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Jack Mallers Predicts $1M Bitcoin by 2025 | 1062 · Simply Bitcoin

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It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
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It's going up. Forever.
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You're against Bitcoin. You're against freedom.
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I call the Transatlantic Flank Attack 2.0.
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We talked in this dialogue about how the censorship industry
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really got its start when a bunch of State Department exiles
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took their special set of skills in coercing European countries
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to pass sanctions on themselves, to cut off their own leg, to
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spite themselves, in order to pass sanctions on Russia.
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They ran back that same playbook with doing a roadshow for
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censorship instead for sanctions.
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We are now witnessing Transatlantic Flank Attack 2.0,
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if you will, which is because they have lost a lot of their
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federal government powers to do this same censorship operation
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they've been doing from 2018 to 2022.
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In part because the House has totally turned on them, in part
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because of the media, in part because Missouri V Biden, which
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won a slam dunk case actually banning government censorship at
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the trial court and appellate court levels is now between the
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before the Supreme Court. They've now moved into two
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strategies. The major threat right now is
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the threat from Europe. The EU Digital Services Act,
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which was cooked up in tandem with folks like News Guard, has
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a board of Michael Hayden, head of the CIA.
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NSA four-star General Rick Stengel is on that board, you
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know, from from the State Department's propaganda office.
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Tom Ridge is on that board from the from the Department of
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Homeland Security. Owen Anders Fogh Rasmussen is on
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that board. He was the general secretary of
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NATO under the Obama administration.
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So you have NATO, the CIA, the NSA, four-star general DHS, and
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the State Department working with the EU to craft the
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censorship laws that now are the largest existential threat to X
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because disinformation is now banned as a matter of law in the
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EU and the EU is a bigger market for X than the US.
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There's only 300 million, some people in the US, there's 450
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million in Europe. X is now forced to comply with
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this brand new law that just got ratified this year where they
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either need to forfeit 6% of their global annual revenue to
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EU to maintain operations there or put in place essentially the
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kind of, you know, CIA bumper cars, if you will, that I've,
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I've been describing over the course of this in order to have
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a internal mechanism to censor anything that the EU, which is
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just a proxy for NATO, deems to be disinformation.
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And you can bet with 65 elections around the, around the
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globe this year, you can, you can predict every single time
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what they're going to define disinformation as.
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So that's the main, the main fight right now is is dealing
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with the transatlantic flank attack from Europe.
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I I said this five times, but that's just one of the most
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remarkable stories. Yeah, we're going to zoom in
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Bitcoin live. You know what starts with a
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peaceful Bitcoin revolution covering a used culturomatic
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warfare. We will be your guide through
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the separation of money and state.
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And also gotta gotta include this in the in the theme, the
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separation of information and state.
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So we keep going even though we were banned on on YouTube.
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We've we've been off YouTube for about two stream days now.
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Let's see how that works out. But I wanted to play that clip
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from Mike Bands and an interview with Tucker Carlson because it
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highlights essentially what is happening right now like this.
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It all relates to the arrest of the Telegram founder in France
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for not moderating content on the platform.
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And it also relates to the CEO of Rumble, the platform that
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we're streaming from right now. And you know, also Elon under
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attack as well, under tremendous amount of pressure.
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Free speech is under attack. The CEO of Rumble fled, you
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know, the continent, right? And the case that Mike Benz is
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essentially making is ever since the uncovering of the Twitter
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files, when Elon acquired Twitter, which it just came out
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in full force that elements of the US government were working
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with Twitter to to censor certain speech of Americans.
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They couldn't really do it anymore in the US.
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So what they are doing is that they're relying on Europe to
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enforce laws on these companies in the hopes that that puts
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pressure on these American companies to censor, right.
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So that's why you have the arrest of the Telegram CEO.
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That's why, you know, Rumbles banned in multiple different
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countries, including France, even though they're in they're
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in lawsuits. So that's what Mike Benz is
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talking about when he talks about the North Atlantic trans
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attack. That's what he's referring to.
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And also breaking news as well. The CEO of Facebook, Mark
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Zuckerberg, admitted that he essentially regretted censoring
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the speech of certain Americans as it related to the pandemic.
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So it's all coming out these days.
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And the theme of the show and the case that we were making
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yesterday is we're we're living through a moment in human
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history where the Internet has empowered individuals to not
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only choose what money they, they want to use, but also
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consume the information they want to consume.
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And the old system, a system where there was gatekeepers,
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gatekeepers of information and gatekeepers of money, it was
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very easy for governments to Co opt those handful of gatekeepers
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and therefore control their citizens.
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They're populist, but like the book, you know, the sovereign
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individual wrote where they basically made the case that the
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government see citizens as cattle.
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But the Internet has now since given them wings.
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And essentially that's what we're seeing right now.
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And we're seeing essentially the Matrix, the system push back and
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other news. Jack Maulers went on the What
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Bitcoin Did podcast and he's feeling extremely bullish for
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this upcoming cycle, dropping things like $1 million Bitcoin
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price, nice predictions, which is nuts.
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I also want to give a very big shout out to our boy BJ Ditcher
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and also the publication Zero Hedge and Forbes for
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highlighting the banning of simply Bitcoin on YouTube.
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Guys, it's going to be a great show and thank you all so much
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for tuning in from Rumble. I do want to bring up my guests
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for today. We have Alex Stanzic from
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Bitcoin veteran. We have Coleman from Bitcoin
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veterans and of course my legendary Co host who is not
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optimistic today, rightly so optimist fields.
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We're going to change his name to.
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Pessimist Fields. How you doing pessimist fields?
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I'm doing wonderful man. It it feels great.
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Honestly, the support we've gotten on Rumble is absolutely
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incredible. It really feels good and it just
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I think you know, the proof of work of showing up every single
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day and giving you guys awesome show and awesome content that
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you love and that you follow us over on Rumble.
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Like me and Nico been low key losing our minds of of the views
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that we've gotten the amount of people that hang out with us
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before the show even goes live. Yes, there's still some kinks
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that need to be ironed out, but hey, if this is the new path
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forward, so be it. And also, man, shouts out to BJ
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getting that article out and then seeing us in Forbes on the
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digital assets. Like man, the support's crazy.
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And, and really, Nico, like everything that you just
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covered, the fact that, you know, our channel, us over here
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at simply Bitcoin are like part of the crazy stuff going on in
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the world, man. It's just, it's absolutely
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incredible and very, very interesting that we, you know,
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all of us are the frontline soldiers in, in the information
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war and the disintermediation between money and state.
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Like we are actually doing what we've been saying for a while.
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And hey man, if we are banned from YouTube indefinitely, the
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show goes on. And especially considering we
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have the Bitcoin veteran guys, we're on the mission.
