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EXPOSED: Feds ADMIT They Are Threaten by Bitcoin | EP 906 · Simply Bitcoin

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  It's. All going to zero against
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  Bitcoin. It's going up forever.
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  You're against Bitcoin. You're against freedom, yo.
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  Welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live.
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  We are your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin
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  revolution. Curb Breaking News Culture.
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  Matic Warfare will be your guide through the separation of money
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  and state. Javier Malay dropping hot fire
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  at the Contillionaire conference, The World Economic
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  Forum. We're going to have the clips
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  ready for you guys, for you guys tomorrow.
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  We're going to tomorrow's episodes.
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  Literally going to be dedicated on that.
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  I've never seen a speech like that literally saying the state
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  is the problem. The state has a monopoly on
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  violence. Freedom is the only way to
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  prosperity. There is a rising collectivist
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  wave across the West and it's responsible for all the wills
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  and ills that people are experiencing.
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  Just absolute, I mean in in that type of event where where you
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  know these world elites, they can think they can rule the
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  world. And this guy's basically saying
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  these institutions, the state is the problem.
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  Freedom is the solution. Blaming money printing,
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  Literally saying that money printing is one of the
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  mechanisms of control that the state has to control.
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  People talk about shifting the Overton window.
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  I am concerned about this guy's safety, like I really am.
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  This is absolutely insane. I've never seen something like
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  that. And another thing that I wanted
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  to say as well is that people are so tuned in at this point
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  that everyone like. There's so much Twitter coverage
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  of every single speech that's being said or every little
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  comment. The one that we're going to talk
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  about today during the numbers segment is Jamie Dylan with
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  Jamie Dimon once again talking, you know, talking ass about
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  Bitcoin, right. So we're going to play that for
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  you guys. Christine Lagarde is making
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  shorts. I guess she got inspired by Opti
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  shorts that she's been that he's been dropping lately.
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  So you know kind of making an excuse for, you know, for
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  inflation, trying to get inflation under control that got
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  community noted, you know. And then one of the other
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  speeches also during this whole conference was one of the people
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  that the the head of the European Union her name is
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  Ursula and Ursula von something. But essentially she was saying
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  that, you know, one of the the, the the biggest risks right now
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  for the world is misinformation and disinformation.
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  Like, obviously. Like if if you know, if you're
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  trying to promote these ideas that aren't exactly helping
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  people, if you're telling people that there is no inflation, if
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  you're telling people to like, close your eyes, you're not
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  seeing what's there and people see it anyways and they
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  complain, of course you're going to say misinformation is a
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  problem, right? So you know Elon.
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  Look, and I know a lot of people don't like Elon as bitcoiners.
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  I know a lot of people are fans of Noster.
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  I'm a big fan of Noster. I post on Noster.
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  I love Noster. I get, I get sats zapped at me.
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  You know, every time I post something, it's dope.
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  I love it. However, the bulk of the volume,
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  and this is the reality, ladies and gentlemen, is on Twitter,
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  YouTube, Instagram, Rumble, etcetera, etcetera.
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  Right now two platforms are free Rumble and Twitter and they're
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  attacking it with everything they have.
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  And this goes back to a theory that we've been talking for very
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  long on the show, which is the concept actually comes from the
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  sovereign individual, but I call it the great disintermediation,
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  right. And it's kind of happening at
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  the same time. So first, the Internet started
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  the great disintermediation of information.
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  It's allowed individuals like you and I to circumvent the
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  gatekeepers of information and talk directly amongst each other
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  like we are right now, you know, talking directly to you guys
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  without going through a legacy media institution.
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  So that happened 1st. And then what we're starting to
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  live through and governments, and this is what we're going to
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  talk about today during the news segment, is the
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  disintermediation of money. And I ran into a paper last
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  night and it literally made my jaw drop.
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  I could not believe it. This is a paper that is posted
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  on the Federal Reserve website and they admit that money can be
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  used as a social control tool, meaning you can control people
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  using money. This is on federalreserve.gov
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  This was written by William Michael Cunningham, right.
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  And and it was in response to the Fed Now system, right, which
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  is what we've been making the case for the introduction of the
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  American Central Bank digital currency.
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  So all the things, all the speculation about how this is,
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  you know, this is a CBDC, this is, you know, this is what it
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  is. And a lot of people other than
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  us, you know politicians as well.
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  You had Ron DeSantis pass a bill in Florida basically making
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  making central bank digital currency is illegal.
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  You know if you read this paper, everything that we were saying
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  doesn't sound so much like a conspiracy theory anymore.
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  It kind of sounds like we were vindicated.
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  So I'm going to read you guys about two pages.
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  I'm going to read you guys the paper and I swear your jaw is
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  going to drop too because it's like they're it's like smoking
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  gun caught like caught in 4K type of type of stuff.
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  Anyways guys let me a great show we have two members of simply
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  Don't even own a suit. I'm wearing a collared shirt,
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  Their swag game is just stepping up, so I have to wear a college
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  I think so. I think so.
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  Maybe. We're cheering.
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  People were calling us 2525 yesterday in the chat.
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  Apparently we're growing up in real time, but yeah, I haven't
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  seen that whole speech yet, but I saw some clips Nico crazy
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  stuff happening. And it it really just goes to
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  show in my opinion that we are at a point in human history
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  where the signal, the truth is starting to come to the top and
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  we're on the front lines and it's just it's super awesome.
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  But also kind of concerning considering that we are seeing
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  the great Leviathan fight back in various ways and the
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  subversion of communication of truth it it's going to ramp up
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  and you know as a big corner, we're ahead of it.
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  We are, we're always ahead of it.
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  We're always a few steps ahead. But it could get really rocky in
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  the future just considering how the powers that be like to clamp
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  down on this stuff. So it's a little bittersweet I
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  Anyways, so I do wanna talk about Opti's ex-girlfriend.
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  So clearly she has been looking at Opti's shorts, which you guys
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  YouTube channel. And we're posting them on
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  Twitter as well because she started making shorts.
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  Like multiple shorts I might add.
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  So look, that's just one, but you scroll her short game is
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  stepping up, right? So she's all over the place.
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  She's stepping up her social media.
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  Look at that, Opti. And of course this all has to do
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  with her relationship with Optimist Fields.
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  She sees optis a short game, and she feels like she needs to step
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  it up as well. No, But in all seriousness, this
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  is their way of trying to connect with people using social
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  media. What they don't realize is that
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  they make a fool of themselves. You know, social media is
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  clearly home field advantage for the bitcoiners, for the memers,
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  for the side of truth, for the central bankers where they don't
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  control the narrative. And I'll show you an example of
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  that in just a second. They get absolutely destroyed.
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  So but it doesn't stop them from trying, you know, 487 comments
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  versus 277 likes and of course Bitcoin just killing him in the
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  comments, you know this absolutely hilarious video of
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  this troll and people are saying delusional.
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  You know, it's like the dinosaur meme with the Bitcoin Bitcoin
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  meteor asteroid like falling. So yeah, like you know this is,
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  this is hilarious. So let's check out what she has
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  to say and then we'll talk about it.
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  So here I am in Davos for the annual World Economic Forum and
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  I will be talking probably a lot about our determination and our
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  confidence that we will return inflation back to 2% medium
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  term. I will also be listening to what
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  other participants have to say because it's always a time when
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  you can understand what is going on in the industry, what are the
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  latest developments. And that obviously informs the
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  way in which we make our decisions when it comes to
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  monetary policy. Hello.
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  So a couple things. So when you're making shorts,
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  I'll drop you guys the sauce. There's something called moving
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  frame. So moving frame is essentially
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  you see where that frame moves. And essentially that's a tactic
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  to how to keep your attention on it.
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  It's just funny that the central bankers are using tactics that
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  like tik tokers use and Youtubers.
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  But like essentially what she's trying to convince you of is
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  like, yeah, we're going to return back to 2% inflation.
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  They don't even know why it's 2% inflation.
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  That's like kind of like a made-up number that central
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  bankers just came up with. Jeff Booth says it best, Like
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  like thinking that an economy needs 2% theft to to work and to
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  survive is just absolute at like absolute, you know, craziness
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  and insanity. And that's why I was so hyped
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  with with Javier Malay's speech at the WEF.
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  I bet you Christine Lagarde walked out of that speech
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  because he was literally saying that money printing is the
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  problem, monetary policy is the problem.
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  But anyways, so I did mention earlier that it's going to be
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  very difficult for them to kind of get away with this in the age
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  of social media. This is one of the reasons that
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  they hate Twitter so much. Here is the European Central
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  Bank getting community noted. And here it's talking about
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  Bitcoin specifically. So the digital.
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  And this is a question that they're responding to by Bitcoin
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  Pleb. I don't even know why they
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  walked into that trap. That was a whoever manages their
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  social media, that was a terrible idea.
