Latest / Simply Bitcoin / Jack Mallers: US Needs to Adopt Bitcoin or Perish | EP 727
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- 0:12Yeah, welcome to Simply Bitcoin live.
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- 0:18We will be your guide through the separation of money and
- 0:21state yesterday. Really.
- 0:25I think it was a really interesting day because
- 0:27basically what happened was the Bitcoin policy Institute.
- 0:30Shout out, David's L doing a great job and basically they
- 0:37presented the Bitcoin policy Summit, it was a one-day event
- 0:41and it Add a lot of predominant politicians there from Cynthia
- 0:46lummis, Ted Cruz Tom emmer but you also had industry leaders
- 0:51like Bitcoin industry thought leaders been Bitcoin industry.
- 0:54Entrepreneurs you had Jack mahler's, you have Alex
- 0:56gladstein, you had Matthew Pines, you had Troy cross, and
- 1:00many, many more and basically what they were making the case
- 1:04for is they're making the case for Bitcoin.
- 1:06And they're making the case as to why Bitcoin is necessary.
- 1:09Why it's necessary for United States to have a friendly stance
- 1:14towards Bitcoin to allow Bitcoin adoption in the u.s.
- 1:18specifically to keep the us as a world leader or in the hopes of
- 1:23that. The reality is that many
- 1:25countries are now seeking alternatives to the US dollar to
- 1:29facilitate international trade and why they did, why are they
- 1:32doing that? They're doing that because the
- 1:34US abused their privilege. This, this crazy privilege of
- 1:39being the world Reserve currency that gives The US government,
- 1:42this unique ability of being able to create like, print money
- 1:46like crazy without, you know, undergoing hyperinflation, and
- 1:52they abused that privilege. They weaponize the money to go
- 1:56after political opponents, and then it's basic human
- 1:59incentives, right? What did those political
- 2:01opponents do when I say political opponents?
- 2:02I mean, Russia. I mean China, obviously, they
- 2:06seek an alternative. So, Jack mallers had a keynote.
- 2:10He had a presentation as to why? I use make the case as to why it
- 2:14is a strategic necessity for the u.s. to adopt something like
- 2:19Bitcoin. So that's, we're going to talk
- 2:21about during the news today. And during the numbers, I have
- 2:24something on the exact opposite end of the spectrum.
- 2:27Basically, this guy testifying in front of the New York State
- 2:32Assembly. Just all the crazy things that
- 2:36were coming out of his mouth. Basically, why we need bigger
- 2:38blocks as to if we don't have bigger blocks, it is Very
- 2:42Bitcoin is very inefficient and I can't believe.
- 2:46We are in 2023 and these people are still taking seriously.
- 2:52Just absolutely blows my mind. And the reason I want to play
- 2:55that video is because we all remember the law that the New
- 3:00York state passed basically being extremely hostile towards
- 3:03Bitcoin miners, basically making it illegal to mine Bitcoin, New
- 3:09York, they passed. When were touring images funny
- 3:13though because the governor waited until actually after the
- 3:16elections assigning the law. So she's very interesting stuff,
- 3:19but before we start the show, I want to bring up my legendary
- 3:22co-host. Always optimistic.
- 3:24How you doing, Opti I'm good? I don't know if you saw me but
- 3:27you're cracking me up. I haven't seen these videos but
- 3:30I'm excited today. Usually I kind of get a little
- 3:32glimpse of the videos before, but today I saw them circulating
- 3:36and I just you know I was I was caught up watching some TED
- 3:40talks for like Nothing to do with Bitcoin.
- 3:43Sometimes you gotta unplug a little bit.
- 3:44But man, I'm excited for today. It is Thursday, bro.
- 3:47We almost made it another week, so yeah.
- 3:50Almost almost almost almost across the Finish Line.
- 3:54Let's hope we don't blow up today.
- 3:58So let's bring up our guest. Steve, how you doing Steve?
- 4:01Welcome to the show. Hi, I'm doing great, thanks for
- 4:04having me on the show. Goes happy to have you.
- 4:06So Opti, why don't you tell everybody before we get into
- 4:09numbers? What we're going to talk about
- 4:11during the culture Yeah, so I got a, I got a few tweets over
- 4:14here from Steve's Twitter. And we were, I asked him a
- 4:17question before and it's kind of a theme that I've been jumping
- 4:20on for a long time on this channel and on Twitter spaces,
- 4:24it's the idea of trying to, you know, bring Bitcoin Back to
- 4:28Basics. So the everyday person can
- 4:29understand Bitcoin and I might eat him up with a totally what I
- 4:34thought irrelevant question and we got into it.
- 4:36So I'm going to just do the same thing and then we'll have the
- 4:38conversation live. I think people enjoy this one.
- 4:42Yeah, I'm actually I'm really looking forward to this episode.
- 4:45Anyways, everybody no more delay.
- 4:46Let's see. Let's jump straight into the
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- 7:01having estimates April 22nd. 2024 Total light in network
- 7:05capacity, 5,000 369 Bitcoin, capacity value, 156 million,
- 7:13u.s. dollars and the realized monetary inflation is 1.75
- 7:18percent. If you guys noticed from
- 7:19yesterday, it did go down. Percentage point.
- 7:22And if you compare that to Fiat currencies, it's Bitcoin
- 7:25continues, to take them to Absolute school and that number
- 7:28will continue to go down forever forever.
- 7:31Laura market capitalization of Bitcoin 562 billion dollars with
- 7:37Abby. Anyways, let's talk about New
- 7:39York, right? The state of New York
- 7:41specifically so we all remember this, right?
- 7:45So and it apparently they gathered enough political
- 7:49willpower in order to effectuate this Band.
- 7:51And what I'm talking about is that New York state passed a
- 7:54band that would partially ban Bitcoin, mining specifically,
- 7:58proof-of-work mining, right? And for anyone who doesn't know
- 8:02specific specifically an Upstate New York, there's a tremendous
- 8:06amount of hydro electricity, Hydro power and that power is
- 8:10isolated. It's very far away from the
- 8:12city. Therefore, you know, it was
- 8:15there was a lot of Demands. Sorry.
- 8:17There's a there's a lot of Supply.
- 8:18There's not that much demand. That means the prices of
- 8:20electricity. Are very, very cheap and if they
- 8:23were being used as is the case to the people that are basically
- 8:27anti Bitcoin mining the the price would be very high
- 8:32therefore, would be economic on economic over Bitcoin miners to
- 8:36use that power, right? So again, you know, it's an
- 8:40educational issue but as long as you have people testifying in
- 8:45government, making these crazy crazy.
- 8:48I'm going to play you a clip and this guy actually test Defied in
- 8:51front of the New York State Assembly and holy crap.
- 8:56Like he sure if you don't know about Bitcoin, this guy sounds
- 8:59like what? He's what he knows what he's
- 9:01talking about but if you know he gets so many things wrong.
- 9:04Anyways I'm gonna play you guys the clip and then we'll talk
- 9:07about it. It seems to me that he's a fan
- 9:09of bsv and Bitcoin cash. I'll let you guys be the judge.
- 9:12Let's check it out. How much BTC Bitcoin that most
- 9:16people are trading their as a cryptocurrency.
- 9:20How much energy it's utilizing. The reality is Bitcoin BTC which
- 9:25has a 1 MB block every 10 minutes which collects data
- 9:30right is limited to how much data can actually use.
- 9:34So it does not scale so it actually does 7 transactions per
- 9:38second. If we were all to do email to
- 9:41share email with a technology that does seven Actions per
- 9:44second. None of us would ever receive
- 9:47that. Email, the reality is Satoshi.
- 9:49Nakamoto said that Bitcoin could scale beyond the likes of visa
- 9:53from day one. Well, what hasn't happened is
- 9:57there was that one megabit limit that was put on the Block size
- 10:01early, in the network history to prevent spamming of the network
- 10:05and allow the infrastructure to grow.
- 10:07This has not been removed by BTC, which is the prominent
- 10:11Bitcoin of, you know, No tradable asset but there's a
- 10:16confusion about what Bitcoin was originally bit.
