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- Welcome back to the Aaron Day Show. This is season two, excuse me, season three, episode seven. So let me just pop these slides up here. real quick um wow quite a bit to talk about it has been a an exceptional week with just chock full of incredible developments across the board i think this might actually be episode six my bad season three episode six epstein's secret bitcoin hijacking exposed so If you have been following me on X, you'll note that I've been talking about this kind of nonstop since the release of the documents. We've been talking about the Clarity Act and the importance of stopping the Clarity Act. You have the Genius Act, which basically puts in a programmable system to track everything that you pay. The Clarity Act will put in a tokenization system that controls everything that you own. And when I say that with tokenization, it basically is putting in a technology that will allow third parties, namely the government, to be able to track all of your transactions, not just what you buy and sell, but the assets that you own, program those transactions and even censor them. So it's much worse than even just a CBDC. So for the last several episodes... I've been talking about that in various ways. However, the Epstein files leaked, or not leaked, but were released at the end of the month in January. And I have been going through those, as of course have many others, but I've been building this site, Technocracy Atlas. So I've downloaded all three million documents and I'm in the process. I have about eight hundred thousand of the documents up on the website and have been going through them and let me just say wow first of all i mean complete vindication with respect to what i have been saying which we'll be going through tonight my brownstone article that was just released today complete vindication that shows that in fact jeffrey epstein was directly involved in funding the hijacking of bitcoin but heavily involved in crypto in general since about twenty eleven through brock pierce who i did an entire episode about last season and this leads into tether and howard lutnik all of it is connected i speculated that it was connected in a couple of episodes last year. But I said at the time, you can tell, how did these people connect? How did all this get put together? We now know explicitly how it got put together. These Epstein files... The thing that's the most important about the Epstein file is not the sex stuff. The sex stuff is horrible. And obviously, people involved in that should be dealt with accordingly. But the real insight from the Epstein file is how power works and how decisions get made. I spend a lot of time in a variety of different contexts explaining to people that things are not how they appear on the surface. Politicians don't have the power. It is people behind the scenes driving the power. What we are actually fighting isn't red versus blue or the United States versus other countries. It's actually a technocratic agenda. It's large multinational corporations, but it's about five hundred people. that are pushing a global technocratic agenda. That's actually what we're up against. And when I say that, it seems remote. It seems very removed because we have this expectation that, well, no, we have these political parties, we have this democratic process, and this is how things work. And that's not how things work. The Epstein file shows how things work. It shows how power works. It shows how money works. And it shows how it works with many layers. One of the things that I find fascinating, well, I knew this already, but that I hope other people learn and is one of the things that comes out of this is, you know, for instance, Epstein doesn't invest directly in any of these companies, right? I mean, he's a convicted, you know, pedophile. And so no one's going to want his name on a cap table or on a share certificate, right? So what you see through these emails is how he goes about investing in these various organizations, whether it's MIT or whether it's to invest in Coinbase, the big cryptocurrency exchange that we talk about quite often on this show related to the Genius and Clarity Acts, whether it's how he invested in Blockstream. But then beyond that, it's not even Epstein necessarily investing his own money. He's investing money for other people. And one of the things that we learned, and you want to talk about the conspiracy theory of conspiracy theories, it turns out that Epstein is managing money for the Rothschild family, right? I mean, this is one of those things where you mentioned the Rothschilds, you mentioned the Rockefellers, and people are like, oh, well, this is tinfoil hat stuff. No, sure enough, There are emails. There's the agreement. He's paid twenty five million dollars to manage money for the Rothschild family. And then there's an email literally between Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel saying when he's reaching out to Thiel for presumably the first time or early on in the relationship. As you may know, I manage investments for the Rothschilds in technology. So this is just incredible information. And what I've done... So with the Technocracy Atlas that I've created... Not only do I have all of the other document drops from Epstein, but we have all the other information that we've loaded in there. We have all of Patrick Wood's information, Courtney Turner's information, Whitney Webb's information. I built this because as we talk about AI and as we've learned from Mike Adams, language models are just a way to interact with data. What data you're interacting with is what really matters. And when you're using ChatGPT and these other models, you're They've trained this information on things like Reddit, which, by the way, we now know Ghislaine Maxwell had a massive influence on the structure of the data of Reddit. So it's not even unfair to say that a lot of these large language models were heavily influenced by Ghislaine Maxwell's influence on Reddit. It's crazy. when you look at those things. But what I said was, look, I can't get any information out of these LLMs. When I'm doing any of the research that I do, any of the