The Cube at EMC World 2014 is brought to you by EMC. Redefine VCE, innovating the world's first converged infrastructure solution for private cloud computing. Brocade, say goodbye to the status quo and hello to Brocade. Welcome back, we are here on the Cube. We're at EMC World 2014, day two of wall-to-wall coverage. We've had a lot of great guests on yesterday. We've got a full slate for you today. Actually running two cubes for the first time ever, so double the pleasure, double the fun, double the insight from the guests that we're able to bring on from this great event. I'm joined on this segment with my co-host, Steve Keniston, the storage alchemist. Thanks for passing it over there, Jeff. Like Jeff said, live here, Las Vegas, EMC World 2014. Lot of great guests, so let's get started. We've got Brendan Farrell, director of strategic partners for SHI. So Brendan, why don't you help us set the stage a little bit, tell us a little bit who SHI is so we get a good understanding. Sure, absolutely. So we're a 25-year-old reseller, so we play in the space from Fortune 5 to all the way down to the small, in-market customer. Our focus today and has always been on helping customers realize what they own, how to best utilize their assets. And so growing up in the software spaces, what we did, that really leveraged us and put us in a great position as we learned more about the great technologies that are coming out from EMC and other partners going forward. So our focus is and always will be on driving solutions around business outcomes for our customers, whereas we're not married to any specific product, we're married to what the customer's trying to accomplish. Very good, you're here obviously at EMC World. Tell us a little bit about first impressions of the show and then kind of SHI's relationship with EMC. Sure, so it's been a tremendous show so far. From Joe Tucci's kickoff yesterday to the things we heard from Mr. Gould and going into that, it's not going away. We're gonna continue to be asked to do more with less whether you're in IT or any other part of technology. So the fact that EMC is bringing to bear solutions around making that easy and going to the cloud are very interesting things to me. I think the acquisition of DSSD yesterday that they announced is super interesting and it's one of the most interesting pieces I've heard so far is the possibilities of where we can go and when you look at our relationship with EMC, we've been selling an EMC partner for 10 years and a Microsoft partner for over 20 years and specifically around EMC we were helping customers with the transactional side and as our skill sets developed from a sales perspective and from a technical perspective, we've been able to understand again those business outcomes of what our customers want and really strive towards helping them understand what good looks like and trying to make things happen. So our business is a distributed sales force so we're in 24 offices across the country and when you look at that, we're able to take from different verticals or whatever it might be different areas of the country and take best practices around EMC technology that maybe are happening elsewhere. So it's a great partnership for us so far and we're excited to learn more about what's going on this week. Great, so you talked about EMC obviously and then you also mentioned Microsoft. Tell us a little bit about kind of that whole ecosystem, the Microsoft EMC ecosystem kind of what you guys are bringing to the table to these days to really help your customers kind of advance where they are today. Sure, so again, Microsoft partner for over 20 years, when you look at the mid-market space for Microsoft, we're number one or number two depending on what month it is, right? And how much we sold the previous quarter, exactly. So it's a great partnership for us and again it's where we grew up and it's a large portion of our business but again we've always been focused on the application which is if you look at the market and what's been going on people are now coming around to being focused on the application and not necessarily the speeds and feeds of the gear itself, that's always been where we were. So we feel like we're able to help customers in a faster manner because today where everyone else is going, we've already been there and that's how we've been focused for our customers always. So when you look at what those companies are doing together, Microsoft and EMC, I am sequel 2014 is something that's been very interesting to us and to our customers so far. So we had a lot of people that were not necessarily on the fence but evaluating SQL as where it goes with the big data type of transactions that they're looking at and platforms that they're wanting to stand up going forward and some of the things that Microsoft has done around SQL with just straight out of the box on VNX is 3X faster than the next competitor when it comes to a hybrid solution and SQL 2014 itself 10X plus on the transaction side. So that's huge improvements and performance and then on the storage side and reducing the amount of disk that you need, you're talking 45% there. So it's fantastic for our customers and we really are enjoying everything that we're learning about that specific part of the business. I think that that piece of partnership is so interesting in that you got people that have controlled things in their area for quite a long time and seeing that they're starting to even co-develop if you will. It's not the right word but co-develop, co-operate maybe. Going forward is a very interesting thing for all of us. So talk a little bit about, you used to talk to a lot of customers around the field about some of the huge technical challenges or I guess megatrends that are facing all these CIOs with cloud, big data and how are you helping them prioritize? How are you helping them figure out what to do first? We talk a lot about megatrends but you're down in the field with the people that actually have to implement it. So what are you telling them? How are you helping them? Right, so I would say that it's customer specific so everyone has a different use cases to what they're trying to accomplish and when we focus on business outcomes and not on the megatrend itself of big data is what you need to address. So look at things like Icelon and all these other tools. We want to truly understand what the customer's trying to do. So we may go down a pivotal path for someone, we may go down an Icelon path. This new DSSD acquisition is going to be huge for, it immediately came to mind for me. A lot of our customers that we've been talking to, I would love to have flash across the board but I don't have the capacity in that model to do what I'm trying to do. So it's the way we approach it and the things that we hear are the megatrends. I mean cloud has been out there, VDI has been out there for a really long time. We haven't seen so many people adopt that in the fashion that may be the industry thought but flash is certainly where things are. We're having a lot of conversations around flash but interesting data that was shown yesterday in the keynotes is even out to 2017, flash is only expected to be 4% or 3.5% of the market. So it's not going to overtake traditional storage if you will. Our interest again is what's best at the customer level and we're seeing so many different things from the VDI and how flash can impact that again. Using that as an example, because that is a conversation that's been looming for a long time and hanging out there and there hasn't necessarily been all the technology that was needed to help a customer stand up a very large five, 10,000 seat VDI deployment. And are a lot of these around rip and replace old? Is it incremental opportunities because of a new initiative they're putting in place or is it just kind of a marginal improvement based on new technology to do what they were doing before better? Yes. Yes. So it's all of those. Exactly. It's been very interesting in that SHI, we have had a long relationship with EMC, but our mid-market business started in 2008. So I have 5,000 and less employees. That market didn't exist for us. It did, but it wasn't a focus. We didn't have a business unit focused on it. So as we've grown up in that space, your people are leveraging technology because of the more with less thing that we talked about and we heard about yesterday from Joe Tucci, that that's not going to go away. So these people that are growing companies, they have to be able to leverage technology. So yes. Then we have seen a lot of Clarion upgrades. That happens quite often into the new VNX line. You know, it's really all over the board. I mean, we have north of 10,000 customers close to 15,000 customers. So you can imagine the amount of what's going on and how we're helping customers impact their businesses across the board. Yeah, good insight. Brandon, so the queue kind of stemmed from Wikibon.org. We have a lot of industry practitioners. Jeff and I have been doing this for the past couple of days and it's really great to get guys like yourself really have a lot of insight and a lot of knowledge and can really help our customers. So Jeff talked about the big picture, kind of who, what are some of the big things that we're hearing about cloud and big data? But I want to drill down just a little bit. You talked about SQL in SQL 2014 and you talked about big data. You kind of brought that up.  And do you think EMC?  