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"$700k Bitcoin this Halving Cycle" | EP 971 · Simply Bitcoin

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  It's all. Going to zero against Bitcoin.
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  It's going on forever. You're against Bitcoin.
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  You're against freedom. Yo, welcome to another episode
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  of Simply Bitcoin. Live your number one source for
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  the peaceful Bitcoin revolution, card breaking news, culture and
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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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  Ladies, gentlemen, welcome to welcome to Simply Bitcoin, the
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  most watched daily Bitcoin live show on YouTube.
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  Rumble Annex by the way. Shout out to Rumble, we just got
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  verified on Rumble, so everyone watching us there, we really,
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  really appreciate your support. It really means a lot to us.
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  Anyways, today what we're going to talk about, we did an episode
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  on this specific topic about a month and 1/2 or or ago.
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  So it seems like you guys really enjoyed it and basically it was
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  Adam Back's, I wouldn't call it it, it was just a guesstimate or
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  something. But he basically made the
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  argument that this having Bitcoin could potentially flip
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  gold. So we're going to talk about
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  that as well. Also the FISA, FISA stuff that's
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  going on in Congress. I think it's a really important
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  topic to talk about. The fight for free speech is the
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  fight for Bitcoin. If you think that, if you think
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  that they if they are not OK with you talking freely, what
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  makes you think that they'll be OK with you transacting freely?
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  So we always like to talk about freedom of speech issues.
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  I think this is an incredibly important one that I think a lot
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  of people are not aware of. We also have a clip of you guys
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  from the famous Tucker Carlson and Mike Benz interview and it
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  race. It really like reaffirms the
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  argument, the case that we've been making for you guys for a
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  while now, that the Internet really distant started to
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  disintermediate things. First it started with
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  information, then it moved on to money.
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  Before, there was only a handful of media outlets for the state
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  to control. Now there's millions upon
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  millions of individuals talking freely amongst each other.
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  This morning I posted something on Twitter and it showed the
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  decline in viewership of the legacy media.
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  Some platforms were 25%, some were 44%.
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  And what is filling that void? Well, it's independent media.
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  It's the rise of citizen journalists.
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  And so that's why it's so important to make your voice
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  heard. One of the things that we say
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  during the meme review, and you could take it as a joke, but
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  it's really not, is if tweets are bullets, memes are artillery
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  in this information narrative trench warfare that we're
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  fighting on the battlegrounds of the Internet, trying to win over
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  the hearts and minds of individuals and trying to wake
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  them up to the reality that it's not left versus right, it's not
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  red versus blue. It's really the party of green,
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  the party of Fiat, nihilism, slavery, war versus the party of
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  orange, the party of hope, opportunity, prosperity and
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  Bitcoin, right. So we really got to wake up
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  people to that reality. So I'm really excited to talk
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  about free speech. I'm really, I'm really excited
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  to talk about this whole FISA thing that's happening in
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  Congress. And in the beginning.
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  Also, we have another interview from Tucker.
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  He actually interviewed the CEO of Telegram.
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  I'm sure if you're a bitcoiner, you use Telegram.
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  A lot of people use Telegram. Everyone's on Telegram, but the
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  CEO is really like not a public figure.
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  He's, he hasn't really done a lot of interviews.
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  And one of the fascinating things that he said is like,
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  look, I don't really like property.
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  I value freedom. And he said that, you know, I
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  have a bunch of cash in my bank account, but I also have Bitcoin
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  and I've been holding it for, you know, for decades.
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  So I think it's a testament of of Bitcoin.
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  It's a testament of the fact that the Overton window is
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  shifting. We're slowly heading into this
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  new era where Bitcoin becomes mainstream in the popular, in
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  the in the mainstream consciousness.
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  I think we're really heading into that era.
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  And I'm really, I'm really excited for that era because I
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  think people are going to realize that there's an
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  alternative to, you know, this inflationary control system,
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  garbage money that the government is like trying to
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  shove down our throat. So I'm really excited about this
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  episode. And of course, we have the
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  organizer of one of my. Favorite Bitcoin conferences?
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  And of course, I'm talking about Bitcoin Boomer that just got an
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  awesome. A Bitcoin trading card done by
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  BTC trading cards. We have Gary Leland on the show.
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  How you doing, Gary? Yo-yo, yo-yo.
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  Good, good. Doing good.
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  It's. I'm back in this battle.
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  It took me a couple days to get the rested after bitlock boom.
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  But I'm back. That wears me out bad.
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  I I bet, I bet putting together a conference was I I mean OPTI
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  and I get completely burnt out just setting up.
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  So I can't even imagine what it's like setting up an entire
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  conference. And it's just, it's not even
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  setting up the conference. It's just being on my feet all
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  weekend, 'cause I don't think you saw me sitting around a lot.
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  No, no, you. Gotta make sure everybody's
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  taken care of. I try to make sure everybody
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  knows. I appreciate them coming.
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  So I'm on my feet quite a bit. I guess that just wears me out.
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  If I was just sitting around like you, I wouldn't have much
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  of a problem. Yeah.
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  I mean, you're just going all over the place, shaking the
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  hand, I mean, but like to give Gary credit like you like you're
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  on top the whole. It's not only that you're on
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  your feet. You have to make sure that every
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  box is checked and everything is going to work correctly, right.
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  So I think it's, it's, it's a combination of things.
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  But yeah, it was an epic bitblock boom conference this
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  year. You guys had a workshop day, you
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  guys had a conference day and and then a bunch of side events
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  as well. The the shooting one was
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  hilarious where you set up targets of all coins and just
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  people went to the gun range and shot those up, which is
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  hilarious. You know, on that we had a well
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  known shit coiner I had talked to.
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  Actually Ben from Who's that guy that just got in all the trouble
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  with Where's my Lamborghini? You know what I'm talking about.
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  Bring up Opti. Where's no idea.
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  Lamborghini. No idea.
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  Yeah, yeah, someone will. Somebody will probably know it
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  in there. But there's a guy named Ben
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  who's a big, big shit coin and ripping people off.
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  And I and I actually contacted him and asked him we could put
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  his face on the things, everybody.
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  I'm sure that someone here knows him and he said sure.
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  Sounds good to me. Is that bit boy?
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  Is that bit boy? Yes, yes.
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  We were putting Bit Boy on the on the things and the shooting
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  range wouldn't let us do it. You can't have any people on
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  custom on custom things. You can't have people on there.
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  So we were he was cool with it said oh it sounds good to me
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  shit I'm putting his ass on these things And yeah, Ben
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  Armstrong, thank you Phil. But they they would not allow me
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  to do it. They said you can put anything
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  on custom targets except a person.
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  Oh man, that's. When we put the coins up there,
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  but that was fun. Yeah, that would have been.
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  Real fun with him up there. And then I gotta say the Texas
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  BBQ, which I like go above and beyond.
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  You guys had it at the, I think the name of the venue was Ferris
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  Wheelers. It was outside.
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  You guys had a live band and I think I did that the buffet line
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  at least two or three times, which is absolutely delicious.
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  You know, and we had and we had a little issue there.
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  Some people got pissed because they didn't, they couldn't walk
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  and get like 100, you know, at the at the end I said, OK, add
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  ribs to all the dinners, which was I think the ribs were like
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  $2.00 per rib or something, you know.
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  And so I want to make sure everybody got a couple, you
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  know, so they would have been gone by halfway through the
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  line, but they were told to give out two and then they could come
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  back through the line. But some people were like, I
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  couldn't get pieces. I want to say, well, you know, I
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  should have left it like I was and just had pork.
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  That's going to be the deal, you know.
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  And then, you know, because I changed it the last like couple
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  of days before because those ribs are really good there and I
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  thought everybody needed a bite of them And and then there were
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  plenty, you know, for people to go through the line more than
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  once and get them. But I don't want to take a
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  chance on the people at the half of the line back, 'cause I would
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  have just got all ribs on my plate if I was, let's say,
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  anything else, give me about 10 of them ribs.
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  So. So I wanted to make sure that
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  didn't happen to people at the end of the line.
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  Oh man, Well I'm excited for the bit Block Boom 2023 debrief
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  we're going to hit it with. Opti, Opti, how you?
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  Doing this morning saw a smile on your face, which means it's
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  going to be a great show. Are you excited to host?
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  Tomorrow and Friday. Not really.
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  But you know, we gotta make sure the show keeps going anyways.
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  I do want to. You do a good job.
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  I enjoy watching you up either still.
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  Appreciate it. Appreciate it.
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  Yeah, it it makes, it makes my job a little, a little more
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  hectic, having to deal with everything at once.
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  So I like hanging out in the chat with everyone.
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  But yeah, you know, I got to do what I got to do.
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  Anyways, I do want to mention and I showed this to Gary, but I
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  did get a holographic. Gary Oh, I'm so glad that you
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  got that. So you guys can see it there.
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  Absolutely hilarious, shouts out to the Bitcoin trading cards.
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  I should have brought my wife went down to 'cause I I ended up
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  a couple of those that people handed me, and my wife went over
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  to the framing place and had one of those framed up in a little
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  frame and she's got it on the bookcase downstairs.
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  I, I I did the same. I did the same thing with mine.
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  I framed 2 and they're like these little ASIC boards
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  actually have them right here and super proud of it.
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  Yeah. Oh.
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  Let's go. Yeah, I I I love, I love these.
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  I love these. They're so cool.