stuff that I write, I can't use these mainstream models to actually get information. This has always been the case. So, So I'm like, okay, I bought a hundred and twenty six terabyte hard drive. And I'm like, I'm going to download all of this information. And then I'm going to use a language model so that people can interact with that information. And then took it to the next step where we're going to be able to crowdsource research together. Because when you talk about something like the hijacking of Bitcoin, I literally know people. I mean, I, to a certain degree, have been involved in it, but I know people that are principal actors that have been there the whole time. They're legitimate first sources. They have information that they can put. So we're obviously not going to get any information out of the DOJ or anywhere else, but if we want to actually try to learn the truth, we can maybe crowdsource it together. So I have all these different databases, but then I've added the Pandora Papers, the Panama Papers. You may remember a few years back, I guess maybe it was even longer than that now, a group of independent journalists got together. It was released through, I think, from a lawyer or an accounting firm. All of this data on all of these trust accounts and foreign accounts all around the world, I think we have something like thirteen and a half million records, account records from there that, by the way, I can now map to Epstein. There's even an email in there of Epstein saying, I'm worried about the Pandora Papers. So we now have the ability to start connecting dots and pieces that have never been put together. And to be honest, even when these investigative journalists were working on this data, they're not financial experts. So they may be able to cobble this together, but they don't know who these people are or even how necessarily money flows. So we are going to learn about how the entire world works through this information. It is that powerful and it will change people's entire lives. view of reality and how things work and what the motivations are and who the players actually are. We're sitting here saying we're playing by the Constitution and then we have people with no morality representing foreign countries and other interests that are pushing a completely separate agenda. And they're doing it covertly. They're manipulating the media. I read a thing I was just reading this this afternoon where Epstein was able to edit and manipulate his Wikipedia page. And he was working with Steve Bannon to repair his image. He was able to get a convicted sex offender removed from his page. And then they went in and figured out how to take the IP addresses of everyone that was going in and trying to modify his page and have them blocked so that they couldn't edit his page. So I'm giving you just some of the tidbits here in the intro. Obviously, the focus today is going to be specifically on Bitcoin. But I encourage you. And now with this also said, the Technocracy Atlas, I don't have all the documents loaded. I'm going to show you the Technocracy Atlas, but I'm not still wait. Wait until I get the rest of the documents uploaded and make a few other changes before uploading. we go full force on it. Like I want it to be, it needs to be a bit easier to use, but it's getting close. I even am duplicating that. You may say Gmail where, you know, somebody took Epstein's emails and basically made them available in like a Gmail type of viewer. i've done that as well i'm replicating that but i'm replicating that so that you can go through the emails and you can say okay i'm going to tag this and i'm going to add it to a project so we're working on the epstein's involvement in crypto project here's an email tag it and then boom it's there and now everybody that's working on that project can see that piece of evidence it's just it's really cool i'm really excited about it and by the way today's episode was supposed to be about launching own nothing Dot com or dot org. I think it's dot org. And that was originally what we talked about last week. But events are moving so quickly that, you know, I guess I would say I don't usually schedule these things out very far in the future. And I'm definitely not going to based on everything that's going on in the world. Related to Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, technocracy. In fact, we have a real window. I will say I'm actually pretty optimistic. I mean, we still have to move very quickly and the odds are not in our favor. I mean, we're not like Epstein who won the lottery twice. We don't have those kinds of odds. But this Epstein thing has blown everything open. It's blown crypto open. You can see ties to both political parties, ties to people in the administration, including Howard Lutnick, who I've talked about, including to Trump, including to all of it. And the Clarity Act, I just learned an hour or two ago, has been pushed back. So they're not going to be bringing that back until the spring. So there had been some discussion that they might vote on it this week. So we've actually bought some time. And I actually think that this Epstein thing is going to increase the odds of us being able to make a persuasive case. Or not even us make a persuasive case. I think it's going to be pretty toxic for politicians to even deal with this stuff. So I'll get into the details on that. I'm going to go through the... normal intro stuff i will say i have a hard stop at say eight fifty i'm gonna be on another podcast i'm gonna be i believe live with bitcoin.com talking about the clarity act so if if i do just give you forewarning if if we get into the q a it might not even go that long today but if we get into the q a and i have to shut it off a little early that's why So last week's episode was one hundred and twenty days and it was about the architects of of Tether essentially. And what's going on with the genius and clarity acts, but with kind of a little bit of an emphasis on Tether and the fact that this guy, Bo Hines, came out of nowhere. No crypto experience was recruited to be Trump's crypto advisor. got involved pushed the genius act and then immediately left to become the president of uh tether