But help us put that together and how practitioners might want to start looking at, okay, I know I want to do something with big data. I trust Microsoft and EMC. They're good brand names, right? What's kind of a direction and a path and what do you see? So around that specifically because SQL 2014 is so new, I wouldn't say we have enough at bats, if you will, to give specifics of what is going to be a best practice as a new standard going forward. The things that I'll say that are interesting to the customers we're interacting with and to our engineering team is the fact that it's 3X faster on VNX. That, you know, get 10X the performance on your transactions, 50X on queries. And the fact that it's in line memory, that really puts the customers in a position to do things with Microsoft. Which is, you know, again, to your point, like something I would have never thought of, that's almost the yin and yang, right? Exactly, totally. Yeah, what do you mean? And so it's been tremendous in that Microsoft's really pushing the envelope there and being innovators again, I would argue that they've, you know, they've been really good at what they do, but they haven't been pushing the envelope as much, at least from my perspective. And so it's great to see that they're doing that. I will tell you that, you know, there's so many different tools out there from EMC that putting all of those in front of a customer is not the right thing, so that would not be the approach we would recommend or that we've seen be successful. Really having a focus on the business outcome of what you're trying to accomplish with those technologies is where we always try to start and where we would advise people, because again, you could see all of these different technologies that would be beneficial to your business, but you don't want to go acquire that many technologies when maybe just specifically, you can do some development around, you know, application performance, right? So how do I maximize that with a fast back-end database super fast on Flash or whether it's DSSD or whatever the technology might be? Very good, so, you know, you've obviously had thousands of customers you talked about, what are some of the things you're learning from them about directions that they're looking at with both EMC and Microsoft? That hybrid cloud is going to be the standard. You know, public is tremendous and there's a lot of great offerings out there from a lot of great companies, but hybrid is where the majority of folks are going to land and, you know, just speaking about EMC and Cisco specifically, or it's not Cisco, Microsoft specifically, what's interesting to me in that realm is that they've positioned themselves with Microsoft Azure and SQL 2014 and being able to leverage EMC technology to be well positioned for a hybrid cloud solution. So hybrid cloud is the thing that we're hearing a lot. Again, VDI is something that's not going away only because it's been such a conversation for such a long time. And how do I get my apps to do what they need to do at the rate they need to and as reliable as they need to? Those are the things that we continually hear. Obviously certain things like flash storage specifically come up, but there's not a clearly defined, again, the things that we're hearing, but it's that generation of VDIs not going away, big data, the things that we're talking about. Flash is so interesting and again, this DSSD thing, I think I mentioned it five or six times now, I'm so excited about it because in some of our larger customers that have high transactions and financials, they are so excited, I'm sure, just once they learn a little bit more about what the possibilities are. So, Brandon, we've talked a lot about it from the technology perspective, but from the business guys perspective and the workload perspective, where are the workload opportunities that you see in your customer sessions, some success in your prescribing to your other customers of where they're delineating which workloads where between private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud? What do you see in the market? So, as it relates to cloud, it's a bit all over the place. So, the answer I would give you around Microsoft and EMC specifically is when you look at BNX technology and you can reduce 80% plus, which is a crazy number when you think about it, on your exchange environment, right? So, the amount of storage required to support your mailboxes, depending on how many you have, the amount of data that you have out there and what your archive policy is, you can save 80% on storage. That's a crazy. It's a very real number. And certainly around SharePoint, the proliferation of data that's out there and content that exists, being able to scale that back and have it focused in the right way, the disk that you have or the flash that you have is a tremendous thing. So, I would love to see and expect to see more customers around SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange specifically really make a specific use case around why BNX, that product line is so specific and great for them. So, to give you the last word, we're getting a hook. If we see you next year, what are we gonna be talking about at EMC World 2015? We'll be talking about how SHI is still one of the fastest growing partners. That's a given. Absolutely. Give me something. Good commercial. Yeah, you gotta get one in. No, I think commercial, absolutely. You gotta get one in. I think we'll be talking about how DSSD is starting to change the game. 2015 is gonna be when that is relevant and real, I believe, in the marketplace. So, I think that'll be one of the main things we hear about. I think that we'll hear that a lot of partners have made some serious headway in the hybrid cloud space in just the next nine months. I would expect that to be the main thing. Okay, we'll mark the tape. We'll be back next year. We'll go back. No, we won't do that. They never do that on the news. We won't do that either. So, Brandon, thanks for stopping by theCUBE from SHI. We're here live at EMC World 2014. Wall-to-wall coverage, two cubes, three days. I don't know how many interviews we're gonna get through, but it's gonna be a lot. That's why we had it bringing in Steve to help us out and the full crew, Stu, Dave, John, David, Florian, the whole cast of characters is here. So, we'll be right back with our next segment in just after this short break. Thanks for watching. You're on theCUBE.


What is going on ladies and gentlemen? We are finally back It is 12 30 p.m. Today is a Wednesday the 27th of September 2023 And my friends we are finally back. I know it's been a couple weeks It's been a it's been a pretty hectic couple weeks I was out of town then it was my birthday Then I got six. I'm not six. I got sick Had some sort of COVID. I'm not sure I was sick for like two weeks So I've been kind of out of it for a little bit, but but we're back guys today We are doing the show solo The Bitcoin the BTC Queen is currently on the other side of the world out in Asia Not sure exactly where but she's out in Asia right now She's gonna be there. I think for a few months. So we're trying to figure out a Time that's gonna work for both of us going forward so that she could still jump on the show with us But without further ado, let's talk about what's going on today. What we're gonna be talking about The main things we're gonna be covering as always we're gonna be taking a look at Bitcoin's price We're gonna look at the overall market. We're gonna look take a look at the economic calendar For the rest of this week and looking into next month because we're about to where we're basically at the end of September And September actually hasn't been too bad, you know after a really rough August we thought maybe September It will continue a little bit But we're pretty much we've just kind of been consolidating after that August drop So we're gonna take a look at that And we're gonna take a look at a possible double bottom pattern that's setting us up for the fourth quarter for October November December as we jump into 2024 as you guys know, I'm very bullish on 2024 This could be that trampoline to bounce us up and get that momentum going for the end of the year going into 2024 so we're gonna take a look at that And and then at the end of it I'm gonna look at some trade setups. We've been doing pretty good in the trade room. We haven't missed a trade this month We haven't taken many but we've taken about four or five trades, but we've hit on all these trades So we're gonna take a look at some trade setups and a Q&A at the end If you guys have any questions for me make sure to drop it in the comments and I'll get to them at the end of this live stream. So Let's go ahead and jump in to Let's let's start with the price here. So let's go ahead and take a look at the price. Let me switch to my monitor here There we go So as you guys can see Bitcoin is currently sitting at 26,272 dollars So we've kind of been here for the last what one two three about three or four days, right kind of been in this little range here And this of course this drop here was back in August middle of August. We had the big massive drop We had a move right back up and then right back down and then we've kind of pretty much just been consolidating after that drop in August so That's currently where we are. If we take a look at the rest of the market We can see right here Over the last seven days, Bitcoin's down about three percent Ethereum's down about a point and a percent and a half B&B down about a percent and a half XRP down three percent card down or down four Taking a look if there's anything that looks out of this world Solana down five percent ton coin down twelve No, nothing really stands out to me polymatic down six and a half Bitcoin cash up almost seven Chainlink up ten percent. So that's a that's a surprising one You know, I spoke about chainlink a few times as one of my long-term projects there Let's go ahead and take a look at the biggest winners and losers over the last seven days So if we take a look here, we have curved Dow as the biggest winner up seventeen percent over the last week We have Terra Luna classic making a move back into the top one hundred up twelve percent Fract share up eleven percent chainlink up ten percent just spoke about that and maker up nine point six percent If we take a look at the worst performing Coins over the last week. We have ton coin down thirteen percent XTC network down twelve percent roll bit coin down nine percent Casper network down eight percent optimism down seven point seven percent so Let's go ahead and take a look at the Economic calendar for the rest of this week. So we really have nothing going on Not too much going on here today. Well, we have today. That's not on here is we actually have Gary Gensler the chair of the SEC Testifying in front of Congress and basically getting grilled I've seen a few clips on him getting grilled and they were asking him about Is Bitcoin a security or not and he refused to answer if it was a security like he would not say and the guy was like No, just tell me I just want to know is it a security and then he said I think he said well it Passes or doesn't pass the how we test or whatever it is and So because of that, it's we considered a came a commodity or I don't know. I don't think he said that I think the guy says so Bitcoin is a commodity is that we're saying and then like whenever he would Ask him directly. He would go back to that. Well, you know based on the how we tested So he didn't want to directly answer If Bitcoin was or was not a security He just he would keep taking it back to the how we test and how They based on the how we test is how they figure out whether something is a secured. It's just it's oh my god It's it's really annoying. Anyways That's basic what's been going on today, obviously hasn't really affected the market at all Tomorrow we have GDP. Oh, we have my dog Teddy I'm on I'm alive on air Teddy. No. Hey Teddy Sorry guys So we have tomorrow GDP growth rate That's gonna come out at 8 30 a.m. Again, I don't really think this is going to impact Bring a lot of volatility into the market unless it's something, you know out of this world that was not You know super really really far from consensus type thing that on Friday we have The core PCE Again, don't think this is going to impact markets too much Unless it's really far away from what the market was expecting type thing So if we look on to October, then the next