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  But you, Gary, you also had a painting as well.
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  Yeah, the, you know, the person who did the cards heard.
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  That is like my best buddy. We've been buddies for 40 years
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  and I told Aladdin I'd like her to do the artwork for my card.
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  Just trying to give her, you know, some exposure in business
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  because she's a great artist and I thought she's just going to do
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  it on a computer, but she ended up doing a 4 foot by 4 foot, you
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  know, original painting of it. And I was like, oh, I didn't
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  expect all that, you know, So it was good looking.
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  So I just, you know, my did my picture pose, buy it, blah,
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  blah, blah. So, But it was really kind of
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  interesting to see a big painting of me riding a bull.
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  With the with the dynamite in your hand, it was absolutely
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  a couple. Anyways, I do want to talk about
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  this 'cause I think it's a huge deal.
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  The CEO of Telegram, he's not really a public figure.
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  He kind of, you know, stays underneath.
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  Telegram is one of the most popular messaging platforms on
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  the entire in the entire world. They don't spend a dollar on
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  marketing. I I love it.
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  I think it's really cool. I think it's a great way to
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  connect with other bitcoiners. It's like really easy to use.
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  But anyways, he had something really kind of interesting to
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  say. Let's check it out.
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  Also, for me it was never about money, right?
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  So I have a few $100 million in my bank account or in Bitcoin
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  since 10 years ago and I don't do anything with it.
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  I don't own any real estate jets or yachts.
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  I don't think those this lifestyle is for me.
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  I like to focus on what we're doing now.
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  With Telegram you don't own anything like big assets, you
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  don't. Own no big assets.
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  Exactly. An island in Hawaii or.
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  No, no land, no real estate. Nothing.
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  Why? Well, because for me, my number
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  one priority in life is my freedom, also for me.
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  I mean like he sounds like a bitcoiner.
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  To be honest with you, I think this is a a truth that
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  bitcoiners know, right? You you need a place to live.
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  OK, right. But other than that I mean.
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  I've heard this saying before from like.
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  I don't know where I've heard it before, but it's this idea of
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  like if you own a lot of stuff like.
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  Specifically like a yacht, which is like setting money on fire.
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  You don't own them, they own you.
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  Right. And I think, you know, I think
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  the way that he says it, right, in terms of, you know, kind of
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  minimizing things and just owning Bitcoin or owning, I
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  don't know why he said cash in the bank account, 'cause I
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  wouldn't consider that freedom. But I I like the way he's
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  thinking and definitely sounds like a bitcoiner.
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  I mean, if he's holding, if he's in holding Bitcoin for 10 years,
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  he's definitely done extremely well for himself.
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  So I I thought that was really, really interesting and I think
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  it's just another example of and you guys are going to kill me
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  for saying this, but I'm going to keep continue saying this
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  throughout the entire episode because it's one of those
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  episodes. The Overton window is definitely
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  shifting not only in terms of money, but also in terms of.
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  Really. People valuing freedom, right?
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  You, you saw this with the election of Javier Malay in
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  Argentina, right? They elected an Austrian
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  economist and someone who is a libertarian and that's never
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  really happened before. So you can't, you can't deny
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  that this, this, this urge for freedom, this urge for change is
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  is happening worldwide. This, this, this freedom mind
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  virus is happening worldwide. And I think the world would be a
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  much better place for it after we get over this little hump
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  that we're currently going through.
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  Anyways, OPTI, what's your take on?
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  This and we'll pass it on to Gary.
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  Yeah, well I mean, you asked a rhetorical question of why he's
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  holding cash, but let's remember he probably is holding cash to
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  run his business. So can't really fault him for,
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  you know, too much on that point, Nico.
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  But also didn't Telegram have like a shit coin or something
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  like that? I I forget all the details
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  there. So like, well, we'll we'll just
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  put a pin on that point as well. But you love the conversation.
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  You love to hear other people that aren't necessarily in the
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  Bitcoin echo chamber say exactly what we've been saying.
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  You know, we saw Jack Mahler say this recently.
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  He's like all he owns is basically like his house and
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  Bitcoin and everything else is irrelevant.
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  And I just love that he basically said what we say all
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  the time. He's like, yeah, I literally
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  only own Bitcoin because I only care about freedom.
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  And Nico, everyone in the chat saying that, that quote's from
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  Fight Club. The things that that you own own
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  end up owning you. So there we go, another
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  connection. But I really love seeing Tucker
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  try to wrap his head around this.
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  Like you can tell he's just so wrapped up in the Fiat world
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  that he's like, wait, you only own Bitcoin and nothing else?
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  Like, what is wrong with you and and all of us bitcoiners are are
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  thinking the opposite. Like what is wrong with you guys
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  owning all this other stuff? Don't you realize there's only
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  one thing you can truly own in the world right now and it is
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  Bitcoin? Even if you own a house, you
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  technically probably don't actually own it because you
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  still have to pay, you know, mortgage and taxes on it to the
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  government. So you're basically just renting
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  your house from the government. But that's a totally other
• 19:16
  conversation that people aren't even ready for.
• 19:19
  But I just love that he basically said, like I only care
• 19:21
  about freedom, hence why I basically only own Bitcoin.
• 19:26
  And I think this is something that all of us Bitcoiners, you
• 19:29
  know, we we all are doing this in our own way.
• 19:32
  And as we're seeing right now with the ETFs and the
• 19:36
  institutions and all that stuff, you're starting to see that
• 19:38
  people are slowly but surely a big emphasis on slowly here.
• 19:43
  But you're seeing that they'll get, you know, like 1% price
• 19:45
  exposure, maybe 5 percent, 10%. And soon enough everyone will
• 19:49
  get the the epiphany moment and be like Oh my God, I don't want
• 19:53
  to own anything else but Bitcoin.
• 19:54
  And we have the meme and Bitcoin of sell your chairs even though
• 19:57
  you know I'm I'm sitting in a chair right now because as Gary
• 20:00
  was telling us, I and I, I, I talk on the Internet all the
• 20:03
  time. I, I, I I can't stand up for
• 20:05
  hours a day guys. So I do own a chair.
• 20:08
  But it just goes to show that the signal is spreading and
• 20:12
  shouts out the Tucker for for having these conversations.
• 20:15
  Because Tucker is basically I think besides Joe Rogan the
• 20:19
  biggest content creator on the Internet.
• 20:21
  And so the fact that these messages.
• 20:22
  Are getting spread out. The fact that the signal
• 20:25
  starting to spread and more people are waking up to the idea
• 20:27
  that hey, if you believe in the ideas of freedom, if you believe
• 20:30
  in freedom of speech and property rights, then there's
• 20:32
  only one thing to really own and that is Bitcoin.
• 20:34
  So soon enough, the world will wake up to this message, and
• 20:39
  This is why we do what we do, that hopefully more people wake
• 20:41
  up to the idea that there's only one thing you can truly own in
• 20:44
  the world right now, and that is Bitcoin.
• 20:46
  Obviously taking Bitcoin into custody and holding the private
• 20:48
  keys yourself, that is true freedom, owning Bitcoin and as
• 20:53
  much Bitcoin as possible. Amen.
• 20:55
  Amen. Gary, what's your what's your
• 20:56
  thoughts? Well, I I like everything he's
• 20:59
  saying on Telegram. Telegram guys saying, you know,
• 21:01
  but it's not surprising because after, you're right, they tried
• 21:04
  to come out with a Telegram coin, I think like what, two or
• 21:07
  three years ago and had a bunch of backlash on it and drop that.
• 21:12
  But yeah, he's smart if he's just holding Bitcoin.
• 21:15
  I personally am not holding just Bitcoin because I do have a home
• 21:18
  that's paid off that I'm just going to live in till I die.
• 21:21
  They'll have to carry me out of here.
• 21:22
  I'm not taking any chances, but all of my assets are in Bitcoin,
• 21:27
  my investments, I hold Bitcoin. Even things that were in Iras
• 21:31
  are in have been transferred into.
• 21:34
  I don't want to pay capital gains to pull it out, but they
• 21:37
  transferred into things like Riot and Marathon and micro
• 21:41
  strategy. So I like to say I'm 100%
• 21:43
  Bitcoin even though I'm not. I'm as close as I'm going to be
• 21:45
  able to get without selling my home and cars and personal
• 21:49
  items. So I think everybody who's
• 21:52
  watching the show knows Bitcoin is going to be the thing that
• 21:57
  takes us to the missile. And, you know, and you find
• 21:59
  yourself, Nico, trying to convince everybody of this if
• 22:04
  you're really, really, I'm actually just not because you
• 22:07
  don't want to. You're not trying to make your
• 22:08
  Bitcoin go up in value, but you're trying to bring them with
• 22:11
  us to the promised land. And so that's how I look at it.
• 22:14
  I I try not to be too much of A hardcore fanatic on that around
• 22:18
  my friends. So until they start asking, but
• 22:21
  once they ask, oh hell holy hell breaks out for him and then I
• 22:24
  get it when I'm in the car with my wife.
• 22:26
  So love it. Love it.
• 22:28
  Yeah I I mean no and and and and to be specific right like you
• 22:32
  gotta you have to own a there you you sometimes it's it's a
• 22:36
  good it's. Probably a good idea to own have
• 22:39
  a place to live, right? So that's it's probably a good
• 22:42
  idea to do that. And actually, once you reach my
• 22:45
  age, if your home's paid off, I mean, I couldn't afford to buy
• 22:48
  this house anymore because I bought it with 30 years ago.
