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FORBES: Bitcoin Braces For $280T Price! | EP 1145 · Simply Bitcoin

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  Yo, one of the largest news publications in the world has
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  just released a bombshell article explaining how Bitcoin
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  could hit a $280 trillion market cap.
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  The article referenced a lot of reasons of why we could see
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  Bitcoin flying to the millions of dollars per coin, but one of
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  them has to do with the potential of America using
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  Bitcoin to extend the dominance of the US dollar.
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  I know icky, icky concept here guys, but there are now 21
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  countries she's talking about implementing a strategic Bitcoin
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  reserve. And it looks like the trend that
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  Donald Trump started is only accelerating.
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  So will Donald Trump unleash an American Bitcoin strategic
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  reserve to wipe out EU s s debt of $36 trillion?
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  I think only time will tell. We got about what, two weeks
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  until we know this answer? But let's dive straight into
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  this guys, because this whopper of an article over at Forbes,
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  it's super interesting. And of course, I'm not alone
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  today, guys, I'm here with our A-Team off the bench, Brandon
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  Gentile, have you bro? And then of course, adjacent
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  sellers from Join or Satlantis. So here we go.
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  Got to go live the article from Forbes tipping point crypto
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  brace for a $280 trillion price big reserve after Trump picks.
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  So diving into the article a little bit Donald Trump the US
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  president-elect has helped the Bitcoin a surge to record highs
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  this year with plans to establish AUS Bitcoin strategic
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  reserve. Of course, we all saw price of
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  Bitcoin basically double since he won the election.
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  And then we've been sings about other country.
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  He's doing a strategic Bitcoin reserve recently.
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  The big big Kahoon is essentially, you know, Russia
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  could beat the US to a Bitcoin strategic reserve.
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  And you know, Trump has pitched a capital markets renaissance
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  fueled by Bitcoin to unlock trillions in the wealth, as
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  Michael said. Now moving forward, here's a
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  tweet and this is where this article basically gets headline
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  from and this is quoting Saylor. A strategic digital asset policy
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  can strengthen the US dollar, neutralize the national debt and
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  position America as the global leader in the 21st century
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  digital economy. And Saylor wrote a so-called
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  digital asset framework. And this document outlines plans
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  for AUS Bitcoin Reserve predicted to generate $16
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  trillion to $80 trillion to off offset the US national debt
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  that's spired to over 36 trillion this year and, quote,
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  solidify the US dollar as the foundation of the 21st century
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  digital financial system. And then they just up the
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  updated this article because Trump announced that he's
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  appointing Bo Hines as the executive director of the newly
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  created Presidential Council of Advisors for digital assets
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  known as the Crypto Council. And here's a 12 from True
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  Social. In his new role, Bo will work
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  with David to foster innovation and growth, asset space while
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  ensuring industry leaders have the resources they need to
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  succeed. And of course, he's going to be
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  alongside David Sacks. And now moving forward, we have
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  Heinz, a transition from the Trump.
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  Trump transition team spokesperson says there has been
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  an effort in the Washington bureaucratic swamp to stifle
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  innovation, but President Trump will deliver on his promise to
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  encourage American leadership in crypto.
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  And then also we heard over the Trump appointed the pro Bitcoin
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  Stephen Mirren as a former Treasury official from the first
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  Trump White House to be the chair of the economic advisers.
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  So it's looking like Trump is building a very pro Bitcoin
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  administration now get these numbers here.
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  And this is where sailor did a pitch and you guys can catch us
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  on Twitter about this. You know digital it's framework
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  among other eye-catching numbers sailors pitch and visions
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  expanding quote global digital capital markets from $2 trillion
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  to 200 and trillion dollars with US investors captured of this
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  wealth and driving growth in digital assets from 1 trillion
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  to 590 trillion with the dominating this industry.
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  So it looks guys like we are going to see a very pro Bitcoin
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  administration and you know, we've seen a lot of proposals
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  coming out of it's a Bitcoin policy interested etc about a
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  strategic Bitcoin reserve and now we're seeing that it's
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  obviously catching on. I think the big question here is
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  whether this happens day one or within the 1st 100 days of, of
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  the big or the Trump administration looking like this
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  is a very serious conversation. And as you're seeing, the game
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  theory is playing out and more countries are starting to follow
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  suit. And that just means that they're
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  forcing the hand of the Trump administration.
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  And now they basically have to announce a strategic Bitcoin
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  reserve or else we get left behind.
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  Now, I know a lot of big corners out there when you kind of talk
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  about extending the dollar dominance of a, a touchy topic
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  here, but we know this is the conversation that's happening.
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  We knew this was going to happen and it seems like they are
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  taking it very seriously. And so we'll see, you know,
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  within two weeks, 3 weeks, what exactly happens day one.
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  We'll see what happens within the 1st 100 days of the
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  administration. But it looks like the Trump
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  administration is very seriously talking about embracing Bitcoin.
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  We even saw him at Turning Point USA conference this weekend
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  essentially congratulating Bitcoiners for 108K Bitcoin.
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  It looks like Trump is actually becoming a Bitcoiner.
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  I know a lot of us will say, hey, he doesn't understand
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  Bitcoin, but he is becoming a Bitcoiner.
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  Anyways, let me pass this over. I'm going to pass it over to
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  Brandon. And Brandon, what's your
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  thoughts on this Forbes article? What's your thoughts on Trump
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  embracing Bitcoin? Yeah, I, I think it's, it's,
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  it's beyond bullish. You know, I, there's a couple of
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  really good podcast recently, Preston did his his macro
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  hangout. Jeff Booth was on Canutes the
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  other day. There's so many good speakers
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  out there right now and, and great really philosophical
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  thinkers and Bitcoin thinkers that out outlining what what's
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  happening and the, the possibilities are, are really,
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  I, I think endless. And, and I think that that's
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  where this the, the Trump thing and people get it twisted with,
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  oh, why are politicians doing this?
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  Why are they doing that? Why is the nation state getting
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  involved in into Bitcoin, etcetera, etcetera.
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  We want it on the tip of everyone's tongue.
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  You know, you want Bitcoin on the tip of every single person's
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  tongue, every politician's tongue.
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  And, and I, I do think there's this, the thing we have to
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  acknowledge though, is that, you know, the US strategic reserve,
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  if they're going to start with this confiscated Bitcoin that
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  they took from other people, I think we have to acknowledge
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  that number one. So the truth has to be the
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  truth. And, and they did take it from
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  other people. So we have to acknowledge that.
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  I don't know how we're going to rectify that or what we're going
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  to ever do with that. And, and if we have anything we
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  can do other than just voicing what's what's happening.
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  But we starting from there this again, with the amount of
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  Bitcoin that comes out, you know, every year diminishing or
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  every four years diminishing and the, the supply available, it,
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  it's only going to obviously have the, the price increase as
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  time goes forward. And I think that it's hard.
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  The exponential function is what's very hard for humans to
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  grasp. And we just, we've never seen
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  anything like this. And I saw someone in here again
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  say they're going to stack lockdowns with, you know, other
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  health events and etcetera. They probably will.
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  I mean, it's, it's weird how quiet some of these things are,
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  or one side of the aisle seems to be very quiet, which is very
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  odd. And so I, I think there are some
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  tricks up to sleeve. They're not going to go away
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  quietly. And, and I mean when I mean,
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  when I say they, I mean evil spirits.
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  Let's, let's get it. I, I, I don't care what's left,
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  right up or down, whatever. Evil spirits do not like truth.
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  Evil spirits do not want to be disinfected by light and period,
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  end of story. They do not go quietly.
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  And, and evil knows no boundaries and knows no either
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  side of the road. Like I said, it doesn't matter
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  what political spectrum or aisle you're looking at, it does not
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  matter. So truth is truth.
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  The further you get away from from truth, the harder your
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  life's going to be. Bitcoin is truth, God is truth,
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  Bitcoin is truth. These things for you get away
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  from from truth, the harder your life is, period, right.
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  So this this is the, this the fight of the day.
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  It's politics down here. Then it's the the money layer
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  you see, which is about. But then you see evil spirits
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  and good spirits, the, I think Maxwell's hierarchy of needs,
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  the highest level, the self actualization is understanding
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  and realizing that we're in a fight.
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  We're in a battle between good and evil, right and wrong,
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  period. And until people start
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  understanding that and this fight doesn't end just because
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  your guy wins or because Bitcoin, you know, of a Bitcoin
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  reserve or whatever the heck it is, this stuff doesn't end.
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  And I think that's what's got us into so much trouble over the
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  last 100 years is we just, hey, you know, let's wash our hands.
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  If it's great, we have the Declaration independence, we've
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  got the Constitution. Hey, we've got you know,
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  whatever, we just won this before our time's finished here.
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  Like I can go on to my life. This stuff doesn't end.
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  So we have to stay diligent for as long as you're alive.
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  You have to train your kids to be diligent.
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  And again, I can rant on this river.
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  I'm getting off on tangents here up to you.
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  So I hope, I hope you're not crackling up over there and
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  going and we can hear you and see it.
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  But it's this this to me. I could not be more passionate
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  about this. And we've only begun to see
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  what's going to happen when all of a sudden you have the US jump
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  into this game and all of a sudden it sets off this goal,
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  global hash rates, which we're seeing now.
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  And this only leads to one thing, which is it devouring the
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  entire economic system. Over time.
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  People want to, oh, it's going to strengthen the dollar.
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  It could. It could for like a day or two
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  or could for a month or two. We know where this is going.
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  It destroys the entire system. This breaks all your models.
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  And it aligns all the incentives for all of us, you know,
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  consumers, producers. It's going to be an amazing
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  thing. Buckle up.
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  Totally, Brandon. And yeah, guys, sorry, this
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  Internet at my parents house is acting up right now, so
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  hopefully it's coming through. I know it's a little pixelated,
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  so I'll probably off camera as much as possible.
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  But anyway, let's pass it over to Jason.
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  Hopefully my audio is coming in good.
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  Jason, what's your thoughts on this Forbes article?
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  Yeah, Firstly, I want to echo everything that Brandon just
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  said there, that maybe this does help the US dollar for a little
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  while. But The thing is, with or
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  without Bitcoin, the US dollar is going to go the way of every
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  Fiat currency. Every single Fiat currency
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  throughout all mankind has always died.
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  It's only a matter of time. And so sure, maybe Bitcoin can
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  prop it up, give it a, a, a last, last little bit of
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  adrenaline while it's going through its death throes, but
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  that's, that's it. That's all it can ever do.
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  So I guess another important thing to remember is that
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  Bitcoin is bigger than any country, even all countries
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  combined. There are three things I always
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  say that Bitcoin relies on, and that is math, physics, and
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  basically I was going to say human greed, but what's the
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  other game theory? It's connected to human greed.
