What's going on, everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards, ripping 22-23. Pneumonia, Daenerys, Leap, basketball, hobby, four box break, number 14, pick your team style. Read off a list of our names and our teams. Anthony, oh, with the Rockets, Bob H, Mavs, and Magic. Christopher S. Thunder, Chun-Wai, W. Grizzlies, David H, with the Heat, Felix N, with the Nets, Nuggets, Kings. Freddie P, with the Pistons, Jazz, and Frederick J, with the Cavaliers, Wizards. Hu-Jai, with the Sixers, Kuang-Jai, Blazers, Jeremy C. Spurs, Jing-Tan-Z, Raptors, Jorge M. Nix, Jose V, with the Pelicans, No-G, Lakers, Patrick G, with the Pacers, Rajesh P, Clippers, Ralph P. Celtics, Ronald C. Warriors, Steve B. Sons, Tony B. Hawks, Bulls, Bucks, Timberwolves, Tony K. with the Hornets. Good luck here, everybody. Let's do it. Hey, thank you there, Dean taking the Pistons in the next break. I think we're down to 11? 12? 11. 11 to go, guys. 11 to go. Jake's going to drop you guys that link. Let's get going on number 14. Appreciate that, Dean. Thank you, buddy. 11 to go, everybody, breaks next. Teams are all discounted as well. All teams are discounted. Then we got Prism. Three, four boxes to end. Larry Johnson. Nice one there for the Hornets. Tony. Grats, buddy. Nice. Larry Johnson. I did not. Thank you. Orange, Nikola Vusevich. So weird. Spellbound Ant-Man. Orange, Harrison Barnes. Might be to tell you a story after two. I don't know if you were in in the room or not. Jalen Duren for the Pistons. That one might actually put you on the floor out front. It is. There's Turn of the Century. Colin Sexton for the Jazz. Nice one there, Utah. Congrats on that. They're now starting point guard. Sixers gone. Down to 10. 10 to go. 10 to go, breaking next. Orange, Cam Thomas. That's awesome, brother. Is that, did you just take the Sixers? Orange, Jalen Brooks. A.J. Griffin. Steel of the Draft, A.J. Griffin. Let's go. Good luck, man. See if we can get you one of those passes. I know A.I.'s got a passing to Torch, which is pretty cool. Damien Lillard on the elite deck. Bulls and heat gone now, too. Yeah, of course. Thanks for choosing us, man. Appreciate that, buddy. Jimmy Butler. Again, last basketball break of the night. Eight to go, or of the day time, I should say. Eight to go. Full throttle. Orange, Donovan Mitchell. Orange, Trevor Keels. The next Utah Jazz starter, Kelly Olinick right there as well. Beast. Brandon Ingram, 299. Bloop for the Pelicans. Kevin Garnett, that is Timberwolves, back to the future. Kyrie Irving, Power Formulas. Spellbound, Steph Curd. Good luck on that one, too. That one's tough, right? This is like the second one. Spellbound, Steph Curd. And Red, Scottie Pippen Jr., nice one there. That is 40 out of 86 for the Lakers. That one can't be easy, either. Hey, membership luck with the next break. Let's go. Let's go. Good luck, brother. And guys, just eight to go on the next one. That's his son. Scottie Pippen, yeah. That's six. Nice becoming a member, man. Appreciate it. Isaiah Mobley Rookie. Franz Wagner on the elite deck. Steph Curry, Spellbound. Beast. In the G-man. Orange Jomerant. And the Vintage. The Vintage Box. There's Blue Jomerant, 299. Nice. Future WWE guy. That's awesome. Brother Mark who loves his basketball. Nice. There's Devin Booker, Power Formulas. Yeah, basketball is fun, man. WWE is fun. There's a couple of really good products that have come out recently, like WWE, iMac. From Prism just came out. There's Impact Impressions, Kristaps for Zingis. Nice one there, 249. The Unicorn going to the Wizards. Spellbound. Still eight to go on the next one. Everybody, Power Formulas at Bradley Beale. Yeah, iMac's awesome. iMac, we've pulled some bangers at iMac. Full throttle, Donovan Mitchell. Blue Andrew Wiggins to 99 for the Warriors. Let's go, Illegal. Congrats, man. Oh, Dylan called it. Let's go. On the new breed rookie auto. Let's go, man. You can mag that one. As long as you can handle the mag stick. There you go, man. Go, dude. Orange, D'Anthony Melton. So, Illegal on a couple of breaks has picked up now a Walker Kessler and a Jalen Williams. J-Dubb. Oh yeah, J-Dubb. J-Dubb slash J-Will. We're still out of 100. We're not still out of 100% sure who to. Orange, D'Anthony. Johnny Davis for rookie. Gonna hold off. Fair. There's Trey Young on the Clarity. Luca on the Star Stats. True. True. We had a J-Dubb yesterday with the case hit. We had a J-Dubb next up, which was kind of cool. Lamello. That's the tough one. Yes. Yes. That is correct. That is Steph Curry. Yes. Yes, Illegal. On to the next one. Turn of the Century is Dan Izzell going to the Nuggets. Nice one there. Vett Auto. Oh yeah. Orange, Gary Trent Jr. for the Raptors. Yeah, again, guys. Just eight to go. Eight to go. Last basketball group break of the day time. Power Formance. Orange, Trey Young. Max Christie Rookie. Oh, Penpal's chat. That'd be cool. Terry Eason. Nice one there for the Rockets. Grats on that on the new breed. Just having himself a good year. Orange, Bobby Ports. There's Anthony Edwards. Orange, Gordon Hayward. Make sure you remind me to tell you that story. Because it is funny. Christian Coloco, Rookie. It's very weird. Very weird. Yes. Yes. Okay. Jonathan Mitchell. Are you there or not? I hope you, yeah, I was going to say I kind of hope you weren't just so it's fresh. Steph Curry, full throttle for the Warriors. Give me some contacts. I kind of can't really give contacts without just telling you this. It's not a very long story, but it's just funny. Spellbound Orange, Ant-Man. Damian Lillard. Star Status. Red, Dame. 11 of 99. Nice one there. On the red die cut. What's up? This one's easier. Is it really? Yeah. I don't know how to do this. Kyrie Irving. On the clarity. John Morant. Spellbound. Is it my pick yet illegal? Full throttle, Lamellable. Oh, it is. Okay. I'm going to make my pick. Purple, Star Status. Steph Curry. 