Γεια σας και καλώς ήρθατε back. Today I am sharing a super cute card using one of the new released stamp sets by Simon Says Stamp. This is the Heart Animals, which is absolutely adorable. It comes with three different animals inside stitched hearts that you can stamp along with lots and lots of sentiments. These are from the Love You release that have just came out. If you like this stamp set, I think that you should move fast. It is my favorite from the whole release and I think this is going to sell out super quickly. Now one idea on what you can do with that is do something similar as this card that I did a week ago. You can have three little windows and have all those three animals popping through them. This is a slimline card and of course there is a tie that matches the hearts so you can cut out heart windows and have those animals pop through. Today I am going to show you a completely different idea and I am going to combine this stamp set with an embossing folder and this is the Splendid Leafs Circle Frame. I am going to open it up so you can see. Inside you will find a lovely foliage detail and there is a circle as well. I like this kind of designs because they give you an area where you can stamp a sentiment or stick one and also where you can nest your focal point. 30 embossing folders along with slimline cards are on trend lately and it is good to have on your stash a few versatile designs that you can use throughout the year and this is one of them since it just give you a very detailed foliage that is really pretty. You will see that in action later on. Now of course you can use a paper and run it through with your embossing folder. However I am going to show you another way on how you can use it. Since there is this circle I looked through my stash and I found this circle die that fits the circle at the center of the design.  I decided to work on a craft cardstock.   Now you have to play a little bit with your sandwich. So here I used my big shirt. I got great results and the sandwich that I end up using was the embossing folder, a metal shim, a cardstock and the two main platforms. Now I zoomed in for you so you can probably see the beautiful design and the dimension that it gives you. To help this design pop even more I am using a pigment ink in white and I am going over the design very lightly. I am not adding any pressure at all. Only the raised areas are going to pick up some of that white ink. Now you can see this design better but it is still quite subtle for a background and one of my favorite color combos when it comes to cards is craft white and red and that's what I'm going for today. Now also don't forget pigment ink takes a lot of time to dry so make sure to put this background aside to dry and let's work on the focal points. Now it's time to do some stamping. I have my MISTI out and I decided to go with the heart that has the little dog inside. So adorable! Since I'm doing the stamping I will stamp the sentiment as well. I decided to use one of the patterns from this banner stamp set that has come out a couple of months ago. This one is called banner greetings and it comes along with many banner designs and lots and lots of sentiments and I think it's one of those stamp sets that you can keep on using again and again. So anyway I am stamping everything with black ink and then I'm also going to stamp the sentiment inside the banner. I went with the one that says hacks and kisses and I'm also going to use the plastic cover just temporarily over my MISTI so that I can stick the sentiment on top and I can give it a curve. Following the curve of the banner now I'm going to close the door of my MISTI, pick up the sentiment and stamp it with black ink. Now I did use my alcohol markers to color the little dog and there are dies that match the banner greetings however I don't have them in my stash so I'm just going to go the old fashion way and I will cut out with my scissors the banner making sure that I leave a little border all around. For the heart animals there is a matching tie however it is a heart but I don't want to use the whole heart as it is in this design I just want to separate the little dog that's why again I'm going to the old fashion way and I'm going to fuzzy cut him leaving a little border all around and now it's finally time to put everything together I'm working on a white topfolded card that's 4.25x5.5 and I have this dark chocolate cardstock which I'm going to stick at the center this is going to be the background and that's what you will be able to see through the window. I used foam tape at the back of my panel and I'm going to pop it on top I'm using my fingers to add some curve at the end of the banners and I'm going to place it temporarily on top of my card so that I can pop behind the little dog. The dog also has foam squares at the back. I will secure down the banner and I absolutely love how the dog is popping behind the banner. Now I am going to embellish it a little bit more by adding a few of those red hearts and these are just hearts that I cut out with one of the new dies it's the mini hearts party and I have an idea on my mind or how I want to use it on a card however I'm going to keep it for another video so for today I just used the die to die cut hearts and it die cuts three different sizes which I am going to use all of them here. Now the new Simon Says Stamp release is all about Valentine's Day so if you want you can stamp I love you instead or a Valentine's Day sentiment however I don't send out Valentine's Day cards that's why I went with sending hugs and kisses. Now I did add some highlights on the hearts with my gel pen and I'm also going to add glossy accents on the dog's nose as well as on the hearts. Glucy accents always looks a little bit milky but when it dries it's completely clear and it's going to add a lovely shine on my project. I absolutely love how cute this card came out I hope that you had fun today and that you got inspired just like always you will find a list of all the projects that I used down below in the description area make sure to check out the new release you will find lovely products thank you all so much for joining me today and I'll see you all next time


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Hey, I'm Greg Sosman, joined today by Megan Nunez of Fandle, who's here once again to crush this week's NFL picks. What's going on, Megan? Not a whole lot. Just trying to make some good picks every year for the week. I sat and watched the Chiefs and Raiders games, like, man, Megan just nailed this completely. The only thing we didn't do was just take the Raiders outright, which we're not going to do this week either. But we do have some winning picks again for you. And we begin in Minnesota, where Kirk Cousins and the Vikings are taking on the Atlanta Falcons no longer led by Dan Quinn. Instead, it's Raheem Morris that is taking the reins in Atlanta. The Vikings are home and are three and a half point favorites against the Falcons. And you're riding Captain Kirk and the Vikings here this week, a Vikings team that should have won on Sunday night, but didn't they let us cook instead? Now they go into this game desperate, and you believe that desperation will have them win by at least three and a half. Yeah, I do. Obviously, I wasn't super hot on the Vikings team to start the year, but seems like they're starting to get to know one another a little bit more and are starting to click. You have Kirk and Justin Jefferson really linking up. You have Cook who has been an absolute monster, though he did go out with a questionable groin injury last week. You had Alexander Madison come in and take the workload, and he seemed like he did just a fine job. I think that this Vikings team can have a field day against this questionable Falcons defense. I don't normally like to go against the team that has just fired their head coach, but I just don't think that Morris is going to be the guy to light the fire under this Falcons team. I like the Vikings here. Everyone knows that Kirk Cousins is garbage Monday nights, isn't great Sunday nights, but this is a Sunday day game. We have Kirk Cousins. I like the spot here. I like the Vikings laying the points, and I think the Falcons just continue to tank. Not a prime time spot for Kirk Cousins, which makes you feel a little bit better, but no Devon Cook for Minnesota either. So a little wishy-washy here, but for you, you like the Vikings in this spot against the Atlanta Falcons. The Falcons trying to get on the board still with a win, and you do not believe it will be this week. Up next, last week, he took the Cleveland Browns at home as dogs against the Colts, and they got the job done. This week the Browns are still dogs, but they're facing their arch rivals, the Pittsburgh Steelers, in Pittsburgh here. Three-and-a-half point underdogs facing off against Big Ben and undefeated Steelers team first time in 40 years that the Steelers are 4-0, and you're right in the hot hand with the Cleveland Browns. You have also won four games in a row here. Browns plus three-and-a-half Baker, Mayfield, Kevin Stafansky getting it done in Cleveland. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and take the divisional row dogs with the Cleveland Browns. As you said, going up against their arch rivals. Look, I'm riding the hot hand here. As you said, picked them last week, rolling into this week. I think Stafansky has that offense absolutely lit and ready to play this Pittsburgh team who really hasn't played anyone, whereas the Browns beat a pretty incredible Colts team last week, especially that defense, and then the week prior beat the Dallas Cowboys who have an explosive offense. So again, riding the hot hand here. I like Stafansky's team, what they're doing, taking the Browns plus three-and-a-half to show out against those Steelers. Liking the job the Cochin staff is doing at Cleveland and Baker, Mayfield said it this week. It's a lot better learning from winning experience than losing experiences. And they won a lot thus far this year. We'll see if they can keep it going, or at least cover the three-and-a-half here against their arch rivals in Pittsburgh on Sunday. One last game to get to. It's Sunday night football. It's Jimmy G. and the 49ers, a team that got crushed this past week against Miami. Against the Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco is home, and yet they are a three-and-a-half point dog in this game. The Rams are coming off a clean sweep of the NFC, the NFC East. And they're back facing their division rivals, the Niners here. Do you like the Rams as road favorites? You're giving up that a half point here. It's minus three-and-a-half on the road. The hook is there for the Los Angeles Rams. You take it all. How come? All right. So I can't figure this 49ers team out. I thought that they were good or decent with that plug-and-play. I think I thought Shanahan was, you know, had it figured out, but then I went back and looked and their only two wins has been against the Jets and the Giants. So I'm not really sure where I thought this plug-and-play was really working. However, this Rams team has looked good.  They're about to get beat up by the Rams. They, personally, I still think they have a super bowl hangover. This 49ers team just, they're nowhere right now. They have no one. They don't even have a leg to stand on, especially after kind of benching Jimmy last week. I think the Rams are ready to just go in, beat up this 49ers team. I wish I could have gotten the three, but I feel comfortable with the three-and-a-half here. I can see this being a touchdown game. Confident in Sean McVeigh and the Rams get the job done against San Francisco, a San Francisco team that is still beat up but are starting to get some of their star players back. We'll see what happens on the defensive side of the ball. But they're going to need those defensive weapons in there. They could stop Sean McVeigh's high-powered offense, Robert Woods Cooper cut, and of course, Jerry Goff, getting the job done here thus far. That's going to do it for us here on the FanDuel Hurry Up. Megan, let's keep it rolling, man. Let's keep the hot streak going. Let's win a couple of bucks this week. Let's do it. For Megan Nunez, I am Greg Sussman. Join me later today and tomorrow as Tom Vecchio will be with us as we take a look at DFS for week number six. Have a great night. We'll see you back here tomorrow for another edition of the FanDuel Hurry Up.


