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- 0:00Yo, Michael Saylor just made a bombshell Bitcoin price
- 0:04prediction here at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas,
- 0:08NV, which just wrapped up yesterday.
- 0:10Today we're going to be running through the numbers to prove why
- 0:14this prediction A implies a $23 million Bitcoin.
- 0:20Absolutely crazy. But before you call us crazy,
- 0:23let's check out the clip. And then of course me and Opti
- 0:26will talk about it. Discovered in 2011, 2012, 2013,
- 0:322014, and then they went on to build yo-yo Coin and then they
- 0:38went on to build the thing to juggle the Bitcoin.
- 0:42And then they went on to write the book about how smart they
- 0:44are about having discovered the Bitcoin.
- 0:47And then they created the business and they got a board of
- 0:49directors that made them sell the Bitcoin, right?
- 0:52So commitment to the Bitcoin. The Bitcoin is the idea.
- 0:58Don't feed the trolls. When people cock at you online
- 1:01and tell you're stupid, don't argue with them.
- 1:03Don't chase, by the way, don't get distracted by your good
- 1:06ideas. Don't chase your good ideas.
- 1:10Satoshi gave you an idea worth half of everything on earth.
- 1:14The most common mistake entrepreneurs make is they fall
- 1:18in love with their own idea and and then they chase it.
- 1:23You have the world's greatest idea, the greatest idea in the
- 1:27history of the human race. It's there.
- 1:29You get you're living during an age where the majority of the
- 1:32planet doesn't get it. All you have to do is figure out
- 1:35how to capitalize it right now. But there will be a million
- 1:38other ideas. Don't fight lost causes.
- 1:42Choose your battles. Don't try to fix stuff you know,
- 1:46beyond your reach. You might have an opinion about
- 1:49this and that and the other thing, and it might make you
- 1:51really mad and you might be burning about it and you might
- 1:53think this is just awful. All that is true.
- 1:57I agree with you. But the truth is the world
- 2:00probably doesn't care what you think.
- 2:02And unless you can stop the war yourself then, and if you can
- 2:06stop the war, you know, you can do that, then you should focus
- 2:09on that. But if you can't, then don't
- 2:13take your own success for granted, you know?
- 2:19Dude, wait, hold on. That, that was incredible.
- 2:22So much to unpack there. So I, I think Michael Saylor,
- 2:25you know, what was really interesting to me in there is
- 2:29again, it's, you know, don't get distracted, right?
- 2:32And I think that's something that a lot of us perhaps feel,
- 2:38you know, a little bit guilty of, right?
- 2:40It there's a lot of injustices in the world, but essentially
- 2:44what he is focusing on, he's like, look, focus on yourself.
- 2:49Bitcoin is, you know, this amazing idea that has tremendous
- 2:55amount of potential. Don't distract yourself from
- 3:00Signal. And the Signal, of course, is
- 3:03trying to buy Bitcoin. Now he buried something there,
- 3:07which is why we put it in the thumbnail.
- 3:09The 23 million, he emphasized that Bitcoin is going to be
- 3:16worth half of the world's wealth.
- 3:19That's 500 trillion. I don't know if you guys caught
- 3:21that right. He said Bitcoin's gonna be worth
- 3:24half the world's wealth. That is significantly higher
- 3:29than his prediction from last year, which, you know, it's kind
- 3:35of difficult to one up a $13 million price prediction.
- 3:39Like eventually it starts to get a little bit crazy.
- 3:41So he totally just went upped it though.
- 3:45Now he didn't offer a timeline. He didn't offer, you know, this
- 3:49is going to happen by this date like he did last year.
- 3:52But he did imply it. And so far with Saylor, whether
- 3:56you agree with him, you disagree with him, there's some things
- 3:59that I, I didn't like the answer that he had that he gave to
- 4:03Mitchell Hoddle earlier on this week where Mitchell was
- 4:05basically saying, Hey, do you plan to, you know, make your
- 4:10Bitcoin reserves public? And he said, you know, basically
- 4:14said no, the, the, the stupid idea.
- 4:15And again, it's above my pay grade, but he basically said no.
- 4:18I think it's irresponsible. Simultaneously, you have
- 4:21countries doing that, you have tethered doing that.
- 4:24Another Bitcoin treasury company just announced, I think a couple
- 4:29days ago that they have the intention of making their
- 4:31reserves public. So it can be done right.
- 4:34I didn't like that, but put that aside.
- 4:37I think Sailor has done so much good for the space just in
- 4:42raising awareness towards Bitcoin, right?
- 4:44So we might not all agree with him.
- 4:46But the reason I'm saying all of that is because I think Sailor
- 4:52has been more right than he has been wrong since 2020.
- 4:56I mean, he's absolutely crushed it.
- 4:59His company has crushed it. And he wouldn't be able to do
- 5:03that unless he was over the target, right?
- 5:05And that's the reality of the situation.
- 5:07So he did just imply Bitcoin's market cap is going to hit $500
- 5:13trillion. I think at $500 trillion, I
- 5:17think that's roughly 23 million or $25 million Bitcoin, right?
- 5:23So connect the dots with that, right?
- 5:28This is what he means by don't get distracted.
- 5:31And you see this, like, one of the things that frustrates me
- 5:36the most is when I see a lot of people, like, you're at a
- 5:39protest and you see people with like, picket signs and they're
- 5:42like, like, this is injustice. And all this stuff like that
- 5:45doesn't do anything. Fundamentally, the people in
- 5:48power are the ones that are going to be making the
- 5:50decisions. You could put pressure on them,
- 5:53but they could still choose to ignore you or worse, put you in
- 5:56a box, right? So what he's saying is like,
- 6:00look, focus on this one in a generational opportunity that's
- 6:06right in your face, which is Bitcoin.
- 6:09If you're able to get to 1 Bitcoin, I mean it's 104,000,
- 6:13but if you're able to get to 1, he's implying that you're going
- 6:16to have a $25 million, you know, in the next 20 to 30 years.
- 6:23The top 1% in the United States, their net worth is is 13
- 6:28million. So this is what he means like
- 6:33don't squander that opportunity and capitalize on it get on it
- 6:39and it could change your life. It's changed my life.
- 6:43It's changed, you know, Opti's life it's changed my company's
- 6:47life. Bitcoin changes lives for the
- 6:50better. You know, that's what it does it
- 6:52Bitcoin is beautiful like that Bitcoin is awesome and you don't
- 6:57want to squander that opportunity.
- 6:59But it's crazy, man. Because I remember saying this
- 7:02to you, Opti, like when we were talking last year, I said when
- 7:05he dropped that $13 million price prediction, he made that
- 7:09his keynote. I was like, holy shit, bro.
- 7:11Like how is he gonna one up that next year 'cause you have to one
- 7:15up your presentation from the year before?
- 7:17Like you can't like you can't go down because then like less
- 7:21people wanna see your talk or this and it's not.
- 7:23And the Bitcoin conference, I think they did that extremely
- 7:26well, right? Last year they had a
- 7:27presidential candidate, this year they had the vice
- 7:30president. Maybe next year they have the
- 7:32president. That'd be epic.
- 7:34But they had Ross, you know, Ross closed out the conference.
- 7:38I, I didn't see the whole speech in person, but I wanted to see
- 7:43the 1st 2030 seconds of it because that speech to me
- 7:50personally as an individual, as a Bitcoiner, he referenced the
- 7:58first speech that he made at a Bitcoin conference and it was
- 8:01the Bitcoin, it was the Bitcoin conference in 2021.
- 8:05And I never forget that speech because for me it was very
- 8:10special. Right after his speech was the
- 8:15first time I spoke at a Bitcoin conference.
