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Elizabeth Warren's Latest Attempt to BAN Bitcoin | EP 909 · Simply Bitcoin

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It's all. Going to zero against Bitcoin.
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It's going on forever. You're.
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Against Bitcoin, you're against freedom.
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Yeah. Welcome to another episode of
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Simply Bitcoin Live. Your number one source for the
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peaceful Bitcoin revolution. Recover breaking news culture
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Matic Warfare will be your guide through the separation of money
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and state. Elizabeth Warren once again
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getting absolutely owned. She got community noted Again,
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she's making, she continues to make the case that Bitcoin is is
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being used to to undermine national security.
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It's a very, very strong statement.
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Of course she's bringing up the word, money laundering, all of
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that stuff. She's trying to throw everything
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at the wall seeing what sticks. But she got community noted
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again, just like she got community noted when she claimed
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that the SEC made the wrong decision when they approved the
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spot Bitcoin ETF. And not only do we have the data
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for you guys because she's making this very strong case
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that she's saying that, you know, Bitcoin and crypto in
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general is being used, you know, to undermine national security.
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It's being used to fund terrorism.
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It's used to, it's being used to skirt sanctions.
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But if you actually look at the data, and we've pulled the data
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up for you guys many times, the actual amount of money actually
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being laundered through the traditional financial system is
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a is like magnitudes higher. It's a it's a much larger amount
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than the amount of money being quote UN quote laundered using
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Bitcoin. So again, but of course that
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doesn't fit Elizabeth Warren's narrative.
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She also, in case you guys didn't know, she has a bill
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currently in the Senate. She has 20 senators, including I
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think 3 Republicans that have signed up for this bill.
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That would essentially be a de facto ban on Bitcoin mining in
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the United States. It would attack the ability for
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people to take self custody. It's essentially an attack on
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Bitcoin, so we like to stay on top of it.
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We like to cover it. It's important that you guys are
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aware. Anyways, no more delay.
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I wanna bring up my let go host. Always optimistic.
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He has a smile today. Optimus Fields.
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How you doing Opti? I am doing wonderful.
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Another week down another week to go.
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Man I just love this I I get to hang out with my buddy over here
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and we talked Bitcoin like how how could I not be happy.
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Nico this is this is the greatest job ever.
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This is amazing. Anyways yeah crazy stuff.
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I I really love that Elizabeth Warren got community noted
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shouts out the Twitter just just love that they cannot win in the
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mimetic war. It's absolutely beautiful.
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We covered it last week that they're trying to put their hat
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in the rink and and start to meme with us and it's our meme
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world and everyone else is just living in it.
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But anyways, we'll talk about that during the show.
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We do have a very great guest. Gary Leland of Bitlock Boom Nico
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and I actually met officially in the flesh in 2020 at Bitlock
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Boom and what been friends ever since.
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So yeah, it all started. We wouldn't be here without you.
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We wouldn't be here with and I said that too in the intro.
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I did an intro, a bit a Bitlock Boom in 2023 and I said I'm like
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Gary, I would not be simply Bitcoin, wouldn't be here
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without you 'cause that Opti me and you met in in the flesh for
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the first time. We got, we stayed together, we
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got a room together pause. So yeah, I mean, and it's all
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because of bit Block boom. So Gary, welcome to the show.
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We're really happy to have you. Well, thanks for all the kind
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words. I'm feeling kind of special here
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today. I mean here and all that's kind
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of stuff going on there. Yeah.
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It was also great to meet you guys, which I've now seen you
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guys several times. Opti have not seen you as much
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as I have, Nico, and you live in the same town I live in.
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I don't do anything on the weekends Gary.
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I'll, I'll make it to a meet up soon.
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But yeah, I wait, wait, Opti, I feel like you've been saying
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that for months. I know.
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I just don't leave that. You got to go to a meet up pro.
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They're a meet up from before. They're on Fridays, they're not
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on weekends, they're on Fridays. But you may consider Fridays a
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weekend. But yes, it's hard to believe.
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I see, Nico more than I see you. That's what I'm saying.
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Since you live here. I mean, I mean, that's just even
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if you didn't come to my meet up, there's a Dallas big point
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meet up. There's all kinds of them.
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Opti WTF bro, I'm getting red in the face now.
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I don't know can we change the topic?
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Can we change the topic? OK Opti, I think we should
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release a poll on on YouTube and ask you to should Opti Should
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Opti go to a meet up? Everyone's going to say yes, so.
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Any meet up, Any meet up in Dallas?
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I've seen him by now. He goes to any of them.
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No, I I get, I get my Bitcoin fill on the Internet and I I
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tune out on the weekends. Why do?
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I keep saying this weekend Jack stuff.
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Friday is my weekend. Friday is deadly my.
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Tuesday nights, there's one on Wednesday, it's even worse.
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I think there's even one on Thursday night.
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There's almost one every night of the weekend.
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Dallas won't work. Oh, but you, Opti.
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You caught dead to rights, bro. You have no excuse.
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Oh, man. All right, no excuse.
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You have no excuse. Anyways, guys, it's going to be
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20th. Gary, you did that on purpose,
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didn't you? No.
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I don't even know what you're talking about.
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I'm sorry. I got a call.
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I got a call there while you were doing.
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That Gary knows Satoshi, and he timed the halving around bitlock
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boom that was 100% on purpose. You know, I think I, I think I
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did pretty good at guessing it early as I did.
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I think it's going to happen the week after.
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So I think I did pretty good. Well, I think, I think you're
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So that's really interesting. Total lightning network capacity
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The market capitalization of Bitcoin, $797 billion Bitcoin
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versus Gold market cap 5.79%. Anyways, I can't wait to get
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Gary's thoughts on this. This was a video that we didn't
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cover last week. Actually, we didn't have a
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chance. There were so many other videos
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that we covered. But it is the CEO of America's
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largest bank, Jamie Dimon, and he had some things to say about
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Bitcoin. So let's check out the video,
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and then we'll talk about it. Could we, could we pivot to a
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topic that I know, I know you, you find sort of laborious at
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this point? It's a good, good word.
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Which is Bitcoin. This ETF was approved just about
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a week ago now, and I think a lot of people are trying to
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understand what it ultimately means.
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JP Morgan. I imagine if you were a client
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of JP Morgan, you could call your broker and say get, get,
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get me some of this ETF. What are you telling?
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What are you telling your brokers to tell them back when
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they make that call? So this is an important thing.
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This is the last time I've ever talked about this in CNBC.
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OK, so help me God. Blockchain is real.
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It's a technology. We use it.
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It's going to move money, it's going to move data, It's
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efficient. We've been talking about that
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for 12 years too, and it's very small.
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OK, So I think we've wasted too many words in that.
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Crypto currencies. There are two types.
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There's a cryptocurrency which might actually do something.
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Think if a cryptocurrency has an embedded smart contract in it,
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and then we can use it buy and sell real estate to move data
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that may have value. The idea of tokenizing.
