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2 episodes with monopolistic
Send us a textJoe Paduda joins us to explain the basic framework of our workers' compensation system. In this episode, we discuss why our system is so complicated and some of the key features of several states. While Yvonne tries to keep the conversation focused on basics, Ralph and Joe wander on a few tangents, such as discussing the potential of a federalized workers' compensation system. Joe explains why that is not likely to happen and they explore Medicare and Medicaid components.Whether you are new to workers' comp or are a seasoned industry professional, this is a fun conversation that reviews some basic elements of our system and we introduce a few core concepts and terms such as frequency, severity, medical, indemnity, and administrative expense. Joe tells us what he likes about workers' compensation and it is a key element of why we have such good people in the system and why they work hard to make it better every day. You'll have to find us on YouTube and watch the video of this episode to see the cameo appearance of Joe's dog Oakley!Check out Joe's blog on Substack here: https://joepaduda.substack.com/You can find more information Joe has shared over the years at his original website Health Strategy Associates:https://healthstrategyassoc.com/¡Muchas Gracias! Thank you for listening. We would appreciate you sharing our podcast with your friends on social media. Find Yvonne and Rafael on Linked In or follow us on Twitter @deconstructcomp
TWITTER/X: @Lone_Candle FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Lone-Candle-1436129040048603 Author's page: https://www.amazon.com/Dilland-Doe/e/B00TUKIX7S?ref_=dbs_p_ebk_r00_abau_000000 YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK1ebzTqvmZypjliA8ghA6A?view_as=subscriber WEBSITE: http://LoneCandle.com/ PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/LoneCandle?fan_landing=true MEDIUM: https://lonecandle.medium.com/is-the-nfl-ripping-you-off-with-monopolistic-power-798e27700390?sk=cf1dcd763090ad511b73242eaa007a56 SOURCES: https://lonecandle.com/?p=15047
Mike Ferguson in the Morning 09-09-24 Live Nation-Ticketmaster is being sued by the DOJ over monopolistic practices. Mark Meador, President of the Fan Fairness Coalition and partner at Kressin Meador LLC, talks about Ticketmaster's overhauling market control, why tickets are no longer affordable, and what Congress can do to break it up. NewsTalkSTL website: https://newstalkstl.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsTalkSTL Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/NewstalkSTL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NewsTalkSTL Livestream 24/7: bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMSSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hosts: Leah Murray and Greg Skordas A new lawsuit has been filed against Google; this time it’s coming from competitor review site Yelp. This new suit follows a federal ruling last month which said Google had engaged in illegal, monopolistic conduct. KSL Legal Analyst and KSL at Night host Greg Skordas breaks down this newest case for our listeners.
Microsoft faces investigation in the EU over alleged monopolistic practices. The European Commission aims to determine if Microsoft engages in behaviors limiting competition within the software market. This investigation includes scrutinizing contracts, software bundling, and market dominance tactics. The Commission's inquiry responds to complaints from rivals claiming unfair competitive advantages. Microsoft experiences increased regulation challenges in multiple regions.Learn more on this news visit us at: https://greyjournal.net/news/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, we are joined by JR, the visionary CEO and Founder of Prekindle and Space Colonel Management. We delve into the recently dropped antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation by the DOJ and explore JR's inspiring journey in founding Prekindle. Discover how his company stands out by refusing to lock clients into contracts, their seamless integration with Prism, and JR's remarkable approach to maintaining authenticity in business. Additionally, we discuss the transformative potential of AI in the music industry and what the future holds. Tune in for an enlightening conversation that blends entrepreneurial insights with the cutting edge of technology. After signing with Atlantic Records as a singer-songwriter and touring for years, J.R. quickly went the entrepreneurial route and helped start Prekindle where he's currently CEO. Prekindle is an event ticketing and marketing platform started in Texas which now hosts 50,000 events a year across the US - including concerts, festivals, food & drink events, classes, attractions and everything in between. Denson has also built a career as an artist manager, having first discovered Charley Crockett and helped him to build a global touring and recording business. J.R. went on to cofound Space Colonel which now manages 14 music clients in the Country/Americana/Folk space including Shooter Jennings, Jason Boland and The Stragglers, Benjamin Tod, Lost Dog Street Band, The Lone Bellow, Kat Hasty, Beau Bedford. Via Space Colonel, J.R. also runs a publishing joint venture with Warner Chappell where they represent a growing roster of songwriters. His original mission to bring communities together through events and music has turned into a career that now spans 15+ years - over that time, J.R. has played a part in 10 million attendee experiences and counting. (00:25) - DOJ suing Live Nation & Ticketmaster(05:10) - Government intervention in businesses(08:10) - Monopolistic practices(11:45) - The Prekindle origin story(14:50) - Prekindle's growth trajectory(16:30) - Prekindle's model differentiation(19:20) - How Prekindle competes(21:25) - Prekindle's bootstrapped operation(25:10) - Space Kernel origin story(28:15) - Discovering Charley Crockett(29:50) - SaveLive Prekindle partnership(35:20) - Prekindle's biggest challenge(37:45) - Unique approach to business(41:00) - Seamless Prism+Prekindle integration(44:05) - Incorporating AI into business(46:15) - Vision for the future
What You Need to Know is that there has been a shift in this country away from free-market monopolies, the domination of big business and globalists. Monopolistic and globalist economies are not true free markets. Traditionally, Republicans were hard-line free marketers to a fault, allowing the globalists to rise. Trump put a stop to this by decisively putting forward tariffs, improving American terms of trade, and proved that it would not implode the economy. Michael Waller, senior analyst for strategy at the Center for Security Policy and president of Georgetown Research and author of Big Intel: How the CIA and FBI Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains, published by Regnery Publishing, joins Ed once again to talk about the impact of his book. Big Intel has had a serious grassroots impact, even on people on the inside of intelligence agencies. Ed and Michael also discuss the targeting of conservative Catholics by the FBI. Katherine Novikov is the Executive Director of the Diamond Mind Foundation. The mission of the small family foundation is to help people see without distortion. Ed and Katherine talk about the burgeoning cult of inclusion taking over our institutions, which flies in the face of the meritocracy that makes America great. Exclusion is necessary, inclusion leads to rot. Wrap Up: Sources to follow this week, plus - a consideration on Trump.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
When someone makes the “roads” argument for the presence of government, they fail to point out that the final government product is substandard and often a hazard to people who use those roads. There is a better way.Original Article: Who Will Take Care of the Roads? Why, The Coercive, Substandard, and Monopolistic Government Department, That's Who
When someone makes the “roads” argument for the presence of government, they fail to point out that the final government product is substandard and often a hazard to people who use those roads. There is a better way.Original Article: Who Will Take Care of the Roads? Why, The Coercive, Substandard, and Monopolistic Government Department, That's Who
A huge week in gaming with some major releases all occurring on the same day and also big gaming news with GDC and PAX East happening this week as well. Right before recording Square-Enix had their Final Fantasy XVI: Rising Tide DLC panel and they gave some new info on what we'll be doing in the DLC, an all-important release date and so much more! Sean tries to go through the gist of it, probably much to Marc's chagrin. Although the guys aren't playing any of the big games just yet, Marc did finally get to play Granblue Fantasy Relink and Sean finished the main story of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and also tried out the new Performance Mode Sharp as well. There's a ton of news including the U.S. Dept of Justice Suing Apple over Monopolistic practices which include Cloud gaming. Capcom once again being in hot water of its microtransactions, Helldivers 2 is the best-selling game of February 2024, PSVR 2 halting production amid overstock concerns, Larian dropping Baldur's Gate for something new, and much more!Marc's Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: https://411mania.com/games/final-fantasy-7-rebirth-ps5-review/You can also watch this episode in video form on the W2M Network Youtube Channel, please give us a like, comment on the episode, and give the channel a subscribe and follow as well: https://youtube.com/live/PxuPcCdXINETimestamps: 00:01:00: START 00:02:30: Housekeeping and Intro-------------- What's in the News -------------00:06:25: Dragon's Dogma 2 Comes under fire for the way it does its Microtransactions00:19:35: PlayStation 5 Pro DLSS feature, PSSR, gets more details00:23:05: Sony halts production on PSVR 2 due to overstock00:33:40: Amy Henning and New Skydance get to show off Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra00:36:00: Connie Booth joins EA as Group General Manager of RPG's00:39:40: Blizzard may cancel the singleplayer for Overwatch 2 Completely 00:43:20: Kotaku EIC Resigns over changes in focus of website from news to guides00:52:20: Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Big at GDC Awards, Sven Vincke makes statement afterwards00:53:40: Larian Studios drops Baldur's Gate franchise and opts for to make something new01:00:45: Velan Studio may have to layoff 46 workers because of a canceled major project01:02:20: U.S. Dept of Justice sues Apple over monopolistic practices in five areas and one of them is cloud gaming01:12:05: Remedy says they are looking to make even more Alan Wake and Control games01:13:55: Valve introduces an improved Steam Family Game Sharing01:15:55: Microsoft is redoing Xbox Rewards on Console01:17:10: The Sims Movie is in the works by the same studio that made the Barbie Movie--------------- Final Fantasy Section ---------------01:19:40: Sean gives details on the new announcements about the FF 16 Rising Tide DLC01:23:50: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's Patch is finally out with a new Performance Mode toggle01:25:15: Sean's final thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth after beating the game---------------- The End -------------01:32:40: Marc's thoughts on Granblue Fantasy Relink & Talks X-Men 97- If you prefer podcasts: Listen and give us a review on these platforms... - Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ag/podcast/video-games-2-the-max/id886092740Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2wjd0u3xO7TdAm4gKRM44LAmazon: https://www.audible.com/pd/Video-Games-2-the-MAX-Podcast/B08JJPTZTWPodchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/video-games-2-the-max-181386Podcast Addict: https://podcastaddict.com/?podId=2465904IHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/53-video-games-2-the-m-28438312/- Check out other W2M Network Shows - Latest Otalku Cafe Episode (Anime): https://youtube.com/live/ydZy1XIhaDcRadulich in Broadcasting's Kung Fu Panda 4 Review: https://youtube.com/live/za23fLiM3xERadulich in Broadcasting's Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix) Review: https://youtube.com/live/QD-t5oHJBsA- Follow on X (Twitter): -Sean on Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/W2MSeanMarc on Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/HumanityPlagueW2M Network on Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/w2mnetwork- Other Social Media -Follow us on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@w2mnetwork2Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/aydMgvUN9dFollow us on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/w2mnetworkFollow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/w2mnetwork/Follow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/W2MNetwork
A huge week in gaming with some major releases all occurring on the same day and also big gaming news with GDC and PAX East happening this week as well. Right before recording Square-Enix had their Final Fantasy XVI: Rising Tide DLC panel and they gave some new info on what we'll be doing in the DLC, an all-important release date and so much more! Sean tries to go through the gist of it, probably much to Marc's chagrin. Although the guys aren't playing any of the big games just yet, Marc did finally get to play Granblue Fantasy Relink and Sean finished the main story of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and also tried out the new Performance Mode Sharp as well. There's a ton of news including the U.S. Dept of Justice Suing Apple over Monopolistic practices which include Cloud gaming. Capcom once again being in hot water of its microtransactions, Helldivers 2 is the best-selling game of February 2024, PSVR 2 halting production amid overstock concerns, Larian dropping Baldur's Gate for something new, and much more! Marc's Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: https://411mania.com/games/final-fantasy-7-rebirth-ps5-review/ You can also watch this episode in video form on the W2M Network Youtube Channel, please give us a like, comment on the episode, and give the channel a subscribe and follow as well: https://youtube.com/live/PxuPcCdXINE Timestamps: 00:00:00: START 00:01:30: Housekeeping and Intro -------------- What's in the News ------------- 00:05:25: Dragon's Dogma 2 Comes under fire for the way it does its Microtransactions 00:18:35: PlayStation 5 Pro DLSS feature, PSSR, gets more details 00:22:05: Sony halts production on PSVR 2 due to overstock 00:32:40: Amy Henning and New Skydance get to show off Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra 00:35:00: Connie Booth joins EA as Group General Manager of RPG's 00:38:40: Blizzard may cancel the singleplayer for Overwatch 2 Completely 00:42:20: Kotaku EIC Resigns over changes in focus of website from news to guides 00:51:20: Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Big at GDC Awards, Sven Vincke makes statement afterwards 00:52:40: Larian Studios drops Baldur's Gate franchise and opts for to make something new 00:59:45: Velan Studio may have to layoff 46 workers because of a canceled major project 01:01:20: U.S. Dept of Justice sues Apple over monopolistic practices in five areas and one of them is cloud gaming 01:11:05: Remedy says they are looking to make even more Alan Wake and Control games 01:12:55: Valve introduces an improved Steam Family Game Sharing 01:14:55: Microsoft is redoing Xbox Rewards on Console 01:16:10: The Sims Movie is in the works by the same studio that made the Barbie Movie --------------- Final Fantasy Section --------------- 01:18:40: Sean gives details on the new announcements about the FF 16 Rising Tide DLC 01:22:50: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth's Patch is finally out with a new Performance Mode toggle 01:24:15: Sean's final thoughts on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth after beating the game ---------------- The End ------------- 01:31:40: Marc's thoughts on Granblue Fantasy Relink & Talks X-Men 97 - If you prefer podcasts: Listen and give us a review on these platforms... - Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ag/podcast/video-games-2-the-max/id886092740 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2wjd0u3xO7TdAm4gKRM44L Amazon: https://www.audible.com/pd/Video-Games-2-the-MAX-Podcast/B08JJPTZTW Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/video-games-2-the-max-181386 Podcast Addict: https://podcastaddict.com/?podId=2465904 IHeart Radio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/53-video-games-2-the-m-28438312/ - Check out other W2M Network Shows - Latest Otalku Cafe Episode (Anime): https://youtube.com/live/ydZy1XIhaDc Radulich in Broadcasting's Kung Fu Panda 4 Review: https://youtube.com/live/za23fLiM3xE Radulich in Broadcasting's Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix) Review: https://youtube.com/live/QD-t5oHJBsA - Follow on X (Twitter): - Sean on Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/W2MSean Marc on Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/HumanityPlague W2M Network on Twitter (X): https://twitter.com/w2mnetwork - Other Social Media - Follow us on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@w2mnetwork2 Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/aydMgvUN9d Follow us on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/w2mnetwork Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/w2mnetwork/ Follow Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/W2MNetwork
The EU's landmark tech regulation known as the DMA takes effect at 11:59 pm Thursday, ushering in significant changes for social media platforms, internet browsers and operating systems. The head of the US Federal Reserve signals rate cuts will have to wait for summer, and Nigerians want Shell to clean up its mess before leaving the country.