- 10:20Refers to data coin Finance, obviously today, A lot of people
- 10:24are just speaking about the coin aspect but Bitcoin is diffusion
- 10:29of data and finance where if you remove that one megabit limit
- 10:34and have an unbounded block size every 10 minutes.
- 10:37Now you're able to actually have from BTC, which is about 1200 kg
- 10:42of CO2 per transaction, which Is absolutely ridiculous but down
- 10:46to other competing protocols that use proof-of-work, scalable
- 10:50proof-of-work, like bsv that does less than 2 kg of CO2 per
- 10:55transaction, even today. And that's because the unbounded
- 10:58amount of transactions that can be included into a block
- 11:02meaning, if a plane was going from New York to Miami and you
- 11:06only had three hundred seeds, that's all you're going to fit
- 11:09in there. It's going to take the same
- 11:10amount of energy as you want. But if you're going to take that
- 11:12same plane and you could fit as many Many people as you want it
- 11:15in there, comfortably, right safely, try that, that same
- 11:18carbon footprint for each person starts to go down.
- 11:23Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So first of all, carbon
- 11:27footprint carbon footprint is, it's like, it's like the go-to.
- 11:30It's like the buzz word, right? 1200 kg CO2 per transaction.
- 11:34But if you increase the block size and if you use this
- 11:37currency called bsv, which the free market has determined, it
- 11:41does not want, right? You know, you decrease, you know
- 11:45the the climate impact. Well, you guys remember, Pierre
- 11:48Richard's video, you put a CO2 meter behind a Bitcoin Asic. 8
- 11:53and Bitcoin miners. Don't release CO2.
- 11:59So again, it's like, they're, it's a misrepresentation right?
- 12:04And this other aspect where he's like, Bitcoin doesn't scale,
- 12:08that's what the lightning networks for, right?
- 12:10And most importantly, and I really want to focus on this
- 12:13debate because I think a lot of people are getting into Bitcoin,
- 12:16don't quite understand. Which is this idea of bigger
- 12:19blocks, bigger blocks, bigger blocks, bigger box.
- 12:23If you had bigger blocks it wouldn't be as decentralized as
- 12:28it is today. If you look at aetherium,
- 12:30etherium is so resource intensive.
- 12:32There's only a handful of people that could run those nodes
- 12:36because it's so expensive. So what tends to happen is a lot
- 12:39of people actually run those nodes etherium nodes on server
- 12:43farms. And server Farms are prone to
- 12:46government capture, right? Because there's only a handful
- 12:49of companies. This is already.
- 12:51Happening. Since etherium migrated to proof
- 12:53of stake, the vast majority of ethereum validators are actively
- 12:57censoring for the office of foreign assets control.
- 13:00The reason that a theory, the Bitcoins blocks are the size.
- 13:03They are is it is so that the barrier to entry to run your own
- 13:08node is low enough so that the average common everyday person
- 13:13could run their own version of Bitcoin.
- 13:16Therefore, making it more decentralized, therefore, making
- 13:19it less Less prone to government capture if you want to separate
- 13:26money from state, decentralization is the most
- 13:30important. It's the most important feature.
- 13:33It's the most important thing that you need, right?
- 13:35So it all these shit coins do whether it's bsv, bigger blocks
- 13:39bigger blocks, what are the unintended consequences of
- 13:42bigger, blocks the unintended consequences of bigger blocks,
- 13:45meaning that it requires more resources, more Hardware, more
- 13:49hardcore, hardware and order to run.
- 13:51In that version of Bitcoin. Therefore the barrier to entry
- 13:54is higher. Therefore there's only a handful
- 13:57of people that can afford to do that right there for making it
- 14:00prone to government capture, right?
- 14:02So the block size is the way it is so that more people could run
- 14:07their own nodes. That's how that's how it's
- 14:09supposed to be. And then this idea of like, oh
- 14:12Bitcoin, can't scale Bitcoin, can't scales.
- 14:14Like holy crap, we've had this argument or this debate a
- 14:18million times. I don't know if you guys have
- 14:20used a lightning Network, It's freaking fast.
- 14:23It's instantaneous. It's literally lightning.
- 14:26It's like this, right? And lightning is perfect for
- 14:29small transactions, right? So if you're getting coffee at
- 14:32the coffee shop and you want to pay instantaneously lightning is
- 14:36for you. So the second layer is what is
- 14:39going to scale Bitcoin. But on the base layer, you need
- 14:43something strong, you need something decentralized, right?
- 14:47Because if it's not decentralized, it will
- 14:49inevitably be co-opted by government.
- 14:51If it's inevitably be co-opted, if it will become opted by
- 14:54government, then you can have the separation of money and
- 14:56state problem is that when these types of individuals go to state
- 15:01assemblies, are in that specific case, the New York State Senate,
- 15:05you can be sure that a lot of people in the New York State
- 15:09Senate, you know, bless their hearts right or their older
- 15:11people. They don't know what he's
- 15:13saying. They don't have the technical
- 15:15know-how to be like, oh, you're right to if you're hearing what
- 15:18he's what he's saying, it sounds.
- 15:20It sounds like common sense. It's like yeah, let's make the
- 15:22blocks bigger. Yeah, it's gonna reduce the
- 15:25carbon. Why not do this is so
- 15:27ridiculous. Look that guy is wrong.
- 15:30There's a lot more Nuance to the argument, we've broken down some
- 15:33of it but most importantly he's a bsv.
- 15:36She'll so he definitely has bsv bags that he's holding because
- 15:40that's the one he recommended specifically.
- 15:42So how much did Craig Wright? Paid this guy to go and there
- 15:47you go. Thanks Opti for pulling it down,
- 15:49even pull that up myself. Public policy director of be of
- 15:53bsv blockchain. Yeah it's interesting and if you
- 15:57actually but it's it but look how much they cover themselves
- 16:00up though, because if you look at the testimony, I'm not going
- 16:03to play but just look at the title, he Has How much BTC
- 16:08Bitcoin that most people are truly Global policy, director
- 16:11Bitcoin Association. It doesn't say, bsv Association,
- 16:16you know. So again, misrepresentations
- 16:18lie, Spin. And yeah, man, it's dude, it is
- 16:23a headache dealing with these people.
- 16:25It is really, really a headache with the dealing with these
- 16:27people, the lies, the spin just wrong, bro.
- 16:31You just wrong and he's not talking about the Nuance.
- 16:33He's not talking about the pros and cons, he's not But the
- 16:37unintended consequences of making the block size bigger and
- 16:40those are all debates and conversations, you need to have.
- 16:43There's a reason Satoshi made the block size, the way it is
- 16:48and there's a reason that the Bitcoin Community has fought so
- 16:51hard against that the centralization above all.
- 16:55Anyways Opti. What are your thoughts on this
- 16:57brother? Well, what year is this?
- 17:01Like we back in 2017? Like, I can't believe that
- 17:05people are still saying this stuff and just being completely
- 17:09blind to the developments on bitcoin.
- 17:12You know, we've had segment, we see that lightning is taking off
- 17:15like lightning simply works and the shit Corners are still out
- 17:18here saying that Bitcoin can't scale like we are seeing at
- 17:21scale on real time. It's just what's the mic is
- 17:26going to have to correct me because I know he's in the
- 17:28chair. I think it's brandolini is law.
- 17:30You know, the amount of effort it takes to correct.
- 17:34Bunch of bullshit is magnitudes more than it is to spread the
- 17:38truth. And here we are again, just
- 17:39continuously having to have these rehashing these
- 17:43conversations, you know, like it just completes its complete
- 17:47trash and and this guy trying to use Bitcoin as if cover, you
- 17:52know, part of the Bitcoin Association like no one speaks
- 17:55for Bitcoin. This is the beauty of Bitcoin
- 17:56Bitcoin Bitcoin work. And they can try to co-op the
- 18:02the real Bitcoin but they forged off like they've lost.
- 18:06I think the free market has chosen very clearly that Bitcoin
- 18:09bsv is not Bitcoin BTC. If I have to like make it clear.
