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**SPECIAL GUEST!** 🦄🦄 Joining Us LIVE from Canada - Elizabeth Grace · SILVER / GOLD / $UFD: Surviving Global Economic Shifts | RONS BASEMENT

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Today we continue our series of dusters around the world and we
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get to do it with a very special person.
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And we all woke up this morning to some great news for the UFD
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community. We're joined today by Elizabeth
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Grace. She's a key community member.
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She's going to, I'm going to let her share initially the good
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news that we got this morning and she's got a puppy with her.
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We'll let her tell us. Tell us all about that.
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And we're going to hear about her Uncle Kenny and some
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questions he has about crypto. And like she always does, she's
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got some optimism to share with us, right?
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Four reasons why we can be optimistic about two, 2026.
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I've talked too long. Elizabeth Grace, chief
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anchorwoman for Unicorn Fart Dust, welcome back to the
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basement. How are you?
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I'm doing very well, Ron. Thank you for having me.
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GMGM everybody. And yes, I am dog sitting for a
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friend at the moment. This is Teddy, the Pomeranian
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lap dog, and he will likely be here the whole time.
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Just chill in here. But yeah, the exciting news that
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kicked off the start to our January 7th is the Buy Bit
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listing, which is a global cryptocurrency exchange.
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I think this is the very first time we've ever been listed with
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by BIT. And yeah, it's very exciting.
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So I shared that on my Twitter and yeah, it's great news.
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Yeah it looks like here should be on the screen by bit put out
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a post big news dusters new listing on by bit alpha.
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The magic dust is spreading farther than ever trade now on
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by bit and they've got an affiliate program.
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They must know that my favorite color is orange because they put
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our new IP which again we're like one of only 15 meme coin
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projects that has their IP secured in this image.
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So very exciting. I want to read something if I
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can, if it's OK with you, because this is actually
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Elizabeth Grace's live stream this morning, but if it's OK
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with her, I'd like to read a little blurb short paragraph I
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got from the Unicorn Fart Desk public relations department.
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Is that OK, Elizabeth? Yes, I will allow it.
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And I didn't know your favorite color was orange.
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That's surprising that you're not a bitcoiner with that being
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your favorite color. It's the only color that's also
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a taste, but we'll leave that discussion for another day.
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Here's what we've got from the PR department.
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We are excited to share that Unicorn Fart dust is now listed
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on by Bit Alpha, giving users direct on chain access through
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the by Bit platform without the need for external wallets.
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This significantly lowers friction for new traders,
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expands UF DS global reach, and increases potential liquidity
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and discovery. It's a strong validation
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milestone and an important foundation as we continue
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scaling UFD's presence across major platforms.
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What do you think of all that, Elizabeth Grace?
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Super duper exciting. I've never used by bit, but I've
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used Kraken. I know we're on there.
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I've used other HTX, we're on Mexi Finance, Coinbase, but this
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is adding another one to the list so we'll have to update the
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website. That's exciting.
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Yeah, exciting news. And like the PR department said,
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here we go. It looks like Buybit.
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Yeah, I mean the massive account, I just went out and
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looked almost 600,000 followers on X.
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Good news, right, and no expectation that this was going
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to happen. And I think what it shows and
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like we said all along, that if our community keeps doing the
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work every single day, right, the what, what really matters,
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right? Spreading the word about UFD,
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building the project that just naturally and organically these
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great things happen. And I'm of the opinion, just my
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opinion after one year of in depth experience in crypto, that
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as we move forward, UFD will become much more readily
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accessible on more and more platforms because that's the way
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technology works and is more and more as we're available on more
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and more platforms. And more and more of the butter
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cups move from being anti crypto, maybe like your Uncle
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Kenny into the world of crypto that that it could spell really
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good things for our project. Absolutely.
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And I know you mentioned you've been in crypto for about a year
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now, but it just dawned on me how it worked out that you were
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here since 2024 and then 2025 and now 2026.
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So it's three years stand across.
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But you came in at kind of the perfect time.
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I think even though we saw that massive explosion and now kind
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of built, if you build it, they will come.
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And this is just like a perfect example of that.
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Yeah. No, you're, you're exactly
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right. So I have been in crypto for
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three years technically. But really but.
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But but 13 months, maybe 14 months.
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But I've learned a lot. And you know, you bring up a
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real powerful point, right? Like it was strange when I first
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got into crypto and created Unicorn fart dust as an
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experiment that things were like glowing red hot in the world of
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crypto. And it was right after, you
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know, the trunk and a Trump inauguration, all this
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excitement. But but the last last 7 to 8
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months have been a very challenging environment.
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And I actually think that is ideal for projects like ours
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because it gives projects like ours the opportunity to prove
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that we're here to stay and that we're a long term oriented
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project. And it gave us an opportunity to
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really forge and build a community that's second to none.
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And that includes people like you, Elizabeth Green.
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Well, that's what it's all about really.
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Meme coins are about the relationships in the community.
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And I think having a docs dev from the very beginning is was
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very rare in the meme coin sector.
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And even the term meme coin is strange to me because they're
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not like a coin that you would go and buy a coffee with at the
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Starbucks, right? It's not a currency in that
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sense. It's more of a collectible.
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But I'm going off on a whole other definition tangent.
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But yeah, just the fact that you've been so reliable and our
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community has been consistent and stable over the long term, I
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think that's what's missing. And that it's such a new sector
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and that we're proving to be one of the only coins that has that.
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And we've had in real life meetups and we're going to have
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another one in Las Vegas coming up in April.
