Hello there, thank you for joining me. I'm Lucky Black Cat, and in this video we're going to talk about a very controversial and sensitive issue, the low socioeconomic status of black Americans, and whether or not this is the result of black people having a victim mentality and making bad choices. You've probably heard or read people make this claim before, and if you haven't, well, I'm sorry to have been the one to break your innocence. So to investigate this issue, we're going to go through a lot of evidence and statistics and research studies. But first, let's start with a song by Radiohead. You know the one that goes, you do it to yourself, you do, and that's what really hurts, you do it to yourself. It's a very appropriate message for me whenever I find myself in this position. But that's not what this song is about. It's actually, and most people don't know this, about blaming black people for their high rates of poverty and social problems. True story.   Part one, some facts and a theory. So according to the U.S. Census, the average income for black Americans is just 70% the income of white Americans, and the wealth gap is even bigger. White households have 10 times more wealth than black households, and if you exclude the value of vehicles, white households have 41 times more wealth. Then there's the poverty rate, 8.7% of white Americans are poor, which is a lot. But for black Americans, 21.2% are poor. So what's going on? Why the big income gap? Why the humongous wealth gap? Who among us has the answers?  Whoa. Who said that? Who is this disembodied voice speaking through a cartoon avatar? Wait, was that Radiohead again?  But no, it's not Radiohead, it's a man named Carl Benjamin, who on YouTube goes by the name Sargon of Akkad, as represented by this cute little drawing.  Because as soon as you start playing the game of identity politics, you are playing the game of victimhood. How am I being held down without any fault of my own? How can I avoid taking responsibility for my own failures?  Because he says that if you blame others for your problems, you'll expect others to fix your problems and won't try to fix them yourself. Sargon is not alone in this opinion. When people feel like they're owed something, when they feel like they're victims of the society as opposed to forget about whatever I think of my own victimhood, now it's my job to go succeed, then you end up with pathologies of victimhood that are incredibly harmful. Now Thomas Sowell talks about this a lot. When you have these pathologies of victimhood, it creates a feeling that you can never get ahead in the society. Generations of being steeped in the welfare state vision, the vision of grievances, victimology, and resentments, the idea that there are enemies out there dedicated to keeping you down. And this is why I think the worst thing that you can say to a kid is you're born behind the eight ball and no matter what you do, you're not going to succeed.  Because now all you're trying to do is ask for handouts. All you're trying to do is be like, whoa is me. It's when you teach people that they are the victims of a society. It makes it very difficult for them to succeed. It's an interesting theory they have here, and I can see why some find it convincing. Because, yeah, if you believe forces outside your control are screwing you over, why bother trying? But is this really the problem here? Is victim mentality really the thing that's keeping black people down? Part two, a survey. There's one bit of research that, right off the bat, should make us at least be skeptical about this victim mentality theory. It comes from an opinion survey conducted by Pew Research Center in 2016. They asked black Americans if they believe their race has made it harder for them to succeed in life.   So it's the more successful black people, as measured by educational attainment, who were more likely to believe racism is making it harder for them to succeed. The least successful, again as measured by education, are the least likely to believe this. This is the opposite of what we would expect if the victim mentality theory were true. This theory says that if you believe racism is holding you back, then this will lead to irresponsible behavior and failure. But we see the opposite. Those who believe racism is an obstacle actually tend to be more successful. And as a side note, I just want to say that education is just one measure of success and it's not a great one. To me, a successful person is someone with a good heart who cares about others and does things to make people's lives better and make the world a better place, or at least tries.  This is capitalism, bro. Success equals money.  Those with less education usually make less money and have higher rates of poverty.  That's only 3 out of 10. If you're looking to understand why black people are more often at the bottom of society, a victim mentality does not seem to be the reason. Part three, the post-civil rights era. But you know who disagrees with that? The American political commentator Ben Shapiro. AKA Ben Shapiro, motherfucking P-word. That's his full legal name. Yeah, you effin' with some wet-ass P-word. Bring a bucket and a mop for this wet-ass P-word. Give me everything you've got for this wet-ass P-word. Ben points out that American racism has decreased significantly since the civil rights movement of the 1960s. And yet, even though there is now less racism, black Americans still have high rates of poverty. The wealth gap is about the same as it was in the 1960s. And the unemployment gap is about the same. Right, and so if you're going to make the claim that American racism is responsible for the black community's problems currently, then you have to ignore the past 50 years in which racism got markedly better. And yet, these pathologies remained in a lot of the black community. So if racism is the problem and racism has decreased, then why has so little improved? Here's how Ben explains it. The middle class in the United States in the black community was building much, much faster in the 1950s, actually, than it did in the aftermath of the civil rights movement. And that's not because the civil rights movement was bad. The civil rights movement was a wonderful, wonderful thing. It's because it was coincident with a lot of Democrats coming in and saying, and now we owe you something. And American society's evil and terrible, and we owe you lots of stuff. So first of all, things are not quite as bad as Ben says they are. Since the 1960s, black Americans have made great strides in educational and professional achievement, and the black poverty rate has gone down. But it's also true that many black Americans are stuck in intergenerational poverty, and black progress since the civil rights movement has fallen far short of expectations. Ben says this is because liberals came along and started blaming racism, and this made the blacks develop a victim mentality, and a sense of entitlement, and that screwed up everything. Well, Ben, it turns out there are other explanations. Since the 1950s, the United States has been losing its stable, decently paid, working class jobs. What happened to these decently paid jobs? Why have they been vanishing? Part of the reason is deindustrialization and the loss of manufacturing jobs. Manufacturing jobs used to be a way for people without much education to make a decent living. But those jobs have been disappearing. In his 1987 book The Truly Disadvantaged, Harvard University sociologist William Julius Wilson demonstrates that although deindustrialization has hurt all working class Americans, it has been especially harmful for black Americans. Meanwhile, at the same time that decent paying manufacturing jobs have vanished, union membership has been falling. And when workers are not unionized, our wages go down. And to make matters worse, most unions have become weak and passive, like an exhausted beat up old boxer hugging the ropes in the 10th round. As a result of this double whammy of deindustrialization plus deunionization, it has become harder and harder for those who never went further than high school to find an even halfway decent paying job.  Answering that question requires a long explanation, and this would require a separate video. But just to scratch the surface, one of the reasons is because black kids are more likely to attend bad schools and thus more likely to get a bad education, and thus less likely to qualify for or succeed in college. And also, have you seen the price of tuition? So it's true that the civil rights movement helped make the United States a less racist country. But in the years and decades since, decent paying blue collar jobs have been banishing, and black Americans have been hit extra hard by this. And there's another thing that came along shortly after the civil rights movement, the war on drugs and the rise of mass incarceration. And when I say rise, I mean skyrocket. Just look at that graph. Now, the crime rate is higher than it was in 1960 before the incarceration rate started to go up so much. And in fact, according to statistics from the FBI, the crime rate is 57% higher now. However, the incarceration rate is over 340% higher. So the one cannot explain the other. The rate of people in prison and jail has gone up enormously. And as you can see, this is largely driven by the imprisonment of black men, which has been just devastating for black communities. According to the US Department of Justice, one out of 38 white men has been imprisoned. But for black men, it's one in six. If you have a criminal record, this can keep you trapped in poverty. Because a criminal record makes it so much more difficult to get a job, any job, let alone one that pays halfway well. These two things, the loss of decently paid blue collar jobs, and the rise of being locked behind bars, both intensified after the civil rights movement, and both have been huge obstacles to black people's advancement. So if you're looking for reasons why black people socioeconomic advancement, since the civil rights movement has been so disappointing, I think it's clear that the victim mentality theory is not nearly as convincing as these explanations. And what about racism? It's not as bad as in the 1950s and 60s. But does that mean it's become irrelevant? A relic of the past? You know, kind of like Radiohead? More like Racistiohead? Oh, God, that pun was so bad. She were radio dead. Oh, that one was even worse. Radio shreds?  