big event is pretty much going to be The second week of October second. Yeah, second week of October the 12th of October When we have of course the inflation reports there, so The previous one came in at 4.3 percent. So it's kind of hot We don't know what the consensus is yet for the the one in October when we get that report So as we get closer, we'll have a better idea of what the market expects and you know be able to kind of Take some guesses and predictions on on what we can do based on on that information So we'll talk about what we'll talk about that once we get closer to that date now Let's go ahead and take a look at the news What's been going on? in the markets So the first thing here, I just pulled up a few articles here on some of the stuff that's been popping up in my feed First thing here is bitcoins being recognized as a digital currency in Shanghai. So You know kind of a big deal because if you don't if you remember like how many times has China You know banned Bitcoin So now it's being recognized as a digital currency out in Shanghai, you know pretty bullish overall would say for Bitcoin Another thing coming up that's that was popping up this week Chase Bank to ban crypto related payments for UK customers so basically what that means is If you have anything and it's the email the email setter right here If we think you're making a payment related to crypto assets will decline it So basically if you're buying anything that has to do with crypto either or buying crypto Or if they even looks like it has anything to do with crypto They basically will be denying it. So if you're if you bank with Chase That's something to be aware of In other news we have the Federal Reserve Saying that stable coins could become a source of financial instability So, I mean we've we've we've heard it a million times, right? Whether it's crypto stable coins, whatever it is that they're always trying to take shots at the crypto industry here And as you guys can see here Federal report a break the buck threshold for stable coins Notably the report identified a discrete break the buck threshold for stable coins around 99 cents The report states that below this price redemptions accelerate rapidly as investors panic that the dollar peg will be lost This mirrors tipping points in the money market fund runs. So they're trying to trying to compare it to money market fund runs and of course, you know, it's That is something that that has always been, you know, something in crypto We saw it with UST, right when that D pegged what happened, right? So it's saying stable coins are vulnerable to runs during periods of broad crypto market dislocation as was That word stress events so Now one thing to and look at an enemy says here terror USD stablecoin models Differ and algorithmic coins like terror terror USD lack reserves backing major rivals like tether That's also possibly one of the reasons that caused the downfall of terror USD. So terror USD Remember that fell because they did not have reserves, right? So that was the main issue there so You know something like tether I Don't know that there's always been a lot of things Trying to take shots trying to a lot of people trying to take down tether That that's always a risk and that would the same way that USD that terror USD Crash the crypto market, you know, if another stable coin crashed or you know D pegged it's the same thing would happen, right? It will crash the crypto market So because everybody will be running basically out of crypto at that point So that's why there's always been this risk on tether. So I mean for the most part I don't I try not to keep money in things like tether and things like that Sometimes you have to and I would say tether is probably one of the safer ones But you you know, that's that's a risk that that you do take so that's something you should be aware of not to have all of your funds or a lot of funds in one stable coin, so You know, that's just kind of part of crypto, right? In other news house lawmakers push SEC to approve spot Bitcoin ETFs. So The US Congress members asked Jensler, I don't know that what let me see was this today or yesterday. So I was yesterday It looks like they wrote the committee wrote a letter to Gary Jensler urging him to approve pending spot Bitcoin ETF applications And as we know That's something that they just continue to delay right Recently, I think we just we just saw one Let me see was it this week? I'm pretty shot. I'm pretty sure this week We saw another thing. I think it was ARC the ARC Bitcoin ARC ETF or whatever The spot ETF was delayed into January right so There's been a bunch of spot ETF applications and they all just slowly get delayed right when whenever the the Date of approval comes up. They just always they continue to delay them I think that's probably going to continue happening as long as The SEC chair is there Gary Jensler. So obviously he has a vendetta against crypto You know People in crypto did something very very wrong to this man. He has a personal vendetta against it So I expect that this will continue happening until he is out of office The presidential election is coming up Next year, I believe so once there's a different president then they'll be able to get him out of office Gary Jensler till then I I'm expecting that we see the same this same thing all throughout the rest of this year probably throughout next year and You know his job is pretty much on the line. So Maybe that there's a reason maybe there's a way where he cracks and finally approves one is these spot Bitcoin ETFs But it's not looking like like it. He's Seeming to be very very against it. So we'll see what happens Speaking of mr. Gary Jensler US congressman threatens SEC SEC's Gary Jensler with subpoena So I actually saw a clip of this It was congressman McHenry During his why he was talking to Gary Jensler It says his assessment of Jensler's transparency regarding the bankrupt Cryptocurrency exchange Moreover, he discussed Jensler's lack of responsiveness which continues to be unacceptable unacceptable amid committee oversight so basically he threatened the SEC chair with a subpoena because There's no no clarity. There's no Transparency, right? They're showing nothing. They're giving us nothing They're asking for things and they're not showing anything, right? So we have no idea What's going on and you can see the clip right here? But basically He got called out and he said if they don't get Transparency that they're gonna subpoena the SEC and it'll be the first time in the history that Congress has to subpoena the SEC or subpoena the SEC chair because they Refuse to basically set up a pathway for regulation for crypto they refuse to To even answer any type of questions to give clarity on that pathway and They're just kind of Attacking crypto for no reason right with with no there's there's no pathway to it There's no regulation for it and they're just going and attacking everybody and saying that that they're wrong right without giving any clarity so Ultimately McKenry stated that the committee's patience is wearing thin and I and he noted that the SEC is not Above the law while noting that compliance from regulators is routing regarding Congressional oversight finally McKenry called for a path forward where the SEC is responsive to request Alternatively the committee would have no choice but to issue the first congressional subpoena to the SEC So very interesting to see how this plays out In other news Hong Kong's mixing network hack leads to 200 million dollar loss So if you guys don't know about this, it's a decentralized crypto network and it was hacked for 200 million dollars Guys, we've talked about it Lots of times be careful with where you have your money You know Especially a significant amount of money very easy to get hacked for one of these one of these decentralized Exchanges in networks to get hacked. So be very careful with all that guys not your keys Not your wallet and if you just have it in an exchange There's a high risk of you losing that money. So be very careful with that guys on some bullish news Bitcoin For Bitcoin micro strategy buys an additional 147 million dollars worth of Bitcoin So they continue to add to their position You can see here micro strategy acquired five an additional 5,445 Bitcoin for $147.3 million and an average price of $27,000 as of The 24th of September so three days ago micro strategy now holds 158,245 Bitcoin acquired for 4.68 billion dollars and an at an average price of $29,582 per Bitcoin That's insane guys.  Let's say that They get to Let's say that Bitcoin gets to a hundred thousand dollars Right right now. How much do they have? 158 245 times a hundred Thousand So they would stand to to basically Be at 15.8 billion If Bitcoin were to get to that price 15.8 billion from 4.6 billion. That's pretty crazy That is a pretty pretty good return, right? In the last thing that we have the last piece of news coin base completes registration with central bank of Spain So this is bullish for those in Spain You can you'll be able to I think you'll be able to use coin base Once I don't know if it's already available or if they're setting up. Let's see Let's see if it gives a date here. I don't I'm not sure I don't see a date, but basically You know, I personally use coin base. It's my it's the way that I use to Rant to basically get fiat in and fiat out of crypto And they are a publicly traded company That's why I trust it a little bit more in order to do that to get to ramp on ramp off type thing And it's it's very easy to use right? It's a very simple easy app to use So I think that's that's a bullish for crypto overall so now that we have covered all the news I'm a Give you guys a few moments if you have any questions If not, we're gonna continue on to the analysis here for For today's for this week, right? and Like the title on this video says is there a Bitcoin double bottom So that's one of the main things that I am looking at That I've been watching for this week. So we're gonna talk about that How that could potentially play out and and then we'll go from there. Remember at the end of this We're gonna we're going to do a Q&A at the end of this So if you have any questions about anything that we're covering that we're talking about here Make sure to drop it in the comments So let's go ahead and jump right in Let me pull up really quick where is Where is my report that I did for this week? So every every week basically for my discord members I do a market update or I do it basically a full breakdown full report where I talk about You know, I look at that we look at the economic calendar. We look at the DXY which is a dollar we look at for a top-down analysis on Bitcoin and looking at support and resistance chart patterns liquidity levels imbalances wickfills and then of course trade entries so We're gonna kind of go through the report real quick and And talk about some of the stuff that I've been seeing here. So let's see All right, so