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Why MicroStrategy Is SECRETLY Building America’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve | Simply Originals · Simply Bitcoin

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  There is mounting evidence that, whether intentional or not,
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  Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy are quietly laying the
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  foundation for America's first strategic Bitcoin reserve.
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  This isn't just one man stacking sets for shareholders.
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  This is starting to look like a national operation.
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  Think about Eric Trump called Sailor a national treasure.
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  Tom Lee recently floated that the government could just buy
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  MicroStrategy outright. Trump himself promise the US
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  will never sell it seized Bitcoin.
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  And when you look at what's happening in DC, the government
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  seizing Bitcoin, taking stakes in companies like Intel,
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  nationalizing defense contractors, the writing may be
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  on the wall. This isn't a conspiracy theory.
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  This is policy in action. So the real question is, is
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  MicroStrategy just a corporate treasury strategy or is it the
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  honeypot for America's strategic Bitcoin reserve?
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  Well, let's let's find out. You said Wall Street's going to
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  embrace it, and that is true, but still it's limited.
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  I've been talking to these Rias here.
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  Many of them are very interested in Bitcoin, but a lot of them
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  have questions. When I walked around and say,
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  what do you want to hear from Michael Saylor, they say, well,
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  we're still concerned about suitability issues.
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  We still have issues about recommending them to our
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  clients. This is still a real concern.
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  What do you what do you say to those who are still concerned
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  about suitability? The only asset endorsed by a
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  president of the United States in 50 years is Bitcoin.
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  I mean, go go back in the last 200 years in the history of the
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  country. And I think if you go to the
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  founding fathers, they wrote in the Constitution that money is
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  silver and gold coin. And then at some point there was
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  a chicken in every pot. And maybe, maybe with the
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  founding of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we endorsed
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  everybody to single family home ownership.
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  But in the 21st century, you have just one asset, Bitcoin.
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  The president saying don't sell your Bitcoin, saying more than
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  that, saying the United States won't sell his Bitcoin.
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  And so everything else you put your client into, if the if the
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  US government seized any other security that you sold to a
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  client, if they seized any collectible, any art, any real
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  estate, they would sell it. The only thing that the US
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  government won't sell if they are to seize it is Bitcoin.
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  They. Won't sell any Bitcoin that they
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  seize. Listen closely to the clips
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  today. OK, now let's get started again.
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  Let's go with Giga Chad. I don't think we'll get all of
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  it. I I don't think in the range of
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  three to five or three to 7% is too much.
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  BlackRock is. No, I I just wonder, I was
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  thinking about the the mental exercise of if you could
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  actually own all of it, if you would even bless you if you
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  would want it. Well, you know, we started and
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  we had very little and Bitcoin was 10,000 and now bitcoins more
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  than 100,000 and 97% of the Bitcoin is worth 10 times as
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  much and somebody else, not us has it right.
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  So it's a practical matter. What we're doing is, is we're
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  monetizing and powering up this. I totally get it.
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  I just mean if you owned all of it, would that change the
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  entire? We don't, yeah.
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  We wouldn't want to own all of it.
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  We want everybody else to have their peace.
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  The nice thing there is there's 160 companies that are
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  capitalizing on Bitcoin in the public market, up from about 60
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  last year. So the Bitcoin treasury
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  movement's exploding and companies like Metaplanet in
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  Japan and Capital B in France and Smarter Web in the UK.
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  And then there's a raft of them in the US Anthony Pompliano's
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  company, you know, and 21, they're all capitalizing.
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  The big idea is I take digital capital, I issue digital credit
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  and a digital credit instrument can either be longer duration or
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  can be higher performance. We're offering 9% dividend yield
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  with stretch. The average money markets, 4.2%
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  dividend yield. No one would ever want to give a
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  9% perpetual yield and A and a bond that's backed by real
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  estate or backed by gold or backed by any conventional Fiat
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  asset. But we're investing in Bitcoin.
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  It's not just a flex, it's a signal.
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  Sailors not talking about being a heavy bag holder, he's talking
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  about a nation state level share of the Bitcoin supply.
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  Backing the dollar with Bitcoin? Yeah.
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  Well, you know, I think you backed the dollar by by doing
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  something economically rational. So when the United States
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  actually purchased Louisiana and we expanded the country and
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  double the size of it, we backed the dollar.
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  And when Seward bought Alaska and we found a trillion dollars
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  of oil underneath it, we backed the dollar.
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  And when the when we developed the port of New York, NY City,
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  and we engaged in international commerce, we backed the dollar.