usa uh you know and then they then they actually literally launched last week usat which is tether which is a regulated stable coin that can be tracked and frozen where the treasuries are backed by the company owned by u.s commerce secretary howard lutnik who's tied to epstein and all this other stuff And so we kind of walked through all of that. And that was just kind of a short little podcast. And as we do these, obviously, these are going to build as we learn more information. And then the week before that, we did kind of the first high-level overview. of the genius act the clarity act and then the two versions of essentially the clarity act that are currently in the senate and that that was kind of a prelude to the article that i wrote for the brownstone institute so tonight we're going to be talking about um i i wrote a like a twelve thousand word article on genius and clarity and it's not just genius and clarity it's about political process itself it's about financial regulation it's about how the political process works i wanted it to be kind of the definitive thing and so i had actually submitted that to brownstone maybe on monday and then all this stuff happened with epstein i'm like man i've got to write something uh because i've been talking about it anyway about the hijacking of bitcoin uh and the context in the context of epstein and what we've what we've learned from that so i actually did a really uh i just kind of jammed through and wrote that article which was published today and is what we're going to be talking about today um just as a reminder that part of the issue that we have here is we have politicians going around the country saying the war on crypto is over and the United States is going to lead the world in crypto. And in reality, what's happened is the war on crypto has actually been extended. You have People like Ian Freeman, who is in prison for eight years. He's literally in prison, federal prison right now for selling Bitcoin essentially without a license, even though he had an opinion letter stating he didn't need a license. And then on the other hand, you have banks. And in some cases I talked about, I think it's Wachovia was involved in Wachovia, Wells Fargo, hundreds of billions of dollars of money laundering, billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars in money laundering for cartels. No one went to jail. In the article that I wrote, the longer one, it's going to go into all of this to just explain because I want to change the way people even think about these bills. We don't need the bills at all. We don't need market structure and we certainly don't need market structure from the people that have crashed the dollar, added thirty eight trillion dollars in debt, tried to hide the Epstein files. The invisible hand, as Adam Smith described it, has worked well for hundreds of years. We don't need the visible hand of Congress. And I kind of explain in the article what that looks like. But we still have our crypto prisoners of war. Ian's there. So I encourage you to go to freeiannow.org and sign the petition for encouraging Trump to pardon him. We have Roman Storm. We have Keone Rodriguez, Will Smith, the Samurai developers. We have basically open source developers that wrote code to protect our privacy and our Fourth Amendment right, who also got opinion letters stating that what they were doing was legal. And, you know, they were their trials occurred and they were sentenced publicly. under Trump since the war on crypto was declared over. So you may remember when Bush was on that aircraft carrier and it said, you know, mission accomplished. I mean, this is kind of like, you know, the mission is most certainly was not accomplished. This is the same thing that's happened with this war on crypto. So on the show, we continue to advocate for these crypto prisoners, but also highlight the fact that this the crypto war isn't over. And then actually these bills, the Genius Act and the Clarity Act are an extension of it. These bills are actually adding surveillance and tracking to everything that we own and every financial transaction that we do. So they are the war on crypto. I saw, I think today, I don't know if it was a joke or not. It's hard to process some of this stuff, but Kamala Harris has announced she's running again and the one of the things people say to me is well you know it's certainly better than if if kamala won and and honestly i can say with respect to this crypto stuff absolutely not If she won, she would have put in her own team of DEI incompetent people to build a CBDC from scratch, and they would screw it up, but it would never get implemented. Trump allowed the biggest technocrats in the world to come in and or captured existing successful private companies and put them under the regulation, tracking, and control of the federal government. Not that I would vote for any of it, but it isn't true that people... I don't think people... can make that statement that it would have been better. Everybody gets into this, oh, well, it's a lesser of two evils. I mean, we buy into this propaganda, and then we accept it, and then it becomes demoralizing, and then each election becomes a bigger humiliation ritual than the one before it. So I put some of this in here. These are some memes that I created over the last few days. And if you're new, I'm going to explain some of this. I'm not intending to be hostile. There are some people that are like, well, why are you being so negative? Why don't you offer solutions? And if you're new to this podcast, I offer solutions all of the time. I mean, I wrote a book. I ran for president. My wife and I have gone to twenty seven states, three countries, educating people about technocracy, the threat of technocracy, the threat of CBDCs, and then actually doing workshops on showing people how to use privacy coins like Zeno or to use privacy stable coins like Freedom Dollar, how to make their Bitcoin and Ethereum private with confidential layer, how we've built a global medical tourism marketplace so that you can escape the horrendous health care system that we have that bankrupts an American every minute and provides, you know, thirty eight ranked care with the