Hi, so thanks for joining this presentation on Flutter Applications on AGL Video Application Manager. Hope everybody is safe. Unfortunately, we are still not able to meet in person, but hopefully we will be able to do it soon. And yeah, especially thanks to everyone working on the organization of events under this complicated scenario worldwide. So let me introduce what are we going to talk about in this presentation. So basically the goal is to describe how using Chromium and the Web Application Manager, we are going to be able to run applications on this demo platform, specifically building Flutter applications to run on top of one. So I will be describing how this process is done and a bit about some cases of bundles from Flutter apps that are run into the platform using one. And yeah, we will comment then on the ongoing work. So first, a few things about us. Well, I am Lorenzo Tilbe and I work at Igalia. We are an open source consultancy, mostly specialized in browsers and web engines. Our main areas, expertise are Chromium, WebKit and WP and Firefox mainly. But yeah, we have areas of work around compilers, JavaScript, graphics, multimedia and accessibility. And we have been involved with AGL for a long time, specifically focused on providing web runtime support into the platform. And I will be explaining a bit how that is done. So the idea is to ship... We have been working on adding a web runtime into AGL, which high level is based on Chromium and the Web Application Manager. This was coming from a WebOS OC platform and open source by LG. It is using Chromium, which has been verified on multiple embedded devices and architectures, which also provides natural support for different technologies that are used in vehicles as cloud-to-native, but of course any other capability that a runtime, a Chromium-based web engine can provide, which is everything related to implementation of media connectivity, rendering, graphics display, etc. that we are getting by using a Chromium engine. This is also integrating the work using OS on Wail and AppStream implementation that LG has been working on to optimize the usage of GPU capabilities on the different hardware devices. So I'm not going into a lot into detail on the internals of the Web Application Manager this time. I will mention later on about some links to resources where that information can be accessed. But basically, the idea is that the Web Application Manager is a layer that allows connecting and running web applications, allows isolation, life cycle management, and different levels of permissions. The idea of this AGL web runtime is to be able to target a large community of companies and application developers. This means that by having the capacity to run web technologies into AGL, without dependency from any specific UI front-end or framework, it's possible to test, demo, and check integration for different stakeholders willing to run AGL. And we will be describing specifically how a going work on Flutter integration is happening and how already Flutter apps can be tested in the HTML image. This is also based on open standards defined by the W3C. We are being capable of running our web capacities due to that. So, yeah, as I was explaining, in order to understand the internals about Chromium and WAMM, architecture a bit better, you can check a presentation on the past Virtual Automotive Ray Linux that my colleague Antia and me delivered specifically on HTML5 and AGL demo platform with Chromium 1, where you can get more instructions if you are interested in learning how to create images, how to start using web apps and how to build and run them into the platform. So for this session today, we are talking about Flutter integration. So just very briefly, what is Flutter? Basically, Flutter is an open source framework that was done by Google to build native multi-platform applications. So main goal specifically is the capacity that the same code runs on different devices or hardware platforms, which is also something that AGL does. So in this case, it could be possible to create applications in desktop and run them into AGL, either natively or bundled, as we're going to describe. It's based on Dart language, so the idea of Dart is being UI oriented and can be compiled into native code or JavaScript for the web. So this allows to generate web bundles and they can be run out of the box nowadays into a stable HTML5 image from AGL. So I'm not going to explain in detail how to write Flutter applications, but just a brief ideas and resources, how to use some of the existing demo code or how that can be already for developed Flutter applications, how to already run them into AGL. So there are many resources available online to start coding Flutter apps. There are some references and some gallery placeholder applications that ship different widgets that are being used and examples of navigation flow, etc. So we can be also using some of these examples to showcase how they run into AGL in this presentation. And there are other specific resources for learning Dart and Dart.dev. So there's hot reloading that can be tested there to learn more about the language. So what's about running Flutter applications? You can run them using the command-lighted SDK or you can use some editor as in this case virtual studio code to run them on the desktop. So you either get some existing code or just are coding your own applications there and you can run them on desktops. And then we are going to mention how to run them on AGL using one. So as I was mentioning, Flutter has the capacity from the same code for an application to specify the target for which it can be built. And one example of them is compiling them as a web application. So you can run the same code you run for desktop natively into a browser, which allows them to be wrapped using the structure of applications in AGL and run them into the image on some of the supported platforms. Either QEMove for a quick development and test locally or any of the supported hardware platforms as Rinesas or any of the community ones are Raspberry Pi. So there are some documentation links I was sharing there about how this ongoing work is happening. So there's a Confluence page on which resources that I'm using in this presentation are linked. And also there's an issue on AGL Jira about the ongoing work of porting some demo web apps to Flutter that is spec <IP_ADDRESS> that anyone can follow up as development is open. And we are also talking about them in the weekly developer call. So just feel free to participate and ask if you have any question. Besides what we are describing in this presentation on running Flutter as a JavaScript application, as web bundles into AGL, there's ongoing work happening to native support on AGL. So Toyota was contributing a native Flutter embedder that is already been integrated into master which allows to run directly binary Flutter applications. And yeah, it's also possible to run to the native debugging. There's some additional resources and demos that will be presented during this ALS on that regard. But yeah, for the scope we have here one of the ideas about these flexibilities that any vanilla HTML applications or created with any UI frontend can live and be run in the same image as a Flutter bundle. So we are going to explain how to do that. So in order to build a Flutter web bundle, there's the possibility to directly use the SDK and specify the target there of which element is going to be built. So the way to do that is using Flutter build web when you install the previous Flutter SDK requirements. So you can select web as one of the targets to create the distributed code of the application, either of the example of or the gallery I mean or your own Flutter application. And then you can directly see the content of the build web directory into a WGT file which is the format that was using the application framework to be able to pack and install applications into AGL. Something important is that the scope of this presentation is meant to be for a Luki LAN pre-version as there are some ongoing relevant changes happening in master like the new version that is going to be called Marlin which introduced changes on the application framework which has been reworked to a new approach targeted to security and LTS mentality. So there are a lot of ongoing changes. So the instructions I am sharing here to bundle web apps and to run them with HTML applications are to be run on the LAN pre-version. So once I was meaning the widget is created, if you have your own QE movement for instance that bundle can be directly copied into the QE movement and installed with AFM utility installed in the same way you would be doing for any other web app or native application. And that would be basically in order to have the information describing the structure of the bundle it's necessary to include config.xml file, I will be showing some examples later but basically it defines the name of the application, the permissions that is going to be used there were some additional information about that in the talk I was mentioning before about web apps that you can check too. Something also important is that besides running UI functionalities or use cases it's going to be needed to have platform integration to talk with the layers of AGL or APIs that are providing access to certain functionalities. The way to do that in web applications in the