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And so it's just exciting to see the evolution of it, and I'm
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excited to be a part of that. Yeah, and, and and it's a bit of
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a step, right? It was for me even.
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OK, and we're going to talk and I'm joking around about your
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Uncle Kenny. I love your Uncle Kenny, even
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though I've never met him. But you know, people out there
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that was that were me. I was included in that segment
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1416 months ago that didn't really understand understand
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where the value was in a crypto or in particular the value in a
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meme coin. But when you know when when
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people wake up like I did and realize that there really is
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value in a community, right? There's value in the Lions Club,
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there's value in country clubs, there's value in all sorts of
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things. The community really can create
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value. Then you start to see kind of
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what, what what meme coins are really about.
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And I think it's a competitive advantage that we have at UFD
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that we are a meme coin because because we aren't promising any
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like great technological revolution, we aren't making any
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massive like what we're promising is a community of
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people that are focused on good, right and culture, right, Which
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I I still go that that's a newer thing that that I've learned
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just in the last two to three months.
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And I heard David Golkstein talk about it, but I really believe
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it ought to be true. Like the culture of memes, like
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the UFD culture, our IP, the visual culture, like it's a
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timeless thing almost right? And we're connected to the
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Unicorn, thankfully not on purpose, but we are that that
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we're kind of like like other like some people say, like Santa
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Claus is kind of a meme. And Santa Claus has been around
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for, you know, everybody has an image of what Santa Claus is and
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what it stands for in that in that is UFD continues to build.
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I'm not saying we're going to compete with Santa.
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I don't want to be on his naughty list or anything like
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that, but it's the same type and.
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I love that that's entirely all part of the narrative and the
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lore of the coin was the fact that you were this silver maxi
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who was so skeptical of crypto in the 1st place, like my Uncle
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Kenny. And I mean, just to see the
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evolution of everything and the tokenization of that community,
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I think that's where the future is going.
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Like right now, we don't have country clubs or the Lions Club
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or whatever clubs. Those aren't on chain.
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But eventually I think many will be.
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We are just kind of doing it first.
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Duster Duster Club is on is that's us, right?
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And sorry I interrupted you, but.
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No. Worries, yeah, we are right.
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That's what we are like we're like a web 3 version of let's
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say something similar ish to the Kiwanis Club or the Lions Club
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or something like that where people can come and and and
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people pay dues to belong to those clubs, right?
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And on top of that, we have this incredible gift of, of the
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blockchain and crypto. It's really cool.
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I mean, I, I won't go down this path.
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Everyone's heard it so many times, but I believe that we are
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on like the leading edge of like value revolution in the world,
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value evolution in the world and improving that.
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Yes, there's there's a a great value when people come together,
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form emotional bonds and have kind of a common goal that
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movements do absolutely matter. Yep, for sure.
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So tell us about Uncle Kenny, right 'cause they're here.
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Here's the thing, right? There's, there's millions and
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billions of people in the world who aren't into crypto yet.
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And I've had the experience. Sounds like you've had the
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experience, right, with people who are skeptical, skeptical
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about crypto. We're just, we're joking around
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about Uncle Kenny again. Uncle Kenny, if you're watching.
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Shout out Hey, Uncle Kenny. I know he's watching right now.
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So I wanted to give a shout out to him and to my dad as well,
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who's also watching, who are both very much silver and gold
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boomer Maxis. But there are so many
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similarities, I believe between the two sectors of crypto and
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precious metals. So I think it's just the perfect
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opportunity to combine them with Unicorn fart dust.
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And he just has a lot of questions, I believe like so my
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Uncle Kenny originally wanted to buy Bitcoin 10 years ago.
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He just didn't have the technological know how really of
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how to do it. And he's a retired teacher right
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now. So he spends a lot of his time
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in the stocks and investing and looking up different things to
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invest in. And he is interested in UFD, but
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he's just very skeptical and but curious at the same time.
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So one of the questions that he had for us, which I'm just going
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to throw at you freestyle right now, was.
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OK, I'm going to run away if I don't want to answer it, but go
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ahead. It's OK.
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I have some answers for you if you don't.
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But he's kind of wondering, like if if UFD makes a billion
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dollars selling merchandise, do those profits get paid out as
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dividends to token holders? So you can see he's from like
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the Tradfi, Yeah. Yeah, sure.
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No, that's, that's a great, a great, great question actually.
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And you know the answer to that question I guess would be like
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to be determined. You know, I have a really solid
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understanding of the traditional Tranfi corporate structure.
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I have a degree in accounting, so I know how all that works.
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UFD we haven't made anything off selling not.
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Yet we're working. We're working on the merchandise
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right now, now that we have the IP, right?
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Yeah, we have, we have the IP, yes.
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And I don't know that I, I, I can with a high level of
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confidence say that it wouldn't be like directly distributed to
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token holders like a dividend is in a traditional stock, right
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where they company announces. Because we're a collectible,
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right? It's not a stock or a security.
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Profits from the merch they go to building the project, right?
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Right. I mean, a, a, a a good portion
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of any and I think with like the merch initiatives that are under
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way now, you know, we want that money to come back to the
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community, back to the project to help support the project,
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right? And that could be, you know, by
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paying for help, help to cover the cost of things like IRL
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meetups or for certain. I mean, there's a lot of costs
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that go along with this, but a lot of people.
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The last meet up, the amount of swag that we got and that was
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just from the narwhals right? Don't hate.
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Exactly. Exactly.
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And there's other costs as well. I mean, you don't think of them
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until you know. And what I want to say is
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there's been a lot of people who've been donating not only
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their time but also money toward the project.
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So we went would want some of that to cover it.