- 18:14But someone someone wanted to kind of clear up the block size
- 18:18and why some some blocks are 4, MB will segue, it was an upgrade
- 18:23guys and it introduced block weight, which increases the One
- 18:28block from one megabyte 24 MB guys.
- 18:30So this is why you're seeing this happen.
- 18:32Like Bitcoin is scaling in real time and people can basically
- 18:37use old data overload narratives to try to talk smack on bitcoin.
- 18:43But Bitcoin is very clearly winning on the free market and
- 18:47nothing else. Competes to bitcoin whether it's
- 18:49on the hash rate, whether it's on the liquidity, whether it's
- 18:52on the nodes. Everything is a shit coin
- 18:54there's Bitcoin and there's should coins and I think this is
- 18:59kind of up to your point Nika that we always talk about here,
- 19:02the importance of having people at these hearings with clear
- 19:06information and and not just straight up shit, coin, chills,
- 19:10like, and I know it's not going to be me and you because we're
- 19:14just talking heads on YouTube. But man, I think it's never been
- 19:17clearer than what we are seeing. And it really blows my mind that
- 19:20we are still having these conversations what?
- 19:22Five six years after they've already been thoroughly
- 19:25destroyed. It's absolutely nuts.
- 19:28Men. Yeah, 100% anyways, before we
- 19:30move on, Steve, what's your take on all this, bro?
- 19:35Oh wait, hold on. I think I, well, can you hear me
- 19:40now? Yeah, yeah.
- 19:41Okay. So, you know, I've spent my
- 19:44entire career as a wildlife biologist in that environmental
- 19:48space, I guess you would say. And so coming from that whenever
- 19:52you hear environmental arguments watch out because, you know,
- 19:57there's there's obvious corruption in there and that's
- 20:02my first thought on any time we're talking about Energy
- 20:05usage, you know, within these systems and you know you know
- 20:08Nico I'm a little older and you guys and you know still I can I
- 20:13can understand what's going on here and so just you know, you
- 20:17just got to be leery of any of this and and always look at what
- 20:21is the motivations, you know, behind it.
- 20:24And that's really to take away from me on this and and good
- 20:27job. You do research and you know
- 20:29where this guy was coming from to.
- 20:32Yeah, exactly. She's got a lot of All you got
- 20:35to you know you got to do your own research, you got to take
- 20:37personal responsibility start, I stop Outsourcing the personal
- 20:41responsibility of the storage of your wealth and stop Outsourcing
- 20:45the personal responsibility of seeking information.
- 20:48You know, I think we are and where we are today because a lot
- 20:51of people have been Outsourcing that to the Legacy corporate
- 20:54Media or to Banks. And if a lot of people, if most
- 20:58is, the majority of people on this, in this on planet Earth
- 21:01took personal responsibility took the self custody of their
- 21:04wealth. Seek their own information
- 21:07without trusting just, you know, these sources I think we'd live
- 21:10in a more peaceful prosperous world but I think we're heading
- 21:14in that direction. I think that it's inevitable.
- 21:17I think that you can't stop this transition that we're all living
- 21:21through. A lot of people call it the
- 21:22fourth turning, some people in the sovereign individual.
- 21:24They taught the call it, basically the transition into
- 21:28the information age. I do believe we were in the
- 21:30we're in the very, very beginnings of that transition.
- 21:34And I think the people all that, you know, the people that are
- 21:37going to be hurt the most the people that are going to be left
- 21:39behind are the people that are going to still be trusting in
- 21:42these archaic institutions, that clearly have shown that.
- 21:46They don't have the best. They don't have your best
- 21:49interest at heart. Anyways, everybody, let's move
- 21:52on to the news. We have a lot to talk about.
- 21:54Let's check it out. The Daily News, The Daily News
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- 23:37Anyways I want to talk about what happened yesterday, the
- 23:39Bitcoin policy Summit over the next couple of days.
- 23:42We're going to play you clips from Ted Cruz.
- 23:44We're going to play. You crew tips from Cynthia.
- 23:46Lummis, the Bitcoin Senator. We're going to play you and then
- 23:49today we're going to play a clip from Jack mahler's and we're
- 23:52going to talk about today about the case, then case that I would
- 23:56make That the Ute that the US has to stop going the route of
- 24:01China, has stopped past the stop.
- 24:04Going the route of let's Implement a central bank,
- 24:08digital currency and it has to go back to its free market
- 24:13Roots. Let individuals decide what
- 24:16money they want to use. I think I would even make the
- 24:21case that it is of strategic importance, for the United
- 24:24States, in the US government, to be friendly to bitcoin
- 24:28businesses attract Bitcoin businesses.
- 24:32Rather than pushing them overseas to their political
- 24:36opponents. It would be a catastrophic
- 24:39mistake for the United States. Now spent specifically now that
- 24:44the u.s. is starting to lose its World, Reserve currency status
- 24:48and as Trees are vying to seek an alternative.
- 24:52We're going to go into literally as to how the IMF try to force
- 24:57Argentina, which is currently enduring 104 percent inflation.
- 25:02They tried to coerce Argentina's say, Hey will only give you a
- 25:05bailout if you D. Insidey, incentivize the
- 25:08adoption of Bitcoin that backfired, right?
- 25:11It also backfired in Nigeria, the Nigerian Government tried to
- 25:15instill Capital controls, they try to force people into Central
- 25:18Bank, digital Currencies and people chose not to, they chose
- 25:22to use an alternative and that alternative and in a lot of
- 25:25these cases is Bitcoin in the reason for that is simple
- 25:29Central Bank. Digital currencies do not solve
- 25:32the inflation problem. If there is an alternative that
- 25:37not only does it not decrease in purchasing power over time.
- 25:40It actually increases in purchasing power over time.
- 25:43What do you think? People are going to choose.
- 25:45So anyway so we're gonna play the kid Bitcoin policy Summit.
- 25:49It was also Presented by Swan. It was featured.
- 25:51The whole live stream is on the swan Bitcoin Channel.
- 25:53If you guys want to see the whole thing but here are some
- 25:56questions. Some very important points as
- 25:58to, you know, why Bitcoin could benefit the United States,
- 26:01right? So first off, it says, stories
- 26:03about Bitcoin are often - we hear concerns about how it harms
- 26:06the environment threatens National Security and hurts
- 26:08consumers, helping only criminals and speculators this
- 26:12conference aims to tell the stories about Bitcoin that often
- 26:15that so often go Untold. How Bitcoin is a human rights
- 26:18tool used in the struggle? For democracy and Global
- 26:20Freedom. How the u.s. can leverage
- 26:22Bitcoin is a strategic asset to achieve its geopolitical goals.
- 26:27How Bitcoin can serve as a unique stabilizer of energy
- 26:30grids and unlikely and unlikely player in our country's
- 26:34Renewable Energy. Future.
- 26:36It's time to separate fact from fiction and situate Bitcoin, and
- 26:40serious policy discussions, involving National Security
- 26:42energy, infrastructure, Global competitiveness, and financial
- 26:45inclusion. And I would like to emphasize
- 26:48that last Anshel inclusion. The current system, the current
- 26:52traditional Fiat system cares. What happened?
- 26:54What country you happen to be born in it cares.
- 26:57What? Your skin color is a cares.
- 26:58What your religion is, its exclusive.
- 27:01If you happen to be born in a country, you are not entitled to
- 27:05u.s. to use the US dollar. Bitcoin doesn't care where
- 27:08you're from. It doesn't care what your
- 27:09political ideology is, it doesn't care.
- 27:12You know, what your religion is, what your skin color is.
- 27:15It is, the more is the most Equitable and equal money the
- 27:18world has ever seen. Not to mention inclusive as
- 27:20well. So I'm going to play you a clip
- 27:24by Jack mallers and then we're going to talk about it.
- 27:26And Jack mahler's is making the case as to why the US needs
- 27:30Bitcoin as a matter of strategic competitiveness, let's check it
- 27:34out. Pierre.
- 27:36Your technology actually benefits.
