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NEW REPORT PROVES This Bitcoin Bull Run is DIFFERENT!! | EP 1191 · Simply Bitcoin

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  Yo a new 51 page bombshell report was just dropped that
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  shows us some data that could prove that this bull run could
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  be different. This report also shows that
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  Bitcoin is at the same stage that the Internet was at in 1990
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  and social media in 2005. But despite the report showing
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  it's early, with global adoption levels at 3%, it also uncovered
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  some interesting data that could suggest why your chance to buy
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  Bitcoin under 100K could be disappearing forever.
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  Businesses are buying 1000 Bitcoin per day. 52% of the
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  world's top 25 hedge funds own Bitcoin.
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  But before we talk about the billionaire FOMO, let's dive
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  straight into the section of the report where we're going to be
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  talking about the Bitcoin cycle. So who's this report from?
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  The report is done by River Financial and of course I'm
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  going to bring up my legendary Co host and also my best friend
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  Optimus Fields in the house today.
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  Here we go jumping straight into the report.
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  This bull market is different. Now what's really interesting
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  too is that on top of the report, the report, the river
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  wrote a report, of course, but also Pierre Rashard and Pierre
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  Rashard wrote a, a, an amazing post on X and it was very
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  something very similar. This bull mark, this bull cycle
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  is different. So let's get into all the
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  details because this report is jam packed.
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  Let's do it. Here we go.
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  So this section is called #2 This bull market is different
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  and it compares bitcoins bull market, something that we've
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  been doing actually for the last couple weeks here.
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  It's simply Bitcoin. We've been using different data
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  and it's comparing the different bull markets.
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  So of course, the cycle of 2015 to 2017 and 11,000% performance
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  over 1068 days. The 2018 to 2021 bull market a
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  2000% performance over 1060 days and then 2022 to present, right
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  2025 apparently is the last year of of the current cycle.
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  If history repeats itself, a 566% performance over 800 days.
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  But again, this cycle is not over as this graphic clearly,
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  you know, shows and represents. I still believe, I come from the
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  school of thought that I think the end of this year is going to
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  be explosive. I think we're going to have a
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  great year and it compares the different cycles.
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  So current bull market not driven by global money supply
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  yet. As of now the, the Fed has not
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  started quantitative easing yet. They start having, they start,
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  they started, they haven't started money printer gober as
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  of yet. But of course that could change.
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  There are plans supposedly from what from the research I've
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  been, I've been doing that that's going to change by mid of
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  this year, right? And it could be explosive.
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  So anyway, so it, it, it compares the, the different
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  dynamics of the market cycles 2015 to 2017, there is an
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  increase of 19.3% in the global M2 money supply.
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  From 2018 to 2021 bull market, there is a 33% increase in M2
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  money supply. Now what's really interesting
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  again, check out the correlation.
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  Is it interesting, right? You see the 2017 bull market
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  peak. Look at the money supply, right?
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  Very, very interesting. Same thing in 20/18/2021.
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  Look at the bull market peak again, very, very similar to
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  where the money supply peaked. But take a look at the current
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  cycle, right? The money printer hasn't gone
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  Burr yet, right? And again, supposedly this is,
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  this is going to change by March of this year.
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  That's supposedly where people are anticipating that the Fed is
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  going to kind of change stances. Inflation was running hot.
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  So a dramatic shift in Bitcoin accumulation occurred in 2024.
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  Cycles were driven by individuals, but ETFs and
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  businesses were the primary Bitcoin accumulators.
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  In 2024, Bitcoin ETFs had record-breaking launches, adding
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  519,000 BTC in 2024. Businesses added 374,000 BTC in
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  2020, 431% more than in 2020. Part number three of the report
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  institutions are driving bitcoins price.
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  It goes on to say US spot Bitcoin ETFs reached 100 billion
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  driving 2024 price action. As you can see, the Bitcoin
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  price and the amount of Bitcoin held by the spot ETFs.
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  Again, there's a, there's a correlation there, right?
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  There's a correlation. There's definitely a correlation
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  in that chart. So Bitcoins growing up, Bitcoin
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  is growing up 100%. It's gone into the era of of
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  Wall Street, It's gone into the era of hedge funds,
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  institutional investors, governments.
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  But the question I think remains is, is Bitcoin becoming boring?
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  Is Bitcoin just becoming like like a well performing stock?
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  I mean, we shall see. We'll definitely find out by the
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  end of the year, that's for sure.
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  So 52% of the top 25 hedge funds and Rias own Bitcoin ETFs.
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  So the majority hedge funds and registered investment advisors
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  collectively manage over 135 trillion in the US alone, while
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  total exposure exceeds 30 billion.
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  Allocation sizes remain relatively small, however they
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  have increased each quarter since the launch of the ETFs.
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  So you know it compares the two. Take take a look at Q4 like
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  hedge funds want bananas. And again, you have to
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  understand hedge funds have long term thinking, right?
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  They're not D Gen. they're not D Gen. traders.
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  They're not no, no, no, no, no. They're thinking long term,
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  right? So when you see them
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  accumulating like this, you know they're not just doing this out
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  of, you know, OK, like let's buy some and then we'll sell it next
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  quarter. No, they're thinking long term.
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  They're thinking as Bitcoin as a long term investment.
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  And the fact that the majority of the top 25 hedge funds are
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  looking Bitcoin as a good long term investment, I mean, should
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  tell you everything you need to know.
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  So even though we dropped from 100,108 thousand to 86,000, I
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  mean, if you're selling your Bitcoin right now, make no
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  mistake, you are most more than likely selling it to institution
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  institutions. That's the reality.
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  So Bitcoin ETF ownership, distribution, hedge funds, asset
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  managers, sovereign wealth funds, non institutional
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  investors, Rias, and it keeps going business business Bitcoin
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  adoption is accelerating. So take a look at this.
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  Businesses have accumulated over 1000 Bitcoin per day since
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  January of 2024. Aggregate business Bitcoin
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  holdings. So it talks about strategy.
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  Of course, MicroStrategy, miners, other public companies,
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  private companies, public companies holding Bitcoin grew
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  by 80% in 2024. Do you think that's going to
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  slow down? Probably not the rise of Bitcoin
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  standard company. An increasing number of
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  companies are using Bitcoin as their primary treasury asset,
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  the main vehicle for holding retained earnings rather than
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  distributing earnings through dividends and share buybacks.
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  Right. Lightning Network continues to
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  grow, of course, you guys all know that, and Bitcoin custody
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  is maturing. Third party custodies are
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  evolving. You guys know how we feel about
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  that. The dramatic shift in nation
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  state adoption, all the regulatory changes, of course,
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  they've been positive. This is quite interesting.
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  Global Bitcoin adoption is at 3%.
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  We all talk about the famous S curve here in Bitcoin, right?
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  And it seems like river financial agrees with simply
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  Bitcoin, which is we're still in the early kind of adopter phase.
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  This is super fascinating for anyone who thinks they're late
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  to Bitcoin Bitcoins, you know, 86,000 I've missed the boat,
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  I've missed the train. Let's take this.
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  Let's take a look at this. Bitcoin adoption in 2025 is at
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  roughly 3% of its full potential.
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  The term adoption encompasses more than just Bitcoins price or
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  ownership levels, it reflects a combination of factors.
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  This 3% estimate is derived from a blend of key metrics which are
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  examined in this section. Total addressable market
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  Bitcoins market value remains below 1% of its total
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  addressable market. Institutional under allocation.
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  US based investment advisors collectively allocate just .006%
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  of their portfolios to Bitcoin global ownership.
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  While 14% of Americans own some Bitcoin, global ownership
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  remains under 4%. And they equate it to Bitcoin in
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  2025 is like online banking in 1996, social media in 2005 and
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  the Internet in 1990, Right. So I, I was around for the
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  social media in 2005. I remember when Facebook,
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  Myspace, you know, but it was just kind of like, it was like
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  fun, like everyone still thought it was a good idea to put all
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  their pictures online, you know, and it, it was like a different
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  era. I'm old enough to remember that.
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  So the next, the next part, which I think is really
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  interesting. Bitcoin is at less than 1% of
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  its total, a total addressable market.
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  Bitcoin accounts for .2% of total global wealth.
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  Bitcoins total addressable market is 225 trillion, assuming
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  a 50% market share of store of value assets.
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  So and it's comparing, excuse me, equities, gold art, I mean
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  just reaching gold. I think that's a that's like an
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  8X, right? That'd be wonderful.
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  But you know, that's more than 100 X essentially, you know, in
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  the, I think the only question is how long is it going to take
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  next step. Institutions are significantly
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  under investment in Bitcoin. U.S. investment advisors
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  currently having net Bitcoin allocation of just .006%.
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  How 128 trillion of U.S. investment advisor money is
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  allocated. And as you can see, Bitcoin is
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  this tiny little speck right here, right?
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  So, yeah, I do agree with the river Financial guys.
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  I I, I do believe that we're still in the early innings of
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  Bitcoin adoption. So yeah, I would take advantage
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  of the dip. Now I'm going to end it with
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  this, which is going to be, I'm not going to end it, but I'm
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  going to pass it on to Opti. It's this post by Pierre Richard
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  Love Pierre Richard. We recently had him on the on
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  simply Bitcoin IRL. Great bitcoiner has been around
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  for a long time, super smart and I love his analysis and his
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  insights. So he says the new Bitcoin bull
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  market. This Bitcoin bull market is
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  different from previous cycles historically, having
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  dramatically reduced bitcoins new supply sparked parabolic
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  price increases. However, with each having the
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  relative reduction in fresh in freshly minted Bitcoin
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  decreases, making this 4th having a smaller shock to the
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  market. As a result, we're seeing a more
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  gradual price growth that aligns with underlying demand.
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  Rather than the sharp run ups and crashes of the past, we're
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  looking at a longer or tempered cycle.
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  Such an environment will better reflect organic adoption as
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  institutional and retail buyers adopt Bitcoin on balance sheet.
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  President Trump's historic return to the White House is
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  ushering in a new regulatory era for Bitcoin, reversing the
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  strict capital controls and compliance burdens previously
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  placed on banks. By removing those limitations,
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  the current administration is willing to let Bitcoin grow
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  organically within an open financial framework.
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  This accommodating backdrop is fostering confidence among
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  institutional investors who rely on regulatory clarity before
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  deploying large amounts of capital.
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  Traditional capital markets have made significant strides in
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  embracing Bitcoin, from ETFs that wrap Bitcoin exposure into
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  a digestible format to large companies like MicroStrategy
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  that holds substantial reserves in BTC with intelligent
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  leverage, the financial industry is recognizing Bitcoins
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  potential as an alternative asset.
