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Preston Pysh: Bitcoin is Anti-Totalitarianism | EP 854 · Simply Bitcoin

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  It's all. Going to zero against Bitcoin.
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  It's going up forever, Warren. You're against Bitcoin.
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  You're against freedom yo. Welcome to another episode of
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  Simply Bitcoin Live, your number one source for the peaceful
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  Bitcoin revolution. Recur, breaking news, culture,
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  medic warfare. We will be your guide through
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  the separation of money and state.
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  I'm hype today. This is my second show of the
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  day, believe it or not. Started off with cafe,
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  discussing the Fin stents, the the Fin CEN regulations.
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  I've got two more shows today which is going to be
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  interesting. But anyways, today we're going
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  to talk about the Fin CEN proposal again, and Preston Pish
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  shout out to him, did an incredible job writing an
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  article for Bitcoin Magazine, really highlighting what's at
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  stake. We've broke it down for you
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  guys. Wall Street Journal released an
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  article making the case that crypto, Bitcoin and altcoins was
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  funding terrorism. That article turned out to be
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  turned out to to the sources that it was using.
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  They misrepresented those sources and that article itself
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  was miss misinformation. Essentially that article was
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  used by Elizabeth Warren and Co. We all know how Elizabeth Warren
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  feels about Bitcoin. To write an article to the White
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  House, I'm sorry, write a letter to the White House.
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  And then that letter to the White House led to the Treasury
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  doing something about it and the introduction of this crazy
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  proposal by the fin CEN. Now, what's really interesting,
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  and it was actually Michelle Weekly that brought this up
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  during CAFE, which is what they're doing with this, is that
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  they're trying to circumvent the legislative process and they're
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  trying to implement a law and they're using the straw man.
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  And again, it's horrible. I'm not trying to take away from
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  the tragedy that is happening in Israel and in Palestine.
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  That's an extremely emotional issue.
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  But it's almost as if they're waiting on the sidelines for an
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  excuse like hungry wolves. We have it now.
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  We have it now, We have the reasoning.
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  We have the justification in order to you know attack this
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  thing. Now what's really interesting,
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  and we've covered this, is this idea of I call it the iron law
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  of central banker politician projection Ted Cruz on the
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  Senate floor. And I'm going to take the
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  political rhetoric out of it. Was making the case in a very
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  good case that the that the current administration sent
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  millions of dollars to Palestine and they had to circumvent
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  existing terrorism financing laws in order to do that.
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  Now, what was the real number that was that could be said was
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  used? How much, how much money was
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  actually used to fund this terrorist organization via
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  Bitcoin? And the number was $450,000.
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  That is a lot less than the $90 million reported number.
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  And now what's really interesting is that they sent
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  millions of dollars in Fiat, right?
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  So what better way to distract people than blaming them for
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  what it is? You're guilty of yourself,
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  right? This is crazy.
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  But at the same time, this should not come as a surprise to
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  any of you guys. We read you the passage from the
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  sovereign individual all the time, predicted back in the 90s
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  about how governments and the state was going to react to
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  individuals having the ability to opt out of state money.
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  This is a great passage to say they compare the state to a
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  farmer keeping cows in a field to be milked.
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  But that quote, soon the cows will have wings.
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  They predict that for the government to collect taxes from
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  its citizens in this type of society, it would have to
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  violate human rights. Even traditionally, civil
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  countries will have to resort to and turn nasty.
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  And when I mean taxes, I'm not talking about just income tax.
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  That's a whole other debate. And I'm not going to get into
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  that debate right. That's the law, you know, You
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  got to pay them or you'll go to jail.
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  I'm not debating that. I'm talking about the other tax.
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  I'm talking about the hidden tax, the hidden tax of
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  inflation. That is how the US gets away
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  with a trillion dollar deficit spending year after year, even
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  though they collect more tax revenue year after year.
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  And that hidden tax of inflation is very sinister because it
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  affects people in the lower and middle classes the most.
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  It's a wealthy wealth redistribution mechanism.
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  The reason it affects the lower middle classes the most is
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  because they don't have the means to save an assets.
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  And every time the Federal Reserve prints money or any
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  central bank prints money, assets, asset prices go through
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  the roof. That's why the prices of real
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  estate have doubled, making housing unaffordable for most
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  people. If you're under the age of 35,
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  you are a debt slave, most likely.
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  So Bitcoin is our way of opting out.
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  They even say it's the way of opting out.
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  Remember Christine Lagarde's own words?
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  It's an escape valve. Escape valve from what?
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  That is very very, you know particular language escape valve
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  like like as if writing down 12 words and using money that is
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  deflationary, it that's somehow going to you know end society,
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  right. So in the process of them doing
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  these things, what they're really doing is exposing
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  themselves. And the reality is now we know
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  that that article and the justification that the Fin CEN
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  used was based on false information, but they're using
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  that to take away more of our freedoms.
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  But most importantly, it's based on a lie.
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  It was never true in the 1st place and because it was based
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  on a lie, they they're exposing themselves.
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  And if we were in the 2000s, if social media didn't exist, I
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  think that they would get away with it.
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  But because the Internet has disintermediated information and
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  you, the individual, are able to circumvent the gatekeepers of
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  information and seek information wherever you want to seek it,
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  right? So This is why you see the
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  explosion of independent media. That's why you see Tucker
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  getting fired from Fox, because he wasn't touting the party
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  line. Tucker, coincidentally, was the
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  legacy media host. That was people, that was
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  bringing on people like Naim Bouquelay, Marty Bent, Max
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  Kaiser, Michael Saylor. They fired him even though he
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  was the most popular host in the legacy corporate media.
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  And what did he do? He used the Internet.
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  He started his own platform. He's posting videos on X.
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  He's dwarfing the numbers that he was getting on legacy
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  corporate media, and he could talk about whatever he wants.
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  So what we're living through is the disintermediation of
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  information, but also the disintermediation of money.
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  And you as an individual, empower yourself.
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  Every single tweet that you like, every single meme that you
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  make, every single video that you make are metaphorical
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  bullets and artillery shells in this narrative trench warfare
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  that we're that we're fighting in the battlegrounds of the
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  Internet to win over the hearts and minds of people, to unify
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  them under a common message. It is not left versus right.
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  It is not Democrat versus Republican.
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  It is the party of Orange versus the party of Green.
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  The party of Bitcoin. Freedom, prosperity, optimism,
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  opportunity versus the party of nihilism, slavery, despair,
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  poverty, which is a party of Green.
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  And it's our job as bitcoiners, the vanguard of this movement,
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  to really, really get that message out there.
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  It's not just about simply Bitcoin, it falls down to you.
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  It's your responsibility as well.
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  What type of world do you want? Your children and your
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  grandchildren to live in. So before I bring up my
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  legendary Co host, the one the only optimist fields I want to I
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  want to leave you guys with this passage from the book to
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  sovereign individual, which you should have definitely read by
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  now. And it says, lacking their
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  custom scope to tax and inflate, governments, even in
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  traditionally civil countries, will turn nasty.
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  Businesses that offer services that facilitate the realization
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  of autonomy by individuals will be subject to infiltration,
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  sabotage and disruption. Arbitrary forfeiture of
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  property, already commonplace in the United States where it
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  occurs 5000 times a week, will become even more pervasive.
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  Governments will violate human rights, the free flow of
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  information, censor, sabotage, useful technologies, and worse.
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  This is the separation of money and state.
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  Everybody strap yourselves in anyways, Opti, How you doing,
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  bro? I had dude.
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  You know what It's it's a lot easier when the momentum's
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  already built out from doing a previous show to jump straight
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  into you know and straight into the fire.
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  So that I I found that interesting how you.
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  You got to get the reps in, dude.
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  You know my coffee has yet to infiltrate my whole bloodstream
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  yet, so I I'm glad that you can get riled up early in the show.
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  It it's good that I don't have to carry the the intensity in
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  the morning. But yeah man, basically
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  everything you said. Said I I I was just thinking
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  while you're talking like, am I even surprised anymore?
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  Like I I don't even think I can be surprised anymore at
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  everything going on. I'm.
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  Not even surprised. Like yeah, we you know maybe
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  sometimes when we bring the receipts and and it's exposed
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  you're still kind of like Oh my God like OK we were right.
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  You know it it always feels good to be like OK we aren't just
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  crazy we aren't just seeing things.
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  We've been right and we know what's going on and you know it
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  just makes you feel good and. Even though, even on the face of
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  feeling good that you're right, it's like, holy shit, things are
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  crazy. Things are crazier than ever.
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  Yeah, to say the least. To say the least.
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  Anyways, guys, it's going to be a great show.
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  I know it's one. Not one of those bullish
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  episodes. Maybe Opti has some some bullish
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  at least once or twice a month now so.
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  Anyways, I have a video for you guys.
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  This is Mr. Johnson House of Representative.
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  He just got elected by the way as the next speaker of the
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  house. On another on another note, an
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  interesting very interesting topic, right?
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  Which is before Representative Johnson was became the speaker,
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  Tom Emmer was actually, you know, he he could have been
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  elected as well. Now what's really interesting
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  about Tom Emmer is that Tom Emmer is extremely pro Bitcoin
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  and he's extremely anti CBDC. So we were on the verge.
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  There was a non zero chance that we would have had a speaker of
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  the US House of Representatives as a Pro Bitcoiner as and versus
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  and an anti CBDC. the US Speaker of the House is the third most
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  powerful person in government. The presidential line of
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  succession is President, Vice President, Speaker of the House.
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  Just to kind of give you guys an idea of how fast and how much
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  the Overton window has shifted and the fact that we're gaining
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  ground, not to mention the other two political.
