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BREAKING: US Gov. Reveals Strategy to STOP Bitcoin | EP 809 · Simply Bitcoin

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  I've been selling my soul, working all day overtime hours
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  for bullshit pay so I can sit out here and waste my life away,
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  strike back home and drown my troubles away.
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  It's a damn shame what the world's gone to for people like
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  me and people like you. Wish I could just wake up and it
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  not be true. But it is all it is.
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  Living in the new world with an old soul.
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  These Richmond, North Richmond. Lord knows they all just want to
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  have total control. Want to know what you think.
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  Want to know what you do. And they don't think you know.
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  But I know that you do Because you're dollar ain't shit And
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  it's sacks to no end. Because of rich men, Lord, the
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  rich men. Oh, I wish politicians would
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  look out for minors and not just miners in an island somewhere.
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  Lord, we got folks in the street ain't got nothing to eat.
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  And the obese milk and welfare. But God, if you're 5 foot three
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  and you're 300 pounds, taxes ought not to pay for your backs
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  of a drowned young men putting themselves 6 feet in the ground.
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  Because all this damn country does is keep kicking them down.
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  Lord, it's a damn shame what the world's gone to.
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  For people like me and people like you.
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  Wish I could just wake up and it not be true.
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  But it is all it is. Living in the new world with an
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  old soul. These Richmond, North Richmond.
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  The Lord knows they all just want to have total control.
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  Want to know what you think. Want to know what you do.
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  And they don't think you know. But I know that you do.
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  Because your dollar ain't shit and it's tax to know.
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  And because of rich man nor the rich man,
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  I've been selling my soul working all day overtime hours
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  for bullshit pay. Yo, welcome to Simply Bitcoin
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  Live. We're back boys.
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  We spent the day traveling yesterday.
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  We are like coming at you live from Austin, TX will be at Bit
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  Block Boom tomorrow. It's going to be a great show
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  today. We have a lot to impact.
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  We want to start the cold open with Sophie's cover.
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  Of the song that went absolutely viral, it broke.
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  The Internet has 37,000,000 views.
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  Richmond, north of Richmond, and of course north of Richmond is
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  the city of Washington, DC, right?
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  This city where there's an elite group of bureaucratic elites
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  that have the ability to create money for free that the rest of
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  us has to work for, and that has fundamentally corrupted society,
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  has broken society. This is what the peaceful
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  Bitcoin revolution is all about. This is what the separation is
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  all. So this is what the separation
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  of money in state is all about and we're going to win this
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  thing anyways. Today's show we're going to
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  cover basically a followup of the Office of Foreign Asset
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  Control sanctions on tornado cash.
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  And this was a big deal because it was for the first time in
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  U.S. history that the US government remember the Office
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  of Foreign Asset Controls part of the US Treasury.
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  And they're responsible for sanctioning countries.
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  But it was the first time they sanctioned not a country, not an
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  individual, but a technology itself.
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  Specifically, open source software.
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  There's an update to that today. They arrested the developers of
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  that open source software. They put them in prison.
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  Now you could have made the argument that they benefited
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  from that, that there was there was some type of centralization.
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  But again guys, I'm a I'm a bit skeptical and what I'll say
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  about this is that if they set the precedent of being able to
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  arrest developers of open source software because they could
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  potentially break U.S. sanctions, you kind of see where
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  this could potentially be going. Also, we're going to play you
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  guys a video in the very, very beginning of RFK Junior.
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  Who is the first presidential candidate that openly said at
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  the Bitcoin 2023 conference that he was going to protect the
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  right for bitcoiners to take self custody?
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  He said the quiet part out loud about the legacy corporate
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  media. He said that they were
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  controlled, which is very interesting because that was
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  very, very similar wording to the article from President by 9
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  Bukele, Don't drink the Elites kool-aid.
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  So I want to play you guys. That clip is going to be really
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  interesting, and of course we're going to have a meme review as
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  usual. It's going to be a very fun
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  weekend, but I'm here with my legendary cohost, the one and
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  only always optimistic, The exboyfriend of Christine
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  Lagarde, Optimist fields himself.
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  How you doing Opti? Oh man, I'm doing great.
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  What's up everyone? How are you doing?
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  I'm only on 2 cups of coffee today, so I'm not as jacked as
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  usual, but I'm excited. What about a Sophie?
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  Just straight killing the intro. Everyone's loving it.
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  Yeah, everyone's loving it. She needs to get in the chat and
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  check out all the love because it feels good.
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  Glad to be back. I hear the rumors on the
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  interweb that we aren't coming back, but hey, we're live.
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  We're live. It's weird.
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  It's almost like when you travel, you have to go from, you
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  have to get on a plane and you have to go from A to B anyways.
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  Also very very special shout out we will be hosting the Twitter
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  Spaces 4 bit block boom and potentially we'll see if we
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  could pull this off. We'll also be live streaming it.
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  So we'll keep you guys updated and.
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  Before we go on, we will be streaming Friday and Saturday on
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  Spaces, so I know we took a little break, but you guys are
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  gonna have content all weekend. Guys it.
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  Will be will be the whole If you guys go to the Simply Bitcoin
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  Twitter handle this weekend, you'll be able to hear the
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  In between, and hopefully we can pull in some guests like Max and
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  Stacy and whatnot. So it's gonna be a hell of a
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  show. I'm really, really pumped.
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  Anyways, at the time of recording the Bitcoin price is
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  26,060 sats per dollar 3300 sorry 3838 block height 804,667
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  blocks to having 35,323 having estimate April 20th 2024 Total
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  Lightning network capacity 4674 Bitcoin capacity value
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  121,000,000. U.S. dollars not realize
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  monetary inflation 1.76% The market capitalization of Bitcoin
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  $507 billion Bitcoin versus gold market cap 3.94% And of course
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  that number will continue to go up and the realize monetary
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  inflation will continue to go down forever.
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  Laura. Anyways this is this is up
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  opties alley. This is interesting.
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  But again, right, so we've said this idea, this is a very tricky
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  topic to go down without getting to, without shifting outside of
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  the acceptable acceptable talk in terms of the in terms of the
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  Overton window. But just put the pieces
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  together. I'm going to make the case
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  without opinionating too much, right?
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  I'm going to let RFK Junior speak, I'm going to let Nan
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  Bukele speak, and then I'll let you guys be the judge.
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  But remember the work from Alex Gladstein?
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  Remember, you know, there's a very famous book, The
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  Confessions of an economic The Economic Hitman, how the I MF
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  has been weaponized to control small countries.
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  Also, we've been making the case for a long time that the
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  corporate media, it seems as though they're really not, is
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  interested in journalism. They're more interested in
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  propagating certain narratives. And these are observations that
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  we picked up very, very quickly on simply Bitcoin.
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  And of course we don't like to get into the politics.
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  We think the politics are divide and conquer mechanism.
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  We don't believe in red verse blue left first right.
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  We're really believe in orange. The party of orange is the party
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  of Bitcoin. Peace, prosperity.
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  The versus the party of green which is a party of nihilism,
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  slavery, central bank, digital currencies and Fiat.
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  OK, All that being said, here's RFK Jr. again at the Bitcoin
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  2023 conference. He said that he would get rid of
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  capital. Chains for Bitcoin.
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  We know that he owns about 15 Bitcoin himself and he said on
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  stage that he would protect bitcoins.
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  Bitcoiners, right? To take self custody and run
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  their own node and run minors. Of course, as bitcoiners, you're
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  laughing. That's like, dude, I'm going to
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  do that anyways. But you know, again, in terms of
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  the Overton window, it's it's important that these types of
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  individuals shift the conversation.
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  So let's check out this clip and let's see what he has to say
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  about the legacy corporate media.
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  There's a provision of the CIA charter that says that the CIA
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  cannot propagandize the American people President Obama adopted
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  in 2016 that essentially reopened the door for Operation
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  Mockingbird so that the CIA began once again to to
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  propagandize American. How are they doing that?
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  High level intelligence officials are or people
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  associated with the intelligence industry.
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  Are running those journals like Noah Schlackman, who runs
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  Bowling Stone, who came from Daily Beast.
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  Daily Beast was run by John Avalon, who was, you know, who
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  has deep ties to the intelligence agencies and even
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  journals like Smithsonian and Smithsonian and National
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  Geographic, Nature, the Washington Post, The New York
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  Times appeared to be compromised by the CIA.
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  We know from the. On the Twitter files at the both
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  the FBI and CIA, we're operating portals within the Twitter and
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  Facebook that allowed them to manipulate information and to de
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  platform. Right.
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  And again, you know, this is the same government that is asking
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  you to trust them with central bank digital currencies.
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  And that they're not going to weaponize the central bank
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  digital currencies against you. And it's very interesting about
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  what RFK Jr. said was he mentioned the New York Times.
