Latest / Simply Bitcoin / Why Did The Bitcoin Price Go Up? | EP 859
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- 0:16It's. All going to zero against
- 0:19Bitcoin. It's going on.
- 0:21Forever you're. Against Bitcoin, you're against.
- 0:31Freedom. Yo, good morning everybody.
- 0:36We're back. It's Thursday, November 2nd, the
- 0:38year 2023 and as you can see. We're not going to really
- 0:43speculate on where the price is going.
- 0:45We're going to cover why we believe the Bitcoin price is
- 0:49going up. There's a new meme on the market
- 0:53in the Bitcoin twittersphere of flight to quality.
- 0:57Is it the halving? Is it people concerned about
- 1:00inflation? Is it a gamma squeeze?
- 1:04Maybe it's all of the above, but as we all know, as humans like
- 1:08to pinpoint certain things. To make us feel better about
- 1:11what is going on in the market, Anything.
- 1:14Anyways, one thing is for sure here, the Bitcoin price is
- 1:18getting frothy as we are moving into the early stages of a bull
- 1:23run. I hope you've been stacking.
- 1:25I hope you continue to stack. I hope you're taking your
- 1:27Bitcoin into cold storage, because it's going to be a fun,
- 1:32fun ride the next. A few years, I'd say two years,
- 1:3518 months after the having, it's going to be a it's going to be a
- 1:38great, great 2025. I think 2024 is going to be even
- 1:41better. Just moving up, slow grind and
- 1:43just seeing everyone in disbelief as Bitcoin rises from
- 1:47the ashes. Anyways, we got some videos, we
- 1:51got some news, we even got an awesome guest.
- 1:54Absolutely love our guest today. So of course guys, welcome to
- 1:58Simply Bitcoin. We are your number one source
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- 2:18Of course I'm not alone. I got my boy Ruston Ruston.
- 2:22Good to have you on the live show bro.
- 2:24You've been killing it on the YouTube timeline in the original
- 2:29Simply Bitcoin content and good to have you bro.
- 2:33Last time we were on we hit all time high live viewers, so
- 2:37hopefully we can maintain that streak.
- 2:40But how you doing? What are we covering on the news
- 2:42today, bro? Well, Ruston's covering the news
- 2:45today, so you know, it's going to be highly regarded and
- 2:48bullish, but we got a guest here that's mine to help me bring it
- 2:50back down or he's just going to amplify it.
- 2:52We'll see. But we got a lot of fun coming,
- 2:55a lot of great news. Clown World continues to
- 2:59devolve, but also that's very bullish for Bitcoin.
- 3:03I don't know, we got some big news from Fidelity basically
- 3:06says, you know, bitcoins, gold, but like 10,000 X better.
- 3:10So we're going to talk about that.
- 3:11They have some projections. And we're just going to totally
- 3:14trash clown world and the I don't know, man, I I smell oh
- 3:19that that that's AI smell. A flight to quality and a a hint
- 3:23of hyperinflation in the background.
- 3:26So let's get the hell after it today, Opti.
- 3:30Yes, yes, yes. And there's everyone saying
- 3:32actually guys we we actually will be touching on some
- 3:35treasuries today. Yes, I know flight to quality
- 3:38meme is strong with everyone macro macro macro macro and and
- 3:42guys, yeah, the spaces I I have to refocus my energy to handle
- 3:47other stuff on Twitter. So for the time being there will
- 3:50be no spaces tomatoes hold your tomatoes.
- 3:53I know, I know, I know. We'll get them back as soon as
- 3:55we can, soon. Hopefully soon guys, but in the
- 3:58meantime, you're going to have to hang out with us on YouTube
- 4:00anyways. Shouts out to our guests, the
- 4:03one and only Dom Bey. I am super excited about this
- 4:09one. Dom Bey, We hung out at Pacific
- 4:12Bitcoin. Absolute Legend in my eyes.
- 4:14Super cool dude and also has an absolutely great Bitcoin story.
- 4:20And we're we're going to cover all that.
- 4:21And he's working, he's working on an awesome project.
- 4:23So Dom, how are you doing this morning?
- 4:25Good to have you, bro. Hey, I don't know what you guys
- 4:27are talking about. What's Bitcoin?
- 4:29I'm just a paid actor here that Simply put me up.
- 4:32There. Don't say that.
- 4:34No, I am. I am.
- 4:35I am 100% kidding. Y'all know who's in the house.
- 4:39What's up dude? I'm so pumped to be on the show
- 4:41and dude. We brought Dom for the eye
- 4:45candy. Come on, look at that.
- 4:47Look at. That.
- 4:48Yeah, Chad Dombey on the show. Yeah, dude.
- 4:52Nah, man. Just good to be on here.
- 4:54There's tons of news swirling right now.
- 4:55There's tons of stuff in the works.
- 4:58You know, I do have an interesting orange pill story,
- 5:01so I can dive into that. And yeah, dude, let's rock this.
- 5:05Yeah, yeah, we'll, we'll do the The Orange Pill story during the
- 5:08culture. But Dom, before we go in, tell
- 5:11people the project that you're working on.
- 5:14Yeah, so I started a nonprofit called Proof of Workforce.
- 5:18It's a 5O1C4 nonprofit. And our mission is very simple.
- 5:23We want to find the bitcoiner in every workers like group, union,
- 5:28organization, and then give that worker the tools and resources
- 5:33to bring Bitcoin to their group, their crew, etcetera.
- 5:37And and we want to get, we want to orange peel every worker.
- 5:40We think that Bitcoin is pivotal right now for workers all over
- 5:45the world, especially those who trade their precious time for
- 5:48money. We want them to find Bitcoin not
- 5:51just in the near term but in the long term and help them build
- 5:53things out for their their folks.
- 5:56So that is the mission of our non profit.
- 5:59We're working like around the clock.
- 6:00We have a lot of groups that are starting to adopt Bitcoin and
- 6:05it's it's going really well. So really blessed to just, you
- 6:08know, have this, this mission and incredible people helping
- 6:11out. Love to hear bro.
- 6:13Yeah, as as someone that also came from a blue collar family,
- 6:17this is always like the thing I try to harp on with my friends
- 6:20and family as well. It's like this is not for you
- 6:23know the the big investors here. This is this is for the everyday
- 6:27person and this is what I try to get across to everyone that has
- 6:31this conversation with me. I I think the layman needs
- 6:34Bitcoin more than anyone else if they are going to make it
- 6:37through this great retransition reset.
- 6:42Decision What is a great reset anyways?
- 6:44Anyways, we'll talk about that during the culture guys.
- 6:46Let's get into the show. We got a good one for you.
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- 8:08guys. Here we are over here of course
- 8:10on Clark Moody's dashboard. So we're going to cover some
- 8:12numbers. I actually added a new number on
- 8:14here for you guys considering today's topic, but we'll get to
- 8:17that at the end. Anyways, my favorite number, the
- 8:20block height. We are currently at 814,984 Tik
- 8:25toking next blocking towards the halving roughly.
- 8:29Around April of next year, let's hope we can get that that meme
- 8:32number. That would be hilarious.
- 8:33Life is meme, so we'll we'll see what's happening.
- 8:35Anyways, the current Bitcoin price is $34,450 or 440.
- 8:40Oh, it's dumping $34,440 in. Fiat cut bucks the current
- 8:47Moscow time, AKA how much Bitcoin you can buy for a single
- 8:50dollar, AKA how much your Fiat dollars worth in Bitcoin is.
- 8:53Currently at 2903 SATS per dollar, the total percentage of
- 8:58Bitcoin that will ever be issued finally hit 93%.
- 9:02Guys. That means only 7% of all
- 9:05bitcoins that will ever be created, 7% of the 21 million,
- 9:09will get unleashed until 2140 mile people.
- 9:15People are sleeping anyways. That's a totally other
- 9:17conversation. The current market cap in Fiat
- 9:20terms is $673.2 billion. The realized monetary inflation
- 9:24taking Fiat currencies of school is at 1.74%.
- 9:27The Bitcoin versus gold market cap is currently at 5.09%, only
- 9:315% of the gold market cap. And if you remember, that's $10
- 9:34trillion guys, so there's still so much room anyways, the total
- 9:37lightning capacity, total public lightning capacity is currently
- 9:40at 5292.5 BTC. The hash rate the last 90 days.
- 9:45Is 414.2 exa hashes the pending fees, is 1.79 BTC at least to
- 9:52the mempool and the last number I added guys at least for the
- 9:56the context of today 25,000 and 16 blocks, tilde having roughly
- 10:02going to be around April 21st 2024 or maybe the meme number
- 10:06maybe. Maybe the blocks will come in a
- 10:08little quicker than than we believe anyways.
- 10:12On today's topic, before you guys keep telling us that we're
- 10:15click baiting you, yes, we know what we're doing over here on
- 10:17YouTube. This is a feature, not a bug.
- 10:19It is to get people on the show clicking and falling down the
- 10:24rabbit hole. Wait, hold on.
- 10:25What am I? What am I afraid of?
- 10:27Nate? What?
- 10:28Tell me, what am I? What am I afraid of in the chat?
- 10:31Anyways, we are seeing a new meme come out and.
- 10:37It is flight to quality. Now I know a lot of us are
- 10:41thinking currently we we like to read into things in it and it
- 10:44really does feel at least from a Bitcoin perspective that Bitcoin
- 10:48is the quality. Rustin will bring you up to
- 10:50speed in regards to bonds. And actually on that note, I
- 10:53will be having a conversation with CJCJK.
- 10:56I I forget your last name. I don't want to butcher you
- 10:58right now, but we'll have at TTO on Tuesday and we're going to be
- 11:01talking all about bonds for you guys and what's going on in the
- 11:03market. So we'll keep this conversation
- 11:05going for you guys, but. We are seeing that the Bitcoin
- 11:09signal is spreading. We've been talking about that
- 11:11all year. The public consciousness in
- 11:13regards to what Bitcoin is is starting to raise.
- 11:17And you know me, I have a simple meme.
- 11:19The Bitcoin price is a real time metric of people's understanding
- 11:22of Bitcoin and hey, we're at 34 K What is causing the Bitcoin
- 11:26price to go up? I would say, you know, it's
- 11:28simple supply and demand. People are starting to
- 11:30understand why they need to hold Bitcoin.
- 11:34And on that note, Steven Lubka continues to double down on the
- 11:37meme flight to quality. And of course, the Bitcoin
- 11:39skeptics out there, they're like, it's not a flight to
- 11:41quality, it's a gamma squeeze. It's, you know, the halving,
- 11:45it's inflation concerns. We'll we'll cover all of that at
- 11:47the end of this bit. But first and foremost, we got
- 11:51this guy, Mohamed El Reign, a former CEO of PIMCO, saying what
- 11:57we know to be the truth out there and saying it on corporate
- 12:01press. And I know we believe.
- 12:04That independent content creators are the new media, but
- 12:07for some reason your parents, your friends, they still believe
- 12:11the guy on the TV. So the signal is spreading.
- 12:15And I even have a Bloomberg article here guys.
- 12:17They are connecting the halving with a bull run.
- 12:20So the signals going out there now what exactly is causing the
- 12:23Bitcoin price to go? People need to find a safe
- 12:26haven. Asset to store their value.
- 12:29Anyways, let's watch these couple of clips and we will
- 12:32connect the dots for you. You know there's been two big
- 12:34puzzles and they speak to how unsettling the volatility in the
- 12:39US Treasury has been. One is you haven't had it been
- 12:43the safe haven. We haven't seen the flight to
- 12:45quality and the flight to safety that you would expect given
- 12:49what's happening in the world. The second thing that's that's
- 12:52equally counterintuitive is you have people talking about.
- 12:56Bitcoins about equity being the safe asset because they've lost
- 13:00confidence in government bonds being the safe assets because of
- 13:05the nature of this interest rate.
- 13:08So yes, it should be the safe haven.
- 13:11It should have already benefited, but the reality is
- 13:14that the near yield today is a gutentine basis points higher
- 13:18than it was before this latest conflict erupted.
- 13:21You know, there's been, well, just love to hear it, just love
- 13:23to hear that we are continuously showing the world that Bitcoin
- 13:28is the safe haven asset, truly the only risk off asset in the
- 13:33world. And let's not forget that.
- 13:35What was this two weeks ago, Larry Fink said the very same
- 13:40thing. Now this was in regards to the
- 13:43the fake, you know, ETF premature announcement.
- 13:48But I think the signal is spreading.
- 13:50Or maybe we're meaning this into reality.
- 13:52Maybe in real time the the Larry Finks of the world and the asset
- 13:56manager of the world are meaning what we've been saying for
- 14:00forever. That Bitcoin is the quality.
- 14:03Bitcoin is the safe haven asset and if you are holding melting
- 14:07ice cubes, whether that be Fiat currencies, whether that be
- 14:10treasuries, you need to have some Bitcoin.
- 14:13So let's just refresh ourselves here and then remember what
- 14:15Larry Fink said about Bitcoin being the flight to quality.
- 14:18This rally is way beyond the rumor.
- 14:20I think the the rally today is about a flight to quality with
- 14:24all the, you know, all the issues around the Israeli war
- 14:29now. Global terrorism and I think
- 14:32there's more people running into a fight.
- 14:35The quality, whether that is Treasury's gold crypto depending
- 14:39on how you think about it and I believe crypto will play that
- 14:42type of role as a flight to quality.
- 14:45This rally is remember though guys, Larry can't actually say
- 14:50Bitcoin for whatever reason, for whatever legal reasons.
- 14:53So anytime he says crypto, he is talking about Bitcoin and look
- 14:58for the average person out there.
- 15:00The flight to quality is Treasuries.
- 15:02It is gold. Us bitcoiners believe otherwise.
- 15:05We think Bitcoin is the safest asset to be holding.
- 15:08It's the truly risk off asset, yes for.
- 15:12The beginning of Bitcoin, it's still very young.
- 15:14It still kind of moves with global liquidity.
- 15:16It still kind of has some kind of parallels to S&P 500.
- 15:21But there will be a great decoupling moment soon and I
- 15:25think we're starting to see the beginning of this and whether
- 15:27this is this bull run or rather this next cycle.
- 15:31We are seeing that more and more people are waking up to what we
- 15:34believe as bitcoiners and again just doubling down and and
- 15:37bringing the receipts. Guys like this dropped on
- 15:39Bloomberg this morning and you know say what you look, I'm the
- 15:42first one to talk shit on corporate press, but people
- 15:47still read Bloomberg. Bloomberg is still the financial
- 15:50website of all of the General. Market of asset either investors
- 15:57or managers and look what they're saying here guys.
- 15:59Look at this headline what is Bitcoin having and does it push
- 16:02up the cryptocurrencies price? And I'm not going to read this
- 16:05article, but it does a fairly decent job at explaining the
- 16:08halving and the fact that usually, at least historically,
- 16:1218 months after the halving while the supply of Bitcoin.
- 16:16Starts to shock and people start to realize, Oh my God, there's
- 16:20less Bitcoin being made. Now I probably need to get some
- 16:23and some simple supply and demand economics go into play.
- 16:27The price starts to rise, so the signal is spreading.
- 16:30But most bitcoiners right now on Twitter are saying that none of
- 16:35this has anything to do with the price movement.
- 16:37It's not about BlackRock ETF. It's not about people going
- 16:41flight to say, or flight to quality.
- 16:43What actually happened was a gamma squeeze.
- 16:46And look, I am no bond trader, I don't do futures.
- 16:50So you know, I'm reading and learning about this in real time
- 16:54with you guys. But we do have a historical
- 16:57precedent of this. Remember what happened with
- 16:58GameStop and this article here, this is on NASDAQ.
- 17:02Well, it's really from The Motley Fool, but it's kind of
- 17:03explaining to all this layman what a gamma squeeze is.
- 17:07So here we go, What is a gamma squeeze?
- 17:09And invest. A squeeze typically refers to
- 17:11times when rapid price movements in a company stock or a
- 17:14commodities price force investors to make changes in
- 17:17their investment positions that they otherwise wouldn't.
- 17:19Those force moves often drive even more price changes and
- 17:22force moves, creating a nasty feedback loop that can last
- 17:25quite a while before it crashes. One of the more common types of
- 17:28squeezes, known as a short squeeze, when a rising stock or
- 17:31commodity price forces people who have sold the stock short to
- 17:34buy back those shares, driving stock prices higher.
- 17:37Related to the short squeezes, something knows.
- 17:39As a Gamma Squeeze and Gamma Squeezes can take things one
- 17:43step further, forcing additional buying activity due to open
- 17:47option position on the underlying stock, a Gamma
- 17:49squeezes behind the large part of the recent meteoric rise in
- 17:54the share price of GameStop. I'm sure we're all fairly aware
- 17:57with what happened with GameStop anyways, fast forwarding to what
- 18:00we've been seeing on Twitter lately.
- 18:03Shouts out to Alex Thorne. What's his company?
- 18:06He is at head of firm wide research at Galaxy headquarters,
- 18:09Galaxy Research. And so he was covering this.
- 18:12So the Bitcoin gamma squeeze from last week could happen
- 18:14again if Bitcoin USD moves higher to 35 to 35.75 K to 36 K
- 18:21options dealers will need to buy $20 million and spot Bitcoin for
- 18:25every 1% upside move, which could cause explosiveness if we
- 18:30begin to move up towards those levels when dealers are short
- 18:34gamma and price moves up. Or when they are long gamma and
- 18:36price moves down, they need to buy spot to stay delta neutral.
- 18:40Last week's expiries will dampen potential explosiveness, but
- 18:44it's still in play compared today's gamma profile to last
- 18:47week's. And thanks to Amber Data IO for
- 18:51helping us calculate this. So what's all this mean for us
- 18:53guys? It just means there's more
- 18:56demand for spot Bitcoin, whether that is the BlackRock ETF,
- 19:00whether that that's them preparing for their their ETF
- 19:03announcements, whether that's happening this year or next
- 19:05year, early next year or whether it is flight to quality.
- 19:10Because there is inflation concerns, there is cracks in the
- 19:13bond market, there is concerns over Jay Powell and raising
- 19:17interest rates. This is the perfect storm for an
- 19:21epic, epic bull run. And So what is the cost of
- 19:25Bitcoin? I'm sure we will never know
- 19:27exactly all we know for sure, 21 million hardcap and more and
- 19:32more attention going to Bitcoin. There's only so much Bitcoin out
- 19:35there, guys. As we shown you in the numbers,
- 19:3893% of all Bitcoin has been mined that will ever be mined.
- 19:41Most of the Bitcoin is in cold storage, which means most people
- 19:45that are still in the market know exactly what they're
- 19:48holding they. Stand the value of their
- 19:50Bitcoin. And so it's going to take a lot
- 19:52of money. That's going to take a hotter
- 19:54buyout zone. There's going to need a pretty
- 19:56penny for you guys to drop your sat.
- 19:59So This is why we always tell you guys take your Bitcoin into
- 20:02cold storage if you are new to the channel.
- 20:06And you just happen to find us because you YouTube, why did the
- 20:10Bitcoin price go up? Guys, we are telling you now
- 20:13this is going to get frothy. This next year or two is going
- 20:16to get crazy. I am under the the view that the
- 20:20last bull run got cut off short and I think this next bull run
- 20:23is going to compound and it's going to get even crazier.
- 20:26So if you're here today, you have the asymmetric knowledge
- 20:30and the understanding that, wait a minute, this is going to get
- 20:34crazy, I need to have some Bitcoin just in case it catches
- 20:37on. And then in the news, Ruston's
- 20:39going to go over some of the bond math out there for you
- 20:41guys, show you some of these numbers.
- 20:43So we're going to give you guys a full debt today, a full stack
- 20:47on what's going on in the Bitcoin market.
- 20:49But for you guys out there, all you need to know is buy Bitcoin
- 20:52constantly, always be buying Bitcoin.
- 20:55I don't know what your money is. I don't know what your cash flow
- 20:58is, but every week, every other week, every month, even your
- 21:02excess beer money, it should be going into Bitcoin.
- 21:04You should be taking it off exchange, putting in the cold
- 21:07storage, make sure your seams backed up on something that is
- 21:10indestructible. And moving forward, you're going
- 21:14to be very happy by being a bitcoiner and we're seeing, I
- 21:18think. I think the theme here though,
- 21:20is what we've been covering all year.
- 21:23The public consciousness around Bitcoin and the education levels
- 21:26around Bitcoin are are increasing a lot.
- 21:28And more and more people are understanding that, Oh my
- 21:31goodness, there is a problem in the Fiat world and I need a
- 21:36solution. And we believe the solution is
- 21:38simply Bitcoin. Yes, Wondershare, this is Moon
- 21:41Boy math. We're we're we're setting the
- 21:44stage for the Moon Boy math. Anyways, Ruston, what's your
- 21:47thoughts on this? And then we'll go to Dom.
- 21:49OK. So I'm going to go remember we
- 21:51were talking this morning, meet you and Nico and it was like
- 21:54diminishing returns. And I, I, I typically have
- 21:58thought, but I, I'm taking a contrarian here.
- 22:01All right. So typically in the investment
- 22:03world because, well, they can, you know, increase the supply of
- 22:06stocks or gold money, whatever it may be, you can dilute it and
- 22:13there will be diminished returns.
- 22:14But Bitcoin is a finite supply asset.
- 22:18I I firmly believe like if we go back to two 2009 White Paper day
- 22:22which we just had based on its fundamentals, based on its
- 22:27monetary properties, Bitcoin was designed to win 100% XX.
- 22:36Ruston's got you covered on this on this topic.
- 22:39Oh, now I see it. China and Japan are done with
- 22:41U.S. Treasuries.
- 22:42We got that coming up. OK.
- 22:44Sorry Opti, didn't know what you're talking pointing me to.
- 22:48But the the all right, bigger numbers mean bigger numbers with
- 22:51Bitcoin. First off.
- 22:53Now what was the excuse about Bitcoin and all these big guys
- 22:56that couldn't get in right because Bitcoin wasn't big
- 22:59enough? Now Bitcoin is big enough and
- 23:02now you have BlackRock themselves.
- 23:04That said, 200 or 300 billion could flood into Bitcoin with an
- 23:07approval. You have 12 spot ETFs awaiting
- 23:10approval. You have macro calamity in the
- 23:12background. We're talking about that in just
- 23:14a minute. But eventually bigger numbers
- 23:17force bigger players to put bigger numbers into Bitcoin.