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  Do you think Bitcoin is better as the Euro, as is better as the
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  Euro CBDC? If not, why?
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  Isabelle Shrubnell goes on to say the digital euro is public
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  money issued directly by the European Central Bank.
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  Bitcoin is different. It is a speculative asset that
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  does not fulfill the characteristics of money.
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  Like according to who though, because like you know, you call
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  it a speculative asset. Well, unfortunately, we have the
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  data. We have the we have.
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  We have the sauce. The euro has lost 91% of its
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  value on a five year term, on A2, on a three-year term it's
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  lost 22% of its value, On a one year term it's lost 49% of its
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  value. And then you know on the daily
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  and weekly and and yearly it's it's a little bit more volatile.
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  So I mean, like this is a flat out lie.
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  Like this is a lie. It's a straight up lie.
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  And they know that. And the reason that they know
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  that, I mean that. Like they know that.
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  And not only do they know that, it pisses them off.
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  So then they go on stage and they try to say these
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  absurdities. Here's Ursula von der Lynn.
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  She's the head of the European Union and she had, she had some
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  things to say about misinformation, disinformation.
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  And of course we have our friend here, Klaus Schwab, waiting on
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  the sidelines. Anyways, let's let's hear what
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  she has to say. For the global business
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  community, the top concern for the next two years is not
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  conflict or climate. It is disinformation and
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  misinformation, followed closely by polarization within our
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  societies. These risks are serious because
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  they limit our ability to tackle the big global challenges.
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  We are facing changes in our climate and our geopolitical
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  climate, shifts in our demography and in our
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  technology, spiraling regional conflicts and intensified
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  geopolitical competition and their impacts on supply chains.
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  The sobering reality is that we are once again competing more
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  intensely. Across countries than we have in
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  several decades. And this makes the theme of this
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  year's Davos meeting even more relevant.
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  Rebuilding trust. This is not a time for conflicts
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  or polarization. This is a time to build trust.
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  This is a time to drive global collaboration.
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  More than ever before. This requires immediate and
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  structural responses to match the size of the global
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  challenges. I believe it can be done.
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  Like that is the most dystopian. Excuse my language, ladies and
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  gentlemen. I've been trying to curse a lot
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  less motherfucking shit I've seen in a long ass time, OK?
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  Like with the smile at the at the end.
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  Like I believe it could be done. Like, you know, misinformation
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  is the greatest problem we need. You know, drive global
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  collaboration. You know how you build trust
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  with people? You tell them the truth, right?
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  And unfortunately for them, right.
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  This is the problem. This is what they're talking
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  about, right? There was another speech, you
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  know, of someone on a World Economic Forum panel and she was
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  talking about how that, you know, I've lost with Twitter.
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  We can't just do it anymore like we like.
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  I've lost faith, like we can't control the narrative.
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  Literally. Community noted the digital
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  euro. CBDC will not fulfill the three
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  main characteristics of money because of its proposed limits.
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  It will not function as a proper store of value, right?
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  This is what they mean by misinformation, the fact that
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  they can no longer control the narrative.
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  And then going back to my opening monologue, this is the
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  great disintermediation of information.
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  This is something that the sovereign individual, the book
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  in the night that was written in the 90s, predicted was going to
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  happen. And of course, the reaction of
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  the nation state, the reaction of, you know, these institutions
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  that have been used to controlling the narrative for
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  the longest time, they don't know how to react to this.
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  They have no idea. And of course, this isn't just
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  simply Bitcoin, like theorizing this.
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  This is also, you know, President Naimbu Kelly.
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  He wrote in his very, very famous article.
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  The most vocal detractors, the ones who are afraid and
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  pressuring us to reverse our decision, are the world's most
• 22:21
  powerful elites, the people who work for or benefit from them,
• 22:25
  that used to own everything. And in a way, they still do.
• 22:27
  The media, the banks, the NGOs, the International organizations,
• 22:30
  almost all the governments and corporations in the world.
• 22:33
  And with that, of course, they also own the armies, the loans,
• 22:35
  the money supply, the credit ratings, the narrative, the
• 22:37
  propaganda, the factories, the food supply.
• 22:40
  They control international trade and international law.
• 22:42
  But their most powerful weapon is the control of, quote, truth.
• 22:48
  And they were willing to fight, lie, smear, destroy sensor,
• 22:52
  confiscate, print and do whatever it takes to maintain
• 22:54
  and increase their control over the truth and everything and
• 22:58
  everyone. So, ladies and gentlemen, when
• 23:00
  you see a speech like this, this is desperation.
• 23:04
  We are winning. That is what is happening.
• 23:08
  Here's another example of Elizabeth Warren, you know,
• 23:10
  Screaming Ring based on the decision of the SEC to allow the
• 23:16
  spot Bitcoin ETF. She's saying the SEC is wrong on
• 23:19
  the law and wrong on the policy with respect to the Bitcoin ETF.
• 23:23
  She got community noted and it says the SEC acted in accordance
• 23:26
  to new circumstances brought up by the judge in Grayscale
• 23:30
  Investments LLC versus SEC. This is admitted by SEC chair
• 23:35
  Gary Genser, Elizabeth Warren. You are wrong.
• 23:39
  You are the one who is lying. You are the one who's
• 23:41
  misrepresenting what is happening.
• 23:44
  So this is a crazy time to be alive.
• 23:48
  This is super, super exciting. And at the same time, just
• 23:52
  watching them like, scream and like watching them like come to
• 23:56
  terms with the fact that they can no longer control the
• 23:59
  narrative, how they've been used to controlling the narrative for
• 24:03
  decades and decades and decades. You know, this is the rise up of
• 24:06
  the people. This is the Great Awakening.
• 24:09
  You know, we don't call this the peaceful revolution for no
• 24:11
  reason. Dude, this is absolutely nuts.
• 24:13
  Opti, you gotta, you gotta help Chrissy with their shorts, man.
• 24:17
  There's no B roll in there, no music.
• 24:19
  She could definitely step up her game, in my opinion.
• 24:23
  Yeah, well, you know, I don't really talk to her anymore, so
• 24:27
  it is what it is. But it just goes to show that at
• 24:31
  the very least, even though these, you know, I don't wanna
• 24:35
  use elites anymore, but the unproductive class, the powers
• 24:39
  that be, you can tell that even though they are completely
• 24:42
  detached from reality and their narratives, they do understand.
• 24:45
  One thing is that they do have to play on the playing field of
• 24:48
  social media. And if they really want their
• 24:51
  narrative to take hold, they're going to have to psyop the
• 24:54
  youth. And of course, they always go
• 24:56
  after the youth because their brains are still formidable and
• 25:00
  they and they can still brainwash them into believing
• 25:04
  their narratives. But anyways, I kind of wanna go
• 25:05
  back to one thing that you touched on.
• 25:08
  And because Christine Lagarde did touch on that 2% inflation
• 25:10
  rate. And for all of us bitcoiners, we
• 25:13
  understand that that 2% inflation rate is the minimal
• 25:18
  amount of theft that they can get away with before people get
• 25:21
  mad. And there's no reason or rhyme
• 25:25
  to this number. They just know that if they
• 25:27
  slowly take 2% of your wealth, most people won't notice and
• 25:30
  most people won't care anyways. This just goes to show, and I'm
• 25:35
  so glad you brought up the naive book, Kelly article, we bring it
• 25:38
  up all the time is of course they're going to try to control
• 25:42
  the flow of information. They they will always try to
• 25:44
  control the flow of information. And I just kind of want to hit
• 25:47
  on a few things that Ursula pointed out.
• 25:50
  You know, she's talking on one hand, like the polarization
• 25:53
  going on in information and in society, and they're the main
• 25:58
  causes of this because we don't go along with their narratives.
• 26:00
  We're the dangerous like we because we realize that what
• 26:05
  they're saying is so detached from reality that you shouldn't
• 26:09
  be listening to them like we're the dangerous ones.
• 26:11
  It's absolutely ludicrous. Like the truth is the truth.
• 26:15
  And the more you separate yourself from nature with these
• 26:17
  Frankenstein ideas that they want to thrust on on us, like
• 26:21
  the more people will push back. Because people are starting to
• 26:24
  realize that they're wrong, that what they're saying has no
• 26:27
  relation to reality, they have no relation to how the world
• 26:30
  actually works. And I really love their framing
• 26:34
  or their new meme of like we're here rebuilding trust.
• 26:37
  Like they've acknowledged that they've lost trust because
• 26:40
  they've lied so much. Like, why would you need to
• 26:42
  rebuild trust if people already trusted you?
• 26:44
  It's because people are starting to not trust them.
• 26:47
  Or rather, like us bitcoiners completely don't trust them.
• 26:50
  And and we're the bad ones now. Like, why is it that no one
• 26:54
  trusts them? It's like TLDR, they've been
• 26:56
  lying to us for so long, they've stolen from us for so long, and
• 26:59
  now we have an opportunity to protect ourselves.