- 27:38The American individual. And now, I think we need to
- 27:41very, very seriously. Talk about the Strategic
- 27:44opportunities for us, as a nation and the security risks.
- 27:47Quite frankly, if you're going to sit here and tell me that the
- 27:50internet is not core to our nation's security risks, I'm
- 27:53going to move. So, you may have heard That
- 28:00Bitcoin is not crypto. Hopefully my presentation made
- 28:05this a little bit more clear. Again, I think a really good
- 28:09framework for reference is that Bitcoin acts as public
- 28:12infrastructure, not to Corporation.
- 28:14So there is no development team that you're waiting on a
- 28:16feature, you know, there's no fundraising marketing team that
- 28:20would make the coin. Go higher it acts as a public
- 28:23utility, its digital infrastructure, so it is not
- 28:26crypto, it can help stabilize our energy grid, it can offset
- 28:29access Energy. It can incentivize energy use.
- 28:32That is very difficult. Otherwise it can help facilitate
- 28:36Industrial Development. Sorry, I'm losing track between
- 28:39the laptop in the screen. Okay, sorry, are we good?
- 28:48So it give me a thumbs up. Yep.
- 28:52It can provide. I think no one talks about this
- 28:54enough. A new source of national wealth
- 28:56for America. National wealth is categorized
- 29:00as produced Capital human capital reserve assets.
- 29:06Think about the source of wealth that the internet provided this
- 29:11country, the iPhone was created here.
- 29:14Facebook was created here, Twitter was created here.
- 29:16I think it's very important that people that own Bitcoin a lot of
- 29:21it and people that build on top of Bitcoin very well, pay taxes
- 29:26in, where's Cruz, Texas? And Dubai, I'm being very
- 29:30serious. And it strengthens Geo political
- 29:34influence. These are important points.
- 29:38So you may have heard a lot of this.
- 29:39Hopefully my presentation helps give you a reference on how to
- 29:43think about this more deeply. What I want to leave this room
- 29:45with is the payments aspect. What I think the US government
- 29:49needs to very very seriously. Consider is both how Bitcoins
- 29:52power can be harnessed and leveraged as a digital public
- 29:56utility similar to the internet for National Security interests.
- 30:02This technology can't be uncreated.
- 30:04Trying on Russia will be using this and 1 to 5 to 10 to 100
- 30:09years whether we like it or not and that's okay but we need to
- 30:12think about it and we need to think about it correctly and
- 30:14responsibly and then I think we need to think about how the
- 30:17Payments Technology can fix material distortions in our
- 30:20country and again I could be wrong.
- 30:23I'm not giving advice. I'm clearly very biased and
- 30:26passionate But just as an exercise as Americans, this is
- 30:32our duty to not only our country, but to the Free World,
- 30:37Okay? So Couple things in that speech,
- 30:42right? That was the threat.
- 30:45Jack mallers made a threat. If the US doesn't Embrace
- 30:50Bitcoin quote, I'm going to move.
- 30:54He also followed it up a little bit later and he did a hat tip
- 30:57to Ted Cruz. It's very important, it's very
- 31:00important that bitcoiners pay taxes in Texas.
- 31:05The United States and not Dubai. And he also laid it made it very
- 31:10clear. China and Russia are going to
- 31:14use this. He laid out the case that this
- 31:18is inevitable. You can't change this thing.
- 31:21It's not going away. You adapt?
- 31:25Or you get left behind. And that is the reality for That
- 31:31is the reality that governments that have been used to having a
- 31:35monopoly on information M and a monopoly on currency.
- 31:40This is a reality that they're going to have to face
- 31:43specifically in the u.s. now that world governments are
- 31:47starting to work. Wake up to the fact that the US
- 31:50dollar has been weaponized. And that the US dollar that the
- 31:55u.s. government is printing an excessive amount.
- 32:00So countries like China and countries like Russia.
- 32:06Are seeking Alternatives. This is a Reuters article.
- 32:08This is a big deal specifically for anyone living in the US.
- 32:12A lot of the prosperity that the US has today is because it is
- 32:17global Reserve currency. Anyways, the name of the article
- 32:22for audio listeners is, you want overtakes dollar to become most
- 32:26used currency and China's cross-border transactions.
- 32:30For anyone who doesn't know, currently most countries that,
- 32:35you know, are, are doing international trade.
- 32:38It doesn't matter what they are. Let's say It's Brazil and South
- 32:41Africa. They will use dollars to
- 32:44facilitate international trade and the US government has been
- 32:48weaponizing that they've been using that for political means.
- 32:52But the unintended consequence of that is is people and
- 32:57countries are going to start seeking Alternatives and that's
- 32:59exactly what's happening. This is a big deal in this
- 33:01article. It goes on to say that you on
- 33:04became the most widely used currency for the cross-border
- 33:06transactions in China and March overtaking, the Dollar For the
- 33:10First Time, cross-border payments, and receivables.
- 33:13The new on rows in a record of five hundred forty nine billion
- 33:17dollars in March from four hundred, and four hundred thirty
- 33:20four billion a month earlier according to a Reuters
- 33:23calculation based on the data from the state administration of
- 33:26foreign exchange, the Yuan was used in 48.4% of all
- 33:30cross-border transactions, rotors calculated.
- 33:33While the dollars share decline to 46.7% from 48.6% a month.
- 33:40Earlier also this isn't just China Ah, it also seems like
- 33:44other countries like Brazil. Like Argentina are looking at
- 33:49the Chinese Yuan as an alternative to the dollar.
- 33:52Here's an article from Reuters as well, Argentina to pay for
- 33:56Chinese Imports in you wan rather than dollars.
- 34:01And here is a here is an article from Forbes digital assets.
- 34:07And in this is a big win for us, right?
- 34:09And this is something that I was talking about, this is something
- 34:11that I was mentioning earlier. On in, in the new segment about
- 34:17listen you can call you can try to coerce people as much as they
- 34:20want, but as much as you want, but it when it comes down to
- 34:23either putting food on the table or using your hyper-inflated
- 34:27money for patriotic reasons, most people are going to choose
- 34:29putting food on the table and they're gonna go, the guy,
- 34:32they're gonna go tell the guy on TV, telling him to use State
- 34:35money to go to hell, and that's just the reality.
- 34:37Okay? So here's the article, and it's
- 34:40right, it's right. It's written by a Bitcoin or
- 34:42also Shout. Javier bastardo or on Twitter
- 34:45known as Krypton crypto bastardo name of the article.
- 34:47The headline is crypto usage usage Rises across Argentina
- 34:52despite the anti crypto, IMF deal and the same thing happened
- 34:58in Nigeria. You're starting to pick up a
- 35:01pattern here, right? So here is this article that we
- 35:07read you a while ago and this is something that Jack mahler's
- 35:12warned about. Right.
- 35:13And you see China Rising, you see countries using the Juwan,
- 35:19but China's playing both sides. They're being smart, right?
- 35:23Here's Hong. Kong's, crypto Hub, Ambitions
- 35:25wins quiet backing from Beijing, right?
- 35:28So, you know it for anyone who doesn't know Hong Kong and China
- 35:33or, you know, that it's one country two systems that have
- 35:36two political systems. Hong Kong was a British colony
- 35:39for a, for a long time. Until I was given back to To
- 35:43Mainland China and it looks like they're using that as an
- 35:48experimentation Hub as like let's benefit from Bitcoin.
- 35:51Let's benefit from crypto. Let's get all these businesses
- 35:54moving here, right? Let's take advantage of the fact
- 35:58that the u.s. is fighting these businesses, making them scared,
- 36:01making them flee overseas and let's bring them here.
- 36:03But at the same time, we're going to play Both Sides because
- 36:06at the mainland. Hey, you know what CBD?
- 36:08See all the way you can't use Bitcoin.
- 36:10It's illegal. So China is playing both sides.
- 36:13The u.s. is only playing one side and the eyes of the B
- 36:16Administration. Check out this Fox News article,
- 36:18we're going to go into more in-depth into it tomorrow.
