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A highlight from BIG CRYPTO NEWS!! CITI BANK TOKEN & JUDGE DENIES SEC GARY GENSLER IN BINANCE US CASE!!
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google or wherever you get your podcasts, make sure you hit that five star rating and review. It helps support the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well folks, we've got big news coming out of Citigroup today. They have officially launched a token that will be used for deposits and the transference of money. Let me give you the details. Citigroup launches deposit city token services for institutional customers. This product will be based on a private blockchain controlled by the bank, converting customer deposit into digital tokens that can be sent instantly. Customers do not need to set up their own digital wallets and can be accessed through the bank's existing systems. This was reported by Bloomberg. This is huge news. There's many layers to this story. First it is further validation of this asset class and technology. And this technology is disruptive folks. And disruption is at the doorsteps of the banks, whether it be Citigroup, JP Morgan and many more. And they are trying to build their own versions, right? If the old system is working so perfectly, why are they trying to build blockchains and use blockchains and build tokens? Why? They know this new technology, this new asset class is the future. This technology is here to stay. It has many benefits. It will leave the old system in the dust. Folks, disruption is happening. Another major move here by a bank. And it's once again, further validation with technology. The other layer is that just about a week ago, reported on September 7th, JP Morgan was reported that they were building a deposit token themselves for settlements. JP Morgan is reportedly developing the infrastructure to run a new deposit token, allowing settlements between banks for corporate clients. Pretty clear what's happening here, folks. They know, especially with the likes of Ripple winning the lawsuit and XRP getting the clarity and not to mention CBDCs and stable coins and PayPal building their stable coins. This technology is here to stay and it's moving at a rapid pace. And look, I've been on record saying that I believe the TradFi incumbents, such as Citi, such as JP Morgan, Goldman, and these guys, weaponized Gary Gensler and the SEC to go and try to kill the stable coins, kill Ripple, kill whatever payment or crypto startup, right? Because Gary Gensler and the SEC are controlled by these TradFi incumbents. I had Caitlin Long on the podcast talking about the bias towards the TradFi incumbents, right? And we know how the political system works with campaign donations and much more. So it's pretty clear what's happening here. If you sit back and you look at the timeline, you look at the parallel of these things that are actually happening, right? We're not saying that we're not fabricating something here. It's clear what's been happening. It's clear what Jamie Dimon was saying since 2017 and what his bank was actually doing, right? Watch what they do, not what they say. Folks, first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win. It's pretty clear that this tech is so disruptive. They're scared of it and they're trying to build their own versions. But the problem is these wall gardens that they're building on private blockchains, no one's going to trust it. Why would another bank want to trust your token that you control the blockchain, you control the nodes, and much more? There are going to be private blockchain systems, don't get me wrong, right? Citi may launch its token and within its own different branches move money and settle instantly, but don't expect JP Morgan to use their coin and vice versa. So this is what's happening. They're not going to be able to disrupt the market with cross -border payments and all the different blockchain systems that are out there, which provide more of a free market, trustless permissionless setup. So very bullish folks for the crypto asset class that these banks are so scared. They're trying to launch their own tokens. And once again, JP Morgan is trying to do the same thing. And as mentioned, this is being reported by Bloomberg and they're calling it Citi Token Services once again. Let me give you a quote here from Shamir Khalik, global head of the company's services division. The development of Citi Token Services is part of our journey to deliver real time, always on next generation transaction banking services to our institutional clients. Oh, but I thought the traditional way of doing things was working. I thought crypto and blockchain, all these things are scams and a Ponzi. I guess not. The move is the latest by an established banking giant to offer so -called tokenized deposits or transferable digital coins that can represent a claim against banks. Crucially though, these tokens are processed on blockchain reels, meaning settlement is instantaneous. Yep. Folks, I'm so glad I'm here early. I'm paying attention. I'm researching, I'm dollar cost averaging and I'm hodling. Now a great way to dollar cost average in is using Uphold, which is a great crypto exchange. They are one of the sponsors of this podcast. I've been using Uphold since 2018. They have 10 plus million users, 250 plus crypto currencies, and they're available in 150 countries. You can also trade precious metals and 37 national currencies where you can easily transfer between crypto to different Fiat currencies to precious metals. That's a pretty unique feature to Uphold. If you'd like to learn more about this platform, please visit the link in the description. Well, folks, we've got big news around the SEC versus Binance. The judge declined the SEC's request to inspect Binance US. So if you recall, there was news that the SEC rips into Binance US over a shaky asset custody asked court to order inspection. The regulator asked a US court to reject Binance's half -hearted objections to its motion seeking depositions and inspection and communication from the exchange. This is another big fat L for scumbag regulator Gary Gensler, and this is being reported by Bloomberg. Here's the headline. SEC fails to win immediate inspection of Binance US software. Regulator says it is not getting enough access in lawsuit. Magistrate judge didn't grant expedited discovery requests. So the SEC says it has been struggling to get information from Binance US since it sued the American exchange along with its international affiliate Binance Holdings Ltd and its chief executive officer Changping Zhao in June. So Gary is taking loss after loss after loss. And I think a big blow is coming with Coinbase. I think Coinbase has a strong case and just like the grayscale situation, a lot of legal analysts are saying, yeah, we think Coinbase is going to walk away with a victory. Now, it may not be a full victory, kind of like the ripple situation where the SEC did win on some grounds, but it will be the lion's share of the win, or if you were to count up the numbers here, and that is what we're looking for. And you may say, well, Tony, why are you bashing the SEC and Gary Gensler so much? Don't they have a job to do? You're absolutely right. They do have a job to do, but we know, and this has been confirmed by the crypto industry as well as members of Congress and other regulators, even SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce and Mark Ueda, the SEC and Gary Gensler have not been acting in good faith. They have not been abiding by the law. So this government agency, which is supposed to have integrity, which is opposed to abide by the law, are themselves not doing that. Well, you have Judge Sarah Netburn rip a lawsuit saying the SEC lacks faithful allegiance to the law. What a burn. What a statement, right? That a government agency is being called out by the judicial branch and you lack faithful allegiance to the law. And even Bill Hinman and his conflicts of interest with Ethereum. And the list goes on and on and on. Gary Gensler is a puppet on strings doing the bidding of the incumbents when he's supposed to be a neutral party just looking to protect investors and they are attacking good actors. So it's not like they are just going after bad actors and that's the end of it. They're attacking good actors. And it goes back to what we were talking about at the beginning of the podcast. Citibank and all these banking incumbents have weaponized Gary Gensler to kill the startups that are disrupting them. The other aspect is Gary Gensler is not working with Congress to provide clear regulations, right? And he's flip flopped over the years. He's a big hypocrite. He's a liar. We've seen him lie many times. And he continues to say there's hucksters and scammers and so on and so forth in the industry. I tweeted about it today. You have some of the biggest names entering the crypto market, such as BlackRock, Franklin Templeton and many others filing for Bitcoin spot ETFs. Earlier this year, Charles Schwab, Fidelity and Citadel launched a crypto exchange called ADX Markets. PayPal launched a stablecoin. Deutsche Bank just reported last week they will offer crypto custody. Mastercard launched a CBDC program. Visa expanded their use of USDC stablecoin on Solana. So Gary clearly tried to distract and attack the startups while his Wall Street TradFi buddies come in and take over and look at the facts, right? I just listed out a whole bunch of big names that are coming in. And remember, Gary met with Sam Beckman Fried and FTX officials, didn't do anything. Big collapse happened there. He didn't do anything about Celsius or three hours capital and a whole bunch of other things. He didn't stop Terra Luna or anything like that, right? He just sat back and waited. And I think that was part of his strategy. I think he knew of the things that are happening, but he let them collapse so that they would hurt the market, right? Let the flush out all these startups who look, they're not established like the banking incumbents. And then what happened this year? Oh, I'm going to go after the good actors. I'm going to go after Coinbase, right? I'm going to go after this company and that company and NFTs and many other projects. So it's pretty ridiculous what's happening. But guys, we will win the war. We've seen historically that the disruptive technology will progress. It will get adoption. And if these folks don't get on board and it looks like they're trying to with their tokens, they will get or have their blockbuster moment. Now, speaking of further adoption, blockchain capital raises $580 million for two new funds. Venture capital's firms, record funding comes as space is teeming with exceptional innovators, despite bear market execs says. So the capital keeps coming in investments into the crypto industry. These companies and these funds are investing in both the companies, building the infrastructure, as well as the tokens are very, very bullish. Despite all that happened last year with FTX and Celsius and so forth, there's looking beyond that. They're looking at the future and the horizon of the adoption of this technology and much more. So one is the San Francisco based companies, six early stage fund in line with such funds it has previously launched, while the other is its first so -called opportunity fund. The $580 million marks the company's largest raise in its 10 year history, according to blockchain capital executives, Spencer Bogart, Bart Stevens, and Jason de Piazza. Such funding coming during a bear market reflects our investors trust in our long -term perspective, they said in a Monday blog post, adding that innovation often thrives during tough economic times. Despite the downturn in liquidity prices, we see a space that is teeming with exceptional innovators and founders, each aligned with the first principles of open source innovation, credible neutrality, and censorship resistance, Stevens told block works. The firm's first opportunity fund was conceived as a post dislocation investment vehicle. According to blockchain capital, Bart Stevens, it was designed with a high conviction concentrated mandate to pursue financing opportunities at the later stage. Very bullish news here, my friends. And here we got some more quotes. We felt generalists and newcomers misjudged the opportunity set he added. In contrast today, the fundraising environment for late stage crypto companies is barren, creating a unique and compelling opportunity for targeted capital that understand web three technology. Pretty incredible folks. And this is a lot of capital and more is going to keep coming, right? We're just seeing some of the biggest trad fi names entering a lot of capital being raised by different funds and new funds popping up and they're going to invest in the market and we're going to see continued growth and the S curve adoption keeps moving higher and growing folks. It's happening day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year. Now we got news here in New York financial watchdog proposes strengthened crypto guidelines. The New York financial or the New York department of financial services published proposed guidelines on Monday aimed to strengthen how firms list or delist coins. It also proposed guidance on adding coins to the state's green list. So we're seeing states move in the direction of trying to figure out regulations while the federal government continues to drag their feet. Obviously we got two bills in the house and shout out to patch McHenry and those folks who have been trying to get things through. Even Senator Cynthia Lummis and Christian Gillibrand in the Senate also have a bill, but we need Congress to act, right? Things are moving really slow. They need to put the guardrails in place, but we're going to see a lot of states do this. And I think as they do this and with their grassroots movements and much more, it's going to put pressure on the federal government to eventually act. So I think this is a good thing. However, the devil's in the details. New York can sometimes be very heavy handed. They obviously have the ridiculous bit license, which they should get rid of. But I think that's Wall Street's gatekeeping to allow only companies that they want and much more. So it's tough for a lot of crypto companies to get that bit license in New York. So we shall see what they come up with, but let me give you some details. Since joining DFS, I have made it a priority to ensure the department's regulatory and operational capabilities keep pace with the industry developments to protect consumers and markets. And why DFS Superintendent Adrian Harris said in a statement on Monday, and why DFS has been active in regulating crypto in the state for years, having launched its bit license regime in 2015. A slew of firms have virtual currency licenses in the state, including Coinbase Incorporated, and according to its site, although some firms close up shop in the state. So let's see what they come up with and all the details as it comes out, and we'll have some of the legal experts review it. But I am for regulations. I think they're important. Now, I don't believe in draconian regulations. I believe there's a balance. You allow innovation to flourish, but you protect consumers. That's the balance. But we got to keep our guard up and push back on anything that's draconian. Finally, Malta, they seek to change their crypto rule book to get ready for MICA. So the EU MICA regulatory framework was passed. The EU and the UK are ahead of the United States right now. The country's financial watchdog wants to align its framework with the EU wide rules set to take effect in 2024. So once again, EU and UK ahead, and it looks like these countries and the European Union are going to look to align to this. So this absolutely makes sense. Now, this law and this regulation is not perfect, right? And there's still some fine tuning that's needed, but it's a really great start. And I'm glad they were able to get things through because it just once again shows crypto is not dependent on the United States. This in technology the digital world that we live in and everybody on the internet, it doesn't need the United States land and borders to operate. It can operate from anywhere. Now, obviously I say that, but the United States is the world's largest capital market. So matter of capital raising and funding and so forth, that is certainly a big factor for the United States, but for these projects to launch and to build and to grow, they don't need the United States. And living in the United States, I'm worried that the US is in danger of losing some of these companies and a lot of jobs and economic benefits, but hopefully they can get it right sooner than later. And this EU MICA bill will take effect in 2024. And I think we can expect to see other countries align with it. And that is really great because there's not going to be different rules for different countries, at least in the EU, they can online and provide clarity to the different businesses operating in the EU. So this is good news, I think all around. Well, folks, that's the news. Please let me know what you think about the Citibank token, the SEC taking another big fat L, the judge striking down their requests in the Binance US case. And what do you think about all these items? Leave your thoughts and comments below, hit the five star rating on the podcast platforms, and I'll talk to you all later.
