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Canadian Freedom Fighter Joins Simply Bitcoin | EP 473 · Simply Bitcoin

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Welcome back everyone, we're simply Bitcoin.
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We break down the news. The daily fail meme review,
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software releases, Hardware releases the pleb sites and
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joining us today. We've got the spokesperson for
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the freedom Convoy of Canada, trucker fellow Bitcoin.
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ER I'm talking about BJ, dictor's, joining us, that's
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right, BJ. What's going on?
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Good to see you man. How are you awesome man?
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Thank you so much for joining us on the show.
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730 3550. The Bitcoin price 40,000 175
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chain rewrite days, 719. Total public lightning capacity
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3620 the 75 Moscow, time, 2489 blocks to the having a hundred
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and six thousand four hundred fifty, and the samurai Whirlpool
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unspent capacity, Samurai Whirlpool is a coin Joiner
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collaborative spend. That is not a mixing service and
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the unspent capacity in that pool is 4530 3.44.
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BTC Nico, the boring-ass numbers the boring-ass numbers Bitcoin
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is the new stable Coy and gonna keep saying that you guys
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wouldn't know for your reading it every single day, the same
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way. But anyways, I can clap.
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I got a very spicy video before we get into the video.
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Oh my God. I'm gonna have to give you guys
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a Prelude. We Are apolitical on simply
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Bitcoin. We don't lie left, we don't
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leave right in the traditional Fiat sense.
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We stand for freedom because that's what Bitcoin represents.
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So if you're against Freedom, if you're a gay, if you're for
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censorship, right? Obviously, that's against
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Bitcoin, right? So I just want to clarify that
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because it is going to be a very spicy episode.
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I'm expecting. Anyways, let's start off with
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this video. From Jen psaki this the White
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House spokeswoman for the bind. And and very interesting stuff
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because all of a sudden after Elon musk's successfully
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acquired, Twitter all of a sudden, right?
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The party that has been against the section 230 reform, right?
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Which is what gives social media Platforms in the United States.
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Essentially immunity from lawsuits or any of that stuff,
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all of a sudden, right? Misinformation That it needs.
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It needs reform. So anyways, this check out what
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she has to say. And then Missouri General has
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said that misinformation about covid amounts to a Public Health
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crisis. Yeah, I'm wondering.
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Regardless of ownership. Would the White House be
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interested in working with Twitter?
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Like it has, in the past to continue to combat this kind of
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misinformation, or are we in a different part of the pandemic
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where that kind of partnership is no longer necessary?
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Well, I think we engage regularly with all All social
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media platforms about steps that can be taken that is continued
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and I'm sure it will continue. But there are also reforms that
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we think Congress could take and we would support taking
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including reforming, section 230, and acting antitrust
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reforms, requiring more transparency.
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And the president is encouraged by the bipartisan support for or
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engagement in those efforts the surface.
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So it if you just start reading, the comments is just a larious,
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it's funny because must said he'd make them Make the
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algorithm or source and its death of the definition of
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transparency. There actually is about.
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There's so now they're all of a sudden concerned about social
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media after something. Does it go in the elites favor?
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What about the rest of the media Outlets?
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Any thoughts on holding them accountable as well, right?
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Right on cue. So it's just it's ridiculous and
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kind of connect the dots with the weird talking about with
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Obama yesterday and Hillary Clinton, right?
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Like they just came out of the cave and they're just like yeah
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we have to know these online. But this, this too much speech
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is dangerous, right? It's just funny, you know, that
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just the, you know, all of a sudden when they don't have the
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ability to, you know, control the narrative right?
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So and and it goes by 2y. Z Lon, you know, acquiring
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Twitter. Why is he for freedom of speech,
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right? Obviously, the dude pays a crap
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ton of taxes, right? I think he's the record holder
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of taxpayers, so it's obviously, he's just following in his own
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incentives, right? But it's just the hypocrisy.
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And kind of connect this with yesterday's episode, right?
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With how Europe essentially wants to, you know, make social
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media platforms safer from illegal activity and
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misinformation. Unfortunately, for a lot of
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these politicians in America, there's the First Amendment.
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There's the pesky pesky First Amendment, right?
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So they're gonna have a lot more trouble doing what they want
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over here. But in Europe, I think it's a
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lost cause and Canada as well. Anyways, I'm gonna pass it on to
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BJ. BJ.
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What are your thoughts on this? You have a lot of experience.
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How much bullshit was that? It's so gross and disgusting,
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because we're going through this now in Canada that were have, we
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have a bill that's either. Just pastoring, second, third
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reading, and passing, but essentially what it does is
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because they need to make internet.
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I know if you heard, they need to make it more stay, right?
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Because the internet is very dangerous.
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So what the way they're going to do it in cash?
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A is you need to not just show papers please to enter the
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country. You need to show papers please
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to be a journalist. So you need to apply for a
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license to be a journalist and it's not like, you know, your
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fishing license in the in the middle of, you know, Huntsville,
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Ontario to go fish for some trout.
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This is if you get the license, you get, massive tax incentives
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that the Legacy Media cannot survive without Out because
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they're completely incompetent fake news and useless.
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So if you decide not to go that route, then you need to be
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completely self. Sustainable financially, who
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would have thought a business that actually has to turn a
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profit to be viable? No, no.
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I can't have that in Canada. And the solution is to have a
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license this, and the person who's brought it in and Nico,
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you may resonate with this, his name is Pablo Rodriguez, he's an
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M&P and his Father for those on a certain political side and his
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party. Don't understand.
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His father was a communist Guerrilla during the Dirty War,
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the get a sucia in Argentina and this is this guy holds the exact
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same belief system. So people in the west really
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need to wake up because as I mentioned in a space last night,
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I'm one of the few Canadians that has lived in a country that
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had a communist. Guerilla faction and this is
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what they look like. It's not the Bolsheviks coming
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over the mountain with a bunch of tanks that they're going to
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take over. That's not how it is.
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It's all sunshine, and rainbows and nice music, and we're caring
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for the people. This is how it starts, and it's
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getting very dangerous in that country as we saw with the
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freedom, come home. Absolutely.
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And just the combined and pass it on to you.
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Phil, I'm just the combined effort right of, it's not a
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coincidence that this is all happening at once.
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It's not a coincidence that they're trying to kyc the
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internet in Europe. Make it more safe.
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It's not a coincidence that they're they're similar attempts
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in Canada, right? And the reason that we wanted to
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focus this on a Bitcoin show is what do you think?
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They're gonna go after next? What is the only payment that
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they couldn't stop to the truckers?
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It was Bitcoin, right? So this is just the first step
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to talat arianism, it's very unfortunate.
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You have to resist it at the gates.
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Fortunately, I'm very pessimistic about Canada.
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Feel, how do you feel about this?
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You know, it's like BJ said, right?
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It's all sunshine and rainbows until we're Goose, stepped into
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the gulag eating bugs and then and that, and that's the end
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result, right? But until one of their,
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everything's going great. So I think I'm going to take a
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bit of a, a bit of a different angle on this whole thing with
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because I this has this ties into Ilan and Twitter.
