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BREAKING: Europe’s 2nd Largest Bank Buys Bitcoin | EP 982 · Simply Bitcoin

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  It's. All going to zero against
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  Bitcoin. It's.
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  Going on forever you're. Against Bitcoin?
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  You're against freedom yo. Welcome to Simply Bitcoin Live,
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  your number one resource for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution of
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  Annex. Sit back.
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  Relax, Enjoy the ride. We have a lot to talk about
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  today. Specifically, huge news.
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  The second largest bank in Europe has now bought Bitcoin.
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  Well, they didn't buy real Bitcoin, they bought captured
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  Bitcoin. They bought the ETF.
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  But I think this is going to cause a domino effect.
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  Why? Because this bank, and hopefully
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  I can pronounce it correctly, the name.
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  It's a French bank and the name of the bank is Paribas Paribas.
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  Now they have the cheat code. Now they have the competitive
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  advantage, right? If they have exposure to
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  Bitcoin, now all of a sudden that bank is more competitive
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  than every other bank that does not have exposure to Bitcoin,
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  right? It's kind of like game theory
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  playing out, right? Like the Vanguard CEO initially
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  saying, you know, hey, we're just not going to offer Bitcoin
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  to our clients and then a month later he, you know, he announces
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  his, his his resignation. So anyone who adopts a Bitcoin
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  standard, whether that's an individual, a nation state, a
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  corporation, whatever, you have a massive advantage over Anyone
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  who has not adopted Bitcoin standard or has better set, has
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  not, does not have any exposure to Bitcoin.
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  So again, in terms of Bitcoin's history, another huge milestone.
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  And again, the further legitimization of this asset in
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  the eyes of the traditional, you know, financial system, the, you
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  know, financial elites, right. Really, right.
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  This is, this is a big, this is a big deal, right.
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  Hong Kong ETF approval, USETF approval.
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  And now Europe's second largest bank has bought Bitcoin, whether
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  you know it's indirectly, but they bought exposure to Bitcoin.
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  So absolutely massive deal. Also in other news, we're going
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  to continue the coverage on the attack, the battle for self
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  custody in the United States of America.
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  David Bailey tweeted something out very interesting this
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  morning. We're going to cover it, but I'm
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  also going to connect it with two videos from Jack Mahlers and
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  his father in terms of, you know, the the, the, the right to
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  privacy, the right to self custody.
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  We showed you guys Cynthia Lamas, the Bitcoin point senator
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  coming out of Wyoming. She was trying to get ahead of
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  it, basically saying like, look guys, you know, the the fact
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  that they're trying to label non custodial software money
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  transmitters is a very, very slippery slope.
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  Now before you get a little bit too worried, you have to
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  understand we've been here before, right in the early 90s.
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  There's something called the crypto wars.
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  It's not cryptocurrency, not unrelated to that, but
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  essentially in the early 90s the crypto war was basically the
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  fact that now you know the the populace had this ability to
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  have unhackable crypt cryptography.
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  Like the government couldn't get access to to, you know, the data
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  if they didn't have the private key for it.
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  It was called the PGP wars. Eventually that we won that war.
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  They obviously they didn't win because clearly, you know,
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  there's massive access to PGP technology.
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  Now, of course, PGP never went mainstream, but the government
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  lost that fight, right. So I think we're going through a
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  very similar kind of moment in history.
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  But it is also, you know, very interesting because it's very
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  interesting because it's like like it reveals, it exposes
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  incentives, like the idea that somehow a government or a nation
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  state is not OK with you or, you know, writing down 12 words or
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  24 words or you having the ability to hold unconfiscatable,
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  undebaseable wealth really kind of exposes how they feel about
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  you. Like to be blunt and frank, like
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  that's the reality like, and you know, and honestly guys like
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  it's really not that cool. And then I'll kind of connect
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  the dots, which we usually we tend to do on simply Bitcoin as
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  it relates to this is a combined effort, right.
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  You had Roger Ver, you know, the, the, the one of the
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  original Bitcoin O GS. He kind of went to the dark side
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  with the whole Bitcoin Cash thing, but he was nabbed in
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  Spain around the same day that the Binance founder was
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  sentenced to four months in prison.
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  CZ is going to be the wealthiest man ever to serve a prison
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  sentence. So, you know, I get it.
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  They're all coiners. I get what you know.
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  You might not necessarily agree with what they're doing, but if
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  you're taking sides with the state and you're celebrating the
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  arrest of the the sentencing of CZ or you're celebrating the
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  arrest of Roger Ver, like you're lost in the sauce and you're not
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  paying attention to what's in front of you.
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  The battle that's in front of you and the battle is the right
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  for an American citizen to take self custody of unconfiscatable,
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  undebaseable wealth. That that's the battle at hand.
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  We've been telling you for over a year right since they started
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  with the whole tornado cash thing it it was incredibly
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  obvious, at least to me that this was the inevitable and this
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  was the inevitable outcome. Now this is not a coincidence
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  that this is happening the year of an election.
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  This is not a coincidence that this is happening after the
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  halving. Now bitcoins forward inflation
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  rate is lower than any other Fiat currency or gold on the
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  planet. So again, like that, all of that
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  or one of my favorite quotes and I've I always say all this time
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  on the show, which is there are no conspiracies, but there is
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  also no coincidences. And this is all very symbolic
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  that all these things are happening.
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  The samurai wallet dev arrested the tornado cache motion to
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  dismiss the CZ getting sentence. Roger Ver getting arrested.
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  They are going after self custody in the US because it is
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  a clear and present danger to the existing system of control
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  of money and also the monopoly on the issuance of money as
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  well. So we're going to talk about all
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  that. It's going to be a great show.
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  No more delay. Do you want to let up my Dairy
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  Co host, He is always optimistic.
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  That's why they call him Optimus Fields.
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  How you doing Opti? I'm doing wonderful, man.
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  It's another day in paradise. Life is great.
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  Everything's going wonderful in the Bitcoin land.
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  We are definitely heating up. And man, it's super interesting
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  that we finally see a huge bank get some exposure to Bitcoin.
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  Considering everything going on in the world, it just feels so
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  good being a bitcoiner. We're just out here winning.
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  The more they attack us, the more I know we are right.
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  But one little one little point to put a little bow tie on what
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  you're saying. You know it's becoming very
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  obvious that there is a 2 tiered justice system and we are not a
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  part of it. And man it really makes you
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  think like the rule of law is completely unhinged from from
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  the rhetoric and reality. But this is where we are right
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  now guys. This this is the the time of the
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  movie. This is this is the current
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  state of the world. And I think it's kind of, I mean
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  Nico, when we when we heard this news the other day, you
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  literally called me and you're like yo, Are you ready?
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  Like buckle up buttercup. Like things are starting to heat
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  up. So I think it as you said, this
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  is one of the most important times in Bitcoin and I think the
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  next year or two is going to be if not the most important time
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  in Bitcoin. But besides maybe the the actual
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  creation of Bitcoin, but one of the most important epochs in in
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  the Bitcoin ecosystem in the Bitcoin history.
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  This it's like the time is now guys.
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  This is this is when we really got to buckle down make sure
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  people are understanding what why we do Bitcoin, why we
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  Bitcoin, why they need to hold their own keys because things
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  are getting crazy man. The world's getting clown world
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  is accelerating. So on that note though, let's
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  accelerate and just get the final battle over.
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  So Bitcoin can very clearly prove that it is the one, that
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  this is the way and we're man, we're just winning so.
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  Hard. We're winning, bro.
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  That's why they're doing all this, is because we're winning.
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  Absolutely. Anyways, I do want to bring up
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  very special guests for today. We got Anders.
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  Anders, how you doing man? Anders is is famous for the
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  toxic happy hour spaces that originally started as a YouTube
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  channel, which actually inspired simply Bitcoin, originally the
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  content that him and Puppy were making and also the Pleb party
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  that was made famous during the Miami Bitcoin conference.
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  So we're very happy to have Anders on the show today.
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  How you doing man? I'm doing good, good to be here,
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  Nico and Opti. Like I told you before the show,
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  I have so much admiration for what you guys are doing with
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  simpler Bitcoin. I do believe that you are the
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  largest Bitcoin only media platform today and fastest
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  growing. You guys are killing it.
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  You're doing it right. You have the right vision.
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  And you got the passion to to help this revolution, the
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  peaceful revolution where we can get rid of our our overlords
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  that just are sucking the lifeblood out of us.
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  So yeah, thanks for having me. 100%, man, that's and appreciate
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  those kind words. Absolutely.
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  And yeah man, it is like that. It's overlords, right?
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  It really feels like that. And and again, like it wasn't
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  always like this. Guys like this is like a very
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  recent occurrence. It's like, you know, the the,
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  the SOG can't even, I can't help but to think of the sovereign
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  individual, one of the quotes, which is like governments see,
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  you know, their citizens like cattle, but now the Internet has
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  basically given the cattle wings, right.
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  And that's really what's happening right here.
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  You know, the distance remediation of money, the
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  Even if the Fed were to get the inflation rate back to its
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  target of 2%, they don't even know why they have a 2%
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  inflation rate. They can't even explain it.
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  They're like, Oh well, I thought you know this this bank in New
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  Zealand, and like they just said it and like, whatever.
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  Like, the idea that money needs to have theft built into it.
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  To exist is insane, and they've psyopped the entire population,
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  not entire. Like, we're waking up now.
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  There's a great awakening happening worldwide without a
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  shadow of a doubt, but the fact that they've convinced people
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  that somehow money needs to steal from you to function is
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  absurd, right? And what Bitcoin is, is that's
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  the first asset that you could put your purchasing power, your
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  energy into, and your and it doesn't matter.
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  Doesn't matter. Things are just going to get
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  progressively cheaper over time. It actually protects your
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  energy, your value, your time, right?
