Today I have the pleasure speaking with Chris Kane on the issues front of mind for many of us, which of course, what the heck is happening in the cannabis sector presently? How about we start with that, Chris? I'm just going to give you a general question. What's going on besides the legalization of recreational cannabis in New York state? Well, that was certainly a big one. And I think that's likely to be followed by a few other states this year. I would keep my eye on most of the northeastern states, places like Rhode Island, Connecticut, possibly Maryland, although I think that's going to get pushed a year or so. Maybe New Mexico, although that also hits some snags recently. But I think we're going to add another state or two before the end of the year. I think if we're talking about legislation, the really big thing to watch is safe banking in Washington, D.C. and what winds up happening there. I'm as optimistic as I've ever been that we are going to get access to banking and that'll likely happen this year. I think the question is less, is it going to happen and more, will it pass as a standalone bill or will it get attached to a must pass spending bill later on in the year? If I had to bet, it's probably the latter, but I do think that that happens this year. And then from a market perspective, while the last couple of weeks have been a little rough for the cannabis capital markets, or at least the cannabis stocks, by and large, the overall trend on the public market sector is quite positive. And I think that's a reflection of the shift in the evaluation metrics of companies that's occurred over the last really year and a half or so from originally where it was sort of speculation driven and who were going to be the biggest companies and who had the most licenses in these limited license states. And it's really shifted now to who can prove that they are a good operator. And when we've seen this big rebound from where the market bottomed out a year or so ago, it hasn't been universal. The companies that were just focused on being licensed aggregators have not rebounded the way that companies that have focused on solid operations have rebounded. And I think that's really the name of the game. It's now about who can perform, who could hit their metrics, not just, you know, where are your dots on a map and what states are those in. And of course, those of you out there and investor Intel Land, who are looking for great readers, I can't say enough nice things about your writing, Chris. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. It's you're a very smooth writer. And whether someone agrees with you or not, you make very compelling argument. So I'm going to do something we normally don't do. I'm actually going to quote you to yourself. And then I'd like you to comment on this. You write, enjoy marijuana. Joe Biden doesn't care about you. And I think, you know, it's a very provocative text here. You're right here. You know, it's time to reckon with the fact that Joe Biden is not your savior and he is not your friend. Joe Biden is what he has always been, which is openly hostile to cannabis consumers and determined to ensure that if cannabis itself won't destroy your life, cannabis policy surely will. And I throw this in the air, but I don't know where it's going. That's a lot for many of us who just assumed that Biden was our friend. I don't know where you're going to begin or end with this, but we'd like to know more, please. Sure. So look, look, I have a long background working on cannabis policy even before there was a cannabis industry. And when I think back to my days working at organizations like Normal and students with sensible drug policy in the early 2000s, you know, we had two quote unquote enemies on the Democratic side of the aisle in DC, particularly in the Senate. And that was Joe Biden and Diane Feinstein.  And while Joe Biden has come around quite a bit compared to where he was 15, 20 years ago, right? He's now in favor of decriminalization or letting the states do what they want. He was arguably the worst Democrat on this issue amongst all of the contenders for the Democratic nomination. And we're starting to see in his White House, in particular, in light of what happened a couple of weeks ago, where, you know, five staffers were fired for their prior marijuana use, even when it occurred in states where it was legal. Others were reassigned to other offices. This is something that the administration has the right to change. Right. This is not a law. This is a this is something that is a policy of the presidential administration. And I think it showed that, you know, Joe Biden is simply not there. He is not where the center of the Democratic Party is when it comes to issues of legalization. And I don't think that we can count on President Biden to be a supporter of reform. I think if we want to see reform, we need to focus our efforts in Congress. You know, Senate Majority Leader Schumer has been terrific on this issue of late. Speaker Pelosi has been terrific on this issue the last few years. And so I think we need to keep the pressure on Congress and have Congress force the administration's hand. And I because I think the administration and the president in particular has proven that it would be foolhardy to rely on him to be the agent of change when it comes to to cannabis legalization.  