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Safeguarding Your Privacy on Social Media: A Comprehensive Guide
"In an age where social media has become an integral part of our lives, it is crucial to prioritize protecting our privacy online. This blog aims to provide a comprehensive guide on safeguarding your privacy on social media platforms. By implementing these practices, you can enjoy the benefits of social media while minimizing potential risks. 1. Strong and unique passwords. Start by creating strong, unique passwords for your social media accounts. Avoid using easily guessable information such as your name, birthdate, or common phrases. Utilize a combination of letters, numbers, and special characters. Consider using a password manager to store and generate complex passwords securely. 2. Adjust privacy settings. Familiarize yourself with the privacy settings of each social media platform you use. These settings allow you to control who can see your posts, personal information, and contact details. Customize these settings according to your comfort level, ensuring you balance sharing with friends and maintaining privacy. 3. Be mindful of sharing personal information. Exercise caution when sharing personal information on social media. Avoid posting sensitive details such as your home address, phone number, or financial information. Be aware that even seemingly harmless information like your pet's name or mother's maiden name can be used by hackers to gain unauthorized access to your accounts. 4. Think before you post. Before posting anything on social media, consider its potential impact on your privacy. Once something is shared online, it can be challenging to erase it completely. Be mindful of the content you share, ensuring it aligns with your desired level of privacy. 5. Regularly review and update privacy settings. Social media platforms frequently update their privacy settings and policies. Stay informed about these changes and regularly review and update your privacy settings accordingly. This will help you maintain control over who can access your personal information. 6. Enable two -factor authentication. 2FA, enable two -factor authentication whenever possible. This adds an extra layer of security to your social media accounts by requiring a second verification step, such as a unique code sent to your mobile device, in addition to your password. 7. Be cautious of third -party apps. Be cautious when granting permissions to third -party applications that request access to your social media accounts. Before granting access, carefully review the requested permissions and ensure they align with the app's intended functionality. 8. Regularly monitor your accounts. Regularly monitor your social media accounts for any suspicious activities or unauthorized access attempts. Report any potential security breaches immediately to the platform's support team. 9. Use a VPN. A VPN, virtual private network, encrypts your internet traffic and routes it through a server in another location. This makes it more difficult for anyone to track your online activity. 10. Be aware of your surroundings. If you're using a public computer, be careful about what information you access. Ensure you log out of your accounts and clear your browser history before leaving. Conclusion. Protecting your privacy on social media requires a proactive approach and staying informed about the latest security practices. By implementing the tips provided in this blog, you can enjoy a safer and more secure online social experience while safeguarding your personal information from potential threats. Stay vigilant, be mindful of what you share, and take control of your online privacy.
Anything is Possible
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The Breakdown
A highlight from Could Oil and a Gov't Shutdown Screw Up Powell's Plans?
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Friday, September 22nd, and today we are talking oil, macro, everything that could throw the economy off. But before we get to that, 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 at the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. All right, friends, well, we are sort of continuing the macro story today that we picked up around Powell and the FOMC this week. And one of the questions that Powell was asked was about risks that threatened to knock the economy off course. Two that he mentioned that we're going to spend a little time on today include oil prices and a potential government shutdown. Let's start with oil first. The price of crude oil has steadily increased over the past four months. From a low of around $70 in June, oil reached almost $90 a barrel for the US -based WTI benchmark contract and $95 per barrel and $95 per barrel for international Brent crude earlier this week. The price increase for crude has driven US gas prices back above $3 .80 per gallon, the highest level since last October. Overall, gas prices have ramped up by 20 % since the beginning of the year, according to AAA. Now, there are a number of factors all contributing to steadily increasing oil prices since the June lows. The first is OPEC+. The economic group of oil producing nations led by Saudi Arabia and Russia have recently curbed output. Production cuts, which were agreed to late last year, have been gradually implemented over the past six months. In July, Saudi Arabia voluntarily cut an additional 1 million barrels per day from its production quota, about 10 % of its previous output. Existing production cuts across OPEC have already been extended into next year and analysts expect Saudi Arabia to extend their voluntary cuts until March. On Thursday, Russia further constrained supply by banning the export of diesel and petrol. Russia is one of the world's largest suppliers of diesel alongside their status as producing around 12 % of the global supply of crude oil. The International Energy Agency said last year that Russian refineries produce, quote, roughly double the diesel needed to satisfy domestic demand and typically export half their annual production. Analyst opinions focused on the simplest explanation for the ban, retaliation for sanctions. Henning Gloestien of the Eurasia Group said, Russia wants to inflict pain on Europe and the U .S. and it looks like they're now repeating the playbook from gas and the oil market ahead of the winter months. They're showing that they're not finished using their power over energy markets. The Kremlin said the ban was temporary and aimed at addressing rising energy prices in domestic markets. However, they gave no timeline on when the ban might be lifted. U .S. and European policymakers have largely banned the importation of Russian refined fuel since February, which has required Russian supply to be routed through third party regions including Turkey, North Africa and Latin America. Now, OPEC cuts over the past year were predicated on a weakening demand profile heading into this year. At the time they were announced, recessions were expected across Europe and the U .S. China was an open question with the potential of reopening pushed back in the midst of additional pandemic waves. But since then, the European economy is sputtering along, albeit with dismal manufacturing data out of Germany. The sanctioning of Russian supply has caused European demand to be displaced to other regions with refining capacity, largely India and the Middle East. In the U .S., recession has been continuously pushed off into the future and oil demand is now back at all time highs with no signs of slowing. Although the Chinese economy has hit some turbulence recently, oil demand remains robust. Analysts expect China's oil demand to remain high as Beijing secures strategically important resources. What's more, analysts expect China's oil demand to remain high as Beijing secures strategically important resources in part to mitigate geopolitical risks as well as to shore up its manufacturing and transportation industries. So with oil prices spiking, many are wondering whether the White House will once again intervene in markets using the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Between November 2021 and September of last year, the White House authorized a number of SPR releases. The final policy saw one million barrels per day provided into the market over six months. A small amount of oil was restocked earlier this year, but the SPR still sits at a little over half its pre -pandemic level. Earlier this week, a headline circulated proclaiming that quote, Biden says depleting SPR is on the table. This was later found to be a hoax with no legitimate source, but it demonstrates how difficult high oil prices could be for the U .S. economy heading into election season. To wit, many saw the SPR release as a political decision rather than an economic decision heading into the 2022 midterms. In the private sector, U .S. oil inventories have recently hit 40 -year lows of 46 -day supply, well below the longer -term average of 65 days. And while August's inflation reports already showed a small uptick due to oil -related prices, the effect is expected to be more profound across this month. Dario Perkins, an economist at T .S. Lombard said, That said, it is important to keep these recent inflationary developments in context. We are not yet in danger of undoing 12 months of solid disinflationary progress, not even close. Others suggested that high oil prices would have a greater impact on growth rather than inflation. Maya Bhandari, head of multi -asset at BNP Paribas Asset Management said, It really impacts the growth side of the Goldilocks equation rather than the inflation side of things over the long term. Theory is that sustained high oil prices begin to eat into disposable income for households alongside higher costs of production for manufacturing and logistics. These combine to reduce growth and potentially tip the economy into recession. Overall, this situation in the oil markets has, to some, many parallels to the liquid natural gas spike in the winter of 2022. Prices in some markets rose more than tenfold, European energy companies scrambled to secure supply at any cost, and multiple firms went bankrupt due to the volatility in markets. This week, Bloomberg reported that the trading arm of French supplier Total Energies has played a major role in bidding up the price of U .S.-based oil. Their source claimed that the firm is paying a premium for physical U .S. barrels, pushing the spread against futures to levels not seen since last November. With all of that said, there are some signs that the oil market is beginning to cool off. On Thursday, Brent crude futures fell to $92 per barrel, which represented the third straight day of price declines, which is the longest streak in almost a month. Warren Patterson, head of Commodity Strategy at ING, said the Fed's hawkish messaging has quote, put some pressure on risk assets, including oil. The dollar index has risen by 0 .8 % since Chair Powell left the podium, a large enough move to weigh on asset markets. Patterson said he still expects Brent crude to move above the $100 mark in the near term, but that he doesn't anticipate the move will be sustainable. So that is the view on oil overall. The thing that I am definitely going to be watching more than anything else is the political dimension of this. We are now entering the period where everything, even more than usual, is going to be completely wrapped up in what it means for the election season. If prices at the pump keep trending up, it seems very likely that the Biden administration will be willing to do what it takes, including SPR releases, to get those prices down. But that's just something we're going to have to keep an eye on. Now what about that other factor that Powell mentioned? Well yes, indeed, my friends, the US government is once again hurtling towards a shutdown after efforts to pass a short term spending bill were scuttled on the House floor on Thursday. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy attempted to marshal Republicans to vote through a package to keep the government funded past the end of September. Closed door negotiations continued late into Wednesday night, but were apparently unconvincing. The bill currently being considered is the $886 billion Defense Appropriations Act. The bill was stifled in the House after five GOP representatives refused to allow debate to begin by voting against a preliminary procedural rule. Democrats also voted against the measure and appeared to taunt Republicans apparently reveling in seeing the GOP's slim majority descend into chaos. Among the Republican dissenters was Marjorie Taylor Greene, who opposed the inclusion of $300 million in funding to the Ukrainian war effort. On Thursday, Politico reported that Pentagon sources have said Ukrainian operations have been exempted from any shutdown, making that part of the dispute rather moot. McCarthy sent House members home on Thursday night to return to Washington on Tuesday. He told reporters after the failed vote, quote, two people flipped, so I got to figure out how to fix that. That wasn't the impression they had given us. Now, this was McCarthy's third attempt at bringing the bill to the House floor. The current proposal on the table is a 31 -day stopgap funding mechanism to forestall a shutdown to begin next weekend. McCarthy remarked on the change in tone in Congress among that extreme element of the Republican Party, stating that, quote, this is a whole new concept of individuals that just want to burn the whole place down. Now, even if a 31 -day stopgap is passed in the House, it seems unlikely to make its way through the Democrat -controlled Senate. The bill includes a 30 percent temporary cut to domestic agencies and immigration law changes, neither of which are likely to get the seal of approval from Dems. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said instead of decreasing the chance of a shutdown, Speaker McCarthy is actually increasing it by wasting time on extremist proposals that cannot become law in the Senate. House Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries remarked that the situation was playing out as a, quote, Republican civil war. Now, if it comes to pass, this would be the 11th government shutdown since 1980. The logic is that hard -line positions that don't enjoy support in the Congress can be put directly to the American people by shutting down the government and drawing attention to the impasse. Republican Ralph Norman said last week that, quote, we're going to have a shutdown. We believe in what we're doing. The jury will be the country. Still, the record on government shutdowns doesn't really support that strategy. Not one of the 10 previous shutdowns resulted in the dissenting group extracting concessions. Typically, the American people quickly turn on the party they view as blocking access to government services over a petty squabble. Alex Conant, a Republican strategist, said, This is such a dumb fight because there's no principle that we're standing on here. It's just bad tactics. While the dispute is nominally over excessive government spending, with Republican dissenters pushing for funding to be reduced back to 2022 levels, the underlying problem is, of course, the level of discord within the Republican Party. McCarthy was voted in as House Speaker after a record 15 attempts. The process took four days and frequently descended into a farce. This was only the second time in the post -Civil War era that a House Speaker had failed to be elected on the first attempt. Conant noted the terrible optics of a government shutdown of the Republicans' own making heading into election season, stating that, quote, Biden didn't win because of his political skills and soaring oratory. He won because Republicans blew themselves up with Trump. I'm afraid we're seeing history repeat itself, with the GOP once again helping Biden by shooting themselves in the foot. Of course, never one to shy away from controversy, Trump fanned the flames on Wednesday, posting that, quote, Republicans in Congress can and must defund all aspects of Crooked Joe Biden's weaponized government that refuses to close the border and treats half the country as enemies of the state. He added that, quote, This is also the last chance to defund these political prosecutions against me and other patriots. They failed on the debt limit they must not fail now. Use the power of the person to defend the country. Now, zooming out and trying to get away from the politics of the situation, which obviously is not the focus of this show. The reason that this was brought up at last week's FOMC press conference is that a government shutdown would halt the publication of government data. This would include employment, inflation and growth statistics, which are currently playing a key role in guiding Fed policy. Now, given how much the Fed has said over and over again, their policy is going to be driven by data, presumably not having access to that data would be a fairly big deal. Yet in spite of that, Powell tried to put on a brave face, saying, If there is a government shutdown and it lasts through the next meeting, then it's possible we wouldn't be getting some of the data that we would ordinarily get and we would just have to deal with that. Now, by way of some history, the longest ever government shutdown lasted 35 days. The dispute was around funding for the border wall and quickly turned public sentiment against the Trump administration. Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate, but the administration failed to convince their own party to fund the wall. At the time, Democrat Senator Jon Tester called it the most stupid shutdown I have ever seen in my life. However, if this week's display is anything to go by, that 2019 shutdown could soon have some competition for that title. Now, what does this all have to do with the crypto sphere? Well, I think in many ways these are just exemplary of the state of politics in general. And given that, perhaps it's not surprising that former Senator Pat Toomey is not optimistic about the chances of crypto legislation being passed during this Congress. Just prior to retiring from Congress at the beginning of the year, Toomey introduced his own crypto bill, which focused on stablecoin regulations. Now, the House currently has two major crypto bills eligible to be brought for a vote. One would establish a stablecoin framework while the other introduces more broad crypto regulations. While speaking at a Georgetown Law Seminar on Thursday, however, Toomey said, I don't see a path forward in the Senate regardless of how the vote goes in the House. He added that of the two, he sees the stablecoin legislation as having the best shot. The sticking point will likely be Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown. While Brown has been outspoken about the risks of crypto and the need to bring the industry to heel, he has so far remained extremely quiet on exactly what form of legislation would meet his approval. And of course, any crypto legislation would need the support of Democratic senators to pass a vote to become law. Still, during an interview on Thursday, Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad said that she thinks that Brown's lack of commitment to a legislative position might actually be a good thing. Shirzad said, Now, last week, Brown wrote a letter to head regulators at multiple agencies urging them to use their existing powers to crack down on non -compliant crypto firms. This of course seems to be the clear intention, at least at the SEC. On Tuesday, the head of that agency's crypto assets and cyber unit, David Hirsch, warned that more enforcement actions would be coming against crypto intermediaries, including DeFi protocols. Still, Toomey, who serves now as an advisor to Coinbase, views stablecoin legislation as the solvable problem. At the moment, Democrats are pushing for the Fed to serve a central role in regulating issuers rather than granting oversight power to state regulators. This preference is believed to be driven by the White House. Toomey said, He thinks that senior Democrats will get on board once the White House is satisfied with the stablecoin proposal. Although that proposal might have to wait until after the election, as Toomey said in the next Congress, I think it's quite possible to get something done.
