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Intro Getting funding for a startup can be quite a challenge, especially for founders in the deep tech sector, where the complexity of ideas often exceeds the average investor's understanding. To discover the best strategies for explaining tech ideas to investors, I spoke with and , co-founders of , mentors at Founder Institute, and venture scouts for Flashpoint VC. Arthur Gusev Vladimir Pletyukhin Launch Deck For the interview, we met in at a tech event held in one of the city's most prominent IT community spaces. Belgrade (Serbia) is all about helping startups, especially in deep tech, with their fundraising. They focus on crafting pitch decks, investor materials, and visual branding. Launch Deck leverages a unique blend of consulting, business, and design expertise to transform complex ideas into compelling narratives that resonate with investors (their clients already raised more than $60M). Launch Deck They’ve just , that I highly recommend for all tech founders, surveying over 100 venture capitalists, angel investors, and accelerators across more than seven regions and eleven industries about their pitch deck preferences. published an extensive research project This Pitch Deck Playbook is a complete guide that can help techy founders articulate their innovative ideas in ways that resonate with potential investors, turning complexity into compelling pitches. Q&A “Let’s begin. Does a Pitch Deck really matter?” Victor Markov: "Yes, a pitch deck really matters. It's one of the most important tools in a founder's toolkit. It's your chance to clearly explain your idea and move forward with funding. Our research shows that 96% of investors want to see your pitch before even agreeing to a meeting. So, it's imperative that your pitch deck is engaging yet straightforward." Arthur Gusev: “I know that you have some good examples of tech startups whose pitches significantly improved after your work. Can you provide us with your favorite one?” Victor Markov: "One standout example is , a biotech startup from Singapore. They developed an algorithm for identifying health-affecting rare mutations. Initially, their pitch was dense with technical jargon, making it challenging for investors to grasp the concept. Vladimir Pletyukhin: Gero.ai Our team conceptualized a visual metaphor comparing the human body to an orchestra and DNA parts to musical notes. This not only clarified their solution but also helped secure funding and close ." a significant deal with Pfizer “What role does storytelling play in a tech-heavy Pitch Deck?” Victor Markov: "We, as humans, are naturally drawn to stories. Our indicates that 69% of respondents prefer an element of story in pitch decks, while 31% opt for a straight-to-the-point structure. A pitch that weaves your technological innovation into a compelling narrative can significantly increase its appeal. Start with a problem, introduce your solution as the hero, and guide your audience through to the envisioned success. But also remember to remain straightforward." Vladimir Pletyukhin: research "However, the straight-to-the-point structure is also a relevant approach. It's essential to understand what investors want to see in your pitch. Here's a simple structure to follow: begin with an overview in the executive summary to engage and give top-level insight, helping investors quickly gauge their interest. Arthur Gusev: Next, outline the problem and your solution, then move on to the market landscape, illustrating where your solution fits and who the existing players are. Show your project's viability, including how you plan to monetize it and your current traction. Detail the next steps on your roadmap, and finally, introduce your team and your ask. This structure ensures you cover all bases, from demonstrating your solution's impact to showcasing your team's capability to execute." “Ok, but what is the most important thing investors focus on?” Victor Markov: "Usually, the next questions investors ask after you present your solution are: 'How will you make it work?' and 'Can you tell me about your team?' These questions underline the investors' focus on feasibility, scalability, and the team-product fit." Arthur Gusev: "Addressing these concerns directly in your pitch is crucial. Highlight your roadmap, demonstrate your team's expertise, and present any traction you've achieved. This approach not only builds investor confidence but also positions you as serious innovators with a clear path to success. Remember, investors are looking for teams that can turn ambitious ideas into reality. Prove that you're more than just dreamers—you're doers." Vladimir Pletyukhin: “How can founders balance Technical Detail with Accessibility in their Pitch? Any Tips for Tech Founders.” Victor Markov: "Use common frameworks like for market analysis and competitive positioning matrix to keep information investor-friendly. Metaphors are your friend; they can turn a complex concept into something relatable and understandable. Leveraging familiar concepts can also be incredibly effective. Arthur Gusev: SOM, SAM, TAM For instance, describing your solution as 'the Uber for dog-walking' or 'the Amazon for chatbots' instantly clarifies your business model and value proposition. It makes it easy for an investor to grasp what you're talking about, bridging any gaps in understanding with something they are familiar with. Ensure they can understand your idea without a deep technical background." “How does Design play a role in enhancing the Communication of Complex Tech Concepts?” Victor Markov: "Design is not just about aesthetics; it's a communication tool. A well-designed pitch deck guides the investor through your narrative, emphasizing key points and making complex information approachable. And considering that 69% of investors prefer well-designed decks, neglecting this aspect can significantly diminish your pitch's effectiveness." Vladimir Pletyukhin: “What Visual Strategies do you recommend for Making Complex Ideas more Tangible and Understandable for Non-Expert Investors?” Victor Markov: "Simplification doesn't mean dumbing down. It means making your idea accessible. Utilize visuals to break down your tech into understandable segments. Our quick design tips? Stick to no more than three font sizes, three colors, and always use high-quality visuals. This approach not only keeps your pitch deck visually appealing but ensures the complex tech concepts are easily digestible." Vladimir Pletyukhin: “Finally, any advice for Tech Founders who struggle to explain their solution?” Victor Markov: "Simplifying complex tech ideas for your pitch doesn't have to be daunting. Focus on storytelling, ensure your content is digestible, and leverage design to enhance understanding. Remember, you're inviting investors on a journey, not writing a PhD thesis. Keep it simple." Vladimir Pletyukhin: "Explain your idea like you're telling a story to a 5-year-old kid. You wouldn't use big, complicated words and nerdy jargon; you'd just say why you like it and why they might like it too. That's how you should talk about your project to investors. No one automatically knows what you're doing or why it's great, so it's your job to make it easy for them to understand and get them excited about it." Arthur Gusev: Outro As we navigate the complex landscape of startup funding, the insights shared by and underscore a universal truth: clarity, simplicity, and compelling storytelling form the cornerstone of successful pitch decks. Arthur Gusev Vladimir Pletyukhin By focusing on what truly matters to investors — feasibility, scalability, and a capable team — founders can transform complex tech ideas into compelling narratives that resonate. On the path from an idea to getting funding, the importance of a well-prepared pitch deck is huge. It's true for both cutting-edge deep tech ventures and those just starting their business journey. The way you share your vision matters as much as the innovation itself.

An Interview With Arthur Gusev and Vladimir Pletyukhin: How to Pitch Complex Tech Ideas Simply

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ARTHUR OR OSWALD?

