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Tech Path Crypto
A highlight from 1247. FTX Bankruptcy Hearing Could Determine Fate of Crypto Lender and Market
"Let's talk about something today I think you guys are gonna like, and that is, is there a crash incoming? And if there is, what could be the catalyst that causes that? A lot of people are looking at some of the data coming in from FTX, but there's a few other things that could also be playing into the markets and the prep that maybe the markets are getting ready for. So today we'll break down all that good stuff for you guys today. My name is Paul Bearer. Welcome back in The Tech Path. A couple of things before we get started, I want to thank our sponsor, and that is iTrust Capital. If you're looking at long -term holding and you want to go with a strategy to go into an IRA, one way you can do that is through iTrust Capital with their crypto IRA. A couple of things they do over there is you can actually invest in all sorts of digital assets, but you can also jump into things like gold and silver. So it's very easy to do, and it's free in terms of your monthly. All you have to do is sign up so you can start your project there, get into it, maybe transfer an IRA, or if you're brand new and you want to start one over there. And all you guys are paying for is the trades that you make within your own account. So it's a great way to get started. Make sure and use the link down below. It's going to help you get a $100 funding reward, and it also helps the channel out, so thanks for that. All right, let's get into a couple of topics today, and a few of them I want to jump onto a couple of tweets, and then we'll kind of flow into some news. But I've got a clip here of some things at the end that you guys don't want to miss. Kobe Easy comes in, global liquidity down, massive $1 trillion over the last 10 weeks. That's a pretty big deal for that much liquidity. It's interesting, too, because about four to five months ago, we had a series of interviews that we had with Lynn Alden. If you guys have not seen some of our Lynn Alden videos, just go back, search our channel. And she was kind of forecasting out what might happen, and this appears to be some of the things that she has been anticipating around what liquidity might look like. But we're now back to down to pre -pandemic liquidity levels. Now you have to think about that. The amount of liquidity that flowed into the space during the pandemic versus what we have right now is pretty significant. If you look at the chart right here, we'll show you some other stuff, but this is the dip right here. If you kind of just draw that line, this is, of course, talking about 19, 20, and 21 pre -pandemic. This, of course, is all of the injection into the economy and then essentially almost a full recourse back down. Now, granted, this still has a lot of room for more liquidity loss on the global scale, and that will have effect on digital assets, going to have effect on securities and other things, too. So be on the lookout for this one. I think this is one that we need to continue to chart and watch going forward, because this could be an indicator where Bitcoin does start to see, because remember, when liquidity starts to hedge downward, usually, and we'll show a little bit about the Dixie on another show coming up, but usually the Dixie will be on the rise, which it is currently. And if you look at the Dixie over the last, say, 30, well, let's go after the last 36 months, but look at the last year on the Dixie, the dollar index, and you can start to see how this gets affected around just traditional markets versus what's happening in the digital asset market. So very interesting something to watch for sure. Some key events that we'll be hitting this week is the Apple iPhone release. I'm curious if this is going to have a big splash because of the pressure that we're seeing on inflation, which means that will people have the money to be able to go out and purchase a new iPhone? And I think that's going to be a big indicator when we start to see the sales coming in for the holidays and whether or not Apple is doing well. So be on the caution and be on the lookout for that. Additionally, we'll see the CPI inflation data most likely going to be down. That comes in on Wednesday. PPI also comes in this week on Thursday. Retail sales data on Thursday will be softer anticipated. Consumer sentiment data on Friday. Consumer sentiment is right now looking to see maybe one of its biggest dips all year. This is a problem because it will have, I believe, some impact on how the Fed responds with whether or not they're going to be able to hold a flat position in terms of interest rates and the Fed fund rate coming up in November. So we'll see how that goes out. Also, the New York Fed manufacturing data comes in on Friday. So this is a big one. So it's the huge last week before the September Fed meeting. And when you look at what's going to happen over the next, say, 30 to 60 days, I think a lot is really dependent on these numbers this week and how that might play out for you guys in your markets. If you just look at the charts, there's a couple of things. Everybody's saying, why is crypto down so much today? And you can kind of see right here, listen, everything is in the red right now. Quantified crypto shows all top 50 projects with negative performance on the day as a total cryptocurrency. Market cap lost $10 billion in today's daily candle. So that's a big hit. 2 % in the last 24 hours. Fairly significant. Many people are looking at this potential of the FTX dump on the horizon. There's things that, yes, of course, FTX is still a burr in the saddle of the crypto markets. But I don't think it is as big of a problem as maybe a lot of people are indicating. I'll show you some data on this. But if FTX gets the approval for the sell -off, that's the big if, the details will settle on the size and the frequency of liquidations in order to minimize possible negative effects on the market. Now, they hold a lot of assets. We do know that. And remember, the market has already had a tremendous push down. So we're not seeing a $2 .5 trillion market here. We're barely seeing a trillion dollar market. So these kinds of things could implement very easily and cause a little problem within the market. But I don't know, the question mark will be how much can go into the markets and whether or not that's going to have an impact on Bitcoin. I'd love to get you guys' feedback. Do you feel like FTX is going to have any kind of scenario? Are we going to continue to see just a slight downward trend as we've been tracking over the last 10 to 14 days? Or do you think we'll start to see a real hit on the markets? Love to get your comments. Drop those down below. A couple of things to be aware of, and I think everybody's kind of fudding a little bit, is on the amount of Solana. If you look at respective amounts going from $29 million in XRP to $685 million in Solana, there's the line list of some of the tokens that could be at risk to a certain extent. But in reality, these aren't too bad in terms of if they get the go to actually release some of these tokens to be able to compensate the creditors that are in line. So a couple of tweets here. I'm going to kind of just go up here to this one right here. Will they sell off this week, cause a Solana soul crash? This was the tweet that hit on it. Mainly what they're talking about is the potential of this $200 million a week of assets that would be the limit that could kind of roll into this. And I've got a couple of charts here from Woo Blockchain. Let me kind of go up here. So this is as of August 31st. And the total of $3 .4 billion in crypto assets, including $1 .16 billion in Sol, $560 million in Bitcoin. And then you can kind of see the line list there. But these are the asset holdings overall, Solana taking the largest, and then Bitcoin coming in right behind it. And of course, everybody's also looked at Solana and the fact that they've been able to hold on. Remember that Solana was one of the blockchains that took the hardest hit from the FTX crash that happened last December. We saw Solana go down to basically about $8 .50 and then has corrected since then. And that's been an opportunity for some people because many people went in on Solana at its low around $8 to $9, and they're sitting obviously in a great position right now. Filing shows also that there's 438 investment portfolios with approximately $4 .5 billion in invested assets. These are the companies that are all, of course, being hurt. You can kind of see the token layer right there, limited partnerships involved, the equity investments involved. Obviously, we know Genesis and their connection, Yuga Labs playing a role in this, among many others. So this is not just crypto related. We'll potentially see a little bit of a market wave being hit here as we see more and more people taking losses on their books. As of August 24th, about 36 ,000 customer claims have been filed for a total of $16 billion. These are all everything from creditors, etc. You see the $4 .1 billion in litigation for Genesis. Even Celsius is sitting in there right now. And then the IRS, of course, has the largest position right now at $43 .5 billion for claims against this and what's happening with FTX. So all is not well yet. And I think this is, again, one of those things that could be one of those last little pushes into the markets as we continue to see the macro pressure pull the markets down. I just don't think it will be a sharp loss now and decrease in the market overall, especially on digital assets. Now, there could be a handful of tokens. Yes, Solana could take a fairly significant drop down to around $15. It's trading at around $17 right now. So that would be the one to watch for sure. Here's Lark Davis kind of hitting on it. He points out a couple of good notes here. First, coins will not be on the market to be sold, mostly will go over counter. And Solana is mostly locked up, and most of their tokens are locked up for around four years. So that in itself would slow this down. When this is sold over the counter, it'll be someone buying FTX's vesting contract. So that is a factor that plays in it. FTT, I don't think anybody's going to be playing in too worried about that one. Because remember, this was what I feel like set everything in motion was when CZ actually sold and started to move a large amount of FTT, which started the domino effect to occur and caused obviously, I won't say caused, but it definitely had a big implement or potential impact on what happened over at FTX. Bitcoin and ETH, they've got a good amount, but not billions. I still don't think we're going to see any real impact on both Bitcoin and Ethereum. I think we're going to see more market and macro pressure on Bitcoin and Ethereum. And I think we're seeing it right now. Obviously, we've seen a little bit of a downtrend on both of those. Aptos, this is the only one that maybe you have to worry about because of its size. And then everything else, no amounts big enough to concern. So I think this is, again, still just a bit of FUD. But the real question is, how and what will be pushing this down? And you have to remember, and this is just some Solana stuff, I think people thinking that there's a big deal with Solana. Two years of aggressive selling, I would agree. And the number of black swaths we've seen in this market, I'm still very impressed. And I just had a big, one of our executive coaching sessions this weekend. And that was one of the things that many of the people brought. These are business owners, millionaires in many cases, very successful. And even they brought to the point is that Bitcoin doesn't seem to have as much of an impact on it as it has in the past years as they've analyzed. And I would agree, I think the resiliency now is quite a bit different. Here was TOLI coming in. If everyone else is throwing shade, then we're just going to build and code in the shade. So of course, that's the current leader of Solana and Solana has been building and doing a lot in the way of doing partnerships. Obviously, we saw the deal with Visa and many other things happening out there in the market, for sure. Leaders are now monitoring risk in crypto asset ecosystem. The fact that it's even being discussed at a G20, you can take it two ways. You can take it as they're talking about it. That means at least it's getting into a legitimate layer or they're talking about it and it means they might be doing something negative. I think that we're in the more legitimacy layer from the G20. There's a few things there that we can hit on, but I want to also give you guys a heads up. We'll be doing a video later about this because there is a lot happening within the G20 that I think have bigger impact on the planet, especially around investing, what some of the countries will be doing, because there's a lot of positioning around stablecoins right now. And I think even here in the U .S., we're going to see that as well. But the FASB thing was endorsed dramatically. So we endorsed the financial stability board, high level recommendations for the new regulation and supervision of crypto asset activity. So that's a big scenario we talked about last week. Also following the declaration, the finance ministers at the central bank governors of the G20 nations committed to discussing and taking forward a roadmap during the next meeting in October of 2023. That's just around the corner. So they are looking at other potential impacts of maybe how digital assets play a role in a lot of these G20 nations. They also demanded that responsibility bodies ensure implementation method is consistent across global to avoid regulatory arbitrage. More things that I think will also play into how these countries are going to be dealing with digital assets. We've already seen MICA move pretty heavily in this way and position I think the EU into a very strong position of being able to do some interesting things in blockchain over the next few years. One other thing here, crypto analysts is predicting a fake pump before Bitcoin before we see a big dump. Again, we still have a lot of people pushing into the point that we could see a $15K Bitcoin or under. That is the real question mark because right now Bitcoin has been holding fairly decently. A couple of points they hit on right here is Bitcoin could be ready for a short squeeze. And this is in reference to around the $27 ,000 price zone in the following days. This is going to be a very critical time right now. Remember, we've got a lot of things hitting this week that will show the course of the United States when it comes to not only inflation but a potential recovery. And I think that's the more important thing. The other thing that they focus on was Bitcoin market makers are getting ready for a fake pump around $26 ,900 before further dump into liquidate long positions around $24 ,000 price zone. That's one that I think will be interesting because this right here is the potential forecast of where we could see Bitcoin going. If you look at our sentiment data on the CPI, which is our own crypto power index, I can't really downtrend a pressure on both amplification sentiment and top line sentiment on both Bitcoin and Ethereum. So does it mean that we would see a sub $20K? I don't know yet. But what I am seeing is a very consistent downtrend on overall sentiment in the market. And I think when you add in the other macro pressures, those are the things you have to watch for. I don't think it's as much as the FTX issue as it is the macro pressure. Fun fact, less than 5 % of global population now is invested in crypto. So that just shows you again how early you are. Maybe you're watching this for the first time and you're just now getting into crypto or maybe you're just now getting into Bitcoin and Ethereum, you're starting to do your research. What I would ask for you guys to do is just subscribe to the channel. It is one of the easiest ways that you're going to get additional content. You can drop that, you know, hit that little