This is a mathematical snack from the Association of Teachers of Mathematics. This math snack is called domino rings. Here is a double four set of dominoes. It has every stone from the blank blank to the double four. So using this set I want to see playing the rule of dominoes where you match end to end is it possible to complete a ring so the ends match. So I'm going to start by looking two blanks to put that there. I've got two blanks again and there's a four blank. A double four might as well go there. Four three, three one. I need a one, four there, four two, two two. I can use that one there. Two three, three three, three blank four. That'll match. I've got a double one missing. That can go in there. So I've made a complete ring using a four four set of dominoes. So is that the only way of doing it? And what if I use just the three three set so I take out all the fours? Is it going to be possible to make a complete ring with just that set? So simple snack, a set of dominoes and that's your task.


Piccadilly Press presents The Boy Who Lived With Dragons, written by Andy Shepard and read by Ewan Goddard.  I'm guessing you've picked this book up for one of two reasons. Either you've been hearing about how we grow dragons and you want to get in on all that juicy fire-breathing action, in which case you need to go and find yourself a dragon fruit tree. Or you've found yourself a dragon fruit tree already, hatched yourself a dragon and now have no clue what to do next. How do I know this? Because neither did we. After I found the dragon fruit tree in Grandad's garden and Flickr, that's my dragon, hatched out in my bedroom, things changed pretty quick. Not just because it sort of affects how you look at the world. I mean, if you can find a dragon in your bedroom on an otherwise normal Sunday, what else is possible? But also because he wasn't the only one. Not after my best mate, Ted, Cat and Kai decided they wanted one too. But just like you would be, we were too busy getting ourselves dragons to really wonder what having a dragon would actually be like. I bet it all sounds magical, doesn't it? Growing a dragon. And it totally is, don't get me wrong. But let me tell you, when the fire-breathing really kicks in and you're getting singed every five seconds, it's like having a very unpredictable volcano in your pocket. Then it all starts to feel a bit less magical. Just something to bear in mind, my dragon devotees. So get some oven gloves, be prepared to hide your holy pants and, above all, listen up, because I'm about to show you what living with dragons is really like. Chapter one. Solaris the Destroyer. My pants! Ted cried as I opened the door. Grab them! Okay, I know it's not what you usually expect your best mate to say when you walk into their room, but listen, once you have a dragon, you need to be prepared for anything. I can't lose another pair out the window. That'll be the fourth in the last two days. He wailed. I ducked as Sunny, Ted's golden dragon, swooped over my head. He crawled into Ted's pants and was wearing them like battle armour. A fiery blast shot out and scorched the lampshade as the dragon circled above us. Flicker had been happily curled up in my pocket, but now he wriggled his way out. He hovered beside me while I tried to grab the pants before they disappeared out of the open window. They'd better be clean! I wheezed, dropping them and coughing on the trails of smoke the dragon's breath had left behind. They were until he got in them! Ted moaned. Now they're probably singed or worse. We both knew what he meant by worse. You see, dragon poo has this pretty unpleasant habit of exploding when it dries out and sure enough, seconds later, Ted's pants detonated spectacularly. Sunny zipped up to the top of the wardrobe while we stood there with foul smelling shreds raining down on us. So things going okay then? I grinned. You know, in among the exploding poo and being on 24-hour scorch alert, Ted burst out laughing. Well, that's sunny for you! Ted had actually named his dragon Solaris the Destroyer. I think he was imagining him as his superhero sidekick and wanted to give him a name that could conjure fear in all Ted's enemies, or at least in Liam Sauston, who is our arch nemesis. Not that we were about to share the secret of the dragons with him. We were spending most of our time trying to make sure that nosy Parker didn't find out about the dragons. But let's face it, having a dragon called Solaris the Destroyer in your pocket kind of gave you the edge a bit. Anyway, Solaris the Destroyer only lasted a day because by his second morning, Ted had decided to call him... Sample complete. Ready to continue?


president's statements and that he never talked to any of Hunter Biden business associates. Clearly he talked whether about the weather or whatever, but he said specifically that he's never talked to them. Doesn't it contradict me? I don't know what his comment is and if we're going to, well, I don't think that's what he said. I never talked with him, my son or my brother or anyone else, even distant family about their business interests, period.  Do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss any of your son's overseas business? Yes, I stand by that statement. Well, I don't think that's what he said. How many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings? I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business. I've never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their business, period. You stand by your statement that you did not discuss any of your son's overseas business dealings? Yes, I stand by that statement. I've never discussed my business or their business, my sons or daughters. I never discussed a single thing with my son about anything having to do with Ukraine. Well, I don't think that's what he said.


This is Witchspace news, for Friday the 28th of August 2020, I'm CMDR Buur. In this weeks news, there's something in the 300th Elite Dangerous Newsletter today, Ion changes hands and Frontier Developments has an absolute announce fest. If you enjoyed this video remember to hit the thumbs up, subscribe to the channel and click the little bell icon to make sure you don't miss any of our future videos. Some point today should see the release of the 300th formerly weekly now bi-weekly newsletter for Elite Dangerous. To mark the event Frontier announced on social media that they're doing something special for the newsletter's subscribers, what that something is we have literally no idea but we're guessing you'll need to be a subscriber to the newsletter in order to benefit or see the thing whatever it is. The newsletter is actually quite informative and useful by the way, sign posting as it does community goings on, artwork and news and general happenings so if you're not signed up already there's a link in the description to sort that out for you, Frontier has given away exclusive ship skins to newsletter subscribers before so it's definitely worth your while for that reason if nothing else. The Inner Orion Network YouTube channel which was launched by YouTuber ThePilot just a few weeks ago has this week after a short period of spotty content delivery been passed on and taken over by prominent elite streamers CrispyTaterTok, GrinningCrow and Mal for the Win. The channel had previously canvassed the community on Reddit to post their own elite themed stories that would then be presented and voiced on YouTube as a sort of community created Galnet alternative. What the plan is under the new management we don't yet know but there is no doubting the quality of the work produced by the three streaming luminaries that have taken over the running of Ion so it'll be fascinating to see where they see it heading and where it now goes. You'll find links below so that you can subscribe to Ion itself and also to the channels for Crispy, Crow and Mal so you can follow them on Twitch. All three are just fantastic streamers so do please check them out if you haven't already. And finally after a few days of cryptic teases on social media in the run up to the games con virtual event Frontier have finally ripped the coverings off three of their new upcoming titles. Firstly Jurassic World is coming to the Nintendo Switch it's a great game which will work beautifully on that platform so that was good to see. The big announces however were a couple of really innovative and very unique titles firstly a super weird cooperative physics based puzzle platformer which is available right now called Struggling and secondly a player vs player fast paced game called Lemniscate that describes itself as a revolutionary turn based combat strategy first person shooter that takes place in a 25 second time loop with the players repeating the same loop over and over and attempting to change the history of what came before thereby affecting the future outcome of the loop as it recycles. Whilst the Jurassic World port is obviously Frontier developed the last two titles are the first moves from Frontier's new publishing arm Frontier Foundry and were in fact both developed by outside companies. The platformer Struggling is actually the title that the former Elite Dangerous Community frontman Will Flanagan went to work on earlier this year. Clearly interesting times at Cambridge Towers and it'll be fascinating to see how the publishing arm grows from this innovative start Lemniscate is still slated as coming soon whilst Struggling is available right now on Steam and Nintendo Switch. That's it for now thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then 07 CMDRs follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack we very much look forward to seeing you next time.


