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We live in the most connected time that our civilization has ever seen.

An age where information is shared almost instantaneously, where you can transfer knowledge,

data - even a selfie, thousands of miles across the planet with merely the click of a button.

You can send it to your mum, to your best friend - to your classmates - or with enough

computing power, every single person on the planet that owns a digital device.

You might want to ask yourself, why would everyone on Earth want to see your face?

Well, they wouldn't - and everyone would be mildly perturbed, just like when U2 made

everyone listen to their album without asking first.

But if that selfie was of SCP-096 - then it would be a whole different story.

Hello internet - and welcome back to the most inquisitive channel on YouTube - Life's

Biggest Questions.

As always, I'll be your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch - as we cautiously ask the

question - What If SCP-096 Was Real?

Now - I can't remember that proverb about grandmothers and eggs, but if you know anything

about the SCP Foundation - you'll know that SCP-096 is perhaps the poster child of the

entire bizarre and anomalous fictional multiverse, and it's safe to say that he - or, well

- It? - has their fair share of equally terrified fans and followers.

This guy has been around since the early days of the foundation - and we've had quite

a number of years to ponder what our planet would be like if he was real.

Spoilers - it ain't too good.

Before we reluctantly lay out that hypothetical apocalyptic scenario, you know the drill by

now questioneers - if you're a fan of this video, the SCP Foundation - figuring out bizarre

ways that the world will end - or just Life's Biggest Questions in general - then please,

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Also - make sure to stick around till the end of the video - where I'll be reading

out some of your more humours comments from the past few days.

On with the show.

First - let's get the formalities out of the way.

As the record states, SCP-096 is a humanoid Euclid class creature measuring approximately

2.38 meters in height.

The creature appears to exhibit very little muscle mass - with preliminary analysis of

body mass suggesting mild malnutrition.

Its arms are grossly out of proportion with the rest of the subject's body - with an

approximate length of 1.5 meters each.

It's skin is mostly devoid of pigmentation, with no sign of any body.

Nothing too scary about this little twerp, right?

Ehh - well, the thing that makes 096 the infamous nightmare inducing creature that it is - is

the fact that whenever someone looks at it - it proceeds to enter a frenzied, unstoppable

state of emotional distress - and then kills and consumes said person.

With a 100% success rate.

And nothing can stop it.

Literally, nothing - not even the strongest and most technologically advanced material

known to civilization.

The Foundation's only line of containment is to keep it in a windowless steel cube and

they go to great lengths to make sure no one catches a glimpse of The Shy Guy.

And this is where our question lies - because we have to make it clear that by glimpse,

we mean that 096 is triggered by any physical viewership.

It doesn't matter if you see it in person, on a video surveillance screen - or even a

photograph of it - it knows when you look at it - and then you die.

Eventually, it might take it a while to get to you.

Although, it is important to note that the same reaction doesn't occur when viewing

artistic depictions, thanks to a brave D-Class Personnel that managed to scrawl a picture

of it before he met his demise - so you're fine viewing this video - don't worry - 096

won't get you yet.

But - like we said at the beginning of this video, we live in a highly connected era of

humanity - and something as simple as a photograph would be easier to spread than chicken pox

in a playground.

As we've already stated, 096 is a bit of a pain in the arse for the Foundation - and

depending on which canon you prescribe to - they may have already killed it, but that's

no fun, right?

So in this hypothetical scenario - let's imagine that the Foundation has lost containment

control of this anomalous entity - and instead, it's in the possession of say… a rogue

nation?

A group of politically motivated terrorists?

Doomsday Hackers?

Wait - what's a doomsday hacker?

Because let's put it this way - if SCP-096 was real - it would be the most resourceful

and successful means for assassination, and in the wrong hands - it would be the most

powerful weapon on the planet.

Albeit a little messy.

And incredibly dangerous - but yeah, if those two adjectives aren't synonymous with assassination

then it's no ones business.

It would be the literal equivalent of targeting a city with a missile - just with more death

and less explosions.

Picture this - you're on the bus downtown, minding your own business - when all of a

sudden your phone starts buzzing.

And then the person's next to you - and then the drivers - and then everyone on the bus

and the street.

You open the notification, and it's a photograph of SCP-096.

Everyone sees the same thing.

The whole city exposed to The Shy Guy - and that's the end of that, because as we stated

- SCP-096 has a 100% kill rate.

If this anomalous entity was real - then the best thing you could do is instantly disconnect

yourself from society.

Throw your phone in a lake.

Burn your TV to the ground.

Never look back.

Read a book - no pictures though.

The threat level of being exposed to a visual image of SCP-096 would be too damn high in

our current model of society and technological interaction.

It would work its way through the system like a virus - but instead of just an annoying

barrage of pop-up adds for mail order brides or penis enhancement pills - it would be the

last image you would ever see.

The Shy Guy - front and center on the global stage.

The headline act.

It would be enough to completely shut down the internet - with the ultimate goal of saving

humanity from itself.

Sometimes a blue link should stay a blue link - and never a purple link.

Sometimes a dead meme - should stay - a dead meme.

Well, there we have it folks, a bleak picture painted if SCP-096 was real.

Let's thank our lucky stars that he's not.

Or is he?

Anyway folks - cheers for sticking around all the way till the end.

Before we depart, let's read out some of your greatest comments from the past few days.

KingBongHogger says - Seriously though, why do bagel have hole?

I know right?

I'm still asking that same question - and also, this is now my second favourite YouTube

comment of all time.

Good job again.

Imogen Bateman says - What if my comments were read out?

Well - that was a short video, cheers for the material Imogen Bateman.

That was easier that I expected.

Anyway folks - that's all we've got time for in today's LBQ.

As always, I've been your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch - you've been watching

Life's Biggest Questions - and until next time - you take it easy.

