 Figured it out. We know what's going on and then five years later, you look back and go, what the hell are we talking about? Woohoo! Okay I think we're uh, I think we're getting close to ready for a show here Scott Johnson creeping up against the precipice It's kind of like okay, so now that we I start the video a little earlier Uh for the live stream to catch up for the people who watch this later. It's kind of like the beginning of the muppet show Oh Very much like the beginning of the muppet show, that's great Yeah, it's like we're the backs backs, you know backstage before the show starts it and then put on makeup Like that Yeah, that thing What you said Liberace Who we got Great I could do this all day good Which should you know? Or is there's the great film now on tautest you can but you may not Yeah, and then chat uh, shane says the chat is wall dwarf and stadler. Oh, that's great Hey I thought this was a tech show Now I just want to do that show Pretty good formula. I thought this was a tech show. Yeah, tech me out of here It's actually pretty right on you can write for them Uh, that'd be great. Uh, I don't want to say anything untoward but Yeah But yes, but yes, that would be fun All right, uh, are we about uh, we're ready to get things started Like the lights Thanks, yeah, we're gonna uncover the true identity of satoshi nakamoto on today's show. Uh, yeah, this is very it feels very I don't know something very uh Yeah, what's the word it's I feel like spies in a weird way. It's kind of cool. I'm excited about this clandestine. Is that the word? Yeah, yeah Your knowledge greatly exceeding my own on the subject will Either be great or hilarious when people hear me try to be smart. Well, well, I think I've I've got a way into this That will I think make things easier for us. So let's I'm not worried. Let's do the show. Here you go This episode of the daily tech news show is brought to you by me If you'd like to bring the next episode to yourself go to daily tech news show dot com slash support to be part of the show Let's do this This is the daily tech news for wednesday december 9th 2015 i'm top mera joining me today scott johnson of the frog pants network frog pants dot com How are you doing scott johnson? Are you ready? Are you ready to uncover secret identities? I am so ready for this. It's like I got my decoder rings out. I got my uh, uh, what else do I use? I got a p90. I don't know if that is that's a gun, isn't it or p9 or something? I got my sweet tuxedo on I got money penny making all my flight arrangements. I'm ready to go When you say p90, I think of those little emerson tape Things that print out labels for shelves. We used to use those that have price books or infomercials for got my p90 I'm gonna label things label that secret label that now we're talking about satoshi nakamoto, uh allegedly Possibly maybe being uncovered by wired and gizmodo Lots of lots of things could be said today that are inaccurate Uh, you could say we've determined who satoshi nakamoto is. I don't think that's true And we'll talk about that. Uh, you could say yahu's up for sale. It's not although it might be someday You could say apple canceled their streaming service, which is just alive because apple never had a streaming service So we're gonna cover all that and more let's do some headlines SP Sheridan Uh posted in our subreddit the guardian report that australian federal police searched the home of tech entrepreneur kreg right yesterday At his home and an office both near sydney The afp was assisting the australian taxation office and said quote The matter is unrelated to recent media reports regarding the digital currency bitcoin The reason they had to make that statement was that hours before the search was conducted wired and gizmodo published articles Describing leaked emails alleged to be from kreg right's account Claiming that he was satoshi nakamoto in a couple of them and lots of other circumstantial evidence Uh, satoshi nakamoto is the name of the person who released bitcoin on january 3rd 2009 but everyone pretty much assumes that's not a real name and folks have been trying for years to figure out Who satoshi nakamoto really is so many questions when we get to this the core of the show I'm gonna bite my bit tongue until we get to the bit middle of the show. So don't worry. It's all gonna block that chain That's right. Uh yahu's decided to hold onto its 15 percent stake in alibaba And spin the rest of the company out into a new company This has been all arranged today as well The process should take a year or more to complete some yahu shareholders worried The spin off of alibaba shares into a separate holding company would have adverse tax consequences Something shareholders often worry about yahu ceo morris meyer said the spin off will quote provide more transparency into a value Excuse me into the value of yahu's business unquote And for the record yahu.com is still a place you'll be able to go and search for the name time being uh In some ways, there's there's a lot of tea leaf reading to be done here But what's actually happening is a simple financial move to say we want to separate the value of our Ownership they own 15 percent of alibaba. It's sort of described as the ebay of china sometimes. They want to separate that stake From the rest of yahu and originally they were just going to spin it out into a holding company a perfectly normal maneuver Now what they're saying is well We think it will take too long to figure out the tax implications of that and get clarification from the irs And we know that going the opposite direction and spinning out all of yahu except the alibaba holdings Would be okay So we're just going to do that because we can do that faster now that implies that they're impatient to do something Here and that would probably be the shareholders saying look yahu value has not been going up We need you to act now. Are there any comparisons or tie-ins here to what happened with google and the alphabet deal I mean in the sense that this is a financial maneuver that changes names and moves things around But doesn't necessarily change the reality for you as an end user. Yeah, there's a comparison there What alphabet did was figure out how to make their balance sheet look better to shareholders and improve the company What yahu is doing Is not exactly the same thing and a lot of people feel like now that yahu is being spun out That means they'll have to make public a lot more information than they would if they spun out the alibaba holding And so that could open them up to more interest of acquisition and the shareholders might be willing to listen to acquisition interest If they were going to get enough money for it So that's why you're going to see a lot of headlines saying yahu is up for sale It's not technically up for sale But it certainly could be if the right buyer came around with the right price Well, I like yahu and i'm glad to hear that they have at least Well, they it very least seem like they have things going on to help solidify whatever their place is in this world Which is sometimes hard to define HTC posted a statement clarifying that its vive vr headset will become commercially available in april of 2016 Preorders will be begin at the end of february They say HTC had originally said it would be commercially available by the end of this year And that would have made it the very first of the large scale VR headsets to come out Well, now if samsung gear vr has the whole holiday season to itself HTC has distributed headsets to developers and creators says it'll make 7 000 more headsets available to developers at the start of next year Also, we'll show off the vive at a developer conference in beijing on december 18th and launch a new developer kit at ces Interesting how does just see where the vr thing has gone this year went from the beginning of the year Which was so much promise about what 2015 would be to virtual reality And it has been great in terms of what we're being shown and some of the initiatives happening and some of the software being developed And all of those things have definitely been interesting and and people are stoked about it But what we were really excited about was one of these manufacturers and combined with you know the efforts of steam and valve We're going to come out this year We were supposed to have them in november and here we are in december Sort of feeling a little bit empty-handed and i don't know i also just feel a general The air has left the room a little bit in terms of excitement from a lot of the people i talked to i think they're still pretty jazzed about about The whole idea of vr and having it worked the way it's supposed to but I think there's just a general sense of like well now we're all going to wait So i guess we have to wait and this is going to be a thing that'll be here for a long time And i'm here a lot of people say well i'll wait for generation two So i don't know i don't know where vr is yet, but after the playstation experience last week There are some uh, there's some exciting things on the horizon for them another so we'll see But it pretty much has everybody launching in the first half of 2016 Which we thought htc vive might get a leg up by launching early, but now they won't Not so much and gadget reports you can now buy two or excuse me buy new Exteriors for google on hub routers made in partnership with tp link black gray and white gold Oh, that's a dress. You'll not be able to tell what color it is on the internet Exteriors are available in the google store for 29 dollars and a wood one is available for 39 dollars google is also making CAD files and 2d outlines available for people who want to print their own exteriors Go to a ton hub makers dot with google now. It's just on on makers Oh, oh got it. They were two words on hub makers dot with google.com and print your own man We just we just got a 3d printer I wouldn't mind messing with that sort of thing if I had the hub, but that's cool that they're offering that Yeah, the idea is to say you shouldn't hide your router because well, it doesn't give you as good a reception if it's hidden So let's make it look nice enough that people won't mind having it out in plain view Yeah It's kind of nifty And if you and I love the fact that because I was like 29 bucks just to have something that wraps around my router And then I saw that they were making 3d printed CAD files available and like, oh, that's that's perfect So if it's lazy it pays a lazy tax. Where are most people hiding these things? Do we know where that these things people put them in closets under under desks? They put them behind things though not not where they might have the most coverage, right? They're like, uh, I'd probably get the most coverage if I put it out here on this table But I don't really like it there So I'm going to stick it in the corner and now I can't get wife on the other end of the house And my wife my husband won't let me put it out where I want Well, they've never really struck me as so ugly. I'd have to hide it But maybe I'm in the wrong category for this I don't like it Let's be clear folks apple has never announced any facts about a possible tv service ever Reporters have said a lot of unattributed things and there have been things written in books But cbs ceo less moonvis has probably said the most about his meetings with apple Regarding a potential streaming tv service will now bloomberg reports the unofficial spokesperson for the apple tv service I mean less moonvis told the business insider ignition conference I think they presented they pressed the hold button Moonvis still expects skinny tv bundles to happen though saying this will happen It has four major networks and 10 cable networks Let's say and the price point will be in the 30 dollar range 30 to 35 dollars 40 dollars maybe Uh, he says people will not be spending money on channels. They don't want to watch in the future So in one hand, he's saying apples press pause. They can't get the deals they want But he seems to think it's inevitable that somebody will get those deals whether it's apple or somebody else Well, I think that's a fine idea. I like this idea He's basically described what I want give me the 10 networks or four major networks in the 10 cable channels I want for 30 flat bucks a month. Boom. You got a customer, man. So whether it's apple or google or somebody else I don't care. Let's just get somebody get the deal made What do you where do you think that the holdup is probably with the content creators? It's with bundles It's all all the networks want to bundle. They're like, we don't care if you don't bundle everybody else but if you take lifetime we want you to take lifetime movies and the we network and You know, they they just don't want to let it go that you can only take their best network because That's how those secondary networks survive is by being bundled in with the more popular networks from that company Makes sense. Uh, according to a study led by binging binghamton university. So lea can't clin. What is there's a mouthful Uh, ending text messages with a period is perceived as less sincere What'd that be the researchers present 126 undergraduates with a series of either text messages or handwritten notes The period did not register as insincerity in handwritten notes cleanse follow-up research Which hasn't been published yet shows that exclamation points seem more sincere than no punctuation at all Uh, I mean they express emotion, right? Like if I tell you tom, it's time for a show exclamation point You're gonna see that and go. Oh scots real excited to get going here Then if I just put a period you might not take it as seriously But I don't know that would you feel I'm being less sincere? That's a strange thing to to pull from the data in my opinion. I'd like to see Well, yeah, okay And and this is one of the failures of the media with science reporting is to report this sort of thing as well The researchers have determined this Uh, the researchers have not determined this what the researchers did was I wonder if there's a difference between a period and not a period because I've noticed some people react that way Let's get 126 undergraduates and see if we see any difference and that's what this study did Now that they've seen a difference the next step would be for another group of researchers Maybe the same group to say okay now that we've seen there is an effect. What is that effect? Let's have a wider study that's more statistically significant across demographics, etc So this is just the first step to see like do we see anything at all that indicates further research is needed and they did So the idea I guess is I mean sometimes I find myself not putting in periods and I oh I'm not being grammatically correct. So maybe there we have become accustomed those of us who text a lot to Feeling like no no period is an informal Natural conversation and that if someone puts a period it's like they're they're writing a letter and it's like well now They're talking down to me. I don't know. Okay. That's interesting Yeah, I don't know either but it's this kind of thing fascinates me because I'm guessing the more somebody knows somebody else They worry less about whatever the decorum is And no matter how thin that layer of decorum might be be at a period or a smiley face or something You might otherwise put on a message to someone you know a little bit less. So Um, where those divisions are that's that's at least interesting research I'd like to see more of this, you know, the last three text messages You sent me had a period at the end before that the five before that didn't Oh, you got really insincere with me lately. Scott. I mean to talk to you about that I'll be honest never noticed that till just now when I went and looked at it T-Class 1976 wanted us to be sure we mentioned that google and nasa announced their performance findings on the d-wave x2 quantum computer the two organizations jointly purchased one two years ago, and they've been researching it ever since Ours nick technica reports that using quantum annealing for an optimization problem involving 945 binary variables The x2 is said to be a hundred million times faster than a single core computer Google's head of quantum artificial intelligence hartman nevin said the results were very encouraging But more work remained to turn quantum enhanced optimization into practical technology But what they're trying to figure out here is like, okay, we know quantum computers aren't good at everything across the board We know they're not faster than a conventional computer at everything. We think they're faster at certain things So they did this problem involving 945 binary variables and said, aha, it's definitely faster at that I guess what helmut's saying is we don't know what that's good for yet, though We need to find out what else it's faster at first I like his measured approach to the results because if I saw something that was 100 if I saw it was 100 times faster Not a hundred million times faster, but a hundred times faster than it used to be I'd be jumping all over the place 100 million times faster and he's like yeah, what's early though We're still working at it. I'm impressed with that that guy's really got restraint Well, it's like, you know what? This might not be good for anything though Even if it is that fast and let's replicate the results a few times make sure it wasn't a quirk, you know No, I there's still there's something there that I that I really like about his restraint The executive european commission presented a proposal wednesday to require online subscription providers like netflix sky canal plus and others Who allows subscribers to access their home subscriptions anywhere in the 28 member states EC expects a time limit could be set on the allowance Writers reports that the commission says it does not want to introduce a pan european license anytime soon Yes, this is this is a silly artifact of the way things used to be right So what happens is netflix has a france version and uh, let's say amazon has a german version And when someone from germany goes to france, they can't get their amazon streaming and when someone from france goes to germany They can't get their netflix streaming because they're in those countries What the EC I think very reasonably is saying is look if you're in europe you should be able to get your thing What they're not saying though is so let's just make it so there's one market for all of these things They're they're trying to appease these companies who are looking at it and going Whoa, we make a lot of money charging people different amounts to access different markets within the european union We don't we don't want to let there just be one subscription for everything It kind of comes down to the genie wing out of the bottle because in the states Company like netflix isn't charging me a different price in utah and you a different price in california and brian A bit of different prices. Well, it's not about price. It's about access, right? It's think of it as canada versus utah If you go to canada you can't log into your netflix account and see your movies You can log into your netflix account and see the canadian movies because they have different licensing agreements It's not about cost. It's about what stuff's in the service. That's true But then you've got that's that's exact. That's that's the entire point But if but what you're dealing with is a place like the european union where you now are dealing with geographic differences that are akin to me Driving up to idaho for the weekend And so well, but if you lived in idaho, let's say you live way up in the uh, um in lewiston in northern idaho And you want to drive to canada you can't and just camp and you also have satellite Somehow you can't watch your netflix because you're in canada. It's the same thing. It's a geographical restriction What if the european union suddenly out of nowhere, which this isn't going to happen But let's say they all sudden just said, you know what we're going to be one We're truly going to be the european union. We're going to be the united States of europe. Yeah for lack of a better politically charged term. Yeah, right, especially these days You're going to get a lot of people throwing their hands up and if they did and they all became this, you know One governed thing. Well, then that changes things. Wouldn't it probably what's next scott one world government? What are you back in the amaro now? No, i'm starting to go down Yeah, no, exactly and and the european union. I mean, let's leave all of the politics of the union aside That's not even what this is about. This is about companies saying. Yeah, but I can make more money if I Strike a different deal for access in every single country Then if you treat it as one market even though it's treated as one market for other goods and services, right? Yeah, no, that makes sense. I just I just think at some point they get forced to do it if if the Living in an existing standards of the state Meaning the european union becomes one of lots of travel and and nobody's really You know, it's it's not like france is a sovereign nation anymore I mean it is but i'm saying if it gets to the point where france is definitely a sovereign nation Well, it is but when you when you get to the point that you're in germany as much as you're in france because That's i'm talking future here. This isn't now and again all political stuff aside I like playing that game But if we take all that aside, you could see a world in the future where things tighten up things get smaller I'll go farther than that. I mean, we have a north american free trade agreement, right? Why can't I I mean these geographic restrictions are Actually meaningless on the internet and I think I think this is like the very beginning of the babyest of steps Towards people realize they will wait a minute What is a geographic restriction really mean and and they're realizing within the context of the european market, right? But once they've gone worked through that exercise, what's to say like well, hold on Why is it when i'm in turkey? I can't get my netflix Oh, right because they're nato, but they're not you know what I mean like I think eventually these kind of restrictions for whether they're pushed by governments or whether it's just market forces that do it I think eventually And maybe we'll be dead by them, but eventually these restrictions just fall away I think you and I will be dead, but I think yeah, I think of mine There's a generation coming up They're going to have this opportunity to be a little less spread apart and and land and ephemeral things like that We'll stop being such weird barriers to stuff like this and that'll be good for everyone Biztech africa reports an ipsos study shows cross-border online shopping growing in african countries 47 of online shopping in nigeria is done internationally about a third of nigeria's online shoppers Spend with south african companies nigeria has the most online shoppers in africa followed by south africa and kenya So again showing that the internet kind of erodes at borders If you had to travel from nigeria to south africa, you wouldn't shop in south africa very often It's a very far away, but if you can do it over the internet. Well, suddenly you're willing to do it It's another yeah exact same. Well, not the exact same thing, but a very similar question a very similar thing Yeah Hey, thanks for submitting stories to us folks at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and helps us really Focus on what you guys are interested in. It's one element I'd say it's probably 10 of the audience in there. We'd love to see it get larger though Go go check it out dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and that is a look at the headlines Okay, Scott How to summarize uh yesterday gizmodo and wired Put forth articles well researched well documented articles well written About whether someone named kreg right of sydney australia Working with a partner named dav kleinman Who used to be a resident of palm beach county florida has since passed away died in 2013 Are the people who teamed up to create bitcoin? And particularly whether kreg steven took on the persona of satoshi nakamoto You should read these articles. There's a lot of circumstantial evidence. There is there are things in here about blog posts That that seem to have been deleted And screenshots of these blog posts are in the leaked documents to both of these places There's also skepticism though a lot of people are showing well Wait a minute some of these documents talk about pgp keys and and really there's only one pgp key that you can definitively Tied a satoshi nakamoto without some kind of tampering to it and that one hasn't been changed and it's not identified with kreg steven There's also the fact that nathaniel popper new york times Reporter and author of digital gold was sent this trove of documents or at least a similar trove of documents first And does not did not find it convincing To cast some doubt on what they're doing here, but You know, there's lots of claims There's lots of emails. There's one from september 2011 from kreg to climb and saying i cannot do the satoshi bit anymore So so there's seemingly if you believe these emails are valid and why it even says well We can't really a hundred percent validate that these emails are are true seem to indicate that at least He thought kreg right thought that he was being satoshi nakamoto and he is definitely Someone who is involved in bitcoin. He runs bitcoin enterprises. He actually has written papers He has several doctorates. He's a researcher He is seems to be smart enough to have been able to do this whether he did it or not And the only thing that that really people are pointing to I feel like the most is that right and climbon Were co-owners of something called the tulip trust which holds 1.1 million bitcoins There has been a block of 1.1 million bitcoins visible on the blockchain for years that everyone assumes Is satoshi nakamoto's because it's never been touched and never moved And so if the tulip trust has 1.1 million bitcoins, that's 1.1 billion bitcoins again circumstantial evidence Scott, what is what do you make of all of this? Oh man So we talked about this morning a bit on tms and i'm fascinated by it I feel like this is going to make a great movie one day. Um, i'm almost sure of it If we can take uh Other of this sort of thing in our lives and turn them into films. Why not this whistleblowers for the tobacco industry or whatever? This has got intrigue written all over it. You've got a a system of cryptocurrency that is based on Um hidden identities and you gave me a really great argument today about why those identities are hidden And why it's actually good that the uh that the math is strong and the personality is low on this on the entire Uh face of bitcoin And which i totally agree with but i still find it all very Cloak and dagger undercover in the dark of night For whatever reason it could just be me and my dramatic brain wrap trying to wrap itself around it But uh if it's a hoax, all right, let's say it's a hoax because because for now, you know Because the 15 other times people have said that they have found the identity