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Nikcantmine | Stacking Sats For Legacy | Simply Bitcoin TTO · Simply Bitcoin

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Yeah, actually, should I did the nigga?
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Yo, now, let's get everyone. All right, super hyped for this
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one. We did a I think we did a great
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job. The last tto.
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You guys seem to enjoy the tto series and its back on the same
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Mission, man, last week. If it I didn't really plan this
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one but like this like I planned it but it's funny.
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Last week I had an awesome. Awesome, awesome Bitcoin,
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Boomer, jump in. And now I've gone on the other
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spectrum and we're going to get a Bitcoin Zoomer on here.
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And again, the goal of this series guys is, as we say all
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the time, winning the hearts and minds of the masses out there.
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And in my opinion, I don't think I could have got a better better
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Zoomer out here, Nick. And I go way back and in my
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opinion, he is the quintessential Bitcoin, ER, and
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he just met I hate to say, I hate to use the word, but he's a
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hustler and He is building things.
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And, as I named this, this episode, it's building a legacy
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with, with Bitcoin, and he is one of my favorite memes.
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So, without further Ado, I'm going to bring in Nick and I'll
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give him a little a little intro.
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But Nick, what's up, dawg? How you doing today, bro?
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Yo, how's it going? I'm doing well, happy to come on
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the show. I love team on simply LED scale
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doing wonderful unfortunately, guys.
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Guys, he didn't get cute for us, so you're going to have to deal
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with the with Ian, on Avatar. But I think I think we're going
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to start with just like context, bro.
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What do you do in Bitcoin? You got a heavy hitting title.
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So let's get that context out there.
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And then we'll, then we'll go back into like your rabbit hole
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journey and in my opinion how far you came, bro.
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Thanks. But no, I'm nobody special.
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I'm just a normal dude in Bitcoin.
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Work for Bitcoin magazine, where I'm the head of news there.
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So I run the news team and me, and my team, we cover the
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stories on our website, as well as we do.
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A lot of the social media on across all of our platforms,
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including like, the conference, and actual Bitcoin magazine.
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So, that's mainly what I do. And then in my free time, I'm
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trying to explore other opportunities and see what else?
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I can get done. Let's go, let's go.
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As I said, bro. Jill Bitcoin, Zoomer over here
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but man, I think where I want to start, bro.
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Let's go way back. Let's go way back into the
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beginning and talk about the you don't have to talk about the the
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aah Story, the infamous American handle story.
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But I want to kind of talk about how you essentially, like,
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dropped out of college to go all in on bitcoin.
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And I went to college and a lot of people ask me all the time.
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Like, yeah. I got to college and I hate I
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hate like giving people the advice of like either going or
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not going to college because like, you know, it's a very
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personal decision but I think it's very interesting when we
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talk about your story, bro. Like you literally dropped out
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when all in, on bitcoin and it's probably the best decision
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you've ever made in your life. Like, you know, from the outside
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looking in, it seems like you couldn't have made a better
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decision. So maybe you want to touch on
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this list. We don't have to give people
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advice about what they should be doing in their life.
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But can we Just go over what you were thinking when you made this
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decision. Yeah, so well it kind of started
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like when I found Bitcoin, I found my Bitcoin when I was 18,
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I was a senior in high school and I was really trying to
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figure out what I wanted to do with my life, and I had played
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travel soccer, my whole life for like a really competitive team.
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We were like top 50 in the country for a lot of my playing
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career. And I always thought that I was
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going to go to a top D1 school and play soccer and then after
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like trialing at a few different schools I ended up not
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committing to a D1 school and that like kind of broke me.
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And after that I was just thinking like, okay well you
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know what was my future going to be like and I found Bitcoin
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around that time and I was like holy shit I can get like Rich As
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Fuck through this. And at the time I was like I
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didn't know anything about money.
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I didn't know anything about investing or you know Bitcoin or
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crypto or anything. I didn't know Bitcoin was
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separate from crypto and you know I was completely nude and
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the the main reason why I wanted to get into Bitcoin was just to
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you know, get rich which was which a lot of people do.
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But you know once I got into Bitcoin and I kind of you know
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dug further down the rabbit hole, it was like oh my God.
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So like Bitcoin is so much more than like, you know, this
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get-rich-quick scheme because it's not that it's so much more.
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And then I decided long story short just to go to Community
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College work, a job at physical therapy and pursue that as a
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career while accumulating Bitcoin.
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And then after a few years of doing that, I was like not happy
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at all. Like I haven't said this on many
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other podcast but I was like legitimately Stand, like, on
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medication, like my whole life had changed like, all my friends
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and moved away and my family moved away.
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I was working, I wasn't playing sports, and I was just like
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doing stuff that I did not like at all.
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And the only thing I really liked was Bitcoin outside of
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soccer and it came to a point like, you know, after a couple
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years of working and just accumulating Bitcoin, I kind of
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thought, you know, I'm doing well in school right now, but I
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really don't want to go to eight years of school to become a
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physical therapist, like screw that.
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So, I was just exploring, you know, opportunities in Bitcoin
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and seeing opportunities left, right and Center for me to go
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grab and I thought, I need to, you know, be doing this a lot
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more and then, you know, the the everything about covid and like
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the government shutting down, everything was really And, but
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that presented me with an opportunity to go all in on
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bitcoin because my school shut down, classes were all online
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where I was living at the time in my home town turned into into
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a complete shit show. Everyone was acting complete
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crazy. Like Mass Nazis everywhere,
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like, you know, it was bad. So I got out of there and I move
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South And when I move South, it was literally life as normal.
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And I would literally just cheat in school.
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And I would finish all my work for the day within an hour.
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And then I would spend the entire rest of the day doing
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Bitcoin stuff, and going outside and enjoying my life.
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And that literally cured my depression like that lifestyle
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change of focusing, exactly what I want.
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And spending more time with my family.
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And spending more time outside, like completely cured it.
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And I really decided that like, I do not want to focus time and
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energy and money on something like University that literally
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was teaching me shit like the Communist Manifesto, you know,
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like it's just not worth it. So and like the Bitcoin
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community on Twitter is so wholesome and so supportive.
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Like I've never met a group of people.
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Who literally will back me through anything like the DM's.
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I would get from people. Just reaching out to me.
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Like telling me they support me and wanting to support me in so
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many ways. Like, it's it, truly like Lifted
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Me Up. And like really continued me to
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push and then, like, once I kind of went down this path of
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dropping out of school, it was like, I have so many people
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like, you know, like you and Nico for example, who were like,
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backing me from the Star and it's like, I don't have a
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choice, but to succeed now, because Cuz then I'm like, if I
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were to just like stop now and you know not, you know, just you
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know, see out the potential I see in myself, I'd feel like I
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just be letting down the people who did believe in me.
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So that's what really made me want to just continue pushing
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hard and just go harder and harder and then just succeed and
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see where things go in life. Let's go, bro.
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A few. I wrote down a few notes because
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I want to touch on a few of the things that you said, because
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the One is I also kind of had the same experience when I found
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Bitcoin. I don't know if I've said this
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on a pot, I think I've had in the past but like it's very
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interesting how we both kind of have the same realization of
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like I don't know in our normal life just being at like the
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lowest point in our lives to get to bitcoin and then only at that
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point, could we like really see the forest from the trees?