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  The New York Times has been one of the most powerful legacy
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  corporate institutions, media institutions that has been
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  vocally against Bitcoin. Right.
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  They've attacked it left and right.
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  Right. They fit.
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  They they ran that famous piece with the with the skull.
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  You know, they've ran the pieces by Elizabeth Warren, they've ran
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  pieces attacking NA in Bukele. So and what RFK Jr. is saying is
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  that look like these, these are propaganda machines, they've
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  been potentially compromised by the state, which is very, very
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  interesting. Anyways, I'm I'm going to cover
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  a little bit about what RFK Junior did exactly.
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  So he he also vowed to back the dollar with Bitcoin, exempt
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  Bitcoin from taxes. Which is a really interesting
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  conversation, because if you think about it right, you're
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  liable for the capital gains that you make when bitcoins
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  price goes up and let's say you sell it for the US dollar.
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  But did you guys know that you're not?
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  If you're trends, if you're transitioning between
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  currencies, it doesn't work the same way, right?
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  And the reason that I believe this moves the Overton window so
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  much is because it calls into quite the very question of money
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  itself. Why does it have to lose value
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  in the first place? So this guy's definitely
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  shifting the Overton window completely now.
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  OK, RFK Junior, that's just himself.
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  You can make the argument that this guy, you know, he, you
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  know, he's an outsider. He doesn't like, you know, the
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  CIA because they, he believed that, you know they did
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  something to his uncle that I'm not going to say specifically
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  and father and you know, but I don't know, right, supposedly.
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  But it's not just RFK Junior saying this, it's it's also
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  president. Named Bukele of El Salvador and
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  this is a very famous passage that we've read you many times
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  on. Simply Bitcoin.
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  It's from. It's an article from our friends
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  over at Bitcoin Magazine and the title of the article is Don't
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  just stop drinking the elites. kool-aid, I'm going to read you
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  this piece. It says The most vocal
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  detractors, the ones who are afraid and pressuring us to
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  reverse our decision. Of course he's referencing the
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  Bitcoin law. Making Bitcoin legal tender are
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  the world's most powerful elites.
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  And the people who work for or benefit them.
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  They used to own everything in the way they still do the media,
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  the banks, the NGO's, the international organizations,
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  almost all the governments and corporations in the world.
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  And with that, of course, they also own the armies, the loans,
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  the money supply, the credit ratings, the narrative, the
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  propaganda, the factories of food supply.
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  They control international trade and international law.
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  But their most powerful weapon is their control of the truth.
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  And they're willing to fight, lie, smear, destroy, confiscate,
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  print and do whatever it takes to maintain and increase their
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  control over the truth and everything and everyone and put
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  we like, we like to connect the dots for you guys.
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  Remember the song that Sophie covered in the very, very
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  beginning about the rich men from Richmond and and you know,
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  this is a, this is, this is a everyday American.
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  That wrote this song, Oliver Anthony.
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  And he was identifying the fact that he felt like these people
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  in Washington, DC wanted to control everything and everyone.
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  So you're hearing the same story.
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  This isn't coming from simply Bitcoin.
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  We're trying to remain neutral here.
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  We're just reporting what we're seeing.
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  And they're all kind of saying the same thing.
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  Now what is the cause of this? Well, the cause of this is the
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  fact that they have a monopoly on the creation of money, and
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  that allows them to fund themselves.
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  This allows them to fund an endless bureaucracy.
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  You can make the argument that it also allows them to fund and
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  endless wars as well. So yeah, this, this is the
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  separation of money and say nothing in your life is as
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  important as this, what we're living through.
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  And you really got to decide what type of future you want
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  your children and you want your future generations living in.
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  Do you want your future generations living in a future
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  of slavery, which is central bank, digital currencies, Fiat
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  money? Because that is a probably, that
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  is a very, very realistic probability if we lose this
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  thing. Or do you want your children
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  living in a world of freedom, Bitcoin, peace and prosperity,
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  optimism and hope? You know, and this is the battle
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  of our time. And it's not a kinetic war.
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  It's not a war of violence. It is a it's a war of of hearts
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  and minds. It's narrative trench warfare in
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  the battlegrounds of the Internet.
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  That's why these songs are so powerful, These the the memes
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  are so powerful. Our ability to communicate
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  directly to you guys is so powerful as well, right?
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  So these are crazy, crazy times, man.
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  And I really, really love that song that that song was just.
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  Absolutely, Absolutely inspiring.
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  Anyways, Opti, what's your thought on everything that's
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  going on, brother? Yeah, well.
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  First and foremost, it's just like a wow when you watch that
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  video because like, it's not lost on me that he's saying RFK
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  Junior, saying what we've been saying for a long time.
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  And I think few people I especially in the Bitcoin space,
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  you know, we try to do our best to avoid talking about people
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  from an authority figure. You know, like slay your heroes
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  or it's a meme about that and Bitcoin, but.
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  It's not. It shouldn't be lost on you that
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  there is more weight when it comes from someone like RFK Jr.
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  Like, yeah, you know, average people like Nico and I and you
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  guys out there. Like we can have these
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  conversations constantly and we're instantly pigeonholed as
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  like conspiracy theorists. And now this conversation is
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  happening at literally the highest level in American
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  culture. And if that is not just showing
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  you guys that the Overton window has shifted, I really don't know
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  what else would because like. I don't know if you would have
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  seen these conversations happen four years ago, eight years ago,
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  and now this is a presidential candidate saying stuff that used
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  to literally get normal people canceled outcasted.
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  And this is the conversation that's happening.
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  And it just goes into the idea that I've been saying all the
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  time. I I am convinced that the
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  pendulum has swung, or at least is swinging back the other way.
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  And we know about the corporate press.
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  We've been covering the corporate press for a while.
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  Nikko's done a few takedowns of the corporate press on the show
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  live. And now again, you know, I I
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  don't put too much weight in politicians.
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  Though there is something to the fact that a Kennedy is coming
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  out publicly saying this stuff even as he's running for a
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  presidential election. And I know everyone in the chat
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  saying the the meme of like, of course he's going to say things
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  for votes. But the point that I think needs
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  to sink in, and I don't think we can emphasize it enough, is that
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  everyone is noticing the patterns now, guys.
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  And if he is at the very least thinking that this is a good
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  conversation point, this is a good point for people to latch
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  on to his presidency and vote for him.
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  Because he's coming out actually saying what every American out
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  there believes. I think that is just more signal
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  that we are right. We've been right and the
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  pendulum is swinging the other way.
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  I'm convinced that people are tired of getting gas lit.
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  I am convinced that people are tired of, like the song that
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  Oliver Anthony made and Sophie covered in the beginning of
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  Getting Poorer every Single day. And hey, you know, maybe this
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  presidential election isn't the year where Bitcoin is the
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  defining topic, but at least that conversation is happening
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  and now we can go out and have conversations everyday.
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  People, we've been covering it all week and last week that
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  people are feeling the pain of inflation.
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  People are starting to wake up, feel the pain and be like, what
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  the hell is going on? Why am I poor?
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  Why can't I buy the same amount of groceries that I used to like
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  What is going on? And that is the first step of
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  people waking up to Bitcoin, feeling the pain, asking these
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  questions. And then you come in as the
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  bitcoiner and you'd be like, hey guys, have you heard about
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  Bitcoin? Like this literally fixes your
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  your main problem, which is the money.
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  And of course we go out there, we, you know, I don't know if
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  you guys did you see the Dave Portnoy on Jack Mahler's over
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  the weekend? I haven't seen that.
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  OK, well, there's a, there's a good point in there.
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  And Dave Portnoy was like, yeah, I know I've, I've heard all the
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  Bitcoiner messaging about altruism and everything, and he,
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  I think he kind of had a point. Get people selfishly involved to
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  Bitcoin. Get people wanting to care about
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  Bitcoin because that is what's going to change their life is
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  them getting latching, getting obsessed, figuring out what's
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  the problem of the world, but actually doing things to make
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  their lives better. And that's what everyone wants
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  to do. And hey, you know, again, you
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  know me guys I am, I've been anti political.
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  I'm apolitical as as much as humanly possible.
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  But I understand that Bitcoin being a political is the most
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  political thing in the world. And hey, if politicians want to
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  embrace Bitcoin, spread the signal for us.
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  This is good for all of us. And soon enough.
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  I want to emphasize the fact like Bitcoin itself is neutral.
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  It's a neutral technology. It, you know, it doesn't lean
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  left or right. It helps everyone equally.
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  And but you know, I, I, I, I do agree with you the fact that,
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  you know, people are starting to wake up.
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  You know, Rfk's moving the Overton window.
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  But we're not just seeing this in, we're not just seeing this
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• 25:41
  So first we were talking about it in the very, very beginning.