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  Hedge funds see opportunities to profit from price frames through
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  options and futures, while financial advisors increasingly
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  consider it a viable component of a diversified portfolio.
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  These developments bring liquidity and credibility to the
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  Bitcoin market, supporting a healthier price floor than in
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  past cycles. Risks remain over leveraged
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  traders will continue to spark sudden liquidations while
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  macroeconomic events and pauses and demand inevitably cause
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  periods of sideways actions and corrections within the bull run.
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  A relatively tight monetary environment, which is what I was
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  talking about in the beginning for USD, continues to be a
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  headwind for Bitcoin as well. Prudent risk management and
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  patience are in order. Even with these shifts in market
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  forces, Bitcoin score attributes, a permissionless
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  transaction technology and a verifiably scarce savings
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  vehicle remain intact. The dual role of Bitcoin as both
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  payment system and long term store value continues to
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  underpin its appeal to individuals, capital markets and
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  governments around the world. The long term strategy for
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  Bitcoin remains ongoing accumulation.
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  So I think this is an incredible analysis by Pierre Richard, and
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  it reminds me of something that I saw in the River Report, which
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  I think is worthwhile to mention, which is this cycle is
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  a little bit different in terms of US monetary policy right now.
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  All the other previous cycles had giant money printer go Burr.
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  And as you can see, this cycle, that's not the case at all.
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  Inflation is still running a little bit hot.
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  The inflation numbers came in it was like roughly at 3% higher
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  than what they wanted to be, which is 2%.
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  So yeah, great reports by River and a great ex post by Pierre
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  Richard. And just I I do agree I think
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  that this bull market is different.
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  However, However, I will say that when money printer goes
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  Burr again, and I will say that I am still extremely optimistic
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  and bullish by by the end of of by the end of I be at the end of
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  this year, I think we're going to be pleasantly surprised.
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  I do agree with American Huddle that this cycle reminds me a lot
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  of 2017. This gives me 2017 vibes.
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  And but we still do have to remember bitcoins growing up
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  Bitcoins growing up. It's not a teenager anymore.
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  Wall Street is here, large institutions are here.
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  It's it wouldn't be good for BlackRock if Bitcoin dropped
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  80%, right? So, you know, are we going to
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  get those drops into the future? No, I still think we'll have
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  like 50% corrections and 40% corrections.
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  I mean, right now we're in a 20% correction, which is a lot,
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  right? 20% discount, depending on how
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  you look at it. But yeah, I mean, I think
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  Bitcoin still kicking ass like always.
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  And you know, we're just in the very beginnings of this.
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  I just, I just think that the key theme and key message to get
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  from all of this, which is very good news for me and Opti,
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  because we'll be here to to talk to you about all this will be
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  will be your huddling entertainment through your
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  Bitcoin journey. Yeah, I think patience is the
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  keyword, right? Patience, focus on growing your
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  income so you could put more of your money into Bitcoin.
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  And you know, the future looks incredibly bright.
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  You know the total addressable mark, I mean, that's 100 X.
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  So whatever your net worth is in Bitcoin right now, multiply that
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  by 100 and that's where it could be at, right?
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  And that's River Financial saying that.
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  Also shout out to the Rumble audience today.
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  Seems like Rumble is popping off.
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  We're almost at 200 live viewers on Rumbles, so shout out to all
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  you guys. Of course, on YouTube we're at
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  5:25 and on X we're at 773. So if you guys are joining
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  Guys, help us break 100 likes within the 1st 30 minutes of the
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  Smash that like button. Let me ask you guys something.
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  If you believe that this bull market is different and drop A1
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  in the chat. If you believe that this bull
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  market is the same like the rest, we're just getting the
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  party started. Drop A2 in the chat.
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  Let us know your guys's thoughts and also be dropping a poll in
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  the chat very momentarily. Anyways, Opti, what are your
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  thoughts my brother? Well, first of all, I really
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  like that Pierre Rochard tweet. It's something we've been kind
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  of saying for a long time on the show, or rather the last couple
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  of months on the show, is it does feel like something is
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  fundamentally changing in the market.
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  And I guess we could all attribute it to the fact that
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  Bitcoin is maturing. We have institutions coming into
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  Bitcoin. We're seeing Bitcoin being
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  talked about it constantly on corporate press and it's not
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  being driven by retail. We all know that past cycles
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  have essentially been driven by retail.
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  Now, there was a lot of good stuff in this report.
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  I, I completely, you know, parse through the whole report to give
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  you guys some more insights on what's going on and kind of
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  Pierre Rochard really hit hit the nail on the head.
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  A lot of this stuff is the fundamentals of Bitcoin are
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  increasing. They're growing.
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  Obviously for people in the chat, the stuff you guys usually
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  talk about and and kind of you know throw insults at me about
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  it is not talking about the fundamentals.
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  Well, part of it was node counts going up hash rate is going up
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  hash rate is being distributed globally now one of the big
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  things that I noticed from this report is that one individual
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  still hold the bulk of the Bitcoin, but there was a chart
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  there Nico, where we were showing that individuals have
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  been selling a lot of Bitcoin. I think the number was roughly
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  around 525,000. Bitcoin have released the hands
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  of individuals and obviously is going into institutional
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  companies, whether it's the ETF or whether it's private company
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  balance sheets. But the bulk of Bitcoin, around
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  55% of all the Bitcoin in circulation is being held by
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  individuals. So I think it's a very healthy,
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  healthy distribution of the Bitcoin.
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  Obviously, seeing Lightning Network grow is great.
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  I think we've been hearing a lot of fun around Bitcoin the last
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  couple of weeks in the sense that people are saying, oh,
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  Lightning isn't being adopted and Lightning is a failure.
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  I think we've been hearing that for years.
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  And in reality, Lightnings, the only real layer 2 that there is,
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  it's not all these other block chains, it's Lightning.
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  And of course that's being driven.
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  By a lot of the Bitcoin exchange implementing lightning.
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  So that's awesome to see. And the last thing that I want
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  to say and really hit on is this idea of the global Bitcoin
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  adoption. It's still at least from this
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  River report, roughly around 3%. And of course you love the
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  analogies or the parallels of online banking in 1996 social
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  media in 2005 and the Internet in 1990.
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  And I know a lot of us kind of get this feeling, especially
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  because we're in these echo chambers that Bitcoin is already
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  fully adopted. We've we've been always playing
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  that 1S curve adoption where like are we early adopters?
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  You know, are we the beginning of the mainstream?
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  And I think if you kind of look at just the global numbers, we
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  can still safely say we are in early adoption phase. 3% of
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  global adoption is nothing. And and I always say it from a
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  very simple vibes check that if you go out and you talk to
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  people about Bitcoin, not just bitcoins, but normies, most
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  people have heard about Bitcoin, but they most likely haven't
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  touched Bitcoin saved in Bitcoin.
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  And even when you look at that report, it says roughly around
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  14% of American population had some Bitcoin or Bitcoin
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  exposure. That's still super, super
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  minimal in the grand scheme of things.
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  It's like hardly anyone is actually holding Bitcoin and
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  we've gotten up to 100K, which is absolutely nuts.
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  And, and part of that global adoption number that blows my
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  mind is essentially these institutions, even though
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  they're, there is a lot of companies that are kind of
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  getting Bitcoin exposure or they're looking at Bitcoin,
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  their allocation size is tiny. And it in this report it says
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  .006%. And if you compare that with the
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  size of Bitcoin, Bitcoin compared to all the global
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  markets, roughly Bitcoin is like .2% of total assets in the
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  world. And so if they do, those
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  institutions do start to allocate Bitcoin at that number
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  or parallel or the same as that .2%.
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  I'm pretty sure the chart or that report said it'd be a 36X
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  increase of exposure to Bitcoin. So I know a lot of people on
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  Twitter or even in the chat, we do get very impatient.
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  We're wondering like, how come the Bitcoin price isn't pumping
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  with all this news coming out? Why isn't the Bitcoin price
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  going up like we think it is? Well, I think that solves that
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  answer is that their allocation size from these institutions,
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  nation States and even individuals globally is usually
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  a small portion of their assets. And until everyone kind of does
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  the education and, and kind of gone through these cycles and
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  understood what Bitcoin actually is, there's still a lot of room
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  to run. But I think that that time is
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  running out. We're starting to see that
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  people are starting to look at Bitcoin as very seriously.
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  And so the expectation here is Bitcoin adoption will accelerate
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  in 2025. And if you aren't having a solid
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  position in Bitcoin, then 2025 might be the year where we're
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  never going to get see these prices again.
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  It's going to be incredibly hard to get or become a whole coiner.
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  And so right now wouldn't definitely not be the time to
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  take your foot off the gas. We're starting to see that the
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  the interest in Bitcoin is picking up and, and I'm just
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  like, man, it it's definitely early.
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  Everything is early in Bitcoin. I know it's cliche at this point
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  to say it's early in Bitcoin, but if you look at the hard data
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  or the best data we can, I think it goes to show that we still
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  are early in Bitcoin even though we're at 100K.
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  You haven't missed Bitcoin, you haven't missed the next rush of
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  Bitcoin. But it does feel like Bitcoin is
• 23:49
  starting to kind of go into a different cycle pattern where we
• 23:53
  might just be seeing, you know, these gradual increases, some
• 23:56
  consolidation and it seems more like a step, stepwise function
• 24:00
  here. But we won't really know until
• 24:02
  the end of this year. But I really do love this
• 24:04
  report. It really goes to show a lot of
• 24:06
  the things we've been saying, mainly on like a vibe check
• 24:09
  here. We're just, you know, reading
• 24:11
  all the data, getting the vibe check and river gives us the
• 24:14
  hard data. And it's like, yes, OK, so we
• 24:16
  aren't tripping here. We aren't just reading and and
• 24:19
  being delusional on our takes of Bitcoin.