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Hello everyone this is adam meister the bitcoinmeister the disrupt meister

welcome to this week in bitcoin today is december that's 28th 2018 my grandmother

turns 96 today strong hand long turns thinking I'm confiscate about what other

catchphrase words can value your wealth in Bitcoin offended by selling be a

unique beast holder or last retort I just had to say because this is the

final this week in Bitcoin show of the year I had this just say a million

different things I am obviously so excited wake up United States yeah it's

just 6 a.m. there but you better be awake because I got people from all over

the world here first of all and Tel Aviv Israel as you all know we got Hass

McCook he's making his debut he is in lovely Sydney Australia where it's warm

where it's summer yes people in the southern hemisphere it is summer

learnings travel there it's awesome alright and we got Boris the game King

he's coming in from gerd Amsterdam good night oh yeah and you got Boris he

transcends that he goes way beyond crypto he is in the gaming and

everything he interviewed me back in January we were in was it February it

was if it was stammer if every in Taipei I want and that's disrupt meister you

can check that out check out the archive so it's great to have him on my show so

we're gonna talk about a lot of things now obviously end of the year we will

have some predictions we'll talk we'll go over what happened in 2018 so this is

a mega show we might have another guest on the where he is but hey these dudes

can talk a lot I could talk a lot but let's start out with just some news that

came out in the last few hours now everybody had your strong hand don't

panic don't freak out but there's there's a little Tresor vulnerability

and ledger if someone can get a hold of it some tech dudes have figured out I'm

sure the correct is but uh let pass welcome to the show

explain what this is all about so so the guys over at wallet dock fail have

figured out that if you keep poor Prez all hygiene and don't protect your stash

with a passphrase you may be in a little bit of trouble if very highly tech savvy

thief comes through to your place and grabs ahold of your physical Tresor so

so this could be serious it's always good when these kinds of vulnerabilities

are found especially by white hats so this can give a chance for the Tresor

and ledger guides to patch it up hopefully they patch it up soon enough

but yeah if your if your stuff is not class freeze protected go and do that

right now if you can yeah there is the solution people just use a passphrase

that that takes care of this issue I'm sure they'll come up with a patch though

and they'll come they'll come up with their press releases soon that'll

discuss what this monitor ability is again this can't happy if you're if

you're by yourself you plug in your Tresor to your computer no one's going

to hack into it this is like they have to be there and they have to know this

this problem and so I link to the tweet below where were housed actually had

tweeted this out and I just I just learned about it today

baris any thoughts on this yeah I'm when I first read it I was really worried I

know lots of people who treat their hardware wallets like pretty casual you

know they leave it lying around at work in a desk drawer something like that and

I'll be able to do something like that and then just a thought that just your

your your yeah your password is not that not enough and that it's your phones are

not really secure it to be honest it made me worried a little bit yeah well I

on a theoretical level on a theoretical level I can see where it could it could

cause people to worry buddy it would takes a quite a thief quite a thief to

do now again if I guess if you're a known person and yet and then someone

knows you have a tresor and they know about this kind of thing and you don't

have a pass for on it then yeah you're in trouble I

guess but hey put put on the passphrase people do not worry be happy this is not

like some again this is all the treasures of the world or all the other

winner the legend that you are aren't about to be wiped clean of their Bitcoin

or anything like that again check out the links below and of course check out

the links below to check out these dudes Twitter's so you can learn more about

them you can follow them check out their podcasts and their shows and everything

they're doing and of course since you're up so early in the morning some of you

bet on that like one and of course where it has seized right now it's uh it's

nighttime I mean what time is it there and I'll see you send me yes yeah just

off the 10:00 p.m. but there's done each other

those kids are just starting the party right now I mean I would go running I

mean again this was in Melbourne but I'm sure it's the same thing at Sydney I'd

go running on a Sunday morning at 7 a.m. and the bars were just letting out

studying the people there partying so speaking of parties there's gonna be a

huge party all over the world on January the 3rd that's a 10-year anniversary a

Bitcoin in here in Tel Aviv you can link I'll be at the party I'll be

live-streaming you check out those links below if you want to attend or whatever

but also that is the day of tristes mayors proof of fees so you know we're

we're talking about safety and storage right now so that's what what are your

thoughts well I guess to front question are you gonna be partying it up on

January 3rd or there's anything big plan that day but what are your thoughts on

this uh proof of keys thing so with the proof of case I personally won't be

participating simply because I've got no keys on anyone's websites or exchanges

already safe on my password-protected trizol

so I'm all good but I will be I will be on the beach party and telling all all

my mates about there are more private keys available to us than grains of sand

on the beach so it'll be it'll be very interesting to everyone

but yeah definitely at the beach January the 3rd that's a great reminder there

are more private keys you're likely than grains of sand out there um well what

also I it's a great day you know to party but when you everyone is partying

and drinking you should you should remind your friends of this trace manner

proof of keys thing this is a great time to take off your big tit your Bitcoin

off those exchanges and put them on your your hardware while it bars did you know

about this a proof of keys thing the yeah absolutely and I'm to be honest I'm

I'm really interested where trace got this idea I mean there's all these

rumors that there's exchanges that are not really capable of covering all of

their outstanding funds if that's the case and we actually I mean nobody knows

what's going to happen but if it goes south and we will see some exchanges get

into real trouble if everybody would throw their phones on the other hand I

and everybody around me really likes the idea and I don't think everybody's gonna

do it because the people that will keep their funds on exchanges they're not

really in touch with receiving messages like this they're not really into like

the activists part of of Bitcoin I'm afraid lots of people are just gonna

leave their fonts on these exchanges and some exchanges might even just decide to

to post everything On January 4 just out of a precaution yeah I I think you hit

the nail on the head that most people who deal with exchanges you store they

know they don't hear about these types of things and know that it's not gonna

make that big of a difference they're not enough 20 percenters they're not

enough people who understand what a private key even is with you know that

so many people use coin bat base as a Bitcoin bank I think they're more people

with that attitude in crypto than there are with traces now this whole

experiment this whole January 3rd proof of keys thing is is to change people's

minds it's the slowly change people's minds it would be beautiful if the

exchanges did fear this enough that they close down the pot which

all that day that that would be amazing but I don't think that will happen I do

think the the theoretical situation that you discussed about how some of these

are big some of these exchange just don't have what they say they do and it

is true that there are a lot of them that are doing some fractional reserve

type of nastiness but this is not going to call them out it would be beautiful

if it did has what do you think about that are there a lot of exchanges lying

out there hard to say and don't want to cause a panic but definitely I fast I

don't see I don't see exchanges pausing withdrawals as that would be the Barbra

Streisand effect of all price and effects because people start to look

into why the hell are these guys you're not pausing withdrawals and find

out all about the the proof of keys movement yeah yeah that that would

trigger it right there what well I I knew that people who are familiar with

this show know all about controlling their own private keys and when you do

that yeah that that's when it's uncomplicated well there by the way I

just wanted to show everybody I've worn this shirt before the game Kings shirt

this is a beautiful shirt yeah it was beautiful I I have run in this shirt a

lot so it's got marks on it and stuff like yeah check out game kings let's

talk about gaming real quick why why not why not talk because I the I've always

thought was a great partner with crypto that kids like young guys out there they

love the game they love to play these games I'm no expert on it that's why I

bring on an expert here but I think it's a natural transition people who are

playing video games they could easily understand crypto so what are you any

thoughts on that mr. game King yeah absolutely man I think I mean in my

experience gamers I mean first of all there's all gamers are tech savvy

especially when you started gaming in the 90s you'll be playing PC games

you'll be building your own pcs it would be a small step from building game PC to

