Welcome to Digital Asset News, the top stories in cryptocurrencies digital assets and break up down to bite-sized pieces today. A continuation of what is going on with Ripple and the XRP lawsuit versus the SEC. First up, Coinbase says it now has regulatory approval to list security tokens. Now, this is an old article from July 17, 2018, but it plays right into the hands of what the SEC just released today. All right, Max Kaiser was on Stansbury Research and he said some of the most savage, funny things about Peter Schiff and the learning curve of Bitcoin and how it corresponds to Michael Saylor and Elon Musk. Now, we're getting all that, but let's continue on with the 12 days of Christmas. And we are on the 23rd, where some lucky person is going to win a bitcoin.com exchange bitcoin cash with a hundred dollars. And to do the giveaway, I've invited the director of the bitcoin.com exchange, Danish Chaudhury, to do the honors. So let's jump in the office and have a talk. Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the office. So thankfully, I got Danish Chaudhury here. He is the head of bitcoin.com exchange and he is the one that is responsible for giving us a hundred dollars with the bitcoin cash. So, Danish, thanks for, first of all, thanks for donating. I really appreciate it. And tell us about bitcoin.com exchange. Thanks. Yeah, we're a spot in margin exchange. That's grown exponentially since last year. We've done quite a few new things. We launched Tari's token this past September on our IEL. And yeah, we've been growing. We're expanding. And yeah, we're looking forward to 2021. So I hear there's some pretty cool things coming up in 2021, some new features, whatever those are, and some new geography. So could you tell us about that? We're expanding. We're bringing the localized experience to a lot of new places. You'll hopefully hear a lot more about it in Q1. Can't say too much right now. I don't want to spoil the surprises. Son of a gun. All right. Well, maybe at some point, you'll let us all know exactly what's going to happen. Okay. So for you watching, we're doing a live from here. All you got to do is there is a link to the bitcoin.com exchange in the description below. I want you to click on that link if you don't have access already. If you do, I need you to go to the bitcoin.com exchange. The link, of course, is below. Tell us the three banners that are on top. Just a brief description of what they are in the chat, which will be right over there to the right. And the first person that tells us those three banners will be the winner for the Bitcoin Cash giveaway, $100. So go ahead and do that now. And that is it. Danish, anything else for us? Let's see. Thanks for having us. Looking forward to the holidays and looking forward to 2021. Happy holidays, Danish. Appreciate it. All right. So since we are doing a live from here, don't forget if you have a bitcoin.com exchange username and password, just go ahead and go in there. Tell us the three banners that are on top. If you don't use the description that is in the link below, which is right underneath this video, should be the very first one. Sign up real quick, jump in there and tell us what it is. And I'll be picking it for the first person who can tell me those three banners. All right. Let's jump into today's market. So today is December 23rd. It's about 3 p.m. I'll pass with Texas time. So what do we got? Well, it looks like Bitcoin is kind of fluctuating. Not too bad though. 23.2 just down less than a percentage. But again, for seven days, 20% can't beat that. Ethereum dips low for 600. Don't like to see that, but what are you going to do? Down 4%. Heather, XRP. Well, look, let's look at the bright side. I get to finally say my joke again. XRP is pig of the quarter. Now look, look, I know you're upset. If you're holding XRP and you're like, this is going to be the greatest one, it is what it is. And I don't know where it's going to go. And we're going to talk about some things later on. But you have to understand that you can't get emotionally invested into any one trade, any one token, any one investment. So this is going to be a long drawn out process. It's going to be the SEC versus Ripple. It's going to take a long time. It could be just something as like a slap on the wrist and we all move on. It could be something like they just say, yeah, we're just going to dismiss it or it could be something even more severe. And it goes across the entire spectrum of the cryptocurrency market. I don't know. Only time will tell. But me personally, if it goes down in the 10, 9, 8 cents range, what I will be doing is I will be selling because I could use the enormous tax write off that would garner me. And I will take that and I will probably buy it right back up at whatever price point it is. But if it gets below a dime, that's what I'm going to do because tax benefits, I mean, I just can't beat that. All right. Litecoin down 6%, up 30% for the week though. Hey, above 100 can't beat that. Bitcoin Cash for one of you lucky winners. How are you going to get about a third of a Bitcoin Cash? Let's see. What else we got? Jeez, chain links down 12%.  You know, it's amazing. You have one issue with one cryptocurrency and it dragged everything else down. I don't understand why EOS will be down or NEM or Tron or anything else.  There's no reason for that. Except for Theta's up. Good for you, Theta. And Celsius. Look at that $3, pretty good. Synthetic's up. You know, the same players that are always up. Just look at the ones that are making it.  Theta Network, I mean, pretty great because we're all going to need streaming services. Celsius has a solid one with their loans and APY. And then where's Monero? Of course it's up because everybody likes privacy. So just always take a look at what is continuously up. All right. Let's see how you would have done if you just would have invested into Bitcoin and nothing else. So not too hot. No, 1.9 for Monero. Monero seems to have been beating Bitcoin for quite some time. Also Celsius and Theta. And that's really bad. Wow, Zillica. Woo, Zillica. I got to look at that. I say that every time. I just don't do it. I used to own Zillica. I just got rid of it. But don't sleep on it. It could be very huge. All right. That's it for that. Let's jump into today's top stories. So first up, this is sent to me by XRP CryptoWolf, XRP CryptoWolf. I appreciate it. This was pretty great. It's an old article. But it's one of the fears that people have. They go, well, look, we just talked about this today. Bitwise, liquidated their crypto fund, the XRP aspect of it, which it wasn't that much. It was like about 3%. And they're not going to offer it again because they go, we don't know what's going to happen. So the big thing is they said, we can't do this because we don't know what's going to happen with XRP. Isn't we dealing with security or not? It doesn't matter what you think. It's really what the SEC is going to decide and how they're going to give out those penalties. So this is good news from back in the day. And it's going to tie into what's happening right now, obviously. US Cryptocurrency Exchange Coinbase, which not my favorite, has received regulatory approval to acquire several securities firms, a move that could eventually see it supporting trading in tokens deemed as securities. The Financial Industry Regulation Authority, FINRA, has approved recently revealed acquisition deals for currently regulated firms. And this is the crux. As reported by CoinDesk, Coinbase's CEO and President, Asif Hirji, I think I nailed it, indicated that through the acquisitions, the exchange is seeking licenses as a broker dealer. Remember that word, broker dealer an alternative trading system and a registered investment advisor. Why is that important? It's because today the SEC put out this press release and they state the commission's position is that for a period of five years, a broker dealer operating on their circumstances set forth in a statement will not be subject to a commission enforcement action on the basis that the broker dealer deems itself to have obtained and maintained physical possession or control of customer fully paid and excess margin digital asset securities. So for everybody who was worried about Coinbase potentially delisting XRP, looks like they're okay. Now, there are other exchanges that do not have this privilege and I believe that they will be delisting XRP. So just await for that to happen because it is going to happen and the price is going to continue to fall. I don't know how far it is but that is what I see that is going on. Let me know what you think of the comment section. Let's move on. Last up, I was watching this because it's just so funny. I forgot how funny Max Kaiser is and he really is a pretty entertaining guy. So here we have Max being Max and the question comes down to what's the learning curve like for all these people because they're going to talk about Michael Saylor, how long it took for him and Elon Musk and then they're going to get into Peter Schiff which I said I would never talk about him on the show ever again but this one was pretty special and I had to break my own rule just take a listen. In your opinion. I know you didn't speak to Elon Musk directly but where do you think it lies? Right. Well the learning curve for Bitcoin everyone is on it at their own speed. So for me I got it in 2011. Michael Saylor was looked at in 2013. He didn't understand it. It took him five or six years to really figure it out. We've got Elon Musk is now looking at it and because he's a smart guy he'll get orange pill as we call it and he'll understand what's going on here and he'll jump in. Peter Schiff you know he's in denial basically. He's a fiat money addict and like a heroin addict or a drug addict you can't do anything about it until Peter Schiff bottom. See until he hits fiat money bottom he's not going to be able to help himself and there's nothing anyone can do to help Peter Schiff. You know he has to hit bottom. He has to realize he's been dead wrong for the 10 years I've been telling him to buy Bitcoin since it was a dollar. I was at his house in Westport Connecticut over Christmas a few years ago when it was under $100. I begged him and his son who heard about it was now buying Bitcoin and I told him to buy it a thousand.  