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BREAKING: Donald Trump Officially on Team Bitcoin | EP 987 · Simply Bitcoin

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  It's. All going to zero against
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  Bitcoin. It's going up forever.
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  You're against Bitcoin. You're against freedom.
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  Yeah. Welcome to another episode of
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  Simply Bitcoin Live. We're the number one source for
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  the peaceful Bitcoin revolution code breaking news called
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  traumatic warfare. We will be your guide through
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  the separation of money and state.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Simply Bitcoin.
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  Rumble, Annex. Sit back.
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  Relax. Enjoy the ride.
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  We have a lot to talk about today.
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  It's one of those episodes where yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna go
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  there because you know what? No one is saying The choir part
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  out loud and the reality is this.
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  OK there's AUS election coming up.
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  All the candidates are not exactly great.
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  I would say they all they're not amazing but there's a big
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  there's there's big difference between you know one and then
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  the other two which are FK Junior and and Trump and and
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  Biden. Right.
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  And I want you guys to really understand what is the ultimate
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  end goal. The ultimate end goal here is
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  the separation of money and state.
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  That being said I'm a single issue voter.
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  I I I don't really care about the Fiat politics.
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  I think the Fiat politics are a symptom of broken money.
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  I think if we fix the money we do separate money from state.
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  I really do believe in the theory from the sovereign
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  individual. I think it makes politics
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  irrelevant over the long run. That being said, we are still in
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  a transitionary period, so unfortunately politicians can
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  make your life a living hell if you live in a certain
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  jurisdiction. And what we have seen from the
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  current administration over the last two years, whether it's
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  Operation Shook .2 point O. Whether it's the proposed 30%
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  mining tax, whether it's, you know, locking up Bitcoin,
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  privacy developers, hashtag, free samurai, whatever it oh,
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  advocating for central bank digital currencies.
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  It is an undeniable fact from a regulatory perspective, purely
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  that the current administration is not friendly towards Bitcoin.
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  They don't like it. They want a monopoly.
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  They want a central bank digital currency monopoly.
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  They've made that clear as day so I'm approaching it from that
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  angle And the other candidates that have a shot at winning,
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  which is RFK Junior and Donald Trump have both taken a now it's
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  official have both taken an anti central bank digital currency
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  stance and Trump last night we're going to play you guys.
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  The video has taking has taken a pro Bitcoin stance, pro crypto,
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  put Bitcoin in there 'cause I don't think they really know the
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  difference between the two RFK and Trump.
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  So we have gotten to a point in bitcoins history where Bitcoin
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  is entering into the political landscape, it's entering into
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  the political sphere. This was always an
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  inevitability. This is a separation of money
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  and state ultimately comes down to power.
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  There's a bureaucratic elite that have this very special
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  privilege of having the God like power of being able to create
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  money for free that everyone else has to work for.
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  Did you really think that they were just going to hand over the
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  keys and say you have found better money, we're just going
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  to pack it up and go home? Absolutely not.
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  They're going to pull, they're going to take out all the tools
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  that they have and they're going to try to stifle innovation.
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  They're going to try to stop this.
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  And this is exactly what's been happening now.
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  Politicians need to get elected, right?
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  So, you know, they, they like to tell their constituents and they
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  like to tell people things that would get them elected.
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  And Trump or RFK would not be saying these things if they
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  didn't believe that there was a base of people that supported
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  the industry that liked Bitcoin. Therefore, because if not, they
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  wouldn't be saying it right. You know, no one is better than
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  their incentives fundamentally. So we have reached that part
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  where we unfortunately, it's a very uncomfortable conversation.
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  I would say it's slightly outside of the Overton window,
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  the acceptable window of discourse to talk about very
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  divisive figures, one of them being Donald Trump, RFK Junior,
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  not so much. And guys like we have to face
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  that reality. We have to face that reality
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  that unfortunately here in the US there's three choices, one
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  being very negative from a regulatory standpoint and the
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  other two being very positive from a regulatory standpoint.
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  I'm not the only one that is picking up this trend.
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  It's becoming incredibly obvious.
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  However, I will say that I was one of the first to say the
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  choir part out loud, which was. And the reason that I had a
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  feeling that, you know, I I was like holding in that tweet for
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  like months. And I was going back and me and
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  Opti were going literally back and forth saying like, dude,
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  like, I can't release this tweet.
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  Like it's outside the Overton window.
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  And then the samurai wallet thing happened.
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  When the samurai wallet thing happened, I I took the gloves
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  off and I said, you know what? If they're locking us in a box,
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  it's time to just say the choir part out loud, which is the
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  current administration is anti Bitcoin and pro central bank
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  digital currency, and the candidates that the current
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  administration is up against in the next election are pro
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  Bitcoin and anti central bank digital currency.
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  As a bitcoiner whose goal is the separation of money and state
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  like which of the three, which which option is is best suited
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  in order for you to achieve your goal, right?
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  It's, it's incredibly obvious, but because this is such a
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  divisive environment, because it's such a, you know,
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  politically heated, very divided country at the moment, I think
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  people are getting lost in the Fiat politics sense.
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  I ask you not to do that. I ask you to pay attention to
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  the end goal. The end goal is the separation
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  of money in state and the end goal is fix the money, fix the
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  world. I truly believe Bitcoin is the
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  great unifier. It's going to bring people
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  together, but the last thing you want to happen is a hostile
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  regulatory environment which is incentivizing Bitcoin companies
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  to pack up and move overseas. That is already happening at a
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  record pace, Wasabi Phoenix Wallet, Wallet of Satoshi.
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  Like, you can literally put the you can go down the list and you
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  can point out so many Bitcoin companies that have just chosen
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  just to like, you know, what? the United States of America,
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  out of all countries on the face of the planet is now way too
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  hostile for me to develop my Bitcoin business here.
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  Like, no, no, you know, it's, it's crazy.
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  So what's the choice? The choice is.
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  And I know a lot of people in the chat are saying, like, our
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  votes don't matter, votes don't count, like, blah, blah, blah.
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  Look, reality is this, elections have consequences.
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  That's number one. #2 is you might not care about politics,
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  but it surely does care about you.
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  That's the reality. So unless you want to, unless
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  you have the means and the willpower to literally pack up
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  and move to another location, which you could always do, you
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  can vote with your feet. Unfortunately it is what it is
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  and you you kind of have to see it because if we're heading into
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  a territory and we've been covering this for the last
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  couple weeks where they're demonizing and they're planting
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  the seeds to I think eventually criminalize self custody, shut
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  off the on ramps. And if you think that that is
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  totally crazy or hyperbolic they've done this in the past
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  with the six one O 2 order. You know they literally made it
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  illegal for American citizens to own gold.
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  Like if you think that like a wounded animal trapped into a
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  corner, the state isn't capable of doing things to ensure it's
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  self preservation, you're absolutely naive and you haven't
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  been paying attention to what's been happening the last five
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  years, right? So wake the F up, you know, take
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  your emotional stuff and put it aside and focus on our end goal
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  here. And our end goal here is the
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  separation of money and state. One candidate is hostile towards
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  it. Two candidates are pro Bitcoin,
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  which furthers our 'cause. I can give a flying F about all
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  the other policies because it's just Fiat garbage, like it's
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  meant to divide and conquer. That's like, I really believe
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  that, right? So anyways, it's going to be a
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  spicy episode, so no more delay. I do want to bring up my
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  legendary guy who is already giggling and laughing, 'cause he
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  knows. He knows.
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  He sees the writing on the wall and he's like, oh God damn God.
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  This is gonna be a great show. This is gonna be a great show.
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  I'm excited for this. When the chat's going wild.
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  Right now, this might be the most active chat we have we've
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  had in a while. So you know, this is a great
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  topic. But before, before I go into it,
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  I'm not even gonna give my take on what what Trump said and all
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  that. But first and foremost, I think
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  everyone knows my initial fundamental stance is I don't
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  trust politicians. I know that politicians always
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  say things to try to get favor from the populace, but hey,
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  there is a very defining trend that we're seeing right now.
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  One side is anti Bitcoin pro CBDC and the other side is anti
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  CBDC pro Bitcoin. So I'm not a one issue voter per
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  se, but hey, if you are endorsing Bitcoin, I I'm
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  starting to like you more. I'm not going to lie, you know,
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  I was trolling, trolling my mom and and my brother and sister
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  last night and basically saying like I'm I'm pro Trump now, like
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  I'm a trumper because he's pro Bitcoin.
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  Like let's go. But I think the real signal
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  here, and I think the real defining motion here is, is what
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  you said. Nico, is that Trump's a
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  businessman and he sees the landscape, he's reading the room
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  and he realizes that there is a lot of businesses that are
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  coming out of Bitcoin. And hey, if you want to improve
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  your country, you don't hold on, hold on.
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  Hold on. No, no, no.
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  I'm gonna stop you right there. Dude.
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  I don't even know what the Trump is.
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  Hey, I don't. Know what to.