• 27:02
  The Internet has it's disintermediated truth.
• 27:05
  People are talking about the truth and they can't stop it.
• 27:07
  Like TLDR, we're winning too hard and they have to clamp down
• 27:12
  on their declining control. And you just love to see it.
• 27:14
  You just love to see these people out there just like so
• 27:18
  confused on why their ideologies are not catching on with people.
• 27:23
  And it's like guys, it's because most people realize that this
• 27:26
  has no relation to actual truth in our everyday lives.
• 27:30
  They're just trying to thrust some abstraction on top of what
• 27:35
  we all know to be true and be like, look, this is how the
• 27:37
  world works and we're like, no, it doesn't.
• 27:40
  With my personal experience in life, everything you tell me is
• 27:43
  wrong and if I listen to you, my life is going to get worse and
• 27:46
  you're literally heading me down into a dystopian, authoritarian,
• 27:49
  totalitarian regime. And I don't want any a part of
• 27:53
  this. Like most people, I don't think
• 27:55
  want to be slaves and this is what they want.
• 27:57
  They want to control everything about you.
• 27:58
  It's absolutely disgusting. Anyways, Juan, what's your
• 28:01
  thoughts? Well.
• 28:03
  Of course, they own all the means of information, money, all
• 28:09
  the outflow of of media. So surprisingly, you know, we
• 28:14
  see through all the BS. But a lot of people, they they
• 28:19
  fall into this narrative and they think that these people are
• 28:23
  trusted sources and they kind of parrot whatever they're being
• 28:26
  told. So there's a lot of forces and
• 28:29
  people that were fighting here. Luckily, we have the tools to
• 28:32
  fight back. There's independent media now,
• 28:37
  so you know, it's it's going to take a, it's going to take a
• 28:40
  battle here. And yeah, I mean it's actually
• 28:44
  pretty refreshing that somebody like Naibu Kelly who is in our
• 28:49
  corner kind of has this outlet and people can can take his word
• 28:54
  a little more seriously because, you know, you don't really see
• 28:57
  that coming from a politician. So shout out to him. 100% And I
• 29:01
  just want to remind everyone, not only is it the 2024 is a
• 29:07
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• 29:10
  also in El Salvador, and I just want to remind everyone how
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  Anyways, what I do talk about today is this is just nuts.
• 32:41
  Nuts. I I want to start with this
• 32:43
  though, because beauty on has a really good point right?
• 32:47
  And here's Alex Jones. Alex Jones divisive figure.
• 32:51
  Some people like him, some people hate him.
• 32:54
  But I'm not here to talk about Alex Jones.
• 32:56
  But he pointed this out. He said insane feds change the
• 33:00
  definition of money. I looked into it and holy cow,
• 33:04
  what what was discovered? But beauty on brings up a really
• 33:07
  good point. And this is kind of like the
• 33:09
  difference between, let's say, Alex Jones and a lot of these
• 33:13
  content creators that they're they're watching on the
• 33:15
  sidelines with these massive platforms and they're pointing
• 33:19
  it out, They're pointing out these huge geopolitical issues,
• 33:22
  right? You know, and and they're great
• 33:24
  content creators. Tucker is great.
• 33:26
  Alex Jones, you know, some people like them.
• 33:28
  Some people dislike them. You know Steven Crowder, you
• 33:32
  know so many Tim Pool, so many independent The Young Turks, you
• 33:38
  know Ben Shapiro, so many independent content creators,
• 33:41
  you know from from different political ideologies and
• 33:44
  different walks of life. They have these massive
• 33:45
  platforms and and they complain, right They and you know that the
• 33:49
  and they they point out issues. They're like this is so absurd,
• 33:52
  but if you have these massive platforms, what you're really
• 33:55
  doing is you're essentially saying, OK guys, you have these
• 33:58
  massive issues and the way to fix this is to vote because
• 34:01
  essentially that's their, that's their mechanism, right.
• 34:04
  It's like, you know, this is an important election year.
• 34:07
  Donald Trump has to get into office, etcetera, etcetera.
• 34:10
  And I I, I agree to some extent, I think elections are important.
• 34:15
  They definitely have consequences.
• 34:16
  But if you really, really want to effectuate change, it's the
• 34:21
  separation of money in state and beauty.
• 34:23
  On said it perfectly. Alex Jones laughed at Bitcoin
• 34:26
  when interviewing Max Keiser years ago.
• 34:29
  Now he's frothing at the mound about CBDCS.
• 34:32
  Anyone not talking about Bitcoin as part of the problem.
• 34:35
  That includes Elon Musk, who Jones will follow.
• 34:38
  I 100% agree with that. If you're talking about the
• 34:42
  dangers of CBDCS, right? And all these content creators,
• 34:46
  are that the ones I just mentioned, again, big fan of
• 34:49
  them watch their stuff all the time.
• 34:52
  If you don't talk about the solution, I mean, beauty On says
• 34:56
  it's very strong, but I'm going to say it too.
• 34:58
  If you don't talk about the solution while talking about
• 35:01
  CBDCS, you're part of the problem.
• 35:03
  If you don't advocate for Bitcoin, you're part of the
• 35:06
  problem. If you're against big government
• 35:08
  and you're not advocating for Bitcoin, you're part of the
• 35:11
  problem. Like Bitcoin is the solution.
• 35:15
  The state will continue to get bigger and more powerful because
• 35:20
  it has a money printer. Period.
• 35:23
  Full stop. You can't you.
• 35:24
  That is undebatable. So if you want to fix the
• 35:27
  problem, you have to fix the root cause of the problem,
• 35:30
  right? It's as simple as that.
• 35:31
  So anyways, let's get to this this document because it really,
• 35:36
  really is extremely striking. It's really what I wanted to
• 35:41
  focus on today's episode on, because this is nuts, guys.
• 35:46
  Don't trust Verify. There's a link to this document
• 35:50
  in the video description. It it's hosted on the
• 35:54
  federalreserve.gov website, so I'm going to read you.
• 35:59
  It's called Docket #OP1670, Federal Reserve Actions to
• 36:05
  Support Interbank Settlement of Faster Payments Agency Board of
• 36:10
  Governors of the Federal Reserve System Action Response to Notice
• 36:15
  and Request to Comment According to notice quote, the Board of
• 36:20
  Governors of the Federal Reserve has determined that the Federal
• 36:24
  Reserve Banks should develop an interbank 24/7, 365 like
• 36:30
  basically 24/7, just like Bitcoin real time gross
• 36:34
  settlement system with integrated clearing
• 36:37
  functionality to support faster payments in the United States.
• 36:41
  The Board is requesting comment on the modifications to the Fed
• 36:44
  Now service or other actions that would further reduce or
• 36:48
  eliminate potentially adverse adverse effects without
• 36:52
  significantly compromising the anticipated public benefit
• 36:56
  associated with the service. The comment concerns the social
• 37:00
  impact of the Fed Now Service. The Federal Reserve Board
• 37:04
  announced that the Federal Reserve Banks will develop a new
• 37:06
  round the Clock Real Time Payment and Settlement Service
• 37:09
  called the Fed Now Service to support faster payments in the
• 37:13
  United States. This is a direct response to the
• 37:17
  threat posed by digital currencies and blockchain.
• 37:21
  Let me read that again. So the CB, the American version
• 37:25
  of the CBDC of which they deny that it's not a CBDC they are
• 37:29
  admitting in this. That is a direct response to
• 37:35
  digital currencies in blockchain.
• 37:37
  According to one Fed official quote last summer the US
• 37:40
  Treasury recommended that the Federal Reserve move quickly to
• 37:44
  facilitate a faster retail payment system, such as through
• 37:48
  the development of a real time settlement service that would
• 37:51
  also allow for more efficient and ubiquitous access to
• 37:54
  innovative payment capabilities. We believe this effort requires
• 37:58
  a proof of authority quantum computing based blockchain
• 38:02
  system. So not proof of work.
• 38:04
  You hear that? Proof of authority?
• 38:07
  Interesting. As we noted on our paper
• 38:09
  Blockchain, Cryptocurrency in the Future of Monetary Policy.
• 38:13
  Confidential Not for distribution Research sent to
• 38:16
  select members of the House Financial Services Committee.
• 38:19
  It is critical to understand that Bitcoin was created in
• 38:22
  direct response to the failure of global regulators to protect
• 38:26
  the public in the years leading up to the financial crisis of
• 38:30
  2007, 2008. Thus, the ethical monetary
• 38:34
  functionality of cryptocurrency is superior to that of paper
• 38:38
  money. Eventually, cryptocurrency is
• 38:41
  going to dominate. Do you understand what they are
• 38:44
  saying? Do you understand those fucking
• 38:47
  words? They are literally admitting in
• 38:49
  4K in 4K that the Fed Now system, the American version of
• 38:55
  the CDC, is a direct response to Bitcoin and it's putting
• 39:01
  Bitcoin's potential to dominate as a currency.