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  But as long as those three things exist, as long as people
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  still want what people want, that's the game theory part.
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  As long as physics still works, and as long as math still works,
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  and all three of those things are bigger than any and all
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  countries combined, then Bitcoin will still work.
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  And so while the United States, Russia, or anywhere else might
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  leverage Bitcoin for a time, that's all they can do for a
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  time. The nation states will come and
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  go. Presidents will come and go no
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  matter what you feel about them. Go to bad presents, kings,
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  whatever they are, they will come and go.
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  Bitcoin is forever. That's all I got to say.
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  Let's go. I love that.
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  Hold on. I think some horns are are do
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  there. Yeah, totally agree.
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  I mean, I think as a Bitcoiner, we, we all know that eventually
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  Bitcoin will ensure or hopefully make a smaller government.
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  Obviously we know that the government is backed and
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  politicians are backed by the money printer.
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  So we're still in this time right now where, hey, politics
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  matters. And I think it's very important
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  actually. I'm going to pass it to Brandon
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  here because I know you have a good rant on this one about
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  Bitcoiners getting involved in politics and what's the what's
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  the Plato quote that you always mention.
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  Yeah, if you're not involved in politics, you're going to be
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  governed by your inferiors. And it's just the story of life
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  again, you know, it's unfortunately, you know, truth.
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  You know, people generally are good.
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  All humans are, are created good.
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  It's just again, it's these evil spirits that that take a hold of
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  of the cracked vase. You know, they, they seep into
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  vessels that they can find that are, are are down.
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  And it's, it's humans are inherently good, though.
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  And so this is where we all think most of us, because most
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  people are still good. We're in, we are good people
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  just day-to-day. So we think that people aren't
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  going to do bad things. We just think, why would, why
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  would Elizabeth Warren do this? Why would this person do that?
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  Why would they go against our own good well-being?
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  And, and it just because we are in this battle, this spiritual
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  battle, that is it's ephemeral. It's you can't see it.
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  It's invisible, right? So this is, this is the fight we
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  are in. And that's why it's so
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  incredibly hard. It's, it's why it's hard to see
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  Bitcoin for a lot of people because it is digital.
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  It's, it's ephemeral. It's, it's carrying your wealth
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  in your head. That's we're in the information
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  age and in the invisible age, it's very hard to see what's
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  going on, that the fight we're in is, is on so many levels
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  ephemeral that it is hard for the, for a human just to kind of
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  see it. We talked about the experiment,
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  the exponential part of this as well.
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  We have a hard time seeing obviously the invisible being
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  tuned into it again when you're on the hamster wheel all the
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  time of Fiat purposely that we've been put on the hamster
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  wheel so we can't see these things.
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  We don't spend time with ourselves just alone thinking
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  and pondering using our you know, I the thing I always think
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  of is humans were given 6 higher faculties and animals are given
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  5 senses. We have 5 senses too.
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  Most humans just rely on their five senses along with animals
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  and they don't differentiate themselves with the six higher
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  faculties of, and I might not miss one here, but will a
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  reason, imagination, perception, memory and intuition.
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  So if you're not using those things, then you are the same as
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  an animal. And it's going to be very hard
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  to figure out what's going on in the world to make good
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  decisions, make the right, you know, make the correct call.
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  But what keeps us on that hamster wheel just using the
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  five senses? Well, it's Fiat, right?
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  It's, it's this system, this matrix that people are put on in
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  these little energy pods that you're, you're, you know, sucked
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  into that you just have to keep the you're keeping the lights on
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  for the ruling class. You're keeping the lights on for
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  the rest of the world through this monetary system.
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  They make you force you to use so you can't see outside and use
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  these six higher faculties to understand what's actually
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  happening in the world. And it's it's the most insidious
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  game I've ever seen in my life. It it it's again, it's a good
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  first evil spirits, but it starts at this political level
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  at the bottom, you know, and you have to climb your way up.
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  Once you start leveling up, you start seeing these different
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  levels of the game that are played.
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  Politics is that first base level that's very tough and you
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  have to get through that somehow, but you have to be
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  involved in it. It's just so many good people
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  kind of just stand by the wayside.
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  And when evil is is able to fester, when good people stand
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  up or, you know, sit down and and say nothing.
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  So it's continually calling these things out, educating, you
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  know, we're in the holiday season, Obviously Christmas and
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  New Year's and and Thanksgiving just passed and people around
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  people. So when people are saying
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  ridiculous things, it's not my nature to necessarily just go
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  call someone out out of the blue.
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  It's probably not most humans nature, but we do have to stand
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  on guard for truth, for be the light that isn't disinfecting
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  the darkness and and say, Hey, you know what, there might be a
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  different way. You don't have to be mean about
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  things, but you have to be involved.
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  And politically that is politically, it's not just, oh,
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  I'm going to APTA meeting or I'm going to vote is voting with our
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  wallet, is voting with our voice, you know, saying, Hey, I
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  think there's a different way, you know, Uncle Joe, I think
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  there's a different way to think about that.
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  And, and being that person, then other people hear you, other
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  people see that it courage, you know, courage is contagious.
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  So standing up, just saying something, voicing a different
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  opinion, saying, you know what, I appreciate that.
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  But I think I think this way or whatever.
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  So it can be in these different ways.
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  And I think good people have just sat down for so long and
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  been content. And again, we have this problem
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  of apathy in America for 100 years plus years of being in a
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  place of such wealth and prosperity that it's, it's
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  enabled our this lifestyle to just kind of go along and say,
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  you know what, it's OK, I'll love this one slide.
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  I'll wait to the next one type of mentality.
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  And it just, it can't happen anymore.
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  And that's where the Plato quote comes from.
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  Being involved politically again doesn't just mean pulling a
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  lever, but it means in all areas of life being involved and being
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  just a citizen, a human and standing up for truth is what
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  helps correct this and and lead us back down that that true
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  path. Love it Brandon couldn't agree
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  Scan the QR code and use the promo code simply and you can
• 19:55
  get 15% off a stamp seed. But in the private chat, Jason
• 19:59
  Lee said a, you know, interesting story, so I'm going
• 20:01
  to pass it over. It's relating to stamp seed.
• 20:03
  So this is a ever long ad today, Jason.
• 20:06
  Shoot it just on Saturday at my local Bitcoin meet up in
• 20:11
  Chattanooga, TN Bitcoin chat. We had a Christmas party and
• 20:16
  white elephant gift exchange and my kids, some of my kids, not
• 20:19
  all of them, some of my kids came.
• 20:20
  I got six of them. So yeah, only four of them came.
• 20:22
  And, and my oldest, who's 17, when we did wild gift exchange,
• 20:29
  he got a stamp seat. And yeah, he's really excited.
• 20:32
  And being 17, he's getting ready, you know, leaving the
• 20:35
  nest is on the horizon. Not very far, actually.
• 20:38
  And so he's, he's really excited to get his private key off of
• 20:43
  paper and onto titanium. Let's go, let's go.
• 20:46
  So hey, I guess he's still young, but his kids won't be.
• 20:52
  Hey Grandpa Paul, where's my general?
• 20:53
  Because it's going to be backed up on a stamp sheet.
• 20:57
  Anyways, guys, if you like the show, smash the like button,
• 21:00
  subscribe, all that good stuff. We have a jam packed show for
• 21:04
  you guys anyways, I'm here on Clark Moody's dashboard and the
• 21:07
  current Bitcoin price is $93,250 per Bitcoin.
• 21:12
  The stats per dollar, 1072 stats per dollar.
• 21:16
  The block height is 876,000 and 59.
• 21:20
  I repeat 76059. The Bitcoin market cap.
• 21:23
  Dang, we had, we, we, we, we're struggling for that 2 trillion.
• 21:27
  We're at 1.85 surely in the Bitcoin first gold market cap is
• 21:30
  at 10.12% and the total percentage of Bitcoin that will
• 21:35
  end currently at 94.28% with roughly 19.79 million Bitcoin in
• 21:42
  circulation now moving forward. This is the numbers guys.
• 21:45
  And one of the things I think, you know, Brandon brought it up
• 21:48
  earlier, everyone's going back for the holidays.
• 21:51
  You're going to be chatting with your friend and your family.
• 21:54
  Well, it looks like we might have a new chart out here, guys.
• 21:57
  It looks like, as we've been saying forever, a message that
• 22:01
  get lost on everyone out here. When we're trying to show
• 22:03
  Bitcoin to people, it's very simply that Bitcoin is the best
• 22:08
  performing asset ever. And then we got this chart here,
• 22:11
  guys. Bitcoin is the best performing
• 22:13
  asset the last 11 out of the 14 years.
• 22:17
  And we have Michael Mcdonaghue from Bloomberg here just
• 22:21
  explaining Bitcoin once again leads a pack.
• 22:24
  Here's a snapshot of my global annual most multi asset return
• 22:28
  matrix. And it might be a little hard
• 22:30
  for you guys to see that this I, I was a little confused when I
• 22:34
  first saw this as well. You can see here at the top
• 22:37
  Bloomberg Gallatin index at the top year today, it's been
• 22:42
  leading 1118 years. The only years it hasn't LED was
• 22:45
  20/14/2018 and 2022. And of course, Bitcoin this year
• 22:52
  year today is still the best performing app.
• 22:55
  I said in the world, this is a message that we need to keep
• 22:59
  explaining the people all the time.
• 23:01
  I literally had this conversation with my brother.
• 23:04
  He was talking about Bitcoin. Should I be buying?
• 23:06
  I'm like, bro, Bitcoin is the best savings vehicle period is
• 23:11
  the best way to save your money. And now we have the data and the
• 23:15
  charts to back it up. As you guys can see, you know
• 23:17
  Bitcoin has been outperforming everything the last 11 of 14, 15
• 23:23
  years. Bitcoin is the best performing
• 23:25
  asset, the best performing asset the last 15 years.
• 23:28
  If you just buy a huddle, don't go out your Bitcoin, you're
• 23:32
  going to get wrecked. Literally use Bitcoin as a
• 23:34
  savings vehicle and you will outperform everything else in
• 23:38
  the market. It's so simple.
• 23:40
  Everyone, everyone wants to complicate things, but it's
• 23:43
  really it's simple as just and holding that Bitcoin, continuing
• 23:46
  to buy more Bitcoin. This is how you win.
• 23:48
  It's the simplest strategy ever. Everyone loves to complicate it
• 23:53
  anyway. Don't pass it to Jason.
• 23:54
  You know, you work Bitcoin, you have a family.
