#Bitcoin #MichaelSaylor #Blockchain Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur and business executive, who co-founded & leads MicroStrategy, a company that provides business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services. Saylor, an MIT trained engineer, authored the 2012 book The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything. He is also the sole trustee of Saylor Academy (www.saylor.org ), a provider of free online education. As of 2016, Saylor has been granted 31 patents and has 9 additional applications under review. We covered a ton of content in this interview including 'the physics of money', the purpose of wealth, and Michael's philosophy of life. You won't want to miss his philosophy of life. To get them, please join my mailing list; just click here ? http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php ? On MicroStrategy's quarterly earnings conference call in July 2020, Saylor announced his intention for MicroStrategy to explore purchasing Bitcoin, gold, or other alternative assets instead of holding cash. The following month, MicroStrategy used $250 million from its cash stockpile to purchase 21,454 Bitcoin. MicroStrategy added $175 million of Bitcoin to its holdings in September 2020 and another $50 million in early December 2020. On December 11, 2020, MicroStrategy announced that it had sold $650 million in convertible senior notes, taking on debt to increase its Bitcoin holdings to over $1 billion worth. On December 21, 2020 MicroStrategy announced their total holdings include 70,470 bitcoins purchased for $1.125 billion at an average price of $15,964 per bitcoin. Saylor, who controls 70% of MicroStrategy's shares, dismissed concerns by observers that the move is turning MicroStrategy into a Bitcoin investment firm or exchange-traded fund (ETF). In 1999, Saylor established The Saylor Foundation (later named Saylor Academy), of which he is the sole trustee. To support his goal of making free education available to all students, Saylor.org was launched in 2008 as the free education initiative of The Saylor Foundation. The site now offers roughly 100 college courses that are supported by free content from universities including MIT and Carnegie Mellon University, that students can access without having to pass through an admissions process 00:00:00 Introduction 00:04:00 The story of the book cover 00:07:35 What's the next (6th?) technology wave? 00:10:55 The next megatrend: Virtualization 00:18:17 Why are there ridges on coins? 00:19:36 Where gold comes from, and can virtual currencies replace real ones? 00:22:22 Why gold as a currency standard? And what sets the price of oil? 00:36:20 Why is blockchain is so great now? 00:40:27 The Pandemic as a catalyst. 00:40:57 Risk management in science and all things. Join ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaN_CDKqXOg

#ANITA #ParallelUniverses #Multiverse How would you react to news that your experimental results were being used to claim evidence for a parallel universe? That's what happened recently to a friend of mine. An article in the New York Post led me to contact my colleague Prof. Abigail Vieregg at the University of Chicago. Abby's been working on the ANITA experiment for the last decade, and is an expert in all aspects of the experiment. I spoke to her about this article: https://nypost.com/2020/05/19/nasa-finds-evidence-of-parallel-universe-where-time-runs-backward-report/ We also chatted about eerie parallels to the #BICEP2 experiment that we both worked on. Abby was a huge part of BICEP2 and is featured in my book, Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA. A nice article summarizing ANITA's current state of affairs is available here: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/27/world/neutrino-research-anita-scn-trnd/index.html Find Abby on the web: https://kicp.uchicago.edu/~avieregg/ Read a [technical] paper co-authored by Abby on a possible alternative explanation of the ANITA data: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.12865) Check out Abby's blog shows what it feels like to be working at the upper echelons of experimental physics: www.abbyonice.blogspot.com 0:00 - Introduction 0:05:25 What is ANITA? https://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~anita/ 0:07:31 What is a neutrino? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino 0:12:48 Why go all the way to Antarctica? 0:14:26 Why put it on a balloon once you got there? 0:15:53 What's life like in Antarctica? Abby's blog: www.abbyonice.blogspot.com 0:23:37 How confident are you in the data? 0:26:55 What are 'backgrounds'? 0:28:55 The New scientist article: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532770-400-we-may-have-spotted-a-parallel-universe-going-backwards-in-time/ 0:33:31 Hype in science and how to avoid it! 0:37:04 BICEP2 similarities: https://youtu.be/4NIaYhtc434 0:43:28 How to end an experiment? 0:45:51 When to start an experiment: look for 10x improvement. (hat tip to Peter Thiel: https://amzn.to/2XHGwUz) 0:50:13 Multiverse featured in both ANITA and BICEP2! 0:53:17 How to Choose yourself as a professor: build your experimental 'brand' & creativity Watch my most popular videos: Eric Weinstein: https://youtu.be/YjsPb3kBGnk?sub_confirmation=1 Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk?sub_confirmation=1 ?‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating ? Find me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating ? Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http:/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDYAKdSqiBU