Okay, let's just pray together and we will get started. Thomas, can you pray and then we will start, please. Father, we thank you for this wonderful day, Daddy. We bless your holy name. Thank you for your mercy and grace. The divine wisdom to learn from your vodalokas. We sit to listen and hear and learn from your vod. Help us to understand and meditate your vod and to learn something from your vodalokas. Let the wisdom of God rest upon us. We thank you. We praise you. Continue to minister as Holy Spirit. We thank you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Alright, good morning. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to BC 308 of the course on Revelation and Daniel. We are working through the book of Revelation, verse by verse. We have covered till Revelation chapter 12. We've come to the end of Revelation chapter 12. And we're going to start today with Revelation chapter 13. Just to quickly review what we have seen in Revelation 11. Revelation chapter 11 is actually the midpoint of the seven-year tribulation. Revelation chapter 11. So chapter 11 is the beginning of that midpoint. It's three and a half years into the seven-year tribulation. We know that because it's clearly stated in chapter 11 in the very beginning. You know, it talks about 42 months, chapter 11, verse 2, that the holy city will be trampled by the Gentiles for 42 months. So that's clearly three and a half years. And what we saw in chapter 11 was it was about the two witnesses. And they will be, the two witnesses would be on the earth in the 42-month period, verse 3. Revelation 11 verse 3 says 1,260 days. And chapter 11 gives us, you know, an overview of what will happen during that three and a half year ministry of the two witnesses. And of course, you know, we do our best based on what we know from the rest of scripture to try and identify, you know, who these two witnesses would be and what would be the possible ways in which they will come on the earth. And so this is our best understanding. And so we put some thoughts together on that. And then chapter 11 towards the end of chapter 11, it's that great announcement by the seventh angel or the seventh trumpet saying, you know, that the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ is announcing about what is going to happen. Then chapter 12, which we spent time in last week, is again, it is something that happens in the middle of the tribulation and goes on till the end of the tribulation. That is the second half of the tribulation, that three and a half year period. And chapter 12 is focusing on the dragon, the red dragon that is serpent, the red dragon, the serpent that is the devil.  But he's not allowed to get in there. Michael and the archangels, other angels are stopping. And they push him back to the earth. And he comes with great anger. And knowing that his time is short. And then again, chapter 12 says, verse 14 of chapter 12 says, it's for a time, times and half a time. So that means three and a half years or, yeah. So it tells us very clearly that, you know, this is for that three and a half year period or 1,000 to 60 days. So he knows he has a short time. He's got only three and a half years left. And he comes with great vengeance. And his target is, his target is the people of Israel. And especially like it says in Revelation 12 or 17, are the rest of offspring who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus. So it's basically he's going after Israel. And he's going after the people who keep the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus. So that's his target. The people who believe in Jesus Christ, he's going after them. So that's where we stop. So this is what is going to happen in the second half of the tribulation, the three and a half year period. Satan is going to be going with the great wrath, the great vengeance against those who do not know Jesus. So that's why during the three and a half, during the seven year tribulation, there will be people who turn to Jesus Christ, but it's going to be very difficult because, you know, the devil is going to do things to destroy them. Now, when we get into chapter 13, and I just give a little introduction and then we will read it. Very interestingly, chapter 13 kind of begins with some sort of description that is very similar to what we read in the book of Daniel. You see in the book of Daniel, when we, especially when you read chapter seven and eight, of course, in chapter two, chapter seven, chapter eight, we read in a chapter two, we read about this big image. In chapter seven, we read about these four beasts, you know, animal like creatures. In chapter eight, we read about the goat and the ram and the goat. We read about that in chapter eight. So it's all these pictures of animals and especially in chapter seven, he sees these beasts coming with, you know, different horns and all of that. Now here in chapter 13 of Revelation, it begins with similar picture. And so for us, it doesn't take us by surprise because, hey, we've read this in Daniel. And so we understand that this is, you know, it is connected to what Daniel has already spoken. And then chapter 13 focuses on the beast and another beast, or which later on we'll find out it's the antichrist and the false prophet. But in chapter 13 is the antichrist referred to as the beast and the false prophet is referred to as the another beast. Later on in Revelation 16, they refer to as the antichrist or the beast and so on. So again, chapter 13 is a narrative of what the antichrist and the false prophet will do in the three and a half year period, in the second half of the tribulation. So chapter 11, chapter 12 and chapter 13 are all descriptions of what happens in the three and a half year period starting from the middle of the tribulation towards the end of the tribulation. Chapter 11 is about the two witnesses God sends. Chapter 12 is about what Satan the dragon does towards Israel and those who believe in Jesus Christ. And chapter 13 is about the antichrist and the false prophet, what they will be doing in the second half of the tribulation. So let's begin reading verse by verse, Revelation 13th chapter. And let's read, I think we can read all the way, the first 10 verses. Revelation chapter 13 verses 1 to 10. Could somebody read it out for us please? Alright, who wants to read? Anyone? If your mic is alright, just go ahead and read. Go ahead Prince. Then I stood on the side of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns. And on his own ten crowns and on his head a blessed sounds name. Blessed sounds name, yeah. Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear.  And dragon gave him his power, his throne and great authority. And I saw one of his hands as if it had been mortally wounded and his deadly wounded was held. And all the world marveled and followed the beast. So they worshipped the dragon who gave authority to the beast. And they worshipped the beast saying, who is like the beast? Who is able to make way with him? And he was given a mouth speaking great things. And blessed sounds name and he was given authority to continue. For 42 months then he opened his mouth in blessing against God to bless him. His name, his travelnacle and those who built in heaven. It was granted to him to make way with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every travel, tongue and nation. All who built on the earth will worship him. Whose name have not been written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If anyone has an ear, let him hear. He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity. He who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the passion and the faith of the saints. All the saints. Thank you. So Revelation 13 verses 1 to 10. In verse 1 John is describing what he is saying. So he says, look, I'm standing on the sand of the sea and I saw a beast rising out of the sea. So now it's a vision. It's what he's saying, sand. So this is now he's seeing something happening here on earth. Standing on the sand of the sea on the earth. The sea. Now the sea is typically a prophetic image. Typically a prophetic image of multitudes nations. We know that because in the subsequent chapters of Revelation 17, we see again the image Revelation 17. It's this Revelation 17 1. There's this great harlot and we will come to this chapter later. Who sits upon the waters, the seas. And then in verse 15, Revelation 17 15, it says the waters that you saw are multitudes people's nations and tongues. Revelation 17 15. So typically, I'm not saying every time, but typically this prophetic image of a sea or great waters, you know, like the sea or the ocean vast expanse of water. It represents multitudes nations, peoples and tongues. It means peoples of the world. So he is seeing here out of the sea. It means out of the nations is seeing a beast rise. Revelation 13 verse 1. And again, this very strange looking because it has seven heads, 10 horns and there are crowns on these 10 horns. And he has a blasphemous name on his heads. Now, seven heads, 10 horns and 10 crowns. And these heads are blasphemous names. Now this picture looks somewhat similar to what we saw in Daniel. Now here, seven, seven heads, seven, seven means perfection. You know, something that's perfect. That is, here come these 10 horns. Horns are representing power, authority, influence, leadership. So when you compare it with Daniel, there are 10 toes. Or when you compare that's Daniel chapter two. Or when you come into Daniel chapter seven, he sees a beast with 10 horns. So seven heads representing, you know, this is leadership that is head, leadership or leadership. Seven heads, perfect headship, perfect leadership. That is, that these 10 horns carry, 10 horns represent 10 leaders. We comparing it with Daniel chapter two and Daniel chapter seven. And this leadership is actually blasphemous. We will, we will see later on, right? So that means this is not a God glorifying. This is not a God given a God raised up type of leadership. It's a blasphemous. It's something anti-God type of leadership. And there are seven crowns. I mean, these are, sorry, 10 crowns, 10 horns for 10 crowns. I mean, these are 10 leaders. Crowns of course are representing authority, dominion, influence. So here are these 10 leaders who are emerging out of these nations. Their headship is blasphemous. And it's their leadership that they provide is actually anti-God blasphemous. And they have crowns. They are leaders. They have influence. They have dominion. And then this beast was to is a combination of the