249. Snagging on a pitcher, I think. Loot. Kobe White for the Bulls. Nice one there. 2.99. Congrats. Shiedown. 8 to go still. Last basketball break of the daytime. Last box. I like that. Anthony Davis, Power Formules. 7 to go now. Jeremy taking the Raptors. Jeremy's been a big Raptors guy. 7 to go. We got a redemption. That is Caleb Houston. Nice one there. On the pen pals, going to the Magic. Congrats, Orlando. Magic. Pen pals, redemption. No, Trey Young. Full throttle. Got you left at this break though. Nah, dude. Yanis. Orange, KPJ. Jess, starter, Kelly Olant. EJ Liddell. I really hope you find this story as funny as I do. This is pretty funny, boy. I think I will. I think I will find the same things as you. Very true. Trey Young. 7 to go on the next one, everybody. Just kidding. There's only 6 to go. Denver off the board. Thank you there, Jared. 6 to go, everybody. 6 to go. Orange. Tyrese Halliburton. Star Status, 249. Purple. Anthony Edwards to 49 for the Timberwolves. New breed, Andrew Nemhard. Congrats on that, Pacers. Nice one there. Gonzaga Legend. Andrew Nemhard. Very nice. Take it, we'll take it. Power formulas, Ant-Man. Spellbound, Ant-Man. Christian Braun Rookie. Power formulas, Pascal Siakam. Steph Curry. Power formulas. There's a Devin Booker. Is Steph Curry Spellbound. All right, let's do a quick recap here, everybody. Caleb Houston. Andrew Nemhard. Terry Eason. Colin Sexton. Dan Izzell. Larry Johnson. Kristoff Spores-Zingis. And Jalen Williams. J.Dubb. Gotta do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the film. One more to go after this, number 15.


Live from Bellevue Washington, it's theCUBE. Covering Smartsheet Engage ATG, brought to you by Smartsheet. Welcome back to theCUBE, I'm Lisa Martin with Jeff Frick and Jeff and I have been live at Smartsheet Engage all day. Jeff, we're in Not Vegas, Bellevue, Washington. This has been a really electric event. The keynote kicked off this morning, standing room only. They have doubled in only their second year. They have about 2,000 attendees. 1,100 customer companies represented here. They had customers from 20 countries. They had more than 50% female attendees in the second year in a row. But we've heard such great groundswell stories all day. Yeah, it's been a good day, Lisa. You know, there's a little bit of confusion in this space. I think there's a lot of tools around workplace productivity. We got to hear from a couple of analysts and kind of how they're reshaping the way that they define those tools. And that's okay, and I get it, but there was no question about the three customers that we had on and the passion that those three customers had. Kind of old school shadow IT implementations. They brought the tool in from their prior work, plugged it in and are having tremendous success. Even the last one to the chagrin of the parent company that builds software to do the same thing. So there's really no substitute for that type of passion. And we've seen these kind of communities grow before. I remember early days at service now. It kind of reminds me of that. A lot of passion, applause, applause at the new features, which is always an interesting one. So a really, a really good day. And what you talked about, those three customers that we had on today, we had GE Renewable Energy, which was our last guest. A woman from Sodexo. Sodexo is a massive, massive company. And then we had a gentleman from the office of the CIO at PayPal. These are three massive companies. And the interesting theme from each of them is that these were groundswell opportunities for Smarchee to really go viral within these organizations and make massive business impact. And it's interesting that it's really, even from a sales perspective, when we talk to the VP of Strategic Accounts, this is not a top down sale. This is bottoms up. Even PayPal found it on their own and learned how to use Smarchee from YouTube videos. I love that. That was fantastic. So I love, you know, everybody talks about the new way to work, but what about the new workers, right? And both of those examples are really good. The PayPal one was great. Office of the CIO, and you have to figure it out. They just watch YouTube videos, which is how people learn things today. And they implemented it from that experience. They didn't call Smarchee, they just put it in and it worked. And then we just had GE on in his comment that he wanted something lightweight for his workers, lightweight, three-click rule. He said he had a three-click rule after we turned the cameras off that if you can't get it down to three clicks, you got to go back to work and make the process a little bit simpler. So these are real examples of real big companies implementing kind of at the departmental level where this is getting traction and executing to drive differentiation. And that's pretty exciting. Regardless if you get confused about the messaging or this or that, those are real life examples. And there's nothing that's more validating than the voice of a customer who has used it.  This is technology that was built from the ground up back 12 years ago on the construct of a spreadsheet which so many people understand and they've really parlayed that you're comfortable here with these tools. There's going to be, like you were talking a lot about today, very smart that you brought up. Hey, I've got so many apps open. I think Forrester said, you know, between 13 and 30 apps, people have open every day. So you can't really compete for that mind share. So in terms of differentiation, we've heard from Smartsheet themselves that they collaborate with companies that you think would be their competition. They understand that this, how this is starting from this groundswell. They have to be able to collaborate, to integrate, to connect with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Office 365, CRM systems from Microsoft Salesforce because that's how the worker needs to see their information. And they're also giving users the ability to configure. I want to see this. My team might want to see something completely different and we can do that while sharing the same information. Right, right. I think that the thing that struck me is really the big competitive differentiator in this kind of work group management is the going outside your four walls.  