About a year ago, I was visiting Sri Lanka and had the pleasure of visiting Arthur C Clarke’s well-preserved office (you can read about my if you like). Anyone who’s read that piece knows that I grew up as a big fan of Clarke’s science fiction, so it was a thrill to be there and see his books and office. He lived in Sri Lanka for 30 years before his passing in 2008. visit here This year, I’m unable to travel so far, but visiting my parents’ house in the midwest got me thinking about the times that I used to read Clarke’s science fiction books while growing up — imagining I was off with some crew on a “romp through the solar system”. While there were some elements of Clarke’s books that are way out of our league even today (think star child or childhood’s end), there were always others that seemed like they weren’t too far away. So, this Christmas holiday, I wanted to write about a few things that Arthur C Clarke predicted in his science fiction and science-related works that have (mostly) come true (or will very soon!). Science Fiction Turns Into Science Of course, science fiction has always had a way of predicting the future, going all the way back to Jules Verne’s 1865 novel, . While he didn’t have it exactly right, Verne’s prediction that it would be the Americans who first got to the moon, firing off a giant gun (rockets didn’t exist) from somewhere in Florida, were pretty spot on. And who doesn’t know about the flip phone being a descendent of Star Trek, and today’s facetime and iWatch look a lot like Dick Tracy’s watch-phone, don’t they? From the Earth to the Moon The difference between Clarke’s science fiction and much of these others was that he often put more thought into and — relying on them not just for convenience, but drawing on both scientific literature and scientific necessity. Unlike the Transporter in Star Trek, for example, which was created just for convenience (so that the producers wouldn’t have to pay for special effects of shuttles going to planets and back, which were costly), Clarke usually had some well thought out reason for the science fiction elements in his novels. how these things could work why they were the way they were From ACC himself Clarke himself once said that “trying to predict the future is a discouraging, hazardous occupation”, and some credit ACC (as he’s know in the science fiction world) with having predicted everything from the internet to email to google! In this article, I’m going to stick to what ACC did best, write about outer space and aliens! Now I’m not claiming that Clarke was necessarioly the first to think of all of these things — in fact, sometimes he was just the first to put them into popular science fiction even when a paper or a concept existed before. So, without further ado, here are some predictions that have already (to different degrees, of course) come true: 1. The Gravity Assist Maneuver In the novelization of , which was written concurrently with the movie (released in 1968), ACC had the Discovery go to one of Saturn’s moon’s (Iapetus) and not to Jupiter. In the movie, Stanley Kubrick (who was collaborating with ACC and wanted to use the latest images from NASA) decided to go with Jupiter as the destination because they had pictures from NASA about what Jupiter looked like. Kubrick was worried that since they didn’t have as many images of Saturn, the film might look dated once NASA got more accurate images. 2001: A Space Odyssey This is all a bit of history, but I recall reading the novelized version and it was the first time I had heard of the “gravity assist” maneuver. In the novel, the Discovery spaceship uses Jupiter’s gravity to speed itself up on the way to Saturn. While Jupiter is “only” 500 million kilometers away, Saturn can be almost a billion kilometers further away (depending on the position), even though we are used to them being close together . On average, the ringed planet is almost twice as far. This means that the ship didn’t have to carry as much fuel to get all the way to Saturn. This idea of using planets to “assist” in slinging a spacecraft was actually used by NASA in many probes including the Mariner 10 and Voyager probes. In some cases the probes went inwards towards the sun and used Venus for gravity assist to slow down, while the Voyagers used Jupiter to speed up on their way to Saturn, just like in ACCs novel! In another of his novels, (which we’ll talk more about in a minute), an alien spaceship built in an asteroid is using the Sun for a gravity assist on its interstellar mission! ACC wasn’t the first to think about this — the Soviets actually used the gravity of the moon for a flyby of a probe in 1959, but his use of it around a planet was the first time many science fiction readers like myself heard about it! Rendezvous with Rama 2. The Communication Satellite. ACC proposed using a satellite in geosynchronour orbit for boucning off radio signals (src: Wikipedia) Arthur C Clarke, in an article for in 1945, proposed the idea of a geostationary communications satellite, which was a satellite that stayed in the same position relative to the earth. Such a satellite, ACC proposed could be used to bounce radio signals off of and send radio signals all over the Earth. The editor of changed his paper title to . Wireless World Wireless World Extraterrestrial Relays According to many sources, the idea wasn’t taken seriously at the time as no one knew how to get a satellite into what became know as the “Clarke orbit”. 20 years later, in 1965, the first communications satellite was launched into the Clarke orbit, and today there are over 300 satellites on this orbit! 3. The asteroid from outside the solar system. In 2017, a controversial object appeared in the night sky and was observed for a matter of weeks. It was determined to be the first known object that came from outside of our solar system. Its strange maneuvers and properties made scientists think it was an elongated (cigar-shaped) type of asteroid or comet or alien space probe — we couldn’t be sure which. Conception of our first interstellar visitor , ‘Oumuamua (src: CNN) The scenario that astronomers found themselves in seemed eerily similar to ACC’s 1973 novel, Rendezvous with Rama. In the novel, an elongated asteroid was adapted into a space probe by an alien civilization, and wanders through our solar system, planning to use the sun as a gravity-assist maneuver to get where-ever it was going. The probe was abandoned in the book and its sequels by the alien civilization. Astronomers first proposed calling the asteroid discovered last year, which sure looked like it could be an asteroid steered by an alien civilization, Rama. In the end, the name ‘’Oumuamua was chosen (a good name which means “heavenly messenger” or “messenger from the past”), and of course scientists went ahead and stated confidently that there was nothing alien about the object. It’s a year later and what do we know? The object did in fact swing around the sun, and its velocity increased in a way that wasn’t consistent with the asteroid or the comet hypothesis, leading some including Harvard astronomer Abraham Loeb, professor and chair of astronomy, and Shmuel Bialy, a postdoctoral scholar, at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to speculate that it was an alien probe after all. It’s acceleration properties were more consistent with the properties of a light sail then either an asteroid or a comet! So, while we don’t know what it was exactly, the best hypothesis we have that fits the data at present is that it was an alien probe going through our solar system swinging around the sun? Sounds