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And be like oh wait, I got to actually change some things in
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my life and we have a really great opportunity.
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Unity in Bitcoin especially you know, you and I and everything
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that we've done in this short amount of time, it just it's
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mind-blowing. And this is, this is why I
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brought you on but also like why I wanted to do this series in
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the first place is because Bitcoin fundamentally changes,
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your perspective on the world. And I also, I've been going very
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hard on this idea lately of like the winning mentality and I love
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that you played Sports because I always relate it back to Sports,
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I played Sports in high school and it's like the same.
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I think it's the same. Same type of mentality right now
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in Bitcoin where it's like, look I just got to put in the work.
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I gotta, you know, as we say all the time, just got to, you know,
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prove my work, the proof of work philosophy, the proof of work
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perspective of like, okay, I just got to put in my reps, put
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in the work and life will reward me and all I really have to do
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is save and sad. Sound, like you said, you know,
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I think most of us young dudes. You know what?
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I'm a millennial. I'm older than you are your
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Zoomer, but I think most of us young dudes come for the money.
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And then, once we realized what's actually going on, we
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stay for the money. And in my opinion, I think
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Bitcoin is the best opportunity for all of us young guys out
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here. I mean, you and I are basically,
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in the same boat, our futures got robbed because of, you know,
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all the all the Fiat games going on.
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But right now as a young guy I don't think it's it's never been
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easier to start dominating and Actualizing who you want to be
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and what you want to do. And it really starts with just
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having some discipline and some sacrifice and saving in Bitcoin.
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And I know it's like it's very it's simplified when you when
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you break it down like that. But I really do think it's that
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easy and will last thing you said which is I'm on the same
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boat right now as well. It's like burning all the
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bridges and don't look back like this is the way just continue
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moving forward and just understand like it's not going
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to be easy, but what you got to do is just put it in the The
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work. And if you're consistent and
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persistent you life will reward you as Nico.
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And I always say, when we're when we're giving each other,
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pep talks on the backend, it's like the universe will will it
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will ask you how much you really want it and if you really wanted
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that you're gonna have to push through.
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And I mean relating this back to bitcoin like talk about the bear
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markets and Bitcoin, well will definitely test your resolve and
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ask you how much. You really want this?
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How much do you really know what's going on in this space?
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Because you're going to get dumped on for 70%, purchasing
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loss. And if you are weak handed, if
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you don't have that mental strength to continue then you
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might get wrecked and you might miss this opportunity.
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And again, this is why I wanted to bring you on today.
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Nick is because look, we're both young dudes.
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And a you mean, you go back all the time back and forth.
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We've been going back and forth for a long time, talking about.
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As I said, entitled, This building a legacy on bitcoin and
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one of my favorite memes that you have.
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And I've said this on the show before and people a like blew
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people's minds and I think this is your most famous Meme and
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we'll, we don't have to talk about where you got the mean
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because that's a controversial in itself.
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But you want said, I don't stack SATs for my first name.
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I Stacks ads for my last name and I felt that bro.
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And I like to get this message across to more people because I
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think this What we're fundamentally doing, like we are
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building on a strong foundation and once you understand what
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good money is like, there's no going back.
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There's no going back to the Fiat world.
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It's like I am building something for not only myself
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and my future self, but for my future generation, my future
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offerings, like, we're building an army out here, like we're
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building dynasties. And, you know, the, the meme of
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generational wealth. And I just love how you how you
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said it. Bro, I don't stack stats for my
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first name. I stack SATs for my last name
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and are you still on that same Mission, bro?
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I know you are. But how's it been?
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Since you said those prophetic words, I mean Mission still the
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same. You know, and the reason why I
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said that was because just thinking about Bitcoin and
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thinking about what I want when I'm older like you know, I'm
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still young. I'm still figuring out what I
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want in life. One of the things I obviously
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know I want is like I want to I want to be a homeowner you I
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want to be able to buy my own vehicle.
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I want a wife, I want kids when I'm older and it's like, I want
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to actually like live a good normal life like like fuck the
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Lambos. You know, Screw all that like
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what is just going to get me to be a good life because if I'm
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saving Fiat they're printing you know trillions of it.
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The purchasing power is going down the cost of everything.
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I wish to own is going up. I'm getting double wrap.
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Act like, I need to save in something better.
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I need to save and something harder.
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And when I think about, you know, people have always said
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the the saying of like oh saving and fiat currency is like saving
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and a house built on quicksand but saving in Bitcoin.
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It's like saving, you know, it's like living in a house built on
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Solid Ground. That's not going to crumble
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underneath you. And I just think about, you
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know, my future and how Going to get to where I want to be and I
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just think I need to be saving in a money that cannot be
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debased. I need to be saving in a money
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that has a credible fixed Supply.
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So, none of these other cryptos who have not been battle tested
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or proven to withstand anything passed that test like Litecoin
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does not pass that test the security and on it.
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The security on is way too low like Bitcoin is the only thing
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that I found. Found that can actually
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guarantee my property rights on the blockchain.
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So when I have that you know, and so I send myself Bitcoin or
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I get paid in Bitcoin in a few confirmations happen or a few
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blocks happen after that. I mean, then I'm I know I'm
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golden and I just have to, you know, make sure my security is
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tight and I can build from there.
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I can build a life from there. I could build a business from
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there. You can build a civilisation,
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from there. Like this is something that I've
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noticed as like, and I'm not trying to be on like, my Michael
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sailor shit here but like, you know, like this is like
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something you can true. Like, I really think people
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underestimate like, I know a lot of bitcoiners get it, but a lot
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of people in the real world kind of look over this, like, you
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know, maybe they would look over something like the wheel, you
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know, a wheel something people use in their everyday lives, but
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people don't really think about it. and I think that like, you
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know, when talking about how Bitcoin changes you like,
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Bitcoin is going to change like a small minority of people.
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I feel like this is some thought, some new thoughts.
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I've been having like, you know, in comparison to my previous
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interviews, I've done like you and me go hard in the paint with
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this stuff, like we really get into it, we're really
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philosophical and all that but I feel like the majority of the
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population just isn't they're just, you know, they're they're
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they're sheep but like they got their own shit going on in their
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lives. Not Everyone is appealed to
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that, not everybody really wants to dig deep into the rabbit hole
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and do a bunch of research on it.
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So I feel like Bitcoin will change people but maybe not
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everybody. And everyone, you know, Bitcoins
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just money at the end of the day.
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And yeah, sometimes people's incentives will change because,
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you know, you're going to be incentivized more to save
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versus, you know, holding fee on where your incentivised to spend
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spend spend, but I just feel like, you know, This is a long
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change that's going to happen. Like if this, this change is
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going to take a long time and I know like the corners often say,
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like, oh, like everything is going to happen, super, super
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suddenly, but I don't think we've got past the gradually
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phase yet. I think like, you know, the
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dollar still going to be around for a lot longer how long?
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I don't know. I'm not a I'm not a th art bro
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or anything? But I'm just a normal dude who
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sees things the way they are Are and I'm really glad that I am
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holding Bitcoin. Especially with all the
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inflation has been happening. You know, even though Bitcoins
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crash 70%, which fucking sucks but like, I wouldn't want to be
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holding a portfolio of all the dollars, but like, going back to
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the main point. I was trying to make as like, Or
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the main topic of this is like I can see clearly into my future
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on a Bitcoin standard even if like Bitcoin like like being
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super conservative and saying like, oh Bitcoins, let's say
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pick in 10 years Bitcoins like a hundred thousand dollars, you
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know, or something like really low like that is still better
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than holding a money that is being debased and is going to 0.