actually mining bitcoins from some crypto

but more importantly I think gamers grew up with the idea that you can you can

have something like digital currency you can actually live in a world where you

create your own rules and that's the interesting part of it I mean there's

been a lot of research about why people play video games and some people play

video games because they like the challenge you know they want to beat

other people at playing a soccer match or whatever something like that that's

that's the vs. the eSports part of playing games but there's another really

big group and I think it's like like 60 or 70 percent they play video games as a

form of escapism like get I mean get out of the daily grind I mean when you if

your school sucks or whatever you just play video games and you live in a world

that's just much friendlier or more to your liking or where you can be who you

want to be without being judged by by by everybody that's why people play video

games and if you take that as a given it's so obvious that you would have

something like a digital currency I remember I gave a talk and it was I

think it was early 2000 or something I gave a talk at a Technical University in

the Netherlands and it was about a game called EVE Online and it's like a

role-playing game it's a space role-playing game it's huge there were

hundreds of thousands of players and they had a an in-game currency and it

was back to the dollar and for some reason the the creators of this game

just gave you the option to do whatever you like you could scam you could steal

you could rob you could do whatever you like and that actually happened and

somebody built a bank that's I mean that's the best game ever so somebody

builds a bank and collects like 80% of all currency in game and post this video

on YouTube as I see that he's is is that enough finished committing suicides and

you just never heard of a good and what the interesting part of it is that the

developers of the video game they were charged because the currency was

actually backed to the dollar so people gamers were losing actual money and I

remember that the law department of Harvard University actually took that

case studied it because it was the first time ever that

digital currencies were connected to crime and that's when I saw that I was

like yeah man that's fascinating and I mean remember those days when you were

trying to explain to your mom or someone who'd pay a thousand dollars for Forest

swords or something like that or if for a video game in a video game and I mean

gamers understand why something that's digital can have value and whenever I

have these these endless discussions with people who are like coming from the

gold world or whatever and they they were asking me the same thing like why

does Bitcoin have intrinsic value blah blah blah you know that it's the same

thing gamers understand how something digital

can have intrinsic value because it takes you week two of grinding to

actually buy that sort of get that digital asset or whatever and bitcoin is

no different than that and I think people who play video games understand

the game theory part of Bitcoin in a very early stage dude that was freaking

awesome explanation found that like button it sounds like those dudes came

up with the first stable coin ever back in the day Boris just said Oh first just

want to give a shout-out to eSports comm so I'm involved with them one of the

leading media covers of the the eSports industry and being a nosy and all the

aussie viewers can that can relate to this we love having a bit and that's

where I see digital currencies bitcoin and litecoin coming in to the gaming

industry specifically the eSports and eSports betting sphere there's nothing

bigger these days now than the new sports a sports competitions literally

having prize money now in the millions and millions of dollars and you're not

just as we like betting on the horses on the footie we even bet on on politics

over here in Australia we'd love to we'd love to bet on some eSports real soon as

well so the digital sphere like Boris said tech-savvy kids you know everyone

everyone likes a bet the eSports industry is worth something like 50

billion all sorry the gaming industry it's worth

saying like fifty billion dollars and yeah there's a definite future with with

with crypto in eSports gaming and and the lightning networks make that all

that much easier I'm sure that that segues us into our next discussion point

on lightning it does it does Bend and it also say

weighs us into predictions for 2019 well he sports and crypto combined it would

be a bigger crossover but you said something I caught something

interesting that you said there that people ask me about this and I really

just like yeah whatever you said litecoin are you a litecoin

fans do you think it has a future do you think 2019 and litecoin you said you

said like coin in your top right then I think I said lightning oh you did I

thought you said Bitcoin at some point

because some people are like oh no like coins the next best thing the Bitcoin

you got a dad dead they'll be using that for small transactions and I won't be

but you know that's that's the that's the best thing about freedom so you can

that you can do whatever you want but if you know what's good for you it's it's

Bitcoin and opening channels up inlining oh yeah I'm on I'm on that page with you

I just thought maybe you had just opened up a whole can of worms for all those

freaks out there that love that light coin there's some of those people out

there that are always what do you think about light point app there's really not

much I can say about like when it's just like Bitcoin but I mean what's the point

okay good so we're let's talk it let's talk about like lightning Network that

no no like coin you're sorry litecoin guys alright yeah okay lightning this is

from who is this time value of this from Nick Bhatia actually oh this is a bit

this is a mouthful lightning Debs slash companies are building a transaction

layer a UX layer a privacy layer and a capital market layer all at the same

time this should have your attention well it has my attention but are you

Nick it who made that awesome tweet are you

talking a big gain here that's not gonna happen until like 2021 again we make

huge predictions like this I would love if Lightning Network solves the user

experience problem with Bitcoin but again right now it's a Bitcoin can kind

of be messy if you're trying to send the Bitcoin you got to see all these if

lightning can make the UX an easy UX layer that would that would be great

but I and I and I know all these things that Nick mentioned it they are going to

happen I'm just the type of guy I've been hearing about great things about to

happen on so many different levels of Bitcoin for a while and it usually takes

us much longer than we originally thought so what do you expect it for

lightning in 2019 Boris or should we be more patient with it no

no absolutely I run my own lightning no dive dive

I mean it's a holiday now in the Netherlands and I've been playing around

with the rest by blitz release so I run the Lightning notes on a on a Raspberry

Pi and I've I've actually have noticed how it was harder than I thought it I

mean the installation wasn't hard it was just hard to understand the concept that

receiving funds on lightning it's not a it's not something that you have to take

for granted it's not as easy as receiving a bit compare mint so I think

a lot of work needs to be done to be able to receive funds and the reason I

say this is I'm working on a new project where we allow gamers to to start wager

matches which means that I mean if the three of us would play a video game or a

soccer tournament or whatever in FIFA or whatever we could just wager I don't

know 50 cents on it or $1 and the winner would take those we'll take the wager

and a little would go to the to the platform but doing something like that

right now on the Lightning Network because that's what we're planning to

use is extremely difficult and lightning is just not there yet but on the other

hand I mean that the pace at which the at which lightning is developed it's

insane I mean like like eight months ago I wouldn't been able to even get

lightning running on a Raspberry Pi or on any computer for that matter and now

I need little technical knowledge it's easy to install but yeah we're not there

yet only on the gamer side there is some

what's really interesting some people have written some plugins for a very

popular game engine and they are it's called unity and they would allow

you to do lighting transactions in game and what I really like about this is

that if you if you play video games the way that you're rewarded it's usually

very abstract you know you might get some points or I mean what's the points

it's nothing you know it's just some number that the game gives you I'd

rather have a few satoshis you know I mean what if we have a we play a

fighting game together and every hit is worth one Satoshi I mean it doesn't

stand for much value in dollar dollar-wise but what it does to you I

mean the feeling of rewards when you actually win actual money playing video

games that's insane that's like every gamers dreamed that you can make a

living playing video games I mean that's what the eSports are doing now and

that's coming to the masses and lightning is actually gonna enable that

well I I love it I love hearing positive things about lightning Network and the

combined gaming and I like your approach you're like it is difficult right now

we're gonna have to be patient if they the it's it's it's not simple but it

will be easier in the future and I commend you for running a lightning node

for getting into this past what what are what are your thoughts on lightning that