familiar? Maybe it should be called Rama after all! 4. Building Ships in Orbit. The Discovery from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (src: syfy wire) ACC predicted that it would be much easier to build large space-faring ships in orbit and to use shuttles to get astronauts up to the ships. This is how the Discovery was built in and its successors in the sequels as well. This wasn’t an ACC invention — many science fiction writers predicted this. Are we doing this today? Not exactly, but it’s within reach. There are companies who have sent up 3d printers to assemble large structures in space (Made in Space is the company that has printed the largest 3d printed object ever in preparation for printing large structures in space) , and there are near-term plans for inflatable modules which get assembled into large structures in space (think Bigelow Aerospace). Thus far, the ISS is the only such structure that is fully deployed, but this prediction is not very far off. 2001: A Space Odyssey 5. Hal and Conversational Artificial Intelligence. Who can forget the classic line from 2001, which came from HAL 9000, the on-board artificially intelligent computer: “I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that?” I’m sorry Dave, I can’t Do that — the HAL 9000 computer from 2001 (src: wikipedia) There has been an artificial intelligence explosion in the last 10 years, as machine algorithms are now being used to learn to do everything from drive cars to play video games. ACC wasn’t the first to predict machine intelligence; MIT Professor and Bell Labs fellow Claude Shannon was one of many who said that someday machines would be able to beat a human grand master at chess and write poetry. The chess thing has happened already, not so sure about the poetry. In the age of Sofia and so many different kinds of AI and virtual influencers and personalities, it seems like an intelligent computer like HAL from 2001, that can converse with us, is not that far off — give it 10 to 20 years say some experts. 6. Europa, liquid water, and life. In the sequel to 2001, called and its follow up , Clarke scrapped Saturn’s moon Iapetus and made the books sequels to the movie, rather than to his novel. In this sequel, a crew of soviet and American astronauts went to Jupiter to find the Discovery and find out what happened to Dave Bowman and his crew, who had disappeared. 2010: Odyssey Two 2061: Odyssey Three When they got there, one of the moons of Jupiter that is most interesting to them (and to the alien StarChild that Dave Bowman has now become) is Europa, which is found to be covered with ice with oceans underneath. The second book ends wiht a whopper: Jupiter is transformed into a small star and Europa is the reason why, because there is life that can develop here! In a now famous line from the end of 2010: All These Worlds Are Yours Except Europa. Attempt No Landings There. In 2061, a crew actually goes to Europa, which has developed into a habitable planet thanks to Jupiter’s transformation at the end of 2010 into a small sun, called Lucifer from Earth. Leaving aside the super-intelligent aliens who were responsible for this, Clarke’s predictions about Europa being the most likely place for life in the solar system because of the presence of liquid water under the ice covering the planet has turned out to fairly accurate. Plumes of water have been seen on Europa (src: Space.com) Probes to the Jovian moons have shown that Europa has plumes of water that shoot up from the surface, and it’s estimated that it has a covering of water 100 km thick. Some estimates say that Europa may have more water than the Earth! Now, what might lie in wait in all that water under the ice? To quote the History Channel’s hit series, could it be … Aliens?? 7. Landing on a Comet. At the beginning of the novel 2061:Odyssey Three, published in 1987, in what I thought was a cool sequence, the spaceship Galaxy is landing on the surface of Halley’s comet which has returned to Earth in (do the Math and you’ll see why the novel was set in 2061!). Of course, there’s a lot more going on in this novel than the comet, but at the time, this part, along with the rest of the novel was thought of as science fiction. Today, we know that it’s not so far fetched. In 2004, the European Space Agency launched Rosetta, a space probe that was meant to study a comet. Twelve years later, in 2016, the probe not only surveyed a comet, 7P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, but it managed to hard land on the comet! I wonder what we’ll be doing in 2061?? OK so there you have 7 predictions that have either already come true, or are very likely to in a decade or two. Not a bad track record. But, of course, science fiction being science fiction, there are still lots of things in ACC’s novels and papers for us to aspire to. And those are just the ones that have or are likely to come true pretty soon! Wait until we talk about he Space Elevator (Fountains of Paradise), Diamonds in the heart of Gas Giants (2061: Odyssey Three), and interstellar colonization (Songs of Distant Earth), not to mention the tantalizing idea of artifacts hiding on the moon (if you were an ancient Alien visitor to the Earth, where would you put a communications device??). If you liked this article, please clap 20x and follow me.

The 7 Space Predictions from Arthur C Clarke That Came True!

**. (**BitMEX fees are much higher than on conventional exchanges because the fee applies to the entire leveraged position, not just your margin. Save on BitMEX fees with this coupon You pay $250 fees on trading with $1,000 margin on the ETH Futures at 50x at BitMEX compared with $2 on a $1,000 Spot trade at Binance.) TL, DR: This tweet went viral and was ridiculed. An educated analysis of the data suggests he might be right. On 2 August 2018 BitMEX introduced the new ETHUSD Perpetual Swap with a maximum 50x leverage. It was announced with a great deal of scorn for the Ethereum ‘shitcoin’. The product is a hit and one month later (12 September) 24h volume stands at 66,467 BTC ($414 million), making it the most heavily traded ETH/USD pair globally. And this happened: Has Arthur Hayes’ ETHUSD swap been the catalyst to destroy the Ethereum market and bankrupt the Treasuries of the ICO companies? The ETHUSD swap appears similar to the XBTUSD swap on first examination. Both have prices pegged to the underlying spot price by incentives to traders provided by the Funding rate. And the XBT swap is a well-established product used both by whales to hedge their Bitcoin and by speculators. But ETHUSD is unsuitable for hedgers as its contract value is affected by the Bitcoin price as well as ETH price, and because there is no ETHUSD Future. This has created a febrile and unstable ETHUSD swap market consisting entirely of unsavvy over-leveraged speculators with a heavy Long bias. The evidence for this lies in the chart of the ETHUSD swap funding rate. In such circumstances it was easy, cheap and profitable for large players to crash the market. The winners are BitMEX and possibly BitMEX’s trading / market-making arm, the BitMEX Insurance Fund, and the whales who executed the block shorts. The losers were amateur traders with Long positions. There is a counter-argument that the collapse in the ETH price is disconnected from trading at BitMEX. The ETHUSD swap is a derivative which derives its price from the Spot ETH prices at Bitstamp, GDAX and Kraken. And not the other way round. However the price of the derivative at BitMEX CAN influence the underlying spot prices via arbitrage bots. Intro Previously BitMEX only