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If you want to be a content provider, you have responsibilities. You cannot just write down what you want, especially when your name is at stake.

Crypto Eri, has a very good name in the market. No hype, no screaming, only facts and only truth. This is not easy work, it takes time and a lot of DYOR – Do Your Own Research.

I try, myself, to be a “good” researcher, but sometimes I get caught by the hype, by the “flashy article” with the greatest title, that pulls me in to tweet, retweet or share with my followers .....

I feel I have a responsibility also

I have been in this market already for a long time, so should be careful what to share and what NOT to share with the Crypto OG's , but specifically with the New people in this field. They can be hurt easily as they are still open for all the FUD, Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt that is written and the “scammy articles” that are shared.

But NONE of that when talking about Crypto Eri; she did not reach this point by sharing non-factual articles, she is known as a very factual YouTuber and definitely puts her in a special position: a position with a lot of followers that want to listen to her, when the notification message is shared that she has a new video out.

So the newest video of her, is it hype, is if fact, is it fluff ...... stupid question of course, reading the intro of this article ! ! !

Facts were checked three times and this is why Crypto Eri shared her video from the Financial Times:

https://youtu.be/pUiSA0qLhaw

Takes a lot of time, to issue these videos but she had to do it as the content, of the third video, was something she really wanted to publish.

This article with a lot of bold statements needed to be broken down as there are a lot of assumptions in the article and that is something you have to be very careful with. If you leave room for speculation, readers will form their own story, their own opinion and THAT is where FUD starts to live its own life;

Disinformation ! ! !

When money is involved, investments, digital assets, you better be sure you are writing truthfully as people WILL get hurt ! ! !

This video is incredible, as Crypto Eri is sharing what it takes to be a researcher, what it takes to debunk false information, what it takes to be a great researcher. Helping others “reading” the information correctly as her love for the industry, for the individual digital asset is so big, she does not want to see anybody get hurt .......

Okay, XRPTwin talking here: Did I have contact with Crypto Eri before I wrote this article:

ABSOLUTELY NOT

Did Crypto Eri ask me to write a positive article about her:

ABSOLUTELY NOT

It is 07:28 in the morning at this time, I woke up, opened my computer, saw the article and just started writing ! ! !

The content of the article I am not going to write TOO much about it, nor does Crypto Eri, but the video is 12 minutes and 13 seconds long and Crypto Eri really starts to talk about the article 6 ½ minutes in.... and throughout the video it becomes clear that the article has some false statement in it

First showing us the level of the article, the writer of the article, before she is actually telling us ABOUT the article ! ! !

Debunking an article about Brad Garlinghouse is probably the best ..... to do with the person himself, so that is what she is doing.

Sharing facts ! ! !

Brad Garlinghouse shares 4 tweets himself dealing with the article and Crypto Eri shares all 4 with us ....

Even a tweet about Brad's Twitter handle

..... you have to share truth vs. not truth ...

Crypto Eri shares that you have to stop the nonsense immediately otherwise it is going to lead their own life and I will share a story that was not debunked fast enough and I will mention here for the last time .....

A couple years ago a lot of people claimed that Mr. Kitao, CEO SBI, shared XRP would jump to 10 dollars in the blink of an eye ....... Well, he never did, it just kept simmering and was not debunked immediately, so people kept on talking about it, it started living its own life and well today, people still mention it, maybe as a joke, but still mentioning it ! ! ! And I know Crypto Eri has tried to debunk THAT story more than once ! ! !

This video shows a different side of Crypto Eri, the Researcher Eri, the Truth Eri. Definitely check this document out as it shows you what it takes to be a good researcher.

For now I say Sayonara but also:

**STAY SAFE ! ! !

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October 17 last year I was fortunate enough to write a blog together with Hodor. Hodor a legend among the XRPCommunity is very knowledgeable regarding the whole Ripple and XRP eco-system and an amazing blogger. He decided to change his direction, but I was very lucky bringing in a blog written together .... It was all about Corridors and if you would like to give it a read ..... it is right here

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In the blog, ODL had just been launched and the three separate terms x-Current, x-Rapid and x-Via were all colliding in the three letter word: ODL – On Demand Liquidity. It became the 3 magic words of the end of 2019 / 2020 and has been written about in multiple social media sources !

