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Bitcoin Country: El Salvador is Winning, Fiat Elites Terrified | EP 788 · Simply Bitcoin

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  Yo, welcome to Simply Bitcoin Live.
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  We're your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution
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  of color, Breaking news, culture, dramatic warfare.
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  We will be your guide through the separation of money and
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  state. El Salvador once again being
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  attacked by the legacy corporate media machine.
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  And what I want to highlight today are the double standards
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  between because what they're essentially accusing El Salvador
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  of is attacking democracy. They're also accusing Nambu Kale
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  of being a dictator. And a lot of the things that
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  they're saying are are true, right.
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  El Salvador disproportionately has imprisoned a large
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  percentage of their population in order to reduce crime.
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  Now they've been successful at doing that, but that also gives
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  ammunition to the international cabal of Fiat money, in my
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  opinion. That's really what it was
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  because I don't think they were really caring what was happening
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  on in El Salvador before they made Bitcoin legal tender.
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  I think that's really when you know this, this international
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  media propaganda machine, Fiat propaganda machine really,
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  really put their crosshairs on this Central American country.
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  And here's the thing, other countries that have a much, much
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  worse human rights record have been ignored.
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  They they haven't even been covered by the same legacy media
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  publications, right. So I just kind of want to
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  highlight the double standards of that And on today's episode
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  we are going to take a, we are going to play devil's advocate.
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  So we're not just going to highlight obviously you know you
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  guys know how Opti and Opti and I feel about El Salvador that's
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  probably because OPTI and are are Hispanic and we have a you
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  know a different vantage point In my opinion it is the one of
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  the only countries in the region where I see hope and prosperity
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  and opportunity. You have people telling me you
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  have people telling Opti El Salvadorians that they actually
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  want to move back to the country that is unheard of.
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  Once a South American or Central American, they they've reached
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  the states. That's the promised land right.
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  You never hear this concept of them wanting to leave the states
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  going back to their country. But I think since 9 Bukele, you
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  know took power and he made the base layer of that society a
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  strong base layer a a a base layer based on truth.
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  Of course I'm talking about Bitcoin.
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  Perhaps it might have aligned the incentives between citizens
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  and the government and perhaps that's why you're starting to
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  see this. And I think that is responsible
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  for a lot of the reaction reactions coming from the legacy
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  corporate media machine, which I think we've learned over the
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  last two or three years that I don't think they really have our
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  best interests at heart. And I'm not just talking about
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  certain publications, right? You have the Financial Times,
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  OPTI calls them the Fiat Times, literally releasing pieces as to
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  why a digital currency is necessary.
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  You have the New York Times hit piece multiple hit pieces, some
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  even written by Elizabeth Warren, the anti Bitcoin Senator
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  herself, literally saying hey you know, Bitcoin is a problem.
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  We remember the New York Times hit piece where they literally
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  color corrected the sky to make it seem like Bitcoin somehow is
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  polluting the environment, even though you know we know that
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  ASICS don't directly emit CO2 right?
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  So it it, it's just interesting how all this is playing out.
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  So we're going to go through a lot of the articles today, but I
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  I, I really think the smoking gun is the double standards
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  between how they treat certain countries and how they treat
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  other countries, right. So that's what I want to
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  highlight today during the news and during the culture segment,
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  we have a very special guest and also someone who I consider a
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  friend, we have a fellow S Floridian coming us and joining
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  us on the show today. So I'm going to bring them up on
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  stage. Hector, how you doing buddy?
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  I'm doing fantastic, Nico. How you doing today?
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  Good, good, good. And of course my legendary
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  cohost. Always optimistic, always a
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  giant smile on his face. Look at that.
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  Look at that smile. The one the only the optimist
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  fields. How you doing bro?
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  I am doing wonderful. As you guys know, I am 3 coffees
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  deep, so I am Jack today. Let's go.
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  But Nico, you actually said something interesting and you
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  and I have had this conversation.
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  I think we've actually had this conversation live on the show.
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  It's the idea of being a first generation American and feeling
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  like we got sold a, you know, a bad bag of goods with the
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  American dream. And you know, I'm, I'm, I'm a
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  holdout. But it is very interesting to
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  have these conversations with other Salvadorians, other
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  Hispanics that are like, I would love to go back home.
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  I love what but Kelly's doing and it's like.
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  Man, you know, I wish. I wish that would happen in my
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  home country of Mexico. But I'm an American and we are
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  America first. And let's make sure that America
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  stays the best place to live because it really, in my
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  opinion, is, you know, like the the last Alamo, the last bastion
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  of freedom. And even though it does.
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  Seem like it's crumbling in real time.
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  I am. I'm still holding out.
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  I still have hope. As you can tell, I have a good
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  American accent here, so my Spanish is not the best.
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  Hence why I'm like, I love my home.
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  Let's make sure America stays great.
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  Yeah, 100%. Let's, let's try to hold it
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  down. Let's see if, you know America
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  is able to return back to its first principles.
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  I think the original, you know, foundations of this country are
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  it's almost as if they could have been written by bitcoiners,
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  right? Like, it's so, you know, like
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  it's it. Like it's perfect for each
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  other. It's a match made in heaven.
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  I think it's been Frankenstein since the introduction of the
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  Federal Reserve back in 1913, which is also coincidentally the
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  year that they introduced the federal income tax.
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  I know Hector had some thoughts on that as well, that we were
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  talking before the show started. But anyways, before we move on
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  every show. For the last two weeks we have
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  But before we, before we roll this in, Hector, why don't you
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  tell everybody what you were telling me about the
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  introduction of the federal income tax in 1913 and what you
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  found interesting? Well, it's building a little bit
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  on what you were talking about yesterday with regard to the
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  restriction on crossing borders with over $10,000 and how that
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  now would be the equivalent of 70, some odd $1000.
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  But they sort of whittled down and they the the government has
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  been able to sort of ratchet control up little by little
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  because of that. And a very similar thing has
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  happened since the introduction of the income tax or the
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  reintroduction in 1913. Originally the income tax was 1%
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  at the lowest levels and 7% at the highest levels.
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  Well, now in 2022. It's a 10% at the lowest levels
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  and 37% at the highest level. So income taxes as a percentage
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  of of individual income have gone up five to 10X during that
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  90 year stretch. And that is during a period of
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  time where our purchasing power, the the purchasing power of the
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  US dollar has gone down by over 90%.
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  So the government is still making sure to get theirs, all
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  the while still making sure to take as much as they can from
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  you. And that is not consistent with
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  the founding principles of this country of sovereignty and being
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  able to put your own wealth to work and to protect it.
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  And I just thought that that was interesting as you brought that
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  up yesterday in in the culture segment yesterday a 100%
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  amazing. And also I I want to bring up
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  this this chat from an Opti, why don't you, why don't you read it
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  cuz it kind of kind of a reinforces the point that that
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  we've been trying to make. So why don't you read that off
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  to? All right, we got Jay Thoreau
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  and he goes. I'm an American and moving to El
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  Salvador in about a month to live full time on a Bitcoin
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  standard. Their country is actually
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  heading in the right direction, unlike the US.
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  Sadly, couldn't agree more. Yeah, 100 percent, 100%.
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  that you guys think of the name. I think it's interesting we we
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  let's see what happens. Anyways, so a couple videos I
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  kind of want to go through today and this is a picture from a
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  coin beer. I believe he's also YouTuber and
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  he's a very good content creator.
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  Obviously he's more, you know, crypto not only Bitcoin stuff,
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  but still we understand how hard it is to make content and his
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  production quality is pretty on point, even though we might not
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  necessarily agree with the crypto assa aspect of his
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  content. Anyways, it goes on to say this
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  is the future of payments with Fed now and CBDC's biometric
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  info linked to your social credit account linked to your
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  wallet, right? So let me play you a quick video
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  of these. You know, these ladies literally
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  using their eyes to pay and like, like if you just use
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  common sense, how that can be abused.
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  And there's actually videos in China where if your social
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  credit goes below a certain score and you're trying to enter
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  a train or any type of public transportation or their version
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  of Uber, and you try to get in there, they will literally say
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  no, you can't travel because your social credit system is too
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  low. And that what happens is that is
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  a bureaucrat and central bankers wet dream because it becomes a
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  forcing function of compliance. It's not that they're going to
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  force you totally coerce you to behave, to not have a gas stove,
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  to only be able to drive 15 minutes away from your city to
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  if you've bought over a certain amount of steak per month,
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  right? It's not that they're going to
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  force you by gun, right? It's that they're going to what
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  they're going to they're on. They're going to ostracize you.