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Just as I'm brainstorming about this, another way that in the
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Tranfi world that companies are able to pay almost like an
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indirect benefit is by doing our indirect dividend, I'm sorry, is
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by doing what's called a stock buyback.
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So instead of distributing, they'll say we're going to buy
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back, you know, $10 million. Well, we could do something
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similar to that with UFD as well where we could say we're going
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to burn. I think that's the term is burn
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beans, you know, to reduce the overall number of UFD beans
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because make sure Uncle Kenny knows, right, that there's only
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where is it there it is only 999 million UFD beans, right?
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And the people, the dusters that hold them right goes up and up.
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But we can't, we can never make any more beans.
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And if we can lower that line, we get to a point where there's
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fewer and fewer of the tokens or beans, as we call them, that are
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out on the market. So I hope that answers that
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question. That's a good question, though.
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And it's, and it's weird, you know, and, and, and, and trust
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me, it's, you know, we're, we're working through all this stuff.
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It's it's a different kind of business structure in crypto as
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opposed to the Tranfi world for sure.
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And it can get. Look, I'm not I'm.
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Wild West, right? It's so.
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It's it's, it's all evolving. There aren't real definitive
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rules out there per SE. So it's very interesting and it
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can get real confusing and, and I have a, like I said, like I'm
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not saying I'm a financial wizard, but I did work for a
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BIG4 accounting firm. I understand kind of accounting
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and the business structure. And when you start mixing in
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crypto with it, it gets, you know, it's a, it's a, it's a
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puzzle that is I think evolving not just with us, but with the
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whole crypto industry. So.
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Exactly. And we are very much, it's new
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because it's like that social finance, that attention economy.
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So if our merch is doing well and if we're out there and
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people are, you know, representing the token with UFD
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T-shirts and we're going to in real life conferences, then
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that's going to build up the tokens value.
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And so you're basically we're working for our bags and they're
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going to go up from that hype and from that.
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And like you said, we'll see what happens with once we
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actually make profits, putting that back into the token some in
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some way. But can I go on to question #2
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from OK. And this one I didn't really
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even understand because I'm not a try five person, but maybe
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you'll understand it. But he said, is every token
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holder an equal partner in the business pro rated by how many
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tokens they own? So if you have one bean or 100
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million beans, like I don't really know what he's getting at
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there, but. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And I want to repeat. I think it's important to
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realize that with UFD there's 999,999,001 less than a billion
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beans that were created, coins as we call them, and there never
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can any more be created. That's different from a trad FI
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company. They can have shares of stock,
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but they can issue more and more stock.
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They have to go through a regulatory process.
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Anyway, that's beside the point. So yes, I, as I understand this
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question, yeah, the person that owns a million beans or
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1,000,000 coins has a bigger, I guess, ownership interest in UFD
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than the person who maybe has 1000.
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But there isn't really, how do I say this?
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There's no barrier on a couple levels to what the person with
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1000 can do with the project as opposed to a person with a
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million. If somebody has a million, it's
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it's, it's like, and I guess to explain this to somebody who's
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not in crypto is, I understand it like everybody is part of the
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same community and there aren't any special.
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I say this all the time, right? Like I don't get any, any
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special treatment even because I'm the dev or the bit, you
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know, the guy that created the project.
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Like it's, it's that key component of crypto that I found
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very interesting and, and, and very enlightening, I guess you
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would say when I first started learning about crypto, that
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these are, are democratized and decentralized communities,
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meaning, I mean, it is like the purest form of equality that you
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can get out there. I mean, in a, in a Tranfi
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company. And maybe This is why he's
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asking that question. If somebody owns, you know, 25%
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or 15% of the of the company, they can exert just because of
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the way the traditional finance corporate structure is set up
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with board of directors and they can exert a lot of influence
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over that company. Now, someone who owns a ton of
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beans, right, is probably going to be more involved and more
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interested in what's going on with UFD.
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But at the end of the day, it really is just the community of
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people and not even I, I mean, I think, and I say it all the
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time, Uncle Kenny, like any everybody else out there that
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owns UFD is as much the CEO of UFD as I am.
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I don't get paid a salary. I'm not on a payroll with UFD,
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so yeah, I hope. He is yet right, yeah.
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Right, right. So hope that answers that
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question. Yep, that answers that question.
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We are a collectible. I feel like Uncle Kenny's really
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grill grilling me. He's grilling you.
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He really grills me, too. You should have been there by
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Christmas. It was intense.
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It's always intense with my what?
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What? What what I would recommend and
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not I keep, you know, I I I don't know your Uncle Kenny.
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So but to anybody out there is to number one, what I was guilty
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of before I get into crypto was contempt prior to investigation,
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which means I didn't like crypto, but I didn't really know
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anything about crypto. I just thought it was Unicorn
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fart dust. It was nothing.
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It was not, you know, whatever. And, and when I started to learn
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a little bit about crypto in particular, kind of the, I think
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for me, it was real important to understand the, the original
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ethos, the original ideas behind crypto.
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That's when like, I'm like, wow, this is actually pretty darn
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cool. There's a reason why people are
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talking about it and, and people are are are you know, getting
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interested in crypto. For sure.
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And so much of it happens online too, which if you're not in it
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and experiencing it that you know, it can kind of be lost on
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you as to how is that valuable. But then so much can happen in
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person as well from those online relationships.
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So it really can expand into being more than just OK the echo
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Chamber of crypto Twitter, right?
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Right, right, right. Does uncle?
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Did he have a third question? We'll leave it at that.
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That's good enough. I think we're good.
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OK. All right.
