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A highlight from ANTI BITCOIN BOB MENENDEZ CHARGED! SEC GARY GENSLER DOESN'T LIKE THE LAW (CRYPTO NEWS)
"Welcome back to the Thinking Crypto Podcast, your home for cryptocurrency news and interviews. If you are new here, please hit that subscribe button as well as the thumbs up button and leave a comment below. If you're listening on a podcast platform such as Spotify, Apple or Google, please leave a five star rating and review. It supports the podcast and it doesn't cost you anything. Well, folks, we got very interesting news, which I'm sure many of you may have heard in the mainstream media, and that is Senator Bob Menendez has been charged with bribery and a whole bunch of other crimes. And you may say, well, Tony, why are you talking about this? Right. Well, folks, Senator Bob Menendez, who is a Democrat, he introduced a bill back in 2022, which would help to stop Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador. And he was citing that the adoption would open the door for money laundering and corruption. Wow. Talk about hypocrisy, folks, right? This guy all along for a very long time, his track record, he's been accused of doing a lot of shady stuff and now he's being charged here. The folks at Bitcoin Archive said the senator who said Bitcoin can open the doors of corruption in El Salvador was just indicted for corruption by federal prosecutors who seized one hundred thousand dollars in gold bars and four hundred and eighty thousand dollars in hidden cash from his home. So politicians those who are often very loud and screaming against crypto are the ones who have a lot to lose and a lot to hide, who are probably doing shady stuff. For example, Elizabeth Warren, Brad Sherman, Gary Gensler, right? I'm sure they've got some really nasty stuff in their closet. And some folks have shown that Elizabeth Warren has a net worth of seventy three million dollars. And of course, her salary is just like two hundred and eighty thousand a year. That's a great amount of wealth she's accumulated from just a senator's salary, right, folks? But we know the game, right? This is why we got to keep fighting and we got to expose these corrupt bureaucrats and politicians like Elizabeth Warren and Brad Sherman. We know they are puppets on the string doing a lot of the bidding of the tradfi incumbents and people who would love to kill crypto and not just even kill crypto, but just stop or kill the startups and allow their banking buddies and Wall Street buddies to come in and take over. So I'm glad these folks are getting exposed. And President Nayib Bukele, who, of course, he's the president of El Salvador, he tweeted about this news. He said, this is the guy that called for an investigation against us. He ended up being charged, period. So I'm glad he's doing a victory lap there. Now we got some interesting news about a library in the SEC. So we had reported just about a week and a half ago or two weeks ago that library was going to file an appeal. And this is based on the Ripple lawsuit outcome. Right. It makes sense. We have new case law with XRP, so it makes sense for them to appeal. And the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has directed library to file its brief by November 1st, 2023. Now of course, this is no guarantee they're going to win. But the point is, we want to put the pressure on the SEC and Gary Gensler. We want to expose them for their lies, hypocrisy and much more. So I'm glad library is doing this. Attorney Jeremy Hogan highlighted a video here with Gary Gensler being interviewed. And it just shows his hypocrisy that he doesn't care about the law. He just cares about his own power and his next job. And it's no wonder Judge Sarah Netburn said the SEC has no faithful allegiance to the law. So he says the crypto space is full of hucksters and noncompliance. Well, the reporter asked them, would anything a court says change your mind? Great question. Gensler said, well, no, not really. And of course, he looked very shaky. He's losing confidence. And Attorney Jeremy Hogan said, you can't make this stuff up. So clearly, this man has no respect for the law. He's just making things up as he goes. It's about his show, his power, his ego. And we can't have that, folks. This guy's supported by our tax dollar. He should be kicked to the streets. And I'm telling you, I hope that Coinbase mops the floor with his buffoon and the SEC so that he has so much pressure on him. He's forced to resign. I'm hoping that happens. Now, Stuart Aldarati highlighted that same video. And here's what he had to say. What's most concerning to me and should be to you in the full video clip, this is the shocking admission of an unelected bureaucrat that he won't respect the decisions of the courts. So I'm thankful for the judicial branch and the balances we have in the government that a corrupt scumbag regulator like Gary Gensler, as much as he can go around saying all kinds of nonsense and nasty stuff, he has to respect the courts in a sense of what they put out there. Right. The SEC has to abide by that. Now, he may not personally agree, and he can, you know, like in this interview, say, oh, no, I don't agree with anything. But at the end of the day, if he takes a loss, he takes a loss. Right. So we got to keep fighting. I'm hoping the industry keeps fighting back as well. Now, quick word from our sponsor, and that is Uphold, which is a great crypto exchange that I've been using since twenty eighteen. I've interviewed their CEO and many representatives so I can vouch for this platform. They have ten plus million users, two hundred and fifty plus crypto currencies, and they're available in one hundred and fifty countries. You can also trade precious metals and thirty seven fiat currencies so you can switch between these different currencies and crypto and precious metals at a click of a button. So it's a unique platform and they've been around for a long time. Once again, I can vouch for this platform. So if you'd like to learn more, please visit the link in the description. All right. Let's move ahead. Caitlin Long was at Mainnet and she was tweeting out some of the statements coming out of Mainnet. I was at Mainnet yesterday and I met her. I tweeted out a photo of us together. I was supposed to go on Wednesday as well, but I wasn't feeling too hot. So stayed home that day. But, you know, there was a lot of folks there. And Brian Armstrong, CEO, was there. He said the Biden administration has been terrible for crypto. Well, that's to say the least, right? That's an understatement. They've been horrendous, in my opinion. Caitlin also highlighted that 61 percent of pro -crypto voters actually this is she's highlighting what Chris Lee Hain had to say, that 61 percent of pro -crypto voters in 2020 voted for Biden. Democrats are at risk of losing them in 2024 due to anti -crypto policy. Absolutely right. And these Democrats are shooting themselves in the foot. Patrick Hanson of Circle highlighted the following, that the euro stablecoin, obviously Circle issues USDC, but they also have the euro stablecoin and it's now EURC instead of EUROC. So just an update there. So the euro coin is now EURC. So just heads up on that, folks. And I want to highlight something I tweeted out today, and I think it's important. And, you know, all emotions aside, all feelings aside, I was highlighting that I'm very bullish on Ethereum for the 2024 -2025 bull market. Now this is, once again, all emotions and feelings about Bill Hinman and Joe Lubin aside, I still want those guys to be held accountable. But as for the token and the code, it's getting adoption. And I highlight that PayPal is building their stablecoin in Ethereum, right, PYUSD, Citibank's token is built on Ethereum. JP Morgan is working on a deposit token, which is built on Onyx, which is a permissioned version of the Ethereum blockchain. Coinbase is obviously launching base, which is their layer two for Ethereum, or they have launched it, I should say. And there's a rise in institutional ETH staking. So I'm very bullish on ETH and this type of news, these facts now, not my feelings, not my opinions, but these facts of adoption from very big companies and brands has me very bullish on Ethereum. I obviously hold ETH in my portfolio. I stake it and I continue to buy the dip, not financial advice. You should do your own research. And obviously I'm not just bullish on ETH alone, but just there's been a lot of adoption. And I want to highlight that because it's about facts, not feelings now. And I'm bullish on Bitcoin, XRP, Chainlink and many other tokens. Let's talk about Core Scientific, which is a Bitcoin mining company. So Core Scientific sealed $77 million Bitmain deal for 27 ,000 Bitcoin mining rigs. The deal was first finalized in August with Anchorage as another party agreeing to an equity stake in the bankrupt crypto miner. So one of the key things is that BlackRock also gave them a bit of money. Guys, this was back in 2022. So it's kind of like to the Victor goes to spoils where Bitmain was in trouble and then a whole bunch of folks started coming in to grab up as much as they can. So the deal between the two mining companies will see Bitmain supply 27 ,000 Bitcoin mining rigs for $23 million in cash, along with $53 .9 million worth of common stock of the bankrupt firm. Apart from the mining hardware purchase deal, Bitmain and Core Scientific have signed a new hosting agreement to assist Bitmain's mining operations. The deal was finalized in August when a court filing highlighted Bitmain's plan to sell mining hardware in exchange for cash and equity. As part of Core Scientific's restructuring plan, apart from Bitmain, the restructuring plan also included Anchorage. And you guys may have seen my interview recently with the president of Anchorage and the co -founder of Anchorage, Diego Monica. If you haven't seen that, be sure to check it out. It says here, restructuring plan also included Anchorage, BlockFi and mass mutual asset finance. Apart from Anchorage, all other three firms chose a mix of cash and equity options to settle their claims. The expansion investment plan by Bitmain will come into force by the fourth quarter of 2023, pending approval from a judge. Once approved, the hardware will potentially add 4 .1 exahashes to Core Scientific's hash rate. The two crypto mining companies all have also agreed to work together to upgrade Bitmain's last generation miners hosted at Core Scientific's data centers to further increase the firm's productivity. So, folks, Core Scientific, I will be potentially interviewing the new CEO and I'll let you guys know when that's coming up. But I want to definitely get into the details here and what BlackRock is doing with them in addition to Bitmain. So I'll definitely be asking those questions once I get the interview locked in. But, you know, a lot of companies are preparing for the Bitcoin mining next year. And many of you may have seen my interview uploaded earlier today with Fred Thiel, who's the CEO of Marathon Digital Holdings, and Marathon is working with a sovereign wealth fund. So, folks, there's going to be a lot of capital coming to the market. You're going to see a rise in demand for Bitcoin as the spot ETFs get approved, especially around, you know, BlackRock spot ETF and Fidelity and so forth. So I'm very bullish, you know, like I've been saying, we are in quantitative tightening, fighting inflation, rates are high, but this will end right as it has historically boom and bust cycles. The Fed will eventually start its QE again. They're going to start printing money, global liquidity will go back up and we'll be back in a bull market. We just have to be patient, dollar cost average where possible. And, you know, don't look at the price every day because you'll drive yourself crazy. And, you know, it's very volatile. Sometimes it's moving sideways. It's very boring. And I know that's tough. But just, you know, take your positions, obviously do your research, take your positions and just be patient and then, you know, watch what these players are doing. Right. Not so much the price, but watch what the players like this are doing, who's investing, who's building, who's raising capital and much more. So that's what I'm looking at. And that's why I build this podcast to share the news, because, you know, this is not going to make mainstream news. This is not going to be on CNBC, Fox or CNN or whatever it is. Right. And a lot of people are not paying attention. But I'm glad I'm here early. If you are here early, pat yourself on the back because there's going to be billions of people coming in buying Bitcoin and other crypto at a premium and they're going to go to BlackRock and whoever else. Right. But you and I are on the side of smart money. We are on the side of BlackRock. We are on the side of Fidelity. Right. Accumulating the lows. And then when the bull markets come back, then, you know, the herds, the herd who watch Jim Cramer and listen to Jim Cramer will go by. And that's when I'll be taking profits. And I'm sure many of you as well. So once you understand the market cycles, both for stocks, even real estate and obviously crypto, you know, you can make money, folks. And that's what I had to learn. I had to unlearn the mainstream media finance and listening to Jim Cramer and all these things. Right. And study the charts and understand the market cycles and know when to buy and when to sell, because all those things, you have to be a contrarian. Right. You've got to go against your emotions. You've got to go against the herd mentality. And that's hard if, you know, all your life you've been trained to go with the herd. Right. From television and media and all these things, you have to unlearn that. And once you get it, boy, it's pretty sweet. Right. To be able to make a nice return, make nice money. And obviously you've got to diversify. I diversify into different tokens, into stocks. I've often tweeted and sometimes shared, you know, my positions. Recently, I told you guys I bought PayPal because Jim Cramer said to sell PayPal. So I bought PayPal. Right. I know it's not going to be some quick flip. It may I see I may see some nice returns by next year and that's OK. I a am patient investor looking to build wealth for me and my family. So anyway, guys, that's my approach. Let me know what you think. I would love to hear what you guys think about this news. Leave your thoughts and comments below. Hit the thumbs up button. Hit the five star rating on the podcast platforms. Don't forget to check out the merchandise store. Link will be in the description. Thank you for your support. Thank you for listening. And I'll talk to you all later. Thank you.
