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BlackRock Bitcoin ETFs Set Records, HUGE DOLLAR INFLOWS | EP 949 · Simply Bitcoin

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Pretty crazy stuff. The ETF continues to gather
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momentum, continues to gather steam.
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It is now in the top five Bitcoin, the top five ETFs in
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general, the BlackRock ETF and the Fidelity ETF.
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So that institutional interest in Bitcoin continues to grow.
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Blackrock's position, Blackrock's Bitcoin holdings.
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Of course, you know it's not Blackrock's holdings themselves,
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but it's no holdings for their clients, just dwarfs.
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Michael Sailors completely left Michael Sailors in the dust.
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Currently BlackRock has 230,000 Bitcoin.
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Compare that with the 205,000 Bitcoin that MicroStrategy has.
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Of course it's not a fair comparison.
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You know, BlackRock is an asset manager, MicroStrategy is an
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individual company. But still, I mean, like this is,
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this is crazy stuff. I think this is, there's a new
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era for Bitcoin. Bitcoin is growing up, you know,
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it's not the Bitcoin of old when you have these huge players,
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these public companies, these asset managers that have such
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large holdings. And again, I think this trend
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will continue just because of the the records that it's
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breaking, like the fact that it's already in the top five
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ETFs. And keep in mind there's 3100
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ETFs in the US and the fact that it's already in the top five,
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it's not even a couple months old, I think is a massive,
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massive deal. I saw some news over the weekend
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as well that it seems like they're getting more interest
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than the gold ETFs. And that is a really, really
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good sign. But also not surprising.
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Like, here's Walter Bloomberg. He says Bitcoin has already
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surpassed gold in investor portfolio allocation.
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You know who said that? JP Morgan, right?
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So that's a huge effing deal. But I think that's a testament
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to Bitcoin's incentives. And it's just a matter of time
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before the rest of you know, the institutional world wakes up to
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this and the rest of the world wakes up to this.
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I think they are waking up to it already, right.
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Bitcoins incentives stay winning.
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I think Bitcoin has the best incentives.
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All right everybody, no more delay.
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I do want to bring up my very talented Co host, always
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optimistic, giant smile on his face.
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He did say that he was going to do the show shirtless today, but
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then he. Changes my give me like a month,
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give me like a month. But.
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Listen guys, how you doing? We're waiting for 300K Bitcoin
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before Opti, yeah? 300K Bitcoin before Opti loses
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his mind. Man, what that BlackRock ETF
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news, It's pretty crazy. They they're surpassing micro
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strategies. They are leading the pack head
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and shoulders. And just to add on to that news,
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you were talking about the Bitcoin ETS being top five
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overall of all ETFs. The Bitcoin ETF launch I think
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now is very scary the most. Successful.
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ETF launch ever? That's insane.
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Absolutely insane. Yeah, it's it's it's absolutely
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insane and it's it's crazy, but also it it doesn't surprise me
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whatsoever at all. You know, this is bitcoins,
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incentives, and they stay winning.
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Anyways, we have a very special guest.
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We have Aladdin, founder of the BTC trading cards.
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We have them today on the show and we're going to talk about
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the BTC trading cards during the culture segment.
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How you doing, Aladdin? Welcome to the show.
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Doing good, gentlemen. Thank you for having me.
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And good morning, and a hell of a day to buy the dip.
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So guys, if you haven't heard of BTC trading cards, definitely
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check them out on Twitter. They have so many collections.
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You know the I love the unconfiscated.
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I'm gonna be a little bit biased, but I love the
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unconfiscatable collection, The first collection, The Pacific
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Bitcoin collection. So Aladdin, why don't you talk a
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little bit about that man? What is BTC trading cards for
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anyone who doesn't know? It's the simplest way to orange
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PIL friends and family. I mean it.
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It's a cool collectible for bitcoiners in the way that we're
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time stamping our our moment in history.
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Right now we're we're making some of the biggest moves ever
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for the change to the a positive change, fixed money, fix the
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world. And if we don't time stamp that,
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then we're we're going to be missing out later on to be able
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to look back and have something physical to hold on to, to just
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be able to touch and feel these moments we have now.
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So for bitcoiners, I think it's at hand.
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For normies, for friends and family, Kids, I mean trading
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cards are nostalgic. They've been around 150 years,
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so these were literally created. Just have a really simple way to
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open up the conversation with people about Bitcoin and teach
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them all the different fundamentals that make us so
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bullish about Bitcoin. I I'd like to say it's like the
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Bitcoin standard, it's only 20% about Bitcoin and the other 80%
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is why Bitcoin is so important. So we touch on freedom, monetary
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history, lots of tidbits there and really bite sized pieces to
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be able to get even the the hardest people sometimes to be
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able to start to bite in a little bit and and learn why
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again we're so bullish. It's like, it's like in real
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life, you know, something that you can like hold on and I feel
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like. Wait, they're physical NFTS?
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What's going on here? But of course, Brian de Mint in
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the chat, absolute Chad. And yeah, like they're they're
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physical, physical NFTSI guess you could say that the physical
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NFTS are they not? Yeah, I guess the the trading
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cards have been the physical NFT for shit before we had
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television. So no, man, no, I I mean a lot
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of it too. Like, what really gave me a lot
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of the ideas is memes. Memes are massive.
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They do so much. I've got two teenagers and they
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get fired up when it comes to memes.
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And this is a way to put a meme on a piece of paper and pass it
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physical world and stepping out of the Matrix a little bit,
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there's just something different that you get out of that.
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So that's really what these do. They encapsulate so many
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different things in today's world.
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But again, they pull you out of the matrix and I think your mind
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works a little bit better. I think the critical thinking
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skills click on a little bit more when you're not staring to
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scream at learning. I am 100% I I love that dude.
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67,760 SAT's per dollar. 1476 block height 835,245 blocks to
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having 4755 having estimate April 19th 2024 Total lightning
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network capacity 4484 Bitcoin capacity value 303 million U.S.
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dollars. Realized monetary inflation
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1.74%. The market capitalization of
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Bitcoin is 1.33 trillion U.S. dollars.
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Bitcoin versus gold market cap 9.64%.
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The grand scheme of things Bitcoin is just getting started.
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Anyways, I gave you guys a quick little update in the beginning.
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Give you guys an update again. MicroStrategy is currently
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sitting on 205,000 Bitcoin. But remember, they're using
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their infinite money glitch to continue to rate.
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Like the MicroStrategy stock goes up.
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You know, they issue more debt, they get more dollars, they use
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those dollars to buy Bitcoin, the stock goes up.
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They do that like literally rinse and repeat like that.
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He found the infinite money glitch a lot of people are
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calling a speculative attack on the dollar.
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How long? Like, why, You know, Apple
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Computers is holding so much cash.
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Like, Bitcoin is perfect. Like how long until one of these
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very, very publicly known companies just bites the bullet,
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so to speak, and says, you know what, we got to add Bitcoin on
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on our balance sheet. I mean, it would, like the world
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would like, lose their minds, right?
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But again, and I know that a lot of people are like, no, Nico,
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that's unbelievable. I remember thinking the same
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thing before Naimbu Kelly at Bitcoin 2021.
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I remember he announced we're gonna make Bitcoin legal tender.
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I remember thinking the same thing before Michael Saylor
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stepped in and say, you know what, we're gonna adopt this
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Bitcoin strategy. So yeah, it seems like
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impossible until it's not. But the incentives are there,
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right? The incentives for something
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like this to happen are so there and it's obvious like Google,
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Apple, they're holding like massive dollar reserves on their
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balance sheet, even if they're like, OK, let's put it, let's
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put in 1% or 2% or 3% of those dollar reserves they put into
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Bitcoin. It would actually make up for
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the, the loss of purchasing power due to inflation, right.
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So I mean like it's incredibly obvious how long, you know, how
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long until they do this. I mean it's it's obvious, but
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it's not so obvious at the same time anyways.
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So BlackRock ETF, like I said completely just left micro
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strategy in the dust. Micro strategy took them three
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years. I know it's not a, it's not a
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completely fair comparison. Once an asset manager, once you
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know, just a pub, just a company, a software company.
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Now they're they're different now they're not a software
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company anymore. What what is it?
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They're like a Bitcoin enabling company or something.
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It's, I think. He said Bitcoin development
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development company. Yeah, it's so it's so badass.
