Yes, hello. Good morning. Good morning. Bonjour. So it's exciting to be here to talk to you about the future. The future is something, of course, it's very hard to predict. So I will not actually try to predict the future. I will share some observations about what is coming in the next couple years and what we have to be careful of and what we have to look forward to. So first of all, let me get my clicker going here, we are looking at a world that's dramatically changing. I'd like to say that humanity will change more in the next 20 years than the previous 300 years. And not all of that will be totally exciting, of course, as many issues with that. But if you're looking at things today around us, you can safely say that science fiction is becoming science fact. Self-driving cars, language translation on the mobile device, drones, robots, artificial intelligence, many opportunities and quite a few challenges that we will have to tackle in this future. Most importantly, this curve, the exponential curve. You know about Moore's law, Metcalf's law, it's kind of an old hat, right? But technology doubling in power every two years and becoming twice as cheap, that means now we're at the tick of pouring on this curve. So it's a very important thing to notice that in the beginning of this curve, you actually don't feel it changing because when you double 0.01, you still have nothing. But when you double 4 to 8 and to 16, 32, in six steps, you're at 128. That's seven years from now. If you have kids today that are roughly the age, say 25, when they have kids, it's quite likely they will never drive a car that does not have a computer in it to drive it for them. They may never know what a CD looks like. They may not know what a book looks like, which is a scary thought because I write books, right? So it's kind of a good thing to have books. But we're looking at a world that's at the tick of point. And this is why we can't afford to wait. I'd like to say that wait and see means waiting to die. Because technology is now so explosive, moving so quickly that we really have to know how we approach this. Just look at the way that we're always on, connected, interconnected at high speed, how much money and time is being spent on the internet of things, right? This is really impacting how we live, how we transport things. Artificial intelligence, Kunstliche Intelligenz. This is something where we have to say, well, mind-boggling idea that computers can think, right? Thinking machines? That's kind of a strange thought, obviously. They will never think like we do. But hopefully they'll do something meaningful to make our life easier. And of course, this is really impacting business to business now in commerce. This is not just geeks and kids on social networks, right? This is impacting everything across the food chain, logistics, supply, procurement, environmental control. So we're looking at the future where this curve means exponential data. Data is the new oil. You know, that saying is 12 years old. It's finally true. The most powerful companies in the world are companies that deal with data. I have a slide on that shortly. Intelligence, machines that can help us think the sort of convergence of man and machine. There's lots of ethical issues that we'll have to tackle on this. It's by no means finished, a finished discussion, right? And then ultimately the question is, what is the human purpose? How does it serve us to be happy? Technology should serve us, not us serving technology. Very important thing to remember in the future that everything that we do has to be towards that goal, right? Providing a context for humanity. But I live in Switzerland, so I pick a cow, right? The cows are getting connected in Switzerland. And you know why? Because they want to figure out when they're eating, how much they're eating, where they're going to and so on. Making things more efficient, more transparent. And then of course we have this syndrome that I would say that basically we're never offline, right? In fact, you could simply say that offline is a new luxury.  It's the opposite than it used to be. Cars that speak to our garages and of course drones bring in our pizza. On that I wouldn't be sure, both about the pizza and about the drones, but we'll talk about that later. Everything is becoming connected and smart. These days, if you want to start a new business, all you do is you take the current business, you put smart in front of it, right?   Many companies already have machines that are a million times as powerful. 40 quadrillion calculations per second, the most powerful computer in the world, that's four times as much as the human brain. And companies who do this, you can see the chart here, they are the data companies, right? They're companies that used to be the oil companies, the most powerful companies in the world and we fought wars for oil, of course. Now it's the data companies. Look at the usual competitors, Alphabet of course is Google, right? So these companies are also going to innovate the space of pretty much anything, anywhere, anytime. This is why it's important to look at what they're doing, artificial intelligence, machines that can tell us what to do next. Augmented reality, virtual reality, the internet of things, the connectivity of devices. And this is what we get. Becoming as God, some people would say, I'm not religious, it's kind of a strange discussion, right? But we're becoming super human, in a way. We can use technology to do things that were impossible. We can have a team of two people do something that used to be a thousand people. And then we have 500 people working on new jobs, for example, operating drones that didn't use to exist. People ask me about this all the time, will there be new jobs? There will be new jobs, right? Maybe not as many as we would hope. Different discussion. But quite clearly, this is a world that we're going to look forward to. And really what happens here is something that you may experience when you use your ebook reader. You know, I travel a lot, so I notice I've bought 10 times as many books on the ebook reader than I bought in print. And the queue of my books is like 287 books. I would have never bought that many books in real life, but we're going on this transition from physical to digital and it impacts cars and transportation and tourism and telepresence pretty much in this order. Anything that has happened in the music business, I used to be in the music business and the media business. And anything that happened in music, for example, or films and television, we're going to see in the other sectors. The changes will be gigantic and new opportunities and of course transportation, mobility, logistics is right on top of that list. Who would have thought six years ago that every major car company in the world is working on autonomous cars, shared cars, electric cars, of course? And some people are saying that this would be optimistic, of course. In five years, we may only fill up our electric-powered vehicle once a month. Imagine the difference in behavior, mind-boggling change. Go back to the music business for a second to tell you what happened when you're not in time, when you're refusing to actually acknowledge what is possible. When I worked in the music business, I used to be a musician and producer. I actually sold records, you know, the round things. Yeah, okay. Plastic things. Now, of course, you know that the music business is all about streaming. And the record companies in their wisdom said they don't want people to stream because they will make less money. And you see on this curve what happened here, the new music business is not Sony Universal Warner, right? It's Apple and Spotify and YouTube and Baidu and Facebook. There is a new business, but you're not getting it. And that is something we want to avoid if you're in business. We want to be able to preclude the kind of thinking and not be disrupted and diminished. So in this wave of disruption, you know, the first wave really was media, phone calls and, of course, computing and data. Now on top of the wave is transportation. Down here we have the military, defense and, of course, government and insurances and so on. And really, it's a mind-boggling time to witness the change of digital transformation of transport and mobility. And I think the B2B sector will be first to drive this because of efficiency, better services, better relationships with customers, new possibilities. So I really look forward to seeing that later. But I think the key to future success of this is to create powerful platforms.  They've become indispensable. They create new ecosystems. And you could say many things that, you know, we don't like about Facebook and so on, but powerful platforms. And I think this is the key for the futures to invent platforms of logistics and of cities and smart transportation. I look forward to seeing that in place. And one thing that's happening here quite clearly is that in this world, we're moving towards a new ecosystem, a new logic. Think about the things, for a second, that matter most to you. Right today, I think this week, people are gathering in what's called Burning Man, and any of you familiar with Burning Man, this big event in California in the desert. I don't know why you would go to the desert for this, but people do. And this is about the experience. People want to have experiences. And the more digital we are, the more we want the actual experience, the experience economy. This is very important to realize for business, because we're moving in the world from commodities to goods to services and experiences, providing experiences. And that's what we have to do to be successful. I'll give you a couple of examples, and I think it's quite obvious to see that providing experience is actually pretty difficult because it involves an ecosystem. Take these guys. Anybody recognize this? This is the bar on top, on the 380 on Emirates. They have a bar there, and even though I don't use the bar, because it's not actually good to drink much when you're flying, as I'm sure you're aware of. But it's a meeting point. It's an experience. And then, for example, Emirates makes it possible to check in 48 hours before you fly, rather than 24. 