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  No, the other political candidates on the Democratic and
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  the Republican side, RFK junior. Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy,
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  right. So I know right now it's Trump
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  and Biden as the frontrunners. But 2020, 2028, like, you know,
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  there there's a, there's a big possibility that a pro Bitcoin
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  president and anti CBDC president might be in the White
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  House, which is just absolutely insane.
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  And this movement is happening on a worldwide scale.
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  This is happening in Argentina with Javier Miley.
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  I know we didn't get the result that we wanted, but, you know,
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  things are moving, things are shifting.
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  And I think that's why you're seeing these desperate videos
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  coming out of people like Christine Lagarde.
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  You know, basically like, you know, pounding your fist on the
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  table saying the CBDC is coming and there's nothing you could do
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  about it. That's the message I got from
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  that video. But it was really, really funny
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  too. And this kind of coincides to
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  what I was saying in the beginning part of the show is
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  that video got community noted, which I find absolutely
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  hilarious. And the community note says
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  CBDCS aren't necessary and the privacy protections that she,
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  you know, this could lead to a lot of control by government,
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  right? So the exact opposite of what
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  she was saying was community noted, which I find absolutely
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  hilarious. When they don't have a monopoly
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  on information, they have to compete toe to toe with other
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  creators. And The thing is, those other
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  creators aren't bought and paid for by special interest groups,
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  so they have to compete with the truth.
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  And unfortunately for them, memes don't make sense when
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  there isn't truth, because truth is the common denominator.
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  Without the common denominator, you can't really make a meme.
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  You can't like imagine them starting to make memes about CBD
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  CS. You'd look at it and you'd be
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  like like what? That's not true, right?
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  Or I I guess they would get like four or five likes like
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  Augustine and Jerome Powell. And you know, all the other
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  central bankers would like it. But you know people would be
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  like this is, this is kind of, this is kind of interesting
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  anyways, so tie it back with CBD CS US is moving full steam
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  ahead. I don't think it's a coincidence
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  that they denied Caitlin Long's federal banking charter and then
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  literally within the same month, you know they they rolled out
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  the American version of the CBDC which is the Fed now and then I
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  don't think it's a coincidence that in Europe, you know the
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  the, you know they're passing all this, the Mika regulations
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  so to speak. And then you have Christine
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  Lagarde on her podium basically saying, like, look, CBD CS are
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  are here and they're coming, right?
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  I I think that they're, they're worried.
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  I think that they're scared. That's to be frank with you.
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  I think that they understand that their time is limited to
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  roll this out anyways. So why am I bringing all this
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  up? Because they would like you to
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  believe that they're not going to use the CBD CS against you,
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  right? They say, look, it's just not
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  going to happen. We'll respect your privacy.
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  We'll respect your cash. But The thing is whether it's in
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  Canada, even in the US, where speech is literally protected by
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  the 1st Amendment, governments could not help themselves but to
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  censor. Don't believe me here?
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  Is the current Speaker of the House talking about this issue
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  exactly? What you've documented carefully
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  in the Twitter files are a couple of key facts you'll hear.
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  The people hear a lot of things today, but this is what they
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  need to know. The federal government, from
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  Democrat members of Congress to intelligence agencies including
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  the FBI, used Twitter and other social media companies to censor
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  Americans. Speech.
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  If the alarm bells are not going off, then you're not paying
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  attention. Over the past three years,
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  documents show they prove what you guys have uncovered here.
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  There's communication between Twitter and the FBI.
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  It was constant. It was pervasive.
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  Twitter was basically an FBI subsidiary before Elon Musk took
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  it over. The Twitter Files revealed that
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  by 2020, Twitter was engaged in open information sharing with
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  the intelligence community. And now we know there were many
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  intelligence agencies apparently involved in this.
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  The FBI pressured Twitter to act on election related tweets
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  leading up to the 2022 election. Of course they did it in 2020 as
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  well, and Twitter dutifully censored content.
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  As a result, Twitter executives restricted accounts.
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  They censored speech that conflicted with the less
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  narrative. Twitter has used its internal
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  tools to control and manipulate considered speech, considered
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  misinformation, and who was determining that it was?
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  The government bureaucrats. Documents show that Twitter used
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  visibility filtering to restrict certain accounts and posts and
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  removed people from the platform altogether.
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  The Twitter files should be a matter of bipartisan concern for
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  every member of Congress and every American citizen because
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  it is a bedrock principle of our constitutional system that the
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  government does not get to decide what speech is acceptable
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  or true under the First Amendment.
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  Americans have a right to speak freely, regardless of whether
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  their speech upsets their preferred narrative.
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  In fact, that's when it needs the most vigorous protection.
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  Everybody on the left used to believe in that, or at least
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  they reported to government and media.
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  Fact checkers frequently get things wrong.
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  The American people can't and shouldn't rely on so-called
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  experts to be the arbiters of truth disinformation, boards and
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  the like. It doesn't matter what political
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  party you're you're in. Government should not suppress
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  important debates in public discourse, gentlemen.
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  Like and put the political rhetoric aside for a SEC.
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  Right? They can't even help themselves
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  with information, right? They can't even like, explicitly
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  against the 1st Amendment in the US.
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  They can't even help themselves. But they want you to trust them
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  with total control money. And they're saying we're not
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  going to do that with the money, even though we can't even help
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  themselves, even though we can't even help ourselves with
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  information like it's like like come on, like it is common sense
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  here. This is common common sense at
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  this point. And I'm just glad that, like,
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  you know, we at least that there's, you know, some people
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  in positions of power that, you know, are are highlighting this
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  now. You know, the political rhetoric
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  gets in there, of course, right, 'cause they're, you know,
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  they're vying for power. But just to keep in mind, guys
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  like this isn't a left or right issue.
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  You know, the right has had a history of censoring information
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  too, right? So the issue is not so much.
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  Whether the right or the left has control of the money, the
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  issue is no one should have control of the money.
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  Because if no one has control of the money, then it can't be
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  weaponized against individuals, right?
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  It's just basic common sense in my opinion.
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  Anyways, Opti, what's your take on all this?
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  Yeah, well, not too familiar with this guy.
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  No one is. He's an.
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  Outsider so I, I, I, you know I have no no real take on on the
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  guy. On a character level.
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  But what he's saying is something that we've known.
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  And if you guys have been, for better or worse, down you know,
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  conspiracy circles for a while before you were a Bitcoiner,
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  then you know that intelligence agencies have been censoring,
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  misinforming and distorting conversations on the Internet.
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  They've been doing it before even the Internet was a thing,
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  you know, go go check out like my project, Mockingbird.
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  This is all been documented for a long time and we know that.
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  Most likely some of your favorite talking heads that are
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  part of the corporate media. Corporate legacy media are most
• 23:28
  likely an arm of the intelligence agencies.
• 23:31
  So it's one of those things where you know they do their
• 23:37
  best to bombard you with coordinated narratives.
• 23:42
  So it seems like everyone has consensus on what the truth is.
• 23:46
  And we know how it works. And actually a little, little.
• 23:48
  A side tangent that that I wasn't even going to bring up,
• 23:51
  but it just popped in my head. And it's relevant.
• 23:54
  One time in like 2020 during the depths of the bear market, us
• 23:58
  bitcoiners, like five of us, we were hanging on a zoom call on
• 24:01
  Friday night and we thought it'd be funny to make a meme that
• 24:05
  Bitcoin is cheese and like, six of us woke up.
• 24:09
  Actually we went hard from like Friday night to like Saturday
• 24:12
  morning for like a solid 24 hours.
• 24:15
  And there was only six of us and we were just all doubling down
• 24:19
  on the stupid meme that Bitcoin is.
• 24:20
  Bitcoin is cheese. And we were just like making
• 24:23
  Lol's and and just making stupid memes.
• 24:26
  And by the very next day, everyone on Bitcoin Twitter was
• 24:29
  wondering, what the hell is this Bitcoin is cheese meme?
• 24:32
  Like, they all woke up and like, what's this new meme?
• 24:34
  And anyways, the point of that story is it only takes a few
• 24:38
  coordinated actors to really manufacture consensus.
• 24:42
  And if six of us could do it on Bitcoin Twitter, then what do
• 24:44
  you What do you like? You'd have to be naive to
• 24:47
  believe that intelligence agencies aren't doing that.
• 24:50
  With all the trillions of dollars that they have behind
• 24:52
  them, they have the money printer behind them anyways.
• 24:55
  It just goes back to the meme that we always say don't trust
• 24:58
  verify, and furthermore don't trust verify your own money
• 25:01
  like. There there does not need to be
• 25:04
  the need of people in control of your money like this is the
• 25:07
  separation of money in state. Politicians have no say in your
• 25:10
  money if you are on the Bitcoin standard.
• 25:13
  So this is one of the most important things that we
• 25:16
  constantly double down on here on the show is get these people
• 25:22
  out of your money. Like the fact that they control
• 25:24
  the money, the fact that they are able to gaslight the
• 25:28
  population. It is all one in the same thing.
• 25:31
  They want to maintain power. They want to maintain the
• 25:34
  monopoly on truth. Well, as social media has shown
• 25:37
  us, they no longer have that control of the truth and it
• 25:42
  absolutely terrifies them. And to your point, Nico, you
• 25:46
  know, bringing in the CBD CS and all that, like of course they do
• 25:50
  not want you to use a money that is completely outside of their
• 25:54
  control. Hence why there's so much fun,
• 25:56
  so much propaganda against Bitcoin.
• 25:58
  Is because they're not stupid. They understand the game.
