40 Burst results for "Two Weeks"
C.G.Jung Helpdesk
A highlight from 019 - Movie Analysis: Barbie
"Hi, my name is Markus, and this is a companion podcast for the C .G. Jung Help Desk Meetup Group. I host live events on Zoom every two weeks about the concepts and ideas of the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. Every event I give a presentation about Jungian concept, so have fun with this event's topic. So, everyone, I welcome you all. Today I want to do something very special because in the past I purely talked about Jung and Jung's concepts. But the best way to learn something and to understand something is to have examples and to have some reference points what Jung tries to get at. Otherwise, it can be incredibly dry, and it can be really, really dry when you read the books, even though he has a lot of examples. I wanted to do something today by analyzing a movie where I think there are a lot of examples in it that can help to understand some key concepts about Jung. So, this is not saying that Barbie, the movie, is necessarily a Jungian movie that somebody set out to say, okay, I'm trying to put in as much concepts of Jung as possible into there, which would be interesting, but it would surprise me if this is how the movie got created. But I saw the movie, I really liked the movie, I thought it was really, really entertaining, and the more I thought about it, the more concepts of Jung I found that I can use as examples. So, this is not to say this is a Jungian movie and every Jungian has to see this movie, but rather there's a lot of concepts in there. The way how I want to structure is I want to tell a little bit first about the concepts, so everybody who saw the movie already can maybe start already to think, oh, okay, they might get where I'm trying to get it, and then I will make a summary of the movie just for those who have not seen it, maybe, and then I will go directly applying all the things from afar on the movie, and there are some really, really cool things that took me some time to figure out. But I saw the movie twice, just this weekend again, and took a lot of notes.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "two weeks" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Only in the mid 60s i'm 70s meteorologist brian vandegraaff in the first alert tenor weather 64 degrees at reagan national 63 at bwi marshall this is wtop news everything you need every time you listen the wtop producer's desk is wired by ibew local 26 where electrical contractors come to grow good morning i'm john doeman and i'm john erin acacia james is our producer and the top story that following we're for you this morning that tentative deal to end the long rider strike against hollywood production companies it was announced late sunday night a tentative deal to end one of two major strikes that have crippled much of the entertainment industry the nearly five -month -old walk out against the studios by the picketing writers' guild of america toes eyes like everything crossed for a resolution and as of now looks like she's her wish as the wga announces that tentative deal what now the board has to vote they'll presumably agree the with negotiating committee then the members have to on forty cbs news that terms the deal have not been shared however in a statement the writers' guild exceptional and while it's a huge step toward restarting hollywood productions well just remember the studios also still need to reach an agreement with tens of thousands of tv and film actors who are also on strike and out of the strike affecting detroit's big three automakers president biden will travel to michigan tomorrow and walk the picket picket line with members of the united auto workers the trip in the historic appearance of the president on a picket line comes as auto the workers strike enters its second week former president trump is set to deliver a prime time speech to an audience in of current and former union members including members of the u a w currently only about twelve percent of that unions membership is taking part in the walkout we are days away from a federal government shutdown again unless congress can approve a short term spending bill they don't have a lot of time to do it though the latest from w t o p's mitchell miller today on the bill the key issue is whether house republicans can overcome their own differences tennessee conservative tim burchett is among those who say they won't support a stop cap spending bill since he doesn't believe it allows for lawmakers the need for budget cuts i think it's it's just completely throwing away our duties you know we have a duty to pass a budget budget burchett speaking on cnn state of the union but there's not enough time before a saturday deadline and senate majority leader chuck schumer says the upper chamber may need to lead the way if the house can't we must work in a bipartisan fashion to keep our government open void a shutdown on capitol hill mitchell miller w t o p news we're learning more about a dc nightclub shooting that killed a man and injured three others the man who killed was has been identified as thirty one -year -old blake bozeman he was a former basketball player for morgan state university the son and of former morgan state coach todd bozeman the shooting happened saturday at the crew lounge and nightclub along h street in northeast crew has been shut down by police for now campaign twenty twenty four here at w t o p and a new nationwide poll out from the washington post and abc news shows president biden trailing former president trump in a rematch of their twenty twenty contest washington post chief correspondent dan bolts says though it's too soon to consider this poll to be a prediction we're
Thinking Crypto News & Interviews
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.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh "Two Weeks" from WTOP 24 Hour News
"I was actually up in the meadowlands my son's a Patriots fan we went to met life for my first time to see the Jets lose the Patriots and although it rained a lot it was still pretty fun day I'm just still ringing out the rain listen today is not quite as wet it is cloudy and maybe just a few straight or sprinkles or showers you can get a few peeks of sunshine I mean it's possible but that leftover moisture from Ophelia is kind of turning off to our Northeast it's just gonna keep us somewhat unsettled upper 60s today clouds are advertised 77 just not a very pretty looking day 50s tonight for lows maybe a spotty shower too as we head towards tomorrow morning our best chance for a few showers tomorrow early in the day once again not a day lose over the week like over the weekend but still some showers that'll hold us in the mid 60s right now Wednesday could be a day where we see some improvement with some drying out and temperatures in the upper 60s and then a few more showers may work their way back in late Thursday into Friday I do promise you as we head toward the weekend that is when things really start to take a turn and we see temperatures back in the 70s with sunshine our average high down to 77 degrees will be close to that by the weekend so the next couple days just kind of just kind of hunker in and deal with it it's not the deluge but keep some rain gear ready and also an extra layer because it is cool almost went along for those 90 degree days we had just two weeks ago it is 64 right now by the bay in Indianapolis not much different in Quantico at 64 currently in Hagerstown starting off the morning at 61 degrees. right All thank you Brian and still ahead you might know about first aid but do you know about mental health first aid? 21. And here's your prescription.
Ethereum Daily
A highlight from Proposal For Celo To Launch On Polygon CDK
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Friday September 22nd, 2023. Polygon proposes for Celo to build on Polygon CDK, Uniswap wallet integrates MEV blocker, Quintus taking V2 goes live, and a vote goes live to deploy Aave V3 on Polygon ZK EVM. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum on Gitcoin Grants is now live, if you'd like to support this podcast please consider contributing by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Polygon co -founder Sandeep Neewa published a proposal seeking for the Celo ecosystem to consider the deployment of its Layer 2 solution as a ZK power chain using Polygon CDK. The transition would provide Celo with EVM equivalent compatibility, enhanced security through ZK proofs, low -cost transaction fees, and interoperability with other ZK power chains. Neewa also offered implementation partners to support CeloCore developers in deploying a CDK -based chain. The proposal comes after Celo Labs released its own proposal to transform its Layer 1 network into a Layer 2 based on the OP stack with EigenDA for data availability. Celo is an EVM -compatible Layer 1 chain focused on payment infrastructure. Uniswap Wallet integrated swap protection as a default feature on all Ethereum mainnet transactions. Swap protection shields users from frontrunning and sandwich attacks. The added protection layer may result in a slightly higher auto -slippage for certain swaps to help increase the chances of a successful transaction. The swap protection feature is powered through the MEV blocker RPC endpoint from Calprotocol. MEV blocker directs user transactions to a private mempool and even refunds users a portion of MEV generated from their transactions. Swap protection is only available in the Uniswap Wallet mobile app. However, users can add the RPC endpoint to their desktop wallet. Users can disable the feature if desired. Quenta launched Staking V2, an upgrade to a new set of smart contracts that introduce a checkpoint system for tracking staked balances. The upgrade introduces the ability to transfer escrow entries, a two -week cooldown for unstaking, support for smart contract -based staking, early vesting, and automated reward compounding. Quenta V1 stakers are required to manually migrate their positions to the new V2 contracts in order to continue receiving rewards. Only Quenta staked in the V2 contracts will count towards style voting power. Quenta is an optimism native perpetual DEX built on synthetics. And lastly, a snapshot proposal to deploy Aave V3 on Polygon CK EVM is now open for voting. The initial deployment seeks to support Raped Ether, Raped Matic, and USDC as collateral for borrowing USDC. The deployment aims to expand Aave's presence across Layer 2 networks. Polygon CK EVM is an EVM equivalent ZK rollup with just over $18 million in total value locked. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you on Monday.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "two weeks" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Wife tells the LA Times Kirkman died from congestive heart failure. Deborah Rodriguez, Sports CBS News at 25 and 55 powered by Maximus moving people and innovation forward. All right, Dave Preston. So, uh, all those remember questions we thought were answered by the commanders after two weeks. I think some of them are back different answers. The wrong ones. Commanders were looking for their first 3 -0 start since 2011. Instead, they got their worst home loss since 2013 blown up by Buffalo 37 -3 cornerback Benjamin St. Just. We shot ourselves in way the foot too many times to really go out there and give us a chance to win. We made some plays, but we made a lot of errors that usually we wouldn't make. So it was really hard to come back after that. Other teams are going to capitalize on that. So if we come out there and we beat ourselves, it's going to be very hard to beat another team, NFL team. Bills move the chains 0 -9 and 15 Third downs Maryland product Stephon Diggs makes eight catches for 111 yards for the visitors. Washington office mess 9 sacks allowed five giveaways. WTOP's George Wallace was at FedEx Field. He will join John and John at 915 this morning. Won't that be fun? Yeah, exactly. Baseball Nationals split their day night doubleheader with Atlanta. Dave Preston WTOP sports. Well, I do want to figure out what went wrong because there was a long list and where do we go from here. From 915 to 1025. Still ahead, screenwriters could be back to work soon and a government shutdown is closing in on us. It's brought to you by flagship car wash. Don't be the dirtiest, dullest car in the drop -off line. Head over to flagship car wash where now through September 30th you can save on their super and deluxe single washes. Visit flagshipcarwash .com for locations. Boeing is investing in a brighter future with the help of those who served. We offer opportunities and resources for a career in space aerospace where veterans can use the skills they gained during their service to lead
Coronavirus
A highlight from Proposal For Celo To Launch On Polygon CDK
"Welcome to your Ethereum news roundup, here's your latest for Friday September 22nd, 2023. Polygon proposes for Celo to build on Polygon CDK, Uniswap wallet integrates MEV blocker, Quintus taking V2 goes live, and a vote goes live to deploy Aave V3 on Polygon ZK EVM. All this and more starts right now. The Arbitrum on Gitcoin Grants is now live, if you'd like to support this podcast please consider contributing by visiting ethdaily .io forward slash gitcoin. Polygon co -founder Sandeep Neewa published a proposal seeking for the Celo ecosystem to consider the deployment of its Layer 2 solution as a ZK power chain using Polygon CDK. The transition would provide Celo with EVM equivalent compatibility, enhanced security through ZK proofs, low -cost transaction fees, and interoperability with other ZK power chains. Neewa also offered implementation partners to support CeloCore developers in deploying a CDK -based chain. The proposal comes after Celo Labs released its own proposal to transform its Layer 1 network into a Layer 2 based on the OP stack with EigenDA for data availability. Celo is an EVM -compatible Layer 1 chain focused on payment infrastructure. Uniswap Wallet integrated swap protection as a default feature on all Ethereum mainnet transactions. Swap protection shields users from frontrunning and sandwich attacks. The added protection layer may result in a slightly higher auto -slippage for certain swaps to help increase the chances of a successful transaction. The swap protection feature is powered through the MEV blocker RPC endpoint from Calprotocol. MEV blocker directs user transactions to a private mempool and even refunds users a portion of MEV generated from their transactions. Swap protection is only available in the Uniswap Wallet mobile app. However, users can add the RPC endpoint to their desktop wallet. Users can disable the feature if desired. Quenta launched Staking V2, an upgrade to a new set of smart contracts that introduce a checkpoint system for tracking staked balances. The upgrade introduces the ability to transfer escrow entries, a two -week cooldown for unstaking, support for smart contract -based staking, early vesting, and automated reward compounding. Quenta V1 stakers are required to manually migrate their positions to the new V2 contracts in order to continue receiving rewards. Only Quenta staked in the V2 contracts will count towards style voting power. Quenta is an optimism native perpetual DEX built on synthetics. And lastly, a snapshot proposal to deploy Aave V3 on Polygon CK EVM is now open for voting. The initial deployment seeks to support Raped Ether, Raped Matic, and USDC as collateral for borrowing USDC. The deployment aims to expand Aave's presence across Layer 2 networks. Polygon CK EVM is an EVM equivalent ZK rollup with just over $18 million in total value locked. This has been a roundup of today's top news stories in Ethereum. You can support this podcast by subscribing and following us on Twitter at ethdaily. Also subscribe to our newsletter at ethdaily .io. Thanks for listening, we'll see you on Monday.