• 39:06
  And they are pointing out why Bitcoin was invented in the 1st
• 39:09
  place. So when you hear Elizabeth
• 39:11
  Warren and when you hear the center kind of like gas, like
• 39:14
  this isn't ACBDC just to just take a just read this paper.
• 39:19
  And also another thing that I wanted to mention as well, right
• 39:22
  is here It says, as we noted in our paper, Blockchain,
• 39:25
  cryptocurrency in the future and monetary policy confidential not
• 39:29
  for distribution. I just want to point out the
• 39:31
  fact that they call, you know, dollars and Fiat money public
• 39:37
  money. That doesn't sound so public to
• 39:40
  me. You know what is sound?
• 39:41
  You know what is public to me? And open source software like
• 39:47
  Bitcoin, it's completely audible by anybody.
• 39:51
  Anybody can mint more Bitcoin if they're willing to invest in the
• 39:55
  electrical infrastructure and the electricity cost to mine
• 39:58
  more of it. That that Why is it
• 40:00
  confidential? Why is it only a select member
• 40:03
  of the House Financial Services Committee?
• 40:05
  They're like, what is that? This is.
• 40:07
  And this goes back to the main point that I almost say every
• 40:09
  single day on simply on simply Bitcoin, which is there's a
• 40:13
  bureaucratic elite that have the privilege of being able to
• 40:16
  create money for free that everyone else has to work for.
• 40:19
  And essentially what they're admitting in this paper or this
• 40:22
  author's admitting in this paper, Better said.
• 40:23
  That's hosted on the federalreserve.gov website that
• 40:27
  the see the American version of the CBDC is a response to
• 40:32
  Bitcoin and wanting to control money.
• 40:35
  Essentially. One of the reasons for this
• 40:37
  dominance is the speed with which transactions can be
• 40:40
  completed on a blockchain, enhanced by compute quantum
• 40:43
  computing technologies. Also, as also noted in our
• 40:46
  paper, the main economic attributes of a technically
• 40:50
  effective currency rests on three functions, as a unit of
• 40:53
  account, a store of value, and as a medium of exchange.
• 40:57
  A unit of account is a common measure for the value of goods
• 40:59
  and services. The store of value is the way in
• 41:01
  which we store wealth in order to transfer purchasing power
• 41:04
  from the present to the future and the medium of exchange.
• 41:07
  Function dictates which item is accepted for the payment of
• 41:10
  goods and services and recent history.
• 41:13
  These functions have been fulfilled by Fiat currencies
• 41:16
  backed by central banks across both developed and developing
• 41:19
  nations through monetary policy manipulation.
• 41:22
  The key attraction of these currencies?
• 41:24
  Price stability, Widespread, widespread acceptance, and is
• 41:28
  implemented through a central bank system enjoying a great
• 41:32
  deal of trust globally. All of that is utter bullshit
• 41:36
  because unless you live in a country that has a relatively
• 41:41
  stable Fiat currency, yeah, you might benefit from, you know,
• 41:45
  the dollar only losing, you know, to the ideal inflation
• 41:50
  rate, 2% a year of its value. But again, if you save in
• 41:55
  Bitcoin, Bitcoin is blowing all these Fiat currencies out of the
• 42:00
  water. So again, I think that's kind of
• 42:02
  a little bit of a misrepresentation of the facts.
• 42:05
  In my opinion, if you live in Argentina, you don't have trust
• 42:10
  in your central bank. In fact, you hate your central
• 42:13
  bank, which is why they for the first time they they elected a
• 42:17
  Libertarian candidate that literally took a chainsaw and
• 42:21
  chainsawed a fake central bank just to make the point that
• 42:24
  central banks are a scam. Anyways, moving on, and this is
• 42:28
  the one. This is the part that I'm like,
• 42:29
  holy shit. But there is a fourth function
• 42:32
  of money as a means of social control.
• 42:37
  The centralized monopoly over the functions of money held by
• 42:41
  sovereign governments and central banks have generated
• 42:43
  great income and wealth imbalances.
• 42:46
  Concerns about a lack of central bank performance with respect to
• 42:49
  financial inclusion, income inequality, economic system
• 42:53
  stability, and the tendency of central banks to intermediate on
• 42:57
  behalf of large financial institutions supported the
• 43:00
  creation of cryptocurrency. Here is the part that is
• 43:04
  absolutely crazy because they said the quiet part out loud,
• 43:08
  something that Bitcoiners have been screaming from the rooftop.
• 43:11
  They have admitted that the three, the three functions of
• 43:14
  money, which we all know. But here in a paper posted on
• 43:18
  the federalreserve.gov website, it says there is a fourth
• 43:22
  function of money as a means of social control.
• 43:26
  So when we say Bitcoin or slavery, it is not an
• 43:29
  overstatement. We are not over exaggerating.
• 43:32
  They're literally telling you right in your face if you read
• 43:36
  the document, check the link down in the video.
• 43:40
  They're literally telling you, yeah, it's this form of social
• 43:44
  control. Like, yeah, yeah.
• 43:46
  And yeah, we didn't want to roll out this CBCS.
• 43:50
  We rolled out these CCS because this Bitcoin thing is scary and
• 43:56
  we don't want to get left behind and we don't want to lose our
• 43:59
  control over the money. And the racket is over, right?
• 44:02
  So it has nothing to do with goodwill.
• 44:04
  It has nothing to do with innovation.
• 44:05
  It has nothing to do with any of these things that you keep
• 44:08
  hearing from Elizabeth Warren and Co.
• 44:11
  It has to do with the fact that they're losing control over
• 44:13
  money and they absolutely cannot swallow that pill.
• 44:17
  It's the same reason you see Ursula going on, you know, stage
• 44:21
  on the World Economic Forum and say, hey, this disinformation
• 44:26
  thing is a big problem. Yes, governments are losing
• 44:29
  their control of information, their monopoly on information
• 44:32
  and their monopoly on money, and they do not know what to do.
• 44:36
  And again, this reminds me of you guys heard it a million
• 44:40
  times. The book The Sovereign
• 44:42
  Individual predicted this back in the 90s, literally saying new
• 44:48
  technologies will allow the holders of wealth to bypass the
• 44:51
  national monopolies that have issued and regulated money in
• 44:54
  the modern period. Their importance for controlling
• 44:56
  the world's wealth will be transited by mathematical
• 44:59
  algorithms that have no physical existence.
• 45:01
  In the new Millennium, cyber money controlled by private
• 45:04
  markets will supersede Fiat money issued by governments,
• 45:09
  right? It goes on to say, Lacking their
• 45:11
  custom scope to tax and inflate, governments, even in
• 45:14
  traditionally civil countries, will turn nasty.
• 45:16
  Businesses that offer services that facilitate the realization
• 45:19
  of autonomy by individuals will be subject to infiltration,
• 45:22
  sabotage, and disruption. Arbitrary forfeiture of
• 45:25
  property, already commonplace in the United States where it
• 45:27
  occurs 5000 times a week, will become even more pervasive.
• 45:30
  Governments will violate human rights, censor the free flow of
• 45:33
  information, Ursula and sabotage useful technologies and worse.
• 45:38
  So this is all coming to play. This is the great
• 45:41
  disintermediation. This is what is happening.
• 45:44
  This is the battle of our time. This is the battle of our
• 45:47
  generation. And you got to decide what part,
• 45:49
  What side are you on? Are you on the side of green,
• 45:52
  the side of CBDC? Slavery, poverty, nihilism.
• 45:55
  Or are you on the side of optimism, hope, prosperity, the
• 45:58
  side of orange? You got to, you got to, you got
• 46:00
  to choose what side you're on. It's not left versus right.
• 46:03
  It's not blue versus red. Anyways, Opti, what do you
• 46:06
  think? I saw your jaw drop a little bit
• 46:08
  when I was reading some parts of the paper.
• 46:11
  I don't think you thought at first I was like, holy shit,
• 46:15
  they're saying it. They're.
• 46:16
  Saying it, at first I thought you were being a little
• 46:19
  hyperbolic. And actually quick question,
• 46:21
  Nico, how did you find? Alex.
• 46:23
  Alex Jones, bro. Let's go.
• 46:26
  OK. All right, all right.
• 46:28
  Well, super interesting because I mean, first and foremost,
• 46:31
  we've been saying this on the show for a long time.
• 46:33
  Like, I think a lot of people know what the problem is and
• 46:37
  where we're heading, but few people talk about the solution
• 46:39
  and hence why all of us Bitcoin media talking heads have a job
• 46:43
  because there's not enough noise.
• 46:46
  Or rather not enough people talking about Bitcoin being the
• 46:50
  only solution to this. It's like we say it all the time
• 46:53
  and Nico said it. And we've been saying for a
• 46:55
  while that it seemed hyperbolic when we first started saying
• 46:57
  this that it's Bitcoin or slavery.
