Live from Nice, France. It's theCUBE, covering Dotnext Conference 2017 Europe, brought to you by Nutanix. And we're back. I'm Stu Miniman and you're watching theCUBE. Happy to welcome to the program first time guest, Christian Peterson, who's the CEO founder of Zentura, a service provider based in Denmark. Christian, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you. All right, so tell us a little bit about, you know, what led you to create the company a little bit about your background and then we'll get into it. My background is from Citrix. I'm a Citrix consultant from back from the ages with the windframe and all the old stuff. And in 2006, I founded Zentura with the focus on Citrix consulting services and all the stuff around Citrix. And quite fast, we saw the trend in the market to become a service provider. So we started up with some of our on-prem customers and moved them into a traditional hosting virtualization platform. So did you start as hosting with certain Citrix services that you were offering to your customers? Walk us through kind of that progression. Yeah, our product is something we call Business Cloud. It's a branded Citrix platform and it's a full service platform for our customers. So everything is around Citrix. The connectivity to our platform is Citrix-based. Yeah. Okay, and how big do you have multiple data centers? How many customers do you have? Give some of the speed and feeds. We have two data centers and we have roughly 3,000 people connecting into our site on some customers. We are mainly focusing on legal and accounting customers with special demands for 24-7, yeah. Okay, and all of your customers are in Denmark, correct? All of our customers are in Denmark. Some of them have branch offices in the UK and in Germany and one in Russia. Okay, so why don't you bring us up to speed as to when did you start looking at Nutanix? What led you kind of down that path? I'd like to understand a little bit about kind of the problem statement and the criteria, what led to that, yeah. In the beginning, as we were at Citrix house, then of course we started with Sensor, that made really good sense for us because it was a Citrix product. And quite fast, it became really complex. And the development of our platform was quite fragmented over the years. So we really needed to, I've seen Nutanix at Synergy from the beginning and I saw on the keynote where Mark Templeton roll in a block of Nutanix notes just doing VDI and I said, okay, this is VDI. And what really was a huge game changer for me was when Nutanix introduced AHV because I really liked many of the concepts about putting the whole stack into the cluster. You don't rely on external management. You don't rely on that many components. You don't have a SQL as a backend. We were evaluating a lot of stuff, a lot of products. How we could simplify our current environment because we had huge issues. Yeah, so your Citrix client, were you running Zen before or what was your environment before? Our existing environment was a mix. We had eight clusters, some of them on Zen, different versions because the upgrade path, it was a pain, it required a lot of downtime and we only security patched and critical patches. We didn't do major release upgrade because we have so many issues with it and some years before we introduced Nutanix we switched half of our stack to VMware because that solves some of our issues because they have a good way of handling and migrating data inside their own platform but quite fast the cost became an issue for us because the cost is, as a service provider, of course you just pay in bits and you pay per usage but still the cost was just going sky high, right? Okay, so it was HV, was that the catalyst to get you to Nutanix then? Exactly. It wasn't kind of a hyper-converged or it definitely wasn't VDI, it sounded like. Oh, the thought, I'm quite old in this field and I really liked the idea of having a Zen and all things and I was not easy to convince this was a good idea. Like in the past when people were switching from regular computers to a Zen, everybody says, oh, I want my data on my computer. Trust me, I worked on a lot of the early Zen stuff for all that out at Wikibon, we actually created the term server-SAN which was all of the functionality and things that you loved in a Zen. We're just going to do it on the servers, really, what that is as opposed to Nutanix started out, oh, there's no Zen, I'm like, no, no, no, you're going to scare off all the people that used it. That was also my biggest concern, it really was. But when Nutanix started with the VMware, we did a business case on it and it wasn't feasible because we still had the VMware licensing cost and also now we have the Nutanix licensing cost and it was not easy to create a business case because the customers, they don't care what we put underneath because they only look on cost and if I add something to my stack, then I only add some cost and maybe I can do something a bit more efficient but that's it. Okay, so have you swapped the floor now with EHV everywhere or what was that? We did a full turn replacing everything, all legacy, we did inside our business, we did a survey with all our employees and said, okay, instead of doing just the business case bit by bit and how you do normally and compare licensing cost and all that, they said, okay, we want everything in this business case, not only products. So all the consultants went up with the main issues were all the complexity because it was not easy. We had people on network, we had people on storage. So we always had to ask another one if you want to provision something and the sales guys need to go to the tech guys to say, okay, do we have enough storage for this and what about the IOs and yeah, there was a lot of issues with this and also working at night and all the change windows and doing all the storage teachers moving workloads because customers were unsatisfied on this platform. We can move it to the new platform. We had so many issues with this. So we actually ended up just, we discussed internally says, okay, if we're going to do this, then we are going to do it 100%. It's not just putting Nutanix on site and move something. So internally in the board we discussed and says, okay, it's now or never because this is going to be our window of opportunity to grow and expand. So we discussed and we agreed on a total replace, everything, network is everything. So we switched all our existing infrastructure and migrated all the legacy workloads on to Nutanix in a four to six months timeframe. And we didn't have extract at that time. So it was quite manually. Yeah. So obviously you're here. So it went okay. Take us through what did you learn four to six months is not a short period of time. So looking back, what lessons learned, what would you recommend to your peers to make things even better if, what would you change if you had to go back? What I would change that I didn't do it before because it would have made sense. Actually, we had quite new equipment. We just bought a new sand one year before that. It wasn't even old. That was an issue. But the cost of the existing, even though we had bought it, the cost was getting too high. We were using too many hours on maintaining this. The best time to do this would have been a year ago, but the second best time is to do it now. Don't push it off for another year. Exactly, exactly. And what, yeah, that was, we should have done it before. But I don't think Nutanix was mature for this at the moment, but now, one year before this, I was actually convinced. So, you know, AHVs, you know, there's, I think they're approaching about a third of customers are using AHV now. You said it's mature now, you're happy with it. What, you know, what more do you want to see out of AHV? You know, where would you like to see them continue to, you know, add features of maturity? Yeah, as a service provider, of course, AHV have some limitations compared to all of the other stacks because multi-tentancy is a big requirement for a service provider. But we have taken it kind of another approach to it because they have all the APIs, so we can just do it ourselves. We have all the APIs exposed. Right now, we are working on a billing model because in our business case, it was not only IT, it was also the management and all the accounting and all the other things. If we could optimize those, the whole business case would look even better. So we're working on a model where the system automatically builds the customers and everything, send status reports to the customers. So before they get an invoice, they know if they want to change something because our solution right now is fully managed. So it's fully managed from our side because we have some issues with the multi-tentancy stuff. And what management stack are you using today? Is it in-house or, you know, what are you using? What? Management stack? Management stack, in-house, yeah. Yeah, okay. Pretty typical for a service provider. It is, yeah. Yeah, have you