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Kamala Harris Changes Stance on Bitcoin | EP 1049 · Simply Bitcoin

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  It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
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  It's going up forever. You're against Bitcoin.
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  You're against freedom. Incitement to racial hatred
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  involves publishing or distributing material which is
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  insulting or abusive, which is intended to or likely to start
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  racial hatred. So if you retweet that, then
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  you're republishing that and then potentially you're
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  committing that offence. And we do have dedicated police
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  officers who are scouring social media.
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  Their job is to look for this material and then follow up with
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  identification arrests and so forth.
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  So it's a really, really serious people might I think they're not
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  doing anything harmful. They are and the consequences
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  will be visited upon them. Thompson now to talk through
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  this. So Matthew, the last point there
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  is crucial, isn't it? Some people might be sharing
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  simply to warn their friends, but it could be considered an
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  offence because they're amplifying.
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  This absolutely. And that's the key message is
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  that however you, you know, think you're acting innocently
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  on social media, whatever platform it is, you're just
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  sharing something for whatever reason that could potentially be
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  a criminal offence. And and look it, it's not an
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  idle threat either because the Crime Prosecution Service were
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  keen to point out that they've made a number of charges in
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  relation to stirring up of racial hatred online, one of
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  which this morning was for distributing a recording that
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  could in intending to stir up racial hatred.
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  And so they are actually already bringing charges in relation to
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  this sort of thing. So it's a very, very clear
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  message based in the harsh reality, if you like that, if
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  you do this kind of thing, you are potentially committing a
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  criminal offence. There, he said it.
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  They've got teams of people scouring the Internet looking
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  for this sort of thing, and if you are in the business of
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  sharing or retweeting whatever platform it might be,
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  potentially criminal material, well then you could find
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  yourself prosecuted. Yeah, we're going to submit
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  Bitcoin live, the most watched daily Bitcoin live show on
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  YouTube, Rumble X starting out with a cold opening hot.
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  That's right, ladies and gentlemen, in UK, they're
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  literally locking people up for retweeting certain types of
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  content. Now, of course, I don't think
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  anyone likes racism, but history has shown, I think over the last
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  five years is they'll use noble causes in order to obfuscate.
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  Like, you know, one of the things that we always hear is
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  like this and this and that is a danger to democracy.
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  Like, and it starts to sound like everything that is against
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  the official party line is a danger to democracy, right?
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  So when you say, look, you know, we we locked him up because his
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  tweet was racist versus we locked him up because his tweet
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  was politically incorrect and it made the government look bad.
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  Like, you know, you're going to you're going to approach that
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  very differently. And this is something also to
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  that we've been talking about many, many times on the show for
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  the last couple of months. Like I've been saying, this is
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  the great disintermediation. The Internet has allowed mass
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  scale peer-to-peer communications via social media.
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  And it's taken a lot of the power away from the legacy media
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  outlets. And those are the outlets that
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  the government used to be able to control.
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  Naimbu Kelly wrote this amazing piece for Bitcoin magazine.
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  We quote it all the time. It's called don't drink the
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  elites Kool-aid. And in that piece, he said their
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  most important weapon is their control on truth.
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  I mean, we we've been saying it guys like Opti, we don't really
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  do the mean we we do the meme review, but not as much not as
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  often anymore. But one of the things that Opti
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  says there is, you know, if tweets are bullets, memes are
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  artillery in this information warfare on the battlegrounds of
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  the Internet. And there you go, like, people
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  are literally, you know, getting locked up for retweeting things
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  that aren't politically acceptable by, you know, the
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  current regime in the UK, which is just, it's so crazy to say
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  that. And it also makes me really
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  thankful because here in the US, of course, you're protected by
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  the 1st Amendment. So unless you're like, directly
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  calling out for violence, you know, your speech is much more
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  protected than it is in the United Kingdom.
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  So, yeah, I mean, pretty, pretty crazy if if they're not OK with
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  you speaking freely, what makes you think they're going to be OK
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  with you transacting freely? Like these are also the same
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  people that want you to trust them with the central bank
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  digital currency. They can't even help themselves
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  with information. Could you imagine the power
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  they're going to have with something like money and, you
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  know, being able to influence certain types of behavior?
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  So pretty crazy. We're going to talk about that
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  today. But also the breaking news that
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  I want to focus on is it's almost as if maybe the
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  Democratic Party was watching simply Bitcoin because we did go
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  hard in the paint yesterday. I'm going to bring up Opti.
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  We go hard in the paint and I, I don't want to say it's a
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  coincidence, but it sure does feel like a coincidence that,
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  you know, after yesterday, Opti and I went pretty hard.
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  You know, literally the morning of the IT came out on Fox
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  Business or maybe late last night.
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  No, it was this morning. They basically made an
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  announcement that you know, the, the Biden, sorry, the the Harris
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  campaign is reaching out to the so-called crypto industry in
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  order to talk with the industry. Now the we've heard this
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  multiple times over the last month or two.
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  A we've been we're sticking to our message, which is like talk
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  is cheap, action is expensive. The Biden administration
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  currently has the executive power to free Ross.
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  So go show a gesture of goodwill.
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  Like you can do it right now, right?
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  You don't have to wait for an election.
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  You can do it right now. You have the power to do so.
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  And again, if you pay attention to their actions, and this is
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  actual just breaking news. It broke about 30 minutes ago.
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  It seems like the federal government or branches of the
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  federal government are still going after banks that are
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  dealing with Bitcoin and crypto in the United States.
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  So it seems like Operation Choke point O is still happening and
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  they want the best of both worlds.
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  They want the votes, but they don't want to put up or shut up.
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  So, you know, I'm sticking to what I said yesterday.
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  It's just, you know, there's what what's the saying, Opti?
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  There's no conspiracies, but there's also no coincidences.
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  I'm not saying they're watching simply, but that was a big
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  coincidence bro. Opti, what's your talk?
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  I don't think it's, yeah, you're giving us a little too much
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  credit here. I don't think it's them watching
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  simply Bitcoin. I think it's just a clear
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  response to the fact that the Republican Party is going full
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  in. Are you saying that there is
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  one? Democratic staffer that
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  potentially watches our show. At this point, I wouldn't be
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  surprised. In their lives yo, like they're
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  the bitcoiners are upset man. Wouldn't be surprised if they
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  were. But on that note, This is why I
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  am so happy to be an American because I am pretty sure that
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  all of my Twitter or social media accounts would have fully
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  gotten nuke by now and I wouldn't be on the show.
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  So as I tweeted this morning, you know, let's continue to make
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  America not UK again. So let's double down on on this
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  ideals that This is why we left the UK in the 1st place is so
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  that we can have free speech and, and we can talk about
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  things. And you know, my view on free
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  speech is like, let's, let's have all the conversations
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  happening so that we can actually see who the dumb people
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  are. Like, you don't know what's
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  actually going on if you have to censor information.
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  And I think it's very powerful to let people have these
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  conversations and let let ideas be exposed, because then you can
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  clearly see where people stand. And, and if you hide the hide
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  the conversations, then it's literally like Big Brother 1984.
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  Stuff like this is where we are right now, full totalitarian
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  dystopian future that was a warning of where not to go.
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  And yet, but here we are right now, it's just it's absolutely
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  incredible that this is where we are.
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  And I mean, I, I said it this week, Nico, I said it once.
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  You know what was the meme? I always butcher the meme.
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  But like born too early to see the moon landing, but born just
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  in time to be, you know, a a digital freedom fighter on the
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  Internet. So here we are.
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  Can't. Be a tick tocker but could be a
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  YouTube. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
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  Can't be a tick tocker, but can be a freedom money advocate.
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  So incredible, incredible stuff. Very interesting in, in the
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  worst way possible of what's going on in the UK.
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  It's just, man, it's, it's terrifying that obviously the UK
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  usually leads in response to, you know, where the progressives
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  are going and man, it's, it's not looking good for the UK.
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  At the time of recording the Bitcoin price is $59,430 sats
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  per dollar 1683 block height 855,926 blocks to having 194,000
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  74 having estimate March 23rd 2028 Total lightning network
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  capacity 4815 capacity value 286 million U.S. dollars Realized
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  monetary inflation 1.46% market capitalization 1.17 trillion
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  Bitcoin versus gold market cap 7.11%.
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  In the grand scheme of things, we are just getting started
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  Anyways. Not only Burnell continues to do
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  the rounds on legacy media and she's been doing an incredible
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  job. Here she is again on Fox
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  Business. Fox Business, I got to, I got to
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  give them credit that that Channel has been very positive.
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  Just the, the, the coverage that they've, they've done on us or
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  our industry better said it's, it's been quite positive.
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  And of course, Natalie's a great voice and a great representation
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  of our movement. And of course, she has that
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  legacy media training as well. So she's able to say a lot of
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  information in a very condensed fashion.
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  Anyways, already, everybody, let's play the clips about two
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  minutes. So the, the comeback in, in, in
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  Bitcoin and and a theory and some of these others is
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  indicative of of maybe something that might have more staying
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  power. But it's only a day.
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  Let's go to Natalie. Natalie Brunell.
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  If she is the coin. Store's podcast host Natalie
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  should I believe today. Or yesterday when it comes to
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  some of these crypto plays. Hi, Neil, Great to see you.
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  Well, you know, Bitcoin, it's a great day to buy every day.
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  And there's a saying I think of during times of panic, and that
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  is a genius is the man who can do the average thing when
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  everyone else around him is losing his mind.