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A highlight from Auradines 4nm Bitcoin Miner w/ Barun Kar and Rajiv Khemani
"Welcome back to The Mining Pod. On today's show, we're joined by Auradine, a new Bitcoin mining ESIC manufacturer coming to market. We talk about the unit specs, the team behind the machine, and how they expect to compete in an ever -crowded market. Did you know that you can make more money by merge mining other networks? Check out MakeMoreMoneyMining .com for information on BIPs 300 and 301, a proposal to bring more revenue to Bitcoin miners through sidechains and merge mining, called DriveChains. Increase your mining revenues and learn more about participating in Bitcoin governance by visiting MakeMoreMoneyMining .com. Are you a miner who wants to activate Bitcoin improvements? Check out Activation .Watch. See what Bitcoin improvements the Bitcoin community, developers, and miners are considering and show support by signaling for one of many BIPs up for consideration. Activation .Watch. 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Solidify your trust in the world of artificial intelligence and the world of artificial intelligence. We'll see you there. Hello, welcome back to the MiningPod. I'm Will Foxley, joined today by Rajeev and Varun from Auradine. Thank you so much for joining today. We're really excited to talk about the new ASIC product you guys are bringing to the market. How are you guys doing? Doing great. Thanks for having us, Will. Definitely. You know, the market's clamoring to know more about you guys. The first time I heard about you was from someone who reads into Marathon Digital's deep SEC letters that they put out there, their filings. And they're like, what is this company Auradine? What's going on with this? And people are wondering about it. And then we found out this summer, you guys were public, you guys raised $81 million and there's a lot of momentum around the product you guys are bringing to market. So that's why we're having you on the show today because people have a lot of questions. I'm sure you guys are excited to start producing a new miner for the Bitcoin mining market. So let's just start there. If we could get an intro for both you guys, like your past backgrounds, what Auradine is doing, and then also on the product. My name is Rajeev Kimani. I am a Silicon Valley technology executive and entrepreneur. I've been in Silicon Valley for 30 plus years. Have been involved in multiple successful startup companies, as well as being a C -level executive in public companies. My background is in computer science and engineering, and then also an MBA from Stanford. And this is my fourth startup that we believe is going to be bigger and better than those other companies before this. Yeah, my name is Barun Kaur. So my last company was Palo Alto Networks. I was in the founding team and did two more startups before that. And I started my career at Motorola after I finished my PhD. Awesome. Thanks for that background. Fortune just did a great piece on you guys for like detailing the company. And it started from the question like, how did this company raise $81 million just like on the background here? And maybe you guys have some disagreements with that, but that aside, I like the ending of the whole fortune piece, which we'll link in the show notes, which is, and you guys are coming into a crowded market and raise a lot of money based on your background, based on the things that you guys have built before and as exited from successfully. So with that being said, let's talk about Auradine, the product that you guys are bringing to market and where you see it fitting into the competition landscape. Yeah, we started Auradine with a big vision and the vision was to build an infrastructure company for the next generation of the web infrastructure. And we believe that blockchain AI and privacy are fundamental building blocks that will really revolutionize how we all work and play. And we think that as we started to look at these spaces, we started with blockchain Bitcoin being the biggest blockchain and the most successful that there is. And then during that process, we connected with marathon. And what we said is, what can we do that's innovative and different than what has existed before us. And prior to us, as you know, what has happened is that Bitcoin mining has gone from CPU's to GPU's to ASICs. And then all of the ASIC providers have moved, have essentially been Chinese companies. And so what we saw was two things. One is that we need to provide a very robust US supplier of this technology, which is very important, especially for US and North American miners in general. So that was a very important aspect. But the second aspect is, was to do something that is much more symbiotic and constructive for the energy ecosystem. And so we have done a lot of innovation in bringing out this product, which is our very first product. It's the first four nanometer ASIC in the world. And we've executed extremely fast when people look at us that literally within from start to getting a product out in the market is not much greater than a year. But we have executed extremely fast on this. As you can imagine, we have an amazing roadmap in front of us. And we have some amazing capabilities in our first product. So we are super excited to bring the Teraflux mining product line to market. Awesome. Yeah. So it's kind of going on that whole line. Tell me a little bit about like the market you guys are building in. I noticed that you guys are building within the US, as opposed to Bitmain and others who are building mostly out of East Asia. Bitmain of course has moved its facilities a lot of times and they're mostly out of Malaysia. But then even like the chips themselves are coming out of Taiwan or in the case of MicroBT, they're coming out of South Korea. Tell me about your guys' supply chain, where you guys get your ASIC parts and how you guys choose to manufacture your whole machine. Yes. So I'll give an overview and Varun can add to it. But essentially, well, first of all, we are a US company. So we are a US incorporated company. Secondarily, the chip design is entirely done in the US. So we are based in Silicon Valley. All of our engineers are based here. So that's a second very important piece of it. So all of the intellectual property, the second. The third thing that we are doing is that we are, in terms of the foundries, we are working with the leading foundries. But what we paid extra attention to is that whatever technology that we use has a manufacturing plant in the United States. Now, turns out the two leading foundries, TSMC and Samsung, both have US manufacturing locations. And we wanted to make sure that those chips could be manufactured in the US. Very, very important aspect for us. And so, you know, even though some of the Chinese companies have moved to other parts, the reality is that the US has restrictions about access to leading edge process technology. There are tariffs. Are those companies bypassing tariffs using certain corporate models or not? Those are questions that are yet to be answered completely. But that's something that we have to do that for the US vendors. Awesome. Yeah. So let's go into the product itself a little bit more. And I like what you noted about like the difference of tariff restrictions. I think the geopolitical issue with ASIC importation itself is an under discussed topic. So from what we're seeing from public numbers right now, it looks like you guys released 22 joules per tariff for this machine with a plus or minus 8%. Curious a little bit more about some of these details. You guys can take this question as you want. Is this on the chip level or the system level? What do you think about that 8 % deviation from the 22 joules per tariff hash? Is that like higher or lower than you're seeing from competitors? And then from there, let's talk about the four nanometer chip that you guys are working on. Yeah. So this is the first product is four nanometers. The specs that we've done are at a system level, not at a chip level, because at the end of the day, customers care about system level specs. And then the plus or minus 8%, what happens is when you're in the leading edge process technology node and you're building the silicon, when you're manufacturing the silicon, there's a deviation in the capabilities of the silicon. And so that is really to capture that. Now, in terms of our competitors, we've seen numbers that are plus or minus five, and actually in other cases, plus or minus 10 % as well. Now we are early in the game. So as we get more and more learnings from building larger quantities of products, we can refine those numbers, make it a little more tighter. We may be able to improve some of these efficiency numbers as well, but we are coming from the point of view of being somewhat conservative. Other vendors before us have tried to be aggressive and then have missed expectations. And we hear that from customers. And so our goal based on our prior track records is to try to see if we can be somewhat conservative and delight people on the upside. So that's our philosophy. Barun, anything? No, I think that's... Great. I don't know if you guys have released these numbers and it'd be curious to see if you have or have not, but hash rate and then power at the wall. Have you guys discussed those publicly yet? Yeah, the hash rates, you know what, the world before our product, which is up till now, is that typically people give you a miner that runs at a certain terahash rate and has a certain efficiency. And what happens is that today, if you want to be able to go up and down, people refer to that as overclock or underclock. That requires either a firmware change or a different firmware, or you have to change the control board, or you have to write software on top of it to turn on and off these systems very kludgy. It's really, I would say it's still in the dark ages, so to speak, relative to the rest of the technology infrastructure. And that's because Bitcoin came from being more of a hobbyist product to the data center scale product. And it has done a bunch of batch work along the way. What we have in our systems is we have built in from the ground up the capability to go up and down in terahash rates, all the way from zero to 185 in our air -cooled systems, in our immersion systems to much higher numbers, some of which we haven't disclosed. And you can do that very fast. And that's super important for people who want to work with energy partners to bring down energy consumption and take advantage of some of those curtailment related economics that we get in a very rapid timeframe. So we have all of those capabilities built into the system. We refer to that as energy tune. It's patented technology. And I think people are going to love it when they see it. So we've done that. But in addition, what we've also done is we've made sure that these systems keep operating at high temperature ranges, which again is critical, as you know, in certain parts of the country, temperatures are getting hotter than they used to be, and miners are shut down for 10, 20, 30 percent of the time. In our case, it will keep running and will keep hashing and keep providing the economics to the miners. Awesome. For the four nanometer part, I want to go back to that. The energy efficiency, there's this general idea that as we go down to the size of the node from eight to seven to six to five to four, it's supposed to become more energy efficient. Tell me a little bit about that and energy efficiencies you guys are capturing within your new model and also how it compares to the market as of now. Yeah. So today, most of the products that are shipping are in five nanometer or older process nodes. To achieve energy efficiency, you do need leading edge process technology. In addition, what you also need is design and architecture to enable that. These Bitcoin mining systems run at very, very low voltages, and to make that work at very low voltages relative to every other product is a complex engineering and technology effort. And so we have both of those things in motion. As I said, we started the company literally a year and a half ago, and we have brought to market a product in record time, matching the best in class that exists in the world today. We have more tricks up our sleeve as we bring additional products to the world at Halfing and beyond. And we believe we are going to be the best in the world, if not within plus or minus a few percent of the best in the world. Both now as well as we go forward. So super confident of that. Right now, as you know, the world is in kind of the 21 plus or minus in terms of deployments. We think it's going to get much better than here. But when we talk to customers, we see there are certain customers that are very sensitive in cost of the miners. Others are more sensitive in the efficiency. But both of them care extremely about the variability and the energy tune features, which we think is going to become a must have requirement going forward. So yeah, let's talk about the auto tune features that you guys have put into this. From my understanding, there's a patent around this. How do you guys look at this technology compared to some of the other technologies that are out there? I mean, there's definitely lots of different firmware options for controlling a miner and controlling its temperature setting. What are you guys sort of doing different when you're building this unit holistically? Yeah, very different. Very different than anything that has been done before. So in the past, typically at a single miner level, you could actually run it at a certain terahash rate or shut down the miner, put it in sleep mode. Then more recently, people have started to put together an eco mode, if you will. That's the state of the art that exists today. And what people have tried to do is solve some of these fundamental problems through putting software level turning on and off of the miners. Not the most efficient way to do it. What we have done it is things that are inside a miner. And so we have these capabilities that are unique, very different than anything else that's been done before, where inside the miner through API calls, the hardware is able to change and adjust the various terahash rates and so forth. And what all you do is you just give all these inputs to the miner, and the miner figures out how to do it and does it, rather than trying to do it in a crudgy fashion outside through some software mechanisms. So that's very different, and that's where we have a patent for the energy tune and autotune capabilities. As you might expect, things like Bitcoin price, energy cost, transaction fees, temperature, all of those are inputs into trying to figure out what is the optimal point for the miner to run. More and more variables are coming into the picture. And to top it off also, autotune has the ability to go to tens of thousands of miners and be able to do an energy tune on each of them at the get -go. And we are trying to get to a point where we can do it in a few seconds so that it is in line with customer requirements where curtailment can happen at that short period of time. Now, there's a distinct difference between... So the autotune is one feature and there's the energy tune is another feature. Now, the energy tune also to couple with what Rajeev mentioned, we are using a machine learning techniques to do dynamic voltage frequency scaling so that each chip can be tuned to get to the optimal joules per terahash. Are you a retail or institutional investor interested in Bitcoin mining companies? The MinerMag brings you free data and analysis from all major NASDAQ listed Bitcoin mining operations to know who stands out. Check out visualized metrics and data dependent stories at theminermag .com. Filecoin's mission is to create decentralized efficient and robust storage infrastructure for humanities information. Join the Filecoin Foundation team October 3rd through 5th for PhilVegas, the first major Filecoin community event in North America in 2023 to explore how to adapt data storage for an AI centric future. Participate in conversations and hear keynotes focused on the importance of data integrity in the world of artificial intelligence. Register to attend and learn more at phil -vegas .io and make sure to use promo code miningpod. Did you know that you can make more money by merge mining other networks? Check out makemoremoneymining .com for information on BIPs 300 and 301, a proposal to bring more revenue to Bitcoin miners through sidechains and merge mining called DriveChains. Increase your mining revenues and learn more about participating in Bitcoin governance by visiting makemoremoneymining .com. Are you a miner who wants to activate Bitcoin improvements? 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Unchained
Fresh update on "lee" discussed on Unchained
"I know. I can't believe that was over seven years ago now. But anyway, so part of the reason that I brought you two here was to discuss some recent issues. You could call them in the Bitcoin ordinals world, and it affects you as creators. But first, why don't we give everybody the backdrop of what you've been doing? And we'll start with your backgrounds pre-MediGood. So, Danny, would you like to start? Yeah, so I'm Danny Yang. Pre-MediGood. I started at Stanford Bitcoin back in 2013. That's when I met Bill, actually. So that's how he connected. True OG. Yeah, yeah. Early days of Bitcoin when we were all very, I guess, excited by what we could do, and the sky's the limit. And Bitcoin was kind of the center of attention for everything. It was really the only thing. And I started a cryptocurrency exchange in Taiwan called MyCoin that's doing well today, too. And then a couple of years later, I started a blockchain analytics company called BlockSphere that was then sold a few years after that. And Bill also was the first investor in both of my, those two Bitcoin and crypto companies. So I've been busy in this space and just excited to see what's happening today, too, what we're going to talk about because of the new happenings for Bitcoin in particular. And Bill? Yeah, Laura, I think obviously you've known me for quite a while, but I somehow was able to see some kind of interesting future for Bitcoin back in 2010. That led me to doing some work on a bunch of different things. Some of the more notable companies that came out of the industry at that time were Bittheory, of course, where I put together the funding for their first major ASIC chip. I'm still chairman of the board of Hut 8 Mining, which we spun out of Bittheory. It used to be our Canadian operation and had funded a bunch of interesting projects like AirSwap with Joe Lubin and Mike Novogratz and Power Ledger and some other things. But Danny, having been the founder of the Stanford Bitcoin Meetup Group, and Laura, you will remember, even back on Necker Island, what I wanted to do was create something like the Homebrew Computer Club for this segment. And Danny had already done that. So, as I was attending the Stanford Bitcoin Meetup Groups, young startups like Zappo or BitGo or Coinbase or whoever would come and present at his meetup. And I just identified Danny as a node with a lot of talent, given his PhD in computer science at Stanford. And every question that I had that was technical, he could answer. And so, one day I walked up to him and I said, hey, if you ever start a company, I'm writing a check. And that became the first company he mentioned. And I funded it along with some real OGs like Charlie Lee, Bobby Lee, Jed McCaleb, people like that. And then that turned into another funding for Blockseer. Both of those companies have been successful. And third time around, I was like, Danny, let's do this one together. So, I wrote a check and we put together Medigood.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Left Is Removing Statues & Erasing Americas History
