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Europe's Anti-Bitcoin Bill Reveals Plan to Stop Adoption | EP 829 · Simply Bitcoin

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  It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
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  It's going up for everyone. You're against Bitcoin.
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  You're against freedom. Yeah.
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  Welcome to somebody. Bitcoin Live.
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  We're number number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin
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  revolution, record-breaking news, culture and magic warfare.
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  We will be your guide through the separation of money in
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  state. Speaking of the separation of
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  money in state, interesting news coming out of Europe.
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  Kind of not as bad as the proposed bill by Elizabeth
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  Warren that we covered on one of Simply Bitcoins Simply Bitcoin
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  Lives episode this week. But it's something very similar,
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  right? This idea that every single
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  transaction needs to be Ky Seed right?
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  And then I think that will inevitably lead to the any host
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  unhosted wallet needs to be ky seed.
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  All right. The, the wording specifically in
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  the Elizabeth Warren bill included any minor, any
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  validator, any software wallet. So you know, it's just of course
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  the powers that be governments that benefit tremendously from
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  having a monopoly on the creation of money, having
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  controls on money of course to benefit themselves, of course
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  they're they're not going to be okay with this.
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  And this was the theory that was originally, you know, put out
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  back in the 90s in the book, the sovereign individual.
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  I'm going to read you guys a passage from that book because I
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  think it correctly predicted exactly the reactions from
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  governments. I don't think governments have
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  been able to. They're not used to this
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  environment where they have competition and most
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  importantly, not only do they have competition, but they can't
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  shut down the competition, right?
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  Because we remember we saw Facebook try to launch their
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  own, you know, digital currency and they got shut down real
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  quick. The thing with Bitcoin right?
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  And Bitcoin only right? Because Ethereum is inherently
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  centralized, meaning it will inevitably be Co opted, so they
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  have no choice but to ally with the state and they were in order
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  to survive. But with Bitcoin can't be
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  stopped. And because it can't be stopped,
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  it creates A forcing function in the long term as more and more
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  individuals choose to opt out of inflationary money into
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  deflationary money. So yes, of course times are
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  changing, but it's not only on the money front, right?
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  We're not only living through the disintermediation of money,
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  but we're also living through the disintermediation of
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  information. And yesterday was a historic
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  day. I've never seen this in my life.
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  The UK Parliament sent Russell Brand, an extremely popular
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  independent content creator, a letter to Rumble.
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  We love Rumble by the way. We're on there, subscribe to us
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  on there and shout out to our Rumble audience as well.
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  It's been growing by the day, so we appreciate you all.
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  They sent a letter to Rumble asking Rumble to demonetize
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  Russell Brand like YouTube did. So we have governments that are
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  directly asking platforms to demonetize content creators of
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  which they don't did they don't agree with.
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  That is absolutely absurd. And these are the same
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  governments that want you to trust them with central bank
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  digital currencies. If they had central bank digital
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  currencies in place, they wouldn't even have to ask the
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  platforms, they could just flick the switch themselves.
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  So when we say Bitcoin or slavery or how beauty on said
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  it, and I'm starting to lean this way to Bitcoin or death, we
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  are not exaggerating and you have to choose.
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  What worlds do you want to live in in the future and most
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  importantly, what world do you want the future generations,
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  your children, your children's children to live in.
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  So it's going to be a great episode.
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  I'm really looking forward to it.
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  You have to stay on top of what's going on anyways.
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  We also have, we also have a very special treat for you guys.
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  We have the head of customer experience from Foundation
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  Devices, the maker of the Passport hardware wallet, and
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  he's gonna do a live demo for us during the culture cement
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  segment. So I'm really, really pumped
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  about that. Let me bring up, let me bring
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  him up on stage. Bitcoin Q&A.
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  You're quite well known on Bitcoin Twitter as well.
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  How you doing buddy? Yeah, doing very well.
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  Thank you very much for having me.
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  I'm psyched to to to shoot the shit with you guys this evening.
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  Well, evening my time. But yeah, certainly some
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  interesting goings on, especially around the Russell
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  Brand thing. So I'm sure we'll be able to
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  share some insights on that one, but not a good luck.
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  Yeah, I completely agree, man. It's it's some some interesting
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  times we are living through people.
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  Some people call it the 4th turning.
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  I don't know, man, but the, the, the, the, the phrase that sticks
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  with me the most is weak men create hard times, hard times
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  create strong men. Strong, strong men create good
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  times. We're definitely going through
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  this era. And then I think it was actually
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  Vladimir Lenin that said the very, very famous quote, right
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  where there are decades that nothing happened and then there
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  are weeks that decades happen. I think we're definitely living
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  through this moment of time. Anyways, no more delay.
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  Let's bring up my legendary cohost.
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  Not optimistic today. No smile.
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  Oh, there's this smile. Sorry, I was caught reading the
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  chat fields. Optimistic fields.
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  How you doing bro? Well, I am doing wonderful and
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  I'm actually really excited for this culture segment today guys.
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  I I got a sneak peek of the demo that we're going to see and I I
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  think there's gonna be awesome. This might be a simply Bitcoin
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  first for the live show, but to the news stories and stuff, it
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  really just goes to show that if you speak the truth, you are the
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  enemy of the state. And I think more and more and
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  more people are waking up to this because they either
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  continue to deep platform you from your banks or D platform
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  you from social media for saying what they don't want to be said,
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  you know, for saying the quiet part out loud.
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  And you know, This is why we do our show in a very particular
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  way, so that we can survive on YouTube, but man.
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  It really just goes to show that the powers that be are are
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  completely terrified of people talking about the truth, hence
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  why you guys need to talk about it more and continue to spread
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  that signal. But it just goes to show that
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  this this is the the last, I don't know, the last gasp of the
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  great leviathan that you know the what's the saying?
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  Like Darker before the Dawn. Like this is their last.
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  Grasping at straws to control the truth and and I mean, I've
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  been saying for a while I think the monopoly on truth is slowly
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  dwindling and they're going to try to make examples of this.
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  So you know, just be prepared. We know what's coming.
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  So protect yourselves. Protect your family.
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  And continue to spread the Bitcoin truth.
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  The Bitcoin signal actually just truth with a capital TI suppose.
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  Anyways, Nico, let's get into this one.
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  Let's get into this one. Let's get into the show, man.
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  Anyways, we played you guys a video yesterday of a member of
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  the United Nations talking about how we are in an information
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  war. We played you guys the video and
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  she was basically recommending that that that they no longer
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  have people to call on on Twitter to censor information.
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  She was also saying how there's an army of people that are
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  propagating United Nations approved information.
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  Well, you know, she's, she's talking about as if the
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  information that's coming out of the United Nations is a matter
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  of fact, right? She's talking about the problem
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  of this information, disinformation.
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  Well, my question to you guys is who gets to decide what is
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  disinformation and what is information, right?
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  What we advocate for on simply Bitcoin is individuals, not
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  central planners, not governments, using their own
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  critical thinking abilities. Right?
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  To dictate, OK, this is a good idea.
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  This is a bad idea, right? This is how the American this
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  how the American Constitution, it's literally written like
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  that, that there's a reason that the 1st Amendment is the way it
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  is, right? The government or Congress
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  should make no law, you know, basically censoring or stopping
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  the freedom of the speech of people, right?
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  And they made it that way for a reason.
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  Because if there is a central authority, if there's a
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  government that gets to dictate what information is true, what
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  information is not true. History has shown that they'll
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  use that power to protect their own political mode, right?
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  So thank God for the Internet. Thank God for technologies like
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  Bitcoin. Thank God for technologies like
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  Noster, for example. They can't do this anymore.
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  And because they're not able to do that, they're freaking out
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  number one and #2 and #2. It becomes a forcing function
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  over a long period of time. But that doesn't stop them from
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  trying. Here is the former New Zealand
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  Prime Minister at the United Nations saying that that words
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  are weapons of war, right? Weapons of war.
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  If so, if you say something against the government that all
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  of a sudden becomes a weapon of war.
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  And again, this has escalated. It is escalated to the point
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  where the UK Parliament has asked Rumble to demonetize
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  Russell Brand, who's a very popular content creator who goes
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  against the legacy corporate media's narratives, right?
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  And it kind of embarrasses them. So what are they doing?
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  They're attacking his money. They're saying Rumble, OK, they
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  can't. They, they they've tried to
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  deplatform people before. They've gotten a lot of
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  pushback. So what they do instead is that
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  they attack his pocketbook. Obviously YouTube complied.
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  They demonetize Russell Brand's content.
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  But Rumble said no, we're not doing that.
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  So love that of Rumble. We're on Rumble.
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  We support Rumble. That's awesome.
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  But another thing that I want to say is that the allegations
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  against rubble Russell Brand are just that.
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  They are allegations. They have not been proven.
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  So something that has not been proven is a justification to
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  shut off someone's living. That is insane.
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  Anyways, let's check out this letter and this is a letter by
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  part by the UK Parliament, the specifically the Cultural,
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  Culture, Media and Sport Committee to the CEO of Rumble,
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  Chris Palavoski who says dear Chris, I'm writing concerning
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  the serious allegations regarding Russell Brand in the
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  context of of his being a content provider on Rumble for
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  more than 1.4 million followers. The cultural The Culture, Media
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  and Sports Committee is raising questions with the broadcasters
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  and production companies who previously employed Mr. Brand to
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  examine both the culture of the industry in the past and whether
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  that culture still prevails today.