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Well, you mentioned you had a couple of reasons why you,
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Elizabeth Grace, are optimistic about crypto in 2026.
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Would you like to share a few of those with us?
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Yes. And I'm very optimistic
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cautiously, like I don't really know where this year is going to
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go, but I do see a lot of bullish things on the horizon
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for 2026. And I think the first one is
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just the fact that we haven't seen retail come back at the
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race that we did in previous cycles.
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So we do need to see that incentivization and Donald Trump
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has hinted at better tax returns this year as well as a $2000
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stimulus check for regular working Americans.
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So that could potentially happened in Q2.
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So I'm looking more at like 100 days from now into April because
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things are going to take a lot of time.
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We're kind of at that transitory period right now where I think a
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lot of like the OG people, they are going by the four year
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cycle. You know what it was they sold
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in October and that's the four year cycle and that's it.
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But then there's a lot of us who are looking at, OK, but we had a
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lot of stuff happened last year with tariffs and drawdowns with
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that. And then we had government
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shutdown. So it's not like it's over.
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It's possibly delayed. And so I'm looking towards kind
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of that part as being optimistic as well as the fact that I guess
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QT ended last year like a month ago and now quantitative easing
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is starting. And then I guess reason #3 would
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be the fact that I believe on January 15th, they are going to
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be voting in Congress on the Clarity Act.
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And so that could bring a lot of clarity to crypto regulation
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going forward. And then #4 would just be I'm
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bullish because it's a midterm election year, I believe in
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November. I'm Canadian, so I'm just trying
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to remember all the American politics that are going on that
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might influence crypto. But historically, I believe
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politicians like to pump up the economy to your votes, so people
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vote for them. So I'm thinking that could
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happen this year because it's happened every other time.
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So I'm looking towards, I guess Q2 and going into the fall.
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But again, like anything can happen, it's unpredictable.
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Yep, Yep, Yep. That's definitely the case here
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in the US that leading up to the midterm elections, there's this
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coincidence that the government will send out stimulus checks to
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people and other things to help juice the economy.
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You know, I, I'm interested to see what type of regulation
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comes out with this Clarity Act. I do think that that's another
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component. And a lot of people don't agree
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with me and that's OK. But I do think that if we, if we
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do want the maximum amount of people to adopt and come into
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crypto, that a certain level of regulation might be beneficial.
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You know, there's a lot of great meme coin projects, no doubt
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about it. There's a lot of scammy stuff
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that also goes on in the meme coin sector, as you and I know.
24:03
And I don't want to focus on that, but I do.
24:06
I do think that that our project and the other good projects
24:10
deserve to be able to be in an environment where there's at
24:14
least a certain level of regulation and fairness.
24:19
Because, you know, I think that sometimes, you know, people just
24:23
say, oh, meme coins, they're scams, right?
24:26
Like they just throw out a blanket across the whole sector.
24:30
And we know that the store that the reality is very different,
24:34
right? We, we've got a project that
24:36
focuses on honesty, integrity, fairness, transparency, like
24:40
100% transparency. And there's other projects doing
24:44
the same. So and I'm optimistic and I've
24:47
had some great conversations with another one of our key
24:50
community members Connector on this subject that, you know,
24:55
it's kind of like in crypto you put up it's like the R word, you
24:58
talk about regulation. If you're like, Oh no, it's
25:01
evil, it's bad. Well, you know, I don't know, I
25:04
think that on a certain level, ensuring that there's a, a
25:08
certain degree of, of, of law and order wouldn't be too bad
25:13
for the overall crypto sector because we want more people to
25:16
come in. We want people to hear about
25:19
good experiences in crypto, not, you know, some of the bad stuff
25:22
that happens. Yeah, and I would tend to agree
25:26
with that. I think it's still up in the
25:28
air. We do have a pro crypto
25:29
president. So I'm optimistic that it will
25:32
pass, but I think it Polymarket has it at like 50 to 60% chance.
25:36
So kind of have to we'll see what happens with the Clarity
25:40
Act. And you know, there's, there's a
25:43
lot of talk right now with like the the entire Bitcoin being
25:47
taken over by institutions and different countries buying it
25:51
and Ecfs and kind of people there's they're kind of fleeing
25:55
and some people are going to more of these privacy coins and
25:59
tokens. So I think there will always be
26:01
kind of that divide between people who want regulation and
26:04
people who just want that the original site, cyber funk punk,
26:09
I guess of like the ethos of, you know, we want our privacy.
26:13
We don't want to be controlled by the government and then
26:16
having institutions take over. So I think it's kind of
26:20
complicated that way, but there can hopefully find a balance.
26:24
No, I would agree with you 100%. I mean, I'm not a Bitcoin guru.
26:28
I know the basics of Bitcoin, which I love, right.
26:31
But it as I as I watched it over the last whatever 1214 years,
26:38
you know, yeah, I obviously big institutions got involved and,
26:44
and, and I think that originally that was, you know, eight years
26:48
ago, I would imagine a lot of Bitcoin people were anti
26:51
institution, But when the institution's got involved, I
26:56
think maybe that did help the Bitcoin price a little bit as
26:59
well. So it's kind of, you know, it's,
27:02
it's complicated like you said. But what I can say about our
27:06
project right now, baby Bitcoin, as I like to refer to us as, I
27:10
think that we not to compare us to Bitcoin or any other big
27:15
crypto out there, but I think that we do adhere to that was
27:19
like original ethos, those original concepts that made
27:23
Bitcoin so popular and made it so successful.
27:28
And you know, because of that, I remain very optimistic.