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Okay. And I know that a lot of people
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are cheering that on as being like this this like this way in,
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you know, for Elizabeth all this stuff but look at the end of the
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day. He's just great at soliciting
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funds from the government so you can cheer that all you want.
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I understand there's tons of Fanboys for Tesla.
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I can appreciate their love for the vehicles and all the fun
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Tech but at the end of the day, I don't think he's really going
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to do anything in terms of Freedom enabling on that
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platform. I think that we're going to find
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ourselves in a situation where he's part of the censorship
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problem. But anyways, going back to this
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this whole thing now with Jen saki, right?
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These people Are just clowns and and it's so laughable and the
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fact that anybody look, you know, we say this all the time,
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the mainstream media. That that's a lie.
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It's not mainstream. Those are just words the
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alternative. The essentially, The Independent
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Media that is the mainstream media.
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What she is talking to the people.
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She is talking to are the people who believe the essentially, the
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corporate media, I would, I would even call them propaganda
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media because, and, and in Canada, propaganda, media
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Canada. I know this is a fact.
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Eight. They're actually paid by the
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Canadian government, right? Talk about misaligned
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incentives, so I don't know if you want to add to that PJ 1.2
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trillion dollars annually that the state media gets in Canada
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plus several. Hundreds of millions of dollars,
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goes to the private media corporations that operate there,
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but something interesting and your audience will understand
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is, when during the Convoy I took, every opportunity to call
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the Legacy She not mainstream because they're Fringe, but the
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Legacy Media fake news at every opportunity.
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Every time I was on stage every press conference, fake news fake
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names, fake news while. Just to give you an example.
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What does that 1.2 trillion dollars to the CDC?
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Get you. It gets you articles where their
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headline is the government of Canada has blocked a Bitcoin
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transactions to the truckers. Is that how it works?
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Really? Gumshoes.
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It's all the research you did because we know all of us in
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Bitcoin know, Can't be blocked. And as I said Nico, when we met
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this was, I think an historical moment is trucker Convoy because
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all of that kind of hyperbolic scenarios that we always heard
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about that, you know, it can no government governments are
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powerless to block in whatever, we all thought, okay, well in
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Iran in Venezuela in North Korea.
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Oh, you name the country with the dystopian dictatorship, that
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that's where it would be utilized and prove itself but
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know it It proved itself on the world stage were prime minister
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blackface diversity. Trudeau turned Canada into a
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Banana Republic and what happened?
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Bitcoin was the only thing that got through and they were
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powerless to stop it and they were very, very frustrated with
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it was amazing. I would even go on to add to
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that. I wouldn't I would say put the
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fear of God into them, like it gets scared the crap out of
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them. The fact that they, you know,
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because that's what government has it.
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As a monopoly on violence. The fact that they couldn't use
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that Monopoly to essentially sensor a transaction.
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It, I know like it just the response, right?
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And you could see it in their faces or like, these are people
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that are used to having absolute power and they're powerless
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here. It's the individual that has the
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power, right? So yeah, and Isis has something
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to add on that if you don't mind my saying course no you opened
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up. And you talked about you know
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where We're not left for not right.
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Wherever we are, you know, where nonpartisan the political sphere
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and I agree because, you know, stealing people's donation money
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or trying to starve them is not a liberal value, Justin Trudeau
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and it's not liberal. If he was liberal great, we
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would be able to talk with each other because we both value
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Freedom. That's why throughout the entire
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Convoy I had people from across the political Spectrum, reaching
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out to us and No deciding. Hey, we disagree on some things
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that the government should, or should not do, but we all
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understand the importance of freedom.
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And that's what I've always loved about the big, the Bitcoin
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world. I want to call it a community
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but the various Bitcoin Community is the Bitcoin work
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because we all understand that common denominator and the
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importance of that value and the people who claim to be, quote
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liberal in the political world today globally.
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They're not liberal their the complete opposite.
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At their totalitarian and we do need more liberals and people on
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the right to come together to kind of save us from this
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dystopian future. Because if not, these people are
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going to come after a big point, the 100% and that and that you
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know and it that moves right because it was a used to be that
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the Liberals were for freedom of speech, right?
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It just happens to be in this moment in history for one reason
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or the other. Some people say it's China's
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influence, right? You know, they've just conned
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the totality. In route, you know?
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And again, if you're for censorship you're an enemy of
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Bitcoin and that's just how it is, right?
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You know, and it has nothing to do with the traditional parties.
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It's just very unfortunate. Let's see how to let me.
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Yeah. Phil, Phil, you'll know this
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because you're a fellow genetics or we discussed the generation,
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nobody cares about remember in the 90s, when the political
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right was trying to censor music and try to censor video game.
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All that sort of stuff. So we get on the other side.
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It's just, it's now the authoritarian.
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And they have evolved and have gone down the direction of free
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speech on the other side has gone towards.
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Totalitarianism is crazy. So, interestingly enough, sorry
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just to just to finish up on that point that you just made me
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J. So, do you know what ended up
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coming of that? Because I ended up D.
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I ended up working in the self-serve DVD, rental industry
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and I got to see up close. So all of that censorship, all
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of that crap, that they tried to do all.
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It ended up with was extra, red tape for people attempting to
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make a business out of selling. These, you know, music and music
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and movies, it forced everybody, then to have to apply to a
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special association, that you now have to get these like
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special stickers and you have to stay.
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You have to code them. Stay it's rocker.
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See bro. Justin Rose.
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Just any of those and in the end, everybody still had access
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to the same shit. If you wanted stuff.
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That was censored. You still got, it made no sense.
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Any know, it made total sense to just grow the government, right?
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That's better than okay. This is, you know, in this Is
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why separating money from state is so important or none of this
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That's right. Like I just said, we're going to
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be talking about Elon again. I brought him up in the last
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one, and here we go. So, don't usually like a lot of
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mistakes. Be honest, anybody's watch the
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show. You know, that I'm not such a
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huge fan of him and his narcissism and how wonderful he
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should see is short. Tesla stock.
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Bro like what? No, I did not really you know
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what technically knowable gate he's shorting it.
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So yes I did short it because I don't own it but anyways that's
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for different reasons. I don't own it based on a PE
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evaluation so and yeah I'm a nerd.
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And yet what, you know, what on P evaluation you miss out on a
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lot of major growth stocks, but anyways, I don't buy stocks
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anymore so it makes no difference.
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So So here we go. Elon Musk is Right, web 3 is BS
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by Marcia's Barone. Okay?
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Or Baron, let's dive into this article to put it mildly.
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I'm not elon's biggest fan, he's an ignorant, narcissistic
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Reckless self, indulgent buffoon who treats his employees like
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crap, and who just happens to be amazing at marketing himself,
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which helped him become a billionaire despite running
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unprofitable country because we are we talking about Elon right
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now? Yeah, we're definitely talking
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about you 100%, you know here, Lands Rockets, right?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, Rockets. Well, no, his scientist land
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Rockets. Anyways, I digress, I digress.
