We're now checking at 12.33 and we're live in Movil today and we're showing Credit Union as Jingle mentioned here for the first anniversary of the merger for Alibaba and Crown Credit Unions and also to Mark International Credit Union Day. To tell us a little bit more about the movement of the chairperson on the board of directors here that's Paul Brogan. Paul, welcome to our studio and thanks for taking a bit of time out. I noticed earlier, you might think that the Credit Union is in everything far from it. It's worldwide. Yeah, thanks John and thanks for having me here. Yeah, the Credit Union is a worldwide movement and today is the International Credit Union Day. It's like the Holy Day or a bank holiday for Credit Unions all over the world. It's a day to make a bit of noise about the Credit Union. A day to thank everybody for being members of Credit Union and to put the word out there that Credit Unions are there. They're there for members. They're member owned. And some of the Credit Unions now in other parts of the world are very small. They could be in areas like Sierra Leone, Sudan, where they don't have the same world with all that's what we have here. So they are in bite need of Credit Unions out there. But the same principle applies. It's a community coming together for the community. Yeah, the idea initially was that, you know, everybody pulled in a little bit of their savings and the less well off members who back in 40, 50, 60 years ago, they went to the local Credit Union as a member and they borrowed a little bit of money for maybe for an oil bill or for a roof repair. And they paid a little bit extra than what they bought, which meant that there was a little bit of interest made. And that interest made help with the overheads, help with paying staff, help with anything else that was needed. And what was left at the end of it was given back to the members. So the members owned the Credit Union. There's 25,000 members in the Shown Credit Union, which is the amalgamation of Carandona and Boncranha initially. And then Vol joined us a year ago and we changed the name to Anishom, because that's the era we live on. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's a sizable membership. That's not to say that you can't have more members than they're always welcome. Yeah, like we do have probably a lot saturated, but at the same time, there's a lot of young ones getting born. There's a lot of new people coming into the area. So, you know, I was just thinking on the way down here today, it would be great if somebody joins when they're born, saves a little to the right team, borrow from the right team for all their needs, whether that's college and then holidays, get married and then later on in life, more holidays when they retire. And they're with the Credit Union really from the cradle to the grave. All our loans are insured so that if a member takes a loan out of a Credit Union, and God forbid, for whatever reason, they die early or they die because their age has come, their loan is insured and their loan is quite cleared, which is a great help for some people. If there's a man that dies and the poor would think, you know, what about the loan? The loan is cleared. It's insured. It's a member's service. You mentioned their credit to the grave, but that's the way it is in a lot of families. There's just a tradition of joining the Credit Union early and that's the way it is. Yeah, well, we would have a lot of juvenile members and a lot of these juvenile members have been joined by their parents. So, the parents put them in when they're maybe a week old, maybe a month old. That may be a bit early. Well, no, that's what they do. That's what they do. That's a tradition, as you say, and then once they get to the age of 16, if they're going to college, they can get a student loan and the student loan is at a lower rate than a standard loan. But the idea is to save a little. We don't want a fortune of shares, but to save a little so that you appreciate money. And when it comes to you then looking for a loan, you have a little bit of excess there that you can say, well, I value money. I can save money, so now I'm going to borrow and pay you back. Some people might think that you need to have an awful lot saved in the Credit Union to ever approach for a loan, not necessarily the case, is it? No, in the olden days, what they used to do was it used to be maybe four to one, and that wasn't actually written in law. It was just sort of taken as a per se. So if you had a thousand, then you could get a loan of four thousand. But that wasn't a law, it wasn't a rule, it was just what people adhered to. Nowadays, it's all about ability to repay. So you could come on to any Credit Union in any show or anywhere else. You could have five hundred in shares and you could get a loan of five thousand, ten thousand, fifteen thousand, as long as you can show us that you have the ability to repay that loan. We will do the paperwork and we can get the money to you, as quick as what we can. And no matter who you are, and no matter what you're doing in life, we all need a loan for something or other along the way. It could be something as simple as the fridge breaks down or the washing machine breaks to, as you mentioned there, a holiday or a car or an extension, different things in life. You can get a loan for as little as fifty euro if you needed it, but you can get up to a loan of eighty thousand, that's the maximum that we can get about. That would be for maybe a big house repairs, so it could be paid back over ten years. And remember that loan was insured, so if something did happen, God forbid, in ten years, that loan was insured. The other thing too, that the savings of credit unions, and this is very important and the people don't realize this a lot, the savings that you put into a credit union before the age of fifty-five, okay, it's doubled up to a maximum of ten thousand after you pass away, as long as that money has been left in after the age of fifty-five. So say for example, some of the joints when they're twenty-five, they save up to their fifty-five, they have ten thousand in shares, they've borrowed and borrowed and borrowed and paid back and borrowed and borrowed and paid back, but the ten thousand is there. I still have ten thousand there, yeah. And you go for, but again you pass away at fifty-six, that ten thousand is doubled. Okay. So there's money there left for funeral expenses that they don't, so you don't really need more than ten thousand, two hundred in a credit union, but you can have as little as a hundred in a credit union borrow as long as you have the ability to repay. It's a big difference to the modus operandi of banks now. I know credit unions are not for profit, banks do have to make a profit, but nonetheless it's just when you outline things like that that in a way it's just a great example of the difference. Yeah well what we have to do is we have to make a surplus, so we have to make a surplus and we make that from the interest on loans and the interest on investments, but the investment money now is very poor. We have overheads as regards staff, we have 32 staff, we have four offices, so they all have to be maintained. Yeah. We have a lot of extra charges that the regular letters put on us that pays for the bank guarantee. We're still paying that, in actual fact we're not paying it, the members are paying it because it's coming out of the surplus, so we still have to make money at the end of the day, otherwise we won't be. Of course. The more members we have that borrow, whether it's small, medium or large, the more services that we can give back to the people that have any shown. That's one of the things that strike me about the credit union, anybody that I've spoken to that's involved in the credit union, keep mentioning loans. You might think that the opposite would be what they would be continually mentioning, oh, you know, join us and invest your money, but loans are just as important. Well, you know, at Money's Amazing over the last 18 years, I have a favorite saying, the name on the door says credit union. It doesn't say bank for your bank money, it doesn't say savings union, it says a credit union, and that's what we're there for. We're there to give out credit. People have this sort of, we thought that we were not giving out money, we are. People have this thought that you need to have a lot of savings, you don't, as long as you have the ability and show us to repay because it's not my money, it's not our money, it's the members' money.  Yeah, we started our members' draw probably about seven years ago in the Bunkrana office initially, and you know, the members' draw is 10 euro to get into the draw. There's two draws a year, so at the moment we have about 2,500 people in the draw, so that's 25,000. There's about 200 tickets out of that for expenses, for the tickets, the advertising, and the rest of that money is given back to the members, and there could be 15 prizes. First prize could be around 10,000, so one member and two and a half thousand is going to win 10,000. The smallest prize is about 500, there's about 15 prizes altogether. If we get more members to join the draw, it's not for profit, we'll have more draws. We could have four draws a year, we could have six draws a year, and remember it's the members that's in the draw that has the chance of one of the 10,000, not only from Dublin or Cork or Kerry, it's members in the show. And it's just a tenner and that gets you into the two draws. It's not 10 euro for each draw, there's one draw in July and one in January. One only thing just I'd like to say there, John, please. First of all I'd like to thank all the members, because without members we have no credit union. I'd like to thank all the staff over the years, because well again without staff we can't run a show, and I'd like to thank the volunteers, because myself I'm a volunteer, we don't get paid, but we had a lot of volunteers over the years who put a lot more into the credit union at the times that it was needed. Now there's money to pay for a lot of the services, a lot of the volunteers over the years, they've done this and they could have been out of a little bit of pocket because there wasn't enough money there to give them their expenses and things like that. You've been a volunteer director for 18 years. Yes. This is your second term as chair. So that's right commitment. Yeah well when I was telling somebody out there again today I'm the last director of the board that I went down to 18 years ago and there were nine of us. The other eight have either passed on or they have retired and they would have ones who have done a lot more work getting on chronic credit union to where it was. I remember going in one night and they told me that we are now a 40 million asset credit union but that would have been punts. Now any shown credit union is 106 million in euro. There were six staff back then. Now there's 32. There was one office. Now there's four and three main ones and a sub-office. But we need volunteers. We need people who will give up time and it's not that onerous leaving me a lie at times but we need good people and then they show them to help us. Okay and the more people the less that everybody has to do. The more people the less the rest of us. Okay Paul, next morning.