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  And the genius thing is just a dollar cost average into
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  Bitcoin. Ignore the noise.
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  Bitcoin was $25,000 last August. So we're zoom out and remember
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  that markets go up, but they can also come back down.
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  And the corrections are really great buying options now given
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  the market volatility, I thought I would have seen, you know, the
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  Bitcoin and some of these other plays hold their own as an
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  alternative. Gold typically has been the
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  hedge of late. It's down a little bit today,
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  but it's in and out of these all time highs of close to $2500 the
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  ounce. Is it a battle between gold and
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  Bitcoin and some of these others?
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  I think Bitcoin improves upon the properties of gold, and
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  Bitcoin is really digital capital.
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  You can trade it at the speed of light globally, 24/7, without
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  permission from any intermediary.
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  So when people want to express sentiment on market shifts or
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  geopolitical risks overnight or on a weekend, there are very few
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  things that they can sell instantly.
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  And so think about what that says about our 21st century
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  system. Neil and I credit Michael Saylor
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  for pointing this out too. We are interconnected through
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  digital technology and yet we're crawling on 20th century rails
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  and schedules when it comes to moving capital.
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  Securities trade Monday through Friday, 9:30 to 4:00, so 135
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  hours of the week. You can't move capital.
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  Everything is slow and expensive and you have to get permission
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  from your bank, which has to get permission from the central bank
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  and what's ultimately an over leveraged over financialized,
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  undercapitalized system. And so while many people don't
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  understand this yet, Bitcoin is digital capital and its
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  volatility in times of panic is actually a feature, not a bug.
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  It shows how liquid and reliable it is.
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  Well, you're quite right about that.
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  You can trade a 24/7 now. Well, and Natalie does an
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  incredible job and also one thing that I want to mention as
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  well is they kept mentioning they kept like lumping in
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  Bitcoin with the other alternative cryptocurrencies and
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  it's not a good comparison, right?
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  Like Ethereum or Solana or whatever.
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  Like it hurts me saying them, but you know, all these
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  alternatives, like they might be up dollar terms, but if you
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  compare which should be the only a pair that you should actually
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  care about, if you compare any of these alternatives to their
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  Bitcoin pairs, they're still down from like 2021, like they
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  haven't recovered, right? So always pay attention to the
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  Bitcoin pairs, not the dollar pairs because you should be
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  measuring your net worth in Bitcoin.
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  You should be measuring your net worth in dollars.
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  So anyways, all that being said, the reason I'm bringing that up
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  is because I think it's a little bit of a disservice.
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  Like if your legacy media, you're essentially equating
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  Bitcoin with all these others. And, and then not to mention the
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  graphics that they're pulling up, you know, they're pulling up
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  like Ethereum and they're pulling whatever.
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  Like one doesn't equal the other, right?
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  Bitcoin is unique. Bitcoin is completely different
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  than all these other cryptos, Bitcoins, the only one that is
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  truly decentralized. You can't manipulate the rules
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  to benefit yourself, but you can't do that in any of the
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  other. The other cryptos don't offer
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  that. So a lot of people are
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  attracted, attracted to the other ones because of the short
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  term volatility. In my experience just, and I've
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  been maybe doing this for a little bit, you tend to end up
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  with more Bitcoin if you just stay humble, stack stats and
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  stay solvent. Then if you try to play the the
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  trading game, not to say that you can't succeed, but just a
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  general trend is I've seen more people wreck themselves then,
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  you know, actually pull off successful trades and stuff.
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  So anyways, so yeah, I mean, definitely heading the right
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  direction. Also, another comment that I
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  saw, which I think is I think it was David Bailey that said this
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  because I think a lot of people were exactly lightning goats
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  pointed it out. That was exactly what was about
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  to say. Do you remember the 1st day or
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  the first week or the first six months that you got into
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  Bitcoin? You were probably in the depths
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  of hell of the the most shitty of the shit coins that you can
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  ever imagined. And only through calling through
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  those piles of shit coinery do you actually realize that
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  Bitcoin is different. Like expecting someone to just
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  get it on the first day is incredibly naive.
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  And that applies to legacy media and that applies to Trump.
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  And that applies to Trump's family.
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  Like, it, it just like thinking that you don't like maybe in
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  five years, if they're still, you know, like trying to do
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  that, then maybe let's have a different discussion about it.
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  But they just got like, they just got into the game.
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  So did legacy media. Like, they don't know any
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  better. Like for them, like Bitcoin and
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  Ethereum are exactly the same. It's just different branding,
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  right? Anyways, I want to pass it on to
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  Opti. What do you think?
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  Yeah, so First off, I do want to talk about the the anchor.
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  I I don't know his name, didn't catch his name, but it's funny
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  how he kind of framed it. It's like, OK, you know, Bitcoin
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  dumped and it it rebounded. And this just, you know, goes to
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  show and he's questioning the staying power of Bitcoin.
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  Whereas all of us in Bitcoin that have been here for, you
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  know, longer than a year or so and have delved into Bitcoin,
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  understand that like Bitcoin is the new stability in the
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  financial world. And you can count all of the
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  what, like 200 obituaries about Bitcoin dying and then it always
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  comes back from the grave or in in mean terms, you know, there's
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  that like classic Undertaker Bitcoin meme where he like comes
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  out of the coffin and it rises again.
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  It's like, this is what happens with Bitcoin.
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  It always seems like it's dead to the person that doesn't
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  understand Bitcoin. And then if for some reason, you
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  know, Bitcoin is always able to come back from the dead and.
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  It reaches new all time highs and this is just how you can
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  tell, like to the point that you and lightning goats made that
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  legacy media or even the new figures or new people coming
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  into Bitcoin don't fully understand Bitcoin yet.
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  And this might be one of those things that you kind of only
• 20:38
  learn through experience as when you come in new to Bitcoin.
• 20:41
  I remember when I got into Bitcoin 2017 and we had that
• 20:45
  2017 blow off top. I was still learning what
• 20:47
  Bitcoin was when it when it basically blew up in 2018, or
• 20:52
  rather the end of 2017, early 2018.
• 20:54
  And that's when I was doubling down and my understanding of
• 20:58
  what Bitcoin is. And so you kind of have to learn
• 21:00
  these lessons through experience or you know, you can be wise and
• 21:04
  listen to other Bitcoiners that have been around, hence hence
• 21:07
  simply Bitcoin. But as Natalie Burnell was
• 21:10
  saying, and as the classic trope goes, you want to buy assets
• 21:14
  when there's blood on the streets.
• 21:15
  And it still blows my mind. And I don't understand people
• 21:19
  that sell their Bitcoin in the face of financial uncertainty
• 21:21
  when Bitcoin is like the most certain thing period.
• 21:24
  Like full stop. Bitcoin monetary policy is the
• 21:27
  the only stable monetary policy in the world.
• 21:30
  Bitcoin runs 24/7 365. It's the most liquid market
• 21:34
  period. It's the only free market left
• 21:36
  in the world. And it's just, it's really,
• 21:40
  yeah, I think it really highlights the fact that most
• 21:42
  people still don't fundamentally understand what they hold when
• 21:45
  they hold Bitcoin is because they're, you know, as much as we
• 21:48
  get bad raps, for all of us Bitcoiners being speculators, we
• 21:52
  would all argue that we're just saving in something that cannot
• 21:55
  be debased. You know, we just want to store
• 21:56
  our value and transact freely. But when new entrants come into
• 22:00
  Bitcoin, you can tell that they're basically here just to
• 22:02
  speculate on the price. Or as the other Bitcoin meme
• 22:05
  goes, you know, you come for the money and you stay to fix the
• 22:07
  money or you come for the money, you come for the gains.
• 22:09
  But you stay for the revolution and you're starting to see that
• 22:12
  people are learning about Bitcoin slowly but surely.
• 22:15
  But again, most people don't have the time or rather don't
• 22:19
  have the pain point that most of us Bitcoiners have found in our
• 22:22
  own lives that they they want to, you know, do hours of
• 22:26
  research into understanding Bitcoin.
• 22:27
  They're just like, OK, I'm going to throw some money at it and
• 22:30
  hopefully it goes up and I'm going to forget about it and
• 22:32
  I'll be good in the future. Whereas like, you know, we have
• 22:35
  Tony on today from Bitcoin. Wait.
• 22:36
  It's like there is a learning curve to understanding the
• 22:40
  Bitcoin market, the best Bitcoin practices.
• 22:42
  And it's kind of just like how it was when we all got the
• 22:45
  Internet in the first time. Like there is a learning curve
• 22:48
  to understanding how to use new technology.
• 22:50
  And you're seeing that people are, you know, slowly but surely
• 22:53
  waking up to this fact that, hey, it's not as easy as just,
• 22:56
  you know, throwing your money at Bitcoin and leaving it on
• 22:59
  Charles Schwab accounts or whatever the equivalents are and
• 23:02
  you're going to be good. It's like, no, there is a
• 23:05
  certain learning curve. There is a certain amount of
• 23:07
  experience and behavioral change that will become a part of your
• 23:12
  Bitcoin journey. And all of us Bitcoiners that
• 23:15
  have been here for a long time, you know, looking backwards,
• 23:17
  it's very easy for us to be like, oh, these people are
• 23:20
  idiots. They don't understand Bitcoin.
• 23:21
  Like we understand, you know, get on our high horse and stuff.
