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4M Companies Just FORCED to Adopt Bitcoin? | Simply SatoSHE · Simply Bitcoin

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  In 11 days, Jack Dorsey is auto enabling Bitcoin payments for
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  every eligible business on Square.
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  That's the payment terminal that you see at the counter of your
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  coffee shop, your boutique, your favorite food truck.
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  No application required, no special setup.
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  Bitcoin just shows up at checkout and boom, you're able
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  to spend it instantly. And most people are covering
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  this like it's a fintech story, but in reality it's not.
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  Because at the exact same moment, the richest man in the
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  world is launching his own payments platform.
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  But I believe that there's something much larger going on,
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  and I have the proof. While Trump and the Fed continue
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  to deliver tariffs, inflation, and war, the smartest and
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  richest people on the planet are quietly building alternative
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  payment systems. Today I'm going to show you 2
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  examples of how that plays out. One may lead you to freedom and
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  one may lead you to slavery. You are a slave, Neo.
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  Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born into a
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  prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch.
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  I'm Sophie, welcome back to Satoshi.
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  Let's get into it. Square just updated its terms of
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  service to auto enable Bitcoin Lightning payments for all
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  eligible sellers starting March 30th, 2026.
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  No opt in, no application process.
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  Merchants were notified and unless they actively turn it
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  off, Bitcoin is live at their checkout.
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  Just like that. This scale is almost hard to
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  process. Square has 4 million merchants
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  in the US alone. Cash App, also owned by Jack
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  Dorsey's Block, has 58,000,000 monthly active users who can pay
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  with Bitcoin instantly as well. Zero processing fees through
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  2026. It's a Lightning Network
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  settlement, which means transactions are near instant
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  and nearly free. Think about what that means in
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  real life. The coffee shop you go to every
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  morning? The boutique your friend runs?
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  The food truck at the farmers market as a of March 30th.
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  They all accept Bitcoin whether they thought about it or not.
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  This isn't a pilot program or press release.
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  The payment infrastructure as we know it is being switched on at
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  scale and the man who switched it on has been one of the most
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  vocal Bitcoin Maxis in tech for years.
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  That is not a coincidence, and let me tell you why.
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  So why would Jack Dorsey do this?
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  Why auto enable Bitcoin for millions of merchants, build
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  lightning into Cash App and make it all free?
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  Because Jack Dorsey is not doing this for charity.
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  He's been one of the most vocal Bitcoin maximalists in tech for
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  years. I don't think there's anything
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  more important in my lifetime to work on and I don't think
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  there's anything more enabling for people around the world.
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  He's gone on record saying Bitcoin is the most important
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  thing he's working on. Not Square, not Cash App, but
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  specifically Bitcoin. And here's the part that most
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  people skip over the more people use Bitcoin, the more valuable
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  Bitcoin becomes. And Jack Dorsey holds a lot of
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  Bitcoin. Think about it the same way that
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  you would think about Sailor. We covered this last week.
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  Strategy is buying 6000 Bitcoin a week.
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  Sailor has publicly committed to never selling.
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  And every time bitcoin's price goes up, Strategy's balance
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  sheet gets stronger, their stock goes up, and Sailor's bet pays
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  off. His incentives are completely
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  aligned with Bitcoin winning. Dorsey's incentives work the
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  same way, just from a different angle.
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  Every time someone their phone and pays with Bitcoin at a
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  Square terminal, that's a new user that's onboarded a new
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  wallet, activated a new person who now has lived with the
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  experience of using Bitcoin in the real world.
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  And every one of those people is a new source of demand for a
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  fixed supply asset that Dorsey already holds.
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  He's not just building adoption out of ideology, he's building a
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  network that makes his stack more valuable.
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  And he's doing it by making Bitcoin the path of least
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  resistance for 4 million businesses and 58,000,000 cash
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  app users. That is an extraordinarily smart
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  play. He might actually be orange
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  peeling people faster than Michael Saylor.
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  And it's working exactly the same way sailors play is
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  working, just at the commerce layer instead of the balance
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  sheet. And look, what Dorsey and Saylor
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  are building is the infrastructure.
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  But infrastructure only protects you if you're actually holding
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  your own keys. That's where the Bitcoin way
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  And then there's Elon. Oh Elon.
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  On March 10th, Elon Musk announced that X Money, his
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  payments platform built into X, would launch in April 2026.
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  peer-to-peer transfers, bank deposits, a debit card, 6% yield
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  on balances built in partnership with Visa, and the X Money debit
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  card was spotted being used in the wild just days ago.
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  Now, to be clear, X Money isn't a Bitcoin product.
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  Not yet. But here's what matters.
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  The richest man in the world looked at the financial system,
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  looked at what Dorsey was building, and decided he needed
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  to build his own payments infrastructure too.