• 22:50
  I couldn't afford to buy this house and it's paid and what I
• 22:54
  pay and can't even rent an apartment for now.
• 22:56
  So it did work out good for me. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
• 23:00
  And no, also too like a lot of these, whether it's micro
• 23:04
  strategy, cuz The thing is like specifically if you have an IRA
• 23:07
  or something like that, right, like you get penalized if you're
• 23:11
  gonna liquidate that, right. So, right, another what I've
• 23:13
  seen people do is like instead of kind of you know liquidating
• 23:16
  it, they just get exposure to the ETFs or they get exposure to
• 23:21
  micro strategy which is kind of like a levered Bitcoin play or
• 23:24
  you get exposure to the mining stocks as well, right.
• 23:27
  So I mean, but that is still you're, you're still exposed to
• 23:29
  Bitcoin, like maybe it's indirectly but it's still, you
• 23:32
  know, it's still exposure. Yeah, exactly.
• 23:36
  I mean you're you're into it and according to when you got into
• 23:39
  micro strategies, but it's had a good run even though we're down
• 23:41
  a little bit, absolutely. But I think a lot of people who
• 23:45
  may be doing ETFs right now are in that situation.
• 23:49
  You know, they had money in their retirement, they were
• 23:51
  interested in Bitcoin, but they're not wanting to take a
• 23:53
  20% capital gains hit to pull it out and then go buy Bitcoin.
• 23:57
  And and the two of those together are, hell, I'm losing
• 24:01
  20% right off the bat. Put in a Bitcoin, it's like
• 24:04
  really goes crazy. I couldn't drop 20% there.
• 24:07
  You know, I'm waiting for it to go up, have a heart attack, have
• 24:10
  a stroke. Their family's going to miss
• 24:11
  them. So I can see why they want to go
• 24:13
  into ETFs. It's an easy way for them to get
• 24:15
  in without taking a 20% hit. 100% IA 100% agree with you.
• 24:20
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• 24:48
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  this, right, Which is kind of like this weird kind of moment
• 26:09
  in history that we're going through.
• 26:11
  So first, the Internet changed everything.
• 26:14
  It disintermediated information and a disintermediation in
• 26:17
  disintermediated money, just like the book the sovereign
• 26:21
  individual predicted. We're currently going through
• 26:24
  the disintermediation of information.
• 26:26
  That's that's what governments are currently reacting to.
• 26:30
  What I believe is going to happen in the next 5 to 10 years
• 26:33
  is just like they're reacting so hardcore, like they're reacting
• 26:37
  viciously against the disintermediation of
• 26:39
  information. They're going to start reacting
• 26:43
  this way towards the disintermediation of money.
• 26:46
  They're starting to do it. That's what, like the Elizabeth
• 26:48
  Warren bill and all that stuff that's hostile towards
• 26:51
  bitcoiners, towards the Bitcoin industry.
• 26:54
  You had the proposal that wood forest public miners to register
• 26:58
  with the government, all this stuff.
• 26:59
  You seen the regulatory attacks on Bitcoin miners all over the
• 27:03
  world. I think the most popular one is
• 27:05
  the, the, OR the most famous one is the China, the infamous China
• 27:08
  ban. So we're starting to feel the
• 27:11
  effects of the disintermediation of money, but we're not quite
• 27:15
  there. But where we are, and it's very,
• 27:17
  very apparent just because of how hard they're fighting, is
• 27:21
  the disintermediation of information.
• 27:23
  Now there's this episode that Mike Benz did with Tucker, and I
• 27:27
  highly recommend you guys watching the entire thing.
• 27:31
  Here's a small clip and the way that he puts it is so awesome.
• 27:34
  Let's check it out. Yep.
• 27:37
  From their perspective, they just weren't ready for the
• 27:40
  Internet. 2016 was really the first time that social media had
• 27:46
  reached such maturity that it began to eclipse legacy media.
• 27:51
  I mean, this was a long time coming.
• 27:52
  I think folks saw this building from 2006 through 2016.
• 27:58
  You know, Internet. One point, O didn't even have
• 28:00
  social media. From 1991 to 2004, there was no
• 28:04
  social media at all. 2004 Facebook came out, 2005 Twitter,
• 28:08
  2006, YouTube, 2007 the smartphone and so.
• 28:12
  And in that initial period of social media, nobody was getting
• 28:15
  subscriberships at the level where they actually competed
• 28:19
  with legacy news media. But over the course of being,
• 28:23
  you know, so initially even these dissident voices within
• 28:26
  the US, even though they they may have been loud in moments,
• 28:31
  they they never reached 30 million followers.
• 28:35
  They never reached you know a billion impressions a year type
• 28:39
  thing as a uncensored mature ecosystem allowed citizen
• 28:44
  journalists and independent voices to be able to out compete
• 28:49
  legacy news media. This induced a massive crisis
• 28:53
  both in our military and in our State Department and
• 28:55
  intelligence services. And I give a great example of
• 28:58
  this in 2019 at at at meeting of the German Marshall Fund, which
• 29:03
  is you know, an institution that goes back to the US.
• 29:07
  Basically I don't want to say bribe but the essentially the
• 29:11
  soft power economic soft power projection in Europe as part of
• 29:15
  the reconstruction of European governments after World War 2 to
• 29:19
  be able to essentially pay them with Marshall Fund dollars and
• 29:23
  then in return they basically were under our thumb in terms of
• 29:26
  how they reconstructed. But the the German Marshall Fund
• 29:30
  held a meeting in 2019. They held a million of these
• 29:32
  frankly, but where they where a four-star general that got up on
• 29:38
  the panel and and said that that the what happens?
• 29:43
  He posed the question what happens to the to the US
• 29:48
  military What happens to the national security state when the
• 29:51
  New York Times is reduced to a medium sized Facebook page and
• 29:55
  he. So I mean.
• 29:56
  That is an extremely powerful statement and it's happening
• 30:02
  right now as we speak. This is, this explains the
• 30:06
  quote, UN quote, the disinformation government's
• 30:08
  board, which is completely against the 1st Amendment right,
• 30:13
  which would basically have the US government kind of meddling
• 30:16
  and going in and determining what is misinformation, what is
• 30:19
  disinformation. And this is all because of the
• 30:22
  Internet. The the Internet has
• 30:24
  disintermediated information. It's decentralized peer-to-peer
• 30:29
  communications without gatekeepers.
• 30:32
  And it freaks them the F out. I mean, you could hear it from
• 30:35
  the horse's mouth, right? This is the CEO of NPR, right?
• 30:39
  She's on a podcast of the Atlantic Council.
• 30:41
  This is the same Atlantic Council that has a website
• 30:43
  tracking all the developments of the CBD CS, and let's check out
• 30:46
  what she has to say about the 1st Amendment.
• 30:48
  The number one challenge here that we we see and is of course
• 30:52
  the 1st Amendment in the United States is a fairly robust
• 30:57
  protection of rights And and that is a protection of rights
• 31:00
  both for platforms which I actually think is very important
• 31:02
  that platforms have those rights to be able to regulate what kind
• 31:05
  of content they want on their sites.
• 31:07
  But it also means that it is a little bit tricky to really
• 31:11
  address some of the real challenges of where does bad
• 31:15
  information come from and sort of the influence peddlers who
• 31:17
  have made a real market economy around.
• 31:19
  Who, like I, I got to say, you know, when the press secretary
• 31:23
  is going out there or when the Treasury Secretary is telling us
• 31:26
  that there's going to be no inflation even though there's a
• 31:29
  record amount of money printing, Not to mention all the other
• 31:33
  information that came out during the pandemic.
• 31:35
  That you could say. At best was questionable.
• 31:39
  At worst you could say it hurt. People like the framers designed
• 31:43
  the 1st Amendment in in a way, because they knew that the the
• 31:47
  people that get to decide what information is true and what
• 31:51
  information is not true is going to use the is going to use that
• 31:55
  information to empower themselves.
• 31:57
  That's why the 1st Amendment is the way it is.
• 31:59
  It's precisely to protect from the tyrannic, the the, the
• 32:03
  potential tyrannical state, right.
• 32:06
  So you know it. It's just fascinating though,
• 32:08
  the fact that once the Internet was born, we're learning
• 32:11
  basically that all these legacy media outlets that a lot of
• 32:16
  people put a lot of faith in tended, you know, it came out
• 32:20
  essentially that were they really actually, were they
• 32:22
  actually doing media media or were they actually doing
• 32:24
  propaganda, which I think is fascinating.
• 32:27
  So the latest kind of update on this is what's going on in the
• 32:31
  house. Right.
• 32:32
  So, Patriot Act two point O and it is the US House passes FISA
• 32:38
  7O2 surveillance expansion reform.
• 32:40
  Today the US House of Representatives vote voted on
• 32:42
  passing A2 year extension of Section 7O2 of the Foreign
• 32:48
  Intelligence Surveillance Act. A controversial warrantless
• 32:51
  spying authority and an extremely narrow tie vote
• 32:54
  rejected critical reforms to stop rampant abuse of the law.
• 32:59
  Right. This is the same law that they
• 33:00
  used to that Edward Snowden initially uncovered, and again,
• 33:04
  it's against the Constitution. It's against the 4th Amendment.
• 33:07
  No unreasonable searches and seizures, right?