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That actually gives me firm ground to stand on and it also
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gives me some like it gives me a Clear Vision looking into my
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future and how I want to plan things out and it just makes
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everything a lot simpler. Obviously number go up is like a
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freaking cheat code and I feel like super fortunate to be in
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the position I am because this isn't normal like this is not
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normal. This is like a once in like a
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species kind of event. I feel like and like, not
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everybody is Is going to get these the same opportunity that
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you know somebody like you or me or is getting to build
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generational wealth. Like if Bitcoin really does rip
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like the way we think it is like my future kids.
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They're not going to be you know oh the having's coming up.
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I hope they coined pumps four hundred percent like that's just
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not going to be a thing. You know what I mean?
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It's going to be a lot more stable and slower growth but
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yeah Bitcoin just really I feel like is the perfect money for
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somebody who is more like Conservative thinking and they
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really just want something to like have to their family name
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and to like really like it, use it as a tool to like bring honor
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to your family like bring you know create generational wealth
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and really make something of yourself.
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Obviously Bitcoin can't do all the work for you.
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You can't just get rich and then expect, you know, to have like a
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hot wife or expect you to have like a good body or like, Be
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successful in life. You have to do work in the real
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world like that's proof of work. So yeah, I'm kind of just
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rambling on right now but dude, I love it dude.
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Another awesome mean by by Nick did use it as a tool to bring
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honor to your family. Like let's go bro like straight
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sham rycote over here but II you triggered a few bunch of
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questions in my head. But the first one is I I want to
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touch on that last point that you made, and it's something
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that I've realized as well, and I like to call it like that the
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hero's journey. It's not, obviously, not just
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pertaining to bitcoin when you talk about the hero's journey,
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but there's something about Bitcoin that like once you
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finally get it. Like, once you finally, I don't
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know. Anchor your life to the Bitcoin,
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eat. Those too hard money standard.
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It literally will change everything around you and you're
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kind. Kind of, I don't know if
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incentivised the word is the right word but like you're
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forced to get better. Like, if you really want to
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capitalize on this opportunity, like we're talking about and I
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100% agree. I think this especially everyone
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here listening to this right now.
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Everyone in space. Is everyone on YouTube?
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I fundamentally think that this is the best opportunity.
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This is the best time to be a human and in particular the best
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time to be a Bitcoin. ER, because it's like I look
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around and this is one of the And I want to ask you as well.
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I like, I look around and I see the average person, and I just
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think it's never been a better time to be not only a bit
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corner. But just someone, that is
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willing to put in the work, like, everyone is like turning
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the brain off, no one wants to work, everyone's Benny being
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incentivized to just like, you know, eat the slog and and watch
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Netflix and not not improve themselves.
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And then there's a few people like us that for some reason or
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maybe it's one of the main reasons like Bitcoin has like
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put a fire under her ass and gave us purpose to be a better
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version of ourselves. And I was having this
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conversation yesterday and I had this idea was like, look, I
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don't know about you guys, but it really does feel like a sink
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or swim moment right now. It's like, look, I either put in
22:36
the work and I create the life that I want to, all right?
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Except the fact that, you know, I'm never going to amount to
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anything and I just can't do that.
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Myself personally, I don't know about you guys out there on on
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the social medias but I have this, you know, call it high
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self-worth or high self-esteem view of myself.
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But if it's only a thought like it doesn't mean anything and
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this is what Nick was saying. It's like if you're not putting
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in the work right now then you know I hate to get harsh on it
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but it feels like you don't deserve all the number go up
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like it. What's that?
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What's that I mean like, bit coining.
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Houghtaling isn't easy. But like it does feel easy after
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after a while and you kind of reminded me of this tweet that
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just popped up on Twitter and it was a screenshot and I like to
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get your thoughts on this Nick and it goes, You could argue.
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Bitcoin is a net - I don't believe this.
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It keeps young men from doing meaningful shit because they are
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just hoping one day Hits, 1 million dollars instead of
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working and hustling. And this is a sentiment going
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around on. Right now and I think it's a
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complete opposite because I say it all the time you know, just
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stack SATs provide value to your fellow man and then figure out
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how to get more cash flow. And so this this meme going
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around right now that like oh Bitcoin pumping.
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And number go up, is going to make men more unproductive.
24:08
I think is wholly mistaken because I can only think about
24:11
myself. And it's been one of the
24:14
defining defining things in my life to make me want to be a
24:17
better person. And and, and, and be a, you
24:20
know, a better man, not just like a better person, but like,
24:23
being able to provide for myself for my future children for my
24:27
family. It's, you know, it's not solely
24:31
based on bitcoin but like I can definitely attribute it to a lot
24:36
of my Bitcoin thinking and a lot of the things that I've learned
24:39
in Bitcoin and like you said and we say it all the time as well.
24:41
It's like building on a strong Foundation.
24:43
I don't know. There's something about Bitcoin
24:46
that I think more people need to Hear this kind of stuff where
24:49
it's like leg, man, you can instill, all these hustle, you
24:53
know, self-help perspectives that you are learning on social
24:57
media and you add them on top of Bitcoin and it's just going to
25:00
be an exponential growth in yourself and in your future.
25:05
And I just it's like it seems so simple to me on this side of the
25:10
rabbit hole because we've done the work, you know, and we you
25:13
and I are one in the same. We're like we We have that
25:19
Sports winning mentality where it's like.
25:21
All right bro, like we're competing out here.
25:24
You know, we're competing for sat and I ain't going to let you
25:28
out staff me Nick, you know, like where friendly competition
25:31
over here and I look around and I see all my friends succeeding
25:35
and it makes me want to also succeed and so I don't really
25:38
believe this idea that number go up will make men less
25:42
productive. I think it will do the opposite
25:43
because I've seen it do it for me.
25:45
I've seen it to you. I shouldn't do it to a handful
25:48
of other Ends and it just really blows my mind that people are
25:53
still thinking that. Oh, just because number goes up,
25:55
I don't have to do anything. So like what's your thoughts on
25:57
this bro? You think Bitcoin will
26:00
incentivize more young men like us to get their shit together?
26:03
Or are we just like that lucky few that you're saying or maybe
26:06
it is the lucky few and that's all we really need.
26:09
Just a small minority of people that still want to dominate and
26:13
look at the playing field and like hell.
26:14
It's never been easier to be a better person.
26:17
Yeah. I think well initially like when
26:21
I saw that I was like you know I can see why some people think
26:25
like that because you know, if you get insanely Rich at a young
26:28
age maybe like you make some poor decisions.
26:31
You know you party too much or you buy like a bunch of stupid
26:34
stuff that you don't you know, you probably shouldn't buy and
26:38
you're careless with your money because oh you know, I have all
26:41
this money, doesn't matter if I overspend here or you know by
26:44
something and don't end up using it.
26:46
But at the end of the day, I also I think for some of those
26:49
people who are maybe dying on that Hill, maybe that might be
26:53
like a projection, you know, then projecting on others
26:56
because like, you know, I'm like, I am going to continue
27:01
working my butt off and if I slack and, you know, I'm not
27:06
doing that. What?
