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Nayib Bukele EXPOSES the Dollar!! | EP 933 · Simply Bitcoin

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  It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
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  It's going up forever. You're against Bitcoin.
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  You're against freedom. Good morning everybody.
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  Welcome to Simply Bitcoin, the number one daily live Bitcoin
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  We cover breaking news, culture and mimetic warfare.
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  We bring on bitcoins from all around the world, from the
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  biggest names to the everyday bitcoiner, and we will be your
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  guide through the separation of money and state.
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  What a crazy crazy day we had yesterday.
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  I I am personally, in my opinion, I think we had some
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  pivotal moments in the separation of money and state
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  that happened yesterday. First of all, as you guys can
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  tell from the title, Naive Bukele went to CPAC, the
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  Conservative Political Action Conference and warned the world
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  and of course conservatives and Americans about fighting for
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  freedom naming names I I highly recommend you guys watch the
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  whole video. But especially important for us
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  the disastrous problems of money printing and its effects on the
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  world at large. But of course you guys as
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  Americans and all of us freedom minded people, a conversation
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  we've been having here on simply Bitcoin, like literally every
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  single day. That money printing is what's
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  destroying the world and it's very obvious to everyone.
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  I say it all the time, most people know the problem, but
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  very few people know the solutions.
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  The solutions are not talked about enough.
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  And of course we think it starts with simply Bitcoin.
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  And then on the flip side, I guess guys, this this might be a
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  little politically change show today.
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  There is a theme here. But Trump was asked at a town
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  hall meeting what his thoughts were on Bitcoin, and though he
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  didn't embrace Bitcoin, he didn't necessarily say anything
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  bad about Bitcoin. And and before you guys would be
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  like simply Bitcoin, a bunch of Trumpers, we're just
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  acknowledging what's going on in the world.
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  Again, this is another theme we've been talking about
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  constantly on simply Bitcoin. And it is Bitcoin saturating
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  popular culture and becoming a defining conversation in all
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  political It's not left versus right, it is orange versus
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  green. And man, you know Trump is a
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  huge dollar maxi. But I think there is some wiggle
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  room here where where he could potentially embrace Bitcoin.
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  And before again, you guys all lose your mind and go full Trump
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  Derangement Syndrome on me, guys, you know, love him or hate
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  him. The guy's hilarious and he has
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  power. People listen to him.
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  He's influential. And man, if he does embrace
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  Bitcoin, on the one hand, we will see people follow him, you
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  know, follow him to anywhere, the promised land, quote, UN
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  quote, as people say, and then we'll see the Trump Derangement
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  Syndrome on the other side and that will go directly to the
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  Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome. So man, we're in some
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  interesting times here as Bitcoiners.
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  It's only what the second month we're about to be.
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  In the third month of the year, I think things are going to
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  start heating up for us in in Bitcoin land, but rather in the
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  world at large. And of course, as we say all the
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  time, actually, I can just pull it up on the sound board.
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  Everyone will have to have a Bitcoin point of view.
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  It's only a matter of time until that conversation is happening
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  everywhere. Anyways, I'm not alone.
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  I'm here with Chris Alamo, What's it?
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  Programming director at Swan because hey guys, send some love
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  and thoughts and prayers. And Nico, a new bitcoiner was
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  just born. A new member of the Simply
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  Bitcoin family was just born. So I got the news this morning.
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  Nico and Sophie have delivered a beautiful baby girl.
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  So send them your love guys. But in the meantime, the show
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  goes on and we got Chris Alamo. How you doing today, bro?
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  Good to have you back. Doing well.
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  Sending my love to Sophie, Nico and the new baby girl.
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  New bitcoiner is born. You know, a big number of
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  bitcoiners go up one way or the other through procreation or
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  conversion. Dude, propagate the memes.
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  You got to propagate the memes. And the best way to do it is by
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  creating more bitcoiners. So you know, I still got a long
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  ways ahead before I do that one, but shouts out the Nico and
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  Sophie. Anyways, we're not alone here
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  guys. We have, I would consider a good
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  friend. We have Ben Jessman, AKA the
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  Bitcoin wine guy, AKA a Bitcoin entrepreneur.
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  He creates the wine Peony lane. Good to have you bro.
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  Actually also a very strong memer in his own right, creating
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  some very good memes. So how you doing bro?
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  I'm excited for this conversation.
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  It'll be a little less wine focused and a little more
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  entrepreneurial focus. So yeah, man, how you doing?
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  OK, Someone's telling me my my mic's messed up, but here we go,
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  here we go. What a morning.
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  What a morning. How you doing, Ben?
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  I'm so good. Thank you for having me here.
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  It feels great to be welcomed with arms wide open and.
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  And look at this back. Look at that.
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  Beautiful day today with you guys.
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  Yeah. The best background.
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  Filling in the wine cave. Let's go.
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  All real. All right.
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  Well, we got a lot to talk about.
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  Let's just get right into it. Got a big day coming.
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  numbers guys. We're over here on Clark Moody's
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  dashboard and of course the block height.
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  The number that matters the most in my opinion is TikTok Next
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  block. Bitcoin is working exactly as
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  designed and we're at block height of 831,712.
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  The Bitcoin price is currently at 51,000 and $40, which means
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  the stats per dollar is 1960. The total percentage of Bitcoin
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  that will ever be issued is 93.5.
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  Wait 93.50%? The market cap of Bitcoin is
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  teetering at $1 trillion. The realized monetary inflation
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  taking Fiat currencies to schools at 1.74% and the Bitcoin
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  versus gold market cap, we're inching towards that 10% of the
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  gold market cap. We're at 7.26%.
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  The total lightning capacity is currently at 4000.
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  Wait, public lightning capacity 4707.78 BTC and the hash rate
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  the last 90 days it's absolutely going.
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  Nuclear numbers going up on hash rate we are currently at well
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  roughly at estimated that 527.1 XA hashes depending fees in the
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  mempools right now. Or at least the one Clark
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  Moody's hooked up to a 7.07 BTC and the blocks to having is 8288
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  with an estimated date of April 19th 2024.
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  So hopefully we can slow that down and get get the meme
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  number. Anyways, of course we do have a
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  Bitcoin ETF update, and I I don't.
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  I'm not going to use the Bitcoin treasuries.net site today
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  because our team dropped a solid meme and it it really just goes
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  to show how much Bitcoin these ETFs are scooping up.
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  And there's what, 12 of them? And I'm only going to touch on
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  2, The biggest one. So BlackRock and Fidelity now
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  own a combined 218,594 Bitcoin worth $11.1 billion for the
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  Bitcoin ETS. Guys, if you've been following
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  along in the last few weeks when we've been covering this, you
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  know the ET FS only a month old. They're scooping up like
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  thousands of Bitcoin a day. So you know what we think here,
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  it's only a matter of time until number goes up.
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  All right. Anyways, let's get into the
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  numbers for today. And of course, this is the Trump
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  video that went around yesterday.
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  And again, guys, before you guys all say we're Trumpies or Trump
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  bites or whatever the meme is for Trump, before you say we're
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  MAGA country or whatever, we like to separate the
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  conversation. It's not left versus right, it
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  is Bitcoin versus Fiat money. It is orange versus green.
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  But it's becoming very obvious to us, Bitcoin, especially since
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  we're in the front line, that Bitcoin is becoming a defining
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  conversation. And as you can see here from
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  this Bitcoin mag tweet shouts out to our boy Nick Camp mine
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  over there at Bitcoin Mag and the whole Bitcoin mag news team
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  Donald Trump says, quote, many people are embracing Bitcoin and
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  he's seeing more and more people wanting to pay in Bitcoin.
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  So before we get into this video, Trump is a Fiat maxi.
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  I think we can all agree that Trump's a Fiat maxi.
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  It is what it is. But I want you guys to notice
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  what he's saying. When he's talking about dollars,
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  he's saying I like one powerful thing.
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  It is dollars. We all know that dollars rule
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  the world right now. You know, we get trolled in the
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  chat all the time, every single day saying like, oh, you don't
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  care about the price, but you price Bitcoin in dollars.
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  Like, yeah guys, dollars is the world reserve currency right
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  now. It's a unit of account for
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  basically the whole world, but we know as Bitcoiners that
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  Bitcoin is much more powerful than the dollar.
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  Bitcoin is way better in terms of tech, money, technology than
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  the dollar. So I think it's only a matter of
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  time until everyone embraces Bitcoin whether you like them or
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  not. And we all know that Vivek has
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  been in Trump's ears and that's probably why he's coming out as
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  anti CBDC's. Well, I think it's only a matter
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  of time until he embraces Bitcoin and literally breaks the
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  Internet when he does. Anyways, let's listen to this
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  clip that made the rounds on Twitter and then we'll talk
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  about it. China obviously has its own push
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  in the Chinese digital currency. But isn't the next logical step
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  for you to embrace Bitcoin? Because Bitcoin obviously is
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  decentralized, the government can't get its hands on it.
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  What about Bitcoin? All the young people, including
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  African Americans, who are, are very interested.
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  Well, a lot of people are doing it.
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  I always liked one currency. I I call it a currency.
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  I like the dollar, but a lot of people are doing it.
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  And frankly, it's it's taken a life of its own.
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  You probably have to do some regulation, as you know, but
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  many people are embracing it. And more and more I'm seeing
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  people wanting to pay Bitcoin and you're seeing something
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  that's interesting. So I can live with it one way or
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  the other. I've always liked one really
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  powerful thing, and that's called the dollar.
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  I think that I think there's some points there, there's some,
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  there's some few points in there that that Trump's talking about.
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  Of course he loves the dollar. He's a dollar Maxi.
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  He loves the one powerful thing, the dollar.
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  But let's just kind of break it down a little bit, you know,
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  First off, he acknowledged that Bitcoin is saturated in popular
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  culture, that people are using it, that it's becoming a
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  defining conversation that people are asking to pay in
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  Bitcoin for. Probably his merch.
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  I know you just dropped like a sneaker or something.
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  So I think this is kind of part of the things that we all talk
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  about as Bitcoin is is like ask the merchants to accept Bitcoin.
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  And we're seeing constantly and I think we are highly
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  underestimating the impact of Bitcoin saturating popular
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  culture in this year moving forward.
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  But Trump said himself, I like one powerful thing and it's a
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  dollar. Of course he's a Fiat maxi.
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  He's, I mean I think at one time was a billionaire.
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  Now he just likes dollars because of what dollars can buy.
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  The purchasing power of the dollar.
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  Still technically the best out of all the other paper
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  currencies, but it's melting ice cubes guys.
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  And of course the dollar is a world reserve currency.
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  It's a unit of account of the world.
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  So it's, you know, the Petro dollar.
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  It basically controls the world right now, but it's a leaky
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  bucket and it loses value at a very least of 2% of its
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  purchasing power a year. And as we've been seeing and
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  covering on the show, inflation is running rampant. the Fed is
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  seemingly not able to control the dollar.