Anything is Possible
Fresh update on "k. grant" discussed on Anything is Possible
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Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Proposal For Celo To Launch On Polygon CDK
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Friday September 22nd, 2023. Polygon proposes for Celo to build on Polygon CDK, Uniswap wallet integrates MEV blocker, Quintus taking V2 goes live, and a vote goes live to deploy Aave V3 on Polygon ZK EVM. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum on Gitcoin Grants is now live, if you'd like to support this podcast please consider contributing by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Polygon co -founder Sandeep Neewa published a proposal seeking for the Celo ecosystem to consider the deployment of its Layer 2 solution as a ZK power chain using Polygon CDK. The transition would provide Celo with EVM equivalent compatibility, enhanced security through ZK proofs, low -cost transaction fees, and interoperability with other ZK power chains. Neewa also offered implementation partners to support CeloCore developers in deploying a CDK -based chain. The proposal comes after Celo Labs released its own proposal to transform its Layer 1 network into a Layer 2 based on the OP stack with EigenDA for data availability. Celo is an EVM -compatible Layer 1 chain focused on payment infrastructure. Uniswap Wallet integrated swap protection as a default feature on all Ethereum mainnet transactions. Swap protection shields users from frontrunning and sandwich attacks. The added protection layer may result in a slightly higher auto -slippage for certain swaps to help increase the chances of a successful transaction. The swap protection feature is powered through the MEV blocker RPC endpoint from Calprotocol. MEV blocker directs user transactions to a private mempool and even refunds users a portion of MEV generated from their transactions. Swap protection is only available in the Uniswap Wallet mobile app. However, users can add the RPC endpoint to their desktop wallet. Users can disable the feature if desired. Quenta launched Staking V2, an upgrade to a new set of smart contracts that introduce a checkpoint system for tracking staked balances. The upgrade introduces the ability to transfer escrow entries, a two -week cooldown for unstaking, support for smart contract -based staking, early vesting, and automated reward compounding. Quenta V1 stakers are required to manually migrate their positions to the new V2 contracts in order to continue receiving rewards. Only Quenta staked in the V2 contracts will count towards style voting power. Quenta is an optimism native perpetual DEX built on synthetics. And lastly, a snapshot proposal to deploy Aave V3 on Polygon CK EVM is now open for voting. The initial deployment seeks to support Raped Ether, Raped Matic, and USDC as collateral for borrowing USDC. The deployment aims to expand Aave's presence across Layer 2 networks. Polygon CK EVM is an EVM equivalent ZK rollup with just over $18 million in total value locked. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you on Monday.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Fresh update on "k. grant" discussed on Bloomberg Businessweek
"And you've got a man who steps in FDR and says if can't democracy fix this people are going to give up on democracy and so this is one last chance for democracy to relieve this suffering and give people hope and that's what carried him into office the ties between capitalism democracy like it's tortured it's important right it's actually so simple as FDR saw it and I didn't see it this way until I read speeches of his when he signed the the bill creating the SEC he said wait say it again the bill creating the SEC yeah an institution should we take for granted yeah well and we take the FDIC for granted that didn't exist before Roosevelt we have lived our entire lives hello regional banking crisis right yes exactly so he saw that a healthy democracy required well regulated markets that seemed fair now he believed that if the average American didn't feel he could get a fair shake in the economy he would not support the democracy and so to him the two were completely wedded and and so if I say a lot of people are saying you know what democracy is on the ballot in 2024 I'm saying yeah financial regulation is on the ballot in 2024 too because they are inextricably linked the fairness of the economy and the eyes of the average American is what sustains support for this democratic experiment and Roosevelt saw that almost break there's a there's a anecdote which I love it's perhaps apocryphal but anyway a visitor the White House right after Roosevelt was sworn in at the depths of the depression right said well you know if you can cure this depression Mr. President you'll be our greatest president but if you fail you'll be our worst president and Roosevelt corrected and he said no if I fail I'll be our last president to perspective the of the people at the time it was that desperate. That's journalist and author Diana B. Henriquez. Her latest book is out now. It's called Taming the Street the old guard the New Deal and FDR's fight to regulate American capitalism. You're listening to Bloomberg Businessweek we just talked regulation on Wall Street well coming up next we'll turn to another hot button policy issue controlling our southern border. Chef John Fraser discusses what immigration flows mean for America's hospitality labor force. This is Bloomberg. Access a vast selection of global fixed income securities at Interactive Brokers Bond Marketplace. Search their deep availability of over 1 million bonds globally. IBKR has no markups or built -in spreads and low fully transparent commissions on bonds. AKR displays the highest bids and lowest offers received from the electronic venues they access. In addition, clients can interact with each other by placing bids and offers online to execute their trades. Cash bonds. Bloomberg Radio. On demand and in your podcast feed. On the latest edition of the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast, former St. Louis Fed President Jim Bullard. The committee left the additional rate hike this year in that plot. I think that may be a good thing to do as insurance to make sure that core inflation especially continues to come down
Coronavirus
A highlight from Proposal For Celo To Launch On Polygon CDK
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Friday September 22nd, 2023. Polygon proposes for Celo to build on Polygon CDK, Uniswap wallet integrates MEV blocker, Quintus taking V2 goes live, and a vote goes live to deploy Aave V3 on Polygon ZK EVM. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum on Gitcoin Grants is now live, if you'd like to support this podcast please consider contributing by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Polygon co -founder Sandeep Neewa published a proposal seeking for the Celo ecosystem to consider the deployment of its Layer 2 solution as a ZK power chain using Polygon CDK. The transition would provide Celo with EVM equivalent compatibility, enhanced security through ZK proofs, low -cost transaction fees, and interoperability with other ZK power chains. Neewa also offered implementation partners to support CeloCore developers in deploying a CDK -based chain. The proposal comes after Celo Labs released its own proposal to transform its Layer 1 network into a Layer 2 based on the OP stack with EigenDA for data availability. Celo is an EVM -compatible Layer 1 chain focused on payment infrastructure. Uniswap Wallet integrated swap protection as a default feature on all Ethereum mainnet transactions. Swap protection shields users from frontrunning and sandwich attacks. The added protection layer may result in a slightly higher auto -slippage for certain swaps to help increase the chances of a successful transaction. The swap protection feature is powered through the MEV blocker RPC endpoint from Calprotocol. MEV blocker directs user transactions to a private mempool and even refunds users a portion of MEV generated from their transactions. Swap protection is only available in the Uniswap Wallet mobile app. However, users can add the RPC endpoint to their desktop wallet. Users can disable the feature if desired. Quenta launched Staking V2, an upgrade to a new set of smart contracts that introduce a checkpoint system for tracking staked balances. The upgrade introduces the ability to transfer escrow entries, a two -week cooldown for unstaking, support for smart contract -based staking, early vesting, and automated reward compounding. Quenta V1 stakers are required to manually migrate their positions to the new V2 contracts in order to continue receiving rewards. Only Quenta staked in the V2 contracts will count towards style voting power. Quenta is an optimism native perpetual DEX built on synthetics. And lastly, a snapshot proposal to deploy Aave V3 on Polygon CK EVM is now open for voting. The initial deployment seeks to support Raped Ether, Raped Matic, and USDC as collateral for borrowing USDC. The deployment aims to expand Aave's presence across Layer 2 networks. Polygon CK EVM is an EVM equivalent ZK rollup with just over $18 million in total value locked. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you on Monday.
Flight of ideas
Fresh update on "k. grant" discussed on Flight of ideas
"In an age where social media has become an integral part of our lives, it is crucial to prioritize protecting our privacy online. This blog aims to provide a comprehensive guide on safeguarding your privacy on social media platforms. By implementing these practices, you can enjoy the benefits of social media while minimizing potential risks. 1. Strong and unique passwords. Start by creating strong, unique passwords for your social media accounts. Avoid using easily guessable information such as your name, birthdate, or common phrases. Utilize a combination of letters, numbers, and special characters. Consider using a password manager to store and generate complex passwords securely. 2. Adjust privacy settings. Familiarize yourself with the privacy settings of each social media platform you use. These settings allow you to control who can see your posts, personal information, and contact details. Customize these settings according to your comfort level, ensuring you balance sharing with friends and maintaining privacy. 3. Be mindful of sharing personal information. Exercise caution when sharing personal information on social media. Avoid posting sensitive details such as your home address, phone number, or financial information. Be aware that even seemingly harmless information like your pet's name or mother's maiden name can be used by hackers to gain unauthorized access to your accounts. 4. Think before you post. Before posting anything on social media, consider its potential impact on your privacy. Once something is shared online, it can be challenging to erase it completely. Be mindful of the content you share, ensuring it aligns with your desired level of privacy. 5. Regularly review and update privacy settings. Social media platforms frequently update their privacy settings and policies. Stay informed about these changes and regularly review and update your privacy settings accordingly. This will help you maintain control over who can access your personal information. 6. Enable two -factor authentication. 2FA, enable two -factor authentication whenever possible. This adds an extra layer of security to your social media accounts by requiring a second verification step, such as a unique code sent to your mobile device, in addition to your password. 7. Be cautious of third -party apps. Be cautious when granting permissions to third -party applications that request access to your social media accounts. Before granting access, carefully review the requested permissions and ensure they align with the app's intended functionality. 8. Regularly monitor your accounts. Regularly monitor your social media accounts for any suspicious activities or unauthorized access attempts. Report any potential security breaches immediately to the platform's support team. 9. Use a VPN. A VPN, virtual private network, encrypts your internet traffic and routes it through a server in another location. This makes it more difficult for anyone to track your online activity. 10. Be aware of your surroundings. If you're using a public computer, be careful about what information you access. Ensure you log out of your accounts and clear your browser history before leaving. Conclusion. Protecting your privacy on social media requires a proactive approach and staying informed about the latest security practices. By implementing the tips provided in this blog, you can enjoy a safer and more secure online social experience while safeguarding your personal information from potential threats. Stay vigilant, be mindful of what you share, and take control of your online privacy.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from UNCHAINED: Why FTX Might Try to Claw Back Funds From Retail Customers
"Thanks for listening to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto, on the CoinDesk podcast network. You can also listen to the episodes on the Unchained feed earlier if you subscribe there. Plus check out all our content on our website, unchainedcrypto .com. These are all fraudulent transfers, potentially while the debtor was insolvent, potentially while it was coming to lift funds, so clearly all that money has to come back. I think that's pretty easy. The question is, like, what's it worth now and who can actually pay it back? With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Make it simple today with Toku. Today's episode is brought to you by Overtime Markets, your premier Web3 sportsbook. The innovative protocol is changing the game one match at a time. Powered by Thales, explore more at OvertimeMarkets .xyz. Arbitrum's leading Layer 2 scaling solution offers you ultra -cheap and lightning -fast transactions, all with security rooted on Ethereum. Visit arbitrum .io today. With the Crypto .com app, you can buy, trade and spend crypto in one place. Download and get $25 with the code LORA. Link in the description. Today's guest is Thomas Brazile, founder of 117 Partners. Welcome, Thomas. Hey, Laura. Good to see you again. This week, FTX sued Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, the parents of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman Fried. Alleging that Bankman was intimately involved in a number of the allegedly fraudulent schemes, such as silencing someone who threatened to expose the alleged FTX fraud, the purchase of property in the Bahamas, Barbara Fried encouraged the use of strong donors as campaign finance laws, or allegedly, and both were accused generally of either knowing or ignoring the red flags that FTX was insolvent. Was this development surprising or expected? Thanks for having me on, Laura. Good to see you, as always. Was it surprising? No, I don't think it was that surprising. I think what was in the lawsuits in bankruptcy referred to as adversary proceeding, but what was seen in the adversary proceeding was probably a bit shocking, the actual details, but I think people knew that they were pretty involved. I think that was some of the heat they were getting post him getting a criminal complaint against him was that, why is he hanging out with his parents? Weren't they involved in a lot of parts of the business and people were saying things like that. I don't think it's that unexpected. People, I think, long knew that there were some real estate transactions where they were gifted or given some certain real estate in the Bahamas, but to see it all laid out in the complaint or I should say in the adversary proceeding was interesting. Which items in particular really struck you? I guess just the involvement in the actual day -to -day stuff. I mean, if you come from a corporate background or were a tax lawyer, which his dad, I guess, was and is, that there wasn't more, I don't know, structure to the organization. I mean, the dichotomy between what people thought pre -petition, what John Ray sort of said post -petition and now some of the revelations coming out about the pre -petition activity. I mean, it's just kind of amazing to think about people that might have been a more corporate background and saying like, if the business was so profitable, why were you cutting corners? To be fair to these guys, like in the light of day, sunlight of bankruptcy court, which as people in bankruptcy say, like my parents would say, the last place you want to be as a criminal is in bankruptcy court because there's so much sunlight and everything. Everything gets scrutinized. To be fair to people, sometimes the stuff gets overly scrutinized and they cherry pick stuff that went on. But it seems pretty damning, some of the stuff and there's, let's see what the responses will be. I mean, it's good for the estate and it's good for creditors because I'm sure they want to see sort of retribution. But in terms of recoveries, I don't think it's going to be incredibly meaningful, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 million dollars. I mean, that's, I don't know, maybe two months of bankruptcy fees. And so, earlier when we were talking about like how some of the things are particularly damning, like if you were to kind of say, FTX will win in court for these reasons, like which were the particular acts that you think probably will put things over the edge? Oh yeah. I think almost all the stuff though, the win on the merits of the fraudulent conveyance. I mean, these are all fraudulent transfers potentially while the debtor was insolvent, potentially while it was coming with funds, so clearly all that money has to come back. I think that's pretty easy. The question is like, what's it worth now and who can actually pay it back? Like if money was given to a charity, can you actually go and get it back? Like meaning, is it there? Has it been spent kind of stuff? And you can only squeeze whatever rocked so hard. So the question will be, what is the real estate in the Bahamas worth? The 10 million bucks or whatever that was gifted to them, where did that money end up going? Can they trace it? So, these things cost money to do and then the question is like, how much of an effort do you want to make? And of course, all that can be stopped by a criminal investigation, which there isn't a complaint, but clearly some of the activity could be considered criminal. And I think, I won't pretend to be a criminal lawyer or a lawyer at all, but when you're bringing lawsuits, I mean, basically these are kind of like preponderance of evidence standards versus like higher standards that you might have for criminal complaints. So, it's easier for John Ray to like stitch together some stuff they know and slap an AP and sue these guys, but it's a little harder from a criminal side. But all of it, just facially, I mean, of course, as my lawyer likes to tell me, like, facts matter Thomas. So, if more discovery happens than they take discovery, we'll see. But on the face of it, I mean, it looks pretty obvious that it's sort of slam dunk. Just the question is what they'll actually be able to recover. Yeah, I think one of the ones that stuck out at me, simply because I could very easily imagine myself in a similar position with my own parents and I could just picture what my mother would say. And it was when they purchased the Bahamas property and everything was just getting billed or allegedly in the complaint to FTX. And the parents didn't even make an attempt to pay to furnish their home themselves. And I could just imagine if something similar was happening with my mother, she would be like, wait, is this okay that we're doing this? Like, you know, she would have so many questions about the money and like what was okay, what was kosher, what was not. Like, I could just practically hear her in my head. But at least, you know, from what the complaint described, it didn't feel at all like the parents had any of those qualms. So that was... Yeah, it wasn't 100 % owner of FTX. So it is bizarre that those red flags wouldn't have been, or people wouldn't have been like, hey, I know that you think this is okay, but I don't. Like someone would have said something, maybe they thought it was a drop in the ocean, but if FTX was so wildly profitable and Alameda was so wildly profitable, they didn't need to cut in corners and have them picking up the checks. I mean, it would have been easy for Sam to just be like, no, I'm picking this up personally or something. Well, one thing that I also noticed is that the document hedges its language saying things like, quote, Banquin and Freed either knew or ignored bright red flags revealing that SPF and other insiders were orchestrating the scheme. And again, you know, I saw later again, it was like, they either knew or blatantly ignored. So, yes. Right. That's because the standard for these civil cases is much lower. You know, like if you were trying to criminally try them, you'd have to like really show that they knew because they're going to say they didn't know, they didn't know, right. But the standard for like breach of fiduciary duty or, you know, kind of unjust enrichment, it's a much lower standard. All you have to basically show is a reasonable person should have known, you know. Oh, oh, I see. Yeah. So, that's why they keep saying that. So, you're saying – So, basically, they don't know whether or not they knew, but it doesn't matter for what they're trying to do. Is that what you're saying? I will respectfully say that I'm not a lawyer, but a stress investor and what people usually say – is the standard is usually what a reasonable person should have known, steps a reasonable person should have taken, best practices that a board should have taken. So, like a board of directors, if somebody runs off with money in a company, they don't have to necessarily show that they knew the person stole the money, but did they take any steps a reasonable person would have taken to like verify that the money was there or that the person wasn't absconding with money or whatever. So, it's this reasonable person standard that I think you trigger under Delaware and there are a lot of jurisdictions for breach of fiduciary duty or breach of loyalty, duty of care that you have, mainly in the boardroom, but also I think as a C -suite executive and it sounds like he was sort of melding between the two. So, basically, yeah, they're just trying to meet that standard for their purposes. They don't need to go beyond. And Barbara Fried, you know, also – so, as far as I understand from reading this, you know, Sam Pinkman was definitely involved more in the day -to -day, you know, he was often listed with FTX management. He could make executive decisions on his own at one point saying, oh, I'm just going to make this decision without Sam, like we don't need to involve him, that kind of thing. So, Barbara Fried was not involved at that level. However, it did say that she was a key influence on the campaign donations and I wondered what your takeaway was in that regard in terms of, you know, her involvement there. campaign finance fraud. Yeah, I don't have too much to say other than it's just bizarre that, you know, so many corners were cut in regards to stuff. I don't have a real view on – again, it's like it helps them build a story that they can, you know, just slam dunk, take back any money that was taken out of the estate at any point in the last couple of years by Barbara and the husband. But I don't think that – I don't have a real view on that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And as far as I understand, I don't think they're married, they're domestic partners. Just to clarify, yeah. All right. So, in a moment, we're going to talk about what the consequences could be after, you know, from this document. But first, a quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible. Toku makes managing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. Are you designing your token compensation plan and grant templates with multiple law firms? Are you managing cliffs, vesting and taxable events in a spreadsheet? Are you distributing tokens to your team manually? 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CoinDesk Podcast Network
SPECIAL REPORT: SBF TRIAL 09/22 Update
"Welcome to the SBF trial, a Coindesk podcast network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. Yesterday was arguably not a great day for Sam Bankman -Fried. First, the judge overseeing his case rejected all seven of his proposed expert witnesses, questioning at least one's qualifications and saying some others really wouldn't be relevant to the case. Shortly after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Bankman -Fried's appeal of Judge Lewis Kaplan's ruling to revoke his release on bail. These are both mostly procedural losses. I don't think the appeal denial is a surprise to anyone. Judge Kaplan even joked about his record on appeals in the August 11th hearing where he remanded Bankman -Fried into custody, and indeed the three -judge panel wrote that they discerned no error, much less clear error, in the district court's detention decision. What this means is Bankman -Fried will remain behind bars as his trial begins. Judge Kaplan's ruling is a lot more interesting. On the face of it, yes, he granted the Department of Justice's motion to bar all of the defense's proposed expert witnesses from testifying. But this is more of a mixed bag. The defense can still try and call for the witnesses provided they fill out better disclosures at least three days before they're supposed to testify. The DOJ can still object to the witnesses as well. We already know the DOJ plans to call witnesses as soon as the week of October 3rd, and while we haven't seen a full or final list of witnesses, we do now have some greater clarity about who we can expect to testify over the course of the trial. Gary Wang, Caroline Ellison, an FBI agent, and Peter Easton, a University of Notre Dame professor who will apparently explain FTX's financials, for starters. If the defense successfully calls them up, we may also hear from Thomas Bishop to rebut what Easton says, Brian Kim who may rebut the FBI agent's statements, and Joseph Pimbly to respond to a DOJ witness on FTX's software.