- 23:21OK, so now the hedge funds got to go in and eventually Bitcoin
- 23:24wins. So therefore bigger numbers were
- 23:27will force nation states to also FOMO into Bitcoin, bringing
- 23:31about bigger numbers. So maybe I'm going way off the
- 23:34radar here, but it would just seem like a very fundamental
- 23:36thing that came to me this morning with Bitcoin.
- 23:39Bigger numbers bring forth bigger numbers.
- 23:41I don't. I don't think it's going to be
- 23:42the other way around, especially.
- 23:44As we move into this this new paradigm of Bitcoin and and
- 23:49we're going to get into this tomorrow about the mainstream
- 23:51adoption, how it is on the radar of everyone right now at this
- 23:56point we can go back to you know pretty shortly after Russia,
- 24:00Ukraine, the the theories of pricing energy and and gas in
- 24:05Bitcoin, which makes sense because it's.
- 24:08Directly monetized energy. So we pay for energy with
- 24:11energy. I feel like Tesla foresaw this.
- 24:13Or Ford, or what was his name? Oh Dang it.
- 24:17The guy who built Epcot, Bucky Buckminster Fuller.
- 24:20Like people have been talking about this forever and it's here
- 24:23and it's already won. Now it's just for people to to
- 24:26come around and accept it and for the demand to to meet its
- 24:30potential. But that's all I got for right
- 24:32now. I just love it.
- 24:35Love it. Wait, wait, we did get caught in
- 24:374K before I pass it to Dom. Jacob Money says.
- 24:40Why did the Bitcoin price go up? Is this live?
- 24:42The title is clickbait because the price is tanking.
- 24:45Yes. OK, all right, we got caught.
- 24:48We got caught. All right.
- 24:49Dom, what's your thoughts on all this stuff?
- 24:51First of all, if I'm smirking, I got to say y'all have the best
- 24:55audience comments. Like it's really hard not to get
- 24:59drawn into. I saw some great ones.
- 25:01XX said during your guys did during the seed phrase
- 25:04commercial. My seed phrase is my sock
- 25:07drawer. I love that.
- 25:09That has to be a T-shirt. Love the comments.
- 25:12Yeah, there's so much going on right now.
- 25:14It's always hard to pinpoint why the price is going up.
- 25:17Tons of factors. I think brand is a huge thing.
- 25:21Bitcoin is, is, is, you know, 15 years we just celebrated for the
- 25:25white paper and 15 years of resiliency and reliability that
- 25:30has gone through an insane gauntlet of challenges.
- 25:35There is one piece of alpha I have for your crew for why the
- 25:39price is going up, but y'all have to keep this here because
- 25:42it's like super inside info. And that is, I got back from El
- 25:47Salvador and they're making these piggy banks where you put
- 25:51a coin and it's bouquet Lee, Piggy Bank.
- 25:53I think this is responsible for the price rise.
- 25:56I think a lot of people are putting their coins in the Piggy
- 25:59Bank and then they're turning it to Bitcoin.
- 26:01And you know, BlackRock sees this and they go, we have to tap
- 26:05this, this is insane. So yeah, it's, it's, it's
- 26:09exciting times. Bitcoin is is coming along.
- 26:12It does feel like we're entering a bull.
- 26:14You never know what will happen. But like you said, Opti scarcity
- 26:19is forever and you can only have so much of of what's available.
- 26:23And that's the key thing to focus on here.
- 26:25And and I think that's why you see these institutions getting
- 26:28in because this has been proven that people are willing to hold
- 26:32Bitcoin through the craziest of challenges.
- 26:37Love it. Yes, they are very concerned
- 26:41about you hoarding your your bitcoins under your mattress.
- 26:45So the the Bukele Bukele Piggy Bank is is definitely the
- 26:49reason. All right, guys.
- 26:50Before we get into the news and we get into some bond math for
- 26:54you guys, make sure you guys make it to Bitcoin conference in
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- 27:02simply. It's going to be July 25th or
- 27:0427th next year, 2024. We are taking over Nashville.
- 27:08I know it's a long ways away, what eight months away, but
- 27:13every time the conferences come around you guys do the same
- 27:16thing. You guys give a shit all year.
- 27:18The prices are too expensive. We'll get your your ticket today
- 27:21at the cheapest price it will be before you FOMO into the
- 27:25conference. At the very last day we will see
- 27:27you that you can even flip your conference ticket.
- 27:30This is this is how you can get more Sats if you do not even
- 27:33want to show up. Anyways guys, I think it's safe
- 27:37to say we are winning and we are continuing to win.
- 27:40So keep stacking, Keep spreading the signal as more and more
- 27:44people get on the Bitcoin standard.
- 27:45Anyways, let's get to the news. Wrestling's got a lot to talk
- 27:47about. The Daily News.
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- 29:11names. All right.
- 29:12Anyways, Ruston, the floor is all yours bro.
- 29:15What's going on? All right.
- 29:18So here we go, Dom, just just for welcoming, we usually kind
- 29:24of black out when we go into these segments.
- 29:26So feel free to jump in at any point and stop us, but let's go
- 29:29ahead and get it started right here.
- 29:30Japan is approving. Let's let let look at that #110
- 29:34billion stimulus package to to fight.
- 29:38Inflation. I don't know, guys.
- 29:40Should we tell them that? That's a bold strategy?
- 29:44Let's see what happens just in the pace at which interest
- 29:46payments hit 4.5%. Look at this chart.
- 29:49It took two decades in the 70s and 80s.
- 29:53Let's zoom in. Yeah, there we go.
- 29:56OK, so two decades between the 70s and 80s, That is madness.
- 30:01And we know what happened there. That's Volcker and the high
- 30:04interest rates and what that led to.
- 30:07Now it only took three years for the current clowns in the the
- 30:14clown showdown in DC to make this happen again, representing
- 30:18the fact that central planners are completely inept and these
- 30:22people get promoted for failing and making you poor.
- 30:25There's a better way of doing things.
- 30:26Let's go ahead and check this out.
- 30:28So you know Japan not looking good, U.S.
- 30:31Treasury. Well, same thing.
- 30:33The department said it would leave.
- 30:34It's going to need to borrow 776 billion just this quarter and
- 30:39816 billion in the first quarter 2024.
- 30:42So Janet Yellen out there killing it.
- 30:45Hopefully, hopefully she hits her bullseye and got her Fiat
- 30:49cut bucks because she's going to need them.
- 30:51Where she's headed. Now go in contrarian and
- 30:55reminding you guys CJ is going to be on here soon with Opti.
- 30:58The dude always drops some amazing Nuggets, so.
- 31:02The higher interest rates go, the higher inflation will go.
- 31:05Now let's see why the larger the deficit, the faster the currency
- 31:09printer and this is where we talk about this all the time.
- 31:12The debt spiral, the higher interest rates go, the higher
- 31:16cost for businesses and then the cost to get capital continues to
- 31:20build on top of that. So the exponentially rising cost
- 31:23of finance government's budget, the increasing cost to structure
- 31:27for business, the increased amount of yield that can be
- 31:29spent into the economy, I don't think we're.
- 31:32Correctly fighting inflation and there is a way to more easily
- 31:37opt out of this clown world. And that's why you're all here,
- 31:39because you guys are on the right side of the bell curve.
- 31:42But if you just showed up, hats off to you and you're going to
- 31:45learn some things and be able to spread the sound money gospel to
- 31:48all your friends and neighbors and sound much, much smarter
- 31:52than we typically do. And another example, guys.
- 31:54So as we look at this Fiat world, we we talk about
- 31:59devolving. And I thought, I'm not a big fan
- 32:02of kim.com total shit corner, but great statement right here.
- 32:05This guy wouldn't be able to get your fast food order right.
- 32:08But he decides if we have like World War Three again,
- 32:12governments, they're they're already like grasping at straws
- 32:15trying to be relevant. Look at Elizabeth Warren and her
- 32:19full on cookery. And despite all of this, despite
- 32:22your fencing, despite your regulatory coups.
- 32:26Despite. State bans like China.
- 32:29Hey, China, we're we're we're going to ban Bitcoin mining.
- 32:32Guess who's top three in the world in mining?
- 32:34Bitcoin China. OK, the Bitcoin bulls are on
- 32:38parade. There's no stopping it.
- 32:39All right. Good luck, Liz.
- 32:41You all right? No.
- 32:43We talked about this. I'm going to try to cut back on
- 32:46my insults, so I'm going to let Gandalf.
- 32:50So I'm going to let Gandalf do it for me.
- 32:51In their efforts to avoid being traced, illegal actors have
- 32:54adopted more sophisticated cryptocurrency technologies.
- 32:57Such as? Self custodial wallets.
- 32:59I don't know who's got a wallet in the back pocket today.
- 33:01You are a criminal, you savage. But yeah, Elizabeth Warren,
- 33:06Total moron. And that's Gandalf's words, not
- 33:08mine. All right, now let's get
- 33:10bullish. Didn't we?
- 33:11I think Dom and Wicked were talking about this the past
- 33:14couple days. This is amazing news.
- 33:17Let's pull that up. Right.
- 33:19Not only is every DCA are now in profit, the ones who started DCA
- 33:24ING at one of the worst times in history for cost basis are now
- 33:28up 17.5%. So you know all those guys that
- 33:32called you crazy degenerate or whatever, well, show them you're
- 33:35up 17.5%, you're headed to the moon, they'll come around
- 33:39eventually. Everyone gets Bitcoin at the
- 33:41price they deserve. And you know, going back to Liz
- 33:45and these people and how they're just showing.
- 33:49Their cards, you know, Nico just went in on this yesterday.
- 33:53It was beautiful. But I like Ant.
- 33:55What kind of jail time am I looking at tossing these on the
- 33:58table for? Go through that thread.
- 34:01It is epic. The the bit corners are out in
- 34:05full force. OK, and we already got you.
- 34:08CJI want to get on this too. Big news this morning.
- 34:12We had Fidelity again in the news as Jury and Timmer said
- 34:16that Bitcoin is exponential gold.
- 34:19Basically, there is no second best.
- 34:21All right? For those of you that haven't
- 34:23figured it out, you have a nice rock.
- 34:25You can make a nice necklace with it.
- 34:27You can gold plate your coffee table like Opti will be doing in
- 34:31the future. But take a look at this Jury and
- 34:33Timmer, right? This is fidelity.
- 34:36This isn't me and Opti being bull tarted, OK, but he said if
- 34:40history rhymes following 20/11/2013, that could catapult
- 34:43Bitcoin to 700 K But a more modest, you know, Outlook
- 34:47mirroring 2017 suggests 200 to 300 K, which also falls into Max
- 34:52Keiser. 220 K is still in play and you know Bitcoin, while
- 34:57Elizabeth Warren is I I I can't even.
- 35:01It's just the sound of her boy. Her voice just puts me.
- 35:05On edge, but Bitcoin halfway to its all time high.
- 35:08Mainstream media not really talking about that and there
- 35:12hasn't even been an ETF approval.
- 35:14What's going to happen when the normies start talking and the
- 35:1911:50 ETFs get approved at the same time?
- 35:21And Larry Fink? All right.
- 35:23At the end of the day, guys. Bitcoin is about winning and
- 35:27it's about self preservation. And you're not going to be able
- 35:30to take that from people. You're not going to be able to
- 35:32tell someone not to self preserve for themselves.
