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Is Bitcoin Being Manipulated Like Gold and Silver?| Simply Originals · Simply Bitcoin

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  Why is it so important that the US become the leader in digital
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  assets? Is it because Bill Gates is
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  making it clear that he wants to control your payments, your
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  health records, in your food through a digital ID?
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  Is it because leaders from the IMF say that they want to
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  control all of your transactions and tax away your wealth for the
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  freedom of the globe? Is it because President Obama
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  admits that aliens are real? Today I'm going to breakdown why
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  we need the United States to become the leader in digital
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  assets around the world. To help us avoid a dystopian
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  future, I'm going to give few updates on where progress stands
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  with the crypto market structure bill.
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  But I'm also going to give us the sobering side.
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  Why? Too much entanglement with the
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  government in Trifi can lead us to manipulated markets like
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  we've seen for decades with gold and silver.
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  Will Bitcoin be manipulated like silver and gold?
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  I hope not, but it's possible. Let's dig into it today.
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  This is Dante Cook with Bitcoin. Simply, let's go.
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  Well, you know, I mean the nation bought Alaska and bought
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  Texas and bought California, bought the Louisiana Territory.
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  They're all very good investments.
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  We think about Greenland right now.
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  That's on the top of everybody's tongue.
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  What's pretty clear is that you're going to want to be the
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  leader in digital intelligence, that's AI, and you're going to
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  be the leader in digital assets if if the nation doesn't buy
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  most of the Bitcoin network. At the very least, what we want
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  is constructive policies so that United States companies buy and
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  United State's investors buy digital assets.
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  And that way the taxpayers and the nation benefits from their
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  efforts. I agree with this take from
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  Michael Saylor. the US becoming the leader in digital assets
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  will be great for the United States from an economic
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  standpoint. It's sort of like the Internet,
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  which there are a lot of proponents that wanted to ban
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  that, wanted to remove that, wanted to censor the Internet.
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  But the United States took the right path in removing the
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  regulatory burdens of the Internet.
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  And in doing so, the United States is now the global leader
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  in technological innovation, in digital innovation.
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  We've created trillions of dollars in wealth through our
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  companies, but also through our people in through our stock
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  market. And it's because we let the
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  Internet innovate. And I think the same thing is
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  true right now for digital assets in crypto more broadly.
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  But the reason why we want clear rules and regulations isn't just
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  around the upside. It's to protect us from the
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  downsides. Listen to this conversation from
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  the IMF about the world that we will live in if there aren't
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  clear rules and regulations passed about Bitcoin property
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  rights and digital assets. You don't want this future you.
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  Actually have a beautiful opportunity in front of us with
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  the United States being such an unmitigated disaster as it
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  currently is. OK, so there is the opportunity
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  and within that opportunity, I would suggest three things.
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  The first one, we have to have a global asset registry.
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  We have to know who has the freaking money, and if they
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  don't want you to know that they have the money or how much money
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  they have, chances are they got it from somewhere they shouldn't
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  have gotten it from and they're spending it on something they
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  should be spending it around. So #1A global asset registry #2
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  we have to facilitate an international conversation about
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  what is enough and that if there is a number that is enough,
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  there is a number that is too much.
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  We believe that money becomes power.
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  And when power threatens your democracy, you have to take away
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  power. And the only way to take away
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  that power is by taking away the money.
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  And the only way to take away the money is taxation.
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  So #3 forgive progressivity, all right, Forgive progressivity.
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  Unless by progressivity you mean taxation that makes people less
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  rich. This is not about a 2% wealth
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  tax when somebody is getting a higher return than that.
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  This is about taxation in order to preserve human freedom, to
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  preserve it. So the urgency of the bill
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  getting passed is both economic for the United States but also
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  for the citizens. Countries like China are
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  implementing an all out assault on U.S. financial markets by
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  dumping treasuries and buying gold, propping up the hard asset
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  market while simultaneously dumping the US Treasury paper
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  market. This is why you see the US
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  Treasury Secretary Scott Besson talking urgently about the
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  Congress's need to pass this market structure bill.
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  The United States government needs this to prop up the stable
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  corn market so they can find a a new way to print debt through
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  the form of stable coins. So in a time when we are having
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  one of these historically volatile sell offs, I think some
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  clarity on the clarity bill would give great comfort to the
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  market. And you know, we we could move
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  forward from there. So it's very important to get
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  this done, but let's not think that this is going to happen
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  overnight. Here's some talking points from
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  a White House crypto advisor on where progress actually stands
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  with this market structure bill. And it seems like we're pretty
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  far off from anything actually getting implemented.
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  I'm talking Midsummer. So the status right now, the
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  House passed the Clarity Act, their version of it last year
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  over the House in July, I believe.
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  And the Senate has taken it up and made its own changes to it
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  and is fashioning their own version.
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  We were able to pass half of the bill out of the ag committee
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  that handles the CFTC portions. And now we're just stuck in the
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  Banking Committee for the SEC portions, the securities
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  portions of that bill. So there was a markup that was
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  scheduled on I believe January 18th that unfortunately got
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  pulled down, postponed. But we're working hard to
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  address the issues that were raised that led to the
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  postponement of that markup and hopefully get that back on the
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  books soon. And then once we pass that out
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  of the Banking Committee, the two pieces of the legislation
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  will need to be reconciled before a final vote on the
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  floor. So more work to be done, but
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  we're, we're a step closer with the passage of the, the ag
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  portion of this a couple weeks ago.