24 hours would actually work at Swiss Air, for example. But I have to say, I still like flying in Lufthansa in Swiss, but at the same time, the experience is just different. So what would that be for transportation? For the driver, for the customers, for the city, for the citizens? That's what we have to look for. And this is where the innovation comes in, where it's all about creating an ecosystem that makes sense. The key word here is liquid. You know, if you're going on a social network, whatever you're using these days, it's a liquid experience, right? It just goes boom and you've shared something to all your friends and back, and it's instant, whatever service you're using. That's the power of WhatsApp, for example. Instant, liquid, not secure, not private really, but yes, it's liquid, right? And this is really what we want. We want liquid experience. That is not liquid, that is completely different than anything else that we're doing. That requires a different kind of technology to be used, and it's interesting to see that the companies who are doing this, as many bad things that we can say about all of these guys, right? They have an entirely different paradigm. Airbnb owns no hotels or real estate. Facebook is the biggest media company, owns no media. The biggest taxi company, Uber owns no cars, and the biggest, most valuable retailer, Alibaba, does not have any inventory. What does that mean for our future? Well, it means that we have to be ready for some serious changes to think about how we can become ecosystems and platforms. This is one of the changes? Voice control. We've talked about this, right, talking about exponential. This for the last 20 years never really worked. But now, just right now, computers are about 98% there in understanding natural language. That means about 34 languages, not Finnish or Swiss-German, but pretty much anything else. You can speak to a computer like you speak to a friend. In fact, some people think that computers become our friends. I would challenge that. We can speak to our computers, and very soon we're going to stop typing. This is only a year or two away. Imagine what that means, for example, for delivery of goods. Speaking to the computer says, hey, I've got a problem, do XYZ, or order something, or instant updates. You've seen, of course, a couple of services that do this, really, but the bottom line is, what we've seen in the last few years is like 0.01 on the exponential scale, and now we're at 4.  They'll just speak to whatever they have. Like they speak to a person. Intelligent, digital-to-assistance. If you're looking at the growth, this is already an understatement. I mean, it's going to change the way of driving, of transportation, of cities. The pass is going into the rearview mirror. We're going high-speed and warp drive into a future that we have to hard-time imagine sometimes. One of the challenges is this one. People, humans, are not exponential. We are linear. We are not going to grow like a computer. We can't put more memory into the slot. We have 10 quadrillion processes per second we can do. We're not going to do 100 quadrillion. So what will we do in the future? I think many of you are asking that question.  What will humans do in the future if the machines do all these things? Well, the bottom line is this. Really great little clip here from IBM. We're going to move up the food chain. We're not going to compete with computers on data and information. We're just not. Today, you kind of can. Because computers aren't that smart yet, but they're getting there very quickly. We're moving up the food chain towards intelligence, knowledge and ultimately a kind of wisdom, something that only people can do. When I meet you out in the hallway by accident, it takes an average human 1.4 seconds to evaluate the other person. And that's without saying a single word. Computers are a long time away from that. We're going to need those skills more than ever before and what's called emotional intelligence. People don't buy stuff because of computers and fancy algorithms or whatever technology, but they buy stuff because of relationships. It's very important to keep that in mind for the future. We're going to need a really clever combination of algorithms and technology, which you're going to see today. And without that, I think the future is pretty grim as well. But then we also need this.  And this is the ideal future if we can combine those two things as products in our services, in our brands, brand and purpose. So it's quite clear the future is going to involve that we're going to increasingly work with smart machines, software, robots, drones, machines, technology. I think what it means for us is that we can give up on the routine work, on the things that we could give to machines and focus on those things that are human only. A driver with an automated vehicle can do many other things that maybe a computer couldn't do, like communicate, understand people, prepare. Definitely a future where we have to think about what that means. Here's the role of digital Darwinism. I'm sure you've noticed, many of you are journalists. This is clearly a topic. Anything that can be digitized and automated will be. I write books. I was a musician and producer. Today in the studio you have a software that plays the guitar. You have iPads that play the music. But here's the good news. I think this is what we have to hold on to the future. Anything that cannot be digitized or automated becomes extremely valuable. And you know what that is? 95% of our lives cannot be digitized. Compassion, empathy, feelings, emotions, intuition, storytelling, creativity, all these things. That's what we're going to do in the future. If we can sit on top of technology doing that, that would be the perfect role. Let's hope we get there. We're going to need some pretty smart politicians. Well, that's an oxymoron anyway, but we're going to think about how we do this in the future. As Kevin Kelly said from Wired Magazine, computers are for answers. People are for questions. I think there's going to be an incredibly important way for us in the future to look at this. Also, the other thing is, as we're looking at today's vehicles later on, efficiency is great. Every company wants to maximize efficiency. But let's not forget one thing about this. The new paradigm is ultimately efficiency has to serve a human purpose. You know what the purpose of business is? Customer happiness, customer delight. There is a difference. Efficiency is not the same as delight. We should not forget that when we roll out new products, when we talk about what we can do about the future. Because humanness is something that requires things that can't be automated. Trust relationships, values cannot be automated. I think that's something that we need to keep in mind when we're looking at the future, what it brings and where we're going. Let me give you a brief summary of my key theme here. I think it's very exciting to be part of that change today. It's about 95% things I would say it's extremely exciting. Humanity on top of technology. Those are things that we're going to look at. This is kind of the summary I would give you to say, well, it's really all about data, information, intelligence and ultimately a kind of human purpose. Everything that we do should serve that purpose. Technology is not what we seek. It's how we seek. Let's keep in mind, however, if we don't have technology to do the how we seek, then we probably won't get to the other part either. So it's kind of a mutual relationship if we look in this direction. I'll leave you with a quote of my mentor, David Bowie, who said already 20 years ago, rest in peace, by the way, tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming. I wish for you to enjoy the day and let your future see the future today. And now I want to introduce Mr. Volker Mohinweck, the head of Mercedes-Benz Vans, who will talk to you about the same topics, the digital transformation of his industry, his products and of course the vehicles. Thanks very much for listening.


Most people do not know how to use the things that they buy. The things that they buy are using them up. They're enslaving the human being. Whatever things you want to use, you can use, that's not an issue. But the problem is, you let those things use you. This is not okay. So if you just take care that you are not used by anything, you understand the limited role that everything has in your life. The limited role of your education, the limited role of your career, the limited role of your marriage, the limited role of your relationships, the limited role of your wealth, the limited role of everything that you're doing. If you understand where one thing begins and where it ends, then you don't have to do anything. Spiritual process is on.