Why do I do this to my part four? Is racial oppression real? So I actually did a whole video on this topic. It's called, Where's the proof of racism? And if this is a question you have, I suggest you check it out. It has a whole slew of evidence based on academic research that shows Yes, racism is still a problem in the good old us of a, you won't go over most of that evidence here, but I'll give you just a little taste, just a little taste of the evidence of racism.  Here's a finding from a study published in American Economic Review. When employers look at job resumes and see two resumes equal in skill, education and work experience. But one resume has an African American sounding name like Tyrone. And the other has a white sounding name like Brad. The employer is 50% less likely to request an interview from the person whose name suggests the Tyrone resumes only got as many job interviews as the Brad resumes. If Tyrone had more job experience than Brad, how much more? Eight years more. So there you go.   And it's pretty undeniable that racial oppression is still a serious problem. Part five, doing the right things. So let's talk about the income back income gap between black folks and white folks in the United States. Alrighty, Ben, let's talk about it. It is true familial wealth two generations ago, there's a big gap between black folks and white folks. And that gap exists today. Yeah, that sounds right. Is that entirely do or even largely do or even mostly due to historic injustices, the lack of income mobility, enlarge slots of the black community? No, it isn't. Whoa, I didn't realize that.   So I trust you income mobility still exists. According to the Brookings Institute, left leaning Institute, 2% of Americans who follow these three simple rules are in permanent poverty, only 2%. The other 90% of 98% of Americans who follow these three simple rules will not live in permanent poverty in the United States. Wow. What are these three simple rules? Wait, let me guess. Who is before bros? Bitches get riches. Smoke weed every day.  Wait, what? That's it. Those are the three simple rules. Oh, well, I was close. I like my rules better. The rules Ben is talking about come from a study by the Brookings Institution, which found that in 2007 of people who followed these rules, three out of four were in the middle class or higher, finish high school, get a full time job, wait to get married to have kids. That's it. In one of my previous videos, we analyzed the study showing its flaws and the false exaggerated claims that are made about its conclusions. I won't go over those arguments here, but I want to point out that following these three rules is less helpful than their headlines claim. And it tends to be even less helpful if you're black. And how do I know that following these rules is less helpful if you're black? The research once again comes from the Brookings Institution, this time using statistics from 2013. As you can see, 73% of white people following these three rules were at least middle class. But the same was true for only 59% of black people. Ben Shapiro and others like him want to blame racial inequality on bad choices or failing to do the right things. But clearly, there's something more going on. Hmm. What could that be? Could it be historic injustices, the lack of income mobility in large swaths of the black community? Yes, nailed it. No, it isn't. Oh, well, let's investigate further, taking a closer look at the economic benefits of making the so called good choices that were told are necessary to pull yourself out of poverty, education, employment and marriage. Let's start with education. The three rules say to finish high school. But what about if you go beyond that and finish college? For households with a college degree, black income is still only 77% of white income.    Next item on the menu, having a full time job. In 2018, according to info from the most exciting of government departments, the Bureau of Labor Statistics 62.8% of white people have jobs compared to 62.3% of black people. That's hardly a difference. Now, if you're wondering why the unemployment rate for black people is a lot higher, despite having similar rates of labor force participation, that's because unemployment rate is only tracking those who are looking for a job but can't find one. Whereas labor force participation rate is just anyone who's in the labor force, anyone who has a job. So the black and white labor force participation rate is almost the same. And there's also not much difference in average work hours. Again, for 2018, the average for white workers was 38.9 hours a week. And for black workers, 38.7 hours. So if you're wondering why average black income is lower than average white income, work hours is almost totally irrelevant. Much more relevant is how much they're paid. According to data from those party animals in the Bureau of Labor Statistics, white people who work full time earn $933 a week, but black people who work full time earn $724 per week. That's only 78 cents for every dollar. And as you can see in this chart from black demographics.com, a wage gap continues to exist, even when comparing blacks and whites with the same level of education. For wealth, the gap is even more dramatic.    And look at the graph. We're not talking little gaps.  And last on the list of rules is no kids outside of marriage. PenChip here has some interesting views on this one. 71% of poor families in the United States overall have children without being married. The poverty rate among non-married white families is about 22% as of 2008. The poverty rate among black married couples that same year, 7%. What happened to the white privilege? What happened to the white privilege? Why is it that white unmarried mothers aren't richer than black married families? Because the problem isn't the color, the problem is the lack of marriage, obviously. Pen, you compare married black families to non-married white families? That's a dishonest, non-equivalent comparison. You need to compare like with like. Let's try that and see what happens.  That's one and a half times more poverty for black families. In married two parent families, the poverty rate is about three and a half percent for white two parent families and 8% for black two parent families. So black families get more than double the poverty. What happened to the white privilege? What happened to the white privilege? I don't know, Ben. Could it be hiding behind your dishonest and non-equivalent comparison? Just a quick side note on white privilege.  Anyone who's ever seen a white homeless person should know that, not to mention the millions of exploited white working class people. But being white does come with a big privilege, the privilege of not being subject to a pattern of institutional racism. And that's all that white privilege is. Just in case anyone had the wrong idea and was getting a bit defensive. Not to name names or anything.  And that the way for black people to uplift themselves is to embrace personal responsibility. But by now, we've seen that this theory is wrong. Because even when black people do the so-called right things, get an education, a full-time job, not have kids outside marriage, they still tend to fall behind. The statistics show this clearly and consistently. This proves that taking personal responsibility is not enough to overcome the socioeconomic inequalities that black people face. Because this inequality is not under anyone's individual control. It's the results of institutional racism. It's the result of inequalities from the past being handed down generation to generation. These problems cannot be solved by individual action, but will require a radical transformation of society. Hey, it's Lucky Black Cat here. So this video is actually the fourth video in my Radical Responsibility series. The third video came out in April, and then I got distracted making other videos, so this one is long overdue. If you'd like to watch the other videos in this series, I will link to the playlist at the end of this video, or you can click the card up there.  Thank you for being awesome. I'm sorry Radiohead, I love you.


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So I decided to make some more of these flowers as you all know if you've been following me on social media I was inspired by these original batch of flowers. You see on the left by JB lady here on YouTube And I will link her channel and hopefully I can find the video link it in the description below. I decided to Continue forward with that idea. She punched out some leaves with a leaf punch she had and Created leaves to go with her flowers that way you'll see in the video again. I'll link it below I have leaf punches, but I thought you know wait, why don't I just paint some leaves? So I decided to get a few greens and yellows from my Americana decor craft paint and paint some leaf shapes with a make it just with a makeup sponge Varying shades of green and I put some of the yellow in there as a highlight And this is how I did the flowers only obviously with the flowers I did sort of blobby irregular circle shapes, and I am in this case. I'm doing sort of an almond shape So just layering different colors on top of each other not really Being too precious about it. I am in a way the Sloppy here you are about it that actually the cuter they turn out I think the leaves and the flowers so just make sure you have some dark in there and a little bit of light in there The yellow gives it a nice pop and of course, we're not done yet But before you do the next step that it's got to dry completely. So then as I'm doing it I'm realizing I've brought some newspaper home from Lake Tahoe. Let's make some newspaper flowers inspired not only by JB lady But Shemi Dixon she did her newspaper flowers a completely different way that I'm doing but The inspiration is still there So I cut my newspaper into squares and I'm using my leftover greens to create some large green Shapes in the same way that I did the leaves where I'm just not being precious about it I'm just I'm using up all my paint putting some lights and some darks and adding you know some yellow for accent and This is how I did the other flowers and these actually end up not being flowers They end up being sort of a background greenery leaf thing, but you'll see in the end I did them and then I decided hmm Wait a minute. I want to do more of these.  