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  And like Jeff Booth said, it right With technology, it should
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  make the world deflationary, meaning world the world should
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  get progressively cheaper, but the only asset that correctly
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  reflects that is Bitcoin. That's why life gets cheaper on
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  a Bitcoin standard. And if you're new to the show or
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  you haven't experienced this, I promise you promise is a very
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  strong word. Go on a Bitcoin standard.
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  Wait at least four years, Don't do anything.
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  Don't trade. Just continue to stack.
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  And I promise you, your life will get better spiritually,
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  financially, mentally, it things change, right?
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  Anyways, realized monetary inflation is 1.7%, right?
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  That's what it was before the halving.
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  But of course that number continues to go out.
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  When we first start covering that number, it was like 1.8
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  something on simply it's a very very important number to keep
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  away aware of. And remember this number is
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  going to keep going down forever.
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  It's going to continue to keep getting cut in half.
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  Further embarrassing Fiat currencies.
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  Anyways, David Bailey tweeted this out this morning and it it
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  kind of confirmed some suspicions that I was having and
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  my mindset in my in my train of thought for those suspicions is
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  simple. Tornado Cash set the precedent.
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  Less than a year later they're arresting Bitcoin privacy
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  developers, Bitcoin O, GS, you know altcoin casino
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  entrepreneurs all around the same time.
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  My question to you is do you think they're just going to stop
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  now? Do you think they're just going
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  to pack it up and say, all right we've done it?
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  No, they're going to continue, obviously.
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  Now David Bailey, of course he's a very well connected person
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  because he is the the CEO and founder of BTC Inc is one of the
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  oldest. I think it is the oldest, you
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  know, Bitcoin media organization.
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  They they've been around for a very long time and they're the
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  owners of Bitcoin Magazine, the Bitcoin Conference and a bunch
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  of other companies as well. So he's obviously a very well
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  connected individual. He's also a Bitcoin OG.
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  He's been, he's been in the industry for a very long time.
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  There's many connections we went on to say.
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  Just got a call, another major Bitcoin company are about to
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  pull out of the USA. Wave of DOJ subpoenas inbound
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  going to be a full blown war over self custody.
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  They will lose, but we will have to fight for our rights.
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  Get ready right Again, this is just a, you know, a random, you
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  know, and on Pleb on Twitter, this is someone that holds.
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  And I know a lot of people dislike him for a lot of the
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  business decisions that that he's made.
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  But the reality is that, you know, Bitcoin Magazine is the
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  largest, most influential Bitcoin only media outlet in the
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  space right now. And you know he's an influential
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  guy. You can't deny that.
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  So you know, the fact that he's saying that I think is a big
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  deal. Now here's Jack Mahler's, and I
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  think it is the responsibility of every Bitcoin CEO and
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  founder, basically anyone who has a platform.
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  Even if you don't have a platform, it is your
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  responsibility to speak up and stand up for your right like it.
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  Like you have to say something and it's working, right?
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  Like we have, you know, the Bitcoin senator, Senator Cynthia
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  Lamas. I showed you guys the tweet
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  yesterday. I'll show it to you guys again,
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  she came out and said quote, I am deeply troubled by the
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  Department of Justice hyper aggressive argument that non
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  custodial software can constitute a money transmission
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  service. This stance contradicts existing
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  Treasury guidance, common sense and violence.
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  The rule of law arguments against self custody software
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  threaten fundamental property rights that are a core to being
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  an American. I will do everything I can to
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  fight for your rights, to hold your own keys and run your own
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  node, which is utterly and absolutely absurd.
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  Like to be honest, like that is crazy.
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  That is nuts. I cannot believe that, right,
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  that, you know, we live in this country that's supposed to be,
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  you know, land of the free, home of the brave and like, you know,
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  like they don't even, they won't even allow you to hold, you
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  know, right down a 12 to 24 word, seed word.
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  And of course, because it exposes the racket.
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  Now I do want to show Jack Mahler's take on this and then
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  we'll hear Jack Mahler's dad's take on this as well.
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  Privacy is a human right. In my opinion, privacy,
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  especially in a digital society, is foundational.
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  We need to have the ability to select which parts of ourselves
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  are available to the world, and without that, I don't believe
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  that society is going to be able to function in a healthy way
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  that allows for human flourishing.
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  So things like freedom of speech and things like privacy have
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  been a constant battle in the Internet age, and we're likely
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  seeing it again. And so it shouldn't have to be
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  said out loud, unfortunately. But the reality is, here we are.
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  We need privacy in our speech. We need privacy in our
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  transactions and in our monetary movement.
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  Period. That's just a point blank.
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  Period. No matter who you are, where you
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  are, that's just a fact. And so any attack on privacy is
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  one that shouldn't be stood for by anyone, any group, any of us.
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  And any violent gun to the head get thrown at a box in my
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  opinion is just one of the worst chapters of humanity that that's
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  what we've resulted to as government to to punish bad
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  behavior. Very, very strong speech.
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  Completely agree with Jack Mahler's take.
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  Here is Jack Mahler's dad, who was extremely successful, I
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  might add. He was a very successful
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  individual. He worked in the traditional
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  financial system. Let's hear his take.
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  I mean if you want to if you want to influence you know
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  behavior by with tax policy you know obviously tax the hell out
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  of cigarettes right. A sin tax tax gambling right.
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  You know a frivolous but you know when you start taxing
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  capital formation I I mean I don't know what you trying to
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  just I don't know what the end game of that thought is and not
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  just increase it but like you know double it.
• 22:40
  I I like I said it's I'm trying to think of so it would have to
• 22:47
  be almost like when you when you went to the polls when I was
• 22:50
  getting out of high school, it was like I you can agree or
• 22:54
  disagree with eight out of 10 policy stances, but the one
• 22:59
  thing you were voting on is whether you wanted your kid to
• 23:01
  go to Vietnam or not, right. It was like a single issue
• 23:04
  domination. And I don't know if you're in
• 23:06
  the financial markets. This upcoming one can't be
• 23:11
  starker. I mean there's the current
• 23:12
  administration wants to double the IRS over a period of 10
• 23:17
  years. I mean this isn't just let's
• 23:19
  crack down a little bit and clean house on some of these and
• 23:22
  this is almost a you know it's just a nationalization of a of a
• 23:26
  brand new financial industry really with the that degree of
• 23:29
  IRS involvement. I I mean it's like I said we're
• 23:34
  I'm, I'm, I'm trying to find an analogy it's not quite I don't
• 23:38
  think your vote has quite the importance it did when the you
• 23:41
  know, the country was in war. But financially this one's gonna
• 23:45
  have a lot of implications. So a couple things, right?
• 23:49
  So Jack Mahler's talking about privacy again.
• 23:53
  They're attacking privacy first. Eventually it's gonna come after
• 23:56
  self custody. I think we lost the whole
• 23:58
  privacy aspect of that. The Coin center that lawsuit was
• 24:03
  was was just dismissed. Now it's come to self custody.
• 24:08
  But again, the the the the idea that you can't self custody,
• 24:13
  your Bitcoin, the idea that you can't have money without the
• 24:17
  government knowing what you have is absurd.
• 24:20
  And it's completely against the 4th Amendment.
• 24:22
  Like you know it. It's like, don't worry, you
• 24:25
  know, keep your bathroom door open like we we won't, we won't
• 24:28
  look. And then what Jack Mahlers's dad
• 24:31
  is referring to is this election that's coming up, which I I I I
• 24:36
  hated the fact that I, I tweeted this and I went back and forth
• 24:40
  with Opti for a long time. Again, I'm like, dude, I know
• 24:43
  this is going to blow up, but I'm going to say it anyways.
• 24:47
  And again, I'm not taking any type of political stance, but
• 24:50
  what Jack Mahlers's father is referring to is this upcoming
• 24:54
  election, and the stark reality of it and is that the current
• 25:00
  administration has been extremely hostile towards the
• 25:07
  Bitcoin industry. And I was getting frustrated to
• 25:12
  an extent because I never saw anyone talk about it.
• 25:18
  And you know, I'm not the only one that feels this way.
• 25:23
  Let me show the tweet. Alex Leishman the CEO of River
• 25:26
  says it. It's objectively true what I
• 25:28
  said. And I said, all right, I'm going
• 25:30
  to say it. No one is saying it.
• 25:31
  It has to be said at this point. Biden winning re election would
• 25:34
  be terrible for Bitcoin in the US His administration has been
• 25:38
  extremely hostile with the 30% proposed income tax.
• 25:42
  His party, specifically Elizabeth Warren, 20 senators
• 25:45
  are signed up it for a bill that would be a de facto ban on self
• 25:50
  custody in the United States. And of course, you know this is
• 25:53
  the executive branch that you know gives up and gives the
• 25:56
  thumbs up for this type of of enforcement by by by, you know,
• 26:04
  criminalization, right. After all, self custody is the
• 26:08
  revolution and what Jack Mahlers's father was was arguing
• 26:13
  was the the, the, the tax proposal also that the bad
• 26:17
  administration has, which would be a basically, after a certain
• 26:22
  amount of money, it would be a 44% capital gains tax.
• 26:27
  That's an increase of more than 100%.
• 26:30
  It hasn't been that high in over 70 years, right?
• 26:34
  So, you know, they're printing money, sending money to fund
• 26:37
  foreign wars, They're attacking the Bitcoin industry, they're
• 26:41
  spending like drunken sailors, and then they just want to tax
• 26:45
  the hell out of their populace. You know, if someone wants to
• 26:48
  give up their citizenship, you know, 10 years later, they could
• 26:51
  still arrest you. Like, what?
• 26:53
  What is going on? Like what?
• 26:55
  What? What is the what is the
• 26:57
  relation? What is the true relationship
• 26:59
  between, you know, the individual in the state?
• 27:03
  What should it be? This is insane, right?
• 27:06
  44 So, like, think about it this way.
• 27:09
  You have to play the inflation tax, right?