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  One of the real reasons why we need the United States to become
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  a leader in digital assets is because if we don't, the aliens
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  will. Are aliens real?
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  They're real, but I haven't seen them and, and, and they're not
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  being kept in. What is it, Area 51?
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  There, there's no underground facility unless there's this
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  enormous conspiracy and they they hid it from the president
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  of the United States. No, I'm just kidding.
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  But on the real side, the United States government needs the
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  economic upside. Us as individuals, we need the
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  freedom upside. We need property rights.
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  We need clear rules and regulations around what we can
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  have, what can be viewed, our privacy and limitations to what
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  the government can and can't do. The best asset that will allow
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  the United States government to both achieve their financial
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  goals by having a hard asset backing their new paper markets
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  and currencies with stable coins and also achieving the maximum
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  amount of property rights in freedom for us as individuals as
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  well as a store of value is Bitcoin.
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  But if you're a trader of Bitcoin, you will never see the
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  future. You'll never see the returns
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  that past bit corners have gotten every single time the
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  market dips, it corrects. There's one company who
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  simultaneously has helped so many people get into Bitcoin,
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  but also hurt so many people to not see the future by allowing
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  them to trade their Bitcoin. And that company is Coinbase,
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  the master of distraction. So much so that they created a
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  distraction during their earnings call.
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  They want you to keep your coins on their platform.
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  Listen to what Bryant Armstrong had to say about this.
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  So first, because Coinbase is the most trusted brand in
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  crypto, we store more crypto than any other company.
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  Assets on platform is how we track this, and it's grown about
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  3X over the last three years. We now store about 12% of all
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  crypto in the world, more than the next 4 competitors combined.
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  And you can see even in Q4, although crypto prices came
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  down, which which showed this number lowering, the overall
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  trend is very clear. And this is a big part of what
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  use the financial products where their assets reside.
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  Coinbase. Speaking plainly here, from my
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  perspective, the biggest danger in all this crypto market
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  structure bill conversation is that the more and more that you
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  get entangled with the government in tratify markets
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  and them setting clear rules and regular regulations about
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  hypothecation, about custody, about who can own what about
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  transactions, about privacy is what you're doing is you're
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  creating a synthetic market market on top of a hard money
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  asset. So this conversation like Jim
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  Bianco, although I don't agree with him much on his takes about
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  Bitcoin and crypto in general, he hits his spot on the head.
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  You can't create more than 21 million Bitcoin on chain, but
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  you can create markets around it, fractional reserve markets
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  off chain. And that's exactly the potential
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  fear that we're running into with Bitcoin that has been
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  happening to gold and silver for decades.
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  Listen to this clip here. We all talk about that Bitcoin
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  crypto, you know, deflationary as well.
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  Is, is hard money. You can't print it.
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  No, you, you're right. You can't print it on chain.
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  You can't create more than 21 million Bitcoin on chain.
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  But off chain, what we've effectively done is we've
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  created a like a, a fractional reserve system around Bitcoin.
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  So we've got we've got the ETFs, we've got borrowing by say
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  strategy that's been borrowing in the trade fine markets to buy
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  Bitcoin. We've got structured products
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  that are tied to the ETFs, which is tied to the underlying
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  Bitcoin. So what we're doing is we're
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  creating many, many billions of dollars of, of crypto buying
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  that is not on chain. It's not unlike the what we call
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  the paper gold market, the paper silver market versus the, the
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  physical market as well. It's not unlike what we do with
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  the stock market when we have derivatives, options and futures
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  and total return swaps and the like in in, in those markets as
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  well. The difference is with crypto is
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  it's new and the history of fractional reserve systems like
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  that where you're basically leveraging yourself up and kind
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  of creating more synthetic supply.
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  And the reason I say synthetic supply was it's not on chain
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  supply. It just mirrors the on chain
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  supply is that these systems are inherently these crypto are
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  these fractional reserve systems are inherently unstable.
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  That's why over hundreds of years with banking, we've got
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  the Fed, the FDIC, the OCC, the Treasury, the SEC, the CFTC.
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  We got to have these overlapping regulators to take this very
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  unstable system and try and hold it from blowing up.
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  And we've got generations that we've kind of made mistakes,
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  have had blow UPS in these markets, learn from them and
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  adjust it. Crypto is new with this kind of
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  synthetic stuff. And it, I think the real
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  catalyst for this in a big way was, yes, we had futures and
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  options, you know, from the, the crypto exchanges, from the
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  centralized exchanges forever like the bonances of the world.
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  But what really changed was these digital asset treasuries
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  in the ETFs. And now you've got a
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  representation of of crypto in the Tradfi world.
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  Now we can put options on that, futures on that, total return
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  swaps on that. We could borrow structured notes
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  on that. And we've got billions and
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  billions and billions of dollars of people that are invested in
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  playing crypto and never touching on chain.
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  And so when the market started to crack, I think it was the
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  synthetic markets that cracked. We need to be weary of all of
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  the synthetic products around Bitcoin that are not on chain
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  Bitcoin. Verify your transactions with on
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  chain addresses. See the SAT flow directly to
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  your wallet, see the transaction fees of what it took to move it
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  from there to there, and always verify your Bitcoin with your
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  keys. The regulation will come and
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  this is going to lead to volatility.
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  This is going to lead to manipulation.
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  We've seen this in the past, but as we're seeing right now with
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  silver and gold, for those of you who have a long term view in
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  a long term perspective, Bitcoin will be the store of value in a
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  digital asset future. There's no way around it.
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