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You don't change Bitcoin, Bitcoin changes you anyway.
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So Quickie ETF update. So BlackRock currently holds
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230,000 Bitcoin Fidelity holds 132,000.
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So nice. Nice.
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And and let's look at the grayscale numbers.
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They were at 400 something thousand last week.
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Now they're at 300,000. Yeah, I mean, people are just
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dumping grayscale and they're just putting it into these other
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ETFs. So like, look, the bitwise ETF
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is crushing it. The ARC ETF is crushing it.
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The Fidelity ETF, obviously the clear winners here are BlackRock
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and Fidelity, right? And then of course the
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grayscale, the reason they have so much Bitcoin is because they
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had, they didn't have the ETF, but they had, I forget what it
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was called, but they basically had like a stock or something
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that was tracking it was kind of tracking, tracking the price of
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Bitcoin, but it wasn't. But it wasn't officially an ETF,
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but people were using it to get exposure to Bitcoin.
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So anyways, so a little bit of an update.
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It seems like not all of them are winners though.
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I mean, that's obvious. Like the Veneck 1, it's
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interesting. Apparently they they decrease
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their their fees to zero and then they got a huge boost.
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But it seems like the true winners here are the BlackRock
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and the Fidelity ETFs. Because there were so many tips,
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I think there was like 10 at one point.
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Anyways, this is what I was saying in the beginning of the
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show. Massive news.
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This is Walter Bloomberg. He's like a news aggregator on
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Twitter, does incredible job. And he says Bitcoin has already
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surpassed gold in investor portfolio allocation.
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And supposedly, who said this was JP Morgan?
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That is massive, right? This is absolutely huge.
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How long? I mean, the head start that gold
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had was what, 3000 years, 2000 years?
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Bitcoin already surpassed the market cap of silver.
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You know, it's already 10% of what the market cap of gold is.
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I think it's going to happen a lot sooner than people think.
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I know a lot of people are saying, you know, Nico, the law
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of big numbers, you know these are trillions of dollars in
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market cap that it has to go. But I mean the incentive
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structure is there. The incentives are there.
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And again, you know, you could say Nico, you're crazy but like
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let the facts speak for themselves.
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live shows and you know our boy Ruston and John's originals that
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dropped three times a week anyways.
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So and already in the top five, you know, we have the Fidelity
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one in fifth and then the Black Rock Spot Bitcoin ETF in 3rd
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place. That's absolutely massive,
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right? Compare And you know there's
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3100 ETFs. So the fact that, you know and
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remember, we broke the news when they're in the top ten and then
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when when they're in the top ten, I'm like, I wouldn't be
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surprised if they got in the top five.
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And then a couple weeks later, here we are and this is just
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getting started. How, how old are these ETFs?
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A couple months old. This is absolutely crazy.
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Two months. Two months old man.
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I mean look, Bitcoin is doing what Bitcoin does best.
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Anyways, here is a trading view article.
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Apparently the original article came from Coin Telegraph.
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The headline for audio listeners is BlackRock Bitcoin ETFs Set
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daily volume Record as BTC Recoups slump.
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I mean again, another record-breaking day in Bitcoin
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ETF land which is absolutely crazy, goes on to say BlackRock
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Spot Bitcoin ETF has notched another daily trading volume
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record as BTC dropped 6% from its daily high over the United
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States trading day. Bar chart data for March 14th
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shows the The BlackRock ETF traded 99.3 million shares in
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the day, a trading volume of over 3.9 billion and beating its
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previous 3.7 billion volume record set less than 10 days
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ago. On March 5th, it came in as BTC
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dropped 6% from its daily high over the US trading day.
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Did you guys hear that? And you guys have felt it too,
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right? We hit that high.
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I think it was like 72 or 73,000.
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We had that correction. We went to 64.
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I mean dude, like we're already sitting at 67.
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I mean and and where is like with this, this recovery is
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coming guys. You have to pay attention to
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where the money is coming from. This is coming from Wall Street.
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This is Wall Street. Who's interested in Bitcoin?
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This is absolutely nuts. What?
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What happens when a nation state, like what happens when
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you know the, you know, like a nation state, starts to feel the
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benefits. A central bank starts to feel
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the benefit of this. Do you think that Michael Saylor
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has found an infinite money glitch?
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Central banks have literally. They literally own the infinite
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money glitch, right? They literally have the money
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printers themselves. What happens when they wake up
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to this, this reality, right? And remember, guys, Bitcoin is
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an aligned incentive structure and you guys have to change your
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mindset a little bit, right, 'cause it's like, I remember the
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initial reaction with the Black Rock stuff.
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It's like we can't trust Larry Fink, ESG.
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What you were seeing with all of that is the Fiat incentive
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structure, right? You don't change Bitcoin.
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Bitcoin changes you. Bitcoin is aligned incentive
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structure. So you might start to see these
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big corporations that you might have thought as evil in the Fiat
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world and you might start to see them behave in a certain way
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that actually benefits you, right.
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And that's again bitcoins aligned incentive structure
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system, which is something I don't hear a lot of people talk
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about anyways. It goes on to say Black Rock
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Spot Bitcoin ETF has been the top performing fund by volume
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and net inflows among the 10 new ETFs launched in January.
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They saw a record inflow day on March 12th with 849 millions of
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flows, the largest of any Bitcoin fund so far.
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When is that going to hit a billion in the day?
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Very, very soon I would say. The grayscale Bitcoin Trust
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however, remains the largest of the 10.
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But I mean, again, I think that that has to do with the fact
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that they had like, I forget it was like USD, I forget what it
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was called exactly. The GB TC, they had the the
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whole GBTC thing. Anyways, this is crazy, Not
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surprising at the same time, but I think that this is gonna
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completely change this cycle. I think that the whole cycles of
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old that we've been following, I think the day that the ETF was
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approved, that was coincidentally the same day that
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Hal Finney said in back in 2008 running Bitcoin.
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That was the same day that the ETF was approved.
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That day everything changed for Bitcoin.
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Just because again, institutions, you know, large
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high net worth individuals, they didn't have really like a proper
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mechanism to get exposure to Bitcoin.
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And not to mention you didn't really have the the
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legitimization, right. The fact that BlackRock put its
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stamp of approval, so to speak, on Bitcoin I think really
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changes the conversation. Now I get what some bitcoiners
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are saying, you know, for the revolution, which is self
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custody, does it change anything?
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Not really. Would would Bitcoin have failed
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if it, you know if BlackRock didn't get in the game?
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No. But you know, I I think from a
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price perspective I think it's it's it's definitely gonna be a
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game changer for especially in the next couple of months or so.
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Anyways, Opti, what's your take on this?
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And then we'll hear from Aladdin.
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Yeah, so I mean, look, Bitcoin is demonetizing gold in real
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time and we've been saying this is bitcoiners that this would
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happen, I don't know, for years now.
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And now we actually have the data to back that up.
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And just the amount of inflows going into these ETFs is
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absolutely insane. Boomers love Bitcoin shouts out
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to all the boomers out there that want some Bitcoin exposure.
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As Briggs said in the chat, you know Wall Street wants them sick
21:15
games and when you really look at the playing field, you look
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at bitcoins gains in Fiat terms versus what the the safe and the
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non risky gains are of traditional financial world.
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And it's almost like a no brainer.
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You know, we had James lavish on last week and he was going
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through that math of if you only had a 3% allocation to Bitcoin,
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you wouldn't have that much more volatility in your portfolio and
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then that 3% gains the last decade or or whatever the math
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was would outperform the rest of your portfolio.
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So it's it's literally becoming a no brainer to add Bitcoin to
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your portfolio. Obviously we think that holding
21:55
Bitcoin directly holding spot Bitcoin directly custom your
21:59
Bitcoin is the revolution. But I understand why people who
22:02
have money in the traditional financial system would just want
22:05
some exposure to Bitcoin and I think that that it's kind of
22:09
like a gateway drug to self custom your Bitcoin.
22:12
You realize that Bitcoin is is the one driving the markets now
22:17
and you probably want to hold some Bitcoin directly.
22:19
But I think this is just part of the part of the process, you
22:22
know, and this is just the beginning.
