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- 0:12Yeah, we're gonna simply Bitcoin live or your number one source
- 0:14for the peaceful Bitcoin Revolution code.
- 0:16Breaking news culture, medic Warfare.
- 0:18We will be your guide through the separation of money and
- 0:21state. And today is one of those
- 0:22episodes where clearly, the state is fighting back.
- 0:26I mean, they're literally redefining what a currency is
- 0:32their new. Definition of what Bitcoin is.
- 0:35They call it a digital asset, but words are very powerful,
- 0:39like, make no mistake, like words are Extremely powerful.
- 0:42So when you call something it's like remember the in Europe,
- 0:45right? It's the self-hosted wallets
- 0:47with the hosted wallets. It's like it's think about it,
- 0:51right? It's as if the self-hosted
- 0:54wallet. Is the abnormal one and the
- 0:56hosted wallet? Is the normal one?
- 0:57So it's the same here. It's the same thing here, right?
- 1:00Bitcoin is not a currency, right?
- 1:04It's a digital asset, right? It's not a currency to digital
- 1:07asset currencies. Can only exist if they come from
- 1:09governments, right? So that's their latest.
- 1:11And also, we're going to go through a bunch of other stuff.
- 1:14Whether it's the, whether it's another attack on end-to-end
- 1:17encryption, they want to see what the f you're doing.
- 1:21And you know what, the implications would be living
- 1:26under a total Central Bank, digital currency system, which
- 1:31we've, which we've gone over many times on this show.
- 1:34We say it, we say it all the time, right?
- 1:35It is Bitcoin or slavery. We're in a hyperbolic.
- 1:37When we say that, we mean it 100 million percent.
- 1:42Anyways, no more delay. I want to bring up my legendary
- 1:44coast, always cut optimistic heat.
- 1:47Dated Christine Lagarde, who was the head of the IMF and now is
- 1:53the head of the European Central Bank.
- 1:55Also, a convicted felon, opt, he's ex-girlfriend, how you
- 1:59doing Opti? What's up, dude?
- 2:01Yeah, you're making me look bad. Well, I get dating a convicted
- 2:05felon. Like, come on, man.
- 2:06She's oh man. But hey, it's been a good week
- 2:10yesterday. We had narwhal tacos.
- 2:11What the day before, we did the three good news for Bitcoin.
- 2:15But hey, it's Friday and I guess the Friday show, always covers
- 2:21all the crazy stuff that trying to push through on the weekend.
- 2:24So I'm excited to get a get that Nico, just, maybe Nica Jones is
- 2:27going to show up and start ranting on us.
- 2:29I hope so. We got to end the week.
- 2:32Good. Bro, we gotta end the week, good
- 2:34over here. But yeah, man, it's crazy.
- 2:36It's almost like we knew this was going to happen and they
- 2:39continuously try to use that double speak to control Bitcoin.
- 2:44If there's an exit route, they will use it 10.
- 2:47Here is them trying to stop. And anyways, on today's culture
- 2:50opt he's quoting his ex-girlfriend and everything
- 3:07we got dr. Albert and GI the first
- 3:11Competition Canada to accept Bitcoin.
- 3:14So we're going to talk about his Bitcoin journey and what's this
- 3:17doing for his business? So let's bring them in.
- 3:20All right, let's bring them in. Let's bring them in.
- 3:22Let's introduce the man. How you doing?
- 3:24Albert. What's up?
- 3:26All right guys, thank you. See you guys very excited today.
- 3:30Oh man. Hey happy to have you on the
- 3:32show. Looking forward to our
- 3:34conversation Opti. Why don't you tell the audience?
- 3:37Who Albert is what he did? What he does?
- 3:39I just did bro. You're not paying attention.
- 3:41Oh, why did I skip? That one.
- 3:44Is because I'm creating a poll in the background.
- 3:46Anyways, everybody no more delay.
- 3:48Let's jump straight into numbers.
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- 5:19At the time of recording the Bitcoin price is 27th. 165 SATs
- 5:23/ dollars 3695 block height 790 2569.
- 5:29Reachable Bitcoin owed, seventeen thousand ninety six
- 5:32blocks to having 47,000 431, having estimate April 20th, 2024
- 5:39total length meeting network capacity, is 5312, capacity
- 5:44value 143 million, u.s. dollars. And the realized monetary
- 5:48inflation rate is one point seven, six percent the market.
- 5:52Capitalization of Bitcoin 524 billion dollars with a be.
- 5:58Anyways, I have a quick update for you guys.
- 6:00We haven't talked about this for a long time in the background
- 6:05with everything going. On the Bitcoin, hash rate
- 6:08continues to make all-time highs, right?
- 6:12Absolutely, you know, absolutely Bonkers.
- 6:15I, you know, theoretically Bitcoin becomes harder to
- 6:19computationally attack the highwomen.
- 6:22The hash rate, the higher the hash rate represents for anyone
- 6:24who doesn't know it's an estimate to the amount of
- 6:27computational power, actively mining Bitcoin, right?
- 6:31So you want that number? It's, you know, Michael Saylor
- 6:33says it best. It's going up forever.
- 6:35Laura, I think the hash rate is going up forever, but the thing
- 6:38that I wanted to highlight which was really interesting and I
- 6:41have a theory of the case and I don't hear enough people talking
- 6:43about it on Twitter but when I do post about it a lot of people
- 6:46it resonates with a lot of people but it's the attack that
- 6:50happened on bitcoin and this attack.
- 6:52Happened. This attack happened during the
- 6:57last bull market, right? And what am I talking about in
- 7:00anyone under the rug? Because a lot of people don't
- 7:02really appreciate or, or paying attention to the the
- 7:07infrastructure behind Bitcoin. So, what am I talking about?
- 7:10So in the middle of 2020 is home a 2021.
- 7:15This is the middle of the last bull market.
- 7:17The CCP, the Chinese Communist Party bands.
- 7:20Bitcoin mining, within their borders.
- 7:22Here's the hash rate, plummeted by 50%.
- 7:26But if you guys are looking at the chart, if you guys are
- 7:28watching the video version of this, look at what happened to
- 7:32the price, right? It's almost as if you know, it's
- 7:35correlated then you have to think about it.
- 7:36Like so they clearly attack the price.
- 7:39Right. I believe this is the reason as
- 7:42to why Bitcoin did not hit 100K La cycle.
- 7:46I think they did it on purpose. I think they attacked the price
- 7:49and when you attack the price, you know, Angie used The biggest
- 7:53convince her of people, right? I believe Bitcoin was destined
- 7:56to 100K and I believe that it didn't hit 100K because they
- 8:00attacked it. And I mean, it's clear as day to
- 8:02me like it's so correlated, right?
- 8:05The hash rate with the price and why why does the hash rate going
- 8:09down cause cell pressure? Well you know, it's not like
- 8:13those Miners. And China said, okay, you know
- 8:15what, you know, forget the incentive the government made it
- 8:19illegal, you know, it's time to Go home and think of something
- 8:23else to do. No, they just left, they
- 8:25migrated overseas. They left China.
- 8:29And a lot of them came to Texas. A lot of a lot of the migrated
- 8:32over the world and the, you know, the most awesome part
- 8:35about Bitcoin is that you have one of the most powerful nation
- 8:38states in the world. To the most totalitarian
- 8:40nation-states I might add and they still couldn't kill the
- 8:44honey badger. In fact, the hash rate recovered
- 8:47without any Central party or Central Authority or government
- 8:50trying to push that Just Bitcoins mere incentives alone,
- 8:54the hash rate recovered basically, in less than a year
- 8:59or a little bit more than a year.
- 9:01And now it's making all-time highs so they kind of old they
- 9:04could only pull that trigger one time.
- 9:07So the CCP most part one of the most powerful countries in the
- 9:11world. They attacked Bitcoin the attack
- 9:13Bitcoin right in the middle of the last bull market.
- 9:15I suspect that's one of the reasons that they knew that the
- 9:18Bitcoin didn't hit 100K and what did they?