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  They might publicly shame you. That's what they've been doing
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  in China. But most importantly, you're not
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  going to be able to buy certain things.
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  You're not to be. You're not going to be able to
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  access certain travel. You're not going to be able to
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  access certain goods or services.
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  So that incentivizes you, right? We're bitcoiners.
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  So we were big believers and incentives.
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  That incentivizes you to to do what?
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  To play by the rules, right? And what is that but not a form
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  of slavery. So when we say Bitcoin or
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  slavery, we are not exaggerating this at all.
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  Anyways, here is a clip from wide awake media and it goes on
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  to say I MF Deputy Managing Director Bo Lee, Central Bank.
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  Digital currencies will be programmable such such that
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  governments will be able to centrally determine what kind of
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  people can use them and what kind of things people and buy
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  with them in order to enforce their desired policy objectives.
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  Right. And just kind of, you know, you
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  have to connect the dots is what we do.
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  It's simply Bitcoin we laid out for you.
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  But you guys have to connect the dots on your own.
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  And I'm gonna play you this clip and then we'll talk about it.
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  Let's check it out. The 3rd way we think CBDC can
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  improve financial inclusion is through what we call
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  programmability. That is, CBDC can allow
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  government agencies and private sector players to program to
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  create smart contract to allow targeted policy functions, for
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  example, welfare payment for example, consumption coupon for
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  example food stamp. By programming CBDC, those money
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  can be precisely targeted for what kind of people can own and
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  what kind of use. This money can be utilized, for
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  example, for food. So this potential
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  programmability can help government agencies to precisely
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  target their support to those people who need support.
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  Yeah, that that's the only thing they're going to use it for,
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  right? It it's not going to be a
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  forcing function of society. Right.
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  That you know these these these politicians that can't even not
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  lie to you about whether there's going to be inflation or not.
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  These politicians that are also, you know debanking entire
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  protest movement like the Canadian truckers protest.
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  Yeah, I we we should trust them because they're not going to
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  weaponize that power against their citizens to protect their
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  political mo, right. Could you imagine, you know
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  there's a video there's a video that was like kind of going
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  around the other day where Justin Trudeau like had an open
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  forum meaning and then anyone who was critical of him he he
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  just basically told the cops to escort them out.
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  So could you imagine, you know, tyrants like that that have
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  access to this type of money which literally allows them to
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  bend society to their will. You know that that is a very
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  scary future. And when I say Bitcoin or
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  slavery, you have to understand in the eyes of the current
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  administration, the papers that are being released by the
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  Treasury, they're they're very, very transparent on what they
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  believe the future of money is. And in their eyes, the future of
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  money are central bank digital currencies, right?
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  So if their eye, in their eyes, the future of money, central
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  bank, digital currencies, we know they're they're trying to
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  get rid of cash, What is the alternative to this system?
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  The alternative to the system is to opt out entirely and opt out
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  into something that no, not only can they not control it, but
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  also also nobody can control it, right?
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  It's it's, you know, it's this decentralized nobody owns it
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  peer-to-peer system. And then by having this
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  decentralized peer-to-peer system, it takes away the power,
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  away from this elite bureaucratic class that think
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  they know how to live your life better than you know how to live
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  it yourself, right? It really takes away the power,
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  away from the central planners. That's what bitcoins about.
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  That's what this fight is all about.
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  And yeah, man, look, I I am, I am, I am worried about this
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  world and I'm worried about the future of of where they want to
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  take this. And I'm worried that not enough
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  people are really awake to what is coming right.
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  And then I think that by the time people wake wake up to this
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  reality, I think it's going to be too it's going to be too
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  little too late. The systems of control are going
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  to be in place. And that's why I'm so optimistic
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  about El Salvador and I. And I really believe This is why
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  they're attacking it so much. This is why I'm so optimistic
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  about developing countries, the global S that have have already
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  lost all confidence in their local government's ability to to
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  control money or to issue money. So because they're they're going
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  to be, you're going to give them a choice and they're going to
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  say, yeah, this Bitcoin thing sure sounds like a good idea.
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  Now they're kind of in this transition phase where they
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  still believe stablecoins, you know, they they and stay.
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  The thing about stablecoins is that they provide like, this
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  false sense of financial sovereignty.
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  But again, you know, this is a multigenerational education
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  process, right? This is not going to be
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  something that happens overnight.
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  Think about how long it took you to take the orange pill, right?
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  It's at least minimum a year to two year learning process to.
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  And the reason that I believe it takes so long is because you
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  have to unlearn a lot of the things that were bestowed or you
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  know, you were indoctrinated with living in the Fiat matrix,
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  right. This idea of yes, money cannot
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  function without inflation, money cannot function unless
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  it's issued by governments, right.
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  Well, look, the writings on the wall, we've played you guys the
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  videos, we've shown you the data, we've shown you the
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  sources time and time and time again.
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  This is the world that they want for you.
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  And this is what I got to say to that.
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  F that I choose to opt out into a money that doesn't steal from
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  me, protects my energy, protects my time, protects my purchasing
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  power, I refuse to use that. I refuse to use their money.
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  And you know what? I think over time, as more and
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  more people opt out, their tyrannical nature is going to
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  expose itself more and more and more and more.
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  And then eventually I predicted that they're going to put
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  themselves in the corner and they're going to have to say the
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  Quiet pod out loud, which they've been refusing to say
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  they've been ignoring, which is they want you to use the money
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  that steals from you. This is the reality of it.
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  Like this is just that's just a that's a cold hard fact.
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  They want you using money that steals from you.
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  Once we get them to admit that, and once they're on tape
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  admitting that again, it's going to be very, very difficult for
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  them to to defend that perspective, to defend that
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  viewpoint, specially now that Bitcoin has proven that a money
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  can exist. That not only does it not
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  decrease in purchasing power over time, it actually increases
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  in purchasing power over time. Opti, why don't you hit it?
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  And then we move on to Hector. Yeah, yeah.
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  First to your last point, you know there's there's so much you
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  need to unlearn from the field world to become a Bitcoiner, but
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  I can definitely say that it's worth it.
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  And being part of that journey and unlearning so much to
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  becoming a bitcoiner and getting on the Bitcoin standard, my life
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  has improved like. Tenfold is if I have to put a
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  number on it. But before I jump in that
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  Trudeau video that you brought up, I saw it as well.
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  And it's just absolutely ludicrous.
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  And it's a trend that I'm seeing from all politicians and and
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  even, you know what do we call them?
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  The what? The monetary demons.
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  A productive, unproductive class.
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  The parasite class What it? The the Fiat, Fiat, times class,
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  whatever you want to call them. But it's amazing how we cannot
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  have these conversations without being gas lit and canceled like
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  the Parasitic class. Would much rather simply ignore
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  the problem than do right by the people that they're supposedly
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  representing. Like it just it's insane that
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  this is where we are right now in Clown world, but it's very
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  obvious to anyone awake that this is the status quo.
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  So it's one of those things where.
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  It's hard to wake up like your friends and fan like your
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  parents and and try to explain this to them because they still
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  believe in the authority figures that are on the TV, in the suits
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  we talk about all the time and and you know what's the saying,
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  it's it's incredibly hard to wake someone up when they're
• 21:42
  when their life and job depends on them believing the lie.
• 21:45
  But that's a totally other tangent, the private and public
• 21:49
  CBDC trend that we are seeing right now, whether that's fed
• 21:52
  now X dot coms, you know. Must What's it called?
• 21:57
  We chat of the West or the recent scam that just got
• 22:01
  dropped? The the scam Coin.
• 22:02
  I mean world coin. It's all headed towards a
• 22:05
  dangerous precedent. It's Bitcoin and slavery.
• 22:07
  We say it all the time. Like the dystopia that is being
• 22:10
  marketed as the future in my opinion is completely anti human
• 22:14
  programmable programmable money. It seems so beneficial, like it
• 22:18
  seems so like innocent when you say it that way.