22:24
I I, as from the conversations I've had, a lot of asset
22:28
managers haven't even fully dipped their toes in the
22:30
Bitcoin. This information is, excuse me,
22:33
this information still spreading throughout the markets and
22:36
throughout the, you know, the peer-to-peer network of
22:38
institutional managers. And so I think Q2 and Q3 we are
22:43
going to see a lot more inflows coming into Bitcoin because
22:46
people finally are waking up to the idea that Bitcoin is a
22:50
legitimate asset to be holding. And we're going to see some big
22:53
names come out soon enough that they are finally holding some
22:56
Bitcoin and and that FOMO is going to, you know, go
23:01
exponential as the price starts going up.
23:03
But the very most interesting aspect of this, I think is the
23:07
amount of institutional demand coming to Bitcoin and the fact
23:10
that the Bitcoin price is kind of like it feels like the price
23:14
is still being suppressed even though we are at all time highs
23:17
before the halving. So it just goes to show, man, I
23:20
think it's going to get crazy at the end of the year and we're
23:24
all here for it. I was even having this
23:25
conversation on Thursday. It's like, I don't think any of
23:28
us are bullish enough into what Bitcoin is actually going to do.
23:31
Yes, we have these bullish predictions at like, oh, in a
23:34
decade, you know, Bitcoin's gonna be, you know, $10 million
23:37
or whatever. But hey, it might get there a
23:39
lot quicker. This, this may not be.
23:42
I've been seeing the meme of like, Bitcoin power laws.
23:44
Like, I think we are still in the S curve adoption of Bitcoin.
23:48
And it's just the beginning. And I I don't think we
23:51
understand exponentials enough to really be bullish enough on
23:55
where this, this thing is going. So, you know, keep stacking,
23:58
keep taking Bitcoin into custody.
24:00
This is the way. 100 percent, 100% Anyways, before I pass it
24:03
on to Aladdin, we did get a super chat.
24:05
Opti appreciate young kings for the Super chat on the $5.
24:08
You said what? What are your thoughts on only
24:11
Bitcoiners versus pro micro strategy?
24:13
Bitcoiners. Why are some bitcoiners mad for
24:16
buying micro strategy? I don't get it.
24:18
Hashtag Best Bitcoin Show. I mean I appreciate you young
24:21
kings and I mean look, simply, it's in the fucking name
24:26
brother. We're simply Bitcoin.
24:28
So you know, we advocate for buying Bitcoin, mining Bitcoin,
24:32
earning Bitcoin and taking that Bitcoin into self custody.
24:34
However, some people, you know, they they want to get exposure
24:38
to Bitcoin in different ways. So one of the ways that you can
24:41
get exposure to Bitcoin without directly buying spot Bitcoin is
24:47
buying micro strategy or buying some of the mining stocks.
24:50
And what tends to happen if you buy some of those stocks is
24:52
think about it like as like a kind of like a levered play on
24:55
Bitcoin. So the volatility might be a
24:57
little bit higher, but it's not 100% sure, it's not 100%
25:01
certain. So what do I mean by that?
25:03
So if Bitcoin goes up, like 2030%, MicroStrategy stock might
25:07
go up and might outpace that. So in a way, in Satoshi terms,
25:12
if you buy some of these stocks, you might be quote UN quote
25:15
outperforming Bitcoin, but that's not something that we
25:18
could quote, UN quote, endorse on simply Bitcoin.
25:21
You know, we're simply just buy Bitcoin, earn Bitcoin, dollar
25:24
cost average, put end to cold storage, you know, for a rainy
25:28
day. But just to answer your
25:30
question, so I think what you're seeing is the purists kind of
25:33
butting heads with people that are trying to, you know, I don't
25:36
want to say beat the market, but beat the market kind of.
25:38
Right. And and just to add on that, I
25:40
mean like look if you have money outside of the system, obviously
25:44
buy Bitcoin directly. But if you have money wrapped up
25:47
in 4 O1, KS or whatever within the traditional financial
25:50
system, then you know like buying some stock and micro
25:54
strategy is like a leverage Bitcoin play.
25:56
So you're getting a lot of exposure into the Bitcoin market
26:00
and you know, I, I we're simply Bitcoin, I would say just hold
26:03
Bitcoin. But hey, if you have money you
26:05
want to play around in the stock market, it's already in there.
26:07
You might as well get some Rico strategy exposure because it's
26:11
ripping. It's absolutely ripping.
26:12
It's crazy. I love that.
26:15
All right, Aladdin. What's your take on this,
26:16
brother? Yeah, I mean on that last point,
26:19
I think part of it might be a little bit of like the the Elon
26:22
Musk or or Bezos or Jobs where we get so bullish on Sailor.
26:28
He's just so incredible. He's such an incredible speaker,
26:31
just incredibly intelligent guy and a lot of people could be
26:35
just betting on that. I know like the when Tesla went
26:37
crazy, majority of people were betting on Tesla not necessarily
26:41
because it had any of the numbers to make it makes sense
26:44
to jump into Tesla like they did.
26:45
They were following Elon Musk. So I do think that that was or
26:49
is a good portion of why people are jumping on master like that
26:52
as well. But on the the ETFs, I mean, I
26:56
the office complex, I just left. It was nothing but financial
26:59
advisors. And these people knew nothing
27:02
about Bitcoin. They were not interested in
27:03
Bitcoin. I had a a luncheon with all of
27:07
them before I left, and they were still completely on the
27:10
fence. I brought up the fact that we
27:11
got the ETFs. They're still incredibly worried
27:14
about it. We've barely touched the ice on
27:18
being able to start getting people into Bitcoin.
27:20
And I don't think most people honestly understand that there
27:24
is an ETF. I've got good friends that, and
27:27
they've got their Fiat mining jobs and they don't know much
27:30
about Bitcoin. They're stacking for their 401
27:32
KS for their future, and I asked them about the Bitcoin ETFs, if
27:35
that's what they're going to be doing.
27:37
I'm hoping that they would somehow start to get into
27:39
Bitcoin and the majority of them are like, what's an ETF?
27:43
So I think there's a lot of education that still needs to be
27:47
put out there for people to understand and yeah, self
27:50
custody is should be the only way.
27:51
But I do think just from my poll, some of the people and my
27:55
friends and family that are are not technical, they are already
27:59
incredibly afraid of Bitcoin. The ATF will hopefully at least
28:03
be a catalyst to get them started and then maybe they'll
28:06
pick a book, maybe they'll read in to why we self custody and
28:09
why it's so important. So I it's it's stepping stages,
28:12
but I've been in Bitcoin eight years and I've never seen
28:14
anything like this. Everyone, we all have our own
28:18
predictions on where things will go and and how things are going
28:21
to react. For the halving before the
28:23
halving, after the halving, this was completely out of the out of
28:27
the lines for me. I I was not bullish enough.
28:29
So I'm really excited at where we're at right now and where we
28:33
go. It's totally up in the air at
28:35
the moment and the air seems like we've got a lot of room to
28:38
climb. So I'm just really excited to be
28:40
a part of this right now. 100% this is a wild ride and love
28:44
that it seems like we're the of the same class Aladdin.
28:47
So you know it's it's been a, it's been a it's been a long and
28:51
tumultuous journey. Lots of ups and downs.
28:54
But yeah, it really seems like this is completely uncharted
28:58
territory in Bitcoin's history, therefore world history as well,
29:02
right. So anyways guys, before we move
29:04
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So we we, you know, we talk a lot about CBD CS we we do.
31:45
But the reason we do that is because not only do we want to,
31:48
you know, pay attention to what they're doing and the way that
31:51
they're doing is kind of like insidious in a way because and
31:54
like Europe is like full tyrannical.
31:56
Like, guys, we're going to shove CBDC down your throat.
32:00
There's absolutely nothing you could do about it, you know, You
32:03
know, but I hate my ex-boyfriend Opti, and you guys are just
32:06
going to have to deal with it. Message from Christine Lagarde.
32:09
Right. But here in the US, they're a
32:11
little bit more insidious about it.
32:13
They're not as straight up. So they're telling you, oh, you
32:15
know, we're not launching ACBDC. But at from, if you pay
32:19
attention to their actions, they are kind of focused on launching
32:23
ACBDC. And if you take a look at it
32:25
from a political point, right, it's already entered into the
32:29
kind of mainstream political rhetoric.
32:32
You have the Republican candidate for president, Donald
32:35
Trump, promising that if he were to get elected, he would stop
32:38
the CDC. In Florida you have Ron
32:40
DeSantis, who is also the governor who is also the
32:43
Republican candidate, basically saying like, look, if you were
32:46
to elect me, I would stop the CBDC.