Rollye James
Fresh "Two Weeks" from Rollye James
"These people the city says more than 8600 migrants are now in city shelters with are taking 400 place on the at Kennedy Expressway O 'Hare Airport starting nearly this morning 1 the ,600 inbound in entrance ramps police stations at Pulaski more Montrose and ramp Kedzie closures will shut late October down at except 6 the a Kedzie .m. ramp which and so will could the be inbound back open exit in ramp two weeks to Fullerton developing all closures now are expected to reopen by late a tentative agreement with Hollywood's top studios Sunday night to end the 146 day writers strike it's reportedly a three to be -year voted deal on the and ratified studio by say it the was their unions best 11 and final offer ,000 after members five straight labor days of intense reporter negotiations for the rap it Jeremy Fuster would still to says they will take their time they're being very deliberate with making
What Bitcoin Did
A highlight from The Breaking of the Global Economy with Nik Bhatia
"You can imagine a world in which people actually have more power than institutions and governments. Bitcoin has the ultimate power in making the world a better place for people. Hello there from sunny Bedford. Hope you're all doing well. Got a nice weekend planned ahead. Obviously for me, it's going to be football weekend. We've got home games for the men's hopefully getting through to the next round. And our ladies who won every game this season, they're going to be playing some Auburn. So it's a busy weekend of football for me and obviously talking about Bitcoin to people. We've actually got a meetup at the game tomorrow. So if you get in this early and if you're in and around Bedford, you want to come down, come down to Bedford. We're going to talk about Bitcoin before the game. Anyway, welcome to the What Bitcoin Did podcast, which is brought to you by the absolute legends at RS Energy, the largest NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100 % renewable energy. I'm your host, and today I've got my buddy Nick Bartier back on the podcast to get into all things macro and Bitcoin. Now, when we planned our trip to Australia, Nick was a very obvious person to ask to come out and take part in the live event. And while we're there, we took the opportunity to record another show with him. And the legend he is, he absolutely delivered. Now, the first time I spoke to Nick was about four years ago. I met him in LA. I can't believe it. It's gone so quickly. But Nick has always been a solid person to have on the podcast over the years. And as ever, he absolutely killed it. He has a very good and simple way of explaining complicated macro stuff, which I know some of you listeners love. So big thanks to Nick for coming out to Australia and for all the support he's given the podcast over the years. And if you haven't checked out his book, please do go and get it. It's an amazing book, and Nick is an amazing asset to Bitcoin. Also, if you've got any questions about this or anything else, please do hit me up. My email is hello at whatbitcoindid .com. Just a few things outside. We're going to be heading out to LA in about 10 days. It's gone around so quick. Actually, even soon. I think it's nine days. Going to be heading out to Pacific Bitcoin. But we're also going to be doing some interviews there. With regards to the two films we've made, Argentina's in the final edit. That should be released in the coming week, maybe two weeks, but the coming week. And then we will move into editing the Lebanon film. Two amazing films. Just, I mean, not the films are amazing, not that we're privileged to have gone out to these places and made these films. And just another big thanks to RS Energy for sponsoring all this because without their support, I couldn't have done this. Okay, on to Nick. Hope you enjoy the show.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "two weeks" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
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Crypto Critics' Corner
A highlight from Were SBF's parents in on it? Follow the Money
"Welcome back, everyone. I am Cass Pianci, and I'm joined as usual by my partner in crime, not of the criminal sort, Bennett Tomlin. How are you today? I'm doing well. How are you, Cass? I'm doing good. It's been busy. It's been a very busy week for both of us. But today's episode is going to be about SPF's parents, the Bankmans and the Freeds, and their what appears to be increasingly important role that they each played in the criminal elements of FTX and Alameda Research. They called it a family business. They accepted incredibly large salaries. His father was getting a million dollars after requesting it because he was only getting 250 ,000 before. Mom pushed and tried to ensure that any money getting sent to the charity arm of the company had two steps of separation, two degrees of separation. And just really shady, weird stuff going on over there with the Bankmans and the Freeds. But those are kind of vague descriptions of what's going on. Bennett, why don't you walk us through some of the seriously criminal elements and what is happening? There is a decent amount of allegations contained in this lawsuit from the FTX debtors in possession against Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried that at a high level alleges that they were involved in specific aspects of the business and were closely connected to various alleged criminal acts and criminal acts people have pled guilty to. Starting with Joseph Bankman, he was involved with Alameda Research as early as 2018, which is when it was founded, and stayed involved throughout the entire time. The first several years, this appears to have been relatively informal. He directed FTX towards their first law firm, suggested their first accounting firm, was involved in consultations for hiring of certain executives and things like that. But none of this was documented in any kind of formal way. Eventually, in January 2021, he decides that there should be some kind of piece of paper that describes his relationship with these entities. And so he creates a document that describes his work for Alameda Research and FTX and FTX US, saying he's doing a variety of pro bono legal work and consulting work for these entities. What's interesting, of course, is that he was the signatory for the FTX entities and for himself on this entity. Really has kind of vibes of that loan agreement between Bitfinex and Tether years ago, where JLVDV and Juan Carlo was signing for both entities. And so that was one moment that really struck me as I was going through that is that he felt the need to, after providing advice for several years, finally in 2021 documents it and says he's providing this pro bono legal advice. This did not stay pro bono for very long. Later in 2021, he would take a leave of absence from Stanford University. And after he took this leave of absence, he allegedly told an FTX US employee, I'm no longer getting paid by Stanford because I'm on leave, so you should have me on salary starting December 1st. In December 2021, this is when he finally entered into a formal employment agreement with FTX US, where his nominal title was Senior Advisor to the FTX Foundation. You said it was $250 ,000. It was actually $200 ,000 a year, plus bonuses he was supposed to be getting paid. And this is where we get to the fun part that you made an allusion to before. He went to FTX's head of administration after signing this employment agreement that clearly said $200 ,000, told this person that he was supposed to be getting $1 million a year starting in December, and then he sends an email over to Sam Bankmanfried, his son, that says, and I quote, Gee, Sam, I don't know what to say here. This is the first I've heard of the $200 ,000 a year salary putting Barbara on this, meaning he cc'd in Sam Bankmanfried's mother and his domestic partner to help him deal with this contract negotiations that happened after he signed that contract. And it worked. It worked. Within two weeks, Bankman and Fried were gifted $10 million in funds originating from Alameda. Within three months, they ended up getting their $16 million mansion in the Bahamas funded entirely by FTX. And over the period after they got that mansion, they were able to expense something like $90 ,000 in various other expenses. And before he signed that contract agreement in December 2021, I do want to make clear he was also provided with an option to purchase shares of FTX US and FTX trading in November 2021. Before he was even employed with FTX, he was getting large options of shares. So yeah, I think that kind of is a good initial overview and we can get into some of the details he was also involved in, but they were receiving a lot of this type of monetary compensation. Yeah, well, I want to specifically bring up here some things that really made a red flag go off for me were, for instance, how they were keen to keep the residencies, the properties that they were acquiring with these gifted funds and all this money that they were essentially taking from customers, to be clear on that, that they wanted to ensure that that money in those properties would be shielded from a bankruptcy. And I'm just wondering, like, why, if they're so confident in this business, if they're so confident in their son, if they're so sure this is the future of finance, and I get it, you want to shield your personal property from a bankruptcy, but you just got gifted $10 million. You have to know this isn't exactly personal property, right? Like, you have to know your son is giving this to you. Your son is making money from the company. How is he making all of this money? You haven't really nailed that down yet. And you still are just letting this all transpire. Nobody was asking any questions is kind of what I'm getting to. But the questions they were asking were about, like, ensuring that they were shielded from any problems in the future. Yeah. And we should clarify the timeline a little bit here. There's a 2021 email exchange where FTX's general counsel wants to set up a meeting with their law firm to discuss how assets, including primary residence, can be structured to be bankruptcy remote. And Bankman quickly kind of responds in this email chain the next day and says it would be great, all else equal, if we could have the founders put money into property in the Bahamas and sent them a link to a description of an offshore trust structure in the Bahamas. He then discusses this with a lawyer in the Bahamas, another Stanford law professor, and his brother -in -law, and then ends up saying something we might use when we buy property in the Bahamas. And the reason I'm belaboring this point is because it happens, I think, about a year before they actually end up getting the house. And then, five months before they get the house, there's another thing that happens, and that's that they apply for residency in the Bahamas, permanent residency in the Bahamas. In order for them to get that, there's a $15 ,000 fee. That's also paid by FTX. And so I think what that kind of shows is this kind of series of planning that went into them eventually getting this mansion. They started discussing how to structure this about a year before, and I don't think they ended up using those trusts, at least not at the time of bankruptcy. They had already gotten their residency months before they got the property, and then they got the property. They wanted to benefit from this. There's no doubt about that. I mean, there is no doubt. I just want to be clear, and we're going to link to the very thorough protest article that goes over all of this, but it is very obvious. I think before we get to the crux of this, I first want to delve into this a little bit more. So Stanford yesterday decided that they were going to return all of the donated funds from this family, which amounted to $5 .5 million, which is a lot. I mean, I know that they get a shit, a metric shit ton of cash every year, but the idea that they're getting $5 .5 million in a single year from one family, one company, you know, essentially one family. That's how you get your name on a building and stuff like that. So they were donating a ton of money to this educational institution. All I want to say is that I think Stanford is disgusting. I think we see this in a bunch of these higher education, these private institutions, probably equally common in great public universities as well, but the ones that we hear about are like MIT or Harvard or Stanford accepting money from Jeffrey Epstein or accepting money from these guys, and then, oh, okay, you're returning it. Great. Well, you know why you're returning it? Because you got caught. That's why you're returning it. You're not returning it because you thought it was the right thing to do. Now that it's all coming out in these court documents, Stanford's giving the money back. They didn't do it one minute before that happened, though. Isn't that interesting? And I, you know, I think you should get into kind of the details of those donations, which there were many over this period, but like, oh, what a nasty, nasty way for a university to operate. I think the elite private colleges are at a special risk for kind of this because so much of their, like, existing structure is based around taking in cash and converting it to some vague elite authority. Speaking specifically about the donations from FTX to Stanford that appear to have been directed by Joseph Bankman, there was one that came from Paperbird directly to Stanford University. And this one was interesting because there was a lot of discussion about which entity to use. And what Bankman ends up saying is that he thought it should come from Paperbird, which was one of the entities that Sam Bankman -Fried owned that held most of the stock for FTX that investors were buying into. The corporate structure of FTX is a mind fuck. But this shows Bankman was aware of parts of the mind fuck. He says Paperbird can use the deduction. And when he discusses alternatives, he says we can have another entity loan Paperbird money, but that requires some paperwork. Eventually they get it all sorted out. FTX transfers money to Paperbird into a newly set up bank account, which immediately sends that money on to Stanford. There was another four million dollar donation to a Stanford fund for pandemic preparedness that he described as pretty much a no brainer. Bitcoin were transferred from Alameda Research's FTX account eventually. There was another series of donations where it was proposed that they give 1 .5 million from the FTX Foundation to Stanford College. However, the initial 500 ,000 for this came from an Alameda Research bank account, and the second 500 ,000 came from an FTX US bank account. There was another donation they did for a Stanford blockchain conference so they could sponsor it. That one was only 10k. But again, it kind of points towards how Bankman saw these entities as interchangeable. He said 10k is so little it doesn't really matter. So if we think that having FTX US is easier or safer for some reason, we should just do that. And what's most interesting is you talked about your name on a building. And there was a Stanford University employee who provided comment as part of this lawsuit. And this Stanford University employee apparently says that internally in Stanford, these donations were categorized as directed by the Bankman -Frieds. And like when they specifically got the big $4 million pandemic preparedness donation from Alameda, this person even reached out, should this one be categorized like the rest as from you all? Or is this one somehow different? And so yeah, I think that those donations kind of point towards how they were specifically using these commingled customer and client funds from across all these different entities in this self -promotional activity of giving these donations. Yep, there's more to where this money went, how much was spent, why they were in control of this. But I think the question that everybody wants to ask and is wondering about is how are they not being criminally charged with anything yet? And will they? I think we should hold off on that question for just a moment, because I want to talk about how Joseph Bankman also made sure other people he was related to and friends with got paid while he was in this position, because I think that's kind of fun. They talk about one example where he got a Stanford law student a free trip to the French Grand Prix tickets to the race so they could go and visit that. But I think the more interesting one was a hackathon that they had planned that was run by his sister. Bankman freed Sam's aunt. They hired her at a rate of $14 ,000 a month to prepare the FTX million -dollar hackathon and crypto summit held at the Miami Heat Arena, which was the one they put their name on briefly. They spent a total of $2 .3 million on this event, which was attended by 1 ,200 people. They were spending crazy amounts. They said she was authorized to spend like without a budget, whatever it was needed to get this event done. There was so much of this kind of like self -enrichment here that we'll get to your question as to how are they not being criminally charged. That's just grift. Yeah, obviously. The other person we need to talk about, of course, is Barbara. Barbara Freed, Sam Bankman Freed's mother. In her specific role, she, as you alluded to at the very beginning of this episode, described herself as her son's partner in crime of the non -criminal sort. And Sam made sure to sing her praises to his team, making known to her that he intended to rely on her direction regarding who to give to, how much to give to, and how it should be disclosed and told them that it would be good for them to follow her advice as well. And what seems really interesting is she seemed to have a great deal of control. The lawsuit even alleges she was able to unilaterally commit funds of Sam Bankman Freed's to her political action committee, Mind the Gap, meaning without Sam's authorization, she was able to take Sam's money donated in Sam's name to her political action committee, which is a great deal of trust. And even inside her own committee, when she had to talk about some of these donations, she would say things like, I don't know exactly what interconnected entity he sent the money from, but the business is real and revenue -generating, which again, I think, points towards kind of the interchangeability of these entities for these folks. What I think really gets interesting is Nishad Singh, who has already pled guilty for conspiracy to defraud the federal election committee, as well as a variety of other conspiracy charges. He was one of the people who appears to have served as effectively a straw -man donor for Sam Bankman Freed, and was advised in this process by Barbara Freed, Sam's mother. At one point when they were discussing donations to her organization Mind the Gap, and she suggested that, now that my connection to Sam is publicly known, because we don't want to create the impression that funding MTG is a family affair, as opposed to a collective effort by many people, including some mystery guy Nishad Singh, which is when she was suggesting that on their end, they would prefer if his name was the one that was donating to Mind the Gap instead of Sam Bankman Freed's. And similarly, she was worried about a lot of their political donations. There's a really telling one, where she's warning him in an email, And again, later, just the last one to really put kind of a cherry on top of her seeming knowledge of some of the criminal acts that Nishad Singh has pled guilty to. She said, And I think this, as well as some of the more specific tax advice that Bankman Freed was giving on FTX their specific finances and stuff like that, point towards potential knowledge of criminal acts. I tweeted out shortly after I read through this lawsuit, or as I was about halfway through reading this lawsuit, if I'm being honest, And as you alluded to previously, that is kind of what this feels like. It feels like these two law professors, who should have known better, had high -level knowledge of things that people have already pled guilty to, and were deeply involved in the business. Bankman specifically was even mentioned on an internal document as a member of the management of FTXUS, along with only a few other names. They had knowledge, they were inside the organization, and they had some amount of presence. One last thing that I think really hammers that home. When we went to consensus, and we talked about this in our episode that we did after that, Anthony Scaramucci was talking about his experiences in the lead -up to and aftermath of the FTX collapse. And one thing he said that seemed to be corroborated in the lawsuit is that Bankman was involved in them attempting to get the emergency funding. And as we said, and we shared the audio clip of Scaramucci saying it, Bankman apparently told Scaramucci, Anthony or intimated to him, that there was an asset liability mismatch at FTX. What happened to me is I was actually speaking in Sarasota, Florida. There was rumblings that day, I think it was November the 6th or something like that, or 7th. The Monday was the 7th. And then I got back to New York and I spoke to Sam's dad about the problem, and it was intimated to me that it was an asset liability mismatch, that they were leading redemptions and there were assets available, but they weren't necessarily liquid, and they needed time to get the liquidity, and they were looking for some rescue plans. And so at that time, I was a good citizen and a partner in the business. In fact, they owned a piece of my business. I was certainly trying to help them on their fundraising round.