• 22:22
  But surgical precision of your money is not a good thing, as
• 22:25
  we've seen. So far in the world today, you
• 22:28
  know, in my opinion, all feel money is basically digital
• 22:31
  already. And now they want even more
• 22:32
  control to surgically program your money.
• 22:35
  Like that's absolutely terrifying.
• 22:37
  Like central control of humanity will not improve people's lives,
• 22:41
  only a free market money will. And that is Bitcoin.
• 22:44
  And remember, the meme that I keep doubling down on CBD C's
• 22:48
  does not mean central bank digital currencies.
• 22:50
  It means central bank digital control.
• 22:52
  Do not forget it. They can market it however they
• 22:54
  want. But.
• 22:55
  They're saying the quiet parts out loud continuously and trying
• 22:59
  to dress it up in a new flowery way so that people accept it, so
• 23:03
  that people consent to being wholly controlled.
• 23:07
  And it's absolutely disgusting. And This is why we're
• 23:09
  bitcoiners. This is why we double down on
• 23:11
  the idea of Bitcoin or slavery. You want to opt into a
• 23:15
  permissionless money, one that cannot be censored, one that
• 23:19
  cannot be debased, one that you know stores its value through
• 23:24
  time and space, and that is Bitcoin.
• 23:25
  You know there is a learning process to becoming a Bitcoiner,
• 23:28
  but I can guarantee you it is better than whatever is being
• 23:32
  marketed by the psychopaths over there at, you know, in Fiatland.
• 23:37
  It just. Man, I don't know.
• 23:39
  Sometimes I feel like I'm so far down the rabbit hole.
• 23:42
  And again, it's that Zoolander meme.
• 23:45
  Like, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills all the time.
• 23:47
  Because it's so simple. Now it just your life will fight
• 23:50
  on Bitcoin. You're muting your take on this,
• 23:55
  bro? Well, you know, it's it's funny
• 23:58
  that you bring up Trudeau and authoritarianism and central
• 24:03
  planning and the dangers of it. Because you guys didn't know
• 24:06
  this, but you know, I am also a first generation Hispanic
• 24:08
  immigrant here to the United States, right?
• 24:10
  So my parents are from Cuba, and they left in the late 1950s,
• 24:15
  just before this guy named Fidel Castro took over over there.
• 24:18
  And, you know, the promises were all great.
• 24:21
  Hey, this is going to be fantastic.
• 24:23
  This is going to be a utopian dream.
• 24:25
  And then all of a sudden they woke up one day and they said,
• 24:27
  hey, you know, all that wealth, all that money, all those
• 24:29
  properties, all those businesses that you thought that you owned,
• 24:32
  we own them now. And that's why they left and
• 24:36
  thankfully they did. And that's why I'm talking with
• 24:38
  you from South Florida instead of from Havana, Cuba.
• 24:41
  So you know, past is prologue. When someone has the ability to
• 24:46
  control your wealth, they will do it.
• 24:50
  So don't let them do it. Like, you know, folks in Cuba
• 24:53
  made that mistake a while back. Don't make that mistake.
• 24:56
  Don't let them control your wealth.
• 24:57
  Don't let them control your time.
• 24:58
  Opt into a money that can't steal from you and make sure
• 25:02
  that you maintain your freedom and your sovereignty.
• 25:04
  And as far as the world coin eye scanning folks, I'm not sure
• 25:07
  what they're thinking. Have they not seen the nosedive
• 25:10
  episode of Black Mirror? Have they not seen Minority
• 25:12
  Report? This does not end well, and I
• 25:15
  highly, highly recommend that if you don't yet have any Bitcoin,
• 25:19
  you start stacking sats, you get off 0 and you protect your
• 25:22
  future with Bitcoin. Amen.
• 25:25
  Wait, wait. Amen.
• 25:24
  Beautiful. Before we go on, Nico, Hector
• 25:27
  reminded me or triggered a thought and it was.
• 25:31
  I think it's a Ben Franklin quote where he says like if you
• 25:33
  do not defend liberty and freedom, then you will lose it
• 25:37
  in a few generations. Maybe it was a different
• 25:39
  Founding Fathers, but it really is interesting how so many
• 25:43
  Americans today just take it for granted that like we live in the
• 25:46
  freest country in the world, it will always remain free.
• 25:49
  Like I, I don't have to stay vigilant.
• 25:51
  But as we've seen constantly in the last, what, 6070, eighty
• 25:56
  years or whatever, even in the last couple of years, you can
• 25:59
  slowly start to see that freedom erode and your liberties just
• 26:03
  get taken, you know, inch by inch, one by one.
• 26:05
  It's just, it's, you know, just stay vigilant out there.
• 26:08
  Guys, like, we do have the tools to fight back, but it's about
• 26:11
  you guys being awake and and actually taking action.
• 26:15
  Yeah, and. And not only that, like using
• 26:16
  those tools, right. Because it's like a tool is only
• 26:19
  as good as you being able to pick it up and like use it.
• 26:22
  This is why we advocate so hard for you taking Bitcoin into self
• 26:25
  custody. Stamp seed says it best, right?
• 26:28
  Take your Bitcoin into self custody.
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  now it takes you to stamp seed and you can use promo code
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  simply. But, but yeah, man, look,
• 26:43
  another thing that you said, Hector, before we move on to the
• 26:45
  news is this idea that that your parents left Cuba in the 1950s.
• 26:52
  They immigrated to the US Well, that was because of the times,
• 26:56
  right? Are we now seeing this
• 26:58
  phenomenon where people are seeing the writing on the wall
• 27:01
  here in the US and now they're fleeing to the new promised
• 27:05
  land, which could be El Salvador?
• 27:06
  Is that, is that what's happening?
• 27:07
  Are we kind of, like living through this, through this
• 27:10
  process? I don't know.
• 27:11
  But, you know, Bitcoin gives you this, this power, right?
• 27:15
  That I think that a lot of Cubans that were fleeing Cuba
• 27:18
  for the United States back in the 50s, I'm sure that they
• 27:21
  would have died for this, which is it gives you the IT gives you
• 27:23
  the power to bring your wealth with you.
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  You know, if you're in a pickle, you can memorize 24 words.
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  I promise you that if you are in a pickle, you will memorize
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  those goddamn 24 words as if your life depended on it, right?
• 27:36
  And maybe you don't have that good of a memory.
• 27:38
  You memorize 12 words, but that's good enough, right?
• 27:41
  But that's the point, right? This is the power of Bitcoin.
• 27:44
  It gives you the power to not only vote with your wallet, but
• 27:46
  it gives you the power to vote with your feet, but only if you
• 27:50
  take a little bit of personal responsibility and you take that
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  Listen, I'm straight. The news.
• 28:40
  We gotta talk about El Salvador today.
• 28:41
  Let's check it out. The Daily News.
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  to go through one by one. This is the Economist.
• 29:28
  Like the Fiat times of Financial Times, like the New York Times.
• 29:32
  They're not very fond of what's going on in El Salvador.
• 29:35
  I think it has nothing to do with democracy.
• 29:37
  I think it has nothing to do with human rights.
• 29:40
  I think it has everything to do with the fact that El Salvador,
• 29:44
  since they made Bitcoin legal tender, is a threat to the
• 29:48
  powers at B and their ability to control developing countries
• 29:52
  using the I MF. Now that there's an alternative
• 29:55
  to the I MFIII think that really freaks them out.
• 29:58
  I think that really Spooks them. So take a look at how many
• 30:02
  articles they've dropped on El Salvador over the last couple of
• 30:06
  months. I'm going to read you some of
• 30:07
  the headlines and then I'm going to read you the last article.
• 30:10
  So first one is Naimbu Kale shows how to dismantle a
• 30:13
  democracy and stay popular. Others will learn from El
• 30:17
  Salvador's charismatic president.
• 30:18
  OK, dismantle A democracy by getting duly elected and having,
• 30:24
  you know, some of the, you know, the 90% approval rating.
• 30:29
  Isn't that the whole point of a democracy, right?
• 30:31
  That if you know you are popular and you win the election, then
• 30:36
  you become president and you stay in power.
• 30:39
  So like what it what? What is it exactly?
• 30:43
  I don't know Okay moving on to the next one, Nambu Kale.