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  It seems like the dollar is losing its position in the
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  world's losing that power and we think that Bitcoin is the thing
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  to replace it. And let's just ask.
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  Let's just ask a little little simple question, a little
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  thought experience. What sounds like the stronger
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  currency, something that is censorship resistant, that is
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  hard capped, that is globally accepted with no middleman,
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  quick as lightning stores your wealth through time and space or
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  the opposite, It loses 2% at minimum per year.
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  It is sensible, it's literally infinite, and it's not accepted
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  everywhere unless you know you're forced by some, some,
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  some violence. And it can't be set lightning
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  fast. It's physical, you know, it's
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  paper, it's literally destructible and it doesn't
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  store your wealth through time and space.
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  Like, to me, it's a very simple question.
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  Of course I know my bias, it is Bitcoin.
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  But to say the least, love Trump or hate him, I think it's only a
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  matter of time until Trump embraces Bitcoin and he
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  literally blows people's minds up.
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  Because once Trump embraces something, he's so devices that
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  people are going to have to talk about it.
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  And even though Trump is noticing that something
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  interesting is happening with Bitcoin and it's saturating
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  popular culture, people are asking about Bitcoin, He's still
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  kind of like, yeah, you know, I can leave it or take it.
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  I really don't care. So once he actually embraces
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  Bitcoin, I think it's going to be very interesting and it's
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  really going to break the game theory of Bitcoin whether he
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  gets there or not. You know you guys can debate it
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  in the chat, but I find it hilarious that the Trump
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  Derangement Syndrome AKA the Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome
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  that will follow. Oh man, it's going to be so
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  beautiful to see all the Fiat Maxis, the anti Trumpers go out
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  there and literally shoot themselves in the foot And as
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  bitcoins like to say have fun staying poor.
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  So hey, this is where we are in the story.
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  We have the biggest political figures being asked about
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  Bitcoin, talking about Bitcoin and noticing that Bitcoin is
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  slowly but surely taking over the world.
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  And we're only in the second month of 2024.
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  We haven't even got the last leg of the bull run.
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  Man, this year is going to get absolutely crazy.
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  It's oh, it's so awesome to be on the front lines and be a
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  bitcoiner and just document all this stuff.
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  It it's coming becoming easier and easier every day to show up
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  and do a Daily News show because it's like everyone's talking
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  about Bitcoin and we're just getting more and more people to
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  talk about Bitcoin. And on the flip side, it's
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  becoming more and more obvious to average everyday people why
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  they need Bitcoin. I I know you guys have seen the
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  the clips on social media. You know all the Gen.
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  ZS and millennials are all complaining about inflation.
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  They're complaining about like, man, I can't even survive.
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  I wasn't born to work two jobs. I don't have a social life.
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  Like, what is going on guys? It's the money.
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  The money is breaking in real time and we have a solution.
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  It is simply Bitcoin. Anyways, Chris, you're usually a
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  little more level headed, you know, a little more right side
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  of the bell curve than I am. So what's your thoughts on this?
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  Well, I I think I'd say the dollar is the best crack house
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  on the street. That's the famous line that Greg
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  Foss always says and I love using that line.
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  So while Trump is advocating for the dollar, it makes sense he's
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  a former president, obviously advocating to be the president.
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  Nowadays strong dollar, you know, technically means a strong
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  U.S. economy. We can don't have to get in the
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  whole dynamics of you know the the issues that come with the
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  strong dollar globally and issues for importing stuff.
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  But that's another thing. This morning on Cafe Bitcoin Joe
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  Carlos sorry brought up a Republican survey.
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  So it was a survey. I know we don't always trust
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  surveys fan but hear me for a second.
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  The survey was sent out to Republican voters talking about
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  their thoughts on strengthening the dollar and 92% of the
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  Republicans in that survey said they opted for that.
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  Then they asked the next question about gold.
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  Would they want the US dollar to be backed by some type of gold
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  or other precious metal. 60% of the people in that survey said
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  that they would like gold to back the US dollar.
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  The obviously the mechanics of that's a little bit more
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  difficult, but they opted for that.
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  The most bullish part of the survey though was Republicans
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  that received the survey. They said what are their
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  thoughts on Bitcoin? Or is that something that should
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  be on the Fed's balance sheet or something like the US dollar
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  being backed by Bitcoin, 40 percent, 40%.
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  We are very early and 40% of Republicans are positive or
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  neutral to positive about Bitcoin being on the balance
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  sheet of the US government. So the masses are coming, people
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  are waking up and people are learning more and more about
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  Bitcoin. Hopefully not.
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  They're avoiding the cryptocurrencies at all.
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  But it was very cool and bullish thing on that survey.
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  Obviously, with 92% saying they'd love a stronger dollar,
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  Trump is obviously, you know, kind of using that survey to his
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  advantage and saying like, Yep, we should have a stronger
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  dollar. You know, it's a good talking
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  point. A lot of Republicans surveyed
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  and said that they would like that.
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  With that being said, you know, I don't want this to become a
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  partisan issue, obviously. Remember in 2022 we had Kirsten
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  Gillibrand and Cynthia Lummus. They were trying to pass a
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  crypto and Bitcoin bill, basically allowing for like
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  $600.00 of spending. If you're below that limit, that
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  it's not taxed or they're trying to include a lot of different
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  things. Ultimately it was kind of shut
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  down. I hope a version of that bill
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  comes back to making it more tax friendly for using Bitcoin.
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  But you never want to spend your Sats.
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  Everyone but I know Ben can probably talk to, he loves
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  taking your Sats for his wine. That is something about my Sats
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  for 'cause I do like his wine. It's very great products.
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  But I think that the point is we need more people on both sides
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  of the aisle. Kirsten Gillibrand is a great
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  example. She's a Democrat from New York,
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  where Cynthia Lummus is a senator from Wyoming.
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  And we want more, you know, across the aisle.
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  Cooperation like this is this doesn't have to be political
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  issue. It's not.
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  The political issue is people weaponizing the dollar against
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  their constituents and abroad, and people are losing their
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  purchasing power. They are hurting.
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  You know, obviously inflation has not been 2% as their target.
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  It's been much, much higher over the last four years, even
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  probably longer than that. But they're able to hide it
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  through various things like hedonic adjustments and such.
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  With that said, don't trust politicians.
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  Don't trust, verify, obviously, you know, trust.
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  Believe what they do, not what they say.
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  I think that's the best way to look at it.
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  And if these politicians did a little bit of research, even
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  just a tiny bit of research and checked out like priced in
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  Bitcoin, I know Trump is an avid real estate guy.
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  If you've looked at real estate prices priced in Bitcoin,
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  they've collapsed. Meaning that the value of homes,
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  I've gotten cheaper and cheaper if you're living on a Bitcoin
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  standard. So I'll leave you guys at that.
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  You know, Stack sats. Stay humble, Stack sats.
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  And I'll just leave you that. Chris, love it, Nigel.
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  And the chat goes, Chris bringing too much grown up
• 19:35
  analysis, what's going on today. Chris, dropping this out.
• 19:38
  I completely missed that survey in that poll and that.
• 19:42
  I think that's a microcosm of what's going on in the site.
• 19:46
  Guys. And again, guys, you know
• 19:47
  Bitcoin is for anyone and what I don't care what side of the
• 19:51
  aisle you are on. You know, the the progressives
• 19:54
  usually care about like social problems.
• 19:57
  And personally I think Bitcoin can help those people.
• 20:00
  Like Bitcoin helps people get out of poverty.
• 20:03
  It helps people bootstrap themselves.
• 20:05
  It is a beneficial force for humanity.
• 20:08
  And on the right, you know, they care about taxation and property
• 20:10
  rights and it's like Bitcoin is property in cyberspace encrypted
• 20:15
  by the cyber Hornets or whatever, Sailor says.
• 20:16
  It's like. Bitcoin and the dollar, which we
• 20:20
  will see with the Buchelli clip following it, has been
• 20:23
  weaponized. And Bitcoin basically breaks
• 20:26
  that control. And all you have to do is just
• 20:28
  saving Bitcoin, live your life, provide value to your fellow
• 20:31
  man, literally be a good human and saving Bitcoin and everyone
• 20:34
  wins here. So you know, let's try not to
• 20:37
  get too divisive here. I know, I know, Trump's such a
• 20:39
  polarizing figure. But our job here is to cover
• 20:42
  everyone talking about Bitcoin, whether it's good or whether
• 20:46
  it's bad, Whether we like them or yeah, that we don't.
• 20:49
  Everyone will be talking about Bitcoin anyways.
• 20:51
  Ben, what's your thoughts on all this stuff going on today?
• 20:54
  I was so much more interested in the question that was asked and
• 20:59
  how it was phrased than Trump's answer, because as, excuse me,
• 21:03
  the president of the United States, it's pretty hard to be
• 21:05
  like we want to go to a Bitcoin standard.
• 21:07
  That's huge upheaval in the world.
• 21:09
  And ultimately, the better strategy is to just stay quiet,
• 21:14
  stack stacks on the side, not tell anyone, and then let the
• 21:18
  global financial system meltdown whatever, you're all set up.
• 21:21
  The way the question was asked was, isn't the next logical step
• 21:25
  to go to Bitcoin and not crypto, just specifically Bitcoin?
• 21:29
  It was like the way she phrased that just got me so fired up
• 21:33
  because it was so on point. And then she finishes the
• 21:37
  question with just like how African Americans in the United
• 21:41
  States really love Bitcoin and that kind of gets past the like
• 21:47
  just this Trump. Because if you go to the left
• 21:51
  side, I mean they love identity politics.
• 21:54
  They love race based stuff and and helping like perceived
• 21:58
  victims and if their perceived victims are all jumping onto
• 22:05
  Bitcoin it's a little bit harder to like shut it down as this
• 22:08
  hard right wing conspiracy. I mean, I think that they
• 22:11
  obviously they will try to do that because it takes power away
• 22:14
  from the state, which is more the leftist side of the side of
• 22:17
  the spectrum. But like, I don't really expect
• 22:19
  Trump to be a super pro Bitcoin figure.
• 22:24
  Even the VAC in the hindsight backside.
• 22:27
  Like if if he chooses for the VAC as a running mate, the VAC's
• 22:30
  very pro strengthening the dollar and everything and it's
• 22:35
  more just don't be anti. And I feel like his stance since
• 22:38
  the last time I heard him talk about it was has changed from
• 22:42
  like anti to neutral slash, not really still knowing anything
• 22:46
  about it. So we'll see what happens.
• 22:50
  But it was pretty cool to see him talking about that.
• 22:52
  And then they zoom in on the crowd and it's just a bunch of
• 22:55
  like old Republican caucus goers.
• 23:00
  Like it was just is a really cool frame to have that specific
• 23:05
  Bitcoin question said in that stage with all that context
• 23:10
  specifically about Bitcoin. No crypto conversation at all in
• 23:14
  that clip. Love it, love it.