• 33:10
  So as a quick update on that FISA Section 7O2 Reauthorization
• 33:15
  bill Will allowing NSA to Force US Businesses Serve As Surrogate
• 33:20
  Spies Advances to the Senate U.S.
• 33:22
  House of Representatives voted 259 to 128 on Monday to prevent
• 33:27
  reconsideration of last week's FISA 7O2 bill.
• 33:30
  The expanded version of the bill is now heading to the Senate and
• 33:33
  is expected to be voted on this week.
• 33:35
  Now why is this happening? Well, I mean, sovereign
• 33:38
  individual again predicted this perfectly, right?
• 33:42
  So here's a couple quotes from the book and then we'll pass it
• 33:44
  on to Gary and Opti. The first one is genius will be
• 33:48
  unleashed, freed from both the oppression of government in the
• 33:50
  drags of racial and ethnic prejudice in the Information
• 33:53
  Society. No one who is truly able will be
• 33:55
  determined by the ill formed opinions of others.
• 33:58
  It would not matter what most of the people on earth think of
• 34:01
  your race, your looks, your age, or the way you wear your hair
• 34:04
  and the cyber economy. They will never see you.
• 34:05
  The ugly, the fat, the old, the disabled will vie with the young
• 34:08
  and beautiful and equal terms and utterly colorblind anonymity
• 34:12
  on the new frontiers of cyberspace.
• 34:14
  The authors have also predicted that with the rise of this new
• 34:17
  cyberspace and consequently cyber money, it will become
• 34:20
  harder for nation state to collect taxes from its citizens.
• 34:23
  They compare the state to a farmer keeping cows in a field
• 34:27
  to be milked, but that soon the cows will have wings.
• 34:30
  They predict that for the government to collect taxes from
• 34:32
  its citizens in this type of society, it will have to violate
• 34:35
  human rights and even traditionally civil countries
• 34:38
  will have to resort and turn nasty.
• 34:40
  It goes on to say lacking their custom scope to tax inflate,
• 34:45
  governments even in traditional traditionally civil countries
• 34:48
  will turn nasty. Businesses that offer services
• 34:50
  that facilitate the realization of autonomy by by individuals
• 34:53
  will be subject to infiltration, sabotage and disruption.
• 34:56
  Arbitrary forfeiture of property, already commonplace in
• 34:59
  the United States where it occurs 5000 times a week, will
• 35:01
  become even more pervasive. Governments will violate human
• 35:04
  rights, censor the free flow of information, sabotage useful
• 35:08
  technologies, and worse. So, ladies and gentlemen, this
• 35:11
  is where we are in the movie The disintermediation of money and
• 35:14
  the disintermediation of information.
• 35:17
  And it's incredibly important in these times, right to download
• 35:21
  protocols or, sorry, use protocols like Noster, use
• 35:25
  protocols like Bitcoin, and empower yourself.
• 35:27
  Become that sovereign individual, you know, as much as
• 35:30
  Elon, you know and and I, I, I there's things about Elon that I
• 35:34
  don't like the fact that you know, he's he supports shit
• 35:36
  coins. But as much as Elon freed the
• 35:38
  birds, so to speak, it is still a centralized platform and he
• 35:43
  does have a target on, you know on his back.
• 35:46
  And that's the reality of it. Unlike Bitcoin and unlike
• 35:49
  Noster, there is no metaphorical CEO to go after, right?
• 35:53
  There is no central party that governments could apply pressure
• 35:57
  to. This is why these protocols are
• 35:59
  so important for the freedom movement.
• 36:01
  This is why these protocols are so important for the separation
• 36:04
  of money and state. But make no mistake, this is
• 36:07
  information, information, narrative, trench warfare, and
• 36:10
  this is what we're what we're living through.
• 36:11
  But it's also extremely exciting times for the individual because
• 36:15
  I think once we get over this hump, I think humanity will have
• 36:20
  a a freedom the likes of which has never been seen before in
• 36:22
  human history. Anyways, Gary, what are your
• 36:24
  thoughts? And then we'll pass it on to
• 36:25
  OPTI. But there's a lot there.
• 36:27
  Let's go to the first guy who was talking on Tucker there.
• 36:30
  You know, he's really got it that laid out pretty well.
• 36:32
  And I don't, I don't believe a lot of people, because they've
• 36:34
  grown up with all this, realize, you know, we didn't even have
• 36:38
  any of this stuff. So short amount of time ago, you
• 36:40
  know, in 96 I set it up my first e-commerce site and everybody
• 36:43
  told me I was an idiot. People wouldn't buy stuff on the
• 36:45
  Internet. But I went forward anyway.
• 36:47
  Then 2004, you know, Adam Curry came out with the first podcast.
• 36:52
  He basically invented podcast just back in 2420, years ago
• 36:56
  when he came out with the daily source code.
• 36:58
  I mean, if people realize how short amount of time has really
• 37:01
  gone by since we went from nothing to the whole thing now
• 37:05
  is kind of falling apart for him.
• 37:07
  I mean, there's so many attacks on traditional media,
• 37:10
  traditional money, traditional, everything that it's kind of
• 37:13
  amazing here. And also it's amazing how many
• 37:15
  things, if you think about in the book, the sovereign
• 37:18
  individual they got, right? Oh my gosh, That's like if you
• 37:22
  haven't read that book, you don't need to just see Nico put
• 37:25
  a picture of it here. You need to get that book and
• 37:27
  read it. It's amazing how good of a job
• 37:29
  they did to me. But that's my thoughts on it.
• 37:33
  I mean quick and sweet. Yeah, absolutely.
• 37:37
  UH Opti's asking me what tweet? Opti oh, the one that I posted.
• 37:40
  In the media picture, yeah, well, I go pull it up, 'cause I
• 37:43
  I think it makes a really good point.
• 37:45
  Anyways, guys, it's uh. And then This is why I'm telling
• 37:48
  Nico to pull up the tweet because it's incredible.
• 37:51
  Uh what? What?
• 37:52
  Like what we're actually doing here as bit corners when you
• 37:55
  really see the numbers and you see what's actually happening
• 37:59
  out there. Like independent content
• 38:01
  creators are really the new media.
• 38:02
  Yeah, Nico, let's, uh, showed these people for the audio the.
• 38:07
  Audio So this is what I this is what?
• 38:08
  And again like I've simply we've been covering this, this
• 38:12
  phenomenon for a couple of months now, if not years, right?
• 38:15
  But it's happening in real time. And I said you are the media
• 38:18
  now. This is the rise of independent
• 38:20
  journalism. Anybody could be a journalist.
• 38:24
  If you're posting on Twitter, you're posting news or you're
• 38:26
  taking, you pull out your phone and there's an event happening.
• 38:29
  You're recording that you're posting on social media.
• 38:31
  You are now basically a reporter.
• 38:33
  You're now a journalist in this, in this new in this new world.
• 38:37
  So anyways, it says unique visitors.
• 38:39
  January 2020 versus January 2024.
• 38:42
  There's been a 24% decline in viewership on Fox News, a 20%
• 38:47
  decline in viewership on CNCNNA, 22% decline in viewership from
• 38:52
  the New York Times, and a 45% decline in viewership from the
• 38:55
  Washington Post. This is exactly what Mike Benz
• 38:58
  was referring to in that view when he was freaking out, when
• 39:02
  that general was freaking out in Europe, supposedly about the
• 39:06
  fact that he's like what happens when the New York Times
• 39:10
  literally just becomes an unpopular Facebook page, How are
• 39:13
  we going to control the masses? People don't remember this,
• 39:16
  right? But it was the Wall Street
• 39:17
  Journal that was used to attack Bitcoin, and they tried to
• 39:21
  convince some senators and some politicians that Bitcoin was
• 39:25
  being used to raise money for Hamas.
• 39:28
  They came out after the fact due to the amount of pressure that
• 39:31
  Bitcoiners put on on social media.
• 39:33
  And we had Tom Enemer interview the head of the Fin CEN.
• 39:38
  And the head of the head of Fin CEN even admitted that
• 39:40
  terrorists prefer to use the traditional financial system.
• 39:43
  Right. So it's the Wall Street Journal
• 39:45
  that attacked Bitcoin. They made false claims.
• 39:47
  And then in one of the most powerful tweets I've ever saw,
• 39:49
  and I think it was from Jack Posobik, and it's basically
• 39:52
  like, look, if social media existed back in the 2000s, we
• 39:55
  have, we would not have gone to war with Iraq.
• 39:58
  It was the, it was the intelligence agencies that
• 40:01
  originally fed the New York Times the idea that Iraq had
• 40:05
  weapons of mass destruction. Right.
• 40:08
  So again, you know, once once you have millions upon millions
• 40:11
  of individuals, that can't be, it's a lot harder for
• 40:14
  governments to corrupt every single person.
• 40:17
  You know, it becomes extremely hard to control the narrative.
• 40:20
  And I think that's why they're pushing back.
• 40:21
  That's why they tried the disintermediation, the
• 40:24
  disinformation. Governments board.
• 40:27
  That's why you have this lady literally saying I hate the 1st
• 40:30
  Amendment, right. That's why you're seeing that
• 40:32
  because they can no longer control the narrative in mass.
• 40:35
  Now what's coming next, right is when they can no longer control
• 40:39
  the money in mass, and that is their source of power
• 40:42
  fundamentally. Anyways, OPTI, what's your take?
• 40:44
  And then we'll move on to Adam back.