• 26:01
  They understand that, wow, this is a monetary system that they
• 26:05
  cannot control. This is a monetary network that
• 26:07
  is outside our control. And it absolutely terrifies them
• 26:10
  because they're trying to manufacture your consensus.
• 26:13
  They're trying to force your behavior.
• 26:15
  Even Claus Schwab said this. Sometime last year or this year
• 26:19
  of, we are going to do our best to force your behavior, his
• 26:23
  words, not mine. So you'd have to be naive to
• 26:26
  believe that there isn't some coordinated effort from
• 26:29
  intelligence agencies, from politicians, from bankers,
• 26:32
  central bankers, to force your hand and corral you into a
• 26:38
  network that totally tracks and bags you like.
• 26:41
  This is the fundamental issue right here and as someone said
• 26:45
  in the chat. It's it's no coincidence that
• 26:47
  the 1st Amendment is the First Amendment, the freedom of
• 26:50
  speech. Like.
• 26:51
  Of course, if they can control speech, they will.
• 26:56
  And hence why they just, they can't stop Bitcoin.
• 26:59
  Bitcoin is speech. Bitcoin is a global phenomenon.
• 27:01
  Bitcoin is money that's outside of their control.
• 27:03
  And so of course they're going to scramble.
• 27:05
  But we know for a long time that conversation, information,
• 27:10
  misinformation, disinformation, fake news, whatever nomenclature
• 27:14
  you want to use. Has been tried to be coerced.
• 27:18
  Like, I don't know about you actually, I played it last week.
• 27:21
  We talked about it last week about media wings and the fact
• 27:25
  that they are all trying to manufacture consensus.
• 27:27
  Because humans are very funny. Human psychology is a very funny
• 27:31
  thing and we're dealing with humans at the very end of the
• 27:33
  day. And if everyone is talking about
• 27:36
  this one thing, then even if you are an independent thinker, you
• 27:39
  ask yourself and you gaslight yourself and like, wait.
• 27:42
  Am I the one that's wrong? And I'm blanking on the name of
• 27:45
  that experiment. But there's some experiment that
• 27:48
  they did where like there was 4 actors and they all said the
• 27:52
  wrong, the wrong answer, but they all said it so confidently
• 27:55
  and they had the experimental, the subject go in and he was
• 27:59
  there just like wondering whether he was right.
• 28:01
  Guys, this is where we are. There are manufacturing
• 28:04
  consensus out there. They are distorting truth.
• 28:08
  And everyone is looking around and wondering, wait, who's the
• 28:11
  crazy one here? Because everyone seems to be
• 28:13
  parroting the same line. And it comes to us on, you know,
• 28:18
  not only simply Bitcoin, but on the Internet and on the your
• 28:21
  social circles to have these conversations and get to the
• 28:24
  bottom of the truth. And This is why social media is
• 28:27
  so powerful. This is why Bitcoin is so
• 28:29
  powerful. This is why censorship resistant
• 28:31
  protocols like Bitcoin, like Noster are so powerful.
• 28:35
  It's because once they can no longer manufacture lies and push
• 28:40
  them as the truth, this game is going to fundamentally shift.
• 28:44
  And it might happen a lot quicker than than we even
• 28:46
  imagined. Because look, we we know that
• 28:50
  information has been controlled for a long, long time, and once
• 28:53
  that switch gets flipped, things might happen a lot quicker than
• 28:57
  we even understand. 100% the the the CK brought it up last night
• 29:02
  on the Simply Bitcoin arrow. This is a pivotal this is a
• 29:05
  pivotal shift in society right that the Internet has enabled
• 29:11
  right. It's it's empowered individuals
• 29:14
  the likes of which they've never seen before.
• 29:16
  They individuals have never, you know, have had this much power
• 29:21
  in their fingertips to achieve some type of sovereignty and I
• 29:26
  think that's why you're seeing the push back.
• 29:29
  The way that you're seeing it, right.
• 29:31
  Yeah, man, I, I, I completely agree.
• 29:34
  And again, this guy is an unknown.
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  This guy that was elected as Speaker and no one really.
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  Sheesh. No one really knew who he was.
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  That. Terrifies me more than ever.
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  in the video description. All right guys, it is time to
• 33:01
  talk about the the issue today and there is something that you
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  could do about it. This is also in the video
• 33:10
  description. This is the proposal.
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  This was the fin send proposal in this fin send proposal.
• 33:19
  They use language from the Wall Street Journal article.
• 33:22
  We know, We now know that that Wall Street Journal article was
• 33:27
  based on false information, but that doesn't stop them from
• 33:31
  doing it anyways. Right now, there's only been 104
• 33:35
  comments received. We need a lot more comments.
• 33:40
  We need to make our voices heard.
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  Every single comment counts. These are rookie numbers.
• 33:46
  We gotta get those numbers up. That being said, guys, please
• 33:50
  color within the lines. The more articulate and the more
• 33:53
  well spoken you are, the more you will be taken seriously.
• 33:57
  Take this seriously because this is definitely, definitely a
• 34:00
  serious matter. And make no mistake, this is
• 34:02
  definitely an attack on Bitcoin and this is definitely an attack
• 34:06
  on self custody and all the things that we like as
• 34:10
  Bitcoiners. Now here is an updated an
• 34:14
  updated article. Drop today before I read you
• 34:18
  guys the Preston pitch piece, which is really what I want to
• 34:21
  focus on today because it's Preston did an incredible job
• 34:25
  and I heard he's actually even in DC lobbying policy makers to
• 34:30
  really kind of raise awareness of what is happening.
• 34:33
  So shout out to No BS Bitcoin, it's great news aggregator
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  service and sites, so shout out to them, Donate to them as well
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  'cause they're they're not sponsorship based.
• 34:45
  So anyways. Here's the headline.
• 34:47
  It says our data in Wall Street Journal article on Hamas crypto
• 34:51
  fundraising. Quote was misrepresented, says
• 34:55
  surveillance firm Elliptic right.
• 34:57
  So even the surveillance firm said, hey, wait a second, you
• 35:01
  guys misconceued this? It says.
• 35:04
  Quote. Over the past two weeks,
• 35:05
  politicians and journalists have portrayed public crypto
• 35:08
  fundraising as a significant source of funds for Hamas and
• 35:12
  other terrorist groups. But the data simply does not
• 35:14
  support this. No public crypto fundraising
• 35:17
  campaign by a terrorist group has received significant levels
• 35:21
  of donations relative to other funding sources.
• 35:24
  Quote there is no evidence to support the assertion that Hamas
• 35:28
  has received significant values of crypto donations.
• 35:31
  A full understanding of blockchain analysis and the top
• 35:34
  the context of any analysis is needed when using these insights
• 35:39
  to draw conclusions. Now here's the thing, ladies and
• 35:42
  gentlemen. If this was the first time, I
• 35:46
  would say, OK, maybe they don't know.
• 35:50
  The thing is, back in the 2000s, also when the Patriot Act was
• 35:56
  was used, history doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes.
• 36:00
  What happened? The terrible, terrible attacks
• 36:03
  on on, on, on the US, right, And that inevitably led to.
• 36:11
  The Patriot Act being passed. Fast forward. 20 years later,
• 36:15
  the Patriot Act still is in law. The Patriot Act is being used to
• 36:21
  pass this Vincent proposal. And it's interesting because
• 36:27
  back in the 2000s, the New York Times released an article
• 36:32
  stating that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction that played a
• 36:38
  pivotal role. A key role.
• 36:41
  In Iraq and the United States, eventually invading Iraq under
• 36:46
  the false pretense that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, it
• 36:51
  was later discovered that the information was provided by the
• 36:56
  intelligence agencies. So the New York Times got it
• 37:00
  wrong. Fast forward 2023.
• 37:07
  It's not the New York Times. This time, it's the Wall Street
• 37:10
  Journal. And once again, coincidentally,
• 37:14
  the Wall Street Journal has not retracted that article.
• 37:16
  But once again, a legacy media corporate outlet is being used
• 37:22
  as a leverage point to pass anti Bitcoin regulation.
• 37:29
  I don't think that it's a coincidence that the anti
• 37:31
  Bitcoin Senator or Senator Elizabeth Warren was the
• 37:36
  figurehead behind writing the article to sorry writing the
• 37:39
  letter to the White House. That prompted the White House to
• 37:42
  tap on the Treasury to propose these these rules.
• 37:46
  And it's interesting because even in these rules, according
• 37:50
  to Michelle Weekly that we had on Cafe Bitcoin this morning,
• 37:54
  they were even referencing the Wall Street Journal article
• 37:58
  directly. But we now know that's that's
• 38:00
  fake. But they they're still not
• 38:01
  retracting it so clearly. In my opinion, I might be wrong
• 38:07
  here. This looks like a blatant.
• 38:10
  Power grab. There's no evidence to suggest
• 38:15
  that the crypto fundraising has raised anything close to this
• 38:18
  amount, and data provided by Elliptic and others have been
• 38:22
  misrepresented. Elliptic has engaged with the
• 38:25
  Wall Street Journal to correct misrepresentations of the level
• 38:28
  of crypto fundraising by Hamas. In addition, we have been in
• 38:31
  discussions with the office office of Senator Warren to
• 38:34
  ensure that the relevant parties have a proper appreciation of
• 38:38
  the complexities and nuances of analyzing these wallets.
• 38:43
  I think it speaks volumes that the Wall Street Journal has not
• 38:48
  retracted the article. I think it speaks volumes that
• 38:52
  Senator Elizabeth Warren has not retracted her letter to the
• 38:55
  White House. I think what they were waiting
• 38:59
  for, and this is something that we covered earlier on the week,
• 39:02
  Winston Churchill's quote never let a good crisis go to waste.