• 30:48
  Another article, Nambu Kale is Wrecking is Wrecking democracy
• 30:52
  in El Salvador. Beyond the Bitcoin tech bro hype
• 30:57
  is an oldfashioned Cardillo. Cardillo is the name that they
• 31:01
  used for Francisco Franco, which was the the fascist dictator of
• 31:07
  Spain from the Spanish Civil War until the mid 1970s where Spain
• 31:13
  peacefully transition to democracy.
• 31:15
  So in this it they're not just calling him a dictator that guy
• 31:19
  did your thing that they're referencing or they're they're
• 31:21
  calling him is fascist, they're calling him a fascist and then
• 31:27
  also in that same line Bitcoin is there.
• 31:31
  So in that same sentence, a fascist dictator, fascist
• 31:35
  dictator president is wrecking democracy in El Salvador even
• 31:40
  though he was duly elected and even door even though he has a
• 31:43
  90% approval rating. But again, headlines are very
• 31:46
  important. We talked to you about how the
• 31:49
  importance of framing right Anyways goes on to say El El
• 31:53
  Salvador's authoritarian president is becoming a regional
• 31:57
  role model that is dangerous for democracy and human rights.
• 32:01
  Why is he being a why is he a regional role model?
• 32:05
  Because he dramatically decreased the, the, the crime
• 32:09
  rate. Therefore he became popular.
• 32:11
  Therefore he increased the economic opportunity for El
• 32:15
  Salvadorians. Right.
• 32:17
  But that is dangerous to democracy and human rights.
• 32:20
  Are they basically saying that that you should lead, that you
• 32:25
  should leave, you know, these gang members on the street
• 32:29
  extorting innocent civilians? Are they you know is that what
• 32:32
  they're promoting? I I don't I don't quite know.
• 32:35
  Right. It it's like it it's so easy for
• 32:38
  you to accuse and to push past blame.
• 32:43
  But again it it kind of reminds me of that Roosevelt quote
• 32:47
  judge, not the man, the arena. I also think it's elitist as as
• 32:51
  F for a Western media outlet to basically say yes in, you know,
• 32:58
  in the developing world, in Central America.
• 33:00
  Things are just how they are in developed world and you know,
• 33:03
  democracy runs smoothly and you know, you can deal with the
• 33:08
  criminals a certain way, etcetera, etcetera.
• 33:10
  So anyways you could say okay Nico, but you know they're
• 33:14
  probably saying this about every everything.
• 33:16
  They're probably saying this about every country that's like
• 33:18
  you know, breaking the law or has a dictatorial government.
• 33:22
  But I'm going to show you. I'm going to compare you.
• 33:23
  I'm going to compare you two things.
• 33:25
  So this is the Google search for the Economist and El Salvador.
• 33:30
  I'm going to read you some of the headlines.
• 33:32
  What what the world's budding autocrats are learning from El
• 33:35
  Salvador 9. Bukeli shows how to dismantle
• 33:38
  democracy and stay popular inside El Salvador's war on
• 33:41
  crime. Okay there you could say, you
• 33:43
  know it's not negative. Young Latin Americans are
• 33:47
  unusually open to autocrats. And here's my favorite one.
• 33:52
  El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment is not paying off.
• 33:55
  This was November 17th, 2022. They got that catastrophically
• 33:59
  wrong. Now let's take a look at China.
• 34:02
  So I searched The Economist in China, and I'm going to read you
• 34:06
  some of some of these headlines. And you let me know which
• 34:10
  headlines are more positive or more negative.
• 34:15
  So the first one is China hits back against Western sanctions.
• 34:19
  Can academic joint ventures between China and the West
• 34:22
  survive? What if China and India became
• 34:25
  friends? A true a clue to China's true
• 34:29
  pandemic death toll. How much trouble is China's
• 34:33
  economy in? And I think this is my favorite
• 34:36
  one. How China trains its journalists
• 34:40
  to report quote correctly. OK, so let's talk about China.
• 34:48
  So they talk about all these human rights abuses and all
• 34:51
  these things are these horrible atrocities that are happening
• 34:54
  because I'll say, or jailed, you know, they're gang members and
• 34:57
  now there's peace on the streets and all that.
• 35:00
  Let's talk about the Uighurs. Let's talk about the Uighur
• 35:02
  genocide, Right. This is happening in China.
• 35:04
  So the Chinese government has committed a series of ongoing
• 35:07
  human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic and
• 35:10
  religious minorities and Xinjiang that is often
• 35:13
  characterized as genocide. Beginning in 2014, the Chinese
• 35:17
  government under the administration of the CCP and
• 35:20
  General Secretary Xi Jinping incarcerated more than an
• 35:23
  estimated 1,000,000 Turkic Turkic Muslims without any legal
• 35:29
  process or inter in intermittent camp.
• 35:32
  So they put them in camps. But if you take a look at the
• 35:36
  Economist on a Google search, they're not talking about that.
• 35:39
  They want to talk to you about El Salvador.
• 35:43
  I just find that interesting. And then this all kind of
• 35:46
  reminds me of why is this happening?
• 35:48
  And I always reference back to this article and this article
• 35:52
  was written by name Bukele himself.
• 35:54
  Stop drinking the Elise kool-aid, published by our
• 35:56
  friends over at Bitcoin Magazine.
• 35:58
  And it goes on to say the most vocal detractors, the ones who
• 36:01
  are afraid and pressuring us to reverse our decision, are the
• 36:05
  world's most powerful elites and the people who worked for or
• 36:08
  benefit from them. They used to own everything in
• 36:11
  the way they still do the media, the banks, the NGO, the NGO's,
• 36:16
  the international organizations, and almost all the governments
• 36:19
  and corporations in the world. And with that, of course, they
• 36:23
  also own the armies, the loans, the money supply, the credit
• 36:26
  ratings, the narrative, the propaganda, the factories, the
• 36:29
  food supply. They control international trade
• 36:32
  and international law. But their most important, their
• 36:35
  most most powerful weapon, is their control on the truth.
• 36:39
  And they're willing to fight, lie, smear, destroy, censor,
• 36:44
  confiscate, print and do whatever it takes to maintain
• 36:47
  and increase their control over the quote, Truth and everything
• 36:51
  and everyone. Do you want to know why The
• 36:56
  Economist is not covering the Uyghurs, an actual genocide that
• 37:00
  is happening in a non democratic country?
• 37:05
  There's your answer. You want to know why they're
• 37:07
  covering El Salvador even though they didn't?
• 37:10
  They didn't even pretend that El Salvador existed before the
• 37:14
  Bitcoin law. They're your answer.
• 37:16
  I don't think it has anything to do with democracy.
• 37:19
  I don't think it has anything to do with the human, quote, UN
• 37:23
  quote, human rights abuses, because if that were the case,
• 37:26
  they would say the same thing about China.
• 37:28
  I think it has everything to do with the fact that, to use
• 37:32
  Christine Lagarde's own words, El Salvador has found an escape
• 37:37
  valve. I think that's what it has to
• 37:39
  do. That's what it's all about.
• 37:41
  So anyways, I found that very interesting.
• 37:45
  The the, the double standards. But hey, this is what the bit
• 37:49
  this is what simply bitcoins all about.
• 37:52
  This is what the Internet is all about.
• 37:53
  It's empowered the independent journalist.
• 37:57
  The it's empowered the everyday average individual to buy a
• 38:00
  camera, buy a microphone and look at the facts and start
• 38:03
  reporting the facts from your viewpoint, from your angle.
• 38:08
  And I think that's why they're calling for anything that
• 38:10
  doesn't come from the legacy corporate media misinformation
• 38:14
  or they're basically labeling it is not an official news source.
• 38:17
  That's why, because they can no longer control the narrative of
• 38:21
  which they've been able to control for so long until the
• 38:24
  Internet came around. And now what's happening also is
• 38:28
  Bitcoin is coming around and saying, hey, not only do you not
• 38:32
  have to consume certain information sources, now you can
• 38:36
  pick and choose what money you want to use as well, right?
• 38:39
  And how long until they say Bitcoin is a danger to
• 38:42
  democracy? How long until they say, you
• 38:45
  know Bitcoin? And no, they're already saying
• 38:47
  this. They're already saying the quiet
• 38:48
  part out loud. Bitcoin is a danger to financial
• 38:50
  stability, right? But you know what I think is
• 38:53
  more of a danger to financial stability?