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So it feels really good. It feels incredible.
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Absolutely. I mean, after all, I think one
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of the things that we tell you guys all the time, this is
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information narrative trench warfare on the battlegrounds of
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the Internet. If they didn't like think about
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this for a second, like when you censor, it's because you don't
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feel like you have any good arguments left.
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So what you do is that you just you just shut down the speech
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completely because you don't even feel like arguing with
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them, right? This is why protocols like
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nostril are so important. When you can't de platform
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someone and their speech lives on, you're forced to have to
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discuss it. And if you don't have the truth
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on on your side, it's probably not very good news for you
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anyways. Alex, as a veteran and Coleman
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as a veteran, I mean, I'm sure that you guys, you guys are, you
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know, you guys, you guys are seeing what we're seeing in
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terms of these tumultuous times that you know, we're going
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through. Yeah, brother.
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I mean, it's quite amazing really what we're what we're
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living through today. I never even imagined growing up
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in the United States of America joining the military, basically
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swearing the oath, agreeing to the the terms that come with
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that. Like if you're joining the
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military, the terms are you're going to go where we tell you,
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you're going to do what we say. You might get shot at, you might
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get blown up. And that's the job, right?
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And you go, OK, let's go do that thing.
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And most of the guys that I know, you know, they had the
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reasons for for doing that is that they're basically patriots.
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You know, they believe in the country.
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They believe in the Constitution, they want to
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protect their people. And they, a lot of guys thought
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they were doing that exact thing by joining the military.
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And we find out sometimes when we get out that maybe it wasn't
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everything we thought. And to nowadays to see what's
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happening around the world with censorship, with, with
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governments going after CEOs of corporations because they're
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providing means of of and, you know, humans to interact with
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each other freely without tyranny, without surveillance,
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without being spied upon. And those people are now being
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attacked as criminals. This is very, very sober and
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we're living in right now A. 100% I'm 100% agree with it.
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Coleman, what's your take on all this, man?
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I think it's a really slippery slope.
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Again, it you know, they come for a Co worker and you say
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nothing because it's not your job and they start coming for
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your neighbors and it's OK because it's not near you.
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And then they're coming for your friends and then you have nobody
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left to defend you. So I think again, I think people
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just need to take a take a step back and look at look at
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everything and look what's going on.
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And if if you look at how much has been restricted even in the
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last four years, like just it's really starting to creep in.
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So start building up communities. 100 percent, 100%.
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I think that's one of the things that BTC sessions Ben was saying
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about the the importance of of these peer-to-peer type of
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communities. These what what he calls the SAT
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market, right? It's so important and especially
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especially in these times because how do you how do you
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stop like a small community? How do you stop peer-to-peer
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transactions? How do you stop peer-to-peer
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communications? Right?
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You don't right. They, I think they rely on the
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middle men because the middle one are what they're able to Co
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opt. And without the middle man, it
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becomes incredibly difficult for them to like, think about it.
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Millions upon millions of individuals all holding their
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own private keys. And especially in the US where
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we have the right to bear arms like that becomes a nightmare
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for any tyrannical government. Right.
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At the time of recording the Bitcoin price is $61,770 sats
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capacity 4875 BTC capacity value 301 million U.S. dollars
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Realized monetary inflation 1.42% market capitalization 1.22
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trillion Bitcoin versus gold market cap 7.03%.
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The grand scheme of things, we are just getting started.
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Anyways, here's a clip of Jack Mahler's talking about how the
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Bitcoin price could go as high as $1 million.
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Let's check it out. How high the inflation can get,
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what's going to happen, how much civil unrest.
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I mean, what we could see is I've been on record saying I
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think bitcoins going to 250,000 to 1,000,000 long before Trump
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or any of these rumors or whatever else it's solely
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predicated on, we're likely to see the greatest asset bull
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market in the history of bull markets.
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Why? Because central banks have
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progressively price fixed everything.
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Whenever something breaks, they don't let the business cycle
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complete. They don't let anything fail.
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They don't allow for pain. They don't allow for volatility.
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All these things are natural. Entropy is natural in the
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universe. It's ever increasing, right?
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And they don't allow for it. It's very unnatural thing to do.
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Real estate market fails. They they fix it, they price fix
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it. The only thing that has not been
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price fixed and protected is the bond market, the most unruly
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holy mother Mecca of all markets.
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And that's the one now that's in trouble.
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And you can see like the rule, like Lynn talks about fiscal
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dominance and the fact that Jerome's, Jerome Powell's real
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boss is Janet Yellen. It's supposed to be an
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independent central bank, but it's not.
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And his job is clearly to keep an orderly market in Treasuries.
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Protect this market. If the Japanese yen is in
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trouble, give them help. They can do whatever they want
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except sell treasuries. Like protect us, help us.
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I don't care about rumors about Tether.
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If they're a large holder of ours, let them do whatever they
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want, right? And so is this the cycle where
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central banks try and price fix the bond market?
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If it is, the quantity of money printing is astronomical.
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You're going to get 2345 Covids worth of printing.
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And I think it's going to send assets, astronomically high gold
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real estate equities. All right.
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And then Bitcoin is the only truly fixed asset we've ever
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had. And so Bitcoin will outperform
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everything. So I mean, I think he's
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absolutely right. I don't know how I don't know
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what to, I don't know what to add to that really.
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I think he's he's absolutely right.
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Bitcoin is the best asset. It will outperform everything
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due to its absolute scarcity. It's liquid.
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I saw a tweet from B Kingo the other day which was absolutely
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hilarious where he said like you can't just sell your house like
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think about Bitcoin's liquidity versus like you know your
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house's liquidity. It's going to take a while to do
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that. That's what makes I think
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Bitcoin one of the reasons as to why Bitcoin is a superior asset.
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I also want to do give a shout out to the 378 of you guys
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watching live on rumble right now.
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That's 386. That's that's better than our
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YouTube numbers Opti. I mean like appreciate the
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support guys and you know like you helping keep the lights go
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time, like about donations and all that.
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The best thing that you can do guys, is tag team YouTube on
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It's simply Bitcoin. And of course their sponsors are
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all Bitcoin only. I mean, I'm going to pass it on
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to Alex. Alex, this I feel like Mahler's
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is talking your talk, bro. You want to add to anything, he
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said. You know, what stood out to me
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about what Jack said was that he's like, you know, 2-3, five
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times what they printed during COVID.
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That was like, holy crap, really?
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Because I think they printed something like $7 trillion
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during COVID. So 5 * 7 trillion, talking 35
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trillion, That's where we are now.
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That's the entire national debt of the United States of America.
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35 trillion. You're talking double that.
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Oh, my gosh. Yeah.
