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You've Been Lied to About Iran | Why We're at War and How it Affects Bitcoin | Beyond Bitcoin · Simply Bitcoin

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  If you're like me or anyone I know, you're wondering, why are
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  we even in this war? Have you seen these grocery
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  prices? Why would a country with so many
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  issues at home start a war abroad, one that nobody voted on
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  and nobody elected for? You may also be asking yourself,
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  how do we even get here? Today we're going to look at the
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  bank's role in war and how it affects the people and their
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  economies. The real, the dollar, different
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  names, same story. They told you this war was about
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  weapons. It's not.
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  Stick with me and we'll follow the money.
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  And I do mean that literally. And where it leads is somewhere
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  most people are looking oh nice, 50% off somewhere that connects
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  directly as to why Bitcoin exists and why what just
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  happened. Maybe one of the most clarifying
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  moments we've ever had. Emotions.
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  This is beyond Bitcoin. Judge me.
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  Look, I've been scrolling through my feed all this week,
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  sitting with this and the question I keep seeing, the one
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  that everyone's asking is the same one I opened with.
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  Why are we here? Why now?
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  Why Iran? They gave you an answer.
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  Nuclear weapons, national security, regime change, the
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  same reasons they always give. I'm going to walk you through
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  why that's not the real answer, and then I'm going to show you
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  what is. Because when you see it, when
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  you actually follow the money, Bitcoin stops looking like a
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  speculative asset and starts looking like the most logical
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  response to an insane system. Bitcoin dropped when the news
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  broke. A lot of people panicked and a
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  lot of people asked, isn't it supposed to go up when things
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  get scary? We're going to answer that
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  question, too. So three things here.
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  First, Bank's role in the war. There's a pattern here that goes
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  back decades, and someone just explained it on camera better
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  than anyone that I've heard. We have the clip too,
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  exclusively. Just kidding.
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  It's on the Internet. You can go check it out
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  yourself. It's from a Tucker Carlson
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  interview anyway. Second, what war actually does
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  to people and their economies. Not the geopolitics, the human
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  cost, the real, the dollar. What happens to regular families
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  when the money breaks? And 3rd, where Bitcoin fits into
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  all of this, because Bitcoin's reaction to this weekend wasn't
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  a fluke. There's something else going on
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  here. And once you understand what
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  that something else is, what actually is being fought over,
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  well, let me know because I'm trying to make an episode here.
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  Here's the question I want you to sit with.
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  Why does the United States keep going back to the Middle East?
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  Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, and now Iran.
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  The official reason changes every time.
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  WMDS, Al Qaeda, humanitarian intervention, nuclear weapons.
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  The packaging is always different, but the destination
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  keeps being the same region, the same kinds of governments, the
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  same outcome. I want to show you a clip
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  because someone actually sat down and said out loud on camera
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  what most journalists won't go near.
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  I think it's the most important context for everything happening
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  right now. Where the countries where those
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  central banks were not on board to do programmable money and
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  their governance structures were not on board with essentially,
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  you know, because of Epstein, I'll call it the Rockefeller
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  Ross Shield model, there was an effort to say, OK, we're going
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  to basically assert control of the central banks in those
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  countries. That's my interpretation.
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  And I think one of the reasons we're seeing so much tension
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  around Iran is because Iran right now is the big leakage in
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  the system. How?
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  So. Wait, it's not about their
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  nukes? No.
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  So, well, you know, Iran's central bank counts.
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  One of the reasons it counts is because their oil and energy is
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  very important, including for China.
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  And that's very important in the BRIC system.
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  What the BRIC system is trying to do is to create independent
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  payment systems. But if you're going to come out
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  with programmable money, with digital IDs that are
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  interoperable globally and programmable money that that
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  controls in each jurisdiction centrally, you can't afford
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  leakage. And so you've got way too much
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  leakage in the system to proceed with what they're trying to do.
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  And Iran is, and the BRIC nations are a sticking point.
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  And certainly Iran's oil, you know, feeding China gives China
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  greater independence. Let me break that down for a
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  second. She's not talking about
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  ideology. She's not talking about
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  terrorism. She's not talking about nuclear
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  weapons. She's talking about central
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  banks and her argument. The countries that end up on the
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  receiving end of the US military force are the countries whose
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  central banks are not on board with programmable money, with
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  digital IDs, with a global interoperable financial system
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  that can be monitored and controlled from the top down and
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  the key line. It's not about their nukes.
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  Iran's central bank counts not because of the weapons, but
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  because of who controls the financial rails that oil and
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  trade run on. Is this bullish for Bitcoin?
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  Arthur Hayes seems to think so. Now, what is programmable money?