• 39:08
  So all they needed was a tragedy, which is what's
• 39:12
  happening in Israel and Palestine in order to take away
• 39:19
  more of our freedoms. Check out this quote in.
• 39:26
  In October 17th letter to the White House and U.S.
• 39:29
  Department of Treasury, over 100 US lawmakers cited that reported
• 39:34
  cited that reported when stating quote in the months leading up
• 39:37
  to their brutal and horrific October 7th attack on Israel,
• 39:41
  Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad raised millions of dollars
• 39:45
  in crypto evading U.S. sanctions.
• 39:47
  And funding their operations. Indeed, between August 2021 and
• 39:52
  this past June, the two groups raised over 130 million in
• 39:56
  crypto. That turned out to be blatantly
• 39:59
  false. They haven't retracted that.
• 40:03
  That's a great narrative. That's a great crisis that they
• 40:06
  took advantage of, OK? This is what I wanna read you
• 40:10
  guys today. It's extremely important.
• 40:11
  It's by Preston Pish. Let's get through all of it.
• 40:14
  It's a very, very great article and it really lays out the case
• 40:19
  to what's at stake for audio listeners.
• 40:21
  The name of the article is Bitcoin is Anti Totalitarianism,
• 40:28
  written by Preston Pitch. In the face of an of ongoing
• 40:32
  challenges to our cherished freedoms, it is imperative to
• 40:35
  critically examine the forces at play that threaten the very
• 40:37
  fabric of democracy. The ideals of freedom and open
• 40:41
  markets are at risk of being undermined by influential
• 40:44
  political forces seeking to impose oppressive order and
• 40:47
  control in the name of security. The article delves into the
• 40:51
  pressing need to fix our manipulated markets, protect
• 40:55
  Bitcoin and its inherent anti totalitarian qualities, and
• 40:59
  inform U.S. policy makers that democratic values are what's at
• 41:02
  stake. The erosion of free markets and
• 41:06
  capitalism. People who think we currently
• 41:09
  have capitalism in free and open markets haven't been paying
• 41:12
  attention. The American economic landscape,
• 41:15
  once a paragon of capitalism, has undergone A seismic shift,
• 41:20
  particularly since the 2008 financial crisis, when lawmakers
• 41:24
  selectively bailed out the bankers at the expense of the
• 41:26
  broader economy. The central banking system's
• 41:29
  pervasive influence has led to a distortion of free markets, with
• 41:33
  quantitative easing being employed as a tool to manipulate
• 41:36
  the bond market, artificially lowering the cost of capital and
• 41:40
  thus distorting the prices of everything.
• 41:43
  The manipulation has had far reaching consequences, including
• 41:47
  the gutting of the middle class and the concentration of wealth
• 41:51
  in the hands of the few. In the wake of the Silicon
• 41:54
  Valley Bank failure this March, the deployment of tools such as
• 41:58
  the Bank Term Funding Program has further exacerbated these
• 42:02
  distortions, providing de facto yields curve control for banks
• 42:06
  while leaving ordinary citizens to grapple with soaring interest
• 42:09
  rates and inflation. This divergent from naturally
• 42:13
  occurring economic markets and the suppression of a free and
• 42:17
  open cost of capital, has pushed us closer to an economic model
• 42:21
  reminiscent of, you name it, Communism Regime, threatening
• 42:26
  the foundation, the foundational principles of capitalism and
• 42:29
  democracy. The newest assault on financial
• 42:32
  freedom in Bitcoin in a recent letter from Senator Elizabeth
• 42:36
  Warren and numerous Congressional members, they
• 42:39
  leverage international crises or crisis to further their own
• 42:43
  political agenda and curtail financial freedoms.
• 42:46
  Armed with a freshly published Wall Street Journal article that
• 42:49
  falsely suggests Hamas raise a significant sum of crypto
• 42:53
  funding to attack Israel, the truth couldn't be more obscured.
• 42:57
  I read you guys literally from the company that they use the
• 43:03
  data from the own the the, the own surveillance company is
• 43:06
  saying you guys misrepresented our data.
• 43:12
  So I read you guys that in the beginning, this isn't Preston's
• 43:15
  opinion. This isn't Bitcoiner's opinion.
• 43:18
  The own the sources that they used are even telling them that
• 43:23
  they got it wrong. And it's like I said it it the
• 43:27
  fact that the Wall Street Journal and the Elizabeth Warren
• 43:29
  hasn't retracted anything tells you that this is 100%
• 43:35
  politically motivated. Fine, you can't say 100 percent,
• 43:38
  99.99%. I don't see how you can reach
• 43:42
  another conclusion at this point.
• 43:43
  Anyways, back to the article. The irony of the claim is that
• 43:46
  the public Bitcoin blockchain provides evidence that anyone
• 43:49
  can dispute, which is exactly what happened the day following
• 43:52
  the Senator's letter to the President on October 18th.
• 43:55
  Blockchain analysis firm Chain Analysis clarified that while
• 43:58
  some terrorist organizations, including Hamas, do leverage
• 44:01
  cryptocurrencies for funding, the scales extremely small
• 44:05
  relative to traditional Fiat banking means I'm going to say
• 44:09
  that again. The scale is extremely small
• 44:12
  relative to traditional Fiat banking means.
• 44:17
  They emphasize that the transparency of of blockchain
• 44:20
  technology makes it less suitable medium for illicit
• 44:23
  activities, including terrorism financing.
• 44:26
  Additionally, Chain Analysis pointed out that the government
• 44:29
  agencies and private sector organizations can collaborate
• 44:31
  using blockchain analysis solutions to trace and disrupt
• 44:34
  the flow of funds to these terrorist groups.
• 44:38
  They also highlighted the importance of understanding the
• 44:40
  role of service providers in these financial networks and
• 44:43
  cautions against overestimating the scale of terrorism financing
• 44:46
  in cryptocurrency based on flawed analysis and
• 44:49
  misrepresentations. I don't think they care that
• 44:54
  Bitcoin's open Ledger can actually help in this particular
• 45:01
  case. I don't think it has to do with
• 45:04
  that. I think that this is the weapon
• 45:06
  that they needed anyways. Delving deeper into the fact,
• 45:11
  into the facts revealed by chain analysis, it become increasing.
• 45:13
  It became it becomes increasingly evident how Senator
• 45:17
  Senator Warren's letter dramatically skewed the
• 45:19
  situation. The detailed analysis zeroes in
• 45:22
  on specific addresses that conducted over 1300 deposits and
• 45:26
  1200 withdrawals within a mere 77.5 months, within a total
• 45:31
  inflow of roughly 82 million. In cryptocurrency, however, a
• 45:35
  mere fraction of this amount, approximately $450,000, can be
• 45:40
  linked back to a wallet associated with terrorist
• 45:42
  activities. This represents a mere .3461% of
• 45:47
  the purported $130 million claim in the letter, a staggering
• 45:51
  discrepancy that lays bare the deceptive nature of the
• 45:55
  narrative being pushed to the White House.
• 45:57
  Not only has Business Insider reported on October 21st that
• 46:00
  Hamas operates with an annual budget of 300 million, but a
• 46:04
  significant portion of its funding also stems from taxing
• 46:08
  imports into Gaza as well as international connections with
• 46:12
  Iran, a country to which the US government recently and rather
• 46:17
  Ambugid Opti. What is that word, bro?
• 46:22
  Ambiguously ambiguously may have released 6.
• 46:26
  Ambiguously. Ambiguously may have released $6
• 46:29
  billion in Fiat currency to in September, just a month prior to
• 46:34
  the attack on Israel. Unlike Bitcoin, which offers a
• 46:37
  publicly accessible audit trail, citizens are left in the dark
• 46:41
  about this substantial financial transaction.
• 46:44
  The narrative on what was actually released depends
• 46:46
  heavily on the news outlets or political interest one consults,
• 46:51
  often resulting in bias and self-serving points of view.
• 46:54
  The irony, this stark contrast between politically motivated
• 46:59
  numbers and the transparent reality a public blockchain
• 47:02
  provides underscores the urgent need for thorough factual
• 47:06
  analysis and the adoption of a publicly verifiable monetary
• 47:10
  unit like Bitcoin. Why is this so concerning?
• 47:14
  Knee jerk policy reactions based on false information and poor
• 47:18
  reporting can have devastating long term impacts to the US
• 47:22
  competitive economic position and more importantly, the
• 47:26
  liberties and freedoms of its citizens and what appears to be
• 47:29
  a coordinated policy response. the US Financial Crimes
• 47:33
  Enforcement Network came out with a proposal for special
• 47:36
  measures regarding convertible virtual currency mixing and
• 47:39
  labeled it as a primary money laundering concern based on all
• 47:43
  the information contained in the FinCEN proposal.
• 47:46
  It opens doors for expansive policy to infringe on the rights
• 47:50
  of individuals. For example, the increased
• 47:52
  surveillance and potential loss of privacy could subject
• 47:55
  individuals running Bitcoin full nodes to unprecedented scrutiny.
• 47:59
  They might find themselves burdened with regulatory
• 48:02
  requirements that are not only honor us, but also infringe on
• 48:05
  their personal privacy and the privacy of users transacting
• 48:09
  through their notes. The uncertainty and legal risks
• 48:12
  associated with running full a full node under these proposed
• 48:15
  measures could discourage individuals from auditing their
• 48:18
  property, thus increasing their risk and reliance on bad actors.