- 9:22Up doing the ended up, making Bitcoin stronger in the, in the,
- 9:25in the long run, right? So anyways, moving on to this,
- 9:29this is a great map. This is, by the University of
- 9:33Cambridge. And it shows where, you know,
- 9:37the estimated, you know, where all the hash rate is located
- 9:41around the world, of course, is all estimated, right?
- 9:42So even after the bandits still estimated about 20% of the hash
- 9:46rate is still in China, Russia has about four point six
- 9:50percent. The Red States 37.8 4%, very,
- 9:55very high. I hope that doesn't get to 50%.
- 9:59Brazil has about .33, you know, so El Salvador, so little he
- 10:05can't even see it. Mexico has about Point, eleven
- 10:09Canada has about six point. Four eight percent Germany about
- 10:133% Australia. You have about Point. 36
- 10:18percent, Kazakh stand, large portion of the hash rate is
- 10:21there. It's about 13 .22 percent.
- 10:25So, you know, this is when China Bandit, all those miners, all
- 10:30they did is just migrated to the United States and a big portion
- 10:33of them actually, migrated to Texas.
- 10:38Sweden has about point eight percent Norway has about Point,
- 10:4274 percent, and I want to talk about those Nordic countries, so
- 10:45this is John, we've had him on the show.
- 10:47He's part of the Luxor, Luxor Tech team which, you know, runs
- 10:51the Luxor. Mining pool, which represents
- 10:53about six to seven percent of the Bitcoin hash rate and this
- 10:57is what we're talking about. This is one of the strongest as
- 11:00social talks they have on bitcoin has Bitcoin uses more
- 11:04electricity than the country of Denmark.
- 11:06Wow, Bitcoin is terrible. Terrible for the environment.
- 11:09But they don't talk about is the fact that Bitcoin, it's only
- 11:14economical for Bitcoin to use, stranded energy, or isolated
- 11:18energy, or what we call in the show wasted energy.
- 11:22Wasn't going to waste. It would be too expensive for
- 11:25Bitcoin miner. So Bitcoin miners are like
- 11:26water. They're gonna go, they're going
- 11:28to flow to where they're treated best and where it's more.
- 11:32It were its most economical for them to mine and he's a great
- 11:36representation of. This is John says electricity
- 11:39prices in the nordics continue to stay - Bitcoin miners in
- 11:43Finland and the Northern parts of Norway and Sweden.
- 11:47Keep being paid to consume electricity.
- 11:50Right? So think about that.
- 11:52That think about that for a second, right?
- 11:54Electricity up in the northern part of these countries is so
- 11:59underutilized. They're literally paying people
- 12:03to use it. And this is an important concept
- 12:07for you guys to arm yourself with, especially when your chart
- 12:11when you're talking to detractors, or you're talking to
- 12:14people that have been manipulated by the social
- 12:17attacks, the propaganda attacks either coming from the Biden
- 12:20Administration. Basically saying, you know,
- 12:23Bitcoin miners is terrible for the environment.
- 12:25We're going to tax it 30%. Now, that's dead because of the
- 12:28debt ceiling deal but or you know, the social attacks coming
- 12:32from one of the one of the actors from Harold and Kumar
- 12:35right total full-on production, you know, saying this is
- 12:38terrible for the environment. You know, you have to change the
- 12:41code all these like you know these movements right the
- 12:45misrepresentations by the New York Times.
- 12:47It's important that you arm yourself with the data with the
- 12:51facts. Say listen?
- 12:52Yes, Bitcoin mining might use a lot of energy but but what
- 12:56energy is it using its as using energy that I was already going
- 13:00to way so that energy wasn't being used.
- 13:03Anyways, which is why it's which is why it's so cheap which is
- 13:07why it's economical for Bitcoin miners to use that said energy,
- 13:10right? And you got to arm yourself with
- 13:12these facts, right? Because this is how you defend
- 13:14yourself from these misrepresentations in these
- 13:16social attacks, right? This is like yes fine.
- 13:18Bitcoin uses a lot of energy. But what energy is Bitcoin using
- 13:22And that is the important discussion and that is something
- 13:24that is not being talked about enough.
- 13:26Anyways Opti, what are your thoughts on all this, bro?
- 13:28Well, first off the hash rate is going parabolic and you just
- 13:31love to see it and it really makes me wonder who started to
- 13:35mine Bitcoin and what mining Farms are being deployed at the
- 13:39moment. But, hey, Bitcoin.
- 13:41The biggest supercomputer in the world is only getting stronger
- 13:43and you just love to see it camp and Bitcoin can only ban
- 13:46yourself from Bitcoin. All the means we usually talk
- 13:48about but just to that last point, we we know here.
- 13:51At least you. And I and most people that hang
- 13:54out with us in the audience that the Bitcoin energy fudge
- 13:57surrounding Bitcoin. Mining is never really about the
- 14:00fact, it's an emotional response to something that people don't
- 14:03understand. Obviously on a surface level it
- 14:07seems like you know Bitcoin mining is going to blow the
- 14:10oceans and all that stuff. We've heard for years, but when
- 14:13you really break down the facts, like Bitcoin is using excess
- 14:16energy that no one is using. And why not make a profit off
- 14:19that Bitcoin is incentivizing better.
- 14:22You use and will Usher us into a bright orange future.
- 14:25So, I know Bitcoin miners know this, I know most of the
- 14:28audience knows this, but there's still people out there that only
- 14:32read the headlines and still think that Bitcoin mining is bad
- 14:35for the environment. So, it's just on the one hand,
- 14:37an education issue. And on the other hand, it's
- 14:40something we talked about here all the time.
- 14:41It's winning the hearts and minds of the masses and
- 14:43explaining to people at maybe not with facts motor with a good
- 14:47story, or maybe some cartoons, or, you know, podcast or
- 14:51whatever. Whatever mechanism you guys can
- 14:53figure out to show people. That Bitcoin mining actually
- 14:56does improve the world. And, you know, combat the Harold
- 14:59and Kumar propaganda pieces of the world.
- 15:04But you do work on this Albert. Yeah, all this talk about energy
- 15:10to me, it's mean, it doesn't matter what it doesn't matter
- 15:15how much energy Bitcoin uses, because ultimately it's pretty
- 15:19much the most important use of energy, maybe in the history of
- 15:25man. Like, it's, we're freeing
- 15:29Society from from slavery. So.
- 15:33Whether you're using it, I mean, whether it's more than Christmas
- 15:37lights, video games, it doesn't matter.
- 15:43Yeah, yeah. And I mean and that's it like
- 15:45I'm important discussion right? Because you know the world that
- 15:48they propose is that they want to have dictatorial powers, the
- 15:53central planners they want to dictate, you know what energy
- 15:56use is not okay, what energy use is.
- 15:58Okay. Yeah and and that's a very scary
- 16:01world to live in. And then tie this in with the
- 16:03Central Bank digital currencies and the that's going to enable
- 16:07them, give them the capability, you know, 22.
- 16:12Do you know given the capability to control people?
- 16:17Right. It's like and you know that
- 16:18imagine it's like your energy use is tied to your Central
- 16:21Bank, digital currency at out, you use too much energy or let's
- 16:25say you you know you played video games for too long or you
- 16:29have a gas stove God forbid or you buy too much steak or you
- 16:33know you you drove too many miles in the month and that you
- 16:37know they shut down and and I really think like if you break
- 16:41it down and you get to a very A fundamental level, right?
- 16:45You control energy, you control people and I think that's really
- 16:48what it's about and you know I always say Bitcoin exposes
- 16:51incentives, you know and eventually it exposes like the
- 16:54very very basic incentive like what is it exactly that you're
- 16:58trying to do and it's simple you're trying to control people
- 17:03and I think over time they're going to run out of excuses like
- 17:06you can only use the environment for so long you can only use
- 17:10money laundering for so long, right?
- 17:12But Instead of being on the defensive on the back foot that
- 17:15I see a lot of bitcoiners, you know, we're instead of being
- 17:19reactionary my you know, my theory of the case and I think
- 17:24Walker from the crypto couple, did an incredible job taking it
- 17:28on the offensive and attacking Bitcoin attacking the New York
- 17:31Times holding them to their own standards.