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  Expect. But.
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  But, but, but like like, let's take it to 1st.
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  Let's let's take it to the fundamental basics.
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  Bro 'cause I don't want to advocate for a candidate like,
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  oh Trump, is this RFK? Is that Biden?
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  Is this No, no, no, no. I don't even want to go there.
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  I'm just going to say this one hates Bitcoin.
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  The other two are pro Bitcoin and anti CBDC.
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  It's Bitcoin or slavery, Bitcoin or central bank digital
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  currencies. There's two options, right?
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  There's two guys that are pro Bitcoin, anti CBDC meaning anti
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  slavery. And then there's one guy that's
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  anti Bitcoin. So I mean anti freedom and pro
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  slavery which is central bank digital currency.
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  That's it. I'm not going to get into the
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  whole rabbit hole of discussing Trump is this RFK is that I
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  don't give a flying FII just don't care because my mind is on
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  the goal, which is the separation of money and state.
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  My goal is fix the money, fix the world.
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  And I believe that if we get another four years of the
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  current administration, I would not be surprised.
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  I'm going on record saying this, that they literally make a self
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  custody Bitcoin illegal or they tried to shut off the on ramps
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  altogether. I would not be surprised at all.
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  All right. Opti, I'm sorry to interrupt
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  you. Yeah, I won't let you finish,
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  Nico. Sheesh, let me finish.
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  No, all I'm saying is it is in the benefit of the US to
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  incentivize businesses to stay in Bitcoin and incentivize
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  entrepreneurs to come into Bitcoin.
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  That's that's where I was going with Nico.
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  But yeah, man, hey, it's the meme.
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  We say it all the time, Bitcoin or slavery.
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  It's becoming very clear, at least on paper and in rhetoric,
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  who's who. So I agree with you Nico.
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  Like, I mean like guys. And I know there's going to be a
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  lot of people because it's such an emotional thing.
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  And I understand and I empathize with you, but you have to look
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  at it from a purely objective like fact.
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  And that's what we're going to lay out for you guys today.
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  We're going to literally compare and contrast the two.
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  We've covered RKRFK tremendously and we'll let you guys decide
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  like it is an objective fact. You cannot deny it at this
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  point. Has nothing to do with right or
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  left, has nothing to do with conservative or liberal right.
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  RF, KS, Dope 2. From the Bitcoin regulatory
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  standpoint, I don't really care about the policies and that all
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  that other stuff right. Anyways, so I do want Josh,
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  Josh, unfortunately you have you've had to join us on one of
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  the most spicy episodes that I think we'll do.
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  But I think it's also a very necessary episode that we have
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  to do. So Josh, we saw each other at
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  the Bitcoin having party in El Salvador.
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  It was great to meet you and you have some awesome projects that
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  you're working on which I think are incredibly important.
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  I think, you know, guys, we have to look at this, the separation
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  of money and state as a combined effort of individuals and we all
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  have a role to play, right? So Josh, can you give a quick
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  elevator pitch on what you're working on these days?
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  Yeah. Hey.
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  Hey, thanks. Thanks for having me guys.
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  And yeah, it was good to, good to meet you in El Salvador, Nico
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  and Opti. I was looking for you in El
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  Salvador, but I guess you were busy chasing this El Salvador.
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  So you know, you say you're always looking to get close to
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  the money printer, but I think you're getting closer to baby
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  maker on that one. But.
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  Hey, we got to make more babies, so I endorse this message.
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  I don't. But hey, you know what?
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  Props to you, man, because you don't make shots you don't take.
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  So good job, man. Definitely.
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  Let's go. Exactly.
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  Wayne Gretzky gets it. Yeah, 100.
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  Percent. So, so you you wanted to ask
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  what I'm what I'm working? On Yeah.
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  So what are you working on these days, Josh?
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  Sure, sure. So I am, I'm in real estate and
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  I have, I've been into it for the last 25 years.
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  And I guess I got to kind of pull back a little bit, give you
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  a little bit of back story. So 25 years ago, the thing to do
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  was when you started making money and acquiring some wealth,
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  you would buy a house, you know, beyond your primary residence
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  and that you would make it a rental and you'd put a tenant in
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  it. You'd get them paying the rent
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  and then you'd get that up and running and that money that the
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  tenant would pay would pay your mortgage.
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  And then once that's spinning OK, it's like spinning a plate.
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  And once you got that one plate spinning, then you'd go to the
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  next one and you'd buy another house and just pretty much
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  replicate the the, the sauce and just keep keep doing it over and
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  over and over again. And so that was what I was doing
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  for, for several years was just buying rental properties,
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  investment properties and just trying to get the tenants to pay
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  the mortgages. And then over 20 years, I found
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  that hey, guess what, they've pretty much paid the mortgage
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  off. And so that was the traditional
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  way to to garner wealth and I'm in my mid 40s.
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  So that was kind of the way our generation looked at it.
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  But then in the last 15 years, we had this magical Internet
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  money show up and and now it's Bitcoin.
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  And that's where I've been pursuing that over the last
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  seven years. And so now I'm actually kind of
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  flipping the script and I'm starting to sell off rental
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  houses to buy Bitcoin. Awesome and and I think that's
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  like an example of right we and I think Parker Lewis wrote and
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  not I think I know Parker Lewis wrote an incredible police said
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  it was released by Unchained Crawled the great define de
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  financialization. Essentially, he was making the
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  case that a lot of these assets, whether it's real estate, art or
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  whatever you can think of, have a monetary premium 'cause people
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  are trying to maintain their values or maintain their
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  purchasing power or actually increase their purchasing power
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  over time. But what happens when there's a
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  superior asset like Bitcoin? A lot of that is going to flow
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  from those assets into Bitcoin, right?
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  That's the theory. It's not only a theory now
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  because now we have like an example of of an individual
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  who's doing just that. So I'm excited to cover that in
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  you know on simply we we we we try to adopt the Bitcoin ethos
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  and the game theory aspect of Bitcoin.
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  So a lot of the things that I think are playing out today and
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  we try to take the logic from the sovereign individual, try to
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  apply it to where we are in a historical sense.
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  So there's a lot of things when you apply game theory and
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  can't predict, but you can anticipate like, OK, it was
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  obvious that a country was going to make Bitcoin legal tender.
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  It was obvious that eventually there was going to be an ETF.
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  Now it was obvious, But just because it's obvious doesn't
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  mean that you're going to believe it's going to happen
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  Now, one of the things that we predicted or speculated on was
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  back in back three months ago, we said, you know, is Donald
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  Trump on Team Bitcoin? Why did we say that?
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  Well, it was becoming incredibly obvious that the current
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  administration was taking a political stance on Bitcoin,
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  right? And Vivek, shut up Vivek
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  Ramaswamy, which did great in the Republican presidential
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  candidate candidate race. We know that he tapped on Donald
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  Trump and told them about central bank digital currencies
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  to the point that Trump actually mentioned this on the campaign
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  trail. I'll let you guys hear the
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  video. We I love him too.
• 22:53
  Now, I didn't love him when he was running, but I like him now.
• 22:56
  It's amazing the way you can like somebody when you win,
• 23:00
  right? But Vivek is great.
• 23:04
  He's really great. But he wanted this and I'll give
• 23:07
  him full credit for it is very important actually.
• 23:09
  I will never allow the creation of a central bank digital
• 23:13
  currency. OK, so first video right off the
• 23:18
  rip. Please pay attention to what we
• 23:24
  want. Separation of money and state,
• 23:25
  right? Fix the money, fix the world.
• 23:29
  Policies are relevant, right? Bitcoin, if you're a bitcoiner
• 23:33
  and you want the separation of money and state, you believe
• 23:36
  that Bitcoin will eventually make politics completely
• 23:39
  irrelevant, right? So the question is, how do we
• 23:42
  get from A-Z? All right, that's that's that's
• 23:44
  the question, right. So when he said this, I was
• 23:50
  like, OK, I think it's just a matter of months before he joins
• 23:54
  Team Bitcoin. But let's talk about the Overton
• 23:58
  window, because I think a lot of the reason, and I know take a
• 24:03
  shot, by the way, if you're in the audience, I know that's one
• 24:05
  of the jokes. One of the reasons that this is
• 24:08
  so unpopular, you can't even say this is because of how divisive
• 24:13
  Donald Trump is. And RFK Junior, not so much.
• 24:18
  But you can't say these types of things.
• 24:21
  At the risk of being other, at the risk of people interpreting
• 24:25
  what you're saying and saying you like Trump, I can no longer
• 24:28
  talk to you. And again, it's outside of the
• 24:34
  Overton window. But the moment where they put
• 24:37
  one of us in a box, the moment that they arrested a Bitcoin
• 24:40
  privacy developer, they have escalated Essentially what is
• 24:47
  what is happening right now. They've escalated the situation.
• 24:53
  So I thought it was incredibly important to mention this and
• 24:57
  you know, on on on Twitter, what tends to happen is a tweet only
• 25:02
  performs if it resonates with a lot of people.