of satoshi nakamoto. They weren't right Right, we don't think they were okay, right? This just has a lot of connected stuff and tissue that seems like it's supporting That maybe this time they've they found him Uh that this is where this is where in the world karman sandiego has gone Uh, who would be perpetrating a hoax like this and to what end? That's the part i've been trying to get my head around all day today And i know we don't we're not gonna have specifics about that answer but But i'm trying to figure out what you gain By pointing out some tech expert who's got a lot of experience with bitcoin in australia if he's not really him What's the point like what do you get out of that just to just uh, uh misdirection everybody's looking somewhere else While something else is happening over here to get famous Uh, you're you're someone who's highly intelligent and doesn't feel like they've ever been respected For the intelligence that they carry, uh, you create this backstory and get the notoriety for it Maybe you're someone who is definitely in trouble with the australian taxation office And you're looking, uh for for some escape from that and it's not a rational escape But being uh, you know being considered to be satoshi nakamoto might might help take your mind off of all these tax problems I don't know that that's the case. I'm not saying that's what's going on with craig right, uh, but those are possibilities for a a theoretical or a hypothetical situation, right and Nothing that wired or gizmodo Rit wrote is definitive. There there are lots of very circumstantial things. There are things that if the email is correct, they certainly imply that Craig Wright thought he was nakamoto. Uh, he said he wrote on september 10th, 2011 to clemen I cannot do the satoshi bit anymore. They no longer listen. I am better as a myth Uh, march 28th to 2014 regarding an electronic money Uh project. He wrote I need your help and I need a version of me to make this work better than me So the emails definitely paint a fascinating story And I think that's why people are paying so much attention to this on the one hand bitcoin has become Uh, a very successful technology. Maybe not a successful currency, but a successful technology That lots of financial institutions are looking at for things like contracts and transactions Just using the blockchain whether it's the bitcoin blockchain or or a version of it So wondering who invented this we always like to praise an inventor like thomas edison like steve jobs And on and on and on We want to give credit and so the fact that we don't actually know this Makes people crazy and they want to uncover the mystery, right if it's him Okay, and I actually kind of think after reading everything today I kind of think it's him. This is my own personal opinion and I really okay Indeed i'm basing this on a lot of circumstantial evidence, okay But i'm a sucker for that stuff. Don't put me on your juries all i'm saying Uh, I I I am leaning very heavily toward this is probably the guy mostly due to those emails and family members comments and things like that however If it is if it is him Do you think we're going to get a chance to hear from him? Is he going to be able to say anything about this or is this so weird that no one's ever going to talk about nothing It feels like more without but with more cloak and dagger to me It's like they made bit torrent for one thing, but it's being used for something very different in this case You know, it's it's being used by a lot. I mean whatever like real money it gets used for lots of Important things and a lot of really kind of gnarly behind the scenes things That's no different with bitcoin But what interests me is how financial institutions may use the technology in the future To ensure security to ensure accuracy on all those things. They're all important But I just want to know will this guy have a chance To say yeah, that's me or no, it isn't me. We'll have a chance. Well Yes, he's already got a chance. He's had a chance for years. But why are they rating him? They they well, I hate that word people say raid all the time What it means is nine policemen walked up to a house knocked on the door issued a search warrant There was nobody home. They opened the door and they went in and they searched the house They're looking for tax records. There is a problem with the australian tax Office taxation office and this individual and they are looking for records that they can use to bolster their claim Uh, it has nothing to do with bitcoin nothing at all And they've they've gone the far enough to make a statement to that effect saying yeah We don't know about those articles, but we are pursuing a tax matter irs Searches people's houses all the time with search warrants for for tax evasion and that seems to be what's going on here Okay, so we so again you put you put it on the pile of circumstantial evidence It's just another thing happening in his life that seems to somehow lean toward this whole But wait a minute. Why is getting in trouble with a tax office mean you're the inventor of bitcoin? Wouldn't it be the opposite that you would assiduously avoid any kind of entanglement with tax problems So that people wouldn't be implying into your life You would think so but this is my core problem not problem But this is my core thing with the entire issue of bitcoin at the core, which is It's a fake guy. We don't really know who he is. None of this is transparent But it's all this super trusted thing is the math's real solid, but yet unlike all other Things in our world. We're not requiring visual proof of this man who's supposedly why do you need visual proof of the man other than curiosity I don't there's there's an excellent article today on fortune That says the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto doesn't matter And the reason is that the software worked the system worked when it was released More than 4,000 code commits have been made since then by people who are not Satoshi Nakamoto And so there was way more code in bitcoin now Then that is not made by Nakamoto than is made by Nakamoto. You don't need him He doesn't have any effect on how well bitcoin works or its continuing operation It would be as if Linus Torvalds had created the linux kernel code Set up the open source project and then disappeared and people other people came in and very Competently maintained the kernel and we wondered who it was that invented linux. It wouldn't change linux working It would just be a mystery that we all would be like, ah, but we really want to know in the aftermath of the blast center of the Of of the singularity. I think this would make more sense. But because we are these bio organic creatures that that not only love story but need it For our survival. It's how we connect with our ancestors that would