Good afternoon everyone. My name is Samuel and I'm here with my colleagues Masayuki and Dongma and we are here to share some of our experience as non-native English speakers in open source communities. So just to get started, let's give you a brief introduction of ourselves and share a little bit of our backgrounds. Hi, I'm Masayuki Igawa. I'm working for now SUSA and I'm now concentrated to contribute to OpenStack things, especially OpenStack QA things. I'm one of the quarrel viewer. One of the projects is Tempest quarrel viewer and I'm working at the Japan Tokyo office. So this is the first time to visit First Asia. I'm really happy and I'm really happy, glad to provide this presentation to you. Yeah, thank you. Hello everyone. I'm Dongma. I'm Chinese, currently living in Beijing China. I work for Holy Packer Enterprise as a software engineer, mainly focused on the open source stuff. Currently, mainly work on the OpenStack upstream contribution. I usually work for the Forth Solid project as a contributor. I'm the sectar, joined the Forth Asia. Yeah, thank you. So my name is Samuel de Medeirosquerois. I'm Brazilian. I'm working remotely for SUSA from Brazil from a city called Natal and I'm also involved in the OpenStack community. I am a Keystone car reviewer and it's also my first time here. So thanks for having us. So what does this talk about? As I said, we are here to share some of our experience as non-native English speakers in open source communities, more specifically in the OpenStack community where we have been contributing for several years. And we are going to at least to enumerate some challenges we have been facing in the community and then how we have done to overcome those challenges. And lastly, we are going to share with you some tips we have, we find useful when onboarding newcomers in your respective communities. So we are, so Chinese and the Brazilian and the Japanese. So we will share our experience and feeling and the thinking as a non-native English speakers and we will share challenges based on the cultural side and it's based on our two stories. So from my side, I am Japanese and the first one is not to say yes and no clearly. So many of the Japanese tend to avoid to say yes or no clearly. So which means we tend to express our opinion unclearly. So we, it is, I think we think it makes us respect each other. So for example, another example is that we say in Japanese, in Japanese, so which means I'll do my best in the dictionary, but the actual meaning is I'll do nothing. So in many cases, not every time, but in many cases. So this is used in formal conversations. So it's very bad things, I think. But in Japanese culture, it is not so program, because we know that. But in international communications, it is really bad. It is really bad. So we should really avoid to use like that things. So the second is tend to be perfect. So Japanese are really trying to tend to be perfect. And that is good, but we will fear or scare about the mistakes things, especially speaking or listening. If it is not perfect, we tend to avoid to speak or listening. So it is really bad to conversation things. And the third one is keep intonation. Yeah, so we Japanese tend to keep intonation in conversations, speak flat. And it's very different behavior in normal English conversations. So I think it seems to like Japanese people don't have emotion, but it is not. So we have the emotion and the passion. So I will, I really try to show up my emotions. Yeah. And size of economy. So size of economy is actually Japan's size of economy is big. So we don't need to try to have a conversation to international people, foreign people. It is really bad for our situation. I think we should, we should take a conversation to other people's international conversations. It's really important for us. And focusing on reading and writing, the most of the school, school class is focusing on reading and writing. So that is, that is important, but it is not, it is not perfect for English conversation. We need to speak and the listening to our conversation. So we need to try to hard exercise for that things. And pronunciation and the grammar is really different from English and between English and Japanese. So for example, French thing L and R is really difficult for me. So we don't, we cannot distinguish the two words. For example, the light, and the right, right hand is different, but I'm not sure you can understand like this pronunciation. Yeah. This is really difficult. Yeah, there are some other like these things in other language, I think. And the other thing is grammar. Grammar is completely different in English and the Japanese. For example, subject verb, object is the basic order in English. But in Japanese, subject object verb is the basic order. So it's really complicated for me, confused me. Yeah.  It's very confusing. And the last one for me is katakana thing. We have the three type of characters in Japanese that is kanji and hiragana and katakana. So katakana is used for important words like network or file or comment like this. But this is, we can understand the katakana is network, this is similar pronunciation, but different actually. So we say network in Japanese or file is file or comment like this. So it's very confusing for me in English. And the third one is Japanese made in English. So we have some Japanese made in English like a Pasokon and Aekon and Otobai. That means a personal computer and air conditioner. And Otobai is a motorbike. It's very difficult, different. And Pasokon, it's very confusing. And Pasokon is not English, but most of the Japanese believe that this is English. So it's very confusing things. Yeah. Okay. I will share some important experience from the China culture. And the Chinese culture also have some similar things like the Japanese culture. I just will quickly introduce one traditional culture called the Confucian culture created by this man, confused. This culture is great influence the Chinese character. This culture based on the tradition culture of the Xia, Shang, Zhou dynasty. It's about 2000 years history. And the whole Confucian text is summarized by four books and five classes. One of the book called the Doctrine of the Ming and the Chinese name is Zhong Yong. One guideline of this book is Lannisy. So this traditional culture will lead some behaviors for Chinese people. For example, Chinese people sometimes like to see, yes, but don't like to see, no. When they don't want to do something, we don't say no directly. We should see something others. That will be some misunderstanding. Also, we would like to lessen them but don't like to negotiate. Sometimes we don't like to fight. We also have some Chinese issues. The Chinese pronunciation is not understood by others. The local Chinese, we have some pronunciation come from the Chinese pinyin. I think it's some different with the English. So it's hard to understood by