leopard, the bear and the lion. Now, of course, when we read leopard, bear and lion here by itself, it looks a little strange, but let's go back to Daniel chapter seven. Let's turn there because we have looked at this before. If you go back to Daniel chapter seven and when Daniel is having this vision, right? Versus four through seven, Daniel seven, four through seven. He's seeing a series of beasts. The first beast is like a lion, which represents, at that time when Daniel was speaking, the Babylonian empire or king. That is Daniel chapter seven verse four of the first was like, as he says, I saw four beasts coming up from the sea. And then he says, this is Daniel chapter seven verse three says, I saw four great beasts coming out of the sea. And then he says, the first was like a lion. Oh, lion. Daniel chapter seven was four. Revelation 13 verse, verse two mentions lion. Then he says, verse five, I saw bear. A second beast was like a bear. Same. You see a bear in Revelation 13 too. And then we're six of Daniel seven. He says, I saw another beast, which was like a leopard. Right. And then in chapter seven, the explanation is given. Right. If you go with me to Daniel chapter seven and verse 17. The angel who comes to Daniel and speaks to me says, those great beasts, which are four are four kings, which arise out of the earth. So these four are four kings or kingdoms, empires, which arise out of the earth. And then he helps him understand, you know, that this. This four kings, which have we see this later on being explained in chapter eight as well. He understands that, you know, Daniel chapter eight, verse 20, he talks about the kings of media and Persia, verse chapter eight, verse 21, Greece. So later on in another vision, he sees the explanation. So we work backwards. We can understand that the lion was representing the Babylonian Empire, which was the empire that was in existence. And then the bear was representing the Meads and the Persians. And the leopard was representing the Greek Empire. So these animals or beasts were representing kingdoms from whom came the horns or the leaders, the kings. So now we translate that or we transfer that to Revelation 13, verse two. So now we can tell that the leopard that he was talking that he sees is when we connected back to Daniel chapter seven. The leopard is the Greek kingdom. The bear is the Meads and the Persians. And the lion represents the Babylonian Empire Kingdom. So now in Revelation 13, verse two, Daniel is seeing this beast. But this beast is a combination of the Greek, the Meads and the Persians and the Babylonian kingdoms. And this beast has all of us and the dragon gives this beast, verse two, power and is thrown and great authority. So what we understand from Daniel is that this man, this antichrist, he's going to come forth from this part of the world, this region. Specifically, and I'll just point you again, we saw this earlier, but I'll point it to you again. If you go back with me to Daniel chapter eight, he tells us very specifically. Daniel eight and verse eight to nine. Daniel eight versus eight to nine. He talks about the male goat. In Daniel eight, the male goat represents the Greek Empire. Daniel eight versus eight, the male goat, the Greek Empire, became very great. And the large horn that is the leader, the horn representing the leader, was broken. And in its place, four notable ones came up toward the four winds of heaven. And out of one of them, Daniel eight versus nine, out of one of them came a little horn, which grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward the east and toward the glorious land. So what is Daniel saying? This male goat representing the Greek Empire expanded. So really, when Alexander the Great, when he came into power, he expanded, he covered all of Greek, Greece, and expanded over into modern day Turkey, over expanded all the way across modern day Babylonia, that was Iran, Iraq, Syria, all those regions. And he expanded all the way to touching the northern part of India. So you can imagine how great an empire, Alexander the Great, the Greek Empire became very fast, starting all the way from the eastern part of Europe, which is from Greece, all the way to touching the northern part of India, he conquered. So it covered all those regions. And he covered all the regions of Greece, Persians, which typically Iran, Babylonia, Iraq, and Syria, all of those regions. He covered all of that. And, but this notable horn, the large horn, Daniel eight and verse eight was broken. That he suddenly died, lost his power. And then out of that came the four emperors. And then what Daniel eight, verse nine says is out of one of them, that means out of the four regions of the Greek Empire, which the Greek Empire was broken into after Alexander's death, out of one of those four regions emerged this little horn, which later in chapter eight of Daniel becomes the Antichrist. So we come back here, Revelation 13 verse two. And he's saying, look, in this region where there was the Greek, the Medi-Persians, the Babylonians, from that region is coming this Antichrist, that little horn. So we don't exactly which country or which city, but we look at those regions, like all of Greek and all around the neighboring countries that is basically, we're talking about a good portion of Eastern Europe. We're looking at all of Turkey around the Mediterranean, because the Empire extended all of that, covered all of that. Those regions covered Egypt, even Egypt, the northern part of Africa, and then extended across many of the Arab nations all the way into India. So that's the reason and it was broken into four portions. And we know that from that region, this Antichrist is going too much. And now that there are many countries there, notably, you would say, Greek and Turkey and Syria and Egypt, and these are the major countries, but there are the smaller countries as well. But from that comes this person of great influence. And the dragon, I'm now back in Revelation 13 verse two, the dragon is giving his him power, his throne and great authority. So this beast of the Antichrist is backed up by the dragon. And then it says in verse three, I saw one of his heads, as if it had been mortally wounded and his deadly wound was healed and all the world marveled and followed the beast. So we don't know what exactly this means, meaning what does this mean? One of his heads was mortally wounded, but it was healed and the world marveled. And even when you read different commentaries and what people think about this, it's interesting. One suggestion is that maybe there is an attempt to destroy this beast, like an assassination attempt to destroy his headship, so head representing headship or leadership. Something that is done to undermine his leadership may be an assassination attempt because it says it's mortally wounded, but he survived. And so the world marvels and they respect the beast. So that is one suggestion of what this could mean in Revelation 13 verse 3. And it sounds logical, it sounds plausible. Let me see, it's possible in our day and time that maybe this leader is emerging and there's an attempt to assassinate him or try to get rid of him, but he survives and he continues because he's backed up by the dragon. But whatever happens in verse 3, whether it's an assassination attempt or whether it is something else that tries to undermine his leadership, he survives and it makes the world marvel and follow him. That means people all around the world say, wow, this is a man, this is the kind of man we must be following.  So verse 4 says that people actually worship the dragon because they worship the beast. So I look at verse 4 very carefully. They worship the beast, but they actually ended up worshiping the dragon. So that becomes the ultimate objective here. That if you can get the nations to worship the beast, they are actually worshiping the dragon. That is Satan who is empowering this man, the beast. And he becomes very powerful and he is able to make... Nobody is able to make war with him, meaning he is so powerful. Military also becomes very powerful. And it says in verse 5, he begins to speak blasphemies. So this is so much like what we already read in Daniel that when this little horn comes into power, he begins to blaspheme against God. And he begins to speak all kinds of things against God. And verse 5 says he continues for 42 months. So this is talking about the second half of the tribulation period. 42 months, three and a half years. So what we are seeing is the emergence of this beast. Now our question is, does that mean the beast only shows up in the middle of the tribulation? Or is he there from the beginning of the tribulation? Now what we must understand here is Daniel told us very clearly that this abomination of dissolution will sign a covenant. I'm quoting Daniel 9.27. Will sign a treaty for one week, that is for seven years. But in the middle of the week, he will break it. So that means this Antichrist has come into power at the beginning of the tribulation. But he has come as a man of peace. He signs a peace treaty. And same thing in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, the Apostle Paul wrote that this man of perdition will not be revealed unless the church is taken away. Meaning that once he who restrains is taken out of the way, so once the church is taken out of the way, then the son of perdition, this man of desolation, the son of desolation is revealed. That means he comes into power. But he comes as a man of peace. Revelation 6.1, he comes riding on a white horse. He is given influence. But in the middle of the tribulation, this man who comes riding on a white horse now becomes the beast, the Antichrist. So that's why Revelation 13.1, the emphasis is on a beast. But the beast has already been in power based on Daniel 9.27 and 2 Thessalonians 2. He's already been in his place of influence from the beginning of the tribulation. That means for the first three and a half years. But it is in the middle of the tribulation, that is in the second three and a half years, that he becomes the beast. That means his whole behavior and everything changes. So that's how we're reading Revelation 13. He's referring to this man as the beast. And he is going to continue for 42 months. He's going to be being like this, the Antichrist, this abomination of desolation.  