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I mean, if they, if, you know, there's something with that came
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up the other day and there is this, there's this saying that
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pops into mind that basically their money printer is like a
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gun pointed at their own face. The more they print it, the more
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they go nuts with the printer, the more Bitcoin is going to go
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ballistic. And you know, it came from this
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idea that the whole system's controlled because they can
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print it infinitely, therefore they're in control.
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I think it's the opposite of that.
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I think what's going to happen is the more they print and they
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have to, the more obviously Bitcoin is going to skyrocket.
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And if you, if you understand anything about Bitcoin,
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basically just stack and sit back and laugh while they set
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themselves on fire with that money printer. 100 percent, 100%
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agree with you, Opti. What's your take on this before
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we pass it on to Coleman? Yeah.
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Well, I mean, I've look up front, you know, a million still
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seems like a high number for this cycle.
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But like Mahler's was saying, I've been saying for a while
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that like 250 to 300 K seems like where we are going to go in
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the next leg up in the bull market.
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But before I was even saying that, man, that was probably
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like mid last year or something that I was saying that that just
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feels right. Like my gut was just telling me
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like, you know, 250 to 300 K for the price in this cycle seemed
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really realistic in my opinion. And that's before we got all of
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the, the different data points that we've gotten recently,
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which is like the institutional demand, the fact that ETF has
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been launched and is the most successful ETF in the world
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period. And now that we're entering this
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new era where there is a real need for something that is
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censorship resistance, we're seeing all the platforming from
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the social media sites. And then we haven't even seen
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like retail FOMO yet. Like there's a lot of we've
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seen, you know, nation state adoption, we've seen central
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banks adopting Bitcoin. So like all of these data points
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to me, as much as I feel like $1,000,000 Bitcoin seems like
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really far fetched. And it's like, yes, maybe maybe
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we're smoking a little too much opium right now on Bitcoin
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Twitter. But when you really kind of
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aggregate all of these data points, it really does feel like
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it's a real possibility, like it's a nonzero.
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Chance that we can get to a million Bitcoin right now.
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And I, I know I've been saying for a long time, probably for
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years now that maybe we get a super cycle.
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I'm not saying super cycle, but maybe this is the time where
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Bitcoin goes up and it doesn't go down as as quickly as we all
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think it does, especially considering Niko, of course we
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covered the, the China mining ban or you know, the, the FUD of
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the China mining ban. And this time it seems like we
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are going to have a harder time. I'm just suppressing the price,
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especially considering that all of the bad apples have been
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flushed out of the market. We've seen an incredible amount
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of selling of Bitcoin this cycle, hence why the price has
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probably gone so low and crabbed for so long.
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Now all of that's cleared out of the market and so as much as
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$1,000,000 Bitcoin seems like far fetched to me when you
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consider all the data points. It's like it, it's a non zero
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chance that we can get that high.
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And I'm just, I'm still waiting for a 2017 type bull cycle.
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When when I got in the retail FOMO was incredible.
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And now we actually have a really solid foundation to make
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sure that the price goes up and forever.
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I'm I'm literally in my head, I'm seeing that one meme of like
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a, a rocket ship and the guy jumps off the dock and it's like
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a rocket ship. And that's like the Bitcoin
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price. I don't know.
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For some reason I'm starting to get really bullish, even even in
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the face of all the adversity we're seeing as a Bitcoin
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community. It's like this cycle might be.
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Crazy. Absolutely, 100%.
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I, I, I completely agree. I think, I think people are
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going to be pleasantly surprised in my opinion, Coleman, are we
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being biased here as Bitcoiners? No, no, there's, there's a
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perfect storm brewing when you just take again, just just back
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up and, and look at everything going on like we have, we have a
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huge debt crisis in the United States.
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They we're adding a trillion dollars every hundred days to
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our national debt. And they are not even remotely
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trying to slow down and, and, and reel that in.
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And a trillion dollars is just such a large number.
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Nobody understands like that. That is almost 32,000 years for
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a trillion seconds. A trillion seconds is 32,000
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years. When you put that into
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perspective, it's just, it's mind blowing.
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And, and so when you start putting these numbers up, and so
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Jerome Powell is, is, is showing that he's going to pivot, what
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happens if he only pivots and they only drop it 100 basis
22:43
points across this cycle, that still means that interest rates
22:47
are going to be near all time highs.
22:49
And so the debt on or the interest on our debt is just
22:52
going to continue to grow. And I'm not sure which chart it
22:55
was, but I think it was the Treasury chart where they have
22:58
the, the debt going up to 2050. It's close to like 60-70
23:03
trillion dollars. And that's on a a perfect no
23:08
recession. Everything's just humming along.
23:10
That's that's best case. Look is 60 to $70 trillion is
23:14
our national debt. Retirement is, is going to be a
23:18
thing of the past or not retirement.
23:20
You're going to have Social Security like we're not going to
23:23
get that. So again, it, when you look at
23:27
all this stuff going on, just increase your time preference a
23:30
little longer with Bitcoin and you can see that, you know,
23:32
these numbers that were saying $1,000,000, even in today's
23:37
value, it's, it's not that far out.
23:41
And I, I think when it happens, it's going to happen a lot
23:43
quicker than most people realize.
23:46
Hey Nico, before before you go on to Coleman's point, all I
23:49
heard was money printers bout to go Burr which means Bitcoin
23:52
price is going to skyrocket. Bullish.
23:58
OK. All right, guys, we're going to
24:00
move on to the news segment. Stay tuned.
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We got a lot of content for you guys.
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And of course, the culture. We're going to talk about the
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Anyways, I do want to show this off because this is pretty cool.
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I never thought this would happen.
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We're on the front page of 0 Hedge, which is pretty cool.
25:55
Oh, wow. Simply Bitcoin, Google's latest
25:58
victim of targeted censorship and the platform.
26:04
Shout out to BJ Ditcher also for making this happen as well and
26:09
you know appreciate just getting the message out guys.
26:12
If you want to help in our you know, in in getting our platform
26:15
back on YouTube, even though rumbles popping off right now
26:19
tag at team YouTube, especially in my latest tweet where I
26:23
highlighted the the zero hedge article, but it's not also it's
26:26
not only zero hedge. We were featured on Forbes as
26:29
well. Telegram and YouTube censorship
26:32
show Bitcoin and Noster are critical right.
26:35
So in the beginning it says while much of the focus on
26:38
Bitcoin has been on Bitcoins price, it's tenants and
26:40
censorship proof mechanisms haven't been on the news as
26:43
often. That has now changed with the
26:45
arrest of Telegrams founder and the takedown of Simply Bitcoins
26:49
YouTube channel for violating Youtubes harmful and dangerous
26:52
policy. I have no idea how talking about
26:56
the scam that is Fiat currencies and and currency debasement is
27:01
harmful and dangerous. That sure does feel like
27:04
censorship to me. And again, here's the thing that
27:07
I want to talk about today, specifically with the panelists
27:10
and where we have more information regarding the
27:12
Telegram founder's arrest. This is pretty crazy.
