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Bitcoin HIJACKS The World Economic Forum!! | EP 1423 · Simply Bitcoin

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  This year's 2026 World Economic Forum is very different to prior
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  years. Last year, nobody really said
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  much about Bitcoin on the mainstage, but this year we have
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  Donald Trump in his highly anticipated speech saying the
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  reasons why US needed to adopt Bitcoin before China.
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  We also have his son Eric Trump saying that the big banks are
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  actively trying to destroy the Bitcoin Clarity Act.
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  And we have something we thought we'd never see at Tabos.
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  Brian Armstrong defending Bitcoin from an attack from the
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  chair of the Bank of International Settlements.
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  I have a lot of clips for you guys today, so let's get into
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  it. First one, I'm actually going to
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  play a couple Brian Armstrong's clips for you guys, but I want
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  to start with this one. I think this sets the stage for
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  everything that I'm going to play afterwards for you.
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  This is a part of that conversation debate we had with
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  Brian Armstrong and a chairman of the Bank of International
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  Settlements. I'm going to play you the longer
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  clip in the numbers because I I think that's a really good clip
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  as well. But this sets the stage.
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  Here we go. People think about our current
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  financial system as kind of sacrosanct, and it's the only
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  way to do it. But, you know, if you study the
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  history of money, really it's got created in like 1971 when
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  Nixon went off the gold standard in the US And we currently have
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  the system where most central banks don't have any link to a
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  hard commodity underneath. I think Fiat currencies are
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  going to continue to exist for a long time.
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  But we're also seeing the birth of a new monetary system that I
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  would call the Bitcoin standard instead of the gold standard.
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  And in the crypto space, that is a return to, you know, sound
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  money and something that is inflation resistant because
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  democracies around the world, once we came off the gold
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  standard, are struggling to balance their budget.
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  They're all running deficits. And it's caused inflation in
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  Fiat currencies. And so there is a real segment
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  of the population that is looking for a new system based
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  on hard money. Well, it may have taken Brian
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  Armstrong 16 years ago full Bitcoin maxi at Davos World
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  Economic Forum, but he's literally talking about the
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  Bitcoin standard. And this is the speech that I'm
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  going to play you the longer clip that really made the rounds
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  where there is A at like an aggressive debate here.
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  But it is very interesting. I saw a lot of conversation
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  about the specific date 1971. We had Ursa von der Leyen saying
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  something very similar about the 1971 date.
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  Of course there has been this conversation around Fiat
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  currencies, but we're going to start with first just
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  acknowledging Brian Armstrong talking about Bitcoin positively
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  at the World Economic Forum, Which it's he's kind of been on
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  some giga Chad levels the last couple of days.
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  He he's been going pretty hard. He's been saying very nice
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  things around Bitcoin. It is hard to trust Brian
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  Armstrong and Coinbase in general, but the recent rhetoric
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  is pretty good considering, you know, he's actually maybe it's
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  like a bear market thing. That's usually how it goes in my
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  yeah, the shit corners usually come out.
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  They start saying nice things about Bitcoin and then once it
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  starts pumping, they start saying, you know, Bitcoin and
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  shit coins. Maybe that's where we we are
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  right now, but I don't know. The narrative shift from 2026 to
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  2025. I think it's completely
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  different. I don't remember too much
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  conversations last year at the World Economic Forum around
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  Bitcoin. I do remember JP, sorry, Jamie
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  Dimon saying like, I'm never going to talk about Bitcoin
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  again. We did have Larry Fink kind of
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  pumping his bags with the ETFs. Now it seems like almost every
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  other conversation at the World Economic Forum is talking about
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  Bitcoin or digital assets and cryptocurrencies in general.
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  And they've really, really fundamentally shifted their view
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  on energy use this year specifically because of AI.
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  It, it just it, it's kind of, it's kind of, I'm not surprised
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  to see it. I didn't bring up, I don't know
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  if you guys saw, but the Howard Leutnik video, another Bitcoiner
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  talking about the end of globalism.
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  Some of these conversations are at least from the US
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  perspective, or rather from US people, representatives.
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  They're they're kind of on point.
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  So let's start here. I do have Donald Trump and his
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  son and we'll chat about it a little more.
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  But Nico, what's your thoughts on Brian Armstrong being
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  actually positive on Bitcoin? I mean, it's not surprising, you
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  know, he does represent, you know, the largest publicly
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  traded Bitcoin exchange and altcoin exchange in the United
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  States. So you know, it's the enemy of
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  your enemy is your friend type of situation.
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  You know, like he is going to bat against the globalist, he is
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  going against to bat against the central bankers, against people
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  that believe in the future of Fiat.
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  So, you know, even though our our incentives don't completely
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  align and Brian Armstrong isn't a through and through Bitcoin
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  maxi, he still kind of represents the broader crypto
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  industry, right? And that's why he's, you know,
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  at least advocating, you know, for an alternative.
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  And you know, the enemy of your enemy is your friend in this
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  type of situation. That's what I really see with
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  Brian Armstrong in this case is that, you know, his incentives
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  are aligned with us Bitcoiners and he's willing to say that.
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  And Davos and another thing I've been telling you guys all year
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  as well is if you're not in the room, you're not in the deal.
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  And like what bigger room to be at than like Davos?
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  Like the this is like the same conference or forum that we used
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  to say, like if the Bitcoin conference was the conference
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  for Bitcoiners, the Davos forum was the conference for central
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  bank digital currencies. Like when Bitcoin, when simply
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  Bitcoin was edgy, that's what we used to say.
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  And now, like you literally have someone representing the Bitcoin
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  industry at Davos, you know, you know, on the news desk that they
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  have with all the bankers. And I got to say too, like the
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  Trump speech this morning was, was quite interesting.
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  So they got rid of Klaus, our our friend Klaus, right?
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  You eat the bugs, you own nothing and be happy.
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  And they had Larry Fink, right? But Larry Fink in Donald Trump's
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  handshake was, it was quite interesting.
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  A lot was said that wasn't said, you know, So I got to point that
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  out. That's what I got to point out.
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  I also got to point out that, you know, he just went up there
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  and just kept dropping like bazookas, bro.
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  He just kept dropping pineapples left and right, like, like big
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  pointy pineapples. Because he just kept saying
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  like, you know, America's number one, we've closed the border.
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  I don't really give a flying F about anywhere else around the
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  world. America's dope.
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  We crushed it. It was it's the one year
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  anniversary since I got sword into president twice.
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  He was dropping bombs left and right, dude.
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  And I got to be honest, like I'm all about that.
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  I like that. I like that, you know, I like
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  that I'm more more in that direction.
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  All right, all right, well, Speaking of Trump, let's play
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  the the portion of his conversation, or rather his
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  speech that he did hit on Bitcoin.
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  It's going to open up a whole other can of worms.
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  Actually, Nico, did I, I obviously you caught this whole
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  speech, but he did confirm a lot of the things that we've said
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  about why they embrace Bitcoin before he actually said it out
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  loud. So let let's play it and then,
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  and then we'll chat about it. To unleash innovation and
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  savings and financing. I'm also working to ensure
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  America remains the crypto capital of the world.
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  And to that end, last year I signed the landmark Genius Act
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  into law. Now Congress is working very
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  hard on crypto market structure, legislation, Bitcoin, all of
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  them, which I hope to sign very soon, unlocking new pathways for
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  Americans to reach financial freedom.
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  And I did it for two reasons. Number one, I thought it was
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  politically good, and it was. I got tremendous political
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  report support. But more importantly, China
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  wanted that market too. It's just like they want the AI
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  and we've got that market, I think pretty well locked up.
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  If I didn't do it, You know, Biden was totally against it
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  until before the election when they realized that, you know,
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  there were millions of people voting against him over crypto.
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  And all of a sudden they loved it very much, but it was too
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  late. They blew it.
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  But it is politically popular. But it's it's much more
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  importantly. We have to make it so that China
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  doesn't get the hold of it. And once they have that hold,
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  we're not going to be able to get it back.
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  I mean, dude, what? We've said that multiple times
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  on the show before. I mean tomorrow's Bitcoin used
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  today hashtag simply Bitcoin. Yeah, bro, I mean, it's, it's
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  not surprising. It is surprising, but it's not
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  surprising. It is, it is surprising.
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  It's not surprising. We called it.
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  We definitely called it. But yeah, I mean, it just goes
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  down to incentives, like fundamentally, right.
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  And you know, the fact that this is even being brought up in
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  Davos in like a positive light, I think it's a major milestone.
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  The only thing that I'm just waiting for is the effing price
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  bro. That's the only thing I'm
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  waiting. For still getting bearish.
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  Amazing, that's. The only thing I'm waiting for,
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  right? Like, you know, like, like
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  Bitcoin is, is being fought for in Davos by Brian and Trump.
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  And you know, and normally if these things would have
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  happened, the price would have ripped like 50% by now.
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  Dude, like in the 2017 era, like with these dude, like the price
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  was ripping off rumors, bro, do you remember that?
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  Like it? Was a rumor.
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  It was like a. Rumor that like a bank was
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  involved and like the price would RIP like 50%.
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  You know that's not the case anymore.
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  No, not at all. And and we've had so much good
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  news and nothing's happened. It's been crazy, though.
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  I, I like you said, I think the significance of this speech,
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  like everyone was at the World Economic Forum, just like
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  waiting for Trump to talk. Like I think the whole room was
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  packed. He, you know, he's up there just
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  like Trump in, in full, you know, Don Teflon Don mode out
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  there. And I think the fact that he
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  even brought up Bitcoin on that world stage, I, I think it like
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  the significance might be lost on more people.
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  It's like, OK, we've heard him say this before.
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  But again, again, this is a huge departure from what we've seen
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  in the World Economic forums in the past, where usually, as Nico
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  said, we would always joke that the Bitcoin Magazine conference
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  was the real Bitcoin conference. That was the Fiat CBDC
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  conference. And now there's Bitcoin being
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  talked about on the mainstage in front of, quote, UN quote, the
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  most powerful people in the world.
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  And he felt the need to be like, yeah, This is why we're doing
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  Bitcoin. Not only was it politically a
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  smart move, but we don't want China to be #1 which, you know,
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  there's still the whole of, like China's been saying we can't be
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  Trump's political scapegoat, etcetera, etcetera.
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  And Trump's like, yeah, it doesn't matter.
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  Like we want Bitcoin. You're not going to get Bitcoin.