• 25:44
  We were talking about. Open source software being
• 25:49
  sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Asset Control.
• 25:52
  And remember, when Marathon, which controls Maripol about
• 25:58
  Bitcoin 2021, they announced that they were going to release
• 26:03
  an OFAC compliant mining pool. And this has never been, of
• 26:08
  course. That publicly they reversed
• 26:10
  course after the community kind of fought back.
• 26:13
  But this has never been so important, about 51% of the
• 26:17
  Bitcoin hash rate currently. Belongs to KY seed mining pools.
• 26:23
  Now, of course. Does this mean that they could
• 26:25
  stop Bitcoin transactions or censor certain Bitcoin
• 26:28
  transactions? No, as long as there's one
• 26:30
  minor, as long as there's one tiny mining pool mining, you
• 26:34
  know, whatever blocks, they're going to be included in the
• 26:37
  blockchain. So it's the worst thing that
• 26:40
  could happen is, is that they could potentially slow down
• 26:44
  certain transactions. Now the question is, and a lot
• 26:47
  of people were talking about this when.
• 26:49
  Black Rock kind of getting it got into the game.
• 26:52
  Is the US government going to eventually enforce a a fork of
• 26:57
  an OFAC compliance chain using, you know, sanctions using money
• 27:03
  laundering, using terrorism as an excuse.
• 27:05
  I mean I don't know. I there's a reason that I played
• 27:09
  you that video from RFK Junior in the very beginning.
• 27:12
  There's a reason I read you that quote from name Boukele and
• 27:15
  don't drink the elites kool-aid. I don't believe a lot of the
• 27:20
  people in power, without naming anyone specifically have the
• 27:23
  best interest at heart of of the people.
• 27:27
  I I just don't think so and I don't think that they ever will
• 27:30
  because the incentives are not aligned right.
• 27:33
  You have as long as politicians have the ability to create money
• 27:39
  for free that everyone else has to work for, and they benefit
• 27:41
  from that system. They're not incentivized to do
• 27:44
  good by their constituents. They're incentivized to get as
• 27:47
  close as humanly possible to the Fiat money spigot to enrich
• 27:51
  themselves. If you take that away from them,
• 27:54
  the only way they can raise money for wars, for projects,
• 27:58
  for any type of idea that they come they come up with, is via
• 28:02
  direct taxation. That is a lot did as a lot more
• 28:06
  difficult of a sell to the public.
• 28:09
  The way that they get away with it now is through the hidden tax
• 28:13
  of inflation, which is absolutely interesting because
• 28:17
  Javier Mali, which has a really good shot at winning the
• 28:20
  presidency in Argentina, he literally said this on live TV
• 28:24
  like this is how fast the Overton window is shifting.
• 28:27
  Anyways, getting back to today's news.
• 28:30
  This is Zach Herbert. He's the CEO and cofounder of
• 28:33
  Foundation Devices. They make the passports, a great
• 28:36
  hardware wallet. He said the government just
• 28:39
  ruined 2 lives and I can't figure out what law was broken.
• 28:42
  Money transmission, Tornado crashes, Non custodial profiting
• 28:46
  because bad people use tornado. Crash companies profit from bad
• 28:50
  people using their services every day.
• 28:52
  Extremely dystopian. What Zach is saying is very
• 28:56
  important. Because shift this to Bitcoin,
• 29:00
  they're setting a precedent, right, These open source
• 29:05
  software developers, right. They develop a software right.
• 29:10
  And you know, bad people used it.
• 29:13
  In this case, it was the North Koreans, right?
• 29:15
  And I don't want to say the North Koreans are.
• 29:17
  I don't want to, I don't. I don't have an opinion on that.
• 29:20
  But you know from the eyes of the US government, North Korea,
• 29:23
  bad. But, but basically they, you
• 29:29
  know, they they created this software, right?
• 29:34
  And you know, they profited from it.
• 29:36
  I guess that's where you can make the case that, you know,
• 29:39
  that part was bad. But what if they didn't profit
• 29:41
  from it? What if they just created it in
• 29:43
  the 1st place and you know, people that the US government
• 29:47
  deems bad people? Use it.
• 29:51
  You know. Again, it creates A precedent
• 29:53
  like this is crazy that people are being jailed for developing
• 29:58
  software. I get it.
• 30:00
  You can make the argument that you know this wasn't fully
• 30:04
  decentralized. You can make the argument that
• 30:06
  they were profiting off of people that shouldn't have been
• 30:09
  using this software. But again, I do not trust any
• 30:15
  single type of creep like this. It should always be called into
• 30:19
  question and you should always shine a light of truth on it
• 30:24
  anyways. Very, very scary times.
• 30:27
  So Zach said. It best extremely dystopian.
• 30:30
  So this was back to the original article when we covered when the
• 30:33
  news broke. And this is Coin Center, which
• 30:36
  is like kind of like a lobbying arm for the Bitcoin and chicoin
• 30:39
  industry in DC. And they covered when this
• 30:44
  happens, right? And it said Coin Center is suing
• 30:47
  Office of Foreign Asset Control over its tornado cast sanction.
• 30:51
  The Office of Foreign Asset Control does not have the
• 30:53
  authority to sanction a smart contract, and Americans have a
• 30:57
  right to use privacy tools. It goes on to say today Coin
• 31:01
  Center along with the group of normal privacy seeking workers,
• 31:03
  donors, activists, public figures filed A lawsuit against
• 31:06
  the Treasury Department to keep privacy normal to delist tornado
• 31:10
  cash privacy tools from sanctions.
• 31:11
  And again, this is setting a precedent what open source
• 31:15
  software is next because it's very easy for them to say that
• 31:19
  bitcoins open monetary network is allowing, quote UN quote bad
• 31:24
  people in the eyes of the US government.
• 31:26
  To circumvent U.S. sanctions. It enables money laundering like
• 31:31
  you could see where it's going ever so slowly or how they could
• 31:34
  frame it anyways, goes on to say.
• 31:36
  Second, even Treasury's own regulations and PAC's executive
• 31:39
  orders limit the ability of sanction controls to transact to
• 31:43
  transactions with persons, entities or their property.
• 31:46
  The tornado cash sanctioned was made without a statutory and
• 31:50
  also without regulatory authority.
• 31:52
  It was made contrary to a law 3rd and sanctioning tornado cash
• 31:56
  tools. The Treasury failed to consider
• 31:58
  the collateral consequences of its actions or manifest any
• 32:01
  awareness of or jurisdiction for their significant deviation from
• 32:06
  previous sanction policies. Their actions were arbitrary and
• 32:10
  capricious. And what is the update to that?
• 32:14
  Well, it looks like they looks like they lost that case.
• 32:20
  And most importantly, not only did they that that case was
• 32:24
  dismissed or was lost. They charged the two developers
• 32:29
  and they charged the two developers with money land
• 32:32
  laundering and sanctions violations.
• 32:35
  Now here's some of the details. The charges and the indictment
• 32:38
  arise from the defendants alleged creation operation,
• 32:41
  promotion of Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixer that
• 32:45
  facilitated more than 1 billion in money laundering transactions
• 32:48
  and launched hundreds of millions of dollars from the
• 32:50
  Lazarus Group. The sanctioned North Korean
• 32:53
  cybercrime organization. Now again, I'm not advocating
• 32:57
  for this, you know, the Lazarus group or anything, but you know
• 33:01
  is if if history is a teacher, there's been many times where
• 33:06
  governments have taken advantages of crisis of crisises
• 33:10
  to take freedoms away from Americans, right?
• 33:14
  The last thing that you know, the last thing that comes to
• 33:17
  mind was the infamous Patriot Act, which is never repealed.
• 33:22
  You know, even after the socalled war on terrorism ended
• 33:26
  anyways, so they so they did. So they, you know, they, they
• 33:31
  charged these guys, they arrested these guys.
• 33:34
  And what's really interesting is, again it it kind of
• 33:36
  contradicts some of the laws that were in place, which is
• 33:39
  very similar to what the Coin Center article was saying in the
• 33:42
  first place. So it goes on to say, quote, the
• 33:45
  only thing the indictment claims regarding the defendants
• 33:48
  unlicensed money transmission is that they, quote, engaged in the
• 33:51
  business of transferring funds on behalf of the public and did
• 33:55
  so without registering with Vincent.
• 33:57
  Quote An anonymizing software provider is not a money
• 34:01
  transmitter. Fincent regulations exempt from
• 34:04
  the definition of money transmitter those persons
• 34:06
  providing only the delivery, communication or network access
• 34:09
  services used by money money transmitter to support money
• 34:13
  transmitter services. This is because of because
• 34:16
  suppliers of tools, parentheses, communications, hardware, or
• 34:20
  software that may be utilized in money transmission like
• 34:22
  anonymizing software are engaged in trade and not money
• 34:26
  transmissions. The indictment provides various
• 34:29
  factual allegations describing the activities the defendants
• 34:32
  performed. But all of those facts points to
• 34:34
  the defendants fitting squarely within finsense guidance on
• 34:37
  anonymizing software providers rather than them being money
• 34:41
  transmitters. So how long until they say you
• 34:44
  running a node at home, you are a money transmitter?