Ep 142: Cory Docorow is a highly regarded sci-fi author, activist and journalist who is in favour of the liberalisation and modernisation of copyright laws. He recently coined the concept of "enshittification", which is when monopolistic digital platforms offer increasingly worse services to continue making money... and then they die. We talk about how the music industry is enshittifying itself, and how copyright could be used better. You may find his views provocative and/or counter to your own beliefs – which of course is all the more reason to listen to them! PLUS, stay tuned until the end of the podcast for an exclusive extract from the audiobook of Cory's new book The Bezzle, read by Wil Wheaton, and which deals with music copyright theft. More on Cory: he is also a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), the non-profit digital rights group, and he has published a number of fiction and non-fiction books. "Enshittification" was the American Dialect Society's 2023 Word of the Year. His newest novel is The Bezzle. Cory Doctorow: https://pluralistic.net The Bezzle – UK: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/bezzle-9781804547793/ The Bezzle – US: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle Enshittification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification Remain in Light covered by Angelique Kidjo: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mbIYOh0HJq4wi9oYI-SjACbkSJHC_u7Ng&si=gk1GbRbtkJExJzqI Munchmills: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/105683-most-munchmills-in-one-minute-breakdance ------
It's getting into that festive time of the year! Do you have a favorite Christmas carol that you sing loud and proud? In the first hour, SKOR North's Judd Zulgad talks about much the Vikings benefitted from the Packers losing to Tommy DeVito and the Giants on Monday night and shares an update on Justin Jefferson's health. KSTP's Chris Egert joins from Sparky's Cafe in Anoka to inform about a protest that caused traffic backups on I-94 near the Lowry Tunnel. Hour #2 has the team learn about a lady that refused to sell her dog for $200k and talk about whether or not they'd do that same, and everyone learns that they've been singing some Christmas carols wrong. In hour #3 Kristyn Burtt discusses how some streaming services are planning to merge in the near future and how a few key companies could be making their shows and movies available on more than just one platform, and Brittany is dead set on freeing the nip. On the Family, Tim Lammers joins the show to talk about everything surrounding award season, the holdovers, and family switch. Stream the show LIVE on the Tom Barnard Show app M-F from 8-12PM or get the show on-demand on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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In this weeks TechThursday.... A listener wants tips on building a budget Gaming PC. Chat GPT is up to date now. Facebooks celebrity bots. Amazon sued for Monopolistic practices. Windoes 11 updates. and all the latest in Tech....
Featured Guests: Bradley Tusk, founder & CEO, Tusk Venture Partners | Jen Neundorfer, co-founder & managing partner, January Ventures | Matt Kinsella, managing director, Maverick Ventures The US Federal Trade Commission has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, controversial fundraising party rounds are seriously declining in popularity, and the United Arab Emirates could be primed to compete with the US and China in the AI arms race.
Stay up to date on news related to the furniture industry! In this episode, we cover:(00:32): "Declining Consumer Confidence and Expectations: Insights from the September Report"(03:00): Lawsuit Alleges Amazon's Monopolistic Practices: Restoring Fair Competition(05:10): Expanding Horizons: Furniture Suppliers Diversify Offerings to Meet Customer Demands(07:32): "Furniture Sales at Big Lots: Addressing Decline and Focusing on Turnaround"(09:22): "Revolutionizing Returns: How Furniture and Bedding Retailers Can Learn from Bed-in-a-Box Companies"
Note: This is not an episode of "Unauthorized Disclosure," but rather an interview that co-host Kevin Gosztola recorded that he is sharing with listeners of this podcast.Tom Mueller, journalist and author of Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing In An Age Of Fraud, continues his work covering whistleblowers with his latest book, How To Make A Killing: Blood, Death, And Dollars In American Medicine.The book details the monopolistic nature of dialysis corporations and how clinics or treatment centers label individuals “problem patients” when they become whistleblowers and dare to challenge their abuse, fraud, or malpractice.
Monopolistic electric utilities in Florida have been caught cheating, scamming, and funding ghost candidates in our elections to maintain their outsize influence in State politics and keep their profits soaring.
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, a rebroadcast from the Building Local Power Podcast, host John Farrell and guest Michael Murray discuss how utilities resist data portability, even though customers have a right to their data.… Read More
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, a rebroadcast from the Building Local Power Podcast, host John Farrell and guest Michael Murray discuss how utilities resist data portability, even though customers have a right to their data.… Read More
On this episode of the Building Local Power Podcast, John Farrell, Co-Director of ILSR, is joined by Michael Murray, the President of Mission Data. Mission Data is a national coalition of innovative technology companies that empower consumers to access their own energy usage data. John and Michael discuss how structural market problems prevent consumers from accessing electricity data and possible solutions for utilities to create a more decentralized energy system. Highlights include: How energy usage data plays a critical role in lowering costs for all customers. How monopoly utilities are exploiting smart meter data. The difference between the U.S. and the U.K. in their approach to using electricity data. “The usage data is really the fulcrum of the whole system because that's how the aggregator goes to the wholesale market operator and gets paid for their service and in turn those payments can flow through and part to the consumers who are donating their flexibility and their power usage.”- Michael Murray “We reward utilities for spending money on capital investment, but not for figuring out how to use it well.” – John Farrell “How quickly do utilities acknowledge the existence of a problem and actually resolve it? […] I think it's time for public utility regulators to take up the mantel and really think about themselves as overseers, as a tech support platform – that is an important part of accountability. – Michael Murray Related Resources Drone Data Helps a Minnesota City Conserve Energy How Big Utilities are Impeding Clean Energy, and What We Can Do About It Transcript Jess Del Fiacco: Hello and welcome to Building Local Power, a podcast dedicated to thought-provoking conversations about how we can challenge corporate monopolies and expand the power of people to shape their own future. I'm Jess Del Fiacco, the host of Building Local Power and Communications Manager here at the Institute for Local Self Reliance. For more than 45 years, ILSR has worked to build thriving, equitable communities where power, wealth, and accountability remain in local hands. This week, John Farrell, a co-director of ILSR speaks with Michael Murray, the President of the Mission Data Coalition. John and Michael discuss why clean energy advocates should be paying more attention to the value of customer electricity use data and how we can extract this data from the protective claws of monopoly electric utilities. Without further ado, here's John. John Farrell: Michael, welcome. Michael Murray: Thank you, John. I am a big fan of the podcast and very happy to join you today. John Farrell: It was such a pleasure to meet and talk to you earlier this year for the first time, and then to get a chance to read your recent report, Digital Platform Regulation, because it really intersects well with the way that ILSR and other folks across the country are looking at this issue of, who controls the platforms that we do business on and who has access to the information about themselves? Some people might think of this in the context of Facebook, as a Facebook user, this company controls a lot of data about you that you've given them voluntarily, and then sometimes you're trying to figure out like, “Wow, maybe I want to cancel my account or close my account. How do I have access to that data? How can I get back my data?” Or you have Amazon, which uses data about the different sellers on its platform in ways that can enhance its ability to compete or unfairly compete with the independent sellers on its platform. John Farrell: And then we have the utility business, and this is where I was so pleased to come across your work, because I wasn't aware that someone had thought through so carefully, not just this idea of access to customer data as something that might be useful, but you've really thought through it in terms of, what are the structural market structure problems that prevent us from getting access to customer data?
On this episode of the Building Local Power Podcast, ILSR's John Farrell is joined by Michael Murray, President of Mission Data. … Read More
This is the story of Frederic "The Ice King" Tudor and how he brought ice to the masses and their cocktails. If you liked this episode consider joining our Patreon and buying us a beer at TipsyTimeline.com/Support. Also, please check out the resources we used to make this episode: https://www.alcoholprofessor.com/blog-posts/blog/2018/03/19/a-brief-history-of-ice https://vinepair.com/articles/ice-in-drinks-history/ The Stubborn American Who Brought Ice to the World - The Atlantic https://www.seriouseats.com/history-of-ice-in-cocktails https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/on-the-rocks-a-history https://punchdrink.com/articles/five-colonial-era-drinks-for-the-modern-american/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Tudor
We discuss upcoming RADEON, GeForce, and ARC architectures…and talk about Zen 4 v MTL! SPON: Get 10% off Tasty Vite Ramen with Code “brokensilicon” at: https://bit.ly/3oyv4tR SPON: brokensilicon = -25% off Windows, dieshrink = -3% off Everything: https://biitt.ly/shbSk 0:00 Elden Ring Bosses, Favorite Pokémon, RTX 3090 Ti Testing 8:42 Insider input on how Russia's invasion of Ukraine will affect Product Launches 15:38 Best Buy TotalTech, Monopolistic vs Anticompetitive, 6500 XT vs 3050 (Corrections) 27:59 RX 7970 XT v RTX 4090 Ti – What can MLID confirm about performance, specs, and TDP? [ FYI - Some Crackling Noises in Audio for next 5-10 minutes ] 42:42 Do Burst TDPs make sense in a GPU? How could Nvidia market 500w GPUs? 51:05 Intel Celestial & Battlemage Performance, Alchemist shipping 4+ Million in 2022 1:01:11 Nvidia Hacked 1:08:12 AMD Rembrandt Launches in Laptops 1:20:34 I9-12980HX 8+8 at 65w is coming to Mobile - Reconfirmed 1:27:21 Intel reveals 24C Raptor Lake & MLID confirms it launches Q3, Meteor Lake v Zen 5 1:33:50 How long will an i7-2600K be able to run games at 30 FPS? 1:39:41 Intel Arrow Lake potentially sharing tiles with Battlemage 1:42:23 Elden Ring Performance, PlayStation VR2, GTX 2050 benchmarked (Wrap Up) 1:54:43 Alienware QD-OLED for $1299, PS5 Pro, Steam Deck R&D Costs (Final RM) https://wccftech.com/intel-amd-reportedly-suspend-chip-shipments-to-russia-report/ https://youtu.be/R2s5HodOX9I https://youtu.be/qCYHBsaZVdQ https://twitter.com/greymon55/status/1496509701273833475 https://twitter.com/kopite7kimi/status/1496514978006069250 https://www.tweaktown.com/news/83703/evga-geforce-rtx-3090-ti-kingpin-teased-2-12-pin-pcie-power-needed/index.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-technology-roadmaps-milestones.html#gs.qw0j14 https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-arc-celestial-gpus-to-target-ultra-enthusiast-gpu-market-in-2024 https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-wants-a-piece-of-the-dollar1000-gpu-market-targeting-the-ultra-enthusiast-segment-with-celestial/ https://youtu.be/y3nxqq6Q9mY https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jpr-q3-2021-desktop-discrete-gpu-shipments https://www.techpowerup.com/292375/nvidia-has-allegedly-been-hacked-internal-systems-compromised https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/asus-rog-zephyrus-g14-amd-ryzen-6900hs-radeon-rx-6800s https://youtu.be/pNSnSkNGI3g https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-7-6800h https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-7-6800u https://youtu.be/YCRoo0tqJL4?t=799 https://twitter.com/KOMACHI_ENSAKA/status/1497182956854853640 https://twitter.com/9550pro/status/1497184003626979328 https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_i7_12700k-vs-intel_core_i9_12900hk https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_i9_12900hk-vs-amd_ryzen_9_5900x https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-showcases-13th-gen-core-raptor-lake-cpu-with-24-cores-and-32-threads https://youtu.be/y3nxqq6Q9mY https://www.techpowerup.com/review/elden-ring-benchmark-test-performance-analysis/5.html https://www.techpowerup.com/292357/intel-fails-to-deliver-on-promised-day-0-elden-ring-graphics-driver https://wccftech.com/intel-pay-additional-features-cpus-sdsi/?fbclid=IwAR1jd-Z0yHuZ19I3ujdMGfgG6pn2uVhTNHe1fN-1wx7NAP7L2LZT9Dg8zDg https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-confirms-15th-gen-core-arrow-lake-xeon-granite-rapids-and-sierra-forest-2024-series https://wccftech.com/intel-core-i9-12900ks-5-5-ghz-cpu-benchmarks-leak-up-to-5-faster-in-single-10-faster-in-multi-threaded-tests/ https://blog.playstation.com/2022/02/22/first-look-the-headset-design-for-playstation-vr2/#sf253727454 https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-rtx-lhr-bios-v2-unlocker-supposedly-removes-mining-hashrate-limit-from-ampere-cards https://wccftech.com/nvidia-ampere-ga103-gpu-desktop-debut-geforce-rtx-3060-ti-graphics-cards/ https://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2050-laptop-gpu-benchmark-leak-faster-than-gtx-1650-plus-dlss/
The historical guilds of Europe have long been criticized for cartelizing trade and seizing monopolistic powers. And new research suggests the situation was very similar in Africa as well. Original Article: "The Problem with Guilds: They're Monopolistic and Wasteful" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.
The historical guilds of Europe have long been criticized for cartelizing trade and seizing monopolistic powers. And new research suggests the situation was very similar in Africa as well. Original Article: "The Problem with Guilds: They're Monopolistic and Wasteful" This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher Condon. Narrated by Michael Stack.
In this episode of ACC, Prof. Harvey speaks about monopolistic competition and its impact on market pricing and location. All monopolistic competition is spacial competition that creates a highly unstable economy and has a tendency to produce conglomerations in rich locations.
