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June 16, 2021

TikTok Comments 2

TikTok Comments 2
BY: TARTLE

TikTok Questions Return

It’s been a little bit since we last sat down to answer questions from our many Tik Tok followers. Today seems like a great time to get right back into it so let’s start with one about blockchain. Specifically, how do we envision blockchain penetrating into the mainstream since currently more than 90% of people have no idea what it is? It seems doomed to remain in a niche market.

What we expect to happen with blockchain is that a lot of organizations will start using it on their own and their customers will find themselves using it through various companies or other institutions. Put simply, one day we’ll wake up and realize that blockchain is being used all around us. 

What about Facebook, you ask? Unfortunately, that link still isn’t working. As before, Facebook constantly changes the rules which makes it very difficult for others to remain compliant with whatever those rules are. And let’s be honest, it’s easy to see how they would think it’s in Facebook’s interest to make it harder for companies like TARTLE to work with them. They haven’t got past seeing us as potential disruptors rather than an ally. Still, we have developers diligently working with the proper representatives to get us back on track with Facebook. 

Someone out there also proposed the idea of people getting paid to watch all those video ads that show up in the middle of your favorite YouTube show. After all, these ads are taking time from us and getting in the way of what we are actually there for. That sounds like a great idea to TARTLE. After all, just the simple act of watching that video generates useful data for the parent company. It doesn’t seem completely unreasonable that viewers get something for their trouble. 

We talk and even borderline gush about the potential for AI a fair amount here. One of our commenters brought up the common objection that AI will eventually displace a great number of jobs, causing massive ripple effects through society. That is a valid concern, at least at first. However, if we have learned anything since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution it’s that new technologies are indeed often disruptive and lead to the end of many jobs. However, they often lead to the creation of new ones. When wagons were replaced by cars, more jobs were available, not less. While computers put typewriter manufacturers out of business, they created a vast number of professions in design, manufacturing, and software engineers. There is no reason to assume that AI would be different in the long run. Not to mention, TARTLE is helping to create new opportunities in the digital age by giving you another revenue stream in the form of selling your data.

Another Tik Tok-er observed that major governments are starting to take notice of Bitcoin and are funneling money into it. The question is, do we think that they are realizing that the Federal Reserve and fiat currency is in trouble and are trying to take control of the crypto market? That’s a long question but the answer is short – yes.

To wrap this up, we’ll answer a serious, if somewhat snarky question: who are we and what do we do with your data? To answer the first part, we are people on a mission. That mission is to help empower others to regain control of their data, to be able to share it as you wish. And not just to share it but to be rewarded for doing so both financially and in the satisfaction of using it to help a cause you care about. What do we do with it? Not a thing.

Keep the questions and comments coming and before long we’ll do another one of these sessions. And in the meantime, we’ll leave you with a question of our own – 

What’s your data worth? Sign up and join the TARTLE Marketplace with this link here.

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It’s been a little bit since we last sat down to answer questions from our many Tik Tok followers. Today seems like a great time to get right back into it so let’s start with one about blockchain. Specifically, how do we envision blockchain penetrating into the mainstream since currently more than 90% of people have no idea what it is? It seems doomed to remain in a niche market.

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TRANSCRIPT

Speaker 1 (00:07):

Welcome to TARTLE Cast with your hosts Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby. Where humanity steps into the future and Source Data defines the path.

Alexander McCaig (00:24):

Okay TikTok, slow down, we're back.

Jason Rigby (00:26):

You had a week.

Alexander McCaig (00:29):

I've had a week to deal with my deflated ego.

Jason Rigby (00:34):

Notice his hair's cut.

Alexander McCaig (00:34):

I've cut my hair.

Jason Rigby (00:35):

He's got a different blouse on.

Alexander McCaig (00:37):

Yeah, I've got a different blouse on. What a pain.

Jason Rigby (00:41):

See this phone's dinging even right now with TikTok comments.

Alexander McCaig (00:44):

All right.

Jason Rigby (00:45):

They're coming in as we're-

Alexander McCaig (00:47):

We're going to spend 10 minutes talking about TikTok comments and then we're just going to answer them.