- 8:20And our boy Nick can't mine, you know, he, he was able to put
- 8:23this panel together 'cause someone cancelled last minute
- 8:26and it was Alex Fetsky Nick can't mine and myself and that
- 8:34that other Bitcoin zoomer, he's not he's not around these days
- 8:37as much anymore. But yeah, exactly.
- 8:41BTC lurk. And I never forget that speech
- 8:45because we were on right after. So I was so nervous.
- 8:49I've never done public speaking at that point.
- 8:52And they played that clip of Ross and I was getting chills
- 8:56and I would Ross's mom was backstage Lynn.
- 9:00And I was like, holy cow. You know, This is why we're
- 9:03here. This is why we're fighting.
- 9:07And to to to see that come full circle from 2021 to 2025, but
- 9:15he's in there in the flesh is a testament to the power of our
- 9:22movement. And it's an indication that
- 9:24we're winning. We had the vice president of the
- 9:27United States speak at a Bitcoin conference.
- 9:31That is absolutely freaking incredible.
- 9:36Now to kind of weave it back in, to tie it back into what Michael
- 9:39Saylor was saying, don't squander this opportunity.
- 9:44Stay humble. Stack Sats have a low time
- 9:47preference. You know, we are in Vegas, the
- 9:49city of high time preference. And go about your life and watch
- 9:55and see how Bitcoin will improve your life for the better because
- 10:00you're saving in the money. That can't be the base.
- 10:03That won't be the base. Actually, you will increase in
- 10:06purchasing power over time, therefore making everything
- 10:09around you get cheaper and you having the perception that
- 10:14you're getting wealthier. So yeah, man, what a week.
- 10:19Shout out to, of course, the Rumble team for allowing us to
- 10:22stream three days at the Rumble booth Tuesday, Wednesday and
- 10:27Thursday or anyone who just didn't see us on YouTube.
- 10:30We were still streaming on. We were uploading the podcast.
- 10:34We're uploading on Rumble, but we weren't uploading on YouTube
- 10:38for those last three days. But we all those episodes are
- 10:41there. We didn't we didn't miss a beat.
- 10:43So we'll be back in Miami. Opti and I are going to be doing
- 10:47the show in person moving forward for the rest of time
- 10:53until we ride into the sunset, Butch, Butch Cassidy type stuff.
- 10:58So we're really excited about that.
- 10:59And we also have some exciting news for you guys in the coming
- 11:03months. So yeah, man, what a crazy week
- 11:06and some very, very bullish news by Michael Saylor.
- 11:09What's your take off to you? Yeah, well, First off, literally
- 11:13we were working the whole time. So I didn't catch any speech on
- 11:17the mainstage, but we were right by the mainstage.
- 11:20Like if you walked out, we were at the press lounge, we were
- 11:23right there. And the one thing I do remember
- 11:25about the sailor speech, this was the keynote, I believe it
- 11:28was called 21 Rules for Success. So if you're looking, I'm, I'm
- 11:32sure the B Mag team will chop it up so you can catch the whole
- 11:35thing. But it was very interesting to
- 11:39see the response for when Sailor came up and he literally came up
- 11:43Nico and it sounded like there was like a rock star walking on
- 11:47stage. He had a standing ovation.
- 11:49He basically had to chill there for like a couple minutes until
- 11:52everyone calmed down just because that's how excited the
- 11:55whole audience was and how loud it was.
- 11:58And we were right there. So you just hear it booming and,
- 12:00and at first you're like, who, who the Hell's going on stage?
- 12:03And then you can kind of peek through and like, oh, it's
- 12:05Sailor. And it's like, it's actually
- 12:07incredible how many fans are maybe acolytes that Michael
- 12:11Saylor has. And a lot of the conversations
- 12:14we were having with people while we were doing interviews that
- 12:16you guys will get on our channel is from people basically saying
- 12:19that it took Michael Saylor for them to really understand what
- 12:23Bitcoin is, what it can do for their company.
- 12:26And the impact I think that Sailor has had, I don't think we
- 12:29can downplay it. Yes, I know he's not perfect.
- 12:31There's things you can criticize.
- 12:33There's things you may not like that he's done or is doing or
- 12:36saying. But the impact of Michael
- 12:38Saylor, I, I don't think can be understated.
- 12:41And I've jokingly said this on the show all the time.
- 12:43He's probably going to be the richest man ever like to ever
- 12:46live on planet Earth. You know, we, we have Musk right
- 12:49now. Well, on paper, we have Musk as
- 12:52the richest man on Earth. But I think Saylor eventually
- 12:56will pass that anyway, talking about that, that clip here,
- 13:00we've talked about it and and I my, I, I'm on a hotspot Nikka.
- 13:03So maybe you want to check the chart from Croesus and we can
- 13:06pull it up and show people what is going on.
- 13:09And of course what we're referencing here is basically
- 13:12the total assets of the world, whether that's real estate, bond
- 13:16markets, currency, you know, gold art, etcetera.
- 13:20That is now currently at 1000 trillion dollars, I think.
- 13:25Is that the new one there? There's a video he did.
- 13:27I think that's that one's the old one.
- 13:29That's the old one, but it's close enough.
- 13:31It's close enough. You get the picture.
- 13:32So Cressus updated this and everyone for basically the last
- 13:37year we've been referencing the total global asset value at 900
- 13:42trillion. Well, Cressus updated it and we
- 13:44are at 1000 trillion, which I believe is 1 quadrillion.
- 13:47Someone fact checked me on this. Big numbers hard.
- 13:50But if you break that down, excuse me, there's two ways you
- 13:55can think about what Sailor said here.
- 13:57Hold on, sorry guys, it's it's dry out here.
- 14:02There's two ways that I I will interpret what Saylor said here.
- 14:061 is of course just the basic math of 1000 trillion dollars
- 14:10divided by half, you know, half of everything in the world.
- 14:13Of course $500 trillion. That would mean Bitcoin is going
- 14:16to a $500 trillion market cap. That is 23 something,
- 14:21$1,000,000. Of course, we don't have a time
- 14:23frame, but you could suspect he's probably thinking, I don't
- 14:27know, 20-30 years down the line here, which, hey, for most of us
- 14:32young people, I think we'll be OK with that.
- 14:34I think we'll be OK with our stacks if we get to those
- 14:37numbers. Maybe this is in our
- 14:39grandchildren's lifetime. I mean, that's why he was making
- 14:42that case during that episode where he was basically saying
- 14:45like during that, that keynote, like guys like focus, right?
- 14:50Like, you know, don't get distracted, you know, one of the
- 14:53biggest entrepreneur, one of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs
- 14:56make is they get married to the idea.
- 14:59And you have to realize like right now, like there's this
- 15:04amazing opportunity with Bitcoin for you to buy Bitcoin and you
- 15:09know, don't don't miss on that opportunity.
- 15:12Now, does that mean that you shouldn't go to work or you
- 15:14shouldn't try to start a business?
- 15:16No, that's not what it means at all.
- 15:18What it does mean though, is that keep in mind that like, if
- 15:24you're going to go all in on a business, right?
- 15:27Like before Bitcoin, you know, go for it.
- 15:32But after Bitcoin, keep in mind that, you know, if you, you're
- 15:36one of those privileged people that have $100,000 lying around,
- 15:39very few people, right? Or, or you know, 10 grand lying
- 15:43around, just keep in mind that in 20 years, you know, 1020
- 15:48years, we're we're talking about million dollar, $20 million
- 15:52Bitcoin, right? And that's what he's talking
- 15:55about, right? So, yeah, man.
- 15:57And, and look, and I, I'll say this too, guys, like, I think
- 16:00Bitcoin is mainstream at this point.
- 16:04This is no longer this like cypherpunk.