• 38:56
  Inflation, that's what I think. That's what I think is more of a
• 38:59
  danger to financial stability, not financial stability of
• 39:02
  elites that benefit from inflation.
• 39:04
  Because every time the government prints money, it's a
• 39:06
  wealth or distribution mechanisms from the have nots to
• 39:10
  the haves and back to the government.
• 39:12
  So it's just it's, you know, this whole thing, it's just it's
• 39:16
  a bunch of hypocrisy but much a bunch of misrepresentation.
• 39:21
  But you know what? I think the Internet's going to
• 39:23
  rule the day, and I think bitcoins going to rule the day
• 39:26
  at the end of the day as well, because Bitcoins incentives stay
• 39:29
  winning Anyways, Opti, what's your take on this?
• 39:31
  And then we'll move on to. Yeah, I think one of those
• 39:35
  headlines said it best and it was really, what do you call it,
• 39:40
  like the smoking gun or what have you.
• 39:42
  And it was El Salvador and Bukelli becoming a regional role
• 39:46
  model. I think that is is the most
• 39:48
  telling headline of that whole. You know, little segment that
• 39:53
  you showed all the headlines. Obviously we know that the
• 39:55
  powers that be do not want to see El Salvador succeed.
• 39:59
  This is why they're framing Boo Kelly in the way that he is.
• 40:01
  And again, guys like. We we obviously don't have any
• 40:04
  insight into what Bukelle is doing for the future.
• 40:07
  But as of now it does seem like not only is he improving the
• 40:11
  country, but the citizens of El Salvador are truly enjoying and
• 40:15
  love the man. And obviously as bitcoiners we
• 40:18
  want to see this, you know, happen with or without him on
• 40:22
  the Bitcoin standard. And that would be probably the
• 40:25
  best for everyone, as an example.
• 40:28
  But This is why the Parasitic Class is so scared of what
• 40:31
  Bitcoin has done for El Salvador.
• 40:33
  But Kelly is doing for El Salvador because it's showing
• 40:36
  that there is another way. It's showing that there is
• 40:39
  another option than to just take an I MF loan and be beholden to,
• 40:43
  you know, the debt from the Western world.
• 40:46
  It eliminates the power of the money printer, and of course
• 40:49
  they do not want that to happen. But, Nico, you reminded me of
• 40:53
  some of the Kelly's tweets and I'm going to pull them up here.
• 40:57
  Like, just just just imagine if this is what our politicians
• 41:00
  were saying. This.
• 41:01
  That's all I want to say. Look, we have Naive Bo Kelly's
• 41:03
  response to The Economist's headline here.
• 41:06
  Obviously the headline is President.
• 41:07
  Naive Bo Kelly is getting democracy and being applauded
• 41:10
  for him. And Bo Kelly dunks on the
• 41:12
  Economist and says, I think you accidentally replaced the word
• 41:15
  criminals with democracy in your tweet.
• 41:18
  Oof. Headshot.
• 41:19
  Love to see him. This next one.
• 41:20
  I think this is one of the most telling examples of why they are
• 41:24
  terrified of what Bo Kelly is doing.
• 41:26
  And here's a tweet that he did last week, and it goes Almost
• 41:30
  every government in the world is 10 times to 1000 times stronger
• 41:34
  than all of its criminals combined.
• 41:36
  The reason they don't end crime is because they are colluded
• 41:39
  with it or because they benefit from it.
• 41:41
  You pick the reason. Now, I don't know about you, but
• 41:45
  I've never heard any of our politicians say anything on that
• 41:50
  line. And as a Bitcoin, you kind of
• 41:52
  just love to see it. And again, look, I feel like I'm
• 41:56
  taking crazy pills here. And I'm not here to judge China
• 42:00
  on how they run their country, but I thought this was America.
• 42:03
  Damn it, Why are so many talking heads and bureaucrats
• 42:06
  continually simping for China like, what is going on here?
• 42:09
  This is absolutely ludicrous. I thought we were, you know, a
• 42:13
  nation of freedom. And yet, whether it's in the
• 42:16
  private sector, the public sector, everyone is looking for
• 42:19
  China, as you know, what we should be doing to usher in a
• 42:22
  future, a better world for the world.
• 42:25
  And I don't know it. It seems like there's been more
• 42:28
  human rights transgressions in China than anywhere else.
• 42:34
  But what do I know? I'm I'm just a freedom loving
• 42:37
  libertarian bitcoiner and I want to see the world become more
• 42:41
  free, not less free. Yeah.
• 42:43
  Now and I just want to say this because we're all Hispanic here
• 42:46
  and we all have Hispanic background.
• 42:48
  So we obviously, you know, we're looking at what's happening in
• 42:52
  El Salvador. And you know if you compare that
• 42:55
  with the rest of Latin America, I see hope, I see, you know, I
• 42:59
  see a government that is actually doing their job.
• 43:02
  Like that's the whole point of paying taxes supposedly for law
• 43:05
  and order, right? That's the whole point of it,
• 43:08
  right? So I just find it interesting
• 43:10
  that you know they're completely ignoring what's happening in an
• 43:15
  actual genocide. But they're highlighting,
• 43:19
  they're highlighting a policy policies that are very, very
• 43:22
  popular with the, with the populace of of El Salvador that
• 43:26
  they they voted for this, this is what they wanted.
• 43:29
  And you have an international, you have multiple international
• 43:32
  organizations basically saying, hey, look, I don't like what's
• 43:35
  going on there now to play devil's advocate, right?
• 43:38
  Absolute power corrupts absolutely, right.
• 43:40
  So, you know, I think it's too early to tell what the longterm
• 43:46
  consequences of these policies are going to be.
• 43:49
  And maybe you could say okay, that is a good argument, right?
• 43:53
  That's actually something that I asked the economic advisor of El
• 43:57
  Salvador when he came on simply Bitcoin IRL like look like, you
• 44:00
  know, aren't you worried that you know this is going to
• 44:02
  increase the power of the state? Right.
• 44:05
  But I'll tell you what, guys, It's definitely heading in the
• 44:08
  right direction. I think that we read you an
• 44:14
  article the other day also, the headline was all messed up
• 44:18
  about, you know, kids in slums being able to play outside
• 44:22
  about, you know, in middleclass areas of being able to run their
• 44:25
  business without fear of extortion and whatnot, right.
• 44:29
  And you know what I think? Passing judgment and saying.
• 44:33
  There is an alternative solution to this without presenting one,
• 44:38
  because there's definitely a bunch of other countries that
• 44:40
  you can point to and you can see the crime there and you can see
• 44:44
  the corruption. I think it's a lot easy to pass
• 44:48
  judgment. But as a Hispanic, personally, I
• 44:51
  find what is happening in El Salvador inspirational and let's
• 44:56
  see what the future holds and look if for whatever reason.
• 45:00
  You know this turns S will be the first to to to tell you guys
• 45:04
  about it. And the reason for that is
• 45:06
  because at the end of the day, what we stand for is freedom.
• 45:09
  We we we stand for is individualism, right.
• 45:12
  What we stand for is private property rights.
• 45:14
  What we stand for is capitalism. What we what we stand for is
• 45:18
  equal opportunity. And I think that really, you
• 45:23
  know, I think that's what I'm seeing in El Salvador.
• 45:26
  And I don't see that anywhere else in in in Central Latin
• 45:29
  America at the moment, right? Anyways, Hector, what what are
• 45:33
  your thoughts on this, bro? You know from someone who you
• 45:36
  know immigrated from Cuba or his parents immigrated from Cuba,
• 45:39
  and you see what is happening in El Salvador?
• 45:42
  What are your thoughts on what's going on?
• 45:43
  And then also, what are your thoughts on the clearly biased
• 45:47
  reporting from the legacy corporate media?
• 45:52
  Well, I'll say that, you know, El Salvador is a sovereign
• 45:54
  nation and they have the right to choose their own leaders.
• 45:57
  And right now it seems like they believe that Bukele is the best
• 46:01
  leader for them. And until they change their mind
• 46:04
  about that, I don't think it is. I don't think it's our business.
• 46:08
  Should be telling them who should be leading them.