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But look that makes no difference, right?
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I obviously like this piece of the article.
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Now, I don't agree with everything in it, but we are
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going to dive into this because web three, right?
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We've been telling you, that web 3 is complete bullshit and even
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though I don't agree with everything in this article, and
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this person will miss the major point of Bitcoin.
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As you'll see, they conclude some interesting points about
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web 3. So let's dive into it.
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It went 3 is an idea which suggests we can achieve a
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decentralized world wide web using blockchains.
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The proponents of this concept like to talk about how Web 2.0
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became centralized and controlled by big corporations
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and how blockchains crypto and nft S can help give the power
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back to the people. In reality.
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It's simple bullshit so far, I agree with three is bullshit on
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several different levels, but most importantly, it confuses a
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political and power relationship problem with the technological.
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And the truth is blockchains are not only useless in achieving
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that we already have the technology to do that activity.
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Pub is a protocol that's been available for years and which
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inspired the creation of Fairly successful.
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Decentralized Federated, social networks, such as Mastodon.
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Now we all forget the bitcoiners that know, we all remember,
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Mastodon we were there for two weeks and now we're back.
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Anyways, we're back to Twitter any Community can create their
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own activity, Pub instance, which is controlled by them.
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Even a single All user can create their own server
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instance, if they want to and feta rate with other instances,
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okay, so I mean, it all sounds great.
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So why haven't we seen a mass? Exodus of people from Twitter
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and Facebook to Mastodon, or simple?
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Or similar platforms? The reason for this is that
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platforms like Twitter have already achieved enormous power
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and influence, but they also have the network effect a large
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user base that simply stays where most of the people they
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follow our exactly. There are plenty of stories of
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people switching over to Mastodon, only to return to
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Twitter because That's where all the action is.
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Rightly said, the monopolistic nature of the biggest social
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media platforms is also beneficial to other companies,
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which can streamline their advertising and marketing
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campaigns. This benefits, The Wider
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capitalist system. The Monopoly of the big players
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is neutral, isn't is a natural result of the system we have in
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place. You start to see some of the
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interesting leanings in this article.
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Anyways, let's get, let's continue the main purpose of a
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blockchain and really, the only Lee reason, it can be made
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useful is to record transactions so far.
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I can't disagree with that point.
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Anyways, it is admittedly a fairly clever way of avoiding
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the double spend problem. Okay.
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So he's starting to get Bitcoin a bit.
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This is also why. So far the only major use of
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blockchains is for digital currency and artificially,
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scarce digital assets and FTS. Some people suggested that nfc's
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could be used for recording things like deeds and property
19:48
titles, but it makes little sense to use blockchains for
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recording, anything, physical or anything.
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That requires Off chain validation, authorization,
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authentication or confirmation. Even if we consider the use of
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oracle's, we've talked about oracle's before, anyways, they
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pretend to do off chain validation, but really all there
20:06
are a rug pulls anyways, so far. Nobody came up with a
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compelling, dap idea. That is not tied to
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cryptocurrency in any way so far.
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I don't think anybody's made a compelling, dap idea.
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Period. There's Bitcoin in lightning and
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the apps that exist on it. Anyways, I digress.
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Venture capitalists are having a blast.
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They can suddenly pretend they are radicals who intend to
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disrupt centralized intermediaries.
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This is what we tell you guys about the VC's all the time.
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They can pretend they're the voice of a rebellious generation
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trying to take on the big guys, right?
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And that's what a lot of that marketing sounds like a lot of
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the web three projects are only Brandon is decentralized with a
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lot of them using permission or hybrid blockchains, where only
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the company can add or remove tokens.
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But when the ownership of the tokens can be traded
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independently, The technology supported by the web three crowd
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aren't anything new. The main difference here is that
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all the projects revolve around defying cryptocurrency.
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The real reason why these are so interested in web 3 in.
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This is what we've been telling you guys they want to prolong
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the crypto bubble, right? The ship coin bubble and FTS are
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just an evolution of ico's. They want to make the projects,
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they have already invested in more relevant and increase the
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value of any speculative assets associated with them.
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They want more people to buy shit coins, more money to enter
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the market to inflate the prices.
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They Don't care about the centralization or Freedom or
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censorship, they just want to make big bucks before the fight
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the bubble, finally, burst for these parts.
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I can't disagree with any of this.
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He goes on to give the example of steam it, okay.
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They have to fire 70% of their staff when the price of their
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shit coin dropped in 2018. During a market crash, these are
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platforms which have business plans, Simply Built around
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proprietary should coins and their circulation, which we saw
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when all of those ico's cratered, And we went through
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the quote-unquote bear market. So here we go.
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This is where it starts to get a little juicy.
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The problem isn't the technological one.
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It's a political one. If we truly want to confront the
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power held by the big social media companies, we need to go
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in the opposite direction of what the web three cult is
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trying to take a look at the profit motive within the
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industry. Look at adequate regulation, I
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go so far as saying, the only way to solve the problem with a
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large social media companies is to remove business and it from
22:23
the whole equation. It's almost like this person is
22:27
starting to not understand human incentive is.
22:29
This is just like the anti-communist episode like, is
22:32
this? What it's about.
22:35
So hold on here. Okay, this is where the, this is
22:37
where we are. This is where we wrap up.
22:40
A radical standpoint would be to further.
22:43
Democratizer it is again we're fucking use that word.
22:47
All democracy, democracy, democracy.
22:49
It's like, man. Yeah.
22:52
So here we go. The radical standpoint would be
22:54
to further democratize our monetary system and to look at
22:57
getting rid of money entirely in the far future Bitcoin isn't
23:04
radical. It's a step backwards towards
23:07
marketization, not D democratization, giving more
23:12
power to owners of capital know, giving more power to people that
23:16
are willing to put in the work and have low time preference.
23:21
Anyways, I always find it hilarious.
23:23
People suggest that cryptocurrencies are confronting
23:26
any power. So this person did a great job
23:29
with the dismantling of web 3 was interesting.
23:31
They were able to see through enough of the bullshit, but
23:34
because they don't understand the promise of proof of work,
23:39
they completely completely misunderstand.
23:42
Why Bitcoin exists. And I find this absolutely
23:46
hilarious. That this, this person's
23:48
argument, completely unravel and fall apart in their final
23:52
statement. My ways.
23:54
Am I the only one that finds it? Funny that Communists don't
23:57
understand proof-of-work. Like that's fucking hilarious.
24:01
What do you mean? We can't just print more Nico.
24:04
Oh man. No, but we must heat.
24:07
Look is so. So I forgot to tell BJ that,
24:10
that is the hardest section to sit through for guests because
24:13
it's we forgot the one we forgot to warn him.
24:16
So now we're telling, you know, I kind of fascinating you know
24:19
what I just read or what you just read the equivalent of
24:23
Ringwraith, read maths and you start to learn algebra and
24:26
taking a 8 and the teachers, like, how did you get that
24:30
answer? The number is 8.