others sometime. Also, we didn't follow very well with the English grammar. For example, if we meet some friends, we will say hi, hello in English. But in Chinese, sometimes we will say, do you eat? Which I mean, do you eat? And we also have some writing issues. I think it's similar with the other non-native English speaker. We can talk about it later. Okay. So now from a Brazilian perspective, I have found that there is no like a huge difference between cultures in terms of speaking out. So like Japanese or Chinese, they may hesitate to speak. We don't have that. However, there are some differences that I would like to list here. And one that is very interesting is that sometimes American or British people may be very direct or short in response. And that may sound a little bit rude for us, even if that's not the intent. There are also some grammar particularities. For example, the vowel I in Portuguese is pronounced exactly the same way as the vowel E in English. So we just say E in Portuguese. And sometimes that may cause you to make mistakes when typing words. For example, listening to a music or something, trying to take notes. There is also the adjective position. So in English, the adjective comes first. And then the noun, it's exactly the opposite in Portuguese. So we don't say like the beautiful house. We say the house beautiful. And that may also be confusing at the beginning. We also have that some phonemes don't exist in Portuguese. For example, the TH sound. And that's confusing. And you may find some Brazilian people replacing the TH sound sometimes by the F sound. For example, they may say thing instead of thing. And I also found that in Brazil, despite the fact you start learning English very early, you do not get to a very good level because they regularize schools do a very poor job teaching English to kids. Okay, so now we have talked about the cultural aspects, the cultural challenges related to being a non-native English speaker. And then we are going to show you now a few points related to the language skills itself. We are going to have split the content in the four skill sets of the languages. So we are going to address the reading, writing, listening, and then speaking. And we are going to start now with reading. So the reading part, reading is the, yeah, luckily the reading is the easiest part in most of the case. And but it's very important because the most of the technology information is written in English. And asynchronous conversation like email is in English in most of the open source community. But luckily we have the opportunity to read it again if we don't understand the emails or something like that, things. And so we can use a lot of tools for that. For example, dictionary or Google translation or something like that. It is very useful to understand the article or emails or something. But so IRC conversation goes fast, yeah. So like a chat, IRC or Slack or something, it's very open and very massive. So I actually cannot follow it sometimes. And I need to use Google translation or dictionary to understand that. And sometimes long emails conclusion is unclear. So there are sometimes very long emails. And I read finally what's the conclusion or something like this. So I need to spend a lot of time to read and understand that. And so I think we should, the email should be more simple and easy to read. We don't need to put between lines for the minutes. Okay. I will share some challenges for us with writing. First one is the English grammar is an issue. As we said before, the structure of the sentence is very different from different languages. Another challenge is writing long and beautiful sentence is very difficult for the non-native English speaker. So the simpler sentences are prevalent. I think simpler sentences avoid misunderstanding. But sometimes it's difficult to see the detail things. So we should care about it. Also sometimes the speed is also needed in the text chat. Like RSE, hand out slack. Sometimes the speed is challenging for us. For example, if we chat on the RSE, the discussion is very fast. When I try to tap one sentence and two pages out. So, yeah. Okay. Next. Talking about listening. So we have addressed reading and writing. Listening is a little bit more challenging because when it comes to face-to-face conversation, you got to give responses and understand that in real time. It's not like reading. As Masayuki said, you can read as many times as you need. And in face-to-face conversation, it's not very good if you ask the person to repeat that several times in the same conversation. So we have noted that it's harder than reading and writing. And there are some aspects of this skill that makes it a little bit tricky. And the first one is the variety of accents. For example, in the OpenStack community where we work and in most of the communities, open-source communities, where you have globally distributed teams, you get a large variety of accents. So when going to OpenStack events, for example, the OpenStack Summit, we get to talk to people from North America, from Australia, from Asia, Brazil, and so on. And there are hundreds, maybe, of accents involved there. There is also the speed of conversation that's natural because when two people who talk the same mother language get together, they use to talk quicker than when you have a mix of people from different languages. And that also makes it harder for us to understand. There is also the vocabulary, of course, because if people are using words that you cannot get during the real-time conversation, that may lead you to just misunderstood the conversation and be afraid of participating. There is also the grammar, of course. For example, Masayuki, the way the sentences are organized are completely different. And maybe he doesn't know that, but his brain needs to translate that to put the words in the right ways so that he can effectively understand what's being said. And lastly, to make it even more challenging, communication, face-to-face communication happens in noisy environments. So despite having all those challenging points, we also have the noise going on. So it's even harder to understand. Our last point is, our last skill set is speaking, and we've got Masayuki. So the speaking part is more difficult, I think, than listening. So basically output to something is more difficult than input to something. Especially speaking requires real-time vocabulary and grammar skills, too. So as I said before, the English words and the English words and the pronunciation are very different from our mother languages. So the speed and the frequency, if speed is low and the frequency is very low, the conversation is really boring sometimes. And if the speed and the frequency are low, maybe native speakers are really boring sometimes. So it causes a very bad conversation. So we need to practice and exercise the speed and the frequency and the speaking