• 23:24
  But hey, I'm pretty sure most of us went through our own shit
• 23:27
  coin phase and then we realized that, hey, this isn't the get
• 23:31
  rich quick scheme. I thought it was.
• 23:32
  Maybe I need to figure out what Bitcoin is because I'm getting
• 23:35
  poorer and that's what everyone else is feeling.
• 23:37
  You know, the ultimate shit coin is the dollar.
• 23:40
  And yet people just still think that there's stability in the
• 23:43
  Fiat currencies because $1.00 equals $1.00.
• 23:46
  Little do they understand that like This is why life is getting
• 23:49
  harder is because your dollar is losing its purchasing power.
• 23:51
  So there is a learning curve and a certain understanding that you
• 23:55
  have to get through to finally become, you know, Bitcoin maxi.
• 23:59
  But it does come with experience.
• 24:00
  So I think in time we're going to get to a point where they
• 24:03
  they're, you know, kudos to like Joe Kernan and what's his name,
• 24:06
  Charles Payne, who are like already full blown Bitcoin Maxis
• 24:10
  on Fox News. But we're going to get to a
• 24:11
  point where everyone else realizing what the real game is,
• 24:14
  which is holding Bitcoin for as long as possible.
• 24:17
  Absolutely, Tony. What do you think, man?
• 24:19
  Yeah, man, you, you guys summed it up pretty, pretty nicely.
• 24:23
  People that come, you know, from places of privilege, actually,
• 24:27
  you know, it's, it plays against them, you know, when they get
• 24:30
  into something like Bitcoin because you know, they're
• 24:33
  coming, you know, they're coming with the idea that this is just
• 24:35
  another speculative asset, another stock, another
• 24:38
  investment, you know, that I'm going to get into and hopefully
• 24:41
  become, you know, very rich, you know, dollar rich or euro rich.
• 24:44
  And ultimately, you know, they don't understand money to begin
• 24:48
  with, which is, you know, the, the biggest differentiator
• 24:51
  between a, a real bitcoiner and someone just coming in for the
• 24:54
  ride. And so when things were the
• 24:56
  number goes up, you know, they get all horny, everybody's
• 24:58
  happy. And then when it comes crashing
• 25:00
  down, everybody calls it a scam. And, you know, all sorts of all
• 25:04
  sorts of rubber starts spewing out.
• 25:06
  So I, I think this is like a big catalyst for those, you know, in
• 25:11
  North America, in the, in the EU that come from places of
• 25:14
  comfort. Still they haven't felt the pain
• 25:17
  versus those that are coming from places of destruction.
• 25:21
  You know, like how I where, where I came from and what led
• 25:23
  me to Bitcoin. And when you come, you know,
• 25:27
  there's a very different narrative that's that forms in
• 25:30
  your head when you're coming from darkness, then when you're
• 25:33
  coming just to have to, to have a good time.
• 25:36
  So you need to fundamentally understand, you know, that the
• 25:40
  world that you live in is 99% of fabrication.
• 25:44
  It's a lie that you've been fed since the day you were born.
• 25:47
  And until you accept that, it's going to be very difficult to
• 25:51
  focus on something like Bitcoin beyond the number go up
• 25:56
  phenomenon. And but it's only a matter of
• 25:59
  time because we've, we've come to a point, you know, in the, in
• 26:02
  this world where the, the corruption and the
• 26:05
  inefficiencies and the bad decisions have gone so extreme
• 26:10
  that everything is falling apart.
• 26:11
  You know, I mean, you see the hatred, the division, the
• 26:14
  situation in the UK, the dystopian nightmare that, you
• 26:17
  know, that has manifested into the wars and all that.
• 26:22
  All of these are intended distractions, you know, to to
• 26:25
  shift your attention away from what's truly going on is that
• 26:29
  the system is falling apart. And so the powers that be, they
• 26:34
  need this in order to continue playing on the ignorance and the
• 26:39
  fear of the masses in order to hopefully maintain their, you
• 26:43
  know, their reign of power to guide them where they want them
• 26:47
  to go next. You know, which is somewhere you
• 26:49
  definitely don't want to be because it is 100% not in your
• 26:53
  best interest. So Bitcoin for the first time
• 26:56
  in, you know, in humanity is the option that we have to exit the
• 27:01
  system to tell the powers that be, we don't want you anymore.
• 27:05
  We don't need you anymore. We want nothing to do with you.
• 27:07
  And now we have the means to stand up on our own, live our
• 27:11
  lives without ever having to look back and even acknowledge
• 27:15
  your presence. So in about 50 years, you know,
• 27:19
  people born at that time, in my opinion, we'll not even know
• 27:23
  what a bank is, thankfully lucky for them.
• 27:25
  And those that study history, you know, and they, they see
• 27:29
  what we went through. They might call us crazy.
• 27:32
  You know, what kind of what kind of fools, you know, who believe
• 27:35
  that, you know, worthless toilet paper controlled and created by
• 27:39
  a bunch of thieves actually has value.
• 27:42
  You know, like, I mean, there's a lot of that.
• 27:45
  Absolutely. I I, I 100% agree with you.
• 27:48
  I think I think it we're going to look back on these moments in
• 27:52
  history and we're just going to be like, can't believe we used
• 27:55
  paper as money. I even look at Fiat currency
• 27:58
  today and I'm like, this is so insane that, you know, society
• 28:02
  just look at it like This is Money.
• 28:03
  It's just like a piece of paper. Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm very, very
• 28:09
  optimistic on the future. I think it's going to be a much
• 28:12
  that the world's going to be a much better place on a on a
• 28:14
  Bitcoin standard. Anyways, I do apologize for Opti
• 28:17
  blocking people in the chat. Hey, hey, hey, hey.
• 28:20
  Let's not. You didn't mean to do that.
• 28:21
  That was my accident. I unblocked it already.
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  I do, I just want people to I want people to to keep their eye
• 29:51
  on the prize and the eye on the prize is the separation of money
• 29:56
  and state. Like that's essentially what we
• 29:58
  want at the end. We really believe the world's
• 30:00
  going to be a much better place for it.
• 30:03
  And like I think David Bailey, David Bailey's the CEO of
• 30:08
  Bitcoin magazine, BTC Inc and the Bitcoin conference and is
• 30:12
  being anti Bitcoin is like being anti Internet.
• 30:14
  It's not a viable position. This is why you should have No
• 30:17
  Fear that Bitcoin will become nonpartisan.
• 30:20
  We just need to defeat the Luddites first and the message
• 30:23
  will be heard. I think it's a lot easier said
• 30:26
  than done. I think there's elements of the
• 30:29
  administrative state. Some people call it the deep
• 30:31
  state. Essentially, it's not
• 30:32
  conspiracy, it's just the unelected bureaucrats that
• 30:34
  remain in in and they keep their jobs regardless of what
• 30:38
  political candidate is in office.
• 30:40
  Therefore, there's really no lot, there's not a lot of
• 30:43
  accountability there, right? So anyways, they get a
• 30:47
  tremendous amount of power from money printing, right?
• 30:51
  It's why I believe all these governments all around the world
• 30:53
  are so huge. It's because they have this
• 30:56
  unique ability of creating money for free that everyone else has
• 30:59
  to work for. And I think that system, and
• 31:02
  again, not conspiracy, not conspiracy theory or anything,
• 31:06
  that system is going to at least fight to protect itself.
• 31:09
  It's not naive to say, it's not naive to think that like, and do
• 31:13
  you blame them? Like, you know, that it's like,
• 31:16
  you know, they probably see Bitcoin.
• 31:17
  They're like, this is going to replace us.
• 31:19
  What are you talking about? The people need central banking.
• 31:23
  So anyways, so that's what I want to talk about today,
• 31:25
  because what's really interesting is that because of
• 31:31
  the political environment in the US and because it's an election
• 31:35
  year and and honestly because actions of Elizabeth Warren
• 31:42
  really a turn off alarm and the what's playing that's an ad
• 31:45
  because of the the options of Elizabeth Warren and elements of
• 31:51
  the Democratic Party, they essentially created a political
• 31:55
  opportunity for their opposing candidates because like I was
• 31:59
  saying it, this is an election year.
• 32:01
  So the, you know, Bitcoin and crypto community is basically
• 32:06
  saying like they're going after us, the Republican Party and RFK
• 32:10
  is like, oh, OK, you know, we'll, we'll stand up and we'll
• 32:13
  protect Bitcoin and crypto. So that's what happened during
• 32:18
  the Nashville conference. I think it was monumental.
• 32:20
  It was a historic milestone for our industry, for our movement
• 32:23
  here in the in the United States at least.
• 32:25
  And I think it was very positive overall.
• 32:28
  But that creates a situation. What is that situation?
• 32:31
  That situation is that Bitcoin is not a left and right thing.
• 32:35
  Bitcoin is not a Democrat, Republican thing.
• 32:38
  Bitcoin is for everyone. Bitcoin is anti tyranny.
• 32:41
  So if you're a tyrant, Bitcoin exposes you first and it
• 32:45
  protects individuals from your shenanigans.
• 32:48
  So if you're a tyrant, you want to control people, you're not
• 32:51
  really going to like Bitcoin very much.
• 32:53
  That's really the way that I see it.
• 32:55
  However, if you do live in a quote, UN quote democratic
• 32:58
  society, your voter base or percentage of your voter base, a
• 33:03
  notable percentage is going to dislike that.