• 23:57
  What do you think about this chart and what do you tell
• 24:00
  everyone else that's going to be asking you, hey, should I be
• 24:02
  buying some Bitcoin this holiday season?
• 24:08
  Yeah, I say just look at the trend.
• 24:09
  Of course, you know, as I say, you know, past performance
• 24:12
  doesn't necessarily mean necessarily mean future
• 24:17
  performance, but still, like we also say, you know, don't don't
• 24:22
  trust verify. I mean, these are verifiable
• 24:24
  numbers you can look at here. And there's a reason for it.
• 24:27
  It's not just because it's a hype, a 16 year long hype.
• 24:30
  But anyway, it's not just hype. You know, there's, you know,
• 24:33
  verifiably only 21 million and and then several million that
• 24:37
  have been lost and only like another million or a little more
• 24:41
  than another million left to go over the next like 100 and 15116
• 24:46
  years. So oh, yeah, yeah.
• 24:51
  So I just told them those things.
• 24:52
  Those were all verifiable facts, I guess.
• 24:54
  Yeah. One thing I also tell people a
• 24:56
  lot is my family members and friends is that we know there's
• 25:00
  only going to be a certain amount, and we know more people
• 25:02
  are learning about it every day. Put those two things together
• 25:06
  and there's only one option that you got to buy some now before
• 25:08
  other people figure it out. 100% couldn't agree more And Brandon,
• 25:15
  what's your thoughts on this chart?
• 25:17
  Are you going to be using this Orange fell friends?
• 25:19
  And actually we were kind of joking about this before the
• 25:22
  show. Are you Are you ready to beat
• 25:23
  your friends and family over the head with I am right today I've
• 25:27
  been right. Are you going to listen to me?
• 25:30
  Oh, absolutely, absolutely. That's I mean, you have to at
• 25:33
  the end of the day, Yeah, it's to the victor goes and spoils.
• 25:37
  But no, I mean, seriously, I think that the one thing like
• 25:40
  these charts like this, they make you realize that in this
• 25:44
  Fiat world, like we were talking about earlier, it's distorted
• 25:46
  everything. And in the investing, we have to
• 25:48
  be an investing expert in order to be successful in the Fiat
• 25:53
  world that we live in this Fiat matrix.
• 25:55
  And, and what confuses a lot of that, we as we were talking
• 25:57
  about this offline, we were talking about how Wall Street
• 25:59
  and a lot of these guys, they and we've all, we've all had to
• 26:02
  go to the gauntlet. We've all had to humble
• 26:04
  ourselves in order to see this and to see Bitcoin.
• 26:06
  Bitcoin is not an IQ test. It's a, it's a humility
• 26:09
  exercise. It's a humility test and can you
• 26:12
  understand that the life you were living was generally wrong?
• 26:15
  The things you've been taught are wrong.
• 26:16
  That's very hard for humans to understand and grasp and humble
• 26:21
  themselves to and accept. And you get a lot of the Wall
• 26:24
  Street guys, they're they're investing experts, but it's in a
• 26:26
  Fiat matrix that they're in. So they might be great at
• 26:29
  raising cash and good old boys club and, you know, doing the,
• 26:33
  you know, the Wall Street, you know, after hours parties,
• 26:35
  that's great. But that we're in a different
• 26:37
  world. We're going to a different
• 26:38
  paradigm. And because you're an investing
• 26:41
  expert, people just extrapolate that over to, well, they must be
• 26:44
  a monetary expert, that he just must be great with his money.
• 26:47
  He must be a savings expert. And what people don't see is
• 26:50
  those things are all different. Those aren't the same things.
• 26:53
  So you have the Warren Buffett's the world or you know, a lot of
• 26:56
  these guys are all the way down to the, the, the peon on Wall
• 26:58
  Street who just started and, and just got a did a series 7 and it
• 27:02
  came out of whatever Harvard. Everyone looks these guys and
• 27:05
  thinks all these guys are geniuses.
• 27:06
  These guys are, they are wonderful.
• 27:07
  They're so brilliant and they can be like, they could have
• 27:09
  very high Iqs and, and that as such, but they don't understand
• 27:13
  monetary history, most of them because they never had to.
• 27:16
  And, and that's where it gets very hard to see these things.
• 27:18
  So the, the talk that I've had with my family over time were,
• 27:21
  were those simple things of understanding what money is and,
• 27:25
  and why are we trading our finite time on earth.
• 27:28
  And, and before Bitcoin was discovered, 'cause I do think
• 27:31
  it's a discovery. I think all these things are
• 27:32
  discoveries. And, and yes, there's, there's
• 27:34
  an invention to it and, and put it, but it's really to me, these
• 27:38
  things were available, you know, 1000 years ago, you could have
• 27:40
  had Bitcoin technically, you could have had planes, trains,
• 27:43
  automobiles, but humans weren't ready.
• 27:45
  The, the, the technologies themselves individually, that
• 27:48
  those things were not there yet, right?
• 27:49
  Humans, their collective conscious was not together yet
• 27:51
  in order to do it and into fashion it.
• 27:54
  So the things I talked to my family about are loved ones, the
• 27:57
  people that will listen is, is the, hey, why are we trading our
• 28:00
  finite time for infinite piece of paper, infinite liabilities,
• 28:04
  You know, the, the dollar, these Fiat currencies are obviously
• 28:06
  they're liabilities. They're not assets and for a
• 28:09
  long time we've treat them like they're assets and you know,
• 28:12
  they definitely weren't after ninety 1971.
• 28:15
  You can argue before that, but those, those big macro things
• 28:19
  are that are what people have to understand in order to start
• 28:21
  peeling back those layers and accepting the truth.
• 28:24
  And and obviously, once you start going down that road, then
• 28:26
  you can start questioning all these other things.
• 28:28
  Like we always joke about whether it's JFK all the way
• 28:30
  down the road. You start like peeling back
• 28:32
  these layers of wait, if if they're lying about this, what
• 28:34
  else are they lying about? What are what else are they
• 28:36
  doing to to misalign things for me and pulling my the the the
• 28:41
  wool over my eyes with So that to me is the big thing.
• 28:44
  I share the grass and I think it meeting people where they are to
• 28:47
  your point out to you showing I have some finance, you know,
• 28:50
  brothers in laws that are finance guys.
• 28:52
  That's a hey church like this. They love stuff like that.
• 28:55
  Then there's, you know, the the some people that I know that
• 28:58
  they they want something different.
• 28:59
  They want to talk about freedom tech or, you know, things like
• 29:01
  that. So it's just meeting people
• 29:02
  where they are in that common, you know, sales approach, I
• 29:04
  guess in a way of, but truly at this point, I, I have people now
• 29:09
  that, yes, finally they're starting to come out of the
• 29:11
  woodwork. Price is 100 and they're, you
• 29:12
  know, OK, yeah, hey, I want to talk about that.
• 29:15
  So they're sending memes and stuff like that.
• 29:16
  So everyone has that different price.
• 29:18
  And Jason, you were saying earlier I might have been
• 29:20
  offline that, you know, it's a need to know basis like Sailor
• 29:22
  says. And everyone, everyone gets it
• 29:24
  at the price. They deserve it.
• 29:25
  It's true. You know, and when you have the
• 29:27
  ears to hear and the eyes to see, eventually you will, you
• 29:29
  will get it when you, when you're hurting enough, like
• 29:31
  Sailor was in a way. Right.
• 29:33
  That's the thing. I really quick, I don't think
• 29:35
  you'll get it about Sailor either.
• 29:36
  Sailor was about to sell his company.
• 29:37
  He was, you know, like what am I going to do?
• 29:38
  Am I going to sell my company? Am I going to offload it?
• 29:41
  What am I going to do? I'm going to take a buyout.
• 29:43
  What's going to happen? He doesn't have to go do any of
• 29:46
  this. That's the wild part.
• 29:48
  And this has been a theme I've seen a few people talk about.
• 29:50
  And it's this mission, right? Bitcoin is a mission.
• 29:53
  It's it's it's life as we know. That's why I started with truth
• 29:56
  earlier and evil spirits was good spirits because it's, it's
• 29:59
  no one bought Google or Apple stock and changed their life and
• 30:02
  said, I'm a changed person. I'm, I'm setting my sight on on
• 30:05
  Apple the rest of my life. And I'm going to go evangelize
• 30:07
  Apple or Microsoft or Google stock because it doesn't change
• 30:10
  you. Bitcoin changes you because it
• 30:12
  changes everything we know about the life we've lived.
• 30:14
  That's the mission. That's what we talk about when
• 30:16
  we say be on the mission. It's because every person that
• 30:19
  you know that understands Bitcoin, they've changed somehow
• 30:22
  that's changed their life and they're on this mission.
• 30:23
  Generally, a lot of us have been compelled and incentivized to go
• 30:26
  talk about this thing that we've learned about and in like we
• 30:29
  said, joked up, beat people over the head with it because it's so
• 30:32
  obvious once you see it that it you, you, you're forced to go
• 30:35
  talk about it. But no one's ever done that with
• 30:37
  Fiat. And, and as evidenced by Fiat,
• 30:40
  everyone constantly trying to sell their dollars or sell their
• 30:44
  Fiat in order to buy assets with it.
• 30:46
  They don't believe in the Fiat because they're trying to get
• 30:49
  out of it constantly. So it's meeting people where
• 30:52
  they are at the end of the day. I, I think that this time of
• 30:54
  year is great for whatever reason.
• 30:55
  Again, the cycles are set up so that we, we're always together,
• 30:59
  whether it's before you're having cycles during elections.
• 31:01
  So it's always going to be this thing.
• 31:03
  And then also it tends to do this during holidays, which I
• 31:05
  think is amazing. And again, it's just a, a wink
• 31:08
  of the simulation in a way. I think.
• 31:09
  And I, I think that you have to just meet people where, where
• 31:12
  they are and, and, and how we, we approach them.
• 31:15
  Totally. Actually, I want to put you guys
• 31:17
  on the spot right now. What are you guys going to tell
• 31:21
  your friends and family if they should be buying Bitcoin at
• 31:24
  100K? Jason, I'm going to go with you
• 31:26
  first. What is your TLDR?
• 31:29
  2 minute pitch when you are asked should I be buying Bitcoin
• 31:32
  at 100 Ki? Always reply.
• 31:35
  I mean yes I've been asked that lots of times.
• 31:38
  Not just 100K other prices too. But I always say depends on how
• 31:41
  long you can keep it, if you can hold on to it.
• 31:44
  I mean, people say four years because of the first cycle.
• 31:46
  I just round to a nice, nice round five.
• 31:48
  If, if you're not playing a touch for five years, yes, it's
• 31:51
  always a great time to buy Bitcoin.