In our blog we also mentioned H_M_X:

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So, mentioned last year, I wanted to know a bit more about this account, the person behind the account, so let's find out MORE about this person ....

First of all, if you are into XRP and into ODL, you should, need to give H_M_X (PayID: pay$hmatejx.github.io) a follow:

Let's go into the world called On Demand Liquidity:

XRPTwin:

Can you please introduce yourself in a couple sentences ? ? ?

H_M_X:

I prefer not to speak about myself online. Suffice it to say that I'm a scientist by training and by heart and me and my team (who I'm extremely proud of) work on topics that impact lives worldwide.

I am also one of those idiots who dipped his toes into BTC by following an online tech news article (I think it was featured on Slashdot, I'm not sure anymore).

I installed the client, took some BTC from faucet (if I recall correctly it was 5 BTC), only to delete everything the next day thinking to myself 'what a stupid idea'. I did not take the time to understand it. I thought it was about electronic money and it looked to me like a solution looking for a problem.

Only in 2017 did I read about crypto again and grasped the concepts of, distributed ledger, consensus, immutability and trust buried beneath the hype. I was floored and hooked ever since.

XRPTwin:

When did you start to get interested in Ripple / XRP ? ? ?

H_M_X:

I got interested in XRP soon after I got interested in crypto in general. I don't remember exactly what got me interested. I think I’ve read a lot of forum discussions, found XRPChat that way, and I really liked the ideas (decentralised exchange, IOUs, speed, low fees).

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I saw the same ideas also in Stellar (which is another one I follow), with a slightly different twist (e.g. rolling up multiple operations into a transactions – Ripple would benefit from that as well!).

XRPTwin:

What other coins have your interest, if any ? ? ?

H_M_X:

I am interested in many. I don't hold all of them. Some, for example, I consider still too early in the game, I may get a bag once the initial hype is forgotten. I don’t have much time to investigate, so I read a lot of other peoples analyses as a filter, and I start from there.

XRPTwin:

What partnership with Ripple interests you the most ? ? ?

H_M_X:

I don't have a particular interest in any specific partnership. I'm a 'big picture' kind of person. What matters to me is seeing the continued direction towards growth and evolution in all aspects, from partnerships to regulations.

That being said, the MoneyGram partnership stands out at the moment because I see it as a proving ground for the ODL component of XRP's value proposition (only one of many!).

In my opinion this proving phase was very successful, and now I am eagerly awaiting the next phase.

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XRPTwin:

Let's first start with x-Current x-Rapid x-Via, when did you start looking at this

H_M_X:

I was completely unfamiliar with the remittance and cross-border payment landscape before crypto. I needed to do a bit reading-up to fill my knowledge gap. Reading XRPChat, I learned about Ripple strategy and their commercial offerings.

Their approach to bootstrap XRP as “the ultimate bridge asset” through offering solutions that seamlessly cover other relevant aspects first, makes complete sense to me.

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XRPTwin:

ODL, changed the whole game .... probably it all started with Ripplenet 2.0, when all products were combined, when did you start following the corridors?

H_M_X:

The idea that I can scan through the public ledger came to my mind in late 2018. My first attempts were directed at Stellar, not Ripple. I wanted to see what is happening with IBM World Wire. I made some coding to make a local database that I could query Stellar’s ledger.

Disappointed that I could not find any significant volume, I abandoned the task for a while. In April of 2019 I took it up again, but this time with Ripple, to see if I’m more successful there. My attempt was much easier due to the great work by @WietseWind

publishing the XRPL as a Google Big Query dataset.

Please pick the correct Wietse Wind ! ! !

I immediately found some interesting signals. I also correlated the signals with exchange buys and sells, so I was as certain as one can be that I’m looking at genuine x-Rapid (ODL as we call it now). When in June the Ripple + MGI announcement came, I had all the tooling and I was ready to monitor them closely.

XRPTwin:

Can you say something about the individual Corridors – Mexico / Philippines / Australia/ Thailand ?