highest cost in the world. You don't have to put up with any of that. You can form a medical trust. You can cancel your insurance. You can use medical tourism and save eighty percent and get better health outcomes. So we're building solutions and also connecting to other people that have solutions. We're building tools to help people improve their sovereignty. But For the last seven years, I've been talking about how Bitcoin was hijacked. Others have been talking about it more. Certainly people like Roger Ver, who was at the front of it, who wrote the book that you can see behind me, Hijacking Bitcoin. And the people that have been speaking about this, that have the loudest voice, have been targeted by the federal government. They're either in federal prison. Or they were facing, in Roger's case, one hundred nine years in federal prison. And and I believe it was for a combination of trying to speak the truth about this. But then also those people were working on alternative solutions that can help people to escape prison. central banks and and all of these other things so the people that had the loudest voice and the best voice they've been they've been silenced and so so i get when an opening comes up like this uh when what we know is that you know bitcoin got to where it was it was hijacked by epstein and others which i'll go into but it's been a massive campaign of propaganda and censorship People have been blocked, silenced. You know, I wrote the other day, this guy, Adam Back, who it turns out is the head of Blockstream, a Bitcoin company heavily involved, works with Bitcoin core developers. He was involved and he was with Epstein and I believe on Epstein's Island. I mean, you know, and the Blockstream company that benefited by basically handicapping Bitcoin Bitcoin and making it slow and expensive and capping the block size so that Bitcoin can only do seven transactions per second. The people that formed the company to profit from that had the chairman of the Bilderberg Group, Jeffrey Epstein, and many others. This is the cast of characters of people that we now know explicitly were involved in the hijacking of Bitcoin. And so most people don't know that. So if you're on my Twitter feed, there'll be Bitcoin maxis that are absolutely beside themselves. They're going nuts about this. And they don't want to hear about it because from their perspective, they see that it's causing the price to drop. But from my perspective, most people, as I said, we've gone to twenty seven different states. When I talk to people outside of a Twitter crypto bubble, ninety nine percent of people, ninety nine point nine percent of people don't know that Bitcoin is it was designed to be a currency. They don't know that people were using it to buy and sell things. They don't know that there was such a thing as a block size war. They have no idea that Jeffrey Epstein had anything to do with it. And when I tell them that, they're shocked. I mean, seriously. And this has been going on now for three and a half years where we've been giving these talks. So what goes on online? So somebody will say, again, well, you're not providing any solutions or anything else. No, I've provided solutions. But right now is the moment for the truth to finally get out. that the people who've been trying to tell the story about Bitcoin being hijacked, that have been thrown in prison, threatened, and have not been able to speak because of the propaganda and censorship, this is the window to do that. So I'm going to take advantage of that window. And I... In addition to the article and the interview I did with Jeffrey Tucker, I have a ton of interviews lined up. And I actually want to thank all of you because I know I've been getting a ton of inquiries. And last week, I said, listen, I need help. All of the podcasts that I've ever done on other shows, I never reached out to anybody and said, hey, have me on. It's all happened organically. People have reached out to me either because of... my writings or books or they've heard word of mouth or whatever. And, and so I'm pretty sure that, that some of these new podcasts that, that I'm going to be on over the next couple of weeks are from you guys reaching out. And I encourage you to continue to do that. I think the way that we win is through truth and authenticity. I see people trying to get on this show all the time where I have what I think are fake agents. Cause it's like somebody that's got, well, here's this person with a little story. And then there's, you know, I think they had AI create a, you know, a fake, booking agent to come in and then they they write these like long paragraph things and it's like you know the first paragraph is always like well you know i saw your show on xyz so it's clear they scraped the title and then when you read the rest of it it's clear that they didn't watch the podcast and have no idea what the podcast is about and the guest has nothing to do And that's what most of this is. And so most of a lot of the Internet traffic is fake. A lot of the stories are fake. We have a lot of bots. I think we win with authenticity. So please continue. And by the way, you have no idea how much power you have. You may not know, you know, whatever your favorite podcast is besides this one, of course. But, you know, your other favorite podcasts, you might think, well, I've never talked to this guy before, but still. If you're a listener and you're like, hey, I'm a listener. I like this. You don't have to know the person. I got on Mike Adams this way. The person made the introduction, didn't have a personal relationship with Mike Adams, but was a longtime watcher. So thank you for that. And please continue to do it. We have a window of opportunity. to not only educate the public about Bitcoin, which is important and we'll talk about later, but also we have an opportunity now to get the word out about the Clarity Act. I think the Clarity Act actually can be stopped at this point simply because the Epstein stuff is so bad. And it even includes Coinbase now. The largest lobbyist for the Genius Act and the Clarity Act is Coinbase and their CEO, Brian Armstrong. and we now know you know epstein was an early investor and you know