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  And then he did bring up the, you know, the Financial Clarity
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  Act or the Financial Markup bill.
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  What, what was it? Financial market markup,
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  financial structure? I'm blanking on what it is right
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  now today. Anyways, he's talking about the
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  fact that they're they're working on it again.
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  We did see a clip on CNBC Squawk Box of David Sacks, the
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  Cryptozar, essentially saying if this Clarity Act passes, he
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  expects all banks to essentially go in.
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  We did get a kind of slightly different tune from Eric Trump,
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  which is the clip that I do want to play, which does kind of
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  align with what we've been hearing from Brian Armstrong
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  again of Coinbase, that the big banks are fighting this bill.
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  So we'll see where this ends up, but let's hear what Eric Trump
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  has to say. I mean, the, the big banks have
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  been an absolute monopoly of our financial system for for years.
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  You and I have joked about it 1000 times.
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  You know, why can't you send a wire transfer past 5:00 on a on
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  a Friday afternoon? You know why?
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  Because the big banks would love to take, you know, hundreds of
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  billions of dollars and have it sit there and clip interest off
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  of it over the course of a long weekend.
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  You know, as as opposed to Lane, you just efficiently move that
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  money using modern day technology, you know, and having
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  this separate wallet 2 seconds later.
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  They they want to be able to use their money, they want to be
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  able to arbitrage their money. And so, you know, the big banks
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  are doing everything they can to stop some of the crypto
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  legislation for obvious reasons. Why should.
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  Well, it's looking like the World Economic Forum has now
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  just become a Bitcoin conference.
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  I actually, I saw this interesting screenshot.
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  Sonico, take this. I I want to pull the screenshot
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  that I saw, but let let's combine all of this, what we're
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  hearing coming out of the World Economic Forum.
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  Where are we in the movie now? What is your take on this?
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  We are in the process of being Co opted.
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  I think like, I think what we wanted as bitcoiners for so long
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  is for Bitcoin to be embraced by trad fi and by governments.
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  Like that was the dream. Like we, we were all aspiring
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  for that to be true for like many, many years now.
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  And now that we got it, you know, it's like the
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  cypherpunkness of Bitcoin. It's, it's almost like as if
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  it's, it's faded a little bit, right?
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  And I don't think that's a good thing.
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  I think we got to remember our roots.
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  I think we got to remember like why we're here, what we're
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  fighting for and that's where we are in the movie.
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  And is Bitcoin going to survive this attack because it is an
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  attack. I, I was seeing our boy from the
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  Bitcoin way posting this earlier this morning and he was
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  essentially talking about how like, look like self custody is
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  the only way. And I was at Bitcoin day in
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  Naples over the weekend and me and Gary Cardone, we're just
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  going back and forth and I was advocating for self custody.
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  And he's like, look, like I'm, I'm worth a bunch of money and
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  I'm just not going to like stamp that those words into a piece of
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  metal and buried in my backyard, right?
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  And you have a lot of people that are thinking this way.
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  But ultimately I think that if the majority of Bitcoin is not
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  held in self custody, I think Bitcoin fails.
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  And maybe that's a very like unpopular opinion, but I think
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  it's 100% true. Like we had Chris, who was a
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  hedge fund, a hedge fund manager, worked in the Bitcoin
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  space for a long time now extremely smart.
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  And we point blank asked him Opti.
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  We said, hey, like is Bitcoin has been Bitcoin been Co opted?
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  And he's like, yeah, dude, absolutely.
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  And there's chemtrails in the in the in the sky, right?
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  Like one thing after the other. Yeah, that that James O'Keefe
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  video was pretty crazy. But you know, he, he called it
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  and, and he was able to like explain it in a very kind of
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  like financially literate way, 'cause that's his background and
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  he explained the mechanism as to, you know, why and how that
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  was happening, right? So, you know, that's my take on
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  all this. OK, all right.
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  Did you catch this screenshot though?
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  Let me let me pull this up, guys.
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  Check out this screenshot. Apparently this was at Is it up?
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  Oh, wrong way. Also, you guys are going to want
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  to stay tuned because in the next segment, guys, we're going
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  to rumble only and we got our boy Bitcoin Ben waiting in the
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  wings. So you guys are going to want to
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  stay tuned for that because it's going to be fantastic anyways,
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  Opti. OK, all right, I guess we're
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  we're we're just going to go straight into rumble only here
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  today. OK, awesome.
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  All right, look at look at this screenshot here guys, check this
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  out. So this is from Melissa Chen and
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  she says I took a picture of this slide at the World Economic
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  Forum meeting and it shows you why.
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  It outlines the key building blocks that together form an
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  quote operating system for the 4th industrial revolution.
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  AI is the central most powerful driver, hence it's on on top
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  though, if you zoom in here let me zoom in here you can see you
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  know World Economic Forum on top we got drones, autonomous
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  vehicles, precision medicine, environment up top we have AI,
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  machine learning we have. Ben's in the house, Opti.
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  Oh, uh oh. Do it.
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  Do I have to shut it off now? Am I shutting off now?
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  OK, OK. And then we have digital trade
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  and cross-border flows, We have data policy, Internet of Things
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  and at the very bottom blockchain.
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  Now, of course, they're using The Dirty word of blockchain,
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  but it is very interesting that the very base of the fourth
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  industrial revolution. Now at the World Economic Forum,
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  they may have not said Bitcoin yet, but they are saying
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  blockchain, which I think is very interesting just to show
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  how far things have come. And though I do hear people in
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  our on our chat probably like, oh, I told you, dude, they want
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  to turn, they want to turn cash into digital currencies, bro.
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  And we're always like, yeah, but Bitcoin is, you know, they can't
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  control Bitcoin. They can probably control these
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  private blockchains here. So I see where they're coming
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  from, but also I this World Economic Forum now is just
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  sounding like a Bitcoin conference at this point.
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  It, it's kind of insane to me. I, I told.
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  You man, like I, I said, I, I told you, I said it very
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  clearly. I said, look, you know, five
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  years ago, six years ago, whatever it was, we were like
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  fighting, you know, we, we, we were, we were cypherpunks, man.
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  We were fighting for freedom. We were all about separation of
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  money and state and like over the last year or two since we've
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  got embraced by the political establishment.
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  Everyone is just saying, you know, whoop Dee Doo, right?
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  You know, you have politicians speaking at Bitcoin conferences,
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  which I thought was a historical milestone, but I'll I'll look
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  you know, again, maybe not enough data here to point this
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  out, but I will mention that look, ever since the
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  introduction of the Bitcoin ETF Opti, the volatility of Bitcoin
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  has been quite dampened a little bit, right.
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  Anyways, we got our boy Bitcoin Ben in the house.
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  I love how I love the the monthly special of having been
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  on. We're going to go completely
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  unfiltered and after the break and Ben's going to unleash.
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  But Ben, welcome to the show, man.
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  Hey, what's up Nico? How are you guys?
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  Thanks for joining us, man. So yeah, we're we're we're just
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  go ahead. I'm going to be nice.
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  Ish. Until we get over the rumble and
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  there's a lot to talk about. I mean, if it was up to me,
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  Trump would not actually be over in Switzerland and we would
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  just. Blow up that whole area.
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  Wow everyone. Metaphorically.
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  Metaphorically. Metaphorically, because it's,
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  it's these are the people at the root of our issues.
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  It's it if you want to know the elites, it's all of them.
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  Yeah. And the issue is they think that
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  they're doing good. But I got a question for you,
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  Ben. I got a question for you, Ben.
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  Are are they? Is it good that Bitcoin is being
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  included in these conversations now?
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  Oh, absolutely. Because it's they don't have a
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  choice now. It's it is the elephant in the
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  room and it's the elephant that they don't own.
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  That's that's what really bothers them.
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  If it was their elephant, they'd be like, oh, this is great.
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  No, this is awesome. But and don't let Larry I, I
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  usually call him a different word.
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  Larry Fink. He's he's a liar.
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  He's a liar just like the rest of them.
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  He he doesn't care about freedom.
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  He doesn't care that it's decentralized.
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  All he cares about is that BlackRock has some horse in that
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  race and that's it. It that's what BlackRock is.
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  They own a lot of a lot and but what we actually know is it's a
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  Trojan horse and don't the the price right now, it is on
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  purpose being held down. Well, let's talk about that
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  because you're not the first person who's told this this,
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  Ben, Like how, how are they doing this?
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  Because like I think all of us bitcoiners are feeling a certain
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  way with the recent price action.
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  Like we're trying to make sense of it.
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  We can't make sense of it. Like what's your take on that,
• 22:32
  Ben? Because it is, it is a little
• 22:35
  bit weird. It is a little bit strange.
• 22:39
  You know, the recent price action, I mean it, this thing's
• 22:41
  been going sideways for a year plus now.
• 22:44
  It's, let's look at it this way, all of us, we value the little
• 22:52
  amount of cash we have, although it's cash and it's junk because
• 22:58
  it's Fiat and all. We are at war with the people
• 23:04
  who print the money. They don't care if they if they
• 23:11
  lose money, it's if they win the war.
• 23:16
  So we are out here like, man, all right, I got $100, I'm going
• 23:21
  to buy $100 worth of Bitcoin. But these people will print
• 23:27
  money and go out and actually purchase a ton of Bitcoin, and
• 23:36
  then they'll sell it for a loss because it isn't about the
• 23:42
  money, it's about the control it it.
• 23:47
  If you had unlimited currency, you could just print it out of
• 23:55
  thin air, But you had something that was going to replace your
• 24:04
  your power system you've actually put in place.
• 24:10
  You would print money and you would go out.
• 24:15
  You'd actually buy it. And as soon as it went up some,
• 24:19
  yeah, you sell a bunch of it and then it drops because this is
• 24:25
  all human emotion. That's what they're really
• 24:29
  after. They want to make sure that all
• 24:34
  of us who have had these wild up and down prices, like, man, is
• 24:40
  it look, look at like 2013, 2014, 2016, 1718.
• 24:45
  Look at these price jumps. We're at incredible people
• 24:49
  making money everywhere. And then it goes flat.
• 24:53
  Just completely flat. Right now, temporarily, it is
• 25:00
  trapped in the corrupt washing machine where they'll let it go
• 25:06
  up some. Then as soon as they need an
• 25:09
  emotional and emotional reaction where we're just getting a
• 25:14
  little bit too happy, they slap it down.