work I'm sure you've got a lot and and is it going to be easier in 2019 is 2019

the year of the Lightning Network 2018 is the year of the Lightning Network so

I'm gonna I'm gonna share my screen over here I'll tell you that I am probably

the least tech-savvy person you'll ever meet in your life and I've got two

lightning notes so uh so I've got one from Casa that you

know plugged in and worked but while I was waiting for the Casa I I did

something you know the Rashaad node I'm not sure if you guys that know about

that but Parishad one of the legends BOJ's of the game has produced one of

the one of the easiest Bitcoin node solutions in the world I'll actually

show it in action actually what a nice share my screen over here ya go

go ahead alright so you can I've put a link for Pierre's guide over in the

troll box in the chat and you can just search for this guide over on over on

google just type in Piero shad or easiest Bitcoin lightning a guide so you

follow this step by step and what result is something you simply keep click on

pops open Bitcoin core yeah you launch your Bitcoin node does everything by

itself once that loads up you launch your lightning node does everything by

itself and then once you're done you pop open your zap desktop wallet and

everything everything works on its own and then you can pop open your dual

chrome extension wallet and pay from with inside chrome as well so so there's

there's really nothing easier at the moment so as long as you have eight or

nine gigs ready to go on your on your laptop you can be up and running in

lightning and about I don't know between between 4 and 24 hours depending on on

your internet connection just to get your blockchain synched up for the very

first time and then yeah you're basically in action so it's here it's

clear and basically now we're just waiting on on the waves of adoption to

come through there you know there are people dedicated now to really building

this thing out and making it easy and all I know is that these these

solutions are basically has proof so I recommend everyone check out this

guide and and and get it going all right this is this is good and so you played

around you set some Bitcoin over the Lightning Network it was it was pretty

easy for you then super easy okay this is hey but you know

I'm imagine receiving would possibly be as easy as ascending okay so you haven't

received any yet but that's that's fine and I do want to remind everyone there

are people encouraging you to use that lightning network already now again is

it a hundred percent safe yeah I mean I don't wanna I don't want anyone to make

any big mistakes or anything like that but I do know that you like here in this

Tel Aviv a Bitcoin party on the third if you spend with Lightning Network you

only cost like six bucks to get into the party they have a huge discount if you

use Lightning Network and again an Emmy and a huge discount if you use Bitcoin

because again they value their wealth and Bitcoin just wanted to throw that

out there for for all the people was I I love to I love to align myself with

people who value their wealth in Bitcoin who would rather get Bitcoin then that

then the Fiat and any day so I'm glad that it's you're having an easy time

with it I hope it I hope maybe people become more comfortable with it and do

you agree that it is going to rock the Bitcoin world that it really I mean

that's what Nick bachas tweet basically was saying has I think the Lightning

network is the most important thing that happened to Bitcoin since Bitcoin itself

that's big pal that like button people for that bold statement well okay so

we're talking you said this was the year of lightning I there was it started yeah

that was cool but I would I want to hear uh Boris how you gonna remember 2018

what are you gonna think I mean what was this year like for you it was insane I

started a doing a podcast in January and it was for the Dutch equivalent of the

Financial Times and we have the all these really high-end guests and we have

people from Central Bank in the Netherlands we have like people from

politics from journalism economists and what I've noticed and it's it's really

what I mean I mean Bitcoin for a couple of years and the the rabbit-hole I went

through and the stuff that I've learned I've taken it for granted a little bit I

want to talk to these people I noticed that they really might understand one

short an aspect of Bitcoin they can understand the economic side or some of

them understand the technical side of it but none of them understands the whole

picture and you cannot understand Bitcoin if you don't get the whole

picture and I've once that screwed that idea crept in my brain I was looking for

it and I realized it whenever you hear someone say something dumb about Bitcoin

and even if those are real high profile people the reason why that happens is

because they just don't understand all value aspects of Bitcoin and I started

to think about it and I realize like okay what are these value aspects of

Bitcoin and maybe other cryptocurrencies as well and I realized that Bitcoin has

a as a value property as a there's a technical value property I mean that's

how it started you know we all I mean you it's hard to understand basically if

you don't get the technical side of it it has a speculative value aspect and

lots of people saw that in 2017 you know I mean all shit coins have speculative

value properties as well but bitcoin is in 2018 VidCon

started to get to gain some economic value properties and you see that in the

way that it's the adoption curve the the network effect that's what tres mayor is

talking about and what I've seen is that all the other altcoins

they fail to get to this point of actually gaining economic properties so

where where where they might be able to have some speculative properties or

literally technical copies of Bitcoin the economic side it cannot be copied

and that's why all these Bitcoin is got so pissed off when be cash tried that

because they were going for the economic value properties of Bitcoin and every

Bitcoin was like this is theft we're not gonna do this we're not gonna stand for

this and I realized this in 2018 and whenever I started talking about someone

I realized like there's so few people out there who understand all these

different value properties of Bitcoin and I actually able to talk about it and

I mean I'm in a bubble i watch you adam meister online i watch all the podcast

so I'm in a bubble so for me it seems like everybody understands this this

stuff but it's not the case and that's something I realized that and I think

people start to realize that as well when you hear politicians talk about

Bitcoin the stuff that we saw in Australia with the law for for increment

on encryption I mean that's that's just so retarded people have all these

theories about some conspiracy theory that you had a government once in on on

this it's just plain dumb nuts I mean these people don't get anything

so I start seeing that and once you see that it cannot be unseen and that for me

that's 2018 and it includes all the shit coins it includes all the all the people

talking about Bitcoin not understanding it's keep repeating the same question

what's the intrinsic value and I'm like how can you not understand the whole

picture you know I mean it's a given that it has value I mean start there

don't question that's are there and see where it leads you

because that's where the rabbit hole starts and that's that's for me that's

2018 whoa that is awesome has he brought up Australia there too so you could

address that I think people are interested in that but what was your

take on 2018 where some things that stuck out for you

yeah 2018 was a was a was a good year in

terms of experts and strong hands rising rising to the to the top of the heap so

a lot of a lot of fun came out and now there's a lot more of anti-flood troops

on the Front's on the front line so the the book the body of expertise is

growing the number of experts are growing the podcasts of fire you know

the only negative aspect of the year was was do not price the clients and ship

coins not dying off soon enough so so I think there's a lot of people holding a

lot of heavy bags holding on to a lot of hope and hopefully you know 2008 19 is a