• 24:21
  Things are different here. But I don't think that's to say
• 24:24
  that we aren't going to see an incredible leg up at the end of
• 24:27
  2025. If this Bitcoin cycle plays out
• 24:31
  like old cycles, that means we're essentially going to have
• 24:33
  200 days of pumping. Like, I don't know, how could
• 24:36
  you be bearish in regards to the Bitcoin price when we're getting
• 24:40
  the slow gradual adoption. And as I've said on the show, a
• 24:43
  lot of time that slow, gradual adoption means that the freedom
• 24:45
  go up, aspects of Bitcoin take over because there is no huge
• 24:50
  jump in Bitcoin price. And then with that, the negative
• 24:52
  reaction around Bitcoin, you know, all the calls for
• 24:55
  inequality, etcetera. It's like slow gradual grind in
• 24:58
  Bitcoin, I think is beautiful. And it just goes to show that we
• 25:02
  really are starting to kind of snap down to reality and we're
• 25:06
  not going to get these crazy pumps, which is kind of a
• 25:08
  negative. But it means we are starting to
• 25:11
  see a closer reaction of the Bitcoin price to the actual
• 25:15
  adoption of individuals and institutions in nation states.
• 25:18
  So I think this is what I've been saying for a while, This
• 25:21
  consolidation period we've seen around 100K is very healthy for
• 25:25
  the market. And I saw actually another data,
• 25:27
  I don't have it on the chart here, but I forget who it was,
• 25:30
  but someone was saying that the sell off we saw yester or this
• 25:34
  like this 80K sell off, 85 K sell off was greater than the
• 25:39
  sell off we got in 2021 after the China ban.
• 25:41
  And Bitcoin stayed at roughly 90K.
• 25:44
  So I don't know what you're seeing, but to me this is
• 25:47
  showing that the market is very healthy, it's very resilient,
• 25:50
  and it's only a matter of time until it explodes in my mind.
• 25:54
  100%, I think, I think, yeah, I, I, I agree with you.
• 25:57
  I think, I think we're definitely going to have an
• 26:01
  explosive, you know, an explosive end of, of 2025.
• 26:06
  I do believe that from where it stands right now, Bitcoin is
• 26:10
  definitely underperforming the previous cycles.
• 26:13
  Now, is that because of the US monetary policy?
• 26:16
  Is that because Bitcoin is maturing as an asset and again,
• 26:20
  it's more institutionally driven?
• 26:23
  I don't know. I don't know, but we'll
• 26:24
  definitely find out by the end of 2025.
• 26:27
  I definitely think that, you know, it's Bitcoin is obviously
• 26:30
  still the best savings technology the world has ever
• 26:33
  seen. I think Bitcoin is still going
• 26:34
  to give you the best returns compared to any traditional
• 26:39
  assets, specifically in the stock market.
• 26:44
  You know, I think Sailor was predicting what, like 6 between
• 26:46
  60% to 30% Kaggar, you know, year, year over year.
• 26:52
  So where else are you going to find that, right?
• 26:55
  You're not going to find that anywhere else, right?
• 26:59
  So anyways, very exciting stuff, guys.
• 27:01
  We have a loaded show for you guys today.
• 27:04
  We have the state of Florida. We have a governor who by the
• 27:09
  name of Brian, Brian Donalds, and he's talking about
• 27:15
  essentially looking at Bitcoin and making South Florida the
• 27:18
  home of digital assets. That sounds great.
• 27:22
  And so, and we're also going to have an update for you guys in
• 27:25
  regards to the strategic Bitcoin reserves initiatives that are
• 27:29
  happening on a state level. Almost every state has a
• 27:32
  strategic Bitcoin initiative at this point.
• 27:35
  Very interesting. Shout out to Dennis Porter for
• 27:37
  really moving that initiative forward.
• 27:40
  What I will say is that some have already got shot, shut
• 27:42
  down, which I think was expected.
• 27:45
  So we're going to have an update on a strategic Bitcoin adoption
• 27:50
  on state levels. This is where you guys can take
• 27:53
  action and agency. I know that the majority of our
• 27:56
  audience is in the United States.
• 27:58
  So if you see your state on this list, you can you can get
• 28:02
  involved. You can call your representative
• 28:04
  and say, hey, representative, pump my, pump my bags.
• 28:07
  I'm just kidding. It'd be good for the state to,
• 28:11
  you know, adopt Bitcoin. It would be positive for the
• 28:14
  state to adopt Bitcoin. Who knows if they adopt Bitcoin,
• 28:17
  maybe they get rid of some of the some of the burdensome
• 28:20
  taxes. And on the news front, some very
• 28:24
  positive news. It seems like some Democrats are
• 28:28
  starting to leave the Elizabeth Warren camp.
• 28:33
  They don't like that what she's doing in regards to her Bitcoin
• 28:36
  policy or crypto policy. I think a lot of that has to do
• 28:40
  with the fact that the Democrats lost this previous election.
• 28:44
  And I've said this many times I've I said this during my
• 28:46
  interview with Senator Lummis. You can make a very strong
• 28:49
  argument that the anti Bitcoin stance that the Democrats had in
• 28:54
  the previous election that they tried to walk back at the end
• 28:59
  really hurt them. And the reason it really hurt
• 29:01
  them is what is the largest demographic of Bitcoin holders?
• 29:05
  It's the younger generations, right?
• 29:07
  So and what is the biggest the the the Democrat voting
• 29:11
  demographic, it's the younger generation, right?
• 29:13
  So yeah, that that's that that wasn't good.
• 29:17
  But I think that some of them, which we predicted, by the way,
• 29:20
  on simply Bitcoin, the some of them are looking and saying,
• 29:24
  hey, Elizabeth Warren, come on now, relax.
• 29:27
  You know, you got to chill because you're costing us
• 29:29
  elections. And they're taking a different
• 29:32
  stance, which is really positive because now we have essentially
• 29:36
  a, you know, a, a bipartisan type of coalition behind pro
• 29:42
  Bitcoin politicians, which is extremely positive.
• 29:47
  And also in the River report, it mentions this.
• 29:49
  So we'll share that with you guys as well.
• 29:51
  Anyways, guys, we'll be right back.
• 29:53
  We're going to hit the numbers segment.
• 29:55
  Like I said, we have a slam show for you guys and of course,
• 29:58
  Opti. What are we going to talk about
• 29:59
  during the culture segment, my friend?
• 30:01
  Well, a barely very similar story as we're going to cover in
• 30:04
  the news. We're seeing a general vibe,
• 30:07
  vibe shift come out of the corporate press.
• 30:09
  And Jeff Bezos dropped, I would say, a very interesting tweet in
• 30:15
  regards to what the Washington Post is going to do.
• 30:18
  So it seems like it's not just the politicians on the left that
• 30:20
  are kind of capitulating. We're seeing that the corporate
• 30:24
  press is also reading the writing on the wall and bezels
• 30:26
  have been saying this for a long time.
• 30:28
  And then of course, the reaction by some Bitcoiners, because it,
• 30:31
  it's not just me talking about information here.
• 30:33
  He literally is, is pretty much touching on Bitcoin topics.
• 30:37
  So it's, I think Nico, as much as it feels like we're not
• 30:41
  winning, it seems like we are seeing a general vibe, vibe
• 30:44
  shift towards a lot of the things that Bitcoiners have been
• 30:47
  saying. You know, I, I'm, I'm still a
• 30:48
  little skeptical on it, but it, it's an interesting read.
• 30:52
  Yeah, absolutely. Did you see Michael Saylor's
• 30:54
  response to it? Yeah, I.
• 30:55
  Got it. I got.
• 30:55
  I got all that. Yeah, so it it is, I think we
• 30:58
  are definitely feeling a a vibe shift Sailor speaking at C PAC.
• 31:03
  I think, I think the general consensus is people want less
• 31:07
  government, people want more freedoms.
• 31:10
  And of course like the system, the establishment is trying to
• 31:13
  fight that, trying to slow that down.
• 31:15
  I don't think they'll be successful.
• 31:17
  Anyways guys, we almost have 2000 live viewers on all
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• 31:42
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• 31:45
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• 31:50
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• 31:52
  manufactured if you. Yeah, there we go.
• 31:55
  All right. Thank you, Opti front running me
• 31:57
  a little bit. All right, everybody, we'll be
• 31:59
  right back. We're going to hit the numbers.
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  At the time of recording, the Bitcoin price is $85,980.
• 34:02
  Block height 885,441 Stats per Dollar 1160 63 Market cap 1.7
• 34:12
  trillion Bitcoin verse Gold market cap 8.37% Percentage
• 34:17
  issued 94.42% Decline from all time high -21.4%.
• 34:24
  Realize monetary inflation .97%. Lots of ones in the chat.
• 34:29
  Thanks, Opti. So anyways, what are we going to
• 34:34
  talk about during the numbers today?
• 34:35
  Well, take a look at this gentleman right here at.
• 34:38
  Apparently he's the front runner for the Governor of Florida.
• 34:43
  He's a Congressman by the name of Brian Donalds and he wants
• 34:47
  Bitcoin on the state's financial portfolio.
• 34:50
  Let's check out the clip and then we shall talk about it.
• 34:54
  I want to turn Florida into the financial hub of the world.
• 34:58
  Digital assets has made a home in South Florida.
• 35:01
  I want to make sure that we become the most business
• 35:04
  friendly state in our country for businesses to incorporate in
• 35:08
  our state, but then also for the state to take the lead on
• 35:10
  cryptocurrency and digital assets.
• 35:12
  I would even consider having crypto be AI mean and that's
• 35:21
  already kind of happening already.
• 35:23
  There's a there's two Florida bills investment of public funds
• 35:27
  in Bitcoin. They're in committee and let's
• 35:30
  go through state by state, shall we and this incredible website.
• 35:34
  Whoever put this together, Bitcoin laws dot IO shout out to
• 35:37
  you bro or or gals or Bros and gals.
• 35:43
  Seems like Utah is taking the lead.
• 35:46
  Utah is almost enacted, which would be absolutely historic,
• 35:52
  Ladies and gentlemen, there is almost a strategic Bitcoin
• 35:56
  reserve in the great state of Utah.
• 36:01
  Arizona seems to be in 2nd place.
• 36:04
  Oklahoma seems to be in 2nd place as well, even though
• 36:07
  they're only in Chamber 1 Utah. I don't know what's happening in
• 36:10
  Utah, bro, but you know, they're they're they're really, really
• 36:13
  pushing this forward very, very quickly.
• 36:16
  And here are all the other states.
• 36:18
  Unfortunately, the state of Montana, it got shut down.
• 36:22
  Unfortunately, the state of North Dakota got shot down.
• 36:26
  And apparently the state of Pennsylvania got shut down.
• 36:29
  Apparently the state of South Dakota got shut down.
• 36:33
  Apparently the state of Wyoming, it got shut down as well.
• 36:37
  But this was to be expected. This is a post by Dennis Porter.
• 36:42
  Shout out to Dennis Porter of the Satoshi Action Fund.