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Tokenizing things that that you do something with and then
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there's one which does nothing. I call it the pet rock, the
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Bitcoin or something like that. And so on the Bitcoin, you know
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there's. And I'm I'm not trying to make a
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joke here. There are use cases.
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AML fraud, anti money laundering, tax avoidance, sex
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trafficking. Those are real use cases and you
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see it being used for hundreds, maybe fifty $100 billion a year
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for that. That is the end use case.
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Everything else is people train among themselves.
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So yeah, now, OK, now my last statement, the last time I ever
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talked about Bitcoin is I defend your right to do Bitcoin.
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I think you know it's OK. I don't want to tell you what to
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do. So my personal advice is you
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don't get involved, but I don't want to tell anyone of you what
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to do is a free country. What do you think?
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So what do you make of what? Do you make of the other firms,
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the black rocks of the world that that obviously and Larry
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Fink changed his view of this obviously.
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And maybe he changed his view because you think he genuinely
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believes in Bitcoin or or believed it because he thinks
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that there's a marketplace for it and he wants to be part of
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that market. But what do you think of the?
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And there's about a dozen big financial companies, Fidelity
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included. Number one, I don't care.
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So just please stop talking about this shit and and I don't
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know what he would say about blockchain versus currencies
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that do something versus Bitcoin that does nothing and maybe that
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not different than me but you know this is what makes a market
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people have opinions. I This is the last time I've
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ever a state in my opinion. So again, like it it it people
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in two sides, 'cause he's telling you like I I'm never
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going to tell people what to do. And then he testifies in
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Congress that governments all over the planet should ban it.
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So, I mean, it's two different takes, obviously.
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You know, Storkin got under his skin.
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He cursed on, you know, on the legacy corporate media.
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He said shit. And then again, it it kind of
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coincides. Coincidentally, of course, this
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is a total coincidence. Wink, wink with what Elizabeth
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Warren narrative. Elizabeth Warren's narrative is
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on Bitcoin that it's only used for money laundering.
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It's only used for, you know, all these things, all this
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laundry list of bad things that no one likes.
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So I mean, Gary, I want to get your take on this.
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You know you've been in the industry for a minute, you've
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been, you've been here a while. Does this surprise you?
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If you had Jamie Dimon on the stream with us right now, what
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would what would you tell him? Well, I would first of all ask
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him if he would promise me that's the last time I'll hear
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him say that. I mean, you know, Oh my gosh,
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this is the same guy who said he'd fire people that worked for
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him, I believe, if they were investing in Bitcoin or had
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anything to do with Bitcoin, you know, and then, you know, if I
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understand correctly, isn't JP Morgan involved somehow on?
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Yeah, they're the official partner for Blackrock's ETF or
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one of the partners. So they're so his own company's
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partnering in this business and he's saying for the 10th year
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whatever that it's used by criminals.
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You know, I just don't know if he's, I think he's probably a
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pretty smart guy. I mean, obviously to get to that
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level and do that wealth, you have to have some intelligence.
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So he has to really understand Bitcoin, I would think so.
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I believe that there must be some underlying reason that he's
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still saying this is going to financially help him because
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there's no way that he doesn't end at all.
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He has enough people working for him that have researched it and
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able to explain it to him that it's he's my, my grand, my dad.
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How do you work a computer? You know so.
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But I I just, I I hope he is telling the truth.
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We won't hear from him again. I mean what's the over under on
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that Gary? I don't know, but we ought to.
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I'll take it that we hear from him in a year.
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I'll go ahead and bet on that. 100% he is definitely going to
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be talking about it again. That was a that was a bad bet
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against himself. And then Opti to you that that
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contradiction man. Like I don't care if you
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Bitcoin. Like as if you know it's talking
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about a drug or something. I don't care if you Bitcoin and
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then you know testifying in front of Congress saying all
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governments around the world should ban this thing.
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Right. So he clearly cares.
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So what's your take on that. Yeah.
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I mean it's it's really goes back to that meme of don't
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listen to what they say watch what they do.
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And you know JP Morgan, I, I forget what the official name is
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but they are associated with the Black Rock ETF.
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I think it's one of the partners or I I I don't remember exactly
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you guys can Fact Check me in the chat.
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But yeah I mean look it's very it's very simple.
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What's the meme team of You know, it's hard to get someone
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to do or say the truth when it's their job to basically do the
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opposite. Of course, JP Morgan, on a very
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rudimentary level, understand what Bitcoin does.
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I'm I'm almost convinced he knows exactly what Bitcoin will
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do to his business. Hence why he's kind of angling
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the like blockchain good, Bitcoin bad like what what year
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are we in. I thought we have completely
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destroyed these narratives and these flood lines and and you
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know calling Bitcoin a pet rock. Like it's just it's so funny
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that we are going back to the same FUD the same like low
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hanging fruit just like this what they would think is
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destroying Bitcoin. Like to us we we've.
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So we've gone so far past the same old tired ways of
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explaining Bitcoin and it's just it's it really just goes to show
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that Wall Street it's not in their best interest to embrace
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Bitcoin which is very interesting that the spot
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Bitcoin ETF has been approved because you know you got to kind
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of think in your own mind like this must be Wall Street
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thinking that like OK this is how we can control Bitcoin is by
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dropping a spot Bitcoin ETF. And now like, you know the
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adults are in the room and and we can finally corral this
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Bitcoin thing and you know who wants peer-to-peer money is just
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for criminals. And I say it all the time like
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these same low hanging fruit examples of oh, Bitcoin is just
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for criminal uses. Like until they cannot get away
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with saying this because people are realizing like, look my
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neighbors are doing my parents use Bitcoin, like they're going
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to continue to roll this stuff out.
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And it's very simple. Like if you haven't actually
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used Bitcoin, if you have never really experienced Bitcoin, then
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you you really don't understand what Bitcoin is.
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And I I think that's a great question to ask people nowadays.
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It's like, yeah, you can be skeptical of Bitcoin, you can
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hate on Bitcoin all you want, but until you use Bitcoin, you
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you really don't get what's going on over here.
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And I think that's an an important question to be asking
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people like, hey, you can have all the opinions you want,
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What's the saying? You know, everyone has an
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opinion. It's like you guys know the end
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until they actually use Bitcoin. Then really what they say
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doesn't matter as far as I'm concerned.
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And it's just it's so funny that, you know we saw Larry Fink
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last week also say that they're going to look into like the
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tokenizations of all these different assets and it we're
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just going full circle again. You know, this is like the 2017
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era all over again that like, oh block check blockchain
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technology technology is good, but bitcoins bad because it's
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for criminals. It's like, Oh my God, it it's
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like Groundhog Day again. And it just really goes to show
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that that as much as we really didn't like the 2017 ICL boom,
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even though it was backed by by venture capitalists and Wall
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Street. Like I think Wall Street opening
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up the floodgates to shit cornery for Main St. in this
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next cycle, like it's going to be so unbearable.