Tation I'd love to have you and Peter Schiff both on I've debated him several times I know I know but I just mean as a moderator it's like he doesn't have any arguments he's never studied even for five minutes anything about Bitcoin he cannot make an intelligent argument about it he simply says he just mouths you know plot it to he just says silly things and he just he's an addict it's like arguing with a heroin addict to take the needle out of your arm Peter it's a really bad idea he goes no just one more shot one more shot just one more shot but there's no way you can get someone like that to come around and help themselves you know sometimes you know some of us have to die you know so that others can die you know we can't think overly sentimental about Peter Schiff if he wants to go down with the fiat money ship there's nothing we can do about it I'm not going to be I'm not going to I've spent all the time I'm ever going to spend trying to help Peter Schiff from obliterating his career and his life and I'm not going to spend any more time on Peter Schiff I got 10,000 people in my telegram group from all over the world who are buying $10 and $20 of Bitcoin every day and their lives are improving they're supporting their families they're getting an education they're escaping the hyperinflation in Venezuela and they're escaping poverty in Cuba those are the people we need to focus on don't focus on this bloated fiat money idiot who is simply trying to get attention by pretending to be even stupider than he really is all right okay it's a perfect example I mean first of all it's very funny but second of all it's very serious and it's very serious because of this I feel like and if you're a gold bug listen to this look ladies and gentlemen I own gold and silver and Bitcoin and what Max just said there really hits home because when you have people who are in destitute are in third world countries and they have no access to anything as far as like investments but they can get their hands on Bitcoin and they're able to put money into it that's what's saving them right now not only that because of all the difference fiat that's on fire throughout the world so they're doing that it's actually appreciating and value greatly that's a great thing and not just in those worlds but like even in first world countries I mean there's there's poor middle class upper middle class upper class it doesn't matter people who put money into Bitcoin are on average way ahead of people who have put money into gold and some in stocks I will say so I feel like when you got like a Peter Schiff who's just out there who's really just talking about gold or precious metals or nothing and Bitcoin's going to zero I mean prime any Christmas just like Max said he goes I told him to get a hundred I told him to get a thousand I told him to get our 10,000 now here we are and he could have been doing the same thing how many people has he duped out of getting into Bitcoin and frightening them just because he's like you know what precious metals are the only way and Bitcoin's going to zero he's been doing it for a decade a little bit shorter it doesn't matter it's been a long time and that I think is financial disservice to so many people that really could have benefited and I feel sorry for those people all right so that is it oh I take that back there's one more thing we have to talk about which is the winner for yesterday's Unstoppable Domains Drawing so this is kevinconner.crypto and this is the actual movie that Zaji did to give the Bitcoin a hundred dollars of Bitcoin into Kevin Conner's wallet and to her address and off it goes send bang bang boom very easy also the other winner was Rafael Machado from nftdesign.crypto don't have the video for that but Rafael it should be in there it does not let us know and that's all so thanks for sticking with me to the end I really appreciate it if you like these types of videos the tumor is going to pop up to your left and right but YouTube did their magic with that and that is all for today so thanks for hanging out with me and the live from here and good luck to you for the Bitcoin cash I'm sure we've already drawn the name so that is it for today thanks so much and I'll see you on the next one


the second largest payment processing company in the entire world just gave way to fiat on-ramp for crypto and digital assets. And I gotta tell you, I think this is a step in the right direction. What I am talking about, if you don't know, is Stripe. Stripe is going to be hosting fiat to crypto on-ramp. This is to help US-based customers purchase crypto. But Stripe now offers two implementation options for its on-ramp, an embeddable on-ramp, which is crypto purchasing widget directly into your own website or app. So you can embed it right away and you can have a fiat on-ramp. Or if you don't want to deal with that, there's a Stripe hosted on-ramp at crypto.link.com to which companies can direct their US-based customers.


Hi, ddr. Henry選. Llywydd, rydw i. Rydw i bod yn eich dyfodol gyda'r Cyfnod Ffian� diwylliant ym Ysgol Aelwyn Abergrifolol, i yw Llywod Dydliadau Ac Cymru, ac fallonyn nhw'n gallu'r ymdyn nhw. Rydych chi'n ddullol i'n mewn oedd iawn i research i research i IT ymgylch. Rydw i wnaeth oedd oedd mae oedd y lleol i ddweudau. Gweithnos yw'r ysgol yng Ngheifftol, roedd gweithi ac roedda'n credu ei wneud arwyd, spoken that – okay, so we're really big into open science open research, we have big research, computing platforms, but we need our research students and our PhD students to be able to use these platforms. So there is a series of programmes that get delivered face-to-face, but we're struggling to meet the demand. So, they kind of said right, so let's create some online versions of those things and it's that kind of process that I'm going to talk you through today and some of the decisions and some of the ethics, and the complications that goes with that. O Droffr was easy for us. We used Jupyter notebooks. We were strong carpentry instructors. We found the software sustainability institute. We helped build the Jupyter notebooks. We helped build Python plugins. Myself being involved with various stuff. Was a Mozilla between Mozfest and coaching for the global sprint. I went for Open Leaders cohort. Yn ystod, yng ngynghwyl yna y Big Card. Mae yna bwysig ym ddweud y gallwn gwrdd yma yn rhoi ymddangos... ... ymddangos iawn, ychydig gan y brifysig, ac ydych yn eu wrthyn nhw. Ond oes yn gilydd ymyniwch ar gyfer ddau bwysig, y mae'r gwahanol yma,isteryn i'r ddweud ar gweithio'r cywir. Yn ystod, mae'n cymaint arbyn nhw, oed ymddangos, amaeth hefyd! ac mae gennym ni'n ddegonodd yn y gwybod bwysig i wyd ychydig gweithio i gŷtair, ac mae gan gweithio ei gweithio postoedd yn golygu'r modl ac nid i gweithio penynigio agyddion yn ni'n gweithio hefyd. Mae gennym ni i ni chyfostiynau cweithio ac mae'r gweithioysau gweithio, ond mae'n gweithio'n gweithio chi'n gweithio gweithio ac mae'r gweithio efallai ystafell CPD. Dyson eisiau i gweithio i gwybod gweithio cyrraedd a pwysig i gweithio iawn, yn athwyl i ni. Felly, mae yna ni'n gwneud iddynt. Felly, ei gyd-huba i gyd-hubau. Felly, mae'n ffordd aialon fel roedd byf erbydd online i gyd-hubau, fel dyma. Mae'n gweithio ddechrau. Fel ddim yn angen Products, ond mae'n cael ddweud o cael adegystechol. Yr unig hyn yn adegystechol hynny, mae'n angen hynny'n cael adeiladol. Felly, rwy'n rhoi mynd i dwylaid yn gyf円 o'n ddynod I.T. inclusion officer to the point where I said we could have researchers from anywhere with any kind of needs that would need to be able to access this. So I've got a style sheet, it's a web page, so I got her to review them and to feed back on me. She herself is dyslexic, so we picked the most dyslexic friendly style sheet. I also know there's a whole load of tools in that room that she manages to help people access the material. So we got people that use the senate, the senate, especially education in the IT suite, to test what we'd built. So it got run through programmes like JAWS. The videos that we made showed that they were captioned. We put the transcript online as well. But for me that was a no-brainer. I come from compulsory secondary education. I taught an awful lot of sets of students that contained a vast number of CEN students. So I was aware of dyslexia. I was aware of visual impairments. The first school I taught in had a hearing impairment unit. I actually had people sign whilst I was teaching. So I have a very wide accessibility background and that actually formed part of my HAA fellowship application that this was something I pushed. But it's something I had to get my colleague in research IT services to understand. They stand up and they teach using Jupyter notebooks. So converting what you stand up and you talk out into something that's accessible for a lot of people online was quite a bit of work. And to get people to think through that it cannot just be black and white text and you send someone off to man pages. That's not learning. That needs a bit more to it. But also what about inclusivity? We have an agenda at UCL that we want to make out curriculum inclusive. The students push for liberating the curriculum programme is something that we're now actively trying to push with a big institutional checklist. But all our names are British white names and all the places we references are in England. Does that reflect everyone that's going to be using this stuff? So there's a very basic step. We just start to change some names around. So we're not quite as inclusive as I'd like to be. But I hope that we're starting to push things in kind of the right direction with that. So we're trying very hard to think about the tools that we've got, how we present it and how we make it inclusive. And on top of that we've got licences. So you've got the new licence, the MIT licence. These are mostly around software. They weren't quite relevant but they're in the back of our heads because we're using tools. We built everything using open source tools that have these licences. But then we had to have the debate about what licence we wanted to put on it. Now, I personally, I kind of fall into the discrimination bit that David Wiley was talking about this morning. Because I don't necessarily want someone to make money out of something I've shared for the greater good for everyone else. So for me, I quite like releasing things personally under a non-commercial licence. But this was a debate I had to have with colleagues in research IT services because they released everything as CC by. And that's the licence that we got but we had to decide that as a group and we had to decide what way we were going. And I'm going to talk about my side hustle which is this Mozilla Open Leaders programme, the data playground. And I had to decide on a licence for that as well and if people signed up to help me with that project, you know, that might have to be up for negotiation because we have our own sets of views on these things. As I said, I think it's for the great good. I'd rather people didn't make money, but I understand that sometimes you get further if you open it up for everyone and they can build on it and disseminate it. So it's one of those other things of the, you go, yeah, it's great, we'll share how and what limits. It's not as straightforward as we think. So what do we build? We built two, actually we built three things, but only two of them are kind of live. Actually it's all live. We just don't tell anyone about it until we're ready to chip as it were. So we did an introduction to research programming and this is in Python. We did an introduction to Unix Shell. So all our HPCs are UNIX based systems. So unless you're comfortable with UNIX, you can't use a HPC, it's all on the command line. So it's important that they understand the command line and we built these things. So we've got Pretty Blue, all of those videos, they're actually sitting in YouTube, they're kind of hidden sort of, but they have transcripts and they have closed caption and you can switch the language around. We weren't too worried about it. So this is actually built with a thing called the