And on top of that, you're a co-founder and CEO and president of a publicly listed company that's over a billion dollar market cap. Is that correct? That is correct. I believe with the downturn in the market, we may have slipped just below the billion dollar in the past few days, but we're right there. Yes. Is that the mission or do you want to really tell us what forefront ventures is really up to right now? So at forefront, we are focused on predominantly on low cost production at scale in a way that I believe that most of the multi state operators have not really drilled down on. So a couple of years ago, we did a merger with a company called Mechanics out of Washington state. And this was at a time when the markets really valued dots on the map, right? And particularly, were you in the high profile, limited license states, right? That they valued licenses in Florida and New York or Illinois, where we are. And we went and acquired a Washington state operator. And a lot of the folks in the public markets were telling us at the time, like, are you crazy? Nobody cares about Washington. It's an oversaturated market. But our thesis was that the companies that have been able to win out in these heavily competitive, heavily saturated markets, right, are ultimately going to be able to win in what are now much less competitive markets, because eventually we're going to see downward price compression in states like Illinois, in states like Massachusetts, right? Other places where we currently operate. And so we wanted to take that level of hyper operational efficiency at scale at a large scale and bring that to states that currently don't have it. So that's been our major focus. We're currently opening the or about to open what we believe will be the largest, highly automated or fully automated production facility in the country. This will be in Southern California. We're taking that same level of automation and opening what will be the largest production facility in the state of Illinois. We're getting close to breaking ground on that project. We're doing the same thing now in Massachusetts. And so we want to make sure that when that price compression happens, when that race to the bottom really starts, that we're already there. And we think that's sort of the next wave of the market. So that is and combined with my background in advocacy and policy, we want to make sure that we're doing things the right way. And if we can demonstrate to the public that cannabis can be produced in a way that is responsible, that is socially conscious, that we provide a great retail experience for our customer base, right, that that helps demonstrate to society what a post-prohibition world will look like and helps to break down some of the stereotypes that people have had drilled into them since they were quite young and that in doing things the right way, that will in and of itself help lead to an end to marijuana prohibition and achieve both our business goals and our advocacy goals in tandem. And correct me if I'm wrong, but did I read this correct that you started the company in 2012? No, we started the company in 2010. So you just joined the cannabis craze when everyone was making 24 percent a month. You got in this a long time like right at the beginning. That's absolutely right. So as I mentioned, I mean, I've been involved in cannabis from a policy standpoint for many, many years. And it was as I was leaving my role as the executive director of students for sensible drug policy in late 2009, I started to see the emergence of this new cannabis industry. And some of my donors at the time were some of the earlier model dispensaries in Northern California, places like Harborside Health Center and Berkeley Patients Group. And I could see that those operations, right, the really well run ones of which at the time there weren't that many, right? Most dispensaries were not places that you would feel comfortable taking an investor or a police officer, right, or a soccer mom. But there were some models out there that were that were really working. And it was a light bulb moment for me that if you can take somebody through a really well run professional operation, it gives them a visual of what a post prohibition world will ultimately look like. And that without that reference point, people will fall back on what they've been told from the time they were quite young, which is, you know, effectively, you know, which is the stereotype that that cannabis distribution is a couple of burnout stoners in their parents' basement or a shady street corner drug deal and shifts that stereotype to a really well run, beautiful, professional retail environment. And it occurred to me that doing that in and of itself was going to help achieve the policy goals that I had been working on from the very beginning. So from the start with my first consulting company and then into forefront when we started in 2010, the goal was always to help professionalize the cannabis industry. And I'm very proud that we were there, right? Pardon the pun, right at the forefront. I have to tell you, this has been a very enlightening interview. I thank you so much for joining us today. And I hope you'll keep us updated and you'll come back and visit us again soon, Chris. Thank you. Happy to do so any time. Thanks for having me.


