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BITCOIN BREAKS ALL TIME HIGH - What's Next? | EP 1116 · Simply Bitcoin

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Yeah. I'm gonna simply Bitcoin $120
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million worth of Bitcoin shorts were just liquid in the last 24
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hours alone, taking the Bitcoin price to an all time high of
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$85,000. CNNBC and Bloomberg have
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headlines talking about how the Trump victory potentially took
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the price to all time highs. They're they're calling it the
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so-called Trump pump. Bernstein analysts are begging
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their clients to jump on the Bitcoin to get exposure to
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Bitcoin. Is the supposed super cycle
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starting? Is this a new phase in bitcoins
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history? Well, you're going to want to
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stay tuned for the whole show because we have so much Bitcoin
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used for you guys and guys we're in freedom country and I'm
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sitting next to my legendary Co host the Optimus fields in front
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of the volcano in San Salvador. Anyways Opti how?
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You doing? Man, this was pretty crazy this
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morning, getting everything set up, you know, just.
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But it worked out in the end I guess.
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Yeah, I mean, hey, guys, forgive us for being a couple minutes
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late, but you're used to it by now.
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But we got a good view here, you know, we're in El Salvador and
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San Salvador. We got a volcano.
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I'm. I'm starting to sweat, man.
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I don't know. It's going to be a good show, A
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good show. So let's bring in our guests,
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Nico. Absolutely.
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All right, everybody let's we have the our friends from
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Bitracer. Is that correct Opti?
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All right, awesome. Well, let's jump straight into
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the news. Ladies and gentlemen, we have
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lots of stuff to talk about. So first let's check out this
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article by Umberg. Bitcoin soars about above
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84,000. That's already broken.
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That's a it's already that's fake news.
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It's 85 K, but they're essentially connecting this with
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the Trump win, and they're saying that the Trump win is.
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Boosting the crypto prospects. I mean, of course this makes
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sense. We remember what Trump said at
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the Bitcoin conference saying I'll have fun with the bitcoins,
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I'll fire Gary Genser, I'll protect the right to self
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custody. And most importantly, and I
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think this is going to be absolutely massive, the
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so-called Bitcoin strategic reserve for the United States.
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Cynthia Lummis has been making lots of noise about it.
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And the Republicans have control of the House, they have control
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of the Senate and of course they have control of the executive
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branch of the presidency. So there is a, if you look at
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Poly market, they're giving it about a 30% chance that this
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so-called Bitcoin strategic reserve happens in the United
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States. Very, very exciting stuff.
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Anyways, let's get to some of the article.
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It says Bitcoin rallied past 84,000 for the first time,
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boosted by President-elect Donald Trump, Trump's embrace of
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digital assets and the prospect of Congress featuring pro crypto
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lawmakers. And something else to keep in
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mind, Ladies and gentlemen, 48 out of the 48 crypto, pro
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crypto, the Congress people were elected into office.
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And I have to give credit where credit is due.
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Shout out to the Satoshi action fund, Dennis Porter, shout out
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to the Bitcoin Policy Institute, David Zell and Bitcoin magazine.
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And I know this might be unpopular with a lot of
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Bitcoiners, but shout out to Coinbase.
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They really, really put a lot of lobbying money into Washington,
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DC and a lot of to these competitive races so that pro
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Bitcoin candidates would go into office.
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Unfortunately, Elizabeth Warren did win her election, but I
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mean, we did give her a run for her money.
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Anyways. It goes on to say Trump was
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declared the winner in Arizona, making a clean sweep of the
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seven US battleground states. His decisive victory in the
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presidential election has prompted celebratory chest
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thumping from the digital assets.
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Industry, which spent over $100 million backing a range of
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crypto. Friendly candidates.
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That's right, ladies and gentlemen, we are now part of
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the donor base. So I'm going to keep in mind,
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because I see this a lot in the chat, it's not that Bitcoin
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needs pro Bitcoin politicians to succeed.
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Politicians now need Bitcoin to succeed because now let our
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industry $100 million worth of donations anyways, he goes on to
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say quote With the dust from Trump's victory still settling
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down, it was only a matter of time before a run up of some
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sort occurred given the perception of Trump being.
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Pro crypto and that's what we're seeing now.
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I completely 100% agree. Also, this isn't just an
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isolated event. We have Bernstein, a huge
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analyst, emphasizing that his clients people should get
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exposure to Bitcoin and just to. Kind of give you guys a
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perspective. This article dropped November
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11th and it says 82,000 the title we're at 85 K.
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The run up has been absolutely bonkers and guys just just have
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some patience because if if history.
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Repeats, we still have about 10 months of this Bitcoin bull
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market action. Now I'm going to drop a little
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bit of a speculation here and I'm going to say that look, I
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think I think that the and and I'm not.
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The only one to to say this as well, Doctor Jeff Ross has said
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this I think that the Bitcoin 2021 bull market was cut short.
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Why was it cut short? It was cut short because of the
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China mining ban. If you take a look at the hash
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rate and the price, there's a direct correlation between the
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hash rate dropping off a Cliff and then the price following
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shortly after. Now why would the hash rate
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impact the price? Well, all those miners that were
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located in China had to sell the their miners and the
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infrastructure in order to relocate.
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To more favorable jurisdictions, I don't think that's going to be
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the. Case this time around why we
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just had the governor of Texas basically saying I want Texas to
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be the Bitcoin mining capital of the world.
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We have Trump basically saying I want the United States to be the
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Bitcoin capital of the world. So I don't think we'll have a
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mining mining ban this time around.
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And if you take a look at the, the teal line in the chat, it
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looks like, you know, that's the 2017 pump.
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That's where we went from January from $1000 all the way
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to 20 K. Now we're going to get a 20X
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this year, you know, diminishing returns, law of big numbers.
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But I mean, a 5X would be, you know, absolutely bonkers.
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And Bitcoin tends to do the exact opposite of what everyone
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anticipates anyways. Opti very, very exciting times,
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man. I mean, bro, we survived 8
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months of chip solidation. It was like we were like bumping
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our heads, you know, we were like going a little bit insane.
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And I'm sure a lot of you guys, you guys are Bitcoiners.
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You guys are kind of experiencing very similar
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things. What's your take, man?
