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BREAKING: FEDERAL Bitcoin Stockpile Begins in 3 days!? | EP 1163 · Simply Bitcoin

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  Yo, today we received more confirmation that President
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  Trump is about to create a Bitcoin strategic reserve in
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  three days time. We all know about the number of
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  executive orders that were going to be set into motion, but there
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  is this breaking news article coming out of the New York Times
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  and also Bloomberg confirming what we have been theorizing
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  over these last couple weeks, that Trump is really serious
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  about this strategic Bitcoin reserve.
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  And I'm telling you guys, and I've been saying this for many
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  weeks now, if we get a strategic Bitcoin reserve in the United
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  States in 2025, I would not be surprised at all if we saw half
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  a million or $1,000,000 Bitcoin because that's exactly when we
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  see massive nation, nation state FOMO set in.
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  Also, that's just on the federal level.
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  On the state level, Dennis Porter has really been moving
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  this initiative forward where many states, including the state
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  of Texas, the state of Pennsylvania, the state of Ohio,
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  there was rumblings that the state of Florida is looking into
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  it as well, that they were also all looking into a strategic
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  Bitcoin reserve. And that's only the United
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  States. This is a worldwide phenomenon.
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  You have politicians coming out of Brazil.
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  You have politicians coming out of Germany, even Russia talking
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  about strategic Bitcoin reserves.
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  So it looks like and the Poly market odds have gone on
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  significant significantly since the drop of these two articles.
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  So I mean like in three days time, in three days, January
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  20th, we're going to see potentially Ross Albrecht being
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  freed and Bitcoin taking, you know, growing up, entering a
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  whole new level, which is extremely exciting from the
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  number go up perspective. We also have a jam packed show
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  for you guys. We have special guest.
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  We have James from stamp seed. We have the legendary Gary Gary,
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  Gary Leland from Bit Block Boom, my legendary Co host Optimus
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  Fields and of course the legendary James from Stamp Seat.
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  I repeated James twice, but that's OK.
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  All right everybody, let's go straight into the article.
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  What am I talking about, guys? It's so funny because like two
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  or three days ago, I mean like two or three months ago, the New
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  York Times was not our friend and now the New York Times is
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  dropping articles like this one. The headline for our audio
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  listeners is quote, A first day Trump order a federal stockpile
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  of Bitcoin. It goes on to say a pair of 50
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  page policy proposals laying out the plan in detail.
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  Discussions about the specifics with president-elect Donald J
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  Trump and his advisors in talks with cabinet nominees about how
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  to pay for it. On the eve of Mr. Trump's
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  inauguration, the cryptocurrency industry is pushing his incoming
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  administration to execute an audacious plan that would have
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  seemed unimaginable just a year ago a government program to buy
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  and hold billions of dollars in Bitcoin.
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  As he campaigned last summer, Mr. Trump vowed to create a
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  quote federal Bitcoin stockpile that would serve as a permanent
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  national asset to benefit all Americans.
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  Bitcoin enthusiasts hailed the idea as potentially
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  transformative, claiming that it would help reduce the national
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  debt. Mr. Trump could still abandoned
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  the plan, and the details are under the bait.
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  But industry executives have spent weeks lobbying to shape
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  the proposal, raising hopes that Mister Trump might act soon
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  after taking office. Also at Michael Saylor's 100K
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  party live stream, David Bailey, the owner of Bitcoin Magazine,
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  actually had some things to say in regarding Trump owning
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  Bitcoin. You know, Trump told me before
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  all of this went down that, you know, he owns a significant
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  amount of Bitcoin. I'm not going to disclose the
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  number that he told me, but you know, he doesn't manage his
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  money himself directly, but that he had a significant position at
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  even at that time. And the price of Bitcoin has
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  gone up a lot since. So, you know, you're right, it's
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  all it's all about creating alignment.
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  It's all about creating alignment.
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  And you know what's Bitcoin changes the dynamic where you
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  know what's good for Bitcoin is good for all of us.
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  And what's good for Bitcoin is the fundamental ideas of
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  freedom. So it's like.
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  Also check out this article from Bloomberg.
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  Trump plans to designate cryptocurrency as a national
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  priority Executive order expected to create a crypto ad
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  adversary. No, that's.
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  Advisory. Advisory.
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  Thank you Opti. This is why Opti's here and I
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  couldn't do the show by myself. Council Trump allies are
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  discussing stopping federal crypto.
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  Yeah, that's weird. That said, stopping.
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  Anyways, I'm going to read a little bit from the article.
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  president-elect Donald Trump is planning to release an executive
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  order elevating crypto as a policy priority and giving
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  industry insiders a voice within his administration, according to
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  people familiar with the plan. The order is expected to name
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  crypto as a national imperative, or priority strategic wording
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  intended to guide government agencies to work with the
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  industry, according to people familiar with the matter.
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  It is also slated to create a crypto Advisory Council to
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  advocate for the industry's policy priorities, said the
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  people, who requested anonymity to discuss an executive order
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  that is not yet public. Now, what's quite interesting
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  again is the release, the releases of these articles come
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  out around the same time, right on the verge of Trump being
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  inaugurated, on the same date the New York Times article was
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  released and the Bloomberg article was released.
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  And if we are to believe David Bailey and I, I don't see why we
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  are not believing him. He did get Trump to show up in
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  the Nashville conference. He's saying that in private
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  conversation. He's confirmed that Bitcoin,
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  that Trump owns a lot of Bitcoin.
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  So now we have Bitcoin and crypto allies going into the
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  administration. It seems like everything is
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  lining up now. Mara, one of the largest
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  publicly traded Bitcoin mining pools did this right and they
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  were also caught at a fundraiser for for Trump during the
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  election. They were seen America
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  executives were seen at Mar A Lago and they dedicated a block
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  of which they found and they made it essentially a picture of
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  Trump on 47 right on block 879613.
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  If you check it out on mempool dot space you'll see a picture
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  of Trump that they organized the blocks to make it seem so.
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  So it seems like a lot of industry insiders are excited
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  and also Michael Saylor. Michael Saylor was was seen
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  January 2nd, 2025 at Mar a Lago. Trump's what he what people
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  called the winter White House in Palm Beach.
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  And sailor says Bitcoin is on the menu at Mar a Lago.
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  And if you take a look at the betting market odds, we had a
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  big a little bit of a spike yesterday reached an all time
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  high of 44. Not an all time high, but it
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  reached a high of 44 set up 44% probability.
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  It's back down to 38% probability.
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  But essentially the question is will Trump create Bitcoin
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  reserve in first 100 days? So I mean, this is absolutely
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  massive. Those two new articles from
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  Bloomberg. Those two the, the, the article
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  from Bloomberg, the article from New York Times really confirming
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  that Trump is serious about, you know, obviously changing the
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  regulatory environment for the Bitcoin industry.
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  But it looks like he's serious about creating this Bitcoin, the
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  strategic Bitcoin reserve, which of course is going to be
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  extremely bullish from a price perspective.
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  Anyways, I want to go around the horn, James, what are your
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  thoughts? And then we'll move on to Gary
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  and then Opti. Wow, Yeah, I mean, obviously
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  it's going to be very my thoughts. 2025 is going to be a
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  great year for Bitcoin, mainly because of the strategic Bitcoin
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  reserve. And I'm just, you know, first
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  100 days I'm anticipating when it's going to happen.
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  Like I was talking with a couple people yesterday and we were
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  like, is it going to happen day one?
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  Where? I don't know.
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  I mean, I doubt it. I I certainly hope not.
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  I need some time to stack more sats, you know, cheap sats
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  before that happens. But, you know, it's something
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  that he promised, he's been promising for a while now and,
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  you know, just expecting it to, to happen.
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  But yeah, I'd really, yeah, I don't think much one way or the
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  other. If it happens, great.
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  I feel like Bitcoin's inevitable, regardless if if it
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  doesn't happen, I won't be too upset.
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  Like I said, I have more time to to stack those sats up.
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  So regardless, you know, keep your Bitcoin safe throughout
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  either scenario. And we'll just have to wait and
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  see what happens Monday, if anything, and then the days
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  after that. Absolutely, it's, it's going to
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  be, it's going to be an interesting, it's going to be an
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  interesting year, 1st 101st, 100 days of the Trump
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  administration. Anyways, Gary, you've been in
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  Bitcoin for quite a long time. We have come a very, very long
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  way as an industry. And also one of the things I'm
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  very excited about, which I think should happen in the next
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  10 days or so is the the freedom of Ross Ulbricht, which I think
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  is a huge deal. Gary, what are your, what's your
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  take? Well, first of all, I do want to
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  say if you were in Nashville and you saw Trump speak, it just was
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  funny the way he said it. Remember when he said the first
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  rule of Bitcoin? You don't sell your Bitcoin.