there's a whole bunch of other stuff coming out there that really casts a lot of doubt on all of this and it's certainly you can make the argument that you know people were trying to claim that this guy the coinbase ceo was the champion for the little guy and fighting the big bad bankers at davos and it's and it's all it's all fake and now we can bring evidence into that this is another meme i put together Michael Saylor. I played this video clip and I posted it yesterday. I've played it on this show several times. It's a three minute and eighteen second clip. I probably should have played it in the intro instead of one of the songs. It's Roger Ver talking for two minutes from Liberty Forum in like twenty twelve, twenty thirteen. And was one of the main reasons I got inspired to get into crypto. And he's talking about. This is going to enable people all over the world to engage in trade without banks, no friction. We won't be funding all these wars. Great energy. I mean, it was electrifying. I know several people that were in that room that day. That was like an electric thing. And then there's this video clip from Michael Saylor who says... Well, Bitcoin is not for competing with Visa or MasterCard or the dollar or the Euro. You know, it's for complying with know your customer laws. It's for paying your taxes and everything else. To me, that three minute and eighteen second clip is all you need to know about the hijacking of Bitcoin, which is why I play it very often. But but now today, I think last I think there's a Wall Street Journal article on it. I'll have to check. Somebody sent it to me. I think perhaps. During the dot-com era, Michael Saylor lost more money in one day than anyone up to that point, kind of in history. He lost six billion dollars in one day. And I believe he might have actually beaten that today. So there's a Wall Street Journal article. Here we go. There we go. Yeah. Bitcoin boosters, twelve billion dollar loss headlines, crypto's worst day since twenty twenty two crash. So Michael Saylor's strategy lost twelve billion dollars today. He two X'd his dotcom record loss. Yeah. Again, this is the guy that's the front for... He's the face for hijacked Bitcoin. And so it's all coming out. And this was inevitable, but I've been trying to warn people. Others have for a long time. And now we can start to provide some context to this. Tonight, I'm going to be talking about the article that I wrote, which is at Brownstone. You can actually see it at the Brownstone site. Let me... it's actually on the front page so if you if you go to brownstone.org it's right on the front page called the hijacking of bitcoin and jeffrey put a nice little post out this article helped crash the market fascinating um again this isn't uh necessarily a really long and elaborate uh article like some of the other ones but what i put in there which we'll go through are the actual emails the actual smoking guns the other thing is and i'm going to post this on my x account tomorrow but i did an interview it's it's uh in case you didn't know because i it's new the brownstone institute has their own podcast now called the brownstone show so i encourage you to check that out um really high quality stuff great guests jeffrey's awesome jeffrey's my favorite person to interview with i i've actually come to find I don't like actually preparing presentations. When I prepare presentations, it's too, I don't know, it's too extensive. It's kind of too forced. But like Jeffrey knows exactly how to move a conversation. And because he's smart, he knows what he's talking about. He can actually get to the really interesting bits. And so this interview was really interesting. important to me because I've known Jeffrey since probably twenty twelve, maybe around twenty thirteen, right around the when we learned about Bitcoin. And Jeffrey is actually probably one of the most influential people in the world at opening up the original version of Bitcoin, the Bitcoin version that Roger Ver talked about. He wrote a book about it. And being an economist and someone that has great kind of stature and understanding about monetary policy and economics, he was able to describe the importance of Bitcoin from a monetary perspective and from an economic perspective. And that brought a lot of people in. And when I was doing the podcast with him, he discussed kind of the same thing that happened to me. Early on, there was all this excitement. People understood, at least seemed to have some kind of understanding of how money worked and how this invention would work to be an improvement upon the existing system. And then all of a sudden, around twenty seventeen, the narrative would shift and then people would call Jeffrey and they would say, hey, Jeffrey, you know, we're not doing we're not doing this as peer to peer digital cash anymore. You didn't get the memo. You know, this is a store of value. And Jeffrey's like, well, that's not how it works. Something in order to be a store of value, it also needs to be a medium of exchange. And he's explaining these things. And then people are like discounting. what he has to say. And so for years, he got out of it then. And I didn't get out of crypto then, but I did get out of Bitcoin then because I couldn't use it anymore. I was using it here in New Hampshire to go to stores, to go to restaurants. I was using it for political activism. I was actually raising money for a super PAC and paying activists using cryptocurrency. And then all of a sudden, the transactions were fifty dollars. They went from like a few pennies with transaction settling a minute or two to seven days to complete a transaction in fifty dollars. So I stopped using it because it wasn't useful. But then, you know, what we learn and Roger Veer had a front row seat to all of it as it was going on. There was a big debate internally, which is, do we increase the size of these blocks, as was originally discussed in the paper, in the white paper, so that you can do more transactions that you can scale so you can compete with Visa or MasterCard? Do we do what the original plan was? Or all of a sudden, this new thing came in and said, well, no, we're going to keep it slow. And then we're going