Animal Radio
A highlight from 1242. Turning Your Pet Into A Social Media Influencer. Wise Words From An Expert.
"Celebrating the connection with our pets, this is Animal Radio, featuring your dream team, veterinarian, Dr. Debbie White and groomer, Joey Vellani. And here are your hosts, Hal Abrams and Judy Francis. If you're like Judy, you spend a lot of time online, social media, going through videos. You'll spend like an hour a day maybe just watching. I just get down a rabbit hole, you watch one and then another one pops up, oh, I got to see that. And it's like, oh, look at this one. And they're all animal or pet related. Is that mostly it? Yeah, I won't watch. I don't know if I'm not interested in the other ones. Yeah, sure. Sure. Yeah. So in your life, who would you say is the biggest social media influencer for you? What animal do you maybe even follow? You know what? I'm not a follower. In fact, no. And I like watching both cat and dog videos. So I don't really hone in on a certain animal and like follow that particular animal. I'm kind of like, I watch them all. Have you ever seen, I'm going to hold up a picture here. Have you ever seen this animal here? This is, this is Loki. I hadn't seen Loki. Again, I don't follow any certain animals if I happen to come across a video, but I don't, I don't, I, yeah. He's beautiful. Loki is, what kind of dog is Loki? He's like some kind of a Malamute wolf hybrid. Like a wolf. I'm not quite sure. He's a big dog. This particular picture that I'm holding up to the microphone is Loki and his guardian, Kelly. They're sitting in a hammock. You may have seen this picture. It's a picture that he just casually posted on his Instagram page. And then, uh, the people over at Bored Panda saw it, wanted to do an interview with him. Buzzfeed picked it up. Eventually he realized that his dog was becoming extremely popular online. And he decided after about a year after this picture went out to quit his job and focus on promoting his animal online to become a social media sensation. We're going to find out how he's doing on that and whether or not we should quit our jobs to become ladybugs. Yeah. Well, she has a Facebook page. It's not very popular. Maybe she needs to post more. Well, I just, you know, everybody go to her Facebook page and like her right now. So we're going to talk to this Kelly Lund coming up here. He's the guardian of Loki and we're going to find out what his secret is to becoming a viral sensation. Also on the show today. And in this hour, we're going to talk to Fiona Gilbert. Fiona, do you need to get that? I'm expecting a call from my pharmacist. Can we, can you just make sure? Cause I'm, I have to pick something up and I'm just waiting for them to call and say it's ready. So can you just check that? Thank you. Coming up this hour, Fiona Gilbert will be joining us. She has MS unfortunately, and she has a service dog to help her with her MS. What kind of dog is that there? It's a pit bull. It is a, it is a pit bull. Surprise, surprise. Well now how can that be? I mean a pit bull service dog? Is there such a thing as a pit bull service dog? Why not? Well, I guess not. Why not? I do know that Delta or American Airlines just banned service animals that happened to be pit bulls. I do know that in Denver it is illegal to have a pit bull. That's just wrong. That is wrong. I bet Fiona has a bone to pick with Delta Airlines. I'm guessing that. Or her dog does. Okay, we're going to find out about her service dog, her pit bull coming up here on Animal Radio. Lori, what are you working on for this hour? You were just a minute ago Hal talking about social media and Loki and everything. Well, I have for you a new list from Forbes. They did, I love this word influencers because I had never really heard of it before. I just thought, you're famous on social media. If you're famous on social media, you're an influencer. So Forbes had this edition where they had the top 10 people influencers, the top 10 chef influencers and on and on with everything. And they did a list on pets. So pets on social media. So I will tell you the most famous pets or influencers on social media. When Forbes is involved, there must be money involved. Of course. Okay. That list on the way. First year calls. Let's go to Wanda. Hi Wanda. Hi. How are you doing? Very good. I have the whole dream team here to answer your questions. What's going on with your pets? Okay. I have Dachshund miniature pincher mix. She's having skin problems. I switched vets like four times and they always said that it's yeast, airborne yeast. And they give her shots and she goes okay for two weeks. But then they give her prednisone. That makes her eat a lot. She still eating and she still have the yeast and she still have the smell. Okay. Yeah. I don't know what to do. So has she had any money in the beds? Okay. And have we used any medicine that specifically geared towards the yeast, either by a pill form or by a shampoo or a topical form? Well, they give me Mariset. Okay. And I have to bathe her every other day, but sometimes I can tell you the truth. I don't have time and it's cold and she gets very cold. I'll give her a bath every other day. Okay. And is that it or are they using any pills for that other than the prednisone? No. They give me Apoquel. Apoquel, she still eating and then the doctor say I will then give her Benadryl. Okay. So I'm going to kind of make some interpretations of what you've said and what I think may be the direction that your veterinarian is going here. So if your pet has yeast on the skin, the important thing to know about that is that yeast is generally not the primary problem. It's a secondary problem. So there's usually something else that's making that skin barrier unhealthy where the yeast can really grow and proliferate. So if they're using things like prednisone and Apoquel, it sounds like they're suspicious that she has an underlying allergy. So those medicines are geared towards the allergy. But the sad thing is if we use that and don't address infection and treat it with the medications for those conditions, we're really not going to get anywhere. So we're going to think that, you know, the medicine isn't working for allergies when we're really just not treating a bacterial infection or say a yeast infection that could be present. So what my consideration, and I'd ask you to talk to your veterinarian if this seems fair and like a direction that they would agree with, is that if we have yeast in the skin and it's chronic, especially if it creates some of the different symptoms I see with yeast, and I should mention those, yeast in the skin will often cause a really stinky foot odor. It smells like old man foot. I have to wash my bed and everything every day. Yeah. So it's a real strong smell. The dogs will often have kind of a greasy feel to them in those areas. And in some cases when it's present for chronic long -term periods of time, we'll actually get a thickening of the skin and it'll become kind of darkly pigmented and what almost I describe as elephantinized. So it kind of becomes like elephant skin. She had that in her tail, but then I gave her and gave and went away. Okay. So yeah, so that definitely, if those kinds of things are going on, then yeast is very suspicious. We usually confirm that by taking a sample from the skin and looking and you know, yeast show up pretty easy on an impression smear. So the thing I would ask you to talk to your veterinarian about is, can we use something systemic for her, for this yeast? And that might mean a couple different possible medicines, but they basically all fall under the category of an antifungal medicine, such as ketoconazole or itraconazole, or even one called terbenafene. Any of those are used with yeast infections, whether it be in the ears or say in the skin. So that would be something, and it does take a long period of time. We might get some improvement after maybe a week or two, but many times this is something that we have to treat for many weeks to months. So that would be something where, you know, I would definitely talk to them about that. The other thing is, you know, definitely the maliceb that you're using is certainly an appropriate one if we're suspicious of yeast, but there can be even some other things that we can use topically as well, as far as different types of mousses or sprays that we can use that contain either say chlorhexidine, which is a type of an antiseptic, or miconazole, which is an anti -yeast topical. So those can be things that we can add into the regimen. But I think the good thing in your situation is there is some things that I can suggest for you to try, and the big thing is sticking with it, because it really does take, I had just like a bald, kind of darkly skinned, very little hair. It only had hair on the tip of its tail and around its head, and it took four months of yeast therapy that we treated, and it finally got most of its hair back. It never did get all of it back, because it was so scarred, but it can really be very rewarding. You just kind of have to trek through it. So yeah, with her, she's black. When people see her and they tell me, why are you taking it? Because her top hair of her body is black, shiny, so pretty. It's just under the legs, on her stomach, at her four paws, and under the tail. You know, they don't have it, she doesn't have it anyplace else. And I bathe her, I bathe her, she's my baby. Yeah, well, and yeast is horribly itchy. Any human knows that. So it's a miserable thing. So definitely, and even some other kind of anti -itch remedies, you know, that we can use. I am using a lot of the canine atopic dermatitis immunoglobulin called CADI, and that helps a lot just to kind of stop the itch, to give pets relief while we're dealing with all the other things. Yes, I don't want to bite. I know that the steroids, they're going to hurt her a long time. And I say, what I'm giving to her is she's not going to be improving. That's why I hear you every morning. And I say on Sundays, and I say, I'm going to call because maybe I can go to the vet with some knowledge and say, hey, give me the yeast infection medication, take her away from the prednisone. Absolutely. And that makes it harder. The prednisone definitely makes it harder for her to fight these infections. So if we use it sparingly, just to kind of help relieve it, and then yeah, get her off that. I agree totally. So she needs to go to the vet and ask for something systematic. Is that right? Systemic. Systemic. A systemic and a yeast medicine. Yes, a yeast medicine. I will do that. Hopefully we can get her some good help and I wish you guys the best. Let us know how things turn out and hopefully we'll get her feeling and looking better and smelling better too. Thanks Wanda. Well, this portion of Animal Radio is underwritten by Fear Free Happy Homes. Don't forget you can get your fix of Animal Radio anytime you want with the Animal Radio app for iPhone and Android. Download it now. It's made possible by Fear Free Happy Homes. Helping your pets live their happiest, healthiest, fullest lives at home, at the vet, and everywhere in between. Visit them at fearfreehappyhomes .com. And thanks, Fear Free, for underwriting Animal Radio.