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It feels good and it feels good that we're in freedom country
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for this. And of course, we're going to be
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live streaming the entire Adopting Bitcoin conference for
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you guys later on this week, specifically starting on Friday
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and on Saturday as well. Opti.
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Yeah, well, obviously we made it, boys.
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It feels really good. I'm sure there's some exuberance
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back home. I'm sure you guys are getting
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hyped. I know this morning we got a
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little hyped. We are looking at the price.
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We were like kind of tracking as we were getting the show ready.
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We're like, OK, 82 K wait, no, it's 83 K Wait, no, it's 80 4K
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like wait, it's 85 K. Here we are guys.
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It looks like we are in price discovery mode.
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And one thing we were kind of mentioning before the show, it's
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actually a bank holiday right now.
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The banks are closed. Wall Street is out.
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They're not even at the office right now.
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So they can't trade this Bitcoin.
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This has to be, you know, was is this sailor because he announced
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his buy in Bitcoin. There's rumors that nation state
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had is is stacking Bitcoin. All I know is that weekend pumps
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are back on the table, boys and girls, which means we are in the
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Bitcoin bull market. This is the last leg of the bull
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market. This is where it gets really
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fun, where it pumps out, you know, Friday, once Wall Street
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closes pumps all weekend, once Monday comes around, or rather,
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you know, once they come back into the office, it starts to
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dump. I think they're back on the
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table. I'm getting excited.
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It feels really good to be back. And man, it, it has been a
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prude, pretty brutal bear market considering that we were all in
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on Bitcoin and, you know, surviving on Bitcoin when it
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loses, what, 70% of its purchasing power?
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It's not the fun ride out there, but hey, we made it.
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Congratulations to every single one of you.
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If no one in your family is saying that they're proud for
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huddling the bear market, I will be the first one to say it to
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you guys. So proud of you.
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It's going to get crazy from here.
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But one thing I do kind of want to mention and shouts out to
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Jacob, because he's really been on this beat the last couple of
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days since we got in El Salvador.
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It is interesting that Bloomberg and all of the corporate press
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are trying to make Bitcoin a partisan issue.
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They're trying to blame you, Trump, for all of this pumping.
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Whereas a Bitcoin, they were like, it's just a having cycle.
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It's playing out exactly as we knew it was.
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Yes, it's happening now. It's not necessarily just a
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Trump pump, yes, where there's some exuberance because Trump's
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going back into office, but Bitcoins just doing Bitcoin
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things. And hey, This is why we're here.
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I think that if Kamala were to get elected, I think that there
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would have been a temporary dump for sure, but there would have
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been a recovery without a shadow of a doubt.
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So, and look, we are exactly where we've been every single
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other cycle. Nothing has changed.
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So anyways, I do want to get the opinion of our guest, Chris
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Bitracer. How you guys doing?
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What are your thoughts on this? I mean, it's a long time coming.
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This, this chip solidation of eight months, you know, I think
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the introduction of the ETFs man.
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Just just made it, got the party started a little bit too early,
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you know, hitting that all time high I think goes in like March
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and you know, we just had to go sideways.
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But I'll tell you what guys, if we kept going, if we just kept
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hitting all time highs and we wouldn't have stopped in March,
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I think that would have, that would have caused a left
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translated cycle we would have. Peaked a lot earlier and I think
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we would have peaked a lot lower, but the fact that we've
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been going sideways for eight months essentially, essentially
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we now have a floor we've. Built this very very strong
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floor. Anyways, gentlemen from
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Bitracer, what are your guys thoughts on everything that's
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going on? Is the sound OK?
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Yes, you're, you guys are good, perfect.
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So it's actually Bitcoin racing. Just to do a small correction
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there, we've got it here. So my name is Charlie and this
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is Chris. He's our, he's our driver for
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the team. And obviously we're racing in
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the UK at the moment. And actually when we started the
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team, it was around three years ago and literally the day we had
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our first race, the market just started dumping.
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So we have been racing and doing this project the whole time
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through a complete bear market, which has been, you know, not
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very helpful because when you're racing team, you need a lot of
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resources to pay for all the tyres and the fuel and things
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like that. So I always say, I think we
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actually started the bear market.
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It was purely our fault. So I need to apologise to all of
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you and that, but I mean, it's obviously been nice having eight
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months for everyone here to stack SAT's and you know,
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increase the party stockpile of Bitcoin that we've got because
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everyone always ends up saying no, we've never had, we never
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managed to get enough Bitcoin into the stack.
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So I think we've been quite lucky.
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And obviously, as as you guys have mentioned, now that we
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don't have Gensler and all these other people's against Bitcoin,
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Elizabeth Warren is truly going to be put back into a place and
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the stars are aligning for Bitcoin to go absolutely crazy.
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And to be honest, I don't even know where we would even predict
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the price to go. It's just it could get
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absolutely crazy. So I think it's well deserved
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for everyone staying humble. It's been a really difficult
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three years for maybe a lot of people.
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Some have loved it who love to get more Bitcoin.
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But in general, we think it's exciting time for the future.
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100 percent, 100% completely agree with that.
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And also, gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us as well.
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Sorry for pronouncing that incorrectly.
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We had a crazies trying to sign a.
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Set. This up in time for you guys you
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know in the morning and so it was a little bit hectic, but
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thank you guys for joining us and I think it's it's it's you
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guys are true bitcoiners because you guys continue to do what you
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were doing continue to build in the bear market and that's
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exactly what bitcoiners anyways guys stay tuned it's going to be
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At the time of recording, the Bitcoin price is $84,870, Block
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height 869,874 Sats per Dollar 1178 Market cap 1.6. 8 trillion
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Bitcoin price in gold 32.7 oz Bitcoin versus gold market cap
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9.3% almost at 10% percentage issued 94.19% decline from all
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time high. Love this point 1%.
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And of course forward monetary inflation .84% and realized
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monetary inflation 1.23%. Continue to take Fiat currencies
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to absolute. Wait wait, Nico correct that the
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decline from all time high is -.1%?
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Oh, I apologize. Thank you.
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All right, any, everyone, let's let's get straight into it.
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So we had a crazy, crazy kind of election cycle and I'm so glad
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that we don't have to talk about politics anymore.
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Maybe I'm saying that too soon, but what happened with the Trump
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win was not only Trump winning and you know, more a pro Bitcoin
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candidate getting into office, but it was also the death of
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legacy media. You have to understand, for the
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last nine years, they've been throwing everything at this man.