- 16:07And we're going to talk about this during the news, by the
- 16:09way. It's no longer this like
- 16:10underground cypherpunk movement. You have governments embracing
- 16:16it. You had a, a, a keynote by
- 16:19someone representing the, the government of Pakistan basically
- 16:22saying Pakistan is going to launch a strategic Bitcoin
- 16:25reserve. So it's starting to snowball.
- 16:29You have public companies that have Bitcoin on their balance
- 16:31sheet. I was talking to someone who's
- 16:33extremely intelligent, worked in the industry.
- 16:35Oh, it was the CEO of Strive. And he said, I believe in the
- 16:39next five years, basically every company's gonna have Bitcoin on
- 16:45their balance sheet. Or, sorry, half of every
- 16:47company's gonna have Bitcoin on their balance sheet, right.
- 16:50So it's gonna be crazy. We're gonna be dropping
- 16:52interviews all week, all the next two weeks, really.
- 16:56I interviewed Peter Schiff. That was funny.
- 16:59I interviewed. He actually made some pretty
- 17:01good points. When we'll, and I'll, I'll show
- 17:03you guys the videos and we'll talk about it.
- 17:05I disagree with him. He, he's obviously still like
- 17:08doubling down on like the whole gold thing.
- 17:12I, I said Bitcoin's better, obviously.
- 17:14But he did make some good points.
- 17:16I interviewed Scottie Pippen, which was, yeah, that was crazy.
- 17:19That was, that was like, I did not, I could never have imagined
- 17:23that. And you just walk by our booth,
- 17:25right? Totally unplanned.
- 17:27So yeah, it was a great conference overall.
- 17:30I don't think Opti and I have worked this hard ever.
- 17:34You know, just non-stop. All right, let, let, let, let's
- 17:36talk about that in the culture. We'll talk about the culture.
- 17:38But Nika, the second point that I that I wanted to make is if
- 17:43you take what Saylor said, but you put it more in like an
- 17:45Austrian economic sense. It's the idea that, you know,
- 17:49cash is 1/2 of every transaction in the world or money rather is
- 17:521/2 of every transaction in the world.
- 17:54And so I think Sailor is essentially saying what we've
- 17:57all been saying for a long time. And further along our actually,
- 18:01it might have been a different speech or presentation that he
- 18:04did. And someone put it on Twitter.
- 18:07And I don't know why it clicked me or hit or hit me in this way,
- 18:11but I, I've been kind of alluding to this on the show for
- 18:14a while that the way that Sailor communicates, he's not
- 18:18necessarily talking to the everyday average person.
- 18:21What he's doing is he's projecting the Bitcoin message
- 18:24in such a way that the CE OS of Strive or Larry Fink or Donald
- 18:29Trump, etcetera. The, the president or I, I
- 18:31forget Prime Minister, I, I'm not sure what the leader or the,
- 18:35I think I'm going to call him president of Pakistan was saying
- 18:38about a strategic Bitcoin reserve.
- 18:40The way he framed his sailor's mimetics is not for the everyday
- 18:44average person. It's what he's been saying
- 18:47recently that he is here to save the credit markets.
- 18:49Of course, he came in at first full Bitcoin memes.
- 18:52I'm here to fix the money. And now he's kind of iterated
- 18:56and said I'm here to fix the credit markets, the capital
- 18:59markets. And I think when you read it in
- 19:03these terms, a lot of the stuff he's doing, I don't want to be
- 19:06like a sailor 5D chess guy, but he's speaking and communicating
- 19:10in a certain way so that the high net worth, the very high IQ
- 19:15people in the room, or rather on planet Earth can fully
- 19:18understand what we're saying, speaking in their words.
- 19:21And this is something that I've been saying forever on this
- 19:23show. If you want to catch a fish, you
- 19:26got to bait the hook for the fish you're trying to catch.
- 19:29And this is what he's doing. So again, we can't understate
- 19:33what sailors done. Yes, she's kind of been in hot
- 19:35water the last week. All the plebs out there, all the
- 19:38toxic Bitcoin maximalist are like what, bro?
- 19:41What do you mean? I know, I know even Nico was
- 19:43like, I don't know about this take here.
- 19:46And I'm like, look, I don't, I, I can't even pretend to
- 19:50understand what he's saying. But from my gut feeling and from
- 19:54the examples we have, you know, proof of reserve seems pretty
- 19:58simple to me. And everyone's freaking out.
- 20:00But again, I think this is just kind of an indicator of where we
- 20:03are in the markets right now, where bitcoiners we're, we're so
- 20:07good at arguing with each other about stuff that really is
- 20:10pointless. I mean like bro, but like.
- 20:12It's because the price is going sideways and it's not popping
- 20:15Nico the. Thing is like so another very
- 20:17well known Bitcoin treasury company their CEO, one of the
- 20:22top three right their CEO went on public and said we're going
- 20:27to make our reserves public right so this is the beauty of
- 20:31market forces. Obviously, he knows that
- 20:32bitcoiners didn't react well to what Sailor was saying.
- 20:36So you know, again, like, what's he going to say there, right?
- 20:40Like I'm telling you guys like, look, I, I like. 42,000,000 I'm.
- 20:44Just looking at it from like a first principles perspective,
- 20:47like just basics like I get IT, security this and that, but like
- 20:52if tether is like Paulo's just copy pasting the tether address
- 20:58like responding to someone and it literally goes to an address
- 21:01that has 92,000 coins. Like I mean like we all know
- 21:06like the Binance address is public.
- 21:08Like the Gemini address is public.
- 21:10Like those are all public addresses, right?
- 21:12The Coinbase address is public. Like this is the beauty of
- 21:15Bitcoin. Like again, Sailor has much more
- 21:18experience than me in public markets and public companies.
- 21:20And again, this might be above my pay grade, but like just from
- 21:23a purely first principles, kind of like common sense maybe type
- 21:29of perspective, I'm just kind of like, you know, that's
- 21:30interesting. Anyway, one last thing, Mika, it
- 21:33is. It is Friday, so we have to give
- 21:35the people what they want. Oh, he's got a meme.
- 21:37And. It's hardly a meme.
- 21:41This is more chart boy, but OK. Let's let's check out some opium
- 21:45before we move on to the next segment.
- 21:47I also do want to give a shout out.
- 21:48Thank you for the Super chat Mexico huddle 10 go free.
- 21:52How less in my cool low. Thank you bro.
- 21:55Appreciate the $10 dude. Thank you for saying you so.
- 21:58Much. Was that a seed phrase?
- 21:59What's going on there? I have no idea.
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- 22:21popping off anyways. So let's check this out.
- 22:28The next one I like and COVID, however it reads if it doesn't
- 22:31go into reading the chats. By the way, the Rumble, the
- 22:34Rumble chats are crazy. Nico is low energy.
- 22:40What happened to Nico? This is hilarious.
- 22:45No look the rumble. The the rumble shows Nikko pass
- 22:49Overton window out the Overton door and down the Overton Rd.
- 22:54This is hilarious. Who is this?
- 22:57Where is Nikko Kaiser? This is Nikko's stable.
- 23:00Yeah, yeah, calling Nikko Nikko Kaiser on the rumble stream was
- 23:05hilarious. That that was good.
- 23:06This is hilarious. Well, look, so on the floor of
- 23:09the conference, me and Opti didn't have headphones.
- 23:12So like we literally were yelling at each other.
- 23:14And then when you yell, I guess you get more, you're more more
- 23:18motivated. Anyways, so let's talk about
- 23:20this. Look, I don't like charts, but
- 23:25there seems to be some type of correlation between global M2
- 23:29and BTC. And it seems like it's been
- 23:33following it for quite a while now and there is a little bit of
- 23:37a lag. So global M2 goes higher and
- 23:41then BTC kind of follows it a little bit later.