Moria framework from the University of Hawaii. So it's actually an open source framework. It uses Markdown, so I draft the pages in Markdown. I then run scripts that use Jackal and Ruby and push it to GitHub and you can see it developing live over time in GitHub and it's there and it's a fully open, clear practice. I tend to keep the repository closed while I do the development, but once it's ready I hand it back over to the teams, but you can look at it at any time and you can fork it. I kind of hide it until, so you can see what I'm doing, but you can't actually mess with the code base until we're done. So in terms of institutional usage, we've got the two courses there and we've got a Moodle instance at UCL and we have a home for these in Moodle. People were asking for certificates, so if we're not seeing them face to face we don't quite know if they've got it. So we built some summative quizzes and if you pass the quiz then you can get a certificate and you can prove that you've met the CPD level. So we've got, people have kind of gone in, so 37 users have gone in and looked at the materials 89 times. It's not great, we've got kind of 4,000 staff at UCL, a chunk of them researchers and post-credits, so they're not really kind of coming in and this has had a very soft launch since November, so it's still early doors. We've had a few more looking at the research programme with Python, but again, not as much as we'd like so we need to push a little bit more. In terms of global reach, actually we've got people in Russia, North America looking at it and it looks great, in Britain we've had up to 101 people. So this is kind of findable, I did ask people in my other networks, so external, so ADIS lists to do a bit of testing for me. The feedback table for testing was actually Google Doc that got shared with the research programme hubs, it got shared with people from the Crick Institute and other partner researchers. So we kind of did pretty much everything open and collaboratively, but let me actually look at it. This 73.2%, that's people kind of coming once and not coming back. So they're kind of coming, but they're not sticking around and doing stuff. I don't know if that's because there's a whole load of Jupyter notebooks that go with this and this is the introduction to research programming, and they're on Anaconda Cloud, so you can actually just go and download them. So I don't know if people are going, seeing the notebooks or somewhere else and just doing them separately, or if they just don't like what we've done. I need to kind of find out, but I'm not sure. The same with the introduction to Unix Shell. Quite a few people in Germany for some reason. Again, quite a big spread. We've got Asia there, but a similar sort of story. A lot of people are coming in, seeing it once and disappearing again. So now we've built it. We know that for most people it should be fairly accessible, but they're not sticking around and going through stuff. So that's another challenge for us completely. At the same time, this is my side hustle. This is an idea for data literacy for 16 to 24-year-olds that came out of the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference in Vancouver last year. So we realised that we wanted to do all this brilliant stuff with data and we wanted to support students and we knew they'd need to give informed consent, but we knew from working with students that they weren't anywhere near as informed as they needed to be. So last year the Royal Society published a report on machine learning just for the UK. Only 10% of the UK population had ever heard of the phrase machine learning and had a vague idea of what it was. That's it. So when they're signing up to Facebook and Twitter and Google, they really don't know what they're truly consenting to. So we're like, OK, but we need to fix this. So the idea is that this playground will have three zones and we'll start with created resources around data and visa, personal data, the relationship with data and academia. So do you open up your research data? How does that conflict with publishing and your agreements and then the data and society element? So at ModsFest last year, I played the Open Data Institute's Open Data Game Datopolis to get people thinking about data and society. I had about 20 people sat on the floor playing an open data board game. And they loved it. And a lot of people were saying, well, where do I get it? Actually, it lives in GitHub and you can download and print it off yourself. OK, but they don't print them as such anymore. But this has a different set of issues. I had to create a set of series of documents to make them accessible for people to want to join the project. There's only a couple of us at the moment that are trying to push this as a great idea. I've got this lined up for the Mozilla Global Sprint that happens in May. I'm also coaching a couple of other different projects. And we're hoping to take it to ModsFest to help us build this. But this is open. It will be OBR. Again, it's open source hosted in GitHub. But my problem here is different. I don't have the collaborators yet, whereas I kind of did before. So they're OBRs, but the problems are quite different. So I kind of wanted to summarise and go, when it comes to open and education and just education in general, everyone starts at a different place. So because I was a teacher, because I studied IT and education, anyway, I have this vocabulary around pedagogy and teaching. I have an understanding of how technology fits with education because I studied technology and I taught technology. That's what I do as a technologist. But not everyone sees that or they see the braid between what they're doing and how the technology can help them. And we need to be much more inclusive and not just accessible. So we need to be inclusive about the examples that we use, the language that we use, the people that come and test things and build it with us because they need to be present there as well. And we need to think about accessibility as not just in the what can anyone access it from any device anywhere as in. We need to think about various needs for different users. Choosing a licence is hard. You will come into conflict. IP is always a bit tricky. And with any kind of learning, it always takes a lot longer than you think to build it and decide to get these things rolled out. So at that point, I'm going to stop and say, if you've got any questions for me, I'd be glad to answer them. Or if you've come up with anything else that's kind of equally as tricky and that would be great. First of all, thank you very much, Sam. That was a great presentation. I have had a question coming through Twitter, which I could do. But I'd like to go to the room first if I may. Are there any questions or comments? And if you could raise your hand in the usual way. Martin. I really like the lessons learned. Thank you, and especially that choosing a licence among creative comments is hard. Some of your content is on YouTube. Right, so the videos I put in YouTube, those are a lot easier to caption. All the content lives live in GitHub. So they're hosted through GitHub. So we've got readings, which are expanded versions of the content in Jupyter Notebooks because they are practical coding exercises. But you can download the notebooks themselves from Anaconda Cloud. So everything's built with free tools. But are you using some commercial platforms for some aspects of dissemination? So the only reason why they're in YouTube is because our own tool for hosting videos is not very good at captioning. It's actually a lot easier to do it in YouTube. So you're getting a benefit from a commercial service. Yes. And you're making that commercial service more valuable and giving more reasons for people to go to that. So it's not you're against people making money from it. It's so long as they're doing something useful. Adding value. So actually the non-commercial putting and non-commercial clause actually doesn't capture your intentions for the content. No. So if a tool is useful to me, I will use it. YouTube to me in this instance is exceptionally useful. It allows me to auto caption and people can then choose the language that they like. What works for them. And that's great. But it's that's slightly different in that so all this work is CC by. When it comes to my own work if I put a lot of time and effort into it and I want to share it for the greater good I then have a conflict of then am I happy for someone to take that and then publish it and make money from it if I'm not necessarily recognised in any way for it. I've faced it. I've done a hog them out. I've faced exactly the same decision and the same choice and another solution. I don't know what the right solution is is to release it CC by SA or CC by because if someone's business model is to sell something which they can get easily for free that's not a very good business model so that's a way to discourage that commercial notation. There's another question behind Matthew. Hi there. Thanks so much for your comments. I'm really interested when you described how you had this heightened awareness of accessibility because of your background as a secondary school teacher. I was wondering if someone who's worked on both the school side and the HE side and the differences you've seen between the use of OERs? I said this earlier in a discussion actually that on a secondary level sometimes you share by default you'll be asked to write a scheme of work and produce the resources for it that you're going to share with your department anyway because you're all teaching year nine the same thing at the same time. You're not going to write the same scheme of work six times. One of you writes it and you share it and if it's any good you share it with your colleagues in another school and then if it's really good you might think about uploading it to TES because it's too scary so you don't but it's kind of a difference because you are teaching the same things because you've got a national curriculum it's easier to share I think and there's more of a culture of borrowing and sharing I think because I think the research agenda skews what academics do so there's more of a it's my IP whereas kind of compulsory we don't kind of care quite so much I don't think to the same extent really and having worked in consortia teaching especially as diplomas we would share across the consortia so we weren't worried really in the same way. Thank you very much that's a really interesting answer and I like that question too thank you. Have we any other questions or any other comments people would like to make? I'm not seeing any I've decided not to do the question on Twitter because I think it's a pretty straightforward answer the question was just I mean why are you using github but I mean obviously forkability and the fact that the people that are actually making the materials are there anyway. So thank you very much once again Sam for a fantastic presentation and some great answers thanks very much. So next up we are pleased to welcome Rupert Gathe who will be talking published in practice Open Access textbooks it's a nice link there because UCL have also been very active in publishing open text books.


