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The creators of the perhaps the world’s most famous NFT collection, The Bored Ape Yacht Club, Yuga Labs, have just completed the purchase of IP for perhaps the second most famous NFT collection, The CryptoPunks!

Yuga Labs’ first move as the CryptoPunk’s IP holder, is to grant full commercial rights to individual NFT holders:

“With this acquisition Yuga Labs will own the CryptoPunks and Meebit brands and logos, and as they’ve done with their own BAYC collection, Yuga Labs will transfer IP, commercial and exclusive licensing rights to individual NFT holders”.

Yuga’s decision to give BAYC IP to holders has prompted a number of exciting moves including the inception of numerous projects, even including ‘metaverse bands’ with Bored Apes as band members.

On the flipside, Larva has come into conflict with its NFT holders over refusal to transfer commercial rights. Some holders even abandoned the project over the controversy.

Yuga has since stressed that their absolute focus will still be the BAYC ecosystem, and they have no immediate plans to do anything but give IP to the CryptoPunk holders and see what they do with it!

https://decrypt.co/94898/bored-ape-yacht-club-yuga-labs-cryptopunks-larva-labs

The Fantom Foundation, the organisation behind the famous FTM token has now commented fully on the departure of advisor and ‘DeFi Godfather’, Andre Cronje, from the decentralised finance space.

Recent days saw Cronje delete his social media and announce, via a friend, Anton Nell, that he would be permanently leaving the industry.

Cronje and Nell were two of FTM’s most well-known developers and their departure has caused a disturbance in both price and community action.

In the wake of a damning piece by Rekt, the Fantom Foundation responded with the following:

“Andre and Anton did not ‘terminate’ 25 projects. Instead, any involvement (such as user interface) in these projects was to be handed over to the existing teams, many of whom had been developing and running independently.”

The foundation further explained that neither Cronje nor Nell were ‘core’ developers for Fantom.

Nonetheless, Fantom’s TVL appears to have fallen from $11.26 billion to $8.27 billion in the aftermath of the announcements.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/fantom-foundation-issues-clarification-statement-about-departure-of-andre-cronje-and-anton-nell

The US, EU and various other countries including Canada and Japan have bandied together to carry out additional actions in an attempt to stymy Russian attempts to evade previously imposed sanctions.

According to a statement published by the White House yesterday:

“Treasury’s expansive actions against Russia require all US persons to comply with sanctions regulations regardless of whether a transaction is denominated in traditional fiat currency or virtual currency… Treasury is closely monitoring any efforts to circumvent or violate Russia-related sanctions, including through the use of virtual currency, and is committed to using its broad enforcement authorities to act against violations and to promote compliance.”

Comments by UK regulators echoed those made by US and EU counterparts:

“Financial sanctions regulations do not differentiate between crypto assets and other forms of assets… The use of crypto assets to circumvent economic sanctions is a criminal offense.”

There are additional concerns that crypto friendly states like the UAE will be used to evade sanctions with a growing number of enquiries into the possibility of using cryptocurrency to purchase real estate in such areas.

However, given the ease with which these transactions can be tracked, I doubt the concerns are that warranted.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-and-eu-double-down-on-measures-against-russia-potentially-using-crypto-to-evade-sanctions

A conversation between the founders and controllers of Ethereum..... see how easy it is for them to manipulate the currency..... still think this is similar or better to Bitcoin? Not even in the same ballpark my friend.

WEF is predicting a world wide cyber attack - “I’m pretty much a wizard at predicting the things I’m going to do too” 

It may not be so far fetched.... check this video out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/911truth/comments/t83jdt/forgotten_abc_news_report_about_some_stock/

Russia's plans weren't to lose 10,000 men, close to 2,000 vehicles, and over 70 aircraft and be 10 days in without having gained significant ground.

Interviews from captured Russian soldiers have indicated that they were told they'd be greeted as liberators and that the Ukrainians people would welcome them to free them from what they'd been told by Russian propaganda was a fascist regime.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/01/belarus-dictator-alexander-lukashenko-appeared-to-show-russian-plans-to-invade-moldova-through-ukraine/amp/

Shell also managed to get the oil for extremely cheap, 28$ less than marlet value per barrel of crude.

The first clue was the title said they would LIMIT purchases from Russia. Never said they would stop altogether.

Russia really likes its Gold evidently

VISA hasn't gone far enough! https://usa.visa.com/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases.releaseId.18871.html

Switch to CASH until they do....

