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Michael Saylor ACCELERATES SPECULATIVE ATTACK On Dollar | EP 947 · Simply Bitcoin

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It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
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It's. Going up forever.
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You're against Bitcoin. You're against freedom because
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they, well, because they want to sell.
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It eventually Michael. I mean let's be honest most of
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the people who are, yes sure some people pass it on to their
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children, but like most of the people who are buying assets at
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some point want to sell the assets at a profit.
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So let. Me say it differently.
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People that use Fiat currency as a store of value, there's a name
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for them. We call them poor.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Simply Bitcoin Live number one
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source for the peaceful Bitcoin revolution.
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Code breaking News Culture, Matic Warfare.
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We will be your guide through the separation of money and
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Welcome to simply Bitcoin. I just look, I I mean Michael
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Saylor is not only talking the talk, right?
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So we played you guys that clip. When it broke, you know, it
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literally broke the Internet, Broke Bitcoin.
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Twitter better said we are still in our echo chamber even though
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we're breaking through it. But also something to keep in
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mind is that not only does he talk the talk, he walks the
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walk, he doubled down, he continued.
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He continues his speculative attack on the dollar micro
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strategy announced literally like two days after they
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announced their first proposal. But they just announced a new
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proposed private offering of $500 million of convertible
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senior notes. This is an addition to the 800
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million UH offering of convertible notes, which they
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offered in the same week. And by the way, so it was they
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are he offered the $800 million offering.
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He had that media interview and then the next day they announced
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the $500 million offering. Michael Saylor what an absolute
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Chad. Not only talking the talk but
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walking the walk and this is a speculative attack on the
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dollar. Like it's it's it's crazy that
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he continues to do this. But I mean look he's very, very
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convinced and he's very convicted as we all because we
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know that Bitcoin is you know the best money that has ever
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existed in the history of mankind.
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Also breaking news, Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto ruled by
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a judge and the the summary was it was there is there's nothing
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open to interpretation anymore. I'll read you guys the exact
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quote from the judge when we get to the new segment, but
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basically said, look, you did not write the white paper, you
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did not invite, you did not invent this technology.
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This is vindication for not only Peter McCormack but also our boy
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the space cat Hodlenaut that have been persecuted by Craig
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Wright and Co in order to silence them for for, you know,
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basically saying that he isn't Satoshi.
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I mean Satoshi that invented Bitcoin, right?
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Or discovered Bitcoin. However which way you want to
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see it. You would think that you know
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unsensible money. You would.
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And you'd think that the creator of unsensible money would use
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the state would use law fair to try to silence someone else.
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I mean you know it doesn't quite make sense.
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So this is, you know. Again shout out to Hodelna and
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McCormack. They were attacked financially
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millions of dollars in legal fees.
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So for them to finally be vindicated, this is a, this is a
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this is a big win for Bitcoin and big win for Bitcoiners,
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right? I, I, I, I, I believe that you
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know Craig Wright was an enemy of Bitcoin.
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You know, attacking fellow Bitcoiners, you know for for
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differences of opinion and then trying to use law fair to
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silence them. That's not cool.
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So we'll get to that also. And then I also want to focus on
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the so-called TikTok ban bill. There's two sides to this,
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right? So we're going to talk about
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that and I'm going to connect it with what's happening in Canada.
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Supposedly, there's a draft Canada law that Wood Forest
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social media companies to quickly remove harmful content.
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Now the problem with this is who gets to determine what harmful
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content is, right? So let's say you're the
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political party in power and your political opponents are,
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you know, posting some things that perhaps make you look bad.
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You could say that's harmful content.
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They've done that in the past before, right?
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You've heard this with, you know, the whole hate speech,
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misinformation. You've heard these things
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before. And that's exactly why, you
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know, the 1st Amendment is structured, how the 1st
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Amendment is structured in the United States.
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Because the Founding Fathers realize that, like look, if
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government gets to decide what speech is acceptable and what
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speech is not acceptable, government is going to use that
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as a political Moat to protect themselves.
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So very interesting discussion. And of course we have two
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legendary bitcoiners. Also because of mine of course
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about BJ Ditcher and Brandy Brandon Gentle.
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They are the host of the Political Bitcoin Hour Twitter
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Spaces. BJ is the author of Honking for
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Freedom, also a freedom fighter himself.
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He was part of the Canadian truckers protest.
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Shout out to BJ and of course Brandon is the head of marketing
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for BTC trading cards and my legendary Co host.
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Always optimistic, he has a giant smile on his face today,
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which means it's going to be an excellent show.
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The one the only Optimus fields. How you doing Opti?
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I'm doing wonderful, man. I'm doing great.
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Life's great. Life is beautiful.
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Here we are. We get to be bitcoiners.
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We get to watch clown world burn around us while we build a
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better world. And yeah man, I'm, I'm excited
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for this one. You know, I I love BJ and
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Brandon and every time I talk with them we always go into the
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weeds on on all kinds of awesome conversations.
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And you know today's culture is going to be one of those where I
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know it's going to get spicy for everyone in the chat.
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I know this is going to be Nico's favorite conversation
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too. The importance of bitcoiners
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getting political or whether it matters or not, and I mean also
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since considering we're talking about Canada, I I feel like we
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couldn't have a better guess than BJ on the show today as
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well. And man, just just super hype,
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super hype to be here man. Nico, we we got the best job
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Holy cow. We got so many super chats
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yesterday. We're blessed.
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And we appreciate you all. Anyways, BJ, how you doing, man?
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Bro, last time I think I saw you, we were we were in Miami
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together. You're in Miami.
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You should be in Miami soon, right?
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Maybe. Maybe yes.
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No. Maybe so.
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I'm in and I will be down. Dinner again.
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I know you're not sleeping at all with the so why do you?
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You don't deserve an hour's out for drinks with myself, brother.
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And I hope you're all well. Oh man.
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Well, I'm excited. I'm excited to get to hang out
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with you again. And yeah, well, you know I am.
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I am working on fumes. It's it's crazy.
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But shout out to my wife, Internet Sophie, 'cause she's
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been absolutely crushing it, being a mom, Just, you know,
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being on top of everything. Anyways, Brandon, how you doing,
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man? I think last time that we
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crossed paths was at Unconfiscatable Epic Conference
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and good to see you again and happy to have you on the show.
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Yeah, thanks, Nico. Opti having us on this is an
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absolute blast. And yeah, looking forward to
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some conferences this year with you guys and probably a bit
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block boom coming up and so really excited about that and
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man, it's going to be a good show.
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Yeah man. I'm excited.
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OK, so one of the themes in the show that we talk about right is
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the separation of money and state, right.
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The peaceful revolution. But what started this
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revolution? What started the fire, right?
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What kindled that fire? What started it?
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It was the Internet in the Internet.
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What? What the Internet did, What the
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Internet enabled individuals to do, is basically circumvent the
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gatekeepers of information. It disintermediated information.
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It democratize the process of broadcasting, right?
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So all of a sudden this in exists. 15 years ago, any person
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could buy themselves a microphone and a camera, create,
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you know, an account on the multiple different platforms.
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Now you can, you know, create an account on Noster and you
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literally can't be banned. Period.
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Right. And you could broadcast to the
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world directly, peer-to-peer, right?
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So I can broadcast to you. I can make my thoughts known, my
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speech known, and, you know, can't really do anything about
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it. The governments are having a
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hard time doing something about it.
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And of course, it's kind of like throwing them into a frenzy
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because they've been used to operating in a world where
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there's been a handful of legacy media institutions.