- 35:35That's what Bitcoin is. And just like we want to win and
- 35:38preserve for our future, BlackRock doesn't want to become
- 35:41irrelevant in the future because they know what's happening to
- 35:43the dollar. They told you that Bitcoin is
- 35:45going to overrun international currencies.
- 35:48They've told you what's going to happen.
- 35:50So maybe it's time to just let the ears perk up.
- 35:54Listen stack those sets. And be lazy and let Bitcoin do
- 35:58the rest for you in the future. Right now you have the ability
- 36:01to save, build, and plan for a future that you can create
- 36:04yourself. And we don't need any of their
- 36:06bullshit regulation, stipends or whatever.
- 36:10No, they're they're becoming more irrelevant by the day.
- 36:15Love it, love it. All right, I wanna highlight
- 36:16some of XX's comments for the audio listeners that aren't
- 36:20watching on YouTube. He's dropping some great signal
- 36:23in here on the YouTube chat. So XX goes.
- 36:25China and Japan are done with U.S.
- 36:27Treasuries. Pay attention.
- 36:28And then he doubled down with one more comment and he goes,
- 36:32you are not fully understanding why Bitcoin is about to get an
- 36:37exponential pump, but that's OK just hang on tight.
- 36:40It's slow, slow rolling for most people out there.
- 36:43It takes time. Remember, you know, be nice to
- 36:45the normies out there, remember how hard and how long it took.
- 36:48You pause to become a bit corner.
- 36:50The next comment, it is not big enough nor regulated enough, but
- 36:54that has all just changed, setting the stage for BTC to be
- 36:57more than big enough. And the last comment I want to
- 37:00highlight by XX goes treasuries market is probably the biggest
- 37:05new development for BTC. That market is bigger than the
- 37:08US stock market and stocks are not safe guys.
- 37:11This is the signal that we're seeing around the world.
- 37:15You know the US, the US dollar treasuries, they have been the
- 37:20risk off asset that there's still people telling you that
- 37:23it's the safest asset to be holding.
- 37:25And we're seeing that all around the world people are dropping
- 37:27treasuries. We're we're seeing what Jay
- 37:29Powell's doing. And you know they're fighting.
- 37:33They're they're doing their best to maintain control.
- 37:36But I even saw a man I'm blanking on the guy's name but
- 37:39he's one of the one of the investors from Big Short And and
- 37:43he was saying this morning on on television, basically saying
- 37:45like I don't even think Jay Powell knows what the math is
- 37:48doing. And it just goes to show no one
- 37:50out there in Fiat land actually knows what's going on.
- 37:53Especially remember when all the data is fibbed, all the data is
- 37:57fake, that it's literally guys, I I always got to bring this
- 38:00back to like layman terms. We are at the point of Saturday
- 38:03morning cartoons where Wiley Coyote has run off the Cliff and
- 38:07you see the Roadrunner go beep beep and only bitcoiners are the
- 38:11ones that have looked out at their feet.
- 38:13So we say it all the time. You know, we quote Greg Foss all
- 38:16the time. It's 11th grade math.
- 38:17They have to continue to print money.
- 38:20They will continue to try to issue bonds to whoever will buy
- 38:23them and it's looking around the world.
- 38:26And then you add that with what's going on with the BRICS
- 38:28nations, people aren't trusting America anymore.
- 38:31They do not want our money. They do not want our bond
- 38:33because shit's going haywire out there.
- 38:35The system has a problem, a fundamental systemic problem.
- 38:40And for all of us here, early to the game, you have an
- 38:45opportunity to not only gain and purchasing power, but protect
- 38:49yourself. And this is what it's about.
- 38:51First, put on the oxygen mask guys.
- 38:53You need to hold on an acid outside of the system, a slide
- 38:57parallel way to save the take this power back from the powers
- 39:01that be. And this is of course Bitcoin
- 39:03guys. So look, I know we got macro and
- 39:06I already hear yellow yelling at us.
- 39:08Macro, macro, macro. It is what it is guys.
- 39:10This is where we are in the movie.
- 39:13Bitcoin is becoming a defining conversation in the macro space.
- 39:17Everyone and their mother will be talking about Bitcoin moving
- 39:20forward, and you have the opportunity to continue to stack
- 39:23Bitcoin at 35 KII think anything under 100K is still cheap, guys,
- 39:27so do not get sidetracked. Continue to stack, stack Bitcoin
- 39:31at any price. The price is irrelevant because
- 39:34it's still absolutely stupid cheap.
- 39:38The only thing scarce, the only thing scarcer is your time, your
- 39:43life saving Bitcoin. Guys, we're seeing in real time
- 39:46that public consciousness is waking up to Bitcoin.
- 39:49We're seeing in real time that the biggest asset managers in
- 39:51the world are waking up to Bitcoin as a solution.
- 39:54And we're seeing that, you know, this conversation is being had
- 39:57on an army level as well. It's it's everywhere.
- 40:00Everyone is wondering what the hell is going on, and whether
- 40:02we're seeing a flight to quality as the meme is going yet.
- 40:07It's still, it's still yet to be seen, but we will be seeing that
- 40:10this meme gets stronger and stronger moving forward, and
- 40:12more and more people are going to pile into Bitcoin, and it's
- 40:17going to be just absolutely awesome to be a part of it.
- 40:20Anyways, Dom, what's your thoughts on all this stuff?
- 40:23I just think when you're talking like when is the last time, and
- 40:26maybe this comes from my lack of financial education where you
- 40:30know your normal pleb, your working person has had the
- 40:34chance to front run some of the biggest financial asset managers
- 40:39in the world who are chomping at the bit waiting for the SEC to
- 40:42give the green light so they can bring massive institutional
- 40:46clients into this thing, Bitcoin.
- 40:48Yet I can go buy some today, right now.
- 40:52It's rare. I don't think it's happened
- 40:54before and and if it has not like this so that's something
- 40:58worth considering. After you mentioned put on your
- 41:01oxygen mask for this flight I I think about the the flights.
- 41:05Make sure you take care of yourself before you help others.
- 41:08So have your situation set up right.
- 41:10Put your own oxygen mask before you start helping other people.
- 41:14But then those people need to get their mask on too.
- 41:17And. Yeah, it's just, it's just it's
- 41:21pretty wild right now that the institutions like BlackRock are
- 41:25for some people and not a lot of listeners here because a lot of
- 41:28listeners here have figured it out.
- 41:30They will not move forward until super signalers give them the OK
- 41:34and and that's just how they operate.
- 41:36You know the new kid in town, Bitcoin has been plastered with
- 41:40negative news media. Dangerous scam fell from the
- 41:44top. No good.
- 41:46Mainstream media has tried to attack it.
- 41:48Well, now you have the big dog saying, hey, this new kid in
- 41:52town, they're all right. They're pretty reliable.
- 41:54They keep proving the test of time that they're here to stay.
- 41:57Their holders are awesome. They're reliable.
- 41:59Let's bring in now the institutional clients to get on
- 42:02this. So it's big things happening
- 42:04right now. Pretty insane, yeah.
- 42:07I love to see it. I actually saw a really good
- 42:09thread. Maybe maybe I'll bring it up
- 42:10tomorrow in culture. And I know, I know us
- 42:14Bitcoiners, we're we're very concerned about BlackRock
- 42:18embracing Bitcoin. And and there's even like the
- 42:20counter thread on Bitcoin Twitter, like bitcoiners,
- 42:24Bitcoiners are plotting back BlackRock.
- 42:26I thought it was the point to get away from BlackRock.
- 42:28Well, again, it was white paper day Tuesday.
- 42:32And I am just reminded of the incentive portion of that white
- 42:37paper where it says, you know, you're better off to just play
- 42:40along with Bitcoin. The amount of money that these
- 42:43asset managers will make in fees by embracing Bitcoin, by having
- 42:47their army of Wall Street people educating others on Bitcoin.
- 42:52Guys, we say it all the time, for better or worse, the
- 42:55tyrants, the central bankers, the bureaucrats, and now the
- 42:58financial asset managers of the world will be the best marketers
- 43:02of Bitcoin. And all it takes is what Dom
- 43:05touched on. And they just need that
- 43:06signaling from the market that hey, it's OK for you guys to
- 43:09pile into Bitcoin. And again, we try to always
- 43:13frame this in positive light, like the benefits that this will
- 43:16have on your life. But we're seeing that on the
- 43:18flip side, people are looking for solutions.
- 43:21The red flags are going off in traditional financial world and
- 43:23they're wondering like, wait, we need to pile into something, we
- 43:26need something to hold on to. And it's looking like Michael
- 43:31Saylor and Naive Bukella and every one of you Bitcoiners out
- 43:34there are right, continue to be right.
- 43:37The Bitcoin's incentives are strong and moving forward, it's
- 43:40just going to become more and more obvious that Bitcoin is the
- 43:44way forward. And here we are guys, we're on
- 43:46the front lines of this. You know we we're seeing that
- 43:49the powers that be are fighting Bitcoin.
- 43:51So all of this is going to be the perfect storm to just show
- 43:56the world that Bitcoin is the way digital scarcity is awesome
- 43:59and number will go up. And and I think it's, I think
- 44:03it's important Opti that we have an opportunity.
- 44:06You know, look, I still trust Larry Fink as far as I can throw
- 44:09him, which is not very far. And so we have an opportunity
- 44:13when this gets greenlit, whether they're, you know, does does
- 44:16BlackRock really believe and subscribe to the fundamental
- 44:19values of Bitcoin that we do? I don't think so necessarily
- 44:23because they have a huge amount of wealth.
- 44:26That is potentially, you know, in jeopardy, right?
- 44:29If as Bitcoin becomes stronger, whether they're in or not, we
- 44:33don't know. Maybe they are subscribed, who
- 44:35knows? We can never tell.
- 44:36But when a lot of people see that and they go, now this thing
- 44:39is OK, that's where bitcoiners like us, all your listeners can
- 44:43jump in and grab them and go, hey, OK, cool.
- 44:45Larry Fink said it's OK to get into Bitcoin.
- 44:48But now let me explain to you some very important fundamentals
- 44:51like self custody. Let me explain why it's
- 44:53important to have your own Bitcoin.
- 44:55Let me give you some resources. Courses that you can learn about
- 44:57it. So if you are managing a fund or
- 45:00doing something like that, you know what you're getting into.
- 45:03This is still an ETF, you're not holding it direct.
- 45:06And Bitcoin was not created to have ETFSETFS were created to
- 45:11try to capture Bitcoin. Oof.
- 45:14Love it. Well, I want to highlight one
- 45:15comment. I wish I could pull this up on
- 45:17this on Rumble. Shout out the Moran and he goes
- 45:20trying not to sell my house. Come on guys, you're killing me
- 45:28Rustin. Getting them super bullish.
- 45:30Anyways, let's get into the culture cuz I I'm really excited
- 45:33to talk to Dom. Dom Dom's a cool dude so there's
- 45:35gonna be a good one. I think you guys are gonna
- 45:37really enjoy the Orange Pill story.
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- 46:41answer all your questions. If you are thinking about this,
- 46:44reach out to them on Telegram group.
- 46:46Join their telegram group and they will make sure that you are
- 46:51on the right path. I actually funny story my my boy
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- 47:02But you might have talked out of it.