• 25:18
  And then everyone's like, oh man, because that's how they get
• 25:24
  you. It's emotional.
• 25:26
  They know. Every single market is.
• 25:30
  When you look at a chart, what you're seeing is an EKG of human
• 25:41
  emotion. OK.
• 25:45
  That's what a chart is, is oh, we're excited.
• 25:49
  Oh, we're depressed. Oh, we're excited.
• 25:51
  Oh, we're depressed. And that that they know they can
• 25:57
  screw with all of us. And they have two things they're
• 26:04
  really working on right now. Number one, they want as few of
• 26:10
  us in this as possible because they know they only have a
• 26:14
  limited amount of time that they can hold this down.
• 26:19
  Because it is truly limited supply, they cannot print up
• 26:27
  some more Bitcoin, so they know they have a limited amount of
• 26:32
  time. So does Michael Saylor, though
• 26:35
  to all of these large players. So does BlackRock.
• 26:40
  They know they need to accumulate as much as possible
• 26:44
  as quick as possible without moving the price.
• 26:52
  Because when it when, when this thing hits and we're at a, we're
• 26:59
  at a, at a shock. The price is going to skyrocket
• 27:04
  and it's going to catch everyone off guard.
• 27:08
  No one's going to be prepared because we will have had half of
• 27:16
  everyone we know just walk away from Bitcoin.
• 27:20
  Yeah, yeah, It, it was fun while it lasted.
• 27:25
  Now it's just kind of bouncing along, you know, it's not really
• 27:28
  exciting it, it isn't AI, it isn't sexy anymore.
• 27:33
  It's just Bitcoin. Well, as soon as that emotion is
• 27:41
  as low as it can possibly go, that's when it takes off.
• 27:46
  Because they want us average Joes and average James.
• 27:53
  They know what this is. This is an economic, monetary,
• 27:58
  global network revolution. They know they can't slow it
• 28:02
  down. Tick tock.
• 28:05
  Next block. Suck my.
• 28:07
  And I'm just saying, all right, because and they, they, they
• 28:13
  know it like we know it, but they're, they're playing it
• 28:18
  cool. They're like, oh, you know,
• 28:21
  BlackRock, look how many, look how much Bitcoin BlackRock has.
• 28:26
  It isn't an accident that BlackRock as soon as they wanted
• 28:32
  an ETF, all of a sudden here comes Gary Suck my fucking
• 28:38
  Ginsler. And it was like, yeah, hey, you
• 28:44
  know, you know what would be a good idea?
• 28:46
  A Bitcoin ETF. Good.
• 28:49
  Thank you Larry, you piece of crap.
• 28:54
  Guys, we're going to go completely unfiltered go right
• 28:58
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• 29:00
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• 29:04
  We've been doing these, this is the second, the second episode,
• 29:08
  but we're going to be, we're going to be doing these monthly
• 29:12
  now that we got Ben in the house.
• 29:14
  And essentially it's an unfiltered version of the Simply
• 29:18
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• 29:22
  podcasting platforms. So we're going to end the stream
• 29:25
  on YouTube. If you guys want to continue
• 29:27
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• 29:30
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• 29:34
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• 29:39
  going to go. Bitcoin Ben is going to be
• 29:41
  completely unfiltered for the next hour or so.
• 29:44
  It's going to be fantastic. All the things that we were just
• 29:47
  talking about regarding the World Economic Forum, Larry
• 29:50
  Fink, what they're going on, This is a fantastic topic.
• 29:55
  I just put it, I just put it in the YouTube description, guys.
• 29:57
  So you guys go straight to the episode.
• 29:59
  Yeah, so just just if you guys want to continue watching the
• 30:02
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• 30:07
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• 30:12
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• 30:15
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• 30:19
  We're going to go completely unfiltered today.
• 30:21
  We're going to be talking about Davos, the World Economic Forum,
• 30:25
  Larry Fink, Donald Trump, Bitcoin, how Bitcoin plays into
• 30:30
  all this Opti the. Global Elite.
• 30:33
  And the global elite Opti's got some Opti's got some clips that
• 30:37
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• 30:41
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• 30:44
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• 30:50
  Or maybe, or maybe we just end it and then they have to go over
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  of the time of recording the Bitcoin prices $87,900 declined
• 34:01
  from all time high. We're down 30% Market cap 1.76
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  trillion block height 933,251. Anyways, Opti, do you want to
• 34:13
  play some of the clips that we were that I I play the Bryan
• 34:17
  Armstrong. I want to get Bitcoin Ben's take
• 34:18
  on it. Yeah, yeah.
• 34:19
  All right, guys. So here is the longer clip I was
• 34:21
  telling you guys about where Bryan Armstrong, of course, you
• 34:26
  know, Coinbase is having a pretty aggressive argument with
• 34:33
  I, I, I'm going to butcher the guy's name, but he's a chair of
• 34:37
  the Bank of International Settlements.
• 34:38
  It is a longer clip, but I'm going to play the whole thing
• 34:42
  for you guys. Here you go.
• 34:44
  Governor, you have to address this.
• 34:45
  Is the euro in danger from a Bitcoin standard?
• 34:48
  No, I'm a bit skeptical, Brian, sorry to say it about this idea
• 34:52
  of the Bitcoin standard. We left the gold standard, but
• 34:58
  the gold was only a technical mean.
• 35:00
  What is important is what you say, but that monetary policy
• 35:04
  and money is part of sovereignity and we live in
• 35:07
  democracies and I think the public role is key.
• 35:13
  And if we lose that, really you lose a key function of
• 35:17
  democracy. That said, I always keep
• 35:21
  repeating that money, as long as it exists, for centuries has
• 35:26
  been a public private partnership.
• 35:28
  You need a public anchor, whatever its form is.
• 35:31
  Remember in silver and gold were sovereign assets, so it was on
• 35:36
  the public side. And then you had banknotes and
• 35:39
  you will have CBDC. But anyway, the most important
• 35:43
  part of payments is in the private sphere and this is a
• 35:47
  development of tokenized private money.
• 35:50
  But this tokenize private money must be regulated to inspire
• 35:54
  trust, confidence. It's fascinating that you say
• 35:57
  that, Brian. You mentioned a complimentary
• 35:58
  role. That you could play.
• 36:00
  So I think that crypto is very good for Fiat currencies.
• 36:05
  It's very good. Bitcoin is like good as a check
• 36:07
  and balance on deficit spending because when there is a lack of
• 36:10
  trust or people, you know, from like in AUS context that people
• 36:13
  are worried about inflation or maybe in places like Argentina
• 36:16
  or Turkey or Nigeria, they are going to flee to the thing that
• 36:20
  they believe is going to store value more.
• 36:22
  So I think in general, it's going to be very complimentary.
• 36:26
  And like you said, I think it comes down to trust.
• 36:28
  And so if if Fiat currencies can maintain trust and not have, you
• 36:33
  know, the money printer kind of debasing everybody, then they'll
• 36:38
  survive. But if they countries that you
• 36:41
  know have bad behavior on that dimension, Bitcoin doesn't have
• 36:45
  a money printer. The the supply is fixed and
• 36:47
  people will go to it in times of uncertainty, kind of like they
• 36:50
  did with gold. So the guarantee for trust is
• 36:52
  independent on central bank side and we have a common date and we
• 36:56
  are accountable to that. But sorry to say that I trust
• 37:00
  more independent central banks with a democratic mandate than
• 37:03
  private issuers of of Bitcoin which have.
• 37:08
  A. Very useful role, but.
• 37:10
  Bitcoin is a decentralized protocol.
• 37:11
  There's actually no issuer of it.
• 37:13
  So that's, that's in the sense that central banks have
• 37:15
  independence. Bitcoin is even more
• 37:17
  independent. There's no country or company or
• 37:19
  individual who controls it in the world.
• 37:20
  And so anyway, I, I think it's a healthy competition because,
• 37:26
  because if people can decide which one they trust more and
• 37:29
  it, I think it's actually the greatest accountability
• 37:31
  mechanism on deficit spending Bill.
• 37:35
  Go Brian, you bad motherfucker. I.
• 37:41
  Think, oh man, that's what we were saying in the beginning,
• 37:43
  Ben, we were like, yo, Brian, you know, even though he's got
• 37:47
  his shit coin casino extravaganza, he, he's, he's
• 37:52
  going in the hard in the paint in, you know, in the playground
• 37:55
  of the of, of the devil, in the playground of the demons in
• 38:00
  Davos. So yeah.
• 38:06
  I, I'm not going to ruin Brian's reputation, all right?
• 38:16
  Brian's a lot like me, except not in public.
• 38:23
  Let's put it this way, all right?
• 38:25
  It's he's, he knows what we're up against.
• 38:30
  He, he absolutely knows what we're up against.
• 38:33
  And he's, he's very good at sneaking in the Trojan horse.
• 38:44
  Let's just put it that way. He knows because if, if you
• 38:50
  listen to what he said, he said what we say in a more or in a
• 38:58
  less aggressive way, he's you guys print up a bunch of shit
• 39:05
  dollars. No one trusts you.
• 39:09
  You're all not helping the people.
• 39:13
  You, you, you value the control. Because really, that's what that
• 39:19
  asshole was actually. Well, the, the independence of
• 39:25
  the, the, the bank, the Federal Bank and they said no.
• 39:31
  See, when he says independence, what he means is influence.
• 39:37
  We have influence over the central bankers.
• 39:41
  That's what that's what he likes.
• 39:44
  The independence is, is, is the people don't have any control.
• 39:51
  That's what he means is it's independent from public opinion.
• 39:57
  Yeah, that's because it's a centralized piece of shit
• 40:00
  slavery system, you fucking piece of garbage.
• 40:07
  It's it's and this is the problem.
• 40:11
  This is what we have dealt with for the last 400 years of these
• 40:17
  central bankers shitheads is. And every generation or every
• 40:23
  generation or so, we have to kick these fuckers out.
• 40:28
  And and that's what we're working on now, except we
• 40:32
  finally have the technology where we can not only kick them
• 40:37
  out, we can just join a different network.
• 40:43
  You guys have you guys have all of the CBDC's all you want.
• 40:48
  Go ahead. Fuck you and Putt.