• 46:59
  And now, every other couple of weeks, it just gets further
• 47:04
  nailed down that that is the case.
• 47:06
  And again, just so few people are talking about Bitcoin being
• 47:11
  the solution to where we're headed.
• 47:13
  And and I did like literally have my jaw dropped because it
• 47:17
  was one of those things of like, wow, we've been saying this on
• 47:19
  the show, Nico, that the only reason we have a Fed now or a
• 47:23
  push for CBDC's Worldwide or even in the US, it was a direct
• 47:27
  response to Bitcoin basically not being able to get killed.
• 47:31
  And now it's admitted in writing coming from the Federal Reserve.
• 47:34
  Just absolutely amazing. And then just hitting on a few
• 47:37
  other things that like Proof of Authority, it's it's it's so
• 47:42
  insane just how detached these people are.
• 47:45
  I don't think, I don't think they're detached, dude.
• 47:47
  I I just, I I genuinely risk hubristic.
• 47:50
  But I genuinely believe that like, if you look at it from
• 47:53
  like the Keynesian central banker politician perspective
• 47:57
  and This is why that Javier Malie speech today was so
• 48:00
  historic. Like it's like they, I don't
• 48:04
  think they're necessarily evil people.
• 48:06
  I think that they genuinely think they know what's best for
• 48:10
  everybody else. Like it fundamentally comes down
• 48:13
  to that. And there there's consequences
• 48:17
  to that, like and cause like you look, you either believe that
• 48:22
  millions upon millions of individuals have the agency and
• 48:26
  the ability to make decisions over their lives, or you believe
• 48:31
  that a central planner or a central authority has the
• 48:36
  intelligence to make decisions for millions of people's lives.
• 48:40
  What Malaise pointed out in the speech today, it said that
• 48:44
  history has shown time and time again that if you want
• 48:48
  prosperity, you need freedom. Freedom is instrumental in that
• 48:54
  formula. And the less freedom you have,
• 48:57
  the more poverty comes with it, right?
• 49:01
  So that's what's happening with these people is, I don't
• 49:04
  necessarily think maybe Klaus, you could say, okay, that guy's
• 49:08
  evil. But, like, you know, maybe,
• 49:10
  maybe I'm just saying that because he looks evil, but maybe
• 49:12
  he isn't evil. Maybe he genuinely believes that
• 49:14
  he could do what's best for the world.
• 49:16
  Like, I think that these people genuinely believe that they know
• 49:20
  what's best for everyone else, that people are too stupid.
• 49:23
  But I think that they're getting blindsided right now because
• 49:27
  essentially the Internet has empowered everybody with tools
• 49:31
  that they can't stop, and then that becomes a forcing function.
• 49:35
  Like all of a sudden they can't shut it down.
• 49:38
  And because they can't shut it down, they have to compete with
• 49:41
  it. And they're not used to
• 49:42
  competition, which is why they're lashing out the way they
• 49:45
  are. They're like misinformation is a
• 49:47
  problem. Bitcoin is a problem.
• 49:48
  Money like, because they can't shut it down.
• 49:51
  They're used to being able to shut it down because they're
• 49:53
  part of the state mechanism. With the state mechanism, they
• 49:56
  have the monopoly on violence, so they're being forced to
• 49:59
  compete on the open market with technologies that are superior
• 50:03
  to theirs. And that's why I think they're
• 50:05
  reacting the way they're reacting.
• 50:06
  Yeah, no, 100%. And and then I just want to hit
• 50:09
  on a few things before we pass it over to Nico Guys, even the
• 50:13
  Fed admits that Bitcoin is superior to paper money.
• 50:16
  Let's go. And then and then the last
• 50:19
  thing, the the 4th property of money that we've been talking
• 50:23
  about forever. And now again, we have it in in
• 50:26
  writing from the Fed that money is a way to gain control.
• 50:30
  And if you can control the money, then you can control
• 50:33
  people's behaviors. And I mean, we've been saying it
• 50:36
  for a while. It's that classic saying, give
• 50:39
  me the control of money. And I care not who makes the
• 50:42
  rules. Like, it's been known.
• 50:44
  It's not like this is a secret. This has been going around and
• 50:48
  been spread for a long time. But I think it's very
• 50:51
  interesting that it's now being thrusted into the mainstream and
• 50:55
  people are starting to wake up to what's actually going on and
• 50:58
  the real mechanisms of Fiat paper money and the fact that
• 51:01
  they can print money and the cantalon effects and all the
• 51:03
  things we talk about all the time, like it's it's now, it is
• 51:06
  known, it's written, they know. What's the saying from the Gulag
• 51:11
  Archipelago? I can't say.
• 51:14
  It's like we know they know they're lying, we know they're
• 51:17
  lying and they still lie anyways, I butchered it.
• 51:21
  But you guys know the saying, we said it enough anyways, Nico or
• 51:24
  wine. Sorry, what's good, bro?
• 51:26
  Well, they think they know what's best for everyone.
• 51:29
  And I think I have that in common with them because I know
• 51:32
  I know what's best for everyone and it's Bitcoin.
• 51:35
  But don't take my word for it. See for yourself, you know, And
• 51:41
  you know, I think this is interesting now because Bitcoin
• 51:44
  has really entered the conversation as far as like
• 51:47
  macro geopolitical. And I think it's going to be
• 51:51
  mentioned more and more often in these debates and these
• 51:54
  discussions and policies. So, you know, I think this cycle
• 51:58
  is really exciting as far as Bitcoin, kind of like growing up
• 52:02
  from this pet project that a bunch of us geeks like.
• 52:06
  And you know, it's it's really like an apolitical money, but
• 52:10
  it's political at the end of the day because Bitcoin really, it
• 52:15
  kills statism and it weakens it in many ways.
• 52:19
  And of course it's only it's only a few of us that really can
• 52:23
  see what's happening and know what they're doing.
• 52:25
  And we're really at a tipping point now where you can choose
• 52:28
  one way or another and they recognize it, as you can see in
• 52:32
  that paper. So, you know, a lot of us will
• 52:35
  be able to save ourselves, but they're going to try to capture
• 52:39
  the rest of the people that you know, they're going to make them
• 52:42
  think they don't have a choice, A. 100% You know, we say it all
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  Well, wine, wines, a traveling man.
• 55:24
  And guys, in the chat, I'm holding up an orb for wine.
• 55:27
  Kiss. Wine.
• 55:28
  Wine is the orb master. Anyways, wine.
• 55:30
  You've been, as we were saying in the beginning of the show.
• 55:33
  You've been traveling around. You're taking advantage of the
• 55:37
  fact that the dollar is still the world reserve currency and
• 55:41
  it has good exchange rates around the world.
• 55:43
  You've been you know travel as we said in the beginning, we've
• 55:47
  been working hard so you don't have to.
• 55:49
  So I guess what's your general thoughts on Bitcoin adoption
• 55:54
  worldwide. I know you hang out with
• 55:56
  bitcoiners everywhere. So maybe just give some people
• 55:58
  some insights on your trips and and I will pull up maybe some of
• 56:01
  your your fenced travel videos over here so people can see some
• 56:06
  of this. I mean, yeah, like just
• 56:09
  travelling it. I always try to find Bitcoiners.
• 56:12
  I always try to get connected. I've been to Bitcoin meet ups,
• 56:15
  I've had lunches with Bitcoiners, but they're really,
• 56:18
  really hard to find. So you know, it really, it
• 56:21
  really shows you how early we really are.
• 56:24
  We're very few, but that's why there's such an asymmetric bet
• 56:28
  for us. You know, the more people that
• 56:30
  find out, the less of of a early adopter you are.
• 56:34
  So yeah, shout out Bitcoin, kindergarten.
• 56:37
  But you know, I've been to all, all places of the world, all
• 56:41
  corners. I've been to the third world,
• 56:43
  I've been to Argentina where it's extremely
• 56:46
  hyperinflationary. I've been to Japan, I've, you
• 56:49
  know all in the last year and for instance people in Argentina
• 56:54
  they'll they'll more likely to have heard of Bitcoin, maybe
• 56:57
  find ways to get in and use it. But it's not like it's globally.
• 57:01
  I mean it's not like it's adopted throughout the whole
• 57:03
  country there and you can like pay for things in Bitcoin.
• 57:06
  It's still, it's still very early in that front.
• 57:08
  But versus like Japan, people there may not even see a need
• 57:12
  for using it. So yeah, I mean as far as
• 57:16
  Bitcoin adoption, it's still early, but it is nice when you
• 57:20
  when you find people out there that are but they're bitcoiners,
• 57:23
  you know, and they have a different angle on it.
• 57:25
  It's very different than talking to your American friends, you
• 57:29
  know, or Western friends about Bitcoin.