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  However, we are also looking at his use of social media,
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  including on Rumble, where he issued his preemptive response
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  to the accusations made against him by The Sunday Times and
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  Channel 4, His Dispatches. While we recognize that Rumble
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  is not the creator of the content published published by
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  Mr. Brand, we are concerned that he may be able to profit from
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  his content on the platform. Did you hear what they said?
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  The government is concerned that Russell Brand might be able to
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  profit from his content because there was some allegations made
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  against him. Conveniently, a lot of Russell
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  Brand's content is criticisms of the government.
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  So I mean the big coincidence I guess you could say we would be
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  grateful if you could confirm whether Mr. Brand is able to
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  monetize his content including his videos relating to the
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  serious accusations against him is.
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  So we would like to know whether Rumble intends to join YouTube
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  in suspending Mr. Brand's ability to earn money on the
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  platform. We would also like to know what
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  Rumble is doing to ensure that creators are not able to use the
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  platform to under to undermine the welfare of victims of
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  inappropriate and potential potentially illegal behavior.
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  So they asked Rumble to demonetize a content creator, an
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  independent content creator. That's the keyword.
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  When we had Parker Lewis on the show and and I was talking about
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  the legacy corporate media, he didn't say no, Nico, it's not
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  the legacy corporate media, it's the legacy government media.
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  So anyways, why is this happening?
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  I think Jeff Booth said this perfectly.
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  We read this to you guys the other day and this all boils
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  down to the money. This is why we say as bitcoiners
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  fix the money, fix the world. Here's Jeff Booth.
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  He says because broken money. Elon Musk said How did most of
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  the legacy media go from superheroes of free speech to
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  super villains of speech suppression?
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  And Jeff Booth says because broken money ensures the
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  centralization of power by stealing the productivity
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  through inflation that should flow to society in the form of
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  lower prices. Then those enriched by that
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  theft and subsequent power must control the messaging to keep
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  it. But it all.
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  It wasn't only Jeff Booth that said this.
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  Here's an article from our friends over at Bitcoin Magazine
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  of nine Buchele, the president of the country shining on the
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  hill. The savior.
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  El Salvador, the first country that made Bitcoin legal tender.
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  The beachhead for the Bitcoin movement around the world, he
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  goes on to say. The most vocal detractors, the
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  ones who are afraid and pressuring us to reverse our
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  decision of the world's most powerful elites and the people
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  who work or benefit from them. They used to own everything.
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  And in a way, they still do. The media, the banks, the NGO's,
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  the international organizations, and almost all the governments
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  and corporations in the world. And with that, of course, they
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  own the armies, the loans, the money supply, the credit
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  ratings, the narrative, the propaganda, the factories of
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  food supply. They control international trade
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  and international law. But their most and powerful
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  weapon is their control of the truth.
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  And they're willing to fight, lie, smear, destroy, confiscate,
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  print and do whatever it takes to maintain and increase their
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  control over the truth and everything and everyone that
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  ain't come from Nico or simply Bitcoin.
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  That came from the president of El Salvador, Naim Bukele.
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  So what is happening here? Two things are happening here.
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  Thing #1, the Internet has empowered individuals, and those
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  individuals can now use the Internet to to grow these
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  massive platforms themselves. And because they're individuals,
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  they're a lot harder to Co opt. And at the same time, we are
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  witnessing the distance remediation of money.
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  The Internet has allowed Bitcoin, and Bitcoin has
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  empowered individuals to choose their own money too.
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  So government, states, NGO's, international institutions,
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  right that have had this privilege of having not only
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  having the monopoly in the control over money, but also the
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  monopoly in the control over information.
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  It's quickly diminishing in front of their eyes.
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  And of course that system is fighting back.
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  They can't take that. They they they've been used to
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  operating in a system where they've been able to control the
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  narrative, they've been able to control the truth and that is
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  slipping through their fingers and they don't know what to do
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  and that's why they're short circuiting the way they are.
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  That's why we've gotten to a point where the UK Parliament is
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  literally asking a platform to de monetize an independent
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  content creator. Not to mention all the stuff
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  that was revealed during the Twitter files where it was
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  exposed that the US government, even though that is explicitly
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  against the US Constitution, the government should not be
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  censoring speech, was asking Twitter to deplatform, deboost,
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  and censor certain speech. And these are the same
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  governments that also want you to trust them with central bank
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  digital currencies. And they expect you to believe
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  that they're not going to use central bank digital currencies
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  as a weapon, as a forcing function in order to control
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  your actions as a individual. And this was all predicted, I
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  might add, in the book, the sovereign Individual, which
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  we'll get to during the new segment.
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  But this is some crazy times. Now.
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  What can you do to protect yourself in this particular
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  situation? Do your own research.
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  Pick what information sources you choose.
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  You you you want to choose. I love Twitter because it's like
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  a news aggregator and the the news that you know pops up, pops
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  up nosters. A great platform, rumbles a
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  great platform. YouTube is, is good to do your
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  own research. Don't rely on a single
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  information source. And then most importantly, the
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  most empowering thing you could do is to opt out of state money,
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  opt into Bitcoin. I think that's the most powerful
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  thing you could do. Look, the most important, the
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  most important vote you can make that voting for a Democrat or
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  Republican. It's not to say that it's not
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  important to vote, but the most powerful vote that you can do
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  that will actually change things is voting with your wallet opt
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  out. And the way that you do that is
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  you buy Bitcoin, earn Bitcoin, mind Bitcoin and take that said
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  Bitcoin into self custody. The moment you do that, you're
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  part of the peaceful Bitcoin revolution, whether you are
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  aware of it or not. And that is how we win.
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  If enough people take self custody, we win and there's
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  nothing they could do about it. Speaking of self custody, we
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  have the head of customer experience with us today,
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  Bitcoin Q&A. And you guys make it super
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  fucking easy to take self custody with the hardware wallet
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  that you guys make and not to mention the awesome application
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  that you guys make. So, Bitcoin Q&A, what's your
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  take on this whole Russell Brand stuff?
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  I can't believe we've reached this point.
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  If I would have been told this five, 5-6 years ago, I would
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  have said that's impossible. There's no way that's that.
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  That's ridiculous. So what's your take on all this?
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  Yeah, before I enter you, I've just got to say that was one
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  hell of a fucking monologue. I take my hat off to you.
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  That was fantastic. Yeah.
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  Kudos. Yeah, the whole Russell Brand
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  thing, man. Just completely shocking.
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  Another example, yet another example of government overreach.
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  Russell Brand's been a thorn in the side of the UK government.
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  If you can't tell by the action, by the way, to anybody's
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  listening that I'm from the UK. He's been a thorn in their side
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  for years. He's a very well educated man.
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  He's very well spoken. And he has drawn a lot of
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  following by speaking out against money printing against
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  government policy. He was rabid about the whole
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  COVID thing, pharmaceuticals getting rich because of you
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  know, you know all of the the corruption that went on over
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  those those couple of years. And I see this recent letter as
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  their them seeing the the opportunity is there into trying
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  you know get one back on him. You touched on earlier that the
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  fact that all of these are just allegations at the moment.
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  And the fact that they're going around trying to take money off
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  him from, you know, he's not been convicted of anything at
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  all. That's not so.
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  He won't be. But right now they're just
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  allegations and they're trying to take his money off him.
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  It's just completely shocking and they're just trying to lash
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  out because he's been a pain in their ass royally for years.
• 22:24
  So yeah, I mean, they're just just overreaching and leveraging
• 22:27
  their powers wherever they can just to to kind of deplatform
• 22:30
  him and hurt his wallet as well. Unfortunately.
• 22:33
  Yeah, 100% they they attack his money, they attack and again,
• 22:38
  like, they attack his money. And they're also like, hey guys,
• 22:42
  these Cbdc's like, we'll respect your privacy.
• 22:46
  You could trust us. What are you talking about
• 22:50
  anyways? Abdi, what's your take?
• 22:51
  Well, I actually I kind of want to ask Q&A question because
• 22:53
  there is some talk about this in in the chat.
• 22:56
  What's your thoughts on Russell Brand being like Controlled
• 22:59
  Demolition Q&A? Ooh.
• 23:03
  How do you mean in what context? Like basically that this is like
• 23:08
  an orchestrated attack. You know, once everyone's
• 23:12
  talking about this, maybe Russell Brand isn't necessarily
• 23:15
  as much of A truth speaker as people are are making him out to
• 23:20
  be. Like, does he actually believe
• 23:21
  what he's saying? Or is this just kind of one of
• 23:24
  those things where, you know, you create a figure and then you
• 23:29
  kind of tear them down to discredit the whole movement in
• 23:31
  general, the whole truth movement?
• 23:33
  Yeah, possibly. I I think, I think most of what
• 23:36
  he says is genuine. He, before he started doing all
• 23:39
  of the YouTube stuff like he was a, he was a, you know, some form
• 23:42
  of a celebrity. He had a big following and could
• 23:44
  have monetized himself as a product in many, many other ways
• 23:48
  by coming out and being as outspoken as he has against the
• 23:51
  the the prickly topics of like money printing and you know,
• 23:54
  COVID, etcetera. He must have known, you know,
• 23:57
  he's smart enough to know that would have been incredibly
• 23:59
  divisive to people that followed him.