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  Don't forget that Jack Dorsey is the one who invented Twitter,
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  which is now X, which is now owned by Elon Musk.
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  It's all connected billionaires see billionaires.
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  When Jack Dorsey embeds Bitcoin into the checkout flow of 4
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  million businesses, Elon notices.
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  When Elon builds a financial platform inside of the world's
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  largest public square, Dorsey notices.
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  These are not moves by people who think the existing system is
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  going to be fine. Think about that for a second.
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  The men who built the platforms that most of the world uses to
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  communicate, to buy things, to send money, they are quietly
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  building exits from the financial system they operate
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  inside. They're not doing it loudly.
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  They're doing it by changing the terms of service that nobody
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  reads anyway and launching debit cards and auto enabling
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  lightning payments. They're not panicking.
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  They're building. And that is what bear markets
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  are for. For building so zoom out for a
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  second and look at what we've just walked through Jack Dorsey,
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  one of the most successful builders in tech, is embedding
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  Bitcoin into the checkout flow for 4 million businesses Elon
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  Musk, the richest man in the world, is building his own
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  parallel financial system. Michael Saylor is buying 6000
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  Bitcoin a week and won't stop these are not fringe actors.
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  These are the most prominent, most connected, most financially
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  sophisticated people on the planet, and they're all into
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  building or accumulating outside of the traditional financial
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  system right now. Simultaneously, you got to ask
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  yourself, what do they know that most people don't?
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  Here's what I think they know. They know that the system has a
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  fundamental problem that no election can fix.
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  Trump ran on making things affordable, lowering prices,
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  ending the wars, bringing manufacturing home.
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  A lot of people voted for that, including a lot of people in
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  this community, and what they got was tariffs that raised
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  prices, a war with Iran that started February 28th, and an
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  inflation rate that has not responded to anything Washington
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  has tried. But here's the thing.
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  This isn't really about Trump. This would be true of any
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  president because inflation isn't a policy failure, it's a
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  feature. It's what happens when you give
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  government the power to print the money it needs to fund the
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  things it wants to do. Wars are expensive.
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  Debt is expensive and the bill always gets paid the same way by
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  making your dollars worth less. And this is the bottom line.
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  You cannot vote your way out of that.
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  It doesn't matter who wins. The mechanism is the same.
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  The outcome is the same. Your purchasing power erodes,
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  your savings shrink, your costs of living rises.
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  And everybody's feeling that that's 50 years of data, not a
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  political opinion. And Bitcoin was literally
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  invented as the response to exactly this fixed supply.
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  No central authority, no printer.
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  Nobody can inflate it. Nobody's election can change how
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  many of it exists. What Dorsey, Elon, and Saylor
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  are building isn't a bet on Bitcoin going up.
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  It's a bet that the existing system keeps doing exactly what
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  it has always done. And history says that's a very
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  bitcoinwell.com/simply BTC. So what do you actually have to
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  do with all of this? Here's the thing about opt out
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  systems. They only work in your favor if
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  you opt in before the crowd does.
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  The 4 million merchants on Square aren't all going to
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  become Bitcoiners overnight. Most of them won't think about
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  it at all. But the infrastructure is there,
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  the on ramp is built, and every person who starts transacting in
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  Bitcoin, even accidentally, even just once at a coffee shop, is a
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  person who now has a lived experience of money that works
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  differently. That's how adoption actually
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  happens, not through white papers or YouTube videos.
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  Please keep watching this through checkout screens and
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  real world examples. And the people who understood
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  this early, the sailors and the Dorsey's, the people who stacked
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  through the bear market while everyone else was selling,
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  They're going to be on the right side of what comes next.
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  Do not sleep on this. I want to be honest with you for
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  a second. I'm a mom of two.
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  My youngest is 2 months old. I spend a lot of time thinking
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  about what the world is going to look like when my kids are grown
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  up. What their money will be worth,
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  what their options will be, whether the system they inherit
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  will give them any real choices. And when I look at what's being
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  built right now, Square Auto enabling Bitcoin at 4 million
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  businesses, X money launching next month, Sailor locking up
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  the supply by the hundreds of thousands.
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  I don't see a bear market. I see the foundation of
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  something. The political system will keep
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  doing what the political system does.
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  Promises will be made and broken.
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  Wars will start. Money will be printed.
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  That's never going to change. But for the first time in
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  history, there is a credible, working, globally accessible
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  alternative. And the people who understand
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  that are building it into the fabric of everyday life right
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  now, quietly, systematically, 1 checkout screen at a time.
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  And that's the world that I want my kids to grow up in, Not one
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  where they have to trust whoever's in the White House
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  with the value of their savings, one where they hold their own
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  keys. That's what this is about.
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  Thanks for watching simply Bitcoin's Satoshi.
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