• 48:23
  Bitcoin holders that ran their own node and took custody of
• 48:26
  their property in 2022 were not impacted by fraudulent
• 48:30
  centralized gatekeepers like SPF and 3rd party custodians that
• 48:34
  acted maliciously. Additionally, a policy attack on
• 48:38
  node operators creates less financial freedom for U.S.
• 48:41
  citizens and incentive for businesses.
• 48:44
  In this new sector of finance to move offshore, developers might
• 48:48
  be discouraged from creating and implementing privacy enhancing
• 48:51
  features limiting the potential and the very essence of American
• 48:55
  citizens and builders within this country.
• 49:04
  I mean, like Preston just like absolutely hit the nail on the
• 49:13
  head and really covered not only what they did, but I think there
• 49:20
  was some jiu jitsu there and saying Bitcoin fixes this and
• 49:27
  you're actually attacking the thing that Bitcoin fixes, which
• 49:31
  I thought was fascinating, right?
• 49:35
  So take it upon yourself, ladies and gentlemen.
• 49:40
  Go in the link in the video description, take agency, take
• 49:44
  action, color within the lines and make your voices heard.
• 49:48
  Leave a comment. Because this proposed
• 49:52
  legislation, I I can't say purposely, but it sure does look
• 50:01
  very convenient that Elizabeth Warren had that letter prepped
• 50:06
  and they sure did move very, very quickly.
• 50:09
  And we know how the current administration feels about
• 50:11
  Bitcoin, and we know how they move, about how they feel about
• 50:14
  CBDC's. How convenient is it to try to,
• 50:19
  you know, chop the mudaforical legs off their competition?
• 50:24
  How convenient is that? Right.
• 50:27
  So yeah, you know, fortunately we have the Internet.
• 50:31
  Fortunately, we have social media, which is awesome because
• 50:35
  it empowers us. We can talk to you directly to
• 50:39
  really, really at least provide a counter narrative to this
• 50:43
  false narrative that they're using to take away more of our
• 50:48
  freedoms. This is a global phenomenon.
• 50:51
  This isn't just happening in the US.
• 50:54
  Wake up, take action. It's Bitcoin or slavery.
• 50:58
  What future do you want to live in?
• 51:00
  Do you want to live in the future of CBDC's or do you want
• 51:03
  to live in a future of Bitcoin? There will be no in between.
• 51:06
  There will be no, there will be no middle ground.
• 51:10
  I know that Christine Lagarde said many times on her video how
• 51:13
  they're going to keep cash. No, they want to get rid of cash
• 51:16
  altogether too. They want a total centralized
• 51:20
  system of which your money not only has inflation, not only has
• 51:24
  censorship, they use their own words.
• 51:27
  It could also potentially have an expiration date.
• 51:29
  And they were salvating at the mouth when the guy was talking
• 51:32
  about that. He's like, we could put an
• 51:33
  expiration date in the money, like it's your money of which
• 51:37
  you spend time to earn and work for.
• 51:41
  And a third party is not only debasing it, they're censoring
• 51:47
  it. And now they want to put an
• 51:49
  expiration date. Like, this is total clown World.
• 51:56
  But you know, Bitcoin fixes this, truth fixes this.
• 52:01
  And Preston did an incredible job.
• 52:03
  And I just wanted to kind of, you know, highlight that today
• 52:07
  because the way that he articulated it, the way that he
• 52:09
  explained it was just so so on point.
• 52:13
  Anyways, Opti, what's your take on all this, brother?
• 52:17
  Yeah, well, of course. I think it is my duty here on
• 52:19
  the show to always double down. I would go even further and say
• 52:25
  this is a very obvious attack on Bitcoin, a covert attack on
• 52:29
  Bitcoin, but very obviously an attack on Bitcoin.
• 52:32
  And again, this goes back to everything we've been saying on
• 52:35
  the show for a long time. That as long as the powers that
• 52:39
  be have the the monopoly on truth.
• 52:41
  Then they can pretty much get away with saying whatever
• 52:44
  nonsense they want. And of course, if they are in
• 52:48
  cahoots with the politicians and the media journalists out there,
• 52:53
  then we know the journalists are going to be doing cover for the
• 52:57
  the politicians because they are the ones that are obviously
• 53:00
  paying them so. You know, Nico, don't don't let,
• 53:03
  don't let facts get in the way of a good story, bro.
• 53:05
  Like facts don't matter. What?
• 53:06
  What are you talking about here? Why are you so worried about the
• 53:08
  facts, man? Obviously I'm trolling guys
• 53:11
  because we know for a fact we constantly bring the receipts
• 53:15
  that mainstream media constantly fuds Bitcoin.
• 53:18
  They don't want Bitcoin to basically be distributed amongst
• 53:23
  all the populations out there, and the only thing they can
• 53:25
  really do is to try to gaslight, you know, continue to FUD
• 53:28
  Bitcoin. Continue to make sure that the
• 53:30
  average person is misinformed, even though it's supposedly
• 53:33
  their duty to inform you about what's actually going on in the
• 53:35
  world. I mean, like asking a journalist
• 53:38
  to do some journalism seems absurd right now.
• 53:42
  It's as long as it's just some corporate PR mess, then it's all
• 53:45
  good and. In my opinion, this just
• 53:50
  continues to prove the point that the US empire, the powers
• 53:54
  that be, are just so absolutely scared that they are willing to
• 53:57
  make every single citizen of the United States just absolutely
• 54:01
  poor like it. It it goes back to the meme that
• 54:03
  we always say Nico, you know, Bitcoin or slavery.
• 54:06
  And Bitcoin is freedom from these people because as long as
• 54:09
  you're using their money or their currency, then you are
• 54:13
  under their thumb. And it really, while you were
• 54:16
  going, I was reminded of that one quote.
• 54:20
  You know, when when the people find that they can vote
• 54:21
  themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic.
• 54:25
  And it really does feel like this is where we are.
• 54:28
  And I found another quote here and it was the American Republic
• 54:32
  will endure until the day Congress discovers it can bribe
• 54:35
  the public with the public's money.
• 54:37
  And it's just like, are we the only ones that are seeing the
• 54:40
  writing on the wall? Maybe.
• 54:42
  Maybe we're just like the Chicken Little.
• 54:44
  You know, we're we're we're saying that the sky is going to
• 54:47
  fall, but we don't know when. We just know that it will happen
• 54:51
  eventually and we understand the mechanisms of the Fiat world
• 54:56
  just too well. And and again, everything we're
• 54:59
  doing here is we're outside the Overton window.
• 55:01
  Like everyone still thinks we're the crazy ones.
• 55:03
  But of course it's only going to take a couple of months before
• 55:06
  everyone figures out that we were right again.
• 55:08
  So it's just it's just part of being a big corner, you know,
• 55:12
  you can only really. Can only really relish in the
• 55:16
  fact that you're right for a couple of weeks, because then it
• 55:19
  either just gets so scary and so like real that you're just like,
• 55:22
  oh shit, Like, I really was hoping this wasn't the fact, but
• 55:25
  we know for a fact that the corporate press is bought and
• 55:30
  paid for. I really like Parker Lewis's
• 55:32
  framing of the governmental press, because it's becoming
• 55:35
  more and more clear that this is the case, that it's not about
• 55:38
  truth anymore. And it's really just just about
• 55:41
  spreading A narrative that they can get away with.
• 55:43
  We've seen this happen constantly, since 2020, since
• 55:46
  2020, but rather before even that.
• 55:48
  Like, it's amazing just how much stuff you thought were, you
• 55:53
  know, conspiracy theories that turn out to be the truth now.
• 55:56
  And here we are. They can't stop information.
• 56:00
  So what are they doing? It's what I tell you guys all
• 56:02
  the time in the meme review. And you think we're joking?
• 56:05
  They can't stop the signal, So what do they do?
• 56:07
  They bombard you with so much noise that you don't know what's
• 56:09
  up from down. And this is where we are right
• 56:11
  now. They will use any excuse to try
• 56:13
  to stop Bitcoin because they are not naive.
• 56:16
  I I you know, this year has black pilled me enough where I
• 56:19
  no longer believe orange pilled. I am orange pilled, but I'm
• 56:23
  black pilled in regards to politicians like I I'm I'm a I'm
• 56:26
  a realist. Now it's not that they are naive
• 56:29
  or don't understand what's going on.
• 56:32
  They fully know what they're doing and they're trying to play
• 56:35
  dumb. You know, my mom always said it
• 56:37
  best. You know what?
• 56:38
  I love Bendejo. For you guys that don't
• 56:41
  understand Spanish, it's just act stupid.
• 56:43
  They're so good at acting stupid that it it works so well.
• 56:47
  They are politician, they're actors and they're doing a great
• 56:51
  job on acting dumb and not knowing what they're doing and
• 56:54
  fumbling around. And yeah, maybe some people are
• 56:56
  fumbling around and have no idea what they're doing, and they
• 56:58
  think they're doing something good for the population because
• 57:01
  they're just absolutely terrified by new technology.
• 57:04
  They're terrified by change. And here we are, guys.
• 57:07
  This is the frontline war. We say it every single day here.
• 57:10
  And you guys think we're joking when we say it because it's part
• 57:12
  of the meme review. This is an information war,
• 57:15
  guys. We are in a war right now, and
• 57:18
  the war is on information. The war is on truth.
• 57:22
  And so This is why it's so important for every single one
• 57:25
  of you guys to have these uncomfortable conversations with
• 57:28
  your friends and families to continue to speak the truth,
• 57:31
  even if people call you dumb, even if you look crazy.
• 57:34
  You know, maybe do it with some tact, right?