skills. So the next part is the overcoming obstacles. We have a lot of challenges, as we said. But we are now overcoming some of these things, not all. And we would like to share the things and the tips for them. It would be good for the conversation, for rent conversations. So Vincent? I will share some tips for us to overcoming the obstacles. First one, the cultural challenges are harder than the language challenges. The cultural differences need to be respected and the English skills can be improved. And second is the language immersion. I think you should be in contact with the English language as much as you can. Try to forget your limitations. Then do your best and you will immediately improve. Also, you need to read as much as you can to gather more vocabulary and to improve your English skills. Here we have a few more tips. And we have found that communicating daily is very important to brushing up your skills. So always try to communicate, maybe via messaging or trying to communicate to our colleagues in your office daily, just to make sure you are making progress. There are also a lot of tools that can be useful out there. Masayuki mentioned that you may use Google translator, you may use online dictionaries as well. And they help a lot, especially when you have the time to do that, when reading and writing emails. Try to practice with yourself and with others. So one thing that is very interesting, at least for me, is that practicing through yourself works. I was caught sometimes when I was first learning English and French. I was talking to myself and people around me might be thinking I was crazy, but that's very useful because one thing is when you may make the subject and the ideas inside your head and other things when you try to put the words out. And the last point is trying to set up one-to-one conversations with a friend or someone who does speak the language you are trying to learn. Because if you talk to a single person, it's very easy to get comfortable and if you are afraid to make mistakes in a large audience, that's much easier when talking to a single person. And lastly, we are going to share with you a few tips that may be useful when onboarding newcomers in your respective communities. Sayuki. So this is newcomers for newcomers, but I think this is useful for all newcomers. That means not only for non-native speakers newcomers but also native speakers newcomers. I mean that. But especially important to non-native speakers. So first one is be friendly. So be open your mind and most of the people, especially open-source communities, people are very open-minded. So you can find friends or mentors if you are friendly. But if you are not friendly, you cannot get friends or something. So if the friends or mentors are really good at English, it's really lucky for your English skill. So you can exercise your English skill through a communicate with the friends. It's really good. And the final mentor. Mentors can give you about technical things and also maybe communication things. It's also important. And share your opinion. If you don't share your opinion, people don't understand your opinion. So this is very important. And sharing your opinion through using a conversation skill, English conversation skill, it would be a good training for English communication. And prepare in advance. So preparation is preferable. It's needed. And so this is like these sessions. We are actually exercise for these sessions. I'm not sure this is good or not. So I hope this is good for you. And so the ask questions. So you should ask questions in English that is really good to exercise. One of them is really good to exercise for English. So this is, I don't think you don't need to think about really special, fantastic questions. It should be a simple question. It's really good for that. For example, number two slide is not, it's unclear for me. So please explain that again. This is really good question, I think. So it should be simple. Simple is good. And the brush up your English skill. This is also needed for us, especially for me. So, yeah, we don't have enough English skills right now, but we can brush up for that. It leads really good conversation, really good communication with other people in open source communities. Okay. We will share some tips for the native English speaker. First one should be patient. So each of the non-native English speaker levels is very different. Sometimes you'll feel frustration or conversation with them due to the pronunciation or grammar or vocabulary. So please be patient for them. Also, please speak slowly, especially in group discussions. The very heat up, speed up discussions will let the non-native English speaker hard to understand. So the next is to try to use a simple word and a simple sentence as you can to avoid the misunderstanding. Next one to encourage the communication to make them comfortable enough to talk up. And the last one and the important one is, please don't make fun of them. Yeah. That's all our sessions. Thank you. Does anybody have questions? So thank you for the very good speakers. So I don't understand your situation because I'm Japanese. So I want to know what is the most important thing to communication with each other? And the question is what is the most pay attention to when you communicate with each other? So there were two questions. The first one, what are the most important things when communicating? And the question two, what are the things you need to pay attention to the most? So yeah, good question. So first question is most important things, right? So yeah, in my opinion, I think, yeah, it's difficult. I think this is, every time I think the others, what's thinking? I respect others. That is really important. The last one is don't make fun things. Yeah, that is really important. If they make fun something and some others, it's really bad relation. So respect each other is really good, really important for me, I think. So cool. I agree with him. So basically, I think the native speakers need to be patient, to respect, do not make fun because we are trying to make an effort because we could basically just be working on projects that are like communicating in our native languages and we wouldn't be having like any issue, like we are having here. So we need to be respected and we need to feel comfortable to be speaking like to an audience, to be speaking to other folks. So we need to feel confident and to feel comfortable.  And the next question was about the things you need to pay attention. So it really depends on what you are talking about, but you need to, as in any conversation, you just need to know what you are talking about. So ask good questions, share your opinion, as you've said. So things like that. Nothing really specific. Not sure if you had anything as in mind. Do you have more questions? Okay, so we ran out of time. Thank you very much for having us.