• 40:51
  What I want people to realize is we're reaching a point where
• 40:56
  they know they're losing and that's when they get fucking
• 40:59
  dangerous. And I mean, send out a COVID
• 41:04
  Part 2, fucking dangerous because these shitheads, and
• 41:10
  they've said it over and over again and they're sending out
• 41:14
  messages like, oh, it's exactly like that asshole up in Canada
• 41:21
  who went over to China is like, oh, we'll just create a new, new
• 41:26
  world order. Really, motherfucker, really.
• 41:30
  Well, I'll tell you what New world order, How about this?
• 41:35
  How about you go fuck yourself because we have a choice now and
• 41:41
  Trump, like him or hate him, he's our only hope.
• 41:46
  Guys, where would we be if it wasn't for him?
• 41:51
  Tell me another motherfucker who would do this shit that needs to
• 41:55
  be done, speaks Trump. And trust me on this, I was at
• 42:01
  fucking Mar a Lago. Trump thinks just like I do,
• 42:07
  he's just more palatable. And that's saying something,
• 42:12
  right? Because I'm absolutely bat shit
• 42:15
  crazy. Trump's about half fucking bat
• 42:18
  shit crazy. It's his, he's he.
• 42:24
  He's able to be sneakier about it.
• 42:28
  But are you really crazy though, dude?
• 42:30
  I feel like the the the people on the like the globalists,
• 42:34
  they're the fucking crazy one. Well, when I say crazy, I lack
• 42:41
  the ability to actually be afraid.
• 42:46
  I, I have, I have zero fear. I'm not capable of fear my whole
• 42:51
  life. It's, I can't even wrap my head
• 42:55
  around the idea of what that even means to be afraid because
• 43:02
  it, it's the only time you lose is when you don't trust yourself
• 43:10
  and you give up. And I, I don't even understand
• 43:15
  what the fuck that means because we, we're at a point and look
• 43:23
  what happened at the church up in Minnesota.
• 43:26
  These motherfuckers are cut. They're coming into our houses
• 43:31
  of worship. This is what and this is only
• 43:36
  going to escalate. Do you think the left is, is
• 43:40
  like, oh, we went a little bit too far.
• 43:43
  Let's roll this back a little bit.
• 43:45
  No, no, no, because they're the left.
• 43:48
  They are full of emotion and rage and evil.
• 43:52
  They are unhinged fucking humans with no grounding of God.
• 43:58
  That's that's the most dangerous thing in the world is a human
• 44:02
  that doesn't fear God. That's it.
• 44:07
  Yeah, because they don't feel, they don't feel like they don't
• 44:10
  feel like they have to answer to a higher power.
• 44:12
  By the way, shout out to the Rumble, bro. 251 baby.
• 44:16
  I think when when we did the the switch over it was at 100.
• 44:20
  So people are following they like the uncensored guys.
• 44:23
  We're doing this on a monthly basis.
• 44:26
  We have a Bitcoin Ben unfiltered, simply a bit simply
• 44:30
  Bitcoin edition episode, which are we we're going to be
• 44:33
  exclusively live streaming to rumble.
• 44:35
  We love our friends over at rumble and X, of course, and the
• 44:39
  audio platforms. This is not YouTube friendly,
• 44:42
  none of this stuff. But then let's talk about this
• 44:46
  like this, this gathering, because the way that I used to
• 44:50
  frame it back when I was a lot more edgy and more less careful
• 44:57
  with my words. I'll say it that way is I used
• 45:01
  to describe Davos as the the conference of the central bank
• 45:06
  digital currency. I would describe the Bitcoin
• 45:09
  conference as the conference of freedom and Davos, the
• 45:12
  conference of slavery and all the crazy fucking ideas are
• 45:17
  coming out of the South. It feels so good to just speak
• 45:19
  the way I normally speak it. All the crazy ideas would come.
• 45:23
  I I'm so I love, I love this series.
• 45:26
  I got to say, we got to make a playlist for this Opti.
• 45:30
  You guys want to, you guys want to actually know how I feel
• 45:34
  every single month? You guys got to tune into this
• 45:37
  fucking episode. But yeah, man, like, OK, let's
• 45:41
  talk about this. Because the Davos conference or
• 45:45
  the elite, right? I know that Klaus, Klaus I
• 45:47
  think, was tapped on the shoulder and was like, all
• 45:49
  right, man, like people, you, you you've been discovered,
• 45:53
  right? And then they replaced him with
• 45:56
  Larry Fink, right? And as you said, Ben, Larry Fink
• 46:01
  right now is one of the biggest champions of Bitcoin.
• 46:04
  But it's not because he actually believes in the ethos of
• 46:07
  Bitcoin. It's because he thinks he could
• 46:09
  become filthy rich off of it. No, no, no, no, no, no, hang on,
• 46:14
  hit it. No, the they're all, they're not
• 46:18
  in it for the money. That's what people don't
• 46:21
  understand. They're like, oh, man, these
• 46:23
  people just want to get richer and richer and richer.
• 46:26
  No, they don't. This is control.
• 46:29
  This is, they are, trust me, Larry Fink, he ain't eating
• 46:33
  ramen fucking noodles, all right.
• 46:37
  He's, he's, he's a billionaire. These are all what everyone
• 46:41
  who's there is at least 100 millionaire, if not a
• 46:45
  billionaire. These people, it's about the
• 46:49
  system of control. Larry Fink sees the Bitcoin as
• 46:56
  the next system and he he know. Let me just break it down real
• 47:04
  simple. We are moving from a from a
• 47:11
  control structure that was led to the government's into a
• 47:18
  control structure that is LED through the corporations.
• 47:26
  Who has more influence, YouTube or the American government?
• 47:36
  I would at this moment in time, I would say to change the hearts
• 47:40
  and minds of people. YouTube.
• 47:42
  Absolutely. That's the name of the game.
• 47:46
  YouTube and Google have more real world influence than the US
• 47:54
  government, the German government, the Russian
• 47:58
  government, because look at what's going on over in Europe.
• 48:04
  They are going after Elon Musk and X, right, because they know
• 48:11
  he has more influence than the government does.
• 48:16
  Yep. And that's what we're
• 48:18
  transitioning into is this new global corporate governance
• 48:26
  structure. That's what all of the tokenized
• 48:30
  real world assets is, is once you're in this global tokenized
• 48:39
  system and you overlay AI on it, you have a complete system that
• 48:49
  no piece of equity can ever escape from it.
• 48:56
  This is all about equity evaluation.
• 49:01
  Once, once you have a real time representation of equity, this
• 49:11
  this market is going to blow the fuck up because you can set, you
• 49:18
  can have a digital representation of the equity in
• 49:21
  your house and you can leverage that equity on on an app and you
• 49:30
  can leverage that equity and you can go long on on whatever like
• 49:36
  Bitcoin or or whatever. When you can have a digital
• 49:43
  representation of of the equity of anything, then you launch the
• 49:51
  biggest thing that humans have never seen full liquid, full
• 49:58
  liquidity, availability of the whole global value system.
• 50:08
  Because right now if you own a house and you want liquidity out
• 50:14
  of it, good month, good luck. It's a month process.
• 50:20
  But if you tokenize that. Yep.
• 50:23
  And you hold it in your wallet. You have instant liquidity on a
• 50:29
  house. Of which they can freeze at any
• 50:32
  time. Absolutely they can.
• 50:34
  Freeze at any time. I do want to take advantage of
• 50:37
  the fact that we're on Rumble. I do want to play a clip from,
• 50:42
  you know, a, a, a, a a special guest.
• 50:45
  And he has some commentary regarding the people over at
• 50:49
  Davos. Just like the Bible says, it's
• 50:52
  basically an intergalactic invasion into this space through
• 50:55
  people. If I tell you it's what all the
• 50:57
  ancients said, it's what they warned of, it's what we're
• 50:59
  dealing with, they're demons. They're freaking
• 51:02
  interdimensional invaders. OK, I'll just say it.
• 51:05
  Make fun of me all you want on CNN or wherever, but everyone
• 51:08
  already innately knows this. These people are not freaking
• 51:11
  humans, OK? Hillary Clinton is a goddamned
• 51:14
  demon. You ain't wrong.
• 51:20
  He and and everyone who is like this, we sound like this, like
• 51:28
  we all have really raspy sounding because we yell a lot.
• 51:36
  It's no, it he's, he's absolutely right, because when
• 51:42
  you hear like interdimensional demons and all this, your front
• 51:48
  lobe hears it and goes, that guy's fucking nuts until you
• 51:54
  think about what we are. We are interdimensional
• 52:01
  creatures. If you are a follower of Jesus
• 52:06
  Christ, then you actually believe you have a soul.
• 52:09
  That's one dimension is your soul, then you have a physical
• 52:16
  dimension, then you have an emotional layer on top of your
• 52:21
  soul and it's all just energy. And yes, Alex Jones was ahead of
• 52:30
  his time, but he wasn't the original.
• 52:33
  In fact, Jesus, if Jesus was alive right now, he would be a
• 52:41
  right wing radical nut. That's how everyone would label
• 52:48
  him. And they would also probably
• 52:51
  call him a hippie, right? He has Jesus.
• 52:56
  If you read what's written in red, Jesus was telling everyone
• 53:06
  you can do anything. You have to have the belief.
• 53:10
  You have to have the faith. Well, what is that?
• 53:16
  That is positive energy in yourself and in your God.
• 53:22
  It's a belief. It's the strongest thing we have
• 53:27
  because that if you believe you are going to win or you believe
• 53:34
  you're going to lose, the answer to both is yes.
• 53:39
  It's the fact that you believe it because if you don't, you
• 53:44
  won't achieve it. It's this is our strongest
• 53:49
  superpower is that we can believe in ourselves and in our
• 53:55
  friends and in, in anything and we can move forward with the
• 54:01
  belief. What does God and Jesus tell us?
• 54:06
  You have to believe? That's why.
• 54:11
  That's why Jesus isn't on earth right now.
• 54:16
  Because if we lived with God and we lived with Jesus on this
• 54:25
  plane, we wouldn't need to believe.
• 54:29
  We would just know. And if you just know, then you
• 54:34
  don't have to think. And that's what God and Jesus
• 54:40
  need us to do. They want us to choose them
• 54:46
  blindly out of just logic and the feeling of it.
• 54:54
  That's how you love God. That's how you that's how you
• 54:59
  get closer to God as you think about it, you question it, you
• 55:05
  is God real? And then you live your life and
• 55:09
  you recognize the hands of God and then you're like, well, that
• 55:15
  can't be a coincidence. What the heck?