Yes, yes, yes, yes. All right, please introduce yourself and what do you do? Hi, my name is Kevin. I do music and audio and I'm here with the rest of the audio team and we're just kind of taking requests from the other teams for what they want, audio-wise and music-wise. I've been working mostly on sound effects today, but I have one song that I'm working on for an introduction sequence and I'm hoping to sync that up with some voiceover. We've also been recording that in the other room and that's been really fun just to see what the teams have been bringing to us because it's a whole wide range of different projects that we're doing. Can you tell me a little bit about how the work system has been going because you're not like a traditional team where you have a team of five people working on a game. You are working on mini games. Exactly. So the audio tree is set up so that we can kind of do a variety of different tasks all at the same time. The teams will send us lists of audio sounds that they want and like music cues and things like that. And we just kind of get to work breaking those down and getting more specific sounds from that. The part that I've been kind of like, I've been sort of the mother hand of the document, trying to make sure everyone checks off and signs off on what they've done so we don't have anything being made twice or anything that people don't need being made because this is an iterative process. So we have a lot of stuff changing as we go. Typically, when people come in and talk to me about what they want for audio, I ask them kind of what is their minimum viable product? What are they sort of aiming to get done by the end of the jam? And I sort of politely request that they only ask for audio for that as opposed to audio for the really big picture thing, which I've done that too. When I'm in a team, I usually try to do too much at game jams. So it's kind of a process of targeting the most crucial moments in the game and providing audio for that encounter. And another trick that I've been sort of like making use of is trying to make more generic sounds. And I know that sounds kind of strange or sort of bad, but it's really actually quite useful. You get a lot of utility from sounds when they're not tied to a specific encounter. For example, if you were to get sick, I could make a sound of someone coughing or sneezing or something. But then you could only use that sound for someone who sounds or looks kind of like me getting sick.  So instead, I try to go for a sort of more open, more symbolic sound to signify that exact instance of getting sick. And then you can use it for anybody. Yeah, any other questions? Kind of reminds me of when they had a big sound effect for 8-bit games because they couldn't make the sneezing sound. So it was just like sound. But then they could use it for a person's stopping that you see the little dust cloud come up. Yeah, in those situations where you have such a limited pallet of sounds, everything is pretty symbolic. And one thing that's kind of cool is the way that game audio has sort of retained some of that. And pop culture at large kind of knows what does, for example, the mushroom sound when you get a mushroom in Super Mario. Like that is synonymous with getting bigger, right? Like that is just kind of a sound that everybody sort of recognizes or most folks do.  We can create stuff and composite things. That sort of more symbolic style is still really, really relevant. And in situations like this, really useful. Nice. What do you think about the theme of this game jam? Yeah, the social justice game jam. I was super excited to see them announce it and even happier that I can make it out and fit it in my schedule. Cause it's the kind of thing where in this moment, it's really important to be plugging in and staying tuned into kind of modern history, current events and the movements of different groups to, you know, whether it's be recognized as people or, you know, have access to the rights or to justice in general, like we need to have a sort of artistic side to any movement that is there to kind of support and empower people to make their political voices heard and as far as where do video games come into social justice? I think it's a kind of interesting combination and maybe not one that you would think of right away. Like, but it's, I don't know, for me, like I consider video games such a passive thing normally, like I'm kind of either with my friends or on my own just kind of at home enjoying myself with a video game. So when there's a game that asks me questions that I don't know the answers to right away or challenges my assumptions, that usually catches me up guard and that makes me think and that's, I guess, an example of sort of a way of building empathy, I think, is something that games can do really well, especially ones that place you in the shoes of someone not like you or ask you to do something that you won't get to do in your everyday life. Yeah, that's a way that games let us kind of explore those different possibilities and that, to me, is something that's really powerful and I think that games let us do that so kind of tuck myself into a circle where I lie. No, it's good, it's really good. I mean, it sounds like video games as an entertainment media can evolve and become more, especially if they challenge you to think differently or to explore new ideas that you're not used to. What do you think about this game jam compared to some of the other game jams, like what makes this one unique? So my impression of social justice game jam right now is that it's been very intimate. I think there's been some good conversations just from the sort of teams that I've seen designing their games, they seem to be doing a good job of really thinking through the issues that they want to explore in their game because it is right at the outset focused on kind of creating awareness and beyond that creating empathy or just providing more information about legal circumstances and things like that.  You need to have, you know, you can talk to the lawyers in hand that they've had here. That's a new thing, I haven't seen that before in a game jam, legal advice. Yeah, so on top of having legal advice at the game jam, it's also been kind of small compared to some other ones. So it's been nice getting to talk to people and getting to know them. And then also being in this really awesome space, the living computer, it's been really, really nice and just cozy for us to settle into. Nice. Do you have anything else to add that, you know, novel experiences with any of the teams or just any other thoughts about the game jam? Let's see. I'd like to say that game jams are still something that I believe everyone can participate in and benefit from, especially newcomers. I think it's a really special environment and it's very welcoming. And it's a really great place to learn about the different skills that are required to make a game. And not having those skills when you walk in the door isn't necessarily a barrier to entry. When I got started doing game jams, which is maybe a year ago, I wasn't very confident at all. And it's just been a process of working with people who have different skills than mine and kind of putting those puzzle pieces together to make some crazy little idea start to work. And that process is just so rewarding. I think it's something that anyone who's interested in it really should give it a shot. Awesome. Thank you very much, Kevin. Thanks, Kaz.


You guys can hear me. Oh, there we go. All right. Thank you I'm probably gonna forget I put this here. So but anyway, all right. Thank you for the opportunity to come Here and speak It's been an exhausting couple days in Athens I have I brought my eldest daughter with me and we already did a lot of sightseeing gorgeous city And I set a new record on my Fitbit 30,000 steps in one day. So I'm exhausted clapping. Thank you so I'm from the US from Atlanta, Georgia I've been married for 24 years and my wife and I have four kids like I said, I've got my oldest here Lily and I've been using WordPress full-time since 2008 I tinkered with it in 2005 Because I needed a blog so it was a good fit I run an agency called Clockwork WP and we build basically marketing websites and we have three developers two designers and a project manager that is running the show Very well where I can travel and take some time off and come here. So it's pretty awesome I'm also an organizer for word camp Atlanta. We have word camp Atlanta coming October, I think it's October 14th and 15th So if you want to come to the US, you are welcome All right setting the scene here How many of you guys were guides gals What not? How many of you guys were developers in the year 2000 building websites? We've got we've got a few so a lot of a few of you are gonna know the pains in the headaches of building websites back then in 2001 I was working at basically a It was basically a phone system company, but because they it was a phone system company they had Fast pipes, you know the internet they had t1s t3s and whatnot and they also did web hosting and they brought me in to help them out with maintaining all of these Websites that had no functionality. They were just static marketing websites Basically, if you buy a phone system, hey, we'll throw a website in there And I just maintained the content so static HTML CSS wasn't even really a thing then it was it was starting, but it wasn't really standardized yet and while I was there working a client came in and said I need a Website that will give me where I can list all of my properties. They owned properties in Colorado And they needed to be able to upload images needed to put the square footage of each property in there. So basically You know looking back sounds like a custom post-type, you know with some some extra metadata But there wasn't a way to do that The developer that we had on staff was too busy. He was doing ASP stuff and So we brought a contractor in and the contractor decided to use this new programming language called PHP and once the project was completed it was handed over to me and I started learning PHP and This was you know pre YouTube at any time. I need to fix something Today I just go to YouTube type in how do I fix this plug-in or how do I fix this even even you know? How do I change the oil in my lawnmower? You know whatever we didn't have those things I would I would go to Barnes and Noble and Which is a bookstore And I got a bunch of PHP and my skew all books and I learned how to program make make the pages that I was maintaining more dynamic and That kind of predated all of these frameworks that we have like Django Ruby on rails things like that all those great Great tools WordPress predates all of that stuff. So you're gonna hear me talk about WordPress kind of in a negative light And it's not because WordPress isn't any good. It's just it was really basic at the beginning So anything I say in here that sounds negative. I've made a living off of WordPress ever since so I'm not I'm not complaining in any way form or fashion All right, so the early years How many of you guys used WordPress before 2005 got I See to that sounds about sounds about right so WordPress was a Or is a fork of be be to or cafe log and it was discontinued by the original developers and obviously it didn't have at least its Source didn't you know die. It turned into WordPress, you know, because of Matt in Mike and what what they did All right, so I don't understand So the first version of WordPress was 0.7. I couldn't find a copy of 0 7 if you go to the website go to wordpress.org you won't see a 0.7 you'll see a 0.7 one if anyone has the 0.7 Then let me know I'd like to check that out to see what the difference is It's probably a typo or something that that that's the difference It's Okay, so I decided I Took a bunch of screenshots instead of trying to set up. I figured here I'm not gonna have a computer where I can give you a demonstration of Of WordPress on a living server So I did screenshots and it makes it probably a lot easier for me to which is good and So just because something is open source doesn't mean that it's gonna be always easy to set up I spent too much time trying to get a version of PHP 4.4 on a on a machine I tried to go with a 2003 Version of Debian which is a Linux distro and I kept failing I would Download an ISO and it couldn't find all the packages. None of the packages. I was looking for I could I just couldn't find it And so I wound up finding a version of Debian on the way back machine Which hopefully it didn't have any viruses or anything in it But I I got it up and running and eventually after about like three hours of Hacking at it. I got WordPress up and running and it looked really ugly like like this. This is what Whoops This is what a Browser look like you know around 2008 ish 2007 on a Linux machine not the prettiest thing in the world So I was able to switch over to use Chrome or Chromium technically and now I've got these Better screenshots, but this is the first version of WordPress. I could get up and running This is what WordPress look like it looked real simple The log in looks pretty much the same as it is now It's a little prettier now, but with the logo We have an updated logo now and the buttons or or the links here are are moved around a little bit But it's pretty much the same Zoomed in version of that When you log into WordPress there is there was no dashboard It was just boom start writing. It was a very simple platform, but Sorry, I'm learning this Hitting keep hitting the wrong button. All right, so you have basically things that you're going to be very familiar with within WordPress because you have post and edit you have This was called team on them on the menu, which now is called users You've got options categories. The template is where you can edit The the wasn't a theme. It was basically the first version of WordPress was a one pager That displayed the blog You have the links here, which actually links has kind of Disappeared it's I think if you wanted to use the links you have to drop a line of Code into your functions up PHP file To have links working so that kind of fizzled in this disappeared We have the my profile and then you can view the site and log out But one of the things that's really cool is that there's other terms that you're going to be very familiar with You've got the title excerpt post The categories, you know the published status all of these things that are the exact same Terms that we use today When you go in you edit a page Shouldn't say page post You just would scroll down on that page and you can start at edit or you can add a new one here When you edit it pretty simple You can drop in an excerpt. You could change the title very similar to what what we have today The delete delete this post is a little little different But overall the terminology that we see in WordPress today is very similar to what we had 20 years ago Your team management which later was renamed to users you can You can edit your users there and this is kind of unique right here. It says to delete a user Bring this level to zero then click the red X so you can edit the user change the level from 10 to 0 and Then a little X mark will show up and then you can delete it and then when you delete that user all of its posts will disappear forever of just like today I had to use not today in Previously I had a client contact me and say the home page is messed up And I said what were you doing that? Well, I was deleting users and I said so you didn't reassign the post to a valid user So that I'm assuming was fixed, you know later because that's a pretty Dangerous thing if you only have one one or two users and you delete your post You don't or you delete that user all the posts are gone We have the options which we still have an options page. This one is just pretty much the time zone how you want the time to to display