is a you know for better or worse better year for them I think once they realize

that Bitcoin is the way it'll be a it'll be a better year if they keep holding

out hope you know that you know whatever it is vert Cornwall you know whatever it

may be come back then it's probably gonna be a bad year okay well first of

all you took I was gonna say for me this year was that this was a strong hand

year that's what the lesson was this was a weed out here you know if you couldn't

take this then you dropped out it's it's I made the comparison before it to

college when kids are trying to become doctors the organic chemistry is the

weed out class like if you can't pass that then you're not gonna be a doctor

that's it go you know go do something else

go be a marketing major database but uh this was uh this was definitely a

definitely a weed out year and but I want to get everyone prepared we're

gonna we're gonna talk about what we think about for 2019 I would just

caution people if you had a strong hand in 2018

and you didn't get weeded out then keep that same mentality prepare for 2019 to

be like 2018 it's going to be a continuation of the weed out year that

you're gonna need to have your strong hand still that there are going to be a

lot of fun stirs again I I went through this in 2014 and 15 so I would not I

prepared for 2018 and 19 to be like 2014 and 15 so it's just that's it but I'm a

positive thinker because I know that you know what yeah so if 2019 is like 2018

there's gonna be a 2020 awesome and that will be like 2016 so there's always a

brighter day around the horizon we have to have a long long term thinking and

deferral gratification but I'm just I want everyone to be prepared to defer

gratification longer than you might expect so that's that's that's my take

on a what 2018 was all about and it really it showed who had the conviction

in the space it really showed who had the Bitcoin conviction so you know as I

was before and as everyone can tell my smile is just as big as it was at the

head to start of the year as it is at the end of the year because there again

with the Lightning Network there's so there's so much going on that's positive

that's going to happen in 2019 so let's uh before we get into our 2019

prediction so I do want to read something about altcoins here because

this has to bring out up altcoins and this is from JW weatherman I'm pretty

sure the scam calling war is over and that lightning network was the final and

decisive blow we did a good job slowing the damage while the tech matured to

idiot level understanding but I don't think it's necessarily necessary moving

forward all right um I think that the stamp points are still gonna be around

I don't think all coins are gonna disappear I think I don't think the I

don't think there's a war with them first of all either but you know jwc

phrases things the way he phrases things past woody what do you what do you do

you think that all coins will still be around in 2019

you don't think lightning the final nail in their coffin do as

long as you know human human behavior and psychology is an interesting one and

as long as people have hope in these old coins they'll they'll survive freely

this isn't a you know a mature market reason isn't the reason isn't King in in

crypto just yet and typically when people start seeing reason there's a

migration to Bitcoin so it's effectively initial of when people see reason the

old coins will start to die off I do think Lightning Network is is the final

coffin people just don't know yet and if it's not Lightning Network that's the

final coffin it will be it'll be sidechains and the other other second

layer solutions yeah I I agree there's not that much reason and I think

eventually we're gonna have a whole new influx of unreasonable people oh don't

think we've you know all coin dot McCarthy if that it might being 21 that

we see all sorts of newbies come in thinking that their coin is the next

Bitcoin yeah in theory lightning that were should be the nail in the call last

nail in the coffin but it's probably get put out put up put off quite a while

because we just don't have reasonable thinking people enough there gonna be a

lot of 80 percenters but hey that's the wacky world if you just hold your

Bitcoin you're fine worse what do you think about all coins in in the future

I'm afraid we're not done with them yet I like how price I don't like the price

discussion but I I like how price makes people rights or feel right I mean end

of 2017 and every kid that made like turned a hundred dollars into ten

thousand dollars they felt like there were geniuses and they were on top of

the world and to be honest there's a little that is still in the in the

Bitcoin Hodler community I mean everybody who started around 2014 or

before that they're still way above water so they're still going to be happy

and since price is emotion and prices it's treated as something that that that

makes you right make sure the right opinion yeah I think we're gonna see

we're gonna say that go on in 2019 and I'm sure the altcoins will return I have

no doubt about it I mean there's just these hordes of people waiting to buy in

again as soon as it goes up yeah I really have no doubt that we'll see a

return of the 2017 craziness one day well let's talk about 2019 bars but do

you what do you see for 2019 general I really like the way that the Bitcoin

development is going and I really like how I really like how lightning is

turning out I really like how people are looking for ways to actually implement

it in their in their business cases I mean I'm building something like that I

see that around me a lot I work in media and there's lots of

problem with I mean we have the largest gaming platform in the Netherlands and

we have like 90 plus percent of people visitors using and lockers so there's no

revenue from advertising anymore so how are we going to deal with that and I

think lightning and tipping on lightning or lighting is gonna play a major role

in that we're not there yet exactly but I think that's that's coming along fine

and I'm I'm really surprised that on the one and how slow it goes and on the

other hand how fast it goes it's kind of like watching bread in a toaster you

know when you when you look at it and wait for it to pop out it won't happen

but you turn around some buffets there all of a sudden and that's I think

that's the way we're lightening development porch and I know so many

people who are actually coming up with ideas building stuff I'm not sure about

maybe you have an opinion this but a year ago I found it really really really

hard to find developers who had some knowledge about Bitcoin developments and

right now I see like there's a whole new generation learning and understanding

the tools and starting to work with it and I think we mean the the Hort it's

not gonna be just adopters it's gonna be the developers as well and we're gonna

see that in 2019 I mean there's some some colleges who are picking it up but

most of all the tools are here you know that

the tools to start your journey in development rabbit-hole they are here

they're easy to get the community is very open very supportive I think we'll

see a lot a lot of new developers coming in 2019 all right that would be great

and yeah sometimes it's sometimes it feels like things are moving really slow

but they are moving faster than they appear definitely and be patient

that's not rush things s what's better year 2019 prediction up for date yes

your thoughts in general what we're about the experience all right so I'll

get on the soapbox right here so get ready to pound our like button and

basically some people say you know they're here in Bitcoin for the price

other people say they're here for the tech I've got a pretty good day job so I

don't care too much about the price I'm too dumb to understand the tech but I am

here for the freedom though so I see Bitcoin as a tool for our freedom and

basically when I look at the market price that's basically a representative

of what people value their freedom at and currently not a lot of people value