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And you know, there's been many, many examples throughout history
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where those legacy media institutions that you, you know,
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would trust, so to speak, it's come out that they weren't
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exactly so truthful. And that's why I believe you
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have, you know, the most popular broadcasters in the world are
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not legacy media. They're individuals like Joe
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Rogan. They're individuals like Tucker
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Carlson, of course. And you can make, you can make
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the case that they're exactly not that, that you know, they
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have their own biases. But I would like to believe that
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in a world where everyone is able to speak their mind, let
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the free market of ideas get to decide, you know, what ideas are
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good and what ideas are bad. I don't think, you know, got
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powerful government bureaucrats should be, should have a
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monopoly on that. Anyways, So, look, so with
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everything I just said, connect it with this, right?
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And you know, of course, Joe Biden, current president of the
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United States, he grew up in a world where, you know, there was
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only a handful of legacy media institutions, right.
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So, you know, they're able to get away with stuff like this.
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So let's check out what he has to say.
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So now we have among the lowest inflation rates of any country
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in America. And still we're still fighting
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to lower it even further. So like not to mention the fact
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that you can't really understand what he's saying, right.
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We have one of the lowest inflation rates of any country
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in America. I mean so first of all, the
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actual statement itself doesn't really make sense.
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And then the, the other statement which is the idea of
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like, OK, yes, the, the inflation has been lowered.
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OK, great. But just because inflation, the,
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the, the rate of which your money is losing purchasing power
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is decreasing, that doesn't necessarily equate to prices
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going back down to where they were before the spending spree
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that was justified because of the pandemic, right.
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And of course they blame the war and they blame the supply chains
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and they blame everything in their mother, right.
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So yes, they're able to kind of get away with a lot of these,
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you know, a lot of these things because again, they've been used
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to somewhat controlling the the information rails.
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And then this leads me to my other point, right.
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So governments all around the world in, in the, in, in the EU,
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in Canada and the United States are kind of trying to do
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something about, I mean again, it's kind of like a losing
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battle, right? The the best you know, quote
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that comes to mind is you can't stop by an idea whose time has
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come. You know, the printing press and
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how that completely changed everything.
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The Internet's changed everything, right?
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But of course the old world is adjusting to that.
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There's a bit of a, there's a little bit of chaos because of
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that. But this is one of the latest
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attempts and this is kind of scary, right?
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And if you pull up like CNN or something on Instagram in
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Canada, it will literally tell you, like we can't show you this
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because of some like Law and count, which is absolutely crazy
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that we live in this type of world.
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But anyways, the headline of this article is Canada Law Woods
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for social media companies to quickly remove harmful content.
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Who gets to decide what is harmful content?
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And bringing this back to United States, yesterday the so-called
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TikTok ban, the TikTok, the TikTok bill was passed and here
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is Representative Mike Gallagher.
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And by the way, this was a bipartisan thing.
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So this is Republicans and Democrats.
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And you know, here's a quote that he said during his speech.
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He said becoming the dominant because TikTok was becoming the
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dominant news platform for Americans under 30.
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Now of course, there's two sides to this and I'll get to it, but
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I'm going to get to the Bitcoin side 1st and then I'll pass it
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on to BJ to talk about the other side, the other perspective.
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So here's CK he was the, the he was, he was basically running
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Bitcoin Magazine for a while. Now he's with the Human Rights
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Foundation. He said this tiktok ban is a
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wolf in sheep's clothing. It's more about control than it
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is about Tiktok. Here's Odell.
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This is a screenshot from Noster.
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I'm assuming this is the primal app.
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He says the Tiktok ban bill going through Congress right now
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will give government insane power to restrict speech.
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At the same time, Section 230 protections are about to be
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neutered by the Supreme Court, which will add an insane amount
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of liability to centralized platforms, inevitably increasing
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censorship. Restricting free speech in
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America has bipartisan support among our corrupt political
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class. Noster is about to have its
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moment to shine. We need to be ready for billions
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of new users. So I think that's a really good
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point from Odell. But BJ, we were talking kind of
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before you had a little bit of a little bit of a different kind
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of perspective on the on the TikTok bill because again, it's
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not so black and white, right, Tiktok, You know guys, if you
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ever go on a shorts feed on YouTube on Tiktok, before you
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know it, you've lost like 30 or 40 minutes of your time it the
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platforms are literally like designed to hijack your dopamine
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receptors and you just to start scrolling.
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Now the problem is that the content of which they show in
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China is actually like productive content, right?
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It's like it's wholesome content.
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It like it encourages you to, you know, go and, you know, do
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exercise and do this. And you know, you could say that
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the content here in the US isn't exactly, you know, the
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healthiest content for, you know, the younger generation to
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consume. So I I see kind of two points
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here. BJ point #1 is OK.
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I, you know, I wouldn't put it past the government that is
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definitely feeling the pain of social media and getting, you
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know, fact checked in real time and people talking peer-to-peer.
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I wouldn't put put it past the government to take advantage of
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all these parents up in arms to, you know, pass a bill that, you
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know, gives the executive branch this crazy power just to kind
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of, you know, restrict certain types of websites, like you
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said. But at the same time, like, I
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don't think that the CCP has the best interests of, you know, of
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the American public, right. You could even say they're
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adversaries. So BJ, what's your, what's your
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thoughts on all this, you know, the censorship of speech and.
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And again guys, this is a Bitcoin show.
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The freedom of speech is the frontline for the battle for
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Bitcoin. If if you don't think that
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they're going to be OK with you speaking freely, they're
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definitely not going to be OK with you transacting freely.
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BJ. Wow, that's a lot to uncover in
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just a couple of minutes, but I'll try to make it short.
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I mean, look, I am as free speech, anti censorship,
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absolutist, as humanly possible. As you know, I had all my bank
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accounts frozen, my credit cards, my lines of credit,
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absolutely everything frozen because of the of our desire to
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speak and speak out against what the Trudeau government was
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doing. And by the way, it's not just
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the Trudeau government. It's not about left or right.
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This is about top versus bottom. The political establishment who
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thinks they're living in the 1960s of unidirectional media
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and they don't want to engage in the open discourse and debate
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with bi directional media, which is the nature of the world that
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we live in today. Now I think we're conflating.
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I mean, there's a lot of nuance here, but I think we're
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conflating 2 separate things. So firstly, on the TikTok side,
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I'm very sympathetic. I think we all are.
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Those of us who understand, who have a background in
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communications, some degree of persuasion and marketing, that
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TikTok has been turned into a cyber weapon within the US and
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it targets younger people who are easily brainwashed and
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influenced. That's why TikTok is banned
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within China. So it's banned within their own
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jurisdiction, but they're utilizing it for degeneracy.
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Here I have a sister-in-law who is very high up in public health
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and she was telling me over, you know, they have Christmas
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dinner. So over their Christmas dinner
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she says to me, you wouldn't believe when we see the text
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messages from kids in middle school, she said, you know what
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they talk about? And I said no, she said.
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They obsess over one thing and one thing only, their gender.
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They don't know if they're a boy.
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They don't know if they're a girl.
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Their gender fluid. Should they change their gender?
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Should they get puberty blockers?
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Where can I get puberty blockers without my parents knowing?
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She said. It's bored.
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It's on the point that it is obsessive behavior, she said.
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They don't talk about cars, They don't talk about sports.
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They don't talk about dolls. They don't talk about the things
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that kids would traditionally have spoken about at that age in
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previous generations, so that needs to be addressed.
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However, what we've seen once again the political class
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stabbing all of us in the back by inserting a poison pill in
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this bill which gives the President absolute powers for
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censorship. Which I'm not in favour of
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either and I'm. I'm really shocked and surprised
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that it went through with the poison poison pill on the
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Canadian side for the Online Harms bill or the Online Harms
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Act. What that is, it is not yet
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passed. I think it went through first
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reading, if I'm not mistaken. Remember, you have a
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parliamentary process. It is designed for obviously for
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people online, not limited to online, and this is what it
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says. There's two aspects that are
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very, very dangerous of this. OK, very short.