• 24:01
  So I lean towards the fact that he's genuine and the fact that
• 24:05
  they're probably going to try and use him as a scapegoat to to
• 24:08
  warn ward off all the people that kind of speak out against
• 24:11
  any government policy, etcetera, etcetera.
• 24:13
  Yeah, I'd agree. I mean like.
• 24:16
  Especially considering what his status was, it it's hard to
• 24:21
  follow the incentives and be like, yeah, he's got a lot to
• 24:23
  gain from this when in reality he's on the verge of losing
• 24:26
  everything. So I'd agree with you.
• 24:28
  And then just kind of going back to the beginning of this rant
• 24:30
  and and people are saying epic daily Nico Jones rant today.
• 24:34
  So. Good job, Nico.
• 24:36
  I like when Nico gets gets animated.
• 24:39
  Remember growing up guys? When I grew up I had a saying
• 24:43
  and I'm sure your mother told it to you as well.
• 24:45
  And we all probably said it in kindergarten.
• 24:47
  You know, sticks and stones make kindergarten.
• 24:50
  Kindergarten. Yeah, kindergarten exactly.
• 24:51
  Sticks and stones may break my bones but words may never hurt
• 24:54
  me. And now we grow up in a world
• 24:55
  where words are violence. Like what is going on guys?
• 24:58
  And that's a convenient. It's a convenient.
• 25:01
  Way I know, Nico, I was getting there.
• 25:04
  I know, I know. I'm.
• 25:04
  I'm asking rhetorical questions. Is on the show now Okay.
• 25:07
  I'm I'm I'm learning some Nico Jones tactics.
• 25:09
  But as we know guys, as we know guys, you know if you can stop
• 25:14
  words from being said then you can stop thought.
• 25:17
  And if you can stop thought then you can ultimately stop
• 25:19
  behavior. And this is where they're going.
• 25:21
  They they want to ensure that you guys self censor so that you
• 25:25
  guys don't lose everything. And this is where we are guys
• 25:29
  that they are absolutely afraid of people speaking the truth.
• 25:31
  They're absolutely afraid of the average person waking up.
• 25:35
  And exposing all of their lives because that's all they have.
• 25:38
  They have lies and favors and they have the monopoly on truth,
• 25:41
  as we always say from the Blue Kelly article.
• 25:44
  So I think now is more important than ever to speak your minds to
• 25:49
  make sure you're having these conversations to, as the saying
• 25:51
  goes, you know, speak truth to power and all that good stuff.
• 25:55
  Because there's been a constant theme throughout 2023, or
• 25:57
  actually rather since 2020. Basically is that if your voice
• 26:01
  is too big and you talk against the establishment, then the
• 26:04
  powers that be will do. Anything they can to put you
• 26:06
  back in line and whether that means, you know, breaking your
• 26:11
  reputation, taking all your money, dragging you through the
• 26:15
  the court of public opinion. We know what their tactics are
• 26:19
  and if you're following along closely, then you know what the
• 26:22
  playbook is. And it's almost like they're
• 26:24
  doing the same thing over and over and over again.
• 26:26
  But. I think the silver lining of
• 26:27
  this is that it seems like their playbook isn't working as well
• 26:32
  as it used to, which in some sense should be absolutely
• 26:35
  terrifying because. Then they're going to go to even
• 26:38
  more extremes. And you know, I'm not going to
• 26:40
  say what everyone's thinking, but it's going to get crazy
• 26:43
  guys. And so I think it's just
• 26:45
  becoming very, very clear that as an individual, just even a
• 26:49
  normal person that doesn't have a platform like you want to do
• 26:52
  whatever you can in your power to protect yourself.
• 26:54
  And hence why we always say that it always boils down to the
• 26:57
  money guys. So protect your money, protect
• 26:59
  your livelihood by taking your Bitcoin into self custody by
• 27:02
  saving in Bitcoin. Because remember, guys, this is
• 27:06
  always about theft. They want to take your wealth
• 27:09
  and put you back in your place and then distribute it and make
• 27:12
  everyone feel good. And we're seeing this happen in
• 27:14
  real time and and it it isn't lost on me that this is done via
• 27:19
  letter. You know, it's just like, hey,
• 27:21
  how nefarious could a letter be? But if you're reading in between
• 27:24
  the lines, then you know how nefarious this letter actually
• 27:27
  is and that this is a coordinated attack on someone
• 27:29
  that's talking against the establishment.
• 27:32
  And if people like Russell Brand, you know, say what you
• 27:35
  want about him, But if people like him can't speak about the
• 27:39
  truth and they also get run through the grinder, like
• 27:42
  imagine what would happen to an average individual.
• 27:45
  Like, there's no hope for us if people of that stature can't
• 27:49
  talk about what's actually going on in the world.
• 27:51
  And hence why it's so important to continue to double down on
• 27:54
  independent content creation, spreading the truth, talking
• 27:57
  about all this stuff. Because.
• 27:59
  This is all we have. We have the truth on our side
• 28:01
  and as the saying goes, you know the truth will set us free.
• 28:03
  So just just don't be afraid, you know, Be brave, but also be
• 28:08
  smart out there. And the best thing you can do is
• 28:10
  just protect yourself and protect your money, Protect your
• 28:12
  family. And I think as more people do
• 28:16
  this, then the world will slowly but surely start to fix itself
• 28:19
  anyways, you know? Amen.
• 28:21
  We'll see what happens. Amen.
• 28:22
  Preach, brother. All right, everybody, let's get
• 28:24
  to the news. We got a lot to talk about
• 28:26
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  to the news. We covered this, but I think
• 30:43
  it's really useful to connect the dots, right?
• 30:47
  So we covered Elizabeth Warren's proposed Digital Asset Anti
• 30:52
  Money Laundering Act. Right now it's not going to
• 30:55
  pass, but it is gaining steam. She got 9 new senators to
• 31:00
  sponsor the bill. And this bill would include,
• 31:03
  like we said the other day, focusing on so socalled unhosted
• 31:09
  wallets, right. Two components to that.
• 31:12
  Unhosted, that makes it seem rhetoric wording is very
• 31:16
  powerful. Unhosted that makes it seem like
• 31:19
  hosted is the norm and unhosted is not normal, right.
• 31:24
  So it that worrying is very, very, very and it's purposeful
• 31:28
  and it's in again, they they do it in a way so that if you're
• 31:33
  uninformed, if you're part of the general public, you're like,
• 31:35
  oh, it's an unhosted wallet. That must be bad, right?
• 31:39
  It basically means, look, if you take self custody, you have an
• 31:44
  unhosted wallet. That's what that means, right?
• 31:47
  Anyways, so this document would essentially there are this,
• 31:51
  this, this bill, If passed it would force KYC and anti money
• 31:56
  laundering requirements to digital asset wallet providers,
• 32:00
  minors and validators. Pierre Rashard said that this
• 32:03
  would kill the Bitcoin mining industry in the US, and that is
• 32:07
  on purpose. And it goes on to say the
• 32:09
  document aims to take action against non custodial or
• 32:12
  unhosted crypto wallets, which are described as software or
• 32:15
  hardware that facilitates the storage of public and private
• 32:18
  keys. That's right, ladies and
• 32:20
  gentlemen, writing down 12 words and storing it on a hardware
• 32:24
  wallet is dangerous. That's what they're trying to
• 32:28
  tell you, but you have to zoom out.
• 32:30
  Why are they saying it's dangerous?
• 32:31
  Well, we'll get to it. The book The Sovereign
• 32:33
  Individual has an amazing passage, and they describe
• 32:36
  exactly why governments and nation states believe it's
• 32:39
  dangerous. Anyways, here is the United
• 32:42
  sorry, not the United Nations, the European Union, and it looks
• 32:46
  like they're heading kind of in the same direction.
• 32:49
  It's not as bad as the proposed bill by Elizabeth Warren.
• 32:53
  However, it did pass. So what am I talking about?
• 32:56
  I'm talking about the EU Parliament passed D AC-8.
• 33:00
  Crypto service providers will have to report all transaction
• 33:03
  information on EU clients. The D AC-8 law, designed to
• 33:09
  amend the EU Directive on Administrative Cooperation,
• 33:13
  mandates Crypto Asset Service proprietors to report
• 33:16
  transactions involving EU clients to the blocks tax
• 33:19
  authorities. 535 members voted in favor of the bill, with only
• 33:24
  57 votes against it and 60 absentees.
• 33:28
  EU member states now have until December 31st, 2025 to implement
• 33:32
  the rules, which are set to officially take effect on
• 33:35
  January 1st, 2026. Quote The proposed directive
• 33:39
  identifies two types of entities that would be obliged to report
• 33:42
  information to the local authorities, crypto asset
• 33:45
  providers, any legal person or undertaking whose professional
• 33:49
  activity is the the provision of 1 or more crypto asset services
• 33:53
  to third parties. The definition as used in D AC-8
• 33:57
  is the same as that of Mika. Remember, the Mika laws was the
• 34:01
  laws that Christine Lagarde Opti's exgirlfriend, the head of
• 34:04
  the European Central Bank, mentioned by name that she was
• 34:08
  excited. She was very excited that it
• 34:10
  would pass. And of course, the European
• 34:12
  Central Bank is also pushing hard.