32:48
They passed a law in Florida that would make a CBDC illegal
32:51
without congressional approval and I think a bunch of other
32:54
states followed suit. And then also this is a
32:56
bipartisan thing on the independent Democratic side, you
32:59
had RFK Junior saying something very similar and shout out to
33:02
Vivek, who is the person who told Trump about the CBDC.
33:06
So anyways, why am I talking about this?
33:08
I ran into this post over the weekend and I think it's it's a
33:12
warning. It's a warning of what happens
33:14
when you aren't in complete control of your money.
33:18
You're you're relying on someone else, like you're relying on
33:21
someone else for your well-being, You're relying on
33:23
someone else and they have a tremendous amount of power over
33:25
you, right. So this is like a great example.
33:28
And I, I, I want you guys to connect the dots of what what
33:31
happened with the Canadian Truckers, right.
33:33
You know, the Canadian Truckers protest happened whether you,
33:36
you know, and they, they were just freezing people's accounts
33:39
because of, you know, their political beliefs because of a
33:41
protest, right. With Bitcoin, that can't happen.
33:44
That doesn't happen. That's why it's so important.
33:47
And this is more obvious if you live in a totalitarian
33:50
government, if you live in a totalitarian country or you live
33:52
in a country that has high inflation.
33:54
Because if you live in a country that has high inflation, usually
33:56
what happens is the government tries to install some type of
33:59
capital controls, right? So Bitcoin is important because
34:02
it gives you back your financial sovereignty.
34:04
I can't emphasize that enough. The world would be a much better
34:08
place and I would say a much peaceful place.
34:10
If everyone was just holding their own wealth, I think it
34:12
would be, it would completely change the conversation.
34:15
I think the relationship between the individual and the state
34:17
would completely change. Anyways.
34:19
So here's the post it came from. Shane 73 said hi NAB and a NAB
34:23
is a bank in Canada I might add. I received a surprising letter
34:27
today. It says you guys are going to
34:28
close my account in 45 days effectively de banking me.
34:32
The only reason stated was it was quote in line with section
34:36
143 of the banking code. I looked up the stated code,
34:39
stated banking code here all the section 143 says if you have the
34:44
right to close my account. Like what the fuck Nothing more.
34:47
Can you please tell me why my bank account is being closed by
34:50
you in 45 days? You have given me no reason as
34:54
to why you're closing them. This is rather concerning
34:56
considering I have been a customer and account holder with
34:59
NAB for over 30 years. All the transactions on my
35:02
business account are to suppliers, slash business
35:05
services and from customers. Nothing fishy, just a standard
35:09
small business. Same with my personal account.
35:11
Subscription to KO Sports. Odd UFC Fight Ice cream for the
35:15
kids on the weekend take away here or there.
35:18
Surely nothing to be concerned about.
35:20
I have never been charged by the police for anything.
35:22
I can't see any reason why you would be closing my account.
35:26
Is it because I occasionally buy a little bit of Bitcoin?
35:29
100% That's the reason. I can't think of another reason.
35:33
Looking forward to your response and the way you can only be
35:36
contacted via e-mail with no phone or branch support for this
35:39
matter is corporate cowardice. Absolute gutless.
35:42
I mean, what I gotta say about this is just simple, like don't
35:45
put yourself in this position. Like, don't put yourself in this
35:49
situation where this could happen to you.
35:53
Migrate to a Bitcoin standard and then take that Bitcoin into
35:57
self custody. And then there isn't anyone to
35:59
quote, UN quote, close your account for whatever fucking
36:02
reason they determine right. Section 103 of the banking code.
36:05
What does that even mean? Right.
36:07
So yeah, This is why self custody is so important.
36:09
This is why taking back your financial sovereignty with
36:12
Bitcoin is so important, and nothing else gives you that.
36:16
And what is the other option, The other option, and it's
36:19
moving full steam ahead. Are the CBDC's right?
36:23
I always say Bitcoin or slavery. A lot of people are saying,
36:26
Nico, you're being hyperbolic. I don't think so at all.
36:29
Like I said in the beginning, Europe is being completely
36:32
transparent with what their goals are, what they're trying
36:35
to do. But here in the US, the
36:37
political situation is a little bit different and they're able
36:40
to off you skate what their end goals are.
36:42
But if you take a look at the information, if you take a look,
36:45
if you tune into simply Bitcoin, we layout the facts for you.
36:48
We showed you guys this on Friday of last week.
36:51
Here's the GOP Majority Whip. And he says if you don't think
36:54
the Fed is pursuing A CBDC, think again.
36:56
The Fed gave this to my staff during a presentation earlier
36:59
this Congress. They view ACBDC as one of their
37:03
key duties. Right.
37:04
So this is key duties of the Fed payment system, currency, a
37:07
check collection, automatic clearing house, wholesale
37:10
payments, fiscal agent of the US government, Fed now and at the
37:13
very bottom, central bank, digital currency.
37:16
So make no mistake, it's coming full steam ahead.
37:18
And here is Brian Morkinson and he is the head of public policy
37:23
at Riot Platforms. Riot, of course, is one of the
37:25
largest publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies, and he had
37:30
something to say about Elizabeth Warren.
37:31
Let's check it out. Definitely.
37:34
Her goal with the Anti Money Laundering Act is to kill
37:39
Bitcoin businesses so that the only option left will be the
37:43
CBDC. Just like she was in favor of
37:47
only the public option for health insurance, no private
37:51
health insurance companies, she's in favor of only the
37:54
public option for money. No alternatives, no compliments
37:57
or supplements to the to to the dollar.
38:00
So you heard it. You heard it here straight.
38:01
But it's really interesting because why aren't these
38:04
politicians straight up about it?
38:06
Like, why aren't they just like, you know what?
38:08
It's just because, like, we don't want competition.
38:10
We we want Fiat. No, no, no.
38:12
Because they can't run on that. Like if someone is aware, it's
38:15
like and again, it doesn't matter if you're on the
38:17
Democratic side of the Republican side, Bitcoin helps
38:20
all sides equal. I would say Bitcoin is the most
38:22
inclusive, equitable money the world has ever seen.
38:24
It's the great unifier. It's going to bring everyone
38:27
together. That's really my view.
38:28
So this idea that you have an anti Bitcoin stance regardless
38:32
of your political ideology, your philosophy, what you're telling
38:36
me is that you're anti human and that you actually want your
38:39
constituents to be forced to use the money that steals from them
38:42
and that disproportionately affects the lower middle classes
38:45
the most, right. So shame on Elizabeth Warren.
38:48
And again OPTI, I mean I can't say we can't say we told you so,
38:52
but we did tell you. So this is something that we've
38:54
been saying on simply Bitcoin for a long time.
38:56
But of course, if you know, it's if it's a if it's an executive
38:59
from a public company that's saying it, you know, I mean,
39:02
look, we gave them the benefit of the doubt for the longest
39:05
time. But yeah, and we found a couple
39:07
smoking guns. But it's so obvious that
39:10
Elizabeth Warren's end goal is to kill Bitcoin, even though she
39:13
doesn't admit it. She she, like, she's under the
39:15
guise of like, guys, this is for your safety.
39:17
This is for your security, you know, this is to stop money
39:20
laundering. Why she can't, Why can't she
39:22
just come out and say, like, I just don't like Bitcoin?
39:25
I want dollars, right? Like it's such bullshit anyways.
39:28
A lot. And what's your take on this,
39:30
the CBDC stuff, you know, this Elizabeth Warren kind of law
39:33
fair stuff. And you know, again, dude,
39:35
you're in a very similar position to us where, you know,
39:38
it's not only are we do we have our savings or part of our
39:41
savings in Bitcoin, but we also our business, our livelihood
39:44
depends on Bitcoin. And if something like this bill
39:47
would pass in the US, it would be very detrimental to people
39:50
like you and I. Yeah, no, that's that's why I I
39:54
originally call my handle the Bitcoin life raft.
39:57
I honestly feel like if they're able to come in and and really
40:02
hold us back to an extreme point, then I mean, there's not
40:06
a whole lot left out there. When I got friends, they ask me,
40:08
well, what are you going to do if Bitcoin fails?
40:10
Well, dude, if Bitcoin fails, we're a bunch of communist
40:13
socialists. Like, we we have no chance.