- 17:35Hashtag stop the presses. But yeah, we have to get on the
- 17:39offensive. We have to get on the offensive.
- 17:42We have to You know, hold them to their own standards, right?
- 17:47And ask them. And I think this is the
- 17:48indefensible. I think this is the, the, the
- 17:51question that they will never be able to answer, which is, why
- 17:54are you forcing us to use the money that steals from us?
- 17:57Why are you forcing us to use a money that decreases in
- 17:59purchasing power over time? They have not they have ignored
- 18:03that question. They have not come up with an
- 18:05argument for it. They tried to deflect and what
- 18:08they try to say is you know what actually You need a state to run
- 18:15a money so it's they're not even answering the question.
- 18:18What they're doing is like no, no, no, but I get it.
- 18:21But like you need a government to run money?
- 18:25The problem is that government has abused that trust.
- 18:28I don't think Bitcoin would exist.
- 18:31If, you know, governments kept, if governments didn't print
- 18:34money, the way that they've been printing money, basically,
- 18:37breaking that social contract. I don't think that the incentive
- 18:42Would have been there to create something like Bitcoin, but
- 18:45because governments can help themselves.
- 18:47But to print money to devalue everyone else's work in time and
- 18:50energy. You know, you have something
- 18:53like Bitcoin and Bitcoin is, it's a peaceful protest to say,
- 18:56look enough is enough. But yeah, II, you know, these
- 19:00are the one of the the to social tax are going to be the right to
- 19:03self custody. And then the energy use thing.
- 19:08I think they're going to have a hard time with the energy use
- 19:10thing because of the incentives are too big like everyone.
- 19:12The The Profit incentive is there like MIT Meiner just going
- 19:15to go where they're treated best.
- 19:16However I think the self custody attack is going to be a lot more
- 19:21successful, I think they're going to demonize it, they're
- 19:24going to label it and I think a lot of people are just not
- 19:27comfortable, writing down 24 words, you know.
- 19:31So I think that that that definitely going to be a battle
- 19:34anyways before Don t, go, before you go before you go, it's been
- 19:37a while since I said this. And every time I say it, we
- 19:40always kind of have to walk back.
- 19:41Walk back off the edge, but the central planners want, you broke
- 19:45and destitute. This is why they're trying to
- 19:47control your energy. They want to take you back into
- 19:50the Stone Age. Has this is not an official
- 19:53opinion of Simply Bitcoin as an official opinion of Optimus.
- 19:57Yes, food food, energy and money.
- 20:00Yeah, exactly. What's happening in the
- 20:03Netherlands, right? Yep, it does.
- 20:05Yeah but the farmers in Sri Lanka.
- 20:08Now they're talking about it in the US with the US farmers and
- 20:12I've read some tweets about that what a week ago.
- 20:14So I wouldn't be surprised as well if they try to pull the
- 20:18same crap, the they've done in the Netherlands.
- 20:22Yeah, yeah. 100%, you know, you control food, you can call you
- 20:27could say food is a form of energy, right?
- 20:29You could make that argument. Man, you're saying you could
- 20:31make that argument so you control energy, you control
- 20:34people and I think fundamentally Bitcoin is going to expose like
- 20:39it's going to expose that these people.
- 20:42It's not about, you know, the the the the the greater good or
- 20:46you know all the BS it's really about controlling people on a
- 20:49fundamental level. I really think that's what that
- 20:52that is what it's about. Anyways everybody let's get on
- 20:55to the news, we got a lot to talk about a lot of a lot of
- 20:59crazy stuff that Are going to go through today, but at the same
- 21:02time, if you guys have been tuned in to the show, it should
- 21:05not come as a surprise to you either.
- 21:07Anyways, let's check it out. The Daily News, The Daily News
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- 22:31the messages and we do take the time every week to try to go
- 22:35through them all. So we really appreciate all the
- 22:37love anyways. I said this in the very
- 22:39beginning of the show, it is very, very interesting and I say
- 22:44this all the time, guys words are powerful.
- 22:47It words are powerful, you can tote you control vocabulary, you
- 22:51control people. And the redefinition of words is
- 22:56a very strong tool of control. It's something that goes over
- 23:01our, you know, our heads, a lot people.
- 23:04Like they, you know, they complete their completely
- 23:07oblivious this If you seen, you know, again guys we don't lean
- 23:11left or right. You don't stand for or Red vs.
- 23:16Blue. We stand for is Green verse,
- 23:18orange, green stands for Central Bank, digital currency slavery,
- 23:22orange, stands for freedom, and prosperity, and Bitcoin.
- 23:24Obviously. So that being said, their
- 23:26current culture War in the United States, right over the
- 23:29last couple of years, right? And you've seen a lot of
- 23:32redefinition of words, right? Or the pandemic, right
- 23:35redefinition of what a, you know.
- 23:38No of what a vaccine is, right? So you know the redefinition of
- 23:43words and words in general is very very powerful.
- 23:46So don't don't take this lightly because these are tools that
- 23:49they use and again it's not to convince you.
- 23:52It's not to convince someone who has been orange, pilled.
- 23:55It's the convince someone who has not been orange build,
- 23:58right? So when you hear in the Lexicon
- 24:03self-hosted wallet, or hosted wallet, you have to take it upon
- 24:07yourself. Ray, if you hear, you know, a
- 24:10family member or friend, repeating those words, you have
- 24:13to take it upon yourself. Say Hey, you that that that term
- 24:16does not exist in the Bitcoin white paper that was made up by
- 24:19the government. Literally I've never heard the
- 24:22term self-hosted wallet that that came into existence a
- 24:25couple years ago anyway so this is the latest attempt.
- 24:28So on January 24 2023, the IRS the the Internal Revenue Service
- 24:33today the Internal Revenue Service or the the tax the tax
- 24:38people. In the United States reminded
- 24:40taxpayers that they must, again, answer a digital asset question
- 24:44and report all digital asset related to income, when they
- 24:47file their 22 2022, federal income tax return as they did
- 24:52for fiscal year. In 2021 the term, digital assets
- 24:56has replaced virtual currencies a term used in previous years as
- 25:01very important, right? It's very, very important.
- 25:04What does that mean? Bitcoin is not a currency,
- 25:09Bitcoin is a digital asset, you know we we can only determine we
- 25:13can only use or determine what a currency is and what it
- 25:16currently is not, right? And we've heard it for, we've
- 25:19heard it from their mouths. We've heard it from, you know,
- 25:22their reports, right? Whether that is the future of
- 25:24money report that was released by the US Treasury.
- 25:27Whether that is the White House economic report, that was
- 25:30released by The Biden Administration, we've heard them
- 25:34make the case that you need a government.
- 25:36To issue a money and, you know, normally you would say, okay
- 25:40that's fine. The problem is that governments
- 25:42have abused that privileged and they've abused that privilege to
- 25:47benefit themselves at the cost of their citizens, right?
- 25:51Anyways, so a going kind of pivoting also talking about the
- 25:54IRS as well, IRS to send agents abroad to fight peer-to-peer
- 25:59mixing defy and crypto. Crimes goes on to say IRS,
- 26:03criminal investigation will launch a pilot program in June
- 26:06And where cyber at this age will deploy to four continents across
- 26:10the growth Globe to combat cyber crime, focusing on tax and
- 26:13financial crimes that use crypto currency decentralized, Finance
- 26:17peer-to-peer payments and mixing Services.
- 26:19The for individuals tap to serve as cyber times out to say have
- 26:22significant experience investigating cybercrime and
- 26:25will work with IRS, law enforcement counterparts in Asia
- 26:29Europe, South America, and Australia.
- 26:31The Cyber at the sage will deploy to Sydney Australia.
- 26:34Bogota Colombia Frankfurt, Germany.
- 26:37And Singapore for 120-day detail, which takes place from
- 26:41June to September 20 23. Now, the thing that I want to
- 26:45focus on a sec, okay? Find their combating crime.
- 26:48Me know, maybe they're going after drug lords and you know,
- 26:50it maybe they're going after real criminals.
- 26:52But again, words are important. They're basically saying that
- 26:57they're going to focus on peer-to-peer payments.