Like red flag, I'm doing something wrong. The fact that the Smartsheet licensing structure is set up that if I set up a project, I can share it to people outside my organization. They can participate in that project. A, it just makes a lot of sense because more and more projects, right? You've got contractors, you've got partners, you've got all these things. It's not just this isolated instance anymore, but then more importantly for Smartsheet, it just gives exposure to the tool, to a new group of people. So I think that's a really key part of the story here that, again, maybe kind of under the covers in terms of some of the messaging, but a real key differentiator. You know, we've seen this type of viral growth before. I used to work for an Atlassian service provider and Atlassian had a great, you know, kind of seed strategy. $10 for 10 licenses and the $10 goes for schools in Africa. Brilliant, who doesn't want to pay 10 bucks to help such a worthy cause and then to seed it in. And then people that are successful with the tool, it goes with them. And we heard that here, the last gentleman from GE used it at a prior company, brought it over, wanted a lightweight tool, not a big ERP tool, implement it and now he's running, things that $100 million in assets more effectively than he could before. Exactly, but what you talk about in terms of that big differentiator, their ability to find a smart sheet user, and you're not, I can share something with you, we can collaborate. They've got, I think I read over the weekend, about 650,000 active individual users, but they have about three million people that are collaborators. And I think it was Mark Maynard, the CEO, this morning, Jeff that shared with us, that's 40% of their business. They have a massive pipeline by just enabling this collaboration and the ability for a user, it's paying for a license, to share with a colleague who isn't. Right, and then there's just always, the small conference, it's 2,000 people, still new, people are super passionate, that there's, it's not a big vendor show, it's not a big expo hall show, but people are super engaged and sharing information. And you get that in kind of the early days of these conferences, which is a really neat thing to see, and there's no substitute for passionate customers at the end of the day, that's all you can really hope for, and that's the validation that you need to move forward. Absolutely, they had, I think, over 50 customer speakers today, and I know how incredibly difficult it is for a marketing team to find 10 customers. Yeah, you know that, right? Right, to speak, let alone what, you know, what multiplier you have to have to get 50, 4X, maybe not here, it seems like these people that are users at PayPal and Cisco and Sodexo and GE Renewable Energy have found this on their own and are really kind of creating this virality that is, it was very infectious contagious. Which is amazing to me, because there's, again, there's so many applications out there, and they don't all do the same thing, and they have pros and cons, but they'd be able to find it, to be able to deliver success, and again, another important piece, and integrate in with those existing systems that already are in play, you know, Mark was very clear, we're not expecting you to throw out the apps that you have, you may or may not be able to display some with Smartsheet, but we really want to work with them, right? We want to play together, not necessarily play separate, and again, you have to do that to be successful in 2018. And they're listening to their customers, they have to do that to be successful, that's driven by the customers, it's clear that, you know, there's a push-pull effect, and it's going to vary based on the enterprise and their overall objectives, but their collaboration with customers to develop, and to prioritize all of the enhancements that people have been asking for for the last year, since the first engage, was really, you felt that you heard it, there was a lot of applause during the product announcements session this morning, they are listening, they're taking that feedback in, and ultimately, what their VP of Customer Success talked about is, they're driving change management, and that is extremely difficult culturally to be able to do. It's people, right? I mean, they said it right out the top, empower everyone to improve how they work, connect, innovate, and execute. I've said it time and time again, we do a lot of shows, I think that's a pretty straightforward path to give more people more data, the tools to manipulate the data and get the answers, and then, most importantly, the authority and power to execute those decisions, especially when you're close to the customer, that's where good things happen, that's where the organization moves forward, and it can't be centralized command and control, everything's just moving way too fast. Right, right. It's way too fast. I had a blast hosting with you all day today. I learned a lot, my perspective is really opened up about Smartsheet and what it is, and how it can really drive a lot of transformation and accelerate digital transformation. I can't help but again, go back to the line from Google Cloud, right? People want to move to judgment, less drudgery, more judgment. That's what they're enabling here at Smartsheet, and we are excited to be uncovered, and can't wait the next year. Awesome, thanks Jeff. Again, Lisa Martin with Jeff Brick, thanks for watching our coverage of Smartsheet Engaged 2018 from Bellevue Washington, we'll see you next time.