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It says section 320.1001. Everyone who can.
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Anyone who commits an offence under this Act or any other Act
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of Parliament, if the Commission of the offence is motivated by
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hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour,
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religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sex
23:31
orientation or gender ideology, ideology or expression, is
23:36
guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment
23:43
for life for life, which is 25 years under Canadian law.
23:50
This is the part that Scott Adams read a few days ago.
23:54
Then there's another aspect to it, very important, that ties
23:57
into it very short 810.012. A person may, with the Attorney
24:03
General's consent, lay an information before a provincial
24:07
Court judge. If the person fears on
24:12
reasonable grounds, whatever that is, then another person
24:17
will commit an offence under section 318 or any of its
24:23
subsections. An offence under section 320.
24:28
What does that mean? That means, Nico, I think you
24:33
might commit some hate speech in the future that I find
24:39
offensive. So I'm going to drag you to not
24:43
the regular court system, but the Human Rights Commission,
24:47
which Jordan Peterson made very famous.
24:49
It's a parallel court system, not based on objective facts,
24:54
but based on feelings and emotions, not ruled on by a
24:58
judge, but by a justice of the peace.
25:00
And it's all subjective and I can in the past, many comedians
25:05
have been dragged through the Human Rights Commission and then
25:08
issued fines. But Section 17 was removed about
25:12
10 years ago. They want to bring it back and
25:15
give the Human Rights Commission the power of imprisonment for
25:20
life for saying something that somebody doesn't like.
25:24
I think those that is very, very overwhelming.
25:26
And that's also separate from the the TikTok issued.
25:29
Have I made like my case out well?
25:32
100% you. You laid it out in such an
25:35
amazing manner. And just to give that context
25:39
and you know, I was basically trying to paint an overall kind
25:43
of overarching, overarching narrative just to kind of show
25:46
everyone where we are in history and the separation of money and
25:50
state, the great disintermediation that was
25:52
caused by the Internet. But you really dug deep into the
25:56
details and the the nuances of both those elements.
26:00
I really, really appreciate that BJ.
26:02
But yeah, man, this is go ahead. What happens when Bitcoin is
26:06
considered far right hate speech?
26:09
Oh, Nico wanted to teach me about Bitcoin.
26:11
He wanted to recruit me into hate speech.
26:15
He should be arrested. Let's take him in front of the
26:17
Human Rights Tribunal A. 100% And then you know what, what,
26:20
what, when are they going to say that?
26:22
You know and you're already starting to see this.
26:24
And I don't know if we're going to have time to cover this today
26:27
guys, but we're going to cover it on Friday at least.
26:29
But some news coming out of Nigeria, Nigerian authorities
26:32
blame Binance for the 70% Naira devaluation and move to issue
26:38
arrest warrant against CEO and some other news.
26:41
Also JP Morgan Bitcoin surge could raise concerns at the Fed.
26:47
So you kind of see where this is going, right?
26:49
Where they will use Bitcoin as the excuse as to why Fiat is
26:56
failing, the excuse as to why the welfare state is breaking
27:03
down. And you can see them going after
27:06
Bitcoiners. Right.
27:07
And this is something again, that it it, it's not only you
27:11
kind of start to see the ominous clouds in the distance, but this
27:15
is something that was predicted in the book, the sovereign
27:17
individual, right. You know, if you have people
27:19
that have been living in, in this world for in this very
27:23
specific type of world for a very long time.
27:26
Right. So yeah, BJ, thank you so much
27:28
for breaking down the nuances and the details, but this is
27:31
what it's all about, guys. Keep up the pressure.
27:33
Your #1 weapon and all this is, this is not a kinetic war.
27:37
Your #1 weapon here is just the truth.
27:40
You know, get people informed. Because the reality is that a
27:44
lot of these politicians take advantage of a lot of people
27:48
that perhaps are not informed, like they're not fully aware of
27:52
what is actually going on. They're still consumers of of
27:57
what I call the controlled media.
28:00
Anyways, I'm gonna pass it on to Brandon.
28:02
Brandon, what are your thoughts on this?
28:04
Your guy, you guys host a, you know a a a space is called the
28:08
political Bitcoin Hour. So I'm assuming that you guys
28:11
have talked about this somewhat. Yeah, we we just talked about
28:15
this yesterday, Wednesday at at 1:00 Eastern Time is when we we
28:19
do this, we go for a couple hours and join up with Toxic
28:22
Happy hour actually. But First off, really quick to
28:24
Congrats to you and Sophie, by the way, I didn't say that
28:26
earlier on the little one, Nico, so Congrats there.
28:28
But yeah, this is, you know, it's the whole like, you know,
28:32
people saying billionaires forgot who it was this week.
28:34
But it was saying that, you know, billionaire should, you
28:36
know, not put a smile on their face.
28:37
They should be just giving away their money just wherever and
28:40
whenever with no strings attached.
28:42
And you see this, this ruling class, you know, whether it's
28:45
Rogan or Musk or Taylor, so really pointed at these people.
28:48
But you see, you know, we have to join the political discourse.
28:51
You just have to and it's you have to overwhelm the system and
28:55
decentralized powers are not used to being talked back to.
28:58
Period. They, you know, think of think
29:00
of some of these families. They're hundreds of years in
29:02
power. Hundreds of years.
29:03
They've never been talked back to in their life.
29:05
And you just mentioned it earlier, Nico, and you too, BJ.
29:07
But these people have never heard anyone, anyone, I mean for
29:11
hundreds and thousands of years, they just, you just go to jail.
29:14
Someone did anything. I mean, you can look through the
29:16
Bible. You can look your history books
29:17
and it's it's throughout the entire thing that you just jail.
29:20
You'd kill them. You'd cut their head off
29:21
whatever it was like, OK, get out of here bud.
29:23
And now for the first time in human history with Bitcoin, with
29:27
separation of church and state, but then now the separation of
29:29
money and state and now the separation of media and state,
29:31
they have this real threat to their, you know, oligopoly,
29:35
whatever you want to call it, this, this power structure that
29:37
they've built. And they, they don't know what
29:40
to do. And that's why it's going to get
29:42
worse before it gets better. And you know, after you in the
29:45
space, as I was joking with you guys earlier, that you need to
29:47
bring it back. But we used to say all the time,
29:49
you know they you don't none of us want to be martyrs, but some
29:52
people will be. You know, we need some martyrs
29:54
in society. We need you know, like we talked
29:56
about huddle now. We talked about Peter McCormick
29:57
already And these things happen and they're going to continue to
30:00
happen until we push this political discourse to a point
30:04
because and and BJ says it's all the time too is the Breitbart
30:07
quote of politics is downstream from from culture and you have
30:11
to keep pushing the culture and doing what we're all doing here
30:14
every single day. Overwhelm this is done more
30:16
podcast more blogs more TV spots whatever it is and whatever
30:20
everyone can do to continue the the narrative because this stuff
30:23
is real. The TikTok bill.
30:24
I mean this is This is why we started political Bitcoin hour.
30:27
This is why we started Bitcoin trading cards as well and what
30:30
we're doing there because we have to get the kids we got to
30:32
pull them away from a screen somehow.
30:33
How are you going to learn? They're not learning in
30:34
government schools. We all know that.
30:36
They're not learning it on TikTok.
30:38
They're not learning it on Instagram.
30:39
They're not learning it in this digital world.
30:40
Like you said Nico he's the the dopamine hits you get from it
30:43
are incredible. So how do we pull them away from
30:45
this and learn in a different way And and that's why we
30:49
started some of these initiatives and some of these
30:51
things to do something differently.