"It's a real blessing to be surrounded by good people, and there are people who have my back struggling a little bit today. Two dreaded words, dry socket. Anybody who's had a wisdom tooth extraction knows the perils of dry socket. Well, good old dummy me got it and not doing so hot. So we're going to bring in my pal Kevin McCulloch. Kevin and I got to visit on the big Salem, New York, cruise around the island of Manhattan a week or two ago. Kevin, of course, is an accomplished talk show host based in New York City. He's been heard for years on our Christian station and on the news talk station. This is a man of faith, a terrific guy. And Kevin, you're going to help back me up a little bit today. I might be handing off the baton right off the bat. Have you ever had wisdom tooth dry socket problems before? No, I haven't. And just the sound of the words dry socket strike fear into my deepest being. So I feel very badly for you, Mike, and we've got whatever you need from us today. We're here to help. It's every bit as bad as it sounds, and it's not a good thing. It's what you don't want after you have a... I knew it was going too easy. I had the wisdom tooth removed Friday afternoon after the show. Everything was going great. Saturday, I was feeling great, Sunday not so good. And so it happens sometimes. So it's good to have you here with us. And first of all, many, many thanks to the great job you always do when you fill in for us. Of course, I've been listening to you for years, and it must be a fun experience for you because you're sort of transitioning from your own audience and your base into sort of another platform with our show. And I know our listeners have welcomed you with open arms. Well, I have, and Mike, the Mike Gallagher audience continues to be, I think, not only the most informed because of your daily efforts, but they prove to be generous in all of the campaigns that you do. And as I said when I filled in for you the last time, because I work PM Drive, I'm a big Mike Gallagher listener. I listen and actually many times watch your show on the Salem News Channel. And it's just fun to hang out in your sandbox. So thank you for letting me do that. Thank you. And thank you to Jerry Crowley and everybody at Salem Media of New York that allows us to have all the connections to do. It takes a lot of technology to do what we're doing at this very moment, Mike. And if it weren't for them, we wouldn't be able to. You'd be in dry socket hell if we didn't have a better management team. And speaking of Salem News Channel, That Kevin Show has become a big hit on SNC. You're doing a great job with that. And I love the mix. And I was one of your first guests. I was really honored to be on your show. And you've got a great blend of politics and pop culture and lifestyle and all kinds of neat stuff. In fact, speaking of that, let's kick off with some breaking news. Donald Trump Jr.'s account on X, formerly Twitter, was apparently hacked earlier today. I don't know if you've heard this story. There were a series of – well, get this. There were a series of offensive tweets, including one that said, I'm sad to announce my father, Donald Trump, has passed away. I will be running for president in 2024. You know, Kevin, there's such evil out there and there is such sickness and mean -spiritedness and viciousness. And somehow this almost seems par for the course, doesn't it? Well, it's one of those things where if Donald Trump lives this rent -free in the left's heads, just imagine how effective he'll be if he's reelected. I mean, this is – you've got to remember, and I know that you do, Mike, but for people that are listening, particularly cynics, Donald Trump's one of the few presidents that campaigned on a slate of promises and then went and actually did what he promised. If he comes back, he's already making promises about what's going to happen. There's going to be cleaning of the House and the FBI and the DOJ. There's going to be getting rid of the deep state at the Pentagon and places where wokeness has overtaken actual common sense in terms of policy. So of course they're going to play dirty and of course they're going to try to do everything they can. And all I have to do to compare what they think about Donald Trump Jr. is just ask the question, Hunter Biden? Question mark? No kidding. No kidding. Is there any comparison between the two? And you know, speaking of Trump and his promises and his predictions, something has come to fruition in New York City, and you know the city as well as anybody. Now comes news that these goofballs in Manhattan are actually going to consider taking down statues or any commemoration of George Washington, of Christopher Columbus. And I want to go back to 2017. I want to play this for you, Kevin. Check out what Trump said, because when he said it at the time, they condemned him. Oh, how crazy is he? Check this out. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of to them a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name. George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down excuse me, are we going to take down are we going to take down statues to George? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? OK, good. Are we going to take down the statue? Because he was a major slave owner. Now we're going to take down his statue. So Kevin McCullough, do you remember the backlash? Do you remember the backlash he got when he said that and they mocked him and they said, what a lunatic. And he's a fear monger. And now just look at what's happening in New York City, what he predicted could be coming to fruition. Yeah. And you know, what's particularly sad about that, Mike, it's like if people have a different view of history, so be it. That doesn't mean, number one, that they should set policy for what everybody thinks about history. And certainly I would make an argument that history is made by flawed people. And it's really people that overcome the worst flaws of what they have that really do great things and that we should celebrate the great achievements, not expect every single human being to have been perfect. But beyond all of that, this city's in a mess. We have crime. We've got migrant overpopulation in ways and areas that we can't even begin to deal with. And this is what people want to focus on. I mean, and it is you're talking about a warped mix of priorities for sure. It's upside down. And it's absolutely happening as I mean, I've been following this and I'm in just absolute utter amazement, as you say, New York City dealing with crime, crippled under monumental budget cuts due to the illegal immigration issue that frankly the Democrats created. I mean, you want to be a sanctuary city, be a sanctuary city. And now the City Council's Cultural Affairs Committee is going to hold a public hearing on a measure to remove works of art on city property that depict a person who owned enslaved persons or directly benefited economically from slavery. Well, of course, George Washington's at the top of that list. So Trump was right. These nuts in New York and in other blue cities are going to try to remove the founding fathers from our consciousness because they own slaves. And it's exactly what Trump said back in 2017.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "lee" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Cab of a tractor trailer truck. The victim is identified this morning. This 46 year old man is injured. His act grows right here in your home and his illness result. Zach is authorities also found evidence to talents Tom for sick Geneva from New Jersey. The truck driver in the case Matthew Sidney what Lee also 46 and from the same area in New Jersey is under scrutiny right now under security at the Frederick Health Hospital detectives in the case are continuing to investigate this as a homicide. Also this morning new gun hate crime and sex crime laws will go into effect locally next week in Maryland. The Maryland law that for years has prohibited the execution of a person for sex crimes against their legal spouse will be repealed. The so called spousal defense will be replaced by a law that allows prosecution of a spouse who force uses without consent. Another law will allow victims of hate crimes to sue the person or group who committed the offense against them. People with concealed carry permits will be able to take guns to fewer public places than before and hospitals will be required screen to for fentanyl when doing urine tests to assess a patient's condition. I can stain WTOP news. You are listening to 103 .5 FM and WTOP WTOP .com. Thank you for watching. Thanks for watching. Now through Sunday only you can make any purchase
The Dan Bongino Show
Leo Terrell: Lee Zeldin Is the Reason We Have a Republican House
"The Senate we took an L and I'm not doing that again Leo I'm not you're right listen Dan if it wasn't for BBB overtime work of Lee Felden we would even have a house right and could you imagine what we have what we have discovered as a result of a house majority just imagine we control the Senate and the White House we can really eliminate the deep state if we I mean but but Lee Zelda deserves a lot of credit because that is the only reason why we have the house such a good we're talking to Leo Terrell you know him you love him Leo is making an amazing point that is frequently left out folks I know you know Lee Zelda is I would never talk in a condescending film but if you just got into politics Lee Zeldin is a Republican congressman who ran for governor in New York and ran an absolutely campaign unbelievable he almost won in a state he had probably a 50 to 1 odds against him but what Leo's trying to tell you is we picked up a number of congressional seats in New York because people showed up to vote for Lee but then voted down ballot for their congressman if Lee Zeldin doesn't run this campaign Leo's right we lose the house there's no Speaker McCarthy or nothing Nancy Pelosi's in charge that is such a good point Leo that's why California is important anyone out there going we don't need the register votes in California Trump's gonna lose California and lose New York okay they may there's a darn good chance they probably will but that don't mean we can't pick up five or six more congressional seats down ballot absolutely Dan absolutely absolutely and that's what we have to do and we have to go after the entire country and let's not play the race card people of Americans kids regardless of color have the same concern inflation school choice homelessness border crime it's just we
The Big Take
Fresh update on "lee" discussed on The Big Take
"Robbery charges, robbery in the first degree, second degree, which are violent felony offenses. We get all of those charges. Right about now you might be thinking, releasing people charged with nonviolent offenses is one thing, but is it so bad for those accused of committing violent crimes to stay in custody? The answer is complicated. Not all defendants are eligible for the pretrial release program. Judges can deny bail to someone they consider to be a threat to the community and they would remain in custody until trial. Defendants who are admitted to the program are people a judge has decided are a low risk to others. And Fola raises another argument that advocates make. It's very easy to point a program like this and saying, well, they're letting criminals out of jail. These people have not been convicted. They still have a right to their day in court. And this program is meant to allow them to wait that period out in the community and at home while they go through the system. Not surprisingly, to speechless. be The program has become a boogeyman, just like Defund the Police had been a boogeyman in 2020, after the killing of George Floyd. You know, a lot of jurisdictions were taking a closer look at their police budgets. Now the conversation has expanded a bit to look at the entire criminal justice system and questioning the role of bail and jail in our society. New York State is a good example of a place that's really tackling that question head on. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, is our governor. She's been at the forefront of having to hard make decisions about this issue. Her challenger, Lee Zeldin, a Republican, ran to the right of her on the last election cycle and was running ads that painted bail reform among other police reforms as this horrible change that would have violent criminals running free in the For good reasons, crime on Kathy Hochul's watch is rising and liberal policies like cashless bail and not enforcing laws are emboldening criminals. The solution? Our new governor. Lee and Kathy Hochul rolled back bail reforms it and made easier for judges to set bail for certain crimes because of that political pressure. And these are potent political messages. When you run ads that say that they're going to be violent criminals in streets, the people really respond to that. You see this pressure on organizations and on systems like the supervised release program and on organizations like CJA because they face this political pressure on one side and then they also face the pressure having of to do the actual work every day. When we come back, a very busy day in the life of a criminal
The Breakdown
A highlight from Courts Hand SEC Half an L in Binance US Case
"Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, September 19th, and today we are talking about Binance and their SEC court decision yesterday. Is it significant? And is it just kicking the can down the road? We will go through all of that. Before we do, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Well, friends, it is a day that ends in Y, so there is, of course, another Binance story. Binance had a fairly big day in court on Monday in their legal battle with the SEC. Leading into the hearing, the allegations and speculation had started to reach a fever pitch. The SEC had begun to hone in on the theory that Binance U .S. did not and never had exclusive control over customer assets. That if true would be a big deal as Binance had always maintained that U .S. customer assets were strictly segregated from the international exchange. Indeed, they used this argument to defend an SEC injunction shortly after the legal proceedings commenced in June. If granted, the injunction would have frozen assets at Binance U .S., which would have functionally been a death sentence for the domestic exchange. In deciding that injunction, the court ordered the parties to come back with an agreement that they could both live with rather than making a decision on their own. As part of those consent orders, Binance agreed that they would ensure that only local U .S. staff would have access to customer assets. However, as the SEC dug further into their investigation, they claimed that Binance U .S. which they viewed as intimately linked to Binance International. Cefu was launched under the name Binance Custody in December 2021. It was renamed in February of this year, around the same time that rumors of an in -depth government investigation into Binance first emerged. On Friday, Cefu asserted in a press release that they were entirely separate from Binance International and that they don't even service BAM Trading, which is the company that operates Binance U .S. They wrote, We strongly reject this claim. As a custody technology services provider under Cefu Holdings, we are committed to servicing institutional clients with digital asset custody solutions in select jurisdictions, excluding the United States, among others. Furthermore, Cefu's operations and services are distinctly separate from BAM and Binance Holdings Limited." A Cefu spokesperson added that, Unfortunately, earlier in the week, Binance U .S. had contradicted parts of that claim in a legal filing. Rather than denying the use of Cefu in their operations, Binance U .S. acknowledged that the service was developed by Binance International and licensed to the U .S. entity. And while the specific origin of the Binance U .S. custody system might seem like a minor detail, this is the main focus of the lawsuit at the moment. The SEC is claiming that Binance International had de facto control over customer funds at the U .S. exchange. If that's the case, then Binance could be viewed as deliberately misleading the court surrounding this issue. It would also advance the SEC's argument that Binance U .S. was nothing more than a front to allow U .S. customers to access the international exchange and provide a veneer of domestic regulatory compliance. So that's a bit of the background. Now on Monday morning, the SEC filed additional material to support their order, which asked the court to compel Binance to cooperate with the discovery process. They said, quote, Indeed, in earlier filings, the regulator had raised issues surrounding the lack of disclosure. They noted that Binance had only produced 220 documents, many of them characterized as quote, unintelligible screenshots and documents without dates or signatures. Further, according to the SEC, Binance U .S. were resisting the deposition of a number of key executives. In a court filing in August, Binance claimed that the deposition of CEO Brian Schroeder would be, quote, You'll remember that Schroeder was confirmed to have left the company in early September, although his lack of social media presence has led some to speculate that his departure was closer to the beginning of the year. The SEC appears to have been informed of Schroeder's departure only recently and clearly haven't recruited him yet as a cooperating witness. They said that this strange turn of events and Binance's continued resistance to producing Schroeder, quote, Now, the SEC was primarily concerned that Binance U .S. was continuing to use SEFU for its custody, which could be used to shift customer assets offshore. They said that Binance U .S. had failed to convince the regulator that they had control over customer assets, adding that these claims were, quote, Binance U .S. had provided, quote, They said that, quote, BAM insists that this court, like the SEC, should accept packaged counsel narratives, carefully drafted declarations, and small curated sets of documents regarding control of BAM's customer assets, and that any lingering concerns are much ado about nothing. To top it all off, the SEC warned that Binance CEO CZ is, quote, The SEC claimed that they have demonstrated that, quote, Binance has a long history of controlling BAM to serve Binance's own unlawful purpose. Ultimately, the regulator asked the court for an order, quote, Now, in their opposing court filing placed on the record on Monday morning, Binance U .S. reiterated their claim that SEC demands were unreasonable. They called the documents requested overbroad and too much of an inconvenience. Binance U .S. further alleged that many of the documents requested are either not in the exchange's possession or fall outside the scope of the lawsuit. At 3 p .m., the parties entered the courtroom for what would be a tense hearing. Binance U .S. called the demand for documents so broad they would be impossible to produce. A lawyer representing the exchange said that, quote, The judge indicated that Binance U .S. really would need to provide a bit more documentation of their custody arrangements. They said, adding that they weren't, quote, The SEC lawyer, meanwhile, explained that the problem at the moment was that, quote, They argued that the SEC needed much more information about the wallet set up at Binance U .S. than they currently have. At one stage, the attorney for Binance exclaimed, They said that the exchange had responded to every targeted request from the regulator. The lawyer added that, quote, So what came out of all of this? Well, ultimately, the judge declined to make any orders to compel discovery from Binance, but it was made clear that the exchange would need to increase its cooperation, let's say. The judge said that they were not, adding that, quote, I'm not going to order from the bench right now that they produce or not produce things. Let's continue to try to work this out. I just want to keep things moving. The judge also noted that, quote, As investor Adam Cochran summed it up, the judge did deny the inspection but also said they needed Binance U .S. to comply and produce more documentation as the judge was not convinced of the asset backing. This is saying the inspection is overkill for now and giving Binance the chance to comply. Now, ultimately, these issues around Sifu are largely still about litigating whether the assets of Binance U .S. should be frozen to prevent customer funds from being sent offshore. However, given that volumes on the exchange have collapsed by more than 99 percent over the past six months, it seems likely that users have largely taken that issue off the table already. The matter is scheduled to return to court on October 12th for a follow -up hearing. Now, outside of the hearing, the court docket continues to bloat with additional evidence gleaned by the SEC. Much of this evidence was originally filed under seal or in a heavily redacted form, but the regulator is currently in the process of unsealing documents. Earlier this month, the SEC obtained the cooperation of the former auditor for Binance U .S., which produced in excess of 6 ,500 pages on the accounting at the exchange. The document was unredacted on Monday, revealing the auditor's conclusion that it was, quote, very difficult to ensure the company was fully collateralized at specific points in time. One of the SEC's requests for further information filed in June related to a 250 million dollar intercompany loan given to Binance U .S. by the international exchange in December of last year. The convertible note was funded using BUSD, 183 million of which was sent to Paxos to convert into dollars. The SEC wanted some additional details about the reason for this transaction. The topic was initially flagged as confidential by Binance, but that designation was apparently successfully rebutted by the SEC. Now, there was a lot of chatter on this on Twitter. With many people taking it as evidence of some smoking gun, Binance had been less than honest about their dealings with Binance U .S. Perhaps the most intriguing tidbit, however, filed recently was a declaration given by J. Emmett Murphy of the SEC's trial division. The document, again filed on Monday, introduced into evidence three additional depositions. All three were filed under seal, but were used to support the need for further examination of the SEFU system. The declaration identified one witness as Eric Kellogg, BAM's chief information security officer, but the other two identities were redacted. All three depositions occurred over the last month, with the latest taking place last Wednesday. So here's the way that Adam Cochrane summed this all up, which I think is a pretty good TLDR. He tweets, SEC seeks court order for inspection of Binance U .S., now expressly calling out that SEFU is indeed a Binance -related entity and that Binance U .S. has been misleading the court. The SEC calls out that this violates the consent decree that required new wallets expressly away from Binance International Control and Access, but interestingly specifically notes this is important as Binance has controlled BAM for its quote, own unlawful purposes. That's a claim we've not seen the SEC lobby here before, at least