• 36:45
  He has really, really pushed a lot of these these initiatives
• 36:49
  forward. Check out Dennis Porter, check
• 36:51
  out the Satoshi Action Fund. I'm personally a big fan and
• 36:56
  they've done incredible work on the state level for sure.
• 37:00
  Also check out my interview that I did with Dennis Porter and
• 37:04
  Senator Cynthia Lummis in Washington, DC, where we talked
• 37:07
  about the various initiatives in on the federal level and on the
• 37:12
  state level. And Dennis correctly predicted
• 37:15
  during that interview that he believed that it was going to be
• 37:20
  the state of Utah that was going to be leading the charge.
• 37:22
  And it seems like Dennis was right.
• 37:25
  So if you guys saw that interview, so if you want
• 37:27
  tomorrow's Bitcoin used today, you guys got to check out Simply
• 37:31
  Bitcoins content. Anyways, this is what Dennis
• 37:33
  said. He said, I've said it many
• 37:34
  times, but I will say it again. Most Bitcoin bills will fail
• 37:38
  this year. We went through the same process
• 37:40
  in 2023 and 2024. Each year we helped introduce
• 37:44
  many bills. Each year only two bills passed
• 37:47
  into law. This is normal.
• 37:48
  I've forecast, I've forecasted this for years.
• 37:51
  I agree, by the way. And also guys in political in in
• 37:55
  politics, and you guys have heard me say this so many effing
• 38:00
  times and I'm going to continue to say it over and over and over
• 38:03
  and over and over and over and over and over again.
• 38:06
  Over tin window, over tin window, over tin window.
• 38:09
  What is the Overton window? The Overton window is the
• 38:12
  acceptable window of disc, of course, and our job as
• 38:17
  Bitcoiners and as freedom minded individuals is to move the
• 38:22
  Overton window. Actually, you know what, Opti,
• 38:24
  could you pull up the Overton window in the back so we can
• 38:27
  just pull it up on we could share it on screen so I could
• 38:30
  just show everyone. And again, this isn't this is
• 38:33
  where we are guys, OK? We want Bitcoin to become the
• 38:38
  next global reserve currency. We want Bitcoin to be accepted
• 38:42
  in mainstream political discourse.
• 38:44
  We want the ethos of Bitcoin to be accepted in mainstream
• 38:48
  political discourse. And as you could see what
• 38:52
  happened with the election of Donald, just just click on the
• 38:55
  picture. Opti, thank you.
• 38:57
  And as you could see with the election of Donald Trump and the
• 39:02
  election of Naimbu Kelly, I'm telling you, as ugly as politics
• 39:06
  looks as, as, as disorganized, as corrupt, as dysfunctional as
• 39:12
  it is. And, and this idea as of the
• 39:15
  Bitcoiners that we just don't want politics to matter.
• 39:18
  We, we believe in the theory from the sovereign individual
• 39:20
  where essentially they predict that information technologies,
• 39:23
  AKA the Internet is essentially going to make politics
• 39:26
  irrelevant. That is true.
• 39:28
  But we're still in the transitionary period and
• 39:31
  unfortunately politics still do matter.
• 39:34
  So, and your vote matters, right?
• 39:36
  We manage. Remember, our community, our
• 39:39
  industry, our movement was able to get Ross out of prison.
• 39:45
  All right? We got Ross out of prison.
• 39:47
  We ended Operation Choke .2 Point O.
• 39:50
  I'll put it to you this way, guys.
• 39:52
  They effed with us and we got their candidates thrown out of
• 39:57
  office. Or, to use Donald Trump's words,
• 39:59
  we got them fired. And we're going to be talking
• 40:02
  about this during the news segment.
• 40:04
  Now, it seems like a lot of Democrats don't even want to
• 40:08
  talk with Elizabeth Warren because they blame Elizabeth
• 40:12
  Warren for what happened during the 2024 election.
• 40:17
  So could you pull that up Opti that image?
• 40:20
  Thank you, bro. So let's talk about this, guys,
• 40:22
  because this this isn't just simply Bitcoin moving the
• 40:25
  Overton window. This isn't just us, you know,
• 40:28
  talking heads and us, you know, saying, hey, guys, like, you
• 40:31
  know, this is Bitcoin, freedom is good.
• 40:34
  You know, what is the role of government society?
• 40:37
  You know what, what? Why should money steal from you?
• 40:42
  It comes down to your individual agency.
• 40:45
  It comes down to your individual action.
• 40:47
  How do you orange, pull the people to the left of you, to
• 40:50
  the right of you, your friends, your neighbors, your family?
• 40:53
  And how do you get them to understand that it's not left
• 40:56
  versus right, It's not conservative versus liberal.
• 40:58
  It's the money that's broken. If we fix the money, we fix the
• 41:00
  world, right? So how do we do that?
• 41:02
  We shift the mother effing over to window.
• 41:05
  One of my favorite quotes from Andrew Breitbart, which I take a
• 41:10
  lot of inspiration from him in the show and, and all the other
• 41:14
  shows that he inspired, like Clotter with Crowder, like Steve
• 41:19
  Bannon's War Room. There's so many that Breitbart
• 41:22
  inspired. He really started off.
• 41:25
  You see his videos from like 10:15 years ago, it, it's like
• 41:29
  he was an Oracle man. He predicted so much of this.
• 41:32
  So Breitbart essentially said that politics is downstream from
• 41:37
  culture, right? So the way that you win the
• 41:40
  political game is you win the cultural game, right?
• 41:43
  And the way that you do that is by shifting the Overton window.
• 41:45
  So if I told you five years ago that Elon Musk was going to team
• 41:52
  up with Ron Paul to audit the Federal Reserve, you would have
• 41:57
  literally thought that was unthinkable, right?
• 42:01
  But look at what has happened in the last five years.
• 42:05
  They went after our industry, and all of a sudden, the very
• 42:09
  idea of Bitcoin being a strategic reserve was
• 42:14
  unthinkable. It was radical.
• 42:17
  Now it's somewhat acceptable, and we're trying to move that to
• 42:22
  sensible, to popular, and eventually to policy.
• 42:27
  And that's where I think Utah might actually win this race.
• 42:30
  So the Overton window's extremely important.
• 42:34
  And the way that you move it is with every tweet, every video
• 42:38
  that you make, every person that you convince about Bitcoin.
• 42:41
  That's how you shift the Overton window.
• 42:43
  And the Overton window is shifting at a rapid pace.
• 42:47
  I think it was Lennon that originally quoted this, but it
• 42:50
  was something along the lines of and I don't know, I don't agree
• 42:53
  with Lennon on, on a lot of his, you know, world viewpoints, but
• 42:59
  he said one of his quotes where there are years where decades
• 43:04
  happen and then there are decades that years happen,
• 43:08
  right. Something something along those
• 43:09
  lines, I'm paraphrasing, but you guys get the general gist of it.
• 43:13
  We have to move the Overton window and eventually a lot of
• 43:16
  these things will become policy bit a Bitcoin treated as as
• 43:20
  legal tender, it'll become policy.
• 43:22
  Bitcoin as the world reserve currency, it'll become policy,
• 43:26
  won't just become popular, will become policy, right.
• 43:28
  So this is our job and a lot of the and I, we got a lot of heat
• 43:33
  over the years and a lot of people were like in the chat,
• 43:36
  including Opti, even my own Co host, right?
• 43:39
  We're like, Nico, why don't you talk about this like Nico,
• 43:41
  you're holding back Nico or whatever, because you have to
• 43:45
  move the Overton window. You have to talk about things
• 43:47
  that are acceptable in the window of discourse.
• 43:50
  Because if you don't talk about things that are not in the
• 43:53
  acceptable window of discourse, if you think if you talk about
• 43:56
  things that are unthinkable, right, you run the risk of being
• 44:01
  othered you, you run the risk of just being thrown out or deep
• 44:05
  platformed or not talked about. So we have to move it ever so
• 44:10
  slowly so that I could say stuff like your money shouldn't steal
• 44:15
  from you. Inflation is theft.
• 44:17
  There should be a strategic Bitcoin reserve.
• 44:20
  Bitcoin should be the world reserve currency like so we can
• 44:23
  openly say those things and people don't think that we're
• 44:26
  maniacs when we say those things, right.
• 44:29
  So yes, we're doing a tremendous amount of we're we're making a
• 44:32
  tremendous amount of progress. I'm so proud of what our
• 44:35
  movement has accomplished. The fact that we are in the room
• 44:40
  in Washington, DC. If you're not in the room,
• 44:42
  you're not in the deal. We are in the mother effing room
• 44:47
  and that that's a big win for our industry.
• 44:49
  So we're definitely making progress.
• 44:51
  Ross is out of prison. Could you imagine five years
• 44:54
  ago, Mr. President, could you free Ross Albrecht?
• 44:57
  That would be unthinkable, unthinkable, unthinkable.
• 45:03
  And all of a sudden, within a matter of a year and a half of
• 45:06
  us really grinding, busting her ass, making it unknown to
• 45:12
  President Trump that this was very popular with the Bitcoin
• 45:15
  movement. Therefore, it would get him a
• 45:17
  lot of votes. He was like, all right, I'll
• 45:19
  free Ross, right? So, you know, this is this is
• 45:22
  the this is the power of you. You, you have the power.
• 45:26
  But if you choose to stand up and speak and use your voice.
• 45:29
  Anyways, Opti, what are your thoughts on this brother?
• 45:33
  Well, first of all, when I hear that clip, I might take a more
• 45:36
  negative view on it. It did seem like he was just
• 45:39
  kind of saying some buzzwords. But I think the point remains
• 45:42
  the same. The Overton window has shifted
• 45:45
  and as much as we get disgruntled about it, it seems
• 45:49
  like it's not happening fast enough.
• 45:51
  It's happening a lot quicker than probably all of all of us
• 45:55
  could even imagine. Yes, we want things to move on a
• 45:58
  lot quicker. Yes, we want to see all these
• 46:00
  state strategic Bitcoin reserves pass instantly, but that's just,
• 46:04
  you know, the reality of the situation is that's just not how
• 46:07
  it works. And so the fact that we are
• 46:09
  having this conversation, whether you like it or not, I
• 46:12
  think it's a good thing. There has been and even I
• 46:15
  personally kind of have taken that stance where the strategic
• 46:18
  Bitcoin reserve, it was, you know, an exciting topic for a
• 46:21
  while. I think that narratives around
• 46:22
  it were really good, but lately I've been kind of feeling a
• 46:25
  little more bearish about it. I, I think that it's not the
• 46:28
  biggest thing for Bitcoin. I have some other views on what
• 46:31
  might be the biggest thing that would drive Bitcoin adoption.