And verse 6 says he opens his mouth and again blasphemy against God. His blasphemy in the name of God, his tabernacle, so that's the temple. And those who dwell in heaven, even against all the heavenly horses, he's speaking against God. So he's speaking against the Lord Jesus and all of that. And he makes war with the saints. Revelation 13 verse 7, he makes war with the saints. So he's going against the people of God, against Israel and against everyone who calls on the name of Jesus. He's going against them and he overcomes them. That means he's killing them. And it says, verse 7, Revelation 13, 7, authority was given to move every tribe, tongue and nation, his influence extends globally. So that's why sometimes you'll hear the term of a world leader, because he clearly says he's going to have influence over every tribe, tongue and nation. So there's a world leader who begins to have great influence over every tribe, tongue and nation. And verse 8 says, all who dwell on the earth will worship him. So people are going to be attracted to this man. They're going to worship the beast. But remember when they worship the beast, they're actually worshiping the dragon. So they're going to be drawn to this man who's got such great influence. And verse 8 says, everyone whose names are not written in the book of life, they're going to worship him. Meaning these people are lost if they worship the dragon, worship the beast and eventually the dragon. So verse 10, Revelation 13, verse 10 says, this is what gives endurance and faith for the saints. What is it? That the saints know that those who lead into captivity will themselves go into captivity.  So the saints are going through a very hard time because this beast, this antichrist is making war with the saints. But this is what gives the saints endurance and faith. They know that those who lead into captivity will go and themselves be taken captives.  That God will deal with these people when the time comes. That these people, the beast and his subjects who, the antichrist and those who follow him, who oppress the saints, they're going to face their judgment. They're going to be killed. They're going to be sentenced. So that's what gives the saints endurance and faith when going through such hard times. Okay, so Revelation 13, 1 to 10, any questions on that? Is everything clear? Any questions? All right. So let's just read the next set of verses and then we will do whatever we can before the break time. So let's read Revelation chapter 13 verses 11 to 18. So we're continuing now in chapter 13. What is the beast and the false prophet? What do they do during those 42 months during that second half of the tribulation? This is interesting. Revelation 13, 11 to verse 18, 11 to 18. Somebody could read it for us, please. Thomas Conan Siddharth, whoever has working read. Revelation 13, 11 to 18, please. And they heard loud voice from heaven. Thank them. Revelation 13, 11. Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he exercised all the authority of the first beast in his presence and causes them earth and those who dwell into the worship, the first beast. Who's deadly wound was healed. He performs great signs so that he even makes fire came down from heaven on the earth in the sight of man. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he has granted to do in the sight of the beast. Telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lead. He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. He causes all both small and great rich and poor free and slave to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark. Or the name of the beast or the number of his name. Here is the wisdom. Let you who has understand, they calculate the number of the beast but it is the number of the man. His number is triple six. Okay. So, thank you. So look at verse 11. John says, I saw another beast coming on the earth. And he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. So, now John is saying and the beast again, you know, this is a combination of some animal, a lamb and a dragon spoke like a dragon. Right. So, and they had two horns. And this beast, another beast, when we come later on in Revelation 16, verse 13 and also Revelation 19 and verse 20, the second beast is referred to as false prophet, false prophet. So we have an idea who the second beast is in the sense he's a false prophet. So he has to do with religious worship, false prophet, what do prophets do? Prophets speak on behalf of a true prophet would speak on behalf of God and get people to worship God. What does a false prophet do? He speaks on behalf of the devil and gets people to worship the devil. And he is a messenger of the devil, a religious leader. Right. So this another beast because we know he's called false prophet. He is a religious leader. And what does he do? He exercises the authority of the first beast that is the Antichrist. So he basically is a delegate of the Antichrist. He is representing the Antichrist. And he causes all who dwell on the earth to worship the first beast. So what's the objective of the second beast, this false prophet, this religious leader? His job is to get people to worship the Antichrist, the first beast. But remember, when you worship the first beast, you're worshiping the dragon who is behind this man. And so what does his religious leader do verse 13? He performs signs and wonders and even causes fire to come. So he's almost like Elijah, but he's a counterfeit. He's doing signs and wonders in order to get people to worship the first beast that is the Antichrist. And verse 14 says, he deceives those who dwell on the earth. So he's going to have some way of convincing people, deceiving people into worshiping the Antichrist. So maybe it's a great preacher who can give wonderful messages and influence the masses of people to get them to worship the false Antichrist. And he does signs and he tells those who dwell on the earth to make an image of the beast. So he's getting them to make some image of the beast and to worship this image. Now in the latter part of verse 14, it says, the beast was wounded by the sword and lived. So it's connecting back to verse number three where there was an attempt to destroy him. So we see a little bit of explanation on what that attempt was. He was wounded by the sword and lived. So that's what we, you know, people say, maybe it's an assassination attempt, an attempt to kill him, which this beast survived. And that's why people, you know, people marvel and they follow this beast. But now in verse 15, what happens is, try to imagine this picture. And this false prophet is getting people to keep an image of the beast. Now we don't know what this image is, whether it's an image of stone or whether it's just a picture image or whatever it is. But he is able to give power to this image and this image is able to speak. This image is able to say things and it is able to cause, I'm looking at verse 15. This image is able to cause those who don't worship it to be killed. So it's a strange thing to think about. How would this be done? Is it completely going to be supernatural or is it going to be using technology or something?  And they can imagine like that. You know, it's very, and I'm just going a little side trip here, but in some places they've actually created robots of saints and they come and worship it and that that robot moves and that robot speaks. But it's representing a saint that is being worshiped, you know, and so people are trying that out. It's just interesting. I'm not saying, you know, what verse 14 and 15 or verse Revelation 13 and 15 will be a robot that can speak and, you know, release energy and do those kinds of things. I'm just saying, if you're looking at from a technology perspective, these things, the people are doing it. And it is very interesting to read an article. I think I did it on BBC where they had, I forget which country this was, but they had a shrine and instead of having, you know, a statue of a saint, they had a robot of that saint and the robot could obviously speak. It looked almost like, you know, the objective was to make something life-like, you know, that could speak and, you know, so when people come and, you know, they would instead of worshiping or paying their respects to a statue, here is a robot that moves and talks and this makes them feel very spiritual, whatever, you know. So those kinds of things people are trying out. So I was thinking here when I read Revelation 13 and 15 that maybe this image that is being distributed, telling people to, you know, keep it, it could be a small image of the Antichrist, which could be a robot that could speak and it can be remotely controlled through the internet. Yeah, but it doesn't have to be a benefit. It's going to be something different. That's fine, but I'm just trying to imagine how this verse 15 would be done, right? So he tells people to keep an image of the beast, this image will speak and it'll even strike people down dead if they don't worship it. Then, so there is this religious side to this meaning this false prophet is trying to get people to worship the Antichrist and this is where we get the idea or this phrase of a one world religion. So we talked about a world leader that is the Antichrist because of his influence that he'll have globally. Now we are looking at a kind of a religious system, but the objective is to get people to worship the beast, the image of the beast. So that's why we get this term of one world religion. That means this false prophet is going to promote a global religious system. Now we don't know what the name of this religion will be and we shouldn't unnecessarily try and give it a name. Sometimes people, they refer to certain denominations or parts of the Christian religion or sometimes even other religions and say that's this world religion, I don't think we should do that. It could be something completely new, which this false prophet brings into place. It's possible that things are set up, things come together in preparation for what this false prophet would do. That is possible, but let's not try to give a name to this. It's just that this false prophet is going to create a religious system trying to get people to worship the image of the beast, thereby eventually worship the dragon. The next thing we'll see, which we will do after we come back from the break is there is going to be a world economic system, a financial system as well. That is where you would hear the term a one world financial system or an economic system or a one world currency. People use different terms to talk about that. We will discuss that after the break. Let's take a break and we'll come back and we'll pick up with verse 16 from Revelation chapter 13. See you in 10 minutes. Thanks.