• 31:53
  But if they're expecting to, to be able to sell it, if they're
• 31:56
  intending to sell it ever, they're intending to sell it in
• 32:00
  the next year or so. I'm like, Nah, it's even here at
• 32:03
  the beginning of the bull market.
• 32:04
  I, I don't know the future. I don't know what Black Swan
• 32:06
  events could happen. So I don't want to be that
• 32:08
  person, say yes, yes, now is the time.
• 32:10
  So I always put it on the the time frame saying if you can
• 32:15
  hold it for for this long, then then you're good.
• 32:18
  Like this long or longer, five years or more.
• 32:20
  Otherwise, don't touch it. I couldn't agree more.
• 32:24
  That's literally I said that verbatim to my brother.
• 32:28
  It was like, it's like, should I be buying right now?
• 32:31
  I'm like, well, you know me. I always think you should be
• 32:34
  buying. But if you need that money
• 32:36
  within a year, then you probably shouldn't put into Bitcoin
• 32:39
  whatever you're trying to save long term.
• 32:42
  That's when you what you should be putting in the Bitcoin.
• 32:44
  But I'm gonna pass the question to Brandon.
• 32:46
  Brandon, what do you tell your friends and family when they ask
• 32:48
  you if they should be buying Bitcoin at 100K?
• 32:53
  It would mention it and then it'll go in a way the savings
• 32:56
  technology and and that's the thing that a year or two ago, I
• 32:59
  don't even know when it was all of a sudden it was just very in
• 33:03
  my own head, very obvious, I guess, Hey, or I guess it was
• 33:06
  during the bear market that that's what it was.
• 33:07
  Because when prices going down, then, you know, it's much harder
• 33:11
  to give this number go up soliloquy, right and and say,
• 33:15
  hey, look at past history, it's going to do it again.
• 33:16
  So it's just savings technology. It's and and then at that time
• 33:19
  too, two years ago, the, the, what was it?
• 33:22
  The Ukraine, yeah, Ukraine war started and and that was again,
• 33:25
  Hey, we've got examples of people leaving the, the country
• 33:28
  with their wealth in their head. So those, to me, I think the
• 33:32
  savings technology aspect, I think is the biggest thing of,
• 33:34
  of dollar cost averaging. Get get your lump sum, get what
• 33:36
  you're comfortable in now. And everyone can be comfortable
• 33:38
  at a different a, a point of what they are going to allot to
• 33:41
  it, but get get what you want initially and then dollar cost
• 33:44
  average. I think that's and then as far
• 33:46
  as orange going again, it's the log chart for me.
• 33:49
  And seeing the log chart we talked about in exponential
• 33:51
  earlier, people seeing that. I think people get shaken out a
• 33:54
  lot of times because of just looking at that linear chart,
• 33:56
  obviously. But when you see the log chart,
• 33:58
  you know, Metcas law, the network effect, that's massive,
• 34:01
  you realize, oh, this thing doesn't go down.
• 34:03
  Actually, it's just an adoption curve of of the technology
• 34:05
  itself. And I think that was a huge
• 34:07
  thing for me. And I remember years ago,
• 34:09
  whatever it was 567 years ago, Max Geyser talking about moving
• 34:13
  your wealth and having your wealth stored in your head.
• 34:15
  Those are big aha moments for me where I just was sitting there
• 34:18
  blown away in my chair, rewinding it 100 times and be
• 34:20
  like, wait, what? That those to me are huge and,
• 34:23
  and, and kind of shaking people and rattling out of out of their
• 34:27
  they're stupor and these these hamster wheels that we're in,
• 34:30
  those are huge to me. So those are some good orange
• 34:33
  peeling things I've used over the years.
• 34:34
  Again, meeting people where they are showing them some of these
• 34:36
  different things. But savings technology, again,
• 34:38
  whether it's 100, whether it's a million, I tell people to like,
• 34:40
  I will be buying in a million. I'll be, you know, saving, I'll
• 34:43
  be saving at a million. I'll be transferring my Fiat at
• 34:45
  a million at 10 million, at 100 million a coin doesn't matter.
• 34:48
  Like my, my family will be trained to buy, to continually
• 34:51
  save in Bitcoin. Is, is as long as there's a
• 34:53
  mechanism for us to trade or this, this worthless Fiat into
• 34:56
  it, then eventually we'll just be working for it.
• 34:58
  Eventually we'll be working in in probably shorter order than
• 35:01
  we think in the next 5-10, fifteen, 20 years, we'll be
• 35:03
  working for it. These Fiat currencies won't
• 35:04
  exist. And I don't care what any
• 35:06
  government, you know, entity or politician has to say.
• 35:09
  They won't, they won't, won't exist.
• 35:10
  It's the black hole. It's going to suck everything in
• 35:13
  and all the time and energy as people start seeing this and
• 35:16
  seeing this abstraction from reality that we're in,
• 35:19
  everything will be sucked into Bitcoin and you'll be working
• 35:21
  for that. It'll be, you know, these, oh,
• 35:22
  this person has too much Bitcoin.
• 35:23
  Well, guess what? Those entities will be paying
• 35:25
  people in Bitcoin. It'll start getting dispersed
• 35:27
  all around the world as people are paid in Bitcoin.
• 35:29
  They're buying in Bitcoin. This will happen sooner than we
• 35:32
  think. It's not going to take I I love
• 35:34
  Spesky. It's not going to take 60 years.
• 35:35
  It's not going to take 100 years.
• 35:37
  People are humans are smart. They're they're good people
• 35:40
  inherently and they're smart. They might be apathetic.
• 35:42
  We might be dumb at times. We might be do stupid things.
• 35:44
  We all do and we get emotional, but we, we, we want to protect
• 35:47
  ourselves in the end. And we have the benefit of
• 35:49
  technology is the thing. Someone mentioned Musk earlier.
• 35:52
  The greatest thing that Musk has right now is this platform that
• 35:55
  we now get to whether anything gets done or not.
• 35:58
  I don't know. Who knows what happens in the
• 36:00
  next 4 years, but Musk having 200 million followers on Twitter
• 36:03
  and being able to pump his own algorithm, his own algo and push
• 36:06
  it out or wherever he wants. If he's going to do a Twitter
• 36:08
  file type of stuff and do this for the next 4 years, what, what
• 36:11
  greater gift do we have than four years of them exposing
• 36:14
  hopefully all the shenanigans of the world going on.
• 36:16
  That would be incredible that that's all we can ask for.
• 36:19
  And then the, the, the people, but what we can then be take
• 36:22
  these pieces and go start rebuilding the world we, we want
• 36:24
  to see going forward. So I think we're in for an
• 36:26
  incredible time. It's, it's saving technology.
• 36:29
  Just keep saving at any price. Doesn't matter.
• 36:30
  It's 10,100 million, 10 million, doesn't matter.
• 36:33
  Just keep saving. Totally agree.
• 36:36
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• 36:39
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  there. All right, guys, you probably
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  saw this on Twitter. If you're on Twitter, you
• 38:47
  probably noticed this. If not, well, we're covering it.
• 38:51
  So breaking news over the weekend, Rumble announces a 77
• 38:57
  or $775,000,000 strategic investment from Tether.
• 39:01
  And here is a quote from Paulo who is the CEO of Tether and he
• 39:05
  goes beyond our initial shareholder stake.
• 39:07
  Tether intends to drive towards a meaningful advertising cloud
• 39:10
  and crypto payment solutions relationship with Rumble.
• 39:14
  Now going into this a little more, going to the Tether side
• 39:17
  and kind of breaking down what this announcement means for
• 39:20
  Rumble, we have a Tether announces a 700 and $75 million
• 39:24
  strategic investment. It's funny, everything's
• 39:27
  strategic now that the irony isn't lost on me anyway.
• 39:30
  A $775,000,000 strategic investment in Rumble to boost
• 39:34
  decentralized and community owned media platforms.
• 39:38
  December 20th, 2024 Tether, the largest company in the digital
• 39:41
  asset industry with more than 350 million users, announced
• 39:45
  today that it has made a definitive agreement to invest
• 39:48
  in Rumble. The investment includes a
• 39:51
  primary commitment of $250 million in cash with Tether also
• 39:55
  supporting Rumbles tender offer for up to 70 million shares at
• 39:58
  $7.50 per share, reinforcing the platforms future growth
• 40:03
  initiatives. The total anticipated investment
• 40:06
  from Tether will be approximately like we said, $775
• 40:10
  million or 103,333,333 shares of common stock.
• 40:17
  Following the completion of this transaction, Chris Poblowski,
• 40:21
  Rumbles Chairman and CEO will retain a controlling stake in
• 40:24
  the company. Now, again, going into this a
• 40:26
  little more, obviously we understand the initial amount of
• 40:31
  investment, but we are seeing that there is a move here of
• 40:37
  partnering Tether with Rumble. If you guys know or don't know
• 40:39
  already, Tether already has a pretty big shareholding of
• 40:44
  Rumble. But moving forward, like what
• 40:46
  does this mean for Bitcoiners? What does this mean for Rumble
• 40:50
  in general? We have the CEO, Chris, he goes
• 40:52
  today Rumble enters a new era. We partnered with Tether, a
• 40:55
  company that exports American values to the entire world and
• 40:59
  who are major advocates for free speech.
• 41:01
  Couldn't be more excited now doubling down.
• 41:04
  Here's Chris he he seems to be going down the Bitcoin rabbit
• 41:07
  horn, actually joining and fostering communication within
• 41:10
  the in the Bitcoin ecosystem. And I'm I'm personally pretty
• 41:14
  excited to see what happens next.
• 41:16
  But you see Chris here Rumble Bitcoin tether.
• 41:18
  Do you see the future yet now doubling down.
• 41:22
  This is where it means something for all of us here at Simply
• 41:26
  Bitcoin, which is why we are so excited about this and and
• 41:30
  hopefully seeing this implemented very soon.
• 41:33
  Chris goes imagine you can see, imagine you can easily tip your
• 41:37
  favorite creators with Bitcoin or Tether directly on Rumble.
• 41:41
  Now guys, Tether, I've said it multiple times, I'm a Bitcoiner,
• 41:45
  but I understand why some people like Tether.
• 41:48
  Now going forward, what did this mean for Rumble share price?
• 41:51
  Because we've been seeing that every time a company announces a
• 41:56
  strategic Bitcoin reserve or they're adopting Bitcoin to
• 42:00
  their balance sheet, it pumps the price of their stock.