• 55:18
  You know, man, that there was something else there.
• 55:24
  And then before you know it, you, you, you say a little
• 55:31
  prayer to yourself and then you get the answer.
• 55:36
  And it isn't him sending you a text.
• 55:39
  He lays his hands on you and you feel that overwhelming calm of
• 55:47
  just yes. And that's, that's the world.
• 55:53
  We are here. We are here to save as many
• 55:58
  other people in this world from the shit heads over in Davos.
• 56:03
  Because if you believe in God, then you better believe in the
• 56:07
  fucking devil. I mean, what's that?
• 56:10
  What's the saying, right? The the greatest trick the
• 56:13
  devil's ever played is, is convincing people that he's not
• 56:16
  real, right? So, and I, and you know, I, I,
• 56:21
  you, you kind of see this like there's the kind of like the,
• 56:26
  which we obviously don't talk about on YouTube, but like
• 56:28
  there's, there's a, a spiritual side to Bitcoin that I think is
• 56:33
  extremely deep that I think a lot of people don't really put
• 56:38
  enough weighed on, which is the fact that if you are using
• 56:45
  broken money, I think in a way that corrupts you, even if you
• 56:50
  are not doing it on purpose, even if you're not doing it like
• 56:55
  consciously. But I think, you know, like, if
• 56:59
  you look, I, I, I was on again, I keep referencing the Bitcoin
• 57:02
  day situation, but I was on the panel with Gary Cardone and one
• 57:07
  of the panelists was like, you know what, like they call us a
• 57:10
  cult. And Gary found a dollar on the
• 57:14
  floor and he picked it up and he's like, you know, if I see a
• 57:16
  dollar on the floor, I'll pick it up.
• 57:18
  And when one of the panelists said like, hey, like, you know,
• 57:23
  we might be in a cult. I, I asked Gary, I said, hey,
• 57:26
  Gary, like give me that dollar. And I, I took, I took the
• 57:32
  dollar, I pointed, I like, I turned it around and it has a
• 57:35
  pyramid with an eye eyeball on it, right?
• 57:38
  If that is not like a cult or cult symbolism, like I don't
• 57:43
  know what the hell is. And I think Fiat money is, is,
• 57:48
  is, is bad for the soul. I think it's, it's just bad for
• 57:51
  humanity. I think it, it takes away your
• 57:54
  hope. It, it, you know, it brings
• 57:58
  nihilism into your life. It takes, you know, it brings
• 58:01
  despair into your life. And if that is not, you know, if
• 58:09
  that is not, again, depending on your perspective on the matter,
• 58:14
  but if that is not the devil's handiwork, I don't know what
• 58:19
  what, what is right? I don't know what else could be
• 58:22
  right. And Bitcoin fixes this.
• 58:25
  Like it. Bitcoin, when we say it's sound
• 58:27
  money, it's not. We're not just talking about the
• 58:29
  money. Bitcoin is, is sound as a whole.
• 58:33
  And I, I, I would say I've seen this more often than not.
• 58:37
  I've seen so many more people find faith after adopting a
• 58:44
  Bitcoin standard. It's like this, it's this
• 58:48
  pattern that I continue to recognize over and over again.
• 58:52
  Someone becomes a Bitcoiner. They start, you know, saving and
• 58:56
  earning in Bitcoin and all of a sudden they feel more spiritual,
• 59:01
  right? They, they, they, they connect
• 59:03
  to faith a lot more. I think Fiat inherently steals
• 59:08
  that away from you. And I think it's, it's good for
• 59:13
  the world that we're, we're going back.
• 59:15
  But as you could see, you know, the forces of Fiat are obviously
• 59:21
  not OK with that, right? So anyways, we're going to keep
• 59:25
  on fighting. We're going to keep the show
• 59:26
  rolling. I want Ben to react to the clip
• 59:29
  of the president's son and the president, too.
• 59:32
  We have a clip of the president. So we're going to play that
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  This is the Simply Bitcoin unfiltered edition.
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  We're going to be doing this on a monthly basis.
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  Ben's going to be a reoccurring guest and we're going to be
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  talking about all the things that are not friendly on
• 1:02:26
  YouTube. It's, it's quite interesting
• 1:02:28
  because we kept having Ben on the show, you know, for like the
• 1:02:32
  first two or three months and me and Opti would literally have
• 1:02:35
  heart attacks and I was like. I was.
• 1:02:39
  Like, how can I, how can I like, like, how can, like, I, I don't
• 1:02:43
  want to stop my boy Ben from speaking his mind.
• 1:02:46
  It's not like anything he's saying is like nothing that I
• 1:02:49
  wouldn't, you know, agree with or I would see eye to eye with.
• 1:02:54
  So I was like, OK, how do we make this happen?
• 1:02:57
  So we found a middle ground. We were like, OK, you know what
• 1:03:00
  we're going to do? We're going to do a special
• 1:03:02
  edition of Simply Bitcoin Live when Ben comes on the show.
• 1:03:05
  And what we're going to do is we're going to end the stream on
• 1:03:07
  YouTube and then we're just going to make it rumble only.
• 1:03:11
  And that's exactly what we're doing.
• 1:03:12
  So welcome to the second edition of Simply Bitcoin unfiltered
• 1:03:16
  with Bitcoin. Ben Opti roll the clip of the of
• 1:03:20
  the president at Davos again carrying the torch for Bitcoin.
• 1:03:27
  I want to get Ben's thoughts on it though.
• 1:03:30
  To unleash innovation and savings and financing.
• 1:03:32
  I'm also working to ensure America remains the crypto
• 1:03:35
  capital of the world. And to that end, last year I
• 1:03:39
  signed the landmark Genius Act into law.
• 1:03:42
  Now Congress is working very hard on crypto market structure,
• 1:03:46
  legislation, Bitcoin, all of them, which I hope to sign very
• 1:03:51
  soon, unlocking new pathways for Americans to reach financial
• 1:03:55
  freedom. And I did it for two reasons.
• 1:03:57
  Number one, I thought it was politically good, and it was.
• 1:03:59
  I got tremendous political report support.
• 1:04:02
  But more importantly, China wanted that market too.
• 1:04:05
  It's just like they want the AI and we've got that market, I
• 1:04:09
  think pretty well locked up. If I didn't do it, You know,
• 1:04:11
  Biden was totally against it until before the election when
• 1:04:14
  they realized that, you know, there were millions of people
• 1:04:17
  voting against him over crypto. And all of a sudden they loved
• 1:04:21
  it very much, but it was too late.
• 1:04:23
  They blew it. But it is politically popular.
• 1:04:26
  But it's it's much more importantly.
• 1:04:28
  We have to make it so that China doesn't get the hold of it.
• 1:04:32
  And once they have that hold, we're not going to be able to
• 1:04:34
  get it back. All right, we're back.
• 1:04:37
  What do you think? Bitcoin Ben?
• 1:04:39
  Let's make him full screen. Well, I think that he knows what
• 1:04:44
  we know. It's inevitable.
• 1:04:47
  I mean, they, everyone knows that all roads lead to the
• 1:04:56
  Bitcoin. It's, it's everything else is
• 1:05:01
  going to completely devalue against the Bitcoin because and
• 1:05:08
  I, I was on a call with a few very wealthy people and I laid
• 1:05:17
  out because I'm launching a company in Texas mining the
• 1:05:25
  Bitcoin and they wanted to jump in with me.
• 1:05:33
  And they're like, well, why are you so hype on this?
• 1:05:39
  And this is what I explained. And this is what I explained a
• 1:05:44
  few years ago when I was over at Mar A Lago was look, energy's
• 1:05:52
  going to get cheaper. Electricity is on its way to
• 1:05:59
  almost being free. That's where we're headed with
• 1:06:04
  AI and all of this and nuclear and fusion and all this.
• 1:06:10
  Electricity is going to almost be free.
• 1:06:15
  And energy. When you live in a world where
• 1:06:20
  pure energy is free, that unlocks unlimited production.
• 1:06:30
  A lot of very wealthy people call it the age of abundance as
• 1:06:35
  Elon has. We'll all just be rich.
• 1:06:40
  But it won't be with money. It will be if you want
• 1:06:44
  something, it's going to be so cheap because we'll have robots,
• 1:06:48
  we'll have super cheap energy, We'll have all of this, the age
• 1:06:53
  of abundance. And I say in a world where
• 1:07:00
  everything is in it energetically almost free and
• 1:07:06
  you have a world of almost unlimited abundance, then the
• 1:07:13
  only things that have value is those that aren't unlimited.
• 1:07:22
  And the only currency in the world, the only anything in the
• 1:07:29
  world that if energy is free, you can't produce more of it.
• 1:07:37
  If you look at gold and silver, if electricity, if energy is
• 1:07:44
  almost free, then your price to dig up a bunch of silver drops
• 1:07:51
  to the ground, your price of production.
• 1:07:56
  With silver and gold, they drop like crazy because you you won't
• 1:08:02
  have to hire people, you're just have robots who mine fucking
• 1:08:07
  gold 24 hours a day. You'll have electric huge trucks
• 1:08:15
  haul the dirt into a factory that doesn't have lights because
• 1:08:20
  it runs on robots. When you have all of this cheap
• 1:08:27
  energy, the only things that will have value is whatever you
• 1:08:34
  can't produce more of. And what is the only thing
• 1:08:38
  created with pure energy that is limited supply?
• 1:08:45
  Bitcoin. It's the Bitcoin.
• 1:08:47
  Everything else, I mean pictures and music and songs and all that
• 1:08:52
  shit. Unlimited supply, unlimited
• 1:08:57
  supply. And that's why this all leads to
• 1:09:03
  the Bitcoin because in a world where everything's unlimited,
• 1:09:11
  the economy will still exist. It's just you'll need a currency
• 1:09:18
  that is limited or you, you'll have you'll have no fucking
• 1:09:24
  currency. It has to have a limited supply
• 1:09:31
  that and think about this, if electricity is almost free, your
• 1:09:41
  hash rate is going to go fucking ballistic.
• 1:09:44
  You're going to have so many people mining the Bitcoin,
• 1:09:48
  right? And no matter how much energy
• 1:09:53
  that you put towards it originally, if you had a laptop
• 1:09:59
  good enough now, eventually you'll you will need a nuclear
• 1:10:05
  fucking power plant to mine one Bitcoin.