not outside of anything sealed or redacted. We also learned for the first time that the SEC sought the testimony of Brian Schroeder, U .S. CEO, and Jasmine Lee, U .S. CFO, but have been denied and fought on that and only just got told that Schroeder is no longer CEO, despite Schroeder being missing for eight plus months. They had argued that Schroeder's testimony would be too disruptive to business and now got told he isn't on the job, which is wild, as I think we all assumed he pulled a Catherine Coley Brian Brooks and gave testimony. Seems he's just disappeared and gone silent? Either way, the SEC here is suggesting, one, there is evidence of crimes, two, there is indeed evidence that SEFU is Binance International, three, SEFU is not simply a wallet provider, and four, BAM executives themselves lack insight on Binance U .S. assets and tooling. Now, for completeness, Adam Cochran also tweeted about the deposition from the auditor that said that it was impossible to tell whether Binance U .S. had been fully collateralized at specific points in time. He said, if your own external auditor can't say you are fully collateralized when you are supposed to be a 100 % reserves exchange and have your own proof of reserves that claim you're over collateralized, that is a problem. Binance uses the SEFU wallet custody system, previously Binance Custody, for both Binance International and Binance U .S., as noted in their filings. If this system is not capable of managing the small Binance U .S. numbers, how could it keep track of International? And if Binance U .S., its more compliant exchange, never commingled or misused client funds and was isolated from International as they claim, then it would be literally impossible to have a gap. The only way this is possible is the misuse of customer funds resulting in losses. I believe at some point in their scaling, they had material losses when misusing customer funds and exposing themselves to leverage via BNB. They've continued to misuse customer funds to try and cover this hole, but a declining market has made that an ongoing shell game. Whether you think that is a fair assessment or not, there should at this point be absolutely no doubt that the correct risk model is to move your assets off of Binance. Now, for the sake of a counterpoint, Bruce Fenton tweeted this morning, Binance is perhaps the most scrutinized and attacked company in modern history. The United States has investigated them and thrown everything they can at them. Yet, despite all this, we don't have a single accusation, let alone evidence, that Binance has lost customer funds. Now, trying to wrap this all up, a lot of the commentary around this is trying to figure out if the SEC won or lost this court trip. Will Clemente from Reflexivity Research tweeted, courts have been handing the SEC L after L lately, but others aren't so sure. CZ certainly didn't think so, retweeting someone who wrote, seems like they can't find anything but they want to continue making headlines. Maybe the most middle of the road interpretation came from the headline from Bloomberg, which read, SEC fails to win immediate inspection of Binance US software, and I think that that fails to win is probably a better representation at this point than actually getting the loss. But my friends, as you can tell, we are well in the minutia of this, but the details matter. There certainly is a feeling of crescendo to this story. And either way, it's hard for me to imagine that the industry isn't better on the other side of it. Better because Binance has vindicated, or better, unfortunately, because the last giant has fallen, and we can finally move on, largely rid of what came before. In either case, I will be sure to keep you updated. So until next time, be safe and take care of each other. Peace.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "LEE" from WTOP 24 Hour News
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The Defiant - DeFi Podcast
A highlight from Mainstream Brands Are Joining Web3 In The Bear Market
"Sean Lee is a CEO and co -founder of Magic Labs, which is a wallet that enables passwordless login and Web3 onboarding without seed phrases. Despite not being as well -known as other Web3 wallets, Magic Labs recently raised $52 million from PayPal Ventures, onboarding mainstream brands like Mattel and 7 -Eleven, and has over 25 million wallets installed. In our conversation, we will dive into how they've built enterprise -friendly wallet solutions, their major collaborations, and on the onboarding process of Web2 brands. He also offers his take on how DeFi can be more palatable for the mainstream and more. But first, Sean will get us started with Magic and describe how it's different from other wallets. I'd say a lot of people aren't really familiar with Magic, especially in the Web3 native community, because a lot of our focus has been on the mainstream brands and helping the mainstream onboard into Web3. So that has been our focus. And I say we work with very different kinds of clients, right? So many of our customers, especially enterprises, they actually don't really like to work with multiple third -party vendors, a lot of redlining, and it's pretty cumbersome. And so what Magic is and what helps us differentiate is we are a comprehensive solution that offers a full stack of features and functionalities to suit the enterprise's Web3 use cases across different kinds of verticals. Obviously, our bread and butter is the wallet, but we also collaborate with partners such as Sardine and PayPal to provide fee and on -ramp and NFT checkout. We also have kind of our minting service infrastructure. So basically, we're providing this full stack solution to help our customers get started. And also, I'd say on top of that, our sort of white label wallet is very popular. So in a way, it makes Web3 completely invisible actually to the sort of beginners entering the space. And what's also really cool is you can actually use Magic's white label product to build your own single sign -on or federated wallets on top of our infrastructure. For example, like what Immutable Passport have done on the gaming side. So our solution is quite flexible, and that's where our bread and butter is. And it's also really easy for developers to start, takes about nine minutes to get started. And at the same time, we also check all of the boxes that enterprises are looking for. For example, enterprise compliance, like SOFT2 type 2, some of the privacy ones like GDPR and CCPA, as well as the kind of scalability side of things. And last but not least, we have a sort of patented key management system that is the, I say the most practical solution in the market to address our enterprise customers' performance and scalability need. But at the same time, being really friendly with the crypto beginners and staying with the Web3 ethos, for example, a lot of our principles is to allow the optionality for users to graduate into other types of wallet eventually as well. Or kind of using our keys, plug into other newer wallet standards like account abstraction. And yeah, essentially it's a zero trust system where Magic never sees the private keys and any part of the flow, kind of like a cloud ledger or a treasure actually. And it's about 25 times faster than MPC based solutions, which is really important for some of our customers who are doing high volume drops. Super helpful. OK, so you're offering a full stack crypto solution for mainstream Web2 companies that don't want to be dealing with multiple third parties and just one counterpart that can give them all sorts of solutions out of the box. And you're also white labeling a lot of your solutions so that companies can integrate your products and use their own branding and their own kind of user facing experience, which is probably why many of us hadn't heard much of Magic. Probably maybe we had interacted with some of your solutions. But because it's white label and more of like an enterprise grade system, it's not a brand you see as like an individual consumer. Yeah, that's right. We actually started more on the consumer side with Fortmatic. That's when we met in East Waterloo and we were actually one of the first kind of wallet that was integrated in, for example, OpenSea at the time. So that was kind of recognized as kind of an OG wallet back then. But since then, we've kind of really taken the direction of letting others own the brand, letting the apps and wallets own the direct relationship with their end users instead of being kind of the third person in the process as a separate wallet. So under the hood, you mentioned this innovative key management system. Can you tell me more about what's happening technically on Magic? What sort of network are you using? Is it fully non -custodial? Are people in control of their own keys? How does it actually work? Yeah, I might butcher it a bit because it's quite technical, but I'd say the one key part in the design is to not see the user's private key in any part of our infrastructure. Not when the key is generated or when it's signing a transaction. So essentially the keys are generated in a secure iframe on the user's client. And the key is sent directly to Amazon's hardware security modules for encryption and decryption without routing that through our system. So it's kind of like users have their own kind of ledger or treasure in the cloud hosted by Amazon, and then the keys are being sent directly to there without going to our system. So we're pretty much just keeping the service running from our infrastructure perspective. And what's important for us is that not only you can do this for keys, you can do it for other kinds of data as well. And because we're providing this kind of infrastructure and not directly transferring money from our hosted wallet, and at the same time, because it is on the client side, the users can export their wallets at any time. And we're kind of working towards a path to potentially integrate really well with other wallets or services to make it really easy if they want to graduate, because our focus is really on the very, very beginners in the motion. So if a user wanted to take their funds to another wallet, how would they be able to do it? Like, would they be able to download their keys from this AWS repository and then be able to transfer their assets? And is it like a central exchange where your assets are kept kind of together with others? Or does each user have their own separate account? I guess it's two separate questions. So each user have their own separate accounts. We currently have two flavors of the product, one is a universal wallet, which means one user have access to multiple dApps, like one wallet to multiple dApps, and the dedicated version of the wallet is scoped to each dApp. So you could have different wallets across different dApps, kind of like different MetaMask accounts for different use cases. So I'd say we also tried to make it easier. So essentially, there's a portal that customers can post in order to allow the export of keys. Oh, I see. Yeah. Okay. So it's not like the user has to interact directly with AWS. In what network are you operating? Yeah. So we support actually over 20 blockchains. We started on Ethereum. And then the EVM compatible chains, we do support, but also some other layer ones like Solana and Slow and I think Aptos is coming. So pretty much all the top chains that were pretty agnostic to the chain at this point, but our origin was Ethereum. And are you focusing on layer ones or are you going to layer twos as well? I'd say it's both. A lot of the enterprises do want layer two solutions for cheaper transaction, more scalability. So yeah, definitely both. We are seeing maybe slightly more adoption on the layer two side. Which layer two has been the best option, in your opinion, in terms of, you know, the easiest to use the easiest to integrate, like, what's, yeah, what's been most popular? Oh, that's a that's a tough question. I'd say it's hard for me to have a favorite right now, but I can kind of say what makes a chain kind of stands out to others. I think number one is that there's a lot of resource to help integrate with the chain or tooling around the blockchain that really helps in terms of adoption. So generally blockchain project was great, like documentation or a lot of community content, like those generally are a bit more popular.
On The Rekord
A highlight from Episode 122 - Sept. 17th, 2023 - B.A.N.S
"All right, all right, all right, all right. Welcoming you guys to another lovely episode of On The Record Podcast. I am DJ Intense, your host the most. And to the left of me, I have I am Walt. What's up, Walt? I'm about to say another word, my guy. If you guys heard earlier, you know, we were just doing some things off cameras. They're off the record. Things we don't, we're not going to bring on the record. And if we are, you're not going to get it. Unless you paid for it to Patreon. You know? Yeah, me too. That voice you hear right now, but there's no other than Ceddi said, what's up Ceddi? The infamous C -E -D. What's up people? How you doing people? I'm doing all right, I'm doing all right, man. You know, we took some time off. It was Labor Day weekend. Yeah. And then the final weekend, which is work weekend. Dude, we were work, work, work, work, work. Nonstop. Dude, I just figured they don't. Almost 90 hours of work. OT, OT. Man. One day was 20 hours of work. That's the state job. I can't wait till you quit that job. You and I both, brother. I need to make some money, but working like a slave ain't it, man? Nah. Bob Brock just said it. You think that you can get by with this hard work alone? Nah, you're fooling yourself. You're fooling yourself. Used to do that, but now you're doing that. It's a lie. It's a lie. It's a myth. All people is you do hard work, and you'll become a successor, that's all. Listen, reality is in this country, in America, you have to do a lot of grime. You gotta do a lot of collaboration. Depending on how you wanna do it, but most of the time, all those people who are billionaires and trillionaires are the ones who did the most foul -ish humanly possible to get what they're at right now in life. Listen, right now we're at over 180 days in the writer's strike and the actor's strike right now. And it could have ended this right now. This thing should have been handled already. $50 million for both unions. And now they're gonna get a loss of over $300 to $500 million because of this strike. And you have people like Drew Barrymore's punk ass. Well, she reneged on it though. She had to, because dude, she was getting the business with the WGA and the SGA. And it's separate, you know. Even... Bill Maher's bitch ass too, man, was... I didn't get the damn thing off the running. Was, oh, I don't need no writers, I'll be our show. Look, dude, your show sucks. The Seddie Swear Counter is in full effect. There you go, you have one. You can do like a ding sound from now on for my swears. I'm gonna keep it calm. I'm gonna keep it professional. Seddie the Sailor Man. I can't swish, come on. Listen, man, I'm just telling you, when Seddie get that spinach boy, man, we poppin' ice today. Oh, yeah. Little bird watch out. Now, but on some real issues, like dude, Bill Maher, the guy who said, I'm not a field n -word, I'm a house n -word, and who crapped on Stan Lee after he died and stuff, and says a bunch of other ridiculously retarded things, says he's gonna do a show. Stan Lee who? Marvel comic Stan Lee. Oh, Stan Lee, oh. That's what Bill Maher said. Yo, he be going extra heavy trying to relate to us blacks. You're a not house n -word. You're at the table, bro. You got the good chair. You got the good piece of chicken. He used to be down by the dam, but nowadays, man, it's horrible. He's just, you know, he's trying. What the legend Paul Mooney said, everybody wants to be black, so it's time to be black? Listen, you think Paul Mooney is trying to be black and competent? Hell no. I want to be in a gated community area. What's wrong with you? Like he says, everybody wants to be black. He listen to King Koon, so he know what that's about. Yeah, but Bill Maher is doing his show still, which I think it was crap with writers. It's going to be crap about writers. And then, you know, you're going to have to hire writers who are not non -union writers. We're going to be scabs. We're going to pretty much destroy their any chance of them getting actual work when the strike is done. If you get caught. Well, if you are what you say you are, then have no fear. Even if you're on YouTube and you want to get a chance of being in the industry, you can't do no reviews. No, no movie reviews, no TV show reviews, nothing. There's a strike. You doing that? You will be known and accounted for when you want to get your membership. And trust me, you don't want those problems. But my thing is, if there was already YouTubers like successful already doing movie reviews and being credible and stuff like that, that won't affect them. Is it already locked in like a partnership or whatever with certain movies? Then they could do it. As long as they get the permission from their respective union. OK. If they do something brand new, if we're coming out with The Exorcist coming out next week, they can't do no review for that at all. Oh, wow. Wah wah. Listen, I can't go into it because I want to become in that union because I want to be a voice actor. You want to sell out. I get it. So I can't speak on it at all. No, no, no. He's not selling out. No, he wants to. He wants to. No, he doesn't want to sell out. You want the Disney money. No, I want to buy in. He wants to buy in. Oh, yes. You want to buy in, you got to sell out, right? No, the license is fucking me, bro. I'm just saying. The license, the thing to get a SAG card, it's over $3 ,000 to get a SAG card. And you have to get that SAG card in order to get some work and residuals and all that stuff. That's just what it is. Listen, man, listen, Harvey Weinstein's in prison, bro. He can't get to you, my guy. He can't get to you, my guy. Listen, man, don't take that hotel meeting, bro. Am I Rose McGowan? Shoot it. It's either a Zoom call. I'm actually Judd. It's either a Zoom call or a posh Beverly Hills restaurant or a Permell Studios, wherever that super creep was out here making his rounds. But you don't got to worry about that no more. Filthy behavior. One of the girls was saying like, yeah, when I said no more hanky panky, you know. He felt a way. Yeah, you want that rolling letter to there, don't you? My guy, how could he feel a way? You've been imposing your will on these ladies for a long time. Speaking of entertainment, you had a concert this weekend, right? Yeah, yeah. I was, you know, I was like. This guy was really outside. I was like, I was like, I was like. What concert was this? I was like. Let me tell you. Go ahead, say it. I was like from the acting sheriff up north, back to back out here, you know. Yes, so for all the first time, longtime listeners, and you know, last time listening to how evidence goes, I had a couple of shows. This past Thursday, I went to an event that was sponsored by Spotify for up and coming artists. I saw three, three very, very talented artists. The main artist I went to see goes by Kamari. He's an artist that I discovered around COVID. He has a lot of like influences. He reminds me of like a Frank Ocean. He's really that, you know, artist type dude. And he put out this great, incredible album called A Brief Nirvana, which I advise everybody to check out. His name is Kamari, K -H -A -M -A -R -I. Highly recommend him. And I also saw these two other artists from the UK, St. Harrison and Elmin. That's my boy. And overall, it was a great experience, very, you know. It was at SOB, Sound of Brazil in New York City. Very intimate setting, great turnout, great energy.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 18:00 09-16-2023 18:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV batteries environmental impact, behind sand. Yeah, sand. You get context and context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context pursuing what seems like a relatively minor issue. Thanks, Kate. That's Professor Kate Andreas of Columbia Law School. This is Bloomberg Law on Bloomberg Radio. I'm June Grosso. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. United Auto Workers are holding talks with Ford and GM on day two of the strike. Union members like this UAW worker in Toledo are striking for better pay and pension benefits. We need more money. I mean, we've gone years without a raise. You know, we want our fair share. And that's what we're looking for, our fair share. You know, for everybody, not just for me, but for everybody that works here. Representatives for both GM and Ford say negotiations resume today after Friday's pause. Union leaders are pushing for what they call a strong and fair contract. President Biden sent two high -level White House officials to help mediate the talks. Post -tropical Cyclone Lee has made landfall in Nova Scotia. The latest update from the National Hurricane Center says maximum sustained winds are near 70 mph, with Lee expected to continue to weaken as it moves north over the Canadian Maritimes. Forecasters say strong winds, coastal flooding and heavy rains are occurring in portions of Maine and Atlantic Canada. Congress is making little progress to fund the government and avoid a possible shutdown at the end of the month. Lawmakers must pass several spending bills or a short -term funding measure known as a continuing resolution by September 30th. Democrats have faced fierce opposition on both options this week from hard -line conservatives who are...