• 23:16
  Couldn't agree more. And let's not forget, I don't
• 23:19
  even know how to say your name, but Melania Trump tweeted about
• 23:22
  the Genesis Block. Wasn't it like a few years ago?
• 23:25
  So I think we can. And then this year, this year,
• 23:28
  yeah. And they they just dropped,
• 23:30
  like, didn't they do like a Trump ordinal or NFT or
• 23:34
  something like that? So at least they kind of know
• 23:38
  what their audience is doing. And I think it just goes to show
• 23:41
  that Bitcoin is highly saturating the culture.
• 23:44
  And then someone said it in the chat, you know, that we should,
• 23:47
  you know, like man up and and embrace Trump or whatever.
• 23:51
  It's like, guys, I literally don't like any politician at
• 23:54
  all. I am so anti politics.
• 23:57
  It's absolutely hilarious. But Bitcoin is highly political
• 24:01
  because it is a political and the main political tool going on
• 24:04
  in the world is the dollar. So hey, if they're embracing
• 24:07
  Bitcoin, I'm not one of these like 1 issue voter guys.
• 24:10
  I fundamentally like. I like people talking about
• 24:12
  Bitcoin, but also like I voted once and I don't know if I'm
• 24:15
  going to vote again. Full disclosure, I feel like I
• 24:18
  got scammed. But anyways, this just goes to
• 24:21
  show that politicians are having these conversations.
• 24:24
  Everyone's going to be having these conversations and now
• 24:27
  everyone's going to have to have an opinion on Bitcoin and it's
• 24:30
  just beautiful to see. We are moving the Overton
• 24:33
  window. It's Friday guys, so you guys
• 24:35
  can drink on your bingo card today.
• 24:36
  The Overton window is shifting and everyone is talking about
• 24:39
  Bitcoin. So man, what a crazy, crazy
• 24:42
  world we are moving into. Anyways, let's get into the news
• 24:45
  because Bukele absolutely destroys the dollar and the Fed
• 24:50
  and really, really, I think shares a strong warning for the
• 24:54
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  All right anyways let's get into this clip here guys.
• 26:06
  Because man I I truly think this was a historic historic speech
• 26:12
  here. You know Bukele has been
• 26:13
  absolutely killing it in the PR recently.
• 26:17
  I don't know if you guys caught his acceptance speech when he
• 26:20
  got re elected at last week like I I was getting the chills and
• 26:26
  we don't have the whole clip here.
• 26:27
  But I highly suggest you guys go watch the whole Bukele CPAC
• 26:31
  speech because he absolutely decimates everything he he named
• 26:36
  names. He's talking talking about
• 26:38
  fighting for freedom. That is not too late.
• 26:40
  But for us here at simply Bitcoin we always pinpoint when
• 26:44
  it comes to finances, when it comes to the dollar and when
• 26:46
  people talk about the real problem AKA the dollar, the
• 26:50
  money printing going absolutely nuclear.
• 26:53
  You know money printer going Burr, we have to highlight it.
• 26:56
  So here we go shout out to the Simply Bitcoin team.
• 26:58
  They go new El Salvador President Naive Bukele speaks at
• 27:01
  the 2024 C pack in the US and they got a quote here.
• 27:06
  The real problem is that you pay high taxes only to uphold the
• 27:09
  illusion that you are funding the government, which you are
• 27:12
  not. All right, guys, So let's watch
• 27:14
  this whole video. It there is there's a part after
• 27:17
  this video which is basically, I wish we added this to.
• 27:20
  It was basically like, there's still hope for you guys.
• 27:22
  And he didn't really say Bitcoin, but you know, he was
• 27:25
  going there. Actually, someone did yell
• 27:27
  Bitcoin when he's talking about this.
• 27:28
  And you'll hear all this, but there's still time for us guys.
• 27:31
  And of course we say saving in Bitcoin.
• 27:33
  But let's get into this clip. For instance, the financial
• 27:36
  situation of the United States. When I talk to my conservative
• 27:40
  friends right here, they always tell me that the problem is high
• 27:44
  taxes, that they're wrong. Of course, high taxes are
• 27:49
  extremely high here in the United States.
• 27:50
  I I give you that. You're right in that.
• 27:53
  But that's not the real problem. The real problem is not the high
• 27:57
  taxes themselves, but the fact that they are not even really
• 28:00
  funding the government. Not even those high taxes higher
• 28:06
  than a lot of places in the world.
• 28:07
  Not even those taxes are really funding the government.
• 28:11
  So who's financing the government?
• 28:14
  Government is financed by Treasury bonds.
• 28:18
  They. And who buys the Treasury bonds?
• 28:22
  Mostly the Fed. And how does the Fed buy them?
• 28:27
  By printing money. But what backing does the Fed
• 28:31
  have for that money being printed?
• 28:34
  The Treasury bonds themselves. So basically you finance the
• 28:38
  government by printing money out of thin air.
• 28:42
  Someone could ask. Someone could ask.
• 28:45
  Well, so if the government can print the limited amounts of
• 28:46
  money out of thin air, why did they collect taxes?
• 28:58
  I mean, the theory will make sense, right?
• 29:00
  If they can print unlimited amounts of money, why would they
• 29:02
  need taxes? The answer is simple, but it's
• 29:05
  very shocking. The real problem is that you pay
• 29:09
  high taxes only to uphold the illusion that you're funding the
• 29:13
  government, which you are not. It's shocking that it's true.
• 29:21
  The government is funded by money printing paper backed with
• 29:25
  paper, a bubble that will inevitably burst.
• 29:31
  The situation is even worse than it seems, because if most
• 29:34
  Americans and the rest of the world were to become aware of
• 29:36
  this virus, confidence in your currency will be lost.
• 29:40
  The dollar will fall, and the Western civilization with it.
• 29:46
  If the next President of the United States doesn't make the
• 29:49
  necessary policies and structural changes, sooner or
• 29:53
  later that bubble will burst. Sheesh.
• 29:58
  Absolute mic drops. Absolute mic drops.
• 30:01
  I love the guy yelling Bitcoin from the audience.
• 30:03
  That's. Great.
• 30:04
  Yeah, exactly, exactly. And man, there's so much to
• 30:08
  unpack here. But before I do that, I really
• 30:10
  want to highlight the article from Bitcoin Magazine.
• 30:14
  If you watch the show, you know, we reference this all the time.
• 30:16
  It's called Stop Drinking, the Elite's kool-aid.
• 30:19
  And there's a very powerful quote in here.
• 30:21
  And again, we, we reference this quote almost, I don't know,
• 30:25
  probably once a week anyways, he goes.
• 30:29
  The interesting part is that the first and second group exists
• 30:31
  mostly because of the 3rd, and he's talking about people that
• 30:34
  either support or are detractors of not only Bitcoin, but of
• 30:37
  freedom. And he says, why?
• 30:39
  Because the most vocal detractors are the ones who are
• 30:41
  afraid and pressuring us to reverse our decisions are the
• 30:44
  world's powerful elites and the people who work for or benefit
• 30:47
  from them. They used to own everything, and
• 30:49
  in a way they still do. The media, the banks, the NGOs,
• 30:51
  the international organizations, and almost all all the
• 30:54
  governments and corporations in the world.
• 30:56
  And with that, of course, they own the armies, the loans, the
• 30:58
  money supply, the credit ratings, the narratives, the
• 31:00
  propaganda, the factories, the food supply.
• 31:02
  They control international trade and international law.
• 31:05
  But their most powerful weapon is the control of, quote, truth.
• 31:08
  And they're willing to fight, lie, smear, destroy, censor,
• 31:11
  confiscate, print and do whatever it takes to maintain
• 31:14
  and increase their control over that truth and everything and
• 31:18
  everyone. And here he is at CPAC basically
• 31:21
  saying what we say here on simply Bitcoin all the time is
• 31:26
  that they have hold on I they have to keep printing money to
• 31:31
  continue the charade that the real Fiat, the real Ponzi is
• 31:35
  Fiat money. It's literally a Ponzi backed by
• 31:38
  papers. It's paper backed by paper.
• 31:40
  And the more they print, the more they debase your savings.
• 31:45
  The more they steal your labor, the more your purchasing power
• 31:48
  decreases. And I think the the hardest
• 31:51
  hitting part about that speech of Bukele, he's like if the
• 31:56
  world doesn't wake up to this, rather if Americans don't wake
• 31:58
  up to this, the bubble's going to burst and we are seeing that
• 32:03
  bubble decline. We're seeing the power of the
• 32:06
  dollar dwindle, whether it's from the BRICS nations, whether
• 32:09
  it's people not wanting to buy government treasuries Like we're
• 32:13
  seeing in real time that the dollar is losing its foothold
• 32:17
  and we think Bitcoin will be the thing to replace it.
• 32:20
  And we constantly show you the debt clock.
• 32:23
  And this is just a visual example of what Buchelli is
• 32:27
  talking about. Again, I'm over here at U.S.
• 32:29
  debt clock. We we bring this up all the
• 32:30
  time. Everyone knows that U.S.
• 32:32
  National debt, it's just past $34 trillion.
• 32:36
  And what Buchelli was saying, the idea that your taxes don't
• 32:40
  won't ever pay that debt, It's just the illusion of you
• 32:43
  financing the government, but it's really being financed by
• 32:46
  money printing. Well, again, just compare this.
• 32:48
  You know, U.S. National debt, $34 trillion.
• 32:50
  U.S. Federal tax revenue is $4.6
• 32:53
  trillion. And that doesn't even account
• 32:55
  for the unfunded liabilities of $213 trillion.
• 33:00
  Like, need I say more? Your dollars and the taxes that
• 33:04
  you guys pay will never, I repeat will never pay off the
• 33:10
  debt that the US has incurred. And This is why we always say
• 33:18
  fix the money, fix the world. It starts with the money.
• 33:22
  We've been covering it on this show very hard the last two
• 33:25
  weeks that the dollar is the main control mechanism and now
• 33:29
  everyone is waking up to it. Now everyone is taught well not
• 33:31
  everyone, but a lot of people are talking about the dollar as
• 33:35
  a control mechanism and I find it very interesting that
• 33:39
  Buchelli went to CPAC. It's the conservative I I forget
• 33:43
  what it what it stands for. I have it over here in my notes
• 33:46
  for you guys, Conservative Political Action Conference.
• 33:51
  And he's pinpointing the problem.
• 33:52
  It's the money guys. If you really care about taxes,
• 33:55
  if you really care about private property, then you need to have
• 33:59
  a money that cannot be censored, that cannot be stolen, that
• 34:01
  cannot be debased. And of course that is Bitcoin.
• 34:05
  So we're seeing in real time that the big Bitcoin signal is
• 34:08
  going worldwide, it's going global.
