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Larry Fink Says Bitcoin is Digitizing Gold | EP 775 · Simply Bitcoin

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  Good morning everybody. It's your boy Opti.
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  Today is Thursday, July 6th, 2023.
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  Welcome to Simply Bitcoin. We are your number one source
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  biggest names. To the everyday Savage
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  your guide through the separation of money and state as
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  you can tell. I know I told you Nico was
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  coming back today, but he is still doing conference duties in
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  Canada so it's your boy hosting it probably for the rest of the
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  week. But anyways.
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  Anyways. Anyways, let's talk about what
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  everyone's been talking about on Twitter the last 24 hours.
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  It is Larry's Fink coming out and saying what we've been
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  saying for so long. And as a bitcoiner, you know me.
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  You should know me by now and you should know yourself by now.
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  I'm open to being wrong. I love being wrong.
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  I love getting corrected. And you guys telling me
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  constructively of course, that I am missing truth about reality
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  and. I think the longer I'm here and
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  the deeper I go down the rabbit hole, the more I know that I am
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  right. Bitcoin is the way.
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  Bitcoin is the light. It's going up forever, Laura.
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  But humans are funny. And again, I I like to treat
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  this whole. Bitcoin experiment.
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  This whole psychological movement that we're going on by
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  just taking humans as they are. And my friends and family
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  haven't listened to me about Bitcoin since I got it into
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  Bitcoin. I'm the black sheep of the
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  family so they're usually like, yeah, OK, OPTI, alright you, we
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  know Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin like cool bro, cool story.
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  But when someone of authority says what I've been saying all
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  along, it seems to carry more weight.
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  What is going on here? But you guys have.
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  Felt this yourself. So shouts out to all of you guys
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  that front ran Wall Street, that front ran BlackRock and have
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  endorsed Bitcoin. And now we have more proof that
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  we are right. Larry Fink is saying what we've
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  been saying for years and obviously moving forward him and
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  his friends will be buying Bitcoin.
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  So don't tell him your Bitcoin. They obviously like money, they
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  like profits and Bitcoin number will go up.
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  We all know this. This is uncontentious at this
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  point. This is undeniable. 21 million
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  hard cap decentralized via thousands of nodes and final
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  settlement in 10 minutes or less.
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  How could you not see the value of Bitcoin?
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  I believe the idea of freedom is an idea that has that time has
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  come that is so valuable it's invaluable and people are just
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  waking up to this. A digital money for the digital
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  world. It's an idea whose time has
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  come. And I'm just so glad that
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  everyone else is waking up to it.
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  So congratulations, You were right, but I didn't have to tell
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  you all this. You put in the work, but let's
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  not celebrate before it's over. We still have a lot of work to
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  do and This is why we show up every single day on simply
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  Bitcoin. To spread the signal to counter
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  the corporate BS and make sure that you guys keep your head
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  straight. Why, while we take over the
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  world. Anyways, I'm not alone.
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  I have a special cohost filling in.
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  You guys have seen him all week. He might be what, number 5 on
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  the roster now? Shouts out to Mike Hobart coming
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  in strong with us this week. Really appreciate your help all
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  week, bro. And I'm super glad that that
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  we're bringing you into the Simply Bitcoin fold and I think
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  everyone else is too, because they love the Mike Hobart rants.
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  And the sober Bitcoin. The no, the sober Bitcoin to do
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  temper my absolute stupid bullishness.
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  So how you doing this morning, Mike, and what you got going on
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  over there? More guys, I actually think that
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  I'm getting to the point of where I meet maybe need to scale
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  back the soberness a little bit and like leverage into your your
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  bold heartedness ranting because I mean, it is fun.
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  It is definitely fun and I and like those that have.
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  Heard me in spaces before, like I I can definitely get on the
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  bullet hearted rants, so maybe I need to start letting that a
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  little bit shine. Well dude, let let your let your
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  freak flag fly, bro. Let the bullish.
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  Commence and as well no as we move into the bull run I I think
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  it's going to be very important for some of us bitcoiners to
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  stay sober minded throughout this whole thing because I
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  already know I'm going to be losing my mind and like you guys
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  think I'm animated now just wait until price starts to run.
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  Obviously we probably have until you know the the beginning of
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  next year before things really get crazy we'll probably be
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  chopping sideways for a little bit but still you know you know
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  me any any little green candle and I start getting.
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  Bullish and this is hey, this is my original sin guys.
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  I stay bullish. I wouldn't be OPTI for no
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  reason. It's just it's fun man.
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  Let your personality go and I don't know.
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  Anyways, enough of just speculating on the price today.
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  Let's get into the numbers cuz we got a lot to talk about.
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  All right. Before we get into the numbers,
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  of course we're going to plug Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville July
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  25th and the 27th of 2024, a little more than a year away,
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  guys. And of course I, I, I see the
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  feedback. I hear you guys is criticizing
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  us. Why are we talking about the
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  Bitcoin conference is a year away?
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  We're telling you this now because I already know you're
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  going to complain about the conference when it comes around.
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  You guys do it every year. So get your presale tickets now.
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  Or rather get the cheapest price on tickets that you will ever
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  get moving forward and you got to make it to to the Bitcoin
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  Mecca and I'm super excited that it's in Nashville this year.
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  I I have a bunch of friends over at Bitcoin Mag that keep telling
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  us you guys need to come out to Nashville.
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  Well if it takes me to get to Nashville because of Bitcoin
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  2024, well it is what it is anyways.
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  General admission ticket is 299, the industry passes 749 if you
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  want to get a job in the industry.
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  Go shake hands, kiss babies at the Bitcoin conference in
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  Nashville. And of course, if you're a whale
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  and you want all the amenities, this is the rock bottom price at
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  4499 and you can get a discount if you use the promo code
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  simply. Anyways, let's get into the
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  numbers guys. Of course.
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  Of course. Of course, the only real date
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  that matters. Is the block height.
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  I know we tell you guys the date in the beginning of this show
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  every single time, but no one cares about the Gregorian
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  calendar anymore. The only the only date that
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  matters is the block height and we are currently at 797,451
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  TikTok next block we are at all time high a block height.
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  It's almost like Bitcoin works. Anyways.
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  The Bitcoin price is currently at 30,345.
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  It's holding up above 30 K Will harder not be right?
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  And we'll never see under 30 Ki? Don't know.
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  I wouldn't hold my breath. But anyways, the Moscow time or
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  the stats per dollar, AKA how much your dollar is worth in
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  Bitcoin is currently at 3295 stats per dollar.
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  The total percentage issued a Bitcoin that will ever be
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  created is 92.48%. Again, I'm bad at math so do the
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  quick math. 92.48% of 21 million coins that will ever be created
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  are currently circulating. And the market cap, we're under
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  that 600, Billy, we're at 589.3 billion.
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  The realized monetary inflation taking Fiat currencies, the
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  school is currently at 1.75%. The Bitcoin versus gold market
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  cap is at 4.64%. So much room to run guys.
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  This is the first I think big hurdle for us bitcoiners is
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  taking the hard money market cap of gold.
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  At I think what is it like 10 trillion right now, so only
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  4.64% of that. The total lightning capacity.
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  Currently public lightning capacity is 5426.71 BTC.
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  Again, I should figure this out for at least Friday, but there's
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  some kind of issue going on here on Clark Moody's dashboard and
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  the public reachable Bitcoin nodes is not there.
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  I'm sure he might have said something about it on Twitter
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  that I haven't. Dead yet, but anyways.
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  The Bitcoin hash rate the last 90 days is currently at 359
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  point 4X hashes and the pending fees.
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  I'm adding the pending fees because I thought the Wizards
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  ruined Bitcoin, but apparently the man pool is cleared, boys
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  and girls were back, my transactions don't have to get
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  charged, an arm and a leg, and the current pending fees is at
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  2.35 BTC. All right guys for today's
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  numbers. I want to continue on the thread
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  that we've been covering the last couple of days and it is
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  back on the idea of Cbdc's. They keep saying the quiet parts
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  out loud. And again, I think the theme of
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  today's show is, you know, I hate being the bitcoiner.
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  That's like we told you so bro. But like we told you so they
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  keep saying the quiet parts out loud about Cbdc's and I know
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  there's some contention in the Bitcoin space that Cbdc's will
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  never get rolled out bro and like.
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  Don't worry about it bro. But as we covered yesterday, 130
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  countries are planning to roll out a CBDC.
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  We've seen them rolled out in different parts of the world,
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  but the shining light is people are waking up to freedom, money
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  and people understand what CBDC really stands for.
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  It is not central bank digital currency, it is central bank
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  digital control. And we have this clip here at
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  the World Economic Forum in China last week saying what we
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  say all the time. We're not just paranoid
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  bitcoiners here, we. Read between the lines and then
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  they come out and say what we've been saying for a long time, the
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  CBD. Actually, let me roll back.
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  Come on. A lot of people say that we
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  currently already live in a CBDC system though.
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  You know the whole financial world is digital.
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  They can already track and bag everything you do right now.
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  But I think the the point here, the kicker here is what my
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  friend TC said in Twitter spaces the other day and I I brought it
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  on the show. I I think it was around Tuesday
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  or something. The idea that the CBDC system
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  will unleash unprecedented surgical amount of control when
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  it comes to your finances. And again, they're saying the
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  quiet part out loud. And here's this tweet from
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  Spiral goes he goes CBD C's could be programmed by
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  governments to prevent purchases it deems undesirable.
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  This isn't new. We've been saying this for a
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  while, but we have here, in their own words, exactly what
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  we've been saying. So let's get into this.
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  This this video right here real quick and then, well, conversate
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  about it. The one final note I will make
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  is that if you think about the benefits of digital money, there
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  are huge potential gains. Its not just about digital forms
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  of physical currency. You can have programmability.
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  You know units of central bank currency with expiry dates.
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  You could have, as I argue in my book, a potentially better.
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  And yeah, some people might see there a darker world where the
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  government decides that units of central bank money can be used
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  to purchase some things, but not other things that it deems less
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  desirable, like say, ammunition or drugs or pornography or
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  something of the sort. And that is very powerful in
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  terms of the use of a CBDC did. You hear what I heard, guys?
