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welcome back to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser initial coin offering you know i don't think we've actually talked about it is going off on this show well let's get into right now arie you see the chief operating officer of storm token ery welcome thanks for having me what a pleasure to have you all and i'm hearing great things about storm x. and the storm token so that a successful initial point offering in twenty seventeen tell us about the storm.

and game a five micro tasks what is it yeah so we've been in market for about three years originally under the name bit maker with just i'm told can we rebranded a storm play we're on the android app store and basically we're trying out different products and services like hulu. games of final fantasy who where you get paid in crypto whether it's a big calling and now storm took. it into the subtle bit more subtle game of five micro tasks and tokens and i'm earning tokens gaming so worked through that a little bit more for me and for the audience what does that mean so we're a marketplace so from the user perspective i get paid terry we're pick winter storm we're trying out different products and services so that's a user perspective. and we came up by the experience of that. you sort of have this

like journey so step one download the app stop to create a profile and each time you get paid say a dollar and then when you hit the final goal of trying out hulu for thirty days we'll pay you fifteen dollars and here you. will be awesome so if i'm on a social networking site like that and i'm putting up content all the time i never get paid if i'm working with stone and i'm interacting out there i'm going pay for my interaction micro tasks so you're. are you disrupting are you just something social networks first of all we're disrupting the way advertising works so from the other side of the marketplace there's advertisers pay for clicks and likes and downloads but if you're a store owner you want actually people to come into your restaurant try an appetizer and you know give you a real try likes and insults don't really do that and so we thought hey now business owner who what if instead of paying facebook or google for fifteen dollars of clicks and likes give us

a fifteen dollars and we'll give it back to these or to actually try your product everybody wins all right so you. see oh yes so the crew that's a pretty so you're up there in the c. suite so to speak and. so you're not the chief technology officer you know the chief executive officer or the chief operations officer just for thirty seconds kind of break down what it does what i see how startup so my responsibilities are the day to day operations of the company it literally is everything and whether it's resourcing systems processes payroll whatever it could be i'm responsible to make sure that day to day we're executing right so this is a very you know this is a heavy it's a variance and all kind of false facts you know and also if i had a lot of ways i understand that this is rolling out a fantastically successful let's talk about i said. for those who are uninitiated what is

a nice to go so i see you know sales for initial coin offering from our perspective it's more of a crowd sale so sort of like kickstarter and crowdfunding the world the masses you support projects that you really believe you put in a dollar you put one hundred dollars whatever it may be and you get a token that says i'm a believer in the store and coke and project i believe in every day micro tasks people being put in anywhere any time a device so what's the controversy with additional point offerings because. it's not equity as such it's not regulated so i would argue by equity regulators. but then again it's not. there's a there's threshold in the i.c.a.o. market where it has to have a utility value and how cognizant of you are are you to make sure fulfills that role doesn't fulfil that role and how does it fill that role. very

significantly you know where this is something that we think about all day and all night for us where utility took and there's the private tokens right there is the security tokens where you actually are investment. into that company where utility token because we already had a product where the token was immediately utilised useable within our system and that those those are the basic thresholds ok that utility not not to you can't but those speak out of school or anything but i guess you know i'm just saying my following question so yes you see clearly there on all their honest like you know. you know so so how much dialogue if any or do you have to do are you do you have a dialogue with them or how does that work that relationship because they're clearly they're looking at this very closely yes they're looking at this very closely because with anything with this much attention and this much impact globally you want there are going to be some bad actors right for us we don't have any direct

contact with the f.c.c. but we do pay for a very expensive partners you know the perkins kui firms and to lloyds who actually do have contacts with c.c. and are working very closely with us to make sure where we're going to step in where being very above bar above board but of course i've got florida and how we execute and operate the company justice you see seems like there are looking to encourage innovation at this stage of the game they don't they seem like they're really trying to sort through all the players of this and try to warn folks when they see an obvious. bad actor there they're trying to encourage folks that are doing doing what they were perceived to be innovative things and the money raised on this you know you're not going through the v.c. route and who might take equity so this is just cash how much money does raise let me ask so we raised it and decide where two thousand and seventeen and we sold about thirty two million dollars u.s.d. with a strong focus ok and so. how is a market for the spend of the next couple years what are you looking to do so right

now it's really stuffing up the team we went from a humble team three four very scrappy entrepreneurs now we're bringing in you know very expensive chief of staff we would take technology or we're bringing in someone to really lead and to find a future where our products are going to be engineers who can do a lot of the heavy lifting and so really raising the bar on our team so that we can execute really fast and then not make the mistakes and you know we engineer it so bringing in the old with the new all right so bringing in some senior folks to to try it so when you wake up in the morning and you head off to the center pod or the office or the you know wherever the all i or i or you look at it so we're working out of seattle washington right and it's basically two rows of that's true work side by side our little laptops all day long oh so what what what what do you what motivates you about this project i mean when i said game applied micro i mean i can