to build this thing called a second layer solution. And all of a sudden, we're going to start calling it digital gold. So all of a sudden, they're not listening to Jeffrey. And Jeffrey's like... And then you're kind of an outcast if you hold this view that you should be using these things as digital cash. And so now... It's all come full circle. I mean, we knew kind of what the inevitably was going to happen. But, you know, as we've watched this the last few days, you know, at one point today, Bitcoin was sixty one thousand something. It was seventy two thousand yesterday. I mean, it's crashed. The all time high was one hundred twenty six thousand dollars. And it's related to. Well, I like to put it this way. So once you understand that. Bitcoin was hijacked and can't be used as digital cash without using these other things that actually involve KYC and they don't actually even work. Then you're down to, okay, is it effective digital gold? So the reason I think that the price has dropped as much as it has in the last few weeks or months is twofold. One, it was presented as digital gold, but silver and gold were outperforming Bitcoin. So it turns out that I think most people are starting to wake up to the fact that the dollar is... is failing. And so most people are saying, well, I'm not going to hold my money in a bank account that I don't own and earn point one percent interest. What am I going to do here? Where am I going to store my value? And it turns out increasingly people are not deciding to choose bitcoin despite the fact all of the branding and all the propaganda is digital gold so as as gold went above five thousand dollars an ounce as silver went above a thousand a hundred dollars an ounce people are like well you know their their strategy was to way to cope with it was to say well it's going to cycle back in you know people are going to take their profits from gold and silver and put it into bitcoin well that didn't happen So then people are kind of like, uh-oh, is this thing actually a good store of value? Then the Epstein information comes out. And what that does is it casts doubt on... even the whole transition to it becoming a store of value. Now I understand, and if you're new to this podcast, you may not have heard of any of this before. You may be like most of the people that I've spoken to as we've traveled. You didn't know people were using Bitcoin to buy airline tickets through Expedia or to buy furniture at overstock.com or to buy things at Microsoft. You probably have never heard of that before. Most people that I've spoken to in the United States only know of Bitcoin as being a speculative asset or this digital gold thing. Well, now people are saying, well, is it a good store of value? And the fact that it's not doing well against silver and gold is one thing, but then you dig deeper and I'm kind of front running going through the article here, but what you find is is that all of the main shift here happened in twenty seventeen. Epstein funded the developers that kind of cemented the technical changes to make Bitcoin slow and expensive and not usable as digital cash. And then the price went up. So the price was going up for Bitcoin in twenty seventeen, largely because people were starting to use it as a currency. But then when it became unusable, the price dropped. But then the price went back up again. It went up huge. Well, it turns out the University of Texas at Austin did a study of this that at least fifty percent of the increase in the price of Tether, I mean, excuse me, of Bitcoin was due to Tether. And It appears as though, based on the fact that they weren't able to pass an audit and were found to not have the necessary assets back in the stable coin, that they were printing Tether out of thin air and then using it to inflate the price of Bitcoin. So in other words, they manufactured the technical changes and the narrative change to say that Bitcoin is a store of value. And then they artificially pumped the price of Bitcoin to get people to believe it. Well, now that we know that and we put all these pieces together, now that people are seeing today, nine years later, that it's not holding up relative to gold and silver. And now we go back and look back and we can see the history of this and the history of it suggests that the whole thing was fake. that puts significant pressure and doubt on bitcoin and and i will say this the price of bitcoin may go back up uh you know i'm not giving financial advice but i in order for it to go up in my opinion it would have to be based on either fraud or force And when I say force, it force in the sense that it would have to be governments forcing their citizens to buy it through taxation. Or it would be through, you know, continuing to push this fake narrative and then to get financial advisors to have for one case and pension funds and so forth by it. Now, I will tell you on that front, based simply on the volatility, if you are somebody that manages a pension fund. for an organization, maybe it's government employees or whatever it happens to be. And you're sitting around and you're trying to figure out how you're going to allocate your assets. And somebody is going to say, hey, this thing's lost fifty percent of its value in a few months. And now people are saying that Jeffrey Epstein is involved. Well, these are risk managers. And to be honest with you, like when you're trying to balance risk reward, the reward part doesn't look very appealing here. Now that Bitcoin is a trillion dollar asset, in order for the price to move, you actually have to have pretty significant volume and you have to have people that are willing to invest quite a bit of money to push the needle. Well, where's that money going to come from? And if it's not going to come from institutional sources, and it looks like they're not going to do a Bitcoin strategic reserve with taxpayer money, they've stated, the Treasury Secretary has stated he's going to continue to confiscate Bitcoin through civil asset forfeiture. They're going to continue to steal Bitcoin from our friends. I mean, you know, Ian Freeman has had, I don't even know, five, ten million dollars worth of his Bitcoin stolen. And when they