connect to the future It's how we connect to our kids We need We need an end to the story. I think that's all this is and I will admit I just so want to know who this is and how soon Benedict Cumberbatch will play him in a film Absolutely, right? That's what we want. We want the story It has no practical effect on bitcoin or the blockchain or how well how well it works I think that's what's beautiful about it And and as much as I'm curious to know who this is and whether this craig right is really the person Which frankly I see nothing that convinces me that it's him I see a lot of circumstantial evidence that when cherry picked together and leaked properly can sort of point in a direction But we don't have enough opportunity just to look at contraversion Uh at evidence that could contradict it. It's all positive. I'm like, mm I don't I I don't buy it yet Uh at the same time Part of me thinks it's beautiful that somebody Created this beautiful piece of software And just let it go. Yeah, and just let it out into the world. There's something comforting about it There's something kind of cool about it. And again, the reason I think it's kind of cool Is there's a story there that we don't know the entirety of and that part makes it beautiful Like there's you're not wrong about any of that, but it's just one of the most interesting things in my Technical life is this and bitcoin and everything that it connects to and how it exists why it exists And the fact that I still don't completely have my head wrapped around why it's a thing And that it can just come out of nowhere in a in a world without computers that You know, it would just suddenly not exist anymore. It's just the whole thing's fascinating to me Yeah, you know, hopefully they can figure this crap out my why I just want to know look if you can just say No, it's not him or it is but he wants his privacy. It's all I need. I'm good I'll be happy Well, let's move on to the pick of the day and the pick of the day is the identity of said no, it's not It's I'm just going to read the email as written. Here it goes. Hello, tom and it's scoot, right? That is how you say it in american Jenny and roger Marlin the guy from trinidad here and my pick of the day with some slight Reservation is the newly launched patreon app for android and ios In the app you can discover and subscribe to new projects And I took the opportunity to finally become a patreon of the filius club You can see info on projects you support such as posts and comment on them as I did today I got them on a notification on my phone marlin and of course manager account now for the caveats The design of the app is lazy and seems to be straight port of the ios app They need to update it to material design as that would help with the smoothness and usability of the app But also help its ratings in the play store. We android users savage anything that is not material design And then marlin writes praise be to dwarte Yeah, I'm I'm I mean I'm with him. You should be playing to the strengths of the platform You're making something for the same thing goes the other direction, you know, somebody port something over from android It's nice to see when they'll take into account the strengths and weaknesses of ios and and make that part of the development So he's he's totally right not wrong I agree Uh, and then scott you wanted to slip in a pick of your own today. Yeah, super fast ones So last week we had a really great discussion with myself lem for all to and you about uh, the state of adobe They'd done some recent releases and gotten up on stage in switzerland I did a bunch of talking about what was going on with their initiatives with cc and Portability and all that sort of thing and so During that time and the previous week and up till now. I have been making a very concerted effort to try every drawing app And art app specifically for artists graphic designers and artists On the ipad pro with the apple pencil specifically these two tools To try to come up with my best recommendation Oh, I know this you're just going to pick adobe because you're just like adobe fanboy, right? You know what? I hate to shock you. I hate to blow your mind today, but it's actually not going to be them I think there's no potential in what they've done lately I think the cc stuff is strong, but not perfect. There's bugs. There's some problems Why their mobile photoshop app? Called sketch or is it draw I think it's sketch Does not have layers is ridiculous to me Uh, there's some real problems, but there's also some high points But after looking at a big crowded field that include things from autodesk and adobe and a million other makers I have settled on the one i'm going to pick today as the best artist tool Even for photoshop users because it's worse than satoshi nakamoto's identity. Come on. Tell me what it is And he might be australian. No, uh, so it's uh, it's procreate Available on the app store for four dollars 99 cents It is absolutely a steal at that price and it supports everything you need as an artist every kind of brush ink pencil style Extremely low latency up with the pencil like better than most of the other apps. I tested It has uh, all the layer support you'd ever need all the different sizes resolutions that you would ever need It records everything you do so you can actually export or view right there in the app a complete Speed drawing of what you've done it could have taken you months to do it But it'll just do it all in a row from every time you've put pen to pad And recreate the entire video for you can share that with your friends put it online whatever That's just a really nice side note But also you can export it to whatever format you want including psds to bring it into your workflow On your desktops at home with your wakoms or whatever in photoshop And every other format in between it impressed me constantly and the things people are doing with it is always impressive And it is easily my big pick So if you were on the fence about what software to get with your ipad pro and your pencil I think procreate is your best option go forth And procreate procreate. Yep procreate.si send your picks to us folks feedback at daily tech news show.com We love to get them a message of the day First of all Sean who does our video feed wrote Here is a power cell station For gogaro and we'll throw this in the treasure chest for folks as well to take a look at He says I can't think of a more. I'm sorry. He says I have seen a quite a number of these stations in Taipei But so far I have seen more stations than gogaro bikes on the streets Then again, I'm not on every street monitoring traffic all the time But uh, yeah, thanks for sending us the pick. It is interesting. He's like I haven't seen he's like I see the stations Haven't seen a single bike yet Weird So because they're all