notice there's no There's no actual time zone. You can't specify Which time zone you're in so I would assume it would have picked it up from the server which I Guess worked back then would be a little problematic now We've got categories. You can add edit remove delete Just like just like we do today and then we have Just built in this this is turned off on I think about like WP engine when you log in to WP engine if you have a site on there by default they have the editor turned off if I if I'm remembering that correctly and Pretty a pretty dangerous feature to have have right there where you can just edit The page because WordPress display just one single page you can edit it right here and notice there's no There's no No head Like WP head or WP footer or anything like that that comes in in the next next version I think in 1.5 and then basically at the footer It just closes so one one simple page to display all of your blog posts, which is Pretty simple pretty basic, but it it got the job done The other feature that we had is managing links Like I said, it's kind of disappeared now. It's a feature that it's still in the database, but it's not it's not They'll built in any more But I thought it was kind of cool that Matt still gave credit to the original Company that or person I guess that that created the B2 Blogging platform and then if you go up here if you hit my profile it would actually do a pop-up and This just kind of really shows the age here. We've got ICQ and AIM and MSN instant messenger and yahoo. We don't see Twitter Facebook, you know the thing the social media links that you would have today In fact, I think a lot of these services are probably dead. I can't tell you the last time I used ICQ It's probably been 15 plus years since I've used ICQ But that was those were the tools we had back then so and that's basically WordPress version 7.01 that's what it looked like and that's how simple it was but it started to me a revolution where Now now WordPress has 40 plus percent of the of the market share within This version you can tell that everything was still prefixed. I guess not everything but most things were still prefixed with a B2 Prefixed so you have instead of a WP dash config dot PHP file. You've got a B2 config dot PHP file the only things that are Prefixed with WP is the WP admin and WP links which the links doesn't even exist anymore And we just have a WP admin If you look at the source code It's kind of funny. This is the install script Which is slightly different than how you install WordPress now actually now I mean how many of you guys actually manually install WordPress now now we have Installers that make it super simple to do But this is what the install script Looks like and I'm just showing the source code here just to show we've got It's messy basically try. I don't know how to say it nicely. We've got CSS Injected in here where this probably should be on a dot CSS file somewhere we also have a closing head tag and No opening head tag and I sat there for five minutes You know before I got in front of a group of people like does it say heads somewhere? I couldn't I couldn't find it So it's kind of the first version of WordPress had incorrect HTML markup oh And then the last thing this is this is actually really cool this Link here that's in the CSS It still works. So they they kept that image Live, you know for 20 years, which that's that's pretty cool I know that's not that big of a deal, but I think it's pretty awesome and then if you If you look at the installs install script and you scroll down a little bit you'll see some pretty funny stuff Things like here on line 158 said did you this is after you? you'll Go to the page and it'll you'll try to put in your MySQL username and password and then when you Hit submit and it works it'll pop up and it'll say did you defeat the boss monster at the end great? You're ready for a step for step two which That just shows that I if I showed that to a client now where WordPress had Comical things in there they probably wouldn't have taken WordPress, you know quite quite as seriously, but I mean it's cute And in a little funny and then you'll also see on the same script We were injecting SQL all on on one page where that should you know in a bigger Framework a more mature Framework you would separate your SQL and your CSS and all that stuff into different different files But this was the first version And then through the years WordPress progressed it was in version one came out in 2004 and we have Basic blogging like we did before but we also have spam protection and In this version we we have everything not everything almost everything prefixed with WP now except for there's a couple RSS feed Files that are still prefixed with Brick B2, but overall it was becoming more WordPress labeled Stuff and this I thought this was kind of cool the admin directory here was There's only files in there There's no directories if you go if you look at the WP admin now There'll be nine directories which probably has there's probably 500 files you know in that directory now because of all the functionality that we have in In 2004 We got the plug-in architecture coming in and the sidebars We're coming in so you'll see in the files There's a WP content directory with plug-ins and one file plug-ins, but we're starting which is good This also in this same year. I'm just gonna read this The market leader in the blogging tools industry at the time was movable type They announced a new license term which were not That's we're not like by many of the users basically it forced it gave WordPress a big push Because a lot of people moved away from movable type and moved over to WordPress So that was one of the first big pushes that that we had and also in this version version 1.2 It this wasn't labeled correctly. It's still identified as version 1.0.1, which is kind of cool In 2005 and this is where I think WordPress started getting a lot more Something that we're familiar with as someone that that has written a ton of things This this part to me was super important 1.5 This is when I first started using WordPress and I was just using as a blogging platform But if you're into WordPress and I'm gonna run out of time here, so I'm gonna I'm gonna skip a couple things That was a quote from Matt basically saying we did this Which is we created where you can have themes and instead of WordPress being on a single page. We now have All of these archives and not archive. So we have all of these different page templates, which as a themeer That comes in super handy because it gives you this hierarchy That I've stared at for hours on end trying to figure out why I'm not pulling in the right archive or template or whatever But so that's that's been in place for 18 years now And this is what the theme looked like in 1.5 the default theme Which that's really what my blog looked like too because I wasn't that creative. I kept it blue and blue and boring in 2005 we got a better Interface we got a text editor Finally javascript was used for the first time on the pages So when you edited a page edited a page it wouldn't you didn't have to reload to see it Which is which is pretty handy and then a kismet was also in this package and I think it's in still in there Today and this is what the interface look like Starting to look kind of familiar And now WordPress kind of as a CMS almost We have here. We've got short codes We have a revamped admin interface the media library is better And this is where I started theming and getting into Really just breaking WordPress going in and figuring out how to do stuff and that's when I started building themes This is the interface that we we got and Looks familiar It's a little prettier than the original one someone spent some time on on theming here This is when I started really using WordPress and this is where I consider WordPress as a Good enough system for me to start building everything on WordPress This is where custom post types came in and with custom post types. We got a Ton of functionality, you know where I could build anything for any of my clients you needed some kind of You need articles you had pages you had Your blog, but I need to do like news articles I could do a custom post type to do that which which gave me Pretty much everything I needed to start really building building WordPress. We also got a much prettier Interface and a sidebar on the left as opposed to the menu being on the top