- 23:43And it seems like it's been doing just that, right?
- 23:46So you know, if it keeps going in that direction, you know you
- 23:49guys could see it. For the audio listeners we know
- 23:52we might see roughly 200K by the end of the.
- 23:55Year in 90 days. In, oh, in 90 days, yeah.
- 23:59It says here global M2 money supply offset by 887 days.
- 24:03So if this follows through 90 days 200K.
- 24:08Now that's some real clickbait scamming for you guys.
- 24:11There there seems to be a correlation.
- 24:13Now one of the things too that I want to point out as well is
- 24:18which is quite interesting is the wow, I totally just blanked,
- 24:24man, I I want I had something really interesting to say.
- 24:27Now we know you're lying. No, I had something, I had
- 24:32something really interesting to say.
- 24:35Oh, yes, OK, now I remember the bonds, right?
- 24:39The US government right now, we read, we read you guys a Yahoo
- 24:42Finance article that essentially the US government has been
- 24:48they've been struggling to to essentially sell their bonds and
- 24:52the Fed has been quietly buying those bonds.
- 24:55So like I'll translate that. That means money printing,
- 24:58right? Because how are they going to
- 24:59buy the bonds without printing money, right?
- 25:00What what are they going to buy the bonds with, right?
- 25:02So yeah, I mean that Bitcoin looks good.
- 25:06I know it's a little bit slow. I know this the the
- 25:09volatilities, you know, decrease a little bit.
- 25:11But you know, Michael Saylor said it best lower your time
- 25:14preference. And I think I think you know, up
- 25:18to Valhalla, like our boy Rustin always says, we just broke 101
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- 25:27We have a jam packed show for you guys.
- 25:29We're gonna cover multiple things.
- 25:31We have a clip from Rook Luke Rotkowski.
- 25:36I hope. Yeah.
- 25:37Yeah. I love Rotkowski.
- 25:38Yeah. Hopefully I pronounced that
- 25:39correctly. I saw someone talking about the
- 25:42Overton window. We're gonna be talking about
- 25:44that during during the numbers segment.
- 25:48Then during the news segment, we're going to be talking about
- 25:51something interesting, which is like, this is what I was saying
- 25:54in the beginning of the show. Like Bitcoin isn't really
- 25:58counterculture. Like this is mainstream.
- 26:01You have politicians, you have corporations.
- 26:03Speaking of Bitcoin conferences, this is not what it was five
- 26:06years ago. Clearly it's changed.
- 26:08I think David Bailey said it best.
- 26:09This is like what happens when your favorite band goes
- 26:12mainstream. Now does that mean that it's
- 26:15less exciting? No, I think it's more important
- 26:18than ever to just keep in mind like, not your keys, not your
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- 29:57Bitcoin price is 100 and $4100. Definitely having a little bit
- 30:03of a dip after the Bitcoin conference.
- 30:05Not. Different.
- 30:06Not surprising whatsoever, but compared to previously years,
- 30:10this ain't so bad. We're still above 100K block
- 30:13height 899,000 91, so that's per dollar 961 market cap 2.07
- 30:20trillion Bitcoin versus gold market cap 8.95% percentage
- 30:24issued 94.62% decline from all time high -7% realized monetary
- 30:31inflation .85%. The grand scheme of things, we
- 30:35are just getting started anyways.
- 30:36There's so much amazing panel, so much amazing content at the
- 30:40Bitcoin conference. I'm sure we're going to be
- 30:41covering it over the next week or two, but you guys know, and
- 30:46the Rumble chat was kind of making fun of me a little bit.
- 30:49You guys know that I love talking about the Overton
- 30:52window, the Overton windows, again, the acceptable window of
- 30:55discourse. And just because Bitcoin is on
- 30:58the verge or is in the process of becoming mainstream doesn't
- 31:02mean that our jobs are done yet. Because again, our goal, what we
- 31:07really want here is to raise awareness, raise awareness to
- 31:12the people, to every single one of you guys about inflation,
- 31:16because I don't think governments can explain that
- 31:19away, right? You know, it's not in the social
- 31:22contract. We agreed to income tax, whether
- 31:25you like it or you dislike it, we agreed to property tax.
- 31:27It's in law, right? But I don't think anyone has
- 31:31agreed to money tax. Like that wasn't part of the
- 31:34equation. Like people are not aware of
- 31:36that, right? So you have to pay income tax,
- 31:37you have to pay property tax, and you have to pay money tax.
- 31:39Like, you know, so we have to raise awareness.
- 31:45And again, in what makes it a little bit more sinister as well
- 31:49is like everyone knows about income tax, everyone knows about
- 31:53property tax. The way that politicians discuss
- 31:56inflation, it's like they, they talk about it like it's a, it's
- 32:00like a part of nature. They blame it on everything and
- 32:03everyone but themselves. But fundamentally, the only
- 32:06thing that causes inflation is increasing the money supply.
- 32:10Who was the only one that can increase the money supply?
- 32:14Who's the only one, right? It's the state, it's the
- 32:16government, right? So there's nothing wrong with
- 32:19that. But you know, let's raise
- 32:21awareness. Anyways.
- 32:22I'm going to play you guys this clip and then we'll talk about
- 32:23it. There's there's talk in this
- 32:26like crypto Bitcoin space about people being rugged.
- 32:29I'm like, have you heard of what happened after 911 with the
- 32:33biggest transfer of wealth in recorded American history with
- 32:37the Pentagon missing trillions of dollars?
- 32:40People are saying Oh no, but this other crap coin is going to
- 32:43take your money. Have you heard of what happened
- 32:45in 2008? Have you heard of what happened
- 32:48in Kovid? I think it's pretty clear that
- 32:50the institutions have been robbing us blind.
- 32:54We have been screwed over and they are the ones rug pulling
- 32:58all of us and Bitcoin is the alternative to finally some of
- 33:04us uplifting ourselves from this global Ponzi scheme that all of
- 33:09us are forced to live into by these predators, a part of the
- 33:12banking class that are all. Right, I'm going to leave it
- 33:17there. All right, So, Gee, I didn't
- 33:23know that was so hardcore. Wow.
- 33:30So anyways, lots to unpack there.
- 33:32Why didn't you tell me, Abdi? I didn't tell you to put that
- 33:38video in, I just put it in the show notes.
- 33:39Oh man, RIP YouTube. So I mean, Luke's, Luke's like
- 33:50I'm just going to talk about 2008.
- 33:53I mean, like, he's right 100%. He's right 100%.
- 34:01Like what happened in 2008, man, is like, you know, it was, it
- 34:07was a crime against our generation.
- 34:09You know, it was really, really bad, right?
- 34:13You know, like they, they bailed out the big banks at the expense
- 34:17of Main Street. And you know what my generation
- 34:20hasn't recovered since. I see people basically saying
- 34:23like no days off for simply Bitcoin.
- 34:25Whoa, guys, we, we haven't taken a day off.
- 34:28We've been streaming every single day, but for three days,
- 34:32Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, we were streaming to, we were
- 34:36streaming just to Rumble because they were kind enough to let us,
- 34:40you know, stream at their booth. And we were like totally
- 34:43uncensored. Yeah, we were.
- 34:46We were able to say some things outside of the Overton window.
- 34:51So anyhow, Opti, I do, I do wanna, I do wanna get your take,
- 34:54man, about 2008, about what Luke was saying about 2008.
- 34:58Like, what's your take? What's your opinion on that?
- 35:02Like, because I, I, I fundamentally agree with him,
- 35:04with him. And like, you know, like we've
- 35:07been, we've been robbed. Like we've been robbed.