The Café Bitcoin Podcast
A highlight from Bitcoin News with The Caf Bitcoin Crew - September 21, 2023
"Hello, and welcome to the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast brought to you by Swan Bitcoin, the best way to buy and learn about Bitcoin. I'm your host, Alex Danson, and we're excited to announce that we're bringing the Cafe Bitcoin Conversations Twitter Spaces to you on this show, the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast, Monday through Friday every week. Join us as we speak to guests like Michael Saylor, Len Alden, Corey Clifston, Greg Foss, Tomer Strohle, and many others in the Bitcoin space. Also, be sure to hit that subscribe button. Make sure you get notifications when we launch a new episode. You can join us live on Twitter Spaces Monday through Friday, starting at 7 a .m. Pacific and 10 a .m. Eastern every morning to become part of the conversation yourself. Thanks again. We look forward to bringing you the best Bitcoin content daily here on the Cafe Bitcoin Podcast. All right. All right. Here we go. Good morning to all of you Cafe Bitcoiners. Morning, Mickey, Jacob and throwing you an invite. Wade, all you regulars, appreciate you guys, as usual. Morning. Do you see the email from Swan this morning, Alex? No, I have been hurting cats like crazy. I got this like DM early this morning and team at like three o 'clock in the morning and they're like, yeah, we want you guys to do Cafe Bitcoin live both days at Pacific Bitcoin, Thursday, Friday, plus all these other panels. It's been crazy. What was the email, Mickey? So it looks like it's you, me, Shane and Andrew on a Bitcoin veteran panel. Possibly. Definitely you, me and Shane. I don't know if Andrew is going to be there or not, but possibly others, too, like Gabe Lord, possibly Jordan Gambrell. So, yeah, we're going to see how this works out. I love how they like let me know two weeks, two weeks before the thing. Yeah, you're getting full. All good, all good, should be a good time. I mean, we're going to have we'll have fun no matter what is the way I look at it. Peter, I see you sneaking in here. I'm not sneaking, came right in the front door. Is that Jordan on the Bitcoin veterans handle there? Yes, sir. Morning, brother. Morning, how's everyone doing? Doing good, doing good. Shout out to Joe Calasari in the audience, throwing you an invite. We're going to be super casual today, by the way. Welcome as well to Cafe Bitcoin. This is episode four hundred and thirty nine. Shout out to our supporters on Fountain Nosternests and all of you that listen on Spotify, iTunes, of course. Our mission for this show is to provide signal in a sea of noise, teaching people on thing about this that we call Bitcoin. The bright orange future, the hope to today's show, we're basically just going to free flow and begin our Q &A, there's no future guests later today. So, yeah, we can talk about whatever you guys want to. If you have questions about Bitcoin or if you just have something you want to talk about, we're just going to like open it up. Shout out to Shane Hazel in the audience, throwing you an invite. The more I deal with the traditional banking system, the more I appreciate the properties and functionality of Bitcoin. It is, you know, it's an uncensorable aspect or excuse me, or property. My ability to transact with whom I want, when I want, where I want, and in the time frame that it allows. Is just it's phenomenal, it is just such a better way to transact value and to, you know, to be able to move your value to where you want it to, when you want it to. It's just yesterday or two days ago that walking into a bank, I'm still in shock, walking into a bank with some money to deposit in somebody's account and being told they don't take cash. It's still, my jaw is still on the floor. The attitude, though, in the banking industry has changed a lot because you've got older people who are retiring or moving into, you know, more management positions where they're not so much customer facing anymore. So the people who are customer facing are all younger and they don't remember a time when there wasn't FATCA and there wasn't the Bank Secrecy Act and there wasn't all this bullshit. So to them, they've grown up in a surveillance state and it's normal, which is weird as fuck because they have this attitude like they don't actually treat customers like it's your money anymore. They treat customers like we're in charge of your money and you have to get our permission to use it the way you want. And that is a, that's a second and third order effect of all this surveillance state bullshit and all this quote compliance stuff. It's a two, it's a double edged sword because not only has the younger generation grown up and are, you know, are accommodative of this, of this surveillance state, but the older generation, the boomers, and probably some, a lot of the Gen Xers, they are comfortable enough in their finances to not be in a position where they find a need or necessity to push back against the state. And I was just talking to my brother about this and he's like, yeah, I recognize all that stuff, but he's comfortable, you know, and so he just, he's not willing to, there's a lot of people who are not willing or have no incentive to push back against the state. So it's really a double edged kind of sword. Those that recognize it are in a position where they don't have to, they don't feel like they need to do anything. And those that should be doing something about it potentially, you know, don't even recognize it.
CoinDesk Podcast Network
SPECIAL REPORT: SBF TRIAL 09/21 Update
"Welcome to the SBF trial, a Coindesk podcast network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk will stand trial in just under two weeks to defend himself against allegations he deliberately committed fraud and conspired to defraud crypto investors and customers in FTX and Alameda research. The estimated six -week trial itself is scheduled to kick off on October 3, 2023, a mere 10 months after Bankman -Fried was first arrested and not even 11 months after FTX collapsed. To better understand the trial process, Coindesk spoke to several legal experts, some of whom asked for anonymity to discuss a high -profile case. Though the trial is scheduled to begin next month, there's still some time before the actual arguments are made. The first step, which may occur as soon as next week, is a final pre -trial conference where Southern District of New York Judge Lewis Kaplan will lay out what a final witness schedule may look like, how long the trial date may be, and rule on any final outstanding motions. Judge Kaplan may also entertain a few motions after the jury is selected, said Martin Auerbach, an attorney at law firm Withers Worldwide. The second step is voir dire, which is what will actually begin on October 3. The jury selection process will see the judge ask potential jurors a number of questions. He will likely start broad, asking if any potential jurors have travel planned within the next few weeks or might otherwise be unable to disappear from their jobs for weeks. One of the legal experts, an attorney with experience in white -collar litigation, told Coindesk the DOJ must prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, given that this is a criminal trial. By contrast, in a civil case, there is a lower preponderance of evidence standard. Beyond a reasonable doubt, there's no specific percentage, but you can think of that as 90 -plus percent, one of the legal experts told Coindesk. You have a deep and abiding conviction in the guilt of the defendant. The assistant U .S. attorneys trying the case will likely demonstrate each element of each of the charges and illustrate what evidence they have that would support a conviction for each charge, they said. They're tracking each piece of testimony, each document to make sure that they've got enough in the record to withstand. Bankman -Fried will inevitably argue because every defendant argues after trial that they fell short on this element or another, they said. Once the prosecution rests, the defense will have its own opportunity to present additional witnesses. One outstanding question is whether or not Bankman -Fried himself will testify in his own defense. Want to follow along? Sign up for Coindesk's new daily newsletter, The SBF Trial, bringing you insights from the courthouse and around the case. You can get the podcast each day right here by following the Coindesk Podcast Network. Thanks for listening.
The Living Waters Birth Podcast
Top Tips for First-Time Moms Planning an Unmedicated Birth
"And this is my last question, which I said earlier, I feel so bad because it's been two weeks since I got this question, which means this mom is probably has approached her due date, if not past her due date at this point. And this is from my friend, Juliana. We went to nursing school together. So hello, Juliana. Congratulations on expecting your first baby. This is so exciting. She says two weeks from my due date, any tips for first time on medicated birth? And yes, I have a lot of tips. I actually addressed this in another podcast episode, which is called top tips for unmedicated birth. And that covers a lot. But honestly, the majority of that episode is focused on the prenatal period. So I would say there's a lot of emphasis on like the things that you do to prepare yourself education wise, mindset wise. But just because you're close, even like at your due date or beyond does not mean it's too late to start preparing. So I would say be aware that just because it's your first baby does not mean it's going to be a bad experience or a super long labor. You don't have to be afraid that just because it's your first baby means it's going to be horrible. I hear that a lot. And honestly, when I was pregnant, I kind of felt like it's my first baby. So it's going to be really rough because that tends to be a trend, but it doesn't have to be that way. I would say you should be aware that first time mothers typically go past their due date. They usually lean closer to 41, 42 weeks versus that 40 week mark. Not always, but on average, I would expect to just go past and that will really help with your mindset, not thinking like we reached the 40 week mark, where the heck is this baby? Because they're going to come right on time and that may not be at 40 weeks and zero days. So you may go longer. You also might have a little bit of a longer labor. Again, not always, but average first time moms do have longer stretches of labor. So I would say prepare for that. Just prepare yourself for a little bit of a marathon. Again, that doesn't mean that it's going to be bad. Just know like, you know, conserve your energy. Don't start paying attention to your labor when that first contraction hits. Ignore it as long as possible and make sure that you're resting as much as you possibly can in early labor. If you are giving birth in a hospital, I would say definitely labor at home as long as you possibly can until you're really, really in a good active labor pattern and like you need to be where you're giving birth. Definitely labor at home. The longer that you're in a hospital or even a birth center setting, the more susceptible you're going to be to interventions. And that leads me to my next point, which is just avoid the cascade of interventions if you can. So avoid an induction unless it's actually really medically necessary. Avoid going to the hospital or your birthplace too early. Avoid as much intervention in your birth as you possibly can because that will make it a lot easier to have a more undisturbed and just overall unmedicated experience. One intervention tends to cascade into other interventions, which makes it harder to have the unmedicated undisturbed labor that you might be wanting. So that's a thing. I would just learn to say no. Set yourself up for success right now and know that it's probably going to be a little bit challenging. Just learn to say no, even if, you know, there's a likelihood you're going to be pressured into different interventions that you don't want. And I would use the brains tool. If you don't know what that is, you can look it up. It's a decision making tool for labor, but make sure you know how to say no and weigh risks and benefits of different interventions. Because like I said, the less intervention, the better when it comes to having an unmedicated natural birth. I would say today is not too late to start doing mindset work and eliminating fear and labor, telling yourself that labor is normal, natural, holy, good. That does not have to be scary. That's going to be really important to avoid that fear, tension, pain cycle that is more likely to end you up getting an epidural and other interventions, learning to relax and calm your nervous system as much as you can. And I would say even just practice doing that outside of labor, like anytime that you find yourself feeling anxious, feeling sensations in your body, just learning to like totally surrender to that and calm your nervous system as much as you can. I'm sure that you've heard this, but drink all the red raspberry leaf tea and eat all the dates that you can do the mile circuit, be walking, doing things to prepare your body these last couple of weeks is going to be huge. And then really just leaning into this time with the Lord, these last few weeks of pregnancy are one of the most insane times to learn surrender and trust because it can be such a mental game and it can feel like you're in the home stretch. You don't know when things are going to start, but there's such a beauty and mystery to birth and to your labor process. The Lord is always right on time and he knows exactly what you need. He knows exactly what your baby needs. So lean into him during these last few weeks, trust your intuition. But even more important than trusting your intuition is accepting guidance from the Holy Spirit, letting him guide and direct all of your steps because he is in charge. He knows you. He knows your baby. He knows what you need. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid to ask him boldly and see the way that he is going to show up for you because he will show up even if it looks nothing like you thought it would. He is in the business of answering prayers and he loves when we ask him boldly. So that would be my advice for you.
The Living Waters Birth Podcast
Sweeping Membranes 101: What Is It and What Are the Benefits?