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You know, you, you heard that towards the end, it was like,
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he's a fascist, he's a racist, like everything you can imagine.
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And here's the thing, it, it was working in the beginning, in the
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first early years when they were telling all they were, you know,
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they're convincing everybody about all these things, about
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Trump. A lot of people were buying into
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it. But as time progressed, it, it
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started losing its effect. And now I believe that by 2028,
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the debates and the conversations that these people
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that are running into office, that the people.
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That are running into office for they're going to happen on
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podcast, they're going to happen on Joe Rogan.
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You're going to have the debate and the news coming from the new
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town square it's going to come from.
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X It's going to come from Noster.
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It's going to come from YouTube. This is the rise of citizen
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journalism. It's no longer.
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The narrative is no longer controlled by a handful of TV
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editors or newspaper editors. It's controlled by the people,
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as it should be. This is the introduction into
19:04
the information age, just as was predicted by the book The
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Sovereign Sovereign Individual. Anyways, independent media won
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this election hands down. The fact that Trump's interview
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with Joe Rogan had 50 million views on YouTube and it was
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still censored by YouTube. They were shadow banning it.
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Tells you how powerful these independent content creators
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platforms have become and it and it literally it makes legacy
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media numbers look stupid. So this is something that I want
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you guys to understand. You are now the media and on.
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You are the media, so every tweet, every post.
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Every video that you make, it makes a difference.
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And they're losing control and they know it.
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They've even admitted to it. Here's a Hillary Clinton clip of
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literally saying this. Let's check it out.
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Forms, whether it's Facebook or Twitter X or Instagram or
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TikTok, whatever they are, if they don't moderate and monitor
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the content, we lose total control.
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And it's not just the social and psychological effects, it's real
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harm. So I mean, like she, she's
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literally admitting it, right? You lose total control.
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What does that mean? And then again, here's a Peter
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McCormack, the host of I think he changed.
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It's not what one did anymore. It's Mr. Obnoxious.
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And you know, if you are to believe the so-called mainstream
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media, which not mainstream media, legacy media, they're
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trying to convince you that Trump was a fascist, that Trump
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was a tyrant, that Trump was all these things, I'll let you guys
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decide. I don't know if we'll have time
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to play the entire clip, but let me know if you think this is
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what a fascist or an authoritarian would do.
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I think this is a classic case. Of projection anyway, so let's
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check it out. If we don't have free speech,
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then we just don't have a free country.
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It's as simple as that. If this most fundamental right
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is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties
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will topple. Just like Domino's 1 by 1.
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They'll go down. That's why today I'm announcing
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my plan to shatter the left wing censorship regime and to reclaim
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the right to free speech for all Americans.
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And reclaim is a very important word in this case because
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they've taken it away. In recent weeks, bombshell
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reports have confirmed that a sinister group of Deep State
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bureaucrats, Silicon Valley tyrants, left wing activists,
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and depraved corporate news media have been conspiring to
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manipulate and silence the American people.
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They have collaborated to suppress vital information on
21:57
everything from elections to public health.
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The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed, and it
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must happen immediately. And here's my plan.
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First, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an
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executive order banning any federal department or agency
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from colluding with any organization, business or person
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to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of
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American citizens. I will then ban federal money
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from being used to label domestic speech as miss or
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disinformation. And I will begin the process of
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identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has
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engaged in domestic censorship, directly or indirectly, whether
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they are the Department of Homeland Security, the
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Department of Health, Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no
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matter who they are. Second, I will order the
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Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved
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in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely
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destructive and terrible. So, you know, first of all,
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Trump's hilarious when he talks #2 does that sound like a
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fascist and authoritarian? So again, you know, accuse your
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enemy of what it is you are guilty of yourself.
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And it's a classic case of projection.
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And I'm I'm telling you guys, it's not a coincidence that the
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president. Who wants to protect self
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custody, who wants a Bitcoin industry to thrive is also the
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president that is protecting free speech.
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And that's because Bitcoin and free speech go hand in hand.
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You can't have Bitcoin and not have free speech.
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I mean, it, it works very similar.
23:51
Think about it. So free speech, it isn't
23:53
perfect. It's a little bit messy.
23:55
You know, a lot of things could be said that potentially, you
23:59
know, could, could hurt people's feelings.
24:02
But what the alternative is, is a elite, a bureaucratic elite in
24:07
government that get to get to decide what is truth and what is
24:12
not. Truth and the problem is that
24:13
history has shown is that they use that to create a political
24:17
Moat to go after their opponents.
24:20
Bitcoin works very similar. You have to be OK with even your
24:24
worst enemy using Bitcoin and benefiting from Bitcoin.
24:30
So if you think they're not OK with you speaking freely on the
24:33
Internet, what makes you think they would be OK with you
24:37
transacting freely on the Internet anyways?
24:40
Opti historic times, I mean, we've been talking about this
24:44
theme, this concept. We call it the disintermediation
24:47
of information and the disintermediation of money.
24:50
I think we have completed the disintermediation of
24:54
information. I think we've gone over the hump
24:56
and it's going to be bright in terms of free speech on the
24:59
Internet. And of course, we have protocols
25:01
like Noster acting as the Alamo. But the battle at hand, what's
25:05
in front and I think it's going to be a little bit more messy,
25:08
is the disintermediation of money, the so-called separation
25:12
of money in state Opti. What are your thoughts?
25:14
Yeah, obviously we are free speech, Maxis.
25:17
I love free speech. You know, I say crazy stuff.
25:20
So obviously I want more free speech because I don't want to
25:23
end up in the gulags. But you can tell we've been
25:26
seeing this play out for the last four years just how crazy
25:29
there has been on how crazy it's been on the Internet because of
25:32
all of us communicating peer-to-peer.
25:34
And so, yes, you know, I would love to see Trump actually, you
25:39
know, open up free speech on the platform or rather in the US in
25:42
general, considering, you know, this is the home of the brave.
25:44
We have the 1st Amendment. And we remember last week or two
25:47
weeks ago, we, we were covering all of the Democrats basically
25:50
saying like, we've lost control. We need to clamp down on
25:53
misinformation on the Internet because, you know, you guys
25:56
can't think for yourselves. We need to control this.
25:59
There's too much crazy stuff going on.