looked at some of the management tools from Nutanix or, you know? I'm paying a lot of attention on calm because it really makes really, really good sense for us. Okay. When will, what does it need for you to be able to consider it even further? I need to play with it. I need to try it out. I've only seen some sessions. I also saw it last year and I've been following it closely. But from a slide to getting in production, it takes some time and I really need to play with it. It looks really amazing. I mean, most service riders have spent the time kind of building their stack. So, you know, going from, I've got it. Exactly. That is challenging. But now we're really moving and we can see how much time we use on a day-to-day basis. I think we cut the time to one-tenth of what we did before. We had a lot of things for managing infrastructure and doing changes because if you have a really fragmented solution, then you have a lot of people you need to involve because he knows best about this cluster and all the differences in this cluster. And that was also one of the biggest pains. And also the Nutanix strategy to just, as I said to all the employees, this is the final migration we are gonna do ever because now it's ribbon replaced. And now we can see in the past, we used the senior consultants for expanding clusters and adding new clusters and doing network and doing a lot of stuff. Right now we moved it down in the chain and so it's a regular support guy. He can put in a note right now and he can do the expand of the cluster. We do it in a regular service window. Now it's not an extraordinary service window, nothing. All right, so Christian, you're so happy with the Nutanix. You're not only a customer, you're also a channel partner. Exactly. What led to that? What services were you already offering for there and what led to you look to move down that path? We saw a lot of synergies because we could also, we could extend the enterprises and their use cases. We had Nutanix and if we could sell Nutanix to some of our customers, maybe we could do some replication and DR for our customers as a service. Now Nutanix, of course, is moving towards XI but that's our idea and we already have some customers signed up for disaster recovery as a service on our A3 platform and that made really good sense. And also we did a lot of work in certifying all our employees and why don't we, we have spare time now. Why don't we use our knowledge and sell this product? It makes really good sense. And what I really also like about Nutanix is there's not a one size fit all because everybody needs, somebody can go public and somebody go private. And we had a lot of enterprise Citrix customers because we have a small part of our company also do Citrix consulting because that's our background. So we had a lot of potential customers there. Yeah, so we've watched over the last five years. There was real tug back and forth between VMware and their service providers.  Oh, wait, you know, we're going to do it ourselves. Wait, we're going to do partner program. Oh, wait, Amazon and a couple of big ones are there. How's Nutanix as a partner for service providers? You mentioned XI, is that something they'll partner with you on or is that something that they're competitive on? And how do they, how do you look at that? Because the main difference between, if you see all the other cloud providers and if you see VMware and the other providers, this is one stack. It's still the same, it's still the same. And you're not going to have to create a lot of stuff to adopt this. It can be quite easy for us. We also see, I see there's a possibility for us to of course sell this, we can be a reseller. We can just have one account and we can provision the customers' VMs in the cloud. So it creates, it sets us in a very better, much better position than we were before because if we team up with Asia or some of the other public cloud providers, we're not in control anymore. And it really, you can't, it's easy to deploy and it's easy to work with if you know how to do it. But it's not that easy. Yeah, all right. Well, Christian Peterson, really appreciate you sharing with us everything that you're doing at Dintura and your customers love to hear the insight into Denmark and what's happening there. I'm Stu Miniman, we'll be back with lots more coverage up here from Nutanix.next 2017 in Nice, France. You're watching theCUBE.


Hello everybody! In this video, you'll see how to restore access to a Facebook account, find the lost login and password if you forgot them, read chat history and messages in Facebook Messenger, or at least get some information from them if access to such account has been lost forever. I'd like to emphasize once that we're not trying to encourage anyone to commit any illegal actions. We do not mean a hacking attempt, but we'd like to help you with the things ordinary users can do from their home office computer if they lost access to their Facebook account and they need to restore it somehow. Theoretically, you can read someone's messages in a social network only from that user's account. Nevertheless, today I'll show you a couple of tricks to help you have a look at Facebook messages, search history and browsing history. Hello friends! If you need to recover deleted data, view or restore removed browsing history. Hetman Software products will help you. Follow the link in the description, download the necessary program for free, install it and analyze the disk. The utility will show you the data you can recover, so you will be able to view it or get it back. In our channel and blog, you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or articles. The first method is to get access to a Facebook user's account, and then you can read messages, chats and other information. How can you do that? Let's suppose there is a computer used by the person whose Facebook account you want to get access to. Start the computer. If you already have access to the person's account, or you know the password, or there is no password at all, it's wonderful, just sign in. If you don't have access to this account, don't worry, you can sign in without the password as well. There is a special detailed video on how to sign in to Windows without knowing the account password or a set behind the password. You will find the link in the description. After you have signed in to the computer of the person you are interested in, run Hetman Internet Spine. Find the download link in the description as before. Select System Analysis. And after it's complete, choose the user. Here is one very important thing. To get access to the registration data of the user in social media is better to sign in to Windows from this user's account. It's really important because the system will not give one user's account the access to personal data and passwords of the other account. Choose a browser for analysis. You need to analyze the particular browser that this user prefers. To find out which one is the favorite browser, go to Windows Settings, Apps, Default Apps. In the web browser line, you'll see the default browser name. Usually, it's the one the user opens every time, every day, and so on. Run the browser analysis. However, you can choose to analyze all browsers one by one until you find the application containing the necessary information you are looking for. Let's see what data we can view after the browser analysis. Now, we can see the complete browser history for the selected user. It is represented chronologically in the History menu. There is so much data. If you are looking for a way to get access to a Facebook account, the first thing to check is if the program succeeded in extracting the Facebook password. To do it, go to the Passwords menu. This is where you can see all logins and passwords saved by the browser, including those to Facebook. If you find a password to the Facebook account you have been looking for, that's wonderful. Just go there and enter the password. In this case, that's all. You have access now. You can move on to Messenger service integrated with every account and read all chats and messages. By going to Activity Log, you can see all the user's actions, likes and publications and even geolocation data. But sometimes, people don't use social media on a computer. It might be an office computer where social media are forbidden, but it never stops anyone from using Facebook Messenger for both word and product communication. It's the Messenger integrated into every Facebook account, but as you know, it has a version for mobile devices, a very seldom used desktop version and a popular web interface version. To use it, you don't have to sign in to a Facebook account. Just go to the official webpage www.messenger.com, log in with your Facebook login and password and you'll be able to view the entire chat history and everything sent or received in the Messenger. Why am I talking about it? If there is no facebook.com among the websites, logins and passwords detected by Hetman Internet Spy, but there