40:15
So I'm I'm all in on Bitcoin 100% bullish that this is our
40:20
chance. Elizabeth Warren, I don't want
40:23
to get you banned, so I'll I'll be as careful as I can on that
40:26
one. We're literally living through
40:28
idiocracy like this is. This is the movie from the 90s
40:32
that just showed how stupid the world can be.
40:35
Not to put anyone down, but like, how in the hell is she
40:39
even in office? How is Biden in office?
40:40
How are any of these people in office?
40:42
It's really easy to watch 3 minutes of these people talking
40:46
and they're mad. They're they're absolutely brain
40:49
dead crazy. I'm just blown away that we're
40:52
where we're at today, period with these people.
40:54
But honestly it's been happening like this for a very long time.
40:57
Go back quite a ways and see these politicians talk and how
41:01
they get in there and why people vote for them.
41:03
Just I have no idea. Now on the CBDC, that's some
41:07
some scary shit. I've been following this since
41:11
2017. I've done hundreds and hundreds
41:14
of hours of research from all different angles and yeah, I've
41:19
got some. I'm, I'm pretty red pilled on
41:21
this one so I'll keep a lot of my thoughts on it.
41:25
Probably quiet, because I do think that this is one of the
41:29
most dangerous things, if not the most dangerous thing to
41:31
humankind right now is the CBDC. If they're able to pass it.
41:35
There's more things than I think most people are even thinking
41:37
about, if they're able to get this to go through.
41:39
And if you if we're in a really shitty spot as people in the US
41:45
or wherever we're at, they're going to be able to push this a
41:48
lot easier than we think. Because if you have the choice
41:52
of I lost my job, the economy shit and I don't know what to do
41:55
and I have to feed my family and they come out with the CBDC and
41:59
they're offering the majority of people like free money, hey take
42:02
this free money and we'll take care of you and you can feed
42:05
your family, you can pay your bills and that's that's the
42:08
socialist the horrible fear that is, is in me that this is what's
42:15
coming just because most people are going to take the the open
42:19
hand. We have to go out there and
42:21
teach people what it means to accept this.
42:23
It's biblical in many ways. So yeah, it's it's scary times.
42:28
The best thing we can do is just talk to as many people as
42:30
possible and then hopefully wake them up and let them talk to
42:33
their friends and family so that they know this is not just the
42:36
way to get free money from the government.
42:38
Because that's how the government's going to fold it.
42:39
They're going to wrap it in some cake.
42:41
They're going to throw some frosting on top and make you
42:43
think that now you get this free money that's coming in every
42:46
month and you can go out and buy a new car.
42:48
And honestly, with the idiocracy that we're in, I'm, I'm not
42:54
super confident that if we all wake people up that they're not
42:58
gonna just take this with open hands.
42:59
So I really think we just need to be as open to everyone as we
43:04
can and just explain to them very clearly this is some scary
43:07
shit and do your research. 100%, I 100% agree with you, man.
43:11
And it's like it's narrative trench warfare.
43:13
It's really, it's an information war.
43:15
It's really about winning over the hearts and minds of
43:17
individuals and really waking up to that reality because I think
43:20
you hit the nail on the head. But, you know, with your
43:22
Idiocracy comment, I think if people really knew what was
43:26
going on, you know, they would, they would act a different way,
43:31
they would vote a certain way, right?
43:33
They would think a little bit differently.
43:34
But I think it's just a matter of, I think a lot of people just
43:38
don't really care about, about really understanding what's
43:43
going on, about really kind of doing their own research.
43:46
You know, they're very happy relying on, you know, the legacy
43:49
media and you know, quote, UN quote official news sources, you
43:54
know, for their information. So I 100% agree.
43:58
But this is where and I really want to tie in the trading cards
44:00
into this because it it's another element of this
44:03
information war aspect. Yeah, OK, you know, Opti and I,
44:06
we focus on the video aspect. You know, we do a podcast,
44:09
right? But you know, you have a in real
44:12
life, a physical Bitcoin meme, NFT.
44:18
It's actually in meet space and in a way like you were telling
44:22
me about, you know, your your experience yesterday and how you
44:26
were just handing these out. That's kind of like a big deal,
44:29
right? It's it's it's you know, in in a
44:31
way it's it's what it's what you said it it's it's it's it's a
44:34
really great way of orange peeling people in real life and
44:38
that's how we win, right. We get a, you know, a certain
44:41
amount of people in the US that are Bitcoiners and then they
44:44
can't pass anti Bitcoin legislation.
44:46
It'll be. It would be very similar to what
44:48
happens with the gun laws, right?
44:49
Where it's like try passing gun law in the US, It's impossible
44:52
just because of the amount of people in the country holding
44:55
guns, right? So hopefully Bitcoin gets to
44:57
that place a lot faster, sooner rather than later.
45:00
Anyways, Aladdin, what's your take?
45:02
Yeah, no, You have to find a way to disarm people first and then
45:08
get them interested enough to take the time to to look into a
45:11
subject. Me and Brandon and you just had
45:13
Brandon Gentilly on here last week.
45:15
We call the Bitcoin trading cards.
45:17
Just the it's the easy orange pill or the easy red pill.
45:20
These topics and subjects you bring up to people, whether it's
45:23
friends and family or last night I was hanging out with my wife.
45:26
We were out having a drink for Saint Patty's Day and we were
45:30
talking to just anybody and everybody.
45:32
And I was throwing some packs of trading cards around.
45:35
And before you know it, we're having conversations about the
45:37
CBDC, about the government, about Bitcoin, all kinds of
45:42
things. And not a single person.
45:43
There was a Bitcoiner. But if I opened up these
45:46
conversations without the trading cards, could it work?
45:48
Yeah, potentially. We could still have a good
45:50
conversation. But with the trading cards, it
45:52
just automatically disarms people and they're ripping a
45:55
pack open and you have one little flash card that gives you
45:58
some basics on the CBDC. Imagine handing someone just a
46:02
little piece of paper that is basics on CBDC.
46:05
They're probably going to look at you like you're crazy and
46:08
you're an evangelist passing these things out.
46:10
But with the trading cards like most people have had, either
46:13
Pokémon or football or trading cards have been around for so
46:17
long. So this is just the really
46:19
simple way to get them to have fun, disarm them, and then boom,
46:23
they're literally walking around with a flash card that tells
46:25
them about CBD CS. So I I really think there are
46:28
ways to be able to breakthrough people's cognitive dissidents,
46:32
but we can't come at them and and slap them across the face.
46:35
We've got to come at them and and give them something fun and
46:37
then it will slap them across the face.
46:39
It's just not you doing it. It's the the waking up of all
46:43
the propaganda they've had throughout their life and you
46:45
just got to get them started, give them something. 100 percent
46:48
100%, yes. The separation of money in
46:50
state, ladies and gentlemen. Hopefully it won't be as violent
46:53
as the separation of church and state, but it's I think it's a
46:57
different type of warfare. It's information warfare, right?
47:00
Make no mistake, that's exactly what we're living through these
47:02
days. So memes, content trading cards,
47:07
you know, Breitbart had the best quote right, which is politics
47:10
is downstream from culture, right?
47:11
You have to win over the culture in the way that you do.
47:13
That is, by winning the hearts and minds of individuals you
47:17
know orange, peeling them in whichever way you see possible.
47:21
Anyways, Opti, what's your take on this before we get on to the
47:23
culture? Yeah, I just want to touch on
47:25
the CBC aspect of this bit. Why'd you do that with
47:28
Christine, bro? Like she like Europe is Europe
47:31
is a lost cause. Like Europe.
47:33
Like, she they they don't even hide it there anymore.
47:35
They're like, we're gonna shove this shit down your fucking
47:38
throat. And I'm telling you, it's
47:40
because Christine Lagarde is. She hates her ex-boyfriend
47:44
Optimus Fields. Yeah, all the Europeans.
47:46
You guys can hit my DMS and blame me.
47:49
No, seriously. Seriously though, you asked a
47:52
rhetorical question and I'm blanking on what the question
47:54
was. But my answer to the question
47:56
you just asked a minute ago is we know that governments and and
48:02
their friends do not like to compete on the free market and
48:06
now there's an actual currency money competition right now that
48:10
is known as Bitcoin. And you can see in real time
48:13
that Bitcoin and bitcoiners and all the developers and the
48:17
miners, we are just out competing them on the free
48:20
market and they're freaking out about this.