• 57:31
  And it's only a number related versus you know, how am I going
• 57:35
  to pay for things. A lot of times I use it for
• 57:38
  settling transactions between me and a bitcoiner somewhere else.
• 57:41
  Hey, you know I can't use this website.
• 57:43
  It only takes a Peruvian credit card.
• 57:46
  How can I buy this flight? Let me like, send over some
• 57:50
  stats for are you paying for with your Fiat instrument,
• 57:53
  right. So you you really see the use of
• 57:56
  it when you're crossing borders it it becomes even more
• 57:59
  powerful. Love it, love it.
• 58:02
  And you didn't. You didn't give your hot take,
• 58:04
  so I'm going to full screen you. Wayne, what is your hot take on
• 58:07
  adopting Bitcoin? I mean, I the more and more that
• 58:13
  I talk to people, you know, the the longer in Bitcoin you kind
• 58:17
  of get tired of orange peeling. You know, you you do kind of,
• 58:20
  you could do kind of throw little Nuggets here and there.
• 58:23
  You do, you know, I do throw people some Sats if they're
• 58:26
  interested. But at the end of the day, a lot
• 58:30
  of people, they don't want to get woken up.
• 58:32
  They're too busy. And it might it might be a tool
• 58:36
  for the few like you know it. By the time it really gets
• 58:41
  adopted or you see mass adoption or hyper bitcoinization, it
• 58:44
  could be lifetimes, the Fiat, hyperinflation life cycle.
• 58:51
  Like they can push it really, really long.
• 58:54
  Argentina's been going through hyperinflation for decades and
• 58:58
  people are not rushing to Bitcoin.
• 58:59
  So you know it might it might take longer than we think.
• 59:04
  That's that's kind of my hot take and maybe maybe the average
• 59:08
  person is not not really bright enough to grasp basic things
• 59:13
  about money and telling them, hey, why are you using money
• 59:16
  that loses value. You know you should use this one
• 59:18
  that doesn't or is likely to not if you can wait long enough.
• 59:23
  So, you know, people are kind of blind and it's a little sad.
• 59:28
  I agree. Really good take and there's a
• 59:33
  short 5 second Bitcoin kindergarten takeover that was
• 59:38
  funny. Good branding.
• 59:39
  See, the branding was even better.
• 59:40
  Yeah. So should we do it again one
• 59:43
  more time? We'll do it one more time.
• 59:44
  Just what's that background? I like that.
• 59:45
  Just yeah, that's. Nice.
• 59:47
  Oh my God, what is happening? But oh.
• 59:50
  Yeah, man. All right.
• 59:55
  Bye, guys. See you guys later.
• 59:56
  Well, well, one you didn't. You didn't really even say your
• 59:59
  your hot take. You.
• 1:00:00
  You said it before the show and I was like, wow, hold on, hold
• 1:00:03
  on, he said. Adoption is not for everyone.
• 1:00:07
  It's not. And you know there really is a
• 1:00:10
  steep learning curve when it comes to Bitcoin and hopefully
• 1:00:13
  those. The tools become easier, the
• 1:00:15
  education becomes easier and the concepts become easier for
• 1:00:18
  people to grasp. But sometimes, you know, you
• 1:00:21
  really have to look back at your journey when you started and
• 1:00:25
  when you first heard about Bitcoin and when you were
• 1:00:28
  possibly buying shit coins and just caring about the number
• 1:00:31
  going up. It really, there is a lot to
• 1:00:34
  grasp. It touches on so many parts of
• 1:00:38
  life, technology, politics, economics, philosophy, even.
• 1:00:44
  Why are we working? Why are people earning money?
• 1:00:47
  What is the dollar? Why does it have value?
• 1:00:49
  You know, there's there's just so many factors that are in
• 1:00:52
  play. It's kind of hard to just talk
• 1:00:56
  to somebody and in the first conversation be like here's
• 1:01:00
  Bitcoin, this is what you do with it, you know, don't sell it
• 1:01:03
  all these things. So we we need people to actually
• 1:01:07
  show interest and there needs to be a need and the the ones that
• 1:01:11
  get it, you know these are you got to you got to create your
• 1:01:15
  network of bitcoiners. The the people are really
• 1:01:18
  important. Circular economies are
• 1:01:20
  important. I want to go into a country meet
• 1:01:22
  a bitcoiner and be able to you know exchange it for Fiat.
• 1:01:27
  I want to be able to rent a motorbike, you know, in Vietnam
• 1:01:31
  and not have to go switch into Fiat and out into a bank and
• 1:01:36
  back into another currency. You know you need to find your
• 1:01:40
  tribe is basically my advice right now.
• 1:01:45
  Love it. Love it.
• 1:01:47
  OK, wine. I did put up a oh, actually,
• 1:01:50
  before we do that, you were also at Noster Asia.
• 1:01:52
  Maybe tell people about that. Yeah, I went to Japan.
• 1:01:57
  It was in Tokyo, Noster, Asia. It was.
• 1:01:59
  It was a pretty technical event, very dominated by devs, but also
• 1:02:05
  really cool cool setting. Jack Dorsey sponsored the whole
• 1:02:09
  conference. He brought out a freaking £500
• 1:02:12
  tuna for everyone to eat. That was pretty dope.
• 1:02:15
  But like always, these events they are, They are entertaining
• 1:02:20
  to an extent, but I go there more just to meet people and and
• 1:02:24
  again find the tribe. Well, what What was the vibe at
• 1:02:27
  in Australasia? It was very, it was very
• 1:02:30
  technical. You know it's no.
• 1:02:32
  But I mean like the theme. Like the theme of like freedom,
• 1:02:34
  social media. Because, because no, no, no.
• 1:02:37
  Give a little bit of because it was in Japan, right, Juan?
• 1:02:40
  It was in Japan. There were actually Japanese
• 1:02:42
  people in attendance and they also had their own discussions
• 1:02:46
  and panels. Were they how what was the level
• 1:02:48
  of of of like, what? I've what I've tended to notice
• 1:02:52
  with, like I have this good friend of mine who's mainland
• 1:02:54
  China. And I remember like, during the
• 1:02:56
  China ban I was like, hey, are you worried?
• 1:02:58
  And he's like, they've tried this like basically.
• 1:03:01
  And I could just imagine him with a very like thick, like
• 1:03:04
  Mandarin or Chinese accent, basically saying, like, you
• 1:03:07
  know, they've tried this seven times.
• 1:03:08
  What doesn't kill the honey badger makes it stronger.
• 1:03:11
  So like and essentially the moment when the moment he said
• 1:03:14
  that I realized that Bitcoin is this common language throughout
• 1:03:18
  the world. Even though we might not speak
• 1:03:20
  the actual same language, we still speak the same Bitcoin
• 1:03:24
  language. Did you see that with Japanese
• 1:03:27
  bitcoiners? Or are they bitcoiners through
• 1:03:29
  and through? They they kind of are more in
• 1:03:32
  the American lens where it's it's not like a must, but I
• 1:03:36
  think a big take away I got from the Noster Asia conference and
• 1:03:40
  just NOSTER in general. Yes, there's a lot of work to do
• 1:03:43
  on the protocol and all the clients that are that are linked
• 1:03:46
  up to NOSTER, but it is another orange peeling tool.
• 1:03:51
  And you know, you're not necessarily going at it from a
• 1:03:54
  Bitcoin lens, but lens, but from a communication lens.
• 1:03:58
  So, you know somebody using Noster and then posting a note
• 1:04:02
  and then getting zapped from another dude around the world is
• 1:04:07
  likely for them to get interested in Bitcoin.
• 1:04:09
  Then you know, Opti taking somebody and saying, hey, you
• 1:04:13
  know, this is freedom, money, whatever.
• 1:04:16
  So shot fired. My one of my jobs is to make fun
• 1:04:22
  of you. So I I had to do it.
• 1:04:24
  But yeah, it could be another top of the funnel way to get
• 1:04:29
  people on board into Bitcoin because there might be more of a
• 1:04:32
  need for free communication platform than financial freedom.
• 1:04:37
  So obviously they go hand in hand, but Noster has a lot of
• 1:04:41
  work to do before we bring on, you know, a billion people onto
• 1:04:45
  that. Love it.
• 1:04:47
  Love it. All right, I did drop a poll for
• 1:04:49
  everyone in the chat wine, so I kind of want to ask you the same
• 1:04:52
  question. Are you bullish on 2024 or do
• 1:04:55
  you want more cheap Sats? I'm always on team cheap Sats,
• 1:05:00
  but I'm also retardedly bullish. Am I allowed to say that word?
• 1:05:04
  Too bad I already said it. You know, every day I wake up, I
• 1:05:09
  think like today's the day where it's going to be $1,000,000.
• 1:05:12
  But if you know what you're buying, the prices are relevant
• 1:05:15
  to you. And of course cheap SAT's are
• 1:05:16
  great, but after you've been in Bitcoin for a certain amount of
• 1:05:20
  time, you know you're you're ready for the rocket ship.