- 36:21But the headline is B Administration is quietly
- 36:24planning for a future where you don't own money and Biden's
- 36:27future. You will own, you will not own
- 36:29CBDs, see you will not own CBC, see money and you will have no
- 36:33privacy either we and we've covered this tremendously.
- 36:37Right? We've covered in the eyes of the
- 36:38current Administration they want you using a Bank digital
- 36:42currency. They want you using a money of
- 36:43which they can control, right? So, If the US wants to stay
- 36:48ahead economically, if it's still wants to remain a power.
- 36:51There's a there's a there's a big pill to swallow that the
- 36:54color that pill is orange that u.s. bureaucrats are going to
- 36:57have to swallow. The fact is that they're not
- 36:59going to be able to control the monetary policy.
- 37:01Therefore, the people the way that they've been used to
- 37:04controlling them for decades and decades, they're being
- 37:07disintermediated, on the information front, since the
- 37:10Advent of social media, the Advent of the Internet.
- 37:12It's allowed individuals to communicate directly amongst
- 37:15each other without going through.
- 37:17Me diaries' of or Gatekeepers of information, better said, and
- 37:20also the Advent of Bitcoin, which allows individuals to
- 37:24transact directly with each other, without going through.
- 37:28Intermediaries therefore, making it very difficult for
- 37:31governments to stop to basically capture those intermediaries.
- 37:37So this is the reality that us bureaucrats that are against
- 37:42this movement, have to face and Jack mahler's.
- 37:45Made a very It made a thinly Veiled Threat in the very
- 37:49beginning. If you are going, if you're
- 37:51going to be against this, I'm going to move.
- 37:54You want. Bitcoiners paying taxes and
- 37:57Texas, and not in Dubai. You cannot stop this thing.
- 38:03I love opt he's quote, I'm going to use it again.
- 38:05You Can't Ban yourself. You can't ban Bitcoin.
- 38:08You can only ban yourself from Bitcoin.
- 38:12So, V unproductive class in, d.c. needs to wake up.
- 38:19To this reality. Need to wake up before.
- 38:22It's too late. They need to wake up before a
- 38:24lot of these Bitcoin businesses say enough is enough.
- 38:27I'm leaving, but before they need to wake up before enough
- 38:30bitcoiners wake up and say enough is enough.
- 38:33I'm leaving, it doesn't benefit me or my family to stay here
- 38:36anymore, right? And this is a case that was laid
- 38:39out in the sovereign individual. This is something that I've
- 38:42talked to at length with Robert. Breedlove last night on simply
- 38:46Bitcoin IRL. This is the Brave New World that
- 38:49we're heading into and this old nation state model where they've
- 38:52had this tremendous power over information and money.
- 38:56It is dying. We're seeing it is in its
- 38:58Heyday. You can't can't can't, it's it's
- 39:01it will not exist in its current form 10, 20 years from now, you
- 39:06either adapt to this new reality or you get left behind, and you
- 39:10know what sucks. And here's the last part is that
- 39:12the people in power are a lot older so they're not going to be
- 39:19they're not going to get the brunt end of these actions that
- 39:23they're taking The millennial in the Zoomer class, the class that
- 39:27does not own anything because they've been priced out because
- 39:32the, the price of assets go through the roof is when they
- 39:35print all this inorganic money, right?
- 39:39So it is very, very frustrating but at least at least we're
- 39:43making some progress and shout out to the BPI Institute for
- 39:48putting this on in DC. I really hope David Zell gets
- 39:52the funding that he needs to stay.
- 39:55In d.c. because we do need a Bitcoin lobbying arm their
- 39:58full-time, not a Bitcoin and shit coin.
- 40:00Lobbying RV even though coin Center has done great.
- 40:03Work in the past, we need a Bitcoin lobbying arm and I think
- 40:06the Bitcoin policy Institute is just that also have to give a
- 40:10shout out to Dennis Porter. It's been doing great work on
- 40:13the state level front. The Satoshi action fund fund,
- 40:16will be having him on the show as soon as well, but yes, this
- 40:21is the separation of money and state.
- 40:23This is what it's about. We are Living through it, wake
- 40:26up to this reality. And I know the attitude that a
- 40:29lot of bitcoiners are going to take.
- 40:31Okay, I'm going to address that right right in the beginning.
- 40:34I'm going to nip it in the butt Nico.
- 40:36I don't give a shit. I'm taking Bitcoin into self
- 40:38custody, I don't care. I run my own note.
- 40:41That's fine, bro. But you still need to use.
- 40:43Still need a place to live and meatspace.
- 40:46Okay. And I don't know about you.
- 40:47I'm a first-generation American. I moved to this country and I
- 40:50was sold on what this country, what this country was And I
- 40:55think that Fiat money in the current Legacy Financial system.
- 40:59Has Frankenstein that into something that the original
- 41:03founding fathers, never prefer wanted this country to be,
- 41:06right? We need to go back to our roots.
- 41:11And I want to stay here, I want to stand and fight.
- 41:14I want to hold my ground. I don't want to flee, you know,
- 41:17Cory Clips in wrote a piece about this, Michael Seiler said
- 41:20it in the atlas Gala, he said, I want to be a winner, I don't
- 41:23want to be a martyr Corey calls it the race to avoid the war.
- 41:28We need a transient but we need it.
- 41:30Was it. How do you say it Opti?
- 41:31A transgender intransigent minority intransigent, minority
- 41:35of 10 million bitcoiners in the United States that in this
- 41:38particular field in terms of Bitcoin are Movable.
- 41:42And if that becomes a reality that any type of hostile,
- 41:45Bitcoin legislation will be an impossible to pass and the
- 41:49comparison that I would make is trying to pass a gun law.
- 41:54Good luck. It is literally almost
- 41:56impossible nowadays, why? Because there's in there's a my
- 41:59there's an intransigent majority-minority that are
- 42:02unmovable in that specific and that specific field, right?
- 42:07So I think we can get there. This is what it's all about.
- 42:11This is what the Peaceful Revolution is all about this is
- 42:13what winning over the hearts and minds of individuals waking up
- 42:16to the reality that it's not left or right.
- 42:18It is Orange Party vs, Green Party, the green party is the
- 42:22party of slavery, the party of Central Bank, digital
- 42:24currencies, the party of you'll eat bugs.
- 42:26Oh, nothing and be happy. And Bitcoin is the party of
- 42:30steak sunshine and freedom. Anyways Opti, what's your take
- 42:34on this brother? Well, my first thing is, man, I
- 42:38was gonna wear that NRA hat that I got at the thrift shop.
- 42:41It would have Perfect today. But I was tired of people
- 42:44yelling at me in the chat. Anyways, first Jack mahler's in
- 42:48a suit and not a hoodie. You were?
- 42:51He wear a blazer and a hoodie underneath.
- 42:53I don't know if you saw that. Yeah.
- 42:56Okay. Well hey he's evolving.
- 42:58I think he's evolving but second and and you covered this very
- 43:02well like we are seeing the D dollarization happen in real
- 43:05time but as a Bitcoin ER more keynesianism is not going to fix
- 43:09the problem. The problem is the bro.
- 43:11Okin monetary system that we are a part of, and of course, like
- 43:14Nico you and I are the same were first-generation Americans, and
- 43:18it really does feel like we were, we were rug pulled on the
- 43:21American on the American dream on the American ideals of
- 43:24freedom. And I'd love to see favorable
- 43:26laws surrounding Bitcoin in the US.
- 43:28And I see people in the chat, kind of saying, like, oh the US
- 43:31will never adopt Bitcoin. And I always just get reminded
- 43:34of like, the Lord of the Rings meme where it's like, they have
- 43:37to throw the ring into the volcanoes so that they can
- 43:40prosper moving. Forward.
- 43:42Will they do it? Probably not, but irregardless
- 43:46of everything we have the abilities individuals to adopt
- 43:49Bitcoin, no matter what our stupid government does.
- 43:51And we talk about the sovereign individual thesis.
- 43:54Almost every single day off are not only just on air, but we
- 43:58literally say this, like to ourselves all the time like Mica
- 44:01jokes with me. Almost every single day is like
- 44:03yo are we leaving the US? And I'm like I'm and it really
- 44:06hurts me. I mean not doing Jack Miller
- 44:08said it he he he Yeah yeah threat in the beginning.