48:22
And hence why they do their FUD campaigns that try to gaslight
48:26
people and scaring them away from Bitcoin.
48:29
And hence why what Aladdin's doing is such a powerful thing
48:32
is because we are in an information war right now.
48:35
The the World War Three is an information war right now.
48:38
And we are the frontline soldiers.
48:39
We understand what's actually going on.
48:41
And it's at this point of the show and I always like to remind
48:45
people that we're basically already in a CBDC system.
48:48
Everything's already digital. The only thing about a CBDC that
48:51
is absolutely terrifying is the like surgical precision that
48:54
they will, they will be able to control the monetary network.
48:58
But, but you know when you really look back into it, you
49:01
know, with with all the the stable coins out there, like
49:04
Circle being one of them, pretty much intertwined with the legacy
49:08
financial world and everything you see in the digital dollar
49:12
Right now we're pretty much already in a CBDC system.
49:14
And I know a lot of times people are saying we were being
49:17
hyperbolic when we would say Bitcoin or slavery.
49:19
But like there is no other option.
49:21
That's why Christine Lagarde was saying that we will not let them
49:24
go to the escape hatch that is Bitcoin.
49:26
This is why we're seeing the attacks on Bitcoin.
49:30
This is why we're seeing the gas lighting towards Bitcoin and
49:33
fighting of Bitcoin constantly from the corporate press is
49:35
because they know what we know, that it is Bitcoin or bus, that
49:39
there is no other solution. And if you want to protect
49:42
yourself and not be on the wrong side of the, I was going to say
49:48
potential. But the the next financial
49:49
crisis that is probably on the horizon, you need to have some
49:53
Bitcoin and you need to diversify your systemic rights.
49:56
You need to get outside of the traditional financial world
49:59
because we know that it's 11th grade math as Faso Faso he says,
50:03
like they either have to raise interest rates or they have to
50:05
print money. There is no other solution that
50:08
they have right now. And so if you don't not want to
50:11
partake in that system, if you do not want to partake in the
50:13
lies, if you don't trust government, if you don't trust
50:16
banks, then there's literally only one solution and it is
50:20
Bitcoin. It is super simple slight simply
50:23
Bitcoin. You need to stack that, stay
50:25
humble take your Bitcoin into custody.
50:27
There's literally, you know, I I forget who said it but one of
50:31
our friends basically said like if there was another solution
50:33
here, if we could fix this situation without talking about
50:37
Bitcoin, bitcoiners would be on top of that.
50:39
But This is why we're bitcoiners, because this is the
50:42
only solution we can see and it's the only way out.
50:45
And if you have these fears, if you are concerned about the
50:49
where the world's going, then you should be holding some
50:53
Bitcoin. And it's pretty much like that,
50:55
cut and dry. You need to hold some Bitcoin if
50:57
you have concerns of what's going on in the legacy financial
51:00
system. 100%, Amen to that. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
51:03
let's get to the culture to talk more BTC trading cards.
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All right, let's go. Well, we do have Aladdin, the
52:01
founder of BTC trading cards. So I got your website up here.
52:05
We can go through it, but like we were having the conversation
52:08
before, we're going to get into everything that you guys are
52:10
going to drop. But I think a best, a good place
52:12
to start is what I was telling you.
52:14
Like I had no idea that trading cards was such a huge market.
52:19
And I think this is just like a testament to how well you guys
52:23
are doing. So maybe give the audience out
52:25
there just the the context of how big trading cards actually
52:29
is and then we can go into all the things you've been working
52:31
on. Yeah, it's a lot larger than I
52:35
ever imagined, but I mean a lot of it has picked up since 2020.
52:38
So with the with trading cards being around 150 years, like any
52:43
market, they've had their ups and downs.
52:45
I mean, Pogs were really cool for a while when I was hitting
52:48
and they disappeared, which is a bummer 'cause I love my Pogs.
52:51
But trading cards is something that has never gone away.
52:55
It's definitely had its peak moments, 80s and 90s were off
52:59
the hook and then it kind of fizzled out a little bit.
53:02
But when the Covids showed back up or showed up for the first
53:06
time, I guess at that point people stuck in their homes.
53:09
They didn't have a whole lot to do.
53:10
And then trading cards started training a little bit.
53:12
People started getting into them.
53:14
But before you know it, we went from, I think it was around a
53:17
$28 billion market cap within three years.
53:21
We popped up into, I think right now we're around a $69 billion
53:24
market cap and it's just getting ready to pump from here.
53:28
Very similar to the timing of Bitcoin, which is kind of
53:31
strange but cool for us at the same time.
53:34
I had to do a lot of research over the years leading up to
53:38
this because I mean, as much as I collected trading cards in the
53:41
way of, I love the artwork, It was mainly Marvel cards.
53:45
I grew up in the country so I didn't really have access to
53:47
stores. I was far away from any city, so
53:50
it was friends and family that throw me a card here and there.
53:53
Really. Just my buddies whose parents, a
53:55
dad, had cards stacked under the bed that we would go and dig
53:58
through when I was a kid. But I've learned so much just on
54:02
the industry over the last couple of years, and the biggest
54:05
thing to put out there is like, yeah, the market caps
54:06
incredible. But I think of what a lot of
54:10
people don't understand and where I can kind of get into why
54:13
I think these trading cards are going to be so effective for
54:17
people is the scarcity. So Pokémon, as far as we can
54:21
tell, we went through Reddit, we went everywhere.
54:23
Most of these big trading card companies, they will not be
54:27
transparent and you can't really find the numbers.
54:29
If they run a small run, then they'll put the numbers out.
54:32
But anything other than that, they just don't put their
54:34
numbers out. Why?
54:36
Because Pokémon, on average, a small year might be upwards of
54:40
around a billion packs produced in one year throughout their
54:43
different sets worldwide. And then on a really good year,
54:46
Pokémon has printed up to 5 to 6 billion packs in one year.
54:52
It's insane. And I don't think people
54:54
understand that what they're buying and saying I'm I'm
54:57
collecting this and I collect Pokémon cards while you're
55:00
you're collecting paper because if there are billions of packs
55:03
being produced, then I think you just throwing your money away at
55:07
that point. So with the scarcity of what
55:09
we're producing, like the Nikko card, there's only 500 of those,
55:12
500 of those that will ever exist.
55:15
And that's one of my favorite cards.
55:17
Nico, you you pulled that off really, really well.
55:20
I mean I I didn't I didn't do anything you got and shout out
55:23
to you guys for you know for for doing this this is this is crazy
55:27
I I when I saw it first I was just like mind blown you know
55:32
the the the way that who's doing your art man it's so bad ass
55:36
it's so cool. So if you see on the side there,
55:39
we put the artists names and the artist that did your card is
55:43
Nico Gutierrez and he's out of Argentina, amazing guy.
55:47
And he had the originally when we first started talking about
55:51
two years ago he was helping me out and he's come a long way.
55:55
I'm getting orange pilled and red pilled and just an
55:57
incredible guy and we just got done talking about the new
56:00
election in Argentina the other day.
56:02
And I mean it's it's making big impacts on the artists I'm
56:05
working with, the people they're collecting, but it's kind of an
56:08
all around win. We've been dealing with these.
56:10
So Nico, your artist that did your card was Nico.
56:13
Man, Nico Nico Nico's man. Absolutely love it.
56:16
It's badass. And the tone vase one was
56:18
badass. The Natalie one, The whole
56:20
unconfiscatable collection actually have some physical
56:23
NFTS. I'm gonna go get them.
56:27
All right. All right.
56:28
Aladdin, let's, let's talk about your latest partnership.
56:32
This is huge that you you just were telling us about.
56:35
I've been hearing it from Brandon as well.
56:37
You guys partner with Fanatics. So maybe tell the people what
56:40
Fanatics is and then what the partnership entails.
56:44
Absolutely. Fanatics is.
56:46
Oh damn, you got the is is that the poker table?
56:49
Oh, the scammy awards. All right, to see just how rare
56:54
you hit it. And we got Austin Noah.
56:55
And I don't know if you guys know, but Austin Noah is our art
56:58
director here at Bitcoin Trading Cards.
57:00
We're so blessed. The guy's insane.
57:03
Sanely talented. So yeah, the Fanatics.