in here and then in 2011 we got an improved media library the flyout menu that we still use today and There's a drag-and-drop upload file for file management in 2015 and I'm jumping pretty pretty fast here But we got the rest API and I use the rest API Not not that often how many you guys edit or use the rest API? That is a much higher number than I expected normally in the In Atlanta when I do a meet-up and I ask people very few people are actually using the rest API We use it regularly at our at our company. So Gave us a ton of functionality in 2018 Version 5.0. We got Gutenberg. So the official page builder within WordPress and Then 5.5 and 2020 we got the lazy loading we got the auto updating for plugins and themes which finally broke something for me for the first time about a month ago, which was kind of annoying but Overall, it was it was working really well for me. It was a bug in one of the plugins and then we got site maps improvement and then 2021 with 5.5 we got a full site editing which I still have yet to use But I'll be using it with a massive project that I'm doing this fall and we're gonna Finally be using Gutenberg to build the whole site And now we're almost caught up, but that that is it so I Am up for questions if anybody has any questions And I said I would forget about my water Thanks now to my mic and I think a round of applause for Aaron, please. That was a great talk So as as Aaron mentioned we have a QA now for 15 minutes So we've got space for questions one question per person Please if you've got anything else you can ask Aaron after the talk Do we have any questions from the floor one right there, please? That was great Aaron. Thank you I'm interested to know what you did for your client with the property when you didn't have the custom post type So that was we built a complete custom PHP Website so You know there was property dot PHP that would do the SQL stuff. So I mean it was Just a lot of HTML and PHP Probably poorly written stuff. Yeah, any time I look at code. I'm even if it's six months ago I mean, that's why I kind of feel bad like dogging on WordPress because you know, I'm I'm Critiquing something that's 20 years old, you know And I look at code that's six months old and I think I can't believe I wrote like that But so that that was just a custom PHP build so I have no idea I quit that job a couple years later And the site was still up. So I don't even I don't remember what it was. I don't have a copy of the source code or anything I'd love to look at it. That would be kind of funny to see Thank you. Thank you. Do we have another question from the floor? I've got a question for you There's one. Oh, there is one over there. Okay, great. That's cool. Let's have that one. Thank you, Connie Is it on now? Yes. Yep. I'm sorry from Finland Can you remember when it was the first time you ever saw anything about security? Mentioned in in any of the WordPress releases. I I think that over the years it has gone from being Not really security aware at all To being awfully bad at security having an awfully bad reputation, but then it has over time now With the plug-in update automatic updates and things like that. It has been evolving To a very positive direction from my perspective, but can you remember from the developers perspective or the the actual open-source project perspective when Somebody mentioned a thing called security for the first time That is a really good question. I Got in 2013 I got about 20 sites hacked and I'm trying to think of What I could have done to It was it was that I won't mention the host host host Hosting company's name But all of the sites got hacked because they had they had something that was not standard and we there was a Animated Pirate skull like bouncing and spinning around on the on on all of the websites on that server But that was like 2013 and I know I didn't have anything like I don't think word fence Did it exist in 2013? You know, I don't know. I I don't remember I Don't remember any anything What it when it comes to that I Really should like go through my email and and find that out. I I don't remember I know that when when those sites got hacked around 2013 That's when I started I moved hosting and I started taking it more seriously But I don't remember from from the wordpress perspective and you know, I don't I don't know so Wish I could give you more so sorry Do you have another question from the floor? One there in the middle, please He's got the mic. Oh, sorry. Yeah, shall I go first? Sorry. You're a lot further from a microphone It's great to look at wordpresses history over the earth and all it's very easy to see all of the things We've gained. Do you think there's anything that we've lost from the simplicity of the earlier versions? spicy question Yeah, that's that's hard So I Once worked on a website and once I logged in I said I'm not working on that site So I can't say I really worked on it there were 104 active plugins on on the site and I said I said I'm not touching it So I I would say that one of the things we've I don't know if we've lost But one of the one of the problems is that we do we have so many plugins that do so many things and people don't Think through a lot of times and it's not at their own I mean, it's not their fault if they have they have a tool and it's so easy to push a button You know to just oh, I need something to add this and this and this and you want to have an all this repetitive You know a plug-in to do one thing, but you know it so I would I would say what maybe maybe we've gotten gotten a little too bloated in the aspect in the plug-in world but You know, that's I don't know. I can't tell all the sponsors here You know that you know that but and it's it's not them It's just we just we have a lot of I think it's users just tend to add add a lot So it's more of a user a user issue or lack of knowledge Yeah, I tend to tell people when we build a website when we build a site We wound up having about ten plugins Ten ten to twelve and I tell people if you wind up having twenty plugins You probably need to rethink What what you're doing and there's probably a custom solution that needs to be built and now when I say custom Probably custom WordPress. I mean because we build everything Within WordPress because again I see WordPress as a as a platform more so than a blogging platform or even a marketing You know tool it's to me. It's a it's a it's a tool to build anything that you you can imagine so I Think we had did someone else had a question in the middle. Okay I'm glad I have a hat on because it's blocking the light Just curious for you being in the game for so long have there ever been times where you thought like no I want to do something else in WordPress Yeah, and I and I've I've I've gone through that actually in 2008. I set up about ten different CMS's and kind of compared The Joomla Drupal concrete five CMS made simple all a lot of them and I wound up WordPress wound up winning And I love it and no, I don't I don't think I'll ever I tell people that There are so many websites that are based on WordPress right now if WordPress were to die today I probably will be able to be an old man that is Fixing WordPress sites because there's so many of them.  