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H_M_X:

The Mexico and Philippines corridors are still the most developed ones. They are also the oldest one (remember, Ripple was experimenting with Mexico already with Cualix in 2017/18).

Australia came up quickly afterwards. We see strong indication that Thailand is currently developing.

XRPTwin:

What about Brazil / Japan / Nigeria / Europe

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H_M_X:

Ripple also hinted at Brazil, but I did not see any conclusive signal yet.

There are also early signals of Korea developing. I think everyone is eagerly awaiting what happens with Japan. I, along many others, monitor all major Japanese exchanges (not only SBI VC).

On the other hand, I think Stellar has the upper hand in Nigeria and Brazil currently. I see increased trade and payment volume in these currencies on Stellar’s ledger corresponding with the associated announcements.

XRPTwin:

What has been the best of 2020 ..... so far?

H_M_X:

Limiting the scope to Crypto, for me it was the apparently concerted release of announcements in mid-July concerning development of regulations.

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XRPTwin:

What will be the best of 2020 ..... the remainder of it?

H_M_X:

The best is yet to come.

I believe we will see further regulations and announcements that will solidify the proposal that:

Crypto and DLT is here to stay and not only a passing fad.

XRPTwin:

Regarding the virus has it affected the blockchain world positively or negatively

H_M_X:

I think the virus acted as a catalyst, but I think the positive impact is often overstated. Globally speaking, there are other issues as a result of the virus that are more pressing and therefore more in focus.

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XRPTwin:

We worked together before in a piece I did together with Hodor, about corridors, about ODL .... it was just launched .... Are you still in contact with Hodor?

H_M_X:

No, unfortunately I did not stay in contact. I respected his wish to step out. I miss his work, he was a big inspiration for me.

XRPTwin:

Where is ODL going to take us this year and will ODL ever be a price mover for XRP?

H_M_X:

I believe we will see ODL getting back and beyond the volume we saw in May.

At the same time, this will not yet impact the XRP price through the envisioned mechanisms both David Schwartz and Bob Way talked about. The volume needs to be at least a few % of the total XRP payment volume to have leverage. I don’t know the exact %, I did not do any modelling (too many unknowns for me at the moment).

I think there is high probability that ODL will be a price mover. But we will see price increases way before the ODL effect kicks in. This will mainly be driven by speculation, which will be in turn also be supported and justified by the increased ODL volume, in a kind of a virtuous cycle.

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XRPTwin:

A couple weeks ago, the XRPCommunity noticed overall ODL went down dramatically. This was explained as a decrease in high value transactions; low value in high volume is “the new ODL” .... what do you think about that?

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H_M_X:

At the moment I am looking at the data. The dramatic decrease does not bother me at all. The way ODL was used up until now had nothing to do with the actual value proposition – sending and settling individual payments. I am monitoring the situation through charting in various data analytic tools, so any change of patterns is really easy to spot.

XRPTwin:

So, H_M_X, Would you like to give your opinion on the following picture; it appeared On Twitter 2 days ago ? ? ?

H_M_X:

I was really excited to see these new patterns being explored. Sending multiple ~30 USD transactions is much closer to the actual ODL value proposition (totally remove pre-funding).

However,

the volumes we are seeing today discussed:

here
hmatejx/status/1293289655820050433,

here

hmatejx/status/1293290130954956806,

and here

hmatejx/status/1293555071855321088

are still far below what the actual picture will look like as this gets scaled out. This is also evident by MGI and others still sending large amounts of batched payments, ostensively to reload their pre-funding accounts.

XRPTwin:

While you are at it, let's look at another picture and eh .... care to respond ? ? ?

H_M_X:

What we ODL monitors routinely notice is that newer and newer destination tags get involved. Sometimes this indicates that the same ODL customers are expanding to other corridors (i.e. using their accounts on additional exchanges). Other times we have reason to believe that new (and as of yet unknown) customers have joined the party.

XRPTwin:

Anything to add?

H_M_X:

Not really. Only that I hate the rampant tribalism in the crypto space.