26:01
And I mean, we always bring this back on the show because we do.
26:04
We do see some people every once in a while that come to the show
26:07
for their first time and they're like, I thought this was a
26:10
Bitcoin show. Why are you guys talking about
26:11
free speech? But we say it all the time, if
26:14
they clamp down on free speech, what makes you think that
26:16
they're going to allow you to transact freely?
26:18
And obviously Bitcoin is a free speech issue.
26:20
It's literally codes, it's ones and zeros.
26:22
It's it's a free First Amendment issue, at least in the US.
26:26
And so obviously we love and we always push this idea of free
26:30
speech and like, let's not forget what platform we are
26:32
right now. You know, we got to watch our
26:34
words a little bit here or there because we want to maintain our
26:36
channel here. But we would love to have a lot
26:39
more freedom to say things that we believe is the truth without
26:43
this whole, you know, overbearing nanny state telling
26:46
us, Oh, you can't say this, this is misinformation.
26:49
You need to get de platform. And we always say it.
26:51
Look, if they can de platform you for the things that you say
26:55
that also connects to your transactions in your banking,
26:59
because they can also debank you for the things that you said.
27:01
We've seen this play out this last year.
27:03
We've seen this play out in previous years.
27:05
And now it seems like maybe we're going to get a better a
27:08
better, you know, feel to play here where you can say stuff on
27:12
the Internet, speak the truth and you're not not going to get
27:14
kicked out of your banks. But either way, Bitcoin is
27:17
unaffected. If you do get D banks, you can
27:19
just go on the Bitcoin network and hey, no one can shut you off
27:23
the Bitcoin network. This is why we love it so much.
27:25
Anyways, let's pass it over to our guest.
27:28
This is going to be a, you know, a different perspective.
27:31
We're Americans. You guys are in the UK.
27:33
So what's your thoughts on this? We've been seeing the crazy
27:36
stuff going on in your country. Yeah, no, we, we were so excited
27:40
to see Trump actually won this election.
27:43
We thought we did feel it would be stolen again and you know, in
27:48
could. We say that now I'm.
27:49
Sorry. Let's say there was election
27:52
discrepancies. Exactly, Yeah.
27:56
But I mean so. So.
27:57
Some people believe. There was election
27:59
discrepancies, just to clarify you too.
28:02
Sorry. Yeah.
28:03
Oh my goodness. I know what happened with this
28:05
channel. OK, I need to watch out right?
28:08
So I mean in the UK we censorship is still probably
28:12
very much alive in my opinion. There has recently been people
28:16
arrested for opinions put out on social media and our government
28:21
is probably the direct opposite of the one you're about to
28:23
receive. So in the UK things aren't
28:27
looking as bright, but it's amazing to see.
28:29
Obviously the US is a superpower and hopefully these ideals,
28:35
freedom of speech, other governments and countries will
28:37
see how well it works. And hopefully the UK adopts a
28:43
more right wing approach like you guys have.
28:46
And we, we kind of were first had our eyes open to how the
28:51
media is censored during the COVID pandemic.
28:54
I don't know if that's going to get a bit too deep as well.
28:57
I know we are on YouTube, but that's just when we realise that
29:00
there's a lot of control going on and how easily it is to sway
29:05
people and make them actually believe what they see on the
29:07
media is true, rather than actually putting in their own
29:11
work to to verify if the sources of information are correct.
29:16
So, so that was a scary time. But I think the US is, you know,
29:19
you've almost been liberated from.
29:22
What could have turned out to be?
29:23
Quite, quite a nasty four years so.
29:27
So yeah, it's looking good. Yeah, it's, you know, it's,
29:30
it's, it's interesting, like in in the UK, like you saw those
29:34
videos of, of, of like people essentially getting jailed for
29:38
what they were saying on, on Facebook and stuff like that.
29:41
And you know. I see people in the chat, I I
29:44
don't think this is a left and right thing.
29:47
You know, history has shown that, you know, free speech is,
29:50
is good. This is how countries flourish.
29:53
When you have elites dictating what is truth and what is not
29:57
true, that is a very slippery slope.
29:59
That's why what what was happening during the pandemic,
30:02
you know, they were like, hey, trust the official media
30:05
sources. The official media sources got
30:08
it wrong a lot of the time and they had no consequences, like
30:12
there was no consequences to them getting it wrong.
30:15
But the, you know, average everyday person, you know,
30:18
posting their thoughts on X would just get, you know,
30:21
completely the platform very, very quickly.
30:24
So I'm, I'm very, very happy that, you know, Elon stepped in,
30:28
he bought X and that made a huge, huge impact.
30:33
So. Can't thank Elon enough.
30:36
And let's see what happens anyways.
30:38
Look, worst case scenario, we have Noster, we have Bitcoin,
30:42
you know, but again, we want we want we want this to be a
30:47
worldwide phenomenon, right? And you know, that's why it's so
30:50
important for platforms like X to take the stance that it has.
30:54
And I don't think it's a coincidence that it is literally
30:57
the number one news app, not only in the United States, but
31:01
many other countries around the world.
31:03
And I think it's because people are sick and tired.
31:06
It's of the so-called legacy media and they're tuning into X
31:10
And what's happening on X is telling them the exact opposite.
31:13
I mean, this is a Bitcoin show. I remember when they were saying
31:16
that there was gonna be no inflation.
31:18
Everyone on X was like, there's gonna be inflation, 'cause
31:21
there's a record amount of money being printed.
31:23
And they never admitted to that. They said that was
31:25
misinformation. The Bitcoiners were right.
31:28
And there's multiple examples of this happening over and over and
31:32
over again, especially in the last nine years or so with the,
31:36
you know, the parabolic rise of social media.
31:39
You know, there's been so many examples of them just getting it
31:42
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34:42
So I want to talk about this because essentially there's a
34:45
double standard and hopefully the persecution of Bitcoiners in
34:51
the Bitcoin industry is going to end.
34:54
And just to kind of give you guys a refresher, we had the
34:57
operation choke .2 point O that was happening.
35:01
Murphy, could you put it my camera just on me please?
35:04
Operation Choke .2 point O that was happening under the Biden
35:09
administration and this led to the denial of Caitlin Long's
35:13
federal banking charter, the proposed 30% Bitcoin mining tax,
35:17
the attack on so-called crypto friendly banks.