• 46:09
  And if they're concerned about incarceration rates, we could
• 46:12
  probably take a long look in a mirror at our own incarceration
• 46:15
  rates and realize that the United States lapsed the field
• 46:19
  globally as it relates to a percentage of their population
• 46:21
  incarcerated. So I don't think that that's a
• 46:24
  really consistent position to take right now.
• 46:27
  Ultimately, El Salvadorian should choose, choose their
• 46:29
  leaders. They have spoken, and until they
• 46:32
  speak differently, we should honor that sovereign choice.
• 46:35
  As it relates to bias reporting, it's like you said, Nico, it is
• 46:39
  not about any of these things. It's not about human rights.
• 46:42
  It is about control. Like Henry Kissinger said,
• 46:44
  right. You know, those who can control
• 46:47
  food can control the people, those who can control energy can
• 46:50
  control continents, and those who can control the money can
• 46:53
  control the world. This is about control of the
• 46:56
  world through the control of money.
• 46:58
  Right. We weren't.
• 47:00
  We weren't concerned a year or so ago about the violations of
• 47:04
  people's democratic rights in Canada when some truckers wanted
• 47:07
  to peacefully protest and when there was an escape valve and a
• 47:09
  way to get funding to those truckers.
• 47:11
  All of a sudden, Justin Trudeau decided those democratic rights
• 47:14
  didn't matter anymore. We weren't concerned about the
• 47:16
  human rights violations of Saddam Hussein for years and
• 47:19
  years and years and years until all of a sudden he wanted to
• 47:22
  settle oil contracts in something other than U.S.
• 47:25
  dollars, and we saw the possibility of losing control
• 47:28
  there. And so all of a sudden he had to
• 47:30
  go. So it's not about human rights
• 47:32
  violations. It is not about democratic right
• 47:35
  violations. It is about the loss of control.
• 47:38
  And I think that that's the source of some of this reporting
• 47:41
  is because of the concern that, like you know, like Opti's
• 47:44
  girlfriend said, you know, it's an escape valve.
• 47:47
  Yeah, absolutely. And and I think that's what
• 47:51
  eventually led to their breakup, you know, Opti was clearly it.
• 47:56
  Had to be. It had to be irreconcilable
• 47:57
  differences at that point. Clearly, you know, Opti was
• 48:00
  trying to orange pill her and and then she's like no Opti.
• 48:03
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• 48:07
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• 48:10
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  I was waiting for the Tia Nico. Anyways, Hector, I do have some
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  you've written for Bitcoin Magazine, but everyone really
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  It's a rabbit whole journey, so let's just start there.
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  How did you find Bitcoin and what what's your journey been
• 51:39
  like so far? Thanks.
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  Well, you know, ironically, I first heard about Bitcoin on
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  White Paper Day on Halloween in 2015 from, you know, from a
• 51:48
  brotherinlaw of a friend of mine, and thought it was
• 51:51
  interesting but didn't pay much attention.
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  You know, life was busy. Then about a year later it came
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  back around and I heard about it again and I said, well, you
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  know, maybe I should go ahead and, you know, pick up a little
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  bit just in case it catches on. And started accumulating little
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  by little for the next handful of years and then around 2019
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  and heading into 2020, that's when I really went fully, fully
• 52:13
  down the rabbit hole and and just started consuming
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  everything I possibly could have bought it and just realized what
• 52:19
  a world changing, groundbreaking technology it was.
• 52:23
  And so ever since then, I have been trying to educate friends,
• 52:27
  educate family, educate colleagues, and then
• 52:30
  transitioning into teaching. Some courses about money,
• 52:34
  banking and economics and Bitcoin and just trying to help
• 52:37
  more and more people get into the Bitcoin lifeboat and
• 52:39
  preserve their wealth. Love it, love it.
• 52:42
  And before I ask you about how that journey has been going of
• 52:45
  educating people, you brought up a point and I had this
• 52:47
  conversation this morning with a friend.
• 52:49
  The idea of like multiple touches.
• 52:51
  I think we all forget how many touches we had before we got
• 52:54
  into Bitcoin and we get so frustrated with people like.
• 52:57
  You should understand Bitcoin right away and you forget that
• 53:00
  you probably heard about Bitcoin like three or four times before
• 53:02
  you finally took the deep dive and and you know, understood
• 53:06
  Bitcoin. Or at least just got your toes
• 53:08
  wet in holding and having a little bit of Bitcoin.
• 53:11
  But anyways, let's get into your orange Pilling journey, because
• 53:15
  you had this article go on Bitcoin Magazine and it's about
• 53:20
  orange peeling your Barber. So how did you get to this idea?
• 53:23
  And and what's the context of orange peeling the Barber?
• 53:26
  What's the genius behind orange Peeling the Barber?
• 53:29
  Well, it was, you know, like we all do, right?
• 53:32
  Once we learn about Bitcoin and we want to help educate others,
• 53:36
  we think about what are the, what are the circles of
• 53:39
  influence that I have. And so our family has been in
• 53:42
  the business of manufacturing garments.
• 53:44
  For barbers and beauty salons for for the better part of 40
• 53:48
  years. So those capes that you put on
• 53:50
  when you go to the Barber, so you don't get hair all over your
• 53:53
  clothes when they're cutting it, we manufacture and sell those
• 53:56
  all around the United States. And so in thinking about orange
• 54:00
  peeling and talking with barbers about how they can improve their
• 54:03
  business, how they can improve their business with Bitcoin by
• 54:09
  saving money on transaction fees, so on and so forth.
• 54:12
  It hit me that, you know, barbers hold a really, really
• 54:15
  unique place in every community in the United States and also
• 54:20
  globally in that every kind of walk of life, every kind of
• 54:24
  person sits in that barber's chair for 20 minutes, 45
• 54:28
  minutes. Sometimes it might be a couple
• 54:29
  of hours if you're at a salon for a long service.
• 54:32
  And it's the perfect environment to be talking about Bitcoin,
• 54:36
  whether it's you talking to them about Bitcoin while you're
• 54:38
  getting your your service done. Or whether it's them talking to
• 54:42
  every lawyer, doctor, business owner, teacher, you know, stay
• 54:47
  at home, mom, whoever it is, it's a terrific environment
• 54:50
  because it doesn't have distractions, It happens
• 54:53
  routinely and it gives you a chance to have those multiple
• 54:57
  touches that you mentioned are usually needed in order for
• 55:00
  somebody to get it about Bitcoin and start stacking SAT.
• 55:04
  So that was the that was the motivation behind writing the
• 55:07
  article, to try to help people. Think about how to talk to their
• 55:10
  barbers about Bitcoin and Orange peel them.
• 55:12
  Love it. Well, someone commented they
• 55:14
  tried to orange peel their Barber, but he was not about it.
• 55:18
  So what is the process that you tell people to go through when
• 55:23
  they're trying to orange peel their Barber?
• 55:25
  Well. Not only with barbers, but with
• 55:28
  anybody, right. The, the first thing is to think
• 55:30
  about who your audience is, right?
• 55:31
  Who are you talking about? Nico, I think you referenced the
• 55:34
  Teddy Roosevelt quote a little earlier in the show, so I'll
• 55:37
  reference another one, right? Teddy once said people don't
• 55:39
  care how much you know until they know how much you care,
• 55:42
  right? And that is the same with your
• 55:44
  Barber or with anybody who you are talking with Bitcoin about,
• 55:48
  with about Bitcoin with. And that starts by thinking
• 55:51
  about who they are and asking them some questions about things
• 55:54
  that might matter to them. So.
• 55:56
  Are they worried about, you know, the rising cost of doing
• 55:58
  business, for example, or high credit card fees for somebody
• 56:02
  like a Barber? Is it somebody like my mom, who
• 56:05
  is, you know, who had the experience of having to lose
• 56:08
  everything that they had in order to leave Cuba and come to
• 56:11
  the United States? Is it somebody who's close to
• 56:14
  retirement and they're worried about outliving their money?
• 56:16
  So whatever you think might be those pain points that they
• 56:19
  might have, think about what kind of questions you can ask.
• 56:23
  To get them talking about those pain points.
• 56:25
  Because once they've brought those forward, then you can talk
• 56:28
  about Bitcoin in the context of that pain point that they're
• 56:31
  feeling. And that gives you a much better
• 56:33
  chance of getting them to listen and potentially take action on
• 56:37
  using Bitcoin to address address those pain points, love it.