HTML5 image in AGL is using the application framework APIs which we have been wrapping with a JavaScript library binder. So all the calls from the web applications to the different services were wrapped through the AGL GS API library that we were sharing there. So basically all the applications do their logic on the website but in order to get information from controls or internal components that live in AGL demo platform are done through this library. So what we were doing in order to do the same for a Flutter application was creating an AGL GS Dart wrapper that I am sharing there, we will be also sharing some additional details about how it works. But basically your custom Flutter application should be just importing AGL GS dependency in the pubspec.yaml file from the Flutter application. So it could be possible to then use methods that interact with AGL. Which kind of methods I am referring to? Well, those that talk to API calls that were provided application framework as mentioned that this is going to be rework after lamprey but this can be used on the current version. So for instance to create a Flutter application that has access to volume and wants to attach listeners to volume chains. At the first place it has to get the permissions defined in the config.xml file to be able to access those APIs. Otherwise the application would never have access to talk to these services. And then with JavaScript in the library you get exposed methods that would bring the list of available controls or to set specific volumes for one of the specific controls that were listed or to attach to events that you would notify when the volume was changing. So this was done on the JavaScript site. So in this case for creating Flutter applications that did the same but on Flutter we were creating this wrapper that was basically defining the way that the same API calls to the AGL GS were going to happen but written on Dart site. So from that moment on the Dart application would be able to do the same thing that is retrieve controls, change volume or attach callbacks to get notified when the audio mixer was changing. So let's show how this would be working inside of the existing web home screen structure. So this is the anatomy of the layout of the HTML image in AGL demo platform. So basically there are different web applications running at the same time. So one is the one in the orange border that is the home screen area. So that's a web app that is running all the time which has some widgets, some example widgets you can see there. So this showing the time is showing a connection to services that provide weather information and some shortcuts that are actually able to bring up other applications that are going to be shown in the applications area which is showing multiple web applications flipping up and down. So as I was mentioning, so you have that view visible all the time and what you are seeing in this example is one specific case of web application that is called the launcher which lists the installed applications and allows to run one of them and use that area that is in the blue box. So how that would work for the case of the flutter applications that we built? So basically that would allow to embed as one example of gallery app in this case running at the same time as the web versions of the HVAC or mixer or dashboard applications that we were running. So what you are seeing in this example is AGL HTML platform running the flutter gallery as a web app integrated in the system. So you can browse, you can use all the functionality from that application embedded into AGL. So these are another couple of examples. So in this case we are showing an initial prototype of the launcher web app of the launcher flutter application. All these examples are also shared in the Confluence page that I was sharing. So this application what does is lists the installed applications and is able to run them using the calls in the AGL JS wrapper written in Dart that I was mentioning. Another example is an HVAC version, an HVAC flutter version of the equivalent web app. So yeah, they both provide the same functionality but in that case they were runnable and testable on desktop but the connections can be done directly into AGL platform when exported as web bundles. I will be also sharing some other example. There is one version we were working that is a flutter version of the entire home screen. This would allow on the native flutter image to show the entire surface available on the screen. With an entire single flutter application, this provides an integrated view. So yeah, there is still ongoing work in order to be able to integrate with the ongoing work to replace the application framework and also to be able to show multiple flutter apps so they can be handled independently. But I can briefly show how this example of AGL flutter home screen written in flutter is. So yeah, it replicates the aspect of the HTML version. It uses some different widgets but the idea is that in this case this is a pure flutter application that can be run both on desktop or in the native flutter version using the home screen IVI. And again, it could be also exported as a web application and run directly into one with other web applications. So as you can see, it also integrates some of the available widgets in written in flutter. And yeah, it ships mock-up implementation of the alternative launcher and so on. So what is next? Well, there are a lot of things ongoing. So on one side, WAM and Chromium are being adapted in master branch after this removal of the application framework happening after lamprey. So there are quite some work that needs to be done to adapt the functionality after these changes. Also we are working in bringing up the Qtless version of WAM that was released recently. So that could make quite easier to get updates of that version. And also we are bumping the Chromium version from 84 to 87 and the incoming 9x that is going to be available soon. So yeah, we will be getting into a fresher versions of the codebase in WAM and Chromium. We are also working in integration. We are iterating the platform for running flutter bundles in Marlin. So yeah, we will need to still rework some of the functionality of the AGL.js API to be working with the AGL.js Dart wrapper. And yeah, there were some additional work ongoing for the migration of demo apps as the version of the flutter launcher, flutter HVAC or the mixer. So there are besides running flutter apps in HTML, it's also possible to run HTML applications in flutter with a web view. So yeah, this might be something that can be explored in order to provide more flexibility so AGL platform can run any of the available either flutter or web technologies using both their flavors in the future. And yes, also there's additional work in the integration with the native ADI homescreen as allowing surfaces running flutter apps for homescreen and launcher separately. And yeah, ongoing work on handling of application lifecycle and packaging system with the changes that are happening. So that was basically it. Thanks a lot. I'm happy to get any question or comment. Again, really wishing to see you back soon. Thank you.


mind, having it relate to the religion and in particular the existence of God, that cannot be proven. That's true. Would you comment on that concept? Yeah. People often ask me, do you believe in God? And I say, which God? Medusa, Ahura Mazda, any of the thousands and thousands of gods that are out there. No, I don't see any compelling evidence to believe in a God. I think my personal opinion, and I'm not a great philosopher in this respect, but my personal opinion is that religion is probably an attempt, an early attempt, a primitive attempt to explain the world and the easiest way to do it is to invent an agency that is all powerful and can do all these things that you don't understand.  Perfectly clear day. You look around, you say, somebody threw that rock.  You've got to have an explanation for it. We human beings and all animals, when you come right down to it, they want to have an explanation of the world around them. Oh, I do tricks. I do sleight of hand tricks for dogs and make them nuts. You know, you do a thing like, oh, what have I got here? Well, the car, do this sort of a thing with the dog, and the dog goes nuts when he goes to look where it is because we've spoiled his expectation of the world. No, I didn't put it away. I put it in here. It is spoiled the dog's expectation of the world, and it really worries them. You see them actually, they're worried, they're really grieved by it. They're bothered by it, and more crazy dogs, just because they come in contact with me. But it challenges them in a way that they've never been challenged before because their expectations of a real world have not been met. And that's what happens with people. They want an explanation. And inventing a god or a series of gods, a whole panoply of gods, a panorama of gods of you, is a very easy way to do it. Oh, I don't have to think about rain because that's the rain god, and that's how the water comes down out of the sky. That's the easy way to do it, in my opinion. This is my own personal analysis of the situation. It may or may not be true. I don't know. And I haven't really, no, I haven't read, can't. Don't get me into that. For more of James Randy and the Educational Foundation, make sure you visit randy.org.