It's just so much easier to build build things on On WordPress versus I mean like in 2006. I learned some Ruby on Rails stuff Loved Ruby on Rails But it's a lot more it was I was doing websites for like three thousand four thousand dollars, you know And a Ruby on Rails project, you know, it's it's gonna be it's gonna need a lot more You know than that so it was just much easier to use WordPress then but yeah, I don't I don't think I'll ever Veer off and less for some reason it goes, you know, super super crazy You know off but I mean we have we have such a good community where I just don't think it would happen But yeah, I think I'm gonna be an old guy. That's Editing WordPress until I retire so Thanks, that was a great question. Do we have any more questions from the floor? We've got a few more minutes left Well, I've got one there that's all right So over the course you've shown us over the course of 20 years of WordPress back when you know people still had Blog roles and things like that right before Stack Overflow horrible horrible thought But what do you think has been the change with the most impact over that 20 years and was it the hello dolly plug-in? Um Hold on I started I started trying to process my question before I Give me the last part of the question. I was any joking. Oh, you're joking. Okay, I The the thing that changed the most I mean, I know that that Gutenberg's a big deal But again, I haven't started using it I use I use beaver builder to build most of the sites now I'm gonna have an enterprise site that I'm building in the fall where I'm gonna use Gutenberg because I need that site to last me 10 years, you know I I can change out page builders if it's just a marketing site that has little, you know functionality I can change that out every three years, you know when they decide to rebrand or whatever. That's not that big a deal So I think the thing that changed the most. I mean at least for me I know that the the rest API is super important, but that's to me more higher level Companies, you know that that'll be accessing that and to me that the custom post types just has to be the most important thing because that that we we used to go in and If we needed let's say Press releases or something the company had press releases you would create a press release category You would hide it from the blog and you display it on a specific page and it was such a headache To try to hide to make WordPress do what it should you know be doing So I to me custom post types was definitely the number the number one thing in 2010 And that's that's when I I didn't feel bad Trying to use WordPress because it became it became a CMS to me at that point as opposed to a blogging platform so Great. Thank you Do we have any more questions from the audience? Okay, if not, we'll we'll wrap it up there. Thank you very much. Thank you again to Aaron


I have 10 minutes to pull the Chimeritech Over Dragon, or else. What is up guys today? We're going to be opening up Power of the Duelist first edition packs until we pull a card that I have never pulled before, at least not for myself, and I want to pull it today. I'm giving myself a 10 minute time limit to pull this thing. We have unlimited amount of packs to open in that amount of time, and if we do get it, I win. But if we don't get it, I will be giving away $100 to one of you guys as the giveaway for this video. So to enter that giveaway, just like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications, and let me know if you guys think we will do it in 10 minutes. Let's get started. Alright, here we go. 10 minute timer. Let's get started. We have Power of the Duelist first edition. Let's see if we can pull that Chimeritech Over Dragon. The rule is though, I still have to do the pack trick every single time, so we're not just going to go super, super fast. We still have to open them normally. We can't just open them in like one second. Defender, we've got the common soul. B-Croi Connection Zone, Fossil Activation, Baby Sarasaurus, Contact, and a D-Chain. Alright, just one pack in. No big deal. Let's go to the next one. First edition Power of the Duelist. They're not cheap packs, by the way. I just wanted to have a little fun trying to pull a card that I actually want, so let's get to it. Let's not worry about these packs too much. We've got to go 10 minutes to pull the Chimeritech. By the way, it needs to be Ultimate Rare. Alright, Destiny Mirage. Let's go. Moslem of the Emperor. Byte-Lon. Orbital Embardment. We've got the Wonder Garage. Elemental Hero Nios. Spirit. Future Fusion. Alright, back-to-back Rare is not a good start. Let me know in the comments. Do you believe that we can pull the Ultimate Rare? I believe that we can do it, and I hope that it happens, because I really want this card. It's a really, really cool card. We once pulled it on what not, I believe, but that was the last time I pulled it, so I would like to pull it here. Crop Circle's fake here. Let's see. We're only a minute in. We're looking good. We've got the Rescue Roid, Contact, Alien Grey, Fossil Activation, and, ooh, an Ultimate Rare, but not the right one. Super Viacroi Jumbo Drill. Very nice card. I don't know where my sleeves are, so we're just going to have to lay that down back there onto the next one. Let's not react too much. We got to get to the pole, you know. We got to pull something good. Super Viacroi Jumbo Drill. Very nice card. Wow, that was painful ripping. Let's go. Let's pull this thing. Destiny Mirage. Moslem of the Emperor. Byte-Lon. Alien Grey Rescue Roid. Oh, never mind. That was the wrong card. I called the next card by accident. Alien Grey. Fossil Activation. The chain of the D. Let's go. Come on. Got to believe. How many packs? We're only like four or five packs in. I'm going like a slow pace right now. Come on! Oh, no. Don't waste any time. Come on. It's so hard to open these for some reason. I think they know we have a time limit. Let's go. Roar Red of Taxation. Alien Skull. Rallis of Starbird. Amulet's Roid. Now I'm worried that we're not recording or something. We are. Fire and Saucer. We got the Pads of Destiny. D-Spirit. Spell Calling. All right. Nice, nice, nice. Keep it going. Let's pull something epic. Pull something amazing. Come on. You got to believe in the heart of the cards. We already pulled an Ultimate Rare, but it was the wrong one. Black Stega. Defender. Blade Master. Common Soul. Flying Saucer. Baby Sarasaurus. Chrysalis Dolphin. The Pads of Destiny. And an Alien Warrior. We only have one foil so far. This is unreal. It is an Ultimate Rare. Oh, no. Piles falling over. Stop, stop, stop. We got to go. All right. We're not even three minutes in. Still a lot of time. A lot of time to open these packs. Oh, Air Nios. Not Air Nios. There we got the Alien Hunter. We got Common Soul. Sabrosaurus. Hero Nios. We got the Bombardment. D-Spirit. Dolphin. Overload Fusion. Another Rare. Come on. Worthy. Well, we already have an Ultimate Rare. Where are the foils? The regular ones. Come on. Give us some good foils, baby. Where are they? Come on. Let's go. Alien Skull. Let's pull something good. Roller Red of Taxation. We've seen all these a million times already. Sabrosaurus. Overload of Bombardment. Wonder Garage. Hero Nios. D-Spirit. Submarine Roy. D-Spirit. That's okay. We're looking for Chimeric Overdrive. I wouldn't be mad if we accidentally pulled a Dark Nios or a Flare Nios, either, though. Common Soul. Amulance Roy. Fake Hero. Black Stego. Ruxen Special with the Contact. Wonder Garage. Rescue Roy. Synthetic Seraphim. Oh, and a Flare Nios. As soon as I call it, we accidentally pull it. That's just the Ultra Rare, so let's not get too carried away. Let's lay that back there. I really need my sleeves, but we don't have time right now. We're almost four minutes in out of our 10-minute time limit. Come on. Let's go. One, two, three, four. We've got Elemental Hero Flare Nios. We've got a Byte Lawn. Decoy Roy. Mausoleum of the Emperor. Miracle Jurassic Egg. Dolphin. Rescue Roy. Fearmonger. The Pasadestine. Another Ultra Rare, but it's the wrong one. Ultimate Tyranos. We have an Ultra Rare and two Ultimates. Where are all our Super Rares? This is weird. Okay, another Ultimate. Keep going. Keep going. This has actually been a really good opening so far. Pretty good, but wrong cards. We're not getting the ones we're looking for. Let's keep going. Ultimate Tyranos. Go in. Get in. Keep going. Go in. Come on in. Keep going. We've got two Ultimates and an Ultra with no Supers. Fake Hero, Crop Circle, Defender. Come on. We're not even halfway there. We're already pulling fire. Let's see if we can pull the card we want. One to Garage Baby Sera, Source Contact. Come on. Super Charge. Where are the Supers? I know there are Supers in the set and they should be the easiest foils to pull, but apparently not. Flare Nios is a nice looking one though. We'll take that. Ultimate Tyranos, also a favorite of mine. Hopefully those are gradable. We'll check them out later. Blademaster, Crop Circle. We got the Starbird, we got the Orb of the Marlbnet, Black Terra, Synthetic Seraphim, Amelot's Rescue Roid, and a Future Fusion, that would be such a cool ulty as well, but that's also a retail ulty, so we can't get it. Keep going, we're almost halfway, almost at the halfway point, five minutes, let's go. We got the Destiny Hero Blade Master, Alien Hunter, Brainwashing, Beam, Black Stego, come on, Fossil Exhibition, Alien Grey, we're over the halfway point, D-Spirit with the Flying Saucer, and the Destiny Hero Double Dude, our first super rare of the opening. Four foils. This is tiring. Okay, we gotta focus. I don't believe, guys, let's go. Hit that