Right guys, so let's first look at some zoom settings, which will be great for a music class And make sure you follow this and understand why you need them. That is very very important So first thing we do is go to zoom settings Wherever it may be in your zoom app go to zoom settings and I'm just going to walk you through these Under general I pretty much leave this as it is. I prefer the dark theme. It's better on the eyes and so on and so forth Copy invite link when starting a meeting. These are just general things which you could consider I care more about video and audio in this lesson so I go to video and under video you want to make sure that the camera you're connecting is Integrated so the cameras which I have connected right now. There's something called cam link 4k as you can see now Cam link 4k is nothing but a HDMI adapter. It's just an adapter because you can't plug in a HDMI directly into a computer So there's a lot of tech which goes on for HDMI connections So the cam link adapter is basically what you plug in your external camera into be it a DSLR or a mirrorless camera Most of the cameras seem to work fine. The one I am using is a Sony So well anything if you have a camera, it should work fine Otherwise, you would want to choose your webcam now I do not have a webcam because I'm using a Mac mini it doesn't come with anything. It's just a box So I need a external camera or I could have purchased another webcam, which you could do, right? You want to turn on HD for your video only if you have a decent internet connection And as I mentioned earlier if you're using ethernet So make sure you use ethernet for this and then hit the HD button If you are using some of the other cameras just to give you an idea I'm using this app camo, which allows me to showcase my fingers my top angle looks quite nice and I come back to my Sony camera Which is via cam link and there's also something called OBS virtual camera Which you will have once you install the software OBS now OBS will need to be enabled which I will talk about later, right? So let's move forward. So I'm just gonna enable this camera If there's an issue with lighting they have a setting are just for low light as you can see Right, I already have a light But just to give you an idea if I turn my light off as you can see the lights are really bad And I don't think anything will help in this case, but you do have light settings You have manual settings if you'd like to adjust it, let's say if the power goes off I think this would This would really help you so I'm going to turn back my light which now looks quite cool, right? So This is important for a teacher you'd maximum participants displayed per screen in gallery view Sometimes a lot of my classes have more than 50 60 students So I'd like to enable this 49 participants thing very important Always display participant name on their videos I tend to take it off because I know my students names. I would suggest you do too if you're a teacher There's also a nice feature called hide non video participants Which I think is useful to always put on in a class if I don't hide them What is the value of really seeing that the students name is in a zoom call? I mean, how does it help me as a teacher what helps me is when I actually see the students And it's also a nice way to kind of tell my students see I don't see you I don't know you exist unless you put on your video unless of course it's an emergency So you want to encourage your students to put on their video at all times So you can take this hide non video thing then you can just encourage them to put it on I would leave everything with advanced on it's ticked by By default if you have a very good video graphics card I think you can always use the hardware acceleration for receiving video It works really fast even for things like live streaming as I've tested coming to audio So audio is where it gets a bit geeky for people like me because I I do audio I mix music and all of that so I like my audio to be as good as possible So I choose my speaker my speaker here is really cool. It can be the sound card so if you have an external sound card like a focus right or An antelope audio or a pre-son is something or in my case a zen studio Sound card, which I've been using for years now. I can actually get sound from there Which is really cool. So what that allows me to do is now if I bring my zen studio into the forefront. I Can actually see what you're hearing now is my SE electronics condenser mic, which is in front of me which I can adjust here This is a mic which I can control the pre-amp gain and other such things here if I'm using headphones I can actually turn on and off my headphones, which I rarely do because I'm in a studio This is my other mic So as a piano teacher, I found that I don't like the piano in front of me while teaching for some reason I like it to my side to my right just allows me to focus a bit more when I'm playing piano So because of that, I've had to put two mics. It may not be for you But this is the other mic which we use so my piano is coming from this mic or rather I'm talking from here now and In this case, I'm talking to you. So when I go away, you will still hear the teacher So this is why an audio interface may be very helpful. The one I'm using is Zen studio It may be an overkill because this is a music studio So we need a lot of inputs in this case. This gives me about 20 off the top You just need a couple So a focus right should be more than enough if you ask me a two channel or even a one channel more than enough So choose your audio interface here and Output volume doesn't matter because you're controlling everything from the device now you have two options in zoom One is for the speaker. This is essentially your output volume Or everything to do with output which you control here or like I said earlier, you can control it through your own app Right. This is microphone or what I like to call input volume This is the volume you are sending your student or you are sending your teacher So for the microphone also, I could set up my Zen studio playback Feature where I could get all my preamps coming in But for me since I'm a bit more Trying to be a bit more assertive about the audio I have used a third-party app for audio and I've set up my own audio device called as Nathaniel studio and the third-party device which I'm using is called loopback So this is how loopback looks. This is for Mac But you do get similar things for Windows you will get things like sound flower You do get geeky stuff. So what this allows me to do is it allows me to kind of Give you as a student exactly what I want to give you, right? So if I want to give you My audio interface, this is what I've done. I've given you my audio interface But I can even mute it. So now you will not hear my audio interface at all. You will however hear my piano Why will you hear my piano you as you can see the piano is comfortably going To my output the reason being my piano is via Another app which is a virtual instrument app called piano tech which I use for a lot of my live concerts This is how piano tech looks Right we do a lot of production classes also at our school So I would want to send Reaper, which is an app I use Muse score we use for notation I real pro we use for chord charts and chord jamming Spotify is always useful, but sometimes students complain. Oh Spotify is too loud Your voice is getting drowned. So then I have my own control. So this app is great if you're on a Mac loopback is something you have to use and VLC of course and zoom so right now also I would like the volume of my students in the class to be recorded Because I also want to hear it later or the class once we record it will be a lot more interactive So with zoom I can control the level of zoom coming into the platform, right? And all of this is Heard by the student right all of this is heard by the student in my Nathaniel studio Microphone which is with zoom calls microphone then you have options automatically adjust microphone volume You can take it off if you want to play around Further then this is the important area Suppressed background noise.  That means it's designed for music if you play something On Spotify or if you play a chord on the guitar the chord will go perfectly to your student So or vice versa So please use the low button if you're in a quiet room if you're not use auto But then if it gets too annoying if you're dropping out a lot of audio go back to low and just tell the student or the teacher Please you know chill out with the noise or whatever a dog might be barking or things like that If you can control if you can control the fan noise Stuff like that could definitely enhance and make the lesson a lot more professional and a lot more interactive Okay, there's another great thing with zoom have Recently put out. It's called music and professional audio So you want to do show in meeting option to enable original sound That means it gives you that option and now you have certain settings. You have the high fidelity music mode So this takes up a lot more CPU bandwidth and all that but it's worth it If you can try to turn out the turn on the high fidelity music mode turn on the echo cancellation Which prevents echo or feedback from happening in the lesson, especially when you use speakers and more importantly or maybe most Importantly use stereo audio whenever possible. Otherwise, it's going to be mono zoom is sending everything in mono unless you decide to choose Otherwise so zoom gives you these things and if you'd like to do like a little gig for your students Or if you want to perform a concert for your friends or broadcast it or whatever You know zoom can stream things to YouTube and Facebook So when you do concerts, just make sure this is always going in the professional audio requirements I don't care much about ring tones Then you have the other options share screen I would always ensure maintain current size when sharing so that you don't get messed up Visuals there the rest of the settings are completely fine. You have chat which I don't care about I don't encourage chat in my classes as much as possible I just prefer the student to just talk to me directly Then you have zoom apps which you could check out You have backgrounds and filters if you want to play around if you have a green screen you could tick that I don't so I don't really care about that particular feature. You have video filters, which you use sometimes to kind of You know make make a bit interesting like this Which I honestly don't like but a lot of students annoy me with this I wear Thing okay, or you could just go