Are you looking for one simple drill that can make a huge difference? You need to set up your throw correctly that's critical to setting up your entire throw and speeding up success, so let's check it out. Hey everybody, what's up? It's Coach Johnson from Airtake Dose Nation. In today's video, we are gonna talk about the start. We get DMs. Please help me understand the throw and what we always talk about is a chain reaction. And if you've seen our videos and we talk about the six pillars of throw, remember the chain reaction works twofold. You either set up a good chain reaction or you set up a bad chain reaction. I always like those examples, we talk about those really intricate domino chains where it's like thousands of dominoes and all these things are going and falling. And so what happens is with those dominoes, if I take 10,000 dominoes and I take that first domino and it's supposed to fall and hit and trigger the rest of the dominoes and I take that first domino and I put it six inches away and it falls 9,999 dominoes don't do anything. So it just tells you that is the same principle with throwing. If I set up the throw correctly, we are going to throw and we're gonna have a much better chance of throwing correctly. Now there are some athletes who intuitively have a better start. There are some athletes who have a very difficult time with separating the lower body from the upper body. So now what we're gonna do is when we have to understand that basically what the start of the throw is, inside the throwing chain reaction, we set this up and we teach how do we create very specific positions. So I'll come over here and we'll do the same thing. So you're gonna notice we're gonna set up the wind and you're gonna see me create this nice long entry so that I'm gonna create this. If we're in the shot put, we're gonna see the same thing. We're gonna see how we're gonna set up the wind and then we're gonna be able to hinge and that's my pillar one and two. Now here's the thing. You have to set up the start correctly. So one of the things that we've talked about for years is a simple cue to help you guys understand how to wind. Now remember what's part of the goal of setting up a wind up, whether it's the shot. Why doesn't everybody just start and go or just start the discus and go? Because those are called static and you're losing the dynamic motion of the throw, right? Now one of the things we talk about is that one of the key goals when we're setting up the discus is we have to stay center because the shoulders separate from the hips, right? And that's really important. So if you ever come to a camp or you're a member of our throwing chain reaction system, you'll see that we're gonna go into depth. We have 11 drills just for teaching this. So here's one of those simple things and we're gonna give you one of those simple drills today. So one of the first things you wanna do is understand we call this a wind up one. A wind up one is where you're not gonna move the feet, knees, or hips because you're learning how to create separation. Now, if you haven't checked out our videos on are you wasting your time with the bench press or are you wasting your time with the squat, I highly recommend you check those out because in there I'm gonna explain why something like this simple move is actually really difficult for you. So if you sit here and you wind here, the wind up one is designed to teach you how to create separation. That means my hips are facing this way, my shoulders are facing this way. And remember in the discus you have two types of separation. So remember we hit separation because we're gonna be trying to learn how to create a dynamic response that is gonna help me feel this and create this shift into the throw. Some of the common mistakes we see are this. We see the athletes turning the hips and turning the shoulders. Now there's gonna be multiple reasons for that. And then we talk about that and we have drills to address all these different reasons. Now where's the position of the shoulders? Sometimes if the shoulders of athletes are winding too far back, a lot of times athletes are shifting and so that's what this drill helps you do is to feel kind of that comfort point.  This is one of the things that happens with a lot of throwers, they wind themselves out of position.  They're gonna be off balance. So a lot of times when people are DMing, hey, how do I increase speed in my throw? It's because well, if you're falling off balance, you're not on balance. Imagine a sprinter, imagine Usain Bolt, fastest guy ever, world record holder and he's stumbling to the side when he's trying to run this way. Guess what? He's not gonna win that race. He's gonna get DQ'd if he comes out of his lane and he's losing precious time. So if he starts and stumbles to his outside, to the left or to the right, that's gonna be bad. So when we're throwing, remember we're trying to move across the circle, right? And we're trying to move this way. So if I turn, if I shift, what does physics say, I'm gonna fall. I don't wanna be shifting and falling into the ring. Now if I'm falling, I'm gonna do a host of different things. I might be opening my chest and my arm because I'm trying to regain my balance.  You gotta create balance and the first things, first to get right is to set up the start right. And this is one of our bread and butter drills is a real good one. But this is actually, I wanna say, it's like number eight out of our drills on pillar one. So this is a good drill though. And so you might wanna try and we do this in our throwing progressions where you just do a wind up one start and it teaches you how to move around that axis a whole lot easier. This is a really good drill that's gonna help a lot of you guys and coaches out there but you can't just stick with this drill. You have to learn how to set up the axis correctly so that I'm rotating, right? This is my, we call it the entry hinge. So this is what we have to learn. We will, there's more in there. So hopefully that helps you guys today.  Again, if you guys like this video be sure to comment below.  Give us a thumbs up, hit that notification button so you'll know when these videos come out. And if you'd like more about the throwing chain reaction system, how to improve your throw, master those two seconds, click the link below in the description and we will see you there. Okay guys, see you on the next video.


The Navy's new P-8 Alpha Poseidon aircraft is currently undergoing its first squadron training evolution. Radmeral Sean Buck explains improvements from his P-3 predecessor. It's using enhanced technology and makes those same type of weapons systems and sensors just more capable, more advanced. A new feature of the P-8 is its ability to communicate with unmanned aircraft. The aircraft will bring the same capability as the P-3 brings now, just with enhanced sensors and a much broader capability to get information out and absorb information to improve situational awareness. The P-8 Alpha will embark on its maiden deployment in the 7th Fleet Area of Operation December 2013. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Matthew Hawes.


Good morning guys! Welcome to Odyssey! We are here in semi sunny Spain trying to make the most of the rest of the summer which is totally over but we're trying to savor every moment of it. So after 100 days on the road, 13 countries and 15,000 kilometers, we are going to take you guys on a tour of our micro camper red tornado. So let's go! I'm Lavi and this is Ollie. Over the past four years we have been on some epic adventures around the world. After converting an old van into our new home on wheels, we are ready to hit the road and explore the wonders of Europe. Subscribe button to follow our journey and let the adventure begin! We're gonna start with the cab and you can see that we've tried to keep the red theme of red tornado here. So we found this throw and this nice contrasting yellow pillow. Just from a charity shop it just costs like five pounds or something. So on the floor we have a bit of carpet and on top of it for extra comfort we bought these which are absolutely amazing. They're called Chindi rugs and we bought them online for like £1.70 each. I'm going to link the place we bought them from in the description but they add a really nice colorful touch to the van and they're super cheap and you can just bring them out the van and just dust them off. So super super useful and super beautiful. This is the garden. We're growing here some basil, some mint and some rocket. Along the dash you can see here we've got an anti-slip mat. Now I would definitely recommend that you have one of these on your dash because it's amazing. You can just literally throw like this pot here. Here it doesn't matter if we've been going up mountains, down mountains, anything. This has not moved and that was just from a pound store so it costs like one pound or something. Also from the pound store down here we've got a basket to put some electronics, random stuff that we need whilst driving. This is our air con which is also from a pound shop. Look who needs a professional air con system when you have this. Look absolutely cool. So this is our inverter. It's a 200 watt inverter. You can have enough power to power like charging a computer, charging a drone battery, charging our phones with the USB slots and that just goes into the cigarette lighter. That was about 40 pounds. Oh it's starting up. That was about 40 pounds from Amazon. Here on the gear stick this is just a nice touch I thought. It's actually a hacky sack ball because that's the original gear stick. So that's quite cool. This at the front is our always calm llama. It doesn't matter what situation you're in and we've been in some crazy stressful situations. The always calmer llama is always just sitting there and he's stuck to the dash so he never moves. So here on the driver's seat we bought some seat covers and a steering wheel cover from Amazon. The steering wheel cover was about 11 pounds and the seat cover came as a set of two and those were like 25 pounds. Up here we have all kind of useful things a toolbox. We have our all our documentation for the car and for traveling passports and everything. So there's actually a massive space up here to fit quite a lot of stuff and you can't go wrong with a bit of bunting. I will talk you through our kitchen. So we have covered our kitchen with a nice little curtain that it looks always nice and pretty. We got this throw as well from an op shop. It was actually like a little long skirt thing but we cut it in half and we saw it together that it looks like this now. So it's very pretty. On top here we have a bucket with all our cutlery and pans and Tupperware and cooking pots and we have our nice kettle for the coffee. So here we have two compartments. We have one compartment here with our cool bag where we keep fresh stuff and then we have another compartment with couscous, pasta. All you need to sustain yourself. We have here in the side as well like our soya milk, our coffee and then it's always quite nice as well because you can see through so you can find quite easy what you're looking for. Often you are like where is the nice olives? Where is the pasta? Where is this? Where is that? Just to make it a little bit more clear. So when we are ready and hungry, ready to cook something, we will get out our cooker. Our cooker is just here. It slides in quite nicely. Our cooker and our table. Both fits quite nicely in here. Just we left a little bit space especially for this two things. We got it from Decathlon for £15. So that's our kitchen. So this is the bedroom. Underneath is our wardrobe. Here we have our beach towels. We have each one underwear and sock bag and here we have our storage tub which has all of the clothes that we have. This is everything we have and this is divided in two and we kind of try to use the Konmari method of folding to keep everything like easily visible and easily accessible but sometimes after a while it kind of ends up just a big mess. But at the moment it looks quite nice. So here we have our laundry