• 25:08
  And back in April 25th, so not that long ago I said, all right,
• 25:12
  I'm going to say it because it was incredibly obvious at that
• 25:14
  point. No one is saying it, which I was
• 25:17
  very surprised in the Bitcoin community.
• 25:20
  Biden winning re election would be terrible for Bitcoin in the
• 25:24
  US and I'll make the case for why that is and I've been
• 25:27
  threading it with multiple examples of one from Pierre
• 25:32
  Richard, his words not mine. Biden's authoritarian attack on
• 25:35
  Bitcoin is anti competition. He wants a central bank digital
• 25:40
  currency and then when we'll get to during the news segment in
• 25:45
  regards to the current legislation, why I believe, you
• 25:50
  know, the administration has gone out of the way and say
• 25:52
  listen, even if this passes the House and the Senate, we're
• 25:56
  going to veto it. I believe it's a political
• 25:59
  stance. So let's go through some of the
• 26:03
  before I play you guys the, you know the the Trump video from
• 26:08
  from yesterday. I want to go through some of the
• 26:11
  things that Biden has done, the Biden administration
• 26:14
  specifically has done towards the industry.
• 26:18
  Obviously the most obvious one has been the 30% Bitcoin mining
• 26:25
  tax in the budget proposal for 2025.
• 26:29
  Keep in mind, Bitcoin miners are like toasters.
• 26:31
  They use electricity just like a washing machine, just like a
• 26:34
  video game. Why is there a 30% tax
• 26:37
  specifically on Bitcoin miners and not on everything else?
• 26:42
  Well, obviously it's because they want to kill the industry
• 26:44
  in the United States right there.
• 26:45
  It's a political move, not so much a you know, for whatever,
• 26:51
  you know, whatever the other reason is.
• 26:53
  Now Nick Carter wrote this incredible piece which we
• 26:55
  covered when it came out. Wow, it's almost been more than
• 26:58
  a year now. That's crazy.
• 27:00
  And we were talking about it. Operation Choke .2 Point O and
• 27:04
  Nick Carter did an incredible point, incredible job laying out
• 27:08
  all the different things that they have done over the last
• 27:12
  couple of weeks. So I'll start off with the top,
• 27:15
  it says what began as a trickle is now a flow. the US government
• 27:19
  is using the banking sector to organize a sophisticated,
• 27:22
  widespread crackdown against the crypto industry.
• 27:25
  And the administration's efforts are no secret.
• 27:28
  They're they expressed plainly in memos, regulatory guidance,
• 27:31
  and blog posts. However, the breadth of this
• 27:34
  plan spanning virtually every financial regulator as well as
• 27:37
  its highly coordinated nature as even the most steely eyed crypto
• 27:41
  veterans nervous that the crypto businesses might end up
• 27:44
  completely unbanked, stable coins may be stranded and unable
• 27:48
  to manage flows in and out of crypto, and exchanges might be
• 27:51
  shut off from the banking system entirely.
• 27:54
  And it goes through a bunch of different things.
• 27:57
  So on December 6th, Senator Elizabeth Warren, John Kennedy
• 28:00
  and Roger Marshall send a letter to crypto friendly bank
• 28:03
  Silvergate scolding them for providing services to FTX and
• 28:07
  Almeida Research and lambasting them for failing to report
• 28:09
  suspicious activities associated with those clients.
• 28:12
  Signature Analysis is intent to have deposits described to
• 28:16
  crypto clients. In other words, they'll give
• 28:18
  customers their money back, then shut down their accounts.
• 28:21
  Goes on to say the Fed, the FDIC and the OCC released a joint
• 28:25
  statement on the risks of banks engaging with crypto.
• 28:28
  Not explicitly banning banks ability to hold crypto or deal
• 28:32
  with crypto clients, but to strongly discourage them from
• 28:35
  doing so on a safety and sound basis.
• 28:40
  Metropolitan Commercial Bank announces a total shutdown of
• 28:43
  crypto assets related vertical Silvergate stock falls to a low
• 28:47
  of 11.55 on a bank. RUM and insolvents of years have
• 28:50
  traded as high has $160. Binance announces that due to
• 28:54
  policy at Signature Bank that they will only process user Fiat
• 28:58
  transactions. More than 10,000 Fast forward.
• 29:00
  A year later, Roger Ver was arrested in Spain for not paying
• 29:06
  his exit taxes. CZ was sentenced.
• 29:10
  The richest man in the world sentenced to four men, four
• 29:13
  months in prison. Arthur Hayes was also charged.
• 29:16
  The founder of Bitmex, right? And keep in mind you would say,
• 29:19
  wow, these are all shit coiners, Nico.
• 29:22
  They deserve absolutely no mercy.
• 29:24
  The problem is that now they're coming after us when they lock
• 29:27
  Bitcoin privacy developers in jail.
• 29:29
  And I also want to remind everyone that no banker went to
• 29:32
  jail in 2008 and I would make the argument that they did a lot
• 29:37
  more damage to society than any of these altcoin shit coin
• 29:41
  casinos right? Like 2008 was very destructive.
• 29:48
  And the fact that no banker went to jail tells you that it's they
• 29:52
  play by a different set of rules, the different, the cartel
• 29:56
  functions differently, and they actually want you to know that.
• 29:59
  Also, not to mention the public's, the quote, UN quote
• 30:02
  public service announcement that came out from the FBI of all
• 30:05
  people, literally kind of. It's kind of like a veiled
• 30:08
  threat in a way. But they, you know, in this
• 30:11
  public service announcement, they say avoid using services
• 30:14
  that advertise themselves for legal purposes, right.
• 30:16
  You can make a good argument for that.
• 30:18
  Be cautious when using cryptocurrency services known to
• 30:21
  be used by criminals to launder their funds.
• 30:23
  I mean like you could say like Sparrow wallet, you know, It
• 30:29
  says beware financial services that do not ask for KYC
• 30:32
  information including name, date of birth, address and an ID.
• 30:36
  Understand that just because an app can be found in an App Store
• 30:39
  does not necessarily mean it is a legal service and is complying
• 30:42
  with federal requirements. Like you can see how like that
• 30:46
  is a very slippery slope, right? Oh, Electrum wallet was used for
• 30:51
  illicit means and it didn't ask for KYC and date of birth.
• 30:56
  And also we didn't give it a a stamp of approval.
• 30:59
  And just because it was an App Store, like, you know, Sparrow
• 31:02
  Wallet, yeah, you guys have to pack up shop.
• 31:05
  Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core, you know, like you can see where they're
• 31:08
  going. It's obvious like the they're
• 31:11
  coming after self custody, right.
• 31:14
  So I do want to play the the video from yesterday.
• 31:20
  And we have to understand from the historical perspective that
• 31:25
  now a presidential election will determine the regulatory
• 31:29
  environment for the Bitcoin industry for the next four
• 31:32
  years. This isn't just me saying this,
• 31:36
  you know, observing this and pointing this out.
• 31:38
  Here you have the CEO and founder of River saying this is
• 31:42
  objectively true. And he's agreeing to my
• 31:45
  observation in terms of the current administration's
• 31:48
  hostility towards the space. And this is the point that I
• 31:52
  want to make to you guys before I play the video.
• 31:54
  But this is the reality and this is separation of money and
• 31:58
  state. And Bitcoin itself might be
• 32:00
  neutral, but the consequences of what a Bitcoin standard is, is
• 32:07
  going to have for the world are incredibly political in the
• 32:10
  sense that yes, it takes power away from central bankers and
• 32:14
  politicians and it gives it back to the people.
• 32:17
  Like that is literally a revolution of sort, right?
• 32:21
  Like this was always going to happen.
• 32:24
  So it's incredibly important for you guys to understand what is
• 32:27
  going on. Be aware, right.
• 32:30
  So this is what I said yesterday.
• 32:31
  I said Bitcoin is entering the political sphere.
• 32:34
  And the reason that politics is uncomfortable for most people is
• 32:37
  because it concerns power at the highest level where morality
• 32:41
  completely goes out the window. You might not care, but the
• 32:44
  regulatory, you might not care, but the regulatory environment
• 32:47
  in your country will have an impact on your life.
• 32:51
  And that is a fact. Like you can't deny that, like
• 32:54
  unless you want to keep moving and you have the means because
• 32:58
  you hear that a lot from bitcoiners and I'm one of them.
• 33:00
  But multiple passports, big fan, you know multiple jurisdiction
• 33:04
  jurisdictional arbitrage, Let's get the F out of here, move to
• 33:07
  Dubai, all all fine and dandy, but I would say most people
• 33:12
  don't have the means or have family ties in their
• 33:15
  jurisdiction that they're in. Right.
• 33:18
  So I'll play you guys the video. It's about 29 seconds long and
• 33:21
  here is basically, you know, a crypto shit coiner asking Trump
• 33:27
  you know, some questions. Let's let's check out what he
• 33:29
  has to say. Thank you for the statement.