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  So the country's got to look to the future, and the future of
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  the country is in cyberspace, and Bitcoin is in essence cyber
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  Manhattan. So the way you back the dollar
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  is you buy Manhattan for pieces of paper and trinkets and you
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  buy it before it's worth hundreds of trillions of
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  dollars. Just like the Dutch bought New
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  York for $50.00 worth of plastic beads.
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  And so I, I, I think that it's, it's right in front of us. the
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  United States owns the majority of the, of the gold in the
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  world. the US federal government owns 28% of the land, you know,
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  in the United States, the US government should own the
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  majority of the Bitcoin in the world.
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  Bitcoin is capital. Bitcoin is not currency.
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  Gold has been used as capital. It's not currency anymore.
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  The very simple thing that the US ought to do is they ought to
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  sell the gold and buy Bitcoin with it and buy 20% of the
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  Bitcoin network. It's very simple.
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  Just swap the gold for Bitcoin. If anybody actually swaps out
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  their treasury bills for Bitcoin, then the US is going to
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  own it all. It's kind of like just getting
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  Alaska or the Louisiana Purchase for free.
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  They could, they could pretty much have 20% of the network for
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  free overnight just with a swap. They could even print the money,
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  you know. Yeah, I mean, they, they could
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  buy it for next to nothing. The only alternative to the
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  Treasury bill for anybody is Bitcoin, and so just buy.
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  Do that and Bitcoin becomes the world reserve capital network
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  and the US will own both sides of the equation along the
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  currency and the capital. Altogether, that's about 106
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  trillion. He's pitching five times what
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  Senator Lummus's bill called for and even said there's only room
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  for one Nation state to make this move in his bet the United
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  States. Come for one nation state to buy
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  up 20% of the network. And obviously I think it should
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  be the United States. I think it will be the United
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  States. It's a way for us to enrich
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  ourself and emerge as a creditor nation in a matter of a decade.
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  It's also a way for us to ensure that we're the economic leaders
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  in cyberspace and the digital economy for the next 100 years.
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  And if we do that, every one of our allies will follow us, and
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  then all of our enemies will end up having to buy into the
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  network once it passes 10 or 20 million a coin.
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  And they will enrich, OK. Now let that sink in.
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  While Jimmy Dimon and his finance nerds have been
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  screaming Ponzi scheme, Michael Saylor is literally laying out
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  the blueprint for America to corner the Bitcoin market.
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  This isn't a corporate strategy anymore.
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  This is a speculative attack on the dollar and he's aligning it
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  with U.S. National interest.
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  And if you think this is just Sailor being crazy Uncle
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  Michael, check out what the Trump's family has been saying.
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  So specifically Eric Trump and really pay attention here, you
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  know, I've. Known Michael Saylor for 20
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  years. I, I mean, and by the way, if
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  you want to talk about a great champion for this industry, it's
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  Michael Saylor. That guy deserves all the credit
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  in the world. There's very few people who are
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  smarter and there are very few people who are better
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  cheerleaders for an industry that clearly he believes in.
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  He's a he's a national treasure to the United States and and
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  frankly, he's a national treasure to this world.
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  And by the way, I just sidetrack.
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  His patience is absolutely remarkable.
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  Has anybody seen that mashup where an interviewer asked him
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  the same question over and over? And he kind of looks down.
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  He sighs, takes a big breath, and then he answers the question
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  that he's answered 100 times. Why don't you break this down
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  simply for people like me that don't fully understand it?
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  OK. You were if you if you went out
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  the yield curve on bonds or if you went in?
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  What's happening as all of these new companies so.
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  Let's just start. At the beginning, if you don't
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  mind explaining, what is it? Sure.
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  The guy is a remarkable guy. He's an amazing guy and he's
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  truly a national treasure. But I think I even said to
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  Michael Saylor in the early years, Michael, I don't get this
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  stuff. I mean, I know you love Bitcoin.
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  I I don't get it if I can't feel it, if I can't see it.
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  National treasure? That's the same language they
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  use for the Declaration of Independence.
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  You don't call a software CEO a national treasure unless you're
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  signaling something bigger. I don't know, I just feel like
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  you don't call a software CEO a national treasure unless you're
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  signaling something bigger. Now, let's try to connect the
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  dots. Trump promises to never sell
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  seized Bitcoin, even hints at where things are we're going,
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  and we'll be getting to that later.
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  The federal government has almost 210,000 Bitcoin, or 1% of
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  the total supply that will ever exist.
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  But for too long, our government has violated the cardinal rule
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  that every bitcoiner knows by heart.