out it's not it's not because they're not being used, right? Maybe they're all out being ridden around on or something. Well, he's well. He's out in the street You think you'd see one whiz by right? Yeah, uh, and then gabby cohen I said I adore the show listen every day I'm spending a month in france and have been in paris for the last week. I can't think of a more gorgeous city I've run every day for 23 years and often do so while listening to your show So i'm sending a photo of myself listening to you to me and patrick bezia from france while running along the sen Uh, and we'll we'll throw that one in the uh in the old treasure chest as well. Thank you gabby Uh for sending us the picture. It's got the eiffel tower in the background. It's a beautiful picture there Yeah, france, man that place is I I imagine that if you're going to jog in any european city France is a good one. There's a place in france where you can go jogging Uh darryl a listener since the early days of buzz out loud wrote and said in regards to friday show I am on the board of a micro finance organization working in gana I'm so happy to hear the connectivity is improving. He's talking about google running fiber there Uh, we currently pay more than 400 per month for internet that is slow and unreliable at best I agree that some of the barriers that we have in the developed world are not an issue there But there are many barriers there that we don't have here unreliable poor quality electricity poor fuel delivery infrastructure for generators poor roads And surprisingly increasing regulation and slow moving bureaucracy. So I salute the efforts of google and a few others We also got an email from someone who said that there is fiber in akra provided by airtel gana That voto phone rolled out several years ago So there's a there google isn't the first to bring it, but it's always good to bring more It's always good too to be reminded in uh other parts of the world where you're using The internet with complete impunity and you forget that the power behind it is Never down like you rarely have a power outage and you forget how Like entirely reliant you are on such a thing and when you're in a place where Either you've got select hours during the day where there is only power or it is intermittent at best That can be super rough and it's a it's a whole nother layer of Taking it for granted in my life. So yeah, it's good to be reminded Well, that is it uh for this show Let us remind you that you can get all kinds of great scott johnson shows at frogpants.com Anything in particular to let folks know is going on over there. Oh, man. Um, There's so much going on. I don't even know where to start. 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Period Ha ha ha I find it insincere Yeah, too many people will I think a either think it's insincere or an error. Yeah An error you forgot your title. There's only a period there There's your text doesn't sound sincere period period period How about leaking mr. Bitcoin? Leaking mr. Bitcoin Sounds like a tom hanks movie Right There's also, um Will the will the real Nakamoto, please stand up. Please stand up. Please stand up No other reason but to insert a little m&m song in there. Yeah, right. I mean, hey It's not a day without white people rapping m&m. It's a day wasted I wish there was Then there's also a yahoo is spinning off yahoo Yahoo is spinning off yahoo. That's true. You know, just spin off the who and leave the yahoo Should be yahoo minus yahoo equals valuation Yahoo baba yahoo baba. Yeah, I'll leave yahoo. Oh my gosh today is the day of many titles I Love you period. That's subtle. W. Scott is one. Yeah, that's pretty good daily tech news show period The coins you're looking for I like that Nelly, what's up? What's up, baby, baby? How about I know who Nakamoto is period Who is my gym teacher junior high? Uh, there was a good one about netflix Netflix and not chill but some other word that rhymes with chill. I hope Netflix without borders. Oh netflix period How subtle I like everyone mr. Bitcoin. I love you period. Yeah I got a fan who wants me to make a frog pants and chill shirt. Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna Just show two people on the couch with arms around each other. Yeah They're just watching netflix. I'm chilling Okay All right, what are we calling this don't put your hair you have so little How about, uh, will the real nakamoto please stand up? Really? No Really But yeah, I don't know. I'm unconvinced. All right. Well, what are the other off leaking mr. Bitcoin? I mean, that's my favorite All right. Let's go with that. All right That's a hard No period Actually, maybe I'll put a period in just first Explanation point and four emojis on it So yahoo's gonna lose its exclamation point. We're gaining periods, uh for for Okay, Ellie That commentary is Appreciate it It's the same sound I make when I'm trying to fill in the id3 tags. I understand. Yeah Oh See a lot of people in the audio probably think that's ellie. That's just me It's um, you've got gas again. It's fine you guys. I'm just like what episode is this That's what I sounded like on thursday into friday Oh boy does burnt crispy nothing like the stomach flu This is the worst along with the summer cold Yeah I have a lot to say about bitcoin. That's true She says what Bitcoin that's so archaic I'll show you bitcoin the future will be pogs Pogs is that what you said? Yeah. Hey big use bottle caps and fall out of forest currency. Why not pogs? I've got gastroenteritis Oh I don't thankfully have that right now. I hope I don't get it all around It's in the air literally literally time of year The most wonderful time of the year You ready for your predictions scott, uh, I am well not really but I will be All right, I will have two at least two predictions. Well, you don't want more than two, right? I think we'll probably only get to two per person. Yeah, if you have a third one I'll have a third in case someone takes one of my two I have three and then I'm going to pick my favorite two out of them and then that yeah, that's a good reason if somebody picks yours But then I do want us to all have a consensus pick and it could be one that's already been mentioned but One that we can all get behind I will come guns blazing at 4 p.m. Mountain time 3 p.m. Pacific I don't even know if that's where we're telling people when we're doing it because it's gonna show in the last week I mean, I'll but yes It's one of those things we're like I don't I try not to publicize when we're recording them because I want people to enjoy them When they come out, uh, but if people run across them For whatever reason They're all the doughnuts when you're supposed to eat them like every other day Where you eat them all once you get your Christmas present early you can you could open it you really