• 57:36
  You know, be be be tactful when you do it because you're doing
• 57:40
  yourself a disservice If if you do what I did last week where I
• 57:43
  just like got triggered and started, you know, ranting.
• 57:46
  It's very important to spread the message in a way where yes,
• 57:50
  you know, maybe. Maybe you listen to people, but
• 57:53
  we know what's going on. The powers that be are using the
• 57:57
  last tool they have and the most powerful tool that they have,
• 58:00
  the the authority fallacy that they are out here for the
• 58:03
  benefit of the population when in reality they are doing the
• 58:06
  exact opposite. So I'm not surprised.
• 58:11
  Of course this is just a fin send proposal so hopefully it
• 58:17
  doesn't actually get get instituted.
• 58:19
  But again. All that is outside of my
• 58:23
  control. So what can you do as an
• 58:25
  individual? Obviously like Nico saying maybe
• 58:27
  write him a letter. But again, I'm I'm kind of like
• 58:29
  anti protesting. I don't, I don't think like a
• 58:31
  protest works much. But the thing you do is you save
• 58:36
  in Bitcoin, take a sizable chunk of your net worth, put it in
• 58:40
  Bitcoin, take it out of their system, do as much as you can to
• 58:44
  still be, you know, part of society.
• 58:47
  Be a good upstanding citizen. But take your wealth outside of
• 58:51
  the system, literally. If you do not agree with this,
• 58:55
  then opt out of the Fiat system, opt out of paper money, debt,
• 58:59
  money, IO, us and opt into the Bitcoin standard.
• 59:03
  It's so simple. You just need to save in Bitcoin
• 59:05
  guys. It's really that simple.
• 59:07
  And then of course there's other actions you can do on top of it,
• 59:10
  but the basic one is it's always been about the money guys.
• 59:14
  It will always be about the money.
• 59:16
  So get to the root cause. You know, whether it's going
• 59:19
  down the the information rabbit hole of of following the money
• 59:24
  trail or just take your money out of the system.
• 59:27
  Like every single one of us, we're just trying to work hard,
• 59:30
  provide for our friends, our family.
• 59:32
  If you have children, you're trying to provide for your
• 59:34
  children. You're trying to live paycheck
• 59:35
  to paycheck. Well, you can't do that on the
• 59:38
  Fiat system. They will constantly print more
• 59:40
  money. They will constantly gaslight
• 59:41
  you. They will constantly chip away
• 59:43
  at all of your property. So save in Bitcoin.
• 59:47
  Do yourself a favor. Take action today.
• 59:52
  Save in Bitcoin. It's really this simple.
• 59:54
  Like as much as they trying to paint us to be criminals, we
• 59:57
  know that they're the real criminals.
• 59:59
  So do what you can today, A. 100%.
• 1:00:03
  Save in Bitcoin 1,000,000% bro and and that's what that's what
• 1:00:07
  they're doing. They're fundamentally trying to
• 1:00:09
  attack that aspect that they're trying to attack your ability to
• 1:00:14
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• 1:00:16
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• 1:00:18
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• 1:01:47
  That Bernie Sanders meme of like, I am once again here to
• 1:01:50
  ask you that wouldn't really set this off, but you know, I'm not
• 1:01:54
  trying to trigger anyone. Anyways, guys, we've been
• 1:01:56
  covering all week. Well, rather, I've been trying
• 1:01:59
  to refocus the conversation for you guys for weeks now and I've
• 1:02:03
  been doing it this week as well. We know the Bitcoin price is
• 1:02:07
  pumping. I've been telling you guys this
• 1:02:09
  for a cut like probably months now that this is the point of
• 1:02:13
  the bear market where you want to get that good UTXO hygiene
• 1:02:16
  you want to. Either consolidate your Bitcoin,
• 1:02:20
  take your Bitcoin off exchanges. Anyways, I'm starting here by my
• 1:02:26
  boy Nick camp mine great tweet. One of my, one of my good
• 1:02:30
  friends works for Bitcoin Magazine and he's he's on the
• 1:02:34
  same, he's on the same wave guys.
• 1:02:36
  You know, he goes, now would be a good time to double and triple
• 1:02:38
  check that your Bitcoin wallets and backups work and are safely
• 1:02:41
  secured. The last thing you want is
• 1:02:43
  Bitcoin flying past $100,000 and you run into any trouble
• 1:02:46
  regarding that. We've been telling you this for
• 1:02:48
  a long time. You want to right now.
• 1:02:54
  I'm sure if you are new to Bitcoin, you just got your first
• 1:02:59
  taste of the pump. And you already probably losing
• 1:03:02
  your mind. You are addicted to the green
• 1:03:04
  candles like every one of us. And so you start to just have so
• 1:03:07
  much fun. You're looking at the Bitcoin
• 1:03:09
  price. Well, just wait till this
• 1:03:11
  magnifies even more. Hence why I've been telling you
• 1:03:14
  guys for a while now that this is the part of the bear market
• 1:03:17
  where you want to double, triple check your cold storage.
• 1:03:21
  Make sure you have, you know, like we say all the time.
• 1:03:24
  Make sure you have your seed phrase packed up on something
• 1:03:28
  other than paper hint, hint or hint hint.
• 1:03:31
  You want to make sure that your seed phrase is protected, just
• 1:03:35
  in case anything happened. You want to make sure that your
• 1:03:37
  Bitcoin is off exchanges because you never know what's going on.
• 1:03:41
  I'm sure you guys probably saw that Coinbase was down as this
• 1:03:46
  was pumping. Well guess what?
• 1:03:47
  This happens constantly. So you do not want to be in a
• 1:03:50
  position where you have your coin on an exchange.
• 1:03:54
  The exchange goes down or we see what happened with like Tara,
• 1:03:58
  Luna, Celsius, Block Fi, all that crazy stuff.
• 1:04:01
  You want to control your keys, as everyone was saying when I
• 1:04:04
  said it earlier. When I was talking about Bitcoin
• 1:04:07
  is cheese. Not your cheese, not your coin,
• 1:04:09
  guys, not your keys, not your coin.
• 1:04:11
  This is the way guys, we don't just say these mantras
• 1:04:13
  constantly to you, just to say them this is the most important
• 1:04:17
  thing to be doing. The reason we are in the
• 1:04:19
  position we are today is because we have outsourced our custody
• 1:04:24
  of money to strangers and they can do crazy stuff with that
• 1:04:27
  money. Well, if you don't agree with
• 1:04:29
  that, take it into custody today.
• 1:04:32
  Get yourself, at the very least, a mobile Bitcoin wallet.
• 1:04:36
  You know, I've become a huge fan of Phoenix.
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  Recently. Our boys over at Zeus have
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  I'm using my boys mutiny wallet web app, Blue Wallet's been
• 1:04:48
  sturdy. These are mobile apps, green
• 1:04:50
  wallet, sturdy like. At the very least, you want to
• 1:04:54
  take your Bitcoin off an exchange and put it in a mobile
• 1:04:56
  wallet. But you should have already done
• 1:04:58
  that if you've been watching the show and.
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  signer. There's cold card, there's jade.
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  Like there's so many good hardware wallets out there.
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  But you need to back up your Bitcoin because now is the time
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  It's funny, when I when I loaded this up this morning, the
• 1:05:47
  transaction fees, estimated transaction fees were at like 3
• 1:05:51
  sat fees. So you can see it gets busier
• 1:05:54
  during the day. Make sure you're timing these
• 1:05:57
  transactions correctly. If you want to get your your
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  Bitcoin off in exchange, you usually don't pay a fee.
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  But if you want to consolidate your Bitcoin, which you should,
• 1:06:05
  you do not want a bunch of little tiny UTXOS out there
• 1:06:08
  because the fees will rise again guys, and you want to have good
• 1:06:11
  UTXO hygiene. Maybe you just want a vanity
• 1:06:14
  metric of being part of the the glass node numbers where you're.
• 1:06:19
  X amount of hodlers on the network.
• 1:06:22
  You know, maybe you want to be a whole corner.
• 1:06:24
  Maybe you want to have the 50 million SAT mark.
• 1:06:26
  Doesn't matter to me. All I'm telling you right now is
• 1:06:29
  now is the time to double, triple, quadruple check your
• 1:06:33
  backups, Make sure your bitcoins in cold storage.
• 1:06:35
  Make sure you can access your Bitcoin whether you're going to
• 1:06:38
  sell or not. It's all about remembering and
• 1:06:41
  understanding and protecting yourself so that you have access
• 1:06:44
  to your Bitcoin. And right now it's getting
• 1:06:47
  crazy. You're starting to.
• 1:06:49
  See the price? Get a little frothy.
• 1:06:51
  Well guys, just wait till it goes up even more.
• 1:06:54
  It's going to get even crazier. And I don't want you to be in a
• 1:06:56
  position where you wreck yourself.
• 1:06:58
  And as Nico always says, if enough people take custody of
• 1:07:01
  their Bitcoin, then we win no matter what they try to do.
• 1:07:05
  Take everything we've seen on the the news today, the Fin Cen
• 1:07:11
  story, what we've been covering for a long time.
• 1:07:15
  They do not want you to take your money into custody.
• 1:07:19
  It absolutely terrifies them. So what are we going to do?
• 1:07:23
  We are going to take our Bitcoin into custody.
• 1:07:27
  It is not your Bitcoin. If it's on an exchange, it's an
• 1:07:29
  IOU, so. Make sure you are no longer
• 1:07:33
  outsourcing your money to someone else.