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 15:00 09-16-2023 15:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV batteries' environmental impact, behind sand. Yeah, sand. You get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. And that is it for this edition of Bloomberg Best. I'm Ed Baxter. And I'm Denise Pellegrini. And this is Bloomberg. Stay with us now. Top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. United auto workers are holding talks with Ford and GM on day two of the UAW strike. Union members are striking for better pay and pension benefits. Representatives for both GM and Ford say negotiations have resumed after Friday's pause. Union leaders are pushing for what they call a strong and fair contract. President Biden sent two high level White House officials to help mediate the talks. Post tropical cyclone Lee is slamming New England as it barrels toward Canada. The latest update from the National Hurricane Center says Lee is now packing top winds of 75 miles per hour, about 100 miles south southeast of Eastport, Maine. Some 85 ,000 customers have lost power in Maine. Forecasters say tropical storm conditions are likely to continue for several more hours along the coast of Maine and Cape Cod. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will remain in office. State senators voted on 16 articles of impeachment today after ending deliberations. The senators acquitted the attorney general of all counts. Paxton only needed to be convicted of one of the articles to automatically be removed from office. He was accused of abusing the power of his office to help a political donor. U .S. Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson is calling for American schools to teach the history of racism in the U .S. Jackson was in Birmingham, Alabama, on Friday to mark the 60th anniversary of his death.
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 19:00 09-15-2023 19:00
"With Bloomberg, you get the story behind the story, the story behind the global birth rate, behind your EV battery's environmental impact, behind sand, yeah, sand, you get context. And context changes everything. Go to Bloomberg .com to get context. That is it for this edition of Bloomberg Best. I'm Ed Baxter. And I'm Denise Pellegrini. And this is Bloomberg. Stay with us now. Top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. President Biden spoke about the issue. Auto companies have seen record profits, including the last few years, because of the extraordinary skill and sacrifices of UAW workers. Speaking from the White House today, Biden also said he believes union workers have not been paid fairly over the past several years. The strike kicked off Friday after the current contract expired at midnight. Parts of coastal New England are bracing for tropical storm conditions as Hurricane Lee moves northward in the western Atlantic. The latest update from the National Hurricane Center says Lee remains a large hurricane with top winds of 80 miles an hour. Unsealed court records show the special counsel investigating former President Trump obtained direct messages from Trump's Twitter account. The court documents reveal special federal counsel Jack Smith's investigators warn Trump could precipitate violence if he was made aware about their efforts to get the messages. California is one step closer to becoming the first state in the nation.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from Re-Evangelizing Britain with Calvin Robinson and Sen. Mike Lee
"We get it. You're busy. You don't have time to waste on the mainstream media. That's why Salem News Channel is here. We have hosts worth watching, actually discussing the topics that matter. Andrew Wilkow, Dinesh D 'Souza, Brandon Tatum, and more. Open debate and free speech you won't find anywhere else. We're not like the other guys. We're Salem News Channel. Watch any time on any screen for free 24 -7 at snc .tv and on local now channel 525. Hey everybody, it's the end of the Charlie Kirk show. Calvin Robinson joins us and Senator Mike Lee. A really deep and thoughtful episode texted to your friends. We talk about the law firm running Congress. It's great. And we also talk about the United Kingdom and America and the fight to reinvigorate pastors. Go to tpusa .com or tpfaith .com to get involved with TPUSA Faith. Very proud of the work the team is doing. Email us as always freedom at charliekirk .com and get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust. Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Joining us now is one of my favorite senators and just a terrific guy. Senator Lee Mike joins us. Senator, thank you for taking the time. Senator, you have a very powerful thread on Twitter that I want to speak with you about. You have this idea of the law firm Schumer McConnell McCarthy and Jeffries, the firm as you call it, that does deals in the the middle of the night and back room deals. Walk us through all this, Senator. I think it's fascinating and very important. Senator Mike Lee. Yeah, thanks for inviting me to talk about it. This is a thread that I posted on the Twitter presence that I use for my own personal musings is my at -based Mike Lee account and on that I explained how this four -person cabal within Congress, what I call up the law firm of Schumer McConnell McCarthy and Jeffries, comes together and whichever four fit in those positions, the top Republican and Democrat from the House and in the Senate, over the last decade or so they've gotten more and more powerful and they've taken it upon themselves very often to be intimately involved in the drafting of spending bills. In many cases consolidating all spending bills, there's supposed to be 12 separate bills each running a different part of government, these guys will put one together. We call that an omnibus and very often the omnibus or whatever bill they're putting together will be held back into the last possible moment until a couple of days and sometimes only hours before government funding is about to run out. Then they bring it forward to their respective caucuses, House, Senate, Republican, Democrat and say here you go, here's the bill, it's ready to go. We unfortunately don't have much time to read it, we unfortunately don't have really any time to debate it, we have almost no time left to amend it, so you basically have to take it as is and vote yes or you can vote no, but if you vote no you'll be blamed for a shutdown and we'll make sure of it. So most members vote for it. It usually has the nasty effect of unifying Democrats, nearly all Democrats jump on board because it almost always spends more money than it did last year and it peels off just enough Republicans to get it to pass and so this is how we end up 33 trillion dollars in debt. This is how it happens because of the action of the law firm and the unflinching response of far too many Republicans to say yeah I'll jump on board with that even though we're unifying Democrats, pursuing Democratic priorities for the most part and we're sharply dividing Republicans. So let's tie this into the 930 fight and you're right, what they do is they kind of hold these votes hostage that have some necessary components, funding the military, things of that nature, and then they just always you know they always will say well you know it's the lesser of two evils, we want to keep the government open. So tie this into the 930 funding fight and specifically the timing and the sequence of this omnibus as you write quote was carefully orchestrated by the firm but ensures that it will pass without any substantive changes once it becomes public and the very few elected federal lawmakers will have meaningful input in this highly secretive process. This is so dysfunctional, Senator. Walk us through how this is going to unfold in the next couple of weeks.
Mark Levin
Rep. Chip Roy: How Are We Going to Fund the Government?
"To be on the floor this week and we don't have full agreement here's why because there's a block of conservatives in the in the house who are saying one we to need hold down our spending levels but two importantly we've got to use the power of the purse to force change out of the Biden administration we've got a border that's out of control we've got a DOJ that's out of control and weaponized against the president of the united states average american citizens and atf that's trying to turn out of gun owners we've got a department of defense that's woke it's more concerned about social engineering than the first mission to defend the country so we're trying to force change through the spending and process that's what's at stake right now and look some of us are just saying guys we're not going break we're going to hold the line and say that we've got to get changes out of the senate and the president and that's what's currently being debated as we speak what are the republicans in the senate they're useless utterly I mean look the house is having the debate that needs to be we don't always agree on it but we're having the debate that needs to be had the senate is being utterly useless other a than handful of champions they're obviously led by mike lee um who are trying to do the right thing are already pre -capitulating mitch mcconnell is trashing tommy tuppertill for daring to stare up stand up for life and holding up these nominations at d -o -d uh and he's already trying to preemptively surrender on the spending fight so the senate is not helping we're trying to hold the senate accountable and say guys we're gonna keep fighting in the house um and you know what mark you and i lived through 10 years ago when ted i was cruz's chief of staff to fight over Obamacare and i've had some of my
Bloomberg Radio New York - Recording Feed
Monitor Show 06:00 09-11-2023 06:00
"Interactive Brokers charges USD margin loan rates from 5 .83 % to 6 .83%. Rated the lowest margin fees by stockbrokers .com. Rates subject to change. Learn more at ibkr .com slash compare. Opened this morning on Wall Street. Up next, we'll get the latest on US -China relations following President Biden's trip to the G20, plus a tough decision for the Fed next week. That's coming up in our 6 a .m. news. Our two of Bloomberg Daybreak starts right now. And Yellen gives her outlook on the soft landing narrative. Even a brief auto workers strike could severely damage the US economy. And Coco Gauff makes her mark at the US Open. It's a race against time and the search for survivors in Morocco's deadly quake. And Hurricane Lee will bring dangerous rip currents to the eastern seaboard. I'm John Tucker. Those stories straight ahead. I'm John Stashauer. And towards the Giants in their season opener got walloped by the Cowboys. Aaron Rodgers debuts for the Jets tonight. That's all straight ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak, on Bloomberg 1130 New York, Bloomberg 99 .1 Washington, D .C., Bloomberg 106 .1 Boston, Bloomberg 960 San Francisco, Sirius XM 119 and around the world on Bloomberg radio dot com and via the Bloomberg Business Act. Good morning. I'm Nathan Hager. And I'm Karen Moscow. And U .S. stock index futures are on the rise this morning. S &P futures up.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #438 Rich had a 5 sec shock because of numbers. Matt has something wrong with him because he gave up on German Cake and German whipped cream. Story from Iron Curtin right at the start includes Mom getting rid of Rich for 25 cents. Iron Curtain TV shuts downat midnightbecause they were feeding chickens through the screen. Speed of Hurricane Lee is down 1 MPH. Our City closed one eye on over 200 citations and law breakers. Rich is expecting toilet paper rolled lower when they pull the plug on him.
"Friday, Divine Friday, we are here, 4 .38 is the episode and from this mic, Rich on September 8th. From this mic on September 8th, Matt, have you got all the numbers together right now and everything? Yeah, I did. You were a little worried yesterday before I was leaving, I thought like you were going to have a mental breakdown. No, why would I do that? I don't know. Because you... Numbers don't scare me. They don't scare you, but you're very particular and things have to be in order and right and for you to have had gotten a show number out of whack, would it just... Oh yeah, you're right. Right. Yeah, but that was just a temporarily shock because then I fixed it immediately. Yeah, I knew that was going to happen. It was just a five second. Right. I just... anyway. Yeah, you're right. You're right. I forgot about that. Yeah. It scared me. Sometimes you forget a lot of stuff. That's why you're here. Yeah? That's why you're here. Yeah. I'm concerned about you. I mean, you came here just so like drowned down and I had such a surprise for you and you say no to that. It's now I'm really concerned. I know. Well, that's because... I had the cake, the German cake that you always send me messages about. Always cry baby. You send me messages... Let me just... So anybody will listen to this, right? Every day I get a message at least 16 times through the mobile phone from Matt. He always says, get the different languages, different, like it's still English, but different form of, you know, formatting. Yeah, it's probably... Stick your German, you know, cake and now you're going to beep that or get the German cake ready and it's all about German cake. So it's Friday. He was so good to me whole week. He didn't pound me that much because I took his attention yesterday. Perfect day. No, two days ago about Urgentanz. So I took his attention from me to Urgentanz. So he was very, he took his anger on that thing. So I was like, he was so nice to me. So nice to me whole week, I will get him that German cake he's dreaming about every day. Guess what? I did. I get him German cake, powdered sugar, it looks like cocaine and then also whipped cream, German whipped cream, which kills all the calories. I put it on the table. He looked at me with his sad eyes, like the dog. What is it, Bassett? Yeah, Bassett dog. He just looked at me like that. I said, puppy eyes. He was like, dude, I cannot eat this. I was like, yeah, you're joking. No, you have to have it. It's just German cake. I mean, come on. Then he goes, no, I cannot eat it. I thought he was going to have a heart attack. Explain. I'll tell you why. I have to, I have to take a blood test and a urine test and then an EKG for a particular life policy that I'm getting that creates this infinite banking thing. But anyway, that's a subject for another day.
Divine Naples Podcast
A highlight from #438 Rich had a 5 sec shock because of numbers. Matt has something wrong with him because he gave up on German Cake and German whipped cream. Story from Iron Curtin right at the start includes Mom getting rid of Rich for 25 cents. Iron Curtain TV shuts downat midnightbecause they were feeding chickens through the screen. Speed of Hurricane Lee is down 1 MPH. Our City closed one eye on over 200 citations and law breakers. Rich is expecting toilet paper rolled lower when they pull the plug on him.
"Friday, Divine Friday, we are here, 4 .38 is the episode and from this mic, Rich on September 8th. From this mic on September 8th, Matt, have you got all the numbers together right now and everything? Yeah, I did. You were a little worried yesterday before I was leaving, I thought like you were going to have a mental breakdown. No, why would I do that? I don't know. Because you... Numbers don't scare me. They don't scare you, but you're very particular and things have to be in order and right and for you to have had gotten a show number out of whack, would it just... Oh yeah, you're right. Right. Yeah, but that was just a temporarily shock because then I fixed it immediately. Yeah, I knew that was going to happen. It was just a five second. Right. I just... anyway. Yeah, you're right. You're right. I forgot about that. Yeah. It scared me. Sometimes you forget a lot of stuff. That's why you're here. Yeah? That's why you're here. Yeah. I'm concerned about you. I mean, you came here just so like drowned down and I had such a surprise for you and you say no to that. It's now I'm really concerned. I know. Well, that's because... I had the cake, the German cake that you always send me messages about. Always cry baby. You send me messages... Let me just... So anybody will listen to this, right? Every day I get a message at least 16 times through the mobile phone from Matt. He always says, get the different languages, different, like it's still English, but different form of, you know, formatting. Yeah, it's probably... Stick your German, you know, cake and now you're going to beep that or get the German cake ready and it's all about German cake. So it's Friday. He was so good to me whole week. He didn't pound me that much because I took his attention yesterday. Perfect day. No, two days ago about Urgentanz. So I took his attention from me to Urgentanz. So he was very, he took his anger on that thing. So I was like, he was so nice to me. So nice to me whole week, I will get him that German cake he's dreaming about every day. Guess what? I did. I get him German cake, powdered sugar, it looks like cocaine and then also whipped cream, German whipped cream, which kills all the calories. I put it on the table. He looked at me with his sad eyes, like the dog. What is it, Bassett? Yeah, Bassett dog. He just looked at me like that. I said, puppy eyes. He was like, dude, I cannot eat this. I was like, yeah, you're joking. No, you have to have it. It's just German cake. I mean, come on. Then he goes, no, I cannot eat it. I thought he was going to have a heart attack. Explain. I'll tell you why. I have to, I have to take a blood test and a urine test and then an EKG for a particular life policy that I'm getting that creates this infinite banking thing. But anyway, that's a subject for another day.