Unchained
A highlight from Why FTX Might Try to Claw Back Funds From Retail Customers- Ep. 547
"I mean, these are all fraudulent transfers, potentially while the debtor was insolvent, potentially while it was coming to lift funds, so clearly all that money has to come back. I think that's pretty easy. The question is like, what's it worth now and who can actually pay it back? Hi, everyone. Welcome to Unchained, your no -hype resource for all things crypto. I'm your host, Laura Shin, author of The Cryptopians. I started covering crypto eight years ago and as a senior editor at Forbes was the first mainstream media reporter to cover cryptocurrency full time. This is the September 22nd, 2023 episode of Unchained. Toku makes implementing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Make it simple today with Toku. Today's episode is brought to you by Overtime Markets, your premier Web3 sportsbook. The innovative protocol is changing the game one match at a time. Powered by Thales, explore more at OvertimeMarkets .xyz. Arbitrum's leading Layer 2 scaling solution offers you ultra -cheap and lightning -fast transactions, all with security rooted on Ethereum. Visit arbitrum .io today. With the Crypto .com app, you can buy, trade and spend crypto in one place. Download and get $25 with the code LAURA. Link in the description. Today's guest is Thomas Brazile, founder of 117 Partners. Welcome, Thomas. Hey, Laura. Good to see you again. This week, FTX sued Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried, the parents of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman Fried, alleging that Bankman was intimately involved in a number of the allegedly fraudulent schemes such as silencing someone who threatened to expose the alleged FTX fraud, the purchase of property in the Bahamas. Barbara Fried encouraged the use of strong donors as campaign finance laws, or allegedly, and both were accused generally of either knowing or ignoring the red flags that FTX was in solvent. Was this development surprising or expected? Thanks for having me on, Laura. Good to see you, as always. Was it surprising? No, I don't think it was that surprising. I think what was in the lawsuits in bankruptcy referred to as adversary proceeding, but what was seen in the adversary proceeding was probably a bit shocking, the actual details. But I think people knew that they were pretty involved. And I think that was some of the heat they were getting post him getting a criminal complaint against him was that, you know, why is he hanging out with his parents, weren't they involved in a lot of parts of the business, and people were saying things like that. I don't think it's that unexpected. People I think long knew that there were some real estate transactions where they were gifted or given some certain real estate in the Bahamas. But to see it all laid out in the complaint or I should say in the adversary proceeding was interesting, you know. And yeah. Which items in particular really struck you? I guess it's the involvement like in the actual day -to -day stuff. I mean, if you come from a corporate background or were a tax lawyer, which is that I guess was is, and that there wasn't more, I don't know, structure to the organization. I mean, you know, the dichotomy between what people thought pre -petition, what John Ray sort of said post -petition, and now some of the revelations coming out about the pre -petition activity. I mean, it's just kind of amazing to think about people that might have been a more corporate background and saying like, if the business was so profitable, why were you cutting corners? And, you know, to be fair to these guys, like in the, you know, in the light of day, sunlight of bankruptcy court, which as, you know, people in bankruptcy say, like my parents would say, like, the last place you want to be as a criminal is in bankruptcy court because there's so much sunlight and everything, you know, everything is good scrutinized. And to be fair to people, sometimes the stuff gets overly scrutinized and they cherry pick stuff that went on. But it seems pretty damning, some of the stuff and, you know, let's see what the responses will be. I mean, it's good for the estate and it's good for creditors because I'm sure they want to see, you know, sort of retribution. But in terms of recoveries, I don't think it's going to be incredibly meaningful, you know, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 million dollars. I mean, that's, I don't know, maybe two months of bankruptcy fees. And so, you know, earlier when we were talking about like how some of the things are particularly damning, like if you were to kind of say, FTX will win in court, you know, for these reasons, like which were the particular acts that you think probably will put things over the edge? Oh, yeah. I think almost all the stuff though, they'll win on the merits of the fraudulent conveyance. I mean, these are all fraudulent transfers, potentially while the debtor was insolvent, potentially while it was coming with funds, so clearly all that money has to come back. I think that's pretty easy. The question is like, what's it worth now and who can actually pay it back? Like if money was given to a charity, can you actually go and get it back? Like meaning, is it there? Has it been spent kind of stuff? And you know, you can only squeeze a, you know, whatever, rock so hard. So the question will be, you know, what is the real estate in the Bahamas worth? The 10 million bucks or whatever that was gifted to them, where did that money end up going? Can they trace it? So these things cost money to do and then the question is like, how much of an effort do you want to make? And of course, you know, all that can be stopped by a criminal investigation, which there isn't a complaint, but clearly some of the activity could be considered criminal. And I think, you know, I won't pretend to be a criminal lawyer or a lawyer at all, but when you're bringing lawsuits, I mean, basically these are kind of like preponderance of evidence standards versus like, you know, higher standards that you might have for criminal complaints. So it's easier for John Ray to like stitch together some stuff they know and slap an AP and sue these guys. But it's a little harder from the criminal side. But all of it, just on facially, I mean, of course, as my lawyer likes to tell me, like, you know, facts matter, Thomas. So it is more discovery happens than they take discovery. We'll see. But on the face of it, I mean, it looks pretty, pretty obvious that it's sort of slam dunk. Just the question is what they'll actually be able to recover. Yeah. I think one of the ones that stuck out at me simply because I could very easily imagine myself in a similar position with my own parents and I could just picture what my mother would say. And it was when they purchased the Bahamas property and everything was just getting billed or allegedly in the complaint to FTX. And the parents didn't even make an attempt to pay to furnish their home themselves. And I could just imagine something similar was happening with my mother. She would be like, wait, is this OK that we're doing this? Like, you know, she would have so many questions about the money and like what was OK, what was kosher, what was not. Like, I could just practically hear her in my head. But at least, you know, from what the complaint described, it didn't feel at all like the parents had any of those qualms. So that was. Yeah. It wasn't 100 percent owner of FTX. So it is bizarre that those red flags wouldn't have been or people wouldn't have been like, hey, I know that you think this is OK, but I don't like someone would have said something. Maybe they thought it was a drop in the ocean. But if FTX is so wildly profitable, I mean, it was so wildly profitable, they didn't need to cut in corners and have them picking up the checks. I mean, it would have been easy for Sam to just be like, no, I'm picking this up personally or something. Well, one thing that I also notice is that the document hedges its language, saying things like, quote, Banquin and Freed either knew or ignored bright red flags, revealing that SPF and other insiders were orchestrating the scheme. And again, you know, I saw later again, it was like they either knew or blatantly ignored. So right. Yes. That's because the standard for these civil cases is much lower. You know, like if you were trying to criminally try them, you'd have to like really show that they knew because they're going to say they didn't know, they didn't know, right? But the standard for breach of fiduciary duty or unjust enrichment, it's a much lower standard. All you have to basically show is a reasonable person should have known, you know? Oh, oh, I see. Yeah. So that's why I keep saying that. So you're saying, so basically they don't know whether or not they knew, but it doesn't matter for what they're trying to do. Is that what you're saying? I will respectfully say that I'm not a lawyer, but a stress investor. And what people usually say is the standard is usually what a reasonable person should have known, steps a reasonable person should have taken, best practices that a board should have taken. So like a board of director, if somebody runs off with money in a company, they don't have to necessarily show that they knew the person stole the money, but did they take any steps a reasonable person would have taken to like verify that the money was there, that the person wasn't absconding with money or whatever. So it's just this reasonable person standard that I think you trigger under Delaware and under a lot of jurisdictions for breach of fiduciary duty or breach of loyalty, duty of care that you have, mainly in the boardroom, but also I think as a C -suite executive and it sounds like he was sort of melding between the two. So basically, yeah, they're just trying to meet that standard for their purposes. They don't need to go beyond. And Barbara Fried, you know, also, so as far as I understand from reading this, you know, Sam Pinkman was definitely involved more in the day to day. You know, he was often listed with FTX management. He you know, could make executive decisions on his own at one point saying, oh, I'm just going to make this decision without Sam, like we don't need to involve him, that kind of thing. So Barbara Fried was not involved at that level. However, it did say that she was a key influence on the campaign donations. And I wondered what your takeaway was in that regard in terms of, you know, her involvement there. Campaign finance fraud? Yeah. Again, I don't have too much to say other than it's just bizarre that, you know, so many corners were cut in regards to stuff. I don't have a real view on. Again, it's like it helps them build a story that they can, you know, just slam dunk, take back any money that was taken out of the estate at any point in the last couple of years by Barbara and the husband. But I don't think that I don't have a real view on that. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And as far as I understand, I don't think they're married. They're domestic partners. Just to clarify. Yeah. All right. So in a moment, we're going to talk about what the consequences could be after, you know, from this document. But first a quick word from the sponsors who make this show possible. Toku makes managing global token compensation and incentive awards simple. Are you designing your token compensation plan and grant templates with multiple law firms? Are you managing cliffs, vesting and taxable events in a spreadsheet? Are you distributing tokens to your team manually? With Toku, you get unmatched legal and tax tech support to grant and administer your global team's tokens. Easy to use token grant award templates, vesting tracking via online dashboard, tax withholding integration with payroll, automated distributions, great employee experience. Make it simple with Toku. Learn more at toku .com slash Unchained.
Mark Levin
Breitbart: Biden Grants Quasi-Amnesty to 470k More Venezuelan Migrants
"They can use them to travel freely around the United States excuse me and yes even a vote yes even a vote all the security measures all the barriers intended to prevent illegal voting are all one by one being destroyed and then we have a guy like this governor Shapiro in Pennsylvania we're told he's a moderate he's the future the Democrat Party Josh Shapiro announced Tuesday which is national voter registration day that the state will now automatically register register register residents devote while getting their driver's license or their state ID state ID says I made a commitment when I was campaigning for this office that we would bring automatic voter registration to Pennsylvania break down the barriers for legal eligible voters he didn't do this with legislation he didn't get a vote out of the legislature Pennsylvania a Department of State spokesperson told ABC News the people who are not eligible to vote will not be presented with
Coronavirus
A highlight from Truffle Suite Winds Down Operations
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Thursday September 21st, 2023. Truffle Suite winds down operations, Matter Labs introduces a zk -sync fellowship program, Caldera introduces ecosystem integrations, and Rainbow releases its browser extension wallet for all users. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum Gitcoin Grants round is now live, if you'd like to support this podcast, please consider contributing by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Truffle Suite, a provider of developer tools for Ethereum, announced that it is closing down operations. The project published guides for transitioning to hard -hat tools. Truffle Suite will maintain its infrastructure for the next 90 days to allow developers to transition smoothly. Over the past six years, Truffle Suite has delivered essential tooling, including a development environment, a forking testnet framework, and an asset pipeline designed for EVM chains. The project was acquired by ConsenSys in 2020. Truffle Suite says its legacy will live on through other ConsenSys products. Matter Labs announced the ZK Fellowship, a 46 -month virtual fellowship program for users interested in advancing the protocol. Individuals and teams with technical backgrounds, including students, developers, research, and academics, are encouraged to apply. Application submissions are open until October 15th. The ZK Fellowship is a paid program that offers eligible participants with stipends of $3 ,500 per month and access to senior Matter Labs team members, core developers, and potential post -fellowship opportunities. Research and development topics range from cross -layer -2 gas fee mechanisms to MEV and privacy primitives for rollups. Rollups as a service provider Caldera formally introduced its ecosystem of 19 available integrations for building custom Arbitrum orbits and OP stack rollups. The list of integration partners includes Layer Zero for bridging, Espresso Systems for sequencing, Byconomy for account abstraction, and Celestia for data availability, among others. Caldera specializes in designing high -performance, application -specific layer -2 networks coined as Caldera Chains. The custom chains offer high throughput, low latency, and customization options. Caldera is also a no -code platform and features single -click rollup deployments. And lastly, Rainbow released its browser extension wallet for all users. The wallet can now be installed on Chrome, Arc, Edge, and Brave browsers. The wallet's unique feature is a Web3 search and command bar called the Magic Menu. The tool features keyboard shortcuts for switching wallets, swapping, and sending tokens. In other news, Uniswap introduces courses through Uniswap University, Metafactory releases a tornado cache supporter t -shirt or braces $2 .3 million, and Nethermind releases version 1 .2 .0 .4 of its client for the Holsky testnet. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Truffle Suite Winds Down Operations
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Thursday September 21st, 2023. Truffle Suite winds down operations, Matter Labs introduces a zk -sync fellowship program, Caldera introduces ecosystem integrations, and Rainbow releases its browser extension wallet for all users. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum Gitcoin Grants round is now live, if you'd like to support this podcast, please consider contributing by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Truffle Suite, a provider of developer tools for Ethereum, announced that it is closing down operations. The project published guides for transitioning to hard -hat tools. Truffle Suite will maintain its infrastructure for the next 90 days to allow developers to transition smoothly. Over the past six years, Truffle Suite has delivered essential tooling, including a development environment, a forking testnet framework, and an asset pipeline designed for EVM chains. The project was acquired by ConsenSys in 2020. Truffle Suite says its legacy will live on through other ConsenSys products. Matter Labs announced the ZK Fellowship, a 46 -month virtual fellowship program for users interested in advancing the protocol. Individuals and teams with technical backgrounds, including students, developers, research, and academics, are encouraged to apply. Application submissions are open until October 15th. The ZK Fellowship is a paid program that offers eligible participants with stipends of $3 ,500 per month and access to senior Matter Labs team members, core developers, and potential post -fellowship opportunities. Research and development topics range from cross -layer -2 gas fee mechanisms to MEV and privacy primitives for rollups. Rollups as a service provider Caldera formally introduced its ecosystem of 19 available integrations for building custom Arbitrum orbits and OP stack rollups. The list of integration partners includes Layer Zero for bridging, Espresso Systems for sequencing, Byconomy for account abstraction, and Celestia for data availability, among others. Caldera specializes in designing high -performance, application -specific layer -2 networks coined as Caldera Chains. The custom chains offer high throughput, low latency, and customization options. Caldera is also a no -code platform and features single -click rollup deployments. And lastly, Rainbow released its browser extension wallet for all users. The wallet can now be installed on Chrome, Arc, Edge, and Brave browsers. The wallet's unique feature is a Web3 search and command bar called the Magic Menu. The tool features keyboard shortcuts for switching wallets, swapping, and sending tokens. In other news, Uniswap introduces courses through Uniswap University, Metafactory releases a tornado cache supporter t -shirt or braces $2 .3 million, and Nethermind releases version 1 .2 .0 .4 of its client for the Holsky testnet. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
The Crypto Conversation
A highlight from Valio - Next Generation Asset Management Platform