subscribe button if you're enjoying the fast opening or the, you know, timed opening. Here we go, Defender. Let me know if we should do this again. Amelot's Roid, we got the Orb of the Marlbnet, D-Spirit, Crystal's Dolphin, Black Terra, and a Destiny Hero Dash, are probably worth a dollar, so we're gonna pull that out there. Nice rare. Oh, come on. We are ripping open a lot of value right now, a lot of value. Let me tell you, we're hopefully gonna be able to grade some of these cards, so that would be nice, because, you know, it's expensive. Let's go, Saber Swords, come on, Defender. Double, Ruxen's Paschal, Blade Master, can't skip any of the cards. Dolphin, Rescue Roid, Fear and Mawr, the Paths of Destiny, Cyber Summon Blaster, okay. What are we at? Four minutes. A little bit over four minutes. Let's go. Oh my gosh, let's go. Gotta believe. Gotta believe in the heart of the cards, Crop Circles, Ralsus Starbird, Alien Skull, Royal Red Attack Station, One Nogadage, Rescue Roid, Sathetic Seraphim, Hero Nios, Cyclone Blade. So we're at, what, four foils? Four foils out of, I have no idea how many packs this is. I've opened and thrown away a lot of pack wrappers here. Mazelaine with the Emperor Miracle Jurassic Egg, Alien Skull. We are looking for that Chimeritech over Dragon. Let's pull it right here. Baby Sarasaur's Contact, Dogma, okay, cool card, Dogma, I actually shipped one of those from TCG Player today. It's weird how that happens, you know, you pull something you just shipped. All right, three plus minutes to go. We are about a third of the way through. Are we gonna pull something big? The wrappers are going everywhere, Byte Lawn, Destiny, Mirage, Blade Master, Ruxen, Special Viacruz Connection Zone, Fossil Excavation, Baby Sarasaurus, we got the Contact, and a Destiny Hero Dogma, three Ultimates. What is happening? All right, this is like a $125 card, so let's just be careful with that. On to the next card. So we have pulled a lot in value. Like our value is crazy right now, but we have not pulled the card we're looking for. Still not bad. Another Ultimate, Destiny, Mirage, Black Stago, Byte Lawn, okay, three minutes, I think, something like that, Fossil Excavation, Alien Grey, D-Spirit, Flying Saucer, Ultimate Tyranto again, so we're starting to pull foils now, there's a lot of foils left. Woo, power the duelists, let's go. If you have an idea of another set you want to see me do this with or a card to chase, let me know in the comments. Let's go, Alien Hunter, Brainwashing Beam, Miracle Jurassic Gag, Moslem of the Emperor, Black Terror, Synthetic Seraphim, Ambulus Rescue, Roy, we got the Alien Grey, and Alien Mother, the Grey and the Mother, oh no, these stacks are going crazy. Getting close to the last two minutes, oh my gosh. Let's go, Black Stago. Fake Hero, Crop Circles, Can We Do It, Defender, Rex and Special, Orbital Embardment, Rescue Roid, Fear Monger, Vehicle Connection Zone, and Neospace, okay, no big deal. Next one, let's go. I think we've opened like 20 plus packs at this point, a lot of packs of power of the duelists, like over a booster box worth, Miracle Jurassic Gag, Crop Circles, Fake Hero, Vehicle Connection Zone, Fear Monger, Rescue Roid, Orbital Embardments, and Neospace and Flare Scare, but classic for me, are we out of packs, I know there's one more, not out, I mean we have another stack, but they're going everywhere. A minute 50, something like that, let's go. Come on, common soul, gotta believe, let's get an ultimate rare. Chimeritech, what are we even trying to get at this point? Alien, Grey, Synthetic, Seraph, and Black Terra, Cosmogorragangiel. I think this is like maybe 30th pack, something like that, I think out of stack of 29, so we might be on the 30 power of the duelist packs in this video, that's pretty fast actually, we're kind of flying through these. Let's go, we have Alien Skull, we are on a nice pace, Rallus, but aimless roid, will it bless us with something amazing? Here it comes, cyber something blaster again, all right, nothing crazy there. Almost on the last minute, come on, come on. It doesn't count if we pull it past the timer, we got to hurry, Alien, Hunter, Common Soul, Sabresaurus, Royal Red Attraction, the Orbital Embardment, D-Spirit, Crystal's Dolphin, the Black Terra, Cyclone Blade, another rare, let's go, last minute, here it comes, I'm choking, I'm choking, we got to get it, one, two, three, four, we have Royal Red Attraction, Rallus, the Starbird, Sabresaurus, Black Stago, Crystal's Dolphin, Amulets, Rescue Roy, Destiny, Herphera, Marga, the Pass of Destiny, Alien, Mother, all right, it's a lot of word soup or spaghetti, whatever you call it, what am I talking about, I don't know, 30 seconds, oh no, we got to get at least one more out, four, I'm struggling, Amulets, Roy, Fake Hero, Black Stago, can we do it? Beam, Wonder Garage, Rescue Roy, Synthetic Serif, Elmets, Hero Nios, and Niospace, I think this might be the last pack that we can get open if we can hurry, we might be able to get it on the final pack, here we go, 20 seconds, one, two, three, four, let's go, we get the D-Cory Roy, Mausoleum of the Emperor, Jiricul, Jurassic, Gag, Alien, Skull, Ambulets, Rescue Roy, Fear, Monger, all the Rex's special, Pass of Destiny, Don't Cheat, Contact, oh eight seconds, oh no, I don't think we're gonna get it, oh okay, I think we ran out, we had four seconds, I wasn't gonna be able to get to the rare, no, oh that was actually exhausting, I didn't think that would be that bad, I'm actually kinda tired, I was all tensed up the whole time, we pulled some amazing cards right here, like three ultimate rare, that's really good, we did not get the card we were looking for, so if you guys wanna see a video like this in the future, make sure to let me know in the comments, make sure to subscribe for that coming up. 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Hi guys, we're here for the second to last design team challenge of 2019. Can you believe the year is almost over already? It has gone by so fast. So this month I challenged the team with the words inks and fibers. I really wanted to see what they could do with items from the Etsy shop and things that I'd sent them with those two words in mind and see what they could do, what they could come up with. I have shown in videos past this little journal which was made, the base of this is a dead canvas that I tore up and then I added ink and fibers and collage and a bunch of things to the cover. This is one example of what you can do. I've also shown on the channel before these embroidered patches that I do sometimes add to journal covers and pages and I do have some of these are for sale in the Etsy shop at least as of right now. Some of them are done on painting paper scraps. I also have other embellishments I've done with printing some of the word digital downloads that I have in the shop on fabric and then creating something with fibers and fabric that looks like this that you can also use on covers and on artwork and on pages. And there's these I've shown before and there's a little flag I've shown before. There's a lot of different ink and fibers with your rubber stamps with your stencils with your digital downloads. There's a lot that possibilities are endless. If you have a favorite one to do and there's a video on it I would love if you do me a favor and link it in the description below. In the meantime I'm going to link the Design Team blog page in the description below and of course the Etsy shop. I want you to go show them some love.  So if you click on it and nothing happens their video is not active yet. So check back in a week or two. In the meantime go back to January and start with them from day one and there's some great content out there see what they got up to and don't forget to like share and subscribe to their channels. Show them some love and see what you can do with ink and fibers this month. I would love to see what you come up with. You can share in my Facebook group a life of art and self expression. You can find a link to it. All the other art groups I'm in places to support the free content here on YouTube, their website and a whole bunch of other stuff by clicking on my link tree list of links in the description below. Don't forget to go out and have a great day. Have a happy Thanksgiving this month this Thanksgiving month in America. So have a happy Thanksgiving and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you later. Bye guys.