27:16
Here is Mark Zuckerberg and he admitted some things which I, I
27:21
find quite interesting. He goes on to say, quote,
27:25
there's a lot of talk right now around how the US government
27:28
interacts with companies like Meta.
27:30
And I want to be clear about our position.
27:32
Our platforms are for everyone and we're about promoting speech
27:35
and helping people connect in safe and secure way.
27:38
As part of this, we regularly hear from governments around the
27:41
world and other with others with various concerns about around
27:44
public discourse and public safety.
27:47
In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration,
27:50
including the White House repeatedly pressured our teams
27:53
for months to censor certain pandemic Oh no, we're on rumble
27:57
now. COVID-19 context, including
28:00
humor and satire expressed a lot of frustration with our teams
28:04
when we didn't agree ultimately is it was our decision whether
28:08
or not to take down and we and we own our decisions included
28:12
COVID-19 related changes we made to an our enforcement in the
28:16
wake of this pressure. I believe the government
28:19
pressure was wrong and I regret that we were not more outspoken
28:23
about it. I also think we made some
28:25
choices that that with the benefit of hindsight and new
28:29
information we wouldn't make today.
28:31
Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we
28:34
should not compromise our content standards due to
28:37
pressure from any administration in either direction, and we're
28:41
ready to push back if something like that happens again.
28:44
In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about a potential
28:48
Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and
28:51
Burisma and the lead up to the 2020 election.
28:54
The the fall when we saw a New York Post story reporting on
28:58
corruption allegations involving the then Democratic presidential
29:02
nominee Joe Biden's family, we sent that story to fact checkers
29:05
for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for its
29:09
reply. It's sense has been made clear
29:11
that the reporting was not Russian disinformation.
29:14
And in retrospect, we shouldn't have demoted the story.
29:17
We've changed our policies and processes to make sure that this
29:20
doesn't happen again. For instance, we no longer
29:23
temporarily demote things in the US while waiting for fact
29:28
checkers. I mean, who are these fact
29:31
checkers? And why was it the FBI that, you
29:35
know, warned Facebook about this?
29:37
I'm so glad we're Rumble because we can literally talk about
29:41
this. Yeah.
29:43
I mean, that's pretty effing scary, guys.
29:46
I'm, I'm not going to lie, because I don't know if you guys
29:49
did not hear what just happened. Facebook just admitted to
29:54
meddling and interfering in the 2020 election because that story
29:58
was just that impactful, right? Why are tech companies,
30:03
including Google, including Facebook, censoring the speech
30:09
of Americans on behalf of the US government?
30:12
That is a very slippery slope and hiding behind them being
30:17
private companies like they did all, they're private companies,
30:20
they could do whatever they want.
30:22
I think is completely wrong. And I think it's moving the goal
30:24
posts because then it came out that it wasn't the private
30:27
companies making these decisions.
30:29
It was officials in the Biden administration putting pressure
30:33
on these private corporations to censor the free speech of
30:37
America. That is the literal definition
30:40
of fascism. Absolutely crazy that we live in
30:44
this world and honestly feel a little bit honored.
30:47
That simply was, you know, censored and the platform the
30:51
same weekend that the Telegram founder was arrested, the same
30:54
weekend that RFK literally came out and said that, you know,
30:59
that they're the intelligence agencies are censoring Americans
31:04
and quite honored that simply Bitcoin was deep platformed that
31:07
same weekend. Opti.
31:09
It must be, it must be, must be that we're over the target and
31:12
what we're saying is harmful and dangerous to certain people.
31:15
Definitely not to most people and definitely not in the
31:17
kinetic violent way, but definitely in the way of, you
31:22
know, trying to keep Fiat money alive type of way.
31:24
Anyways, Opti, what's your take on all that?
31:26
Yeah, I mean, look, doubling down on that last point.
31:28
I've been saying internally and in the chat that as much as
31:33
getting banned from YouTube. Is just like.
31:35
Wrecking our really hard worked real estate over there.
31:40
It is a badge of honor, especially considering
31:42
everything that's going on right now.
31:44
But pivoting to the Mark Zuckerberg nudes, I find it very
31:48
interesting that we're seeing a, a lot of people basically pivot
31:51
their positions from being, you know, like full lefty to now
31:55
kind of shifting towards center right.
31:58
And on the one hand, the like, my first thought was, do you
32:02
remember those times guys? Like we were being gas lit so
32:06
hard on this fact that like, oh, we're not moderating content.
32:09
Like this is, you know, the, the discourse that's happening.
32:13
And now what, four years later, everyone knows, like, yes, they
32:17
were moderating the content. Yes, they were downloading
32:19
stuff, they were hiding news stories.
32:21
They were basically manufacturing the consent or the
32:25
narration that was happening in real time. 2 In my opinion, a
32:29
lot of people detriment because in hindsight, obviously
32:32
hindsight 2020, but you know, a lot of people are probably
32:35
better off not getting the jab at this point.
32:38
And the fact that we're getting this news out all at the same
32:41
time I think is the most interesting stuff.
32:43
So like, the real scary part about this, in my opinion, is
32:47
like, what was the change of tune that Zuck is seeing to make
32:51
him actually come out and say this?
32:53
I think a lot of people are seeing the writing on the wall
32:55
and they don't want to get left on the wrong side of history.
32:58
And they're like, oh, I need to get it out in front of this.
33:00
They're seeing that things are going to change.
33:02
You know, there's a lot of talk about the elections coming up.
33:05
There's a lot of talk about like, you know, crazy stuff
33:08
that's happening. And I think people, some of
33:10
these people that you might not be fans of, are starting to get
33:14
out in front of the narrative and be like, look, guys, yes, we
33:16
made a mistake. We apologize.
33:18
But now we want to, you know, rectify these mistakes and and
33:22
not do it again. Obviously, I'm not going to hold
33:24
my breath on on Facebook, not moderating content, but at least
33:28
they're publicly saying this so we can hold, you know, hold
33:31
their hand to the fire and be like, look, you publicly said
33:34
you weren't going to do this again.
33:35
And if it does happen, then we can hold them accountable.
33:39
So I think it's very interesting that, you know, someone said in
33:42
the chat, and since we're on Rumble, we can finally say now
33:44
that like the rats are flinging the ship now and they're like, I
33:48
need to get away from this crazy control, this authoritarian,
33:53
tyrannical control that we're seeing on the Internet right now
33:55
and and really try to get on the right side of history.