so yeah, so As you guys can see, let's start off with with the DXY review, which is a dollar and As you guys can see if we kind of zoom out a bit. Let's go to the weekly here We're at the the dollar is currently at a big resistance level here That's you know, it's it's been a big resistance Over here. It's been a big support over here Support resistance there resistance there and we're here once again, right? So obviously that's a big level Another thing is that Look at how many weeks in a row. This is this is a weekly chart guys How many weeks in a row? We've been going up one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven So eleven weeks in a row The dollar the dollar has gone up, right? This is a US dollar currency index So now at this current resistance, what's gonna happen here? So One thing that could play out Is something like this where we had this very clear support level, right? That it's used many times then all of a sudden it broke below the support level before Then running in the opposite direction. So this is called a deviation, right? That's something that could be playing out here where we're at this resistance level We've been rejected from it multiple times This could be a deviation here where we kind of break out a little bit trap some long positions and then head down Right because it how much longer are we going to be going continue going up like this? The reason that this is important is because that the DXY Correlates a lot with Bitcoin since Bitcoin for the most part trades against the dollar So that's why we need we always want we always like to look at the dollar chart When also, you know and and kind of having an idea and keep in mind what's going on there to see What could happen with Bitcoin because if if we look when this move started back in The 17th of July if we pull up Bitcoin chart here and we look up The 17th of July, let's use June All right, 17th of July is right there Let's grab this So from July to right now Bitcoin is currently down 13 percent Since this move up began in The dollar index right so with 11 weeks in a row of the dollar index going up During that time Bitcoin's price has dropped 13 percent So, you know, it there's definitely correlation in there, right now Let's look At at the current chart here and we're gonna take a look at What's been going on right let's start let's start here in the monthly and then work our way down here So on the monthly chart for Bitcoin here, you can see we had the big rejection We had the big rejection here at that was at that 31 30 $2,000 level and Then we've pretty much been consolidating going a little lower ever since right now as far as Resistance that's gonna be the main resistance there as far as the support levels here So if you look back on this chart, we look back in history for some support here We can see there's definitely support in that $25,000 area We can see right there right there and all of these here that's all in that 24 to $25,000 support We can see that $26,000 is a minor support here where Bitcoin's price has been basically hanging on So that that's the overview there and if we go lower, we can see of course, obviously we have lower support Supports down here. We have the bottom of the of this market that was way down here so Let's now let's go ahead and jump into the weekly here and it gives a clear idea on what's going on more immediately So this is this is where I was I was looking at that potential double bottom So first of all, let's look at what happened up here So remember of probably about a month ago. We spoke about this right here which was a double top pattern and When we saw this double top pattern We said all right the potential here if we lose the neckline is for a drop down towards that $23,000 area and Although we didn't go all the way to $23,000, which was our target from the double top pattern We did drop to 24,397 so we got pretty close to that target So now what what is it that I'm seeing here? Well It looks like price wants to jump back up, right? It looks like price is holding Price has been holding very very strong here. We see a lot of these Doji candles we see Basically Price getting bought up anytime it goes into that 25 to $24,000 area We see a lot of indecision and and also the volume has continued to drop as the price has gone down so when when price moves a Lot in one direction while volume is Continues to drop Usually that means there's a reversal coming or something of that nature So that's currently what we're watching. So if we expect price to jump here at this current range Then that would mean this is a bottom Just like this bottom, right? So that's why we started talking about a potential double bottom here Because if we get a break to the upside here Let me show you guys what the target is our target here is gonna be about that $36,000 range That's basically the target that I am looking at if we do if this ends up Being a valid double bottom pattern, right? So right now the main resistance that we have we have this resistance up here From that drop. So it's currently sitting around 27,500 which is exactly the top of where we were last week great that we got rejected up So that's currently where that's sitting And we have of course this strong support here at $25,000 as long as the support holds here Eventually a move has to happen, right? If we end up breaking to the upside My upside target is gonna be around that $36,000 range $36,000, $37,000 which also happens to be a big resistance level for for Bitcoin there excuse me, so This is definitely a big level that I'm watching here.  I apologize guys. I meant to show you guys the chart I'm showing you guys my face that whole time my bad So like I was saying now that you guys can actually see the chart This is a double the double bottom here that we've been looking at We have this bottom here that happened last time before we had the big move up Then we had another another rejection that set up that double top, right? But now what's happening after setting up that double top we get the rejection our target was 23,000 We went down as low as 24.3 K, right? That was that bottom there and now Because price has been getting bought up It's setting up a double bottom So if this plays out the same way the double top played out previously My expectation my target is around 36 37,000 dollars doesn't mean we're gonna get 100% of the way there but If we get anywhere close to there meaning 34 35,000 dollars That's still a great start here now that and another reason another piece of the puzzle That points to this potentially happening is that September August September are the worst months for Bitcoin historically, right as We go into October November December. Those are historically bitcoins best months so if we think as We go into the fourth quarter that bitcoins price is going to go up during the end of this year and As we move into 2024 with the Bitcoin halving coming up with Interest cut interest rate cuts eventually coming up next year Guys, this is setting up for the beginning of that next move up, right? If we're expecting all that to happen Then that means that this is probably going to play out for this the end of this year This is a remember. This is the weekly Chart here. So this could if we look at this pattern here We could still stay here Through August pretty much. I mean, I'm sorry through October pretty much But I'm thinking in October Something has to give here and Bitcoin's price is going to have to pick a direction Historically October is a bullish month for Bitcoin We're getting closer to the Bitcoin halving I Think that if we break out here, we should definitely Get higher levels Towards that end of the year. So that would be put us above thirty two thousand dollars and And potentially we can go up to as high as thirty six thirty seven thousand dollars by year's end That's kind of my thoughts here if this plays out now if this gets invalidated We could potentially go go lower here You know my net the next main main support is of course twenty thousand dollars There's some minor supports on the way down, you know, you have a minor support at twenty three another minor support at twenty two twenty one Of course a big one the main one being twenty K, right? but From what I'm seeing right now I'm thinking I'm thinking there's a there's a potential here for a breakout to the upside here with this double bottom pat So that's the main thing that we're that we're watching here In at Bitcoin daily We have the clear the clear resistances there at twenty thousand dollars That we see here Right here around twenty thousand that's going to be the then around the neckline for Bitcoin if we break out of here We have of course a big support here at twenty five thousand and we have this downward trend resistance So we need to basically break out of there to then move into this range here Hmm So as far as If we go into let's jump into the daily now and look for some trade setups that you can potentially use if this happens here, so Let me get rid of these here, all right, so Right now as it stands, we're at that twenty six K Let me actually go to a different chart here We're at that twenty six thousand dollar level There's a lot of support here So I actually entered a position two days ago at twenty six thousand two hundred, which is exactly where we're at right now took profit at twenty six five hundred twenty six seven fifty here today And actually I'm re-entering this trade today as well twenty six thousand two hundred I I feel very comfortable entering here now what I'm doing on this trade is I'm Laddering my entry because even though there's some minor support here at twenty six thousand Price can go lower So I have my next entry set up around twenty five thousand eight hundred which is pretty much Where all of this has has been so price has gone there a lot of times So I have my second entry there at twenty five thousand eight hundred So if you're able to fill here at twenty six thousand two hundred if we go lower fill again at twenty five eight hundred and That be it basically gives you a price of Twenty six thousand dollar an average entry of twenty six thousand dollars you can set up your stop loss Just below twenty five thousand five hundred So it would be a five hundred dollar risk right a risk of five hundred dollars for Bitcoin's price If we look at these lows here there, that's basically where the majority of them have Stayed above twenty five thousand five hundred. We've had a couple Deviations of course we had this this deviation. We had these two and we had this deviation So there could be a deviation if there is you know close out the trade reevaluate If if we see the move if we see the goal kind of deviate like this and I start bouncing back up We could just re-enter the trade at twenty five thousand five hundred. So That's kind of the plan here We'll have a average entry of twenty six five hundred five hundred dollar risk five hundred dollar Profits, so it's a