I actually have gold and silver end of only using the gold So I just scribble my shapes on top of my paint with black and then the white gel pen and then I add some Gold accent dots with the sharpie paint pen And I do the same thing to all the leaves Don't be precious about it. Don't worry about trying to stay on the paint outside the paint It's not about that. Just don't even think about it. Just have fun with it and just Just make sure that you have kind of a leaf shape That's the only thing they turned out so cute and they look so cute with the flowers now when I did the original batch of flowers I also used colored pencil to sort of highlight sort of a petal shape on the flowers And I don't do that here, but you could do that see look around and see what kind of drawing Supplies that you have once the paint is dry that you could accent your leaves and flowers with And just have fun with it so once you're done with the leaves they need to dry before you can cut them out and Then you need to then then yeah, and so once they're dry Don't cut right next to the black line cut about an eighth of an inch away from it That gives it the loose sketchy feel that you really want the loose messy lines and the Non-precise cutting give it give it that loose messy look that you really want Again, don't do the drawing part with any of your markers or paint markers until after everything's dry. It doesn't that look cute All right, so I'm gonna cut all the leaves out and this is the part that kind of is a little time consuming But you could do a whole big batch of these and then you know just sit in front of the TV in The evening with the family and a pair of scissors and you know cut a bunch of leaves out I Have to figure out where I'm gonna store them now because you know the last thing on the planet I needed were more embellishments But yeah, I don't know what I'm gonna do with them now or I'm gonna store them I do have some ideas on what how I'm gonna use them in artwork going forward But until I can get to that point I've got a store them somewhere and I haven't figured out where that somewhere places yet right now they're just in a tray sitting on top of a little drawer thing cabinet The leaves are actually a little easier to cut out than the flowers were The shape is a little easier, but neither one of them were super hard with the flowers. You'll notice I went around The edge of the petals a couple times at the black a couple times with the white then I did the color pencil and then I Did the flower centers with some you'll see I think I'm pretty sure I show it on camera here I did the flower centers with some black paint and let that dry and then I accident it with some white Paint pen dots and I also put some gold paint pen on the flowers And I'm pretty sure we do I show you how to do this similar techniques with the newspaper flowers Okay, so I'm gonna get all that rid of all that trash now We're gonna get our newspapers out now You'll see I have way more pieces of newspaper than I started out with because right away I started Oh, I want to do some bright ones So these bright ones are just layered the same way and I have two yellow ones that I initially think are kind of ugly But you'll see what happens what they turn out cute. So I just put some Like yellow paint down then I put some green on there Very messy so now then take a stippling brush and some black paint and Stipple some black right into the center of your colorful blobby circle shape it what you want it to be loose and Kind of freeform I Only did the colorful ones. I didn't do the green ones and Once they're dry, I restacked them up and then I'm gonna get out a white gel a white paint pen I use a poska, but you could use a sharpie.  I put my gold dots You could also go in there like I did with the other flowers with a color pencil and Do some, you know accents to Suggest petals You don't have to though look how cute they are without it either way once you add these extra accents on the flowers It really makes them start to pop Now I do this on all of them look at this ugly yellow one and then look at what happens That's kind of cute Wait until you see at the end.   I am not trying to be precise. I'm I'm not doing it slow Yes, this video is sped up, but it's not sped up by a lot.  I didn't use anything fancy. This is newspaper after all. It's not archival and so now cut it out Cut all of them out, and you'll see I'm just I'm kind of wiggling the scissors around following the suggestion of the pen lines to get my Regular blobby shape to you know to emphasize more that irregular blobby shape and Once you get the decorations on there, and you get them cut out like with the leaves They really really start to pop so once I get them all cut out. I do separate them By size so I put all of these green ones Initially together, but then I separated them out There were some small medium and large ones there we go And I did the same thing with the colored ones and then I just started layering them using the green to suggest leaves and Then putting a colored flower in the center now when Shemi did her newspaper flowers She dried them after they were glued and the edges like curled up and everything and I kind of liked that I didn't want them too crinkly But I only glued the center so that the edges will stick up and they won't lay flat and I like that I want that so I left it look how cute the ugly yellow one looks the yellow one surprised me So I basically just put glue in the middle. This is Elmer's extreme I just tried to make sure that the green piece was a little bit bigger than the colored piece I was putting on top of it and if it was not quite too much bigger or you know kind of You know a little smaller. I just kind of tried to offset it a little bit And I decided to go back to a couple of them and layer the flowers I decided I really like the flowers layered and I had these two extra flowers. I wanted to do something with isn't that cute? So then I decided to do that with one of the yellow ones, which was already cute But wait until you see so I I offset the pink one and then I put the yellow one and look at that So cute So there you have it flowers. I hope that gives you some ideas of what you can do Have some fun making flowers watch shemmy's video watch JB ladies video. I'll link them both in the description below Most importantly have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll talk to you later


So we're here at B plus B smart works. So who are you? So I'm Tim Tabner I'm the global product manager for our advanced IoT gateways and also look after our wizard wireless sensor network products in EMEA So WSN right? That's gonna be a big part of IoT Yeah, it's it's growing. There's already a lot of wireless sensor networks out there The problem historically in industrial applications is that they've got a bad reputation for not being too reliable And that's because of the way that current systems work where essentially you have to select a channel. They're going to run on and That's the channel. They're set to RF conditions change because trucks drive by or a new piece of equipment to install and The comms become unreliable. So what we're doing with wizard is basically adding a set a level of time synchronization Above the basic wireless meshing that means that actually the network comes up with a point in time And it can select the best available channel at that point in time That gives us a lot better availability of signal across the across the network In fact, we're getting 99.999 percent availability of signal which is as good as a piece of wire But obviously then with the benefit of dramatically reduced installation costs compared to what's an encabled systems So it's quite important for the IOT that everything should just be a Flip the switch on Provisioning or what it is that makes Wi-Fi very popular or something They would you were doing a keynote, right? Yeah speech. What are we talking about? So so so you're right about the provisioning You know, one of the things we're working on very very hard is something we're calling zero touch provisioning That's the notion that actually a user can take an unconfigured box and have an electrician wire it in on site And when it switched on it calls into a central server and basically picks up the user account It's going to be installed in picks up all of its configuration and all of its firmware and everything. So it's a key element What I was actually talking about in a lot of the keynotes is it's both the wireless sensor networks But also an emerging paradigm we have for edge nodes Which again overcomes one of the limitations that's existed for a long time And that's namely that historically there's been a direct correlation between an edge node and a physical device Problem with that is that means day one of a project you've got to decide What interface is what level of processing power you need on the device? And of course what that leads to over a period of time that assistance deployed is a continuous cycle of Deploying a box waiting for its capacity to be exceeded for whatever reason Taking that box out and replacing it with another one. So kind of a deploy destroy deploy cycle that carries on forever We're bringing to market something based on a concept called swarm intelligence Where a physical edge device isn't any longer a single physical box? But in fact is a combination of devices that cooperate and share their resources collaboratively That means that the edge now can adapt and evolve as system requirements involved So it actually protects the investment much better than has been the case in the past and also gives you a complete degree of food to prove against the emerging technologies. So when we look at all these This hardware what's inside is there a non-processor? So there's basically a wireless Wireless radio that conforms to IEEE 15.4e Yeah, there's some process intelligence that then takes the sensor data Converts it into a format that crucially for the internet of things is already Enriched and what I mean by that, you know historically with sensor data It's kind of coming through things like PLC's and that's giving you a Something that says PLC 31 register 40,000 and 3 has a value of 20,000 Well, you know, it's meaningless unless you understand precisely what that that is So with wizard actually the wizard devices are pre-configured or configured by users to actually transmit the temperature at a location is Sorry, okay, temperature at a location is 23.5 degrees C. So actually now users can semantically search for that without having to understand any of the complexities Of what the wizard sensor is and how that information is getting into the cloud so What I've been doing with IoT in the past