30:53
I mean you look at the, what is it, TikTok bill or Bill C63 in
30:55
Canada, the the Dame mining tax bill, omnibus bills.
30:59
I mean you go on down the list, it's it's endless and it's, it's
31:02
almost, it's speeding up, right, 'cause they're the the drowning
31:04
man in the water and they're going to get crazier and crazier
31:07
as you're as you're trying to rescue a drowning man.
31:09
What is he doing? He's, he's grabbing at you.
31:11
He's pulling you under the water and that's a part of that.
31:13
You know, then they fight you stage we're in right now. 100
31:16
percent, 100% Also shout out to Breitbart.
31:19
Absolute legend, a man before his time.
31:22
Guys, if you see Breitbart interviews from, you know, 1012
31:26
years ago, he predicted a lot of the things that are coming true
31:29
now. So shout out to Breitbart
31:31
anyways, Opti, what are your thoughts on this, brother?
31:35
Yeah, I'll go also. Speaking of martyr, Opti is not
31:39
a degenerate anymore. He told me that he's not a
31:41
degenerate anymore, so. We're using.
31:44
I'm calling him St. Opti from.
31:46
Always has, but always. Forward so when I.
31:49
Hold on, let's kick him off. Well, that's enough of that.
31:51
That's enough of that. When Bitcoin hits 150, K Opti
31:57
will become. A priest.
31:58
He took me last night. I don't know about all that.
32:00
I don't know about all anyway. Anyway, let's get back to the
32:03
topic here. Miko's always got to troll me on
32:05
the show. First and foremost, I totally
32:09
agree with everything that BJ and Brandon and Niko was saying.
32:13
It really I think is an important thing point to make
32:19
that this is the cultural war happening in real time.
32:21
And we know that. Like I don't know if you guys
32:24
watched that Mike Bend interview with Tucker Carlson a couple of
32:28
weeks ago or last week or so. But he said something in there
32:31
that we say all the time on this show and he has a like an
32:34
encyclopedic memory on what's going on.
32:38
Names and figures and something Nico and I always say on the
32:40
show is like the establishment wasn't ready for the Internet
32:44
and social media and all of us having these conversations and
32:47
spreading the truth and spreading the signal.
32:49
And so now it's them trying to fight back.
32:52
And the same thing is happening with Bitcoin, where they're
32:54
losing control of the money and it all goes hand in hand.
32:58
I know someone in the chat was kind of like, wait, I thought
33:00
this was a Bitcoin show? What are they even talking
33:02
about? Well, I know we, we talked about
33:04
in the chat, but freedom of speech is a Bitcoin issue.
33:07
Like, if you think that you can't talk freely on the
33:12
Internet, what makes you think that you're going to be able to
33:14
transact freely? These things go hand in hand.
33:17
And the establishment wasn't ready for Bitcoin to basically
33:22
free all of us transacting, sending money where we want
33:25
without them being the middleman.
33:27
And now they're trying to scramble and control it.
33:30
So we're seeing in real time that what the Internet did to
33:33
information, Bitcoin is doing for finances.
33:36
And you know, Bitcoin is code, Bitcoin is speech.
33:39
And so the more they try to trample on communication and the
33:42
more they try to corral information, the more you know
33:46
that we are winning and that we have to continue to spread the
33:49
signal. And then just like touching on
33:51
the TikTok stuff, because I don't wanna rehash what you guys
33:53
are saying, but personally, it just kind of always goes back to
33:57
that meme that a a government will not let an emergency go.
34:01
What's the saying? I forget I'm.
34:03
It's a Churchill quote and it's like never let a crisis go.
34:06
Yeah, never go exactly. And so you're seeing that now we
34:10
have a new boogeyman, you know the the IT was Russia for a
34:14
little bit and now it's becoming China again.
34:16
And so they're they're aiming this as a way of like protecting
34:20
American citizens from China. And you know, like I don't like
34:23
TikTok, it's a necessary evil for us.
34:25
We're we're posting stuff over there on TikTok.
34:28
But you're seeing in the wording of this bill that was passed
34:33
that it's going to be just wholesale for any website.
34:36
It's starting to get aimed at exactly what BJ was saying about
34:41
in Canada, that if you are saying things that are going
34:44
against the establishment, then they have full reign to
34:48
basically shut you down. Fine, you.
34:50
And so again, this is just part of that culture war going on
34:53
where they are losing control. Or rather, in my opinion, they
34:56
have lost control of information.
34:58
They have lost control on the monopoly of the narrative.
35:02
And now they're trying to scramble and find new ways to
35:05
ensure that their narrative is getting propagated.
35:08
Because all of us on Twitter are just, you know, the the Twitter,
35:12
what's Fact Check. You know, the Twitter community
35:14
notes like they can't get away with just propagandizing people.
35:18
And now they're trying to figure out ways how to use the courts
35:20
and the laws to basically push all you guys back into the box
35:24
because they've lost that control.
35:26
And so freedom of speech is a Bitcoin issue.
35:28
Bitcoin is literally code. It's ones in zeros.
35:31
It's letters. And so the more they try to
35:33
control information, not only do I know that we're on the right
35:37
side of history here, but the more I know that they're
35:39
scrambling and they're very concerned about us having these
35:42
conversations and hence why we do our show in such a certain
35:46
way so that YouTube doesn't nuke us.
35:48
So guys, we know what's going on.
35:51
We see the writing on the wall, but it's kind of one of those
35:55
necessary evils where we got to go meet people and try to plant
35:58
these seeds of freedom and these ideas of freedom in people's
36:01
minds and show the hypocrisy so they understand what is actually
36:05
at stake. It's literally all at stake
36:07
right now. It is bit corner.
36:08
Slavery. Oh beautiful.
36:10
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39:05
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39:11
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39:37
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39:40
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39:43
You could see it with the lines, you know again guys they
39:46
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39:48
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39:51
deal. Anyways, quick updates on this
39:56
this saga this man, this has lasted a very very long time.
40:00
A very very long time and then shame on you know Craig Wright
40:05
and you know and and Calvin for for doing this for.
40:11
And again, look, you can make a claim, right?
40:13
But you know, there's there's these awesome things called
40:16
cryptographic proofs you can sign for addresses that you
40:22
know, that, that a lot of people believe belong to Satoshi.
40:26
To prove that you're Satoshi #1. I don't think Satoshi would do
40:30
that because I think that part of Bitcoin's mythology, part of
40:36
Bitcoin's power, is the fact that the ruler stepped away.
40:40
The creator stepped away, not the ruler.
40:41
The creator stepped away from his creation and left it to its
40:46
own devices. I don't think it would be a good
40:48
idea if people knew the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.
40:52
I think that would put a target under his on his back.
40:55
I think that's the reason why he disappeared.
40:57
People would start to see the flaws in the human being or the
41:01
group of human beings that are behind Satoshi Nakamoto, rather
41:06
than focus on what was left, what was created, which is
41:09
Bitcoin, right? And then again, because it's
41:12
anonymous, because Satoshi's not here anymore, because he's
41:16
basically disappeared. We are all Satoshi in a way,
41:19
except for Craig Wright. And you know, this is it.
41:24
It was, you know, it was a tragedy.
41:26
It was a tragedy what happened to HOT or not.
41:29
And it was a tragedy what happened to Peter McCormack
41:32
getting law fair basically trying to silence them for
41:36
calling Craig Wright not Satoshi and again that could have been
41:39
an opinion. Craig Wright had multiple
41:42
instances to prove that he's that he know he he as he he is
41:47
who he claimed he he is or he was.