24:33
It's like I have no idea how I got to the right conclusion.
24:36
I just know. It's right, that's all that
24:37
matters, right? Oh man, but the the guy just
24:42
visualize it in my head. I thought I was so funny because
24:44
I know exactly what you're talking about.
24:45
Got to remember, I had that memory of no.
24:48
But the so spot on But the wrong solution and actually, you know,
24:55
this kind of ties into, you know, the tragedy of Fiat in the
24:59
the what the Fiat does to the economic system, right?
25:02
Because you have a lot of young people and this is happening in
25:04
Canada is a great point for BJ to Riff on where the Fiat has
25:09
fucked up the economy so bad that rightly.
25:13
So A lot of people are disillusioned with it, but what
25:17
they get wrong is that they think that the economic system
25:20
is broken and they're like socialism is the What they don't
25:24
understand is that the money is broken, the money is what's been
25:29
stealing from you. And if you fix the money, you
25:32
fix the world and you fix capitalism, because we're not
25:36
right now. This isn't capitalism.
25:38
This is crony capitalism, right? The top of the pyramid,
25:41
politicians under that Bankers, then the upper class and the
25:45
middle class and the lower class, right?
25:47
Socialism is terrible, it's the ruling class and then everybody
25:52
else, right? We and essentially the solution
25:56
to, this is a more write, it upward Mobility up and down.
26:00
And the upper class is essentially like it's the people
26:03
that are the most productive, the people that earned it the
26:05
most, not the parasitic bureaucrats, not the government
26:08
officials. I don't believe that someone who
26:11
wins a popularity contest, should be the most popular.
26:14
I mean, should be the most powerful person.
26:16
I think that's, it's just, and you see that in society, right?
26:19
You see how inefficient economies become?
26:21
Because of the heavy hand of government Anyways, that's just
26:24
my opinion, BJ. What do you think?
26:26
Well, I think, you know, in terms of the Canadian
26:28
experience, some Canadians will get upset at me and others will
26:32
say in completely, right? When I always talk about the
26:34
difference between a cannon America, when Americans ask me,
26:38
how is it different one fundamental way?
26:41
Have the United States gained its independence as fuddle?
26:45
You fought a war for it. How did Canada gained its
26:48
independence? But we just waited.
26:50
Yeah. You waited to the queen said,
26:52
okay, you can have it now. Sort of thing and that is kind
26:55
of. And he's still the queen as she
26:57
still a queen. Yeah.
27:02
So they're they're they're sitting there and that's why the
27:05
solution is always 0. Just go back to the government
27:08
that will that will always solve a, that will solve our problem,
27:11
no matter what, and people are slowly, starting to realize that
27:14
people in the western Canon Alberta no coincidence.
27:18
It was settled by a large part of Alberta was settled by Texans
27:21
that they do, have the very Eric, an approach of
27:24
Independence when you got to fight for your freedom.
27:27
But that's that's not transferable to the rest of the
27:30
country. And that's really what's killing
27:32
it right now, that people just don't understand, you need to
27:35
fight for that Independence, right?
27:38
And at least with, you know, Bitcoin and my opinion, we found
27:42
that common denominator where allows those people who want to
27:46
resist, but they're a little bit more passive.
27:48
They just want to do it in a, you know, passive aggressive
27:50
manner. Just like, I'll just take this
27:52
money over here. And stay quiet in the corner and
27:55
that's why it's gaining popularity, right?
27:56
You, you actually brought up an amazing point b.j. and you did
28:00
it by accident. And there is a tweet that I said
28:03
today and it completely correlates what you're saying
28:06
and let me read it to you because it's great.
28:08
Original thought I said taking Bitcoin into Cold Storage is a
28:13
revolutionary act. If enough people do it, we went
28:16
right, and essentially, that's it.
28:19
That Bitcoin is a peaceful Revolution.
28:21
All you do is you opt out of System.
28:24
And what that does is it takes power away from them.
28:26
There's no guns. There's no violence.
28:28
That's it. They have to use violence in
28:31
order to stop that but the problem is it's that it's they
28:35
don't have the asymmetric advantage that they used to
28:37
have, right? Because before it was just a
28:40
handful of centralized custodians that they had to go
28:43
after nowadays. If enough people take self
28:46
custody, especially in America, right?
28:48
I know Trudeau took away the guns because that's what they
28:50
always do, right? There's more guns.
28:53
Ends in the United States in there, is people?
28:55
Good luck trying to show up Texans knocking down the doors
29:00
and say, give me your private, why?
29:01
Right? Like it's it's, you know, it's
29:04
interesting Phil. So I lied IM sorry.
29:06
I just want to add one thing before.
29:08
So the guns were gone in Canada way before Trudeau.
29:10
When I was a, nobody took away the assault rifles, do I?
29:14
Yes, he took away the. Hold on, hold on.
29:16
He also listed on the banned guns list, www.a are 15.com I'm
29:23
not even kidding. So, that's the incompetence of
29:26
our government. They just did a Google search of
29:28
AR-15 grabbed the whole bunch of lists of things and then threw
29:32
that into the bill. And that's what it ended up
29:35
being bands. Whole bunch of guns that weren't
29:37
even AR-15s. And, like, six different domains
29:41
that had are 15 and are in the Bill and then they voted on it.
29:45
So, yeah, it's ridiculous. And I'm sorry, I just, I just
29:49
wanted to finish by adding, right?
29:50
We had way back in the late 90s. Early 2000s.
29:54
We had the gun registry that came out in Canada, right?
29:56
And that was costing Canadians, three billion dollars a year for
30:00
legitimate gun owners that have to.
30:03
Now all of a sudden register all the firearms in their home and I
30:06
want you to think about this which criminal is registering
30:09
their firearm. The criminals aren't registering
30:11
their firearms, only the legitimate, it is the dumbest
30:14
thing in the world. So you know what?
30:16
It's a whole bunch of mistakes and they just keep snowballing.
30:19
Anyways, no, he just on that issue.
30:22
Something always Remember making good people, hopeless does not
30:27
make bad people harmless. Very important to remember that?
30:32
That's that's a, that's some wise words, right?
30:34
I feel every wise you learn that from experience.
30:37
But yeah, it's, you know, it's unfortunate, you know?
30:40
And but I but like I always say, right?
30:42
The the in this world of Darkness, Bitcoin is The Shining
30:46
Light Of Hope. And I think that it gives us a
30:48
very good opportunity to too You know, to save Humanity, from
30:55
tyranny because and I always say this, right the future ahead of
30:59
us is very obvious, right? Central Bank, digital
31:02
currencies, which are going to knebel Total tire needs slavery
31:06
or Bitcoin, which is going to enable Freedom.
31:08
That is the future ahead of us. There is no in-between rights
31:12
off. You skated right now, the battle
31:13
lines, but you'll see. It become more and more defined
31:15
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31:53
X. Anyways, I basically only hang
31:55
out with bitcoiners at this point.
31:57
The food is poisoned the money's broken.
31:59
Democracy is a sham. It's all EFT.