with filters you have some black and white stuff and it just makes the class Interesting at times you could say then you have zoom recording Which I'm not going to talk about because I'm going to use OBS to actually record all this So I don't need zoom to help me out with this Do their cloud thing and whatnot and the rest is just a matter of all your shortcuts and Accessibility features if you cannot see things as big as you'd like Right you have statistics, which you could check out from time to time So these are all the zoom settings which you would want for a music class and just to add to it all the apps Which I'm using minus OBS, which I'm going to talk to you shortly I'm using loopback for all my audio needs This is all my audio coming to you as a teacher. I can control it I know it's a bit geeky, but it is highly worth it for a person like me who does a variety of music classes Sometimes I'm doing piano sometimes. I'm doing bass sometimes. I'm doing production sometimes I'm just playing music, you know, so I would want everything to have absolute control so software like Loopback and the the company who makes it is called rogue amoeba. You could check them out Rogue amoeba is an amazing software and I have loopback, which is what I'm sending to you But then what you are sending to me can also be controlled by another rogue amoeba software called sound source So sound source means as you can see my zoom levels are 30 or 40% that means I am hearing it really low to protect my hearing there are some students who haven't tweaked their levels I don't want to bust my ears over nothing. So sound source will allow you to control the application or the The level coming to you through your output speakers So in this case zoom if if there's a loud student you can turn him soft You don't want to mute your student even though you can I wouldn't recommend that or you can take the student level all the way up And you can even control levels of specific other apps like Safari if you're browsing or Google Chrome Or if you're watching YouTube or sending YouTube and of course our very own Spotify So you have sound source for Mac, which is super cool You have loopback for Mac, which is super cool This is how I'm controlling my audio and all this is via an audio interface now This can be any old thing now. What happens if for for whatever reason? You don't have any of this well, you all know that in a laptop you will have a default Webcam the webcam will have its own microphone or the laptop will have its own microphone every phone has its microphone So I just wanted to share you the more geeky setups or the more studio Specific setups for audio and for my piano I don't want the sound of my piano to come to you like, you know My vocal mic which is picking up the speakers of the piano rather. I'm sending the audio of the piano directly from my app Right so that these features I think are really cool So you'll hear my piano in stereo and so on and so forth So this is about using zoom for a music lesson all the settings involved all the tweaks all the geeky gadgets If you want to install let's now move on to how I set up OBS for a class, right guys So I hope you found the lesson useful in terms of setting up your zoom class either as a student or a teacher So do check out this entire series Whenever you have any doubts setting up a zoom class I think it holds good at the time of shooting this 2021 It will probably hold good for a good amount of time in the future as well, right guys Hope you found the lesson useful and don't forget to subscribe to our channel if you haven't already hit that bell icon for regular Notifications consider supporting us on patreon on patreon for this lesson I would have an entire tech guide a tech PDF guide for you to check out It's waiting for you on patreon. Cheers and catch you in the next one


stop trying to burn more calories to lose weight. It's a losing strategy. No pun intended. Stop it. Yeah, I said it, boys, so that's it. You know, to elaborate a little bit, it's the trying to burn calories manually to create a calorie deficit, right? So in order to lose weight, you have to burn more calories and take in. And so people take that burn more calories side and they say, well, I'm just gonna move a lot more to burn more calories, but it's a losing strategy because there's two reasons. One, it's really hard to burn calories. Really easy to eat them, right? So like how many calories is it like in a Coke? What is that? 200 something, 300? That's about right, 180. 180 calories in a can? Yeah. That's like, that's a good 30 to 40 minutes of vigorous cardiovascular activity. So it's like a lot of work and eating those calories is super, or drinking them super easy. Was that close, Doug? 150 calories, 148 for classes. Very good. The second reason is the manual, the trying to burn calories manually by moving more, your body really adapts to that really well. And we see that in studies where people try to lose weight with, if that's their attempt without diet, it just doesn't happen. You know who loves to push this message the most, I feel is like tech companies because it's so mathematical the way they think about fitness especially, this drives me crazy. And because they have those numbers, they have the stats of like, there's this many calories and this type of food.  And they're not considering all the human behaviors that go along with it. Well, what's the adaptation time for cardio? Isn't it like two weeks or less? That's pretty fast. That's what the certification said. Right, in comparison to resistance training, which I believe that I think the estimation was somewhere between six and eight weeks or somewhere around there. And I think that the cardio was like two. In other words, it takes your body a lot longer to adapt to modalities like weight training, which that in itself are gonna give you benefits for burning calories. And then when you do something like cardio, and I know it's not accurate, but I used to explain to a client, okay, so pretend you get on this machine and run for an hour and let's pretend it's accurate and it burned 300 calories. Well, the next time you get on it, it burns 280. And then with the same amount of effort, same amount of effort and same amount of time, and now it's burning 280, then 250, then 200. I know that doesn't translate to exact. Well, your body just, yeah, it gets more efficient at what it does, and so they don't factor that in. It's like if you keep throwing the same type of stress of the body, the body wants to get better at, so it doesn't have to burn that many calories. Yeah, and even more importantly, forget that you become efficient while doing the activity, which is true, you get better at it. The real issue is how the body adapts overall. You end up getting this kind of like, your metabolism adjusts, your activity levels adjust, your appetite adjusts to balance the things out. The best study we have on this are done on modern hunter-gatherers. It's a study I've quoted many times that there's others that where they actually went and studied modern hunter-gatherers who move a lot way more than most Westerners, way more. And they found that they burned roughly the same amount of calories. Now the difference with something like resistance training is resistance training, forget the calories burned, it teaches your body to burn more calories on its own. So a faster metabolism is different than what I'm talking about, right? What I'm talking about is I gotta get up and move to burn these calories. A faster metabolism is your body's just burning more calories on its own, which is a much more effective strategy.


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Monitoring a process on a small scale to see what pollution is produced at a particular stage of reaction can reduce the pollution that's produced in the large-scale synthesis. Can you think how? Pause the video and continue when you're ready. An answer might be that looking at the pollution produced on a small scale and in real-time will enable chemists to know where they have to change in their large-scale synthesis to ensure their practices have a lower environmental impact.


Japan is a country full of ancient architecture, still to be explained by modern fields of study, with much of the method of construction indicative of lost knowledge. We have in the past covered a number of these ancient anomalies, yet after receiving a message from one of our viewers, we have yet again been provided with a lead which has resulted in us adding to this long list of ancient wonders. With a smorgasbord of previously unnoticed ancient masonry, which is still in existence at a number of ancient sites throughout the country, many of these sites, thanks to the tremendous efficiency of their original constructors, are still in use to this day. Mostly labeled as castles, these additional discoveries further corroborates a hypothesis we presented nearly two years ago. A posit of a past mega metropolis, or now lost super civilization, having once called Japan home. Chris Gorman had previously visited Shuri Castle in Okinawa with his family, and after watching the studies regard masonry on the channel, recalled seeing this same, now lost method of advanced stone building at the ancient site. He stated, and I quote, I'm writing to you after watching your video regarding masonry. I recognize that this same masonry was present at Shuri Castle in Okinawa, Japan, which was once made from volcanic rock. Here are some pictures that I took of the castle. Some areas were completely destroyed in the Okinawa assault of World War II, but there are also areas which survived the barrage. I witnessed rock walls and pathways that had mossy lichens, some of which taking upwards of thousands of years to form. Heavy pitting was also present upon the rocks, demonstrating significant erosion I didn't notice until recently, end quote. Thanks to Chris's message, I investigated the site along with a number of surrounding sites, and found that not only is Shuri Castle littered with this amazing lost technique of stone building, countless other ancient castles and forts across the country also share these same characteristics. With the same synonymous incline found at Saksawaman, which has shown the walls to have not only been a formidable barrier for invaders, but allow them to also survive natural disasters such as large earthquakes. The castle of Nakagusuku in the villages of Nakagusuku and Kitenakugutsu, also found upon the island of Okinawa in Japan, is only second in size to Shuri, and predictably is academically claimed as the work of distant ancestors, falling