bell and it will give you notifications when we do things like that our live streams. Last up here that I think is interesting is a clip that I want to play for you. And this comes from David Marcus and David Marcus runs a company called Lightspeed, Lightspark, excuse me, not Lightspeed Ventures, but Lightspark. And Lightspark is trying to do some unique things in Lightning. But I want to play this clip for you. He starts off about halfway through. This is coming from Squawkbox. Let's listen in. We've watched the valuation of Bitcoin sort of sit around $25 ,000, $26 ,000. We've all been questioning, so where does this go? And does Bitcoin ever really become a currency, which is what you talk about it becoming? Do you think the value of Bitcoin needs to or can move up if it's actually a currency? Meaning I've always made the argument the currency problem is if Bitcoin is, if you think Bitcoin is going $30 ,000 or $50 ,000 or $60 ,000, there's no way I'm going to spend it on, you know, a pizza or on anything, frankly. If I think it's going to go down, by the way, I might spend it immediately. So our view is actually that Bitcoin is not the currency that people will use to buy things. But a fragment of a Bitcoin on top of Lightning is like a small packet, data packet on the Internet only for value. And so you can exchange at the edges of the network and send dollars to someone that will receive Japanese yen on the other side or send dollars to someone who will receive euros on the other side. All right. So a couple of things that David hit on there that I think are interesting. One is he did admit that Bitcoin would not be used for as a currency. And this is something that I've argued, you know, over time is that it is a challenge because of what's happening with Lightning right now. Now, this is not necessarily a bad thing. It's just a way that Bitcoin will be utilized. And, you know, to what Squawk Box's interviewer there, Sorkis, was trying to get to is that why would a currency ever be a speculated asset? This is where I think the the draw is if Bitcoin is still a speculated asset and it reacts like one. It has volatility. It has, you know, the issues with everything that we've talked about in today's show in terms of liquidity. And it also has pressures from macro. That's just like any other speculated asset, whether you're investing in securities, real estate, anything that you would speculate on. So I think that Marcus, what he's trying to do with LightSpark is they're trying to get to that point where they can get a settlement layer into it. And that's where I think the real question mark is. So whether you haven't, maybe this is the first time you've heard of the Lightning Network. I would suggest that you guys go out, do a little research, really understand it and try to get your head around what its purpose is and how it could be used in the future. At the same time, be looking at the Ethereum network. Also take a look at Solana. You want to look at these payment architectures that are being built on blockchain because these are the ones that are going to most likely be the ones that go forward. So love to get your feedback on whether or not you guys think FTX, these potentials here are even going to have a remote chance of causing any movement down, or do you feel like it's going to be more of the macro? Drop some comments down below. Of course, if you're not in our diamond circle, make sure and get in right now. It's one of the best places you get additional alpha from us. We do a podcast over there. I drop additional analysis in there only to the diamond circle. 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The Breakdown
A highlight from Beijing Bazooka: Why China Isn't Being More Aggressive As Economy Deteriorates
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, September 5th, and today we are talking about why China's growth engine may be falling apart. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello friends, welcome back to The Breakdown. I hope all of you who are celebrating the long holiday weekend had a great end of summer and are looking forward to what promises to be a... well, actually, I don't know what fall promises to be. We're in the hinterlands where I believe, on the one hand, the worst of the bear market has ended, but on the other hand, it still feels like we're pretty far away from a bull market beginning. That's, of course, because no one new is coming into the space right now, and that means it's all of us who have sort of stuck around here, just kind of circling around the drain. There was a great example of this this morning where Visa posted some news relating to Solana, and whereas during a bull market that might send prices surging, Solana itself was basically flat from yesterday and is still down 3 % on the week. I think, unfortunately, that until new sets of money come in, we're effectively just sideways and down only. But given that lethargy, it's a good time to get away from thinking about crypto asset prices and thinking about bigger topics and issues. In fact, today we are jumping entirely outside of crypto to talk macro and specifically China. Now, obviously, the China story is bigger than just China and even bigger than just general global economics are interconnected. China has been a deterministic actor in the global economy, especially since COVID. Their ongoing lockdowns kept supply chains screwed up and depressed global demand, and by extension, their reopening was supposed to herald a return to normalcy and create some economic buoyancy. Alas, the country finds itself in the midst of a serious economic downturn. In the US, we see article titles like from the New York Times on August 31st, why is China in so much trouble? From Bloomberg yesterday, China slowdown means it may never overtake US economy. From The Economist August 24th, Xi's failing model, why he won't fix China's economy. So given that, let's get into what's actually happening. First of all, last quarter's GDP growth in China came in at 3 .2%. That is a significant amount below the government's target of around 5%. Now, in addition to not meeting that 5 % target, when that target was announced in March during the National People's Conference, it was recognized as the lowest growth target in the Chinese economy. In a note published last week, Bloomberg Economist wrote that, Now, depending on who you read, you will find a range of explanations for this slowdown. To some, it's about a demographic collapse with a rapidly aging population. To others, it's about shifting trade policy and ongoing US attempts to decouple from China that have led to a slowdown in international investment. Others point out that internally in China, there has been a shift of emphasis from growth at all costs to security and resilience as China prepares for increasing conflict with Western powers. Now, of course, over the shorter term, the explanations for the slowdown are more defined. The Chinese reopening failed to live up to the hype and youth unemployment in particular has soared. It was last recorded above 20 % before reporting was suspended in July. Now, the consequences of the economic slowdown have led to issues piling up in a myriad of places across the financial sector. There are now problems bubbling to the surface in housing, financial services, and even the currency. Beijing has begun intervening with assorted rescue packages, although they remain closely targeted at this stage. So far, the government has avoided direct fiscal stimulus of household spending, which might be used to bolster collapse in consumer demand and stave off outright deflation in retail prices. Now, many have questioned why the Chinese government is being so restrained with fiscal support during this downturn. This is because it's a little bit different than the strategy deployed before. During the 2008 crisis and subsequent global economic shocks, there was no lack of willingness to deploy the quote Beijing bazooka and engage in system -wide support and massive infrastructure spending. This time around, we're not seeing that kind of approach, which has puzzled many international commentators. And yet, of course, it's not like the Chinese government is doing nothing. As multiple problems have reached a crisis point over the past few weeks, the government has launched a round of targeted interventions, so let's look at a few of those. The first sign of major interventions came last Sunday, when Beijing announced a package of measures aimed at boosting the stock market. A tax on stock trading was reduced for the first time since 2008, and in addition, the top stakeholders in firms that were trading below their IPO price were restricted from selling shares. Deposit ratios for margin financing were also lowered. Alongside these overt policy decisions, Beijing also leaned on large institutions to support the market. During a seminar held the previous Thursday, the China Securities Regulatory Commission extracted a pledge from assembled pension funds, large banks, and insurers that they would help to stabilize the stock market and boost economic development. These combined actions caused a dramatic pop at last week's Monday Open. Chinese markets began the day up 5 .5%, but the euphoria was short -lived, wearing off in just 10 minutes of trading with the market collapsing back down. The primary Chinese index closed that Monday up only 1 .2%. By way of comparison, the last time China cut stock trading taxes in 2008, the move triggered a 9 .3 % rally the following day and kicked off a significant bull run into the following year. Now, the changes were widely anticipated after Beijing pledged last month to, quote, invigorate capital markets and boost investor confidence. The Chinese stock market has been a fairly horrendous place to invest in recent years. The major index is down 4 % so far this year on the back of two consecutive years of annual losses. Chinese markets are underperforming a broader sample of Asian equities by about 6 % this year and have been one of the worst performing markets in the world. Foreign investors have been fleeing the wreckage. The past few weeks saw over 13 consecutive days of net selling from international firms, which is the longest streak on record. Still, with a little over a week since that Monday intervention, there do appear to be some signs of success. The Shanghai Shenzhen Index, the major onshore market index, is now up 2 % since last Monday's close. More importantly, the index has now seen two weeks of a positive trend. The main Chinese index is up 3 .6 % since this year's low, which was recorded the week prior to the interventions. Now, this recent surge in Chinese stock saw an extra boost from large housing developers during recent trading. The Hang Seng Mainline Properties Index rose by over 8 % on the back of good news for the troubled property sector. The biggest headline was generated by Country Garden, which was previously the nation's largest developer. The Chinese property Goliath had missed $22 .5 million in interest payments on $2 denominated bonds in early August. Concerns mounted throughout the month that this missed payment would lead to an official default and potentially bankruptcy, which was of course the path that rival developer Evergrande went down over the past two years. However, Country Grand has now caught up with delinquent interest payments on the two bonds within grace periods, avoiding a default. The payment came after successful negotiations surrounding another tranche of bonds which were due to mature on Friday. The firm managed to negotiate with creditors to push the maturity date out until 2026, affecting $537 million in principal repayments. Still, Country Garden remains under pressure, with $2 .9 billion in note obligations falling due throughout the rest of the year. Overall, the firm has $187 billion in total liabilities.
Divine Naples Podcast
"august 31st" Discussed on Divine Naples Podcast
"I was stuffing my face with all the goodies. It's August 31st. And we're talking about Christmas and I, you know, let me just finish this because the, the whole moral of the story is right. Every single person that like a real man has probably just five friends. Yeah. Right. You mean men without man buns. Yeah. So five friends, right? So you have five friends. Yeah. I mean, one of them is the only one I have you as a, you know, my friends are ever five. I have five fingers on my left hand. So I count them as a five people. You are the thumb because if I hold a hammer and a nail, I always hit the thumb. Great. Five friends. Right. And now all 40 were invited to the party, which, you know, the people that I work with would be serving them. Right. Right. And probably cleaning after them. Yeah. And I didn't get my invite until two days before. You are part of it. So anyway, the only reason why you probably weren't told because you would be cleaning. So nobody wanted to scare you off, but the whole thing was canceled just because I didn't feel like, you know, some of the people, you know, I don't know. I'm just saying like, you know, it's just like the moral of the story is when you turn around, they're always going to be very limited amount of people that cares about you and show you the love. But when there's a party, the other moral, I guess what you're saying is, is that you don't have very many friends. So you don't have a lot of Christmas shopping. No, no, that's exactly right. And I have a better idea than your weight to the deals. You know, a couple of days before I just wait for the really good deals for after Christmas and just get out a piece of paper, walk around everybody and write good for one Christmas present and hand it to them. And then the only thing I have to know is basically how many slips of paper I gave out and how many presents I got to buy. Well, I never got any paper from you. You probably won't. So I didn't even make it to your fingers. There you go. You'll have to restructure my friends. And there's your six months ahead of time advice for how to handle the Christmas. The advice is go Christmas shopping. I do two days before because, and then I'm really, really sure that I'm buying Christmas presents for people that deserve it. Right. Because you don't have to think about, you know, like if they behaved or not, maybe they upset you before Christmas. I don't know. So that's one thing. And second thing, you get much better deals. Right. Not that many options, but much better deals left over. So that's the whole thing, you know, about Christmas, which I think is a great idea, you know? So let me just go to the essentials, right? Officials. Officials. We call them essentials. Whatever you want to call it. Ready? Yeah. Julian Bruce, Tara Kitarra, Pachuli Music, thank you for all the tunes because that's what makes us sound, you know, much more sexier. And professional. Professional. With other music. Might sound, but not a little professional. I love it. Yeah. Divine Spa always makes us, you know, sound very happy because we know there's a spa where we don't go. Where we never invited. But we know there's one. We know it's there and it's healthy. It's good for you. And there's something new on the menu. Flexology. Flexology. From yesterday is the new service. We don't know what it is, but you can ask Matt. He probably will tell you more details. Come up with something. Did I forget to say Divine Spa is the sponsor of the show? Yes, you did. So we thank you for sponsoring us. We didn't really feel any sponsorship, but we got it. Yeah. Beach SOS is the other company that brings you anything you need. That's what the essentials are. Right. To the beach, you know, 30-45 minutes. Beer. Sandwiches. Yeah. Makes you feel good. And if you have a headache later, they can also bring you Advil. Women don't take the aspirin. That's for, we'll explain that later. Yeah. So it's on a past podcast. Yeah, correct. We have to just keep listening. We cannot repeat ourselves. We don't realize where you need to go. 250 items to choose from. And we serve over 32 different beach entrances. How it works is very simple. You order. We get the order. We process the order. We deliver the order. We meet you at the entrance of the beach and you eat the order or drink the order. Sounds like everything revolves around the order. Everything is in the order. Very easy. And that would be, that would be it for the essentials and let's think it's time. What do you got for us today? Big guy. Emphasis on big. Since we sit here before midnight on, on August 31st. Yeah. Uh, I'm going to ask you, did you hear the bank? Uh, did I hear a bang? Yeah. Bang, bang. No. Well, then there's a shooting. No, there was not, but a bang, bang shrimp. No, there was a bang, bang. Exactly. 