"Hi everyone, Andy Pickering here, I'm your host and welcome to the Crypto Conversation, a Brave New Coin podcast where we talk to the people building the future in the Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrency space. Hey team, we have a new sponsor here at the Crypto Conversation, BitGet, one of the world's leading copy trading cryptocurrency exchanges, yes indeed. What happens if you've got the funds to invest but you don't have the time to keep track of the market? You still want to make smart money moves? What do you do? Well, copy trading is a popular choice for beginner traders. You can shorten your learning curve by uncovering tips and strategies from more experienced traders. BitGet's copy trading platform has over 80 ,000 elite traders to choose from and 380 ,000 followers just like yourself who are already using the BitGet copy trading platform as a potential passive income stream. All it takes is one click, you can subscribe to an elite profitable strategist, set your limits, automate your orders and monitor their trades. I've got some links in the show notes below, one link will take you through to the BitGet sign up page, give you a VIP discount. So learn all about it for yourself thanks to BitGet. And now it is on with the show. My guest today is Carlos. Carlos is the founder of Valeo, an asset management platform that connects you to leading traders and digital asset managers on chain asset management, very interesting. Welcome to the show, Carlos. Andy, thank you for having me. It is a pleasure. Let's do what we do at the beginning of the show, Carlos, it would be fantastic if you could please introduce yourself, just, you know, share a little bit about whatever you're comfortable sharing. I'd love to hear a little bit about your personal and professional story in terms of what has led you to founding Valeo. Sure, happy to. So educationally, I come from a background in mathematical finance, which I suppose was one of the reasons why crypto and decentralized open ledgers attracted my interest and curiosity in the first place. Now, as far as professionally, the first thing that I ever built was a software development company that did fairly well. That was also my first exit, solved my stake to my co -founder, then spent a bit of time working on perhaps an overly ambitious AI mental health startup. And in 2020, I founded my venture vehicle OpenHedge with the mission to advance open source finance. And at that time, I didn't have the single thing I wanted to spend, you know, the entirety of my time working on. And we were involved in a number of different things. Some of your listeners may be familiar with perhaps premium finance, which is kind of the one of the things we've been involved in the most. But more generally, I've been around crypto since 2017. At that time, I wasn't convinced that the infrastructure is going to amount to much as far as providing value to society. But in 2020, that's when the switch really flipped for me. And when it became apparent that this technology is here to stay, and that not only is it here to stay, but it's going to play an increasingly important role in how humans transact and record value. And most recently, as of roughly nine months ago, we've wound down all of our involvements to focus exclusively on Valeo, which is an asset management protocol to onboard the next 1 billion users into crypto. And the reason why we're focusing on it right now is because we need to question more the paradigms in which we onboard new users to our industry, because, you know, that's kind of the top of the funnel. I'm happy to expand on this in a second, but we need to do better as an industry. Yeah, I very much agree. So how long have you guys been building this platform then, Carlos? Yeah, sure. So we've been building for roughly nine months now, and most of that initially went into R &D because, again, maybe to kind of zoom out and start with the reason as to why we're If you think about what are the main gateways for people into crypto, they are predominantly four of them, one of those being Binance, second being Coinbase. Then in Europe, we have this thing called Revolut, which is, you know, you can think of it as something like a block or, you know, a cash app, whatever. And the fourth being NFTs. And if you think about what all of these gateways entail, or rather require is some initial knowledge about the industry and particular assets. So for instance, if you go on an exchange, you create an account, you still are left with the daunting task of knowing what exactly do you buy that, you know, what are the tokens that you want to have exposure to? And we as an industry, we take it for granted. But this is really a prohibitive barrier to entry for most users. And most users do not want to use exchanges, they simply want to have an easy way in which to get smart exposure to the industry. And so this is something that we needed to rework as an industry for a long time. And as a result, we found it valuable because we think there is a better way. And this better way revolves around backing the leading traders and asset managers in a trustless and non -custodial way. Right. So the idea is people that are potentially interested in taking some positions in crypto, but they're not perhaps that interested to spend all their time researching different projects or different traders, different types of coins. But instead they can come to Valeo and look at the different traders. I think you call them managers, right? Yeah, different managers on the platform and instead effectively back people that have talent and industry knowledge and it's a simple solution for them. Correct. So I'll share a story that is so illustrative of what people undergo a million times a year in trying to join crypto. So roughly two years ago, I spoke to a friend of mine who's a very smart guy, master's degree in physics, works in IT, all of the prerequisites to understand what's going on. And we had this in -depth wonderful conversation about distributed ledgers and all the downstream implications for society and democracy among other aspects. And he was immediately excited and he immediately understood the potential of what's going on here. And his first question was, well, Carlos, well, how do I get exposure to this? Like how do I get involved? And at that point I was like, okay, well, you know, the first step you probably take is you go on an exchange, you buy some ether and then you look at the coins that you think are ultimately going to do well. And so what ended up happening is he went on FTX, he bought a bunch of ETH and then he, you know, spent the majority of his portfolio buying coins that ended up going to zero promptly. But he thought those were, you know, based on his very limited amount of research, those were something worthy of his time and capital. And then FTX drug him for the rest. And the takeaway here was that even if you have very smart people who are capable of understanding the industry in each of the individual protocols, it doesn't mean they have the time to do it. So we simply needed a better way to make this happen. And the way to do this is to connect these people looking to enter crypto to traders and asset managers who are native to this industry, who know what they're doing. And for the people looking to enter, instead of having to analyze each individual token at length, they can simply look at the track record of the people that they ultimately intend to back. Got it. Thank you, Carlos. And, you know, it reminds me, Carlos, you know, you'll be very familiar of, I guess, the kind of the idea that for long term investors, you know, your average kind of long term investor who just puts a significant amount of capital into the market, it doesn't matter whether we're talking stocks or crypto or ETFs or whatever here, if you have that kind of long enough time horizon, then you're much, much more likely to outperform day traders who think they can time the market and move in and out of positions all the time, except perhaps for the, you know, one or two percent of those smart traders, asset managers who actually are good enough to to time the market and beat the market. Right. Well, certainly. And to that point, you know, asset managers can have edge in multiple dimensions, timing being just one of those. But the broader thing here, Andy, is that if you think about what happens when people just go on and exchanges and buy random tokens as their entry point, what this creates is this weird dynamic where asymmetrical information dominates and is very pervasive. And what do I mean by that? Suppose you're an army and you just created your account on Binance and you're looking to buy a token. You'll likely buy something that your friend will have told you about or something that you've seen on TikTok. And I know this may sound awful to some people, but this is the reality. And so what you'll end up directing your capital to most likely are a bunch of scam coins or a bunch of marketing and meme coins. And as an industry, it's not healthy for us to have these capital flows be diverted into these dead ends. What instead we want to make sure is that the capital entering the space enters in an efficient way that is conducive to the overall growth of our industry. And to your point about the long term, even if someone has a very long term horizon over which they want to allocate to our sector, it should be guided by someone. People can't be expected to make these long term allocations for themselves unless they are willing and able to invest hundreds of hours of research into this. And just as an equivalent example, consider retirement funds. Imagine a world in which retirees would have to day trade and manage their own personal portfolios that likely wouldn't be conducive to good outcomes. Right. But this is effectively what we have in crypto. And until this is abstracted away, we're going to see severe hindrance in the capital coming in. Yeah, great, great points and look not not to go on too much of a tangent here, Carlos, but it always strikes me, you know, this is one of the paradoxes of crypto. And look, there are many. But one of the paradoxes of crypto, of course, is that because the technology is essentially open source, anyone can spin up any kind of a new asset, any new chain that they so wish any time and, you know, spin out any kind of meme coin, as you've kind of talked about and put a little bit of marketing behind it and times that to infinity. And yeah, it's just it's just one of those crazy paradoxes that that we have Bitcoin and then we have Ethereum and now we have, well, hundreds of thousands, if not more potential tokens out there with many more to come. That's exactly right. And Andy, which you're describing is actually one of the root causes of the problem, asymmetric information, because if you look at this from the point of view of an entrant who just wants to allocate some capital to fundamental long term innovation, they have to scrape through a bunch of noise in understanding what is real and what isn't. And we take it for granted just how daunting of a task that actually is, because to be truly able to to analyze the things you get behind, you know, you mostly have to operate at the intersection of finance, technology, game theory, as well as the social context. Again, I don't want to use the word narratives because I think there are a shorter term phenomenon that is bound to disappear, hopefully. But again, the point being, there is a substantial amount of complexity. And so until this is curated by someone at scale, it will be incredibly difficult for new entrants to emerge in the market without them accidentally diverting their capital to scam coins, meme coins and things of that nature. And this is just something we have to tackle as an industry, because if the average experience of someone getting into Web3 is that they've accidentally purchased the wrong meme coin on an exchange and it's went to zero, even though they thought that they were backing fundamental innovation, you know, this isn't a very good outcome. Yeah, absolutely. Let's bring it back to to value then be great if you could just maybe talk us through a little bit about how the platform works. I guess a little bit more in terms of who you're aiming at this. But basically both on the depositor side and on the manager side, maybe some of the different user groups and then also like to understand, you know, how how technical people need to be if we're talking about normies that have no experience and DeFi and then can they can they come along and easily engage with value? Sure, so a few things to unpack here and just to first outline why value is different and to understand that we have to look at a bit of history of the problem, which has been as old as our industry, which is how do you make smart exposure easily accessible to people? Well, as an industry, we started by thinking, OK, well, the way to do that is clearly index product. You just put together a bunch of tokens in an index and you let people acquire those. They're curated. Everything makes sense. Indexes were tried in various shapes and sizes. And neither of them worked. But what we learned as an industry is that the reason they do not work is because things change too quickly. New tokens come up, all tokens kind of fall off the ladder of what's good enough, so to speak. Things change very quickly and most index products, in fact, all of them simply haven't been able to capture the dynamism of the industry, so to speak. So once the industry realized that, the next phase of thinking was like, OK, since things change very quickly, what we really want to have is we want to have leading traders and asset managers manage funds on behalf of new users. But but who are these top traders and asset managers? And that's where our industry is very different from from anything from Tradify, for instance, because most of the top traders and asset managers aren't your typical regulated funds that you can just LP in, and most of them are anonymous or pseudonymous traders and individuals on the Internet. So then the question became, how can you let new entrants back these anonymous individuals who you can't obviously know or trust in a way that's safe for the depositors? And so that was the question that led to the first generation of asset management protocol spawning. I don't want to name any names here, but what they all shared was this fatal flaw, which is why none of them really took off in the first place, because indeed, there were some protocols that enabled trustless asset management, but it came at the price of the asset managers being highly restricted. So, for instance, in the previous asset, in the previous generation asset management protocols, if I'm a manager, my investable asset universe is first limited to just a single network. So I would have had to choose either Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon or whatever. And on the single network, I was just limited to the highly liquid tokens and to synthetic tokens. Again, not to kind of go too technical here. But long story short, the reason why this was the case is because nobody had figured out a way how to prevent managers from counter trading their own positions. So, for instance, if I was a nefarious asset manager, what I could do is I could create a private position on a private wallet of mine of some liquid token. Then I could buy it from the funds that I manage and then unload my private position. And as a result of all of this, asset management never really stood a chance because the managers were extremely constrained in what they could do and constrained beyond the point of it making sense. They simply weren't able to do a good job. And Valeo is the first protocol to overcome both of these technical limitations on a framework level. So what we've managed to achieve is for the first time ever in a trustless and non custodial way, we've been able to give our managers all of the tools that they need to do what they're good at, which is to manage their portfolios. And so and this is possible thanks to two core innovations, one of them being that Valeo is the first ever shared state omni chain system, which basically means that you have one vault spanning the entirety of networks that we support. So arbitrum, optimism, et cetera, and Ethereum. And the other thing is a proprietary security framework that we developed, which is a mouthful, but it's actually fairly simple, called the cumulative price impact tolerance architecture. And without getting into details as to what exactly this means, the key takeaway is that it allows asset managers to trade long tail illiquid tokens without them needing to be trusted or manually curated. So effectively Valeo is the first protocol to achieve the zero to one in asset management, where on one hand, you have the backers who can back any trader or asset manager without needing to trust them and without worrying that the manager can run away with their funds. And on the other end, you have the traders and asset managers who have all of the tools that they need in order to perform. And that's something that hasn't been done before. And we've been live in very early beta for slightly over a month now. And the traction that we've been seeing has been tremendously encouraging. In fact, we have more daily active users than some of the multi -billion protocols out there already. But most notably, we've been seeing that the traders and asset managers on Valeo are generating returns up to five times higher than on the previous generation of asset management protocols, simply because they now have the flexibility that they've always been lacking. So but to circle back to your question, Valeo is extremely simple. The goal of it is to be the simplest way to get intelligent exposure to the Web3 landscape. So any user, we encourage you to give it a go, even while we're still in early beta. We hope you'll find the experience simple and enjoyable. Yeah, fantastic. Very well said, Carlos. Thank you for that. Learned a lot there. And you know, I also like the way you see this a lot in DeFi at the moment. And of course, you know, Web3 just kind of like different. I guess the easy way to describe it is gamification. And like one example is, you know, talking about seasons, right? And so I can see that you intend to operate a kind of seasons model on Valeo as well, right? Correct. So there's actually a double edged sword here. What we've ended up with as an industry is this MOLOC, where any serious go to market strategy has to have this gamification element these days, because that's simply the standard these days. People need to have something to be excited about. But on the founder side, we'd much rather not do that. We'd much rather compete in a playing field where there is no gamification. So the reason we'd rather do that is because you get better signal about your product market fit. But anyways, kind of being mindful of the reality in which we are in our approach to go to market has been to introduce gamification in the right and in a way that is sustainable to truly gamify the core value proposition of Valeo, which is that as a backer, you can instead of spending these hundreds of hours of building your own portfolio, you can find the person to do that for you. And you learn things along the way, you become more sophisticated. And on the manager side, there are also a set of things we try to gamify and incentivize. But indeed, to make it more exciting, we're doing seasons. We're currently in season zero, which is the very early beta. We're just testing the protocol in a limited way. But for anyone listening, if season one is going to be really exciting, even more exciting than the season zero. And look, I'm sure that for anyone that signs up and gets involved during the beta and they're in season zero, I'm sure there is some reward for that, right? Correct, Andy. In fact, we've managed to already build a very kind of loyal and engaged community. And so what we want to make sure is that all of these early community participants and early users are rewarded generously because at this stage, they've been tremendously helpful in pointing out to us where the bugs are, what features could be improved and so forth and so on. We already have an amazing community and all of whom will be greatly rewarded for the time they spend in the early stages of value to help us refine and perfect the product. And so when do you anticipate for launch? Do you have a kind of like a set date in mind or as a moving target and you want to just get the product really, really right first? Certainly. So in its current state, Valeo is live already on all of the networks that we support on the chain, on Arbitrum, on Ethereum and on Optimism. The only distinction here is that it's still rough around the edges in the sense that we don't have yet all of the integrations complete that we want. So for instance, now you can trade Perpetuals on Arbitrum. You'll soon be able to trade Perpetuals on Optimism. You have spot markets on all of the networks. But again, there's a plethora of things that we're still adding. Options protocols on Arbitrum, notably Premia, lending markets and a bunch more infrastructure just to help our traders and asset managers succeed. And while we're in this stage of rapid iteration, we've set the vault caps to a very small amount, $10 ,000 worth per vault just to make sure we don't have to iterate quickly in a high -stakes security environment.