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  Never sell your Bitcoin, right? That's right, isn't it?
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  Huh. That's right.
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  How did I figure that one? Never sell your Bitcoin.
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  And so as the final part of my plan today, I am announcing that
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  if I am elected, it will be the policy of my administration,
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  United States of America, to keep 100% of all the Bitcoin the
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  US government currently holds or acquires into the future.
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  We'll keep 100%. I hope you do well, please.
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  This will serve in effect as the core of the strategic national
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  Bitcoin stockpile. As you know, as you know, most
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  of the Bitcoin currently held by the United States government was
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  obtained through law enforcement action.
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  You know that they took it from you.
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  Let's take that guy's life. Let's take his family, his
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  house, his Bitcoin. We'll turn it into Bitcoin.
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  It's been taken away from you because that's where we're going
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  now. That's where this country is
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  going. It's a fascist regime.
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  And so as I take steps to transform that vast wealth into
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  a permanent national asset to benefit all Americans today, I
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  repeat my pledge to commute the sentence of Ross Albrecht to a
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  sentence of time served. It's enough.
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  It's enough. Trump pledges to make the US the
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  Bitcoin superpower of the world, and this isn't a coincidence.
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  And Sailor is right in the middle of it.
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  But as well as all of the Bitcoin luminaries and legends,
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  here you have a legends in this room.
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  They really are. Congratulations with the
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  legends. Please stand.
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  Oh, everyone's standing anyway, that's nice.
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  I used to say sit down, everybody sit down.
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  But it's nice when they stand, including Tyler and Cameron.
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  Do you know who that is? Winklevoss.
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  These are great guys. They look like male models with
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  a brain. You know they're male models
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  with a big, beautiful brain. Michael Saylor is here.
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  Right now, here is the dark side of the story, civil asset
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  forfeiture. It doesn't require a new law.
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  It doesn't need a vote. It's the same playbook they used
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  for Ross Albright's Bitcoin finances, $4.3 billion
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  settlement and not, you know, Tornado Cash and their
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  developers. If the government wants your
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  Bitcoin and you're centralized, they don't buy it, they take it.
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  If there is more Bitcoin bitcoins held with these third
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  party custodians, what risk does that pose?
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  Having greater supply held by fewer large institutions, does
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  that increase the risk of seizure and confiscation like
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  we've seen with gold? And is that not exactly what
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  Bitcoiners don't want to happen? No, I think it's the opposite.
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  I think that when the Bitcoin is held by a bunch of crypto
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  anarchists who aren't regulated entities, who don't acknowledge
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  government or don't acknowledge taxes or don't acknowledge
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  reporting requirements, that increases the risk of seizure.
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  If you know, if a a country in desperation, if China knew that
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  there were underground crypto traders with billions of dollars
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  of of Bitcoin in their midst that didn't pay taxes, the
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  Chinese would probably try to shut that down.
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  And that's what they do. So.
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  So normally the risk is greater when they're unregulated private
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  entities that are perceived to be holding the asset.
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  When you have regulated public entities like Black Rock and
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  Fidelity and JP Morgan and State Street Bank holding the asset,
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  well, all the lawmakers and all the law enforcement arms,
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  they're invested in those entities, right?
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  So there's no way that all the senators and all the congressmen
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  are going to seize the assets from Fidelity and Black Rock or
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  Vanguard because that's where all their retirement money is
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  invested. So, so the, the asset moving
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  from private to public hands and moving into regulated entities,
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  it does a bunch of things. It, it decreases the volatility,
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  it decreases the risk of loss, it decreases the like who do you
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  trust more as a custodian? FTX or Fidelity, right?
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  Or Vanguard or State Street, right?
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  And if you walk down the street and you said, you know, would
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  you put all your family's money in an offshore entity without a
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  headquarters run by 5 dudes, without an auditor?
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  Or would you put it with a bank that's too big to fail in the
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  US, right? Like at the end of the day, you,
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  you have an OG crypto community is very hardcore about it.
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  But if you look at where all the money is, 99.9% of the money is
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  actually in the traditional economy and in the war for the
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  future of money. The war is going to be won with
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  money, right? I mean, right, at the end of the
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  day, Bitcoin is capital. Who's going to actually decide
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  who's the winner or the loser? The people with the capital.
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  And so where's the capital? It's a Vanguard, Fidelity, State
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  Street, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, they're all regulated
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  entities of sorts. So when Bitcoin is held by those
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  entities, it becomes regular and normal.