• 34:10
  Everyone and their mother's going to be talking about
• 34:11
  Bitcoin. But this is what we say here all
• 34:14
  the time. If you're in the know, you know
• 34:17
  the problem. But few people are talking about
• 34:20
  the solution, and the solution is getting on the Bitcoin
• 34:23
  standard on an individual level. Whether that and then of course
• 34:26
  the corporate level, the nation state level, everyone will adopt
• 34:29
  Bitcoin for their own survival. Stop looking for someone else to
• 34:34
  help you. No one is gonna come here.
• 34:36
  No ones gonna be your savior. You need to save yourself and
• 34:39
  save in Bitcoin, man. I'm sure we can unpack Bucheles
• 34:42
  speech 3 minutes for like an hour.
• 34:45
  I think he absolutely destroyed the dollar.
• 34:47
  He destroyed the fraud that is the central banks and the real
• 34:52
  Ponzi is the Fiat Ponzi, not Bitcoin.
• 34:55
  And and we're moving into the cycle where everyone's going to
• 34:57
  be talking about Bitcoin and they're going to be like, oh,
• 34:59
  bitcoins, A Ponzi or what was it?
• 35:00
  Bitcoins, Tulips. And it's like, man, the real
• 35:03
  Ponzi is Fiat money. It is backed by money printing.
• 35:07
  It is paper backed by paper backed by, you know, what's
• 35:10
  what's it say on the dollars? I haven't held a dollar in a
• 35:12
  while. So I forget what it says.
• 35:13
  But backed by the full faith and credit of the federal
• 35:17
  government, what's looking like? They are losing that legitimacy.
• 35:22
  And This is why Bitcoin. This is why I I for a long time
• 35:26
  opted out of politics. And now I realize the power of
• 35:29
  politics. And so I I realized that like,
• 35:31
  hey, people talking about Bitcoin's a good thing.
• 35:33
  The more we spread this message, the more people wake up, the
• 35:36
  more they're able to save and protect themselves.
• 35:39
  We're moving into AII hate using the phrase, but a brave new
• 35:42
  world, a brighter new world. You know, Orange World, It's so
• 35:48
  beautiful being a big corner and just showing up and watching
• 35:50
  everyone else catch on to Bitcoin.
• 35:52
  Anyways, let's go to Chris so he can, you know, tone it down and
• 35:55
  get a little more right side of the bell curve here.
• 35:57
  What's your thoughts on this, Chris?
• 35:59
  No, I think it was a really good talk.
• 36:00
  I think Bouquet is obviously not dumb.
• 36:02
  He understands financial literacy.
• 36:05
  He understands how the whole system is backed.
• 36:07
  Obviously, that's why he made the decision that he made for El
• 36:10
  Salvador in 2021. You know, buying Bitcoin and
• 36:13
  putting it on the balance sheet of El Salvador and obviously
• 36:16
  trying to attract entrepreneurs and people to El Salvador with,
• 36:20
  you know, tax, tax incentives and and things of that nature.
• 36:24
  I think one of the things that it was kind of missed, I mean
• 36:26
  he's right, but is even more nefarious about the high taxes
• 36:30
  that we mentioned is when you have high taxes, it actually
• 36:33
  acts as a way to reduce prices. So it's the way that the federal
• 36:37
  government and the Federal Reserve use high taxes in order
• 36:40
  to reduce inflation. And the way that they're doing
• 36:43
  that if you're they're taking more of your money, that's less
• 36:45
  money that can go out into the economy and drive up prices
• 36:48
  further. Imagine if all of the tax money
• 36:50
  that you had, you were taxed at 0% and you had a much larger
• 36:53
  salary because of the reduction in taxes.
• 36:55
  It's a way that they can prevent.
• 36:57
  They can prevent prices from running away because if they tax
• 37:00
  the middle and lower class, more and more money and they creep up
• 37:03
  and they tax the, you know, the Uber rich as well, you know,
• 37:06
  it's a way to prevent prices from running away.
• 37:10
  So you can always keep increasing taxes so people have
• 37:12
  less money, so they can put less money into the economy and
• 37:14
  spend. And that's something that is is
• 37:17
  kind of even more nefarious that if they were to just drop it to
• 37:19
  zero and then just fund the government with money printing,
• 37:22
  I mean obviously we'd see even more runaway inflation and such.
• 37:25
  But yeah, I I think that's even part of the more nefarious fact
• 37:28
  of it. But I'd say overall great clip
• 37:30
  from Bouquet, like I think the whole interview was like 30
• 37:33
  minutes. Is that right it?
• 37:34
  Was like 25, I think. Yeah, like 24.
• 37:36
  Yeah, definitely something I need to watch the whole thing
• 37:38
  of. But I mean, that was a great
• 37:39
  three clips, that three minute clip there.
• 37:41
  Yeah, that was, of course, as a Bitcoin channel, that that was
• 37:44
  the most defining, important part of that clip.
• 37:47
  But the, I think the theme of the whole show was essentially
• 37:51
  like we are all frogs boiling in water.
• 37:55
  And at a certain point, you're going to have to stand up and
• 37:58
  fight for freedom, fight for what is good.
• 38:00
  And you still have time to change the course of America
• 38:03
  like there's still time for us. But if we keep going down this
• 38:07
  path, if we still, if we continue to believe in the
• 38:11
  corrupt politicians that they have your best, you know, you're
• 38:14
  you're, they have your best interest in mind, you're going
• 38:18
  to wake up in a world, what's a, what's AI?
• 38:20
  Forget the founding father meme. That's like if you are not
• 38:25
  vigilant, one day you will wake up in the world that is
• 38:28
  completely owned by the banks and you will have lost the
• 38:31
  country that your forefathers have built.
• 38:33
  And you know, as a first generation American like I, I
• 38:37
  believe in the meme of home, of the brave land of the free.
• 38:40
  And I I think America is still the best country in the world.
• 38:43
  And I do not want to see America crumble because that means even
• 38:48
  worse situations for the rest of the world.
• 38:50
  Like we are the last bastion of freedom.
• 38:52
  I'm wholly convinced of this. So I hope that more people wake
• 38:55
  up and we can actually course correct.
• 38:57
  And of course, I think, you know, humbly and maybe naively,
• 39:00
  it starts with the money you need to opt into Bitcoin and
• 39:04
  protect yourself. Freedom, money for a freedom
• 39:06
  country. This is the way.
• 39:08
  Anyways, Ben. It's Friday.
• 39:14
  People came for the memes, and we know that that's like the
• 39:17
  most effective warfare that we really have.
• 39:20
  And you snuck a little one in there that Kayleigh did with the
• 39:25
  If they can just print unlimited money, why are we paying taxes?
• 39:29
  That hits so many people. He paused there.
• 39:31
  He took the time. He got everyone to like, look at
• 39:34
  that. See the the wildness of that
• 39:37
  juxtaposition? And then he landed the plane,
• 39:40
  and he tells us why those taxes are high, why they're there, why
• 39:44
  we're getting scammed with that. That's what gave me chills.
• 39:47
  Listening to that clip was how eloquent he was, he
• 39:50
  acknowledged. You could see he saw the guy who
• 39:52
  yelled Bitcoin, but he kept going.
• 39:54
  He landed the plane and he hit it with like people with some
• 39:57
  real knowledge after a meme that got their mind open.
• 40:00
  Let's go, let's go. All right, everyone saying give
• 40:04
  them what they want. Let's wait till the meme review
• 40:07
  and I'll go. Heavy on the horn, guys.
• 40:08
  Okay. All right.
• 40:09
  Anyways, guys, before we get into the culture and we talk to
• 40:13
  our boy Ben about wine, well, really, being an entrepreneur,
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  get yourself Bitcoin evangelism. We need to onboard 10 million
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  As we've been covering in the last two segments, everyone
• 40:37
  needs to understand why Bitcoin is so important.
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  We are all evangelists in Bitcoin.
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  We all love Bitcoin. We can't stop talking about
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  Bitcoin. Well, here's a framework for you
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  by our boy Brian de Mint today, and let's orange pill the world.
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  Anyways, let's get into the culture.
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  least start the conversation if you've been thinking about it.
• 42:16
  Anyways, before we get to just plugging Penny Lane.
• 42:21
  Ben, how you doing bro? I'm, I'm super excited about
• 42:25
  this one actually. I'm going to, I'm going to dox
• 42:27
  you a little bit. I'm going to put you on the hot
• 42:29
  spot. When I saw you in Vegas, you're
• 42:31
  like, dude, I'm like, yo, can we come on simply Bitcoin.
• 42:35
  Let's talk about what you're doing.
• 42:37
  And he's like, Nah, man, like I got to talk about wine.
• 42:39
  Like I don't want to talk about the wine process.
• 42:42
  I want to talk about being a bitcoiner.
• 42:44
  So even though you are known as a Bitcoin wine guy, when I we'll
• 42:48
  talk about wine a little bit, I kind of want to start with the
• 42:51
  ideas of being a Bitcoin entrepreneur and how this is
• 42:55
  maybe helped you maybe how it's expand your your business model.
• 43:01
  Like wait, maybe we start back, how did you connect the two?
• 43:04
  Because this is something I talk about with people all the time,
• 43:06
  like you don't have to be a programmer, you don't have to be
• 43:09
  a developer, you don't have to be a miner to get involved with
• 43:11
  Bitcoin. All you have to do is take your
• 43:13
  skills and add Bitcoin on top of it.
• 43:15
  And I think you're a perfect example of this is like, what's
• 43:18
  wine got to do with Bitcoin? Besides the fact that all of us
• 43:20
  bitcoiners like some good wine, But how did you connect the two
• 43:24
  and and how did you, you know, wrap your head around this idea
• 43:26
  of being a Bitcoin entrepreneur? Realistically, I think it's just
• 43:31
  the same as everyone where you are doing what you're doing with
• 43:35
  life and then Bitcoin comes your way.
• 43:36
  You you start to understand it and Bitcoin just seeps into
• 43:39
  every part of your life. I didn't like I started my
• 43:42
  winery a year before I started learning about Bitcoin and then
• 43:45
  it was maybe two years of learning about Bitcoin before I
• 43:48
  realized how useful Bitcoin could be for taking payments,
• 43:54
  for stacking, for saving, for kind of changing the the time
• 43:58
  preference of what I have my value in.
• 44:01
  And honestly it wasn't even quite my idea.
• 44:04
  It's just like people started, I got on Twitter to learn about
• 44:08
  Bitcoin and then people started asking to buy my wine in Bitcoin
• 44:11
  and it just became a a no brainer kind of self self
• 44:13
  fulfilling prophecy. And really it's like it's been
• 44:19
  such a perfect marriage because bitcoiners have this low time
• 44:21
  preference. They kind of understand the
• 44:23
  value prop of nice wine of holding it, of buying wine that
• 44:26
  doesn't make you feel bad afterwards because they have
• 44:29
  this bit of a impetus a little push towards like long term
• 44:33
  health. So you want to drink wine
• 44:35
  without any additives. And additionally I have this
• 44:41
  army of cyber Hornets that want to help me win where sailor
• 44:45
  talks about that with as far as defense of the Bitcoin network
• 44:50
  and and changes and everything. But there's this such a strong
• 44:57
  group of that's the wrong link by the way.