is messenger.com, it will be enough to gain access to all of the user's messages and chats. You will also see accounts of the people to whom messages were sent by following the links. It was the second method. However, if the person you are interested in doesn't use Facebook on this computer and the program hasn't shown any data on their account to Messenger, but Hetman Internet Spy shows you the logins and passwords to email accounts belonging to this user, one of them might be the email to which the Facebook account you need is connected. It will be the third method. How can you use it? Let's see. Every Facebook account is usually connected to an email, where notifications are sent about important events in such an account, including notifications about received messages. That is, when the user receives a message in Facebook, a notification is sent to the user's email. So when you gain access to the email box of such a user, you will be able to read the information on the user's incoming messages in Facebook. In some mail services, such messages go to the social tab instead of the primary tab. The disadvantage of this method is that you can't view the contents of the message. Anyway, you can be sure that this is the email connected to the Facebook account. In our channel, there is a very detailed video about getting access to someone's email. Follow the link in the description and have a look. When gaining access to the user's email, you will have no difficulty resetting the password of the Facebook account connected to such an email. To do it, go to facebook.com from any computer. Instead of entering the login and password, click on the link – Forgotten account, enter the email address which you know is connected to the user's account, select send code via email, continue. As a result, this email will receive a code required to restore access to this Facebook account. Enter it into the special field. Next Now set up a new password. Next Next That's all. Now this account is all yours. By the way, here is one more important observation. If the program didn't find the password to the Facebook account, you need all the connected mailbox, but you can see that other mailboxes, websites or social media accounts, which Hetman Internet Spy also shows, share one and the same password. There are high chances that this password can be used for the Facebook account as well. Try signing in with such a password. People often use the same password for their accounts at various websites or sources. Here is the next step. It's quite possible that this menu will not show the passwords to the mailboxes and social media accounts, but only logins. Remember, if you have previously reset the password for signing in the Windows account, the program will not show you the passwords to this user's accounts. It happens that way because of the Microsoft security system. In this case, set a password to this Windows account of this user and restart the computer. To do it, go to Control Panel, User Accounts, Manage another account, select the account, create a password. Or you can go to Settings, Accounts, Sign in options, Password, and, after that, use Hetman Internet Spy to analyze the system again. As a result, you will see passwords to the user accounts that have been detected. And even if for some reason you fail to gain access to the social media account or the connected email, there is still one more trick left. It can help you to get the information about the user's activity in Facebook, view visited web pages, confirm the fact of receiving messages and see the logins of the users who sent messages in Facebook. To do it, in Hetman Internet Spy, go to the menu History, Mail. It shows all email messages sent or received from any email address with this browser. The data is represented chronologically. Hetman Internet Spy shows headings of all possible emails, the source email address and the destination email address, including notifications about messages received on Facebook. You will see who and when sent messages through Facebook. You could make your search easier by going to the Social Media tab. You can spot the information about Facebook by seeing the corresponding icon. In the title column, you can see headings of all web pages visited in social network, be it someone's page, a search query, and so on. Even this information is enough to understand what this person did on Facebook and who they communicated to. Sometimes you have to visit a person's page on Facebook to send them a message, you know? Clicking on one of the messages with a Facebook icon on it? In the right side panel, you can see lots of information on messages from this social network. Have a look at the account ID line. This program lets you see the account ID of the user you are interested in. To see who the person wrote to, have a look at the URL or account ID. It will give the account ID of the person with whom the user exchanged messages. And even if you're not going to hack an account, this program will come in handy to restore a lost or forgotten password at any time or view overall browsing activity. Just in case, don't forget to read our articles about the user data you can view on Facebook, how to find out if an account was hacked, how to restore access or delete a Facebook account. You will find the link in the description, as usual. That is all for now. If you found this video useful, click the like button below and subscribe to our channel to see more. Ask questions in our comments, hit the bell button to enable notifications about our new videos. Thank you for watching and good luck.


If you follow the link that's on here, I don't know if it's even legible, so let me see if I can... So anyway, in this link it's an example of a chaining procedure, so let's take a look at it. Okay, so this is a visual stimulus of the types of, basically, a chain of what's going on. So he's showing you how that whole chain is developed, right? So what he's got is a big chunk of wood here, right? We don't really matter what type of wood it is. In fact, he takes you through a procedure for how to get the wood to that status anyway. So what he's doing is he's shaping it out here first. He's kind of making the bottom of that bowl, right? And then, this is just called roughing in, right? So he's just roughing in the general shape of the bowl. So you can read through this if you want.  You can see what he's doing. This is the bottom of the, believe it or not, it's the bottom of the bowl. Kind of hard to see. You can see it in this picture how it's kind of developing, right? So you can see that roundness that's showing up in here. This picture is really bad. He's just kind of showing the grain and showing where some of the problems are. But what you also see here is he's got this little flat spot. And that becomes important for learning how to use the tool, but we'll get back to that here in a minute. Again, he's just rounding this thing off and making the bottom of the bowl. A little bit more detail is adding that shape. You can see how that shape's starting to develop here, right? So the shape of the bowl, well done, using lots of safety equipment. That's a shaped response. I'll tell you that much. But look at the wood that's coming off here. So he's doing a lot of work. He's getting that shape. It's turning really nice. So there's that flat spot we were looking at earlier. He's actually doing some things in there to make it easier for when he gets to doing the other side of the bowl, the inside of the bowl. So again, picture is kind of hard to see, but here we go. As you can see what's happened. He started out as just a big round. Now he's created that bowl. And there's this little flat spot down here that we keep talking about. He's going to flip that around and use that on the other side. So now he flips it around. This whole thing gets flipped. And this flat spot gets attached to this side of the lathe. And now he's going to start cutting the inside of that bowl out. He's got a special tool for doing that. And it's a cool tool. But what he's doing is slowly cutting the inside of the bowl out. And now with this cut, this removal tool, he has popped out this big center section. And this removal tool saves the wood so you can do another bowl out of it later, which just removes this big chunk out of it. So now he's got the big chunk out and he's cleaning up the inside of the bowl. So that's that. And there you go. So that's that whole chain. Those are all those steps. But there's a lot of individual behaviors involved in those steps. And with this type of thing, it's actually learned from a forward chaining perspective. And because you have to start at the beginning, you really can't start at the end with this. You have to make the bowl before you can finish the bowl, so that type of thing. So there's an example of chaining for you. All right, factors affecting chaining. Number one, task analysis. Make sure you've done a good one. Every possible step you can possibly think of should be in your task analysis. Sometimes you can skip some tasks, but you need all of them in there right off the bat. Develop cues to help guide mastery of that chain. Are there visual cues? Are there written cues? Are there visual cues? Are there self-instructions? What are those procedures? The guy that's building the bowl, there's probably a lot of self-instruction going on. He put the instructions on the webpage for a visual prompt for somebody else. So you've got that visual prompt. You can go back to it and look and say, oh, I know what I need to be doing next. I'm going to be building my tenon so I can grab it and then start turning the inside of the bowl. Self-instructions. The guy in there is probably telling him, oh, okay, I've got to smooth this out. Oh, okay, I'm going to remove the centerpiece.  