One of the biggest reasons to use Emacs as an IDE is the fact that it has so many tools already built into it. Emacs has a Git client built into it. Of course, it has org mode built into it for all your note-taking and agenda scheduling kind of applications. And then Emacs also has an IRC client built into it. It's there out of the box. That IRC client is called ERC. And that's what I'm going to talk about today. For those of you not familiar with what IRC is, it's a very old internet chat protocol. It's been around since the beginning of time. It's been around since before the web was created. So IRC is really old technology. And because of that, it's not a chat protocol most people know about these days. It's not a chat protocol most people use, but it is still very popular. It still sees a lot of use from those of us in the free and open source software community and really just the software tech community in general. You see a lot of neck beards that love to use IRC. Many free and open source projects have IRC channels where you can go get support or you can go get help information. And of course, those of you using Emacs as an IDE for your programming, your software development, most programming communities also have IRC chat channels for you to go and ask questions and get support if needed. So let me switch over to my desktop and let me show you ERC in action. So I'm going to launch Doom Emacs. I'm going to do MetaX ERC. And again, it's already installed out of the box with Emacs. You don't have to install any plugins. So MetaX ERC is the command. That's the standard command to launch the program. But honestly, you probably want to do MetaX and then ERC-TLS. That is going to launch ERC with a TLS connection, which is a more secure connection. So that is how I would launch it and then hit enter. It's going to ask you for your IRC server. What server do you want to connect to? By far the most popular server is Liberachat. And Liberachat is where most free and open source projects are going to be all your Linux distributions and programming languages and stuff like that. They typically have channels on IRC.Libera.Chat as the name of the server. Next, it's going to ask you for the IRC port. It defaults to 66.97. That is the correct port. Just hit enter. And then it's going to ask you for a nickname. Now I have a nickname registered on the Liberachat server. I am Distrotube. So anytime you see Distrotube as a nickname, that is officially me. That's my name because I signed up for it and I actually have a password for this particular nickname. So I'm going to enter my nickname. If you're not registered on Liberachat, just enter any nickname. As long as it's not currently in use, you will be given that nickname, at least temporarily. And then it's going to ask me for the password for Distrotube. So let me launch my password manager and get my Liberachat password. And now let me do a control shift V to paste my password in that field. And it's going to log me in to the Liberachat server. It may take a second. All right, and we are logged in and you can see you are now identified for Distrotube. So it recognizes my username and password. Everything was fine there. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to zoom in a little bit so you guys can see everything here. Now if you're new to IRC, the way you join a channel is, let me get into insert mode, is you do the slash join command and then hashtag channel. So channel names typically begin with a hashtag, a pound sign. And I know there is hashtag Emacs, very popular IRC channel. So let's join them. It's going to ask me for my GPG key because I have everything GPG key protected here. So let me enter that phrase. And then once I enter my GPG key password, I am joined to hashtag Emacs. And it gives us a list, a very long list of all the users currently logged into this channel. And if I wait long enough, maybe there will be people chatting. You'll start seeing username and chat messages and things like that. And you can see this username Ganu Hacker. Interesting. I'll check. I don't know who he's talking to. One of the things with IRC is your chat logs are not saved. So I can only see the messages that were posted while I was here. And then once I leave, they're not saved anywhere. So this is a little bit different than something like Discord or Matrix, where your logs are always saved. You can go back and see chat that was happening while you weren't here. Now that's not the case with this very old chat protocol that is IRC. And one of the things you can do if you're joined a channel and you're not sure what the topic of the channel is, you could do slash topic. And we'll tell you the topic of the channel. Topic for hashtag Emacs is it was love at first sight. That doesn't really tell us anything. Anyway, Emacs questions take priority over chit chat. Use paste bin for more than three lines of code. So it basically tells you, hey, this is not just a standard chat about anything channel. It's specifically about Emacs. And if you're going to post more than three lines of code, use pacemen. So that's that's good information to know. Now, you can join multiple channels on a server. So the server's liberate chat, but I can be signed in or viewing Emacs here. And I can also join another channel. Maybe I want to join hashtag Linux. Well, that's a dollar sign. Hashtag Linux, one channel that someone recently asked me to join. It's another YouTube content creator that does Linux and BSD related content. You guys know the channel Zany. He created a channel over here called Unix Tube.  So I'm going to join hashtag Unix Tube and see who is there. And once again, it spits out a list of all the users that are currently in the channel here. Those of you that actually want to join a friendly little community, maybe check out hashtag Unix Tube on Libera Chat. Now, if you want to leave a channel, you could do slash leave. If you just want to quit everything, just slash quit. Now, even though I quit out of the Libera Chat server, this buffer is still here. There's nothing really going on in this buffer.  Same thing with this buffer. Kill it. And once again, kill that buffer. So I need to be in normal mode to kill it. There we go. Now, what I want to do is I want to go into my DOOM config file. So I'm going to open my config.org here and let me zoom in a little more so you guys can see this because I have this section here. I mentioned ERC. I just showed you ERC without any configuration at all. And it's perfectly usable. I would be happy using it. But if you want some configuration options, I'm going to show you some of the configuration options that I have played around with and that I kind of like. So let me uncomment this here. So what we want to do is we want to define several variables that we're allowed to define here. And we need to use the setQ command. So setQ and then the name of the variable and then the value we are assigning to the variable and then just list them all in the same little block here using setQ. So the very first thing I want to assign is the prompt. It could just be ERC with the greater than sign, which was the standard prompt. There's nothing wrong with that.  So I did ERC dash prompt and then inside the parentheses, we have a lambda function, which is just an anonymous function, meaning I'm not going to name the function. It's a one-time use function. So I don't need to bother naming it. That's what the lambda is for. I have my org documents configured in such a way it actually converts the word lambda to a lambda symbol, but that is actually the word lambda in the plain text. And then what we're going to do is the concat command and buffer name. We're going to take the buffer name, which is in ERC. It's usually the channel name. So if I'm in hashtag Emacs, my prompt is actually going to now say hashtag Emacs, right, instead of just ERC. If I'm in hashtag Linux, the prompt is going to say hashtag Linux. And I think that's a nice little way to keep track, especially if you're in multiple channels at a time where it's obvious what room you're in. So you never accidentally type something thinking you're in one room and you're in a different room. Also, there's no reason for me to automatically have to type IRC dot LibreChat. If that's the only IRC server I'm ever going to go to, which in my case it probably is. So I'm just going to specify, just connect me to IRC dot LibreChat. And then I went ahead and specified my nickname because I'm always going to be distro to and then I also, this is optional, but just to let people know my full name, everybody, you know, my full names, public information. Anyway, obviously my name is Derek Taylor, DT, right? And then the next one, you may or may not want to turn this on ERC dash auto dash query. And then what we're assigning that to is a single quote, berry that word single quote, berry. And what this is, I made a note of it by default, ERC selects the channel buffers when it reconnects. If you'd like it to connect to channels in the background, use this. Then we have ERC dash field dash column. And I gave this a value of a hundred. I think the default value is like 72 or 76 or something. What this is is the size of the amount of text that appears in ERC. So, you know, it does a line break after 72 characters or whatever it is. I extended that a little bit to a hundred characters in this example here. Then we have ERC dash field dash function. And then I set that to ERC dash field dash static. What this is going to do is instead of having, when people are posting their chat, their username, colon, and then the chat, and it's not really aligned in vertical columns, what we're going to do is we're actually going to align this by setting this fill function to fill static and then setting ERC dash field dash static dash center to 20. So we're going to force that first column to always be 20 characters.  