27:08
I, one of the things I'm really grateful for is like, I've
27:10
surrounded myself for the group of people who have that winning
27:14
mentality, like we've discussed and like, R.
27:18
Not going to let my standards drop their going to be like,
27:20
hey, Nick, like get your shit together, you know, you don't
27:23
need to be watching Netflix all day and like, then I'm going to
27:26
be like, yeah, okay. And then I should even beat to
27:29
take that a step further. I should even be, you know,
27:33
taking that initiative myself. I shouldn't have any people tell
27:36
me what to do. So I don't know, I guess it
27:39
might vary case-by-case, some people, it might make more lazy,
27:43
some people might not, but I mean like if you, if you do make
27:47
a lot of money. Bitcoin.
27:49
Like yeah. Hustle and grind.
27:52
But also remember to enjoy life, you know what you just did was
27:56
is in one of like the most uncertain times and financial
28:01
history. You you know you found the
28:05
signal amongst the noise you correctly.
28:08
Allocated your time and your Capital to it and you are right.
28:13
So not everyone on Earth is doing that right now and you
28:17
know it right now it seems like Only a small group of people out
28:19
of the world population has done that and is doing that.
28:23
So no like yeah, like celebrate, you know, pat yourself on the
28:26
back and, you know, enjoy enjoy life but don't do it alone.
28:31
Do with, like, friends or family or something because again,
28:34
Bitcoins just a tool. Like, if all you have is money
28:37
and you don't have any like, friends family or like a good
28:41
wife or something, like, you're pretty poor.
28:42
That's the way I see it. But like, kind of touching on
28:47
like that winning mentality. Thing, like I love that about
28:50
the Bitcoin community and I like not everyone has it but like a
28:54
lot of people have it that I've seen on bitcoin Twitter and I'm
28:58
I'm used to that like you know growing up playing sports like
29:02
you said like my coach fucking drilled into me every day.
29:06
This dude played professionally over in England and like if you
29:11
let if I let my standards drop for anything like he would just
29:15
cook the shit out of me and it fucking sucked and I I've
29:18
noticed that a lot of bitcoiners do that to me as well and I feel
29:22
like I that's something that has had a something that has allowed
29:25
me to like really like there's always felt like this feeling of
29:29
like oh these are my people because I'm used to that type of
29:32
like, you know, tough love, you know?
29:35
Yeah. When 100% like there's a,
29:37
there's something to the transparent honesty of like
29:40
having good friends around you that are like telling you, like,
29:43
yell like You're messing up right now you know?
29:46
Like because I love you. I'm going to tell you you're
29:49
messing up and I think I think that's missing and most of the
29:53
world and one more quick thing is like about like, you know,
29:57
our people's mentality is going to change.
30:00
I think that really depends on who you are.
30:04
Like I said earlier, because like, if you really think about
30:07
it, if Bitcoin is really something that's going to be
30:10
super successful, It's this is not just going to be something
30:15
where a high school kid finds it.
30:17
Like I did and says, oh, I can get rich.
30:19
Hopefully, you know, let me, let me try and go all-in and D.
30:22
Jen trade. This and see what happens.
30:25
This is something where people are collectively all around the
30:29
world saying I'm not going to, I'm going to work legitimately,
30:34
I'm gonna go out and create my own wealth.
30:37
You don't have to work in Bitcoin to be a bit corner.
30:40
You can, you know, if you have a A skill or a trade or other
30:43
Hobbies or another passion, that you have that is totally fine.
30:47
You do not have to work in Bitcoin.
30:49
I feel like there's a stigma around the other co-working, a
30:51
Bitcoin is so amazing, it is really cool.
30:54
I love my job but also some of y'all have really dope jobs as
30:58
well that like I would like to work as well, like don't hate on
31:02
your job just because it's not in Bitcoin, just buy Bitcoin and
31:06
this is the thing I'm getting back on track to that point is
31:09
like When you have these tens of millions to hundreds of millions
31:13
of people all over the world, like, collectively.
31:17
Starting to say, I'm ditching my government currency for a new
31:22
currency that I firmly. Believe is better for reasons, X
31:26
Y, and Z and I'm going to have a future.
31:30
I'm going to have a family. I'm going to start a business.
31:34
I'm going to create a better life for myself.
31:37
That is a revolution and I think And Otto said something similar
31:42
to that a while back. But like it that really stuck
31:44
with me because like that is proper, like that's history in
31:49
the making. People are collectively saying
31:52
I'm done, I want a better life for myself.
31:55
This is not something I'm going to ditch in a week, a month, six
31:59
months a year. This is something I plan on
32:02
seeing out for the rest of my life and this is something that
32:05
I'm going to you know, stick to and you know, get my family on
32:10
my friends on and really just you know should not sometimes
32:16
not even tell people like I don't even like telling people
32:18
about Bitcoin anymore. I just show them with my actions
32:21
like leading by example. Let's go bro.
32:26
I I've been saying that so much and at times I feel kind of
32:30
guilty because it's like you know, I talk about Bitcoin every
32:33
single day and then sometimes in my normal life I'm like I'm not
32:38
even going to show Bitcoin at this point.
32:40
It's like you said, you know, I just I just let my action show.
32:44
What is going on here and I say it all the time.
32:46
You know, like be a shining example of what it means to be a
32:48
bit corner, but further, like be a shining example of what it
32:51
means to be a good human and that is inherently is going to
32:55
start to make Ripples and make waves and have people interested
32:59
in what you're doing and how you got there.
33:01
Because like, look, I don't know about you guys, but I can give
33:05
people all the facts in regards to what's going on with.
33:07
Coin. But the best example of orange
33:11
paling, someone is living a good life because people want to live
33:14
a good life and I think that were kind of on the same page
33:18
here with it. Like look I'm just going to be
33:20
the best version that I can be and just show people that you
33:24
just save in Bitcoin and this is all you have to do and you know
33:27
like I say to every single day like just provide value and a
33:31
hold Bitcoin, that's all you have to do.
33:33
And like you said, you don't have to work in Bitcoin if you
33:36
have skills that are Aren't you know, tailored to what's going
33:39
on in the Bitcoin space right now?
33:40
Like you probably have some awesome skills that you can
33:43
capitalize on and then you just save in Bitcoin, maybe
33:47
bitcoiners want, whatever you're good at and just add Bitcoin on
33:50
top of that. But I have one question for you
33:52
and then this might be a little bit off topic, but it's parked
33:56
twice already. Do you still have non Bitcoin
33:59
friends Nick? So ever since moving out of my
34:05
home state, the I moved to a new, I moved from Virginia to
34:11
Tennessee, all my friends back home or non Bitcoin, like,
34:17
literally none of them are into Bitcoin.
34:19
I mean, some of them have messaged me about it a few times
34:21
but like, like they were congratulating me like crazy at,
34:25
you know, 69k. But at at 15K they're probably
34:30
like young Nixa idiots camera. No II.
34:34
Do have a few friends here. I'm a huge Manchester United
34:37
fan. I go out and I play soccer with
34:40
them and I hang out and I watch Premier League with them on the
34:43
weekends. Those are mainly like mine on
34:46
bitcoin friends but mostly the people I hang out with here
34:50
pretty much our bitcoiners. Yeah, I think I'm kind of in the
34:55
same boat like all my friends back home.