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  They said programmable money, stopping transactions that they
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  deem undesirable. Now, I don't know about you, but
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  are we really going to allow these, these psychopaths, these
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  Fiat cartel bank members, to stop your transactions that they
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  deem undesirable? At this point, almost everything
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  is undesirable and it's only a matter of time until you
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  literally can't do anything and you're in some kind of Chinese
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  WeChat system, which. Let's not forget is being
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  endorsed by a lot of quote UN quote elites out there, or as we
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  like to call them, the high level parasites.
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  So this is not, this is not us just being paranoid.
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  This is not me just having a tinfoil hat on.
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  They are saying the quiet parts out loud.
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  They want to have surgical control over your transactions.
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  And I don't know about you, but this absolutely terrifies me.
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  I don't understand how we've gone from the home of the brave
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  land of the free, or even the ideas of, you know, a global
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  world where you can transact freely to, hey, we need total
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  control. We need authoritarian,
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  dystopian, tyrannical control over everything you do to
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  protect you. This is for your safety,
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  citizen, and. I don't know.
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  All this stuff just makes me even more bullish in regards to
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  being a Bitcoin or to owning freedom money to having a
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  monetary system that is opt in permissionless.
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  I don't have to ask permission to use my money.
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  This is the point of money, right?
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  I know they're trying to make us go into a cashless society
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  because on the one hand they can't control cash, and on the
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  other hand, they want to know everything about you, they
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  think, and by they. I'm talking about the
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  unproductive class, the parasite class, the elites as you might
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  like to call them. They think that with more
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  information and more control that they can guide the world
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  towards better outcomes. And again, as a amateur Austrian
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  economist, I understand that you cannot control complex systems
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  and what is an economy but a complex system?
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  So the more they try to control, the more it's going to backfire
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  and the more Barbra Streisand Effect they are going to have on
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  Bitcoin. But shouts out to Alex.
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  From Cafe Bitcoin because hey, I try to reel it back sometimes.
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  I try not to be the tinfoil hat, you know, conspiracy theorist of
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  the show. But hey, when Alex says
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  something, I kind of like to double down because it it makes
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  it seem like I'm not the only crazy one out here.
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  So take this with a grain of salt.
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  But I think it's a great tweet. And he goes lizards are very
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  excited about CBDC programmable money due to its power to
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  control what you can buy. Again, Alex words not mine.
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  So don't. Hold me accountable to this one.
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  But I couldn't agree more. I I think the psychopaths at the
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  Fiat cartel are doing whatever they can to try to control your
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  money. And I'm I'm anti CBD C's, I am
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  pro freedom money. I am pro Bitcoin and This is why
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  I do what I do every single day. OK, sorry I guess my video is
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  lagging guys. But anyways, Mike, jump in.
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  Let me see if I can fix this. OK, so like the one thing that
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  should be glaringly obvious, in my opinion at least to the
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  Americans in the audience, is that notice how that individual
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  like one of his talking points. He was like, you know, drugs,
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  pornography and ammunition. And in America, right?
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  One of the biggest, like I think I can't remember was Admiral
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  Yamamoto during World War. Too when they were talking about
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  the the when they had the strategy to potentially go past
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  Midway and Pearl Harbor and attempts to actually push into
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  and invade the United States is like Homeland.
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  One of the biggest things that held back any sort of negative
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  activity like that would was the the fear that behind every blade
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  of grass there was, there was a rifle waiting.
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  So like when it comes to. When we're talking about CBDC's,
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  it's not just that we're talking about like, you know, like them
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  being capable of limiting and controlling whatever economic
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  activity they deem to be desirable.
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  That filter is extremely fluid. Like, all it all it takes is to
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  get the wrong people in the power to thinking that they know
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  what is right, right, most right for everybody.
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  To the point of making decisions for you and your family, of hey,
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  you guys are consuming too much energy, you're running your air
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  conditioning too long, You're running your air conditioning
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  too cold, You're spending too much, Like you're drinking too
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  much water. You're buying too much food of a
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  particular quality. Like the the ammunition thing
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  is, like, really, really scary. Like that.
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  Because that's that's the that's the greatest check and balance
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  by a population on its government, at least here in
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  America. Like one of the biggest.
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  Like I'm, I'm going to get us banned.
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  But like one of the biggest things that like really that
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  really like helped defend the American populist in the last
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  three years like last three years with the events that
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  popped off with a particular inoculation that rhymes with
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  blovid. They there were reasons they
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  couldn't force upon all of us certain policies that we didn't
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  agree with and that one of the biggest reasons is the fact that
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  there are rifles and weapons hiding behind every blade of
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  grass in the United States like and that and that's that's the
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  kind of control mechanism check and balance mechanism that
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  Bitcoin provides and these. These CBDC's they're going to
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  wrap, they're going to, they're trying to wrap this up as if
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  they're trying to do it for the greater good.
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  And I like I'm I, I try to, I try to avoid getting the gall
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  conspiratorial and everything. But like like it's not going to
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  go well. Like they're like this is a
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  level of, like we all know the the euphemism of absolute power
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  corrupts absolutely. This is absolute economic power.
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  And if you understand that first quote that I just dropped and
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  then. That reality there's there's no
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  road map ahead where like this kind of invasion of privacy and
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  absolute control doesn't end up in a negative for the average
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  citizen across the planet, regardless of whether you're
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  American or not. And though like we talked, we
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  talked about, I think it was yesterday, like the 130
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  countries that are looking into CBDC's governments don't do I T
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  well, they definitely don't do technical development research
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  well. So, like, this is gonna be a,
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  it's gonna be a clusterfuck is really what I'm getting at.
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  And I don't know what else to say, man.
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  I guess it's not gonna be good. Couldn't agree more.
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  You know, I don't mean to laugh in the face of like.
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  Potential total collapse of like modern society.
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  And I don't want to even go down that path because I think human
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  ingenuity will succeed here. But it really is incredible how
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  hard the powers that be are pushing to control human
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  behavior. And part of that for me is the
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  idea that we always talk about here on the show is I'm
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  convinced that the powers that be, whether that's the corporate
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  press, whether that's the Fiat cartel, whether that is, you
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  know, the CEO's of the biggest corporation.
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  In the world like, they have lost the monopoly on
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  information, they have lost the monopoly on truth.
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  And I think the more that they overstep that boundary, like the
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  more they overstep that power, the more people are waking up to
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  this idea of like, wait, like what is actually going on right
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  now? Like, I thought these people had
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  my best intention in mind and yet they can say all the flowery
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  words they want to. But their actions are proving
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  them to be wrong. They want to totally control
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  you. And I don't know about you, but
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  that is not only terrifying, but it's sick.
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  It's absolutely disgusting. And This is why we do what we
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  do. Well, and you know what's really
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  sick like this is this is where it gets it actually gets me
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  fired up and bad because, like, what's really sick is that
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  they're trying to like, they're trying to dictate to you how you
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  live your life, like as parents. Nobody you know, barring
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  outlying scenarios and actually like harmful scenarios, nobody
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  has the right to tell you how to raise your child right like
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  you're a parent. It's your child.
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  It's your flesh and blood. You are.
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  You have the right to raise them as you deem fit, to allow them
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  to eke out success in their life.
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  However you know you you think is best and right and most
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  necessary. These people are trying to set
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  it up so that they can dictate to you how you allow your
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  children to survive and and thrive Like I'm not.
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  I'm not to the point of being a parent yet, but I don't.
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  I will not. I will not put down roots in a
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  place where a government authority is trying to tell me
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  that I can't buy certain foods because they deem it not
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  necessary. Like if I want.
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  My family to eat fucking steak. I'm going to buy fucking steak
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  and I'm going to cook fucking steak.
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  Like, you know, and I I apologize for dropping all those
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  F bombs on YouTube because they probably hate it.
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  But it's just like, it's absolutely ridiculous.
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  Like nobody should have the power to dictate like that.
• 21:36
  Like they're trying to create some sort of socialist feudal
• 21:39
  system with this technology and it's just everybody should be up
• 21:44
  in arms about this. But they're wrapping it up with
• 21:45
  complacencies and telling everybody it's going to be
• 21:47
  easier and like it's for the greater good and like the it's
• 21:50
  dude. It's it's the C word that we're
• 21:53
  all trying to avoid using. But like, it's just it's gross,
• 21:57
  man, what's this? Not American at all.
• 21:59
  Yeah, first and foremost. You know, if loving rib eyes is
• 22:02
  bad, then I guess I am a bad person.
• 22:05
  That's obviously a joke, but what's the Benjamin Franklin
• 22:08
  quote? We say it all the time and I'm
• 22:10
  blanking on the exact quote right now, but it's something
• 22:13
  like if you. Give away your freedom for
• 22:18
  security. You deserve neither or something
• 22:20
  like that. So this is where we are and and
• 22:23
  again like history doesn't repeat but it rhymes and it's
• 22:26
  like humanity's been going through this cycle over and over
• 22:30
  and over again until we finally figure this out.
• 22:32
  And I think we figured it out with Bitcoin but again and and
• 22:35
  actually we'll touch on this during the culture.
• 22:37
  So if you can remember this Mike, I I think it'd be a good
• 22:39
  topic we we can't. We get complacent out there.
• 22:43
  We can't just talk and say that we we've already won.
• 22:47
  Like there's still a lot of work to be done and this is part of
• 22:50
  that process. Like, yes, we have the tools
• 22:52
  today, but this is far from over and it's upon every single one
• 22:56
  of us to spread the signal. Make sure people are holding
• 22:59
  Bitcoin, make sure people are holding the freedom tools, Make
• 23:02
  sure people are protecting themselves, You know, make sure
• 23:04
  people are building local communities so that they can get
• 23:07
  the the nutrition they need. The the resources they need,
• 23:11
  like all this stuff starts with having a good freedom, money
• 23:16
  that cannot be stopped. But it's not just, you know,
• 23:20
  Bitcoin fixes everything that is the root of this.
• 23:23
  And then from there, there's a lot of behaviors and a lot of
• 23:25
  things that we have to change about our interactions with the
• 23:30
  world. And this is how Bitcoin fixes
• 23:32
  everything. Anyways, we'll touch on that on
• 23:33
  the culture, try to remember that, because I think it's a
• 23:35
  good point. Awesome.