- 27:00Like what is wrong with a peer-to-peer payment?
- 27:03Like it again implies that somehow Pier.
- 27:06To peer is dangerous. And you know again words are
- 27:12important, right? Because you know and we've seen
- 27:15this guy's we've seen this over the last two or three years.
- 27:18I think the internet has really awoken.
- 27:20A lot of people to the fact that media has been used as a control
- 27:26mechanism that those aren't my words.
- 27:28It literally Tucker said this, before he got fired, we played
- 27:31you the clip, we went on a podcast but the corporate the
- 27:35corporate Legacy Media Has been used as a as a control mechanism
- 27:39and these are the types of words that the corporate media are
- 27:43going to use. They're going to say, you know
- 27:44what peer-to-peer did, that's dangerous.
- 27:47You know what? Bitcoin it's not a currency,
- 27:49it's a digital asset. You can't see it as a currency.
- 27:52What are you talking about? So and then here moving on to,
- 27:57you know, moving on to Spain, right?
- 27:58Which is in Europe. Here's an article by Wired
- 28:01Magazine says, leaked government.
- 28:03Document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end.
- 28:06Option in response to an EU proposal to scan private
- 28:09messages for illegal material. The country's officials said it
- 28:13is quote imperative that we have access to the data.
- 28:16Now, you would, you would the argument that you would say is
- 28:19okay, you know, this is good. This is going to stop crime.
- 28:23Like this is, this is actually, you know, this is actually a
- 28:25good thing, but history has shown otherwise history has
- 28:29shown when governments have this much power, they absolutely
- 28:34abuse it. And You know, the the the
- 28:38Twitter files which were released when Elon Musk spot
- 28:41Bitcoin, sorry. But Twitter were a great and
- 28:45indication of this. And I'm going to tie this in
- 28:47with Central Bank, digital currencies in a second.
- 28:51So here's a tweet or a tweet thread better said by Alex Burr
- 28:55and son. And he goes on to say Twitter's
- 28:57own lawyers, believe the company could not successfully defend
- 29:01its pandemic vaccine censorship policies against my lawsuit.
- 29:05Over its 2021. And of my account, Twitter was
- 29:08likely to lose, burn Sunburst Twitter.
- 29:10My federal lawsuit against the company for Banning me over my
- 29:13vaccine reporting Twitter's, lawyers concluded after
- 29:16reviewing internal documents related to the band.
- 29:21It goes on to say that the that issue is Central to Bernsen
- 29:25verse a verse Biden. My new lawsuit against the White
- 29:28House and Pfizer for allegedly conspiring to violate My First
- 29:31Amendment rights by coercing Twitter to ban me and that's a
- 29:35very, very important. You know, reveal here, right?
- 29:39Is that even in the United States, even in the United
- 29:42States, even in the United States, that American citizens
- 29:48are literally protected by the First Amendment.
- 29:51It literally, the first amendment in the Constitution
- 29:53says Congress shall make no law abridging the, the speech of
- 29:57Americans. They governments could still not
- 30:00help themselves, so, and you blame them, right?
- 30:03It's just, like, it's human nature.
- 30:05Obviously, if you have the The power you're going to use it or
- 30:08a lot of people don't have the self-control, they can't help
- 30:10themselves but not to use it. So when you, when you hear this
- 30:14stuff right whether you know it's the redefinition of words
- 30:18or in the case of Spain where it's like it's imperative that
- 30:20we have access to the data history has shown that you use
- 30:24that data, and you use it against innocent people, that
- 30:28just want to speak their mind. So again, like it goes down to a
- 30:32very, very basic principle that I think a lot of bitcoiners If
- 30:36it in fact it's in grind in Bitcoin, it's ingrained in
- 30:39Bitcoin, right? Can you sensor on bitcoin it?
- 30:43Anyone sensor on bitcoin? No, can't censor on bitcoin,
- 30:46right? Can you print more Bitcoin for
- 30:49free? No, you can't do that.
- 30:51Right? So it creates like this equal
- 30:53system. There is no privileged class
- 30:55that gets to dictate what speech is.
- 30:57Okay. And, you know, you could say
- 30:58money is a form of speech and you there is no privileged class
- 31:03that gets to issue money for free that everyone else has to
- 31:06Work for what? Governments are basically
- 31:09advocating for is, you need them, you need that privileged
- 31:12class because society would not be able to function without that
- 31:16privileged class. But as the Twitter files have
- 31:18shown, and I think as the last couple years have shown that
- 31:22they have consistently abused, this power to protect their own
- 31:27political moat over and over again.
- 31:29Here's a tweet by Alex gladstein so one of the greatest Bitcoin
- 31:32tweets of all time so someone called but coin that's not me.
- 31:36That said, there isn't a single goddamn thing that Bitcoin can
- 31:40do for retail that Apple pay doesn't already do 10 times
- 31:43better. And then Z saudara said, I can't
- 31:47use Apple pay PayPal Visa master or anything like that.
- 31:51I'm from Iran, I could use Bitcoin.
- 31:53What do you have to say? And it's a very, very powerful
- 31:56message, right? Clearly this person but coin has
- 31:58Financial privilege, clearly, they're an American citizen or
- 32:02they live in a country that has very, very well developed
- 32:05Financial rails and the vast majority of the world, you know,
- 32:10the global South, they do not have that same privilege or they
- 32:13live in a country in a totalitarian country where, you
- 32:19know, if the government had control of the money, they will
- 32:22weaponize it against you. And here is this funny as video
- 32:26that I ran into on Twitter. I'm gonna pull an OP T.
- 32:28Today, I'm going to put them. I'm gonna insert a bit of a meme
- 32:32and I love this Twitter account. It's from CCTV idiots.
- 32:36And it says, For rent bike abruptly locks because Riders
- 32:40deposit balance suddenly ran out.
- 32:43Well, could you imagine if this guy was working or using a
- 32:49central bank, digital currency in his social credit system,
- 32:53went below, a certain score that would suck.
- 32:58You would face plant. Don't don't allow Central Bank
- 33:01to show currencies to allow you to face plant against the the
- 33:05payment. Because you decided to use a gas
- 33:08stove, or you decided to eat too much steak that month, you know,
- 33:12be free, use a currency, that no one can control, no one can make
- 33:19more of with without a cost, you know, refuse to work for a money
- 33:24that another man can work can make for free, refuse to work
- 33:29for money that another man could change the rules to that money,
- 33:33to benefit themselves, refuse to do that.
- 33:36And by the Say what I just said that applies to shit coins,
- 33:38right? Work for a money where the rules
- 33:41are, set in stone, set, in stone and no one could change the
- 33:46rules. And there is no privileged class
- 33:48Elite Class that benefit from it.
- 33:51And only Bitcoin could do this right.
- 33:54Only Bitcoin. Bitcoin is the only, you know,
- 33:57cryptocurrency has true decentralization, it's the only
- 34:01cryptocurrency that no one really controls, you know,
- 34:04there's a set of rules. Those rules don't.
- 34:06Don't change. And, you know, and and I think
- 34:10the world would be a much better place, you know, if we live in
- 34:15that type of world and that's what we're fighting for.
- 34:17Anyways Opti, what's your take on this road?
- 34:19I know it covered a lot but I hope I tied it together.
- 34:23Yeah yeah there's a there's a lot to cover but I'm just going
- 34:26to kind of go back into the beginning.
- 34:28You know the whole digital asset talk.
- 34:30A Bitcoin is a database. It's simply code guys, it's
- 34:32human-readable text and you can literally print the whole
- 34:35Bitcoin Network. The all the UT X UT X UT exocet
- 34:39into a book, like the Crypt Awards of the 90s proves that
- 34:43this is protected by the Constitution.
- 34:45So you know, the IRS can kick rocks.
- 34:47But Beauty on has been on this way for a while.
- 34:49Like this is why he is on that on that idea of being very
- 34:56correct. With the words that you are
- 34:57saying, there's no such thing as a digital asset, even though I
- 35:00know a lot of politicians kind of angling Bitcoin and shit
- 35:03coins under this digital asset framework.