• 46:34
  But I think that we are seeing this happen.
• 46:37
  I do think that Dennis Porter might be right that it might
• 46:40
  happen on the state level before it happens on the federal level.
• 46:43
  And that's just the beauty of America.
• 46:45
  And so, you know, shouts out to Utah as someone, I think it was
• 46:47
  SpongeBob SquarePants in the chat said Utah has a, a very, a
• 46:52
  very short process to get bills put in, hence why they're kind
• 46:55
  of leading the charge. Personally, little disappointed
• 46:58
  that the Wyoming bill kind of flopped.
• 47:01
  It's is, as you know, we have Senator Lummus.
• 47:03
  It just it she can't even get a push in her own state kind of
• 47:06
  hurts. It kind of makes me feel bearish
• 47:08
  about it happening on a federal level as well.
• 47:11
  But as someone that lives in Texas, I'm like, yo, let's,
• 47:14
  let's get that Texas bill along. Let's make sure that Texas is
• 47:17
  the financial hub, freedom hub of the world.
• 47:20
  I don't know, I've been talking about this for a while, but
• 47:22
  they're they're creating a a Y'all St. in Texas, which is
• 47:26
  they're trying to rival Wall Street, obviously.
• 47:28
  So I'd like to see stuff move to Texas.
• 47:30
  I love Texas. It's a great state and and it's
• 47:33
  obviously very aligned, but I think the point remains the
• 47:36
  same. We're starting to see that
• 47:37
  Bitcoin as as a topic, as a mainstream conversational piece
• 47:42
  is becoming one of the big topics right now.
• 47:45
  And anyone that is freedom minded or anyone that speaks
• 47:48
  about freedom either in podcasts or in writing or considers
• 47:53
  themselves the freedom advocate, if they aren't talking about
• 47:55
  Bitcoin, what are you doing? That's probably kind of that
• 47:59
  defining conversation. There's that line in the sand,
• 48:02
  like if they aren't embracing Bitcoin, then really what are
• 48:05
  they doing that like, yeah, you can, you can give some airtime
• 48:08
  to the words about freedom, but if you aren't embracing freedom
• 48:10
  money, then it really doesn't mean anything.
• 48:12
  As we've been saying on the show forever, there's really only one
• 48:15
  solution here and is for more people to adopt Bitcoin to get
• 48:19
  on the strongest, most decentralized, most
• 48:21
  permissionless, censorship resistant network in the world,
• 48:24
  which is of course, Bitcoin. But hey, I think it is slowly
• 48:28
  moving. We're slowly pushing the
• 48:29
  cultural needle forward. And as this starts to address,
• 48:33
  I'm I'm really it, it's really the same old thing, guys.
• 48:36
  Until the Bitcoin price starts doing something exciting, most
• 48:39
  people aren't going to talk about Bitcoin.
• 48:40
  It's only us freaks that talk about Bitcoin every day that
• 48:43
  it's the one defining conversation for us.
• 48:46
  But I think that's going to change soon.
• 48:48
  And, you know, until then, we'll just be covering other news
• 48:51
  stories and all this new development.
• 48:53
  I'm Nick. I'm starting to feel the same
• 48:55
  ETF fatigue with the strategic Bitcoin reserve bills.
• 48:58
  You know, it's like, OK, like, oh, another company is buying
• 49:03
  ETFs, OK, another state is adding a bill.
• 49:05
  Like when is something concrete going to happen?
• 49:10
  It it honestly, it seems like a slow start of the year.
• 49:13
  I'm, I'm not going to lie, I, I feel.
• 49:15
  Like it reminds me, it reminds me of 2017.
• 49:18
  Dude, I'm telling you, I feel like 20/20/17 was the I don't I
• 49:24
  don't think you guys understand. It was the same like the year
• 49:27
  started off so slow and then by the time we got to August, like
• 49:31
  it was like whole like, Oh my God, this is crazy and the
• 49:36
  Bitcoin price was pumping and whatever I'm telling you, I'm
• 49:38
  feeling that same type of vibe in 20/21.
• 49:41
  It was like it was a front run. It like it the the the cycle
• 49:45
  happened a lot faster than than like anyone was anticipating.
• 49:49
  Anyways, guys, if you guys are enjoying the show so far, almost
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  Anyways, I did want to go through some comments before we
• 50:31
  move on to the next segment, Opti.
• 50:35
  So Mr. Cellophane says politicians think bitcoins are
• 50:40
  suckers. You got played in many such
• 50:42
  cases. Hey bro, we got Ross freed.
• 50:45
  And SAB 121 repealed. Like what are you talking about?
• 50:50
  Like if, if everyone thought like you, Ross would still be in
• 50:53
  prison. So like I'm telling you like
• 50:56
  this whole like I'm too, I'm too good for politics.
• 51:00
  Therefore whatever. If you have that mindset, if
• 51:04
  everyone has that mindset, Ross would still be in prison.
• 51:07
  Operation Choke .2 point O would still be happening if everyone
• 51:11
  thought like you. So even if I got played as a
• 51:15
  fool by President Trump and he just promised us, hey, I'm going
• 51:20
  to free Ross, and then he didn't free Ross, even if I got prayed
• 51:24
  as a fool, at least I know I could sleep soundly at night
• 51:28
  because I had the moral courage to fight to achieve what we want
• 51:33
  to achieve. And that's what it's going to
• 51:35
  take. It's going to require moral
• 51:37
  courage with the thought of knowing that you could fail in
• 51:41
  order for us to win this peaceful Bitcoin revolution.
• 51:46
  So yeah, I got, I mean, not I got we got Ross freed because we
• 51:50
  believed, because we tried, because we put in the effort.
• 51:54
  But if you have this defeatist attitude of like, hey,
• 51:57
  politicians are playing. Listen, politicians, the whole
• 52:01
  point, they're going to tell you exactly what you want to hear
• 52:04
  because that's how it works. That's the whole gig.
• 52:07
  They have to pander to you. That's how they get elected.
• 52:11
  But eventually they they're going to end up doing what you
• 52:13
  want them to do because their their incentives aligned with
• 52:17
  yours. We know that the vice president
• 52:19
  owns Bitcoin. We know that RFK owns Bitcoin.
• 52:22
  We know that Tulsi owns Bitcoin. They've all spoken at the
• 52:24
  Bitcoin conference. We know that Trump owns Bitcoin.
• 52:29
  They're human beings. They're, they're, they're, what
• 52:31
  do you think their incentives are to pump their bags?
• 52:35
  Like no one's better than their incentives.
• 52:38
  So like, every time I see that type of attitude, like, I'm
• 52:41
  going to call it out. I'm going to call it out because
• 52:44
  it's, it's a defeatist attitude. And we are now in the room.
• 52:48
  We are now in the room in DC. We are now in the negotiating
• 52:51
  table. And it's going to get ugly.
• 52:52
  It's going to get nasty, but this is how we win.
• 52:54
  One step at a time. All right, everybody.
• 52:56
  Hey. Wait, hey, wait, Nico, before
• 52:57
  you go, before you go. We just did get a super chat by
• 53:02
  the US dollars even says Bitcoin is about proof of work.
• 53:05
  Hold Trump to prove his work. Exactly, exactly. 100%.
• 53:09
  All right, everybody, We'll be right back.
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• 53:11
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• 56:12
  gentlemen. I mean, late into straight into
• 56:15
  the news article we're going to cover for today by political.
• 56:18
  So Politico was discovered by Doge Elon Musk's Elon Musk's
• 56:23
  initiative in the federal government that Politico was
• 56:26
  actually receiving funding from the US government.
• 56:29
  Now, isn't it interesting that as soon as that's discovered,
• 56:35
  there's an article that's basically saying, hey, you know
• 56:37
  what, Elizabeth Warren isn't that quite isn't that popular?
• 56:40
  It's almost as if you know all that opposition man Opti.
• 56:45
  Should I just should I just RIP it?
• 56:48
  I don't even know where you're going, but yes.
• 56:50
  It, it might be out of the Overton window, but I should I
• 56:53
  just no, I'm not going to say, I'm not going to say hold on.
• 56:56
  I'm not going to say. I'm not going to say wait, wait.
• 56:58
  Where's my fail? Where's my fail sound here dude?
• 57:01
  I'll put, I'll, I'll put it, I'll put it to you this way.
• 57:04
  It's almost as if, it's almost as if all this media, press and
• 57:12
  coverage regarding a lot of these world events that were pro
• 57:16
  freedom, it's almost as if a lot of that was fake.
• 57:20
  It's almost as if a lot of that was fake.
• 57:22
  It's almost as if a lot of that was funded by the government
• 57:26
  itself. There we go.
• 57:27
  C opti. There's ways to say things.
• 57:29
  There's ways to say things. Anyways, a new crypto clash
• 57:33
  looms for Elizabeth Warren. What a great title.
• 57:38
  Democrats are barreling towards a new clash over cryptocurrency
• 57:41
  policy that could pit a growing cadre of industry friendly
• 57:47
  lawmakers in the party against the left's loudest voice on
• 57:51
  Financial Policy, Senator Elizabeth Warren.
• 57:54
  Pro crypto lawmakers are moving quickly to advance long sought
• 57:58
  legislation that would give new legitimacy to the digital asset
• 58:02
  sector. Part of a Republican LED push to
• 58:05
  push on President Donald Trump's pledge to turned the United
• 58:08
  States into the, quote, crypto capital of the planet to make it
• 58:12
  happen. They're scrambling to get enough
• 58:14
  Democrats on board with industry backed legislation to clear the
• 58:18
  Senate. Some on the left are already
• 58:21
  signing on and it's setting up a potential rift between crypto
• 58:25
  friendly Democrats and Warren just months into the
• 58:28
  Massachusetts lawmakers tenure as in party's new leader on the
• 58:32
  powerful Senate Banking Committee.
• 58:35
  Isn't that badass? So it's like, it's like Senator
• 58:37
  Lump versus Senator Warren. Isn't that spicy?
• 58:41
  There's a number of Democratic senators who who do want to get
• 58:46
  involved in this space. Senator Senator Gillibrand, a
• 58:49
  pro crypto New York Democrat who has helped write GOP LED digital
• 58:53
  asset legislation, is quarterbacking the efforts to
• 58:56
  get other members of her party on board.