bag. We have a picnic blanket. Here is a water storage which is three five-litre containers and those are like the easy access containers. Behind everything here underneath we actually have an extra 25-litre container which is right next to the spare tire which is also underneath the bed but we don't really often get the 25-litre container out. That's just if after a few days if we can't find any water anywhere then that's like a good backup for us. Just underneath the bed we have our yoga mats and we have here a guitar, a ukulele, a harmonium which is kind of like a big box accordion. So we have quite a lot of impractical stuff but quite a lot of fun stuff so that's good. Here at the side we have our chairs and this completes our camp dining room setup. These ones we bought actually I think from Facebook marketplace second hand for like 10 pounds or something. There you go. This is Alfresco dining room. So back to the bedroom. There's so many birds. And they've just been flying around us all morning. I think aesthetically it's quite important to kind of cover all the storage areas. So this one we just screwed in just another sort of scarf that we got from a charity shop and we also have some bunting for good measure because you can't get enough bunting around the car. It just looks so pretty. Also this was really cool. We bought on Amazon for like five pounds or something a massive sticker set and they're all like adventure theme. So we've got like let's go on an adventure, we've got some camping setups. On the other side we stuck a load more and we also stuck them on the inside but we'll show you that after. So that is our beautiful bedroom and under bed storage. I show you now our bathroom slash office. So here you can see first we hung up on a hook a nice towel for our hands. We have just next to it our water tub. Which is another two liter bladder. So here in this bag we have all we need to brush our teeth, toothpaste, soap, all the essentials. Like these hooks they are just amazing. We can just slide them in here. We have holes already in the car body. So it's absolutely amazing. Then in this bag we're keeping as well water in like one and a half liter bottles. We have a nice organizer here where we keep our brush. We keep our like first aid kit stuff and we have a shaver here. This seat cover came in a pack so we have identical covers in the front in the back here. Then we have another shinny rack here, our recycling bin and our shoes in this box. And then we have all our electronics in this box here. And for our office it's very easy as well. We have our nice seat here and we just take a pillow and put it on our lap and then we have this really nice boards. Like this is just amazing with the soft bottom. And what does it say on it? Home is where you park it. And then we can you know when we edit our stuff we can do it easily from here. It's very comfortable actually. Very nice. I have to work now. Hello. Do you get anything noise again? So yes that's our bathroom slash office. Now last but not least this is our limited inside space. Some cool features on the inside here are this cargo net that we hung from the roof is super useful just for chucking things that you kind of need to use every now and again. We've got strung all the way around this string which is also on these little hooks which are so cool. It's the same hooks that we use up here and those ones you just we just screw them straight into this and it's amazing. This string is super useful because we have in this little bag loads of bits of fabric. If you really really want to block out light and everyone else then you can use these little pegs that we got from amazon for like one pound and you can just like hook up the sheets all the way around and that's super useful and another amazing tip for van life is these things neodymium magnets. These are super useful. We can sort of hang that up and then you can just put that up against the van secure that sideways so that we can sleep in comfort and in darkness and peace. Also this string doubles as a support for the fairy light system which is basically two sets of fairy lights that we got from a pound shop which make a really really beautiful ambience in the evening. So one thing that's super useful when you're living in a van is to cover the bed with a throw so that all of the dirt and dust that you as you're opening and closing the doors and coming in and out you can protect your bed so that the bed's not sandy and also it adds a nice aesthetic touch.  A couple of extra small aesthetic things that we really like is this world map that we've pinned to the ceiling you know you could just lie down and kind of decide hmm where do I want to go next. Greenland I think that's quite cool for inspiration and also we've got some sort of travel pictures up around the top as well. Here that was already built into the van is this little compartment that we have at the side of the bed which is super useful for keeping like night stuff like earplugs, kindles, diaries, everything like that. We also have a few more of those stickers our favorite stickers that we've stuck all on the inside here and here and here. It just gives you a lot of nice things to look at whilst you're inside. That's really nice. So that is our super tiny but super cozy little bedroom. I forgot to mention the bedroom and the cab divided by this curtain and you've got a little shower rail which we got from amazon for like eight pounds. That one the curtain comes all the way across and we sewed in these little velcro bits and the velcro just goes up against the edge like that so you can have complete privacy. So we really, oh nice. Wow so many birds.  It really is a micro camper setup but it really works for us and we've been cozy here and we've been happily living in this for the last 100 days so we're pretty happy with the setup. 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founder and CEO of MyCrypto. Previously I was with MyEtherWallet. We did a little brand fork. We are a distributed team of about 20 people. We're all over the globe. Front row right here, this is my team. So find us afterwards, ask us questions. And if you wanna work for us, we're always tiring. So definitely, definitely talk to us. So today I'm gonna talk about the unintended consequences of product design. And some of you may be sitting here going, what the heck does that even mean? And basically it means in the early days we screwed a lot of things up. We made a lot of design decisions that were just not necessarily the best decisions that we could ever make. And they had some unintended consequences that led to things like lost funds, confused users, and generally just bad things happening in the ecosystem. Now I wanna be clear. I'm not giving this talk to be negative or to call out certain products, especially my own. But I want to make sure that everyone in this ecosystem is able to learn and grow from other people's mistakes so that we don't repeat history over and over again. I want this entire ecosystem to be safe and easy to use and better. So let's start with the most basic interaction that you do on my crypto, which is creating a new account. We have to go back in time to 2015. And in 2015, Ethereum had just launched. There was no real way to interact with Ethereum blockchain and we created a really, really simple interface. And when I say it was simple, it was really, really simple. It had a single button, a single little field, and it just said, hey, generate a wallet. It wasn't called my crypto. It wasn't even called my ether wallet. It was just called ether wallet and it had a GitHub pages URL. And basically what we asked users to do was type in a simple password and press a button. And then it would spit out all of your information just like that. And by the way, I loved this interaction. From a UX standpoint, it was as frictionless as it could possibly be.  How could we make it simpler? The problem was is that even though we really, really wanted to make the process really, really easy and quick, it resulted in people simply not saving their private keys. So if we go back and look carefully, that field right there under success, your wallet has been generated, is your address. And that's the piece of information that people need in order to send funds into their account. And so what people ended up doing was instead of saving the private key, saving the key surfiles, saving the QR code, any of that stuff, they would just copy the address, send funds to it, and then some point down the road, they'd be like, oops, I don't have any way of accessing my wallet. And we saw a ton of loss from this. So how did we sort of solve this problem? What steps did we take to mitigate that loss? This is the new interface on my crypto. And basically what we do now is that we have you enter a password. We have a whole bunch of algorithms that make sure it's a strong password, which is also a huge positive. And then you click create new wallet. And then it forces you to actually download the key store file. So in order to continue on, you have to download this file. And even then, we still don't give you your address. We give you the ability to unlock your wallet via the file that you just created. And what this does is that it ensures that the user has not only created the wallet, has backed up the wallet, but that they can also successfully unlock the wallet now and then obviously again in the future. And this cut down on the amount of loss and incorrect backing up of keys that we were seeing so, so, so frequently. And it had a positive, really positive impact on our number of support tickets. So what can we learn from this? Sometimes friction is a good thing. You need to force people to save the necessary information. You need to force people down this path. And sometimes that path does have some extra steps and it does require some more clicks. But if the ultimate end goal is to get people into this ecosystem safely and successfully and for them to back up their keys, maybe you do have to literally force them to do that or at least guide them down this safe, secure road and not let them take this alternative path. So my next example is one that is really, really, really terrifying. I've seen it with a few daps already. It's happening more and more frequently. And it's this practice of saving private keys or other secret information to local storage. So this is EtherDelta, which was one of the sort of original DEXes. And in 2017, almost everyone was using this if they were using a decentralized exchange. And EtherDelta has a create account functionality and just like we used to, it just sort of spits out your private key at you. It doesn't ask you to back it up or force you to back it up or any of the above. It just gives it to you. But it's kind of okay because they just save it to local storage. And for those of you that don't know, local storage is kind of like a cookie. It's a way of saving stuff to the browser. So if you leave the website or close your browser and then return to the website, it can read this data again.  So looking closer, there's the private key that they spit out at you and there it is saved in local storage right there. And this is incredibly dangerous. Local storage is not a secure place to store keys ever. Don't ever put secrets there, don't put anything there. But it's especially dangerous when we're talking about cryptocurrency websites because they are such a huge target for attackers and hackers. And I know I said earlier that I wasn't gonna sort of call out specific products or shame people, but I'm kind of just gonna be frank with this. I'm shaming Ether Delta. Because in December of 2017, they got hacked. Their DNS was attacked, okay? They rerouted the DNS from the real valid Ether Delta site to a fake one. It looked identical to Ether Delta. People didn't know the difference. People were going and unlocking their accounts. People were sending money to a fake contract, all these things. But the worst thing was that anyone that read the news that day and got scared and said, oh shoot, I've used Ether Delta before and simply visited Ether Delta, then had their private keys and their funds stolen. And the reason for that was because the private keys were saved to local storage. The user had to take no action beyond simply visiting that website, okay? This is an immensely harmful thing to the ecosystem, to users, and to everyone's safety and security. Again, cryptocurrency websites are a huge target and we have to be secure and we have to be safe.  