10 21. Well, what is it? There was an auto coast. What did, what did they do? Ellen, Ellen, this, uh, what is his mask? Ellen must go through the party again. Oh really? Musk had a party. Yeah. Space X launch starling mission. Oh, did he send something in space again? Do they flying like every week? Oh really? Yeah. It's like a, it's like a scheduled flight, like a bus to the Harlem. I'm telling you, he just reported like a week ago. He was flying. What was it? Space X seven. Now he's called Falcon nine, uh, carrying 22 satellites and it was launched successfully and 10 21 something bank. Something is going on with Muskies. Something's coming. Yeah. I don't know. I just like suspicious. Anybody controlling what the hell is smuggling there? I don't know. It's just, maybe it's going to take over space. I don't know. I'm dealing with a dating Colombian. Maybe you can ask her. I don't know. Mask is not, you know, a smuggling Colombian baking powder, white powder. So the aliens white powder. Yeah. Maybe aliens asking for another shipment. They probably get come in contact with the aliens and they go, look what that stuff's doing to your own people. We want nothing to do with it. That would not be surprised that I wouldn't be surprised either. Not an interesting thing is, uh, what's the flamingos? Flamingos. You can see them in Bonita. Yeah. Are they pink? They're pink now. I mean, they pink flamingos and they are all over the beach. People are kind of scratching their heads. How the hell are they there? But that's because they migrate here though. Isn't it? Yeah. A lot of things migrated, but don't they come here from South America? Well, I don't know. I didn't ask them. I think we're going to have to look that up. I give you another assignment. It's not like you don't have anything else to do. All right. Tomorrow. I'm going to Bonita. See the license plate. What state or what country are you from? Show me your station. Just wave your head. It's all right. We got all kinds of South Americans, Canadians, Germans, everybody here. We don't care where you came from. Well, you would go talk and ask a flamingo. What? What the flamingo? What? Yeah. You were going to ask him where they're from. I just saying, I don't know. The assignment is this, and then let's get on with the rest of what we have here is your assignment was to find out and where they're migrating from. It was that simple. Genius. Okay. So if you feel like you got to go up and ask them, don't try to hear you illegal alien. You never know. Yeah. You don't. I mean, they may work for government. They snitching on us. What do you know? I don't know. I mean, they don't come in black anymore. They come blink now. Yeah. There's a lot of colors on that colorful flag. You know, they all could be spice. Yeah. All spice. More colors in the fire. Yeah. Yeah. Now we've gone from Santa Claus, Christmas, flamingos to whatever you got now. We are still somehow in the same thing because Musk created white powder with aliens and we're more cars in the fire because the floods. Yeah. We just got a little bit of salt water on the street. We didn't get flooded too much, but also in Miami, there were some cars caught fire. They're getting fired on the, on the tow trucks. They pulled them in tow trucks and they just explode. Oh my God. Yeah. Just what I'm saying is that not everything looks the way how people think or how they've portrayed what it's supposed to be. The great salvation of the planet. I may just, I mean, I'm assuming if that thing blew up, I just saw, uh, uh, an article on a replacement battery for, I think it was a Chevy volt, right? 27,000. Why not? That one is just like, let's, let's review, right? Somewhere, somewhere 20 years ago, somebody said, emotional dogs. I don't want to upset any of the dog owners right here, but I'm just going to review right somewhere. 20 years ago, somebody said, emotional dogs is a great idea. You're after, they were flying for free. They were dining in the restaurants that are in the grocery stores. They were everywhere, right? Well, it took 20 years to figure it out. It's probably not that sexy to step into dog poop on the sidewalk, in the Home Depot, in the Publix, in the restaurant or health wise. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. It took only 20 years. So somebody is developing all these cars, but there's little details of the engineers. Why are you going to get upset at a $27,000 battery that goes out? Why, why are you complaining? Because you need to look at the big picture. Yes. The big battery. The ozone layer is going to be saved. It doesn't make sense. Yeah. But only now. Right. 20 years from now would not make sense at all. You don't know. I know already. Maybe the battery will be $27. I don't think that's going to be the case. I'm just trying to use reverse psychology on you. How do you know? We don't know. That's the whole point. I was being, well, I was being facetious in our discussion here. I'm enforcing what you're saying. We don't know. No. And we do are now getting a lot of science out there that maybe we're not doing the right thing, especially they said with some of these panels and all the things that we have in solar that we're actually attracting more heat down to the earth because the sun is concentrated on all these platforms that are creating this great energy. Yeah. So we don't know. You know, so let's again, yesterday's theme was common what? Common sense. Yeah. So anyway, let's not get on our, uh, on our soap boxes, but people let's just start thinking through policy because every policy affects everybody. And, uh, and I feel sorry for those people that bought, uh, you know, the, that electric car and had it blow up by towing because of salt water. Yeah. Well, they probably, we had good intentions in their mind and I'm going to do my part to kind of help out or whatever. And then the next thing you know, there are cars blown up and, and probably looking at a $27,000 battery. Yeah. Not just that, but you know, what I'm saying is the moral of the story is again, if you see electric car, first of all, you know, let's say gasoline car, you can push it and start it. Right. If it's manual.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #430 Plan your Christmas Shopping and find out what happened to Santa in front of Richs house. Matt does not know everything about Rich, but he is learning more daily. Secret B-Day party was canceled learn why. Matts thumb is on Richs hand and gets hit with a hammer all the time. Episode #430 August 31st. 2023
"And it is Divine, it's Thursday Divine, Thursday, last day of August of 2023, August 31st, 2021. And episode is 4 .30 from this Mike Rich. And from this Mike Matt, 31st, baby. Christmas is closer again. Yeah, might as well start shopping now. You can shop, I shop last two days before Christmas. You get good deals and you have still time to think about if you're doing the right decision. You know why? Because I'm giving people chance until end of the year to behave. Imagine I buy a present today, right? And then tomorrow you'll get on my nerves. What I'm going to go and return it? You know what I'm saying? You know who you should learn from is Santa Claus. Santa had a list on his list if you were naughty or nice. So what you need to do is just keep your list of who you think is naughty and those that are nice. And two days before you just get that list out and go, well, this guy was naughty and this was naughty. Just start crossing them off. You save some money. How long do you know me? Well, for at least what, 10 years? Yeah. So there's some things you don't know about me. Well, that's for sure. And there's some things I don't want to know about you. Those things are best kept as a secret. Yeah. Let's see if you want to know this. One thing is for sure you have to know is that I never seen Santa Claus giving me presents. The only thing what I always hear is a gunshot in front of my door when the presents are given. Oh really? Yeah. He better shoot himself before giving me something. Why? I'm telling you just like, I don't know. It's the life, you know? You don't like Santa Claus and gifts and surprises? No, no, not really. Okay. Somebody wanted to pull a surprise party for my birthday and I canceled it completely. Yeah, I know. You know? And you know what's interesting? There was like 40 or some people invited, right? And I was like, hold on just a second. So let me think. Who is invited? And now I got all these names and stuff. I guess like some of them I haven't hear from like four, three, three, four, five years. It'd be nice to see them. Dining on my money. Well, I'm sure that they probably, those people aren't on your Santa Claus list. No, they're not. But also one thing, but also what's interesting is that my birthday passed and I still didn't hear from them. So now they learned that, you know, I had a birthday, right? We're not going to say when, but they knew that because they were invited to the party. So they took the invitation and birthday and passed I still didn't hear from them. So I don't know what they're waiting for. Maybe they thought they were going to get lost in the crowd or that you got, they got lost in the crowd at your birthday party. No, the matter is they just stay away from you. Oh yeah. I was there.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #430 Plan your Christmas Shopping and find out what happened to Santa in front of Richs house. Matt does not know everything about Rich, but he is learning more daily. Secret B-Day party was canceled learn why. Matts thumb is on Richs hand and gets hit with a hammer all the time. Episode #430 August 31st. 2023
"And it is Divine, it's Thursday Divine, Thursday, last day of August of 2023, August 31st, 2021. And episode is 4 .30 from this Mike Rich. And from this Mike Matt, 31st, baby. Christmas is closer again. Yeah, might as well start shopping now. You can shop, I shop last two days before Christmas. You get good deals and you have still time to think about if you're doing the right decision. You know why? Because I'm giving people chance until end of the year to behave. Imagine I buy a present today, right? And then tomorrow you'll get on my nerves. What I'm going to go and return it? You know what I'm saying? You know who you should learn from is Santa Claus. Santa had a list on his list if you were naughty or nice. So what you need to do is just keep your list of who you think is naughty and those that are nice. And two days before you just get that list out and go, well, this guy was naughty and this was naughty. Just start crossing them off. You save some money. How long do you know me? Well, for at least what, 10 years? Yeah. So there's some things you don't know about me. Well, that's for sure. And there's some things I don't want to know about you. Those things are best kept as a secret. Yeah. Let's see if you want to know this. One thing is for sure you have to know is that I never seen Santa Claus giving me presents. The only thing what I always hear is a gunshot in front of my door when the presents are given. Oh really? Yeah. He better shoot himself before giving me something. Why? I'm telling you just like, I don't know. It's the life, you know? You don't like Santa Claus and gifts and surprises? No, no, not really. Okay. Somebody wanted to pull a surprise party for my birthday and I canceled it completely. Yeah, I know. You know? And you know what's interesting? There was like 40 or some people invited, right? And I was like, hold on just a second. So let me think. Who is invited? And now I got all these names and stuff. I guess like some of them I haven't hear from like four, three, three, four, five years. It'd be nice to see them. Dining on my money. Well, I'm sure that they probably, those people aren't on your Santa Claus list. No, they're not. But also one thing, but also what's interesting is that my birthday passed and I still didn't hear from them. So now they learned that, you know, I had a birthday, right? We're not going to say when, but they knew that because they were invited to the party. So they took the invitation and birthday and passed I still didn't hear from them. So I don't know what they're waiting for. Maybe they thought they were going to get lost in the crowd or that you got, they got lost in the crowd at your birthday party. No, the matter is they just stay away from you. Oh yeah. I was there.
Divine Naples Podcast
#430 Plan your Christmas Shopping and find out what happened to Santa in front of Richs house. Matt does not know everything about Rich, but he is learning more daily. Secret B-Day party was canceled learn why. Matts thumb is on Richs hand and gets hit with a hammer all the time. Episode #430 August 31st. 2023 - burst 1
"And it is Divine, it's Thursday Divine, Thursday, last day of August of 2023, August 31st, 2021. And episode is 4 .30 from this Mike Rich. And from this Mike Matt, 31st, baby. Christmas is closer again. Yeah, might as well start shopping now. You can shop, I shop last two days before Christmas. You get good deals and you have still time to think about if you're doing the right decision. You know why? Because I'm giving people chance until end of the year to behave. Imagine I buy a present today, right? And then tomorrow you'll get on my nerves. What I'm going to go and return it? You know what I'm saying? You know who you should learn from is Santa Claus. Santa had a list on his list if you were naughty or nice. So what you need to do is just keep your list of who you think is naughty and those that are nice. And two days before you just get that list out and go, well, this guy was naughty and this was naughty. Just start crossing them off. You save some money. How long do you know me? Well, for at least what, 10 years? Yeah. So there's some things you don't know about me. Well, that's for sure. And there's some things I don't want to know about you. Those things are best kept as a secret. Yeah. Let's see if you want to know this. One thing is for sure you have to know is that I never seen Santa Claus giving me presents. The only thing what I always hear is a gunshot in front of my door when the presents are given. Oh really? Yeah. He better shoot himself before giving me something. Why? I'm telling you just like, I don't know. It's the life, you know? You don't like Santa Claus and gifts and surprises? No, no, not really. Okay. Somebody wanted to pull a surprise party for my birthday and I canceled it completely. Yeah, I know. You know? And you know what's interesting? There was like 40 or some people invited, right? And I was like, hold on just a second. So let me think. Who is invited? And now I got all these names and stuff. I guess like some of them I haven't hear from like four, three, three, four, five years. It'd be nice to see them. Dining on my money. Well, I'm sure that they probably, those people aren't on your Santa Claus list. No, they're not. But also one thing, but also what's interesting is that my birthday passed and I still didn't hear from them. So now they learned that, you know, I had a birthday, right? We're not going to say when, but they knew that because they were invited to the party. So they took the invitation and birthday and passed I still didn't hear from them. So I don't know what they're waiting for. Maybe they thought they were going to get lost in the crowd or that you got, they got lost in the crowd at your birthday party. No, the matter is they just stay away from you. Oh yeah. I was there.