- 47:03You might just want to stack some Bitcoin, but get over to
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- 47:08killing it. And you know, they're they're
- 47:10ensuring that the network is getting stronger and stronger
- 47:13every single day. Anyways, Dom, let's get to you
- 47:16bro. This this culture might go a
- 47:18little longer than usual, just because I I really love talking
- 47:21to Dom. We were hanging out at Pacific
- 47:23Bitcoin. Absolutely.
- 47:24Cool dude. Absolute legend.
- 47:26A Chad in his own right. But we won't talk about the
- 47:30shenanigans of us hanging out in LA anyway, Dom, it didn't click
- 47:35for me when we were hanging out at Pacific Bitcoin until after,
- 47:39like, I don't know, halfway through the day that we were
- 47:41hanging out of your Orange Pill story and we were at Pacific
- 47:45Bitcoin. So maybe tell the people this
- 47:47this story, and then we'll get into what your project is.
- 47:51Yeah so so this story can take a lot of time and I'm going to try
- 47:54to package it up fast for the for the the busy listener out
- 47:57there 3 phases of this orange pill.
- 48:00One is a failed dose. One is the first dose and then
- 48:03three is the re up first failed dose. 2011 Bought my first stock
- 48:08ever. Walked out of my room, roommate
- 48:10says. Hey, why are you grinning?
- 48:12I said, 'cause I just bought a stock and I'm about to admit
- 48:14this thing's going to be great. He goes, hey, you should sell
- 48:17that stock and buy this thing called Bitcoin.
- 48:19I was like, what's Bitcoin? He said.
- 48:20I don't know, I can't explain it, but people are talking about
- 48:23it everywhere I go. Well, how much is it?
- 48:25He's like $10 a coin. I said, well, are you going to
- 48:28buy some? He said no, I have no money.
- 48:30I said, well then neither am I. Thanks for the message.
- 48:33See you later. Oops, everyone has that.
- 48:35Story #2 was working at conference.
- 48:39And this was in 2017. Then I really got to talk to
- 48:42some bitcoiners. It was not a Bitcoin only
- 48:45conference. It was like other projects at
- 48:47that time. Things were, you know, this was
- 48:49before the block wars, just before things were heating up.
- 48:53And I talked to a bitcoiner and I got it.
- 48:55It hit me, I got it. I said, all right, I got it.
- 48:58The conviction is what led me to believe and look deeper in
- 49:03Bitcoin because the people I talked to were so convicted.
- 49:06I was like. I have to look into this thing,
- 49:09but I was just kind of passive. More of just like holding
- 49:11Bitcoin. I wasn't contributing to the
- 49:13community, very busy doing the union work that I did for the
- 49:17firefighters. As I was getting ready to get
- 49:20off the union work, I was working one day and we had a
- 49:23call at the beach for someone that hurt their neck.
- 49:27We go up, this guy's holding his neck with a couple people.
- 49:30Of course I'm the paramedic for the day, and I usually don't do
- 49:33the paramedic stuff as a supervisor now, but I go OK.
- 49:36And he goes on my neck, I was diving in the water.
- 49:38I'm like, oh, I know how these calls go.
- 49:40Like, let's just get him to the hospital.
- 49:42Let's be super cautious on the way up to the hospital.
- 49:45I'm like, hey, what are you doing here?
- 49:46And he goes, oh, I'm visiting and I'm working this conference
- 49:50and I'm like, is it the Pacific Bitcoin Conference?
- 49:54And he said, yeah, I actually work for Swan.
- 49:57Keep in mind, this was the day after the FTX collapse.
- 50:00I had showed up to work that day and I'm like, OK, time to stack
- 50:04folks. Like, like, what's going on?
- 50:07I find out in the ambulance he, he he works for Swan.
- 50:10He's an analyst. I'm like, OK, stop the analyst,
- 50:13bro. I mean, I was like, stop the
- 50:14ambulance. Are we what's the deal, dude 17,
- 50:17Like, where are we at, dude? Like, what's going on?
- 50:19I'm kidding. We didn't stop the ambulance.
- 50:21But anyways. I expected to see him at the
- 50:23conference, kind of be like, hey man, they kept me at the
- 50:26hospital. You wasted my time.
- 50:28Why'd you send me up? Turns out he broke his neck in
- 50:31two spots and luckily he got up to the hospital, made a full
- 50:35recovery. Doctor said otherwise he could
- 50:37have been paralyzed. So that was a very moving
- 50:39experience for me. And from that this door open to
- 50:42get more involved in Bitcoin and as I was finishing up on the
- 50:46union. I was thinking like, what's next
- 50:49for me? I started really looking into
- 50:51how do Bitcoin and workers and unions, how do they intersect?
- 50:55Where do they, where do they cross?
- 50:57And I started kind of finding this mission where like, hey, I
- 51:00really got to try to show workers what I've found and what
- 51:03I've been blessed to find a Bitcoin so that they can at
- 51:06least discover this, see it and set themselves up for the
- 51:10future. So that's my Orange Pill story.
- 51:14Absolutely incredible. It's so strange.
- 51:16How some people get to Bitcoin and and like I fully remember
- 51:20being at the swan party last year and they're like yeah
- 51:26here's this firefighter like everyone show him love He
- 51:29basically saved one of our guys lives and then a year later I
- 51:33was hanging out with you and and we were with the the Blue Collar
- 51:37Bitcoin podcast guys and we had a we were laughing our asses
- 51:41off. I I hope Rustin posted this on.
- 51:43It was absolutely great time. And then after that
- 51:45conversation, it was like, oh wait, Dom, you were that
- 51:49firefighter, Like, just incredible.
- 51:51Just incredible. All right, let's let's give you
- 51:53some more space. So, Dom, what is this project?
- 51:56What is proof of workforce? Yeah.
- 51:59So proof of proof of workforce is the nonprofit.
- 52:02And again, we we, we know and you all know in the audience
- 52:07that there's usually a bitcoiner in every group, whether it's a
- 52:11union, whether it's a workers group, whether it's a church,
- 52:14there's a bitcoiner there. The thing is, is it's very hard
- 52:18to get a group or organization to adopt Bitcoin.
- 52:22And so our focus is on workers. We want to give them the tools
- 52:26to bring Bitcoin to their organization.
- 52:29You know, I was able to work with my my own organization, the
- 52:32Santa Monica Firefighters. We became the first union to
- 52:35self custody Bitcoin without use of a third party, first union in
- 52:41history to do that. So we have a template.
- 52:45Other unions have followed suit. And again, I know sometimes
- 52:48people have a bad, you know, they have they they some people
- 52:51look at unions negatively and I think sometimes they see larger
- 52:55like nationwide unions. And they see things they don't
- 52:58agree with whether it's political stances and I
- 53:00understand that. But I want people to remember
- 53:03that that the unions mostly are small unions that represent
- 53:07workers in the local workplace. And so giving them Bitcoin,
- 53:11helping them find Bitcoin, extending into the conversation
- 53:15with pensions to help pension funds which many are severely
- 53:18distressed still from the financial crisis of O7O8,
- 53:23helping them to find Bitcoin, helping workers realize.
- 53:27A saving in dollars is is is not a winning venture and and owning
- 53:33something outside of this system which has burned workers so many
- 53:37times in the past. Think about the headlines rapid
- 53:40inflation. Who gets burned?
- 53:42The working person financial crisis.
- 53:45Where did a lot of that money come and get get hammered?
- 53:49All the big companies that that were reckless, they got bailed
- 53:52out, but the pensions didn't get bailed out and they took a loss.
- 53:56They got dumped on. So this main legacy system,
- 53:59which has burned us before, how many times will it take getting
- 54:02burned until we own something outside of that legacy system
- 54:06that's ours, that can't, that can't be manipulated and and and
- 54:10the worker can't be you know the scapegoat for when things go
- 54:13wrong. So that's our nonprofit.
- 54:16We have a great board. I got Josh and Dan on there,
- 54:19Lisa Huff, Mags and and and the Wizkid.
- 54:23Joe, Carlos, sorry, one of the sharpest lawyers in the game.
- 54:28And so we just again, our mission is clear.
- 54:31I want every worker to to hold Bitcoin, but I want them to do
- 54:36it in a way that's going to allow them to survive future
- 54:41bear markets, which we know will occur.
- 54:43As great as this bull run is, we will have some harder times
- 54:46ahead. And only by understanding
- 54:49Bitcoin and what it is will you stick around for the long run.
- 54:53Not, not get scared, not sell too early and and commit to this
- 54:57mission. Love it bro.
- 55:00Absolutely love it. That is the star-studded line
- 55:04up, by the way. I love that team, yeah.
- 55:08I don't know how I got blessed with that.
- 55:09I I just like, yeah, shout out to Chris Alamo.
- 55:12Oh yeah, and Alamo. 'S on the board too, I.
- 55:15I forgot Alamo's on the board, too.
- 55:17Who, who's? Who's one of the the guy he's
- 55:20always he's always helping out with?
- 55:22Like the guy is so smart dude. Alamo is so sharp one 100%.
- 55:29Blessed with an incredible board.
- 55:30And then I want more workers. Any unions out there or workers?
- 55:34That want to support this organization is not to, you
- 55:38know, it is a non profit And so I want it to become other
- 55:41people's. Like hopefully this NTD will be
- 55:43something that is, you know moved forward by other workers
- 55:47and it becomes something that's, you know, good for workers
- 55:50everywhere. Love to hear it bro.
- 55:54So if there is someone that is a part of a union, what do they
- 55:58do? They just reach out to you like,
- 56:00how's this process go? Yeah, so there's a contact form
- 56:04on the website people can do. Sometimes people hit me directly
- 56:07on Twitter. You can e-mail us.
- 56:10And again, if you're looking to bring Bitcoin to your union
- 56:14organization, we're going to do everything we can using the
- 56:17contacts and resources we have to set up a plan and help you
- 56:22develop a plan to bring that forward.
- 56:25We've, you know again I have there's a the second union
- 56:29that's going to adopt Bitcoin is right, that's dropping any time
- 56:34now that they're going to adopt and so that's very exciting all
- 56:39the steps about like we don't recommend ever any services or
- 56:43anything like that we try to give you like.
- 56:46Hey, here's some options that you have.
- 56:48You have to walk the path your own Bitcoin path yourself and we
- 56:52help facilitate whether it's acquiring Bitcoin or holding it.
- 56:56We'll show, we'll try to point you to resources of how to use a
- 57:00self custody hardware wallet, but we're not going to tell you
- 57:03buy this wallet, buy that wallet.
- 57:04You have to. We'll answer questions.
- 57:07We'll help you bring a plan and then the hardest part for any
- 57:10membership based organization is can is getting that
- 57:13organization. To to buy in now with our
- 57:17organization, the firefighters. Keep this in mind, and this is
- 57:20what I'm so inspired by. Our first measure to get into
- 57:24Bitcoin was approved by 87% of the membership.
- 57:29I can't even get them to vote on coffee dues or how to which
- 57:33coffee to buy at an 87%. So the enthusiasm was there, but
- 57:38we did it responsibly. We didn't put all this money
- 57:40into Bitcoin. We got a very, very small
- 57:43amount. We set up a committee to give.
- 57:45Resources and learn and and now we're talking about the next
- 57:49step without fear and that's really important.