27:32
Yeah, and I had, I thought of something just this morning
27:35
about how Bitcoin was, you know, it the original cryptocurrency,
27:41
it started off this entire ecosystem and how it the
27:46
original one has a dev that is a mystery.
27:50
Satoshi Nakamoto is not doxxed like basement run.
27:54
So it's the only one that can really have that.
27:58
I feel like going forward, people do want that transparency
28:00
of like, OK, Bitcoin, we don't know who the founder is, but in
28:04
terms of like meme coins, when you don't know who the founder
28:07
is and there's, you know, millions of meme coins and 10 to
28:11
20,000 made every single day. And then those just kind of have
28:15
all these rug pulls and stuff. Like we do want that more
28:17
transparency going forward. Like it's different than the
28:22
original that came out 1516 years ago.
28:24
Bitcoin. We were baby Bitcoin but we have
28:27
transparency and a docs dev. Well, you know, and, and, and
28:32
I'm joking when I say this, maybe instead of baby Bitcoin,
28:35
we can now start calling you at the better Bitcoin.
28:37
And I'm just joking. I want to offend any of the
28:39
Bitcoin people out there. There's a wonderful community.
28:43
And, and, and I always say this like I'm grateful for Bitcoin
28:46
'cause they like blaze the trail.
28:50
It blaze the trail in the OG, the OG of the OGS for, for
28:55
crypto. And you know, I know from going
28:57
to the Bitcoin conference or some really cool people and, and
29:01
you know, I'll always be grateful for what Bitcoin has
29:04
done and, and continues to do as well.
29:07
Maybe we'll just call UFD the Santa Claus of meme coins
29:10
instead, right? Tis the season?
29:14
Why not? Yeah, tis the tis the season.
29:17
Let me I want to show everybody. This is Elizabeth Grace, right?
29:21
She's a popular personality on the world of X and crypto and
29:26
meme coins and a very important person who contributes to the
29:32
Unicorn fart dust community. We, I call her our chief
29:35
anchorwoman, but I want to go out and make sure everybody
29:38
knows where they can follow you. Hold on here.
29:42
Hold on here. I think I'm not sharing my
29:46
screen, am I? Yes, I am.
29:48
OK, No. Wrong one.
29:50
Sorry. That's Georgie.
29:51
We'll go there next. There.
29:52
You are get up to Georgie. We have Georgie.
29:56
And here is Elizabeth Grace who goes by at Revolution Crip CRYP.
30:03
Here's her ex profile where you can go follow her.
30:07
Tell us about your journey over the last year.
30:09
You've been doing a lot in crypto.
30:11
What what's been going on with you and and what's the latest in
30:16
terms of what you're seeing out there?
30:19
Yeah, so 2025 was honestly one of the best, most exciting years
30:26
of my life. I totally took an entire
30:29
different shift in my career, having been a consulting
30:34
wildlife biologist prior to getting into blockchain and AI
30:39
and content creation. So last year really took me on a
30:43
whirlwind. I travelled more than I ever did
30:46
in my entire life. I made about 75 videos for
30:51
Unicorn Fart Dust, just like little some Shorts with you
30:55
going to Six Flags, going to the Brews Blues Festival,
31:00
interviewing different people on the streets and different news
31:03
updates. I'm really just getting it more
31:05
into what, you know, where do I want to go with this whole
31:10
thing? So I'm learning as I go.
31:13
And I went to Miami last year, Las Vegas, like Smoky Mountains.
31:18
I've been travelling a lot out West and now I'm just trying to
31:23
figure out what I want for 2026 going forward.
31:26
And honestly, like this is I'm going to get a little bit
31:29
emotional and personal. Like I spent the last 20 years
31:32
of my life being like very much I'm successful.
31:36
I'm a boss babe, I'm working and I really just want to start a
31:39
family and, and get married. And that's my goal going
31:43
forward. But you know, crypto's a great
31:45
way to have different side hustles where you can work
31:48
remotely. And so I'm just a crypto nomad
31:50
right now. Like as you can see, I'm in a
31:52
house that is a friend of mine and I'm, there's two dogs and
31:56
two cats. I, I'm here dog sitting and I'm
31:59
just going around with my car and my suitcase and trying to
32:04
see what opportunities are out there.
32:05
And I'm very free right now, which is a freedom that I've
32:08
never felt before. Because, you know, I used to
32:11
work going to my 9:00 to 5:00 and a lot of the time it would
32:14
be long hours and we'd be commuting and going traveling
32:17
for work. And I'm all about that.
32:19
But I'm also very much like, OK, what is the meaning of life,
32:22
right? So I'm getting a little bit
32:24
existential with all of that, but it's come to a place where
32:28
it's like, you know what, I want to just make a family and settle
32:31
down and we'll see what happens. But I'm looking forward to 2026
32:36
and where this can go. But I love crypto, don't get me
32:39
wrong. And I still want to make content
32:41
for UFD. But I'm very, I'm very, I have
32:45
the opportunity right now to be flexible and I have that
32:48
freedom. So it's just going to be
32:50
whatever and that's OK. It's going to be whatever I feel
32:54
like. Like yesterday I wanted to make
32:56
a snow Unicorn. So I went down to the lake and I
33:01
was OK because for the contest, I think it's Georgie is putting
33:05
on the duster contest right now. Yeah, let's pull that up.
33:08
Go ahead, keep talking And. I'll put it because Ollie made
33:12
this beautiful woodwork Unicorn of Dusty out of laser and
33:17
painted it and we have Charlie who's making these claymation
33:21
type designs. And I was like, well, what do I
33:23
have right now in Canada? I have snow, but the worst like
33:27
as I came up with this idea, we got a bunch of rain and then I
33:31
went down there and there was no snow left really.