"Today I am actually coming to you guys with a Q &A episode. So I put in my Instagram stories asking for people to just send me their birth questions, and I'm going to address a few different questions that I got today. So it's a little bit late for some of them. Somebody messaged me that they're two weeks from their due date, and it's two weeks later than they sent that. So I think actually exactly two weeks. So Juliana, if you're listening to this, your due date might be on the day that I'm recording this. Hopefully you're still pregnant and get to listen to this and maybe implement these things. But if not, I still think it'll be helpful for other mamas. So first question that I'm going to start with is one that I got about sweeping membranes. So what is it? What are the risks and benefits? Why would somebody choose to do it? So to start out, I'm just going to explain what this procedure is. So it is that it's a procedure. Some physicians do it routinely during vaginal exams without asking for consent because they think that it's part of just like what you do when you give a vaginal exam, but it's not. It's actually a medical procedure. It is intended for inducing or encouraging labor. It is not technically a medical induction method, but it is intended to get labor started. So this is not the same thing for those of you wondering as rupturing your membrane. So they're sweeping your membranes, or it could also be called stripping your membranes. And then there's rupturing your membranes. Rupturing membranes is also, the technical term for that is amniotomy, and that is breaking the water. And so that's not what I'm referring to here when I talk about sweeping the membranes. What sweeping the membranes is, is a provider will do a vaginal exam or cervical exam, and they will typically insert one or two gloved fingers in through the cervix. So the cervix has to be slightly dilated in order for them to do this. They'll insert fingers up through the cervix, and they will kind of make a circular motion with their fingers that is meant to detach the inferior pole of the membrane. So your bag of water for anybody, I guess I didn't clarify that earlier, your bag of water is what your membranes is. So that bag of amniotic fluid that baby is sitting inside, that is there inside of your uterus. And that's where your baby hangs out and lives your whole pregnancy. Sweeping the membranes is meant to detach that bag of water from the lower uterine segment. And that doesn't really mean a whole lot other than just they kind of take their finger and exactly what it sounds like, they sweep in between that bag of water and the uterus. And this action is meant to help your body produce prostaglandin. Now prostaglandin is a hormone that ripens the cervix and starts to get it more soft and pliable and ready for your body to go into labor. And it's thought that doing the sweeping of the membranes helps your body to produce more prostaglandin and therefore may start labor or encourage your body to get ready. So that's what it is. Now I'm going to take a look at some of the benefits and the risks. So benefits are, you know, just like it sounds like it's intended to start your labor. So if you're looking at a medical induction versus trying other things first, like sweeping your membranes, this is definitely less invasive than being admitted to the hospital, having cervical ripening agents like Cytotec or Cervadil inserted, and being ultimately put on Pitocin or doing other things that are involved in a medical induction. So this could be a good thing to try first before going, you know, straight to that let's be admitted to the hospital for an induction to have your baby. I was looking at a research study. So this is a Cochrane review with data from 44 studies looking at about 7 ,000 women who had their membranes stripped or swept. This is a very, very common thing to be done. I would say that, and this is anecdotal, I don't know the exact number, but the majority of women, I would say, especially if they're with an obstetric practice and giving birth inside of a hospital, tend to have their membrane swept at term, so 39 weeks and beyond to encourage labor to start. Many of them without even realizing it. So it does appear to be effective when you're looking at this Cochrane review. It's effective at promoting the spontaneous onset of labor, and women who had a membrane sweep were less likely to then go on to have a medical induction. However, the current evidence didn't suggest that that necessarily followed on to them having unassisted vaginal births. Sadly, taking a look at these studies, the data was actually kind of limited to compare the outcomes of membrane sweeping with other interventions or no interventions. So really the benefit is it could start labor, and it's less invasive than a medical induction, but it's definitely not guaranteed to start labor. If it doesn't start labor, it could ripen your cervix to help your body kind of get ready. However, it's not without risks, so just like any intervention, there are some things to be considered before consenting to having this done. So some of the risks include uterine irritability, which is really, it could produce that prostaglandin, your uterus could start contracting, but in a way that's really irregular and not actually productive or leading to labor. So you could have contractions that keep you from resting and that are noticeable enough for you to be potentially having to cope through them or just not be able to get the rest that you need, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily doing anything to change your cervix or get your body in labor so that you can meet your baby, and that can just really lead to a lot of maternal exhaustion, both physical and mental. When you are having contractions and you're feeling them, but they're irregular and they're not actually labor, that can be just kind of a mind game and like I said, lead you to not getting good rest that you need for the time that you actually do go into labor. This procedure is also, like I said, less invasive than a full out medical induction, but it's still invasive and it's pretty uncomfortable. Some women don't find it uncomfortable, some women do, you know, just like everything, there's going to be a lot of variety in people's experiences. I will say I had this done several times because for those of you who know my story, I went to nearly 42 weeks pregnant with my daughter and I was looking at possibly having a medical induction, so I wanted to try to do membrane sweeps, you know, before consenting to a medical induction and so we did. I had them done several times, for me honestly, they were so invasive that I actually broke down in tears after one of them, not necessarily because of the pain, but just because it felt like so unnatural and so harsh and rough and it was painful for me, but that's not to say that it will necessarily be painful for you if you opt to have this done, like I said, everybody is a little bit different. I found it personally more uncomfortable than actually giving birth.
Ultraflex Football
A highlight from 43: Week 2 Recap
"Welcome to the Ultraflex Football Podcast. Move over Pat McAfee. There's no denying that we are here to spice up your life and never forget about the good times. I'm your host, Anthony Sutton. With me, as always, is Rob Green. Man, I wasn't prepared for that change. What's up? What's going on? And Viva Forever, Ryan Wheeler. I feel so much pressure. Now we got to be better than Pat McAfee. All right. Oh, we got the... Go ahead. No, he's actually like swearing on ESPN now, and he's got like Mike Greenberg, he swore on ESPN now because of McAfee. He's actually... A little more laid back now, huh? Yeah, he wears a tank top. He's very good for ESPN, in my opinion. Go ahead. He's spicing up Disney, huh? I think I saw, didn't they have to put him on like an extra delay versus normal? I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. He has to cut out the F words a little bit, I heard. Someone's got to tell him to stop the cursing. No. Why? That's what makes it fun. I'm like eight song titles through my album here, so. Oh, he's like, damn, you're doing song titles already? Yeah, I thought you had to say him first. Holy moly. All right, well, we're about to find out what your song titles were. So Tony messed up two weeks ago. He didn't get all the song titles in, so now he has an album to himself, but because this is a team sport, a team podcast, Rob and I now have to split apart, or a album between ourselves. So Rob and I have Good Charlotte, The Young and the Hopeless. My songs are A New Beginning, Lifestyle of the Rich and the Famous, Wondering, The Story of My Old Man, Girls and Boys, and My Bloody Valentine. Rob? I don't know, man. I'm not feeling good about this week. This is a lot. Seven songs and a half hour show. All right, I got Hold On, Riot Girl, Say Anything, The Day That I Die, The Young and the Hopeless, Emotionless, and Movin' On. Tony, we're all wondering, what do you have? You have the Spice Girls, my man. And I already, I've gotten already into the pod. I've already gotten Spice Up Your Life, Stop, Never Give Up on Good Times, Move Over, Denying, and Viva Forever. I still need to get in Too Much, Saturday Night Divas, Do It, and The Lady is a Vamp, which will probably be a difficult one. Hold on, can you say that one more time? What was that? The Lady is a Vamp. Like a vampire, assuming? What's a vamp? It's a vampire. And that's from the Spice World album. 1997 made me feel old AF. 97, wow. I remember watching the Spice World movie, the Spice Girls movie. I do not remember. Oh, you guys didn't have older sisters, that's why. No. All right, anyway. Movin' On. All right, speaking of Movin' On, the NFL schedule moved on. We are now in week two, so let's get to Football Talk. And I guess technically we're in week three, so we're going to recap week two. As always, we're going to start with the Bills game, go to the Titans game, and then kind of what else is going on. So, Rob, you were at the Bills Raiders game. What were your biggest takeaways? It was a fun home opener. The Bills got back to their winning ways with a nice, easy, I'd even want to say I was worried at the beginning. It was a little annoying that they fell behind 7 -0, but I was confident they would still pull it out. They did. Josh Allen ended up AFC Offensive Player of the Week, I think the 11th time in his career now, which is pretty impressive. Wow, the franchise record. Oh, I didn't know that. Nice stat. You beat Jim Kelly, it was 10 times. Well, pretty nice. Feels like a new beginning for the Bills, for sure. Nice, Ryan. Where was I going with that? I told you guys a stat yesterday, actually, that surprised me, but Josh Allen is number one in completion percentage so far this year. I know it's only two games in, but fun little tidbit there. It's crazy how much can change week by week in the NFL, and it's going to happen again this week. If the Bills were to lose to Washington and go 1 -2, then it almost feels like the game, I know it wouldn't be a must -win, but it feels like the game against the Dolphins the following week would feel like a must -win. That way, they're not 1 -3 and that far behind the Dolphins, but yeah, it's crazy how much can change in one week in the NFL. Oh, show. My biggest takeaway, and I said it last week, kind of a similar takeaway for me was last year it felt like we never got pressure on the quarterback. This year, it feels like we're constantly getting the opposing quarterback pressure, and it feels like our offensive line is playing well, so big task, which is we're physical, we can run the ball, we can block, we can get pressure. It's a good change of pace. I don't know, honestly, I'm not smart enough to tell you if McDermott's play calling is a factor in that, or if it's just Leonard Floyd, hopefully his ankle's okay, is better, and Ed Oliver's having a better year, so on and so forth. Yes, I saw his average depth of tackle is negative yards right now, which is impressive. So his average tackle is a tackle for a loss. That's awesome. That's literally the definition of blowing up a play. So yeah, it's exciting. Obviously, this win means something, but it doesn't really if you go and lose to Washington, so got to two and one. Two and one, by the way. Oh, yeah. I think everyone does the thing where you kind of... Did we just lose our host? It kind of looks like a frozen face there. Okay. Hey, frozen face. Oh, Rob, it's you and I. Let's do this thing. All right. So I didn't get to talk about the Titans at all. Can we say anything now, because he's gone? Yeah, we can say anything. Say anything, say anything. Sorry, I can't sneak any of these. Good Charlotte. Anywho, girls and boys, my takeaway is that the Titans are who I thought they were. The team that... I guess who a lot of Titans fans thought they were. The team that's probably... You are who we thought you were. Welcome back, Anthony. Thanks. They're the team that's going to beat the good teams and lose to the teams they should beat. And that's how it feels like the Titans have always been. They keep every game close. They have a shot. They have a chance in every game. So they're not quite the young and the hopeless, but they're just maybe like the mediocre. No, they're not the young and the hopeless. Oh, I thought that was one of my song titles. That's the... Oh, no. Oh, no. Clearly. Well, okay. I guess I can cross that one off my list then. Anywho, you know who else I was impressed with was the Falcons. They play a certain brand of football. It's the NFC Titans. I think I have to be a fan of the Falcons now. But just ground and pound, they came back. They were able to pull that one out in Green Bay. So... Yeah. The Falcons. To your point, there's not many teams, I feel like, in the NFL that have an identity, like a true identity. The Falcons are one that you know exactly what you're getting every week. And that could be really good or it could be really bad. Oh, for sure. One of my week two takeaways is prior to the season, it was always... And I was the one on this podcast kind of leading the charge is how good the AFC is gonna be. And then if like through two weeks, which is, again, a small sample size, it feels like the 49ers, Eagles, and Cowboys are playing just as well as anybody. And they're all in the NFC. Now, the NFC doesn't have much else to offer, but those three teams are gonna be very formidable to whoever comes out of the AFC come Super Bowl time. Yeah. At this point, their high -end talent almost seems better than the AFC with a lot of the top teams in the AFC struggling. So... Do you guys think that three of the top five teams in the NFL are NFC teams? Maybe even three of the top four teams in the NFL? I think that's fair right now. Yeah. That's crazy, isn't it? Because before the season, it was like, the AFC is so strong, so good. They have all the good quarterbacks and two weeks is a pretty small sample size, but I think... I think at this point, yeah, it's safe to say those three teams are top five. I don't even know who you would put... I mean, I guess the Dolphins are probably the best team in the AFC at the moment. I mean, the Chiefs scored 17 points against the Jaguars. And I mean, the Bills looked very good last week, but you can't ignore how poorly they looked the first week on offense. So... And then obviously, the Bengals Chargers being 0 -2 hurts the AFC's, I guess, power rankings or however you want to look at it. And then Rogers being hurt. Those are three teams that I thought were going to have a very good season. They still might. Maybe not the Jets, but the Chargers and the Bengals.
The Breakdown
A highlight from Is the SEC About to Go Scorched Earth?