Welcome to the Jalassette News, I get top stories in Crypto, Currents and Jalassettes, and break them down into bite-sized pieces today, but Domino's continue to fall. Bitwise 10 Crypto Index Fund has liquidated its entire position in XRP. So at first glance, it looks pretty bad, but if you get into it, it's really not too much on this side, but the real question becomes is what is coming up next? But before we get into that, I want to take you down a trip down memory lane. Remember this guy? This is Brian Brooks. He's the czar of the OCC, and he said these exact comments over on December 8th. Just take a listen and tell me if this doesn't sound a little bit odd. Like that. Should we be expecting some new regulations by the end of the Trump term? I think you're going to see a lot of good news for Crypto by the end of the Trump term. Some of it's going to have to do with banks connecting to blockchain. Some of it's going to be more clarity around the nature of these assets. So believe me, there's going to be very positive messages coming out. I don't know what he's talking about because it doesn't seem to be positive right now. There's a lot of bad things coming about. I mean, one of those, of course, being the SEC putting a lawsuit out against Ripple and XRP. And there was a couple of things that we talked about yesterday. Check that video out. First of all, we talked about the SEC believes that XRP is a security. And second, it has a problem with how these securities, quote unquote, or XRP was actually sold to investors. So there's two different criteria here that they're looking at. So of course, with that fantastic news, this is what happened to the price of XRP. Who saw this coming, right? 33% down, 34 for the week. And it's down to 31 cents. If you're an XRP holder like myself, that's a bummer.  These are the games that we play. These are what we are into. And I've been looking on the Twitterverse and there's been two different theories. One is hold for dear life because XRP is going to win this lawsuit. And the other one is just sell and get out like crazy. I'm not going to tell you what to do because that's not my job. But I will just tell you this, these lawsuits are going to take forever. It's going to be well over a year. It's going to be a lot of ups and downs. And just expect extreme volatility if not XRP moving out of there. So I have my whole theories about what's going to happen and how it's all going to affect America, how it's going to affect Ripple and XRP, but that's not this video. This video is all about the liquidation. So here's what's going on. This was today. Bitwise 10 crypto index fund has liquidated its position in XRP. It states, this fund does not invest in assets that are reasonably likely to be deemed securities under federal or state security laws. Bitwise decision to liquidate its position in XRP was based on consideration of new public information from the SEC's complaint. So when you have something like this come up, whether they win or not, you have to understand these institutions are not about exposing themselves to risks. And I totally understand now why when you could invest in a certain projects or ICOs, it would always say, we're only looking for accredited investors. Those are people who make $200,000 or more. Because this is one of the complaints that the SEC has.  Because they are more savvy. They have more money and they're going to lose more or whatever else it is. And I'm not here to debate that. But again, these institutions, when they look at this and like, whoa, we don't want to be involved in that. And that's their whole job. So prior to the sale of the asset on December 22, XRP was approximately 3.8% of the fund. So not really that big of a deal, 3.8%. The fund liquidated its position and reinvested the proceeds in other portfolio assets. So again, you have to wonder if Bitwise is doing this, what is going to happen across the spectrum? And then the next question I had was what are exchanges going to do? I actually woke up to a tweet from, or sorry, a message from my man, Alex Masculiou. He's like, hey, just so you know, Bitwise liquidated everything. This is how I know all this stuff and why it was put out. And I asked him, I said, hey, man, are they going to do this to exchanges? And he said, yes, they're going to remove them from exchanges or else they're going to be sued. And then I asked him, is that for all the exchanges? And he says, well, he goes, if the exchanges have regulation clarity to list the security, which some of them do, then they won't. So now the next question becomes, and really, this is a legitimate question, are different exchanges going to delist XRP for what is going on in fear of what is happening? Now, I'm not a lawyer. I don't know what's going to happen.  I'm just saying, when something negative like this happens to institutions or anyone, they try to distance themselves from and go like, we're not a part of this. So deal with that. And then when you're all good, we'll come and help you. And that's how it is. And finishing up, investors are encouraged to read the annual reports and carefully consider these and other risks, including the fact that if any of the assets held by the fund are determined to be a security under federal or state securities laws by the SEC or any other agency in a court of law or otherwise, it may have material adverse consequences for the fund and the bitwise shares, which is why they liquidated everything. So again, I don't know what's going to happen, but I can almost guarantee this is not the last of what's about to happen across other funds and potentially across other exchanges. Now, I don't know exactly what's going on behind the scenes. I'm not a behind the scenes player. However, if you go to any of my videos, even this one, just scroll down in the description right down here of all the channels I recommend. You got Coin Bureau, Alex hash, crypto nodes, crazy for cryptos. I love those guys. There's Alex's channel. Just click on that. And he's the one with the behind the scenes type of players and has all that information. So check out his channel because I'm sure he'll have something to say about it today. And that's it. So that's it for today's video. Tonight, we're going to be doing a little bit more in-depth type of analysis and what's going on in the stories. Also, see this guy right here? This guy here, that's Danish. He's going to come on the show. I'm going to get him on the show. We're going to do a live premiere. And we're going to give away $100 worth of Bitcoin cash. So definitely check that out later tonight. And that is it. So thanks for watching. I appreciate it. And I'll see you on the next one, which is the night.