• 23:37
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  before I get into today's little rant and understanding of where
• 25:30
  Larry Fink is at in the game or Black Rock and and the corporate
• 25:35
  billionaires of the world, the corporatocracy of the United
• 25:38
  States. Let's just bring some
• 25:40
  screenshots into this. So we have this CNBC headline
• 25:43
  and this was published October 13th 2017 and it says Black Rock
• 25:49
  CEO Larry Fink calls Bitcoin an index of money laundering.
• 25:53
  And then, as we've been covering for a while, BlackRock Files for
• 25:57
  Spot Bitcoin ETF with Coinbase as a crypto custodian, published
• 26:01
  June 15, 2023. Now let's not forget about this
• 26:05
  whole. SEC rejecting the BlackRock ETF,
• 26:10
  but even when the news came out, they were naming the custodian.
• 26:14
  Anyways, let's jump into kind of some recent developments and
• 26:17
  then we'll get into the video that was going around Twitter
• 26:21
  yesterday. So we got this article from
• 26:23
  Bloomberg and this drop July 3rd while we were, you know, on our
• 26:28
  holiday vacations. Basically BlackRock Bitcoin ETF
• 26:31
  application is refiled by NASDAQ, the SEC.
• 26:35
  And it goes on to say BlackRock refiled paperwork with the US
• 26:38
  regulators through NASDAQ to add new details to its proposal for
• 26:42
  an exchange traded fund that invests directly in Bitcoin.
• 26:45
  The exchange on Monday submitted new documents with the US
• 26:48
  Securities and Exchange Commission to indicate that
• 26:50
  Coinbase Global Inc will provide market surveillance in support
• 26:54
  of the proposed ETF from the world's largest asset manager.
• 26:57
  The move came after the Regulatory agency had said that
• 27:00
  initial filings by issuers were deemed to be insufficient and
• 27:03
  lack necessary in. Information.
• 27:05
  And then since then a number of other companies have also
• 27:09
  applied for an ETF and the point of the SEC rejection was that
• 27:15
  they didn't clarify the custodian and they said there
• 27:19
  wasn't some clarity in there and there was a lot of hoopla on
• 27:23
  Twitter about it because we even.
• 27:26
  Remember during that time that they named Coinbase as their
• 27:28
  custodian, But anyways, crypto market surveillance may be key
• 27:31
  to gaining SEC approval for their spot Bitcoin ETF.
• 27:34
  Analysts say the surveillance could dramatically reduce fraud
• 27:37
  and market manipulation, which were top reasons the agency has
• 27:40
  rejected around 30 spot Bitcoin ETF applications to date.
• 27:44
  Following BlackRock to mid June filing for such an ETF, a slew
• 27:47
  of others forms filed or refiled for spot products amid market
• 27:50
  optimism that the SEC could reverse its long standing view
• 27:54
  that such a fund shouldn't be allowed.
• 27:56
  And evidence of a partial thaw, the agency did allow ETF's tied
• 27:59
  to Bitcoin futures in 2021 and recently also greenlit A
• 28:03
  leveraged Bitcoin futures fund. Black Rocks initial filing in
• 28:06
  mid June not only set off a race among other issues for similar
• 28:09
  filings, but also sparked a rally for crypto currencies
• 28:11
  broadly. Bitcoin has added more than 10%
• 28:14
  over the past month alone and is up more than 80% since the start
• 28:17
  of the year. The idea of a potential spot ETF
• 28:20
  is exciting for many fans of digital assets because it could
• 28:22
  mean greater accessibility for everyday investors, of course.
• 28:26
  For us just X that stay humble. This is more for you know
• 28:30
  institutions out there. This for those with like the 401
• 28:32
  KS etc etc etc. But since the refiling.
• 28:37
  Shouts out to the Bitcoin Magazine because they've been on
• 28:39
  top of this and it says all of the spot Bitcoin ETF filings
• 28:42
  have been resubmitted. The ball is in the SEC's court
• 28:46
  and here is just to name a few of the companies that have
• 28:49
  refiled their ETF. We have 21 shares, aka ARK
• 28:53
  Invest, We have BlackRock, we have Bitwise, we have Bad Neck,
• 28:56
  we have Wisdom Tree, we have Invesco and Galaxy, we have
• 28:58
  Fidelity, and we have Valkyrie Investments.
• 29:01
  But it's pretty interesting to see that Coinbase is the
• 29:04
  custodian for two. Of these we have three unknown
• 29:08
  custodians and then we have a few companies that are going to
• 29:11
  take their Bitcoin ETF into their own in their own custody.
• 29:16
  So again, I think this is something that we caught on,
• 29:20
  that other bitcoiners have caught on.
• 29:22
  Coinbase being one of the custodians of these ETF's
• 29:26
  personally is a red flag, but hey, we'll see how this goes.
• 29:29
  Anyways, Michael Saylor dropped this tweet yesterday and this
• 29:33
  video was making the round all over Twitter.
• 29:36
  Because Larry Fink is bending the knee.
• 29:38
  And what do I say all the time? When it comes to the biggest
• 29:42
  skeptics of the world in regards to Bitcoin, they always have the
• 29:45
  same playbook. They fought Bitcoin for years,
• 29:48
  it seems, and they pack their bags.
• 29:52
  They get themselves in a good position, as we always say, you
• 29:54
  know, Wall Street, whether you think they're smart money or
• 29:56
  not, we will use the term smart money.
• 29:58
  Smart money does not FOMO into bags.
• 30:01
  What they do is they fund the price, they cater the price,
• 30:05
  they pack their bags and then once they're ready to go, they
• 30:08
  start endorsing the product that they want to pump.
• 30:11
  And here we are with the same scenario playing out again.
• 30:15
  Anyways, let's get into this video and hear what Larry Fink
• 30:18
  has to say. And also I do believe the role
• 30:23
  of crypto is it is, it is. It's digitizing gold.
• 30:29
  In many ways it's a it's a instead of investing in gold as
• 30:34
  a hedge against inflation, a hedge against the the onerous
• 30:38
  problems of any one country or or the OR the devaluation of
• 30:43
  your currency, whatever country you're in.
• 30:47
  Let's be clear, Bitcoin is an international asset.
• 30:52
  It's not based on anyone currency and so it it it can
• 30:56
  represent a asset that people can play as an alternative.
• 31:01
  I would call the the foundation of BlackRock is about hope you
• 31:06
  invest for retirement because you believe tomorrow is better
• 31:10
  than today. You hear that last part, that
• 31:14
  last part was pretty interesting BlackRock.
• 31:17
  Is a company about hope, investing in the future?
• 31:24
  It's a good salesman. That's some good marketing.
• 31:26
  But anyways, is Larry Fink not saying what we've been saying
• 31:30
  here on Simply Bitcoin and what you guys have probably been
• 31:32
  saying in your personal life for years?
• 31:34
  Bitcoin is a 10X improvement on gold.
• 31:36
  As he put it. It's digitizing gold.
• 31:39
  Bitcoin is an international asset.
• 31:41
  It is a global phenomenon. No one is in control of this,
• 31:45
  but. It's very interesting.
• 31:46
  I also saw this article on Bloomberg and it's that full
• 31:50
  interview kind of compressed into some of its finer points.
• 31:53
  So we got this headline on Bloomberg.
• 31:55
  BlackRock wants to make it cheaper to trade Bitcoin and
• 31:58
  instantly my like tinfoil hat, Paranoid Bitcoin or signal goes
• 32:03
  off and we're all like, I knew it.
• 32:05
  Blackrock's trying to Co-op Bitcoin.
• 32:07
  I knew it. I know.
• 32:08
  Anyways again this drop July 5th 2023 and it goes.
• 32:12
  Larry Fink called Bitcoin International asset and said the
• 32:15
  money manager. Wants to use its have to make it
• 32:17
  less expensive and easier to invest in the cryptocurrency.
• 32:21
  It cost a lot of money right now to transact Bitcoin.
• 32:23
  We hope our regulators look at these filings as a way to
• 32:26
  democratize crypto. The money management giant filed
• 32:29
  paperwork last month. We all know this.
• 32:31
  NASDAQ recently refiled black Rocks application.
• 32:34
  BlackRock wants to hear from US regulators such as the SEC.
• 32:38
  We look at this as an opportunity.
• 32:40
  We work really closely with our regulators.
• 32:43
  Again, Bitcoin can represent an alternative international.
• 32:46
  Akin to digitizing gold, Fink said.
• 32:49
  Initially, he said he was skeptical because it was heavily
• 32:52
  used for, let's say, illicit activities again, how it started
• 32:57
  versus how it's going. Black Rock CEO Larry Fink calls
• 33:00
  Bitcoin an index of money laundering, and now he's calling
• 33:05
  Bitcoin a revolution, a revolution in finance.
• 33:08
  Digitizing gold. It's almost like he just likes
• 33:12
  to make a profit, and he's seeing that Bitcoin cannot be
• 33:14
  killed. And he's trying to pack his
• 33:17
  bags. He's playing both sides of the
• 33:18
  war. Anyways, to bring up some of the
• 33:21
  more poignant points from Bitcoiners on Twitter, I'm gonna
• 33:26
  read a couple of tweets here and then I'll let Mike come in and
• 33:28
  rant a little bit as well. We got Marty Bent, who posted
• 33:31
  this this morning. Goes.
• 33:32
  Coinbase is about to become the biggest hacker honey pot on the
• 33:35
  planet and shouts out to Rob Hamilton.
• 33:37
  He commented it as well and he goes concentrating.
• 33:40
  Custody risk to a single entity is a legacy mental model of
• 33:43
  physical custody of goods like cash and gold.
• 33:46
  Using Bitcoin as programmable money to distribute risk across
• 33:49
  multiple institutions as government governance to
• 33:52
  encourage honest actors to protect consumers.
• 33:55
  Again, I think the TLDR is Bitcoin incentives are pure and
• 33:59
  as. Paranoid as we can be about
• 34:02
  Larry Fink, maybe, and I'm being hopeful here, Bitcoin does have
• 34:08
  a way of domesticating greed and they can try to Co-op Bitcoin
• 34:12
  all they want or they can follow the rules and run their node and
• 34:15
  profit like the rest of us. Anyways, another tweet.
• 34:18
  This is armed out and he goes, I don't know.