- 35:06But This framing gives politicians all the framing they
- 35:09need to do their politicking and clamp down on bitcoin and even
- 35:13chick coins and stuff. So I this is why they
- 35:16continuously tried to roll out the money.
- 35:19Transmitter license is all that stuff.
- 35:21It's like Bitcoin is simply code guys, is this is a for First
- 35:24Amendment issue here, like Bitcoin is speech.
- 35:27It's a database, you know, I know it's it's used as money.
- 35:32It's a pseudo money to to maybe try to frame.
- 35:36In a way that people can understand but on that same
- 35:40framing like Bitcoin cannot be regulated.
- 35:42But again this won't stop politicians from trying because
- 35:45we know why they are freaking out.
- 35:47They want to control this exit route, that is Bitcoin.
- 35:50So, you know, I'm not really surprised that we are seeing
- 35:53this but it really does remind me of the IRS news that we saw a
- 35:58while ago, of them hiring 9,000 new IRS agents.
- 36:02It's almost like they're creating an army to come after
- 36:04everyone around. The world apparently you.
- 36:07So yeah. I mean like and you know and
- 36:09again like you know, I'm not against paying taxes.
- 36:14I think. You know, you have to, you know,
- 36:15follow the laws and your country and all that stuff, it's just
- 36:19you know like it's the theory from the sovereign individual
- 36:21you know as the nation state continues to grow bigger, you
- 36:25know, these nation states continue to grow bigger and they
- 36:27continue to take on this much debt, they're going to have a
- 36:30ton of expenses of which they can't pay for and then of course
- 36:34that forces them to squeeze. Their citizens more and more,
- 36:39and more, and more and more, right?
- 36:41And then, you know, unfortunately, the IRS is just
- 36:43happens to be the tax kalisch collection agency in the United
- 36:47States, right? But again, like I don't really
- 36:50blame any of these individuals at the IRS is they're just
- 36:52following their own instead due to their job.
- 36:54They're paid to do that, you know, but I think that, you
- 36:57know, we're like kind of living in this world right where, you
- 37:01know, the the government's are turning on their own citizens,
- 37:05just to keep on there. Just to keep on the lights.
- 37:07And by the way, I don't think this is so apparent in the
- 37:10united. Semijns, I think it's a
- 37:11parent's, a bitcoiners but like in the case of Argentina is
- 37:15fascinating, you know they take a bailout deal.
- 37:19Says you can't you know you can't allow the adoption of
- 37:22Bitcoin. You know they install Capital
- 37:24controls, they don't want people fleeing to the dollar.
- 37:27You know there's an official rate for the currency then
- 37:31there's a black market rate for the currency.
- 37:33There's two rates, you know, it's It goes to the fundamental
- 37:37question is are our governments really for the People, by the
- 37:40people or governments by the government for the government?
- 37:43And I think Bitcoin exposes incentives and I think Bitcoin
- 37:46is going to expose a lot of governments that say, Hey, you
- 37:50know, we you were representative democracy, we represent you, but
- 37:54in reality, you know, they're self-serving and I think Bitcoin
- 37:58exposes that and it exposes the fraud that is Fiat money, right?
- 38:02They say it's a public money, but truly the benefactors are
- 38:06the rich. Each the benefit from asset
- 38:07inflation and the truly the benefactors are governments
- 38:10themselves, right? Anyways, Albert.
- 38:13What are your thoughts on all this?
- 38:16Well, exactly. What would you guys?
- 38:18Just said, just even just yesterday I think there was an
- 38:22article about Argentina Central bank's preventing the all the
- 38:29financial institutions institutions from offering
- 38:32Bitcoin right and you know Argentina just accepted a loan
- 38:38from the IMF you know if you accept the loan from the IMF
- 38:43basically I am EFT, right? Your eye, your eye LF.
- 38:48Hey you're here it's like it's like doing business with the
- 38:53loan shark. And yeah.
- 38:57So you could mean, why would the IMF who's supposed to help
- 39:04countries that are struggling? Why would they tell them
- 39:09specifically you can't use Bitcoin?
- 39:12That doesn't make sense if you try to help somebody You could
- 39:16let them, do you would let them do what they want.
- 39:18You don't you don't give with one hand and kind of take with
- 39:24the other hand and, you know, I've read some of gladstein
- 39:29stuff. I haven't read his new book, but
- 39:32you know, this is kind of stuff. Is they've done so many times to
- 39:37so many countries. It's Sad and pathetic, but it's
- 39:44going to be all over. It'll be over for them to
- 39:47sometime this kind of give it some time, and they'll be done
- 39:53World Bank. They'll be after as well.
- 39:56Yeah. 100%. I agree with you.
- 39:59I think Bitcoins incentives are going to stay winning and all
- 40:02they have to throw at us is coercion.
- 40:04I think I'm more bullish on incentives than I am on
- 40:07coercion. Anyways, everybody we are
- 40:09transitioning. You the information age and you
- 40:12definitely want to, you know what, you want to keep your
- 40:15generational wealth, you don't want to lose your generational
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- 42:01Happy to answer them anyways, Opti.
- 42:03What are we covering today on the culture?
- 42:05Well, everyone is saying, let let Albert talk.
- 42:10So this is where we let Albert talk.
- 42:12All right? I have your website over here
- 42:14and people may be asking what is going on here?
- 42:17Why are we talking about eyes? What is going on here?
- 42:20But if you see up here on top, we have the, we accept Bitcoin
- 42:23here and Albert, you are the first optometrist in Canada, to
- 42:29accept Bitcoin. So how Out journey bin.
- 42:33Why are you accepting Bitcoin? Maybe let's just start there.
- 42:38Well, I started accepting Bitcoin at the end of December
- 42:44so it's been about just about six months right now.
- 42:48Yeah. As of now about six months and
- 42:52really I didn't expect, I don't expect too many people to come
- 42:58offering to pay in Bitcoin first of all because number one, I
- 43:01work part-time. Time.
- 43:02I've been working part-time for 16 years.
- 43:05Number 2, half my patients are seniors.
- 43:08They don't pay their, they're funded by the government so and
- 43:14then of course you know how many people are going to come to
- 43:18their optometrist wanting to pay in Bitcoin.
- 43:21Right. But the main reason that I did
- 43:24that is because I wanted to hopefully help remove the stigma
- 43:30of Bitcoin. Because most normies most people
- 43:35who do not understand the coin, they think of it as something
- 43:40dark and and for drug dealers and as soon as soon as they hear
- 43:45Bitcoin, they they close their mind.
- 43:48And so hopefully being a professional that might help
- 43:53them at least, maybe not pay in Bitcoin, but think think a
- 43:57little bit better of it. So if they hear about it, some
- 43:59more from other sources, they I remember that there are a doctor
- 44:03accepts Bitcoin in. They'll do a little bit of
- 44:06research. So, you know, as of today I
- 44:09still have not had a single patient pay in Bitcoin although
- 44:13I've had a few people about seven or eight people ask about
- 44:21Bitcoin, they go oh I see you got a sign that says to protest
- 44:26that you accept Bitcoin and some of them are into SharePoint and
- 44:30I try to straighten them out. That's best as they can.
- 44:33In the limited time that I have. I provide them resources and I
- 44:37always ask them, you know, if they have any questions to come
- 44:41in or to email me and I can I can help them out.
- 44:47Yeah. So I that's that's the main
- 44:50purpose is to hopefully get people asking about it so I can
- 44:56point them in the right direction.
- 44:59Absolutely love it and I'm glad you touched on.
- 45:01Nothing because I was going to ask the basically, the same
- 45:04question. Do you think that your Bitcoin
- 45:06message comes across stronger? Because you are a doctor, a
- 45:09professional or do you think people believe it might be out
- 45:13of your expertise? Because I know I'm just a dude
- 45:15on YouTube that like Bitcoin and and half the time when I talk to
- 45:19people about Bitcoin there like like what are you talking about?
- 45:22You're not you're not a financial advisor and all this
- 45:24it's just like hey bro, it's improved my life and they can
- 45:29improve your life. But how do you think your
- 45:31message? Comes across to your clients.