There is no need for us vs. them

My motto is: may the best solutions win. And make no mistake, this will be a dynamic equilibrium. The winners of today may be the losers of tomorrow.

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Thank you for your time and efforts filling this out. It is amazing how responsive you have been and definitely showing some more light in the darkness called ODL ! ! !

I appreciate your answers and would love to talk again when the corridors are lightning up more than what they do at the moment

For now:

STAY SAFE ! ! !

My first post about becoming green has been a long time ago. I am quiet amazed I am still here ...... such a long period of green and I am still around ..... looking for red. No, I am not shorting the market, but I am looking for red ...... red tomatoes.

Once again, this is all where it started in May:

The plants in the breeding box

Getting bigger and bigger

The hanging bell peppers

Not only tomatoes in there, but the smaller ones, front left ...... bell pepper (green pepper), one I would love to grow as I am very fond it.

In my mind it has been longer, but probably the same as you guys .... it seems that the days are longer, but ......... it is already August. The June and July months have past in a heart beat but seems forever ..... Time does go pretty quick ... yesterday was a year that Jeffrey Epstein left this earth ...... I hear you thinking ..... ONE YEAR ALREADY ! ! !

How many days have I thought, it is over, it is dead, nothing will happen ....... green tomatoes, well, maybe I did something wrong, I should have given more water, less water, food nutrition.....

Another maybe wrong turn taken by me ..... holiday. If you go for holiday, you might want to ask a befriended neighbour, family member or green fingered person, to look after your little baby, but nothing of that, just go on holiday without even thinking about your precious green babies ! ! ! Hard, Cold (not in temperature) leaving the plants behind without a thought ! ! !

Coming back home, yes, some yellow leaves, brown leaves, dead leaves. It had been a really warm week, so screaming for water, well was one of the first things done coming home again. Well, we are two weeks in again and these are the newest pictures of my green project ...... hold on, TWO green projects where one needs to be a red project:

Well, a little longer and the market is going to be hopefully more RED :-0

Just a little update on what I actually have “hanging”:

If you want to read about the whole journey:

1. Green like the market 2Day ! ! !

2. Green Green Green

3. G R E E N ! ! !

This interview has been long due, but well, it just did not happen .... yet. So I tweeted Bob and I don't like to sent out personal messages I receive back but I would like to share Bob's answer:

Wow, I felt good about that.

Well, that was a couple days/ weeks/ months/ years ago (you fill in the period) and I caught Bob on an airport last month, so it all turned out great.

Talking about a visionary person ... wow wow wow. Very busy, so lucky I caught him. Let's jump into the interview as Bob doesn't have a lot of time ...... eh wait .... Bob is done. Let's go for it, we can do the interview now in our own time, so:

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XRPTwin:

Can you please introduce yourself ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

Bob Ras, Co-Creator of Sologenic DeFi ecosystem and Co-founder of CoinField.

XRPTwin:

Before heading Coinfield, you were CEO at Hardex for 10 years. How has this helped you in your current role ? ? ?

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Bob Ras:

I’ve founded many companies from scratch ranging from Manufacturing to tech startups. I had a few successful exits.

XRPTwin:

What has been your biggest surprise/frustration moving from the manufacturing/marketing industry to the blockchain/tech side of business ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

Although the manufacturing industry is very different from tech, but if the goal is to disrupt the industry then they will become very similar at least in how to expand them.

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XRPTwin:

When did you get plans for Coinfield ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

The idea popped up sometimes in 2017, but putting a team together to develop the platform from scratch was a bit time consuming, that was the reason we’ve missed the golden time of December 2017 and we were probably not as lucky as Binance. If i could go back to those days, I would’ve probably launched with a White label platform to have a faster Go-to-Market while we were developing our own platform.

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XRPTwin:

Where is Coinfield heading ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

CoinField's ultimate goal is to create a modern financial platform for the new era.

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XRPTwin:

Partnership with Ripple, how did this happen ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

We’ve been in touch with the Ripple labs since the beginning of 2018. I’ve always been an XRP supporter and as a matter of fact that’s how I got interested in blockchain. What Ripple is building is certainly a revolution in finance and cross border payments, but obviously just like any new technology it will take sometimes to be adopted globally.

