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The Stock Market Is RIGGED at Every Level! (Here's the Receipts) | Beyond Bitcoin · Simply Bitcoin

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I've been sitting with this story all week.
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A fan of the show passes me a tweet that absolutely reframes
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my thinking. What's the headline here?
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Stock market's rigged. And I've been pulling on that
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thread ever since. Here's what happened.
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You sat down and someone handed you a game.
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You played. You lost.
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They sold you a better strategy. You lost again.
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They sold you a robot to play for you.
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The robot lost the robot also quietly stole your wallet all
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the way out quietly. And this is the part that really
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got me thinking about our current inflection point,
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Bitcoin and AI. Give me about 15 minutes.
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I want to show you the scam that's likely affecting you
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personally and the one thing that you can do about it on
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oceans. This is beyond Bitcoin.
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Let's go. So where we at right now?
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We're at 68,400 and 12/13 dollars.
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Bitcoin is at the $70,000 range of this recording down from its
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high up from its low, right where it always is somewhere
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that makes exactly half the Internet feel vindicated and the
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other half feel slightly. I'll.
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I want you to hold on to that number because we're probably
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going to come back to it and I'm sure it'll still be there, but
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here's what I want to talk about today.
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While Bitcoin is doing whatever Bitcoin does, the stock market,
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you know, the one in your 401K, the one your financial advisor
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keeps pointing at like it's the source of truth.
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If you still have a financial advisor that is has had a very
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illuminating week. Today we're going to talk about
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3 topics with one idea. First, we're going to go back to
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2014 with Michael Lewis, who's the author of the book Flash
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Boys, which is a book so well reported that the New York
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Attorney General preemptively opened an investigation before
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it even hit shelves. We're talking about the
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infrastructure rig, the millisecond theft, the one that
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set the template for everything else.
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Second, the 2026 upgrade. This isn't fiber optic cables
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anymore, this is Truth Social. On March 20th, the NASDAQ 100
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did something that the Kobesi letter caught in real time.
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And I want to walk you through the timestamps because the
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timestamps are actually the whole story.
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And 3rd, the solution. So we've all been hearing about
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this thing called Openclaw, the AI agent framework that hit 2
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million users in 60 days and was going to democratize trading,
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level the playing field and let retail finally compete with the
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big guys. You see where this is going,
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right? Three versions of the same scam.
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So I want to take you back to 2014 with Michael Lewis, the
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same guy who wrote Moneyball. The Big Short Liar's Poker
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published a book called Flash Boys, and the thesis was, and
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I'm only paraphrasing slightly here, the American stock market
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is rigged. Not metaphorically rigged.
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Not the house always wins. Rigged mechanically,
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deliberately, and systematically rigged by the exchanges
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themselves, by the big Wall Street banks, and by a category
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of professionals most people have never heard of, called High
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Frequency traders. Here's how it works.
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You submit a buy order through your brokerage.
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That order travels electronically to the Exchange,
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which is simple. Except firms like Citadel
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Securities, Jane St. Capital and Virtue Financial
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have spent, and we're talking billions of dollars here,
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building fiber optic cable infrastructure to physically
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locate their servers closer to the Exchange.
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Not to analyse the market better, not to build better
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products, but to receive your order signal 50 microseconds
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earlier than the market does. So what happens in that 50
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microseconds? Well, they buy the stock ahead
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of you, and then they sell it back to you at a higher price.
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And they do this automatically every time, at machine speed 100
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times faster than you can blink. That's like trading with someone
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who knows they have a defective product.
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The stock market's rigged. The United States stock market,
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the most iconic market in in global capitalism, is rigged.
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By whom? By a combination of the stock
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exchanges, the big Wall Street banks and high frequency
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traders. Who are the victims?
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Everybody who has an investment in the stock market.
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Michael Lewis isn't talking about the stock market that you
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see on television every day that ceased to be the center of U.S.
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financial activity years ago and exists today mostly as a photo
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op. This is the stock market that
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Lewis is talking about, the one where most of the trades take
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place now, inside hundreds of thousands of these black boxes,
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located at more than 60 public and private exchanges, where
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billions of dollars in stock change hands every day with
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little or no public documentation, Trades are being
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made by thousands of robot computers programmed to buy and
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sell every stock on the market. It speeds 100 times faster than
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you can blink an eye. The system so complex it's all
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but invisible. If it wasn't complicated, it
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wouldn't be allowed to happen. The complexity disguises what is
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happening. If it's so complicated you can't
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understand it, then you can't question.
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And this is all being done by computers.
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All being done by computers. It's too fast to be done by
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humans. Humans have been completely
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removed from the marketplace. The most iconic market in global
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capitalism is rigged. The victims, everybody.
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But what about Robin Hood? Robin Hood's safe right.
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They democratized investing, you know, made it fun and easy to
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understand. Flash Boys came out in 2014.
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The response from Wall Street was denial, counter narratives
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and very expensive PR. The Attorney General opened an
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investigation and then not much changed.
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Shocking. Citadel paid fines, Jane St.
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paid fines, Virtue paid fines. Nobody went to prison.
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The practice continues. The SEC has studied it with the
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enthusiasm of Bueller. Bueller.
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Here's an amazing stat. Virtue Financial went public in
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2015. In their IPO filing, they
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disclosed that over 5 1/2 years of trading, 12137 trading days,
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they had exactly 1 losing day. One one losing day in 5 1/2
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years in a market where the average retail investor
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underperforms the index. Hmm.
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Megatron must have had a bug that day and no one really asked
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questions about it because it was legal because the game was
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designed that way. But, and this is the key thing,
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in 2014, you could still say, OK, the infrastructure is
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tilted, but at least the information is fair.
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At least we are all getting the same news at the same time,
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right? You could have said that in
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2014, but you obviously can't say that now with all our
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current algorithms feeding us constant information that, you
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know, all of us are getting different information all the
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time. By the way, have you heard of
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Taco? Not like Taco Bell, Trump always
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chickens out. That is a trade.
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Actually. That is an actual name of it
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that people are using when the markets sell off because
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something Trump said, Iran tariffs or whoever he's
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threatening this week, you end up buying because history shows
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he actually walks it back sometimes within hours,
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sometimes within 90 minutes. Hold that for a second, 90
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minutes. March 20th of this year, the
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market has a rough day. Iran, Hormuz, everything that
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we've been discussing on this channel, oil at numbers nobody
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was prepared for. The S&P 500 hits a new 2026 low.
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As Trump says, quoting directly, I don't want to do a ceasefire
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with Iran. My terrible Trump impersonation.
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At 3:40 PM Eastern Time, 3 minutes before that statement,
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the NASDAQ 100 the QQQ starts moving upward.
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Options flows on long calls surge into the 4:00 PM market
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close. At 5:13 PM.
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Eastern Time, 13 minutes after futures markets have already
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closed for the weekend, Trump posts on Truth Social that the
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US is considering winding down military operations in Iran.
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Of course, the Kobayasi letter documented this in real time.
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Quote the NASDAQ 100 ETFQQQ surged 1.1% between 3:40 PM and
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5:00 PM today without any major news options flows on the QQQ
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long calls were surging into the 4:00 PM close.
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At 5:13 PM, President Trump said he was considering winding down
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the Iran war. The move happened before the
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news chat. Is that illegal?
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I genuinely do not know of course, and that is somewhat
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precisely the point. Flash Boys was legal.
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This is question mark. The rules of this game are
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written by people who benefit from how the game is played.
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Do you write the rules of the game?
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You do you mind throwing a rule in there for me?
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Arthur Hayes, who ran one of the largest crypto derivatives
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exchanges in the world before the government had thoughts
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about that, wrote something a couple years ago that I keep
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coming back to about what the Fiat system actually forces you
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to do. There's all these things that
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the average person needs that the government can't print.
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And if I guess going to not allocate the losses for all
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this, this debt, which is essentially that is I'm going to
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take the future and I'm going to spend it today, right?
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So we spent the future. There's no more future, right?
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We have to pay for it. And so if you have money inside
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of the system, you will pay for it.
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And it's an implicit tax on anyone who saves and things that
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don't go up as fast as the amount of money printed.
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And so that's the game. It creates a financial
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speculator out of everyone. Even if you don't think you're a
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speculator, you are a speculator.
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You are a speculator, whether you want to be or not, whether
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you understand the game or not, whether you were even paying
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attention or not. That's the thing that nobody
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says to you when you open up your 401K, you're not saving.