Since last year, a string of Chinese internet heavyweights, including Alibaba Group Holding, Tencent, JD and Suning.com, have been investigated or fined for alleged monopolistic behavior. On October 8th, 2021, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), China's top market regulator, imposed a huge fine on food delivery giant Meituan for its monopolistic behavior. Big internet platform companies shall realize that they need to take more care of their business policies to avoid antitrust punishment. Let's check in details the Meituan case. Website: https://www.carlodandrea.it Twitter: https://twitter.com/DAndreaCarloD Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Carlo+Diego+d%27andrea&ref=nb_sb_noss
Subscribe to our Benzinga Crypto Youtube Channel Episode Summary: Record CryptoPunk SaleMoon or Bust - To Play Moon or Bust go to https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrencyMeet The Hosts:Brian MoirSolidity and React Developer | Blockchain Enthusiast | Decentralized Internet Advocate | Crypto investor since 2012https://twitter.com/moirbrian Logan RossBlockchain Analyst @ Benzinga | President @ Wolverine Blockchain | Crypto investor and educator since 2016https://twitter.com/logannrossRyan McNamaraBought sub $90 ETH during the bear market | Liquidated on ByBit | Was into DeFi before it was cool | Ran ASIC mining operation in 2016 (sorry planet Earth) | $UNI Bag Holderhttps://twitter.com/ryan15mcnamaraDisclaimer: All of the information, material, and/or content contained in this program is for informational purposes only. Investing in stocks, options, and futures is risky and not suitable for all investors. Please consult your own independent financial adviser before making any investment decisions.Check Out Other Benzinga Podcasts Here:Check Out All Benzinga Crypto News HereGet Moon or Bust Crypto Merch Here Join the Telegram: https://t.me/moonorbustBZ for 25% of Moon or Bust Podcast swag.Claim 1000 ZING airdrop: https://www.benzinga.com/zing Unedited Transcript:Don't miss your free chance to tune into Benzing his very own bootcamp series on November 20th. If you're looking to dive into new concepts and grow your account, this one's for you. GM zingers. My name is Logan Ross, and I'd like to welcome you to flight 61, aboard the moon or buzzed rocket. Ship your home for all things, altcoins and defy.We've got a great show coming up for you today. Let's get right into it.Joining me today is number one, Dex trader pirate, Ryan McNamara here. Lay, put my costume on as well. Hi, how are you doing Ryan? R I'm doing well, Logan. How are you at the holiday? Happy Halloween to everyone out there. Uh, let us know what your costume is going to be. Drop it in the chat below. Uh, and we will highlight our favorites.So, Ryan, what are we doing on today's show? Oh, we got a lot coming up. We'll be interviewing pastel network. It's a network for NFTs. It's launching soon super cool stuff. And we'll also be looking at everybody's favorite dog coins. We'll go over some Sheba, IE new we'll be going over some Floki as well as some of the smaller ones that might be on the come up.So stay tuned for that. Very, very cool. So before we get started, okay, I gotta take this out. I can't, I can't even talk before we get started. Thank you. Yeah. I need everyone out there in the chat who's watching right now to go down into the comments section and let us know the crypto projects. Maybe even specifically the dog coins you are looking at this week, what are you trading?Let us know so we can take a look at it. Uh, and then while you're down there, make sure to smash the like button. So, uh, everyone else can find this content easier. We could grow the moon or bus family. Uh, and also if you're here for crypto content, there is the Benzinga crypto YouTube channel. We're starting some exciting new shows, uh, over there, hopefully next week.So subscribe if you're not already a, and also if you're new, we appreciate you tuning in welcome to the fam uh, subscribe to the main channel. If you're not, and you can join the Mooner bus community on telegram for a 25% off discount code on the moon or bus swag as always make sure to connect with us on Twitter right there.We're doing a giveaway of $50. Uh, NFT conference put on by queen gecko. Uh, we're giving away tickets and both of us. Oh yeah, no good point. We are going to be hosting pedals there, uh, at coin gecko con. So make sure you guys go check that out on, on Benzinga Twitter as well, retweet and follow us both for a chance to win.Uh, okay. So we're going to be on at that conference, Logan. I forgot I'm doing like the NFT music industry panel. Okay. So I'm doing the metaverse panel. I'm really excited for I'm doing Anna mocha brands and this guy is absolutely insane. He sold a cloud computing company to IBM in 1998. Then he played the apple app store in like 2010, had like 15 different apps in the top 100 and apple actually deep platform to him.So after he got the platform, he went really hard on blockchain based games. He funded private rounds from ECC, infinity decentralized and open seat. So I am so excited for that. Quite the sales pitch. Ron, you got lucky on that interview. Uh, I'm actually not too sure about my guests yet, but I will update you guys.So make sure you guys go check out Ryan's metaverse panel. That's pretty dope. And then maybe I don't think Chris signed up, so maybe we can get the econ panel too. That'd be cool. Just a little something, something. Okay. Let me share my screen. Uh, and we can take a look at the markets. So as always, we're starting with Bitcoin and Ethereum, and then we'll go over and look at the Dogecoin.So what do you think? Sounds like a plan. Sounds like a plan. I don't even know if we have to do Bitcoin today. Uh, Let's just start off with our new, all time high sweet baby eith. Uh, here we have the one minute candles and you can see here just a couple hours ago. We hit this new all time high at $4,470.Drop a comment in the chat. If you're an eighth bag holder, uh, let us know what's up. We've been following eith for way too long. So if you guys have been watching, hopefully you got in early. Uh, let's see, what else do we have here? I have to, to get some new tabs open, let's pull up coin market cap, uh, and maybe we can zoom out on Eve.Yeah. One as much as I love one minute candles. I think that one hour in daily candles probably tell a better story, especially with that beautiful triangle. You true? Here's your story, Ryan? Why don't you tell. I mean, you drew that triangle, but I mean, I can, I can do my best. So it looked like we went up, we had a previous resistance there maybe right around $4,000, which seemed like a psychological resistance, which we were able to break through.I think this, uh, this was a pretty good triangle Logan, because we did break up above it and it looks like we did hold it. So congrats to you for those lines in the sand. It looks like it did work out so far. We'll see if we can hold it. I mean, I think the markets are really bullish right now. I think there's a lot of new attention in crypto because of all these dog coins.So I think that we're probably going to hold above it. And I think, you know, it's interesting because usually Bitcoin leads the way with Ethereum and it did to a degree, you know, Bitcoin hit a new all time high, but we really see the mania with these dog coins right now, which usually comes later on in the cycle once, you know, Bitcoin and Ethereum really rips.So we'll see what happens. But I think it's a bullish thing though, because a lot of these people buying the dog coins are new to cryptoIf you guys, uh, are looking at the dug coins this weekend, while you're down there, if you're just tuning in, make sure to hit the like button, do us a solid well pirate coin. How's it going? Doing? Let's find out what is pirate coin, right? Oh, it's a revolutionary new cryptocurrency on the, I just started and it's on coin market cap actually.And it has actually decently large market capitalization. I forgot exactly how much to start this for a quick pirate coin. Argh. I'm the CEO of pirate coin. Can't you tell what is this shit, bro? So fully diluted market cap of $37 million. I mean, not bad for a day's work I really had to do was put on an eye patch, a hat and get to coding.Uh, you know, it's on finance smart chain. My favorite blockchain to make tokens on the slippage is only 7.9% or seven to 9%. I can't read well with the iPad. Oh, my God. Right? This is a pretty nice website that you threw together this morning. Thanks. I actually hired someone on Fiverr to do it. Oh yeah.Good, good idea. Got outsource. Everything. Exactly. Uh, and full disclosure. This is a joke. Ryan did not actually make this coin or did he looks like I made it fall and crack, right? He's the CEO of Bitcoin. I am the CEO of pirate coin. There is no debate. Can you tell the CEO of Bitcoin to send the price up?Yeah, let me just add such Craig. Okay. Let's see what happens if we type the new into wait, what? Come on. I want all the news Chico. He knew I have not heard of that one yet. I know. That's the new wave, bro. It's the Sheba. Floki safe. Moon killer.Okay. So on a real note, let's actually take a look at our favorite dog coins here. So what should we start with dojo? Yo, you can sort by meme coins now on coin market cap, doesn't have all the good ones. I saw a filter. It doesn't have the coin on it. Damn. I don't even know how to do it. Actually. I just saw that you could watch lists portfolio.I would think it would be down by cryptocurrencies where categories defies NFT is. Oh, I see. I see. I see. Maybe there's another filter you can use. Ah, Frick, man. What the heck?How do I coin market cap filters? Come on baby. All right. This might be a lost cause. Yeah, I think we should just use trading before it. I think shading view should have at least she, but you knew in Floki at this point. If not, we could maybe try and use Q coin or something.The other categories, doggone dog. I don't even know what this means. Is this all the dog coins? Oh, we got it. We got it. We got it. We got it. All right. Here are all of the dog coins in the top dog position we have Sheba knew right now, ripped past doge. Uh, I'm curious to hear what you guys out there. Think about the flipping.Okay. This was a meme that was going on all year long. She was going to flip doge is the doge coin killer personally. I didn't think it would actually happen, but I was wrong. And I'm here to admit that today. So drop a comment in the chat. What do you think this means? Uh, you know, for the ecosystem as a whole, you have any big picture ideas, Ryan, what do you think about the flip ending?I think it's ridiculous. I did not see this coming whatsoever. Dumbfounded when I saw it, I knew it was going up fast. I saw it past chain-link and it was like the 15th largest cryptocurrency. I wasn't sure how much higher it could go from there. I already had over a $10 billion market cap and it happened, I mean, I thought doge would probably be going up with Sheba when this all took off, but it's really lacked behind it's down 10% today, only up 21% on the week.Uh, so I mean, I'm very surprised Shiva did that, but congratulations to all you Shiba Inu holders out there, you did it. You flipped doge. Now all that's left is to flip Bitcoin. And then after that you can reach 1 cent. Um, man, do you think that this suggests that Eve kid flipped Bitcoin. I don't know if it's just, it might be, it might be a reach, but I still think that theorem could flip Bitcoin this market cycle.I've said it before. I'm not sure if it's more likely than not. I think it's probably less likely than not, but I think it's still a possibility of Ethereum could flip Bitcoin this market cycle. But yeah, I don't know with all these stock coins, if that's really telling of like an incumbent, being able to be flipped by a new entrance into the market, but it's certainly possible.We saw it with Sheba. You knew let's see it with Ethereum. That would be the day we'd have to throw a Mooner bus party live in Detroit when Ethereum flips Bitcoin and everyone out there is invited as long as you smash the like button. Uh, okay. So why is Floki news down here so far? I thought Floki would be bigger.I did too. I mean, that's kind of, kind of interesting. It's a $2 billion market cap. How there's no way that that's. Yeah. See, it's not yeah. Coin market cap, rinks or coins kind of oddly, because just because it's self-reported or something. Yeah, that'd be a good guess. I think what the heck, man, what happened to my dog coin filter folky.And he has been going crazy though. It's up 43% today over the week. It's like 200%. So again, congratulations to my Floki new holders out there. Uh, we did a show on them a few weeks back. I said, I wasn't going to be investing in, I guess I missed out, but Hey, I mean, it is what it is. You really float up or.Good one, Logan. Thanks, man. You could see here that, uh, the reason it's so far down on coin market capitalist is because it has that self-reported market cap. So it's actually worth $2 billion, which places it in the third biggest dog coin spot, right above DOH. Jalon Mars. Uh, I've. Haven't heard of this.Some Moya, some weighted coin or safe moon. He knew we need to get, we need to write some articles on these okay. Yeah. That dojo on Mars, man. That's been getting so much attention lately, really out of nowhere, I guess it's just due to Sheba new, but it is up like crazy as well. We see 70% in one day we're in buffet could never, and 185% over the past week.So absolutely ridiculous returns right now. Dogecoin mania, for sure. How long do you think this is going to last Logan? I think we're pretty close to the top of this. You know, I think that that Sheba is probably close to the top. I think it's probably doge coins turn now. So, uh, I don't know. Uh, it's, it's an interesting thing because like maybe Sheba has more room for money to flow into it because it's based on Ethereum, whereas doge coins like its own blockchain.So it's like a single use case, but, but Sheba, uh, could continue to, you know, get that other money from Ethan due to imagine. Imagine if open, see ads, Sheba, uh, to purchase NFTs. That would be ridiculous. But I think that's extremely unlikely. Um, I mean they only have one area wrapped Ethereum and polygon is on open seat right now and probably gonna make sense because they use polygon for their layer two solution.And then of course, if your mic is to buy NFTs yeah. There's also di and USB-C oh yeah. And, and like if Coinbase accepted all cryptos for, for NFTs, then, you know, I think that it would probably just push everyone else to do it. You know, like only one person has to do it and I don't see why not. Like, it seems like a fine idea to me.So Sarah Russell out there in the chat says, where can you buy Floki? Uh, so I dropped the link to our money site, article, how to buy Floki new, go check it out there. Uh, and also we got a promo going on with, uh, fi $5 in free ship. If you sign up with VBL yeah. Should have signed up last week. It would be like $20 in free ship.Now don't miss out. Don't sleep. Go check it out. Okay. So any other dog coins you guys are looking at in the chat? Uh, or Ryan, do you want to take a look. Yeah. Can we take a look on trading view and look at it? Maybe she be anywhere at least. And then if anyone else wants to see other dog coins that are on trading day, we could look at those as well.Probably unit swap would be your best bet. Well, that works too. Now for something like this, we should probably not use daily Canada, not the hourly candles. That looks good. That's crazy. Literally this is one week. Look at this volume. Oh my God. Yeah. Oh, and it looks like, okay, I'm going to draw some more fake lines here, but look what we see.Look what we see. We see this, this triangle forming here. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Something like that, right. And it's broken out of it. It's broken up actually. Is that bullish? Yeah. I mean, I would say it broke out even sooner. If you connect the previous local tops, then in say even Seper line, and then we are broken out.Like if you go even further to the left, look into those other local tops, but either way now we are seeing higher lows and higher highs, which is typically a bullish signal. Again, these are only the hourly candle, so it's kind of hard to trade based on them. I know a lot of people do anyway. Uh, but we could see another leg up.It's it's pretty hard to tell at this point, I mean, so many people have made a hundred percent or more on their investment. I'm sure a lot of people are trying to take some profits at this point, but at the same time everybody's talking about it. Right. And now it's available on Etro it's available on weeble and Coinbase.So many new investors have access to Shiva. You knew that didn't have access during the first pump back in may.I just had an idea and then now it's gone. What a, what a man, just like that. Um, what about, uh, the, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So what about that guy who made possibly the greatest trade of all time? $8,000 invested in CBE new last year is now $5 billion, but the thing is this wallet address has not taken a single bit of profits yet, and only a crazy person would sit through $5 billion of gains without taking any profits.Okay. So you could buy the most expensive yacht in the world and still have billions leftover. So I think that that the private key is lost to this wallet is lost. What do you think? I agree. Yeah. I mean, there's almost no way, right? Unless you have the most diamond hands out of any investor in the entire world.It's really cool to see though. I think it would be considered the best trade of all time throughout all of economic history in $8,000 to $5.6 billion in about a year. It's absolutely ridiculous. But like you said, he didn't take any profits and you have to remember, like throughout this whole year he had millions of he or she had millions of dollars and then it turned into billions of dollars and then it turned into several billions of dollars.So I do think he lost his private seed. It is possible that they're just holding onto it though. I would love to see them take. And to confirm that they didn't actually lose their seat. But I think at this point with so many people speculating that they did lose their private seed, they would probably, you know, like sell a little bit or move something into the wallet to show that they still have access to that wallet.So, yeah, I think more likely than not, they probably put that $8,000 into Shiba Inu their seed phase. And now there's $5.6 billion worth of Shiba Inu in a lost wallet. This reminds me of those Bitcoin miners back in the day who also their computer or their wallet with hundreds of million on it. Same feeling.Yeah. Uh, okay. So on that note of crazy crazy trades, we saw a crypto punk sale last night that broke Twitter. I'm trying to find it right now. Uh, uh,Ron, you want to tell us a little bit about this, this crypto punk say. Yeah, so I'm pretty sure it was so be right, Logan, it was Sobe who bought it. I don't. Was it soapy? I'm pretty sure it was. Um, I thought it was someone else. Loon luck also tweeted. It was his, but he was meaning I think it was Sobe on Sophie owns a ton of me bets, I think like 250 plus me bits and also has a crazy collection of crypto punks, which I think is in the hundreds.Uh, Basically here, what people are speculating and you can see it on chain. So this is actually what happened. Uh, this guy got a flash loan with crypto that he was able to buy this crypto punk from himself and then payback the loan all within one block to make this record sale. So this isn't a legitimate sale per se.It's not money laundering, but at the same time, it is I think, to just create some hype around crypto punks right now, the previous highest sale was an alien, which makes sense because there's only nine alien crypto Ponts and those sold for $9 million. Now this one, the white hair is cool. You know, Hayden Adams, founder of slap uses a crazy white haired crypto punk on his sturdier profile picture.It's a pretty rare trait, but it's not worth anywhere. $500 million maybe close to a million, but definitely not 500 million. Uh, but they pumped the market to a degree. I think I wasn't really paying attention to the floor, but I noticed just a few minutes after this happened, somebody played $87 million bids across the board for the alien punks, but those have since been withdrawn.So I think that the person realized, you know, this guy had a flashlight and bought the punk from it himself. It wasn't a legitimate sale. And then withdrew those bids because they didn't feel comfortable spending $90 million and having legitimate. Yeah. They withdrew them. I checked this morning, so those bids are not on the table.Which kind of makes sense. Right? I would be willing if I had the money, I'd be willing to pay $90 million for alien punk. If there is a legitimate sale of a $500 million punk, that wasn't an alien. Uh, but since it wasn't really legitimate, um, they, they withdrew their bids, but no one took them, which is interesting.They were up for a few hours and those alien punk owners, I mean, they must have saw them write a $90 million bid on their punk and they could have sold, they could have sold, but they did not. So, I mean, that kind of tells me, you're going to have to spend more than $90 million to get an alien punk these days.I mean, the people holding onto those or holding on to them with diamond hands. Exactly. Exactly. So one person valued all of them at $90 million each and none of them sold, which means the whole there's value them much higher. That's kind of crazy. Uh, so Ryan, why don't you tell us about this little page you put together.Yeah. So a few months ago I made this crypto punts watch lists. we try and keep it updated, but the markets move super fast. So, you know, DMS on Twitter. If you see someone new, who's famous, get a crypto punk, we'll add them to this watch list. But we created this to track all of these famous people who now own crypto punks, and usually, almost all of them use it them as their Twitter profile picture.So that's pretty cool to see, uh, who someone else just added a crypto punk into Jordan. Jordan Belfort. Yeah. We got to add to add him to the list. Um, but yeah, check out this page. It's a really cool. And did you see that little baby now has support? Hey, did he tweet anything out about it or did he just do that?Yeah, he didn't tweet anything out about it yet, which is sad. I wanted to retweet it, but we see a little, baby's got the baby board eight. Yeah, nothing, nothing yet, as far as an announcement from the slime himself, but we do see his PFE has changed. And while it may seem like, like a little baby is not really like a, it doesn't, it doesn't seem like that big of a deal.I think that little baby's influence within the rap community is actually very big and it will do a lot to, uh, you know, influence the, a lot of like serious collectors potential buyers. We also see, you know, Jay Z of course has it too. So, uh, it's clearly spreading very quickly. Uh, and I think that this is actually very cool.I think that it's gonna going to help the market grow a lot.So Logan, do you want to take a look maybe at Floki anywhere, some of these other dog coins that are giving Sheba a run for it? Yeah. So I don't even know if they're on trading view though. I ain't check. See if they're on trading view. Floki new, bro. We have to set up an interview with them. We do. Yeah, we're getting, we're going to be having Floki knew someone from the team, come on, moon or bust, uh, pretty soon here.So make sure you guys are subscribed if you're not already. So you can catch that episode as well. All right. So here is Floki. These hourly candles are kind of ridiculous. Yeah, it hurts, man. It hurts. It does, it does hurt a little bit. So what is this like a maximum of six to three. It's like a five X in the course of two, three days.It's approaching a 10 X it's approaching a 10 X four zeros. Yeah. It's at like five X right now. All right. Yeah, I guess so. That's crazy though. $2 billion for the Floki meme. You think that that meme is good enough for a $2 billion market cap? I mean, if she be new, has a market cap of $50 billion, the relative valuation of Floki could be argued that it's undervalued.Yeah, exactly. Is Floki EU undervalued. Let's let's see in the chat guys, what do you think is Floki new under valued? I certainly think it's not undervalued, but you know, we all have differing opinions. Yeah. I mean, personally, that's not the type of thing that I want to have in my portfolio necessarily, but like, Hey, gains are gains at the end of the day.All right. So stacking nine millimeters in the chat says check out quiche. He knew. Uh, and let's see how big is Kesha compared to the other world? It's maybe it's not listed.Jonathan. I see your comment in the chat. Yeah, there is pretty high charges on Floki. They do have a reflection fee, uh, which both organized, we aren't very big fans of any tokens that have reflection fees. The token Nomics really don't check out for long-term sustainability. So definitely do your research on reflection fees, what they actually are, but yes, it is very expensive.So it's a 8% transaction fee for every time you buy or sell the token. So for example, if you decide you want to invest a thousand dollars in the Floki email, they will charge you $80 upon the first transaction when you buy it. So they'll give you $920 out of that thousand year invested, and then say it goes up to a thousand dollars.Then you have a thousand dollars and you sell it, then you'll have $920. So even if it goes up, you need to make back essentially 16% just to break even. And that money goes to the creators of the coin as well as it gets distributed to other holders of the coin for holding onto. Yeah, exactly. And it is distributed proportional to the other holders position.So the biggest holders will make all the money, uh, promising little guys, passive income, uh, which I really am not a fan of personally. It just seems kind of slimy, uh, and not in the little baby kind of way. Um, okay. So any other coins out here in the chat, Jonathan says anyone attempted to FOMO in, what do you think.I've had a few friends who have FOMO in over the past couple of days. I certainly haven't. I mean, if I were to be buying his claims, I think it would be during a bear market. And it would be with a hundred or $200 to speculate that maybe they'll moon again, during the next bull market. Damn Raza was the actually turns out the one who made that $5 billion.But someone broke his laptop. So now it's gone. That's all run out, pouring out for the older as Floki is going to 1 cent. Let's see if that makes any sense. Okay. Yeah. See what the implications are of Shiva EDU, going to a penny. We actually, oh, Floki not Sheba. Okay. Okay. So we need to, maybe we have to do analysis on this, a fair money article like we do with Sheba.Okay. So it needs a three X to get to a 10th of a cent, and then we need the 10 X from there. So it's like a 30 X. So it's market cap would go from 2 billion to $60 billion, uh, putting it well above Shiba Inu, and let's see where it would land on the list of actual, I mean, uh, not so much fun, memes, less fun, not dog coins.Um, man words, Solano then. As the largest cryptocurrency by market cap. So yeah, you never know what happens. Shiba flipped out and now it's the eighth largest cryptocurrency in one sense, it's pretty ridiculous gains, but it's not, not, not impossible. I guess. It's, it's extremely unlikely though. I would not be taking that home to the bank.That focus is going to 1 cent. I mean, I think we're already pretty close to the top for these dot coins. Yeah, definitely. Don't schedule your Forbes interview yet. Uh, I think that this, the attention is going to move over into Bitcoin and more specifically Ethereum over the next couple of months here. So, uh, I am personally taking profits on my dog coins and moving them into eith.Um, I just think the risk is too high at this point. Um, but it's always fun to speculate, you know, with just like some small amounts, uh, that you're totally fine with with Lu.KW 5g. I see you said that they lowered their fees on Nina swept to 3%. That's pretty interesting. I'd be interested to know whether or not they did this for pancakes swap as well. Maybe they didn't because Ethereum charges such high gas fees in the first place that you're already out so much on your investments and I'm Binance smart and you're only paying pennies.So they think they can justify still charging that 8%. Yeah. I wonder what they took out, uh, whether it was the marketing fee or if it was like the, a redistribution fee, maybe it's just 50, 50, a 1.5% to each of them now.Uh, you want to do a little bit of NFTs. Do you have any, you want to look at the Mecca verse. NFT is now down to under one E and we saw them up to like seven or eight, just a few weeks ago, which was really interesting to see. Um, I kind of understand, I mean, they minted at 0.2 Eve and then immediately resold for five Eve.And then they had this whole debacle with their developers being able to see the metadata of the NFTs before they were actually revealed. So they were able to actually rig it, kind of get some of the rare NFTs. Uh, so yeah. Yeah. And, and it's such a new NFT to where there was so much hype behind it. And then it was instantly worth like $25,000 that there was probably a correction waiting to happen.And then we did see that, especially with all of these other crypto's ripping, right. Danny makes a good point in the chat. The normies are just getting. Uh, yeah, they are definitely just getting in the dog coins, the NFTs, that's bringing them in to the space and then likely they'll kind of figure it out.Uh, and then, you know, switch over to, to Bitcoin or Ethereum or something like that. Um, maybe even Solana we'll have to see. Uh, but yeah, so Ryan, we see the pudgy penguins floor has fallen down, uh, to finally below where I sold. So I don't feel like paper hands anymore. Congratulations. And I sold that 1.7.Don't forget it bought for one seven. Yeah. That's, that's a pretty good trade, especially just with my days, right? Yeah. 10 X, my Ethan 11 days. Oh, check it, check it out. Did I ever show you this one? I picked up ski mask. The slump, God Daiichi. Somehow it was available. That's pretty cool. You can pick up metadata youth.Oh, my God, whoever has metadata Eve, they better not sell it. They can get so much from Zack. What's your take on that whole thing with Facebook now being a metaverse company? Oh, that's a great question. Um, I think it's bullish for this space in general. Uh, I kind of feel like Facebook's going to try to make some like Sims type game.Uh, that's like a social media Sims crossover platform. Um, but yeah, I think it will be bullish for NFTs in general. I mean, there's people figuring out more about blockchain becoming more interested in their online presence, uh, will be good for the PFPs and all sorts of NFTs. Uh, but let us know what you think in the chat.What do you think about Facebook changing their name to meta and spending dropping $10 billion, uh, building a metaverse game. You have any thoughts on that end? Yeah. Do you think Facebook's actually going to be implementing blockchain into their Meadows because they really don't have to, right. Like Facebook is already kind of considered a metaverse and so it was Fortnite and some of these other VR games, they don't necessarily need to use blockchain.And I think that like the, the notion that the metaverse and blockchain is like very strongly intertwined, it's only really a narrative we see within the blockchain community, which I think it does make sense, but I think the normal person still doesn't really relate the metaverse and blockchain together.I think that Facebook is trying to target the younger generation once again, that's what the duck said himself. And so I think that, uh, you know, obviously they're, they'll try to keep it as centralized as possible, but if they want to attract the crypto natives, uh, the people like us, they're going to need to let us bring our board apps and they're going to need to let us bring our NFTs over, uh, I, I definitely see both sides of the, of the coin here.Uh, no pun intended, but I think Facebook would create their own chain if they did it and then try to have it bridged, um, with other chains. But we actually have an expert and I want to hear his take on it. So from the pastel NFT, blockchain, we have Anthony, uh, welcome to Mooner bust Anthony, how you doing today?Doing great. How you doing? Doing well. Nice to seeour Halloween episodes a day. So excuse Ryan's appearance, but Anthony, I'm curious to hear your take on the Facebook, uh, metaphor. Yeah, totally. I mean, look, it's one of those things. I don't know, actually I was on a clip yesterday with NBC, just talking through it. Um, Ryan, you kinda made a good point there.You know, Facebook's really been in this space of, you know, reality labs for quite some time. Um, so I do think it was kind of a penultimate moment. That's been leading up to this space. Think about obviously some of their acquisitions, some of their internal R and D as it pertains to wearables headsets, things like that.Um, they've been making these kinds of steps for years now to get to this point in time. Um, and you know, if you really think about it, frankly, The concept of a metaverse, you know, Ryan, you alluded to it, um, away from kind of crypto natives is something that I think is kind of innate and quite native.Generally speaking, I think about how much time we spend on our phones. Think about how much time we spend on Instagram, right. In these kinds of, you know, quasi, um, virtual realities already. So, um, I think it definitely makes a ton of sense. And one of the things that stay too is, you know, Facebook compared to a lot of the other big tech companies itself, um, doesn't necessarily have, you know, quite.Monopolistic moat, um, or, you know, pure barrier to entry against, you know, it's underlying core product