• 42:04
  And This is why I think so many companies are going to follow
• 42:09
  soon. They are all going to very
• 42:11
  quickly I think in 2025 announce the fact that they are adopting
• 42:16
  a Bitcoin strategy like of course Michael Saylor micro
• 42:20
  strategy. Anyways, we got here, this is 0
• 42:22
  Hedge kind of updating us on what the stock has been doing
• 42:27
  this morning and it goes. Shares of YouTube competitor
• 42:30
  Rumble surged as much as 55% in pre market trading in New York
• 42:35
  after Tether announced that they are investing in Rumble.
• 42:39
  Of course, we covered all of this stuff and we kind of been
• 42:42
  talking up and we've actually been hearing rumors about this
• 42:45
  playing out and Rumble announced seeing like, you know, the zaps
• 42:49
  from Noster and tipping in Bitcoin.
• 42:51
  And obviously we love Rumble. We love everyone of you guys
• 42:54
  over at Rumble. Sorry, I can't get your comments
• 42:56
  on the show today. Obviously my Internet is I'm I'm
• 42:59
  still in 1990 Internet. Apparently I might be on the
• 43:02
  wrong Internet this morning over here at my parents house, but
• 43:04
  the show goes on and I'm live and so we're doing the best we
• 43:07
  can, but very interesting stuff to see Tether kind of double
• 43:12
  down with rumble. Obviously, I think everyone
• 43:14
  knows that what's been going on on YouTube.
• 43:17
  You know, we we did have our little our little, you know,
• 43:20
  issue with YouTube this year, but I think it's very
• 43:23
  interesting to see rumble kind of make this move or rather
• 43:27
  tether make this move in rumble double down in in rumble.
• 43:30
  And of course, I'm super excited to see if we will see, you know,
• 43:34
  Bitcoin tips on rumble very soon.
• 43:37
  Obviously, we would love to see that happen on Rumble and I
• 43:40
  think this is just kind of a greater trend, but we are seeing
• 43:43
  that if you do want to compete or maybe even out compete the
• 43:47
  legacy systems, then you embrace Bitcoin.
• 43:49
  And I think Rumble is making a big play here.
• 43:51
  Shouts out to Chris, the CEO. He's obviously a bitcoiner
• 43:55
  obviously on the front lines for freedom of speech.
• 43:59
  And you just, you just love to see it.
• 44:01
  So anyways, I'm going to pass it over to Brandon.
• 44:04
  Brandon, what's your thoughts on Rumble getting a huge investment
• 44:08
  from Tether? Sorry, muted myself.
• 44:14
  Yeah, it's, it's inevitable this stuff to happen and it's, it's
• 44:17
  going to be something that that picks up in pace and it is
• 44:21
  gradually there's, you know, we got a good chat going in the
• 44:24
  side here and I I think that it's, it's, it's going to happen
• 44:28
  to, to Crane what he's saying on here.
• 44:30
  It's, I think bitcoins, we tend to be, I think a lot of bitcoins
• 44:33
  in the last 15 years to say this, we tend to be probably
• 44:36
  more entrepreneurial minded, more idealistic.
• 44:39
  And you do have to measure yourself, you have to be
• 44:41
  realistic, you have to understand the world that we're
• 44:43
  playing in. And at the same time, I think
• 44:45
  that what we don't see, because Rumble is a great example, you
• 44:49
  know, Rumble, what we just talked about with Elon Musk and,
• 44:51
  and owning Twitter now or X or whatever these things, I don't
• 44:55
  think we've priced in the speed at which we can communicate.
• 44:58
  Now, you know, when you think about it, internet's been around
• 45:00
  for, you know, mass Internet will say 30 years, 2 point O
• 45:04
  Internet to the social media is really what, 20 years or so, you
• 45:06
  know, 1520 years And just now in the last election, people have
• 45:10
  really started to understand maybe how to use social media
• 45:14
  for, for political campaigns. I, I would argue that most
• 45:17
  people still don't. I mean, they, we really don't
• 45:18
  even understand. We just saw finally Trump and,
• 45:21
  and some of these guys get on, on Joe Rogan the last couple
• 45:23
  weeks of the campaign, which is insane.
• 45:24
  It's 2024. I mean, you would think, you
• 45:26
  know, when I, I was a, a freshman, I guess the year after
• 45:29
  Facebook came out in College in, in, in O5 when Facebook was out
• 45:34
  and people are poking each other and all this stupid crap.
• 45:36
  And so it's taken us a while to understand and learn it to Crane
• 45:41
  point this, this stuff is gradual.
• 45:42
  But then you see these companies as game theory start playing out
• 45:45
  or countries or sovereigns or other corporations, and they
• 45:48
  start looking around and like, wait, whoa, whoa, they're
• 45:50
  they're doing it. So what am I doing?
• 45:52
  Like, what, what are we doing? You see the the lady from the EU
• 45:55
  like saying that about the EU, like, what are we doing?
• 45:57
  Like what we have to, we have to figure this out because we're
• 46:00
  going to be left behind. And that that gradually then
• 46:04
  suddenly does play out. When you think about 20 years
• 46:06
  ago, like I said, when I was in college starting out, I was
• 46:08
  arguing with every teacher about politics I could find every
• 46:11
  professor I argue to family members, everything.
• 46:13
  And I was constitution guy. I was declaration independence
• 46:16
  guy. He had my little, you know,
• 46:17
  pocket constitution, all that bullshit.
• 46:19
  And I'd walk around and I would argue with anyone who argue with
• 46:22
  me. And then I realized in O8O9
• 46:24
  2010, oh shit, this game is not red versus blue.
• 46:26
  It's a state versus you. And that's when the whole, you
• 46:29
  know, reading the creature of Jekyll Island, all these things
• 46:31
  were happening and I realized you have to understand that
• 46:34
  money game. And that's what again coming
• 46:36
  full circle to what we were talking about the beginning of
• 46:37
  the episode with eventually climbing this the real Maslow's
• 46:40
  hierarchy of of understanding self actualization, realizing
• 46:43
  this good versus evil spirits. But in saying all this, my point
• 46:46
  with all this landing the planes that 20 years ago, if you would
• 46:48
  have told me what was going to happen only 20 years from now
• 46:52
  that so much of the world will be woken up to the, the, to the
• 46:56
  crap that that I was so pissed off about and, and trying to
• 47:00
  find answers for. And you had told me just 20
• 47:02
  years later, everyone, the, the, the richest guy in the world to
• 47:05
  be tweeting about all these things and, and blasting him out
• 47:08
  with megaphones to the things that I thought were most
• 47:10
  important 20 years ago. And, and just didn't understand
• 47:13
  why the average person couldn't that I, I would have bet you
• 47:16
  any, any, you know, any money in the world that you're like,
• 47:19
  you're crazy. There's no way people have no
• 47:21
  idea what's going on. And you saw what happened in O
• 47:23
  eight O 910, these bailouts, the golden parachutes, Obamacare
• 47:26
  getting passed and we went socialized medicine.
• 47:28
  And I at that point, I was like, wow, we just, we're going, we're
• 47:31
  going full throat boys, like we're, there's no turning back.
• 47:33
  We just lost the constitution and declaration.
• 47:35
  We're going exactly opposite of our founding.
• 47:37
  And just 1012 years later, we have, you know, and then during
• 47:40
  that time, bitcoins discovered and it's in the background doing
• 47:43
  its thing. And then the society just 10
• 47:45
  years later, all of a sudden has this megaphone where they again,
• 47:48
  the wealthiest guys in the world are calling this stuff out and
• 47:51
  this movement to start disinfecting darkness with
• 47:54
  light. I mean, this is just within 20
• 47:56
  years. So I think again, and, and maybe
• 47:57
  people can say that this that's, that's a long time from now, or
• 48:00
  maybe it's not. I just don't think it's a long
• 48:01
  time from now. And then you look at just the
• 48:03
  last four years, think about how much life, your life has changed
• 48:06
  in just the last four or five years.
• 48:08
  It is gone exponential in every way, shape or fashion, the way
• 48:12
  the way society has moved. So the rumble thing, this is
• 48:15
  going to continue happening. Obviously Microsoft just had a
• 48:18
  vote on on Bitcoin. These things are going to
• 48:20
  continue speeding up and it's only going to play out through
• 48:23
  this game theory. Jason mentioned that earlier.
• 48:24
  It's it's, it's inevitable. And we think it's we, we
• 48:27
  pontificate it for hours and days and weeks.
• 48:30
  And we, you think like you go crazy eventually because you
• 48:33
  keep talking about it over and over again.
• 48:34
  And then eventually it happens and you're like, wait, what?
• 48:36
  Like this actually really happened?
• 48:37
  Like I can't believe it. Like this is because for so
• 48:39
  long, so many of us have been screaming at the television or
• 48:42
  newspapers or whatever it was. And and like I said, 20 years
• 48:45
  ago or 30 years ago and you're like no one, no one was ever
• 48:47
  listening, right? It was just kind of like you're
• 48:49
  screaming at your hot air. It just into the wind and it
• 48:51
  didn't matter. And now things are actually
• 48:53
  happening and moving the other direction.
• 48:55
  So whether it's five years or a year that, you know, these crazy
• 48:58
  price predictions, yeah, it's going to eat it in the next year
• 49:00
  or so. I don't know.
• 49:00
  I think I think we're getting to see a much more exponential
• 49:03
  price than people even think in the next three to four years,
• 49:05
  like this epoch sometime. But these things, I think things
• 49:08
  collapse in the next 10 to 20 years because of this
• 49:10
  exponential curve in the way where we haven't priced in the
• 49:13
  ability for stupid shit to happen.
• 49:15
  More trucker situations because again, the the 20 agenda 20-30
• 49:19
  people can, you know, we had, I forget the initial agenda, they
• 49:22
  had a couple of them. Then they had Agenda 21.
• 49:24
  Now there's a, you know, Agenda 2030 basically, and, and
• 49:27
  everyone knows that over the last five years, but this is
• 49:29
  stuff that again, 1520 years ago, I was reading these things.
• 49:32
  And again, I know I'm not alone. I'm just giving my story of I'm
• 49:35
  reading these things. And like, no one, no one in
• 49:37
  their right mind even knew these things existed.
• 49:39
  The UN has been around for a what, 100 years and, and over
• 49:42
  100 years? And these organizations, these
• 49:44
  NGOs on and on and on. We're doing these things behind
• 49:46
  the scenes. And no one cared, no one knew,
• 49:48
  didn't matter. Apathetic.
• 49:50
  Well, the market's great, you know, like, what are you talking
• 49:51
  about? Shut up, kid.
• 49:52
  All these things, it was like we're doing nothing of how we
• 49:55
  are founded. And now just 1520 years later,
• 49:58
  it's it's it's the main topic. I mean, we're we're forcing
• 50:01
  CNBC, we're forcing these shows, mainstream shows that were they
• 50:05
  were mainstream legacy news to cover things that again, like I
• 50:08
  said, 20 years ago, high school, kidding me, college kidding me,
• 50:11
  could have never imagined us being in a situation.