Divine Naples Podcast
#430 Plan your Christmas Shopping and find out what happened to Santa in front of Richs house. Matt does not know everything about Rich, but he is learning more daily. Secret B-Day party was canceled learn why. Matts thumb is on Richs hand and gets hit with a hammer all the time. Episode #430 August 31st. 2023 - burst 1
"Christmas is closer again. Yeah, might as well start shopping now. You can shop, I shop last two days before Christmas. You get good deals and you have still time to think about if you're doing the right decision. You know why? Because I'm giving people chance until end of the year to behave. Imagine I buy a present today, right? And then tomorrow you'll get on my nerves. What I'm going to go and return it? You know what I'm saying? You know who you should learn from is Santa Claus. Santa had a list on his list if you were naughty or nice. So what you need to do is just keep your list of who you think is naughty and those that are nice. And two days before you just get that list out and go, well, this guy was naughty and this was naughty. Just start crossing them off. You save some
Divine Naples Podcast
#430 Plan your Christmas Shopping and find out what happened to Santa in front of Richs house. Matt does not know everything about Rich, but he is learning more daily. Secret B-Day party was canceled learn why. Matts thumb is on Richs hand and gets hit with a hammer all the time. Episode #430 August 31st. 2023 - burst 1
"Christmas is closer again. Yeah, might as well start shopping now. You can shop, I shop last two days before Christmas. You get good deals and you have still time to think about if you're doing the right decision. You know why? Because I'm giving people chance until end of the year to behave. Imagine I buy a present today, right? And then tomorrow you'll get on my nerves. What I'm going to go and return it? You know what I'm saying? You know who you should learn from is Santa Claus. Santa had a list on his list if you were naughty or nice. So what you need to do is just keep your list of who you think is naughty and those that are nice. And two days before you just get that list out and go, well, this guy was naughty and this was naughty. Just start crossing them off. You save some money. How
Coronavirus
A highlight from Offchain Labs Releases Arbitrum Stylus
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Thursday, August 31st, 2023. Offchain Labs releases Arbitrum Stylus, Prisma Finance goes live on Ethereum mainnet, Gitcoin Passport introduces on -chain stamps, and Pulled Together v5 is now live in private beta. All this and more starts right now. Offchain Labs released Stylus, a general -purpose programming environment that supports Wasm smart contracts. Developers can now build applications on Arbitrum Nitro chains using Wasm -compatible languages, including Rust, C, and C++. The launch includes the release of the code, a public testnet, and an SDK. According to the project, Stylus significantly lowers gas costs. Developers can build resource -intensive blockchain use cases, including alternative signature schemes, larger generative art libraries, and C++ -based gaming. Offchain Labs will host a Stylus Hackathon at ETH Global in New York on September 22nd and will offer $20 ,000 in bounties. Prisma Finance, a liquid staking token -backed stablecoin protocol, is now deployed on Ethereum mainnet. Starting on September 1st at 9am UTC, users will be able to mint the MKUSD stablecoin using Wrapped SE, CBETH, RE, or Staked FRAXETH as collateral. Deaf caps will also be enforced for each collateral during the initial launch. Prisma will also release its PRISMA token in the coming weeks, which can be locked for Vote Escort PRISMA, enabling governance voting power. Liquid staking token issuers can then channel incentives towards their own assets using Vote Escort PRISMA. In a bid to bootstrap Liquidity, Prisma is introducing a 0 % initial interest rate. Prisma is built on the codebase of Liquidity Protocol. Identity verification platform Gitcoin Passport introduced on -chain stamps on opmainnet. An on -chain stamp is a verifiable credential stored on -chain. The solution uses Ethereum Attestation Service for its on -chain data structure. Ethereum Attestation Service is an open -source tool for on -chain and off -chain attestations that is available for OP stackchains. Credentials can be assigned by various identity providers. The system aggregates stamps and assigns weights based on their cost of forgery. Stamps were previously stored off -chain and required developers to query the Gitcoin Passport API to read the unique humanity scores. Users can now migrate their passport on -chain to opmainnet by visiting passport .gitcoin .co. PRISESAVINGS PROTOCOL PULLED TOGETHER released the fifth iteration of its protocol to private beta. The new iteration introduces immutability, permission -less vaults, and automatic yield -to -price conversion. The beta release features boosted USDC and wrapped Ether vaults on opmainnet that generate a yield from Aavev3. Users with a Puli PFer, GitpoApp, or PuliconpoApp NFT can access the beta release. The v5 release is expected to launch for all users on October 2nd. PULLED TOGETHER also introduced Kalbana .fi, a series of open -source and user -friendly interfaces for interacting with the new protocol. And lastly, the Ether .fan staked ETH -backed NFT collection by Ether .fi introduced NFT auctions. The auctions enable users of Ether .fan to participate in bidding for rewards utilizing their accumulated loyalty points. The rewards include a dapp note staking device and a range of USDC prizes. Ether staked via Ether .fan is directed towards the Operation Solo Staker initiative, which furnishes hardware to solo stakers in various global locations. The program is not available to US residents. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Offchain Labs Releases Arbitrum Stylus
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Thursday, August 31st, 2023. Offchain Labs releases Arbitrum Stylus, Prisma Finance goes live on Ethereum mainnet, Gitcoin Passport introduces on -chain stamps, and Pulled Together v5 is now live in private beta. All this and more starts right now. Offchain Labs released Stylus, a general -purpose programming environment that supports Wasm smart contracts. Developers can now build applications on Arbitrum Nitro chains using Wasm -compatible languages, including Rust, C, and C++. The launch includes the release of the code, a public testnet, and an SDK. According to the project, Stylus significantly lowers gas costs. Developers can build resource -intensive blockchain use cases, including alternative signature schemes, larger generative art libraries, and C++ -based gaming. Offchain Labs will host a Stylus Hackathon at ETH Global in New York on September 22nd and will offer $20 ,000 in bounties. Prisma Finance, a liquid staking token -backed stablecoin protocol, is now deployed on Ethereum mainnet. Starting on September 1st at 9am UTC, users will be able to mint the MKUSD stablecoin using Wrapped SE, CBETH, RE, or Staked FRAXETH as collateral. Deaf caps will also be enforced for each collateral during the initial launch. Prisma will also release its PRISMA token in the coming weeks, which can be locked for Vote Escort PRISMA, enabling governance voting power. Liquid staking token issuers can then channel incentives towards their own assets using Vote Escort PRISMA. In a bid to bootstrap Liquidity, Prisma is introducing a 0 % initial interest rate. Prisma is built on the codebase of Liquidity Protocol. Identity verification platform Gitcoin Passport introduced on -chain stamps on opmainnet. An on -chain stamp is a verifiable credential stored on -chain. The solution uses Ethereum Attestation Service for its on -chain data structure. Ethereum Attestation Service is an open -source tool for on -chain and off -chain attestations that is available for OP stackchains. Credentials can be assigned by various identity providers. The system aggregates stamps and assigns weights based on their cost of forgery. Stamps were previously stored off -chain and required developers to query the Gitcoin Passport API to read the unique humanity scores. Users can now migrate their passport on -chain to opmainnet by visiting passport .gitcoin .co. PRISESAVINGS PROTOCOL PULLED TOGETHER released the fifth iteration of its protocol to private beta. The new iteration introduces immutability, permission -less vaults, and automatic yield -to -price conversion. The beta release features boosted USDC and wrapped Ether vaults on opmainnet that generate a yield from Aavev3. Users with a Puli PFer, GitpoApp, or PuliconpoApp NFT can access the beta release. The v5 release is expected to launch for all users on October 2nd. PULLED TOGETHER also introduced Kalbana .fi, a series of open -source and user -friendly interfaces for interacting with the new protocol. And lastly, the Ether .fan staked ETH -backed NFT collection by Ether .fi introduced NFT auctions. The auctions enable users of Ether .fan to participate in bidding for rewards utilizing their accumulated loyalty points. The rewards include a dapp note staking device and a range of USDC prizes. Ether staked via Ether .fan is directed towards the Operation Solo Staker initiative, which furnishes hardware to solo stakers in various global locations. The program is not available to US residents. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 18:00 08-31-2023 18:00
"All right, well, we hope, yeah, we're thinking about the people in Hong Kong. Yeah, definitely, definitely. Behind that storm. Okay. All right. Listen, Doug, thank you so much. Thank you. Looking forward to Daybreak Asia with Doug Krisner coming up in just a moment. In the meantime, that's a wrap for our first day. We're coming back tomorrow, though. Lucky us. We are lucky. Yeah. It's going to be a good one. Another good weather day tomorrow, too. I'm going to watch a little tennis tonight. Are you going to watch? I'm going to go home and watch, yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to figure out if I stick around and watch a little bit of match. We'll see. Anyway, thank you, everybody, for watching from the whole Bluebird Business Week team. It takes a lot to put this together. Daybreak Asia starts right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. This is Bloomberg Daybreak Asia for this Friday, September 1st in Hong Kong, Thursday, August 31st in New York. Coming up today. The Fed's favorite inflation measure stays low as traders look to Friday's jobs report in the U .S. China eases lending rules to aid the property market. And some country garden bondholders push for a default to buy the developer. Former President Trump pleads not guilty to charges in Georgia. China and the U .S. acknowledge that military officials met earlier this month. Hong Kong raises its storm warning as the city prepares for super typhoon Saola. While in sports, the Champions League draw has been revealed. I'm Dan Schwartzman. I'll have news in sports coming up. That's all straight ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia. On Bloomberg 1130 New York. Bloomberg 99 .1 Washington, D .C. Bloomberg 106 .1 Boston. Bloomberg 960 San Francisco. Sirius XM 119. And around the world on BloombergRadio .com and via the Bloomberg Business Act. It's already the first day of September in Asia. And it's the final trading day of the week in the APAC region. If you're joining from Japan, Singapore, anywhere in the Asia.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Judge In Uniswap Suit Says "Ask Congress, Not Me!"
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, August 31st, and today we are talking about the big decision in the Uniswap lawsuit. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it. Give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, another day, another good court result for the crypto industry. Anthony Sassano tweeted, the SEC in losing in court, name a more iconic duo. Now, what he was referring to is a class action lawsuit against Uniswap that has been dismissed. This case was filed in April of last year by a group of plaintiffs who claimed that they lost money due to scam tokens being listed on the decentralized exchange. Uniswap Labs, its CEO, the Foundation and VC backers were all listed as defendants who were claimed to be liable for those losses. The argument made by plaintiffs was that Uniswap had a degree of control over liquidity pools on the protocol. They demanded rescission of the contracts entered into to purchase the scam contracts, as well as compensation under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Plaintiffs supported their claims by arguing that Uniswap held control over, quote, liquidity provider funds and newly created tokens in Uniswap's proprietary core contracts. Essentially, they argued that Uniswap had control over assets deposited in smart contracts on the platform. They supported their claims by arguing that Uniswap used routers under its control to process transactions and provided liquidity tokens when pools were created. Plaintiffs also argued that collectively, the defendants likely held at least 88 % of Uniswap governance tokens, enough to effectively control the protocol, but ultimately did not advance evidence to support that claim. Now, why people are so excited about this particular decision is not just that Uniswap won. They're because excited the judge's order to dismiss the case speaks to a firm understanding of the underlying functionality of crypto protocols. Now, on the one hand, maybe we shouldn't be surprised because this is the same judge currently presiding over the Coinbase lawsuit and so has had a lot of context to learn about crypto law during that proceeding. At the same time, the fact that this judge is the one who is presiding over the Coinbase lawsuit is part of why people are even more excited than they might otherwise have been. Now, the judge explained in their order that, quote, The identities of the scam token issuers are basically unknown and unknowable, leaving plaintiffs with an identifiable injury but no identifiable defendant. Plaintiffs then sued whoever they could find, according to the judge, who said, quote, Undaunted, they now sue the Uniswap defendants and the VC defendants, hoping that this court might overlook the fact that the current state of cryptocurrency regulation leaves them without recourse, at least as to the specific claims alleged in this suit. Indeed, this lack of legislation and clarity around the crypto industry was a huge, perhaps defining theme of the ruling. The judge wrote that, quote, The court declines to stretch the federal securities law to cover the conduct alleged and concludes the plaintiffs' concerns are better addressed to Congress than to this court. Now, that is an absolute bomb of a statement, and we will come back to it in a little bit. The judge rejected the premise that merely deploying code on a blockchain could lead to legal liability, stating that, quote, The order made it clear that Uniswap's core functionality was not illicit, stating that, quote, The court finds that the smart contracts here were themselves able to be carried out lawfully, as with the exchange of crypto commodities ETH and Bitcoin. The defendants had made the argument in their motion to dismiss that the lawsuit was just as absurd as holding the, quote, The judge found some resonance with the argument, making it clear that the individual who committed the crime was liable for the consequences, not the car company. Now, ultimately, the judge referenced the unsuccessful class action brought against Coinbase last year and dismissed the case with prejudice, meaning it cannot be retried. As I said, the community's reactions were significant. Marvin Amore, chief legal officer at Uniswap, writes, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams said, Twang Vili, head of regulatory and policy at Bain, said, Mike Vavstak, general counsel at AllianceDAO, writes, Attorney Collins Belton echoed this theme, saying, Now, lawyer Stephen Paley, a partner at Brown and Rudnick, went a little bit farther in his explanation of just how significant this was. He wrote, While this opinion is primarily focused on application of US federal securities laws, we're going to see issue of developer and platform liability for third party misuse and harm heavily litigated in the coming decades. This isn't a case about products liability or negligence, but touches on some of the same issues. Foreseeability of harm, responsibility for third party misuse and third party damage. I predict much of this will be the subject of legislation, but common law decisions will lead the way to start. Mike Vavstak again also wrote a longer thread about a specific footnote in the case Footnote 8. He writes, It undermines a nasty tactic we've seen the SEC, CFTC and class action plaintiffs use against crypto. Namely, arguing that designing a protocol to avoid the law is the same as admitting guilt under the law.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin Mining Update with Zach Bradford from CleanSpark - August 31st, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right, all right. Well, welcome to Cafe Bitcoin. It's always a good time when you can do your Alex impersonation. What's going on? I think long, long, awkward silence would have been more appropriate. Well, it wasn't, but we got our host here, our guest host. Tomer Strohle. Hi, guys. Sorry, I was having some serious wireless connection problems. It's OK. Hey, Tomer, we were enjoying a long, awkward silence. I had to restart my phone. I thought I was going to do this going for a walk. And I'm trying to send messages in the channel and they're not sending. And I'm like, that's peculiar. So I don't know. At some point when there's a lull, when someone else is talking, I'm going to try connecting to the cellular network. But I had to walk back home for the Wi -Fi. So, yeah. Welcome, everybody, to Cafe Bitcoin. I don't know what I've missed so far. I'm sure it's been exciting. I heard Peter's voice. So what have I missed so far as I stumble onto the stage late for the show opening? Nothing, but I was just thinking to myself, you know, this period of the last couple of weeks since I've been kind of a part of the show, since the lost episodes, for goodness sakes, this couple of weeks without Alex has actually been quite refreshing. We just never know what we're going to end up talking about on these mornings in this space, even with Alex. But it's more regimented and directed with Alex. And I really have enjoyed this kind of free association we've been doing over the last 10 days or whatever it is. It's really been refreshing. Right. Well, you know, I guess both, obviously, the lack of Alex who drives and steers the show and is its main personality, along with there hasn't been that much in the way of news, has probably meant that we've had to explore all sorts of other areas. And everyone's busy in the summertime. So I think, you know, at the time of the year, I try to join almost every day that I can Mondays through Thursdays.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from MARKETS DAILY: Crypto Update | Musk's X Obtains Payment Licenses in Several U.S. States
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken and Simpliras. It's Thursday, August 31st, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. Hi, I'm Michelle Musso here with your crypto markets roundup. On today's show, we're talking Bitcoin, Elon Musk's axe, and more. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Bitcoin's average trade size on most exchanges jumped to its highest point since June following Grayscale's court victory Tuesday over the SEC, the U .S. Securities and Exchange Commission. According to data from Keiko, the average trade size for Bitcoin on crypto exchange Kraken increased to above $2 ,000 after Tuesday's ruling from around $850 the day prior. Other exchanges saw similar action. The last time Bitcoin's average trade size was higher was back during June's bull run, said Keiko. Though the average trade size rose, the number of BTC held in wallets on centralized exchanges has declined this month. The number of Bitcoin held in addresses tied to centralized exchanges slid to the lowest level in more than five years, partially reflecting a growing market sophistication. The so -called exchange reserve dropped 4 % this month to the lowest level since early January 2018 according to on -chain data analytics service CryptoQuant. Part of the decline could be due to a lack of trust in centralized exchanges. Since Sam Bankman -Fried's exchange, FTX, went bust in November last year, investors have increasingly preferred to keep coins off centralized exchanges. A report from the head of strategy at Matrixport said, quote, It seems the overwhelming majority of crypto hedge funds are seeking to mitigate as much risk as possible after the events of last year, keeping only those assets required for day -to -day trading on exchange, unquote. Profit taking in general risk off environment probably weighed on crypto prices on Thursday, with Bitcoin and major tokens tapering gains made in two days since the U .S. court ruling. The Bitcoin price rose as much as 7 % earlier this week after a federal appeals court ordered the SEC to, quote, vacate its rejection of the trust issuers bid to convert the grayscale Bitcoin trust into an exchange traded fund, fueling optimism among traders. The CoinDesk market index, a weighted index of over 100 tokens, fell 0 .71 % in the past 24 hours, suggesting profit taking across the board. And lastly, a look at Ethereum. Though Ether is up more than 3 .5 % this week, it is still on track to form a so -called death cross. Ether's 50 -day simple moving average is on pace to move below its 200 -day moving average, which forms the death cross, according to charting platform TradingView. The cryptocurrency's last death cross occurred in late January 2022. The death cross shows the short -term trend is now underperforming the long -term direction and is widely considered a long -term bearish indicator. However, past numbers suggest otherwise. Since its inception, Ether has seen six death crosses, of which only three lived up to the reputation, and the rest caught traders on the wrong side of the market. To conclude, the death cross is unreliable as a standalone indicator. With that said, the impending death cross is consistent with the bearish outlook in the Ether options market and lingering concerns about the slowdown in Ethereum's network usage. Today's market segment comes courtesy of Coindesk's Lalala Desma, Amkar Gaboli, and Shaaria Malwa. Stay tuned for after the break when we'll take a look at Elon Musk's Platform X.