- 44:11I was like yo if you guys do this I'm going to move.
- 44:14Yeah. And and that's like this, that's
- 44:16one of the beauties of Bitcoin, you know, jurisdictional
- 44:18Arbitrage like Bitcoin is a voluntary permissionless system.
- 44:21We don't need permission to adopt Bitcoin.
- 44:24If you aren't treated, well, you can move, you know.
- 44:27Bitcoin to me is as American as, as the American Revolution, you
- 44:31know, it's about freedom from tyranny, it's about freedom from
- 44:34arbitrary. Taxes is about freedom to go
- 44:36tell someone to go fuck themselves.
- 44:38If you're treated bad. Like that sounds a lot like what
- 44:40the founding fathers fought for in the American Revolution.
- 44:43And it really is just sad to see the tyrannical authoritarian,
- 44:48politicians fight, Bitcoin, tooth, and nail.
- 44:51Because they understand what we understand.
- 44:53It's you know, they're going to lose the power of basically
- 44:58being the world police. If they give up the power of the
- 45:01money printer, and obviously, they're not going to do that
- 45:04willingly. But hey, they really don't have
- 45:07a choice like this is a global phenomenon.
- 45:09Naaman on and it would benefit them if they did endorse
- 45:12Bitcoin. And hey, let's just hope it
- 45:15doesn't get that nasty. But, you know, I guess I'm not
- 45:18going to hold my breath and then also shops out the Javier for
- 45:21being on Forbes. That's dope.
- 45:22That's a good thing, right? 1111 up, bro.
- 45:25Don't forget about, don't forget about us bro.
- 45:28Anyways, Steve comment section says, it regardless is not a
- 45:32work, just FYI. It regardless is definitely a
- 45:35word in Miami. You just haven't been here.
- 45:37So you don't know until I do, you know, it is definitely a
- 45:40word down here, it was definitely look up the YouTube
- 45:43video chip, Miami people say you'll hear regardless 50, maybe
- 45:48it's a Latino thing, bro. I don't know.
- 45:50Anyway, Steve, so I'm very curious about this right?
- 45:53Because, you know, like you were you mentioned earlier at you're
- 45:56a bit older than us. So you did you did get to see
- 46:00America in, you know, in its prime.
- 46:03Right. It's definitely not what it once
- 46:06was. Do you think that Bitcoin has
- 46:08the Tool to bring back, you know, that American Dream
- 46:12because I saw it in the chat and really, really kind of hurt me.
- 46:14So sing, the American dream is dead and I responded with
- 46:18Bitcoin is the revitalization of the American dream.
- 46:21What's your take on this? Yeah, I mean, you know, I look
- 46:24at how my parents lived in the 70s and 80s and the type of
- 46:29assets, they were, you know, able to own not, you know, all
- 46:33financed, right. And look at how we have to live
- 46:37now and it's totally different. I mean, you've seen the erosion
- 46:40of the buying power of the dollar.
- 46:42Just it's just insane. When you look at it and you know
- 46:47really this is this is like an epic battle that's setting up
- 46:51and I'll use that word you know you have the orange team which
- 46:55is the people, right? And then the other team which is
- 47:00you know, your ruling class and the established system.
- 47:03And you know, I like your comments about, you know, we
- 47:05need to get to that 10 million level that's orange pill.
- 47:10That's our strength. If you look back through
- 47:12history, this has happened before, right?
- 47:14In the history of mankind, the same setup and that's what's
- 47:18happening right now. And I think our strength, you
- 47:21know, I don't know how much we're going to gain by trying to
- 47:24educate lawmakers. I don't think, you know, I'm not
- 47:27against that. Obviously we need to educate
- 47:29everyone but you know they're doing what they're doing for a
- 47:33reason and it's probably not like us, right?
- 47:37That's probably not the reason behind it.
- 47:39So building, you know, our orange peeled folks and getting
- 47:44more people, you know, in the orange pill, I think that's the
- 47:48key to this battle going forward.
- 47:51But yeah, definitely from my perspective in my lifetime, this
- 47:57this is kind of where my hope is now is Bitcoin.
- 48:00And and it's like you know, the light at the end of the tunnel
- 48:04were all I saw was Darkness going forward so so that's
- 48:08really for me. What it's all about is a hope
- 48:10for the future. Yeah, 100%, And you know, and,
- 48:14you know, you get a Hope.com Michael sailor.
- 48:17You know, was parking on that domain for a long time and it's
- 48:20beautiful. You know, Bitcoin is Hope
- 48:22Bitcoin is Hope in this these dark times that that were living
- 48:26through that. We're going through now days.
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- 50:34always send me a Twitter, DM, and I'll be happy to answer
- 50:38them. Anyways, Opti, what are we
- 50:40talking about today, brother? I bet.
- 50:43Sorry. I was, I was looking up
- 50:45something because you guys are trolling me in the jet anyway.
- 50:48Steve, I asked you this question before we started and I think
- 50:52this is a great great place to start.
- 50:54You mentioned that you are a wildlife biologist.
- 50:57And, and on a personal level I was just wondering, is there A
- 51:01connection between biology and Bitcoin.
- 51:03And then you went in on a great little rant.
- 51:06I didn't want to cut you off but I had to go into spaces.
- 51:08So is there like you know, what is the connection between
- 51:12biology and Bitcoin are, is there one.
- 51:15Well, you know, a parallel that I see as you know my career has
- 51:19been in Wildlife ecology and so my Paradigm like how I view the
- 51:24world is from an evolutionary ecology perspective?
- 51:29And so for me you know, recently I've learned a lot about money,
- 51:33right? Because you know that's kind of
- 51:34new to me. I'm not a financial.
- 51:36I don't have a financial background but if you look at
- 51:39the history of money and how it started and the evolution of it,
- 51:44you can parallel that to you know biological evolution and
- 51:48you know we've reached perhaps a state of a high degree of
- 51:53evolution in the monetary system with Bitcoin.
- 51:57And you know, I think that's something that's that's really
- 52:01these are Citing times and again, it gives us hope that we
- 52:05have maybe finally and in the history of money reached a point
- 52:10where we can truly be Sovereign where we can truly have this
- 52:14Independence and where we can exchange peer-to-peer without,
- 52:19you know, 67 hands taken, taken a cut and to be able to do that
- 52:25with lightning speed, you know, all these advancements, those
- 52:29are, you know, parallel to evolutionary.
- 52:31Nari advancements. That you might find in an
- 52:34ecosystem, with a specialized organism.
- 52:37And so for me, that's kind of interesting.
- 52:40And one of the ways that I looked at it as I started
- 52:43learning, you know about Bitcoin again with no Financial
- 52:47background and you know, I started learning with the book.
- 52:52Thank God for Bitcoin. And one thing I liked about that
- 52:56book is the first thing. It really does is defines money.
- 53:01And you know, here I am 53 years old and I've never really
- 53:05thought about that. I never had asked, you know,
- 53:08what is money, right? It's just something you use
- 53:11every day. And so, that really helped me to
- 53:16kind of understand and get a foundation for Bitcoin.
- 53:19And that's where, you know, I can kind of see it as an
- 53:23evolution of how we exchange, you know, energy absolutely love
- 53:29it. I think you said it better than
- 53:32I could. But when we were talking in the
- 53:34beginning before we went on air, you mentioned something that I
- 53:39really think about a lot and it is trying to bring Bitcoin down
- 53:43to the everyday person and trying to explain Bitcoin in a
- 53:47way where you don't get too. Esoteric, you don't get to think
- 53:49boy on them and you try to relate that relate, the message
- 53:52to them, personally. So that they understand how they
- 53:55can benefit from it. And you were mentioning earlier
- 53:57that you are DJ nexor. So how's it been, how's your
- 54:01orange peel Journey? Been trying to get people your
- 54:03age to adopt Bitcoin and like not not to be an Aegis but like
- 54:09my mom's a gen xers as well and I continuously try to orange
- 54:14color. She's Loosely orange pills.