33:58
So as much as I do appreciate the apology and the fact that
34:02
he's being transparent, it's like, man, a lot of people got
34:05
hurt because of the moderation that they were doing.
34:08
And now it's kind of like the South Park me.
34:10
Like, I'm sorry, guys, Like I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
34:13
But it really, I think it's writing on the wall of where
34:16
things are going. I've been saying for a while
34:19
that the pendulum is swift is shifting right now and and
34:22
people want truth and people want to be able to have these
34:26
conversations. And now you're seeing that a lot
34:28
of these CEOs are like, oh, snaps, like we messed up big
34:32
time. And if we don't fix this, like
34:34
we might be just completely naked and no one's going to use
34:37
our platform. So I think that's the most
34:39
interesting aspect about this story. 100% Alex, what's your
34:43
take on this man? I mean, this is not something
34:45
new, brother. I think this is all something
34:47
that we've been feeling and seeing, you know, over the last
34:51
couple of years. But, you know, if you tune into
34:53
certain, I love the fact that we're on Rumble in a way.
34:56
If you've been tuning into mainstream media, they've been
34:59
telling you not to believe your own eyes and not to believe your
35:02
own ears. Alex, what's your take on all
35:04
this, brother? Yeah, it's the whole don't
35:07
believe your eyes, don't believe your ears thing.
35:09
This is very Orwellian. It's not.
35:10
The whole thing about the last final command of the state is to
35:15
not believe your own, your own judgement so that they can feed
35:19
you what they want you to believe.
35:21
I think it's very interesting what's happened with Zuck, that
35:23
he's come out and admitted these things.
35:26
The question becomes, you know, why?
35:28
Why now with the timing, right. And the point was made earlier
35:32
today that he essentially has access to the thoughts and
35:38
communications of hundreds of millions of people, which in a
35:41
way, you could say he's he's a bit omniscient in that regard.
35:44
Like, if he can kind of peek into the minds of all these
35:46
people, they might be able to kind of forecast what's going on
35:50
and and what direction this American presidential election
35:54
might actually be leaning, which who knows if that maybe prompted
35:59
his behavior a little bit or not.
36:01
Yeah, like. Is he trying what?
36:04
What do you? Of course, this is speculation.
36:06
There's no way to know this for for certain.
36:08
But do you do you agree with Opti, Alex?
36:11
Is, is this like him trying to like, you know, like he's seeing
36:14
the new administration coming in and potential repercussions for
36:19
what happened? Do you see him kind of
36:21
backtracking to protect himself a little bit from oversight?
36:25
Yeah, 100. Percent yeah, for sure possibly
36:28
like there's there's a multiple there's there's a number of
36:31
things that could be happening there Number one he could be
36:34
trying to protect himself he could be realizing that he made
36:37
a mistake because if you if you create this president where you
36:41
where you act under the direction of the US government,
36:45
that's fine if what the government is doing you agree
36:47
with but what happens when the government changes and the
36:50
people do you don't don't agree with anymore.
36:51
Now you've got this precedent set where you have to do what
36:53
they say. So that's very weird position to
36:56
be in if you're the CEO of a company, probably.
37:00
And then, yeah, finally, like maybe there's actual legal
37:05
consequences that he's worried about.
37:06
I don't know. 100% Coleman, what's your take on all this
37:09
man? The censorship, this information
37:12
narrative, trench warfare, the separation of the state and
37:15
information. How you feeling about all this?
37:19
I think it's we all knew, right? We all knew that they had that
37:23
the government, whoever's in charge pulling everything had
37:26
their fingers and tentacles and all the social media platforms.
37:30
So I don't think this really shocked anybody.
37:32
Maybe him coming out surprised a lot of people, but we they're
37:35
just kind of at at this point of the game, they're just telling
37:38
us what we already know and just kind of confirming it.
37:42
I, I, I think Alex is right. We we talked about it on our
37:44
spaces this morning. He has an access to a lot of
37:48
information, a lot of points of views Zuckerberg.
37:50
And so he might just be seeing what's kind of going on and he
37:53
just wants to make sure that he's not to get, you know,
37:56
crucified when when the regime when things change in November.
38:02
So I think he's just trying to hedge his bets and just make
38:04
sure that he's he's safe on both sides.
38:08
I read just before we jumped on here live that the White House
38:11
is pushing back a little bit on, on his statements saying that
38:15
they didn't force Facebook to remove or censor this stuff.
38:21
So it'll be kind of interesting to see how this this plays out
38:23
over the next couple of days. But in the end, like again, we
38:26
we all know that they're they're censoring us and I don't I don't
38:31
think that part was very shocking.
38:33
A. 100% and, and, you know, and it's all kind of come out now
38:36
and it's all kind of come full circle.
38:38
And again, it, it's, it's, it's very troubling.
38:41
And, and I'm kind of want to connect this with the bit from
38:44
Mike Benz in the very beginning. There's still elements of the US
38:49
government that are still trying this, which is terrifying.
38:53
Like it, it, it's not like, oh, we got caught.
38:55
No, it's like, let's go to Europe where they don't have
38:58
First Amendment protections and let's actually use, you know,
39:02
the states in Europe to try to enforce the censorship laws onto
39:07
these companies in the hopes that, you know, that could
39:10
somewhat be brought up over here.
39:12
This is kind of like a, a, a, a, a, a very dystopian type of
39:16
world. And you know, thank God for
39:18
Bitcoin because I, I, I it like I, I don't know what we would do
39:23
in the sense that these are the same people that want us to
39:25
trust them with central bank digital currencies because we're
39:28
not even there yet. We're not even at that that that
39:32
clash right now. We're still in the separation of
39:34
information and information and state phase, but we're very
39:39
quickly heading into the separation of money and state
39:41
phase. And look at how hard they're
39:43
fighting just to keep control of the narrative.
39:46
Like, could you imagine what they're going to do to keep
39:50
control on their monopoly on money?
39:53
Like it's going to be absolutely insane.
39:55
It's going to be a battle of of of our times for sure.
39:59
And there and it's name, but Kelly's words, not mine.
40:03
Their most, the most important weapon is their control on the
40:06
truth without their control on the truth.
40:09
They're going to have a hard time trying to convince people
40:11
to use central bank digital currencies.
40:13
They're going to have a hard time convincing people that
40:16
inflation is somehow necessary in order for money to function.
40:21
How do you explain those things away?
40:24
I don't know how you do it, in my opinion.
40:26
How do you explain inflation? Like how do you explain if the
40:30
truth is out and there is a functioning currency that exists
40:35
that not only does it not decrease in purchasing power
40:39
over time, it actually increases in purchasing power over time.
40:42
So it's it's it's literally showing you that money can exist
40:45
without inflation. How do you justify it?