• 40:45
  Yeah. And and just to add a little
• 40:47
  more context on these numbers because I think it's absolutely
• 40:49
  incredible. The numbers go from CNN at
• 40:53
  roughly around 100 and I don't know, 12,000 unique viewers down
• 40:56
  to the Washington Post at around, I don't know, under
• 40:59
  50,000 unique viewers. And that's literally just a
• 41:03
  small Twitter account like our our Simply Bitcoin Twitter
• 41:06
  account has more unique Subs or viewers than the Washington
• 41:10
  Post, which is absolutely incredible.
• 41:12
  And and really This is why you're seeing such backlash
• 41:17
  right now. This is why you're seeing the
• 41:18
  Faisal Rules is because what Mike Ben says they they
• 41:20
  understand that they have lost the ability to control the
• 41:23
  narrative. And it's just people haven't
• 41:25
  woken up to that idea like you as a viewer here you as someone
• 41:29
  that tweets on on X or Twitter or whatever you want to call it.
• 41:33
  Like, you really underestimate the power of you communicating
• 41:36
  peer-to-peer with, with other individuals, with your family,
• 41:39
  with your friends. We really have the ultimate
• 41:41
  power here and hence why you're seeing the backlash on freedom
• 41:44
  of speech, hence why you're seeing them re about, you know,
• 41:48
  fake news and all this stuff is because what's happening is the
• 41:50
  gaslighting of information right now.
• 41:52
  They understand. What we understand here at
• 41:54
  Simply Bitcoin is that we have the ultimate power right now
• 41:58
  with the Internet, social media. The rise of social media
• 42:01
  basically destroyed their echo chamber and now we have Bitcoin
• 42:04
  on top of that. That's basically steroids on the
• 42:07
  Internet to really exponentially push the freedom to transact,
• 42:13
  which of course is the freedom to speak.
• 42:15
  And this is all one and one. Remember, Bitcoin is just a
• 42:18
  database. It's literally just ones and
• 42:20
  zeros. It's literally just words.
• 42:22
  And This is why you're seeing them try to regulate Bitcoin.
• 42:24
  This is why you're seeing them try to stifle the communication
• 42:27
  on the Internet. And again, just doubling down
• 42:30
  guys. You really and we do this too at
• 42:33
  simply we really underestimate the power available to us
• 42:36
  communicating directly to you on YouTube, directly to you guys on
• 42:40
  Twitter and spreading information peer-to-peer.
• 42:43
  And This is why censorship is such a hot button topic right
• 42:47
  now is because they can no longer stifle the flow of
• 42:50
  information. And This is why they're freaking
• 42:52
  out so much. And remember I I keep saying
• 42:54
  this all the time, the meaning of Fiat is literally by decree.
• 42:58
  It's literally by them telling you what currency is or what
• 43:01
  money is, and as the trusted institution starts to crumble,
• 43:04
  as you can see, it's happening in real time.
• 43:06
  Basically. You know, maybe only a small
• 43:09
  portion of your parents or grandparents are still watching
• 43:11
  the television. Their power will diminish in
• 43:14
  real time, and you're seeing this happen right now.
• 43:17
  The only thing keeping the the narrative working right now is
• 43:21
  that people still trust in the institutions.
• 43:24
  And of course, This is why we constantly tell you guys to use
• 43:27
  Bitcoin, to use the freedom technology.
• 43:29
  Because as Nico pointed out in that sovereign individual code,
• 43:32
  that is the wings that gives the cows freedom that that's the
• 43:36
  yeah, that's the wings that they put on the couch.
• 43:38
  This is what frees everything is by humans being more
• 43:42
  interconnected. And I know that's a scary thing
• 43:44
  for most people. It's like, Oh my God, and humans
• 43:46
  being connected, the powers that be are like, we can't let the
• 43:49
  plebs talk about everything because it's, you know, it might
• 43:52
  hurt people. And it's like, no, this is what
• 43:54
  propels us forward is we're in a digital world and connecting
• 43:58
  individuals. That's how we become more
• 44:00
  prosperous, idea sharing and people waking up to the truth.
• 44:03
  This is how we improve the world in real time.
• 44:07
  Amen to that. Amen to that.
• 44:08
  We got a awesome comment on Rumble MMZ. 2G says hello.
• 44:13
  Simply Bitcoin. I'm watching your live channel
• 44:15
  from a country with political problem to use rumble, but I'm
• 44:19
  using VPN. Love you guys time, love you
• 44:22
  guys. Bitcoin at 60 K time to buy,
• 44:24
  right? That is absolutely.
• 44:26
  You know that's the power of the Internet, right?
• 44:29
  Can't stop the signal. Anyways, I do want to cover this
• 44:32
  topic 'cause it is the theme of the title of today's episode.
• 44:36
  This is Adam back December 3rd of 2023, says digital gold.
• 44:41
  Bitcoin will surely flip physical gold sooner or later.
• 44:45
  And probably this having So within a year or two currently
• 44:48
  I'll take 700K Bitcoin, but it may be partially a substitute.
• 44:53
  Some people start selling gold to buy Bitcoin, crossing the
• 44:55
  market caps below that. Also, here is Samson Mountain, a
• 44:59
  recent podcast where he says we won't be pricing things in
• 45:03
  Bitcoin in five to 10 years. Check it out.
• 45:06
  And what do you think then students, we're talking about
• 45:07
  price. What do you think is a fair
• 45:09
  price for Bitcoin? You know, in, you know, next
• 45:12
  five years, 10 years is there in five to 10 years, I don't think
• 45:17
  we'll be pricing Bitcoin in terms of other things.
• 45:20
  It'll just be things are priced in Bitcoin in terms of
• 45:24
  Satoshi's, the smallest unit of Bitcoin.
• 45:25
  So. When you buy a sandwich, it
• 45:27
  might cost you 5 satoshi's. Oh, I like.
• 45:30
  That idea, so total flip over in terms of of of how you pro how
• 45:34
  how you value put a value on the goods that you're buying.
• 45:38
  So I mean I think, you know, I think that's like the the kind
• 45:42
  of reminds me of the the Neo meme, right.
• 45:45
  Or Morpheus meme where like Neo is basically asking Morpheus
• 45:49
  like so you're mean I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have to sell my
• 45:52
  Bitcoin for dollars and then Morpheus is something like Neo.
• 45:55
  What I'm trying to tell you is that when we get to where we
• 45:58
  where we get, when we get to where we we're going, you won't
• 46:00
  have to sell your Bitcoin in the 1st place, right.
• 46:03
  So yeah, I mean. You know, it's bullish, I think.
• 46:06
  I think 700K in this cycle is overly optimistic by Adam Back,
• 46:11
  but at the same time, I think Bitcoin does the exact opposite
• 46:15
  of what you know what, what people think.
• 46:18
  And also it's Adam back, right? He holds, he holds a lot of
• 46:21
  weight. He was originally cited in the
• 46:23
  Bitcoin white paper, but look in regards to that comparison,
• 46:28
  right? I think Bitcoin is superior to
• 46:29
  gold in every which way. It's currently 8.61% of the gold
• 46:36
  market cap, and if it's superior to gold, and if it's more scarce
• 46:40
  than gold, then you would think that it's not only going to
• 46:43
  catch up to gold, I think it's going to blow past it.
• 46:46
  But anyways, I might be slightly biased because I'm a bitcoiner,
• 46:49
  so I'm going to pass it on to Gary.
• 46:50
  Maybe Gary's a little bit less biased than I am.
• 46:53
  No, no, I'm not less biased than you are.
• 46:56
  I'm talking about that gold. You know, this weekend we had
• 46:59
  Bitlock. Boom.
• 46:59
  I'm in my suite watching TV. I'm watching, trying to catch
• 47:02
  up, keep up, keep up as a Bitcoin show gets over.
• 47:05
  I'm looking, and it's Peter Schiff having a debate on
• 47:07
  Bitcoin. Is that guy an idiot or what?
• 47:09
  I mean, you know, You know, I'm sorry to talk about it, but it's
• 47:13
  just crazy how much stuff that guy spits out of his face about
• 47:17
  Bitcoin being, you know, losing money and gold being up against
• 47:21
  Bitcoin. But I guess that's what shit
• 47:23
  Coiners like gold coiners have to do to keep an audience there.
• 47:27
  Since we're talking about how audiences are shrinking, I think
• 47:29
  shift has gotten out of popularity and he's not on shows
• 47:32
  anymore, but he keeps plugging that same thing just hating
• 47:35
  Bitcoin. I know we weren't talking about
• 47:37
  that, but I wanted to bring it up because I just got sick of
• 47:39
  seeing that now about BARF, Yeah.
• 47:43
  No, it's good. It's good that you brought it
• 47:45
  up. Opti, what's your take on this
• 47:47
  my friend? Yeah, so I mean look, what do I
• 47:53
  know about where the price is going?
• 47:55
  All I know is that the price of Bitcoin right now is roughly
• 47:58
  around 60K. But if you do look backwards in
• 48:01
  time and you know four years ago shouts out the hard huddle in
• 48:04
  the chat he let me let me find this comment cause for people
• 48:08
  that aren't familiar with what's going on in Bitcoin and how the
• 48:11
  price moves, where'd it go? He basically said four years ago
• 48:14
  the Bitcoin price, I can't find it right now.
• 48:16
  So Nico, if you want to find it, he said four years ago the
• 48:17
  Bitcoin price was 7.5 K four years before that it was $450.