• 33:06
  And I'll even add to that now, not only is it a notable
• 33:09
  percentage of your voter base, now the industry is becoming a
• 33:14
  notable donor base as well. And it's actual donors that get
• 33:18
  politicians elected in the US. You know, as much as they say
• 33:21
  it's the people, yes, it's the people, but it's really the
• 33:24
  money behind the the the campaigns.
• 33:26
  So and all of a sudden the Democrats don't want to lose out
• 33:29
  on that those donors and they don't want to lose out on that
• 33:33
  industry. The thing is, we don't believe
• 33:36
  you anymore. Talk is cheap and we keep seeing
• 33:39
  this every three weeks or so, you see a little heartbeat.
• 33:43
  So the latest heartbeat and it was is Democrats launched quote
• 33:47
  crypto for Harris campaign to counter Trump's industry appeal.
• 33:53
  It goes on to say the Democratic arm of the cryptocurrency
• 33:56
  industry is determined not to let former President Trump run
• 34:00
  away with the crypto vote this fall.
• 34:03
  Fox Business has learned that a new pro Kamala Harris advocacy
• 34:07
  group called Crypto for Harris plans to host a virtual town
• 34:11
  hall meeting next week with a working speaker lineup that
• 34:15
  includes left-leaning billionaire entrepreneur and
• 34:17
  crypto advocate Mark Cuban, Skybridge Capital founder and
• 34:20
  Trump critic Anthony Scaramucci, and a handful of Democratic
• 34:24
  members of the House of Representatives.
• 34:26
  Top Democratic Senate leaders have also been invited to speak
• 34:29
  at next week's virtual town hall meeting, which is open to the
• 34:33
  public. And we'll discuss ways to
• 34:34
  support the Harris campaign and promote fundraising initiatives.
• 34:38
  Crypto for Harris currently touts around 50 members, with
• 34:42
  its main organizers consisting of industry participants and
• 34:45
  policy experts. Quote, the United States must
• 34:48
  continue to be a leader in blockchain and crypto, and
• 34:51
  groups like Crypto for Harris are working hard to ensure the
• 34:53
  right policies and conversations take place to ensure that
• 34:57
  outcome. The move comes as the race for
• 35:00
  the White House narrows between Trump and Harris, the respective
• 35:04
  Republican and and Democratic nominees.
• 35:06
  Trump has a huge head start in attracting crypto luminaries to
• 35:09
  his campaign amid the regulatory assault unleashed by the Biden
• 35:13
  administration, for which Harris has served as vice president.
• 35:17
  After Biden's withdrawal from the race, she is now its
• 35:19
  standard bearer in the November election.
• 35:22
  So this, this article came out either today or yesterday and
• 35:26
  you'd be like, Oh my God, they're changing tune.
• 35:29
  Like, you know, they're, they're showing us that they care.
• 35:32
  This is awesome. But again, I'm gonna keep
• 35:35
  reiterating what I've been telling you guys every single
• 35:38
  time we get a little heartbeat, which is don't pay attention to
• 35:42
  what they say, pay attention to what they do.
• 35:45
  So here's the latest news Customers Bank had hit with Fed
• 35:50
  enforcement action for digital assets, dollar dollar token
• 35:55
  activities, order flags, gaps in MLKYC and OFAC compliance.
• 36:02
  So this continues Nick Carter comments customers with one of
• 36:06
  the biggest pro crypto banks out there fed and FDIC are
• 36:12
  systematically dismantling all crypto friendly banks one after
• 36:17
  another. Here is Caitlin long and Caitlin
• 36:20
  long is the founder of the custodia bank and she was
• 36:24
  targeted by the the so-called operation choke .2 point O
• 36:29
  Caitlin long comments Well, well isn't it interesting in timing
• 36:33
  that the Fed drops this enforcement action on the same
• 36:36
  day as Ro Khanna's crypto reset? It's almost as if they're trying
• 36:41
  to send a message, right, that like maybe there's an internal
• 36:45
  struggle within Democratic Party, but hey, I don't got time
• 36:48
  for that. Like, OK, you guys might be
• 36:51
  struggling and stuff. But if there's one political
• 36:54
  party that's basically saying we'll be pro Bitcoin and then
• 36:57
  there's other one that like it, like, you know, they're saying,
• 37:00
  oh, we're pro give us money. But at the same time, you know,
• 37:03
  they're metaphorically hitting you with a 2 by 4.
• 37:06
  Like, I'm sorry, man, like I don't I don't have time for
• 37:08
  that. Like you guys have to deal with
• 37:10
  that internally. So anyways, it goes on to say
• 37:14
  the Fed has a history of timing its actions.
• 37:17
  Anyone who thinks the timing of the Fed dropping the enforcement
• 37:21
  action during the quote UN quote crypto reset meeting is purely
• 37:24
  coincidence, I've got a bridge to sell you.
• 37:27
  Operation Choke .2 point O is still alive and well in DC,
• 37:31
  unfortunately, and the Fed just proved that.
• 37:34
  So yeah, this is cheap. This right here, this is cheap.
• 37:39
  This is cheap talk. This this is doesn't count.
• 37:42
  You got to pay attention to their actions, right?
• 37:45
  And their actions are they're still going after the industry.
• 37:49
  If you look behind the door. Here's Tyler Winklevoss Tyler
• 37:53
  and Tyler and Cameron were actually one of the biggest
• 37:56
  donors to Trump when he went to Nashville.
• 37:58
  They threw an again together with David Bailey of Bitcoin
• 38:01
  magazine. So Tyler says Operation choke .2
• 38:05
  point O is alive and well. The Biden Harris administration
• 38:08
  reign of terror continues. If this goes unabated for four
• 38:12
  more years, the crypto industry in America will be dead.
• 38:15
  Like that is a very strong statement.
• 38:18
  I also believe that Gemini uses that bank, customers bank.
• 38:21
  I don't know that for sure, but I believe that's the case.
• 38:25
  Here's Balaji. Balaji says the dem scam in VC,
• 38:28
  it's not real until money is wired, right?
• 38:31
  That's what I've been saying, like don't pay attention to what
• 38:33
  they say, pay attention to what they do.
• 38:35
  And in DC, it's not real until Gensler is fired.
• 38:38
  That's why crypto for Harris is a scam.
• 38:40
  They want crypto votes without spending any political capital.
• 38:44
  If the policy shift was real, they would immediately fire Gary
• 38:47
  Gensler. Free roaming storm.
• 38:50
  And in this in an innocent developer, repudiate the
• 38:53
  unrealized capital gains tax. And number four, stop the SEC
• 38:57
  show trials. And that's just the start.
• 39:00
  Obviously, the party can do this instantly.
• 39:02
  After all, they just got a sitting president to stand down
• 39:05
  by threatening the 25th Amendment, pulling his donor
• 39:08
  support and smashing him in the press relentlessly.
• 39:12
  So Gensler would fall through a trapdoor in a second if the
• 39:15
  right people push the right buttons.
• 39:17
  That's such a great, like, some like, summary of essentially
• 39:21
  what we've been saying, right? Like it's so talk is cheap,
• 39:25
  actions are expensive. And I just I don't believe them.
• 39:29
  I just don't believe them. Like you guys want, you want
• 39:31
  your cake, you want everything, but you don't want to pay for
• 39:35
  it. So yeah, like I'm still bullish
• 39:38
  on Trump and RFK, not so much from like a this Bitcoin need
• 39:43
  these politicians to succeed. Not at all.
• 39:45
  But if you are a Bitcoin entrepreneur and a Bitcoin owner
• 39:49
  in the United States, you definitely want these guys to
• 39:52
  succeed because just unfortunately, like if you want
• 39:56
  to do business, you kind of have to, there's some things that you
• 39:59
  got to have to do. And yeah, I think that they can
• 40:03
  definitely make your life a living hell in the US,
• 40:05
  especially, especially if they win this election again, that
• 40:09
  that'd be that'd be pretty bad for the industry in the US.
• 40:13
  Now, does that mean that Bitcoin isn't going to pump or is it
• 40:15
  going to succeed? No Bitcoin survived.
• 40:19
  Throughout numerous hostile legislation.
• 40:22
  So it's not that Bitcoin needs politicians to succeed.
• 40:25
  I would say that politicians need bitcoins to succeed.
• 40:28
  Bitcoins going to win regardless.
• 40:30
  But like I said, if you're a Bitcoin business owner in the
• 40:33
  US, they can make your life difficult, which is why I bring
• 40:36
  that up. Anyways, Opti, what's your take
• 40:38
  on this bro? I mean, dude, like such
• 40:40
  scammers, man, say this is a scam.
• 40:44
  They they're so good at the media thing like we do.
• 40:47
  How many remember the first time we got really excited in the
• 40:50
  segment, like, OK, And the third time, like, you know, you're
• 40:53
  just like, all right, dude, you guys are playing me a fool.
• 40:56
  But they get the press every time they get the headline.
• 40:58
  I think that's all they care about in my opinion.
• 41:01
  Like getting that headline. They're just like, look guys,
• 41:03
  we're pro crypto too, you know, like the what's that meme of
• 41:07
  that old dude with the skateboard?
• 41:10
  Hello fellow children. Yeah, exactly.
• 41:12
  It's like that. It's like, hey guys, I'm, I'm a
• 41:14
  bitcoiner also, you know? Anyways, what's your take bro?
• 41:17
  Yeah, well, First off, I do want to give a hat tip to Balaji.