- 35:10It's, it's been, it's been bad. And the fact that that level of
- 35:13discourse is happening at the same conference that, you know,
- 35:17a a, a vice president is speaking at, I think is a very
- 35:21big deal. Yeah, well, first of all, I saw
- 35:24a lot of people on Twitter, you know, giving the Bitcoin mag
- 35:28conference, a lot of a lot of Flack for some of the stuff said
- 35:31and some of the the people talking on the mainstage.
- 35:35But some of the clips that I saw like this Luke Rodkowski video,
- 35:38it's like this is the message. And this is what I this is
- 35:41essentially what I try to tell people all the time.
- 35:44But as we always talk about, when you say certain things like
- 35:47this, everyone looks at you like you're some crazy conspiracy
- 35:50theorist and you're like, no, like this is all facts.
- 35:52This is factual based stuff here.
- 35:54This is exactly what's going on, but most of the people aren't
- 35:58ready for this. And it really reminds me of the
- 36:00Matrix meme, you know, like, yes, cliche, Bitcoin are using
- 36:03the Matrix meme. Most people aren't ready to
- 36:05unplug. But I think we're getting to a
- 36:07point now where people are starting to at least at the very
- 36:12least feel that there is something wrong.
- 36:15And that is the first step for them to continue down the path
- 36:18to unplug. But what Luke was saying,
- 36:23exactly what I've been saying, it's exactly my worldview.
- 36:26Here we are living in the biggest global Ponzi in the
- 36:29world. And that is because of the Fiat
- 36:31system. If you understand how the
- 36:33traditional financial system works or bond markets and
- 36:36derivatives, you realize, or or you know, not to get too
- 36:40conspiratorial here, Nico, but the the whole idea of your
- 36:44Social Security numbers you we are all collateralized here is
- 36:48this is all a global Ponzi scheme and it is the greatest
- 36:51wealth transfer we've ever seen since the creations of the
- 36:55central banks, you know, since 1913, since the creation of the
- 36:58Federal Reserve and really again 1971, the divide from the haves
- 37:03and the have nots is bigger than it's ever been in the last, you
- 37:07know, five years since 2020, we've seen something super
- 37:11similar where the mega rich and the mega rich corporations,
- 37:15they're making all the profits and everyone else is getting the
- 37:18crumbs like this is it's why we always say fix the money.
- 37:21It's a concealing effect. Yeah, yeah.
- 37:24What I I think even that word is too big.
- 37:26You know multi syllable words is is too much for 45 IQ people
- 37:29like me. I asked ChatGPT this question.
- 37:32I said it's like I have to get on a 5 hour flight back-to-back
- 37:36to South Florida later today and I and I asked ChatGPT this.
- 37:41I was like, why has commercial airlines like got in so bad?
- 37:48And please answer this question from Safedeen's perspective.
- 37:52And it literally just broke down how essentially Fiat
- 37:56incentivizes all these companies to just cut costs, cut costs,
- 38:02increase profit, and actually not do good by their customers.
- 38:06Like, it was a really thorough kind of breakdown.
- 38:08Fiat's breaking everything, guys.
- 38:10Like I used to play video games a lot.
- 38:12Not not so much anymore, but one of the things that I've noticed
- 38:16is that the the, the, the just game degradation has just gone
- 38:20down. Like it's just think the quality
- 38:22of things have just gone down in.
- 38:23Where's GTA 6? That's all I want to know.
- 38:27That like, you know, so anyways, guys, it's going to be a great
- 38:30show. We're going to hit the news.
- 38:32We're going to be right back in just a second.
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- 40:44back. We're here in the beautiful Las
- 40:47Vegas. As you can see, you guys can see
- 40:49the strip behind us. That's not a green screen.
- 40:52Moving forward, Opti and I are going to be doing the show
- 40:54together in person in South Florida.
- 40:57It's going to be awesome. No more remote shows.
- 41:00We have some surprises stored for you guys going to be
- 41:02absolutely crazy. We're flying back tonight, but
- 41:06the show must go on, you guys. We, you guys know we don't skip
- 41:09a beat regardless of conferences.
- 41:10We we try to do it. We try to make the show every
- 41:13single single time and it's been incredibly brutal.
- 41:18But I do want to give this this Ali Berber on on Rumble said
- 41:24Opti is actually a hidden genius.
- 41:26Plays dumb. He guards it like a seed phrase,
- 41:29100th. Hey Elaine, stop blowing my
- 41:33cover, 1100. Percent Opti Opti is actually a
- 41:37hidden genius. Plays dumb and he guards it is
- 41:39100% true. By the way, do you guys know?
- 41:41That not a genius. Opti is a 160 IQ philosopher.
- 41:46This is not true. This is not true.
- 41:48He. Says he's 80 IQ so that people
- 41:50leave him alone and don't message him on the orange a lot.
- 41:57Stop, stop. Get to the news story.
- 41:59Stop this. All right, everybody, let's get
- 42:02to the news story. No more delay.
- 42:05So let's talk about this. Oh, I don't know why it's out
- 42:07there. Here it is all right, so let's
- 42:10talk about it. By the way, smash the like many
- 42:11of you guys are enjoying the show.
- 42:12We're at 100 and 4045 likes. Help us break 200 likes by the
- 42:16time the show ends and let's get into the news story.
- 42:19I I like this news story kind of resonated resonated with me a
- 42:22little bit. It's an opinion piece.
- 42:25It's on cryptoslate.com. The headline is, is this still
- 42:29Satoshi's Bitcoin Bitcoin conference keynotes dominated by
- 42:33politicians and corporations. It goes on to say Vegas glitters
- 42:37differently when 30,000 badge wearing bitcoiners clog the
- 42:41marble concourses of the Venetian screens flashing a
- 42:45frothy 105 to 106 K tape for BTC and every special line buzzing
- 42:50with hash rate. Small talk three day festivals
- 42:53usually disperse into noise, yet this one this one distilled a
- 42:57single theme. The conversation has vaulted
- 43:00beyond legitimacy questions. Governments, regulators and mega
- 43:04corps now jostle over integration, taxation and
- 43:08monetization. Quote Tether will be the biggest
- 43:11Bitcoin miner in the in the world, says the CEO of Tether,
- 43:14recounting to $13 billion in profit and revealing more than
- 43:17100,000 Bitcoin that we own as a company before tossing off a
- 43:22maxim maximalist haiku Bitcoin is perfect, gold is imperfect.
- 43:26I don't know that's a that's a nice haiku I like that I'm going
- 43:29to I should have said that to Peter Schiff bro what the heck
- 43:31Bitcoin is perfect gold is imperfect.
- 43:33I should have said that investors inhaled the news of a
- 43:36further $2 billion sunk into energy projects, sensing a
- 43:40stable coin juggernaut pivoting from liquidity plumbing to
- 43:45literal dig the ground infrastructure.
- 43:49It goes on to say across the Isle of Nations flags.
- 43:52Pakistan's special assistant declared.
- 43:55Today I announced that Pakistani government is setting up their
- 43:58own government LED Bitcoin strategic reserve.
- 44:01We will be. Holding these coins and we will
- 44:03never sell them like that. That's that's effing wild.
- 44:06Pakistan's actually a really big country by the way, guys has a
- 44:09lot of people pretty powerful too.
- 44:14I think they have nuclear weapons.
- 44:16I think them and, and India anyways, Union Jack's propped.
- 44:21Union Jack's propped next with Nigel, Farage said.
- 44:24We are the first political party in Britain that can accept
- 44:28donations in Bitcoin and I think he, I think what's the name of
- 44:31his political party, It's not Nigel.
- 44:33Farage. It's not the Tories, it's not
- 44:34the Liberals. I.
- 44:36Don't know cares about UK politics.
- 44:40It's an alternative. We do.
- 44:42We care about UK politics but we care about everyone.
- 44:47Opti, Opti's being mean. Opti, Opti's just tired.