33:33
So I'm kind of like I got, I got to figure out how to make this
33:37
snow Unicorn, but we'll see. I I do hope to enter the
33:40
contest. I'm just hoping for some snow.
33:42
So I'm just being really random with just like what creative,
33:45
creative things pop in. Do I want to make a video about
33:49
this or that? Or do I want to do a broadcast
33:51
about the news this week? Or I'm like, oh, maybe the
33:54
crypto news isn't that exciting right now.
33:55
I want to do something, so I'm really just kind of freestyling
33:59
right now. Yeah, well, that's awesome from
34:01
a guy who's stuck in his basement seven days a week, 365
34:05
days a year. Sounds like fun.
34:07
I think I want to be a crypto nomad for a couple.
34:10
I know a lot of people are jealous and they look at my
34:13
lifestyle right now and they're like, Oh well, that's what you
34:15
should be doing at your age. You know, you should be just
34:17
doing whatever travelling and now's the time right before you
34:22
have. That's like more structured
34:24
routine. Yeah, wait till you have a
34:26
couple kids running around the house, you'll say I think I want
34:29
to be a crypto nomad again. I'm sure you'll miss it, but
34:32
yeah, it's like a having different chapters and I like
34:35
that challenge. So I'm looking forward to
34:38
someday having kids. Yep, Yep.
34:40
No. When I was younger I travelled
34:41
all around the world and you know, I'm very happy with Susie
34:45
locking me in the basement now. And you actually travelled a lot
34:48
last year too, like being in the crypto space.
34:50
They flew you up to France and. Yeah.
34:53
Oh, yeah. I went to Paris, France.
34:54
I love Paris. I was like, I I didn't.
34:57
I was, how do I say it? It exceeded my expectations.
35:00
It was very cool. Speaking of Paris, France here,
35:04
here's Georgie, a key community member.
35:07
And this is the dust, the dusters contest that Elizabeth
35:10
Grace, excuse me, was referring to.
35:13
You can go to Georgie's ex profile to check that out.
35:17
And when I was in France, hold on here.
35:20
If I can get this back up right, You talked about the claymation.
35:23
I want to be very careful with this.
35:26
I love everything everybody sends me, but Charlie makes
35:29
memes, gave me this when we were in Paris.
35:32
And I don't know, something about this is just very special.
35:36
Everything's very special. But I really love this.
35:38
Like she and she made it by hand and it's just.
35:41
It's the coolest thing ever. So I love that.
35:44
That's. Yeah.
35:44
Hey, I wanna Before I before I forget one of the most important
35:48
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35:50
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36:44
anything? Nope.
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But I really like them both. They're really interactive.
36:49
I find if you post on X, they'll reply to you and actually won a
36:54
contest through Moon Pay and Ledger.
36:57
So that was exciting. Yeah, but I'll have to I want to
37:02
eventually show the the Nano X that I won.
37:05
But yeah, we'll get to that. I'll make a video about that
37:07
later. Oh, the Gen., the nano Gen. 5,
37:10
the new one. Yes, the new one, yeah.
37:12
Yeah, you know, it was, I'll tell you this, when I was at
37:15
Ledger's headquarters in Paris. And they're like in the old part
37:19
of Paris, like old but very nice part of Paris, incredible
37:22
building. But the people are Ledger are
37:26
like just super high quality. Reminds me of the people like we
37:29
have in our UFD community. But when they were launching
37:33
that new Nano Gen. 5, the they've got like these little
37:37
icons you can add like on the screen.
37:39
And those icons were, were designed by the same woman who
37:44
designed the original icons for like Apple, for like the, I
37:48
guess, like the Macintosh or whatever.
37:50
And she was there. And so it's pretty cool.
37:53
Yeah. It's a it's a, it's a cool
37:54
company and very, very nice people.
37:58
Is there anything else you'd like to share with the
38:00
community? Anything I forgot to ask you
38:02
about? Anything I forgot in general?
38:04
Any questions you have for me? All right.
38:08
Well, I mean, we could just talk about how the the past couple
38:13
years, 2024-2025, I know you just got into crypto and the
38:18
tail end there. But I think we've learned a lot
38:21
of lessons over the past year, especially in patience and
38:26
perseverance and grits. And so I guess one question that
38:31
I had for you, Ron, was what were some of the lessons that
38:34
you learned being in crypto for a year now and how do you just
38:38
stay happy? How do you stay happy in life,
38:41
whether it's and nothing to do with crypto because I know you
38:43
have so much going on. But yeah, just some tips for how
38:48
to stay happy other than the three second smile.
40:25
None. Oh my.
41:13
Gosh, I can't hear. I can't hear anything.
41:18
Yeah, I lost audio that entire show.
41:22
Now I. Yeah, because how long was I
41:25
speaking to nobody? Your entire spiel I missed, but
41:28
I was just trying to listen like I was trying to read your lips.
41:33
Now I can hear you. I wonder how that button got
41:36
pushed that happened. You want to push the button just
41:38
now. That was why you pushed a
41:40
button. Yeah, no, it's the the mute
41:42
button was on. I sincerely apologized everyone
41:45
in our listening audience. Nobody could hear.
41:47
No, nobody could hear. Oh, shoot, Because I was just
41:50
like pretending to hear because I was like, oh, I thought maybe
41:53
I so you had a whole spiel. About how to be happy.
41:57
Keep happy. And I was just like I was too.
41:59
I didn't want to interrupt you. Let me let.
42:01
Me give a brief synopsis. For those of you.