• 50:13
  So with with all that being said, it's the rumble thing.
• 50:17
  All these things are are inevitable.
• 50:19
  It's only going to speed up stupid shit happening, will
• 50:21
  force people to to come to Bitcoin and and then good things
• 50:24
  like this coming to Bitcoin. The foremost, the fears and
• 50:27
  greed thing, the the emotional levels that humans are going to
• 50:29
  bounce back and forth from will only speed up this adoption in
• 50:32
  the in the next few years. Totally couldn't agree more.
• 50:36
  So I'm going to pass the question to you, Jason.
• 50:38
  What's your thoughts on Rumble or rather Tether investing this
• 50:41
  much in Rumble? What's your initial thoughts?
• 50:44
  And then maybe what, what do you think the impact will be?
• 50:47
  Well. First of all, things, a tough
• 50:48
  act for me to follow after after Brandon's remarks there.
• 50:51
  That was great. My first thoughts about Tether
• 50:55
  being a Bitcoin maxi. I think Tether's a good half
• 51:00
  step between Fiat and and real money Bitcoin.
• 51:03
  But so I guess this makes me really bullish on on Rumble that
• 51:08
  at least they're moving in the right direction.
• 51:09
  There was one of the, I don't know if you want to bring it up,
• 51:11
  Opti. There was one of the screenshots
• 51:13
  you shared earlier when they were talking, talking about
• 51:18
  Rumble taking on, you know, doing the, you know, Bitcoin and
• 51:23
  tethering and all and being able to tip on Rumble.
• 51:26
  I don't know if you if you want to bring that up real quick.
• 51:28
  Underneath that there was a a tweet from primal, the the
• 51:32
  primal app, which is saying you can already do this on Noster.
• 51:35
  I know you you mentioned that there, but I think that overall
• 51:39
  this with Rumble and the the rise of Noster and Elon taking
• 51:44
  over Twitter is all part of this much bigger pictures being
• 51:48
  painted of let's see, it wasn't that one, but that was the
• 51:54
  other. 1. Yeah, it was, it was the last
• 51:57
  one you shared or it had a little thing from Primal there.
• 52:01
  But I think it's all part of a bigger picture.
• 52:03
  It's being painted of greater freedom of speech, which which,
• 52:08
  yeah, so I guess I'm feeling bullish on freedom of speech and
• 52:11
  and because of that, bullish on humanity, on the future of
• 52:14
  humanity. I am feeling more hopeful for my
• 52:16
  children's future and other people's children's future and
• 52:19
  just the future in general than ever before.
• 52:22
  And it's not just because of Bitcoin.
• 52:23
  Now for years it has really just been because of Bitcoin.
• 52:26
  But now we're getting a nice list here of reasons to be
• 52:29
  bullish and hopeful for for the future in all kinds of ways.
• 52:35
  That's all I got to. Say totally agree, totally
• 52:37
  agree. Sorry guys, I'm like, I'm still
• 52:40
  fighting this cold and I'm let's just go to the ad.
• 52:43
  I got like a hair in my throat or something.
• 52:44
  All right guys, we're going to be talking about set Atlantis.
• 52:47
  Guys, we still got the end of the show to wrap up.
• 52:50
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• 52:52
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• 54:45
  Anyways, moving forward, Jason, thank you so much for coming on
• 54:49
  today. First of all, apologies for my
• 54:51
  weird Internet going on this. What happens when you travel all
• 54:55
  the time? You know, it's the holidays.
• 54:56
  I'll get everything settled for tomorrow.
• 54:59
  But anyways, Jason, good to have you.
• 55:02
  Let's just talk about your project, man.
• 55:04
  You are working on Satlantis. So for everyone that doesn't
• 55:07
  know what's Atlantis is, what is it?
• 55:09
  And then we'll dive into all of the different topics.
• 55:13
  All right. Well, actually, I'm glad you
• 55:15
  mentioned about travelling that yeah, sometimes bad Internet is
• 55:17
  something that happens when you travel.
• 55:19
  But you should be able to get a good glimpse of the city.
• 55:22
  You're going to get an idea of the Internet of the, I don't
• 55:25
  know, the crime rate, if you're going there with kids, if
• 55:27
  there's activities, things like that, you should be able to get
• 55:29
  that. And there's some sources for
• 55:31
  that, like TripAdvisor and Nomad list.
• 55:35
  And while I haven't been a digital nomad across the board,
• 55:38
  everywhere, everywhere I look, people say they suck those
• 55:41
  things. Not digital nomads, No, sorry
• 55:43
  that things like Nomad list and TripAdvisor.
• 55:47
  And so Atlantis is you can think of a kind of like TripAdvisor
• 55:50
  nomad list with a little bit of Instagram social dynamics put
• 55:54
  into it and also some parts like meetup.com.
• 55:59
  So there are events listed in there in each of the cities and
• 56:03
  it's all built on top of Noster. So the beauty with Noster is you
• 56:08
  just like with Bitcoin, you get a public key and a private key.
• 56:12
  You keep the private key private and just don't share it with
• 56:15
  anybody. And every post you make, every
• 56:18
  follower you get, every person you follow, everything you do is
• 56:22
  linked to that private key. Then you share your public key
• 56:26
  when you want other people to follow you when you want to.
• 56:29
  Yeah, I guess, yeah. When you want to kind of link
• 56:32
  publicly to what you're, what you've been doing on throughout
• 56:37
  in Auster, I believe personally that the future is nostril
• 56:41
  based. Everything is going to be built
• 56:43
  on top of nostril. There's already been several
• 56:45
  things where they've kind of slipped nostril in under the
• 56:47
  hood. I'm, I'm looking forward to the
• 56:49
  day when Twitter becomes a nostril client and it makes it
• 56:52
  so that basically nostril think of it as the identity layer of
• 56:55
  the Internet. It is a decentralized way of
• 56:59
  connecting all, all your different posts and activity
• 57:01
  online to you and only you control the, the content.
• 57:07
  And so Salantis, like I said, it's all built on top of Noster.
• 57:10
  It is a way of connecting with people in, in different areas
• 57:15
  and connecting with the actual areas that it, it's the bridge
• 57:18
  between the online space and meat space in a way that yeah,
• 57:25
  that where, where you are sovereign, you're not trusting
• 57:27
  someone else with your information.
• 57:29
  You're not trusting this one wants to show you what I guess
• 57:33
  what businesses, what restaurants, hotels or anything
• 57:36
  else are are good. One thing we plan to build at
• 57:39
  Saint Atlantis, it's not there yet, but we are planning in the
• 57:42
  future is basically to have it. So it's a personalized, curated
• 57:46
  experience all based on your your social graph on Noster.
• 57:50
  Excuse me. So for example, let's say you're
• 57:53
  thinking of visiting a city. Let's say you're planning to
• 57:55
  come to Chattanooga, TN. I hope you do.
• 57:57
  Every 3rd Saturday month is is our meet up.
• 58:00
  But let's say you're coming there and you're looking for a
• 58:02
  good place to stay. You might look at at a hotel now
• 58:07
  and there it is Chattanooga. Very good.
• 58:09
  Thanks. And if you go to events, then
• 58:13
  you'll see our meet up events on there also.
• 58:15
  But oh wait, where's it going with that?
• 58:19
  So then you wanna look at different places there in the
• 58:23
  city and you can go to the merchants tab.
• 58:26
  Chattanooga is not a great example of this.
• 58:27
  Might want to go to Vancouver. It's a really good example of
• 58:30
  the merchants tab. There's only a few merchants on
• 58:32
  Chattanooga. That's my fault.
• 58:35
  But you'll be able to go look at one of the merchants like a
• 58:37
  hotel and look at reviews kind of like, you know, you know,
• 58:41
  Google and Yelp. But the beauty here with Noster
• 58:45
  is what we what we're planning on doing is allowing people to
• 58:49
  review. But then the reviews you see
• 58:51
  aren't from people you have no connections with.
• 58:53
  Maybe there's some soccer mom who has no, none of the same
• 58:57
  interests as you who gave that that hotel A1 star.
• 59:01
  But Opti here and Brandon and Nico and other people you follow
• 59:05
  and you care about and your values and interests are really
• 59:08
  well aligned. They give it a five star, maybe
• 59:10
  4.5 yeah, you're probably going to love it too.
• 59:14
  So we're going to be curating reviews and and messages as
• 59:20
  according to like messages like like in the the city feed and so
• 59:24
  everything according to your social graph.
• 59:26
  So it's a different experience for everyone.
• 59:29
  They're going to the same city and it just it helps to connect
• 59:33
  Bitcoiners in meatspace allows you to see what's really out
• 59:38
  there. And I like to think of it as the
• 59:41
  anti doom scrolling technology. It's it gets you off the screen,
• 59:45
  off the computer. Go get some sunlight, go go
• 59:48
  touch grass. Go, go, go meet some real
• 59:50
  people, shake some hands, give some hugs and and go out there
• 59:55
  and, and see what's out there in the real world.
• 59:58
  Amazing, amazing. So you obviously need to have a
• 1:00:02
  noster to use this. What's the setup process like?
• 1:00:05
  You just, you know, link it to your end pod and then you can
• 1:00:10
  start to review like how does that work?
• 1:00:13
  All right, here's the thing. If you're already on Noster, go
• 1:00:16
  ahead and scroll up and let me show you this Opti.
• 1:00:19
  If you're already on Noster, it's really easy to log in.
• 1:00:22
  You will need some kind of, I guess if you're on desktop,
• 1:00:25
  you'll need some kind of, what's it called?
• 1:00:28
  A Noster extension on a browser extension.
• 1:00:32
  Something like keys dot band is my favorite, but I also like
• 1:00:35
  Albie, something like that. So yeah, then you simply click
• 1:00:39
  the button down at the bottom, sign in with Noster and if you
• 1:00:43
  have that extension, so here it's suggesting those two
• 1:00:47
  extensions, then it'll automatically log you in just
• 1:00:50
  like that to your Noster account.
• 1:00:52
  The same posts that you've made, all the same followers, your
• 1:00:56
  same profile and bio and everything.
• 1:01:01
  However, if you go back, and yeah, if you go back and let's
• 1:01:07
  say you've never even heard of an Oster, let's say you're
• 1:01:09
  trying to get your mom on South Atlantis.
• 1:01:12
  All she needs to do is fill out the username, put in a recovery
• 1:01:15
  e-mail just in case she loses her her password, choose a
• 1:01:19
  password, and then sign in. And she won't even know that
• 1:01:23
  it's on Noster. She won't even know that
• 1:01:24
  everything she posts in her city, in the city feed goes out
• 1:01:28
  to all of Noster on Primal and Amethyst and Dommis and all the
• 1:01:31
  others. She'll just know that it's all
• 1:01:35
  here on Salantis, but in the background.