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
A highlight from Something a little monstrous with Isabel Caas
"At Breaking the Glass Slipper we believe it is important to have conversations about women and issues of intersectional feminism within science fiction, fantasy and horror. To continue to do so we need your help. Please consider supporting us on Patreon. Join the conversation by following us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Hello and welcome to Breaking the Glass Slipper. I'm Charlotte Bond. I'm Megan Lee. And I'm Lucy Hounsom. From the very first tales of the supernatural, vampires have held a special place in the hearts of storytellers. Over the years they've been reinvented again and again. In movie terms we've had The Elegant and the Elfin in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, while Gary Oldman gave us a seductive but sinister version of Dracula himself in Coppola's film. With regards to books we've had endearing but vicious vampire children in Let the Right One In, and Stephen King himself claims that his vampire novel Salem's Lot is one of his favourites, linking the dying of small towns with the curse of the vampire. With the exception of the Swedish Let the Right One In, most of our well -known vampires are decidedly Western. But in The Vampires of El Norte, Isabel Canas has created her own brand of very savage vampires that face off against Vaqueros. Isabel is joining us in this episode to talk about what inspired her Mexican vampires and what her novel says about being a woman in 1840s Mexico fighting not just against supernatural beings but against the expectations of society. Isabel, thank you so much for joining us. Please tell our listeners a little bit about yourself and your books. Thank you so much for having me. I've been looking forward to this. I love, love, love this podcast. So getting the email from my publicist saying that this was in the books, I was like, yes, I'm so excited. Oh, it's lovely to have you. I am a Mexican -American speculative fiction author. I live in the Pacific Northwest. I'm a recovering academic, so we might get a little nitty and gritty when it comes to my research and talking about folklore and the kinds of things that informed Vampires of El Norte, which is, I guess you could bill it, and it has been billed as a supernatural Western set in what is now South Texas in 1846 at the beginning of the Mexican -American war. And it's about two childhood sweethearts named Nena and Nestor who are separated at the age of 13 because of a tragedy and are thrown together again nine years later on the road to war. And they have to defend their home Rancho from threats, both human and supernatural. And the supernatural, like spoiler alert, is the vampires. I have to admit, I've read lots of vampire novels, but none quite like yours. So how are vampires traditionally represented in Mexican literature? Are they like you present them in your books, which is kind of not quite human, but humanoid and sort of vicious and savage and unnatural? Is that what they are in Mexican literature or is there a branch of them in there? Do you tell us? Well, yeah, when it comes to Mexican, when it comes to literature, I would draw a line between literature and folklore. This is my academic coming out. But also there are, I guess, many kinds of vampires when we talk about literature and folklore in Mexico. I think Mexican literature in particular, in terms of genre literature, we have Silvia Moreno -Garcia's Certain Dark Things, which features a vampire in modern Mexico City. It is fantastic. But when it comes to modern literature, there's a lot of influence from the West. The Anglo American tradition of the vampire is, of course, something that occurs in pop culture. When it comes to folklore, however, when I was researching this book, I came across some interesting stuff. The original idea that was like the seed of this novel took place in a different part of Mexico, which is where the book ended up being set, which is now South Texas, which is where my family has hailed from for generations. Originally, I was looking at more central Mexico, maybe like in the environs of Mexico City. In the state of Tlaxcala, there are legends of what are called bloodsucking witches or Tlahualpuches and these entities, I guess, could fall under the heading of vampire, given their predilection for blood. They're very different from the Western European vampire that most people are familiar with from pop culture. So I was fascinated by these creatures who are, I believe exclusively women, and their affliction is something that they are born with and that manifests with puberty. There's so much to pick apart there. When I was putting the book together, I realized that they deserve their own novel. I was kind of back to square one.
The Garden Question
A highlight from 126 - Branches and Boundaries: Navigating Tree Legalities Lea Clark
"The Garden Question is a podcast for people that love designing, building, and growing smarter gardens that work. Listen in as we talk with successful garden designers, builders, and growers, discovering their stories along with how they think, work, and grow. This is your next step in creating a beautiful, year -round, environmentally connected, low -maintenance, and healthy thriving outdoor space. It doesn't matter if you're a beginner or an expert, there will always be something inspiring when you listen to The Garden Question podcast. Hello, I'm your host, Craig McManus. Have you ever wondered about your neighbor's tree branch hanging over your house? Or thought, who really owns that tree on my property line? Is ignoring the questionable tree in my backyard a good idea? Well, in this episode, we talk with an ISA -certified arborist and a lawyer to find out where the law and your urban trees intersect. Lee Clark has worked as a paralegal, a criminal defense lawyer, and a college professor. After earning a master's in forestry from the University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, she now serves with the Georgia Forestry Commission as the community forester for Northeast Georgia. She's responsible for 40 counties. As an ISA -certified arborist and track -qualified, her focus is on supporting cities, counties, and tree advocacy groups to improve the urban tree canopy. Remember, this presentation is informational only and is not legal advice. This fresh episode 126, Branches and Boundaries, Navigating Tree Legalities with Lee Clark. Lee, what is a community forester? Community forester, we have four of them in the state right now. We divided up the state, and we each have many counties. We work with all the counties in the cities and tree advocacy boards within those cities and counties. We try to help all communities maximize the benefits of an urban forest. Trees don't stop their benefits at an artificial zip code line. Trees spread their benefits everywhere. We provide technical assistance to cities and counties, even schools, college campuses, nonprofits, homeowners. We work with cities in passing tree ordinances and helping them form tree boards, then to get recognition for their efforts to preserve and celebrate the community trees. We work extensively with the Tree City USA program, help cities get in and stay into that program. We do help homeowners in cities plan for storms and storm mitigation. Tell us a little bit about the Georgia Forestry Commission. We are a large agency that work to promote healthy community and urban forests. We work throughout the state to help improve forests and forest management. We do a lot of wildland firefighting. We have a large contingent within the Forestry Commission that works with private landowners that have large tracts of managed timber, and we help them manage their forests appropriately. I'm in the small division at the Forestry Commission that is urban and community forestry. We work with cities and counties, and we help communities form tree boards or pass tree ordinances. We help homeowners with managing trees, and then we also help cities with storm planning. You're also an attorney, and I'm curious, why did you change professions from a practicing attorney to a community forester? I was so lucky, I had the opportunity to reinvent myself. I just sat down and thought about it for a while, what would make me really happy? The answer came back of being an arborist, helping trees and helping people learn about trees and take care of trees. So I was just very lucky that I could uproot myself, completely change states and professions. Went back to school at an advanced age, and loved everything that I learned about trees. It just made so much sense that this is really where I need to be. Having come from a legal experience and being an attorney for over 20 years, I can bring that to the table, and I can enhance this job. I can better help cities with tree ordinances, and also I've been lately talking to a lot of communities and groups about tree law. I'm able to do that with my unique background. It is a unique background, and I know lawyers always like to put out a disclaimer about legal. Would you like to put a disclaimer out there? I will if we're going to talk about anything legal. This is informational only. I'm not in the Georgia Bar. I'm in the Florida Bar, but I am inactive in the Florida Bar, so I am not practicing law in any state currently. This is informational only. It's not legal advice. Great. What legal responsibilities do property owners have regarding trees on their land? They have to be a reasonable person. They have to act reasonably. What is ultimately decided to be reasonable, if you really take it out to the extremes, that's what a jury would decide. If you get yourself into a situation, you have a tree fall or there's a liability issue, if it goes as far as it could go, it's going to go to jury trial. In a nutshell, they are deciding did you, as a tree owner, act reasonably. You don't have a duty to inspect for non -visible damage if you're in an urban area. You just have to do what a reasonable person would do, which is there. It's visible, apparent, and patent. You need to notice it and you need to mitigate that. What would an example be of something like that? There is a tree right next to your driveway that every day when you drive in and drive out your driveway, you see this tree. It has a huge amount of decay in it, close near the bottom, right where you can see it when you pass by in your car. The tree appears to be suffering from the wound or the damage, such as it's lost its leaves or its needles. Maybe it's dropping limbs, it does not look alive anymore, it looks hazardous. Most often it's because there is decay and the decay is visible, apparent, and patent, which is all just a lawyer way of saying it's really obvious decay. So if you have a really obvious condition on a tree on your property, you have to check that out. You've got to inspect it, you've got to get someone to look at it that knows what they're doing, and you've got to mitigate it. Now I was in a client's property the other day gathering field notes, and I noticed a fig tree that appeared to be on the neighbor's property. But there were limbs hanging well over what I perceived as the property line, and I couldn't help myself, I had to sample 10 or 12 figs from that fig tree. So my question is, who actually owns that fruit? Strangely enough, different states are going to do it in different ways. Out in the west, they have more specific laws that deal with who owns the fruit and what you can do with it, because there's more tree food crops, and those are cash crops, those are valuable. Where we live in Georgia, it isn't really that much of an issue. We've got pecan trees, whether we want them or not, we've got pecans everywhere, and walnuts. Who actually owns the tree is where the tree is located. If it's entirely within one person's property, that person owns the tree. If the tree straddles a property line and is on more than one property line, then both people own it. They both have a responsibility to maintain their part and also a responsibility to not harm the tree unreasonably being the tree as a whole. That would be called a boundary tree, right? Exactly, a boundary tree, yes. Okay, we'll talk more about boundary trees in just a moment. To what extent can the homeowner or the client that the tree is overhanging the fig tree, can they cut those branches back? They do have the right, if the branches are encroaching onto their property, coming over the property line, they have the right to cut the branch off with caveats. They cannot do overall or unreasonable damage to the tree as a whole. The best practice is to talk to the neighbor and say, hey, you want to get together on pruning this, or we could split the cost, or how do you feel about pruning it, and see where your neighbor stands, the neighbor being the owner of the tree. Either owner or the encroached upon neighbor can initiate that conversation because they both have an interest in this. The owner of the tree has an interest in the branch being pruned correctly, if at all, and that the tree overall is not harmed. The neighbor being encroached upon would like to get the encroachment out of there, but it's still got to be done correctly, and it still has to be done in a way that does not harm the tree overall unreasonably.
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"Interactive brokers clients earn up to USD 4 .83 % on their uninvested instantly available cash balances rate subject to change. Visit ibkr .com slash interest rates to learn more kinds of cases, but he said that unfortunately that date law is like Swiss cheese. It's not very good. It's so porous. It doesn't have as much heft. Thanks so much, Patty. That's Bloomberg legal reporter Patricia Hurtado. I'm June Grosso and this is Bloomberg. Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg Radio. Federal prosecutors plan to indict Hunter Biden by September 29th on gun charges, according to a court filing. The president's son had agreed to a plea agreement that would have spared him jail time for allegedly purchasing a gun as a drug user. Tropical Storm Lee has now turned into a category one hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. The storms expected to strengthen into an extremely dangerous major hurricane by early Saturday morning. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says the last thing Americans need is a pointless government shutdown. I implore my Republican colleagues in the House. Time is short to keep the government open. And the only way to avoid a shutdown is through bipartisanship. While speaking on the Senate floor today, Schumer urged House Republicans to work with Democrats to pass a measure to keep the government running beyond the September 30th deadline. The former U .S. Navy officers convicted of taking bribes from a foreign defense contractor called Fat Leonard are now free. Lucinda Kay has more. A judge vacated their convictions. Instead, the four officers pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor each. They'll each pay a hundred dollar fine. These new charges and decreased penalties come after the former.
Planet Mikey
"lee" Discussed on Planet Mikey
"Hope he's not going to run for office down there. Well, they want me to run. I mean, a lot of people won't be out there and stuff and they're tired of the Republicans and their tired of poor Biden and he's a mess, isn't he? Well, everybody's a mess. Look what we've done. I mean, you know, a society is a mess. You can't talk to someone on the telephone. It's all digital. You go down, you know, I try to get on, I pay cash to get my bag on the airport and they go, no, we don't take cash. So I had to get out of line, go over to a machine. Come back. You know, I got to give them a $100 bill in the machine. It gives you 94 backing credit. And then I give it to her. She takes the $30. I thought I tried to use it to get out of the parking garage. And it says you need a pin number. I go, oh, I don't know. I have pin number for this card. So there I am, I'm stuck in the airport for 30 minutes so I can't get out of it. Because they don't take care. That's a stripper's people in the boxes anymore. I was at a strip bar is trying to throw dollar bills at this. She said, my own take cash. So I swiped my car there. You know. Worked out pretty good. So Steve, do you use the chip card? Please remove it quickly. Please remove card quickly. So Bill, you send you through 76. You're 75. You're going to be, you know, one of those golfers that try to shoot their age. In the term of baseball, you know, I'm throwing at 75, I'm throwing harder than my edge. Right. I know, that's where some unbelievable, you know, but these guys, these kids don't realize that you've kept limber. You stretch all the time. You've got yourself in a place where at 75 most guys can't tie their shoes. I know. Oh, you know, when they saw me, they saw me stretch, and they saw me feel my position, and they saw me in. I hit a double in the right field corner. I didn't run though. What you walking into a single? No, no, no, no. It was just in the preliminary when I came in for bat and practice. Can you still swing the bat? And I mean, they were throwing, they would throw. The guy was throwing major league batting practice, so that was turning him around. Nice. Well, see, you'll never lose that. And you know, you could probably put on a show in between innings, hitting yourself, fun goes in the outfield, like you used to do, and that would be something they've never seen before either. Well, I'll tell you my catcher. This catcher came out of the Woods. They had about 20 catchers trying out. They're in cowboy outfits, dresses, everything. They shot the jugs guns straight up in the air. And no one caught it, and then all of a sudden one ball hit off the guard railing and bounced back towards home plate. And this kid with his pads, this pads on, slides across like Gina Davis, and that was doing a split. And yeah, did the splits catches it on home plate and they said, holy shit, that was a great play. I said, you can catch me anytime. He says, I'm the number one catcher. His name is Billy Lee Roy. Billy Leroy. Here you go. Sounds like he's from the south. Billy Lee is throwing the Billy Leroy. Well, you know, Bill, you mentioned a league of their own. I got one quick joke for you before we let you go and get to our musical portion of the show. What is the difference between rocio Donald was in that movie, right? What's the difference between Rosie O'Donnell? And a bowling ball. Bowling ball has three holes. That's really good. No, the correct answer is you could eat the bowling ball if you really had to. My answer is better. It was great, especially you have to go. Hey, listen, this is great news. I'm coming to Savannah. And I gotta check this out because it sounds great. And we hope you're in good health, Ben and Bill and me. There's a line drive with my name on it. I just opened it in Savannah. Good talking to you, pal. Thank you, see ya. Take care. Spaceman Bill Lee, everybody. He's still pitching. And apparently throwing 75 miles an hour. He and his ethis pitch. That's amazing, you know. One more news item that we got to get to before we close down this show. And I know you guys love it. He loves the musical portion of the program more than anything. And nobody gets up in the aisles and dances like you guys doing these two guys come in to entertain us at the end of each podcast. I thought you had a news item. I do. It's a news item. Oh, go ahead. Neil Diamond has sold his entire catalog. Say it isn't so. You know how they're doing that now? Bruce Springsteen? David Bowie. Well, it's happened. Did it say how much he got for that because he's a prolific songwriter. Doesn't matter. He's 81 years old. There's no time like the present. They're selling these things. It's like an NFT for your ears. So it's all your favorites. And I know happened to know that Joe and Jerry love Neil Diamond. So let's bring them in. To celebrate goodbye to the catalog for Neil Diamond..