• 33:30
  Yeah, with the goggles on. A lot of the smartest.
• 33:33
  People in crypto are moving their businesses out of the.
• 33:36
  US because they're scared of like EU s s regulations.
• 33:39
  Because of the hostility, correct?
• 33:40
  Yeah, crypto is moving out of the US because of hostility
• 33:43
  toward crypto. Correct.
• 33:44
  So what are you going to do is stop it.
• 33:45
  Well, we'll stop it. Because I don't want that.
• 33:47
  I don't want that. I want that.
• 33:49
  If we're going to embrace it, we have to let him be here.
• 33:52
  Yes, Sir. Morgan.
• 33:56
  So again, anti CBDC, right? You could not be a fan of how
• 34:01
  Trump says things. It's interesting, right?
• 34:04
  But he's taking a stance, right? He's basically saying like,
• 34:08
  look, and I know a lot of people were nitpicking and basically
• 34:10
  saying Nico, he said crypto and not Bitcoin.
• 34:13
  It's like bro, people don't even know what Bitcoin is and you
• 34:16
  expect a perfect candidate to come in there and be a a non
• 34:19
  Bitcoin hardcore Max. I mean a a non shit coiner
• 34:23
  hardcore Bitcoin maxi. Like I'll take what I can get
• 34:26
  type of thing right. Anyways, here's like another
• 34:30
  another vantage point of this thing, a little bit better of a
• 34:34
  video. Let's check it out.
• 34:35
  They are against it. The Biden Biden doesn't even
• 34:38
  know what it is. If you ask Biden, Sir, are you
• 34:41
  for or against crypto? What's that?
• 34:43
  What the heck? Get me off the stage, you say.
• 34:46
  Get me off the stage. He has no idea.
• 34:49
  But look against her is very much against it.
• 34:53
  The Democrats are very much against it.
• 34:55
  And I say this, a lot of people are very much for it.
• 34:58
  Probably a lot of the people in this group.
• 35:01
  And I'm fine with it. I want to make sure it's good
• 35:03
  and solid and everything else, but I'm good with it.
• 35:06
  And if you want, if you like crypto in any form, and it comes
• 35:09
  in a lot of different forms, if you're in favor of crypto, you
• 35:13
  better vote for Trump. They are against.
• 35:16
  Politician fundamentally at the end of the day but guys you know
• 35:20
  it is what it is. I'll leave you with this last
• 35:23
  comment from Nick Carter. It says haven't heard from the
• 35:26
  crypto is nonpartisan and quote we have no way of telling who is
• 35:32
  better crowd lately. And then he goes on to say today
• 35:36
  Orange Man directly endorses crypto.
• 35:39
  Joe Biden threatens to veto SAB 121 Overturn which we'll get to
• 35:44
  in the news and Dems close ranks around FDIC chair corrupt Marty.
• 35:49
  There's no ambiguity, ambiguity at all.
• 35:53
  If you are in any way connected to crypto and you vote Democrat,
• 35:57
  you're directly voting against your own interests.
• 36:01
  Like guys, I am sorry. Like I'm sorry.
• 36:06
  Like like it. It's just because like like one
• 36:11
  has taken 1 stance and the other guys have taken another stance.
• 36:15
  Now to give Troy Cross credit, and I believe this is incredibly
• 36:19
  important, Democrat voters are no more likely anti crypto than
• 36:24
  Republican voters completely agree the politicians are
• 36:28
  another matter. So that's something to keep in
• 36:31
  mind. And I completely agree with this
• 36:33
  because remember, it's not red versus blue.
• 36:36
  It's not liberal versus conservative.
• 36:39
  It is the party of orange, the party of Bitcoin, peace,
• 36:42
  prosperity, opportunity, equality, equity versus the
• 36:46
  part, the party of slavery, nihilism, war, poverty,
• 36:52
  nihilism, which is a party of central bank, digital currencies
• 36:56
  and Fiat. So it's not about Democrat
• 37:00
  versus Republican. And it's our job to get the
• 37:03
  message out there and say, hey guys, you know, I, I, I don't,
• 37:07
  you know, you can have, you're entitled to have your
• 37:10
  ideological beliefs and your political beliefs.
• 37:12
  I don't really care about them. But what I can tell you is that,
• 37:15
  look, you're using a broken money and it is having a
• 37:18
  negative impact on your life, right?
• 37:22
  Let's come together and fix the money.
• 37:24
  Which is why it's not only Trump, it's also RFK Junior who
• 37:30
  who is, is part of all of this as well, right.
• 37:34
  So, and that's what I'll say for you guys, right?
• 37:38
  You have two choices, three choices in front of you, right.
• 37:41
  You have one which is completely hostile towards the industry.
• 37:45
  I can't emphasize this enough. I've laid out the the facts for
• 37:48
  you guys, literally laid it out. And then you have the others.
• 37:53
  RFK literally gave a speech at literally gave a speech at the
• 37:56
  Bitcoin conference saying he'll protect your right as a
• 38:00
  bitcoiner to take self custody and he's anti CBDC, literally
• 38:05
  going in depth as to why CBDC's are horrible.
• 38:10
  And then you have Trump which is way more divisive which you
• 38:14
  heard it, I just played you guys the video anti CBDC and you know
• 38:20
  pro crypto and whatever, right. So you know it doesn't matter
• 38:25
  right? Either of them.
• 38:27
  But there's two choices right? And then there's the the, the,
• 38:34
  the, the bad choice, you know, So I, I, I hope I laid it out
• 38:38
  for you guys in a way where you can look at this objectively and
• 38:43
  see what's going on. I encourage you to do your own
• 38:46
  research. If you don't believe me, if you
• 38:48
  feel like I'm I'm being biased. We've tried.
• 38:52
  We've gone above and beyond on simply Bitcoin to remain as
• 38:56
  neutral as possible and be objective about this.
• 39:02
  But the moment they put one of us in a box, the moment they
• 39:06
  start going after self custody, the moment that you have
• 39:10
  multiple lightning wallets leaving the United States of
• 39:13
  America, which is supposed to be the land of opportunity and
• 39:16
  entrepreneurship, we have a problem and there are current.
• 39:22
  There are currently candidates that are literally saying we'll
• 39:25
  do the exact opposite of the people in power.
• 39:28
  So we have to say it, we have to say the choir part out loud.
• 39:33
  And unfortunately the choir part out loud is slightly outside of
• 39:38
  the Overton window. It's it's an uncomfortable
• 39:40
  conversation because of how divisive Donald Trump is as a
• 39:46
  figure, right. But you have to look at this
• 39:49
  objectively from our end goal, which is the separation of money
• 39:54
  and state. Because we believe that with the
• 39:57
  separation of money and state, you fix the money, you fix the
• 40:00
  world, and you make all of this political bullshit completely
• 40:04
  irrelevant, 100%. So I know guys, slightly
• 40:10
  uncomfortable conversation, but it is what it is and you cannot
• 40:15
  deny the data. It's right there, it's right up
• 40:18
  in your face. They're literally telling you
• 40:20
  they don't want you to hold the money that doesn't steal from
• 40:24
  you, and they're literally telling you.
• 40:27
  We want to retain the privilege of being able to create money
• 40:30
  for free that everyone else has to work for.
• 40:32
  Opti Yeah. Wait, Nico.
• 40:34
  Before we go on though, we did get a super chat, so.
• 40:39
  Jong, appreciate the $20 Man really helps the show.
• 40:42
  Thank you so much, Jong said. I voted for Biden.
• 40:45
  I've witnessed how this administration has been
• 40:47
  destroying freedoms bit by bit, as have the prior
• 40:51
  administrations before him. RFRFK, though imperfect,
• 40:55
  believes in freedom, transactional and speech vote
• 40:58
  best. Exactly.
• 40:59
  Boom. Right?
• 41:00
  It doesn't matter. Trump RFK, it literally doesn't
• 41:03
  matter, right? It's just like you just have to
• 41:05
  be aware and I want you guys to be aware if you vote right, that
• 41:10
  if you vote for Biden, you are literally voting against the
• 41:14
  Bitcoin regulatory environment in the United States.
• 41:17
  I can care less and I'm not going into go into all the
• 41:20
  political issues because this is not that type of show.
• 41:23
  This is a Bitcoin show anyways, Opti, What's your take on all
• 41:25
  this, brother? Yeah, so of course, first and
• 41:28
  foremost, I'm going to caveat everything with you guys know
• 41:31
  me. I do not trust politicians, at
• 41:34
  least this current brand of politicians.
• 41:36
  I think we can all agree that most politicians in in today's
• 41:41
  politics are either corrupt or they're just straight up you
• 41:45
  know don't know what they're they're they're idiots to get
• 41:48
  to. They're corrupt.