32:01
We must rebuild the new. Who the fuck starts a
32:05
conversation like that? I just said that I don't have
32:08
Normie friends because this is what I say to them is no joke.
32:14
No joke. I met up with a friend.
32:16
One of my high school, I brought him up a couple times on the
32:20
show works for Goldman, haven't seen him in a long time.
32:23
Time, right? Went to go.
32:24
Get coffee with him. The hour and a half that we met
32:28
an hour. I was just talking about Bitcoin
32:31
and I was saying shit like this. And the look on his face was
32:36
like that. Oh man, I just don't understand.
32:43
This is his freedom we're fighting peaceful Revolution.
32:46
Anyways my name is Peter Schiff. Yeah there you go.
32:49
Mining gold and Mining Bitcoin. It's very true.
32:52
My price of gold just collapsed today.
32:57
We're just going to keep right now.
32:58
It's been about the same price for a decade.
33:00
Gold has literally been at the same price for a decade.
33:03
Anyways, this is a Lloyd. Good morning, savings going
33:07
between asset, spending using the lightning Network.
33:10
That's interesting, feel that's pretty good.
33:12
It's they're letting you know that Bitcoin is a medium of
33:15
exchange. It's pretty basic Phil.
33:17
You gotta step up a step up. The meantime, go Lloyd, put the
33:20
tweet. I figured I'd see, you know,
33:22
throw it in there. Okay, okay.
33:23
Who's collect, come on. Listen, I don't know when
33:25
developers need Okay, our time I am giving him a i dude I don't
33:30
censor man that you got to Step Up Your Meme game Bros.
33:33
Okay good boy come on girl Chris okay you could do it.
33:36
Alright anyways bye I loves this guy.
33:39
Okay, go so I can pick cotton. There we go.
33:41
No naka die. I always support the current
33:44
thing. I always oppose, the current
33:46
thing, you're both cheap. This is what we mean in the
33:51
beginning. When we said that, we are a
33:53
political in this sense because these are the traditional
33:57
tropes. This is what you're looking at
33:59
Bitcoin is opting out of that saying yo listen just just you
34:03
do you bro? Just leave me the fuck alone,
34:05
right? And that's what Bitcoin enables
34:07
you to do. Anyways, moving on.
34:09
This is the power of Twitter, right?
34:11
It's narrative, trench warfare. It allows very public figures
34:14
and allows the average person just to respond to them and
34:17
sometimes the best responses are memes.
34:19
Remember this narrative trench warfare that were fighting, if
34:23
tweets are bullets memes. Artillery.
34:25
Anyways, anyway, Ilan sweets. If our Twitter bid is succeeds,
34:29
we will defeat the spam Bots or die trying.
34:31
That's really scary and authenticate, All Humans.
34:34
I like Sailors approach to this where you deposit Bitcoin in
34:39
escrow and essentially if you spam or for whatever you lose
34:42
the escrow, right? I don't like the bureaucratic
34:47
upload your ID approach, right? I think some of the beauty of
34:51
Twitter is the anonymity and of course the fellow pleb like
34:55
always what makes you human? Men to love and care for others,
34:58
selecting all images with traffic lights, so good.
35:03
I hope it's that easy. Anyways, Moving On by Patrick.
35:07
I lied. I don't have Netflix, take off
35:10
your shoes were watching, simply Bitcoin and eating steak.
35:12
Oh, that's hilarious. Okay.
35:14
Awesome memes. Phil, you could have done
35:17
better, bro especially for this caliber of guests.
35:20
I'm so sorry. You know, I am under freaking
35:25
whelmed. You know what you need to do?
35:27
You need to search Hong Kong they tortured, true?
35:31
Do with Hong Kong, and I'm going to suggest to people all around
35:35
the world. If Trent just Justin Trudeau
35:37
comes to your city or your country, you might want to get a
35:41
few hundred thousand of your closest friends, go to the
35:44
local, Walmart, or equivalent and buy some emergency, air
35:49
horns, and then show up to wherever he speaking.
35:52
And every time that stupid black face mouth opens, Just everybody
35:58
in unison, just porked, her him all over the world would be
36:01
great. I think he has nightmares about
36:03
that, you know, like like you except in the middle and I like
36:06
talking the Hawking, I make it stop.
36:10
Oh, man, friends. He was nowhere near there, all
36:12
the honking. That's what was so funny about
36:14
all the pictures, like the logging truck and whatever it
36:17
was right in front of his office.
36:18
It was hysterical. That's why we called it
36:20
Trudeau's truck. Stop.
36:22
It wasn't that it was, I'm just happy that I Of through that
36:26
moment in history. Like I say it's very sad but
36:30
also I think it was historic and I think it's important.
36:33
I think it. Yeah.
36:33
Because it ripped off the Band-Aid, right?
36:36
Like I don't think it's over, don't think it's always, of
36:38
course, is not over. It's just beginning.
36:40
That was the beginning, right? Anyways, for those memes, Phil,
36:43
I'm going to give it a Lucho Poletti package that I haven't
36:48
opened yet. I'm going to show it tomorrow
36:50
but it says fragile, like Drew dozy ego.
36:56
What did you get? You'll see tomorrow.
37:00
Oh my God. Okay, well look, I didn't think
37:04
those memes were so terrible but I do apologize.
37:06
I could have stepped up my game for BJ.
37:08
This is true. I can't take that away from
37:10
Nico, but I am going to give it this awesome score this.
37:14
Fantastic mean that we got today from an ER, and a rug Tisha
37:19
Sokka. Take a look at this.
37:22
I don't know how well you can see that.
37:25
I'll pop it up. I'll pop it.
37:26
I'll put it. Yeah, you pop it up.
37:27
It's awesome. It's essentially, it's
37:29
essentially us as the peaky blinders, which is a pretty
37:33
awesome show. I don't remember on which
37:35
network. But yeah, it's essentially the
37:37
the Bitcoin simply bitcoind crew as a bunch of old-school 20s
37:42
gangsters. So I thought that was a pretty
37:44
cool name. So thank you.
37:45
It was pretty good. I'll pop it up for you guys.
37:48
Unfortunately tamim for the meme review as a team store Nico.
37:52
This is good. This is triple matter is
37:55
Something is as a score as well. Yeah, finally.
37:58
Give us your money. My free and cheesy Bitcoin, 22
38:04
sunglasses that I got from the conference that make me look
38:08
like a Don Johnson wanna be stuck in 1984, you look like you
38:13
look like you live in Miami. Okay.
38:15
That when you put those on, no, I look like a tourist in Miami.
38:20
Everything should have a palm tree on it, right?
38:25
Don't you own the tourists? Don't quite get the Miami.
38:29
Look quite right. It's like they think they could
38:32
go to a store and just buy the second.
38:34
Good thing. This is Miami.
38:37
So I want to know who it be coin shows these.
38:39
I mean it is wonderful. Great touch, love them.
38:42
But I'm like guys I don't know. This is definitely appealing to
38:45
the Taurus. I think, I think people just are
38:49
happy, they got the orange sunglasses but I agree.