I think visually that just stands out more and it's a little easier to read. There is another line here that I commented out and that is ERC dash auto join dash channels dash a list a list and elism is an associative list. This is a list of channels that you want to auto join as soon as you log into ERC. Now, because I'm using a GPG key, it doesn't really automatically join me into these channels because you saw when I tried to join hashtag Emacs, it asked me for my GPG password and so it's not going to really just auto join me to anything because I'm always going to have to enter a password that is just in my configure as an example for you guys. So let's actually see all of this in action. So let me do a colon W to write this file and then let me do space HRR and do me max space HRR reloads your config and now that we have reloaded the config. Now let me join ERC dash TLS. Let me launch ERC using TLS connection and it's going to ask me to once again join IRC dot Liberich had even though I specified the server, but at least it remembers what the server is all I have to do is just hit enter here and then IRC port 6697 nickname. It remembers the nickname remember before I had to enter distro to because it assumed my username would be DT because that's the username on my computer, but now it knows I want to be distro to once again. I do have to enter a password. So let me get my Liberich at passwords going to ask me to unlock the password store with a GPG key and then let me copy paste. All right, and we are now back in and now let me join hashtag you next tube. Let me get into normal mode and zoom in a little bit and now let me actually type something. So let me I to get into insert mode. I'm going to say hello all and I'm hoping to get some chat, but you can see where before distro to my username would be all the way to the left and then there would be the message right after it. Now we've assigned this column to actually be 20 characters that way the messages are always aligned and let me let these guys know recording a video say hi to YouTube. There's low spec Linux. You guys should subscribe to low spec Linux or actually his name on YouTube is low spec Linux laptop. So this was just a little bit of getting up and running with ERC in Emacs and for those of you that again want a nice little place to hang out. I don't hang out in this channel that often but these days because I'm in Emacs a lot many times I do join this particular channel hashtag Unix Tube. So sometimes you will see me hanging out here. It's not my channel. The maintainer of this channel is Zany make sure you guys go check out Zany on YouTube as well and hopefully we're going to get even more YouTube Linux and BSD Unix related content creators hanging out in this channel. I think it could be a fun little community now before I go I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of this episode. 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Welcome to Digital Asset News, the top stories in crypto, and bring out a bite-sized pieces, and we are live. Today, everybody, we're just going to go over a litany of different topics starting with, of course, what is going on with the market itself. Then we're going to take a look at, let's go on with Walmart and crypto meta NFTs, as they actually have filed a couple of trademarks and patents. This has been confirmed from the USPTO office, and we'll take a look at the exact trademarks that they actually went through and dive into that. Also, we're going to take a look at Cardano, Cardano potentially trumping ETH in a recent poll in interoperability. Also, we'll take a look at LynxDAO and the potential DanDAO. Lastly, we'll take a look at your thoughts and Q&A. Before we get started, first of all, we should probably ask the question, how is the audio and how is the video? We're doing this from a different location. We're actually doing a live stream here in the back of the new property here in Puerto Rico. Guayano, Guaybano, Guaybano, Guaynovel. They couldn't say that right. I just want to make sure that we are good to go. If you could be so kind, make sure that you drop a comment in the live chat, also a comment underneath this video in the actual regular section. Just make sure that the video and audio is doing pretty good because there's nothing worse than starting a show, and you can't hear anything that's going on. Looks like Shiba, looks and sound good, sounds good. Hope James is watching. Aida Flip Soul. It's funny. Let's get into it. First of all, let's start with the basics. Just take a look at what's going on in the market. Today, it is Sunday, it's January 16th, and what do we have going on? Well, it's a pretty good day in all actuality. On a Sunday, you never know what to expect. Today, we are creeping up as far as market cap, $2.2 trillion and making a little bit of a headway with 0.4%. Ooh, watch out. Bitcoin is down a little bit over 24 hours. Ethereum is up a little bit. Finance coin is up a little bit. Solan is up a little bit. But the big winner today is Cardano. So for everybody that has invested in Cardano, rejoice because you're at almost 10% in 24 hours and 18% in seven days, which is a monstrous run, but not as good as Tara in the last seven days, 28%. So no matter how good you think you're doing, there's always one of those projects that is doing just a little bit better. Shiba Inu up 10% in seven days, but down two and a half, let's see. 20% for Cosmos, that's one of my holds for interoperability like that. Near, ooh, seven days, 44%, looking pretty great.  Uniswap, 18%, seven days. Phantom of 11% in 24 hours, 40% in seven days. 31% for FTX token. Just across the board, it's pretty good. So enjoy these gains. And of course, unfortunately, if we had to take a look at things, you have to understand, we just took a big massive hit not too long ago and we're slowly making up a little bit of ground. So just take the wins for what they are. So today, hey, great day, everybody's having a good day, I'm having a great day. So let's jump into it and just see what's going on with the Walmart and crypto payment. So this was, I wasn't for sure if this was old news or not. It's new to me. And I thought if it's new to me, it might be new to you. So it states here, this is actually on Sunday, January 16th, but the trademark and the patents were filed on December 31st, 2021, which is why I thought it was interesting that it took so long. Walmart is quietly preparing to enter the metaverse. Quietly is the key point because I didn't hear anything about this almost two weeks later. So here's what we got. The big box retailer filed several new trademarks late last month, December 31st, that indicate its intent to make and sell virtual goods, including electronics, home decorations, toys, sporting goods and personal care products in a separate filing. So they're gonna do one thing as far as virtual goods, which is odd to me and I'll explain that a little bit. In a separate file, the company said it would offer users a virtual currency as well as NFTs, but it goes beyond that. We're gonna actually take a look at the trademark. US Patent Trademark Office, Walmart filed the application December 30th, excuse me, 30th, not 31st. Here is the USPTO trademark application and this is what is said by Josh Gerbin and we'll actually take a look at the real trademark itself in just a second, but I'd like to get a little context and this is Josh Gerbin, he's a trademark attorney and what he says is there's a lot of language in these which shows that there's a lot of planning going on behind the scenes. Imagine this, how much time do you think Walmart took to craft this trademark? Look at crypto, look at digital assets, look at NFTs, look at the Metaverse and then go, you know what, we wanna do this. It probably took a hellacious amount of time to do all these things for a multi-trillion dollar company. I think they would have to take a lot of time for this one. So of course, give me a lot of language. Let's see if the began scenes, how they're gonna address the Metaverse and the virtual world that appears to be coming or that's already here. Gerbin said that ever since Facebook announced it was changing its company name to Meta, signaling its ambitions beyond social media, businesses have been rushing to figure out how they will fit into a virtual world. Before I go on, this is just an opinion that I have. Let me know what you think about the comments section but it seems like when we have these big businesses, these institutions that come in and they give us a signal that, hey, we're gonna go hard into crypto, it seems like for a short time or maybe in a long time, things start to bounce up. Remember when Elon Musk said that he was going to accept Bitcoin for his company to pay for vehicles? Well, in all honesty, how many people are actually paying Bitcoin for Tesla? Not many, but it's signal to people on the outside as far as people that are looking for the signals to actually get into crypto and going, is this real, is this legit? These are one of those things that big investors or small investors or medium-sized investors look to and go, okay, this is a real thing. This isn't some fly by night.  