• 41:48
  So you know that's that's my caveat here and of course he is
• 41:52
  a politician so of course he's going to say what he think will
• 41:56
  win him votes. With all that being said I'm I
• 41:59
  think I'm just going to come out and say I like Trump just won
• 42:02
  the the 2024 election by embracing Bitcoin.
• 42:06
  I mean and everyone in the chat saying like oh he said crypto.
• 42:09
  He didn't say Bitcoin Guys, for most average people, when they
• 42:12
  say crypto, they're talking Bitcoin and everything else.
• 42:16
  So like you don't need a nitpick on the he said crypto or he
• 42:19
  didn't really actually say Bitcoin.
• 42:21
  We kind of know how the game works.
• 42:22
  If they say crypto, at least in the Norman population that
• 42:25
  usually means Bitcoin. And he even differentiated
• 42:28
  there. There's like a lot of different
• 42:29
  versions of crypto. And so like we, we don't need to
• 42:32
  nitpick on that whole idea of, oh, he didn't actually say
• 42:35
  Bitcoin, though. I think the point remains the
• 42:37
  same that we are seeing two sides of the coin here.
• 42:41
  There is one that is embracing CBDC's We've seen them attack
• 42:46
  Bitcoin, we've seen them attack Bitcoin businesses.
• 42:49
  And if they continue going down that route, we know that it's
• 42:54
  going to get worse for every single one of us.
• 42:56
  Unless you're going just full acceleration is mode here where
• 42:58
  it's like let's get Biden back in there, accelerate this fight
• 43:02
  and we're going to win anyways, which I I kind of totally agree.
• 43:07
  On the other side though, hey, I would love a president that at
• 43:11
  least doesn't attack us as bitcoiners.
• 43:14
  And so we say it all the time it's Bitcoin or slavery.
• 43:16
  It's CBD, CS versus Bitcoin. And right now if you're a
• 43:20
  bitcoiner and I know a lot of bitcoiners out there are one
• 43:23
  issue voters here. It's becoming a very easy choice
• 43:27
  here. It's like, yeah, you're voting
• 43:28
  for Trump. It is what it is guys.
• 43:31
  Unless a Democrat comes out and being like I'm going to, you
• 43:34
  know, not attack Bitcoin, then I think your your vote's already
• 43:38
  made-up for you and I really find it interesting.
• 43:41
  I gotta, I gotta, I gotta like, interrupt you right there, Opti,
• 43:44
  because it's not a monolith, right.
• 43:46
  So there are Democrats that are probably going right, and there
• 43:49
  are Republicans that are. Also, I do want to caveat that
• 43:53
  with, I think there is a very huge difference and Troy Cross
• 43:57
  said it very well. Like, I think there's a very
• 44:00
  huge difference between those in power, in in the official
• 44:03
  positions on the left and the right versus just the average
• 44:06
  everyday people. Like, I fundamentally believe
• 44:08
  that most people are probably indifferent to Bitcoin.
• 44:11
  They're just like, yeah, whatever.
• 44:12
  Like, I don't care about Internet nerd money.
• 44:14
  Like I I don't need it. They don't see the need or the
• 44:17
  use case or the problem that Bitcoin is solving.
• 44:21
  And that's why it's on us to go out there and have these
• 44:24
  conversations, hopefully wake people up and all that.
• 44:26
  So I totally agree that like it's not a monolith and we can't
• 44:30
  separate quote UN quote those in power versus just like the
• 44:33
  average voting population. Like I I totally agree with
• 44:36
  that. But it is very interesting to
• 44:40
  see this conversation play out. I mean, Nico, we were saying, I
• 44:43
  think we were kind of pushing this out to the 2028 election
• 44:47
  and being that bitcoins going to be a defining conversation in
• 44:50
  election soon, we were kind of thinking like oh, maybe not in
• 44:53
  2024, but it does seem like everything is is getting pushed
• 44:57
  up and it seems now that in 2024 there will be a huge
• 45:01
  conversation in regards to CBDC's versus Bitcoin.
• 45:05
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  whether I'm going to vote again but I absolutely love hearing
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  He's absolutely hilarious. Like whether you like him or not
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  he's up. I find it.
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  The most interesting aspect here is there is such a strong Trump
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  dude. Well, no, I'm just saying.
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  I'm just saying that no one, no, we're not going clearly here
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  we're. Not going there, we're.
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  Clearly on this topic, and you're gonna see a lot of.
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  People, we're not. We're not, we're not engaging.
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  We're not we're not going there, dude.
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  We're not going there. Look, I I respect everyone's
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  I completely acknowledge that. I understand it.
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  The current administration, their regulatory stance on
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  industry. That's it.
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  I I don't not going into the political slogans or any of
• 47:23
  that. That's not our job or the
• 47:24
  purpose of this show. Josh, I do want to hand it off
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  to you. I know we've been rambling for
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  quite a bit. What's your take on all this?
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  That over the last couple of months this issue of Bitcoin is
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  definitely becoming more of a point of friction.
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  And so I think that it is becoming more and more divisive
• 47:50
  and it is interesting to hear what what Trump had to say.
• 47:55
  Obviously you know me being neutral down the middle here.
• 47:58
  I do think you guys kind of overlooked something though
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  because I I believe Trump has been a bit corner for a long
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  time, right. Because you know, bitcoins,
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  orange, orange signal and Trump has orange hair, right.
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  So I mean I think there's a parallel there that we should
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  consider that he might have been giving us a subtle hints for a
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  long time. But you know, kidding aside, he,
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  he was pitching NF TS you know, years ago and selling his Trump
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  trading cards. So I think he's starting to come
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  around, you know, like a lot of us do.
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  It takes takes time to come around, but by supporting
• 48:35
  Bitcoin and the ecosystem, he's going to gain a big user base,
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  right? I mean there's a lot of people
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  in the Bitcoin industry, in the crypto industry that is going to
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  vote orange and they're going to be 11 issue voters and just like
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  pretty much probably, you know 90% of the people that are
• 48:58
  watching this are going to be a one issue voter.
• 49:01
  And so Trump is definitely he's he's doing the right thing to to
• 49:06
  bring a bigger voter base for him in 24, and it'll be
• 49:12
  interesting to to see what happens. 100% and I I think
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  that's the that's the you know that's and I and I see all the
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  and you know we we try we want to stay objective in what is
• 49:36
  going on that this has been this is very very delicate
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  All right everybody, this is what I want to talk about today.
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  The House votes to nullifies SCC anti crypto banking guidance,
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  SAB 121. So what am I talking about?
• 52:30
  Goes on to say the Coin Telegraph article for our audio
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  listeners. The United States House of
• 52:34
  Representatives has voted to pass a bill overturning
• 52:37
  controversial SCC guidance preventing banks from owning
• 52:41
  crypto. President Joe Biden, however,
• 52:43
  warned early in the day that he would veto the new bill if it
• 52:47
  were to make it to his desk. So this ended up passing, I
• 52:52
  might add. Here's the legislation and it
• 52:57
  passed 28228 to 182. As you could see, it was
• 53:03
  basically across party lines. The Republicans voted 207 yes,
• 53:10
  10 voted 10, did not vote on the Republican side.
• 53:14
  On the Democratic side, 21 voted yes and 182 voted no. 10 did not
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  vote at all. Right.
• 53:23
  So I do want to give a shout out to the 21 Democrats that did
• 53:28
  vote yes. So First off, it's a Cunicos.
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  Boyle, Cavaro, Costa, Craig, Cooler, Davis, Gallego,
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  Wiesly, all those Democrats in the House of Representatives all
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  voted to vote yes on this bill here.
• 53:54
  And why did why did Biden veto this?
• 53:58
  Well, I mean, I think it's very, I mean, why did he threaten to
• 54:01
  veto this? I think it's incredibly obvious
• 54:04
  as to why the moment that banks and financial institutions start
• 54:10
  custodying Bitcoin, all of a sudden their their incentives
• 54:16
  align with Bitcoin. All of a sudden, their ability
• 54:20
  to control those financial institutions, those banks, it
• 54:25
  starts to slip out of their hands.
• 54:27
  What if they start to realize, holy cow, I would rather hold
• 54:31
  Bitcoin than these treasury bills.
• 54:34
  I would rather own Bitcoin than I'd rather have Bitcoin on my
• 54:38
  balance sheet than U.S. dollars, right?
• 54:42
  That's what it's about. That's why they're threatening
• 54:45
  to veto this. And here, look, here's Michael
• 54:48
  Saylor making the cases to what are the three things that need
• 54:52
  to happen in order for Bitcoin to hit $5,000,000?
• 54:55
  I'll let you hear. I'll let you, I'll let you guys
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  hear it. Bitcoin or crypto in general, is
• 54:59
  that the thing? And then and.
• 54:59
  Then the other three, look, first let's go out by a factor
• 55:01
  of 10 whether they fix any of the stuff, right.
• 55:03
  It's going to go, it's going to be a grind up by a factor of 10
• 55:07
  just because gold is broken and bitcoin's going to replace gold
• 55:10
  and now everybody in the universe knows they need a non
• 55:13
  sovereign store of value in the form of a bearer instrument.