38:51
I agree. Definitely pick up my meter,
38:53
that's for sure. Anyways, guys, we want to know
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39:47
Alright everybody. So we drop this news yesterday
39:52
and apparently no BS B. When pulled it up, no one has
39:56
said anything to the contrary. So again it hasn't been
40:00
confirmed confirmed but tonight I would say it's like 75% there.
40:05
So first African country adopts, Bitcoin currency, I found
40:09
multiple sources, the Central African Republic adopts,
40:12
cryptocurrency apparently, they made it legal tender, right?
40:16
And I also got another confirmation, right?
40:19
This is back with Elena. He's been on the show, run with
40:21
Bitcoin central Africa, Republic adopts, Bitcoin of Course the
40:24
plebs asking for the sauce and apparently Paco De La.
40:28
India has a close friend in the government.
40:30
So, apparently legal tender has another country made Bitcoin
40:36
legal tender. The Central African Republic
40:38
makes perfect sense. Like, we've always said on the
40:41
show that countries that are going to adopt Bitcoin, the
40:44
fascist, are the countries that least benefit from the Legacy
40:47
Financial system. The Central African Republic is
40:49
a very poor country like El Salvador, right?
40:52
So they have the greatest incentive to try.
40:54
I something new right and what what better option than you
40:58
know, the best money than the history of mankind Bitcoin.
41:01
So I'm going to pass it on to BJ first, BJ, what are your
41:04
thoughts? I don't think a lot of people
41:05
know that much about the Central African Republic.
41:08
I, it's literally a country in the middle of Africa.
41:10
I mean, obviously, the Central African, but you get, I'm trying
41:13
to say, right? I don't think a lot of, you
41:15
know, like I've never really heard of it, but if that's cool,
41:18
I guess, right now, what are your thoughts, PJ?
41:21
I was little bit surprised because I do know of to other
41:23
countries that are apparently going to be adopting Bitcoin, as
41:27
legal tender this year, one of those countries, one of the
41:30
people that I am working with and we've formed a board for an
41:34
initiative is plugged into the Central Bank in one of those
41:37
countries. A very, very large Latin
41:39
American country whose name starts with the letter M by the
41:43
way and I was surprised that it would be coming, you know,
41:48
unannounced. But hey at the same time I'm
41:51
also not surprised because people are seeing what's
41:53
happening outside. Door that not only has it solved
41:57
the D Banking and remittance issue, but their GDP has
42:02
increased by 10% in less than a year.
42:04
So if I'm running a small economy in the middle of Africa
42:08
and I'm looking for something to a to enrich myself because well
42:12
that's what politicians do. But at the same time elevate my
42:17
the standard of living in my country and also making maybe
42:20
make some news and get some attention around my country.
42:23
This is Is really the way to do it and I think you're going to
42:26
see a lot of countries do this and you know, like people always
42:29
say what's going to happen with Bitcoin simple slow slowly then
42:33
all at once and I think you're going to see a rush for the door
42:36
too soon. Absolutely, that's question.
42:41
Before I pass it on to fill. What has been the pushback by
42:45
The Establishment plow Powers because we have seen the
42:48
comments by the IMF, right? Obviously, the United States,
42:51
you know, has you know, because they use the Or as a weapon
42:55
really? What has been the push back at?
42:57
You know, and I think in Argentina, there was a big
43:00
momentum also to push it. I know ain't on Doris, that was
43:03
the case, right? That was the case.
43:05
And I know that, you know, the Central Bank, all of a sudden
43:08
had a little switch. So I think the IMF had their
43:10
hands on that. What what have you seen so far
43:14
and what could you tell us? Of course.
43:16
Well, it for the, from the Canadian perspective.
43:18
It's very interesting because we do have a leadership race on the
43:22
conservative side and not to get Political.
43:25
But this is just related to bitcoin and the front runner or
43:29
I'll just say he's the person who's decided that the lobbyists
43:32
and establishment have decided he's going to be the winner has
43:35
come out in full force in support of Bitcoin and against
43:39
Steve edc's. And that's be doing part because
43:43
some many influential people who I've gotten to know in the
43:46
Bitcoin space have been pushing behind the scenes, educating him
43:50
meeting with him explaining, why?
43:54
Such an economic benefit to Canada for all the reasons that
43:58
we know. And this Leaders name is, this
44:01
guy's name is Pierre. Paul of reason, I'm happy, he's
44:04
the perfect person to do that just because he's an economics
44:08
guy. Everybody always complains that,
44:11
you know, he's kind of I don't say boring and he really tears
44:15
Trudeau and new one. But in terms of his policy, it's
44:17
always about, you know, a tax break and incentive and
44:20
whatever. And it's they reached out to his
44:22
the Hey listen, what greater and Incentive.
44:24
Do you want then Bitcoin which is not only freedom but you can
44:29
also lay the path perhaps for a more collateralized economy.
44:33
You can have all sorts of financial systems that you can
44:36
be built upon Bitcoin which is completely verifiable.
44:40
It doesn't have the opaqueness of the current Financial system
44:44
and to his credit met because he's young.
44:47
I think he's a genetics or like myself and feel.
44:50
He might even be a little bit younger than that, but he is
44:53
adopted and Is the first politician in Canadian history
44:57
to ever do a transaction, using the Bitcoin lightning Network in
45:02
a restaurant in London, Ontario. So, in terms of the Canadian
45:07
experience, I think things are quite optimistic at this point.
45:11
And, and I just want to add to that, right?
45:13
It we started the show, right? Painting a picture of Canada
45:17
right in a certain way where it's like.
45:19
Wow, it's really heading into darkness, But Here Comes the
45:22
honey badger even with with all that bureaucratic Mo Bitcoin
45:27
still finds a way. Remember incentives or more,
45:29
powerful than coercion. Phil what are your thoughts on
45:34
this? My friend so just quickly you
45:37
know as your as we're talking about this country that just
45:39
adopted Bitcoin it occurred to me and of course would be J is
45:42
explaining with the I'm sorry. Is it?
45:45
Peter pallavi are here. Pull over here.
45:49
I was by the way Phil, hold on. I want to give a shout out to
45:52
all the Canadians and made this happen to and there's a A lot of
45:54
them that I'm not going to mention two heaney's.
45:56
Greg Faust, Jeff Booth BT sessions.
45:59
You guys rock. I know that you guys push this a
46:02
lot. Those are the ones that I'm
46:03
friendly with. I'm sure there's a lot many, you
46:06
know, behind the scenes, but you guys really are Freedom.
46:09
Fighters, BJ. So, I just want to give you guys
46:11
a shout out, anyways? Phil sorry.
46:13
Well for once I didn't forget what I was going to say, so
46:15
that's fantastic. Yeah, my brain is working.
46:17
Okay. So anyways, my point is, is that
46:20
what I'm seeing here is that the incentives of Bitcoin are Just
46:24
once again, disrupting yet another place that bitcoiners
46:29
already for saw that. We were going to disrupt, but I
46:32
think politicians weren't ready for what was coming and what
46:35
we're seeing essentially, right? I think what we're going to see
46:38
is this, we're going to see the the politicians and public
46:43
figures that are money. Spigot maximalists.