Hello there my beautiful lovely talented and delightful internet friends. Welcome back to my channel Thank you so much for joining me here today for a video that I've started probably about 20 times today Take a look. Hello there. Hello there. Hello there. Hello there. Hi there. Hello there. Hello there It's it's pretty pathetic I have not been able to get past like the intro here because this is a subject that I'm Absolutely terrified to talk about publicly the main reason for that is because I am absolutely terrified to examine it within myself But I feel like this is important for me to say for a number of reasons that I will be getting into So with that being said, let's do this I wanted to share with you the emotional journey of Losing faith and if I'm about to lose you I totally understand I don't mean losing faith in the world in humanity or in hope I mean losing a faith system so often when we talk about faith or religion We're hearing from people who have a well-formed set of ideas or opinions or beliefs Like there are the people who believe something and there are people who don't believe something They're advocating for one side or the other and so rarely if ever have I heard from someone saying I don't have a fucking clue And I should probably apologize for cussing, but I'll be honest. I'm probably gonna cuss more in this video I wanted to share with you today What it's been like Losing my faith over the last nine years and when I say that out loud I am immediately filled with a bunch of red flags like don't talk about this Joe Many of them are shame-based many of them are I don't want to dissuade other people from their faith If this is something that works well for them There there's a million reasons in my brain why I should never put this into words publicly But honestly, I would like to see more people Being honest about this sort of thing because I know I'm not the only person who's going through it I've talked about this before on my channel But being Christian is something that was my entire identity for the first 20 21 years of my life like my My world was God Christianity Jesus Christ the church that is everything. I cared about that was where every motivation I had came from it was who I was and how I saw myself and a few years ago I went through a lot of trauma within the church and outside of it that called a lot of these things I'd always believed into question like the well-constructed black and white box that I used to live in of Wrong and right good and bad suddenly became very gray. I started questioning God questioning things I never thought about before which I think is a process that many people go through as you mature and you become an adult You try to figure out what you actually believe for yourself Versus what you believe because it's what you were brought up with But if I'm being really honest over the past years of like deconstructing and reconstructing my faith I have always operated under the assumption that I'll find my way back. I'll find my way back to it I've just got to figure out how I've got to figure out how to believe again And even if I maybe haven't said that out loud I realize it's what I have been thinking under the surface for a while now But I've realized pretty recently that I'm not sure that that is the case anymore over the past two years I have consumed a ridiculous amount of content both from Christian and non-Christian creators Because I I feel like I have a foot in both camps where I'm like I still Feel some of this I still believe some of this but also a lot of this makes a lot more sense and resonates with me And so I've just been straddling this line and I'll continue to because I like hearing different perspectives But as I've gone through all of this it feels weird and lonely because Most people who talk about faith know what they're talking about most people who talk about faith have a strong opinion one way or the other And to be sitting here going I don't have a Mother-fricken-clu feels very foreign to me. I'm so used to having answers for why even if I didn't love the answer I've always had something to fall back on until recently where I really don't know what I believe or why I believe it or what I'm doing here Or if there even is a God and I would no longer identify with any religious or faith-based label I feel like a failure. I feel horrible about myself I feel like I deserve to be condemned because of what I was taught for so many years And then that brings up the question of like why would I want to be a part of a group of people who condemns? People right like why would I want to be a part of a group of people who thinks that people on the outside are bad? And I realized that is not at all what all of Christianity or faith looks like but that is what a lot of it looks like That is a lot of the examples that are out there watching how my old belief system has responded to world events over the past year by primarily Denying very serious things exist by denying science by carrying flags as the capital is invaded saying Jesus saves By running active campaigns not to wear masks because we don't live in fear We live in faith when that's not the point I realize these are all human actions and that many people of faith will say like that's people That's not God I get that but it is so difficult to want to believe in something that hurts so many people That is alienated so many people that masquerades as being a safe place and having the answers when it really might not The other thing about all of this is you lose community It's not just having like a worldview and answers for things and it map and like identity, but it's also like community It's also family. It's it's people who believe the same things and are walking alongside you and built in friendships and community community is so important as a person and That has been my life for so many years like if someone said they were Christian I was like, alright, so I mean, I know you as a person, but I know basically what you stand for probably I know basically what you believe and there was automatically a sense of like community and connection there and now that is gone Now I don't feel that at all and I feel bad about not feeling that and it's complicated Deconstructing your questioning your faith is such a hard thing to begin Because there are so many roadblocks that are put in place with that community because you lose that community You become the person who is a project to be Reconverted or the person that people are sad about or maybe they condemn or judge a little bit because if you left the faith You probably never really believed or you know Satan's tempting you away or you're just selfish or whatever it is There are so many negative messages that are built into questioning or leaving faith It makes it an even more exceptionally painful and confusing process to go through and the other thing is like I don't know that I don't believe a lot of the principles and things. I used to believe I think I do believe in some kind of God I very much believe that there is more that goes on than we as people know and see I just haven't the faintest clue What that is when you're so deeply involved with the church and you're like in the in crowd Because you're in that community you hear the things that are said about people who leave or people who are questioning and Now those things just ricochet around my head and I know the things that I used to feel about people Who said they didn't believe in Christianity or God or Jesus anymore or weren't sure if they did and all the preconceived notions and judgments I had and now I know that that's what other people think about me when you question your faith to a Deep extent you damage relationships, which is so bizarre because Shouldn't it be like a personal journey, but it's not it's a community thing and it gets complicated and weird And then people get mad at you or they feel weird about you or they feel weird around you Or they think of you differently when you're actually the same person, but beyond that There's sort of the the personal level of it of it being Takes it a lot to say about that of it being so disorienting and weird not to have answers for yourself Anymore and not to know what you believe because having faith having a religion the world makes a lot more sense She's done with this weird to find myself in the middle like smack dab in the depth of the gray I'm I'm looking to find that I'm open I'm not you know and like active distress all the time about it But it's just so different than everything I've grown up with and when you start breaking away from things that you have believed The entirety of your existence It's impossible not to feel upside down and to constantly question yourself and to feel like you're probably in the wrong and bad and It's tempting to just squash all the real questions and doubts You have to just go back to what's familiar go back to what's known go back to at least having answers Even if you don't believe those answers because for a time for me the world made so much more sense like that And then it got complicated then it got real and especially living at a time where historical events are happening every week where The world is especially tumultuous place and we are all feeling that It's so weird not to have something to fall back on that has easy answers to hard questions Obviously religion and faith are things that people are very strong feelings and opinions on Understandably I did for many years and so saying this out loud I feel like I am probably letting a lot of people down and that's not my intention I just find it important to be honest about where I am and that's all this is It's not me trying to convert you to my way of thinking if this was me trying to convert you to my way of thinking I think we all know I'd be doing a very poor job because all I've really said is I don't know because I don't know I've always been a person of faith even when I haven't openly identified with that And so to be in a place where I'm like, I don't know what any kind of faith looks like I don't know what what that gap is gonna be filled in with There's a lot of wonder and possibility there and it's scary But I do have faith and hope and trust that somehow some way I'll figure out what that looks like But as the best character in all of movie history said that day is not today I hope some of this made sense. Let me know if it didn't there's a big possibility. It didn't I'm very concerned about posting this video if I haven't made that clear already But thank you for hearing me out. I truly appreciate each and every one of you listening I understand that a lot of people are gonna disagree with a lot of things I've said here and I respect that But I hope that you would respect as well that I'm simply sharing where I honestly am I'm very open to comments and conversations But I in no means made this video to condemn or convince anyone of anything but really simply to share This is where I am. I'm gonna end it right there.  I love you guys. I'm thinking about you and I will see you in the next video


Russia's Natural Resources Minister, Alexander Kozlov, held a meeting with North Korea's Premier, Kim Taek-hwan, before leaving Pyongyang. North Korean state-run broadcaster KRT reported on November 17.The meeting took place on November 16, in a friendly atmosphere with other senior officials on both sides present, including Russian sports minister Oleg Matitsyn and North Korea's Minister of External Economic Relations, Yun Jong-ho. According to state media, the Russian delegation led by Kozlov had arrived in North Korea on November 14 and visited multiple places in the North Korean capital, including an exhibition for light industrial products, an art exhibition and a department store before leaving for Russia on Thursday, according to KCNA.