41:50
But that's over now. And we, you know we we we've
41:53
tended not to be so blunt and open about it you know on simply
41:58
Bitcoin. But this is a judge now saying
42:02
that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto.
42:05
Not to mention the fact that judges in three different
42:09
jurisdictions, Florida, the United Kingdom.
42:11
And I think Hadanat's trial was like in Norway, I believe, but
42:17
in three of those jurisdictions, the judge and you know, some
42:20
were a little bit nicer than others, but they basically said
42:24
that Craig Wright was dishonest in a lot of his testimony,
42:27
right. So in three separate
42:29
jurisdictions, you know, multiple judges has said, you
42:32
know, Craig Wright is being dishonest now it is so point
42:36
blank. It is so blunt in this latest
42:39
ruling that it's undeniable and the judge made it undeniable,
42:43
right? So this Wahanat said the judge
42:46
just ruled from the bench. Craig Wright is not Satoshi
42:49
Nakamoto. Further findings of fraud will
42:52
come in the written judgment. Welcome to law.
42:54
Welcome to law is a line that Craig Wright famously used to
42:59
prove. You know, he'd say, listen,
43:00
we're going to sue you out of existence.
43:02
Welcome to law. You know, sailors jumping in
43:04
saying Craig Wright is not Satoshi.
43:07
And here is the actual quote from the judge itself, from the
43:11
judge himself. And here is of course, Jack
43:13
Dorsey, you know, fellow Bitcoiner posting the quote and
43:17
he says W up top for for when says quote, I will make certain
43:22
declarations which I am satisfied or useful and are
43:25
necessary to do justice between the parties.
43:28
First, that Doctor Wright is not the author of the Bitcoin white
43:31
paper. 2nd Doctor Wright is not the person who adopted or
43:36
operated under the pseudonym pseudonym Opti.
43:40
How do you say that word? Holy cow.
43:43
All right guys, forgive me English.
43:44
My second language, Satoshi Nakamoto in the period of 2008
43:48
to 2011. Third, Doctor Wright is not the
43:51
person who created the Bitcoin system.
43:53
And 4th he is not the author of the initial version of the
43:56
Bitcoin. Softer.
43:58
Any further relief will be dealt with in my written judgment.
44:01
I will extend time for filing any appellants notice until 21
44:05
days after the form of order hearing, which will be appointed
44:09
following the hand down of my written judgment.
44:12
And I asked the parties to seek to agree and order giving effect
44:16
to what I have just stated. So I mean, look, you can't be
44:22
more blunt than that. There is no doubt left there.
44:26
There's just no doubt. There's no like anything left
44:30
that could be interpreted in a different light.
44:35
The judge was pretty blunt, like he said it like this guy did not
44:41
create Bitcoin. The white paper, the early firms
44:44
of the software, This guy is not Satoshi Nakamoto, full stop,
44:49
period. Right.
44:50
So again, congratulations to to Hoddle.
44:54
Not congratulations to Peter McCormack.
44:56
They, you know, they took the blunt of this and I'm sure that
45:00
there's other bitcoiners that were pursued as well.
45:03
Congratulations to them. And this is a big win for the
45:06
Bitcoin community. BJ, what do you what do you
45:08
think about this man? Well, I think law fair is one of
45:11
the biggest problems in society right now that often gets
45:15
ignored. It's ignored by all our
45:16
politicians because it's just another form of censorship.
45:19
I've been through it myself. I'm going through it right now.
45:23
You know, the truckers and I, about 400 plus of us have been
45:27
slapped with a $450 million law fair harassment suit by people
45:32
who are tied to the Trudeau government or the the Liberal
45:35
Party. I talked about it on
45:36
trigonometry when I was interviewed on them in the UK.
45:39
This is a very, very serious problem.
45:42
And this is also why we do need to get involved in politics.
45:45
I know Bitcoiners hate politics and I get it, politics is
45:48
garbage. But Paraceles, the Greek
45:51
philosopher, said just because you don't take an interest in
45:55
politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
46:00
So our means of fighting back is putting the pressure of
46:06
governments and legislators on people like Craig Wright.
46:11
And I know many of us are anti statist, I get that.
46:14
But you got to use the tools that are in front of you because
46:16
if not, we're all just going to be the victims and we're going
46:19
to be the ones that are targeted permanently.
46:22
We need to fight back. 100% beautifully said.
46:25
Also want to give a shout out to our first super chat of the day,
46:29
we from Thomas Hara up. There we go.
46:33
I'm having trouble so I'm going to read it.
46:35
I'm having trouble pulling it up for some reason, but Thomas
46:38
Harris said support the show, guys, exclamation mark.
46:40
Appreciate it. Thomas, thank you so much for
46:43
the Super chat. Anyways, I'm going to pass it on
46:45
to Brandon. Brandon, what's your take on
46:47
this, man? Like, you know, we we've all
46:49
been, you know, the the, we the, the, there's been a couple
46:53
sayings, right? We are all Satoshi, but we are
46:55
all hot or not. And that was a way to kind of,
46:58
you know, show our support as the Bitcoin community to rally
47:01
behind the space cat while he was being personally attacked.
47:05
Man. Craig Wright sent private
47:07
investigators to docs. The guy OK, like clearly this is
47:11
someone who values their anonymity.
47:15
That's why they use the handle, hot or not right.
47:19
Not their personal name. And they spent money to try to
47:22
find out who this guy was. And the last time, I think one
47:26
of the things that they said, they showed up to his work, to
47:28
his job. It's pretty crazy what happened,
47:31
right? This is justice.
47:34
And I'm really glad that this had somewhat of a happy
47:38
conclusion. Brandon, what's your take?
47:40
And then we'll move on to Opti. Yeah.
47:42
And sometimes in the chat there, you know, saying like why do we
47:45
need to judge to tell us, you know what the truth is and we
47:48
don't, you know, at the end of the day.
47:50
But you know, it is a part of the vindication in a way.
47:53
And it's, you know, for people that were involved obviously
47:55
huddle, not Peter McCormack and and many people that were
47:58
involved just indirectly and all of us to a degree, right.
48:02
It's one of those nails in the coffin type of things.
48:05
It's a way to put things behind people but it's the overall
48:08
just, you know, again like like BJ said, you know, whether it's
48:11
Pericles or Plato, like some of these great philosophers of of
48:14
our day. Again, why it's so important to
48:17
be involved. And it doesn't take many people.
48:19
I mean we've talked about this so many times on the shows
48:21
faces, you know the 3%. It it only takes a a small and
48:25
transient irate minority in order to to really make change.
48:29
And when you're just spider man memeing and everyone's like
48:31
pointing at each other like Oh well, are you are you going to
48:33
stand up and do something? Are you going to stand up and do
48:35
something obviously the last four years or many opportunities
48:38
to do that? I'm for myself pretty
48:41
embarrassed as an American how few people really kind of stood
48:44
up Still mind blowing to me at this point.
48:47
But I think it was good in a way because a lot of people learned
48:50
you know that we you need to stand.
48:52
You have to be vocal. You have to be involved
48:54
politically you can't because again like a Craig not not a
48:57
Craig but a Huddle Notch or McCormick or people that are
48:59
getting attacked this this is going to happen many ways.
49:01
I think there's a lot of ways that people will get attacked
49:03
this then they fight you stage look we're seeing the the bills
49:06
like we just mentioned earlier we're seeing law fair we're
49:09
seeing you know direct attacks indirect attacks.
49:12
There's going to be things that we don't even think about this
49:14
point. A lot of most of us are good
49:16
people. So we don't spend our time
49:18
thinking as a criminal would or as a a liar or a cheat.
49:21
We don't, we don't do that, right.