Postcards to the Universe with Melisa
Meet Rebecca Whitman, The Magnetic Abundance Mentor
"So I wanna talk to my guest today because everything I talk about each week in the beginning of my show, Rebecca and I are gonna be talking about today. So Rebecca Whitman, she is called the Magnetic Abundance Mentor. I love that. She's an international best -selling author. She graduated with honors from Princeton University. She was awarded Life Coach of the Year and Empowered Woman of the Year by International Association of Top Professionals. LA Weekly Magazine featured her as one of the top seven entrepreneurs to watch in 2023. She hosts the top 1 .5 % globally ranked, balanced, beautiful, and abundant podcasts, which won the Positive Change Award. Her philosophy divides life into seven pillars of abundance, which include spiritual, physical, emotional, romantic, mental, social, and financial. She helps people achieve balance within these seven areas so that they can experience more fun and freedom in life. She has been featured in New York Weekly, Miami Magazine, and LA Weekly Magazines. In addition to her appearances on ABC and CBS, she has guested on over 100 podcasts. She has given keynote speeches at Columbia University and UCLA and has shared virtual stages with renowned thought leaders Grant Cardone, Jack Canfield, and Les Brown. You can find out more about her if you visit her website. It's RebeccaElizabethWhitman .com. Welcome, Rebecca. Thanks so much for being here with me. Thank you so much, Melissa. I'm so excited to be on your show with such a delight to have you on my show a couple weeks ago, and now we get to continue the conversation. Exactly, yeah. So I was on Rebecca's show on her podcast, The Balance Beautiful and Abundant Show, and it aired August 29th. And you guys who are listening, you can find it on any of the podcasting platforms, Apple, whatever you listen to, Spotify, Google, and yeah, you can listen to the show. And it's also, it's on YouTube too, right, Rebecca? I think you're on YouTube also. Yep, YouTube as well as Apple, Spotify, and all the podcast platforms. Absolutely. It was so much fun. It was so much fun. So yeah, so now she's here. So let's talk about you and like what got you into this kind of this abundance mindset, like starting to do this kind of work? What made you want to do it? Were you always doing this your whole life or is this something that you kind of fell into or came to, I should say? Yeah, I moved to Los Angeles 22 years ago to pursue my childhood dream of being an actress. And I had small parts on huge shows like Friends, CSI, and 24, and I never got that big break. So I supported myself at children's acting schools and the children were busy during the day at school. So I would attend spiritual lectures with great teachers of the law of attraction like Michael Beckwith, Esther Hicks, Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer, and I started applying it to my life and I got immediate results. I was making six figures working part time at a kid's acting school. And I didn't quite apply it as well to my love life. I had a series of really painful breakups with emotionally unavailable men. And I even married one thinking he would change. Three years later, I filed for divorce and my marriage was slowly and painfully unraveling as my dad was slowly and painfully dying in a nursing home. And in one of our last conversations, he asked me to write a book. And a few months later, my dad had made his transition and my marriage had dissolved and I was sitting across the desk from my financial planner. And he said, Rebecca, I find it interesting that you are making more money than you've ever made the same year that you lost your marriage and your father. And I think you should write a book. So I wrote a book based on the seven key areas of life, which I now call the seven pillars of abundance, and it's called How to Make a Six Figure Income Working Part Time. And now I help women go from burned out to balanced, beautiful, and abundant. And using these principles, I'm now happily married to my soulmate. And now I just coach women. I have the podcast and I just love this mission, teaching people they don't have to be burned out and overwhelmed to receive abundance in life.
Crypto Altruism Podcast
A highlight from The Web3 Nonprofit Episode 3 - Black Women Blockchain Council
"We feel that as we're building this ecosystem, there's a need for so many different hands to be involved so that we can build it the right way. I see blockchain as a revolution. I see it as an opportunity to rewrite the wrongs of the past, or at least try to start with a fresh start and create opportunities for everyone and not just a select few in tech. Hi there, welcome to the Web3 Nonprofit, a special 10 -part crypto -ultrism podcast series exploring stories of nonprofits who are leveraging Web3 technology for good. My name is Drew from Crypto -ultrism .org. In this series, we will chat about the highs and lows of being a nonprofit in the world of Web3 and how organizations of all sizes can leverage this transformative technology to grow their impact. So let's dive right in. Welcome, welcome to the third episode of our new very special 10 -part podcast series. In each episode, we will be highlighting a different nonprofit organization that is innovating with Web3 technology. Now before we dive in and welcome our guest, I want to give a special shout out and thanks to Endowment for their partnership in helping bring this to life. So before we get started, I wanted to share a special message from their team. Hey, it's day. So as you know, Endowment lets you gift over a million US nonprofits and thousands more globally and you probably want to support a lot of them. You might be like, I want to support five different organizations. Does that mean I'm going to get five different tax receipts and have to bring them all to my accountant? And I've got something that I think can help. It's called a donor advised fund. You might hear it sometimes called a DAF. Think about it as your personal giving account where you can make one donation and get one tax receipt. Oftentimes you can write off the full amount and then take your time. You can grant to those five orgs, 10 orgs, however many you want all from one place. And because Endowment funds are all on chain, they're faster than traditional DAFs, they're way more affordable and they're transparent. You can follow the money all the way to its destination. So if you're ready to simplify your giving life, go to app .endowment .org and click the start of fund button. And now a word from Larry at the lawyer box. Endowment does not give financial advice that is a job for a licensed tax professional. I love that. Definitely head over to endowment .org that's E -N -D -A -O -M -E -N -T .org to learn about their incredible work. Okay, now the moment we've all been waiting for. For the third episode, we're excited to highlight the work of Black Woman Blockchain Council. An organization incredible with a mission to create a safe space that inspires, trains and activates a talent and economic pipeline of Black women pursuing professional and entrepreneurial careers in blockchain and fintech, including inspiring and educating the next generation of diverse and inclusive blockchain leaders. Today, we welcome to the podcast, Olayinka O 'Danneran, founder and chairwoman of Black Woman Blockchain Council. So let's dive right in. Okay, Olayinka, thank you so much for being here today on the Web3 nonprofit podcast. So excited to have you. Thank you very much, Drew, for having me. I'm excited to be here with you as well. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And, you know, really excited to learn about the fantastic work you're doing with Black Woman Blockchain Council. I've been following it for a while now. You're really doing some really great stuff to just build up, you know, inclusion and to make sure that it's a really positive space to build in. And so to start things off, I'd love to hear your story of how did you end up working in the nonprofit sector? Well, I have to go back a journey to how did I even get involved in the whole blockchain space, right? Yeah, yeah, for sure. So it was around 2015, I wanted to do a startup and I met up with a guy that I had reached out to simply because his name was in a magazine that I was reading about a local startup and she had referenced his name, so I was like, okay, he must be a great person to reach out to. I ended up reaching out to him. We met in D .C. and he was talking about Bitcoin and every time that we met, he kept talking about it. So it piqued my curiosity and I started going down the rabbit hole and fell in love with the technology more than the cryptocurrency and actually got myself involved in the ecosystem as an educator through Black Women Blockchain Council since 2018. That's been going as a benefit LLC, but more for for profit. We really wanted to build a lot more programs in this space to provide access and resources to the black community, especially black women in this space and young girls as well. And so we figured going the nonprofit route would make sense for us to be able to tap into our networks and get them to feel incentivized to donate money so that we can bring a lot more of our programs to life. And that's really how I got involved in 2021. We started Black Women in Blockchain and since then, it's been a great journey that we've been going through. We've had several great sponsors and donors of our effort and brought forth some programs and we're looking to bring forth some more. Definitely. And I'm excited to learn more about those programs, including the training and mentorship and stuff that you offer. I think that's so important and I'm really excited to hear about that. So maybe to start things off, can you please just like at a higher level, introduce listeners to Black Women Blockchain Council, including your mission and impacts? Yeah, so Black Women Blockchain Council, we're here to provide education and awareness about the blockchain technology. Our goal is to make sure that no one gets left behind in this ecosystem that we're building and that there's plenty of resources that are presented to the Black community as well as underrepresented communities within the space. So that way we can continue to grow and really create solutions that can be social impactful. I love that. And I want to dive now a bit more into your programs and on your website, you mentioned how your organization is committed to empowering Black women through comprehensive training, mentorship, networking opportunities, and visibility programs, which is great. Love that, super important. So tell me about the programs you offer. Tell me more about this. Yeah, so we have educational programs. We have a two -track certification program that we created with ConsenSys, which is part of the Ethereum Foundation. They're a huge organization out there and they're really diving in into helping a lot more people get involved in the blockchain ecosystem, in particular, the Ethereum blockchain ecosystem that they're working under. And so with them, we've been able to create these certified programs to allow individuals to one, understand the foundation of blockchain, two, dive deeper into the realms of being a developer. In this space, there's still a lot more people that are just understanding the basics, but not really understanding how to create the technology or build the technical code, I should say, the technology, right? So we want to make sure that women in particular have access to that. And our goal is to bring on board half a million Black women blockchain devs. And that's an ambitious goal by the year 2030. We feel that, you know, as we're building this ecosystem, there's a need for so many different hands to be involved so that we can build it the right way, right? I see blockchain as a revolution. I see it as an opportunity to rewrite the wrongs of the past, or at least try to start with a fresh start and create opportunities for everyone and not just a select few in tech. I love that. And, you know, that's something I've heard consistently when I've spoke with builders, you know, especially builders from communities have been like traditionally excluded from like traditional tech circles and those sorts of things is that like, it's almost like this feeling of like it's wet cement, you know, we can just kind of build from the ground level, have a say in the development of this new ecosystem and learn from the mistakes of web one and web two and build from that and build a more equitable ecosystem. So really appreciate the work that you're doing. I think that's fantastic. So let's say that there's someone listening right now that wants to get involved in that course or take part in the certificate program. How would they go about doing that? Yeah, they can go to our website, bwbc .io and click on BWBC Academy. That will take them directly to our LMS learning management system that we've created specifically for this course and also for individuals to interact with others who are taking the course. They can do it that way. Or they can go to community .bwbc .io forward slash sign up and they'll be able to quickly sign up for the course that way, too. Very cool. I love that. And so you mentioned earlier that you're a public benefit LLC, a nonprofit benefit LLC. Tell me more about the structure in the community behind the organization, because I'm you know, I'm not as familiar with this this type of structure. So tell me more about this and why you chose this. Yeah, because, well, the the it really starts with what the intention of the organization was. When I came into the scene around 2015, not a lot of people were talking about blockchain. And, you know, it was it was a tech space for tech bros. Right. And so you you got surrounded by that. And but then at the same time, you saw opportunities around 2018. There was a huge uproar about a Bitcoin conference and that created avenues for women to really stake their feet into the space and let it be known that there are women in here. I started seeing opportunities being passed around and my fear was that we were in the verge of recreating Silicon Valley in the sense that only a certain group of people were known as the builders of tech. Right. And so I didn't want to repeat what I feel was a mistake. I saw it as a way for us to be able to create an avenue, as I mentioned before. So with BWBC, the intention was really to go into it, creating an opportunity to be impactful into the ecosystem that's being built, as well as the black community. So our intentions wasn't really to generate money, but really create avenues that allow people to to gain the sources, gain awareness. And so the benefit aspect is really what drove that. And so we wanted to make it clear to people that we're not just a fly by night. We really want to have intentional, beneficial programs for the community to get involved. And that's where Benefit LLC came from. Yeah, that's amazing. That's really cool. And, you know, you'd mentioned around, you know, a woman building in Web3 and blockchain. You have a really beautiful piece of artwork in the background there that says the future is female. Love that. That's beautiful. So, you know, what advice, I guess, would you give to two women that are looking to build in the Web3 ecosystem that are maybe hesitant because of this perception of like, you know, that it is maybe reality to some extent, too, that it is, you know, just a tech bro dominated space. What would you say? What advice would you give? I would tell them not to consider it that way. I would tell them that there's a lot of women in this space. One of the things that I've been privileged to have in this space is surround myself by women left, right, front, back, you know, and they're everywhere. So I don't know that type of tech space where there's no women. I know the tech space where there are women because I've been fortunate to be surrounded by them. And I want to let other females know that we're out here. We may not be as vocal. We may not be the one that are pushed to the front, but we're the one that's building. We're the one that's educating. We're the one that's creating community because, you know, you can't have blockchain without community. And Web3 is solely based on community. And the people that are actually taking the time to build that foundation to make it sustainable are the women. And so there's a lot of us here and we're coming from various backgrounds. You could be tech adjacent. And when I say tech adjacent, you know, attorneys are needed more than ever in this space. As educators like myself that are in this space, you know, we have a lot of hackers going on. So if you're in cybersecurity, you're needed in this space. Policymakers are needed. So like these are avenues that women tend to, you know, gravitate towards. But for some reason, they feel that they can't be in tech. Yes, you can be in tech. There's a lot of opportunities and positions for you. And I would say don't let the fear stop you because you just may end up realizing that you love it and you love being here and this is where you need to be. Because right now we're still in the build phase. And so we want you we want all voices to be added to how the structure is being built and what type of foundation so that it can be sustainable. We have so many different, you know, negativity that are coming our way that we're trying to build something sustainable and impactful to society. And women are important in that. Yeah, definitely. And I think, you know, what you said there, too, really stood out to me around, like you don't have to be, you know, a developer, a coder. Right. And I knew that like a lot of people have this perception that you need to have a computer science degree or background and be some super coder to be able to engage and be successful in this new ecosystem. But I think you're 100 percent spot on that, like anyone, no matter what your background can find a place in Web3. Right. If you're a lawyer, an artist, an accountant, you know, a creative. Right. There's just so many opportunities in this space for you to join it and to have an impact, which is great. So I'd love to shift now, if that's OK, a little bit, you know, because you mentioned earlier that you've done some fundraising in the space to be able to raise funds to help get this off the ground. I'd love to hear about your experience fundraising with crypto and, you know, what advice you'd have for other nonprofits, whether it's, you know, a benefit LLC or a charitable organization that are interested in engaging in crypto fundraising. Yes, so for me, it was easier to transfer into fundraising through crypto because I'm in this space, I know how it is. I've been able to meet individuals like Alexis Miller, who works with Endowment, that was able to bring us on board to their platform, which made the exchange from, you know, crypto to US dollar really easy. So I suggest that, you know, this is not a plug, but it kind of sounds like it. You know, Endowment was a lifesaver. The fact that they had such a platform in place really was helpful. But, you know, it's it's just it's just preparing yourself for the future. Right. As a nonprofit, we got to think of avenues, different ways of, you know, fundraising and different ways that people are going to show up with their funds. There's a lot of people that, you know, a couple of years ago made a lot of money in crypto, knowing the IRS is now looking at that and they're thinking, you know, long term capital gains or, you know, taxes, the word taxes is now introduced into this space. A lot of people are looking to actually, you know, find ways to assist them in being deducting their taxes. But I want to say that they're looking for ways to donate, you know, to a really good program or something that's social impactful. So, you know, this is an avenue that a lot of nonprofits are missing out on because they're not looking at crypto. I think it's it's it's just being more sustainable in this space, you know, to be able to take different resources and different funds as a nonprofit and as a new nonprofit. You know, we we can't afford to be closed minded to the way the funds are coming. Any opportunity for us, we're going to research it. We're going to look at it and see if it's viable for us. And it just so happened that crypto was something that we definitely were able to receive. Yeah, definitely. And Love Endowment as well. Huge fan of the work they're doing. Excellent platform. And Alexis, I think it was actually who connected us as well. So shout out to Alexis. Thank you for the work you're doing. But yeah, that's great advice. And I think that, you know, like nonprofits, a lot of nonprofits that I've worked with are struggling to kind of like keep afloat and keep up with all the tech advances and everything and, you know, really relying on kind of their traditional donor base and everything. But that donor base is also really, you know, aging out as well. And, you know, they're really struggling to, I think, attract new donor bases. I think what you said around like it's a great way to like future proof and like, you know, I think, yeah, definitely spot on. And, you know, I think fundraising, too, is just one piece of the puzzle, right? When it comes to the benefits of blockchain and crypto. And so I was