• 34:14
  You know what Central Bank Digital currencies.
• 34:17
  It goes on to say, crypto asset operators, a provider of crypto
• 34:21
  asset services other than a crypto asset service provider.
• 34:24
  These operators do not fall within the scope of MICA these
• 34:27
  entities categories as reported. Crypto asset service providers
• 34:31
  must comply with Dac's reporting requirements if they have users
• 34:36
  within the EU, regardless of their size or location.
• 34:40
  And here are the requirements. Name, Address 10, Identification
• 34:43
  number and global legal entity Name.
• 34:47
  Address 10. Member state of residence date,
• 34:50
  date and place of birth, Reportable crypto assets.
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  Full names of the crypto assets and their type.
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  Amounts paid or received from exchange.
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  Crypto assets for Fiat currencies.
• 35:01
  Number of such transactions. Value of crypto assets transfers
• 35:05
  to. Here it is again unhosted
• 35:07
  distributed Ledger addresses. It is not a coincidence that in
• 35:12
  Europe and the United States in in terms of bill wording, the
• 35:17
  wording is exactly the same. That is not a coincidence.
• 35:21
  Anyways reported retail payment transactions.
• 35:25
  So I mean goes on to say the new surveillance law does not seem
• 35:30
  to affect self custody solutions, their users and
• 35:32
  developers. An amendment is proposed to
• 35:35
  Article 16 to clarify that the information exchange under DAC
• 35:39
  can be used for purposes other than tax, including any measures
• 35:43
  covered under Article 215, which deals with the imposition of
• 35:47
  economic sanctions by the EU on third parties, right.
• 35:52
  So basically, look, if you live in a country that the European
• 35:56
  Union has economic sanctions against, I guess what they're
• 36:00
  saying is that you can't send Bitcoin to a person in that
• 36:02
  country, even though that person might have nothing to do with
• 36:05
  the government, right? So while all of this is
• 36:09
  happening in the background is the push for central bank
• 36:14
  digital currencies and also the push for I D's worldwide.
• 36:18
  So here's an article by Zero Hedge or I think originally it
• 36:21
  came out on the Epoch Times and it says G20 announces plan to
• 36:25
  impose digital currencies and I D's worldwide.
• 36:28
  The group of 20 leaders have agreed to plan to eventually
• 36:31
  impose digital currencies and digital ID's on their respective
• 36:34
  population, despite fears that the government will use them to
• 36:37
  monitor their people's spending and crush and crush dissent.
• 36:41
  Connect it with the Russell Brand thing.
• 36:46
  Connect it with the Russell Brand thing.
• 36:48
  They're already doing that and you want and people and they
• 36:52
  want you to trust them with CBD C's.
• 36:55
  And again. Coincidentally in the in the
• 36:58
  European Union they're passing, you know what I would say, anti
• 37:01
  Bitcoin regulation. And in the US the anti Bitcoin
• 37:05
  Senator Elizabeth Warren is gathering support to pass more
• 37:10
  anti Bitcoin regulation. Now why is this happening?
• 37:13
  Sometimes you got to zoom out when in doubt, and I think this
• 37:16
  passage from The Sovereign Individual hits the nail on the
• 37:19
  head. It says new technologies will
• 37:22
  allow the holders of wealth to bypass the national monopolies
• 37:25
  that have issued and regulated money in the modern period.
• 37:28
  The their importance for controlling the world's wealth
• 37:31
  will be transcended by mathematical algorithms that
• 37:33
  have no physical existence. In the new Millennium, cyber
• 37:37
  money controlled by private markets will supersede Fiat
• 37:40
  money issued by governments Lacking their custom scope to
• 37:44
  tax and inflate. Governments, even in
• 37:46
  traditionally civil countries, will turn nasty.
• 37:51
  Does this passage by the UK may start to make a lot more sense?
• 37:55
  Does this wording by Elizabeth Warren in this bill start to
• 38:00
  make more sense? Does this bill that was passed
• 38:03
  in Europe start to make more sense?
• 38:06
  It goes on to say businesses that offer services that
• 38:09
  facilitate the realization of autonomy by individuals will be
• 38:13
  subject to infiltration, sabotage, and disruption
• 38:17
  arbitrary for arbitrary forfeiture of property, already
• 38:20
  commonplace in the United States where it occurs 5000 times a
• 38:23
  week, will become even more pervasive.
• 38:26
  The governments will violate human rights, censor the free
• 38:29
  flow of information, sabotage usual technologies, and worse.
• 38:34
  Not only did the book The Sovereign Individual say this,
• 38:37
  but also is Naimbu Kayla's article in Bitcoin Magazine.
• 38:42
  I'm going to read you guys the passage again.
• 38:44
  They're willing to fight, lie, smear, destroy, censor,
• 38:47
  confiscate, print and do whatever it takes to maintain
• 38:51
  and and increase their control over the truth and everything
• 38:55
  and everyone. So pretty crazy stuff, lots of
• 38:59
  things at stake. But I'm happy because we have
• 39:02
  Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the solution to this.
• 39:04
  Bitcoin is your your way to opt out of this madness.
• 39:08
  So once again when we say Bitcoin or slavery or how beauty
• 39:12
  on put it, Bitcoin or death, we are not exaggerating it really
• 39:16
  really is that serious? Anyways Bitcoin Q&A you are part
• 39:20
  of a Bitcoin company that is facilitating by creating
• 39:25
  hardware and also a software wallet as well, which I'm a big
• 39:28
  fan of that allows people to take self custody of your
• 39:32
  Bitcoin. Does it concern you at all when
• 39:35
  you hear the wording coming out of the European Union, the
• 39:39
  wording coming out of the proposed bill by Elizabeth
• 39:41
  Warren? Does that worry you, man?
• 39:44
  Because clearly this is, you know, the the powers of be are
• 39:49
  going to want to maintain that privilege of being able to
• 39:52
  create money for free that everyone else has to work for.
• 39:54
  And to use Christine Lagarde's own words, if there's an escape
• 39:57
  valve, people are going to use it.
• 39:59
  So what's your take on this, man?
• 40:01
  What are you thinking? Yeah, I think this is blatantly
• 40:05
  obvious that stuff like this was going to happen to anybody
• 40:07
  that's been in the space for, you know, any period of time,
• 40:10
  almost like this. This is everybody who talks
• 40:12
  about the then they fight a stage and and I think that we're
• 40:15
  starting to get to that now. You know, the whole purpose of
• 40:17
  Bitcoin is to root around these horrible individuals and
• 40:20
  eventually these types of individuals are going to try to
• 40:23
  use their powers to push back and lo and behold, here they
• 40:25
  are. That's exactly what they're
• 40:26
  doing. So absolutely not a shock.
• 40:30
  Does it worry me? I mean, yeah, it's going to
• 40:32
  absolutely hinder adoption of Bitcoin and it may turn some
• 40:37
  people off from Bitcoin. But ultimately the whole network
• 40:41
  has been constructed in such a way that if you boil it right
• 40:46
  down, these things don't really matter as long as you use
• 40:49
  Bitcoin in the way that most of us on this podcast on this
• 40:53
  stream, you know, would advise people to use that.
• 40:56
  And that's to practice self custody, to be as private as you
• 40:59
  can. Like these types of regulations
• 41:01
  are almost becoming consequential as long as you use
• 41:04
  Bitcoin in a true pit to pit fashion.
• 41:07
  Now that's can be quite difficult for some people, you
• 41:11
  know. And that's why we do what we do
• 41:12
  at Foundation, to try and lower that barrier to entry, to make
• 41:14
  things a little bit less scary so that people that are entering
• 41:17
  the space don't get as overwhelmed by, you know, a
• 41:21
  super complex application or hardware or piece of hardware,
• 41:23
  whatever it is, you know? So yeah, don't get me wrong,
• 41:26
  this was always going to happen, but ultimately Bitcoin will
• 41:30
  continue on. Absolutely OPT you.
• 41:34
  What's your take? Yeah, I definitely agree with
• 41:36
  Q&A, and I've said it a lot of times on the show that this is
• 41:40
  their roundabout ways to fight Bitcoin because direct attacks
• 41:43
  are way too obvious. So here we are.
• 41:45
  And until we get the direct attacks, most people will
• 41:48
  probably get gas lit into believing that, you know, what
• 41:51
  we're doing here is nefarious. Remember what they call us all
• 41:53
  the time? You know what they call us
• 41:54
  illiterate. They call U.S. financial
• 41:56
  terrorists and all the different bad words that they can come up
• 41:59
  to basically paint us in bad light because we are.
• 42:02
  Just wanting to save in something that they can't rob
• 42:05
  from us. And as Q&A was saying, you can't
• 42:08
  stop math. So if you use the freedom tools
• 42:11
  correctly like this stuff is irrelevant, but in the meantime
• 42:15
  it will be a little painful. And personally, this just goes
• 42:19
  to show like how illiterate or you know, computer illiterate
• 42:22
  the bureaucrats really are. But you know again, they're
• 42:25
  going to try to protect you. Citizen.
• 42:27
  Yeah, I say it all the time like boomers writing things down on
• 42:30
  paper and expect us to follow the rules.
• 42:31
  Like they they're they're praying on your good nature.