So we know the intentions of Ether Delta and other similar dapps, right? They're trying to make this process easier. They're trying to make it so that people don't necessarily have to back up their private keys. They're trying to make it so that if a user leaves the website and then comes back, they don't have to go through this other process. It's all about reducing friction and that's what we wanna do when we talk about user experience. But unintentionally, they painted a huge target on their back, like let's be real for a second, saving private keys to local storage. You're an immensely popular website. People see that you have users. People can see the amount of money flowing through your website. You've literally just painted a huge target on your back. You've waved at the hackers and the attackers and said, hey, I'm right here, come and get me. And then when they did come and the attackers did successfully find an entry point, it resulted in way, way, way more loss. And for me, this is simply unacceptable. So if you're a adapt developer and you're trying to make the experience more frictionless, I applaud you. But don't save secrets to local storage, okay? It's not philosophical. It's not complicated. It's just that, it's just that. Just don't do it. Don't do it unencrypted. Don't do encrypted. Don't save secrets to local storage. All right, so moving on. Some of you might be sort of arguing with me a little bit and being like, but local search is good. I can save stuff there, right? Yes, sometimes. Don't save secrets there. But local search can be really, really helpful because you can save things like user preferences or settings. You can remember what language a person uses or what currency they like or whether they like the dark mode or the light mode. And you can also do things that try to simplify the user experience. One example of this is the original, the OG ENS DAP experience. So if we travel back to last year, when you wanted to bid on an ENS name, you basically had to go, you had to bid on the ENS name, and then you had to wait a couple of days and other people would bid on the name and then you would reveal that name. And because it's all decentralized and it's all on the blockchain, you had to save three pieces of information. You had to save the bid amount. You had to save the mask bid amount. And then you had to save the secret string, which is just like a jumbled string of characters that acts as a salt for all the other information so that it's not public on the blockchain. So this DAP, sorry, this DAP really wanted to make the experience as good as possible. So instead of telling the user, hey, you guys have to back up all this information and please don't use it and make sure you save it and all of this, they decided, hey, let's just save that information at local storage. And they had the best of intentions with this. They wanted to make the experience more frictionless. They wanted to make it easier. They didn't want to have to explain to the user what this bid was and this mask bid was and the secret is and why they have to save it and all that stuff. The problem was is that, especially in the cryptocurrency space, we use incognito mode. We use different browsers. We use different devices. We use Tor. We use all these things that protect our privacy. And one of the things that these things do is, is it prevents things in local storage or cookies from persisting, right? So if you're in incognito mode, you close that browser, it's gone. So shortly after the first sort of bids were replaced and then we're ready to be revealed, the support tickets and on social media and everywhere were through the roof and people were like, I can't figure out where my bids went. I can't figure out what the secret is. I don't know what this is, et cetera, et cetera. And unfortunately, there was no way to even recover this information because it had been saved in local storage, the user never saw it, they never backed it up and you basically just had to say, sorry, your ETH is locked up in that auction. Luckily, the developers of this app were really, really on it and so the second they realized this, they changed the interface that basically, once you place a bid, it forces you to sort of download this bid and it educates you and it says, hey, so you need all this secret information, we know it's complex, but save a backup just in case anything ever happens to your browser, you can get it back. So, we know the intentions of this app and I'm sure many dapps that are currently out there and to come, we want to abstract things away, we want to hide these complicated and complex interactions from the user and we wanna have the user perform less actions because at the end of the day, the user does just wanna bid on a name or reveal a name, they don't want to understand the inner workings, they don't wanna know how the sausage is made. Unfortunately, in this case, it resulted in confused users who couldn't reveal the auctions and there was simply no way to recover the information and that's a real shame. I don't wanna toot my own horn too much, but this was sort of how we handled this same interaction. So, I had learned my lesson from the whole private key spitting out the address, not having people back up, I'd already learned that. So, when the ENS came along and I was making design choices with this, we basically told the user to screenshot it, we told them to back it up, we gave them an easy way to copy and paste the string and we told them this every single step of the way.  The next step, it was really starting to yell at the user because if the user hadn't backed up by that point, we really needed to do something to grab their attention. So, what can we take away from this example? We know that we don't wanna save secrets to local storage. It's sometimes acceptable to save non-secrets to local storage, but make sure that you don't rely on that information because user environments can and do change. So, I like to play this game where it's called best case, worst case and when you're looking at the design or you're looking at your product, you wanna say what's the best possible outcome? And so, in this case, the best possible outcome is the user can place the bid, reveal the bid, get their name, everything's hunky dory, they don't have to take any other actions, they don't have to understand how it works, flawless. The worst case is that their auction cannot be revealed and their ETH is locked up, which essentially makes the ETH lost. And for me, that's not an acceptable amount of loss, that's not an acceptable experience. So, then you have to ask yourself, what steps can we take to mitigate that loss? How can we change this design, change this interaction, change this experience to make it better? And if you think about the same sort of game, the best case, worst case, with things like user settings, right? So, a user says, hey, I really like to use your app in dark mode and they change it. Best case, when they return to your site again, it's in their cool theme, they're happy, they don't have to take an action. And the worst case is, okay, they have to click the drop down and select their little dark mode again. And that's like a sort of perfect thing for a local storage, because it's not the end of the world if you lose that information.  All right, and then, so I want to, we've been pretty heavy on the crypto sites. And I wanna remind people that these sort of product design UX choices that we make are not limited to cryptocurrency. This is everyone everywhere, and even the big boys make these mistakes and make choices that do have unintended consequences. So, we're gonna take a look at Google's recovery emails and phone numbers and how they've set it up and what this sort of results in. So, when you first set up a new Google account, and this is like Google, I mean like everything Google, Gmail, YouTube, I don't think Google Plus is a thing anymore, but you know, it used to be. They ask you to enter some information. So, you gotta do your name, you gotta do your username or your email address, and then you gotta do a password. That's all pretty standard. The next step is that they ask you to verify your phone number, and you can't skip this step, you have to give them your phone number.  And then once I verified my phone number, it asked me for another email address, like an old email address, and then some other personal information that you could enter, you could go and fake info, I give them fake info, you know. And then, once you've sort of successfully set up the account, you've given them your phone number, which has to be your real phone number, and a recovery email. And if you go deep into your Google settings, you're gonna see, it's like halfway down the page, nested under security, this place that says, recovery email and recovery phone. And then that's, this is the danger zone, right? You may think that having a recovery email and a recovery phone number is a good thing because it allows you to recover your account. If I forget my password, and I click little forgot password, it's right there. It's like, hey, we'll help you out. We'll get you a verification code. You wanna use your email address? No, you wanna use your phone number? Okay, cool. The problem with this is that attackers and hackers can also recover your accounts. And what ends up happening is that your, let's see. So right now you have an email called Dan Loves Crypto so much at gmail.com. And this is probably super secure, right?  The problem is that it uses your email from a couple years ago, your Libertarian Dreamer email. And that one is also recovered from that email you use when you're applying to colleges. You're very professional, first name, last name. Which is also can be recovered with your old gamer tag from high school that you don't admit that you still have. And so even though you've secured your Dan Loves Crypto so much email and you have 2FA on it, really your queenbies in your Gemini and every exchange account that you have linked to your current email is only as safe as you're literally your old gamer tag from like 2006. And this is where the problem happens is that hackers will either get into one of your old email addresses and then work up the chain or they'll just port your phone number.   There are thousands of attackers that do nothing but try to social engineer the phone companies every single day. They try to port your phone number, they try to do a sim swap and they try to get into all of your exchange accounts, all your old Gmail accounts, they try to see what information they can get, they try to get your PayPal and they will take your money. And the best sort of money that they can take is your cryptocurrency because it's anonymous and you can go swap it in a Monero and now nobody can track it and then they can go do whatever they want with it. They can go buy new domains with it, they can cash it out into their bank account and nobody knows, right? So these are the things that are happening. And while it's a good thing that user accounts can be recovered and this is especially important when if you're an adapt developer and you're working in this ecosystem, you wanna figure out how to recover things, be very, very aware that these accounts can also be recovered by hackers. And so what choices can we make to mitigate that? Because it's not necessarily realistic that every single Gmail user uses like a Yubiqui, right? Like I'm not quite sure that we wanna tell everyone in this world that they have to have this hardware device. However, Google has a lot of information on us. Like they literally, they read all your emails, they read all your web browsing history, they know everything you do on your phone.  