• 58:59
  The push comes as part of a broad shift in Washington policy
• 59:02
  making towards regulatory changes that could benefit the
• 59:06
  crypto sector. The industry, long dogged by
• 59:09
  scandals and concerns about financial fraud, is now being
• 59:12
  embraced by lawmakers and regulators who are eyeing
• 59:15
  changes that can help let legitimize its $3 trillion
• 59:19
  market. The turn has been driven in part
• 59:22
  by a massive political spending spree by top crypto firms and
• 59:27
  executives, who have dumped hundreds of millions of dollars
• 59:31
  into influence campaigns designed to take down critics
• 59:35
  and boost industry allies. The effort to attract more
• 59:38
  bipartisan support illustrates how Democrats hold the keys to
• 59:43
  passing the crypto legislation. The GOP have pledged, which will
• 59:46
  require 60 votes to pass the Senate, where Republicans hold a
• 59:51
  narrow majority of 53 seats. It could become one of the few
• 59:55
  spaces for bipartisan deal making in a bitterly divided
• 59:59
  Congress. Washington's pro crypto shift is
• 1:00:03
  primarily driven by being driven by Republicans, who have broadly
• 1:00:07
  embraced the sector, but a growing number of Democrats
• 1:00:10
  appear eager to get on board. The embrace comes despite
• 1:00:14
  concerns from skeptics like Warren, who have been leading a
• 1:00:18
  critic who have been a leading critic of the digital asset
• 1:00:21
  sector. Quote I have a very.
• 1:00:23
  Very different experience with crypto and understanding of how
• 1:00:27
  it fits into our economy, Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona
• 1:00:31
  said in an interview last month of his differences with Warren.
• 1:00:34
  And it makes sense why? Because Arizona is a swing
• 1:00:39
  state, so of course it makes sense, right?
• 1:00:44
  Massachusetts is a heavily, heavily blue state.
• 1:00:46
  It's not a swing state. Gallego voted as a member of the
• 1:00:50
  House last year for an industry backed crypto bill that Warren
• 1:00:53
  opposed. He said last month that he is
• 1:00:55
  going to vote to represent what I think Arizona actually thinks
• 1:00:59
  about crypto and how it fits into the economy.
• 1:01:03
  It's all coming together to present a majority of a major
• 1:01:06
  early test for how Warren, who has clashed fiercely with modern
• 1:01:10
  Democrats in the past over financial regulation issues,
• 1:01:13
  will handle differences with others in her party in her new
• 1:01:17
  role as its leading leader on the committee overseeing Wall
• 1:01:20
  Street and crypto. She has warned that the digital
• 1:01:23
  assets present risk to consumers and called for the industry to
• 1:01:27
  be subjected to tougher anti laundering standard.
• 1:01:31
  You know what's a risk to consumers?
• 1:01:33
  Inflation. Senator Warren, inflation is a
• 1:01:36
  bigger risk to the lower and middle classes of the United
• 1:01:40
  States than whatever BS you're trying to conjure up.
• 1:01:44
  Anyways, that's my thought. I believe that Democrats
• 1:01:47
  understand the importance of consumer protection.
• 1:01:50
  If you want consumer protection, you should be worried about
• 1:01:53
  inflation. You should be worried about how
• 1:01:55
  the average Joe, the average everyday person could just, you
• 1:02:00
  know, not get ravaged every time and the government decides to go
• 1:02:04
  on a spending spree. That that's my thought on that.
• 1:02:07
  That's, you know, that's not fair.
• 1:02:09
  It's it's just like it's it's wordsmithing.
• 1:02:12
  Anyway, smash the like button. And we're about to make 300
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• 1:02:17
  everybody. Quote.
• 1:02:18
  I believe that Democrats understand the importance of
• 1:02:20
  consumer protections and anti money laundering curbs and a new
• 1:02:24
  financial product. Warren told reporters last week
• 1:02:26
  in response to questions for this story.
• 1:02:29
  Quote all we're looking for is a level playing field between
• 1:02:32
  crypto and all the other financial systems.
• 1:02:34
  So I'm going to I'm going to leave it.
• 1:02:36
  I'm going to I'm going to leave it there.
• 1:02:37
  That, that you didn't have a level playing field last year.
• 1:02:41
  That, that, that's BS. That wasn't a level playing
• 1:02:44
  field. The industry was targeted.
• 1:02:47
  Specific Americans were debanked because of their political
• 1:02:51
  viewpoints. This was even happening in
• 1:02:53
  Canada with the truckers protest.
• 1:02:56
  That's not a level playing field at all.
• 1:02:59
  That's the exact opposite of a level playing field.
• 1:03:02
  Like, no, you guys are projecting onto US what it is.
• 1:03:07
  You're guilty of themselves. You don't want a level playing
• 1:03:10
  field. You want a monopoly so you can
• 1:03:12
  roll out a central bank digital currency.
• 1:03:15
  That is what Senator Warren wants.
• 1:03:19
  That is what Senator Warren wants.
• 1:03:22
  Unfortunately, she won re election.
• 1:03:24
  But in six years, if you live in Massachusetts, this is your
• 1:03:27
  representative. This is what she's saying.
• 1:03:29
  This is what she wants anyhow. So let's move on to the river
• 1:03:36
  Report, which kind of breaks down the they did such a great
• 1:03:40
  job. It breaks down the the changes,
• 1:03:45
  right? So U.S.
• 1:03:46
  Congress is pro Bitcoin, gaining 15 seats in the 2024 election.
• 1:03:51
  After the 2020 November 2024 election, the majority of both
• 1:03:54
  the House and the Senate are now pro Bitcoin based on public
• 1:03:58
  statements and public and political activity as defined by
• 1:04:01
  an advocacy group stand with crypto.
• 1:04:04
  In January of 2025, a Senate panel on digital assets was
• 1:04:08
  established with two focus areas #1 pass legislation for
• 1:04:13
  responsible innovation and consumer protection covering
• 1:04:16
  market structure, stable coins and strategic Bitcoin reserve #2
• 1:04:20
  regulatory Tory oversight to percent to to prevent overreach.
• 1:04:27
  So and as you as you guys could see what the houses are divided,
• 1:04:33
  where it's at. I mean, a vast majority in the
• 1:04:42
  House, kind of slim majority in the Senate, 59 Senate seats,
• 1:04:48
  almost filibuster proof and a big majority in the House and
• 1:04:53
  including Democrats, which is, which is super, super awesome.
• 1:04:55
  And of course, I mean, are they counting the the vice
• 1:05:00
  president's vote in the Senate? I don't know.
• 1:05:02
  But anyway, anyways, this is pretty awesome.
• 1:05:04
  Like we're making progress. Remember what I told you guys
• 1:05:06
  about the Overton window? Like we are moving.
• 1:05:09
  We're moving that mother effing Overton window.
• 1:05:12
  We have to elect Elizabeth Warren out of office.
• 1:05:16
  Like full stop. I don't know how else to say it.
• 1:05:20
  I don't know how else to put it, I don't know how else to phrase
• 1:05:24
  it. We have to elect everybody that
• 1:05:27
  is anti Bitcoin out of office in the United States as if you're
• 1:05:34
  anti Bitcoin, like you're pro Fiat and if you're pro Fiat,
• 1:05:38
  you're pro theft. So when I see it, simple as
• 1:05:41
  that. So we have to do it
• 1:05:43
  democratically, we have to do it legally.
• 1:05:45
  And by the way, this isn't just the US, this is in Canada.
• 1:05:49
  This is worldwide. Like this is how you win.
• 1:05:52
  You want Bitcoin to become the world global reserve currency.
• 1:05:55
  You want, you want, you want to end central banking.
• 1:05:58
  This is how you do it. It's an it's an ugly, messy
• 1:06:01
  process where morals go out the window.
• 1:06:04
  Like that's how it is. But we are making progress and
• 1:06:08
  we are in the room so and I think we'll continue to grow and
• 1:06:12
  influence as an industry as number goes up and I think as
• 1:06:17
  bitcoiners become more and more influential.
• 1:06:19
  We just broke 300 likes in the YouTube, the the YouTube live
• 1:06:24
  stream. Let's rise that.
• 1:06:26
  Let's raise that goal. Help us break 400 likes by the
• 1:06:29
  time the show ends. Opti I mean, this is great, bro.
• 1:06:33
  We have a majority of the House, majority of the House including
• 1:06:36
  Democrats are pro Bitcoin and majority of the Senate seems
• 1:06:41
  like they're pro Bitcoin as well and that's absolutely awesome.
• 1:06:46
  Anyways, Opti is buying right now.
• 1:06:48
  Apparently someone in the chat is saying that.
• 1:06:50
  Opti, what's your take on this? Bro?
• 1:06:51
  It's it seems like we're winning dude.
• 1:06:53
  We're making progress. I remember this time last year,
• 1:06:56
  me and you were having serious conversations about moving to El
• 1:06:59
  Salvador. Yeah.
• 1:07:01
  I mean, I think this is a great development as Bitcoiners have
• 1:07:06
  been covering on Twitter, as we've been covering on the show,
• 1:07:10
  the Dems kind of sign, you know, their own failure when they
• 1:07:14
  align themselves with Elizabeth Warren.
• 1:07:16
  And now I know she got re elected, which is not a good
• 1:07:20
  thing. I know she's heading what is
• 1:07:21
  that the, you know, the Dem committee and anyone following
• 1:07:25
  what Elizabeth Warren is doing is completely detached from
• 1:07:28
  reality. I've been speculating for a
• 1:07:30
  while. It's like, OK, if you look at
• 1:07:32
  the and that actually I started speculating on this for a while
• 1:07:35
  and then we kind of got the data behind it.
• 1:07:37
  It's like, who are the people backing Elizabeth Warren now?
• 1:07:40
  It's interesting. She started her political career
• 1:07:43
  on this idea of Occupy Wall Street, etcetera.
• 1:07:45
  And it turns out like she's a chill for the very people that
• 1:07:48
  she supposedly was standing up against.
• 1:07:50
  And now we're starting to see that there are some Democrats
• 1:07:54
  that are waking up to the writing on the wall that if you
• 1:07:56
  fight Bitcoin, you are not going to maintain that your position
• 1:08:00
  of power. And so I love to see this
• 1:08:02
  development. I think as we always say on the
• 1:08:04
  show, you know, Bitcoin is a political, it is for anyone.
• 1:08:08
  And hey, if you want to fight Bitcoin, you're not going to
• 1:08:11
  withstand that battle. Bitcoin is bigger than any one
• 1:08:14
  side of the political aisle. I would say Bitcoin is bigger
• 1:08:16
  than politics in general, hence why it is so political.