raided him before he was even convicted or had his sentencing hearing, they confiscated all of his. Ledger drives and so forth. And I believe he actually had to sign a deal where, you know, even if he loses or even if he wins, they still confiscated his crypto. Ross Ulbricht, who, you know, received a pardon and arguably, you know, maybe he's entitled to that money, to those Bitcoin. He's certainly not going to get it, but that's the bulk of the three hundred twenty five thousand Bitcoin that the U.S. government has. There's another chunk of this, which was from a hack from a crypto exchange. Well, you might say, well, why don't they give that? Shouldn't they be giving the crypto? If there was a hack, wouldn't they give the Bitcoin back to the people that it was stolen from? And no, they just kept it. And so this leads to another point that a lot of people don't understand, which is that Bitcoin is not anonymous. So there are a lot of people that like to push this idea of, well, not my keys, not my coin. You can't physically take my Bitcoin. This is one of the big features of it. The problem is that because it's all on an open ledger and for the last twelve years, a company called Chainalysis has been working with exchanges and law enforcement all over the world to build a database tracking everybody's transactions. So it's pretty easy for them to find out. And once they find out one transaction, they can find out all of the other transactions. So if that's the case, so if they come to you and they say, hey, listen, we've got proof that this is yours, you can decide to not give up your keys, but they'll throw you in prison. And this is essentially what has happened. So the way they've ended up getting this cryptocurrency is by being able to say, to defendants or whoever it happens to be or whether people are guilty or not. We know these are yours. You're going to either give them to us or you're going to spend more time in jail. And so, so far, there aren't a lot of brave souls that have said, well, I'm not going to give you my keys. And so a lot of people online will say, well, I would never give up my keys. The people whose keys, the people whose crypto they've confiscated, these are really smart people. These are people that were ahead of the curve and were involved in Bitcoin like, fifteen years ago and that, you know, probably have IQs over one-forty. So, you know, so there may be some guy out there that mined Bitcoin fifteen years ago, has never done a transaction with anybody that can be traced, and so he can say, well, you know, I've got, you know, all these things set up, they're not going to take my Bitcoin. That's irrelevant to the general proposition of whether Bitcoin can be tracked for normal users. So... So in any event, when you come back to this, it's like, okay, it can be tracked. The store value argument doesn't seem to be holding up given that it's lost about fifty percent of its value. In order for the store value to work, a lot of money needs to come in. And because of the volatility in the Epstein thing, who is that going to be at this point? Who's going to want to risk doing this? What's the upside in taking that risk? particularly in light of the fact that gold and silver have done better. So my statement to you, if you're sitting out there saying, well, it's going to go up in value and so on and so forth, based on what? Why? Why would it? It hasn't really demonstrated that the hijacked use case is actually a viable one in times of economic turbulence. So I'll get into the article here. I mean, I've already gone through the big points, but as I go through the article, what I'll show you are the actual tweets. That's the, or excuse me, not the tweets, the emails. That's the real, Fun part of this exercise. I will say before I get into that, I have done a ton of other interviews. I don't even have them all in here. But I encourage you to look at the episode that I did with Paul Barron called Crypto Clarity Dead on Arrival. Why that one was really important to me is this guy has two hundred two point two million subscribers and I've never been on a show before. Don't know anybody in his audience. And the comments were overwhelmingly positive. And what that told me is. Most people out there sense that what they're being told on these crypto shows and podcasts about why we need this regulation. Most people sense that it's BS, but they don't know why it's BS. And I just laid it all out. And so that's why that one is a good one. I was on with Meryl Nass of CHDTV. That was another great interview. And I'm grateful to have her support, particularly given her leadership and knowledge that's vast on a whole variety of different issues related to technocracy, globalization, food freedom, and so forth. And I have some podcasts. I can't say who they are with yet, but I have some really big podcasts coming up over the next week or two that are from people that I've never been on before. And we will reach a completely new audience. You know, we're talking about, you know, one of them is someone with a million followers, but is very, very much in the mainstream of what's going on. And we're going to be able to, to talk about these issues. This is, I want to say that if you watched my feed for, What's happening now, and by the way, Bitcoin maxis have not wanted to debate me or have me on their shows at all. One of Roger's friends offered Adam Back a half a million dollars to debate him on hijacking Bitcoin after the book came out, and Adam Back refused. I have been blocked by Max Keiser, Michael Saylor, most of the Bitcoin core devs, so forth the guy who wrote the bitcoin standard all of it they have lists of people that they suppress part of their whole strategy has been hey we've got this new narrative if we can just control the narrative and we're the ones that are getting on tv cnbc and everything else and we're building this big kind of cult around this we'll just shut off the people have the alternative opinion or which is actually the truth which at some level they they know then maybe we'll keep the story going maybe we'll keep the the pump alive and now people want answers so now all of a sudden these bitcoin maxis are engaging now