offered trading in ETHBTC, and the trading of ETHUSD on leverage was only available at OKEX, Kraken and Bitfinex. The came the ETHUSD perpetual swap. Full contract specs are stated . here As Hayes said, ‘ ’ . You never have to touch that shitcoin called Ether Meaning, the only collateral you can deposit at BitMEX is BTC. You cannot deposit ETH. They cleverly designed the ETHUSD swap and ETH Futures so that no ETH is required to trade it Long or Short. Contract Value Depends on ETH AND XBT Prices It is imperative to understand that the contract value of the ETHUSD swap depends on both the ETH price and the Bitcoin price. This is because it is a Quanto derivative: it is quoted in one currency (USD) and settled in another currency (BTC). This characteristic makes the ETHUSD swap almost useless for the purpose of hedging Spot ETH holdings and might be responsible for the destruction of the Ethereum market and the bankruptcy of the ICO company Treasuries. If you trade 1,000 Contracts of ETHUSD how much is your position in units we understand like XBT or USD? The USD value of a ETHUSD Contract is not shown in the Place Order box. ETHUSD Contract = 0.001 mXBT x 174.15 = 0.17415 mXBT = 0.00017415 XBT = 0.00017415 x 6235 = $1.085 Value of ETHUSD swap contracts depends on both ETH price and Bitcoin price. ETHUSD swap is like BTCUSD swap on steroids. If both Bitcoin and ETH rise vs. USD the gains on the ETH swap are the product of the two gains. And if they both crash ….. Want to hedge your Spot ETH with the ETHUSD swap? Forget about it because the value of the ETHUSD swap also depends on Bitcoin price. If BitMEX settled ETHUSD swap in ETH that would solve this problem. But they never will. ETHUSD Swap vs. XBTUSD Swap On superficial analysis, the mechanics of the ETHUSD swap are similar to the BTCUSD swap. But while the XBTUSD swap works like a well-oiled piece of German engineering, the ETHUSD swap works like a helicopter spiralling crazily out of control with Elon Musk at the controls. While taking a call from his creditors. Both have prices pegged to the underlying spot price by incentives to traders provided by the Funding rate. (In fact : 33% Bitstamp, 33% GDAX, and 33% Kraken). Both are quoted in USD, settled in XBT. (i.e. Quanto derivatives.) the underlying is the .BETH Index They have the same fees. Market makers (those who trade with Limit orders) get a 0.025% Rebate. Takers (those who trade with Market orders) pay 0.075%. One difference is that the XBTUSD contract value is simply $1 .The ETHUSD contract value is ETHUSD Price * Bitcoin Multiplier (100 Sat/$1). [About $1.07 at time of writing.] So far so boring. A significant difference is that the XBTUSD swap can be used to hedge Spot Bitcoin holdings. But the ETHUSD swap is not helpful for hedging Spot ETH as its dollar value depends as much on the Bitcoin price as it does on the ETH price. So there is no natural population of whales wishing to Short the swap to hedge their Spot ETH. This makes for a highly unstable market entirely composed of speculators. Another difference is there are XBTUSD Futures on BitMEX which can be used to hedge swap positions. Traders can build 2-legged trades, one in the swap and one in the Future, to obtain the XBTUSD funding income without market risk. This has a dampening effect on funding rates and strengthens the peg to the Spot Index and stabilises the market. But there is no ETHUSD Future. So it is very difficult to build hedged ETHUSD swap positions to get the Funding. So there has been no inflow of more savvy traders shorting the ETHUSD swap when Long speculators drive the Funding rate up to crazy levels. (There are ETHBTC Futures on BitMEX but these are unsuitable for hedging the ETHUSD swap.) There is funding fee or rebate every 8 hours with the ETHUSD swap, as with the XBT swap. But the funding rate on the ETHUSD swap is much more volatile, and can vary from min/ max limits of -0.75%/+0.75% per 8-hour session versus the limits of XBTUSD Funding of -0.375%/+0.375%. So we have the ingredients for a highly unstable ETHUSD market and a major clusterfuck. Funding rate cap on ETHUSD swap is double that on XBTUSD swap What Happened? This sounds plausible. But there is no long/short ratio at BitMEX. ‘Bitmex’s contract is P2P — For every long, there must be a short, for every sell there must be a buy. Each position is 1:1. Funding is not indicative of which side has more positions open, it’s entirely about the premium/discount that XBTUSD develops to the Index. ‘ [[Quote from BTCAurelius.] Well, it quickly became evident from the consistently high positive funding rates that there was more buyside pressure on the ETHUSD swap than sell-side pressure and as a result the BitMEX price was consistently greater than the index. Chart of Annualised Funding Rate on ETHUSD Swap from 10 August to 12 Sept. Rates have commonly been > 50%. This shows speculators driving the price above the Index and is a sign of an out of whack market in disequilibrium. The ETHUSD swap is just broken. This was probably amateur speculators with excessive leverage thinking ETH was cheap. And whales were not shorting because the product is no good as a hedge and because there is no means to short it risklessly to get funding income. I tried this unsuccessfully. The funding rate at the time was 0.1383% which is 356% compounded p.a. that Longs were paying Shorts. I tried to lend out $20,000 of other people’s money at that rate. In the absence of a hedge at BitMEX, I tried to make a Long ETHUSD hedge at Kraken but it turned out Kraken’s trading fees and funding fees made it unviable. So we have an unstable market with mainly speculative, highly-leveraged amateurs taking positions with a Long bias and no institutional or whale hedgers to provide deep-pocketed stability. We have crazy funding rates typically exceeding 50% annualised resulting from excessive buy-side pressure and no way to get at that income. And we might have institutional players coming in and savaging the market with very profitable block short orders. The winners? BitMEX. Possible BitMEX’s market-making arm. The BitMEX Insurance Fund. The whales who did the block shorts. The losers? The amateur traders with Long positons. Use the Tool to Trade ETHUSD Swap AntiLiquidation Surpluses from Liquidation of ETHUSD swap trades at BitMEX get paid into the same as all the other contracts. Insurance Fund The Balance when ETHUSD swap was introduced 3 Aug: BTC 10,640 Balance today: BTC 12,388. If you want to trade the ETHUSD swap efficiently then use the tool. It is free. There is a tab for trading the ETHUSD swap. AntiLiquidation Avoid Liquidation trading the ETHUSD swap using the tool. AntiLiquidation Trade ETHUSD Swap with up to 150x Leverage Using AntiLiquidation.com There is a limit of 50x leverage when you trade the ETHUSD swap using the Slider Bar. You can trade with 150x leverage when you create it from tight stops using . AntiLiquidation.com Note about Fees Note the ETHBTC futures has a different fee structure to the ETHUSD swap. It has no funding cost or rebate. Look at the taker fee on the ETH Futures: 0.25%. So if you trade 50x leverage at Market with $1,000 margin, creating a position of $50,000, your fees are [50 x $1,000 x 0.25% x 2] = $250 on a $1,000 trade! That’s it. **. (**BitMEX fees are much higher than on conventional exchanges because the fee applies to the entire leveraged position, not just your margin. You pay $150 on a $1000 trade at BitMEX compared with $0.2 on a $100 trade at Binance.) Save on BitMEX fees with this coupon

Has Arthur Hayes Destroyed the Ethereum Market and Bankrupted ICO Treasuries?