offering, right. And in the form of social media suites. So it's constantly had to innovate. It's constantly had to basically, um, you know, be a little bit more dynamic. Um, it's done that historically through a number of different acquisitions and whether through WhatsApp or a handful of other platforms.Uh, but I think this is really kind of a natural stepping stone. Um, and it will be interesting to see, we haven't, I haven't seen anything from, um, you know, mark or Facebook directly. That's talked about how they might, you know, bridge this idea of kind of interoperability across existing blockchain suites.Um, so it'll be exciting to see how this shakes out in the next few months. Most definitely, uh, harsher S in the chat just gave us two bucks. Thank you. Uh, we will take a look at ICP after the interview. Um, but Anthony, uh, could you tell us a little bit about pastel and what your mission. Yeah, absolutely.Um, so pastels started back in 2018 and we've really grown to be a preeminent protocol standard for the NFT space. And you know, what I, what do I really mean by that? Um, obviously the way that you look at NFTs now and the general marketplace is I'd say the broader landscape is you have a number of different, uh, platforms and marketplaces that are geared towards different aspects, you know, ranging from digital collectibles to gamification.Uh, then you have kind of technologies around, you know, liquidity pools. Um, you have obviously fractional ownership, sharding, et cetera, in a variety of thousands. Um, where we said is actually kind of on the flip side of that in terms of, you know, how can we actually build some of that core infrastructure to really power the NFT marketplaces and the broader entity community forward over the next several years?And so we're actually completely, um, fully purpose-built dedicated layer, one blockchain. Um, we've been built from the ground up, um, to basically, you know, solve a lot of the Nate and Nate problems of the broader entity, you know, ecosystem, high transaction fees, network congestion, you know, downtime, et cetera, but simultaneously to also be able to offer a series of different applications, specific features, um, such as our storage as, you know, storage protocol.Right. Uh, there's a huge problem in the NFP space, just in terms of actually how you, you know, tightly coupled the data that you're acquiring with the actual smart contract standard itself. Um, so we have a really interesting, you know, fully distributor. Fully permanent lossless storage protocol. That's built directly on top of pastel and we have another feature called sense, which is our new duplicate NFP detection protocol.And that assesses the level of rareness and an existing NMT relative to all other NFTs and the actual data set itself. Um, so that could be used to help protect against copyrights, scam issues, things like that. Um, and so, you know, long stories. You could think about pastel as being, you know, really kind of this preeminent protocol standard, um, whether you're kind of a third-party marketplace, another layer, one blockchain, you know, whether you're you, you're basically a commercial enterprise, you can launch a marketplace directly on top of pastel, any sort of NFT DAP.You can leverage our API APIs, you know, via lightweight integrations to basically, you know, rely on our storage to rely on our duplicate detection. Uh, we just had a couple of artists on open, see actually, uh, basically as part of their smart contract, they sent their NFTs directly to pastel to be stored, to leverage or duplicate detection.And those NFTs are actively trading on the Ethereum blockchain, but you know, the proof of store lives on pastel. If that makes sense. Very interesting. So would you say you're more business facing or retail? Um, you know what, it's, it's a bit of both. Those are two very, very different go-to-market strategies, but, you know, we've been focused really on kind of that, um, you know, B2B strategy around going out and getting a lot of different, you know, partnerships and strategic integrations with the existing layer, one blockchains with the existing marketplaces and with a broader community.It's super exciting to see what's happening right now. And I'd say the spaces highly collaborative, uh, just talking with different groups, talking with different, um, you know, teams and foundations and whatnot, and basically kind of just powering, you know, using our technology to help propel and power sort of aspects of the community.It's super exciting. Uh, but you know, back to your point, there's also general network effects that, you know, come from that as well. So over time, there will be kind of more of a consumer facing strategy to, you know, our own marketplaces and our own applications. Very interesting. Uh, so could you tell us a bit about the history of the company of the project?Um, how long have you been working on it and have you done any fundraising so far? Yeah, absolutely. So just for some quick context, I'm actually a partner in a fund called innovating capital. Um, so we're basically a venture capital technology fund. Um, I help run the crypto book there. Um, and so I met the CEO of pastel, um, Jeff Emmanuel back in 2018 out of crypto conference and basically was quickly drawn to, you know, his vision.Right. He had a massive vision about the problems, you know, no one was even talking about. Back then. Right. But he was talking about the innate problems, the lack of actually, you know, permanent technology technology that was purpose-built running run teas, and basically had this kind of grand vision of building this from really the ground up.So we started to incubate it almost immediately. Uh, and then over the past year or so, I've kind of stepped in on a full-time basis. Um, just helping running a lot of the day-to-day operations strategy, et cetera. And so, yeah, we've been operating in stealth, um, for the last few years, came out of stealth earlier this year, um, launched the main net.We've been watching kind of a series of protocols, you know, since then, um, and then innovating capital, uh, plus a handful of other, you know, kind of, uh, smaller investors have put in close to about seven and a half million bucks so far total in terms of funding. Really cool. So what kind of benefits do you creators and buyers get from using pastels network over other blockchains like Ethereum and maybe smart chain or so on?If you could touch on one of those. Yeah, totally. So, you know, if you think about it right now, right. When you go on to, you know, a Salada or an Ethereum or one of these existing platforms, right. Um, have you, I mean, basically there's a couple ways to do it. You could leverage kind of open sea or one of these existing marketplaces and, you know, they're back in, you know, smart contract deployment structure and things like that.But at the end of the day, you're going to run into obviously the idea of having to pay an exorbitant amount of high fees. Right. Just in terms of, you know, if you saw what happened yesterday with, you know, uh, the Sheba coin and whatnot, just kind of the network congestion that we saw, um, you have pending transactions for hours, you know, you basically had, you know, certain transactions that were costing hundreds of flats and thousands of bucks just to meet the specific and uptight.So for a creator or a collector, who's just starting to come into this space. They're not a crypto native. They don't necessarily know how to buy Ethereum on Coinbase and then set it to their Mehta mask account and then change gas fees. And then, oh, I have a pending transaction. So I have to update the known say so I can basically, you know, clear it out and get this transaction and go through.It becomes super complicated, right? Just from a pure tech perspective. So, you know, by leveraging pastel the core advantage more than. Is that we kind of obstruct away a lot of those underlying issues because we're built specifically for an FTS, right? When you mentioned NFT on, on pastel, you're not getting in line, you're not getting in a queue of, of basically thousands of other applications that are focused on, you know, defy or, um, insurance or whatever.Right. You don't have to necessarily compete with somebody who wants to basically lend me out 500, you know, loan 500 million bucks off of compound, right. In the form of beef and this and that. Right. So basically you get a more reliable, sustainable, um, and just kind of, you know, cheaper blockchain itself.Right. But then you get all those specific features that I talked about when you upload an NFC on pastel, um, you know, our storage protocol, it takes that file. Whatever the data is to be a video, it could be a minimum, you know, a metaverse object, whatever it might be. It takes that file, chops it up into a bunch of little blocks, copies those blocks, and then randomly distribute those blocks across every single SuperNote on the network.So you basically, you know, it's pay once store. So you get this also this permanent storage solution that's completely distributed, completely decentralized. And you know, right now, if you buy a smart contract or NFC on another platform, like a theory or Solano, you go to the token, you are, I feel that you might have a hyperlink to a centralized, you know, Amazon S3 bucket, right.You might rely on some sort of IPFS pin, right? So there's a number of innate problems too, that just exist with persistent storage. And then you kind of get that level of assurance in terms of the pure rarity. Right? If I registered something on pastel, I'm going to get assigned basically this, um, authenticity score from zero to a hundred percent.You know, we take the NFT, we leverage a handful of different, um, deep learning methodologies using advanced computer vision to take that NMT and transform it into a string of numbers for 10,000 plus digits. Right? Then we compare that digit or that vector of. Which we call the fingerprint of the NMT itself against every single other fingerprint on the system on collaborative platforms, like open seat and basically on just kind of the open web itself.And then we assign basically a very clear score from zero to 100% that basically defines how rare something is. So if you're a creator, you have kind of the assurity that, Hey, I know I'm going to get basically, you know, almost awarded or basically, you know, um, signal that, Hey, this is super rare. I created this right.And as a, as a collector, I might be willing to pay more or pay a premium for something that I know it's super rare versus something that's just, you know, a rip off of an existing punk or something like that. If that makes. Yeah, totally. We'll feature Logan. And I have a quick follow-up question for that before you ask your next question, but do you think Anthony, there is a way for people who will create NFTs to almost play that rarity score, like create something that looks nothing like anything else just to have a high rarity score, because there are a lot of projects that look similar, but I mean, could you speak to that maybe a little bit?Hey Ryan, Simon, I cut out there for a second. I'm gonna repeat the question. Yeah, yeah. Sure thing. So I'm just wondering for the people who create NFTs and they see this rarity score, would it be possible for them to essentially make something with the goal of having a high rarity score? Like that looks nothing like anything else, just to be able to get that high rarity score to hopefully get more value out of buyers a hundred percent.I definitely think so. Right. I mean, And if you're a creator, I think generally speaking, not always the objective, but I think I'm a big objective of certain creators is to build something that is highly rare. That's super rare that has never been seen before. Right. Um, you know, if it is kind of an altercation, you know, or an alteration of something else, you know, they might still get a higher revenue score.Right. Because it is, you know, completely altered and whatnot. So, but I definitely think that, you know, many creators, um, or are willing to basically take the time to actually create something super rare. And on the, on the flip side, I think collectors are potentially, you know, willing to spend more, um, it's a pay more if there is this kind of level of rareness associated with the underlying NFT.Interesting. Anthony. So is this time-based so say, uh, as more people create punk copies, the rarity score of the punks, the original punks won't go down, will it exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And it's actually also just, what's important to understand too, is this on the collection level? Right? So if you have 10,000.Crypto punks, right? The way it generally works is, you know, we do the whole fingerprint vector thing. Um, and we put that fingerprint into the dataset and then the next one gets compared to the entire data set. So it is time-based based off the sequence of blocks, but one collection, you know, you're not going to compare one pump versus the other.Right. Um, the series of, of the original X amount of punks are all going to be basically ranked a similar level of rareness, right. Just relative to that pump versus, um, any sort of data that existed at that point in time. Very cool. And so you mentioned that the, uh, the data storage and the blockchain is completely decentralized and distributed.Uh, could you talk to the level of that maybe how many nodes you have or if you use other products to decentralize your data storage? Yeah, I mean, look, so right now, the way that it works is you have general nodes that are running on the network, um, that basically obviously run copies of the ledger themselves and whatnot.There's about 2000 plus nodes around the world. Um, I think I should probably more right now. Then you basically have the supernodes, which are doing all the same thing, but then also providing for a lot of this extra functionality, right? So you stink 5 million PSL. You run a supernode yearning kind of a high powered client that has both a specific amount of compute and storage capabilities.And there's a hundred plus supernodes running around the world. Um, right now, you know, between the U S Asia, Europe, et cetera. That's really impressive. You know, again, the whole, the whole idea is to always be, you know, if, if any blockchain besides Bitcoin or Ethereum tells you they're fully decentralized today, um, I would definitely kind of shy away from that, but the general idea is, Hey, are we putting every single piece in place that pushes us on this path of, of sufficient decentralization, right.And has everything equipped right now. Right. You know, Logan, you decide, you want to basically go acquire 5 million PSL and run a supernode. You can nothing's stopping you. You can go do that tomorrow, right? Um, yeah. You know, and there's also a lot of other kind of core functionalities to consistent storage challenges, right?Where basically random supernodes are, you know, looking at random supernodes and kind of almost inspecting what they're doing. Hey, is this SuperNote doing what it's supposed to be doing? Or is it acting maliciously on work? And if it is, we basically have this like reputation scoring that, you know, tracks.And if you get X amount of times where you're doing something religiously, you're kicked off the network where your IP is banned. Um, so kind of having these, you know, fully decentralized functions are really important just in terms of, you know, getting on that path of, you know, pure, sufficient decentralization.That's a great answer. And we do have a question in the chat from Jonathan he's asking. So could there be a sacrifice on the art standard for the rareness score? That was kind of what I was getting at earlier. I guess art's really subjective. So I would say maybe the market would just decide that itself.Uh, Anthony. Yeah. I mean, look, it's, it's one of those things where you could use this tool. So certain companies are using this for certain, you know, different things. Right. So for example, if you're concerned that someone's just completely copying your punk, right. And you know that if someone completely rips it off, it's going to have, you know, kind of a, a score of 1%, right?Why would a monitor anything that's less than 5% and flag it basically maybe expect, inspect it a little bit more, you know, how similar is this to something else? And so I can actually go look and say, Hey, you know what, here's the output of the code. It's telling me that it's, you know, almost identical to this.I go look at that file, et cetera. So you can leverage it in different ways to be more kind of like an audit function where I'm not necessarily just looking at something for the sake of. Paying more for, you know, something that's 95% rare. Right. You could also on the flip side, have a relatively, you know, kind of reasonable threshold, anything that's greater than 75% is going to get this, you know, super rare, you know, certification.Right. But I, I totally get it. Right. Art is very subjective. This is just more of an additional tool or