their freedom it would seem so I view Bitcoin almost as a way of life

and religion of sorts and I've put a link in there about a piece I wrote

about Bitcoin and religion and I say Bitcoin is sort of the Church of Satoshi

and I basically tithe this church so every single week I put between ten and

twenty percent of my wage into Bitcoin no matter what the price and freedom

isn't free and we've got to put our proverbial nuts on the table and and

play the game so if people decide to wake up to this and and tide the church

every week with ten percent you know people can wake up and realize

that freedom is important and if we can get I don't know

200,000 out of the you know 50 million Bitcoin users to put 10% of their wage

fold up you know for the fight towards freedom Bitcoin we worth $100,000 each

tomorrow but you're not Renault as if people will

wake up or not so I can't give a price prediction because I view things in a

different light so I can't really make rational decisions all I know is that I

tithe every week so just like the the proof of keys movement has caught on and

I'm happy it has I really sincerely hope that the tithing movement will catch on

to the community because you know its various innumerous if we all get behind

this we're unstoppable well I actually did that look at that article because it

is linked to in your Twitter and I linked his Twitter below I got a he I'll

add his article to the links below after the show definitely well I do hope that

savings catches on again that people understand you got a save you call it

tithing and I mean I and I see the comparison there but I mean so many

Westerners would just rather have a new big-screen TV then you know put away a

little bit turn their fiat into this this new form this better form of money

they would rather just turn into a big-screen TV which loses value

immediately or a car which which loses value immediately but I mean that's what

we're here for to teach beeping - tomato teach people that you know savings is

good savings is cool and that in the long run you you will be quite pleased

about that now and I do hope that in 2019 movements like this do you spread I

I can hope that what race is doing what you're suggesting that people catch on

to this stuff that you know people become more of deferred gratification

but you know and some of this other mainstream people are making some 20-19

predictions out there some of the generic publications have said stable

coins are the are the movement of 2019 I mean there are people have said this to

me that's ridiculous but I said you guys have been on the

show before I I haven't heard your opinions on stable coins has to have an

opinion on stable coins yeah what's the point keep your money in

cash under a mattress or in a bank like what's the point of a stable coin

there you go people and that is uh that's that's a very respectable point

right there I gotta say having you bars yeah same here I mean I'm not using them

I'm not a trader I can imagine if you're on some exchange and you really need to

get out of your holdings fast it serves a purpose but no not not for me but I

would like to add something to the what has just said and that's the the

revolution part of Bitcoin and I mean we saw some pretty interesting stuff going

on in Paris you know in the couple of weeks we saw the yellow vest running

around with to buy Bitcoin written on it we have we have a saw a documentary on

on Venezuela the other day and it was about the role that Bitcoin

is playing there and it's a it's a stable coin in Venezuela compared to the

boulevard even though we have we experience all these price fluctuations

in well in Fitness whele this is I mean that the context is completely different

and I think that if you look at these countries and these examples I think we

might see the early signs of the next stage that bitcoin is going to enter and

I'm not sure if that's going to happen in 2019 already but it will happen soon

and I think when Bitcoin really completes the the adaptation of its

economic value properties we're going to go to the next level and that's one

Bitcoin is actually gaining some political value property and when that's

happening I mean all hell's gonna break loose

this is going to be really interesting I know some people who are really close to

large OTC traders and the kind of buy orders that we've seen this year they're

changing and in the beginning it was like if you if you want to buy two

million or three million worth of Bitcoin you go OTC in 2018 we've seen

that that money is not enough anymore I mean the orders are starting at 10

million or going up from that that means that if you have

just a few million dollars to buy Bitcoin well if you're gonna have to go

to the exchanges and if there's something if this is something that's

going to play out in 2019 it's going to mean something really exceptional for a

price but it's also going to mean something for countries or politicians

or big companies that start to really use Bitcoin as for its value properties

and if if you get if you gain its political value property we might even

see the first stages of countries big institutions actually buying into

Bitcoin to add to their yeah to add to their assets reserves and I'm really

interested if we see in for gonna see countries like North Korea or maybe

Venezuela I mean I'm not sure we'll see Western countries yet but those kind of

come if they don't start doing something with Bitcoin it would be a very logical

next step to actually start mining Bitcoin as well because like every

National Reserve has a big vault where they keep their gold if you are a

country and you buy Bitcoin you're gonna need a big server park to actually mined

Bitcoin and to protect your interest your investment so this is something

that we might see with the countries who are really in trouble like North Korea

like Venezuela I'm really curious how this is gonna play out in 2009 it could

be very interesting yeah I I don't know if it'll happen in 2019 but one of these

days we're gonna learn that there's been a country that's been stockpiling

Bitcoin and it's gonna pay off for them in a major way and once that news is out

then it'll just be a war between a peaceful war between the countries to to

acquire more great Bitcoin for their for the reserves so uh well as he has he

brought up in a political big coin and I I wanna know oh in Australia what way

the they have a law where you gotta give up your information but what is the

privacy laws there it's it's a little weird with what's going on over there so

we don't have a very technically competent government on

so there they've effectively mandated alors it's a lot more complexed and I'm

saying but it's effectively then mandating that all companies are forced

and must put backdoors in all of their products so that so that the authorities

can can go on gain access to whether they want really they don't really need

you know reasonable cause it's it's just a complete shit fight that was that was

rushed through Parliament in the last session of the year and we'll just have

to see what happens but I believe it's unenforceable but you know other people

may know better than me but it's these kinds of things are a game of cat and

mouse when you ban something it's usually only banned for that for the you

know people who follow the rules the criminals are always going to do their

own thing anyway so a back door is going to be more beneficial to a criminal than

it is to the law so who knows we'll see what happens well you can opt out of

that system people by opting into Bitcoin because there no back doors in

the Bitcoin and risk you don't have a password passphrase on your treasure

okay I know what I scare people all right excellent what else do we have

here I wanted to bring up a lot that something that's been in the news

recently since this is this weekend big coin let's let's get into some big main

everyone's predicting the end of bit main I think I think they'll be able to

survive they always he seems to be a smart guy Rocketman whoo do you guys

have any thoughts on bit main or be cash I think it's time that it's good that it