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
A highlight from Fasting, Sleep and Female Hormone Balance with Cynthia Thurlow
"Hello, and welcome to the Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition Podcast, the show designed to give you science -based solutions to improve your health and life. I'm Dr. David Jockers, doctor of natural medicine and creator of DrJockers .com, and I'm the host of this podcast. I'm here to tell you that your body was created to heal itself, and on this show, we focus on strategies you can apply today to heal and function at your best. Thanks for spending time with me, and let's go into the show. This podcast is sponsored by my friends over at shopc60 .com. If you haven't heard of carbon 60 or otherwise called C60 before, it is a powerful Nobel Prize winning antioxidant that helps to optimize mitochondrial function, fights inflammation and neutralizes toxic free radicals. I'm a huge fan of using C60 in conjunction with a healthy lifestyle to support your immune system, help your body detox and increase energy and mental clarity. If you are over the age of 40 and you'd like to kick fatigue and brain fog to the curb this year, visit shopc60 .com and use the coupon code JOCKERS for 15 % off your first order and start taking back control over your health today. The products I use, I use their C60 in organic MCT coconut oil. They have it in various different flavors. They also have sugar free gummies that are made with allulose and monk fruit. They also have carbon 60 and organic avocado and extra virgin olive oil. When it's combined with these fats, it absorbs more effectively and carbon 60 is great as a natural energizing tool because it really helps your mitochondria optimize your energy production. Now, if you take it late at night for some individuals, it may seem a little bit stimulating so that's why we recommend taking it earlier in the day and it will give you that great energy, that great mental clarity that you want all day long. It will help reduce the effects of oxidative stress and aging and really help you thrive. So again guys, go to shopc60 .com, use the coupon code JOCKERS to save 15 % off your first order and start taking back control of your health today. Welcome back to the podcast. Today we are talking about one of my favorite topics, intermittent fasting and in particular how intermittent fasting impacts female hormones and really the best strategies for women to take when it comes to intermittent fasting. And so my guest is Cynthia Turlow. She is a nurse practitioner, author of the best -selling book Intermittent Fasting Transformation. She is a two -time TEDx speaker with her second talk having more than 14 million views and she's the host of the popular Everyday Wellness podcast. She has over 20 years experience in health and wellness and she's a globally recognized expert in intermittent fasting and women's health and she's been featured on ABC, Fox 5, all different types of media. Her mission is to educate women on the benefits of intermittent fasting and overall holistic health and wellness so they feel empowered to live their most optimal lives. And in this interview we talk about how women should approach fasting when it comes to their menstrual cycle, when it comes to being in perimenopause, menopause and how they can improve their insulin sensitivity throughout their cycle. So you guys are in for a treat here. If you've not left us a five -star review, now is the time to do that. If you are getting value from my podcast, please take a moment and just leave us a five -star review. That really helps us reach more people and impact more lives with this message. Thank you so much for doing that and let's go into the show. Well, Cynthia, always great to connect, always enjoy our conversations. You and I are both really passionate about intermittent fasting. We've seen it transform our lives and so many of our people in our community and people that we've worked with. And I'm excited about this conversation because there's a lot of thoughts out there when it comes to intermittent fasting for women.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
A highlight from The Effectual Calling WSC #31
"Alright, today we start talking about sharing the gospel and as we start talking about sharing the gospel I want to talk about what the gospel is in as comprehensive a sense as I can talk about that. So that's probably going to be, that is going to be our first topic here. Alright, so let's, so when I do that I want to kind of do it not just according to my opinion but I want to do it officially, right? So in an official sense and so usually on this topic this is the way I start, something like this. Okay, I'm a Bible believing Presbyterian pastor, right? And so the comprehensive gospel that I want to give to you is what Bible believing Presbyterian pastors or Bible believing Presbyterian elders and deacons would all affirm, right? Okay and so then if I don't want to give you my opinion on something that is Bible believing in Presbyterian, how do I get something that would be Bible believing in Presbyterian that isn't just my opinion? Pardon? Okay, the catechism would be one place, right? So I would go to the Westminster documents, I'd go to the Westminster standards, the Westminster confession, the Westminster larger catechism, Westminster shorter catechism, the, or I could go to the three forms of unity that the continental churches use, right? And then when you do that, you would say, okay, this is what reformed officers believe or this is what reformed, yeah, I'll just say officers. So this is what reformed ordained men believe, right? Okay so then what I want to do is I want to find my definition of the gospel there. And I just want to do that just to say, if somebody says to you, what do reformed people believe the gospel is, then you're not just saying, well what Charlie Perkins believes the gospel is, but what you're saying is what reformed churches, reformed men publicly have always said, these are the things we believe, right? Okay, now with that, okay, so we're going to dig around in there and we're going to find a gospel presentation, right? Okay now as we do that, let's think about where we might look, okay? And as you think about where you might look, when you're sharing the gospel, when you're, if you're sharing the gospel. Pardon? That someone would believe, right? Okay, so you want to glorify God and enjoy him forever, right? Okay, and you're doing this in order that they might, the end might be that they believe, right? Okay, good, and so that's one way in which you could say, okay, and then what kinds of hints would that give us as to where to look? And then, all right, then, let's see. Good, all right. So then, one of the, or the place that I would direct you at that point would be the place where we see the Westminster Standards saying the end goal is belief, they don't quite say it that way, would be the Westminster Shorter Catechism question on what is effectual calling, okay? So let's look back in the back of the hymnals here, all right? And so I didn't write a page number down, so it's going to take me a second here to find it, but I'm looking for Shorter Catechism question 31. Okay, so that's page 970, page 970. Okay, now it says what is, okay, so now why do I say, okay, so here's another parameter that we might want to ask or we might want to say and to look at it this way. When the Holy Spirit preaches the Gospel, where do we find what that looks like? And one of the answers I would say that the place we find that is under this question, effectual calling. And therefore, if you want to proclaim the Gospel and you want me to proclaim the Gospel and you want to evaluate whether I proclaim the Gospel, then you would say, then, Pastor, you need to be on board with what the Holy Spirit's doing. Or congregation, I would turn around and say the same thing. Congregation, we want to be on board with what the Holy Spirit's doing, right? So if the Holy Spirit is giving a message that faith in Christ is the end point of that, right, that's the message that we want to be on board with, okay? So then, here we are, in effect, what is effectual calling? So then, all right, so now that you're there, I'm going to ask you to look over that answer for just a minute, and then I want you to tell me, okay, let's dig out some of the parts of that Gospel presentation that are listed there, right? So as you look at that, as this Gospel is going forth, what are some of the parts that you see there? Yes? Okay, so that there is a conviction, right? Now, okay, give me a synonym for conviction, convicted, right? In the old sense, in the old sense, or they would say convicted, today we would usually say something like convinced, okay? So to say that the person, right, so you want them, one of the steps in there is that they would be convinced, okay, good, all right? Yes, Jesse? Okay, so they have to be, so one of the parts of the message is going, now again, I'm talking about a comprehensive message, comprehensive message, meaning that we're trying to get as much of a Gospel presentation in as short a piece as possible, like in one catechism answer, that's what I'm looking at. So okay, so one of the things that a person has to be convinced about is sin, right, okay? Just sin in general, that oh, the world has got plenty of sin. They gotta be convinced that they're a sinner, right? That's usually, so when you're the army of God and you sense that hey, if I keep going down this path and I'm faithful to Jesus, at some point I'm gonna have to tell this person they're a sinner, and you can imagine that in your mind you'll say that might be interesting, let's put it that way, at a minimum, right, okay? So then, so okay, so we have to convince them, not we, but you know, a Gospel presentation aims convince to someone that they're a sinner, right? Okay, what else does it aim to convince? Yes, Cynthia? They have to understand what sin is to begin with. I mean, if they don't have a clue that they'll throw out steel or they'll, you know, tend to be in this, they haven't a clue what sin is. They can't change. Okay, excellent, right? So then part of that in opening it up is going to have to be, we're gonna have to tell them what sin is. I mean, some people are gonna get it, some people are gonna know, they're gonna have enough cultural background or they're gonna have enough Bible background, and some people are not, right? So some people you're going to have to actually explain what sin is, right? So if you go out on the street and you talk to a lot of people out in culture and they've never heard of Noah, it might be a good, you know, it might be that hey, I might have to to say hey, let's talk a little bit about what sin is, right? So you might have to do that, right, excellent, okay, Frank? Okay good, so that kind of question, do you think you're a moral person and what do you think, what Cynthia was mentioning, that you're a sinner, right? That yes, do you think that you're a moral person and okay, yes, now that's a little bit ahead of where I'm at, but that's one way to get at it, right, good, okay? So going back to the question, okay, so you're convinced, what you're hoping from a gospel presentation is the end will be someone is convinced, someone is convinced that they're convinced of, yes, I'll ask Kevin. Okay that they need to be saved, now the question doesn't quite use that, right, but that's yes, they need to be saved, right? Okay so if they're a sinner, okay, Paul? Yes so what I meant was the question just didn't use that vocabulary of saved, but the question does use the concept in saying to be saved means something bad, you must be in a bad situation, right, just kind of like I said in the sermon, that you must be in a bad situation first off that you have to be delivered from or that you have to be transitioned out of, right? And okay, part of that bad situation is sin, the second part of that bad situation is misery, right? Okay so what are some of the miseries, now just to, just so that we're defining that a little bit helpfully, what are some of the miseries that people have to be delivered from? Cynthia? I think people need to tell their story, they need the chance, the opportunity to say how they're living, what they're doing, what is wrong with their life, and then it's the kind of thing where, you know, if they feel convicted that they will get saved, but you even have to explain what getting saved is because they don't know what getting saved is. Good, okay, excellent. So yes, you're a couple of steps ahead of me, but you're right, you need to let people talk to some extent to help them to get to these pieces here in this question, right? Okay? Deb? Okay, good. So at some point, if you're going to talk to somebody about being a sinner, then you're going to have to talk about who God is, right? Because that's where you get the concept. Go, Rod? Yeah, I was going to say that there's a lot of good stuff in this answer, but probably the most important part is the knowledge of Christ, and we're going to be communicating who Christ is. Okay, good. So there's a, alright, so then there is a, you need to know sin, you need to be convinced of sin, you need to know misery, you need to be convinced of misery, and then you have to have your mind enlightened in the knowledge of who Jesus is. What's the relationship between those things? What's the relationship between Jesus and what's been revealed about him and our sin and misery? Yeah, he's the Savior. He's the one who delivers you, gets you out of that situation, and he's the one, when you look at him and the more you know about him, the more you know the state you've been delivered into, right? Okay, so then, alright, so then coming back to, what are some of the miseries that sin has resulted in? So sin is, I'll say that the relationship between sin and misery is that sin causes the misery. What are some of the miseries? Jesse? Evil done against us. Okay, there's evil done against us. Now how does sin cause evil? I'll take that as evil in the sense of people doing things that are hateful, okay? How does sin cause evil to be done against us? Okay, okay, so jealousy, so particular kinds of, alright, so particular sins in a particular person's soul cause hatred to come toward us, for jealousy, for instance, you mentioned, To manifest it some way, so there is, alright, so when we, alright, so let's expand that just a little bit. When you're describing or defining sin for someone, and remember, we're talking about this question is in the context of our statement of faith, so if you're defining sin for someone, what do we mean, what, how would you maybe categorize some sin or, okay, so one of the miseries that's of sin is that sin causes a separation from God, right? So sin is the cause of a separation from God, alright? Then if you're, now we've already talked about being enlightened in the name of, in the knowledge of Christ, so then you move from being separated from God, then what would Christ, what would be the, what would be the, if you're enlightened in the knowledge of Christ, what are you delivered to from your separation? Reconciliation, right? So there'd be this reconciliation that would happen, and that, and you understand that to be, to happen in Christ, so if somebody preaches a sermon that says you're alienated from God, and in Christ you're reconciled, is that a gospel sermon? Yeah, I think according to this definition, that would be a gospel sermon, right? That would be, that would be showing a misery, and it would be showing that misery, and it would be, and of course you want it to show how it is that Christ gets us from that misery to reconciliation, but that's one of, you know, that would, that would be a gospel sermon. Deb? I think one of the things that the Bible says is that sin is just an offense that you can get against another person. Sin is the offense that you can get against another person. Okay, so when you convince someone of sin, you're convincing them not just of the misery that it's against another person, but of the misery, there's another aspect of that misery where it's against a just and a holy God, right? So that would be a reason, that would be something that goes into that presentation, this comprehensive presentation that I'm talking about, right? That your sin is against God. That's part of the definition of it. That'd be one way to say it. Good. All right. Now, maybe, let me, okay, Cynthia, let me. I have always found that to be able to reference your sin with the Bible. Okay. And, you know, say, okay, this looks like something that is a sin. Right. What does the Bible say about it? And I think a lot of times you get people that don't know the Bible, don't know the book. You know, they know. At least, well, they can't find what they're looking for. Right. In which case, there's the magic of what those are. Okay, good. So, one of the ways you can convince somebody that something is a sin is take them through the Bible. Right. And say, here's how the Bible defines sin, you say a particular sin, okay, Kayla. Right. Right. Yes. Okay. Okay. Okay, so we started talking about works. So, let me, let me just talk about that for a second. Okay. Look at this question here. The question there, question 31. What is that answer, that sort of catechism question, answer 31? Where does works, the concept of works, appear there? Or where is it, where do you, where would it be a corollary of what's there? Right. With respect to what a gospel message has to have. Right from the beginning it says God has a work. Oh, okay. So, okay, so effectual calling is a work of God, alright. So, that's, that's one way to get at it. Now, let me just look at, just what's the, what are the aspects of the presentation? What aspect, what would have to be presented that has to do with works that comes out of that answer? Nancy. No, not, now I'm looking for like word, a word in that answer or words in that, a phrase, a word or phrase in that answer that would deal with the concept some way or another of works or be related. Pardon me? Okay, there would be, so Christ's works would be perhaps one way to get at it, right. So, if you're enlightened in the knowledge of Christ, then when you look at the answer, when you're enlightened in the knowledge of Christ, in the big context of this we would know that that means you have, it has to do with Christ's works. That's right. Okay, yeah. In the answer, so in the answer what it says is the Holy Spirit does this. He freely offers, right, and what does he freely offer? Just. Okay, forgiveness of sins is one aspect of it but now again I'm trying to root it back in this particular answer. What is freely offered? What's freely offered is Jesus, right. Okay, so what a gospel presentation has to have in it, it has to have some sin or some misery specifically being talked about, right. It has to have some way in which Christ delivers from that misery or that sin and it has to say that the offer to get you from here to there is that you need Jesus and he is offered to you freely. See that? So that way, now that covers, that covers that justification is offered to you freely. That covers that adoption is offered to you freely. That covers that, you know, all the things that God offers to you, he offers to you in Christ and they're all offered to you freely, right. So that would be the aspect I would look at with respect to works in that. Now did you want to go back to the specifics with respect to? Okay. Okay, right. So, yes, so we want, we, I must, we must offer Christ freely, right. Okay, good. Alright. One of the other words in there, one of the other actions it says is it's a persuasion, right. So you're persuading. So part of, part of persuading someone is, is you say this is a bad situation. You want to go to the good situation. That's just part of persuasion, right. Or there's lots of other aspects of it but you get that idea, right. Okay. Now, what does it say there that, okay, there's one, there's another component in there that belongs to the Holy Spirit exclusively, what would that be? If someone's going to, now, if this gospel presentation is actually going to save someone, what aspect of that answer is the Holy Spirit the ultimate power with respect to? Okay, so yes, some enlightening, yes, it would have to enlighten our minds. Now, what's the means by which that happens? Hopefully, some understanding with, that people are speaking, right, that people are speaking truth, that people are speaking what is morally right or morally wrong, right, those kinds of things. Some people are speaking propositions about who Jesus is, right, okay. God, God renews their will, right. Can I renew your will? I cannot renew you. Can you renew someone's will? You cannot do that, right. So in this context, when it's talking about what the Holy Spirit does, when the Holy Spirit presents the gospel, alongside of that, the Holy Spirit is the one renewing the will through this message, right, of sin and misery, of the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and of him being freely offered. Those components all there, and it's a, okay, good. Now, when we started this, we said, what's the end goal? The end goal, someone said, was faith in Christ. How does it, how's the end goal expressed in this answer? How do you know you, how do you know that the Holy Spirit, according to that answer, that you've gotten to the, you've gotten to the part where that person is saved, where they've been effectually called? Okay, they embrace Jesus, right. So they embrace Jesus, so how do you embrace Jesus? Can you embrace Jesus with your arms? By faith, you embrace Jesus by faith, right. Or, yeah, and so you're holding fast, so what you're being persuaded to do is see your sin and misery, see Jesus as the only solution, see Jesus freely offered as your only solution, and then someone says, okay, what do I need to do? The answer is, hold fast to Jesus, believe upon Jesus, right. Believe that Jesus is the solution to all this sin, all this misery. Understand why that is from the enlightening of your mind in Christ, and then embrace Him, right. Now it's a very, this is a very short answer, so there's a lot of things we'll have to dig out of that, but it's just trying to give you that comprehensive answer. The one thing I'd say is that the Holy Spirit does is He equates and enables us. Right. So it's not up to us to be equated and enabled us to do it. It's up to us to present the God and the Holy Spirit to do it for us. But in the end, it's all right to bring Him to this. Okay, so then the, so the enabling, who, it's only the Holy Spirit that can do the enabling, right. Okay, now, let's not talk about the gospel for a minute, let's just talk about anything. Can human beings persuade, do human beings use speech to try to persuade people? Yes. Okay, so when you are in a gospel presentation, is that a speech mode that is aimed at persuading people? Yes. Can, do you have the power to do that? Oh, yeah, I guess I asked the question wrong. You, do you, you have the power to enter into that conversation in a persuasive manner, right. Do you have the power to actually persuade the person, to move their heart so that they are persuaded? No, you don't have that power, right. But you, but the, but the, what's the word I'm looking for here. The form, literary one of the literary forms you could say, is that a gospel is in its literary form is a persuasive piece of literature, or it's a persuasive piece of speech, right. It's aiming at persuading, fully knowing that I don't have any power to actually move a heart to be persuaded. Is that, am I making that distinction well enough? David. Could it be that you're engaging in a speech act to simply proclaim, and is there, can you distinguish proclaiming from persuading? Could I, could I distinguish proclaiming from persuading? I, probably, probably not because I would, but, well, now wait a minute. Okay, yes, okay, I could. So, let me try this at least. So Paul says this, I came to you as a mother, right. I love you like your mother loves you. Now you have to state that propositionally, but that's not the fullness of that proposition, right. The fullness of, you could say I love you like your mother, but if you don't really love them like their mother, then you're, you know. So part of the gospel, so when someone persuades, if you've been exposed to like classical Christian education curriculum, right. So at kind of the pinnacle of that education, it talks about learning how to persuade people. Okay, now if I want to persuade you, I need to proclaim some things, I need to have the logic in place. But then the other two things I need is I need my character to reflect it. And the third thing that I would need in addition to my character is I would need the emotions. You're trying to get the rest of the, you're not just persuading the intellect, but you're also bringing the heart into it, right. So then that would be, so it wouldn't strictly be proclaiming, I'll say it wouldn't strictly be proclaiming propositions. Maybe I should just say it that way.