• 44:58
  It's Penny Lane wine.com. There's such a strong.
• 45:02
  Hit of there's such a strong like push for bitcoiners to see
• 45:07
  other bitcoiners succeed that that can propel.
• 45:11
  I mean a realist any business into a little bit more
• 45:14
  stratosphere of success. Because we want to buy from our
• 45:19
  communities where like I want to buy local 1st and then if I
• 45:22
  can't buy local I live in a small town.
• 45:24
  I don't have all the options. I buy from a bitcoiner because I
• 45:27
  want to support people that are working towards creating a
• 45:30
  better world. And just like I am, and if you
• 45:34
  create a good product, bitcoiners value it.
• 45:36
  And there's nothing like receiving the value of getting
• 45:40
  paid in Bitcoin like the first time that happened and every
• 45:44
  time since then it feels amazing.
• 45:47
  It's so much better than getting paid in dollars because you
• 45:49
  really feel like that person extra values your product and
• 45:55
  there's tools now where with strike you can send dollars.
• 45:58
  And I received Bitcoin and I think that's kind of the the
• 46:00
  future where this is all going, especially because I see a bit
• 46:04
  more tax burden coming on that and maybe some more regulatory
• 46:08
  pressure. But I want to hold Bitcoin, I
• 46:10
  want to get paid in Bitcoin. So I better make a good product
• 46:13
  that Bitcoiners want to purchase with Bitcoin.
• 46:17
  Otherwise, what am I doing here? No, I I absolutely love it.
• 46:21
  And that last part, I think is the key here.
• 46:24
  And I think as a modern society, and I'm sure we all have heard
• 46:30
  the meme, there's no production in America.
• 46:34
  Everything is going to China. We're all used to this plastic
• 46:38
  consumerism where everything's cheap.
• 46:40
  It's it's designed to throw away.
• 46:42
  And once you get on the Bitcoin standard and you're an
• 46:44
  entrepreneur with Bitcoin, you you realize it's like, oh man,
• 46:48
  if I want to incentivize people to give me Bitcoin, I have to
• 46:51
  give them a high quality product or else they're never going to
• 46:54
  give me Bitcoin. And I'm I'm reminded of my buddy
• 46:57
  by Kingo and I'm not. This might seem like I'm
• 46:59
  shitting on my boy by Kingo, but he's like, man, how do you guys
• 47:03
  get paid in Bitcoin? No one ever wants to pay me in
• 47:05
  Bitcoin. But I guess it's just the
• 47:07
  perfect market fit for you where it's just like I don't know,
• 47:10
  like people just ask me to pay in Bitcoin for my wine And you
• 47:14
  know like you said the cyber Hornets helped you out.
• 47:16
  I, I, I you corrected me before the show.
• 47:19
  I'm like dude, I saw your numbers.
• 47:20
  I saw that bitcoiners have like tripled your your business
• 47:25
  profits and he's like you didn't see the numbers you saw the
• 47:27
  chart. So let's talk about this man.
• 47:29
  Like how long have you been doing Penny Lane?
• 47:32
  And then how has your business improved since Bitcoiners have
• 47:36
  just started to love your product and shield your product
• 47:40
  and just be like, man, just the love you receive.
• 47:42
  I see. Like you're you're a memer in
• 47:44
  your own right, but also you're an entrepreneur in your own
• 47:47
  right and people love what you're doing and it's just
• 47:49
  beautiful to. Watch.
• 47:51
  I started in 2019, so all of, most of 2019 I was getting my
• 47:57
  liquor licenses and then I made my first wine that fall.
• 48:00
  And then I had to wait two years.
• 48:01
  So I made wine, moved home, built my house, and then made
• 48:05
  wine again before I ever sold any wine.
• 48:07
  So two years of waiting and then a year of like, oh OK, is my
• 48:12
  wine good? Is this going to even work at
• 48:14
  all after investing that much time?
• 48:16
  And then the third year was confirmation of, or maybe the
• 48:19
  4th. The second year of sales was
• 48:22
  confirmation that I had something here.
• 48:24
  I had a good product and people were liking it.
• 48:27
  That time I was not selling to bitcoiners at all, and my idea
• 48:31
  was really like I had an Internet side hustle before
• 48:35
  selling stickers, selling some T-shirts and stuff.
• 48:38
  I didn't really want to work on the computer.
• 48:39
  I like working with wine, I like working with my hands a little
• 48:42
  bit more. And so I never really had the
• 48:45
  intention to sell wine online and living in a town of 2000
• 48:49
  people, I lived within two hours of some ski towns.
• 48:52
  So I was doing farmers markets and and going to ski towns to
• 48:55
  sell my wine to a little bit more affluent people that can
• 48:58
  afford to value what I have properly.
• 49:02
  And then Bitcoiners started asking to buy wine and all of a
• 49:08
  sudden I had a business that shipped wine all over the
• 49:11
  country and that's growing. I think it's a little hard to
• 49:15
  ask people to buy your product with Bitcoin at the bottom of
• 49:18
  the bear market. I definitely got a lot of full
• 49:20
  How can I justify buying this nice bottle of wine with
• 49:24
  bitcoins at 16 K? And I get it, 'cause like I was
• 49:26
  all in on Bitcoin at 16 K trying to get as much as possible sold,
• 49:30
  a few bottles at that price that are potentially the most will
• 49:36
  become the most expensive bottles ever.
• 49:38
  We'll see. I there's probably wine that's
• 49:41
  been bought with Bitcoin before that, but it's it's worked out
• 49:45
  well, it's it's turned. It's given me the ability to
• 49:47
  scale my business in a way that wouldn't have really been
• 49:50
  possible without huge capital infusion, to build a tasting
• 49:55
  room space, to to be like a really in person business before
• 50:01
  I'm ready to do that. That's the ultimate goal is I
• 50:04
  want to have a business in my town to make my town a little
• 50:06
  bit more the way that I want it, just by bringing in the right
• 50:10
  music, the right wine, bringing the right people together.
• 50:12
  But right now, it's way better for me to scale up ship wine and
• 50:19
  allow people outside of Colorado to get exposed to Colorado wine.
• 50:24
  That's a lot of wine makers in around me are stuck in this
• 50:29
  world where people don't know Colorado wine and then and thus
• 50:33
  don't really seek it out or don't know it exists at all.
• 50:37
  And I've hit this point where it's like, it's not about
• 50:41
  Colorado wine necessarily my wine.
• 50:43
  I have natural wine, no additives, and it's in the
• 50:46
  highest elevation wine region in North America.
• 50:48
  So it's a different sales pitch where bitcoiners seem open to
• 50:53
  the quality, open to trying something new and open to
• 50:56
  supporting their own. And it's opening people's eyes a
• 50:59
  little bit more to Colorado wine, which I hope will benefit
• 51:03
  everyone in Colorado just being exposed to it.
• 51:11
  OK, so I'm laughing at the view going the VCs, watching, or
• 51:14
  salivating at the thought of investing in Bitcoin wine.
• 51:17
  Oh my. God, a no brainer.
• 51:19
  Like of course I want to hold Bitcoin.
• 51:21
  It's the best asset. Like why would I want to take
• 51:24
  profits in in anything else? I mean, that is taking my
• 51:27
  profits is literally selling wine for Bitcoin.
• 51:29
  Otherwise I just all the dollars I get go back into the business,
• 51:32
  go back into creating more wine and I got to have that, I got to
• 51:36
  do that. But ultimately it's I'm in a
• 51:39
  pretty cool spot where the whole time the previous four years I
• 51:43
  either didn't have any wine or didn't have enough wine.
• 51:47
  And now, just by the magic of waiting, I have a ton of wine
• 51:52
  and can finally scale up the business, scale up the sales and
• 51:54
  do things right. And it just happens to time with
• 51:58
  a bull run. So I guess you could say my
• 52:02
  customers are getting richer along with me.
• 52:05
  Let's get. That's probably the yeah.
• 52:08
  What's it? Build, build it and they will
• 52:10
  come. Man.
• 52:10
  It's a perfect time. Anyways, I I do kind of want to
• 52:14
  want to touch on like what? What's been the process of you
• 52:17
  actually accepting Bitcoin? I saw you were saying like
• 52:19
  people just DM ING you like, so like, what's going on there?
• 52:24
  It's magic. Speaking from a customer
• 52:27
  experience, I just DM Ben. He sends me an address, I send
• 52:31
  Bitcoin to it, and he sends me one.
• 52:32
  It's magical. Wow.
• 52:35
  So the with liquor being a alcohol being a regulated
• 52:40
  product, I have to kind of go through these specific
• 52:46
  compliance companies compliance use things because I have to
• 52:48
  have compliance in every single state.
• 52:51
  I'm a one man show. I don't have the ability or
• 52:53
  realistically the sales to justify that.
• 52:56
  So I use a company that takes 10% of everything.
• 52:59
  I I put through them and I have been messaging them for three
• 53:03
  years about Bitcoin, allowing me to accept Bitcoin and they
• 53:07
  don't. So previously I was using the
• 53:11
  Oshi app, which is a great marketplace for Bitcoin products
• 53:15
  that it's kind of curated some really high quality stuff in
• 53:18
  there and you can buy everything with Bitcoin.
• 53:20
  Don't think you can use dollars at all.
• 53:22
  And that was great. But ultimately I I need to get
• 53:25
  something on my site. So I'm working on the back end
• 53:27
  to get something up on the website that you can just buy
• 53:29
  Bitcoin directly. But yeah, you can't.
• 53:33
  I can't. My hands are tied.
• 53:34
  Like I want to accept Bitcoin just like that.
• 53:37
  Because when I shop with and use Bitcoin to pay, it's so easy,
• 53:40
  but it's not for me and it's really frustrating.
• 53:42
  So working on that in the back end right now, yeah, it is
• 53:45
  literally DMSI personally write your order.
• 53:49
  It's like very clunky on my end. Like I try to make it as easy as
• 53:53
  possible for you guys, but it's not it's not sustainable, but at
• 53:57
  the at the same time like I'm stacking stats and so that's
• 54:00
  that's all that matters. I have to go through the extra
• 54:02
  effort. I was going to say like I didn't
• 54:04
  mean to dox you there, Ben. Like hopefully I'm not getting
• 54:06
  you in trouble with your compliance department or
• 54:07
  anything or, but you know you need to hire a a Bitcoin order
• 54:11
  taker guy. It sounds like the one role that
• 54:13
  you need to hire as you scale up.
• 54:16
  Yeah, no, Everything goes through like I accept the
• 54:18
  Bitcoin and then I just put it as a cash sale.
• 54:20
  So everything goes through the compliance and gets the proper
• 54:23
  taxes and everything, and I think I'm covered there.
• 54:28
  Probably well wish this video was destroyed in four years.