The Bernard Lee Poker Show
"lee" Discussed on The Bernard Lee Poker Show
"I'm going to play it down. So i can do football stuff saturday. Sunday for war right That's that's the plan and just really excited. I mean just like you said. I'm sure i mean just there's just nothing like especially the main event so just you know i'm just trying to get back in there. I miss it. I played online a lot during cogan while i was unemployed for three or four months. Now it's fine. But i'm ready for the real thing. I'm ready ready. Doesn't like the world series People who are watching on youtube. You know right behind me. That's the mothership right there. And so you know world series the live action just very different. You know from people from all over the world and all different really. It's kind of understanding where the landmines are and who you have to in what you have to avoid and listen your flips. Got a hold up. I mean it really comes down to a lot of that. Sometimes you you could play really great you lose three flips in a row and you're out you know as simple as there's also the other side where he stuck out you've made one of course. Sure sure they said if you're if you're good and you're lucky that's just a really unfortunate unfair combination right when phil ivey sucks out on a two hours just not fair sometimes right right right exactly exactly so Anything else with regards to the talk of open about Barschel's sportsbook. I really interesting update. But so that's the big thing that's really what they hired before they found out. Also get my god you know. I'm really helping. Push that pen for. We have forty three ten properties culture pinball barstool for four hundred fifty million dollars january twenty twenty five ten ten ten pro five each louisiana zana mississippi dramatics right. I you know who's been mississippi sportsbook seven now. Apps we see anna. Sports bullets are about to have it. Apple twenty twenty seven man. We're on this thing out all over the country you know. We just got a new jersey. Where jersey virginia tennessee illinois indiana pennsylvania michigan and we just got to arizona so announce states now. And i think we've got they're saying three or four more of the year and then it's just going to be more more of the coming years. Sports gambling has become legal. Nationwide right ryan. So would they won't be doing our postal football pits and blogs on twitter. And they won't be kind of like a props barstool pin none of a state which beat sports gambling..
The Bernard Lee Poker Show
"lee" Discussed on The Bernard Lee Poker Show
"Stopping by once again. Thank you bernard happy to talk with you. Happy to be here. great news. obviously winning. this events It is definitely a different world playing in these events. As compared to w p teas and w. s. o. p.'s. Because obviously even though the buy-ins aren't crazy right. i mean. These aren't absolutely nuts. We used to play in ten thousand dollar events every single week. So it wasn't that crazy but in today's day and age ten thousand dollars still a lot of money. There are live. Wbz tv's aren't ten thousand anymore and then also You are also playing against some of the best players if not the best players in the world. How different is it for you playing in these events compared to say the good old days playing in w events where even though the buy-ins were about the same amount the play in the caliber probably weren't as high as it is during these events. Would you agree. I would. Yeah the vibe of these tournaments is really cool. That reo aria studio is such a nice place to play. And yeah like you said it's a lot of very toughest players guys that have been playing online forever and they're super sharps Like obviously you have to take a very gto approach right So i'd say that's the main difference between like playing tournament like this and you know something i played locally that were. I'm going to be playing against like more recreational types right Although you do get some recreational type them these events as well right But yeah i really enjoy the challenge of you know just Getting see you know you get. I enjoyed just like trying to be really present during these tournaments and watch every hand and watch what these guys are doing and just You know sort of making mental notes hands and it's just such a good learning opportunity to play with the best and i'll come out come out on top and one of these..
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"lee" Discussed on The Bernard Lee Poker Show
"But as long as it's fun and i've been talking to some of my friends in they said you know what what what's your attitude like. Are you back or you. And i said i'm loving it more today. An idea fifteen years fifteen years ago felt like number one felt like a job right. I was just about say Job yeah yeah. I wasn't doing it for fun. I was doing for a living and to I'm not playing better and more relaxed. And i like my game better today than i did back then. Or even though i had a good contrarian style my style probably isn't as contrarian today but i feel very comfortable in my skin and that's part of i think you know getting fat and old involved you can get a little more comfortable through you are and you know you are and just having a lot of fun right now. It's been done. Well that's the key that's the key right just enjoying it and and really really Having fun and then like you said it doesn't feel like a job when it doesn't feel like a job you know it's it's just enjoyable again so mark so great talking with you. So great catching up. And congratulations on your success I saw it the first time and then we saw back to back. I definitely said i at the get you on the show to talk about it and really talk about the experiences in reminisce about the old days so thanks so much for coming on the show really really appreciate it. My friend my pleasure bernie is great talking to you. Great seeing you. And i'll see you next week. Act slowly mark safe here to time so bracelet winner now time deep stacks of venetian champion. Both back to back stay tuned. We'll continue our coverage as we start leading up to the world series of poker the live version which obviously hasn't happened in two years. We're all excited about that. And as always may you always go with the best hand never get unlucky goodnight everybody..
The Bernard Lee Poker Show
"lee" Discussed on The Bernard Lee Poker Show
"Chances with a stack. That can't hurt me versus a stack that cat in so i really do a very very close attention to stack sizes and how they're changing because they're always changing right again wanting to somebody stacking of At least one of persons so I'm just paying super close attention. I said but. I'm really playing situation all stack size relative to the blinds. If people don't understand a lot of people don't understand the way. The blinds are increasing. You really have to keep factoring in how how advantageous is i. Would sometimes herp asli shown trying to show very snuggie image. Just before there's gonna be a big joe. It blinds at is such that my why table image is pretty solid and then once things changed rhino now people are trying to creep into the money are looking for the increase of a couple thousand dollars in the same tight now mike canes just why why wide open and really really come after him he's also the the timeframe is pretty important to you. You look at the stacks but early on tournament especially when it's a reentry players who are gonna flush. Let's go you know that kind of thing but once that reentry timeframe stops now i always look now. The tournament starts right because now we're really serious right. We're not all just like okay. I'll just break out another six hundred ninety six hundred number six hundred you know especially against some of these fulltime pros where six hundred. They're normally buying for thirty five hundred. They look at six hundred like whatever you know that kind of thing. So that's important too because you don't want to take those kinds of chances level three where somebody can just call just a call right. That's exactly right. That's a good point in in. And that's that's essentially how i play. I'm going to be far less likely to lay down a big hand. Even though i think will be when it's early on and i can just read by once. Once the the the rebuy period has stopped now got a column. You think long and hard. Before i get into air going right right right. So what is the future. Is the future more tournaments now as as the kids get older. I totally understand as the kids get older. And you get a little bit more flexibility. I play more golf than i used to play five six years ago because the kids could make breakfast themselves but he kind of what's what's kind of the future now. Is it more termine so potentially more travel as well or obviously vegas is now hopping with tournaments all the time. So you probably don't have to. I love traveling. I love exploring new places. Unfortunately when i was playing fifteen years ago a from one tournament to the other i got to do very little sightseeing jurist type stuff and enjoying.
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"lee" Discussed on The Bernard Lee Poker Show
"This is totally cohen related. It may or may not reverse itself but basically it's so minimal that it would only affect me if i was like a competitive athlete. Shouldn't shouldn't affect me much. You won't be running any marathons anytime soon. So let's talk a little bit more about the events themselves and let's see how no expectations. Let's see how the tournaments go. What did you learn the these few tournaments that we talked about previously a little bit about how the world is different than it was a decade. And a half ago where you could run over tables players really not. Everyone understood how to play but as we talked about. There's so many more. But i think the majority of people who sit down at these of maybe. That's too much of a statement but there's definitely more people that understand little bit more about tournament poker whether they've seen some trainings online whether they read books whether they even have friends that they talked to. What a learnings did you come out of this. That helped prepare you for the world series and maybe a timber to that you can give people who are now looking forward to october and playing in the world series so that they can prepare in this really different error. So i think the generality you made about players being better today the majority is close. Pretty pretty accurate. But i think they're still still weak spots out there. Yeah especially when you look at tournament. By in the in the hundreds as opposed to the thousands the class of a field really right white thousand longer than was very different played very differently than the six hundred and hundreds and thousands. So you're still gonna find a weak spots in. you really do have to be almost like a. I used to call it a a lion in the jungle. Just lying in wait and looking for that old beast right. Try to separate them from the pack right laughter. So that's primarily what i did..
The Bernard Lee Poker Show
"lee" Discussed on The Bernard Lee Poker Show
"But i don't know. They are listening to buffalo. I did he was. He was in the icu. For like you know a handful of days. He was still in buffalo. When i got home. And then they're miracles. Do happen with spinal cord stuff. Guys in his situation have regained some movement and so they really tryin of first few months after the accident are vital. You know they really try and get the body trying to you. Know get back to its old tricks per se learning these things that it used to know so well but it was kinda they were. The doctors were pretty straight up with us that they were like. It's like in a very very small chances of him really ever improving his condition. So yeah he's he's in bed. You know most pretty much all day But i you know we talk. We talk talk affair bed and i keep him updated on all my poker stuff you know talking to him on the phone as we sounds the same as he always does. And you know we can talk. Luckily like poker kind of can always unify us in whenever i go home and see him usually like. I like doing one day. Where i won't do a whole session but i'll fire up. Some may cr attorneys on my screen and plug my screen and to the. Hdmi coordinate to the tv in his bedroom. And he's he's still real. You know mentally sharp and he. He's played poker for decades like he talked spots all the time you know and so like it's just you know a good thing that we can bond over and Yeah i remember. I was home for thanksgiving. You know last year and it was obviously super difficult with cova and stuff and this was before vaccines coming out and stuff. So it's like yeah. We drove and then tested before we saw him. And you know right when we got home. Like i like i. I stayed over at my wife's house for a day. And yes. I talk about that because you live in vegas. They live outside of buffalo..
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"lee" Discussed on The Bernard Lee Poker Show
"In bags i was. I was in dead last place. Twentieth or twenty with like three. Big blinds are remember specifically the first hand. I had jack six of hearts in the small with like you know decent chunk of my stack in the button min raise some like right with the overlay. I was like all right. You know it's a good spot to try and get it in here in triple up. The guy actually had a six six of diamonds and i ended up runner so i'm like dominated worse right right right. I've runner runner a flush the next hand suck out again. Ace jack to queens hidden ace on the river then very next hand. I had nyons in the cutoff with leg. Fourteen blinds in just shoved and then Katie lindsey your katie. Mormon mormons wife right right. You wanna flip so. I go from three hundred k. To three and a half million hits break hits. I'm in second with fourteen left. I got shot windows thing. So all right which over and i'm just sitting in this front passenger sea here and i played all final table out in the passenger seat and and up winning the bracelet in my car in the wind parking garage. Well story all these great stories of Ryan apollo winning it at a whole foods and i had similar reaction..
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"lee" Discussed on The Bernard Lee Poker Show
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"Out with jack sunny called so quick. I'm anxious to see the broadcast. It's not out yet. I'm anxious if if you can see my face when he calls as quickly as he does. 'cause i like this isn't good because you know us. Not nines or tens. You know like meatballs that quickly. It's queens gangs aces as right right right right. There's a bit of a relief when he turns over his being and of course you know he turns the flush draw and be but my nerves. I mean i've never been. I don't think of ever been so nervous in my life during his during that hand him. Flop turn reverend. It was his mom on. Might faint right there like you said anyway. It was such a tough final table. It was a very nice structure because it went two hundred four hundred three hundred five hundred then. Three hundred. Six hundred zero gave a lot of time. But you didn't win a hand until hand number thirty eight the hand that you just described you doubled up on hand forty and then thankfully i guess in some respects hand. Forty one can aldridge. He gets eliminated in six. And then kind of like the bubble gets popped and then later albert calderon gets knocked out then. A few hands later sunny gets knocked down so always happens that way. People don't want don't want to be the first one but once the first one happens it. Just kind of like goes really quickly. My dad said he was like what was it. Free on eventful final table all of a sudden it. Just you know. I mean it has to happen at some point right type forever. Son of resent. Yeah i mean you got you guys you guys end up. Obviously you get three handed and then you get heads up your two to one underdog heads up and then you play the final hand. Let's quickly talk about it from your standpoint brek raises two point five you call flop comes ten.
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"I doing here moving. I mean i've said this a couple of years ago. I think of trump to ever play at night lake every once in a blue moon. Oh it's also what i. What are you doing here I don't give her. And i think that they're really good learning experiences as well but realistically monetarily they're not going to be You're not going to have a big aurelie per se. I mean there's there's really no monetary incentive to play 'em them you sit down like you said they're learning experiences all the people in them really have no clue what they're doing and you won't play against bad players but at the same time when when no one knows the actions on the of it it kind of feels like home game atmosphere and you're trying to serious vices. The plan after a few drinks or something close. It's funny back in two thousand eighteen. The big blind anti was just being introduced right and so it was just getting there in the world series was kind of experimenting with it. Should we do this. Should we not etc. Go go ahead. i'll tell you quitting. You might be very similar so that year. They had dailies right. And so i wanna say it was something like two five eight ten again. I'm not exactly sure. But i know every other daily had the big blind anti and so in my mind it was always like if i ever get knocked out early in an event or late night i and i'm close to the time they started a big line anti i want to just play it just so i can experience it like will people defend their big blind more because they feel like they have more in. Will you know what what will have because literally we had not experienced now. it's so commonplace. Everyone knows about it and almost everyone's doing it but at the time it really really was the first time it was out so i never played the nightly no negative connotation i just don't i don't play i mean i'm i'd rather sleep. Get get ready for the next bracelet event. But this day..