Well, I've been involved with IOT since before it was called IOT actually the first System that I remember installing that had all the characteristics of what we now call IOT so Enriched semantically searchable data Data going from sensors and H devices to multiple systems in a flexible way I was involved in that 15 16 years ago with Phillips pipeline and Chevron pipeline right at the birth of a protocol called MQTT which is now one of the Main protocols that's used and standardized for IOT applications. So that was pipeline monitor it because pipeline is pretty long Yeah, and you want to monitor the whole thing and from one control station somewhere? Yeah, it's it's not so much that because those sorts of systems already existed You know the pipeline control system would be there to control the pipeline But happening in parallel with that you'd find there was another system that was taking the flow meter data And exporting that into the ERP system in fact We got involved with it because that wasn't happening the way actually that bills used to get Sent out by the pipeline company was once a month a load of guys would get into four by four trucks Would drive down their port part of the pipeline would go to all the flow meters print out the tickets of all the Transactions put them into a packs machine to a data center where they'd get entered into the system You know and three months later a bill comes out and the user says this is wrong So what we were able to do by essentially inventing IOT technology Would say well, okay, we're already getting that information into our pipeline control system We can make that available directly to the ERP system. So as a transaction happens Electronically that transaction goes straight through to ERT ERP and it automatically creates the invoice That then got expanded once we've got that in place to say well Actually, there's also usable data from the pipeline control system that can go into our maintenance operations to help optimize those That's kind of how we got involved and what it was all about It wasn't so much about monitoring geographically diverse stuff because people have been doing that for many years. It's been called skater The difference was doing it in a way that meant we could share the data amongst different enterprise systems flexibly so Do you have the patents on IOT and Are you a big company making a lot of IOT already? I wish we had the patents on it In fact MQTT was a protocol that was invented by the company I worked for at the time Which wasn't B&B smartworks and IBM that's now been made open source and has been standardized across the community So no, we don't have any patterns for B&B. It's an area that we're moving into very rapidly B&B's background is actually in connectivity. So in Media converters for fiber to ethernet on infrastructure for cellular routers for serial to ethernet conversion And especially as part of its cellular router product range gradually They've been adding intelligence and adding intelligence. So now the cellular router A is very functional But also is user program also user can put their own applications into to provide some local control or some local filtration What we're doing is building on that and adding more intelligence adding more user Flexibility for how they program in and adding this swarm intelligence piece, which again as I say Completely protects the investment that you make when you deploy a device and so what we're here We're looking at what's coming out in and out of here. And so how about the power energy harvesting? Batteries are you considering all these things when you deploy? Okay So so the idea with the wizard node is that it can be externally powered or it can power from internal batteries So the internal batteries on it the lifetime depends on how rapidly you're sampling But if you were sampling measurements once every 10 minutes then on the internal batteries in here This thing will run for something like two and a half years currently people. We have to worry about changing Getting the signals in from the transducers. These aren't sensor systems. It's a it's a wireless system for carrying sensor data So we take completely standard Sensors that have been used in the industry for 20 30 40 years, you know 4 to 20 milliamp signals thermocouples Close contact digital's they wire into the wizard systems locally to wherever they wherever they're located And then we take away the cost of wiring that back to some infrastructure points some instrumentation cabinet or whatever So what do you think about IOT and this conference and what do you think? I think IOT is really interesting. There's a massive amount of hype around IOT and To an extent a self-fulfilling thing that IOT is almost an end that people talk about in their own rights And I think as an industry we've got to start getting a bit more real about it You know there isn't a CEO or a CFO that wakes up at 3 o'clock in the morning thinking my goodness What my company needs is is a load of IOT? You know they have business problems and need to solve those with a return on investment IOT and the technology behind it give us a really good way of doing that That also brings along a whole load of added benefits But we've got to start getting back to talking about the business basics of the return on investment on a problem before People start investing in IOT to any great scale. So what do you think about the engineer of things applications Europe this conference? Yeah, it's been it's been very good for us We it's been interesting with the mix that where it's co-existed with Conferences for for other technologies When we came we were a bit worried that that wasn't going to be right. We were worried that we were going to get You know little or no interest from the other conference delegates But actually there's been some reasonable crossover. So it has been better than we expected and yeah been quite good


For more videos and people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. The conflict in Ethiopia's northern region Tigre is intensifying. Hundreds have reportedly died and the fighting has now spilled across the country's national borders into neighboring countries. On November 14, the Tigre enforces fired rockets into Eritrea. The conflict has also forced thousands of Ethiopians to seek refuge in neighboring Sudan. At least 25,000 Ethiopians have already fled to Sudan and Sudanese officials fear this number may go up to 200,000. Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Africa. As the conflict spreads, it is feared that it could have a destabilizing effect on the broader region. How did this conflict begin? The fighting between the armed forces of the Ethiopian federal government and that of the Tigre regional government began on November 4. Tigre is located on the northern end of the country. It is ruled by the Tigre People's Liberation Front or the TPLF. The military escalation began when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abe Ahmad ordered the military into the Tigre region. He alleged that the armed forces of the regional government had attacked the Ethiopian National Defense Forces base located in Tigre in the early hours of November 4. On November 14, a senior TPLF member admitted to carrying out a preemptive strike on this base. Even before this, however, there were already tensions between the TPLF and Prime Minister Abe Ahmad. The TPLF was a dominant political force in Ethiopia from the 1990s until 2018 when Abe became the Prime Minister. He came to power as a reformer in the backdrop of the popular anti-government protests demanding greater civil and political rights. This simmering tension escalated when the federal government decided to postpone the election scheduled for August 2020 in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The mandates of both the federal and the regional governments were extended. The Tigre regional government declared this extension as unconstitutional and conducted their own elections in September. The federal and the regional governments have since declared each other illegitimate. Tigre was on the frontline of the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea between 1998 to 2000. It remains the most heavily armed of all the autonomous regions in Ethiopia. With an estimated 250,000 soldiers, the Tigrean troops amount to over half of Ethiopia's armed forces. They are loyal to the TPLF. Prime Minister Abe had negotiated a peace deal with Eritrea against the TPLF's wishes soon after coming to power in 2018. The TPLF has been accusing Eritrea of supporting the federal troops in this conflict. Eritrea has denied the allegation of sending its troops into Ethiopia, but the federal troops fighting in Tigre have used Eritrean territory to retreat and regroup before relaunching attacks. Tigrean forces have admitted to launching rockets into Eritrea in retaliation. The UN has warned in a report on November 7th that up to 9 million people could be displaced if the conflict in Tigre continues. While the TPLF is willing to negotiate with the federal government, Prime Minister Abe maintains that the negotiations can start only after the TPLF has been disarmed and the federal government's authority in the region is restored. This insistence of Abe Ahmad is putting at risk the civil rights gains that were made in Ethiopia after the reforms he himself had initiated. Before 2018, political parties were not allowed to operate outside the ruling coalition which was dominated by the TPLF. Journalists and bloggers were often jailed for no reason and other ethnic groups felt oppressed by the Tigreans. Abe Ahmad instituted sweeping reforms on coming to power on the back of the anti-government protests. He opened up the political space, freed political prisoners and allowed other political parties to operate. Now with the conflict worsening, Ethiopians fear a slight back towards authoritarianism. Already at least six journalists have been arrested since the conflict started. Some other people of Tigrean ethnicity have also been arrested by the national intelligence from Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. According to state-controlled media, 17 military officers have been arrested and charged with treason. Prime Minister Abe is continuing to refuse any international help including UN's offer to mediate. His statement on November 15th said, As a sovereign nation, Ethiopia reaffirms its capability and resolve to manage and handle its own rule of law operation without any external intervention.