So I'm Lakshman and I'm going to be talking about some work that we're doing, work with the foundation. It's sort of like a, it's not particularly lamorous work, but it's kind of a necessary work to get the mixers doing what they want them to do. And that's to do with like making sure we have a kind of a decent flash relay in our work. I'll talk a little bit about the problem. Probably won't spend too much time on that because I'm not particularly familiar with it. And then I'll try to talk through what we've built so far and what the next steps are. So this is like a very primitive diagram about non-chain mixers. I'm actually really excited about this primitive in particular because it's one of those things that is pretty obviously different on-chain, which is off-chain. Like off-chain, like in privacy in particular you really don't want people to see what you're doing. And so trusting someone to mix your funds, like trusting Osoc and Wallet or something like that, makes for a completely different user experience as something that is completely trustless. And you're like hiding in the crowd kind of like excited. So just real quick overview of how these things work.  C-R-A-C-D-C-D and put money in. And then later it's A prime from another address generated proof. It says you are one of those people who put money in without saying which one. And that entitles you to some of that money. And so to someone looking at the network and trying to analyze like who's money is whose, they just see four or ten or a thousand going and a thousand coming out. They can't do this. So yeah, pretty, pretty profit motive. So real quick overview of why relays at all are even necessary. So one of the main things that I've heard that people want to use this kind of thing for is funding addresses that are not associated with any of the addresses you currently have with heaths. So you can like interact with the network with them. So in this case let's say A is one address, A prime is another address, you want to fund A prime. And so you put money in, A prime then has to withdraw the money with this zero knowledge proof. But if they have C-R-A-D, how would they be able to do it? And so that is where relays come in. This also isn't like a new idea. Like many, many projects are talking about transactions, transaction distractions. The idea is for certain things you might want a third party to run transactions for you. So this is what that new kind of like transaction code looks like. So A deposits money in the contract, presents a signed transaction to a relayer, then runs the transaction on the other half. And then over the course of that transaction, money comes out to A prime. And not pictured, but some of that money might come out as a fee to the relayer. It's like a reward for the service that they might need. And so this is kind of the case I'm trying to make, is that the central relayer defeats part of the purpose of a trustless mixer. And a lot of the projects, all of the implementers, some of them here right now, are obviously shipping with the single central mixer, which is I think when you're shipping an MVP, you kind of want to ship the parts that you really want to test initially. So it makes sense maybe not to do a fully featured thing at launch, but a single relayer has two problems. So one, from a user perspective, if you know that the company running the relayer is the same as the company kind of like serving the client code for interacting with the mixer, there's no way for you to know that there isn't some communication going on there, or even more kind of variously that like the relayer, there's some communication going on behind the scenes, like from the web server serving client code in the relayer. And if there's like some pattern in how like the time between deposit and withdraw like in the client code, then the relayer might be able to figure out who you are. So another thing is obviously if you have a single relayer for serving a mixer, there's, you know, issues of censorship, issues with artificially high feeds. So ideally we would have many relayers serving. So that is what we're trying to solve this sort of thing. We're currently in the process of integrating with one mixer. We're looking to integrate it with everyone else. So it's like pretty, obviously pretty alpha stage, but the ideas are that like anyone like you or I could just run like a docker container that is a relayer and you can immediately be a part of this network. Any existing mixer doesn't need to change their contracts anyway to use this and just has to change the client code, like change, literally install an MPM package and change how they find relayers. So this part I'll kind of go over the main parts of what this is. I might try to actually speed through this because it's a little technical and leave more time for questions, but this is kind of like analog to the previous diagram we looked at where you had like someone who's trying to interact with the mixer, you have a mixer contractor for relayer and we're adding these four components, the really key parts are the client, which is like an MPM package that you can put in the wall or a mixer client code. The daemon, which is just like kind of the server of the relayer essentially and then two more contracts that are necessary, but sort of serve as a discovery mechanism for relayers as well as like transaction forwarding. These we have like our first, we've kind of been doing some research into the right way to do reputation in particular and so we have like the first implementation of the stuff, we're also talking with like the gas station at work to see if we can get any great account and they actually is kind of filling that role as well. So first, talk quickly about the client. So the client's main role is client relayers and you get the reputation contract and so the idea is that like let's say this is a client, this is a user, so this is also where like let's say the wallet code or the mixer client code in your browser on your mobile and so through our library it talks, it figures out where your relayers are and it allows you to submit transactions to those routers and this is like structured pretty simply and they get every about, you can see it's just like an mcam package and right now I have an example of getting the best relayer IP of course like the forward address or something, it doesn't really matter. But that's designed to be very, very simple. So next is the gaming. So really what, we're going to share like a reference sort of API that they should expose to properly communicate with the client and we're also releasing like a reference to this that does some like fancy stuff around transaction simulation but this is something that technically like anyone can create that custom version of, you know, if this becomes like a high-volume activity you'd imagine that people would want to create like really high performance things that look at the network and make sure you're not getting thrown and stuff like that. Right now we do some very basic like transactions so basically what happens in the current version of this code for any transaction it simulates running that transaction sees how much running that transaction changes your own e-balance and if it's like a beyond a certain amount basically like so. And I have, yeah it's super simple. If you have Docker installed it's literally just running like a few commands to run that. So this is designed so that like anyone could run it and it would be really cool if like random people run relays. Oh, yeah this is, these are the two critical pieces for this type. There are some other routes but basically like for like given transaction like you need to tell clients what the fee you charge is and you need to tell the client and you need bill submitted. Okay.  So the idea here is that there's, the reason we wanted to start we wanted to kind of like create this set of abstractions that you know we can talk about with something else is because it's nice to have like trust this discovery like some like kind of understood mechanism of regular discovery. And, but you know this is something we can play with. Yeah, just forwarder contract is very simple. It just literally forwards calls to the application contract in the case of mixer. Yeah, and the reputation contracts. Yeah, I can talk at length about this. I don't think I will right now if people want to talk about it. But there's an ETH research post that I published a very white hat on this. So you just Google or really just writing your research. You can kind of see our thinking there. Broadly it's like you know the more ether you've burned in service of life, in service of relaying transactions maybe the higher your reputation is but there's a lot of parameters that need to be there and it's something that will actually be cool. And so finally the next steps are you know a big part like what I'm trying to do is have to talk to a bunch of mixer teams talk to a bunch of wallet teams see how we can integrate this into like the existing flows and also talking to the gas station networks and some other kids and turn that structure into cool. So that's me on Twitter at the top and that is where the repo is for SIRGA. Probably have a lot of time for questions. How do you project the front runners? What do you mean by for like the relay or any front runners from someone else? Yeah, so like in events in your design how you pay back the relay for the service. So if I submit a transaction as a relayer as a relayer and if you're returning the message to them then they're front runner because he sent the device together because he wants to reach front runner. There's sort of a trade-off between yeah something we've thought about a lot. I think the easy answer is you'd expect that to factor into the fee market because it's kind of part of the constituting business of running a relayer. No, but like how do you protect? Because on the first day when we launched the undercatch we even thought about that. So we got front run on the first relay. Sorry, who got it? So then we on the first trial we managed to do that. So we got front run right away so that's why we were like ok, so we noticed the problems so that's why in ZK it's not approved. Oh, I see what you're saying. Well like the, so I didn't really go into detail this but the address of the recipient goes in the preview. The address of the relayer. Yes. So because the address of the relayer is one of the inputs in ours. Ok. You can't front run. I didn't know exactly what you're talking about but you literally can't front run. I understand that. Ok, so you're using the same production. So that means you have to design a smarter track in a way that would decode the ZK approval to prevent front runners. Because in that approval you have to have the address of the relayer. That's right. And so that can exist in the proxy contract. Or like the thing that it can. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. So if I'm a relayer and I'll be like, I say I'm a relayer in front of action but I don't. What happened there? Yeah, so there's actually another interesting trade-off here. So like in designing client logic you can either broadcast to like every relayer and then relayer is kind of like our at-risk. Or you can broadcast to one relayer and then the client is kind of at-risk. And there's a spectrum of like choices and how you choose to kind of like like your broadcast strategy, essentially your retry strategy that lie along that spectrum. We are opting towards in this implementation. This is an open discussion to protect the client experience. So the client logic by default will try a ton of relayers. And like retry. So like there's more, a little bit of risk that relayers get screwed. So they'll be competing effectively, right? So they can lose again. We'd rather push the competition to the relayers and make the little more expensive to them than make the client experience worse. But like the really, the way to completely solve the problem is just like start it to everyone immediately. But then the risk will be, we actually don't know who's mine. Yes. So that'll factor into. So yeah, again, there's a trade-off here. And fundamentally what happens there is that just factors into like the fees. So it's still, it's kind of, it's not convenient for the user. Yeah. It's paying for not having to waive. Yeah, Jason has the same problem. So I talked to them. They said, well, I propose an idea maybe if they have some sort of memples and the relayers can share the memples. So they like don't execute the same transaction. That's a nice thing I gave them. But then the obvious, well, there's a way to agree for this to just not share your stuff in the pool. Yeah. Then it's like you would have to have some sort of logic here. Or something. And the GSM, they want to have future memos. They just have a good one. So if you say that the approach you're going is that you will kind of broadcast the transaction. This is something I want to do to all of the relayers. So how is this going to work? Because every relayer, they can have a different fee, right? That they want to charge for them. No, basically the only one relayer will succeed. Yeah, I know, but I as a customer, I mean every relayer charges a different fee. And they choose which fee they want to choose. But then if I just broadcast to anybody, am I accepting like any fee? Or only the lowest one? Or is this by a range that I'm willing to pay? Yeah, I think there's like a bunch, like you might say there's some predicate you can define for each success and retry. And depending on kind of like how restrictive or not restrictive that predicate is, like how much you pay and how much your weight changes. It's like a filter program. Yes. How do you lose track of reputation in the system? Yeah, that's really tricky. Completely obvious. Yes. That's my short answer. One mechanism is to just kind of like have like the kind of naive mechanism that we've been thinking about starting with is just how it can participate. Something like that. Probably just burn, not use this on the right. But obviously that only distracts the amount of the membership fee times the number of people. Do you use a reputation as a mechanism to choose whichever you want? Yeah. But how then like the other like knew their wares will compete with their wares? Who's on the top already? Yeah. There is a tendency, yeah. I guess one thing that you could do, so right now, this is certainly a challenge. If you've been around for a long time, there's a higher chance that you could discover the future. Yeah. But one thing that you could do is have like some ability to kind of like react on your, like your entrance fee or something like that. Yeah. Or maybe like you can use a regular reputation mechanism, but not like every request would use that regular reputation points to choose anywhere. So maybe like, you know, I think you can do some randomness. Yeah. Yeah, you can definitely just put that, force that in the client. Yeah, that's basically the pitch from Alderaan. That's how they choose the client over to sign up next wall. Yeah. But we could just make some randomness in the client. Exactly, it's in the client. Yeah, that's the idea. Sanderizing that also. Yeah. I'm not sure what slide number it was, but there was like a reputation contract slide. Could you maybe still explain it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, I'm sorry. Yeah, so, again, this is, I kind of went over these a little quickly partially because we have our initial implementation, but this is something that we're exploring, swapping out, or maybe even like, proxying some other system that's doing a reputation like gas station somewhere. But what we've implemented is there's like a portion of each relay that you can choose. Fortunately, each relay or feed that the relay can choose can burn. And then the reputation shifts to a function of the number of times they've relayed and the total amount they've learned. And the most important question, is it about your role? Almost production. Almost production. It's very close. I'm left with no pressure. Yeah, of course. I think by the end of the month. Yeah. I mean, we're kind of like working with that, like you and the other mixed-air implementations like in lockstep. Since, I think, all like, depends on what you guys are already launched, what you're already launched. How are you... What do you think will be the biggest use of this thing? The fixer. Yeah. The big question. Everyone's sending money. You think so? Yeah.  I think that's like a little tricky, which is that the anonymity set is defined by, like, how much you're sending. And so the reality is, like, if you're sending, like, say, $10,000, you're probably not going to ever be a lawyer. I don't know what you're saying. And so there's going to be some, my guess is there's going to be some, like, multimodal distribution around, like, which specific, like, anonymity sets are, like, really popular? Well, I mean, the way I think of it is, like, you know, right now the way that, say, tornado catch words is that they have a specific use case, which is you're trying to disconnect the outputs from the inputs. So therefore you have to have, like, this enforced same amount on both sides so you can match them together. But if you look at, say, the Zcash blockchain where they have just a shielded pool that anybody can send any amount into and then send any amount out of, you know, your anonymity set becomes everybody who's ever sent money into the pool. And so they don't enforce, like, you have to send a specific amount in and a specific amount out. So people can send $10,000 even into the shielded pool and then send any fraction of that $10,000 within the shielded pool. And it's only if they decide to leave the pool that they might need to think about what their amount that they're sending out. Yeah, I think the shielded pool approach, actually I think this is what, like, this is broadly what UI Nightfall is doing, like, they're kind of creating, like, you know, who knows what they're actually going to do with it but they're kind of creating some standards around a shielded pool contract. I think that is useful for, like, I almost think of that as, like, a slightly separate segment of market thin mixers. My big open question there, and I don't have, like, a positive or negative kind of sentiment at this, like, a shielded pool gets, like, really, really large. How does that affect the gas cost? Is there a cap on how many shielded pools that scales up worse than market thin mixers? You can have, like, multiple shielded pools, probably with a fixed amount of laboratory participants, so that will not be, like, a very expensive internal gas cost. Like, once you fill in one shielded pool, it's not a new rate. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so, yeah, that's right. So you'll have segmentation that might be a smaller end, I guess, than a mixer, but gives you the option of, like, hey, so there's a trade-off there. Tony, to kind of, like, answer my opinion on your question, I think it's going to largely be people who want to move small amounts of ETH to interact with contracts or mattresses that are not as easy as their contracts. So I think it's, like, small amounts of ETH. I don't think it's going to be, like, large contracts or something. But, all of it, to be seen. Maybe people are betting in a controversial auger market, or setting up, but voting in a controversial vow or something like that. Right, yeah. Yeah, think about that. Keep back who answer, like, you will do RSVP, but you don't want to show the people, like, you have to do it. In Wasabi, I think it's mostly people that want to kind of, like, watch their clients and, like, associate their holdings from their real-world identity, that all of your answers weren't about that. Is there a reason why you don't think that's going to be the main reason, the main purpose for this? I mean, it could be a matter of, like, breaking the link between KYC exchange and every person on the wall. Yeah. That's a perfectly valid use case. Yeah, how does, does, you know, Wasabi has, like, how does Wasabi segment based on, like, the amount you want to send? They have fixed amounts in which you can send. They don't have fixed amounts, but they will tell you how good you're at it. And how they may use that as, based on how much you want to fix. They do have fixed amounts. It's a little point, one good point. Oh, sure. Yeah. But you can choose to mix, like, whatever content. Great. We'll break it up into .1 chunks. Looks like a matter of time, so we'll have to take the tables. Okay, sure.