"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 Wednesday, September 20th, and today we're asking whether the SEC is about to go scorched earth. Before we do that, however, if you are enjoying The Breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find the link in the show notes or go to bit .ly slash breakdown pod. Hello friends, lots to get through today, so let's dive right in. The SEC is not done going after crypto exchanges, according to David Hirsch, the head of the agency's crypto assets and cyber unit. Speaking at the Securities Enforcement Forum Central in Chicago on Tuesday, Hirsch said securities law violations within the industry extend far beyond existing litigation. Now, keep in mind, the crypto division of the SEC is currently bogged down with complex lawsuits against both Coinbase and Binance, two of the largest crypto exchanges. Hirsch said his unit is investigating similar activity across other firms and believes non -compliant business practices, quote, hold true well beyond any two entities. Hirsch warned, Now, the SEC is apparently also turning its gaze towards DeFi platforms in this crusade against crypto intermediaries. Hirsch said, quote, Now, a common theme of recent comments from SEC chair Gary Gensler is to mock, quote, so -called decentralized finance. This perhaps indicates that the SEC believes underlying most DeFi protocols, they will be able to find a company to sue. All that said, despite outlining an ambitious enforcement agenda, Hirsch did concede that the agency's resources are constrained. Over recent decades, the SEC has largely dealt with regulated financial institutions, with The SEC's campaign against crypto firms has largely presented existential threats rather than manageable fines, leading to a significant number of contested lawsuits. Hirsch admitted during the panel that, quote, Reflecting on that point, Hirsch recognized the scale of the task he was proposing, stating that, And similarly, there are a number of centralized platforms out there, some that are acting as unregistered exchanges. So in some ways here, Hirsch is begrudgingly admitting that the SEC is getting close to capacity, at least when it comes to ongoing litigation. They're dealing with Coinbase, Binance and Ripple, all as major cases, LBRY Library seems to be wanting to go to appeal, then there's Grayscale, which continues to be a legal battle, as well as the two recent NFT cases which settled. So the question is, can the SEC handle five lawsuits at once? Can they handle 10? Even if you think the answer is yes, at what point do you think the answer becomes no? Frankly, this is maybe why people like Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong are encouraging the industry to take up arms effectively and actually fight these legal battles out in court. Now, of course, this brings up the other question of whether the SEC can bank on funding for additional resources to expand this endeavor or whether they need to have some alternative approach. This, of course, echoes the talking point from both the GOP as well as from Dems like The SEC's regulation by enforcement approach is reaching the end of its limits to the extent that it ever was successful at all, and that a much smarter pathway at this point might actually be rulemaking and guidance rather than just trying to sue the industry off the face of the planet. Look, crypto companies are fighting back. It's only a matter of time before we see some sort of coordinated defense fund, and it wouldn't be surprising to me if even this beleaguered industry can marshal a heck of a lot more resources than the SEC can on its own. Now, the other side of the coin is how much time the SEC actually has left to bring the industry to heel. Fox Business reporter Eleanor Teret tweeted yesterday, Only 13 days left for the SEC to bring enforcement actions that will count towards fiscal year 2023 enforcement numbers. The agency filed 760 total enforcement actions in FY 2022. I wonder if we'll see a surge of cases in the next two weeks? Now, certainly when it comes to the crypto industry, there is a broad sense of bring it on. Crypto trader Laxman writes, SEC warns of upcoming charges against crypto and DeFi exchanges. Few might think this will kill crypto. I feel like this will kill SEC. Crypto McKenna retweeted the headline, SEC warns more charges against crypto and DeFi exchanges are coming, and added the Latin phrase, if you want peace, prepare for war. Simplest of all, the Gordon Law Group just said, bring it on, Gary. Now, moving to the global sphere, a German regulator has stressed the risks of crypto and called for global regulations to apply consistently without exception. On Monday, Rupert Schaefer, executive director of strategy, policy and control at the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, Baffin, published a blog post on the importance of united global regulation on crypto. He warned of the dangers of unregulated crypto firms using a fairly labored analogy to airspace regulation. Schaefer likened the crypto regulation to air traffic control regulations, which are relatively uniform throughout the world. In this analogy, some crypto assets and DeFi projects were UFOs. He stated then that it would be negligent to simply ignore them. Schaefer warned that FTX was a major crash and there would be many more like it to come. Now, the regulator praised the recently passed MICA regulations in Europe, but argued that further steps need to be taken. He produced a long list of global proposals from the Financial Stability Board, the International Association of Securities Commissions, the Financial Action Task Force and the Basel Committee, and this he claimed was enough to establish a global consensus, stating that quote, the international regulatory principles have been adopted and the framework has been set. Now, the common principles must be implemented consistently and consistently worldwide. There should be no white spots in the flight radar. The global rules should also apply to niche financial centers. Now, this blog post comes a little over a week since the conclusion of the G20 summit, which was pitched as an opportunity to discuss global synchronization of crypto policy. G20 leaders did manage to produce an endorsement of the latest set of policy recommendations published by the Financial Stability Board. And in her article previewing the meeting, Noelle Acheson highlighted that the adoption of FSB recommendations was quote, very likely since the recommendations don't actually say anything interesting. Noelle noted that the FSB recommendations are more around notational international cooperation and vague platitudes about enforcing risk management rather than firm policy outlines. At the same time, none of the recommendations mentioned by Schaeffer actually achieved consensus approval at the G20, calling into question how the regulator can claim that there are any common principles whatsoever. Moving over to the UK. The UK House of Lords have passed a bill which would grant authorities the power to freeze and seize crypto assets associated with crime. Currently, UK authorities cannot apply for crypto assets to be frozen unless there has been an arrest or conviction. This bill would allow them to more quickly apply for freeze orders. Hundreds of millions worth of crypto linked to crime have been seized by local authorities, but experts say this new bill could help deal with situations that aren't easily dealt with under the current legal framework. Phil Aris, Director of UK Public Sector Relations at TRM Labs said, A government fact sheet suggested even more broad use, stating that quote, The creation of a crypto asset's specific civil forfeiture power will mitigate the risk posed by those that cannot be prosecuted, but use their funds to further criminality or for terrorist purposes. Isabella Chase, Senior Policy Advisor at blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs suggested that the measure could assist with police funding, stating that quote, Corker Bining was less enthusiastic about the fundraising prospects, noting that as the UK cracks down, quite, they might find that the pool of available targets quickly dwindles as suspected criminals move their assets offshore to less enthusiastically policed jurisdictions. The bill has already been passed in the House of Commons once, so will now return for a second vote before it can be given royal assent to become law. Now, I don't know what sort of free society we're dealing with here. With the big caveat that I am not a lawyer, the discourse around this is pretty wild to me. It seems like they're talking effectively about on -chain asset forfeiture without the requirement to charge anyone with a crime. This is the digital equivalent of police being able to take what they find in your trunk if they search your car and not have to give it back to you. That's an insane policy and so is this. And I hope not just for the sake of the crypto industry, but for the sake of the UK itself, some real, real limits are put around this. Staying in the UK, however, for just a moment, on Tuesday, UK lawmakers passed the controversial online safety bill. The bill requires companies to assess the likelihood of customers encountering illegal content and of children encountering harmful content. Proponents of the bill say it will be used to protect younger internet users and make the web a safer place. The government has claimed the bill would make the UK, quote, the safest place in the world to be online. Critics, however, have warned that depending on how the bill is enforced, it could require companies to do away with encrypted messaging and essentially any notion of online privacy. WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram have all threatened to exit the UK if the bill was passed. Earlier this month, regulators attempted to appease encrypted messaging apps by promising to only implement text scanning if it was technically feasible, but WhatsApp head Will Cathcart appeared unconvinced, tweeting last week that, quote, the fact remains that scanning everyone's messages would destroy privacy as we know it. That was as true last year as it is today. WhatsApp will never break our encryption and remains vigilant against threats to do so. Signal President Meredith Whitaker was a little bit more hopeful that the implementation would be thoughtful. She said, quote, while it's not everything we wanted, we are more optimistic than we were when we began engaging with the UK government. It matters that the government came out publicly clearly acknowledging that there is no technology that can safely and privately scan everyone's communications. At this point, it is imperative that we press regulators to incorporate the government's safely and privately scan end to end encryption communications and push them to clearly and publicly commit to not using the unchecked and unprecedented power vested in them to undermine private communications infrastructure. Whitaker confirmed that Signal would remain available in the UK for the time being. But for content and messaging platforms, the enforcement of the bill is a high stakes issue, with the maximum penalty being up to 10 percent of global revenue. Lastly, today, an update from a story earlier in the week. We have recently talked about JPX, a crypto exchange that has come under fire from Hong Kong authorities. At the time, withdrawals were effectively halted and one influencer had been arrested for promoting the platform. Reporting on Monday morning stated that authorities had received 83 complaints related to assets worth $4 .3 million. Since then, the case has dramatically escalated. Authorities have now received over 1 ,600 complaints involving over $150 million worth of assets. Eight people have now been arrested with the expectation that more arrests are coming. Police have now stated that the arrests are in relation to conspiracy to commit fraud rather than merely promotion of an unlicensed exchange. Twenty locations have been raided across Hong Kong with police seizing cash, jewelry, computers and phones worth around $1 million. Police have frozen around $2 million held in bank accounts owned by arrested suspects, alongside about $5 .5 million in property. Authorities are currently considering the confiscation of around $8 million in criminal proceeds. On Monday, JPX blamed the Securities and Futures Commission and their counterparties within the industry for causing an illiquidity crisis. They said in a statement, When other cryptocurrency exchanges announced their entry into the Hong Kong market and began extensive promotion, JPX was subjected to continuous unfair treatment. The SFC sent letters to all of our partners requesting the cessation of cooperation with the platform. On Tuesday, however, Elizabeth Wong, director of licensing at the SFC, confirmed that the regulator had asked counterparties to step away from the unlicensed exchange. The regulator had been monitoring the platform for months and issued numerous warnings to users. She said that since those warnings were issued, JPX went from bad to worse. The events surrounding JPX could be seen either as a sign that Hong Kong authorities are serious about enforcement of new crypto regulations or an indication that the city still has a long way to go in cleaning up the industry. As we discussed before, given Hong Kong's role as a bellwether for Chinese authorities' attitudes towards crypto, this is a story that we will continue to watch. However, for now, that is going to do it for today's breakdown. I appreciate you listening, as always. Until next time, be safe and take care of each other.