functionality that can be leveraged in a variety of different ways. Okay. Yeah. That makes sense. Interesting. Oh, there he goes. Can you hear us? Yeah. Can you, okay. Awesome. Yep. Sounds good. So, Anthony, can you tell us a little about the PSL token again?Yeah, absolutely. So the PSL tokens really kind of, you know, the, the oil that runs the entire network, right? Whether that's mincing an NFT, whether that's trading an on a T, whether that's basically paying to use cascade to basically store your, your, um, NFT. Sense to basically run your new duplicate detection service on the NFT itself.Right? So PSL is really kind of that oil that is needed for every single aspect of the system. Um, so anytime a transaction occurs, there's really a couple of things that take place. You know, one part of that transaction fee is actually distributed to the supernode operators on the network. And then to, um, part of that transaction fee is burnt.It's sensible, approvable burn address it's taken out of supply. So we have both a kind of, you know, dividend yield component of terms of distributing PSL to the supernode operators on the network and exchange for the services they're providing. And then you kind of have this, you know, kind of quasi share buyback model by taking, uh, you know, the PSL out of supply.Right. And that's kind of a deflationary mechanic, if that makes sense. So is that mechanic used for all transfers of the token or is only for sales of NFTs, kind of like how open see has that 2.5 or is it 5% royalty fee on, on their end if. Right. And our right. So a couple of things there, right? So on open CFI, if I bind NFT and I, when I sell it, et cetera, open seat is going to take a clip.Right? This is what I'm seeing is something a little bit different. Um, in terms of, you know, you artists could still say, Hey, I want to collect the 10% royalty. On the NFTE, any time of retreads. But if you think back to how I mentioned, we're structured, where we have a series of different API APIs, right.Open. So you could decide they want to send all their entities to pastel for storage. They're going to pay basically in the form of PSL, anytime they want a mint, an entity to call that specific protocol. Right. And so that PSL part of that sense of the SuperNet operators who are doing that functionality and then part of that's burnt, if that makes sense.Okay. That's really cool. That's it? That's a great solution. And why did you choose to fork from Z cash and remain as a proof of work blockchain with so many like new, newer blockchains being proof of stake? I thought that was an interesting choice. I mean, look, you know, the, the, the pure consensus mechanism starting off as kind of a fork of Z cash at the end of the day, right?The, it what's the most secure rock, solid foundation in the space. Right. Uh, Bitcoin, you know, we know that from the. Zika being effectively a fork of Bitcoin, but leveraging Equihash, which we thought was a little bit more secure, um, as well as, you know, zero knowledge proofs. Um, we thought that it was actually the best candidate in terms of how to actually start the initial core blockchain itself.But what's important is this kind of layer of supernodes that sit on top that, you know, actually do a lot of the services, the validation, registration, the activation, all that stuff, you know, the storage, right. Um, that actually then, you know, have almost kind of a somewhat interesting stick component associated with them, gives us this interesting kind of split model, if that makes sense.Um, and so, you know, from our standpoint, you know, it's super exciting to see what's happening with a lot of the proof of stake blockchains out there. I think that they're better suited, um, for maybe networks that require super high TPS or kind of you networked philosophy. I'm not going to lie to you and say, Hey, we're trying to be the fastest blockchain that exists.We're not right. Nor do we need to be. That's not necessarily the use case of NFC transactions. Right. You know, do you care if it's going to take you 0.01 second or one second, per se? I don't know. Probably not. Right. You know, if you're paying less, if you're getting all this core functionality associated with it, but it also doesn't have to be because we're not necessarily dealing with, you know, high velocity, high volume financial transactions.And so for us, we can basically offset some of the, you know, maybe latency associated with proof of work, but get that reliability, get that security and get that kind of rock solid core foundation. Okay. Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. You have some really good points there. And also like a theory wants to do a million different things all across the world, right?So they really do need to focus on scalability. They need to actually have, you know, 10,000 transactions per second in the future, hopefully with ease too. Whereas you guys, you know, needs a certain amount of scalability, but it certainly doesn't have to be to that degree where proof of stake is necessary.A hundred percent. So my next question, Anthony is actually about the decentralized apps on pastels network. Could you explain, are these smart contract apps, are these marketplaces that they make through your, your user interface on your website? How does that work? Yeah, no, it's a great question. So they're, they're kind of, they mirror the idea of kind of smart contracts.So instead of using basically a smart contract standard, we've built our own kind of smart ticket standard. These are super agile, flexible tickets. So take it forward, you know, create NFC ticket for, you know, create collection, right, this and that and whatnot. And we had found this ticket systems, uh, you know, basically be better suited for, um, the way our blockchain is actually built.Um, so we actually, you know, there's something in Bitcoin transactions called UTX. That was right at the end, the unspent transaction outputs. We can actually leverage something called pay to fake multisig to actually send data via the UTX. So model, right. Uh, and you know, by leveraging Peterrific multisig and kind of our, you know, agile ticket structure, we've created this very interesting, unique approach, um, to basically enabling platforms, to just launch applications, that lodge kind of marketplaces directly on top of us.Um, and so that's at the core blockchain level, right. But, you know, what's really interesting is the, the actual protocols, the API APIs, et cetera, that interact via RPC directly with the underlying blockchain. So, you know, by plugging in a handful of our API APIs, you can launch anything on top of that stealth and it's going to do all that stuff for you in the backend.And it's as easy as basically, Hey, you know, send an NFT here, right. And, you know, have it, do all this stuff and then send me back the result. Okay. Hmm. Very cool. Anthony, uh, someone out there in the chat is trying to follow you on Twitter. They say, uh, that it's not working. If you want to, you know, what your Twitter is putting my, uh, yeah.I just updated that telegram handle. And we do have another question in the chat saying, you know, speed matters. If you're in a competitive NFT mint, is there something else that your network has to really, you know, do something like that with eating on how you can bid, uh, for the, your place? Uh, yeah, I guess if you could speak to that a little bit.Yeah. In a competitive NFT men, as it pertains to like yeah. Scores, right? Like, like if you're trying to mend something really fast one, right. When it drops and then there's competitive pricing there. Right, right. No, so some of that stuff, right. It's the speed itself. Is something that, you know, you can basically be performing all these functions in your block.Right. Um, but you know, do you basically, uh, I think there's a little bit of a, kind of a unique differentiator here, right? Because you have kind of that finality of transactions, but you also have kind of the actual, you know, blocks, you know, time per block, per se, and what can actually happen within each block itself.So, you know, it is actually tracking, um, everything actually to the core, you know, millisecond terms of, you know, Hey, I actually want to place this bit, I want to do this. I want to, um, have the competitive men, et cetera. I was more kind of referencing the point of, Hey, if we're getting to the point of kind of ultra high-frequency where, you know, basically we want to office get the risk of, you know, front running a $2 billion kind of, you know, um, trade and we need to leverage some sort of dark pool.Right. Uh, you know, pastel is not necessarily that platform. Right. But we're not trying to get to the point where we have 10,000 transactions per second, um, that are just happening on the network at all points. Yeah, NFTs, you know, speed is not an issue whatsoever on pastel. Thanks for clearing that up. So you guys have been operating in stealth mode for basically your whole existence, but now you are out in the public.What do we have to look forward to from pesto?Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Um, so what's the super exciting what's going on over time down the road, we basically have, you know, a handful of different partnerships of, uh, developments in the works, right? In terms of, you know, whether that's layer one marketplaces, whether that's layer two or layer one blockchains layer, two marketplaces, existing commercial enterprises that are building, launching, deploying themselves directly on top of pastel.Um, I'd be excited to basically, you know, I'm super excited to, uh, start to announce those and kind of see that happen over the next couple of months. Um, and then we have significant updates in terms of our actual core technology that we're actually building upgrades to our protocols, upgrades, to certain mechanisms, you know, within pastel itself and then the full fledged release and launch of our on-market.Awesome. Make sure you guys go check out pastel and Anthony on Twitter, connected them to stay up to date. Uh, we appreciate you coming on Anthony. Really great conversation. Hope to have you back again in the future. Awesome. Sounds good. I, thanks guys. Have a good one. Thank you. See ya. All right. So we are just about out of time, but we, uh, um, circling back to ICP, I say a, it could be a really big, really successful project, uh, but check out their vesting schedule.Uh, so you don't get rubbed by the developers, um, selling off all of their initial shares. That's what happened earlier this year. So maybe it's over, maybe not definitely a promising, but high risk, I'd say. Um, but yeah, yeah. I'll give you my super short take on that too. I was pretty hype when it release, I looked through their docs and whatnot.It seems super promising. They have a really impressive and really large team behind the coin. Um, but like Logan said, a lot of those coins were vested. They got them for like $2 back, like four or five years ago. At this point it's been in development for a really long time. And a lot of those people probably did.Profits once it went public. Uh, so that's what they did. Right. And that pushed on the price a lot. And now it's right around 40 to $50 and it hasn't been performing too well. I still think it is a solid project, but it'll be interesting to see where the price goes and how much, you know, these private investors still own.And like, if they could actually keep pushing this price down or, you know, our retail traders really going to be so hyped to keep buying this up and, you know, drive the price back up to close to a thousand dollars like it was at earlier this year, which I'm not too sure about, but I still think it's a solid $2,800.Look at this. Sheesh. Yeah. That must've been right when they launched it. Yeah, that is insane. And it's just been, I mean, this looks like a rug, but they have a lot of good, a lot of good stuff going on on their, on their website if it's to be believed. So, um, Definitely some potential. Thanks for the two bucks.All right, Ryan, that is all we have time for today. 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Our expert hosts,David Brear and Gwera Kiwana, are joined by some great guests to talk about the most notable fintech, financial services and banking news from the past week. This week's guests include: Mike Kelly, CEO and founder of Curl, Stateless Group and formerly Product Lead for VPR at Open Banking Ron Shevlin, Director of Research, Cornerstone Advisors We cover the following stories from the fintech and financial services space: Square to buy Australia's Afterpay in $29 billion deal 4:36 CMA mandates ‘Sweeping' in big win for UK Open Banking 21:01 Kuda, the African challenger bank, raises $55M at a $500M valuation 37:20 Rapyd raises $300M on $8.75B valuation as fintech-as-a-service continues to boom 47:16 Snoop raises £15 million to fund international expansion 1:01:20 Element Ventures bags $130 million for B2B fintech fund 1:03:23 Robinhood spikes 65%, halted for volatility 1:04:15 Private jets are so last year: John Collison is buying an airport 1:06:00 This episode is sponsored by WaveMaker. This podcast is sponsored by WaveMaker, the industry's most open, API-driven low-code platform for hyper-accelerating embedded finance applications. Are APIs alone enough to broaden and scale your market adoption? Do you need customers to go live faster? How about self-serve capability in your partners' and customers' hands to build and customize their web and mobile experiences? WaveMaker delivers a rich drag-and-drop visual studio that fintechs, brands, and financial institutions use for rapidly composing serious banking and financial services apps. Pro and citizen developers can easily consume your APIs and build in a WYSIWYG, enterprise-grade environment; leverage custom pre-built components with APIs, logic, and UI; or even build out complete embedded finance journeys that customers can extend or customize. The possibilities are endless. Visit www.wavemaker.com (https://www.wavemaker.com/banking-financial-services/?utm_source=FinIn&utm_medium=podcast1&utm_campaign=11fs) today. This episode is sponsored by Temenos. Temenos is the world's leader in banking software, helping over 3,000 banks serve over 1.2 billion people. Our purpose is to make banking better. Together with our community, we make banks more successful, individuals better banked, and society better served. With our software banks can create more human digital experiences, hyper-efficient business models, and transform their back-office. Our clients are the highest performing banks with cost-income ratios which are twice better than the industry average. Learn more at Temenos.com. (https://go.temenos.com/11fs) This episode is sponsored by Blueshift. Customers expect more from their digital experience and their personal finance is no exception. Blueshift empowers fintech and financial institutions to create secure customer profiles and intentional, relevant experiences for customers. Whether in app, on site, in branch, or anywhere else, Blueshift's SmartHub CDP helps brands like Lending Tree and ClearScore turn data into personalized experiences that increase retention, satisfaction, and revenue. Learn more about the Blueshift at blueshift.com (blueshift.com/11fs). Fintech Insider by 11:FS is a podcast dedicated to all things fintech, banking, technology and financial services. Hosted by a rotation of 11:FS experts including David Brear, Simon Taylor, Jason Bates and Sarah Kocianski and joined by a range of brilliant guests, we cover the latest global news, bring you interviews from industry experts or take a deep dive into subject matters such as APIs, AI or digital banking. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and please leave a review Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/fintechinsiders where you can ask the hosts questions, alternatively email podcasts@11fs.com! Special Guests: Mike Kelly and Ron Shevlin.
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Is Big Tech Monopolistic? (EP.18)In this episode, Paul and Justin discuss The House Judiciary Committee's Antitrust Subcommittee's latest report on big tech. The Judiciary Committee Antitrust Subcommittee released a 455-page report stating that Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple currently are monopolies operating in the United States. They are valued at over $5 trillion and makeup over 30% of the S&P 100 stock market. The committee has made several recommendations to even the playing field for new companies to enter those respective markets.Sources for this episode found at digitalgalaxypodcast.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/digital-galaxy-podcast/support
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The online ecosystem is concentrated on a number of fronts: search, social, video, news, browsers, etc. Why is this? In this episode, we take a look at why seemingly all aspects of the online world are dominated by just a select few players. One study that Google ran internally was to see how users ranked [...]