Jason Rigby (00:53):

Okay. PokemonTrapking, "Let me work for you guys LOL. I got a background in this."

Alexander McCaig (01:01):

Okay.

Jason Rigby (01:02):

Yeah.

Alexander McCaig (01:02):

All right. We have a contact address at tartle.co, go ahead. Reach out.

Jason Rigby (01:10):

Science guy, S C 1 E N C E guy. He comment before and then we had sent him a video of him commenting and he said transparency and no double spins. That is the way. Transparency and no double spins. That is the way.

Alexander McCaig (01:27):

That's how we do it.

Jason Rigby (01:27):

Right.

Alexander McCaig (01:28):

Shout out to him. Thank you for the support. Appreciate that.

Jason Rigby (01:32):

You made a joke about him being like Bill Nye. He said I do real science not TV BS.

Alexander McCaig (01:39):

Bill Nye is going to get in this. This is going to be some huge online TikTok battle.

Jason Rigby (01:44):

Salgasar1111, he comments all the time. He said, "Where can I get the t-shirt the one with the little kids and the alien?"

Alexander McCaig (01:51):

He wants to know?

Jason Rigby (01:52):

Yeah.

Alexander McCaig (01:52):

I'll post. I get most of my t-shirts on Etsy. I'm glad you liked the one that says don't talk to strangers.

Jason Rigby (01:59):

Yeah. That's a funny one. Braydosau said this, "When do you think blockchain will make a serious public impact? I'm hearing 90% of people haven't even heard of it or they see crypto as fake money."

Alexander McCaig (02:11):

Yeah. I think this is probably what will happen, when I think about probability. It's going to be integrated into all these systems that you're using and you won't even realize it. It's just going to happen on the backend and people won't even really do a big study of it, the general public. And they won't even know that they're using it or it is being used.

Jason Rigby (02:28):

But it is the way of the future.

Alexander McCaig (02:29):

It's the way of the future.

Jason Rigby (02:30):

There's no way around it.

Alexander McCaig (02:31):

Decentralization is the future.

Jason Rigby (02:31):

Yeah. BradleyHarding67, look at this one, two, three, four, five comments he made on different videos.

Alexander McCaig (02:38):

Wow okay. And paragraphs.

Jason Rigby (02:39):

One he says, "Why isn't the Facebook link working?" And we've had a bunch of comments on that.

Alexander McCaig (02:43):

Yeah well, let me tell you something Facebook changes their rules constantly. And we are trying to keep up with them changing these rules and continually giving you guys access. As you know, what we're doing is a little disruptive. So these other companies are like, "No, we're not going to let you do that." And we're trying to vouch for you to say, "We're not doing this for us. We're doing it for the people that actually own that information." So I just ask for patience, we hear you and we have a development team, we have processes and we're working on all of this to make sure everything's buttoned up.

Jason Rigby (03:13):

Yeah. And then he also says this with some of his comments, "Needs a little more detail on how this all works and how to use it. I get how the process works and have been saying this for years." Then he says this, "Also think that with all the video ads they press on us, we should get paid a small part for our time. You actually sit down and add up how many ads we watch just say in an hour's time, it's remarkable. Now put a dollar to it, say 30 cents, in an eight hour a day it's almost a full day's worth of wages.

Alexander McCaig (03:39):

Yeah, damn straight. That's what we've been saying. If you put labor and time into something, you need the compensation for it. And if you're confused on how the system works, I don't blame you. You guys are looking at iteration 1.0, this was my mind creating this thing. And now we've done so much testing with you folks because you've been so generous that we're coming out with the 2.0 version very soon. And it's going to be very clear and straightforward and it's going to be helpful and you'll know exactly what's going on and how to use it.

Jason Rigby (04:10):

RyanTheYeti, which we've talked about him before.

Alexander McCaig (04:12):

Oh, he's classic. I remember this guy. He's good.

Jason Rigby (04:16):

He said, cause we sent him a video of us talking about him. He said, "Good marketing strategy, man. I just made the comment due to how you were framed in the vid. It made you look super tall. It looks like you fixed it."