46:46
Okay. And we're going to see the ones
46:47
that are hard money maximalist. And this is what is I think
46:50
going to come about it's not going to make a difference
46:52
anymore. What your political party
46:54
affiliation? Creation is you are either their
46:57
rent seeking and willing to take all the handouts from all the
47:00
shitty money, or you're there to provide value when you want to
47:03
build with Bitcoin and the other piece that I wanted to mention
47:06
was this. The IMF does not mention the GDP
47:11
number from from El Salvador and the only time they mention
47:14
anything about El Salvador. It's to say that they are having
47:17
more problems than ever more upheavals than ever.
47:21
And also on that point it made me think where the hell is Is
47:24
Steve hanky bin? Normally he's all ready to dump
47:27
all over Bitcoin. We haven't seen him in weeks.
47:30
Anyways, just some thoughts, I think Steve Hank, he's hiding in
47:35
his cave, you know. And I think that him and Peter
47:38
Schiff are like, I would say, you know, within two three, four
47:43
countries, they'll just spontaneously combust, you know,
47:46
just at all that. Like just don't fight the honey
47:50
badger, just join the team, but I think that they're I think
47:54
they do. Double down so heavy on their
47:56
bets that, you know, those old cartoons would like the face
47:59
just gets red and the smoke starts coming out of the ears.
48:02
You know, that's what I'm picturing really.
48:04
So I'm going to pass it back to bjbj you.
48:07
I like I was mentioning earlier, you were part of a historic
48:10
moment man. How how did Bitcoin facilitate
48:16
things that you think would not be possible, Right?
48:20
How did it? How did it again?
48:22
It goes back to something that I've been touching upon.
48:24
Upon, if you guys been watching the show right where Bitcoin,
48:28
essentially changes the balance of power, where this has never
48:31
happened in human history, right?
48:33
Where it changes the balance of power from the state to the
48:36
individual. So BJ, how would you like?
48:40
You know, drop us some stories, man.
48:43
Honestly, I mean, we're doing a book right now because there's
48:47
so many stories that women on over those that month or so that
48:51
every day was a life-changing experience.
48:54
At least for me, but in terms of Bitcoin and how it changed
48:57
things I might do, this was the template like look at it, this
49:00
way, we had the GoFundMe, we hit 110 Point 1 million dollars and
49:06
behind-the-scenes. The local city government was
49:09
trying to Lobby GoFundMe to ban our campaign.
49:14
They were ultimately successful. After the first one point,
49:17
something million was transferred, and then blocked by
49:22
TD Bank. So the banking system blocked
49:25
that GoFundMe returned all the funding and by the way, just a
49:30
little asterisks. When GoFundMe announced that
49:32
they're going to cancel our campaign after a few weeks, I
49:36
think because it was, they said, and we're going to keep the
49:39
money and we're going to give it to accredited Charities of our
49:42
choice and then again, this is not political.
49:46
But Florida, man, Ron DeSantis Came Out Swinging again and said
49:51
that sounds like criminal fraud, I think.
49:54
Should have an investigation into GoFundMe is dealings and
49:57
their terms of service and GoFundMe responded with no, no,
50:00
it's okay. We're going to return it.
50:02
He returned it. Okay.
50:04
And when we went to the next platform which was a fee of bees
50:08
based platform, give send, go the same thing happened, we
50:12
raised four and a half million dollars in a day in one day and
50:16
then ultimately 12. I think it was around twelve
50:19
million dollars. I was on the finance side of
50:21
things but just what the board told me.
50:24
And you know 3.5 I think was transferred and then Frozen by
50:29
stripe and then the remainder was held by Gibson go for a
50:34
period of time and the government, the Ontario
50:38
government, a conservative government.
50:40
So this is one for the Lefty bitcoiners.
50:43
So you can't say it's not always just you guys, the conservative,
50:47
Premier, Doug Ford, the brother of Rob, Ford who you remember
50:50
from the crack videos? He put it in.
50:54
Jungshin on any money that gives cengo collected for the freedom
50:58
Convoy which prevented that money from even coming into the
51:02
country. But you know, it was going on
51:04
the entire time people in the Bitcoin world were raising
51:08
money. They set up a tally coin, they
51:10
were collecting it. And if there was a team of guys,
51:14
they came in into my room they said, hey we're Bitcoin good to
51:18
meet you. We just want to meet you
51:19
face-to-face said great, like they're awesome.
51:22
I don't know how they did it. They When they did paper
51:25
wallets, multiple different walls, they went to truckers,
51:27
they taught them how to download, explain what Bitcoin
51:30
is gave them. A few SATs is a trial and then
51:33
they walked around and we're giving I believe, it was eight
51:36
thousand dollars to each trucker for coming out to Ottawa, to try
51:41
to save our country and save that word that the political
51:44
class loves, which is democracy, Steve, our democracy, and to
51:49
help some, in a couple of them just broke down in tears
51:52
because, you know, they, they missed it.
51:54
Payment. They didn't know how they're
51:55
going to make the next payment. They have their mortgage and all
51:59
that sort of stuff and they're not wealthy people there,
52:01
middle-class people, small business people and they felt
52:06
like they were at the end of the ropes.
52:07
A lot of these people started losing contracts because they
52:10
couldn't go cross border anymore.
52:14
I know of two people specifically that were told by
52:17
their doctors your high risk for.
52:20
I don't know, I'm not a doctor. I don't remember the name of the
52:23
this the Illness that they have, but they should stem away from
52:27
getting a second dose after a, massive negative reaction of the
52:32
first one. And so they lost their gigs.
52:35
Crossing the border. So for them to get this eight
52:39
thousand dollars from the Bitcoin Community.
52:43
I hate that word but you know what I'm getting at.
52:46
It was not only life-changing for them but you talk about
52:50
eye-opening it would they went from?
52:52
Oh yeah. Maybe it's interesting,
52:53
whatever. Like this thing has just saved
52:57
my business, I have to learn what it is and I don't know if I
53:01
mentioned this to you. Niko at any time, I think go on
53:04
a regular radio program in Toronto once every week once
53:08
every couple weeks. So I'm going to 960 with Mark
53:10
Patron. He's a very well-known
53:12
journalist there and his audience is mainly Boomers and
53:18
the reason I have that guy on my Twitter account is because after
53:22
so many episode, they started sending him.
53:24
Email saying yeah, who's that guy who comes in and talking
53:28
about the Bitcoin thing? I'm starting to read about it.
53:32
Can you bring them on? Because I'm curious about this
53:35
because everybody sees what's going on with monetary policy in
53:38
the world and inflation. And it's not even that they love
53:41
Bitcoin or something else. They just they need something.
53:44
And when this alternative is coming down the pipeline,
53:46
they're like, okay, I'm open to learning to see what it is.
53:49
And we're doing our best to orange bill.