Welcome to digital asset news to get top stories and cryptocurrency digital assets and break them down to bite-sized pieces today We've got a ton of stuff to go over first stuff. This is what everybody's talking about So let's talk about it. The SEC is filing a lawsuit against Ripple labs And we're gonna talk about what the complaint actually is We're gonna take a look at what people like Charles Hoskinson have to say and How Brad Garlinghouse and Ripple is responding to it as well as what is going on in the community also on the heels Of the ledger hack the CEO of ledger comes out and says probably the worst thing you can possibly say And this is a textbook example of what not to do We're gonna talk about a coin base and their issues that they're having with their customers Which is getting in my opinion out of control and we'll finish it all up with probably one of the most savage things I've ever heard Michael Saylor say on Fox news. 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So congratulations to you guys Bitcoin cash, I mean, let's just talk about what's down stellar. It's not 1% Everything's up pretty massively. There's one that I want to make mention of congratulations to Celsius for finally breaking past that $3 mark. It just seems like a couple weeks ago We're talking about them getting past $2 and also theta blast through a dollar I mean, I remember when it was just like 18 cents and here we are. So congratulations those two again I'm pretty biased because I own everything that is talked about except for litecoin So let's do what I like to do which is switch us over to Bitcoin to see if we just would invest in Bitcoin How he would have done and looks like litecoin beat us out and Binance coin and Monero And okay be and Celsius, but not too bad and theta. So and synthetic syntax man That thing is just on a tear. So again on this one Bitcoin holders You probably held out and did pretty well And if you just would invest in Bitcoin would have done pretty good But I still think the altcoin season is coming. Just don't know when that's gonna happen All right, let's jump in today's story, which is everybody's talking about. So this is kind of big, huh? So the SEC is soon ripple. Why? Well, it's not just about securities. That is part of it But there's another part to that and really it comes down to They feel that they were being predatory and they were preying on not the institutional investors or the credit investor They're saying that they prayed on people who didn't know any better and that they were Essentially duping them to buy into XRP because they thought they think that people thought they were getting stocks in a ripple Which is kind of ridiculous But there's a lot of nuances to this and I will just preface it by this have you ever been sued I have sucks and I will just tell you this the law is very fluid It is all really about the judges that you get the representation that you have and how they interpret the law that is out There there are so many nuances to it That's why I have the utmost respect for lawyers.  Look, they got a tough job And I depended on them for a very dark period of my life and I'm forever grateful I will just say also this is that this lawsuit is going to take years It is not gonna be six months to a year I think this is gonna be very big very long very drawn out and very expensive for ripple. Thankfully They have a lot of money. So this is what's going on from at least 2013 the present This is what they say defend it sold over 14 billion units of a digital asset security called XRP It returned for cash or the consideration or 1.38 billion dollars to fund ripples operation and enrich Larson and Garlinghouse So they say here that the reason why it gets so shady is that ripple never filed a Registration statement which gives people or investors information of what is going on behind the scenes instead Ripple created an information vacuum such that ripple and the two insiders with the most control of it Larson and Garlinghouse could sell XRP into a market that possessed only the information Defendants chose to share about ripple and XRP. So basically what they're saying is these guys were scheisters and scam artists And they wouldn't tell them anything just like hey, this is XRP This is what we talk about about do your own research and I would look into the into the project So they're saying that if you were so confident about your business Why didn't you go after accredited investors or institutional investors to drive this whole force home? Why did you have to go to the retail investor to fund it to a tune of one point? Whatever billion dollars that they got and I'm not here to debate that I'm just saying that's their argument So ripple engaged in this illegal securities offering from 2013 to now even though ripple received legal advice It's really 2012 that under certain circumstances XRP could be considered an investment contract and therefore a security One of the federal securities laws. So here's what you have to take a step back and look at there's this book called the infinite machine and the same thing happened to Ethereum and Their issue was with securities and they had their lawyers go over it again and again and again And what they found out was the whole loophole or how we want to Say it is they said that it's not a security because it's not on us You guys aren't getting into us and and depending on us to build you and to make you a ton of money how we test stuff, right? What it is is that you are getting into Ethereum and then there's a utility called gas And you will use that for these decentralized applications and that's really what you're buying into the way that they did it all With with their lawyers and the legal whole stance At least that's one of the reasons why the SEC has never come on said it is a security And actually they have alluded to the fact that it is a commodity or at least not a security I would say like that Bitcoin has already gotten the golden ticket as it were and it's been labeled as not a security It is a commodity or as a currency or they want to state it so it's not going to be in that realm So