all of a sudden they're dming me now i'm having you know people say things like oh well i'll debate anyone on this like this guy simon dixon and everything else here's and here's my view on this i certainly will not turn away a debate but For the next two to three weeks, I'm not going to do any debates because I don't really care about Bitcoin maxis or the Bitcoin maxi community. First of all, it's small. Secondly, it operates like a religious cult. So the percentage chance that you're going to change somebody's mind is really small. Who needs to hear this message is the general public. And I'm saying this from my own experience, knowing that from all the talks that I've done, and when I do talks, they're not with average people. These are with people that are maybe recently awake, but generally intelligent people. They haven't heard of any of this. I want to go to those people. I don't want to waste my time in squabbles. I will do the debates, but it's not going to be for two to three weeks because we have a window here. between the first Brownstone article, the next Brownstone article is going to go out, and all of these other interviews, we've got an opportunity to tell our side of the story. And I don't want to get bogged down in petty BS or to try to, frankly, salvage people's reputations, which may be irretrievable. If these people at this point, as you start to see... what actually happened with this hijacking of Bitcoin and Epstein, if these people continue to try to do mental gymnastics to justify all this stuff, then at some point at the end of it, when it all comes down, people will never trust those people again. Particularly if it then comes out during part of this process that they actually did know and actively suppressed it. That is going to be another big deal, too. My job in life is not to protect the reputation of Bitcoin maxis who have been lying to people. So with that said, I'll do debates. But even if you're listening to this, because some of you will tag me and say, you should do a debate with this. Know that my position is I certainly will do a debate, but not for two to three weeks because this is our opportunity to explain what's going on without the noise and the have fun staying poor and diamond hands and all of the cult behavior that goes on around it. This is the opportunity to frame this from the standpoint of the truth and the standpoint of the facts. By the way, this is part of the reason I'm doing this technocracy atlas because I'm sick of these arguments where somebody said, well, this guy did this, this guy did this. How about this? How about we put all the evidence there and then everybody can look at the evidence and can discuss the evidence and then contribute additional information? How about we actually focus on the truth and putting out primary source information? So that's kind of the thing on that. So if you see me, so just understand my position is going to be two to three weeks. We'll do some debates. Now, in addition to the interviews I have lined up, I'm going to be traveling. This is another part of it as well. I'm going to be traveling for the next two weeks. So I'm going to be in Mexico next Thursday at Monerotopia. So I'll be at Monerotopia next week. And then the following week, I'll be at Anarchapoco and at the Crypto Vigilante Summit. Now, I'm looking forward to both of these. And I actually think the timing is great for both of these events because I've been to Monerotopia. And most of the people... I mean, it's Mineratopia. This is a privacy coin-focused conference. But I remember being there... Fifteen months ago. The last time they had it was in... November. And I remember being at a table debating with people. I was actually... I had made the... connection that I thought Epstein was involved in it. And people were trying to say, well, no, he wasn't. And they were trying to frame it as a conspiracy theory. Well, I've got news for them. And I know some of those people are still going to be there. It is no longer a conspiracy theory. So for me, it's going to be very interesting to see If you're not willing to change your position in light of new information, then that's really interesting knowledge, right? And there's a certain degree to which you can't spend time on those people. You just have to move on and have... A different conversation. A lot of what happens is, you know, I'll say something like, hey, Pete, you should read hijacking Bitcoin or whatever. And then somebody will say, well, you know, Roger was wrong or Roger's just doing this about so he can promote Bitcoin cash. Roger, the last time I saw Roger do an interview was on Tucker Carlson and he was talking about Zeno and confidential layer. Roger has been about... What got me into crypto was his speech about peer-to-peer digital cash and what it means for economic freedom and for getting rid of the violence and everything that comes about when people have central banks and these debt-based systems. That is what Roger has been about. I've seen it. I've watched him. I mean, I don't know him that well personally, but I have followed what he has been doing. He's got a body of work and it's impressive. And so I'll debate with people and they're like, well, this is just about Bcash or whatever. And so most of the people's complaints are like, well, you held this different position on this thing at some point in time. It's like, well, no, the mission's always been peer-to-peer digital cash. You experiment with things. Markets are about experimentation and trying new things. Some of them work, some of them don't. You test a lot of things, you learn, and you move on. That's how it works. And a lot of people are like, well, wait, you tried this one thing, and it got hijacked, and you're not sticking with that. Well, what's wrong with you? Well, it got hijacked. It's not doing the thing that it was supposed to do. Why would you? So, anyway. So, Anarchapoca will be another... good good event and you know as i think about it when i was at mineratopia last ross olbrich was still in prison and roger was was in spain and so you know sometimes when i was reflecting on even what my talk was going to be about sometimes it seems like a lot that