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  Someone didn't tell him the second rule, you don't tell
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  people how much Bitcoin you have.
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  Tell him that. Well, I think, you know, from
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  what I've seen and, and I'm not an expert by any means, but it
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  looks like he's got like 100 executive decisions.
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  He's going to do executive things.
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  He's going to do the first day. If that's true, I would think
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  that is the time that he would free Ross because there's going
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  to be so much going on. No one's going to be paying
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  attention to that and giving them static about that.
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  So get that out of the way. So I'm thinking he's going to
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  free Ross first day and I think he's going to start the Bitcoin
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  reserve on the first day. There's going to be with 100
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  executives, executives things that's the most any president's
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  done. There's going to be so many
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  things for people to complain about that they don't like that
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  it's going to be nothing to throw those in there.
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  So I, I think we're going to have, I think those odds are
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  pretty off to me because I, like I said, I think it'd be first
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  day and I think we'll also be free first day.
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  It's incredibly exciting and I agree.
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  I, I once, I, once I saw those two articles and something that
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  I've learned making media for this long is that it, it's not
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  a, it's not a coincidence that a Bloomberg article and a New York
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  Times article dropped the same time, the same day, basically
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  saying the same, roughly the same thing.
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  That's not a coincidence. Somebody is clearly trying to
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  send a message and again, this is very, very bullish for number
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  go up. Opti.
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  What is your take here, man? I mean, like we've come a long
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  way, man. Six months ago we were talking
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  about moving to El Salvador. The self custody was under
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  attack. The industry was under attack
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  with Operation choke .2 point O Bitcoin mining was under attack.
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  And look, it seems like, you know, within 6 to 9 months, you
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  know, it seems like the US is going to go from hostile to
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  Bitcoin to pro Bitcoin. And one of the things that I'm
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  going to keep saying is elections have consequences.
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  Opti, what's your take? Yeah.
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  Well, I think on that last point, just kind of considering
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  where we were at the beginning of 2024 and where we are in
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  2025, the conversation has gone such a long way and you know,
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  part of it is extremely bullish. Obviously, it's extremely
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  bullish to have this national slash global conversation around
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  Bitcoin and SBR, etcetera, or even taking Bitcoin seriously.
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  And so on that front, it's it, it really feels like that meme
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  of, you know, you're going to you're, what do you say?
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  Like you're going to win so hard, you're going to get tired
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  of winning or whatever. In Bitcoin, it always feels like
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  you're winning. And I, I tweeted earlier kind of
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  joking. I have a power of interpreting
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  all new information as bullish for Bitcoin.
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  So it's all bullish for Bitcoin. And it really, it really does
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  seem like the dominoes are falling.
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  And on that same front, I think, you know, it is very important
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  to stay cautious and you know, a game theory, this outlook for
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  the attack vectors and all that. It's not enough to just be
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  bullish constantly. It's also to kind of keep your
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  head on a swivel. And I I think it's important for
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  bitcoiners to stay skeptical and low key paranoid on on this
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  front. But there was something in that
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  article that we didn't fully get, actually the first one, the
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  New York Times article. And we've been hearing this
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  rumors, I think all week. We've kind of been covering this
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  a very similar news story. But I think the big kahuna in
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  that article is this quote here. So this is somewhere down the
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  New York Times article and it goes asked to comment for this
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  article, Brian Hughes, a spokesman for Mr. Trump
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  transition team, said the president-elect will, quote,
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  deliver on his promise to encourage American leadership in
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  crypto and other emerging technologies.
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  So others are probably AI, etcetera.
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  But I think this is kind of the trend we've been seeing for the
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  last couple of weeks that promises made will be promises
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  kept. And so I know a lot of
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  bitcoiners are skeptic on Trump. He's a politician, he's a
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  grifter, etcetera, etcetera. But just the fact they're
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  talking about all this stuff, I think it's super, super bullish.
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  And of course, we'll see on Monday or maybe it's, you know,
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  Tuesday. I, I was, I was kind of trolling
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  with Nico earlier. Which one's day one?
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  Is it inauguration Day or is it the following day?
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  Because if it's the following day, the world's going to
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  fundamentally change on January 21st, which is, you know, a wink
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  from the simulation. Is it a coincidence?
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  I don't know. But it would be pretty glorious
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  if a lot of these executive orders came through on the 21st.
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  I'm not sure if Inauguration Day is day zero and the 21st is day
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  one, but Nico was kind of telling me day one is
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  Inauguration Day. So we'll see what these
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  executive orders do or rather are and if they get pushed
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  through. But the big three, kind of what
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  Gary was saying that I think are kind of on the table considering
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  all the recent news and leaks we've been seeing is obviously
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  free. Ross, day one.
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  He's been saying that for the last six months to something in
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  regards to the SBR happening. And with this New York Times
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  article in the Bloomberg confirmation, it seems like
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  maybe that's going to get started and we'll figure out
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  what's going on with all of the Seas Bitcoin, whether that's
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  just going to get converted into a strategic Bitcoin stockpile or
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  yeah, remember it's a strategic Bitcoin stockpile here.
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  It's on the strategic Bitcoin reserve.
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  But third is the repealing SAB 121.
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  So if these are the executive orders that we see on day one, I
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  mean, I don't know how you could be bearish on Trump right now.
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  Like to me, that's, that's all bullish stuff playing out in our
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  favor. And I, I think all the people
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  that are still anti Trump, I think you're going to have to
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  bend the knee on this one, boys. I think this is a huge win for
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  Bitcoin. Sorry guys I I don't make the
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  rules here but this all sounds extremely bullish for us.
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  Absolutely. Go ahead.
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  I think Gary just said huge. Oh yeah, Gary said.
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  Huge, huge, huge, huge, huge. Guys, if you guys are enjoying
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  At the time of recording, the Bitcoin price is 104,420 Block
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  height 879,663 Sats per Dollar 958 Market cap 2.07 Trillion
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  Bitcoin versus Gold Market cap 10.96% Percentage issued 94.36.
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  Percent decline from all time high -3.5% Realized monetary
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  inflation. We got 1.07% and the grand
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  scheme of things were just getting started.
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  Anyways, I wanted to address this because this was breaking
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  news from yesterday. It seems like there's some
• 20:33
  skeletons in the closet. Here is the Bitcoin senator from
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  Wyoming says the Biden administration declared war
• 20:41
  against digital assets. Now it's our job to win.
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  So here is here's the official press release.
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  Lummis demands FDIC immediately halt destruction of Operation
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  Choke .2 Point O materials. And here is the actual letter
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  itself. This is from Senator Lummus's
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  office to Chair Grunberg. I guess they're the head of the
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  FDIC. It goes on to say I have been
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  contacted by FDIC whistleblowers who allege that destruction of
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  materials is occurring with respect to the digital asset
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  activities of your agency. I have also been informed by
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  whistleblowers that staff access to these materials is being
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  closely monitored by management to prevent them from being
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  supplied to the Senate before they can be destroyed, and that
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  certain staff have been threatened with legal action to
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  prevent them from speaking out. This is illegal and
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  unacceptable. You're you are directed to
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  ensure your staff cease and desist destruction of all
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  materials and end all retaliatory actions immediately.
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  You're further directed to preserve all existing materials
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  including documents, communications, electronic
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  information and metadata relating to the FDI CS digital
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  asset activities since January 21st, 2022 that may be
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  responsive to the Senate Banking Committees oversight
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  prerogatives in the coming months.
• 22:08
  Now here is Nick Carter. Nick Carter was originally the
• 22:10
  one who wrote the paper covering Operation Choke Point 2.0.
• 22:14
  Here is some of his commentary regarding this this this
• 22:19
  breaking news. So Senator Lummus says she has
• 22:22
  been contacted by FDIC whistleblowers regarding
• 22:26
  Operation Choke Point 2.0 demands preservation of all
• 22:29
  materials, including those relating to Silvergate and
• 22:32
  Signature Bank shutdowns. A lot of people were theorizing
• 22:36
  that those banks weren't necessarily going to go out of
• 22:39
  business. In fact, the Biden
• 22:41
  administration did some things in the back end that made them
• 22:45
  go out of business because they were so friendly and did
• 22:49
  business with the Bitcoin industry.