that's what what the whole crux comes down to if something is decentralized truly decentralized Then it isn't on the backs of a third party because it's in a decentralized nature So how could that actually happen the other thing is ripple claims? It is a utility and it really is because when you think about it. What does it do? It really does enhance the transportation of cross-border payments So in that respect it is what it is. However, the SEC doesn't see it that way I think it's to and really like I said it comes out of two things They're talking about the security But they're also ticked off of the fact of all these investors that came in and there's also a lawsuit Continually going on which talks about the same thing people were duped today They weren't told that the truth about ripple and XRP and they want their money back now I don't see how anybody could think that you got stocks in ripple if you bought XRP that makes absolutely no sense to me But it is one of those things right? There's a reason why there are disclaimers on hairdryers which say don't blow dry your hair in the shower The reason is because someone did it. They got electrocuted and sued the company It's like you have to dumb it down for the dumbest people Anyhow, meanwhile Larson ripples initial CEO and current chair on the board and Garling house ripples current CEO orchestrated these unlawful sales and personally profited by approximately 600 million From their unregistered sales of XRP Garling house did so while they're purely telling that he was a very long XRP Meaning held a significant position. He expected to rise in value Without disclosing his sales of XRP. So there's gonna be a discussion about this in the comments section I can feel it already One will say it doesn't matter He is entitled that and he can own that the other side will say something like well look if he is really that long Why did he sell so much of it and really dumping? It's it'll be interesting to hear the conversation because as you know, I hold XRP and I will hold it until it goes down I've always said that and that's just what I believe some so stubborn It's just how it is and in all honesty, we can debate this all day long We really can but what it comes down to is that this will be decided in the courts. It's gonna take a very long time We're gonna hear about this for the next two years The thing that concerns me is ramifications across the entire cryptocurrency spectrum Once you start to delve into it and say, okay Well, this is a security then you start can start to apply that to other crypto currencies Even ones that may have been deemed as a safe haven as it were So even people say what Bitcoin safe? Well, how do you know it's safe? They could any time come back This will this will set precedent and that is a dangerous thing And I will just also preface it with this before we move on or some people will say this is a shit coin And it's very awful and no one should use it and then some people say it's the best thing of all time But I will remind you where you're at. This is a family and If you feel like you should really get on the case of one member of your cryptocurrency family You can do that, but just remember we really should be getting each other's backs whether you like them or not I got a brother sometimes don't really get along with them too much Makes me super angry, but if something messes with him They got a mess with me and it all comes down that whole road And I think that's how we really should be playing this in this community because we never know what's gonna happen Past XRP will they deem it a security?  Will they move on and go? You know what that's just not decentralized enough for us We'd like to see X and because of that we're gonna shut you down and off you go again These are just my opinions, but that's what I see and this is actually one of the things that Charles talked about and Charles I was just coming across his live stream as I was like the interesting stuff This guy must not sleep because you know being a CEO and he has a lot much live streams I can really do these videos do my other businesses is crazy But he said something pretty interesting here Take a list question whether XRP is a security or not is a very interesting one I still believe given the facts of today that XRP is not a security And even if it was to be ruled as security in Chris and Brad suffer consequences for that from engorgement to other things Who would run the ecosystem the system would still likely run there's still likely be adherence There's still likely be network traffic and consensus nodes and these types of things So on the outset it doesn't look like it makes much sense to apply that standard and that just makes sense to me I mean some people say ah, there's not enough value there knows that they have plenty of all their notes And I believe that if Ripple goes away XRP will still be maintained And that is what I believe is decentralized and we can talk all day long about the other different Projects that are out there with their blockchain producers and if they are decentralized enough So let's hear what Brad has to say about what's going on And what's amazing to me is not a single other current country anywhere has looked at XRP as a security You've had countries like the UK and Japan and Switzerland and Singapore all come out and say things They're make it clear that XRP is a currency Actually one of the nugget I think since even sorry even here in the US the Department of Justice has viewed XRP as a currency and The Department of Treasury has viewed XRP as a currency. Sorry Kate That's very Brad Kate here. Good to see you. Thanks for coming on. I want to ask you you mentioned some of those exchanges I want to ask you about the broader implications for others in the industry coinbase is a big name We talk about a lot. They see about 12% of their trading volume in XRP that company is about to IPO What would this mean to some of the global exchanges that hold XRP or facilitate trading of XRP on those exchanges? So about 95% of XRP trading happens outside the United States on exchanges around the world And so