Hi, good afternoon everyone. My name is Will and this is Leon. We're going to tell you a bit about the network we've built for you guys We started here. Sorry the first thing I need to say actually is that we are not responsible for running events. That's easy so so networking is is does involve a lot of terminology and Acronyms and strange words and stuff like that. So we developed a new Item of terminology the concept of the sauna and this is various buildings are all round Various rooms that all around this building and we put network equipment in them and they get very hot These are some infrared camera photos of some comms rooms and You can see yeah, there's quite some heat generated in there It was a bit of a problem. We're basically running on the limits there because the those rooms aren't designed To host a network of that size We have 10 gigabit equipment everywhere and lots of it And the building just wasn't designed for that. So it's pretty warm in those rooms Here's a graph of some of the temperatures we collect lots and lots of data numbers and things And this is produces in graphite and it's very easy for us to just kind of have a quick graph of the top temperatures Which go up to yeah 50 something degrees C. These are degrees C not Fahrenheit Or Kelvin at one point we had to move our servers to another room which has an airco Because the after we closed the door the graph climbed above 50 55 degrees Which wouldn't be good for the hardware, but the equipment handled it the temperature really well actually So we didn't have 100 gigi this year for 30 C3 we had a hundred gigi and you guys didn't actually bother to use it properly So so we left that equipment in the demo stock and and we just took tech gigi And it's quite easy for us to do multiple 10 gigi wavelengths over the single fiber We have that comes into the into the into the building So so we did that The unused uplink bandwidth is too damn high you you guys peaked about 16 gig out It's relatively similar to what we've had in previous years with increasing amounts of especially inbound IPv6 Not much outbound IPv6 So the setup we're running this year is pretty much the same as last year's so it's tried and well tested The core network runs on hardware from juniper that we that we get in a loan mostly MX240 and MX80 routers and For for the distribution network. We run on EX series switches and We were running MPLS, VPLS core network So we can have the routing distributed and still have some networks in a central place like we need for the DHCP server and stuff And it's basically the same same network as last year So it wasn't that much work because we had the conflicts ready. We had everything we could steal most and most things from last year Yeah, well, we we tend to throw away the actual Data that gets accumulated in the logs during Congress. We do Keep the keep the conflicts of we've used that hardware before that that makes makes life a lot easier for us The various tools and scripts we've developed And sorry about this diagram. It's the network got rather larger and so the diagram also got more complicated But yeah, we we have various Intuna bit mx and ex distributed around the building and and Over the in building fiber So what you what you can see here is on the right hand side These are our upstream providers, so which are various ISPs that just offer to sponsor a single 10 g link or a 20 g link And all together these are That's an uplink capacity of 50 gig this year And also on the right hand side is our router in the data center, which we run that fiber to from the building and Then the rest of the that map is basically just the the patch rooms inside this buildings with various routers and switches So we had a colo same as every year It is for computers with one gig and above network connections. We had Around actually it was 80 to 100 machines in the colo I'll show you some photos in a minute and it was using about 15 kilowatts, which is quite a lot of heat It was obviously nice and warm and cozy in there because we had this ticket from the knock-help desk guys over here where someone had decided to sleep in the colo and And and then and then And then left his sleeping equipment there and wondered Well, we did not cleanse this hellish place and remove it, but Someone someone obviously obviously did So sorry if you're in the audience and you're looking for your stuff Don't know The colo is for machines really We had a much better layout this time it does kind of turn into a bit of a carbon salad cable salad, you know and We We were able to kind of make things a bit better. It's it's in it's actually in the the balcony of Yeah, yeah, you can you can see it in the background on that picture.  Someone said our Congress has more capacity available than the whole of Africa and now people this year say oh Congress has more cap more more more better network than North Korea and Well, this is true. We don't think this is something that's particularly funny Most of us in the knocker professional internet engineers and we think if It's a really sad state of affairs if we can build a better network than for a whole country. So so well, hopefully We'll continue to have a good network, but maybe some other countries will too in the future On the plus side Africa is catching up. So definitely. We don't have more capacity than Africa anymore. Yeah This was actually we did didn't sort of fun analysis of where we're traffic between Congress and North Korea was going but There wasn't much traffic. It was below the in the sampling area of error of our measurements. So Maybe it wasn't only just due to this really circuitous route where? packets were going, you know the whole width of the United States and across the Pacific to to get to North Korea, but There we go So wireless We this year we we're running on a rubber equipment We had two controllers and with 10g up links It's a it's a it's a lot much larger set up than last year's we've had we've had I think 70 72 excess points last year and this year we're in 125 115 of these are actually serving clients. So you that these are the ones you connect to and The other 10 are just air monitors really that we use in high-density areas like these lecture halls Which don't do anything else but measuring the actuality on the spectrum So the the controller can do more intelligent decisions about how to How to plan the wireless? Also, we had way more users than last year's At 33 where we had five five thousand users and the wireless and peak times and this year we peaked at 7800 and that means an average of 68 Clients per excess point in average, which is kind of high and we'll come on to that in a minute Interesting thing is that not everyone is here or has devices connected and we saw in the region of 20,000 unique devices I that's about a couple two devices per attendee, I guess So people people come and go from Congress and the peak traffic there was about three gigabit on the wireless Which is which is a fair bit? We had some interesting graphs because we collect numbers I Don't have a we collect numbers, but not your data This is I don't have a pointer, but basically if you look at this large purple graph here, this is actually This is actually the number of users in salines in hall one And then obviously the talk finished here and they went everyone goes out into this Cyan sort of area, which is actually the foyer behind style one.  Hey, there's loads and loads of people in Sal 2. What is the talk there? We should go and see what it is This is a picture from the FNaught news show actually so on the on the right-hand side It's when the FNaught news show ended and everybody Went home basically Some of them went to the bar first, I think Crypto if you don't use the crypto we provide then people will sniff your traffic We provide we had about 60% 82.1 X WP enterprise clients. That's where you enter basically a random username and password This is what you should be using please do not use the unencrypted Wi-Fi We do include it for instance for compatibility reasons like you have some old hardware or Raspberry Pi is and stuff like that But if you persist in using the unencrypted Wi-Fi then we can't help you and your data will be sniffed recorded and sold This time around the encryption actually is terminated with the Aruba setup on the controller itself, which is Stored somewhere safe in the building Which reduces the attack surface because that means that the the traffic is also encrypted all the way throughout the network as well the the wired network that the access points connect to But yes, please use the encrypted stuff We have some more graphs of the wireless And this is actual traffic like megabits per second. I think You can you can see the times when hackers sleep It's not it's not actually in this graph, but we've met at the lowest number of users I think at 7 and 8 a.m. So that's when the bottom of the curve is So what you can see here is it's basically that we have a lot of traffic that this is only This is only saw Einds and to the lines and it's by so the main lecture halls Yes, it's about one one point two gigabits of peak traffic and The thing is what happens if you if you have this much traffic on the wireless we we have in a pretty graph of this as well It's pretty clear isn't it So this is this is this is the the spectrum utilization basically it's it's a do buy five gigahertz hardware It does improve year-on-year. I think as people replace hardware and and yeah 65% 5 gigahertz clients is we think we think you're getting there. So that's nice So we had some problems with the network It's never never perfect We had one of the Juniper virtual chassis. Well, it didn't literally explode. It is pretty warm in there, but it it kind of fell apart and We had to yeah at some point at some point Well, the virtuous chassis are basically single switches that we a multiple single switches that we stack together So they are one virtual switch so we that's just one IP address we SSH into and Basically, it's just what the one managed switch and what happened at some point is that basically fell apart one of this single switches Rebooted and yeah, we don't really know what happened there We might be a failed stacking cable the ones we used to connect the switches together, but we didn't really investigate it We might investigate it after the event that we probably probably won't We had them we had a bug which caused the we talked about the router that is in the data center