one-to-one risk to reward now if the second entry doesn't trigger Then just take profits as normal right? We're just taking profit. So we're taking profits twenty six five hundred twenty six seven fifty And then again as we get to that twenty seven thousand dollar area I'm taking profits again once we get up here Then that's when I'm starting to potentially look for a short entry because we've been rejected so many times in this range So close to that twenty eight thousand dollar area. I'm looking if if I see Rejections that I'm looking for a short right If not if I see that price is breaking through twenty eight thousand then twenty eight thousand dollars is enough Is a breakout potential breakout entry potential because that twenty eight thousand dollars could lead us To twenty nine and thirty thousand dollars, which was the range that we were in before So in in order for us to break back into this range that we were at we were at up here We definitely got to get that above that big resistance, which at which is currently sitting at twenty thousand dollars so That's a play right there that if you guys want to make that as a breakout entry there The last thing is if we go lower here, you know in 20 at twenty five thousand dollars in that range I am entering along positions here. I am buying here. So So that's basically the trade setups that I'm playing this week if you guys are interested in Seeing our our trade setups every single week every single day exactly what it is that I'm doing When I'm getting in and out because that as you guys know every single day as price makes a move these things change Teddy Apologize against once again for my pup You know once Once these things move then things change so when things change you got it You got to be all you got to be ready to also make a change with it So if you guys are interested for any of that you guys can join my discord We haven't missed a trade in September That link is in the description of this video here. So feel free to to check that out guys That's pretty much it guys We've covered, you know, everything that's been going on in the overall market We've covered the economic calendar for this week Talk spoke about some of the news going on this week in Bitcoin analysis on Bitcoin some trade setups that I am playing this week in Bitcoin and That's pretty much it Now if you guys have any questions about anything that we've covered so far Make sure to drop it in the comments right now and I must I'm gonna get to a few questions If not, then we'll wrap things up here. So I See ducky Dave and rivers in here shout out to them. Appreciate you guys joining Ducky Dave says good to see you streaming again. Any idea why by bit are stopping UK residents from trading? Um, I think it just very similar to to the US, right? They're they're trying to what they call quote-unquote protect their the the the people in the UK You know what happened in the US now there is a workaround I If if you're interested in it contact me Because you will have to KYC So you can no longer just use a VPN to trade on by bit You do have to KYC. There is a way to KYC. There's a way to get a resident a digit. It's called a digital residency In another country where that's where it's allowed and then you can use that to KYC Which is which is what I did on by bit So there is a work around if you guys are interested Let me know in the comments and and I and I'll I'll be happy to to either make a video about it or answer you guys on how to do it Rivers says just walking in hope I didn't miss anything. Yeah, you missed the whole thing man Yeah, man, no worries man we we Like like I said in the beginning of the stream It's been a few it's been a Crazy basically Month for me the first I was out of town and I got back into town. I had my birthday So, you know, it's kind of that was kind of blur a blur, right?  I had like some sort of COVID variant or something I tested for it for COVID. I kept coming out negative, but I had all the symptoms so I Was that knocked me out for about two weeks. So that's why I didn't stream for basically a past three weeks Then I was also my girlfriend's Birthday, so that was last week. So, you know, we're doing a bunch of stuff for her So now, you know this week once again, I am back And I am healthy again. So hopefully we'll be we'll be able to hit these every week now Consistently once again. 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Hello and welcome to the second module of chemical kinetics and transition state theory. In this module we are going to finish up a preview of the prerequisites. So, today we will cover how to think of elementary reactions, reaction mechanisms and finally end up with how to write rate law equations. So, again the resources are the same as that of module 1. We are following the chapter 1 of the Laidler's book. You can find essentially the same information in the NCIT book class 12 chapter 4. And I have also provided you here a link where you can find the information online as well. So, let us begin a brief summary of what we covered in the module 1. If you have a reaction of the type that is written here A A plus B B going to C C plus D D, the rate of this reaction we proved in the last module under the condition of constant volume is given below here. It is given by minus 1 over A D A over D T equal to minus 1 over B D B over D T equal to plus 1 over C D C over D T and so on. So, important to note we use a negative sign for reactants and a positive sign for products. So, now we move forward and look at how to calculate the rate constant and the reaction order. So, we start with the same reaction as before we look at A A plus B B going to C C plus D D. For this reaction more often than not one can experimentally observe that the rate that was defined in the previous slide can be written as K into concentration of A to the power of alpha into concentration of B to the power of beta where K alpha and beta are numbers. Our focus in this course will be on this parameter called K. So, K is what is called the rate constant. I emphasize again that this rate constant holds only when this empirical observation rate equal to K into A to the power of alpha into B to the power of beta holds. Another important thing to note which is often missed by many students is that this rate constant is independent of concentration of A and concentration of B. That is by definition K is simply a number, but it does depends on temperature. K does depends on temperature. So, we will be looking in this course specifically how to calculate this K as a function of temperature. So, there are reactions themselves can be divided into two parts a reaction that is elementary and a reaction that is complex. An elementary reaction is a one where the reactants combine together to give the products in one step without any reaction intermediate. So, essentially what is happening is that your reactants are combining together in directly as a form of a collision you can say and just giving the product there is nothing in between. So, for an elementary reaction one very important observation is that the rate is always given as K into A to the power of A into B to the power of B for a chemical reaction for an elementary reaction of the form. So, if a reaction is elementary this equation must hold always no exceptions. So, we often write the rate constant here above the arrow to signify that this equation will hold. So, then let us just take one example of a first order reaction. Again you must have seen this before. So, we are going to go through this slightly quickly just to revise what you already know. Reaction can be of many orders it can be 0 order first order or second order. First order specifically is of the form A going to some products B. The important thing is reactant is only one molecule. So, let us say I have this reaction and this is elementary. So, for this reaction two conditions must hold true as we have looked at. First is rate must equal minus 1 into dA over dt. So, note that the stoichiometric coefficient here is 1. So, I simply minus 1 here and the negative sign because A is a reactant and this will also be equal to dB over dt correct. If it is elementary another condition holds the second condition is that the rate must also equals k concentration of A. So, I will look at these two equations and I will just write down the solution we are recapping here. So, I am moving slightly faster the solution for this differential equation is given by this. So, I will leave this as a homework to verify if this solution is true or not. So, to do that you must feed in this solution into this differential equation the left hand side and the right hand side and verify. Well now we have gained some information after all these definitions if I make a plot of a first order reaction of any first order reaction it will always have this characteristic decay. So, an example of this is for example, radioactive decay if you take a uranium it is decaying and if I look at the population of uranium it will decay in this exponential form. So, moving forward how to write these kind of rate law equations we will take a few examples in today's module. So, the first thing that I want to look at is a reaction at equilibrium. A reaction at equilibrium we will look at an example of a reaction at equilibrium. A reaction at equilibrium essentially has a form. So, not only can you go from A to B with some rate constant kf you can also go from B to A with some rate constant kb. And I ask you that I tell you that this is elementary both sides and I want you to be able to write the rate law equation for this how do I handle that. The trick of this is to divide this equation in two steps. One we write the forward part only and two we write the backward part only with the corresponding rate constants. So, one is kf the other is kb ok. So, now we treat both of them independently to start out with and then we calculate the rate of this is minus dA over dt equal to dB over dt equal to kf into A. I emphasize this portion only has the reactant concentrations in it. For this first step A is the reactant. For the second step I will treat B as the reactant whatever is on the left side of the arrow. So, for this one I will write the corresponding rate as minus dB over dt equals dA over dt equals kb concentration of B. Now, if I want to calculate dA over dt how do I calculate that? The idea is we need to add the corresponding elements in the two equations. So, we look at the first equation. The first equation tells me dA over dt is minus kf A. So, we look at this term and note that I had a negative sign before dA over dt. So, I put that negative sign in the right hand side and I get minus kf A and I look at the second equation that also has a dA over dt. So, I take that and I add kB B. So, that is my first equation for dA over dt. I can write a corresponding equation for dB over dt. dB over dt again appears twice in both equations. And from the first equation the contribution is positive kf A and if you see that in the second equation I have a negative sign here. So, I have a minus kB. So, this is how you write rate law equation for complex equations. So, once you have elementary reactions what can you do with them? You can essentially construct mechanism of any reaction in terms of elementary reactions. So, in some sense elementary reactions act as atoms of chemical reactions. You give me a chemical reaction and I will be able to figure out some combination of elementary reactions that will give me that full reaction. So, a very well cited example is H 2 plus I 2 going to 2H i. This was long thought to be elementary, but evidence showed that for this reaction H 2 plus I 2 going to 2H i. The mechanism actually turns out to be that I 2 in equilibrium first dissociates into 2I dot. I dot reacts with H 2 to give H i plus I dot my apologies this should be H dot. H dot reacts with I 2 to give H i plus I dot back. So, this is an example of what is called a chain reaction.   