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  Because this is the part that connects directly to you.
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  A CBDCA central bank digital currency is a money that comes
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  with rules built inside of it. The government can see every
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  transaction. They can program what you're
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  allowed to spend it on. They can set an expiry date.
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  They can turn your account off. China already does this.
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  It's not a conspiracy theory. It's a policy that's been
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  publicly discussed at the IMF, the World Bank and central banks
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  on every continent. Catherine Austin Fitz, the woman
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  in that clip, says that problem is leakage, meaning there are
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  too many countries, too many people, too many economies
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  operating outside of that system, countries like Iran.
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  And leakage apparently has to be fixed.
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  Surprise, surprise, that's where the bombs come in.
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  Everything is digital, and what is not digital is gradually and
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  more rapidly than gradually becoming digital.
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  You buy digitally, use, we speak digitally.
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  There are lots of things that are taking place that way.
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  So why wouldn't currency also be digital?
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  I'm going to oversimplify it. You have central bank money,
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  which is essentially, let's say banknotes.
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  And that central bank money is critically important for the
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  trust that people have in the system.
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  The fact that you hold a dollar that I hold a euro is, you know,
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  in euro we trust and we know that that banknote is always
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  going to be honoured. It is central bank money.
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  Then you have commercial bank money, which is what commercial
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  bank create by activating granting loans.
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  And it's, it's, it's, it's a whole different situation.
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  But if you just look at central bank money, why would it not
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  also turn digital? Why would we always and forever
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  rely on banknotes as our basis for the currency?
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  So we, I think we owe it to future generations and, and, and
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  to all of us to build that alternative of digital currency,
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  which is, you know, to, again, to put it to oversimplify it,
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  it's, it's digital banknote with less total anonymity, which is
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  probably right, given, you know, the, the, the security that we
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  want to give each other and the respect that we have for the,
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  for that, both the, the confidentiality of information,
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  which we're working hard so that there is as much privacy as
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  possible. But equally the fact that it
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  cannot be totally totally anonymous and facilitate the
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  likes of money laundering, financing of tourism and what
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  have you. Notice how Lagarde fumbles
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  around when she gets to the stuff about privacy.
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  Yeah, I'm sure you really want to give us the respect we all
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  deserve. Christine.
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  I want to talk about the people for a second because I think
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  we're losing this in the politics.
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  There are regular people in Iran now, families, people who did
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  not choose their government, did not vote for this war, and have
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  been watching their life savings disappear for years.
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  The Iranian rial has lost the overwhelming majority of its
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  value over the last decade, not because Iranians are bad at
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  economics, but because sanctions, money printing, and a
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  government trying to survive have quietly destroyed the
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  savings of every ordinary person in that country.
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  Think about what that means. You saved your whole life, and
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  then, through no fault of your own, no bad investment, no
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  gambling, you held the money your government told you to
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  hold, and it evaporated. Now look at the dollar.
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  The dollar has lost over 20% of its purchasing power since 2020
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  alone. You feel it every time you go to
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  the grocery store, every time you fill up your tank, every
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  time you scroll Zillow at 2:00 AM.
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  Brielle the dollar. Different names, same story.
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  And every war makes it worse. Because wars cost money.
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  Hundreds of billions, sometimes trillions.
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  And that money has to come from somewhere.
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  Do you know where that money comes from?
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  That's right, the printing press.
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  And here's the immediate economic picture from this
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  specific war. The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow
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  waterway that carries roughly 1/3 of the world's seaborne
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  crude oil, has effectively stopped moving tankers.
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  Wait, what? Shipping companies pulled their
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  vessels. Insurance premiums spiked.
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  Oil jumped. Energy analysts are warning
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  about $100 oil if this doesn't de escalate.
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  That's not an abstraction. That's your gas prices, your
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  grocery bill, the cost of everything that gets shipped
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  anywhere. the Fed just took a rate cut off the table.
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  Oil spikes means inflation. Inflation means holding rates.
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  The economy is stuck between a war and a hard place.
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  And then there's Bitcoin. Bitcoin dropped, as we all know,
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  when the news broke, people panicked.
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  A lot of the same informed citizens who asked, wait a
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  second, isn't it supposed to go up when things are scarier?
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  They sold. Here's the thing though.
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  Bitcoin was the only liquid market open when the bombs were
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  falling Saturday morning at 2:00 in the morning.
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  Every single bank was closed, Every single Stock Exchange was
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  dark. But Bitcoin was trading.
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  It absorbed the fear it took, the selling pressure that would
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  have spread across every market on earth if those markets were
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  open. And then it came back.