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I'm like not excited for it at all but like where we we still
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have to completely destroy these narratives and and just show
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that having a Ledger that cannot be debased that they cannot
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tamper that is hard capped at 21 million.
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Like this is the real use case of Bitcoin and and This is why
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number will go up and this is just this just goes to show Nico
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we will have a job for a little bit here on simile Bitcoin
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because people will not be educated on what Bitcoin is
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moving forward and we're gonna have to destroy all the
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misinformation. So I guess it's a good thing.
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Yeah yeah I mean I I think he's just salty I I I agree with Gary
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with what he was saying that there must be some type of
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incentive that we're not seeing for him to take that stance.
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Clearly, you could tell like, he's just, he's sick and tired
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of of 'cause it's embarrassing, right?
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You know, regardless of whatever his statue and whatever his
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accomplishment, I mean, being like a concilionaire, you know,
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he, he's been talking shit about Bitcoin for like like at least 5
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to 10 years, right? The 10 years, right.
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So what was the price of Bitcoin back then, where the price of
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Bitcoin is now? So, like, clearly he was wrong.
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It reminds me of I have a buddy of mine, we went to high school
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together and currently he's like AVP at Goldman and as soon as
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the ETF got approved, I texted him, I said hey man, how does it
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feel to be on team Bitcoin? And he said he just he just
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replied with like FU or something like that.
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So like you know again like why is he saying that?
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Cause I've been telling him about this for like 8 years now.
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But the a lot of people in Tradfi, it's like, they're like
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vampires and like, you know, Bitcoin is like garlic or
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something. And they're like, I can't, I
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can't deal with that. And then all of a sudden, you
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know, it, it gets Larry Fink's backing, right?
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And all of a sudden it, you know, and their eyes are, oh,
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wait, Bitcoin's great, you know, it starts to have that
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legitimization. And they're just like like, it's
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almost as if they're having like, this cognitive dissonance
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in their they can't believe what is happening.
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It's hard for people to admit they're wrong.
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That's the thing. And then and then to sit back
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and go, Oh my gosh, I could have got into this when it was 3500.
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Whatever. And now I'm going to have to get
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into it. And it's 40,000.
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That's a hard pill to swallow, both of those.
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The fact you're wrong and the fact that you missed a lot of
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profit, if that's your job making profit and it kind of
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makes you look like a dumb ass. Kind of like Kramer, kind of
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like Kramer. How long is Kramer going to go?
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I mean, my God, how many years before people go?
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This guy's an idiot, you know? I mean, no, you're you're
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absolutely right and and you know it, it's so like you could
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say that Gary, but it's like like and I agree but it there's
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an inverse, you know Kramer role, right.
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So as long as you do the opposite of Kramer you're you're
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good. Yeah.
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I was trying to think of that we need to get an inverse.
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Check out what Diamond says. Maybe we need.
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Maybe there's a possible case there or use case for reverse
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diamond? Reverse diamond, Reverse cream,
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Reverse diamond. That's the signal.
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That's the signal. Anyways, guys, we have a lot to
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talk about during the news. We're going to talk about
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Elizabeth Warren's latest attack on Bitcoin.
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So this is what I want to talk about today.
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Elizabeth Warren's latest attack latest tweet She's very salty.
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I I you know she her one of her campaign slogans was you know
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she's she's proud to be anti Bitcoin anti quote UN quote
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crypto. Elizabeth Warren clearly wants
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you to use the money clearly wants to force you to use the
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money that is designed to lose purchasing power.
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I mean I I I I would go as too far I would go you know I I
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would say she's a tyrant at this point and she's misrepresenting
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information. She's misrepresenting data.
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This is her latest attempt. So this is a tweet that she
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released January 21st. So yesterday she says a new
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USGAO report confirms that rogue nations are using crypto to
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dodge sanctions and undermine our national security.
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It's time for crypto to follow the same anti anti money
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laundering rules as everyone else.
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I've got a bill to make it happen.
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So here's the community note. the US Treasury departments own
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February 2022 National Money Laundering Risk Assessment
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Report states that Fiat is the preferred currency for financial
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crimes, right? And if you actually take a look
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at a graphic of that, you can see the staunch difference
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between the two. This is in the billions, right?
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So, you know, tiny, tiny little amount, you know, of money,
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quote, UN quote, money laundered using Bitcoin compared to the
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absolute ginormous amount using the traditional financial
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system. Not to mention the fact that,
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you know, criminals like Fiat dollars, right?
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You know, they're untraceable. It's not an open blockchain,
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right? It's not an open Ledger, right.
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So I mean you know, the the facts speak for itself, speak
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for themselves. And I, you know this is part of
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the reason, you know unfortunately that Wallet of
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Satoshi got spooked and decided to pull out of the US because of
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this rhetoric coming out of Elizabeth Warren.
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And you know this tweet and it's the messaging in this tweet is
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so strong from Wallet of Satoshi, it says unfortunately
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our App Store is not listed. Unfortunately, our app is not
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listed on app stores in the USA, China and North Korea.
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Like, that is a very, very strong statement.
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I don't think this is anything to do with money laundering.
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I don't think it has anything to do with, you know, the claims
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that Elizabeth Warren is making. I think if she was actually
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concerned with the truth, she would do a little bit of
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research. I think this has to do with, you
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know, governments wanting to keep to, to keep their monopoly
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on money, to keep their control on money.
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So this is the bill that Elizabeth Warren is referencing.
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It's continuing to pick up steam in the Senate.
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Again, like I said, 20 senators have signed up for it.
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They're they're supporting this bill, including Republicans as
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well. So you could say that it's
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bipartisan in this bill. It include it would include
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extend Bank Secrecy Act responsibilities including KYC
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requirements to digital asset wallet providers, miners,
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validators and other network participants that may act to
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validate, secure or facilitate digital asset transaction.
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So essentially the bill wood forest wallets to KYC their
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users it wood forest miners, even though that's not feasible.
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It would force nodes, that's what validators are and other
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network participants. So essentially force everyone to
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KYC everyone. That's not how Bitcoin works.
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That's not feasible, that's not enforceable.
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Pierre Richard said It would be a de facto ban on the Bitcoin
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mining industry in the US. It wouldn't be a direct ban, it
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would say you can't mine, but it would enforce rules that that
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are unenforceable, right. The second part address a major
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gap with respect to quote on hosted digital wall wallets.
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That's the key here. And the wording's really
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important, right? So if you take a look at that
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word, right, Hosted, unhosted, it makes it seem like an
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unhosted wallet. Is that is, is the abnormal.
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It's not normal, right? I don't know about you guys, but
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I've never seen that word in the Satoshi white paper, in the
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Bitcoin white paper, unhosted that.