So I was in Sri Lanka over the holiday season. It was part vacation and part business trip (one of my MIT classmates, Prasath, had started a company there that I invested in and I have been promising to visit for many years). Sri Lanka is a pretty well-known destination for residents of the UK and Asia; not so much in the US. I knew little of its long history: In ancient times, the Anaradhapura kingdom sent envoys to Rome in the time of Julius Caesar, the Persians called the island Serendib (which circuitously led to the term serendipity), and during colonial times it was called Ceylon. When I was growing up in the Midwest, the first time I wondered about Sri Lanka was from the science fiction novels by Arthur C. Clarke: I found it odd that the popular British writer lived there. The opening scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey Clarke’s best known work was the source material for the movie, Since I was born the year after it came out, I didn’t get to see it in theaters, but I eagerly gobbled up the novel and its sequels as soon as I was old enough to appreciate “serious” science fiction ( , which came out in 1982 during my junior high school years, and , which was published in 1987 when I was in high school, and the final installment which was released in 1997). 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2010: Odyssey Two 2061: Odyssey Three 3001: The Final Odyssey ACC (as he’s known) was a prolific writer of both science and science fiction. In fact, many have credited him as the inventor of the communications satellite; he had proposed the idea of bouncing radio signals off of geostationary satellites to reach every part of the earth in the 1940s. So, as I said, I was in Sri Lanka over the holiday season, and I was re-reading ACC’s books and wondered how much fun it would have been to meet him. Of course that wasn’t possible (he passed away in 2008), but when I asked about him, my friend Prasath told me that ACC was very well known in Colombo; Prasath had actually been to ACC’s house with his old astronomy professor before the writer’s death. The 2001 Series of Books Since I was re-reading at the Galle Face Hotel, where ACC had written most of the book, I had an inspiration: Could we go by his former house? I was thinking a drive by and a picture of the house where he had lived might be a nice way tribute. 3001: The Final Odyssey Sitting at the Galle Face Hotel, reading 3001, where ACC had written most of that book! Prasath looked up the address and did a little Google research, which led us to an old article in Asia Obscura, where the author of that article bribed (err, tipped) his way into ACC’s office in 2013, which was more or less undisturbed following Clarke’s death in 2008. Five years had passed since that article, and I figured the chances that his office was still preserved seemed very remote, and finding a way in seemed even remoter, but we were inspired to try. When we found the house, there was a security guard. Prasath chatted him up and, pointing to me, told him that I had come from America and was a big fan of Arthur C Clarke. The guard seemed sympathetic and said he would check to see what he could do. In the meantime, I saw this inscription, Leslie’s House which listed both Arthur C Clarke and Hector as residents. I thought it was odd that this sign was still there after all these years. Plaque outside “Leslie’s House” The house was separate from the office area, and there were some dogs that started barking at our approach. The guard said something in Sinhalese that I didn’t understand and went towards the gate. There was an old woman there who told Prasath she was the caretaker, and after seeing how I was such a big fan, decided to let us in to see his office! As we entered inside the gate, there was a sign saying “Arthur C. Clarke” next to a little phone/speaker, presumably so that he could screen visitors. Where visitors would call up to ACC inside the gate but just outside the office When you walked in, there was a little foyer which had two armchairs and a painting behind it making it look like the occupants were on the moon, looking up at the earth. I was too shy to sit down on them at the beginning, marveling at our good fortune to just get in, but by the end of our tour, we built up the courage to ask if we could sit down and take a picture, which we did. Prasath and I sitting in the “moon” welcome area ! After this entry area, there was an original poster from 2001: A Space Odyssey: As you go up the steps there was a signpost towards Mars, followed by an open room that had tons of certificates and other awards given to ACC. One of the items on the wall was ACC’s oroginal paper from the 1940s about how geostationary satellites could be used to send radio signals all over the earth, which became reality in the 1960s with the Intelsat Early Bird satellite. Copies of the original article ACC wrote about putting a satellite in geostationary orbit to send radio signals It was only then that the door opened to ACC’s office — and it looked pretty much like it had in 2013, and I was told, pretty much as it had when ACC died in 2008. There were several bookshelves — the most prominent being the two bookshelves behind his desk. two bookshelves just behind his desk. Rather than a chair, there was a wheelchair where he used to sit in his later years. I couldn’t help take a pic. Felt like I was a famous sci fi writer for a moment! So, what was on his bookshelf? It turns out that the two bookshelves behind him had editions of all of his books. The right bookshelf was dedicated to to the 2001, 2010, 2061, 3001 — including many editions in English and other languages — hardcover and softcover versions. Here are some closeups. Just behind his desk, on the right were all the various editions of the 2001 series The left bookshelf had copies of many of his other works On top of the bookshelf were various awards and momentos, including the 1979 Galaxy award. Lots of awards and memorabilia sat on top of the shelves On the walls there were many momentos — including pictures signed to him by many famous people, a virtual who’s who of science and science fiction. Since ACC was consider one of the best (if not the best) science fiction writers of all time, most sci fi adventures were inspired by him. For example, There was a signed message/pic from David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in Star Wars. A signed picture by Darth Vader actor, Dave Prowse, above an image of a spacewalk above Europa? and next to that there was a picture of ACC with Patrick Stuart, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, next to a photo of one of ACC’s books floating in the space shuttle next to a real life astronaut! Left: Shuttle astronaut with ACC book, Right: ACC, Patrick Stewart, and? There was a picture signed by Buzz Aldrin, the second man to ever to walk on the moon. The moon, of course, was the location of the first monolith found in the movie/novel, 2001 (and based on an earlier short story written by ACC called the Sentinel) and played a big role in the photos and his books. Signed by Buzz Aldrin himself, second man on the moon! So what books other than his own, did ACC have in his office? On the right side of room was a small bookshelf that had a combination of fiction and non-fiction books; I recognized many of the books because I had many of the same ones., including Men of Earth (by Buzz Aldrin), Contact (by Carl Sagan) and many others. One of the shelves was dedicated to Isaac Asimov’s books. Isaac Asimov, considered one of the big 3 science fiction authors, supposedly had a pact with ACC that if asked who the best science author was, they would both answer Asimov; but if asked what he best science fiction author was, they would both answer ACC. One of the shelves had biographies, which included asimovs. On the right wall were videos — VHS tapes mostly. These seemed to be recordings ranging from the TV show, Arthur C. Clarke’s mysterious world, to the “World of Hal’s 2001” to random TV shows that had been taped. I wonder if this collection will ever be digitized? A big collection of VHS tapes was there — wonder how many of these have been digitized? There were many certificates and plaques and magazine articles posted on the walls. One of the books was titled, Arthur C. Clark, Genius It was a little overwhelming and I clicked as many pics as I could. Then, just as I was about to leave, I felt drawn to a shelf that had a bunch of random knick-knacks on it. For some reason, I hadn’t been drawn to photograph them yet, and didn’t see anything of note. I was about to leave when I noticed out of the corner of my eye. I had a funny feeling, as if it there was something alien in the room. it In my mind I heard theme music from 2001 ( ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra by Strauss) as I saw it. A replica of the Tycho Monolith 'There it was! Hidden amongst the kinck-kacs was The Monolith — or a replica of it. It reminded me of the original monolith which had been hidden on Tycho a long time ago by some unfathomable intelligence which had moved on, only to be discovered by explorers in the far future after their departure. It felt like monolith had also been left behind by some form of super-intelligent life that used to inhabit this corner of the moon, this very office in fact, but has long moved on to other dimensions! this I kept that funny feeling about visiting a place inhabited by another as I walked out and saw the moonscape entryway again. On the way out, we thanked the security guard and the caretaker and gave them a little tip, for making my day! For a science fiction geek like me, all in all it was an incomparable experience, bringing back the wonder of my childhood as I read ACC’s books about rromps around the solar system and alien life!