This 2017 Chevy Silverado 2500 Double Cab Short Box is stock number 1-2-3-4-0-Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. This 2017 Chevy Silverado has the 6-liter V8 engine. This truck has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and tapped off and this truck is 100% ready to go. Red hot is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality, condition, and options of the truck before seeing it in person. And if you like the video and how we do things here at Summit Auto, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel. In the lower right-hand part of the screen is a subscribe button. Click that and then click the bell notifications. You'll get updates on the videos we do each and every day here at Summit Auto of our new and used inventory. It comes with the painted black alloy rims. These are 18-inch rims and it has general grabber red letter LT27570R18 tires. And these tires have right around half the tread left on them. Frame and underbody is an exceptionally nice clean condition. And it does have the Rancho shocks. I believe it's got the Z71 package or it's just got the Rancho shocks. It comes with the projector lamp headlamps. Front bumper is in excellent shape. I didn't see any dents or dings on there. Looks really good. Headlight lenses are nice and clear and that hood is in excellent condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on that. Coming around to the passenger side, front fender looks good. Passenger side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes. And as you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that red hot paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you buy the truck, let your salesman know that you saw the video and that Brett sent you. Back rim is in excellent shape and the back tires have just about as much tread as the front tires. Once again that frame and under body is like new underneath, very nice and clean. It's like that all the way across, lower rockers, and cab corners all look really good. Coming around to the back of the vehicle, rear bumper looks like it's in great shape. Full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch for pin and seven pin wiring. 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We'll hop inside, check out the miles, the radio and everything that the interior has to offer. You can see that this truck has 60,000, I'm sorry 40,691 miles. Digital speedometer, instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Steering wheel is in nice shape. And you do get cruise controls on the left hand side. Does have the six speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift. You get the Chevy MyLink radio and FM radio capabilities on here. I'm not sure if it's got, it does have serious XM radio capabilities as well. Projection manager where you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. So if you've got a navigation system on your cell phone, project it to the screen and then it's like you have nav right on your screen. So that's pretty cool. Down here your climate controls, stability control and that's for your cargo lamps. That also turns on your LED side lights on those mirrors. Four by four shifter on the floor, passenger side, floor mat and seat are in excellent condition. I didn't see any rips or tears on there. Headliner is in nice shape as well. This one does have the snow plow prep package. I know it's because it's got that button right there. Map lights, on-star and SOS capabilities in the mirror as well. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up, check out under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. Has the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Fixed glass rear window with the built-in rear defrost.  Somebody must have put the Rancho shocks on it. I apologize this does not have the Z71, just has the Rancho shocks. Bottoms of the doors and all the door sills all look really good on this truck. We'll start it up, check out under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. 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Today's episode of The Bitcoin Show is brought to you by MtGox, M-T-G-O-X dot com, and BitPay, B-I-T dash P-A-Y dot com, and Mezzy Grill, M-E-Z-E Grill dot com, and CableSaurus dot com, and BitBrew dot net. Hello everyone and welcome to The Bitcoin Show. This is episode 40. And today I have a special guest who is launching a new website called bitcoindeals.com. His name is Chris Brunner. Welcome, Chris. Thank you. Thanks for having me. So tell us the deal. What's the deal? Bitcoin deals. So bitcoindeals.com aims to be a one-stop shopping site for all of the Bitcoin users. So we liken it to, it's sort of like an Amazon, you know, for Bitcoin. So we're going to have over a million products by the time we do our public launch. Right now we're in beta, invite-only mode. And our aim is for Bitcoin users to be able to find anything and have an easy shopping experience that's painless with good customer service, and we just want them to have a good experience. Cool, cool. Yeah, I mean, I've seen the, I was privy to the landing page earlier, and so I saw that there were over a million items, and I was like, wow. But now it's actually in beta, so I want to actually try it, right? Yeah. Are we going to be able to try it? Give it a shot. Cool. So am I making the very first purchase? You are making the very first purchase on Bitcoindeals.com. Oh my, thank God. Is it free? I want some electronics. Well, wouldn't that create a conflict? Right? No, it's okay with me. What's the most expensive item you have? I think it's some high-end printer that goes for about 20,000 US dollars. Cool. Let's do that. That's what I want. This is free, right? Okay. So this is the, show the screen, show my screen here, and you can see, I've got, make it bigger. How's that look? Can you see it? Okay, good, good, good. So this is what it looks like, over a million items priced in Bitcoin every day easy. That is so, so slick. Now, how long has this existed, or how long have you been working on this? We've been working on Bitcoindeals for about a month and a half, a month and a half. Right. And I noticed, okay, so it's Truecoin. So your company is called Truecoin. Correct. Bitcoindeals is a Truecoin project. A Truecoin project. So that would imply there are other projects. Yes. Oh, okay. Absolutely. All right, I'm going to grill you on that later. So, but Bitcoindeals is launching, is there already in beta now, is launching today? Right. Well, yeah. It's the airing of the show. Awesome. All right. Cool, cool, cool. Of course, it has to break. It is not news unless it breaks here. That's great.  Okay. So everybody knows that. So this is really, really exciting. I can see already, you've got electronics, movies, games, books, home. We've got everything. Every physical item that you can buy on Amazon, essentially, every type of item, every type of physical item you can buy on Amazon, you can buy from us at Big Amazon. This just is Amazon. It's just a front end for Amazon. Right. Well, no, no, no, no. We don't rely on Amazon. We have our own network of suppliers, so we have over 300 suppliers and even more warehouses than that that ship directly to the customer. So when an order is placed, so one pays with Bitcoin, the order is processed in real time, sent to the warehouse within usually six hours, but within 24 hours, a shipping label is printed by the warehouse. They slap it on the package. They send it to the customer. Technology. How do you, how does somebody create a project like this in just a few months? How does this happen? Well, like I say, we utilize a network of over 300 suppliers. Wow. So some of the infrastructure was there. We had to create some parts of it. Wow. And there you have it. An amazing deal. So, and so obviously you don't run these warehouses. No. You don't have a return on yourself or anything like that. Right. But we'll help you with return. So we have a customer support staff, you know, that can assist with anything, the ordering process, the return process. We're not going to leave you high and dry. So you have your own true coin, Bitcoin deals, customer service hotline that I can call. Yeah. Or email or something. We don't have phone support right now. We are going to add phone support before the public launch. Okay. But you're welcome to reach out to us. We're very responsive. And so you can create a ticket. You can email us, you know, however you prefer to do it. That's cool. That is really, really cool. We'll make sure you're taken care of. Yeah. Because customer support is key when you're, especially communication. Absolutely. We know from other experiences recently. Right. So, all right. You could buy pretty much everything. I wonder. Yeah. So, give it a shot. Okay. Yeah. I want to definitely buy the most expensive item I can find. But let me just ask this, you know, question just to throw it out there. If I find something on Amazon that I want, can I put that, like, can it search for the item number or something in here? No. We don't have it indexed by Amazon out of my D. Yeah. You're welcome to email us. So we can see if we can work with our support. But I can search for the name of the item. Yeah. Sure. You can search for the UPC code. Oh, really? Yeah, absolutely. UPC code. That's cool. So we can just scan it in. I can do that in the store. So I'm in Best Buy, whatever, and I just scan the UPC code and I can just paste it into Bitcoin deals. Yeah, search box. Absolutely. And check the prices. Pay with Bitcoin. And the prices actually, you said, display in both Bitcoin and Amazon? Yeah. So, to help the shopping experience, you know, we display it in U.S. dollars. And before public launch, it's going to be configurable. So, whatever national currency you're accustomed to the most, you'll be able to select. And as you browse, because, you know, Bitcoin is new to all of us.  So none of us are honestly accustomed to walking through a store and looking at prices in Bitcoin and being able to judge. I want the prices in Bitcoin because I can only think of Bitcoin. No, the prices are absolutely Bitcoin. But as a reference, we display them in a national currency, you know, to make it easier. And maybe you're accustomed to pricing things mentally in Bitcoin. But a lot of people aren't. You know, we want to cater to everyone. Yeah, of course. We want to make it easy for, you know, when people say, what can Bitcoin be used for? You know, we want them to be able to point to this and say anything. That's the question. What can you buy with Bitcoin? Right. Bitcoin is the answer. We just wanted to provide an answer, right? So, we have other projects, right, that are going to be much, much bigger than this. Bigger than this. In the meantime, absolutely. Much, much bigger than this. Right. In the meantime, we want to give people, you know, over a million items. Yeah. Something they can point to and say, this is what you can buy with Bitcoin. Anything you want. Only a million items. Is it going to grow? Yeah. Well, I mean, we will be scaling it up. Yeah. Wow. So, then soon it will say over two million items. Like Google, it will just keep increasing. You should have a little counter. Like the Donald sign. Yeah, yeah. Or the Google. 