that's outside of the United States SEC jurisdiction For exchanges like Coinbase that are based here in the United States One of the reasons why I view this as something that's broader than just hey What does this mean for Ripple and XRP? It's what does this mean for the crypto industry here in the United States that XRP could really go on without ripple You know if you guys sold all of your holdings of XRP that crypto currency could survive Would you ever consider doing that divesting all of your crypto currency holdings and really focus more on your enterprise payments business? Is that something that Ripple has considered or could do? It's certainly I think one of the ironies of all this is that for XRP to be a security of a company the company has to exist and the point that I have made at the various times is that if Ripple the company didn't exist XRP would still thrive around the globe with you know a couple hundred exchanges around the world and there's over a hundred different projects innovative Entrepreneurs here in the US and around the world building on top of XRP and the reason why they're doing that is because XRP is far more efficient In terms of speed in terms of cost to settling transactions and using it really as a currency So again, there's gonna be a lot of discussion about this and it's gonna be a long drone off process I'm not even gonna pretend to know that I I can understand the intricacies of What the SEC is going to come to the court with and talk about all their their Depositions and all their discovery that they're gonna ask for as well as how much Ripple is going to push back and actually get so many briefs and Documents in in line just to get them into the court and actually have to have their day It's gonna be such a launch on our process that we're gonna be hearing about this for a very long time And I again, I would say that in the community. There's really two sides There's really two sides. One is they love people love XRP.  I don't want to ever have to hear about it again I wish it would go away, but again you have to understand Where we are we are all under that umbrella that family umbrella of cryptocurrencies and digital assets You may not like your brother or sister everything hits the fan You got to be there a little bit to protect them because you never know when the next one's gonna come for you All right, let me know what you think in the comments section. Let's move on next up This is dumb ledger won't reimburse users at the major data that hack not that that dumb, but it's the way it was said There is a way to Say things and talk about it to really minimize damage control as a company and there's what happened here So what happened ledger CEO Pascal got the a I think I said that right said today that the company will not Reimbursed customers who had their personal data leaked online including those who had their home Addresses revealed we did a video about this yesterday It was just it was just one video because it was such a big thing if you don't know Ledger had a hack and a lot of people's information is out there. It's their names emails Phone numbers and physical addresses. So we talked about what you need to do honey to protect yourself Don't worry your mnemonic phrases are safe.  So if you are worried about sim swapping for your phone, I will leave this in the description below You can just Google it sim swap fraud how to prevent your phone from being stolen and really it's gonna go out It's how you're gonna protect yourself. The big thing is to get to factor Authentication on your phone. Don't have your authentication come to your phone in the text message That is a prime recipe for disaster And if you can at all at all possible if you're gonna do to FA like with a Google authenticator If at all possible try to get a separate phone for that that is totally offline This is what the CEO said when you have a data breach of this magnitude for such a small company We won't reimburse for a million users all the devices. That's just not possible It would just kill the company Instead we prefer to look at the future what ledger is doing right now is investing a lot of time and money Building the next layer of security and the next products that will bring more security to our users This is a disaster on both fronts. First of all, it's a disaster as far as security Second of all, it's a disaster on how this is actually being handled. This is a textbook case of what not to do We talked about in the video how 1982 there was a Tylenol crisis Where someone was putting cyanide in Tylenol bottles and killing people and Johnson Johnson came out and said We're gonna step up. We don't know what happened before we're gonna make this right We're gonna put on the safety caps the foil the cotton So they are tamper proof you can have a hundred percent faith and no one even remembers that story anymore view It's was so long ago. Nothing ever happened because they handled it the right way in this situation They need PR person badly. So I'm not gonna tell them how to do it how I would do it I'm just saying that's not the way to do things and just be safe out there. All right Let me just say in the comments, but let's go next to last This is what's happening in Coinbase and I've got two messages. I'll almost ten minutes apart And I don't know what's going on with Coinbase, but people are losing access to Coinbase and one person had access for four years They took it away for whatever reason said they couldn't verify it and they couldn't get back in their account It's been a week Christmas is coming up. They've got tens of thousands of dollars in there That would stress me out, too This was also from Mike and he says hey, can you do an investigative piece of what's going on? They have locked a lot of accounts minds one of them can't buy or sell So I'm just gonna ask you in the comment section below Is this happening to you because when I put this on to Twitter, there was a lot of people where they said it happened Me it's happening me. It's happening me. I don't know what's going on the Coinbase I have no idea but over on my Walton exchange fees They are on the