- 44:50I'm tired. Opti's just tired.
- 44:52Opti doesn't want to. Opti doesn't want to be in
- 44:53Vegas. The crowd roared.
- 44:56Half the policy, half for the policy, half for the spectacular
- 44:59of a Westminster veteran recruiting Hoddlers.
- 45:02Faraj framed Westminster stagnation as an opening for a
- 45:06crypto powered populist insurgency promising A crypto
- 45:10powerhouse future. However, with only five MPs and
- 45:13a recent poll putting Farage at the the bottom of the pile of
- 45:17voter preferred prime ministers, it's the power of his rhetoric
- 45:21and waking up the major political parties, the true
- 45:24importance of Bitcoin in his speech that is most
- 45:27consequential here. It goes on to say regulatory
- 45:30mood music soften and Tatum SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce
- 45:34conceded, quote, we need to create a good environment for
- 45:37the good actors and a bad one for the bad actors.
- 45:40Warning that enforcement by ambiguity chases innovators
- 45:44offshore and later hammered this point.
- 45:47We can't ignore it. Value with will eventually be
- 45:50incorporated into traditional financial products.
- 45:53Quote her dry jab at mean traders.
- 45:57Quote, if you want to speculate, go for it.
- 45:59Don't come complaining to the government, it goes on to say.
- 46:03Builders match the policy tempo Arc Lab CEO unveiled arcade
- 46:08Arcod Arcade describing it how it virtualizes bitcoins
- 46:12transaction layer. It goes on to say even the
- 46:14organized chase headlines firing up a Guinness World Records
- 46:18attempt for the most Bitcoin transactions in a single day on
- 46:22an on chain carnival. That pairs nicely with the
- 46:25conference's Hashi heavy policy hungry mood.
- 46:29It goes on to say as attendees walked out into the Nevada dusk,
- 46:33some may have noticed that the narrative arc now resembles
- 46:36urban planning more than rebellion.
- 46:39Zoning boards, tax codes and energy grids are the new
- 46:42battlefields. This is a progress of a sort.
- 46:45The one suspects the Bitcoiners will miss the Outlaw Adrenaline
- 46:49once the paper sets in. It goes on to say Michael Saylor
- 46:53delivered his keynote on the opening day of Bitcoin 2025.
- 46:57His quote 21 ways to wealth speech was a highlight of the
- 47:01industry of the Events Industry day.
- 47:04Saylor emphasized Bitcoins role as a transformative financial
- 47:08asset and urged corporations to adopt it as a primary treasury
- 47:13reserve. He stated take your Fiat
- 47:15currency, trade it for Bitcoin, sell your bonds, sell your
- 47:18inferior real estate property, buy Bitcoin and other high
- 47:22profile moments. Vice President JD Vance laid out
- 47:25a strategic Bitcoin reserve as the next plank of America's
- 47:27resilience, declaring that financial sovereignty now
- 47:30outranks budget scaremongering and Washington Washington's
- 47:35pecking order. And it just keeps going.
- 47:37Robin Hood founder Vlad Tenek sketched out an AI fueled future
- 47:43of single person companies. Finally, White House crypto and
- 47:48AI SAR David Sacks reminded attendees that presidential
- 47:52authorization already exists, adding it quote if either
- 47:55treasury or commerce can figure out how to fund it without
- 47:59adding to that, then they are allowed to create these
- 48:02programs. Essentially referring to
- 48:04President Trump, his administration's plan to acquire
- 48:08more Bitcoin and budget neutral ways.
- 48:10We've heard Bo Hines talk about this as well.
- 48:12And you know, but I will say this.
- 48:15Wait, read that last paragraph. Oh, we just got.
- 48:18Yeah, yeah, we'll hit that. Read that.
- 48:20Read that last paragraph. Holy shit.
- 48:21Geebus, Jan, thank you so much for the $100.
- 48:27Really appreciate it. Really, really appreciate it.
- 48:30Thank you so much. Thank you so much for the
- 48:32support, James to kiss, to say says are you?
- 48:37Are you in Treasure Island? No, but it's behind us.
- 48:40No. Is it behind us?
- 48:43Yeah, it is behind us. But no, we're not going to tell
- 48:45you our hotel. We're in, bro.
- 48:46Come on. Come on now.
- 48:47Guys, we, we pretty much just docked ourselves.
- 48:50Nah, they could figure it out. So.
- 48:54Right, read this last paragraph. This is the kicker.
- 48:58Oh, OK, Is Bitcoin still cyberpunk?
- 49:01I can't shake the lingering concern that the keynotes
- 49:04focused almost entirely on Bitcoin propaganda and political
- 49:08posturing rather than protocol development, security, and
- 49:10decentralization. I'm all for helping to educate
- 49:13the world on the importance of bitcoinization, but I'm
- 49:16wondering how the Bitcoin conference headliners are doing
- 49:18that. Indeed, the headline talks
- 49:20energize the Bitcoin faithful in America, but I worry we're we're
- 49:24straying further and further from the Cipherfunk's ethos of
- 49:27Bitcoin's origins. Populist politicians with minor
- 49:31government roles continue using Bitcoin to garner votes, while
- 49:34corporations celebrate their Bitcoin stacks.
- 49:37Is this still Satoshi's Bitcoin? I think so, but we must continue
- 49:41to remind ourselves why we love Bitcoin and whether we truly
- 49:44advance advancing. The next 1 billion users are
- 49:47simply patting ourselves on the back for how high the price is
- 49:51this week. OK, great.
- 49:53You know, kind of great, great kind of like criticism of the
- 50:00conference. I'll say this guys, I think it
- 50:02was a fantastic conference because there is multiple
- 50:05stages. The Genesis stage had amazing
- 50:09talks. I had AI had one called Digital
- 50:131776 with Eric Case on CJ and our boy G money.
- 50:20There is one with American Hoddle Eric Case on and whatever
- 50:24and they were, they were dropping fire.
- 50:27Like Satan case. On was dropping hot fire, so
- 50:31that cypherpunk ethos is definitely still there.
- 50:35You know, Luke went pretty wild on that mainstage.
- 50:38Like what he was just saying just now, Ross literally spoke.
- 50:42Ross spoke. So it's still there.
- 50:45Like that Rebellion is still inherently there.
- 50:47Now I understand the criticism where it's like, look, there's a
- 50:51vice president, there's publicly guys that comes with the
- 50:55territory. Like do you want hyper
- 50:58bitcoinization? Like this is the next step.
- 51:00Like Bitcoin was inevitably going to become political.
- 51:03Like it was inevitably going to enter into the political fray.
- 51:06It it like it is the separation of money and say like it, it's
- 51:08in the effing name, Bros and gals.
- 51:12This was this was this was inevitable that this was gonna
- 51:16happen. So yeah, I mean, like, come on
- 51:21now. Come on now.
- 51:23So I, I, I get it though. It's very well written article.
- 51:26Opti, what's your take? Before we get out to the
- 51:28culture, we'll wrap up today's show.
- 51:29Yeah, like it. It's very easy to nitpick the
- 51:32the mainstage at the Bitcoin Magazine conference.
- 51:36Obviously, as we saw, I'm, I'm sure you guys saw the meme,
- 51:39someone mashed together like this clip of the mainstage and
- 51:43they're like summing up the conversations on the mainstage.
- 51:46And it was just like stable coins, stable coins, stable
- 51:48coins. We're here for stable coins.
- 51:50Stable coins. I I personally like I'm a I'm a
- 51:53big. Fan of Well, well, I, I let's
- 51:56mute him. Let's mute him.
- 51:57I like Heather. Let's meet him.
- 51:58No, I mean. And further guys, go check out
- 52:01safety in Amos's speech on stable coins.