XRPTwin:

Why did you choose the XRPL and were there any other considerations ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

Today, many Blockchain technologies exist, offering niches and uniqueness in many different aspects. When we created the technical requirements of this project, it became self-evident that the XRP Ledger is, in fact, the most scalable blockchain that offers the technologies and tools required to build the Sologenic ecosystem. After all, we think XRPL is built to cater to this exact system for the following reasons:

Censorship-Resistant Transaction Processing

Fast & Efficient Consensus Algorithm

Responsible Software Governance

Secure, Adaptable Cryptography

Modern Features for Smart Contracts

On-Ledger Decentralised Exchange

XRPTwin:

SoloGenic, can you share some more info about this project ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

Sologenic simply is merging traditional financial markets with crypto. The ultimate goal of Sologenic is to build a fully regulated DeFI ecosystem that can be adopted by financial institutions globally.

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XRPTwin:

Will you be the first to market with a commercial product: “Tokenised Stocks” ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

There might be one or two other ecosystems which try to tokenise assets on the ERC20 network, but it is not as sophisticated as Sologenic. Sologenic offers a wide range of assets from top 30 stock exchanges. There will be some extremely valuable addition to the Sologenic ecosystem which we have not announced yet. Sologenic is going to revolutionise the traditional financial industry.

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XRPTwin:

Is there a timeframe for launching Sologenic? Will it be a limited or full rollout and why? Has there been any resistance to tokenising stocks from the brokerage or investor community ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

Sologenic has many different components which some of them have already launched and some of them are already in development. We follow our roadmap closely and will launch each component within the timeframe specified.

XRPTwin:

Is it only tokenised stock or does it cover tokenised real estate ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

Well, we start with tokenising stocks, ETFs and Commodities and we will certainly expand to other assets. We just build the required infrastructure to tokenise the world.

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XRPTwin:

Will you be able to buy stocks/tokens with Crypto from the get-go And what will the fees /charges be like? I can imagine such a new concept will be expensive to transact for the short mid term. Or will you offer something like a monthly subscription .... 1 fee, as many trades as a person likes ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

The idea is to make this as affordable as possible so it can be adopted by financial institutions as well as retail customers. It is too early to talk about the fees.

XRPTwin:

Will the tokenised stocks traded on the XRPL DEX be synthetic assets or actual tokenised versions of the stock (with ownership rights) ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

There will be the actual tokenised version of the stocks. The Stocks will be in the custody of a very well-known brokerage house in the UK under a Trust shell entity to safeguard the clients’ assets. Safeguarding clients’ assets is one of the major discussions with the regulator when it comes to obtaining a MiFID license.

XRPTwin:

Will those be different than the tokenised stocks traded on Coinfield’s licensed securities exchange ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

No securities will be traded on CoinField. Sologenic will have its own platform and DEX along with all the required licenses.

XRPTwin:

What's the hold up with coming to the United States; only regulations .... any timeframe ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

US! Sounds like our end goal. Unfortunately the US market is extremely complicated when it comes to offering financial services. The fact that we have to obtain a license in every state makes this very time consuming, but we are working on this! I hope we can serve our great American fellows in 2021-2022.

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XRPTwin:

A Crypto exchange and tokenisation of assets platform seems like a huge endeavour, what new products are on the horizon ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

Many different products are in the pipeline. We’re actually launching a very existing project with one of the independent XRP ledger development companies. I think we may announce it in August.

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XRPTwin:

You shared with us before Coinfield will open up offices abroad; is this still going to happen; and when can we hear the first offices open, has the Pandemic been a hold up ? ? ?

Bob Ras:

So far our HQ is located in Tallinn Estonia, but we’re working on some new offices directly and through our Franchisees. Perhaps Mexico very soon.

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XRPTwin:

In the past “you have been seen with Curis Wang” publicly , both Coinfield and Bitrue are running validators , any chance of a collaboration or possible co-listing for BTR – Solo ? ? ?

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Bob Ras:

Our team always looks to collaborate with other companies in Crypto space and we do not like to look at other teams as competitors. We’ve been collaborating with many other teams as you know.