34:58
There's a few there's a few of them that reach out to me.
35:01
I actually had one reach out yesterday and asked me about
35:05
self custody asked me, you know, whether they should keep Bitcoin
35:09
on an exchange or not? Or will they end up like ft
35:12
action like bro like no you're literally gonna end up like FTX
35:16
like here's some here's some some wallets that you should be
35:19
doing but I think it's a it's kind of Like, you know, the meme
35:24
your network, is your net worth and it's very interesting how
35:28
after a while you kind of sounds harsh.
35:31
But like, you only really want to hang out with bitcoiners that
35:33
like, get it, that that have that like, go get it mentality
35:37
of, yo, like we have a really big opportunity right here and,
35:41
you know, as much as bear markets hurt when you're all in
35:45
on bitcoin, it's like stacker said right here, you know, like
35:49
saving and Bitcoin, especially during mayor markets.
35:51
It's the most helpful thing you can do for A coin, but not only
35:54
for Bitcoin for yourself. Like we say it all the time, you
35:57
know, cheap SATs like if I can provide value, if I have cash
36:01
flow coming in and I can save and Bitcoin right now, like the
36:04
stacks that you can that you can stack right now in the bear
36:07
Market are going to be worth exponential in the future once
36:11
number goes up inevitably. So, it's back to this whole
36:14
idea. Just like continuously provide
36:16
value and save and Bitcoin. I think you and I are kind of on
36:19
the same boat like I can't really Relish in my past
36:24
successes, like I have a really short short term perspective
36:29
over here where it's like I have to continuously like up the ante
36:32
and get better at everything I'm doing or else.
36:34
Like, I don't know. I just like, can't I just can't
36:38
can't sit on my Laurels and and I think I don't know about you
36:42
and I can't really relate this to just Bitcoin, but there's
36:46
something to just surrounding yourself with other people that
36:49
are playing Hungry Hippo. As I like to call it, like we're
36:51
all just playing Hungry. Hippo, trying to get as many
36:52
sets as More. And I think more people should
36:55
be playing this game, but of course, like should have could
36:57
have would ABS it. It really means nothing.
37:00
And so, I mean, the whole idea of today is just trying to get
37:05
this message out there to other young people that are like look,
37:08
bro, like you don't have to be a technical Bitcoin, ER you don't
37:12
have to to you know, study Bitcoin as like you not to be
37:17
obsessed with Bitcoin, like everyone else that that's in
37:19
Bitcoin right now. All you got to do is provide
37:22
value to your fellow Uh-oh man and saving Bitcoin in the rest
37:25
will work out, like just get better at everything you're
37:27
doing. If you're young and and you're
37:31
going to save and Bitcoin forever, like I have that same
37:35
view, Nick. Like, I don't think I'm ever
37:37
going to not save him Bitcoin. Like, what else is there to save
37:39
in? I can't see this ever ending.
37:42
Yeah, one thing also is like I totally agree with you.
37:46
Like, you know, you outgrow people in like, you know, it
37:50
came to a point where like I was spending more time talking.
37:53
Walk in the like when I was in college, I was spending more
37:56
time, talking to an ons on Twitter than I was talking to my
37:59
old friends from high school because I was just like,
38:02
exploring what I was interested in, and I was learning so much.
38:05
But like, if anybody out there is like, you know, brand new to
38:08
bitcoin and you're young, and you're on the fence, we're not
38:12
saying at all. Like, do not ditch your friends
38:15
and say like, oh, if I have to buy, you know, if I'm going to
38:17
buy Bitcoin, I have to ditch everyone who's not talking about
38:20
it. Like, Like don't like talking a
38:24
Bitcoin people is really nice but like also having friends who
38:28
maybe aren't into Bitcoin or just like, you know, have other
38:31
passions and stuff that you're into is like also really good to
38:35
like like I said earlier like I'm a huge man united fan, I
38:38
love watching Premier League on the weekends.
38:42
Don't really recommend doing that with bitcoiners who are
38:44
going to be like oh you know it's bread and circus like
38:48
sportsball is a scam like it's That's so Fiat.
38:52
Let's like bro lying up Sports is fine, you know it's like I
38:56
like watching that with my friends who don't really care
38:58
about Bitcoin because like it's a nice you know life thing.
39:02
It's a nice Escape. I just like it.
39:04
So no definitely also like try like I've been trying to do this
39:08
more as like you know don't get into like a situation where like
39:13
you can only talk about Bitcoin and then like you can't even
39:16
communicate with other people because like genuinely I see
39:20
some people. Twitter, like I'm half joking,
39:22
but I'm also being serious. Like, I saw somebody, I forgot
39:26
who was but they said like they like can't even go out and like
39:30
talk to anybody anymore because like everyone is so like, you
39:36
know, just like not up to speed as they are.
39:38
And like, I think it's kind of sad when I see that, to be
39:41
honest, like, you can't connect with ikki.
39:43
Like you can't go into a bar and just like, talk to the homies.
39:47
Like I don't know that. That's, that's a part where I
39:49
don't want to get to. So you know Bitcoins a tool use
39:55
it to also explore your other Hobbies.
39:58
Your other interests, your other passions because there's a lot
40:01
more to life than money. Dude you saw me cracking up
40:07
because it's pretty interesting because like just a tldr story,
40:12
a little Memory Lane story. I can remember when when I was
40:16
the same way, you know, like when I first got into Bitcoin it
40:19
seem like I finally He found my people, right?
40:22
Like it was like, oh man like finally people that get it and
40:26
then you go down the whole rabbit hole and you kind of get
40:29
that that idea of like, okay, you know, like no one gets it
40:34
and you know, they all think I'm dumb and so you kind of isolate
40:37
yourself and then after a while you kind of realize like wait,
40:41
you know, like having good relationships in real life, is
40:44
something that's very important and just because people don't
40:47
understand, Bitcoin doesn't mean that I should cut these people
40:49
off if anything if I have compassion and I love my friends
40:53
and my family, then it's kind of up to me to like bring them up
40:56
to speed and so you just do that in your own ways.
40:59
And again it's kind of back to this idea of like just be a good
41:02
example of being a human and they will eventually come
41:06
around. And I think, you know, my
41:08
personal life I've kind of done this recently where a lot of my
41:11
friends would like laugh at me in the past.
41:13
Me, like, you're the crazy Bitcoin guy and now, they'll
41:15
slowly. But surely just start texting me
41:17
because they see like, yo, wow, he is, he's was Able to take
41:22
this risk to capitalize on this opportunity and it's all based
41:26
on bitcoin and I really like how you put it because I
41:29
fundamentally agree where it's like, look, the, the beautiful
41:33
part about Bitcoin for us, young for.
41:35
I'm speaking to mostly young dudes right now, like, all
41:37
right. So I understand exactly what the
41:41
opportunity is for us. And it's like, like build
41:44
yourself a little nest egg. Save for your future, sacrifice
41:48
a little for your future. And then once you get in a
41:51
position, where you feel like you can take a risk and do what
41:55
you really want to do then by all means do it.
41:58
But like don't cut everyone off and everything off because of
42:01
you know relationships you build on the internet like build those
42:06
relationships into your real life and your life will improve
42:09
because you're bettering yourself but also you know
42:13
there's something to having a good work-life balance.