• 27:12
  You have to use Bitcoin. You have to use their money or
• 27:15
  else, you know, they put you in jail, right?
• 27:17
  'cause they have legal tender laws.
• 27:20
  So you have to use money that is debasing.
• 27:23
  You have to pay the income tax because if you don't, you go to
• 27:26
  jail. They just spend money on every
• 27:29
  on anything they want, send billions to foreign wars.
• 27:34
  And you know, when we find a technology that they just can't
• 27:39
  outright ban, they're extremely hostile towards it.
• 27:44
  I don't think that this was the original principles that this
• 27:47
  country was founded on, right? And again, they aren't arresting
• 27:52
  these people and they aren't enforcing these laws via
• 27:55
  legislation, right, Which is how the country was designed.
• 27:58
  They're doing it through enforcement right now.
• 28:02
  The silver lining is that we've been here before.
• 28:05
  Here's Marty Bent from TFTC, huge fan of his work, huge fan
• 28:10
  of his content. And he goes on to say history's
• 28:13
  repeating Bitcoin is in the middle of its form of the PGP
• 28:16
  wars. The arguments against it and the
• 28:19
  untenable solutions put forth by the government are the exact
• 28:23
  same. They wanted people to hold their
• 28:26
  PGP private keys with custodians.
• 28:28
  PGP. One Bitcoin can too.
• 28:32
  So what is he exactly referring to?
• 28:33
  He's exactly he's referring to the so-called Crypto wars.
• 28:38
  But attempts unofficially dubbed the Crypto Awards have been made
• 28:41
  by the United States and allied governments to limit the public
• 28:44
  and foreign nations access to cryptography strong enough to
• 28:48
  thwart decryption by the National intelligence Agency's
• 28:51
  as special a National Security Agency.
• 28:55
  So again, like, you know, and here is this very famous shirt
• 28:59
  that I believe was was worn at one of the one of the one of the
• 29:07
  one of the court cases and says this shirt is classified as a
• 29:10
  munition and may not be exported from the United States or shown
• 29:15
  to a foreign national RSA encryption.
• 29:19
  And. And he's just like literally you
• 29:21
  know, wearing this stuff and you could do the same thing, right.
• 29:24
  Like you can literally wore wear a 24 word seed phrase on your
• 29:29
  shirt and say like I'm now an unlicensed money transmitter.
• 29:32
  Apparently right? But unlike the PGP wars, this is
• 29:38
  a much bigger deal. And the reason for that is
• 29:41
  simple. Bitcoin is a fundamental threat
• 29:46
  to the status quo in terms of the government's ability to be
• 29:50
  able to create money for free that everyone else has to work
• 29:53
  for, and it also gives the ability for individuals to opt
• 29:57
  out entirely of the existing system.
• 30:00
  So I think the fight for self custody is not only going to
• 30:04
  ramp up from here, but I also think that they're going to
• 30:08
  fight like hell, like a wounded animal trapped into a corner
• 30:12
  that's one of the most vicious. Like they're just not going to
• 30:16
  go gently into that good night. Say, OK, you know what?
• 30:19
  You guys could use your own money of which we can't debase
• 30:22
  Washington, DC The whole government apparatus functions
• 30:27
  on being able to control not only the money flows, but also
• 30:32
  being able to, you know, just create money out of thin air.
• 30:35
  If a significant portion of the population decides to opt out
• 30:39
  that entirely. Yeah.
• 30:41
  I mean, like, that's going to create an issue to say the
• 30:45
  least. Like, Like, just to say the
• 30:47
  least that's. That's going to create a
• 30:49
  problem, right. So yeah, buckle up.
• 30:52
  I'm going to say and tell you guys what I told OPTI when I
• 30:55
  called him. And I, like, had that 1000 yard
• 30:57
  stare and I called OPTI and I was like, look a lot buttercup,
• 31:02
  because this is going to get, this is going to get crazy, this
• 31:05
  is going to get nasty. And you know they're going to
• 31:08
  pull out all the stops. They're going to say whatever
• 31:11
  they're going to, They're going to throw everything at the wall
• 31:13
  to see what sticks. And our weapon to fight against
• 31:18
  this is information. Our weapon is to just get the
• 31:22
  truth out there and get the message out there and and just
• 31:26
  highlight their absurdities, right?
• 31:28
  Like that shirt. You know, they did that in the
• 31:30
  90s, the Crypto Wars so to speak.
• 31:33
  It just highlighted the absurdities, right?
• 31:35
  Like I'm gonna put all the 2048, you know, words that can be used
• 31:41
  for a seed wear on it on a shirt and just wear it out like like
• 31:43
  am IA mine, unlicensed money transmitter.
• 31:48
  Like look, it's not my fault that you guys made a bet that
• 31:53
  there was always gonna be an an intermediary for you guys to
• 31:57
  control and Co opt right? Like you guys built your entire
• 32:00
  system based on that assumption. It's not my fault that now
• 32:05
  technology allows for mass scale peer-to-peer communications and
• 32:10
  mass scale peer-to-peer money transmission.
• 32:13
  That's not my fault. And also it highlights the fact
• 32:17
  that you guys are a bunch of phonies like like it it you it's
• 32:21
  been a racket, right? I'm going to say Ron Paul's
• 32:24
  quote, right? It's not a coincidence that the
• 32:26
  century of central banking is also the bloodiest century in
• 32:29
  human history. So enough is enough.
• 32:31
  It's time to try something different.
• 32:33
  Bitcoin fixes the world and anyone who's trying to stop
• 32:37
  Bitcoin or any money, anyone who's an enemy of Bitcoin and
• 32:40
  Bitcoin in self custody, you're an enemy of freedom.
• 32:43
  And I'm going even I'm gonna go even harder than that.
• 32:45
  I'm gonna say not only you're an enemy of freedom, you're an
• 32:48
  enemy of humanity. Anyways, Opti, what's your take
• 32:51
  on this? Well, good ran, good ran.
• 32:54
  I I am. I do want to kind of troll that
• 32:56
  last sentence. They're not human.
• 32:58
  So no, I'm just trolling. I'm just trolling.
• 33:02
  We're starting off strong. We're in the weak, strong.
• 33:05
  Anyways, what you're talking about Nico, it really reminds me
• 33:08
  of just that classic meme of like rules for thee but not for
• 33:11
  me. And as I started the show where
• 33:13
  it's becoming very clear to everyone.
• 33:16
  Like I know all of us have been very aware of this, but it's
• 33:19
  becoming very clear to even just average everyday people that
• 33:22
  there's a two tiered justice system.
• 33:24
  And if you are not a part of the in Group then you probably can't
• 33:29
  get away with and you probably can't get away with breathing at
• 33:31
  this point. Like every every one of us is a
• 33:33
  criminal now. And we're seeing that the powers
• 33:36
  that be have turned inward and they're no longer looking to
• 33:42
  foreign people or or foreign countries or foreign threats.
• 33:45
  They're they're turning inwards everywhere.
• 33:47
  They're looking domestically. And every single one of us now
• 33:50
  is the criminal because they'll write new laws to make us all
• 33:52
  criminals. That's they'll rewrite laws to
• 33:54
  make us criminals and and that's where we are guys.
• 33:56
  And I I don't really want to bring this up too much but I
• 34:00
  know we were watching that James O'Keefe interview yesterday and
• 34:05
  it hit breaking news. It just, it completely shows
• 34:08
  that the powers B are completely unhinged, breaking laws left and
• 34:12
  right. And it doesn't matter if there
• 34:14
  is a piece of paper, if there's a law in place, they'll figure
• 34:16
  out ways to subvert it. And this is where we are guys
• 34:20
  like the the state has been weaponized against the
• 34:23
  individual and even now like corporations are individuals as
• 34:25
  well. But like we're seeing that the
• 34:27
  laws are being inverted to basically clamp down and control
• 34:33
  on every single person on planet Earth is it's this and this idea
• 34:38
  that you need to be surveilled to ensure good behavior.
• 34:41
  It's absolutely ridiculous and I love that Jack Mahler's touched
• 34:44
  on it and and how he he framed it.
• 34:46
  You know, so you need to be able to selectively reveal yourself
• 34:50
  to the world. Like privacy does not mean
• 34:52
  secrecy. And the fact that we're going
• 34:54
  down this dangerous path of of making people that want to keep
• 34:58
  things private as criminals is absolutely insane.
• 35:01
  It it's absolutely nuts where we are right now.
• 35:05
  And I think what's even more insane to me is that there's
• 35:08
  still a good majority of the population that are absolutely
• 35:11
  asleep at the wheel. And This is why we come on here,
• 35:14
  try to show the hypocrisy, why we continuously have content to
• 35:18
  talk about is because clown Rd. just keeps accelerating and it's
• 35:23
  just it's getting pretty, pretty hairy.
• 35:25
  It's getting kind of scary right now.
• 35:26
  I'm not gonna lie. And again, on the last thing
• 35:29
  Jack Mueller's dad saying, like if you're a student of history
• 35:33
  and even a very superficial student of history, you know
• 35:38
  what happened. When they try to control
• 35:40
  capital, it doesn't end well. And we're going down a very
• 35:43
  dangerous path right now. And I just really hope that
• 35:46
  people wake up in time because I am team human.
• 35:50
  I'm always optimistic about humans.
• 35:51
  At times. I might be overly optimistic
• 35:53
  about humans, but I do think that the good guys win at the
• 35:56
  end. And all it takes is for good
• 35:58
  guys to coordinate, to come together and actually stop these
• 36:02
  people that are are drunk on power.
• 36:05
  It's absolutely insane what where we're seeing right now.
• 36:08
  And to reiterate a point we've been talking about here on the
• 36:10
  show for a while, this is an economic war, guys.
• 36:13
  This is an information war. And we're on the front lines.
• 36:16
  Every single one of us, all of us here, whether you're
• 36:18
  watching, whether it's us on this side of YouTube, every
• 36:21
  single one of us is on the front lines right now.