• 1:08:19
  So I love seeing headlines like this, even though you guys
• 1:08:22
  probably know I'm you know, I'm not the biggest fan of a lot of
• 1:08:25
  stuff coming out from the left party.
• 1:08:27
  But hey, if they're starting to abandon Elizabeth Warren's
• 1:08:31
  stance and their anti crypto army, this is obviously a good
• 1:08:34
  thing for the conversation around Bitcoin.
• 1:08:36
  This is obviously a good thing for all the constituents around
• 1:08:39
  there, as we try to say every single day, and we do get you
• 1:08:42
  guys throwing tomatoes at us like Bitcoin is bipartisan.
• 1:08:45
  It isn't just for one people. It's for anyone, anyone that is
• 1:08:48
  interested in freedom money, anyone that is interested in
• 1:08:51
  protecting their purchasing power and saving in something
• 1:08:54
  that is designed to go up forever, it's going to be very
• 1:08:57
  easy for them to become Bitcoiners.
• 1:08:59
  So hey, if we see more and more people capitulate and abandoned
• 1:09:03
  Elizabeth Warren's stance on Bitcoin, this is a good thing
• 1:09:06
  for everyone. So I hope that this accelerates.
• 1:09:10
  And I, you know, personally, I'm not in Massachusetts, so I'm,
• 1:09:13
  I'm just a talking head here, but I would love to see
• 1:09:15
  Elizabeth Warren no longer be in the position to, I can't, I
• 1:09:19
  don't know how anyone listens to her and, and thinks she's saying
• 1:09:22
  anything worthy of value or worthy of being listen to.
• 1:09:26
  I hear her. And it's just like, I don't even
• 1:09:29
  know if I can say it because we're on YouTube.
• 1:09:31
  But you know, she sounds like a very concerned, you know, senior
• 1:09:37
  citizen. I don't.
• 1:09:39
  Want to listen to her? Yeah.
• 1:09:41
  I mean, look, I respect. I respect I she has a difference
• 1:09:47
  of opinion, you know, and she's she's totally entitled to have a
• 1:09:51
  difference of opinion. This is a free country.
• 1:09:54
  I just think that her her difference of opinion is is
• 1:09:57
  actively hurting the well-being of Americans and specifically
• 1:10:01
  the constituents that she supposedly represents.
• 1:10:04
  Because she supposedly represents the lower middle
• 1:10:07
  classes. That's what she's all about.
• 1:10:09
  That's her shtick and being anti Bitcoin.
• 1:10:13
  It's like forcing those people that get hurt the most by
• 1:10:16
  inflation to use a currency that is actively hurting them.
• 1:10:20
  Right? Like, you know, it's and it's
• 1:10:22
  it's it's it's, you know, and maybe she maybe she believes,
• 1:10:26
  look, would you change your mind if you were that age and you
• 1:10:31
  truly believe that what you were doing was helping people and you
• 1:10:34
  were getting paid before doing that and you made a fortune by
• 1:10:38
  doing that? Like, would you change your
• 1:10:40
  opinion if some younglings came in and they're like, hey, guys,
• 1:10:44
  we fix the money. No, you wouldn't believe us
• 1:10:46
  either. So I understand Elizabeth
• 1:10:49
  Warren, I just fundamentally disagree with you.
• 1:10:51
  And hopefully enough people in Massachusetts wake up next
• 1:10:56
  Senate election and and voter out of office.
• 1:10:58
  Anyways, guys, we're going to hit the culture.
• 1:11:00
  We have tons to talk about today.
• 1:11:01
  Opti, could you give us a quick refresher?
• 1:11:04
  I believe it's Jeff Bezos, you know, seeing the light a little
• 1:11:08
  bit, right? Yeah, exactly.
• 1:11:09
  So, you know, as I think as we've covered in the last couple
• 1:11:13
  of weeks, a lot of the corporate press, um, they've been
• 1:11:17
  seemingly shifting towards, I guess you could say for lack of
• 1:11:21
  better terms, towards the right and away from the Dem party, as
• 1:11:23
  we're seeing with the politicians around Elizabeth
• 1:11:25
  Warren. And hey, you may or may not like
• 1:11:28
  Bezos. He may be an oligarch, but if
• 1:11:31
  his Washington Post owned newspaper is going to start
• 1:11:35
  Freedom Posting, I don't know. I think I'm kind of backing
• 1:11:39
  this. So we'll talk about all that.
• 1:11:41
  Absolutely. All right, guys, We will be
• 1:11:43
  right back. We're going to hit the culture
• 1:11:45
  segment. We have so much to get to smash
• 1:11:47
  the like, but if you guys are enjoying the show, we will be
• 1:11:50
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  Wow, the chat, the chat just mentioned the price and it this
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  is what I love being a Bitcoin podcaster anyways, anyways,
• 1:13:42
  anyways, all right, as I've been talking actually, as the theme
• 1:13:45
  of the show is today, there seems to be a general vibe shift
• 1:13:49
  and I I kind of was trolling earlier and and we'll do it now.
• 1:13:52
  Maybe. Did we do a poll already?
• 1:13:54
  We already have a poll. So the general shift or or
• 1:13:58
  consensus in the chat, we'll have to redo it.
• 1:14:01
  One was is there an actual vibe shift towards freedom or is this
• 1:14:05
  a manufactured consent towards freedom?
• 1:14:08
  It was A1 and A2. It seemed like more of the chat
• 1:14:11
  was saying one. I didn't get everyone in the
• 1:14:13
  chat to respond, but it seems like they think there's an
• 1:14:15
  actual vibe shift towards freedom and freedom
• 1:14:18
  consciousness, which I would like to believe.
• 1:14:20
  Maybe it's just I'm a skeptical person by nature.
• 1:14:22
  ANYWAYS, we got this post from Jeff Bezos this morning.
• 1:14:25
  And if you aren't familiar with this and maybe you've been
• 1:14:28
  sleeping under a rock, Jeff Bezos doesn't just his own
• 1:14:31
  Amazon, he also owns Washington Post.
• 1:14:34
  And as we've been covering for a long time, and even when we kind
• 1:14:37
  of heard this new story in the beginning, I think it was that
• 1:14:40
  towards the end of last year, you know, a lot of people were
• 1:14:43
  wondering like, how come a billionaire owns a newspaper
• 1:14:46
  company? Isn't that dying medium?
• 1:14:48
  Well, as everyone knows, you know, they got to get their
• 1:14:51
  thoughts out there. And now we're seeing that Bezos
• 1:14:54
  seems to be capitulating on some of the long held beliefs that
• 1:14:57
  he's had. And he's not the only one out
• 1:14:59
  there. We've also seen on must, we've
• 1:15:01
  seen Zach. And obviously, as I've been
• 1:15:04
  saying, I've been a little skeptical about it.
• 1:15:06
  You know, my tinfoil hats on it. It, it makes me feel a little
• 1:15:09
  weird when the billionaire oligarchs are kind of saying the
• 1:15:12
  same things that I'm saying. It makes me kind of, you know,
• 1:15:16
  not only kind of look at my fundamentals and my first
• 1:15:19
  principles, but wondering whether they are just throwing
• 1:15:23
  red meat out there for the audience because, hey, if Zach
• 1:15:26
  is seeing some data behind the scenes, you know, that's
• 1:15:28
  probably why he's changing his opinion.
• 1:15:31
  Anyways, enough conspiracy theories from my end.
• 1:15:33
  This is Jeff Bezos words this morning and I do have a few
• 1:15:36
  Bitcoiner posts regarding this. So Bezos this morning goes.
• 1:15:40
  I shared this note with the Washington Post team this
• 1:15:42
  morning. I'm writing to let you know
• 1:15:44
  about a change coming to our opinion pages.
• 1:15:47
  We're going to be writing every day in support and defense of
• 1:15:50
  two pillars, personal liberties and free markets.
• 1:15:53
  We'll cover other topics too, of course, but viewpoints opposing
• 1:15:56
  those pillars will be left to be published by others.
• 1:15:59
  There was a time when a news paper, especially one that was a
• 1:16:02
  local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the
• 1:16:05
  reader's doorstep every morning, a broad based opinion section
• 1:16:09
  that sought to cover all views that today the Internet does
• 1:16:12
  that job. I am of America and for America
• 1:16:15
  and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by
• 1:16:18
  being typical, and a big part of America's success has been
• 1:16:21
  freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else.
• 1:16:24
  Freedom is ethical, it minimizes coercion and practical.
• 1:16:28
  It drives creativity, invention, and process disparity.
• 1:16:31
  Ioffer David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity
• 1:16:35
  to leave this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the
• 1:16:38
  answer wasn't hell yes, then it had to be a no.
• 1:16:41
  After careful consideration, David decided to step away.
• 1:16:45
  This is a significant shift. It won't be easy and it will
• 1:16:48
  require 100% commitment. I respect his decision.
• 1:16:51
  We'll be searching for a new opinion editor to own this new
• 1:16:54
  direction, and I'm confident that free markets and personal
• 1:16:57
  liberties are right for America. I also believe these two points
• 1:17:01
  are underserved in the current market of ideas and news
• 1:17:03
  opinion. I'm excited for us to I'm
• 1:17:06
  excited for us together to fill that void.
• 1:17:08
  Jeff Bezos Honestly, on the surface, it sounds like a lot of
• 1:17:13
  the things we've been saying on the show.
• 1:17:15
  Obviously, as you guys know if you're a long time listener, we
• 1:17:18
  are all for personal liberty and freedom and economic freedom and
• 1:17:23
  free markets, etcetera. And of course, This is why we're
• 1:17:27
  Bitcoiners and we got a response from Sailor.
• 1:17:29
  One of them being Bitcoin is the best way to promote personal
• 1:17:33
  liberties and free markets. It offers an open protocol for
• 1:17:36
  prosperity that can be delivered to everyone via digital
• 1:17:38
  technology. And the other one I want to
• 1:17:40
  highlight is of course, Safety and Amos, and he goes, if you
• 1:17:43
  like free markets, you're going to love Bitcoin, which finally
• 1:17:46
  brought the free market to the biggest market of all money.
• 1:17:50
  Pick up a copy of the Bitcoin standard on Amazon.
• 1:17:52
  So I find it very interesting that we are actually seeing Jeff
• 1:17:56
  Bezos say things like this. You know they're going to push 2
• 1:17:59
  pillars, freedom or personal liberties and free markets.