• 1:05:23
  I want to see what happens. But, you know, I think that the
• 1:05:27
  secret is to be numb to the price.
• 1:05:30
  And really, you know, you really shouldn't care.
• 1:05:32
  DCA Don't look at the price. Wake up in eight years or so and
• 1:05:38
  everything will be good. You know.
• 1:05:39
  Don't Don't plan too much of your future around your current
• 1:05:42
  stack. Bullet hearted AF Always stay
• 1:05:47
  bullet hearted. All right, Juan, you actually
• 1:05:48
  dropped this last question for us.
• 1:05:50
  It was going to be for our guest.
• 1:05:53
  This is, AI think, a running theme that we're going to do
• 1:05:56
  now. Juan, thanks to Juanicus, what's
• 1:05:58
  1 message that you want to leave with the audience before we go?
• 1:06:04
  Well, this is not a Bitcoin message, but this is a freedom
• 1:06:07
  message and I think people need to value their time just as much
• 1:06:12
  as they do money. Maximize as much time as you can
• 1:06:17
  And if you really have the ability to travel and maybe take
• 1:06:23
  a year off, yeah, hopefully take a year off.
• 1:06:26
  Take three months off, 6 months off, and go explore.
• 1:06:29
  Think about things outside of money and work and
• 1:06:33
  relationships. Just let your mind wander.
• 1:06:36
  If you have that freedom and hopefully Bitcoin provides it to
• 1:06:40
  you one day, then you know, go and travel.
• 1:06:44
  If if you're working somewhere and they only give you, let's
• 1:06:46
  just say like 2 weeks of the year off, it will take you
• 1:06:50
  decades to accumulate a year of free time of travel.
• 1:06:54
  So really think about Bitcoin from a time standpoint and how
• 1:06:59
  it's going to free up your time in the future.
• 1:07:01
  What is? What is it about wine that is
• 1:07:06
  so, you know, attracted to you? So like personally, you know, I
• 1:07:10
  I travelled a lot in my youth. A lot of people don't know this,
• 1:07:14
  but I I wasn't born in the US and you know, I spent like many
• 1:07:20
  years living in various countries and then also kind of
• 1:07:24
  like in my early 20s as well. Now I've reached a point in my
• 1:07:28
  life where I'm like, I don't want to travel.
• 1:07:31
  I actually want a a homebody. But after doing that, all that
• 1:07:35
  traveling it, it did try to it. It did change my world view a
• 1:07:38
  lot, right. And it did kind of expose me to
• 1:07:42
  different cultures, different way of thinking.
• 1:07:44
  And I and I absolutely think it's absolutely necessary, at
• 1:07:47
  least in your life one time to travel the world as much as
• 1:07:51
  possible to get exposed to all these different ways of thinking
• 1:07:55
  and different outlooks and all that.
• 1:07:57
  So what is it about? You know, your current traveling
• 1:08:01
  experiences, whether that's, you know, going to Vietnam and Japan
• 1:08:05
  and you know Las Vegas, and then you know, of course, you know,
• 1:08:10
  simply Bitcoin paying for all the bills.
• 1:08:12
  Like, what is it about all of this that you know is so
• 1:08:15
  inspiring and that you that you like so much?
• 1:08:18
  And then and then add on that one.
• 1:08:20
  Is America still a shit coin? Oh, OK.
• 1:08:22
  And another thing also like I gotta say, is that like, at
• 1:08:25
  least you don't miss your flights.
• 1:08:26
  I think I've paid for more. I think I've spent more money on
• 1:08:31
  getting Opti all right. This is not an empty roast hour.
• 1:08:35
  Then I've spent reimbursing wine for his travels.
• 1:08:39
  Like, I'm I'm dead serious. I'm not joking right now.
• 1:08:43
  Dude, I've paid for the last missed flight, so whatever.
• 1:08:45
  Whatever. Go wine.
• 1:08:47
  Yeah, I mean you. Missed another one?
• 1:08:50
  No, just the two. Just the two.
• 1:08:51
  Just the two. Of course, yeah.
• 1:08:54
  You're exposed to different ways of life.
• 1:08:56
  And for me, at the end of the day, I really travel to be
• 1:09:00
  uncomfortable and put myself in situations that I'm not used to
• 1:09:04
  and it really puts me in this present moment and also
• 1:09:08
  gratitude. So when it comes to even like
• 1:09:11
  Bitcoin, it's like you realize when you're traveling around the
• 1:09:14
  world and how little people understand the things that you
• 1:09:17
  do and even just owning 1 Satoshi, like you really are
• 1:09:21
  thankful and you're not. You know, don't get caught up
• 1:09:24
  into this like race of like I need more Bitcoin and this
• 1:09:27
  person has this much and I should get this and whatever.
• 1:09:29
  Yeah, it's great to get more Bitcoin, but you know you're
• 1:09:32
  like just be fortunate for what you have is really like a big
• 1:09:36
  take away and and of course like just the stimulation of new
• 1:09:40
  things happening every day, meeting new people, new ideas
• 1:09:43
  like you know, going to Vietnam, you learn how to how to squat
• 1:09:46
  properly. You want to use toilets over
• 1:09:49
  there and stuff like that. So there's there's secrets to
• 1:09:52
  squatting. There's there's a lot of secrets
• 1:09:54
  to unpack in the world. And then also just, you know, if
• 1:09:58
  you're like a city person, what it's like to experience small
• 1:10:02
  town and rural areas and what people are thinking about over
• 1:10:05
  there and the discussions that they have, it's it's just the
• 1:10:08
  mine opener. So, so wine, one of the things,
• 1:10:11
  right, is like people don't know where to start.
• 1:10:13
  And what I One of the things I admire about the way that you
• 1:10:16
  travel is, and a lot of people have this misconception that
• 1:10:20
  it's very expensive, right? You have to spend a lot of money
• 1:10:22
  traveling. But one of the things I admire
• 1:10:24
  about you is that like you don't even go with the plan.
• 1:10:26
  You you pick a location, you pick a city and you kind of just
• 1:10:31
  go there and you just kind of figure it out along along the
• 1:10:35
  way. And I think that's one of the
• 1:10:37
  biggest mental hurdles for people is that they think that
• 1:10:41
  somehow traveling is expensive. Or sure, somehow traveling is
• 1:10:45
  out of the cost of most people. But I think you've not only
• 1:10:48
  proven that, dude, you could do this on a budget, and if you
• 1:10:51
  really have a passion, you can go anywhere around the world
• 1:10:55
  wherever you want, and you can spend months at a time just kind
• 1:10:59
  of doing your own thing. So I don't know if you want to
• 1:11:01
  talk a little bit about that. Yeah, I mean you kind of nailed
• 1:11:05
  it. Like I usually just book one way
• 1:11:07
  tickets and see what happens, see who I meet.
• 1:11:10
  And of course Opti mentioned it earlier, like if you're
• 1:11:14
  fortunate enough to be in a European or you know, American
• 1:11:19
  area of earnings where you can use dollars, like you're at such
• 1:11:23
  a huge advantage and have way more purchasing power around the
• 1:11:26
  world. So if you travel to certain
• 1:11:28
  places, it's a lot cheaper than than you expect.
• 1:11:31
  And people are also a lot nicer than you realize.
• 1:11:35
  Like, you know, you might think about going to certain countries
• 1:11:37
  and it's like, oh, that's dangerous.
• 1:11:39
  That's that. I've even gone to the point
• 1:11:42
  where I hitchhike, you know, people, people are really nice
• 1:11:46
  enough to pick you up and want to know about you and things
• 1:11:49
  like that. People invite you to their
• 1:11:51
  homes. Like they're just people are
• 1:11:53
  super interested in in learning about different cultures and
• 1:11:57
  they see that you're an American or you're into Bitcoin or
• 1:12:00
  whatever. They really want to to just
• 1:12:02
  learn and get exposure to that. So it's it's freeing.
• 1:12:06
  Like there's there's no better feeling than waking up and not
• 1:12:10
  knowing what the day holds. Absolutely.
• 1:12:12
  And then 111, last thing is the another conception, right?
• 1:12:16
  If you come from mostly the US, like there's this idea that you
• 1:12:21
  know these other countries are somehow unsafe, right?
• 1:12:25
  What what would you say about that?
• 1:12:28
  Of course, like you do always have to be careful and just like
• 1:12:32
  watch your possessions or whatever.
• 1:12:33
  But I mean, if you lose like a phone or a wallet, it's not the
• 1:12:36
  end of the world and at the end of the day you're traveling.
• 1:12:40
  And like if if you're traveling, you can be in heavily populated
• 1:12:44
  touristic areas, you could be in in higher, like higher economic
• 1:12:51
  areas where you're not in like the hood or whatever, right?
