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All right, so there are two things that are relevant to Bitcoin prices. So Bitcoin went up 6% yesterday and another 3% today. If you put them together it's one of the biggest two days in I don't know, a number of weeks. So one of the things I said about Bitcoin is that if it's true what the president says that they're going to designate the cartels as terrorists, it could be that the cartels will…
← Previous segment →All right, I'm just looking at your comments. Why don't you talk about WhenHub? Well I will be talking about WhenHub a little bit more. In fact if your holidays are coming up you might want to use one of our products called Approach which I've talked about before. So Approach allows you to see a little map and you just send out a link from the app and you can see your friends on the map or your family members converging at a point. So it's fun to watch a variety of people coming to Christmas or coming to an event. And if you use that app which is free you can do an in-app purchase and buy a little banner so that your company will show. And if you're a small business and you service homes you probably want this app.
Snapchat has a feature like that. Snapchat has Snap Map. So if you're on Snapchat and if you've shared your location you can see your friends on a map but that's more of a where are all my friends at the moment. But what this does is it's a temporary tracking as a timer. So it times out. It's just saying see the people that you want coming to an event and they don't have to be on any service or sign up for anything. They don't even have to have the app. The app is called Approach by WhenHub. It's a free app and you just can send out a link, email it or text it, and everybody who hits it can see each other on the map. And if they don't have the app they can still track on a little browser map so it still works even if you don't have the app.
Somebody says it's too invasive. Well it's only for people who are willing to share their location when people already know their location. So the point of it is that if you've invited somebody to your house or your friends are all meeting at the movies or something they've already shared their location because you know that they're gonna be traveling from wherever they are to the same place. So it's just being a little more specific about something that you already know where they are. They're on their way to this restaurant. They're on their way to the party. If you have a phone you've already been invaded. Yeah I feel like I've kind of given up on any kind of thoughts about privacy. Have you? I feel like privacy isn't really a thing anymore because it's already gone.
So the idea is that if you shared your location with the app you can get rid of all those text messages and say I'm already in the restaurant, I got a table, I'm in the back, I'll be there late. You don't have to do any of those messages. The host or anybody else can just look at the map say, "Oh there it looks like Bob's gonna be late."
That app Approach could end marriages. Lol no it couldn't because it's optional every time. Every time you use it and it times out. So we built it so you couldn't track people permanently. You don't have that option. It's just on the way to a meeting.
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All right I'm just looking at here. Yeah the WhenHub, we have some news on WhenHub but I've got a meeting coming up so we'll wait on that. All right I don't have anything else to talk about. Will Africa become a social justice mecca? Yeah. What was the name of the Turkish cellphone company? It's one word. It's Turkcell and the cell part is like cell phone, C-E-L-L. Turkcell. One word. But I'm no…
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