• 1:01:39
  So like up in the OR down, sorry, down in the lower left
• 1:01:43
  corner. Once you're signed in, you'll
• 1:01:45
  see a little gear icon and you know it's only there if you sign
• 1:01:51
  in though, and then you click there and go go a little deeper
• 1:01:55
  and you can find your nsec. So let's say you find Atlantis
• 1:01:58
  1st and then Primal later. You can be using Atlantis and
• 1:02:02
  then go into go kind of deep in there and find your nsec and
• 1:02:06
  then copy that and paste it into Primal and you'll see all your
• 1:02:09
  same followers, all your same posts, all your same information
• 1:02:12
  right there waiting for you. So yeah, it's really a way of
• 1:02:17
  purple Pilling people to to Noster without them even knowing
• 1:02:21
  it. Now what we're also really
• 1:02:23
  looking forward to is as businesses start using this,
• 1:02:26
  like you saw, there's that merchants tab there, businesses
• 1:02:29
  can actually claim their account and get an account specifically
• 1:02:32
  for them on South Atlantis. When they do that and they start
• 1:02:36
  posting, hey, we're offering 10% off on this for the, you know,
• 1:02:40
  for this Christmas week or whatever.
• 1:02:43
  And then that will go out to everyone on Auster.
• 1:02:46
  They can start to build a, a greater following that way.
• 1:02:50
  And then where is it going? Sorry.
• 1:02:53
  Oh yeah, that's right. And then when they start to see
• 1:02:55
  that most of the people, that of this new following, most of the
• 1:02:58
  people there on South Atlantis are Bitcoiners are people who
• 1:03:01
  would happily join a local circular economy.
• 1:03:05
  That will be a greater incentive for them to start accepting
• 1:03:09
  Bitcoin rather than just, you know, accept Bitcoin and hope
• 1:03:12
  someone comes by once in a while and pays it.
• 1:03:14
  No, now they'll be on a place where it will lease in the
• 1:03:17
  future. On South Atlantis, they'll be
• 1:03:18
  able to accept zaps, though they can also get on like Primal or
• 1:03:22
  domicing zaps that way. But yeah, it'll, it'll just show
• 1:03:27
  them, hey, there's demand for this.
• 1:03:29
  These are the Bitcoiners in your area.
• 1:03:31
  And they would love to to not just earn Bitcoin, but spend
• 1:03:35
  Bitcoin, be part of the whole circular economy.
• 1:03:37
  So we're really thinking of that.
• 1:03:39
  Celantis will end up being a sly, roundabout way of
• 1:03:41
  onboarding lots and lots of businesses to to Bitcoin.
• 1:03:44
  Love it. And and talking about onboarding
• 1:03:47
  businesses, can users kind of like put their profiles up there
• 1:03:52
  or does that have to come from the merchants themselves?
• 1:03:57
  Users like yeah, like, say. You, you know, say you travel to
• 1:04:01
  a city and the, you know, you go to a, a shop and they're
• 1:04:05
  randomly taking Bitcoin, but they've never heard about
• 1:04:08
  Satlantis. Could the person kind of like,
• 1:04:11
  you know, add them to SAT Atlantis and be like, yo, they
• 1:04:13
  accept Bitcoin And then, you know, the merchant doesn't
• 1:04:15
  necessarily have to sign up. Like how does that work?
• 1:04:19
  Yeah, absolutely. Now, not at the moment, that's
• 1:04:21
  not built out right now, but go over to the profile tab on the
• 1:04:25
  on South Atlantis. You'll see for all of them.
• 1:04:27
  And yeah, stay here in Chattanooga.
• 1:04:29
  So go to print profile and Scroll down a bit.
• 1:04:31
  You'll see all the people there. There's my avatar right there,
• 1:04:35
  the the very first one, and there's a lot of repeat posts.
• 1:04:39
  I apologize for that there. But yeah, my avatar there with a
• 1:04:42
  little crown next to it. Anyone that has a little crown
• 1:04:46
  next to it is the kind of the moderator of the page or the
• 1:04:49
  it's called the ambassador of, of that city.
• 1:04:54
  Yeah, there's my, my profile. That's a profile across all of
• 1:04:57
  Noster. So the, the ambassador, they
• 1:05:01
  represent the city. They, they know the city really
• 1:05:03
  well. They add merchants.
• 1:05:05
  They, you know, they're the moderator for the whole page,
• 1:05:09
  but they're they're able to actually contact me.
• 1:05:11
  My role at Atlantis is actually the ambassador concierge.
• 1:05:15
  So I work with all the ambassadors and help new
• 1:05:18
  ambassadors get started. So if you are interested in
• 1:05:20
  becoming ambassador for your city, if you know your city
• 1:05:23
  really well and and you would love to help travellers come
• 1:05:25
  there, reach out to me. I hope it's OK if I plug this
• 1:05:27
  real quick, but I'm geeky guy GEEKIGAI like geek and Iki guy
• 1:05:34
  mixed together on Twitter, Noster and most platforms.
• 1:05:39
  And yeah, so just reach out to me.
• 1:05:41
  I'll accept DMS anywhere. And yeah, and I'll, I'll talk to
• 1:05:46
  you for a bit and then hook you up and set you up as a, an
• 1:05:49
  ambassador for your city. So the ambassadors then work
• 1:05:52
  with me to add more merchants to their to their city.
• 1:05:56
  That's the, the process we're doing now in the future, we are
• 1:05:58
  planning a, a more streamlined approach to, to adding a new
• 1:06:04
  location now in the background. So on one hand we have
• 1:06:07
  ambassadors adding merchants to the merchant map in the
• 1:06:10
  background. We myself included and several
• 1:06:12
  others at Atlantis, we are scraping locations from all
• 1:06:17
  kinds of Bitcoin maps, including a BTC map.
• 1:06:20
  But there are plenty of others, different wallets that have maps
• 1:06:23
  of the locations that accept Bitcoin.
• 1:06:25
  And so the locations on South Atlantis, you can filter them.
• 1:06:29
  Some are places that accept Bitcoin, some are seed oil free,
• 1:06:33
  some offer like a carnivore menu does anything that we believe
• 1:06:37
  would appeal to Bitcoiners and have a pretty, you know, high
• 1:06:41
  rating currently just according to Google ratings.
• 1:06:44
  But once once this gets built out more, we'll we'll have that
• 1:06:46
  more of those curated ratings I talked about earlier.
• 1:06:49
  And yeah. And so you find all those
• 1:06:52
  locations there for whatever city you might want to visit.
• 1:06:55
  So, for example, if you're going down to El Salvador for the Plan
• 1:06:59
  B forum in January, look up we got places in, well, we have, we
• 1:07:04
  have city pages on Atlantis for San Salvador, Berlin, the Berlin
• 1:07:07
  in El Salvador and El Zante. So look up those places and see
• 1:07:10
  what's on there. And then that, that gives you a
• 1:07:13
  head start right there about what places you might want to go
• 1:07:16
  and, and go to and, and visit and spend some of your, your
• 1:07:19
  Sats. And, and then of course,
• 1:07:22
  there's, there's always the ambassadors there who if you
• 1:07:25
  need that personal touch, if you need to talk to somebody, a
• 1:07:27
  human being who can give you the, the rundown.
• 1:07:31
  Oh, no, don't go there. That's, that's a bad area of
• 1:07:33
  town or Oh yeah, go here. There's a There's a much better
• 1:07:35
  place than the ambassador's right there for you to reach out
• 1:07:38
  to. Love it, Jason.
• 1:07:40
  Great. OK, now pivoting the
• 1:07:42
  conversation a little bit. I know one of your main missions
• 1:07:45
  is obviously Bitcoin Meetups and Bitcoin education.
• 1:07:48
  So I do want to give you a moment to plug your book and
• 1:07:51
  then we'll wrap up today's show. So what is this book that you
• 1:07:54
  wrote, Jason? 21 questions.
• 1:07:57
  Yeah, So before the team that I'm working on, I'm actually
• 1:08:01
  working with Spetsky and a bunch of others on our team on South
• 1:08:03
  Atlantis. Before then, we were working on
• 1:08:05
  a project called the Spirit of Satoshi.
• 1:08:08
  For those who haven't heard, the Spirit of Satoshi is a large
• 1:08:11
  language model or AI, kind of like ChatGPT, but it's it's
• 1:08:18
  based instead of woke. You ask it how many genders
• 1:08:22
  there are, it'll tell you there's two if you ask it if you
• 1:08:25
  ask especially, you know, should I invest in other
• 1:08:28
  cryptocurrency? Should I diversify?
• 1:08:30
  And it'll give you a very reason to answer why no, don't touch
• 1:08:33
  any of the others. Just stay Bitcoin only.
• 1:08:37
  And my role there was to actually reach out to a bunch of
• 1:08:40
  Bitcoin Maxis that just found all over the Internet and sent
• 1:08:43
  them a link to where they could fill out a form to to sign up.
• 1:08:47
  My my job was to vet them and make sure they were really
• 1:08:51
  Bitcoin maximalist. And like one of the questions,
• 1:08:53
  for example, was what's the second best crypto asset?
• 1:08:56
  And the a lot of people would say something like Ethereum,
• 1:09:01
  doge or something that would be Nope.
• 1:09:04
  But you, you all know the right answer.
• 1:09:06
  If they gave the right answer, if you know, you know, then that
• 1:09:10
  was that was a good point in their favor.
• 1:09:13
  So, so the Spiro Satoshi, we trained it on basically a whole
• 1:09:21
  bunch of different questions about Bitcoin and we trained it
• 1:09:24
  on every podcast and every book, everything that ever been said
• 1:09:28
  or written about Bitcoin to try and make it the ultimate Bitcoin
• 1:09:31
  expert. Now, for a lot of reasons that I
• 1:09:34
  don't really have time to go into, it didn't pan out very
• 1:09:37
  well as a business. And so earlier this year, almost
• 1:09:40
  a year ago, we open sourced it. We we just gave that to the
• 1:09:43
  Bitcoin community. So you can actually find it.
• 1:09:45
  You can download it, download it on your own machine if you want
• 1:09:49
  at Hugging Face, the website where it's like kind of like the
• 1:09:54
  GitHub for AI for a large language models.
• 1:09:58
  And so while we're working on that, though, I, as it ties into
• 1:10:02
  the book, I was noticing a lot of the same questions coming in.
• 1:10:05
  When questions would come in that people would ask.