• 42:35
  They're praying on the idea that you want to help your fellow man
• 42:40
  that you are willing to sacrifice and and continue to
• 42:43
  just like bite the bullet. But uh and and this is them
• 42:46
  trying to strangle the. On an off ramp so again as Q&A
• 42:49
  was saying, this is the importance of peer-to-peer
• 42:52
  Bitcoin transactions. This isn't the importance of you
• 42:55
  guys opting out of this madness because the parasites are mad
• 42:59
  because they can't siphon your wealth from you.
• 43:01
  Like it's really this simple. And of course it it's for your
• 43:04
  benefit. Citizen like this is for the
• 43:06
  public good. Citizen like sacrifice your
• 43:08
  liberties for the greater good like what kind of evil person
• 43:11
  are you? And it's all a cock of shit.
• 43:13
  So as much as they try to angle this as.
• 43:16
  You know, I'm here to protect you as a Bitcoiner.
• 43:19
  You know what they're really trying to do?
• 43:21
  And it's, as my boy Planet Earth was saying here in the chat,
• 43:26
  basically it's so that they can siphon away your wealth.
• 43:31
  Like parasites are going to be parasitic by nature and unhosted
• 43:35
  wallets are just ways that they can't get your wealth so.
• 43:38
  Continue spot on spot. On So you continue to take your
• 43:42
  money out of the system. Because they can't control it.
• 43:45
  And this is the the fundamental nature of what's going on right
• 43:49
  now. We all know here as especially
• 43:51
  as Bitcoiners, but for the new people in the back, we all know
• 43:54
  that the field system is literally designed to steal your
• 43:57
  wealth and now we have a way to protect ourselves from this.
• 43:59
  So of course the unproductive parasitic class is going to try
• 44:03
  to find ways and and create legislation and and create
• 44:06
  barriers for people to exit into a freedom money.
• 44:10
  We knew this was coming. We knew that this is part of the
• 44:13
  process. So again, this is the time to
• 44:15
  protect yourself. This is the time to, you know,
• 44:18
  get your transactions in order, get your cold storage in order,
• 44:22
  make sure that you are protected.
• 44:24
  Because there will be a time when the outright attacks on us
• 44:27
  are happening and we all will be dragged through the public
• 44:31
  opinion, the court of public opinion and and made to look
• 44:34
  bad. But in the meantime we have an
• 44:35
  opportunity to stack Bitcoin. They can't stop this.
• 44:38
  They should have tried this ten years ago and this is just part
• 44:41
  of the process. So like.
• 44:43
  Bring it on. Take it if you can.
• 44:46
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• 46:18
  During the culture segment, we are going to do a.
• 46:23
  We're going to do a live demo of the Foundation devices Passport
• 46:28
  hardware wallet and we brought on Bitcoin Q&A on today to do
• 46:35
  just that. So Bitcoin Q&A Why don't you
• 46:37
  take it from here my friend? Awesome guys.
• 46:42
  Yeah, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to
• 46:45
  show off what I do on a day-to-day basis.
• 46:47
  I'm very excited to be able to show you this just while I'm
• 46:49
  trying to zoom. There we go, focus my camera in
• 46:52
  a little bit. So I want to give you I know
• 46:54
  we're pretty tight on time, so I'm going to try and keep this
• 46:56
  as clear and concise as possible, but just want to tell
• 46:59
  you guys like about what we do and why we're passionate about
• 47:02
  what we do at Foundation. So Passport is our completely
• 47:05
  open source Bitcoin only hardware wallet aimed at, you
• 47:08
  know, ultimately secure your Bitcoin in an offline manner.
• 47:12
  Passport by design is completely air gapped.
• 47:15
  So that means that there's no no wireless communications of any
• 47:19
  sort within the device. So there's no Bluetooth, no
• 47:21
  Wi-Fi, no NFC, etc etc. That all adds to the security of
• 47:26
  the device. So Passport has no ability to be
• 47:29
  able to be physically connected to any of the device either.
• 47:32
  The observing of you will notice that there is a USBC port at the
• 47:36
  bottom of the device that is power only.
• 47:39
  So you can actually look into the pins of the device and check
• 47:41
  that there's no data pins there. So even if I was to plug this
• 47:44
  into my laptop, nothing's going to happen other than it getting
• 47:47
  some power and you can recharge it.
• 47:50
  Speaking about power, those of you that are old enough to
• 47:52
  remember the old Nokia phones might be familiar with that type
• 47:55
  of battery. That is actually the same
• 47:57
  battery that used to be in the old types of Nokia mobile phones
• 48:00
  from back in the late 90s. And that was, you know, a
• 48:03
  conscious decision to make sure that you guys aren't kind of
• 48:06
  relying on us for replacement batteries if and when these
• 48:08
  things ever do go on long enough to fail.
• 48:12
  So I've talked about Passport being completely air gapped and
• 48:15
  then it has no Bluetooth, etcetera.
• 48:16
  So how the hell does it communicate with wallet
• 48:18
  software? So it does that by two main
• 48:21
  ways. Number one and first and
• 48:23
  foremost is via QR codes, which I'm going to demonstrate in a
• 48:26
  second. Or you can also communicate by
• 48:28
  passing files back into from a micro SD card which pops into
• 48:32
  the top of the device. There we also have a large color
• 48:37
  screen, which you may not believe me, but that's on the
• 48:40
  lowest brightness setting right now.
• 48:41
  If I crank it right up, my webcam just won't pick it up.
• 48:44
  It's just a white BLOB. So yeah, super bright, vivid
• 48:46
  screen, traditional T9 style keypad which makes entering
• 48:50
  seeds and passphrases faster than anything else on the
• 48:53
  market. And yeah, we have a beautiful
• 48:56
  standard form factor that looks very similar to the old Nokia
• 48:59
  phones. We ship absolutely everything
• 49:02
  that you need inside the box with Passport, so you don't need
• 49:04
  to go out and buy any extra batteries, power cables, all of
• 49:07
  that sort of rubbish. So inside the box you're going
• 49:10
  to get power on the USB C cable to charge the device, an
• 49:13
  industrial grade micro SD card and two of these little black
• 49:17
  adapters which are for the micro SD card so that you can perform
• 49:22
  firmware updates for the device with your phone with Envoy or
• 49:27
  mobile application. So you don't actually need to
• 49:29
  use a computer with this device at all if you don't want.
• 49:32
  Everything can be done straight from your mobile phone.
• 49:35
  And of course the final thing we ship in the box would be our
• 49:39
  seed sheet, which is just a piece of paper to temporarily
• 49:43
  write down your seed words. Obviously for a longer term you
• 49:46
  want to be stamping that into metal.
• 49:49
  You know after security, obviously we're a security
• 49:51
  focused company, but after that we we focus primarily on
• 49:54
  designing user experience. We're firm believers that users
• 49:58
  should not have to connect their hardware wallet to a Power Pack
• 50:00
  to turn it on or tether themselves to a wall.
• 50:04
  We we do not want our customers struggling to navigate, you
• 50:08
  know, rudimentary menu systems on tiny displays or to go
• 50:13
  through the pain of entering a 24 word seed phrase on to a
• 50:16
  device that has just two buttons.
• 50:18
  Don't know if anybody is listening to this has ever had
• 50:20
  to go through that, but it's not a nice experience.
• 50:22
  So we've literally designed Passport to fix all of these
• 50:25
  common problems to, you know, once again, as I said earlier,
• 50:28
  lower that barrier to entry to be able to make Bitcoin cold
• 50:32
  storage much more approachable and attainable by anybody.
• 50:37
  This device really does feel familiar as soon as you get it
• 50:40
  in hand. So I think what I want to do
• 50:44
  quickly is just show you how quick and easy it is to connect
• 50:47
  this offline device to Envoy, our mobile wallet.
• 50:51
  I will caveat that by saying that Envoy, our mobile app, is
• 50:54
  absolutely not a prerequisite to use Passport.
• 50:56
  If you're a spiral wallet fan or a BCC pay server fan, or a blue
• 51:01
  wallet fan, nunchuck, Bitcoin keeper, you name it, anything
• 51:04
  that talks Bitcoin, PSBT language, it will talk to
• 51:08
  passport. So you know it's not
• 51:10
  prerequisite to use that. But obviously we designed Envoy
• 51:13
  to be like the best kind of passport experience.
• 51:15
  So very quickly I hope my camera, there we go.
• 51:18
  So I've just got a blank state envoy device here, sorry Envoy
• 51:21
  application. I'm going to show you how
• 51:22
  quickly it is to pair up. So all I'm going to do is tap
• 51:27
  the plus, I'm going to choose connect an existing Passport
• 51:29
  because this one's already set up, choose Get Started, and then
• 51:34
  it wants to scan a QR code. And my phone camera is now open
• 51:38
  over on Passport, going to head to Manage Account, choose,
• 51:42
  Connect Wallet. There's all the list of wallets
• 51:44
  that I mentioned earlier that we're compatible with.
• 51:47
  As you can see, there's loads of them there.
• 51:48
  At the top of the list we have Envoy, and then Passport is
• 51:52
  going to show some animated QR codes, which is essentially the
• 51:55
  public account information the Envoy wants so they can generate
• 51:58
  addresses. So we give that a super quick
• 52:00
  scan. There we go, connection
• 52:03
  successful. And a really cool feature that
• 52:05
  we have. You see the blue call to action
• 52:07
  at the bottom that says validate receive address.