- 54:16So what do you say? And you have a way of saying it
- 54:18like, you know, if my dad understood Bitcoin, I feel like
- 54:22he would say how you're saying it.
- 54:23So, first off, what would you say to people your age?
- 54:26And then what would you say to the kids out there?
- 54:28Well, so one of the problems with us gen xers is we like to
- 54:33have things in our hands. We like, you know, something to
- 54:36be tangible and so I could pull a twenty dollar bill out of my
- 54:40wallet but then what I like to do is just ask them.
- 54:45Well what is that in your hand? You know what is it really?
- 54:49It's you know so let's see if you want to think in a literal
- 54:52terms which is again the way gen-xers like to think, let's do
- 54:57that and let's talk. About what that really is.
- 55:00And then when you use a credit card, right?
- 55:04That's another example. And foremost most people
- 55:07gen-xers included, they often get paid electronically, right?
- 55:11So you have a little bit of a bridge there where you can kind
- 55:15of start to describe. Hey, listen, you really you're
- 55:19just looking at digits on a screen.
- 55:21Maybe you're opening your bank app on your phone, you're really
- 55:25not holding anything material in your And that's kind of a first
- 55:30step, a baby step if you will to get someone to kind of start to
- 55:35see. Oh, you know, that's right, I'm
- 55:38really you're really not, you know, my boss or my employers
- 55:43not coming with a stack of you know hundred dollar bills on
- 55:47Friday to hand me for my pay. So we're really already in an
- 55:51electronic world and sometimes you just need to kind of talk
- 55:55about that a little bit and that's what I've done with some
- 55:57of my peers. Years to get them to understand.
- 56:01Hey, this is every bit as real as what you're doing and then
- 56:05let me jump to the next segment and tell you why this is more
- 56:09real than what you're doing. Because it's limited, it cannot
- 56:13be produced by the, you know, the waving of a magic wand.
- 56:18So it can't be inflated on any whim.
- 56:22So that's where for me, kind of the the step off into Bitcoin
- 56:26can occur, but you got to start You got to start where folks,
- 56:30understand and Gen X. We can't we kind of like to grab
- 56:34something and hold it so I love it.
- 56:37Yeah. I say it all the time and I
- 56:39don't know if I said on the show but I certain spaces all the
- 56:41time I took it from How to Win Friends and Influence has and
- 56:44it's idea of like bait the hook for the fish are trying to catch
- 56:47and How to Win Friends and Influence People.
- 56:50Yeah. Whatever.
- 56:51What for what I say, that's what I said.
- 56:53Anyways, I think it's very important to, you know, give the
- 56:57Bitcoin message. Majin palatable ways that people
- 57:00understand. And I told you guys in the
- 57:03beginning, I was watching some TED Talks this morning and it
- 57:06was in The Art of Storytelling. And one of the ways that they
- 57:10were saying, a good story starts with the why so Steve, why are
- 57:14you Bitcoin? ER, and why do you continuously
- 57:16want to Orange Peel the world? So, the reason that I'm a
- 57:21Bitcoin miner is, I want to protect what I've earned.
- 57:25I don't want to be exploited, I don't want to be taxed in a
- 57:29sneaky way through inflation and I believe that's the Sovereign,
- 57:34right? Of every individual human.
- 57:37And I believe it's an ethical thing.
- 57:39I don't think anybody should be stealing from common people that
- 57:42are out here, you know, putting putting tires on vehicles, if
- 57:45that's what you do for a living or maybe you hang sheetrock,
- 57:48right? Whatever you do, that's your
- 57:51energy. And you've expended it.
- 57:53You've done the work and no one else should have the capability
- 57:58at Ad nauseam to just steal from a bunch of people.
- 58:03So for me every time that I can convert a dollar into, you know,
- 58:08a sad I am and maybe I'm wrong but I just feel kind of
- 58:13ethically a little bit better. I feel like it's almost like
- 58:17just this is a Gen X or but It's almost like I put a little money
- 58:21in that offer and played at church, right?
- 58:24I took some money away from the evilness in this world away from
- 58:30the wars that are just run to make money, you know, for the,
- 58:34for the military-industrial complex and and maybe in that
- 58:39little, that little movement. I've done, I've done some good
- 58:44in the world, so that's what it's about for me.
- 58:48It's about Out, you know, protecting my sweat my time.
- 58:53What I've done and putting it in a place where I'm, I know no one
- 58:58else can touch it because my most pressured, you know,
- 59:02treasured assets. Like, who I am no one can really
- 59:06take that. Uh-oh.
- 59:11Oh, we lost you, Steve. Man, it was just there you are,
- 59:15there you are. Hold on your audios off a little
- 59:19bit. Okay, I'll let your back your
- 59:22back. Okay.
- 59:24Laughing them in the thick of it.
- 59:25Yeah, for me it's just that hope that
- 59:41we can have fairness and true. I mean, everybody's always
- 59:44talking about equity and in the stupid mainstream media, but
- 59:47true equity, T like, hey, you know, this is a measure of
- 59:51energy. This is my energy.
- 59:52I've expended to be able to, you know, purchase this Bitcoin and
- 59:56it should be preserved. It shouldn't be stolen from
- 59:59people. And so once I get, you know,
- 1:00:02when I can describe why I'm into it and once I get people past
- 1:00:05some of the basics, that's where I like to go with it.
- 1:00:10Absolutely love it before it before we move on.
- 1:00:13I really love this tweet because I kind of you this the same way
- 1:00:16any time. I hear someone talk smack on
- 1:00:19bitcoin. It makes me just know that
- 1:00:21we're. So right about Bitcoin and you
- 1:00:22tweeted every time I hear a politician warn against Bitcoin,
- 1:00:25I stack more sads. This is the way I absolutely
- 1:00:28love it. Exactly.
- 1:00:30Yeah. Nico.
- 1:00:34I do have a bunch of tweets but we just had a conversation for
- 1:00:3715 minutes. No, I like it.
- 1:00:39I love it. I like that.
- 1:00:41I like that. Yeah, me to be too.
- 1:00:42All right everybody, let's get to the culture.
- 1:00:44We got a lot to talk about memes.
- 1:00:46Isn't that? What I said, no, just go.
- 1:00:49Go to the meme. We're even now in the culture.
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- 1:01:34Kaboom racks. Wait wait, wait wait.
- 1:01:37Oh sorry. I went up, I was looking at this
- 1:01:39and we're, we're hold on. You know what?
- 1:01:43Hold on, before I go on guys, look at this, I'm over here.
- 1:01:48I know this isn't this isn't the mean review yet but since I was
- 1:01:53getting trolled over here I got to make something very clear.
- 1:01:59So the screen I'm showing it, I'm showing it.
- 1:02:02Apparently irregardless is a word it's just not a formal
- 1:02:05word. So yeah.
- 1:02:10I don't know, I didn't know about the term.
- 1:02:14Irregardless is a word. Yeah, whatever.
- 1:02:15Anyways, let's just wait, what is money?
- 1:02:28Wow. Did you're getting meta here?
- 1:02:29Anyways, what people are saying in the chat planet?
- 1:02:34Earth goes too much signal, Spooks trying their best to stop
- 1:02:37the signal and that's why You fell off.
- 1:02:39And then another one ran guns, the monetary demons attack
- 1:02:42again. Anyways, you guys know the deal.
- 1:02:44This is the mean review where we have fun where we you know we
- 1:02:49lighten the mood a little bit anyways tweet to the bullet,
- 1:02:52memes are the artillery. We are in an information War
- 1:02:55continued to spread the signal guys and you know make it
- 1:02:58relatable, make it palatable. So people understand why you
- 1:03:01Bitcoin and this is some of the most powerful ways to get
- 1:03:04Bitcoin into more people's hands.
- 1:03:06This is what you're trying to do is get get people to hold
- 1:03:09Bitcoin and all my friends out here.
- 1:03:13Memeing continue to me many ways.