within currently permitted history. Known as the Gusuku, this title however is similar to that of Priyankin. It is a name given to an unknown group, which is clearly a lost civilization, yet due to the forbidden nature of such investigative endeavors within academic fields, is simply a name which allows academia to dodge any explanation for their origins. Gusuku often refers to the castles or fortresses of the Ryukyu Archipelago, which we have now realized are all remnants of a past highly capable, technologically advanced lost civilization, with the origins of which among those who have the courage to study such unexplainable ruins, remains a controversial subject, one forbidden by funded institutional individuals from discussing. In the archaeology of the current Okinawa prefecture, the Gusuku period refers to the archaeological period believed to have followed the, quote, mound of shells period, all located in the Ryukyu Kingdom, which the channel now strongly believes as a whole is evidence of a past now academically concealed mega metropolis, which were all the work of the same now lost civilization, and were all connected parts of this same settlement. Regardless of their controversial nature, many Gusuku ruins of the Okinawa Island are fortunately listed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, listed under the name of the Gusuku sites and associated cultural properties of Ryukyu Kingdom, they are undoubtedly highly compelling. We have in the past covered countless incredible and compelling ruins, which can be found within Japan, indeed all over the world, upon which we continue to find connecting features, which not only suggest there was once a global ancient highly advanced civilization, but the chance that these architectural techniques came about at the same time in history, the world over, by coincidence, is so slim that many said features we feel can instead only be seen as corroborating evidence of their past existence. Metal clamping techniques, enormous ancient megaliths, false doors, and the as yet to be fully understood polygonal masonry techniques have now been discovered the world over, and Japan is of no exception. Along with the polygonal masonry found upon the foundations of many temple sites, there is also the ancient fortresses of Okinawa, which also display the same uncanny ability as other sites globally, constructed of seemingly random shaped stones perfectly placed atop one another. Katsuren Castle, Zakimi Castle, among many other Gusuku castles or ancient fortresses found upon the Ryukyu Islands within Japan, all contain this same ancient masonry technique, exhibiting this now lost knowledge and thus lost civilizations know-how. Although many of the sites are claimed as restorations, any explanation as to how this ancient masonry technique was replicated within modern history remains unexplained. We must then presume that the ancient sites which exhibit this lost technique have remained intact for untold millennia and have subsequently been misdated as constructed within known new world antiquities. Found upon such ancient sites, located within Peru, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, even as far as the notoriously remote Easter Island, these sites all exhibiting the same lost masonry technique. How can we continue to take these discoveries for granted, dismissed by academics, simply due to modern paradigm, absent any logical argument to explain or indeed disregard this proof of a now lost yet once global super civilization having once been responsible? They must continue to rely on the Bering Strait theory of human migration and ignore any site which is indicative of not only earlier construction but matching characteristics with other sites the world over, which according to said theory simply could not have been visited by ancient civilizations, long argued as a feat which ancients were incapable of. The evidence which contradicts these claims, however, can be found still in existence upon these ancient sites. How old are the ancient fortresses of Ryukyu Islands or indeed the other polygonal sites throughout Japan and the rest of the world? Who were responsible for these incredible sites? We feel simply dismissing the evidence which shows they were the work of the same civilization is not only illogical but is a great example of the ignorance of mainstream funded institutes in regard to a possible lost chapter in human history. It is a journey of discovery which we find highly compelling. We have covered several anomalies of reason which some fields of study would rather be kept silent, often attempting to dismiss such objects as a fraud or if structural as a natural formation, and our next topic is no exception. Just off the coast of Yanaguni, among the Ryukyu Islands of Japan, is a place once passionately argued as a natural formation by countless academic scholars, now all but surrendered to the truth. And once you are introduced to the sheer enormity of this city, you will begin to realize why some were so keen for the world to remain ignorant of this place. One of the largest pyramid structures found here is over 600 feet wide and 900 feet tall, comparatively the tallest of Egypt's being a mere 450 feet, making these submerged and suppressed pyramids almost twice as large. Due to the public debunking efforts experienced, the majority of the world's population have subsequently overlooked this place. This regardless of the exploratory dives made upon the buildings. Dives resulting in the discovery of tool marks and carvings made upon the stone, archaeologically indicating that they were indeed constructed, the evidence has clearly been compelling, meaning honest professionals, including Teruki Ishii, professor of geology at Tokyo University, have determined that the city's submergence occurred at the end of the last Ice Age, which was around 10,000 years ago, meaning these ruins predate this event by some considerable time. If this is accepted to be the case, however, billions of history books would have to be reprinted, taking into account an advanced eastern culture, among many others. Several intriguing artifacts have been retrieved from around the city, strange stones which display as yet unknown petroglyphs, along with several strange stone tools. Additionally, an enormous stone monolith adorned with what many have suspected was a human face has been discovered at the foot of the largest pyramid. Was this what the original sphinx looked like upon Earth? After mounting evidence in favor of the enormous formations being an extremely ancient pyramid complex, it seems academia finally buckled to the data. National Geographic running a story confirming that the city does indeed exist and conveniently presenting an explanation complete with a scenario involving a candidate civilization. One must wonder, why was this quote likely proposition now put forward? Why was this so preposterous before being forced to concede in regard to the ancient city's original origins? Stating, quote, some experts believe that the structures could be all that's left of Mu, a fabled pacific civilization rumored to have vanished beneath the waves. Although they forget to mention that this specific landmass has remained at the same level since before the last Ice Age, just who were these ancient people? What amazing secrets are they still awaiting to tell us? We will, of course, keep you po- There is a smorgasbord of ancient antiquities, along with the many objects left thereafter, which has fueled a heated debate smoldering within the field of history, fought out and kept smoldering at its core by two opposing sides of considerable clout. Those in support of, and it must be noted, heavily funded by current academic paradigms, and those with incredibly sturdy examples of supporting evidence of now lost ancient high technology, along with vast areas of antiquity itself, and the actions undertaken within, for which their academic opposition simply cannot produce an answer for. These objects are uparts particularly, becoming thorns in the side of currently taught historical theorems. Academia in response have, through competent research, the re-examining of witness testimonies, along with the grilling of some of these said witnesses, even polygraphy being undertaken upon the supposed discoverers of these items, all in an active attempt to disprove this alternative timeline of history, which they claim as impossible, a history which these objects are displaying existed. Remarkable relics, easily identifiable as human implements, have been found in nearly every place you wouldn't expect to find them. Artifacts liberated during mining activities, found in Jurassic strata, the wedge of outward found deep in prehistoric sediments, or a doll, machine pumped from depths untouched, or more importantly, undisturbed for many millions of years. Entombed, these remarkable things, just waiting for modern man to again show them the light of day, ruins found in geographical locations which have geologically proved by another academic field, as having been built, then subsequently submerged far before historical academic opinion on human origin, and indeed human development timelines as a whole allows. A complete contradiction of conclusion, resulting from a blatant cover-up of the past. Additionally, these mentioned items, we believe, are likely a mere handful of examples found over the years, such as the iron mask we recently covered found deep within a coal mine by the lady who came forward with images and the testimony after her father, the finder of the artifact's passing, having kept his find secret. Yet another peculiar area of ancient curiosities, in contrast to being unearthed, were plunged into it. The most interesting of which, in our opinion, being that of the swords in the stones. The sword of Okonfo Onaki being one such artifact, the once mythical leader of the Ashanti people, as a symbol of its power, and to signify peace and unity among the Ashanti Empire. According to local history, the sword was plunged by him into the ground, this occurring some 300 years ago. He pronounced the sword to be immovable, and, bizarrely, it has indeed remained unmoved. There have been many attempts to liberate the sword, including well-known figures such as Muhammad Ali, who attempted to remove the sword in 1994. The sword has even been visited by the Queen of England in 1961, though whether she attempted to lift the sword is unknown. History is full of mysterious anomalies, which simply cannot be explained, the sword of Okonfo being one of them, as of which it is an artifact we find highly compelling.