see that this is kind of like a glimmer in your eye you really believe in this right so yeah tell us what your what is your passion about this because you know your passion is what's going to make this project you and your your colleagues what is it that really gets you excited it really is the idea of earth anywhere anytime from anybody with micro tasking technology we can actually really. it's a normalized i don't that's a good word. he used normalize how we are really a global nation so my my story they often tallis on timbuktu maybe she earns twenty cents a day and that's her living but with machine learning task where she identifies one hundred oranges in photos a day she can earn a dollar a day so we can significantly increase her standard of living she can easily turn around and teach uncle to do i wonder photos of oranges that day so now they've doubled more than doubled their income for the family they can teach your entire community their churches whatever their it is it's

a whole communities globally can rise thanks to my corrections actions most of our digital transactions to date are not built for transactions under five dollars and that's where block chain and the storm token particularly is built for micro transactions so we hear about the claim. with a lot of fees now that i know transactions are not happening to some degree sucks or getting it just saying can't come to us we got they were better for payments etc but you're really specializing that five dollars under not specializing but you have a sweet spot there i guess you could say so. the folks that are around the world that we're this could make a substantial difference to their lives right because people are living on a dollar a day five dollars a day ten dollars an hour they're very low income people and and if they have access like nations in africa for example have phones and things where you see growth in this work countries are growing up with this it really is more of the

developing nations we are very popular in the philippines thailand indonesia of course mexico brazil but we actually have a very strong u.s. population as well so it's it's it's literally quote one hundred eighty some countries right and now it's like my trip in general so the trip the market you know we got very frothy twenty seventeen twenty thousand on that claim the whole market one hundred eight hundred billion eight or twenty billion we had a serious correction i guess you could call it you know back to fifty percent some of the smaller coins. how does that impact your business if at all. it impacts us because our communities really care and it really impacts them but overall as a company we're here for the long game versus the you know the the bumps it's going to be a bumpy ride there's still a lot to be figured out about krypto and tokens and and block chains in general our business model was already we were already a growing company our own is actually double from last year so. if we continue to focus on the numbers that really do matter versus the short term ups and downs of

the token and all of the i guess angsty around that that's around the token yanks john thank you there were just token. censored mostly i think it's you know there's a lot of new people coming into crypto and they see them outside of what could market cap nearly. you know it's ok it's ok so you're vice chill yeah long game versus short game there's a lot of things that need to be figured out a theory and sort of like dial up in you know fourteen point four kill a way dial up. the internet there's still some things that need to be figured out but it would. be fair to say are you. i'm on the borderline after life coming after i am one because so i am one hundred seventy nine formally ok so i'm neither millennial nor gen x. i'm. sorry and so we hear that this generation is now accepting. as really. they've growing up i can and they understand that

banks are inferior in many ways and they are adopting and they're living just like people have become you know smartphone from you. know what about that is not true what you see that in that regard it's it's a whole nother way of living i mean you go out to lunch and you bend mo where you know. jack's wallet somebody you know a payment and you're done that's it it's very fast and simple. and banks are seen as dinosaurs. that's not really part of the necessary day to day life they're being distant immediate they're being destroyed yeah you don't have to go drive to the bank to make your deposit or pick up checks anymore like you know we did in the eighty's now it's. done with crypto there's an idea that you are owning sound money you are saving money in a way and that's very different than the generations we've just experienced end up going deep deep into debt. are you it's your perception of money big philosophical

question but it's your perception of money it is that you think different with crypto versus let's say say out money u.s. dollars and that bad rush to use credit cards and go into debt is there any generational thought about that i think the younger generation say the millennial generation cares more about experiences that like the consumer he i need to have stuff so that's a little bit different and then one hundred fifty and see. valuing time very differently to how we work and live that's a block so if the lottery every you chief operating officer storm token thanks so much thanks but that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser stay here would like to thank our guests you both still to look at it like that just on twitter it's kaiser report.

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international live from moscow studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program the luxury swiss resort of davos is opening its doors to the annual world economic forum and with this year's focus on creating a shared future in a fractured world it's pulled in and a record number of world leaders and heads of government that includes donald trump who is just the second u.s. president to attend the summit as reports. today is the first official day of the world economic forum here in the swiss alps and it has attracted a number of political heavyweights that are going to be in attendance everyone from theresa may to mccraw on merkel justin trudeau and surprisingly enough donald trump he has a speech scheduled for later this week that is much anticipated and it will make him this second u.s. president to ever attend the first being bill clinton back in two thousand now an

ill timed government shutdown back at home did put his trip under question for a little while but things are back on track at this point of course many are very curious about how his america first actually fit in with the globalist atmosphere that the forum both although no one's really expecting him to conform to that this year in general shaping up to be a whole new davos with the politics of the last year creeping in and the economic focus being a bit blurred first of all this is the first year ever that the summit is chaired by only women and a number of the discussions really don't seem to have much of an economic focus at all discussing things like race privilege and sexual harassment the hottest trends of two thousand and seventeen of course and v.i.p.'s are not the only thing descending on davos the past few days have seen almost two meters of snow fall leaving a lot of concerns and its wake the local authorities have warned of the possibility of avalanches the helo pad in davos was closed down for a few hours leaving the question of how the leaders are going to get to the forum perhaps we'll see them all on skis down with reality economic and environmental