What's going on guys got Kyle here with late and sports cards, and we are ripping in 2022 and see football for box case number 36 Random team style or pick your team style. Sorry pick your team style Let me sort here one second got Antoine W with the Texans and dolphins got Brian G with the Seahawks We've got Chris F with the Bears Colby C with the Bengals goo H has the Jaguars Gwansu has the Giants we got Harper with the Chargers and Jets Harry V has the Steelers and Niners We got Jeff in with the Packers Jeff R has the Titans Jeremy T with the Panthers Joel B has the Cardinals Browns Ravens Joseph W Patriots Justin C. Chiefs Kyle S with the Vikings got Lou F Colts Luke S with the Broncos Matt M with the Saints got Matt R Bills Michael F Rams Michael C has the Lions Phillip and with the football team or the Commanders Sean M has Falcons got Sean P with the Cowboys Steven P has the Bucks Timothy F has the Eagles and Todd C has the Raiders Alrighty guys see what we got a appreciate you got joining membership Brett and Dolphins are gone now three to go Dolphins are gone now the next one. Thank you Anthony Jags Jets class on Give Anthony a class on there Let's do it guys in T full case number 36 PYT Shield time come on Come on National Treasures over Jake The over the jakey-fakey box one 36 See what we got Did it Not too much Oh Fakie Mcjakey, hey, we appreciate you sir. We appreciate you already guys box one Redemption on the back redemption on the back First up we got treasured rookies to 99 going to the Bears gonna be V-less Jones I really like this treasured rookie set man. That is clean.  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Make sure Jets and um so the Jets are Harper and He's got New Orleans not Harper, so we'll do a random here The random between the Jets and the Saints now we've got to 35 this one is going to be George Karloff this rookie out of for the Saints or for the Chiefs Wow Chiefs Saints on the mind there George Karloff this to 35 Behind that we have Falcons to 99. This is gonna be Andre Bad Moon rising Andre there to 99 for the Falcons and RPA to 49 it's gonna be Rashad White for the Bucks There you go. This one had to come out for a Nice Jake let's go. We'll mag that on the RPA to 49 Rashad White and our redemption It is rookie material signatures RPS Garrett Wilson that one's going to the Jets Garrett Wilson on the RPS Who is that Harper right? We have Harper with the Jets nice one there, sir rookie material signatures Alrighty that'll do it for the first box Box number two Jimmy grabbing some spots and boom to Slega appreciate you Jimmy just Jets and Seahawks left in the next one guys Just Jets and Seahawks Box number two Yeah, yeah, like none. Maybe it's a good thing. I mean maybe they're gonna use them. Yeah, I Don't think Vaughn's the gonna be the starter for sure.  These are sick-looking cards man Modern masters set to 15 we got Drew Brees nice one there saints on the low number Drew Brees To 49 we got framed fabrics of Brandon I uke and I uke framed fabrics This one is a lash of more number to 10 there tremendous treasures Jets He lies a more number to 10 on the Jersey This one is lockets in 99 that's gonna be Seahawks sentry materials Seahawks Tyler Lockett Oh Number one here. It's Trey McBride 505 we got the little Cardinal patch and the logo there the Cardinals Nice one there for the Cardinals five of five on the dual Jersey That is sick Trey McBride Should be the top tight end on the Cardinals this year This one's interesting one of ten we got personalized signatures. It's Billy white shoes Johnson For the Oilers there that'll go to the Titans on the personalized treasures Otto Billy white shoes That's an interesting one there. I don't think I've ever seen his Otto Billy white shoes Johnson there. I will go to the Titans Titans on the Oilers card there Behind that is Marcus Allen to 99 that one is for the Chiefs on the Marcus Allen lasting legacies I don't think I know the the dance rich. You have to let me know. I don't think I know the white shoes dance Nice one here for the Lions the 25 we got Barry Sanders on the National Treasures Otto There you go. Nice one there Lions 16 of 25 Barry Sanders and true RPA We got to 99 this one is gonna be James cook For the bills let James cook Nice one there bills will mag this true RPA James cook Yeah, I might have to rich I might have to See what's going on The white shoes celebration dance. I'll look it up did have something to do with his white shoes Again guys Almanac is break into night with Sam first five high-end Almanac It will start at 9 30 Eastern if you guys are in the Almanac Please please be sure to be in chat for when yours does break can always check our break schedule guys You can see what time stuff See what time everything does break and the break schedule will adjust to your time zone guys It is 9 30 Eastern was when we will start Almanac tonight If you guys are in the break, please do show up And say what up the salmon chat make sure your chat's working and everything so you guys can make your Make your picks first up. We have 299 Alvin Kamara base Kamara to 15 we got Brian burns go nose for the Panthers there Brian burns Go notes We've got Darius slay number to 25 the jersey for the frame fabric for the Eagles frame fabric of slate Big play slate dual jersey rookie to 49 we got Desmond Ritter Nice sit there for the Falcons Desmond Ritter to 49.  It's gonna be a good time Tyler lock it there is to 49. Oh my goodness No, I expect to see that the 49 Tyler lock it see Hawks. I Was know my goodness out of shock. It is Brett far 25 and 25 for the jets on the treasures of the hall The jets on the Brett farve dual jersey. That was not what I was expecting to see Brett far for the jets on the Hall of Fame jerseys 25 out of 25 Behind that to 35 we got Eagles Nicoby Dean auto Nicoby Dean for the Eagles that one is seven out of 35 for the Burt's oh We got one of one on these signatures Cardinals, it's Jake plumber. There we go Jake plumber on the one of one auto. Yes, sir.  