• 36:24
  And as we say all the time it's Bitcoin or slavery.
• 36:26
  Like you are having to make a choice right now, whether you
• 36:31
  want to bend the knee or stand up on your feet and fight like
• 36:35
  this is where we are right now. And of course it's
• 36:37
  metaphorically fighting. It's it's not about, you know,
• 36:40
  calling violence on anyone. And let's hope it doesn't get to
• 36:43
  a kinetic war, but or a physical and kinetic because it's going
• 36:47
  to get crazy. And hopefully we can write this
• 36:50
  shit because it like if you succumb to the fear and you bend
• 36:56
  the knee to the fear tactics, this is going to be very bad for
• 37:00
  humans forever moving forward. Like this is the most important
• 37:05
  time, not only in Bitcoin, but I think in humanity.
• 37:07
  Like we were all born in this moment.
• 37:09
  To be here right now, to be the ones waking people up, like this
• 37:13
  is the most important time in history.
• 37:15
  Not just 'cause we're in it, but because we see where this is
• 37:18
  headed. And man, it's absolutely insane.
• 37:21
  And you know, you know me, I'm not political.
• 37:24
  I I try to avoid politics as much as possible.
• 37:26
  And I'm not fully sure that Trump is better long term.
• 37:29
  But in the short term, I think he, I think we can all agree
• 37:32
  that he's definitely better. But again, doubling down on my
• 37:35
  trolling since I'm the comedic relief here.
• 37:38
  You know, let let's just get Biden in here.
• 37:40
  Let's accelerate. Let's all vote for Biden 8 times
• 37:42
  and get this over with and make them fight Bitcoin very
• 37:47
  directly. Because man, I don't know Part
• 37:51
  of me, part of me wants to like, slow down the train wreck.
• 37:54
  The other part of me is like, hey, they're going to do what
• 37:56
  they're going to do and we're going to win.
• 37:58
  You're taking the, the, the, the, Nolan.
• 38:02
  Yeah, Nolan, let's. All vote for Biden 12.
• 38:04
  Times accelerate, accelerate, accelerate.
• 38:07
  But I mean my comment also so and also my, my, my comment did
• 38:12
  regard to Trump specifically like RFKD.
• 38:14
  I totally agree. But RFKS not going to win.
• 38:17
  Let's be honest. RF.
• 38:20
  Maybe. Maybe he'll steal votes.
• 38:22
  RFK Trump you know just like Biden like not good, right.
• 38:27
  And and then again it's not with their pocket but it's not
• 38:30
  necessarily that like you know these other guys are are are
• 38:33
  better but like you know the other guys aren't proposing a
• 38:36
  44% capital gains tax. The other guys administration
• 38:41
  have weren't attacking Bitcoin. I mean and even RFK like RFK at
• 38:46
  the Bitcoin conference he's like I'll protect your right to self
• 38:49
  custody. So I mean like guys like like I
• 38:52
  I don't care about left or right Democrat Republican like I care
• 38:57
  about Bitcoin. Like this is my this is my vote
• 38:59
  because I think over time bitcoin's gonna make politics
• 39:02
  irrelevant right. And if you have an active
• 39:06
  administration, you know what? I don't care about their
• 39:09
  politics. They're just, they're attacking
• 39:10
  Bitcoin. Like, you know, like that's just
• 39:12
  the reality of it. And it's not being talked about
• 39:15
  like that's the reality. They've been extremely hostile.
• 39:18
  This is not left right. Liberal.
• 39:20
  Conservative has nothing to do with that.
• 39:22
  It's just that they've been very hostile towards the industry.
• 39:25
  And it has to be said, it has to be talked about right.
• 39:29
  Anyways, Anders, wait, wait, wait.
• 39:31
  Before Anders goes, I'll pass it over to Anders.
• 39:32
  I want to say one last thing to what you said, Nico, Guys, no
• 39:36
  guy is here to protect you. You need to protect yourself.
• 39:40
  This is where we are right now. Protect yourself.
• 39:43
  Saving Bitcoin, Taking into custody.
• 39:45
  Do not wait for a savior. That's not how this is going to
• 39:48
  work out. Exactly.
• 39:49
  I agree with that. Anyways, Anders, what's your
• 39:52
  take on all this, brother? Yeah I'm I'm I mean I agree with
• 39:58
  everything you say and I think it's not a matter of it's not
• 40:03
  the government's necessarily that that.
• 40:09
  Acting as our overlords, you know, they they seem to be
• 40:12
  puppets for the central banking. You know, as as Scarface said,
• 40:16
  first you get the money, then you get the power, then you get
• 40:18
  the women. Now although we don't focus on
• 40:21
  the last part here money is power and and the central bank
• 40:29
  has the power over all of us through that and they can bribe
• 40:34
  and buy politicians and military industrial complex.
• 40:37
  It's doing the same. I mean it's all one big racket
• 40:41
  right as you were talking about with the with the most bloody
• 40:45
  decade or century ever last century is is the century of of
• 40:49
  central banking. So yeah it's it's scary how
• 40:53
  they're coming at at self custody.
• 40:55
  It's scary how privacy is attacked and it it seems you
• 40:58
  know 99% of people maybe it's a little bit less don't care or
• 41:03
  don't get it but we aren't here and and and fighting for
• 41:06
  essentially human rights and and they're coming really hard right
• 41:10
  now so it it's a battle. 100% it.
• 41:13
  It's a battle. But I think we're gonna win just
• 41:17
  because like like they can't. It it, you know, I love the 1st
• 41:20
  Amendment. It just it it's it's it created
• 41:23
  a situation where like if you're a tyrant, you're gonna have a
• 41:27
  hard time. You're gonna have a hard time
• 41:29
  and you know a Bitcoin fundamentally at the end of the
• 41:34
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• 44:16
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• 44:18
  Self custody is the revolution. All right, everybody.
• 44:21
  So let's talk about what is happening over in in Europe, the
• 44:28
  second largest European bank is buying Bitcoin ETF 13 FSCC
• 44:34
  filings. It goes on to say BNP Paribus,
• 44:39
  the second largest European bank, has purchased exposure to
• 44:42
  Bitcoin via a spot Bitcoin ETF, according to filings with SEC.
• 44:48
  The filings show that BNP Paribas bought Blackrock's
• 44:52
  Bitcoin ETF. The US spot Bitcoin ETFs have
• 44:56
  seen immense success since launching earlier this year,
• 44:59
  crossing 200 billion in cumulative volume.
• 45:03
  Under regulations. Large institutional investors
• 45:06
  managing over 100 million must disclose their quarterly
• 45:09
  holdings via 13F filings after their highly anticipated debut.
• 45:14
  Bitcoin investors have been awaiting these filings to see
• 45:17
  which institutions are allocating to Bitcoin ETFs.
• 45:21
  Previous 2024Q1 filings revealed purchases by asset managers,
• 45:26
  family offices and banks like Park Ave.
• 45:29
  Securities inscriptions Capital, Webbush, CAP Private Capital and
• 45:33
  American National Bank. Now BNP Paribus, Europe,
• 45:37
  Europe's second largest bank with over $600 billion in assets
• 45:42
  under management, has joined in while BNP roughly $40,000
• 45:47
  investment in the Black Rock. The That's it holy shit is
• 45:52
  relatively small. It's significant for one of the
• 45:55
  largest bank in Europe to start gaining exposure via an ETF.
• 45:59
  I mean 40 Ki mean. You know what's interesting
• 46:02
  though is that like it. It's laughable like the amount
• 46:06
  like it's relatively to the size of the bank.
• 46:09
  All right, guys. But, like, what's gonna be
• 46:15
  really funny is, is how that 40K investment is just gonna
• 46:19
  outperform everything else the bank is holding.
• 46:22
  And of course, you know, no one is better than their incentives.
• 46:25
  And it creates A domino effect. I was, you know, I had a I was
• 46:28
  very lucky enough to have a a conversation with Sailor in
• 46:33
  Bitcoin Atlantis in Portugal. And one of the questions that I
• 46:37
  asked him was like, dude, you you have proved this strategy.
• 46:41
  I didn't say dude, but I said, Michael, you've proved this
• 46:44
  strategy. It's very clear, like, you're
• 46:46
  outperforming everything. Why isn't anybody following you?
• 46:51
  And he was just like, I like, like, I don't really know, like,
• 46:54
  you know, and I'm like, is it like a regulation thing?
• 46:57
  Is it like a thing? He's like, I don't know.
• 46:59
  Well, guys, this is a massive deal.
• 47:05
  We have Tesla. We have MicroStrategy and now we
• 47:09
  have the second largest European bank.
• 47:12
  Even though it's not a large amount, but I guarantee you
• 47:14
  Bitcoin's incentives and number go up is going to do its thing
• 47:17
  and they're going to of course put in more.
• 47:20
  This is the next domino to fall. I can't emphasize enough how big
• 47:25
  of a deal this is in terms of institutional Bitcoin adoption.
• 47:30
  And this is extremely good for one side of the coin, which is
• 47:34
  the number go up aspect of that right.
• 47:37
  And then the other side is the revolution aspect.
• 47:39
  This is indifferent to the revolution because they're just
• 47:41
  getting exposure to the ETF. But this is a big effing deal
• 47:46
  because as a number go up does its thing as Bitcoin 10 XS, 20
• 47:50
  XS from here, what do you think they're going to do that very
• 47:54
  tiny allocation? They're going to say, you know
• 47:56
  what, it's probably a good idea to to get some more.
• 47:59
  So they tip, they dip their toes in the best Jacuzzi in town and
• 48:06
  they're definitely gonna, you know, they're definitely gonna
• 48:08
  put a foot in after this because, you know, I mean I've
• 48:13
  seen this before. I've seen this behavior before,
• 48:15
  especially with like older kind of high net worth individuals.