But it's self-instructions. So lots of cues make chaining easier. If you can, model the chain while describing the steps. So put on your pants, or that's kind of a bad example. Put on your shirt or something if you're teaching somebody how to put on a shirt, or if you're turning a bowl like that guy was when I teach woodworking stuff, I do an example and describe what I'm doing as I'm doing it. Now, I don't do big lathe work like that, but I do small lathe work and I've taught people how to turn pens and make other things like bottle stoppers and give you little things like that. The idea is as I'm doing it, I'm telling them what I'm going through. I'm telling them, I'm verbalizing those self-instructions and kind of teaching them each step and then giving them those self-instructions that I use along the way, as well as modeling what to do. If you're trying to teach someone else, you often provide a verbal prompt. For example, I was teaching a guy, I was teaching a group of people really, some are recently to do, to make a, let's see how many of them chose, a couple of them chose a French style rolling pin and another one chose an American style rolling pin and they did. If you're not into baking, that makes no, it makes no sense to you. If you are into baking, you're like, oh yeah, I know what he's talking about, but the idea is that I was teaching people how to make rolling pins and I've made French style or an American style and I'd prefer the French. So I told the guys, hey, I prefer you to do a French, but it's up to you and what type of rolling pin that you want. And so what I did was I put the chain on the board. Well, here's the things you need to do, here's the steps we're going to need to take, here's how you flatten this piece, here's how you make this handle, here's how you do X, Y, and Z, right? But sometimes they would get stuck and they'd just be sitting there looking at the, the rolling pin going, oh, I don't know exactly what's going on with this, I'm kind of stuck and I'd provide a verbal prompt and I would say handle next, or finger spaces, right? So finger spaces are on an American style rolling pin. You've got a little handle that's on the edge, right? So you need a spot for your fingers to go so it doesn't crush the pie dough with your fingers, right? So you've got to have those finger spaces in there. So I would prompt them with that finger space stuff. Say, okay, don't forget to measure your finger spaces and get room for that and gouge out those areas first and then finish out your handle, right? So you would provide a verbal prompt. If they do something wrong, then you would typically want to move them back a step and that got a little hard. I ran into that problem with having people make a rolling pin because one guy made a big mistake and ruined his rolling pin. So he had to back up from the beginning, which that was a big problem because it took like a day to get to where he was at and he screwed it up and ruined the whole thing. But we had to back it up, right? So we had to move back a step until that link was completed accurately. And he did. He eventually got it. He came back in the next day and we continued training one-on-one and he got through it the second time and he finally succeeded and was able to finish out that rolling pin the way he wanted to. Feed out extra steps as quickly as possible. That way, the natural reinforcers take over, right? It makes the chain completely natural, it moves it stronger, it makes it not dependent on other cues. You know, I get the pet peeve is GPS's. I love GPS's. They're great. You know, the sat-nap stuff, right? They're awesome. They make it really easy, but they also make you completely dependent upon them because if you're used to using one, that's all you're going to use. You don't have to memorize the city streets. You don't have to memorize the layout of a town. You don't have to memorize how to get from 456 Southeast Place up to, you know, I don't know, what other, some other up to Military Avenue or whatever over in Seattle. I can't remember the name of it, but I'm just thinking of an example of how you used to have to drive over there. But with a GPS, you just listen to what it tells you. It's basically giving you all the chains and giving you all these prompts. Make left or turn left in 500 meters, you know, or however it says, it's a little thing. Keep left and keep right and keep left to make a right and all those things.  And so fading out those cues as quickly as you can is an important thing. Get rid of those extra steps and then you learn how to do it on your own.


The other day I made this video explaining that I was feeling discouraged, and then I showed how I kind of worked through that and get back to the point where I'm motivated again. And I got two very different responses to it. On one hand, I got feedback that made sense to me. This was from people who understood what was going on the same way I did. And it was basically like, yeah, when you're trying to accomplish anything, there's going to be difficulty, there's going to be challenges, there's going to be ups and downs. There's a totally normal part of it, right? Of course. And then you figure out how to get through the challenges, and then you make progress and blah blah blah. And on the other hand, there was this other perspective that didn't make sense to me at all. And there were two main things. First, it was, oh no, that's so terrible that you're going through difficulty and you're having challenges. Oh no. Oh, it's terrible. I see you're going through so much right now. You're going through such a difficult time. And I'm just like, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is a little much, dude. This is just normal stuff for me. Like part of doing anything from what I understand involves challenge and difficulty. And that's just a normal part of it. Of course there's challenge and difficulty when I'm trying to do anything worth doing. If I'm ever not experiencing challenge and difficulty, I feel like I'm not doing anything. I'm wasting my potential. So I didn't understand that perspective at all. And then the other thing that came with that perspective was, oh, here let me help you with meditation and new perspectives on life and stuff. And it basically boiled down to taking a present perspective, like just putting myself in the moment, taking a deep breath, maybe going into a meditative state where I'm watching my breathing, just putting my focus all right here in the present and on myself and turning up the ignorance of everything else to full.   Ignore everything else. Just focus on where I am and it'll calm you down and everything will be fine. Now I do understand this technique.  Yeah, it's very calming and it can help you chill out when you need to. The funny thing was that in the video where I was explaining the difficulty I was having and then I showed the solution, it was actually the opposite. Like, if you kind of pay attention, I was very in the moment. You know, I was doing things and I was starting to lose track of the big picture. Like, I started feeling like, am I just spinning my wheels? Am I not doing anything? I don't even know what I'm doing. And then over a few minutes, I was like, wait, okay, let me stop, back up, get out of just the present perspective. Let me look into the past and look at a bigger perspective and then I realized, oh, right here is where I am now. And like, in the past, I was way back there. I made all this progress. Oh, great. Now I can carry on focused on what I'm doing and just doing my little things and I know I'm making progress. So I actually had to expand my perspective to kind of like, to reset the idea that, oh, okay, I am going in a direction and doing something. And then I could get back to the narrow focus. So, and you know, from the one perspective, people totally got that. And in this other perspective, people totally didn't get that. And I think I have an idea now of what's going on there. So, I mean, it's a weird cultural thing. So a lot of our culture today takes advantage of like naturally occurring things. So, you know, we've built up all these instincts over thousands of years of evolution and whatever, or maybe you don't believe in evolution, whatever. We have instincts, right? And there are ways, and marketing people know all this stuff and take advantage of it all the time. There are ways to kind of shortcut instincts in certain ways to get people to behave in certain ways. Now, in school, and there's all this self-help stuff, there's a lot of stuff out there explaining to people how to do this thing where you basically kind of meditate, or just somehow put yourself into a present perspective, and then, you know, everything's fine and you can do things. The problem with it is that it's shortcutting a step before it. And the step before it is actually more important than that step. So when you're just focused on the present and what you're doing, it's great for accomplishing a task. So you need to weld something. You don't need to think about all the history of welding and the whole machine you're building.  