• 1:10:10
  We're on that road because with unlimited energy, you can push
• 1:10:19
  as much electricity towards the Shaw to 56 and you won't produce
• 1:10:31
  more. TikTok next block hash rate
• 1:10:36
  skyrockets but the supply doesn't increase.
• 1:10:41
  It's the only thing in the world that you put more energy into,
• 1:10:48
  and you don't get more. Bars that's.
• 1:10:55
  The key? That's where this is.
• 1:10:57
  All what I'm, what I'm getting from this Ben is basically like,
• 1:11:03
  you know, he who controls the energy controls the people,
• 1:11:06
  right? And that's really what this
• 1:11:09
  forum is all about. Like if you boil it down to like
• 1:11:12
  first principles, like just the basics, it's really who controls
• 1:11:17
  the world's energy. And if you control the world's
• 1:11:19
  energy, you control the world's people.
• 1:11:21
  And what a lot of people don't know is that money is a form of
• 1:11:25
  energy. It's, it's, it's how you
• 1:11:27
  exchange energy through meat space, right?
• 1:11:31
  And right now that that monetary instrument is broken, I would
• 1:11:36
  say it's leaking energy. Bitcoin is perfectly able to
• 1:11:41
  capture it and not leak it, right?
• 1:11:44
  And it's. Beautiful leaking.
• 1:11:46
  It is actually being rerouted to the wealthy because when they
• 1:11:53
  initially switch on the printer and give it to to the actual
• 1:12:00
  banks, it's at a fresh, you know, it was just created.
• 1:12:07
  It is equal with the rest of the money.
• 1:12:10
  Well, as they use it and they invest it, as time goes by and
• 1:12:18
  it leeches in to the lower levels of the economy, that's
• 1:12:24
  when inflation hits. So the wealthy, they're they're
• 1:12:30
  actually getting that fresh new money.
• 1:12:34
  And when it hits US, it's already inflated and they don't
• 1:12:40
  have that problems. So it isn't leaking.
• 1:12:45
  It's that's how the plumbing is set up.
• 1:12:50
  It leaks out at the top. They'd take their juice and then
• 1:12:56
  leave us with what's left of it. Yeah, 100% I mean, but this is
• 1:13:02
  what Bitcoins all about. This is what Bitcoin fixes and
• 1:13:05
  This is why I was so historic that you had President Trump and
• 1:13:11
  Brian Armstrong out of all people, you know, for the first
• 1:13:14
  time in Davos, representing, you know, an, a monetary alternative
• 1:13:20
  to the Fiat regime. And it's historic.
• 1:13:24
  I, I want to see more of it. I, I want to see number go up
• 1:13:27
  eventually, you know, but you know, I, I definitely think from
• 1:13:33
  a regulatory perspective, this is a step in the right
• 1:13:36
  direction. What I want to see in like 20
• 1:13:39
  years, like 1520 years is I want to see bitcoiners, you know, on
• 1:13:46
  that stage, but I'm not talking about you know, like crypto
• 1:13:51
  casino owners or like, you know, the president who again took a
• 1:13:56
  pro Bitcoin stance to get votes. I want to see people like
• 1:14:01
  Bitcoin Ben on the stage of Davos cause bro he would drop
• 1:14:05
  fucking. Bonds.
• 1:14:06
  He would never let me in. No, but but that's what I'm
• 1:14:08
  saying. Like, I don't think we've won
• 1:14:10
  until that type of stuff happens, until you have a
• 1:14:14
  bitcoiner, you know, get welcomed and all the people.
• 1:14:16
  Still come? No, I even if they sent me an
• 1:14:21
  invitation, I'd wipe my ass with it and send it back.
• 1:14:26
  Bro, but you'd have to go to represent us, Ben.
• 1:14:29
  Oh, they wouldn't. Ben, if you if they actually let
• 1:14:33
  you talk at Davos, you'd understand that video would go
• 1:14:36
  viral, bro. Oh yeah, it it and and I would
• 1:14:40
  go, but I can't guarantee I would not leave there in
• 1:14:45
  handcuffs. But I'm OK with that.
• 1:14:50
  Oh man. I mean this, you actually said
• 1:14:55
  something number go up, All right, That's that's just the
• 1:15:05
  advertising. That's just the advertising for
• 1:15:11
  your freedom, because you don't really want the number up.
• 1:15:17
  What you want is opportunity up. You want more freedom.
• 1:15:21
  You don't want more dollars. You want more freedom so you can
• 1:15:28
  actually do what you want to with your time.
• 1:15:33
  If you're wealthy, you can do whatever the fuck you want to do
• 1:15:37
  with your time. When you're poor, you're
• 1:15:40
  clocking in. You're clocking out.
• 1:15:43
  You're you're a slave. And that's why the system was
• 1:15:48
  set up for the slaves to create the wealth that the elites live
• 1:15:56
  off of. They are vampires.
• 1:15:59
  They are literally labour vampires and and something else
• 1:16:06
  that I want people to wrap their heads around is as energy gets
• 1:16:13
  cheaper, you have to have a reward mechanism to produce the
• 1:16:20
  energy right? If you run an electric company
• 1:16:27
  and your products price keeps dropping, what is your monetary
• 1:16:34
  incentive to keep producing the energy?
• 1:16:40
  There is none. Yes there is.
• 1:16:42
  There's Bitcoin. Oh, OK.
• 1:16:46
  Do you want to? Do you want to?
• 1:16:48
  Do you want to elaborate a little bit?
• 1:16:50
  Absolutely. When every when energy is free,
• 1:16:56
  then you make the Bitcoin your product and the energy is just a
• 1:17:03
  by product of the product you're making, which is Bitcoin.
• 1:17:09
  So right now everyone is consuming electricity.
• 1:17:16
  The electric company you're its client.
• 1:17:21
  All right, we're it's exactly what's going on with AI right
• 1:17:27
  now where you have these huge mega plants, all right, and all,
• 1:17:33
  all of the people around the plant, the energy prices were
• 1:17:39
  going up because the plant was using so much energy.
• 1:17:44
  So what they've done is say, all right, we will just actually pay
• 1:17:49
  for everyone's energy in the whole area.
• 1:17:55
  Yeah, and that's where the You'll own nothing and be happy
• 1:17:58
  comes from. That's that's true.
• 1:18:00
  But also if if you kind of follow that down is and AI, mark
• 1:18:12
  my words, somebody write this down on a calendar, all of the
• 1:18:16
  data Centers for AI will be moved and are not being moved.
• 1:18:23
  They will not handle AI. They will mine Bitcoin, mark my
• 1:18:29
  words. I believe it.
• 1:18:31
  Because AI is not what these retards who run AI think it is,
• 1:18:36
  all right? Because they, they think that a
• 1:18:41
  centralized place, Let's use open AI, that piece of shit
• 1:18:49
  World Coin motherfucker. All right?
• 1:18:54
  No. You remember fucking World Coin,
• 1:18:57
  right? Yeah.
• 1:18:58
  What? The the the eyeball scanning.
• 1:19:01
  Yeah, Sam Altman is who ran World Coin.
• 1:19:05
  I didn't know I forgot about that.
• 1:19:07
  Oh yeah, fuck him did. You know that.
• 1:19:10
  Yeah, Google that shit piece of shit.
• 1:19:15
  If, if these people are evil. That's why I get so upset.
• 1:19:20
  And so Sam Altman at Open AI, they, they think or they're
• 1:19:30
  trying to legislate it where, where AI is centralized and
• 1:19:37
  regulated. That's not how AI is going to
• 1:19:41
  work. Like because AI truly doesn't
• 1:19:45
  need these huge data centers. It's all bullshit.
• 1:19:52
  And as it's revealed that because, I mean, look at what
• 1:19:57
  China launched, they gave everyone a hint when they
• 1:20:02
  launched DeepSeek. And they're like, yeah, we built
• 1:20:08
  a large language, a large language model for about $1
• 1:20:13
  million. Yeah, I mean, no, I mean the,
• 1:20:18
  the, the, the, the AI thing started tumbling.
• 1:20:21
  I, I, I agree. I agree with you, Ben.
• 1:20:24
  Like fundamentally, I think energy is going to be very,
• 1:20:27
  extremely cheap. That's number one.
• 1:20:31
  We're heading into an abundant future.
• 1:20:34
  I think Davos is the center of controlling.
• 1:20:37
  I'm simplifying the hell out of things, but that's really
• 1:20:41
  simplifying energy because I, I, I mean controlling energy.
• 1:20:45
  I mean you, you control, if you control energy, you control
• 1:20:49
  people. And like, look like, what is
• 1:20:52
  every dicta? Like?
• 1:20:52
  If you look at the like the early days of the Soviet Union,
• 1:20:55
  like what was it one of the first things that Stalin did?
• 1:20:58
  Well, he got control the food supply, right?
• 1:21:02
  That's controlling energy, right?
• 1:21:04
  For humans, right? We need food to like function
• 1:21:07
  and you know, and, and live, right.
• 1:21:09
  So again, he who controls the energy controls people.
• 1:21:14
  And another kind of sly, roundabout way, no pun intended,
• 1:21:19
  is you know what one of the best ways to control energy is, is to
• 1:21:24
  control energy through money. Because again, you know, you put
• 1:21:29
  time and energy into accumulating, you know, money,
• 1:21:34
  the keyword is you put time and energy into accumulating energy,
• 1:21:38
  right? I mean, into into accumulating
• 1:21:41
  money. And what happens when that money
• 1:21:43
  is constantly stealing energy from you?
• 1:21:47
  And what happens when that money, when that energy or that,
• 1:21:51
  that, that, that monetary use it, that you, that you use as
• 1:21:54
  energy, what happens when it, it could be frozen on a whim,
• 1:21:58
  right? What is that but not power?
• 1:22:00
  Because that's what it fundamentally comes down to.
• 1:22:03
  That's why they're so against self custody.
• 1:22:05
  That's why they're so against you being able to transact
• 1:22:08
  freely. That's why they want custodians,
• 1:22:11
  because they can control the custodians, therefore they can
• 1:22:14
  control the energy, they can control the middle man, right?
• 1:22:18
  The intermediary, right? But what happens when the
• 1:22:21
  people, when the vast majority of people are taking self
• 1:22:25
  custody and transacting peer-to-peer, you know, no
• 1:22:28
  longer control the energy, right?
• 1:22:31
  And I think that's really what it comes down to.