57:06
For anyone that doesn't know what Fanatics is, these guys
57:08
have basically come out and taken over the the IP of just
57:13
about any sports memorabilia in the entire world, from pro
57:18
wrestling to soccer to golf. MB, AM, LB, Like these guys are
57:23
it and they went above and beyond just doing the
57:27
collectibles and apparel throughout all these different
57:30
sports franchises. They actually started purchasing
57:33
the trading card companies. So they purchased tops and I
57:36
believe they got Panini and they're working on a bunch more.
57:41
They do sports betting, online sports betting, but then they do
57:46
trading card breaking. And for those of you that don't
57:48
know what breaking is, it's basically where you get someone
57:50
on screen that'll rip a a box of trading cards open.
57:53
And it's just a really fun way for people that maybe can't
57:57
afford a box of these trading cards and they want to see the
57:59
chase and they can interact in that chase.
58:02
So for us, we didn't never imagine that we'd be like having
58:05
companies like this reach out to us, but I think they're
58:08
obviously with the bull market picking up and just Bitcoin
58:11
picking up, period. There's a lot of companies that
58:14
are going to want to get involved in Bitcoin and maybe
58:16
they're not putting it on their balance sheet, but in other ways
58:20
they're going to be starting to just try and pick up inside the
58:23
hype and maybe that will help get it on their balance sheet.
58:26
But Fanatics reached out and wanted to get us on Fanatics
58:30
Live. This has been going about 8-6 to
58:33
8 months now and this is where we'll be able to have our own
58:36
show kind of look what you guys are doing.
58:38
But with the trading cards and potential to reach millions of
58:42
people that are, are really not bitcoiners.
58:45
These are just trading card collectors.
58:47
And with the market cap of trading cards being as big as it
58:50
is, I mean, there's what? Is the market cap of trading
58:52
cards. Right now, I think it's around
58:55
$69 billion. That's fucking crazy, dude.
58:58
Yeah, yeah, it's it's massive. Absolutely massive and and
59:02
here's the thing Nico, most of these people it's it's so
59:04
similar like I I pick up so many similarities to trading cards
59:08
and the Fiat system we're in. The majority of all these
59:12
trading card products out there are just like Fiat that you
59:15
print it will. So one of the reasons why these
59:17
companies will not tell you how many cards they produce is
59:20
because they'll come out with a new set, they kick that new set
59:23
out. They don't know if it's going to
59:24
sell really well or not. So if they tell you we've
59:27
printed this many packs of trading cards or there's this
59:29
many of this card or that card, then they don't have the ability
59:32
to print more like the Federal Reserve.
59:35
So they'll come out and kick a new set out with some new theme.
59:39
And if that theme goes really well and they sell really where
59:41
then they're just going to go and print more of these.
59:44
So the trading card collectors in the in the world, I'm not
59:47
sure many of them understand what scarcity is.
59:51
So with these trading cards that we have, the first thing that
59:54
they're going to Start learning is it's going to slap them
59:56
across the face if they're collectors of trading cards at
59:59
all originally. And that is what is scarcity
1:00:01
like, We come out and we have the scarcest packs in the world.
1:00:05
So our flagship series is Orange Pill in a pack.
1:00:08
We do this once a year. There's 21,000 packs.
1:00:11
Well, the flagship series of Pokémon or or TOPS or Panini or
1:00:15
any of these guys is literally in the millions, 10s of millions
1:00:18
or even hundreds of millions. And then here we are with 21,000
1:00:21
packs. And this is something that
1:00:24
collectors, I mean it really hasn't been done on the space
1:00:26
before like this. So the first thing again they're
1:00:29
going to learn is scarcity. And to me, with all the orange
1:00:32
peeling I've been doing for for many years now, talking to
1:00:36
anybody that'll give me the the time of day is they need to
1:00:38
understand scarcity. If they don't at least
1:00:41
understand scarcity, they're not going to understand anything
1:00:43
about the Federal Reserve, anything about Bitcoin.
1:00:46
So you got to get them some little starting off points.
1:00:49
And that's the cool thing about these trading cards without them
1:00:52
ever even reading the pack, just understanding what we print,
1:00:55
they're immediately going to start to learn about scarcity.
1:00:57
And I think once people start waking up to that, we've got
1:01:00
major potential for these cards to really start reaching out
1:01:03
there. The problem is, there's a
1:01:04
scarce, so we can only reach so far, at least where we're at
1:01:08
right now. Amazing, amazing distribution.
1:01:12
And then Aladdin, let's just talk about what, what do you
1:01:14
have down coming down the pipeline?
1:01:16
I know you kind of touched on some of it, what you were
1:01:17
telling me, but what can people keep looking out for from
1:01:22
Bitcoin trading cards? So right now, again just being
1:01:26
as as scarce as we do this, when we do a commemorative pack,
1:01:30
that's usually for a conference that's happening.
1:01:33
So we can commemorate that conference and you can have
1:01:35
something to bring home to the kids and be able to just
1:01:38
celebrate that day and kind of time stamp the the getting to
1:01:42
hang with bitcoiners and just enjoying the conference.
1:01:44
So we only do 2121 packs of that particular conference like the
1:01:49
unconference Scatable with you and there Nico, literally 2121
1:01:54
packs and there will never be another pack of those ever
1:01:57
created. So well we got big block boom
1:02:00
coming up and we've got some bit block boom conference packs
1:02:03
coming out, same number, but these are going to be incredibly
1:02:07
special. So in the nostalgia and in
1:02:11
knowing Gary really well, he's quite the boomer.
1:02:14
So we theme these boomers and Bitcoin and we've got some
1:02:17
incredible boomers in the pack and we went above and beyond to
1:02:21
kind of put that boomer, boomer ethos in there.
1:02:24
So each of these trading cards are actually printed on old
1:02:28
school retro card stock so that the ink and the paper and
1:02:32
everything is literally going to smell and feel and look like you
1:02:37
just pulled a card out of the 1970s.
1:02:39
So these were really, really cool.
1:02:41
And some of the boomers we have in the packs is just really
1:02:44
special. And then the biggest one that I
1:02:47
think we've ever done in the way of how incredible this is going
1:02:52
to be is we're coming out with the having edition whale packs
1:02:55
and we reached out to 21 different Bitcoin artists in the
1:02:59
space. Many that you guys will know and
1:03:02
we all came together and collaborated to make this having
1:03:05
edition pack that we will literally only do once every
1:03:08
four years and there is 3121 packs and literally you won't
1:03:14
see these for another four years after this.
1:03:16
So again the scarcity is incredible.
1:03:19
The collaborations we're able to do for anyone that that hasn't
1:03:22
seen these cards yet, I mean, you guys can think about taking
1:03:24
the whole Bitcoin bubble of what we're in as a community,
1:03:31
Bitcoin, Twitter, everything that we're doing and encapsulate
1:03:35
that in a pack of trading cards. So it is we are creating pop
1:03:37
culture as we speak right now with Bitcoin we're we're
1:03:42
creating the the biggest movement in world history.
1:03:44
So these trading cards is that it's just encapsulating our our
1:03:49
whole world together and these trading cards and making it
1:03:53
really fun to be able to look back on for Bitcoin bitcoiners
1:03:56
and making it really simple to learn about why we are so
1:04:00
bullish and why we love the space and and get along so well
1:04:03
together for people that are not in Bitcoin.
1:04:06
Love it someone. Actually, a few people keep
1:04:08
asking on up with the same one, but do they get a piece of
1:04:11
bubble gum with their packs of Bitcoin trading cards?
1:04:14
So check this out. I've obviously I've reached out
1:04:18
multiple times to try to get bubble gum in the pack and I did
1:04:21
a bunch of research on that one because I couldn't figure out
1:04:23
why I couldn't get it. I can eventually maybe go
1:04:27
through China and have them printed in China.
1:04:29
I don't really want to do that. But that would be my only way
1:04:32
because the FDA in the United States literally said you can no
1:04:35
longer put bubble gum in the past, which is insane and just
1:04:39
shows how how much dictatorship they have over us.
1:04:44
And the fact that we can't even put bubble gum in a pack of
1:04:46
trading cards, which is ridiculous.
1:04:48
I I did fit something else in there.
1:04:50
So we have what they call a sticker map.
1:04:53
So there's a sticker in every single pack of these bit block
1:04:56
boom trading cards and if you collect all nine stickers then
1:04:59
it puts together a map. And I thought that was something
1:05:02
really cool to kind of fit in because we couldn't do the
1:05:04
bubble gum. And it's it's super old school
1:05:06
and that's what these packs are supposed to represent.