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You're speculating in a market where the infrastructure isn't
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equal, where the information isn't equal, where the rules are
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written by the same people the rules are supposed to govern.
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Larry Leppard, fund manager and sound money advocate, said this
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plainly. This market is uninvestable.
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Long or short, the only winning move is to exit for the sound
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money of gold or Bitcoin. Uninvestable.
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This is a guy who manages money professionally, saying he can no
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longer run the play. And we haven't even gotten to
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the part where they sold you the solution.
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So the infrastructure is rigged, the information is rigged.
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But what if you could automate around it at a similar speed?
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What if you had a bot you know, not as fast as Citadel, nothing
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is as fast as Citadel, but faster than you, faster than the
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manual TA, faster than your emotional responses.
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So this is the pitch, and it has a name right now.
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And that name is Openclaw. Openclaw is an open source AI
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agent framework. You give it natural language
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commands, you know like buy Bitcoin whenever drops below
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80,000 or execute this option strategy when the VIX spikes
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above 30 and the framework runs it automatically through a
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marketplace of plug insurance. They call them skills, and this
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is the thing that got 250,000 GitHub stars in 60 days. 2
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million users at peak. Over 300 finance and trading
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skills are available on that platform.
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Every company in the world today needs to have an open claw
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strategy and a Gentex system strategy.
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This is the new computer. Now, this is just the exciting
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part. This is enterprise IT before
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open claw, you know, and, and I mentioned earlier the way
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enterprise IT works and the the reason these reason why it's
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called data centers is because these large rooms, these large
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buildings held data, held the files of people, the structure
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data of business. It would pass through software
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that has tools and, you know, systems of records and all kinds
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of workflow that's codified into it and that turns into tools
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that humans would use, digital workers would use.
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That is the old IT industry, software companies creating
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tools, saving files. And of course, GS is consultants
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that help companies figure out how to use these tools and
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integrate these tools. These these tools are incredibly
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valuable for governance and security and privacy and
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compliance. And all of that continues to be
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true. It's just that post open clock,
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post agentic, this is what it's going to look like.
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This is the extraordinary part. Every single IT company, every
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single company, every SAS company, every SAS company will
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become a a gas company. The pitch was clean,
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democratized trading. Let retail do what institutions
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do. Automate it, execute its speeds
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closest to the big players, level the playing field.
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But there's been a lot of chatter around the subject.
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Lots of open claw made me $1000 this week, or open claw made me
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$400 million in three seconds. And I use this prompt.
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I went down that rabbit hole in February 2026.
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Last month, researchers discovered something they called
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Claw Havoc. A supply chain attack had
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injected 11184 malicious skills into the open Claw marketplace.
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At its peak, approximately 20% of all downloadable skills were
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malware targeting crypto wallet keys, browser credentials, SSH
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keys, API tokens. That was one in five.
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If you downloaded a random finance skill in February, you
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had a one in five shot at also downloading something that would
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quietly drain everything attached to your device quietly.
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9 Cves or common vulnerabilities and Exposure's advisories from 2
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governments, 135,000 exposed instances and the most poetic
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detail they attack used AI to generate convincing fake skills
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to blend in with the real ones. The solution to human market
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manipulation was a platform where AI was manipulating AI.
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Oh, by the way. And there's also an open claw
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meme token. Of course there is.
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That's down 96.4% from its all time high.
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That's not a shocker at all. As Alex Stanczyk always says,
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don't shit coin, it's bad for you.
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So it turns out you're not leaving the playing field.
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They just changed the court. Flash boys was the
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infrastructure rig the Taco trade?
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Is the information rig Open claw?
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The solution was the AI rig. 3 versions of the same thesis.
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Now we just spent the last 8 minutes talking about what
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happens when you trust an institution with your money.
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HFT firms front running your trades, Political insiders
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moving markets before the announcement, AI marketplaces
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where one in five plug insurance is malware.
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The bitcoinway.com is about getting your Bitcoin off of all
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of that self custody. Your keys, your coins.
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Not Your keys, Not Your coins is not just a bumper sticker, it's
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That's the bitcoinway.com/beyond Bitcoin.
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So here's the three acts. The infrastructure rig at 50
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microseconds faster than anyone else.