• 34:20
  And on all these ETF applications submitted to the
• 34:22
  ECSEC, that name and exchange the SEC is currently suing as a
• 34:26
  key partner doesn't seem bullish to me.
• 34:29
  And then doubling down. This is kind of what I opened
• 34:32
  the opening monologue with beauty on says all of a sudden
• 34:35
  this is accepted as true, AKA that Larry Fink says Bitcoin is
• 34:39
  an international asset, that Bitcoin is digitizing gold, and
• 34:43
  this is simply because a single as CEO said so it was true from
• 34:48
  the beginning, as is all the other things we've been saying
• 34:50
  about Bitcoin that are not currently being said or
• 34:53
  understood by this class or anyone around the world.
• 34:56
  But they've been warned, and isn't that so special?
• 34:59
  It only takes one person to really kick off the can and let
• 35:03
  everything get absolutely stupid.
• 35:04
  Dude. Bullish but shouts out to
• 35:06
  American huddle because this is our I told you so moment shouts
• 35:09
  out to all you guys that front ran the black rocks of the world
• 35:13
  and as Huddle puts it. You could have heard it from
• 35:15
  Fink today, or you could have heard it from the average pleb
• 35:18
  five years ago. The front running of Wall Street
• 35:20
  has been epic. It's been a pleasure stacking
• 35:22
  with you gentlemen's shouts out to all you men and women out
• 35:26
  there that have been stacking Bitcoin because hey, I told you
• 35:29
  so and it's only a matter of time until everyone else wakes
• 35:32
  up to this anyways. Anyways, Mike, I know you didn't
• 35:36
  see this clip till now. What's your thoughts on all this
• 35:38
  stuff? I got to say that it's important
• 35:43
  to pay attention to Larry Fink's words, because Bitcoiners will
• 35:49
  definitely pick up on the fact that he explicitly is saying
• 35:51
  crypto, but he's referring to he's referring to aspects of
• 35:55
  Bitcoin that set it out apart from everything else.
• 35:58
  And I. And then also pay attention to
• 36:01
  the fact that he's saying he wants to make trading Bitcoin
• 36:04
  cheaper. I am.
• 36:08
  Personally, the position that he's using that verbiage very
• 36:11
  intentionally, to the point of like using this to generate a
• 36:15
  boatload of hype around Bitcoin and then once all of this SEC
• 36:19
  stuff with crypto gets flushed out, which it will regardless of
• 36:24
  like how scammy the entire space is.
• 36:26
  There a lot of the events that have been happening for the last
• 36:30
  year in particular and that are going to keep happening for the
• 36:32
  next couple years. Especially with the with
• 36:35
  specifically around the SEC, we're going to like I'm of the
• 36:38
  opinion we're going to see a lot of these crypto projects either
• 36:41
  get deleted or or they're going to get replaced or coopted or
• 36:47
  adopted or likely all three. To the point of where Larry Fink
• 36:52
  and Black Rack are going to get to the point of actually trading
• 36:54
  crypto. To the point of where maybe that
• 36:57
  maybe trading Bitcoin is cheaper, but they're making a
• 37:00
  ton of money off trading. Just complete nonsense shit
• 37:02
  coins. Like I just like, I other than
• 37:08
  other than like the fact that we all don't like BlackRock and
• 37:12
  they keep selling that talking point as you know BlackRock
• 37:16
  being something for the future is this is like we're getting
• 37:21
  into dangerous territory in my opinion.
• 37:24
  And then another thing that I wanted to touch on was I found
• 37:27
  it interesting that. Wisdom Tree and Fidelity, We're
• 37:32
  trying to set themselves up as their own custodians.
• 37:35
  I I'm not. I'm a LARP when it comes to a
• 37:37
  lot of this stuff, but I don't think brokerages can be their
• 37:42
  own custodian. I'm pretty sure that's where a
• 37:45
  lot of the problems are arising from.
• 37:47
  So I'm like, I'm very curious about what the calculus is
• 37:50
  behind Fidelity and Wisdom Tree. But I could be wrong.
• 37:55
  Other than other than that dude, like, I don't like.
• 37:58
  This is, this is something that you and I were talking about
• 38:01
  before the before the show. This is something I've talked
• 38:04
  about many times before and this is something we're going to keep
• 38:06
  talking about is that like this is a very macro move the the
• 38:11
  ETF's getting filed and attempting to get the the green
• 38:14
  light. This is going to take time guys.
• 38:16
  This is going to take time to figure out like when when the
• 38:19
  news went out that the ETF has been filed, you should have
• 38:25
  assumed that there was going to be back and forth.
• 38:28
  Especially with like financial products and something as
• 38:31
  revelatory as a Bitcoin spot ETF, it's going to take some
• 38:34
  time to hash things out and to actually get to the point of
• 38:37
  where people are comfortable with this product.
• 38:40
  And then so like what I'm really getting at is that let's temper,
• 38:45
  let's temper our our exuberance. It's exciting, but let's temper
• 38:49
  it and let's also rest in the fact that there is going to be
• 38:52
  plenty of time to continue stacking before things go really
• 38:55
  parabolic. Yeah, What?
• 39:01
  What's the, what's the running like heuristic or meme that
• 39:05
  everyone's saying it's like, OK, we got the we got the front
• 39:07
  running news that there's going to be a BlackRock ETF, but it's
• 39:11
  not going to get approved until like 2025 when we're at the top.
• 39:15
  And then they short, they short the price and then buy back
• 39:19
  again. And then we go on and do the
• 39:21
  same thing we always do. And we we've seen this happen
• 39:23
  before. It happened the last cycle they
• 39:25
  approved. Some gold in.
• 39:26
  Their ETF? Exactly so like.
• 39:28
  Again, there's a lot of tried and true techniques out there to
• 39:33
  manipulate the price and they will try to do the same thing
• 39:37
  with Bitcoin. And I think it's only a matter
• 39:39
  of time until they won't be able to do that.
• 39:42
  But as we can tell, you know, bitcoin's not even a trillion
• 39:46
  dollar market cap. So again, guys, it's something
• 39:49
  we tell you all the time. You know, don't try to time the
• 39:51
  bottom time in the market beats timing the market.
• 39:53
  Just tax that. Stay humble, take your Bitcoin
• 39:55
  into self custody running out. And all of this stuff will work
• 39:59
  its way out once you start educating more people.
• 40:01
  Once more people start holding Bitcoin.
• 40:03
  What's more, people understand why they should hold Bitcoin.
• 40:06
  Everything on a long enough timeframe is good for Bitcoin.
• 40:10
  So, again. It's just it is part of the
• 40:12
  roller coaster ride. This is all part of the fun.
• 40:14
  This is why you are a bitcoiner and This is why you're early to
• 40:18
  the game. Stack sets And then while we're
• 40:20
  waiting for all these exciting events to to culminate and take
• 40:24
  place. And then while you're waiting
• 40:25
  for the having to kick off and for the rocket ship to start.
• 40:28
  Like get into the gym, get strong, get healthy, eat good
• 40:31
  food, have good sex and like have it enjoy your life.
• 40:34
  Like you don't need to sit in front of a computer watching the
• 40:37
  Bitcoin chart all day. I wouldn't.
• 40:39
  I wouldn't recommend it. I did that for years and it's
• 40:41
  not good. Yeah, literally get outside,
• 40:43
  touch grass, have eat good food, hang out with good people.
• 40:47
  Because rocket. Ship Get on board.
• 40:51
  And also, and also guys, you better be out there like Becca
• 40:54
  is. Build everything about you, your
• 40:58
  body, your mind, your business. This is what we need to be doing
• 41:01
  as Bitcoiners, because it's not enough to just sit around on
• 41:04
  Twitter watching the Bitcoin price and expecting the price of
• 41:08
  Bitcoin to. Go up, you build things.
• 41:10
  This is what Bitcoin is about, is is entrepreneur, money,
• 41:14
  freedom, money. Do what you want to do, and do
• 41:17
  it the best you can because there's no longer a Fiat cartel
• 41:20
  that is stealing your future from you.
• 41:22
  This is what this is about, is unlocking the human capital that
• 41:27
  is the 8 billion people, or 7.8 billion, whatever, whatever the
• 41:32
  current human population is, minus the unproductive class.
• 41:35
  That number unlocking all that human capital.
• 41:38
  Anyways, let's get into the culture.
• 41:41
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• 41:43
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  West Coast, if you're a West Coast Bitcoiner, you got to make
• 42:30
  it to the Pacific Bitcoin Festival again.
• 42:33
  We're telling you this now because these are the spring
• 42:36
  special prices. It's going to be the lowest
• 42:38
  prices you can get on the tickets moving forward and we
• 42:41
  want to see you guys there come hang out with us in.
• 42:45
  LA at the Hangar last year was awesome.
• 42:48
  General admission tickets is $550.
• 42:50
  Get your tickets for the whole weekend.
• 42:52
  It's it's a party. They did a great job last year.
• 42:55
  I'm excited for this year because they're probably going
• 42:57
  to do it better and we want to see all you guys.
• 43:00
  Nico and I will be down there. I'm excited to hang back on, you
• 43:03
  know my stomping grounds. I'm originally a West Coast kid
• 43:06
  myself. And this is the only time I get
• 43:09
  to go back home right now is hanging out Pacific Bitcoin
• 43:12
  Festival. So we'll see you guys there.
• 43:14
  Anyways, enough of that. Let's talk about the project
• 43:18
  that Mike is a part of, aka Bitcoin veterans.
• 43:21
  So let's just start with the basics.
• 43:23
  Mike, what is Bitcoin veterans and what is the goals or
• 43:26
  intentions that you guys are doing over here?
• 43:29
  Yeah, So with Bitcoin veterans like the the the whole impetus
• 43:33
  to why we got together to do this is that.
• 43:36
  If you guys haven't noticed in a lot of the spaces conversations
• 43:39
  that that we engage in on the regular, there's a lot of,
• 43:42
  there's a lot of US veterans that are out there.