• 34:50
  Remember, this is exactly what Elizabeth Warren wants to do.
• 34:54
  This is the bill that she introduced into Congress.
• 34:57
  That is bipartisan. She has a Republican signed up
• 35:00
  for this as well, right. So you kind of see where this is
• 35:04
  going. Like you see where they they're
• 35:06
  they're taking it ever so slowly now.
• 35:08
  It shouldn't surprise anyone, because this is actually exactly
• 35:13
  what this is. Exactly what the book The
• 35:17
  Sovereign Individual predicted back in the 90s like this is
• 35:19
  exactly what they predicted the response from governments would
• 35:22
  be to these new technologies. So this is a quote from the
• 35:26
  book. It says new technologies will
• 35:27
  allow the holders of wealth to bypass the national monopolies
• 35:31
  that have issued and regulated money in the modern period.
• 35:34
  Their importance for controlling the world's wealth will be
• 35:37
  transcended by mathematical algorithms that have no physical
• 35:39
  existence. In the new Millennium, cyber
• 35:42
  money controlled by private markets will supersede Fiat
• 35:45
  money issued by governments. Lacking their custom scope to
• 35:48
  tax and inflate, governments, even in traditionally civil
• 35:51
  countries, will turn nasty. Businesses that offer services
• 35:55
  that facilitate the realization of autonomy by individuals will
• 35:58
  be subject to infiltration, sabotage, and disruption.
• 36:02
  Arbitrary forfeiture of property, already commonplace in
• 36:05
  the United States where it occurs 5000 times a week, will
• 36:08
  become even more pervasive. Governments will violate human
• 36:12
  rights, censor the free flow of information, sabotage useful
• 36:16
  technologies, and worse that. Surely that sure does sound
• 36:19
  familiar. It's almost as if they predicted
• 36:21
  this back in the 90s, dude. So holy cow bro, is the
• 36:26
  separation of money and state. This is what it's all about.
• 36:28
  This is the peaceful Bitcoin revolution.
• 36:31
  But a man, this is crazy dude. Like, I can't believe we live in
• 36:34
  a world where, you know, again, I'm not trying to justify them
• 36:40
  working with the North Koreans. And, you know, potentially
• 36:44
  enabling, you know, bad people in the eyes of the US government
• 36:47
  to commit crimes and whatnot. But what I'm trying to say is
• 36:50
  that like, dude, you they can use this very similar language
• 36:54
  and say, hey, if you run a note at home, you're facilitating
• 36:58
  into illegal transactions, right.
• 37:01
  So the it's just crazy. And then this kind of goes back
• 37:03
  to a point that I've been saying for for many, many months is
• 37:06
  that I don't think that the current system is compatible.
• 37:10
  With bitcoins open monetary network.
• 37:13
  And I think what they tried to do here is that they tried to
• 37:16
  set a precedent but they're saying look, open source
• 37:19
  software technology, we can sanction it.
• 37:21
  We we have the ability to do so. So yeah man, crazy crazy crazy
• 37:26
  crazy world. What are your thoughts Opti?
• 37:29
  Well, what do we say on the show?
• 37:32
  And it's that one quote like the powers that be will not go
• 37:35
  softly into the dark night. They won't go gently into, they
• 37:39
  won't go gently into The Dark Knight.
• 37:41
  And this is what we're seeing guys.
• 37:42
  And and the reason for those that maybe are new to the show
• 37:46
  aren't familiar with our thinking is because money is the
• 37:49
  ultimate power. And of course, having a money
• 37:52
  that is outside of the control of the powers that be of
• 37:56
  whatever you want to call it, the banking cabal, you know
• 37:58
  what, whatever nomenclature you want to use is obviously a
• 38:01
  threat to their power because what do we say all the time?
• 38:05
  If you're using a power that they control, then you are
• 38:07
  literally a slave. And and that may be harsh and
• 38:10
  hyperbolic to people, but it is very, very obvious that if
• 38:14
  you're using a money that is under their control that they
• 38:16
  can debase, Well, what are you going to do?
• 38:18
  You're going to be stuck in the rat race.
• 38:20
  You're going to try to continue to work harder and you're
• 38:23
  holding melting ice cubes in your hand.
• 38:24
  And you can't ever escape from that system.
• 38:26
  And This is why the quote, I think it's Hayek.
• 38:28
  I'm, I'm blanking on it right now.
• 38:30
  But the only way to take your power back is by building a
• 38:34
  roundabout system or a parallel system that is outside of the
• 38:37
  control. And obviously this is Bitcoin.
• 38:40
  And of course we are seeing the attacks on Bitcoin, the attacks
• 38:44
  on privacy. And if you just connect the
• 38:48
  disproportional attention that Bitcoin gets, that freedom
• 38:52
  technology gets, that privacy technology gets.
• 38:55
  And you compare it to just the size of Bitcoin and the industry
• 38:59
  it it really shouldn't make any sense.
• 39:01
  Like why are they focusing on something that's what are we at.
• 39:04
  We're like at $500 billion, the whole, you know, Bitcoin and
• 39:07
  shitcoin market cap is under maybe or maybe a little over a
• 39:10
  trillion dollars right now. Like, that is a small corporate
• 39:15
  company right now and they're making us out to be some
• 39:18
  nefarious criminals when all we really want to do is saving the
• 39:21
  money that they don't steal from us.
• 39:22
  Like Amen. It's really insane.
• 39:25
  And and not to, you know, actually I'm going to double
• 39:27
  down. I was going to say, not to get
• 39:29
  too conspiratorial, but we kind of went down that route anyways.
• 39:32
  We know that the dollar is the money that criminals use.
• 39:34
  Like, it's big. It's very obvious but.
• 39:37
  But but hold on, that isn't conspiratorial.
• 39:39
  Like, I know, I know. I'm just saying that because
• 39:42
  people will be like, all these guys are crazy, but we've
• 39:44
  brought on. No, no, no, but.
• 39:46
  Let's dive into that. Like what you mean by that?
• 39:49
  Like, let's be very specific. Like the vast majority of money
• 39:52
  laundering is done via banks and it's done via the US dollar.
• 39:56
  It is not done via Bitcoin, right?
• 39:59
  So let's be very clear what what Opti was saying.
• 40:01
  And that's a fact, right? That's not simply Bitcoin saying
• 40:04
  this. You don't trust.
• 40:05
  Verify. Check it out yourself.
• 40:07
  And we brought AKYC, AML expert on the show.
• 40:11
  We did an entire show focused on just that mere subject alone,
• 40:16
  Yeah. 100% I'm I'm glad you brought it up cuz I was gonna
• 40:19
  bring that up as well. But I've been saying it on the
• 40:21
  show and again, if you guys have watched the show for months now,
• 40:24
  you know and or even just watch the show on this topic.
• 40:28
  You know that money laundering and the other excuses, you know,
• 40:33
  sanctions, laws and criminals and what, domestic financial
• 40:37
  terrorists or financial terrorists, etcetera.
• 40:39
  All the all the terms that they're going to use are the low
• 40:42
  hanging excuses, the low hanging fruit excuses that is commonly
• 40:46
  used to paint bitcoiners as criminals.
• 40:49
  When really we just want to be able to hold the money that we
• 40:52
  can save in. We just want some privacy.
• 40:54
  We want to take back our autonomy.
• 40:56
  And we're we're not even doing anything like Bitcoin is
• 40:59
  literally protected by the Constitution in America.
• 41:02
  And I don't think privacy is is something that should be painted
• 41:07
  as criminals. Like, we have curtains on our
• 41:09
  house, you wear clothes. Like there's things that you
• 41:11
  should be keeping private, but dude, it's actually like,
• 41:15
  specifically protected. I think it's like by the 4th or
• 41:18
  5th amendment right, which is like no unreasonable search and
• 41:21
  seizure. That completely just got thrown
• 41:24
  out the window. And and really it makes you
• 41:27
  think, and I know we say this on the show and I know you guys
• 41:31
  have been thinking about it and and people been talking about
• 41:33
  this on the Internet. But it really makes you think
• 41:37
  that all governments around the world are just actively fighting
• 41:41
  against their citizens and they don't have your best interest.
• 41:44
  And it really blows my mind that people can still trust the
• 41:47
  government, you know, trust the experts out there.
• 41:50
  And it's like, are you guys awake?
• 41:51
  Are you guys actually noticing things?