It is simply an example and illustration of how reaction mechanisms are can be broken down into elementary reactions. I want to end today's module with a discussion of a very interesting case which was very deeply studied and hotly debated in 1920s which is the isomerization of cyclopropane. Cyclopropane is a three membered ring and as it turns out under appropriate conditions this can turn into propane. One fact that let me tell you this is unimolecular. There is no other molecule that this cyclopropane is interacting with to give propane. It is isomerizing on its own. So, that is experimental fact number one. Just for ease let me write this as A and let me write this as B. Well in 1910s and 1920s people were studying reactions of this form and this particular case of cyclopropane got a lot of attention. People were trying to understand its mechanism. People were trying to find it the elementary reactions behind it and well many people argued you have only one molecule. What else can possibly be the mechanism and so the most natural thing to write is that this reaction itself is elementary. Let us assume it is elementary. I do not know I am not claiming it is elementary but let us start by assuming that seems like a natural approximation after all. If I assume it is true, well we have already derived for a first order equation rate is equal to minus dA over dt equal to kA. Well let me just rearrange it in a form that was experimentally observed. So, this is my prediction. If I hold the hypothesis that A going to B is elementary then I predicted rate over concentration of A must be a constant, must be a number. I again highlight that k is independent of concentration of A. So, what people did is they were smart experimentalists. They plotted rate divided by concentration of A as a function of concentration of A. So, take a little pause and draw this graph on your own first on what you expect if this hypothesis is true. So, please pause the video and fill in this graph on your own. Hope you have an answer with you or graph with you. So, what I expect is basically a straight line. Well that is simple right because I have already shown that rate over A must be equal to k and k is a number at a given temperature. So, therefore, I expect it a straight line but low and behold what experimentalists observed they saw correctly this. So, at large concentration everything is good but the hypothesis is clearly breaking down at low concentrations and that led to a hot debate on what can be the mechanism. So, clearly my hypothesis is wrong. My hypothesis does not tests with the experimental results. So, what I will just briefly describe is what was put forward by Lindemann and Christensen in 1920s as a way to resolve this problem. And I am showing this example again do not memorize these things but this is an example to show how the knowledge of elementary reactions and the rate laws can help us understand what is going on an atomic level. So, this is the hypothesis that Lindemann and Christensen put forward.  A actually two molecules of A first collide with each other they react with each other in a reversible fashion to give me an excited A star plus A. This is the hypothesis they are they are just playing around and they had put up two forward and backward rate constant. I am just following the language they had used. So, I am using k 1 and k minus 1 and A star which is an activated state gives rise to B. So, this is a more detailed mechanism now it is not as simple. Now we have a more complex reaction and what I want to discuss in this module is how do we write rate laws for this and can we perhaps resolve the contradiction with experiment using this hypothesis. So, let us get to how to write rate law equations. So, we will we have three components here A, B and A star. We will start with writing the rate law for B. Well it will become clear why it is the easiest to write A star is next level difficulty and A is complex. So, we will go from easy to hard. So, let us start with B. So, here what I have already shown you are the three reactions the forward reaction of the first step of the last type, the backward reaction and the third reaction A star going to be. So, to write rate law we will follow the same scheme as I told for equilibrium reactions. So, if I have to find D B over DT well the first thing to note in which of the equations above is B appearing. I note that B appears only and only here B here is a product.  So, B is easy we move on to A star again I ask you where all do you see A star in all of these equations I find A star is here I find A star is here and I find A star is here. So, all I have to do is to take the components of each of them and add them together. So, I start I write D A star over DT D A star over DT for the first one will be K1 into A square. So, this one is positive because A star is a product here and I get A square because of the stoichiometric coefficient 2 behind A. Second one is this A star is a reactant here.  Finally, I use this one again A star is a reactant. So, we have discussed it for A star let us discuss for A and let us see where all A is coming. So, A comes many, many times and so, the challenge is how do you write a rate equation for this? Pause the video write the rate equation on your own this one is slightly more challenging it is a harder problem, but you have full information on how to solve it. Please pause the video now and I will show you the solution after you have solved it on your own. So, hopefully you have an equation with you if you are not able to solve it do not worry let us solve it together now. For this let us use the same steps as we have done for D and A star. Let us focus on this equation first and here is the question is A a reactant or a product? It is both what do I do? Well, let us not panic what you do is go back to the fundamentals how is rate defined? Rate is defined based on extent of the reaction it is a differential of extent of reaction with time. How is extent defined? It is defined on the consumption or production of a given element per molecule. So, what is the extent here? If 2 moles of A is consumed 1 mole of A will be produced. Therefore, the extent is 1 mole of A is consumed overall. So, what we have is a minus k 1 A square. So, the minus sign comes because A is consumed by 1 mole as the extent and this component is simply rate constant into reactants nothing more no more thinking on that and I have a coefficient 2 here. So, I write a 2 here irrelevant of whether A was in the product or not. So, I do the same thing on this side. Now here all correspondingly I will get a plus because for every mole of A that is consumed 2 moles of A is being produced. So, in effect 1 mole of A is being produced and I blindly write the rate constant into product of reactants ok. We will have more problems of this in the assignment where you will get more practice on how to solve these problems. So, how do we make progress beyond this? What we do is to make what is called the steady state hypothesis. What this hypothesis states? I am again moving a little fast. This hypothesis states that the intermediates concentration do not change with time and the intermediates are the one which do not appear in the overall reaction. So, in this case that is A star A is the reactant B is the product and the intermediate in between is A star. So, I have written back the equation corresponding to D A star over D t that I derived 2 slides before and what steady state hypothesis says is this is equal to 0. So, I will just use this equation and simplify a little bit. So, I just find out what is the concentration of the intermediate here and eliminate it out. So, this one you can verify is equal to. So, this is simple algebra you can look at it and convince yourself this is true. So, we get concentration of A star, but what we are after remember is the rate. Now, our overall reaction is A going to B. So, the rate is D minus D A over D t equal to D B over D t, but D B over D t we showed is equal to K 2 into A star remember we solved for both all 3 A B and A star and D B over D t you can look back comes out to be K 2 into A star. Well, I know now A star. So, I will feed that here and I get this. So, I have now an equation for the rate. So, remember in experimentalists were plotting rate divided by concentration of A. So, I have just divided that and I get this equation now and I want to make a plot of my prediction versus concentration of A. Well, you can just use a computer to plot this, but it is always fun to be able to plot this on your own at least the qualitatively what it will look like. So, we will think of this plot in two limits. One when A is very large in that limit I will assume is much much greater than K 2. So, that I will ignore K 2 in the denominator. So, in this limit I get something that is independent of A. So, at large A I get a flat curve which is equal to K 2 K 1 over K minus 1. Let us also look at the smaller limit when A is small such that K 1 K minus 1 into A is much much less than K 2. Then my rate over A will be equal to K 2 K 1 into A and in the denominator I will ignore the first term and I will get simply K 2. So, here I will get something that is proportional to A. So, you get a curve that looks like this similar to the one that you get in experiment. So, experiment by the way is not does not matches exactly with this observation and you need to do a bit more to get the experimental research exactly right, but that is a story of for another course. So, in summary what we have looked today it is what is an elementary reaction, how to combine these elementary reactions to give a reaction mechanism and how to write rate law equations. And if we want to solve using the rate law equations what is the net rate of a given complex reaction we use what is called a steady state hypothesis. So, we end here and we will move on to calculating rate constants as a function of temperature in the next module. Thank you.