• 48:19
  They, you know, they start with a a small allocation and then
• 48:26
  what tends to happen is, you know, the number go up, does its
• 48:30
  thing, They realize it's outperforming everything else in
• 48:34
  their portfolio and then they start putting more and then Fast
• 48:38
  forward a couple years later, they end up aping in, right.
• 48:42
  So, you know, this is a really good step in the right
• 48:44
  direction. This is the first kind of major
• 48:47
  domino to fall. This is a major bank.
• 48:50
  So it's definitely a step in the right direction.
• 48:52
  Anyways guys, there's almost 1000 of you guys watching live
• 48:55
  between all the platforms, so if you guys are enjoying the show
• 48:58
  so far, make sure to smash. That like button really, really
• 49:02
  helps with the algos and helps push the Bitcoin message
• 49:07
  forward. So smash that like button if
• 49:09
  you're enjoying the show so far. And I also want to update you
• 49:13
  guys on the law fair. We touched upon it a little bit
• 49:15
  earlier on in the show, but I wanted to get dive more into the
• 49:20
  details. So Binance, you know, CZ was he
• 49:24
  was sentenced to four months in prison.
• 49:27
  He is going to be the wealthiest man to ever serve a a prison
• 49:31
  sentence. The reason I'm saying this,
• 49:33
  guys, is because in 2008, 2009, you can say that a lot of laws
• 49:38
  were broken, a lot of Main Street got absolutely hammered
• 49:42
  and Main St. bailed out Wall Street.
• 49:45
  No large notable banker went to jail for 2008 and 2009.
• 49:52
  Why? Because they're probably in
• 49:54
  government, dude. Like, you know, the head, the
• 49:58
  head of the Treasury and the head of the Fed, usually the
• 50:02
  head of the Treasury, they usually were, you know, a lot of
• 50:04
  them worked at Goldman, right? So, like, they're part of their
• 50:07
  apparatus, they're part of the cartel, and they play by a
• 50:11
  different set of rules than everyone else.
• 50:13
  So listen, whatever you feel about, however which way you
• 50:18
  feel about CZ, OK, I get it. Bitcoiners, they don't like shit
• 50:23
  coins. I get it.
• 50:24
  You don't like Binance, You think it's a shit coin casino.
• 50:27
  I understand. But if you're rooting that a
• 50:31
  shit coin entrepreneur by the way, it's not SPF, right?
• 50:35
  That literally stole people's money, right?
• 50:38
  Is going to jail for quote, UN quote money laundering.
• 50:42
  Mind you, all the banks, they they launder them in a vast
• 50:46
  majority of the money. All they get is fines.
• 50:49
  Then you're lost in the sauce and you're not paying attention,
• 50:52
  right? You know, of course, like I
• 50:55
  said, CZ Shit Coiner pushed a lot of shit coins on people,
• 51:00
  wrecked a lot of people. You could definitely make all of
• 51:03
  those arguments. But listen, at the end of the
• 51:05
  day I'm a libertarian. At the limit of the day, I'm a
• 51:08
  capitalist hardcore, like unapologetic capitalist.
• 51:12
  And like, dude, like, if people want to buy shit coins because
• 51:16
  that's what you wanna do. Like I'm telling you, you
• 51:19
  shouldn't and you're gonna wreck yourself.
• 51:21
  But if you wanna gamble, like, dude, that's up to you.
• 51:24
  That's all you, man. So yes, this happened the same
• 51:29
  day that they arrested Roger Ver.
• 51:33
  Again, very symbolic. This is all happening around the
• 51:37
  same time as the Samurai news. All happening around the same
• 51:41
  times as the FBI released that press release basically saying
• 51:46
  that, hey, you know what guys? You know self custody might be
• 51:53
  unlicensed money transmission, right?
• 51:56
  Come on dude. Like, use common sense.
• 52:00
  It's symbolic. They're trying to send a
• 52:02
  message. They're letting you know, hey,
• 52:04
  we're still in charge over here. Roger Ver.
• 52:06
  Charged with mail fraud, tax evasion, and filing false tax
• 52:11
  returns. It goes on to say Ver is accused
• 52:14
  of neglecting to file tax returns on asset sales and
• 52:17
  failing to pay a United States exit tax on capital gains.
• 52:21
  He gave up his US citizenship and set up businesses and
• 52:26
  secured citizenship and say Kitts and Nevitts.
• 52:29
  The indictment claims that by 2017 verz 22US regimes memory
• 52:34
  dealers in Agistar owned approximately 70,000 Bitcoin.
• 52:38
  In November 2017, Ver allegedly sold 10s of thousands of them on
• 52:43
  cryptocurrency exchanges for approximately $240 million in
• 52:47
  cash. Even though Ver was not AUS
• 52:50
  citizen, he was still legally required to report to the IRS
• 52:56
  and pay tax on certain distributions, such as dividends
• 53:00
  from memory dealers and Agilestar, which were US
• 53:02
  corporations. Ver allegedly concealed from his
• 53:06
  accountant that he had received and sold Memory Dealers and
• 53:09
  Agilestar bitcoins that year. As a result, Verz 2017
• 53:14
  Individual Income Tax Return did not report any gain or pay any
• 53:18
  tax related to the distribution of memory dealers and
• 53:21
  Agilestar's Bitcoin to him. In total, Burr is alleged to
• 53:25
  have caused a loss to the IRS of at least $48 million in
• 53:31
  statement in the indictment. So again, two things could be
• 53:34
  true at the same time. And I and I, I don't want you
• 53:37
  guys to get lost in the sauce, OK, there's an exit tax.
• 53:41
  It's the law, right? The other thing that can be true
• 53:46
  at the same time, he's not AUS citizen.
• 53:51
  He gave up his citizenship, he's still required to report to
• 53:55
  Uncle Sam, and they literally arrested him in a foreign
• 53:59
  country saying you didn't pay taxes to us.
• 54:02
  My meanwhile, you know, Congress is sending billions of dollars
• 54:07
  overseas, spending 1.72023, spending $1.7 trillion more than
• 54:15
  they collect in tax revenue. And you know, if you take a
• 54:18
  look, I'm not going to name any names, but if you take a look at
• 54:21
  some of these senators and congressmen and women, they
• 54:24
  happen to be some of the best traitors on planet Earth.
• 54:28
  So I mean, like rules for thee, but not for me.
• 54:32
  If you're part of the political elite class, if you're part of
• 54:34
  the cartel, you could do it. If you know you're outside of
• 54:40
  the cartel class. Nah, dude, you're an absolute
• 54:43
  criminal. We're going to put you in a box,
• 54:45
  bro. So like, yeah, like he, he broke
• 54:48
  the law. Like, you can't, you know,
• 54:51
  allegedly he broke the law. Like you you can't deny that.
• 54:53
  Like that is the law. But you know, I have a right to
• 54:57
  criticize an like an exit tax. Like that is nuts.
• 55:01
  That is crazy. And mind you like what like and
• 55:07
  this is not discussed about like he took the risk, right.
• 55:13
  Entrepreneurs take the risk. They don't reward you when you
• 55:17
  fail, but they want a cut of it when you don't fail.
• 55:20
  It even got to the point where even Peter McCormack, right,
• 55:25
  where he had a very hard stance on that.
• 55:26
  So he's like, yeah, guys, you know what?
• 55:28
  You're right. You know tax is theft because
• 55:31
  the way that it, like if you just use common sense and you,
• 55:34
  you break it down, right. Like here's Walker America.
• 55:38
  So the United States of America holds its citizens prisoner.
• 55:41
  If you want to leave but do not pay taxes on your unrealized
• 55:44
  capital gains, they will find you and put you in a box.
• 55:46
  Meanwhile, the government prints money out of thin air and sends
• 55:49
  your tax dollars to fund foreign wars.
• 55:52
  A lot of confusion about whether the government is actually
• 55:54
  totalitarian that would tax your unrealized gains.
• 55:57
  Sadly, it is. Quote all property of a covered
• 56:01
  expirate is deemed sold for its fair market value on the day
• 56:04
  before the expiration date. And now connect this with.
• 56:11
  Now I want you guys to connect this with what happened with
• 56:17
  Jack Mahler's dad. Like in in the recent
• 56:21
  administration proposed 44% capital gains tax and then the
• 56:26
  67% capital gains tax in Canada. Like what are we getting for
• 56:32
  that? You take all the risk.
• 56:35
  You build a business, you know, you speculate, you make an
• 56:39
  investment. If it goes S, fuck you.
• 56:43
  If it goes N You make some money.
• 56:46
  Give me some of that. And then what do you get in
• 56:48
  return for this? And remember, this has been a
• 56:53
  regulatory creep. They've SIOP people into
• 56:56
  believing into this because when they initially instituted the
• 57:00
  federal income tax in 1913, which coincidentally happens to
• 57:04
  be the same year that they established the Federal Reserve,
• 57:07
  you know what? The income tax was 1%, 1%.
• 57:14
  And then over years, what do they do?
• 57:16
  Because they can't convince people, hey, we're going to
• 57:18
  start off with 39% the top income we're going to start off
• 57:21
  with, no, no, no, they say it's only going to be 1%.
• 57:23
  Then they normalize it in people's minds.
• 57:26
  The Bank Secrecy Act. Same thing.
• 57:28
  Normalization when they pass the Bank Secrecy Act, which
• 57:31
  basically makes it so that every $10,000 transaction is reported
• 57:35
  to the government. In 1970, when they passed that,
• 57:39
  the Bank Secrecy Act had the equivalent of of of $80,000
• 57:42
  worth of purchasing power today. So everyone at night says it's
• 57:46
  $80,000. That's a that's a pretty big
• 57:48
  amount. The number stayed the same.
• 57:50
  Now it's $10,000. Now, in the Inflation Reduction
• 57:53
  Act, which they tried to, they tried to squeeze this in.