• 41:21
  I think he's a really good Twitter account for you guys to
• 41:25
  follow. If you're like a toxic Bitcoin
• 41:27
  maximus, you know, you, you may have some beef with him for, for
• 41:30
  the stuff you've done in the past, but I think he's been very
• 41:33
  cogent and very on point with a lot of the stuff that he's been
• 41:36
  tweeting lately. So I would highly recommend you
• 41:38
  follow his Twitter account. He he does incredible threads
• 41:41
  that are, you know, from a vantage point of someone that
• 41:43
  knows what's going on from both sides of the aisle on that
• 41:47
  point, though, I'm not surprised that we're seeing this happen.
• 41:50
  The the well, actually, before I go into that, if you do read
• 41:54
  that article, though, and you look at some of the people that
• 41:56
  they picked to be a part of this was it crypto for Harris
• 41:59
  campaign? It is a lot of shit coiners like
• 42:03
  I one of them is from one of the there's two advisors that they
• 42:08
  specifically mentioned, one of them from Binance and the other
• 42:10
  one's from Ripple. So like, am I, am I holding my
• 42:14
  breath that something good is going to come out of this?
• 42:17
  No, all I'm saying is it does seem like they are just kind of
• 42:22
  trying a little too little too late to claw back the, you know,
• 42:26
  quote UN quote crypto vote and persuade the Bitcoin or rather
• 42:31
  the crypto industry to embrace the Democrat Party.
• 42:34
  But like we're saying, you know, Kamala Harris is basically or
• 42:37
  sorry, someone yelled at me yesterday, Kamala Harris for the
• 42:41
  guys in the chat, is it already in power?
• 42:44
  And if she really wanted to change her tune on the Bitcoin
• 42:49
  industry, then there's stuff that they could do right now.
• 42:51
  But they've given us help for the last three years.
• 42:54
  And now just because we get some headline or a campaign to trying
• 42:58
  to persuade our industry to vote for them, it does seem like it's
• 43:03
  just hot air that nothing's actually going to change.
• 43:06
  They could literally change things today.
• 43:09
  So am I surprised that this is happening?
• 43:11
  No, not at all as we know as Bitcoiners, or rather, you know,
• 43:15
  I was watching Max Keiser on Alex Jones this morning.
• 43:18
  He did a he did a great interview and just quoting Max
• 43:21
  Keiser again, you know, this is the global hash war playing out
• 43:24
  in real time. The Bitcoin game theory is
• 43:27
  playing out in real time where the first movers into the
• 43:30
  Bitcoin industry are going to be the real winners.
• 43:32
  And as we saw with Trump when he embraced Bitcoin and you guys
• 43:36
  could say whether he likes Bitcoin or not, or whether he's
• 43:38
  a shit coiner or whatever, The fact that he actually put
• 43:41
  Bitcoin into to the presidential conversation just goes to show
• 43:46
  that if you are going to have an anti Bitcoin stance, you are
• 43:50
  going to lose. Like this is the movement here.
• 43:53
  I know Bitcoiners don't like to get political, but as a voting
• 43:56
  bloc, Bitcoin holders or even at large, the crypto holders, you
• 43:59
  know, the shit coin holders, like we are a huge voting bloc.
• 44:03
  And if you're going to fight Bitcoin, then you're not going
• 44:06
  to win. It's it's becoming very clear
• 44:08
  now that you can't fight Bitcoin because Bitcoiners, not only we
• 44:12
  have the money, but we have the numbers here and it's only going
• 44:16
  to grow. So am I surprised by this
• 44:18
  headline? No, not at all.
• 44:19
  Do I think that she's actually going to change her tune on it?
• 44:21
  No, not at all. Remember yesterday I absolutely
• 44:24
  went super hard on the administration and where I think
• 44:28
  their perspective is coming from.
• 44:29
  But do we need the politicians? No, not necessarily.
• 44:33
  The politicians need Bitcoin. As you're seeing, they're trying
• 44:36
  to get the Bitcoin vote right now and you know, garner our
• 44:39
  favor by saying like, oh, we're pro Bitcoin now or whatever.
• 44:42
  So shit coins now. And it's like you, you got it.
• 44:45
  You know, like put up or shut up at this point because you've
• 44:47
  been giving us help for the last three years and you think 1
• 44:50
  little campaigns going to change anything?
• 44:51
  It's like, no, not at all. Exactly.
• 44:54
  Yeah, I mean, look, like talk is cheap.
• 44:56
  Actions are expensive. You're trying to get something
• 44:59
  for free without paying for it. And, you know, like I don't,
• 45:03
  that's not going to fly. And if you buy into that, like
• 45:05
  you're, you're like, you're not paying attention anyways.
• 45:08
  Tony, what's your thoughts on this man?
• 45:11
  I mean, I don't believe any of them.
• 45:12
  I'm not. I hate all, I hate all
• 45:15
  politicians, you know, no matter where they come from, they're
• 45:17
  all liars. And it's very clear that this
• 45:20
  current administration thinks that the American population are
• 45:23
  a bunch of morons. You know, obviously This is why
• 45:25
  they're putting out these headlines.
• 45:27
  They're mocking you, you know, because these people are clearly
• 45:30
  evil. They have no intentions of
• 45:33
  serving the American people or benefiting the country in any
• 45:36
  way, shape or form. And this is as a as a non
• 45:38
  American, it's like crystal clear to me from the outside,
• 45:41
  what's what's happening? Their actions, you know, are are
• 45:44
  going to the complete opposite direction of this rubbish.
• 45:47
  They don't even understand what Bitcoin is other than it's
• 45:51
  something that they need to gain votes or maybe even they hope.
• 45:56
  Well, at least I hope they understand that this thing is a
• 45:58
  threat to them and that's why they have to do whatever it is
• 46:01
  that they can to sort of keep it at Bay.
• 46:03
  But it's clear that they're losing because you cannot stop
• 46:06
  peer-to-peer technology. These headlines is like somebody
• 46:09
  just told them here, throw out a bunch of buzzwords to the crowd
• 46:13
  and hopefully they'll shut up and you know, clap for us.
• 46:15
  This is what I see from the outside.
• 46:17
  So categorically you have to ignore this 100%.
• 46:21
  You pay zero attention to this. Bitcoin doesn't need any of
• 46:24
  them. Yes, it's true that if some
• 46:26
  politicians embrace it, they might make life easier in the US
• 46:30
  specifically in this case. You know, the actions of the US,
• 46:33
  while they may influence other countries, you know, they're not
• 46:36
  the end all and be all of what's what other places are going to
• 46:40
  adopt. And it's very clear because of
• 46:42
  the actions of countries like El Salvador, which I think are
• 46:46
  going to be the ones cloned going forward.
• 46:50
  You know, nations that resort to tyrannical measures will
• 46:53
  ultimately fail. Unfortunately, you know that
• 46:56
  people are going to have to suffer through that journey and
• 46:59
  I'm hoping that's not the case. So, you know, whether you're
• 47:04
  Trump pro, whoever, whoever it is, at the end of the day, it
• 47:08
  doesn't matter because it's going to come a moment in time
• 47:12
  where they're going to realize that their power over money is
• 47:17
  over. And that's ultimately the end
• 47:20
  game here. The separation of money and
• 47:22
  state is the ultimate end goal on everyone that cares about
• 47:26
  their lives and their futures and their freedoms.
• 47:28
  And all of this must be doing everything possible under the
• 47:32
  sun to ensure that that twin is guaranteed.
• 47:36
  Amen. Yeah, no, ours beautifully put,
• 47:39
  100% agree. And we just got to just got to
• 47:43
  stay focused and on mission. All right everybody, lots to
• 47:47
  talk about. We're going to talk about the
• 47:48
  Bitcoin way on the culture. So stay tuned.
• 47:51
  We still got a lot of content for you guys.
• 47:55
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• 49:02
  video description. All right, man, I'm really
• 49:04
  excited about this. We got our boys, V for Vendetta,
• 49:07
  Tony in the house and he's going to talk about the Bitcoin wait.
• 49:11
  Nico, Nico, start. Let's start.
• 49:13
  Let's play the Let's play the video real quick.
• 49:15
  Awesome. So, yeah, so they just, they
• 49:17
  just released a new commercial this morning and I'll play it
• 49:21
  for you guys about about two or three minutes.
• 49:35
  Everything seemed normal. Successful businesses were
• 49:38
  functioning as they usually should, money was being placed
• 49:40
  in the Bank of savings. Life was good, nobody notices
• 49:43
  anything funny. By 2008 hits and all hell breaks
• 49:47
  loose. Everything we thought about
• 49:49
  money in the banking was a complete lie, a complete sham, a
• 49:52
  sponzi, a scam. The whole world fell apart and a
• 49:55
  lot of people got hurt financially as a result of this.
• 50:02
  The Bitcoin white paper was born.
• 50:15
  But yet the same mistakes keep happening over and over again.
• 50:18
  People are leaving money on their institutions up until the
• 50:20
  last straw, FDX when billions of dollars were lost, families were
• 50:24
  decimated, life savings were completely wiped, and people
• 50:27
  were wondering what on earth just happened.
• 50:37
  We have an option to take full custody of our funds, and that's
• 50:40
  Bitcoin. We just have to learn the
• 50:43
  process. It's not hard, it's just
• 50:45
  something we've never had to do before.
• 50:47
  Otherwise, the same mistakes are going to keep repeating
• 50:50
  themselves and people are going to continue to get hurt over and
• 50:53
  over and over until they learn you need to exit the system in
• 50:57
  order to protect yourself and your loved ones.