Mrs. Sofia Toscano, thank you so much for taking the time for this interview and first I'd like you to introduce yourself to the viewers who may not know what you're doing in that part of the world, so tell us about yourself. Yes, my name is Sophie Madness Toscano, I'm a Belgian lawyer. I've been recruited as expert by ITU to assist in offering the module on school connectivity. It is a module that we did, there are two distinct aspects of it, one is the one laptop per child, the other are the legal and regulatory issues related to school connectivity. That toolkit is available as from today on the ITU website and contains many best practices, case studies and lessons in how school connectivity can benefit countries, communities, schools and of course our children. Okay, so your session was about discussing that module and what are the main elements of it without going into much detail, but for those who have not heard about the module, what key elements are there in it? Well, when you're looking at a school connectivity plan and in the session we had today we also had a gentleman from Egypt that was talking about how in Egypt they achieved school connectivity. The key point is that one must look at it holistically, one must look at a global approach and see school connectivity, schools and connectivity. Therefore you need to look at ICT policies and laws, you need to set a realistic timetable, you need to look at funding, you need to see who the stakeholders are going to be and what they're prepared to contribute. But then you also need to prioritize what schools are you going to connect, can it be a top down, so is it the centralized agency that will decide what schools to connect or does it come from the schools themselves that request connectivity. Then you also need to look at the network details, so what technology will you use to achieve the school connectivity and you cannot forget the support mechanisms as well. You must look at maintenance, you must look at sustainability of the project. And finally you have to have an entity in place that looks at coordination, monitoring and evaluation as we saw from the case of Morocco which was presented today as well, evaluation and looking at what has been achieved and how can it be improved as a key element to school connectivity. So those are the key elements that one needs to look at. So the major part of the discussion was on why do we need national school connectivity plans, so why do you think these are important things to look at? Well we need a national school connectivity plans first of all because you cannot underestimate the importance of connectivity in schools in terms of improving the way of education, in terms of access to information from around the globe. In terms as well as of administration of the various schools and also to use the schools as anchors for community connectivity because even in the rural areas you will see that schools are often seen as a place where children feel safe but where other people feel safe going to. So if you can use that as anchors for connectivity including for other groups with special needs such as people with disabilities, women and girls etc. So when you talked about the module you said that you came across several approaches that other countries have taken. So what are the approaches that have been done before and what is your view on them? Well we have seen the successful approaches and we had a couple of presentations on that today. The successful approach is really where there has been a global approach, where there has been coordination between the Ministry of Education so the education plans and the connectivity plans. The successful approach has also been where there has been regular review where stakeholders have been drawn in appropriately and where the financing has been assured. But the successful approach as well is if I look at a country like Portugal that today is aiming for one laptop for every child in the schools is because since 1998 Portugal has looked at school connectivity as a global part of their ICT policies. They've involved the telecommunications regulator, they've involved the education entities and they've looked at it, they've brought it into their licensing approach and telecommunications, they've brought it into their license evaluation approach and telecommunication. They've brought it into their universal service obligations and they've brought it into cooperation between government and private entities such as the Intel we see the one laptop per child initiative generally. In Portugal that one laptop per child initiative is called Magaliais and that is where they have brought together telecoms operators with stakeholders with government. And what Portugal is doing as well is not just looking at the equipment but also looking at the content that is all part and parcel of their policies. So what are the examples we've seen in the module? You can see examples from around the world from Latin America, from Africa, from Europe. But what you've seen in the more successful examples is where the approach has been well coordinated, well thought out and well implemented. So how do you think school connectivity can change the way children learn and the way schools can be administered? The way in which children learn I think there you have an opening up of the whole world towards children and yes you might say well are we not concerned in the type of information that children won't have accessible to them. I think that is part of the planning that you need. You need to look at your cybersecurity laws and you need again in that holistic approach when you evaluate the IC policies and legislations you need to look at those laws and see that the appropriate laws are in place so that inappropriate content cannot be easily made available to children. Now if we look at how can they benefit from it, well if our children have the benefit of researching on the internet, looking at cases, country examples, looking at explanations of mathematics problems, looking at reading things in English that prior previously were in French or any other language that they wished to learn that prior previously we would have to go to book shops and buy the books and there was always a delay in our learning capabilities and our willingness, they now have the chance of getting to that more easily. Now in terms of the administration of the school, I think there is a question of first of all the optimization of the processes of the procedures and also secondly more transparency, more openness, there is more opportunity for parents to get involved in the school administration. I for one, I live in the United States and my child's grades are available online, any announcements from the schools are available online but also the annual report from the school is available. So the administration of the school in terms of financing management but also in the transparency towards the parents gets reset by that kind of activity. Okay so when we talk about school