social and political fragility avalanche territory in a loud noise can bring the whole. comes to town on friday. davos is actually the social experiment when you gather a bunch of the piece then make them carry their own language. and stand in lines with each other out. wonder what would happen if. no one could leave for a week and the world realize that they could run it without the business and political elites. janice told us he believes the summit should be placing more emphasis on solving global economic problems. the social issues of two thousand and seventeen including. inclusiveness so. was my ancient and all those things have been everywhere in the new space that sounds important maybe but not as important as the economics of the summit i think that north america europe

japan and all the developed nations has never been as inclusive as they are now all told by the way of course there are reactions to things like the migration crisis but the people are used to it now much more than before and we are very inclusive it's not a time for crusades anymore as we heard the three day government shutdown in the u.s. has finally come to an after president signed a temporary funding bill congress now has just over two weeks to reach an agreement on one issue of protections for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the u.s. as children however a lot of media coverage of the bipartisan senate is making sure to focus on donald trump's shortcomings even though the shutdown was actually two weeks shorter than the previous one suffered under the obama administration but it should have been a day of celebration for president from one year in office the one year anniversary of his presidency but the party he planned it mar

a lago is no more at the moment because you're waking up to a government that is shut down this is hard stuff for him this is first anniversary tomorrow he's got a big party and then he's going out to show the world what a great job he's doing as president so here's a domestic crisis if he was such a great deal maker the government wouldn't be close to what it. for the first time in seventeen years much of the federal government is shutdown congress failed to agree on a new funding board midnight deadline the public of course is increasingly disgusted by what they're seeing going on or not going on in washington and the latest a.b.c. news washington post poll showed majorities disapproving of the president and both parties in congress. two thirds of french prisons are under a nationwide blockade as staff continue a two week long strike over a lack of security the protests began after an increase in violent attacks on prison guards by inmates one of the hot spots. near paris is the

largest in europe and holds more than four thousand inmates it's also used to monitor suspected extremists among them. the salaam who faces trial over the twenty fifteen paris terror attack and his staff protested clashes erupted with police outside the prison. which is about is today we've all come here for a strike because discontent is spreading across france the crucial problem is the security of prison personnel top of that is the issue of islamic radicals were also kept in our jail you are not isolated from other inmates. it's dangerous for us to be around the inmates because for them we are everything

the hate for them we are enemies by definition. with the blockades and demonstrations spreading across france shala to penske has been following the story for us. we own day number nine this is the second week over a nationwide protests and we understand that at least seventy prisoners are blockading yet again today now they started over a week ago because three security guards at a prison in the north of france were attacked by an inmate a convicted terrorist now since that attack took place in these protests have been happening they have been more assaults of attacks on prison guards in prisons in france heeding to prison guards who were attacked on sunday evening now that the prison guards say that they would is incredibly dangerous they fear sometimes to go to work they fear for their lives because of the types of prisoners that they

dealing with they say that in some prisons like that largest prison in europe that sometimes the inmates refuse to go back to their jails and this is a prison with a high number apparently of radicalized inmates so these are just some of the concerns that the security guards have they also say that they are very very understaffed with the suggestion that sometimes in that largest prison in europe there is only one security guard for every ninety inmates now i've been talking to some of the security guards have been lining that other concerns. natalia to go our work is very dangerous where weak teams of aggression and experience violence which is not taken into consideration by the government. it has become more and more difficult for us to act i've seen physical aggression towards my colleagues every day it happens every time we open the doors you support the new city we denounce the working in the shins of our colleagues in the prison the security conditions

the numerous acts of aggression against them we want salaries to be increased for those who face such risks that work as well as an increase in personnel and better security. of the demands of the prison guards well they say they will. to sleep until the next season the justice minister they also say that they will radicalize prisoners to be isolated in prisons for their safety and they will to have more security services available to deal with situations we also know that the president might go on this said that he will unveil a runtime at the end of next month to reform the entire prison system in france for that still more than a month away and the question is ease action needed sooner the prison guards who remain blockading so many of the prisons in france say it is needed sooner because they need to have more secure conditions to work in immediately. u.s.

attorney general jeff sessions of the monster hunt for the tens of thousands of missing text messages sent by f.b.i. employees they were sent at the height of the agency's probe into the alleged russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election some of the exchanges that was seen raise serious questions about bias within the f.b.i. from washington his american. months of text messages between two f.b.i. staffers linked to the trump and rush appropriate gone missing one of the agencies peter struck he oversaw the investigation into alleged russian interference now he was also part of robert muller's team that was looking into suppose the pollution between trump and the prime one prior to that the plane didn't email investigation which went nowhere and then there's lisa page a lawyer for the department of justice who also worked for robert muller the couple came into prominence back in december when their private text conversations were released to congress god hillary should win.