• 54:35
  But oh man, that's too good. OK, Ben, let's.
• 54:38
  All right. I know we said we're we weren't
• 54:40
  going to talk about wine but let's let's talk about wine.
• 54:43
  So I'm over here on your website pennylanewine.com you have a few
• 54:47
  different I don't even know flavors what how do you
• 54:51
  different wines. I you know I don't know much
• 54:54
  about wine. I.
• 54:56
  He he just just drinks wine. He doesn't do it.
• 54:59
  Talk about wine as much with you 'cause you don't know your shit.
• 55:01
  Yeah, I don't. I don't do.
• 55:03
  Literally, I I only know that I like red wine.
• 55:07
  My mom likes we've had this conversation.
• 55:09
  She likes Malbec and tempernios, and I don't know any wine other
• 55:13
  than those two, so I don't know. Maybe those are awesome though.
• 55:16
  OK, awesome. Those are awesome.
• 55:17
  And. I've got a great tempernio
• 55:19
  coming, but right now I have 4/20/20 ones released.
• 55:23
  So that's the current vintage I'm selling.
• 55:25
  And then I have very limited supply of all the twenty 20s.
• 55:29
  So there's the Merlot, Oak Shard and Cab Franc which were huge
• 55:35
  hits for the 2020 vintage and I've kind of held those back
• 55:38
  wanting it to be if you know, you know, if you know these,
• 55:41
  these are that great, you can grab them.
• 55:43
  And then soon I'll launch my wine club and those will go to
• 55:47
  wine club members only whatever is left being kind of an
• 55:49
  exclusive access to those wines. So and the 2020 ones are
• 55:55
  drinking amazing. I mean as I'm doing this longer
• 55:57
  I'm becoming a much better wine maker.
• 55:59
  So it's it's cool to open up the new vintages and try the new
• 56:04
  ones and see like how much better of a steward I got of
• 56:07
  this wine. Because ultimately it's it's my
• 56:09
  droll is just to kind of let the wine do its thing and be as have
• 56:15
  my hands on it as little as possible but just put it in the
• 56:18
  right places to succeed. Because I think I have amazing
• 56:21
  grapes out here that produce great, great wine.
• 56:24
  And I mean the proof is in the pudding it it drinks great.
• 56:28
  But what I'm really excited for coming up, I've got Satoshi's
• 56:32
  Reserve bottle, which is my limited edition 210 bottle
• 56:36
  release of the best barrel of my 2021 wine.
• 56:39
  So I literally just went in bridal, agnostic, just tasted
• 56:43
  every barrel, decided this was my best.
• 56:45
  And so since there is no second best, I have to put as much
• 56:50
  Bitcoin on this as possible. So I'm planning on selling that
• 56:53
  only for Bitcoin and release date is not set but before the
• 56:58
  halving. And then people have been asking
• 57:01
  me about my Pinot Noir and that's my state wine.
• 57:04
  That's the thing I'm most proud of.
• 57:05
  But in 2021 there was no grapes. We got frozen out.
• 57:09
  So I don't have a 2021 vintage to release right now.
• 57:12
  But it got me curious. I started tasting my 2022 Pinot
• 57:15
  Noir early and it's ridiculously good already, which I thought it
• 57:21
  would need more time. But it's it's still, it's insane
• 57:24
  right now. So that'll probably release
• 57:25
  before June and I've got a few other wines coming that are
• 57:29
  going to be really exciting. Love it, bro.
• 57:31
  Love it. Let's let's go one quick.
• 57:33
  Question on that on the on the Satoshi reserve or the reserve
• 57:37
  bottles, are you going to put like the block height as you're
• 57:39
  bottling them and stuff? That would be kind of cool.
• 57:41
  I'm just saying. Not as I'm bottling because the
• 57:45
  that's kind of they've been bottled for a year and a half
• 57:47
  already but. Chris.
• 57:51
  Nuggets on there. But.
• 57:53
  I think the I'm back dating it for sure.
• 57:55
  The more important block height to me is the harvest height
• 57:59
  because that's really when the genesis of the wine began was
• 58:02
  when the grapes were picked. I mean because you can't really
• 58:04
  do like when the grapes started growing that year that's that's
• 58:07
  impossible. So harvest height, block height
• 58:10
  there, that that is definitely going to be on the label.
• 58:15
  I promise this was nostril. Oh, let's go.
• 58:22
  Wait, wait, wait. Show me a little more show.
• 58:24
  Show me one second longer. One second longer.
• 58:27
  A paper label. So it's it's just a prototype.
• 58:30
  It'll be nice and shiny for you, something you can either put on
• 58:33
  your, you know, put on your shelf behind your podcast,
• 58:36
  recording studio, or drink. In the wink wink wink.
• 58:42
  Don't just verify o'dell. It's on YouTube now, baby.
• 58:47
  All right. There is some questions here
• 58:49
  that I think it would be great to respond to Ben before I touch
• 58:54
  on your meming. So MG Smith says oof pricey
• 58:58
  $2.00 Chuck at Trader Joe's for the win.
• 59:01
  So let's look at this. You know, I see it on your chart
• 59:05
  here. There's a method to the madness.
• 59:07
  Look, if you want that cheap wine, by all means buy it.
• 59:11
  But you're buying good wine. What would be your response to
• 59:14
  this, Ben? It's it's kind of health related
• 59:19
  and taste preference related where if you're drinking $2.00
• 59:24
  Chuck, go for it. Save the money.
• 59:25
  But ultimately, like you're adding a ton of chemicals to
• 59:28
  your body. There's no ingredients list on a
• 59:31
  wine bottle and anything that that's priced that cheap is
• 59:35
  ridiculous. I spend more than that bottle
• 59:38
  costs on grapes per bottle, and what they're doing is taking
• 59:42
  like all the leftover, all the worst grapes.
• 59:44
  And then they're adding a ton of chemicals to it to change the
• 59:47
  taste, profile, aroma, texture, color.
• 59:52
  It's the wine industry is as shady as the crypto industry.
• 59:57
  And shot. Fired.
• 1:00:00
  Yeah. I mean, and it's old.
• 1:00:02
  It's it's scared. It's sketchy, man.
• 1:00:04
  Like I I kind of cringe about the wine industry because there
• 1:00:07
  is so much hidden. There's so much hidden behind
• 1:00:11
  this veneer of just not understanding it.
• 1:00:14
  And there's no clarity because there's no, there's no
• 1:00:17
  ingredients list on the label. I'm not asking for more
• 1:00:19
  bureaucracy, but just so you know, like you're drinking a ton
• 1:00:22
  of super high sulfite wine. And I mean, a lot of those
• 1:00:25
  really crappy wines have an ingredient called Mega Purple to
• 1:00:28
  change the color. So you just feel worse after
• 1:00:31
  drinking it. And if your goal is just to get
• 1:00:33
  drunk, go for it, man. Like, you're going to get
• 1:00:36
  hungover, whatever you're drinking.
• 1:00:38
  But if you're drinking something that's meant for like a nice
• 1:00:42
  dinner with family friends, celebrating something, you're
• 1:00:45
  going to drink a nicer bottle. So this what I make is not
• 1:00:49
  unless you're like, super loaded.
• 1:00:50
  It's it's realistically, it's just not for just hammering down
• 1:00:54
  and getting drunk. It's for enjoying, savoring,
• 1:00:57
  having great conversations with. And the idea is really you're
• 1:01:00
  just going to feel a hell of a lot better the next day than you
• 1:01:02
  would expect to with wine. Because people talk about wine
• 1:01:06
  hangovers. Like, man, I'll never get drunk
• 1:01:07
  on wine again. I felt so crappy the next day.
• 1:01:10
  It's not the wine, it's literally everything else that's
• 1:01:13
  in the wine. So if you drink wine, that's
• 1:01:15
  literally just the grapes, you just feel so much better
• 1:01:18
  afterwards that it's very worthwhile.
• 1:01:20
  It's also like I my wine tastes better, so there's it's more
• 1:01:24
  than just help. Soft flex.
• 1:01:25
  Soft flex. OK, let's go to a few.
• 1:01:28
  Yeah. Hard flex.
• 1:01:28
  Let's go to a few more. So Nigel goes, does Ben grow all
• 1:01:32
  these grapes in the same climate slash place?
• 1:01:36
  I grow Pinot Noir where I am in Peonia and that's the highest
• 1:01:40
  elevation Pinot in North America.
• 1:01:42
  So it's a pretty special wine and that's like my flagship, my
• 1:01:46
  state wine. That's why I want to release the
• 1:01:48
  2022 a little earlier, to have it there.
• 1:01:50
  So that's the one that I'm like full on.
• 1:01:53
  This is the best, cleanest wine you can get because I can vouch
• 1:01:56
  for every part of the process. Then the rest, Most of the rest
• 1:01:59
  of my grapes I get from about an hour away from me in a slightly
• 1:02:04
  about 1500 feet lower. So it's 4500 foot elevation,
• 1:02:08
  still very high elevation for grape growing and it's still in
• 1:02:11
  Colorado. So I know the producers, I I
• 1:02:13
  trust them pretty well with with their practices and and know
• 1:02:16
  what they're doing and they grow great quality grapes and also
• 1:02:19
  different varieties than I can grow where I am because the high
• 1:02:24
  elevation really restricts what I can grow.
• 1:02:27
  So I need a little bit of help growing.
• 1:02:32
  I need the different varieties and everything, but what I'm
• 1:02:34
  really resting my my hat on is the Pinot, and then everything
• 1:02:38
  else is made in the same process once it gets to me.
• 1:02:40
  So it's no additives, super minimal sulfites in there,
• 1:02:44
  really just the natural ones. And then you're getting a really
• 1:02:48
  high quality product as well, even though I'm not growing
• 1:02:52
  every one of these grapes. Love it, love it.
• 1:02:54
  OK, we got one more question here.
• 1:02:56
  Sail Dog 18 goes. Which one is an earthy dry red?
• 1:03:01
  I'm really liking the 2021 temper Neo right now it's it's
• 1:03:05
  relatively earthy as in terms of it's kind of got like these like
• 1:03:08
  smoky tobacco notes to it. And then the number one thing
• 1:03:13
  that I've had probably the best wine that I'm selling right now
• 1:03:15
  is the 2020 Cab Franc. That's a deeper, like deeper
• 1:03:19
  fruit, more earthy. It's got a little bit of
• 1:03:21
  vegetable notes in it that people really like with the Cab
• 1:03:23
  Franc, and what I find is people that ask for that style of wine,
• 1:03:28
  that Cab Franc, the 2020 is a hit for them.
• 1:03:32
  Love it. OK, on a personal note, can we
• 1:03:34
  buy cases? Is there a discount if we buy
• 1:03:36
  more than one bottle? Or what's going on here?
• 1:03:39
  So currently 3 bottle minimum. It doesn't make sense to ship
• 1:03:43
  one bottle of wine SO3 bottle minimum.