wondering, like, you know, beyond fundraising, what are some of the ways that other impact organizations like Charities, B Corps, whatever it is, can leverage blockchain technology to grow their impact? Yeah, I mean, like NFTs, non fungible tokens, right? A lot of people have heard of NFTs, you know, a couple of years ago when people were making ridiculous amount of money, all for what they deemed to be PFPs or profile pictures. Right. But these NFTs can also be a way to incentivize your donors by giving them something, an NFT, an artwork that are either created by the people that were impacted by that donation, by the program that, you know, a symbolism of, you know, a thank you for helping us obtain our goal. I think a lot of people will find value in using NFTs in a way that will be more commemorative of actions that donors have done. And yeah, and it could also be a way to make it fun for especially the younger generation, because they're all into NFTs. So, you know, imagine if a sponsor or sorry, a donor, imagine if a donor decides to present you with some crypto currencies, right? And you send them an NFT just simply as a thank you. That's really impactful for them. And also they will keep it within their portfolio or their gallery. And others can see that NFT. And once they see the NFT has your name, it's another way of marketing, you know, that's nonprofit. So if someone sees it, they can click on it, see the name and then decide to research it, look into what you guys are doing and consider donating that way. So it's it's an ongoing gifting platform or avenue or vehicle that you can use. Yeah, definitely. I know and I think NFTs are so fascinating because a lot of people like look at them and NFTs are just no JPEGs and whatnot. But I think that there's such a cool opportunity there for like nonprofits to use them to engage donors, like you mentioned, right. You know, to recognize and reward them. It can be like a really cool like badge of like a proof of impact. Right. Proof of impact, yeah. Yeah. I've also seen like dynamic NFTs where, you know, it can be updated, you know, as you donate more. So like there's some really creative use cases there. And you're right, too. It can also be a way for the nonprofit to tell a story or to raise awareness of the work they're doing, too. So, yeah, I think that nonprofits should definitely not be so quick to discount NFTs. I think they can be a very valuable tool for them in their in their yeah, in their growth. So, you know, obviously, a lot of nonprofit leaders are skeptical about Web3 and many rightfully so as well. Right. You know, there's been a lot of unfortunately bad actors that I think have kind of tainted the space a bit, you know, which has resulted in a lot of negative coverage, that it's a lot of scams and, you know, bad actors and those sorts of things. So nonprofit leaders are skeptical. So for those that are skeptical to get involved in this new and emerging space, what advice would you give to them? Oh, if you're skeptical, I would say, you know, read up on the technology. Right. Because I did come in being skeptical of crypto, one aspect of, you know, the technology and decided to read up and started seeing, oh, there's so many different possibilities in this space. You know, my background is also in cybersecurity, so I know about hackers and vulnerabilities and all that stuff. And I want to say that just to say that, you know, the breaches and incidents that do happen in this space is not only isolated to this space, it happens elsewhere as well. It happens with fiat, you know, US dollars as well, you know, so you're not really going to prevent all kinds of, you know, vulnerabilities. But however, that should not be the reasons why you decide to stay away. Another thing is, you know, regardless of the things that are happening when it comes to the vulnerabilities and the threats and incidents, so many different industries are already incorporating, you know, the different type of use cases. We have Visa, you know, that just stepped up, you know, their game again. They issued NFTs, now they're doing, you know, USDs, you know, stable coins. And so, you know, there's a lot of people that are slowly changing and things are changing around you, you know, you don't want that negativity to stop your progress into what the future is going to be. And the future is coming. The future is tech, you know, and it's female, but, you know, the future is tech, you know, and it's important for nonprofits to stay up to date. Every single time when people ask me, you know, about why should people be concerned about, you know, crypto or not using crypto, I always think of Blockbuster, right? They were a well -known company when I was younger, you know, used to be able to go to their store, rent out videos and all that stuff. And everybody thought that they were going to be here forever. All of a sudden they're gone, right? They're replaced. And the younger generation have no idea who they are only because they didn't change with time. So as nonprofits, we have to change with time. We have to be kind of one step ahead, you know, wear multiple hats. And I hate to say it, but kind of experimental, you know, in our approaches, in our marketing and in everything, right? Because if we get to the space where we're just stagnant and say, this is the only way that we're going to receive, we're going to be left in the dust. So you do have to conform to tech. You know, even A .I., nonprofits can't be close minded to A .I. is very helpful to a lot of people. The same thing with blockchain technology. You have to be open minded to it. Yeah, definitely. Wow. Great advice. Thank you so much for sharing that. Yeah, I think, you know, it's the future, right? And to stay afloat, to stay relevant, to stay impactful in the future, you got to, you know, stay up to date with these new technological trends and movements. So, yeah, that's some great advice there and great advice all around, some great insights. I appreciate everything you've shared and obviously weren't able to cover everything about the work you're doing. So for those that are listening and that want to learn more and get involved and support the work that you're doing, what's the best way for them to do that? Yeah, so you can go to BWINB .org, which is Black Women in Blockchain, and find out more about us. We are doing a fundraiser right now. And, you know, you can check out our fundraiser. Our goal is to raise money for programs that we want to implement. One of them is a mentorship program for the younger generation, high schools and college students. It's an 18 week course that we're trying to launch. And this 18 week course will allow these younger generations of females to be able to tap into careers in the blockchain space because there's several different careers and give them access to mentors within these different careers so that they can have the opportunity to maybe transition or look into the possibility of transitioning into these wonderful, lucrative careers that are happening in the blockchain space. And there's plenty of them. It's not just developers. You have influencers. As I said, you have regulators, policymakers, lawyers, attorneys, educators, so many different positions and roles. Yeah, definitely. Thank you for sharing that. And of course, those listening in, all the links will be in the show notes so you can follow along and get involved in this incredible movement. And to end on one final note of inspiration, if that's OK, I'd love to hear a recent success story or win that you've had at a Black Women Blockchain Council that you can share with the audience. Yeah, a recent success story was our ability to provide a fellowship program to college students to attend one of our conferences that happened earlier this year. It was the Women of Blockchain, the International Women of Blockchain Conference, which is an annual conference that we put together. It gives you access to different women in this space. As I mentioned, there's a lot of us. And you get to hear from them and what they're building, how they're showing up in this space. And it's a three day conference. So we were able to provide free room at the hotel as well as their travel expenses. And that's something that a lot of conferences don't oftentimes do. They will lower the price for scholar students. But I remember being a college student, you know, I remember not having the resources, but I want to attend. And so we made sure that they were that they had the opportunity to attend for free without having to worry about how they're going to come up with the money and gave them access to a lot of networking. And to this day, a lot of them are finding success in this space. So I'm really excited about that and the potential of what's to come for them. Yeah, totally. That's amazing. I love that. What a great opportunity for those for the scholars to be able to join that conference. And yeah, I think back as a student, I would have never been able to afford to and transportation hotel and, you know, all that stuff to go to a conference. Right. So that's so important and so inspiring for those individuals that we were able to go. So thank you so much for all you do to uplift and build in this space. And thank you for sharing all the fantastic advice you have today for those listening and definitely check out the show notes to follow along. Hopefully you can also support this movement because they're doing a fundraiser right now. So thank you so much for being here, Olga. It was a pleasure to have you. And thank you for the work you're doing. Thank you, Drew. Thank you very much for having me. A huge thank you to Olga for joining us today on the Web3 nonprofit podcast. Make sure to check out the show notes so you can learn more about their work and consider making a donation to this incredible organization. They're actually running a fundraising campaign right as we speak. A big thank you again to Endowment for their partnership in this podcast series. We couldn't have done it without them. So thanks for listening in and make sure to join us again in a couple of weeks for next episode. Also, feel free to head over to cryptoautism .org to learn more about our work and feel free to shoot us a message if you'd like to chat. Until next time, let's keep showing the world the good of crypto.
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Day 2 The Cherubim St. Michael and the Holy Angels Novena Discerning Hearts Catholic Podcasts
"A novena to St. Michael and the Holy Angels. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and never shall be, world without end. Amen. Day 2. The Celestial Choir of cherubim. The cherubim are some of the most powerful and awe -inspiring of all angels, standing below only the seraphim in direct closeness to God. They, thus, are second only to their Seraphic brethren in the degree to which they emanate the love of God and possess knowledge and wisdom. Their illuminative knowledge and wisdom are thus so great as to be utterly incomprehensible to the mortal mind, blinding the blessed human who has the honor of actually beholding them in this world. By the intercession of St. Michael and the Celestial Choir of cherubim, may the Lord vouchsafe to grant us grace to leave the ways of wickedness to run in the paths of Christian perfection. Amen. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death. Amen. O glorious Prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant in the house of the Divine King, and our admirable conductor, thou who dost shine with excellence in superhuman virtue, vouchsafe to deliver us from all evil, who turn to thee with confidence, and enable us by thy gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day. Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of his promises. Almighty and everlasting God, who by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, hast appointed the most glorious Archangel St. Michael, Prince of Thy Church, make us worthy, we beseech thee, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into the august presence of Thy divine majesty. This we beg through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Copyright © 2020 Mooji Media Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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A highlight from Aztec Testnet For Private Smart Contracts
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Wednesday, September 20th, 2023, Aztec releases a local testnet for private smart contracts, L2B introduces a new TVL framework, Balancer suffers a DNS hijack attack, and the Holsky testnet is set to relaunch on September 28th. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum on Gitcoin Grants round is now live. If you'd like to support this podcast, please consider contributing to our grant by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Aztec Network introduced Aztec Sandbox, a local developer testnet for creating privacy preserving applications. The release includes a lightweight local Aztec node, an Aztec RPC server, the Aztec .NR framework, Aztec .JS, Aztec CLI, and a VS Code extension tailored for NOR, along with code tutorials. Developers can use the Sandbox to experiment with private smart contract composability, private Layer 1 to Layer 2 function calls, private state management, and hidden function execution. The release represents the initial phase in Aztec's developmental roadmap to construct a fully decentralized privacy -preserving Layer 2 network. Layer 2 analytics platform L2B introduced a new framework for calculating total value locked in Layer 2 networks. The updated TVL metric on L2B will now default to include the value of native tokens deployed directly on Layer 2. Previously, L2B only accounted for tokens that originated from Layer 1, as well as chain -specific tokens like OP and ARP. The TVL calculation will now include canonically bridged assets, externally bridged assets, and natively minted assets within Layer 2 networks. L2B will also take into account the total supply of tokens on the Layer 2, the circulating supply of native tokens, and the token's CoinGecko ranking when selecting tokens for inclusion in TVL. Balancer suffered a DNS hijacking attack that resulted in the loss of over $228 ,000 worth of assets. During the hijacking incident, users accessing the Balancer frontend were deceived into approving a malicious smart contract, which ultimately transferred their assets to the attacker. Balancer has since regained control over its domain. Balancer attributes the security breach to a social engineering attack on its domain register provider EuroDNS. In response, Balancer announced plans to deprecate its use of the .vai top -level domain in favor for a more secure register. And lastly, the relaunch of the Holsky Testnet is scheduled for Thursday, September 28th at 12pm UTC. The relaunch comes after the initial Holsky Testnet launch failed due to misconfiguration issues. A launch party for the testnet will take place in Holshovice, Prague at the Bortel Hackerspace. The Holsky Testnet will feature an initial validator set of over 1 million validators and 1 .6 billion testnet ether available at Genesis. In other news, PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin goes live on Venmo, Alchemy releases an ERC4337Q3 stats report, and Friendtech releases support for desktop. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
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A highlight from Aztec Testnet For Private Smart Contracts
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup. Here's your latest for Wednesday, September 20th, 2023, Aztec releases a local testnet for private smart contracts, L2B introduces a new TVL framework, Balancer suffers a DNS hijack attack, and the Holsky testnet is set to relaunch on September 28th. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum on Gitcoin Grants round is now live. If you'd like to support this podcast, please consider contributing to our grant by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Aztec Network introduced Aztec Sandbox, a local developer testnet for creating privacy preserving applications. The release includes a lightweight local Aztec node, an Aztec RPC server, the Aztec .NR framework, Aztec .JS, Aztec CLI, and a VS Code extension tailored for NOR, along with code tutorials. Developers can use the Sandbox to experiment with private smart contract composability, private Layer 1 to Layer 2 function calls, private state management, and hidden function execution. The release represents the initial phase in Aztec's developmental roadmap to construct a fully decentralized privacy -preserving Layer 2 network. Layer 2 analytics platform L2B introduced a new framework for calculating total value locked in Layer 2 networks. The updated TVL metric on L2B will now default to include the value of native tokens deployed directly on Layer 2. Previously, L2B only accounted for tokens that originated from Layer 1, as well as chain -specific tokens like OP and ARP. The TVL calculation will now include canonically bridged assets, externally bridged assets, and natively minted assets within Layer 2 networks. L2B will also take into account the total supply of tokens on the Layer 2, the circulating supply of native tokens, and the token's CoinGecko ranking when selecting tokens for inclusion in TVL. Balancer suffered a DNS hijacking attack that resulted in the loss of over $228 ,000 worth of assets. During the hijacking incident, users accessing the Balancer frontend were deceived into approving a malicious smart contract, which ultimately transferred their assets to the attacker. Balancer has since regained control over its domain. Balancer attributes the security breach to a social engineering attack on its domain register provider EuroDNS. In response, Balancer announced plans to deprecate its use of the .vai top -level domain in favor for a more secure register. And lastly, the relaunch of the Holsky Testnet is scheduled for Thursday, September 28th at 12pm UTC. The relaunch comes after the initial Holsky Testnet launch failed due to misconfiguration issues. A launch party for the testnet will take place in Holshovice, Prague at the Bortel Hackerspace. The Holsky Testnet will feature an initial validator set of over 1 million validators and 1 .6 billion testnet ether available at Genesis. In other news, PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin goes live on Venmo, Alchemy releases an ERC4337Q3 stats report, and Friendtech releases support for desktop. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you tomorrow.
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Day-2-St.-Michael-Holy-Angels-Novena
"A novena to St. Michael and the Holy Angels. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and never shall be, world without end. Amen. Day 2. The Celestial Choir of cherubim. The cherubim are some of the most powerful and awe -inspiring of all angels, standing below only the seraphim in direct closeness to God. They, thus, are second only to their Seraphic brethren in the degree to which they emanate the love of God and possess knowledge and wisdom. Their illuminative knowledge and wisdom are thus so great as to be utterly incomprehensible to the mortal mind, blinding the blessed human who has the honor of actually beholding them in this world. By the intercession of St. Michael and the Celestial Choir of cherubim, may the Lord vouchsafe to grant us grace to leave the ways of wickedness to run in the paths of Christian perfection. Amen. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death. Amen. O glorious Prince St. Michael, chief and commander of the heavenly hosts, guardian of souls, vanquisher of rebel spirits, servant in the house of the Divine King, and our admirable conductor, thou who dost shine with excellence in superhuman virtue, vouchsafe to deliver us from all evil, who turn to thee with confidence, and enable us by thy gracious protection to serve God more and more faithfully every day. Pray for us, O glorious St. Michael, Prince of the Church of Jesus Christ, that we may be made worthy of his promises. Almighty and everlasting God, who by a prodigy of goodness and a merciful desire for the salvation of all men, hast appointed the most glorious Archangel St. Michael, Prince of Thy Church, make us worthy, we beseech thee, to be delivered from all our enemies, that none of them may harass us at the hour of death, but that we may be conducted by him into the august presence of Thy divine majesty. This we beg through the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Copyright © 2020 Mooji Media Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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St. Michael Day 2 ripl
"The Cherubim some of the most powerful and awe -inspiring of all angels, standing below only the Seraphim in direct closeness to God. They thus are second only to their Seraphic brethren in the degree to which they emanate the love of God and possess knowledge and wisdom. Their illuminative knowledge and wisdom are thus so great as to be utterly incomprehensible to the mortal mind, blinding the blessed human who has the honor of actually beholding them in this world. By the intercession of Saint Michael and the celestial choir of Cherubim, may the Lord rise safe to grant us grace to leave the ways of wickedness to run in the paths of Christian perfection. Amen.