Hello Alejandro thank you very much for your time and you are leading a real big transformation on the motorsport can you tell us a little bit more what Formula E is? Well Formula E is I would say the future of motorsport. Formula E is an evolution it's a different type of racing that has its main feature that it's instead of combustion electric so it's basically using a different technology to do something that was being done before but in a different way so the origin of it is you know we are a group of people that were racing in the old way if you like we were in combustion I had my team in GP2 which is today Formula 2 I was very involved in Formula 1 and more and more sponsors were starting to express concerns about the sustainability about the environmental problems about climate change and we thought and I thought we need to create a green version of motor racing and that is Formula E Formula E it's a championship that helps develop electric car technology that helps promote the image of electric cars the perception of electric cars that effectively has as an objective to have electric cars all around the world. One thing that is very important that we know from motorsport is that it's a very good platform for test new technologies so how do you see Formula E as a test environment for because we see a clear trend on automotive industry for electric so how do you see that? Well Formula E clearly and the ABV Formula Championship the whole the whole championship it's a laboratory it's a place where teams and now car manufacturers can test the technologies and the solutions that then they can implement on the road cars and of course to be a true laboratory you need to have the right players in the laboratory and now we do. When we started Formula E most of the teams were private then Renault and Audi were the first to join but then it was kind of an avalanche of OEMs. Mahindra was there from the beginning but then we have of course people like Jaguar came in and then BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Nissan, NIO in China I mean you know we have all these OEMs they are the ones who will develop their solutions that then they will try to win with those technologies the championship and then they will use those solutions for the road cars. We said a lot about the teams and the competition but about the public so because it's also a transformation on the public behavior for example if you go to a Formula 1 and you watch one of the key aspects is the noise of the engine you know and all that dynamics so how do you plan on what which kind of actions are you taking to also transform the way people feel and follow Formula E. Definitely the fan base is a key of this whole game and we focus on a younger demographic we think that a younger demographic is more concerned about climate change about environment about using clean technologies and to catch the young demographic we make things that are very aggressive very risky very video game kind of like that wouldn't be possible in more traditional motorsport for example we have the thing called the attack mode where a car if they go out of the racing line they can go over a special line it's like when the Mario Kart they go and they catch the start and for four minutes they have extra horsepower and they have extra energy to go and overtake the cars in front so we bring together almost the race and the video game concept to capture a younger demographic and it's working also we focus a lot on social media we focus a lot on short form content and all those things are now what people is using to enjoy entertainment they like to watch it on their mobile device and they like to watch short super cool super quick action sports action they don't really necessarily sometimes they do of course but watch an hour an hour and a half of content in front of the TV yeah you are a clear disruptor in the market but what would you say for those who are incumbent not only on the motorsport but imagine a traditional motorsport or a traditional organization that is facing disruption everywhere what would be your advice to these CEOs to the C-level executives about how they should transform their business well obviously that's that's a very big question and I'm not the most qualified to really give advice to those big CEOs but for me I think the main message is there is no panic here there is not a situation of life or death there is simply a necessity of adapting the business and adapting the business model and finding a good business model for the next phase and that's a challenge obviously for the for the car industry is a challenge to make money out of electric cars the the current has been making money out of combustion cars for a long time the main added value was of course in the engine now the electric motor has less added value it's almost a commodity so the business model is going to be based more on brand is going to be based more on the interior of the car is being based more on driverless technologies that you can implement in connectivity for the car so there are many different areas which those car brands can focus on to find the business model so that's what they're doing some of them with more success than others it's a time of change in the car industry formulae is just a tip of the iceberg we're a symptom of what's going on the fact that Mercedes Porsche Jaguar Nissan are all in formulae it's just a symptom of the change that has to happen in the industry and if you can close your eyes and open your eyes five years from now how do you see formulae I see formulae as a future of motorsport I see electric racing as a future motorsport I don't know what's gonna happen in the future of obviously formula one is the biggest championship out there the biggest brand millions and millions of followers we of course all know that and I'm a big fan of formula one so I don't know what kind of future we have together maybe formula one formulae or separate I have no idea but definitely I see formulae growing and growing and becoming the other center stage of motorsport being the sport linked to the industry the industry is electric and formulae is the electric championship so yeah that's where I see it and how do you see the future of the automotive industry do you see moving towards full electric well the automotive industry of course is in a crossroads now I think the automotive industry is gonna continue obviously it may have to go through some changes like I was saying to find a new business model for electric cars I think combustion cars still have a future combustion engines are gonna go more and more and more efficient so improving the efficiency of combustion it's definitely gonna be part of the future of the car industry another big part of the car industry is gonna be electric and definitely transportation needs to reduce drastically the amount of emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere so that is the main mission for the motor industry in the next decades


Konami just announced Rarity Collection 2 already? What's up guys? We're back with another epic Yu-Gi-Oh announcement. So, yeah, this was yesterday. I know I'm a day late, but thanks to having to do all those different streams and all this different stuff with the new set yesterday. I wasn't able to post this video on the day I wanted to post it, but I figured I could still talk about Rarity Collection 2 today, even though I'm a day late. Sorry about that. If you do want to hear my opinion of it, here it is. So, if you haven't heard yet, Konami, we had Rarity Collection, you know, it was an amazing set, blew up 2023, like mid-November, something like that. Two months later, two months, Konami has announced Rarity Collection 2. And I know, literally, not a re-wave of Rarity Collection 1. This is a new set, Rarity Collection 2. I woke up this morning the day of recording this. I roll over and I see a text from SEMO talking about this, and I'm going, This is real. Rarity Collection 2 has already been announced. And I go and I'm like, okay, let me see. When's this thing coming out next to probably next November, right? Like a year later, that's when it's going to come out. No, it's coming out in May. Literally, seven months later, we have another Rarity Collection. And if you guys watched my Rarity Collection videos, you heard me talk about how much I love Rarity Collection. I was hoping that they would wait a few years just to, you know, give it some space, let it air out. Not too much of a good thing. Kanami heard that and they said, How about we get you one even quicker than you ever imagined? Now, I'm going to talk about everything I love about Rarity Collection, why I'm excited about this product, why I think it's going to be an absolute banger, and then I'm going to talk about a few things like why I think this is a little concerning that we're getting a second Rarity Collection in seven months. Before we get into the video, we will be doing a stream for Maze of Millenia. We're finally going to get our boxes at some point next week. I'm planning on Monday or Tuesday because my boxes never arrived for the whatnot stream. So hopefully they will and we can do a stream then on YouTube. So hopefully see you guys there. So the first thing I want to do is go through the actual website, Kanami Booster Pack, new card game kind of thing. I haven't actually read this yet because I've been doing streams and stuff like that all day. I haven't actually been able to actually read it myself. So this