What I Found On Arthur C Clarke’s Bookshelf in Sri Lanka

This Slogging thread by Arthur Tkachenko occurred in slogging's official #programming channel and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 9:40 PM Businesses have Messy Emails [pt 2] Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 9:41 PM Jumping to sales teams. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:14 PM Security, sensitive information sharing, automation, tracking, and managing sales pipelines and business contacts. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:22 PM How often do you reading your emails from your personal devices? Do you forward some sensitive information between your work address and personal email address? Let's talk about security. Links, Links, Links Monitor for Phishing and Scam Attempts. Ensure that you are cautious in the emails that you open, especially from unfamiliar sources. In the event of a phishing attempt, make sure to report it directly to your IT department and ensure that they have the most time possible to prevent any potential data breaches. While I'm not sure if it's doable in our modern world, but It’s important to make sure that all your client information is kept in one place, especially when working remotely. This is not only to reduce general data loss and increase efficiency but also to reduce the risk of data theft. The more places or applications you use to store your data, statistically, the greater chance that one of them will suffer a data breach. A lot of stuff we are doing with our mobile phones nowadays While working remotely, companies have less control over the networks that employees use. In a physical office environment, everyone uses the same network that the business has provided, meaning it’s safe and secure for all. While working from different locations, sales teams have more opportunities to connect to unsecured networks, which is one of the most common ways for data to be leaked or stolen. VPNs! Identity and Access Management solutions! Having a Universal Method of Communication! Haha, looks like it's impossible for small companies! singular form or method of communication can solve many problems companies face, especially when it comes to data security. Once again, spreading yourself too thin over several different sites and ways of communication can open yourself up to cyberattacks. In addition to having more security issues related to the different platforms, it also becomes easier for hackers to perform phishing attempts or gain access to private information and data due to potential confusion. When you have a lot of employees all communicating across multiple platforms with different uses, confusion is bound to happen. According to , over 1/5th of cybersecurity breaches occur due to human error, which goes to show, that streamlining communication as much as possible can reduce crucial errors. https://enterprise.verizon.com/resources/reports/2019-data-breach-investigations-report.pdf Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:34 PM Guys from Nord are providing cool service. Zero Trust security solutions Secure identities Ensure authorized personnel is accessing your user accounts, and nobody else. Secure devices. with alerts to admins Secure access to applications aka if your team is located in the US, nobody from Europe must be able to log in. or better have a whitelist of IPs.(yeah, no to working from a coffee, sorry not sorry) Secure data Secure network access > long passwords, encryption, backups and often review it again and again Visibility, automation, etc. Activity monitoring and logging So many things to talk about! Like how to prevent human errors? I don't have a proper answer. While planning and automation can help. And expertise. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:37 PM Having a team of salespeople? The higher the number, the more risks and higher the probability of problems Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:37 PM Cross-teams collaboration can also be an issue Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:38 PM Salespeople have access to lots of data... in my previous article, I told a few stories, but I'm sure, there are more. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:40 PM and it's hard to manage everything and prevent from leaking some personal information like bank details, personal email addresses, or just making a typo in email address and sending things to a wrong person Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:41 PM Cool article: https://www.tessian.com/research/the-psychology-of-human-error/ Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:42 PM While big companies have probably a great software and processes inside - there are a lot of things to do for a small companies Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:43 PM Yeah, it's hard to balance all risks at the same time, especially if your company is growing quickly and you have a lot of chats on Slack https://www.tessian.com/research/the-state-of-data-loss-prevention-2020/ Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:45 PM Threats prevention, Education, Automation, Great infrastructure setup, and centralized data storage might help Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:46 PM Training, Training, Training! Train your teammates. Reading list: Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 10:48 PM https://mapmycustomers.me/blog/data-security-awareness-and-its-importance-for-sales-reps/ https://intaso.co/news/building-a-high-performing-cyber-security-sales-team/ https://www.rossross.com/blog/top-5-cyber-security-tips-for-sales-teams https://www.stillpointsystems.com/your-sales-marketing-staffs-role-in-cyber-security/ https://www.nasp.com/blog/why-cybersecurity-is-now-a-more-important-topic-than-ever-for-remote-sales-teams/ https://securityboulevard.com/2020/01/the-importance-of-training-your-sales-team-avast/ Part one of this series: . https://hackernoon.com/businesses-have-messy-emails

Businesses Have Messy Emails: The Relationship between Security and Sales

This Slogging thread by  Arthur Tkachenko occurred in slogging's official #programming channel, and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 7:44 PM Businesses have Messy Emails Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 7:45 PM recently I find a cool infographic called Businesses has messy data. And this image showed how hard is to operate data in our modern world. especially when you have a big company, with different departments, etc. I want to create a similar schema, but it's hard! Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 7:48 PM I'll use this thread to try to organize my notes and move it from my head Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 7:52 PM Let's start with a thing that 0 people on Earth like in email: long threads with link "Expand" They are so productive! Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 7:53 PM yes, we already invented tons of apps optimize emails and ... messengers to chat and replies. But we still have emails as a method to connect online Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 7:57 PM Let's dive deeper. Emails are still an essential tool for business development. But how often you are making typo mistakes, trying to reply quickly from your phone? not very professional, right? Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 7:59 PM or how many email addresses do you have? probably one for personal needs and another one for your work. Or more? hard to remember all addresses, right? I think I lost around 10 email addresses during my life. While most of them were personal, some of them were related to doing some business. and it means that I lost some precious contacts Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 8:10 PM And it's not cool if you are doing business and email your prospects. Imagine this situation: your employee working as a sales manager. And you are a small company and don't have a nice CRM system. Or it's not automated and requires manual input. How will you track it? are you sure that your manager imported all contacts he contacts? Or how would you manage the tone of those messages? It's important to be professional, even when things get hot. During my work, I have few strange situations in my life, related to online messaging. I was in chat with some prospects. Crazy dude, he was a rock star before and was running an agency at that time. I was trying to sell him our services, and at some point in our conversation he told me: "Fuck you, Arthur". I was polite and just finish our conversation. But what if I reply not politely, and he makes a screenshot and makes it public? this type of situation can hurt business. Another story was done by our first sales manager in NetWeight. He was doing his best and wanted to win a client. it was 2014 year, russland had already invaded Ukraine for the first time and he was stressed a lot. Our Ukrainian soccer fans created an idiom about Putin. And he used that idiom in the first message to our client. Yes, he added "Putin is c*** sucker" Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 8:15 PM I was able to catch it because we have tracking of all messages and I was able to go through the history of messages and be able to catch it. But i'm sure there a lot of businesses that can't manage things like this one. There is a new profession(5-7 years old), focused on managing the public image of brands online. Title: "Online Reputation Manager". Basically, the main task is to search the internet and see what people are saying. And if someone makes a bad comment about your brand, like "FU Amazon I hate you" - his person will try to reduce the hurt of this comment. Because bad branding can hurt your business These services work to ensure that positive news and reviews are the first things customers (and potential leads) see when they search for your business online. Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2016/10/31/why-brand-image-matters-more-than-you-think/?sh=33a230f410b8 Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 8:15 PM Ok, I think i'm slacking off from the topic of this thread. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 8:31 PM : You have a newsletter signup form. How it was done? You can code it by hand, or use some generator from Mailchimp or other email marketing service provider. Then you embed this form into your website. Now you need to add some styles to it and play with CSS to make it nicer. If you using some website builder like Wix, Shopify, WordPress or custom made - you'll need to make some code adjustments. or maybe you even use a template from that website builder. Everything is cool and easy? No it's not. Where does data aka emails get stored after form submission? Is it your main website database? Is it secure or some hacker kid can easily access it after your system gets breached? Security is a huge problem and a lot of businesses struggle here. In my country, I recall not only small breaches related to personal data. Imagine you are going to the mall and they offer you to do a discount if you share your email/phone/full name in exchange. You want free stuff and you share your personal information. Later, someone offer a few grants to a person working in this mall for leaking a database dump that can be saved on one USB stick. and now your data is sold on some dark web. We even have leaks from our banks! 15 years ago someone from the police in russia sold the whole database of people recorded there. And you can go to some local flea market and buy a few CDs with that data for like $100 There can be other cases, for sure. For example you forget to pay for your hosting. And they blocked your website and wiped out all the data from it. Do you think everybody making data dumps very often? I dont think so Case Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 8:32 PM Or can you easily export that data? or you need to buzz your developer to do a database dump for you? and he is sending you a CSV file that you dont know how to open? Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 8:51 PM Case 2: How many email lists do you have in your company? You probably have a list of users that is using your online product. You probably have a list of newsletter subscribers You probably have a list of your clients You probably have a list of your prospects Questions to you: Can you easily access that data? Like in one click? Does that data update frequently? Did you clean up those lists? is it secured at least by a password? Your lists can be located in different places, and different services, can you easily export them? I can add another 20 questions easily )) Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 8:58 PM I remember another funny story: A huge outsourcing company. They have like over 300 people inside. Employees used the whole database of inner contacts when they need to sell something. Like when someone needs to sell a used MacBook, they used wildcard and send this spam to everyone. Do you think their CEO was happy about it? Can you confirm that your business contact book is managed properly? *@company.name Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 9:04 PM Another situation that I often face. HR managers use Linkedin to hire new employees. They add new people to their network, chat, and try to hire new people to the team. Business owner is paying them for their time. When this person is change the company - the database of people also migrates to the new company too. I'm not judging, but in terms of doing business, it's probably better to own that profiles, if you want to prevent this kind of situations Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 9:20 PM Case 3: You are running a few newsletters. They are separated by some category. For example one of my clients sends weekly emails with recipes with different types of recipes inside. Recipes for a family with kids differ from meals for couples that can eat some pizza or eat in a restaurant on Fridays. Some recipes are gluten-free, and others are for people with diabetes. Data is different, pulled from a bad database(her project was growing in years and DB expanded a lot). It's SaaS, her recipes are under a paywall and content is copyrighted. Now she wants to create a newsletter archive. Export all emails that was sent during the last 7 years, update the template and make it a separate website that can be indexed by google. It's a very hard task to do. Most of the emails were sent programmatically, by using some service like SendGrid or MailGun. She didn't plan to do it, so most of the work must be done manually. Plus she switched services, so some data is already gone. Ok, let's assume that we can get a dump of those completed campaigns. But even replacing a template or updating some links that can be broken is a task for some custom Python script A similar situation can be faced by businesses that used Mailchimp/Linkedin/Twitter/Substack for sending their emails and now migrating to other service providers. The best advice that I can give: after sending all campaigns you are going to do an HTML export and save it at some place. And do a few copies. Laptops can be stolen, you might cancel your Google Drive, or your home server can be damaged by a broken water pipe.  Later you might thank me. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 9:27 PM Case 4: do you want to migrate from Mailchimp/Linkedin/Twitter/Substack? Don't forget to export stuff from it. Otherwise, your data will be deleted and you will lose everything Don't forget that when you don't have a custom email marketing setup you don't own that data. Read their Terms of Services. If you have an Instagram/Twitter/Facebook/YouTube account - all your followers might go in 1 day if you violate some terms. At the same time, if you have a huge list of contacts on your USB stick, even if you die tomorrow(sorry for bringing it here) - your family still can use it. Arthur Tkachenko Jun 2, 2022, 9:37 PM Let's go back to subscription forms. You have a form on your main website. is everything working fine? Are you sure? Are you sure? If it's integrated into your main codebase - you are in trouble. you cant move this form to another website easily. what if you decide to run an A/B test in order to increase rates? it's not easy to do and will require some manual work. what if your form has a few steps(as usual). what if you have users from around the world - can tell me that you follow all the laws of different countries. Like The EU law for example. General Data Protection Regulation Your sales team decide to run a marketing campaign, used some service like Unbounce, created a landing page, created another separate subscription form with Lead Magnet, put some advertising money and drive traffic to that page. after completion of that campaign, they export data and forget about that page. but that page gets indexed by Google and people still subscribe there. at this point, you are losing money. Nobody notified the developer about that page - because he is from another department and he didn't create a redirect to a proper page