Let me see first That is Antoine Antoine with the Texans We've got a swoosh There we go one of one on the RPA is Damian Pierce.  That's awesome. That is a sick one there one of five This is a good box Puka Nice Damian Pierce there and to close out the box It's a 99 on the NFL gear dual auto. It is Desmond Ritter Boom, there you go Falcons This has been quite a box. It's got Desmond Ritter to 99. We got the swoosh and a 101 Nice hit there Falcons 21 and 99 on the Ritter That is sick. Alrighty guys. That was a good one We got box four. Good luck. This was a case 36 PYT Hey, thank you Peter taking the jets in the next one down to the seabirds again Just the Seahawks available in the next one guys Thank you Peter Alrighty guys now number four Come on. Come on. Last one was killer. Let's keep it going Let's keep it going swoosh Two RPAs here This one is Mike Vic to 99 for the Falcons Michael Vic on that we have 249 this one is John Taylor John Taylor for the Colts. They're having an interesting relationship at the moment John Taylor and the Colts gonna be interesting to see what happens there. They don't seem to be getting along very well Behind that we have for the Bears Chase Claypool the 49 on the tremendous treasures Dot Bears the Bears Dot Bears We've got Seahawks 299 DK Metcalf on these century materials DK for the seabirds and war and war closing us out. There we go. Thank you, sir Oh, righty guys. We are closed out. We'll do another full-case NT next and then we'll have Sam coming in at five with More group breaks check out his schedule guys and like I was saying he'll do Almanac starting at 9 30 tonight Be a very fun time man. Almanac is always a good time Check it out 299. We got Mac Jones century materials for the Patriots that we have 49 Aaron Donald Aaron Donald's century materials for the Rams Two of five on the gold ink field pass auto. We've got Malik Willis There we go. Nice one there Titans on the gold ink to five very nice. These field passes are sick We'll mag this one for the Titans on the black parallel Very nice one there for the Titans That's a sweet one Behind it. We have Seth Joiner number one of 25 lasting legacies for the Eagles For the Eagles there Seth Joiner On the lasting legacies Do that two RPAs first one is green to the Jersey number for the Giants Wanda Robinson Nice low number one there. Let's do the Jersey number to 17 We'll mag that one for the Giants Wanda number to 17 nice low numbered RPA And Titans again this time we got true RPA. It's Malik Willis We got Malik to five and a true RPA same box Nice hit there for the Titans We will mag that one up Congrats Titans. Alrighty guys. That does do it for 2022 in T4 box number 36 pick your team stop Do a quick recap here guys Lunch of bags here and we'll move on to the next one number 37.  We had Mack Jones DK Lockett Youk Josh Jacobs Aaron Donald Colossal Michael Carter. That one's Claypool Tyler Lockett to 49 and Desmond Ritter to 49 Jersey We had Colossal Jersey at 25 of AJ Dylan Brett Farr for the Jets weird Terrius Slay number to 25. We've got Elijah Moore to 10 and a five Trey McBride We had Garrett Wilson on the rookie material signatures RPA We had a Marcus Allen to 99 for the chiefs to 99. We had Andre Risen We had Nicoby Dean birds Gorge Carl George Carlot this we had Barry Sanders to 25 There is Seth Joiner and to 10. We had Billy White shoes Johnson and Mags we had NFL geared a 99 Jersey Otto of Desmond Ritter We had true RPA to 99 James Cook let James cook We had to 49 or a shot white we had one-of-one signatures there Jake Plummer We had Damian Pierce 105 on these swoosh Texans We had true RPA to 99 Malik Willis. We had to five Malik Willis gold ink Field pass RPA or Otto and we had to 17 Wanda Robinson on the RPA Jersey number there green. 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All right. Well, thank you Hello, everyone and welcome to the reactive summit 2022. It's great to be back out live in the world again as She said I'm Hugh McKee, I'm a developer advocate at light band and code co-chair of the reactive summit and We're delighted to have you here today. We've we've got a great incredible lineup for you planned for today there's some great talks and I think we're gonna have a range of some people Probably been in the reactive space for a while, but some people might be newcomers but it's all it's all a an opportunity for you guys to learn and take some things away and Also, you know connect up with the other people. This is one of the great things about being back out in live conferences again Before we get started, I'd like to thank our sponsors, especially light band the platinum sponsors light band and yop works and Just a few housekeeping reminders Please remember That we have an event code at the conference that everyone has agreed to and will be enforcing and short basically, it's everyone should feel welcome and included and Please treat everyone with respect and professionalism any concerns go to the the Registration desk and the the event team will help you out and Finally The conferences asked that we wear masks while we're not talking and not and when you're not eating or drinking so Just the massacre required at the conference So before I introduce the first speaker the keynote speaker. I wanted to just spend a few minutes talking about reactive and a little bit about what it means to me, but I think a lot about what it means to you and React has been kind of interesting, you know, Jonas Spinner who's one of our keynote speakers will be talking a little bit but Jonas and some others put together what was called the reactive manifesto back around 2013 and In the reactive manifesto it really focused on What we now kind of clarify as reactive systems But in the