• 55:16
  So now they're looking the the amount of stories for last year
• 55:20
  people said inflation may be coming.
• 55:21
  We're not sure. Now the mainstream narrative has
• 55:24
  flipped to inflation is here. You need an inflation hedge.
• 55:26
  So it's going to grind up to replace gold.
• 55:28
  It'll go to $500,000 a coin regardless of why they fix these
• 55:31
  things. But there are three things that
• 55:33
  are massive catalysts that cause an acceleration and I I don't
• 55:37
  think that those three things don't take us to 500,000, they
• 55:40
  take us to 5 million a coin, right.
• 55:42
  Those three things are a spot ETF where someone can go ahead
• 55:46
  and buy $100 million of Bitcoin via security.
• 55:49
  An ETF security. I think that's 1/2 is your bank
• 55:53
  is going to custody it for you and lend against it.
• 55:56
  There you go. Right.
• 55:58
  So and the third one, by the way, is the FASBE accounting
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  rules. ETF approved FASBE accounting
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  rules changed bank. This is the last domino, ladies
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  and gentlemen, that Michael Saylor said needed to happen,
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  Needed to fall in order for Bitcoin to reach $5,000,000 a
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  coin. Remember how much they fought
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  the ETF? Remember that.
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  Well, this is what they're doing.
• 56:21
  They're fighting. They're fighting this now.
• 56:25
  Why are they fighting this? They're fighting this because
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  once people have an alternative, this goes away.
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  The endless wars, politicians spending anything and everything
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  that they want on any idea that comes out of their heads.
• 56:45
  Effective wealth redistribution mechanisms through currency
• 56:48
  debasement, poof goes away. The ability for politicians to
• 56:54
  control money, control the money flows, weaponize money, sanction
• 57:00
  certain countries, goes away. That's what it's about.
• 57:05
  This is what the separation of money and state fundamentally
• 57:08
  boils down to. So yeah, I mean, pretty crazy,
• 57:13
  right? That even though, you know, this
• 57:17
  is passing House of House of Representatives, let's see how
• 57:21
  it does in the in the Senate, you know, the executive branch
• 57:24
  literally before it even has reached the Senate.
• 57:27
  Say, listen, no, we would just completely veto this altogether.
• 57:31
  We don't want highly regulated financial firms to custody
• 57:36
  Bitcoin and crypto. And why and why would they?
• 57:39
  Why would they? Because like as the the moment
• 57:44
  they start to taste the number go up, incentive, like all of a
• 57:49
  sudden we always talk about aligned incentives on simply
• 57:52
  Bitcoin. All of a sudden your incentives
• 57:55
  are aligned with Wall Street. Now if Wall Street is holding
• 57:58
  Bitcoin, your incentives are you know and that's kind of a
• 58:02
  stretch. So I I don't want to say that
• 58:04
  your incentives are totally aligned with BlackRock, but
• 58:06
  let's say you guys saw it, you saw Larry Fink on, you know, on
• 58:10
  legacy financial media, literally using all the Bitcoin
• 58:13
  talking points. Why, 'cause he's incentivized by
• 58:18
  number go up. Now, of course, Wall Street and
• 58:20
  BlackRock, they want you to buy the captured Bitcoin, and I
• 58:23
  think that's what governments are going to want you to do
• 58:25
  there. They've already come to fact.
• 58:27
  They've already come to terms with the fact that they're not
• 58:29
  going to be able to make this thing go away.
• 58:31
  So I think the next, you know, the next step if if you use
• 58:36
  common sense is stop the ability for individuals to take self
• 58:41
  custody of this asset. And I think that's the next
• 58:43
  battle at hand. But it also tells me that we're
• 58:47
  winning. And it tells me that we're
• 58:49
  winning because of like look at how much they're resisting and
• 58:54
  look at the fact that now this has become a mainstream
• 58:57
  political issue not only in the United States, but also in
• 59:02
  Argentina, also in Canada, everywhere.
• 59:07
  By 2028, I'm sticking to what I said, it is going to be unviable
• 59:12
  for a politician to take an anti Bitcoin stance.
• 59:16
  So they're really in a race against time to roll out the
• 59:20
  central bank digital currencies. Anyways, that's my take on all
• 59:24
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• 1:00:13
  vote for the veto as well. Like that just goes to show it's
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  not a monolith. There still are some people
• 1:00:19
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• 1:00:21
  understand where this stuff ends up.
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  And so I mean I think it's going to be very interesting to just
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  see how this, how this goes on moving forward.
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  And it's like I think we've been talking about this for a while
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  the idea of captured Bitcoin and making sure that there is you
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  know regulated Federated custodians and trying to get
• 1:00:40
  people to hold that Bitcoin. And I mean it it, I think it
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  just kind of full circles back to what we were talking about in
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  people in positions of power that are pro Bitcoin.
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  So hey, we'll see how this plays out.
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  I think this is one of those stories that's that's still kind
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  Absolutely. What's your take on all this,
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  Josh? So I think that when we when you
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  showed on screen Nico the vote in the House and how it was kind
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  of along party lines, honestly it it's kind of disappointing to
• 1:01:18
  me because I mean, Bitcoin is freedom technology, right, that
• 1:01:23
  everyone should embrace, everyone wants freedom.
• 1:01:27
  So I'm kind of surprised that you know that the guys can't get
• 1:01:31
  together and find something like freedom that we can't all agree
• 1:01:36
  upon. And I just wish that there would
• 1:01:39
  be a way that they could come together.
• 1:01:41
  And 'cause I think at a fundamental level, we're all in
• 1:01:45
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• 1:01:49
  freedom in our life. So I I just, I wish, I wish I
• 1:01:54
  could do something, but the only thing I can do is take my money
• 1:02:01
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• 1:02:04
  And that's that's our way of protesting.
• 1:02:06
  And so encourage everyone to keep doing it.
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  It's working. Absolutely.
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  I mean 100%, that's the most important vote you can make,
• 1:02:13
  right? It is vote with your wallet,
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  right? It is an election year.
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  Most important vote you can make is taking Bitcoin into self
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  custody, right? 100% completely agree with that.
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  So Josh, I know you saw Nico in El Salvador and the conversation
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  that we're going to have, you titled it the disintermediation
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  of real estate. And I think you even mentioned
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  be a better investment. So let's start with what do what
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  do you mean by the disintermediation of real
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  estate? I guess I I looked it up on
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  Google and I'll just kind of explain it the way Google said
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  it was. The disintermediation of real
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  estate is removing unnecessary parties to a transaction in
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  favor of direct contact between the buyer and the seller.
• 1:05:23
  So how I explain that is typically when you would sell a
• 1:05:28
  home, you would have to get a realtor involved.
• 1:05:31
  He would list the home, put it up for sale, and it doesn't sell
• 1:05:35
  right away. But once you get it under
• 1:05:37
  contract, then it would go to a title company.
• 1:05:41
  Then they search the title and they spend a couple weeks, a
• 1:05:45
  week or two on that and then make sure your title's clean.
• 1:05:49
  Then they'll pass it off to an attorney to review the
• 1:05:53
  documents. And then finally you will, oh,
• 1:05:56
  and before that, you also have a home inspection, right.
• 1:05:58
  So you have someone else involved.
• 1:06:00
  So there's four people involved right there that are involved in
• 1:06:03
  the transaction before you can actually close it and move on.
• 1:06:08
  So typically a real estate transaction will take about 45
• 1:06:11
  days to close. And so that's a long time,
• 1:06:16
  right. So what I've seen was say you're
• 1:06:20
  in, you're in a bind, you're in a need, you have a rental
• 1:06:23
  property that you need to sell, You need to sell it right now,
• 1:06:27
  you need the money and it's going to take you probably 45
• 1:06:31
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• 1:06:36
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• 1:06:39
  that you know 500,000 out of a home that you're trying to get,
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  it's going to take you every bit of 45 to 90 days to get that
• 1:06:45
  money. And whereas with Bitcoin it will
• 1:06:50
  take you a total of maybe 10 minutes for the transaction to
• 1:06:53
  clear. So it is quick, it's immediate
• 1:06:58
  and you don't have to have a trusted third party oversee your
• 1:07:02
  transaction. So that that's why I think that
• 1:07:05
  things are changing. And I'm usually in the past, my
• 1:07:11
  my history has been I've been fairly early to some of these
• 1:07:14
  things, to reading different markets.
• 1:07:18
  And so I've been thankful that the Lord's given me wisdom for
• 1:07:21
  that. But I think that there is going
• 1:07:24
  to be a wave of people that are going to start selling their
• 1:07:28
  rental homes for Bitcoin and the the real estate market guys is
• 1:07:35
  330 trillion, right. So obviously that money's not
• 1:07:40
  going to pour in immediately and it's also not going to be a
• 1:07:44
  massive amount of percentage wise.