should wait Same thing It's gonna be like not a forecast. It's gonna be like an eight cast A nine cast All right All right, ellie. See this is the problem with roger not having headphones. Yeah I can hear you You don't know how loud ellie is. Yeah I'm I am a sucker for little babies So it's not I am too but once the toys get involved then I get a little pts Oh is the toy that pushed you over the edge push me over the edge I will mute myself mute that baby that adorable baby. I'll mute that baby. The baby's fine mute the toys Look at us now. We're baby haters. No, I love ellie. I just know that a couple people have been like Um, that noise is really loud on your post show and I'm like it is really loud because yeah And I I realized that roger doesn't hear it back. He just hears the baby in his house, which is totally normal It does it does get a little loud. It's okay though. She's still cute without words She it's I am lost. I'm left without words words cannot describe I don't know Look at those feet. Look at that. That's cute. See Perfect world. Um So all right, so we're doing our predictions show. We've got our other show So I have to write brice Dear brice, what I have to write you can write brice. You can write brice Since we're doing them up a show I started getting into hardstone again Oh, did you that new expansion people like that? I've been playing the expansion. That's been fun And then I finally got a little time to create some decks With tgt cards, which I really hadn't done So I'm having having fun with that too. Someone named Matt josephson Just accepted my next story of mutation. Should I guess correctly that that is my husband? Well, he that's not his name. No max Matt matt m-a-t-t Oh, you're saying it. Oh, I thought you said it was max and he was fooling around Matt josephson. I wonder if it named him Josephson because oh, maybe it automatically did because he said he was your husband. Yeah She'll never know who I am. I'll go by max and you guys when we go to a hotel and they're like mr. Rivera. I'm like, sure Why I like that matt josephson. Nice jewish boy. Oh A nice irish jewish boy from boston. That's right. I can hear house of cards firing up upstairs Oh My my nephew just came home Cool, and they've been watching house of cards Season one which made me realize just how real how good season one was So good of what house of cards. Oh, it's not never seen house of cards. Oh my I know over Told you it's this deal where It's because I know it's has a permanence on netflix and we'll never go off netflix There's something about that that makes me go. I'll get to it It's a weird new thing for me. I don't feel like That I do weird all the all the original programming on Most of these channels with the exception of man on the high castle, which I devoured like a freak That's the same thing though. That's going to be on amazon forever, too It will be but and so I don't know why that. Yeah, that's interesting. I didn't happen with that. I was so Well, that was that's because it's all alternate history. That's why it just scratched every itch I have Ouch, you should really you should really get something for that. It's probably get a salve I think calla drill might be The guy that played sheng suing in the terrible mortal combat movies was just what I needed as trade secretary Whatever his name was He was so good He was in um the asian actors win for me. They are all amazing. I love them all They were so good. I was in big trouble in little china, too, right? Oh, was he? I don't know maybe I can't remember it's been forever That's time to watch that movie again Yeah, I saw it for film sack and then I think that was the last time and that was like four years ago Oh, we wouldn't hurt And It's house cards thing. Yeah, I wouldn't know that though because he's never watched it. Yes, I watched it I know I'm just waiting for the processing of the track Well now that so I didn't see because I don't have live tv I didn't watch any of the new season fargo because I had just finished fargos The new one started so now the whole good I don't have uh fx Either but well actually I do on playstation view, but I just I just bought the season pass Hulu got the whole thing today. So i'm gonna go out season one No, oh my gosh scott had one it already had season one and then during season two's airing They didn't have it. I guess there's still an episode left, right? Yeah, yeah, but they uh, they What it's all up there now two is up there now On hulu. Yeah jazzy. I checked today up my favorite tv show ever what is Season two of fargo. Oh wow, really? Yeah, it has just gotten better and better and better. It is magnificent Yeah, I'm um I'm so excited I can't wait for the second season what the Yeah, I told you man. Oh, they don't have they don't have this week's episode. No, not a couple episodes But for me it's gonna take me a while to catch up right no exactly For most of the season like up until literally yesterday. They had none of season two They must be putting them up. Well, I've been enjoying watching it from week to week anyway That's a very midwestern thing to say about it because I from the new york city say it's the very best thing I've ever seen on tv in a long long long long time Well, that's because you don't you know you're you you're going for a dramatic effect not an accuracy meter I think they could be both dramatic and accurate statement. Is it literally the best thing you've ever seen ever? I mean, yeah, it's pretty close See you just back you just back I'm just thinking about you know the sopranos. I'm not arguing that What you're saying isn't poetically true. Yeah All right, finally got an mp3. You folks want me to publish this podcast? Can we make a jingle like that to play mp3 Proud as a peacock your show may be Long talkity They stand out a mile, but brother. I don't know Here's that real one. Hold on. Here you go In color the following program is brought to you in living color on mvc That's the one you know. Oh, I was doing um the one from annie Your clothes may be keep oh brummily Actually for a podcast or would be Great wrinkly Stand up alone All right, this isn't gonna this isn't gonna be this might be a little buzzy. Oh boy. Yeah, it is It is but it might be worth it. I think I wish it wasn't so groundish the grounding That's a good one. What's the grounding? What's giving you ground problem when I plug uh mini jack into this laptop? It just gives me that hub. Oh weird. Yeah, is your macbook? Yeah, just on the macbook So it's not the it's not the anything else. I wonder if the cable meets just one of those ferrite things ferrite core thing Yeah, maybe that might help Oh, my eye was in it. It's probably your eyeball, but you was fluid and uh, yes, exactly All right, uh, that is it for leaking mr. Bitcoin. Thanks everybody for watching We'll see you