When you try to make it work with a narcissist when you try to help or support them When you try to make things right The narcissist is never satisfied with anything you do for them They're never happy So sometimes people think what if they just try harder? What if they try to make things right? What if they try to promote or support the narcissist? What if they try to make things better for them, but if any of you have tried this already? You will know that it doesn't work You cannot make it work with the narcissist You are wasting your time by trying to compromise with them You should never make any agreements that are in their favor Because it will come back to bite you Any efforts you make to support them Will only be things that you regret later down the line Because it's only going to put you in a vulnerable position It's only going to improve that ability to control you because you're putting power in the wrong hands You're giving power to someone who is only going to misuse it Someone who is only going to use it against you Many people think that by compromising with the narcissist And being nice to them That puts you in a position where you are safe and protected And in some situations That may keep them off your back for a short period of time But it doesn't keep you out of harm's way If you have invested all of your time, energy and money into the narcissist And then have expectations for a return on your investment It just sets you up for failure It puts you in a no-win situation Where there is no way for you to succeed at the task which you have been assigned Because their idea of love is dependent on a set of circumstances It is subject to conditions and requirements being met If a narcissist is at a low point in their lives And you manage to meet these conditions and requirements It may suppress their arrogance They may be nice to you They may even cooperate with you You won't see some of the most harmful traits and symptoms of their disorder You might see some red flags But they will withdraw their claim or assertion in the face of opposition Because they know that they really can't act out when they're at a low point But when they start to feel like they're achieving something When they start to feel like they're getting somewhere in life That's when their arrogance is going to grow And they will start to think they're better than you Because the more you try to make it work with an narcissist You're just building them up You're improving their lives Until they start to think they're superior They become more arrogant It gives them an exaggerated sense of self-importance Which they already had to some degree in the beginning But now they're more overt They're not even hiding their narcissism anymore It's only after they've suffered a narcissistic injury Whether at a low point in their lives Whether they're then covert They're not acting arrogant They're not showing you they don't care about anything They're not going to do that when they find a suitable target They're going to be nice to you They're going to cooperate with you And they will be easier to deal with in that situation Because they're at a low point in their lives And they need you to build them up This is when people usually meet the narcissist When the narcissist is at their lowest point When the narcissist is not doing well And if you listen to the narcissist They will even tell you how things were so much better before Maybe they had more money Maybe they were more attractive Maybe they had a lot more going on in their lives But now they have to work harder They have to put on their charm to manipulate you To make themselves appear attractive and interesting And they will go to extreme lengths to do this They will do things that most people won't do Because they already feel like they're at the bottom of the barrel They feel like they're at the lowest possible level As though they're completely useless and worthless So they will do anything to get out of that situation They will take desperate measures They will do things that many of you can't even imagine If you look back at when you first met them You will remember that they were going through something But they made it seem like their situation was better than what it actually was When really, they didn't like their situation either Which is why they were so quick to abandon it to be with you But they exaggerate these things They make it seem like it's more than what it is They tell you they're making more money than what they actually are And whatever they're exaggerating or lying about is what they're looking to take from you They just don't want to reveal that it's what they're trying to do So they try to make it seem like they don't need anything from you But this is what causes them to later become more overt When you start to see the abuse When they've had a narcissistic injury While you're taking care of them While you're encouraging their development Because you're just feeding the beast You're strengthening the monster within them Because no matter what you do for them It's still there That wicked, hateful person Who has contempt for people, still exists inside of them It never went anywhere But they're so full of themselves That they just take you for granted They lose sight of the significance of the very person who was helping them Because they don't really value you You're just something they depend on As a means of escape from a difficult situation That's all you are to them So when you're trying to make it work with a narcissist You're just a lifeline You're just bringing this evil wicked person Back into their strongest form While they forget all about you They forget about everything you did to get them to where they are now They forget about your significance They forget about how you were always there to help them Because now they have this inflated ego They have this exaggerated sense of their self-importance Now they're back to being who they are You might have done a lot of things for them But once their arrogance begins to rise They begin to entertain their fantasy world Where they are superior They are better than everyone And they should be treated as such While everyone else around them is inadequate When you do all of this stuff to make it work with a narcissist At some point they're just going to take everything you've done for them And just dismiss you as insignificant They're just going to feel like they're better than you Even though you're the one who helped them Because you're just an object of the narcissist You're just something they step on to get ahead So you're just wasting your time trying to make it work with a narcissist Because you're just an object You're just a tool that they use to make themselves feel better So that they can entertain their fantasy world And feel like they're superior to everyone around them And that's when they turn against you They start talking down to you Everything you say is stupid They don't want to cure anything you have to say Because now they're feeling better They've rebuilt their fantasy Even though you're the reason why they're doing better They don't want to accept that They don't want to hear it Because that means that they can't do any better than you While in their fantasy world They are better than most people Which includes you When they see someone who has greater qualities or abilities Their objective is to prevent them first Because they see them as a lifeline They see them as something that they can depend on To provide a means of escape from a difficult situation And then they invade this person's life Until they then steal their qualities and abilities They take anything that they deem to be valuable or significant And when they've got what they wanted from them They destroy the person They devalue and degrade them They assassinate their character They make false and damaging statements about them They smear their name Because this object that is greater than them Has to be put beneath them To support the narcissist narrative of being superior For this to take place the narcissist has to destroy their source They have to destroy this person That they have imitated Because they wanted all to themselves They're so envious and jealous of your qualities and abilities That at a subconscious level They have to dismiss you as insignificant They have to rewrite the meaning of who you are to them They can't give you the praise and compliments that you deserve They can't celebrate everything you've done for them They can't give you any credit They have to take all the credit for themselves While they are using everything that you taught them They will claim ownership of things that rightfully belong to you Because they see it as something impressive And they know that other people will find it impressive too So they steal it from you They claim it as their own And sometimes you may even catch them entertaining their own illusions You may catch them acting or talking like you do Using words that you use Because they're so wrapped up in their own illusions They believe their own lies They steal qualities from anyone who they believe is desirable or impressive And then they use it to impress other people To make themselves seem intelligent and dynamic When really It's just something they've stolen from other people Or from you They've just claimed it as their own And now they're using it to attract other people Who also think that it belongs to them Who also think that it's a part of who they are They don't realise that they're frauds If you try to make it work with a narcissist Don't expect them to use it in a positive way Don't expect them to use it to improve their lives Or to become a better person Because that's not what they're going to do They're just going to use it to gain new supply They're just going to use it to present a false image to other people So that they can get attention and admiration So that they can get compliments and praise For something that has nothing to do with them anyway They have no interest in becoming better people To where they could then give back to the people Who helped them get to where they are now Instead, they dismiss you As insignificant They devalue and grade you They try to turn people against you You're made to look like a bad person Someone who is responsible for trouble, harm or damage Because the only thing the narcissist validates and supports Is their disorder And while you invested all of your time, energy and money Into trying to build something with the narcissist You will only be left with damage and destruction In the end Thank you for watching I hope this video resonate with you Please like Comment Share and subscribe If you were like the Nate My PayPal link Is in the video description Coaching inquiries You can email me at coaching at narksurvivor.co.uk Thank you for watching And I'll talk to you soon


So, with the final curtain call in the latest chapter, the one Okuni arc is officially over. And with such a mega arc, or rather a mega saga behind us, you know what we're up for next. Bounties. It's a trend we usually see after major victories for the Straw Hat crew, and especially after Luffy was given his massive upgrade, I'm sure it's only a matter of time until we find out the berries that sit atop the heads of each of the Straw Hat members. And when I say a matter of time, I'm even thinking it may be as soon as the next chapter, which is why I wanted to get in quick and share with you my thoughts and predictions for the next post-Wano Straw Hat bounties. Hello my Nakamitachi, this is Joygirl, and some of you may know that I have actually discussed this topic before. But with how incredibly long the Wano arc was, and with my video having come out over a year ago, before we actually had any major Straw Hat victories, or even the bounty reveals of some key Beast Pirates members, I thought my video was in need of an upgrade. Now obviously we already know Luffy's updated bounty, and he actually got slightly lower than what I predicted, which was 3.5 billion berry, coming in with 3 billion berry in the series, which actually makes me wonder whether I should just adjust everyone else's bounties accordingly. But Luffy's new bounty ended up being another tricky play by Oda, using a big brain move to calculate each of the supernova captains, each of them getting a third of the total bounties of the previous two Yonko plus 90,000 berry.  