- 45:35Well, I asked my receptionist if you know what the reaction is,
- 45:42when people see the the sticker at my desk and and a lot of them
- 45:48will say, oh, he except he accepts the coin.
- 45:52And then, you know, my I told my reception is to let them know,
- 45:56you know, if they have any questions to come and speak to
- 45:58me about it when they come into the exam room.
- 46:01So I think I think that that kind of says a lot about the
- 46:08mainstream thinking about Bitcoin because when they go, oh
- 46:15he accepts Bitcoin. It's a they're surprised in a, I
- 46:23think it's in a way like whoa, I thought it was it was for drug
- 46:28dealers, but obviously he's my eye doctor.
- 46:33For 20 years, 25 years and I don't think he's a drug dealer.
- 46:37So, I think I think over time it'll, it'll, it'll grow and
- 46:48more and more people not just from me, obviously.
- 46:51But when it's more mainstream, and then when they see that, I
- 46:58am one of the first optometrists or doctors in Canada.
- 47:04They will, hopefully remember that.
- 47:08Absolutely loved it. So I think just going back a
- 47:11little bit. What originally got you into
- 47:13Bitcoin? Like how is your personal
- 47:15Bitcoin Journey bin? Yeah I started in 2021 January
- 47:232021. So what happened was in covid
- 47:29during March? 20 20 well I put a bunch of
- 47:37money. Any shorting the markets because
- 47:40at the time the you know the entire world would shut down.
- 47:45There was no plane that was no trains Is the hotel's.
- 47:48No restaurants, no retail, no nothing.
- 47:52And of course, at the time I didn't know anything about money
- 47:55printing. I just thought that it there's
- 47:59just no way stocks were going to go up.
- 48:02So I put a short on the markets and the week's went by months
- 48:08went by I'm losing and I'm losing and I'm losing and I'm
- 48:11like this this makes no sense and I think in about nine ten
- 48:19months I had lost about 80 percent of my initials
- 48:22Excellent. And I was stuck.
- 48:24I'm like what does it make sense to sell?
- 48:27And I'm certainly not going to short some more but I'm not
- 48:30going to buy. I'm like what the heck am I
- 48:33going to do? And just thought about it I
- 48:36thought about and I had no idea because it before this I was you
- 48:41know I wasn't really that financially literate.
- 48:45I just I just had a few ETFs like these all World ETFs it's
- 48:50kind of like a DIY DYI or DIY investing where you just kind of
- 48:57set it and forget it. And so so yeah.
- 49:03I was down about 80% didn't know what to do.
- 49:06And my son who was 16 at the time, he started getting into
- 49:11Bitcoin and he he bought a bit. He told me about it and he
- 49:16probably got it cuz you know, that he's into social media.
- 49:19Of course at that age and I I never had any Twitter, Facebook,
- 49:24Instagram, none of that. And so I guess he probably got
- 49:28into it because of the hype because it was pumping at the
- 49:31time. And he told me about it.
- 49:35And first, of course, I'm like, no, this is gambling and but,
- 49:41you know, eventually I looked into it and I bought a little
- 49:44bit just to basically bond with my son.
- 49:48And but once I had some, I started Doing a bit of research
- 49:53on it and after can't really remember exactly anymore.
- 49:58But after two weeks, three weeks I really got sucked down the
- 50:04rabbit hole. And yeah, I just kept buying and
- 50:10then eventually I got sidetracked just like most most
- 50:15bitcoiners journey I got sidetracked by the ship coins.
- 50:21I was trying to use them to make more Fiat so that I could buy
- 50:27more Bitcoin and of course that didn't work out.
- 50:32And but now I'm all straightened out all Bitcoin, thanks to my
- 50:38son and he's in University right now.
- 50:41And well, he's that he's been off for a few weeks but he's a
- 50:45first-year university, unfortunately, he's no longer
- 50:49into Coin. I'm going to try to get them
- 50:54back into it, hopefully sooner, the better.
- 50:59Absolutely, love the story. I think the story is a very
- 51:02relatable, and on many respects everyone in the chat, like
- 51:06shout-out to your son, an absolute Legend, but I do have a
- 51:10few questions. First one was like, how was the
- 51:13switch from being Fiat minded to going to like understanding that
- 51:18the only number that really counts as having more sets under
- 51:20your control? Let's see.
- 51:26Yeah I mean prior To this prior to 2020, you know.
- 51:33I got II I think about it fairly often.
- 51:37I'm like, what how, how did I get?
- 51:41Into this. How do I get sucked down this
- 51:43rabbit hole? Because you know, to be honest I
- 51:48was never a well-read person. I never read books about the
- 51:54only time I read books is if I wanted to know how to do
- 51:58something, I mean probably probably Bitcoin.
- 52:01I was I've been a poker player for 25 years and I'd read all
- 52:08sorts of books since the mid-90s.
- 52:11And so yeah. So that's how I was and I didn't
- 52:16know much about history. It didn't know anything about
- 52:18money. They know anything about
- 52:21politics, nothing like that. But somehow when I found
- 52:29Bitcoin, I became interested in all those things because they
- 52:34all made. AdSense.
- 52:35When something makes sense to me.
- 52:39I get pretty focused. I still study.
- 52:45Of course, like all bitcoiners, you know, even today I'm
- 52:49currently taking a course on Sailor Academy on Austrian
- 52:54economics. So I'm almost done that.
- 52:57Hopefully I'll pass that exam. I did that other one.
- 53:01There's a Bitcoin wine on Sailor Academy as well.
- 53:05The terror over a year ago. So yeah I mean to answer your
- 53:12original question from I never I didn't even know, I still
- 53:19remember when my son first taught me how to buy Bitcoin, it
- 53:24was it was on by Nance. So download the app and I'm
- 53:29looking at it and it has all these words that I had never
- 53:32heard of the word fear yet, there was All these terms.
- 53:36Like I was expecting it to look like my online banking account,
- 53:39you know, I thought it was going to be easy, but yeah, I did.
- 53:44It was words like Futures and of course, Fiats and I just didn't
- 53:49know how to use it but he taught me eventually and of course you
- 53:54know you learn the hard way, you know getting into shit coins is
- 54:01the price, you pay the tuition. But Worth it because I know I
- 54:07know what the future you know there's less for this is a
- 54:12thesis, this is a term that I like to use you know coming from
- 54:15poker, Beck background, Bitcoin, to me is a free Roll, free roll.
- 54:21If you have you ever played poker before is a hand that you
- 54:27really can't lose, you know, you have your cards in your hand,
- 54:30you have the Flop, once the Flop comes, you either going to win.
- 54:34In or you gonna add worse tie with your opponent.
- 54:40And this is what Bitcoin is to me because Whether Bitcoin works
- 54:45or not and we bitcoiners know it's going to work but if if for
- 54:51whatever reason there's some some fatal bug or whatever.
- 54:57If it doesn't work then then we're screwed, we're in the Fiat
- 55:00where slaves forever so you can't lose either way.
- 55:07So I don't really care about the money that I put into Bitcoin if
- 55:13Coin fails. It makes no difference because I
- 55:16would have lost that money by stacked.
- 55:19Anyways so I love I love that. That's such a strong statement
- 55:25where it's like, I don't care you know Bitcoin I would have
- 55:29lost that money through inflation anyways regardless
- 55:32right. And that's a very very it's a
- 55:34very very powerful statement man.
- 55:36I like that a lot. I haven't heard that.
- 55:39I haven't heard that anywhere else you guys play poker at all.
- 55:42I love poker, I love. Poker.
- 55:44Yeah, big fan of Poker you should come to on confiscated
- 55:46oil in Las Vegas. It's a big why I don't play
- 55:52anymore, okay? Because I played poker before
- 55:56poker was mainstream and side played limit, Hold'em, and
- 56:02limit, Hold'em is kind of dead now because it got taken over by
- 56:07No Limit. So I quit a few years ago.
- 56:10There's no game really, to be found.
- 56:13Where I live. Yeah I'm a big.
- 56:15I'm a big fan of Poker. I love poker.