• 1:22:33
  If we're like simplifying it and, you know, this conference
• 1:22:37
  in Davos or this forum or whatever they like to call it,
• 1:22:41
  that's what it boils down to, I think to like kind of just basic
• 1:22:44
  first principles. Anyways, guys, we're going to be
• 1:22:47
  right back after the break. I want to get Bitcoin Ben to
• 1:22:50
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  All right, everybody, we're back on Rumble.
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  The Rumble crowd is losing their minds today.
• 1:24:57
  Smash the like button on Rumble. I love this dude.
• 1:25:00
  I love, I love. You know what?
• 1:25:02
  When me and Opti were banned off YouTube and there was a lot of
• 1:25:06
  uncertainty during those couple of days, you know, we, we
• 1:25:11
  transferred the show on Rumble. We transferred, we were
• 1:25:14
  exclusively streaming the show on Rumble and to our surprise,
• 1:25:20
  we were so happy because so many of you guys followed us there.
• 1:25:24
  And that really, really meant a lot to us.
• 1:25:27
  And I'm so glad that we're seeing the same thing today that
• 1:25:31
  the audience followed us, you know, to to the Rumble exclusive
• 1:25:36
  part of the show. And again, we're going to be
• 1:25:37
  doing this every month when Bitcoin Ben comes and we're
• 1:25:41
  going to be doing a simply Bitcoin live unfiltered edition.
• 1:25:45
  So once a month we're going to be doing this.
• 1:25:48
  And I've had an incredible time today.
• 1:25:50
  Ben's been able to speak his mind.
• 1:25:52
  I haven't had to have like mini heart attacks.
• 1:25:56
  And, you know, Opti's smiling and grinning over here and we
• 1:26:00
  get to talk about topics that otherwise are not YouTube
• 1:26:04
  friendly. And just to kind of connect the
• 1:26:06
  dots of what Ben was saying earlier on in the show, it makes
• 1:26:10
  sense why they are not YouTube friendly, right?
• 1:26:14
  You know, as Ben said, YouTube, Google has more influence over
• 1:26:18
  the hearts and minds of citizens than than the US government.
• 1:26:24
  That used to not be the case, by the way, like what it used to be
• 1:26:27
  where there was like a handful of newspapers, handful of of,
• 1:26:31
  of, of media outlets, but there was only a handful.
• 1:26:35
  And it was actually extremely easy for the government to
• 1:26:38
  influence the information that was being peddled by those media
• 1:26:41
  outlets, right? Where do you think the weapons
• 1:26:44
  of mass destruction story broke from?
• 1:26:46
  It's broke from the New York Times, right?
• 1:26:49
  We found out after the fact that it was actually the intelligence
• 1:26:52
  agencies that were giving The New York Times that information,
• 1:26:58
  right? We, you know, but again, you
• 1:27:02
  know, on X, if that would I, I remember, I think it was Jack
• 1:27:05
  Posobik who said this, but he was basically like, look, if
• 1:27:08
  social media existed back in the early 2000's, the war in Iraq
• 1:27:15
  would have never happened, right?
• 1:27:17
  So, you know, it's, it's a brave new world.
• 1:27:20
  This is what the book The Sovereign Individual talks
• 1:27:22
  about, right, where he makes the case that information
• 1:27:25
  technologies, we're going to free, you know, everyday
• 1:27:29
  individuals. And that's exactly what we're
• 1:27:31
  seeing. We're seeing that in practice,
• 1:27:33
  right? And it's it's and it's it's it's
• 1:27:36
  liberating. It's good to see Opti.
• 1:27:40
  Let's play the Eric Trump clip. I want to get Ben to react to it
• 1:27:43
  and then we'll wrap up today's show.
• 1:27:45
  I mean the, the big banks have been an absolute monopoly of our
• 1:27:48
  financial system for for years. You and I have joked about it
• 1:27:51
  1000 times. You know, why can't you send a
• 1:27:52
  wire transfer past 5:00 on a on a Friday afternoon?
• 1:27:55
  You know why? Because the big banks would love
• 1:27:57
  to take, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars and have it
• 1:27:59
  sit there and clip interest off of it over the course of a long
• 1:28:01
  weekend. You know, as as opposed to Lane,
• 1:28:03
  you just efficiently move that money using modern day
• 1:28:06
  technology, you know, and have it in a separate wallet 2
• 1:28:08
  seconds later. They, they want to be able to
• 1:28:09
  use their money. They want to be able to
• 1:28:11
  arbitrage your money and so you know the big banks are doing
• 1:28:13
  everything they can to stop some of the crypto legislation for
• 1:28:16
  obvious reasons. Why should?
• 1:28:18
  So I want to talk about this because I, I, I don't think
• 1:28:21
  enough people are like, look, if you send a wire transfer
• 1:28:28
  overseas or you're receiving one from overseas, it is the most
• 1:28:32
  archaic thing that you can ever fucking imagine.
• 1:28:35
  Like, you want to know how I know Bitcoin's going to win?
• 1:28:38
  Send a Bitcoin transaction and then send a wire transfer,
• 1:28:41
  right? If it's like a local wire
• 1:28:44
  transfer, it's gotten a whole lot better.
• 1:28:47
  I don't think it's because they've wanted it to get better.
• 1:28:49
  I think that they they're just forced to now that they have
• 1:28:51
  some type of competition, but internationally it is a fucking
• 1:28:56
  nightmare. It is, it is Oh my God, Like it
• 1:28:59
  is uneffing, believable. And if you ask like what is the
• 1:29:05
  status of my wire, they literally can't even tell you.
• 1:29:08
  So it's like your money's like in limbo, like, I don't know
• 1:29:11
  where the hell it is. You know, sometimes it gets
• 1:29:15
  stuck in a compliance block box. Sometimes it takes like 5 days.
• 1:29:20
  Like that's crazy. Could you imagine?
• 1:29:22
  And usually large amounts, right?
• 1:29:24
  So if you're sending like a large amount of money and that
• 1:29:27
  means a lot to you and you're sending it to a family member
• 1:29:31
  and it gets stuck in compliance or whatever, or you send it on a
• 1:29:34
  Friday and it doesn't get sent out in time on and then they
• 1:29:38
  have to wait till like Tuesday of next week.
• 1:29:40
  And the entire time it, it says the wires been sent out.
• 1:29:44
  I was like, where? What does that mean?
• 1:29:45
  Right. It's it's such an archaic system
• 1:29:49
  that again, it's the only system that technology has not been
• 1:29:54
  allowed to disrupt. It's the only system that has
• 1:29:58
  not the only the only system or the only industry that
• 1:30:04
  technology and new technology has not been able to go in there
• 1:30:06
  and disrupt, right? We saw this with Netflix and
• 1:30:09
  Blockbuster. Like there's so many examples of
• 1:30:12
  just these new technologies and new entrepreneurs coming in
• 1:30:14
  there and just building a better system.
• 1:30:16
  It's the only one that remains the same.
• 1:30:20
  It has been has remained the same for a long time now.
• 1:30:23
  And why is that like that's the question.
• 1:30:25
  Like why is that the case? The reason that's the case is
• 1:30:29
  going back to to the energy topic we were, we were talking
• 1:30:32
  about is because think about it, the wire system is how people
• 1:30:36
  transfer energy across borders. Like what, what, what do
• 1:30:40
  governments want? They want control over that.
• 1:30:43
  They want, they want access. They're not in.
• 1:30:45
  They don't really care about making it more transparent, more
• 1:30:48
  efficient, more convenient for the person.
• 1:30:51
  What they they don't care that it takes as long as it does, as
• 1:30:55
  long as the systems of control are in place.
• 1:30:58
  And that's really the evil appliance, right?
• 1:31:00
  Like that's the evil handshake behind the back.
• 1:31:04
  Basically, it's this, the TLDR is this.
• 1:31:08
  Listen, if you, if you agree to like, if you agree to act as an
• 1:31:17
  enforcer, as an intermediary, we will also make sure that you
• 1:31:25
  maintain your monopoly or your cartel.
• 1:31:27
  I'm on Rumble, so I could say it you, we, we will make sure that
• 1:31:30
  your cartel continues, right? That's the alliance.
• 1:31:36
  Like that's the evil alliance. It's an evil alliance between
• 1:31:39
  politician. I wouldn't even call it evil.
• 1:31:40
  I mean, it is evil, but it's this like it's this handshake
• 1:31:44
  between politicians and central bankers.
• 1:31:47
  They're in cahoots and they don't want the system to change
• 1:31:51
  because the system changing would mean transparency and
• 1:31:55
  transparency would mean accountability and they don't
• 1:31:58
  want that. They don't want the transparency
• 1:32:01
  because that would mean accountability.
• 1:32:02
  I, we went on a rant yesterday while Mauricio was on the show
• 1:32:07
  and we were talking to you guys about how, listen, El Salvador
• 1:32:10
  has already proven how you should be doing a Bitcoin
• 1:32:14
  reserve. It's public, it's transparent,
• 1:32:17
  Anybody could see it. And because of that, that makes
• 1:32:21
  the government of El Salvador accountable.
• 1:32:23
  Because as soon as some Bitcoin moves from that wallet, Bitcoin
• 1:32:27
  Twitter is just going to lose their minds.
• 1:32:29
  Where's that money going, right? And Max and Stacey from the
• 1:32:32
  Bitcoin office are going to have to go out and publicly say,
• 1:32:35
  listen, this is what happened. This is whatever.
• 1:32:37
  It creates accountability. And it makes it very difficult
• 1:32:41
  for a politician just to take a little bit off the top, right?
• 1:32:44
  It's very difficult when there's a lot of eyeballs seeing it.
• 1:32:47
  You can't see that. So when the gold was stolen from
• 1:32:50
  American citizens in the late in the early 1930s, right?
• 1:32:54
  And they built Fort Knox to house this gold.
• 1:32:58
  We have not seen it. This is this gold belongs to
• 1:33:01
  you, the American people, not the politicians, the American
• 1:33:04
  people. That was how it was sold on,
• 1:33:05
  right? We have not seen video evidence
• 1:33:10
  of this gold. And it was just one Volt since
• 1:33:13
  the 1970s, right? So we've been operating on a
• 1:33:17
  Trust me bro model, right? It's a trust me bro model where
• 1:33:22
  it doesn't need to be that way anymore.
• 1:33:24
  So Bitcoin Ben, I want to pass the mic to you to wrap it up.