I'll leave that to people much smarter than me, and if you're one of those people, then please leave your fun and pun-filled bounties in a comment below, and even if you're not one of those people, please do let me know your predictions for the Straw Hat bounties down below. And actually while you're at it, please give this channel a subscribe. So things get really interesting whenever you think bounties, because there are bounties that characters really deserve, and then bounties that characters actually end up getting because of funny hijinks or misunderstandings or in-series logic. Now when it comes to the raid on Onigashima though, I'm inclined to say that everyone actually has a pretty fair shot in receiving the recognition for their achievement during the raid, because this is one of those wars where the world government actually got pretty much front row seats, or at least front row updates on everything that was happening, big thanks to the CP0 agents. I mean they were paying very close attention, even to the point that they got that updated photo of Luffy for his new bounty poster. And not just any Luffy, but a special edition Gear 5th Luffy to think that they got that golden shot of the money maker. Right at that perfect timing is pretty impressive and a good indication that they were paying attention very close attention to everything that was happening. Which then makes things very interesting when you consider what this will mean for everyone else and their updated bounties. And for me in particular, what does this mean for Chopper? Chopper has obviously been used as a running gag with the exceptionally insignificant numbers due to the world government's misunderstanding of him just being a pet or a mascot of the Straw Hats. And although Chopper was one of the Straw Hats who didn't really get a big fight in this arc, he did use his monster point and for an even longer time extended to 30 minutes, meaning there was plenty more time for his monstrous form to garner attention. Add that to the fact that he was using this form to hold off Queen, a Yonko Commander. Chopper may have actually raised some eyebrows. And as much as I love the gag and wouldn't mind seeing it continue, as we enter the final saga, I do think that things could turn serious. Giving Chopper the very respectable bounty not just 50 or 100, but 50 million bury. And possibly giving him the biggest increase percentage-wise at least in terms of all the Straw Hats. That is unless the only form that the CP-Zero happened to catch was actually his baby Giza form, in which case I just hope that Chopper's bounty doesn't get hit with a minus. Moving on to Usopp, who out of all the Straw Hats really didn't do as much during this raid. He however did end up making a pretty cool name for himself, typically taking credit for actions that weren't entirely his own, and becoming Usohachi, sibling hunter in the process. He was even mistaken to have Conkris Haki and managed to get some of Kaido's gifters to follow him. Although of course that was largely thanks to Tama. And so while Usopp did live up to the gag of him gaining falsely earned notoriety, it wasn't on the same sort of huge scale that we've seen in the past. And I'm also not too sure how widely this new street cred took him. Or in other words, whether the CP-Zero agents caught wind of it in order to boost his bounty significantly. In saying that, the world government does boost up the entire crew's bounties for their involvement and participation, being in a dangerous crew, and because he is a part of the Straw Hats, which is now a big threat to the world government, I can still see a sizable increase. Especially if he does end up getting credit for taking down two of the Tobi Robho, whom added up together, had a bounty of almost 700 million berry. So I'm going to say that his bounty gets increased to 350 million berry. And in my original video, I did anticipate a much higher bounty of 500 million berry. But that was when I still thought that he would get a much bigger moment, you know, such as taking credit for defeating Orochi, for example. And because that obviously didn't happen, I did decide that I'm going to have to scale it down. But 350 million berry would still be a respectable number and still definitely worthy of being part of a Yonko level crew. I've discussed before how Nami was a refreshing surprise in this arc, providing a lot of emotional as well as actual physical action during this raid, particularly against Ulti. However, with Usopp taking credit for that, I don't know how much the world government will actually attribute the results of the Onigashima raid onto the Straw Hat Navigator. I mean, the chances of them knowing about her new climb attack, or in other words, the fact that she now has the former big mum homie Zeus as her own weapon, the chances of that are pretty slim. But again, given the fact that she is a part of the infamous Straw Hat crew, I think she will still get a pretty big upgrade. And although I initially estimated 266 million berry, given I've had to reduce my prediction of Usopp's bounty pretty significantly, I'll also have to decrease Nami's accordingly. Which is why for Nami, I'm going to guess a post-Wano bounty of 150 million berry.  Rook's a character that I feel deserves a much greater bounty than he currently has, especially because of how clutch he came in during Holkek Island. But I don't know whether he will actually get this sort of update, because he did play much more of a support role in Wano. And even though we know how integral this sort of role is in battle situations, for example, Rook really allowed Robin to shine, getting her one-on-one with Black Maria whilst he took care of all of her underlings, and then also carried the Straw Hat archaeologist to safety afterwards. But unfortunately, I don't think all of this will amount to much in the world government's eyes, or at least when it comes to updating his bounty. However, he will of course still get recognition for being a part of a very dangerous crew, and so he will have to get an increased bounty accordingly. But basically, I think that Rook will just get the equivalent of participation points, raising his bounty to 233 million berry, giving him 150 million extra berry, just through pure association of being a part of the Straw Hats. And again, this is a tad lower than my initial prediction for Rook, but back then when I shared my thoughts on this topic, I thought Rook would still be a part of a pretty big confrontation, and given that never happened, I think this is still a very reasonable update. Now, if I said Rook was a character that deserves a much higher bounty, then don't even get me started on Robin. How this girl got an astoundingly high bounty at such a young age, and then that essentially stagnated once she became an adult, and a true pirate is honestly beyond me. But I'm hopeful that her involvement in the raid, especially taking down Tobiropo member Black Maria, who has herself a 480 million berry bounty, I'm hoping this means that Robin will also get a big bounty increase. So I'm going to stick to my guns and repeat my prediction of a bounty of 330 million berry. I think this is a fair number where the world government recognises her involvement in being part of a new Yonko's crew, as well as taking down one of Kaido's top officers herself, whilst also not hugely blown out in hopes that they can still try to conceal the incredible threat she poses due to her ponoglyph reading abilities. Also, I still really like the idea of her getting Sanji's current bounty before his gets updated. I can just picture him trying to bond over this. Robin Chan, we have the same bounties! Of course, before he finds out to his dismay that his has already been updated, and possibly even usurped, but we'll get to that in a little bit. I'm really excited to see Frankie's new bounty because I, like the cyborg man himself, was super disappointed that he didn't break through the 100 million berry bounty ceiling post-dress roster. But given his role during the raid, as well as the overall threat of the entire crew, I am sure he will pass the 100 million mark in his post-Wano bounty. His opponent Sasaki had a 472 million berry bounty after all, and Frankie got to display his sweet of flashy toys throughout the raid, even using his black rhino to run over Big Mom herself. So this on top of his very impressive one-on-one, and then General Straw had crew points, I think this will get him an upgrade to a 300 million berry bounty, which is only slightly lower than what I predicted last time, but that's because since my video, we then found out the respective bounties for each of the Tobirapo, which was an information that we were privy to when I last made predictions for everyone's bounties. And then we found out that Sasaki has a lower bounty than Black Maria, so I'm just going to have to adjust Frankie's update accordingly. Now, this is where we start playing with the really big numbers. And I actually think that Jimbae deserves more than this, but that's not always how bounties work. So I'm just going to stick to my initial prediction of 760 million berry. It's a nice round number, and it adds an extra zero to his first bounty from when he was with the Sun Pirates. Also, I think it is a pretty good reflection of his achievements during Wano. He defeated Huzhu who had... Okay, try saying that 10 times really fast. Huzhu who has a bounty of 546 million berry, but then Jimbae did that pretty easily and then had enough gas left in the tank to come to everyone's rescue with the fire situation. Not that this will all be recognized by the world government, mind you, but still, it serves as a pretty good indication of where Jimbae is heading in terms of bounty land. I mean, obviously, he didn't fight a Yonko commander, so he probably won't reach the billion berry mark, but he'll get pretty close to it, which is why I think the 760 million berry mark is a fitting and fair call. And now, here we have it. Zoro and Sanji, the wings of the pirate king, the two monsters who each defeated a commander of the fearsome beast pirates, both of whom have bounties over one billion berry. Does this mean Zoro and Sanji will also reach these very tall heights? Well, like I alluded to earlier, we were in a terribly funny situation recently where due to his involvement in Toto land and Zoro's marked lack of involvement, Sanji's bounty surpassed that of Zoro's much to the swordsman's eye and much to the straw hat chef's glee. Now, while I did think that this was hilarious, and I wouldn't mind seeing more of this comedy play out, I do think Oda might bring balance back into the world post-Wano, increasing Zoro's bounty above that of Sanji's. Now, for some reference, I should note that in my last prediction, I predicted a 1.2 billion berry for Sanji and 1.7 billion for Zoro. And some of my reasoning behind these admittedly huge and arbitrary numbers was that for Sanji, 1 plus 2 equals sun. And for Zoro, I felt that he would need to surpass Luffy's previous bounty. And I do actually still stand by these numbers and the reasoning behind them. But at the same time, now that the 1.0 arc has finished, and especially after getting Luffy's bounty, which again, was somewhat lower than I initially anticipated, I do wonder whether I should adjust Zoro and Sanji's bounties accordingly. And while I would love to see both of the Pirate King's wings reach the 1 billion berry mark, and I think it would be fitting as they would now be considered the commanders of a Yonko, at the same time, I can also see Oda going quite extreme in his payback to Sanji. Previously, Sanji could gloat that he had a higher bounty than Zoro, but if the roles are to reverse now, how cruel would Oda go? Would he go so far as to show Zoro not only getting a higher bounty than Sanji, but also hitting that sweet 1 billion berry mark while leaving Sanji in the dirt, in the tracks of the 900 million ranks? Because this is a scenario I could legitimately see happening. I mean, just picture Sanji being so happy to be on the same level as Robin one minute, and then incredibly depressed about not only losing that status, but then also losing to the Marimo as well. But if that was the case, I don't think it would be a huge difference between them. I mean, probably something like Sanji getting 930 million, and that's just an arbitrary number so that I could add a 3 in there for Sanji.  You could say 933 million. And then accordingly, Zoro could hit the 1 billion mark square on the dot. This could really start a new war between Zoro and Sanji fans though. And also personally, given where we are in the series, so close to the end game, I would really love to see both of these boys getting across that 1 billion berry line. I mean, we are in the final saga now, so realistically, how many more bounty updates are we going to get? So let's just celebrate 1 billion berry bounties for both the Pirate King's wings and we'll say 1.03 billion berries for Sanji and Zoro gets a 1.2 billion berry bounty. And both of these are obviously, again, lower than what I initially predicted, but again, I think this is more proportionate to what we saw in the series, what King and Queen's bounties are, and of course, what Luffy ended up getting. But anyways, these are my predictions for the post-Warner straw hat bounties, which actually I do have to admit I came up with quite haphazardly. But anyways, it's always a lot of fun to discuss and I would love to hear your predictions, so let me know by leaving a comment below. 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