• 22:53
  He goes on to say threatens criminal referrals if
• 22:55
  destruction of records is on earth.
• 22:58
  Gloves are off. Interesting also that she also
• 23:01
  says refusals to share materials, confidential
• 23:04
  supervisory information doctrine are immaterial.
• 23:08
  FDIC staff must be in absolute shambles at the moment.
• 23:12
  Almost shed a tear reading this to be honest with you.
• 23:15
  Justice is coming. We fought 2 years now for the
• 23:18
  truth and we're finally going to get it.
• 23:23
  I mean, like this is crazy. It's a little bit of a
• 23:26
  vindication Opti, is it not? I mean, we, we've been covering
• 23:30
  this news for quite a while. We went from thinking like, oh,
• 23:33
  they're just not educated on the matter.
• 23:35
  They just don't know any better to like this seems like they're
• 23:40
  attacking our industry on purpose.
• 23:43
  The proposed 30% Bitcoin, the proposed 30% tax on Bitcoin
• 23:48
  miners, the attack on self custody, the arrest of many men,
• 23:53
  many leading exchange entrepreneurs.
• 23:57
  I know a lot of them are are part of shit coin casinos and
• 24:00
  not like CZ and Arthur Hayes. But again, when banks do the
• 24:06
  same thing they accuse CZ and Arthur Hayes of, they get fines.
• 24:10
  When people from our industry do it, they go to prison.
• 24:13
  So there's a little bit of a double standard there, of
• 24:16
  course, Elizabeth Warren using the attacks in Israel to like
• 24:21
  propagate this narrative using the Wall Street Journal
• 24:23
  basically saying that Bitcoin was being used to money, to
• 24:28
  launder money for terrorists. Now, we did the research
• 24:32
  regarding that, regarding that claim.
• 24:34
  And the truth is that the vast majority of illicit finance is
• 24:38
  done within the traditional financial system.
• 24:40
  So I don't think it's about money laundering.
• 24:43
  I don't think it's about, you know, preventing crime as they
• 24:46
  claim. I think it has to do with the
• 24:48
  fact that they want a central bank digital currency and they
• 24:51
  don't want competition for a central bank digital currency.
• 24:55
  So they're trying to create a monopoly.
• 24:56
  They're trying to create a place where people had to use the CBDC
• 25:01
  because that was the only thing that was available to them.
• 25:03
  So I'm really glad of the election results.
• 25:06
  Obviously, I think it's going to be really bullish for the price,
• 25:09
  really bullish from a regular regulatory perspective, but I
• 25:12
  think we're going to find out about how bad Operation Choke .2
• 25:17
  point O was and what the government was doing in in the
• 25:21
  background that we weren't aware of because supposedly the
• 25:24
  government supposed to be transparent when it comes to
• 25:28
  policy. Why are they, why are they
• 25:30
  destroying documents? Why, why are they destroying
• 25:33
  documents if they have nothing to hide, if they feel they
• 25:36
  didn't break the law and, you know, they're following the
• 25:39
  regulations, why do they want to destroy communications?
• 25:42
  Why? What's going on back there,
• 25:44
  right? I think that if those documents,
• 25:47
  you know, come to light, I think we're going to see a lot of
• 25:50
  things there that they did that confirm without a shadow of a
• 25:54
  doubt they did not want the Bitcoin industry to succeed in
• 25:57
  the US. Because me and Opti went for
• 26:00
  nine months to the point that I got upset with Opti because Opti
• 26:03
  said, Nico, they have Trump Derangement syndrome.
• 26:06
  I'm like, no, dude, we have to stay neutral to the point that
• 26:09
  when they arrested the Samurai wallet developers for writing
• 26:14
  code, that's the day that I lost it.
• 26:17
  I said, you know what, gloves are off.
• 26:19
  We have to get behind RFK. We have to get Trump because our
• 26:23
  industry potentially is in danger from a regular regulatory
• 26:28
  perspective in the United States.
• 26:29
  Anyways, Gary, what are your thoughts on this?
• 26:32
  We'll pass it on to James and then Opti.
• 26:34
  Well, number one is I don't understand how government
• 26:37
  officials who are working for us think it's proper to hide
• 26:42
  information for us. I don't understand why the JFK
• 26:45
  files are still private. I don't understand why a lot of
• 26:49
  things are private and we don't have access to.
• 26:51
  I'm sure I can see why we wouldn't be given the names of
• 26:54
  spies and stuff like that, but banking, industry information,
• 26:59
  information, this should all be open to us.
• 27:01
  They should not be keeping secrets from us.
• 27:03
  We hire them basically to go in and represent us and do things
• 27:09
  for us and then they go do things and then they don't tell
• 27:12
  us what they're doing. And then they, in this case
• 27:14
  destroy things because they never want us to know what
• 27:17
  they're doing. I I'm confused on that.
• 27:19
  Why do they get into working for us, the people, if they don't
• 27:23
  believe in weed people? 100% I think that I think that's
• 27:27
  spot on. And I, I agree with you, Gary, I
• 27:30
  think and, and I don't think it could ever be a government of we
• 27:34
  the people. As long as the government has
• 27:36
  the ability to print money. I think as long as the
• 27:38
  government has the ability to print money, it's a government
• 27:40
  by the government for the government.
• 27:42
  They're not really incentivized to do good by the people.
• 27:44
  So I think that assessment, Gary, was absolutely spot on.
• 27:47
  Why they had we are paying their salaries.
• 27:50
  These, you know, these are government employees.
• 27:52
  They're supposed to be working for us.
• 27:54
  Why they destroying the evidence?
• 27:56
  Like what's going on there? James, what's your opinion?
• 27:59
  Yeah, I mean, I just, it boils down to rules for thee, not for
• 28:02
  me, right? Like they are.
• 28:04
  I'm used to this sort of thing. Like when I see something like
• 28:07
  that concealment of the evidence for, you know, Operation 2.2
• 28:11
  point O, it's just par for the course.
• 28:13
  You know, I expect that to be hidden.
• 28:15
  And then I expect them to say potentially something like, you
• 28:17
  know, we're doing this for national security.
• 28:19
  This could be perceived the wrong way, but really the right
• 28:22
  way, right? Like if you're hiding something
• 28:24
  and you know, there's blaring evidence, obviously that looks,
• 28:26
  you know, terrible. And it's just exciting to see
• 28:30
  that we're going on the polar opposite of that now.
• 28:32
  And like, as you say, elections have consequences where all this
• 28:36
  stuff will come to light and be out there.
• 28:38
  And we're moving towards SPR and crypto or Bitcoin friendly
• 28:45
  government, you could say. So you know, it's, it's I guess
• 28:49
  what's the darkness is coming to light, right?
• 28:51
  Everything is going to come to light and it'll be interesting
• 28:53
  to see the reasons why these things were hitting or what
• 28:56
  really went down, which O .2 point O because it's, it's not
• 28:59
  like a confirmed operation, right?
• 29:04
  It's it's not really confirmed. It's kind of like a shadow
• 29:06
  operation and it'll be nice to see it come to light with pure
• 29:10
  evidence. 100 percent, 100% I'm, I'm again like, it's not going
• 29:14
  to be surprising what, what, what we find because it, it's,
• 29:18
  it became so apparent that obviously, you know, they were
• 29:22
  taking a political stance with all their policies, all the
• 29:25
  things that was, was, were being done by the DOJ.
• 29:28
  The arrests of people again, the, the, the menacing, the
• 29:34
  information or, or, or press releases that were coming out of
• 29:37
  the FBI, the demonization of self custody, the invention of
• 29:40
  terms like unhosted wallet, right.
• 29:43
  You know, I'm, I hope that this is all coming to an end very,
• 29:46
  very soon. Opti, what's your take on this
• 29:49
  man? I mean, what are we going to
• 29:50
  find in these documents if they come to light, if they're not
• 29:53
  all destroyed by the by the time Trump gets sworn in?
• 29:57
  Well, considering where the trend is going, we won't learn
• 30:01
  anything new because the documents are going to be
• 30:03
  destroyed. So you know, no, no, no,
• 30:07
  allegedly, allegedly. No, I'm.
• 30:10
  I'm kind of trolling, but half serious.
• 30:12
  My my take on this is essentially remember where we
• 30:16
  can actually I want to piggyback off what James said.
• 30:18
  You know, we're seeing that everything comes to the light.
• 30:22
  You know, we're starting to see hopefully for a lot of people
• 30:25
  out there, I think bitcoiners, we've kind of already known this
• 30:28
  for a long time just how corrupt the system actually is.