99 billion. Wow. Over a million items. That just blows my mind. So, that's like every item ever manufactured or something like that. Yeah. Not really.  Generally, it's going to be available on Bitcoin deals. Do you do curation? Like do you actually decide, no, we shouldn't carry guns? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. There are actually hundreds of thousands of items that we rejected. And you guys make those decisions? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. So, our suppliers have more items than what we carry. And if you get a lot of returns or problems or complaints, you're just going to drop that item. Yeah, absolutely. Isn't technology amazing? Like this is the modern age of retail. Of course, something like this is inevitable. And then to combine it with Bitcoins makes absolute sense. Now, can you only... No, there are a lot of advantages to accepting Bitcoins instead of credit cards because we don't have charge back risk. No charge back risk. Right? So, we're actually able to offer lower prices than we'd be able to. You can't leak the customer's identity because they don't have to give you identity. We don't need that. Right? I mean, you can fill out what you need for the shipping address. Other than that, we're never going to ask more than that. I could have it shipped under a big rock in Central Park if you wouldn't care as long as it could be shipped there by courier. Yeah, we'll ship it there because we're accepting Bitcoin. Cash. So, there's no fraud risk after the confirmations for us. The only thing you need to know is paid or unpaid. Right, exactly. And who wants it? Where is it? Yeah. Where do you want it to go? Right. Oh, my gosh, I love it. We'll ship it there. So, can I pay with other means or only Bitcoin? Only Bitcoin. Perfect. That's it. Just like the conference. Which is coming up. You guys don't miss it. You know, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, the 19th, the 21st. But Saturday is the big day. But we originally priced it only in Bitcoin. We said only Bitcoin. But we had some problems because people are flying here from Africa and China and Central and South America in places where they really can't buy Bitcoin yet. Yeah. So, we had to make special accommodations. You know, then they're like wanting to buy Bitcoin from us and all that. So, we just, you know, we will accept US dollars, but at a premium. So, there's an incentive to buy some Bitcoin before you get it. Actually, I heard that Manny might be standing out in front of the door, like outside on the street, selling Bitcoin for a big old premium. I'm sure a lot of competition does that. That's right. Everybody will be sitting there. You want to buy some Bitcoin for me? Yeah, because it's $26 equivalent for admission of Bitcoin.  And so, all of a sudden we're like, uh-oh, the hotel's not going to take Bitcoin. We had to put it, the US dollar equivalent. But then it's $26 equivalent. Admission are $52 US dollars at the door. A huge incentive. 100% tax if you want to use dollars. So anyway. But all right, so let me try this because I asked Ed what he wanted and I talked to actually your partner. So tell us about your partner. Yeah, so Eric Brigham is based sort of Denver, Colorado. He has a background in finance and engineering. And he actually got into Bitcoin before I did. So we ran into each other via mutual acquaintances and decided to work together. And I know Eric, I mean, in a cyber way from many communities. Yeah, so a lot of people do. He ran Bitcoin Gateway. Right. And I know like the first radio interview I did after I created that Bitcoin Me site and it became, you know, the place to learn for newbies about Bitcoin. I did a radio interview and a lady, a wonderful lady named Janet from Toledo, Ohio. She called me up. I want to buy Bitcoins right now with a credit card. And I said, okay, we'll go to Bitcoin Gateway, which you could do at the time. It was great. Yeah. And the hang up, you know, was dealt with the credit card companies. Yeah. Right. He was actually able to. He ran a great site that a lot of people, you know, really loved and found very reliable. Yeah. And, you know, honestly, great support. And he had absolutely no fraud because he knew how to prevent the fraud. It wasn't the only problem with it was the bank Yankee and their merchant account because they don't, the bank, so for some reason the banks don't like Bitcoin. I don't understand why they wouldn't.  I'll show you because Ed already gave me this item. Wait a minute. It's on my, I think it's right here. Yeah. Bulgari White. Okay. It's some kind of cologne, right? Can you see my screen? There we go. All right. So I typed it in and searched for it. And how's that? Is that big enough? Can you see? Okay. There we go. Need it bigger. All right. How's that? There we go. All right. Cool. All right. So talk to me. Which one is it? It says Bulgari White. Bulgari. This is cologne. Oh, the cologne spray. No. You said 2.5 ounces. Is that the one you want? All right. Cool. You got some Bitcoins? It's actually 3.7 Bitcoin. Oh, it tells you. About $40. Now, how much is this at the store? 50? Does that include shipping and everything? In tax? There's a small shipping fee, but I mean, it's like $50. Shipping and handling. $10. 100% shipping and handling. Okay. We'll find out. It's about 50 in the store, plus tax. All right. Yeah, plus tax. What's the sales tax? Dr. Frugal, you know, the host of the Frugal Show. If you could get it, Dr. Frugal approved. You know, really down. But of course, the store doesn't take Bitcoin. So here it is. Bulgari White. Bulgari White. Bulgari Ode Cologne Spray. 2.5 ounce. That's the one, right? Okay. Cool. Available at the end stock. Add to cart. Awesome. I'm adding to cart. I got to get out my Bitcoin credit card. Let's see here. Product name. Move to wish list. That's cool. So you've got a wish list. Absolutely. Can I send my wish list to people? Yeah. You bet. You can have a wish list on your website if you want to. Really? Yeah. Is there a widget for that? No. Oh, there's a link. Oh, that's cool. Because then I can register for my baby shower or my wedding shower. Except I'm not going to have a baby or a wedding anytime soon. But whatever. Okay. Quantity. How many bottles do you want? Just one. He's so cheap. All right. Let's see. Continue shopping or update shopping cart. Proceed to checkout. Can you see that? Wait. Apply coupon. Where do I get a coupon? Discount coupons. Where do I get those? You've got to know somebody. Okay. Check out with multiple addresses. You can have them shipped to multiple places. This is so sophisticated. How long have you been working on this? A month and a half. Okay. I'm going to put in. Now with my address. I'm going to put it in here. My address actually has to match the address on my Bitcoin credit card or you won't ship it, right? No. It doesn't? No. It doesn't have to match. So I could have things shipped to other people? Yeah. Absolutely. How do you prevent fraud? That's billing. That's what? Billing information. Oh. Billing information. Well, that's. Billing information would be. Let's see. Ship to a different. It's the same thing. Yeah. You can. Okay. So New York. Everybody knows my address. What's the date of my end? No, not Nebraska. Not Nevada. New Jersey. New York. Okay. This is live television. Okay. One. What is it? We have the first zip code in the US 101. What's my telephone number? Everybody knows. They call me during the show. I read it off my arm chair. Okay. Facts. What's a fax? I don't remember that. Sign up for newsletters. Ship to this address. Ship to a different address. That's it. Yeah. Ship to this address. What? Oh, here it is. Over here. I've got it so magnified so everyone can see it. Yeah, I can't see the screen. That's okay. It says over here. Your checkout progress. Building address changed. All my address. Phone. Shipping address is all there. Oh, okay. So that's like a summary. Oh, continue. Yeah. That gigantic button. I missed it. Please specify shipping method. Oh, let's see. I've got it. Oh, there it is. I had the screen so magnified so you could see it. I didn't see the button. Standard. Zero bitcoins. What? Shipping is free? On some items. Apparently. That's cool. Bitcoin. A unique Bitcoin payment address will be shown on the order confirmation order will be shipped upon payment. Continue? Yep. Oh, there it is. Order review. This is so slick. Did you guys code this yourselves? Parts of it. You personally? No, not personally. No. But we have a very talented group of people who've- You must have a lot of angel investors or seed money or something. This is really slick. Okay. This is actually a lot more sophisticated than Amazon, I think. Amazon is so busy and cluttered and annoying, it just hurts my eyes. Okay. But this is like so easy. So one bottle, 3.7 bitcoins, subtotal 3.7. Oh, shipping and handling standard shipping, 55 bit cents, grand total, 4.25 bitcoins. Terms of use. That means you own everything I type, right? Right. Place order. Okay. I don't know. Did you guys read that contract? Let me know if I signed anything I shouldn't have. Okay. Your order has been received. Thank you for your purchase. My order number. Wait a minute. My order number is 1-0-0-0-0-0-8. Who are the seven people who got ahead of me? We've been testing. Just for testing. They were real orders. I'm sorry. You better say that. We didn't truncate the database. You better say that. Okay. You receive an order confirmation email with details of your order. Click here to print a copy of your confirmation. There's my Bitcoin address. Oh, my gosh. Payment due, 4.25. We did more than eight tests, but we cleared out the database periodically and someone neglected to clear it out before the show today. Eric, you neglected it. Okay. Last ordered items. Oh, it remembers so I can order them again. Yeah, absolutely. That's it. It sent me an email with this probably with the same thing, the Bitcoin address. You get a confirmation. That's it. That is so slick. As soon as you send the Bitcoin, shipping label gets printed, slapped on the package, shipped to you. What's the standard shipping? Is that like UPS or postal? It actually depends on the warehouse. Manny, are you listening? Go check the front door and see if the UPS guy's here. I just ordered some Cologne for Ed. So this was 4.25 Bitcoin altogether. How much is 4.25 Bitcoin? Let's see. 10.85. We're going to check this out. 10.85 at this very moment times, and this includes everything, 4.25, $46.11. $46.11 including tax. That includes tax. That includes everything. Tax shipping, everything. Everything. $46.11. How much is this at the store? The same thing that you just bought? How much was it? 50. 