• 1:33:27
  What are your thoughts my friend?
• 1:33:30
  Well, we're, we are, we are reaching a point where the, the
• 1:33:39
  humans on Earth, and I'm not talking the lizard people,
• 1:33:44
  right? The humans, us, us ordinary
• 1:33:48
  average people, we all know this is all a lie.
• 1:33:54
  We joke about it. We joke about politicians and
• 1:33:58
  the bankers and the communist and, and the problem here in
• 1:34:05
  America is we haven't had any real problems here in America.
• 1:34:15
  Now those who live or lived in El Salvador or Venezuela or Cuba
• 1:34:23
  or the Soviet Union, those people lived through socialism,
• 1:34:32
  communism. We here in America, what we
• 1:34:37
  don't realize is what we are living through right now is the
• 1:34:44
  very beginning of the communist revolution here in America.
• 1:34:52
  We see it as leftist. You know, all the leftist look
• 1:34:56
  at the crazy things they're doing, not realizing this is an
• 1:35:01
  agenda. This is an this is how you take
• 1:35:06
  down America. This is how you'd take the
• 1:35:10
  world's most powerful country down from the inside out.
• 1:35:18
  And that's what we're going through.
• 1:35:20
  And this has actually been a plan since prior to the Civil
• 1:35:28
  War. Well, yeah, about 1858.
• 1:35:32
  And we whenever I say that, a lot of people roll their eyes
• 1:35:40
  and go 1858, good Lord, this guy's a conspiracy theorist.
• 1:35:48
  Until I say, well, we have Super Sonic jets.
• 1:35:58
  Was it a conspiracy when the Wright brothers flew their first
• 1:36:04
  plane? No, because that agenda of
• 1:36:11
  flying advanced and grew bigger and bigger and bigger.
• 1:36:17
  And then there were more pilots, and then there were more
• 1:36:20
  airplane mechanics, and then there were better airplanes.
• 1:36:23
  And then, all be damned, we have the technology for a rocket
• 1:36:27
  ship. All be damned, now we have all
• 1:36:31
  this super like we got helicopters, we got all this
• 1:36:34
  technology. But that advancement, that
• 1:36:40
  growth in that flight ideology grew through a progression of
• 1:36:48
  slow advancement. And that's exactly how it has
• 1:36:53
  happened. And where why we are, why, why
• 1:36:57
  we are where we are. Because slowly the progressives,
• 1:37:05
  the communist, the socialist, the Hebian socialist have, have
• 1:37:13
  infiltrated our government, our corporations, our universities,
• 1:37:20
  our education systems. And now we are living, we are
• 1:37:27
  living in a world where common sense has shifted.
• 1:37:33
  And, and when I say common sense, that is common knowledge
• 1:37:39
  or what we, what we, what we share in common beliefs.
• 1:37:50
  Well, in, in the early 1900s, what people called common sense
• 1:38:01
  was if, if you have an infection, you should bleed
• 1:38:07
  yourself with leeches. Well, we evolved out of that
• 1:38:14
  common knowledge into an advanced knowledge of how you
• 1:38:19
  get rid of a virus or how you treat a virus.
• 1:38:23
  So now we're at, we're at a place where the middle of the
• 1:38:30
  road now politically, 80 years, 80 years ago was a flat out
• 1:38:41
  fucking communist. But we just call them a moderate
• 1:38:46
  now or a progressive. I mean, we have progressive
• 1:38:52
  Republicans. A great example is fucking Mitt
• 1:38:55
  Romney. He's absolutely, absolutely a
• 1:38:59
  piece of shit and he admits he's a progressive Republican.
• 1:39:05
  Well, what is a progressive Republican?
• 1:39:09
  It originates from a there was a book from 1941 called The Road
• 1:39:18
  We are Traveling. And that's where we hear people
• 1:39:23
  say, oh, he's, he's a fellow traveler.
• 1:39:27
  That's the book that came from, and that's why Barack Hussein
• 1:39:33
  Obama at the end of his presidency.
• 1:39:37
  I think, I think you're, you're absolutely right, Bitcoin Ben,
• 1:39:40
  you and you and Trump would hit it off.
• 1:39:42
  I would pay money, dude, just to see you guys on a fucking
• 1:39:47
  podcast, you and President Trump.
• 1:39:50
  They would never let him do a show with me.
• 1:39:55
  Because he's a kid, he's like a natural comedian, you know, So
• 1:39:59
  you guys would just go off each other and be hilarious.
• 1:40:02
  Anyway, I I didn't mean to interrupt you mid thought.
• 1:40:05
  No, it's, it's, it's now we're at, we are at the end or near
• 1:40:13
  the end point where revolution from the left is going to
• 1:40:20
  happen. They are going to get more
• 1:40:22
  violent. They are, they are walking into
• 1:40:26
  the churches. And if you know your history of
• 1:40:32
  communist revolutions, one of the first thing they have to get
• 1:40:36
  rid of is the churches. It's always the churches.
• 1:40:40
  So they're going into churches now and this is a big warning
• 1:40:48
  sign because now they feel that they have the freedom and
• 1:40:54
  they're socially justified in their group of, of influence
• 1:41:02
  that they now feel as if going into a church and harassing
• 1:41:09
  church goers is appropriate and acceptable and will not be
• 1:41:17
  punished. That's a line.
• 1:41:21
  And if Trump or someone in the government doesn't address this
• 1:41:29
  and address it publicly and really show a, a, a reaction to
• 1:41:41
  this very strongly, the people will.
• 1:41:45
  Because when you walk in to a church and you bring violence
• 1:41:55
  and unease into a place of worship, you don't understand
• 1:42:04
  how people view their church. That is their home, that is
• 1:42:12
  their community, that is their House of God.
• 1:42:17
  Yeah, I mean, it's from from like a historical standpoint.
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  It like if you take a look at every single communist
• 1:42:26
  revolution throughout history, whether it was in Spain during
• 1:42:31
  the Spanish Civil War, if you took a look at the Bolsheviks in
• 1:42:35
  Russia, the first things that they did was they went after the
• 1:42:41
  churches, right? And it's to destabilize society,
• 1:42:45
  right? Because again, if people don't
• 1:42:50
  believe there's a higher power, what is, what is the power below
• 1:42:55
  the higher power? The state, right.
• 1:42:57
  So they can't have people worshipping something that they
• 1:43:01
  believe is bigger than the state.
• 1:43:02
  That's what ultimately it comes down to.
• 1:43:04
  They want people to worship the state.
• 1:43:06
  And it's like even like it's, it goes deeper than this, by the
• 1:43:09
  way, like if you take a look at if you take a look at Communist
• 1:43:15
  China and Communist Russia, both the founding, founding fathers
• 1:43:20
  of those revolutions, whether it's Lenin or Mao, you can go,
• 1:43:25
  you can still go see their bodies today, right?
• 1:43:28
  Like if you go to Red Square, the Kremlin, you can go to the
• 1:43:32
  Lenin Mausoleum and you will literally see, you will
• 1:43:38
  literally see Lenin's body right?
• 1:43:41
  Now, the reason that I like pointing out that example is
• 1:43:44
  because the metaphor there is super powerful because
• 1:43:48
  essentially it's a, a decaying dead corpse underneath, right?
• 1:43:56
  So what you see on the outside is, Oh my God, it's preserved,
• 1:44:00
  right? It's this preserved pristine
• 1:44:02
  figure. Lenin is actually just asleep.
• 1:44:05
  Mao, Chairman Mao is just asleep.
• 1:44:07
  But what they have to do is like every so often, they have to
• 1:44:10
  chemically go in there and preserve this decaying, decrepit
• 1:44:16
  body. And it's just such a good
• 1:44:18
  representation of, of that, that whole ideology.
• 1:44:22
  It's all about appearances. It's all about the narrative.
• 1:44:26
  But once you look underneath, it's decrepit, it's decaying,
• 1:44:31
  it's it's ugly, it's nasty, right?
• 1:44:34
  And again, like, again, I want to be respectful of everybody
• 1:44:38
  watching, but like, you're not meant to live forever, right?
• 1:44:44
  But if you're an atheistic, you know, state religion, because
• 1:44:48
  that's what communism is, how can you not have the founding
• 1:44:53
  father live forever in a certain way, right?
• 1:44:57
  You know, it's, it's from dust to dust, right?
• 1:44:59
  You're going back to where you came from.
• 1:45:03
  That's how it works, right? But you know, I just wanted to
• 1:45:07
  mention that cause for me that was always so interesting.
• 1:45:10
  But from a historical standpoint, Ben is absolutely
• 1:45:13
  right. Every time there's some type of
• 1:45:16
  communist revolution, look at look at what?
• 1:45:19
  Look at the revolution in Spain, which failed, by the way, shout
• 1:45:22
  out Franco. Take a take, take a yeah, very
• 1:45:28
  Catholic, became a very Catholic country for a while.
• 1:45:33
  And then take a look at the revolution in, in Russia, which
• 1:45:39
  was successful. Again, the first thing that they
• 1:45:46
  did was go after the priests, go after the bishops, go after the
• 1:45:50
  church. They went after all religions.
• 1:45:52
  It wasn't just Christianity, right?
• 1:45:54
  They went after, you know, whatever the religion was there,
• 1:45:57
  they went after it because again, they want the state to be
• 1:46:02
  over. They want the state to be the
• 1:46:03
  religion. They want people to worship the
• 1:46:05
  state. So anyways, guys, it's been an
• 1:46:07
  incredible show, guys. TuneIn hit it.
• 1:46:11
  This is my last point. I'm going to bring it around.
• 1:46:15
  When I first came on the show, what I talked about was you have
• 1:46:21
  to have belief in yourself. That's our strongest power and
• 1:46:29
  what you just said is the key to all of it.
• 1:46:34
  They need you to take this amazing belief and give them
• 1:46:44
  that power in the government because they don't want you to
• 1:46:51
  have it for yourself and they don't want you to put all of
• 1:46:57
  your belief in God. They want you to believe in the
• 1:47:04
  power of the government and rally for the government, rally
• 1:47:11
  for the bureaucracy. Give us all of your belief, give
• 1:47:15
  us all of your power because that's, that's what they live
• 1:47:19
  on. They, they, they don't care
• 1:47:24
  about you. They don't care anything about
• 1:47:29
  you or your family. All they care about is the
• 1:47:33
  system. That's it.
• 1:47:36
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• 1:47:39
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