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"k. grant" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"When you're your own boss, it really says a lot about you when you're writing 5000 word pieces on workers rights abuses because the economic incentive, the time incentive, again, if your number one objective is I want people to associate my name with quality, you write that story. If your number one objective is likes and social media approval and sort of the vapid bullshit, then that's the last thing you're doing. You're doing it top ten list and we all know how to game the system. We all know how to play the game. Grant didn't want that. And I think the fact that he was doing this all, I mean, he was there independently is something that sort of bears keeping in mind. It's a lot easier when you have the cushion of the sort of lily pad of a big media organization behind you. It's also a lot easier to get access. It's allows you to get people to talk. You know, I'd still to this day have the benefit of saying, hey, I'm with Switzer illustrated. We can get you a daily cover. We can get you placement in the magazine. We have this massive platform that we're going to leverage on your behalf. People did stories with great people talk to grant because they knew who he was. It was all him. It all came down to him, and I think that's a fear, every journalist has. On some level, is at the end of the day, like how much respect is my own name have and he was proof that he had become synonymous with that integrity with that respect. What are some of your favorite stories that he's written? Because I think that, you know, we know again kind of the later era grant law socks are even you got to work with him. What are some of the favorite things he's worked on or maybe things you guys got to work on together? Oh man, we did a bunch of stories together and I think one story we did something on sort of the globalization of sport. I went to China he went to Africa and he found a Nike I got to go back and look at this. But there was a guy named work for Nike who was helping establish a pipeline of players. His name was beside jiri. And I think he's working for Nike at the time. And it was typical grant. He found the guy who would later become the general manager of an MBA title winning team. And in 2004, grant had figured out this was the guy who was going to create this Africa pipeline. You know, I mean, grant's soccer stories you can tick off. I mean, I thought his work on college basketball. I was just talking to go back and thumb through Eduardo, nahari. First Mexico born player in the NBA and you're like, oh, shit, there's grant's byline. I mean, the LeBron piece, if you go back and reread it, it was really, I mean, I remember this is sort of a sidebar, but he came back from that LeBron story. And you know what he said, he said that the LeBron is a nice kid, and I think he's really freaking good, and he's already sort of treated like a celebrity, but there's this guy named worldwide west. I want to do a story on that guy. He seems to know everyone and Phil knight came over and he goes Steven Spielberg and everyone knows have you ever heard of this guy? William Wesley worldwide west? That was great. He'd done a LeBron James story, and that was all well and good. But he had found this other character in the course of the reporting and was intrigued by him. And for years and years and years, he tried to get worldwide west to sit down with him because in 2002, grant had his antennas were up. He was always listening and watching. And in the course of writing a story on LeBron James, he ended up coming back in his overwhelming impression was there's this behind the scenes operator named world wide west, his story meter was like beeping like crazy. And that was grant in a nutshell. He did story a and in the course of doing it, found story B and was happy to put one down to go pursue the other. I guess a sense of this is a basketball podcast. So I do want to ask about it because I honestly remember the LeBron cover that's how I found it about LeBron James. I was like, 'cause it wasn't even like I read the story at first. It was like Sports Illustrated put a high school junior on the cover was kind of like the story. At least how I was introduced to it and then I would read it, but at the time were you like, I'm just curious what the climate was like around that story, the mood. I mean, I know that we are still striving to do stuff like that all the time. It's just hard to imagine ever being more right than we were with that one. Do you think do you remember anything special about it or did it just kind of feel like, oh, this is just kind of what we do. We're doing it again. No, I remember there was some internal, there had been this sort of, I don't know. I'm trying to blank Richie Parker. No, no, not Richard Parker. Who's Felipe Lopez? Over Felipe Lopez, and Tony manned, there's certainly been this history of annoying the great savior and then you end up a few years later rolling your eyes and saying, you know, whatever happened to Felipe Lopez. And it was sort of this, let's see what the story is. Let's not over hype it on the other hand if 60%. This guy's 60% is as good as advertised. He's still an unbelievable player. So I think grant went in eyes wide open. I think grant didn't want. I think grand of all people would be skeptical of doing a story of sort of anointing the next big thing and then 5 years later having it turn into a punch line. And I think that's one reason why, if you go back and reread that story, it's a lot about the culture. It's a lot of, I mean, acronym is a story and that. I mean, Akron is a character in that story. And I think at some level that was grant sort of taking some precautions and putting up some guardrails against just blindly anointing this kid is the next great player because lord knows that it wasn't just Sports Illustrated. I mean, this is the game we're in, right? Everyone's trying to discover the next big boy band and everyone's kind of playing the futures market and sometimes it's Venus and Serena Williams and sometimes it's Tiger Woods. Hitting golf balls and other times there are these prodigies that never pan out. I think grant of all people wasn't going to blindly go into that story and say here's the next Michael Jordan. I think he was open. And I don't think he has specific marching orders, but I think it's entirely possible grant could have seen him play and could have spoken to him and said, you know what? This is OJ Mayo. This isn't LeBron James. So I think in a weird way, grant was perfect to do that story because I think he went in with sort of a discerning I think a fair amount of skepticism that wasn't just blindly gunning for a cover story to pronounce this guy the next big thing. How do you think maybe this would never applies to you or apply to you, but, you know, I definitely think that there is, I don't know, I feel like, for me, at least there are certain writers that are either ones that I look up to are ones that I am kind of in the same cohort with that I'm keeping an eye on and I think that there's a healthy like push you get working around or with other talented people, right? How do you think starting around the same time as grant working with him? What kind of influence do they have on you? How did it how did that impact your own career? Man, I'm really. No, I think it was one of the, I mean, again, it's sort of every cliche about clustering effect and it was like we were at the same gym, but we were different weight classes. So first of all, we were just buddy. We have dinner together. Why we go to each other's have my wedding. There was no competition in park is we cover different sports. I think also in part because we were different kinds of writers, but
Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
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"If you're you can't be home more than thirty days okay. So three hundred thirty days you have to be out of country and thirty days you can be in country. And they count everything that. If i if i touchdown eleven. Pm dallas and by midnight. Odd melded home. Today's laugh so that they they count everything. So i made sure that i was not even close to thirty days over the course of the year because it just saved a lot of money and in the meantime i literally filled up my passport going other places and let them pay for it so it was a lot of fun. That was a very cool job. Yeah that that sounds like a lot of fun. That was really great. Some of the guys who are actually. They're a little longer than i was. But if completely honest it got to the point with the with the racism that i almost it was very difficult not to say anything and and and if i had stayed there i probably would have at some point. Yeah but my roommate was a very good friend of mine who i'd worked with previously He was originally from pakistan but raised in bahrain and then moved to canada when he was like fifteen and i met him. When i was working in canada's we worked together up there. And then when i get the chance to go back to the middle east we needed somebody else and i called him and asked him if he was interested in. He was very interesting because huge raise over being an employee where he was working So he came with us and so when we were over there. We all had roommates. Well is as an. I knew each other so when we got there. We were roommates. Yeah i'm and he was treated Stream lee badly especially when he was alone if he was with us they left him alone because gentlemen right like he wasn't allowed to go to movie theaters arrest or the golf course..
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"I think they twenty two bucks twenty six bucks or something like that. That was awesome. I i went. I went to a durham bulls game. So i think when i was working at durham I don't get out as much when. I am traveling for work. When i very first started. I would do that a little bit. But i kind of stopped when i got older part of it being just because Every time i would go back then especially. When i was in my late twenties everybody wanted to go out and they wanted to drink and they and they want to do all this stuff and i'm like i got to get up really early in the morning and i have to be effective at work right. I hang over. Yeah and so. I kind of stopped going out with the groups not too long into now. I did travel once. Maybe kind of reminded me of this We went and saw george carlin and vegas. Wow that's cool but and that was a really small there. I think that venue like two thousand people so that was really really cool getting to see carlin in a stage like that that. That's that's definitely something strong to think of the places that i've traveled to see things that popped into my head so i know the answer. Disparate army doesn't talk about the strangest place you lived for a while. Well lived in canada for a while. That was too strange. You're probably referring to the middle east. Yes and that was very very strange. I was actually just having this conversation with somebody. Couple of days ago. we were talking about The the olympics having on And i knew a girl that worked on the olympic committee and cutter. Which is where. I was working in doha And we were talking about life over there. It's just different like they don't have address entire country. There's no address to anything the way you find. Anything is by landmarks. And i can literally remember being in the post office. There was one post office in the whole country. I remember being in the post office and there were boxes that were being delivered and the boxes. Instead of having an address on it had directions. I'll how funny and so people would literally ride on there some landmark quick go to landmark mall Behind the mall. Third street Fourth house down on the right blah blah blah. You know it's got a blue gate or something weird like there. Were directions like that on the box for for dropping that thing off it was just odd There's there's no alcohol in the country except is one liquor store again in the entire country. Yeah and you have to have a license to go there so they give you a licensed allow you to go into it And and you're you've got a preset spending limit for the month and it's based on your income so the more money you make the more alcohol you're allowed to buy brighton and inside hotels inside hotels. They'll have bars and in those bars. They have alcohol nowhere else and so i was asking her. I'm like how in the world do you guys going to have. The world cup here entail a bunch of italians and germans and and brits and fringe got that. They can't drink.
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"With nelson grant smoke. Papa smoke smoke. I'm looking at danger. Close mouth clear. Sixty two percent chance there not lululemon. Sure i didn't know if Let's dive right canadian. Have you ever worn pair of lululemon shorts nelson. I actually have. I have to the craftsmanship canada's. They are canadian company. I forgot about that. Swing that mike in front of your face. Don't make normal analogy that. I'd give to men and they're like. Oh okay. i know what you're talking about now. We almost made the critical air that i do oftentimes discussing awesome shit before you actually hit record. That's why stopped us and said. Let's talk on podcast. Yeah you asked about steaua. Which for a long time and still often when people will ask me what it is. I say the montana state tackle officers association. Which is not correct. It's the mountain state correct. Yeah there's definitely it's recently been a lot more out of state dude showing up like seattle as a bunch of guys coming down not known for their mountains correct but they They're known for the talent so they're here talent. In what regard they're getting rep swat team wise or patrol wise. And i think it's a big department so they have They have a little more freedom to send dudes on on the payroll to tennis delay. Yeah and so. A lot of them are instructors and stuff like that. Would you say agent. I adjacent extra help fair enough. Yeah what did you guys do their to. Whatever you feel comfortable talking you know i can talk about it So there's several so msg sweet. It's very affordable Training it's here in It's at fort harrison. And helena and it's basically a tactical. I guess you'd say conference but there's different tracks that you can take some firearms sniper tracks. This is the one. I did the speech at yup. And you did it during the leadership portion. So there's great timing for me and my personal life three weeks due process. Andy the banquets tonight. You're like later. I'm like we're to go. I'm out yeah so But i was there for operation..
hopnology: Hop Growing and Brewing for Craft Beer
"k. grant" Discussed on hopnology: Hop Growing and Brewing for Craft Beer
"We had to figure out a way to meet her and heat at the appropriate rate for their appropriate time. I mean it was. There was a lot there Just to even get rig to dry the hops in a uniform way. Then we had to use the same variety from the same batch. Same dry or harvest day all that kind of stuff to to minimize any chance of error and people say well. You didn't move a blue. Shut up kevin. So we went through all of that and then the data analysis and all of the actual laboratory analysis has acted on our behalf. Stuff that we certainly do in our own lab. We needed somebody with more chops. Plus you want a third party doing that and know Doing the analysis questions about you know cooking the books so was right right. It adds a layer of the third party verification there. It's it's just the right way to do it. And in the end you produce this data set you do this right up and go son thud. Throw it on literally could make that sound after it was all printed And here you go. We have empirical evidence that drying your hops over one hundred one hundred and ten degrees fahrenheit. Not only statistically significantly reduces the amount of aroma compounds of various types in your hopped but from a sensory analysis standpoint. It's also clearly significant. What other data do you need So promptly said that to the Hot quality group and the master brewers association and a american society of brewing chemists crickets absolutely no engagement at all whereas in the past it would have been like oh blah blah blah. You're not being realistic. So just bury it and university of nebraska lincoln. Just this last year took the our protocol and our i should replicated the the experiment and they corroborated our data so now we have a third party. Verification of the entire process says yep these data right if you're used dry over one hundred one hundred and ten degrees fahrenheit your sensory negatively impacting your hot potential. So that's i think at the end was great. Swansong going out. But i think that really capped off our our grant experience but looking at a cost that much because of all the people that were involved in all of the cost. The physical cost of building these rigs and paying people for their hops because we wanted to get hops from other sites not from ours. Because we didn't want to have any sense for of impropriety there so it was. It was a big deal But in the end were worry profited. We quote profit off of this yes. We profited off off of these grants from a monetary standpoint because everybody pads her numbers. I mean you do that for a couple of reasons one just to cover your ass and to. You're like yeah this is this is important. I want to get paid for doing it. so we profited off of it from a cash flow.
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"k. grant" Discussed on hopnology: Hop Growing and Brewing for Craft Beer
"Six and we talk about an easy out right there. We do that but man. oh man. wouldn't that have been a great snow job. That would have been so funny. See chapter fourteen chapter fourteen the proposal. We're going through exactly all out. We'll remember that. For next time. I thought about you know when this when this latest grant announcement came up. I'm like should we do something that i'm like. Nah i don't have it in me anymore. Like do i do. I have it in me to do another research project or a marketing project. Or now i don't. That's just be honest. i'm not there anymore. Well you know we we. Now have the the breath with our knowledge with all these different farms to do a kind of a crowd. Sourced project through coordinated. Yeah i i'd be happy to do the do the experimental design and the data analysis with them. But i ain't doing the work. I'm i'm past that now. That's that's other people's problems interesting okay. It's something to discuss on on the discord with knowledgeable. Est team sure. There's a deadline to that. So if anyone in the us interested and they want to partner team up and discuss amongst yep so part. Two of that grant was the last data set that we released which was again about drying taking everything that we've learned about proper airflow and pressure drop and what we couldn't put in the last in the first one was temperature. And we wanted to. You know this is what after ten years of practice and market analysis and understanding of what quote the aroma. Smart process provided for hops. That he had joined didn't we knew just based on physical chemistry perspective and thermodynamics that heated drying drives all followed and in driving off those volatile. 's you will impact the final hop aroma. Sensory in your beer. It's it has to happen. Thermodynamic says it has to happen but no one ever wrote a paper on it or study. Nobody believed us or they would just brush us off me like. Yeah whatever now. It's not not a thing where like all right fine bitches. We're going to we're going to do this. I think that was the name of the grant. Proposal was okay. Fine bitches okay. Fine bitches we're going to do this exactly what it was called you. can you can google. That were computer it. It certainly you know got people's attention on yes issued but That was a big project and that project itself was just under a hundred thousand dollars because it involved. A lot of people involved a lot of analysis. I know a lot of you. Use zach at a our labs here in madison Zach was instrumental in in the chemical analysis of those of that project. And perhaps this act. He's awesome if nobody's using them. Further hop analysis. You gotta look up a our labs madison. It was a long slap for that project was two year project where we looked at. We had to build these small-scale mental drying chambers..
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"k. grant" Discussed on hopnology: Hop Growing and Brewing for Craft Beer
"And okay there you go. We said this is what we proved out of that was. This is everything we think that needs to be covered for a nontraditional hop gar. This is how we're would present the information and here's an example of it and that's that's what we got for it so i mean it wasn't it covered our time for doing it. We did not make a bunch of money off of that now but it was stuff we were doing already. It was a matter of writing it down right. Of course never a bad idea and so out of that project came a fantastic outline for all of our gorse valley hops in person seminars to a reset. Okay we've walked through all of these sing several times outlining this book. And we're writing the content down. These are things that we can cherry pick and put into our in person workshops that then led to revenue that were great so those are things that we would have had to have done anyway in order to build that curriculum but we were paid to do it by the state instead worked awesome yup the other ones dryers and those those plans are out there and many of you probably use them Which we called the The four by eight host or the been host where we said. How can we take this idea all that stuff. We've talked about all the time about drying all the techniques and whatnot and the physics center involved engineering to that and get it into a system. That is approachable for people to make their own dryer that is going to deliver. That's going not going to do any damage to the house or do the the best you can do is no damage. So how do we. How do we design that. So we did. We researched it. Dan did all the math and engineering. Or out. airflow and pressure drop and that's where we started to understand. Oh this is a lot more complicated than ever thought. Certain when we start looking at at data in engineering. They're like yeah. There's no pressure drop number for hops. Okay so we're gonna have to figure that out. Oh yeah there's no air velocity requirements for hops. Okay round figure that out. What is the draw down in the moisture loss rates for hops. Ain't gonna figure that out. So what what happened. Was we answered this. I grant question which was not a question was we're gonna zayn the small-scale drier and frankly we over designed it just because there were so many other questions that came out of this project that we didn't have both time and capacity to answer that led to a much bigger project later much much bigger project and we needed those answers. We absolutely needed those answers..
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"k. grant" Discussed on hopnology: Hop Growing and Brewing for Craft Beer
"Equipment or designees patent ideas using grant money. That is fair. You can't do that So anything that you're going to use that money for is going to be open source which you know what great because i'm here to tell you chasing the patent thing on equipment design is a giant pain any ass for been there done that so we had To grant awards for one was for a harvester design and one was for a dark side and both of those reports were available free to anybody wants and they're out there already from the state of wisconsin. I don't know what file folder they've got it crammed in but it's allergies and part of the record public are and what we found on the. You've heard us talk about the mangla and mangla junior. This was not the bind thirty sixty this was predates the by thirty sixty by like three years and it was our attempt to make a basically what looks like a scaled down wolf harasser. We went through four iterations over two seasons and did never came up with a working model one that was reliable and that was part of the grant. The grant said. Hey we're gonna design this thing and we're gonna prove it and we're gonna talk about what works and what doesn't and so. We found four ways not to build a harvester. Don't do these things because of x. y. and z. And the conclusion was one is going to design their own harvester. These are the things that you need to focus on and these are the things that didn't work give me my money and that was twenty five thousand dollars. We got to do that. So what did that cover. What are that twenty five grand comer. It covered the cost of my materials to build these harvesters. Cover my time both to fabricate it to write the grant to do all that kind of stuff and the cost of whatever hops we lost or consumed in not in the process of testing osho. Because as as we've discussed there is no. There's no replacement you can use as a proxy for hops when it comes to drying or or harvesting right. This is nothing like it did it. Did it cover fingertip replacement Did not it however it did cover you know whatever our workers comp insurance was okay good good support so that was all part of the cost when we figure out. What is the people cost of doing this project. So i had to break down to say okay. These are the people that were involved is how much time they're gonna because they all want by the hour. So how many hours is this person gonna spend doing this. What is their hourly rate. What is their fringe benefit rate. What is there the taxes associated with that individual so all of the unemployment and all that kind of stuff withholding an on top of that. What is the.
hopnology: Hop Growing and Brewing for Craft Beer
"k. grant" Discussed on hopnology: Hop Growing and Brewing for Craft Beer
"Techie people so we were all all about researching and driving to an answer or solving technical and so as as part of our grant application it was laid out like a research project. This is you know we talked about the scientific method. What seven there eighteen times like many times. Yeah so we lay out our research project. We say. This is the objective. This is why we believe this is important. This is how we're going to go about doing it. This is what the deliverables are gonna be. This is how long it's gonna take us and ultimately this is how much it's gonna cost. So that's where the rubber meets the road. That's where you have to have a solid understanding of what it's gonna cost you to do this. That's how you come up with the number that you're asking for for dollar number so what's included in that. Some people think. Yeah i'm gonna go out and do this. And i'm going to go for twenty five thousand dollar grant so i'm going to research a timing of cutback on hops while we're number come from because you're going to have to justify that number down to in many cases like with a specialty crop block grant. It was labor. How much is you know labor. Who's going to be doing the work. What is their hourly rate. What is their fringe benefit rate. What's the tax rate on top of that so that you can justify that cost. It's not just saying i'm gonna. I need this much money in order to do this thing. No tell me exactly how you arrived. That number and that frankly took most of the work for me is how the labor part was huge. But then it's like okay. Well part of the deliverable. This project is disseminating information. So tell me your plan. For how you're going to disseminate this information and all the costs associated with that yet and that is a piece that i think it's so important to get right because the the work being done too and before disseminating of information you may find grants out there. We say well. I'm doing this already all the other stuff all the other things that are going on looking at cutback timing well. If you've if you've got your waterproof yellow record keeping book the field. You're doing this already. So that's part of. I think the puzzle here is finding things we say. Well wait a minute either. I'm doing that already or i should be doing that already. I can build that into a grant proposal correct but the dissemination piece the communication piece at the end is is something you you mean you gotta be careful to factor that in the things that i saw were. I'm going to publish on my website Great gets four people today. Yeah that is. That's not enough so the things that they were looking for were. Are you going to share this information. Are you going to work with somebody. That university in order to to write up a A bulletin for their service. That has a much larger reach. Are you going to deliver this information at conferences. Are you going to create a poster about it and deliver that at conferences or grower meetings..