35:21
But most importantly, and the reason that Opti and I started
35:24
talking about certain political issues was the was the arrest of
35:32
Bitcoin developers. And it's a very, very slippery
35:37
slope once you start arresting developers for making open
35:43
source software. Why?
35:45
You know what Bitcoin is open source software.
35:48
I think that if Satoshi was still around today, he'd be in
35:51
prison because essentially what the DOJ is claiming is that
35:56
people are using this software to commit to commit crimes.
35:59
That's the equivalent of saying we're going to charge the gun
36:03
manufacturers because people that are buying guns are using
36:06
the guns to commit crimes. Like, and again, you could say,
36:10
Nico, no, it's different, you know, the the dark web and all
36:13
that stuff, OK. But there's a different set of
36:16
standards between what how they treat our industry and how they
36:21
treat the banking industry for the same crime.
36:25
And make no mistake, there's been a persecution.
36:28
CZ the founder and CEO of the largest, you know, crypto
36:33
Bitcoin exchange around the world, Binance, they said, hey,
36:37
you broke anti money laundering laws.
36:39
Arthur Hayes, same thing charged him with a crime, said you broke
36:43
anti money laundering laws. So I hope that this trend of
36:48
persecution ends under the Trump administration.
36:52
I mean, he did promise us in Nashville.
36:54
That was part of his campaign promise.
36:56
We shall see what. Happens.
36:58
But anyways, I hope this ends. And it's not that.
37:03
It's not that I'm arguing against this whole concept of
37:06
money laundering bad. What I'm saying is, it's not
37:10
just this. If one party gets a certain
37:14
sentence, the banking industry and another party gets another
37:17
industry. I think it boils down to scare,
37:21
trying to scare the living daylights out of developers
37:25
because they can't control Bitcoin.
37:27
It's a non sovereign alternative form of form of money.
37:31
I think that's what it fundamentally boils down to.
37:34
And again, I'm not the only one that that thinks this.
37:37
The sovereign individual made this thesis as well.
37:41
The thesis of the sovereign individual was, it says, lacking
37:45
their accustomed scope to tax and inflate, which is
37:48
essentially the same thing. Governments in traditionally
37:51
civil countries will turn nasty. Businesses that offer services
37:55
that facilitate the realization of autonomy by individuals will
37:59
be subject to infiltration, sabotage, and disruption.
38:03
That I think that's what it comes down to fundamentally,
38:06
right? Anyways, So let's get to today's
38:08
news and let's share the screen. Thank you, Murphy.
38:12
So Bitcoin fog operator sentenced for money laundering
38:16
conspiracy A dual Russian Swedish national sentenced to 12
38:20
years and six months in prison for his operation of the longest
38:24
running Bitcoin money laundering service on the dark net.
38:27
According to court document. It's an evidence presented at
38:30
trial from 2011 through 2021. Roman Sturgeldoff I hope I
38:35
pronounced that correctly. 36 was involved in Operation
38:39
Bitcoin Fog, the dark Nets longest running cryptocurrency
38:43
mixer. Over the course of its decade
38:45
long operation, Bitcoin Fog gained notoriety as a go to
38:49
money laundering service for criminals seeking to hide their
38:52
illicit proceeds. In addition to his term of
38:55
imprisonment, Stergloff was sentenced to pay a fortune a
39:00
forfeiture money judgement in the amount of $395 million and
39:06
forfeiture of seized cryptocurrencies and money
39:08
monetary assets valued at 1.76 million.
39:12
Also he the Bitcoin fog wallet forfeited as well containing
39:18
1345 Bitcoin. It goes on to say and I.
39:45
Hit with $30 billion penalty and US money laundering settlement
39:51
It goes on to say the US arm of Canadian based TD Bank has
39:56
agreed to pay a penalty to settle allegations.
39:59
That it had failed to stop drug traffickers and money
40:02
launderies, money launderers from pushing hundreds of
40:06
millions of dollars of illicit funds through the US financial
40:09
system. The bank agreed to plead guilty
40:12
to charges that it violated the bank.
40:14
Secrecy Act It goes on to say between the criminal charges and
40:18
civil suits, the bank has agreed to pay a total of more than $3
40:24
billion to the US authorities, including a 1.3 billion
40:28
including 1.3 billion to FinCEN. According to prosecutors, TD
40:33
Bank's unit failed to uphold proper anti money laundering
40:37
controls for almost a decade from 2014 to 2023.
40:42
During time, time, time, prosecutors said numerous
40:45
criminal enterprises were able to transact through the bank.
40:49
This includes a Chinese drug trafficking group that bribe
40:53
bank employees and was ultimately able to launder more
40:56
than $470 million in cash linked to the sale of fentanyl and
41:02
other illegal drugs, as well as another money laundering scheme
41:06
that sent 10s of millions of dollars to Colombia.
41:10
OK, all right everyone, what? Excuse my language, Feel a
41:14
little bit passionate. Bitcoins making an all time
41:16
high. What is the fucking difference
41:18
between this and that? There is no difference.
41:22
Then why did someone, why did the bank get a fine and why did
41:26
the privacy developers get locked in prison?
41:29
OK, And another thing, the privacy developers, they're not
41:32
developing these tools for drug traffickers.
41:35
They're developing these tools because privacy is a fundamental
41:40
human right. In fact, it's actually even
41:43
protected by the 4th Amendment, which is essentially treated as
41:46
toilet paper these days. I'll read it for you guys.
41:49
The right of the people to be secure in their person's house,
41:52
papers and effects against unreasonable searches and
41:56
seizures. I think the Bank Secrecy Act is
41:59
very unreasonable in my opinion. When it was implemented back in
42:03
1971, they had a law that essentially made it that every
42:09
$10,000 or so transaction had to be no, it's $10,000.
42:15
Every $10,000 transaction had to be reported to the government.
42:20
The problem is that when that law was passed back in 1970, one
42:25
$10,000 is the equivalent of $80,000 worth of purchasing
42:30
power today. And during the so-called
42:32
Inflation Reduction Act, they tried to squeeze in a law that
42:36
would make it so that every $600 transaction had to be reported.
42:41
At the same time, the federal government is running a $1
42:45
trillion deficit every 100 days. So like, we have to be
42:51
completely responsible and we we have to penny pinch and we have
42:54
to account for all our money. But they could just do whatever
42:57
they want. Where are those hundreds of
42:59
billions of dollars going to in Ukraine?