Addiction Unlimited Podcast | Alcoholism | 12 Steps | Living Sober | Addiction Treatment
A highlight from A Sober Journey to Becoming an Author
"You know, I had maybe 100 or 150 failed attempts behind me, you know, of me saying, that's it, no more. I'm not doing it today. I honestly can't say what the difference was that one time, but that one time I was well and truly freaking done. And I just said to my wife, I have to get help. It's out of control. I can't control it. And it was terrifying. Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Addiction Unlimited podcast, where you get to learn everything you want to know about addiction and recovery. I'm your host, Angela Pugh, co -founder of Kansas City Recovery, Life Coach, and Recovering Alcoholics. To learn more about me, you can listen to episode zero on your podcast app or find us on the web at addictionunlimited .com. Hi, Will. Thank you so much for coming on and doing this show with me. It's so good to see you. Hey, Angela. Good to see you too. Take a couple of minutes and tell everybody a little bit about you and what you do. Thank you. So my name is Will Thacher, and I'm an author of addiction fiction novels. I'm also an addiction fiction nerd and fan. And that's my little world. I'm a sober guy and I love these stories. I'm a big lifelong avid reader. And I just sort of found this space, which there's really not that much in it. There are a handful of authors that have done some great work and I'm passionate about it. And so that's how I'm doing it. There are so many typical books that you get in the recovery space, right? It's not self -help based. It's not personal story based. It's not a memoir or a how -to or a guide, right? This is really reading for enjoyment. Totally. Yeah, that's exactly right. And you know, there are so many good books that are in the categories that you just listed. And there are new ones out every year and it's very well represented. Personally, I love fiction. It's something that I grew up with. I always had a book in my hands. And from my perspective, it's 90 % enjoyment. And there is a 10 % value in terms of relating this to my recovery, reading about people who are going through the same types of things, albeit in much more extreme circumstances in my books, relating that back to my own recovery. When we watch a movie, for example, that has characters in recovery or in active addiction, I have a very direct emotional reaction to that because I've lived through that pain. And I won't quite call it a spiritual experience, but certainly I'll have an emotional experience, a connection to those characters. So I do think that there is some little residual benefit to my recovery when I read these books. Yeah, I would agree with that for sure. And I think the audience can relate to this also in that recovery can be heavy work. Especially in the beginning, it takes so much of you and your time and your energy and it can start to feel very overwhelming. So to not constantly be immersed in the self -help, the personal development, sobriety, recovery, change your life, get your act together, to have something that has some pieces of that in the familiarity of recovery and recovery language, but to have it be just for enjoyment, I think is so powerful. And I'm really excited to watch this category grow. It's nice to hear you say that. And I personally agree with that entirely. This is deadly serious stuff, literally. But also, I'm a big AA guy and we always say there has to be some fun in it or else people aren't going to want it. And so I think that this is a way to keep a foot in the work, keep the themes and the ideas that you're trying to bring into your mind, trying to bring into your life and take a little bit of a break from the hardcore recovery aspect of it. I think it's worth mentioning that a lot of what I write is definitely not so much for people in their first three or six months of recovery. There are much better things that those people should be reading than fiction. Frankly, their lives are at stake. My work is really much more for people who have a little bit of sobriety under their belts, they're living a sober life and they want to relate to and hear stories about sober characters that are out there. I'm getting ready to publish my second novel now. And what I write about is what's interesting to me. What's going on in my life and in my head, which are next step sober problems. Okay, you got sober, your life got good, then what? Because that's what I'm interested in at this point. And that's what a lot of my characters go through. Yeah. I appreciate you saying that. And it reminds me of when I was new, I'm a 12 step person also. And I remember when I was really new sitting in those rooms and for several months, right? Not understanding a lot of the lingo and like the one liners. And now I love those things, right? Because I've been in it for a hundred years and it all makes sense to me. And it's this beautiful sort of shorthand, like you can pop out this one liner and it has so much profound meaning. Once you get it, it simplifies things. But when I was new sitting in there, I was like, what the hell are these people talking about? I just didn't understand those things. So I appreciate you pointing that out, that there is some depth of knowledge, but I think it can also bring some really great familiarity to the recovery world and some of that terminology and what it means. So I think it could go both ways, but you definitely want to have some basic understanding of a sober life. Yeah. I mean, that's why everybody recommends what they recommend to the newcomer, right? 90 and 90, there's an immersion that should happen in the beginning so that to your point, you start to speak the language and you start to think in those terms. And then from that point on, yes, you don't have to necessarily go to a meeting or two or three a day like I did from my first three to six months in sobriety. Yeah, for sure. So let's talk a little bit about your personal journey. What was it for you? At what point did you recognize that you really had a problem? I mean, I knew I had a problem for a good year or two before the rest of the world was rudely introduced to it. My problem came to light to ring a family vacation. I've actually heard a couple of other people tell versions of this story in the rooms, which was gratifying to me. I had spent the last really year, year and a half of my using and drinking in isolation, and I had gotten very good at hiding away from my family and from friends and doing my thing, doing at that time what I thought of as whatever I had to do to get through the day, surviving in this head of mine. And then we booked a vacation. I went away with not just my direct family, but my extended family for two weeks, and there was no hiding. There was no sitting in my office behind two closed doors, and it was unmanageable. And so I ran around for the first half of it, trying to keep a buzz going, trying to figure out a way to do this. And it just became clear that not just to me, but to everybody else, that this was a real problem and it needed to be addressed. And it was really humiliating to have that happen in such a public way, but probably the best thing that could have happened. What did you do when you really understood, okay, this has to stop, right? We get to that, what I call what everybody refers to as that sort of rock bottom moment. And just to clarify, because there is a misconception about rock bottom, rock bottom doesn't have to be a huge extravagant event. Rock bottom is just the very moment you hit in your head that you're like, oh my gosh, I cannot live like this anymore. Something has to change. So you have that epiphany. What was your next thought and next action to get started in making the change? Well, I had maybe 100 or 150 failed attempts behind me of me saying, that's it, no more. I'm not doing it today. I honestly can't say what the difference was that one time, but that one time I was well and truly freaking done. And I just said to my wife, I have to get help. It's out of control. I can't control it. It's totally out of my hands. Whatever happens, happens. And it was terrifying. So we came home from the vacation and my plan was to get myself into a rehab, go spend 28 days somewhere and let them tell me what to do. But in the meantime, I decided to hit a couple of AA meetings while I got that all sorted out. I have a good close cousin who's in recovery, who's a huge AA proponent. I actually have two cousins, both of whom I adore and whose lives are incredible because of recovery. And they always talk about AA. I guess they talked about it in front of me for a reason. We call that planting seed. I think that's right. So I went to AA. I sat down in a meeting and I heard my first couple of sober stories and I was hooked. I tell people that's what got me sober was the stories that I heard before there was fellowship, before there were steps, before there was service, any of the other key aspects of recovery. Before I even knew what those things were, I heard those stories. I read myself into every one of them, even if the circumstances were totally different from mine. I loved the arc of the qualification, what happened, how it is, how it is now. Just people amazing being incredibly honest. And I really thought, okay, if they can do this, I can do this. They sound just like me. They're literally saying the things that are inside my head. So I must be in the right place. I'm not a stupid person. I can connect those two things. I think I can do this. So I held off on the rehab thing because I thought I could, the great and powerful me, could sort this out on my own. But I did AA immersion, like two or three meetings a day. My work was in the garbage at that point. It turned out to be a blessing in some ways. And so I was doing two or three meetings every day and following guys around and that was how I got sober. Hearing you say all of that just again takes me back to my early days and so much the same experience. And I know a ton of people listening right now are nodding their heads in agreement, where you sit and you hear the other people share. And this isn't a 12 step specific thing. People say the same thing in my online community, and I'm sure they have the same experience in other people's online communities. But you hear people share their stories and you hear your story just with their details. And it's a really powerful experience when you can sit back and go, oh wow, I'm not the only one. Because I think in active addiction, it's so isolating. Even if you're not isolated physically, even if you're going out and drinking with people and you're not isolating in that way, mentally and emotionally, psychologically, it's so isolating because you feel so different from everyone else. I know for sure I felt like I was the biggest piece of garbage on the planet. I was disgusting. I thought my drinking was worse than everybody's, right? Because in my immediate friend group, I was probably the worst, you know? And then I got to the rooms and I hear other people talking and sharing those stories. And I was like, oh wow, okay. I'm not so isolated. I'm not on this one man island all by myself. I do have people that I can connect with and that truly understand. Yeah, totally. And there's a whole room full of them here nodding along the way that I am. For me personally, that's how I learn the best is through stories, which is why I do what I do. It's a passion of mine. But the thing that you pointed to just now that was really powerful for me also was just the self -talk that was going on in my head at that point was so vicious. It was so negative. And I was just brutalizing myself by the time I got in there. Like you said, I was the worst person. Let's be honest, I did some pretty bad things. And so there was some evidence available for that theory. But that's not the whole story. I was also a sick person. And I'd also done some really good things. And so being among people who have felt that way in the past and getting their compassion back in such a direct way was life -saving for me. Yeah. That's so important what you just said too, that it wasn't the whole story. I always say, we are all a thousand piece puzzle and I definitely have some bad pieces. I have some trauma pieces and I have pieces of my personality that can be really unpleasant. I have bad pieces, but that's not all my pieces. We all have good ones and bad ones. And luckily because of recovery, my bad pieces have gotten a little bit smaller and my good pieces have gotten a little bit bigger. But it's important to remember that, that it's not the whole story. And just like as a sober person, I'm sure you'll agree with this too, being sober a long time, my sobriety isn't my whole story either. There's still all these other pieces and facets of my personality that are super important that I have to be mindful of. And I have to nurture all those pieces too. Totally. Yeah. And maybe the most valuable thing that I learned in early sobriety was to discount my thoughts by about 90%. For sure, yes. Whether they were good or bad. On the long list of things that I have no control over, my thoughts is at the top of that list. This brain just cranks out bad data on a regular basis. So the most useful thing that I can do is to understand that. And when I get an idea or a thought or whatever it is, say, okay, that's just a thought. That's not a fact. That is not how the world is. That is not how this person is. That is not how I am. It's just the latest thing that comes out of this head of mine. And I learned to try to lead as much as possible with my heart and not with my head because my heart is much more reliable. My love, my compassion, if I lead with that, I really can't go too wrong. I can't really mess things up too badly. I'd been in the process of messing things up for a long time. So I was in the stop messing things up business at that point. And so that was a very good strategy for me for a long time. It remains a good strategy. Yeah. Remembering too that those thoughts don't put down the drink. Those thoughts in my head, that self -talk and how vicious it was, didn't magically disappear when I stopped chugging tequila on a daily basis. That's the stuff. That's really the recovery part that you have to work on and shift that. And just having that understanding is so powerful too that I couldn't trust what my head was telling me early in the game. I needed outside counsel. I needed another human that was farther along in the process that I could talk those things through. I think, well, this is what my head's telling me. This is what I think I should do to have that person go, oh, no, that's not what you want to do at all. Exactly. Yeah. I totally relate to that. For me, the tone of the voice changed over time. It was equally unreliable, but it was not as negative over time. And that's actually one of the themes in Killing Hurt is that the main character, because he's been sober for a little while and he feels better and his life conditions have improved and he's living a sober life, he becomes much more confident in this voice in his head and he doesn't realize that he's still full of bad ideas. So he has all of these sort of judgments and all of his thinking and he's so sure of them because he's a smart guy and he establishes in the beginning of the book how smart he is and how vital that is to his character, but he's wrong all the time. It's like amazing how often this guy's wrong and that's me. That's how I walk through the life. That's kind of what I like to do with the book is whatever I'm journaling on, whatever I'm 10th stepping in my recovery, it ends up being sort of embedded in one of these characters somehow. Okay. So you just mentioned 10th stepping. So I want you to explain to everybody what that is because a vast piece of my audience is not going to understand what that means. Oh, sure. Yeah. So steps 10, 11 and 12 are in AA, the maintenance steps, meaning these are the steps that you're supposed to do for the rest of your life once you finish your step work. So the 10th step is essentially your inventory. So each night, the way that I do inventory is that I sit down with a notebook every night and I just write what's going on in my head and then I look at what's there and I try to identify where are my character defects at play in this story that's playing out in Will Thatcher's head. I point them out. I'm like, okay, there's some greed, there's some dishonesty, there's some fear, a lot of fear in my inventory.
Mark Levin
Mark Levin: Reminder, Vladimir Putin Is the Criminal
"And that's a fair point. But why is it, why is it that if you have the view that the Ukrainian people and the country of Ukraine and the, the criminal here is Putin and his deletion of his army against the people of Ukraine and indiscriminately killing tens of thousands of and citizens kidnapping tens of thousands of children and bringing them into Russia to be taking them from their parents? You can understand, I think, why some people would say is that absolutely repulsive and unconscionable. So, what is this effort that constantly character assassinates Zelensky? First, to call him a neo -Nazi. He met with every rabbi, leading rabbi in the Chabad Orthodox Jewish from movement every community in Ukraine two weeks while the Jews are fleeing Russia, the rabbis are fleeing Russia. So, to call him a neo -Nazi when he lost, as well, family members in the church, it is just sickening. It is sickening. That is number one. Number two, if you stand with me, and if you don't, that is fine, but if you do, all then of a sudden, you are taking the same position
CoinDesk Podcast Network
A highlight from SPECIAL REPORT: THE SBF TRIAL 9-19 Update
"Welcome to the SBF trial, a Coindesk podcast network newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman -Fried will try to stay out of prison. Follow the Coindesk podcast network to get the audio each morning with content from the Coindesk regulation team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. Sam Bankman -Fried stands accused of committing wire fraud and conspiracy to commit several other types of frauds. His once mighty crypto exchange FTX collapsed in dramatic fashion nearly a year ago shedding billions in value and in two weeks he'll begin his effort to convince a jury of his peers that he didn't commit any of many alleged crimes while running the company. If convicted of even one of the charges Bankman -Fried faces years in a federal prison. If convicted of all of the charges he could well spend decades if not the rest of his life behind bars but there are some nuances here. The maximum prison sentences are just guidelines and like any criminal defendant Bankman -Fried is innocent until proven guilty even if the evidence made public so far seems damning. This discussion itself may be premature given his trial hasn't even begun yet. So how did we get here? Samuel Bankman -Fried who is 31 years old was arrested last December a few short weeks after his empire filed for bankruptcy and ejected the Stanford and Jane Street alum who helmed it. Federal prosecutors in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York filed an initial indictment bringing 8 charges including wire fraud and conspiring to commit securities fraud, commodities fraud and launder money. They later filed a set of superseding indictments which the defense team led by famed attorneys Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell successfully argued can't be brought at this time due to international extradition treaty obligations. A second trial is tentatively scheduled for next year to address these charges. Over the estimated six -week trial prosecutors will place members of the FTX inner circle including former Alameda research CEO Caroline Ellison, former FTX chief technology officer and co -founder Gary Wang and former FTX engineering director Nishad Singh on the stand to testify against their former colleague, boss and roommate. They'll present information from FTX's systems and balance sheets and share audio recordings over the course of the trial all while the defense tries to poke holes in the case. In the lead -up these teams of attorneys will try to find 10 or 12 jurors out of a selection of hundreds most sympathetic to their case. Once Sam Bankman -Fried's criminal trial begins putting these months of paperwork docket fights behind us his fate will hinge on his jury's opinion. Is the former FTX CEO a crypto criminal or perhaps merely a victim of circumstance? They'll have to decide based on the facts of the case but their ranks haven't been filled quite yet. Right now the lawyers are debating how to determine who can make that decision. The process of jury selection heated up late last week after government lawyers blasted the defense team's proposed questions. A good number of them could influence potential jurors. They argued in a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan. Some were too prying, others too specific the feds said. A handful are a thinly veiled attempt to advance a defense narrative the government claimed. Many of the questions they took umbrage with shared a common theme. They were about appearances. Sam Bankman -Fried is or was a master of appearances. From the first time this author spotted the sneakers and shorts wearing wild -haired billionaire on a yacht in To his final television interviews preceding his arrest the crypto wunderkind cultivated perceptions. He shuffled between personas that bolstered this image of approachable greatness. Sam was the guy you could trust to get it right even though he couldn't tie his dress shoes. I think it's important for people to think I look crazy the government quoted Sam as saying his crazy playing video games during interviews dressing like a dorm room schlub sleeping on a beanbag chair and oh yeah those disheveled curls made his greatness speaking on Capitol Hill pioneering massive philanthropic endeavors and oh yeah the crypto exchange FTX all the greater. But the government doesn't want to let the defense highlight any of that before the trial begins. They're calling on Judge Kaplan to reject jury questions that probe the righteousness of philanthropic philosophies and campaign finance. Sam's ADHD should be left off the table they say and don't even think about interrogating jurors FTX specific opinions. Real or engineered, Sam's game of perceptions has ended. He'll begin the trial as a well -dressed defendant just like any other. The government doesn't want his old image to dictate who might eventually put him in a khaki jumpsuit. We'll be in the courthouse each and every day of this trial bringing you news as it happens and keeping you updated. Want to follow along? Sign up for Coindesk's new daily newsletter, the SBF trial, bringing you insights from the courthouse and around the case. You can get the podcast each day right here by following the Coindesk podcast network. Thanks for listening.