Markets Daily Crypto Roundup
A highlight from Crypto Update | Musk's X Obtains Payment Licenses in Several U.S. States
"This episode of Markets Daily is sponsored by Kraken and Simpliras. It's Thursday, August 31st, 2023, and this is Markets Daily from CoinDesk. Hi, I'm Michelle Musso here with your crypto markets roundup. On today's show, we're talking Bitcoin, Elon Musk's axe, and more. And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. Bitcoin's average trade size on most exchanges jumped to its highest point since June following Grayscale's court victory Tuesday over the SEC, the U .S. Securities and Exchange Commission. According to data from Keiko, the average trade size for Bitcoin on crypto exchange Kraken increased to above $2 ,000 after Tuesday's ruling from around $850 the day prior. Other exchanges saw similar action. The last time Bitcoin's average trade size was higher was back during June's bull run, said Keiko. Though the average trade size rose, the number of BTC held in wallets on centralized exchanges has declined this month. The number of Bitcoin held in addresses tied to centralized exchanges slid to the lowest level in more than five years, partially reflecting a growing market sophistication. The so -called exchange reserve dropped 4 % this month to the lowest level since early January 2018 according to on -chain data analytics service CryptoQuant. Part of the decline could be due to a lack of trust in centralized exchanges. Since Sam Bankman -Fried's exchange, FTX, went bust in November last year, investors have increasingly preferred to keep coins off centralized exchanges. A report from the head of strategy at Matrixport said, quote, It seems the overwhelming majority of crypto hedge funds are seeking to mitigate as much risk as possible after the events of last year, keeping only those assets required for day -to -day trading on exchange, unquote. Profit taking in general risk off environment probably weighed on crypto prices on Thursday, with Bitcoin and major tokens tapering gains made in two days since the U .S. court ruling. The Bitcoin price rose as much as 7 % earlier this week after a federal appeals court ordered the SEC to, quote, vacate its rejection of the trust issuers bid to convert the grayscale Bitcoin trust into an exchange traded fund, fueling optimism among traders. The CoinDesk market index, a weighted index of over 100 tokens, fell 0 .71 % in the past 24 hours, suggesting profit taking across the board. And lastly, a look at Ethereum. Though Ether is up more than 3 .5 % this week, it is still on track to form a so -called death cross. Ether's 50 -day simple moving average is on pace to move below its 200 -day moving average, which forms the death cross, according to charting platform TradingView. The cryptocurrency's last death cross occurred in late January 2022. The death cross shows the short -term trend is now underperforming the long -term direction and is widely considered a long -term bearish indicator. However, past numbers suggest otherwise. Since its inception, Ether has seen six death crosses, of which only three lived up to the reputation, and the rest caught traders on the wrong side of the market. To conclude, the death cross is unreliable as a standalone indicator. With that said, the impending death cross is consistent with the bearish outlook in the Ether options market and lingering concerns about the slowdown in Ethereum's network usage. Today's market segment comes courtesy of Coindesk's Lalala Desma, Amkar Gaboli, and Shaaria Malwa. Stay tuned for after the break when we'll take a look at Elon Musk's Platform X.
Daily Crypto Report
"Elon Musk's X obtains money transmitter licenses in multiple US states " Aug 31, 2023
"It's 8 a .m. Eastern, August 31st, and this is your Daily Crypto Report. Bitcoin is up 0 .5 % at $27 ,313, ETH is up 0 .5 % at $1 ,713, and Binance Coin is up slightly at $224. While Sam Beckman -Friede's lawyers argued against the government's use of millions of pages of documents for evidence claiming that they received them too late and that SPF can't properly review them in jail, the judge expressed skepticism and gave the lawyers until Friday to request a trial postponement, but there is no guarantee that it will be granted. The documents in question were obtained from Google due to a production error, but the judge noted that most of them were from SPF's own Google accounts. The judge stated that there's no evidence of the government acting in bad faith. Elon Musk's social media platform, X, formerly Twitter, has obtained money or currency transmitter licenses in multiple U .S. states, including Rhode Island, Maryland, and New Hampshire. These licenses allow for broader payment services, including processing crypto payments. Musk has expressed interest in supporting cryptocurrencies on the platform and has plans for X to expand beyond social media. The licenses obtained by X indicate that Musk may have intentions to offer payment processing services nationwide, similar to Venmo or PayPal, a company he was responsible for helping start. Other companies like Western Union and PayPal hold similar licenses in the states they serve. Coinbase is planning to list the newly launched PayPal stablecoin PiUSD pending sufficient liquidity. Coinbase will initially support PiUSD with an experimental label which is applied to new or low -volume assets on the platform. Sam Altman's Worldcoin has experienced a surge in signups in Argentina despite an ongoing investigation by local authorities. In a single day in August, approximately 9 ,500 Argentinians verified their World ID, averaging one verification every nine seconds. The project still faces pressure from Argentine authorities regarding data privacy. And finally, crypto data tracking platform Arkham Intelligence has identified Robinhood as the owner of the fifth -largest Ethereum wallet. The wallet holds approximately $2 .54 billion worth of ETH. Notably, these funds are held in custody for user balances. Robinhood has recently seen a decline in crypto trading activity with second -quarter revenue falling to $31 million compared to the previous quarter. Well, that's all for us today. Visit us at dailycryptoreport .io for sources and links. Listen to us everywhere else you podcast under Daily Crypto Report. that shares stories of the changing American South brought to you through the foods we eat. It's produced by the Southern Foodways Alliance and distributed by APT Podcast Studios. Listen to Gravy on your porch during happy hour to hear about the mystery of the missing Pappy Van Winkle bourbon. Don't miss out. Follow Gravy wherever you get your podcasts. Hey guys, welcome to the collective. I'm Brianne Helfrich, a 26 -year -old bioethics PhD student and clothing brand CEO. Welcome to my podcast where we talk all things health and wellness, navigating your 20s and becoming the best version of yourself. So sit down, play that episode and join the collective.
The Hair Radio Show with Kerry Hines
Legendary Celebrity Hairstylist Glen Coco Joins the Show for the First Time!
"I have a very very special guest joining us today for the very first time on our airways This is glenn coco. Good morning. Good morning and welcome to the broadcast. Hello and good morning Thank you so much for having me it's nice to talk to you And I I just want to say first of all what took you so long Now I want to talk about your legendary career and what's new for you going on these days as well So, uh, can you tell us a little bit because um, i've read some things and I said well, let me just go straight to mr Glenn coco, so tell us a little bit some of your highlights that you can share with us this morning Yeah, I mean i've i've been blessed to have such an amazing career and work with such a talented individual It's sort of unfolded by accident I started hair styling Because of the recession in 2008 and kind of fell into this industry But I knew once I started I always wanted to work with celebrities I saw the hair on tv and in magazines and it was always a goal of mine So i've you know moved to los angeles and pursued it and have been blessed to have makeup artists and stylists And other celebrities refer me to clients. So that's why my roster is You know what it is today and i'm super blessed and grateful Absolutely. Now I have to just you know, can you I you know, tell us a few drop a couple of names You know, we have to live On the show glenn. I always I always have to list them I always have to list them by most recently so that I can remember but um, timmy swinney who's on euphoria Has been a client of mine as of most recently kourtney kardashian Kylie jenner megan fox rita ora um shane mitchell I mean i've been doing this for quite some time now hair for 10 years and celebrities for about four or five So the list has gone long, but those are my most recent That's a mega list It just reminds me. I always used to chat with people out on the west coast as well who? Always work with celebrities like yourself. Just the biggest of the biggest And i've always wanted to know Yeah, uh what that you know must feel like and all of that but you know This is quite an honor for us to have you on the broadcast So, what do you say to all these wonderful? Stylists who would like to be celebrity celebrity stylists. I get this all the time on the show This is really what the goal is out there in case you didn't know Really? So what do you say? Yeah, I mean, I think it's it's the same thing I really wanted when I first started in this industry and it's um, you know to to be working with the rich and famous and I think the biggest tip that I can really tell people is Continuing education. I think it's one of the most important things you can do for your career I think cosmetology school is such a small part of the grand scheme of knowledge that you really need to know So making sure that you're investing all of the money that you're making because as a stylist I feel like you make money very quickly and it's very easy to get enthralled in the lifestyle But it's important to take that money and really put it towards continuing education To make sure that your skill set is what it needs to be I remember when I first moved to la and people would refer me to celebrity clients. It was um, You know I thought I was prepared and then I got thrown into it And I didn't have extensions in my kit and I didn't have certain products in my kit that were essential And I remember this one makeup artist telling me like i'm never referring you to anyone again because you're not prepared to do this You're not that good And so that whole year I really focused on my craft. I focused on the products that were in my kit And I focused on getting you know, a well -rounded kit full of extensions and wigs And I think that's really what made me the hairstylist I am today is really, you know starting And realizing that I had more to learn
Crypto Cafe With Randi Zuckerberg
"august 31st" Discussed on Crypto Cafe With Randi Zuckerberg
"However, we now we're going to change topics a little bit, Michael, the topic you brought to the table is around naughty players coming under the gun a little bit. You wanted to talk a little bit about how LA based impact theory has been charged by the SEC. Yeah, so this is a little slap on the hand. So a little bit of background. This is the first ever securities charge against an NFT project. So impact theory, Tom Bilyeu, amazing founder, founded Questbar, if anyone knows what Questbar is, created what was called the founders keys, because he was building an entertainment media company. And, you know, you all me you Debbie have taught many entrepreneurs not to promise wealth or promise that this is going to be the next Disney and their their investments going to go up. And so unfortunately, impact theory use those words and raise $30 million. Can we just talk about this? This is the wild wild west of 2022 with NFTs. And they were charged, they settled with the SEC around $6 million for this. So they got a big penalty for this. And I think this is a good thing. I want to say that this puts the guardrails up. We have all known that you can't sell NFTs as a as a security, you can only sell them as a digital collectible with utility. And that utility has to be super, super clear. So I think this is a great thing. For sure. I think, you know, the reason we've seen a little bit of a decline and in web three this year, and NFTs is because, you know, there were so many amazing projects, but there were also a lot of bad players that came into the space to make a quick buck. And I think we need consumer trust to come back and a little little bit of healthy policing. I don't know, Debbie, what do you think? Are you in line with Michael's thinking? Or do you disagree? Yeah, no, I'm 100% in line here. You know, it's really easy to sell people the moon, right. And, you know, for all of us that are in this world of emerging tech, we just don't know any better. I mean, we do want to believe that we're on the cutting edge of something that's truly exciting. And so, you know, when someone tells us that, hey, with, you know, by selling these NFTs, you're going to get A, B and C, and you're going to be part of the next big thing. I think in general, everybody wants to believe that. But as part of that, you know, people have kind of taken it a bit too far, you know, greed comes in, you know, consumers don't know any better. So I do think that this is a really important signal for all the other players in the industry, just for us to also be, you know, cautious about what we're what we're promising to the people that are going to be buying our products effectively. Absolutely. All right, we have a few minutes left in the show. So we have time for our lightning round about a few of your favorite Web3 creators and moments of the week. So, Debbie, do you have a favorite Web3 moment or creator of the week? Well, I'm really fascinated by what the app Floor is doing. So for those of you who are not familiar with Floor, it is a portfolio tracking app for your NFTs effectively. So they just used to do portfolio tracking, but recently they have been collaborating with different artists to launch new drops where you can get the artist artwork, but also customize the icon of your app and also customize the in-app banner. So it's a really interesting way of collaborating with artists and also bringing their art, not just as a standalone digital collectible, but also kind of reskinning your app in your phone, if you will. So that's been really interesting to watch. They have one of my favorite artists this week called Tippetron. I've mentioned her before, but it's just really exciting to see how that's all being integrated. And the best thing is that you can just purchase all of this through your Apple Pay and just double click the side of your phone, just making that whole transaction really, really seamless. And I think it's a great example of how we can onboard more people into the world of digital collectibles and NFTs. Love that. Michael, what about you, a favorite Web3 moment or creator? Yeah. So a famous Eric Snowfro, who's been on your program, actually minted 66 Squiggles. So this is the most infamous generative art piece to come out of the last two or three years. He only has, after these 66, two more. And he's waiting to kind of mint those and give his final thoughts. But this is such a great moment. And just to give some background on this, he just gives them away. He mints them to his family, to people that he feels are great creators in the space. And I think that is a beautiful, beautiful thing.That is a beautiful thing. Actually, I had him on the show, and I didn't even know that. So that's awesome. I always learn so much from the two of you about what's going on in the space. Michael, in our final moments together, tell us a little bit about what's going on in our world at Hug. Oh my gosh, so much. So we have a really exciting open call for artists coming up, which I know Debbie can talk a little bit more about. It's a little bit some alpha around a big curation in Tokyo. And that's a really big one. And then honestly, we're just cooking up some really exciting things for the holidays. So stay tuned. There's some big announcements coming, big collaborations. And I think at the most, it's really about staying on the front lines of innovation and learning alongside of all of you. So that's what we're doing. Debbie, anything you want to add? And I know you have a big trip coming up too. So we'll be missing you the next few weeks. Oh, I know. Yeah, I'm headed home to Singapore. And actually, while I'm back, that's going to be one of the biggest crypto conferences that's happening in Asia. This happens the same week as the Formula One Grand Prix race. So very excited to be around for that. There's a lot of great events happening. So really can't wait to see what the art and technology space is like right in Asia. So yeah, I will miss being with both of you over the next couple of weeks for sure. Yes, we'll miss it. But very excited for the world to get to hear from Tina on our team, who is a really incredible curator and passionate about art. What a pleasure to always be joined on this podcast by both of you. Definitely encourage everyone. I feel like we've all learned enough from this podcast that you could go be a great cocktail party guest this week. We learned about the SEC cracking down on impact theory with NFTs. We learned about Sam Spratt's incredibly successful art drop, Floor, an app for your web portfolio, and Snowfro and his Squiggles art project. Super special thanks to Debbie Soon and Michael Littig. You're listening to Crypto Cafe with Randy Zuckerberg. I'm Randy and tune in next week for a brand new episode of what you need to know with Randy and our wonderful Hug contributors. Thanks so much. Talk next week.