• 48:22
  So I know we are getting into bigger numbers and and we
• 48:25
  probably all do have a little bit of PTSD from the last cycle
• 48:28
  where we were expecting 100K. So no one really knows where
• 48:32
  it's going. But a simple, a simple, just
• 48:35
  thought experiment, you know, four or six figures Bitcoin,
• 48:39
  140K is only one double from here and if you don't think
• 48:42
  that's possible this year, then you are an absolute bear.
• 48:44
  Now on to the 700K prediction. I've been kind of trolling on
• 48:48
  the show for the last couple of weeks that you know, we all have
• 48:52
  PTSD from Bitcoin not hitting 100K and it only got the 70K.
• 48:56
  So you know if we just 10X those those predictions, then we'll go
• 49:00
  from, you know, everyone's saying right now like $1,000,000
• 49:03
  Bitcoin. I think that that is a little, a
• 49:06
  little, a little a little a little bit bullish in in the
• 49:09
  next year or two, but you know just just kind of trolling a
• 49:12
  little bit. We won't go to a million we'll
• 49:14
  go end up to 700 K Bitcoin. But I don't have any metrics
• 49:18
  behind this. I'm just kind of I'm I'm really
• 49:20
  just like talking shit here, you know.
• 49:22
  But I think, I think some signal in this and I don't know exactly
• 49:27
  where Mao's time frame is, but I think kind of what he's saying,
• 49:32
  he said this cycle. Well, if you kind of factor in
• 49:35
  that we're already at the end of this epoch, you know, we're
• 49:38
  going to see the halving in, in roughly 2 days or what was it
• 49:41
  342 blocks from now. I think we can kind of already
• 49:45
  safely start to talk about that. We are already in the next
• 49:48
  cycle. So yeah, in a year or two, I
• 49:50
  think we're going to see the price go absolutely nuclear.
• 49:53
  But in four years, I think the price can vary safely.
• 49:57
  I think we can speculate that it's going to be around 700 KA,
• 50:01
  $1,000,000 per Bitcoin especially like I keep saying
• 50:04
  all all the factors playing out in real time.
• 50:06
  But yeah I I mean I agree of course I agree with that in back
• 50:09
  who who wouldn't love to see 700K per Bitcoin Bitcoin go past
• 50:14
  the gold market cap. But I don't have any metric I'm
• 50:16
  I'm really just trolling. I'm I'm counter trading Bitcoin
• 50:19
  Twitter right now everyone's saying $1,000,000 Bitcoin.
• 50:21
  I still have PTSD from not hitting 100K Bitcoin.
• 50:24
  So let's just you know let's just cut it in half.
• 50:27
  We're not going to get a million we'll get 700K in the next six
• 50:29
  years. I think we can all be OK with
• 50:31
  that. Yeah.
• 50:31
  And I, I just got to say, like, you know, I think like Bitcoin
• 50:36
  tends to do the exact opposite of what everyone thinks it it's
• 50:39
  going to do. And I think what I saw last
• 50:40
  cycle was everyone was 100% sure that this thing was going to hit
• 50:43
  100K. And what I'm seeing this cycle
• 50:46
  is just this general consensus of kind of like bearishness,
• 50:48
  right? Like, oh, you know, it's it's
• 50:51
  only going to hit 100K. It's only going to do.
• 50:53
  That's just an observation. It maybe it doesn't mean
• 50:55
  anything, but that's just kind of the general feeling that I
• 50:58
  get from every at the moment, the PTSD from the China mining
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  really helps with the algos. Opti, it's all yours.
• 53:05
  Yeah. So of course and and I think I'm
• 53:08
  a broken record at this point, rather Nico is.
• 53:10
  But Bitlock Boom does have a special place in our hearts.
• 53:13
  This is where Nico and I officially met for the first
• 53:15
  time in person and not on the Internet.
• 53:17
  So we absolutely love Bitlock Boom.
• 53:19
  And I'm super happy came back to Dallas.
• 53:21
  It's back on home turf. But anyways, Gary, let's just
• 53:24
  get a recap on Bitlock Boom this year.
• 53:26
  How was it? How'd everything go?
• 53:28
  Let the people know and then we can talk about next year.
• 53:33
  Well, first let me tell say thank you to my platinum sponsor
• 53:36
  Swan, to my gold sponsor Ocean, to my silver sponsor Atomic.
• 53:40
  I need to thank them because they their their funds were
• 53:43
  definitely used to help set up everything to make it a good
• 53:45
  event. You know Dallas was great to
• 53:47
  come back home to. It's 40 minutes from my house.
• 53:50
  I think everybody who came to the event was like, Oh my gosh,
• 53:54
  this is good to be back here rather than in Austin.
• 53:56
  I was, I was concerned I'd have a little blowback about not
• 53:59
  being in Austin. But I had more positive comments
• 54:02
  about being in Dallas. You know, and and I think both
• 54:05
  well, after you live here but Nikko, not living here, you got
• 54:08
  to agree coming to Texas in April is a hell of a lot better
• 54:11
  than coming in August. Nobody ever said, hey, I'm
• 54:14
  sitting around my house up in New York and I want to go down
• 54:17
  to to Dallas and or Austin in August.
• 54:20
  Nobody in the world has ever said that but April is just
• 54:24
  beautiful here. Tickets also when everybody know
• 54:26
  tickets do go on sale the 1st May, the 1st for next year at
• 54:30
  bitblockboom.com. So you want to take advantage of
• 54:32
  that because it just they go up there.
• 54:33
  It's amazing to me how many people buy their tickets at the
• 54:36
  highest price it could be in April when they could buy them
• 54:39
  now. So do buy your tickets now
• 54:42
  instead of waiting to April. Sorry guys had to get those out
• 54:45
  those things out there and over with.
• 54:46
  But we had a great event, I think what you what you think
• 54:49
  Opti. I mean, you were there the whole
• 54:51
  time I was working my ass off and I thought we had a great.
• 54:54
  Event I had a blast. You know, you guys, I saw
• 54:56
  sitting in chairs all the time just over there having a drink,
• 54:59
  joking around, talking with your buddies, saying you were
• 55:02
  working. You know, my life always says
• 55:04
  that if I'm if I'm having fun, I'm not working.
• 55:07
  I'm just over there having fun, even though it makes money.
• 55:09
  For some reason that's not working.
• 55:11
  I think I actually have to be sweating and hating what I do.
• 55:14
  I've heard that my whole life and I've gone well.
• 55:16
  Gosh, I'm sorry, honey. Did I do what I like for?
• 55:19
  A I know, right? Yeah.
• 55:19
  Always. But yeah, that's just a crazy
• 55:22
  way to be. It's great.
• 55:23
  It's great to be able to do what you love for a living, right?
• 55:25
  Yeah, because then it doesn't feel like work.
• 55:27
  Absolutely. So, yeah, so we were taking care
• 55:30
  of the live stream, Gary. It requires a lot of, a lot of
• 55:33
  sitting and viewing and making sure that everything is going,
• 55:38
  yeah, going smoothly. I'm just giving you guys a hard
• 55:42
  time. You guys also did a good job of
• 55:45
  making sure no one stole anything out of that room.
• 55:48
  That was what I was really impressed with.
• 55:49
  The job. Y'all.
• 55:50
  Did on because. People could have been stealing
• 55:52
  that artwork or the BTC cards and you guys had.
• 55:55
  A lot. We we were we were quite
• 55:57
  worried. Every night we're like oh we're
• 55:58
  going to come back and the microphones are going to be
• 56:00
  gone. So but yeah no it was it was a
• 56:03
  thrill. It was great.
• 56:05
  Had an incredible time this year Gary and you know thanks for
• 56:08
  thanks for having us back and you know I I love the, I love
• 56:12
  some of the panels there the the the mining panel with mechanic
• 56:16
  and Bob Burnett was absolutely incredible every time you know
• 56:20
  just talking about mining that was that was great.
• 56:24
  Mel did an introduction for Tone vase and it was it was
• 56:27
  incredible so shout out to Mel came from the heart it was such
• 56:30
  an authentic kind of introduction I think that was
• 56:34
  awesome. So yeah, I mean Jimmy song, of
• 56:36
  course. So many, so many great panels,
• 56:39
  so many awesome content. Of course, kind of a little news
• 56:41
  desk in between just the the interviews, they're just just
• 56:45
  going crazy. John from Atomic, you know,
• 56:48
  coming in hard, dropping, dropping.
• 56:50
  So, so much good stuff. So yeah, he had a great time.
• 56:53
  Yeah, he's amazing. John from Atomic is an
• 56:56
  incredible. Guy.
• 56:56
  He's a great guy. And he was just dropping so
• 56:59
  many, so many. Awesome.
• 57:00
  He's my kind. Of lunatic dropping.
• 57:01
  Dropping signal during the news desk.
• 57:04
  So yeah I I love the the kind of like the the dinner the first
• 57:08
  day the at the Ferris Wheeler they had a Texas BBQ a live band
• 57:11
  that was awesome highlight. I didn't go to the shooting
• 57:15
  thing but I had friends that went and they sent me videos.
• 57:17
  There's one with the silencer and they're shooting like a
• 57:20
  target with with shit coins which was really cool.
• 57:24
  Yeah it was just a great kind of experience.