• 52:10
  If I tap on that, I see the first address within the account
• 52:14
  that I've just paired. And if I move forward quickly
• 52:17
  with passport, you can see that it wants to scan that address to
• 52:21
  validate that it is actually an address that Passport controls.
• 52:25
  And there you go. You can see it's immediately
• 52:27
  recognized, the addresses match and we've got a teal called
• 52:30
  check mark there. So the idea behind this is that
• 52:33
  if you were to somehow download a malicious version of Envoy,
• 52:36
  you know, malicious version of Bitcoin wallets are fairly rife
• 52:39
  unfortunately. And one of those malicious
• 52:42
  wallets could be prepopulated with an attacker's address.
• 52:46
  If you were to take the steps that I just did with passport
• 52:48
  and scan that address, obviously your passport would know that
• 52:51
  it's not one of its own addresses and it throw a big
• 52:53
  error message and you'd know don't send any Bitcoin to that
• 52:55
  wallet because you're going to get rug pulled.
• 52:58
  So Envoy asked was it validated? Yes it was.
• 53:02
  And there we go, the device is connected, connection is
• 53:04
  complete. So what was that 60 seconds with
• 53:06
  me doing some talking. If I head over to accounts you
• 53:09
  can see that this is a test net account that I've already used
• 53:12
  some Sats in and we're now immediately ready to receive.
• 53:16
  So super simple and you know the absolute optimum waiter to use
• 53:21
  passport very quickly. Some of the other cool features
• 53:24
  that I'm very passionate about, I'm big on using different
• 53:27
  accounts to segregate your different portions of Bitcoin.
• 53:30
  So they may be KYC versus no KYC or it may be a savings account
• 53:36
  for your son or your daughter or both or even some inheritance.
• 53:40
  So what you can do super simply on Passport is head to the
• 53:43
  right, click on new account, give that account a name.
• 53:47
  So I'm just going to put something in there and boom,
• 53:50
  we've added a brand new account to the device which is
• 53:53
  represented by a brand new account screen.
• 53:55
  And also I need to do then to pair that to Envoy is just to go
• 53:58
  through the exact same QR code scan that you mentioned before,
• 54:00
  that I mentioned to you guys before.
• 54:02
  And then you'll have two account screens here and then you can
• 54:05
  manage those independently without having anything else to
• 54:07
  back up. So both of those accounts will
• 54:09
  be backed up by the exact same 12 or 24 word seed.
• 54:13
  So super in super cool way to be able to segregate your Bitcoin
• 54:18
  without having to back up anything extra.
• 54:21
  So there's no multiple seed words, etcetera, etcetera.
• 54:23
  Of course you can do it that way, but nobody wants to have
• 54:26
  34567 different seed words buried in their back garden.
• 54:32
  One final thing I want to showcase, because I know we're
• 54:33
  getting time and time guys, is our extensions menu.
• 54:37
  So our extensions menu is a way that we add additional
• 54:41
  functionalities that may be useful to more advanced or
• 54:45
  intermediate users. So the three that we currently
• 54:48
  have is Casa. So if you're a Casa customer, if
• 54:50
  you enable that account, that Casa extension, you'll have a
• 54:54
  custom Casa account screen that looks like that so that you can
• 54:58
  do Casa specific stuff, so you can do health checks on your
• 55:01
  keys. You'll have a custom Casa
• 55:02
  connection flow and another one that I'm very, very passionate
• 55:06
  about. The final thing I'll touch on
• 55:07
  very quickly is our key manager. So those of you that are
• 55:11
  familiar with the term BIP 85, this is our implementation of
• 55:15
  that. So when you would set up this
• 55:18
  device you will have you'll go through the setup process of
• 55:22
  which you're guided along with Envoy.
• 55:24
  If you choose to do it that way, you'll write down your 24 word
• 55:27
  seed. You can create your optional
• 55:29
  encrypted backup, which is another cool feature that we
• 55:32
  offer which I'd love to be able to talk about but would urge you
• 55:34
  guys to check out. Once you've done that, if you
• 55:37
  enable the key manager extension, you can come into
• 55:41
  here and generate what we call trial keys.
• 55:44
  So for you guys, I'm sure there's lots of Uncle Jim's in
• 55:47
  here that are that like to orange pill friends and family.
• 55:52
  And if anybody's ever done that, I'm sure they would have
• 55:55
  experienced the fact that they've helped somebody set up a
• 55:57
  wallet and then that person has not backed up their seed, may or
• 56:00
  may not have sent some Sats into there.
• 56:02
  And then they come back a year or two later and go, yeah,
• 56:05
  remember when you helped me set that Bitcoin wallet up?
• 56:07
  Yeah, I've lost that seed and those Sats are completely lost
• 56:11
  if you were to do that. But instead of allowing to
• 56:13
  generate a new seed, you could come in here and generate a new
• 56:15
  key for them and help them set that wallet up.
• 56:18
  That way you can back that seed up for them so that, you know,
• 56:22
  if they go and do that newbie thing and they don't back that
• 56:24
  show up, then you can help them and save them in the future.
• 56:27
  So that those couple of million Sats that they populated that
• 56:30
  wallet with and then forgot about and you can help them redo
• 56:33
  that. Of course this is a trusted
• 56:35
  relationship. You know you're not going to do
• 56:37
  that for some Brando on Twitter. You know it's very much for
• 56:39
  friends and family. But very quickly I show you how
• 56:42
  quick it is to do that. So you choose new key, you then
• 56:45
  get an option to do a 12/24 or a gnostic key.
• 56:48
  Yet you can generate gnostic keys on passport.
• 56:52
  You can give it a name. So again we would normally
• 56:55
  advise that the purpose for this.
• 56:56
  So it might be mom's Bitcoin seed or it might be my blue
• 57:00
  wallet. I can use this for myself to
• 57:01
  populate a blue wallet seed, give it a name, it immediately
• 57:06
  saves it to the device and then I can just go to export and
• 57:10
  there we go. I've got four different methods
• 57:12
  that I can export this. I can view the seed words just
• 57:15
  like that and then type them into the device, That or
• 57:18
  application that I'm using. Or I can use the CQR format so
• 57:23
  that I can scan that into another passport, or into a seat
• 57:27
  signer or a block stream, jade or spiral wallet, anything
• 57:30
  that's compatible with that standard.
• 57:31
  Or finally, I can export them to the SD card once again, which
• 57:34
  goes into the top of the device and I can just pass that across
• 57:38
  to a computer or phone and that will just contain the seed
• 57:40
  bridge which I can copy and paste into whichever app that I
• 57:44
  want to use. So guys, I know that was very,
• 57:46
  very quick and this I could sit here for hours to talk to you
• 57:49
  guys about Passport, but maybe I'll hand it over to you guys.
• 57:52
  Is there any questions or anything you want me to clarify
• 57:54
  before before we wrap up because I know we're kind of tight on
• 57:57
  time. So apologies that that was such
• 57:59
  a whirlwind toll. Yeah, so, so it was great.
• 58:02
  First of all for we got a couple questions in the chat.
• 58:05
  So Neo 101 he says he's sold. How much is the device?
• 58:10
  It's 199 U.S. dollars with free shipping if you're in the US,
• 58:14
  with a discount for Bitcoin. By the way, it's slightly
• 58:16
  cheaper if you're paying Sats. I love that you guys.
• 58:19
  You could use the QR code, you could use the QR code I'm
• 58:23
  pulling up on the screen right now, or you could use the link
• 58:27
  down in the video description. It'll take you directly.
• 58:30
  To the Foundation devices website where you can get
• 58:32
  yourself a passport. Now question question, would you
• 58:36
  address this? But just to be specific for
• 58:38
  anyone who's non-technical, this is compatible with all Bitcoin
• 58:44
  walls. So for example, the Sparrow, the
• 58:46
  Electrum wallet, the, you know, this wallet is compatible with
• 58:50
  them, correct? Yeah, absolutely.
• 58:52
  So we we operate on the Bit 39 standard which is those 12 or 24
• 58:56
  seed words that that everybody here will be familiar with if
• 58:59
  they've ever set up a semi decent Bitcoin wallet.
• 59:02
  So you can take those seed words, you know if you decide
• 59:05
  that you don't want to use passport in the future or you
• 59:07
  want to or you lose your passport and you want to recover
• 59:09
  elsewhere any wallet that speaks the bit 39 language which is
• 59:14
  essentially all of the good ones that you've ever heard of, you
• 59:17
  can pop those seed words in. You're not tied into anything
• 59:19
  that we do ever. That's by design in terms of
• 59:22
  wallet connectivity, yet we speak to all of these.
• 59:24
  You can see on screen Bitcoin Core, Bitcoin Keeper, Blue
• 59:27
  Wallet, BTC, Pay, Casa, Electro, Nunchuck, Simple Bitcoin Wallet,
• 59:31
  Sparrow, Spectre, Wasabi and obviously we're actively working
• 59:35
  on on more integrations as and when new wallets pop up, which
• 59:39
  thankfully happens all the time. Awesome.
• 59:41
  And then another thing that I wanted to ask you about is how
• 59:43
  do people trust the wallet, right.
• 59:45
  So like, you know, how do people trust the software that it's
• 59:49
  running? Could you talk a little bit
• 59:51
  about the open source nature of the Passport?