49:23
So we're gonna get blindsided. We're gonna have like this Black
49:25
Swan of type of events where you kind of get blindsided or you
49:28
realize maybe down the road a little bit like, oh, like what
49:31
is this like this is a little different than I thought it was.
49:33
So we all have to be on our toes.
49:34
You have to coalesce as a community.
49:36
We talk about this all the time as well is community is the
49:39
number one aspect in the survival situation.
49:41
So us coming together, coalescing Bitcoin conferences,
49:44
your community coming together on shows like simply the simply
49:47
Bitcoin people in the chat, building those community people
49:50
is the biggest thing you can do. And coming on spaces, whatever
49:52
it is. Because when you have that, that
49:54
group of people that can stand up and be vocal, you can you can
49:57
vote traditionally with the MO box or the ballot box.
50:00
And now we have the ways to deal with our wallets, with our feet
50:03
and with our voice. We now have five ways we can
50:05
really be voting. We didn't have all those ways.
50:07
So now that's where we hope he doesn't it doesn't get to the MO
50:09
box, you know that's the last option.
50:11
So can we can we utilize these first couple, you know, our
50:14
voice, the money, things of that nature to impose our will.
50:17
Again, the right part, quote politics is downstream for
50:20
culture. Can we shift things and and push
50:22
back on that Overton window that keeps going to the the American
50:26
left? I guess the Marxist way, that
50:28
direction. Can we push back on that and
50:30
start regaining some of that freedom, whether it's through
50:32
the money or whether it's through people just learning
50:34
these experiences of of bad things happening?
50:36
Unfortunately, my my father always said pain is a great
50:39
teacher. And he's the one that I learned
50:41
from very early on, from a young age, was always questioning the
50:43
news, was always questioning everything and pointing out all
50:46
the fallacies and the hypocritical things that were
50:49
going on in legacy media or academia.
50:51
He would study my textbook, you know, like whatever it was he
50:53
was, he was like, what are they teaching you in school?
50:55
What is going on? So I saw very early on I was
50:57
very lucky that I had that influence in my life, but not
51:01
everyone does again. So it's how can we get into
51:03
these communities, how can we get the younger generations
51:05
involved, how can we do things that are going to start
51:07
educating people. And again, the money, why we're
51:10
all here number one, to start defunding the centralized
51:13
entities so they can we can defund these brainwashing
51:16
apparatuses whether it is legacy media or government run schools
51:19
etcetera. Beautiful, beautiful man Brandon
51:22
guys drop sauce guys you got to check out their their spaces.
51:27
You got to check out Political Bitcoin Hour.
51:29
These are two you know intellectual heavyweights right
51:32
now dropping so much sauce. So appreciate them coming on the
51:36
on the show guys. We are.
51:38
We are tight on time. But I do want to address the
51:41
news, Opti, if you don't mind, real quick in terms of the, the,
51:45
the sailor stuff. And then we'll, we'll transition
51:47
to the culture segment to talk more about what these gentlemen
51:50
are working on. So, yeah, guys, look, Michael
51:53
Saylor continues his speculative attack on the dollar and it's
51:58
absolutely hilarious. I mean it, it's hilarious in the
52:00
sense that let let me tell you the story real quick, Let me
52:02
break it down because there's a series of events, right.
52:06
So first MicroStrategy completes $800 million.
52:10
I don't know what happened, Opti, thank you very much.
52:13
OK. So this was March 11th, 2024.
52:19
Then a couple days later, March 13th, 2024, Micro Strategy
52:24
announces proposed private offering of $500 million of
52:28
convertible senior notes. And just to kind of simplify it,
52:31
to kind of understand what is happening, here's our boy.
52:35
The Bitcoin therapist drops amazing content on Twitter, by
52:39
the way. Definitely recommend giving him
52:40
a follow and he said sailor found the infinite money glitch.
52:44
The infinite Bitcoin loop, Bitcoin MicroStrategy, debt,
52:48
Bitcoin wash and repeat and this this thing will go much higher
52:51
the next loop Bitcoin MicroStrategy, S&P debt,
52:55
Bitcoin. There is no top to this cycle.
52:58
We go up forever. So the man is literally, And by
53:02
the way, I had, I interviewed James Lavish yesterday and he'll
53:05
break down the technical details of how Michael Saylor or the
53:08
financial details of how Michael Saylor is actually doing this.
53:11
But essentially he's leveraging his company.
53:14
His stock goes up in value. He borrows against it, right?
53:18
He raises more money to buy more Bitcoin.
53:21
The Bitcoin goes up in value because micro Strategy is
53:24
holding so much Bitcoin. Their stock goes up in value and
53:28
rinse and repeat and the rates at which he's borrowing this
53:32
money. Is.
53:33
Tiny, right. You're you're talking about like
53:35
less than a percentage point. So, like, Sailor literally has
53:39
hacked the system. Here's our boy Nick Camp, mine
53:42
head of news at Bitcoin Magazine.
53:43
He said Sailor raised 800 million to buy more Bitcoin two
53:47
days ago, went on Yahoo Finance, called people who save in Fiat
53:51
poor, and now he's raising another 500 million to buy more
53:55
Bitcoin. What a legend.
53:57
Here's the clip. Well, because they.
54:00
Want to sell it eventually, Michael.
54:02
I mean let's be honest, most of the people who are, yes, sure
54:04
some people pass it on to their children, but like most of the
54:08
people who are buying assets at some point want to sell the
54:11
assets at a profit. So I.
54:13
Guess. Let me say it a different way.
54:14
People that use Fiat currency as a store of value, there's a name
54:19
for them. We call them poor.
54:21
After that interview, the dude literally the the next day was
54:25
like, all right, I'm just going to buy more Bitcoin.
54:28
What an absolute Chad by the sailor.
54:32
All right guys, we are short on time, so you do want to hit the
54:34
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All right ladies and gentlemen, this is the culture and we have
56:23
a crazy, crazy as in crazy good guest.
56:26
Today we have the legendary BJ Ditcher and of course, Brandon.
56:31
BJ. What are you up to these days,
56:33
man? You.
56:33
So you wrote, you know you wrote the book.
56:35
I know you're making content these days.
56:37
What's up, man? How's life?
56:39
Yeah, well the book is important because there's two chapters in
56:42
here. Chapter 29.
56:44
In Chapter 30, Chapter 29, this was Bitcoin's moment.
56:49
And Chapter 30, Bitcoin Proves its power.
56:52
And later on this year at the Canadian Bitcoin Conference,
56:55
myself and Caribou, who was the one who was distributing the
56:59
Bitcoin directly to the truckers, we'll be together on a
57:03
panel for the first time. So if you're in Montreal,
57:05
Canada, come join. My sub stack is growing.
57:08
DJ dictor.substack.com Obviously I talk to talk a lot about
57:12
politics and about Bitcoin, trying to bridge that gap and
57:16
bringing people together. I do a lot of radio stuff and
57:21
yeah, all, all over the place, man.
57:22
Honking for freedom.com. Where is where you can get the
57:25
book. And the last thing, by the way,
57:26
I just want to mention this very important point because Brandon
57:30
touched on it when he said this sort of stuff is not going to
57:34
stop, you know, before the trucker convoy.
57:37
And regardless of your opinions, politically Abramovich had his
57:41
soccer team and all his assets seized and stolen by the UK
57:46
government. Then the trucker protest
57:49
happened. We had all our bank accounts and
57:51
credit cards and lines of credit were frozen.
57:54
And then six weeks later, Lula did the exact same to the
57:57
truckers in Brazil when they protested.