• 1:12:54
  If if you're even from New York or Miami, you know not to go to
• 1:12:58
  the bad parts of the city you you go to where there's nice
• 1:13:02
  things and nice people. And that's generally the case
• 1:13:04
  for most places you travel. But just the the stereotypes of
• 1:13:08
  some place being dangerous is mostly false.
• 1:13:12
  Like you'll see it if you end up going to El Salvador.
• 1:13:14
  Even the people are like super sweet.
• 1:13:17
  They all have a helping hand. They're all interested.
• 1:13:19
  They want to serve you. They want to host you.
• 1:13:22
  Yeah, I mean, people are. Most people are nice.
• 1:13:25
  And I would say like be careful with consuming media because a
• 1:13:30
  picture will be painted that people are crazy places are
• 1:13:33
  dangerous, don't trust anyone. But that that's far from the
• 1:13:38
  truth. And that's why I I implore
• 1:13:40
  people to get out there. 100% And one last thing, how has has,
• 1:13:46
  has, you know, being on a Bitcoin standard and being a
• 1:13:49
  bitcoiner, has that helped you in your travels like in terms of
• 1:13:54
  currency exchange, I know for example, you know and I know bit
• 1:13:59
  corners hate to hear this, but what we're seeing really in in
• 1:14:02
  the developing world, in the global S like Jeff Booth says,
• 1:14:04
  it is not so much a huge adoption of Bitcoin.
• 1:14:07
  Yes, there's a percentage of people that adopt Bitcoin, but
• 1:14:09
  you're really seeing this massive adoption of tether,
• 1:14:12
  right, because people are fleeing to, you know, their
• 1:14:16
  perceived value of a more stable currency.
• 1:14:18
  So tethers in great demand people are trying to get hold on
• 1:14:22
  to stable coins. But being on a Bitcoin standard,
• 1:14:25
  has that helped you while traveling wine or has that you
• 1:14:30
  know or people not quite there yet?
• 1:14:33
  And you did mention this earlier about this taking a lot longer.
• 1:14:36
  I do agree. Matt Hill, CEO and founder of
• 1:14:39
  Start 9 by the way. Check the promo code down in the
• 1:14:42
  video description if you guys want to get yourself a Bitcoin
• 1:14:44
  node, he said. There's going to be a multi
• 1:14:46
  generational thing. This is going to be a one or two
• 1:14:49
  or three generational thing as people kind of deprogram from,
• 1:14:52
  you know, Fiat money, banking, self custody, personal
• 1:14:55
  responsibility. So I want to get your take on
• 1:14:58
  that. Yeah, I mean that.
• 1:15:00
  That's the sad truth of things. Tether for instance in a place
• 1:15:04
  like Argentina is is heavily demanded and accepted because
• 1:15:08
  they see dollars as kings and they they don't want such high
• 1:15:12
  volatility in the short term. We're we're just at that point
• 1:15:15
  in terms of bitcoins adoptions. So what it has done is opened up
• 1:15:19
  doors for me in terms of meeting people in terms of having
• 1:15:22
  interesting conversations and seeing you know who's awake
• 1:15:26
  enough to want to take Orange Bill.
• 1:15:29
  It's it's kind of difficult though when you know I'm I'm in
• 1:15:33
  foreign countries and tell people I'll have Bitcoin and
• 1:15:35
  they're like, all right well how do I get started?
• 1:15:37
  You know I don't know what exchanges to tell them to use.
• 1:15:40
  I'm maybe I'll tell them to download a wallet and and throw
• 1:15:42
  them some Sats, but like it. You know we don't have the
• 1:15:46
  infrastructure ready to just one 2-3 get people onto a Bitcoin
• 1:15:50
  standard and start accepting it and taking it.
• 1:15:52
  So there's a there's a lot of work to be done.
• 1:15:56
  But yeah, I mean it, it has been helpful in small situations
• 1:16:00
  where people are willing to take Bitcoin and give me some Fiat or
• 1:16:04
  things like that. Yeah, as far as like purchasing
• 1:16:07
  power, if you hold Bitcoin and you wait long enough, it's it
• 1:16:12
  puts you at a very a place of ease.
• 1:16:15
  And when you travel to these countries where the cost of
• 1:16:19
  living is a lot lower than you realize, you know you you can
• 1:16:22
  kind of like get away with traveling for a really long time
• 1:16:25
  if you want to a. 100% Yeah, I I could attest to that 100% things
• 1:16:32
  are a lot cheaper and especially in American cities, high income
• 1:16:36
  cities in general. Even though you might make this
• 1:16:40
  very good salary, it does not go a long way just cuz the cost of
• 1:16:44
  living is so high. But if you go to Portugal, if
• 1:16:47
  you go to Argentina, $1000 a month, it's like it's an
• 1:16:52
  absolute fortune, right? People don't don't quite
• 1:16:54
  understand that. So yeah.
• 1:16:56
  Anyways, wine. Really, really glad that you
• 1:16:59
  came on the show today and just shared your experiences and
• 1:17:02
  your, your unique world view. I think traveling is incredibly
• 1:17:06
  important. And also just, you know, and I
• 1:17:08
  think I realized this really, I took like the first time off a
• 1:17:12
  day or two and we went to go grab lunch, You know, this.
• 1:17:16
  You showed me this Jamaican restaurant and and I was just
• 1:17:18
  like. The good one.
• 1:17:20
  Yeah, the good one. And I was.
• 1:17:21
  Just like place is good. And I was just like, I was like,
• 1:17:25
  wow. Like I don't have, like, I don't
• 1:17:26
  have to think about a meeting or like I don't have this, like
• 1:17:28
  certain responsibility. And you know that that in a way
• 1:17:33
  is, is is really liberating. Like, it's really, really
• 1:17:36
  liberating to, you know, what Wine said.
• 1:17:39
  You wake up in the morning and you know, you're just like, what
• 1:17:42
  am I gonna do today? What adventure, you know, where
• 1:17:44
  is life gonna take me? And that's definitely, that's
• 1:17:47
  definitely something very, very attractive.
• 1:17:51
  And I think a lot of people, you know, have what Juan was saying
• 1:17:54
  about this idea of like, how can I get more Bitcoin, You know,
• 1:17:58
  how can I work harder to get those things?
• 1:17:59
  But there's a whole world around you, and people don't realize
• 1:18:03
  that, You know, you can go to Central America, South America,
• 1:18:06
  Southeast Asia. And you can live like an
• 1:18:09
  absolute king, most likely with what you have now.
• 1:18:12
  And you can live very well. So yeah, well, hold on before we
• 1:18:17
  go, before we wrap this up. Wine is a perfect example of
• 1:18:20
  quote, UN quote #decentralized homelessness.
• 1:18:23
  And this is bit this is Bitcoin Zen Personified Decentralized
• 1:18:28
  Homelessness, sponsored by simply Bitcoin.
• 1:18:33
  No, but wine, wine, wine, wine keeps the lights on over here.
• 1:18:37
  So it's it's he's the man. Wine's a Wine's a really, really
• 1:18:40
  smart guy and we love. Him and the last thing we
• 1:18:42
  appreciate him for. Last thing you nuked your
• 1:18:45
  Twitter, So where can people find you?
• 1:18:48
  It's temporarily nuked. I'm kind of getting sick of
• 1:18:51
  being targeted by the algorithm and and the the rage scrolling.
• 1:18:56
  So right now I'm on Noster X Pub 176.
• 1:19:00
  I'm just kidding. I love that joke though and
• 1:19:03
  master and I don't know. I'll be back on Twitter at some
• 1:19:06
  point at Wine Kiss and perhaps Bitcoin Kindergarten every
• 1:19:11
  Wednes every sometimes Wednesday.
• 1:19:13
  Sometimes Wednesday. Every sometimes Wednesday.
• 1:19:16
  Whenever Opti feels like it. Oh, it's yeah, whatever my
• 1:19:20
  fault. Also sponsored by Simply
• 1:19:22
  Bitcoin. No, never mind.
• 1:19:24
  Scratch that. Sponsored by Nico.
• 1:19:27
  Anyways, I do wanna thank our very special guest Wine.
• 1:19:31
  Thank you so much. We love you bro.
• 1:19:33
  We appreciate you. Thank you so much for coming on
• 1:19:36
  the show today. Sharing your story with
• 1:19:37
  everybody. For me personally, it's
• 1:19:40
  inspirational. I would say I'm the polar
• 1:19:42
  opposite Wine homebody, you know, working, working, working,
• 1:19:47
  working, working. So you know seeing wine and what
• 1:19:50
  he does is is very inspirational to me and I'm sure it's
• 1:19:53
  inspirational to a lot of people listening to show as well.
• 1:19:55
  So Wine really appreciate you coming on the show today my
• 1:19:58
  friend and we'll see you on the next one.
• 1:20:01
  What? Keep killing it, man.
• 1:20:04
  Thanks bro. Appreciate it.
• 1:20:05
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