IP HH across town and we were enabling IP fix IP fix which is We're using this for flow monitoring. It's not for monitoring of your data But it's we want to collect some data about where traffic is going on the internet because the Congress network is actually part of the internet We run our own autonomous system and we we like to Adjust where the traffic goes and and provide best performance But anyway, we enabled this feature and it caused the line card to hang unfortunately on the router in the data center and we'd already built most of the Congress network at that time when we were kind of slacking off already with a few beers and Then then fortunately, we still had a designated driver at 2 a.m. Because Yeah, I wasn't driving anywhere and we had to drive across We had to drive across town and and like get into the data center and adjust things Special thanks to the guys of the data center who stayed up until like 4 a.m. Just to allow us access so we could reboot the router And we had a few few Wi-Fi problems one of the things is that there are these Etsy regulations that The access points need to detect 5 gigahertz radar. I believe it's weather radar And and what happens is the access points listen and if they hear something they don't recognize they shut up Because they think hey, there's some important weather radar here. So I won't transmit in this area But we found this this Function was very sensitive So we had to adjust the whole channel plan and and this was this was a bit of a problem It meant we couldn't we wanted to get more out of the network and couldn't because of this detection and it's simply due to the amount of like Electronic devices and general stuff going on at Congress and it's just a fun function of the density here So we'll be working with a with a vendor on that to to improve things and maybe make this more tunable with time so So again, we need to we need to thank you some companies basically who provide equipment and and support so we can run this network because We don't rent it. You can't run these amounts of gear We can't phone someone up and say please can we pay you money for this? We're really reliant on People's generosity, so Especially juniper who provided like I think 1.2 tons of equipment Was it 3 million euros of equipment insurance value? Yeah, 3 million euros of insurance value Also, that's not a company, but we really need to thank the people of the knock help desk who keep a lot of work from us and we had a very great support from Aruba and We've already talked about juniper There's a company a German company called flex optics who have been really kind with supplying us optics for all kinds of events these are the actual lasers and we had Hundreds and hundreds of these like it is a very huge box and and they're very very kindly supplying that to us for free We we get a donated bandwidth from a trotto kair and KPN. So thanks for that All kinds all kinds of other bits and pieces From people's closets and so forth to make the network work but thanks thanks to everyone really and Now wash your hands Does anyone have any questions? So this talk's gonna be a little different than all of the others you heard before we are gonna do Questions after each section. So if you have questions, just run to one of the microphones be quick and brief So we can do as many as possible so if anyone has a question just Run to one of those lighted spots and we'll start with one from the internet I think Indeed there was Question about whether you know what the current market price is for one gigabyte of Congress data would be We haven't received any offers. So I have really no idea All right, then I think we'll start with microphone to I just wanted to ask if you have numbers about not 64 users Yeah, we do but I'm not carrying them in my head Okay, but if you if you come and talk to us afterwards we can we can talk about that set up in more detail We did have some various people contest us over the Twitter account Who who were using the nat64 and some feedback on that? So we're gonna continue with this forthcoming Congresses. All right microphone three Sleep safely. I am one of the input as connect coordinators, and we found this guy sleeping mattress. He was searching for four days Another quick question from the interwebs Yes, yeah, there's a question about whether you had any fallback on the internet connection side of things for fallback Do they mean security instance or I just I think just in terms of Whether you had an additional line or something. I don't know. Oh, I see. Yeah We actually have to buy the fiber. I think we actually have to buy it for the whole year Something no, we're renting it for a month. Mm-hmm. Well, it does cost quite a lot of money So we be we for a four-day event. We don't have kind of super dual paths out the building in case of digger digger comes We'll probably use more equipment next time and have More resilience in terms of the equipment, but probably not in terms of the physical fiber due to the cost But talking about abuse can't tell me you didn't get any right. Yeah Um, we were very few abuse conflates this year I think we had like three cases in which we did something. Otherwise, it's just automated stuff where people were pot-scanning and Do less pot-scanning. It's really annoying Yeah, it just fills up the inbox and someone has to close all those tickets and RT You will figure out how to do this with my skill. It's a nightmare All right, then microphone three please Regarding the abuse, do you reject automatically mails from a fail to ban fine sense? We get them all and we process them It's difficult we don't reject them automatically because you think that that's kind of rude We do in theory at least collect this data so we can look at it but There's little we can do we provide a service where If someone sends us an abuse complaint, we can guarantee they will never receive another packet from Congress ever again And this this so someone may phone up and they say hey, I'm seeing this bad traffic And we just say well, we'll just put an access list on and you'll never see us you'll never hear from us again and That that seems to keep people happy And I had a quick other question you mentioned you keep flow data Did you check how much traffic go was going through tour? No, no, we absolutely do not look at the protocol data So I meant just by looking if people are contacting tour notes with a list of IP is public We don't collect that information either. We don't collect IPs. We don't store that and we throw away data as soon as we can We really have no interest in collecting Data about your packets other than this this particular flow data I'm talking about is actually to on whole autonomous system basis. So it's the whole big ice piece So we might know how many gigabits we did to Deutsche telecom But not how many to your DSL line and Deutsche telecom for instance. Okay, thanks Okay, and then I think one last question in my phone, too Are there any any signs of spy agencies monitoring the network? No, that's a tough one That's a tough one because We don't notice any that's all I can say If if we had noticed anything we would have taken action, but we These people are good, right? So Too good. Yeah, it's possible that Whereas we have a number of upstreams that yes something could be happening there But it's again, it's outside the border around at the outside the border of our network So we don't know so just encrypt everything. Yeah twice Okay, then thanks again to the lock guys Okay, so we don't have any more questions if you're done Who's coming up next Disney to unlock my laptop Fengal I think you next Alright, so you're gonna talk about Third right just Take stuff. It's it's on there We need a different screen. Yeah, yeah, can you swap to the other? Yeah, so There we go. Good that we have the walk guys all here. Yes Yeah, so I want to talk to you about the power network We have built up here in the Congress area for you to use it So the building itself has not so much power outlets and Congress members here so This table is Mainly what we have supplied on each area So in hall three we had the biggest amount of power For you guys to use in all H also with the party area. They are using the power Much of the afternoon for the co-location we had more than on Mainly anything else Yeah, our material we have used you see the big amount of distribution boxes and the 16 amps to 32 amps 63 amps and 125 amps the 125 amps is the First time in Congress. We have used them. We needed them for the whole so for the whole three Because the assembly team put all people together that wanted to use 3d printers laser cutters and other stuff at One spot of the hall and total we have installed 9,850 meters of cables 673 power distribution boxes and from our side. We had delivered 3200 power sockets, but every assembly have bring their own power socket lines with them and so I think it will be much more here Here we have first time we have measured the consumption in the halls or in some halls So hall three for example was 1067 kilowatt hours And in the co-location we have used 931 kilowatt hours That's the consumption for the whole day But we have to say last year it was doubled so we have I think a green congress Yeah, and I think it was on my side I don't have any much to tell you because I don't have any data from the controllers or something like this So again, I don't know. Would you mind answering questions if there are any other any questions about power? I don't know Do we have any electrocutions? I don't think so No, no Might happen with those lines lying around everywhere Okay, all right. So then please give it up for the Seidenstraße Hi, I'm Sebastian. I'm going to talk about Seidenstraße Yeah, this year was a lot smaller than last year. We've only used 600 meters of cube That's 700 meters less 700 meters less 100 meters less than yeah last year last year we had 700 Um, it took eight days to set everything up We had four to seven hackers working on it Almost full-time. Those were the same guys who meant our Seidenstraße assembly, which we also had this year and Yeah, I'd like to ask for some applause for them because I was none of them And and I couldn't come here until the 26th and when I arrived here everything was set up already So that's quite impressive and We also saw some new trends in building capsules This year we had way more lads I had to photograph them all with LEDs off Because they were too bright and the hall