Alexander McCaig (04:25):

You bet we fixed it.

Jason Rigby (04:27):

We fixed it yeah. It looks better.

Alexander McCaig (04:29):

Thank you Yeti man.

Jason Rigby (04:31):

And then WeaveMagic said this, "I don't disagree. Companies and consumers will greatly benefit, but I just expect AI to replace workers further exaggerating wealth inequality."

Alexander McCaig (04:44):

I guess conceptually, if I understand this correctly, they're talking about AI comes in and remove certain job processes that don't need to be there and then less people are actually having the ability to make money because the computer takes over their position.

Jason Rigby (04:55):

Yes.

Alexander McCaig (04:56):

Possibly, but what you find with bees, they found that bees aren't generally the number one pollinator and when one species dies, another one actually takes over and replaces it. So what you'll find is that there's a shift. The job that they were doing is no longer needed for a human, but other jobs are required for that. Things that are creative that AI can't compensate for. Very nice though, I'm glad they're there thinking towards the future.

Jason Rigby (05:18):

And wealth inequality is something that we've talked about at TARTLE.

Alexander McCaig (05:22):

That's why we designed it so you, as the person selling your data can open up a new monetary stream for yourself. We want to economically elevate people also.

Jason Rigby (05:31):

Yeah. So you had a little side note about, cause somebody's pushing back and I like this, you had a little side note about posture and I was hunched over and we were talking about it. And that video went viral, we have 240,000 views or whatever about how your posture is. And this person wrote all caps, so very passionate, "My man doesn't know about health issues like autism or cerebral palsy affecting how they carry themselves. Just another video explaining healthy people have better lives."

Alexander McCaig (05:58):

That's not what I'm saying. That's not even close to what I'm saying. You're looking at it strictly in a material sense. Someone that has cerebral palsy that can still exude a lot of internal strength.

Jason Rigby (06:08):

Yes.

Alexander McCaig (06:09):

That is a form of posture. And I'm just saying in a normal, healthy person, right? Normal. In a normalized format, not a person that has some sort of debilitating disease or anything else like that that destroys their bone structure and they're forced to be leaned over and walking improperly. Now I'm not saying that defines the person, how they think, walk, talk or act. That's something that's just out of their control. They're also defined internally by their own strength. I've known many, very fantastic people, handicapped people that have done phenomenal, monumental things in this world that any normal walking person hasn't done. And when I talk about the posture, it goes beyond the material and you watched a ten second clip. You need to understand the context of a lot of this stuff. Right? And that's goes back to even data itself. It's important that we understand that context. So when I talk about posture, it's a function of how we carry ourselves, not just the fact that I'm standing up straight.

Jason Rigby (07:03):

Right. Like you said in a spinal or physical sense.

Alexander McCaig (07:06):

Yeah. That's just an unfair assumption. Why would we ever do something like that?

Jason Rigby (07:11):

Ani_fan said, "I didn't understand a thing you said, but I'll act like I do."

Alexander McCaig (07:17):

I get that a lot.

Jason Rigby (07:19):

HitmanYogi commented, "Stop telling the truth." I think like in a good way.

Alexander McCaig (07:25):

No he's cool. He or she doesn't matter. There's a real good quote that I've always enjoyed. And it is, "The truth is at all times unpopular." Does that vibe? You hear that?

Jason Rigby (07:40):

Yeah. I see what you're saying.

Alexander McCaig (07:40):

What's the next one?

Jason Rigby (07:42):

So talking about the same article cause that went viral, so we get a lot of comments on it. FarmBoy3161171013 said, "Very right. I died 20 minutes, no heartbeat and came back. Seeing clear and have become more calm and humble from it. And only speaking to help and if spoken to," and then there was six replies to that.

Alexander McCaig (08:03):

I'm sorry did he have a near death experience?

Jason Rigby (08:06):

Yeah. You may have had a walk-in, many with near death experience too, especially if there was a big change. My mom died for five minutes and had years of rehab because her muscles teared from lack of proper blood flow. "Are you sure it was 20 minutes?" And then they're getting into this near death experience and how it went from and then different people that experienced that. But six people commented on that one. So when we get into, and I know the whole episode is about what your data's worth and it's more than gold and get paid to sell your data.