Just be in the present, focus here, and then you melt it together, and then you can move on to the next thing. So you just want to have a very narrow focus. So having a very narrow focus and just being in the present is very good for accomplishing tasks. What it is no good for at all is figuring out what task you should do. And that is more important than how well you do it. Let me just repeat that. What you do is more important than how well you do it.  The greatest serial killer in the world is amazing at killing people, right?  The gardener isn't very good at what they're doing. The serial killer is amazing, so they must be better, right? Except the serial killer, what they're doing is actually taking value away from the world, destroying things. And while the gardener, even though they're not that good at it, they are producing value of some kind. They're growing something, they're increasing value in the world. So what you do is more important than how well you do it. And in case you haven't guessed yet, the step that comes before putting yourself in the present moment and getting good at tasks is the step right before that is figuring out what to do. Now to figure out what to do, you have to expand your perspective. You have to look into the past and say, hey, what's happened back there and how did that work out? What have I done in the past and how did those things turn out? And then you got to look into the future and say, okay, there's all these different futures. Which one do I want to aim for? And then you just have to expand your consciousness into the universe of ideas and the bigger you can expand it, the more ideas you have available to you, the more tools you have, the more choices you have, the more options you have, the more choices you have to direct what you're doing and direct your life. So when people are just going into this meditative state and putting themselves in the present, they're shortcutting that step. Now normally, I mean if you're not doing the meditation or whatever, artificially getting it somehow, you would have to figure out what you should be doing first. Take care of that responsibility and then when you get to the point where you are actually doing something, you have this good feeling because you've already solved what you should be doing. But you still get that good feeling even if you shortcut it. See, this is how instincts can be manipulated. And this is how people are manipulated a lot. So if you want to have control over your life, don't shortcut that step. Don't shortcut what you should be doing step. Don't ignore the world even though it's difficult to take a big view and try to look at as many things as possible. You have to look at some ugliness and there's some pain involved in looking at your own mistakes and all this stuff. But if you skip over that, you end up not having any control over your life. And then there are obviously a million other things around you that are happy to tell you what to do. So I think that's what's going on with this other perspective.  But this is a perspective you can have when you live in a city. Because when you live in a city, there's signs that tell you where to go.  You stay to the right. You follow this sign. The street lights tell you what to do. There's advertisements everywhere telling you what to do. There's rules. There's codes. There's laws. There's just a million rules telling you what to do. Even what job you should have. You get the job that pays you the most money you can get. All these decisions are made for you in the city if you're willing to accept them. The problem with that, and then you can just stay in the present moment. You don't have to think about anything and go through the pain of looking at your own mistakes or problems in the world. You just focus on what you're doing and keep your head down and don't worry about it. The problem is, often people do that and then 50 years go by and they're like, wait, why aren't I where I want to be? Well, it's because you skip the step of figuring out what you should be doing and went straight to how can I do it better? They'll skip that step because you end up lost. Even though it's painful. Life's not supposed to be always easy. That would be a waste. I think I blabbered on enough.


Siw par紅 er United States Procedure and Preeding Bill UNTC's bill proposes to remove from GMO geneticly modified organisms—regulations in England—plants and animals produced using modern biotechnologies and the food and feed that's derived from them i nhw hyn sy'n ddquiw ychydigol ei wneud hynny o gymrydol o'i ein pethau.� gyda erydd ni yn gweithio Ie щоб ei ddorol i fyfynol cymdeithasol o gweithio y byw, maen nhw'n i gyrfa gyrhaf yn nhw'n iawn Choose to Provision. Llyfr angen â ddysgu cyflawnol, ac mwy o'r byw o'r byw o'r byw o'r byw, nid na fydd o'n meuch o'r byw o'r byw o'r byw o'r byw o'r byw o'r byw o'r byw o'r byw o targets. Clause 42 enabels y Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make, and I quote, supplementary, incidental or consequential provision in connection with any provision of or made under this act. That permits legislation, including devolved legislation, to be made or amended by the UK Government in areas related to so-called precision breeding techniques, broadly gene-editing techniques and in related areas, including food, agriculture, animal welfare and more. Those are devolved policy areas. Since Clause 42 permits the making of regulations that amend existing legislation in devolved areas, it is a provision within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament. However, as the clause is currently drafted, there is no requirement for Scottish ministers to consent to regulations being made by the Secretary of State, nor for the Scottish Parliament to scrutinise them. We have therefore lodged the legislative consent memorandum on that basis. Clause 42 presents an erosion of devolved competence, and the Scottish Government therefore recommend that the Parliament vote to withhold its consent to it. I discussed those matters with the Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee this morning when they invited my officials tonight to give evidence on the matter. I thank the committee for publishing their report this afternoon, and I note their conclusion that they agree with the Scottish Government's position to not recommend consent to the bill. I also note the committee's stated disappointment that the UK legislation would give the Secretary of State regulation making powers without oversight of the Scottish ministers and therefore the Parliament, and I share their disappointment. I said at the beginning that the LCM consideration of it is not a question of whether the Scottish Parliament supports the policy purpose of the bill, nor strictly is it a question of the impacts of the bill and its interaction with the UK Internal Market Act. However, there is no doubt in my mind that the pervasive attack on devolution, which is represented by the Internal Market Act, creates an extremely complex landscape, serves to erode policy divergence and it fundamentally undermines devolution. The Scottish Government remains wholly opposed to that act, which has been imposed against the stated will of this Parliament in contrary to the Sewell Convention. Of course, we have concerns about the interaction of the Internal Market Act with this bill and how, together, it could see gene-edited products sold in Scotland, unlabeled and unauthorised by Scottish ministers, consumers in Scotland not having been properly informed or consulted on how they feel about this. However crucial, though those issues are, they are not part of today's LCM. That is because an LCM considers the four corners of a bill and its effect and does not extend to the impact that other acts may have on them, however undemocratic that may be. Today, we are seeking to ensure that Scotland's devolved competencies are protected in relation to clause 42. Before concluding, I would like to highlight to members that we may have been in a different position with regard to today's LCM. If the UK Government had engaged with us on the