42:07
Man, a brief synopsis is I'm not happy all the time, OK?
42:11
Please don't think that I think people.
42:14
I've been on some long drives with you to different places, me
42:16
and you. We've had our conversations.
42:18
You know, nobody's always easy. Nobody got and I got news for
42:22
you folks. Nobody's happy.
42:23
Nobody is happy all the time. Anybody says I'm happy all the
42:27
time. You know, everybody goes through
42:29
their ups and downs. What I've learned is some
42:31
discipline, right? And life will get you a long,
42:35
long way, whether that's, and I shared this earlier in the
42:40
morning, I wake up in a bad mood.
42:42
Sorry, that's the reality of my situation.
42:45
One of the first things I do when I'm in the bathroom is I do
42:47
give myself a three second or at least a 2 second smile when I
42:52
look in the mirror and and having some structure, having
42:55
some discipline. I think in the like, what I want
43:00
is long, long term happiness and by by doing little things every
43:05
day. Like when we're done here, I'm
43:07
gonna go take a 10 minute walk around the block, right?
43:10
I don't really feel like doing it, but I know it'll be good for
43:12
me to do. There, it's always good when it
43:15
is cold or whatever and connecting all right there right
43:18
now so. And, and and connecting with
43:20
people is critical, right? I mean, I don't think anybody
43:25
has ever really truly become happy just absorbing into
43:29
themselves. And I think humans can maybe
43:32
tend to be that way. At least I can, you know, I
43:36
found and then I won't go too deep, too far down the rabbit
43:39
hole. But in my 55 years, one thing I
43:42
found is the more I focus on trying to make myself happy,
43:46
generally the less happy I become, the more I focus on
43:49
doing things and maybe trying to focus on some other people to a
43:53
certain degree. That's where I find, you know,
43:57
happiness and interacting with my neighbors, interacting with
44:00
people in our community, whatever the case may be.
44:04
Yeah, that's very true, sort of that servitude and selflessness
44:07
and it gives you purpose to help others and can really just get
44:12
you out of your own overthinking or anxiety, right?
44:15
Yeah, yeah, go do it. Go do it.
44:18
And if you're and let me, this is powerful, Elizabeth.
44:21
So you might want to drop that dog and write this down.
44:25
But if you're trying to find happiness, I'm joking.
44:28
But if you're if you think about it, if you're trying to like
44:31
find happiness, aren't you pretty much admitting that
44:34
you're not happy where you are? I mean, I'm not saying that to
44:37
you. I'm just saying in general.
44:39
And I think sometimes we we get can I at least me guy can get
44:44
confused about what I mean. I don't know that it's
44:47
necessarily happiness, but I'm more interested in like in a
44:50
general sense of peace and well-being as opposed to being
44:55
like highs. I mean, the highs are going to
44:57
come in life, right? If you're playing blackjack at a
44:59
casino and you're winning, winning, winning, but you're not
45:01
going to you can't do that all the time.
45:03
You can't that perfect drunk buzz all the time.
45:06
You can't, you know, chase constantly Chase.
45:09
I think what I learned anyway as I got older was I'm more
45:13
interested in long term happiness and general Peace of
45:16
Mind, and the more I try to search for something that's
45:19
going to make me happy, it's like a carrot, you know, that's
45:22
on a stick in front of you. You keep chasing it.
45:24
And I think that's a really good point that you made because a
45:26
lot of people come into this space kind of with that short
45:29
term I'm going to get rich quick kind of scheme.
45:32
And then they don't think about the long term of where they want
45:34
to be in five years from now. And how that's really how you
45:38
build like sustainability and wealth and happiness is I think
45:42
that long term outlook is better as, as well as just, I mean,
45:46
everyone talks about sleep, diet, exercise, those main three
45:49
things. And spirituality as well is
45:51
important to me. And so that's, yeah, just
45:54
keeping grounded in my faith and kind of having that bigger
45:59
overarching purpose as well and helping others.
46:01
And yeah, that's why I quit my job.
46:04
And here I am just kind of seeing where the opportunities
46:08
will take me. And I and I think that crypto
46:11
and I think you maybe touched on this a little bit earlier, you
46:14
asked me like what I learned being in crypto and, and I think
46:18
crypto in general and just my observation and especially meme
46:22
coins can make it very challenging.
46:26
It's not an environment that in many ways that encourages Peace
46:30
of Mind. It's not a real fertile ground
46:33
for Peace of Mind because there's so much short term
46:37
focus. And and again, I think that's,
46:40
you know, look, I'm happy being different.
46:42
I'm long term focused and I think our project is long term
46:45
focused. Yeah.
46:46
Do I love hype? Do I love when we get green
46:48
candles? Yeah, of course.
46:51
It's fun, it is fun. There's that certain dopamine
46:53
hit that comes with that. Yeah, but but you know what?
46:59
I'm more they're interested in really chasing is two or three
47:03
or five years out, a year out, six months out, whatever.
47:06
Six months is like an eternity in crypto.
47:08
So I think people in crypto, including myself, right, because
47:12
I kind of had to adjust to all this and, and kind of realize
47:17
what this environment. And I mean, that's why people
47:19
get so burnt out. I mean, you get high as a kite
47:23
one day and then the next day you're crashing and then you're
47:26
high as a kite for two days and then you're crashing for three
47:29
days. Nobody can, I mean, even young
47:31
people, I'm 55 years old, you know, I'm the boomer dev.
47:35
So yeah, the, I think the crypto environment can be.
47:39
And in particular, and I guess I can speak more from experience
47:42
about the meme coin environment, just, you know, it, it, it,
47:46
it's, it's, it's a little crazy. I do think that it's changing.