They don't see the big picture because it's very difficult. So when they look towards the legacy type of institutions and businesses that are getting in like, okay, well, if they got in, I don't know anything about crypto. I have no idea. All I heard about crypto was Silk Road and all the other nonsense that goes along. I don't know what's going on there but I trust Elon Musk because he's a genius and he's blasting people to Mars or I don't trust what's going on with Dogecoin but I trust Walmart so I shop there every damn week. So you can see like the parallels between what's going on and that could be a potential for a catalyst. That is just my thinking. Let me know what you think about that in the comment section moving on into the article. I say it's all of a sudden, everyone is like, this is becoming super real. We need to make sure our IP is protected or intellectual property. Grubin said that apparel retailers, Urban Fitters, Ralph Lauren and Abercrombie and Fitch have also followed trademarks in recent weeks detailing their intent to open some sort of virtual store and there's a pretty good video. It's about four minutes. I'm not gonna play it here. I'll link in the description. You can watch it. But it's got Roger Dickman, Artifact CEO and they're talking with CNBC anchor about NFTs and things like that. And the thing that was amazing to me was this anchor was asking precise specific questions about the difference between intellectual property between board apes and cyber punks or crypto punks and I'm like, that is a very nuanced question and like she really knew what to ask as far as intellectual property. So I'll link that and you can check that out. So that takes care of that part. Let's take a look at the actual application. So if we take a look at uspto.gov, links in the description, you can do a search for the actual trademark and if you look over here on the article, it's right here, serial number 971-97296. If you punch it into the search engine you're gonna get something looks like this, serial number 971-97296. Take a look here, Walmart, yes, yes, USPU, literal element, Walmart, Walmart Apollo. This is their corporate stores and this is what they're trying to do and if you're looking for a specific, like is Litecoin in there? Is Bitcoin in there? No, it's not in here. No specific crypto or digital asset isn't here. So I know you're probably bummed out right now going, damn, I wish my coin was in there but it doesn't work like that. But it's okay because as people take a look at this story and it starts to make the rounds and it will make the rounds, everybody's gonna start speculating, oh, well, it's this coin, well, it's that coin and then everything rises up. So no, there's no specific crypto but we can glean some pretty good information about what's going on. If we do a search, let's do a search for ledger, let's do a search for wallet and if you can see right here, this is everything that they plan to do. It is an all-encompassing aspect that Walmart wants to get into the game. They want to do downloadable software in the field of blockchain, software for use with digital currency, cryptocurrency and virtual currency, digital currency wallets and storage services software, downloadable computer software for use as a cryptocurrency wallet and everything in between. If you even do like a search for crypto, there is 78 instances of cryptocurrency all the way through this document. So if people are like, why don't they really get into crypto, crypto tokens, cryptocurrency, crypto coins, crypto platforms, blockchain-based platforms, you will see it all right here. So what they're trying to do is they're just trying, not trying to lock in everything, they're just trying to get a good spectrum of what they can do as far as Walmart. I will though, just for giggles, put in Bitcoin. No, it's not there. Bitcoin, no. Cardano, Solana, no. And of course, they're not gonna put a specific crypto in there but you can, if you just take a step back and think to yourself, what could they be doing? Well, they could be saying, you know what, we don't know what it's gonna be but we'll probably take a whole slew of crypto and just take a look at what other big names have done like places with PayPal, which ones they have started with and gone from there. They could potentially make their own crypto a digital asset, makes sense, but they could probably also offer you to pay with your own crypto. So that's what that is but there is one last thing I wanna talk about where it talked about here. Let me blow this up, not my face. You don't need to see me. Software providing a virtual marketplace, downloadable software, companies. Here it is. Downloadable augmented reality software, education, Vitagons consoles, augmented reality, augmented reality, metaverse plays, software, video games. It doesn't matter. So what they were saying, this was actually in the article they talked about, they're going to offer virtual goods, including electronics. First of all, you think to yourself, why are they gonna offer virtual goods, electronics, home decoration, toys and sporting goods? And it was like a conversation I was having with some of the people over at Boston Protocol. They said, Rob, you don't understand, everybody's gonna have a virtual description or a virtual product that they buy as far as a physical product. I'm like, that makes no sense. Why do they do that? They go, because you'd be able to take it in and out of these virtual platforms and all these are from metaverse plays. It still doesn't make any sense. They go, Rob, it doesn't matter. You don't need to get it. That is how it's going to be as the metaverse actually expanded. And I thought about it to myself. I thought, we're on that stage right now when everything is kind of expanding and really blowing up. We, me and some of the people just don't see it but we don't have to because other people do and I think that things are gonna move in that direction. And here's my point of what I'm trying to get to. There was this video and it made a lot of sense to me. And this is, that's Bill Gates on the left.  And then on the right, you got David Letterman. This was back in the early 90s when the internet was coming around. So I'm gonna play this. And first of all, in the comments, I've never done it like this. So I wanna see if you can actually hear what they're saying. I'm gonna play a snippet and just tell me if you can hear this. Okay, first of all, could you even hear what he said? Cause if not, I'll just explain it. Oh, well, great. Okay, so listen to this. It's about 45 more seconds. Check this out and then think to yourself where we are right now as to where we are back then and just remember the laughter you're gonna hear in the background and how ridiculous that is right now. If you're talking to other people, it is a big new thing. Yeah, but you know, it's easy to criticize something you don't fully understand, which is my position here. Go ahead. But I can remember a couple of months ago they were playing with me. I tried to mute it. So here's what he says. So he goes, look, Letterman asked him the question. He goes, hey, can you tell me about the internet? But I was like, yeah, it's gonna take over the world.  He's like, what can you do with the internet? He says, well, they just played a baseball game and Letterman goes, well, does a record, does a radio ring a bell? We can do the same thing with the radio. Why would I need the internet to do that? And everybody's laughing hysterically. And then he goes, well, you can also record it and listen to it for later. And then Dave Letterman goes, what about a tape deck and recording it that way? That doesn't make any sense, Bill. And he's like, yeah, well, you know, the internet's gonna be great and everything went out. And everybody's laughing their heads off, right? So these things that we talk about in the background and we're like, oh, people are gonna have an actual digital version of the actual physical product that they're gonna buy. In the background, they're gonna all be interoperability as far as the metaverses. We're like, it doesn't make any sense. Don't have to, but maybe that's just how it's gonna go. Tell me what you think in the comments section and let's move on to our next piece. I will just say this. I think this is big. I think it's bigger in the grand scheme of getting people as far as mass adoption and realizing that, hey, if Walmart's getting in, if the Bill Millers are getting in, if Amber Crownlee and Fitch and Nike and all these different players are getting in, then maybe there's something to it. That's all I want. I want a big, I have a big tent for everybody to come in here and get into crypto and digital assets before a lot of other things happen. All right, and that is it for that. Let's move on to our next piece. This oughta make some people happy or sad, I don't know. So there was this poll. And this one was Vitalik Buterin. I'm sure some of you who are on crypto Twitter have already heard about this. It's actually pretty good. He asked his Twitter's followers which crypto they prefer to overtake Ethereum, which is kind of a weird question if you think about it. He's like, hey, if Ethereum doesn't work out, because who knows, what would you like to see? And here was the actual poll itself. And it says right here, let me blow this up a little bit. Poll for a them community. You wake up in 2035 and 80% of all transactions plus savings in the world are in one currency that is not ETH. Which would you prefer it to be? And these are the final results. This was three days ago. And Cardano, 42%. Bitcoin, 38.4. Solana, I thought was pretty low there. 13 and USD, 6.5%. So Vitalik talks to, you have to understand though. I mean, Vitalik's got a pretty big reach. And I don't know if he's, I'm sure a lot of people who don't like Ethereum follow Vitalik and a lot of people that do like Vitalik or Ethereum follow Vitalik. But I thought it was interesting that Cardano took it out. And if you wanna have a good laugh and just see what the comments are, oh, also he did another one where he says the same thing but he only had Tron, BNB, CNY, and Neo, and Tron one. But if you wanna have a good laugh, just kind of go through here. And you can see all the positives and negatives for Ethereum, Cardano, Solana, everything else that you probably wanna know. And a pretty funny, sometimes spicy way. And it was just pretty interesting. And then someone made mention about this one. Vitalik announces, ETH 2.0 was 50% done. Vitalik says ETH could probably be done in six years. Vitalik posts this poll, so guys, if he doesn't reveal, who else are we going with? ETH community votes up Bitcoin and Solana. And that's just one piece. But you have to remember, if you think that Solana or Ethereum is going away at any time soon, it's not. I think Ethereum's got a pretty good stronghold for right now. Who knows what it's gonna be in the future? But I gotta tell you, there's a lot of layer one solutions that are really chomping at the bit and eating away at the market cap, the market space. That is Ethereum. But I thought it was an interesting ride. And you can see everybody's opinion on this one. I just thought it was pretty interesting to see where we go. And then maybe that's part of the reason why Cardano took a big bump. I don't know, could be something else, but that's all we got. Anyhow, I'd love to hear what you want to say about that in the comments. Next up, Lynxdow. Lynxdow is a pretty interesting, it's a pretty interesting project. So, essentialized autonomous organization and what they do or what they're doing and what they've been trying to do since very, not too early, New Year's Eve 2021, which was two weeks ago, what they're trying to do is they're trying to crowdfund, essentially, so they can buy a golf course. And not just one golf course, but they've got two different options. Leisure membership, enjoy membership to Lynxdow, which gives you a right for the first golf club they do, or if they do it globally, if they do this a lot, which I think they might, then you're gonna get access to governance rights, same thing, access to a bunch of different golf clubs.  