• 41:53
  Are you just so caught up in emotion that you can't see
• 41:56
  what's actually happening in the real world?
• 41:58
  And again, one last thing, and then we can move on.
• 42:01
  As a Bitcoiner, it's amazing how you almost have superpowers, how
• 42:04
  you could almost see the future happening before it happens.
• 42:07
  And Nico, how many times have we covered this?
• 42:10
  We when this story came out, we knew that this is the inevitable
• 42:13
  end. And we not only the inevitable
• 42:16
  end, but we know where they're going to try to take it.
• 42:18
  And so guys, back to what we always say.
• 42:21
  You know, be aware, be vigilant, understand what's going on.
• 42:24
  Have these tough conversations with your friend.
• 42:26
  Because this is just for the proof that the powers that be
• 42:29
  are losing the control. They're losing their grasp on
• 42:32
  the everyday person. And This is why the echo chamber
• 42:35
  is breaking. This is why the Overton window
• 42:37
  has shifted into the Bitcoin perspective.
• 42:40
  But it's still going to be an uphill battle.
• 42:41
  It's still going to be an obstacle where?
• 42:44
  You know, we're going to have to have these conversations
• 42:47
  constantly, because people don't want to wake up.
• 42:49
  People are happy in the darkness, and when you shine the
• 42:52
  light, it blind. It's like the Matrix.
• 42:53
  Again, cliche Bitcoin are talking about the Matrix.
• 42:55
  Like, why can I see, like, why do my ears hurt?
• 42:58
  Like, why are you breaking my worldview?
• 43:00
  It's because you've never used your brain.
• 43:02
  You're still lost in the sauce. And hey, it's our duty as
• 43:07
  bitcoiners, as individuals, to help your friends and family
• 43:10
  make the make the exit route, make it off the Titanic.
• 43:14
  Yes, you know, we, we may be a little early, we may be reading
• 43:17
  into things, but like, it's happening right now.
• 43:19
  The creeks are showing guys like the dam is breaking and we have
• 43:22
  the best money in the world and they're losing their control.
• 43:25
  They're going to continue to print money.
• 43:26
  Everyone's feeling the pain. And you know, I hate to say we
• 43:30
  told you so, but we've been telling you and we will still
• 43:32
  tell you guys, we're going to keep telling you.
• 43:35
  Yeah, absolutely. And you you said something
• 43:37
  interesting too, right. Which is the idea like we're
• 43:40
  like people can't trust the government.
• 43:42
  It's it's, it's not that it's not that it's bad to trust the
• 43:46
  government per se. Is that like when when people
• 43:52
  repeatedly, when when when you see a pattern of lies over and
• 43:57
  over again, that's a bad thing, right.
• 43:59
  You know, there are, you know, Nambu Kayle is a great example
• 44:02
  of, you know, and I believe it's because the society, the base
• 44:05
  layer of Society of El Salvador is now based on truth.
• 44:09
  It's based on Bitcoin. They fix the base layer.
• 44:14
  And I think what you're seeing is a society where the
• 44:18
  government and the people, the incentives are aligned, right.
• 44:22
  So 9 Bukele is is doing good by its people because, you know, I
• 44:26
  think the base layer is sound. The base layer is based on based
• 44:29
  on truth. But if the base layer of the
• 44:31
  society is based on lies, it's a corrupt base layer.
• 44:35
  Like Fiat, like Fiat money. I think what you're going to get
• 44:38
  is people lying, right? It just makes perfect sense,
• 44:41
  right? It's like the root.
• 44:42
  If the root is rotten, what makes you think everything above
• 44:46
  the root is not going to be affected by that?
• 44:49
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  mind day, brother? What are we going to cover?
• 46:13
  All right guys, well, maybe I'm feeling a little sentimental
• 46:17
  because we are in Austin bit block boom.
• 46:20
  And I was going to do this. I think it was Tuesday, or
• 46:22
  rather I we postponed it to Wednesday, but then our
• 46:25
  traveling schedules got messed up.
• 46:26
  But anyways, I was talking about if you wanted to work in
• 46:30
  Bitcoin, like what can you do as an individual and maybe a little
• 46:35
  story time. And I I do have it in mind.
• 46:37
  I do have some notes, guys. I I wanted to give you guys like
• 46:39
  a good breakdown of what you should be doing.
• 46:42
  But just a little story time, what 2020?
• 46:46
  Nico and I met in the flesh at Bitblock Boom and Fast forward.
• 46:50
  And now we do this every single day.
• 46:53
  This is our job to make Bitcoin content and we would have been
• 46:55
  doing this either way. But I think what I want to do
• 46:59
  here today is give you guys some basic blueprints on what you
• 47:03
  should be doing to work in Bitcoin, or rather just become
• 47:06
  an entrepreneur, because I think Bitcoin is entrepreneur money.
• 47:09
  And so this might be a little self help you guys.
• 47:11
  I might be on my on my soapbox today.
• 47:13
  I'm feeling sentimental. OK guys, forgive me, you know if
• 47:16
  you guys are in Austin say what's up.
• 47:17
  But it's been three years since we met in the flesh at a Bitcoin
• 47:21
  conference and I was just thinking about this at like
• 47:25
  literally on Monday. I'm like alright, what do I want
• 47:26
  to do for the show? What I want to give you guys
• 47:28
  value, try to give you guys a blueprint so that you guys can
• 47:31
  continue to get better and it's just a basic blueprint that you
• 47:33
  could you could do this on any industry.
• 47:36
  You can do this for any interest, and this is just basic
• 47:39
  stuff that me and Nico have learned along the way, that I
• 47:42
  personally learned along the way, and now that I do work in
• 47:44
  Bitcoin, I I want to give you guys value back.
• 47:46
  So first and foremost, something we say all the time, Start where
• 47:49
  you are and start now. Start today.
• 47:51
  I don't care what you're doing, use your current skills, build
• 47:54
  some new skills, but you need to focus them towards either
• 47:57
  Bitcoin or building a business because everyone is one step
• 48:00
  away from working in Bitcoin if you want to.
• 48:02
  Maybe you just want to stack and Fiat mine, maybe your goal?
• 48:06
  Right now is just to save as much Fiat cash so you can save
• 48:09
  in Bitcoin. That's still, in my opinion,
• 48:10
  working in Bitcoin. But it's just what can you do
• 48:13
  today so that you can start working in Bitcoin And this can
• 48:16
  mean anything, like if you're a graphic designer, a memer, you
• 48:19
  know, work in Bitcoin, respond to a Bitcoin or learn to code
• 48:23
  review Githubs, you know, start an ecommerce site.
• 48:26
  If you're a mom and pop shot, literally accepting Bitcoin is
• 48:29
  something you can do. And that's how we move the
• 48:31
  Overton window. Like literally adding a Bitcoin
• 48:34
  Accepted here? Sign on your store.
• 48:36
  Is how you show people like, oh wait, I've had these multiple
• 48:40
  touches, oh wait, my local store actually wants Bitcoin.
• 48:43
  Like you start these conversations and once more
• 48:45
  people know it's an option, then it starts to be ubiquitous with
• 48:48
  the modern digital world and it's about giving people these
• 48:51
  touch points, about giving people these options.
• 48:53
  So again, this is an overview. I don't know what you're doing,
• 48:56
  but cater this to what you do, what your skills are, because
• 49:00
  everyone is one step away from being a Bitcoin or working in
• 49:04
  Bitcoin if they want to. And the next one guys.
• 49:06
  Because again, this is going to be a little self helpy, but but
• 49:08
  hold on, let me, let me kind of, let me kind of add to that.
• 49:11
  Yeah, jump in, let me kind of add to that before you continue.
• 49:15
  I love that you covered this topic.
• 49:17
  Right. Because it's so fitting that the
• 49:19
  three years ago not only did Opti and I mean in the flesh,
• 49:23
  but we like we were talking because of Bitcoin Kindergarten.
• 49:26
  By the way. Get the hat, it's in the back, a
• 49:28
  show off the hat. Opti show off the hat.
• 49:30
  So wine is happy. There we go, The Bitcoin
• 49:32
  Kindergarten. So we met at Bitcoin
• 49:34
  Kindergarten and Bitcoin Kindergarten was something that
• 49:38
  you and our boy that is currently the head of news at
• 49:41
  Bitcoin Magazine, Nick can't mind.
• 49:44
  You got yeah, shout out to Nick, Shout out to Nick.
• 49:48
  And you guys started this and that led that, led not only for
• 49:54
  Nick to land a job at Bitcoin Magazine, but also Justifier was
• 49:59
  part of it too. He started Emboss.
• 50:02
  I kind of started, you know, I was in that whole, you know,
• 50:06
  Bitcoin kindergarten. And then that led for me and
• 50:10
  Nick to build a relationship. And Nick was gracious enough to
• 50:13
  invite me to speak at the Bitcoin 2021 conference at the
• 50:17
  Mainstage. And at the time, simply Bitcoin
• 50:20
  had, I think it was like 900 subscribers.