• 51:06
  Man, loved it. Great, great, great video that
• 51:09
  you guys put together, the music, the production, the
• 51:12
  editing, it was great stuff. And I, I, I want to focus on the
• 51:16
  last part before I pass it on to Opti, which is this idea that
• 51:19
  we've never really, we've never had this capability before and
• 51:23
  we've never really had the capability of being able to
• 51:26
  custody vast sums of wealth or just your whole, your entire net
• 51:32
  worth. And in an easy way too, right?
• 51:36
  Because I would say the only really equivalent would be doing
• 51:40
  that with gold. And, and maybe it's unpopular
• 51:43
  Bitcoiners like I, I physical gold, like is dope.
• 51:46
  Like I have a little gold bar like, and I'm never going to
• 51:48
  sell it just because it's like, you know, it's the thing, right?
• 51:51
  But I, I just, it's very limiting.
• 51:55
  Like like try doing that with with a, a good deal of money.
• 52:00
  It's going to be heavy, right? And then good luck travelling
• 52:03
  with it, Like good luck going to the airport.
• 52:05
  What's the limits? I think it's like $10,000 on the
• 52:08
  plane. Like, yeah, I mean, there's,
• 52:11
  there's a huge risk there if you take self custody, your Bitcoin
• 52:16
  12 words, like good luck, you know, and I think that really
• 52:21
  radically changes the game. The relationship between the
• 52:25
  individual and the state is completely changed.
• 52:28
  It really changes. Society as a whole is this very
• 52:32
  simple thing. And usually the the most simple
• 52:34
  things are the things are the most consequential.
• 52:37
  But it's just like the ability for one individual to custody
• 52:42
  vast sums of wealth and also have the ability to send that
• 52:46
  anywhere globally, worldwide for very cheap.
• 52:51
  That is absolutely revolutionary, those two things.
• 52:55
  So anyways, Tony, I don't know if you want to add to that, but.
• 52:58
  Yeah, man, Bitcoin, Bitcoin is the 9th 1/8, ninth wonder of the
• 53:01
  world. It's the first time, you know,
• 53:03
  in the history of humanity you don't need anybody's permission
• 53:06
  to use your own money. You know, you don't owe anyone
• 53:09
  anything anymore. This is your own time and energy
• 53:12
  that you are preserving 100%. I mean, don't you realize that
• 53:16
  you're being ripped off on a daily basis working in the
• 53:19
  legacy system? It's it's abundantly clear now.
• 53:22
  I mean, give you a simple example.
• 53:24
  If you're making $1000 a month, it's being debased through
• 53:27
  inflation at at least 15%, if not more, depending where you're
• 53:31
  living. So chop that off of the $1000.
• 53:33
  Then you're paying whatever amount you're paying in taxes up
• 53:36
  to 50%, you know, So add that all together, what's left from
• 53:40
  that $1000 in purchasing power? What, 200 bucks?
• 53:44
  So that means essentially you're working 75% of the year for
• 53:48
  free, you know, if you, if you're actually doing basic
• 53:51
  math. So why would you keep yourself
• 53:54
  in this predicament? And to make things worse, if you
• 53:57
  need your money, you need to, you know, get the blessing of
• 54:01
  your bank manager. You know, if he's woken up on
• 54:05
  the wrong side of the bed one day, or he decided you said
• 54:08
  something he didn't agree with, well then you have no money.
• 54:11
  He will just refuse you and send you packing home.
• 54:14
  Like, why would you want to do that?
• 54:17
  Who gave them the right to own so much power?
• 54:20
  But again, this was the lie that we were fed from the day we were
• 54:23
  born. But it turns out, you know, that
• 54:25
  the money in the bank is not yours.
• 54:27
  You know, until this day, there's too many people that
• 54:29
  still can't comprehend this. And this is where, you know, we
• 54:32
  must keep pushing the education and the knowledge to make them
• 54:36
  realize that if you don't do anything, if you don't exit the
• 54:39
  system, you're going to fall, that you're going to sink with
• 54:43
  the ship spectacularly like everybody else who has gone
• 54:47
  through this dark journey, unfortunately.
• 54:50
  So again, you know, we have this option now.
• 54:52
  It's like somebody handing you a lottery ticket.
• 54:55
  You'd have to be insane not to sit down and consider taking it.
• 55:00
  100% it's it is, it is like a lottery ticket.
• 55:05
  And as time goes by, that lottery ticket becomes more
• 55:08
  expensive and I, I do want to focus on, and I'm going to pass
• 55:12
  it on to Opti because Opti has some questions prepared.
• 55:15
  This is where you guys come in. This is what the Bitcoin way
• 55:18
  focuses on, which is you guys arm individuals with the tools
• 55:24
  and the skill set to really fully utilize the power that
• 55:31
  Bitcoin gives or the power that the the tools that Bitcoin gives
• 55:36
  you, it gives you. It gives you power.
• 55:37
  Really, I don't know. I don't know how else to phrase
• 55:39
  it. Yeah, absolutely.
• 55:42
  Bitcoin makes you untouchable. It makes you unconfiscatable,
• 55:46
  you know, And when you're in that position, you know, those
• 55:49
  that who hate you, well, you know, they can't control you.
• 55:52
  This is why, you know, Bitcoin is such a threat to the status
• 55:56
  quo is because it removes power completely.
• 56:01
  You know, the Fiat Fiat system was created for three things and
• 56:03
  three things alone. You know, it's the steel sensor
• 56:06
  and control. There's nothing else behind it.
• 56:08
  Otherwise, you know, you wouldn't you wouldn't see the
• 56:11
  pain and destruction being caused by it at this day and
• 56:14
  age. But it's technology, OK?
• 56:16
  And this is where a lot of people have a hard time with it
• 56:19
  because most people don't come from a tech background, so
• 56:22
  they're not sure how to approach it.
• 56:24
  Am I going to do something wrong?
• 56:25
  Am I going to lose my funds? Because that is a valid concern
• 56:28
  if you make a mistake in this game, you know, and that the
• 56:31
  money's gone, there's no refund center.
• 56:33
  And so where we come in is that we remove all of that anxiety by
• 56:37
  streamlining the entire process by simplifying it into four easy
• 56:41
  steps, taking you from point A to point, you know, fully
• 56:45
  airtight lockdown, bulletproof setup in a way that a 10 year
• 56:50
  old will understand. And since we started doing this,
• 56:53
  we realized that, you know, the needs of individuals getting
• 56:56
  into Bitcoin, you know, once the money is secure, you know,
• 57:00
  there's a lot more that you can do with it to sort of cement
• 57:04
  your sovereign lifestyle. So when you start off with the
• 57:06
  money, once that's accounted for, you can move up to
• 57:09
  securing, you know, the devices, for example, that you use to
• 57:13
  manage that money. This is where our cybersecurity
• 57:15
  experience and value comes in. And then we've taken it even a
• 57:19
  stage, even one step further. If you don't like where you're
• 57:22
  living or you don't agree with the direction that your
• 57:25
  government is is, is going in or you don't like what they're
• 57:28
  doing and how they're making their your life miserable,
• 57:31
  believe you know, there are options out there.
• 57:34
  And we have a citizenship program now that will help you
• 57:38
  go from wherever you are to a place that one, is Bitcoin
• 57:41
  friendly and two, respects you as an individual, respects your
• 57:45
  freedoms and doesn't give you a headache on a daily basis
• 57:49
  because of, you know, what you're thinking, what you're
• 57:51
  saying, what you're doing online.
• 57:52
  Like none of this rubbish exists in every country, you know, So
• 57:59
  pick how you want to live. Do you want to put up with, you
• 58:03
  know, with, with headaches all day long or do you want to
• 58:05
  improve your life? If you have kids, it's almost a
• 58:08
  must, like a necessary decision that you have to account for if
• 58:13
  you don't want them to grow up and live in the future that's
• 58:16
  dictated by a bunch of psychopaths that think they're
• 58:19
  going to, you know, decide what's what's best for them and
• 58:21
  tell them how to live their lives.
• 58:24
  Absolutely man. Absolutely bullish man.
• 58:27
  You guys embody the Bitcoin ethos, Opti.
• 58:30
  Yeah, yeah. So actually you you covered some
• 58:32
  of the stuff, but there is a good question here and it'll
• 58:35
  kind of pivot to the next question.
• 58:36
  So homeschool Bitcoin on Twitter goes, can Bitcoin Way assist
• 58:39
  with setting up a full node on old 2010 Mac mini?
• 58:42
  So for everyone out there, what are the services that Bitcoin
• 58:46
  Way will provide for people? And like, you know what?
• 58:49
  Who is the ideal customer for Bitcoin Way?
• 58:53
  Everyone who wants to maintain their freedom and full control
• 58:57
  over their money. So we cover all aspects of the
• 59:00
  technology we know we deal with encrypted vaults, we deal with
• 59:03
  air gapped wallets, we deal with Bitcoin nodes.
• 59:06
  We make the best and strictest recommendations for the hardware
• 59:10
  and software. We are unforgiving on that
• 59:12
  front. So we, we have a list of
• 59:14
  criteria that we abide by. We test many products that are
• 59:17
  out there to, you know, to filter out the good from the
• 59:20
  bad. And based on those that pass
• 59:22
  these tests, we put them on a list and we send them out to
• 59:25
  folks and they pick and choose whatever they want based on
• 59:28
  personal preference. And we help them set it up.