• 57:56
  They were even lowering that so that every $600.00 transaction
• 58:00
  had to be reported. Meanwhile, the Pentagon,
• 58:03
  unaudited, failed its audits. It's like billions of dollars of
• 58:07
  unaccounted stuff. When they pulled out of
• 58:10
  Afghanistan, they left billions of dollars worth of equipment
• 58:14
  right to the people that we were fighting, supposedly that
• 58:17
  Americans died fighting against. And they left billions of
• 58:21
  dollars of equipment so that they can use it themselves.
• 58:23
  So it's kind of like like we're just going to do whatever the F
• 58:28
  we want about the money we're going to spend, money we don't
• 58:31
  have. We're going to print the
• 58:32
  difference and all you guys have to foot the bill or else we're
• 58:36
  going to use our monopoly on violence to put you in a box,
• 58:40
  like, you know, the law's the law.
• 58:43
  But what I think is unjust is that they don't even follow
• 58:47
  their own rules, right. So anyways, I I do want to end
• 58:51
  it with this because once again, you know, sovereign individual
• 58:57
  hits the nail on the head. The authors predicted that with
• 59:01
  the rise of this new cyberspace and consequently cybermoney, it
• 59:04
  will become harder for nation states to collect taxes from its
• 59:07
  citizens. They compared the state to a
• 59:09
  farmer keeping cows on the field to be milked, but that soon the
• 59:12
  cows will have wings. They predicted that the
• 59:15
  government to collect taxes from its citizens in this type of
• 59:18
  society, it would have to violate human rights even in
• 59:21
  traditionally civil countries would have to resort and turn
• 59:24
  nasty, lacking their accustomed scope to tax and inflate, which
• 59:28
  are essentially the same thing, Governments, even in
• 59:31
  traditionally civil countries, will turn nasty.
• 59:34
  As income tax becomes uncollectible, older and more
• 59:36
  arbitrary methods of extraction will resurface.
• 59:40
  The ultimate form of withholding tax.
• 59:42
  The de facto or even overt hostage taking will be
• 59:46
  introduced by governments desperate to prevent wealth from
• 59:49
  escaping beyond their reach. Unlucky individuals will find
• 59:53
  themselves signaled out and held to ransom in an almost medieval
• 59:56
  fashion. Businesses that offer offer
• 1:00:00
  services that facilitate the realization of autonomy by
• 1:00:03
  individuals will be subject to infiltration, sabotage, and
• 1:00:06
  disruption. Samurai right.
• 1:00:08
  Arbitrary forfeiture of property, already commonplace in
• 1:00:11
  the United States where it occurs 5000 times a week, will
• 1:00:14
  become even more pervasive. Governments will violate human
• 1:00:17
  rights, censor, censor the free flow of information, sabotage
• 1:00:21
  useful technologies. And worse, this is the
• 1:00:26
  separation of money and state. That is what's happening.
• 1:00:30
  You have a literally front row view to all this.
• 1:00:34
  But you know what guys? I think we're going to win.
• 1:00:36
  And I think we're going to win because incentives are more
• 1:00:39
  powerful than coercion and Bitcoin has the best incentives
• 1:00:45
  the world has ever seen. Anyways, Opti, what's your take
• 1:00:49
  on this, brother? Are you ready to move to El
• 1:00:51
  Salvador? No, not yet.
• 1:00:52
  I still love America. I'm not.
• 1:00:54
  I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving until it gets
• 1:00:56
  even more worse. But hey, you know, you know how
• 1:00:59
  it goes, guys. But, Nico, hold on.
• 1:01:01
  You asked a rhetorical question. And Nico, come on, bro, think
• 1:01:03
  about the roads. Sheesh.
• 1:01:05
  What about my roads? Nico, what are we going to do?
• 1:01:08
  If they can't steal from money from us?
• 1:01:10
  We won't have roads. What's going on here?
• 1:01:12
  Nico, you're you're such a. You're such a radical.
• 1:01:15
  Anyways, I'm. I'm trolling guys.
• 1:01:17
  You know bad joke didn't. Anyways the the sovereign
• 1:01:20
  individual is so prophetic. Like it's it's absolutely
• 1:01:23
  incredible that that book was written.
• 1:01:25
  What was it like 97 and what where?
• 1:01:28
  I don't know, 27 years down the line and it's it's it's almost
• 1:01:33
  like a blueprint. You know, I I, I love sci-fi
• 1:01:36
  movies growing up and sci-fi books and all that stuff.
• 1:01:40
  And as as someone that loved those books, I'm always kind of
• 1:01:44
  reminded on the idea like these were supposed to be cautionary
• 1:01:48
  tales, not actually blueprints for what's going on.
• 1:01:51
  And it seems like the Sovereign individual is kind of the same
• 1:01:53
  thing. It's like, guys, this is what's
• 1:01:55
  going to happen. You know it's going to happen,
• 1:01:58
  and here we are. We're just watching it happen in
• 1:02:00
  slow motion. And I just really hope maybe
• 1:02:02
  more people read the book or more people wake up to what's
• 1:02:04
  actually happening in the world. But anyways, going back to the
• 1:02:09
  BNP Parabas Bank, I think this is an incredible milestone.
• 1:02:15
  You know, we had corporations getting into Bitcoin, the Tesla,
• 1:02:18
  the MicroStrategy, we had nation states, which is El Salvador and
• 1:02:21
  there's a lot of rumors of of more nation states making
• 1:02:24
  Bitcoin strategy, Bitcoin playbooks, of course the
• 1:02:28
  individual out there and now we have a huge bank holding
• 1:02:32
  Bitcoin. So of course they're not even a
• 1:02:35
  whole corner yet. So that's kind of the silver
• 1:02:36
  lining here. You know, like I I was kind of
• 1:02:40
  hoping the bank could get in a little later than this.
• 1:02:41
  But hey, it is what it is. Who am I?
• 1:02:43
  I'm just a guy on YouTube talking about Bitcoin.
• 1:02:45
  But I think it's still a very important moment in time.
• 1:02:49
  Again, remember the Titanic grant that I had yesterday?
• 1:02:51
  Like these institutions move very slowly before they fully go
• 1:02:57
  full D Gen. mode. So yeah, they're just kind of
• 1:02:59
  dip in their toes, but it's still a milestone.
• 1:03:02
  I think going down in history, BMP will be considered the
• 1:03:06
  first, you know, actual bank to put Bitcoin on their balance
• 1:03:09
  sheet or rather you know, get some spot Bitcoin ETF approval.
• 1:03:13
  Of course, the whole it's captured Bitcoin, all that
• 1:03:16
  stuff, and it really kind of got tying it all into everything
• 1:03:19
  we're talking about today. It really leads into the idea
• 1:03:23
  that they they want to incentivize you guys to save in
• 1:03:26
  the captured Bitcoin. Hence why we always say no, you
• 1:03:29
  want to hold your own keys. This is the best way to actually
• 1:03:32
  hold some Bitcoin. This is the way that we win.
• 1:03:34
  If you don't take Bitcoin into custody, if you don't hold your
• 1:03:36
  own keys, then they can continue to manipulate the markets.
• 1:03:40
  And this is how we win. When enough of us are holding
• 1:03:42
  and transacting in Bitcoin, all of this will be moot.
• 1:03:45
  It will all be irrelevant. So you know, on the flip side,
• 1:03:49
  as I was saying as the toxic bitcoiner here, I was just kind
• 1:03:53
  of hoping this would take a little longer.
• 1:03:54
  But hey, I'm sure some of our audience has bigger stacks than
• 1:03:58
  the second largest banking brand.
• 1:03:59
  So absolutely awesome. What?
• 1:04:03
  What was their holdings like? Less than less than half a coin
• 1:04:06
  or something like that. Kind of interesting.
• 1:04:08
  All right. And then kind of moving on to
• 1:04:09
  the other stuff. Look, I I might get trolled
• 1:04:12
  here. This might be an unpopular take
• 1:04:13
  on the show, but not going to lie, you know, CZ basically
• 1:04:17
  becoming a billionaire and getting a slap on the wrist for
• 1:04:20
  four months. It seems like a pretty good
• 1:04:21
  trade. I'm not going to lie, man.
• 1:04:26
  Oh my goodness. Wow.
• 1:04:28
  And then you know on on the Roger verse stuff like I'm never
• 1:04:34
  going to applaud the state. I'm not the biggest fan of
• 1:04:37
  Rodger Burr it seems like you know it adds to the meme of
• 1:04:42
  don't shit coin it's bad for you.
• 1:04:43
  I I kind of reading in a little bit of what happened that that
• 1:04:46
  seems to be the case. You know, selling his Bitcoin
• 1:04:50
  for a big holding of B cash and and them retroactively going
• 1:04:54
  backwards to basically say you know Bitcoin was worthless but
• 1:04:57
  now you you you what? What was the actual wording they
• 1:05:00
  said the US, the IRS missed out on on their games.
• 1:05:04
  It's like you're a slave, you're a tax slave and we're going to
• 1:05:09
  get her cut no matter what. So, you know, it's it's very
• 1:05:13
  unfortunate. It's absolutely terrifying for
• 1:05:16
  every single one of us bitcoiners.
• 1:05:17
  But in full transparency, I knew about the exit tax, but I didn't
• 1:05:22
  know you had to continue paying for years afterwards.
• 1:05:25
  That makes me not want to go anywhere else.
• 1:05:29
  I'm not going to El Salvador, you're crazy.
• 1:05:32
  But I think this is the real silver lining here, especially
• 1:05:36
  considering everything we've seen in the last week or two.
• 1:05:39
  This is very clearly a a warning shot.
• 1:05:43
  This is very clearly a an attempt to scare people out of
• 1:05:47
  holding Bitcoin. This is them trying to make a
• 1:05:49
  point and man, like again, it's heating up and and we knew this
• 1:05:53
  was going to happen and man, it just, it's one of those things
• 1:05:57
  where like Nico called me and we were on the phone, we're like,
• 1:05:59
  Oh my goodness, like buckle up Buttercup.