42:16
Balance and you know, clearing your head of all the madness
42:19
because I mean, you know, we're both in Bitcoin, we're both in
42:23
Bitcoin media and you and I both know that on Twitter sometimes
42:27
it gives just a little too. What's the word like a little
42:31
too much Doom porn? Like everything's going to hell
42:34
and this is kind of why I've been leaning into like The
42:37
Optimist Fields me more bike. Meaning of myself of like let
42:42
what do I want to do in my life? I want to be as positive.
42:46
Uplifting and helpful as possible.
42:48
And how am I able to do that? And it's by just having these
42:53
awesome conversations with other people that are trying to better
42:55
themselves and maybe we are in the small minority but there's
42:59
more of us out there that are looking for the answer and I
43:03
think Bitcoin is part of the answer.
43:04
Like you said you know Bitcoin is a tool.
43:06
Bitcoin is that freedom tool and if there's more of us out there
43:11
there's more young men out there that are looking and have no
43:14
Direction. They don't they don't have the
43:17
tools to succeed in the modern world while they can start by
43:20
just saving in Bitcoin, like, take your, you know, take your
43:25
minimum wage job and Save in Bitcoin and look, Nick.
43:30
And I did the same thing. Like we're not telling you to do
43:33
something that we haven't done, we did the same thing.
43:36
We put in the work and we took our our, you know, Normie jobs.
43:42
As people like to say. You saved in Bitcoin and now
43:45
we've been able to completely change our life because we're
43:48
living by a whole new life philosophy.
43:52
And I always just a tribute to like the proof of work.
43:54
Philosophy is like proof-of-work.
43:55
To me is a lot more than just Bitcoin mining.
43:58
It's a way to live. Like are you putting in the
44:00
work? Are you sacrificing a little
44:03
now, for the future? Are you lowering your time?
44:04
Preference? Like all the Bitcoin memes that
44:06
we talked about. To me like this is, this is why
44:09
my life has gotten better is because I lived this stuff out
44:13
like, Not just saying this every single day, I do this every
44:17
single day. I, you know, I put in the work,
44:21
I've audited myself, I've done my best to cut out the excess,
44:26
you know, as much as Nick and I are talking about like, hey,
44:29
it's alright to watch a little Sports while here and there.
44:32
It's okay to unplug a little bit on Netflix.
44:34
Like if your life not in order, bro, stop playing video games.
44:38
You know, like stop smoking weed.
44:39
Like I did that for myself and I'm only trying to relate this
44:44
message to more people out there.
44:46
It's like, look, man, there's a really great opportunity out
44:48
there, like, there's money to be made, there's value to be
44:52
provided, and all you have to do is audit yourself.
44:56
And find, you know, a solution to other people's problems.
45:00
And in that process, You will fix your own problems.
45:04
It's a it's a real. It's like a I don't want to cuss
45:07
too much, but it's a mind. Fuck, bro.
45:09
It's like a feedback loop of all right.
45:12
Get out of your own way. Save a little bit coin, provide
45:15
value and the universe will bless you like, in my opinion.
45:20
Ii-i'm trying to simplify this message as much as possible to
45:24
help more people out there. And I think this is like, the
45:27
basic, basic idea, it's back to your original meme.
45:30
Don't stack stats for your first name Stacks ads for your last
45:33
name. Like bring honor to yourself
45:35
your family, your ancestors and I think no self-respecting
45:42
person would want to save in a money that's designed to steal
45:45
from you and Fiat money. And this is something that you
45:49
can build. A legacy on and I think you
45:52
know, not to toot our own homes but I think we're kind of in
45:55
that process for and I think in a while we're going to be very
45:58
surprised and humbled and happy that we really took these risks
46:03
right now and are putting in that work.
46:04
And you know, I think this is just a trying to be a PSA out
46:07
there for more people. It's like, look, what do you
46:10
want to fix in your life? Stop complaining about it, save
46:13
and Bitcoin, put in the work. Provide the value.
46:18
Get some good friends around, you get some good.
46:20
Nation ships around, you find the love from your family, you
46:22
know, work on yourself a little bit and life will reward you.
46:27
I know, like we're saying this as like, you know, just oh, just
46:32
go out there and do it for, like, for most people.
46:34
Like it's a lot easier said than done, you know?
46:37
Like, when I remember when I first got into it, like, you
46:40
know, it was hard, you know, making a huge lifestyle change,
46:45
like, not just in Bitcoin from like, but, you know, just from
46:48
where I started to, where I am now.
46:50
Now like it's a ton of work talking about like sacrifices
46:53
and stuffy, you know, making like I remember working Fridays
46:58
and weekends to stack more sense.
47:00
I remember you know my car broke down.
47:04
I didn't fix it fully I was I used to Jimmy rigged my car with
47:08
the screwdriver. I remember that because Bitcoin
47:10
was like 3,000 bucks and it costed a thousand dollars to fix
47:15
the car and I really don't want to pay the thousand dollars so
47:19
for like eight months Inside, drove around on it, just Jimmy
47:22
rigging it with the screwdriver, like, stupid stuff like that.
47:25
Like, you know, it's not easy, it's hard.
47:28
I'm not saying you have to Jimmy wreck your car with the
47:30
screwdriver but like, you know, your first four years into a 34
47:35
years into it, like, it is hard, you know, Bitcoins constantly
47:39
going down in the bear Market. Obviously, this depends on when
47:42
you get in but just assuming you got in and like the last year or
47:45
so like, you know, Bitcoins constantly going down, you don't
47:49
fully We have a strong grasp on it yet because like we can talk
47:53
about Bitcoins going to do this Bitcoins going to do that, it
47:56
can withstand this attack. You know, it can do this, it can
47:59
do that. It's going to go up, then it's
48:01
going to go down there. Like, you can talk about it all
48:04
you want. But I feel like you truly, don't
48:07
get a solid understanding until you've lived through it and
48:11
you've seen Bitcoin perform. And, you know, just beyond your
48:15
expectations. In some areas may be below your
48:18
expectations in other areas. You can get like a really good
48:21
well-rounded understanding of it.
48:24
And with this like, you know, talking about like, young people
48:31
who are into it because like, you know, this, you know, you
48:34
and I are guys, we're young. But also like girls, you know,
48:38
I've seen a lot of girls here who on bitcoin Twitter who like,
48:42
let's say want a more conservative lifestyle.
48:44
So this obviously relates back to them.
48:47
Like I've seen a lot of women who say like I don't To work a 9
48:51
to 5, you know. I want to be like a home was it
48:55
called like a Home Keeper or like they want to take care of
48:57
their homes and raise their families?
48:59
Like that's the same fucking thing.
49:01
You know, guys are going towards in Bitcoin, like, that's the
49:04
same thing. So this relates, I feel like
49:07
this conversation can relate to a lot of them as well, you know,
49:11
maybe they just saved in Bitcoin and do whatever.
49:14
But like, I'm not saying like, I feel like there's a different
49:18
hustle, mine, grind set, Hustle and grind mindset between
49:23
certain people but like it's still the saint, you know, that
49:26
the end goal is still the same. And I feel like with a lot of
49:32
young men, there's a lot of people who do not want any
49:36
responsibility at all. They want to live like this
49:38
Reckless lifestyle, but there is a lot of people, like you said,
49:42
who are looking for, you know, some sort of stability in their
49:46
lives. They're looking for something.