- 57:52So again, if you're trying to bring Bitcoin to your union
- 57:57organization, we are here to help you and make you successful
- 58:00at that and just give you all the knowledge we know of things
- 58:03that have been done already and then you can take it back to
- 58:06your organization and you know your organization best.
- 58:10So let us help you and you ultimately have to walk that
- 58:13path to bring it to your group. Love it, love it.
- 58:17Rustin, before you jump in here, just some comments.
- 58:21I I this number here is absolutely incredible.
- 58:26And maybe for the people out there and and for the audio
- 58:29listeners, it says $1.3 trillion in total unfunded liabilities in
- 58:33the US. For for people out there that
- 58:37maybe, I don't know, have never heard this idea that maybe their
- 58:42pension funds aren't safe and maybe they won't have that money
- 58:46there in the future. You know, a lot of people think
- 58:48that the traditional legacy system is, is is a concrete
- 58:53foundation. And a lot of us bitcoiners are
- 58:57kind of on the flip side. That's saying, hey, all that
- 59:01money that you think is going to be there might not be there.
- 59:04And so dumb for someone that maybe is thinking what you bit
- 59:08corners are crazy. Like what?
- 59:10What are you even talking about? Like what?
- 59:11What is going on here? And I think a lot of people
- 59:15still have doubts that we are seeing things clearly.
- 59:18And So what would you say to someone on the fence like that?
- 59:21Yeah, I've learned a lot looking into pensions and.
- 59:25For those listening and unfunded liability simply means this.
- 59:28You have a pile of assets that form a pension or a four O 1K
- 59:33retirement account. Then you have the money that is
- 59:36owed to your workers when they retire.
- 59:39The difference between what you hold as an asset at right now
- 59:43versus what you have to pay out is called your liabilities and
- 59:47when they don't match up. If we owe our retirees $1000 and
- 59:53we have $1000 in assets, then we are at 100% funded ratio.
- 59:58If we have $80.00 and we owe the retirees $100, we are at an 80%
- 1:00:03funded status. That's important because the
- 1:00:06liabilities in many pensions are running away from the assets.
- 1:00:11And pension funds cannot keep up with the liabilities of people,
- 1:00:16whether it's living longer, cost of living, adjustments from
- 1:00:20inflation. They can't make those kind of
- 1:00:23returns. They're usually very
- 1:00:24conservative. And the biggest thing is they've
- 1:00:28been burned in the past. Again, most pension funds, and a
- 1:00:32lot of them were fully funded or close to before the financial
- 1:00:36crisis. Everyone got bailed out in the
- 1:00:38financial crisis except who The working folks.
- 1:00:41They said sorry, y'all lost. We we gambled your money and
- 1:00:46everything lost its value and Y'all lost.
- 1:00:50They have not many have not recovered.
- 1:00:52The largest pension in the United States, the largest
- 1:00:55public pension is CalPERS $450 billion pension fund that is
- 1:01:02only funded at 72%. This is coming on the tail end
- 1:01:07of one of the highest, longest performing stock equity market
- 1:01:11runs in history. It were only at 72%.
- 1:01:15That should tell you they cannot keep up.
- 1:01:18So Bitcoin is pivotal in my opinion to help fill this gap
- 1:01:22and to help support and buoy these these pension funds.
- 1:01:27So it's really important to understand this isn't just
- 1:01:32pension funds. It's Social Security, It's 401K
- 1:01:34and it could be your own personal savings account.
- 1:01:37It's important to pay attention to what it's supposed to pay out
- 1:01:40and how many asset, what assets you have.
- 1:01:43And Bitcoin is this amazing, incredible protocol that we have
- 1:01:49the opportunity to invest in now that will keep up and and and
- 1:01:53unless hey Opti and and and Russ, y'all know not only will
- 1:01:56it keep up. It's going to fly and soar like
- 1:01:59an eagle and and and and pensions will need to keep up
- 1:02:02with Bitcoin. Man, dude, straight.
- 1:02:09Killed a Dom. So I was a teacher and coach and
- 1:02:12I have a little experience with the, the teachers unions and you
- 1:02:17know, I was really getting into Bitcoin and I was like trying to
- 1:02:19tell everyone and they were like, Nah, I've got my Roth IRA,
- 1:02:23I've got my capers, you know, and I was like, you know what
- 1:02:26those assets are purchased in and and how they connect.
- 1:02:32Unfunded liabilities, we've been talking about this a long time
- 1:02:35with Social Security. I think they said that's likely
- 1:02:38between 2033 and 2035 and and they're not really talking about
- 1:02:43that in the news and and you have a trillion in debt almost
- 1:02:46added in a month. This is just complete madness
- 1:02:50and what they were doing in these pension funds, right.
- 1:02:53We had that near collapse in the UK and then the way they were
- 1:02:58gamble, gambling away people's retirements.
- 1:03:01Is absolutely insane and this is going to trickle down.
- 1:03:05Pensions absolutely fail down there.
- 1:03:08They need Bitcoin because when this stuff hits and it's kind of
- 1:03:12like we said like it, it's just like a slow train wreck right
- 1:03:17now. It's going to that you can't put
- 1:03:20a put a time frame on it always said like hyperinflation or
- 1:03:23these type of events. It's been happening for 50
- 1:03:26years, right? And you know going off the gold
- 1:03:29standard that was that first little crack in the vase and
- 1:03:32then over time pressure continues to build in there.
- 1:03:35Maybe the soil packs in and it starts to spider web and then
- 1:03:39things get a little uneasy and hopefully people get on that
- 1:03:43lifeboat before it's too late or people start to make these
- 1:03:46amends and see it. And I think that's what you're
- 1:03:48seeing with Fidelity. BlackRock and these people, they
- 1:03:51can't come out and say things like that because the thing
- 1:03:53think of what that does with all their customers and their
- 1:03:55retirements, they're they're the biggest.
- 1:03:57Arguably retirement company there is, but they are planning
- 1:04:00the seed that and protecting themselves so that they will
- 1:04:05have a backstop for their customers themselves and that's
- 1:04:08what BlackRock has micro strategies ahead of everyone
- 1:04:11like Sailor and them are basically trillionaires and no
- 1:04:14one knows it yet. We're getting into that
- 1:04:17territory and it's just going to be interesting to see this
- 1:04:20dynamic over time and what Dom and and Lisa and Chris and all
- 1:04:24you guys are doing. Is incredible.
- 1:04:26And it goes back to everyone needs Bitcoin now.
- 1:04:29It's just like who's who's going to take, you know, just accept
- 1:04:32it and be willing to do the homework and willing to to be
- 1:04:36humble or willing to to see like everything is not OK, You got to
- 1:04:41understand that and you got to face that and you can't just sit
- 1:04:44back and do nothing. You've got to preserve yourself
- 1:04:48and you know, take care of yourself and maybe you'll be
- 1:04:51able to help others after that. Like you guys were saying, put
- 1:04:53the put the oxygen mask on now. Before it's too late because you
- 1:04:57don't know when it's going to happen, but all all the arrows
- 1:05:01are pointing in a horrible direction in in that regard.
- 1:05:04But everything's good for Bitcoin at the end of the day.
- 1:05:07So I think also when we were talking about the media, oh
- 1:05:10sorry Dom, I'm I'm going to get done with this quick.
- 1:05:13BlackRock owns the media, so there's there's about 80% of the
- 1:05:16media ownership right there. So do you think all that against
- 1:05:19Bitcoin, all those people that fought Bitcoin throughout the
- 1:05:22years? They just cut into their their
- 1:05:24gains. They just cut into their their
- 1:05:27future benefit. I mean, they're just cutting
- 1:05:30their own throats. Like when are you going to stop?
- 1:05:32You got to accept it. Yeah, we, we've seen the
- 1:05:36negative media on Bitcoin over the years and we know that the
- 1:05:39big asset managers and the big banks and the JPS, they own the
- 1:05:43media. Just simply putting the the foot
- 1:05:47off of the neck of Bitcoin, which is a bad analogy because
- 1:05:51Bitcoin ain't down, Bitcoin is flying above.
- 1:05:53But like in their minds, right for the retailer's view of
- 1:05:56Bitcoin, just easing up on the negative stories is going to
- 1:06:00allow so many retailers to to flood into Bitcoin again.
- 1:06:05We hope it's for the right reasons, but yeah, going back to
- 1:06:09what you were saying, just with with the teachers pension and
- 1:06:12pensions, you know, this is not an OPTI you mentioned Bitcoiners
- 1:06:18are always like sometimes we get painted as doomsdayers.
- 1:06:21But this isn't a hypothetical. The finance system, the legacy
- 1:06:25finance system has repeatedly in history burned the everyday
- 1:06:31worker pensions have been burned by the legacy finance system.
- 1:06:37So soon as some pensions come around and add Bitcoin to their
- 1:06:41balance sheet and allows them to keep their promises to workers.
- 1:06:44To say, hey, if you work for me and trade 30 years of your most
- 1:06:48valuable time, your your youth and when you retire we say we'll
- 1:06:52pay you this, we're actually going to do it.
- 1:06:54And workers will start to demand, hey, you had better have
- 1:06:57Bitcoin in our portfolio to help support our our, the health of
- 1:07:02our total portfolio. It's going to be demanded
- 1:07:05because again this isn't a doomsday theory that the
- 1:07:08pensions have been burned time and time again by the legacy
- 1:07:12system. Because it's easy to take 20%
- 1:07:16from the workers rather than, you know, punish the big massive
- 1:07:20corporations that run politics and everyday life and and have
- 1:07:24the ability to inflict pain. It's easy to just hit the
- 1:07:27worker. Not anymore.
- 1:07:29And and workers are going to demand Bitcoin in their
- 1:07:32pensions. It's a guarantee they will.
- 1:07:35Absolutely love it, Dom. Well, to you and the whole Proof
- 1:07:39of Workforce team, you know, Godspeed.
- 1:07:42More power to you. I can't wait to see what else
- 1:07:45you guys are doing. Shouts out to Chris.
- 1:07:48Love you bro. Shouts out to the blue collar
- 1:07:50Bitcoin guys. Good hanging with you and Dom,
- 1:07:54really appreciate you coming on I I hope.
- 1:07:56You know, we we did temper our bullishness with a little a
- 1:07:59little dose of sober reality for the people out there.
- 1:08:02And I know our audience usually is kind of on the younger side,
- 1:08:07but get in touch with proof of workforce guys, maybe for your
- 1:08:11parents, you know, aunt, uncles, people that are a part of the
- 1:08:16system, blue collar workers. I come from a blue collar family
- 1:08:19as well and and I really do believe that the average person.
- 1:08:23Needs Bitcoin more than any of the black rocks of the world or
- 1:08:28any of the institutional investors of the world.
- 1:08:30I really try to angle my conversations for why does the
- 1:08:36everyday person need Bitcoin today?
- 1:08:38What does that? What does Bitcoin solve for them
- 1:08:40in their lives today? And so, Dom, more power to you.
- 1:08:44I can't wait to see what you're doing.
- 1:08:45And next time you got some big news to announce.
- 1:08:49Coming back on so we can get bullish.
- 1:08:50Anyways, guys, let's get into the meme review because This is
- 1:08:53why you come to the show anyways.
- 1:08:54You go through all of that just to get some memes.
- 1:08:57So here we go, the daily meme review.
- 1:09:10All right, boys and girls. Mainly boys, but some girls.