• 56:41
  And before we move on to some some other topics here, why
• 56:45
  don't you tell the people about the initiative that you told me
• 56:48
  before the show that you wanted to plug?
• 56:51
  Yeah. So you know, in that spirit as
• 56:54
  I, you know started engaging with some folks, I'm in a group,
• 56:57
  A telegram group called the Chief Lightning officers that
• 57:00
  are all about, you know, all about trying to help on board
• 57:03
  businesses to Bitcoin. And I started thinking about how
• 57:06
  can I on board the businesses that I know in that way.
• 57:09
  And I realized we've got a lot of bitcoiners around and they're
• 57:12
  talking to their barbers about Bitcoin and maybe they're going
• 57:15
  to start orange peeling and on boarding their barbers to
• 57:17
  accepting Bitcoin. So what I thought we would do is
• 57:20
  help drive a little bit of incentive there.
• 57:22
  So I made-up some of these Bitcoin Barber logo cakes and
• 57:26
  what I'm going to do is if somebody has or does orange peel
• 57:30
  their Barber and gets or their or their stylist and gets them
• 57:33
  to start using Bitcoin and accepting Bitcoin.
• 57:36
  Nico's got the one I made for him at the conference.
• 57:39
  You know, hit me up on on on Twitter, Noster, get a hold of
• 57:44
  me and I'll send one of those capes to your Barber or stylist.
• 57:48
  So. But then that way they've got a
• 57:49
  nice conversation piece. When they put that Cape around
• 57:51
  their client, it's immediately going to start a discussion
• 57:54
  around Bitcoin and help us start orange.
• 57:56
  Fill in the world through barbers and stylists.
• 57:58
  Love it, love it. OK, before I think we got a
• 58:01
  couple more minutes, you did talk about being a part of what
• 58:05
  the Lightning initiatives or whatever.
• 58:06
  And I have a let me see, let me pull this up.
• 58:09
  I found this thread that you put out on your Twitter as well, and
• 58:11
  it's the idea of not only orange peeling business owners, but
• 58:16
  doing your best to try to have them accept lightning and the
• 58:20
  pushback that bitcoiners usually get.
• 58:21
  So how do you ride around this? What's the best way?
• 58:25
  Do you think that people should approach businesses and have
• 58:30
  them accept Lightning or incorporate Lightning as one of
• 58:32
  their payment mechanisms? Sure.
• 58:35
  Well, you know it's going to be a little different depending on,
• 58:37
  you know, the particular business owners set up and what
• 58:39
  kind of, you know, what, what level of of work they want to
• 58:42
  put into it, right. But again, it starts by asking
• 58:44
  questions, finding those pain points, and then helping them
• 58:47
  understand that hey, with Lightning you can accept, you
• 58:50
  know, payments in a way that is as as as as fast as cash.
• 58:55
  You know, a lot cheaper than credit cards and as good as
• 58:58
  gold. Right.
• 58:59
  So whether that's just having them use a simple sort of
• 59:02
  peer-to-peer wallet transfer, whether that's Phoenix or let's
• 59:05
  say Strike, or if they want to implement a solution like Ibex,
• 59:08
  if they want something that might resemble more like a point
• 59:10
  of sale or another tool like a coin OS which also can serve
• 59:13
  that function. There are a lot of different
• 59:15
  tools that you can use. It depends a little bit about
• 59:19
  how interested the Barber is and how they want to maintain their
• 59:21
  Bitcoin once they receive it. And that's something that I
• 59:24
  mentioned in the The Orange Pilling article.
• 59:26
  If you're trying to figure out exactly how to talk with your
• 59:29
  Barber, I'm happy to be a resource to you and happy to
• 59:32
  have a chat with you about how to approach them, how to how to
• 59:35
  have that conversation. Ask those questions and then
• 59:38
  figure out what might be the right solution for them once
• 59:40
  they're interested enough to think about doing it.
• 59:44
  Great advice. And the last thing I have over
• 59:46
  here is I notice you are a part of some of the local meet ups in
• 59:50
  your area. So maybe you wanna talk about
• 59:52
  them and maybe get more bitcoiners to congregate and
• 59:56
  meet up and continue to spread the message.
• 1:00:00
  Yeah, you know, it's fantastic having these opportunities to
• 1:00:03
  engage virtually, right. But in my opinion, you know that
• 1:00:05
  nothing replaces those, you know, in person kinds of events.
• 1:00:11
  I think that's why conferences like, you know, the Bitcoin
• 1:00:14
  conference that's been here in Miami the last few years, that's
• 1:00:16
  going to be in Nashville next year, Pacific Bitcoin, so on and
• 1:00:19
  so forth. I think that's why those things
• 1:00:21
  are so special because it gives us an opportunity to know, hey,
• 1:00:24
  there are other folks who really understand what this is about
• 1:00:27
  and it's a great way to bring new people into the fold as
• 1:00:29
  well. So yeah, I I by about a year ago
• 1:00:31
  after the Bitcoin 22 conference work together with with my buddy
• 1:00:35
  Carl to start the Broward County Bitcoiners meet up And you know
• 1:00:39
  we've been growing and building ever since.
• 1:00:41
  We've got a number of great meet ups down here in South Florida
• 1:00:44
  and if you don't have a local meet up in your area, I
• 1:00:46
  encourage you to start one. If you do and you don't attend
• 1:00:49
  them now, I encourage you to do so because it really helps you
• 1:00:52
  see that you're not just on an island, you're not by yourself
• 1:00:55
  in being a bitcoiner and trying to help people improve their
• 1:00:58
  lives through Bitcoin. There are a lot of other people
• 1:01:01
  out there and if you reach out, as you know, if you reach out to
• 1:01:03
  bitcoiners, you're going to find multiple bitcoiners reaching
• 1:01:06
  back out to you and and wanting to engage with you.
• 1:01:09
  And it's just a terrific way to to meet other people that are
• 1:01:13
  like mind. Yeah, I, I said.
• 1:01:15
  You're Mutinika, I said. All the time.
• 1:01:18
  Until you hang out with bitcoiners constantly, you
• 1:01:21
  forget that you are not the crazy one.
• 1:01:23
  That's everyone else that doesn't understand what's going
• 1:01:25
  on in the world, and you've got to be around bitcoiners.
• 1:01:27
  You need to build that Bitcoin community around yourself.
• 1:01:30
  I think it's one of the most important things for everyone
• 1:01:32
  out there to be doing. 100 percent, 100%.
• 1:01:37
  And shout out also to Broward, man, that's awesome.
• 1:01:40
  You know, represent South Florida, represent, you know,
• 1:01:44
  represent the community down here, which I think is, is, is
• 1:01:48
  really, really important. Also guys, we've been speaking
• 1:01:53
  about a lot about, you know, sovereignty and freedom and
• 1:01:57
  privacy. Those are things that we always
• 1:01:59
  talk about. We talked to you.
• 1:02:00
  Do we talk to you guys about the benefits of self custody?
• 1:02:04
  Well, the next step. Is running your own Bitcoin
• 1:02:07
  node. If you don't run your own
• 1:02:09
  Bitcoin node, you're trusting someone else's copy of the
• 1:02:12
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  No more delay. Let's review some memes.
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  the deal. This is the meme review where
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  you guys send us memes and we review with them.
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  Tag me on Twitter at simply Bitcoin TV.
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  I will scroll through them all. I will drop them in the show
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  notes. They may not all make it on the
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  next show, but you know, sometimes I will get them on the
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  show. There's a lot of memes
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  sometimes, but also drop them in our telegram group.
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  T dot me slash simply Bitcoin. I look at that every morning.
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  I'm trying to get your memes on the show, but I need the tweets
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  guys you need. The drop the tweets.
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  I know they are. I know there's like, you know,
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  tracking information on them. Just do them for me, because I
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  can't just take screenshots of people's memes.
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  I want to give you guys credit anyways.
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  Tweets are the what's it Tweets are the bullets.
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  Memes are the artillery. As you can tell, we are in an
• 1:04:18
  information war and the powers that be do not want you
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  conversating about the truth. It's incredible that we can't
• 1:04:25
  have these conversations without being gas lit and ignored, but.