drafting of the bill, my officials first received sight of the UK's bill only late in the afternoon, the day before it was presented to the UK Parliament. That was despite multiple requests to see the content, and I understand that it was around the same time that the details were shared with the media. It is very regrettable that no discussions on the bill were held, not least with us but via the common frameworks that are supposed to manage this divergence. Since then, both my officials and I have sought to engage with the UK Government on potential amendments to clause 42, which might, if accepted, have meant that we were able to ask that consent be recommended. However, that was not forthcoming, and I am still awaiting a response to my letter to DEFRA Minister Mark Spencer MP, which I wrote on 8 November. A decision to disregard the stated view of the Scottish Parliament would represent another example of the UK Government's refusal to respect the devolution settlement. I therefore welcome the chamber's consideration of the LCM on the UK's genetic technology precision breeding bill and move the motion in my name. This bill is about the UK Government taking a pragmatic approach to policymaking, which allows legislation to better keep up with the speed of scientific advancement. Something that is a great deal of existing legislation fails to do. Scottish Government motion, however, is symptomatic of the Scottish Government's continual desire to create difference between Scotland and the UK at any opportunity. We have some sympathy with the desire to clarify the scope of clause 42, but the Scottish Government's approach to addressing that, introducing an unnecessary LCM, seems to be more about posturing than principle, and we cannot support the motion as it is drafted. The very first line in the motion has the Scottish Government demanding that the Parliament not support the bill. There is no way that we can get past that, because it is a decent bill that supports research, much of which happens here in Scotland, and ensuring that our food producers are not put on an uneven playing field when supplying to our biggest market the rest of the United Kingdom. Other Scottish Government really suggests that we throw the Scottish food producers under the bus because of a clause that they question. The Scottish Government has stated that it would back off if the bill is amended as it progresses through the UK Parliament. That, is of course the correct route to developing good legislation, not scouring every piece of draft legislation to see if there is a way to create further discourse and division. That brings me to clause 42. Clause 42 provides the Secretary of State with the power to make supplementary, incidental consequential provision by regulations in connection with any provision of or made under the bill. Powers to make the consequential provision are common to most bills. Scottish Government officials proposed amending wording for clause 42, which would require Scottish Minister of Consent for any consequential amendments, which the Scottish Parliament would also be competent to make. The UK Government's position is that clause 42 does not trigger an LCM and that an amendment to clause 42 is neither desirable nor necessary. That is because the convention to seek an LCM only applies when legislation makes provisions specifically for a devolved purpose, not when legislation deals with devolved matters only incidentally to or consequentially upon provisions made in relation to reserved matter. Reserved includes matters that apply substantively in England only. The UK Government's view is that clause 42 does not trigger the LCM process nor does it engage the Sule convention. Devolution guidance is clear. Consent need only be obtained for legislative provision, which are specifically for devolved purposes and the bill is England only. The UK Government has updated the delegated powers memorandum and explanatory notes of the bill to reassure the devolved administrations and illustrate the intended use for and the limits of clause 42. Of course, I cannot rule out that the Scottish Government approach has been driven in part by the SNP's wider opposition to gene editing. Despite the urging of farmers and researchers alike, the Scottish Government remained firmly on the fence insisting that they will wait to see what the EU does instead of delivering the guidance that the sector in Scotland has been calling for. Aside from the fact that this approach is likely to put Scotland's farmers at a competitive disadvantage with the rest of the UK by far its largest market for agricultural goods, it is almost certain to me that our life sciences sector misses out on the opportunity to be ahead of the pack in the growing gene editing sector. The SNP will ignore an opportunity for Scotland to lead the world and take advantage of new technologies, but it cannot ignore any opportunity for a constitutional spat. It has progressed, sacrificed on the altar of process, Presiding Officer. Setting aside for the moment and the somewhat more controversial question of genetically modified organisms, any halfway balanced assessment of gene editing, which does not involve the introduction of new genetic material, will tell you that its potential benefits for Scotland's agriculture and, indeed, the wider planet are substantial. The potential to increase crop yields, enhancing nutritional qualities of food and reduce the use of chemicals in agriculture alone should make it an attractive prospect. That is before we consider its potential to help us to deal with climate change, both as a means of improving the resilience of staple crops to climatic conditions and reducing CO2 production and farming. Had the Scottish Government written that motion in a more pragmatic fashion that looks specifically at questioning on modifying clause 42 of the bill, you may have found us more likely to help you to seek a resolution to the issue. However, as is the Scottish Government way, why work to develop the optimum legislation to protect Scotland's food producers in our life sciences, when we can manufacture a full-blown constitutional storm in a teacup to further their own narrow agenda? As I have often said before, they act less and less like a Government and more and more like a radical protest group, Presiding Officer. Thank you. I now call on Colin Smyth. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Is it correct that the legislative consent memorandum before us asks us to consider just one discrete aspect of the genetic technology process in Bredenbill, currently before the UK Parliament clause 42, which would provide the UK Secretary of State for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs with the power, as the minister said, to make supplementary, incidental or consequential provision in connection with any provision of or made under this act should it become law? That would mean that there would be no requirement for Scottish ministers to consent to secondary legislation relating to Scotland under this power, and it would mean that there is unlikely to be any opportunity for this Parliament to properly scrutinise regulations made under this power, even if they are on devolved matters. That, Presiding Officer, is not acceptable. I agree that allowing UK ministers to legislate in devolved areas without consent of this Parliament infringes on the powers of this Parliament. Therefore, Labour supports the position taken by the Rural Affairs Committee unanimously this morning and the Government motion before us proposing that this Parliament does not give consent to the bill. We also support the call on the UK Government to either amend the bill to restrict the geographical application of clause 42 or make it a requirement for the UK Government to seek the consent of Scottish ministers when making any provision on devolved matters. We also share the disappointment of the minister at the failure once again of the UK Government to properly consult with the Scottish Government over the bill, which could well have avoided the position that we now find ourselves in through amendments to clause 42 of the bill. We really need a change of approach from the UK Government on such matters. I am confident that we will get that change of approach when we get a change of UK Government, one that understands and supports devolution. In the meantime, I know that my Labour colleagues in the UK Parliament are pursuing concerns from devolved Governments over the implications of the bill, such as the need for clear labelling. Presiding Officer, it is not clear to me in what way the UK Government envidges using the powers in clause 42 or even the reasons why they feel they need this power, but it is one that I do not believe they should have. I understand that we are not here today to debate the policy aims of the bill before the UK Parliament or indeed the interaction with the Internal Market Act, which means that the Scottish Government will not have the power to limit the sale in