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Billions of fiber optic cable from Citadel, Jane St. and
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Virtue is legal and is ongoing. The information rig Truth Social
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Futures close at 4:00 PM. 13 minutes later, a tweet moves
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markets that are apparently already priced in for the right
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people. Also legal.
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Definitely happening. And the AI rig, the
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democratization of trading. 2 million users, 300 finance
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skills, but 20% of them are malware. 1 meme token down 94%.
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Dang, that sounds like a winner. 3 versions, one template.
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The game is rigged at the infrastructure level, at the
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information level, and now at the AI level, and every
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generation gets sold a new way to finally beat it.
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Bitcoin, No, I would wait. I think that the longer that
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this conflict goes on, the higher the likelihood that the
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Fed has to print money to support the American war
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machine. And that's when I'm going to buy
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Bitcoin. When the central banks start
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printing money. I mean, we're starting to hear
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rhetoric that Trump says he might put boots on the ground.
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He's here for the long term, however long it takes, whatever
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that means. The more you know, the longer
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the inventory is on that's going to have to print because they,
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that's what they do. They've done it for every other
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Middle East, major Middle Eastern conflict, at least in,
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in my lifetime. And so I think if you're saying,
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OK, war is good for Bitcoin, like what you're really saying
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is war means money printing, money printing is good for
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Bitcoin. And so wait for the money
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printing, don't try to time it. Hayes is not trading the Taco.
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He's not running an open claw. He's waiting for the moment the
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system breaks loudly enough to force the Fed's hand, and then
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he's in Bitcoin. Now I want to play one more
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clip. This one's from Andreas
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Antonopoulos from a few years back.
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He gave a talk about what he calls unstoppable code,
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specifically about the difference between a system that
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won't do something and a system that can't.
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Take a look. What's the difference between
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can't and won't? Two life sentences plus 40 years
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is the difference between can't and won't.
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When you say you want governance, beware what you ask
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for. Governance changes Can't into
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won't. And the moment you go over that
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line, what became what started as an ability becomes a
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responsibility. And if you claim you don't have
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the ability anymore, that responsibility just became
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negligence. Criminal negligence, governance
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and unstoppable code are going to form this very, very fine
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line that we have to tread very carefully.
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Is your line the Silk Road? Probably not you.
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Can't, not won't. The HFT firms can't front run
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Bitcoin. There is no order book to see
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before the market does. There's no fiber optic cable
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advantage. There's no exchange with a
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financial stake in your trade. The political insiders can't
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Taco Bitcoin. There is no truth social feed
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that moves the Bitcoin market. Bitcoin trades 24 hours a day,
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365 days a year. There is no futures close at
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4:00 PM. There is no after hours window.
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It just open constantly for everyone.
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The malware developers can't compromise the Bitcoin protocol.
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You can compromise the marketplace of plug insurance,
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you can compromise in exchange, you can compromise a wallet app,
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and you should protect against that.
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But you cannot compromise the Bitcoin protocol itself.
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The rules are enforced by math, not an institution that can be
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pressured, bribed, or slow walked by a regulator.
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This is not a knock on people that are still in the stock
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market, and it's not a knock on people who got excited about
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Open Claw and bought and Mini Mac.
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It's a description of what Bitcoin is and what it is not.
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Bitcoin is the exit, not from risk, from this specific
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category of risk. The kind where the table is
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tilted before you sit down, the kind where the information isn't
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equal, the kind where the rules are written by the people who
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break them. Let me check the price really
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quick. OK, We're still around $68,000.
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Shocker. Real quick.
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Here's the thing that actually keeps me up at night, other than
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my very demanding 3 year old. Flash Boys came out in 2014 and
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we all read it. We all nodded and we said yeah,
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the system is rigged. Then we went back to our four O
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1 KS. The Taco trade has been
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documented in real time in public with time stamps on a
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free website by a newsletter anyone can read.
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And the people doing it are still doing it.
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Openclaw got 2 million users in 60 days.
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A month after Claw havoc, people are still downloading skills.
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The information is not the problem.
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The information is everywhere. Michael Lewis handed us the
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information back in 2014 and it's still a best seller.
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The answer to all of this, you got to study some Bitcoin.
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The question is whether you move fast enough before the answer
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becomes obvious to everyone else.
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