• 1:03:45
  And then if you order six I ship it to you free so you don't have
• 1:03:48
  to worry about those costs. And then if you buy 12, you get
• 1:03:51
  10% off and then if you slide into my TMS, I give you 10% off
• 1:03:56
  for paying in Bitcoin. So lots of discounts there 20.
• 1:04:00
  Percent off, let's go, let's 11 more question.
• 1:04:04
  Jay Thoreau goes one more question.
• 1:04:06
  What advice does Ben have for bitcoiners getting started in
• 1:04:09
  their own entrepreneur journeys? I think it's figure out what you
• 1:04:15
  actually want to be doing long term.
• 1:04:17
  The part of how what got me on this was I was looking for
• 1:04:20
  something to really commit to and just not have a side hustle,
• 1:04:24
  not give up, just. I have two years of, wow, I just
• 1:04:26
  made wine. I better see this through.
• 1:04:29
  And in that time I was able to really center, like, what do I
• 1:04:33
  want in my life? How do I want to build this
• 1:04:35
  business to get me what I want in my life?
• 1:04:37
  And I was given that time after I started the business, I just
• 1:04:40
  jumped on to start making wine and went for it and then figured
• 1:04:43
  it out later. But if you're figuring out
• 1:04:45
  something that's a little bit sooner, you kind of, I think you
• 1:04:48
  want to get to know what you're good at, what you want in life.
• 1:04:51
  And then, yeah, you can build a team to surround yourself, to
• 1:04:54
  fill your, to fill your weaknesses.
• 1:04:56
  But ultimately, like, if you're an entrepreneur, you're going to
• 1:05:01
  do it. And so build a, build a business
• 1:05:03
  that you're excited to get up and do every day because that's
• 1:05:06
  your life, that's your baby, that's what you're doing all the
• 1:05:09
  time. So wine starting out was not
• 1:05:12
  that for me and it's become that because it's become a vehicle to
• 1:05:17
  so many other things of enjoyment.
• 1:05:20
  Like I get to drink great wine with people, I get invited to
• 1:05:23
  dinners, I have something to do with my hands all the time and a
• 1:05:29
  great product to share with people.
• 1:05:30
  I mean it's it's pretty awesome. I would just stand behind what
• 1:05:34
  you're doing 100% and and I think you'll find your way.
• 1:05:38
  Love it. OK, we are going into the meme
• 1:05:41
  review, But before we do that, we have a few memes that people
• 1:05:45
  want to respond to the Bitcoin bugle.
• 1:05:47
  What songs does Ben sing to his grapes as they grow?
• 1:05:52
  So for a long time I was singing Rage Against the Machine, but
• 1:05:55
  these days I've been singing Can You Take Me Higher?
• 1:06:03
  OK, that's so funny. All right.
• 1:06:05
  And then the last thing that says going into the meme review,
• 1:06:07
  people are saying it's opti's Friday Meme Review extravaganza.
• 1:06:10
  You are known for a very popular meme.
• 1:06:14
  What meme is that, then? You talking about the meat in my
• 1:06:20
  pocket? The meat in your pocket.
• 1:06:22
  The pocket steak? Do you have a pocket steak
• 1:06:24
  currently in your pocket? I ate it before the show.
• 1:06:27
  I figured it was better. Than not, you know, the camera.
• 1:06:30
  Nice, nice. So what?
• 1:06:32
  Like the pocket meme or the pocket steak meme?
• 1:06:36
  It seems like it's taken on a life of its own, and I I
• 1:06:39
  legitimately didn't know that you started it.
• 1:06:40
  I'm like he Ben didn't start this.
• 1:06:42
  And like, apparently you're the genesis of the pocket steak
• 1:06:46
  meme. And now it's only.
• 1:06:48
  Everywhere. Just have notifications on for
• 1:06:50
  Ben's tweets and you'll you'll never know that.
• 1:06:52
  You'll never forget he didn't start a meeting.
• 1:06:53
  Yeah, that's. True, That's true.
• 1:06:56
  So, OK, getting a little serious, what's the what's the
• 1:06:59
  technicals of the pocket steak? You cook it and you just put it
• 1:07:02
  in a zip log in your pocket and you have snacks all day.
• 1:07:07
  I do recommend using protection, but I know there's people who
• 1:07:13
  raw dog their pocket meet. And I mean it's ultimately, it's
• 1:07:17
  just like the best I started. I was just doing it when I'm
• 1:07:20
  skiing, like during the summer, I kind of get it.
• 1:07:21
  You don't really want a sweaty steak in your pocket.
• 1:07:23
  But when you're skiing, yeah, it's cold, it's refrigerated,
• 1:07:27
  whatever, It's on an outside pocket and it's perfect.
• 1:07:29
  Like you rip it out, you grip it and rip it on the lift and
• 1:07:33
  you're full. You're ready to go.
• 1:07:34
  Like it's full. You just take a few bites and
• 1:07:36
  you're ready to go for the rest of the day.
• 1:07:38
  And also added benefit, the reactions of people on the ski
• 1:07:44
  lift when you break out a pocket stake is amazing.
• 1:07:47
  I get everything from total like disgust, repulsiveness.
• 1:07:52
  People like not understanding what I'm doing to people calling
• 1:07:56
  me their hero and that's that's why I get up every day.
• 1:08:01
  Love it. Love it.
• 1:08:03
  All right, Ben. Well, thanks for coming on, bro.
• 1:08:05
  That was great. Great conversation.
• 1:08:07
  All right, guys, it's time. You already know it's Friday.
• 1:08:10
  Everyone thinks we don't like the memes.
• 1:08:12
  No, we just do it on Friday. Here we go.
• 1:08:17
  Opti's Friday meme review. Oh, yeah, you guys like my
• 1:08:27
  transition. Honestly, I need to cut it down.
• 1:08:29
  That was a little too long. But hey, you know, we had to
• 1:08:32
  ship it. We had to ship it and grip it.
• 1:08:33
  All right, guys, go to another deal.
• 1:08:35
  This is Friday where we review Bitcoin memes.
• 1:08:38
  Send me the memes on Twitter. Simply Bitcoin TV.
• 1:08:41
  You can tag my personal one, add Optimus fields.
• 1:08:43
  But I prefer the simply Bitcoin one because don't blow my
• 1:08:46
  notifications up or drop them in our Telegram group.
• 1:08:49
  I look in there as well. But you are another deal tweets
• 1:08:53
  of the bullets, memes of the artillery.
• 1:08:54
  As you can tell from today's show, Bitcoin is saturating.
• 1:08:57
  Popular culture is getting propagated in every corner of
• 1:09:01
  the globe, and the way we do this is by spreading the memes.
• 1:09:04
  So continue to ridicule the corporate press.
• 1:09:07
  Continue to get the calls of actions out there in Bitcoin.
• 1:09:10
  Continue to educate your friends and family and of course
• 1:09:13
  continue to make the funnies so your friends head stay in the
• 1:09:15
  game. All right.
• 1:09:16
  The first one is, you know kind of surprising.
• 1:09:19
  Elon Musk have been going super hard on Twitter.
• 1:09:21
  Love him or hate him it's besides the point.
• 1:09:23
  But he's dropping some fire memes like constantly dropping
• 1:09:26
  fire memes. You know, billionaire meming
• 1:09:28
  with us. Not only sailor, we got Elon
• 1:09:30
  Musk. You know Musk Musk allegedly for
• 1:09:33
  for all you flat earthers in the chat over there allegedly you
• 1:09:37
  know lands land something on the moon yesterday and still has
• 1:09:41
  time to drop memes. It's absolutely incredible and
• 1:09:45
  of course this isn't his meme but I think it's fitting for
• 1:09:47
  today's show and it goes. I'm sure you guys have heard the
• 1:09:50
  the basics of this meme here it's the two wolves one he goes
• 1:09:53
  inside you there are two wolves the black wolf goes I hate the
• 1:09:56
  Federal Reserve and then the white wolf goes lol same oh you
• 1:09:59
  can see at liberty list is the the meme creator.
• 1:10:03
  But I think we can all agree you know the central banks are the
• 1:10:06
  real reason why we are all broker than we should be.
• 1:10:10
  OK, next one is by our boy Rd. under score BTC, who just made a
• 1:10:15
  hot appearance in the Bugle this morning.
• 1:10:17
  And it goes, thanks for your concern hashtag Bitcoin.
• 1:10:20
  And you know we got an MPC Wojack here and he goes, I do
• 1:10:23
  worry about you and your bitcoins and the Chad Bitcoin it
• 1:10:26
  goes, thanks. But And then as laser eyes come
• 1:10:29
  on, it goes. I worry about your reliance on
• 1:10:31
  third parties, your spiraling cost of living, and your woeful
• 1:10:34
  understanding of money. And the NPC just goes, oh man, I
• 1:10:40
  shouldn't have opened that can of worms.
• 1:10:42
  And yesterday we saw the Andrew Sorkin video with Joe Kern and
• 1:10:47
  Tom Lee and he's going out there and you know, trying to debunk
• 1:10:51
  Bitcoin. And I don't know if you guys
• 1:10:53
  caught the moment, but after he said the ridiculous line that he
• 1:10:58
  said he did this like face and so it's a screenshot of his face
• 1:11:02
  and it goes a store of value would stay the same price and he
• 1:11:05
  does it like eyes, you know, so shouts out to TC.
• 1:11:10
  Shouts out to Joe Kern, too Biggest Bitcoin Podcaster?
• 1:11:13
  In the biggest Bitcoin podcaster in the world, you know we're
• 1:11:15
  we're, we're getting put to shame, Chris.
• 1:11:17
  We're getting put to shame. Anyways, the next one is by Jim
• 1:11:20
  Crater, TX Jim Crater, Texas. He was just on the show this
• 1:11:24
  week and like I said, he's part of 58K gang meme gang, 58K meme
• 1:11:29
  gangs, and it's a classic Anakin and Padme meme.
• 1:11:33
  And we got Anakin and goes, we're going to 58 K and she
• 1:11:36
  smiles. She goes then higher right?
• 1:11:38
  And then Anakin smirks. Wait, then higher right.
• 1:11:41
  It's not 58 K forever, is it? Oh man, we're going higher than
• 1:11:45
  58K, right? Right.
• 1:11:46
  I I hope so. I hope so.
• 1:11:48
  All right, this next one. You know Chrissy Lagarde's been
• 1:11:52
  making rounds. Your girlfriend not only in my
• 1:11:55
  DMS but on the timeline. And we got Glocky, AKA at
• 1:12:00
  Clucky's under score on Twitter. And he goes just hashtag Bitcoin
• 1:12:03
  And here's like an AIAI version of Christine Lagarde with a pig
• 1:12:08
  face on her. And he goes, this greedy pig
• 1:12:10
  wants to inflate your savings away.
• 1:12:12
  What do you do? Hashtag Bitcoin?
• 1:12:14
  Saving Bitcoin? This is the way.
• 1:12:15
  This is the way. OK.