is really dark. So otherwise you wouldn't see the capsule The capsules were also heavier. I think nobody cares anymore about our standardized weight limits So there because of a lot of lads you need a lot of battery power in there And we I've seen quite a few 3d printed capsules But most of them use 3d printed parts somewhere or even parts from real Pneumatic cube capsules that you can buy commercially and they were sold in half and adapted to our system So that's really cool So this year we also tried to do some fancy crafts We did not put up Transmission logs last year for people to file things manually because That didn't work out too well and the numbers just didn't add up in the end So this year everything was done by automatic capsule counters at the central node And these are the data for the central node basically Yeah, the traffic was similar to last year. So this is the data from I think day one at 19 o'clock to Just before the talk here And we've got overall about 550 capsules that have been sent or received And the fastest capsule was 14 meters per second, which is in a similar area than last year And you can also see some peaks in this craft that might be interesting because those peaks where when there were no talks And people had time to play with the Sidenstrasse Also, you can see the sleep times Except for day one in day one. We had a little bit of a power outage because someone unplugged the cell war assembly and inserted a vacuum cleaner instead We also experimented with autoroutors We tested some ideas here at the congress and yeah It all boils down to the tube is less flexible than the people building the autoroutors except Expected beforehand. So we need more motor power on those things and we don't have any standard routing protocol So even if there was a working router, we would not know how to tell it where to route We are somehow working on that if anyone has good ideas, just write a mail to our mailing list or even better subscribe there Which brings me to the last slide So if you want to contact us with ideas or if you want to help us with something Just go to ISE. We are on Hackend in the Sidenstrasse channel There's not not much going on there over the year, but I'm usually there to respond Also, we've got a mailing list that has a bit more traffic Yeah, it's a standard mailman setup So just write an empty mail with the subject subscribe to this address and yeah, I guess you know the drill Also, we are planning to do a Sidenstrasse setup on the camp next year which might actually be useful there and not just a toy But we need a lot of more helpers to do this because doing this by eight or nine guys is really a lot of work And yeah, I guess we all want to enjoy the camp. So the more people help the faster we are done also Short note here if you want some Sidenstrasse at home, you can get free tubes from us today after we tear everything down just called 4451 And then we'll get you some tubes But you have to you have to have some way to transport them home So we can do that for you and also it would be nice if you would have some way to transport them to the camp Because we will need them there. So that's all from my side Just I have a quick question no flying martin bottles this year. No no flying martin bottles No pro con tubes. No special incidents. All right. That's an improvement. Maybe one there was DDoS attack at my automated capsule counter somebody attached two meters of led string to his capsule And I counted like 300 capsules in less than two seconds Okay, we have a question over there Yes about routing. Have you thought about mpls over Sidenstrasse? So I'm only a bit of a network guy. I'm not really sure what npls is about But we've been discussing Like doing ip-based stuff over Sidenstrasse by using nfc tags and putting the packets on there Okay All right Yeah, there's another question. So you had a packet inspection point at someplace near the angle Stuff, uh, what was that about? Packet inspection point. Yeah, there was like a box in the tube Um, just at the at the ceiling. Oh, okay. I didn't see that one. I thought But yeah Don't know Or maybe we just find the agency Surveillance stuff. Yeah, just on the wrong network. Maybe Okay, I think that's it from the Sidenstrasse. Thanks again And I think we only have the walk left. So Can can we have uh, yeah, thank you So, um, hello. I'm uh, denimo. I'm uh, giving a short report from the video operation center And uh, please give big hands to our winker katsu again And of course other than her there Quite a few other people involved. So who are we we're actually not only c3 walk. We are c3 streaming which comprises of the video operation center of the ccc the fami v and the hs who are both Very much into into video and helped us a lot like every year I guess is actually new Thank you for joining us So we we built this and we prepared this And we improve on every conference that we go but obviously The uh, the the congress is like the the the most challenging conference, right? So we do we approach this in different teams. We have infrastructure. We have streaming and encoding we've a team doing the website We have post processing and coding operations subtitles This is uh, this is people working together in their groups and across groups So this works pretty well and we actually had a meeting A few a few days or a few weeks before this congress to prepare everything in bulin Where we where we actually put this together Um So what's new this year? We had video on demand, which was really great because it was just supposed to be better and it was really received extremely well Which is awesome because It was better, but we had very very little complaints anyway um For the first time we have full hd in all the the halls including the zended centrum and h264 and vp8 So also free codec supported in high definition Our release pipeline now supports release to youtube so everyone who doesn't manage to go to media cccd can now receive our content as well Yeah, that's that's that's the amount of applause. That's due. That's perfect So subtitles in the room and on the web player and actually, uh, we had great feedback there I'll I'll get to that in a separate slide We had gopro camps for presenting small objects like it was a big problem in the last congresses when People had to show that tiny it's a busy hardware hacks and we actually had to zoom in with our cameras from far away So now we had gopros that That actually could catch this a lot better We had backup recording with SSDs, which was really really good Because we actually needed them and it helped us recovering quite some recordings that would have otherwise been lost and We gradually improved other things like the content distribution networks and so on and so on It's just really too much to to count on because it's just amazing what people do in this environment And we have dvbt We actually have dvbt Broadcasting equipment in this hall. We have an official broadcasting license So, uh, I think we didn't really announce this too much, but you could actually have watched the talk Through dvbt So how did this actually work? Um, and It's actually surprising that you can can you guys actually make out? What what these, uh, what does graphic reads? Okay, perfect So I wasn't sure if that would work out So we actually start in the middle So we have the camera sources and the slides which come in via sdi into our mixer Where they are mixed live you you might have seen the awesome split screen view that we have courtesy of our hardware mixers That we had in all in all rooms for the first time this year We have um, and we we and when we go through encoding we actually have two ways now first the The way to the relays and then the the the actual production line where we actually cut and edit the videos and And equip them with metadata a bit more And actually produce all the other formats Um, we had an encoder cluster that encoded everything from from the full hd master In berlin, so we pushed everything through the network. So thank you knock for providing us with the network that we had Because that was essential to get to get our service to to the people. So thank you Um, and so just to finish the production line We then push it to our cdn which runs on mirror brain free software solution and uh on youtube And you guys who watched it live you could see it through rtmp through hls And Through basically the the the relays we had master relays and and atch relays and we had one relay that would do the video in demand Because uh, it would basically reuse the hls snippets And serve them For you delayed viewing pleasures So now for the subtitles we had uh 40 angels helping and subtitling the talks Up to three parallel tracks and very good feedback from hearing impaired and deaf viewers And the service uh was very popular with people that are not as fluent in either german or english so, um Though they's actually those people actually get included uh as well, which is great And for the usage peaks Here for the subtitles the the fnord new show was 120 subtitles viewer and Jacob's and laura's talk was about a hundred subtitles viewers, which is great um So, um What else happened the most remarkable thing and you might have read things about washing hands. We had to learn the hard way Um, the the downtime wasn't so much hardware. That works pretty well I mean if you have uh, if you have watched the streams, they were mostly reliable and very much Reliable this year. This is the feedback that we got through most of the channels Um, but the downtimes were not like technical nature We actually were the virus operating center That's what people called us. We have 25 core people and one afternoon I think I was on day two. We had nine people down within four hours And mad props to cert for helping us getting them fixed up again Some most of them are well again or on the way to recovery. So thank you cert and as I mentioned technically dvbt because we were still testing it was a bit flaky um, it will be uh A lot more useful on the camp, I guess And we had a short front at autage because of a dependency on event ccd That was quickly fixed and we were back online and it only affected the front ends people that were still watching That we were still watching the uh, the streams could keep watching And we're not disturbed Yeah starts I mean competing with the knock in terms of stats is just useless. So I won't even try but we have some um, we delivered 80 terabyte of streams