years since then Reactive really kind of took off but it took off in the reactive programming space Which was great because it was a new style of programming. There was much more efficient use of system resources You know infrastructure resources things like that, but in my heart and what attracted me I've been with Leipan for about six years now and before I came to Leipan. I was an enterprise IT That he'll the Packard and the bane of my existence. I was a developer and architect but we had these things when we had production outages we called them escalations and You know these systems ran 24-7 and of course the odds are that the system is going to go down when you're not working like on a weekend and So this is a selfish motivation Why I really kind of became interested in reactive systems because in a way it was like I was on these You know like marathon calls. I think many of you been here, right? You have a production system. It goes down It's on a weekend You got to get on the phone You got to leave your family. So your family is not happy with you Your management is not happy with you. Your customers are not happy with you So there's this incredible pressure to get the system back on and you can be on these calls for hours You know like overnight type of thing trying to resurrect and get the system back online And I'd be on these calls as like I'm vowing. I never want you never I'd never want to let this happen again How can I do this? How can I get out of this situation? So when I saw the reactive manifesto, I think I saw it around 2014 time frame It's like okay. These guys are kind of speaking my language and with the reactive systems, it's there's really kind of four Aspects of it that are the key to it and they're kind of pretty intuitive It initially kind of obvious, but there's a lot of depth to my thing So the first one is you want to build a system that's always responsive. So it's easy to say But it's not easy to do But by always responsive it means the users always, you know, every time they want to use the system It's it's a 24 hours, you know, 24 seven system. It's available to But the in order to do that There's kind of two key other characteristics of a reactive system One is that the system is always responsive under load So the system can scale so it can scale up when the load goes up and the system Can scale down which is nice a nice feature if you can scale up you can scale down So the nice thing about being able to scale up, of course, you can handle the spikes and traffic You can scale down you can save money which could be big money Just real quick at HP. We had like I think there were like 50,000 servers This was around the 2010 20, you know early 2010s and The overall utilization of the servers were on 10% Throw the IT management nuts You know the all this lovely hardware and we're using a 10% of it because they were over provisioned to handle the spikes So you can scale down you can save a ton of money But the more interesting other characteristic of reactive system is the system's responsive when things fail And that's the fun part. I think that's the real challenge How do you build systems that are going to keep running when things break? and This is where the fourth and final characteristic of a reactive system comes in which is messaging and really if when you read the Manifesto it talks about asynchronous messaging but really what's going on there is it's enabling loose coupling of components and this is a key ingredient of resiliency if you can build a system where component a is not dependent on component B Because when component B goes down to component a doesn't care then you're in a good place, right? Your system is more resilient. So this whole loose coupling which we talked about a lot with microservices For example, this is the strategy and the motivation But the the guilty motivation is that I don't want to get those phone calls In the middle of the night on the weekend when I'm with my family And I don't want to be on those high-pressure calls anymore that the most wonderful thing is when you build a system and you Something crashes and the system keeps running Of course, it has to be fixed, but we're not down. That's a beautiful place to be I remember the first time we showed our management and Aka system where we could kill nodes and the Application kept running.  Oh, that's so wonderful They want to go and brag to their other managers.  This is what reactive is about. So I think it's gonna be interesting as you go through the talks today It'll be all over the map in terms of where things fall on the spectrum of reactive reactive programming reactive systems, but A lot of it's motivated by these these fundamental characteristics and it's it's a deep and fascinating area And I really hope you enjoy the the conference So with that I want to introduce our first keynote speaker Mary Grigelski Mary is a Java champion and a passionate streaming developer advocate at data stacks Mary and I run into each other at conferences all over the place She's amazing though because she transitioned from a UNXC programmer in 2000 to Java. I never look back she's Considered a self-apoligot loves to continue learning, but I think the big thing Mary is a force especially in the Chicago area with promoting conferences and Getting things going and and and you would became a Java Java champion last year, right? So we're very delighted to have Mary be with us this morning. Welcome Mary