• 1:07:35
  Yes, I know it's scary. Yes, you might be a boomer out
• 1:07:38
  there that doesn't want to take custody of their assets, but
• 1:07:41
  This is Money that you can control and it only works if you
• 1:07:44
  take control of that money. We are in an early, I I think we
• 1:07:49
  were having a conversation with CK last night about we're still
• 1:07:52
  probably in that early adopter phase, maybe even innovator
• 1:07:55
  phase. So you are still early to this
• 1:07:57
  whole Bitcoin thing and so it is still scary?
• 1:08:01
  But once enough of us take Bitcoin into self custody, the
• 1:08:06
  Bitcoin circular economy happens.
• 1:08:08
  Peer-to-peer payments with your friends.
• 1:08:10
  This whole thing starts to unravel, and we're seeing it
• 1:08:13
  unravel in real time. And as the price starts to go
• 1:08:16
  up, guys, as we, you know, get quote, UN quote A semblance of
• 1:08:20
  legitimacy from these institutions, more and more
• 1:08:23
  people are going to come to Bitcoin.
• 1:08:24
  The price is going to go nuclear.
• 1:08:26
  Hash rates going to go nuclear, fees are going to go up.
• 1:08:28
  And you do not want to be in a position where you have UTXOS
• 1:08:31
  that are unspendable. You do not want to have your
• 1:08:33
  Bitcoin on an exchange. You do not want to go to your
• 1:08:36
  Bitcoin storage and realize, Oh my God, I wrecked myself again.
• 1:08:41
  Don't complicate this. It could be as easy as a seed
• 1:08:44
  phrase with the password. Maybe you have a big holding and
• 1:08:47
  you want to multi sig it. Just make sure you are doing the
• 1:08:50
  best practices which is as simple as this guys.
• 1:08:53
  If you haven't taken your Bitcoin into self custody, it's
• 1:08:55
  literally as simple as this. And this is just I'm I'm trying
• 1:08:58
  to just guide you baby steps guys.
• 1:09:02
  You have an exchange. You have Bitcoin on exchange.
• 1:09:04
  Download a Bitcoin wallet, send a test transaction.
• 1:09:08
  Erase that wallet, make sure your seed phrase is backed up.
• 1:09:10
  Before you do that, make sure you can access that test
• 1:09:13
  transaction and once you can get back into those funds, then send
• 1:09:17
  it all over and then move your way from a mobile wallet to a
• 1:09:21
  hardware wallet, maybe to a multi sig setup like.
• 1:09:25
  You need to make these decisions today because once the price
• 1:09:29
  starts getting crazy, it's going to get absolutely nuts guys and
• 1:09:32
  you do not want to wreck yourself.
• 1:09:35
  Custodying your Bitcoin is the most important thing to do as we
• 1:09:39
  constantly cover on this show the the powers that be are doing
• 1:09:42
  their best to stop the on and off ramps.
• 1:09:46
  They want to control the flow of money.
• 1:09:48
  This is their words, not ours. So you need to take your Bitcoin
• 1:09:54
  into self custody now before they try to do some crazy stuff.
• 1:09:58
  And it's so simple guys, once you're.
• 1:10:01
  On the Bitcoin standard, it's so simple.
• 1:10:04
  Think about running a node. You know, start nine's great.
• 1:10:07
  Like, these are the basics guys in the video description, yeah?
• 1:10:11
  These are the very very basics that you need to do.
• 1:10:16
  These are the the fundamentals 18% take your Bitcoin into self
• 1:10:22
  custody. Check the video description.
• 1:10:24
  Back your Bitcoin up. Run your own node.
• 1:10:28
  Once you got those three stuff, go live your life.
• 1:10:31
  It's so simple. Provide more value to people.
• 1:10:34
  Like don't overcomplicate this guys, but you need to take your
• 1:10:38
  Bitcoin into custody. Not your keys, not your Bitcoin.
• 1:10:41
  It's just APSA guys. Make sure your seed phrase and
• 1:10:44
  everything's backed up. Now is the time to do it.
• 1:10:47
  On titanium. On titanium.
• 1:10:48
  Yeah. I I did.
• 1:10:48
  I did. I did.
• 1:10:49
  I I plugged the QR code anyways. Anyways, anyway, I I say this
• 1:10:53
  Titanium C storage kit again. Maybe.
• 1:10:56
  Maybe I'm going to do this. Hold on, I I got to do this.
• 1:10:59
  I I I got to do this. I got to troll myself.
• 1:11:01
  I got to troll myself. Here we go.
• 1:11:07
  All right, let me pull this up because.
• 1:11:13
  I am once again for you to. Take Bitcoin into self custody.
• 1:11:17
  Do it in the accent. I can't do it, but I am once
• 1:11:21
  again asking. Asking for you to take your
• 1:11:25
  Bitcoin into self custody. I gave you the wallets that I
• 1:11:28
  like. Guys, I'm going to be doing.
• 1:11:31
  I'm going to be a broken record on this because I really do
• 1:11:33
  believe this is the most important thing to be doing.
• 1:11:35
  I am once again asking you to take your Bitcoin into self
• 1:11:38
  custody. Opti Opti 2024 Opti 2024 His
• 1:11:43
  running. I can't.
• 1:11:43
  I can't run for president. Yeah, me neither.
• 1:11:46
  Oh. I wasn't born in America.
• 1:11:48
  Me neither. OK.
• 1:11:49
  All right. All right.
• 1:11:50
  I'm once again asking you to take Bitcoin into self custody.
• 1:11:54
  Take Bitcoin into self custody. Oh man, yeah, that's that's the
• 1:11:57
  message guys. It's always a message.
• 1:11:59
  Use the hardware wallet store your seed phrase properly.
• 1:12:03
  Run your own Bitcoin node. If you're not running your own
• 1:12:05
  Bitcoin node, you're trusting someone else's.
• 1:12:07
  So run your own node. There's a great deal in the
• 1:12:10
  start 9 Pure, which is like their flagship model.
• 1:12:12
  There's a promo code down below. You get 18% off if you know, if
• 1:12:16
  you don't want to build your own.
• 1:12:18
  So yeah, there's there's literally no excuses.
• 1:12:20
  There's so many Bitcoin companies that are making all
• 1:12:23
  these amazing effing products that it's like, it's just it's
• 1:12:28
  obvious. It's obvious.
• 1:12:29
  Anyways, everybody, let's get to the meme review.
• 1:12:32
  We got a lot of memes to review. The Daily Meme Review All right
• 1:12:47
  guys, I also shout out to Opti for keeping him a keeping a
• 1:12:50
  straight face have. You guys thought I was.
• 1:12:54
  I was trying to. I was trying to get opti.
• 1:12:57
  Oh my God. But he held it in.
• 1:12:59
  You got you got me for a quick second.
• 1:13:03
  Yo. Wow.
• 1:13:05
  Good. Pun, Good pun.
• 1:13:06
  All right. Anyways, anyways, don't worry
• 1:13:10
  about it, guys. Don't worry about it, Nico.
• 1:13:12
  We're going to start off. We're here to start off with
• 1:13:14
  your ex. Girlfriend, bro.
• 1:13:15
  Yeah. Yeah, I am, I am.
• 1:13:17
  I am. Meme to the bullets.
• 1:13:18
  Wait, Tweet to the bullets. Meme to the artillery.
• 1:13:20
  We are in informational guys. Hold on.
• 1:13:24
  I say it every single day and you guys think I am joking.
• 1:13:27
  We are in an information war. You guys are the frontline.
• 1:13:30
  Soldiers continue to incept the ideas of freedom.
• 1:13:34
  Continue to incept the ideas of freedom money.
• 1:13:36
  Continue to spread the truth. We have the truth on our side.
• 1:13:40
  This is why our meme game is so good is because we spread the
• 1:13:44
  truth and all they can do is lie.
• 1:13:45
  All they can do is coordinate lies.
• 1:13:48
  But. Everyone is waking up to the to
• 1:13:51
  the facade that is legacy media, legacy traditional financial
• 1:13:56
  world, and it's becoming more and more obvious that freedom is
• 1:14:00
  the only way. This is the most important fight
• 1:14:03
  ever, in my opinion. This is why you were born to
• 1:14:06
  fight for freedom for for yourself and posterity.
• 1:14:10
  This is what it means to be a bitcoiner.
• 1:14:12
  This is the revolution, the separation of money and state.
• 1:14:15
  You guys are frontline soldiers, the tools we have.
• 1:14:18
  Is the truth. Continue to spread it.
• 1:14:22
  And of course you can ridicule them.
• 1:14:24
  You can make some funnies, get some calls of actions out there.
• 1:14:28
  Anyway, Speaking of 1st meme is it?
• 1:14:31
  It goes into the ridicule and the humor shouts out the world
• 1:14:35
  of Rusty. And by the way, the the ridicule
• 1:14:38
  aspect. Ridicule is one of the most
• 1:14:42
  powerful weapons you have, right?
• 1:14:45
  If you ridicule because remember, like, you're not
• 1:14:49
  ridiculing righteous people, you're not ridiculing an honest
• 1:14:52
  system. So it's very, very hard for for
• 1:14:56
  them to defend themselves, right?
• 1:15:00
  Because it's like they're they're they're they're not
• 1:15:02
  standing on a foundation of truth, they're standing on a on
• 1:15:07
  a foundation of lies and misrepresentations.
• 1:15:09
  So when you ridicule them, it's it's very, very hard for them to
• 1:15:13
  defend it. And This is why, like, this
• 1:15:16
  seems like a joke, right? And in a way it is a joke.