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A highlight from Coinbase Launches Crypto Policy Coalition as FDIC Warns of Crypto Dangers to Banks
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, N .L .W. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys, it is Wednesday, August 16th, and today we are once again talking about a day that shows on the one hand regulatory challenges and on the other hand, the crypto industry just keeping chugging forward. 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. So as I said, today is a day of contrasts, which really, I think, sums up the moment that we are in in crypto right now. Let's start on what could be interpreted as the negative side with a new set of FDIC warnings. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the FDIC, has added crypto as one of the five most important categories of risk to the banking sector in this year's annual review. The FDIC report reflected on last year's calamities within the crypto industry and said the agency was prepared to engage in, quote, robust supervisory discussions with the banks it oversees in relation to crypto. Now, for completeness, the other four risks to the banking sector were credit risks, market risks, operational risk and climate related financial risk. But obviously, we are concerned mostly with the crypto risk here. The FDIC noted that it has, quote, generally been aware of some banks interest in crypto asset related activities through its normal supervision process. However, as that interest has escalated, the agency has desired to better understand the risks that crypto could impose on banks. In their accounting, the FDIC included a long list of potential risks, including fraud, legal uncertainties, misleading or inaccurate representations and disclosures, risk management practices exhibiting a lack of maturity and robustness and platform and other operational vulnerabilities, end quote. In addition, the report highlighted contagion risk due to the close interconnections within the crypto industry, which they said can present concentration risk for banks with exposure to crypto clients. While the report adds no new policy or supervision requirements, the FDIC did say that it, quote, continues to closely monitor crypto asset related exposures of banking organizations. Now, of course, this report comes just one week after the Federal Reserve introduced its new novel activity supervision program. This new policy provided a framework for banks to seek approval for crypto related activities and established a dedicated supervisory team to deal with issues related to crypto. The concern is, of course, that these statements from regulators are just a formalization of what has become known as Operation Choke Point 2 .0, effectively a sub legal way for regulators to financial institutions that they should not be dealing with the crypto industry. By not putting forward official restrictions, there are no formal crypto bans that could be challenged in court. The FDIC was careful to include in their report the now common phrasing that, quote, banking organizations are neither prohibited nor discouraged from providing banking services to customers of any specific class or type as permitted by law or regulation. And thus, regulators are making it clear that they are not legally restricting banks from dealing with the crypto industry, but simply working to better understand the, quote, novel and complex risks represented by crypto. The open question is whether the threat of enhanced regulatory scrutiny is enough to dissuade banks from working with crypto customers. Now, there is a lot of really interesting tension in this document, as well as in the statement from the Fed last week. On the one hand, there was never going to be an annual report that didn't include this. Two banks that did have crypto concentration risk blew up this year and tapped the FDIC to shoulder losses. And even if we believe that those were hit jobs, it's still a notable part of this year's review. The problem is the same that it always has been, that general warnings without specifics that banks and financial institutions can follow de facto mean a freezing process where banks just decide that it's not worth the risk to deal with this industry. Now, interestingly, the most recent Fed document seems to be nudging to a different phase in this, in which even if onerous and even if increasing regulatory supervision, they are nominally providing a path for banks and financial institutions to deal with stablecoins. In that case, they sort of have the have your cake and eat it to benefit of in the short term, still probably having something of a freezing effect on activity in that area, but in the more medium to long term, still providing some path for those in institutions that are willing to take on the risk, giving them cloud cover to say, look, we were never trying to freeze activity. These were just the important hoops to have to jump through. In many ways, it's hard to get too chuffed about this particular FDIC report in that it feels both inevitable after what happened over the last six months, as well as sort of in line with what we already knew. Now let's flip over to the other side of this coin and talk about how the crypto industry has continued to respond to these regulatory challenges. Coinbase has launched an independent advocacy group, the Stand with Crypto Alliance. The group is aimed at mobilizing support for legislation that would form the basis of a regulatory framework for crypto in the US. Coinbase says that the group will be quote crypto's first true grassroots movement that will be organized on chain. Now, of course, other lobbying groups focused on crypto have represented industry voices. However, this group is intended to be much more focused on getting real legislation done. Coinbase wrote in a statement, by providing a launchpad, the Alliance is mobilizing the is over. America's crypto constituency is strong and we'll be holding them accountable this fall when Congress votes on common sense legislation to protect consumers and their right to crypto. Varyar shares that Coinbase's chief policy officer said, I think a few politicians are seeing crypto as an easy shot to take. I don't think they have fully understood the passion in the community behind it. Now it's worth noting that previous mobilization efforts of crypto constituents have proved to have a powerful impact on influencing lawmakers. In August of 2021, passionate crypto voters contacted the representatives in an effort to soften reporting requirements in the infrastructure bill. Now the bill was ultimately passed without amendment due to an unrelated political move of one intransigent senator, but the mobilization effort was viewed as a success, with the crypto community frankly holding up efforts for weeks and many lawmakers recognizing for the first time just how large and passionate the crypto community is. In rallying this new group, Coinbase are attempting to remind Congress that this community is still here and still care deeply about the passage of functional crypto legislation. Now interestingly, this Coinbase group was not the only advocacy organization announced yesterday. I saw a tweet from Nick Carter that read, sorely needed excited to see where this goes. Proof of work has been an afterthought in crypto conversations in Washington for too long. What he's referring to is the fact that the crypto mining industry now has its own lobbyist group in Washington. The Digital Energy Council is designed to push Congress for sensible regulation that will allow Bitcoin mining to continue to grow in the US. The group said in a statement on Tuesday that will be advocating for policies that, quote, promote responsible and sustainable energy development, grid resilience, maintain United States competitiveness, and protect national security. Miners have of course faced a stream of criticism from Democrat lawmakers in recent years based on assumptions around environmental harm and concerns over excessive energy usage. The political attacks reached a crescendo in May when the White House proposed a punitive 30 % tax on the mining industry to account for the, quote, harms they impose on society. Tom Mapes, the founder of the Digital Energy Council, said that the organization will, quote, focus on how both the digital asset mining and energy industries can collaborate and work together to bolster energy infrastructure, increase resilience, and support energy sustainability and efficiency that has been lost in policy conversations, yet is critical during this pivotal moment of energy modernization. Mapes previously worked on energy policy at fellow lobbying group the Chamber of Digital Commerce and was also the chief of staff at the Department of Energy's Office of International Affairs. A key part of the lobbying group will focus on dispelling lawmakers' misconceptions around digital asset mining, and the group will also have a focus on cultivating economic development in rural and overlooked communities, which can benefit from investment by the mining industry. The goal, Mapes said, is to highlight that digital asset mining is a real -world tool that can be utilized to meet the United States' energy goals. Zach Bradford, the CEO of mining company CleanSpark, noted that the new lobbying group is, quote, uniquely focused on the intersection of mining and energy abundance. He said in a statement that, quote, politics is a team sport, and the broader our coalition and the more dedicated the efforts, the better. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska was one of the first lawmakers to pay attention to crypto mining as a relevant industry. She said in a statement, in 2018, as the chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I held the first hearing to explore digital asset mining and the applications and potential impacts on our nation's energy supply. In the past five years, this industry has grown exponentially throughout the United States, and I've seen this technology already bring new opportunities to rural states like Alaska. I look forward to working with the Digital Energy Council to develop best practices for collaboration throughout Alaska and the United States. Senator Cynthia Lummis, who of course has long been a staunch advocate for the crypto industry, said financial innovation will unleash new prosperity and opportunity for the next generation of Americans, and crypto asset mining is an important part of this future. Innovative mining technologies will allow us to harness underutilized energy sources and drive jobs in rural America while generating provably scarce wealth. All Americans should be paying attention to the important work being done by crypto asset miners. Now, one last note on this theme at this intersection of crypto regulation versus crypto lobbying. Republican allies have continued to push their efforts to figure out just how the hell Prometheum was granted a special purpose broker dealer license. Now, this new category of SPBD license was established in December 2020 in order to allow firms to custody and transact in digital assets. For over two years, FINRA, which is the industry oversight arm of the SEC, refused to issue any licenses to applicants. Prometheum was granted the first of its kind SPBD license in May, which was just in time coincidentally for the firm's co -CEO Aaron Kaplan to appear in a congressional hearing the following week. Kaplan promoted just how viable the SEC's existing path to regulatory compliance is for crypto firms, which was of course a distraction from efforts to engage with the table legislative efforts. However, as everyone noted, the appearance was incredibly weird. Following the hearing, it became clear that Prometheum couldn't actually legally offer any crypto assets for sale. It had no viable business model, and even had some strange ties to a Chinese megafirm. Despite multiple media appearances subsequently, Kaplan and Prometheum appeared to have no clear answers for literally any of these issues. This has led to much scrutiny, and now House Financial Services Committee Republicans led by Chairman Patrick McHenry have asked both the SEC and FINRA to explain themselves. In a letter made public on Tuesday, the lawmakers asked for documents and communications related to the approval of Prometheum's license. They noted that the timing and circumstances surrounding the approval of Prometheum as the first SPBD raised serious questions. The letter raised concerns that the approval was aimed at demonstrating that legislation is not needed and that regulators had touted the Prometheum approval multiple times in public statements to support their position that digital asset firms can comply with the existing regulatory framework. The lawmakers pointed out, however, that while Prometheum claims it has the silver bullet for regulated digital asset offerings, it has not yet served a single customer. They said, quote, It is unclear why FINRA would have chosen to approve a firm with no operating history and no track record of serving customers over all the applications that it has received. The letter also addressed the troubling ties between Prometheum and Chinese firm Shanghai Wangqing Blockchain, which has, quote, deep ties to the CCP. The letter claimed this raises, quote, serious national security and data privacy concerns. Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said, The SEC and FINRA are dragging their feet and failing at their core mission. It's past time they look into Prometheum's ties to China. Thank you to Patrick McHenry and the Financial Committee for keeping up the pressure on this issue and looking out for American investors. Now, as you might imagine, the crypto industry remains extremely skeptical of this company. Jared Klee tweeted, Besides not being able to settle transactions, a director with deep ties to the China Communist Party and zero customers, Prometheum looks like a great company. The SEC and FINRA have been given until Tuesday to produce the relevant documents and communications to explain this frankly baffling licensing decision. So, friends, that is the story from here. We are in a very in -between moment. It feels like the plates are shifting and like things are starting to line up in a productive direction for the industry. But there's still a lot of work before us. Appreciate you listening as always. And until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
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A highlight from A Flurry of Amicus Briefs in Coinbase vs. SEC
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me and LW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Monday, August 14th, and today we are talking about a wild set of amicus briefs filed in the Coinbase against SEC case. 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. All right, friends. Well, today, as I said, the main focus of the show is a slew of amicus briefs filed in the Coinbase case at the very end of last week. But first, a quick update in the SPF saga. Now, I'm sure all of you guys are at least a little bit familiar with what happened at this point, but let's present it for completeness. TLDR, after months of playing fast and loose with bail conditions, Sam has been sent to jail to await his trial. Now, the big catalyst for this was, of course, last month's leaking parts of former Alameda CEO Carolyn Ellison's journal to The New York Times. Carolyn was the CEO of Alameda during the final months of operations, was at times Sam's girlfriend, and will also be a key witness in Sam's trial. Now, SPF had said through lawyers that he was merely trying to, quote, give his side of the story. This is something that he has done a lot of, apparently. Indeed, he has notched up over 100 phone calls with one New York Times journalist in particular, and that's just one of the many reporters that he has been in touch with. The prosecutor argued effectively that this was indirect witness tampering. They said that even though there hadn't been an overt communication with Ellison, the intention was clear, stating, I think the fact the defendant was more subtle in his methods than a mobster doesn't mean it was benign. Now, the judge ultimately sided with the DOJ, finding that Sam's conduct was closer to witness intimidation than constitutionally protected public defense. During the hearing on Friday, the judge said Sam had been willing to, quote, risk crossing the line in an effort to get right up to the line wherever it is. Of Ellison's writings, which Sam shared, the judge said, The documents are in part personal and intimate. They are personally oriented, not business oriented. They are something that someone who had been in a relationship would be unlikely to share with anyone except to hurt and frighten the subject. Ultimately, the judge said, My conclusion is there is probable cause to believe the defendant has attempted to tamper with witnesses at least twice. There is a reputable presumption that there is no set of conditions that will ensure Bankman -Fried will not be a danger. So the other witness tampering attempt that the judge was referring to came shortly after Sam's arrest and release on bail when he had reached out to former FTX U .S. General Counsel Ryan Miller, suggesting that they stay in touch, coordinate communications, etc. Sam had also previously broken bail conditions when he had used the VPN to access the Internet, something that he claimed was just to watch the NFL playoffs, which very few people bought as totally true. Part of Sam's argument for remaining out of jail had been that incarceration would make it more difficult for him to prepare his defense. Prior to locking Sam up, the judge ensured that he would have access to a laptop to continue his trial preparation, which it seems like is just about the only good thing about the facility that he is on his way to. The judge said, I am focused on the possibility that he will be detained at the MDC, not on anyone's list of five -star facilities. That said, I understand he could have a dedicated laptop at the MDC 9, 10, 11 hours a day. Sam's trial is set to begin on October 2nd. His legal team has, of course, appealed the decision to revoke his bail and requested that he remain on house arrest pending appeal, but were denied on that motion. Former journalist Dan Nguyen really captured, I think, the sensibilities of the entire Twitter sphere when he wrote, SPF got one of the sweetest bail deals in history, and all he had to do was chill at his parents' Stanford home, play with the new dog his parents bought for him, and not use a VPN to secretly commit more crimes on the Internet, and yet, clown face emoji. Anyways, guys, just another gross chapter in a bad story. But with that, let's move on to something much more positive. On Friday, Blockchain Association Chief Policy Officer J. Chivinsky wrote, Today is a fun day. The deadline for amicus briefs on Coinbase's motion for judgment on the pleadings of the SEC's enforcement action. I expect to see many excellent briefs on many different issues. They should start hitting the docket soon. And indeed, hit they did. On Friday, a slew of briefs were filed in support of Coinbase's motion to dismiss the SEC's lawsuit. Now, most crypto lawsuits from the SEC have seen numerous amicus or friend -of -the -court briefs filed, but the Coinbase lawsuit attracted more attention from the legal community than usual. The Coinbase motion for judgment on the pleadings was supported by venture firms Paradigm and A16Z, who filed a joint brief, crypto lobbyists including the Blockchain Association, the Chamber for Digital Commerce and the DeFi Education Fund, and perhaps most notable were briefs from Senator Cynthia Lummis, as well as a group of six legal scholars. Coinbase is, of course, being sued for offering the sale of unregistered securities. The SEC's lawsuit hinges on the claim that 13 tokens offered on Coinbase's centralized exchange are securities. In addition to alleging that the main trading venue requires registration as a securities exchange, the SEC also alleges that Coinbase's self -hosted wallet is an unregistered securities brokerage and clearing agency. Finally, the lawsuit also alleged that Coinbase's staking product is a securities offering. As usual, all of these claims rely on the Howey Test, which is a Supreme Court test to determine when a transaction is deemed to be the sale of an investment contract. Coinbase's argument is that none of the tokens they offer fully satisfy the test, and as such, the lawsuit should be thrown out without the court hearing any further facts of the case. In addition, Coinbase is arguing that the SEC has attempted to expand its jurisdiction beyond the authority it was granted by Congress. This argument, as we have discussed, is brought under the Major Questions Doctrine, which is a relatively recent legal doctrine put forward by the Supreme Court. The Major Questions Doctrine holds that administrative agencies must have explicit authority from Congress to oversee an industry which forms a major part of the U .S. economy. So now let's go through the set of different briefs kind of organized in the context that they came in. We'll start with the VC and lobbyist briefs. The joint brief from Paradigm and A16Z focused extensively on the damage that could be done to the industry if the SEC's view of the law was held to be correct. They wrote, The brief noted that the SEC claimed crypto tokens themselves embody the terms of an investment contract, so continued to carry a classification as securities into the secondary markets long after their initial sale. This approach was rejected in the recent Ripple case, but remains contentious among federal court judges. The brief warned that allowing the SEC to take this approach could extend their reach into an endless array of commonly sold assets including fine art, classic cars, and vintage wines. Now, a group of crypto lobbyists led by the Blockchain Association said in their brief that the SEC seeks to cast aside the nearly century -old understanding of an investment contract and usurp Congress's authority to decide how to regulate a burgeoning industry. They claimed that the statutory text, history, precedent, and common sense all foreclosed the SEC's attempt to rewrite the definition of investment contract to reach digital asset sales unaccompanied by any ongoing contractual obligations. In a Twitter thread discussing the joint brief, G. Kim, the General Counsel at the Crypto Council for Innovation, wrote, The SEC is trying to short -circuit the legislative process and seize the power to resolve questions of massive economic and political importance by presenting its flawed interpretation in enforcement actions. The Chamber of Digital Commerce echoed their fellow lobbyists in making the point that the SEC is exceeding their authority and using inappropriate methods to bring the crypto industry to heel. They wrote that the SEC is choosing to use the blunt and unpredictable tool of enforcement proceedings to the exclusion of all other methods. They characterized the lawsuit as Coinbase's turn on the SEC's roulette wheel. Now, the DeFi Education Fund took a different approach, focusing their brief on the technical side of the case and linking the underlying functionality of crypto products to the legal arguments. The DeFi lobbyist explained that both Coinbase's staking service and wallet are software products rather than regulated financial service products. They argued that a decision in favor of the SEC's overly expansive theories related to this software application would have a chilling effect on the developers and service providers that innovate in DeFi and consequently the users of this technology. With regard to the wallet, they pointed out that Coinbase does not route orders nor take control of customer assets, so it's difficult to see how they could be viewed as a broker in that context. In discussing staking, they noted that while Coinbase administers the validators which deliver staking rewards to customers, their, quote, function is squarely ministerial as an IT service provider. Put another way, Coinbase provides an IT product that leads to a financial reward, but that reward stems from the crypto protocols themselves rather than from Coinbase's efforts. Now, maybe the most striking brief in support of Coinbase was co -signed by not one but six law professors with expertise in securities law. This includes experts from UCLA, Boston University, Fordham Law School, Widener University, the University of Chicago Law School, and Yale Law School. And importantly, this isn't a group of outspokenly crypto -friendly professors. Between them, this group has written multiple textbooks and authored countless academic papers. Some of them quite literally wrote the book on securities law. Their brief focuses on the definition of the term investment contract and argues