• 59:55
  Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the short answer is that
• 59:58
  they don't need to trust it. But yeah, let me pad that out a
• 1:00:00
  little bit. I mean, everything that we do at
• 1:00:02
  Foundation is open source. So the mobile application, open
• 1:00:05
  source, the software that runs on Passport, completely open
• 1:00:09
  source. You can go in, you can read
• 1:00:10
  every single line of that. You can even copy that and make
• 1:00:13
  a product and sell it if you want to, if you're technical
• 1:00:16
  enough to do that. And all of our software builds
• 1:00:19
  are fully reproducible, which is a fairly technical term, but it
• 1:00:22
  just means that it's easy to verify every single byte and
• 1:00:25
  reproduce the exact same firmware, byte for byte or
• 1:00:28
  software byte for byte, just by running a few simple commands.
• 1:00:32
  So that makes it easier to check that the firmware that's running
• 1:00:35
  on your device is the one that we actually published.
• 1:00:38
  And the final thing worth mentioning is that when we build
• 1:00:44
  these devices in a factory, we install some cryptographic
• 1:00:46
  secrets on there, such that if anybody was to steal your device
• 1:00:50
  or even just get temporary access to it and try to install
• 1:00:53
  some malicious firmware onto the device, unless that firmware has
• 1:00:58
  been signed cryptographically by two of the four private keys
• 1:01:02
  that our developer team own, the device ain't going to do it.
• 1:01:06
  So we've got protections kind of all the way from start to
• 1:01:09
  finish. And even thereafter, once you
• 1:01:11
  know once you've got your device, you've set it up, it's
• 1:01:14
  not impossible to to get any malicious software onto this
• 1:01:16
  device. So we've kind of thought of
• 1:01:18
  everything, but tried to wrap it in a completely open or
• 1:01:22
  verifiable package that looks decent and is easy to use as
• 1:01:26
  well. Gotcha.
• 1:01:27
  And I want to be mindful of your time, but I have one more
• 1:01:29
  question. And I'm sure that a lot of
• 1:01:30
  people you know run into this which is they are not technical,
• 1:01:35
  they have no experience you know backing up their Bitcoin, sorry,
• 1:01:40
  taking self custody of their Bitcoin.
• 1:01:42
  You guys offer a service, an onboarding service.
• 1:01:46
  Could you talk a little bit about that and how people could,
• 1:01:50
  could, could could access that, how how they could book a call
• 1:01:53
  potentially to take self custody of your of their?
• 1:01:56
  Bitcoin, cuz I know you guys offer that.
• 1:01:59
  Yeah, for sure. Yeah, so that's called our
• 1:02:00
  concierge service. So you can add that to your car
• 1:02:03
  when you're purchasing passport, or you can purchase additional
• 1:02:06
  sessions whenever you like, even if you've had your passport for
• 1:02:09
  two years. Just feel free to head to our
• 1:02:12
  website and book in a session. And the way that these sessions
• 1:02:15
  work essentially is you get an hour sometimes.
• 1:02:18
  It's more if we need it to sit down with me and we literally go
• 1:02:22
  from turn your passport on for the very, very first time, all
• 1:02:25
  the way through to connecting it to a wallet software of your
• 1:02:28
  choice. It doesn't necessarily have to
• 1:02:30
  be envoy and then we can help you get your Sats off the
• 1:02:33
  exchange, what you through your first send transaction,
• 1:02:37
  literally anything that you're uncomfortable with.
• 1:02:39
  You know these calls are perfect for that.
• 1:02:41
  You know it doesn't necessarily have to be a full on boarding,
• 1:02:44
  that's generally how they work. But I've had people come over to
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  me and you know want to learn how to set it with Sparrow so
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  they can coin join directly to cold storage.
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  Like it's not a predefined thing, it's like very much your
• 1:02:54
  time. So if you want to sit down.
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  It's very unique to the situation, right?
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  To the level of expertise of the client and all that.
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  Yeah, I always, I always start those calls.
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  The very first thing I do is say, right, Okay, tell me a
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  little bit about yourself. You know, roughly where are you
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  at with your Bitcoin journey and what do you want to get out of
• 1:03:12
  this call? Like, there's no rigid
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  structure. It's just a case of what you
• 1:03:16
  need to get out of this call. Let's crack on and do it.
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  Gotcha. That's awesome man.
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  Well, love, I love what you guys are doing.
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  We're a big fan. We're big supporter of the
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  Passport by foundation devices guys.
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  Scan the QR code on your screen, take you directly to the
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  website. You can get yourself a Passport
• 1:03:31
  Opti and I Opti and I have our pair.
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  I actually have a story. I have the original founders
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  edition of the first Passport that came out.
• 1:03:39
  I have known Zach for quite a while and his entrepreneur
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  journey. So I'm a big, very, really happy
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  to to partner with you guys. There it is.
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  There it is. There it is.
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  Is that the copper? She's a copper background.
• 1:03:53
  She's a bit thicker than the new one, but yeah, the OG limited to
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  1000 units, so might be a collector's item one day.
• 1:04:01
  Yeah, absolutely, 100%. Well, a Bitcoin Q&A.
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  Thank you so much for joining us today, man.
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  We really, really appreciate your time and for you doing this
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  awesome demo and simply Bitcoin Live.
• 1:04:12
  I don't think we've ever done this before, Opti, but it looks
• 1:04:15
  like the audience is enjoying it, enjoying it.
• 1:04:17
  We have 50 live. On Rumble.
• 1:04:19
  So shout out to her. Rumble keeps going up.
• 1:04:22
  It's awesome. It's like Bitcoin.
• 1:04:23
  So shout out to you guys watching on Rumble.
• 1:04:25
  Shout out to you guys watching on YouTube.
• 1:04:27
  Before we go, before we get out of here, I just want to like
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  acknowledge just how pretty these things are.
• 1:04:32
  Like I know people are in the chat trolling a little bit that
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  they look like Nokia's, but I think it's such a great design
• 1:04:39
  decision to make it seem like something that people are used
• 1:04:43
  to. So kudos to you guys.
• 1:04:44
  It's it's absolutely gorgeous. I I think these things are
• 1:04:47
  pretty and then shouts out the she.
• 1:04:48
  Because he's one of the biggest passport Maxis in the world and
• 1:04:52
  he's one of our good friends. So love that guy.
• 1:04:55
  Keep doing your words. Yeah.
• 1:04:56
  No, thank you very much for having me, guys.
• 1:04:58
  It was an absolute pleasure to get to talk even briefly about
• 1:05:00
  passport. And thank you very much for
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  doing what you do and spreading the good word.
• 1:05:05
  It's been an absolute pleasure. Yeah, when Q&A.
• 1:05:07
  I know you have to go right now, but maybe tell the people where
• 1:05:10
  they can find you on Twitter or what do you wanna have the
• 1:05:14
  people look at? Yeah, sure, obviously check out
• 1:05:16
  what we do. foundationdevices.com You can
• 1:05:19
  follow me on Twitter at Bitcoin Q under Dash A.
• 1:05:22
  And I'm on Lost. If you just search for Q&A, I'm
• 1:05:25
  sure I'll probably come up there as well.
• 1:05:28
  Love it bro. Awesome, appreciate it.
• 1:05:30
  Check out this comment from Conformatist.
• 1:05:32
  Passport is literally the best wall in the market.
• 1:05:34
  All the hardcore privacy guys use it now and we got a.
• 1:05:39
  He's not trolling. Conformist is not trolling.
• 1:05:41
  And also from Wayfinder. Great demo guys.
• 1:05:44
  Thanks for the awesome show. Shout out Bitcoin cutie.
• 1:05:46
  I know you're used to one on ones, maybe not a hundreds of
• 1:05:49
  people live demo, but we really appreciate it man.
• 1:05:53
  Thank you so much for joining us.
• 1:05:54
  Thank you, guys. Cheers.
• 1:05:56
  All right everybody. I hope.
• 1:05:58
  I hope that was valuable. I hope you guys learn something.
• 1:06:01
  This thing is awesome. Anyways, Opti is it.
• 1:06:04
  Is it time for some memes, bro? I think it's time for some
• 1:06:06
  memes. All right, it's time for some
• 1:06:08
  memes. Let's do it.
• 1:06:12
  The Daily meme review. All right.
• 1:06:20
  Oh, man, this was Darth going right?
• 1:06:22
  That did. This man, this was likes.
• 1:06:24
  This was likes. Was it?
• 1:06:27
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right guys, you already know
• 1:06:30
  the deal. This is the meme review where
• 1:06:33
  you guys tag us in memes on Twitter at simply Bitcoin TV or
• 1:06:37
  my personal account. I'm getting more of those at
• 1:06:40
  Optimist Fields or drop them in our Telegram group.
• 1:06:43
  T dot me slash simply Bitcoin TV.
• 1:06:46
  Like this one that we got today. As you guys know, tweets of the
• 1:06:49
  bullets meme to the artillery. We are in an information war,
• 1:06:52
  and now they're even telling us. Overtly that we are in an
• 1:06:57
  information war. Straight up.
• 1:06:59
  That is like, literally, bro, we should clip that.
• 1:07:02
  We should literally clip that. Nico I I used to say that on
• 1:07:05
  here when I first started saying like we're in information war.
• 1:07:08
  This is the importance of the meme.
• 1:07:09
  This is important to spreading the truth again.