Crypto Cafe With Randi Zuckerberg
"august 31st" Discussed on Crypto Cafe With Randi Zuckerberg
"Hello, and welcome to Crypto Cafe with Randi Zuckerberg. I'm your host, Randi, where we embrace newcomers and experts alike to all things art, innovation, technology, and the intersection of those three things. Our new recurring theme of this weekly podcast is what you need to know, the essentials of the week in the world of creative innovation. I'm joined each week by my incredible teammates from Hug, where we work tirelessly to break it all down for you. Definitely check out thehug.xyz for tons of free resources, whether you are an artist, an art lover, or you just want to know a lot more about the intersection between art and technology. All right, time for what you need to know and all of it in 10 minutes. Let's jump right in. But first, I'm joined in the Crypto Cafe by Hug contributors Debbie Soon and Michael Liddig. Debbie is the chief growth officer of Hug. Hi, Debbie. Hi, Randi. It's so good to be here as always. Love having you. And we have Michael Liddig, director of creator programming at Hug. Hi, Michael. I'm here. I'm so excited to be here. Yes, you are here. Okay, woohoo. All right. So what you need to know, Debbie, you brought a topic to the table this week, you wanted to talk about one of the most successful art drops of 2023 that just happened. Give us the details. Oh my gosh. So this piece, I highly recommend that everybody go check out the Monument Game by artist Sam Spratt. That's a shame. I wish somehow I could describe it. But this is probably one of the most intricate pieces of work that I've ever seen that has been produced digitally. It was inspired by Sam's visit to see The Last Supper in real life. But Sam has been creating this world called Lucy, you know, over the past few years, and it's all been inspired by his own personal experiences. He's taken all of that and really expanded it into this incredibly detailed painting, and essentially invited 256 players to join a Monument Game to really zoom in on all of the details and leave their observations. And so a lot about this piece was the observer had to give a little bit of themselves and almost kind of make a sacrifice of their own personal experience. And from an artist's perspective, he was just really interested to see if everybody else was seeing the same things that he was, because obviously, he knows, you know, every single piece of the law, every single detail, like, you know, comes from his own personal experiences. And he was really curious to see if us as art appreciators and art lovers really shared in the same way. And so 256 people joined in, you had to buy an NFT to participate in this, each one was about five and a half thousand dollars, let's call it that. And at the end of it, they selected three winners to essentially join kind of his esteemed council, Lucy, which he has been building over the past few years. So it's just truly, truly incredible stuff, and just a new way of appreciating art and doing so with your collectors in a way that has never been done before. It is very exciting when you think that over 250 people got the chance to collaborate with an artist. And I think it went for something like 420 ETH, which, you know, that that value varies by the second, but that's around 700,000 US dollars for this piece. So definitely a successful drop. Michael, any thoughts on it? Yeah, you know, I think we're going to look back 20 years from now and look at how artists were interacting with collectors. And I think this is an incredible example of, imagine you went to the Mona Lisa, right? And imagine, we were able to look at collectors, what they thought about the collection. And I think we're going to look back on this moment. And this is going to be a really big turning moment for how collectors collect. We're seeing this happen across a lot of use of blockchain, where collectors can actually leave their imprint on the painting or the digital art. So I think this is a big, big step. And because of Sam's intricate kind of nature of how he approached the piece, he's been working on it for years. I'm just blown away. And I can't wait to see what this does. Yeah, I will also say that, like, it's also the way that we consume the art in itself, right? And typically a piece like this, you go into a museum, this, I mean, obviously, you could get your nose really close to the painting, if you will, before somebody throws you out. But this is the way that the intricate detailed painting was viewed on all the individual computer screens, you could zoom in. So I think when you see it on your computer screen, it's probably 5% of its actual scale. But the way that this was done really allowed us to interact with the piece through our screens and really be able to zoom in on every single minute detail. So that was really incredible to participate in as well, even if you weren't actually an official player of the game. That's, it's amazing. And you're right, it probably is a really groundbreaking moment for collaboration and in art at this scale.
Crypto Cafe With Randi Zuckerberg
A highlight from What You Need to Know This Week (August 31st)
"Hello, and welcome to Crypto Cafe with Randi Zuckerberg. I'm your host, Randi, where we embrace newcomers and experts alike to all things art, innovation, technology, and the intersection of those three things. Our new recurring theme of this weekly podcast is what you need to know, the essentials of the week in the world of creative innovation. I'm joined each week by my incredible teammates from Hug, where we work tirelessly to break it all down for you. Definitely check out thehug .xyz for tons of free resources, whether you are an artist, an art lover, or you just want to know a lot more about the intersection between art and technology. All right, time for what you need to know and all of it in 10 minutes. Let's jump right in. But first, I'm joined in the Crypto Cafe by Hug contributors Debbie Soon and Michael Liddig. Debbie is the chief growth officer of Hug. Hi, Debbie. Hi, Randi. It's so good to be here as always. Love having you. And we have Michael Liddig, director of creator programming at Hug. Hi, Michael. I'm here. I'm so excited to be here. Yes, you are here. Okay, woohoo. All right. So what you need to know, Debbie, you brought a topic to the table this week, you wanted to talk about one of the most successful art drops of 2023 that just happened. Give us the details. Oh my gosh. So this piece, I highly recommend that everybody go check out the Monument Game by artist Sam Spratt. That's a shame. I wish somehow I could describe it. But this is probably one of the most intricate pieces of work that I've ever seen that has been produced digitally. It was inspired by Sam's visit to see The Last Supper in real life. But Sam has been creating this world called Lucy, you know, over the past few years, and it's all been inspired by his own personal experiences. He's taken all of that and really expanded it into this incredibly detailed painting, and essentially invited 256 players to join a Monument Game to really zoom in on all of the details and leave their observations. And so a lot about this piece was the observer had to give a little bit of themselves and almost kind of make a sacrifice of their own personal experience. And from an artist's perspective, he was just really interested to see if everybody else was seeing the same things that he was, because obviously, he knows, you know, every single piece of the law, every single detail, like, you know, comes from his own personal experiences. And he was really curious to see if us as art appreciators and art lovers really shared in the same way. And so 256 people joined in, you had to buy an NFT to participate in this, each one was about five and a half thousand dollars, let's call it that. And at the end of it, they selected three winners to essentially join kind of his esteemed council, Lucy, which he has been building over the past few years. So it's just truly, truly incredible stuff, and just a new way of appreciating art and doing so with your collectors in a way that has never been done before. It is very exciting when you think that over 250 people got the chance to collaborate with an artist. And I think it went for something like 420 ETH, which, you know, that that value varies by the second, but that's around 700 ,000 US dollars for this piece. So definitely a successful drop. Michael, any thoughts on it? Yeah, you know, I think we're going to look back 20 years from now and look at how artists were interacting with collectors. And I think this is an incredible example of, imagine you went to the Mona Lisa, right? And imagine, we were able to look at collectors, what they thought about the collection. And I think we're going to look back on this moment. And this is going to be a really big turning moment for how collectors collect. We're seeing this happen across a lot of use of blockchain, where collectors can actually leave their imprint on the painting or the digital art. So I think this is a big, big step. And because of Sam's intricate kind of nature of how he approached the piece, he's been working on it for years. I'm just blown away. And I can't wait to see what this does. Yeah, I will also say that, like, it's also the way that we consume the art in itself, right? And typically a piece like this, you go into a museum, this, I mean, obviously, you could get your nose really close to the painting, if you will, before somebody throws you out. But this is the way that the intricate detailed painting was viewed on all the individual computer screens, you could zoom in. So I think when you see it on your computer screen, it's probably 5 % of its actual scale. But the way that this was done really allowed us to interact with the piece through our screens and really be able to zoom in on every single minute detail. So that was really incredible to participate in as well, even if you weren't actually an official player of the game. That's, it's amazing. And you're right, it probably is a really groundbreaking moment for collaboration and in art at this scale.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 18:00 08-30-2023 18:00
"They are doing increasingly. Well, you've got to go to the AI story, the advanced semiconductor story, the quantum computer story on that. I mean, this is certainly forcing that, right? And I think that it's a very complicated story. We'll try to talk about that a little bit tonight. Will you listen? We'll listen. I'll be there. Thank you. Carol, why are you so quiet? I've got stuff to do. No, of course we'll listen. We'll listen. That'll do it for Bloomberg Business Week. Have a good and safe evening. Everybody listen to Daybreak Asia. It starts now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. This is Bloomberg Daybreak Asia for this Thursday, August 31st in Hong Kong, Wednesday, August 30th in New York. Coming up today. The US economy shows signs of softening and traders bet that the Fed may be approaching the end of its rate hike cycle. Country Garden posed a record first half loss, and the company warns it may default on its debt. And China will approve its first batch of generative AI services as soon as this week. Hurricane Adalia wreaks havoc in Florida. North Korea could be supplying weapons and munitions to Russia. Visa and MasterCard will be raising fees to retailers. While in sports, a major upset goes down in the second round of the US Open. I'm Dan Schwartzman. I'll have news and sports coming up. That's all straight ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia. On Bloomberg 1130 New York, Bloomberg 99 .1 Washington DC, Bloomberg 106 .1 Boston, Bloomberg 960 San Francisco, Sirius XM 119, and around the world on Bloomberg Radio .com and via the Bloomberg Business Act. It is the Thursday edition of Daybreak Asia, 601 on Wall Street.
The Stuttering John Podcast
"august 31st" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"On Patreon. Wow. A 170 crazy. $1000 a month. So and it's there. The audience, the audience is there, the desire is there and the value is there. So putting them together is just the work. So I got to ask you, because I don't know if I asked you this. I think I did, but you know, I had it on my beer in the balcony, which was only available to Patreon and my YouTube members. Remember the band zebra? Of course. I had Felix, you know, the bass player. He's a good friend of mine. Oh, that's nice. I did not. I did not know that. You know, it's interesting too. And major have you I'm sure as you've kind of grown in social media and yours has been much more of a spike in a lot of ways than John and I because ours has been kind of a slow boil over time, but you've had this kind of ramp up. It's great to watch. And you're interacting with some people, just like me getting Dee Snider in the circle and talking to you because of your namesake fellow twisted sister grand member, by the way. Yeah. I had D on the show as well. Yeah, it's a good dude. And but like, do you find your building kind of curious Internet friendships? Kind of like these, but also, you know, people are like, yeah, yes. You know, I will tell you that I have there's a person on here by the name. I was locking up again. It's okay. He'll be back. A Robin M thanks for the 5 bucks. Hello, goodbye. He's in there. There's a person in his chat room that I think he's related to. Hello, good people, hi Robin, yeah. I forget, I don't know who he was going to say. We'll find out in a minute. Hold on. He'll be back. I'm just gonna run the ones supposed to be locking up. Zebra was such a Long Island band being playing nonstop on WPA. Yeah, but they were also had a big LA following too. They just played the whisky and it was like sold out how. I couldn't believe they had like a big LA following. Well, yeah, I mean, there's a lot of history in Los Angeles too in the music scene. And so a lot of people do remember, you know, hopefully lost them. Yeah. Well, he'll come back. He'll be back. Yep. All the Robin and everyone. Thank you, Benny. Go for the 5 bucks. And I'm gonna have to get up and start prepping my show. And if you're not a good person, two and a half hours, right. But how you and I could talk for freaking out. I know. And I'm curious, I want you to watch Biden's speech. And we'll chat about it later. Because I think that's important as well. You know what I mean? Just said his Internet is out. Okay. Well, send our love and we will we will see him again soon and whatever personal all right. Go ahead and plug anything that you want, so you can get out of here and I can get out of here. Right, I'll be on in about a half an hour on my show. At the infotainment wars dot com or atk dot com a and Q dot com. I am indeed running for mayor of Los Angeles officially now, although I'm calling it auditioning for mayor because I think that's more appropriate to Los Angeles and to the actual job..