Scotland of precision bread products from the rest of the UK. However, I do wish to repeat one point that I made during Stephen Kerr's debate on gene editing technology in November, that we need to debate in this Parliament our approach to whether we decouple gene editing and genetic modification. I appreciate that the Scottish Government's position is to await the outcome of the EU Commission's review of future regulation of gene editing before deciding how to proceed. I am conscious of the implications for trade if we do not continue to align with the EU position. Equally, however, there are challenges over the fact that the position in England may soon not align with Scotland. However, it is difficult to argue the importance of the scrutiny role of this Parliament in relation to revisions in the UK bill that impinge on devolution if we are not debating beyond a member's debate our approach to gene editing in Scotland. Labour is unashamably pro-science and we are pro-innovation, so we do not shy away from exploring—I do not know if Mr Carson wants to make an intervention. Can I ask members to ensure, please, that when another member is speaking, they give them the courtesy and respect of listening? I do not know if Mr Carson is aware, but Labour is supporting the bill in the UK Parliament at the moment, but we are proposing a number of sensible amendments that I hope his colleagues there will support. We do not shy away from exploring how we can find ways to maintain and improve the supply, security and safety of our food systems. We also believe in good regulation. That is the key to public safety and the key to public and, indeed, investor confidence in any future changes. We need to have that debate on the opportunities, but also the risks of gene editing here in Scotland. I hope that that is a debate that we will have sooner rather than later. However, in the meantime, Labour will support the Government's motion today. I thank the members for their contributions. It is important that, as a Parliament, we take the time to consider those matters. Of course, we are not the only national Parliament across the UK who are grappling with those issues, with the Senate recently agreeing to withhold consent. In its comments, the Senate also criticised the delays in proceedings. I understand that an LCM should normally be lodged with the Scottish Parliament two working weeks after the introduction of the bill in Westminster. However, as I explained to the committee this morning, that delay, while it is regrettable, has been unavoidable in this case. As I said, the Scottish Government received sight of this complex bill the afternoon before it was introduced into the UK Parliament, and that despite repeated requests for preview. Equally, the UK Government's position has, and has remained to be, that this does not require an LCM. Therefore, it took time for my officials to analyse the bill and to determine that it did, in fact, engage devolution guidance note number 10. Furthermore, my officials spent time engaging with DEFRA on the possibility of amending the bill, to restrict the wording of clause 42, and to reflect the devolution settlement and to seek a way forward. So, while DEFRA initially indicated their willingness to do this, when they were presented with proposals, they informed us that no such amendment would be made. I regret the delay, Presiding Officer, and it is why I am grateful for the chamber's attention to the issues today and why I hope that it will agree to refuse consent. Presiding Officer, some members took the opportunity to mention policy content today, and I understand why they have done that. Genetic modification is a complex and emotive issue, and the speed with which the UK Government has sought to make change has been very alarming for many. However, I did say that those matters were a discussion for another day, and I will be glad to have that. I would, however, just remind Brian Whittle that this LCM has been brought in accordance with the Parliament's standing orders, not in accordance with something that, as he would characterise it, the Scottish Government has created. It is always astonishing to hear members come to this Parliament, a Parliament in which they were elected to serve in by the people of Scotland, and happily see the powers utterly eroded. For my part, Presiding Officer, I would like to be clear our concerns about the UK Government's approach to genetic technology to the bill, to the issue generally, and its haste to change regulations without regard for default competence or the impact on food supply chains and consumer choice. That should never be mistaken for opposition to innovation and technology, particularly in our farming sector and particularly in a climate emergency. Instead, I would urge the UK Government to take a more considered approach, which involves engaging meaningfully across the UK, including, very importantly, from my perspective, with the public as well as with our key international trading partners. The views of stakeholders in Scotland, including the scientific community, industry interests and crucially consumers and the public as a whole, must be central to how regulations apply to new genetic technologies such as gene editing, and so, too, must the integrity of the Scottish Parliament. That concludes the debate on genetic technology precision breeding bill, UK legislation. It is time to move on to the next item of business, which is consideration of a legislative consent motion, and I ask Keith Brown to move motion 7617 on the Public Order Bill UK legislation. The next item of business is consideration of a legislative consent motion, and I ask John Swinney to move motion 7616 on the UK infrastructure bank bill UK legislation. Thank you, cabinet secretary. The question on the motion will be put at decision time, and the next item of business is consideration of business motion 7643, in the name of George Adam, on behalf of the parliamentary bureau, setting out a business programme. I call on George Adam to move the motion. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and moved. I call on Neil Bibby to speak to and move amendment 7643.1. Thank you, Presiding Officer. On behalf of the Scottish Labour Group, I would like to thank the parliamentary staff for all of their hard work in supporting us and ensuring the smooth running of our democracy. Their work is essential, their work is a vital public service, and we cannot thank them enough. We also must recognise the decision by PCS Members in this Parliament to take part in industrial action next Wednesday, as is their right, and we should all respect their decision to do so. In light of this industrial action, we propose to move parliamentary business next Wednesday. We are proposing to move the electoral reform consultation debate, members' business and the portfolio questions to the Tuesday and Thursday. This is all business that can be easily done on different days, and I am sure that there are lots of members who can be working on in their constituencies and regions, including engaging with trade unions. This is the course of action being taken by the Welsh Parliament, as proposed by their business committee, and agreed by all parties with the exception of the Welsh Conservatives. We should be doing the same here. There are a number of reasons why it would not be appropriate to go ahead with parliamentary business, not least with solidarity with our colleagues, but we should not be meeting in this Parliament when it is not safe for the public to be in the gallery. The idea of us sitting without the people who elected us having the opportunity to join us contradicts key fundamental principles that the Parliament was founded on. So, too, the prospect of committees not hearing from witnesses in person. We believe that the principles of openness and transparency should not be cast aside lightly. We do not believe that it is right to suspend standing orders in this case, which would be a proposal to come forward should that motion be agreed. Public access to this Parliament is essential. Our staff's role in ensuring public access is essential. Any other course of action here sends a message that they are not essential. For those reasons, we will oppose the suspension of standing orders tomorrow and I move the amendment in my name this evening. Thank you. I call on George Adam to respond on behalf of the parliamentary bureau. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I take on board the member's point of view on what you said, but I propose the business as already put down earlier on by the bureau. Thank you. The first question is that amendment 7.643.1 in the name of Neil Bibby, which seeks to amend business motion 7.643 in the name of George Adam on behalf of the parliamentary bureau, setting out a business programme, be agreed. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed to, therefore, we will move to a vote and there will be a brief pause to allow members to access the digital voting system.