Businesses Have Messy Emails

This Slogging thread by Arthur Tkachenko and Mónica Freitas occurred in slogging's official #random channel, and has been edited for readability. Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:20 PM Ok Elon, I'm really bored Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:22 PM Hello Slogging citizens, today wanna explore why Boring Company isn't makes me happy. Mónica Freitas Limarc Ambalina Ellen Stevens richard-kubina do you wanna hop? Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:22 PM Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:26 PM it's started at 2017 "Serial entrepreneur says his ambitious tunnel-boring endeavor, aptly named The Boring Company, has officially started digging underneath Los Angeles." https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/29/elon-musks-boring-machine-completes-the-first-section-of-an-la-tunnel.html https://www.cnbc.com/elon-musk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP0DnKu6itE Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:28 PM there were a few iterations made after that. As an engineer in mind, he and his team decided to reinvent the wheel and upgrade current machines. it was not a bad idea btw, because this business is old and nobody want to be a gamechanger. at the same time - there a lot of things that slowing things down... like a huge machine that actually doing this digging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrlXsHjbaNk Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:29 PM in a few years later there was a presentation party, which was funny, but still raised a lot of questions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS-swDhBrP0 Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:31 PM i'll skip monetization aka smart marketing where by using Elon's influence in Twitter(he bought it, funny right?) and raise money by selling flamethrowers and baseball caps. Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:32 PM as a startup in mind, everything changes quickly and few majors from big cities tried to push tunnels via Boring Company but were hit with bureaocracy and got silent... Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:34 PM but Las Vegas tunnel digging still started and I think started well. Even while we didn't get Sci-Fi "Maimi 80s" things - it proved the point. It actually can dig for a client https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02vsw1jWU8Q Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:34 PM Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:36 PM Cool company also jumped on this train and start to build their boring machines too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0SljoJPty0 Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:38 PM But again, if we want to move forward from traffic in LA into gliding in tonnels - there not a lot of progress, to be honest. Plus, I'm sure that Musk want to dig some dirt out on Mars... With this type of rate, it will be too far away for him to watch Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:38 PM As civilization moves forward, we did a great leap from trains running on coil https://media.giphy.com/media/ZzBtoSC42IrMQ/giphy.gif Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:39 PM But we still moving goods by tankers and then diesel trucks moving things into our malls. And we move goods from that malls into our houses using gas cars... Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:43 PM if we move heavy goods transportation under the ground - it can help a lot. Like it will not destroy roads quickly, not pollute our lungs with stuff and i'm sure it can drive cost down, which we all want to experience. while someone can say - we still have plenty roads - check what Jeff Bezos did. In order to be able to have his 1-day delivery - he bought a fleet(ok, lease) a fleet of airplanes. and i'm sure, Jeff and team know something.... Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:44 PM Here you can watch a long presentation from 2018 for some tech inspiration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwX9G38vdCE Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 12:46 PM While me still not satisfied with results, valuation is going up https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/21/elon-musks-boring-company-hits-5point7-billion-valuation.html Mónica Freitas May 13, 2022, 3:03 PM Arthur Tkachenko, I'm not super aware of what Boring Company is doing at the moment but though I get the perks of building tunnels for goods transportation, is Musk or anyone involved in this endeavor concerned about the environmental downsides that might come from this? Do these tunnels come with greener transport alternatives? If not, is it worth it to start tunneling? Arthur Tkachenko May 13, 2022, 5:29 PM Mónica Freitas there were two items that started Boring Company: Elon get crazy about driving and sitting in traffic jams and one SpaceX employee get hit by a car near their office. Can you explain what do you mean by "environmental downsides that might come from this"? He want to put Teslas inside of it, so cars with gas engines wouldn't be allowed. Plus, there are places, like stadiums, malls, and airports that always have huge parking lot areas. if tunnels will be connected to such places, people can use electro bus for moving out. as towns are growing(let's assume pandemic is over and everybody gets back to their offices) there is a need for tunnels(not just for transportation, but for water pipes, cabels, etc) < Do these tunnels come with greener transport alternatives? < If not, is it worth it to start tunneling? 😂 1 🔥 1 Arthur Tkachenko May 14, 2022, 8:46 AM wow, just figure out that there is a whole series about digging tunnels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE2MSXM1OpI Arthur Tkachenko May 15, 2022, 7:54 AM Cool video about how Chicago mayor trying to be cool and grow the city quickly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnobWh5iloE Arthur Tkachenko May 16, 2022, 10:49 AM Small boring machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HXfBprA7yU while it's smaller than previous titans, humans still can sit in it ^_^ Arthur Tkachenko May 16, 2022, 10:53 AM While i think hyperloops are still decades away, for sure, combining tunnels with loops without air is doable, but very hard to achieve. So they probably digging some dirt out, and building a straight line for Hyperloop(it doesn't like turns, so +1 problem with our towns) and testing some beta vehicles there. But not more that. only a test site https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YFKPsWdleI Arthur Tkachenko May 16, 2022, 10:56 AM This video also proves my point - right now Boring Company used mostly as PR stunt for promoting some crazy projects, instead of using real cases/towns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch_8uxlpmug Mónica Freitas May 16, 2022, 4:21 PM Arthur Tkachenko I love how Musk went like: I'm sick of traffic. Let's dig holes 😂😂 Mónica Freitas May 16, 2022, 4:23 PM Arthur Tkachenko so essentially it would be another way for him to establish a monopoly and get more money. Wouldn't it be more efficient to create another railway system underground but try to make it greener? Less traffic, more sustainable options, less pollution. Win-win Arthur Tkachenko May 25, 2022, 4:48 PM Mónica Freitas i think there are a few downsides to the "railway system underground". because it will require building more wide tunnels, railway require big machines/engines to drive trains.... while tunnels that Musk wants to build are not wide at all, they are mostly a size of a car that will run through them. Plus, as Musk building an autopilot - you don't need to have a pilot that will ride a train underground

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