• 57:26
  Overall last year was was pretty hectic cause me and Opti were on
• 57:31
  the news desk two days in a row. This year was a little bit, a
• 57:35
  little bit easier in that sense, but but yeah, it was, it was
• 57:38
  great. I love Bitlock Boom Hold, like
• 57:40
  Opti said, broken record, but holds a special place in my
• 57:43
  heart and I had an incredible time and I can't wait for next
• 57:45
  year in Dallas. Bitlock Boom The year of the
• 57:49
  pump, supposedly, so no one knows.
• 57:52
  Bitlock Boom 2025, so I'm incredibly excited for that.
• 57:55
  OPTI Yeah. Nika, before we go on to talking
• 57:58
  about next year, I I do just want to give a general plug to
• 58:01
  Gary and Bitlock Boom, because it always feels like a family
• 58:05
  reunion whenever I go to Bitlock Boom.
• 58:06
  Especially now that we're back in Dallas at the Marriott that
• 58:10
  we were at, it feels like going back to, you know, the, the home
• 58:14
  base there with everyone. And the reason I really love
• 58:17
  Bitlock Boom is because of all the people that show up, it
• 58:20
  really always feels like a family reunion.
• 58:22
  It's smaller, it's tight knit, you can hang out.
• 58:25
  We were finally able to do lobby con and pool con once again.
• 58:29
  So that's always a pleasure and A+, but yeah, it always feels
• 58:33
  like these are my people and when I go to Bitlock boom, I can
• 58:36
  just hang out with my friends. And at this point, some of them
• 58:39
  I probably consider family and it it just feels like home turf.
• 58:42
  So guys, I I know conferences get a lot of bad rap, but This
• 58:46
  is why you go to conferences is because it's not just about
• 58:50
  talking on the Internet. It's about connecting in person
• 58:53
  and building these relationships with people.
• 58:55
  And This is why you go to Bitlock Boom.
• 58:57
  So on that note, thank you, Gary and I really appreciate you
• 59:00
  letting us hold down the media and then let's talk about next
• 59:04
  year. So as we were asking you and you
• 59:06
  told us, we're going back to Dallas, but we are going to a
• 59:10
  new venue. So let's plug the new venue and
• 59:12
  the the dates and all that stuff and get people to buy some
• 59:15
  tickets. Well, the dates, it's back in
• 59:18
  Dallas like you said and it's the first weekend in April, like
• 59:21
  maybe in April 3rd, 4th and 5th or something like that.
• 59:24
  It's not on the site yet, but it's the first weekend in April.
• 59:26
  It's at the Hilton, the Hilton Hotel is on the site.
• 59:30
  So you can see that which is going to be maybe 10 minutes
• 59:33
  away from the hotel we were at this year.
• 59:35
  So it's really, really close now.
• 59:37
  Tickets are on the site for sale for people who attended this
• 59:41
  year. So if you attended this year,
• 59:43
  part of your thank you is we have the QR codes up there where
• 59:46
  you can go to the site, buy your tickets at a much reduced price.
• 59:50
  Then probably in a couple of days they'll go on sale.
• 59:53
  For people who have been to Bitlock Boom before, if you've
• 59:56
  been to Bitlock Boom before and you didn't make it this year,
• 59:59
  you will get a chance to buy tickets.
• 1:00:01
  And then next year we will have the ticket or in two weeks we'll
• 1:00:08
  have the tickets on sale for everybody.
• 1:00:10
  So they'll be on sale for everybody in two weeks.
• 1:00:12
  So May 1st, basically the tickets will be on sale for
• 1:00:14
  anyone. Ticket prices that are up there
• 1:00:16
  right now are last year. So do not buy your tickets right
• 1:00:18
  now or you'll be buying last year's tickets and you'll have
• 1:00:22
  to go back in time on the Opti time machine to attend the
• 1:00:25
  conference. And you're, you're talking about
• 1:00:27
  everybody's like, you know, the panels, the mining panel, which
• 1:00:30
  CJ Wilson did a great job on and Mel Central, I haven't seen any
• 1:00:35
  of this guys. So I mean, I literally have seen
• 1:00:39
  5 minutes here, 5 minutes there. So I will be cutting up all
• 1:00:42
  those videos and start watching them in a few days.
• 1:00:44
  So I'm excited to see how it turned out and how great
• 1:00:47
  everybody's talks were. I heard Mel's.
• 1:00:49
  I heard the same thing. You're just saying Mel's intro
• 1:00:51
  was was great. I heard that the mining panels
• 1:00:53
  were great. I I thought NVK and Rockstar did
• 1:00:57
  a great job at the end wrapping it up.
• 1:01:00
  I had a lot of compliments on the workshops, which I have to
• 1:01:02
  give creds out to Santos. Santos handled the whole
• 1:01:06
  workshop and the build a Thon. Our first build a thon, which
• 1:01:09
  Michael Tidwell won. You know Tidwell is going to win
• 1:01:12
  whether they had to cheat or not.
• 1:01:13
  He's going to take that. I mean, I'm just, I'm just going
• 1:01:17
  with my casino, like the theme there.
• 1:01:20
  I'm giving Tidwell a hard time. He definitely didn't cheat.
• 1:01:24
  Oh God, I heard the, I heard the.
• 1:01:25
  Casino night was crazy a lot and put everything on 21, the
• 1:01:29
  roulette table and he hit the 21 and.
• 1:01:33
  He had so many, he had so many raffle tickets.
• 1:01:37
  You know, my my concern was I was going, Oh my gosh, he's
• 1:01:39
  going to win everything and everybody's going to be all
• 1:01:41
  pissed off at him. But he gave them all away, which
• 1:01:44
  was great. I should have known better than
• 1:01:45
  to give him a heads up as to what could happen.
• 1:01:48
  But yeah, I think, you know, that Casino night, that's our
• 1:01:50
  third year for Casino night. And I fought it and I thought, I
• 1:01:52
  thought it was stupid and I my wife wanted to do it and then we
• 1:01:55
  did it and everybody loved it. And that's one of the things
• 1:01:57
  they kept saying, are you doing casino night next year?
• 1:02:00
  So that is a staple of bitblock boom.
• 1:02:02
  It's casino night and it's included in your general mission
• 1:02:05
  pass. So it's kind of like a a really
• 1:02:06
  good deal. Yeah, And and you get, you get
• 1:02:08
  Gary Bucks, right. I didn't see your face.
• 1:02:11
  I didn't see your face on the Gary Bucks this year.
• 1:02:13
  I was disappointed. Yeah, The Ocean was a sponsor
• 1:02:18
  for Casino Night, so. We found that one.
• 1:02:20
  There, yeah, I I think my face is seen enough and it's not that
• 1:02:23
  good looking at 70. So you know, I try not to be
• 1:02:28
  appearing any more than I have to at 70, you know?
• 1:02:32
  I I love the Gary Bucks. Anyway, Gary, I have a request.
• 1:02:35
  Is it OK if me and Opti live stream from the middle of the
• 1:02:38
  lake next year? Oh, I don't know.
• 1:02:41
  It sounds good to me. If you get you a boat and get
• 1:02:43
  out there, is that the hotel for next year I'm seeing here?
• 1:02:47
  Yes. I had no idea.
• 1:02:49
  That on the website I'm guessing.
• 1:02:50
  I'm guessing this looks like a vibe.
• 1:02:52
  Well, I came in the hotel from the other side and just walked
• 1:02:55
  around the lobby and the the ballrooms we'll use.
• 1:02:58
  You know, the thing about a hotel, you know, in case you
• 1:03:00
  haven't been the bit block boom, is doing a conference at a hotel
• 1:03:04
  is that you're like forced to hang out with all these
• 1:03:08
  bitcoiners. I mean, whether you want to or
• 1:03:10
  not, you're actually forced to get up when you have your coffee
• 1:03:13
  come down for coffee. See all these bitcoiners down
• 1:03:15
  there? And you're forced when you have
• 1:03:16
  dinner to hang out with a bunch of bitcoiners.
• 1:03:18
  And you're forced when you're taking a break and sitting in a
• 1:03:20
  chair. So it makes you network with
• 1:03:23
  bitcoiners instead of going, OK, I went to the conference, it's
• 1:03:26
  5:00, I'm going home, going to bed, going out to dinner by
• 1:03:28
  myself. I mean, really guys, Don't we,
• 1:03:31
  like, stay together? Like, the whole from the time
• 1:03:33
  you get there? Basically, till the time you
• 1:03:35
  leave Sunday afternoon, you're hanging out with bitcoiners
• 1:03:37
  24/7. Except, I guess when you go to
• 1:03:40
  bed. But some people don't.
• 1:03:40
  They just hang out downstairs all damn night.
• 1:03:43
  Yeah. Yeah, now.
• 1:03:44
  And that's where the lobby con was born.
• 1:03:46
  And I remember it was. The year of the.
• 1:03:49
  Pandemic and they had all these, but of course, you know Florida
• 1:03:52
  and Texas stayed free somewhat and you know the Bitcoin has
• 1:03:57
  just took over the lobby, you know, and it was it was it was
• 1:04:00
  like a conference in the lobby of that hotel, which is really
• 1:04:03
  cool. You know, in the hotel it was
• 1:04:05
  scheduled at was two blocks up the street.
• 1:04:07
  They called us two weeks before the conference and said they
• 1:04:09
  were shutting down the hotel for COVID.
• 1:04:12
  So, you know, when you got a conference coming in and have
• 1:04:14
  all these people coming from everywhere, I mean, literally
• 1:04:17
  everywhere and you get called that your hotel is closing two
• 1:04:20
  weeks before the conference, that's kind of damn rough.