We won the Ig Nobel Prize, we thanked the Ig Nobel Prize committee, we thanked the Nobel Laureate that awarded this prize to us, they're really appreciated. This is what won the prize, it's an article by Peter Bishmet and myself on Enimus. So inside this, everything started with Michael Coe back in the 1970s, so in 1977 Michael Coe, they identified this, so in their separate article they identified these aspects, and once we had this available in drawings in a rollout by Justin Kerr, then we knew what an Enimus syringe was, then we knew what an Enimus jug, they don't normally have a handle but that's the only one we found in the market, and once I found that from the article, and I think if I can't remember it was March, I was able to find a lot of vases. I worked in the Moselle Popovou Universidad Francisco Madoquen, I lived in Switzerland with my Swiss girlfriend, and then later moved to Austria for my PhD, so I had access to a lot of museums in Europe, I gave a lot of lectures at museums all over the world, so again I had access to finding the different vases, so within literally three months I had tons and tons and tons of stuff on more on Enimus, so we learned about again the Enimus syringe, you need the syringe or the jug to prove there's an Enimus ritual, you can have the bib, you can have everything else, and that helps, there's probably an Enimus ritual, but it really helps to have the gourds, and these are native gourds, and these are still used today, except today they don't use an accessory tube, they use the original tube, and they don't use drugs today, so this is just a joke because we still haven't been able to grow these, but here's here's their actual gourds, and we did this as a joke too, but it turns out it's almost the same as this, so it's a gourd basically that is used, so we learned all kinds of things about Enimus, and then I gave a lecture, I gave lectures for the Institute of Minor Studies, I'll also give lectures for Ed Flunder, and one of these we did a lecture on Enimus, Jim Reed was the host, and in that I showed all this material, all the photographs and drawings, and then at the end, Barbara McLeod, and Donald Hales, and Carl Callaway, and I think it was David Bowles, but Bowles is a very good linguist, and the others are our figure-pers and know-the-stuff, because to study the Enimus ritual, you need to have linguists, you need to have an epigapher to study the hieroglyphs that are next to the enema jug, and on the enema jug, you need an iconographer to sort everything out, and you need ethno-pharmacologists like Peter DeSmet and others to understand what's in the, what's inside this jug, what they put in, and what the insert up to tail end, okay, obviously you have to sit down, I'm not going to do that here, because I don't do Enimus for drugs or anything like that, so, but in the 5th to 8th to 9th century, the Maya, the ones you see in the paintings, that's not just for your health, that's to lift you up to another part of the universe, it's to expand your mind, like the hippies did in the 1960s, and I went to Harvard in 1960s, so I know a little bit about that, except I don't take LSD and I don't do all that kind of stuff, because I was happy anyway studying the ancient Maya, but during that period, you know, many people took the material out of the toad, and all kinds of other natural chemicals are available throughout all of Mesoamerica, we all know that the Aztec took them, but we kind of forget that the Maya had them available too, plus their trade routes, so the Maya, if they didn't have it, they could bring it down from central Mexico, because up in Arizona and New Mexico, where it was, they traded macaws all the way up to there, and cacao beans all the way up there, and the Olmecs traded all the way down from Mexico all the way down into Costa Rica, so whatever plant or chemical the Maya king wanted to learn about the rest of the universe, go up into heaven, or down into Shibabah, into hell, all that's available by enemies, because if you drink this stuff, you vomit all over the place, and they show people vomiting, so drinking was part of the ritual, but the main part, kind of towards the end of the ceremony, is injecting it with this, and then whatever dreams they had, I'm not into practicing that, but it's important to show, the Aztecs did it, every indigenous group, most indigenous groups in South America do it, so you know, they all do it, and people do it today, I mean I hate to think of how many people did these drugs today, not a good idea, I like my chocolate, and regular chocolate, no alcohol in it, and I eat foods from Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, because I like that kind of a fresh organic food, so thank you very much, I really appreciate the prize, Icnobel Prize for Art History, and working together with Peter Schmitt, working together is very important, because two people can have different views, when I once was at Yasha, the president of Guatemala came to Yasha, while I was mapping it, and he came with another archaeologist, and so I asked him, I was just curious, he said, you know, there are archaeologists here, you brought another one, and he said yes, because I want to hear the archaeologists arguing among themselves, and the archaeologists that he brought with them was a very capable archaeologist, and somebody I knew was a colleague, sit out, and so we got along well, but we do, every archaeologist, every iconographer, every photographer has a slightly different view, and again at the end of my enema lecture, we had four other people contributing their information, it was very helpful, so it'll be great in the future to have an international conference on enemas, and have all the epigraphers, all the archaeologists, everybody together in one physical location, discussing all this together, and then publishing a monumental coffee table book on this, so again there's a lot more to know, again after I gave the lecture, I found these stuff that I hadn't seen since the 1970s and 80s, some notes that I had taken back then, as I was unloading my stuff from when I lived in Graz, when I'm at PhD, so a lot more to come, and next time we want to make a book that's about that thick, okay? We need a coffee table book with many, many contributors, thank you very much.