Video on demand nine terabytes cdn 19k views Handled by our mirror network The raw video material was 4.5 terabytes And it was 184 hours of recording and because we have to duplicate them for all the other formats this amounts of That amounts to almost 900 hours of video that needs to be processed by the cluster Okay, I don't need to explain that So yeah, but we we we actually had peak We had a peak at almost 9k viewers and at that time we were pushing Out 10 gigabits Of of video and audio traffic And another interesting thing, um, we also streamed the zended sand home and No video on demand because that that that was only established for the For the main rooms, um, and it turns out it may be a good idea to have that for zended so until next year as well Um, what's amazing is we we could actually see the nsfw late night show Uh, we could actually see that they had 3k viewers, uh, which is absolutely astonishing. Um So I thought that was worthwhile mentioning And there was another, uh strange thing, you know, we are a great cat content lovers and because of that we have vinker cuts and and Suddenly we were innocently idling and working away whatever we were doing and some and uh, sudden When when suddenly this happened there was a larger than life, uh, vinker cuts are showing up at the walk And thank you to the donator Okay, so this is basically it. Um, finally, I would like you to give back hands to everyone who's helped Making this happen and this would not be possible without the people manning the cameras manning the video mixers and Running like mad to get everything organized. So you and the people outside of this conference center Can actually take part in this conference. Thank you video angels Okay, and if there are any questions All right last question time again Yeah, you had microphone to go ahead. All right. Um, I'm wondering for dvbt. Uh, do you know what the range was or the power? I'll give that to the expert So we we planned with three transceivers or senders um, one in the halls hall three uh, one that's a cat room for you and one at Yeah, somewhere between hall one and bar two. We actually deployed only one in hall three with receiving power of 500 millibirds, so 1.5 watts because the bundles not second tour It was easier for us. The bundles are second to only allow indoor coverage. And so it's much cheaper for us Yeah, and it actually worked just today. So we had some problems there Yeah, you see the the headcount number Was down and on Cessar Day and it was kind of a beta test for the camp. So, yeah, thank you Okay, we'll just go ahead with the question from the internet Sure, um The internet just wants to give you guys a big shout out for providing the service and a big thumbs up Um, there was a question about whether, you know, the latency of the stream or Whether it depends a few if it depends a few us rtmp or hls I think rtmp is faster about 15 seconds and hls depends on your client All right. Thank you work from two, please um also about dvbt um, I was wondering if In what resolution you put that out and if that will be a hd content On the camp at least So your question is about hd on dvbt. Yes Yeah, we will might do this on the camp. We didn't do this in today or this year Maybe using dvbt Two and so on but we will see how this works, but In Syria could also do hd on on dvbt one, but only the fewer channels Okay, I think that's it. So please give a huge round of applause for all the people making this congress possible


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I mean, how artists should approach marketing right now, let's say if they can't work with any kind of like marketer, like anybody who's an expert per se or whatever, right, like if they just have to try to figure it out themselves, what would you tell them to do today? Well, the first thing I would tell them is to take, take a, you can still keep recording your music before you decide to put your music out, go on the internet and learn, do your due diligence, learn about how things work, like learn about licenses and copyrights and things like that. Like, like, there's people who come to me to do work, and they don't even have their paperwork together.  Right? Yeah, there's that. But then also, like one of the ways when we were coming up with a balance, one of the ways that I did was, I would like to look at like source or XXL magazine or MTV gyms or whatever, and I would see someone up there and like, who, how'd they get up here? Like someone who's like, maybe I'm like, I'm just finding out about them. I'm like, how'd they get up here? Then I'll go work backwards and find out, okay, who did they work with? What did they do? Like the people who are where you want to be, find out what they did to get there. That doesn't mean copy it step for step. But just knowing what is available to you is going to help you. Right? Like, one of the best sayings ever in life is if you keep doing something and it's not working and you keep doing it, that's the definition of an insanity. Right? And this is kind of like, there's people I'm sure you know, just people you grew up with that I've been making music for 10, 15 years, and they're still local. It's not that they make bad music. It's just that they haven't changed their approach at all. Right? So it's like, nowadays, there's different ways for an artist to break the best way for an artist to break right now. And I tell this to every client, even if it's not a client, I tell them is consistency providing content. And not when I say content, I don't mean just your song. If you are an artist in 2020, and you're releasing music on the internet, and you don't have a music video, your song doesn't exist. Nobody's going to be checking for it. And at that point, you're really just hoping to get lucky. That's essentially that's what you're doing.   By the time you are ready to drop your music, you're going to be in far better shape to have success than if you just record your music. You can just start it out sporadically. You know what I mean? One year of hard research and learning, six months of that could save you a lot of time wasted and save you a lot of money. Vishal, Vishal. Yeah, big preparation is definitely underrated. And this whole just get out there. It's cool. You can build stuff and you can test an experiment, but making sure you put more time into your preparation, making more creative in your video, you know, whatever that is, just spending time on the front end can definitely save you back in headaches. So all right, outside of that then, if I'm, all right, I'm going to prepare, I'm going to really get myself in the right mindset, understand the game a lot more. And definitely that reverse engineer from where artists are, who they work with is a huge gem. I hope that doesn't go over people's head. You definitely need to do that. What is, what are some of the most interesting platforms popping right now to you in terms of marketing for artists? I think it's not necessarily the platforms. It's how you use it. Okay. So it's just kind of like people are talking about TikTok right now. Right.  There's people who are popping off TikTok right now. Roddy Rich is someone whose song just blew up on that.  That's not how that, that's not how that really works. Like you should, whether it's Instagram influencers, TikTok influencers, yo, make sure that the people that you're reaching out to, their audience makes sense for your music. Right. Make sure that, make sure that at least there's a connection there. Yeah. And then also learn the platform. Like if once you learn Instagram, you're going to be able to know, okay, who's got fake followers? Who's got fake likes? Who's faking it? Who, or who has low engagement? Like where you shouldn't be spending your money? Like, you know what I mean? Just because it's a platform doesn't mean you should be spending your money there. You get what I'm saying? So it's also like a combination of things. Like I always say, like people come in and they're like, there's some clients that I have reoccur and it's just like, you tell them, but hey, you want to keep spending money?   It's kind of like, bro, what about if you just that money that you're spending on that Spotify and you're boosting your streams? What about if you just save up your money and then talk to me and let's figure it out or just figure it out on your own about like, okay, I'm going to put X amount on Spotify. I'm going to put X amount on with these Instagram influencers, these TikTok influencers. I'm going to run advertising here. You know what I mean? And then that's when you're really going to see a change in your trajectory. But as far as the most, the platform that I feel like the most effective is definitely the advertising 110%. It's so underrated and I always have to like explain to people like the importance of it and how effective it is. It's a matter of it's there. Everyone could do it, but it's who's doing it. That's the difference. Yep. I remember like I was talking to a client. It's just like, yeah, I'm not going to go through y'all no more. I figured out that for, I figured out y'all formula. I was like, word. Go ahead. I love it. I love when that happens, bro. It's just like, it's a difference between hiring people who know what they're doing and people who don't know what they're doing. Yeah, yeah. You know, I mean, that just makes me think. Direct to consumer. It's taking away the gatekeepers. Yeah. It's taking away all the middleman riff graph and all that stuff. It's because essentially a lot of what's happening in marketing is product placement. It's, I put my product, my song here and hopefully enough people hear it. And out of the people who hear it, hopefully they like it. Yep. That's, that's the basic concept for radio, for TV, for blogs, for playlists, for so much, so many different aspects in the, but advertising when done correctly, it goes directly to the type of people who like the type of content that you're creating. Like there's so many sub genres of hip hop and so many genres of music. It's just kind of like J Cole fans and comethazine fans are not the same people. Not at all. Yeah. Yeah.  And that's why I like, like working with gents and like working with, working on artist campaigns and where we're doing some advertising. We're doing some Spotify playlists. We're, we're putting together this campaign. They're following directions. And then within, within two, three months, they're out of here. It's the network.