Alexander McCaig (08:34):

But you see how important that was. Now you have six other points of input on someone else's perspective. So if you come to a data model on people on near death experiences, that's the type of data packet information that you'd want to share with the world. Because there's something very, very interesting to be studied there. And the fact that we have to go through and study this in a comment function. Okay got it. But for other people, for researchers that actually look around near death experiences, some MDs in the field, this is a big deal.

Jason Rigby (09:01):

Yeah. The _BlueGorilla said, "The great reset." He put that in capitals. Institutions and the wealthy elite are funneling money into blockchain, brace, cryptocurrency because of the federal reserve tanked.

Alexander McCaig (09:11):

Yeah. I love when people state obvious things. What it is is a big shift to power and so they're now like, "Okay, where's the power? Well, we need to control more currency." It's what it's always been.

Jason Rigby (09:23):

R H A D D A Stocks, Rhadda Stocks commented, "Are you wearing a WHOOP?"

Alexander McCaig (09:29):

Yes actually, both of us are wearing a WHOOP. WHOOP does a great job. We wouldn't have [crosstalk 00:09:35]

Jason Rigby (09:35):

Cause we're not woke. We're wooked.

Alexander McCaig (09:36):

And I really like the fact that from direct conversation with WHOOP, going over their data policies, how they store the data, how it's used and analyzed, that was kind of the driving factor for why I chose this for a health IOT device.

Jason Rigby (09:54):

Right. No I love it. SYoungFoxy said, "Who are you? And if I check out TARTLE, what are you doing with my data?"

Alexander McCaig (10:03):

Again. Who am I? I am a human being on a mission to drive benefit for other human beings and help solve the world's problems through the collective power of our data. That's who I am. What am I doing with your data? Absolutely nothing. I facilitate a transaction between you as a seller and a person that is a buyer. I want you to manage your own data, be self-responsible for it and share it towards causes you care about for solving these massive problems that face us as a civilization.

Jason Rigby (10:33):

Braydosau B R A Y D O S A U said, "I love your videos."

Alexander McCaig (10:40):

Thank you.

Jason Rigby (10:41):

Shannon S I T H commented just the emoji with mind blown.

Alexander McCaig (10:46):

Okay.

Jason Rigby (10:48):

V O I D R Q E said, "I don't know what this is, but I'm here for it."

Alexander McCaig (10:54):

Isn't that cool? I'm glad that our vision and the passion is actually being felt through the camera or through the audio. It's nice. It's nice that people they're like, "I feel that fire" I don't know what's going on, but there's something good about it that I want to be a part of.

Jason Rigby (11:10):

Yeah. And same again B R A Y D O S A U, and we'll close on this one, commented this, "Do you think government is scared to go digital because true privacy doesn't exist in the digital realm?"

Alexander McCaig (11:21):

Absolutely. That is a fantastic comment. Thank you for that question. Yes, absolutely. If we think about a world of incentives and a world of power structures, you could probably imagine how such transparency could upset that sort of power spectrum.

Jason Rigby (11:39):

Yeah. And Braydosau, he has a picture of his dog, at TARTLE we love dogs.

Alexander McCaig (11:44):

Love dogs.

Jason Rigby (11:45):

So he's got a picture of his dog so shout out. I'll do this and then send us a picture, we'd love to give a shout out to your dog.

Alexander McCaig (11:52):

Yeah. Most definitely. We need to know dogs name too.

Jason Rigby (11:53):

Yeah. And if any of you guys have dogs, we'll shout out dogs. We'd love that.

Alexander McCaig (11:56):

We'll do dog shout outs all day. Doggy data.

Jason Rigby (12:00):

Doggy data. Perfect.

Alexander McCaig (12:01):

All right. TikTok, thank you again for round two.

Speaker 1 (12:12):

Thank you for listening to TARTLE cast with your hosts Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby. Where humanity steps into the future and Source Data defines the path.