• 1:06:01
  Things are starting to heat up. It's getting crazy.
• 1:06:05
  It's definitely them trying to send a message and scare people
• 1:06:07
  away from holding Bitcoin, transacting the Bitcoin, which
• 1:06:09
  means we're just winning so hard.
• 1:06:11
  And like to me this is a blatant all the things we've seen in the
• 1:06:15
  last week, it's all very, very obvious that they are terrified.
• 1:06:21
  They're desperate. And the more they attack Bitcoin
• 1:06:24
  and bitcoiners, the more I know that they are just absolutely
• 1:06:28
  terrified of Bitcoin. So continue to huddle.
• 1:06:30
  Continue to take your Bitcoin into custody while it's still
• 1:06:33
  legal here in the States. You're not breaking laws that,
• 1:06:36
  you know, privacy is good, all that stuff.
• 1:06:39
  But man it it's getting crazy. It's it's definitely getting
• 1:06:41
  crazy as a bitcoiner. So man, I don't know, I I can't
• 1:06:46
  really add more to that. But Anders, what's your thoughts
• 1:06:49
  on all this stuff? Yeah, I I think Nico touched on
• 1:06:53
  something that I always found very interesting and that was
• 1:06:57
  that none of the bankers that all work together on the
• 1:07:02
  government side, Treasury, the Fed or the the big bankers that
• 1:07:05
  got people wrecked. People lost their homes, they
• 1:07:08
  lost their fortunes, they went bankrupt.
• 1:07:10
  And then what? What I never forget is that the
• 1:07:13
  banks got bailed out with hundreds of millions of dollars,
• 1:07:17
  billions of dollars. And just a year after they
• 1:07:22
  started getting massive bonuses, these banks that got people
• 1:07:26
  wrecked got once again, you know, phenomenally rich, the
• 1:07:30
  people running the show with no consequence what whatsoever.
• 1:07:33
  So yeah, it it it. We have to take things in our
• 1:07:37
  own hand. Everything is a racket.
• 1:07:38
  We're being abused. The lifeblood is being sucked
• 1:07:42
  out of of the normal person. If you're not part of of the the
• 1:07:45
  power structure, starting with central banks, government,
• 1:07:50
  military, industrial complex, big pharma, you're you're just
• 1:07:57
  going to be a slave to the system forever.
• 1:07:59
  The only way we can opt out is Bitcoin where they can't steal
• 1:08:02
  our wealth. That's what they're trying now.
• 1:08:04
  That's why we're seeing the attacks and self custody.
• 1:08:07
  But that's the only way that we can get out of that slavery
• 1:08:14
  situation that we essentially are in.
• 1:08:18
  So yeah. Love it bro. 100% man, 100%
• 1:08:26
  things are crazy. Things are heating up.
• 1:08:28
  Buckle up. You know the the separation of
• 1:08:31
  money and stay. Guys like this is this is a this
• 1:08:33
  is a big deal. Anyways, guys, I'm excited to
• 1:08:36
  get into the culture to talk about the Pleb party.
• 1:08:40
  Let's let's end the show on a, on a happy note, right on a on a
• 1:08:44
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  All right, Opti is all yours, my friend.
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  Let's go. All right.
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  Well, we got Anders live on the show, so we're gonna talk about
• 1:10:41
  the Pleb Party in Nashville. And I'll just give you the
• 1:10:46
  floor, bro. Let's, let's talk about, maybe
• 1:10:48
  let's talk about the one in Miami to give people kind of the
• 1:10:50
  context of what they can get into.
• 1:10:53
  And then we'll get into all the details of what they can expect
• 1:10:56
  in Nashville. Sure.
• 1:10:58
  I mean, well, I I, I want to start all the way back in in Los
• 1:11:00
  Angeles with the first one that I organized that was before the
• 1:11:05
  1st Pacific Bitcoin and around 400 people came through and it
• 1:11:13
  was a lot of fun. I think we talk about it all the
• 1:11:16
  time. One thing is being on Twitter or
• 1:11:18
  other social media as a Bitcoin, but but meeting in real life is
• 1:11:21
  where the magic happens. And that's all I wanted to do,
• 1:11:24
  really facilitate that, you know, we can get together and
• 1:11:26
  have a have a a beer, drink, whatever.
• 1:11:30
  And the feedback I got from that, which kind of surprised
• 1:11:37
  me. I didn't think about it, but I
• 1:11:39
  was very happy to hear that. Everyone told me that the
• 1:11:42
  conference had become was a lot better for them because they now
• 1:11:47
  when they entered the next day at the conference they already
• 1:11:51
  had a bunch of friends there because that met the night
• 1:11:55
  opportunity like in in LA, you know Larry Leppart James Lavish
• 1:12:01
  Nellie Brunell Crypto Cobble Mark Moss Jeff Booth showed up
• 1:12:07
  and and and it gives people a chance to say cheers and have a
• 1:12:13
  conversation with some of these people that they that they don't
• 1:12:17
  have at the conference because there's you know 20,000 people
• 1:12:20
  and they're hard to to get hold of.
• 1:12:22
  And Miami was really taking it a a step further since I lost you
• 1:12:27
  know since I lost money on doing something for free.
• 1:12:31
  I thought OK let me let me charge a ticket because then we
• 1:12:34
  can do something more and and that led to this amazing rooftop
• 1:12:39
  in Miami with it was actually a outdoor cinema.
• 1:12:43
  So there's a cinema screen where I decided to run an hour of the
• 1:12:46
  best Bitcoin Twitter video memes.
• 1:12:49
  Just run and repeat, which people loved.
• 1:12:51
  That was great and fun. It was a lot of fun putting it
• 1:12:54
  together. I was just, you know, dying
• 1:12:56
  laughing for a couple of days there.
• 1:12:59
  And again, a lot, a lot of, you know, the people that we know
• 1:13:02
  showed up. I would say Michael Saylor being
• 1:13:03
  the biggest name in this space. He showed up, which was awesome.
• 1:13:07
  He came to hang out with the plebs.
• 1:13:08
  So people got some great experiences and not only you
• 1:13:13
  know Pleb to Pleb but also some of these let's, I don't know
• 1:13:16
  what we call them big plebs or whatever.
• 1:13:18
  You know well known content creators that are amazing minds
• 1:13:21
  and and nice to speak with. And so yeah that that happened
• 1:13:28
  in in Miami and it's really based on Poppy and I starting
• 1:13:33
  Toxic Happy on YouTube in in 2020 doing YouTube for one year
• 1:13:38
  then going on spaces and and a lot of these well know people
• 1:13:45
  show then you hang out and and it's the same now for for
• 1:13:51
  Nashville as well. All that that's there's a really
• 1:13:55
  nice show up so you can have a drink and talk to them.
• 1:13:59
  This time I decided to make it a 12 hour party.
• 1:14:03
  Couple years ago I found out that my grandfather was an epic
• 1:14:07
  party thrower and he did with his friends 12 hour parties and
• 1:14:11
  people loved it and they could party nonstop.
• 1:14:13
  So I'm like yeah, that actually feels like I have that in my
• 1:14:16
  jeans because I want to stop a party if it's seven hours like
• 1:14:19
  in in Miami. So.
• 1:14:22
  So I decided to make it noon to midnight.
• 1:14:24
  It's open bar, it's catered food.
• 1:14:28
  So you know once once you're there, you don't have to get
• 1:14:30
  your wallet out unless you want to tip someone.
• 1:14:32
  And yeah, it's going to be a blast.
• 1:14:35
  I found an amazing venue in in Nashville which is 8 minute Uber
• 1:14:40
  drive from the conference venue called Marathon Music Works.
• 1:14:44
  It was an automobile factory in 1910 that was built, you know,
• 1:14:48
  one of those 1000 automobile factories that that went
• 1:14:53
  bankrupt before. You know, things really kind of
• 1:14:56
  consolidated in that industry. So it's a really cool building,
• 1:15:00
  lots of different rooms. There's a backstage room where
• 1:15:02
  I'm thinking to put a DJ. There's like sidebars
• 1:15:06
  everywhere. It's just awesome.
• 1:15:07
  Like brick walls. And yeah, I I don't know what
• 1:15:10
  else to say. I'm looking forward.
• 1:15:12
  People can get there, you know. Thanks for putting it on the
• 1:15:14
  screen. Can get that ticket on
• 1:15:16
  plattpartynashville.com. Right now the tickets are
• 1:15:19
  $210.00, but you know, every every time I've sold out a a a
• 1:15:24
  batch of tickets then the price notches up.
• 1:15:29
  So yeah, don't, don't don't be like in Miami where it was sold
• 1:15:34
  out eight days before and and people wanted to pay anything
• 1:15:39
  they could to get in companies, you know willing to swing the
• 1:15:43
  big corporate credit card. But the the, the, the problem
• 1:15:46
  was the fire regulation. So we just couldn't, we couldn't
• 1:15:50
  let in more people. So yeah, I mean get your ticket.
• 1:15:53
  It's going to be amazing. A lot of people, actually a lot
• 1:15:55
  of my friends are saying they're going to come to the party, but
• 1:15:58
  without going to the conference. I think a lot of people are are
• 1:16:01
  going to a lot of the side events this year.
• 1:16:05
  Yeah, I see you picked up something on the Eventbrite side
• 1:16:08
  there. This is a go ahead.
• 1:16:12
  Yeah, go. No go for it.
• 1:16:14
  No, it's just like people find it funny with it.
• 1:16:16
  You know this is a Bitcoin only event.
• 1:16:18
  Anyone shilling shit coins NFTS will be escorted out of the
• 1:16:21
  venue with no refund to take a spot with a few acronyms like
• 1:16:26
  GFY and HFSP. And I think Gary Leland is doing
• 1:16:30
  a great job with a bit block boom and if he sees these things
• 1:16:34
  he refund people and and and and they get told to leave But I I,
• 1:16:39
  you know if that's if that's your agenda is he's just out and
• 1:16:43
  I'm not going to deal with that man you know.