that it has a much more limited scope than the SEC seems to think. A key part of the SEC's crypto lawsuits has been the idea that a crypto token is one part of an overall investment scheme which does not require a formal contract between the parties. This would mean that a token could be considered a security even when the issuer doesn't make any promises to holders and doesn't take any direct investment from purchasers. The professors rejected this as ignorant of the history of securities law. Their opinion is that the Securities Act of 1933 used the very well -established language of investment contract to refer specifically to situations where, quote, the investor receives, in exchange for an investment, a contractual undertaking or right to an enterprise's income, profits, or assets. They argued that this definition of an investment contract had been present in state legislation and cases leading up to the passing of federal regulation in 1933. They added that this definition has been consistently used by the courts to decide lawsuits following Howey to this day. This historical argument flies in the face of SEC briefs, which have often discarded state legislation and cases prior to 1933 as irrelevant. The legal scholars wrote that nowhere in the Howey decision does the Supreme Court, quote, suggest that it was doing away with the court textual and historical anchor of the statutory term investment contract, i .e. contractual undertakings. Rather, Howey's reference to a scheme or transaction simply reflected the instruction that courts should consider the economic reality of a business venture to determine whether an investment contract exists. The law professors suggested that by agreeing with the SEC's definition of an investment contract, the court would be going against almost a century of case law. They urged that, quote, The court should adhere to the settled meaning of the term, consistently applied by the state courts interpreting state blue sky laws, as well as by the federal appellate courts before and since Howey. Under that settled meaning, an investment contract requires contractual undertakings to deliver future value, reflecting the income, profits, or assets of a business. Paradigm policy director Justin Slaughter writes, It takes real skill to so mismanage the situation that you have serious institutionalists like Professors Macy and Hammermesh filing amici briefs against the SEC in an enforcement case. This case is on track to blow up the SEC's powers and maybe weaken agency powers across the board. That people invested in the current securities regime are still siding against the current SEC position speaks volumes. Finally, Senator Cynthia Lummis has also filed an amicus brief addressing the question of whether the SEC has overreached its authority. Lummis began her brief by drawing the court's attention to the numerous bipartisan efforts currently underway in Congress to craft regulations for the crypto industry. She wrote that she, Has a special interest in upholding the Constitution's separation of powers by ensuring that federal administrative agencies do not exceed the authority conferred upon them or encroach upon Congress's ongoing legislative efforts. Amicus believes that the SEC's approach to enforcement in this case, and in the crypto asset industry more broadly, contravenes that separation of powers. Now given that the cornerstone of any major questions doctrine argument is that an administrative agency is exceeding the powers granted to it by Congress, it seems extremely relevant to be told by a sitting US Senator that they believe this to be the case. Lummis continued, When Congress created the SEC to regulate securities markets, it did not grant the SEC power to reimagine the definition of securities to expand the agency's sphere of influence into other asset classes or to encroach on other agencies and regulatory schemes. The SEC's attempt to shoehorn an entire new class of assets into the existing definition of a security and thereby add to the definition enumerated by Congress exceeds the SEC's authority, encroaches on Congress's lawmaking, and contravenes the separation of powers. Put simply, she said, Basically, the brief is an attempt to provide evidence to the court that Congress is not content with the status quo when it comes to crypto regulation. Much of the brief describes the various ongoing legislative efforts. And after outlining these bills, Lummis writes, The multitude of interests at stake require a holistic approach beyond the scope of a single agency. Ultimately, she says, Lummis urged the court to, Now, I think where most of the analysis lands, holding aside deep legal minutiae, which obviously will become very important in terms of how the case actually resolves, is from a sentiment shift it feels to people, of course, outside observers, that this is going to be a hard one for the SEC. Algorithmic trading firm CEO Xi Zhen writes, Now, I would never go that far given that Let's hope that these friends of the court are correct. Appreciate you guys listening as always. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
The Crypto Overnighter
A highlight from 638:SECs Standoff, CFTCs Swift Moves & Binances Plan
"Rockstar Energy punched, bringing a bold and unapologetic flavor packed with energy through a blend of B vitamins, corona extract, and 240 milligrams of caffeine to fuel what's next. Rockstar Energy drink. Good evening and welcome to the Crypto Overnight -er. I'm Nickademus and I will be your host as we take a look at the latest cryptocurrency news and analysis. So sit back, relax, and let's get started. And remember, none of this is financial advice. And it's 10 p .m. Pacific on Saturday, August 12th, 2023. Welcome back to the Crypto Overnight -er where we have no sponsors, no hidden agendas, and no BS. But we do have the news, so let's talk about that. Tonight we delve into the SEC's face -off with Coinbase and the outpouring of support for the crypto exchange. We'll investigate the CFTC's swift action against a deceptive crypto venture and the SEC's prolonged decision -making on ARK Invest's ETF bid. Further, we'll explore Binance's strategic move towards AML compliance in Taiwan, California's new stance on crypto donations in the political arena, and Canada's proactive approach to managing the implications of the crypto boom. A consortium of blockchain advocacy groups voiced concerns over the Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against Coinbase. They argue the SEC is attempting to usurp Congress's authority. In June, the SEC accused Coinbase of selling and trading securities on its platform without registering as a securities exchange. Notably, these alleged securities include prominent crypto assets like Cardano, Solana, and Polygon. The advocacy groups have requested the court to grant Coinbase judgment on the pleadings, supporting Coinbase's stance that the SEC lacks overarching regulatory authority over the crypto sector. Two tech -focused venture capital firms, Andreas and Horowitz and Paradigm, have also expressed concerns about the SEC's alleged overreach in the crypto industry. They filed a joint amicus brief supporting Coinbase. The firm stressed that the SEC's unpredictable actions threaten blockchain technology's growth in the U .S. U .S. Senator Cynthia Lemus, several crypto lobbying organizations, and a group of professors also urged the federal court to dismiss the SEC's lawsuit against Coinbase. They allege that the SEC is trying to exceed its authority by claiming that platforms like Coinbase are unregistered securities exchanges, brokers, and clearinghouse trading unregistered securities in the form of crypto assets. The Blockchain Association, Crypto Council for Innovation, Chamber of Progress, and the Consumer Technology Association have all raised concerns about the SEC's approach. They believe the SEC is trying to bypass the legislative process and seize power to resolve significant economic and political questions through its enforcement actions. The major questions doctrine has been a focal point in these discussions. This doctrine clarifies that only Congress has the right to answer policy -related questions with significant economic and political implications. That right is not granted to the regulatory agencies. The doctrine suggests that if an agency wishes to decide on an issue of national importance, it must have clear congressional authorization. Both Coinbase and the supporting firms have invoked this doctrine in their arguments against the SEC. The crypto industry's significance cannot be understated, with trading volumes reaching as high as $500 billion per day at its peak. The SEC's approach could potentially devastate the industry by undermining blockchain's ability to operate. Given all this support on Coinbase's behalf, it's evident that the SEC's actions are viewed with at least some skepticism. The crypto community sees these actions as an attempt to protect the traditional decrepit financial system. The SEC is overstepping its bounds, trying to regulate an industry it does not fully understand. The support Coinbase has received from various quarters underscores the broader sentiment that the crypto industry needs clear regulations, but those should come from Congress, not an overzealous regulatory body. The ongoing battle between Coinbase and the SEC is emblematic of the larger struggle for the future of the crypto industry in the U .S. The outcome of this case could set a precedent for how crypto businesses operate in the country, making it a watershed moment for the industry. While the SEC Coinbase standoff continues to stir debates, another regulatory body swiftly springs into action to protect unsuspecting investors. Because protecting investors is what regulatory bodies should be doing, not choking the life out of an industry they clearly don't understand.
Daily Crypto Report
A highlight from "SBF returned to Jail to await trial" Aug 12, 2023
"It's 8am Eastern, August the 12th, and this is your daily crypto report. Bitcoin is down slightly at $29 ,407, ETH is down slightly at $1 ,849, and BNB is up slightly at $240. One -time crypto hero Sam Beckman -Fried, founder of disgraced exchange FTX, has been returned to jail before his trial in October due to concerns of tampering with witnesses. SPF faces multiple financial crime charges related to the collapse of FTX, including wire, commodities, and securities fraud. The judge revoked his bond after the U .S. Department of Justice alleged he violated his bond terms by trying to tamper with witnesses. Attempts to contact former FTX employees, the use of a VPN, and sharing part of a former CEO's diary with the New York Times were cited as reasons for his return to jail. The U .S. Senator Cynthia Lemus and several crypto lobbying groups have filed amicus briefs urging a federal court to dismiss the SEC lawsuit against Coinbase. They argue that the SEC is overstepping its authority by alleging that platforms like Coinbase are unregistered securities exchanges, brokers, and clearing houses trading unregistered securities in the form of crypto. Similar arguments were made by Coinbase in its motion to dismiss the case. The amicus briefs reference recent Supreme Court precedent that regulatory agencies can't exceed their mandate without congressional approval. Well, the battle between Gemini and DCG continues as they fight over the failure of Gemini's earned lending service. DCG recently sought to dismiss a fraud lawsuit from Gemini, claiming it had little involvement in the program. Cameron Winklevoss, co -founder of Gemini, responded on social media highlighting contradictions in DCG's statements. He emphasized DCG's connection to the program and challenged their arguments, suggesting they won't hold up in court. More lawsuits. The ongoing class action lawsuit involving MoonPay, Boreday, Beyond Club, and Celebrities has taken a new turn. A confidential witness reportedly, a former MoonPay employee, claims they couldn't find any records of celebrity clients having accounts with the company. This development is now a part of the lawsuit. Additionally, the lawsuit has added Sotheby's to the list of defendants accusing the auction house of misleading statements that a traditional art collector bought 101 bored apes for $24 million when it was actually FTX. And finally, the US SEC has extended its review of the ARK21 shares bitcoin ETF application. The delay is part of the SEC's ongoing study of various bitcoin and ether future ETF applications, including those from major players like BlackRock and Fidelity. The SEC's standard process involves seeking public input, which has been extended for three weeks on the ARK proposal. Well, that's all for us today. Visit us at dailycryptoreport .io for sources and links. And listen to us everywhere else you podcast under Daily Crypto Report. Hey guys, welcome to the collective. I'm Brionne 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. Hey, this is Mary Beth Lassiter. Are you craving a new podcast? I've got a recommendation. Check out Gravy, the James Beard award winning podcast 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.
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
A highlight from SEC GARY GENSLER APPEALS RIPPLE XRP RULING! COINBASE BASE & MAXINE WATERS STABLECOIN REGULATION
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, we got some very big news and the SEC versus Ripple lawsuit. So the SEC is looking to appeal some of the decisions from Judge Torres. Here James K. Filan or attorney James K. Filan, I should say, tweeted out the following SEC files letter outlining its basis for filing a motion for leave to file an interlocutory appeal regarding programmatic offers and sales to XRP buyers over trading platforms and Ripple's other distributions. He says the SEC seeking a stay of all proceedings pending appeal is not unexpected. So James actually spoke about this back in December 21st, 2022. And I think we all know the SEC was going to appeal, right? Because on one hand, even if they don't win the appeal, they want to do it from an optics standpoint. So they don't look weak because if they just took their loss and ran with it, the entire industry right now is really emboldened and feeling confident that they're going to be able to beat the SEC and the wins have been taken out of Gary Gensler's sales. Even Congress, members of Congress who have crypto bills like Patrick McHenry, Cynthia Lummis and these folks have been using this ruling to say, hey, we got to get crypto regulations pushed through, support my bill, right? We've seen those statements. So not surprised by this. Now something we need to keep in mind is that, look, as of right now, the law based on the ruling is that XRP intrinsically is not a security, secondary market sales are not a security. That's the law. What you're probably going to see tomorrow and over the next few days, a lot of fun. Ripples will be defeated. The SEC is coming back for XRP to make it a security, right? People are going to say a lot of negative things just expected, right? Could it click bait headlines? But this is where you leave your emotions to the side and you think about this logically. Now we have to see how things play out. I don't think the SEC has a strong case here. I think this is more for optics, but I could be wrong. But if we're looking at the possibilities or the percentages that are probabilities, I should say, of what scenario is to play out, I don't think the SEC has a strong case here. I think this ruling stands. Now here's Stuart Alder Roddy of Ripple. He's the chief legal officer. He tweeted out about this news. He said the SEC does not have the right to appeal just yet, which is why they are asking for permission to file an interlocutory appeal. Ripple will file its response with the court next week. Stay tuned. So of course, Ripple is going to push back on this, right? So this is not a done deal that they can just appeal. Like he said, they don't have the right to, but they're going to ask for permission to appeal. So that's an important factor there. Here attorney Jeremy Hogan said, and the SEC continues to make questionable decisions requesting an interlocutory appeal. Note that it is not appealing whether XRP itself is a security, just its losses on the programmatic and individual sales issues. So interesting thoughts here. Now one of the folks replied to Jeremy's tweet and said the Torres ruling on XRP programmatic sales is what led to XRP being a non -security and crypto exchanges relisting XRP, is in challenging programmatic sales, the functional equivalent of challenging the non -security status of XRP. That's a great question. Jeremy said two separate issues, XRP is not a security period, but if the SEC wins the appeal on sales, then Ripple couldn't use exchanges to facilitate sales. And the big question would exchanges keep XRP listed? He said, I think yes, as long as they can verify sales are not being made by Ripple. So to recap, the SEC is not appealing that XRP itself intrinsically is not a security. I think they would absolutely lose that, right? Because it goes back to the orange groves and oranges themselves were not securities in the Howey test. It was the packaging, how Howey put together that investment scheme, but they are going after those exchange sales. And I don't think they're going to win it, but they have the right to appeal. Well, I should say they can appeal, but they have to ask for permission as Stuart said. So let's see where things go. Ellie Tourette of Fox Business, she said the following, from everything I've learned about interlocutory appeals from brilliant legal minds in this space, they are notoriously tricky to get approved. The SEC will need to get blessings from both Judge Torres and the Second Circuit in order to do for this to be granted.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from Michael Saylor: Bitcoin is Winning | EP 796
"You Yeah to simply Bitcoin live that was a tongue twister We are your number one source of the peaceful Bitcoin revolution code breaking news culture medic warfare We will be your guide through the separation of money and say it's the Friday show Super excited. Oh, man. It's been it's been quite a week gonna start We're gonna end it with some bullish news Michael Saylor is going absolutely ham We we know that this week he announced that he was gonna sell 750 dollars 750 million dollars worth of micro strategy stock to stack more Bitcoin Then he's going also on CNBC to make you say that there's a universal consensus that Bitcoin is winning, right? It's a decentralized global asset has no issuer It's a digital gold standard of digital commodities Michael Saylor is going full balls to the wall And and again if it was just Michael Saylor by by himself, you know, it'd be a different story, but you also have Larry Fink Speaking wonders about Bitcoin also on legacy corporate financial media as well This is a crazy time to be alive. I could have never have expected this five years ago I can't even imagine where we're gonna be five years from now I think we're gonna see you know, a lot of fortune 500 CEOs have no choice But to put Bitcoin on their balance sheet I really think that this next cycle and the cycle after that you're gonna see this massive wave of global adoption So I could not be more bullish all the stars are aligning But at the same time while all this is happening, you know on the political front like we covered yesterday Or the day before All kind of mixes together these days we were talking about the senator Cynthia Lummis and the senator Warren bill and you know the the wording in that bill was was very troubling right that you had this idea of KYC miners KYC wallet providers KYC validators, like how is that even possible? How is that even enforceable we had the CEO of start 9 yesterday, you know They make some of the best Bitcoin nodes in the business and he was literally saying it right? He's like that's that's impossible They're not gonna be able to do this But doesn't mean they're not gonna try right? So just because of all this bullish news that's happening, you know Don't put your defense down. There's never been a better time to learn how to take self -custody, you know Write down your seed phrase put it on titanium with the seed seed plate and Yeah, you know do do do yourself a favor and learn how to take self -custody If you don't know how to do so check out BTC sessions. He has a has some awesome Awesome tutorials. All right Opti. Here we go Let's do this man. Let's do this Nico can't speak English. We already know this. It's stamped seed put your shit on titanium But like I don't know I don't know what's wrong with me today, bro You didn't have enough coffee I'm like literally shaking cuz I'm too much coffee today. I didn't drink enough water this morning. But hey, man, we're here It's a Friday show. We made it another week. I have lost a math I don't remember what week we are on so you guys can fact -check me what week out of the year Are we what week out of 52 are we that's what we're down anyways That's some titanium SMR bro. Anyways, anyways Nico before people say that we're too childish on the show again We have an awesome guest today Bert from Bitcoin Brabant. I think I said that wrongly but Bitcoin miner that uses the excess heat from the a sex to heat up your business. So this is gonna be lit I'm excited for this one. That's gonna be a great show Anyways, oh man yellow I said literally the same thing. I put on a polo and I look like a professional. Yeah Should we start talking professionally? I'm gonna wear a suit next week. I don't even have a suit start talking professionally Hi guys, welcome to simply Bitcoin. We have Bitcoin Brabant on the show today. We're For news and culture Anyways anyways anyways Oh Yeah, very good it's Great to be on the show first time. So happy to have here is what you will make of it because Friday show so We're a consummate professional. I'm bringing I'm bringing the tulip bubble, you know, all right, so So Opti, why don't you tell everybody what Bert does? Like I said, he's part of and actually forgive me. How do I say your company again? Cuz I Brabant okay, and He's a Bitcoin miner that uses the excess heat to heat up your business and we have a really cool Really cool example of this and we're gonna go down his rabbit hole story and we'll talk about all that stuff during the culture So you guys already know the deal. Yeah, it's gonna be an awesome. It's gonna be an awesome show guys looking forward to it Let's do this. Let's head straight into the numbers You The Bitcoin numbers is your Bitcoin in cold storage really secure is your seed phrase Really secure stamp seeds do -it -yourself kit has everything you need to hammer your seed words into commercial grade Titanium plates instead of just writing them on paper Don't store your generational wealth on paper papers prone to water damage fire damage You want to put your generational wealth on one of the strongest metals on planet earth titanium your words are actually stamped into this metal plate with this hammer and these letter stamps and once your words are in they Aren't going anywhere. No risk of the plate breaking apart and pieces falling everywhere Titanium stamp seeds will survive nearly triple the heat produced by a house fire They're also crushed proof waterproof Non -corrosive and time proof all things that paper is not allowing you to huddle your Bitcoin with peace of mind For the long haul stamp your seed on stamp seed guys You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you have to explain to your grandchildren why you lost your? Generational wealth because you didn't properly secure your Bitcoin wallet backup seed words So you want to put them on titanium you could scan the QR code on your screen right now and it'll take you directly to The titanium seed phrase storage kit from stamp seed and you can You know you could purchase one so you don't have to explain this to your grandchildren why you lost your seed Anyways at the time of recording the Bitcoin price is twenty nine thousand two hundred thirty five stats per dollar three thousand four hundred twenty -one block height eight hundred one thousand six hundred sixty nine blocks having thirty eight thousand three hundred thirty one having estimate April 20th 2024 total lightning network capacity four thousand six hundred eighty nine Bitcoin capacity value one hundred thirty seven million US dollars realized monetary inflation one point seven six percent market capitalization five hundred sixty eight billion dollars Bitcoin versus gold market cap four point three seven percent Anyways, I have a very interesting video for you guys from Adam back and shout out to documenting Bitcoin Which does an incredible job? Documenting Bitcoin so they say six years ago today Bitcoin proved itself as a decentralized system No one controls listen to Adam back explained.