But I just thought it was interesting how they're doing it. I can, I play a little golf, but I suck at it, but I just thought it was interesting how they're doing these things for a Dow. And remember, not too long ago, there was a Dow that came up and they were trying to purchase, it was an auction online for the Constitution. And they almost won and it was just one pretty big individual who was, who outbid them, but the Dow itself had so much power, they were almost able to do it. There's Dow's out there to buy a baseball team. There was a Dow right now to purchase Blockbuster and bring it back up for like online gaming and things like that. There's all these different Dow's that are coming out. I think it's genius what you can accomplish with it. Cause you really just cut up the middle, man.  And then they just take off with the cash. But of course in a Dow, if it's written correctly as far as the code, which is why you'd have to have pretty good coder and you have to have some pretty great auditors to make sure that it's actually right that you can start to crowdfund a lot of different projects which leads me to my next point, the Dan Dow. I am, this is not something I'm pitching you. This is just an idea that I've been talking to people about and I wanna know what you think. So the Dow that I have in my mind is like, it's almost like an REIT, a real estate investment trust. And what the Dow would allow people to do is say, let's take Puerto Rico right now, right?  What if you could do this? What if you could have a Dow and you could geographically locate it for specific people in specific regions and they could put money together and they could purchase real estate in the communities of the areas that they live and it would go to a massive group of people. So you could, the complexities are tough. I mean, it's gonna be a lot of ways to go about it. I thought it'd be interesting to get like people here in Puerto Rico to invest into Puerto Rican real estate. Then they can buy it, then they can own it and they can do whatever they want to. If they wanted to, and of course that's the whole point with governance. They could vote on what they wanna do with an apartment complex, with a commercial property, with an individual house. They could put it up for short-term rentals, which is what I recommend, but that's just me. But the governance could say, no, no, no, we're gonna keep this in for low-income housing and just go that way. And you could do that with a Dow. You don't have to have people who have like 100,000, 200,000 a pop. You could say, hey, I have 100 bucks. Hey, I have 50 bucks and you can all just put it in. Granted, it's not that much, but over time it could really build and you could have equity. There's just a lot of things to think about it. So it's just, if you have any advice about that one, I think it would be a pretty good way to do things and then it would cut out the middleman so there's nobody running away with the cash. Just an idea and I'm not pitching it. I'm just saying that I think could actually help a lot of communities out. We should think about that in the comments section and oh, there's one more thing. As far as the link style, I got ahead of myself on this one. That's about. So for link style, I wanted to see how this actually worked. So I bought a membership and I purchased it and it was, unfortunately, I had like doubled in price from the first time I saw it. The floor price was like 0.3.  And this happened. Stephen Curry, Steph Curry, invest in golf focus, Blinks Dow. Damn it, so I just missed it. So if he wouldn't invest, I would have got out of the floor price of 0.3 and unfortunately I had to pay 0.6. But I still got in and I wanna see how this works as far as governance and just go from there because maybe I hopefully can figure those things out. And that's it. So that's what we got today. A little quick show, I think. Now let's open it up for you guys's thoughts. Thoughts and Q and A and all that good stuff. Let me bring this over here. Comentos, bring this up. Ha, okay. Man, there's a lot of stuff. Let me go up to the top. Man, there's a lot of people. Thanks everybody. Thanks for showing up on a Sunday. Eight out of the moon, blurry, I can't help you. Is the theorem centralized? No, it's not centralized. Phantom looks pretty centralized. Although Phantom looks like a great project, it's very centralized. Vitalik got trolled by Aida fans? Yeah, of course. Twitter is not a survey, how dare you? Twitter is where I get all the great information. ETH gonna get sued by the SEC rumors? Probably modern samurai, probably a rumor, I don't know. Everybody can be sued at any time. Charles got his followers to flood the pool. Well, it's interesting, you know, if you can have that much type of, if you have a pretty, who said this to me? Somebody had said this before and they talked about the XRP community and they said, pay attention to the projects that should be devastated by bad news or bad markets or of course being sued by the SEC that remain strong and actually thrive. And that is the definition of the XRP community. So, if you take a look at community, I think that is a pillar of some of these projects. And if Cardano, I believe that, yeah, I think Charles Hoskins did say, hey, go take this poll. Just like I would assume that everybody else would have said, hey, go take this poll and see if they got to it. I don't know if Solana did or BNB or whatever else, but sure, I'm sure he did. I'm guessing. Martin says, hi. And then Rob, people are voting based on what they could afford to buy. Most people can only afford to buy Cardano, so what are they voting for? No, potentially. I think it can go either way. Ada is down. Okay, I don't know about that one. Okay, which alts, this is a good question. Which alts will survive in 10 years? I don't know about that one. Gosh, you know, you hope Ethereum would make it, but I just was listening to is it bankless on banks? I forgot the name of those guys. And they had Vitalik Butron on and he said that ETH 2.0 is gonna take around six years to really get everything done. But again, I don't know about ETH 2.0. I don't think ETH 2.0 is gonna be done next year. Maybe after that, but I mean for a completion, but there's things that are never complete. So I don't know how that was, but that would probably not be good. Rob, do you know what NFTs on Cardano? Yes, I do. Cardano Combat and a couple other ones. And the reason is because I thought it was interesting and it was super cheap, super cheap. So I was like, I have no problems there. I also have, well, Lynx Dowson FT, I own that. And that cost me 90 bucks in gas. That sucked. Sound is gone. Let's see. I don't have a surfboard right now.  I got a boogie board though. Assemble protocol, never heard of it. Those new cones. Okay, let me go here. Do you say ETH about 10 years? Hopefully they get that dex working within that time. That's all I can say. I have price predictions. Price predictions in 2022, Bitcoin will be between the prices of $43,180.07 and $100,000. That's my price prediction 2022. Learn my lesson. Walmart News, you just missed it. So Walmart just had a trademark. They listed with the United States Patent Office and they're going all in for different currencies. They didn't say specifically what digital currency, which they probably wouldn't, but it's only they're gonna start accepting crypto and digital assets and also NFTs and Metaverse Plays. So again, I talked about doesn't really matter if they name a specific coin. So that's not the point. The point is to get the mass effect for people to go, you know what? I don't know about crypto, but I know Walmart, that's on every damn corner. So I trust Walmart and maybe digital assets and crypto is actually something to get into. That's all I care about. Let's see. Yeah, Adodex is launching on Thursday. Yeah, Sunday Swap is launching. We'll see how it goes. Just so you know, there was a couple of great articles written on Sunday Swap and this is not fun. This is the truth. And this is actually also put out by IOHK. They said, you have to understand when Sunday Swap comes out, it's gonna buckle. It's gonna have a hard time because there's gonna be a lot of demand and they're gonna, it's, even though they're getting out of beta, it's a full, it's actually gonna be open and ready for business and actually work. It's still not going to be able to be where it's supposed to be. Cardano is still trying to catch up and they're not catch up. They're still trying to open up different things as far as their blockchain and what they wanna do. They're gonna do increase the throughput. And of course, they don't have Hydra for scaling as far as transactions per second. So we take a look at Sunday Swap and you're gonna hear stories about how there's gonna be some congestion. There's gonna be some problems and it's gonna actually happen. So for this one, I'm not too super excited. I'm glad it's going out the ground. That's great. But I just know that it's the first dex and they're gonna have problems. That's just how it is. And it says, well, DNews gets Sunday Swap airdrop. You are on the waiting list only. No, so here's the thing.  