43:01
Where are they going? We don't know.
43:03
We just have to take their word for it.
43:05
So again, I don't think I have a problem with the.
43:07
Crime per SE, like, you know, it's the law.
43:10
The law is the law. You know, you, it's the social
43:13
contract. The problem that I have is the
43:16
double standards. And if there's a double standard
43:19
between the banking industry and the Bitcoin industry, that is
43:24
not justice. That is rules for thee but not
43:28
for me. Opti, what?
43:30
What's your take? Yeah, well, we've seen this play
43:33
out throughout all of this last year, hence why we kind of went
43:37
really hard in this whole election cycle because it became
43:40
very clear that the left was attacking Bitcoin.
43:43
It started with, you know, Bitcoin fog.
43:45
It started with the OR, it started with Tornado Cash, then
43:47
Bitcoin Fog. And of course, everyone knows
43:50
that once the Samurai devs got arrested, Nikko went ballistic
43:52
on the show. We went crazy.
43:53
Also I see someone in the rumble chat.
43:55
Yes we do have a start 9 promo. Get yourself a note.
43:58
It's down in the video description.
44:00
And so obviously we live in A2 tier justice system.
44:04
It is what it is. This is where we are.
44:06
I think the very big signal, especially for a lot of us
44:09
Bitcoiners, I think there's still some Bitcoiners out there
44:12
that maybe would give the system the benefit of the doubt.
44:16
But now it's becoming very clear that they are attacking us.
44:19
There's rules for thee, but not for me.
44:21
And of course, the me is if you are part of the money printer,
44:23
if you're a part of the institutions and the system,
44:25
they can basically get away with it, whatever they want.
44:27
They get a slap on the wrist and then Bitcoiners are painted as a
44:30
criminal. And I think this is the growing
44:32
trend that we're going to see moving forward.
44:34
Hopefully things do change under a Trump administration,
44:37
considering that the Republicans have came out and become way
44:41
more pro Bitcoin in in their rhetoric.
44:44
So I'm holding out that maybe there's some hope here, but it
44:47
is becoming very clear where the trend is going.
44:50
And I said this, I think mid mid role of the year when the
44:53
samurai news came out that pretty soon Bitcoiners are going
44:56
to be blamed for all of the Fiat problems.
44:59
Once the Fiat apocalypse actually crumbles, they're most
45:02
likely going to point fingers and be like, you bit corners are
45:05
the reason. Actually, we already saw this.
45:07
We saw what was it, the ECB. We've seen a lot of institutions
45:10
come out and basically say like, oh, the Fiat system is
45:13
crumbling, but it's really the bit corners fault.
45:15
And we're like, the only people you have to blame is just look
45:18
at yourself in the mirror. You guys are the problem here.
45:20
You guys are the ones that are destroying the world and bit
45:24
corners are trying to fix it. We're trying to build an
45:26
alternative system, but it's becoming very clear rules for
45:29
thee and not for me. And we just aren't a part of the
45:32
club. And you know, hey, it is what it
45:34
is. Bitcoin's going to win.
45:36
We've built a parallel system and it's only a matter of time
45:38
until everyone wakes up to this fact.
45:40
Amen to that. Amen to that.
45:42
Anyways, Chris, what are your thoughts on this man?
45:44
I like is again, you know, and, and you know, you, you have the
45:48
perspective of, of being in the UK and I and I know that there's
45:51
been some laws that have been passed.
45:53
What's your opinion on it, on all this?
45:59
Chris, can you hear us? Charlie, I think.
46:01
Did we lose you? I think we lost Charlie.
46:08
Oh, no, I can hear. He can hear us or I can hear
46:11
him. All right.
46:12
It all right, it seems like Chris can not hear us.
46:25
All right, let's, let's keep, let's keep rolling with the show
46:30
Opti, OK? All right, let's let's see if we
46:33
can handle the culture real quick.
46:34
All right, everybody, we'll be right back.
46:36
We're gonna hit the the culture segment and we are hopefully we
46:40
we get these gentlemen back so we can talk about their project,
46:43
what they're working up to, but if not, we will we'll talk about
46:46
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48:08
technical difficulties. This is live, so we're going to
48:10
roll with the punches. Chris, can you hear us?
48:14
I can hear him here. Let me let me tee this up so I
48:17
do of course we got Bitcoin racing here.
48:20
I do want to play their trailer real quick.
48:22
Hopefully I'll play the trailer and then I if anything, I'll
48:26
just hit him in the chat and we'll just let him riff on
48:29
Bitcoin racing and what they're doing so here we go Let me pull
48:33
this up. Let's play this trailer real
48:36
quick give you guys context here.
48:39
I'm fighting you Murph. You do it.
48:41
You do it. OK, here we go.
48:44
We have a higher meaning than most other race teams.
48:47
You know, we see Bitcoin as a mission for peace.
48:50
Yes, and my brother actually found Bitcoin and he was looking
48:53
for ways to to help us. The true mission is to help
48:56
other families before they experience a crisis.
48:58
We're doing phase one, the mini challenge. 17,000,000 TV viewers
49:02
over the year last year, 400,000 spectators over the year at the
49:05
event. They've just corrupted the
49:07
money. Save the money, save the world.
50:07
Damn, I was getting LED over here.
50:08
Hopefully. Charlie, are you back?
50:11
Yeah, could you hear me? OK, let's go, let's go.
50:14
I wish I had the All right, Charlie man, I don't you guys
50:18
couldn't see me, but I was getting lit back behind the
50:21
scenes. That was an epic trailer
50:22
anyways, Charlie man, let's let's just jump into it.
50:26
I mean, you guys are Bitcoiners. You kind of laid it out in the
50:28
beginning of the show. You guys started three years ago
50:32
and I really just, you know, you mentioned earlier before we
50:34
started the show, just the significance of Bitcoin racing.
50:38
You guys were just in an incredible race.
50:41
So let's start there and then we'll talk about the mission of
50:44
Bitcoin racing. Yeah, so we started around three
50:48
years ago and my family's always been into Motorsports and my
50:53
dad's got like a passion for cars and things like that, so he
50:57
was really the driving force for it.