would stop and go away I mean on the other hand a big company like bit main

there is there's thousands of investors that don't understand Bitcoin they don't

understand anything they'd be more than happy to put their money in a company

like that I think the the fundamentals of the

company are weakening keep people are leaving but I don't

think that's very much visible for the outside world I mean if you look at

mainstream investment YouTube channels and see what they have to say about

companies like that they really don't understand the basics so now we've got

we're not gonna see the end of big name not for a long time okay

have any thoughts yeah I agree I don't I don't like bit main but they're the

they're currently the cost leader and have been a cost leader for like you

know three or four years you can't beat them on dollar per gig for their mining

equipment you know as long as as long as it's commercially viable to buy their

products people will keep buying their products so they're not going away

anytime soon unless you know some competitor comes up with a way to

produce cheaper dollars per gig and more efficient what's picking ash as simple

as that now I've got to go back to 2019 something that I think many people can

agree on that in the larger world outside of our Bitcoin bubble that an

issue in 2019 that's already started to be an issue in 2018 is censorship in

these social media platforms banning people patreon YouTube I see this as an

opportunity for cryptocurrency and a Bitcoin I I discovered something called

bit backer which I you know I'm playing around with which is like a patreon with

crypto wha yes do you have thoughts on the censorship that might be happening

in 2019 the direction social media is going on in and how crypto can help out

yes I believe censorship is getting worse and will continue to get worse and

this comes back to my to my point on freedom look you've got to think a

Bitcoin this way so if you want to save the environment you donate to Greenpeace

right if you want to do something disaster relief years donate to the Red

Cross and all that kind of stuff so who do you donate to in the sake of Ann teer

is it you know anti censorship and justice the only way to donate is to

just save in Bitcoin so it's probably the only economic justice charity in the

world and only one of two charities where if you donate you you become

richer with the other with the other one being the Clinton Foundation it's good

it's good I love this I love this comparison if you want you know you

donate to Greenpeace to save the environment you donate to a Bitcoin to

say freedom that ended and you enrich yourself I love it

that is how that like button people that was a good one basically more you save

that drives price up the more price comes up the more hype you know is

generated the more builders are drawn into the community the more products are

built the more utility Bitcoin has the more price goes up the more builders

come in and so on and so forth so if you actually want to make a difference in

the world just start saving in Bitcoin I like it I like it all right Boris your

thoughts well I think I'll actually I like how this this what's happening on

social media actually teaches people the value of of censorship resistance this

is something like it's a it's a term that's everybody using crypto

understands it and that's read about it and has learned it but if I take if I

talk to no corners and I try to explain these concepts to them they are like

yeah but I mean you got to trust someone and the banks are fine and you know

stuff like that they don't really understand it but now we have these

examples for social media of what happens when you have these centralized

companies actually starting their censorship and I love the examples and I

love how people are starting to to think about what censorship really is and how

it will work in this digital age and how extremely

important it is that people have an alternative and and bitcoin is an

alternative and lightning as well and to be honest I don't understand why content

creators don't build their own patrons and if they don't just just place a

Bitcoin address that's the same thing I mean what else do you need I really

don't understand what the fuss is about but that's because I'm in a bubble

exactly they again they're learning slowly what censorship resistance really

means I mean they're slow because again his people like Jordan Peterson who are

very smart you know they're seeing what patreon is and then they're like well

let's make our own patreon but they're still gonna have to deal with payment

processors who will censor them eventually they'll they'll learn what it

is they'll learn that there's no eventually that with Bitcoin there isn't

there's no one that's gonna stop you there's there's no again the censorship

resistance right there can I add something to that that's how

long would it take you to explain Bitcoin to Jordan Peterson because

that's what I find interesting if you look at if you talk to people it's it's

Bitcoin is such a broad concept and if you have a problem and you can use

Bitcoin to solve the problem they will understand easily but if you have to

explain the complete lisore completeness of the after of the game mechanics of

Bitcoin you'll you'll find it very difficult and people have to go through

their own rabbit hole and I would love to see like prominent social media

figures like Jordan Peterson actually learn about Bitcoin and see them stumble

and make all these mistakes and start using it I hope that's something we'll

see in 2019 I mean people like that I have them I don't know two million

followers on Twitter three million if they start using Bitcoin that would be

pretty good yeah you know I'm I would love that to happen in 2019 I'm not

saying it's gonna happen one of these days so one of those big social media is

guys it's just gonna snap in their head and they're gonna be like I'm all

Bitcoin now let's stop trying to reinvent the broken wheel patreon or

YouTube or whatever I'm just listening my everyone follow me

list your Bitcoin address this is how we're going to fund ourselves now now

what would it take for Jordan Pederson to understand Bitcoin I I would say

here's a good first step Andreas Antonopoulos if you're watching

this video just make a video call Jordan Peterson this is Bitcoin

I'm undress afterlife it would be great if Andrew

explain it I think he would get it at that point I think was andreas has a

very unique way of communication and he cannot he can target specific people and

talk their language I think he could definitely talk the language of Jordan

Peterson and just snap it into his head quick without that though he's gonna

have from the hard way he's it's gonna be trial and error even with a guy like

Jordan Peterson so we shall see we're getting here toward the end of the show

I did want to remind everyone I do a new show here every day even yesterday check

out yesterday's show I had to do Saturday show yesterday I usually do the

beyond Bitcoin show tomorrow I had to do it again yesterday because I had no

internet connection and it was a wild story but I got it out because like I've

got conviction I've got that Bitcoin conviction I got to get a show out here

every single day so do check that out check out disrupt meister comm for all

the old shows tech fault calm tec HBA LTE that's my twitter handle and you can

watch all this week in bitcoin shows there and dude this has been a great

this week in Bitcoin I love these two new guests guys pound that like button

okay so I'll start by thought ass what did I leave anything out of there any

news stories you want to bring up any any stuff you know any final thoughts

that's about it remember that pass phrase get your kids off the exchange in

and consider tithing the church's of 30 dude seriously dude save save dude

listen to what this dude is saying he's got a unique way of phrasing it awesome

alright I hope you were returned to the show many times in 2019 dude it was

great to have you on all right and check out his links below well let's see Boris

I'll let you have the final words and are there any subject matters that you

want to bring up any any important stories here no just you got ya just ten

minutes before we went live I got sent this this this link to a site called

tipping dot me and it allows you to use the Lightning Network to send each other

tips and people are sending each other like if a couple of Satoshi's you having

a lot of fun with that I saw those like oh man I wish I could

have tried it out before appearing on the show but apparently it's really good

Dennis Parker I think you know Maz well he sent me the link and yeah I'm gonna

be playing with lighting a lot I love it and I'm even though we were in a bear

market I'm more excited about Bitcoin than I was in probably in 2017 in

December it's insane the stuff that I've learned last year it's crazy and I can't

wait to see what's what's in store for next year I mean 2009 is gonna be insane

I'm looking forward to it I mean we're ten years in in Bitcoin I'm lucky that

I'm at least went half way for the last five years with Bitcoin and I can't wait

for the next ten years it's gonna be absolutely crazy and yeah looking

forward to it man and thanks for having me on the show I love it yes return in

2019 and that is the attitude to have if this next if you thought these ten years

were all some wait till the next ten years and it only gets better in life

people I mean keep keep that attitude I'm glad we got to talk about some

gaming today too because hey it's a good crossover we got to do more gaming

Bitcoin shows here get some of those gamers just into Bitcoin just

straight-up reach out to them let's do some

crossover like that I like that maybe we'll do some more that maybe that'll be

a resolution for 2019 do some crossover shows not just Bitcoin combined with

gaming combine it with who knows what else is out there that needs to be

combined with with crypto all right dudes that that is the final this week

in Bitcoin of 2018 it actually was also the hundredth this week in between stuff

I've ever done so hey that's we keep on doing it I'll keep on doing them every

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Trump did what he always does and changed his mind. Why was Congress surprised? The Washington Pos

The only way to deal with Donald Trump is to not do deals with Donald Trump. The private sector has learned this; when will Congress?