- 56:17I love Texas Hold'em. Yeah it's a couple times.
- 56:21It's good to play with your friends.
- 56:23I don't you know, I don't like I don't like gambling in general
- 56:27but I like there's something about Chris, not gambling in the
- 56:32law, in the long run. It's not gambling on.
- 56:35No single hand, it's gambling, okay?
- 56:37But in the long run, it's not gambling because you're either,
- 56:41you're either better than everyone.
- 56:43An else or you're not. So you're going to win in the
- 56:45end or you're going to lose it which is not a gamble.
- 56:48But the other poker referenced I like is jeez.
- 56:55What it was I going to say, oh yeah I call this fun.
- 56:59All this ESG and all this crap that Lagarde off his ex spews
- 57:06out and Elizabeth Warren in. It's like, it's like we have a
- 57:12royal flush and they're trying to Bluff us off our hand.
- 57:15It ain't gonna happen. Let's go wisdom.
- 57:21I love that. Good.
- 57:23Good perspective. Good perspective.
- 57:25I love poker. Big fan.
- 57:28Anyways, Opti. E.
- 57:29Let's we're running a little. We're running a little short on
- 57:34time today. It's gonna means get to the
- 57:35means. We gotta give the memes Jack.
- 57:37All right, let's do it. Let's do it.
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- 58:31Max. All right guys, this is mean
- 58:33review. I know we didn't give you one
- 58:34yesterday and this is why we're going to give it to you today
- 58:37because you guys would wouldn't let us survive.
- 58:40If we didn't give you the memes. But you already know the deal
- 58:43tweet to the bullets memes on the artillery.
- 58:44We are in an information war and it's a pain.
- 58:47All of us as individuals to spread the signal whether that
- 58:50means cause of actions. Whether that means ridiculing,
- 58:53the corporate press, whether that means just keeping your
- 58:56friends morale up by giving them Um, humor memes are extremely
- 59:01powerful. So, continue to tag me on
- 59:02Twitter. Drop them in our telegram group
- 59:04and I will do my best to get to every single one of the memes on
- 59:08the show. Okay?
- 59:09The first meme is by Lena see Shane she goes since 2012 and we
- 59:15got some little hollers here and we got three of them and they
- 59:20go. I've known about Bitcoin since
- 59:212012 and we got this this other hot ler he goes, wow, you guys
- 59:25must be rich. And the first ones like, yeah,
- 59:28You know, I've known about Bitcoin because it looked like a
- 59:31bubble and I seent it in 2012. And then the next one is like,
- 59:34yeah, I heard about Bitcoin in 2012, but it just seems too
- 59:38complicated. And then, the third one is,
- 59:40like, yeah, I knew about Bitcoin in 2012, but I got gox and
- 59:46everyone's like, oh well, you know, funny story.
- 59:49Nope. I am not rich because there's a
- 59:52lot of pitfalls in the Bitcoin space, secure your Bitcoin, hold
- 59:57Bitcoin, can Tin you to spread Bitcoin and, you know, protect
- 1:00:00your neck guys. Protect your neck out there
- 1:00:02because everyone wants your Bitcoin.
- 1:00:05Anyways, there's next meme. I tagged you yesterday make
- 1:00:08huddle face but we didn't get to the mean reviews.
- 1:00:10So I brought you back on today and we got this picture here,
- 1:00:14classic medium format and he goes, Bitcoin Fiat price
- 1:00:16volatility and it's someone getting stabbed in the heart and
- 1:00:20then it's me and he's just unfazed man.
- 1:00:22Whatever bitcoin price goes up. It goes down but we know one
- 1:00:25thing. Hold on.
- 1:00:27Wait. One wrong one.
- 1:00:29Wait wrong one, sorry, it's going up forever.
- 1:00:32Okay, this next one is Nico posted this, but really, it's
- 1:00:36our boy BTC therapist. And, you know, when I see Dave,
- 1:00:39Chappelle memes on Twitter and their Bitcoin related, I try to
- 1:00:42put them up on the show as much as possible because I grew up
- 1:00:45watching the Chappelle show. Anyways he goes when inflation
- 1:00:47is worse than ever but Bitcoin is going up forever and it's at
- 1:00:51the Chappelle show, Cutler knows, Modern Problems.
- 1:00:54Require modern solutions saving Bitcoin.
- 1:00:56This is the way. Okay, this is Next one is buy
- 1:00:59Bitcoin meme Hub. And you know the picture isn't
- 1:01:02the meme itself. It's the comment about the
- 1:01:05picture. So we got a picture of the EU,
- 1:01:09some 100 euros, and Monopoly. Money 100, 100 Monopoly dollars
- 1:01:15and he goes both are backed by nothing but faith.
- 1:01:19It is all Monopoly paper money and a little Side Story, I was
- 1:01:22over with my friends Rogers over last weekend and we they had
- 1:01:27some euros there. And I was just sitting there
- 1:01:30laughing and I'm holding him like, wow, their money feels so
- 1:01:32fake and then we laughed at ourselves and we pulled out some
- 1:01:35dollars in like, but this one feels more real.
- 1:01:38Like, they're both just as fake. It's all fake.
- 1:01:40We're moving. That's the bars.
- 1:01:43That's the truth right there. Okay.
- 1:01:45This one, this Beauty on and I know Beauty on is not the
- 1:01:49biggest fan of our meme section. Mean, review section.
- 1:01:52But hey, he puts memes out on Twitter anyways.
- 1:01:54So we got a picture here of say, 15 in class.
- 1:01:58Teaching people about what is money and we got all the
- 1:02:00students learning and Beyond goes exactly the same and he
- 1:02:05puts a picture from Star Wars, where they go to blow up the
- 1:02:09Death Star. Now star, exactly.
- 1:02:12This is what we are doing. As bitcoiners, we are blowing up
- 1:02:15the Fiat Death Star okay the next mean is only one G CL p on
- 1:02:20Twitter and this is one of these.
- 1:02:22Awesome I'm pretty sure this is mid-journey AI you know.
- 1:02:27Hey Creation and we got Bitcoin in the middle and all roads lead
- 1:02:33to bitcoin. And this is bitcoiners walking
- 1:02:36into the bright orange future into a better future by holding
- 1:02:39Bitcoin by sharing Bitcoin. And this next one, I know, I
- 1:02:42know I try to avoid nepotism on our meme review, but hey, dude,
- 1:02:46the Bitcoin therapist is absolutely killing it in the
- 1:02:48mean game. I'm so glad we brought you on
- 1:02:50and you're dropping some original.
- 1:02:53Simply Bitcoin means for us because this one is absolutely
- 1:02:56wonderful and we just dropped In the morning, we go, good
- 1:02:59morning, and we got a Bitcoin OG teaching a monkey how to shoot a
- 1:03:03rifle. But it's the Bitcoin OG teaching
- 1:03:05plebs to dollar cost average, five dollars a day because this
- 1:03:09is the way avoid the volatility price and just just continue to
- 1:03:14stack always buy Bitcoin. This is how you don't lose.
- 1:03:19Okay, anyways, drop your me. Movies car in the this music
- 1:03:28Chat and we'll cover it live. Okay Nico what is going on here?
- 1:03:32Yeah this is my meme score, you know Chrissy came in because she
- 1:03:37heard you talking shit about the Euro so you know she's upset
- 1:03:42Opti she's upset at you right now.
- 1:03:44She looks like she's thinking about all peace till I could
- 1:03:50tell by the eyes right? I've never lies Chico.
- 1:03:59Oh, my goodness for you guys out there.
- 1:04:09I am a huge, dark chocolate. Aficionado I love dark
- 1:04:13chocolate. So, I have this Tony's dark
- 1:04:16chocolate 70%. This stuff is delicious.
- 1:04:20Highly recommend this brand this.
- 1:04:22I think this is my favorite dark chocolate brand by far.
- 1:04:26I love dark chocolate, too. She's got culture, she's got
- 1:04:30called to Albert, what's your style right?
- 1:04:34Here we go. My mean review score, but I'm
- 1:04:39really lucky because because there are too many wives who are
- 1:04:45who are bitcoiners. My wife is a Bitcoin, ER, and
- 1:04:48she, she and it's these. And when I orange pill somebody,
- 1:04:55I'll give him one of these pills.