So if we were to reimagine Klaus Schwab then perhaps we could start at the beginning, with Klaus Schwab’s father, Eugen Schwab who was a military industrial contractor to the Nazi regime during world war 2.

According to investigative reporter Whitney Webb, the elder Schwab:

“led the Nazi-supported German branch of a Swiss engineering firm into the war as a prominent military contractor. “

That company, Escher-Wyss, used slave labour in Nazi efforts to develop an atom bomb. Years later, when Schwab sat on the board of directors, he approved an initiative to help the Apartheid era government of South Africa in their pursuit of an a-bomb.

In this era of open talk about reparations, perhaps reimagining Klaus Schwab could prescribe that the World Economic Forum pay reparations to descendants of Nazi-era slave labour (concentration camps) and for their part in reinforcing Apartheid in South Africa.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/reimagining-world-economic-forum

Both these words come from Old English. They were written as “hus” and “mus” back then, and the plurals were “hus” and “mys”. That is, the plural for “hus” was the same as singular, while the plural for “mus” changed the vowel. This difference in plurals is due to the fact that Old English was a gendered language, and while “mus” was a feminine noun (basically like we call a ship “she” today), “hus” was neuter. Nouns of different gender had different plural formation rules. Eventually English invented the new plural formation rule (by adding -s at the end of a word), but didn’t apply it to some feminine nouns like “mus”/“mouse” which retained their old plurals. Then English nouns lost their gender, and the vowels in words changed rather uniformly during the linguistic event called “The Great Vowel Shift”.

Random fun fact about the English word mouse: The origins of that particular word can be traced back to an original Proto-Indo-European word that was spoken between 4500 and 6500 years ago. It was probably pronounced something like mus, with the vowel pronunciation a little unclear - it's changed in remarkably little in English from its hypothesized original form. From this ancient language descended many hundreds of other languages including English, Greek, Latin, Persian, and Hindi. It's also from this original word that the Latin speaking physicians came up with the term muscle because our muscles looked like little mice when contracted. Then that got imported into English at some point. The Greek prefix myo (as in Myocarditis) also comes from the same roots.

There's a lot of words that originate from a common word ancestor like that. It's really interesting.

The plot thickens:

Now I'm wondering what the links are between Russia and the World Economic Forum? 

Below is a script that should be ran step by step and not all at once.  It’ll help you understand backup methodology and the importance of knowing how to recover to a point-in-time.  This is something a DBA will seldom have to do, but when the time comes, they’ll have to deliver as part of their core job responsibilities.  Nothing is more fundamental to a DBA than the ability to recover to a PIT.  

/*
Prerequisites: You should be a local administrator in Windows and a SQL Server sysadmin
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise to simulate a production database's catastrophic failure
and the steps a database administrator will need to take to bring production back on line. To simulate
work pressure of a real production down scenario, understand these steps and syntax, and time yourself on how
quickly you are able to recover the business transactions, and validate that they were restored.
*/

--Create test database

USE MASTER
CREATE DATABASE [MyTestDB]
GO

--Create test table

CREATE TABLE [MyTestDB]..[MyTable]
(C1 INT)
GO

--Create full backup of test database

BACKUP DATABASE [MyTestDB] TO DISK = 'C:\TEMP\MyTestDB.bak'
GO

--Create several new records to simulate business transactions

USE MyTestDB;
INSERT INTO MyTable VALUES (1)
GO 5

--Backing up transaction log to harden the business transactions to a transaction log backup file on disk

BACKUP LOG [MyTestDB] TO DISK = 'C:\TEMP\MyTestDB_Log.trn';

--Dropping database to simulate catastrophic database failure

USE MASTER
ALTER DATABASE [MyTestDB] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE;
DROP DATABASE [MyTestDB];
GO

--Restoring full database backup WITH NORECOVERY to simulate recovery process

USE MASTER
RESTORE DATABASE [MyTestDB] FROM DISK = 'C:\TEMP\MyTestDB.bak' WITH NORECOVERY

--Restoring transaction log backup WITH RECOVERY to simulate restoring a transaction log backup to a point-in-time

RESTORE LOG [MyTestDB] FROM DISK = 'C:\TEMP\MyTestDB_Log.trn' WITH RECOVERY
GO

--Validation that the 5 business transactions were restored

SELECT * FROM [MyTestDB]..[MyTable]