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  Before Wall Street opened, before any stock moved, Bitcoin
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  had already recovered. It's not a weakness.
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  That's what a 24/7 global monetary asset looks like.
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  consultation. So where does Bitcoin actually
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  fit into all of this? Well, go back to what we heard
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  on that Tucker Carlson clip. The argument is that governments
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  are fighting literally with bombs over who controls the
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  global financial system, who gets to be inside the
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  programmable money network, and who gets shut out but Bitcoin.
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  Bitcoin is not inside that network.
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  Bitcoin cannot be brought inside that network.
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  There is no central bank to take over.
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  There is no headquarters to bomb.
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  There is no CEO to sanction. There's no one who wants to give
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  us the respect we deserve. Just 21 million Bitcoin.
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  That's it. That's the whole policy.
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  No government decided that no war changes it now.
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  Arthur Hayes just published an essay called iOS Warfare, and
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  his argument is simple. Every time the US goes to war in
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  the Middle East, the Federal Reserve follows with money
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  printing. Every single time.
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  He calls it predictable, familiar.
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  Same operating system, different upgrade cycle.
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  By the by the end of 2026, what do you think?
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  I think we're be, you know, 500 to 750,000 Bitcoin, I think 2026
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  and 2027. This is the meat of the money
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  printing the the Trump administration is going to do
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  what they know how to do best, whatever government knows how to
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  do best. When in doubt, print the money.
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  If the people are unhappy, print the money and hand them a goody
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  and they're going to show up at the polls and hopefully vote for
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  you. The meat of money printing that
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  phrase is doing a lot of work. Hayes's argument is that this
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  war, like every war before it, costs more than the government
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  has, which means they borrow, which means they print, which
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  means the dollar gets weaker, which means hard assets like
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  Bitcoin go up. You know, gold knows this.
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  It was up when the bombs were dropping.
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  And here's the layer that makes this specific moment unusual.
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  But also, it seems as though there's been reticence about
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  actually buying Bitcoin for the strategic reserve so far.
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  So far, it's confiscated. The original intent was to own a
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  million bitcoins. So I actually think they will
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  start buying because I think this will help Trump in a couple
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  of ways. The midterm sections, part of
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  the reason he won won the presidency, I think was the
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  crypto community. Yes.
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  And another reason, of course, is his family is all in on
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  Bitcoin and and other crypto assets.
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  They haven't bought a single set on the open market.
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  The US Strategic Bitcoin Reserve holds 328,000 Bitcoin, all of it
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  confiscated, none of it purchased.
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  The original intent was a million Bitcoin the midterm
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  elections which happened in November 2026.
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  Trump's family all in on Bitcoin.
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  War funding needs money printing.
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  Strategic Reserve hasn't started buying yet.
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  You connect the dots. Here's where I land on all of
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  this. This isn't about number go up,
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  it's about number go down so far down.
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  This is about freedom versus control.
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  There are people, powerful people, who want to build a
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  financial system where every transaction is visible,
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  programmable and revocable, where your money can be turned
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  off, where what you can spend and when, and on what is decided
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  by someone other than you. And there are wars being fought
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  right now, real wars with real casualties over which countries
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  get brought into that system and which ones do not.
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  But Bitcoin is not in that system.
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  Bitcoin can't be brought into that system.
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  That's the point. So do yourself a solid and study
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  Bitcoin. Before we wrap up, I just want
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  to give a shout out to Club Orange, formerly known as the
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  Orange Pill app. I've been connecting with a lot
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  of you folks on there and honestly, it's been great.
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  Thank you so much for connecting with me.
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  If you want to connect with other Bitcoiners like yourself,
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  people who are thinking through all of this stuff, that
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  community exists at cluborange.org.
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  And if you want to connect with me directly, I'm at oceans
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  OSHINS. I'll respond, come talk to me.
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  I'm at Club Orange. The grocery prices question I
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  opened with that wasn't a joke. Well, actually was a joke, but
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  it's also not a joke. This is about as indecisive as
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  the federal funds, right? There are families right now
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  trying to figure out how to make the math work on both sides of
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  this war in America, in Iran, in every country whose energy bill
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  just got more expensive because the Strait of Hormuz is crooked.
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  You get that Strait of Hormuz crooked.
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  Ha ha, Nobody voted for any of this, and nobody asked the
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  families. And every generation watching
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  this happen wonders why the answer is always the same thing
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  in different packaging. We are one of the first
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  generations in history to have an actual exit from that system.
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  Not a protest, not a petition, A monetary network that no
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  government can take over and no war can destroy, and that no
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  printing press can inflate. You need to use it.
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  And that's all I've got. Thank you so much for watching
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