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--{ "The Psychological Knavery of Technique Slavery: From School to Climate Catastrophe, Trained by Rote, Fearful Desperate Damaged Cultures Continue to Vote." © Alan Watt }-- Living in Some Sort of Groundhog's Day - Trump and Iran - Qaddafi, Libya - Withering Away of the Nation-State - RIIA, CFR - Free Trade Agreements - Free Trade is Monopolistic for a Consortium, a Bloc of Countries; A Communist Idea - Anthony Hopkins in Movie, Heartland - We're Run by Secrecy and Deception - Elimination of Manufacturing Base in Canada and the United States - The Mexican Corridor; then Moved Manufacturing to China - Planned Hyperinflation - After 2008 Financial Crash, Bank Bailouts, Special Drawing Rights for Canada and Other Foreign Banks - Money is a Tool of Power - Politicians and Insider Trading Tips - Bring Down Western Countries into Austerity (a Nicer Word than Poverty) - War on Culture, Hyper-Sexualization, Music Television - Television Series from the BBC called The Scheme - (Housing Schemes in Britain, Scotland) - Heroin Flooding into Britain in the 1990s at the Same Time Jobs Just Vanish - Drugs; Big Pharma, Government Steps in to Pick Up the Slack, Social Workers - Bring in the Pseudo-Science Experts of the Mind - Native Indian Culture, Follow the Tradition of the Elders; There was Purpose, Busy for Survival - You Cannot Make a Profit from So-Called Arrested Civilizations - We're in the Eradication Phase - Pesticides, Genetically Modified Food - Socialism was Picked by High Levels of the Middle Classes who Despised the Poor and Were Afraid of Them; H.G. Wells had Contempt for the Working Classes - Brave New World, Aldous Huxley; Breeding and Genetically Modifying Humans for Specific Kinds of Work; Promiscuity Promoted; The Savage, Wild Man who Could Still Think, who Valued Beauty and Emotions - John Dewey, You'd Live a Certain Amount of Years and then You'd Die and Your Death wouldn't Be Mourned but Celebrated - Purpose, Family and Community Destroyed - No One to Stand Up for the Individual, as Many (including George Bernard Shaw) Wanted) - Socialism is an Ordered, Planned Society that Makes the Elite Feel Safer - Signs and Symptoms of a Destroyed Society - Democratic Donor Ed Buck is Arrested for Running a Drug Den and Being a Violent Sexual Predator; Like Something You'd Read About from Caligula - Claim, Jeffrey Epstein Ran a $500M Ponzi Scheme Fueled by Insider Trading and Fake Stock Buys - No Doubt Epstein was Part of a Massive Intelligence Operation - Donations to MIT's Media Lab - Much More to MIT's Media Lab than Meets the Eye - Richard Stallman Argues that Epstein Victims were Entirely Willing - G. Maxwell Called the Girls Trash - Patents - Stanford R. Ovshinsky Mentored Joi Ito, Who Recently Resigned from MIT's Media Lab after He Admitted Taking $525,000 in Funding from Jeffrey Epstein for the Media Lab - Ito's Godfather was Timothy Leary - Sackler Family - Aggressive Marketing of Highly Addictive Opioids - Pro-Choice and Anti-Abortion Advocates Express Shock at the Discovery of Fetal Remains at Dr. Ulrich "George" Klopfer's home - Torture, Waterboarding - Forest Spraying Concerns, Sudbury - TEK Elders will take Government to Court Over Aerial Spraying of Glyphosate Herbicides by Forest Management - Cancer-Causing Herbicides Dubbed "Agent Orange" were Sprayed by the B.C. Government During the ‘60s and ‘70s - Toxic Gas Tested on Norwich - Millions were in Germ War Tests in Britain between 1940 and 1979 - Documentary – Radioactive waste: Dumped and Forgotten - Cancer Kills Many California Sea Lions, Most Born in the Channel Islands - Privately-Owned Cars should be Banned from London by 2030 - Ireland Set to Ban Private Cars - Elimination of Private Vehicles a Big Part of Agenda 21 - Is Deutsche Bank the Next ‘Lehman Brothers'? - 'Death Taxes' Swell U.K. Treasury Coffers - Please visit my Site, www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com to Donate and Order. *Title and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Sept. 22, 2019 (Exempting Music and Literary Quotes)
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition Today – Run through SDG Goal 17 – Sneaky side to the SDGs along with the method of creating global monopolies – part 1 of two – today 17, next week 12 – they go hand in hand SDG17: “seeks to strengthen global partnerships to support and achieve the targets of the 2030 Agenda - bringing together national governments, the international community, civil society and the private sector” The partnership programs for the UN – Who are these actors? National Governments – self-explanatory – The bringing together of Aus, China, Belgium, etc – every nation The international community – used in geopolitical terms to refer to everyone in the world – global citizens is another term Civil Society – NGOs and activist groups Private Sector - Companies – but only the giant multinationals this will benefit – I know I didn’t get an invite I originally thought that the private sector would say no to these policies – they are meant to make profits But a lot of the largest are enthusiastically backed the new goals Example - mega-corporations backing the scheme are the world’s top three search engines: Google, Microsoft’s Bing, and Yahoo – If you look it up online – everything positive – how it can restore trust in companies, how it can harness growth in the modern economy – all to preserve global resources If these corporations’ support for the UN agenda, do you think this may affect the supposed impartiality of search results? If you are interested, try duckduckgo compared to the same google searches Have a question: Ask myself this - Do we live in a plutocracy? – billionaires, multinational companies and unelected global governments telling us how to live – They fly in private jets and consume far more than the average joe = produce more CO2 than us – but there are only a few of them – so okay, right? They can act as hypocrites – Part of the UN strategy - Recs have to come from others – if the UN says to do it, people may be sceptical But what If google says to do it? Or CEOs like Bill Gates say to do it? They have good public images Why should we trust Someone who was giving millions for research to the recently suicided Jeffrey Epstein, like Gates? Michael Cannon-Brookes – company partaking – but didn’t he just fork out over $100m for property at Point Piper? Don’t know about you – I find this Interesting– why if we are going to be underwater in 10 years? Look around - Billionaire property developers putting up massive projects on coast lines around the world – Florida Would banks lend to finance these projects on the coast? 30-year mortgage for a costal property? No – banks don’t want to lose money – Developments on the coast wouldn’t be lent to as they would be 5m underwater Use logic – ignore the science that is funded to look for climate change (p.s. if cant find no more money) – if the financial system and ‘ultra-wealthy' are either lending or buying property on the beaches – while also telling us to change behaviours in the name of climate, along with taxing future generations more to save the planet – is it real or just a scare tactic to control people choices and extract more resources? What if we don’t want these SDGs? Do we get a vote? No - When you pay close attention – becomes one rule for me and one rule for thee Reading the UN literature on this, as well as from the horse’s mouth – UN Economic Commission secretary said that these policies (especially circular economy – details more in next week) – “compulsory choice for a sustainable world” A lot of politicians pretend that the SDGs are binding – they aren’t so these agreements should have no force But as UN Agenda 21 previously showed - the people must demand these changes through their elected representatives – that is where the power of the UN comes from – Companies, activist groups acting on behalf of UN UN. Agenda 21 was heavily pushed by an NGO called ICLEI - none of us had been informed about it or have voted for it in any way; it basically leads to the loss of personal freedom and sovereignty worldwide That is why the 2030 Agenda is universal – ‘applying to all countries and actors’ - nations to take climate action – but the social pressure has to come from everywhere – Companies, activist groups like getup, Even schooling with global citizenship programs The day this is released – climate strikes occurring across the world – taking the afternoon off to glue yourself to a road will really tell the earth to stop rotating on its axis leading to changes in climate The focus has been pushed on CO2 emissions – said a while back that this – I wish this was an onion article – but is the sort of thing that creating Co2 as the enemy leads to after CO2 gas was rebranded as ‘carbon’ – we are carbon based lifeforms – why not eat our ways out of the problems? Global warming – Sweden – scientist introduced eco-cannibalism – eating people – I don’t want to do this – but if UN gets its way – legislate that we have to – come back to this in future SDG eps Let’s just assume that we are doomed – not that climate change is real – as the climate changes – changes 4 times a year where I live - estimates at 10k years ago, the Sahara Desert had the largest inland lake – Lake Chad, along with being a forest – obviously the climate changes – Why not invest into something that can help us adapt to this? What is policy response instead? To control climate, have to control what people buy, where they work, what they eat – Control the economy, control our lives, in the promise that the world will be saved – Government promises – that no government can deliver on This is part of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda – but it is a mess – not my words A commentary in The Economist in 2015 said that the SDGs are "a mess" compared to the eight MDGs MDGs were about development while the SDGs are about sustainable development plus the SDGs have a level of inter-connectedness to all of their perceived problems Whilst the MDGs were strongly criticized by many NGOs as only dealing with the problems – not going far enough The SDGs deal with the causes of the problems – What problems? Education? Energy? Inequality? What do they need partnership programs, activists and companies for? Beyond the blanket marketing – help implement Goals - Strengthen domestic resource mobilization - through support to developing countries for them to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection Total government revenue as a proportion of GDP – Developed 23% of GDP while developing at 18% - Want to get developing up to increase global taxation base Goal - Developed countries to implement official development assistance commitments Target of 0.7% of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.20% of ODA/GNI to least developed countries GNI – Gross national incomes - Official development assistance(ODA) - government aid designed to promote the economic development of developing countries Remember – Govs gets income from tax – taxing us to send money overseas – setting targets of sending money overseas based around 1% of our Gross national income each year - $18bn per year – money has to come from somewhere – meant to help with aid – but only when it goes to the right place and not Development banks Also How well does giving aid to African nations run by dictators go when massive corruption exists? It doesn’t - Goal - Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources Sources - Foreign direct investments (FDI) as a proportion of domestic budget and remittances as a proportion of total GDP Eradicating poverty – by making everyone poor – One thing in it is about remittances (money on sending cash back overseas) – want to cap to 3% fees - enforce on banks on money transfer companies – Mastercard is on board Why would large companies want to cap their costs? Another barrier to entry for all – Mastercard survives but smaller companies may not be able to make profits In 2019, annual remittance flows to low- and middle-income countries are projected to reach $550 billion Makes remittance flows larger than FDI – Remittances are growing 9% p.a. – as this grows, less money spent domestically hurts economic growth and also puts downwards pressure on AUD due to outflows Remember – a lot of this policy is being pushed under climate change and equality as justification - Scam – two-fold – Firstly - people are constantly bombarded – being made afraid as well so it shuts down logical thought and makes it easy to control Fear, information overload – all shuts down our ability to rationally think Government is positioned as the only ones to help – moral puritans and pearl clutches telling others to change behaviours Secondly – allows Governments to let companies take over – monopolise the production and consumption – Circular economy – next week Companies pandering to social pressure – Nike, Gillette, Monopoly with Ms monopoly – if I identify as a woman can I get more money from the start like the rules say? If they don’t pander – they aren’t invited to the UN party – Sadly for shareholders – they are punished as these companies suffer in profits from public backlash – This should be a market sign to just stick to providing products and services – not lecturing us Leading into next weeks ep – the Companies on the list – H&M group – great history of cheap child labour SC Johnson - 1997, S. C. - taken advantage of audit errors and filed fraudulent tax returns, underpaying its taxes by millions of dollars More recently – was fined for Price Fixing on hygiene products – Greenlist process - settled a lawsuit that alleged the company's Greenlist label misled consumers into believing the products were reviewed by a third party and given a seal of approval – they gave it to themselves Renault – Owns Nissan – Massive producer of EV – major beneficiary from banning petrol cars Banks – going to make billions from issuing the green bonds and other financial products in raising capital Or making money from lending to green projects which tax funds go towards paying off These examples aren’t to single out companies - just the nature of companies and What happens with monopolies and government backing – regulators mostly turn a blind eye – until whistle-blowers or public hold them to account Companies act in self-interest- normally to make a profit but most of these act in anti-competitive behaviours Illegal practices – price-fixing, pushing for legislation to create barriers to entry Monopolistic competition is a type of imperfect competition such that many producers sell products that are differentiated from one another and hence are not perfect substitutes – why there is one or two large multi-national from each industry When you introduce coercive government policies on the market - monopolistic competition will fall into government-granted monopolies and the monopoly to be served under government is a form of coercive monopoly by which a government grants exclusive privilege to a private individual or firm to be the sole provider of a good or service; potential competitors are excluded from the market by law, regulation, or other mechanisms of government enforcement. As a form of coercive monopoly, government-granted monopoly is contrasted with a coercive monopoly or an efficiency monopoly, where there is no competition but it is not forcibly excluded Advocates for government-granted monopolies often claim that they ensure a degree of public control over essential industries - without having those industries actually run by the state Easy way to control the production and consumption options for goods and services Just make it so hard for anyone else to complete they go out of business Causes inefficiencies in the market place = higher prices to consumers for the good or service being supplied Solutions given are government-imposed price caps = rent control and power prices = derelict apartments and rolling blackouts when tried – so will this time be any different? Allows companies to set prices and production policies without fear of breeding potential competition Why would politicians let this happen? Well, who pays their bills and provides the campaign financing? That is where we leave this – part two going further into the circular economy in next ep Thanks for listening today, if you want to get in contact you can do so here.
Armin Mahramzadeh (@ArminMahram) and Anthony Pinkett (@sonotthatdude) discuss 'John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum', the second season of 'Barry', and Disney's monopolistic acquisitions.
Zak and Certus talk about Certus’ actuary friend, why Zak thinks Google is doomed, what Zak thinks the reasons are for the dooming, someone else who agrees with Zak, and the Summer of Trials. Incentives Accountability Buddy – Forbes Scientific Method – Wikipedia Google IO Google Polymer WWDC Tech Monopolies Here’s how we break … Continue reading Imaginably Monopolistic Socials
If data is the new oil, Google has some of the biggest refineries in the world. Raw data in, insights and analysis out, but what about privacy and confidentiality? Google information also powers advertising designed to target you as an individual. How? By using your personal data, preferences, and often many more of your intimate details. Trust is just one issue. Monopolistic practices, data snooping, and unauthorized data sharing are others. Is Google evil? Is it time to call in the Jedi Knights to save the world? Find out how far the tentacles of the Google Empire reach in this podcast and what you should be looking out for.