is the Rarity Collection 2. You can see this on Kanami's official website. Here's what it's going to look like. It's got the blue look. Not going to lie, I'm digging it. I think it looks better than one already. I'm a big fan of the Pack artwork, which I know it's not like a monster or anything, but I just like this blue. I think the 25th looks really nice, which by the way, still 25th anniversary. I thought it was going to be like a 12 month span of 25th anniversary, but boy was I wrong. We are expanding way well beyond that already. I heard that the OCG did 20th anniversary for multiple years. So I'm guessing that we might be doing 25th anniversary until 2026. Who knows? I guess if the sets are good, who cares? Release date May 23rd, 2024. The 25th anniversary Rarity Collection 2 is a rapid-fire waterfall of high-powered cards and seven of the game's most popular foil rarities. So it looks like we're getting the same rarities as Rarity Collection 1. I mean, it just happened. So I'd be surprised if they changed up much. Last year's 25th anniversary Rarity Collection blew everyone's socks off. Okay, so they sold a lot of it. So we started working on a sequel right away. Clearly right away. Right away, because like, I mean, there's got to be some lead up to this kind of stuff. So, wow, like right away. In order to get it out as fast as we can, we've made some changes to configuration while leaving all the good stuff and value and value. I guess saying value doesn't recognize the secondary market because that's something they really aren't, they don't do. They're not supposed to do, I don't think. So interesting that they say that. Next line, 25th anniversary Rarity Collection 2 packs have twice as many Ultra and Secret Rarities per pack. I did hear this, which gives you twice as many chances at luxury rares. That's something I've never heard of, but I guess that's just high rarity, basically. Per pack, quarter-century rares, prismatic, ultimate, and collector rares, and platinum. So it looks like they're basically taking our mega pack, which I know, people have done this before, but we do mega packs on the stream for new sets, and we just put a bunch of good cards in one stack and open them up. They're basically doing this in a real pack. They're taking a real pack and they're giving you a chance to get six high rarity cards in it, which for content and just fun of opening stuff for all you guys who are buying packs, this is awesome. I'm excited about this. They said, we're cutting back on the packaging, so there'll be fewer packs you need to open. I mean, we love opening packs, but sometimes there's a lot of stuff and fewer foil wrappers to throw away. Very nice to get the same number of cards you're looking for. And with double the cards per pack and two-thirds of packs should have at least one luxury rare this time. Two-thirds of packs, wow. And around a third should have more than one. You can even get up to six luxury rares in same pack this time around. That's something we're gonna have to do is attempt to find the six luxury rare pack. That'll be super fun. So I do love, I complain a lot about these very special sets that they put way too much packaging and goes from the past. You had to open up this box to get three packs out of it. It's like, it's exciting to look at, but in theory, it's exciting, but in practice, when you're actually opening up a bunch of it, it's awful.  So it's good to see that they're considering that. The interesting thing is I did see MSRP of this is now $10 a pack, which is like, whoa, $10 a pack. That's like never been done in Yu-Gi-Oh! So it's more like an MTG collector kind of pack where you have a lot more cards in one pack. I don't know how people are gonna feel about that. It's very interesting. It will be fun to open though. I'm guessing there are gonna be 12 pack boxes then? I really don't know how this is gonna work. Each pack will contain two secret rares, each individual one in four chance of being upgraded to platinum quarter century, four ultra rares with a one in six chance, and then three supers. So before we got two supers, you're actually getting a better chance to pull high rarity cards in these. So before it was two supers, so if you put two packs together, it would have been four supers. Now you're only getting three supers. So it looks like they're actually increasing the odds of what you're gonna get, which is cool. And when we're actually, you know, trying to hunt all the cards, this will be great. All cards are different from the first rarity collection. Yeah, that's something we gotta talk about. Here's a quick look at some of what you can find. They've got access code, talk, or magician souls, great cards. Silent Magician, Silent Swordsman. I know Rhyme Style's very excited about these.  IP Mask Arena. This is one I wanted to talk about. IP Mask Arena. Wow, we did the alternate art this time, guys. This is Konami. Hey, we didn't reprint the regular art. We did the alternate art. So maybe they listened to us, or maybe they're just milking it that hard, because first we get a reprint of the Starlight, and it's in the same artwork, which we're like, okay, that's kind of dumb. Should have put it in the alternate artwork. They just do it again in the alternate artwork, which I'm glad it's alternate. Like if this was just the regular one and they just straight up made another quarter-century, it'd have been terrible. So getting the alternate art of IP, Rescue Cat and Apollosa, that's cool. I'm glad they did alternate art. That shouldn't affect the other ones too much, but there's already two prints of it, so it doesn't really matter. And that's something we'll get into later in this video. But I am very happy to see they took the alternate art, like, suggestion that we've had. May or may not if they've been planning to do it, but this should have been the first time. But it's still really cool that we are going to get the alternate art, because those were locked behind gold rares for a long time and nobody really likes those gold rares. Yeah, I like the look of them, but they in practice, they're kind of iffy. And speaking of the quality of the cards, I'm hoping Rarity Collection 2 is not too rushed, because they said, you know, we had to get it out right away. We got to get you more Rarity Collection 2. Hopefully, they are improving the quality control, the prismatic collect rares, the prismatic ultimate rares, because both of those do not hold up very well. The cards feel like they're going to fall apart in just like a year's time. So I'm hoping Rarity Collection 2 is taking that into consideration, because it seems like they're really wanting to get this set out. Okay, so we've gone through this. Like, you guys have already heard about this stuff, so we don't need to spend too much time on this. But what do I think about Rarity Collection 2? I know, like, this is the reaction. Rarity Collection 2 gets announced. Everybody's excited. Great, yeah, I mean, I'm excited too. It's great, it's awesome. But are we getting too much of a good thing? I know people are going to be mad if I say that, but we're a few minutes into the video. So I've probably escaped the people that are going to be angry. But before we actually talk about that too much, like the negative, you know, the negative stuff. There's negative on every set. Let's go with what we love about these sets. And look, there's now two of them, so I can take these sets and not just one. First of all, this will be an amazing set. It's going to be awesome. Everybody's going to love it. People are going to buy it. Rarity Collection 1 was probably the most exciting release in Yu-Gi-Oh! history. People loved it. Everyone was opening it. Everyone was talking about it. Everyone was watching stuff about it, which was great for me. It was awesome. I mean, it was great. And Rarity Collection 2 is going to be just that good because the hype hasn't even died down from Rarity Collection 1. We're already talking about too. And reprinting all of these cards. So we now have 81 reprints from Rarity Collection 1. Now 81 more reprints in Rarity Collection 2. 162 really big cards. For the most part, they're pretty usable cards and stuff like that. So players are going to have very, very, very accessible cards. Like if you need any of these cards out of Rarity Collection, nothing's going to be over $10. Nothing. If you want the super, you can get them for like five at the most. That's the most expensive. Most of them are probably going to be 20 cents. So if you need cards for your decks, you can get them. That's the great side of this. And the third thing I do want to mention is this set is going to be a blast to collect because Rarity Collection 1 was the most fun I've ever had collecting a set in Yu-Gi-Oh! That includes all the old school sets.  And we're going to be doing that again for Rarity Collection 2 because it was a absolute blast. I loved it. It was so much fun. I hope more people attempt to do it themselves. They won't probably be able to do it like we did it open in case of the case, but maybe they could slowly put together the Rarity Collection binder and that'd be really fun as well. So those are three huge pluses to this Rarity Collection 2 release. But here is my... I don't even... Like, here's the problem. If I say, oh, there's a big... I got a big problem with Rarity Collection. People then take that out of context. Like, if I put that as the title of this video, which I'm probably not going to do because what I've learned about these kind of discussion videos is the reaction is purely based on the title.  