50. Plus tax? Including tax. Maybe. Around there. So that's cool. They're legitimate deals. That's amazing. That is so cool. I can keep a wish list. Can I have more than one wish list? One for my baby shower, one for my wedding. We're looking into adding that. Cool. But I can publish it. A link to it. So my friends can go and see my wish list. And they can buy me things. Oh, I'm going to do that. I'm going to put a wish list. And only one TV wish list. All the things I want. Yeah. You should. That's cool. That is really, really cool. What else? Are there any other things that I didn't notice? This is just so easy. Unfortunately, I can't see the screen. Well, I'm just looking at the main page. Let me look at electronics. Can you see that? I want to see electronics. We're geeks. We like electronics. Here we go. What do we have here? Oh, my gosh. We've got all different categories. I just drill into them. Millions of things. Batteries, calculators, binoculars. There's so many. I wonder if there are subcategories. Oh, this is electronics and computers. Oh, there they are. I can't see. I mean, yeah. Two-way scanners and monitors. Absolutely. Marine optics, GPS, camera, photo. Computers. I want to see computers. We're such geeks. All right. 8,627 computer-related products. Right. So you can scroll down to this category. Oh, there's more. Yeah. You've just got magnified too much. Yeah. I got to scroll. Okay. Wow. So we're actual CPUs. Systems, networking, motherboards, desktops. That's what I want. Right there at the top. 95 different desktops. Wow. Okay. Let's see. Let's see here. These are desktop systems. Unbelievable. You've got scanners and keyboards and everything related to CPUs. This is amazing. So I can just put in the search box any item that I might be interested in. That is so slick. Okay. So over a million items. There's already over a million items? It's going to be. Right now, there's 700,000 or so. Before public launch, there will be over a million. Only 700,000. Right. All right. That's cool. And when is it going from beta to public launch? Well, that depends on a lot of different things. But we're looking at a timeframe about a month. About a month. Okay. So real soon. All right. Cool. And let's see. All right. So tell me more about Truecoin because you said that this is one of the projects. Yes. So what are the other projects? This is actually one of the smaller projects. So. Wow. This is one of the smaller projects. Right. So tell me the other projects. This is very small compared to... I want to know all the other projects. I know you do. I wish I could tell you right now. But we're going to have to cover that in another show. You can't tell me. Can you hint about what it is? Is it about... Are they shopping sites? No, they're not shopping sites. It's... There are things that are going to change the Bitcoin community and change the way people use Bitcoin. Yeah. Keep going. That's it? What do you mean? It's going to have a tremendous impact on the Bitcoin community. And it's a lot bigger than Bitcoin deals even. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Okay. That is a tease. That is a tease. So you got to give us more than that. How is it going to change on a future show? So how is it going to change the entire Bitcoin community? Well, it's going to have a tremendous impact on the Bitcoin community. It's going to make it much bigger. Well, I mean... Much bigger. Yeah. We'll just have to talk about it later. I'm going to hold you to that. You should. I want to hear more. I look forward to it. How many... Okay. I'm going to keep asking questions until you tell me. How many projects does Truecoin have on their plate right now? You could group them into four different projects, I guess. Macro projects. Beyond Bitcoin deals. Oh yeah. Yeah. Four other projects. Four other projects. Are they all bigger than Bitcoin deals? Yes. By large margin. Wow. So who's behind Truecoin? Just you and Eric? There are others. And there are others. This is so mysterious. Wow. This is cool. And I look forward to fleshing out all the details. Yeah. And just going to do it on this show. So do I. Okay. Well, we'll have to... Future episode. In confidence. Okay. Cool. All right. Well, on that note, let me just take a quick break. Sure. Because we want to thank the wonderful sponsors who bring us to you every day. And they are obviously MtGox, m-t-g-o-x dot com. MtGox is the market leader, the vast majority market share in online exchanges. So when you want to buy Bitcoin online, from the comfort of your easy chair, you can check out MtGox. It's m-t-g-o-x dot com. And MtGox actually is obviously the largest online exchange service for Bitcoins. They now take euros, Great Britain pounds, you know, the British sterling, Australian dollars, Canadian dollars. The euro is actually going to be... They've announced that it's going to be implemented with the new acquisition of Bitomat, the Polish exchange. It's already been announced. And MtGox mobile app is in the Android market, which allows you to use Bitcoins on the go. UBikey, USB security, which I recommend highly, because with that UBikey, USB security, you know, we demonstrated it and all that, but the two-factor authentication with a USB device, it suddenly struck me the other day. I was like just having breakfast and it hit me that, wait a minute, this UBikey thing actually prevents the problem of viruses. Because first of all, if you're using MtGox as your Bitcoin wallet or whatever, the wallet is not on your computer. Secondly, even a keyboard capture virus won't affect you if you're using UBikey, because it only gives you that password for like one second or two seconds. So it really prevents the problems of these keyboard capture viruses which are, you know, rampant. When you have, for example, when you're getting emails from your friends that have little spam links for Viagra and stuff, that's a keyboard capture virus that has stolen their email credentials and the virus is now sending out spam, which is spam is spam, but this is actually the potential to steal your money. So the UBikey is really important. So anyway, we thank MtGox for their support of the Bitcoin show. Send them an email and thank them for supporting us as well. And BitPay. BitPay is really cool. They're one of our new sponsors. It's bit-pay.com is their site. And BitPay is a merchant processor for Bitcoin. They allow you to accept Bitcoin payments from your website and you can receive Bitcoin as, you know, directly sent to you or you can receive US dollars instead and they'll automatically deposit it into your account either way. In fact, they do. They don't hold on to your money. They insist that it be deposited immediately. So they're not acting as a wallet. They're just passing it through. It's very wise. Yeah, right? And it's super, super simple. I mean, even I can do it. I did it on the show and they give you a simple little HTML widget that you can plug into any website and they even include their own shopping cart. Or if you already have a site that has a sophisticated shopping cart, it will integrate right into your shopping cart as well. So you can do it either way. It generates QR codes, invoices, all sorts of things. So like literally you can have a QR code for every single item and you scan it and it puts it into the shopping cart on that device. Or obviously you just click the Bitcoin button and it puts it into a shopping cart. But it's really, really simple and then it automatically emails them a Bitcoin address. But it really lowers the barrier for any website to accept Bitcoin, which is really, really key. So we thank BitPay and they're going to be here for the conference as well. Can't wait to meet all those guys in person. Although they've been in the show, we'll be meeting in person for the first time as most people at the conference will be. It's going to be so exciting. Bitcoinconference.com, check it out. You've got to come. Even if you can only come for one day. And Mezzagrill, obviously everybody knows. The famous Mezzagrill, M-E-Z-E, grill.com. If you're in New York, whether you live here, you're passing through. Everybody who's anybody, I say, either lives in New York or they pass through New York at some point or another. Everybody does, right?  Columbus Circle is a landmark you're going to see anyway. It's the southwest corner of Central Park. And when you get there, you're going to go, oh my gosh, I've seen this in all the movies. This is the scene where this movie and that movie took place. And it's like a real hub. A lot of celebrities stay in that area. It's really, really ritzy. Well, and so beautiful. And anyway, it's literally like three blocks south. Three blocks directly south of that. On the left-hand side of the street is Mezzagrill. And Mezzagrill is the first brick-and-mortar restaurant in the world to accept Bitcoin. Not only do they accept Bitcoin, open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, seven days a week, but they actually sell Bitcoin now, which is really cool. Really? I didn't know that. You didn't know that? You have to watch the show. Yeah, we talked about that. They actually sell Bitcoin. They charge 6% fee and they limit it to $1,000 value per day.  That's it. The rate's not negotiable. No, the limit is not negotiable. Right. And all that. But you can literally go there and give them $100 and buy $100 with a Bitcoin anytime they're open seven days a week, which is really cool. Yeah, that's awesome. Right? It's so cool. And yeah, I mean, I set up the Mezzagrill with my Bitcoin account.  But the owner, Marwan, he's been a guest on the show too. He's still a Bitcoin evangelist. He still loves Bitcoin. Well, that wasn't a Bitcoin problem. Exactly. A scammer. Exactly.  