00:32 Meet our guest Jonathan Wallace He is a mentor, speaker, organizer, developer and open source contributor. Married with three kids and a dog. He's also been a Georgia state legislator since January. 01:07 Net neutrality We start off talking about net neutrality and how it affects our children. How the repeal affects who regulates the infrastructure companies. How does it affect the internet content builders, how might it affect free speech, and how the internet is becoming the civic square. Are rules being put in place ahead of time or coming up and cleaning up after? 6:04 States are stepping in What effect does having states stepping up to manage net neutrality have on the internet? Is zero rating an unfair practice? How about throttling? QoS is also a useful tool but at what level is it fair? Playing favorites can benefit consumers in some instances, but it could be detrimental to competition and innovation. Monopolistic practices can come into consideration. We don't see the choice of ISPs we would like to see throughout the country. Rural areas in particular are underserved. We've had instances where zero rating has come into play. Everything is online. Government services are online and people need to have adequate access to the internet to function in society. 13:36 Nuances in the discussion over net neutrality What are some of the nuances we miss regarding the net neutrality discussion when we view it from a distance? Jonathan talks about some of the insights he has about this. Telecom providers were required to lease space to other providers. Multiple ISPs provided DSL but used the same telecom in the background. New technologies can leapfrog existing technologies that have regulatory constraints. Providers may not be able to prioritize service in areas where it is not profitable due to too much regulation. 17:37 Bringing technological expertise to the legislature Jonathan speaks about how his experience in technology has helped his approach as a legislator. There are so many aspects of law to cover that he points out how he brings his expertise in tech but also ignorance in other areas. Legislators are either rich, retired or broke. There are a lot of retired people in legislation, but there are few that have a tech background. He's been learning what the process and tradition are as a legislator. There are many layers of abstraction and nuance in the legislative process. 20:16 Net Neutrality and basic human rights The discussion shifts to speaking about net neutrality and how it relates to basic human rights. Free speech is important to be preserved in this new public square. The concentration of power can be abused by the few. It's important to have rules in place to ensure freedom of communication in these private networks. We can't control the passage of time, but we can control where we are paying attention. 25:16 Managing it all Jonathan is involved in technology and now in the public sphere, so how is he managing all this along with his family? There is a zero sum game when it comes to time available. His son was ready to start advocating for his opponents so he might be home more. With the blessing and support of his family, Jonathan's been able to make significant changes and sacrifices to be able to serve. It's a part-time job wth full-time obligations. 29:48 Jonathan's approach to children and technology How has Jonathan introduced technology into his children's lives? Jonathan considers it his moment of shame. He's been able to introduce some education games and shown them some programming with Scratch. He sees himself more of a facilitator and a support for his children. 32:55 Genius / Fail moments Johnny Rae - Still no cable. Their streaming device crashed and it did not get replaced and the kids were fine. #Genius Josh - Nightly family routine watching a "Just add magic" episode and discussing it with their daughter. #Genius KWu - Has been introducing solids to her 6.5 month baby, specifically avocados. Since baby will only eat a bit and not wanting the avocado to go bad, KWu has been eating the rest of it. #Genius JC - Won the tie tying competition at the daddy/daughter dance with his 3rd grader. Took home a giant heart-shaped mylar balloon. #Genius Jonathan - Both a Fail and a Genius moment. * Did not manage his child's anxiety properly knowing he'd be gone during the week and got impatient. #Fail * Uses Dragonbox (https://dragonbox.com/) to teach the concepts of algebra to his kids in a sneaky way. #Genius 40:12 Where's Jonathan? You can find Jonathan on Twitter at @jonathanwallace (https://twitter.com/jonathanwallace) for personal and @wallacefor119 (https://twitter.com/wallacefor119) for his political work. 49:40 Contact us! We're here ready to answer all your questions with terrible advice! Follow & Support Please follow us @parentdrivendev (https://twitter.com/parentdrivendev) on Twitter or email us at panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com (mailto:panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com). Support us via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/parentdrivendev) and get access to our our Slack Community. Panel: Josh Puetz (https://twitter.com/joshpuetz) JC Avena (https://twitter.com/jcavena) Johnny Rae Austin (https://twitter.com/recursivefunk) Katherine Wu (https://twitter.com/kwugirl) Chris Sexton (https://twitter.com/crsexton) Special Guest: Jonathan Wallace.
Air Date: 12/1/2017 Today we look at the inevitable results of a lax approach to anti-trust legislation: the consolidation of corporate power and money used to buy influence over the writing of regulations which allow for further consolidation of corporate power. Plus, throw in the suppression of anti-corporate opinions through monopolistic media empires and the dismantling of Net Neutrality principles. Welcome to The Gilded Age 2.0 Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991 Support our Winter Fundraiser! Show Notes Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill Ch. 2: Act 1: Monopolistic concentration of power results in a loss of liberty - We the Podcast with Rep. @keithellison - Air Date 10-1-17 Ch. 3: Song 1: Santre - K2 Ch. 4: Act 2: Paving the way for far more media consolidation - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 11-20-17 Ch. 5: Song 2: Moon Bicycle Theme - American Moon Bicycle Ch. 6: Act 3: Media consolidation as a threat to democracy - @RalphNader Radio Hour - Air Date 10-28-17 Ch. 7: Song 3: Chapel Bottom - Darby Ch. 8: Act 4: Time Magazine bought with the help of the Koch Brothers - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 11-27-17 Ch. 9: Song 4: Slow Lane - Siobhan Dakay Ch. 10: Act 5: F-word: Wanted, This Christmas, A Media-Monopoly Bust Up - @theLFshow w: @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date 11-30-17 Ch. 11: Song 5: INTERNET IS THE BEST THING EVER - Monplaisir Ch. 12: Act 6: An FCC commissioner explains why we need to save net neutrality - Thinking Cap - Air Date 11-30-17 Ch. 13: Song 6: Snake in my Net - Echolex Ch. 14: Act 7: The FCC had Enough with Net Neutrality and We've Had Enough Of Them (w/Guest Evan Greer) - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 11-22-17 Voicemails Ch. 15: Dear John To The Democratic Party - Alan from Connecticut Ch. 16: Majority Report under attack - Zach from Atlanta Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics Ch. 17: Final comments on how to fund a functional progressive media sphere that’s under constant attack Support the future of this show! Become a member during our Winter Fundraiser! Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone (Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions) ACTION & INFO WRITE & CALL Congress at BattlefortheNet.com Attend a Verizon Protest near you The FCC is about to repeal net neutrality. Here’s why Congress should stop them. (Stanford Law Prof. - Medium) The FCC Should Not Give Broadband Providers the Keys to Your Internet Freedom (FCC Commissioner - Medium) Net Neutrality: AT&T Court Case Could Let Telecoms Slow Internet Speeds At Will (International Business Times) If you want to see what America would be like if it ditched net neutrality, just look at Portugal (Business Insider) Curated by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Support the show via Patreon & check out our Winter Fundraiser! Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes and Stitcher!
My guest today is Karl Smith, he is the director of economic research at the Niskanen center. Our topic for today will be market power. Karl has written a series of posts on the Niskanen center blog discussing markups and market power. The debate was sparked by a paper by Loecker and Eeckhout that claimed that average markups in the American economy had risen from 18 percent in 1980 to 67 percent today. There are many different interpretations one might have for this data. What Karl points out is that these markups have mainly risen among smaller firms. Wal-Mart has very low markups, but niche specialty firms such as the local vegan café have relatively high markups. This makes sense in the context of monopolistic competition, where consumers pay a small premium in return for greater product differentiation. Noah Smith had this response to Karl's article: "Robin Hanson and Karl Smith both have posts responding to De Loecker and Eeckhout’s paper and attacking the Market Power Story. Both give reasons why they think rising markups indicate monopolistic competition, rather than entry barriers. But both seem to forget that monopolistic competition causes deadweight loss. Just because it has the word 'competition' in it does NOT mean that monopolistic competition is efficient. It is not." As Tyler Cowen points out, this is not necessarily the case. What is inefficient in a partial equilibrium model may not be inefficient in a general equilibrium model.
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Pay What You Want (PWYW) can be an attractive marketing strategy to price discriminate between fair-minded and selfish customers, to fully penetrate a market without giving away the product for free, and to undercut competitors that use posted prices. We report on laboratory experiments that identify causal factors determining the willingness of buyers to pay voluntarily under PWYW. Furthermore, to see how competition affects the viability of PWYW, we implement markets in which a PWYW seller competes with a traditional seller. Finally, we endogenize the market structure and let sellers choose their pricing strategy. The experimental results show that outcome-based social preferences and strategic considerations to keep the seller in the market can explain why and how much buyers pay voluntarily to a PWYW seller. We find that PWYW can be viable in isolation, but it is less successful as a competitive strategy because it does not drive traditional posted-price sellers out of the market. Instead, the existence of a posted-price competitor reduces buyers’ payments and prevents the PWYW seller from fully penetrating the market. If given the choice, the majority of sellers opt for setting a posted price rather than a PWYW pricing. We discuss the implications of these results for the use of PWYW as a marketing strategy.
Pay What You Want (PWYW) can be an attractive marketing strategy to price discriminate between fair-minded and selfish customers, to fully penetrate a market without giving away the product for free, and to undercut competitors that use posted prices. We report on laboratory experiments that identify causal factors determining the willingness of buyers to pay voluntarily under PWYW. Furthermore, to see how competition affects the viability of PWYW, we implement markets in which a PWYW seller competes with a traditional seller. Finally, we endogenize the market structure and let sellers choose their pricing strategy. The experimental results show that outcome-based social preferences and strategic considerations to keep the seller in the market can explain why and how much buyers pay voluntarily to a PWYW seller. We find that PWYW can be viable in isolation, but it is less successful as a competitive strategy because it does not drive traditional posted-price sellers out of the market. Instead, the existence of a posted-price competitor reduces buyers’ payments and prevents the PWYW seller from fully penetrating the market. If given the choice, the majority of sellers opt for setting a posted price rather than a PWYW pricing. We discuss the implications of these results for the use of PWYW as a marketing strategy.
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
This paper develops a novel approach to modeling references in monopolistic competition models with a continuum of goods. In contrast to the commonly used CES preferences, which do not capture the e¤ects of consumer income and the intensity of competition on equilibrium prices, the present preferences can capture both effects. I show that under an unrestrictive regularity assumption, the equilibrium prices decrease with the total mass of available goods (which represents the intensity of competition in the model) and increase with consumer income. The former implies that the entry of �rms in the market or opening a country to international trade has a pro-competitive effect that decreases equilibrium prices.
Complete Liberty chapter six was the most difficult to write: Ending Modern Day Letters Patent http://completeliberty.com/chapter6.php Orthodox Objectivists tenaciously hold onto the IP meme Marx's labor theory of value is in operation with the promotion of IP Australia's Woolworths, Apple in logo dispute http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091006/bs_afp/australiaustrademarkwoolworthsapple http://digg.com/apple/Apple_may_take_Woolworths_to_court_over_similar_logo Apple patents The OS X Dock http://digg.com/apple/Apple_patents_The_OS_X_Dock http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/08/apple_patents_osx_dock/ Time, money, and effort spent using the IP racket means time, money, and effort not spent on innovation Innovation is the product of creativity, and creativity is the antithesis of conformity IP means getting your corner on the market with the guns of government Corporations engage in reciprocal licensing arrangements on account of patent combat; attorneys work deals so they can continue functioning Nokia files suit against Apple by by Hibah Yousuf http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/22/technology/Nokia_Apple_lawsuit/?postversion=2009102211 IP law is used to control others in the marketplace; creators tend to see their products in the hands of others as still their property! Property_Is_Intellectual by Russell Madden http://www.russellmadden.com/property_is_intellectual.html Especially in a non-IP marketplace, reputation for how you relate to content creators is key What actually is property? Something you possess (own) and use without conflict with what other people possess and use; property rights thereby minimize the potential for conflict in society, as well as ascribe accountability and efficient use (and production) of resources And what constitutes so-called intellectual "property"? It depends... Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm Monopolistic privilege granted by government is the essence of IP, which entails trying to control others' property rights Being able to reproduce or duplicate something is qualitatively difference than taking it (thereby preventing another's use) Theft by definition entails use or possession of someone else's thing, not allowing them to use and possess that thing Being able to duplicate without conflict is the operational principle in the realm of property rights "Tax Protester" Elaine Brown sentenced to 35 years in prison today....will do more time than murderers, rapist, or child molesters. http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/9qc0a/tax_protester_elaine_brown_sentenced_to_35_years/ Those in government fear non-compliant political slaves most http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2009/10/02/nh_tax_evader_gets_35_years_in_prison_for_standoff/ Judge George Singal and Assistant U.S. Attorney Arnold Huftalen are outright criminals, responsible for the destruction of the lives of the Browns (and countless others) Governmental judges and prosecutors "work" for the same team, which is the ultimate conflict of interest, a monopolistic privilege on "justice" But this doesn't bother them: http://freekeene.com/2009/10/24/sam-dodson-guilty-in-uneventful-trial/ http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=35+years+for+Elaine+Brown&articleId=d8e1ed41-d388-47c5-b8c5-db52b9fcc113 Comment that speaks for itself: Dr. Brown was our dentist for 11 years. She is one of the most decent people I know. The government has taken her home, business, and possessions. That is enough. I feel she has more than enough paid for this. She is very old and I think it is outrageous to treat someone of her age like that. She spent her entire life helping other people. I think this state needs to pardon her and treat her humanely. I am sorry Elaine and all my 8 children love you. Thanks so much for your great work! You are awesome. - Penny T, Plymouth, NH Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_and_Elaine_Brown Public acts of civil disobedience expose rights-violating "law" enforcement, thus delegitimizing those in government as our "protectors" bumper music "Mind Control" by Stephen Marley http://www.stephenmarleymusic.com/ http://www.myspace.com/stephenmarley to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697
In this podcast we describe the monopolistically competitive market, focussing on it's efficiency aspects and product differentiation. We also consider the long run and short run equilibrium positions of the market.
In this podcast, we define the term market and give local, national and international examples. We also give a brief introduction to different market structures and explain the primary importance of markets, the setting of prices.
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