Beautiful because checking on the first move in a composed chess problem is usually very un-aesthetic (too obvious to check on the first move).
Beautiful because the check can be blocked in 11 different ways and each way results in checkmate BECAUSE OF the block.
More... (4/x)
And 7 blocks result in mate because of a pin, so beautiful on the theme of pinning.
There is no other move that mates in two. That would be considered a failed puzzle if there was such a move.
Next chess puzzle next Sunday. More chess / literary history as well (5/5)
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what high-end equipment they need, how to get ads, great guests, etc. These are the wrong questions. Here's what you should do. (1/x)
1) START NOW!
Take out the recorder on your iphone. Interview someone.
Interview your spouse about all the things that are wrong with you.
Or interview a homeless guy on the street. You can do 3 interviews in one day.
Or call a wrong # and interview.
Just START! (2/x)
2) DISTRIBUTION: Go to a company that distributes podcasts
Like Libsyn or Omny. They take your podcast and send it to all the places that host podcasts, like Apple Itunes, Stitcher, etc. Upload your episode(s).
Three assets that can benefit from FTX's collapse: (1/x)
1. Coinbase
The most mainstream centralized crypto exchange.
People who are nervous (as many many are) will move crypto assets to Coinbase.
The 52 week high on Coinbase is 355. Right now it's 50 (the 52 week low was 44). (2/x)
2. Uniswap's token, UNI. The second largest DeFi exchange. If people move assets from FTX to a DeFi exchange the UNI token will certainly benefit. UNI's high was $40 and now it's around $5. (3/x)
FTX and Binance is a crypto soap opera.
This is a crazy story of love, hate, money, and we might not get to the bottom of it. What I say in this thread is speculative.
But here's what happened, what is happening, and the good and bad of what might happen to crypto. (1/x)
1. First off, CZ (CEO of Finance) and SBF (Sam Bankman-Fried) were friends in the past. They grew up in this industry together and CZ even invested in FTX (2/x)
2. CZ was born in China and his family moved to Canada
The China ==> Canada route is a well known path for people in China with money to get their money out. When regimes change in China a lot of people disappear. Watch the latest CCP meeting to see it happen live on tv. (3/x)
Many people say, "there are no real world use cases of crypto!" These people are wrong. Crypto is currently being used all over the world.
Here's a random sample of some of the many use cases being used today: (thread):
Many banks, even Visa, have used crypto and blockchain to make frictionless and fee-less transfers of money to other countries.
The biggest example: donations to Ukraine. Over 120,000 donations involving crypto have been made to Ukraine, totalling over $100,000,000. (2/x)
"The cryptocurrency donations being made to Ukraine ... save 30% in overhead charges and an additional 15% on reconciliation fees normally charge by traditional financial networks, said Avivah Litan, a distinguished analyst and vice president at research firm Gartner." (3/x)