So guys the news is still fresh. Bungie has been brought out by Sony.  I mean the main thing is Destiny 2 pushing forward or are these new IPs from Bungie pushing forward going to be exclusive to PlayStation consoles? Well guys today direct from Bungie I have the answers for you so we're gonna cover that right now. How's it going guys? My name is DPJ and if you do enjoy the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see I want to see more be sure to subscribe. Also guys excuse my voice. It's still got a cold and it's killing me.   Okay so Bungie not long dropped an actual a post on their website which I will just skip now too. You can see our shared vision. Bungie's bright future is only possible with you. Our amazing community of guardians. If you share our vision for Destiny a single global community that you can play anywhere on any device join us. We are just getting started. See you star side. Job black man and Justin Truman. So we can see all this right here and then have a Q&A. An interesting Q&A. Okay so question. As a Destiny 2 player does Bungie becoming part of PlayStation have any immediate impact on how I play and experience Destiny 2? Bungie states no. Our commitment to Destiny 2 as a more platform game with cross play remains unchanged. We want you to play The Witch Queen on February 22nd 2022 on the platform of your choice. Cool. Okay so again question. Will the Destiny 2 experience on non-playstation platforms being impacted by Bungie becoming part of PlayStation? Bungie No. We want to maintain the same great experience you already have on your platform of choice. Cool. Another question. Will any announced seasons, events, packs or expansions be changed or impacted by Bungie becoming a part of PlayStation? Answer. Nope. Bungie retains full creative independence for our games and our community. Our plans for the light and dark saga are unchanged. All the way through the final shape in 2024. Cool. Another question. Will Destiny 2 The Witch Queen include any platform exclusives? Bungie answer with no. The Witch Queen will not contain any platform exclusives. Every player should have an amazing Destiny experience no matter where you choose to play. Another question. Will cross platform features like cross save, cross play, the Destiny 2 companion app or third-party apps like Destiny Item Manager be changed or removed? Bungie answer with no. Bungie's commitment to cross platform play and social features remains unchanged. We believe games are best shared with friends whether they choose to play and will continue to invest in new features and platforms. Another question. Bungie has future games in development. Will they now become PlayStation exclusives? Bungie answer with no. We want the world we are creating to extend to anywhere people play games. We will continue to be self-published, creatively independent and we will continue to drive one unified Bungie community. Cool. So that's what the matter IP we know is coming or whatever this is. Seems as though it will not be exclusive to PlayStation which I guess is good news. Okay so next question and last question. I play Destiny on Steam, Xbox or Stadia. Will my platform be supported? Yes. Simple as that. Now to me, Bungie being brought out by Sony. Sony are definitely going to reek in some benefits yet. There's no two which way is about it. They don't spend four billion dollars on a company to not reek any benefits. What those benefits are could be tied to a number of things. Yes Xbox will still have Destiny 2. Yes it seems there's going to be no exclusive content for the foreseeable future. The matter IP seems as though in any future games will be available on Xbox or the platform's PC, Stadia or whatever. But it's definitely here. Definitely here. Something for Sony. Like I said, they don't spend four billion dollars on a company and don't really get anything in return. I mean yes they're obviously going to make more money. No doubt the game being bought by PC users and Xbox users. A bit of that profit obviously is going to go straight back to Sony's pocket. There's no two which way is about it. That's the way business works. But I think there's definitely something else here as well. But we will see guys. We will see but as of right here right now in the foreseeable future not much is going to change if anything. And there we have it guys. I hope any questions you have have been answered. And on that note I'm going to end the video. If you enjoyed it, leaving a like really helps out and hopefully guys I will see you on that next one.


This is JSA TV, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Dean Perine of JSA, and we are coming at you live on location in beautiful Fort Lauderdale, Florida at Metro Connect 2023. And I am here with my new best friend, Mr. Jeff Greenberg. Jeff is the chief marketing officer at Dark Points. Jeff, welcome to JSA TV. Well, thanks, Dean. I'm excited to be here. I am excited to finally get to meet you. I've heard a lot about you. But for our viewers that don't already know, why don't you tell them a little bit about Dark Points? Sure. So Dark Points, we operate data centers throughout the Southeast, my primary in the Carolinas, as well as the Midwest, Ohio, and Indiana. Which is where I live, by the way. Oh, really? West Indiana, that's right. Oh, interesting. Yeah. We're more a little bit further south. I'll come visit. I'll come visit. Okay. I've been there. And so we offer, you know, typical Dark Data Center offerings and solutions, as well as a lot of security and cloud offerings as well. So we're pretty much a full service provider in the markets that we serve. Very good. Very good. So, Jeff, you've only been at Dark Points approximately one year. That's right. Yep. To this point. So why don't you tell us about what most excited you about coming on a CMO at Dark Points? Well, the opportunity, of course. I mean, there is tremendous opportunity, I think, for Dark Points. We are expecting to grow pretty drastically and aggressively over the coming years. And last year was no exception. We had a really phenomenal 22. A lot of investment in the business last year, whether it was on the product side, we introduced several new products as well as infrastructure investment. So in our Greenville Data Center, we spent a lot of money there. Personally, for me, last year was a lot about getting to know the company and what our strengths are, right? We just expect that, yeah, for sure. As well as the people, and we've got just a tremendous team. I mean, we really embrace the customer experience and do everything we can to make that exceptional. So those are the big things, as well as, obviously, the markets that we serve and the needs and challenges that our customers or prospects are facing. So a lot going on last year, a very educational year, much more to learn, of course, but it was a phenomenal year. So you, I want to say, okay, so you recently made an announcement about a new bare metal and some new bare metal and security solutions. That's right. You want to talk about that? Sure. So, you know, one of our things that we focused on is, as I mentioned, we rolled out several new products last year, bare metal being one, security being another, and that really helps round out our product portfolio. So we are able to offer infrastructure security cloud services, like I mentioned, in these mid-sized markets that we focus on. And we're able to deliver those locally. And historically, those have typically been found really in major markets. So with regard to bare metal, you know, it helps provide a single piece of equipment, essentially. So it's a cloud-like service, but dedicated piece of equipment to an organization where security might be really important. So that's the key reason why we introduced, excuse me, bare metal. No, I love it. It makes a lot of sense with regard to your product portfolio. But you mentioned a growth season that you've been going through. I suspect that you believe that that growth is going to continue. Why don't you go ahead and make a couple of predictions for us, as far as what the growth looks like for you, what we might be able to expect from dark points in the future. So I will say just to backtrack a little bit, 22, we had our largest signed sales year ever. Okay. And I will predict that we will beat that this year. That is a lofty prediction, my friend. I love it. But the investments we made last year in the products really sets us up really well for this year. So I think we're going to be able to take advantage of all of that that we did last year. So yeah, I do think we'll have even a better year from a signed sales perspective, and then obviously from a revenue perspective as well. So yeah, we should have a really strong year. Everything's looking really up. First quarter looks good. Second quarter, we've got a lot of things in the pipeline. So yeah. I love it. Yeah, no. And as well as you should be, I'm hearing a lot of really, really great things coming from the dark points team. So congratulations, number one on a year at dark points. Congratulations on some significant growth. And congratulations on the year that will be 2023. Well, thank you. Yeah, we're super excited. I think there's a lot of good stuff going on. Excellent. And thanks for being here on JSA TV. Well, thank you for having me. You got it. You got it. And thank you viewers for watching JSA TV. We'll see you soon.