58:00
And after that, the Iranian Moolahs froze the bank accounts,
58:04
the people who fund Hamas. They froze the bank accounts of
58:07
peaceful protesters in Iran that wanted some greater freedoms,
58:12
right? Last year we had a liquidity,
58:15
liquidity issue in TD Bank that everybody in government and all
58:19
cabinets know about but are keep trying to keep quiet and hush
58:23
hush. And right now, if you go on to
58:25
Reddit, you're going to see all sorts of comments about problems
58:29
with transactions all over the world that are being frozen for
58:33
whatever reason. We don't know if it's a
58:34
liquidity issue or it's a censorship, censorship issue.
58:38
So this is not going to stop. This is why you need to start to
58:41
be vocal. And the best way to be vocal is
58:44
to start preaching about the importance of what what I call
58:48
the freedom, the the freedom protocol, which is Bitcoin.
58:52
And that's how I try to orange peel with people with it.
58:54
So don't don't remain silent. Speak up.
58:57
Amen. Amen.
58:58
Beautiful, beautifully sad. BJ and look, let's let's talk
59:02
about this concept 'cause you burg the lead there a little
59:04
bit, right, Which is the aspect of bridging the gap between
59:08
politics and Bitcoin, right. You know, I think it was Brandon
59:12
that said that, that famous quote from Plato, right?
59:15
Like you might not think that politics is important, but you
59:19
know, like and I say this all the time, you know, and and
59:22
bitcoiners have this this sense of you know, like bro, you know
59:27
I got my private keys. I got self custody.
59:29
I'm OK All right guys things could get way worse.
59:35
You know Venezuela where my family's originally from.
59:38
You know, it went from one of the most prosperous nations to,
59:42
you know within 20 years of collectivism you you could say
59:46
socialism if you want to be blunt, you know, completely
59:50
destroyed the society, right. And again, the idea that to
59:56
think that that can't happen where you are is absurdly naive.
1:00:02
So it's not just A1 tool fix all, it's a multitude of things.
1:00:07
And if you don't get up and speak up and say something.
1:00:12
You know Schultz and Itzen has so many quotes regarding what I
1:00:16
just said. Maybe I could find one before I
1:00:18
pass it on to? BJ Nico, just to add to your
1:00:20
point, look Caribou had we we raised a total of 21 Bitcoin for
1:00:25
the the the trucker protest and I believe approximately 17 was
1:00:30
distributed directly to the truckers.
1:00:33
But the government managed to to gain access and to seize the
1:00:38
remaining 5. Do you know how they did that?
1:00:40
That fifteen officers raid his house at gunpoint from both
1:00:45
federal and provincial police officers took his computer took
1:00:49
his phones and demanded he surrendered a seed phrase.
1:00:52
The guy's never been in trouble in his life.
1:00:54
He freaked. He panicked.
1:00:55
He was afraid and and I don't I I don't fault him.
1:00:59
It's it's a very difficult thing.
1:01:01
It's very easy to say all the government's going to come in.
1:01:03
I don't care. I'm going to tell them the F
1:01:05
off. Well, yeah, you you tell you try
1:01:07
that when you have a warrant for your arrest and guns in front of
1:01:10
you and 20 police cruisers in front of your house that are
1:01:15
going to drag you away. It's a very difficult scenario
1:01:19
to actually be experiencing that.
1:01:21
So we can all pretend to be tough guys, but the way to push
1:01:24
back is to push back now, now, not when they're raiding your
1:01:29
house. Push back now, get more people
1:01:32
on Bitcoin and start advocating to the people who do hold
1:01:36
political power. Like, I've orange peeled a
1:01:38
number of politicians quietly behind the scenes, so I know
1:01:42
they at least get it. Do as much of that as possible,
1:01:45
because if not, you never know when those fifteen officers can
1:01:48
come to your house. 100 percent, 100%, You know, you have to you
1:01:53
have to stand up. You have to stand up.
1:01:56
You have to say something because when it gets too late,
1:02:00
they're like when it becomes too late, the the only the only kind
1:02:07
of way out of that. It's a kinetic option, right?
1:02:10
That's right. Or you leave.
1:02:12
Most people don't choose the kinetic option.
1:02:14
Most people leave. But what happens when there
1:02:18
isn't anywhere else to leave to, right?
1:02:21
Me and Opti make this joke all the time about the.
1:02:24
US joke. But it's it's in a way it's not
1:02:28
really a joke in a in a way we're being you know dead
1:02:31
serious, which is we're gonna try to hold it down in the US
1:02:34
the US has a lot of things going for it, like the First
1:02:37
Amendment, the Second Amendment, the individual sovereignty of
1:02:40
the States. But at the same time, you know
1:02:43
if the US goes down the collectivist path, you know, we
1:02:47
we, we, we we joke about it. We said we're going to rebrand
1:02:50
the show or call it, call it simplemente Bitcoin and we're
1:02:53
going to move to El Salvador. Right.
1:02:55
The land of freedom, right. And hope.
1:02:58
Right. So I mean look I I am you know
1:03:01
in a way like you know we are kind of saying this in in you
1:03:04
know perhaps maybe not a light light hearted manner but take it
1:03:08
seriously like take what BJ says seriously look at his
1:03:13
experiences. My buddy Ben which I'm doing the
1:03:16
show with tonight, BTC sessions he was part of that.
1:03:19
He was kind of you know he's caught caught in the in the you
1:03:23
know tyrannical net of what happened in Canada during the
1:03:26
truckers protest. So to think that this can't
1:03:29
happen here you're you're you're absolutely kidding yourself.
1:03:33
We got another super chat from Lawrence so shout out Lawrence
1:03:36
thank you appreciate the Super chat says great show gents.
1:03:39
Keep up the good work. Let's all fight the good fight.
1:03:42
Thank you, Lawrence. Really, really appreciate it.
1:03:44
I'm gonna press it on to Brandon.
1:03:45
Brandon, what are your thoughts on what BJ was just saying?
1:03:48
Why are politics and Bitcoin important?
1:03:52
Oh boy. We need another whole entire
1:03:54
show for that. You know, like we did, we
1:03:57
mentioned the quote, the quotes, Pericles, Plato, you know it's
1:04:00
it's part of life in in government.
1:04:01
It's gonna be here whether we like it or not, whether you
1:04:04
know, we have hyper bitcoinization.
1:04:05
It's gonna be here for a while regardless.
1:04:06
Like this whole system needs to be defunded and it's not just
1:04:09
going to go away overnight. I always think about the hippie
1:04:12
bubble. You know we're we're run by the
1:04:14
the gerontocracy, the 60-70 and up class there in every walk of
1:04:18
life obviously, whether it's academia, politics and you know
1:04:22
their their sun setting and it's going to really flip a lot of
1:04:25
things and a lot of what we talked about now probably won't
1:04:28
be a thing I would imagine, you know 5-10, fifteen years from
1:04:30
now. But we still have to make it
1:04:32
though you know we still have to get there.
1:04:33
We we can't give away everything and just sit back and do nothing
1:04:36
And that's that's why it it can be anything.
1:04:38
It can be voting. It can be getting vocal starting
1:04:41
A blog it could be going to one you know PTA meet up and it
1:04:45
could be one the local you know Township meeting a year you know
1:04:48
and if if just one percent 3% of people did those things and all
1:04:51
all of us doing our own little things you know society changes
1:04:54
very quickly because now you're getting pushed back.
1:04:56
You know for decades no one was pushing back.
1:04:58
It was you know God loved the the older generations right.
1:05:01
Our our parents, our grandparents, great grandparents
1:05:03
you know I'm in my mid my mid 30s and it's you know they were
1:05:07
my grandfather admitted to me he was like well I just, you know
1:05:09
he flipped like 20 years ago and and he was very you know you
1:05:13
know Liberal Democratic. You know the best way to say it
1:05:15
but you know he saw the writing on the wall.
