Music My name is Darren Tap. I'm 36 years old and I moved to New Hampshire in August 2009. The reason I chose to move to New Hampshire is because there was a low crime here. There was a good economy. The unemployment was low and to me the free state product was icing on the cake. The free state product first alerted me to that New Hampshire might be a good place to live and then I verified that and moved. NeoCache Radio is a podcast that I do with my co-host JJ. We just released episode 80 and we release an episode every Sunday and it's available free at neoCacheradio.com. We talk about economics and financial issues. Bitcoin has international implications so there are a lot of international finance stories when currencies make big moves like the Ruble recently did or the Yen did this week. You know I'm very pleased that the community has adopted Bitcoin. I would say almost everybody is involved in it somehow but in the sense that they will accept it for goods and services. Having a currency that's independent of any human organization is a critical thing for the advancement of humans. Since moving to New Hampshire my goal has been to establish a life that I really enjoy living and I also am excited about teaching the next generation of Liberty Lovers arithmetic. I already started the series. I'm calling it a mathematical playground. I call it a playground because first the whole approach is different. We're going to play. We're going to play again. There's no grades. There's no anything like that. I was wondering if I should sign homework because my normal job is teaching college students and I'm used to assigning homeworks but for this playground I decided not to assign homework at least so far because I didn't want the homework done incorrectly and reinforcing the wrong idea. And what's so beautiful about this playground is that one of my students, the seven-year-old, did homework on her own. She made up her own problems and answered them without any prompting from me and I think that that's the best thing that can ever happen for mathematical learning. Just doing it. Not worrying about what I'm supposed to do or anything like that. Just actually enjoying it and enjoying it enough that you initiate some thought processes about mathematics. Let me show you a little bit about the arithmetic playground. One thing I do to teach arithmetic the way I would have wanted to be taught arithmetic is I try to stray away from outside information coming in approach and pull information out of the student. And so one way I have them do that is make up symbols and that a student tell me she liked peace symbols and hearts so I put those in there. So that is you just think of these as the numbers and then there's no fifth number here or if we start at zero there's no five. So that's when you would start using more digits to represent bigger numbers and that's base five arithmetic. I had a student actually initiate and she just loved to say the diamond with the line in two dots plus and then she just said I want to add the diamond with the line in two dots and she just came out it's the box with windows O plus and I just was flabbergasted because in the base five arithmetic I was trying to teach this was correct and she initiated writing this down. I didn't ask her what this was and then under it she wrote four plus four equals eight. Not I was just that means she has a very she has a pretty good understanding of what she's writing and what I'm intending to communicate and I've only been with the student for five could days. Young people will surprise you in ways that I never thought they would.