So, there was some things that I started in the beginning. I thought they were quite funny. Alchemist says, I'm expecting all of you to be wrong. And to be fair, let's be honest, who hears 100% correct, right? And even the people that say, you know, Bitcoin's going to go to 8K, or the crypto market's going to totally collapse, or we're going to be in a depression for 10 years. People say it. Who really knows? We're all guessing at this point. And then, of course, my man when Mollett says, as you always are. Meaning, so, whatever. That was funny. And then this was a good comment from Darth Mike. He says, rather than waiting for the bottom, just DC, just DC all the way down, as I don't think it's going much lower. And, you know, Darth Mike, you might be correct. I mean, we might, we just took a look at that, right? We just saw that over at this nice little graphic, crypto quants, you know, 1.2. And again, this could be data that's all just, you know, cherry pick. I mean, this is reasonable data. But again, does that mean that the bottom's at, you know, one or lower? The bottom could be 0.25, which would mean like it could put us at Bitcoin down at, you know, 18,000. Is that a possibility? Yes, it's a possibility. So if a thing I always say is like this, if you're unsure, like, I can't time markets. If there's a funny thing, I can't buy the absolute top and I can never sell the absolute bottom. Crazy to think about, right? So because of that, I just DCA. Now, some people like friend of the show, Ben over in the Cryptiverse will say, this is not the accumulation phase. And Ben could very well be right. So he thinks that we got a long way to go, or a little bit of way to go, we're going to go down. And then he wants to accumulate. I say I'm in between. I do what's called, now I'm doing what's called micro DCA, where instead of buying every day, I buy every other week and I flip flop different cryptos.  I think that's like your blue chip. Ethereum I've actually laid off of, I'm very concerned about this merge. I don't think it's going to be the greatest thing of all time, like people think it is. But there's some other layer of ones and some things that I'm buying every so often. And if I'm wrong, whatever, let's say we drop in there 50%. I don't care. I'm here for the next 10, 20 years, as long as my heart roll out. Yeah, that's right. Let's see. No one knows anything. It's all exactly right. And Dorothy Mike says, when I try to give as many different points of view to avoid being locked in the echo chamber. Yes. And that's why like, if you look in my description of all my videos, I'll show you right now. And where the heck did they go? Not this one, not this one, this one. So if you, if you scroll down in the description, here's all the people I listened to, and I recommend you to take to check them out. Coin Bureau, CTL arson and best answers in the crypto verse hashoshi big crypto for all you Spanish speakers, crypto stash and Simon Dixon might have to add on Mark McCormack or Mark McCormack, Peter McCormack. But I don't want you to listen to me just totally because that's not a good idea. And like Dorothy Mike said, it is an echo chamber. So you got to watch other people and you got to read up and you got to do a lot of things. This one's funny. Moon man in seven years, quantum computers will make seed phrase vulnerable. You better ride the way of the weekend. Look, here's another thing. If quantum computers come out and they break the, the cryptography to get into and actually exploit the blockchain, we got a lot bigger issues to worry about than that because that means that every username and password for every single bank account, every single electricity usage, every single thing that you need to get in for a username and password is irrelevant. So I think that is something up. That's a, there's a bigger issue beyond that just like when people say, oh, but Rob, what about an EMP and electric magnetic, electromagnetic pulse that would wipe out the, all the Bitcoin nodes? Mike, look, man, if an EMP hits us on a global scale and the nodes go out, guess what else is going to go out? Everything else. I got a lot bigger issues to worry about than Bitcoin. So just saying. And then Farnoosh, Farnoosh says, should I sell my alts with a lost an hour wait? I've sold some alts. I don't know if they were really, there wasn't, there was some that I took a loss and some I did not. I think that things are going to go down farther. But I just said, well, you know, like these things kind of suck. And they did. I held on to them for too long. I just wanted to consolidate, but I still own a good amount of different things. So, but remember, like, you know, Bitcoin, Ethereum, I like Cardano, some other ones. I think those are going to be, you know, do pretty well as time goes on. Again, take your pick. And of course, people are screaming at the screen right now going, but Rob, what about my coin? What about your coin? You know, I can't get them all, man. So I'm going to miss a lot more opportunities that I'm actually going to hit. That's just how it goes. All right. What? Oh, this is a great question. What's your feeling on the new loyalty program? The Voyager has put out. Well, let me tell you, I think it's fantastic. It was a step in the right direction. So the, so first of all, link in the description for, for Voyager. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course, I'm out here shilling like crazy. But look, if you open up a Voyager account, I think you get like $25 in Bitcoin, just saying, you don't have to use the affiliate link, go right to Voyager, sign up. You're just going to get $25 in Bitcoin. And the loyalty program came out and the biggest knock of loyalty program was when they first did that, you know, Voyager was like pennies and now it's like a buck or whatever. So there was different, there was three different tiers. I think it was like 1,000, 5,000, like 20,000 people like, man, I'll never hit that. I might only hit the middle one. So now they instead of having three tiers, they have six tiers and they have a debit card and there's a lot more, there's in kind rewards. So you're not just getting Voyager back, you're actually getting in, I think it's Bitcoin, USDC and Ethereum, correct me. And I'll do a video on it. But there's a lot of people who already done videos on it, but I think it's definitely a step in the right direction. I think it looks good. Now for every loyalty program that comes up, people like, well, I would like to see X and they didn't do Z and Y isn't even available. Can't get them all, man. So I think it looks good. And we'll go from there. Oh, so Jim says, Robbie reference, Washington, James DC, a bit of twice. What did you take away from it that may influence your DCA strategy? So James is a big numbers guy, obviously, right? And he's talking about just going from the all time highs. And then depending on how much it drops, let's say Bitcoin all time high was 67, 69,000 somewhere around there. And he says down to a certain point, then you start to whatever your, this is where it's all relative. Let's say you buy 100 bucks of Bitcoin every single day, right? Even up to 69,000. Well, then when it drops to a certain point, whatever point you think it is, then you say, okay, here, let's say it drops down 30%, right? I'm going to increase my DCA of 10%. So instead of 100 bucks, you buy 110 bucks. And let's say it drops 50%. Okay, well, now you're going to add in more. Really, it's almost the same. It's similar, but not the exact same to what Ben always talks about as far as dynamic DCA. All you got to know is this. As the price starts to drop down precipitously, you say, okay, what I want to do is I can do one of two things. I can keep DCA, which is what I do. I'm lazy. I just let my app just buy for me. And I don't have to worry about it. And it goes down. And then let's, you know, whatever that point is, you say, I want to increase it by 10%, 30%, 50%, or even 100% more and just keep DCAing. You can do that. It's just that sometimes there's some problems with it. I like to kind of take a look at the situation and go, okay, what exactly is the big issue right here? Like back when COVID hit, I'm like, fundamentally nothing's really changed. So I would probably buy more of Bitcoin, which we did. And it worked out okay. So for me, like it's not going to, I liked the idea and it makes sense. And if you're very regimented, but I'm not, I will just keep the DCA going. And then if we drop like, I'll be honest with you, if we went from 30,000 to 25,000, that would increase the DCA amount of buy every day. And we go from 25,000 to 20,000, it would be even more so because there's no reason. I think there was a stat that just came out that says around 30 million people in the United States out of 320, 330 million people have interacted or used Bitcoin. And I can only think that that number is going to go up over time. So sure. Love the show with Guy. It was pretty good. Do I not have sound? I hope so. Okay. So Robin just put that in. I don't know why that is. Do I not have sound again? Okay. Darth Mike says I have sound. Okay. Guy is misleading accurate. Like I am the guy inaccurate. You have to, you have to clarify. Call me worse names, I suppose. So next survivor says, people compare Bitcoin's adoption curve to the internet and the mobile phone. How does Bitcoin provide anywhere near the same usefulness, utility or value that those things provide? Depends on how you look at it. So I'm unfortunately always looking through the lens of an American. I don't know where you're from next survivor, but that's one of my downfalls. And I try to get out of that realm. So as far as like human rights and trying to get that value to you for these different countries, there's huge opportunity and there's not huge opportunity. There's huge value and be able to put your money into something and just having it retain that value. Now just like Peter McCormick and Lynn Alden talked about, sometimes it actually works a little bit better to put that value into a said stable coin. So to