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I've never seen that word. That's a word that's been
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invented by government bureaucrats to make self custody
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seem scary. Right, 'cause that's really what
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it's all about, it goes on to say, which allows individuals to
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bypass AML and sanctions checks by directing FinCEN to finalize
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and implement its December 2020 proposed rule, which would
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require banks and money service businesses to verify customer
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and counterparty identities, keep records and file reports in
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relation to certain digital asset transactions involving
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unhosted wallets are wallets hosted in non BSA compliant
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jurisdiction. So why what, what does Elizabeth
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Warren have against unhosted wallets?
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Well, the reason that the 6102 order was so successful back in
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the 1930s was because of the centralization of the custody of
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gold, because of its physical characteristics.
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Bitcoin is unique in the sense that if you can write down or,
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you know, properly store a 12 word, a 24 word seed phrase, you
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can theoretically store 1,000,000 billions, trillions of
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dollars with just those 12 to 24 words.
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And that makes it very difficult for governments to confiscate on
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a massive scale, right? So I think that's really what it
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comes down to. And again, this is something
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that was predicted back in the book, the sovereign individual.
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And I'd love to read this passage because they really hit
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the nail on the head. Even though this book was
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written back in the 1990s, it goes on to say new technologies
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will allow the holders of wealth to bypass the national
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monopolies that have issued and regulated money.
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In the modern period. Their importance for controlling
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the world's wealth will be transcended by mathematical
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algorithms that have no physical existence.
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In the new Millennium, cyber money controlled by private
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markets will supersede Fiat money issued by governments.
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Lacking their custom scope to tax and inflate.
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Governments, even in traditionally civil countries,
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will turn nasty. Businesses that offer services
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that facilitate the realization of autonomy by individuals will
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be subject to infiltration, sabotage, and disruption.
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Arbitrary forfeiture of property, already commonplace in
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the United States, where it occurs 5000 times a week, will
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become even more pervasive. Governments will violate human
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rights, censor the free flow of information, sabotage, useful
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technologies, and worse. This is where we are.
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This is separation of money in state, after all.
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And I think Elizabeth Warren is trying to hold on for dear life.
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She really loves that privilege of the money printer that
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governments have abused, you know, throughout history.
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Anyways, Gary, I want to get. I want to take your take.
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I want to get your take on this. What's going on with Elizabeth
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Warren? She seems angry, She seems.
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Upset. All politicians pretty much are
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crooks. I mean, you know, let's just
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face it, you don't get a job that pays a hundred $200,000 a
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year and in 10 years have millions and millions and
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millions of dollars. It just doesn't happen unless
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you're, you know, unless something's going on.
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Kind of fishy, you know, on the wallet of Satoshi you mentioned
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earlier, you know, which is kind of off subject here, but you
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know if people are still using that wallet because I actually
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have that wallet on my phone still.
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You know, I think people need to be aware that when Apple does
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updates, sometimes old apps don't work anymore.
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So, you know, if you have an old app on your phone and two or
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three updates come out, that old app might not work anymore with
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the new updates. So, you know, you shouldn't have
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a lot of money on your phone anyway.
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But I think in the US you might want to be careful of having a
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lot of money on wallet of Satoshi for sure.
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So I just wanted to mention that real quick.
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But yeah, you have to you have to sit back and look and and
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like I said earlier, because of the fact that I'm not going to
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say all politicians, but most politicians are crooks, what
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would be the goal here? I mean, she's never had a bill
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pass, I don't think ever. I have a hard time believing
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this will be your first one to pass.
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But you know, it's it's kind of like the Jamie Dimon thing.
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What? What's her profit motive on
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this? Because she certainly has one,
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since she is a politician. Yeah, I think.
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I think that the, what's her profit motive And and the profit
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motive is this Bitcoin is a threat to the money printer.
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And you know, it's what you said, like how these
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politicians, you know, with the government salary of like, what,
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150 hundred, 70K, they're worth 10s of millions of dollars, you
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know, after a decade in Congress and Senate.
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How does that work? Well, it's because of their
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proximity to the money printer. And I think if you're someone
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like Elizabeth Warren that has, you know, milked the system,
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benefited from the system for as long as she has, you know, she
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sees Bitcoin the same way that Jamie Dimon sees Bitcoin.
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It's, you know, the and and then the the.
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The part that like kind of gets under my skin a little bit is,
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is that they're not being authentic.
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They're not being sincere. They're not really using actual
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arguments as to why Bitcoin is bad.
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They're just saying money laundering, you know, which is
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by the way, you know JP Morgan has been charged with breaking
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so many rules and they just treat it like a cost of of doing
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business at this point. So again, like I, I, I feel like
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it's a bit of projection. It's a bit of projection.
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They're projecting onto US what, you know, they might feel that
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they are guilty of themselves. So yeah, I mean shame on
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Elizabeth Warren. But I mean, look, as I know a
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lot of people don't like Elon Musk and I'm a big fan of
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Noster, but the reality is that, you know, the bulk of people
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right now are on Twitter and you, you can't deny that Elon
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freed the bird, so to speak, a little bit, definitely helped in
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shifting the Overton window for sure.
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So you know, the fact that he added this community note
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feature politicians including the President of the US can't
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get away with. And I'm talking about Joe Biden
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of course, and if Trump was in office, if he lied it, it worked
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the same way. But you know, they can't get
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away with lying the way that they've been used to lying,
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right? They they no longer control,
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they're no longer in control the of the of, of, of the
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gatekeepers of information, right.
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So they can't control the narrative.
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The way that they've been used to doing this is something that
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was brought up in Davos last week during the Contillion Air
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Conference. The Ursula von whatever the the
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head of the European Union was talking about.
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Like the the the biggest threat to the world right now is
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misinformation and disinformation.
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Well, yeah, sure. Like if I've been, you know, if
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I've been a government official and I've been used to fucking
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lying through my teeth and having absolutely no, you know,
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no repercussions or nothing, and all of a sudden you're getting
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community noted on Twitter in front of everyone, it's
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completely embarrassed. Embarrassing.
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I would say that's misinformation, disinformation
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too. It's just ridiculous at this
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point. I almost feel bad for them.
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I almost feel bad for them. But I don't.
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Anyways, Opti, what's your take on all this brother?
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Wait, you guys are telling me Nancy Pelosi isn't the greatest
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traitor of our generation who could have saw this coming?
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What is going on here? No seriously though, Opti didn't
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kill himself. Shut up.
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That is bad juju. To Elizabeth Warren's point
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though, I am also anti crypto. It is Bitcoin only.
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So at least she's like kind of right?
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Sort of. You know, like I would agree
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that crypto is bad, but This is why we are simply Bitcoin and it
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is a Bitcoin only show. But man, Elizabeth Warren is
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really cementing herself as my favorite politician.
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Like by far. I thought it was Brad Sherman
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because I just love seeing politicians squirm like this and
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continue to expose themselves as being evil and tyrannical and
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really just out of touch with what is going on in the world.
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Of course, you know, why do we even look at the geriatrics that
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are in politics to explain to us why new technology is good?
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Like, it's absolutely ridiculous that this is where we are.