red zone which means that I don't recommend them whatsoever an off ramp If you can get all your money off, but I said as of December 1st Coinbase has had so many issues. I recommend everyone to take their crypto off the exchange immediately There's something going on. I don't know what it is But I keep hearing bad stories and whether a smoke there is fire some people say oh, that's not so bad You can do whatever you want to but I've got I think Just a couple of referral things over there and that's it It's like less than 200 bucks, but I would not recommend to keep it on there I don't know what's going on scares me and last up I had to finish with this let's finish with some positive stuff. There's so much negativity Michael sailors is savage savage First of all, he wanted Fox news, which is the perfect demographic to go on if you're trying to get people with money to understand About Bitcoin look boomers got all the money and who watches a lot of Fox news boomers So when he went on there, I thought this is perfect and what he says right here is just fantastic if you are Into stocks and bonds and gold you saw this you just dropped a load in your diaper. Take a listen to this Michael from 2011 to 2020 Bitcoin rallied six million two hundred seventy one two hundred thirty three percent or annualized two hundred three percent annualized to two point two percent for gold underscoring your point But also making people wonder just how much more room is there to the upside? I mean, I've heard targets of a million Look first of all, it's not a rally. It's not a bubble.  You're gonna lose 15% of your purchasing power against scarce assets every year for the next five years It's like a melting ice cube Bitcoin as you pointed out is going up more than a hundred percent a year So the logical thing for every corporation to do is convert their balance sheet from USD to BTC and the answer to your question is Bitcoin's gonna demonetize gold negative yielding sovereign debt low yielding sovereign debt and all of the index funds that are being used as a Store of value. There's a hundred to two hundred trillion dollars worth of stuff there Like this thing can go on for quite a while Savage a hundred to two hundred trillion that is there If you are a CEO a CFO a CIO or whatever kind of EO or IO, whatever you are You know in a corporation and you just heard that would you be like wait? What what is going on? Who is this Michael? Sailor Michael strategy. What's that Bitcoin? I heard of that. How's that doing? What they dropped a billion dollars in the Bitcoin? As of August and now they're up. What? 1.668 billion Maybe we should look into that. I don't know and it's the same thing that's going on around the horn I mean look even scary Moochie the Mooch was on CNBC and he said the exact same thing We're starting up a Bitcoin trust. He's he's part of a billion dollar Bitcoin fund now And if there's anybody who's got insight connections, it's probably the Mooch and he's pretty much saying this look We're in the first inning. It's gonna be huge We want to get a front of this before everybody jumps in we are early So when I see stuff like this, it almost makes me want to FOMO Sell my house and my kidneys and get a couple more Bitcoin. All right, so that's it for today So again, don't forget the giveaway is going to be tomorrow It's gonna be drawn by unstoppable domains. Make sure you put your unstoppable domain dot crypto or dot zill with your Bitcoin Public address not your private address private keys or anything that public Bitcoin address in the in the comments below with your unstoppable domain dot crypto dot zill and Zaji over there and stop all domains will draw it and send it over to me and I will announce it Manana so anyhow, thanks for sticking with me. I really appreciate it if you like these types of videos It'll be two more. It's gonna pop up on your left and right. YouTube does is magic and off we go So I appreciate it and I'll see you on the next one


Got me a new camera My name is David Patton when I started photography. I wanted to make art. I wanted to be a landscape photographer But with a family to feed and bills to pay I decided it would be better to be working photographer than a starving artist So I took a job as a photojournalist 25 years and thousands of assignments later. It was time to go back to my first love. It was time to follow my passion Come along on my journey to become the best black and white photographer I can be whether it be film or digital I will be sharing what I learned through my successes and my failures and hopes to inspire and educate This is my journey This is bright in the edge. Well, it's near to me. I Picked up a mint condition in tax 645 in Just came today Trying to run a few rolls of film through it best way to get to know a camera is to take it out and use it I wasn't gonna make a video today I'm just gonna go out and test the camera But that what the heck? Miles is bringing along I'll talk about some of the features this camera has over my last model. So I'm gonna spend the next couple days Putting this camera through its paces should be kind of fun Probably won't shoot a lot tonight Got head over to the coast in the morning. Well, there's some interesting skies I'm really struggling to find something to stick In the foreground of these skies something below the clouds Really just don't want a picture of clouds I'll take a couple shots We'll get us get it started anyway probably pick up where I'm leaving off tonight in the morning They'll run over the coast Over there, it's a quiet morning on the Oregon coast take this camera for For a few more shots today Got up about four this morning Some actually some nice color behind me That doesn't really mean a whole lot to me right now. So I'm shooting black and white. I just made a shot It's just some reflections tide pool. Nothing doesn't fancy all the shots that I'm doing on this roll or this next roll or two will be with the camera's multi-segment metering I Might do a little bit with spot metering But I really want I really need to test out how this meter is reading the scene So when things are happening