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"The two thousand sixteen wwlp circuit cherokee main of events. He won then almost one. A quarter million dollars there For that event. Welcome to the show a steven snyder. Stephen it has been an incredible run for you Obviously with the wpa runner up and we were talking before about this really kind of kick start win for you. In december of two thousand thirteen. it was not a w soupy circuit event but it was a cherokee poker classic And it was a three hundred sixty five no limit re entry event. You took this down for over forty thousand dollars. I mean six hundred sixty one entries in this event. Really kind of kick-starting your bankroll and then. It seemed like every even year something good would happen. Two thousand fourteen. You win your first ring. Two thousand sixteen. You have just a really great year not only a ring but also fourth in a bracelet event you cash in the main event. I mean a great financial year as well and then two thousand eighteen same thing another ring always back to back rings in back to back days you finish deepen the main event again. If it wasn't for cova you probably would have another ring in two thousand and twenty because it seems like every even year but maybe the the wpa hard rock poker showdown. You're saving it for into twenty one. That was supposed to be twenty But talk a little bit about the wpa circuit rings. Were you grinding the circuit. Or i mean i know primarily harris cherokee you have a lot of caches there but were you grinding circuit wiser primarily a cherokee Yes so once. I won that tournament. In i basically just committed to be full-time poker at that point I mean i was grinding. The live circuits Whenever it was convenient travel to i had picked back online. At that point we had talked about black friday I was never too serious of a player on the full tilt poker stars days. But we know wants to happen. Two thousand thirteen started playing full-time on some of the sites that were available to americans at the time Ignition badeah mainly off the summit on their full time. When i was home i was still going into the underground gave the underground cash games around charlotte. I was playing. The sitting goes in the cash games at the circuit stops. I was going for the laugh tournaments. I mean all of it i made. It was probably too much. We poker players often talk about balance and know. Once i called the bug and i was just you know have taken. A leap of faith in my thinking was well. I mean you know. Failure is not an option. I'll do whatever it takes if that means playing sixty hours a week. That's what's going to happen. Because at that point i was in a serious relationship ahead I had a son who was goodness. He was eleven at the time. Signed up pre-teen And i was in a serious relationship with a girl who also had a a nine year old son so i was kind of having a family atmosphere. At that time. I was willing to put as much work as the into to make it happen in. Not failing so you may not was. I plan live. I was playing everywhere. Could online underground games. Whatever and it shows to And this is a derogatory statement. This is a compliment. As you were playing every event you know from the circuit event to the main events and even the nightly events at some of these circuits as well and really just trying to cut your teeth and really get into it and do well. You mentioned the nightly events. I think every single time. I've played a nightly. I have instantly regretted it when i said you're you're like i didn't play enough today. I wanna play two hours. And you're like oh god..
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"Just a few slots. But here's had come in a faint during two thousand twelve two thousand thirteen and built the start of what is now the big resort and they had broken all this and it was. I think spring in the spring in two thousand thirteen they had their first circuit event and i went to and played a few tournaments had a great time but later that fall they had another another series of terms that wasn't us circuit. Event was not a but i ended up winning the reinsure first weekends. Three sixty five re entry. It was like once. I had done that i it was like for forty thousand was just like unbelievable that that happened. All right in over the over. The i two thousand and two thousand thirteen thousand ten to two thousand thirteen. I really ramped up how serious i was taken. Focus so like you know in the mid two thousand dollars plan recreational. I wasn't really studying the game. And all that stuff. But i come through thousand dollars really actually actively working on becoming a better player for the first time ever and then come. Two thousand. Thirteen out won that tournament. I was tired of traveling with the power plants I had money saved up from that. Plus it won this tournament. I was like you know what i think ready like. I'm gonna. I'm just gonna take a leap of faith here and just go for it because this is what i wanna do with my life and right you know. Not many people get the opportunity to chase their dreams or do what they love for a living and you know there's opportunities presented to me so why not just go for and i never looked back did did the Black friday obviously that happened. Been april fifteenth. Two thousand eleven. Did that have an effect on it as well in the sense of you playing more live because obviously you can't play online anymore I had. I was never really a serious on player. I had done this in a vacant own. I think two thousand nine one. I probably like a a four five six months. Then playing you know sitting forty hours a week or more you right and so after after i was done with that i really didn't play a whole lot of online was still kinda sticking with the last cash gains in the underground scene at charlotte In yet just a few tournaments ended up traveling to probably in two thousand twelve or thirteen and then The i in two thousand thirteen. When i won that tournament. I just never looked back full-time professional poker player from there on nice. Well when we come back. We're going to talk more with stephen about not. Only the w. p. t. runner up finish but also his w. s. o. p. three circuit rings his his travels and also how it has been as a professional poker player over almost the last decade when we return here as we continue the fourteen th anniversary celebration of the bernard lee poker show. Hey this is steven snyder. Three time world series of poker circuit ring winner. And you're listening to the bernard lee ogre. Show the clicking of chips do bill in streaming for a tale underneath your run good.
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"I was playing fifty dollars hundred dollars sitting goes and i messed around on. Full tilt a little bit over the years abbott but no no cash gameplay online and no tournament play. Just the sitting goes. I'm not sure why that appealed to me now but they were just simple straightforward games and just like clockwork all day. And like what you just said. They run like cr- back then. People don't realize maybe remember but stars until they just like they had a page and they would just keep moving up and down because people start filling up the tables eight of nine so you know all this stuff and and they were fairly quick depending on how fast you're so you could be playing tournament and be done within an hour usually and you'd the heads of structures that were more minutes But i i. Didn't i never really liked Always light longer structures You know that doesn't really suit a lot of recreational players. You know the the better. The structure in the more skillful play was by no the faster the more gambling looking for an edge in the game and i was looking to the see. If i can actually do this you know when i started. I didn't even know like. Is it even possible to beat the game like is this professional poker is a real thing that people talk. I didn't even know back in the early. Two thousands of and know come two thousand two thousand ten. I trauma i in in the beginning a lot of success in not hidden enough inevitable bad streak and you know..
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"You able to take advantage of that. Yeah so we. When we had seven players left. I think i was chip leader. Must time And then sunny knocked out Eric abdellat in southern place bir Pretty massive hot so he just over gained my gym. I wasn't sweating it much. Because i knew. I had position on it and i had had the opportunity to put pressure on him whenever i need it. Or just get out of the pot whenever he was putting pressure on So i i wasn't concerned about not having the shipley thought i had the perfect situation going into this final day ball where i i really had the best chance of winning the penalty. I mean there were still things that had to go right. I didn't think of myself as a sixty percent chance of winning with six player. Laugh about it. I mean i i was in their thinking. Hey i've got a good forty percent tiger with that latest. Right i've got position on him And the short stacks are kind of a little bit further away from me. So i can put pressure on those mediums. Thanks to my left every obviously everything changes Pretty quickly So the final table didn't start out the way had hoped it would And i kinda went down a few chips but after everything kind of settled out a little bit but we road implementing the plan Pretty well and and move forward. Yeah and like you said you're literally one blind. St steeler takedown away from being the chip leader. I'm you had your on six hundred thousand off blinds. You're starting at two hundred four hundred with a four hundred anti so literally thousand chips. You take one one circuit. You're now the chip leader. And but the bud so yeah so you so you can see signs going to do and you kind of go from there was the first question is what was the strategy going in go. What was it going was it to put pressure on sunday. Was it to wait it out. You know a couple of these guys had lessened thirteen. Big blinds fairly quickly although it was a slower rate when two hundred four hundred interesting three hundred five hundred and then three hundred six hundred so you really had like couple hours at three hundred six hundred. I mean like this really hard. It was for a while so which is great right. I mean it's good for that scenario but also these shorter stacks. Now have some extra time to kind of build up. So what was the strategy for you going in so that with our vinyl table dynamic are shorter stacks were pretty short. They're the most bet will. Because i think A at bo had attended lines. And mike albert at just over that so the strategy was hopefully just start putting pressure on them right away And putting putting pressure on. Stephen and can Especially because they're the ones that are gonna have that issue of trying to wait it out right jam wise right and i saw that when when i was able to finally reviews hands after the table at stephen Playing a little bit tighter early on and especially against sonny and myself because obviously payout jumps at did. I wasn't afraid to get into pots with sunny. But i didn't want to take Like make it my main goal for the session so i was cautious in approaching. Those in didn't need to push my end as much more. I think i did take one hand early on King four suited. And then sunny. Just kinda let them know. That wasn't going to be able to Just open every Kinda hopefully them to for the little bit more of his range to give me those opportunities to open more pots and and take over the table. A little bit better. It didn't start out phenomenally like you said and also to. It took a lot longer. You would've expected you would have made the guests that within the first twenty hands. One of the short stacks would have been eliminated just based off of the way it goes around but it took a while for anyone to eventually get eliminated it. I think it was like thirty. Forty hands before finally Can aldridge was taken out and but once that happened dentist start happening right then then one after the other think. Ken was taken out in hand. Forty-one then hand forty four. Those are the next elimination then. Hand fifty eight sunny gets knocked out. It went really quick. And and i and i talked about this a lot at a final tables. Everyone kind of plays cautiously as long as everything you know goes along. This is a little different because they were short. Stacks but Yet vote doubled up and so everything started happening. But once that bubble like that. I one breaks everyone kind of feels off. Thank goodness there was a page on boom. Boom boom boom. Back on thing and really. This final table was a really obvious scenario of that. It's just very tough when you're playing in it. I've had many situations where that you're just sitting there going. Oh god we'll somebody please just get knocked down because you know it's going to start happening. Once it started happening. Bet it was just like every other hand like oh god. Somebody's all nicole. Somebody's all in a call. And you're in such a great spot because still at one hundred big blinds at that point me of sixty million and you're just saying like all call whatever it doesn't work out and still got a big chip leave so i was happy to have those short stack. Stand there just. Because i realized really on the table that That nobody was even calling pre flop to see if lop Like the i knew people were gonna be playing tight. But i think even the final table. Can we boo this final table. Because nobody rob and the first fifteen hands are so we might have won but It was just really boring. Boker who just raising ticket. And and that was good for me at that time. I want wanted to be able to raise them. Take the blinds already. Big if i can take a million chips by just reading to a million Great uptake the hat. All day saw right though. When i saw those double. I know some people were in really upset about I was. I was pretty happy with it Knowing knowing what i knew Also it wasn't interesting dynamic too because they they paid out six planes money down in florida to all of us so a so by flying out las vegas. If you've been latter up at all you don't get paid anymore And and it doesn't really change anything as far as that goes but it's kind of a like a game because yeah you can go home from vegas empty-handed paid out so right. Oh interesting so you feel like you lost money because he had to come out in flight and everything like that pretty simple. So you get down. Sunny gets knocked down in fourth which obviously helps out a tremendous amount and now it's Viet who was short-stocked he gets knocked out in third place as he had less than ten blinds when he shoved all would seven to your ten eight But now you and stephen Get heads up a two one chip lead and it took thirty five hands. It felt long. I'm sure because you guys had a break which is is papa like me Like why don't we have to keep going like look ticket. Ten minute like power bar break in. Let's move on but anyway dinner happened But you you pretty much maintained your two to one chip lead the entire time stephen. A very good player he's won a few circuit rings. He's played he's he's one of a lot of money on tour is not that he's never played before Close to a million dollars on tour itself. Deftly somebody to watch out for. Were you wary. Because you knew that one up now flip flopped. He's he's now is the lead right. Yeah a little bit I decided to take on the role of the aggressive person..
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"Good career change at that time. That's great and but that happened right around the same time the u. being interested in poker. It's kind of a weird mix and but was it timing wise good. Could you kind of play poker on your off days because you do a lot of overnights. Yeah so i. I do work night. Shift I did start playing poker Before i started going back to school but wasn't terribly successful As as a realtor it was a little bit difficult. Even though i made my own schedule It i felt like i was always supposed to be working in finding new clients there So it was. It was kinda i got that. Go peeling whenever. I'd go to a bogert on it because i should be doing something else As a as a nurse. I it made it a little bit easier because while the schedule is harder to schedule around when i was over tournaments i knew that that was my time to be at a poker tournament and i had nothing else to be doing at that time. Right right right right You said you do a lot of overnight so playing deep into the night. I'm sure really doesn't bother you at all. Not at all. I i like the maitre starts. Let's right right right at least for me. I'm a night owl anyway. Go down going to bed before. Midnight is a very big rare just normal nights and so i- nowadays tournaments and the little earlier on the regular days they'll end like eleven o'clock maybe even ten o'clock i loved it until like two three in the morning. Start seeing if people start fading they start getting tired you know and they start getting impatient and they started losing their concentration and that's where i loved it because that was i was a sharp as i was from the beginning. And you once you start. Seeing those people start fading and making those mistakes that you you can take advantage of those right. Yeah you gotta love the beer levels a world series that people started to get a little tired a little caesar and Take bandage. Because that's just when i'm starting to wake up so that's right that's right so like so. How would you work it around your schedule. Would it be something like you do several nights in a row and then be like okay. I'll take thursday. Friday saturday sunday off and then go playing a circuit event. And see what happens. Is that so the nice thing about Nursing is a where i work. I do twelve hour shifts. So we have our ships a week They're kind of different each week but on monday. The trade shifts with other nurses to be able to get long stretches off. If i need to so whenever i see a an event coming up and make sure that have got that weekend off A few days down there and just not worry about anything else right. And it's fortunate you'll know the schedule well in advance usually the circuits. Are they announce it at the beginning of the year. So you know this week. In april this week in october they are going the main events going to be there and you can play maybe sometimes even a preliminary event that's like eleven hundred or something back names perfect so you know. In addition to that you know playing in the circuits. The ms pt's of the hp as well Did you did you ever travel out to the the world series and play. I know that you play you. Cash in the main event in two thousand nineteen And played in the millionaire maker at well. Did you go out and play for you know a week or two out there you take. I took a two trips out to vegas and the nineteen and the first first trip i ever ever took the vegas was the millionaire maker. Wait a couple events around there and then made a semi-prone in the millionaire maker. i would have liked it to have been deeper. I think i got seventies under somewhere in that range. But it's okay you got your millionaire maker. Recently since i was successful in my burster about there at up my wife then we decided to go out and play the main event that year too. so Kind of a bucket list item was able to cash that i think was pretty much a cash But still an amazing experience by debbie tournament and and one that everybody always wants to play so now those events obviously the main event the circuit events these multiday events is the main event obviously getting in a multi-day three or four days etc. The experience on those did that help you in this. Wbz seminole hard rock. yeah. I think so It's it's not quite as deep structure is like these wbz's but Yeah you make the make the money pretty early on day. Two in those events so kind of kind of similar in that regard You kind of realize that you just got a it's it's about surviving but it's also about building a stack to be able to survive poor situations later on so on kind of the same strategies just You have a little bit more time. And to be able to take your spots veteran this wti event right right whereas like the main event obviously the best structure out there with to our levels. I mean it's almost fifty. I want to say it's almost a too long. That's not really the case but it is definitely long. I every time. I play the main event. And you're like oh it's amazing when the levels going well boy this two hours go quick but when it goes south boy does that too. I feel like forever. I remember that for my experience. In the main event since i've only played the once I felt good most of the time but it was really easy to get a get a little tilted in an play play bad spots when year for a few hours right and the lines aren't changing it. Also ryan you're trying to force it sometimes out of no no no reason why look down at king ten suited. Got to do something here. You know for no reason. I mean you really just trying to force it and you know there's so much time you just go go so so that's really what is well we come back. We're going to talk with brek about this. Incredible event that he in the twenty twenty one. Wbz seven hard rock poker showdown the event itself and also the break. Many people might not know that they had a several week break from making the final table to playing it at the pogo studio as w held a few of their final tables in a row. A couple of the borgata and also the i think it was the l. Classic that one they had from last year and then they brought them those delayed and then they brought in the hard rock poker showdown talk about all of that when we return here as we continue the fourteen th anniversary celebration of bernard lee poker. Show i this brex. Gutten the twenty twenty one. Wbtv seminal hardrock champion. And you're listening. 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