So go the other 30. That's it. That's all I can say about that. We will be laughing when it takes over your precious soul. Who are you talking to? Are you talking to me? I love Cardano and I have a stake pool and I also love Solana and I don't understand why people can't root for both. You know? I mean, let's be honest. I don't care which one makes it. And I think if you're going all 100% in on one token, anybody, this is not investment advice, it's investment opinion. I think that's a mistake. I think if you're going in on one only and you think this one is going to be it, maybe you've got some better insider information than I do. But don't put your money all in one thing. And if you think to yourself, ah, but Rob, you understand because the network effect and there's so much things going on with this one right here and it's really blowing things out of the water. Sure. How about this? Put your hand in your pocket. What about your blackberry? Go to MySpace. Check out the messages there and tell me what's going on. Just because you were the first or just because you were one of the biggest at one point doesn't mean you will be that way all the time. Just to be aware. That's it. All right. Having said that, I'll also take a look at Amazon. They were one of the first to do what they do and they're still around. Just depends. Near protocol future. I don't know, but I just bought about a hefty amount about a week ago and hopefully that does well. Who knows? Again, trying to diversify a little bit. Try a kayak in the ocean. I have, it's fun. And that's it. Let's see. Let's not make this too bad. What are your thoughts on Pulse Chain? I know it sounds like Richard Hart, Hex and they're going to be forking the project so everybody who owns Ethereum I guess is gonna get Pulse Chain. That's all I know. And if you wanna learn more there's a ton of videos out there. I just don't, I don't have any. Dandow for virtual NFTs maybe. Yeah, Puerto Rico are great people. It's just they've been decimated by a lot of corruption and a lot of problems. And of course infrastructure is crumbling and the problems with just nature in general as far as like the hurricanes. So, and of course there's a big problem with property. So I thought a Dandow or just a Dow PR Dow I guess would be great for them to purchase property, land and in their communities. That would be a pretty good idea. If you start at the RIT I've been interested. The problem with this real estate investment trust that's a security. And the way that I just explained that Dow would probably be a security. There has to be a lot of different ways around that to not our ways around it. I know Gary watches my show so I don't wanna say it like that. I will just say that there's ways that you can make it into more of a utility type of token. That's all I'll say. It's not the first Dex, DeFi Lama is the first. It's gonna be the first for what's, I mean it may be the first one that's actually gonna get notoriety. James said ADA would not flip soul. It's already happened. Hey, I also said that Bitcoin's gonna be around 50,000. I was wrong too. I hear all the devs are flocking to ADA. Maybe. Ooh, there's another one. I wanna share with you guys right now if you're just sticking around. There's a sentiment. I'm gonna be talking to these guys from sentiment. And they've got a pretty good strategy of tracking developers as far as like on-chain analysis. And what I wanna do is I wanna show that, share that with you guys in a week or two. And I think when we talk about following developers James talks about this a lot and that makes sense to me. If we can find a, if we have a way to like to track the developers and then we can track just how good a project could potentially be based on the developments or the developers that are going to it. Rob is keeping the job. What do you use to stake Sol? I don't stake Sol. I need to stake Sol. It's one of those things I have to actually do. ADA already has already taken over Sol in a place on Queen, that's Queen Market Cap. Who knows about that one? Do people not care about centralization more? No, here's the thing. Some people do and they kinda get it. They're like, you can't have all the centralization and not run the risk of security. And other people are like, I don't care about centralization.  That is the dichotomy right now and that is just the truth. How will that work out later on when we talk about security and the trilemma, we're ready to be seen. So I like decentralization a little bit for the long haul and for those tokens that are not so decentralized, probably make a lot of money. Investment opinion out of investment advice. And that's it. No devs are flocking to ADA. Bum, bum, bum. What's the next Shiba? Shiba's the next Shiba. Well, here it is. It's a tribalism sickness, as Ann Lynn, that we are being played by these days.  It's hard to watch. It is, but it was way worse in 2017, 2018. It was really bad. Like when I got in, if you weren't, if you say you liked XRP and owned XRP, you were a pariah unless you were with the XRP community.  I remember reading some old reddits that where it was all based on, this is back in 2015, 2016, when they were talking about how if you invest into Ethereum, it was a rug pull and Ethereum was a scam. And the only reason that you would, that people were getting you to invest into Ethereum was so they could steal your money from Bitcoin because Bitcoin was gonna do it all. Smart contracts and globalization and it was gonna be able to do everything that you could potentially think of without slowing down. So it is what it is. Do you own any Avax? Yes, a lot. I actually have an Avax stake pool. So there's a link in the description that says stake your Avax with DNews. Also I have a Cardano stake pool. Stake your Cardano with DNews and it's links in the description. I even did a deep dive video on how to do it. Just click on those links. I'll show you how to do it. I'll go and Google. So doing whatever this was a reference to the interview I had with me and Anthony Scaramucci where he came out and said that Algoran was the next Google. And I have to agree, it's a very long-term play because they have, gosh, I wanna say four to six billion in tokens somewhere around there. But the team is super solid. He's Professor McCarrey. He is MIT professor. He also won the Touring Award for Mathematics. I mean, he's a genius and he's been doing crypto since late 80s, early 90s. I think it was mid 80s. And then of course the people that he's built around, it looks pretty fantastic. And they've done a lot of things. And of course, Moch, he invested a quarter of a billion. That's billion with a B into Algoran. So you should take a look at it. It hasn't really moved too much. And then when it actually came out to market it started at three bucks and it just crashed down. But this was back in 2019, 2020, somewhere around there. Now it's around $1.48 or something like that. So it could do well, but it's a long-term play. And it could do great. I have a good amount of it. Diversification is a hedge against ignorance. Yes, that's true. That's why I need it. Because I'm not that smart. I need all the help I can get. You will not make it with this. Jerome, what was your question? You have to answer it again. Oh, what's the next Shiba coin? Cheers. I don't know. It's a meme coin. I guess the next Shiba coin would probably be the next coin that Elon Musk tweets about. That's all I can tell you. And yeah, Charles respects. Hey, what's up, man? Charles respects Algorand has mentioned it a few times. Yes, exactly. And that's one of the things when I was listening to Charles talk about just, I think this was on Crypto Capital Venture interview. And he said that the team over at Algorand and Professor McCartney and all his guys, he said, hey, they are great. And they're doing a lot of great things. And he really was really on top of it. So I'm like, well, you know, he got. And it seems like a lot of different projects have the same type of respect for Algorand. So I like that. Mass adoption. All right. And I think that's it. That's it. All right, buddy. So has a little recap. We almost got a trademark out for crypto digital assets. They're doing every pop. Let me just pull it up so you can see. There's a link in the description. You can find the actual serial number for the trademark. And it's pretty much everything has to do with cryptocurrency, crypto hardware wallets, crypto tokens, utility tokens, metaverse, security, everything that you can think of. They just filed this on December 30, 2021. So they are going in hard and heavy. We talked about that. We talked about the poll which Vitalik put out, which asked about if you wake up in 13 years or so and 80% of all transactions and savings rolled are in one currency. That's not ETH. What would you prefer it to be? And 42% said ADA. But very close was Bitcoin. And I know this is going to sound crazy right now. It's going to sound crazy. But I believe, and I could be wrong, that I think that at some point Charles Hoskinson and Vitalik Buterin will actually work together just in the same way that Bill Gates and Steve Jobs worked together in the later years. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it happened with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and they hated each other. And now look where we're there at. So, well, Bill. And then the last thing we talked about was Lynx Dow and how I thought it was an interesting project, especially for dows for real estate, especially in specific geographical locations. And that's it. So look, everybody, thanks for stopping by. I appreciate it. If you liked the video, give it a thumbs up. I'll consider subscribing. That's all for today. Thanks so much for stopping by. I appreciate it. And I'll see you in the next one. Adios.