40:48
Because I think that there's a social contract for income tax.
40:51
You can go down the rabbit hole and you could say people were
40:53
manipulated, but the social contract is there.
40:56
It's in the law. People have agreed to it.
40:58
People have not agreed to the tax of inflation.
41:02
That is a psyop. There is no law that makes it so
41:05
that that inflation is somehow something that we have to we
41:10
have to deal with. There is no law that says you
41:13
have to pay your income tax and you have to pay inflation tax.
41:16
There's a law for the income tax, but there's no law for the
41:18
inflation tax, right? So I think they're going to have
41:21
a really hard time explaining that away.
41:23
And I think that is the motivation behind the
41:26
desperation that you're seeing right now.
41:29
I think they see the writing on the wall and it's very scary to
41:33
them and like a kind of like a wounded animal trapped into a
41:36
corner. That's when they lash out the
41:38
most. And I think that's really what
41:39
we're witnessing right now. Anyways, Opti, what's your take
41:42
on all this brother? No, yeah.
41:44
I mean, I think even outside of the Bitcoin circles, anyone that
41:48
is kind of covering this attack on free speech is basically
41:52
saying the same thing as much as we have.
41:55
You know, whatever word you want to use, the BLOB, the
41:57
administrative state, the deep state, the swamp, whatever,
42:01
whatever phrasing you want to to use, As much as we have them on
42:04
their back heels here, that's when they're most dangerous.
42:07
And I think the stuff that we're seeing right now is that I
42:11
wouldn't be surprised if we see some even crazier black Swans
42:15
that play out. And even though as much as as
42:17
bitcoiners, you know, the meme of like, oh, we're winning right
42:20
now. I think it's very important for
42:22
every single one of us to be even more vigilant right now and
42:25
continue to spread the truth and, you know, be that annoying
42:28
person to be like, look, this is lies, outright lies.
42:31
And I'm, I like, as much as I feel like This Is Us winning, I
42:36
am also a bit paranoid in my tinfoil hats on.
42:39
And I'm like, I'm, I'm, I'm really concerned about what,
42:43
what they might do when they are back in a corner.
42:46
And it could get even crazier than we've seen in the past.
42:49
And so like, I think that's a very real concern that we have
42:52
to at least think about. 100% What's your what's your take on
42:57
this, Alex and Coleman? I I think we should just start
43:00
asking a simple question. When was the last time they told
43:03
the truth? Like I think that clears up
43:07
everything. Like I everything that they put
43:10
out. It doesn't matter what it is, it
43:12
it's it's lies or there's revisions or there's, it's the
43:15
half truth. Like let's just get down to the
43:17
point. Like just tell me the last time
43:18
you were truthful and we'll work.
43:19
We'll work from there. 100 percent, 100%, yeah, man, this
43:23
is going to be, this is going to be a hell of a fight for for
43:26
human freedom. But I think we're we're, you
43:29
know, I think, I think we have the tools with Bitcoin.
43:32
I think we have the tools with protocols like Nostr to ensure
43:36
that speech and money is very, very hard to censor and very,
43:40
very hard to confiscate and therefore empowering individuals
43:44
in the process. Anyways, guys, we still got the
43:46
culture segment left and we're going to talk about the Bitcoin
43:50
veterans. Really, really excited.
43:52
Let's check it out. Here we go.
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So I've known Alex for quite a long time now.
45:08
We used to be Co workers and you know, I've seen his journey as a
45:12
content creator with Cafe Bitcoin and now with the Bitcoin
45:17
Veterans and he has a All Star crew with him doing this amazing
45:22
project. And it's a little bit of media,
45:24
it's a little bit of community. It's like a hybrid of of of of a
45:28
couple things. You guys are absolutely like
45:31
huge at this point, Alex. So could you tell a little bit
45:34
to everybody what is the Bitcoin Veterans?
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If they want to listen to your content, where can they find it?
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Because I know that you have a bunch of different content
45:41
offerings at the moment. Yeah.
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Sure. Yeah, Like just to check us out,
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if you want to check us out for the media type stuff, the
45:47
content types type stuff, you can go to iTunes or you can go
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to Spotify, just search for Bitcoin veterans.
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We've got a video podcast that we do every week, Tuesday
45:55
nights. In fact, we're doing one
45:56
tonight, 7:00 PM Eastern featuring Coleman.
45:59
I want to introduce Coleman here in a minute.
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We've also got the daily spaces that we're running.
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I'm currently hosting a bunch of those.
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We're also going to be passing it off in the future.
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I believe Coleman is going to be the main host, so we're going to
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be passing the torch there. But BV is, it's an organization
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of Bitcoiners who are also military veterans.
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And as it turns out, there's a ton of military veterans who are
46:21
Bitcoiners. And it's, it's more really of a
46:25
community. There's a lot of stuff you see
46:27
you don't see under the surface. There's no real leader.
46:30
It's a very decentralized organization.
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We just have a bunch of guys who step up and do things.
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And it's been, it's been pretty amazing to watch.
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We have a Citadel's network going right now.
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These are all people who are already own Citadels or they're
46:44
building them or plan to build them.
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We have a pilot's network. These guys are talking about
46:49
putting airstrips in at the Citadels, Lily pads they call
46:53
them, so that they can kind of bounce around.
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These are pilots everywhere. Everything from like, you know,
46:57
C One 30s to Kiowa's to Blackhawks to you name it.
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We have an Intel section ham radio like these guys are
47:05
talking about networking all these citadels together with ham
47:08
radio networks and mesh tastic networks and all this other kind
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of stuff. And I'll tell you that the the
47:14
growth of BV is completely it's beyond me.
47:18
I have I have very little to do with how fast it's going and
47:21
what's happening. It's just an extremely
47:23
decentralized organization of guys who once they get out of
47:27
the military and maybe they start to figure out that some of
47:30
the stuff that they thought was real or thought they were
47:33
fighting for maybe isn't true. Maybe it really is just this
47:37
gigantic machine, Fiat machine that's designed to funnel money
47:41
through the military industrial complex and at the same time go
47:46
do a bunch of things to other humans that maybe you don't have
47:48
to do. That's a tough nut to swallow,
47:52
man. And guys get out and then they
47:53
find Bitcoin and they're like, holy crap, this is a possible
47:56
solution. So to so many of the problems
48:00
that we literally risked our lives for.
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And so with that said, I won't talk about that anymore.
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I'll just, I just want to talk about Coleman a little bit.
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This guy is a very interesting guy.
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He Pryor Marine combat Infantry. He's now a trainer.
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He does canines right now. He's got his beautiful with
48:20
Malanoy that's called Draco. He's like Draco's handler.