49:48
They're looking for the signal among It's the noise they're
49:50
looking for something that gives them a personal sense of
49:54
responsibility because guys love responsibility, they love owning
49:59
property. They love defending that
50:01
property and I'm not saying with like, you know, like oar is and
50:04
fucking tanks and shit. But people like having something
50:07
under their belt, that they can say, this is mine.
50:10
This is my little piece of the world, you know.
50:13
I live in, you know, wherever and this is mine.
50:17
This is valuable and you can't have it.
50:20
There are a lot of UT EXO's like this but this one is mine, you
50:24
know? And then they can go and build a
50:26
family and a life from that and it gives people that sense of
50:30
responsibility. People love custom their own
50:32
Keys. Maybe not everyone may be other
50:35
people who are not into Bitcoin, would rather find elodie hold
50:40
their coins or something or maybe something like a
50:42
collaborative multisig like with Unchained but like a lot of guys
50:46
on that I've seen on Twitter and personally the way I feel myself
50:49
Elf is I like I love cussing my own keys.
50:53
I love holding my own wealth and this would even when I just got
50:57
into Bitcoin and I was a shit corner, I remember my brother
51:01
got a ledger and I was like what is this?
51:05
And this was 2017. This was when I first got into
51:07
it and he's like oh this is like they call it a hardware wallet.
51:11
It's so you can take the coins off the exchange and you can put
51:14
it on here and nobody else can hack your money.
51:18
Nobody else can take it from you.
51:20
I thought that was the coolest shit ever.
51:24
I'm not even joking. I that instantly attracted me to
51:27
it and I wanted to get a hardware wallet.
51:29
I became obsessed with self custody after that.
51:32
Like not not saying like I'm an expert or anything, but I just
51:35
thought it was so badass. How I could have this hard money
51:39
that is like, you know, unlike any other money I've ever seen
51:43
before, like better than the dollar, and I can take custody
51:47
of it and you can't touch it. This is Mine.
51:50
You'll never get your greedy little hands on it.
51:53
I love that now. It's only my greedy little hands
51:56
on it, you know, so I love that and I think a lot of people
52:01
especially people who, you know, Are getting screwed over by the
52:07
financial system today. I mean, I look around at
52:09
groceries and I go to the grocery store.
52:11
I'm like man, I genuinely do not know how a family of three four
52:16
or five is getting by by making, you know, the average salary in
52:21
America. I don't understand how they're
52:23
getting by buying groceries, you know paying their rent or their
52:27
mortgage paying for a car, you know.
52:30
And then you know, wanting to enjoy life like people are
52:34
getting It over but I feel like saving and Bitcoin over a long
52:39
period of time fixes that and it just completely changes
52:43
everything. I love it.
52:46
Make man so much signal. Hold on.
52:49
Yeah listen that's cool. I just want to I you know, I
52:55
told you it'd only be an hour or so I just want to touch on one
52:59
thing that you talked about and this is something that I also
53:03
believe in that I've also experienced and done personally
53:06
in myself and the best, the best way I can kind of start.
53:09
This is like go through the suck man, like, take personal
53:14
responsibility. Stop hitting yourself like put
53:17
in the work and it's going to be painful like go through the
53:22
pain. The pain just means that there's
53:25
things you need to change about your life and it's unavoidable.
53:29
Like if you are in a position right now that you aren't happy,
53:33
if you aren't getting the results you want in your life,
53:36
then it's back to like what me and make you're saying, you
53:39
know, take personal responsibility for every aspect
53:42
of your life and then start to fix it and you have the best
53:46
money in the world and all you need to do is just continuously
53:51
save in that money. And it's not going to be easy
53:55
like nothing. What's the other mean like
53:56
nothing worth something in life, comes easy or whatever?
54:00
It is, I butchered it. And also, bro, like we're not,
54:05
we're in this position right now.
54:06
I keep saying wearing creepy clown world and obviously piqued
54:10
clown word continues to Peak more.
54:12
But again, also, I'm with you it's like I look around at the
54:17
world right now and I couldn't, I couldn't imagine not being a
54:21
Bitcoin. ER, like yeah.
54:23
Oh man wow hold on diogenes syrupy pain is weakness.
54:28
Leaving the body. Yeah that used to be in my
54:30
football locker room. That's throw bag.
54:32
I just had a flashback but yeah this is what I'm talking about
54:36
guys. Like If you are leaving the Fiat
54:40
system, you will go through some pain.
54:43
You will go through some behavioral changes.
54:45
But if you're consistent to the message and you put in the work,
54:49
on the other side of it, it'll be it'll be worth it.
54:52
It's like what's it? The Green Mile, you know, float
54:56
down float down. Schitt's Creek, like Andy
54:58
Dufresne and come up with a whole new perspective on life.
55:01
Like I really do think that this is what's happening with
55:03
bitcoiners. This is what happened with me.
55:06
It's what happened with you. I've seen Happened to a lot of
55:08
friends and it's very interesting how coming back to
55:14
reality with Bitcoin, has this effect on us.
55:17
It's like the Fiat world, the clown world that we talk about
55:21
all the time. It's just, it's so, so distorted
55:26
that there is going to be an inevitable amount of short-term
55:30
pain. But if you can withstand it, if
55:32
you can, if you can build yourself up to be a better
55:35
person, a better Bitcoin, ER, Then you're going to change your
55:41
life. And it's something that's
55:43
happened to both of us. And I just, I want to do my best
55:49
to try to get these stories out to as many people as possible to
55:53
get more people to. I don't know, you know, get the
55:55
fire under their ass. Again, sorry for cussing
55:58
everyone but it's the only way we can get these message across
56:01
to people and it's just understanding like, look, you're
56:04
going to have to change your life, but you can build a legacy
56:07
with Bitcoin, you can save in Bitcoin.
56:10
Oh it's Shawshank Redemption. Sorry.
56:14
Memories horrible. But Nick.
56:18
Thank you, bro. I think I think we did today
56:22
some justice. I know we didn't really talk
56:24
about Bitcoin as much as I do in the past but I think these
56:28
stories are just as important of like look guys again, you don't
56:34
have to be in Bitcoin, you don't have to consistently talk about
56:36
Bitcoin. All you need to do is provide
56:38
value saving Bitcoin, go live, your life and build things.
56:43
You are a co-creator produce something, stop being a consumer
56:47
stop. Being a Mindless consumer and
56:50
unplug the video games or a Netflix and go create something.
56:54
Yeah, I'd say like you you are, you should be your number one,
56:58
most valuable asset and then Bitcoin comes after that, you
57:01
know, you should be out there creating and, you know, just
57:05
like improving yourself constantly.
57:07
And I think, I don't know if other people think like this,
57:10
but like when I think of the word improve yourself, I always
57:12
just, I always just go to the gym and I think like, oh, this
57:17
would it mean Improve myself. But no, it's so much more than
57:20
that. Like go out there, touch grass,
57:22
like actually talk to people in the real world.
57:24
Like, Get Real World skills, know how to navigate the real
57:28
world and build. A lot of relationships, maybe
57:33
don't burn bridges too fast unless sector total fucking
57:36
scammers, but like in your personal world like you know,
57:40
Bitcoin Twitter is a lot different.
