Captain Piccard… The first of the Start Trek Next Generation cast to pass. It was shows like the start trek franchise and Babylon 5 that got me gazing to the stars, imagining the future and filled me of excitement of things to come. I’m not sure if my interest in science and technology came as a result of these shows or if I liked these shows because of my interest in science, but this shaped a lot of my character and who I am. The death of Captain Piccard hits hard. It reminds me of my own mortality. When childhood hero’s are put in the ground, it just reminds me that my time is sooner than I think. “Increase your remembrance in the destroying of pleasure (death)” - Hadeeth ‫بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِیمِ تَبَـٰرَكَ ٱلَّذِی بِیَدِهِ ٱلۡمُلۡكُ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَیۡءࣲ قَدِیرٌ﴿ ١ ﴾‬ ‫ٱلَّذِی خَلَقَ ٱلۡمَوۡتَ وَٱلۡحَیَوٰةَ لِیَبۡلُوَكُمۡ أَیُّكُمۡ أَحۡسَنُ عَمَلࣰاۚ وَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِیزُ ٱلۡغَفُورُ﴿ ٢ ﴾‬ Blessed is He in whose hand is dominion, and He is over all things competent - [He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed - and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving - Al-Mulk,1-2

Just to give everyone the heads up on a successful project execution of the London based Bitcoin summit. It was a very good turnout, and we achieved some great milestones. We had some known names like Simon Dixon and Harris Irfan. I managed to teach a workshop on how elliptic curve cryptography works (basic intuitions) and the process of going from seed words to Bitcoin addresses. Hopefully the start of many more to come. We also had the likes of Adam from Frostsnap and other individuals in this space. We had a total of 140 tickets allocated out of 150. My estimate is we had an approx 130 people at peak. And out of 75-80 expected on day 2 (the workshop day), probably 55-60 attended

So apparently Muslim countries are so oppressive of women that they give them their own parking spaces!! They even give women their own train cars on their metro stations so they don’t get crushed by men during rush hour!! What wickedness is this??!! 😂

The craziness that is Daniel