48:24
This dog is amazing. He was out there at the range
48:27
day in Nashville with us and Coleman was doing something
48:30
amazing. Apparently the he he trains them
48:32
at an extremely high level, you know, military working dog type
48:36
level to do things. So he's just a very interesting
48:41
dude and I'm just very honored to to have him join us and be
48:44
part of all this. Love it, Alex.
48:46
OK, let's get to Coleman. Let's I know our audience loves
48:50
the rabbit hole stories. So let's just start with the
48:52
beginning. How did you get into Bitcoin?
48:54
And then we can go into why you're spending so much time and
48:58
basically, you know, just I, I, I'm lost for words right now,
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but contributing to the Bitcoin veteran space.
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Yeah, definitely. So my rabbit hole journey I
49:12
guess started, it was before COVID.
49:15
I definitely did not get into Bitcoin that early.
49:18
I wish I did, but I just started noticing things that just seems
49:24
things seem different. I would go out and I'd go to
49:27
stores and I would start noticing that there were a lot
49:30
more retiree aged people working.
49:35
And it's just something I just kind of took note of and, and
49:37
put on the back burner. But I just as, as time went on,
49:40
I just, I progressively noticed that there was more and more
49:42
people working. So I started going down that
49:45
rabbit hole as to why are, why are people doing this?
49:47
And it that led me to a podcast called the survival podcast
49:52
actually with Jack Spearico talks about homesteading
49:56
permaculture, but he was actually a, a bitcoiner.
49:59
Actually, he he called himself. I don't know if we're about to
50:04
swear on this or not. Yeah, it's Rumble.
50:06
It's Rumble Twitter. You can.
50:07
Do it. OK, cool.
50:08
So he said he called himself a a the.
50:09
Lizard people are real. No, I'm just kidding.
50:13
That was for Alex. That was for Alex.
50:17
That was for Alex. They definitely are real.
50:19
But no, he called himself a shit coin, minimalist, meaning he he
50:23
liked Bitcoin, but he also liked a couple of shit coins.
50:26
And so this is kind of where I started my journey.
50:30
And so I started getting to it and I fumble in at the tippy top
50:34
of October, November of 21. Everyone.
50:37
Had I had some money set aside and I was like, it's everyone's
50:41
saying it's going to 100,000. I don't want to miss this boat
50:44
and I just I put a bunch of money in and then I saw it go
50:48
down and I everyone has that Oh crap.
50:52
Especially when you're new, you're new and you, you see it
50:55
drop like it did. And so that really made me have
50:59
to convince myself that I just didn't waste all of this money.
51:04
And so he started listening to podcast, reading any book I
51:07
could. The first one I actually read
51:10
was the Bitcoin standard. I think everyone's a go to and
51:14
it started giving me more confidence and start listening
51:17
to podcast. Listen to you guys and that
51:21
that's just kind of how the the journey just kind of kept going
51:23
and built more conviction. So I continue to go down for,
51:27
you know, 16 months and then I just I kept buying a little bit,
51:30
little bit and then eventually, you know, we're we're out where
51:34
we are today. So all my friends still think
51:37
I'm the crazy bitcoiner because they knew at what price I got in
51:40
at and it's still kind of hovering right there.
51:43
But it's definitely it's been a fun journey.
51:46
It's, it's really fun to be in this position right now is
51:50
again, I started it doesn't seem that long ago, but just
51:53
listening to this podcast, watching Alex with the Bitcoin
51:56
veterans kind of do this on, on Cafe Bitcoin.
51:59
And it's, it's really surreal to be, to be a part of it now.
52:03
And had some personal issues come up last year where I wanted
52:07
to be a little bit more involved, but my wife was
52:10
diagnosed with breast cancer last summer.
52:13
And so that that took all of my time and energy to make sure we
52:16
got her back, back to perfect health and she's cancer free
52:21
now. It's been about a year since we
52:23
started that journey, but I'm glad that I'm able to they're
52:27
able to start this next chapter and really start pushing forward
52:30
with with this mission with the Bitcoin veterans.
52:35
Love it, man, love it. And and man, you know, kudos to
52:39
you and your wife. That's that's amazing.
52:41
Well, thank you. Absolutely man, and and sorry to
52:43
hear that. And man, it's, well, I'm.
52:48
What I will say, though, is I'm excited that you're taking up
52:53
Alex's mantle. Are you ready to step into those
52:56
shoes? They're extremely big shoes to
53:00
step into my list again, I've been Co hosting for last week
53:04
week and a bit and Alex is amazing at this.
53:09
So it's it's definitely big, big shoes to fill.
53:12
But I'm looking forward to the challenge.
53:13
I've never once backed down from anything.
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So I I am I am really looking forward to this.
53:19
One thing I do want to clarify though, I am not a a combat
53:22
better and I never saw any combat My my experience in the
53:26
military was that lie the recruiter tells you to join,
53:29
we'll travel the world. You get a shoot a whole bunch of
53:31
beat by the ocean that that was my experience that was in Camp
53:35
Pendleton, CA duty station. We went to Okinawa, Japan.
53:41
So I I had it pretty good with that.
53:43
Nice, nice. So Alex could do certain things
53:46
that a lot of us can't. So I just, I just want to pass
53:49
it on. Pass this on to you, Coleman.
53:53
And I just want to know if if you can do this.
53:55
So Alex, when he enters a room, he doesn't turn the lights on,
54:00
he turns the dark off. Can you do that?
54:04
No, not yet. Alex also, he doesn't do push
54:08
ups, he pushes the earth down, did you know that?
54:11
Not yet, I'm trying. I'm trying to do 100 push ups a
54:13
day so maybe one day I'll get there.
54:15
Alex is one of the few people that can hear sign language.
54:21
No, you. Can't do that.
54:24
No. Did you know that Alex can
54:26
divide by zero? Oh, man, All right, I I wouldn't
54:34
have to. Stop Nico, because he'll do this
54:35
forever. He'll do this forever.
54:37
OK, Alex has. Counted.
54:39
You know, I was trying to keep a straight face as much as
54:41
possible. Damn, Nico, come on.
54:44
Alex has counted to Infinity three times.
54:47
Can you do that, Coleman? I didn't.
54:50
You sound kind of like Chuck Norris a little bit.
54:52
These are these are not Chuck Norris jokes.
54:54
These are Alex. Jokes.
54:55
He totally did not pull these off of Chuck Norris jokes.
54:58
I totally just ChatGPT the fuck out of this.
55:01
But anyways, I'm, I'm really, in all seriousness, Coleman, I'm,
55:04
I'm really excited for you to take up the mantle of Cafe
55:07
Bitcoins veterans spaces. And I think you guys do an
55:12
incredible job and just the, the community that you've built
55:15
overall. And if guys, if you are a a
55:18
veteran and you want to connect with the Bitcoin veterans, Alex,
55:21
what is the best way to connect with you guys?