• 1:18:03
  And of course, as we say every single day and as sailor and
• 1:18:06
  safety and responded, Bitcoin is the truly only free market of
• 1:18:10
  money. So it is very interesting to
• 1:18:12
  kind of hear this conversation happen, whether we will get more
• 1:18:17
  Bitcoin freedom S takes from the Washington Post.
• 1:18:21
  It seems like everyone wants to freedom post now it seems like
• 1:18:24
  that is where the culture is headed seems to be a vibe shift
• 1:18:28
  going towards personal liberty towards freedom towards free
• 1:18:31
  markets. And hey, obviously I'm here for
• 1:18:34
  it. And just my main concern here
• 1:18:37
  is, is this a an authentic shift towards the right?
• 1:18:42
  Did they actually have this epiphany in Hallelujah moment
• 1:18:45
  coming back to reality? Or is there some form of
• 1:18:48
  manufactured consent? Because as you can tell, there
• 1:18:51
  is this populace uprising right now and maybe they're trying to
• 1:18:55
  do some damage control here. So that's my kind of takes on
• 1:18:58
  this idea. But on its surface, I yeah, it's
• 1:19:02
  hard to hate on this. I fully endorse this kind of
• 1:19:04
  conversation. And the second part that is
• 1:19:06
  interesting is that he basically said, hey, those ideas, other
• 1:19:10
  publications posts that. So who are the other
• 1:19:13
  publications, you know, like Bloomberg, Fiat Times, everyone
• 1:19:18
  else. So, hey, if this is a bastion of
• 1:19:21
  freedom, personal liberties and free markets, I think we're
• 1:19:24
  going to be seeing a lot more Bitcoin posts come out of the
• 1:19:27
  Washington Post. And as everyone's been
• 1:19:30
  wondering, it's like, when, you know, when, when are we going to
• 1:19:32
  be able to buy some stuff on Amazon with our Bitcoin?
• 1:19:35
  Bezos, come on, like, push the charge, bro.
• 1:19:37
  But hey, it looks like the Bitcoin standard idea is
• 1:19:41
  catching on, or at least the idea of liberty and free markets
• 1:19:44
  is catching on. And so we'll be covering this
• 1:19:46
  general trend. I know some people aren't as
• 1:19:49
  skeptical as I am and they're like, no, there is a vibe shift
• 1:19:52
  going on, the pendulum swinging. There's some people in the chat
• 1:19:54
  that kind of agree with me that it does seem a little
• 1:19:56
  manufactured. Maybe we don't believe in this
• 1:19:59
  epiphany moment, but hey, this is where we are in the story
• 1:20:03
  right now. They are actively doing some
• 1:20:06
  cover and narrative control, damage control and moving
• 1:20:09
  towards a lot of the stuff that we say here on Simply Bitcoin.
• 1:20:12
  So, Nico, maybe we really are, you know, tomorrow's news today
• 1:20:16
  or whatever the meme is because we see.
• 1:20:18
  Seem as bitcoiners to work off first principles, fundamentals
• 1:20:21
  and it seems like things are shifting and shifting in our
• 1:20:24
  direction. So hopeful about this.
• 1:20:27
  Not going to hold my breath, but I think this is an interesting
• 1:20:29
  development. Yeah, and I think that was an
• 1:20:32
  amazing analysis, brother. And what I'll say is like, I
• 1:20:36
  think we have to be careful when we say about right and left.
• 1:20:40
  I think it, we, what we really have to focus on is
• 1:20:44
  individualism verse collectivism, right?
• 1:20:47
  And Bitcoin is not compatible with collectivist thought.
• 1:20:54
  It's a very individualist technology.
• 1:20:59
  And there is collectivism on the right and there's collectivism
• 1:21:01
  on on the left. I think what we're seeing
• 1:21:05
  recently, this political movement, this populism
• 1:21:08
  political movement is, is a, is a movement based on merit.
• 1:21:13
  It's a movement based on individual freedoms.
• 1:21:16
  It's a as a movement based on free markets.
• 1:21:19
  And I think Jeff Bezos, like Mark Zuckerberg, like Joe Rogan,
• 1:21:26
  I think they saw the winds change.
• 1:21:31
  The only credit where I'll give the the only credit I'll give
• 1:21:34
  due is Elon, like Elon. And I know Opti's not a big fan,
• 1:21:37
  but Elon, like, risked his company.
• 1:21:40
  Like, he really went all in if Kamala would have won, Like, it
• 1:21:46
  would not have been good for Elon.
• 1:21:49
  So Elon really, you know, went all in.
• 1:21:52
  And then when it became apparent and clear that Trump was the
• 1:21:57
  leading candidate, then Jeff Bezos jumped in, then Zuckerberg
• 1:22:02
  jumped in. And then, you know, Joe Rogan,
• 1:22:05
  like Joe Rogan should have had Trump on the podcast in the
• 1:22:11
  beginning of the year. He waited until the last minute
• 1:22:13
  because he realized how unpopular was with his audience
• 1:22:16
  that he didn't have Trump on on the show.
• 1:22:18
  So you know, what I was saying earlier on is, guys, if we want
• 1:22:23
  to win this, it's going to require moral courage, right?
• 1:22:28
  And you know, these guys aren't dumb, Jeff Bezos isn't stupid,
• 1:22:32
  Mark Zuckerberg isn't stupid, Joe Rogan isn't Joe Rogan isn't
• 1:22:36
  stupid. And I'm just naming a few.
• 1:22:37
  Like if they see the winds of the culture changing, they're
• 1:22:43
  not going to fight against those winds, right?
• 1:22:45
  They want to get on their in their good graces.
• 1:22:48
  But I don't know if you guys saw this, but it's been making the
• 1:22:50
  rounds on X. But essentially, apparently with
• 1:22:56
  the new iPhone update, if you speak into your phone and you
• 1:23:01
  say, oh, I saw that if you say the word racist it for a one or
• 1:23:07
  two seconds, it says Trump instead.
• 1:23:11
  And it's the, the, the reason that's interesting to me is
• 1:23:14
  because Apple or Tim Cook donated $1 million to Trump's
• 1:23:21
  inauguration fund. So I don't think any of these
• 1:23:24
  guys have changed. Maybe Joe, I think Joe really
• 1:23:27
  actually has changed. But I don't think any of these
• 1:23:30
  Silicon Valley guys have really changed their, their, their
• 1:23:37
  ideologies. I just think that it's better to
• 1:23:39
  be in the good graces of of the president who basically has all
• 1:23:45
  of government, has the House, has the Senate, has the Supreme
• 1:23:48
  Court and survived 2 assassination attempts, survived
• 1:23:55
  all this lawfare. I mean, his presidential picture
• 1:23:58
  is the same of his mug shot. The dude is pissed off.
• 1:24:01
  OK? So it's better to be in his good
• 1:24:04
  graces than be against him, right?
• 1:24:06
  So I think a lot of the motivations behind Jeff Bezos
• 1:24:12
  changing his tune come from that rather than him actually
• 1:24:17
  realizing, you know what it it's actually good to be a freedom
• 1:24:21
  minded country and all that stuff.
• 1:24:24
  Because not too long ago, I mean, Facebook was was terrible.
• 1:24:28
  Like they were censoring people left and right.
• 1:24:31
  And then all of a sudden, when it became clear that, you know,
• 1:24:35
  Trump was going to win, Zuck got like all pumped and he started
• 1:24:40
  doing martial arts and he went on Joe Rogan.
• 1:24:43
  He's like, you know what? They're just pressuring us so
• 1:24:45
  much and all this stuff. And it's like, yeah, they're
• 1:24:48
  pressuring Elon too. And Elon didn't give an F,
• 1:24:51
  right? Moral courage is the word here.
• 1:24:55
  And if you really want to win over the next 5-10 years, if we,
• 1:25:00
  if you want the, the world that your children live in to be a
• 1:25:05
  world of Bitcoin, A world of freedom, it's going to require
• 1:25:11
  moral courage to stand up and do the right thing in the face of
• 1:25:16
  tyranny and the face of, of, of, you know, potential prison,
• 1:25:22
  right? Are you going to stand up and do
• 1:25:26
  what's right even if you know there's consequences to you,
• 1:25:30
  Right. You know, I, I have a very good
• 1:25:33
  friend of mine BTZ sessions, like he was involved with the
• 1:25:40
  whole Canadian truckers protest. He ran one of the nodes that
• 1:25:44
  they ran the lightning, a channel on that facilitate a lot
• 1:25:48
  of these truckers protests. People going and and giving
• 1:25:52
  donations. The you know, law enforcement in
• 1:25:55
  Canada showed up at his house. The dude has a family, right,
• 1:25:59
  But he stood up and did what's right.
• 1:26:01
  And this is this is like the this is like the theme of
• 1:26:06
  today's show, I guess. Stand up and do what's right, do
• 1:26:09
  the right thing. That's how we're going to win.
• 1:26:11
  If enough of us stand up and say, yo, enough is enough.
• 1:26:14
  Fiat is a scam. Like central banking is like,
• 1:26:18
  you know, like has enslaved humanity.
• 1:26:21
  And we don't we we don't want any of it.
• 1:26:24
  Like enough is enough. You guys have to answer, you
• 1:26:27
  know, you guys have to actually, you know, do what's good by the
• 1:26:32
  American people. I think that's how we're going
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  to win. I really, I really believe that.
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  But this whole Oh my God, like, you know, don't trust Trump, but
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  don't trust this politician or don't trust like that's weak,
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  man. That I'm, I'm telling you,
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  that's weak. That's so easy to say that.
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  That's so easy. It is so much easier to say that
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  than to actually fight and to actually, you know, put your
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  support behind someone. Even if that someone's going to
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  F you over, at least you tried. At least you're putting in an
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  effort. Because I'll tell you what, if
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  we don't put any effort at all, I guarantee you we're going to
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  lose. If we put effort, I can't say
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  guarantee we're going to win, but at least we have a shot at
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  winning, right. So this whole defeatist attitude
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  and whatever, I get it. Maybe I get it.
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  We if we were in the gold bug era, right?
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  If we were in the pre Internet era, I get it.
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  But now that we have the ability to speak freely with each other,
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  now that we have the ability to save in money that can't be
• 1:27:35
  debased, is is very difficult to confiscate.
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  It's unconfiscatable, like tone, Bass says says it.
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  We have no reason. You have no reason as to not why
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  to stand up and, you know, fight for becoming a sovereign
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  individual. There's no reason at all as to
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  why you shouldn't be able to stand up and and want to do
• 1:27:59
  that. So that's my bit and we are
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