The Stuttering John Podcast
"august 31st" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"And I think it's just all for the good. I just feel like all for the good. So I appreciate it. You know, and I do this and I have to tell people all the time, if you're not following stutter and John, you're missing out, you know? And I'm telling you, and I know, you know, John has had me on here numerous times and I consider John to be a friend now, you know? Yeah. But I would tell you, I really do believe that you have some of the most amazing guests on your show. Yeah. You are able to tap into some of these folks that honestly, man, I don't think, but there you go. I mean, you know, he taps into people. You know, I never I never really knew who Glen Kirchner was. Right. And now, like, I'm a huge fan. Every time you see him, I gotta stop what I'm doing to listen to everything. I was the first show to have the minus touch brothers on. That's right. I mean, you know, and those guys are phenomenal. And every time you know, like I'll say, my weekend Twitter was on fire. But of course we were talking about Afghanistan and everything that I was doing was going 20,030 thousand shares and stuff like that. But I mean, you know, all of a sudden I'm scrolling and boom. There's my photograph and there's what I said and it's a modest touch. You know, every time. And you know what? I'm completely supportive of that. Because, you know what? We all like to help each other, man. That's right. We're all fighting the same battle. That's right. We're trying to we're trying to educate people, you know? I mean, and I appreciate it. And I really, really do enjoy getting that call. Hey man, you're up for today. Of course, yeah, I still got to work to timing, you know? You know, a better early than late. So, you know? That's right. And on my channel, I try to bounce to people like I said and reference people to make sure that most of my viewers obviously know about you guys and are also supporters and followers. And the goal has got to be just continually that 1% improvement every day just kind of chip away and add to that number. I've added 4000, let me look, the recent account. 4046 new subscribers in just the last 12 days. Wow. That's great. My mom says that she loves all of us. Love you too. Yeah. Yeah. And all it does, and that's how you have to do it..
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"august 31st" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"My job is done here. I must move along. So yeah, I'm just, you know, looking at ways. And this kind of goes to what the mightest touch guys we're talking about, which is how do we draw more eyeballs to what we're doing than the right does? Because none of them can do what I'm doing, for example, on my live stream in particular, make those just can't. And I'm making sure of it. I'm making sure that I'm like, whatever the next step is, I'm on the cutting edge of that so that my viewers don't get bored, watch the same thing over and over again. And I make sure that I make a save funny environment for them to digest the news as bad as it can possibly be. The question now is, you know, we've got a bunch of oh, we lost the majority. I think he said that he said that I just froze up, but I didn't freeze up he did. Okay, it might have just been like his screen froze or whatever. So please come back major we love you. But never end up in jail, you two pretty. He's right, you know. Yeah. But in reality, I feel like a rest there he is. He's back. Yay. What happened? We got you. We got you. He's back. I don't know what happened. It wasn't on my end. I just Internet, don't worry about it. So many times, I chase down problems on my live stream when I'm working on stuff, and it turns out to just be the Internet because miles away something happened. So I've learned to just shrug off all of it and just get on with it. That's the great thing about yeah. I had to because I was because I don't know what happened, but ever since stream yard changed their, you know, they made their updated freaking screen. Right. Now when I share the screen and play like a CNN thing, we'll all freeze up for a little while. It takes me a while to get back..
The Stuttering John Podcast
"august 31st" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"And so I have to wear a suit at our stated meetings at the first of every month. And at any of our major gatherings. So I've gotten more wear out of my suits in the last 5, 6 years as I've been amazed and then at any time in my life. So I at least I have a nice collection of reasonable adult wear. That's not weird. But adult clothing. That's even weirder. It sounds like I'm talking about diapers and some sort of design. That's wrong. Suits. Anyways, the point is that I've got those available. And when it comes to carrying out the duties of the office, especially in those respectful moments, because nobody gets to Dodge in public service, I don't know why everybody takes this job and any kind of public service. And thinks they can Dodge the awful. Because partly that's the reason why you're there as a public servant is to be is effectively to deal with it so that other people can get on with their lives. They know someone who gives a damn is handling it. That's the biggest concern we had over the last four years and why everybody was white knuckling social media every goddamn day, wondering what Trump was going to ruin next. Now, one of the reasons why the news is dropped off, why people aren't paying that much attention why are they having trouble even getting people to answer polls? It's not because we're as divided as a country as we are. 'cause a lot of people have just gone back to their normal lives. Recovering from this, and they know Biden's taking care of it. They may not be for everything, but they're not worried that he's thrown a monkey wrench in every system. He can find. Yeah. Ziggy says Hal's gonna be the Los Angeles just even tore him. Right. Now understand that underneath Los Angeles. There's an elevator that goes down to the center of the earth, where we keep all the alien body parts. I've heard about this for years, we're finally going to find out if it's true. Yeah. I ain't got time to bleed. So yeah. That's one of my accent. One of my accidentally good impressions that came out of nowhere. I had no idea. I used to do this bit in my act called one line impressions 'cause I couldn't do impressions..
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"august 31st" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Less, but a decent moral that within the bounds of not preachy but just kind of presenting good behavior or bad behavior in a bad light or whatever. But that's enough. You don't need to carry the weight of all politics on everything that you're doing in terms of that pulp. Because people watch that when they're dealing with their real life stuff. They get a you give them the break. They can't get otherwise. And those kind of scenes are the ones that stick out, make you laugh at the weirdest times, right? Bring it up, and there's a beauty in that, something that I really appreciate. I want to show you guys this. So this is what I was talking about. This is water. Liquid death. Liquid death, mountain spring water. But if you're walking around a party, like nobody like, it looks like you're the biggest badass at the party or whatever. And all it is is water. They have it at the House of blues here. We had it there. And then I went to the store and they had it in the store and I was like, this is hilarious. So it's just. Is it carbonated water? No, it's just mountain spring water. That's all it is. There's flat water. It's crazy can. Good this. Thanks for the 5 bucks. Thank you all for giving consistent and intelligent coverage of topics that matter always a great time watching you. Thank you. Yeah, I love having both of you guys on. It's like, you know, it's a great time. You know, one of these days will be in the same room. You know, it's like there's a comedic part to it. I mean, and again, how? I think for you to be scary smart, man. And that's good. Look, and I'm tell you folks. I'll tell you. You know, this guy's running for mayor of Los Angeles. That's right. And anybody who's ever listened to him speak, the guy knows everything. So I'm like, you know, not only are you hilarious, man, but man, you know, you got a big heart too, man. You ready? Thank you. And I'm telling you, man, I hope, I hope the people in Los Angeles really, really, you know, give you a shot, man. I really think, man. Thanks. Yeah, I'm officially my 5 O one, my form of intent has been registered and stuff it goes up and like two days or something that takes to process it or whatever. But I did it last week and I'm officially a candidate for mayor. So next year. So I'm excited. I'm not going to start raising money or doing any of that stuff till January because the elections in the fall and I am not running in a primary, I'm running as an independent because if at some point, like Karen Bass or somebody in the Democratic Party runs who I really like or whatever I don't want to eat away in the primary, I'm not going to get in a circular firing squad. I'll run on my own level. And I feel like that's good enough. But I don't want to, I'm going to stand on my own in that regard. And this is my first time running for office. So being even part of the party system assuming I should be was are you going to wear this? Yeah, but like something prince would wear in purple rain..
The Stuttering John Podcast
"august 31st" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"By the way, army major. Did you get a time on your Bill Maher appearance? No, just 24th. But you don't know what time they tape yet. It's in the afternoon. I think it's like three, three or 30 or four. Okay, because I got to show at 8 30. You know, but I'm headline. So I probably don't go on to like 9 15. So I'll probably be able to go with you. So I could take you there. Cool. But anyway, getting back to let me ask you guys how did you hear about Ted Cruz? Hear about his tweet. How can we leave Americans behind? This guy, he's the same guy who said that you. How can you leave Texas behind exactly? But he's also the same guy a true character committee assessed by how he handles the crisis. He actually says that when we all know he left to go to cancun. And surely he's being roasted for this crap. Oh, yes. Yeah. And again, you have to understand Trump wants to be yeah, takers wants to be the next Trump. But he is not possible. He won't. He's got I mean, they both have bad voices. They're both unattractive. They're both kind of gross to look at. They both have a lot. There's a lot of parallels except Ted Cruz has never been a phony billionaire that everybody bought drank the Kool-Aid on. So even Texans are like, this guy runs our thing. So if anybody steps up and is more macho looking, he's gonna get steamrolled in whatever election he faces. Period end of story. And he's trying everything he can to come across as his Butch as possible to try and sell this nonsense toxic masculinity ticket to the Texas voter. And nobody buys it. I mean, look at the man. For real. I have a friend that used to date his wife and he says that all Ted Cruz does sit at home and play freaking Call of Duty on these freaking television. I.
The Stuttering John Podcast
"august 31st" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"We got one POW for 5 Taliban, which is if you care about American lives seemingly a smart decision. But in this case, just let them out, screw it. We're out anyways. I don't care. And I guarantee and major would no more about the fighting season argument. But I guarantee I've heard all these people on the right wing media going, why would you get out in August or even in the summer or the spring when the fighting season is at its height? Why when you wait till the winter, which is exactly what Trump would have done if he had won the election, he'd gotten to May 1st and punt into the winter and the middle winter. Well, we got him on the run. Let's finish him off, and we'd fight through the winter and then the next fighting season would arrive. And on and on. And three, 5, ten months, three, 5, ten months, which is what's kept us in for the last decade. I mean, I don't know what where the intellectual rigor is and reporting about this BS. It reminds me a little nuts. It was never going to pull us out of there. Never. He was never going to pull us over. And the truth is, is that like everybody says, you know, the big winners of this war were none of us. The big winners were Lockheed Martin Boeing, Halliburton, Brown and root, right beyond. Those were the big winners. And wouldn't surprise me. I bet they were very, very close to Donald Trump too, you know? Well, the idea was that he thought, I mean, he wasn't removing himself from his financial holdings in his own company. You're going to tell me that he wasn't calling Don Junior on his unsecured cell phone to tell him buy some Raytheon 'cause we're about to buy about a $1 billion worth of the stuff and it's gonna spike in the next couple days. And then Rand Paul did..
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"august 31st" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"Sure you just watched it. No. No, no, I had the Midas touch brothers. I didn't get a chance to see it. How was it? Richard, did you get a chance to look at it? I didn't get to. I was actually had to go word on the streets and I frankly agree is that it was the best speech Biden is given to date. Maybe in his life, but certainly as president or even as a candidate, it was forceful and direct, he was loud, he did not fall into his into his softer, like I said, more kind of almost pessimistic and when he tries to be empathetic when he shows his empathy. He can soften and a lot of people don't take that as leadership, even though it is. He was really direct and did not back down. Basically addressed all of the criticism that he's gotten about whether or not this was the time should we extend the deadline? We did. Could you paraphrase? I mean, could you tell us what he said about all that? Yeah, essentially, I mean, there are a couple of points he reiterated, which I thought were great early on and they stuck to them and I will hope that the people who watch in The White House that peak at my channel now and again may have been affected by my coverage of this, but the idea that he made the point that if Osama bin Laden had attacked us from Yemen, would we be in Afghanistan right now? Even though they control the Taliban controlled Afghanistan, would we be in there? No, of course not. It's ridiculous notion. And it has by staying there, kept us out of or distracted us from other areas where ISIS Al-Qaeda, all these different groups have grown over time, including Boko Haram and other groups in Central Africa, Yemen, Somalia, places like that. So it's been in that regard of distraction. Everything that and I said this yesterday on my show, we were kind of dressing it and it's interesting that it was brought up kind of directly in this. But every stage of the Afghanistan war, the people who served there served honorably in a task that had value to the people that were there. The first eliminating Al-Qaeda and driving it down to like 500 people and getting Osama bin Laden. Secondarily building up the nation so that at least had a chance because even as long as we stayed there, you're talking about an entire generation of Afghan women and children who grew up without the influence of the Taliban. So many of them that the Taliban when seizing power again is not just sliding right back into its old bullshit. They're having to play on the world stage with, well, we'll stick to surreal law, but we don't want everybody to leave, and we definitely will be a function in government..
The Stuttering John Podcast
"august 31st" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"And before I let you go and thank you, page CM for the ten bucks. Please say hi to my next guesthouse house sparks. What's happening? I want to say a big hello to hell. We got to get hell on our show too. And before we sign off and let Hal take over the show and totally crush it. We did our live simulcast the other day of our show. Oh my God, like what's going on over there? Yes. I could be anyone you need me to be. I'm just saying. This is wrong. Honestly, terrifying technology. Holy. I can do anything. I'm just saying. On social media, it's going to require reaching all audiences. Fans are called the sparklers. Yes. So how? So we were doing our show live. And all of a sudden we got a flooded flooded with comments being like sparklers are here. That's right. And I was like, welcome. So excited to have you. What's a sparkler? And they were like, we're fans of Hal. I was like, oh my gosh, we love how thank you so much. So I just wanted to congratulate you on cultivating this ravenous wonderful name for a fantasy..
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"august 31st" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"You haven't seen this drone and if your listeners haven't seen this, it was really one of the most incredible tiktoks I've seen. We posted it on the minus touch Twitter feed last night. So check it out. What a guy who he was debunking these TikTokers are so talented. Like I'm always blown away. He was debunking these quack fake doctors who are acting like who are the spreaders of COVID disinformation who go out there and say, so here's one example. This doctor went to one of these school board meetings and said, I'm a doctor, PhD. Oxford. This guy looked into his history. He was a PhD in education. And the Oxford that he referenced was he was born in Oxford, Missouri or something like that. Like he didn't go to Oxford. He went to an unaccredited college that shut down two years after he went there. And now when he presents himself, he calls himself a PhD even though it was a fake college. And he says he went to Oxford when he grew up in a place named Oxford. And these are the people. And I looked it up after. You see the disinformation just crazy on Twitter. Check out this Oxford PhD, saying that the vaccine is going to kill you. When this guy's just a total quack, he's a nut job. And there are just a bunch of these people who are spreading disinformation and are killing people on Facebook and these people who are seeing stuff at a first glance on Facebook on Twitter wherever are thinking, oh, this is a reputable person saying that the vaccine is going to kill me. And then you just peel slightly beneath the surface and you realize, oh, this is just a deranged fraud, just a total crackpot. It's insane. Yeah, it is insane. And yet, yeah, I can't imagine that people would rather take what this horse medication that kills what parasites, you know, over a freaking legitimate and now is it the vaccine FDA approved?.