One thing Google could use or do with all of that data is they could figure out, hey, we got these average users and we've got these high target users and they could force those high target users to not use insecure backup, right? They could say, hey, your target for hackers, let's make sure that you get that hardware wallet or you use Google Authenticator, you use some other mechanism for 2FA. And that's something to keep in mind if you're building in this ecosystem is that every single one of your users, especially right now, are high target, right? They are at risk for being attacked or hacked. And you need to prioritize the security and the safety of your users, not just your usability. And then just PSA, you guys all have Google accounts, please go secure them and don't get hacked. Okay, so we're almost done. I talked earlier about one of the biggest mistakes that I ever made, which was this sort of account mechanism where we would just spit out your address and people wouldn't back it up and it was a mess and it was painful for me to watch that loss and everything, but this is one of my biggest mistakes ever and it had a huge effect on not just me and my company and my users, but everyone in the ecosystem because people started following suit. We allowed from the get go people to enter their private keys or their keys or files or their mnemonic phrases or their seed phrases on our website, we actually encouraged it. That was the flow, you created a new wallet, it could be your private key, you unlocked your wallet with your private key, you sent your money around, that was it. The problem with that is, so let's go back in time. When I first got into crypto, everyone said, don't ever put your private key on a website and I was naive and I assumed that meant because the creators of the website would steal my funds at some point. When I created my own website, I was like, hey, I'm not gonna steal people's money, therefore it's okay if we have people put their private keys on our website and that was just wrong, right? Because the attack factors are not just a website owner stealing funds, the attack factors are the user isn't on the correct site, they're on a phishing site, they're on a scam site, they get in the habit of entering private keys on websites all over the web, our DNS could be hacked, BGP could be hacked, the internet could be hacked, I could be hacked, you could be hacked, there's all these different things. And we did a lot to try to educate people. We basically added so much friction to the experience and we really yelled at people and we told them, don't use this method, don't put your private key on our website, check these boxes, acknowledge that you're being unsafe, this isn't recommended. We created this atrocious 10 fricking page modal that you had to click through and it forced you to click through and the buttons hopped around and we were just adding friction left and right. And the reality was is like, you can yell and shout and stomp your feet all you want but the user is always going to take the easiest path. And if we allow people, no matter how much friction we add to use their private keys on a website, they will use their private keys on a website and it will eventually at some point result in loss. So we removed private keys from websites. If you go to our current site right now and you try to unlock, so if you go to the website right now and you try to do this, we explain to you, yo, this is not secure, we're not letting you do this anymore. Download our desktop app, right? We push people down this alternate path. And we don't have analytics but if we did have analytics, this would be painful because I would be watching people drop off right here, like it just insanely large, right? The numbers would be like 100 people arrive and like only 25% continue on. And that's painful from a UX perspective. That's painful from a product design perspective. You want to get those numbers up but the reality is, is that if we allowed people to continue doing this unsafe thing, people are going to lose money, period. And so even if I'm losing some users because they're unwilling to click the button that downloads the desktop app, I'm okay with it because at least I'm losing users. I'm not having those users lose money. I always want to lower the barriers to entry. I want to make this as simple and frictionless as possible but unintentionally, by allowing our site and even recommending private key usage on our website, I inadvertently created like heaps of phishing websites, heaps of scam websites, registrars getting hacked, BGP, which is like the most depths of the internet is like how the internet works. Like hackers are attacking that to get at my ether wallet now. All these things because we put private keys on the website, we put mnemonics on the website, we put key cert files on the website, we put C's on the website and all these other websites do it as well. So it's not just our site, it's all the sites, it's all these scam sites, it's all the phishing websites and people will just sort of copy and paste willy nilly wherever it is. And so this is again, not philosophical, not complicated. If you're building a DAP, if you're building a user experience, if you're building a product in the space, I urge you, do not allow people to put private keys or mnemonics or key cert files or other seeds on your website. Create an app, do a Chrome extension, use MetaMask, use Trustwall, like some other mechanism, the hardware wallets, they're great, like any of those. But the reality is that if it's on a website, you have to trust that the website is the same, the code is the same as it was yesterday as it is today, you have to trust that the registrar wasn't hacked, you have to trust that the internet wasn't hacked, you have to trust that the user's on the right website, you have to trust that nobody's scamming you. There's all these different things and the easiest thing to do is just eliminate and focus on actually building your product rather than everything that we did for so long, which was like, oops, design pretty onboarding models to try to force you to be safe, like just, let's just be safe by default, right? All right, so I've got three minutes left, we're gonna move fast, I'm sorry. What have we learned? What are the glorious huge takeaways from everything that we've talked about today? First, do not underestimate the people using your product, okay, your users are talented, they are smart, they are intelligent, you can educate them, you can teach them, they can get into crypto because of you and your product. But they are also really, really, really good at screwing things up. Don't underestimate them on either end of the spectrum and be prepared for everything. Next, people will always, always take the easiest path. If you allow them to not back up their private keys or to just skip some other piece that they need of this puzzle called cryptocurrency, they'll take it and they'll skip right over it and it will eventually have a negative effect on your product and your reputation and their experience and all of that. Education, it helps a lot. I've been like really like constantly applauded for my work in sort of the education sphere and I'm telling you, like it does, it helps a lot. If you really nail copy on education, if you really nail like little helpful tooltips and stuff, it does immense things for your user base. But it really only goes so far. Like we saw, people always take the easiest path. And so, you know, the education, if you find that your educational sort of materials start being angry and start yelling at the user, it's time to take a step back and say, hey, how can we just build something that is secure and is safe by default? Because it's obviously telling the user or yelling at the user or making onboarding models isn't working anymore. And learn from others' mistakes. So work together, talk to each other, listen to this talk, read articles about bad things that happen in this ecosystem, study them and do your best to not repeat history. Which goes hand in hand with be really, really mindful of the attack factors that are out there. Again, this space, this whole blockchain and cryptocurrency world is really different. It's like everyone's used to undo buttons, everyone's used to being able to be a little bit lax. The reality is that the ROI that attackers get for stealing a private key is so high that they will do almost anything to get into your website or your app or your backend infrastructure or your hot wallets or whatever it is. And always consider the sort of the best case, worst case, that game that we played earlier where we say, what's the worst possible thing that a user could do or the worst possible thing that could happen? And what's the best possible thing that can happen? And how do we sort of find the right balance? And I just wanna remind everyone that building the decentralized future is really, really hard. And this is why it's so important that we all work together and we all learn from each other and we all build each other up. And that we all individually strive to be better and we push those around us to be better. We want to make sure that whether you're a developer in this space, whether you've been in this space for a year or two years or five years or two months, it doesn't matter. Everyone has their role to play. And if you're seeing another developer in this space that's sort of maybe making a lazy choice or not thinking about something, even if you're just a normal person who's reading Twitter, you have the ability to ask questions and to point things out and to question people's choices. And I still, to this day, read so many of our support tickets and so many of our Twitter DMs and our Facebook messages and all of the above. And I always, always, always cherish the ones where people are questioning my choices and are pushing me to be better because sometimes honestly I just didn't think about something and being aware of that is half the battle because then I can fix it. And then lastly, building together makes building this decentralized feature a whole lot easier, okay? We can't, this space is too small to have real competition yet, okay? We have to all work together, build this whole ecosystem up. And we need to think about it as us, us being everyone in this room, everyone watching the live stream, everyone on crypto, Twitter versus the world. And the world is the world out there that doesn't even know what cryptocurrency is and has no chance of using it. We cannot be fighting with each other. We cannot be instigating Twitter drama.  We need to be looking at the big picture and the world out there and conquering it. So I've met with a lot of people at DovCon and I've been noticing this little trend of people that are like one foot in this ecosystem. They're like, I kind of want to go full time but I'm not quite full time and I don't really know what to do. Every person has the ability to make this ecosystem better, okay? It doesn't matter if you don't know how to code because we need the people that can write copy, that can design, that can make the experience better. We need the people that are the mothers and the daughters and the grandmothers and we need the fathers and their sons and we need people from all over the world that have all different backgrounds that come from different experiences that come from different upbringings that have gone to different colleges because in order for us to build a global ecosystem that anyone in this entire world can use, the people building the ecosystem need to reflect that world. It cannot just be one demographic of people. It can't just be the technical people. It has to be everyone. So if you have one foot in, I need you to step all the way in. I need you to think about your unique skills, your unique experiences and I need you to figure out what you can do to make the ecosystem better and then I need you to email me at jobsofmycrypto.com because we are literally always hiring and thank you so much. I'm Taylor Monahan from My Crypto. I love you all.