fast, I need to know if I can trust it. I need to know if I need to Compensate one way or the other So I'm bracketing a little bit more than I normally do That's probably why I'll shoot more than one roll of film Even find enough subject matter Need to keep looking for some more stuff kind of waiting for the Delight to even out it's kind of bright in the background dark in the foreground. I took a frame, but I'm not sure that's gonna work It's trying to emphasize the reflections in the wet on the water in the sand here, but it might be too much Dynamic range needed for this for this scene Tides coming in so I don't know how much time I'm gonna have I Hear out here in some of these areas gonna have to probably work a little quicker than I I would like to Talk a little bit about so far what I'm liking about this camera I'm loving the controls. I love to have the Shutter speed dial exposure compensation dial and an aperture ring. It just really feels like a camera My older one was just push button stuff. It took a little bit getting used to this is so much more natural for me to use The other thing I really like about this is it uses the same film backs so I can take The film back off my old 645 and use it on my 645 in That's a really smart. I think that's really smart for Pintax to do that Another cool thing is all the lenses work on all their cameras From the 645 to the 645 in the 645 in to and to their digital cameras If your their latest was the 645 Z all these lenses work to varying degrees They have newer lenses Designed for their digital cameras, but you can mount any of the or any of their lenses on their digital cameras as well Now that I've got a new camera does what does that mean? I? Think that means I'm really Getting more serious about shooting film There's something about it that has really kind of got me Maybe guess I've used digital so long. It's so nice to have a different process a different challenge I really enjoy learning something new and so using this different camera different process It's become quite refreshing it's kind of sparked some some Creativity in me with photography again. I'm really enjoying it. I'm actually having fun with it again There are a number of reasons why I decided to get with the newer body instead of the The older one because you can you get those older ones out there for quite a bit cheaper for me I've had two battery holders just fall apart just Get cracks and deteriorate and I don't know if just because the plastic so old that the cameras came out in like 1984 and I'm hoping and it looks like the newer bodies have a little more robust battery holder So I couldn't see just going out and getting another camera if the battery holders are going to be falling apart and failing And I also wanted the dials and I wanted a brighter viewfinder the old one has a pretty dark viewfinder So I'm finding it a lot easier to focus this newer camera. I also like the modern metering Spot meter center-weighted my lot my old one had just center-weighted and I also like that this has a I Think it's six segment evaluated metering multi-segment and Really that I've been testing that out on this roll just to see Where where the exposures are I mean I may be able to rely on it quite a bit For handheld shots this camera also works really well Just feels like a a chunky 35 millimeter This first roll has been a lot of fun to shoot and hopefully I got something We're showing in this video kind of feel like I'm forcing the shots because I want to Get this roll shot up and and see what I see how this camera works. I think I'm only gonna expose one roll though I'm kind of excited and I want to just shoot a bunch of film But it would be prudent for me to shoot this roll I think I've got one frame left and just develop it See what the camera is doing now if anybody is out there that's Considering going with one of the Pintak 645 models. I've heard a lot of people suggest getting the starting out with the the oldest one and Economically that's probably a good way to go if you can find one that's got a decent battery holder But it might be worth just spending a few hundred dollars more and getting something Little newer like these are like ten years newer ten years is quite a bit difference in Cameras, but if it's the only way you can get into it and you really want to try it then By all means go for the older version That's I wrestled back and forth was it worth for me to spend two hundred dollars on a Older one that I could have also have problems with their the battery department Or would it be is it was it worth adding another three hundred dollars? Four hundred dollars for something that I really wanted I Have wanted this camera since it was announced back in I think 1997. This was my dream camera. I Was so excited when I got this yesterday when it came in the mail I was like a little kid. I was I've never been that excited about any of my digital cameras to me They're like hammers. They're just tools but this this kind of takes me back back when I really was passionate about photography and was excited about taking pictures and Maybe that's why I needed this camera Just to feel that excitement again That feels like Christmas like a little kid with this camera my goal is to get to know this camera well enough Get to know it as well as my digital cameras to where I can go out and not to think about it too much and Just focus on finding some really cool pictures finding some really cool art Right now I still feel like I'm kind of experimenting experimenting with filters experimenting with film Experimenting with cameras Kind of like it beyond the experimenting stage and get back to creating and I think I'm getting close to that point I Don't think of my photography has been all that fantastic this last few months But I'm learning and I think that that's okay. It's I'm it's I'm just enjoying myself And I think that's the big part of photography. You gotta enjoy it Well, I think I'm gonna take this home process the images and Hopefully you'll see them in this video So till next time Thanks for coming along for the ride


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