• 59:30
  We troubleshoot, we offer remote support all year round for
• 59:34
  whether it's for training, whether it's to assist with
• 59:36
  software updates for more upgrades, all of that stuff.
• 59:39
  So think of us as a, you know, like as your personalized IT
• 59:43
  team, cybersecurity team in the background available to you all
• 59:47
  day long, no matter what it is that you're going to encounter.
• 59:50
  And the primary goal here is to have an infrastructure in place
• 59:54
  that secures your funds so that you're sleeping well at night
• 59:57
  knowing that nothing's going to happen.
• 1:00:00
  And we train you, like really religiously train you, so that
• 1:00:04
  the chances of you screwing something up along the way are
• 1:00:07
  very close to 0. And so far, every single
• 1:00:10
  individual that we've consulted with, and by the way, we consult
• 1:00:14
  with folks from all age groups, most of them are mid to late 50s
• 1:00:18
  and not. So it's not necessarily, you
• 1:00:20
  know, the young crowd that are coming into this space.
• 1:00:22
  It's mostly the older crowd. And for them, this is very new.
• 1:00:26
  And we're very cognizant of this, which is why, you know,
• 1:00:30
  we've, we've streamlined the process and we're exceptionally
• 1:00:33
  good teachers because this can be very daunting to someone
• 1:00:36
  who's never seen it before, especially if they don't come
• 1:00:39
  with the world where they're comfortable with computers and
• 1:00:41
  tech in general. So that's the, that's, that's
• 1:00:44
  really what we eliminate and we hand hold everybody through the,
• 1:00:49
  every single one of our processes, whether it's the
• 1:00:51
  money, whether it's the devices, whether it's their citizenship
• 1:00:54
  and residency programs. We meet you in person, It's a
• 1:00:56
  face to face experience and we hand hold you through all of it.
• 1:01:01
  That's awesome, man. The incredibly incredible it's I
• 1:01:05
  love Bitcoiners, man, love the Bitcoin way Opti.
• 1:01:09
  Yeah, moving forward, moving forward.
• 1:01:11
  So Tony, what is actually, actually I'm going to go back.
• 1:01:17
  How's it been the last year starting Bitcoin Way?
• 1:01:21
  How's that process been? And what's the most rewarding
• 1:01:23
  aspect of your job at Bitcoin Way?
• 1:01:27
  I got into Bitcoin after my life was destroyed, my life savings
• 1:01:30
  completely stolen. And so I was desperate into
• 1:01:33
  finding a solution to this, to ensure that this can never
• 1:01:36
  happen to me again or to anyone else.
• 1:01:39
  And This is why we put the Bitcoin weight together and with
• 1:01:42
  the mission to take the pain that I've went through and
• 1:01:46
  weaponize it into a tool of education to empower everyone
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  out there who also doesn't want to, you know, find themselves in
• 1:01:54
  that same predicament to, to, to know what they need to do in
• 1:01:58
  order to ensure that their lives remain as free and sovereign as
• 1:02:03
  possible. Since we started the Bitcoin
• 1:02:05
  way, we've met hundreds of folks and it's been incredibly
• 1:02:09
  humbling and rewarding from a human perspective.
• 1:02:13
  I've spoken to people that have come from, you know, all parts
• 1:02:16
  of life from they all have their stories.
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  Most of the ones that are that impact me the most are the ones
• 1:02:25
  that come from pain because, you know, you understand that these
• 1:02:28
  people are not coming into Bitcoin for fun.
• 1:02:31
  They're not coming in here to speculate.
• 1:02:33
  They're coming in here to survive.
• 1:02:36
  And so they're not playing games, they're not taking
• 1:02:39
  shortcuts. They want to do their part into
• 1:02:42
  into ensuring that as many people as possible understand
• 1:02:46
  this, understand the right message behind Bitcoin and so
• 1:02:50
  that it spreads globally. The ripple effect of this
• 1:02:54
  knowledge and this positivity and this encouragement, you
• 1:02:57
  know, must be the message that's put out there.
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  And, and, you know, so as as much as many people as possible
• 1:03:05
  embrace it the proper way. You don't want people to come in
• 1:03:09
  here thinking they want to make dollar profits.
• 1:03:12
  That is absolutely the wrong mindset.
• 1:03:14
  And most of the time they're going to get completely
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  destroyed because we are transitioning from a broken
• 1:03:21
  system into a new one. And as we very clearly see the
• 1:03:25
  powers, you know, that be that control, that corrupt system are
• 1:03:29
  not going to give it up without a fight.
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  And so this volatility is something, you know, it's, it's
• 1:03:34
  like a headache we just have to deal with.
• 1:03:36
  But if you zoom out and you, you, you know, you're patient
• 1:03:39
  enough, 99% of the time, you come out solidly on top.
• 1:03:45
  So this is where, you know, the message of the Bitcoin wave
• 1:03:48
  comes in. And, you know, we were there to
• 1:03:52
  talk to people, OK? I mean, we have a direct link to
• 1:03:55
  everyone. They can reach out to us almost
• 1:03:57
  24/7 all year round. You know, somebody wakes up in
• 1:04:00
  the middle of the night with a panic attack and a question.
• 1:04:02
  He can reach out. She can reach out.
• 1:04:04
  There's somebody there to respond.
• 1:04:06
  So we ensure that, you know, being on this journey is not
• 1:04:11
  something that you have to go on by yourself.
• 1:04:14
  You're not alone. There's a whole bunch of people
• 1:04:17
  that you know that are on the same side as you were here.
• 1:04:21
  We make sure, you know, we keep the community as cohesive and
• 1:04:25
  cohesive and, and connected as possible.
• 1:04:28
  And wherever we can contribute, you can bet your your ass we're
• 1:04:32
  going to be doing it. Love it.
• 1:04:35
  One of my, one of my favorite memes, Tony, that, that I've
• 1:04:37
  heard you say before is how Apple has like the Apple support
• 1:04:41
  team. Bitcoin way is basically like
• 1:04:43
  the Bitcoin IT team. And I think we, we all in our
• 1:04:47
  small part, do that with our friends and family, like the
• 1:04:50
  Uncle Jim model, where like we're the ones helping our
• 1:04:52
  friends and family understand why Bitcoin, how to do it
• 1:04:55
  correctly. But that's the goal of Bitcoin
• 1:04:58
  ways. Like if you don't have someone
• 1:05:00
  in your life that is a bitcoiner and you're the sole bitcoiner,
• 1:05:03
  then you get in touch with the Bitcoin Way team and they will
• 1:05:06
  make sure that you are protected.
• 1:05:09
  Absolutely, man. I mean, our services go way
• 1:05:11
  beyond, you know, following a manual for a specific product.
• 1:05:14
  This is not what we're about. You know, many people can do
• 1:05:16
  this. We bring in our years of
• 1:05:20
  experience and you know, to a large part my personal story
• 1:05:25
  that brought me into the space. I was retired at the age of 41.
• 1:05:29
  You know, I ran through successful businesses my life,
• 1:05:31
  you know, as far as I'm concerned, you know, that's it.
• 1:05:34
  I can kick back, enjoy life, everything is cool, and then I
• 1:05:38
  wake up one day and it's gone to 0, all of it.
• 1:05:41
  So I'm not an idiot, OK? But I was fed that same line to
• 1:05:46
  thinking, you know, that you, you work hard, you put money in
• 1:05:48
  the bank, that's how life is and everything will be fine.
• 1:05:51
  It's not. And so if it can happen to me,
• 1:05:54
  you know it's going to happen to a lot more people, especially
• 1:05:57
  those that don't take the time to listen to these stories
• 1:06:00
  because these are the ones that truly matter.
• 1:06:03
  Somebody who's sharing their experience from you has no bad
• 1:06:07
  intentions. They are sending out a warning,
• 1:06:10
  you know, trying to capture your attention so that you destroy
• 1:06:15
  that illusion that just because things are OK for you today that
• 1:06:19
  they're going to remain like this forever.
• 1:06:22
  The Fiat system is broken. It doesn't matter whether you're
• 1:06:25
  living in New York and Beverly Hills or in some third world
• 1:06:28
  country, if that's all you're using, your end result for, all
• 1:06:33
  of you is a big fat 0. So if you don't want to reach
• 1:06:37
  that nightmare, you have to opt out.
• 1:06:41
  OK. And again, for the first time in
• 1:06:44
  the species of the human race, we have that option called
• 1:06:48
  Bitcoin. Thankfully we do, because if we
• 1:06:51
  didn't have it, who knows how bad things will get.
• 1:06:55
  And ultimately, when things get dire enough, your only solution
• 1:06:59
  is violence, OK? And I'm not one who wants to see
• 1:07:04
  that. I've lived through it.
• 1:07:05
  I know that horror movie. It is something that I promise
• 1:07:08
  you, you do not want to see. It's something that no one has
• 1:07:11
  seen before. When good people are desperate
• 1:07:14
  enough and pushed to do bad things.
• 1:07:17
  It is not a sight that you will ever forget.
• 1:07:20
  And so I don't want to see that happen.
• 1:07:24
  And in order to prevent this, you know, we need a large enough
• 1:07:27
  number of people to cut to create that social bottoms up
• 1:07:32
  pressure to do this peacefully. We have an option.
• 1:07:35
  You can either defund the corruption that's destroying our
• 1:07:39
  lives, or you can go to war with it.
• 1:07:41
  Most people don't want to go to war with anyone.