Wealth is a really important theme to explore within the merchant of Venice. Indeed, many of the characters within the play are powered by the search for wealth, but also the search to redeem their wealth, okay? So, of course, we find the play begins with Bassanio, who is very careless with his wealth, hence why he needs Antonio's help, in getting a loan in order to marry Portia, who's very wealthy, and he sees this as his way out of his financial problems, okay? But also, of course, on the other hand, we have Shylock, who wants to redeem his wealth, but he also sees the fact that he has lent money to Antonio as his way of exacting revenge. Now, the story is interesting in the sense that it seems like there are two contrasting approaches to wealth, shown on the one hand through Shylock, and then on the other hand through Bassanio and Antonio. So, Shylock, who represents, of course, a Jewish perspective, he is presented as hoarding money and seeing wealth and putting wealth even above personal relationships. Hence, his relationship with his daughter, Jessica, even falls apart. And when his daughter leaves, he seems to be far more upset about the fact that she stole his jewels, she stole some of his money, as opposed to losing her as a daughter. However, on the other hand, we can see that Christians are portrayed within this play as being very generous with their wealth. Antonio, for example, lends out money grittis, which means free, okay, rather than charging interest. So, they're seen on the one hand as being generous. However, they're also shown and portrayed, especially through the character of Bassanio, as being not clever with their money. In other words, the being, the portrayed also as being very wasteful, okay? So, wealth is an important key theme to consider within this play. It also, of course, is what the tragedy, the potential death of Antonio, it's due to wealth and it centers through that. And of course, even he loses all his ships as a merchant on sea, but then he's able to retrieve them at the end, okay? So, when it comes to discussing the theme of wealth, as you can see behind me, I have selected the most relevant quotes you can consider as well as a word-level analysis. So, let's begin with the first quotation. So, this first quote establishes Bassanio as very obsessed with wealth. He's obsessed with wealth for two reasons. Number one, he is very bad with his money. He's very wasteful and he has squandered his inheritance that was left behind to him. So, now, it's in all of this debt to Antonio and to all these different people. And on the other hand, he is obsessed with the idea that if he marries Portia, this will completely clear his debts, but also put him in a very comfortable financial position, okay? So, we can see here that he is motivated. On the one hand, he believes Portia is beautiful. However, it's interesting the way he states that he's more interested in her wealth than, of course, her beauty, okay? So, her beauty almost comes as a bonus to being with her. And he states, in Belmont is a lady rich left and she is fair ellipsis of wondrous virtues. So, here, it's interesting that Bassanio mentions the fact that Portia is rich first before we then realize that she also is beautiful. So, she's fair and she has good virtues, okay? So, of course, what this is illustrating is Bassanio. He is primarily interested in pursuing wealth and his interest in this marriage and being able to win Portia's hand in marriage. Also, primarily stems from him really wanting to take over her inheritance. Remember, of course, during this time, women were classified and she has the properties of their fathers, but then when they got married, they became the properties of the husband. So, everything that they inherited would then just be taken over by the husband. So, Bassanio would be getting a great deal if he married Portia, okay? So, of course, here we can see that he is focused on the pursuit of wealth. But equally, of course, what this illustrates is we start questioning Bassanio's own virtues. We start questioning his own motives and we'll question whether he genuinely loves Portia and if she didn't have the money and the inheritance, would he still have been as interested and as invested in her? Probably not. Now, the word of analysis you want to focus on is the alliteration of El and Lady in left, okay? So, here, he's presenting his case to Antonio. Antonio, please, if you help me out with this one, 100% I'm going to be able to give you back your money once I meet this lady and I'll woo her, okay? Also, you want to focus on the adjective rich because what this is showing is that it is the pursuit of wealth that really drives Bassanio. The second quotation tying in to the theme of wealth is when Narissa, so Portia is basically really upset that her dad has left this really strange will and this strange instruction of her only suitor, the only man she's allowed to marry has to pick the correct casket with her portrait in it. And she's basically telling Narissa, I've had enough of this world, I'm feeling really miserable, but Narissa responds, oh, no, and if your miseries were in the same abundance as the good fortunes were, yeah, okay, that's when you'd be miserable, okay? So, she says, you're not really miserable. Honestly, the only time you can generally be miserable is if your miseries were just as much as your good fortune. So, basically, Narissa is telling her, look, number one, you've got a lot of money, you've got a huge inheritance, you've got great life, don't feel so miserable just because your dad has left these specific instructions, your dad probably had your best interest at heart. And, of course, here, what this does is it establishes Portia's wealth, okay, so we can see that Portia is incredibly rich and also it establishes how she finds it very hard to find the correct suitor and her father himself also anticipated she might not get the right person because it'd be mainly motivated by her money, okay? So, here, Narissa, her lady-in-waiting obviously emphasizes just the sheer amount of wealth that is in her possession, but, of course, also, we can see here whilst Narissa sees this as a great thing for Portia, this still doesn't give Portia complete happiness and fulfillment. Now, the word of analysis you want to focus on is the oxymoron that Narissa uses in her language, so miseries, which is the opposite of fortunes, okay? Again, what this is illustrating is just the sheer amount of wealth that Portia has. The next quotation tying into the theme of wealth is, when the Prince of Morocco opens the Roncasket, this is the Golden Casket, and there's a proverb, okay, that states, all that glisters is not gold. Of course, then he realizes he cannot win Portia's hand in marriage. Now, here, this proverb is interesting because what this is illustrating is that the appearance of something doesn't necessarily mean that that thing is good and that thing is genuine, okay? So, he's being taught not to only follow what he sees on the surface, and, of course, we as the audience as well realize, and even this wordplay here, glisters is, you know, it's kind of a wordplay on glitters, this idea that you can't necessarily trust the appearance of anything just because it looks good, okay? And this is interesting because Portia trusts the appearance of Bessonio. Bessonio comes in with money, he seemingly looks rich so she falls in love with him, and unbeknownst to her, even if she's trusting what glitters before her, which is Bessonio, who seems handsome, she doesn't realize that he actually is very poor, he's wasted all of his money, he's squandered all of his money, and not only is he poor, he is, you know, deep in debt to other people, and finally, he is highly motivated to marry her for her wealth, okay? Now, the wordplay analysis you want to focus on here is the alliteration of G in glisters and gold. The next quotation, of course, which is meant to show the difference in approach to wealth and money between the Jewish characters, this is Shiloh, versus the Christians, okay? So here, what this is illustrating, and this is what Solerino says about Shiloh is once he is describing his reaction when he realized that Jessica's daughter ran away, and Solerino says, as the dog juded utter ellipsis, my daughter, oh my do cat, oh my daughter, okay?  So of course, here, what this is illustrating is the view and the perspective that Shiloh prized wealth and money above even his own personal relationship here. He's being depicted as very greedy, as opposed to the Christians who, you know, don't necessarily see money in a similar way. Now, the word of analysis you want to focus on here is firstly, of course, the metaphor dog, and of course, this is showing very racist, very anti-Semitic perspectives of Shiloh just because he's a money lender.  He seems more devastated that Jessica stole from him rather than actually losing his daughter. Also, the other word of analysis you want to focus on is the alliteration of D in daughter and due cats. The repetition also of the word daughter, okay? And finally, the exclamatory sentence which shows that Shiloh was really sad, but it seems like he was more sad at losing his wealth than his daughter, okay? And remember, an exclamatory sentence is a sentence that shows a very strong emotion. It usually tends to end with an exclamation mark. The next quotation which you can tie into the theme of wealth is Bessonio. Of course, this is when he was making his case to Antonio and he tells Antonio, okay, Antonio, you know my financial position, okay? It is not unknown to you, Antonio, how much I have disabled my estate, okay? So here, what he's basically saying, especially when he's talking about his estate is, Antonio, you know how bad I am with money, okay? So of course, this is actually an interesting contrast with Shiloh. So whilst Shiloh is very focused on building his wealth, but in some ways hoarding it, Bessonio is portrayed from the Christian perspective because of course, he is a Christian as being very bad with money, very wasteful, okay? So of course here, he was left in inheritance and estate and he disabled it. In other words, he completely squandered all of his money, okay? So here, this is presenting kind of one of the Christian perspectives when it came to wealth, where the money is not being hoarded, it's just being spent, but it's done in a very careless manner. And this is what leads Bessonio to get very deep in debt. Now the word of analysis you want to focus on here, when it comes to wealth, and of course, not only does this lead Bessonio to be deep in debt, he becomes very obsessed in his pursuit of Porsche in order to acquire her wealth. This is illustrated through the alliteration of age and how and have, and also the verb disabled, which of course illustrates how Bessonio basically squandered his money. The next quotation tying into the theme of wealth is Antonio basically saying, okay, I do really want to help you out, but all my fortunes are at sea. And this is a declarative sentence. Remember, declarative sentence is a sentence that states a fact feeling or mood. Okay. So the fact that Antonio stating is, hey, Bessonio, I'd love to help, but I literally, all my goods are being sold right now out to at sea. Okay. And of course, this foreshadows the fact that he does lose his goods in sea. Okay. Now what you want to focus on is the assonance of a and all are at and see. Okay. And again, what this is illustrating is how Antonio puts his money into as a Christian into selling and rather than lending. Okay. So also this is subconsciously reinforcing in the viewer's mind that perhaps Antonio uses his money for enterprise whilst Shylock on the other hand, from the Jewish perspective, kind of holds it, which of course is completely wrong and very, very stereotypical and very prejudiced as a view. Okay. Now the final quotation, which you want to focus on is when Shylock is really angry at the fact that Antonio not only competes with him in business, but also he competes with them as a money lender and gives that money for free. Okay. Which obviously undercuts Shylock in business. Remember that this makes Shylock enraged because at the time in Venetian society, Jewish people were not given lots of options and there were lots of professions that banned them from participating and money lending was just one of the few ways that they could actually make a living. Okay.  However, Shylock was really angry that the only way you can make money, Antonio is coming in and undercutting it and he states, he lends out money gritees and brings down the rate of users. So basically he's saying that Antonio not only lending money out for free to people that need money lending, but also this is reducing the interest rate. So what Charlotte can earn. Okay. So Antonio is deliberately undercutting him. Okay. Now here, this ties into wealth because of course what this is reinforcing is this notion that questions are very generous and giving out all of this money whilst Shylock is, you know, charging interest and he's being really greedy. Okay. So of course, this is juxtaposing Antonio's approach to money versus Shylock and the word level analysis you want to focus on here is the words money and users. Okay. This is interest rates, which belongs to semantic field of money. Okay. So that's really it when it comes to the main quotations as a suggested, you can consider if you're writing about the theme of wealth in the Merchant of Venice. Thanks so much for listening.