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Welcome back ladies and gentlemen to Bitcoin daily for another video today as you know on Wednesdays We like to do the fan followers Q&A's so today we're just jumping right into Q&A's I asked you guys yesterday to drop some questions If you'd like to be me to answer them and be featured in the video and today I am dropping some knowledge So let's jump right in let me swap my face out the way as you guys know I love forgetting to do it Boom, there we go put my beautiful face right up there and let's jump right into these questions So the first one is from Krishna Say or Krishna sigh This person with this pretty cool mask here What is that from a spider-man what's what's it called? I can't think of a name right now or is that like a Some sort of sound-looking thing out of a pretty cool mask pretty cool mask I like to know that you're keeping it safe With your with the corona and not spreading it. 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Um, well Fernando the reason why and Again, I don't know what out coin your specifically looking at Because out coins aren't doing too bad right now. I'm trying to find I know I have it open somewhere Do I I guess not But if we just jump over the trading view real quick this is where I where I look at my charts See if I could sign if it signs me in Here we go. So if we look at the charts real quick Actually, you know where you can get even a better grasp coin market cap calm You can see exactly what's been going on the last 24 hours, and you'll see Bitcoin is up right now 1.64 percent Ethereum's flat Everything else is pretty much flat polka dot down four and a half percent Chain link down seven percent chain link was very high if you see my other videos and analysis on chain leak I give you guys some numbers to enter Everything else is pretty flat. There's nothing too crazy You know anything that's going down a lot, it's probably because it went up a lot, you know what I mean so everything is is pretty flat today in the last few days and also the reason why is The reason why out coins usually are moving around is due to Bitcoin Bitcoin is what runs at all Bitcoin is the king of this market Outcoins don't do what Bitcoin says and Bitcoin said go down. So everything went down It said stay flat everything kind of stay flat, and then it says go up everything goes up So usually when bitcoins moving a lot out coins might might stay flat or Or go down a little bit, and then they'll catch up later on So not too much to worry about there depending on which out coins are talking about since you were Just kind of very broad with that, but I appreciate your question Fernando Is a babas 11 when will you give giveaways so actually is a babas With this amazing photo and filter. I don't know what's behind you there But that looks pretty cool too looks like some sort of balloons or something. I don't know but um You're in luck because if we go back here To these videos Hold on There was let me see if I go to my dashboard I know you guys can't see it, but I'm looking at my dashboard on the other screen I'm gonna there's one video that has over 30 likes that qualifies for a giveaway So I'm gonna do a giveaway right now Where is it? Okay, I found it and we find it over here it is a giveaway for this video right here How to easily make a hundred dollars a day trading Bitcoin with leverage we have 31 likes boom I just liked it again 32 likes. All right guys, so we're gonna do a giveaway for this one Let me see. Let's let's do it together here. So Usually I just go to Google I put a YouTube Comment picker here we go. Just need the URL Copy that paste that Get comments amount of unique commenters 18. All right. Here we go You guys ready? Let's do this raffle. Here we go. Good luck guys. See what we get and the winner is Vlad Apostle Let's see what your answer at the price that is good stop loss The price that is a good stop loss. It's a little bit lower than the lowest candle of the day Yep, Vlad got it. Thank you very much Vlad I know he was in my stream the other day along with his sister actually so congrats, buddy I know you you want you actually the one I think you pointed out that this one had the 30 or the 30 So it was just meant to be for you, huh? You must have known you must have known this so Vlad Send us a DM on Instagram and we will get you set up in the trade room for the giveaway So there you go Z Baba 11 Just answer your question just did a giveaway right now And we have giveaways going on for our other ones. We just got to get them over 30 likes So get working on those Dave Francis 52 77 Dave he's asked a question before with his killer beard and glasses right there He said where did where did you learn to trade? Dave I learned to trade on the internet really man. I Watched a lot of videos online. I You know made a lot of mistakes that's another way I learned to trade And experience Those are really the three main things a lot of I watch a lot of tutorials online Made a lot of mistakes and just stuck with it long enough to get to gain enough experience to where Now, you know, I I started learning how to be profitable. I started getting that discipline that it takes to be a profitable trader So that's mainly how other ways you can do it