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And again, man, I don't even know how many times we have to,
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like, continue to beat on this drum.
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But it's not about protecting people like they would love for
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you to believe. It's always about control.
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It will always be about control. And we say it all the time.
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You know, the the move for controlling information on the
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social media is the very same move of trying to control
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transactions. So like if these people do not
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want you to talk freely and especially we're in America like
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she's an American politician. What is going on here?
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I thought they're supposed to uphold the oath of the
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Constitution and freedom of speech and they constantly roll
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themselves out here and bash on free speech.
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And with that comes the idea that they do not want you to
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transact freely. We know why this happens is
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because they want to control the economy.
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They want to control your behavior.
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Again, remember the the article or the PDF that Nico pulled up
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last week about the Federal Reserve themselves saying that
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they know money controls behavior and they will use the
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money to modify behavior? Remember what Claus Schwab's
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been saying? What is it like?
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We have to control people's behavior.
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We have to you have to you have to say it in the right accent.
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I I can't do any other accent. But my valley goes you can't say
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in the right accent. It's not it doesn't hit.
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It doesn't hit. But yeah, I mean the people's
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behavior that's again, again, guys, going back to my numbers
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like we have to roll out the CDC Optimus fields is a big prepare
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of misinformation. Schwarzenegger again.
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Guys, can we just like ask Elizabeth Warren whether she's
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ever actually used Bitcoin or is she just propagating this fear,
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you know, this fun Bitcoin? Yeah, like guys, it's so simple.
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If they've never used Bitcoin, why do we care what they say?
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Like just send a transaction and and hold Bitcoin and then we
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then we'll take your opinion on Bitcoin.
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Like it's very simple. And then also Nico, I I have to
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pull up this, this masterpiece of a meme that I made a long
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time ago. TLDR hosted wallet versus
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unhosted wallet. And the hosted wallet has a
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Leech on it. It's very simple.
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Why they want a, you know, want you guys to have quote UN quote
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hosted wallets and why they are fighting unhosted wallets.
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Guys, you know, shouts out to the memes.
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But yeah, man, like what? It's crazy to me that people
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even listen to politicians about about new technology like they
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they are so behind the curve and they've they've constantly shown
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themselves to just want to control every aspect about.
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It's like they're they're literally politicians or
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lawmakers. What is their job is to make
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more laws and take away more liberties from you.
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Like this is where we are right now and This is why Bitcoin is
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so powerful is because we have built a system that is outside
36:35
of their control and they're freaking out about it.
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It's so beautiful to see. Like, I love the sound of Ring
36:40
in the Morning by politicians. It it's like the Apocalypse Now
36:44
meme, you know, it it makes me feel good in the morning.
36:46
Gary, I heard that Klaus Schwab was potentially making an
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appearance at Bitblock Boom 2024.
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Is that is that correct? Well you know what?
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We haven't. This is a secret.
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Now don't don't let that out. But you know the follow up on
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OPTI though. What in hell is with all these
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old farts running everything and then making decisions on
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technology which they have no idea what technology is today?
37:09
You know, so I mean, I think it's a great reason.
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This is an example of a great reason for term limits.
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So we can have young people in there over and over.
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For instance, on President, we have 280 year olds running.
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Oh my gosh, I mean, you know, we need to get some young blood in
37:24
there that knows what's going on, especially with technology.
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Making decisions on technology when you probably wouldn't even
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have a computer if you didn't own an iPhone, it's pretty hard
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to believe. 100% I agree with that, shouts out the Gary.
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Like, hold on Nico, I don't mean to cut you off, but everyone
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yells at me and Nico 'cause we We constantly use the Boomer
37:42
meme to like make examples, but Gary's a a good example of the
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Boomers we do like. So shouts out the Gary I.
37:49
Can hear every damn day and see I'm a boomer.
37:51
It's not a surprise none of them are surprised that they're
37:54
boomers. They see themselves in the
37:56
mirror every morning, no matter how good they feel.
37:58
When they wake up, they go brush their teeth and go, Oh my gosh,
38:00
I'm an old fart, you know. There's there's a lot of Bitcoin
38:03
boomers and they're absolutely based.
38:06
I was at Bitcoin Naples over the weekend and they did a panel of
38:11
it was called Bitcoin Boomers and it was great.
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It was like Larry Laparde on there, you know, just a bunch of
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like, you know, incredibly based.
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But yeah, I mean they're the IT like the average age I think in
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the Senate and Congress is just some ridiculously high number.
38:28
So yeah, I I do agree. I think term limits are
38:30
necessary. I think Bitcoin.
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This is one of the things that Bitcoin does fix, and you guys
38:36
heard it here first. Gary Leland just admitted that
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Klaus Schwab will be a speaker at Bitlock Boom 2024.
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Man, I'm not telling you any secrets anymore, Nico.
38:49
What will the name of the panel be, Gary?
38:52
You will own nothing in like. Oh man, that's hilarious.
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All right, well, just to let people know, where is bit Block?
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Boom. We have a move this year and
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We went from Austin. Well, first four years were in
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Dallas, then we went to Austin for two years.
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Now for the 7th year, we're coming back to Dallas and we've
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always been in August, so last weekend in August, matter of
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fact the first six years. So now we're really changing it
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up. Not only are we coming back to
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Dallas, we are doing it in April, April 11th, 12th, 13th
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and 14th. So right before the happening, I
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think I saw the other night on time chain calendar if the
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blocks would move up to 9 minutes.
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And I remember, is it going to be the same venue, Gary, when
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you guys did it during the, you know, during the pandemic?
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Yes, we a fan favorite, I guess you would say.
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People really loved it. So when I brought it back to
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Dallas, I didn't even look at other venues.
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I just went straight there. It's a smaller venue than we've
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had the last two years. We'll show a lot of people like
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the conference being a little bit smaller and but it's where
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the layout of the hotel is just fantastic.
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I mean, you know, the bar is right there to the entrance to
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the convention and the pool's right there.
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And I mean basically that's where Lobby Con and Pool Con
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were born. So we're bringing it back home.
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It was called Lobby Con is it was called longest Bitcoin
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running Bitcoin conference or maybe the longest running
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conference in the world now. It could be.
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I mean it will come and go. Because of 2020.
43:42
Because we we held down 2020. We we did it during the pandemic
43:45
when no one else did. So I think tone did it the year
43:49
the pandemic because he did it like right before the pandemic
43:53
hit like in February or something, but he didn't do it
43:55
the next year. So but we were older than him
43:57
anyway by year. So yeah.
44:00
So yeah, this is just a great conference.
44:02
I mean I personally like it. You know, I designed this
44:04
conference because I wanted to hang out with bitcoiners and I
44:07
was tired of going to shit coin events.
44:08
You know, even I went to an event called the Texas Bitcoin
44:11
Conference. I was like, Oh my gosh, this is
44:13
going to be great. And I don't think anyone even
44:15
spoke about Bitcoin at that event.