• 30:30
  But hopefully we're we're starting to turn the page here
• 30:33
  and more people are starting to wake up to how corrupt the
• 30:36
  system actually is. And maybe, you know, obviously
• 30:39
  operation truck .2 point O in itself is not going to be that
• 30:43
  watershed moment that like defining moment here.
• 30:46
  But I think we are starting to see more and more evidence and,
• 30:49
  and more and more data points to prove just how corrupt things
• 30:53
  are. And hopefully in the in the
• 30:54
  short term, people start to wake up just how bad the system
• 30:57
  really is. And I say all that to
• 30:59
  essentially said, remember where we started with the choke .2
• 31:03
  point O story in 2024? It came out though, or rather
• 31:06
  they were saying publicly the narrative was, oh, we are not
• 31:09
  doing this, This is not the case.
• 31:12
  You know, we're not fighting the Bitcoin industry, you know,
• 31:14
  we're for technological advancement, etcetera, etcetera,
• 31:17
  etcetera. And then slowly but surely the
• 31:20
  data kept coming out. There was more debanking, there
• 31:23
  was more evidence to prove the opposite.
• 31:25
  And by the end of the year, it came out that Operation Choke
• 31:27
  Point 2.0 was in fact a real thing.
• 31:30
  And now we're getting to the point that what, 2-3 days, a
• 31:33
  couple of days before Trump is about to assume office, they're,
• 31:38
  you know, destroying the communications in regards to
• 31:41
  Operation Choke .2 point. You know, I don't know, as a
• 31:43
  Bitcoiner, it is just, it's, it's not something new.
• 31:47
  I wouldn't say it's the straw that breaks the camel's back,
• 31:50
  but it's just more, more of the same.
• 31:52
  And it might not, it might surprise like not at all.
• 31:55
  It just it really is a slap in the face to the American
• 31:58
  population and everyone out there.
• 32:00
  And if they are awake and they are paying attention more and
• 32:03
  more of this data coming out of just how corrupt the system is,
• 32:07
  how untransparent the system is. This is the stuff that should be
• 32:11
  radicalizing people. It's like the meme, you know,
• 32:13
  like who radicalized you and it's like you did with all of
• 32:16
  this crazy stuff you guys are doing.
• 32:18
  So it started that Operation Choke .2 Point O wasn't a thing.
• 32:21
  It turned out that it was. And now they're destroying the
• 32:25
  communications around Operation Choke .2 Point O.
• 32:27
  You know, where there's smoke, there's fire.
• 32:29
  And this is not a good look for anyone involved in Operation
• 32:33
  Choke .2 Point O or anyone in these institutions.
• 32:35
  This is this is absolutely corrupt politicians, corrupt
• 32:39
  institutions and it just goes to show that the people in power or
• 32:42
  are absolutely terrified of Bitcoin being proliferated
• 32:46
  amongst the masses. If you adopting Bitcoin of you
• 32:49
  trying to protect your purchasing power, it absolutely
• 32:51
  terrifies the people close to the money printer.
• 32:54
  And that's all the signal I need to just continue to go down this
• 32:57
  route and continue to stack Bitcoin and continue to talk
• 32:59
  about Bitcoin because whatever scares the people in power right
• 33:02
  now, you do more of that as far as I'm concerned.
• 33:05
  So continue to stack Bitcoin, continue to talk about Bitcoin,
• 33:09
  continue to expose the system. And as James was saying, you
• 33:13
  know, Bitcoin has a way of exposing the truth.
• 33:15
  And here we are. It's another example of this.
• 33:18
  And so, man, it's obviously it feels good.
• 33:21
  It's a good little dopamine rush.
• 33:22
  It's like, yeah, we were right. Remember, Nico, we were right.
• 33:25
  We were right. This is vindication early in
• 33:28
  2025. Absolutely, 100% man.
• 33:32
  It's yeah, I'm I'm excited to see these, these documents.
• 33:36
  And again, like you said, you use the word who radicalized
• 33:40
  you? I mean, like it is, is it, is it
• 33:42
  really like, I'd like to, to to tie in what, what Gary was
• 33:46
  saying earlier. Is it really, really radical for
• 33:48
  you to ask like, again, the government is supposed to work
• 33:52
  for you, right? I would say that these actions,
• 33:56
  by alleged actions, right? If the destruction of documents
• 34:00
  is taking place, I would say those actions are radical.
• 34:04
  I think what we're asking for is like normal government.
• 34:08
  I think this is supposed, this is the way that things are
• 34:11
  supposed to be done. So I don't, I wouldn't say we're
• 34:13
  radicalized. I would say what they were doing
• 34:16
  was radical and why else would you want to destroy documents
• 34:20
  allegedly right so anyways guys we're going to hit the news so
• 34:23
  we'll be right back we're going to talk about how to protect
• 34:27
  your Bitcoin seed words. There was a tragic fire that
• 34:30
  happened in California, 10,000 homes burnt to the ground.
• 34:34
  Again, like we tell you guys all the time, paper is not a good
• 34:39
  idea to to write down your generation of wealth.
• 34:42
  You want to do it properly. And I think stamp seed
• 34:45
  definitely allows you to do that.
• 34:47
  And then and during the culture segment, we're going to be
• 34:49
  talking about bit block boom. It's going to be one of the best
• 34:53
  Bitcoin conferences of the year. It's my personal favorite, holds
• 34:57
  a very special place in my heart.
• 34:59
  That's where me and Opti met in person for the first time.
• 35:02
  And we're going to talk about bit block boom today during the
• 35:05
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• 37:23
  but it's not your Bitcoin if someone else is taking custody
• 37:25
  of it anyways, so I do want to talk about this absolutely
• 37:29
  tragic what is happening. Here's our boy Anders, fellow
• 37:35
  Bitcoiner, very well known in the Bitcoin community.
• 37:37
  And unfortunately he was one of the victims of of this, of this
• 37:41
  tragic fire that happened. And wow, Gary, you're right.
• 37:46
  It seems like the washing machines and the and the chimney
• 37:49
  are the thing that's crazy. But yeah, this is, this is
• 37:52
  horrible. It what happened in in
• 37:55
  California. And I called, I called Andrews
• 37:57
  and I said, dude, like, I hope you're OK.
• 38:00
  He's fine. Apparently it wasn't his house.
• 38:02
  It was a, it was a rental property and all his Bitcoin is
• 38:05
  OK as well. So and of course, you know, he's
• 38:08
  fine. He's safe.
• 38:10
  And yeah, this is, and I, I can't imagine all the people
• 38:15
  too, like it's 10,000 homes I believe were burnt down that,
• 38:20
  you know, were potentially Bitcoiners, right?
• 38:22
  So here's some of the latest information.
• 38:25
  Largest LA wildfires have not grown in five days, so it seems
• 38:28
  like they're contained. Here's some more pictures.
• 38:31
  All these houses on the beach again, just completely kind of
• 38:34
  burnt to the ground. Yeah.
• 38:36
  Absolute tragedy. Horrible.
• 38:39
  What happened again, it happened in a very, very populated area
• 38:44
  in Los Angeles. And some of these are not fully
• 38:48
  contained yet and some of these are still ongoing happened in
• 38:51
  multiple, multiple places. So yeah, I mean absolute tragedy
• 38:55
  what happened, man. And, and it sucks, but I do want
• 39:00
  to, I do want to talk about this because again, if you take self
• 39:08
  custody, you have your Bitcoin in your home, if you usually buy
• 39:13
  a hardware wallet, they come with paper like, and you write
• 39:18
  down your 12 or 24 words on that piece of paper.
• 39:21
  Problem is paper is not only prone to water damage, it's also
• 39:26
  prone to fire damage, which is exactly why here at simply we
• 39:31
  recommend Stamp Seed. They're awesome.
• 39:34
  The stamp seat is titanium and we actually we're doing the
• 39:37
  math, the quick maths. Before the show, wildfires
• 39:41
  apparently burned between 1400 Fahrenheit to 2100 or 20 two
• 39:47
  2200 Fahrenheit in Celsius. For our European audiences at
• 39:51
  800 Celsius to 1200 Celsius, the melting point of titanium is
• 39:58
  3000°F. So obviously there's a there's
• 40:03
  almost 1000° buffer there. So you know that your seed words
• 40:07
  are going to be okay. Now, I don't recommend picking
• 40:10
  up the stamp seed after it's been put in that fire.