Unfortunately it looks like Curis Wang looks at this in a different way and he probably feels we are a competitor than being a collaborator. Our team reached out to him to do a cross listing as the XRP community has demanded that many times, but he did not get back to our team and we’ve never followed up again!

XRPTwin:

Crypto news was full of it: Pay ID and CoinField joined Open Payments Coalition. Can you elaborate a little on this initiative ? ? ?

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Bob Ras:

This was a 3-4 month collaboration between Ripple and CoinField.

I believe PayID is going to change the game.

We’re actually launching a very exciting project on PayID in collaboration with other XRPL developers very soon!

Well, I think some of the questions were tough, but I appreciate Bob being so transparent and willing to answer everything. I will watch Bob's Twitter account very closely because this month, maybe something is launched. We will see. Thank you Bob and good luck with all the different projects ..... good luck ! ! !

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and always:

STAY SAFE ! ! !

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Earlier this week I was asked by my brother in law if I wanted to join him visiting something he got for his birthday ..... Secretive but, after a little pushing,

“So Ferdi you wanna come with me ...... well, if , maybe ........ okay ! ! !”

I promised to join him.

So, last Friday, was the special day, in the morning we, Noah and myself, left the house at 07.00 and we had a little ride, only 35 minutes .... we went to the beach, but we did not see any sand .....

We SAW:

a lot of nice cars ! ! ! !

So when we went under the track and went through the tunnel:

Candy Land ! ! !

A lot of things would happen today. We were ready. Although I was only personal assistant, well that is what they call it, I was so ready to have a fun day, with a lot of exotic cars ! ! !

We had to join group D, that had 17 people .... Many things were discussed, I did not pay attention, all those cars ..... candy candy candy ! ! !

I heard many nice terms that were going to be part of the day: Drifting, Super Car Driving, Drag Racing, Carting, Ice Driving, Water Sliding, Race Car Driving ...... Noah was running and pointing:

DAD LOOK OVER THERE, DAD LOOK AT THAT, WOW, REALLY, WOW

It was fun to see ! ! !

So Noah's Uncle was going to start with Ice Riding .... checking what it is to drive on ice. The back wheels were attached to little cart wheels and were reenacting driving on ice ....

Well, let me tell you, that was really funny to see. As long as you are pushing the gas from time to time, you are okay ..... well that did not happen all of the time. Little clip of Uncle M's “driving on ice”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWA5H-WOWr4&t=25s

This was the slowest people were going to drive today, so they should enjoy it to the max ! ! !

Next challenge, driving with water. As this happens a lot in the Netherlands, we have a lot of rain, this always helps you. Steering the wrong way, according to your knowledge ..... and hand break, full stop.

Everybody was allowed to have three tries and .... nobody did it correct the first try. It is just not natural to pull the hand break to make a full stop. Well, the camera catches everything and this was uncle M's third try:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xeCiEwr4aw

Well, that was the idea, so P A S S ! ! !

Full day of nice things ....

Next stop: Go Karting .....

Go-Karting is nice, because you really have to do really wild things to mess up, so 6 people started ..... 5 minutes little track, nice ..... most guys were tearing it apart ..... Second race, was fun too, really competitive and that is what you want. Third race, 6 more, but wait ..... 6+6 +6 = 18 – 17 people there so .......

HELL YEAH

I put on a helmet and the game was ON ....... like Donkey Kong ! ! !

My task: squeaking tires and sweat on my forehead after the five minutes. I was so ready for it, got in the last Go-Kart and here I come .... Green light and while pushing to the first turn, I already passed the first go-kart ..... Turn 2, took it short, squeaking tires, little break, already third position and now the race was on .... loved it .... I was in my element and there was no stopping ........ actually there was ..... one of the slower drivers went sideways and blocked the track, yellow flag. So we had stop at Start – Finish, so that as a winning move,

went into the box, got some new tires and fuel

..... eh no, that did not really happen ! ! ! So waiting for the green flag again and ...... off we went ! ! ! Had my flying move again in the first turn, and YES, I was leading the pack, this Lewis Hamilton was showing his back, not to be seen anymore. And that is where the story stops, because I DID finish first ! ! !