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"august 31st" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"100. Who cares in little shadows. Get off all step inside. Get up. Get off the truck. Robo chanting. If you will, why you should be all right. Do all right get out of town. The train is built tomorrow. All of all the top three. What's happened in your neighborhood? Get on. Yeah, baby. Welcome to the world famous stuttering John podcast with your favorite podcast host. Stuttering John Melendez oh boy, let me show you something. Here.
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"The August 31st deadline to get out of Afghanistan. The president says it's important to stick to the deadline. The sooner we can finish the better each day of operations and brings added risks or troops. He spoke about the threat from a group called Isis K. At the White House. The president says contingency plans are being worked on if the timetable needs to be adjusted. He pointed out the faster pace for airlift to get Americans at risk Afghans and others out of the Kabul airport. The completion by August 31st depends upon the Taliban, continuing to cooperate. Allow access to the airport. For those who were transport transporting out and no disruption to our operations. A Taliban spokesman says the U. S must stick to its self imposed deadline. After that, they won't let Afghans be taken out. Ed Donahue, Washington nearly a quarter of a million people under Medicaid And Health Alliance in D. C could lose access to their doctors. This comes after MedStar says it will end contracts with two insurers care first in a mirror health, which handles the bulk of the benefits for Medicaid, an alliance health. It will still be able to use the emergency room at MedStar, but will not be able to see their primary care doctors or specialists. Last year Med stars insurer received the contract to handle the benefits for many under Medicaid and health alliance care, but a judge ruled they violated DCs procurement Law and the city voted against changing that law, chairman of the Health lines. Ambrose Lane Medstar seems to have been unhappy with the fact that they lost their bids keep their Medicaid managed care contract. Mayor Muriel Bowser says she will announce a new health care proposal later this week. Luke Luke er w t o P news..
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"august 31st" Discussed on NoCo Now ? 1310 KFKA
"To prove yeah. I don't know about pressure. But certainly yeah i think That feeling of yeah. it's in a way debut. I mean everything from last year absolutely counted and every. But but this'll be a more real look at you. Know what to expect this program. So yeah so yeah. I think that's absolutely and kind of how they're looking at us I'm fascinated to see how it goes. I it's gonna be fun to watch kevin Any final thoughts from you as your predictions changed for this football team for the first four games or you still think and to in twos and absolute victory on these first four. Yeah no. That's still about how i feel too into. I think would be a good result for the first four And and honestly. I could see go in a lot of different ways but i they really have to take care of business with those two home games To start. well. I'm a hopefully like we said. Hopefully we're not talking The the The statewide media isn't paying attention to that first. One 'cause like we've talked about that probably means a loss can live with the colorado and joining us kevin. It was a weird Start or non start for the soccer team matacas through what happened there. Yeah that's one of the stranger ones. i've seen awhile. I'm cici. soccer was playing down at. See you on Thursday friday someday last week and is four o'clock start See you jumped out early. Which not huge shock. See if you is you know kinda rebuilding of first year head coach and this was her first game so three at halftime early in the second half the lightning hits and they go into delay After a while they they think they're going to be able to come back out. Start warming up. Lightning hits again. Go back into delay. Basically by the time that was clear and the teams. You know we're able to take the field again Because of incoming darkness and they have no lights at the field there they add to shorten the warm from the normal thirty minutes down to about fifteen and basically as you said you know we need the full thirty minute to play and That's not possible if the darkness and so Per kind of a random or a deep deep in the rulebook look game that three hours after it was supposed serve hasn't ended it can end as a no contest which means basically no results even though see you was winning handily It's a non contest Winter no loser technically so very weird weird start to the season and and debut for key league as the head coach and i think there's a lot of torn reactions to this. I don't even know what to say. I mean it was this her disturbing to cut a trying to stick to the see you and say. Hey we're not gonna take this laws. What are your takeaways from it. Yeah it's it's just strange to me. I'll all the way around it's You know obviously kind of a deep in the rule book loophole that you know. I certainly will admit i didn't know existed and yeah it's one of those i mean. Obviously you don't want get some spicy. You on the other hand like kind of like i said everyone knows was rebuilding or see us a pretty solid establish program so it's not like a you know it's any big embarrassments lose to see you or anything so kind of just a weird thing. I i really don't even know it take from it i think. Yeah there is obviously a lot of social media banter between the programs. But it's kind of like you know. I'm not sure way even matters. It's just weird strange and I guess you know good for her for no knowing that rule way back there. Yeah exactly talking with kevin line out of the colorado and Kevin let's let's talk a little bit about men's basketball I know it's crazy that we're even talking about it but They announced their The the opener on november ninth against oral roberts. That's a that's a heck of a game the land coming to moby. Yeah that's a great game and a pretty amazing opener. You think often openers. Are you know. Almost pseudo exhibitions or you. Play a team or something. Not this one oral roberts. Yeah it's it's maybe not the biggest name in college basketball but if you go back to A march or april whenever that tournament happened oral. Roberts made the sweet sixteen and they were basically A close final. Shy away from beating arkansas. Go to the elite eight They return max evans the leading score in the nation. So that's a it's a pretty amazing am. Abrahams and stevens are both texas kids That's going to be a pretty awesome guard match up to watch. And and i think a pretty darn good game to watch so pretty incredible opener i would hope assume moby will be packed for that because that is Like you a really high quality non conference game eight is and and yeah you get a team any team that makes it that deep into the tournament That's a great win in. Especially are you little surprise. You know oral roberts agreed to come to fort collins. Well i think one of the benefits is obviously come from a pretty small conference And actually need to check on the guarantee mine. But i would bet you probably through some cash them which never hurts in negotiations but but yeah you know there are team. That probably will still have to win the the summit league to make the ncaa tournament so why not go test yourself and and prepare so way i am but it doesn't make sense in. I know cree. We're sitting here on. August twenty fourth. And i'm going to talk to you about the fact that i mean this could help build the the rankings for whatever team wins out. I mean that could be a great. That could be the difference maker with whatever team wins to maybe push them into the tournament. Yeah absolutely i mean you. You know starting your resume building. Your resume begins day one. So there's no hiding that fact that you know sure it's the first game. Refusing may not be fully inform yet but it can have a big impact on your season with kevin lion the colorado kevin just a couple of minutes. Here let's switch down to the high school level High school football is back on friday. Fort collins taken legacy. Whoa whoa taken on legacy. What are you going to be looking forward to this friday with high school football. Yeah a fun and busy week for us. Here in fort collins We actually have three games on on thursday to on friday Fossil ridge plays are awesome valley on thursday and then friday we have a double-header at fringe field of fort collins legacy in rocky mount arapahoe friday double header. And yeah. that's gonna be pretty fun. I'm i'm mostly excited for students sections which we did not have in fort collins last year. So it's gonna be really fun to be You know kinda bouncing a bit as as the students to return. What is we need to. We need to lay down some groundwork for some of those students sections though there they'll be right in the middle of a chanter. Cheer it right after their team fumbled or something like that can you can. You may be laid a student's section kevin and let him know how. Hey that was good for us or hey. That was bad for us. Yeah they're gonna have to get back and game for him after Not having been around all year last season so yeah there's no doubt about that one. My sources tell me that all of the students actions had a great camp. They really gelled. This could be their here. I think it could be good for the student. Sections kevin absolutely all right kevin. What so we've got that coming up of course Next week will be Cs you be ready for that. That on on tuesday as well Where can people follow along with what you're working on the great stories you're producing over at the colorado and i'm at kevin underscore lytle on twitter and Collorado.
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"Six time. We'll come back in to no co- now presented by the jeanine agencies. I tanner schwinn. Thanks for being with us. Joining now up on hotlanta are p. for before vip guests. It is kevin line with the colorado and kevin another week in the books and other week closer to that first game for the rams. What's the status update. Yeah in the biggest news. Last few days is matt belleci. The backup quarterback and guy that know was here. The challenge tots entail for a starting job. he's out for the year suffered a knee injury practice last week. So that's one of those of you know fantail has clearly is clearly a starter but if there's an injury all of a sudden there's no one behind tayo In the quarterback room that has thrown a passed in. Fbi college football. So it's one of those may not fear factor or it could be a huge factor. And i saw that conversation kind of taking place on social media about. What do you do here. I mean there's it's and you mentioned and there's not a lack of debt. That's a lack of experience at the quarterback position. Some some folks saying well you need to bring in your walk on to add more depth. It's like well. No they have four quarterback so it's not a a raw numbers this. You don't need another inexperienced quarterback. The problem is like i said none of them have played at this level. And so i'm sure they're looking through the transfer bortles if they can find some but you have Multiple issues without one school has started so if someone would have to be coming in late to school and then second as you that start the season starts in in ten days so bring in someone with college experience That's quite a rush for them to try and learn the basics of the system and be ready in case you know cintel where to go down we one so i mean it's not impossible but that seems pretty tough as well. Steve adagios saturday when when we learned this made it sound like they're planning to try and get these young guys ready again that can change. We'll talk to him this week and see see whether feeling but it seems like it'd be really tough to get someone in and ready that has some experience from and say. I don't see any reason that brings another inexperience. Yeah walk-on type quarterback in. I feel like that would almost just create a little bit more chaos. I tend to agree with you and especially you know. You're talking about ten days for full college playbook to get memorized and get it and then you got to know the audibles i mean. That's if i'll say it's damn near impossible to do so. I think you're better off just riding with what she got. But this offense to kevin. Kind of lends itself to the quarterback taking some shots. Is there an injury concern. Dare thoughts entail. Yeah and i think it's very fair. Worry obviously always worried about your quarterback in her. You know they talk about and tayo as guy that can run some. He's he's not tiny but he's not the biggest guy in the world and you know the line. I think is also one of the question marks on this team so that all adds up to a quarterback that's probably going to take some shots You wonder if they're gonna have to be a little more cautious and how they do things by also. That's hard to do because if you you know kinda play that cautious trying to avoid getting hurt You know that that doesn't go well either. So it is a sticky situation now for sure talking with kevin lionel out of the fort collins colorado and our syrupy four by four vip guest Thought it was a little interesting. Kevin the scrimmage you had tweet coming out from from micro hard finals. Courage wasn't necessarily chris but see football's ready to turn the focus to the season opener. Able to attend any of that scrimmage. Have you heard anything about what that scrimmage was like. What is this referring to. Yeah that was one of those fun. Closed scrimmages no media access. But you know coach talked after that he thought floppy Actually one of the things. He's singled out was they. Had some quarterbacks thinner exchanges us said they hadn't had all camp and then randomly did kinda here at the in the camp So you know it's one of those obviously some concern by also think by the end the camp. Everyone has worn out physically and mentally. It's probably a little bit natural that there'll be some sloppy play so i wouldn't necessarily be ringing alarm bells. Kevin you cut out there for just second. You said not necessarily time to ring the alarm bells. Yeah yeah i'd say certainly can be wary. The i don't think it's time to panic yet because again at the end cap. Everyone's pretty wiped out so i think it's somewhat natural that you're have you know some issues. I can agree with that. But is it's gotta be a little bit concerning that. You're talking about quarterbacks center exchanges. I mean that's that's the basic these guys take hundreds of stamps. You know a week from each other That that are. Is there. A little bit of concern for cdc whereas fans right now with that. Yeah i mean that's kind of an interesting one because you know camera. Ready to center was in center last year. Obviously entailed and play at time. But i play together. And then yeah you know that they haven't had any issues all camps so very weird timing for its pop up as when we went out on the field for interviews after the scrimmage they were actually out there working changes. So you know it's one of those you can get ironed. I don't feel that's probably going to be a long term issue. But but yeah i mean obviously that those things drives real fast. Even if you don't lose a fumble if you You know trip over yourselves and have a three loss on the center exchange. That tends to think address in the morale of everybody watching it as well. with kevin lionel. Been your biggest surprise from the training camp. that's a great question I'm not sure there i. There are no huge surprises. That jump out to me A lot of it is kind of what we expect. One one one I think i'll be writing about this week. maybe not surprised. But thomas zeo former walk on Is probably gonna play. Both ways in parts was on offense and then due to injuries at cornerback yet moved to defense. he's also You know the the best return on the teams that he may be guy kinda throwback sanders like you know not saying necessarily produced like dion but kind do the same thing. Be all over the field. So that's one. I think is pretty cool and i'm pretty excited to see what he can do. Because he's electric player and It really cool story as a former walk on rye in a rare. That's very rare thing that you start to see when he started getting into the division one college type of scenario. How long do you think that lasts. I mean i think this is something that's gonna look like. He's going to be doing all year. Yeah it looks like it. You know it's one of those. He's probably he's certainly probably know. Fourth maybe fifth on the receiver seaver depths char And you know We'll probably be a depth cornerback. So he's not gonna be out there every snap by. Do think it's very possible. You'll see him getting snaps both ways every week which I you know selfishly. I hope it happens because that'd be really fun to watch and it's just a testament to the type athlete that he is a and that they've got their so now like you said ten days away right ten days away from opening kickoff for the rams This is really i think. In the eyes of a lot of people this is really steve adagios Real debut right. I mean because last year was such a weird year Do you think he's feeling any pressure. Do you think he's feeling feeling like this is okay now..