1:05:09
I think they'll work really well for boomers because when they
1:05:11
open them, they're gonna, it's literally gonna be like pulling
1:05:13
a pack from the 70s, so. Hell yeah.
1:05:16
Grandparents. Mom, Dad, this is These are the
1:05:19
packs to hit him up with. Guys, check out btc-tc.com to
1:05:26
check out the website. And again, Aladdin said it.
1:05:28
These are scarce. So that means that you wanna get
1:05:32
yours while supplies last. And I've seen some some run
1:05:36
pretty expensive. You know some of these
1:05:38
individual cards, right? So.
1:05:40
Yeah, can we talk about that the the like black market of these
1:05:44
Bitcoin trading cards is crazy or the over the not the over the
1:05:47
counter. What was the 2nd the secondary
1:05:49
market? It's oh nuts, I saw.
1:05:52
Nico on eBay for $500 and I took a screenshot and I sent that to
1:05:55
my parents. Love it?
1:05:59
Well just wait till we start hitting comic cons and and and
1:06:03
we cause like we're we're not. This was created to have fun
1:06:05
with bitcoiners, but this was really created again to to get
1:06:08
people outside of the Bitcoin space.
1:06:10
And if a if a Pokémon card with the rarity of a A1 in 10,000, A
1:06:15
one in 100,000 has any value whatsoever to it, then Aniko out
1:06:20
of 500 should be massively valuable.
1:06:23
But I mean, I think the coolest thing about putting you guys in
1:06:26
the packs is like, what are we celebrating with all these other
1:06:31
people that go into the trading cards when it comes to sports?
1:06:34
I mean, yeah, they're they're really good at sports and some
1:06:35
of these guys have done some amazing things outside of it,
1:06:38
which is great. But the trading cards don't talk
1:06:39
on that. And what the bitcoiners are
1:06:41
doing is really something to be held in, in high esteem.
1:06:45
You guys should be. We got celebrated for that.
1:06:48
Now Bitcoin does teach you to kill your heroes.
1:06:50
So we don't have any hero cards. And we don't, we don't say
1:06:53
anything about heroes because that's one of the things we hope
1:06:55
these trading cards teach is kill your heroes.
1:06:58
But you should also celebrate people that are doing incredible
1:07:02
things for the world. The people we're celebrating
1:07:05
right now on TikTok and and Instagram and all the social
1:07:08
media is absolutely a joke. It's just insanely stupid.
1:07:11
I mean we're going right back to Idiocracy.
1:07:15
So it we're we're trying to bring the celebration back to
1:07:19
the people that are actually doing positive things for the
1:07:22
world. And I think like the value of
1:07:25
that down the road with the success that we have ahead of us
1:07:29
with Bitcoin, these are going to be incredibly fun.
1:07:32
And I think one of the last points I want to talk on is we
1:07:35
got NF TS out there and and mean coins and shit coins galore and
1:07:40
all this crap. I I talk to people every single
1:07:43
day about Bitcoin and almost every single one of them asks me
1:07:46
about these stupid coins, the the the NFTS and all this crap.
1:07:50
They're so interested in it because the the companies that
1:07:53
are putting these out with all their stupid Jpegs and all these
1:07:56
really weird apes and all this crap, people if they don't know
1:08:00
anything about Bitcoin get really excited about that.
1:08:02
They hear number go up, it looks fun, it's a cartoon, it it
1:08:05
appeals to them in one way or another.
1:08:07
So that's what they're kind of driving towards and we've got to
1:08:11
breakthrough that somehow and it's going to be really hard to
1:08:14
breakthrough that and and handing them a fat book or
1:08:18
giving them too much information too quick.
1:08:21
So I mean people can call these physical NFTS, they can call
1:08:24
them whatever they want really. It's the Trojan horse, and we
1:08:27
have to create something like this to be able to appeal to the
1:08:30
masses, to start to learn about Bitcoin, to start to learn about
1:08:33
freedom. The the important things, these
1:08:36
cards, every card has the artwork on the front, but the
1:08:38
education is on back and that education is that Trojan horse.
1:08:42
You give them something to get them excited, but then if they
1:08:45
read any one of the trading cards that we've created,
1:08:48
there's a chance they're going to learn something and we just
1:08:51
have to start appealing in ways that that attracts them.
1:08:56
And there's a lot of things that we try to do as bitcoiners that
1:08:58
doesn't necessarily do that. The normies are completely
1:09:04
manipulated and brainwashed really, really hard, and it's
1:09:08
going to take a massive Trojan horse to be able to pull them
1:09:11
out of that. Amen.
1:09:12
Amen 100. Percent.
1:09:15
I completely agree guys. Check out Opti.
1:09:18
Could you pull it up the thing again?
1:09:19
There we go guys. Check out btc-tc.com Check out
1:09:23
BTC trading cards. They're absolutely awesome.
1:09:26
So many additions and looking forward to the Boomer edition.
1:09:30
That's going to be absolutely epic.
1:09:33
Opt in are going to be able to see those in person at A at
1:09:35
Bitlock Boom. And I'm asking Aladdin right now
1:09:38
on air. Aladdin, will you join us on the
1:09:40
news desk at Bitlock Boom so we can show some of these cards?
1:09:43
Absolutely. I mean, you've got my media guy
1:09:46
helping you out, so he told me he'd sneak me in.
1:09:50
He was. He was.
1:09:51
He was our media guy before he joined you, so.
1:09:54
I've had him for a year. No, no, no.
1:09:56
You guys swipe, and then I swipe him back.
1:09:59
Murphy is an Absolute Legends absolute.
1:10:02
He's my token Canadian guys. Murphy's an absolute pro and
1:10:08
legends and you know, we appreciate him for his his
1:10:11
talent, and he's really, really good at what he does anyways.
1:10:14
We started Studio BTC, yeah, and.
1:10:17
Let's talk about that. Let's talk about that.
1:10:19
What is that? What is?
1:10:19
What is Studio BTC? So with Murphy, he came on about
1:10:23
a year ago, year and a half ago as a volunteer and the guy is
1:10:27
just like you guys know, he's absolutely incredible.
1:10:30
So as we started building, one of the biggest things we started
1:10:34
kind of breaking into and thoughts and ideas is being an
1:10:38
entertainment company for Bitcoin.
1:10:40
I mean all of us, we are the, the marketing team for Bitcoin,
1:10:44
any one of us, everyone in the chat, I mean everyone is
1:10:47
involved because we are Bitcoin's open source.
1:10:50
So it's up to us, and creating Studio BTC was a way for us to
1:10:54
be able to leverage the incredible talent that we're
1:10:56
bringing on to Bitcoin trading cards and get out there and
1:10:59
start doing some really fun things in media.
1:11:02
The 32nd TikTok videos and all that crap that I know nothing
1:11:05
about. These are the things that we
1:11:08
need to do in order to again start approaching the maths
1:11:11
masses and getting them involved.
1:11:12
So Studio BTC is just a really good way for our team to
1:11:16
leverage amazing talents throughout the space and take
1:11:19
those talents, hone it in, come up with some amazing work that
1:11:24
we're able to put out. And then we're able to help
1:11:26
companies like Unico with simply Bitcoin and far and wide to be
1:11:31
able to put some incredible stuff together and and bring a
1:11:33
little bit of this. That what I like to call the
1:11:35
artistic magic across the board. To any Bitcoin company out there
1:11:39
that might need some help a. 100 percent, 100%, I love it.
1:11:43
And you guys are you guys are going to do great with Murphy.
1:11:45
That's some some some really awesome firepower there from the
1:11:50
media side. So anyways, ladies and
1:11:52
gentlemen, thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of
1:11:55
Simply Bitcoin Live. I'm your host Nico.
1:11:57
This is my awesome Co host Optimus Fields and I want to
1:11:59
give a very special shout out to our awesome guest today.
1:12:02
Aladdin, the founder of BTC Trading Card.
1:12:05
Thank you so much for joining us man all.
1:12:06
Right. Thank you for having me,
1:12:07
brother. Anytime.
1:12:09
Love it. Appreciate.
1:12:10
Appreciate you, bro, and see you in Texas very, very soon.
1:12:13
Sounds great. Hell yeah.
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