• 1:07:11
  It's almost like the Bitcoin or slavery meme.
• 1:07:13
  It seemed hyperbolic and now they're even saying it
• 1:07:16
  themselves. Guys like bitcoins are just.
• 1:07:19
  Always ahead of the curve. Anyways, this 1st meme, it was a
• 1:07:23
  play on. I'm sure you guys saw Darth
• 1:07:25
  Coin's meme yesterday about Niko G and Ali G Well they doubled
• 1:07:30
  down on it. Yesterday we covered the Robert
• 1:07:32
  Kiyosaki news and so they put Niko actually old Niko without
• 1:07:36
  the blue blockers on and it goes.
• 1:07:39
  It's a picture of Niko with with one of the voice boxings and it
• 1:07:42
  goes gold is a shit coin. And then they got Robert
• 1:07:44
  Kiyosaki. You try Herbalife.
• 1:07:47
  I'm guessing he was chilling Herbalife.
• 1:07:49
  I don't know. I I really don't know.
• 1:07:51
  I can't keep up with all the internet's OK.
• 1:07:53
  This next one is by our boy world of Rusty and he just goes.
• 1:07:57
  Watching today's Simply Bitcoin episode was like and they got
• 1:08:01
  Nico's face here painted with the Braveheart blue on it and
• 1:08:04
  go. Big.
• 1:08:05
  Coin. Wait, I felt this one.
• 1:08:12
  I felt this one. I might have to rewatch
• 1:08:14
  Braveheart again anyways. This next one was posted by
• 1:08:17
  Stacking News. Yeah, this was posted by
• 1:08:21
  Stacking News, but apparently it's at Need Creations on
• 1:08:24
  Twitter shouts out to you and it goes.
• 1:08:27
  It's a classic Simpson meme where the grandpa Grandpa
• 1:08:30
  Simpson is sitting here talking to the kids.
• 1:08:32
  I forget what his name is, I forget.
• 1:08:34
  Anyways, it goes back in my day. The man pool cleared all the
• 1:08:36
  time and actually I saw a good clip on this one by Stefan
• 1:08:41
  Laveria and he's like the man pool was full and people are
• 1:08:44
  worried about the security budget.
• 1:08:46
  Couldn't make this up guys. Shit corners in disbelief.
• 1:08:49
  Okay. This next one was posted by
• 1:08:51
  Clucky's on Twitter at Clucky's under score and I was tagged by
• 1:08:55
  Donovan. Shouts out to you for tagging me
• 1:08:57
  Donovan and. But I'm not sure I I feel like
• 1:09:00
  this is a Ding Dong 3001 meme but we'll we'll give it to
• 1:09:04
  Clucky's and he goes print books, not money.
• 1:09:06
  Hashtag by Bitcoin. And we got a picture here of
• 1:09:09
  Johann Gutenberg and it goes print books, not money by
• 1:09:12
  Bitcoin. This is the way guys spread the
• 1:09:15
  truth. Spread the signal, create the
• 1:09:17
  content. Make sure the normies understand
• 1:09:19
  what's going on. Make sure they understand that
• 1:09:21
  it's all about the money. It's always been about the
• 1:09:26
  money. Now take your money back.
• 1:09:27
  Take your life back. Take your labor back.
• 1:09:30
  This is the way. Stop the parasites from
• 1:09:33
  siphoning away your well okay. This next one is by Big Sean
• 1:09:36
  Harris and he just got the meditating emoji here.
• 1:09:40
  And it's a classic play on the girlfriend yelling at her Chad
• 1:09:43
  boyfriend. And the girl was crying.
• 1:09:45
  She goes, babe please pay attention to me and the Chad
• 1:09:48
  Bitcoin over here goes there is Bitcoin to buy in a whole
• 1:09:50
  political cartel to dismantle. So no I cannot give you
• 1:09:54
  attention OK the next one is my at VDC under score archive and
• 1:10:01
  he says I see hashtag Bitcoin everywhere.
• 1:10:03
  And I I don't know how they're doing these, but I'm guessing
• 1:10:07
  it's like a I generated. But we have a girl walking in
• 1:10:10
  what looks like Central Park. And she's a she's a fashionista
• 1:10:16
  with two bags. But if you read between the
• 1:10:19
  lines, she looks like the Bitcoin logo.
• 1:10:21
  Bitcoin is everywhere. Bitcoin is ubiquitous with the
• 1:10:24
  modern world, and people are waking up to it.
• 1:10:27
  And this last one, not necessarily a Bitcoin name, but
• 1:10:30
  I don't know, I felt like this was a good.
• 1:10:32
  Could mean to come up here on the show with and this is Live
• 1:10:35
  Free 1969. Don't really even know the
• 1:10:37
  account but he goes good morning and your daily reminder to learn
• 1:10:40
  something every day and don't forget to lift heavy things.
• 1:10:43
  And we got a quote here for Marcus Aurelius and he goes The
• 1:10:46
  opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows
• 1:10:49
  anything about the subject. Dang, I felt that one.
• 1:10:54
  I think it's it's pretty fitting considering all the news coming
• 1:10:57
  out from all the bureaucracies anyways.
• 1:11:03
  You got you. You go first, Nico.
• 1:11:05
  Oh, wait, no, I did. I'm sorry.
• 1:11:07
  Go. What is this?
• 1:11:08
  What's your mean review? But yeah.
• 1:11:10
  We do feel like we are in an information war.
• 1:11:13
  We said it first. We said it first.
• 1:11:18
  Yeah. That's my score.
• 1:11:20
  What's your score all? Right.
• 1:11:21
  My score was I I thought I didn't bring your score, but I
• 1:11:24
  did prepare. I got a Clementine right here.
• 1:11:27
  Delicious. Are they mandarins?
• 1:11:30
  Is this Mandarin? I don't know.
• 1:11:32
  A little orange, Clementine. Mandarin.
• 1:11:34
  I don't know what's the difference.
• 1:11:36
  It's a Mandarin. Whatever.
• 1:11:38
  Anyways guys, before we get to the score, I don't even know
• 1:11:41
  dude, I have no I'm genuinely asking cuz I don't know guys
• 1:11:44
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  All right, everybody. Wait, wait, I'm going full Nico,
• 1:12:21
  I'm eating on stream. All right, go for it.
• 1:12:23
  Go for it. First score from Elaine.
• 1:12:26
  Score. The self custody war has begun.
• 1:12:28
  Haha. No contact.
• 1:12:30
  Opti told you. It's over.
• 1:12:32
  Chrissy, get a clue. OK, very nice.
• 1:12:34
  Wait. Wait, is it too much if I hit
• 1:12:36
  the horns after every score? I had an epiphany yesterday.
• 1:12:39
  I gave the memes a real Nokia turned hardware wallet.
• 1:12:46
  We can't do that. Opti's physically armed army of
• 1:12:50
  memers first. Score.
• 1:12:51
  First the parasites admit there isflation, Then they admit they
• 1:12:54
  are an information war for your mind.
• 1:12:57
  Then they admit they're absolutely going to enslave you.
• 1:13:00
  Stay regarded Stacks. That's OK.
• 1:13:02
  Wow, that's an air horn. That's an air horn.
• 1:13:08
  All right. Son of Satoshi Meme Score
• 1:13:10
  Meditations by Art Marcus Aurelius.
• 1:13:12
  Read it. Yes, I I highly recommend it.
• 1:13:14
  Absolutely. Why don't you guys promote seed
• 1:13:16
  signer? Because they don't endure.
• 1:13:18
  I we have we've literally had seed signer on the show multiple
• 1:13:22
  times bro. So just go look at her episode
• 1:13:25
  my. Friends, them every time I talk
• 1:13:26
  about we. Literally promote.
• 1:13:28
  Like everything. Anyone who's pushing Bitcoin and
• 1:13:31
  Bitcoin only, we literally have had them on the show.
• 1:13:35
  Kim Gage Meme score Is it just me, or is Nico slowly morphing
• 1:13:39
  into John? Perhaps Dr. Surge Meme Score?
• 1:13:45
  A rapid stream of information Bullets.
• 1:13:48
  OK, OK, are we? We got.
• 1:13:52
  A lot in here. All right, whatever.
• 1:13:55
  We hit the buzzer. It's cuz we're out of time bro.
• 1:13:58
  It's cuz we're out of time. It's cuz we're out of time.
• 1:14:00
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• 1:14:35
  I have to go. To go do some family things.
• 1:14:38
  I'll make the announcement very, very soon, but opti's gonna.
• 1:14:41
  Be holding it. I know Opti's gonna be holding
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• 1:14:47
  be a great episode. Love you all.
• 1:14:48
  See you guys on Monday. Opti will be back tomorrow.
• 1:14:50
  Peace out, y'all. You know Wednesdays?
• 1:15:09
  Throw me off. I I I completely forgot we're
• 1:15:12
  going into Twitter spaces for a moment anyways.
• 1:15:15
  Anyways, what a show. I think we had a simply Bitcoin
• 1:15:19
  first Nico and I need to get like a full setup.
• 1:15:22
  Maybe I need to get a setup so that I can do some demo merges.
• 1:15:25
  I'm off to talk with BTC sessions.
• 1:15:28
  I must have to talk with Ben so that we can.
• 1:15:31
  Get some some more demos on the show without all you guys
• 1:15:35
  ruining them in Telegram. I know.