connectivity, who are the real stakeholders? Is it just government, is it NGOs or is it a mix of both? How do you see the stakeholders in that area? The stakeholders are a mix of a number of stakeholders. You have governmental authorities, in the first place obviously we're talking about school and connectivity so you would have education entities and ICT agencies. But then other stakeholders can be or those contributing to the process can be equipment manufacturers, can be telecommunications operators, can be NGOs, can be international donor agencies, can be other government entities that have an interest in school or in connectivity and bringing that connectivity to other communities. So you have a wide variety of stakeholders that should be brought into the process and determined school connectivity. Okay we're really interested to know about Portugal's licensing experience it went through and how it impacted school connectivity in particular. As I mentioned earlier on in the interview Portugal has had a very comprehensive approach to school connectivity since the 1990s. What happened was that Portugal at the end of the 90s was chairing the European Council so had the presidency of the European Union. Their main, their key point in their presidency was the information society in Europe and they promoted that in Europe initiative within their presidency. Now that was just at the time that the 3G licenses were being granted in many countries in Europe. And what you were seeing is that in Germany and the UK in particular you had these huge auctions bringing in tremendous amounts of money. Now, government in Portugal had a study carried out to look at the impact of high licensing fees in houses. High licensing fees would impact the rollout of 3G and the cost for consumers. But also they brought in this how can we promote the information society in this process. So rather than asking for huge licensing fees what happened was that 50% of the evaluation criteria for the 3G licenses were based on innovative information society projects. Operators had to come up with innovative information society projects and were evaluated on that for their 3G licensing. And school connectivity was part and parcel of that. Some of the operators came up with school connectivity projects. Now mixed to that of course government continued with their e-policy and with their e-policy continued to provide that connectivity to schools. What happened is that part of the license fees were also put into a special fund and agreement was made between government and Intel so that that special fund could then be used within the context of the one laptop of the child to come up with this Mabinage program. So it is a very interesting concept, it's a very interesting approach to school connectivity in that it's being approached through various angles. So when we mention approaches what are the different approaches that you covered in the session like the hybrid approach, the top bottom approach. That's the approach in how to select the schools because as we say when we're looking at large countries today we had Brazil speaking, we had Egypt speaking. These are large countries and when we talk about covering their schools or providing broadband to their schools we're talking about a lot of money. Schools that's like the gentleman from Morris said how do we small poorer countries finance the provision of broadband to schools. So you do have to prioritize or you do have to have an approach in which you say this is the schools we'll cover initially and this is the time for the further coverage of schools. That can happen either by the government agency or you can have a scheme in which you say okay this is the school connectivity, let schools apply for their connectivity. So that's the bottom up approach in which it's the schools themselves that state their case for being a priority rather than government imposing a particular priority. And a hybrid one? The hybrid one is a little bit of both in which there is an approach but you still have applications from individual schools within a certain action plan that is specified. So what support do we need when we speak about school connectivity or national plans? What kind of support is needed? Is it just monetary support or something else? As I say when we look at the various steps in which we define the school connectivity plans you need to look at your legal and regulatory framework. You need to set the deadlines. You need to look at what the best technology is within your framework within your timeline. And then obviously you do need to figure it out to price it out and see if this is the funding that will be needed for the school. So my final question, how do you think school connectivity is related to other community issues like disabilities and women's rights and other topics? As I said previously now in the interview schools are seen as a safe place. Schools are seen as community places. Particularly when we're talking about public schools because you saw from the session that most school connectivity projects connect the public schools or the municipal schools. So they are often seen as public places or as places where communities can have activities whereas anger is for connectivity. And that's how I think when you have that connectivity into the schools you can expand that connectivity to improve other services.


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Coinbase is leaving America and I have to tell you I don't blame them one bit And what exactly I am talking about is there was a blog post that was put out Yesterday late and it talks about an update to Coinbase's global scale to go broad and deep I thought it was interesting because a couple of days ago We took a look at Brian Armstrong There was an interview between him and a host of CNBC And they talked about the impending legislation that they're gonna probably have to fight with the SEC and they asked him Are you okay with going multiple years? He said absolutely, but I have to tell you As things are moving forward, how long is it gonna be before they're like? Why are we here? Why are we in in USA? We've done everything we can possibly do and they still won't give us any kind of clarity of regulation That still keeps suing us. What's the point when I'm going to be treated way better? Here's what we got so coinbase working with global regulators, you know, the ones that will listen to him And of course we've talked Not just this channel, but all the channels talked about how Gary again was getting right over the coals by Congress and You can just see here. This is what should be done working with global regulators Coinbase brings customer protection and trust to the forefront of crypto sounds good. Here's what they've been doing I didn't know this but From sing pass to free bank transfers We've launched a seamless safe and convenient experience for retail customers in Singapore Launched our first full crypto experience in Brazil integrated picks for easy account