55:23
You just check us out on Twitter at Bitcoin Veterans.
55:26
By the way, we're also a noster. We're embracing the we're
55:29
embracing the noster now, you know, after this stuff happened
55:32
over the weekend with both you, I mean, you were part of the
55:35
catalyst here, Nico, with simply Bitcoin getting deplatformed off
55:39
the YouTube and then the CEO of Telegram getting arrested.
55:43
Man, I I started digging into it again.
55:45
So yeah, that's where you can find us at Bitcoin Veterans on
55:49
both. Beautiful, beautiful.
55:51
Wait Nico, before, before we we sign out today, can we plug the
55:56
spaces and the YouTube times for everyone out there?
55:59
If they want to find you guys, where do they find you?
56:01
At what times 'cause I know you guys have set times for
56:03
everything. Sure.
56:05
Tuesday nights at 7:00 PM Eastern is the video podcast.
56:09
It's a generally, you know, four to five of us at a time.
56:12
Sometimes we have a guest, sometimes we don't.
56:14
Spaces is Monday through Friday at 10:00 AM Eastern on Twitter.
56:20
Love it, love it. And then and then one last
56:22
thing. Sorry, Anika, I do want to give
56:24
Coleman last two stats. What's the final message you
56:27
want to leave with the audience? It could be about Bitcoin, it
56:29
could be about life, it could be anything.
56:31
What's the last message you want to leave with our audience?
56:35
Just be prepared for anything. I, I think the next two months,
56:40
two months of some change are going to be, it's going to be
56:43
very interesting. So remember, believe what you
56:46
see and what you hear. Don't believe all the
56:48
information that's fed to you and just make sure you make sure
56:53
you have some community set up, Make sure you know your
56:55
neighbors, make sure you're just prepared.
56:57
I'm not trying to scare anybody. It just things just seem like
57:01
they're starting to take a pretty drastic change.
57:04
So just make sure you're prepared.
57:06
Yeah, exactly. Just buckle up and yeah, it's
57:10
take self custody of your Bitcoin.
57:12
Like that's one of the best ways that you can protect you and
57:14
your family is, you know, take self custody and and guns.
57:17
Guns are nice. Second Amendment.
57:19
Second Amendment is absolutely beautiful.
57:21
But anyways, guys, this was simply Bitcoin live for August
57:26
27th, 2024. I want to give a shout out to
57:29
our guest, Alex Stanczyk Coleman and of course, my Co host,
57:32
Optimus Fields. And again, my heart is like,
57:35
literally, guys, thank you so freaking much.
57:38
These are two episodes in a row where our live numbers on Rumble
57:42
are just kicking our YouTube numbers ass, which are freaking
57:46
incredible. And I, I can't thank the
57:48
community enough for you guys to follow us to a different
57:51
platform. Like that really means the world
57:54
to us. So yeah, obviously I'll, I'll be
57:57
honest with you guys, like, you know, this is a a uncertain
58:00
moment in simply bitcoins history.
58:03
We, you know, we're going to, we're going to continue to keep
58:05
going. And like I said, one of the best
58:08
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And of course, if you want to call attention to YouTube and do
58:19
it respectfully, of course, but go on Twitter on any of my
58:22
tweets and just tag at team YouTube.
58:25
And that's one of the best ways to get their attention from my
58:29
understanding. So anyways, love you all.
58:31
If you guys enjoyed the show, subscribe like the show,
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especially on Rumble, subscribe so we can build up our Rumble
58:37
audience. And I mean, who knows?
58:38
I'm going to bring up Opti here for a second, bro.
58:41
Like if we're just on Rumble, like, you know, so be it, right?
58:45
Like so be it, dude. I've been saying it.
58:49
For since we've got banned, I've been I've been trying to keep it
58:52
quiet. Let's just bit like if, if we,
58:54
if we are, if our destiny is to build on Rumble.
58:58
I think like what you guys are gonna get is a much more
59:03
uncensored version of simply Bitcoin because there are
59:05
certain things that you can't say on YouTube, unfortunately.
59:09
So yeah, yeah, if we are on X and if we're just on Rumble
59:13
exclusively, like I mean, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna be able
59:17
to talk about certain subjects that we are we don't we would
59:21
feel uncomfortable talking about on YouTube.
59:23
Yeah, I mean, like I said, I I'm, I'm a broken record at this
59:26
point. I've been trying to not say too
59:29
much crazy stuff on Twitter to the YouTube team because, you
59:33
know, obviously we want to get our real estate back.
59:36
But with that being said, and I probably said this a couple
59:38
times already on show, it does feel like a badge of honor and
59:44
most of the real conversation that happened isn't actually on
59:47
YouTube. So hey, if this is the route
59:50
that we have to take, then that just means that the show's only
59:53
going to get better. And now we can really say
59:56
everything that we couldn't say on YouTube.
59:58
So hopefully we do get our our channel back.
1:00:01
And even if we do get our channel back, we are talking
1:00:04
internally about figuring out a way where we can do, you know,
1:00:07
maybe part of the show on YouTube and then.
1:00:10
You know, get everyone to go to Rumble and then we really have
1:00:12
the conversations here over on Rumble that we can't have on
1:00:14
YouTube. So either way, we're in limbo
1:00:17
and we'll figure out exactly the the right course of action once
1:00:21
we cross that road. But hey, if we're only going to
1:00:24
be on Rumble, it is what it is. Shouts out to every single one
1:00:27
of you guys that followed us here.
1:00:29
And we'll keep building and hopefully more people will find
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us on Rumble and Twitter and the YouTube, just like it doesn't
1:00:35
matter anymore. So hey man.
1:00:37
Exactly. I mean, like, like honestly with
1:00:39
these numbers guys like the last couple of days, like, you know,
1:00:42
like we're beating YouTube numbers right now.
1:00:44
Thanks to all of you guys. So if we keep this up, if this
1:00:48
is a trend that keeps going and we're able to grow our audience
1:00:51
and our channel on on Rumble and we're exclusive on Rumble, like
1:00:55
so be it. Like if that's the destiny that
1:00:57
is, you know, if that's the destiny that was just laid out
1:01:01
in front of us. So like we'll follow it and
1:01:03
we'll continue to bring you guys a signal.
1:01:05
So yeah, I mean, I got to give a shout out to Rumble and I got to
1:01:08
give a shout out to Elon Musk and X-Men because those
1:01:11
platforms literally truly do value free speech and free and
1:01:15
open discussion. And I think that's really how
1:01:18
you talk about very difficult ideas and very difficult
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problems without any type of fear of persecution, right?
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