• 50:22
  It was. It was a very small channel
• 50:23
  show. Me before you go on, I like it
• 50:26
  blows my mind that that was only 900 when you went on cuz.
• 50:30
  Even back then I was like, you know, simply Bitcoin is the
• 50:32
  biggest show ever. And it like when you said that
• 50:34
  the other day, I'm like 900. Oh my God.
• 50:36
  Wow. We cut a long way.
• 50:38
  Yeah. It it's, it's definitely been a
• 50:39
  grind and you guys have made it possible.
• 50:41
  But the the point that I'm trying to make is it it it
• 50:45
  didn't make sense in the beginning.
• 50:47
  Like if if you were thinking about it, like, is this going to
• 50:49
  work? Like am I going to get a job?
• 50:51
  Like, am I going to? Whatever.
• 50:52
  I would have told you, You can't think of it that way.
• 50:56
  What I was focused on was putting in keyword proof of
• 51:01
  work. If you put in proof of work, it
• 51:04
  starts to speak for itself. You start to build a reputation
• 51:09
  within the industry and that starts to open doors slowly.
• 51:13
  I saw Opti putting in the work with Bitcoin kindergarten for
• 51:17
  for many, many years and that led me to approach him And the
• 51:22
  proof of work that I put into simply Bitcoin eventually ended
• 51:26
  up landing me a job and one of the biggest Bitcoin companies in
• 51:30
  the space and one of the best Bitcoin companies in the space
• 51:33
  in my opinion. And I ended up getting a job at
• 51:36
  Swan And currently, you know, I do their YouTube over there.
• 51:39
  So the point that I'm trying to make is, you know what, six
• 51:43
  years ago I I was nobody, I, you know, I didn't have it.
• 51:47
  I didn't have any connections, I didn't have any of these things.
• 51:50
  I just kept working. I kept making content.
• 51:53
  I worked really hard and it opens doors and Opti, you did
• 51:58
  that as well. Nick can't mind did that and
• 52:00
  boss did that. I've I've heard this story and
• 52:03
  I've seen this story time and time again.
• 52:05
  Our boy Rustin, our boy Dell, we're the drop in the hot.
• 52:09
  Simply Bitcoin originals, you know, and I've seen this over
• 52:13
  and over again. So if you're trying to get a job
• 52:15
  in the industry, go to Bitcoin conferences.
• 52:17
  But most importantly, contribute work and don't expect to get
• 52:21
  paid for it initially. Just work your ass off.
• 52:25
  Provide value that will inevitably will be discovered
• 52:31
  and that will inevitably open doors for you.
• 52:34
  It's it's like it's so it's it's so obvious in hindsight, but
• 52:39
  initially I can understand why it isn't so obvious.
• 52:42
  And I really believe that this is because it's a Bitcoin thing.
• 52:46
  It's a it's a Bitcoin world, right?
• 52:48
  Put in the proof of work, first prove yourself, and then the
• 52:52
  doors will open for you by themselves.
• 52:55
  Doesn't matter what your college background is.
• 52:58
  I know, I know you went to college.
• 52:59
  I didn't go to college. It's a scam.
• 53:02
  Some people, some people provide, some people find value
• 53:06
  in it. But you know, some of the most
• 53:08
  successful Bitcoin zoomers, without naming them, they're
• 53:11
  called as dropouts, you know, And some of the most successful
• 53:14
  bitcoiners in the space, and some millennials as well.
• 53:17
  So that isn't a hindrance. What really matters is provide
• 53:21
  value. Work your ass off, add value to
• 53:24
  the community, contribute, and then eventually you will be
• 53:27
  discovered. So I just wanted to chime in on
• 53:29
  that. No, I love it.
• 53:30
  I'm glad you touched on a lot of things that I was going to touch
• 53:33
  on as well. And I'm glad like we didn't plan
• 53:34
  that. Guys.
• 53:35
  It's just like this is the, this is what we've learned throughout
• 53:38
  this whole time. And and just to kind of go over
• 53:40
  some of the things that Nico said, you know, first and
• 53:41
  foremost, of course, you're going to have to make sacrifices
• 53:44
  on, on a behavioral level. There is things that you're
• 53:46
  going to have to change if you want to become the person that
• 53:49
  you dream of that's like, you know, bubble gum.
• 53:53
  What's it? Cookie cutter advice.
• 53:56
  But the next one, guys. It's like what you're saying.
• 53:58
  Your network is your net worth and building relationships
• 54:02
  today, like the friends that you're hanging out with on the
• 54:04
  Internet right now, You don't know.
• 54:06
  Maybe someone else has the same idea.
• 54:08
  And you guys can continue to build these relationships, build
• 54:11
  these businesses. And then of course, guys, we say
• 54:13
  it all the time, but savings, like you need capital, you need
• 54:16
  to have some savings so that you can go out on your own and that
• 54:19
  you can actually risk it for the biscuit because you're not going
• 54:23
  to be doing this by working for someone else.
• 54:25
  This is like simple simple stuff.
• 54:26
  And then of course. Nika says this all all the time
• 54:29
  to me. And it's persistence and the way
• 54:31
  we always said, like, the universe will test you.
• 54:34
  It's gonna ask you how much you want it.
• 54:36
  There's gonna be so many obstacles, guys.
• 54:38
  And and again, even Nico touched on it.
• 54:40
  So you guys know, in the last couple of weeks, I've been
• 54:42
  talking about Alex Hermosi a lot.
• 54:43
  He's a business guy. He gives you the secrets out
• 54:45
  there. And one of the things he said is
• 54:47
  basically embrace uncertainty. Like the fact that you don't
• 54:50
  know it's going to happen, the fact that you don't know it's
• 54:52
  going to work is what makes it worth it so.
• 54:55
  Hey, I don't know what you have in your mind.
• 54:56
  I don't know what you think is possible.
• 54:58
  I don't know what you're good at.
• 55:00
  But you're going to have to go out on the limb because that's
• 55:03
  where the fruit is. Like, the uncertainty aspect of
• 55:06
  this is what makes us all worthwhile.
• 55:08
  And of course you had the best money in the world.
• 55:10
  What is the point of money is to eliminate future uncertainty.
• 55:13
  So go out there, solve problems for people, look at your richest
• 55:17
  friends out there and try to solve their problems.
• 55:19
  But again, the other thing that you should be doing is think.
• 55:23
  And speed. What can you get done today?
• 55:25
  What can you get done tomorrow? What can you get done in a week?
• 55:28
  That is how you should be moving.
• 55:29
  Move fast, get things done and and don't get stuck in this
• 55:33
  whole game of studying everything, being encyclopedia,
• 55:37
  devouring all the self help content out there.
• 55:40
  Just put a business plan in, make the product, get your
• 55:43
  website out, get things done quickly and things will happen.
• 55:48
  And if it doesn't work the first time, you keep going.
• 55:50
  That's the most important thing, like.
• 55:52
  Niko and I would be making content with or without simply
• 55:55
  Bitcoin. But the fact that we have this,
• 55:57
  we literally wake up every morning texting each other like
• 56:00
  all right bro, let's get after this.
• 56:02
  So again, guys like the TLDR is produced, create, experiment,
• 56:06
  put on your blinders, focus, surround yourself with other
• 56:10
  winners and get stuff done. And look, I have one meme here
• 56:14
  and shout out the self because she put this on Twitter and I
• 56:16
  and I've seen this before and I wanted to talk about it because.
• 56:22
  It's from Nike. It's their early, it's their
• 56:24
  early business model. And Sophie said it best you
• 56:27
  know, this sounds a lot like to eat those bitcoiners live by.
• 56:29
  This sounds like the the ethos that entrepreneurs, Bitcoin
• 56:32
  entrepreneurs live by. And we, this is all we're saying
• 56:36
  and this is what I want more people to know because you have
• 56:38
  the best opportunity right now. It is the depth of the bear
• 56:41
  market. You're stacking sats.
• 56:43
  Your pop may be working a field job that you don't like.
• 56:46
  Well, we're trying to give you the blueprints so that you can
• 56:48
  continue to get better, so that you can actually provide value
• 56:52
  to people in the ways that you want to fall in love and be
• 56:56
  obsessed with the things you do every day.
• 56:58
  And what's the mean? It feels like you never work in
• 57:00
  a day in your life anyways. For the audio listeners, here is
• 57:04
  a checklist from the early Nike days, and it goes one our
• 57:08
  business is changed to we're on offense all the time. 3.
• 57:11
  Perfect results count. Not a perfect process.
• 57:14
  Break the rules. Fight the law For this is as
• 57:17
  much about battle as about business. 5.