50:59
And we started in a small championship about 3 years ago
51:03
called the City car Cup. So it's literally citrus T ones
51:07
taken off the road and they're about 60 horsepower, so really
51:10
slow cars. So that's where we started, but
51:14
we just wanted to find a way that would be fun and exciting
51:17
to promote Bitcoin. And obviously Motorsports is
51:20
such an exciting positive thing. We thought that would be a great
51:23
start, but we soon realized that the championships not getting
51:27
enough interest just because it's a small kind of starter
51:31
entry championship, it doesn't bring in the audience that we
51:35
want to present Bitcoin to. So we were looking at
51:38
championships in the UK and there's a series called the
51:41
British touring car Championship and it's actually hyphenated to
51:46
BTCC. So I think that says it's the
51:49
right championship to go for, but it's actually EU KS most
51:53
famous racing series and the minis, which you just saw the
51:56
mini car there, they race as a support package.
52:00
So it's kind of like in Formula One when you the Formula One
52:04
cars, if they're not on the grid, you have to support races,
52:07
keeping the crowds entertained. So that's what the mini is to
52:11
the touring cars. But the good thing is it
52:14
benefits from the massive audience that comes to watch
52:17
those races. So it's actually broadcasted
52:19
live on prime time channel here called ITV 4, which goes out to
52:24
around 17,000,000 viewers and also about 400,000 live fans
52:29
come to the races throughout the season.
52:32
So you get a lot of normies coming to the circuits and then
52:36
being presented with Bitcoin through a really exciting and
52:39
fun way. Yeah, which we think works
52:42
really nicely. And hopefully next year we're
52:46
going to go into the Minis again.
52:48
But there's actually two classes in the Minis.
52:50
So we actually started in the main series and they use a
52:55
sequential gearbox, but we had all sorts of trouble with that
52:58
because we're a small family team and we just couldn't manage
53:01
to work such a complicated gearbox after work being used to
53:05
Citrons. So we changed it to a slightly
53:09
slower series which races behind the fast cars, if that makes
53:12
sense. So next year we hope to be in
53:14
the in the top championship with the fastest sequential gearboxes
53:19
and and that will obviously get us more camera time on TV as
53:22
well. Very, very, very incredible
53:26
stuff, man. And, and I just got to say like
53:27
17 million people, you know, getting exposure to the Bitcoin
53:32
car. And I saw, I think I saw an El
53:35
Salvador flag on there as well and other Bitcoin companies.
53:38
So you know, that's huge exposure.
53:40
And you know, Bitcoin fundamentally it's, it's a
53:42
cultural movement, right? So, you know, the more we make
53:45
it part of the culture, There's a very famous quote from
53:48
Breitbart. I've said it many times.
53:50
I said it at the Bitcoin conference at in Nashville.
53:52
And they actually the Guardian, which I believe is a a British
53:56
newspaper, actually quoted. Me.
53:58
They're like this alt right guy, but essentially the quote is
54:04
that politics is downstream from culture and the way that you
54:08
essentially you went over the the political game is you went
54:12
over the. Cultural game, right?
54:14
This is why they're melting down when they're losing their
54:18
monopoly on information. Because if you lose your
54:20
monopoly on information, all of a sudden the culture is on X.
54:25
Or a nostril on between, you know, that sometimes doesn't
54:28
completely correlate with you know what the powers that be one
54:32
in terms of control. So anyways, I'm going to pass it
54:34
on to. Opti, is that a Mini Cooper?
54:38
It is. It's John Cooper works VIDI.
54:40
That's the fastest mini in the world.
54:42
Hell yeah, love. That so it's about 300
54:45
horsepowers. Absolutely crazy.
54:47
That's that's nuts, man, That's. These are the stats for the
54:51
amount of TV coverage a number of viewers.
54:55
Incredible. Incredible.
54:56
Love it. OK, so I do want to chime in
54:58
here, Charlie, actually call Chris while you're doing the rib
55:02
because we do want to ask him about racing in these cars.
55:05
But Charlie, I think, I think the low hanging fruit question
55:10
for you is very simple. It's like, why did you add
55:13
Bitcoin to the racing? Why is racing and Bitcoin a good
55:18
way to spread the word on Bitcoin?
55:22
Yeah. So I think it comes just down,
55:24
down to how we discovered Bitcoin in the 1st place.
55:27
And it was, it was in March 2020 when we actually first came
55:32
across Bitcoin and started learning about it.
55:35
And the reason we were prompted to do that was because back in
55:38
2008, we actually lost all of our family businesses.
55:42
And so the recession actually hit our family really hard.
55:46
And obviously going from losing the businesses and the income
55:49
that came from that, it was hard for us to pay our mortgage.
55:53
And eventually in 2020, we actually got a letter from the
55:57
the bank saying that you've got four years until you need to pay
56:00
the final sum on the mortgage, otherwise we're going to
56:03
repossess your house. So basically my mum just said to
56:07
us we need to sit down as a family, talk about our strengths
56:10
and weaknesses and try and find a way to stop this from
56:13
happening because we don't want to lose the family house.
56:17
And we kind of brainstorm loads of different potential ideas
56:21
from starting another restaurant.
56:23
It's lucky we didn't because obviously COVID would have
56:25
caused us to close down. We were looking at warehouses to
56:30
kind of do Amazon distribution. But my thought process was a bit
56:34
different because because we'd lived through a recession and it
56:38
was now March 2020 during COVID, felt like there's going to be
56:41
another one because we'd lived through one.
56:43
I knew that during recessions you get big wealth transfers and
56:48
usually it goes from the poor to the rich.
56:51
So I just Googled how do you get on the positive side of a wealth
56:54
transfer? And that's how we found about it
56:58
was initially we found out about gold and there's this
57:01
documentary, it's taught us about all the hidden secrets of
57:04
money, showed us how fractional reserve banking works, what
57:08
causes inflation. And for us, it just felt like an
57:11
easier option rather than starting a business.
57:13
Hopefully we could find an asset that we could invest in and
57:17
would then do very well. And it also resonated with us
57:21
really nicely because Bitcoin is outside of the system that
57:25
caused us all that trouble back in 2008.
57:28
So when we learned all that and how evil this banking system is
57:32
and how Bitcoin can improve people's lives, we just, we felt
57:36
compelled to find our own way to teach more people about it.