top up using Brazilian Brazilian reals Localizer Apple 24-7 email support. Hey, that sounds pretty good here in America too partner with e-banks and Streamline the user on board process It also talks about how they're making strides in the Canadian market, but they haven't really done too much But here's the two biggies Accelerating our United Arab Emirates plans with Abu Dhabi global market regulators Essentially working with the regulators to bring that to the UAE, which sounds good to me because that's where all the crypto Big-time people are anyhow and received our regulatory license to operate from the Bermuda Monetary authority essentially what they're doing is like look I'm gonna get any kind of licenses here because as much as we ask we're just not gonna get it So forget it We're just gonna go off to Bermuda and get our licensing down there They're doubling down in Europe and this is an interesting stat 22% of UK adults currently own crypto They state the political establishment is very focused on harnessing the potential of the crypto economy and Welcome the team received lay this ambition there and lastly They applauded the European Parliament's adoption of MICA So we'll do that in a second, but just think about that real quick if you are an enormous Company you've gone public and you've said to everybody we want to work here And the regulators are like that sounds good.  You just passed the crypto law, which is something that America should have been doing a long time ago Instead we are dealing with a Howie test, which was made in the 1930s for corn and agriculture so Good job, Europe. You're doing a heck of a lot better job than we are EU laws comprehensive regulations MICA crypto law passes This will bring in new rules for the industry across the 27 country block It passed with 517 votes in favor and 38 against and 18 abstained So this wasn't even close Europe wants this European countries want this the block wants this because they see where the puck is going Now where the puck is at right now? Crypto firms including Binance Coinbase and Kraken welcome the passing of the landmark landmark legislation Let me just say this before I move on For everybody out there who's like we don't need regulation We can do it just fine. We can be all right and we can do those things. Sure. You can do it. You don't need it right It's like here's how I compare it It's like making $20,000 a year in the United States. You could make $20,000 a year You can make $50,000 a year or you make $100,000 a year. You can get by and each each and every one of them It's gonna be very difficult when we tell you especially about where you live, but why not just do it that way? So when we talk about regulation, it's not like I'm talking about like we're gonna clamp down everything else I just talk about Guidance and clarity because without that then we lose our exchanges and what happens when we have our exchanges well Things go underground. Can we still get by sure?  I'll go do some kiosk and some run-down mall and use a Bitcoin ATM and pay an exorbitant amount of fee to get it but That's what it's gonna have to be so again. I applaud you're up for doing this Anyhow not to get off. Let me step step off my soapbox and get into this article So the mica legislation means that you you will have a unified approach to crypto asset regulation Across all 27 member states making it possible for firms approved in one country to passport their business and others With minimal paperwork So you would look at this and go well, I can see why the different exchanges would like that but hold on To achieve initial approval firms will have to face much higher standards of disclosure Including the preparation of a detailed white paper for each and every asset that they offer stable coin issues are subject to even tighter rules So the question then becomes Why is it that coin base and Kraken? The other Gemini they're all applauding this because they know they're like we don't care That's what we want. Anyhow if you just would have said just do this this this fine, you know, we'll do that just fine That's what the EU is going to give them. So why wouldn't they just go there?  Good luck And this is from vice president international policy a coin base the European Parliament's adoption Micah the day is a pivotal moment for the crypto industry in the region and the work of European policymakers should be seen as exemplary Listen up Gary Gensler, so that's what we have so again I tip my hat to the EU and passing that so because the mic was a long time coming there was issues that were Buried within that that bill which would have made a little bit more difficult for Bitcoin miners And they rooted that out and corrected it because people Stepped up and they said we don't want this and this is how it's supposed to be done You have a bill you have legislation you listen to the people because the government is supposed to work for the people The other way around that's how I see things anyhow. Let me know where I'm off in that assumption and then also Speaking of countries that are getting it right Russia Not the war with Ukraine obviously not but at least they figure things out like hey if you're gonna sanction us Here's what we'll do Russia plans to mine crypto for cross-border deals. This sounds great on its surface, right? Hold on Crypto trading and payments inside Russia will still be banned So it's not all great, but I gotta hand it to Russia for going look if you're gonna sanction us and we can't you know Open up trade and commerce then we'll just talk to the countries that want to use Bitcoin or cryptocurrency and we'll mine it and Then it'll be a hash rate war and that's fine with us And then also I was thinking myself is this independent or is this gonna be government control? Obviously government-controlled bit river one of Russia's largest mining companies previously partnered with the state-affiliated oil company Gas promnest nailed it.  I mean take notes America. That's how much it works.  Hey What are you gonna do?  This was a concern because of course FTX came through and that fell through because SPF is Next Bernie made off I think And then and then Binance stepped up. Thank you And they said we'll do this Binance us stepped up and the government stepped in as they usually do and say no No, we don't want you to do that. Well now that's been all Smoothed out this is from the voyager official community of unsecured creditors and they state the resolution is embodying a joint stipulation Providing that the appeals will continue with respect to the plan's provision with the government agreeing US government that the Binance us acquisition of voyagers assets may move forward without such provision And will not otherwise be subject to this day. Thank you America for allowing us to get some of our funds back So then the question that becomes well, how much we're getting back? What's the haircut? Documents and information vary but I can tell you that we did a video about this about four months ago And in this video This was a balanced Sheet snapshot of voyager.  