• 57:19
  Assume nothing. Make sure people keep their
• 57:21
  promises. Push yourselves.
• 57:23
  Push others. Stretch the possible 6.
• 57:25
  Live off the land 7. Your job isn't done until the
• 57:29
  job is done. 8. There's dangers.
• 57:31
  Bureaucracy. Personal.
• 57:32
  Ambition. Energy takers versus energy
• 57:34
  givers. Knowing your weaknesses, don't
• 57:36
  get too many things on the platter. 9 it Won't be pretty,
• 57:40
  and 10 if we do the right things, we'll make money damn
• 57:42
  near automatic. This is what you'll do, and this
• 57:46
  is what we think about. This is this is our company
• 57:48
  ethos and we show up every single day.
• 57:52
  Just trying to give you guys as much value on our channel as
• 57:55
  possible so that not only it's about Bitcoin, not only is it
• 57:58
  covering the corporate press, but so that you can also become
• 58:01
  a better person. Because that's what matters
• 58:03
  right now is becoming the The Walking billboard to spread the
• 58:07
  Bitcoin signal and people want to live a good life and people
• 58:09
  look at to their peers and you can be that person in your
• 58:13
  everyday life. So don't.
• 58:16
  Cut off whatever it is you're doing.
• 58:17
  You have the best opportunity. If you would have told me in
• 58:20
  2017 when the bear market hit that we would be doing this,
• 58:23
  that that we had all this going for us and all we had to do was
• 58:26
  just like beat our head against the brick wall every single day,
• 58:29
  I would have been like, you're crazy, bro, like it not going to
• 58:32
  happen. But we have an uphill battle not
• 58:35
  only about spreading Bitcoin, but about making the Bitcoin
• 58:37
  businesses that change the world.
• 58:38
  This is the opportunity you have anyways, A little soapbox you
• 58:42
  guys like. It is what it is.
• 58:43
  I wanted to add value because we're at bit bog.
• 58:46
  Boom. I I felt I'm feeling a little
• 58:48
  nostalgic and you know, maybe maybe romantic and and you know,
• 58:53
  whatever, whatever you already know, you already know.
• 58:55
  All right, Nico, all right, all right.
• 58:56
  Jump in. What's your thoughts?
• 58:57
  Yeah, first of all, I love you, brother.
• 58:59
  That's number one. Number two, dude, yes, Work your
• 59:04
  ass off it. You know?
• 59:06
  And I know I get this question all the time.
• 59:08
  You know, people want to work in the space, work your ass off,
• 59:12
  provide value. Don't ever let someone tell you
• 59:16
  that you know your your your dreams can't come true.
• 59:20
  I actually want this kind of reminds me of of this tweet that
• 59:23
  I I came out with the other day and I want to play it to you
• 59:28
  because I I was referencing it and it was basically a tweet.
• 59:34
  It was my first time at a Bitcoin conference and like I
• 59:40
  said, Nick can't. Mine was was gracious enough to
• 59:44
  was gracious enough to invite me to one of the mainstage, one of
• 59:49
  the main stages. So I'm going to read you the
• 59:51
  quote. I said my first talk at a
• 59:54
  Bitcoin conference circa 2021. Let me play you the clip and
• 59:57
  then I'll read you guys a tweet. And then another aspect of of
• 1:00:00
  simply Bitcoin, which I think resonates with a lot of people
• 1:00:02
  right is look the shit coin channels.
• 1:00:06
  Do something really well, right? They do the thumbnails and the
• 1:00:09
  click bait, they do it super well.
• 1:00:11
  So we thought was simply Bitcoin.
• 1:00:12
  Instead of speculating on the price and all that garbage that
• 1:00:15
  they talk about, right? We'll keep the click the the
• 1:00:18
  click bait will will will create the thumbnails like the shit
• 1:00:21
  coin channels. But when you tune into simply
• 1:00:24
  Bitcoin, all you're getting is signal, right?
• 1:00:26
  That's what we that's what we try to do.
• 1:00:28
  That's what we're going to keep doing and we're not going to
• 1:00:30
  stop until those shit coin channels, period.
• 1:00:37
  So that was just an idea at the time.
• 1:00:39
  Like, it was an idea. We had a very small channel,
• 1:00:41
  like no one, you know, like you could have said, like no one
• 1:00:44
  believed in us, you know, it was nothing.
• 1:00:48
  And I'll just read some of this. So I said my brother Nick
• 1:00:50
  Hoffman was great enough to invite me on a panel mainstage
• 1:00:53
  to talk simply Bitcoin, which only had 900 Subs at the time.
• 1:00:56
  Never could I have ever imagined my passion for creating content
• 1:00:59
  would not only create me a small business, small media business
• 1:01:02
  with Opti of course, but would eventually lead me to working
• 1:01:06
  for one of the Bitcoin companies in the space.
• 1:01:08
  Shout out to all you guys that support and watch our content.
• 1:01:12
  We wouldn't be here without you. Thank you for making our dreams
• 1:01:16
  come true. And also shout out to Corey, one
• 1:01:18
  of the best entrepreneurs I've ever met, for taking a chance at
• 1:01:20
  me at Swan and for anyone going through it.
• 1:01:23
  Keep your head up, don't stop believing.
• 1:01:25
  Work your ass off and never let, never let someone tell you
• 1:01:29
  something can't be done. So I think it's very fitting for
• 1:01:32
  today's culture segment, you know, So if you're trying to get
• 1:01:36
  a job in the space, you will get one.
• 1:01:38
  It's not a question of will you get one, it's a question of how
• 1:01:41
  much do you want one and if you really, really want one.
• 1:01:46
  I don't think I've ever met someone that hasn't got one
• 1:01:50
  anyways. But it is very competitive and a
• 1:01:52
  lot of people do want them. So you know, you really got to,
• 1:01:55
  you got to really prove to to yourself and also the universe,
• 1:01:59
  right, how bad you want this thing.
• 1:02:02
  Anyways, everybody, that's enough for the culture.
• 1:02:05
  That was a good segment. Very fucking wholesome.
• 1:02:07
  Yeah, very sentimental. Very sentimental.
• 1:02:10
  Very sentimental. All right, guys, let's get to
• 1:02:12
  the meme review. We got a lot of memes to review.
• 1:02:14
  Let's check it out. The Daily Meme Review brought to
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  portion of the show, guys. This is you.
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  Wait for all of that sentimental stuff so that you guys can get
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  the memes. Anyways, we say it all the time.
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  This is a meme review. Tweet to the bullets memes of
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  Simply Bitcoin TV or my personal account optimist fields.
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  Tag your favorite memes. Tag me in your memes, do your
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  first meme and tag me. I don't care if it's good enough
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  and it makes me either chuckle or be like, damn, I'll put it on
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  the show. Also, drop them in our telegram
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  group T dot me slash simply Bitcoin and this is the meme
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  where you drop your meme review score.
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  After the meme reviews and we will cover them live Okay.
• 1:03:23
  This first one is by our boy, the Bitcoin therapist, AKA the
• 1:03:27
  BTC therapist. And he goes, the pump is coming,
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  Hashtag BTC. And if you're new, maybe you
• 1:03:33
  don't understand the Bart meme, but there's a pattern.
• 1:03:36
  It's called the Bart. It'll pump, it'll go sideways,
• 1:03:38
  it'll dump, or it'll dump, it'll go sideways and then it'll pump.
• 1:03:43
  Well, we're going for it. Not only the Bart head pattern,
• 1:03:46
  we are going for the full Bart pattern soon, which is from
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  HEAD. To toe and you can see here
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  here's the price of dipping and now we're starting to get our
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  couple of legs up. So the pump is coming guys just
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  keep stacking keep building. This is the way it's coming it
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  just be patient guys lower your time preference this is the way
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  okay. This next one is by having party
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  MF shouts out to our boys over there and it goes Bitcoin
• 1:04:08
  changes you and we say this all the time you know it came for
• 1:04:11
  the money stayed to fix the money.
• 1:04:13
  Well we got a Pepe here and he's like came for the speculation.
• 1:04:16
  You see the price charts and he's all wondering, like, you
• 1:04:19
  know, is it the best time to? By Bitcoin should I be trading
• 1:04:21
  shit coins? Just stay in Bitcoin huddle,
• 1:04:25
  provide value saving Bitcoin, and then soon enough you will
• 1:04:28
  stay for the revolution. Because time in the market means
• 1:04:30
  timing the market and you'll turn into this.
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  You know we're very base Pepe with laser eyes that deserves in
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  a oh. I don't have my We'll have to
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  get them. You've got Bitcoin.
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  Ooh, raw. We have to stay at the same time
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  123. See.
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  That sounded bad. And he's got orange pills.
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  And you already know the deal. Okay.