Simply Bitcoin
A highlight from US Governor to PROTECT Bitcoiners and BAN CBDC | EP 795
"You Yeah, we're gonna submit Bitcoin live or your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution of car breaking news culture manic warfare We will be your guide through the separation of money and state we have been talking about this concept about It's not red versus blue it's not left versus right it's the party of orange versus the party of green and it's interesting that Predominant political candidates here in the United States on both sides of the aisle on the Democratic side. You have RFK jr. It Literally his speech at the Bitcoin 2023 conference was saying that he's gonna protect the right for Bitcoiners to take self -custody It's interesting on the other side on the Republican side in the second place for the presidential Republican candidacy is Ron DeSantis and he released a meme I would call it because that's really what it is an ad you could say better said and it was called the Declaration of Economic Independence and One of the tenants or one of the things and it was a list of ten things that he's gonna do if he gets elected President number eight it was rain in the Federal Reserve and in there There's a specific section that focuses exactly literally it says word -for -word. I'm not even kidding protect Bitcoin So I think that's interesting how this is heating up. This isn't a phenomenon that's only happening in the United States This is also happening in Canada You have Poulier Polyvar who is running against Justin Trudeau and he's also against central bank digital currencies And he's for Bitcoin So I find that really interesting how you know, this political debate is heating up at the end of the day These are politicians. I know I'm not a big fan of politicians I don't trust politicians, but look I you know, I'm I'm a fan of This happening during the transitionary period from a fiat standard to a Bitcoin standard I think the more people on our side the better Especially with you know, what we know the other side is doing on yesterday's episode We covered the proposed bill Bipartisan bill sponsored by Senator Cynthia Lummis and Senator Warren that would force validators miners wallet providers to KYC, which is Freaking crazy. So, you know the more people we have on our side of the football the better in my opinion And also we have a very special guest today. We have the CEO and founder of start 9 Matt Hill, how you doing, man? Hey doing good. Thanks for that meal. Thanks for coming today, and I'm a big fan of start 9 I think they make some of the best nodes in the space and you guys are all about that sovereign computing Which I'm a big fan of I got myself. I think you've rebranded it. It's not to start 9 Pro anymore But I got one of the founder additions and I'm absolutely loving it. What's the rebrand called? What do you guys call in it nowadays? The pure Start 9 pure and it's a it's a workhorse. I think it runs on an i7. Is that correct? Yeah, the reason why we renamed it is because it doesn't actually pack the punch that you would expect a pro device to pack So it is powerful. It's far more powerful than almost anything. People are running Bitcoin nodes and personal servers on but It's not It's not the most modern chip You know as you start talking about like AI applications, it doesn't have enough RAM It's it's a good powerful device But we have plans for what we're gonna call the pro and it's going to crush this thing from a performance standpoint but this thing is unique in that it touts a Ninety nine point nine percent open software stack through to the firmware, right? There are no proprietary drivers for Wi -Fi or graphics cards or anything like that It is a it is a very pure device that is based on some of the work that Purism put into opening up the firmware and excluding the Intel management engine and stuff like that So it's a privacy and security oriented device rather than a pro power device, even though it does pack a good punch So we renamed it to the pure gotcha. So you're gonna take even more of my money understand Very looking forward to the the new and what you're gonna call it Anyways, I see Opti laughing his ass off. What's up, man? Man doing good doing wonderful this morning and shouts out to everyone on yesterday's show You guys loved the lightning giveaway live we handled it but won't be happening again until I figure out exactly the The kinks on it because some of y 'all ruin all the fun for the rest of us, but I'm excited for this one Obviously, you know, we've been seeing Ron DeSantis talk about CBD seeds for a while now Hopefully he can get that conversation going in all circles and it's becoming very interesting that you know the CBDC and Bitcoin narrative is becoming a point of contention for political candidates and It's going to it's looking like it's gonna be a crazy ride and then we get the talk start 9 all day Which is I don't know Nico's Nico's been getting me on and I'm like, man I really need to get one of these these things are looking amazing. So I'm excited for this one Nico Let's get into this. It's gonna be great show. All right, everybody no more delay Let's jump straight into numbers. Let's do it The Bitcoin numbers is your Bitcoin in cold storage really secure is your seed phrase Really secure stamped seeds do -it -yourself kit has everything you need to hammer your seed words into commercial grade Titanium plates instead of just writing them on paper Don't store your generational wealth on paper papers prone to water damage fire damage You want to put your generational wealth on one of the strongest metals on planet Earth? titanium your words are actually stamped into this metal plate with this hammer and these letter stamps and once your words are in they Aren't going anywhere. No risk of the plate breaking apart and pieces falling everywhere Titanium stamped seeds will survive nearly triple the heat produced by a house fire They're also crushed proof waterproof Non and -corrosive time -proof all things that paper is not allowing you to huddle your Bitcoin with peace of mind for the long haul Stamp your seed on stamp seed our guys and you could scan the QR code on your screen right now I'll take you directly to the stamp seed website Don't put yourself in the position where you have to explain to your grandchildren Why you lost your generational wealth because you stored your seed phrase on paper Store your seed phrase on the titanium seed phrase storage kit available on stamp seed and you can use a promo code Simply to get yourself a major discount at the time of report at the time of recording the Bitcoin prices 29 ,250 sats per dollar three thousand four hundred nineteen block height eight hundred one eight hundred one thousand five hundred and thirty blocks to having thirty eight thousand four hundred and seventy having estimate April 20th 2024 total lightning Network capacity four thousand six hundred ninety one Bitcoin capacity value 137 million US dollars realized monetary inflation one point seven six percent The market capitalization is five hundred sixty eight billion dollars with the B Bitcoin versus gold market cap four point three eight percent Alright moving on to the video that I want to talk about today. You know, they're saying the quiet part out loud Let's check it. Let's check this out. This is Ron DeSantis at a political rally. It's a threat in Florida we've seen them talking about it. So I actually signed legislation where we don't recognize Central bank digital currency now Congress could override us on that but the Fed unilaterally I don't think they could override us on that. So we've protected Floridians, but as president on day one CBDC goes into the trash can we're not going to allow it And we are gonna let Americans invest in things like Bitcoin and cryptocurrency No one's forcing you to do it. If you want to do it, you can do it Biden's war on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will come to an end when I become president. It's a threat. I mean look, it's very very interesting It's not just Bitcoiners that are like Hypothesizing and like, you know like that mean with the guy like pointing at the board with all the wires connected and stuff Like look what's going on? It's becoming apparent that operation choke point 2 .0 is not just some meme that Bitcoiners came up with on the internet like V moves by the current administration whether it's the custodia bank with Caitlin long We had her on the show the other day. Like it's clear that in the eyes of this current administration They don't see Bitcoin as money they want to push forward the central bank digital currencies and look at the Look at the launch of the CBT of the American version of the CBDC which they say is not a CBDC But it sure feels like a CBDC which is the Fed now, right? And here is the Declaration of Economic Independence I was mentioning in the beginning of the show and If he were to be elected president, he would block a CBDC and he would protect Bitcoin doesn't say crypto He says Bitcoin by name. And of course, he's not just doing this out of the kindness of his heart He's doing this because he's a politician. He wants to get elected and his direct opponent I would say rather than Biden really is RFK jr. On the Democratic side and he's been very vocal about Supporting Bitcoin and being anti CBDC. He had a speech at the Bitcoin conference They got a tremendous amount of press and then he had another announcement which he did on a podcast Where he would vow to bow Bitcoin He would vow to back the dollar by Bitcoin and he would exempt Bitcoin from taxes Of course, you know, I don't trust politicians But it's just interesting how it's like kind of like this forcing function Like one politician says something and the other ones like yeah, I want to get those votes too. I support Bitcoin, too This is this is very interesting. I think that by you know the end of the decade I think that it'll become politically unviable to be something to be against Bitcoin. That's that's my opinion. But again, you know never underestimate You know these people and the lengths that they are willing to go to In order to maintain their privilege of being able to create money for free that everyone else has to work for so Matt You're a builder is all of this stuff noise to you What's what's going on in the sidelines and I really want to focus that I wish we covered that on today's show, which is Yesterday we had a very very scary bill that that came out and in that bill it basically said That they were going to force validators and you could say validators or nodes to KYC their customers So it's very interesting that that wording that they use. So what's your take on that? The the first part or the the validator part let's Everything everything. What's your take on everything? I I care deeply about politics. I'm I read history. I Understand and read about politics and economics and but I spend most of my time writing code I am NOT up -to -date with every current event or which politician said what I Buy into the thesis of the sovereign individual that technology is the primary driver of political change throughout history And so I personally spend most of my time trying to Create and innovate on technologies that forcibly push power to the edges of the political system and thereby influence change From from a layer beneath where these politicians are operating So as I see people like Ron DeSantis or RFK Talking about Bitcoin I do not believe that this is coming from a place of them necessarily understanding or even caring but from a place of necessity right, like the the the Winds are changing and they are trying to say whatever they need to say to get votes and their polling is telling them that these Are the things that they need to say to get votes. And so we're it's working right? Like I don't believe them I don't trust them. But that is proof that Something is happening that is causing them to take this seriously and not only to take it seriously but to side with it right Bitcoin is forcing political change Not asking for it And so what I get annoyed by is when I hear them say things like we're gonna let you trade in Bitcoin and stuff like That and sure I get why they're saying that and I count that as a check mark in the win column But also I'm like fuck you, you know, you're not gonna let me do shit We're gonna do whatever we want and you're gonna go along with it because you have to because technology makes you comply I love that. I absolutely love that and we're big fans of the sovereign individual and simply Bitcoin We reference it at least once a week on the show and I completely agree and you know It's it's the but it's it you're just watching the state as they they lose, you know This this this they lose their control over society in a way You're seeing them kind of like go through this denial phase where they're like look we'll let you do it You know what? Actually, we're big fans of digital currencies, too. We like CBDCs. We're supporters of CBDCs Why don't you use that, you know, so it's just interesting watching them squirm around it in a way I feel like they're panicking a little bit like they they want this thing to go away, but it just won't go away That's that's correct. It's not going away. You cannot un -invent technology Technology that empowers people Doesn't want to be un -invented people are going to use it And it's great that it was designed the way that it was that's what made Bitcoin so innovative Is that it really is fuck you money and Good luck trying to get validators to KYC people. I mean it it's silly that they At this point do not understand it Well enough to refrain from saying such a silly phrase, right? Generally politicians speaking try not to look foolish, right? They don't want to take hard lines against things that they can't enforce because it just makes them look silly, right? That's the one thing they always try not to do is look silly they can lie They don't care if they're malicious whatever but they don't want to look foolish And so that's gonna make them look very foolish, right? If something like that were to come into into practice It will be un -un Done overnight as they realize what a mistake they have made 100 % and what I'm referencing everybody also is just a you know Just to kind of show everybody what I'm referring to it is the digital asset anti -money laundering act Which was included into this defense bill and it included extend bank secrecy act responsibilities Including KYC customer requirements the digital asset wallet providers miners validators and other network Participants that may act to validate secure or facilitate digital asset transactions. I agree with Matt 100 % I think that is unenforceable, but it doesn't mean that they're not gonna try anyways, so Opti What's your take and then we'll move on to the news? Yeah So first I think it's very interesting to hear dissent to say what Bitcoiners have been saying for a while that there is a war against Bitcoin coming from the Biden administration and Maybe it carries a little more weight because it's coming from the political class and not from you know us fringe conspiracy theorists on Twitter or whatever you want to call us but To Matt's point I was gonna say the same thing Like we don't need the president to let us do anything with Bitcoin its permissionless money and completely legal by constitutional standards So it's nice to hear And of course, I don't want friction in regards to Bitcoin like, you know, make my life easier as a Bitcoiner Would love to see it but honey bad you don't care this is a global phenomenon and America will continue to shoot themselves in the foot by fighting Bitcoin and of course as someone that lives in America I don't want to see us continue down this path and would like to see people embrace Bitcoin It really doesn't matter because of entrepreneurs like Matt out there that are building the freedom tools That will force the narrative like they've lost control as far as I'm concerned and now they're they're trying to pander to Bitcoiners So on the one hand just love to see it and on the other hand It's just like I don't know it just seems like lip service to me But I mean personally I know I know Nico you're in Florida and you have different views and we'd love to hear the conversation I don't really think that Santas has a has a chance to win but it's cool to have these conversations.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 08/02/23
"We could use this every day for the M &M segment. I love it. Knowing me, there is a reason. This of course was sung by a jingle singer named Cynthia Fee for the theme to the Golden Girls, but written by this wonderful man right here, Andrew Gold, who did such great work with Linda Ronstadt and others, and wrote some pretty great records himself like Lonely Boy, the great Andrew Gold would have been. Gosh, it was his birthday today, and so there we go. Well, we need friends. Oh my goodness gracious me, we sure do. We have to have a community, and you know, I'm going to start out maybe riling you up a little bit. I'm not going to suggest you're mistaken by saying that when I say that people should be rallying behind Trump uniformly, I get it, we're going to let the game come to us, voters are going to get to decide, but boy, this would be a good time if you've been on the fence, and you have been sort of squishy about, well, I don't know, Trump, baggage, DeSantis, maybe an alternative, I kind of like that vague fellow. Now, this is a time to stand with a guy who is being unbelievably persecuted, not prosecuted, persecuted for his beliefs. You know, Mark, I've been thinking a lot about that, and first of all, I can't believe my level of emotion right now. I didn't expect to be this emotional. Me neither. Give voice to that, because you and I have done this forever, right? We have some decades, there have been presidents we liked, those we didn't. Policies we thought were great, policies we thought were horrible. There is something singularly horrid about this. Please, you go first. Well, the word is sinister. There's a sinister effort to stop the election process, to subvert the election. Everybody knows it, everybody's in on it. The Democrats are well aware of this. When Trump says, why did they wait two and a half years to throw all this at me? We know the answer to that, so I'm feeling kind of a combination. First of all, I'm surprised at how sad I am, and how fearful I am. I don't know how this is going to play out, but it's not good. It's not good for the Democrats, it will not be good for the Democrats. It's not good for Republicans, it's not good for this constitutional republic to criminalize political speech. And that's literally what Jack Smith, this guy, this scoundrel, is attempting to do. He's making the case that he knows that Donald Trump didn't believe that the election was suspect. Now, you and I are in a very unique position here on this. We hear every day from people from all walks of life. We hear people North, South, East, West, young, old, right, left. Is there any doubt in your mind that of the thousands of reactions you and I have gotten from people saying that Trump got hosed in 2020, that the thousands and thousands of people who have said this election was not on the up and up, COVID laws, they changed things because of COVID, they changed election laws in the middle of the night, all the suspicions that people have. Is there any doubt in your mind, Mark, that those are not sincerely held beliefs? None. Of course they believe it. And people can agree with it, disagree with it, and you can feel that things were squirrelly, or you can say, as Trump does, that we definitely won. You even have the right in America to be a little bit of a nut. You can go full Sidney Powell with the Hugo Chavez changing the Dominion machine scenario. Even that's not illegal. You can go to jail for saying, you can go to jail for saying, ladies and gentlemen, I believe that the moon is made out of Swiss cheese. Come get me, put handcuffs on me, take me away. Now, here's though, but let's go apples to apples. The government, Biden's government, Biden's Justice Department, and of course that's the whole story, is trying to make the case that Trump's words and actions led to the riot on January 6th, and therefore disenfranchised voters. You were talking about this earlier. They're going to use that old gag, the disenfranchisement of voters. How are voters disenfranchised by sitting around saying, as far as I know, Trump didn't get into the White House in 2021. Nobody was disenfranchised. Biden's the president. He's in the Oval Office. Nothing got, who was disenfranchised? How can you even make that claim, Mark? What can you, what can you possibly, okay, so Trump didn't think that he legitimately lost in 2020. Guess what? Join the club because I've got a montage that I'm going to play not from 2016. But Mike, that's not possible because 2020 was the first year that anybody ever doubted an election. Surely you don't have audio of Democrats doubting results from the past. Go, go, do you remember the George W. Bush, Al Gore Supreme Court battle? Remember that one? You're old enough to remember that? There's a montage that everybody can now hear. It goes back to those days when prominent Democrats, one after another, lined up and said that George W. Bush is not the legitimate president of the United States. He was the president select, remember? Oh, sure. And the Supreme Court anointed him. And by the way, all of those completely untrue things that they said, they have every right to say them. They have every right to say them. Nobody came to their house and went, we're going to indict you and lock you up for the rest of your life for saying those things. You know, one of the most popular text message articles that I've received is when people text me the keyword Trump and we send back a list of Trump accomplishments. Because a lot of people forget what happened in the four years that he was president. So thousands and literally tens of thousands of people have sent that text message, the word Trump, to my text line, which is 800 -655 -MIKE. A close second, and now I think a close third, will be when people want to hear the montage of Hillary, of the late John Lewis, of Jimmy Carter. Go down the list. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, not only doubting the legitimacy of the 2016 election, but now you can hear the montage that the great folks over at Grabian put together questioning the outcome of the George Bush Al Gore election. If you text the keyword fraud to 800 -655 -MIKE from your phone, we'll send you back the video clip of the election deniers Hillary Clinton at all in 2016. If you text the words more fraud to 800 -655 -MIKE, we'll send you back the montage of all the election deniers from the George Bush Al Gore battle. I mean, it's complete hypocrisy. And Mark, there is a nefarious, diabolical, sinister, history -making chapter that was just begun yesterday. And I know where this ends. I think you do too. You're a smart guy. I've been listening to you all day. This is going to have to be decided by the Supreme Court. The judge that has been randomly assigned to the Trump case, wink, wink, yeah, some random assignment. Have you read about this Lulu? This piece of work? She gives people jail sentences for January 6th when the government didn't want jail sentences for them. She sent a couple to jail for taking a selfie on Capitol Hill that day, and the government wasn't seeking any jail time. But this judge, an Obama appointee, is going to hear—so listen, get ready, because she's going to throw—she will absolutely rule against Trump. We're going to see a guy that might—I'm not kidding you—brace yourself, wind up in prison next year. Jack Smith is asking for a speedy trial. And I'm under no illusion that this thing is going to play out nicely or have a happy ending until it gets to the Supreme Court. I don't think it'll play out quickly, though. Every concern you have is rock solid, but I don't think there's—the reason he wants a speedy trial is so that it's plunked right down in the middle of the primaries. And I don't think that justice is going to move briskly here. Did you catch John Law in the— Wait a minute, wait a minute, hold on, let me push back on that with love. Let me tell you why. They hold the cards. They're playing—this is their game, Mark. This is not Trump's game. Now, you're right, this could—in a normal world, it would play out forever. This isn't normal. They're breaking the rules. They're making up the rules as they go. Of course they want a speedy trial because they want to disqualify Trump from November of 2024. Because, Mark, hey, announce your voice. He's going to win. He's going to win. I am more convinced of that now than ever. Well, the nomination, surely it seems, and I guess on a future day we'll talk about whether this helps or hurts in the general, but what do these people want? One of two things is true. They're trying to destroy him so that he'll never be the nominee or the president. Or they're trying to—or it's an odd four -dimensional chess where they are trying to gin up so much support in the MAGA base that he's absolutely the nominee because they think Biden can beat him. Which of those is true? That's a great question because they are not oblivious to these crazy poll numbers. They worship at the altar of the New York Times. The New York Times is predicting that Trump's going to win, and the New York Times is saying he might win in the general election. The New York Times -Siena poll is looking at a head -to -head matchup. I mean, Trump's got the— He is, without a doubt, a formidable political opponent that is the—I believe—I'm going to say it right now, and I'll get in trouble for it because I'm trying to be neutral. And I will absolutely support whoever the Republican nominee is as decided by the voters. But I have a belief that I think is going to be shared by millions and millions of people. Trump's the only guy who can beat the Democrats. Trump is the only guy who can win. Trump is the only guy who can stop them. I don't like the chances of any other—look at any one of them. DeSantis is a vague— You think Biden beats the—if the half -court shot goes in and DeSantis wins the lottery ticket and somehow gets the nomination in Milwaukee next year— And he could. And he could. And he could. You think Biden beats him? I think that Trump is our best chance, Mark. No, I mean, listen, I'm prayerfully going to believe that any Republican is going to beat this infirm old man who's shuffling around asking who ordered the veal cutlet. I don't know, but I still believe now, more than ever, that Trump is the best chance. Everything about the deep state, the uni -party, the system, everything is coming to fruition. It's true, Mark. And they're doing it— And he's vindicated. And they're saying it—just Jack Smith demanding a speedy trial. I mean, you took your time for two and a half years. Now you want a speedy trial? Are you kidding me? No, no, no. They're doing it right under our noses. And let me talk about the final heartbreak of the last 24 hours. You've touched on it. Mike Pence. Mike Pence. I've interviewed him on a number of occasions. What a good man. What a good Christian. What a servant's heart. He's got a servant's heart. And listen, he's a former colleague. He's a talk radio guy. I know, radio guy. I mean, he loved talking to me when I interviewed him on a number of occasions about the business. You know, he was in front of a microphone.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
We Need Regulatory Clarity to Keep Crypto Exchanges Onshore...
"Today's featured stories and opinion piece from Jack soloway and Jennifer Schultz. Mister soloway is a policy analyst at kato's institute center for monetary and financial alternatives while miss Schultz is the director of financial regulation studies at the same institute. Our piece today is entitled, we need regulatory clarity to keep crypto exchanges onshore and DeFi permissionless. At consensus 2023, senator Cynthia lummis, a Republican from Wyoming, and congressman Patrick mchenry, a Republican from North Carolina, voiced their goals of developing legislation to clarify crypto market structure in the united states, with a house proposal expected in the next two months. Last week, in a joint hearing of the digital asset subcommittee of the House agriculture and House financial services committees, work proceeds to resolve what congressman French hill, a Republican from Arizona, has referred to as an impossible situation where the same firms are subject to competing enforcement actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, and the commodity futures trading commission or CFTC, which is in their words, pushing entrepreneurs, developers, and job creators offshore. This is an impossible situation, and it's manifestly unwise for the U.S. to show the door to those working on what may be the next generation of global financial infrastructure. Congress must bring regulatory clarity to crypto market structure, defining the bounds and appropriate legal treatment of crypto securities, crypto commodities, and the exchanges, both centralized and decentralized over which they trade. Notwithstanding the skepticism and evasions of SEC chair Gary gensler, crypto's core innovation decentralization is the proper criterion by which to rationalize digital asset market structure and determine whether applying traditional financial regulations to crypto tokens in exchanges make sense. The phrase, same activity, same risk, same regulation, is oft repeated by financial regulators. But as applied to crypto, it raises the question, are the risks the same. Specifically, do crypto projects present the risks that issuers in the primary market or intermediaries in the secondary market can exploit their position to harm token purchasers by, for example, abusing non public information, misleading market participants, breaking promises, or otherwise engaging in fraud.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
How Should We Identify the Nashville Shooter?
"We have. A very interesting sort of smoking gun problem in the mainstream media, which is the left wing media there. Synonymous. How do you identify the shooter in a Nashville, this monstrous murderer who murdered three children and three adults, I believe that is the number. Children three children ages 8 and 9 and three adults. At a Christian school, the covenant school for the record the children were Evelyn, deke house, Halle scruggs, and William Kinney. The adults were Cynthia peak, Catherine coons, and Mike hill. 61 60 61, children 8 and 9. I think the murderer was 26 years old. I'll verify that for you. So we have here a female who identifies as a male, so in the current parlance that's trans male. If you watch the mainstream media or read the mainstream media or listen to them, it was very difficult to ascertain that. Because in their articles, the many of them did not even use a pronoun. This is very difficult when you describe somebody who is the subject of your story. So do you say she took the gun or she got the gun illegally, she got there in a stolen car, she got there, or he got there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Are People Waking Up to the Injustice of J6? Cynthia Hughes Weighs In
"Cynthia, let me ask you, do you feel as if that more and more people are starting to care and wake up to the awful treatment and the injustice of these January 6th defendants? Are you feeling hopeful? I mean, you know, Charlie, you and I are both we're very faithful of people, right? So you have to, you have to have hope. And that's the only way through a crisis like this, right? Am I seeing a turn of the tide? I mean, I guess maybe a little bit, but not as much as I would like to at this at this point. You have a father's. During our break and I was watching you and one of your interviews, you know, and here you talk about a father being absent from the home. I mean, that's what we're seeing in a lot of these and a lot of these families now. You know, you're talking a young man. Let's talk about Jordan mink, who is still sitting in the D.C. jail over two years now, just went through, you know, just got took his plea deal. He's got a young son in her. And his fiance, she's a wonderful mother, and they have great support, but you still have a young boy, a very impressionable age, separated from his father. You're going to hear their story in the first installment of our docuseries. And you're going to see the pain in this family. You know, young boy who wants to be playing ball with his dad and going fishing. And fishing and doing things that, you know, young boys should be doing what their fathers, same thing with the Padilla family, you're going to see about them, and you're going to hear from his voice, you know, in the docuseries as well. You're talking three teenage boys separated from their father.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Cynthia Hughes Shares the Tragic Story of a J6 Defendant
"Talk about Jose Padilla. Jose Padilla has been in the D.C. jail since January of 2021 or maybe February 2021. He has three sons. His wife is now working two or three jobs, and the oldest boy is helping mom pay utility bills. I just got a call from the family recently, just a few days ago, one of their cars now has broken down. If patriot freedom project didn't exist, and we didn't tell these stories through the book due process denied, that is, how would these people be able to keep their heads above water? And Jose is not going to trial anytime soon. Right now it's set for May and it might get delayed again. He's been denied bond and they still haven't had a visit with each other. You're talking over two years that this man has been separated from his wife in history incredible sons. And he's not the only one in the D.C. jail that is still sitting in pre trial detention. So what is he what is he being charged with? You know, he is being charged with violent crime, but there's a lot of people Charlie that are being charged with a violent crime that did not commit violence to that guy. Yeah, I believe. For example, I'm sure you're familiar with the very large Trump sign that there was a ton of people standing underneath and they were walking underneath it and ray eps, the famous raps underneath that that's yeah, so lots of people have been charged with assaults, you know, assault with a weapon, deadly weapon for just touching that sign.
The Charlie Kirk Show
"cynthia" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"It's a very disturbing pattern of facts that are emerging regarding the January 6th defendants. And someone who has dedicated her work really beautifully is Cynthia Hughes. She is the author of a new book due process denied the detained the family's the fallout and boy is this newsy given all the recent revelations that Tucker and Kevin McCarthy have made public and Cynthia joins us right now. Cynthia, welcome to the program. Hi, Charlie. Thank you for having me back. It's nice to see you. Nice to see you again. I also want to make sure everyone knows that the proceeds from the book and the docu series go to patriot freedom project and we'll talk more about that. So Cynthia, why don't you reintroduce yourself to our audience and the important work that you're doing? So my name is Cynthia Hughes. The founder of the patriot freedom project. I'm also a family member of a J 6 defendant who is currently serving his prison time here in New Jersey at fort Dix. He spent a lot of time in the D.C. gulag in solitary confinement. Denied due process on nonviolent charges. I think it's very important that we talk about that. Because a lot of people are still sitting in jail on nonviolently charges, people have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms on nonviolent charges. Like Julie and cater, some of the footage we saw last night on officer sicknick might have been helpful to Julian before he was forced into a very horrific plea deal and then eventually sentenced to 6 years in prison. Where he's already been bounced around from different prisons since a sentencing and it's really, really very sad. He's being sued by the government and, you know, I just lost my lighting. I'm sorry. And, you know, and these are things that we have to keep talking about. And until we, until we, and so we see all the footage, we're not going to, you know, we're not going to be able to make it forward of decisions and none of these trials should be continuing. And these people should be released. And so all of this video footage is released. And in our book, due process denied, and also our docuseries, which is also called due process denied, you will see the fallout and the collateral damage to these families, you know, we have a whole chapter in our book that's dedicated to the families, and there are several stories about them and what they have been enduring. And I assure you Charlie, when you see this part one in our docu series and you see some of these children, it's really going to tug at your heart. It's very sad. What is happening here? So Cynthia, let me ask, how many people, if any are still in pretrial detention? Are there still people there? Yes, there are still people in pretrial detention..
The Charlie Kirk Show
"cynthia" Discussed on The Charlie Kirk Show
"It's a very disturbing pattern of facts that are emerging regarding the January 6th defendants. And someone who has dedicated her work really beautifully is Cynthia Hughes. She is the author of a new book due process denied the detained the family's the fallout and boy is this newsy given all the recent revelations that Tucker and Kevin McCarthy have made public and Cynthia joins us right now. Cynthia, welcome to the program. Hi, Charlie. Thank you for having me back. It's nice to see you. Nice to see you again. I also want to make sure everyone knows that the proceeds from the book and the docu series go to patriot freedom project and we'll talk more about that. So Cynthia, why don't you reintroduce yourself to our audience and the important work that you're doing? So my name is Cynthia Hughes. The founder of the patriot freedom project. I'm also a family member of a J 6 defendant who is currently serving his prison time here in New Jersey at fort Dix. He spent a lot of time in the D.C. gulag in solitary confinement. Denied due process on nonviolent charges. I think it's very important that we talk about that. Because a lot of people are still sitting in jail on nonviolently charges, people have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms on nonviolent charges. Like Julie and cater, some of the footage we saw last night on officer sicknick might have been helpful to Julian before he was forced into a very horrific plea deal and then eventually sentenced to 6 years in prison. Where he's already been bounced around from different prisons since a sentencing and it's really, really very sad. He's being sued by the government and, you know, I just lost my lighting. I'm sorry. And, you know, and these are things that we have to keep talking about. And until we, until we, and so we see all the footage, we're not going to, you know, we're not going to be able to make it forward of decisions and none of these trials should be continuing. And these people should be released.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Cynthia Hughes on the Denial of Due Process for J6 Defendants
"It's a very disturbing pattern of facts that are emerging regarding the January 6th defendants. And someone who has dedicated her work really beautifully is Cynthia Hughes. She is the author of a new book due process denied the detained the family's the fallout and boy is this newsy given all the recent revelations that Tucker and Kevin McCarthy have made public and Cynthia joins us right now. Cynthia, welcome to the program. Hi, Charlie. Thank you for having me back. It's nice to see you. Nice to see you again. I also want to make sure everyone knows that the proceeds from the book and the docu series go to patriot freedom project and we'll talk more about that. So Cynthia, why don't you reintroduce yourself to our audience and the important work that you're doing? So my name is Cynthia Hughes. The founder of the patriot freedom project. I'm also a family member of a J 6 defendant who is currently serving his prison time here in New Jersey at fort Dix. He spent a lot of time in the D.C. gulag in solitary confinement. Denied due process on nonviolent charges. I think it's very important that we talk about that. Because a lot of people are still sitting in jail on nonviolently charges, people have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms on nonviolent charges. Like Julie and cater, some of the footage we saw last night on officer sicknick might have been helpful to Julian before he was forced into a very horrific plea deal and then eventually sentenced to 6 years in prison. Where he's already been bounced around from different prisons since a sentencing and it's really, really very sad. He's being sued by the government and, you know, I just lost my lighting. I'm sorry. And, you know, and these are things that we have to keep talking about. And until we, until we, and so we see all the footage, we're not going to, you know, we're not going to be able to make it forward of decisions and none of these trials should be continuing. And these people should be released.