• 1:10:08
  I never had any personal identifying information about
• 1:10:10
  people, but I would see the the questions coming in and I
• 1:10:14
  started seeing a trend and having been in Bitcoin for a
• 1:10:17
  while and trying to orange for a lot, lots of people, I wasn't
• 1:10:20
  surprised by a lot of the questions that are coming in.
• 1:10:23
  And so I started making a list of the the top questions and I
• 1:10:27
  ended up like 67 of them or something like that.
• 1:10:31
  And then originally came up with an idea of creating a short
• 1:10:34
  documentary, 21 minute documentary talking to 21
• 1:10:37
  Bitcoiners, giving an answer to 21 questions in one minute each.
• 1:10:42
  Yeah, yeah, one minute for each answer.
• 1:10:45
  And you can actually go to the website for that 21.21 questions
• 1:10:49
  dot film. So it's 21 questions dot film
• 1:10:52
  and and now it's all a website all about the book.
• 1:10:57
  And for a lot of reasons, some more practical things like some
• 1:11:01
  questions required a lot more than one minute to answer.
• 1:11:04
  And yeah, there it is. And other, other problems were I
• 1:11:08
  couldn't get a hold of 21 well known bitcoiners.
• 1:11:11
  These are Bitcoiners that a lot of people know really well and
• 1:11:15
  can give really good trustworthy answers.
• 1:11:17
  Because I wanted there to be a resource for people who go yeah,
• 1:11:20
  there's some examples of some of the people who are in the book.
• 1:11:23
  I wanted to be a resource where people will get these kinds of
• 1:11:27
  answers from a different perspective.
• 1:11:28
  So for example, like question one is simply called what is
• 1:11:31
  Bitcoin? So the book covers 21 questions,
• 1:11:33
  21 most common, most common and most important questions about
• 1:11:37
  Bitcoin answered by it's like 17 different well known bitcoiners,
• 1:11:42
  Jacques, Mozuko, Carla and Walker, Guy Swan, Alex Spetsky,
• 1:11:45
  lots of others. And the point of that was not
• 1:11:49
  only to just answer these questions like a like a physical
• 1:11:53
  FAQ, like who needs that? I wanted there to be something
• 1:11:56
  where people who were brand new to Bitcoin would find these
• 1:12:01
  these answers and see it in different angles.
• 1:12:03
  Canutes town home gives his angle and Daniel Prince gives
• 1:12:06
  his angle about the same questions.
• 1:12:10
  But then and then the spirit of Satoshi gives its answer at the
• 1:12:14
  end of every chapter, actually, just by the way.
• 1:12:15
  But I wanted there to be something where after someone
• 1:12:19
  has read the book, after they've gotten those 21 questions
• 1:12:21
  answered, what if they have question #22 in their mind
• 1:12:25
  that's not covered in the book, who are they going to turn to?
• 1:12:27
  They're going to turn to Vitalik or Bitboy or some other, some
• 1:12:33
  person on, on YouTube with a, with a thumbnail of them
• 1:12:37
  pointing out a chart going like that.
• 1:12:39
  I'm sure someone's going to screenshot that.
• 1:12:41
  I, I totally regret doing that. But are they going to turn to
• 1:12:46
  them? Or maybe they'll get on Twitter
• 1:12:49
  and they'll see, oh, this guy swung.
• 1:12:50
  I know that name. That's right.
• 1:12:52
  It came from that book. And then they go down the rabbit
• 1:12:54
  hole and start listening to Bitcoin, Audible and stuff.
• 1:12:56
  And so it's pointing them in the right direction to like 17
• 1:12:59
  people who are the right kinds of people to ask.
• 1:13:02
  Maybe some of these people are retweeting something from
• 1:13:05
  someone who wasn't in the book, you know, Opti here, for
• 1:13:08
  example. Maybe they retweet something
• 1:13:09
  from you and it just it builds that trust there.
• 1:13:14
  So it's kind of A2 pronged purpose.
• 1:13:15
  The, the, the tip of the iceberg, answer these questions
• 1:13:18
  the deeper part of the iceberg, point them to who they can get
• 1:13:21
  answers from for additional questions.
• 1:13:25
  And so that way this, this book's not very long low over
• 1:13:28
  100 pages. And and also you don't have to
• 1:13:31
  read it all the way through. Some people already know what
• 1:13:33
  Bitcoin is. They can skip chapter one.
• 1:13:34
  They can just jump to whatever chapter they want in any order.
• 1:13:39
  And so it's a great book that you can just give out to a
• 1:13:43
  friend or family member. Let them borrow it, let them
• 1:13:46
  read it. And it's the easiest orange
• 1:13:50
  pill. And right now I'm working on
• 1:13:52
  doing the second the doing the same thing with a second book,
• 1:13:56
  the 21 questions about Noster. So as a beginner's guide to
• 1:13:59
  Noster, we're under the same process.
• 1:14:01
  No spirit of Satoshi involved with this this time, but I'm
• 1:14:04
  reaching out to a lot of well known people in the Noster space
• 1:14:07
  who really know their stuff about Noster.
• 1:14:10
  And, and so that way it can be a great purple Pilling book.
• 1:14:14
  And then in the future, I plan to do this for a lot of other
• 1:14:18
  books. 21 questions about homesteading, about
• 1:14:21
  homeschooling, about self-defense. 21 questions
• 1:14:24
  about, oh, I don't know really anything that has to do with
• 1:14:28
  being a sovereign individual. I mean, nomading would be a
• 1:14:30
  great one and just what you should know and all about that
• 1:14:36
  given topic and all the answers are given by kind of the who's
• 1:14:38
  who in that space, people who are well known, well respected,
• 1:14:42
  very reliable sources of information in that particular
• 1:14:45
  space. Love it, Jason.
• 1:14:48
  Well, I think it's very fitting, you know, it is, it is
• 1:14:51
  Christmas, total Christmas Eve tomorrow.
• 1:14:54
  I'm sure people are going to sit down with their family.
• 1:14:56
  They're probably going to get asked one or maybe all of these
• 1:15:00
  21 questions. So hey, if you get asked these
• 1:15:03
  questions over Christmas dinner, etcetera, maybe you know, your
• 1:15:08
  friends and family won't listen to you.
• 1:15:10
  But maybe if they read it from a book, they can get the answers
• 1:15:13
  themselves. So Jason, thanks for coming on
• 1:15:16
  man, Incredible stuff and and just love seeing Bitcoiners
• 1:15:19
  build stuff to try to get the word out there about Bitcoin.
• 1:15:23
  And I think that's the most important thing for all of us.
• 1:15:25
  Obviously, ha dealing is important.
• 1:15:28
  Second thing is making sure more people are holding Bitcoin.
• 1:15:31
  So kudos to you, the whole set Atlantis team and all the books
• 1:15:34
  you're writing, man. So I'll give you one last, you
• 1:15:36
  know, 2 minute TLDR. What's the last final message you want to
• 1:15:40
  leave with the audience? Merry Christmas, Stay humble,
• 1:15:46
  stack sats and stay humble. Stay humble helps you stack
• 1:15:49
  sats. Stacking sats makes you stay
• 1:15:51
  humble and it just goes in a psycho like that.
• 1:15:54
  That's all you got to say. Love it, love it.
• 1:15:58
  OK, Brandon, thanks for coming out.
• 1:16:00
  Thanks for holding it down for me with this weird Internet I
• 1:16:02
  got going on. So I'm gonna give you the same
• 1:16:05
  thing. Brandon, what about for you?
• 1:16:07
  It's been AI, don't know, maybe a month since you came on.
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  So what's the final message you want to give the people and then
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  plug your socials because people were asking about it in the
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  chat. Yeah, thanks for having me on as
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  always. I love coming on and enjoy the
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  community here as always. For for years now, I, I, I miss
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  the the after hours show, doing the spaces, all that.
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  So maybe someday, maybe someday. But Merry Christmas to
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  everybody. Happy New Year, just an
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  incredible time to be alive. No greater time to be alive.
• 1:16:36
  So boy are we blessed. 2025 is going to be amazing.
• 1:16:39
  My Twitter handles Brandon under score Gentilly, YouTube,
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  Twitter, all those things you know, we interview people as
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  well. There's there's tons of Bitcoin
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  podcast now, which is amazing. We need 10,000 more people doing
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  all kinds of different podcasts and forms of content and media
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  to, as we said earlier, beat people over the head with the
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  truth, with the mission and be great.
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  Just be great next year, right? Let's this is this is the
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  greatest time to be alive. So check out Bitcoin trading
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  cards, the 21 questions about Bitcoin trading cards.
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  We did a collaboration with Spira Satoshi actually when that
• 1:17:12
  when that dropped a year ago. Series 3 is coming out here as
• 1:17:15
  well. If you guys need some last
• 1:17:17
  minute Christmas things, our birthday is coming up.
• 1:17:19
  Whatever it might be, check out the simply gear and and Jason's
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  books and when he's got going to say Atlanta.
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  It's just incredible time. I thank you guys so much for for
• 1:17:28
  having me on Opti, Nico, the whole gang, incredible time.
• 1:17:31
  And like I said, I love the community here.
• 1:17:33
  And this is this is the the toxicity we need to keep the the
• 1:17:36
  Bitcoin ethos on the straight and narrow.
• 1:17:38
  So much love to all of you in 2025.
• 1:17:41
  Merry Christmas. Let's go.
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  Appreciate it, Brandon. Also, I don't know if you guys
• 1:17:46
  caught the new simply Bitcoin Nikko Opti trading card, but
• 1:17:50
  it's absolutely hilarious. Had me chuckling anyways.
• 1:17:54
  All right, let me pull you behind the scenes.
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  Kick back for a minute. Let me wrap this one up.
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  All right guys, I'm surprised you guys stuck with me today.
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  I apologize for the Internet. Hopefully the audio came in
• 1:18:06
  good. Anyways, I will figure out all
• 1:18:09
  the technical issues. It's been a busy morning, but
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  you know, we do this live. It's what happens when you go
• 1:18:13
  home for the holidays and try to do a live stream from your
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  father's office without the ideal technology.
• 1:18:20
  Anyways, anyways, have a good rest of your day guys.
• 1:18:22
  Make sure you know you hang out with your friends and family in
• 1:18:25
  the next week or so. And of course, we will be back.
• 1:18:29
  I think we're going to be here all week.
• 1:18:31
  We are probably going to take Christmas Day off.
• 1:18:34
  We will be dropping content on our channel.
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  But the 25th, I think we are going to take a one day break
• 1:18:39
  from the live show. But we'll be here the rest of
• 1:18:42
  the week. All right guys, on that note, we
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  love you guys and we will see you tomorrow.
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  Peace out. Today's episode was brought to
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