• 40:15
  Don't recommend that, but at least you can be sure that you
• 40:19
  know it, it, it, it could survive these types of
• 40:21
  tragedies. And this is something that you
• 40:23
  have to think about because self custody, you have to change your
• 40:27
  mindset. You have to change the way you
• 40:29
  look at the storage of your wealth because you're the one
• 40:32
  responsible. There isn't a 1800 number to
• 40:34
  call and say, hey, look, this is what's happening.
• 40:38
  You have total responsibility of your wealth, which comes with a
• 40:41
  ton of benefits, but it also requires a ton of
• 40:45
  responsibility. So James, I mean, like we were
• 40:49
  talking about this earlier on in the week.
• 40:52
  Some I, we got multiple questions and comments
• 40:55
  throughout the week regarding this.
• 40:57
  Some people were saying how, how would I have found the seed?
• 41:00
  Let's say I did have a stamp seed and for whatever reason,
• 41:04
  God forbid, my house burnt down. How could I have found the
• 41:07
  stamps? Like how could I have found the
• 41:08
  seed? So what are what?
• 41:10
  What are some of these, you know, potential precautions that
• 41:14
  people could take to protect themselves from natural
• 41:18
  disasters? James, the floor is yours.
• 41:20
  Yeah, sure. So First off, you know, Start
• 41:23
  Out Park goes out to everyone affected by these fires.
• 41:26
  I can't imagine what that situation could be like.
• 41:28
  And it hits a little more closer to home when it happens to
• 41:31
  people you know, of in the industry, you see what they're
• 41:34
  going through. Like following Anders along with
• 41:37
  that whole, you know, wild ride, you know, it's pretty crazy, but
• 41:42
  obviously you don't want to make things worse for yourself.
• 41:44
  And everything that you mentioned is important, right?
• 41:46
  But having a your Bitcoin honesty plate that's fireproof
• 41:50
  is extremely important for regular old house fires.
• 41:54
  You know, that could happen. It's more common than a wildfire
• 41:56
  and obviously wildfires too. But specifically to the
• 41:59
  wildfire, it brought some things to light for me where it's like,
• 42:03
  OK, a lot of these people weren't able to get back to
• 42:05
  their house or if they were able to get back to their house,
• 42:08
  they're looking at a pile of rubble.
• 42:09
  So in these situations, it's, it's, it's a unique opportunity
• 42:12
  where we could look at it and be like, OK, how would I be able to
• 42:14
  find my Bitcoin in that situation?
• 42:16
  And I think there's a few best practices that you could do to
• 42:20
  ensure that that's possible. 1, you know, there's, it's funny,
• 42:25
  if we look at that picture, you know, washer machines, chimneys,
• 42:27
  things that are lasting, you could look at what's standing
• 42:30
  still, what's available, and maybe there's a way to hide your
• 42:33
  seat plate and something like that.
• 42:35
  Another good option would be to bury it underground, right?
• 42:37
  If you find a specific landmark in your backyard, maybe it's a
• 42:41
  tree, maybe it's, you know, 10 feet, 20 feet off of where your
• 42:43
  pool is. You could simply bury it
• 42:45
  underground just the way it is. And it's not going to corrode
• 42:48
  or, you know, be affected by moisture or anything like that.
• 42:51
  And one thing I heard of, well, we actually worked with like a
• 42:55
  professional treasure hunter metal detector to give us some
• 42:58
  best practice for hiding the plate.
• 43:00
  One thing he recommended was to, you know, bury, you know, take a
• 43:03
  hole, put your seat plate in the ground and then fill it with
• 43:06
  four inches of dirt. Let's say say you dig, you know,
• 43:08
  2 feet, fill it with four inches of dirt and then just start
• 43:10
  layering like cans, nails, other pieces of metal in there.
• 43:13
  So 1 you can identify where it is.
• 43:16
  You know, it might be hard to find that landmark after
• 43:18
  destructive fire. 2, if anyone else decides to do the same
• 43:22
  thing like an adversary, right? They're trying to look for your
• 43:24
  plate. They might become discouraged as
• 43:26
  they keep digging in. They're just coming up with
• 43:27
  coffee cans and you know, random pieces of junk metal stuff that
• 43:30
  they aren't looking for. So those are some ways you could
• 43:34
  keep it in. That's, that's for like a single
• 43:35
  cig situation, right? You have your single cig, all
• 43:38
  your, all your eggs are in one basket.
• 43:40
  You have to make sure you can get it when you get back to that
• 43:41
  house. You might have to wait it out a
• 43:43
  long time to be able to get back to your ass.
• 43:45
  I know a lot of people in Maui are still not able able to get
• 43:47
  to to their homes after those fires.
• 43:49
  So there's some other options out there that, you know, we
• 43:52
  obviously provide and there's other people out there that do
• 43:54
  so too. You could obviously do multi sig
• 43:57
  if you are geographically separating your plates in
• 44:00
  different areas, you are not prone to having them all burnt
• 44:02
  up or inaccessible, rather inaccessible due to a fire.
• 44:05
  So you could do multi sig, you know, some sort of 3/5 set up.
• 44:08
  You could also do something we offer.
• 44:10
  It's the two O 3 sharding. It's poor man's multi sig where
• 44:14
  you're essentially parsing. It works for 24 words.
• 44:17
  You're parsing your 24 words across 3 plates and there's a
• 44:19
  little bit of crossover with those words.
• 44:21
  So if one plate was inaccessible, you know, due to a
• 44:25
  house fire, you have two other plates that are in other
• 44:27
  geographic areas where you can actually have all your seed
• 44:30
  words on those plates. If someone were to find them,
• 44:32
  they wouldn't have all your words on that either.
• 44:36
  And obviously you know. Not recommended as the only
• 44:39
  option, but memorizing your seed words.
• 44:41
  Have your metal backup. Make sure your seed words are on
• 44:43
  there. But it doesn't hurt to memorize
• 44:44
  it, right? Practice that you don't want
• 44:46
  that to be your only backup. But say you know, you're in LA
• 44:49
  and you can't get to your home. If you have those words at the
• 44:52
  very least memorized, you can transfer it over to another
• 44:55
  wallet, you know, or change your seed words altogether, move it
• 44:58
  to another wallet, or at least you just have them.
• 44:59
  You don't have to do anything with them.
• 45:01
  You have them, record them again quick before you forget them.
• 45:04
  Obviously not the best practice if you're only doing that.
• 45:06
  You don't want to just memorize. And you know, that being said,
• 45:08
  it brought up a thing. You obviously don't want to
• 45:10
  store it on your phone or electronic device or anything
• 45:12
  like that. You don't want to take a picture
• 45:13
  of it, store it on your phone. You want that completely offline
• 45:16
  and solid-state on a solid plate there.
• 45:19
  So those are just some things like I picked up on when, you
• 45:22
  know, being like, OK, if I was in this situation, how am I even
• 45:24
  getting my plate? And I feel like those things
• 45:26
  would make me more comfortable, help me sleep the night and be
• 45:29
  prepared for the worst. But at the end of the day, a
• 45:31
  common house fire is much more likely to occur than, you know,
• 45:35
  a wildfire or whatever it may have been.
• 45:38
  So, you know, protect yourself in those situations.
• 45:40
  Make sure you know where your plate is.
• 45:42
  Make sure, you know, you memorize your C words as a
• 45:44
  second backup. And yeah, I mean, if anyone has
• 45:47
  any questions, I think I saw a couple come up in the chat.
• 45:50
  You know, one was related to not being able to get to the house.
• 45:53
  What do you do? I feel like I might have touched
• 45:54
  upon that. Someone brought up the DEW
• 45:57
  weapons. Yeah, I don't know if that's a
• 45:59
  thing, but. You know, don't say that on
• 46:00
  YouTube. Don't say that on YouTube.
• 46:02
  Oh yeah, just just put it in a blue garbage can.
• 46:08
  It'll be it'll be perfectly preventable.
• 46:10
  But no, yeah, I was talking about my favorite drink there on
• 46:12
  YouTube. Love.
• 46:15
  The 11, we were one, someone said about metal detectors and
• 46:18
  titanium. Right.
• 46:21
  It's it's apparently it's not as likely to be picked up as
• 46:26
  compared to steel, especially if you start digging deeper.
• 46:29
  Like metal detectors aren't created equal.
• 46:31
  Like there's I've seen some really high level ones.
• 46:33
  I bought one on Amazon when I was looking for my wife's
• 46:35
  earring in the backyard. There's different levels to it
• 46:37
  and is there? Not.
• 46:39
  No, no, definitely not. She had to make a necklace out
• 46:41
  of the one earring that was left.