- 52:05He shat on Tedder, didn't he? No, not really.
- 52:08Like he, he kind of started and it seemed like he was.
- 52:11And then he basically said like, it's the Trojan horse.
- 52:15What? What happened?
- 52:16You've been saying it just the way he said it, the way he said
- 52:19it finally clicked. Nico, you can't speak as well
- 52:22anyways. Anyways, anyways, before because
- 52:23we, we do want to move on. We we kind of got to get out of
- 52:26here pretty soon. So I think this is like I, I
- 52:30think David Bailey kind of said it the best and I've been kind
- 52:34of trolling for a while. A lot of bit corners.
- 52:36They're having a hard time dealing with Bitcoin entering
- 52:39the mainstream. And I, I don't know if this is
- 52:41like a, a hipster type vibe, you know, like I like this band, but
- 52:46now they're mainstream and they sold out, bro.
- 52:48Like they, they've changed, man. I like the old, I like the old
- 52:51band, not the new band or whether it is some kind of
- 52:55deranged like loser mentality. Like we just like to be the
- 52:59underdogs. And now that we are getting
- 53:01acceptance, people have a hard time accepting the fact that we
- 53:04are taking over the world. I don't think that Bitcoin has
- 53:08fundamentally changed. I just think the narrative
- 53:10around Bitcoin has changed in the sense that this is what
- 53:13people are interested in. This is what gets people
- 53:16interested in Bitcoin, and this is what's going to get them down
- 53:19the door again. I had so many conversations with
- 53:21people at the conference basically saying it took Michael
- 53:25Saylor to to talk at his, you know, quarterly board meeting
- 53:29for me to understand what the hell Bitcoin was.
- 53:31You know, he literally, I was talking to I, I believe his name
- 53:35was Michael. And forgive me if I'm, if I'm
- 53:37mistaking this, but he is the CEO of Kuler Kulr.
- 53:41And he's like, yeah, my kid was telling me about Bitcoin and
- 53:44meme coins. And I'm like, yeah, whatever.
- 53:46And then I heard Michael Saylor talk about it and he's like,
- 53:49actually I need to smash by millions of dollars to protect
- 53:52my business. I just think this is the how the
- 53:54message is getting through to a whole new audience.
- 53:57I've been saying this for a long time on the show.
- 53:59If Bitcoiners, the current generation of Bitcoiners, the
- 54:02current influencers of bitcoiners, were as good as we
- 54:06think we are about spreading the Bitcoin message, then everyone
- 54:10would already be a Bitcoiner. I think this is more a fault on
- 54:13us as people that talk about Bitcoin then it is about Bitcoin
- 54:17losing its ethos. You need to understand what
- 54:21drives people and what gets them incentivized and inspired and
- 54:25motivated to stack Bitcoin. And for better or worse, the
- 54:28message that we've been saying for a long time has only been
- 54:31able to get us into it. It's got to evolve to get the
- 54:34next batch of people. But the point does remain the
- 54:37same. We can't lose the ethos.
- 54:39And This is why, you know, as much as we are part of the click
- 54:42bait cabal, we're click bait scammers.
- 54:44We constantly tell you guys to stack Bitcoin.
- 54:48Take it into. Self custody.
- 54:52I take that back. I take.
- 54:54Why? Why?
- 54:55I'm just, I'm just trolling. I'm just trolling because that's
- 54:57what they call us. I.
- 54:58Mean we're not. We're not.
- 54:59We're scamming you into profits. We're.
- 55:01Not scamming anyone. Nico, dude, Nico doesn't
- 55:04understand. No, Nico doesn't understand
- 55:07sarcasm. The framing.
- 55:08Nico doesn't understand sarcasm. He's he's literally an artist.
- 55:13He doesn't understand sarcasm. All right, let's let's get into
- 55:15it. Get go to the get the
- 55:17transition. To be fair, I am a little bit on
- 55:19the spectrum a little bit. I asked ChatGPT, I'm like ask me
- 55:2310 questions, you know? And yeah, so I am a little bit
- 55:27on the spectrum, but I'm proud of it.
- 55:28It's fine. It's fine.
- 55:29Anyways, guys, it's been a great show.
- 55:30We're gonna hit the culture. We'll be right back in just a
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- 57:36All right, everybody, we are back.
- 57:38We're going to do a quick 5 to 10 minute debrief everything
- 57:42conference. Let's break it down.
- 57:45So we flew in on Monday and we Sunday, Sunday night we had a
- 57:53pretty dope Airbnb. I really liked it, but boy is
- 57:56Nevada hot and dry. And we set up, we set up the
- 58:00show on the Airbnb. That was a lot of fun the first
- 58:03day. Then the second day was crazy,
- 58:07man. It was so, so crazy. 5:00 AM
- 58:11till 11:00 PM. It was nuts.
- 58:13It was wild. It was crazy.
- 58:15I don't think I've that was that was AI don't know how many hour
- 58:18day that was. We literally put in like 12 to
- 58:2114 hour days. Yeah, So I started, woke up at
- 58:255:00 AM prepping the show, getting everything ready, had to
- 58:28be at the Bitcoin conference at 8:15.
- 58:32I started off the stream with, I believe I was with.
- 58:39It was with Frank, Pete Russo and Marty.
- 58:43Marty Bent. We started off the stream.
- 58:46I did that. I had to get off the stage a
- 58:49little bit early because I had a call at 855, had the call, then
- 58:53me and Opti did the first show from the Rumble booth.
- 58:56That was a whole lot of fun. Yeah, shouts out the Rumble
- 58:59team. They're.
- 58:59Goaded, yeah, they, they really took care of us.
- 59:02I really appreciate that. And then yeah, second day was
- 59:07pretty madness as well. Oh, I had a panel earlier on in
- 59:11the day with with G money. That was a lot of fun.
- 59:13Digital 1776 Eric case on went off it was yeah it and just
- 59:20interviews back-to-back like 88 interviews in a row every single
- 59:24day. But I got to the highlight was
- 59:27that I got to interview Scottie Pippen.
- 59:29Man, that was crazy. Did not expect that six time NBA
- 59:34champion. I actually have the picture.
- 59:37Shuts out wine for making it happen, Yeah.
- 59:39Was it wine? Yeah, Wine lit it out.
- 59:41You guys want to hear a funny story?
- 59:43So we're in the press lounge. Scottie Pippen walks in.
- 59:47And I, I wasn't there, but this is what I'm hearing.
- 59:49And Wine, just like he walks up. Our whole team's there.
- 59:53And Wine just bluntly looks over to him.
- 59:57I don't know if he said anything more or this is all he said.
- 59:59And he's just looks up, literally looks up.
- 1:00:02And he's like, oh. Why haven't you been on our
- 1:00:06show, bro? And he's like, all right, let's
- 1:00:10do it right now. Jumped on.
- 1:00:12It was super cool. It was pretty amazing.
- 1:00:15Yeah, I should have asked him for for price predictions, we're
- 1:00:17like Scottie, Scottie Pippen. I asked him about his dreams.
- 1:00:21Guys. Dude, that was crazy.
- 1:00:24That was a highlight for me. And then check this out.
- 1:00:28I interviewed, I interviewed Peter Schiff.
- 1:00:32Now Peter Schiff actually had a really good point.
- 1:00:35Now I think he's going to be proven wrong long term, but he
- 1:00:43he actually had a really good point and I think we still have
- 1:00:46a ways to go. So what is that point that he
- 1:00:49made? So Peter Schiff actually
- 1:00:53correctly pointed out that Bitcoin has not made all time
- 1:00:57highs if you price it in gold. So essentially we've kind of
- 1:01:03been going sideways since, you know, for for a minute now,
- 1:01:09right? And and yeah, I mean, he was
- 1:01:16right. He was right about, you know,
- 1:01:18his his thing, right? If you price it in gold, Bitcoin
- 1:01:22is essentially right back where it was in 2021.