53:52
As many of those people as possible.
53:53
But Had to see it man on the ground.
53:55
It was crazy. Hey, I could imagine.
53:58
And you know why I've been educating on bitcoin for about
54:02
six years now and something that I've noticed right?
54:05
Is that in Western countries usually when you tell people
54:10
about Bitcoin you know they're attracted for the speculative
54:13
reasons, right? What I've noticed in developing
54:17
countries right is that they adopt Bitcoin out of necessity
54:22
and and what happened in Canada is an example of necessity,
54:27
right? An example of a situation where
54:30
you need a political money, that doesn't have a political bias
54:35
and this isn't just happening in Canada, right?
54:37
This is happening in Nigeria. This happened in Turkey, this is
54:40
happening in Afghanistan. This happening in Venezuela, is
54:43
happening in Cuba, right? Cube of, and as well
54:45
Afghanistan, all cut off from the financial system because of
54:49
what your us politicians, think. You know what's the only thing
54:52
that still works? Bitcoin, right?
54:55
And that's the importance of, this is a worldwide phenomenon
54:59
and I think BJ you just gave an onto ground example of the power
55:05
of Bitcoin and the power that it gives the individual.
55:09
Where before he was essentially hopeless, right?
55:12
And I think that is the beauty of Bitcoin not to mention the
55:15
number go up technology right? As well.
55:18
You know it's just all this come together and all of a sudden
55:21
like I said earlier in a world full of Darkness.
55:24
Hope. Anyways, guys, before we wrap
55:26
up, I BJ. What is the initiative that you
55:30
guys are launching to help truckers?
55:33
Why don't you talk a little bit about that.
55:35
So there's the number of people who have been supporting the
55:38
trucker Convoy the entire time they seem what's going on.
55:42
They are in the Bitcoin space and they're launching an
55:46
initiative, called honking for Freedom, which will be launched
55:49
some time in the month of May keeps keeps getting delayed for
55:54
A number of reasons, but in May at some point it'll be long
55:58
which probably early in the month.
56:00
And the idea is there are many truckers who had received
56:04
citations and penalties or charges from the Canadian
56:09
government. So part of the initiative is
56:12
going to be to raise money for those truckers last, I checked,
56:15
because I'm working communicating them with certain
56:18
people and organizations defending them.
56:21
There's at least 35 Truckers That, that were subjected to
56:27
fines or penalties or charges. So that's one initiative.
56:31
The second thing is, there's a lot of people who want
56:34
retribution and don't want the government to be able to get
56:36
away with what they did. And they want to see some legal
56:40
action, not only against the government but the, the fake
56:44
news media. So it's going to be raising
56:46
money to file specific defamation suits against members
56:52
of the media. Who way.
56:54
Way over step the lines with their journalistic
56:58
accreditation. Remember you need a license to
57:00
be a journalist in Canada now and they would like to see those
57:04
organizations that defamed either Bitcoin bitcoiners
57:08
people, whatever pejoratives that were laid, unfairly and
57:13
unjustly. They want to see some sort of
57:15
aggressive action and the other is third-party activism to help
57:20
educate people in terms of what happened there.
57:24
Kind of ties. Some of these people have what
57:27
Bitcoin can do for freedom and what it did for people in the
57:32
trucking Convoy to kind of better educate people across the
57:36
political Spectrum, by the way. So when people say to me, like,
57:39
I'm not terribly right wing, I'm definitely a center-right, maybe
57:42
center, right? But I don't want to take away
57:45
the rights from people, who on the opposite side of the
57:48
spectrum, I want them to be able to protest as well.
57:51
It's their, right? And I will protect their right
57:54
to. To speak much like I'll protect
57:56
my right to speak and Bitcoin allows them to do that.
57:59
So I caution them when they want to get on the side of censorship
58:04
and help support anybody in Government, doesn't matter.
58:06
Your party who wants to quash speech and quash, Bitcoin, and
58:10
quash, free money. You know what, that may
58:13
Boomerang around and hit you in the skull really hard.
58:17
You might want to be a little bit more open, so the
58:19
initiatives can be called honking for freedom, and one of
58:22
the people on my board who Need to tell everybody he's well not
58:26
on my board but on the board his name is Jeffrey wernick.
58:29
Jeffrey is if you searched him online he's an OG B.
58:33
Coiner started mining in 2009 was a financial guy he's been
58:38
involved in some projects, you've heard of parlor Rumble
58:43
number of other things. Another other people that have
58:46
been propping up in the space for some time, great guy, he's
58:51
really motivated by this and they're putting together.
58:54
Either a team that will help further this Initiative for
58:57
everybody to fight back irrespective of your political
59:01
affiliation. Because again, unlike what the
59:03
fake news wants to say, I had many conversations with people
59:07
who are former School Board, trustees people that were from
59:11
the NDP, the former, for the far-left party in Canada.
59:15
Who said, you know, I might disagree with you on certain
59:17
perspectives but we all have to agree on freedom and the right
59:21
to speak and we need to respect each other's.
59:24
Right to speak up and learn to you two, love each other and to
59:27
the unify, and if we do that, then we'll get freedom.
59:31
Because that's what happens when the media and politicians get
59:35
out of the way. We all start to come together
59:38
irrespective of our differences. Absolutely.
59:40
And I didn't, you know, I think that most all bitcoiners really
59:45
are Libertarians right. Whether it's libertarian left or
59:48
libertarian, right? You know, it's about allowing
59:52
the people that you don't, Agree with right?
59:55
Which is why Bitcoin is called the money of enemies, right?
59:58
To, you know, the, what's the, what's the famous quote from
1:00:01
Voltaire? I might not agree what you have
1:00:03
to say, but I'll fight to the death, defending it, something
1:00:06
like that. And I think that really
1:00:09
encompasses Bitcoin we could. And I think that the founding
1:00:11
fathers in America, really understood this concept very
1:00:14
well, right? And again, it's because they
1:00:16
fought a war, right? And it's very simple, right?
1:00:19
The person that gets to decide what is misinformation, and what
1:00:22
is not becomes a Higher ed. So what is the other option?
1:00:26
Just let the free market of ideas.
1:00:28
Figure it out, right? Let people come to their own
1:00:30
conclusions, but of course, the central planners, they think
1:00:34
they know what's best, right? And if you don't agree with
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them, you're dangerous to democracy, and that's
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misinformation. But anyways, feel there was an
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Thank you. Phil our guy now was gonna
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correct you. By the way, if you said version
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223 I was like no it's point. And what I've also heard to
1:01:44
write is that Bitcoin will never be version 1.0 because her ever
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be completed. So I've also heard that as well
1:01:50
so I'm glad you caught that Phil you're a Bitcoin or man.
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Her. And so, really, it's about who
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controls the narrative, right? That's really how the world
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works today. And I think that BJ you played a
1:02:33
role man in, you know, the the, the the liberation of Canada,
1:02:38
really? That's what I've seen, right?
1:02:40
And I love how you guys ran into Bitcoin and you're using Bitcoin
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