- 1:09:14Shouts out to the girls out there in the chat hanging out
- 1:09:16with us and our viewers and and our viewers we love you love
- 1:09:19lovely ladies. Anyways, this is the main review
- 1:09:22where you tag me in memes either at simply Bitcoin TV on Twitter
- 1:09:26or or you can tag my personal account at Optimus Fields till
- 1:09:32till further notice till my notifications get blown up too
- 1:09:35much. I I I am still taking the tags
- 1:09:38of not only your own memes. Putting them on the show or drop
- 1:09:42them in our telegram? T dot me slash simply Bitcoin
- 1:09:44TV. But guys, please give me the
- 1:09:47tweets. I I know you guys like to steal
- 1:09:49memes and and memes are meant to be stolen, but I'd like to give
- 1:09:53people their credit. I I don't.
- 1:09:54I don't want to just take the meme from the from the from the
- 1:09:58telegram group I I want to give them their their their due
- 1:10:00diligence. All right.
- 1:10:01Anyways you already know the deal guys.
- 1:10:03Tweet to the bullets. Memes are the artillery.
- 1:10:06Continue to the corporate press. Continue to get the calls of
- 1:10:10action out there. Continue to make the funnies so
- 1:10:13your friends and families heads stay in the game.
- 1:10:16We are winning. We are we're we're we're winning
- 1:10:19so hard. It's absolutely incredible that
- 1:10:21our memes are hitting mainstream consciousness.
- 1:10:25And one of those is this first one here by Steven Lubka.
- 1:10:28Again, sorry Steven I I forget how to say your Twitter name.
- 1:10:33Dazzambala Huddle. And he goes, when will you join
- 1:10:36the flight to quality? And here's all of us bitcoiners
- 1:10:41joining the flight to quality. And it's a Bitcoin plane here.
- 1:10:45And it's all of us getting aboard, exiting the Fiat matrix,
- 1:10:51getting on the bright orange future, getting on the Bitcoin
- 1:10:53standard and protecting ourselves.
- 1:10:56Guys, this is what it's about. Stop trusting other people with
- 1:10:59your money, as time and time has shown us over and over again.
- 1:11:05If you trust someone with your money, they will abuse it.
- 1:11:07Or as Dom was telling us, you know you, you trust someone with
- 1:11:09your pension funds. They will get abused.
- 1:11:12They do not care about the little man.
- 1:11:13But hey, Bitcoin is for the people anyways.
- 1:11:16Next meme is by Big Sean Harris and he just does a if you know,
- 1:11:19you know meme and Big Sean Harris.
- 1:11:22We do not endorse this because you know you should have your
- 1:11:26seed phrase on something more than paper.
- 1:11:29But I absolutely love this. This is a goofy from.
- 1:11:31I'm pretty sure this is The Goofy Movie.
- 1:11:33Gang Man. Throwback.
- 1:11:34Wow. Actually love this movie.
- 1:11:37Great movie. Great.
- 1:11:38Choice. And it's goofy crying, closing
- 1:11:42the door, you know? Teary eyed.
- 1:11:44Just looking so lovingly and it goes, me saying goodbye to my
- 1:11:47seed phrase one last time before I close my sock drawer.
- 1:11:50If you know, you know, it's almost like the meme of everyone
- 1:11:55has their seed phrase in their sock drawer is like the
- 1:11:57strongest meme out there. Make sure it's backed up on
- 1:12:00something more than just paper in your sock drawer, guys.
- 1:12:02Maybe it could be a seed, a titanium seed phrase in your
- 1:12:06sock drawer, but just make sure it's not just.
- 1:12:08On paper, in your seed phrase, seed phrase could be your sock
- 1:12:11drawer itself. The seed phrase could be your
- 1:12:13sock floor. Yeah, exactly.
- 1:12:15X gets it Okay next meme is by Greg Zaj, AKA Greg Zaj.
- 1:12:19One on Twitter and he goes, It's that time of the year and here's
- 1:12:23a screenshot from The Sopranos. And he goes, hey Greg.
- 1:12:26I know you like Bitcoin, but what do you think about this
- 1:12:29shit coin and Greg is Tony Soprani goes, I can't have this
- 1:12:32conversation again. I I can't do it.
- 1:12:34Oh my goodness. I literally was telling Rustin I
- 1:12:36had this conversation last night with a friend.
- 1:12:39I was telling him what I'm doing now, you know, simply Bitcoin
- 1:12:41media and verbatim he's like, what do you think of SBF?
- 1:12:45And I'm like, Oh my God, the shit corners make us all look
- 1:12:48bad. It is Bitcoin only.
- 1:12:50Yeah, it's just here we go, Here we.
- 1:12:53Go again. I can't have this conversation
- 1:12:55again. And guys, remember, you know
- 1:12:56Thanksgiving's coming around. Christmas is coming up.
- 1:13:00I know your uncle, not Uncle Jim.
- 1:13:02But Uncle Greg is going to ask you, or wait, rather uncle.
- 1:13:06What's this guy Salvatore is going to ask you?
- 1:13:09Uncle Giuseppe. Yeah, Uncle Giuseppe is going to
- 1:13:12ask you Hey, I know you like Bitcoin.
- 1:13:13But what's your thoughts on this shit coin?
- 1:13:15I can't have this conversation again, Unk.
- 1:13:18Anyways, how would Tony say, oh look, what age?
- 1:13:21I can't have this conversation again.
- 1:13:22Not this time. Come on, get the hell out of
- 1:13:25here. Oh, not this conversation again.
- 1:13:28All Right, next meme is by not Jerome Powell, AKA.
- 1:13:33At Ali Farhat 79 he just goes inflation and I'm sure wow I
- 1:13:40didn't even connect this that I mentioned the SBF story with my
- 1:13:43friend and here I have a meme on FBF and what's this Caroline
- 1:13:46Ellison? Anyways, I'm sure you guys saw
- 1:13:48these court drawings and I I don't even know if this one's
- 1:13:51real. This might just be like a troll
- 1:13:54here. But anyways, we have SBF and
- 1:13:56Caroline Court drawings and we have peak 9.1% and this is the
- 1:14:00first ones and they just. They look like gollums.
- 1:14:03They just, they look extremely bad.
- 1:14:05And then September, the three-point 7% rating, the
- 1:14:08official rating and it's SBF, you know walking in the court
- 1:14:12looking very shook. And Karen Caroline Ellison, you
- 1:14:16know, in her company photo And then we have the memes.
- 1:14:22We have fed target rate of 2% and we have like dude, this Chad
- 1:14:27SBF court guard and this can't be real or he paid off the court
- 1:14:30artist or something. And then this is great.
- 1:14:33This is great. The face.
- 1:14:34Tune on Caroline Ellison. She's looking like.
- 1:14:36You know an Instagram, Instagram thought and you know looking.
- 1:14:41You know, you know, you know what she's looking like.
- 1:14:43All right. Anyway, next one is by Cold Hard
- 1:14:46Sats and we got the classic Sailor.
- 1:14:49Going into interstellar hyper hyperspace.
- 1:14:53When he tells you it's going up forever, Laura and cold heart
- 1:14:56stats goes. Me at dinner after three.
- 1:14:58Glasses of wine. When my friend mentions prices
- 1:15:00are way higher than they used to be.
- 1:15:03Hey Bitcoin, it's going up forever, Laura.
- 1:15:05It's almost like inflation is extremely high, and it's almost
- 1:15:08like they're stealing your purchasing power.
- 1:15:09And it's almost like the Fiat system is going to continue to
- 1:15:13print money, and it's almost like bonds.
- 1:15:17Mabloa It's almost like they're dropping U.S.
- 1:15:19Treasury. It's almost like it's a perfect
- 1:15:20storm for Bitcoin and it's going up forever, OK?
- 1:15:23And last one is by. Smeet bot.
- 1:15:26Smeet under Score Bot and he goes, But I thought criminals
- 1:15:29only use Bitcoin and I had to bring this one on considering
- 1:15:34that we've been covering everyone's favorite nanny
- 1:15:37politician, AKA Elizabeth Warren.
- 1:15:40And she's trying to paint all of us bit corners as criminals,
- 1:15:43even when when we have good guys like Dom coming on the show,
- 1:15:46explaining to the world, to all of you out there that we are not
- 1:15:50only trying to protect ourselves, but educate people
- 1:15:53out there so that they know there's an option.
- 1:15:56Because everything is not as rosy as you might have been led
- 1:16:00to believe. Anyways, this is what, 100,000
- 1:16:03million billion, $336.3 billion? That banks have paid in total
- 1:16:10fines in the last 22 years, but I thought criminals only use
- 1:16:14Bitcoin. I'd I'd also love to see total
- 1:16:16value lost from legacy finance. Whether it's like companies that
- 1:16:20went to zero, you know that that's got to be an impressive
- 1:16:24number too. Just look at First Republic
- 1:16:26alone. It's probably more than a lot of
- 1:16:28Bitcoin lost ever. Yeah, it's literally half of the
- 1:16:32Bitcoin market cap. Today I'm gonna be careful with
- 1:16:35this one, but. You know, didn't Jamie Dimon,
- 1:16:37like one of his top clients, have a island somewhere that was
- 1:16:41oh shit, OK, Or have. A boat found with, you know,
- 1:16:46white powdery substances and stuff like, hey, let's let's not
- 1:16:49talk about all this criminal stuff, you know, sweep it under
- 1:16:52the rug. But with all said and done,
- 1:16:54everyone knows that Bitcoin is the thing you need to be
- 1:16:59holding. And in in in honor of the sailor
- 1:17:03meme. What's the second best?
- 1:17:05There is no second pass. I I I told Dom that I would
- 1:17:10abuse the soundboard today. Anyways, guys, drop your meme
- 1:17:13review score in the chat. Do it now or you should have
- 1:17:17done it like a minute ago so that we don't have a delay.
- 1:17:20So I I don't cut off your meme review scores early.
- 1:17:24Anyways, I try not to give people free plugs on the show,
- 1:17:31but I am a huge Doctor Bronner's fan.
- 1:17:35Doctor Bronner's, You guys want to sponsor us?
- 1:17:37I'd be OK with this. I got the Doctor Bronner's all
- 1:17:40in one toothpaste. I've never tried this.
- 1:17:43I don't even know if it's that good.
- 1:17:44But it is fluoride free. So you know, you know, it's
- 1:17:49minimize the fluoride guys, you know?
- 1:17:53Try not to fluoridate your pineal gland, guys.
- 1:17:56Get yourself some fluoride free toothpaste.
- 1:17:59I'm, I'm, I'm trying some. I'm going on a limb with this
- 1:18:01Doctor Bronner's I love. That's one thing Alex Jones got
- 1:18:04right. I just hey, I just, I just hit
- 1:18:07the dentist yesterday and got two chipped teeth fixed that I
- 1:18:10had chipped for like 2 years. That's what happens when you get
- 1:18:12older. When you chip your tooth, you're
- 1:18:14like let's ride this out for like 4 years.
- 1:18:16I'm literally in that same boat. I have a chip tooth I need to
- 1:18:19hit the dentist, but you know, I got to show up here every single
- 1:18:22day and I I can't get a freaking appointment.
- 1:18:25I tried to do it back home and it took them too long.
- 1:18:28Anyways, Anyways, Ruston, what's your meme score?
- 1:18:30We're going to save the best for last.