• 46:43
  And yeah, so it's a long story, but I tried that.
• 46:45
  That's all that mattered. But but yeah, with titanium,
• 46:49
  it's not as likely to be picked up as steel.
• 46:51
  And then another tip that this treasure hunter guy gave to us
• 46:55
  is when you're burying the plate, like I got 1, you don't
• 46:58
  want to bury it in the ground like this, more surface area.
• 47:00
  You want to bury it straight down.
• 47:01
  So the surface area is just 2mm. It's less likely to be picked up
• 47:05
  on the metal detector in that situation.
• 47:07
  But like, remember, you're going to be looking for it.
• 47:09
  So you don't want to make your job that much harder.
• 47:11
  That's why I really like layering different pieces of
• 47:14
  metal above it, to discourage people along the way thinking
• 47:17
  they caught nothing. And if it's not being picked up
• 47:20
  on the metal detector, if you're storing a plate in the ground
• 47:22
  the right way, they're not going to continue to look anyway.
• 47:25
  You know that it's there though, because you have your debris
• 47:28
  that you stacked in that pile above it, right?
• 47:30
  Like so. Yeah, amazing, amazing.
• 47:32
  Well, this is this is again, guys like this is a tragedy
• 47:36
  that's happened in LA, but you know, a lot of the products that
• 47:40
  we recommend and events like again, they're going to help you
• 47:45
  become a sovereign individual, right?
• 47:46
  And with Bitcoin comes self cuts to Bitcoin comes with a
• 47:50
  tremendous amount of responsibility.
• 47:53
  You have to get the right hardware, the right seed word
• 47:56
  storage and obviously, you know, check out stamp seed.
• 48:01
  It's titanium and it you know, it will help you.
• 48:06
  God forbid this happens to you. But again, no one expects that
• 48:08
  these things are going to happen to you.
• 48:09
  But at least you're prepared, right?
• 48:11
  Yeah. Gary, let me ask you something.
• 48:13
  You've you've been in the industry for quite a long time.
• 48:16
  Do you have any thoughts on this?
• 48:17
  Any any pieces of advice that you would give to somebody that
• 48:20
  perhaps is entering in their new on how to properly secure their
• 48:25
  Bitcoin? Well, first I want to say that's
• 48:28
  a real good tip there that you gave those tips on putting it
• 48:32
  sideways, layering stuff above it.
• 48:35
  Those are really great tips there.
• 48:36
  And my, my heart goes out to everybody in LA who lost
• 48:41
  basically everything. Anders is a good friend of mine.
• 48:45
  Anders and Puppy and I shared an Airbnb for three days in Naples.
• 48:49
  And I got to you. You get to know someone pretty
• 48:51
  good when he lived with him for three days and he's a pretty
• 48:54
  good guy. The thing I don't understand
• 48:57
  though about Anders is so many people have lost their Bitcoin
• 49:02
  and boating accidents and Andrews had the better than the
• 49:06
  boating accident to say and no one would ever know any
• 49:09
  different and he disadvantage of that.
• 49:11
  Yeah, what a drop ball by Anders.
• 49:15
  He just blew it but but I hate to make a joke out of that.
• 49:21
  I know it's not a good time, but really, he really did blow that.
• 49:23
  So but my advice is to do exactly those tips we just
• 49:28
  heard. Those are just great tips.
• 49:30
  The layering, the sideways things I've never thought about
• 49:32
  that I will share from that one with people.
• 49:34
  So but. You know, you've really, you
• 49:38
  know, people understand, I think they do, but they don't really
• 49:42
  understand that when you are into Bitcoin and you own
• 49:46
  Bitcoin, you are your own bank. You are your own bank.
• 49:51
  You don't have anyone to call to save the day for you.
• 49:53
  Being your own bank is a great power.
• 49:56
  It really is. And like you can quote either
• 49:59
  Ben, Uncle Ben or Voltaire, I don't care which one you say,
• 50:03
  but with great power comes great responsibility.
• 50:07
  And you have to find out how to take advantage of the
• 50:10
  responsibility and protect yourself 'cause you have no one
• 50:14
  to call with this great power. So just BYOB is is a power.
• 50:20
  Absolutely. I think that was very, very wise
• 50:23
  words from Gary. And I think that's something
• 50:25
  that there's a bit of a disconnect for most people and
• 50:29
  they forget, right? There is no one to call when you
• 50:32
  take self custody, you are the backup like you are the person
• 50:36
  who has complete control over your funds.
• 50:38
  And that comes with a tremendous amount of pros.
• 50:40
  But the cons is there is there is no one to there is no one to
• 50:44
  call. But if you properly secure your
• 50:46
  seed words using multi sig using the stamp seed, using a Bitcoin
• 50:52
  only hardware wallet to recommend the passport by
• 50:54
  foundation devices again, you're you, you can have contingencies,
• 50:58
  you can have backups, right? And the the multi sig rabbit
• 51:02
  hole, the self custody rabbit hole in Bitcoin is so, so deep.
• 51:05
  And I think that once you get used to it, once you feel very
• 51:08
  confident with it, I would even go out on a limb and I would say
• 51:12
  that if you do it right, you're going to sleep more soundly than
• 51:16
  is if you had your money in a bank.
• 51:18
  Opti, what's your opinion on this?
• 51:21
  What's your take on this absolute tragedy, what's
• 51:23
  happening in Los Angeles? But I think it's a, you know, I
• 51:27
  think it's a cautious reminder for people to to really take
• 51:30
  their self custody setups seriously because they can never
• 51:34
  know what's going to happen. I mean, look, I live in Florida.
• 51:37
  There's there's no, there's no, you know, it's so humid that
• 51:41
  there's not really a lot of wildfires.
• 51:43
  But this is like hurricane alley, right?
• 51:46
  Like, flooding is like the norm here.
• 51:48
  We're just so used to it. And, yeah, you got to protect
• 51:52
  yourself. You got to protect your seed
• 51:54
  words. You got to protect your
• 51:54
  generational wealth. Opti, what's your take?
• 51:57
  Yeah, well, First off, I, I do have some family in California,
• 52:02
  but no one was actually affected by these fires.
• 52:04
  And so I, I did reach out to them and was wondering, you
• 52:07
  know, it's is everything good? So of course my heart goes out
• 52:10
  to everyone that was affected by these fires.
• 52:12
  And again, I've been saying this a while in regards to yourself
• 52:16
  custody setup, but I guess now it's time to kind of think about
• 52:19
  it in terms of your backups is that you never know exactly
• 52:23
  what's going to happen. And not to overcomplicate your
• 52:26
  setups, obviously, but you should be looking to all these
• 52:30
  different factors and obviously multiplying your holdings by 10
• 52:33
  or 100 or however how you think bitcoins going.
• 52:36
  And that's how you should be backing up your your seed
• 52:38
  phrases and your cold storage setup like it.
• 52:41
  These are these important reminders to remember that life
• 52:46
  is chaotic at times and there's things outside of your control.
• 52:49
  And what you want to do is try to protect yourself as much as
• 52:51
  possible. So that's kind of my PSA, but I
• 52:53
  do, I did see one more question here.
• 52:55
  And James, I don't want to put you on the spot, but the chat is
• 52:58
  asking when 12 word seed play. Yeah, It's been a long time
• 53:04
  coming for that thing. We've been showing it off at all
• 53:06
  the conferences we've been to. It'll be here, I'm hoping, by
• 53:09
  the end of Q1, definitely this year, early this year.
• 53:12
  It's coming Like I have samples, I have prototypes.
• 53:15
  I've been playing around with it.
• 53:16
  It looks awesome. You know, smaller form factor
• 53:20
  will work with the existing jig that you have.
• 53:22
  So you don't have to. We're not like rubbing you to
• 53:23
  buy another kit. You just buy the plate and
• 53:25
  upgrade and moving forward all kits will be coming.
• 53:28
  You know you 12 or 20 forward options.
• 53:30
  So that's soon. And I saw like I think a couple
• 53:32
  questions in the chat. I think someone's asking about
• 53:36
  the sharding splitting up your seat across a couple plates.
• 53:38
  Not multi sig, but poor man's multi sig.
• 53:40
  So that's two or three. Sharding only works with 20
• 53:43
  forward. I would not recommend doing that
• 53:45
  with 12. It's too easy to brute force,
• 53:48
  but we sell that option on our website.
• 53:49
  You basically have three sets of numbers.
• 53:52
  It's like one through 1810 through 24, and then like one
• 53:57
  through 8, and then like 17 through 24 is the third plate.
