's very technical and even even I left a note there. I was like, I'm gonna have to watch this a couple times So just so you know, you can get 20% apy on anchor, which is Through the luna protocol and To me, it's a little bit more complex than just basically staking But the thing is Is that even anchor their team says there is no way we can sustain this 20% apy What does that mean? But that means that uh, maybe Do your own research it might be a good opportunity to take a look at anchor protocol And get in now while the getting is good and then get out when the good things not so good So for me, I'm going to take a deep look at anchor and maybe I'll Do a little bit of staking but the big thing you have to always remember always remember Is that there's a rug pull right around the corner every single time? Do I say that anchor is going to be the rug pull? No But uh, just ask mark Cuban. He's been around for a couple. He seems to be a smart guy He still gets rug pulled. All right all right I think that's it one more Great. I must have done my job. There's no questions No, I already talked about that umber This is a nice comment.  I was never I was I remember I sold all my xrp And then I bought a ride back because there's this thing called wash trading and it's legal In crypto because guess what crypto is property So far So I like I think extra people do this great. All they do is just beat the sec but remember Speaking of which did you know that mark cuban beat the sec in a court case in 2013 for insider trading? Yeah, go look it up. I actually posted on twitter yesterday, which is kind of funny So if you think that the sec is going to win all the time No, uh mark cuban beat them like a drum and they looked really bad about that And this is the last question sec and xrp. What's the prediction? No prediction. I can tell you that sec is trying to make an example and genzler Will not give this up.  He just feels like this is his This is his thing and he has to crush these guys for some reason or he has to set precedent I'm not sure, but um, it's weird how like genzler is so he wants everything to be a security Which I don't care if you if you say everything's security find everything's security that just means it's just like stocks I mean everybody buys stocks on like robin hood. Well, not everybody. I mean if you have access to it So let's just just here's the thing with regulation. Just give us the rules So we can work around the rules and now we know what we're going Don't have don't have the rules to yourself like the sec does and says hey coming to work with us coinbase did that and guess What happened? They Got a letter saying they're gonna get sued So to me, I'm just like just give us the rules and we'll be okay. So with the sec and xrp. I think at some point It'll be long and and people were talking about how it's gonna be like six months like no I've been sued before and uh, it took me three years and it was a small case so I don't see this ending anytime soon. That's it. All right, so everybody Thanks so much for stopping by I appreciate if you like the video give a thumbs up You don't like it thumbs down but tell me why and consider subscribing That's it for this week and go enjoy the weekend.  I'm sure it'll be better At some point. So thanks so much. I appreciate also if you're uh Watching the replay. I'm gonna put two videos up here So you can continue the experience. I want to also take a look at uh the cryptoverse Which is a product we just did a deep dive on uh over on my second channel dan clips. I'll link that over here I think it's gonna go great. That's it. Thanks so much. I'll see you in the next one. Thanks