They're like, oh, it's not negative. If I say like, Rarity Collection 2 is out, it's awesome. People be like, yeah, I totally agree.  It's all about the title in the thumbnail. So now that you guys have watched this far in, we can actually talk about things that I'm concerned about with this Rarity Collection release. This amount of rapid reprints scares me. And I know the people that are on Twitter that they're all about getting cheap cards.  What? Yeah, you care about you? How do you not want every card to be 50 cents? There is a reason that I don't want every card to be 50 cents. Here and now, nothing could possibly go wrong, right? Like we're printing amazing sets. People are enjoying them or opening them, having fun. Like, nothing is wrong with that, right? Nothing is wrong with that in the moment. The stores are selling out. People are having fun with the set. They're playing the cards. They're getting them for cheap. But here is the issue. Rarity Collection 1, amazing. Rarity Collection 2, amazing. If they announce Rarity Collection 3 next in this December, you know, three in the span of a year, amazing. Here's the problem though, future sets. The problem is future sets. Let's put a scenario out there. Let's say next year, 2024, or this year, sometime in 2024, after Rarity Collection 2's come out, after Rarity Collection 1's comes out. We're putting out a new reprint set, okay? We're trying to think, what are we gonna reprint this year? We could do Ash Blossom? Well, no, that got hit in Rarity Collection 1. How about Drone Lock, access coat? No. How about magicians? No, that also got reprinted. What can we put in there then that people are gonna care about? If you put those cards in there and you sell the set and you're like, there's reprints in here, get excited about them. All of us are gonna go, I already got mine from Rarity Collection. I don't need it in this new set. Why would I buy this new set? And so all these reprints sets that are previously awesome, like super excited because they have an Ash reprint. They have, you know, multiple good reprints inside. They don't really have a pool to pick from. And you might say, well, just pick other cards. You know, there are other good cards. Well, if we're doing Rarity Collection 1, we're doing Rarity Collection 2, we might do a Rarity Collection 3. The more we do these, the less the pool just gets smaller and smaller because there's 10,000 Yu-Gi-Oh cards. But, you know, only this many of them are really good and they'll make it you excited about a new set because you're trying to get the print of it. But if they've all been reprinted in Rarity Collection, nobody's gonna buy a new set with them. And this is where Magic the Gathering got themselves into trouble. They started doing tons and tons of multiple rarities and all this different stuff. And they started over printing everything. And then what happened? Look, if we've gone back and seen that they decided to start selling stuff on Amazon, they started selling their boxes not to local stores because they were just trying to get rid of the product because nobody wanted to buy it. They're selling on Amazon. They're bypassing the local stores that were their bread and butter just to sell them online. And I'm not saying that's necessarily gonna happen with Yu-Gi-Oh. I don't even know if they're gonna do another Rarity Collection. So they might do like Ghost of the Past 1 and 2, which they did wait a year for that one. And they never did 3. They might never do another Rarity Collection again for all I know. But if they do that and then these other sets, they come out and they're like, oh, a new reprint set. It's got an Ash Blossoment and nobody buys it. And they might be like, huh, how are we gonna get rid of these? How about Amazon? How about we just sell them all to Amazon for cheaper and like get some of our money back? I don't know. It might happen. That's something that I'm worried about because if that does happen that starts killing stores, that starts killing the value of any sort of set. And the value is not necessarily the money. It's just like the value and they released a set and we want to care about it. Like if they start releasing sets and we don't care about half of them, we only care about the Rarity Collection set or whatever. It kind of waters down Yu-Gi-Oh sets in general. You just don't get as excited about them and that's kind of what's important. Rarity Collection, very exciting. So that's a good thing. But other set compared to Rarity Collection, you compare me like, well, I'm just gonna buy Rarity Collection. That's way better. Why would I buy this other reprint set? So here's what I'm hoping will happen based on this. So because I'm worried, I am legitimately worried. I am excited and worried at the same time. The worry I'm hoping they resolve this because Rarity Collection one and two, coming out with a span of seven months.  They could easily quell a lot of my fears by getting rid of Legendary Collection, Season 1, 2, 3, 4, whatever number it is. Dragons of Legends, so and so with a die in it in two packs. Get rid of that. Battles of Legend, which by the way is coming out this year. Battles of Legend, reprinting Battles of Legend Armageddon. It's coming out very close, I think, to when Rarity Collection comes out. Who is gonna buy Battles of Legend, whatever that's called? When you have Rarity Collection right on the horizon? Nobody, nobody's buying that set.   And consider, even though they did do a good job with those recent side set, CR set, consider getting rid of those because if we're gonna have Rarity Collection twice a year, which look, we could do it. It could happen. We need zero other reprint sets. I'm talking get rid of the Megatons. Look, I love the Megatons, but we don't need Megatons and two Rarity Collections. That's too much. That's too many reprints. Everything's like, there'll be nothing. At some point, but year three of two Rarity Collections a year, we're just reprinting the same cards and then Rarity Collection then becomes not good because all these good things, we have so many good Rarity Collections that, oh wait, we've reprinted everything now. Now Rarity Collection 17 is not interesting anymore. Nobody even cares about that anymore. So there's like no good products anymore. So I'm hoping if this becomes like an annual thing, I don't know, it could just be a 25th anniversary thing. I could be overreacting. It could just be a two things for 25th anniversary, but it seems like what happened is they put Rarity Collection out. It blew up. It was amazing. And they're like, we're getting one out immediately. Like they weren't planning on doing a second one, which is what I thought originally when I read it. I was like, they must have had this playing because it's so quick. But based on this thing at the beginning, it says, so we started working on a sequel right away. So it sounds like they saw the results and then started working on a sequel. So when this one blows up because it's gonna blow up, it's Rarity Collection two. Are they gonna start working on a sequel again? They're gonna do number three. Are they already working on it right now? And that's where I'm hoping we're not getting too much of a good thing. We're not by making more Rarity Collections closer together, making later Rarity Collections not as good and every other set awful. So that is what I'm worried about. I'm sure if you made it this far, then you're probably just wanting to hear the take and understand why. Overall, still really excited about Rarity Collection two. I think it's gonna be super fun when it comes out. I just have that worry that will turn into magic to gathering because I know a lot of people in magic are very unhappy, which, you know, we've had our experiences with magic. We saw what can happen, what can turn new into a community when the wrong things keep happening. But right now I think we're fine with two. I think it's gonna be great.  And it's really not about like, oh, I'm holding onto a lot of current cards that are getting reprinted. I'm not actually. A lot of people think that I am because I can bring this up that there's a possibility of hurting value and stuff. I don't keep Starlights. Like the Starlights I pull, I just sell them because I just have no faith they're not gonna get reprinted and apparently was right. So I only have a couple of Starlights in my collection. They're the ones that I pulled and I'm keeping from my collection like the Stardust Dragon we pulled and stuff like that. But other stuff like just random Starlights I pull, I don't keep those. I don't keep them for stonks because I just don't believe in Yu-Gi-Oh and new cards being stonks. And I think now we can confirm that modern Yu-Gi-Oh is not a stonk. It's never gonna be a stonk. They're gonna reprint everything and that's totally fine.  Now that you know, buy your cards. If you get Metacards, just sell them. If you're not gonna play them, if you're gonna open a box for stuff to play, keep them and play them great because you're getting value out of them. If you're just a collector like me and you're opening them up just for fun, you just need to sell your stuff right away. Most of the time it's just gonna be the best move. You pull the SP Little Knight guarantee in a year it's not gonna be worth what it is now. So if you have an SP Little Knight right now and you're not using it in your deck, you're not planning on using your deck, get on TCG Player and sell it. I'm doing you a favor. I did this with Baron to Floor before it got the reprint.  