• 1:04:49
  This next one is Maxi's club. Maxi's club.
• 1:04:51
  Sorry. And it goes 496 just for fun.
• 1:04:54
  And we got a Fiat maxi over here.
• 1:04:55
  You know, the normie. And it goes, hey, what do you do
• 1:04:57
  for fun? And we got bitcoiners and we got
• 1:04:59
  yellow burning dollars over here.
• 1:05:01
  And we're sitting here by the fire holding on to our coins
• 1:05:04
  because our coins are in cold storage.
• 1:05:06
  And we're. You know, unfazed, moisturized
• 1:05:09
  in our own lane building things. And we just tell the norm you
• 1:05:13
  wouldn't get it. You, you know, come with us when
• 1:05:16
  you're ready, but you just wouldn't get what we're doing
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  here. We will be over here building
• 1:05:21
  and having these conversations. Yellow.
• 1:05:22
  Yellow is straight chillin bro. Like, look how Look how unfazed
• 1:05:26
  yellow is. Just like, yeah, whatever.
• 1:05:28
  I don't think I've ever seen him that chill.
• 1:05:32
  He's drinking his Red Bull with probably something else in it
• 1:05:35
  and burning fires. OK, anyways, this next meme is
• 1:05:38
  by Eggplant. Eggplant under score Elon.
• 1:05:41
  And we got a wife. She's she's a new new bitcoiner,
• 1:05:46
  and she's mad at her Bitcoin husband and go stop spending all
• 1:05:49
  our money on Bitcoin. And then three years later,
• 1:05:52
  they're in a yacht watching TV's in a Jacuzzi.
• 1:05:55
  And then they're like, I'm so glad I married you and you spent
• 1:05:59
  all that money on Bitcoin, because.
• 1:06:01
  Number will go up and it will change your line, Sophie, if
• 1:06:03
  you're watching. This.
• 1:06:05
  Yeah, there's honestly, she's the one that I the first one.
• 1:06:07
  I thought, anyways, next one is Michael Sailor and this one.
• 1:06:10
  All right guys, this one might be a little contentious because
• 1:06:13
  Sailor is taking all the Bitcoin and some might say he's not
• 1:06:17
  staying humble, dude. He is definitely not humble,
• 1:06:21
  bro. He's propagating the memes.
• 1:06:24
  Guys, stay humble. Stack sets and you can see.
• 1:06:26
  Stay solvent. Yeah, stay solvent.
• 1:06:29
  You see, you know the AI picture here of some gems and the
• 1:06:32
  Bitcoin gold physical coin. And look, even billionaires
• 1:06:37
  propagate the memes. Even they understand what's
• 1:06:39
  going on and they understand maybe maybe what Saylor is doing
• 1:06:43
  right now is him staying humble. So, like, you know, different
• 1:06:46
  strokes for different folks. His version of humble bro his.
• 1:06:49
  Version of humble Well, hey, you know, there's differences in us
• 1:06:52
  Anyways, this last one is of course just a meme in itself.
• 1:06:56
  And I tell you guys some sometimes memes are just tweets
• 1:07:00
  and they're just words. They're not necessarily
• 1:07:01
  pictures. But I really like this one.
• 1:07:03
  Shouts out to Alan Farrington, aka at Allen F32 on Twitter.
• 1:07:07
  And he goes, the cure for shit cornery is in the soul, not the
• 1:07:11
  code. And I absolutely love this.
• 1:07:13
  I I say it all the time, Bitcoin changes you.
• 1:07:16
  You don't change Bitcoin. And that's kind of why we did
• 1:07:19
  the culture the way it did, because throughout this process
• 1:07:21
  you will become a better person, you will become the person
• 1:07:24
  worthy of holding Bitcoin and it will change you internally.
• 1:07:29
  So the care for shit cornery is in the soul guys, and as you
• 1:07:31
  guys can tell out there. The world is lacking soul,
• 1:07:35
  they're lacking substance. It's a superficial world.
• 1:07:37
  And Bitcoin does change this because individuals will change
• 1:07:41
  themselves by hoddling Bitcoin and the world will become a
• 1:07:44
  better place. Because we're all selfish and
• 1:07:47
  greedy and we want to get rich and we all want to live a good
• 1:07:49
  life. Well, you got to make some
• 1:07:50
  sacrifices. You got to change your behavior.
• 1:07:53
  And you got to hold the hardest money in the world.
• 1:07:55
  So you said something really interesting though about, you
• 1:07:58
  know the part about being selfish, right?
• 1:08:00
  And Bitcoin is really interesting and this gets lost
• 1:08:04
  on people a lot, right? You have and you have an
• 1:08:07
  incentives, you have a system with an aligned incentive
• 1:08:10
  structure. So for you acting in your own
• 1:08:12
  self-interest, you're actually helping everyone else.
• 1:08:17
  Fiat doesn't work like that. Fiat is a system where, you
• 1:08:21
  know, some lose and some win Bitcoin.
• 1:08:24
  Everyone could win. Now, obviously Michael Saylor
• 1:08:27
  has a lot more purchasing power than the rest of us.
• 1:08:30
  But Michael Saylor has to get in line like everybody else to
• 1:08:33
  acquire more Bitcoin. He he doesn't have a special
• 1:08:36
  privilege of creating more Bitcoin for free.
• 1:08:39
  He has to mine it. He has to spend resources.
• 1:08:42
  He has to get it. And that that creates a more
• 1:08:45
  equal system. And I and I think that in a
• 1:08:48
  society with aligned incentives, for the first time, you'll
• 1:08:53
  actually start seeing politicians do what they said
• 1:08:56
  they were going to do. And I think El Salvador is just
• 1:09:00
  the first example of of many, many countries that are going to
• 1:09:03
  follow suit. And I think that a lot of the
• 1:09:05
  corruption and a lot of the nihilism, a lot of the
• 1:09:08
  negativity that you see in today's world is due to the base
• 1:09:12
  layer of society being fundamentally broken.
• 1:09:15
  Broken base layer, broken world. Anyways guys, we are two likes
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  Unmute me. Unmute me.
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  I know what you're gonna say, but this is my meme review
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  score, so let's bring this up. Bring it up, guys.
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  My meme review score is the new Simply Bitcoin Hoodies.
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  We our show our our our website has just soft launch.
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  We still have to add Lightning payments.
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  We're we're probably going to do that tonight.
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  So on chain payments, but but on chain is available.
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  But on Chains Live right now, we we wouldn't be able to put a
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  Just just bear with us. We're going to get some more
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  that your score is what I think it is.
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  It absolutely is. I'm going to give the simply
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  detail literally in the in the tag, it literally says, yeah, it
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  could see that in the video description.
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  Or again, like I said, you could scan the QR code.
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  Anyways, Opti, let's get let's get to some meme scores first
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  one by Opti's harem of Bitcoin. Ladies so far.
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  I don't know what that means, but I don't want to know.
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  Real score. The best friends are the ones
• 1:12:43
  that sleep with you in the same hotel bed and give you a job.
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  I'm sorry all. Right.
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  All right. Forgive me.
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  Forgive me. I didn't.
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  I didn't. I didn't, no.
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  But that that's open to, that's open to interpretation, bro.
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  Everyday walking with crisis. Meme score and all Access pass
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  at the Bank of International Settlements.
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  World Economic Forum, International Monetary Fund,
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  every G, Seb and 30 central banks.
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  OK, all right, I didn't know they threw conferences, but I'll
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  take it. Dennis lesson says meme score.
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  The Ms. State humble I give it. I give it all my love, justice,
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  peace, respect Goodness in the world for a better future.
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  Love that love. See the Denmark flag.
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  Shout out Denmark, Elaine Elaine says score.
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  Bitcoin builds. People notice.
• 1:13:32
  Just do it. Replace it with buy Bitcoin.
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  Life is good for one and all. Love that.
• 1:13:36
  Absolutely. I love the optimism, Mclovin
• 1:13:39
  says 10 years into the future. On this day, Nico and Opti do an
• 1:13:43
  episode exactly like this one, and the replay of the episode
• 1:13:47
  will be priceless. I love that.
• 1:13:49
  So it's a great idea, Keith. Keefy Boy memes get a soft
• 1:13:56
  launch, just like Chrissy's, Al told.
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  Oh man, yeah, that's not meme score right here.
• 1:14:05
  It's not a full meme score, but I cuss 007.
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  Just Sats it. Oh, just sats it.
• 1:14:10
  I like it. I like it.
• 1:14:11
  All right, all right, guys. Well, I hope you enjoyed this
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  do the show. We're going to figure it out.
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  to figure it out. We'll keep you guys in the loop,
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  but we will be doing the Twitter spaces 100% and we will be
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  adding commentary between between the panels and hopefully
• 1:14:43
  we can get some guests to talk to in between.
• 1:14:48
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