- 1:03:14This first name is bai at plan Marcus on Twitter and go study
- 1:03:18why Bitcoin. And you guys can see here the
- 1:03:21first or at the top, it goes bought Bitcoin and it's a yacht.
- 1:03:24And then on the bottom it goes buttock coins and it's someone
- 1:03:28with an iron on the horizon. It may look similar, but there
- 1:03:32is a difference here, there's Bitcoin and their shit coin.
- 1:03:35And then the next name is by the BTC therapist and he goes How
- 1:03:38long have you huddled BTC? And we got a quote here, Bitcoin
- 1:03:44is a journey hottel, and we got some bitcoiners pushing their
- 1:03:48Bitcoins up the hill because it is a journey.
- 1:03:52Anyways, it's next one. Shout out to Alex from Cafe
- 1:03:54Bitcoin. You know, me.
- 1:03:57I try to avoid saying these terms but when I can get someone
- 1:04:00to say, you know, the monetary demons or as Alex says here, the
- 1:04:04world that the lizard's would like to see you in is not a
- 1:04:07world you will Want to be in. This is why we Bitcoin and we
- 1:04:10got a guest is Carson over here and you guys have heard this on
- 1:04:13the show before. But hey, I really wanted to say
- 1:04:16this one because he called them lizards and he goes, we don't
- 1:04:18know who's using a hundred dollar bill today and we don't
- 1:04:20know who's using 1000 peso bill today.
- 1:04:22The key difference with the CBC is the central bank will have
- 1:04:25absolute control on the rules and regulations that will
- 1:04:28determine the use of that expression of Central Bank
- 1:04:31liability. And also we will have the
- 1:04:33technology to enforce that the world that the lizards would
- 1:04:37like to see you. His underworld, you would want
- 1:04:39to be in on Twitter and he just goes a hundred thousand dollars
- 1:04:49and we got your car mirror here and it's got 100K in the mirror.
- 1:04:52And it goes objects in Mirror are closer than they appear,
- 1:04:55guys, it's coming. It's coming.
- 1:04:57It is it's almost here. I can feel it.
- 1:04:59All right. This next meme is by Viva La
- 1:05:01Vandal and it goes hashtag disrespect ER and I really just
- 1:05:05kind of like this because it looks like some some 80's 90's
- 1:05:08hip hop tagging over here and it goes Bitcoin Grand rising and we
- 1:05:12got a couple sitting here on a bench and we got a frog, a Pepe
- 1:05:16the Frog, and Guy Fawkes mask. And then we have the Federal
- 1:05:20Reserve with an atom bomb, explosion through it and dollar
- 1:05:24bills going everywhere because the Grand Rising is happening in
- 1:05:28real time. And this next one actually, I
- 1:05:31was going to put this one last but then I added this new one
- 1:05:33right here by Pierre, Richard and it goes by Bitcoin Pierre
- 1:05:38and he goes, fizzy seltzer water.
- 1:05:39Emits more CO2 than Bitcoin mining and he's got a little
- 1:05:42cell. See there's a night.
- 1:05:45Last one is by sailor, and I think this is why why I Bitcoin.
- 1:05:51This is why I am so adamant about Bitcoin.
- 1:05:54I really do believe that Bitcoin will help Humanity.
- 1:05:56I really do. To feel that Bitcoin is gave me
- 1:06:00hope that it's gave me a new lease on life and I'm just
- 1:06:03forever grateful to bitcoin. But sailor over here is just got
- 1:06:06this picture of someone in an orange fog.
- 1:06:09It's almost looking like he's on Mars with the Bitcoin logo
- 1:06:11overlaid over. It are the Bitcoin be overlaid
- 1:06:14on it goes Bitcoin is Destiny. And what do we say all the time?
- 1:06:17What a big Corner say all the time, all roads lead to bitcoin,
- 1:06:20and it's only a matter of time until the intransigent.
- 1:06:24Minority Inspire, the next fifteen percent.
- 1:06:27Scent. And then the world tipped on the
- 1:06:30Bitcoin standard. This is what we're all doing
- 1:06:32here. This is this is our destiny.
- 1:06:34Here is just spreading the Bitcoin signal and getting
- 1:06:36Bitcoin into more people's hands.
- 1:06:38Anyways, drop your mean review score in the chat and we will
- 1:06:43cover it live and for my for my score today Nico my scores a
- 1:06:48little meta. I'm giving it, it's not a
- 1:06:51physical object. I'm giving it My 42-hour fast of
- 1:06:57a 48-hour fast. I might go longer but currently
- 1:07:00on 42, maybe 43 hours but I feel really good like clear minded
- 1:07:04and shit. Huh?
- 1:07:06Well, not so much because apparently I'm saying wrong
- 1:07:09words and I'm messing up the tweets and I'm feeling it right
- 1:07:18now. Okay?
- 1:07:18Okay, so I'm going to give it my old headphones that I've been
- 1:07:24rocking for a while. The gunmetal gray rays, which
- 1:07:28now I use for editing but I'm going back to the original black
- 1:07:33hood vents. Going back to the roots meta.
- 1:07:38I don't know. I don't know.
- 1:07:38What do you which ones do you guys like more?
- 1:07:40Do you guys like the gray ones are the block?
- 1:07:43Now, I am a Sony MDR 709, but looks Max Emoji.
- 1:07:50These are the best. These are the best.
- 1:07:52I'm an Audio-Technica guy anyways.
- 1:07:54Steve Tony Maxie Steve. What would you give those memes?
- 1:07:58Well, I'm as well. I'm on the intermittent fast
- 1:08:01right now. I'm not a minute fast but I'm
- 1:08:04sitting out of About, let's see 14 hours but I do have this
- 1:08:09coffee that I'm enjoying and I think that still qualifies as a
- 1:08:12fast. So I agreed to give it about a
- 1:08:15quarter cup of coffee. I really like the done being.
- 1:08:19Your coffee is good. I'm a black coffee.
- 1:08:26Max coffee is good. I like absolutely I like coffee.
- 1:08:30Oh interesting. Everybody guys like everyone,
- 1:08:33drinks, coffee Opti. Everyone drinks coffee.
- 1:08:37Yeah, it's not. Now I'm an addict.
- 1:08:40I don't know if it's an addict. Gotta Have It.
- 1:08:43All right. Everybody needs good.
- 1:08:45Everything is good. Before we get to the scores, I
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- 1:09:18Anyways, Opti, let's get to the meme scores, it's do it.
- 1:09:23Alright, first meme by ready to elevator mean score you reading?
- 1:09:28I reading I give the memes a Jerry, Springer Show chant
- 1:09:32Jerry, Jerry Jerry. Yeah.
- 1:09:35Saw this to Jerry's finger pass away apparently man.
- 1:09:38Yeah, that's really sad. All right.
- 1:09:40I turned off the music for that Elaine.
- 1:09:44Elaine low USA adopts. Bitcoin.
- 1:09:48We will all stay put life is good for one and all, I mean,
- 1:09:51dude, that is kind of really sad.
- 1:09:53I mean, shout out Larry Springer, if that's true.
- 1:09:56I already Jerry. Jerry Jerry, Jerry Jerry, man.
- 1:10:01That is that's quite, are you on a fast bro?
- 1:10:03Like Anyways, boys, I give it seven, lizard, people very nice.
- 1:10:12Let's go score, very good score and we got ran more meme, score,
- 1:10:18Chad chat, very good, very good. I like that.
- 1:10:21Like that. Next one hot aucoin.
- 1:10:23I give the memes. Sweet potato for my lunch.
- 1:10:26It's orange. Very, very nice.
- 1:10:27Very nice. All right, Opti we got, we got
- 1:10:30time for two more McLovin. I give the memes two-and-a-half
- 1:10:33thumbs up. That's how we got here so far.
- 1:10:38But, but it's the buzzer, bro. Shouts out to wait, which one
- 1:10:42shots out the higher calling? He is also on a fasting at 13
- 1:10:47hours. I see, you know what, I just
- 1:10:48realized you gotta get the buzzer on your side because the
- 1:10:51time is on the side. I think I do have one.
- 1:10:53Okay. It might not be the same one.
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