• 1:07:43
  I don't want to go to war with anyone.
• 1:07:45
  So we have the option to defund it, but we have to apply
• 1:07:49
  ourselves to it. We don't, we don't want to
• 1:07:52
  speculate. Bitcoin is not the risky asset.
• 1:07:55
  Fiat is the risky asset because that one is guaranteed to go to
• 1:07:58
  0. Bitcoin may be volatile in the
• 1:08:00
  meantime as we transition into that Bitcoin standard, which
• 1:08:03
  ultimately I'm 100% convinced we're going to get there
• 1:08:06
  because, you know, people, you know, at some point are just
• 1:08:09
  going to snap out of whatever nonsense they have and realize
• 1:08:12
  that their lives are going to hell if they don't react in the
• 1:08:16
  in the right way. And hopefully we can be a beacon
• 1:08:19
  of education, of hope, of strength, of empowerment in
• 1:08:23
  order to fast track that process.
• 1:08:26
  So our services really embody the Bitcoin lifestyle.
• 1:08:30
  OK, yes, we handle all of the technology because that's, you
• 1:08:34
  know, the the fundamentals of it all.
• 1:08:36
  But we assist with the entire Bitcoin lifestyle ecosystem,
• 1:08:41
  from taking you from where you are all the way to moving you to
• 1:08:45
  a jurisdiction where you can continue living as a happy
• 1:08:48
  individual with you, your kids, your family, and whatever else
• 1:08:51
  you want to, you know, embark with on this journey.
• 1:08:55
  Love it, love it, Tony. So wrapping up here, what is the
• 1:08:59
  future of Bitcoin Way and what do you hope to accomplish in the
• 1:09:01
  next year, 23510 years, whatever the end goal is here with
• 1:09:05
  Bitcoin Way, what what's the mission?
• 1:09:08
  We are constantly innovating our services to really to focus on
• 1:09:11
  these three priorities, the money, the devices and the
• 1:09:14
  freedom, you know, the jurisdictions.
• 1:09:16
  And based on that, we're going to keep maturing these services
• 1:09:19
  based on what's happening in the globe.
• 1:09:21
  You know, we're on top of the news.
• 1:09:22
  We see what's going on. We talked to many folks, you
• 1:09:25
  know, on a daily basis. We hear their stories.
• 1:09:28
  We customize our services based on, on, you know, the, the
• 1:09:32
  stories of other people to see how we can fine tune how we can
• 1:09:35
  reach even more individuals in, you know, in parts of the world
• 1:09:39
  maybe that we haven't considered to see how we can sort of find
• 1:09:45
  resources to assist those that that need it.
• 1:09:48
  That's really what we're about. We're we're, we want to push
• 1:09:52
  people into a Bitcoin standard as quickly as possible so that
• 1:09:56
  everybody's life improves. You know, like, I mean, if you
• 1:10:00
  meet someone who's been living on a Bitcoin standard, have you
• 1:10:02
  ever heard them complain? I haven't, you know, I've never
• 1:10:05
  met an unhappy bitcoiner because they're already living in the
• 1:10:09
  future, right? Like their cost of living goes
• 1:10:13
  down when you're on a Bitcoin standard.
• 1:10:15
  Whereas if you're not doing this and you're still, you know, that
• 1:10:19
  hamster on the wheel trying to make ends meet, well, things are
• 1:10:24
  only going to get more dire, more expensive, and, and at some
• 1:10:27
  point, you're just not going to know what to do.
• 1:10:31
  And that's the scenario that I want to avoid, because that's
• 1:10:34
  when all sorts of craziness manifests. 100%, Tony.
• 1:10:39
  OK, what's the last message? What's the final two sets you
• 1:10:42
  want to give to the audience before we wrap up today's show?
• 1:10:45
  Consider Bitcoin. Study Bitcoin.
• 1:10:47
  It's in your best interest. It's in the best interest of
• 1:10:50
  your family. You owe it to them to ensure
• 1:10:52
  that their futures are not dictated by a bunch of criminals
• 1:10:55
  and psychopaths that are not here to serve you.
• 1:10:59
  So opt out and it's not that hard.
• 1:11:03
  And if you need help, we are absolutely here day and night in
• 1:11:07
  order to do whatever we can to to make the the the journey as
• 1:11:11
  seamless and as comfortable and as easy as possible.
• 1:11:15
  Beautiful, beautiful. So guys to get started, go to
• 1:11:17
  thebitcoinway.com. Again, these guys will be your
• 1:11:22
  personal, your personal Bitcoin IT team.
• 1:11:26
  Also, I just kind of want to address someone in the comments.
• 1:11:30
  Kind of been going back and forth and like, like guys, you
• 1:11:34
  have to understand and we've been very neutral on this show
• 1:11:38
  for many, many months now. And we didn't speak up until the
• 1:11:45
  Biden administration locked the samurai got the which is part
• 1:11:50
  of, you know, DOJ. You can say it's all connected.
• 1:11:54
  They locked the samurai Bitcoin developers in a box.
• 1:11:59
  Before that, they went after Tornado Cash to set the
• 1:12:01
  precedent. Not to mention all the other
• 1:12:04
  times that we've had people like Caitlin Long that are really
• 1:12:08
  like entrepreneurs really trying to roll out Bitcoin, you know,
• 1:12:13
  Bitcoin businesses in the United States.
• 1:12:15
  And you have someone like Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler
• 1:12:18
  Winklevoss and you have someone like Nick Carter, like they got
• 1:12:21
  skin in the game. And if they're telling you, you
• 1:12:25
  know, that this current administration is against the
• 1:12:28
  industry, you know, they're probably telling you something.
• 1:12:32
  This is something also that me and Opti saw with our own
• 1:12:34
  research because we are a Daily News show.
• 1:12:36
  So we have to stay on top of the news.
• 1:12:39
  And, you know, for the longest time, and I even got upset at
• 1:12:42
  Opti the first time he brought it up, I, I was like, dude,
• 1:12:47
  like, don't get divisive in the political discussion.
• 1:12:51
  But here's the thing, the moment you locked one of us in a box
• 1:12:56
  and the moment you start to threaten and insinuate that
• 1:12:59
  you're going after self custody is the moment that you cross a
• 1:13:03
  red line and we have to say something.
• 1:13:06
  And not to mention it created a situation where their political
• 1:13:09
  opponents that weren't pro Bitcoin, they didn't have a
• 1:13:12
  stance. It created an opportunity for
• 1:13:14
  them to capitalize on the drop ball that this current
• 1:13:17
  administration, you know, did. So it's like if you can't see
• 1:13:24
  past the political rhetoric of like orange man bad, RFK bad,
• 1:13:28
  Biden good, then you're not really serious about the
• 1:13:31
  separation of money and state. Because at the end of the day, I
• 1:13:35
  don't want like this whole political thing.
• 1:13:38
  And I know Tony feel very strongly about the statement.
• 1:13:41
  This whole political garbage is insane.
• 1:13:46
  Like the fact that we have to vote some guy into office like a
• 1:13:50
  popularity test and that guy is somehow responsible for, you
• 1:13:56
  know, the economy and and society.
• 1:13:58
  Like that idea is batshit crazy. It's insane.
• 1:14:02
  I really believe in the theory of the sovereign individual that
• 1:14:05
  overtime Bitcoin will make politics irrelevant.
• 1:14:08
  The separation of money and state will make politics
• 1:14:10
  irrelevant, where governments can no longer counterfeit money
• 1:14:14
  and their only way of raising revenue is via direct taxation.
• 1:14:18
  And you're going to have different jurisdictions
• 1:14:20
  competing for your business, right?
• 1:14:23
  So yeah, like that's where I'm heading.
• 1:14:26
  And what I see Trump or where I see RFK is I see them as a means
• 1:14:30
  to an end to that, you know, to that world that we want to get
• 1:14:34
  to. I see the current administration
• 1:14:37
  via their actions, not their political rhetoric or not
• 1:14:41
  articles online or none of that bullshit, just their actions.
• 1:14:44
  And we're a Bitcoin show, so we don't focus on all the other BS.
• 1:14:49
  It's incredibly obvious that if you're a Bitcoin entrepreneur in
• 1:14:53
  the United States, two candidates are awesome and take
• 1:14:57
  a look at their speeches at the Bitcoin conference and the
• 1:15:00
  current administration that's in power.
• 1:15:02
  She, Biden and Harris could free Ross right now if they wanted
• 1:15:07
  to. They can do it right now, right?
• 1:15:10
  They've been anti Bitcoin. If you don't have the
• 1:15:12
  self-awareness and you can't see past the political rhetoric,
• 1:15:15
  dude, you got bigger problems. That's what I got to say about
• 1:15:18
  that. So anyways, I hope I explained
• 1:15:21
  it. I hope I got into it and I kind
• 1:15:22
  of kind of ruined the show a little bit because we were, we
• 1:15:25
  were going along with Tony. He was dropping hot fire.
• 1:15:28
  But yeah, I have to. I agree with Tony.
• 1:15:30
  I agree with Tony. All politicians live.
• 1:15:32
  But hey, four years of good cover for Bitcoin would be
• 1:15:35
  great. Yeah.
• 1:15:36
  So yeah, it would be great for the industry.
• 1:15:41
  Bitcoin doesn't need the the price doesn't need a politician
• 1:15:44
  to go up. It would defeat the entire
• 1:15:45
  purpose of it, right? Anyways, guys, so if you guys
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