You guest right, that first person is ME ! !

Good to know that out of the 17 people in the group the 06 DUDES with the biggest ..... you know what, ran to the go-karts in the first heat, so the really competitive driving was in the first ...... whatever .... I finished first ! ! !

Drifting .... That is something you will not do yourself, so you had to sit besides a driver ... 2 cars driving next to each other racing the track. Exciting it is ..... If you don't know exactly what is .... well, watch the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-gf4xKEKGE

This shot may have not been too close but there are parts where they were REALLY close together ! ! !

That was a shot from on the track, this is before Uncle M. went in, looks pretty relaxed ...

well, was a little different when he got out. Full of adrenaline ! ! !

One person actually had to vomit during the race. Good Uncle M. went before .... that race car was ready for the day ! ! !

So lunch time, the person that had to pray to the porcelain God during drifting had no lunch ! ! !

After lunch more stuff. Not to make this post too long, let's have some images from the remainder of the race day: This coming Wednesday I will have some more pictures of the event. Will be Coil Subscriber Only though, so get your 5 dollar a month subscription in and you support the XRP Movement ! ! !

So we had drag racing and a lot of cool cars to drive in ! ! !

Drag Racing ...... and Noah wanted to be part of it. He asked me if he was allowed to do the flag waving ..... well, if you want it, you have to make it happen, so there he went ......

https://youtu.be/rfajzAFP7lo

Uncle M. did a lot of cool stuff:

Driving a fast 911

Driving a fast Formula I car ( the red one in the back).

Oh yes, he drove the blue Lambo ! ! !

I tell you we had an amazing day.... do I mind I did not drive myself, maybe a little but seeing uncle M. who has a great relationship with Noah, as a little child playing with his toys, and Noah having a great time...... is for me already event success ! ! !

People were still coming to the beach. This is what I saw beside me outside on the other side:

and ..................This is what I saw on the other side:

A very satisfied little boy, sleeping, probably dreaming of nice cars and his uncle. This was a great day and Wednesday, you will yet some more pictures

STAY SAFE ! ! !

Although I still need to write about what happened during the day, on Friday, August 08, I really want to share our evening.

We had not seen friends for a long time, due to misunderstanding it has been too long since we were together; besides Covid, which has not helped. All water under the bridge so yesterday we sat down again ! ! ! We were at their place like around 4 in the afternoon.

Our friends have a house on the water and when it is above 30 degrees (90 degrees Fahrenheit), it is a place to chill, jump in the water when you want, drive a boat for a bit to get some wind through your hair or just relax ....

We did not really have plans for the evening so we decided to go out for dinner. A restaurant beside the river, perfect. Cool breeze and just a lot of fun ...

We spoke and spoke and spoke and suddenly a girl came of who wanted to play with our friends' daughter, a little over 2 years. The girl is kind of the nanny of her when they are on the “water house” and we decided to go to the horses and “ little” horses in the barn behind the restaurant.

Was fun to look at the horses, they were friendly and Noah, being a animal lover (you have to with such a name), was just petting it all over the horse's head and they really got it going :–)

When we walked back to the restaurant, we heard a cow making a lot of noise and it was a little bit of a “cry for help”, not a cow making a MOOOOHH sound ... We walked in and well, it just happened ! ! !

What happened, ....... this happened ! ! !

It was amazing, this new life that just started

Mother cow was licking her “daughter/ son” and it was just amazing ... Our friend's daughter was just screaming COW COW COW, and Noah was just talking, I think it is a boy, I think it is a boy ! ! !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnBwMCtHsmQ

The nanny said they probably had to get the farmer and yes, she got “her”; she was happy we were there, but you see they look different at new life. She just went in, cleaned the head, opened the mouth, rather harsh, and tried to put it on her/ his 4 feet.

No romantic, how are you doing momma cow, you did well,

or:

You are such an incredible cute/ handsome little cow ! ! !

wham bam ..... and back to reality.

Incredible we just witnessed it and it made our night.

What has happened earlier that day; I will tell you tomorrow .....

Stay Safe ! ! !