also you could read books I did a lot of reading I Did I listened to a lot of audiobooks? So like when I would go to the gym when I would go for a run when I would drive around I instead of listening to music. I was listening to audiobooks And and I would read a lot of stuff online forums group chats all sorts of stuff man, so it's it's a You got to accumulate all these things and kind of put them all together and that's kind of how I learned to trade Thank you for your question Dave appreciate you man next question we got in a vulnerable on ants in ants in it I don't know and Vulnerable with this looks like a filtered glasses. I don't think those are real glasses, are they? But this person says I've been holding ETH since 101.65 on bit next should I hold or should I close my trade? What ETH get to a thousand plus damn you've been holding since a hundred dollars on bitmex at what leverage and Are the fees?  So those are the questions I have because remember you have funding fees every eight hours on bitmex Which eats into your fees? So Yeah, I'm very curious at what leverage you're using how far up you are And if you should close you should definitely be taking profits and maybe buy actual Ethereum like on a on a wallet some type of wallet or something and just hold ETH Yeah, I definitely believe it'll go to a thousand, but again, it's Correlated very heavily with Bitcoin so Bitcoin needs to continue going up in order for a theorem to also get to that price level Thank you very much for your question And I hope you answer because I'm very interested to know The leverage and you know the fees that you're paying to hold it since that price Next question full pockets Full pockets. Sorry, excuse me drink some water. Gee. I was doing a lot of screaming yesterday Watch the heat game in case you didn't notice Great game Sorry if you're a Boston fan Full pocket says Sitting in this cool little area all lit up and stuff. I see you what platform do you trade on? So I trade on multiple platforms right though when I was using before That I'm currently swapping over from is a bitmex I was on bitmex for a while, but they're now requiring KYC So they're asking you for you know to prove who you are to send documents over etc I don't want to do that. So I will be switching from bitmex over to buy bit That's where I've been trading recently And I also use Binance. I use Gemini. I use Coinbase I use Q coin. I've used a lot of different things and I have Funds in a lot of different Platforms I don't like to keep all my funds in one place So my funds are kind of everywhere all over the place But yeah, those are the main ones that I trade on depending what it is. I'm trading depending if I'm using leverage or not Yesterday I dropped a tutorial on Bybit if you are interested in it. So you could definitely check that out And yeah, that's pretty much it Thank you for your question Youssef Look at youssef over here on the beach on the water. Okay, I Need to go to the beach right now man He said what will happen to Bitcoin gold and silver after the pandemic is over? So I'm not sure man. I really don't know I can't predict the future, you know I I believe Bitcoin would continue on its way up as it's been going Before the pandemic, you know the last 10 years Bitcoin was the best asset To hold long term over the last 10 years and there is no pandemic during that I don't I don't see why the end of the pandemic would change Anything for Bitcoin gold and silver on the other hand, maybe it might just kind of go flat again as it trades in most mostly But for right now with the pandemic plus the election coming I think a lot of people should be sticking with Bitcoin gold and silver Instead of having their money in the stock market I'm looking over my shoulder because the stock I have the charge from the stock market up right here It looks like the Fed released some news that they're keeping the rates the same so stocks are going up a little bit But yeah Yeah, and that's actually the last question guys, so that's pretty much it I appreciate you guys real quick before we finish though before we log off I got the question of the day for you guys. I got it here nice and ready So as you guys know every video will we have a random question about something in the video? Question is always is in a random area of the video find a question and find the answer Post your answer in the comments for a chance to win a free months membership to our trading room winners Will pick randomly once the video receives over 30 likes good luck guys So let's jump right to the question of the day if you have no knowledge on Bitcoin, where can you find this information? So this is one of the questions we got today and This will be the question of the day post in the answers where you can find this information Just so for other people that might come to look to the video, you know And don't know too much about Bitcoin and they want to also learn about Bitcoin. Maybe they skip that part And they looked at the comments. We'll have this information for them So that's pretty much it guys. I hope you guys enjoyed the video We'll have Something else tomorrow So look forward to that and then we'll have a market analysis on Friday Pretty much it guys. Thank you very much. Peace and love as always