I think number one, like setting a routine for yourself is so important, whether that's, you know, some sort of a health routine and you're incorporating some meditation or workouts or runs and and then also setting aside time to spend with family or work on whatever type of a side hustle it is and that could be anything, whether you have a podcast that you want to start or write a book or so.  But I think when I think like that, I'm like, whoa, that's overwhelming. But what I can control is my routine and how I, you know, structure my day. And even though whatever day I set out to to start, it never ends up that way because life happens. But at least like I have some foundations within myself that I know that I can control. So number one, I know that I'm the best worker employee coach teammate. When I have a chance to take care of my health, I'm incorporating healthy meals working out all that. So I think ultimately that's a foundation that everybody should should have. Number two, your network is so key when you're building your career and when you're in your career. I think that it's yes, it's important to have those people around you that are like cheerleaders and always like have your back. But I think it's more important to have people that are not afraid to challenge you that are going to point out your deficiencies and also challenge your perspective. I think that just helps you. It's hard because some days you are just, man, I just needed you to tell me like, good job, keep going. But you have this person or these people that are like, well, maybe what if you thought about it this way? Or would you regret doing it this way? And just different outlooks. Again, it's important to have cheer, like my mom is, yes, the best cheerleader I will ever have. But it's some key friends. It's my fiance.  And then the third is, I think, just how I mentioned in the baseball ops internship, my favorite part was not being, I didn't feel like I was stuck in a box and focusing just on one thing. I think it's important that people don't box themselves in when they're thinking about a career, regardless of the industry. You know, I think that we fall so victim to labels. And I think that once you just get rid of labels and just pursue what it is that you love doing on a day to day basis that challenges you, that allows you to make a positive impact in the world, whatever it is, then that's what you should do. Like, don't chase the title. And this is all my opinion. Like, don't chase the title.  Even though some days you're like, what am I doing?  But just, just chase what's important to you and what adheres to your values. And yeah, so those are the three things like a routine, a really true solid, solid network, and then thinking outside the box and committing yourself to going somewhere that is outside of the box.


Hi there, and welcome to Learn WordPress. In this tutorial, you will learn how to add styles to your custom WordPress blocks. If you haven't already watched the adding block support to an existing plugin tutorial, I recommend watching that first, as this video will be referring to the code solutions presented in that tutorial. In this video, we will cover how blocks enqueue CSS files, how to use class attributes in your JSX code, applying CSS to your custom block, and applying additional CSS to the block when it's rendered in the editor. In the original adding block support to an existing plugin tutorial, you started with a PHP shortcode plugin. While functional, the shortcode would usually also have some styling applied, by way of the CSS file loaded from the plugin directory. The code to make this happen based on the shortcode might look something like this. At the top of the plugin, a function called WPL subscribe shortcode scripts is registered on the WP enqueue scripts action hook, and the WP register style function is used to register the CSS style sheet located in the plugin's asset slash CSS directory. Then at the top of the shortcode callback function, this style sheet is enqueued for rendering whenever the shortcode is used by calling the WP enqueue style function. If we look at the style sheet that's enqueued, it adds a background color and some padding to the container div, and applies a bold font to the header tag. This is done by applying specific styles to the class attributes of both the container div and the header element. We can see this rendered on the front end of the site when the shortcode is rendered. So there's our shortcode, and there's the front end rendering. And if we inspect this, we can see the HTML from the shortcode. To add these styles to your block, you need to know where to define them. If you look at the block.json file attributes, you will see the editor style and style attributes defined. The values for these attributes are both files that will be created in the build directory during the build step, in this case index.css and style index.css. The style file is enqueued both when the block is rendered in the editor and whenever the block is rendered on the front end. The editor style file is enqueued when the block is rendered only in the block editor and can be used to add styles specific to the editor experience. The style.scs file in the source directory is used to create the style file. The editor.scs file in the source directory is used to create the editor style file. Currently both of these files contain the scaffolded code from the previous tutorial, so we can clear them out. Delete that and delete. These two files are syntactically awesome style sheets, also known as SAS files. Just like the new JSX format used to create blocks transpiles into regular JavaScript during the build step, SAS files transpile into regular CSS. These files follow the new SCSS syntax, which you can learn more about on the SAS website. Fortunately, SAS files also support regular CSS, which you'll be using in this tutorial. The reason for having the additional editor style sheet for your block is if you want to display different elements when the block is being added or edited in the block editor. For example, you might have a block that includes select box, which allows the user to select a post which powers the block in the editor. The select box would only be displayed in the editor, but you might want to style it in some specific way. This is where the editor style style sheet comes in handy. Let's start by styling the block. If you've not done this already, switch to your terminal and start the wp-scripts-dev server in the plugin directory. So it watches the file changes and builds the new block output while you code. So we will run npm start and confirm that it's building. If you inspect the final HTML of the subscribe block in its current form, you will see it looks like this. Container divs class attribute is generated from the name property in the block.json file and is used here because we used used block props in the save function. You can make use of this class in the style.scss file so it targets the correct elements. So it's wp-block-wp-learn-subscribe-subscribe-block. And if we switch over to our editor and paste that, then we can style the block. Just grab the styling in the original file. This will add the background color and the padding to the container div in the block. At the same time, it would be a good idea to add the class to the header element so that we can define the specific styles to that element in our block. To do this, we need to add a class name value in the save function and the edit component where it renders the jsx. So if we switch back to the browser, it's the subscribe header class. Save function, update this to be class name, scribe header, do the same thing. Because jsx is closer to JavaScript than HTML, even though it looks like HTML, it uses JavaScript DOM properties instead of HTML attributes. Therefore, you use the class name property here and not the HTML attribute class. Then you can update your style.scss file and add your header style. So in our case, we're going to the container and then add the subscribe header class, then grab the styling from the original style sheet. This will add an additional bold font to the element with the class subscribe header. If you switch back to the terminal, we can see the build completed successfully. To see the change, you'll need to refresh your post in the editor screen as the build is updated to block code. Back in the editor, let's close that. We can refresh this and there we can see the styling. Sometimes your browser might have cached the editor style, so you might have to do what's known as a hard refresh. In Chrome-based browsers, you can do this by enabling DevTools, right-clicking on the refresh button and selecting the relevant option, empty cache and hard reload. If we preview this block on the front end, we can see that the style has also been applied there. As mentioned earlier, it's possible to add additional styles to the block when it's rendered in the editor by adding these styles to the editor.scss file. For example, let's say you wanted to add a red border to the block in the editor just to show where the block is situated. So if you go and grab the class and add it to the editor.scss file and then we'll say border 5 pixels solid red, for example. If you switch back to the terminal, you can see that the build is completed successfully again and now you can test that the styles have been applied in the editor by refreshing the post. And there we can see the red border around the block. However, if we view the same block on the front end, so let's preview this again, we can see that the border color has not been applied. Congratulations, you have successfully styled your custom block. Happy coding!