Welcome to Digital Asset News to get top stories in cryptocurrencies and digital assets and break them down to bite-sized pieces. I'm sure you were expecting Rob's voice on this episode today, but lucky for me, Alex Masioli, I am here hosting this piece for him and it is another day of Christmas giveaways on Digital Asset News, so it's only fitting that today we're giving away Trade the Chain membership for free to a lucky winner. Trade the Chain now, I'm one of the co-founders of the team embarked on building this about six, seven months ago. It is an AI-driven sentiment alert for the average retail trader and we partnered with the Thai, which provides all this really important data to institutions and crypto hedge funds so that they have an edge on the market. Trade the Chain has a couple of different dashboards. One here is the spotlight page, which gives you all your relevant information real time on the market and various things happening in it from a social media perspective to a price action perspective as well as daily sentiments. Another one, daily sentiment, long-term sentiment, relative tweet volume, relative trading volume and the all-important one-hour projection range on price. From here, you also receive important alerts, listing alerts, news alerts, and everything else that might drive the market. All you have to do to win the prize is trade the chain in the comment section. Rob will pick out a winner tonight. Now on to the markets. If you woke up this morning, you were greeted with a little treat, well a big treat. Bitcoin has surged in the overnight and we hit a high of 23,500 in that neighborhood. Early this morning, Eastern Standard Time, you can see here, we're just shy of 23,000 on the price, but it is going parabolic almost. Our piece today that we're going to be covering may be one of the factors driving the price of Bitcoin. This is the news topic that I wanted to cover today. Now when I woke up this morning and went down to the kitchen and poured myself a cup of coffee, the sun hadn't come up. There's about a foot or so of snow in New York City. I looked down at my phone and I saw an exciting message coming from my friend Brian Henman. I've known him for years and he's one of those guys who came over from the traditional space and caught the crypto bug. He's an advisor for a firm called Ipid Paxos, which one of their operations is an exchange, but they do a whole slew of different other services. He's the former head of execution and global data products at Nasdaq, Bigwick. What he did was he said, Alex, today there's going to be some exciting news coming out on Paxos and I want you to be ahead of the game here and lo and behold, shortly afterwards, PayPal's crypto partner Paxos raises 142 million from Carlisle billionaire David Rubinstein Nuthers. And when I saw this story, I was excited. Now this is coming on the heels of a bunch of other institutions that over the last month have just announced one after another how they're getting into Bitcoin or planning on allocating to Bitcoin. And they're all recognizing this as an asset. So this is important because David Rubinstein is really not the average crypto type. He co-founded Carlisle Group in 1987, Washington DC. Carlisle Group has over $230 billion in assets under management and they don't invest in crypto. Now this particular allocation, which he was a part of, it came from his family office. So it's a personal investment and it really sticks out because these guys are a big white shoe firm in the private equity space. They don't like to deviate into unnatural waters, so to speak, that they're used to, whether it's their day-to-day real estate or other portfolio companies. And it was surprising to see this to say the least. But it was exciting. It really confirms that institutional money has found its place into the market and that could be one of the factors that's driving Bitcoin up so drastically. It's definitely a positive, so we're excited about that. Again, just still taking a back about this piece. I've done meetings in Carlisle's headquarters down in Washington, DC over the years with various executives. And this white shoe firm is very imposing. You wouldn't expect it to be involved in crypto or one of its founders to be involved in crypto. But this just goes to show that if David Rubenstein believes in this space, then he's joining the ranks of the Pultuder Joneses of the world and other various billionaires and high-profile fund managers and investors. This is real and it's here to stay. It's not going anywhere. Paxos, which you may know them from their big PayPal and Revolute deals that they did. Now that's a pay-for-order flow type deals and remittances. And so basically what Paxos did was they teamed up with PayPal and Revolute and they essentially get all the retail order flow that comes across those apps and platforms from the everyday person. And they convert it into purchases of crypto or sales of crypto, basically a large remittance processor. Now in the traditional side of things, there's various firms called Virtu and the old KCG night trading. And these firms are just powerhouses in the equities market. Paxos is mirroring itself to a fallen line on the crypto side just like the Virtus of the world. If you're not familiar with Virtu, they, when the average investor goes into their e-trade account or their TD Ameritrade account and they go to buy a bunch of shares of IBM or Apple, all those orders from those retail interfaces get bundled up and they sent enlightening seconds to firms like Virtu and traded across the street, either bought and sold. And so they collect tons and tons of order flow. I think Virtu is actually somewhere in the neighborhood of responsible for 17% of all equities trading I think on the New York stock exchange. So Paxos is doing this on the crypto side. This is extremely powerful. And then if you read down further in the article, you can also see that Paxos, while entrenched in the crypto and digital asset side of things, is not firmly aligned with just providing solutions for that. In February, the firm facilitated what is described as the first live application of blockchain technology for US listed equities with Credit Suisse and Nomura. They helped them settle equity trade on the blockchain and they're not the only ones. You guys have seen the headlines from JP Morgan with the JP Coin, Goldman Sachs interested in partnering with JP Morgan on the JP Coin and some of those features as well as news from firms like Wells Fargo looking to get into crypto. Now what does that mean? These firms are not looking to first dive into crypto like buying it up for their treasury like square and micro strategies. What they've developed is their own coins that go on the blockchain which in turn will help settle internal functionalities for them. So when you hear about JP Morgan creating the JP Coin and all this, it's not going to get listed on CoinMarketCap. It's not going to have some sort of airdrop into user wallets. What it's for is to allow the coin to help settle equities, to help settle derivatives, to help settle loan arbitrage instruments internally for them because they know that it's more efficient and it's immutable. And so it really helps in facilitating the efficiency of their back office. Exciting nonetheless. Haxos is a NYDFS trust company, a qualified custodian. Their exchange is close to volumes of Coinbase on some days. I remember being on their trading floor and on one day they got excited because they had outdone Coinbase and volume, really looking to see how this snowball effect happens across the market. Again, I believe this is a driver in the price action of Bitcoin today and will be in the future. Now, Bitcoin going up so drastically is not only just for Bitcoin, it's dragging a lot of other coins up in the market as well. As our good friend Rob likes to say, the rising tide is lifting more boats. What's hot out there? What's really hot out there that's going up are some of the DeFi coins. Now DeFi is just one of these remarkable things that had its big uprising and went through a little trough in the market. But now it's starting to settle and products are starting to be built around it that are actually really, really useful. Now, in talking to my friend Stani, who's the founder of Ave, we're talking about how he's looking to create mortgages based on DeFi. These things are huge. These are going to penetrate the market as an alternative for people to borrow money, lend money, earn money off of loan arbitrage. I think it's a powerful space. I'm waiting for the first person to get a DeFi mortgage for their house. It'll be a huge, huge thing in the marketplace. But that's what Bitcoin's doing. It's rising in price, it's bringing up others with it. It's a great day to be had right now, new all-time high, and I hope everybody just is enjoying themselves and the money that they're making, and I will hand this show back over to Rob. Guys, thank you for being with me today, and happy trading.