• 54:01
  So that you would only need 22 plates would have all your
• 54:03
  words. One plate doesn't have all your
• 54:05
  words and you can't brute force if somebody found that one plate
• 54:08
  or if that one plate was buried in the wildfire, lost and
• 54:12
  accessible. You have two other plates that
• 54:14
  are floating around somewhere geographically in the world
• 54:16
  where you can combine those have all your words.
• 54:19
  So that's poor men's multi sig. I think that's if you're going
• 54:21
  to take a single sig option. To me that's like best practice
• 54:25
  in addition to having a pass phrase, of course.
• 54:27
  But with the pass phrase, you know, you got to remember those
• 54:30
  seed words regardless. So yeah, sharding, sharding.
• 54:34
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  house. Gary, technically this is the
• 58:25
  longest running Bitcoin conference, is that correct?
• 58:29
  Yeah, this will be our 8th year. So yeah, we're we're trucking
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  off now. You know, by default we made it
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  when no one else did one in 2020 because of COVID.
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  And we did. So by default, we became the
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  longest running. There were some before us, but
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  those aren't running anymore and neither did they run during
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  2020. So yeah, this is the longest
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  running. The the longest running Bitcoin
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  conference and one of the things that I that I, I know that you
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  do Gary, which is you change the locations.
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  It's all in Texas, but you change the location.
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  I believe the last one was in Austin.
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  This one that is coming up is going to be in, it's going to be
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  in Dallas, so. McKinney, TX right outside of
• 59:13
  Dallas. Oh, OK, so Opti's not going to
• 59:16
  get a complete, you know, Opti's still going to have to drive
• 59:19
  somewhat you have. To drive anyways, but it's it's.
• 59:22
  Close. It's close.
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  Not far from you Opti, so don't give us all that static.
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  You have to drive 20 minutes everywhere in Dallas anyway, so
• 59:30
  you know, that's what I'm saying.
• 59:32
  So, Gary? It's going to be a great
• 59:34
  conference this year. We have a great hotel, one of
• 59:36
  our best hotels ever. Outside the door is like a lake
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  with a boardwalk with all kind of shops.
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  The facility we have is is just a great facility.
• 59:46
  We had James Lavish contacted me the other day and said, hey, I
• 59:49
  was thinking I couldn't come. I want to come.
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  Stefan Lovera contacted me. He's coming.
• 59:53
  Now. We have a surprise guest.
• 59:55
  Hopefully we're working on. That's going to be epic.
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  And I mean this happens. I think I know who you're
• 1:00:00
  talking about and. This this this.
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  Year is going to be great. We've done the we're doing the
• 1:00:05
  best workshop day. Oh, you're going to like this,
• 1:00:08
  Nico. You have all day Thursday to set
• 1:00:11
  up. Oh, I love it.
• 1:00:13
  The entire day you've always like been in there and go.
• 1:00:15
  We got three hours. Get that going, You got the.
• 1:00:18
  Entire day but Friday we have lightning workshops all day, we
• 1:00:23
  have what is mining workshops all day and we have what is
• 1:00:25
  Bitcoin workshops all day for beginners on Friday.
• 1:00:28
  Saturday is the regular deal. We have vendors, we have
• 1:00:31
  parties. We have James.
• 1:00:33
  I need you to send me some of your products for prizes in the
• 1:00:37
  casino night. I'm going to hit you up on that
• 1:00:39
  one. Let's do.
• 1:00:40
  Definitely great idea, I love it.
• 1:00:42
  We have a it's going to be. It could be our best event yet
• 1:00:45
  and we've had some good ones. Incredible, incredible.
• 1:00:49
  And I could you talk a little bit about the venue, Gary,
• 1:00:52
  because I, I know that I know that I seen the pictures.
• 1:00:56
  The, the hotel is, is, is going to be absolutely incredible.
• 1:00:59
  There's, there's like restaurants, there's like a
• 1:01:01
  little lake. Also, can you talk a little bit
• 1:01:03
  about the venue? And a walking trail.
• 1:01:05
  This is our that's why I said our best thing.
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  I do want to mention on that though, go to the website now if
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  you're going and get your rooms, use the link to get your rooms
• 1:01:14
  because we're going to run out of rooms.
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  We've already had to add more rooms to our block a couple of
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  times. And I, I usually find out
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  because someone messages me and goes, I can get a room y'all out
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  and I try to get more, but it's getting to the point we probably
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  won't be able to get more added anymore because they only give
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  So if you're going, if you bought your ticket, if you
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  haven't bought your ticket, but you think you're going, book
• 1:01:35
  your room and get that out of the way.
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  But this, this is a great hotel. You know, last year we went with
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  the same hotel we had before because it was just easy on me,
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  but we moved up to a different hotel that's a step up above for
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  us. And the pricing is great.
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  The pricing is great. So you know, the thing about the
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  the hotel, I do want to say while you're bringing it up,
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  Nico, a lot of people when they go to conferences want to stay
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  at Airbnb's, you know, because they're cheaper.
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  But our hotel is inexpensive enough.
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  And the fact that the conference is in the hotel, you want to
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  stay there because stuff is happening all night long, you
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  know, not official bit Block Boom stuff, but like parties,
• 1:02:14
  people hanging out, talking, maybe there's a poker game, who
• 1:02:17
  knows what's going on, but there's stuff going on all night
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  long. So Bit Block Boom is not the
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  place to get an Airbnb at. I have nothing wrong with
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  Airbnb's. I'm just saying you don't want
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  to be driving back and forth. You want to be able to just go
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  upstairs, change clothes, brush your teeth, whatever, and come
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  back down at 2:00 in the morning and start Bitcoin in again.
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  Hell yeah. And it reminds me of again, the
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  the staying at the hotel is really cool because there's the
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  famous lobby com that was born at Bit Block.
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  Boom, right. Could you could you talk a
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  little bit about like again, like you guys have to stay at
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  the hotel? It's like part of the
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  experience. I completely agree with with
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  Gary and Opti. I mean, what, what are you
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  excited about this year? Dude, you don't have to drive.
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  You don't have to get on a flight.
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  And you know, the first also to one of the things that I haven't
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  talked about yet, the first simply Bitcoin conference
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  coverage happened at the block boom.
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  That was the first time we've ever done that.
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  I managed to convince Gary I had an idea in my head and I'm like,
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  I think we could pull this off. And and that was the first time
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  that Simply Bitcoin, you know, covered a conference.
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  Now we do it for so many conferences, but that was the
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  first time. And this year we're going to do
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  it even better at so many different camera angles that
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  we've been working on, including the Simply Bitcoin news desk.
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  It's going to be incredible. Very, very excited for it, Opti.
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  Yeah, well, I think you said what I'm most excited about.
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  It's not having to travel. To go to the conference.
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  That's the best one. No, no, I'm kind of trolling.
• 1:03:55
  What what I'm most excited about, and I was telling Gary
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  this before the show, Bitlock Boom for me personally is like a
• 1:04:00
  family reunion. That's where in 2020 I met Nico.
• 1:04:04
  I met a lot of friends there that I consider family.
• 1:04:06
  And so the most exciting part for me is just going to Bitlock
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  boom and knowing that I'm going to basically see like my Bitcoin
• 1:04:13
  family. And that's really what it feels
• 1:04:15
  like. It's like a family reunion and
• 1:04:17
  you hang out with all the people that I've known for years now.
• 1:04:19
  So, you know, at this point it's like this is the one that I know
• 1:04:23
  all of my friends that I love are going to be there and that's
• 1:04:27
  why I'm most excited as you. It's basically like, you know, I
• 1:04:30
  don't get to see all my Bitcoin friends multiple times a year.
• 1:04:33
  I I basically only catch them once or maybe twice a year, and
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  I know for a fact it will always be at bitlock.
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  Boom. So shouts out to Gary.
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  Hey Nico, I do want to also mention because this is real
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  important to me and I think it's really important to the people
• 1:04:45
  who come. You know, when you go to a big
• 1:04:47
  conference like Bitcoin Magazine conference, which is a great
• 1:04:51
  conference. So I'm not saying this in a
• 1:04:53
  negative manner. There are so many people at that
• 1:04:56
  conference that when someone comes out, you wanted to see
• 1:04:58
  speak, they come out from the back and then they leave out the
• 1:05:02
  back and you may never get a chance to actually talk to that
• 1:05:05
  person one-on-one, where at Bit Block, boom, that person may be
• 1:05:10
  sitting in the audience and they just come out of the audience,
• 1:05:12
  go speak, and then they come back in the audience and they're
• 1:05:15
  hanging out in the hallway. So these people that are
• 1:05:17
  speaking, if there's someone you like your show or you wanted to
• 1:05:20
  network with or you just want to meet, you're going to have so
• 1:05:23
  many opportunities to meet him because it's a smaller
• 1:05:26
  conference. You know, we're not going for
• 1:05:28
  mass volume. We're going for building the
• 1:05:30
  best conference. There is experience.