- 1:04:56Yeah, I'm trying to. I'm trying The orange peel my
- 1:04:59daughter right now. I've gotten there to read the
- 1:05:03bullish case for Bitcoin from boy party last week and I got a
- 1:05:10lot more articles and videos for her to study up on.
- 1:05:16Hopefully before she leaves for school, my wife makes these as
- 1:05:20well to hang on the your your car windshield.
- 1:05:25But For you guys. My wife has made
- 1:05:59I am so humble. Thank you so much to Albert's
- 1:06:06wife. This is the best meme score.
- 1:06:08I'm saying it off the, I'm dropping it or we ever got.
- 1:06:12I just took a screenshot and posting it to Twitter that that
- 1:06:16was that was very humbling. Thanks Albert.
- 1:06:19We really appreciate. You know what the funny thing
- 1:06:22is. My wife works for Wells Fargo,
- 1:06:27we need big Corners inside the belly of.
- 1:06:30Yeah. And we need, we need we need
- 1:06:35bitcoiners inside the system. It's a great score.
- 1:06:39Albert. I am.
- 1:06:40It was like looking in a mirror Nico.
- 1:06:41Yeah. Yeah.
- 1:06:42And I'm like, that looks like. Yeah.
- 1:06:45Send it to you guys. You guys going away going having
- 1:06:48party? Yes, we are.
- 1:06:51So are we? Let's go.
- 1:06:53Okay about but we'll send it off to you guys.
- 1:06:56You know what state are you guys in separate ones?
- 1:06:59We're in the last. 23 states of the in the u.s.
- 1:07:02Yeah. In Florida.
- 1:07:03Texas. And our nice.
- 1:07:05Yes. Yeah, we'll get in touch with a
- 1:07:08man. That's amazing.
- 1:07:09Yeah, of course, of course, you'll understand what he's
- 1:07:20trying to do. Yeah.
- 1:07:21And you're an amazing father as well and, you know, maybe she
- 1:07:25doesn't quite understand right now.
- 1:07:27But, you know, in the decade. You very very A very extremely
- 1:07:31happy that you know you passed on those lessons, huh?
- 1:07:36I gotta get my son to come back to this and he's got to come
- 1:07:40back before we get to that mean review.
- 1:07:43Score Nico, I think Albert is literally living something that
- 1:07:48I talk about on Spaces all the time is just being a good
- 1:07:51example of being a Bitcoin. ER, he's living his message,
- 1:07:54he's helping you know, his family, get on the Bitcoin
- 1:07:57standard and I think that's just a Powerful message that we heard
- 1:08:02from you today, Albert. So really appreciate it.
- 1:08:03Everyone in the chats, like you're doing a great job out
- 1:08:07there, bro. So I just want to continue to
- 1:08:09give you Kudos. Absolute Chad well for much.
- 1:08:12I wish I wish I could code. I mean, you know, I mean I hear
- 1:08:18that a lot, right? Which is like, oh, you know, we
- 1:08:20don't code like we like building, you know, like this,
- 1:08:25is it, it takes everything. It takes people building
- 1:08:28infrastructure people, Making content, you know it for your
- 1:08:34like, what you're doing and your individual case.
- 1:08:38Albert, we're you're educated, you're going above and beyond in
- 1:08:40your educating, your dot, your daughter.
- 1:08:43And you know, one day, you know, I'm sure, you know, many, many
- 1:08:46many, many years from now. Your daughter will have her own
- 1:08:49family and she will pass on those lessons.
- 1:08:52And that's that's how we win. You know, that's how we win.
- 1:08:55This is a, this is a generational thing that we're
- 1:08:59all kind of enduring. And one of the fascinating
- 1:09:02things to me is, I've been doing this for a pretty long time,
- 1:09:06almost a decade, right? To be my eighth year next year,
- 1:09:10and it still blows my mind how difficult it is for big group of
- 1:09:16people for people to understand what Bitcoin is.
- 1:09:18And for people to ask what money is, it's a very difficult
- 1:09:22concept, right? It took me at least a year or
- 1:09:25two before. I'm like fully, you know?
- 1:09:28And then obviously in hindsight your like this is, So obvious
- 1:09:31like off, duh, but you know, a lot of people have a hard time
- 1:09:35taking that initial orange pill. So Albert, i-i'm speechless.
- 1:09:40So incredibly humbled. And thank you so much for your
- 1:09:43wife and your daughter is very very lucky because she has an
- 1:09:47awesome dad. Anyways, guys before we get to
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- 1:10:23and let's let's go through some of the scores Opti but first
- 1:10:27cue, the epic music. Rib, elevator, I give the memes
- 1:10:36a basketball game, Nico and Opti verse Prince, and the
- 1:10:39revolution. If, you know, you know, all
- 1:10:42right now are well tacos. Meme score a flask full of Sach
- 1:10:46juice when you drink it, you wake up with more SATs than you
- 1:10:50had before you drink it. Very, very nice.
- 1:10:52Not well, I like that clout Casino.
- 1:10:55I give those memes one fresh Mouse for opt.
- 1:10:58He's girlfriend Lozada Listen, very, very nice.
- 1:11:02Very, very nice planet Earth. I get give these memes a royal
- 1:11:06flush from the IDOC, send it. I love that one.
- 1:11:10That's tough. Cookies tacos, love that.
- 1:11:14Okay, very nice. Next one Igor.
- 1:11:16I give the memes a tour of my Citadel like that, I like that.
- 1:11:20All right. Next one, kobach boys.
- 1:11:24I give it best meme of all time. Okay, yeah, I love that.
- 1:11:28Okay, alright. Alright, next one off to your
- 1:11:30weave. Thing it.
- 1:11:32Wait, wait, wait, we got one more.
- 1:11:33We got two more, I'm not reading that that name.
- 1:11:37I give the memes a beneficiary. Turned benefactor.
- 1:11:41Very, very good Jato coins as I give the memes a lizard falling
- 1:11:46on stage Bitcoin Network. Never fails.
- 1:11:49All right, also, they wanted, they wanted us to give them,
- 1:11:54give them horns for the little Nico Opti orange pills.
- 1:11:57So well, Well deserved horns. Adoptees discipline.
- 1:12:03There we go. Look at that.
- 1:12:04Let's fullscreen. It You should just join them
- 1:12:15together forever. Anyways guys, thank you so much
- 1:12:21for tuning in to Simply Bitcoin live.
- 1:12:22Really appreciate it. I want to give a shout-out to
- 1:12:24our awesome guests. Who gave the best meme scorer of
- 1:12:28all time, Albert. Thank you, thank you so much for
- 1:12:32joining us today, man. We really, really appreciate it.
- 1:12:35Why don't you tell everybody where they could find you on the
- 1:12:37interwebs? Has or anything interesting that
- 1:12:39you're working on now days. I'm not that much social media
- 1:12:44person but my my Twitter handle is I raised so ey E, I raised
- 1:12:53like raising in poker and my emails my website there if
- 1:12:58anyone wants to come for an eye exam you get twenty twenty
- 1:13:02percent off. If you pay in Bitcoin and you
- 1:13:05can be the first patient in Canada, who pays a Bitcoin love
- 1:13:09that love Of that. Now, you guys heard it here
- 1:13:11first. Take care of your eyes.
- 1:13:13It's the only way you can see and you can take care of your
- 1:13:16eyes by paying a Bitcoin now. Anyways, Albert, it's been an
- 1:13:19honor to have you on the show. My friend.
- 1:13:21Thank you so much for coming on guys, that was another episode
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- 1:14:07your weekend. Have an awesome time and we'll
- 1:14:09see you on Monday for a brand. New episode of Simply Bitcoin
- 1:14:13live. All right guys.
- 1:14:23Well, on a side note for from our guests over here.
- 1:14:30Dr. Albert. I do need an optometrist right
- 1:14:34now, I need to go get my eyes checked so I really wish I was
- 1:14:38in Canada and I could get 20% off on my eye test.