- 1:01:27So, yeah, I mean, I still think, I still think we still got a
- 1:01:32ways to go during this bull market.
- 1:01:34And I had to concede on that point because Peter was right.
- 1:01:37Now he talks about how, you know, a Ponzi scheme needs more
- 1:01:42and more buyers and he's trying to equate Bitcoin to a Ponzi.
- 1:01:45And I pushed him back on that. He was like, you should
- 1:01:49diversify. And I was like, I kind of
- 1:01:50laughed. I did also flex.
- 1:01:53On a 20K bracelet on you? It's interesting too, like he
- 1:01:57kind of made an argument where it's like, you see, I like I
- 1:02:00could wear this 20K bracelet in my hand and I could just take it
- 1:02:06with me and I'm like, all right, dude, try crossing a border from
- 1:02:10a country that's falling apart and let me know if they let you
- 1:02:13keep that 20 K bracelet, bro, I could literally memorize 12
- 1:02:16words in my head and I could take my money with you.
- 1:02:18That's super empowering. So that argument fell flat.
- 1:02:22But I, I did agree with him. I said, dude, I like physical
- 1:02:24gold, just not as much as Bitcoin.
- 1:02:27Like I like Bitcoin way better, right?
- 1:02:29But I like physical gold is dope.
- 1:02:31Like to hold it in your hands and stuff.
- 1:02:33Like would I put a large percentage of my net worth in
- 1:02:35it? No, but it's cool.
- 1:02:38Like, it's kind of like doomsday stuff, you know?
- 1:02:41Dude, you're just. Hispanic, so like, you know,
- 1:02:44gold bars, like, you know, those little tiny ones, like whatever,
- 1:02:47like I, I, I like them. They're pretty cool.
- 1:02:49Now, is it as good as Bitcoin? No.
- 1:02:51Or would I have a lot of money in them?
- 1:02:53No, but I do like them. I just, I just think that gold
- 1:02:59was like it tried to serve what the function that Bitcoin is
- 1:03:03serving now. And there's a lot of people
- 1:03:06committed to the whole gold train, but they like they just,
- 1:03:10I get them. I get them, right, because all
- 1:03:13of Peter Schiff's arguments have been correct.
- 1:03:16The only part where he's faltered is like Bitcoin not
- 1:03:21being better than gold. But I don't blame him like
- 1:03:24decades of like being right and then doubling down on like gold
- 1:03:30being the solution, this and this and that.
- 1:03:32And then it takes humility to be like, you know what, I was right
- 1:03:36about my theories, but Bitcoin is, is better, right?
- 1:03:41Like it takes a lot of humility to say that to kind of step
- 1:03:44away. So that was an interesting
- 1:03:45conversation. We're going to be posting all
- 1:03:47these interviews over the next couple weeks.
- 1:03:50They're awesome. But again, to me, the highlight
- 1:03:53was Scottie Pippen. What was your highlight, Opti?
- 1:03:55And then we'll wrap up today's show.
- 1:03:56Well, I mean, my highlight was wasn't really about the speakers
- 1:04:00or even the interviews. It was really just seeing all my
- 1:04:03friends. And you know, I saw a lot of
- 1:04:05people that I haven't seen in years, literally probably since
- 1:04:07last year at the Bitcoin conference 2024.
- 1:04:11And that This is why I like coming to them.
- 1:04:13They are like family reunions. You can see a lot of people, you
- 1:04:16know, keep in contact with friends and, and it's, it's a
- 1:04:19good time. It's, it's basically just an
- 1:04:20excuse to come hang out with friends at this point.
- 1:04:22So that's my personal highlight. But the one you know, more on
- 1:04:27the professional side, the one thing that I absolutely loved
- 1:04:31was I did get to do an update with CJ Constantinos and we
- 1:04:37absolutely had a blast. He if you guys have seen the old
- 1:04:40interviews we've done, I think we've done 3 already posted.
- 1:04:44He has a way of explaining things and his, his his talk, or
- 1:04:50rather our interview is the last, literally the last thing
- 1:04:52we did on the Bitcoin conference floor.
- 1:04:55And the clip of safety and almost talking about stable
- 1:05:01coins, I, I think that really made it Click to me.
- 1:05:05And I know there was a lot of pushback on Twitter where
- 1:05:07everyone's like, this is all they talked about on the
- 1:05:10mainstage. And it really I think is going,
- 1:05:14you know, maybe Niko was right here.
- 1:05:16I, I, I'll have to concede here a little bit because Niko has
- 1:05:19been saying this, but he's usually been saying it in a
- 1:05:22different way. I think what safety said and
- 1:05:26what CJ said and you guys will get this interview later, They
- 1:05:30absolutely are nailing it. Or I don't know if I was just
- 1:05:33receptive to the idea here, but I think stable coins aren't as
- 1:05:40bad as we think they are. I think it's really, I know
- 1:05:44Nico. I know, I know.
- 1:05:45I think it's really the Trojan horse here that gets Bitcoin.
- 1:05:50Hold on, Nico Gate. No, no, no, dude, I was
- 1:05:54misinformed. I I wasn't looking at it
- 1:05:56correctly. There's no such thing as Nico
- 1:05:59Gate. No such thing.
- 1:06:00Bitcoin is the stable coins are the Trojan horse.
- 1:06:03What did? I wait, Wait, wait, wait, wait,
- 1:06:05wait, wait. Alright, alright, it's This is
- 1:06:08true. You usually say different
- 1:06:10though, Nico. Gay, you censor.
- 1:06:14Me. I censor you.
- 1:06:15No, I didn't censor you. I bullied you.
- 1:06:18There's a difference. But yes, Nico.
- 1:06:21In a friendly. Way in a friendly yeah, a fool.
- 1:06:23It's this is this is friendly I I think.
- 1:06:28In a joking way, in a. Joke, dude, we don't have to
- 1:06:31clarify. I, I think they get it.
- 1:06:34I think what we're seeing right now and the way that CJ said it
- 1:06:38to me is basically he was having this conversation with someone
- 1:06:44very high up, obviously influential, really rich.
- 1:06:48They're they're in the know. And they were talking about
- 1:06:51Bitcoin and stable coins. And CJ explained to him what he
- 1:06:54sees around stable coins. And he basically said, like, I
- 1:06:57don't think these politicians or, you know, these regulators
- 1:07:00are smart enough to understand what they're actually doing.
- 1:07:03And by them inviting stable coins into DC in the regulation,
- 1:07:08they're really bringing on their own demise.
- 1:07:10And when I heard that, I was like, oh, OK, this isn't about,
- 1:07:14you know, dollar dominance and getting the, the, you know, the
- 1:07:17global S on to, you know, better payment system.
- 1:07:22And this is about, you know, the milkshake theory.
- 1:07:25And Bitcoin getting through the door under the guise of stable
- 1:07:28coins is literally going to be the thing that blows up the Fiat
- 1:07:32system. The very thing they think is
- 1:07:34going to be the solution is the thing that literally gets
- 1:07:36Bitcoin to just go everywhere 'cause they can't save the Fiat
- 1:07:40system. I'm like, oh, OK, all right, you
- 1:07:44know, I, I was, I was, I was a little negative in regard to
- 1:07:47this OK #Niko gay #Niko gay guys.
- 1:07:52OK, 100. And 96 likes on YouTube help
- 1:07:55exactly some. See bro.
- 1:07:56Poor Niko giving me sympathy. Now how?
- 1:07:59Does. It feel up troll Niko more.
- 1:08:03Smash the like button, guys. We're almost at 200 likes on
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