• 1:16:45
  But thank you for for for for supporting.
• 1:16:51
  Yeah. I I'm a I'm a I'm a huge fan of
• 1:16:55
  the the the Miami one was great and the venue was was was
• 1:16:59
  amazing and I I got there a little bit later and I was
• 1:17:01
  already kind of like tipsy and stuff and just having a great
• 1:17:04
  time and it was it was surreal because I grew up there that's
• 1:17:10
  where I grew up. I grew up on Miami Beach.
• 1:17:11
  I grew up on South Beach. So the fact that, you know, you
• 1:17:13
  guys were throwing it there was just was like, like, wow, this
• 1:17:17
  come full circle. This is, this is crazy, right?
• 1:17:20
  So you know, the venue that you found, the party, the
• 1:17:24
  atmosphere, the people, the conversations was absolutely
• 1:17:28
  incredible. So when I heard that you're
• 1:17:29
  throwing a second one, you know, I got incredibly excited.
• 1:17:34
  This is the Bitcoin side event that you wanna go to if you're
• 1:17:39
  gonna be in Nashville, Bitcoin 2024, you don't want to miss
• 1:17:44
  this. This is where everybody is going
• 1:17:46
  to be at. I mean everybody, like we just
• 1:17:49
  mentioned a few big names. But what tends to happen is
• 1:17:53
  like, it it it you people start having FOMO, right?
• 1:17:57
  And what you don't want to happen is you end up going,
• 1:18:02
  'cause you're like, oh, you know, I'll just wait.
• 1:18:04
  I'll just, you know, I I won't buy tickets or maybe this isn't
• 1:18:07
  for me. But what you're what's going to
• 1:18:09
  happen is you're going to be in Nashville, right?
• 1:18:11
  You're going to have nothing to do that night and you're going
• 1:18:13
  to text your friends, and your friends are going to be like,
• 1:18:16
  I'm at the Pleb party and then at that point, guess what bro,
• 1:18:20
  There's no more tickets and they're not going to let you in
• 1:18:22
  the door, right? So like, I know how this stuff
• 1:18:25
  works. I, I, I proof of stake the fuck
• 1:18:28
  out of my entry last year because they tried to stop me at
• 1:18:32
  the door and I was like, no, I'm Nico and I waved at Anders and
• 1:18:36
  they let me in, right? So like, yes, dude.
• 1:18:41
  And then that's why I'm telling you guys that warning, right?
• 1:18:44
  Like they're gonna lock the door, all your friends are gonna
• 1:18:49
  be there and you're not gonna be able to get in.
• 1:18:52
  So you wanna get your tickets there, Opti?
• 1:18:55
  And are gonna be there. Hopefully wine will be there.
• 1:18:58
  I saw him in the chat. Rustin's going to be there.
• 1:19:00
  Our whole, our whole crew is going to be there.
• 1:19:03
  No, Nico's not going to be able to get you in.
• 1:19:07
  I barely got myself in. I think I almost got beat up by
• 1:19:09
  the bouncer. Thank God.
• 1:19:11
  I thank God Anders saw my hand. Because if not, you know, they
• 1:19:15
  they wouldn't have let me in. So yeah, guys like you gotta,
• 1:19:19
  you know, you got to get your tickets quickly.
• 1:19:21
  I can't emphasize how fun these things are.
• 1:19:23
  Our event are are, are are 12 hours you you said all
• 1:19:28
  inclusive, can you go a little bit into that?
• 1:19:30
  What does that mean, Anders? I mean you you order anything
• 1:19:33
  you want from the bar and you know you have your, you know
• 1:19:40
  whatever cocktail is is, is you go to it's there's a bunch of
• 1:19:43
  different beers. You know it's it's a normal full
• 1:19:47
  bar really. And and then I'll make sure
• 1:19:51
  there's food throughout which probably also is a good idea for
• 1:19:54
  people not to get you know overly intoxicated to make sure
• 1:19:59
  there's also some food in in your stomach.
• 1:20:01
  So I mean essentially that day you don't have to buy lunch.
• 1:20:07
  You don't have to buy dinner. You don't have to buy drinks for
• 1:20:09
  lunch or for dinner or in between or in the it's all
• 1:20:12
  there. It's all included and right now
• 1:20:14
  it's it's $210.00 but but they do go up and yeah, I would say
• 1:20:17
  Nico. What You brought up one of the
• 1:20:21
  best selling points and it is that people get to meet you and
• 1:20:25
  Opti and Roston and the whole crew and it's gonna be the the
• 1:20:29
  chance to go and pat you on the back and say cheers.
• 1:20:34
  Yeah, love it. And and and and also, like I I
• 1:20:36
  wanted to mention too, is that the it's not like the
• 1:20:41
  conference, Like, 'cause like, look, when when you know you
• 1:20:45
  wanna meet some of your favorite bitcoiners, like whether they
• 1:20:48
  wrote a really good, you know, article or book or something
• 1:20:52
  like that. What tends to happen, especially
• 1:20:56
  at the bigger conferences, is that like they're going like
• 1:21:01
  there's 1000 people that are lined up, you know, wanting to
• 1:21:07
  get their autograph figuratively, not literally, but
• 1:21:10
  like, you guys know what I'm saying?
• 1:21:11
  Like they want to meet, they want to shake their hand.
• 1:21:14
  It it's pretty, it's pretty difficult, right?
• 1:21:16
  So the awesome part about these like side events and the Pleb
• 1:21:20
  party specifically is that like people are going to have their
• 1:21:24
  defenses down. It's a party bro, right?
• 1:21:26
  Like it's a it's it's it's literally the definition of a
• 1:21:30
  social. It's like a social gathering.
• 1:21:32
  It's it's it's not like oh the stage and the this and and that.
• 1:21:36
  It's it's a different type of vibe.
• 1:21:38
  And then then that creates an opportunity where you can go up
• 1:21:41
  to some of these bit corners and start a conversation with them
• 1:21:44
  and you know they'll they'll they'll speak with you they'll
• 1:21:47
  talk to you, you know and it's it's a great networking event as
• 1:21:50
  well. So yeah it Pleb party's
• 1:21:52
  absolutely awesome get your tickets before they sold out.
• 1:21:56
  Pleb Party nashville.com Opti. Yeah, I want to chime in here.
• 1:22:01
  First and foremost can confirm Anders knows how to throw a good
• 1:22:05
  party. Every time I've been to hear
• 1:22:07
  parties I have probably way too much fun.
• 1:22:09
  It's so good to hang out with friend and 12 Hours is a
• 1:22:13
  marathon, so that's going to be epic.
• 1:22:15
  But just to be clear for all the audio listeners out there,
• 1:22:18
  Anders, how many slots do you have and what days are they
• 1:22:21
  exactly? How many slots?
• 1:22:24
  I have, yeah. How?
• 1:22:25
  How big is this party going to be?
• 1:22:26
  And then what day is the party? Right.
• 1:22:29
  So yeah, it's it's July 25 and there is capacity for 1000
• 1:22:35
  people there at anyone given time.
• 1:22:37
  And yes, you're right it's a marathon party and the building
• 1:22:40
  is called Marathon Music Works. So it's it's all set to be the
• 1:22:46
  biggest and the best so far. I I know Miami, I got so much
• 1:22:50
  positive feedback and and this one is the 1-2.
• 1:22:56
  Let's go. It's going to be lit.
• 1:23:02
  It's going to be lit. Absolutely, man.
• 1:23:05
  It's going to be awesome. Can't wait, can't wait for the
• 1:23:09
  Pleb Party. Nashville Pleb Party Two Point
• 1:23:11
  O. It's going to be absolutely
• 1:23:14
  awesome. I do want to thank Anders for
• 1:23:16
  joining us on Simply Bitcoin Live Today.
• 1:23:19
  You know, sharing with, sharing with the audience of the Pleb
• 1:23:22
  Party. It's going to be a great
• 1:23:24
  celebration. Guys, I I, look, I know a lot of
• 1:23:27
  people hang out on Bitcoin Twitter.
• 1:23:29
  And I was one of those people that, you know, I was like, look
• 1:23:32
  like, you know, I know you guys like, you know, whatever.
• 1:23:36
  But it was actually surfer Jim that was like, no, dude, like,
• 1:23:39
  you have to meet bitcoiners in person.
• 1:23:43
  And it was actually me and Opti that, you know, like that's like
• 1:23:46
  how me and Opti met for the first time in person, right?
• 1:23:48
  So, like, great things happen in meetspace.
• 1:23:51
  Not everything is through cyberspace.
• 1:23:53
  Meetspace is important. You're a human being, after all.
• 1:23:55
  Not a computer yet and yeah, it's gonna be a great time.
• 1:23:59
  So go to go to plebpartynational.com, get your
• 1:24:02
  tickets quickly before they sold out.
• 1:24:05
  And I do want to give a shout out.
• 1:24:06
  Thank you, Anders, for joining us on the show today.
• 1:24:08
  Thank you so much for having me. It's always a pleasure to to to
• 1:24:12
  to be in your show or to meet you guys in real life and hang
• 1:24:16
  out. So thank you Niko Nopti for
• 1:24:18
  having me for sure. And I appreciate it dude.
• 1:24:21
  Anyways, guys, that was our show.
• 1:24:23
  I'm your host. Nico is my legendary Co host
• 1:24:25
  Optimus Fields. Always optimistic, Maybe today,
• 1:24:28
  slightly nihilistic. But anyways, we are it's.
• 1:24:30
  Realistic fields today. We love you all.
• 1:24:33
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• 1:24:37
  Bitcoin. Anders, thank you once again for
• 1:24:39
  joining us. Peace out everybody.
• 1:24:41
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