That's not a reflection on the dollar. No reflection on the gold inside the bank. Two separate things. Totally. I think everyone could have figured that out. So obviously, so he's still a huge Bitcoin fan and advocate. And now not only accepts Bitcoin, but sells Bitcoin. So cool. So cool. All right. So we thank them. You know, email Marwan and thank him. Then we have a new sponsor, CableSaurus.com. It's Cable, C-A-B-L-E, Saurus, S-A-U-R-U-S, CableSaurus.com. And CableSaurus is, like I say, a brand new sponsor pronounced CableSaurus like Dinosaur. They have quality and fast shipping specialty mining equipment, gaming and PC supplies shipped directly from the USA with free shipping available. They have the best gear for miners and gamers such as PCIE extender cables and variety of sizes, GPU, graphics cards, PSU power supply, dummy plugs, riser converter cards, dual PSU cables, all sorts of mining gear. Thousands of satisfied customers in the Bitcoin community and they accept payment in Bitcoins and dollars. So that's CableSaurus.com. A brand new sponsor, be sure and send them an email and thank them for supporting the Bitcoin show. And Bitbrew. Bitbrew.com is B-I-T-B-R-E-W. Actually, it's Bitbrew.net. Sorry, don't make my mistake. It's Bitbrew.net, B-I-T-B-R-E-W.net. Bitbrew makes, I don't know where they get their coffee, but actually Ed ordered some like months and months ago, right? Well, when Bitcoin was 23 cents or something like that, it was like really cheap.  He doesn't want any other coffee. And I mean, I didn't know what the story was, but he just was crazy. I mean, for me, I'll drink anything. But he's like a coffee connoisseur. He loves their coffee. So they, all coffee orders, they say here, roasted to order guaranteed freshness, possible shipping, you know, product. They have organic and fair trade coffees as well as rare and exotic high-end varieties like Jamaican Blue Mountain. It's not a blend and Darwinian delight from a Galapalus Island estate, whole bean or ground to order, now shipping internationally at a flat rate. Everything is sold exclusively for Bitcoins. Bitcoins and Bitcoins only using static pricing, static Bitcoin pricing. So it's really, really cool. Very cool. Very cool, right? So not only are we in love with their coffee and that's the only thing that he'll have here in the office that if you're drinking coffee at only one TV, it's Bitbrew. And this is way, way before they became a sponsor. Right, yeah. And so, I mean, we take on sponsors that we believe in and that's what we do. You won't see an ad for Monsanto on only one TV. And then the other thing is that they shipped us a whole bunch of Bitbrew coffee. They shipped us crates of it that we're going to, not crates, but boxes of it, that we're going to give away in gift bags at the conference. Awesome.  So be sure and contact them and thank them for sponsoring the Bitcoin show as well. All right? We thank all of our sponsors. So, all right. So back to Bitcoin deals. How does Bitcoin deals relate to, how does it differ from a site that, like some of these other sites where they have, like I can go to Amazon and I can use a referral link or whatever and I can get some reward for shopping on Amazon. I mean, I guess, well, I guess the difference is that you can't use Bitcoin, right? Right. I mean, this is a, you know, beginning to end solution for shopping in Bitcoin. So you don't have to mess with any other websites. Or any other currencies. Or yeah, or any other currencies.  Speaking of regardless of where you are on the planet, if I live in Singapore, can I order anywhere? We're not doing international shipping yet, but we will before our public launch. And that's in about a month, maybe? In about a month, yeah. About a month. And then you'll be shipping worldwide? Worldwide. Wow. Anywhere that UPS or FedEx will ship, we will ship. Wow. That's almost everywhere. Yeah, it's all but... Almost. You know, 10 countries or something like that. Yeah, yeah. I tried to send something to Namagand, Uzbekistan via FedEx, and they wouldn't do it. They go to the capital, Tashkent or something, but not to Namagand. Oh really? Yeah. FedEx is limited in... Almost everywhere. A few countries. Yeah. They have to get on a donkey or whatever they... But if someone can find a secure, they go where customers want to buy. There you go. You know? I mean, we'll figure it out. Cool. We're gonna arrange it. Cool. And there is gonna be telephone support too? Like, I could really literally call... Yeah, absolutely. And talk to... And am I gonna... Not, you know, after our public launch? After the public launch. Yes. And will I be speaking to somebody at... TruKoin... Yes. Okay, cool, cool. I won't be somebody who I can't understand their English or anything like that and they don't know what I'm talking about. Right. Like one time I called Microsoft for tech support. Don't ever do that. Sure. Don't ever try that. And I was on hold for like 50 minutes and I finally got a hold of somebody and the guy goes... I told him my whole issue and everything and he goes, this word, can you please spell this word? I'm sorry, sir. Can you please spell this word? Windows. This is Microsoft. I'm like, this is Microsoft? He goes, yes, this word. I'm sorry, sir. But can you please spell this word? Windows. And I'm like, oh no, forget it. This is Microsoft tech support. And he didn't know the word Windows. Yeah. Anyway, but obviously that's not the issue. Okay. We won't have any language barriers or understanding what company they are with. Cool. So I want to hear more about these other projects, actually. This is really, really exciting. And we're going to be shopping at Bitcoin Deals, but you can't give me any more hints. What could be like so, so big that dwarfs over a million items the eBay of Bitcoin? It'll be much bigger than that. Much bigger. Much bigger. Much bigger. Has anybody ever called you a tease? Okay. Well, maybe I'll get it out of Eric. I'll see. I'm going to keep hounding you guys until I can find out. What's the time frame that you're going to be able to tell me all this stuff? Hmm. Senator, I do not recall. Well, I think, I mean, I will be willing to tell you more in a couple of months. A couple of months. All right. Well, I have to stay tuned, I guess. Oh my gosh. I'll be back. I'll be back in your show to talk to. And I'll be back. Okay. Cool. All right. So what else do you want to, you want the viewers to know about Bitcoin Deals right now? Well, right now we're in invite-only mode, so the way to get an invite is to follow us on Twitter. Ah. So Twitter.com slash Bitcoin Deals. So it's just Bitcoin Deals. We reward our followers in the order that they followed us by sending them an invite Oh. Before everyone else. So, you know, when it's time to send out more invites, like I said, we do it in the order of the people. In the order they follow you. Yeah. That's very smart. This is so easy. That's really, really cool. So anyone can get an invite simply by following us on Twitter. Okay. So it's just Twitter.com slash Bitcoin Deals. All one word. Deals plural. Okay, cool. I click on my account and I can see my status and my orders. This is just so simple. It's so easy. It's like, who designed this layout? This is really simple. We have a team of designers in Argentina, actually. Argentina? Yeah. Do they take Bitcoin? Not yet. This is so cool. Phone and telecom. I'm going to have a lot of fun. Can I just order anything I want? And, um, I just did. You can order whatever you want. I'm not promising that it's going to be free. You're looking to order anything. You know I was going to say free. No, that's cool. Look at that. Oh my gosh.  All right. This is cool. Okay.  I'm just going to grill you until I hear more about these other projects. Or other projects. And all four of them dwarf Bitcoin Deals. Yes. By a large margin. How big of a margin? Very large margin. Like this big? Like if Bitcoin Deals is this big. Like you're talking about that big? At least that big, yeah. That big? Yeah. Bitcoin. Oh my gosh. This is really exciting. And it just blows me away.  So if I go to, what happens if I Google Truecoin? Let's see. Yeah, just go to truecoin.com. Are there any secrets there? No secrets. Ah. You can follow us on Twitter. Oh, that's it. I can email you and follow you on Twitter. Yes. I can do that already. Launching soon. If you'd like to be a beta tester. Oh, I want to be a beta tester. I can be a beta tester of Truecoin. Yeah, should us an email. I'll put you on the list of beta testers. I can be a beta tester. That's how I can find out what these are about. If I become a beta tester. Yeah, but we haven't started beta testing yet. Ah, okay. That's cool though. But if you want to be the first on the list, you know, you can email us now and get at it. Okay. I'm going to do that. Remind me. All right. This is so cool. Bitcoindeals.com. All right. And you guys are going to be a sponsor, by the way.  Yeah. We'll talk about that after. Well, thanks, Chris. I really, really appreciate you taking the time. Hey, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. And I'm so excited that you're here for the conference. Yeah, I am too. I'm thrilled about the conference. So excited. I'm very excited. I heard Satoshi is going to be there. I heard that too. We'll see. We'll be watching. Because I know what he looks like. He's Japanese. I read it on a blog somewhere. It's going to be exciting. It's going to be so exciting. Yeah. We'll look forward to the conference. Again, thanks for joining us. And we'll see you guys same time tomorrow, 2 p.m. Eastern. And we're now doing the Bitcoin show in 10 languages. We're launching the Bitcoin show. I don't know if I told this before. We're launching the Bitcoin show in 11 languages, 10 more, besides English. So we're doing the Bitcoin show every day. 2 p.m. Eastern time. That's New York time. Every day Monday through Friday. And then we're actually doing two other shows a day in two other languages that are weekly. So what is it? 10 a.m. And 4 p.m., I believe. So every single day we're doing this rolling launch. We're going to do 10 other languages. It's like French. Let's see. French, Polish, German. If I can remember them all. Dutch, Japanese, Korean. Spanish, of course. And Russian. And I'm forgetting two more. But it's crazy. We're going to have 10 languages in addition to English. It's exciting. Yeah. It's so exciting. It's a global currency. Yeah. And only when TV is a global network. So it's a perfect match. Good deal. Yeah. So anyway, see you guys tomorrow. Same time. 2 p.m. Eastern, thanks for joining us. Thanks again, Bruce. Thank you.