57:42
Like if someone says something, you know, to you and your friend
57:46
group, or at the grocery Restore.
57:48
You can't just say, we'll get fucked scammer and then block
57:50
them or something like Bitcoin. Twitter is not real life.
57:54
And I think that's something that a lot of people.
57:56
So I gotta remember, but yeah, don't get psyop done Bitcoin
58:03
told me, you know, live life Bitcoins of tool, use it to
58:08
improve your life, look at your life and say, like be brutally
58:11
honest with you, maybe get some outside opinions.
58:14
One of the best little somebody tweet this and Like I feel like
58:19
this isn't a viable thing for everyone to do just based on
58:22
where you live. But like, as though somebody
58:24
tweeted, they were like if you if you want the most honest
58:28
assessment of your life, go to a bar and a small conservative
58:33
town and just ask any group of dudes and they will give it to
58:37
you, super fun like like get some outside opinions on your
58:42
life if you're not happy with it and use Bitcoin as a tool, like
58:46
the number one, like If you think about it like this and on
58:50
this might be getting too stupid or too Cosmic, but I always
58:53
think of like at the end of the day this is just planet Earth.
58:57
And like you know, we found ourselves in a really unique
59:01
situation where we're living in like a super civilized time in
59:06
comparison to like you know history and we have a lot of we
59:11
I mean we have a pretty good, you know, I'm sitting in an
59:13
apartment right now with heating and air conditioning, a fridge
59:16
in an oven Like it's pretty easy for me to like live and survive.
59:21
You know, as long as I have money coming in but like use
59:25
just, you know, figure out what you want, like, distill things
59:30
down to the simplest way, you know, at the end of the day,
59:34
what you probably want is like, your Primal urges is like, you
59:37
know, to create, you know, to make babies and like, you know,
59:42
just like live a good life and like, you know, really, you
59:45
know, constantly improve. Elf and Bitcoin is just a tool.
59:50
It's just a tool for you to utilize and make your life
59:53
better. So like, you know, Some people
59:56
say oh like I'm never going to sell Bitcoin over.
59:59
Like my stats are going to you know, I'm gonna huddle till I
1:00:04
die. Well it's like well what if you
1:00:06
need like you know what? If you get really sick and you
1:00:10
need, you know, like a surgery or you know you know you need
1:00:13
like a super expensive medicine or something you're going to
1:00:16
sell your Bitcoin because you're like do you value like what you
1:00:21
get paid 10 million dollars right now if it meant that, Year
1:00:27
you died, you would never take that ten million dollars because
1:00:31
you value your life more than that 10 million.
1:00:33
So just you like money. Only goes so far obviously if
1:00:39
you have like a sweet setup like you have like a good family,
1:00:42
good friends and everything. Like the money is super sweet,
1:00:45
but if you don't have, you know, certain things leading up to
1:00:48
that if you just have a bunch of money but you don't have
1:00:50
anything else like it kind of sucks.
1:00:53
So just use the money. Use the Bitcoin as a tool to
1:00:57
improve your life and go out there.
1:01:00
Get real-world skills and yeah, just make sure you have more
1:01:04
Bitcoin today than you had yesterday.
1:01:07
Let's go. I just want to touch on one
1:01:10
thing man. You said it yourself complacency
1:01:14
in the modern world has made the majority of us.
1:01:17
Very not, only mentally weak, but physically weak.
1:01:21
And so, you know, do some hard stuff right now like There that
1:01:26
is sacrificing, whether that is lifting weight, whether that's
1:01:29
improving yourself, I really like how this quote that narwhal
1:01:32
tacos, put in the chat and I put it up earlier as your pain is
1:01:35
the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding like
1:01:38
put yourself through the work and life will reward you and
1:01:46
it's a very simple process. The world, the world has made
1:01:51
the majority of a soft and so just just put in that work guys.
1:01:56
Most of us, I looked at our analytics.
1:01:58
The majority of the people on our show, our young men and as
1:02:02
we've been seeing the last couple of years, a lot of a lot
1:02:06
of young men need a Guiding Light and for us, you know,
1:02:09
maybe where the few and Bitcoin and the friends that we've made
1:02:14
on bitcoin, Twitter have been that Guiding Light for us.
1:02:17
And I'm just trying to relate these messages to as many people
1:02:20
as possible. Last week I had Surfer gym on.
1:02:22
So I hit the older crowd this week.
1:02:24
I'm trying to hit the younger crowd.
1:02:26
And, and I'm just going to continuously go down these
1:02:29
stories and, you know, win the hearts and minds of the people
1:02:32
out there, whether it's relating this story or other people, I
1:02:38
will get as many as many friends on here is possible to talk
1:02:41
about how Bitcoin has changed your lives.
1:02:43
So Nick, where can people find you and we'll roll this one out,
1:02:48
give people your Twitter account and what, what, what's the
1:02:53
lookout for? Yeah.
1:02:55
I'm mainly just Nick can't mine on Twitter and I Ka CA NT.
1:03:01
Am I any? I don't really have other social
1:03:03
followings Twitter's pretty much just what I use are at least
1:03:09
that I'm willing to give out. Like I'm not giving you on my
1:03:11
Snapchat or anything so sorry that I worried all the ladies
1:03:15
out there but that's all feeling it.
1:03:18
But yeah that's pretty much it, that's where you can find me.
1:03:23
Let's go. Yeah.
1:03:24
Also obviously go see his work over at Bitcoin mag.
1:03:28
He's heading news over there guys.
1:03:30
So show some love. I'll probably be seeing you at
1:03:34
Bitcoin conference coming up or are actually.
1:03:37
Maybe, I'll maybe I'll try to head out to Tennessee.
1:03:39
I've been telling you for a while but I don't know.
1:03:42
I'll See You In the Flesh soon, bro.
1:03:44
And just keep killing it, dude. So absolutely.
1:03:49
Thank you for having all right. Yeah, chill out.
1:03:51
Chill out behind the scenes for a moment while I roll this one
1:03:54
out and we'll talk for a moment. All right guys, look, I know
1:03:59
this is a little different conversation than usual, but I
1:04:03
think that there was a lot of value in there of look I am a
1:04:08
young man may cause a young man. And if you're, you know, if
1:04:11
you're our age Zoomer Millennial, I think you have a
1:04:14
really great opportunity to build on bitcoin to build a
1:04:16
legacy on bitcoin to save some stats for your future.
1:04:19
All you got to do is what I tell you guys every single day.
1:04:22
Our in our spaces, provide value to your fellow man, save in
1:04:27
Bitcoin. And continuously reiterate this
1:04:30
process and life will reward you.
1:04:33
It won't be easy, but it's going to be worth it boys and girls
1:04:37
mainly boys. All right guys, we'll be back
1:04:41
tomorrow for our normal normal live show and then we got some
1:04:46
IRS tomorrow as well. So just stick around, I got some
1:04:50
more friends that will be coming in and out of the The and out of
1:04:53
the YouTube until then guys, I hope you guys stats from Saks,
1:04:58
go play Hungry, Hippo and go take some Bitcoin off the
1:05:01
exchanges and then just audit your life man and get better at
1:05:05
it. This is what Bitcoin offers and
1:05:07
this is what I would. Hope more people will take away
1:05:10
from not only the center view but from Bitcoin, in general.
1:05:13
All right guys, I will see you later.