47:52
And I've had this conversation with several people that I
47:55
respect. And I, I predicted like 6 months
47:58
ago that I thought that the meme coin sector would change
48:01
significantly in the coming year to two years in that this
48:05
insanity that goes on would start to subside.
48:10
It's not going to go away all together, but that it would
48:13
start to subside. I think the best analogy that I
48:15
used is that, you know, about 3 months and I realized that the
48:19
meme coin sector, to me, it felt like, you know, back in
48:22
February, March of 2025, it felt like a Wild West town in the
48:29
1800s with a bunch of salons and bars and gambling halls and God
48:34
knows what else. It like 2 in the morning on a
48:37
Saturday night and people were shooting guns and craziness.
48:40
And, you know, I think that now we're moving more into, it's
48:44
6:00 in the morning on Sunday and the dust is starting to
48:47
settle. And I think that'll be good for
48:50
the overall meme coin sector. And let's be real, like these
48:53
the people that are in the meme coin sector that are gamblers,
48:56
they aren't going to be around because they're going to lose
48:58
all their money. And I mean, there's very few of
49:00
them that are going to make money.
49:02
Most of them are going to lose money trying to chase this,
49:05
chase that whatever. And the people that are going to
49:07
be left on Sunday morning are going to be the quality people
49:11
that want to be part or people that have realized that, hey,
49:14
this gambling doesn't work, that want to be part of real
49:17
communities. And I just want to make sure
49:19
that when that settles, the, the, the shining Unicorn horn is
49:23
still there, right, as an option for people that want
49:27
transparency, honesty, integrity, want to be part of
49:30
something good and want to connect with other good people.
49:32
And with that, I'm done. No, and I agree.
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There's going to be a market I think for gambling always
49:38
weather at casinos, but it will come and go.
49:41
And there's going to be like prediction markets in crypto as
49:45
well that people can go and gamble on and meme coins will
49:48
have that aspect. But I think there's room for
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good projects that have longevity as well.
49:54
And more, more people are going to, to look for communities like
49:59
ours that have that, that honesty and transparency.
50:04
So, yeah, I think that there's a little room for everything that
50:07
I, I have a little D Gen. side sometimes where I'm like, oh, I
50:10
want to get into this or that. But then I've been through the
50:13
wringer as well as so many other people have been rugged and all
50:16
of that. So you kind of have to learn,
50:17
you have to go on your own crypto journey really.
50:19
And I think that there's still only so many people who are in
50:23
it from retail that there's room for more people to come in and,
50:27
and go through that. But with regulation and
50:30
everything coming down, I think it's going to change.
50:33
Yeah, and I agree with you, right.
50:35
Like, I mean, I'm here in Saint Louis, we have there's casinos
50:37
everywhere. People love the gamble and
50:40
that's great. But we also, but but but we also
50:43
want to make sure that there's other options for people like
50:47
Unicorn fart dust. But even though people like the
50:50
gamble, right? And even though the odds are
50:53
stacked against them at the casino that's three miles from
50:56
my house right here, right? You go play blackjack, you play
50:59
craps, you play slot machines, whatever you're going to lose
51:02
because statistically the way the games are set up, but at
51:06
least they aren't they they how do I say this?
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They aren't cheating. You know, they aren't the rules
51:12
are set up for them to win, but they aren't.
51:14
And I think that's the kind of the base level that we need to
51:18
have within the crypto world is that the cheaters right in the
51:22
scammers aren't allowed to cheat and scam the people, investors,
51:26
whatever, want to engage in riskier endeavors within crypto,
51:32
That's fine. But even they shouldn't be
51:35
subjected to an environment where they, you know, and again,
51:38
it's it's not, you know, it's not Everything Everywhere.
51:42
I'm not saying that, but that segment needs to be, I think
51:46
adjusted if that makes sense. Yeah.
51:50
And we're still early, so I think we're going to see that
51:52
happen. Yep, Yep.
51:54
Elizabeth Grace, thank you for being on the live stream with me
51:57
today. I want to mention to everyone,
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we are doing dusters from around the world.
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There's our current list and I'm going to check off Canada
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because Elizabeth Grace is joining us from Canada.
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Toronto right now. Toronto That's right.
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Any parting words for the community before we say goodbye?
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I just want us to keep on keeping on and showing up every
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day. But, you know, it's good to take
52:24
breaks. And we've had a lot of dusters
52:26
over the past year and a bit that have come and gone.
52:30
But I feel like a lot of people see that we're here for the long
52:34
term and they're coming back after taking a break.
52:38
And we welcome you with open arms.
52:40
And I just want us to be there for each other.
52:44
So yeah, keep on keeping on. Once a duster, always a duster,
52:48
right? I mean, I mean, you know, we've
52:50
had some great people and people have different situations that
52:53
come up. Everyone's welcome in this
52:55
community. The people that maybe aren't
52:58
don't have good intentions get shown out very quickly, and
53:02
that's very few and far between. But yeah, once you're come on
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back. Exactly.
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You know, I I still say, right? I mean, we got some great people
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and so many people watching our project.
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I think the future looks very, very bright.
53:17
Elizabeth. Thank you.
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OK. We'll look forward to having you
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on here again. We appreciate you.
53:22
Everything you're doing. Don't forget, guys, if you want
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to follow her on X, it's Revolution Crypt.
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Is that correct? Elizabeth at Revolution Crypt.
53:31
That is correct. We're starting a revolution, I
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guess. Correct.
53:35
All right. Thanks for joining us and we
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will.