For his entire career, our dealmaker in chief has relied on a not so secret technique for extracting supposedly good deals: He agrees to a given set of terms and then, at the last minute, reneges on them.

He has done this to  around the country, refusing to pay for cabinetry, catering, real estate commissions, and other goods and services after theyve already been delivered. His companies have also filed for bankruptcy, helping him wriggle out of bills. Given this reputation, its hardly surprising that vendors and lenders alike ultimately learned it was wiser not to do business with him at all, rather than count on him to keep his word.

During the 2016 campaign, Trump promised that hed run government like a business, and in this respect — among  — he has.

Multiple times since taking office, after agreeing to a deal, he has changed his mind at the very last minute. Hes done this with , , a , budgets. As Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer D N.Y.  , during the lead up to the last government shutdown, Negotiating with President Trump is like negotiating with Jell O.

Which is to say: Trump doesnt know what he wants, only that he doesnt want whatever he has committed to. As Ive , if a mans word is his bond, Trumps would be rated junk.

Trump illustrated this yet again in the run up to the latest shutdown.

Initially, Trump signaled that hed sign a stopgap funding bill that would have kept the government open until early February. To be clear, kicking the can down the road for another seven weeks is not exactly a sign of responsible governance. But if youre a Republican, it seemed shrewd politically. The majorities of both houses of Congress have an interest in looking at least semi functional. Shutdowns, besides inflicting unnecessary pain on hundreds of thousands of federal workers, are embarrassing.

Which is why Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell R Ky. decided to endorse this stopgap bill and delay a more substantial funding battle until after Democrats take over the House in the new year. Then at least Rep. Nancy Pelosi D Calif. , the likely incoming House speaker, could be scapegoated for any shutdown related embarrassment.

Accordingly, the Senate passed the temporary funding measure, by voice vote, on Dec. 19. The House was expected to vote on it the following day, and the bill was  through with broad support in both parties.

Before then, Trump did what he always does: He suddenly changed his mind.

Egged on by Fox News and Ann Coulter, he announced he was torpedoing any funding bill — including this pitiful temporary measure — unless it included money for his precious border wall. And so outgoing Speaker Paul D. Ryan R Wis. decided not to bring the Senate passed version of the funding bill to the floor at all.

Its precisely this sort of flip flopping — and the cowardly congressional accommodation of said flip flopping — that is slowly fraying the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

Were stuck in an indefinite government shutdown now that Congress has apparently disbanded until after the new year. Maybe the Trump administration will find ways to preserve many of the Obamacare provisions that the public loves, despite refusing to defend them in court; maybe not.

Both the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA and NAFTA 2.0 remain in limbo, as do the steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico that Trump to repeal once a deal was signed. Same with , a Cold War era arms control agreement. And so on.

Trump has managed to convince himself, and his base, that hes a brilliant negotiator, smarter than all the experts — including his Federal Reserve chairman, the many minions tasked with negotiating and renegotiating trade deals, his secretaries of state, defense or treasury, or really all of the best people he has selected to work for him.

His gut tells him more than anybody elses brain can ever tell him, . But his gut seems to have a perpetual case of indigestion, given how often it flips.

The real question is why congressional leaders, including Ryan, repeatedly cave to Trumps latest tweets and fleeting fancies instead of writing him off as the flake that he is. Why not at least try to whip the veto proof votes — for a budget, really for any piece of legislation — necessary to simply govern without him? The only thing you can rely on Trump for is unreliability.

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that by getting better at displaying each possible picture and with smart

capabilities these are the best TVs in the market the fourth-place sony XBR 65

X 850 F can take non HDR content and upscale it to 4k with the x1 processor

and 4k x-reality pro you can enjoy smooth and vibrant colors with the

triluminos display and 4k HDR super bit mapping the TV pairs 4k Ultra HD picture

clarity with the contrast color and detail of high dynamic range HDR for the

most lifelike picture quality you can control your TV with voice thanks to the

Amazon Alexa compatibility Android TV with Google assistant technology gives

you all your digital entertainment right at your fingertips it's a hundred and

twenty Hertz native refresh rate plus motion flow XR technology gives you fast

moving action scenes with virtually no motion blur

at number 3 is the Samsung QN 65 q9 the no bezel design and clean back finished

look gorgeous front to back weather mounted on the wall or sitting

on a stand you can get perfect color with over a billion shades and a hundred

percent color volume with Samsung's new quantum dots the TV has q 4k HDR elite

plus with infinite array producing some of the best contrast in detail in the

brightest and darkest areas on the screen at the same time there is also q

4k elite black plus with infinite array delivering stunning shades of black and

revealing the secrets hidden in the shadows with elite detail you can also

enjoy smooth crisp action even in the fastest scenes with a motion rate of 240

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the second-placed LG o LED 65 b7 delivers perfect blacks popping colors

thanks to the LG o LED pixels each of them turning on and off individually for

truly infinite contrast no thicker than a pencil at a thinnest point the ultra

sleek design is so slim it's even beautiful from the side the individually

lit pixels requiring no backlight so it can be mounted closer to the wall

LG OLEDs TVs support Dolby vision optimizing the pictures scene by scene

as well the new backward compatible HL g HD our standard offers viewers the

opportunity to get more options for premium content the unique design of LG

o LED TV asurs that any view is a great one not just for those in the center at

number one the sony xba-1 e the TV has over 8 million pixels precisely and

individually controlled by the x1 extreme processor to deliver exquisite

contrast the patented triluminos display maps colors from a wider palette

faithfully reproducing every shade in hue in the umbrella all this is powered

by the 4k HDR processor x1 extreme that has 40% more power than its predecessor

and takes everything you watch and up converts it to near 4k HDR quality this

beast can handle a variety of HDR formats including HDR 10 hybrid log

gamma and dolby vision so that all your HDR content looks as it was intended to

the TV has some insane sound tech that uses actuators to vibrate the screen in

order to create sound this results in a speed girlis design that looks gorgeous

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