Hopefully they got that back total crypto held 685 million so total crypto held and long was one point Which is roundup 1.3 billion And then they talked about it was going to be three arrows capital loan recovery to be determined, which that's not going to happen So the total recoverable assets was 1.2 billion dollars And if you throw in three arrows capital, which they're probably not going to get back, but I could be wrong 1.8 billion dollars and this was On june 30th 2022. So what was the market doing back then? Glad you asked So you can go to coin market cap and around 26 of june 2022 Yeah, 26 of june just four days beforehand You were seeing bitcoin at the price of 21,000 a theorem was 1100 Binance 233, uh cardano 48 cents. It's cars like that same one actually But you can just see what and I think the bigger question will be what's the market cap the market cap roughly on that date june 29th was 896 billion And on june 30th 907 billion right now. We're sitting at 1.24 trillion dollars So they're going to offer up 1.05 billion dollars. So what's it going to be again numbers vary I've seen everything between 30 percent and 66 percent of What we'll actually get back and then also before anybody asked me i'm in texas right now If you live in texas, they're not going to get that that's uh money transmitter license from binance us I don't think so but I could be wrong and in that case you will not get your crypto You will get a dollar amount sent back to you in some way shape or form I will have more information as that becomes available But that's what we have finally a little bit of good news. So the funds that I have my five figures I'm going to take a haircut take it out reinvest in the crypto learn my mistake Which is never trust any exchanges put everything on a cold storage device. Anyhow, let me just think about that In the comments and to finish up It's a weird story. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know why this is even even here Credit agency giant trans union will deliver credit scores for crypto lending and I was looking at this. I'm like, what the hell is this So just so you know here in the united states, we have three agencies that determine our credit scores Equifax experience in trans union. So trans union is like, hey, we're going to give you a credit score For defy lending and I'm like, all right That doesn't make any sense, but okay Trans union will provide traditional off-chain credit scores for individuals when they apply for loans on blockchain based protocols That's pretty much it and they talked about how they're going to use minimal information And it will also be kyc and aml and all that good stuff, but I'm thinking myself. I'm like, do we really need this? For defy loans, I mean like that's the whole point of collateral You put up your your crypto and you get funds back and And that's it. So why do I need a credit score? I can only the only way I can think of this actually works out Is if you say, okay, I want A loan and crypto.  But for me, I'm like, maybe this would work for some people But again, I'm like we're in the new frontier. It's almost as ridiculous as I don't know if you knew this but netflix Just yesterday yesterday Ended its dvd by mail service Who here uses dvds and some of us I guess did So I'm just thinking and this was seriously this just Just came out april 18 2023. So I guess a couple days ago So I'm just looking at this like maybe there's some people out there that would go for this, I guess But I don't see the point Kind of like dvds. Anyhow, let me know where I'm wrong here And then to leave off on some good news and this is fantastic Dutch court agrees the free tornado cash developer alex Pertsef pending trial. Just so you know This was a gentleman who was a developer for cash app. I'm sorry cash tornado cash And he said to be released on bail after nine months in detention without a trial just for creating software He's been released on april 26. That's uh, was that six days away? And without having to pay any financial security and will be permitted to return home Just so you know, he was arrested on august 10th 2022 by the dutch fiscal information and investigation service or fiat So congratulations because this guy shouldn't have been in jail At all So I'm glad to see that something actually works the wheels of justice do move slow But sometimes they actually move and that is it for this part and also Who wants some money? so You know on this channel. I've been pretty bullish on On crypto gaming coming up. I'm gonna be more so into the casual if you want to find like like the really cool stuff Go to crypto stash. He deals with all the triple a ranked games and all that good stuff Great channel For me, I'm more of a casual gamer when I'm just got nothing to do and I'm sitting around my phone But alaska gold rush is a game that just came out just launched and They said hey, why would you like to give away some money to your to your subscribers? Sure Why not? So I put out this tweet the last couple of days ago. Hey Alaska gold rush listing is about 24 hours to kick it off I'm gonna give away a hundred dollars worth of b usd Here's how to get a chance to win follow me follow them retweet join alaska telegram group Bing bang boom done So Let's pull it out How are we gonna do that? Well, first of all before I do that We just did a really good show me Ben and guy Over at NFA live. This is on ben's channel this morning. Go check it out. It's pretty interesting It was a lot of macro stuff and global liquidity and things that were going on and just the macro verse So I linked that in the description. Go check it out. I always love doing those ones. We'll do it Next week I'll be in Las Vegas. So we'll do it over there But for this This these winners if you don't follow me on twitter there's a link in the description Some other to these some actually do giveaways And it says uh same thing.  I can't put it in there So, you know, we'll go on the honor system. Hopefully you did it Who knows? Continue Ah, look at this So 39 entries 39 people did what they're supposed to do and I appreciate every one of you And let's see Here we'll just continue And let's begin the draw Da da da da That's a long time Status 39 entries winners show rejected Oh, hey when twitter picker doesn't work. I guess that's it Nobody wins. Okay, fine Oh, you know what this could be the reason oh now I gotta do this again Listen, if you want to stick around don't stick around have fun. Get out of here Ah, look all these ads. Jeez sweet marion joseph. No wonder This is what I love about brave browser. Let's do this again Sweet joseph All right, winner count two three I fly almost have a picture Okay, now there's 46 entries. Congratulations continue begin the draw Hey, look at that. Oh Slavic you were so close man. You were close. You didn't do something.  Hey, I'm trini crypto.  All right. 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