• 1:07:46
  But say we get, say we get 1% of guys that are like me that have
• 1:07:52
  learned about Bitcoin. And as you know, the more you
• 1:07:55
  learn about it, the more you put money into it, the more you put
• 1:07:59
  money into it, the more you read about it.
• 1:08:02
  So it's kind of a vicious cycle and it becomes a black hole
• 1:08:06
  financially, at least that's what it's become in my life.
• 1:08:10
  So I think that if we see 1% of that $330 trillion, that's $3
• 1:08:19
  trillion that goes into a Bitcoin market that has right
• 1:08:25
  now a cap of 1.26 trillion. So what do you think's going to
• 1:08:30
  happen? I mean, the number's going to go
• 1:08:32
  up. And yeah.
• 1:08:34
  And thank you, Nika. That was that's a that's a
• 1:08:37
  great. No, that was Opti shout out.
• 1:08:39
  To Opti Opti. Good job, buddy.
• 1:08:41
  But that was from I I pulled that off of one of Michael
• 1:08:44
  Saylor's podcast. But so real estate is a really
• 1:08:48
  big market and I think that we're going to see a small, a
• 1:08:53
  small percentage, 123 percent over the next 10 years that's
• 1:08:59
  going to bleed into the Bitcoin market because everybody's
• 1:09:04
  chasing the best asset and a lot of people don't know about
• 1:09:09
  Bitcoin just cause a lot of you guys that are in here, we're
• 1:09:13
  we're early we're that we're on the cutting edge, right.
• 1:09:16
  So we might have heard about it, you know 5-6, seven years ago or
• 1:09:20
  it might have been two years ago, but we've heard about it
• 1:09:23
  and there's a lot of people that own real estate that haven't
• 1:09:27
  heard about it or they're just starting to hear about it.
• 1:09:31
  So I feel that we're, we're really early and I think that
• 1:09:35
  money's going to bleed out of real estate and going to bleed
• 1:09:38
  into Bitcoin and it's going to be NGU technology and we're
• 1:09:42
  going to keep going at an upward trajectory. 100 man 100% hold
• 1:09:48
  on. All right, Josh.
• 1:09:52
  I, I do want to hit on a few other points.
• 1:09:55
  I know we're going a little long today, but I have a lot of
• 1:09:58
  conversations with my friends and I I've seen this, this same
• 1:10:02
  narrative and the same trend going on on social media.
• 1:10:05
  And we kind of talked about it before the show of, you know
• 1:10:08
  there there's a a big push right now from that I'm seeing from
• 1:10:11
  like a lot of millennials on this idea of like passive
• 1:10:14
  income. And so I kind of want to get
• 1:10:16
  into the idea, maybe what would be your take on people thinking
• 1:10:23
  of investing in real estate versus just investing in
• 1:10:27
  Bitcoin? So investing in Bitcoin is
• 1:10:34
  obviously easier and taking self custody, You have it, nobody can
• 1:10:39
  take it from you and and then you don't have to do
• 1:10:44
  maintenance. Costs carry costs, you don't
• 1:10:46
  have to kick out a tenant. There's a lot of things that you
• 1:10:51
  don't experience by owning Bitcoin so or by bit by owning
• 1:10:57
  Bitcoin. But when you are owning real
• 1:10:59
  estate, there is monthly maintenance, there's carry
• 1:11:04
  costs, there's pressure washing, there's plumbing issues, AC
• 1:11:09
  issues, electrical. It's non-stop and it's become
• 1:11:13
  kind of to a degree a full time job to the point where a lot of
• 1:11:18
  people like me that own several homes, they have just farmed it
• 1:11:22
  out to a management company that takes a cut off of it and they
• 1:11:26
  they manage it. But but we've only done that
• 1:11:30
  because in the past that was the best asset, that was the fastest
• 1:11:35
  horse. But now we have a new faster
• 1:11:38
  horse that we can invest in. And I mean I I don't see why.
• 1:11:43
  There's another reason why not to to buy Bitcoin.
• 1:11:46
  Now. I now I will say just to clarify
• 1:11:48
  my point because I saw one of the guys in the chat talk about
• 1:11:52
  primary residence. Now I, I, I do advocate buying a
• 1:11:56
  house and making it your primary residence, right.
• 1:11:58
  We have to live. We got to have a place.
• 1:12:01
  But I'm just saying that if you have disposable income that you
• 1:12:04
  can start buying other rental properties and earning money
• 1:12:08
  that way, you may want to look into Bitcoin and and the current
• 1:12:12
  returns. So like, I pulled up some of the
• 1:12:15
  returns in the United States since 1983 and the average real
• 1:12:21
  estate return guys is 5.1%, right?
• 1:12:25
  Like, that's rookie numbers compared to Bitcoin, right?
• 1:12:28
  I mean, we've had on average the last 10 years with Bitcoin,
• 1:12:32
  we've had a return of like 65%. So when you start comparing the
• 1:12:39
  numbers, I mean there is a clear faster horse and that's where
• 1:12:45
  I'm starting to put my money. Love it, love it.
• 1:12:48
  And there was a you did send me some notes and I think there's
• 1:12:51
  11 statistic or you did some math and you ran the numbers and
• 1:12:56
  I found it a very interesting number and you basically framed
• 1:12:59
  it as the ratio of homes to Bitcoin.
• 1:13:02
  Can you talk about that a little bit?
• 1:13:04
  Because I think that does just further give us a visualization
• 1:13:08
  of how scarce Bitcoin actually is.
• 1:13:11
  Sure, sure. So most of us, we like scarcity,
• 1:13:15
  right. So we, we want to find one of
• 1:13:16
  the most scarce assets that are out there.
• 1:13:19
  So when I was looking for, when I was preparing for this, I was
• 1:13:23
  just kind of looking at some of the, the overall numbers.
• 1:13:25
  So we've got 8.1 billion people in the world, right?
• 1:13:31
  8.1 billion in the world. We have 2.3 billion houses in
• 1:13:38
  the world. So if you divide that by 21
• 1:13:43
  million Bitcoin, you're looking at 109 homes to one Bitcoin.
• 1:13:50
  So if you guys are in a subdivision with, you know, 300
• 1:13:55
  homes in your subdivision realized that if it was all
• 1:13:58
  spread equally, that whole subdivision could only have
• 1:14:01
  three less than three Bitcoin. So Bitcoin is really, really
• 1:14:07
  scarce. I mean, we don't realize how
• 1:14:09
  scarce it is. That number that blows my mind
• 1:14:13
  when I read that I'm like it, it it like I knew scarcity.
• 1:14:17
  But when you when you put it in terms of houses, so you're like,
• 1:14:19
  oh man, this, this is actually going to get incredibly,
• 1:14:24
  incredibly crazy. OK.
• 1:14:26
  And the other thing, it's something I hear all the time
• 1:14:30
  when in regards to real estate And and you touched on it as
• 1:14:33
  well and you might have touched on a little bit in today's show,
• 1:14:36
  but one of the big points that I try to get across to people is
• 1:14:40
  the idea that your house didn't get gain value but you're
• 1:14:43
  actually just losing purchasing power.
• 1:14:45
  So how would you explain this to someone like their in fifth
• 1:14:48
  grade? Sure.
• 1:14:51
  OK. So yeah, 'cause if you look at
• 1:14:53
  from COVID, in some markets, like in Florida, houses are up
• 1:14:58
  4050% per year. You're going, wow, I'm, I'm
• 1:15:01
  making all this money, right? No, not exactly.
• 1:15:05
  It's because your dollar is being diluted that much.
• 1:15:09
  So I mean if we go back just to COVID, which was only literally
• 1:15:13
  what four years ago, we have, the United States has printed
• 1:15:18
  42% of all the dollars that have ever existed, were created in
• 1:15:24
  the last four years. So I mean that's crazy, right?
• 1:15:29
  And it's and it's not sustainable, It is absolutely
• 1:15:32
  not sustainable. Absolutely incredible.
• 1:15:36
  Yeah, man these, I think these are the important conversations
• 1:15:40
  because as a bitcoiner again you know I'm using Niko's term,
• 1:15:43
  we're all outside of the Overton window where we're all
• 1:15:45
  considered speculators. But when you look at what is
• 1:15:49
  quote UN quote like the the non risky investments today you're
• 1:15:52
  like I don't know, I mean maybe I'm so biased in Bitcoin but it
• 1:15:57
  seems like Bitcoin is the best thing to be holding and it's
• 1:15:59
  hard to explain or have these conversations with people
• 1:16:03
  without them having their own biases and and them having like
• 1:16:06
  knee jerk reactions and close mind to the idea that maybe you
• 1:16:09
  want to get some Bitcoin. It just it's that simple like
• 1:16:12
  just stack Bitcoin and chill. It's super simple, but I guess
• 1:16:15
  we like to complicate things. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:16:19
  So I'll, I'll tell you a little, a little story.