• 43:45
  And there's also a large coterie of veterans that once they get
• 43:50
  out of the service, there is a, there are major gaps in their
• 43:56
  livelihoods as far as like being able to adopt or identify with a
• 44:03
  mission that is. Conducive to like the core, like
• 44:07
  for example the core army values of like upholding integrity and
• 44:11
  honor and selfless service and duty to your fellow man is like
• 44:17
  once you kind of like live by that lifestyle, it's something
• 44:21
  that. That really produces a lot of
• 44:24
  value in one's life and a lot of the veterans that count, they
• 44:27
  get out of the service and whether it's medical discharge
• 44:30
  or whether they retire or whatever, like there's there's a
• 44:33
  glaring void left behind. And Opti, I think you would
• 44:37
  agree with us, is that Bitcoin largely does incentivize that
• 44:42
  kind of lifestyle. Like I, I, I wrote an article
• 44:45
  for Bitcoin Magazine. I think the title was Bitcoin is
• 44:49
  a. Monetary system of integrity
• 44:52
  something like that and where I I kind of overlay the overlap of
• 44:57
  the army the army values the military values and and Bitcoin
• 45:01
  and what it incentivizes as far as like first principles thought
• 45:05
  value for value economy like value for value life really and
• 45:10
  we we figured we could do a lot of.
• 45:15
  Cross pollination between the groups, like we could bring a
• 45:18
  lot of bitcoiners into understanding the the, the kind
• 45:21
  of like the veteran in the military and the warrior
• 45:23
  mindset. And then we can bring a lot of
• 45:24
  the warriors and the veterans over to understanding a little
• 45:27
  bit about Bitcoin and protecting themselves and their families as
• 45:30
  far as like having a savings vehicle for wealth generation
• 45:33
  and all that great stuff that we like to talk about.
• 45:36
  So like. And this is, and one thing that
• 45:39
  I'm particularly excited to talk about that group is that we can
• 45:42
  we'll eventually get into. Like many of my favorite talking
• 45:45
  points that I rant about with you guys all the time is like
• 45:48
  getting into physical health, physical fitness, spiritual
• 45:51
  health, philosophical health. Like all this stuff Like we're
• 45:55
  we're talking about like societal issues, like the lack
• 45:58
  of proper masculine and feminine role models, like we're going to
• 46:01
  be talking about everything. So like if if you guys are if
• 46:05
  you guys are interested in listening and partaking of that
• 46:07
  like thanks Coin Father the regular of the show.
• 46:11
  I appreciate you man. But there's a we're going to
• 46:14
  we're going to be hosting that show at like for now we're going
• 46:18
  to like there is the possibility of shifting time frame.
• 46:21
  So just make sure you're staying up to date with us to opti's
• 46:24
  going to show you guys the, the Twitter account to be able to
• 46:28
  follow us but right now we're doing the show at Wednesday
• 46:31
  nights. At 8:00 PM Eastern or I'm sorry,
• 46:34
  9:00 PM Eastern, 8:00 PM Central Texas time.
• 46:37
  And we're just like it's it's just a round Robin conference
• 46:40
  like you guys saw the screen earlier.
• 46:42
  There's five of us we'll be ranting on.
• 46:44
  We're trying to get the video stuff figured out.
• 46:46
  Opti's kind of like helping us out on the back end a little
• 46:48
  bit, figure out the technical difficulties.
• 46:52
  But YouTube has been a little echoey with the with regards to
• 46:55
  the audio and everything, so like that's a bit of a problem.
• 46:57
  But I will state that if you guys do want to listen to the
• 47:00
  audio, which is good quality as far as like listening to us riff
• 47:05
  and poke fun at each other on top of talking about the Bitcoin
• 47:07
  topics, they is now available on Spotify and I believe Anchor and
• 47:13
  Fountain and Apple Podcasts. So.
• 47:16
  Like you can look for us there, shoot us a follow.
• 47:19
  Definitely want to try and pick up that following.
• 47:21
  But it's it's really just going to be a couple of former
• 47:24
  military guys poking a bunch of fun at each other.
• 47:27
  Because I think I think we've got army Marines and Air Force.
• 47:34
  I might be wrong on that but we. But if you know anything about
• 47:37
  the the different military branches we all like to talk
• 47:39
  shit with each other and it's a lot of fun to look.
• 47:42
  For the audio listeners that can't see the video who is a
• 47:45
  part of Bitcoin veterans? So we got Shane Hazel and Alex
• 47:49
  Stanczyk. Are they going to be the the big
• 47:50
  heavy hitters that are kind of leading the charge on that?
• 47:52
  And then there's myself, Jordan, who is Operation Libertas on
• 47:56
  Twitter and then Gabe Lord. Let's go.
• 48:00
  Awesome. I do have a few questions.
• 48:02
  First one is, well, it's more of a comment.
• 48:05
  I also look, I I I'm not. Anywhere.
• 48:09
  A part of being a veteran or part of the service or anything.
• 48:12
  But I do fundamentally agree with the idea of having more
• 48:15
  soldiers in Bitcoin. And not literally like literal
• 48:20
  soldiers, but having that soldier mentality.
• 48:23
  Like I loved listening to Jocko's podcast.
• 48:26
  And I take those mentalities into my everyday life, because I
• 48:30
  don't know if you guys know this guys, but like, we are in a
• 48:34
  monetary war, a civil war, a war of good and evil right now, and
• 48:37
  having strong mental frameworks moving towards what you want in
• 48:41
  life for your purpose, I think is what.
• 48:45
  Humanity needs more like they've been Again, I'm using you know,
• 48:50
  they for the unproductive class, for whatever, you know, the
• 48:53
  powers that be you however you want to take that.
• 48:55
  There's been a concerted effort to de masculate men and part of
• 49:00
  that is stealing their future so that they are, you know.
• 49:04
  On the on the teat of the powers that be so that they can survive
• 49:09
  and do what they can for their families and provide for them.
• 49:11
  And now we have a money that I think aligns perfectly with the
• 49:15
  values of people that that served in the army than the
• 49:18
  military and all this stuff. Because as you said and we
• 49:21
  covered this in the beginning of the week.
• 49:22
  If you believe in thou shall not steal.
• 49:25
  If you put believe in honesty. If you believe in hard work and
• 49:29
  you know like bootstrapping yourself.
• 49:34
  Which I think are all basic tenants of serving in the
• 49:37
  military or in in the services you'd believe in Bitcoin.
• 49:41
  And so my question for you is, Mike, I know you learned about
• 49:44
  Bitcoin while you were in the service, right?
• 49:46
  So how has the response been from, I don't know, your former
• 49:51
  former brothers in arms etc, or or people that you're having
• 49:54
  these conversations with? Well the the so the I think
• 49:57
  maybe the interesting thing for yourself and other listeners
• 50:00
  that are in the same boat is it's actually been, it's been
• 50:03
  pretty positive but like one of the biggest things that drives
• 50:07
  attention and drives interest is it's sad to say it but it's
• 50:11
  number go up because price is a reflection of not I won't say
• 50:18
  adoption but price is a reflection of interest and I
• 50:23
  get. And it's not necessarily that I
• 50:26
  get individuals reaching out to me because I think I push the I
• 50:33
  know what I'm talking about and I'm smarter than you, a little
• 50:35
  bit too hard to these guys back in the day.
• 50:37
  And so they don't want to like, you know, feed into my ego and
• 50:40
  tell me that I was right this whole time.
• 50:43
  But I have noticed that, like when I'm having conversations,
• 50:46
  like with my former major, for example, they are far more
• 50:49
  receptive of hearing the conversation, which is precisely
• 50:52
  what we wanted to begin with anyway.
• 50:54
  And I think that I think what I also wanted to say was that for
• 51:04
  those that are listening like it like in your position, Opti,
• 51:07
  that weren't that weren't militarily trained.
• 51:10
  You don't have to have served in a branch of service in order to
• 51:15
  actually be a warrior. Like a warrior is a lifestyle
• 51:18
  and a philosophy like. A warrior is somebody who stands
• 51:22
  up for what is right, defends honor, and is willing to stand
• 51:25
  against the tide in order to tell people that they're wrong.
• 51:29
  Like kind of like that meme where there's that one
• 51:32
  individual against a crowd of others and it says, yes, you are
• 51:35
  all wrong. And I think the last couple of
• 51:39
  years has been a glaring example of how we need more people like
• 51:43
  that. So if you're in Bitcoin, and
• 51:47
  you. Like being the one to stand
• 51:51
  against the tide. I think that you guys are a
• 51:53
  little bit behooved to team up with us veterans and start
• 51:56
  helping us kind of get the conversation pushed to the other
• 51:59
  side of the aisle. There's a lot of power here as
• 52:01
  far as, like, I'm not in When I say power, I'm not saying in the
• 52:04
  sense of like malicious intent. We need power.
• 52:09
  Like good requires power to fight evil, just like evil
• 52:13
  requires power to fight good. And I I think, I think we could
• 52:17
  all agree that there's a lot more evil out there than there
• 52:19
  is good right now and we need to kind of like shift the tides of
• 52:22
  battle a little bit. Love it?
• 52:25
  Yeah. I mean, I I think as as a
• 52:28
  bitcoiner and as someone that kind of understands that Fiat
• 52:33
  currency has enabled a century of war.
• 52:38
  I think there is a small faction of bitcoiners that are just so
• 52:43
  turned off by like, the military industrial complex that they're
• 52:45
  like, oh, you guys are like my natural enemies.
• 52:47
  And it's like, no, like you are an average person, just like
• 52:52
  myself. And we have much more in common
• 52:54
  because believing in the ideals of protecting what you love,
• 52:58
  your property, your family, your life.
• 53:00
  I think this is something that all of us bitcoiners are doing
• 53:03
  and I really love what you said about you know we are all
• 53:05
  warriors in this and and before I go on and let you have the
• 53:08
  last words here I really like this comment by Catacombs
• 53:11
  because I completely agree with this and and this is also my
• 53:14
  working framework as well for what's going on in the world,
• 53:17
  Catacomb says complacent, weak manner, easy to rule.
• 53:20
  I I don't think that anything truer has ever been said than
• 53:24
  this and This is why I I constantly tell you guys to get
• 53:28
  fit mentally, physically, spiritually.
• 53:30
  Because we are a like again putting your religious views
• 53:34
  aside like I I fundamentally believe we are in a war of good
• 53:38
  and evil of light and truth verse the darkness.