• 1:05:32
  There is getting a chance to meet these people.
• 1:05:34
  I have people every year go gosh, I was at that second one
• 1:05:37
  and safe Adina Moose was standing by the bar and I just
• 1:05:40
  went over to stand by him and and listen to him and he he
• 1:05:44
  turned around and stuck his hand out and he goes, hi, I'm safe.
• 1:05:46
  Who are you? So people love coming to this
• 1:05:49
  conference because they get to hang out and meet people they
• 1:05:51
  see every day or they've read their books.
• 1:05:54
  So that's something that really makes us stand out, I think.
• 1:05:58
  Yeah, absolutely. And one.
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  So again, one of the things too that you that you do Gary, which
• 1:06:04
  is you break down the event so people could buy the buy
• 1:06:08
  specific tickets for specific events they want to go to.
• 1:06:12
  So for example, if you're only interested in going to the, the
• 1:06:17
  Friday workshop, the conference sessions on Saturday and the
• 1:06:21
  Saturday night casino party, you get the GA ticket.
• 1:06:25
  If you're looking to go to the, a lot of the, the lunches and
• 1:06:29
  the dinners, you can get the, the, the pro pass.
• 1:06:33
  And let's say you just want to go to a specific thing.
• 1:06:35
  So let's say you want to go to a one dinner specifically or the
• 1:06:40
  one party specifically, or you want to go to one brunch
• 1:06:43
  specifically. You want to go to the bit bit
• 1:06:48
  block shoot specifically or the casino night.
• 1:06:50
  Those are all things that you can buy individually.
• 1:06:53
  I, I got to warn you though, guys like these things, as we
• 1:06:57
  get closer to the conference, they tend to sell out.
• 1:07:00
  So you want to get your ticket? Go ahead.
• 1:07:02
  Surprise how many people buy tickets to like the Friday night
• 1:07:06
  dinner and that's all they bought a ticket to and then they
• 1:07:09
  go hang out in the lobby at the hotel to meet everybody who's
• 1:07:12
  there and network them in the lobby.
• 1:07:14
  So, and that's why you broke them down that way.
• 1:07:16
  If you don't, I don't want, if you, if you're going, that's a
• 1:07:18
  lot of money. I can't afford to go to the
• 1:07:20
  conference. Well, you still can come to the
• 1:07:22
  hotel and hang out. We aren't going to kick you out
• 1:07:24
  and, and you know, and meet the people because we overflow into
• 1:07:27
  the lobby. And then a lot of people, like I
• 1:07:28
  said, they buy a ticket for Friday night or Thursday, Friday
• 1:07:31
  night and they just go hang out. And I know they're not coming in
• 1:07:34
  town just for Thursday and Friday night, you know, I know
• 1:07:36
  they're hanging out in the lobby too.
• 1:07:37
  So that's why now my crew hates having so many ticket options at
• 1:07:42
  check in. But I don't want to make people
• 1:07:45
  pay for everything. If they don't want everything or
• 1:07:49
  they can't afford everything, they can they can.
• 1:07:50
  Kind of like a carte Blanc menu. Absolutely, absolutely.
• 1:07:54
  Yeah. It's it's going to be an
• 1:07:55
  incredible event. Here's some videos and pictures
• 1:07:59
  of the hotel. Like I said, it's absolutely
• 1:08:00
  beautiful. You know, there's going to be a
• 1:08:02
  lot of bitcoiners that are going to be hanging out on those
• 1:08:05
  chairs, you know, just talking. Come in.
• 1:08:08
  Is that a lot of Con Lake? The lake Con Everybody can.
• 1:08:11
  Lose their Bitcoin in their wallet in.
• 1:08:13
  The lake, yeah, there's going to be a ritual throwing of your
• 1:08:16
  Bitcoin into the lake, so maybe we'll have some treasure hunters
• 1:08:19
  in there. Absolutely.
• 1:08:20
  So Gary, could you hint on any? I know I have a feeling and I'm
• 1:08:24
  not going to say it out loud, but I have a feeling of who you
• 1:08:27
  who you were hinting to in terms of the special speaker.
• 1:08:30
  That's great. And I, I kind of have an idea of
• 1:08:32
  how you fold that off, but could you give?
• 1:08:36
  Percent yet, so I'm not going to I'm not going to say anything
• 1:08:38
  yet, but. But that's awesome.
• 1:08:41
  But how could you could not that specific person but the anybody
• 1:08:46
  else. Could you give any any any hints
• 1:08:48
  on specific speakers that are coming that you haven't made the
• 1:08:52
  announcement of? No, no, I don't I, I can't I.
• 1:08:59
  No, So what? What speakers are confirmed so
• 1:09:01
  far? Everybody on the site is there.
• 1:09:04
  Stefan Levar, Lavish. Bob Burnett.
• 1:09:09
  I can't even think of them all. We have, you know.
• 1:09:12
  Nico No. No.
• 1:09:13
  No, I'm, I'm just doing the, I'm just doing the news desk, bro.
• 1:09:16
  I can't. I can't, Nico.
• 1:09:17
  'S the biggest influencer that's going to be.
• 1:09:19
  There I can't. I can't do both and.
• 1:09:22
  They're all on the home page where you can go to the speaker
• 1:09:24
  page. I can't even on the spur of the
• 1:09:26
  moment, I can't even think of who they all are.
• 1:09:28
  Pierre Rochard Bitstein This will be the first I think
• 1:09:32
  Conference Parents bits themes made in quite a while.
• 1:09:36
  In 2019, he rocked the world with his memeing session.
• 1:09:42
  He did. So we we've got a great lineup.
• 1:09:45
  Yeah, it's, it's going to be, it's going to be absolutely
• 1:09:47
  phenomenal guys. James, are you coming this year?
• 1:09:52
  He's having a baby. He's muted.
• 1:09:54
  He's muted. You're muted, James.
• 1:09:58
  You guys are laying the FOMO on thick man.
• 1:09:59
  I wish I could be going, but you know the Wi-Fi are expecting our
• 1:10:03
  first. So you know I got to be here for
• 1:10:04
  that. It's like right around the same
• 1:10:06
  time, but I have serious FOMO from it.
• 1:10:09
  Hopefully I got to do next year. I will say like for everyone who
• 1:10:11
  hasn't got through a conference, just go like you do not know who
• 1:10:14
  you're going to meet where that could lead.
• 1:10:15
  So many good things could happen.
• 1:10:17
  Like I met Isaac wine at at a conference, right?
• 1:10:19
  That's how I know you guys, right?
• 1:10:20
  That's how we're here today. I feel you had just said Opti,
• 1:10:24
  you met Nico there. Nico found you there, however
• 1:10:26
  you want to look at it, and you're on simply now, right?
• 1:10:28
  Like the iteration? Found.
• 1:10:30
  Maybe hide the trash? Can.
• 1:10:31
  Yeah, you were there doing something right.
• 1:10:33
  So it's just to me, you don't know who you're going to meet,
• 1:10:35
  the connections you're going to make, and it's you, you know,
• 1:10:38
  the part of the world, right, It's just you're learning more.
• 1:10:41
  And some of the best things happened during the like Gary
• 1:10:43
  was saying, like in the lobby, you know, outside when you're
• 1:10:46
  when you're taking a break from the sessions, like some of the
• 1:10:48
  best parts of the conferences happen just for meeting and
• 1:10:51
  talking to people that are like minded.
• 1:10:53
  So if you haven't gone to one, I highly recommend it.
• 1:10:55
  And you know, big block seems like a great one to do.
• 1:10:57
  It's in. Where'd you say it's in close to
• 1:10:59
  Austin? Dallas.
• 1:11:00
  It's in Dallas. OK.
• 1:11:02
  It was in Austin previously, right?
• 1:11:03
  Yes, yes, it's. Absolutely, absolutely.
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• 1:11:33
  17th, 2025. I'm your host, Nico Moran is my
• 1:11:37
  legendary Co host. Optimus Fields, our special
• 1:11:40
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• 1:11:44
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• 1:11:47
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• 1:11:51
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• 1:11:52
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• 1:11:54
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• 1:11:58
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