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  And you know, people would no more think about seizing that
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  and they think about seizing a building in the middle of
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  Manhattan or seizing, you know, the S, you know, the S&P Spyder
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  assets is why, why would you do that?
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  That's just the capital that you built the country on, so.
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  Let's be honest, MicroStrategy is too big to ignore, too
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  centralized to resist. If Washington wants to flip
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  micro strategy from corporate treasury to national reserve, it
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  can almost happen overnight. And that's why self custody is
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  National Defense. Don't let your conviction become
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  their custody. Still think it sounds far
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  fetched? Well, let's talk precedent.
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  Or precedent, whatever you prefer.
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  But the US government just took a 10% stake in Intel.
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  That's pretty stupid if you ask me.
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  And our Commerce Secretary admitted that the Pentagon is
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  thinking about seizing stakes in defense contract.
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  Howard Lutnick said the government will claim university
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  patents funded by taxpayer dollars.
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  And Trump, he's basically nationalizing as many private
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  companies as it takes to defeat socialism.
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  This is not socialism. This is just the state deciding
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  what's strategic and pulling it into their orbit.
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  I mean, it's socialism, but it's also, damn it, What's that thing
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  called again? Holy crap.
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  Oh, yeah, that's the one. So when, Tom.
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  I think I heard you on a show being asked about how the United
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  States might acquire Bitcoin and going out into the market, I
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  mean, that would definitely move the price.
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  So didn't you say something about the possibility that the
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  government would actually instead try to, let's say, buy a
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  company that has a lot of Bitcoin?
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  Yeah. I mean, I, I'd say that makes a
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  lot of sense. I think the day the US says they
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  want to acquire a million Bitcoin, I think Bitcoin's price
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  is going to go up parabolically because how is the US going to
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  buy it? I mean, they can't, you know, if
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  you know their wallet, you're going to see every buy, you
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  know, and it's going to become a national pastime for everybody
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  because they're a long buyer. I think it's going to be easier
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  for them to buy large holders of Bitcoin, maybe even give tax
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  amnesty. Right You.
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  That's why they're saying it's tax free.
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  We won't tax capital gains. They'll do everything they can
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  to try to acquire Bitcoin. Maybe, but MicroStrategy has a
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  sovereign put. They have 600,000 Bitcoin.
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  That's the easiest way to get to 1,000,000 Bitcoin.
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  Well, so how would that work though?
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  I mean, for people watching that think like property rights,
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  hello. I mean, those are enshrined in
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  our Constitution. Would, would a company have to
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  sell to the government as long as they're willing to pay fair
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  market? I mean, like, could they
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  essentially nationalize a company?
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  That how does it. Work logistically.
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  Well, the US has a history of acquiring and paying for
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  strategically important things. They just did so with the rare
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  earths. I mean the Pentagon deal with
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  MPI. Feel like it's not nationalizing
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  it, but it's a strategic move. Yeah, I, I think the, the US
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  government takes a private sector approach to that.
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  So if Microstrategy's at 400 and the clearing price to do that
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  deal is 3000 or something, it's probably cheaper to do that than
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  to try to buy a million Bitcoin. What do you think Michael
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  Saylor's reaction to that would be?
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  That really doesn't sound insane anymore.
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  That sounds like the logical playbook.
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  All right, quick break, because all this ties into what we've
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  4 times maybe. I'll.
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  Pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this
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  racket. I had to do it, but OK.
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  So the US already holds $20 billion plus of Bitcoin from
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  seizures, and after the absolutely brilliant Biden
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  administration that sold most of it, and we know MicroStrategy
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  also holds well over 600,000 Bitcoin.
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  If we put them together, you've got to stack basically second
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  only to Satoshi. And what do you call that?
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  A strategic Bitcoin reserve hiding in plain sight.
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  It's not official yet, but there are risks in trusting third
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  parties and the structure is already there.
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  The supply, the policy, the rhetoric, the precedent, it all
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  lines up. So let's put this puzzle
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  together. Gigachad says the US should own
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  20%. Eric Trump calls him a national
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  treasure. Trump says never sell seized
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  Bitcoin. The government is nationalizing
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  strategic companies. And it just so happens that
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  micro strategy controls 3% of the Bitcoin supply.
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  That's not conspiracy, that's game theory.
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  That's America weaponizing Bitcoin as the ultimate reserve
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  asset. So you're asking me, what's the
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  move? Well, how about this?
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  If you want to be sovereign, buy Bitcoin.
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  If you're feeling patriotic, buy MicroStrategy or Bitcoin
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  treasuries. I mean, at the end of the day,
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  you're betting on the same end game hyper bitcoinization led by
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