44:16
So. So I was like, wow, this this
44:19
kind of sucks. I mean, so, so bit block boom.
44:23
I think if you haven't been, it's a good event to go to for
44:27
the first time in Dallas. Dallas enabled us to lower all
44:30
our costs. You know, right off the bat,
44:33
everything was cheaper and everything is cheaper than it
44:36
was, including the hotel rooms. I know a lot of people like to
44:39
get Airbnb's, but the price of the hotel rooms to be at the
44:43
hotel, it's it's well worth it because I mean just the
44:48
convenience and hanging out with bitcoiners all day.
44:50
I mean you you guys know from the last time you were there,
44:52
there's Bitcoin stuff going on 24 hours a day at the hotel,
44:56
whether it's hanging out at the conference, drinking at the bar,
44:58
playing poker, whatever it is, there's stuff going on 24/7.
45:02
So if you want to hang out with bitcoiners, I think I've kind of
45:05
like put together a good way to hang out with just bitcoiners.
45:09
You know, some people's conferences, to be at their
45:13
Bitcoin conference is you just have to have Bitcoin or you sell
45:18
Bitcoin or work with Bitcoin, but you can do a lot of other
45:21
things like exchanges. They have Bitcoin and 20,000
45:25
other shit coins. That's why we don't have any
45:27
exchanges. We are Bitcoin only.
45:29
If you're a shit coiner, you're not here, whether you're into
45:33
Bitcoin or not. This you can't sponsor.
45:35
You're not invited. You're not.
45:37
You're not. I mean, people come up to me all
45:39
the time. It's kind of crazy.
45:41
I go, Gary, this guy over here was talking about Ethereum or
45:44
some shit, and I have to go over there and address it, you know?
45:46
And I go over there and I go, hey, I better report you're
45:49
talking about shit coins. I'm not talking about shit
45:51
coins. They're crazy.
45:52
I said they aren't just making this shit up.
45:54
I mean, you're obviously talking about bit shit coins.
45:57
Well, I'm sorry. I won't do it anymore.
45:59
I said we do it anymore. We're kicking you out.
46:01
I mean, you know, so we definitely do enforce the no
46:06
shit coining rule. I don't think anyone else
46:08
enforces that like we do. Our our rules used to say I took
46:12
them off because I I thought maybe I was being too obnoxious.
46:14
But first time you reported for talking about a shit coin,
46:17
someone to come over and talk to you.
46:19
Second time we'll take you out in the hallway.
46:20
Third time we'll kick you out, you know, So, so I'm pretty sure
46:25
I don't want to hear that shit. And no, no one else in my
46:27
conference does either. I mean, it's not like I go to a
46:30
Bitcoin conference and some guy who's been in crypto for a year
46:35
telling me how good XRP is going to be is going to like and you
46:38
go, Oh my God, I'm glad you are the person who told me about it,
46:40
because I never realized how good XRP is.
46:42
Now I'm going to sell half my Bitcoin and buy some XRP, thank
46:46
you very much. Nobody wants to hear that shit.
46:50
Love it before I cut you off. Talk Lobbycon.
46:56
Yeah, it's so wait, wait, hold on, 'cause the the cause.
46:59
OK, so I have to so shout out to Surfer Jim, first of all.
47:03
And we would hang out on Bitcoin kindergarten all the time.
47:07
And this was like in the the the bear market of 2017 to 2020.
47:14
And we would just all kind of like, you know, simply didn't
47:18
exist. Like it was just like the very
47:20
beginning of of all this. It's a lot bigger now and surfer
47:25
Jim would hang out with us and he essentially like he he was
47:28
like Nico, like you have to go to Bitcoin conferences.
47:31
I've never been to a Bitcoin. I don't even know what a Bitcoin
47:33
conference is. You have to go to this thing
47:35
like it's like you don't understand.
47:37
It's where all the people you want to talk to are hanging out.
47:39
Yeah. But it's also people that like
47:41
think like you cause like you're a bitcoiner and you have like
47:44
your no coiner friends and like whatever and then you're just
47:46
looking at them. You're like this person's
47:48
completely brain, they're like in the Fiat matrix hard.
47:51
Like they still think voting makes a difference, right?
47:53
Like, you know, like it's, it's it's, you know, it's, it's, it
47:59
was really, really nice to be and have the ability to hang out
48:04
with other like minded individuals in meat space, like
48:08
in the flesh. Right.
48:09
And that's what really, you know, these conferences are
48:12
about. And my first one was bit block
48:15
boom, the year of the pandemic. Everyone didn't want to wear a
48:19
mask. It was, it was great.
48:20
It was like a rebellion in the lobby.
48:22
And Opti, yeah, they gave up. They gave up.
48:27
So. And then Opti and I got a room
48:29
together and I was like, Opti, do you want to go to this?
48:31
He's like, yeah, let's go. And that's like the first time
48:33
we met and the friendship really started there.
48:35
And then Fast forward, you know, simply bitcoins born and all
48:38
that stuff. And then we did a news desk last
48:40
year at Bitlock Boom, which was absolutely incredible.
48:43
So yeah, it really. Yeah, we're going to do that
48:46
this year as well. So Bitlock Boom really holds a a
48:49
very special place in my heart as as a Bitcoin conference.
48:53
And it truly is a Bitcoin conference, right.
48:56
You're going to go there and see Bitcoiners.
48:57
You're not going to see any shit corners anyways.
48:59
I see Opti. You have something pulled up.
49:01
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Gary was mentioning some some
49:04
stuff going on. He's got a special special event
49:07
he wants to talk about. But maybe before we can touch on
49:09
this one, what can people look forward to?
49:12
What? What do you have on the docket
49:13
for Bitlock Boom this year? Well, you know we, we have a
49:16
great lineup of speakers, but our workshops this year we're
49:19
really doing a a a job on the workshops and Santos is helping
49:24
Incredible Matt and Rockstar developer, but we're having on
49:28
Friday workshops. One workshop room is just on
49:31
Lightning, the other workshop room is just on Noster.
49:34
So for those who are interested in Noster, this is going to be a
49:37
great, great set of workshops. In the past our workshops have
49:40
been kind of like just a Little Mix of everything.
49:43
So we kind of organized it this year trying to make it a little
49:46
bit more in line with what it is.
49:48
You know, I also want to go back to what you were talking about
49:52
with Lobby Con. You know, a lot of people, first
49:57
of all, Bit Block Boom has like a lot of different kind of
49:59
tickets you can buy. People who work for me hate it
50:01
because they used to a conference where you buy a
50:03
ticket, you know, at Bit Block boom.
50:05
You can buy a ticket to the whole event.
50:06
You can buy a ticket to Thursday night's dinner or a ticket to
50:09
Friday night's dinner or picket to the casino party or a ticket
50:12
to the conference or a ticket to the brunch or picket, all of
50:15
them. So I'm saying that because I
50:18
have noticed the ticket sales. A lot of people seem to come
50:23
stay at the hotel for Lobby Con and then go like to the Friday
50:26
night dinner, you know, and then hang out in the hotel lobby the
50:29
whole time meeting and networking with people.