Love Island: The Morning After
"cynthia" Discussed on Love Island: The Morning After
"I am super excited because I think we're about to get some real good tea India. Oh yes, we are joined by Cynthia leyla and Lydia from Castro a more welcome to the pod ladies. Hello. Hello. You were brilliant on after some by the way. Yeah. Do you know what? You've all got each other's backs. I feel like holding each other's hands and stuff and like, you know, when you're going through that, I know we were talking actually on after some weren't we? Yeah. About how when you're connected physically to the Pete girls that you've been in the villa for, it can sort of make you emotional, but you know they're there for you as well. 100%. Yeah, definitely. Now, it's fair to say that you guys brought the drama into casserole more. Now, did you expect that when you went in? I mean, seeing how solid most of the couples were in there. Definitely not. I don't think that because the early drama at all. Yeah. I think we just kind of went in and just was like, we're just going to follow our hearts and what felt right, raid the wave. Yeah. Did you guys feel like though it would be like hard to turn some of the guys head because some of them are just so solid? Yeah, for sure. I think with Cass as well like by the time that comes around a lot of people are very solid. So as a hard time to enter the Bella and think that anything will come from. Obviously, it does happen, but I don't think anyone had any really high expectations of that happening. Yeah. Well, you know what, ladies, we're absolutely gutted that you've left the villa and we didn't get to find out more about you guys, but we thought we'd play a little game. Oh, fun. We got a bowl full of questions here. We're each gonna take it in turns to pull out a question and then you can decide who you want to ask it to. One of your fellow casuals or India or I please not either of us. Are you ready? Oh yes. Let's go. It's terrifying. Right, Lydia, do you want to kick us off? Yeah, here we go, right? Come on, shoot the hit. Let me see what we've got here. Oh, what was your favorite moment and the vella or obviously it needs to be one of the cast at all? Oh God. It's got to be the I'm not going to lie. It was the straddle. It was so fun. It was probably what I would do on the outside, not obviously on a terrace, but I would probably straddle something. Butterflies go in. Oh my gosh. I'm not going to license. I really thought that you would say I was staying in High School Musical. No, no. Absolutely not. Like the energy one, yeah. I'm with you. Right, okay. On after sun, the castle boys met the Casa girls, have any of the boys caught your eye, and if so, are you going to slide into their DMs? Now we saw some declarations of love. We did. I am going to redirect that question. Back to Lydia. Of course you are. Are you gonna die? No, no, right. This is this edge. All the boys are super nice. Kane obviously really sweet. Everything that you said last night was really nice. It was nice to hear. Do you not me especially after the last week or whatever? But I feel like the whole me not getting packed and the Bella is just saying that maybe you need more time for myself. So as much as the boys are nice, I think right now is not the late time. As you send to your DMs. Of course he has. What he's saying to say is already just saying ask him basically for a date. He said that he's always our way back to Newcastle and he was like, oh, I've been asked to maybe arrange and meet up at some point, as happily meet up with him, but I don't know at the same time like, I'm just trying to figure everything out as well. The white Russian Tay Anthony. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, I have some new time, mate. That's when you start going, take one out. Oh, okay. What is your love language? I'm going to give this to India. Oh. Yeah. I know what hers is. We were talking about this a lot. I don't know. I feel like top I'd say acts of service. I knew it was. Physical touch and quality time. So you want somebody to like bring your coffees in the morning and things like that. No, I don't care about the coffees in the morning, but like I like someone like, I need help. I feel like I'm like, I'm so busy, yeah. I really appreciate it when someone tries to take the weight off my shoulders or like just does something that I wouldn't have time to do like that makes me like, oh, okay. Thank you, you know? Actually, I need help. So if my misses take does something to lighten the load, I'm sure I love you so much. Whereas she's like, I got you a gift. I'm like, well, thank you. No, I don't like that. No, I don't. I love you. I actually get awkward when people get me guessing. Obviously like a gift. No, I genuinely don't. Zara, my misses loves gifts. I love literally. I need to hold your hand. If you could plan your ideal first date, what would it be? I'm gonna go with Lydia. Because Scottish, we love the accent. Yeah, were you going? Were you going, I don't know. I don't know. You have a haggard. Bagpipes. On a first date. Yes. I've actually played the bagpipes. Ashley hate first dates are so bad. I love birthdays. I don't know like, I feel like I could go either way depending on how I feel. I feel like a dinner date, you can't go wrong with because you can, if you're eating spaghetti, anything that's like slurpee. Deal with that. Just don't order it. Yeah. Okay, if you go food dates, sushi every time. Yeah, and hungry after. I know fresh steak and cheese. No. I always get a stellar. No. No, it's sushi because it's easy. It's finger food or chopstick food. Then you get sake as well, mate. Yeah, yeah, when you get the salted down. I told you, there we go. Yeah, but steak, like if you're at a fed's restaurant. Yeah, but you want it out there and chopping stuff. Yeah, but that's why you get a good steak and you get it like medium rare so it actually cuts in half shaking the table. Right, okay, let me get a, I don't have a Russell on in there. Okay, what's the maddest thing that's happened to you on a date? I'm gonna direct this to you. Nice. Oh no. Tell us all. So I think I'm quite a funny person. I think you're funny. Yeah, back here with that. But I went out on this date with this guy. First of all, I hate being the girl that is like, you know, the guys that have the really loud cars, like the really loud songs. Oh my gosh, Nick. And I literally said I never wanted to be that girl, right? So he comes and picks me up and every single time he like revved the engine. I just, yeah, I was just down. I just sunk lower and lower inside. And I don't like pub dates, like I like activities. Like I like fun dates, right? So he took me to the pub. Okay. In the box for the first date to the local to the local pub, and so again, I think I'm quite a funny person. And I was making him laugh, but I made him laugh so hard, he started having a nosebleed. No. I was not even possible. That is so good. Cynthia leyla Lydia, thank you so much for joining us on the pod and being so much fun. You actually were. You were really, really lovely. I was a bit worried. Well, you never really know and you were so lovely. You wish you all the luck in the world and that you all get to find love. Absolutely guys. Thank you for coming on the poor. Thank you for having us. Thanks guys. That's it for another morning. A big thank you again to our castle ladies, and of course to ten year two, we were spoiled with great guest today. And what would the drama too? I can't wait to see what unfolds in tonight's episode. We want to hear what you guys are thinking so use the hashtag love wine and podcast to let us know your thoughts on all the drama in the villa. Love island the morning after it is produced by listen for ITV. Thanks for listening and we're going to see you again tomorrow. Bye guys.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
FTX Bankruptcy Judge Not Swayed by Letter From US Senators
"Wendy O is going to start us off today with an FTX bankruptcy update. What do you got when? Gosh, golly gee, you guys, this thing is going to be a topic conversation for a long time. Just in. Bipartisan group of U.S. senators calls for independent examiner to investigate FTX. And this bipartisan group is actually very interesting because it's comprised of senators, Elizabeth Warren, John hinkle looper, Tom tillis, and Cynthia Loomis, which I actually like her because she's kind of pro crypto. And shout out to hotel Jesus 'cause he also told me that many time you see anything bipartisan, it's not a good thing. You want them fighting and going at it. I don't know, that's what he said. But anyways, before U.S. senators sent a letter to the bankruptcy judge calling for independent examiner to be appointed to the case and they're urging the judge to support a motion to appoint an examiner to have full authority and resources to conduct an objective investigation of the activities that led to the collapse and they argue that the current adviser Sullivan and Cromwell advised FTX for years, leading up to its collapse and one of its partners even served as FTX general counsel, that seems like a conflict of interest to me, but just in the bankruptcy hearing today, Delaware judge John Dorsey called the letter inappropriate intervention in banking and proceedings which won't sway due to decisions. Jen, I need your opinion on this because it's kind of a heavy topic. And it's a lot to chat about. Yeah, so I read the story and I was like, oh yeah, I totally agree with the senators, and then I read the judges dance. I was like, yeah, I totally agree with the judge. So let's talk about Sullivan and Cromwell first. Assisting the current FTX leadership and identifying issues, the senators are saying that they're not a disinterested party because they've been working with FTX for a really long time and some of their partners have even served as general counsel for FTX. That really does sound like a conflict of interest. But at the end of the day, I think my opinion here is that the judge is right that this should all come out in court everyone should have a chance to respond to any of these matters and it seems like the court is compiling lots of different witnesses who can speak to or against this and it should all play out in court. It shouldn't be swayed by senators.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Speaks to Cynthia Hughes of The Patriot Freedom Project
"I would love to be able to have Matt Gaetz Lauren boebert Marjorie Taylor Greene. Andy Biggs be able to have subpoena power subpoena power. Against the FBI to find out what actually happened on January 6th. And that ties into our next guests, and by the way, email us your thoughts freedom at Charlie Kirk dot com Cynthia Hughes, founder of the patriot freedom project, and Jerry perna, mother of Matthew perna, who tragically took his own life after January 6th, Cynthia and Jerry, welcome to the program. Hi, Charlie. Thank you for having us. Thank you for having us. And I'm his aunt. Okay. By the way. Well, thank you. Thank you both. Tell us about both your stories and the work you're doing on this second anniversary of January 6th. Third anniversary, but two year anniversary. So Charlie, thank you for having me and Jerry and giving us the opportunity to speak out about J 6. Patriot freedom project and Matthew carna. So I found at the patriot freedom project after my own family was caught up in this train wreck. And was held in solitary confinement for 6 straight months with one hour a day out of his cell on nonviolent charges with no criminal history. And it became very, very frustrating. And I decided I had to act and do something about it. And so I connected with some families, started a family support group. Connected with the great Julie Kelly, and the next thing I knew I was talking to dinesh d'souza and his amazing wife, Debbie, who graciously and generously donated to my cause and patriot grand project was born. And with the help of the great Steve Bannon, we've raised over a $1 million and we've hired attorney. We have helped pay mortgage and rent and utility bills. Families that have lost their health insurance because their husband is still in jail. We've paid cobra, we've helped higher experts for these lawyers. For trials, and I've gotten very close with many of these families.
Proud Stutter
"cynthia" Discussed on Proud Stutter
"I'm Maya tup and I'm a woman who stutters. I'm Cynthia and I know nothing about stuttering. And this is proud stutter, a podcast about changing the conversation about stuttering and embracing verbal diversity. In an effort to change how we talk about it, one conversation at a time. Let's get into this episode, which is drum roll, dating with a stutter. Cynthia, this is your favorite topic. I know. I don't know if it's my favorite necessarily, but it's the one that I talk about most dating generally, but dating with a stutter that's a whole new thing. Yeah, so dating with a stutter. Let's see, where do I start? I probably started thinking about dating when I was 5 years old. You started thinking about dating when you were 5? Well, maybe not dating, but I started thinking about boys in a very serious way when I was 5. Oh, dang. You matured early. Yeah, it was really embarrassing. I used to chase boys around the playground and make them hang out with me. There's this one boy that I would just chase around and everyone would make fun of me because I would always chase them around the playground and my mom made were not made, but my mom set up like a playdate with the two of us at our House. And I remember it being like the most awkward thing ever like he would just like, he wouldn't even talk to me. So that was kind of I wouldn't say that's when I was talking about thinking about dating, but I just remember being so boy crazy from a very young age. Okay, to be fair, maybe not as young as 5, but I remember in elementary school doing pretty much the same thing. Like chasing boys. And them not getting it. You know, like I thought it was abundantly clear that I had a crush on them. Yeah, I think middle school was really the time when I first started seeing, you know, my friends start dating and what I mean by dating middle school is just holding hands around the yard and having everyone spying on you. But I didn't really ever date anyone until college and I don't think it was because I had a stutter dating always seemed unfathomable to me. I always thought how could I establish a relationship if I spent every moment afraid to speak, afraid to stutter, it was just, it didn't really go well together. Right. And that's on top of the pressure of actually dating anyway. And trying not to say something stupid. Yeah, it was a struggle and I'd always see.
Daily Pop
"cynthia" Discussed on Daily Pop
"Pob getting ready for some a-list arsim some serious drama. We've got cheating accusations up rumors and even an exorcism is back with me. She is ready and cynthia bailey. A sparkle better bring some light hunting because she had a night last night a little bit later. Let's say but do you remember the fight. Between tammy and david on the real world back in nineteen ninety-three. It is one of the most memorable moments in reality tv history. Will now. it's coming back to haunt everybody in the real world homecoming los angeles watch this serious off the rail double yellow apologize. Meaning about the pissy off on still right now. I'm looking at you in your face. And i'm telling you what i was dealing. Everybody leaning along. You may have to come over to this house. Do they want this. Find out what happened when people stop being polite child tammy new things are going to get heated honey. She had her cousin from philadelphia. Staying in the hotel around the corner. Just in case popped up. Could you go back.
Proud Stutter
"cynthia" Discussed on Proud Stutter
"Your stutter. Would you do it? So unfortunately, there's no cure for stuttering, but I will answer your question and say, no, I would not because I am proud of my stutter, but I have not always felt like that I bet if you asked me when I was in middle school, I would have said, yes, but what's good about the research is it has come a long way in identifying the causes of stuttering. So, you know, we do know that it has to do something with genetics, you know, stuttering tends to run in families. So, you know, for example, half of children who stutter are related to someone else who does, that was found in a study. And that brings us to the end of the first episode of proud stutter, Cynthia. Thank you so much. You had amazing questions and I am so excited to be taking this journey with you. Yeah, I learned a lot about young Maya. I thought it was very cute for our relationship. Our growing relationship. And you know, like we said, we would like to hear from you, what are you curious about when it comes to stuttering? Do you yourself have a stutter, does someone you know have a stutter? Yeah, we're just really we really want to know what topics you're interested in. So we can integrate them into.
Daily Pop
"cynthia" Discussed on Daily Pop
"Beautiful top models. It was eleven years ago this weekend. That most of us feasted is on cynthia bailey and now she is saying goodbye to her peach cynthia. What's it like. It's gone talking about this film talking about making that next season i have you know. It's been an incredible journey. And i have to be honest. You guys. i'm happy. But i'm also said at the same time i'm happy to you. Know to venture out and do other things. I absolutely will be on television. I just won't be on the real housewives of atlanta. But i'm also sad that i don't know it's almost like what in the world. How did i do this for eleven years. And when i look back even looking at the intro like actually for the first time want to go back and watch the whole seasons because when you live it when you're part of it it's actually very difficult to watch. Sometimes it's a hard show to do. I feel like i did it. I feel like i did it my way. I made it out of lack the brand. What made you decide to leave. It was time it was time. It was honestly. Tom was a mutual decision. Or was it was in you. What was the decision. Well i have been thinking about it for a while like you know. Just the whole transition like and you. It was analyst family. I knew i didn't want to do it forever. And i felt like ten years is is a good run run so but that said when with me just thinking about it then the whole thing happened with us going on hiatus so they gave me more time to think about in then got really used to not really going back and when they did come back and once they decided to figure out what they wanted to do..
When We Talk About Animals
"cynthia" Discussed on When We Talk About Animals
"I'm very inspired by her ocean. Writing so the edge of the sea and the sea around us were really important. Books to me that i went back to. I read them when i was younger. I went back to them You know before. I started writing this book just to think about you know kind of sometimes you have to get in rachel carson's brain and then i also really. I really loved her book. Sense of wonder and i think it's such an important look it was written for children and arkansas back to you mentioned that rachel carson was one of the children who was lucky enough to be part of that nature studies curriculum. We had this very small era too short era in american public schools where we had nature studies in the schools. And you know with curriculum written by people like julia ellen. Rogers rachel carson was one of the young people who benefited from those books in from curriculum was aldo leopold. I mean he went through nature studies in the iowa public schools in that. Same era that julia ellen. Rogers had created nature study guides or the iowa public schools. And i think that's all so very important and so telling and it's not a story that's well known or a time that we think about a lot because it was it was before world war one and so many things happened after that with you know with science and and wars and and globalism to follow and so we sort of forget that important moment in history and i think there's some some interesting lessons there and when you read the sense of wonder by rachel carson you kind of get a glimpse into that ethnic in that aspiration to help reconnect children especially to the nature around them the nature that remains and there there are wonderful animals that remain that. Include these great marine mollusc of the. See that we can help you know. Take his child by the hand and show her at tide pool and and it's really important piece of the answer to what else us as as a culture now and as a planet i love that takes us full circle back to that at disconnect we were talking about up top and how important it is to find that connection. Once again cynthia burnett thank you so much for joining us. Thank you it has been wonderful to talk with you in. Thank you for reading the book and for your great questions. It was a lot of fun. Thank you to to ryan mcevoy. The yelp broadcast studio and daniel block for their work on this episode when we talk about animals is supported by the law ethics and animals program at yale law school. We would love it if you subscribe to. When we talked about animals on apple podcasts or google casts greatest review and check out our website when we talk about animals dot org. We can find out more about cynthia barnett in her remarkable new book. The sound of the sea. Thanks for listening.