• 53:42
  And I I think having more warriors in arms out there and
• 53:45
  people taking everything they do not not necessarily just like
• 53:49
  too seriously but with this. Mentality of like you are in a
• 53:52
  monetary war right now. It is, it's not red versus blue,
• 53:56
  it is orange versus green. And I think it's becoming
• 53:59
  clearer and clear to everyone out there that there is a active
• 54:02
  attempt of making you deaf, dumb and blind so that you own
• 54:06
  nothing. And I don't know about you, but
• 54:07
  that gets me absolutely pissed off.
• 54:09
  And this is not the world I want to live in.
• 54:11
  And thus why we come out here every single day and we got that
• 54:15
  URA Bitcoin 300 Spartan energy here because I really do.
• 54:20
  Believe this is the fight of our lives and it's a peaceful
• 54:23
  revolution. All you need to do is wake up
• 54:25
  more people, opt into Bitcoin and and spread the signal and
• 54:29
  show people what the game is and that they can save themselves by
• 54:32
  just opting into the Bitcoin network.
• 54:34
  It it really is this simple but it's what do you always say and
• 54:38
  and I just remember what I wanted you to talk about.
• 54:40
  I was gonna bring it up. Yeah, the blueprint is simple,
• 54:43
  but the follow through is hard. And on that point, you did have
• 54:46
  a tweet and I didn't pull it up, but it's back on.
• 54:49
  This idea of like, the game isn't over guys.
• 54:51
  There's a lot of work to be done.
• 54:53
  Yeah, Well and the the the big thing which was like the the
• 54:59
  point that you asked me to remember so we could bring it up
• 55:01
  later is that but. Complacency is as as invites, as
• 55:06
  much evil as idle hands. They're about the same.
• 55:08
  They're almost one and the same kind of breath.
• 55:11
  And to echo some of the most popular points in the Bitcoin
• 55:18
  community of we have already won.
• 55:22
  While I agree with that to to a sense like by by spreading that
• 55:28
  message and like picking it up for your own.
• 55:33
  You are inviting a sense of complacency like the the whole
• 55:37
  idea to whether you're a warrior or whether you're a warrior
• 55:42
  that's working out or you're somebody that's just working
• 55:44
  out. Like the the the work is never
• 55:46
  done because there's always a necessary adaptation that has to
• 55:51
  be picked up. And Bitcoin is going to be no
• 55:54
  different. It's a, it's a it's a currency
• 55:56
  within a complex, adaptive system of an economy and like.
• 55:59
  When you get into complex adaptive systems which you
• 56:01
  pulled on, pulled on that thread earlier, there's there's always
• 56:05
  adaptations like coming down the chute.
• 56:07
  And there was one thing that I wanted to touch on and plug and
• 56:11
  appreciate that you said about those outside of the military.
• 56:20
  Mindset and military experience, believe can like hold the
• 56:24
  positions of anybody within the military, is a dog of the
• 56:27
  military and a pawn of the military in the sense of this
• 56:32
  corporatized military industrial complex.
• 56:35
  Preservation of evil mechanism. That's just that's just
• 56:41
  inherently not true. A lot like the majority of those
• 56:44
  that serve in the services they don't.
• 56:47
  Like we didn't go in, we didn't sign up our, we didn't sign our
• 56:50
  like life and soul over for the fact of like feeding into a
• 56:54
  system that just perpetuates evil and death.
• 56:58
  Most of us joined in order to defend our loved ones.
• 57:02
  Like that's the biggest one. And in our first episode, Surfer
• 57:08
  Jim actually joined us and he. Expressed very emotional support
• 57:16
  and appreciation for that kind of that messaging.
• 57:19
  And I recommend that really anybody go back and listen to
• 57:23
  that first episode because there I get it.
• 57:25
  It's where the our group is like the five guys.
• 57:28
  We're going to be having a lot of fun and just poking fun at
• 57:30
  everything and each other and like all sorts of like, you
• 57:33
  know, some of the best like Bitcoin autistic interactions.
• 57:37
  But it's really good to go to that first episode and listen to
• 57:40
  that that interaction, because it's very heartfelt.
• 57:43
  And I think that I think that the world needs a lot more
• 57:47
  heartfelt messaging and a lot more intimate interaction
• 57:50
  between individuals in order to kind of get back to perpetuating
• 57:55
  this, this message of good versus evil and like how to
• 57:58
  fight back. There's a lot there's I can't
• 58:01
  iterate enough and repeat enough that there is so much work that
• 58:04
  needs to be done. Love it, Mike.
• 58:07
  Well, I I don't think I've ever said this to you, but thank you
• 58:11
  for your service, not only to everyone out there that is an
• 58:15
  American, but also to Bitcoin. Because I I really do resonate
• 58:19
  with all the conversations we have.
• 58:20
  We've had them on air, we've had them off air, we've had them on
• 58:23
  spaces. And I think we have the same
• 58:25
  mentality and we're coming it from it.
• 58:29
  At different angles I I really do believe like we are warriors
• 58:33
  of peace and you have to have this militant, I don't know,
• 58:38
  extremist view of what we're doing here.
• 58:40
  Because whether you like it or not, I'm being reminded of that
• 58:43
  Bob Marley quote. And I know it.
• 58:45
  This might be a weird, weird thing to bring Bob Marley into
• 58:48
  the conversation. But he has this he has this
• 58:50
  quote where he says something on the lines of.
• 58:54
  The evil in power right now never takes a day off, so you
• 58:57
  shouldn't either. And again, I I would just highly
• 59:00
  recommend everyone go read or watch like a Jocko podcast.
• 59:04
  Watch Bitcoin veterans, read Sun Zoos, Art of War like guys.
• 59:08
  What's that everyone saying in the chat?
• 59:10
  I'd much rather be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a
• 59:13
  war. And we are in the midst of an
• 59:16
  information war. We say it every single day.
• 59:18
  This is an information war and you guys are.
• 59:22
  If you don't know it, you're either the.
• 59:24
  Specialty or you're on the front lines and I'm highly convinced
• 59:27
  every single one of you guys are on the front line.
• 59:29
  So get a little more militant about what we're doing, guys,
• 59:33
  we're right. Act like it and get yourself in
• 59:35
  a position where you can look to your right and your left and
• 59:38
  you're like, yes, these are my brothers in arms and we are
• 59:41
  taking back planet Earth from the monetary demons.
• 59:44
  By the way, one last thing to say too is that in order to be a
• 59:48
  successful warrior, you need to accurately assess the
• 59:51
  battleground. That, that, that doesn't, that
• 59:54
  doesn't mean you go into you. You approach the battleground or
• 59:57
  the garden. I'm not even going to say
• 59:59
  garden, because most of us don't even have gardens at this point.
• 1:00:02
  But but yeah, right. But if you're going to, if we're
• 1:00:06
  going to go into this with a warrior mindset and a warrior
• 1:00:09
  kind of stoicism and like resolute, like standing, we need
• 1:00:14
  to accurately assess the battleground.
• 1:00:16
  That means looking around and observing with a.
• 1:00:21
  Open mindset and an open eye and seeing the the world for what it
• 1:00:25
  truly is and not just through the Bitcoin lens.
• 1:00:29
  I'm not saying, I'm not saying that you don't listen to the
• 1:00:32
  Bitcoin lens, but you need to look through the world with a
• 1:00:35
  series of different sunglasses, essentially.
• 1:00:38
  Because like for example, you go to a lake, you go fishing, and
• 1:00:41
  you're using sunglasses that aren't polarized, you're not
• 1:00:44
  going to see the fish underneath the surface of the water.
• 1:00:46
  Like it? It sounds really, really simple.
• 1:00:48
  But like the like, that's that's an analogy where like you need
• 1:00:52
  to be. And what I'm getting at is we
• 1:00:54
  need to be able to see things through empathetic eyes like
• 1:00:58
  you. And we talk about this all the
• 1:01:00
  time in Bitcoin. In order to get people to orange
• 1:01:02
  to orange, pill them, you have to meet people where they are
• 1:01:05
  and see them through, see the world through their lens from
• 1:01:08
  their point of view. That also means that when we're
• 1:01:13
  approaching this information war.
• 1:01:16
  We need to understand where people are.
• 1:01:19
  Once we do that, then the orange Pilling stuff comes downstream
• 1:01:23
  and I think that we can all be we, we can all be successful in
• 1:01:27
  our, you know, orange Pilling endeavors.
• 1:01:29
  But I, I, I really want the message to be that we're all
• 1:01:34
  uplifting our communities first, community first.
• 1:01:38
  Because if you don't have your community and like you don't
• 1:01:40
  have a like if things get as bad as we think, as bad as a lot of
• 1:01:43
  us like to, you know. Simple hat on and talk about as
• 1:01:46
  far as doomsday scenarios. If we don't have the community
• 1:01:51
  to fall back on and the community that we support, like
• 1:01:55
  why are we doing all this Bitcoin stuff to begin with?
• 1:02:03
  Wow, Mic drop. Love it.
• 1:02:05
  Well, thank you very much, Mike. Let's get into the meme review.
• 1:02:08
  Let's lighten up the mood a little bit because I say it all
• 1:02:11
  the time and I'll say it again, We are in the information war
• 1:02:14
  guys and you are the frontline soldiers.
• 1:02:16
  Continue to get the calls of action out there, Continue to
• 1:02:21
  spread the truth because we have the truth on our side and the
• 1:02:25
  truth wants to be set free. And I think more and more people
• 1:02:28
  are waking up to that idea that they've been lied to for too
• 1:02:31
  long. And shouts out to you, Mike.
• 1:02:33
  And shouts out to the whole crew at Bitcoin Veterans, I hope to
• 1:02:35
  see you guys succeed. And Orange Pill.
• 1:02:39
  The Army, the military, the Air Force, All of them.
• 1:02:42
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  It's like, wait, mic drop or mic drop?
• 1:03:26
  What did Opti mean? And do you guys like that little
• 1:03:31
  mess up there? Maybe you didn't catch it, but I
• 1:03:33
  definitely did. Anyways, this is the meme
• 1:03:35
  review. As you guys know, tweets are the
• 1:03:37
  bullets, memes are the artillery, as we just talked
• 1:03:39
  about in the culture. We are in an information war.