• 1:04:23
  That's kind of damn rough. But we still pulled it off,
• 1:04:25
  which I was excited about. So that worked out good.
• 1:04:28
  And yeah, Mel, you did hang out and eat my coconut shrimp, and
• 1:04:31
  that was good coconut shrimp, actually.
• 1:04:35
  Yeah, it was. It was, it was it was.
• 1:04:38
  It was a great event. It was.
• 1:04:40
  It was a good time to kind of go back there and then I'm really
• 1:04:43
  excited for this new venue next year.
• 1:04:46
  Someone posted about sailor's boat.
• 1:04:47
  You know, I want to make sure, Michael.
• 1:04:49
  I want to make sure you know, I'm still waiting for $100,000
• 1:04:52
  because I want the party that's going to be on the boat.
• 1:04:54
  Michael and Eric, you know what I'm talking about here.
• 1:04:57
  So don't be forgetting me on the list.
• 1:04:59
  Kathy and I, we talked about this years ago.
• 1:05:05
  All right, go, go. Go ahead.
• 1:05:07
  No, I was just going to say I was over at Sailor's house one
• 1:05:10
  time. Kathy and I were having brunch
• 1:05:11
  with him and Michael, and it was right after he made that post
• 1:05:14
  that he would have a party on his yacht if Bitcoin hit 100 and
• 1:05:17
  said, wow, it looks like we're going to be having that party
• 1:05:19
  lately. And this is when Bitcoin was
• 1:05:20
  like 65. And he goes, yeah, I really
• 1:05:23
  didn't. I think Eric might have said,
• 1:05:24
  yeah, he didn't really expect Bitcoin and be moving up so
• 1:05:26
  fast. He thought he had a few years to
• 1:05:28
  get ready for this. Party.
• 1:05:30
  You got your few years, Michael. I just want to make sure I'm on
• 1:05:33
  the list. Man, that's hilarious, Opti.
• 1:05:36
  Yeah, I was just going to give Gary Gary do like a TLDR of why
• 1:05:40
  people should come to Bitlock boom next year.
• 1:05:42
  And then I I do kind of want to touch on Bitcoin boomers because
• 1:05:46
  we get a lot of we get a lot of Flack for always being
• 1:05:48
  hyperbolic on boomers. So first and foremost do TLDR,
• 1:05:52
  why should people come to Bitlock Boom.
• 1:05:54
  And then I'd like to do a little PSA to the boomers out there
• 1:05:57
  with you. Well, you know, I had so many
• 1:05:59
  people this year told me this was the first conference they've
• 1:06:01
  ever been to. And I guess that's going to
• 1:06:02
  happen more and more as we get to as Bitcoin grows and more new
• 1:06:05
  people come into it. But really, I think you said it
• 1:06:08
  best earlier, better than I can ever say it.
• 1:06:11
  And it's actually what I was hoping for.
• 1:06:13
  Bitlock Boom has turned into a family reunion of people you get
• 1:06:17
  to see once a year. Maybe you're lucky and you see
• 1:06:19
  them twice a year, but for the most part, you might see these
• 1:06:22
  people once a year. I mean, if you are a bitcoiner
• 1:06:26
  that's a seasoned Bitcoin and you're living in South Dakota,
• 1:06:28
  just taking a state at random, you probably don't get to
• 1:06:31
  network with a lot of people that you feel your peers that
• 1:06:34
  you you feel are with you there. So that is why you need to come
• 1:06:37
  to Bitlock Boom. Not only to make these friends,
• 1:06:40
  but to have a group that you know every year you can come
• 1:06:43
  back and see so many people come back every year.
• 1:06:46
  It's mind boggling. I was looking at the emails list
• 1:06:48
  today, clearing outs and stuff and how many people had been
• 1:06:50
  there four years, five years, six years, seven years.
• 1:06:53
  It's it's literally amazing. People do come back and if you
• 1:06:56
  come you will enjoy it and you will come back, you know.
• 1:07:00
  And the thing I do want to say about Bit Block Boom is when
• 1:07:04
  someone comes to speak on the stage, a Bit Block Boom, they
• 1:07:07
  don't come in the back and all of a sudden they're on the stage
• 1:07:10
  and then they leave out the back and you never see them again.
• 1:07:14
  At Bit Block Boom. They'll roll behind the stage.
• 1:07:16
  They're sitting out in the audience, you know, and then
• 1:07:18
  they roll up on. It's like Bob Burnett sitting
• 1:07:19
  there watching the show. And he gets that when it's his
• 1:07:21
  turn to speak and goes backstage, and when he's
• 1:07:23
  through, comes back in the audience and sits down.
• 1:07:25
  So these people are not like, treated like, oh, we got to make
• 1:07:29
  sure no one has time to talk to you or no one bothers you.
• 1:07:32
  We want people bothering them and talking to them and they
• 1:07:35
  know that at Bit Block Boom. So not only do you get to see
• 1:07:39
  people that you watch on YouTube or maybe read their books or
• 1:07:42
  whatever, you get to actually interact with them, meet with
• 1:07:44
  them. And that's the thing.
• 1:07:45
  I think one of the things that makes it different for us than
• 1:07:48
  other conferences that are they're they're bigger
• 1:07:50
  conferences is you don't actually get to meet these
• 1:07:53
  people. They're kind of kept away from
• 1:07:54
  you. I I think that's a big deal.
• 1:07:57
  Love it. Love it.
• 1:07:58
  OK, look. Perfect comment here by Robert.
• 1:08:00
  He's a he, he watches our show all the time.
• 1:08:02
  He's like, you people scare the boomers away.
• 1:08:03
  Come to us, boomers. We welcome your people.
• 1:08:06
  So guys, we love our Bitcoin boomers.
• 1:08:09
  Gary's a friend, a personal friend to us.
• 1:08:11
  So we're we're hyperbolic here. But Gary, if there happens to be
• 1:08:17
  a boomer out there that's on the fence.
• 1:08:19
  What's a message you like to get across to the boomers out there
• 1:08:22
  that are thinking about Bitcoin? Well, you know, and and and you
• 1:08:25
  got to realize boomers are coming from a different place
• 1:08:27
  than everybody else here. They didn't even have computers
• 1:08:30
  when they were in high school, you know, and many of them would
• 1:08:32
  not have a computer now if it wasn't for a phone that they
• 1:08:35
  carry around. So they definitely are not as
• 1:08:38
  technologically advanced as everyone else.
• 1:08:41
  But you know, really, if you're a boomer, you need to start
• 1:08:44
  start throwing 123 percent in there.
• 1:08:47
  I mean, Oh my gosh, if if you're sitting there and you've been
• 1:08:50
  working your whole life, building at this retirement
• 1:08:52
  fund, going, Oh my gosh, I finally have it, I can die and
• 1:08:56
  give it to my kids. Well, if that's your goal, let's
• 1:08:58
  really pump it and give it to your kids and throw some Bitcoin
• 1:09:01
  in there and pump it and give it to your kids.
• 1:09:03
  I'm telling you, this is to me and this is my humble opinion,
• 1:09:08
  it's going to kill everything. Bitcoin going to kill
• 1:09:10
  everything. And all the models now are
• 1:09:12
  broken, I believe with this happening, I think everything
• 1:09:15
  will be broken this time. And I do believe on.
• 1:09:19
  I do agree with a lot of the pricing that I hear predicting,
• 1:09:22
  but you have to get off your ass, figure this out, you know,
• 1:09:27
  And boomers, you know, think about boomers is they all wake
• 1:09:29
  up every day, look in the mirror and they know they're a boomer.
• 1:09:31
  So people act like you can't say the word boomer to them.
• 1:09:34
  They aren't surprised. They see this every day.
• 1:09:37
  You know, no matter how they feel when they wake up within 10
• 1:09:39
  minutes, they know they're a boomer.
• 1:09:41
  So feel comfortable calling them boomers.
• 1:09:43
  And if they can't take it, they just need to shut the fuck up.
• 1:09:48
  I love it. I love it.
• 1:09:49
  All right, Gary, let's give you last moment here.
• 1:09:52
  What's the last message you want to leave with the audience?
• 1:09:55
  Stack sats, stack sats, stack sats.
• 1:09:59
  And if you want to come to bit block boom and talk about
• 1:10:01
  stacking sats, that'd be cool too.
• 1:10:04
  But stack sats, that's the most important thing that's more
• 1:10:06
  important than coming to bit block boom is stacking sats.
• 1:10:09
  Do you stacking a sats? You'll be able to come and bring
• 1:10:12
  your entire family and all your friends with you to bitlock.
• 1:10:15
  Boom Soon. I I love that.
• 1:10:17
  Yeah, Wise wise words. Wise words, wise words.
• 1:10:20
  Anyways, Gary, thank you so much for joining us on the show
• 1:10:23
  today. Really, really appreciate it.
• 1:10:25
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• 1:10:29
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• 1:10:34
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• 1:10:36
  pretty sure that you can use promo code.
• 1:10:38
  Simply Bitcoin will give you a discount and hope to see you
• 1:10:44
  guys next year. Gary, thank you so much for
• 1:10:46
  joining us. Really, really appreciate it.
• 1:10:47
  Like always. Thank you.
• 1:10:49
  Thank you always. Look forward to seeing you all
• 1:10:51
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