me, like the internet was great. We'd get a lot of information, a lot of information. You know what the problem is with the internet? A lot of the information is useless because it's either inaccurate. It's either wrong. It's either put out by bots or it is just moving us into a certain way. Take a look at the last two elections here in the United States. But yeah, it has a huge amount of value. And as far as the mobile phone, absolutely, right? We have a lot of value. But if we don't have any kind of monetary value with us, what does that mean for us? And then here's another problem. A hypothesis. So if we look at CBDCs and those are regulated and controlled by the centralized government or centralized banks. And just like they have in China, same speaking points, you don't have a good social score and they turn off your ability to pay for things. Well now, no matter what you have on the internet or the mobile phone, you better believe that Bitcoin becomes and stable coins become a very big deal to help you survive. So just in that regard, I will say like that. And then lastly, I will say the last thing is this. How many times have you been hacked? How many times have you lost your data? How many times has your personal information been put out on the internet? I don't know about you. But it happens to me all the time. Not all the time. But it's happened a good way too many times I like to, especially data breaches, right? Everybody who's watching this show right now has some kind of data that's floating out around there. Because why? Because the system that we have are inadequate. What if you could build an app, adapt any kind of any kind of program on top of the most secure network on the entire planet? That's what Bitcoin is. If you think about it, has Bitcoin ever been hacked? Mt. Gox has been hacked, Binance has been hacked, everything else has been hacked. Has Bitcoin been hacked, hacked with their 10,000 plus nodes? You have to actually attack a third or 51% of those nodes to actually change anything. So if you could build on top of that, how much is that worth to you? So I hope that answers your question in a type of big thinking type of little way to help you out. All right. I don't know. So why does it matter where they mine Bitcoin? There's a lot of ways to say this. And first of all, you have to understand for the Bitcoin mining operations, just because they have a bunch of Bitcoin miners in, say, China, doesn't mean that if you were, and this is what happened in 2017, 2018, if you're a Bitcoin miner, you can just say, I want to connect to Poolin network, which is based in China. But I have my own independent rig, and I'm helping with the hash power to mine Bitcoin. You can do that. And you could be in Ireland. And you can just say, oh, well, at this point, I want to be there with China and move around. So again, the hash rate power was very subjective to where it actually was. That's as far as what the Bitcoin miners tell me. So then the thing becomes like, well, where do you want the ability for all these miners to actually happen? Do you want that in China? Personally, I don't want it in China, just like I don't like a lot of manufacturing companies in China, just like I don't like all the jobs to be shipped over to China. I'm sorry. I'm an American and a lot of places I will not apologize for that. So I don't think I don't like the fact that when we have these different crises, we couldn't manufacture our own materials to create masks and whatever else that we need. We had to always rely on Chinese workers in Chinese industry. I despised it. So to me personally, I don't like anything over there. I think we should all be taking back into our own countries. And I don't like the fact that they were over there because that leads to less job creation and less jobs over here. So I'm super happy when China dropped the ball. I'm also happy when different other countries like Kazakhstan also dropped the ball, which means we can bring them over here and at least a job creation over here. That's just how I think. So can you feel people honesty? Some CEOs seem very greedy. Well, they make a lot of money. All right. The pool is on. Yeah. What? Jason Chanley says going for 10k steps, four miles again. I like to go on the show. What he's talking about is there's a link in the description and it's for a sweat coin and it's a free app. And I've talked about it all the time on the show, but you can go against me for the steps.  If you beat me for the month of June, you can either come on the show. I'll have in the show. We'll talk about whatever you want to talk about. The second thing is I'll do your portfolio. I'll review it. Or the third thing is I'll give you 50 sweat coins. So again, link in the description is like a little running man icon says sweat coin download here. And again, it's 100% free and they're going to be moving from just this reward token, which is not a cryptocurrency, to a crypto digital asset in quarter three. So that's why I'm excited about it. And that's it. Yeah. China made the crisis but USA made the war and did crisis. Yeah. I mean, look, we're not squeaky clean. Let's be honest. America has been the bully for quite some time. Let's see. Well, that's trying not to devolve into politics. That's one way to really alienate a lot of people. Rob, are we going to get an alt season anytime soon? I don't think this year is our year, everybody.  Like hasn't it been between like 28,000 and 31,000 for Bitcoin?  I can't wait to make a boatload of money. You probably are. But for investors, it just kind of slow goes the boat. So yeah. And Brian's got a good one. The market flips up. I'm ready. Probably stacking cash. Not a bad idea. I would also like to see that Bitcoin not be owned by the Chinese government. Yeah, it's always something very nice thing. What lies here with our son? Hopefully, hopefully be with sound. I've done a lot of these live shows. That's the first time it's happened. It's never happened to me, baby. I don't know what happened. First, go script arousal importing from the pool spot for years. That's true. Yeah. And people think like this is like the greatest thing of all time. Look, we've had me, my wife had this come up in 19 years for this place. And it's not it just because it looks cool doesn't mean it is cool. Like remember, there's no air conditioning in here, and I'm out here like when it's 100 degrees. And the reason is because I don't like to sit in inside. I always like to be outside. So sometimes it gets a little hot, but it looks nice. But it's not the greatest thing of all time. Let's see. When market, when market flips, all kinds of numbers will be be lovers, be lovers. Sure. Yeah, I don't know. People ring their phones, the makeshift machines get set. I have no idea. Great. I can't tell how much I appreciate you guys doing a deep dive of my question. It made a lot to me. Thanks. I hope we could answer your question. Like again, it's better to have three heads better than one. So it's always good to have those guys on. Ted, they're up here all. Not a bad idea. Yeah, I gotta touch that one. What was your what was your mile time in high school? I don't know. But in the military, you have the PT test and it's two mile run push ups and sit ups. And the fastest I ever did the two mile was 1320. That's that's a two mile. That's as fast as I could ever do it. I'm not a runner, but I always maxed on a push ups and sit ups. That was pretty easy. Okay. Thanks. I tried that. I think that's it. Yeah, it's a little windy today. And it's a good point. Where'd it go? Dave, you says, right, Bitcoin pumps first, Bitcoin does pump first. So remember, that's the thing, like in 20 and early 2017, the alts were nothing. And then all of a sudden, Bitcoin would pump and it was like, it's, it's like all the alts would just ride the coattails. And then before you know it, you'd have all these alts that was hard to come up and almost catch it. And then Bitcoin would come up again, then they would come up and catch. And then Bitcoin would fall and the all coins would fall. And before you know it, everybody's like, Oh man, you know, this, they try to get into Bitcoin like Bitcoin is just old, you know, boomer tech and we don't need it. I don't hear that too often now. So this is a great question. Is I trust IRA good for a young person with a minimum wage job? Yeah, think about it. And I can't give you an investment advice, but I'll just tell you, I'll be honest with you. When I was younger, a long time ago in the 20s, I didn't think about Roth IRAs and retirement. Who cares, right? I need that money now to put into stuff. If you're like pretty young person, minimum wage job, I wouldn't me personally, I wouldn't do it. I'd be like, you know, you know what, I wouldn't. I know some people would say, but Rob, what about if you're when you get to 65 and a half? I don't know. And that's a long time.  I mean, to make it, I would wait, especially a minimum wage job, right? I think there's better options, honestly. That's just me.  Roth IRA. But again, talk to the guys over at I trust links in the description. Oh my God. Yeah. And why no stable coins in Texas? I can, you can still get state. I mean, you can still use stable coins. It's just you're limited as to which exchanges you can use. There's a big difference. So like Binance US Texans, you can't use Binance. And I'm not I can use Celsius, but I also don't live in Texas, Texas. I live in Puerto Rico. That's my main place. That's where I'm usually at. Just we live in Puerto Rico, but we vacation in Texas. I know it seems backwards, but it's just how it is with us. Yeah. If you're young and best now, and just put it on there, don't even think about it. I can't get a job. A lot of jobs out there shall win, but it depends on what you're looking for. Great. All right, guys, that's it. So I got to go and cut out all that that part of the video was me not with no audio.  But we'll go again. Anyhow, that's it for today. Look, we've gone 50 minutes. That's it. Get out there. 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