• 1:03:42
  If you don't know, now you know there is a trillion plus dollar
• 1:03:47
  siop against you, against the truth, against your family,
• 1:03:51
  against your property. And it's upon every single one
• 1:03:54
  of us to spread the Bitcoin signal, to spread the freedom
• 1:04:00
  tools. To wake up our friends and
• 1:04:02
  family, do it tactfully, obviously.
• 1:04:04
  Understand what your friends and family are into and then there's
• 1:04:07
  always a Bitcoin angle to it. And don't don't cut off your
• 1:04:11
  community guys. It's very important that you
• 1:04:13
  stick together. We we are much more powerful in
• 1:04:16
  a community in numbers than you are as the individual lone wolf
• 1:04:20
  anyways anyways. Let's get to the laughs.
• 1:04:24
  Let's get to the last. All right.
• 1:04:26
  This 1st meme is by Lynn Alden. You know Lynn?
• 1:04:29
  Yeah. Lynn doesn't do too many memes.
• 1:04:31
  So I saw this point and I was like, this is the perfect meme
• 1:04:35
  for today's show. And she just goes BlackRock on
• 1:04:38
  the Bitcoin flip flop. And we got Larry Fink here and
• 1:04:41
  he's just kind of doing one of these.
• 1:04:42
  And he goes, so basically, we just really like making money.
• 1:04:46
  And we have Dr. Jeff Ross right here in comment.
• 1:04:49
  He goes, it's really this simple, guys.
• 1:04:51
  They just want to make money. They see there's an opportunity
• 1:04:54
  to make money. Yes, there may be some nefarious
• 1:04:56
  plan over there. You know, they're doing all
• 1:04:57
  their dark things and hooded robes and all this stuff and
• 1:05:01
  trying to coop and control Bitcoin.
• 1:05:03
  But maybe the easiest answer is they just want to make money.
• 1:05:07
  I don't know. We'll see moving forward.
• 1:05:08
  And again, we are doubling down on the Larry Fink comments.
• 1:05:12
  And we got this guy, Thomas Farrer.
• 1:05:15
  He's been killing it. He's been on the meme review a
• 1:05:17
  few times lately. And we got Nasim.
• 1:05:20
  He's quoting Nasim Taleb. And he goes For the first time
• 1:05:23
  in the history of the world, we have a.
• 1:05:25
  Coupled with a financial instrument.
• 1:05:27
  And then we got he goes Larry Feek and it's got Vitch McMahon
• 1:05:30
  losing his mind. I don't know about you, not SIM
• 1:05:33
  Talib, but have you ever seen the back of a dollar?
• 1:05:36
  What are you talking about? Okay.
• 1:05:37
  Anyways, I I digress. I digress.
• 1:05:39
  Illuminati. Exactly.
• 1:05:41
  And then again, huddle Huddle's on today's show multiple times
• 1:05:45
  and he's got no words here. And we got Charlie Day doing the
• 1:05:49
  like conspiracy, connecting all the dots meme on Always Sunny
• 1:05:53
  and goes how my family. Saw me before Black Rock, and
• 1:05:56
  then I don't think this is actually Charlie Day from Always
• 1:06:00
  Sunny, but it's the same actor. And now he's over here playing
• 1:06:03
  dominoes in a classy suit, in a nice, nice.
• 1:06:07
  It looks like a library or like a man cave or whatever.
• 1:06:10
  And he goes, how they see me now as a classy gentleman watching
• 1:06:15
  the dominoes fall. Let's go, Okay.
• 1:06:19
  The next meme is by Greg Zage. One I really felt this one.
• 1:06:22
  I think this is not only did I know this was going to be a
• 1:06:25
  great bow tie for the show, but considering everything that Mike
• 1:06:29
  just said in the culture and the conversation we just had, I
• 1:06:32
  think it hits even harder. And he goes knowledge makes a
• 1:06:35
  man unfit to be a slave. And Mike on it.
• 1:06:39
  Yeah, how perfect. Mike kind of hit it on the head
• 1:06:41
  with like, being that one person that stands up to the crowd.
• 1:06:44
  Well, this picture is a bunch of bald people walking in unison to
• 1:06:49
  the left. And we have one bitcoiner that
• 1:06:51
  is glowing going to the right against the grain.
• 1:06:54
  Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
• 1:06:56
  You have the knowledge, spread the knowledge.
• 1:06:59
  And let's unlock people from field slavery.
• 1:07:01
  OK? This next meme is by at Morpheus
• 1:07:03
  under score BTC and he goes all roads lead to Bitcoin.
• 1:07:06
  Sooner or later everyone will figure this out.
• 1:07:08
  Are you still hoddling with self custody?
• 1:07:10
  If so which device do you use? I think he's asking the question
• 1:07:13
  hashtag Bitcoin. But the meme is the SpongeBob
• 1:07:15
  meme here and he goes when you've been shit coining too
• 1:07:18
  long. And finally circle back to old
• 1:07:20
  reliable and SpongeBob has his case of old reliable and in the
• 1:07:24
  box is a glowing Bitcoin logo because Bitcoin is old Reliable
• 1:07:28
  Bitcoin is. Is the way Bitcoin is
• 1:07:30
  unchangeable. Bitcoin is boring for a reason.
• 1:07:33
  It's got a monetary policy going out hundreds of years and you
• 1:07:36
  know what you're going to get with Bitcoin?
• 1:07:38
  None of this. We're going to have, you know,
• 1:07:40
  insiders changing things and let's program new fun, flashy
• 1:07:44
  things and all the things on Bitcoin.
• 1:07:48
  Bitcoin is simply. Digital money for the digital
• 1:07:52
  world that is incorruptible. All right, this next one, I'm
• 1:07:55
  not gonna play the audio because I don't wanna make it as clunky
• 1:07:57
  as it could be. But we have Jose S bam here and
• 1:08:00
  he goes hashtag Bitcoin and we got a dog here looking at a
• 1:08:04
  grill and it goes me out of cash and the dip.
• 1:08:08
  And you can see the dog drooling because he's out of cash and
• 1:08:13
  he's watching the dip. And this I felt this one is
• 1:08:16
  like, ah, only I had dry powder on the side to buy Bitcoin.
• 1:08:21
  Drool. Coming out of it's this is me
• 1:08:23
  every single day just watching the grill, just watching the
• 1:08:26
  price like oh man, absolutely ragged, but hey, you know.
• 1:08:33
  Make the decision for yourself and stag them sad.
• 1:08:36
  But hey, we already know what's going on.
• 1:08:38
  Numbers going up. It's going up forever.
• 1:08:40
  All right, this one. I'm sure you guys saw this video
• 1:08:45
  going around Twitter. I'm not.
• 1:08:46
  I'm not going to recap what the what the context of the video
• 1:08:50
  is, but it's that girl who freaked out on the airplane.
• 1:08:53
  And anyways, this is at Hoddling love.
• 1:08:56
  And she's it's a snapshot of her freaking out and it goes.
• 1:09:00
  Everyone can either believe it or not believe it.
• 1:09:02
  I don't give 2F's, but I am telling you right now that Fiat
• 1:09:05
  money we use is not real. That was a that was a good good.
• 1:09:13
  Yeah, that was a that was a good crescendo.
• 1:09:16
  Yeah, that was a good crescendo. OK, All right, guys, drop your
• 1:09:19
  meme review score in the chat. Oh, look, I'm getting good at
• 1:09:23
  it. Get it in the chat and we will
• 1:09:24
  cover it live. OK, today's meme review score.
• 1:09:27
  You guys already know that I drink a lot of coffee, as you
• 1:09:30
  can tell, because I'm always ranting.
• 1:09:33
  I got my nice little Simply Bitcoin cup that shouts out to
• 1:09:36
  Extemos. But today is my coffee, which is
• 1:09:41
  was sent by a fellow bitcoiner. Name.
• 1:09:44
  Mukwano, Mukwano shouts out to you.
• 1:09:48
  Bro. I am drinking your coffee.
• 1:09:50
  Absolutely delicious. I am.
• 1:09:52
  I am tweaked out right now, geeked up to the gills because
• 1:09:56
  of your coffee, so really appreciate it.
• 1:09:59
  I haven't emailed you yet because I wanted to try all the
• 1:10:01
  coffee before I told you my final decision.
• 1:10:04
  But hey, I as you can tell your boy is geeked up off a lot of
• 1:10:08
  coffee today. Shouts out to you.
• 1:10:10
  I've been having. I think I had the.
• 1:10:13
  The heavier roasted one this morning I'm doing like the mid
• 1:10:17
  roast one and the last one is the light roast.
• 1:10:20
  I'm kind of a mid roast kind of guy.
• 1:10:21
  I don't know what this means, but that's just what I drink.
• 1:10:24
  Mid roast is more caffeine. OK, so mid roast kind of guy.
• 1:10:30
  All right. Mike, what's your mean review
• 1:10:33
  score for today? My meme review and for those of
• 1:10:35
  you watching the video, it's probably getting a little bit
• 1:10:37
  more difficult to see the screen because it looks like there's a
• 1:10:39
  storm rolling in. But my meme review score is I'm
• 1:10:42
  going to give a go dark Faraday bag that I got for my first
• 1:10:47
  Bitcoin conference because everybody had me paranoid as
• 1:10:50
  hell that I was going to get Stingray attacked.
• 1:10:53
  So but I'm not trying to diminish that kind of risk.
• 1:10:58
  I would recommend anybody that goes to like a Bitcoin
• 1:11:00
  conference of any kind have at least.
• 1:11:04
  Some manner of protecting your technology because there it is a
• 1:11:09
  ripe environment to get stingrayed and get your stuff
• 1:11:13
  hijacked. So get a Faraday bag.
• 1:11:16
  Terrifying, actually. Short story as more memes go
• 1:11:19
  into the chat. Last year at Bitcoin Conference
• 1:11:22
  2022, I believe I was. I was with my boy Neil, AKA at
• 1:11:27
  Ronan Minor. And we, we were thinking about
• 1:11:30
  this and we're like, you know what, We're going to go super
• 1:11:32
  cipher Punk to the conference. We're not going to bring our
• 1:11:34
  phone because maybe someone's trying to try to, you know, like
• 1:11:39
  maybe someone's going to try to what's a SIM swap our phones and
• 1:11:43
  all this stuff. And we go to the conference and
• 1:11:46
  we're in line and we realize that we needed our ticket on our
• 1:11:49
  phone. And I had to like ask a stranger
• 1:11:52
  to use e-mail. And then we got absolutely lost
• 1:11:55
  the whole, the whole time at the conference couldn't use.