• 1:12:17
  This next one is by our boy Greg.
• 1:12:19
  Zoj one. And it goes, good morning.
• 1:12:21
  And I guess you know, everyone's changing their name to Japanese
• 1:12:26
  figures. Anyways, let's look at this
• 1:12:28
  meme. It's a little longer, but I
• 1:12:30
  figured, why not? It's a meme Review Friday.
• 1:12:32
  So he goes 5 minutes after invention of wheel and you got
• 1:12:36
  you know, the Dharma Buddhist Dharma wheel here.
• 1:12:37
  And it goes bro. Literally though, bro.
• 1:12:39
  The whole world is a wheel turning round and round, an
• 1:12:42
  endless cycle of seasons and lives and realms.
• 1:12:44
  It all keeps turning and it all keeps coming back around.
• 1:12:48
  And then 5 minutes after invention of books, bro.
• 1:12:51
  Literally though, bro. The whole world in the book God
• 1:12:53
  is the author of being and he writes our names in the book of
• 1:12:56
  life. In the beginning was the word
• 1:12:58
  bro. You see bro.
• 1:12:59
  And then 5 minutes after invention of complex gears bro.
• 1:13:02
  Literally though bro. The whole world is mechanical.
• 1:13:05
  God is divine watchmaker and the planet spin along predetermined
• 1:13:09
  path according to the turning of cosmic gears.
• 1:13:12
  It's all just predictable mechanical path from creation to
• 1:13:16
  here. And then 5 minutes after
• 1:13:17
  invention of Bitcoin Pro, I think I just figured something
• 1:13:20
  out. Oh man, oh man.
• 1:13:23
  So good. You know what we figured out
• 1:13:25
  guys? We figured this out right here.
• 1:13:28
  It's going up forever. Laura, this is the way.
• 1:13:31
  All right guys, drop your main reviews going in the chat over
• 1:13:33
  here. We will cover it live.
• 1:13:35
  But before we cover them live, we opt You would have that
• 1:13:40
  yellow island. All right, before we cover your
• 1:13:45
  meme review scores live, we will do our meme review scores live.
• 1:13:49
  I'm going to be doing this. I've been trying to plug this
• 1:13:52
  low key on the show, but but I I haven't actually plugged it.
• 1:13:56
  It's this fresh squeezed orange juice because you know,
• 1:14:01
  everything we do is orange green.
• 1:14:04
  It's delicious. Highly suggested.
• 1:14:06
  It's a little pricey. I'm not going to lie, I'm
• 1:14:07
  getting robbed over here by this cold pressed orange juice.
• 1:14:11
  But hey, it's on brand orange juice is the way.
• 1:14:15
  All right, Ben, let's do you, let's do you next.
• 1:14:17
  What is your meme review score for today?
• 1:14:20
  Nice. I can't get that wolf one at at
• 1:14:23
  10 because I want to see that moon slightly tinged orange with
• 1:14:26
  a little B in it, but it was pretty good.
• 1:14:32
  OK, he's going throwback, throwback, solid 10.
• 1:14:35
  Well, no, no, no, no. No, no.
• 1:14:37
  Oh, OK. That's 6.9.
• 1:14:39
  Come on. 6.9 OK, All right, sweet.
• 1:14:42
  All right, Chris, what is your meme review score for today?
• 1:14:44
  I got the panties for Bitcoin sticker, yo.
• 1:14:47
  Love to see it. Love to see it so.
• 1:14:50
  I was gonna say something inappropriate, but I will spare
• 1:14:55
  spare. Yeah, I.
• 1:14:57
  Will spare the fiance. Anyways guys, before I get to
• 1:15:02
  the meme review scores for today, make sure you scan the QR
• 1:15:05
  code. Get yourself some simply Bitcoin
• 1:15:08
  theme merch. Of course, as I always say,
• 1:15:10
  stack sats first, stack simply Bitcoin merch second.
• 1:15:14
  But we really appreciate it guys.
• 1:15:15
  We are on the verge of dropping our next batch of merch.
• 1:15:20
  We got T-shirts, we have tank tops, we even got hats for you
• 1:15:25
  guys. We partnered with a Bitcoin
• 1:15:27
  artist. I think actually you guys
• 1:15:29
  probably saw it last week, Shouts out to Austin Noah.
• 1:15:31
  I think we're going to get them on the show soon, but it's.
• 1:15:34
  I don't know what's going on. Blame wine, but there's
• 1:15:36
  something that we're waiting on. But new batch of simply Bitcoin
• 1:15:40
  theme merch is dropping soon. I think we have.
• 1:15:44
  I think it's like 5 shirts and hoodies left.
• 1:15:46
  So if you want to get you know, if you need to go hunting and
• 1:15:50
  you want an orange sweater, make sure you get yourself an orange
• 1:15:53
  Simply Bitcoin hoodie. There's still a few shirts which
• 1:15:56
  are just the simply Bitcoin branded ones, but the new batch
• 1:16:00
  is dropping soon. I don't know what the delay is,
• 1:16:02
  but there's something's going on.
• 1:16:04
  So anyways, let's get to the meme review scores for today.
• 1:16:10
  First one is by Sail Dog Show Dog 18 goes.
• 1:16:15
  I give those memes 5 solid blasts from the rant horn.
• 1:16:19
  Ohh snaps. I guess I gotta do it.
• 1:16:27
  OK, All right. Next one.
• 1:16:29
  Elaine Lowell. Score Bitcoin Bull run.
• 1:16:32
  Brings all doubters into the light.
• 1:16:34
  Price can't be stopped. But Bitcoin knowledge is the
• 1:16:36
  real winner. Bitcoin trending everywhere.
• 1:16:39
  Bars. OK, next one.
• 1:16:41
  Frank ARN. I give these memes a freshly
• 1:16:44
  mined mint condition. Level 10 PSA Grade Mini Nico.
• 1:16:48
  Yes. OK, still.
• 1:16:50
  See. I give these memes less than 60
• 1:16:53
  days till the halving. Let's go.
• 1:16:56
  OK, Nigel Lowry. I give the memes all the health
• 1:16:59
  and happiness. Tanika, Sophie and the plus one.
• 1:17:02
  Congratulations. Bit corners.
• 1:17:04
  Yeah, man, Send some love to them.
• 1:17:06
  UTXOI, give the memes a glass of orange juice with gold flakes
• 1:17:09
  swimming in it. That sounds delicious.
• 1:17:12
  All right, Mclovin memes, score one big, super sexy cowbell.
• 1:17:15
  Yeah, Chefs, up to all you guys that that love the the air horn.
• 1:17:19
  I love it. OK, Rave elevator.
• 1:17:20
  I scored the memes. 7 green Pickles.
• 1:17:23
  OK, it's just. Wait, wait, wait.
• 1:17:26
  What is what is this, the Vegas reunion?
• 1:17:29
  You know? You know.
• 1:17:30
  All right, Son of Satoshi. I give the memes one salty dude
• 1:17:33
  that doesn't like. Oh, be nice, be nice.
• 1:17:37
  It's OK, MG Smith. I give the memes the hangover
• 1:17:43
  from hell after drinking two butt Chuck.
• 1:17:46
  Yes, this is the way. All right.
• 1:17:48
  Let me go to Rumble. Let me see.
• 1:17:50
  All right, On rumble, we have Veto.
• 1:17:52
  Veto. Wait, no MORE Rams score.
• 1:17:55
  Wine. Wine for wine.
• 1:17:58
  Beanie. All right, Veto 1327.
• 1:18:01
  Geez. Super Loudmeter score.
• 1:18:03
  Octi's pig girlfriend smokes a bread and sees Bitcoin as God.
• 1:18:07
  OK, Narwhal tacos. I give those mean 4.5 pocket
• 1:18:11
  steaks. OK, this is the way.
• 1:18:14
  All right. We didn't run out of memes
• 1:18:19
  scores. It's it's the buzzer.
• 1:18:22
  All right guys, well, it's a Friday show.
• 1:18:24
  We'll be back on Monday. I it's still up in the air, but
• 1:18:28
  I think Nico will be gone for the next couple of days.
• 1:18:32
  So Monday Nico's probably going to be gone dealing with the
• 1:18:35
  newborn so I will be holding it down Monday.
• 1:18:38
  I have still yet to find a Co host.
• 1:18:41
  I'm I'm not going to lean on Chris too much because he does
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  have a job Anyways. Chris, let's start.
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  Start with you, bro. Thanks for coming on.
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  Do you want to plug anything? What do?
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  What do you want people to check out?
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  Where do they find you on the Twitter verse?
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  All that good stuff. Yeah, no, thanks, Opie.
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  Always a pleasure being on. You can find me on Twitter at
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  Chris Alamo and then the number six or on Noster as well.
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  Chris Alamo on there. My Nip 5 should, should take me
• 1:19:05
  right to my handle and check out Pacific Bitcoin.
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  I hope I see a lot of people in in LA.
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  I'll also be at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville.
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  So excited to see all the plugs there.
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  Let's go. All right.
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  Awesome, bro. Good to have you.
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  Always a pleasure, Chris and Ben, Thanks for coming on, bro.
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  I I really like this show. Obviously light hearted, but I
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  think the message is very important.
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  I think people get too caught up in this idea that we all have to
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  be miners or you know, coders and Bitcoin devs.
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  And it's like, no bro, just do what you do best and hopefully
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  you can incentivize people to give you Bitcoin for it.
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  And I think you're a great example of this and of course a
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  great member of the community memeing out there with everyone.
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  So, Ben, last time, what can we plug?
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  Where can people find you and have people hit you up in the DM
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  so they can buy some wine? DMS are going to be wrecked at
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  P&E Lane Wine. Maybe.
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  Spell it. Spell it out.
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  Spell it out for. People in audio PEONYLANEWINE.
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  Hope that was slow enough for you.
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  Type in Justin on Twitter, find me on Noster as well.
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  And yeah, shipping wine all over the United States.
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  I hope you get a chance to try some or get a bottle before the
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  halving or 100K. Whatever you choose to
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  celebrate, it'd be awesome to just hear about that afterwards,
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  hear how great of a time you had.
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  So let me know if you have any questions about the wines.
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  My DMS are open and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
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  Let's go. All right.
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  Thanks for coming on, Ben. We'll have to bring you back on
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  soon. Maybe when the limited release
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  comes out, when the wine club comes out, we'll bring you back
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  on. But I hope to see you soon, bro.
• 1:20:46
  So thanks for coming on. All right, guys, you already
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  know the deal. It's the Friday show, so have a
• 1:20:51
  good weekend. Get outside, touch some grass,
• 1:20:54
  get some exercise, eat some good food, hang out with your friends
• 1:20:58
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• 1:21:04
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• 1:21:08
  No one knows what's going on in the world, but bitcoiners do.
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  So make sure people get on the Bitcoin standard.
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  But of course, stacks at stay humble.
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  This is the way. On that note guys, peace out and
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