- 1:18:32Yes. All right.
- 1:18:33So we're still kind of in the spirit of.
- 1:18:35Halloween here and if you're you're using your cuck bucks.
- 1:18:38You're in Jerome Pell. Buffalo Bill.
- 1:18:41Jerome Pell's basement. OK, do not put the Fiat money.
- 1:18:46Do not put the Fiat money on your skin, OK?
- 1:18:49Get the hell out of that basement.
- 1:18:51Stack some sats and keep your skin.
- 1:18:54Don't let Jerome Pell wear it around and stuff.
- 1:18:56Wow. Of of course, Ruston.
- 1:18:58Always. Gets these.
- 1:19:00Meta answers here that are. Borderline going to.
- 1:19:03Get us banned on YouTube anyways Anyways, what do you mean if you
- 1:19:07score? I'm.
- 1:19:11I'm sticking with my I'm sticking with the Bouquet Lee
- 1:19:16Piggy Bank here and I don't know, we're going all 10s across
- 1:19:22the board. I will just say this, we need to
- 1:19:24upgrade that airplane. Steven, we got that.
- 1:19:27That Bitcoin plane should be like a Hyperjet because I'm
- 1:19:30tired of flying on the same model of airplane from 1960.
- 1:19:35Let's upgrade this. Let's get a Hyperjet.
- 1:19:37That's a true Bitcoin flight to safety.
- 1:19:40Love it. Love it.
- 1:19:40I would also double down. Let's make it fun too.
- 1:19:43So like, so plain esque, you know, like a little soul plane
- 1:19:48and you can like teleport. Teleport onto it.
- 1:19:51Yeah something like that Something Elon can do it.
- 1:19:54I'm. Sure, maybe something like that.
- 1:19:55All right. So I see some scores rolling in,
- 1:19:57but. I'm going to give you some more
- 1:19:58time guys. If you like the show, support
- 1:20:02the show by getting some merch. It's made by our boys over at
- 1:20:06Represent shouts out to the boys that represent bitcoiners.
- 1:20:10They have great, great gear over there.
- 1:20:12We have T-shirts. Right now we have the orange
- 1:20:15hoodie I've been wearing. I know before Matthew J chimes
- 1:20:18in on the chat. I will get you hat we are in
- 1:20:21talks. I, I am even I've been talks to
- 1:20:23getting you guys some mugs. We're going to get you guys some
- 1:20:26female sizes as well. We're in talks with a a Bitcoin
- 1:20:30artist to get you guys some simply Bitcoin limited edition
- 1:20:34themed arch on the shirts. I'm kind of angling towards a
- 1:20:38little more opposite friendly this time.
- 1:20:40So we have to work on on the designs and stuff for you guys.
- 1:20:42But we're working it. They're going to be dope.
- 1:20:45We and and guys, yeah, like. The attention to detail here,
- 1:20:48we're not just going to do like shitty drop shipping sites for
- 1:20:51you guys like we're making sure it's good quality.
- 1:20:54We got to order it first so you know scan the QR code.
- 1:20:57We appreciate all this more getting jocked all these look.
- 1:21:01Good on the pipes like they they do, they do work on the sleeves.
- 1:21:05There's the print of like you know it's Bitcoin or slavery.
- 1:21:09They do some good work. So we're we're going to make you
- 1:21:12look stylish, boys and girls. All right.
- 1:21:14Anyways, let's let's get into some of these scores, guys,
- 1:21:18because they're they're rolling in.
- 1:21:20Here we go. All right.
- 1:21:22I remember. Hey, you know what?
- 1:21:23This reminds me of I remember. I sent y'all a meme back in the
- 1:21:27day. Opti, I wonder if you remember,
- 1:21:29but it was the one of the Nintendo Mike Tyson punch out.
- 1:21:32And yeah, and it had all the different characters, but I just
- 1:21:37remember. That dude.
- 1:21:38I remember that too, because I butchered all the all the
- 1:21:42characters in it. Glass Joe.
- 1:21:44Glass Jaw Joe. OK, anyways, let's.
- 1:21:48Get into these meme review scores, all right.
- 1:21:52First one is by Elaine and she goes score.
- 1:21:56Retirees take funds out of banks to buy BTC.
- 1:21:59Love simply Stooges rocks. Bitcoin.
- 1:22:02Yeah, simply stooges. Coming soon.
- 1:22:05Rebrand soon. OK, Matthew J.
- 1:22:07Meme score one flight to quality.
- 1:22:11OK. Next one is by Will Wertheim and
- 1:22:15he goes Meme score. Swapping frequent customer point
- 1:22:18for things I need and swapping Fiat for Bitcoin I need.
- 1:22:21Yes, this is the way. This is the way.
- 1:22:23OK, Elaine. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:22:25Shoot me. Sorry guys.
- 1:22:28Recipe for some toothpaste. Would love that.
- 1:22:30Would love that. OK, next one is by Psycho 05 and
- 1:22:34he goes mean score. Laura finally knowing it goes up
- 1:22:37forever. She's coming around.
- 1:22:39Yes, yes. All right.
- 1:22:41Well, wait, actually, actually, I forgot.
- 1:22:44Let's see. Do we have some on Rumble?
- 1:22:47Yes, we do. OK, Jon Kleb score.
- 1:22:50Jerome Powell confirms no confidence policy.
- 1:22:55OK, Moran. Score putting out Fiat fires.
- 1:22:59Dot dot dot dot too late defensive fire.
- 1:23:05Let it burn. Yes.
- 1:23:06Let it burn, OK, The Phoenix will rise from the ashes, baby.
- 1:23:10Here we. Go.
- 1:23:11All right, buzzer, it's not. That we ran out of scores.
- 1:23:15It's that the buzzer came. The buzzer came.
- 1:23:18Anyways, Rustin, you're filling in tomorrow, but you are putting
- 1:23:23it overtime, making content for us.
- 1:23:25Whoa. How'd you how'd you do that?
- 1:23:28I didn't do that. All right.
- 1:23:30Well, let's. Do.
- 1:23:32All right. Well, Ruston, what do you got in
- 1:23:33the work for the people out there?
- 1:23:34What can they keep an eye out for?
- 1:23:36All right. So we got some interesting
- 1:23:37things coming up. We made some clips of Elon and
- 1:23:42Joe Rogan because when two Titans like that get together,
- 1:23:45people don't have 3 hours to go through that.
- 1:23:47So let's get the meat and give it to the people.
- 1:23:49So we got some of that, some good Nuggets in there,
- 1:23:51especially AI Skynet type stuff. Implications of that.
- 1:23:55But we also know what Elon says, you know, AI can't break
- 1:23:58Bitcoin. Bitcoin is your defense against
- 1:24:00Skynet. So basically we have that.
- 1:24:02Then we got Bitcoin is the safe haven.
- 1:24:04We've hit on that a little bit. We're going to build on it.
- 1:24:07And I'm trying to think what our oh, Joe.
- 1:24:10Nope, Nope. Russell Brand exposes the Fiat
- 1:24:13system and then we got some bullish takes from some people
- 1:24:17there along with Fidelity. A lot of stuff coming your way.
- 1:24:20So set those notifications be ready and the shout outs to the
- 1:24:25the Twitter team Jax, Ani, Daft are dropping news and make sure
- 1:24:31you're following us there. You know we're getting you
- 1:24:34updated. We are coming in hard, coming in
- 1:24:37fast, so let's just keep sending, sending out the signal
- 1:24:41and getting people on the mission.
- 1:24:44We're we got some good stuff coming so be on the lookout.
- 1:24:47The shorts are straight. Killing it right now.
- 1:24:49Sophie and Dell great job over there.
- 1:24:51So yeah, yeah, my my, my show kind of stinks.
- 1:24:54So for all of you guys that TuneIn, I greatly appreciate it
- 1:24:58and we try to make it fun. So yeah.
- 1:25:02Oh, Rustin. Well, good to have you, bro.
- 1:25:04We'll see you tomorrow. We'll see you tomorrow, bro.
- 1:25:07Anyways, actually we got one rugged meme score but in honor
- 1:25:12of our guests. I I feel like I need to read
- 1:25:14this. So tore up huddle says rugged
- 1:25:16meme score. Dom Hulk size, gamma squeeze on
- 1:25:20Fiat. Rest in peace.
- 1:25:21No corners. It's simple math and SA house.
- 1:25:25Yes. Yes.
- 1:25:26OK well Dom, thanks for coming on bro.
- 1:25:29Really appreciate you. I I absolutely love hanging out
- 1:25:33with you. I can't wait to see you again
- 1:25:35but dumb. What do you want the people to
- 1:25:37look out for? Where can people get in touch
- 1:25:39with you? What you got work working over
- 1:25:41there? So yeah, just hey, anyone that
- 1:25:44wants to. Bring Bitcoin to their workplace
- 1:25:46or organization or union. Please reach out at Proof of
- 1:25:49Workforce. You can find me at my Twitter
- 1:25:52Baywatch 1 long story about the name, I'll tell it next time.
- 1:25:56I'm on www.proofofworkforce.org and need more supporters for our
- 1:26:02proof of workforce non profit Twitter, which is Workforce BTC
- 1:26:07on Twitter dude. Thanks so much for having me on.
- 1:26:11I want to say on this show, I grew up listening to a lot of
- 1:26:14radio as a kid. That's how old I am and I
- 1:26:18believe Opti, I think you are one of the best radio like like
- 1:26:22just personality. Like you you could be doing
- 1:26:25radio or shows anywhere. And I I think we're incredibly
- 1:26:30blessed to have you in Bitcoin because like you rock it dude.
- 1:26:34You get everyone pumped up, you educate folks and you're you're
- 1:26:36an All Star dude, so. I'm really grateful for being on
- 1:26:40here and I love best comments of any show is simply Bitcoin.
- 1:26:45The the comments are are always like off the charts.
- 1:26:48So, well, Dom really appreciate the nice words, guys.
- 1:26:52I did not pay him to say those nice things even though he he's
- 1:26:56fake newsing us in the beginning.
- 1:26:58But really appreciate it. And on that note, hold on, on
- 1:27:01that note. Let's go.
- 1:27:04OK All right guys. Well, you already know the deal.
- 1:27:08We love you. I hope you guys enjoyed.
- 1:27:10Today's show was a wide-ranging conversation.
- 1:27:14All you really need to know though, 21 million hardcap
- 1:27:17digital money for digital World. It's going up forever.
- 1:27:20Laura, make sure you are taking Bitcoin into custody.
- 1:27:24This is the way to protect yourselves anyways.
- 1:27:26Like subscribe, share or even just fake share, hit that share
- 1:27:31link and hit us in the algos so that we can get this message out
- 1:27:34to more and more people on the YouTube verse.
- 1:27:37Anyways guys, we'll be back tomorrow.
- 1:27:39I will be holding it down with Rustin and then we'll be back to
- 1:27:42our Noma show on Monday. Again, guys, sorry about the
- 1:27:45Twitter spaces. I know you guys are going to
- 1:27:46troll me about it, but I got AI got a you know I only have so
- 1:27:51much bandwidth up here guys. So I until further notice we
- 1:27:55probably won't be doing spaces. So you got to come over here on
- 1:27:58YouTube or you got to watch the the Twitter video.
- 1:28:01Anyways guys we love you. We will see you tomorrow.
- 1:28:04Peace out.