50:31
So I do want to make sure, and I don't have a problem with that,
50:34
People can go to whatever they want to go.
50:35
I have people go to Friday night dinner and the brunch and they
50:38
don't even go to the conference part sometimes.
50:40
And I have the most people go to everything, but that's an option
50:43
for people that they can go to whatever part of it they want to
50:46
go to. You can buy off an A la carte
50:48
menu, just like when you go to McDonald's.
50:52
Yeah. And I I, I just want to, you
50:55
know, so we know about the Klaus Schwab panel, but Gary, what
51:00
other panels are you? In all seriousness, what what
51:03
other are Opti? Have we talked?
51:05
We haven't talked about the event, have we?
51:07
No, no, not yet. OK.
51:08
So tell us about Bitlock Shoot, Gary, what is that?
51:12
Well, Bitlock shoot, we've done this.
51:13
This is our fifth year I think for Bitlock Shoot and because we
51:18
left Austin, we were able to lower the prices of these by
51:21
30%. So it took us a while to get the
51:24
place reserved. So we just started selling
51:26
tickets for that. But it's a Friday afternoon, 12
51:30
to 4:00, come and shoot the hell out of guns.
51:33
You know, we provide the guns are there, available there.
51:36
We provide you with some ammo. It's limited to 60 people and we
51:40
just started putting these on sale, these tickets on sale.
51:43
So if you want to shoot a gun and hang out, I promise you
51:46
everybody has a good time. I haven't had anyone that's left
51:49
and not had a good time, so check out the bit block shoot on
51:52
there under tickets, but that's a great event.
51:56
Yeah, and Gary, if I remember last year, the arsenal that
52:01
people get to shoot is it's just fun to shoot them anyways.
52:05
Like there's some there's some really cool guns that that you
52:08
guys set up for this. And then other people even bring
52:10
their own guns that are pretty cool guns.
52:12
And I think we're going to have a lot of vets this year because
52:14
the Bitcoin vets group is planning on sending a lot of
52:19
people. So we're probably going to have
52:20
a lot of guns there. But this will probably sell out
52:22
pretty fast. So I just tell people, if you're
52:24
interested in this event, go ahead and buy your ticket.
52:27
It's $99.00 I think for this event and it's a it's a heck of
52:31
a it's a it's a great time. That's a great deal.
52:34
Last time the targets, which will probably change them up a
52:39
little bit. But most targets are just a
52:41
target that you see. Ours had Ethereum in the middle,
52:46
Bitcoin Cash over here, XRP. So we're giving you something
52:50
worth shooting at for sure. We we were going to put the shit
52:54
coiner on there, that is, but the range wouldn't let us put
52:58
any people on the target. That's hilarious.
53:04
Oh my God, man. And YouTube, this is all, you
53:07
know, fun jokes. No.
53:08
No calls to violence or anything.
53:10
No. I knew I knew the shit coiner
53:13
and even asked him. If it was.
53:15
OK, yeah, I said. Hey, I'm going to put you on a
53:17
target if it's OK. So cheers.
53:18
Sounds good to me. Oh my God.
53:21
No, I thought that would be really fun because everybody
53:23
would know this shit Coiner for sure.
53:25
Oh man, that's hilarious. So I I do want to go through now
53:29
some of the speakers already. So we have of course, legendary
53:32
Stefan Lavera, we have Parker Lewis, we have Bob Burnett from
53:35
Barefoot mining. We have Bitcoin mechanic
53:39
Rockstar Dev Pierre Richard. So what what panel tone vase Guy
53:45
Swan we have someone called Gary Leland he's going to be a
53:48
speaker as well the the Dom. So Gary, could you any panels
53:55
that you're excited for anything specific we're?
53:57
Not, I'm not really super big on panels, but this year we do have
54:01
two. One's already said it's going to
54:03
be a mining panel. We have mechanical in there.
54:05
CJ Wilson's going to moderate it.
54:07
Bob Burnett's on there, Pierre Richard's on there.
54:11
That panel, that's going to be the morning panel and then I'll
54:13
set up a panel for the afternoon, which I haven't set
54:15
up yet. But I'm not a real big panel
54:17
person for some reason. I don't know why panels don't
54:22
appeal to. Well, we do have two this year
54:23
for the people who like panels and like I said, I haven't set
54:25
up the second one yet, but I think the mining one, I've got a
54:29
good crew on there. And then I think Rockstar is
54:32
going to do fireside chat about Noster on the stage we're trying
54:38
to get. I talked to Jack Dorsey in
54:41
Greenville and asked him, you know, when I ran into him, I
54:44
said hey, I'm with Bitlock Boom. And he was familiar with the
54:46
conference which I thought was a good sign.
54:48
And I asked him if he would come beyond the on the fireside chat
54:53
with Rockstar and he said when is it?
54:55
And I said it was in April. He said I'm free in April.
54:58
Send me the info and I'll take a look.
54:59
Wow. But I have not heard but I have
55:01
not heard back. So I'm not saying Jack's coming,
55:04
but we are trying to get him and he was open for that time
55:07
period. So if anyone wants to post on
55:10
XC, come to Bitlock. Boom.
55:14
Probably wouldn't hurt. Yeah, absolutely, 100%.
55:17
Well, I have one, just one last question for you, Gary.
55:21
Do you Are you still looking for volunteers and sponsors for
55:24
Bitlock Boom, or is it already fully, fully filled up?
55:27
No, we definitely are looking for both.
55:29
You know the one thing about Bitlock boom this year that is
55:33
the fact that it's in April is great because you know when
55:37
Bitcoin Magazine moved their event to July 1st, I started
55:41
looking at at the fall and my gosh, it's like a conference
55:44
almost every other week, you know, in the fall.
55:47
So I looked at spring and by doing it in April, I'm basically
55:50
one of the first conferences of the year in the United States or
55:52
sizable conferences. So but that's the good part
55:57
about it. Now the bad part about it is I
55:59
only have like 6 months to sell tickets instead of a year and
56:02
sponsorships and we're piling on the sponsorships at the end of
56:05
the year is when we started selling them when most people
56:09
already had all their sponsorship allocated, their
56:11
money allocated for the year. So now we're putting a really
56:14
hard job on contacting people. But yeah, both of those open you
56:18
can find on the site in the menu is a volunteer forum and then we
56:25
have on there also sponsorships. You can just click, be honest
56:28
with you, most of the people who do our sponsorships just buy
56:30
them online. They just go to the website and
56:33
look at the sponsorships and just buy them right there.
56:35
Some will, some will send me a question or anything, but the
56:37
majority of them buy right online.
56:39
Could you go through the packages, the sponsorship
56:41
packages, in case anyone's interested, Opti, could you pull
56:43
that up? Yeah, the, you know the
56:47
platinum's gone. We still have the gold and
56:49
silver, so that but streams, I'll tell you a couple of good
56:52
ones are the 10 D bags, that's a good one.