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Monitor Show 18:00 09-18-2023 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. You don't need to talk about what you want, you can talk about this. Okay, we'll do that. Doug is like, master. What? Doug's like, we've got 10 seconds. Master, go take another two weeks off. All right, guys, that's going to do it for Bloomberg Businessweek, good to be back with the team. Don't go anywhere. Bloomberg Daybreak Asia starts now. I'm Dan Schwartzman, I'll have that story and more coming up in Bloomberg Sports. That's all straight ahead on Bloomberg Daybreak Asia, on Bloomberg 1130 New York, Bloomberg 99 .1 Washington, D .C., Bloomberg 106 .1 Boston, Bloomberg 960 San Francisco, Sirius XM 119, and around the world on BloombergRadio .com and via the Bloomberg Business App. Hi, everybody, good morning. On this Tuesday, I'm Brian Curtis here in home.
The Defiant - DeFi Podcast
A highlight from SEC Kills Stoner Cats' Buzz // friendtech Activity Surges
"Hey, everyone. Happy Friday and welcome to another weekly recap from The Defiant. I'm joined by Jeremy Nation and Owen Fournau, our staff reporters. And though we had a bit of a quiet week in the markets, we still had a lot of interesting developments across crypto and DeFi. So for one thing, the SEC has been stepping up its pursuit of NFT projects, not content with going after crypto and DeFi. They charged Ashton Kutcher's Stoner Cats project with selling unregistered securities. For those of you who are around in 2021, this was a very hyped project. And basically, they sold NFTs to finance an animated web series. And they, I think they made a few episodes, but then the project kind of died off. And so the SEC has charged them with basically misleading investors with the promise of profits, et cetera. So that's I think the implications of that for the broader NFT space or something that we're going to dive into as we go on with the show. In other news, we had Friendtech, of course, coming back after a sort of a lull over the last two weeks or so. This week, we suddenly saw a resurgence and record inflows. Right. And Owen's all over that. Try my best. Yeah. We had the banana token, which was the token belonging to a Telegram bot that was a really hyped launch that went badly wrong to start off the week when a contract bug basically forced them to drain the liquidity and relaunch the token. And of course, it wouldn't be a week without some new Binance FUD. Right. So as always, there's always something going on with the world's largest exchange regulators all around the world seems to seem to just want something from them all the time. So we'll talk about that as well. So let's dive straight in and get started with the SEC's recent action against Stoner Cats. All right. So hey, everyone, everyone's doing okay. So that was September 13. The SEC charged the company behind Stoner Cats with selling tokens in an unregistered securities offering. And that was the second direct charge against an NFT project in the last two plus, maybe like two and a half weeks, because the SEC charged a project called Impact Theory with also selling unregistered securities. And so we're starting to see a pattern, obviously, of these projects settling with the SEC so far. And we're going to have to see where this goes. One thing people were pointing out is that because the owners of the projects stood to gain from the royalties that they because they because they make money off the royalties, they were encouraging people to buy and sell them, which made them more because they profited off that it made them more likely to, I guess, just, yeah, I don't know, it makes it more like a security. I don't quite follow the legal reasoning there. But yeah, we're starting to see a buildup of cases. I talked to some lawyers a couple weeks ago and saying like, yeah, there might be this kind of way where you build up various enforcement actions and kind of use them. When you go after bigger players, you kind of point to these and say, look, these people settled like you're not on good grounds, although it doesn't actually set formal legal precedent, these, these settlements, they still have kind of a murky but impactful effect on cases moving forward is my understanding. So we'll have to see, obviously, a huge amount of NFT projects went live in 2021. And we'll have to see which, which the SEC picks off next, because I find it pretty unlikely that they're going to stop at these two right here. I don't know. The SEC seems they seem to be going after any type of crypto project that has any type of celebrity endorsement is what I've seen. I saw that too. Yeah. I wonder I wonder if they're doing. Yeah, they're going after big names for whatever reason to show they're not. I don't know. I don't know what their strategy is to show they're not scared of. Yeah, big names, but not big industries. They aren't shutting down the voyagers or the FTX is that are out there defrauding people for all those. defrauding because, you know, yeah, I mean, I think it's interesting that they picked this particular project because of all the broken promises and, you know, unfulfilled hype. Yeah, these guys actually made the show, right? They actually put out seven episodes. Most projects just put a roadmap out and did nothing. If I was an NFT founder from 2021, and I kind of soft drug, I'd be scared right now, especially given these recent actions. I'd say 99 % of the projects out there are guilty of worse than it's going to get. Yeah, Tegan, Jordan Teague, she's a lawyer. What did she say? She said, sorry, guys, it's been a rough morning. But God, I don't remember. She said something which I thought was interesting, but I don't remember. I'm sorry. Yeah, I think it'd be just interesting to see the next actions, like you said, right? Because if they try to build a series of actions to kind of build precedent, they have plenty of targets to go after. Certainly, it's a target rich environment, like Gary just needs to like, he can walk in blindfold and just open his eyes and find a rug. There's no there's no legal precedent. That's merely like the precedent based on like the social setting here where we're like, well, everyone else is doing it. So we'll settle to and if someone does decide, hey, we're going to fight you on this, you know, then it's going to go to a court to decide. And then that's where we've seen I think a lot more. I've seen Ashton Kutcher shield XRP on Ellen. I think we had everyone sharing anything. And you know, what's interesting is XRP has persisted longer than Ellen's show, which just shows that you should be nice to people. Anyway. The point here is, if it does go to like a legal case where like someone says, hey, we're not going to settle with you, then we're going to actually see where like, where this falls down here, because the SEC, from my opinion here, has their work cut out for them in court. When people are willing to say, oh, sure, we'll go along with you and like, you know, take the slap on the wrist. You know, these are people that have lots of money. That's I think why they're going after the celebrities, right? Because they know that there's a well of capital to draw upon in terms of, you know, levying fees and fines against these people, versus, you know, really digging in on a legal battle, because the celebrities don't have a stake in the dynamics of the Web3 ecosystem. Whereas some of these larger institutions that are willing to fight and wage that battle are, so they may be picking their targets based on that. Could be, because as part of the settlement, Stoner Cats also had to return all the money they raised, right? Yeah, they have to set a plan for it. Yeah. And when you have a high profile target, it's a lot easier to go after them. If you have like an anonymous founder for NFT project, you can just be anywhere in the world. Yeah. And are you really going to get that fine or penalty actually transferred? You never know. Might take years, right? Yeah.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"What did your heart feel as you listened? What did you sense the lord saying to you? Once more, through him, with him and in him. Listen to the word. In
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"A time of alexio divina for the discerning heart. Saturday, of the second week of Easter tide. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of the stay to the lord. Say slowly, from your heart, Jesus. I trust in you. You. Take over. Become aware that he is with you. Looking upon you with love. Wanting to be heard, deep within your heart. A reading from the holy gospel, according to John, chapter 6 16 through 21. In the evening, the disciples went down to the shore of the Lake, and got into a boat to make for capernaum, on the other side of the Lake. It was getting dark by now, and Jesus had still not rejoined them. The wind was strong, and the sea was getting rough. They had rode three or four miles when they saw Jesus walking on the Lake and coming toward the boat. This frightened them, but he said, it is I do not be afraid. They were for taking him into the boat, but in no time it reached the shore at the place they were making for. What word made this passage come alive for you? What did you sense the lord saying to you? Once more, give the lord an opportunity to speak to you. In
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"The hills by himself. What touched your heart in this time of prayer? What did your heart feel as you prayed? What do you hope to carry with you from this time with a lord? Let us now close with the prayer to the father that Jesus gave us. Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. On earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day. Our daily bread. And forgive us, our trespasses. As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"A time of alexio divina for the discerning heart. Friday, of the second week of Easter tide. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of the stay to the lord. Say slowly, from your heart, Jesus. I trust in you. You. Take over. Become aware that he is with you. Looking upon you with love. Wanting to be heard, deep within your heart. A
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"Anger of God stays on him. What touched your heart in this time of prayer? What did your heart feel as you prayed? What do you hope to carry with you from this time with the lord? Let us now close with the prayer to the father that Jesus gave us. Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. On earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day. Our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses. As we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation. But deliver us from evil. Amen.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"What word made this passage come alive for you? What did you sense the lord saying to you? Once more, give the lord an opportunity to speak to you.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
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Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"What did you sense the lord saying to you? Once more, give the lord an opportunity to speak to you.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"A time of alexio divina for the discerning heart. Wednesday of the second week of Easter tide. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of the stay to the lord. Say slowly, from your heart, Jesus. I trust in you. You. Take over. Become aware that he is with you. Looking upon you with love. Wanting to be heard, deep within your heart. A
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"This world, how are you going to believe me when I speak to you about heavenly things? No one has gone up to heaven, except the one who came down from heaven, the son of man, who is in heaven, the son of man must be lifted up, as Moses lifted up The Serpent in the desert, so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. What word made this passage come alive for you? What did you sense the lord saying to you? Once more, give the lord an opportunity to speak to you.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"A time of alexio divina for the discerning heart. Tuesday of the second week of Easter time. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of the stay to the lord. Say slowly, from your heart, Jesus. I trust in you. You. Take over. Become aware that he is with you. Looking upon you with love. Wanting to be heard, deep within your heart. A
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"What word made this passage come alive for you? What did you sense the lord saying to you?
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of the stay to the lord. Say slowly, from your heart, Jesus. I trust in you. You. Take over. Become aware that he is with you. Looking upon you with love. Wanting to be heard, deep within your heart. A reading from the holy gospel of Mark, chapter three versus 7 through 12. Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the lakeside, and great crowds from Galilee followed him. From Judea, Jerusalem. Transjordania, and the region of tyre and sidon, great numbers who had heard of all he was doing came to him. And he asked his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd to keep him from being crushed. For he had cured so many that all who were afflicted in any way were crowding forward to touch him. And the unclean spirits whenever they saw him, would fall down before him and shout. You are the son of God. But he warned them strongly, not to make him known. What word made this passage come alive for you? What did you sense the lord saying to you?
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"A time of alexio divina for the discerning heart. Tuesday of the second week in ordinary time. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of the stay to the lord. Say slowly, from your heart, Jesus. I trust in you. You. Take over. Become aware that he is with you. Looking upon you with love. Wanting to be heard, deep within your heart. A reading from the holy gospel of Mark, chapter two versus 23 to 28.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"What word made this passage come alive for you? What did you sense the lord saying to you? Once more, give the lord an opportunity to speak to you. As by the pharisees, when the kingdom of God was to come, Jesus gave them this answer. The coming of the kingdom of God does not admit of observation.
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"A time of alexio divina for the discerning heart. Sunday of the 32nd week, in ordinary time. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of the stay to the lord. Say slowly, from your heart, Jesus. I trust in you. You. Take over. Become aware that he is with you. Looking upon you with love. Wanting to be heard, deep within your heart. Reading from the holy gospel according to Luke, chapter 20
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"two weeks" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"A time of alexio divina for the discerning heart. Saturday in the 22nd week of ordinary time. As you begin, take a deep breath and exhale slowly. For the next few moments, surrender all the cares and concerns of the stay to the lord. Say slowly, from your heart, Jesus. I trust in you. You. Take over. Become aware that he is with you. Looking upon you with love. Wanting to be heard, deep within your heart. A reading from the holy gospel, according to Luke, chapter 6 versus one through 5. One