And guess what? Rarity Collection will come and hit it with seven reprints. I'm sure after the seven Baron reprint that thing's even less than 30 bucks now. So if you are not playing the cards, just get rid of them. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with it. Just sell it. I'm just trying to save you guys the money and one more note that I know there are some fans of Starlights out there that are pretty, pretty upset about this because they love Starlights. They like they thought they're really collectible. They were, they were super hard to pull. They're just not collect as collectible anymore. Guys, in terms of if you buy one for the price tag of 500 a thousand, it's not going to be worth it for you. It's just not. It might be fun to collect, but the problem is the price tag is too high at the moment. You might want to wait till the QCR print comes because it's going to come buy it then and then maybe you could get like a discount. So that's kind of the strategy I would go in with modern right now. Modern Yu-Gi-Oh cards are they're just here for playing, which is totally fine. I mean would be exciting if we could have, you know, the playable cards be affordable like, you know, the Ultras and stuff like that and then have like the Starlights not get reprinted so we could just collect those and stuff like that. That would be great, but it's just it's not the reality. So I've rambled on and this it was mostly I'm not complaining guys. I don't want you guys to think I'm complaining. I'm excited about Rarity Collection too. I want you guys to realize that I just have concerns and I think it's okay to be excited and have concerns at the same time because there is such thing as too much of a good thing and I think we're bordering on it right now. I don't know that we are going to go over that edge. I thought Rarity Collection one was great and I said a few years off. It'll be great to do a second one. It has shown up a little earlier than expected. I can't predict the future though. Maybe it's going to work out totally fine and I hope it does. And honestly, I don't even want to say no Rarity Collection three because I want there to be a Rarity Collection three. I just think six months might be a little like a little aggressive but let's see what's going to happen. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video whether or not you agree with me, whether or not you care because I know you don't even have to care about future sets because you might just want to live in the here and now just totally okay. I hope you guys at least enjoyed the perspective and whether you agree or not, I'm still going to be opening Yu-Gi-Oh. It doesn't really matter. Like they had reprinted into the ground. They could destroy every market there is. I'm still going to be in it and so does it really make a difference? I have already gotten messages about this and people have been concerned already saying kind of the same thing I'm saying.  So let's just see what's going to happen. I've rambled on too long for this video. 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Buona's coaching of mr. Buona yahoo yeah cool let's see what we got some people some crystals 86 gold hero xp 50 v bucks piece of cake hundred tickets yeah I'm gonna buy those llamas now 28,000 survivor xp 50 v bucks and what's the schematic cash a gun that I'm not gonna use okay so let me go to loot first road trip llama sure hoody it's a owl on a stick chat it's a owl on a stick I don't believe this comes up with this I'm going to smack you with sir hoody oh a floor fleece freeze a four feet a four freeze trap I'm gonna level that up cuz I don't have hardly any traps I have like the launch trap and that's it mang all right so first things first like I gotta I'm gonna we're gonna I might just melt this no I'm not gonna melt it down um let's bring grizzly up here you said there's something to increase I think you should wait until you get the outlander really okay so it's a wait tomorrow I mean you could use him but I wouldn't like don't invest xp in them you can invest a little I would I would wait for it because this one is a really good outlander okay so yeah I'm just gonna play soldier but I need mats I'm addicted no whatever I'll just keep playing the stupid dude I missed Teddy though how you say I got things let's see where's that free strap free strap mudskipper is free strap I'm favorited that I also have two floor traps I need to get rid of one of them there it is it's hard to recognize these icons okay it is favorited so let's unfavorited whoo inventory is still not fast honest I cuz I don't know I'm a hoarder you know me don't like you don't know this I hoard everything I don't know what's that it's purple man it's it's it's legendary man look at this this is a this is a owl on a stick favorite I mean what it's a owl on a stick you don't it's an owl on a stick you do not get rid of an owl on a stick just don't let's just in the collectibles then you get rid of it which I'm about to just melt it down no oh now I'm looking for then collectibles what you what you can do is if you go back to your inventory you do it from there I'm gonna show you a little trick this you mean schematics right yeah I'm watching your screen okay so you go down to more more collection book indicator yeah and I'll tell you what you what you have available there to put in there if you want what does it look like what's the indicator look like it sort of looks like your favorite thing I think I like I can't remember oh it's a book I see it slow book over it yeah I say that the bottom here but it's not in the aisle because it's favorite if I unfavor the owl lo and behold at the collection book I did it I'll do the same for this pay me my money three survivors I'm good for this I'm good for this as much as you do it this way that's stupid book interface boss or hoodie and if you want to get it out you can take it out again but it costs 20 V bucks so sir who he's not worth 20 V bucks spoiler all right I'm gonna put some levels in there you know you didn't give him a chance oh when I talked to him he kept saying who so I got tired all that hey sir who do you want to play who got here it's time to freeze no mile of chocolate rain gonna get some more floor trap where's the this one and this is my main floor launcher it's now level two wing last level I can't do it all right so two traps in the 30s to floor traps in one of the 40s I don't have a lot favorite what you talking about actually these swords what am I doing I book these I can book them should I book them Daniel that book the legendary swords I don't use swords at all I mean you could always take it out if you want it you know oops yeah that's what I'm thinking it's like all these mailings I just don't use any of them ever and if you take them out you do have to pay it back like an XP wise so like the next thing you slot you won't get as much XP until you actually pay back the XP that you onslaught stuff I know some of these words I don't think I'm ever gonna slot these man my collection book is going buzzonkers hello OT Wiz how you doing every single one of these is giving me a level now guess I'm which is the best design to get weapon trap or training manuals I'm thinking training manuals how many do you have I'm going to your resources you can see but I can't get out of this now oh you're already in there sorry streams behind for me a little bit yeah we do people training manual yeah okay it's like a level of weapon epic survivor okay a little bit of cleanup work they're done oh this fist dude I like this one too bad I don't have any XP left I'm about to get some mold though what does loveless help even do oh I see impact and knock back reload speed and durability sarin aka Narius 23 billion years is this siren Sarah 23 billion years is it like sarin and warframe I don't know how to pronounce it 23 billion years everybody showing some love in the chat mr. sarin siren oh siren okay siren like a siren all right you ready we got to do wait I got I got a llama hold on civil it's a sword more swords it's like one of your lacking swords here's some more oh 200 tickets oh that's another llama in it when did you have I thought it was 200 per or it's 500 okay I just bought one so I guess skill point I got four skill points oh I know what I'm getting next these dudes right here three star defender and three star survival or evolution but what do I need for this fortitude and unlocked air expedition vehicle prop plane so I have to go back here get that and then I can do this and then I'll that'll be next survivor and then I'll do that the founder next hey oh all right so what's in the box what's in the box loot three treasure chests and successful missions and 34 plus zones kill a mimic in a successful mission oh man it's not gonna pop when you have to kill a mimic they just never are you ready yep wait now you that's switch my here I'll do it after this I didn't switch them we're gonna change the mr. civil year yep that it's my wife she is helping me with the things I keep alright so when I go when I go from Outlander the soldier I keep hitting Z and I just pop my gun immediately I do that a lot oh man alright what type of monsters are these they probably told us in the beginning and I didn't see it I was just wear a Hydra until it tells me to change yeah Hydra is energy