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"That. Three thirty is specifically for the specialty. Crop block grant program which we're gonna talk about now to our international listeners. Non non us listeners. You're likely not eligible for these grants but We're gonna talk not not about the program details. We're gonna talk about what we're going to talk about. It's going to be applicable to all grants. But i'm just giving you some background of where this this idea came from to have this conversation. So yep so. Don't turn us off. This is yeah. This is much more about the concept of grants and how to fit them into your business schedule and and those sorts of things and the jury's go i was gonna say 'cause there there are some wonderful opportunities out there but you gotta be gotta be careful with what you're committing to Yeah the dirty secrets around grant money and it's depending on what you signed yourself for. You're going to be like yeah okay. I got a pile of money but was it worth it. I don't i don't know so. Yeah let's let's talk about that. It's kind of just like borrowing money from family. you know. I got a bunch but it was really worth what i had. Yeah exactly like Alternately for grants and this is the thing that when when people start thinking about grants they they think about all. It's yeah you're gonna. I'm gonna. I'm gonna write your sob story and you're gonna give me money. You're gonna send me a check. Note doesn't work that way. Most i'm gonna say most because i'm sure there are some smaller grants out there which they shouldn't really be called grants. This should be called awards or something like that because there really are just like. Here's five thousand dollars to help promote your business. Go him Those are like winning the lottery. This is those aren't the grants that we're talking about. We're talking about grants true grants where you will get money from. Usually the government could be from nonprofit private non-governmental organizations. But usually it's it's the government going gonna give you money and you're going to give them something back..
hopnology: Hop Growing and Brewing for Craft Beer
"k. grant" Discussed on hopnology: Hop Growing and Brewing for Craft Beer
"Task day zest. That's m- that's the new way. I'm going test. Mike recording from now. And i'm going to assess zest best it of course. No one's going to understand that for a few more weeks after this goes live in new york. Hi everybody here. We are drinking our coffee. Yep it's mostly gone though you have because again forty five minutes into the conversation. We start recording so yeah we really should find a way to record the stuff. We don't mean cord because the fun value of some of that and it's only tangentially related. Top -nology i mean i mean tangentially take very tenuously tangential so so peek behind the curtain here. We we always start the conversation with okay. So so what are the major points. We're gonna hit here on today's conversation and then it dovetails into you know stuff going on at home and i it just it. All goes sideways. Hr stuff yeah. Yeah a lot of things that that no one would want to hear and our spouses wouldn't want to hear they don't but they don't listen. Nobody knows them knowing exactly so we could really say whatever we want. And that's the other podcast saying. Yep yep that's podcasts. that happens before we hit record. It's the preamble to the podcast. The preamble that we can we can run with. That can do something that by the time. You're listening to this. You will have heard our first release from backyard roof farm yup which is right on the street at the same stream however however they call it with hop -nology and hopefully you enjoyed that and they'll be a couple more there before we lock it down behind the the hoppner patriots side of things and make it part of that whole the. Thank you to our patrons. So if you're enjoying that. I one give the next one or two. Listen and then join us there on patriot on and listen to more stuff about very very small scale and home brewing side of things. And that's what was all about Zest zest we had a fun. Time recording about zest well. This conversation may may not be zesty as that conversation granted. That is lovely. Aw follow of. See what you did there. That's my one contribution. I'm just gonna sit back and listen for the rest of this. We're gonna talk about grants today. Yup but grants because grants are free money muni right come on i'll have to do is beg and they give me money to to run my farm. How awesome is that. It's america's wonderful. Isn't it wrong wrong wrong wrong. Wrong on all counts. Yeah there's a lot of things wrong with that state there. Yeah we're gonna talk about grants today and as we were again in the preamble saying to we've cord this before we talk about grants. We might have but to greg to your point. If we can't remember when we talked about it then we talk about it again..
Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"k. grant" Discussed on Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"Interesting things or email at three interesting things at g mail dot com right. Find me in on all your podcast app. Windy your episodes come out. We come every tuesday. I usually schedule them for five in the morning eastern standard time. So you're going to wake up and have it ready to go on your phone. So tuesday morning you'll find new episodes of the show. Well don we will have you back i am. I enjoyed visiting with you. The time went way too. Quick etienne's man. That's the way it worth to you and your family are staying safe during all this crazy pandemics. We are thinking safe. You know why. Jesse 'cause we're wearing a mask well. I just was going to end listeners. Please remember to social distance. Remember to wash your hands. Do not be like the texas governor wearing masks and let's all be good to each other because that's the only way we're gonna get through this. The freeman brother. Amen thank you goodbye. Doing a podcast at times can be a one way conversation. And i hate that so please let me know what you like. And don't like about the work i'm doing. You can reach the podcast via email at settling brusett gmail.com..
Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"k. grant" Discussed on Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"It's almost like you know if you things you didn't know before but it didn't sound like it was you know being lectured to you from bucks. Had he find your guests through a variety of places it started out with me talking to a lot of fellow podcasters but as i mentioned off the top of the show one thing that had been doing a little bit more lately. As as i've been reading. I do a lot of reading of of online magazines. I'm a big consumer of news and culture and various other things. If i read something. That's interesting now. What i'll do is. I'll frequently reach out to The author and see if they wanna come on the show and amazingly enough a few of them you know say yes and so You know i i. I have to That i've recorded that. You know already in the can which are ready to come up with a couple of weeks. i've had journalists from you know the new yorker the atlantic Buzzfeed independent journalists. All kinds i've had authors add sam keen who's a science author All kinds of really interesting things so that the topics can range all over the damn place. So which is which is kind of nice. Because then if you're someone who likes something a bit more scienc- you know we'll talk about mars. One we can you like something a bit more about politics and economics than this week's show would be one for you or if you like one more about food than the one that's coming up next week might be for you and the best part is you know. It's if you don't like the podcast. Guess what there's a lot of podcasts. Out there yeah. If you don't want to listen to mind that's cool. Guess what there's a bunch of other ones out there and god love. You go find one do you do you try to kinda mic. It sounds like you try to mix up the topics where you you don't stay overly political. You don't stay overly scientific you kinda try to mix up some you know like well. This sounds would be an interesting discussion. This is kind of a funny fact. Is that kind of your thought as you're building this. Yeah pretty much. As i build every episode and it is interesting because now of course that i'm doing a bit more of like interviewing these journalists as opposed to sort of the you know the the weird facts. It's they're a bit more thematically linked. Also this one that the woman that i spoke to this week as medically linked about you know economic inequality Last week's was about the mars rover. But we also talked about space force and we talked about what makes an astronaut You know and then. I've talked to and then you know other episodes will be like you know a i talked about betty white being an early civil rights leader talked about the james bond film. That wasn't a james bond film about being able to clone a woolly mammoths All all kinds of stuff like that. So we try to make up for sure for sure..
Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"k. grant" Discussed on Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"He So have you watched the broadway play on net flicks. I have not watched it yet. I've seen clips of it. Because different people have shared different aspects of social media so seemed different things And i remember when i first heard that he was doing broadway. I thought that doesn't seem like a fit. That i think would work but apparently it did. And so what the hell do i know. I don't know if you you know he's currently doing a podcast split. The some guy named barack obama. I heard that that's funny of the two of them. That's what spotify money will do for you. Yes and they were telling the story that At the end of the obama administration he had reached out. Bruce said i wanted to do something for my staff. They've been here the whole time. Would you mind perform me and brusett. Yeah i'll be glad to do. A semi could bring the whole band. That would just be kind of you know. That's strange but i'll bring a guitar and i'll sing a few songs. And and he said he was talking to patty and patty said well. You could read from the book. And bruce said he tried to reform the book but that seems stiff so he ended up paraphrasing the stories and so he ended up. Doing like you know. Sixty seventy five minute show. They are the white house and for aids at basically him telling stories and singing songs and and afterwards and you know President obama is telling the story in the podcast uses. You should do that. You should do this. Show somewhere else. And he said that was what led him to going to broadway the idea to do that. Yeah and so he did it It is my wife could not make it through she And what's funny is The very first part of the part of the show talking about his father and his relationship with his father and the town is very depressing and my wife said i don't. This is just too dark. This is depressing. I gotta go jesse. And what's funny is like five minutes later. Russa's piano says okay. I'm going to get you off. Suicide watch about my mom. So it's actually because on tunnel of love the one song about his dad walk like a man. That's one of the songs that i skipped through. I it's fine but it's you know it's not one of my favorite. That's my least favorite song on the. It's funny you say that. About bruce by the way doing that. At the end of the obama administration coming in sorta like. I'm done here. And i want to sort of do something nice on my way out. 'cause that's exactly the same thing that happened to him with letterman right. When letterman left late night he was like what was the one guest. I haven't been able to get in. The last guest. Of course was brousseau so that that seems to be bruce's Gig gave on their way out of their good. I would love don for you to watch it and then join me again and talk about it absolutely. I think that would be a great episode. I think really fun So how do you. Let's talk about three interesting things. That's the podcast. I assume. available everywhere. Podcast star there right everywhere pilot. Yes i did make stephen colbert made the joke. That now than that. Bruce has a podcast He he did a parody. Colbert did of. i'm on fire. Basically saying i'm going to the post office using post office. dot com dot com.
Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"k. grant" Discussed on Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"Album and i was listening to it with my girlfriend's brother at the time who was a big bruce head and he turned to me as we were listening to and he said they're going to get divorced. I was like i said. What are you talking about like listen to this album. They're i get divorced because that album came out. I think it was like a year or two after they got married right and the album came out. I think it was about a year before she filed for divorce and he was a hundred percent right. And you know it's i mean it's a bit simplistic and reductive to say that. It's an album about that but at the same time if you if you listen to it it's oh my goodness. It's there as clear as day. So i remember critic writing once that with tunnel of love and it says it truly is The story of a marriage falling apart and I don't know if you've You know. Bruce has been very vocal over the past few years He did the autobiography which is a fascinating book. Then he did broadway and then he did western stars right which is where he An album that very jimmy webb glen campbell ish Kind of influences and he recorded that album live in his barn and between songs he talks about it and shares of himself and he said there was a point in his life. Where if you love him he would try to hurt you and get you away from his life before you could hurt him. He you know. He talked about fighting depression of so. Yeah i think your you know your friend was spot on It is one of my favorite of his I think there is a lot of beauty in it and a lot of You know one of my highlights. He was in houston back in two thousand fourteen and someone had a sign request. Do one step up and you know and he did it And he says you know we do not know this song and you know in the bandon walk through it and it was a great version of doing that. So yeah i love it. I mean the other funny thing about that album when you think about it. In sort of in retrospect you look back at it. Is you know he's coming. He's coming out of born in the usa which sells like twelve million copies. He's like arena. Rock god of the planet for the entire decade etc. What do you do after that. Do you know what i mean like. After he after he did the river. You know he. He went really stark. He went home aiding and he did nebraska so he couldn't exactly do the same thing. You can't sell the make this dark star album again because that would seem a little too. Formulaic outcomes tunnel of love. Which is kind of i guess a little bit in between right in the in the sense that it's not it's not that big arena. Rock that you will have from a born usa. But it's not as stark as nebraska. It's not as sort of quiet. As as goes tom jones which was come later on but at the same time is is more personal in. It's telling his personal story about him. It's not just this sort of like. Oh you know. Jenny did this blah blah blah blah. It's it's you can tell. These are things that he is..
Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"k. grant" Discussed on Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"Yeah i guess. So i mean i also like you know. There's never a bad time for floyd. This never a bad time for. I sound so old. I'll say there's never a bad time for van morrison but at the same time you know i also i've been listening to a lot of raila montaigne lately I love myself some ray. I listened to a lot of blues Jazz and my. It's funny i on my spotify playlist now. I have sort of one playlist which is kind of like my main spotify playlist and it has about fifteen hundred songs on it right. I'm sorry the so it will go from. It will go all over the map. And i'm i continually add things to it all the time And there's some bruce on there for sure what's funny is I don't remember what comedian. But i think it's so true he On your ipod. Which is now. Our phones rises. Every song on your ipod was a song you picked but then why so often do you hit skip when it comes to us as a sort of like. It's sort of like when you when you look at the the spotify selected for you or discovered for using sort of like you look at it and say am i really that boring and my. Who's who's the old boring man. Who did this. What jackson browne. What the hell. I know you mentioned that. We wanted to talk about bruce. So tell me. Do you remember when you first discovered versus music and your thoughts. Well let me ask you a question. I which is there. You are obviously like a disciple of bruce. No more like your full on disciple yes. He's number one above all else. Which i think is great. Which i think is really interesting. I in some ways. I kind of wish. I had an artist like that. I wish i did have an artist that i could get down on my knees and pray to on a regular basis instead of doing a little way in the sense that I mentioned before that i do i. I also perform musicals here and there. And so i love a stephen sondheim using music composer who did like into the woods. Sweeney todd of But bruce i was one of those people in high school..
Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"k. grant" Discussed on Set Lusting Bruce: The Springsteen Podcast
"Lie entirely north of canada's southernmost border including states like north dakota and montana and wyoming this tons. It's it's crazy you know. I'm thinking of the west wing episode talking blocks of cheese episode. Where they talk about the the world isn't how you look in. Cj is like you're freaking me out right. Well it's it's funny that you say that because we talked about that fact i episode three interesting things and i referred to that episode and in fact pulled in a sound bite from that episode and dropped it into the show so this is about thirty forty seconds from that exact one that you reference funny this. I love the fact that you knew it. Yeah there you can never go wrong. Quoting aaron sorkin so yeah. That's nice. Well don we always like to start at the beginning so talk about growing up. Where did you grow up in. What kind of music did your family. Listen to your growing up. I had a pretty eclectic Background growing up. i grew up in ottawa. Which is the capital of canada. Until i was twelve and then i moved to london england and lived there for a while and then came back here to toronto so it was kind of all over the place and it was a mixture of my own seventies music as i was growing up and You know i my mom Listened to a lot of show tunes. So i had a lot of broadway show tunes as well and And then kind of formed my own musical tastes going forward from there but i became somewhat of a crazy crazy music listener to the point whereas my wife will tell you i really cannot do much functionally the house if there is not music playing. When did you. When did you graduate secretary score. High school they say here in the us. I graduated secondary school. And while the funny thing is i lived in london and i went to an american school when i was in london. So most my most of my friends from high school are actually americans And i graduated from there in nineteen eighty four. Okay so i'm an old man. We'll see irish. Wait a minute. I graduated high school in seventy seven. Oh see there. You go yeah. So that's why when you were talking about top forty. I was looking good and we're looking. We are yeah that You know you have that kind of the the seventies and early eighties that that pop culture in In this is the old man syndrome right but one of the beauties was listening to either. The am radio or the fm radio. The eclectic music right like this is. And i'm just as bad as anyone else like when i have sirius. Xm i have it on the east radio or less except when my wife's in the car and then we will pick either seventies. You know the road trip channel or something..