• 1:16:22
  So I had a home that I sold and it closed in January of 2020,
• 1:16:28
  right. So the price of Bitcoin was
• 1:16:31
  9300. And I thought, wow, that's
• 1:16:33
  that's a great entry point. And so I went to the closing
• 1:16:37
  table and my realtor and the title agent was asking me, hey,
• 1:16:41
  So what what are you going to do?
• 1:16:42
  Why, why did you sell in the 1st place?
• 1:16:43
  And I told him I was, I was buying Bitcoin and they were
• 1:16:46
  going, wow, that's that's weird, that's strange.
• 1:16:49
  And the one lady didn't even never even heard of Bitcoin.
• 1:16:52
  So, but then so, so I I bought Bitcoin, right?
• 1:16:56
  And so I have a conviction and I thought, yes, I'm doing the
• 1:16:59
  right thing. And then two months later,
• 1:17:01
  right, COVID hit and Bitcoin was down to 3900 on on March, on
• 1:17:06
  March 12. And so I mean talk about a
• 1:17:10
  little bit of panic ensuing, but you know, Bitcoin will do that,
• 1:17:13
  right? So I mean Bitcoin has
• 1:17:16
  exponential growth, but you also have to accept that the it's,
• 1:17:21
  it's volatile and it it goes up and it goes down.
• 1:17:25
  But as long as you have a firm conviction during that time,
• 1:17:29
  even though, you know, my investment went down over 50% in
• 1:17:32
  two months, I wasn't worried about it.
• 1:17:35
  And and even I I pinned on my on my tweet, I I did something on
• 1:17:39
  Twitter and I posted something about, you know, we're printing
• 1:17:42
  all this money with COVID and I'm getting more and more
• 1:17:45
  bullish on Bitcoin. And it's absolutely been the
• 1:17:48
  case. We've we've seen that.
• 1:17:51
  Do you think that, Josh, do you think that there's more people
• 1:17:54
  like yourself, you know, successful, you know, real
• 1:17:57
  estate investors that are seeing the trend like they're seeing
• 1:18:01
  the orange light? Sure, absolutely.
• 1:18:04
  So I I honestly thought that I was kind of one of the only guys
• 1:18:07
  in my area that that did cause I've got probably 15 Bitcoin
• 1:18:13
  buddies in my local area, but but no one going as hardcore as
• 1:18:18
  as me. But I'll tell you, when I was in
• 1:18:20
  El Salvador, me and my buddy Stan were out there just we were
• 1:18:24
  hanging out at the bar and at the having party, just having a
• 1:18:27
  good time. But we were just interviewing
• 1:18:29
  people and everyone there was so nice.
• 1:18:31
  And one of the guys who's 28 years old and he was from Canada
• 1:18:36
  and young guy, he was single and we were just chatting about
• 1:18:40
  stuff. And he told me he said I
• 1:18:42
  actually sold a house for it was a rental house he had.
• 1:18:45
  He goes, I sold it two years ago and I bought Bitcoin with it and
• 1:18:50
  I was like, wow, that that's crazy.
• 1:18:52
  I said, you know, between you and me, you're the only people,
• 1:18:55
  you're the only one that I know that's really done it.
• 1:18:57
  And so I'll tell you that trend is is happening.
• 1:19:01
  I mean, albeit people are going to be quiet about it.
• 1:19:05
  You know, a lot of bitcoiners are very private and they won't
• 1:19:08
  tell you what what they're doing.
• 1:19:09
  But but yeah, it's it's more prevalent than I think that
• 1:19:15
  that's out there. Yeah.
• 1:19:17
  And on that point, Josh, you did mention the the importance of
• 1:19:21
  continuing to have these orange peeling conversations.
• 1:19:24
  So you want to elaborate on that and then we'll probably be
• 1:19:26
  wrapping up today's show. So yeah, absolutely.
• 1:19:30
  You you want to keep having having the conversation, you
• 1:19:33
  want to keep talking to your friends.
• 1:19:35
  And so actually it's funny but in the last 60 days I have three
• 1:19:41
  of my buddies became orange peeled and so all three of them
• 1:19:46
  are now doing weekly buys on Bitcoin.
• 1:19:50
  We just we just were talking about it over and over and it's
• 1:19:54
  sad that two of my friends they heard about it when Bitcoin was
• 1:19:57
  $4000 back in 20/18/19 and they just didn't pull the trigger and
• 1:20:04
  but like you guys say. You get it at the price you
• 1:20:08
  deserve. But they are now, they're now
• 1:20:11
  buying on a weekly basis and we keep talking to each other about
• 1:20:15
  it. And I mean iron strengthens
• 1:20:17
  iron. So by having these conversations
• 1:20:20
  it helps build your conviction. And also the more that you guys
• 1:20:25
  are, you know, tuning into simply Bitcoin and listening to
• 1:20:30
  other Bitcoin related podcasts, you're gonna gain knowledge and
• 1:20:34
  with knowledge and power. And with that comes a a better
• 1:20:38
  conviction so that you can stomach when things go down.
• 1:20:42
  100% agree. 100% agree. All right, last two sats.
• 1:20:46
  Josh, what's the last message you want to leave with the
• 1:20:47
  audience? And then let's wrap up today's
• 1:20:50
  show. OK.
• 1:20:51
  Gotcha. Well, well, yeah.
• 1:20:53
  Hey, thanks for having me, guys. And so I just kind of wanted to
• 1:20:56
  throw out five points, 5 quick little points that I thought
• 1:21:00
  that, you know, will make has made my life easier.
• 1:21:03
  And guys, I feel that if if you look into that, you'll do the
• 1:21:06
  same. And so the first thing is I got
• 1:21:08
  down, get right with Jesus and read the Bible.
• 1:21:13
  That'll help. Go outside, get fresh air, get
• 1:21:17
  sunlight, go on a walk. That's what I do every day.
• 1:21:21
  I go on a walk with the dogs and I plug in simply Bitcoin and it
• 1:21:25
  just it's it's been good. Be positive.
• 1:21:29
  Hang out with positive people. The negative people that are
• 1:21:34
  causing you drama. Get them out of your life right
• 1:21:38
  #4 Set goals, write them down, write them on a chalkboard, put
• 1:21:43
  them on a wall and pursue those goals.
• 1:21:46
  And then the last one, which is really easy for all of us is buy
• 1:21:50
  Bitcoin, put it in self custody and disconnect from the Fiat
• 1:21:54
  matrix. Man I, I, I, Josh, it was it was
• 1:22:01
  a pleasure to have you on today and thank you so much for you
• 1:22:04
  know exposing your your your knowledge to the Bitcoin verse
• 1:22:08
  and our audience and you know it's people like yourself that
• 1:22:11
  are are really truly you know you are you are speculating you
• 1:22:16
  are launching a a a speculative attack on the dollar via real
• 1:22:21
  estate and we totally you know could get behind it And I agree
• 1:22:26
  with your, you know your five points specifically the first
• 1:22:30
  one. So Josh, thank you.
• 1:22:33
  Thank you so much for coming on the show.
• 1:22:34
  I appreciate it. Hey, thanks for having me.
• 1:22:37
  Love to. Let's get Let's get you back on
• 1:22:39
  in a couple of months, man. I'd love to hear like a like a
• 1:22:41
  like an update. OK.
• 1:22:43
  Yeah, yeah, let's, let's do it. Cuz I have one house that's for
• 1:22:47
  sale right now. So I'll have more to tell you in
• 1:22:49
  about 60 days. Absolutely.
• 1:22:51
  Well, appreciate it. Wait, wait.
• 1:22:52
  Before we go, Nika, sorry Josh, is there anything you'd like to
• 1:22:55
  plug for the audience where they can follow you all that good
• 1:22:57
  stuff? Oh, sure, sure.
• 1:22:58
  Thanks. Thanks, Opti.
• 1:23:00
  So Bitcoin, Josh one on Twitter and also on the Orange Pill app.
• 1:23:06
  I'm on what am I, Moto Moto X Josh, I'm a motorcycle guy.
• 1:23:11
  And so, yeah, I mean, if you want to send me send me messages
• 1:23:14
  on Twitter, that'd be great. I actually have a a big Twitter
• 1:23:18
  following. I have all these Asian women
• 1:23:21
  between 18 and 24 that are just asking me all the time how my
• 1:23:25
  trading's going and they want to help me out.
• 1:23:27
  They want to, they want to give me two Bitcoin if I send them 1.
• 1:23:30
  So it's it's really nice of them so.
• 1:23:32
  Oh, you're funny. All right.
• 1:23:34
  Actually last question, Josh, 2 stroke or 4 stroke?
• 1:23:38
  Well, I have both, but if you guys are around in Florida, I
• 1:23:42
  have a track so DM me and come to come to my house.
• 1:23:46
  I got extra bikes. Dang, that's what's up.
• 1:23:49
  Love it. Love it.
• 1:23:49
  All right, Josh. Well, thank you so much for
• 1:23:51
  joining us guys. That was our show.
• 1:23:53
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• 1:23:57
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