• 1:04:32
  This is what we do every day. We continue to have these
• 1:04:33
  conversations, we continue to spread the truth, we continue to
• 1:04:37
  give you the calls of actions and also bring you some funny so
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  you guys can keep your heads in the game.
• 1:04:43
  Anyways, this 1st meme is by our boy, the BTC therapist and he
• 1:04:46
  goes very wise words hashtag BTC and we have an X-ray of a
• 1:04:52
  person, a skeleton. Hunched over a computer with the
• 1:04:56
  Bitcoin logo in his brain and it goes Satoshi Nakamoto and his
• 1:05:00
  comment on the computer is if you don't get it, go fuck
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  yourself, all right? This next meme is by Simple BTC
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  app on Twitter and he goes my only motivation to go to work
• 1:05:14
  and they got someone. In bed doesn't want to wake up
• 1:05:17
  and he goes, God give me a reason to go to work and we got
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  Dorian Nakamoto aka Satoshi Nakamoto go.
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  Sats aren't getting any cheaper son.
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  This is the only reason to get up and get to work.
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  Now you got to go out there, provide value to your fellow man
• 1:05:29
  and the Sats will come to you. Anyways, this next meme is by at
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  Toxic Bitcoin, and it goes no wait, hold on.
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  No. And it goes.
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  And it's got a crying girlfriend eager over here goes babe,
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  please stop lifting while listening to Rothbard.
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  And we got a Chad Pepe meme over here.
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  He's buff with Infinity divided by 21 million on his chest in
• 1:05:50
  the Bitcoin logo and a weighted belt.
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  And it goes fuck the state, let's go.
• 1:05:55
  OK, this next meme is by Walker. America shuts up to the crypto
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  couple. And he dropped this on Jack's
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  tweet in regards to scam coin. I mean World Coin and Jack
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  tweets. At no time should a corporation
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  or state own any part of the global financial system can
• 1:06:12
  agree more and Walker respond. Bitcoin fixes this and re
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  appropriates yeah re appropriate marketing and it puts the
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  Bitcoin logs on it goes. It's time.
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  Study Bitcoin. This is the way all right.
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  This next meme is by creases under score BTC and he goes.
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  I spend a lot of time and energy trying to explain the power of
• 1:06:33
  Bitcoin as a savings technology, but sometimes a meme nails it
• 1:06:37
  better than any article can and this is the power of memes.
• 1:06:42
  Anyways, we got a Pepe the Frog, Chad Pepe the Frog going up an
• 1:06:46
  elevator and the elevators are obviously Bitcoin.
• 1:06:49
  And then we got the Normie over here or the Pre Coiner.
• 1:06:52
  And they have some shackles and one of them student loan debt
• 1:06:56
  and the other one's medical debt.
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  And they're looking up at the staircase that they need to
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  climb for a good life. And they are huge.
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  And we got buying a vehicle, starting a family home
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  ownership, starting a business, pay off all debt, emergency
• 1:07:09
  fund, nice vacation, luxury dining and traveling around.
• 1:07:14
  And that's the last one. Or just get on the escalator,
• 1:07:18
  the Bitcoin escalator and number will go up.
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  It's going up forever. And you can, you know, maintain
• 1:07:24
  your purchasing power instead of getting debased at at the
• 1:07:29
  minimum of 2% a year, I think. What are we at now, Nico?
• 1:07:32
  Like three or five or eight? I forget it keeps going up.
• 1:07:34
  If you're in the UK, it's not like 10, right?
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  Crazy. OK, this next meme is by Maxi's
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  club. And it goes 468 feels good.
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  And we got a euphoric Pepe Bitcoin or euphoric?
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  Just understanding that Bitcoin is the way.
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  And it goes that feeling when you have a 100% Bitcoin
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  allocation and a long term strategy.
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  Completely euphoric. Okay this last meme.
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  And I was telling Hector about this in the beginning of the
• 1:08:00
  show and I brought this up before he was bringing up any of
• 1:08:03
  this idea about taxation. And you know, we said Bitcoin or
• 1:08:08
  slavery. It used to be hyperbolic.
• 1:08:10
  And now the receipts. And the examples keep coming
• 1:08:13
  out. Anyways, the meme here is by
• 1:08:16
  fight with memes on Twitter and we got a Pharaoh's head here.
• 1:08:21
  And it goes. Roughly 2500 BC Genesis 47
• 1:08:24
  slaves owned by Pharaoh were required to pay him 20% of their
• 1:08:28
  income of crap harvest, crop harvest, sorry.
• 1:08:31
  And then 2022AD. The median US taxpayer pays
• 1:08:35
  24.8% income tax along with 7.65% FICA taxes on his tax
• 1:08:41
  income he then pay. Sales tax, property tax, gas
• 1:08:44
  tax, and many other taxes and fees.
• 1:08:46
  Absolutely devastated. It is Bitcoin or slavery.
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  Anyways. My mean movie score.
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  Drop your mean movie score over there.
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  We got to go. I think we got to wrap up soon.
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  Niko's got a meeting. My mean review score is the
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  sticker by Birdwell Beach Britches.
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  If you know, you know, just kind of daxing myself, so Cowboy
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  confirmed. I'm going to give it my limited
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  edition Barbers Cape that was made by Ector.
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  I am so grateful and I'm going to take this with me to the
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  barbershop. Just whip it out when I have my
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  custom custom Barber Cape. Anyways, that's my score.
• 1:09:31
  Ector, what would you give those memes?
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  I'm going to give them my coal power and a nine Volt battery.
• 1:09:36
  That way you can keep those, keep those sats.
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  I see. I see cold and air gapped.
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  I see. I see.
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  Cold and air gapped love that. All right, Opti, let's get
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  through some of the meme scores. First one by Elaine Score
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  Central Bank, Digital currencies, orbs and shit Coins
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  do their job sending plebs to Bitcoin.
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  Let's go. Wait, wait, you.
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  Can't. I don't think you can read this
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  one. That one's a little on the edge.
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  Shout out to you. Bro meme score.
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  Bukele's actual democratic approval rating of 90%.
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  And I think that's the tell, right?
• 1:10:11
  Is it really? Is it really about democracy?
• 1:10:13
  Rave elevator. I score the memes, The golf
• 1:10:15
  clubs I found in the trash that I sold for Sats to my friend?
• 1:10:18
  This is the way. Let's go.
• 1:10:23
  All right, CC core 05, all Florida barbers using Hector's
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  Barber gowns. We'll see.
• 1:10:32
  I give the memes 10,000 Sats for one smashed world coin orb.
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  I love that. We do not condone breaking
• 1:10:38
  private property, but. Maybe Roman Meme Score Stack
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  Bitcoin Yes. Stack Bitcoin, Yes.
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  Stack Bitcoin? Yes.
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  Stack Bitcoin? Yes.
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  Take custody. Is an E Girl in training We will
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  be releasing E Girl vertical videos on.
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  TikTok very soon starting optimist fields with his shirt
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  off. Bitcoin for Canadian I Love.
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  Bitcoin Yum Yum. I give the the meme memes,
• 1:11:04
  barbers getting orange filled far and wide, yelling Bitcoin.
• 1:11:11
  Beautiful UTXOI give the memes cosmetic surgery on my iris.
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  And Hammer saw meme score A global government collapsing
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  under the weight of their own debt.
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  All right, awesome, awesome scores.
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  He's trolling. He's trolling.
• 1:11:30
  All right, everybody 8. This is a family friendly show,
• 1:11:32
  bro. OK, I want to give a shout out
• 1:11:34
  to her special guests. Thank you so much for joining us
• 1:11:37
  on Simply Bitcoin Live. I love your.
• 1:11:39
  I love this man. I will forever be grateful we we
• 1:11:42
  have to play pickleball. Thank you so much for coming on
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  the show. Come on, let's go.
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  Give give that to follow right there it's.
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  One in the the bottom left of your screen.
• 1:11:51
  Hector, Alvaro and actor, thank you so much for joining us on
• 1:11:54
  Simply Bitcoin today. Appreciate you guys having me.
• 1:11:56
  Thanks so much. Thanks, man.
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  Take it easy. All right guys.
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  Are we there? Are we still alive?
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  Maybe not. I don't know.
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