When We Talk About Animals
"cynthia" Discussed on When We Talk About Animals
"I thought that i would listen to shells and see what they had to tell me about the environment and what's happening to the oceans in you seashells to tell that story which to me seemed like a pretty straight for things to do but what happened when they got into the research. I realized that they really said more about humanity and how we treat each other. Welcome to when we talk about animals. A yale university podcast. I'm jennifer scheme. And i'm rebecca morris as kids. We learned that if you place a shell against your ear. It becomes an auditory portal to the ocean. It's a powerful illusion as merged with your ear. Shell creates echo chamber of noises that transports us to breaking waves and sea breezes. Creating a moment of intimacy and wonder between us and the natural world much shows have done throughout human history as our guest. Today cynthia barnett writes in her exquisite new book the sound of the sea seashells and the fate of the oceans from our earliest ancestors human history has been inextricably tied to the per lessened the ribbed the spiralling the speckled and the iridescent calcium carbonate wonders and the unsung animal artists of the ocean that create and habit and leaves them behind as net rights in the sound of the sea. Shells are the legacies of some of the world's most inventive and prolific. Architects molluscs bio mineralisation. The process by which these animals recycle ocean minerals into hard. Protective structures evolved in microorganisms. More than five hundred million years ago which eventually gave rise to the tens of thousands of known melissa species today. These soft bodied animals have quite literally reshaped. The world as barnett writes we walk on a world of shell from line stone up refers to chalk to marble shells made by these animals are the foundation for much of life on earth and their blueprint forever. Changing planet there fossil's even documenting. Mount everest's more humble origins in the seas. Shells are just as fossilized in the course of human history in her book or net takes us on a global journey across millennia from the andes in peru. Where the shell trumpets of shebeen inspired. Aw and fear of three thousand years ago to the great cities of shell of the collusive people in florida yet as arnott documents shells also brought out in reflected humanity's worst impulses from the luxury dies produced with mirek shells by the hands of enslaved peoples to the role of cowry shells in the atlantic slave. Trade the harbingers of the fate of our seas and the anthropoid seen with mollis populations around the world decimated by an onslaught of plastics chemicals climate impacts and overharvesting and from iridescent shells of giant clams. The medicinal secretions of cone snails. They may hold the key to our salvation. Cynthia barnett is an award. Winning author and journalist who has reported on water and climate change around the world. Her writing has appeared in the new york times the atlantic orion and many other publications. She is an environmental journalist in residence at the university of florida college of journalism and communication. And we are thrilled to get the speaker today. Cynthia barnett welcome..
Break The Rules
"cynthia" Discussed on Break The Rules
"Talk quieting noise and you'd in fitness world. Today's super honored have cindy thorough in the house. Who is globally recognized expert. Nutrition intermittent fasting as well as a highly sought after speaker with a viral. Ted's are nco founder of everyday wellness project and. She's been a nurse practitioner for twenty plus years as well has spoken at tadic's twice especially on the topic that we're talking about today which is intermittent fasting. Cynthia thanks for coming on. I know this is a dicey topic out there and the health food and fitness world last intermittent housing. It's become more popularized especially the past years but if you could start us off what you do in the work you're doing in the world tells a little bit about who you are in. What brought you to this today. Yeah so i was a second degree nursing student and You know i. I got of college. Got into law. School decided not go. That route somehow dove into taking pre med classes and felt really compelled to work in the healthcare industry and thought that given my options you know early twenties. I decided that. I wanted to have really wanted to have better balance than what i saw with my mom Who is a was a nursing executive and worked twenty four seven. I didn't want that for my own children so becoming a nurse. Practitioner was the perfect. Kind of caveat is still had plenty. Tani started as an er nurse in inner city. Baltimore pivoted into cardiology as an mp did that for sixteen years total adrenaline junkie. I loved love. I still love. I love everything about the heart. But i grew tired of just writing prescriptions and a lot of western medicines perspective and. Let me be clear. We absolutely need western medicine. it otherwise. There are a lot of people that wouldn't make it through traumas and surgeries and A lot of the cutting edge technologies. That are out there. But i think we're really missing the boat when it comes to prevention and chronic disease management ways because we are so focused on hill management for symptoms instead of talking to people about lifestyle choices and so Not to belabor the point..
WIBC 93.1FM
"cynthia" Discussed on WIBC 93.1FM
"Cynthia's Hallmark open all weekend fresh cut flowers, too. While they last at 116th and Alison Bill Road, 116th and Brook School Road, 96 Lantern Road and Fissures and in Greenfield. Pat Sullivan here for Sullivan Hardware and Garden and Alison Gill, Home and Garden By Sullivan Mother's Day weekend We are They were your headquarters, Alison Gill and Keystone. Have gift shop. So if a hanging basket is not in the market for her mom, maybe something from the gift shop Garden Art is very popular Art polls, wind spinners. Um, a bust of David. They could put a pot in We have those We do not the whole Davey. Not the okay, just, uh, top that the bust I'll bust right bust? Yeah. Don't look at me like that, honey. Thank you so much talking. All right. So, but hanging baskets, we got it all. We mean, we're loaded. And if you're after experiences, how about a cooking class for a mom? You know, Mom, Dad, kids come to Sally's Grill for a cooking class will be a great event. And maybe you could get through. Ah, meal without yelling at each other kind of different, right? So we've got that so we can we can do the experience. We could you could Mother's Day brunch tomorrow. No reservations necessary. So I'm really sure how many people gonna show up so that could be a problem, But Who knows? All right? I'm just saying, Get on over here to Sally's Grill and the Keystone Story. You could grab a beer. If you hate shopping. It causes anxiety glass of wine beer and do a little shopping for Mom. So stop by Sullivan Hardware in Garden once it's 71st in Keystone Ninth And Don't forget Rich up in Cicero, Indiana, Alison Gill home and Garden by Sullivan and fissures and buy those tickets for the cooking.
Jay Anxious Podcast
"cynthia" Discussed on Jay Anxious Podcast
"Welcome back. Everybody welcome back. Welcome back everybody for episode. Twenty five of the j. anxious podcast a very special guest here with us today. She is the ceo and founder of the everyday wellness project nurse. Practitioner globally recognized expert in intermittent fasting and nutritional health and international speaker. She has over twenty years experience in health and wellness and is a two-time ted speaker. Her second talk. Intermittent fasting. a transformative. Technique has over eight million views since he has been feature on. Abc fox five ktla cw and in medium and entrepreneur in august twenty twenty. Cynthia was listed as yahu finance as one of the twenty one founders. Changing the way we do business she also. She's also the podcast hosts of everyday wellness which was listed as a twenty podcasts. That will help you grow in twenty twenty by entrepreneur magazine and business insider twenty-one podcast expand your mind and twenty twenty one cynthia's mission is to educate women on the benefits of intermittent fasting an overall holistic health and wellness. So they feel empowered to live there. Optimal lives everyone. Welcome to the show. Cynthia thorough cynthia. Thank you so much for being on. I appreciate it very much. Yeah no. I've been excited to connect with you. Yeah great so. I've been following you for quite some time before the podcast. You're talking about how you said You know on instagram and everything. Your audiences eighty percent female and twenty percent male and on twitter. it's a little bit flipped. It's more men than women. Just because like. I agree with what you said that there's probably more men than women on twitter. But i i like your content. Because i think you're speaking to a bigger a bigger thing that's in this country and maybe unfortunately Exporting itself to the world and that is obesity something that i struggled with for twenty plus years. When did you decide as nurse practitioner. That there's really something negative going on here with obesity in this country and in the world. And that i could be somebody to do something about that question. You know. I technically have been an mp for twenty years and when i became a parent view the world so much differently you know you. You are becoming more thoughtful caring compassionate human being as we all should be when we become parents because we recognize that someone is everyone's child and my oldest son actually had life threatening food allergies and that drove us down a rabbit hole of trying to evaluate his symptoms and find answers and he just walking into the room and making faces. It may now. He's fifteen taller than me. And so that really started a shift for me you know. I had been working in cardiology as an. I did not for sixteen years and i was becoming increasingly disillusioned and my son's jeremy has a journey really opened my eyes to the possibility that it all starts with food. You know everything about our health starts with food and so i started a doctoral program thinking that was going to scratch the edge if you will and then. I did a wellness coaching program..
The Non-Prophets
"cynthia" Discussed on The Non-Prophets
"Or what role are you going to assume in the relationship And and i know that Traditionally of these Hunt like cooking and cleaning taking care of children. You u. knows considered a woman's role. However we can see that you know those roles are starting to you know Let's yeah yeah but but it but it does vary a wear. Those roles are flexing. As you mentioned. Jenna however you know to your point ex we we still see a very high a rate of of of women that actually still assume these particular roles and i. I suppose that. I'm thinking to myself like if something like that as the law will come into play in america as in not only that you have to support your spouse if you all split you know for whatever reason And or and they're in the children you still got to pay them for the work that they did if he were the sole person and that is the role that they actually acquiesce to and if that is the case i wonder if that would change the dynamic as far as what spouse does what inside the inside the home like oh. I'm not paying you so i'm going to help with this cooking. Shout rear in and you've got to come out here and cut the grass about that you know. I got a nice auto. Push lawnmower all you do is just hold the handle image of walks. You thank but then again. Cynthia that would require people actually. I don't know that we have a problem in this country with people communicating.
The Non-Prophets
"cynthia" Discussed on The Non-Prophets
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KQED Radio
"cynthia" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Cynthia Cox, vice president of the foundation's Affordable Care Act program has been looking into who is being left behind. They tend to be more likely to be Hispanic. More likely to be Spanish, speaking more likely to work in fields like construction or arts or entertainment, where there often isn't health coverage offered. And they also tend to be younger adults to reach those people. The Biden administration plans to spend $50 million on marketing this time around during the three month enrollment period. Peter Lee, who heads California's state run exchange, says marketing works. The state spends tens of millions of dollars a year to get people to sign up. We're more people enrolled that we've ever had before. That's what you want in the middle of pandemic. In addition, Lee says, having more people enrolled, has in fact lowered costs for consumers. I'm nervous, awful for marketplace. Another move by the new administration, updating housing rules to protect people from being discriminated against because they're lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender marketplaces. Samantha Fields has that one. For the first time, LGBT Q. People are now protected from housing discrimination under federal law. This is a very big deal. Jake Lillian is an attorney with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. We've been waiting a long time for the day when someone could contact HUD. And say, I've been the victim of housing discrimination because I'm gay or because I'm Trans now they can, Lillian says, and have their claim taken seriously. And there is a hope that housing providers will now know that they cannot get away with blatant discrimination, whether they're renting or selling a home. To Rita Gruber get the center for American Progress says the protections go beyond that to the Fair Housing Act also prohibits mortgaged in lending discrimination for housing. It prohibits shelter discrimination. Some states already prohibited housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. 21 did not. And they know that LGBTQ people are less likely to own homes are more likely to experience homelessness and face significant levels of discrimination in housing. Transgender people in particular, which is why HUD's moved to extend fair housing protections is so significant grew, Berg says. At the last administration really demonstrated how easily a anti LGBT Q government can person protections, which is why she'd also like to see Congress passed the Equality Act and enshrine those protections into law permanently. I'm Samantha Fields for marketplace. Markets were closed on this federal holiday. So a different look at the markets. Retail details when we do the numbers When it comes to smartphones and other smart devices. Sure, as the ubiquitous branding tells.
90.3 KAZU
"cynthia" Discussed on 90.3 KAZU
"Cynthia Cox, vice president of the foundation's Affordable Care Act program has been looking into who is being left behind. They tend to be more likely to be Hispanic. More likely to be Spanish, speaking more likely to work in fields like construction or arts or entertainment, where there often isn't health coverage offered. And they also tend to be younger adults to reach those people. The Biden administration plans to spend $50 million on marketing this time around during the three month enrollment period. Peter Lee, who heads California's state run exchange, says marketing works. The state spends tens of millions of dollars a year to get people to sign up where more people enrolled that we've ever had before. That's what you want in the little pandemic. In addition, Lisa's having more people enrolled, has in fact lowered costs for consumers. I'm nervous, awful for marketplace. Another move by the new administration, updating housing rules to protect people from being discriminated against because they're lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender marketplaces. Samantha Fields has that one. For the first time, LGBT Q. People are now protected from housing discrimination under federal law. This is a very big deal. Jake Lillian is an attorney with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. We've been waiting a long time for the day when someone could contact HUD. And say, I've been the victim of housing discrimination because I'm gay or because I'm Trans now they can, Lillian says, and have their claim taken seriously. And there is a hope that housing providers will now know that they cannot get away with blatant discrimination. Whether they're renting or selling a home. Cherita Gruber get the center for American Progress says the protections go beyond that to the Fair Housing Act also prohibits mortgaged in lending discrimination for housing. It prohibits shelter discrimination. Some states already prohibited housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. But 21 did not. And they know that LGBTQ people are less likely to own homes are more likely to experience homelessness and face significant levels of discrimination in housing. Transgender people in particular, which is why HUD's moved to extend fair housing protections is so significant grew, Berg says. But the last administration really demonstrated how easily a anti LGBT Q government can person protections, which is why she'd also like to see Congress passed the Equality Act and enshrine those protections into law permanently. I'm Samantha Fields for marketplace. Markets were closed on this federal holiday. So a different look at the markets. Retail details when we do the numbers When it comes to smart phones and other smart devices. Sure, as the ubiquitous branding tells us, there's an app for that. But now they're.
Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
"cynthia" Discussed on Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
"Okay so this is much overdue. But the timing is perfect because ranson randomness is now professional troublemakers. And who better. Who better to have on as he sent professional troublemaker. And the woman who has every award known to man like every award. And i'll here. Cynthia doesn't belong in any boxes multi hyphen it and even her hair makes trouble. I mean sometimes it does her hair because sometimes it's purple sometimes. It's green sometime pink any given day. I'm always like i wonder what coleman hair cynthia guy you can't. You can't bet on it so welcome troublemakers. But thank you. Thank you my main booze. Cynthia is one of my loves. I love you. I love her so much and she said yes. Of course we've definitely taken our time to do. this is taking. Oh my gosh. So yes so excited to have you on. Thank you for having me so. My first question is yes. What did you wanna be when you were growing up <hes>. I wanted to be a singer and actress and then at some point i changed that to a spinal surgeon and then i went back to being singer and actress. Okay now talk about there. How did you go from singer actress who wants to be a spinal surgeon. Well i had this one year in high school. I call the secondary school where i was like obsessed with biology and was really good at like. I'm one of those kids. That could really have gone either way. I could have done the biology of it. All and science of it. All if i really liked buckled down and when i was like truly truly applied i was like causing with flying colors and i was doing that anyway but i really like doing re doing well and then i was like no. I realized that that was me trying to strangely enough trying to fit in with everybody else because the people in my class they were super intelligent lawyer wanting to be lawyers. Nurses doctors ovet saw. Which has and i was like. Well i wanna be a part of that. Many people wanted to be performed. Only there was only really me. And i was like well. I could do this spinal surgery so you're another failed. Dr welcome to the club like there's only of us. Yeah we're like we could have actually do actually is. We could have actually. Let's be clear. I probably could not have. Let's actually terrible but like wasn't it matt. Set you a terrible at. I mean i was okay. I was probably buried math than i was. At st. oh chemistry was strolling caroline. Chemistry was a struggle for most people. Like you know doing. I liked chemistry though. But biology really my bag fizz like like. I can't even remember the name of this other science physics. Physics the worst. yes today. I actually loved maths. I love maths. Yeah i was. I was really good at it. I was good at algebra trigonometry. Calculus count me out. But i don't think trigonometry is necessary for anybody it's ridiculous. Is algebra really necessary. Not really but it's fun to do software ex. Yeah yes. I can do that all day. No so you went okay. So what was five year old. Cynthia like five year old. Cynthia was bubbly chatty would sing. Everything probably hummed when she ate nosy. Reno's i wanted to know about everything. I wanted to be in everyone's business. I wanted to hear what everyone was talking about. I wanted to see everyone was doing <hes>. Yeah that was that was her she was i was i was fun. Like i'm not shy of a show. Anything ever fabio le vian five. You would have been friends. i think. Thirty five year old. Lovey and five year old. Cynthia probably would have gotten into trouble a lot. But for nothing other than talking t- much facts actual facts and talking and really smart so you couldn't get checkup 'cause you're right. It's one of the two kids that like are always talking and when you have the conversation they do something that makes you laugh. Even you're supposed to get them into trouble and they do something silly and they're both really cute and small so you kind of like minds go back to class just is fine. Bet is exactly. Where did you grow up. I grew up in so i went to south london school in south west london. And that's where. I grew up and then we moved when i was about fifteen to east london and i. That's where i was until i was about. Twenty four twenty five. Yeah so then. In high school you went back to the performing arts of at all. Yes i did. You have a nigerian mom idea. How did she handle it. Was she cool. was she supportive. What was she like. I want you to be a doctor. She was really supportive because she's a bit of a rebel herself she <hes>. She was when she. She came over to london. I won't say twenty four. She came to london on her own. She came with one of her sisters but they basically went. She has this whole thing and she kept wanting to have thing as well and she was sent here to do one thing and did something totally different because she wanted to. She's like i don't want to do this. Thing is being asked of me. I know i wouldn't want to do this. And i think that because she was bought here a sent here to do something else. That didn't that wasn't a passion she. I don't think she ever wanted to inflict on me the same thing so she just wanted me to do what i wanted to do. But do it really well