56:55
And the badge sponsor, this is the first year that the badge
56:58
sponsor hasn't been sold already, which is the back of
57:01
the badge and the sponsorship is the sponsorship itself.
57:04
Tables are selling well, but we have added a secondary tier to
57:09
the tables this year where in the past it's been $3000, now we
57:13
have an extra room that it's $2000 to do a table exhibition
57:18
table in that room, which is a really good value.
57:20
I mean, I don't know any conferences you can go get a
57:22
$2000 table at our $3000 price is excellent as far as that
57:26
goes, but $2000 is a great price.
57:31
You know, gosh, we have a lot of opportunities here.
57:35
We really do. The bag sponsor's a great one,
57:38
another one, another one that's really cool that no one's taken
57:41
and I'm surprised is the hotel key card.
57:44
You know, we have the key to the your hotel room has your logo on
57:49
it. So everybody's walking around.
57:52
One side of it's a bit block boom logo.
57:53
The other side is your company logo and information on the key
57:58
that you used to your hotel room.
57:59
I go to events like 6 months later, Eight months later, and
58:03
someone will come up to me and they'll show me their key card.
58:06
They kept it and they carry it around with them.
58:07
I have no idea why, but they do. So people like the key cards,
58:11
you know, to the rooms. So that's another great one is
58:14
the key card. 100 percent, 100%. Sponsor's good, yeah.
58:19
There's still several good ones left.
58:20
I am very, very excited for this.
58:22
It's going to be great. I've had many, many good
58:25
memories. This is going to be my third bit
58:27
block. Boom.
58:29
Very, very excited. And we should be bringing back
58:32
the Simply Bitcoin news desk at Pitblock Boom.
58:34
Should be a lot, a lot of fun and bring you guys a great live
58:38
stream experience. So Gary is really one.
58:42
One last thing. Then here Kelly, Gary, I did
58:44
notice that prices are increasing, so people should buy
58:47
them. Now let's maybe talk about that
58:49
before we roll. They'll go up at the end of the
58:51
month. They go up the end of every
58:52
month, but probably starting in March 1st, they'll go up every
58:55
two weeks. So every two weeks, if they use
58:58
your code and buy them now before the prices go up, they'll
59:02
save quite a bit of money, you know, And sometimes people go, I
59:06
I can't afford that. Well, buy whatever you can
59:08
afford right now and you can add it later.
59:10
It's not like we're going to, you know, well, we do sell out
59:13
sometimes the last two years. Well, two years ago we sold out
59:16
again. Last year we didn't sell out.
59:17
So normally we do sell out, you know.
59:20
So yeah, you might want to get your ticket.
59:22
Your ticket. Well, it's not only a good price
59:23
before it sells out. Absolutely guys, you can use
59:27
promo code. Simply get yourself a 10%
59:30
discount to a bit block. Boom.
59:31
Highly, highly recommended. It's going to be in Dallas, TX
59:34
this year. Opti and I are going to be hey
59:36
wait yeah Nico, can I can I chime in here?
59:38
Because like on on like a very serious note.
59:42
I legitimately feel like I have met some of my best friends and
59:47
friends that will be friends for life that came out of my first
59:52
Bit Block Boom event in 2020. Like all my friends now that I
59:55
hang out with, I literally met them all in meet space for the
59:59
first time at Bit Block Boom 2020.
1:00:01
And like these are these are my friends that I know they're
1:00:04
going to be with me forever. And I I just you know really
1:00:07
have a a debt to just the Bit Block Boom experience and insert
1:00:11
for Jim for convincing us to go Nika.
1:00:13
Like I I I really have a special place in my heart for Bit Block
1:00:18
Boom and I'm happy it's coming back to Dallas.
1:00:20
You know, I tried to make it kind of like more like AI know
1:00:22
this may sound corny, but more like a family reunion that you
1:00:26
go. I got to go because all my
1:00:28
buddies are there that I only get to see one time a year, you
1:00:30
know, because some events and I'm not knocking any events.
1:00:32
That's not my goal. But like in Nashville, Bitcoin
1:00:35
magazines, Oh my gosh, that's event so big you don't even see
1:00:37
some of the people that you were hoping you'd run into.
1:00:40
I went last year and didn't see people I was hunting for, you
1:00:42
know, much less just running into people where that block
1:00:45
boom. I mean, the speakers basically
1:00:47
come out of the audience, go up on stage and speak and then come
1:00:50
back, sit in the audience. It's not like they come in from
1:00:52
the back and lead to the back. So you have plenty of chance to
1:00:55
network with them. That's the big thing I think is
1:00:57
the fact you get to see and talk and network with all the people.
1:01:00
It's a networking event. It's a fun networking event. 100
1:01:04
percent, 100% agree with that. You know, it's amazing how many
1:01:07
people also sorry, Nicole by one, make sure and get this in
1:01:10
because I think this is kind of important.
1:01:12
It's amazing how many people come up to me and go, hey Gary,
1:01:15
I just want to let you know I found my dream job because I
1:01:18
went to Bitlock. Boom.
1:01:20
You know, they got a job in the industry, whether they met the
1:01:23
people there or whether they talked to someone networking and
1:01:26
told them, I'm an accountant, I'm a lawyer, I'm a tech guy,
1:01:30
whatever it is. And they passed the word on to
1:01:32
somebody. But a lot of people get their
1:01:34
Bitcoin jobs at Bitlock. Boom.
1:01:36
I hear it every time I go to a Bitcoin event. 100 percent, 100%
1:01:41
you have to have to network. You know opti's I you're saying
1:01:45
that Gary and Opti and I, you know their friendship really
1:01:48
started there and then one thing led to another and then of
1:01:51
course simply Bitcoin and all that stuff.
1:01:52
So 100% agree with that guys definitely go to bit block boom.
1:01:56
Go to bitblockboom.com use promo code simply get 10% off and
1:02:00
we'll see you there. We'll all see you there.
1:02:01
We'll, all three of us will be there at that conference.
1:02:04
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1:02:11
special shout out to our guest, Gary Leland.
1:02:14
Gary, thank you so much for coming on Simply Bitcoin today.
1:02:16
Thanks for having me. Hey, I want to give a big thanks
1:02:18
to Mel too. Mel Sanch.
1:02:19
She connected all of us. Mel's.
1:02:22
I think originally so without her none of us may know each
1:02:25
other. So a big a big thanks to her.
1:02:27
Yeah, shout out to Mel. Had her over for for dinner the
1:02:29
other day. We had a steak dinner.
1:02:30
It was delicious. Got to meet her husband.
1:02:32
He's awesome. So yeah, Mel's.
1:02:35
Mel's amazing. She contributes so much to the
1:02:37
space. And like I said, Gary, thank you
1:02:39
so much for coming on the show. Thanks.
1:02:41
Thanks for having me Nico. I appreciate it.
1:02:43
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