• 1:15:19
  But at the same time, like, OK, we, I'm not going to go down the
• 1:15:23
  lizard people path, but like, you know, she's dancing, she's
• 1:15:27
  dancing in a purple dress, you know, while people are basically
• 1:15:33
  having to deal with not being able to, you know, live due to
• 1:15:39
  inflation due to Fiat money. Like like you know, it's it's
• 1:15:44
  it's you know it's it's very very it's it's it's appropriate
• 1:15:50
  I would say, right this these messages.
• 1:15:53
  If people were happy about the central banking system, Bitcoin
• 1:15:57
  would not exist. Remember what was in the genesis
• 1:16:00
  block? He put a meme in the genesis
• 1:16:01
  block. Chancer on the brink of the
• 1:16:05
  second bailout for banks. What?
• 1:16:09
  What? What bailout number we on right
• 1:16:10
  now? Who knows anyways?
• 1:16:18
  Oh man. Anyways, world of Rusty here.
• 1:16:21
  You know the picture here. What's it?
• 1:16:23
  Christine Lagarde. Greece has remained committed to
• 1:16:25
  being at the heart of Europe even in the hardest times.
• 1:16:28
  The determination. Yeah, whatever.
• 1:16:29
  Whatever. So she's here.
• 1:16:30
  Meeting Prime Minister. I won't even try to say his
• 1:16:33
  name. Good to join him for dinner.
• 1:16:37
  And world of Rusty life imitating me.
• 1:16:40
  We have them laughing, having a good time at dinner, probably a
• 1:16:44
  super expensive five star Michelin chef dinner while we're
• 1:16:47
  eating ramens and it's the lizard people laughing.
• 1:16:51
  There's the lizard people laughing.
• 1:16:52
  Mean Does life imitate meme or meme imitate life?
• 1:16:56
  We will never know. All right, next one is by other
• 1:16:59
  Barry BTC and he goes trad 5 zombie Want your Bitcoin?
• 1:17:03
  And we got a a Pepe in a suit with an AK and protecting his
• 1:17:07
  stack which is in cold storage. And the zombies are grayscale
• 1:17:11
  Black Rock ark and all the institutions that want your
• 1:17:13
  Bitcoin make it through the huddle buyout zone.
• 1:17:17
  As CK was telling us last night, you are holding generational
• 1:17:21
  wealth. Do not let them get your
• 1:17:24
  Bitcoin, actually. Go read.
• 1:17:26
  I got homework for you. Go read.
• 1:17:28
  Everyone is a scammer with the music and remember why everyone
• 1:17:32
  is a scammer if you haven't read in a long time.
• 1:17:34
  This is the way. All right.
• 1:17:35
  Last one is by Hoda Hodon. He goes hashtag Bitcoin and we
• 1:17:38
  got the doge dog here and it goes.
• 1:17:39
  Bitcoin in 2013 Death to the banks.
• 1:17:41
  Bitcoin in 2023. BlackRock please buy it crying
• 1:17:46
  to oh man this one's good. I I actually like this one, even
• 1:17:50
  though, even though I do feel kind of attacked because just
• 1:17:53
  because I know BlackRock is going to buy Bitcoin.
• 1:17:56
  Doesn't mean I'm. I'm begging them to buy Bitcoin.
• 1:17:57
  It's just inevitable. This is where we knew it was
• 1:17:59
  going. We knew Bitcoin was eventually
• 1:18:01
  going to get financialized guys. You know, it is what it is big,
• 1:18:04
  you know, for. For better or worse.
• 1:18:05
  BlackRock and the institutions coming do give us a sense of
• 1:18:08
  legitimacy to the normally mind out there.
• 1:18:10
  But it doesn't change the fundamentals.
• 1:18:12
  Bitcoin is 21 million hard caps, censorship resistant money,
• 1:18:16
  digital money for the digital world if you take it into
• 1:18:19
  custody. OK, next one is by bit art and
• 1:18:21
  it goes. Good morning to all the plebs on
• 1:18:22
  this Bitcoin journey. And you can see here it's a
• 1:18:26
  actual painting. Sweet, actual painting.
• 1:18:29
  And you can see that's like a real meme.
• 1:18:31
  Yeah, it's like, wait, what? There's real memes.
• 1:18:34
  Physical. It's like a physical meme.
• 1:18:35
  Wow, physical memes. Anyways, it's you know bitcoiner
• 1:18:39
  looking at I think El Salvador's volcano with like the tree of
• 1:18:42
  life behind it, Cyber tree of life with Bitcoin apples off of
• 1:18:46
  it. And you know, there's one of
• 1:18:48
  those wind things and it's got the change the code skull and
• 1:18:52
  there's a white rabbit and. It's so beautiful.
• 1:18:55
  Being a bit corner is so nice. Imagine not being a bit corner
• 1:18:59
  right now. Sheesh.
• 1:19:00
  OK, next one. Couldn't beat me.
• 1:19:03
  Can't relate. Anyways, next to me it's my
• 1:19:05
  Maxi's club and it's a bit corner.
• 1:19:08
  I think it's, you know, on the bus.
• 1:19:10
  I bet the frog bit corner on the bus and it goes.
• 1:19:12
  When someone asks me anything about Bitcoin.
• 1:19:14
  Take a seat. Take a seat right next to me.
• 1:19:16
  You're going. To be here for a minute, take a
• 1:19:18
  seat. It'll it'll be a minute.
• 1:19:19
  All right, next one is BTC therapist and he goes, we're not
• 1:19:22
  selling our Bitcoin, we're not selling and he goes when you
• 1:19:25
  huddle BTC from 69 K TO15K and he's got a bag with cabbage in
• 1:19:30
  it on his seat, that's all it is.
• 1:19:33
  That's all it is all. Right, this next one, This
• 1:19:37
  happened live. All right, this one's happening
• 1:19:39
  at this hit my notifications while we were doing this live
• 1:19:42
  and he goes BTC wanted poster goes wanted alive only by order
• 1:19:46
  of opti's former girlfriend Chrissy Lagarde Optus Field for
• 1:19:49
  the crimes of always being bullish on Bitcoin and being a
• 1:19:53
  Co host of simply Bitcoin, a show that does not like the
• 1:19:56
  World Economic Forum. And there's a picture of me, a
• 1:19:59
  wanted poster, and it goes alive.
• 1:20:00
  Too optimistic, Opti, by order of Chrissy Lagarde.
• 1:20:03
  Alive only for the crimes of always being bullish and hosting
• 1:20:07
  a show. That the World Economic Forum
• 1:20:09
  does not like. Good job, bro.
• 1:20:11
  Great. Great Optimus Fields 2028.
• 1:20:14
  Dude, I wish. I can't vote.
• 1:20:16
  Optimus Fields 2028. There's laws here and they they
• 1:20:19
  do not want me to be. This is my score.
• 1:20:22
  This is my score. Very fitting for today.
• 1:20:24
  Here's the emblem of the FinCEN, right?
• 1:20:27
  And here is the Bitcoin emblem of sovereign financial freedom.
• 1:20:32
  Wait, is that a someone got a patch of that?
• 1:20:34
  I want a patch of that. Right, so apparently this was
• 1:20:37
  put into the No, no, no. So this was put into the Simply
• 1:20:40
  Bitcoin Telegram chat, which you should definitely, definitely
• 1:20:42
  join because you're missing out on the party.
• 1:20:44
  It's literally a party in there. Shout out to Darth Coin for make
• 1:20:48
  this into a. Patch and yeah so I thought this
• 1:20:51
  was awesome and apparently this was made by Loco BTC.
• 1:20:56
  So when patch. Shout out to you brother.
• 1:21:00
  That's my meme score. What's your meme score?
• 1:21:01
  My meme score is this post. It stamp like but it says OK got
• 1:21:12
  a huddle on my post it stamp. All right, all right.
• 1:21:16
  Before we get to the scores, guys, please support the show.
• 1:21:19
  You can do that by buying our merch OPTI is currently modeling
• 1:21:22
  right now. Look at that model face.
• 1:21:24
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• 1:21:27
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• 1:21:34
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  description. Get yourself some simply Bitcoin
• 1:21:41
  merch. All right Opti, it's time for
• 1:21:48
  the scores. First score by Tora Pottle.
• 1:21:56
  He gives it a Bitcoin pug. Bitcoin pug.
• 1:22:02
  Next score by Bitcoin for Canadians.
• 1:22:05
  I give the memes Bitcoin biker patches for all the plebs.
• 1:22:08
  I love that. Yeah, Loco.
• 1:22:09
  I need that patch. Elaine the world will disregard
• 1:22:12
  Christine Lagarde as everyone flees CBD CS Bitcoin as King
• 1:22:16
  becomes a thing, and on everyone's lips that sinks the
• 1:22:19
  Fiat ships. Wow.
• 1:22:20
  Wow, coming in with the rhymes. It's almost like a.
• 1:22:27
  We didn't run out of scores. We ran out of time.
• 1:22:30
  There's just, there's. No, I'm not doing that one.
• 1:22:34
  That's a good score. That's a good choice.
• 1:22:38
  Guys, thank you so much for tuning in to oh, we got one
• 1:22:40
  more. We got one more by JW 21, One
• 1:22:44
  more Opti and Chrissy reconciliation.
• 1:22:47
  I've worked her number. She's for the streets.
• 1:22:53
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• 1:23:11
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• 1:23:14
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• 1:23:17
  Almost there, halfway through it.
• 1:23:19
  I'm your host Nico. This is my Co host Opti.
• 1:23:21
  We appreciate you all. We love you.
• 1:23:23
  We'll see you tomorrow for brand new episode of Simply Bitcoin
• 1:23:27
  Live. Peace out, y'all.