• 1:11:58
  Money. Because our our burner phone
• 1:12:01
  didn't have any service to send Bitcoin to pay with Bitcoin.
• 1:12:05
  So we were just like, wow, absolutely wrecked ourselves.
• 1:12:08
  OK, anyways, anyways, all right, there's a few memes in here.
• 1:12:11
  Oh, and I forgot the music. Whatever.
• 1:12:13
  Whatever. Brian Ward says the Rap Fink
• 1:12:17
  meme. OK, I wait, he might have.
• 1:12:19
  Oh no. The meme score is the rap Fink
• 1:12:21
  meme. OK, huddle coin.
• 1:12:23
  I give those memes lead led for the CBDC Army fight on the right
• 1:12:28
  side. Oof.
• 1:12:30
  Metaphorical. Metaphorical.
• 1:12:32
  Yeah. OK, the rave elevator.
• 1:12:35
  I score the memes like. All right, sorry, sorry, good
• 1:12:40
  score. But I didn't.
• 1:12:42
  Filter good enough? Didn't filter good enough, I
• 1:12:44
  feel. See, I give these memes 10,000
• 1:12:47
  sets of number go up. Let's go.
• 1:12:49
  OK, UTXOI, give the memes a daily dose of Kant for
• 1:12:54
  philosophical health. OK, some horns on that one,
• 1:12:57
  dude. That was a good.
• 1:12:58
  OK, Narwhal Tacos is getting mad at me.
• 1:13:01
  I forgot the music. Sorry bro.
• 1:13:03
  Maybe I'll get it for tomorrow. Actually, we need new music.
• 1:13:05
  I don't know. Tag us on some royalty free
• 1:13:07
  music and we'll figure it out. OK, Lowell, score more Fink
• 1:13:12
  memes. Laughter is the best medicine
• 1:13:15
  for evil. Couldn't agree more.
• 1:13:17
  Hence. I have such a ridiculous laugh
• 1:13:19
  anyways. Bitcoin for Canadians.
• 1:13:21
  I give those memes my answer whenever my wife asks what I
• 1:13:25
  spent all my money on. I am building.
• 1:13:27
  Hold on, I got you. I am.
• 1:13:30
  Building all. Right, Opti Fink fields when the
• 1:13:35
  Fink makes you blush. Dang bro.
• 1:13:39
  Wrecked. OK, score Larry Fink.
• 1:13:42
  We're throwing 10 trillion Fiat cut bucks at Bitcoin.
• 1:13:44
  Opti yo, Chrissy, dogs over. I'm moving.
• 1:13:49
  Oh man off the Fink fields throwing.
• 1:13:53
  Starts at yeah. When are you going to block her
• 1:13:54
  number? Dude, stop.
• 1:13:55
  Let her try. And did she?
• 1:13:56
  Just called. Not going to lie.
• 1:13:58
  She just called. I had to.
• 1:13:59
  I had to swipe out of there. OK, Planet Earth.
• 1:14:02
  Give these memes a $500,000 Bitcoin prize by 2025.
• 1:14:06
  Sned it. Oh, wait, wrong one.
• 1:14:07
  Sorry. Let's see.
• 1:14:12
  OK, we got a few more. We got a few more.
• 1:14:15
  OK, Lucy Low guy. Loci.
• 1:14:19
  Loci. I give these memes a classic
• 1:14:21
  numerical score from 2021. OK, well, what was the score
• 1:14:26
  though? OK, Miss one Love Meme score.
• 1:14:30
  The unintended consequences of bombing?
• 1:14:33
  Chill. Yikes.
• 1:14:36
  Record break. Sorry.
• 1:14:38
  All right, think orange. Last one I give these memes
• 1:14:43
  that's are the real gold. Let's go.
• 1:14:46
  All right. All right, guys.
• 1:14:47
  Appreciate all the comments. Sorry I didn't filter them out
• 1:14:51
  as as good as I should have it. It's hard when you're doing it
• 1:14:54
  all at one time. Anyways, really appreciate it.
• 1:14:58
  Every single one of you guys hanging out with us again, as we
• 1:15:01
  say all the time. Key is how you pronounce.
• 1:15:04
  It OK, OK, OK, awesome. As I say all the time on Twitter
• 1:15:07
  Spaces, but all you guys don't always hang out with us on
• 1:15:09
  Twitter Spaces. This is my PSA like every single
• 1:15:13
  day. Get fit.
• 1:15:15
  Physically, mentally, go outside, touch some grass, log
• 1:15:18
  off the Twitter bursts, log off the Black Mirror.
• 1:15:22
  The person you're yelling at will still be there when you
• 1:15:24
  come back. Go hang out with real people in
• 1:15:27
  real life. Build these communities in your
• 1:15:29
  daily life so that you can not only be insulated and protect
• 1:15:33
  yourself from the chaos. But you can start to congregate
• 1:15:36
  and build with other like minded individuals and on that point
• 1:15:40
  shouts out to you. Mike really appreciate you not
• 1:15:42
  only as a friend but also as a bitcoiner.
• 1:15:46
  In the arms against the monetary demons anyways, Mike, plug
• 1:15:51
  Bitcoin veterans. What the what the Twitter is the
• 1:15:53
  YouTube and everything else you're working on right now,
• 1:15:55
  bro. Right back at you buddy.
• 1:15:57
  For appreciating the friendship, let me look up the I'm pretty
• 1:16:00
  sure it should be Bitcoin veterans, but I don't want to.
• 1:16:02
  Yeah, so the handle on Twitter is at Bitcoin Veterans.
• 1:16:07
  As far As for myself, if you want to follow me individually,
• 1:16:10
  again, right below on the video is at the Mike Hobart 2E's.
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• 1:16:43
  Religion and points on Iran. So if you want to get into that,
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• 1:17:09
  Awesome. Well, thank you for filling in
• 1:17:11
  all week, Mike. It's been a pleasure.
• 1:17:14
  I am sure we will tap on your shoulder more often and have you
• 1:17:18
  come on as as much as possible and and you just reminded me of
• 1:17:23
  the Iron Ran quote that I told you this weekend and you're like
• 1:17:25
  wait, she said that and again I'll probably butcher it but one
• 1:17:30
  of my favorite Iron Ran quotes and you know say what you want
• 1:17:32
  about Iron Ran. I I think this is a great quote
• 1:17:34
  that all of us should live by and also pretty fitting
• 1:17:37
  considering our conversation on the culture today.
• 1:17:41
  I I vow to never live for another man nor ask another man
• 1:17:45
  to live for me. This is ever since I heard that
• 1:17:48
  quote. Yeah, yeah, listen, ever since I
• 1:17:51
  heard that quote, it really, really opened my eyes and and I
• 1:17:55
  highly suggest you guys live your life by that as well.
• 1:17:58
  You know enlightened self-interest is the way.
• 1:18:01
  Moving forward. What's the.
• 1:18:02
  What's the book? What's the.
• 1:18:04
  The one that I keep talking. About Yeah.
• 1:18:06
  What's that book? The.
• 1:18:07
  Virtue of selfishness. It's one of her shorter ones,
• 1:18:10
  but it is. It's powerful.
• 1:18:12
  Oh, and and thank you Mclovin in the chat for reminding me guys,
• 1:18:16
  go like hit the like button. Like if if you're if you're if
• 1:18:19
  you're coming in and like enjoying these videos or like
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  cheesy, but hit the like button so that we can gain the shit out
• 1:18:28
  of these Fiat freaking YouTube algorithms so we can push the
• 1:18:31
  signal farther out to everybody. Love it.
• 1:18:34
  Love it. Well, thank you Mike.
• 1:18:36
  If you wanna hang out in spaces, we are live and you already will
• 1:18:39
  this. I don't.
• 1:18:40
  Wanna go outside and watch this thunderstorm?
• 1:18:41
  Why don't you notice this guy? It's really dark.
• 1:18:44
  It did. All right, guys.
• 1:18:45
  Well, go behind the scenes there.
• 1:18:46
  Come hang out in the spaces as I roll this one out.
• 1:18:49
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• 1:19:01
  I know we don't bring them on the show anymore, but as you can
• 1:19:04
  tell, we're running at an hour and 20 minutes now.
• 1:19:06
  So it is what it is. But as Mike said.
• 1:19:09
  If you like this content, like subscribe, share it, comment, do
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  But it's not just about us over here, It's simply Bitcoin.
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• 1:19:31
  chats. Wake up the world.
• 1:19:33
  Drop the memes. Just drop them.
• 1:19:34
  A meme every once in a while, just with without context.
• 1:19:37
  Just like, boom, here you go. You think the world's messed up?
• 1:19:40
  Well, Bitcoin fixes this all right.
• 1:19:41
  Anyways, we will be back tomorrow.
• 1:19:43
  I am pretty sure I have to tap on the shoulder of one of our
• 1:19:47
  other dudes, so not sure if it's going to be Ruston or Dell.
• 1:19:51
  Maybe we'll get Mike and one of them as well.
• 1:19:53
  Tomorrow we'll see what happened.
• 1:19:54
  But Nico is still in Canada. I'm pretty sure he is moderating
• 1:19:58
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• 1:20:01
  But we appreciate all you guys come hang out with us on Twitter
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  We got Darth Darth Coin up in there dropping the signal.
• 1:20:23
  Anyways, I love you guys. I will see you tomorrow.
• 1:20:26
  Have a good rest of your day. It's your boy Opti and I am out.
• 1:20:30
  Peace out. Right.
• 1:20:39
  All right, all right, all right. Uh, oh, uh.
• 1:20:42
  Oh, sorry. It's not.
• 1:20:43
  You're not supposed to see me. You're not supposed to see me.
• 1:20:46
  All right, guys, one second. One second.
• 1:20:50
  Guys, let me bring you guys up to spaces.
• 1:20:52
  Let me bring you up to spaces. I need to make sure we are fully
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  rolled out. But what's up, guys?
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  You already know the deal. This is a Bitcoin only space by
• 1:21:02
  bitcoins. 4 bitcoins. I was going to say the the swan
• 1:21:05
  thing. Anyways, let me just.