57:39
And because we've been racing before, we knew that motor
57:43
racing is a very good marketing platform.
57:45
And at that time, Bitcoin wasn't really getting any exposure
57:49
through motor racing. So, so that's why we just came
57:53
up with the idea to put Bitcoin logos on the car.
57:55
And but we also added the flag of El Salvador as well.
57:59
And that was actually done with permission from the government
58:02
here. Which is really.
58:03
Cool. Because you know, they were
58:05
pretty humble about it. They didn't mind about the flag
58:08
going on top of a small Citroen C1.
58:10
Obviously it's not a lot cooler now being on a 300 horsepower
58:14
Mini, Mini Cooper car, but when we first approached them and we
58:19
were only in the Citroen, they were, they were really up for
58:21
it. So that was awesome.
58:23
Love it. Well, all I heard here at first
58:25
Charlie, is Bitcoin saved your family company actually saved
58:30
your family. Love to hear it and man, it's
58:33
just incredible. Like I'm sure you're feeling
58:36
euphoric right now. You're like, yes, the Bitcoin
58:38
bull run is back. Not only that, but yes, now
58:41
we're more profitable for racing.
58:43
This is what you love to see in regards to how Bitcoin and
58:46
getting on the Bitcoin standard literally can change the
58:49
trajectory of your family of your life, of your business.
58:53
This is what that we always talk about here and man, you're just
58:56
an incredible example of this. But I do want to, I do want to
58:59
ask you a question because I am on your website over here and
59:03
you have services here. So can people rent the Mini
59:07
Coopers and drive them? What's going on here?
59:14
Yes. So if people want to come and
59:17
actually race with our team and we will do a fuller ride and
59:20
drive package so you can turn up and race a full championship
59:25
without having to know anything about setting up a car, without
59:29
having to do any of the mechanics or having to deliver
59:32
the car to the circus. All you would do is get to the
59:36
race circuit, find a nice hotel and then turn up on the race
59:39
days and you can actually race in a Bitcoin car and promote
59:44
Bitcoin in your own really unique and exciting ways.
59:46
So last season we had four Bitcoiners racing with us.
59:52
So there's three, three people who had never raced ever in
59:55
their lives and they thought, well this is a great way for me
59:58
to start because firstly it's going to be a really fun and
1:00:02
exciting year and secondly, it allows me to promote Bitcoin.
1:00:06
So it's just a really cool way to do something as a Bitcoin, to
1:00:11
help, to have loads of fun and also to spread Bitcoin in a
1:00:15
really positive way, so. That was really fun.
1:00:18
One of the drivers actually achieved a 5th place and there's
1:00:22
about 32 cars in the Citroen. So we we trained him up with
1:00:26
Chris. He gave him lots of driver
1:00:28
tuition and he managed to get fifth out of 30 drivers which
1:00:31
was which was amazing. That's gnarly.
1:00:33
That's gnarly. It's just a fun experience that.
1:00:36
That's that's incredible what you guys are doing, man.
1:00:38
That's this is this, this is the culture, man.
1:00:40
This is this is the culture. This is the culture.
1:00:42
This is like literally. Hey, Charlie, get Chris over
1:00:45
here and let's ask him what it's like driving in these cars
1:00:47
before we wrap up the show if he's still in the room.
1:00:51
Yeah, let me grab him. They want to hear what it's like
1:00:53
to drive the cars. All right, I'm going to pull him
1:00:56
in and give him those earphones. Thank you so much.
1:00:58
Appreciate it. Appreciate it.
1:01:00
Yeah, We'll bring you back in after all.
1:01:04
Right, We're doing this live, ladies and gentlemen.
1:01:06
All right, here is Chris. Chris is the driver for Bitcoin
1:01:10
Racing. Chris, how does it feel to be
1:01:13
driving the fastest Mini Cooper on the face of the planet with
1:01:18
Bitcoin branding all over it? Yeah, it feels, it feels really
1:01:22
good. Coming into the Mini challenge,
1:01:25
it was a huge step up for us as a team and me as a driver
1:01:28
because being used to decisions he won with only 70 horsepower
1:01:32
and then moving on to a mini with 300 odd, it was tough.
1:01:35
But doing it with Bitcoin on the card makes it even better.
1:01:39
Yeah, it's been a really good year and hopefully we can carry
1:01:42
on next year and go from there. We lots of bigger championships
1:01:45
and get the Bitcoin message spread to even more people.
1:01:50
Awesome. Does the Bitcoin logo make you
1:01:52
go faster? It does, yeah.
1:01:56
Extra hash. Power.
1:01:59
Wait, how fast does the mini go? I think it's hot speed is about
1:02:03
150 mph, so pretty quick. That's good, man, That's good.
1:02:09
That's good. Anyways, anyways, it's been an
1:02:13
honor to have you guys on the show today.
1:02:15
Guys, go check out bitcoinracing.co.co.
1:02:19
You got to support all Bitcoin projects, support bitcoiners.
1:02:22
Like I said, this is how we went over the the culture, we went
1:02:26
over the culture, mass adoption, hyper bitcoinization, just, you
1:02:30
know, one Bitcoin project at a time.
1:02:32
So whether it's music, Bitcoin trading cards, Bitcoin racing,
1:02:36
you know, this is all kind of moving the envelope forward to
1:02:40
this high hyper Bitcoin eyes feature that we all want to live
1:02:44
in Murphy. Wait, yeah, wait, wait.
1:02:46
Before we before we go, let's give Chris one last word.
1:02:50
Any last comment to the audience about Bitcoin racing in general?
1:02:53
You want to plug it? Where?
1:02:54
Where can people find you? Yes, so you can find us on
1:02:59
Twitter and we've got an Instagram account as well.
1:03:03
Or you can just e-mail e-mail us.
1:03:05
Charlie's e-mail is charlie@bitcoinracing.co.info.
1:03:11
Let's go. Appreciate it.
1:03:12
Well, Chris, Charlie, thank you for coming on the show.
1:03:16
I mean, you guys are in El Salvador as well, so we'll see
1:03:19
you in person in the next couple of days, man.
1:03:21
It's going to be super, super fun.
1:03:23
Appreciate it. Yeah, Murphy, let's get the full
1:03:27
Cam. Let's roll this show out.
1:03:28
Absolutely, Absolutely. Guys, thank you so much for
1:03:32
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1:03:40
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