You've got a load of really good action scenes in this film, especially the bathroom one, especially the helicopter one. I was wondering if you could just talk us through what it's like being in a helicopter in New Zealand and seeing Tom Cruise maybe about to plummet to its death. The helicopter sequence in particular, it's beautiful, it's one thing I can say. They do helicopter tours over the southern Alps in New Zealand, it's the thing which you can you can jump a helicopter and they show you glaciers and stuff and it's really cool. But you don't get to fly around the doors open and I did and that was amazing. The only problem was it was freezing cold. It was Baltic cold for like two weeks we were shooting that and you got about an hour and a half at a time and that that took some some mental stamina. The first time I got to that helicopter my friend who was there on set at the time and producing partner he looked at me and just laughed. He went oh you're in for a tough ride, you've got two weeks of this and but worth it because it made for an incredible sequence and as I said earlier watching Tom do his stunts it does make it does make it tough enough. Preparing for this action scene and there's an amazing one in Paris. What was it like preparing to do that? Were you also riding the motorbike? No so I was sitting drinking coffees and reading magazines and just going good luck. That was Jenny going by by the way. I was constantly training for the fight sequences that we were doing and they ask a lot of you. Every professional on this film you know does their absolute utmost to make sure everyone is safe. The pilots you know one of which is Tom, the stunt crew, the camera crews. There's a lot of people risking themselves for these stunts not just Tom and so there's always a sense of slight concern you know and I have asked him several times you know are you are you cool with this he's definitely going to do it and he's just like yeah of course I am. There's a scene where you get to stab lots of men in the heart how was that was that cathartic? I didn't think about that actually maybe unconsciously yeah revenge in some ways no I felt bad about it actually I just wanted to make sure that he was okay. Was there any particular training that you had to go through to get ready for that? We always had to be really physically fit because you didn't know what stunts you'd be required to do when because the narrative was always developing. Yeah I had a trainer which I'd never had before and it totally changed my mind about you know all that kind of stuff that I was just totally ignorant to. Tom's just the most inspiring he'll be up training at five a.m. before work and yeah it was we had to learn how to use that knife and work with the stunt team and it's the first time I've ever done stunts apart from rolling down a hill.


So we're talking about this move. We've just seen in Bitcoin and Tesla shares I've got the move in Bitcoin right here on the 15-minute chart powering back above that 40,000 level here and the main news is that Tesla have announced that they're going to be accepting Bitcoin payments. So joining me here. I've got Eddie Donmez and Tim Duggan to discuss the move both in Bitcoin and Tesla shares Eddie, I'm going to start with you. You're probably the most informed to tell me what's happened give us a bit of background to this move in both Bitcoin and Tesla shares. Yeah, hugely exciting for the cryptocurrency space. More about institutional acceptance really. So Tesla are now announced that they're going to be accepting Bitcoin as payments. They've also bought 1.5 billion in Bitcoin according to an SEC filing and why this is significant for Bitcoin of course and for Tesla but more so for the Bitcoin space is this is now setting the scene for institutional acceptance both from an asset management perspective. ARC investments have actually released a piece saying if every company in the S&P 500 allocated 1% of their treasuries to Bitcoin it would hit 40,000 and if they did 10% it would hit 400,000. So what this is basically being seen as Bitcoin is essentially a cash or a cash equivalent basically. So traditionally lots of corporate treasuries would have held treasuries. Super low risk, relatively low return and what this basically gives a green light for is more institutional and corporations holding their cash in Bitcoin. Okay so this is huge for the space. Let me come in on that because that's interesting because do you remember Tim back in November we did a video about how this time it's different when Bitcoin passed 20,000 towards the end of the year we did a quick clip this time it's different why is it different to 2018 and Eddie it was exactly that thing it was the feeling that there's way more institutional involvement here with old dogs like me now being interested in crypto and Bitcoin back in 2017 back in 2016 I have to admit hands up I didn't think it was credible yet I didn't think it had been tested enough yet but towards the end of last year on that break of 20,000 the reason why this time it's different is Bitcoin had been through that you know consolidation period it had been tested and the voices talking about the cryptocurrency was you know were much more institutional one issue I have with this all though is obviously you know going back a year ago Elon Musk changed his profile to have a Bitcoin logo on social media he's been pushing this and pushing this also turns out he's got a chunky position in Bitcoin as well should he be allowed to do this is this is this acceptable there's this one man got too much power now. Yeah I think I think he definitely has a huge influence all you need to do is look at Dogecoin that literally joke of a cryptocurrency and the effect that he has but just to kind of set the precedent Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy it's another company kind of a consultancy company he's been around for a long time and he's kind of set the precedent for converting treasury holdings into this Bitcoin so it has been done before but for Tesla to do it is really big news because you know the cult following that is almost mirrored with Tesla and Bitcoin right but in terms of the I have a Doge chart here actually that I could share. Go on share Dogecoin obviously this is up I mean what is it 640% in the other months. Yeah so this is Doge the prior high there I mean god these are very small increments we're looking at the daily virus here as you can see we're just testing that all-time high here at about what was it actually sorry this is not Doge this is Doge here this is Bitcoin we're looking at and just getting the Doge coin up as you can see that 08 was the prior all-time high tested yesterday on these markets and you know I think this is probably not going to see a bit of a pullback within the general list. I know a lot of people are going to be talking about Doge. Doge is everywhere of course because this is phenomenal but I'm on Eddie's line I actually think this story is way bigger than than than just Dogecoin this is this is global impact when we talk about the fact that treasury departments can start to hold some of the valuation in crypto the one question I've got for you guys before we wrap up this short update is now I've been following Elon on Twitter for a while the impact that he's had just over the last sort of two or three weeks it's kind of like he's got the power bug I'm what I've seen in the past time and time again and we've seen this actually going back a long time in the past is power is addictive and it creates a drug and I maybe there's a long way to go on this but we saw what happened with Trump and his Twitter but you know is there a danger that Elon's actually beginning to push it too far and I think there's cases here that look he's been promoting Bitcoin for a year and then to make this announcement I mean you know he always knew he would make this announcement there's definitely something odd here the fact that you know one person can have such an influence over asset prices and benefit from that influence I don't know whether I'm pushing too far down that line but I'm just beginning to get a whiff of this getting a little bit out of control I think he's actually in a little loophole there where I think he is beyond SEC reach right on this because the crypto space is pretty much unregulated so I think he's in a loophole at the moment yeah I don't know experience has taught me if someone you know irritates the industry that much like you saw perhaps with what the the game yeah there'll be some kind of just one interesting thing on this is the new there's a new SEC chairman actually and he is very understanding of cryptocurrency he actually spent time at MIT so he has a good understanding of the space there's also been someone underneath him the head of cryptocurrency research has actually been promoted to directly report to him this bitcoin was not really accepted from the previous SEC chairman but this new one does have an understanding from his time at MIT so yeah interesting things to come absolutely well listen guys thank you so much for this wrap just to finish on this chart of bitcoin and I mean Tesla shares are up now what nearly two percent um one and a half I don't have those up looking at bitcoin now but you know you can see this move on a longer term timeframe it's been phenomenal but we were definitely right end of November 2020 this felt different it felt more institutional it felt like there's a lot more depth to it so yeah Tesla are up 2.5 percent now as I speak thanks very much guys for this recap and look forward to catching up with you later in the day