1:05:17
He was in unions and so he was just told what to do.
1:05:20
But he even told me like hey I just they it was handshake
1:05:24
society. Like I didn't who would think
1:05:26
that someone would just be lying to you.
1:05:27
We just assumed that people had our best interest like we were
1:05:30
Americans, like we just, that's just what we did forever.
1:05:33
And so you have this, this process of the frog in the
1:05:35
boiling pot for 100 plus years and people at work to to try to
1:05:39
change society and then you have the just collective malaise
1:05:42
right, when you're destroying the money.
1:05:44
And you know BJ, you talk about this all the time, right?
1:05:46
But it's, you know, people try to search for conspiracies or
1:05:49
things that are going on when a lot of times it's just
1:05:51
centralized huge masses of people or centralized
1:05:54
governments doing Dumber and Dumber things.
1:05:56
Again, spider man, meaning like, well, you got it and all you got
1:05:58
it. And then this person's taking
1:05:59
from the coffers there and then that person's skimming off the
1:06:01
top and then it just builds on itself.
1:06:03
And it's been doing that for 110 years and here we are.
1:06:05
So that's why it's again the political Bitcoin hour, what we
1:06:09
started doing there to try to bridge this gap a little bit.
1:06:11
Bitcoiners, obviously. Bitcoin trading cards again,
1:06:14
Aladdin started that to Trojan horse, you know, people and to
1:06:18
incept this into people's minds because no one wants to talk
1:06:20
about this stuff. Again, a lot of bitcoiners
1:06:21
don't. People you know libertarians
1:06:22
they don't want to talk about it and and for whatever reason we
1:06:26
need to get into that conversation and and understand
1:06:30
that this could change overnight.
1:06:31
This isn't we're not asking someone to get into a
1:06:33
bodybuilding competition like hey you got to have a six pack
1:06:35
in the next like year or two. That takes a long time.
1:06:37
It's it's a decision. It's overnight.
1:06:39
This could change and we accept Bitcoin.
1:06:41
It is the money and it's a decision.
1:06:43
You know, it's it's your higher powers your your brain using the
1:06:46
the greatest gift we all have and it's starting to get people
1:06:49
to understand those things. So you know that's what we're
1:06:52
trying to do with global Bitcoin hours, what we're trying to do
1:06:54
with the trading cars. We want to be the entertainment
1:06:55
arm and in whether it's bringing mascots, bringing things to you
1:07:00
know, big huge partnerships. We just partnered with Fanatics
1:07:02
Live. So there's going to be huge
1:07:04
things. We're trying to get to the
1:07:05
normies, you know, we're trying to get to what what is the
1:07:07
things we can do to get to the normies.
1:07:09
You know, like you said earlier, Nico, we're in our echo chamber
1:07:11
and we got more people coming in, fortunately now that are
1:07:14
starting to because the bull market's starting.
1:07:16
But we need to keep expanding, keep growing because we've got
1:07:19
to minimize the collateral damage from here.
1:07:21
This crosses a little rickety bridge from this Fiat matrix
1:07:24
we're in to that hyper bitcoinization.
1:07:26
And there's a really rickety old bridge.
1:07:28
I was think of Jurassic Park 3 when they're crossing the
1:07:30
pterodactyl cage and they're crossing that little bridge and
1:07:32
you got to go 1 by 1, each person has to cross.
1:07:34
We got to get to the other side somehow and we want to minimize
1:07:37
the collateral damage. We want to minimize the martyrs
1:07:39
that are taken along the way. It's up to us in order to do
1:07:42
that while things are still somewhat sane.
1:07:44
I, I, I, I hesitating saying that a little bit, but this
1:07:47
could get much crazier if if we if we don't be careful.
1:07:51
But that's why again, like the cars they talk about taxation is
1:07:54
theft. They talk about the Bretton
1:07:55
Woods agreement, they talk about government not being able to
1:07:58
stop Bitcoin and all these things.
1:07:59
Centralization, decentralization.
1:08:01
The schools aren't doing it, you know, people aren't doing it
1:08:03
anywhere. The legacy meeting is not doing
1:08:04
it. So how are we going to do it?
1:08:05
Well, it's on us. It's on all of our shoulders.
1:08:08
Amen to that, man. Beautifully, beautifully put,
1:08:11
Opti. You want to chime into the You
1:08:12
want to chime. Into Yeah, yeah.
1:08:14
So I mean, I think everyone knows my take on this I I've
1:08:18
been very black pilled in regards to politics and only
1:08:21
after getting involved with simply Bitcoin as it started to
1:08:24
dawn on me like how important of a fight it actually is.
1:08:27
And of course, like I always say, the classic meme of the
1:08:31
best way to vote is either with your money or your feet.
1:08:35
And even though Nika says we're going to El Salvador, I, I, I
1:08:38
just, I have the thought in my head of like, man, if America
1:08:41
falls, like there's nowhere else to run.
1:08:43
So we got to hold it down. And on that point I want to ask
1:08:46
Brandon and BJ, like what is your advice for people out
1:08:50
there? What what should people be doing
1:08:52
in your opinion right now to actually further the Bitcoin
1:08:56
movement? The first thing is, especially
1:08:59
when you get into political framing and discussions, don't
1:09:02
be so combative. And you're not red or blue
1:09:07
liberal, Democrat, Republican or whatever.
1:09:10
Your orange, your team orange, which means you can work and
1:09:15
find the positive attributes of people on all sides.
1:09:17
What you aren't is a collectivist, You're an
1:09:20
individualist and take your patience with people you know.
1:09:24
There's some people are predisposed to get involved with
1:09:26
party politics, which is horrible.
1:09:30
So if you can avoid that, try to.
1:09:33
But some people are just predisposed to that.
1:09:34
They're very good organizers. They're very good at bringing
1:09:36
people together, and those people should probably get
1:09:39
involved in the party structure. But you know how we gain our
1:09:42
freedom? Talk to your family, talk to
1:09:45
your friends, talk to your people at work and be patient
1:09:48
with them. You have to take a long
1:09:50
strategic approach with them. It's not going to be one
1:09:52
conversation. It's not going to be one
1:09:54
statement. It's going to be through
1:09:55
repetition. Many, many months when they're
1:09:59
primed and they're ready to talk about Bitcoin and freedom,
1:10:03
that's your opportunity. Just be patient with people and
1:10:06
if we all do that, then we'll get somewhere.
1:10:08
I gave, I tell this story often about during the lockdowns in
1:10:12
Canada, which were quite authoritarian and I used to do
1:10:15
this. I never put on a mask.
1:10:17
Only if like a, you know, a part time employee asked me, it's not
1:10:20
their fault, right? So I'd go to the coffee shop, my
1:10:22
local coffee shop, and remember this one time I'm in line, I get
1:10:25
my coffee or I'm waiting for my coffee, the other end of the bar
1:10:28
and some woman comes up to me who's you know, 5 foot nothing
1:10:31
with a mask on and she says you're not wearing a mask.
1:10:33
And as she I was about to respond, she says no, no, no,
1:10:36
no, no. I don't want to wear a mask
1:10:38
either. And I said then take it off.
1:10:41
I said for two years I have not once walked into a place with a
1:10:45
mask. And every time I notice the same
1:10:48
thing. Everybody in line watches to see
1:10:51
if I get attacked, harassed, arrested, or the Gestapo comes,
1:10:55
and after a minute and a half they realize that no one's going
1:10:58
to control me. You know what happens?
1:11:00
One by one, they start taking it off.
1:11:03
People just need somebody to stick their neck out just a
1:11:05
little bit to be a little bit more of a leader and a little
1:11:09
bit more sane. And you know what?
1:11:11
The rest of them will come in line.
1:11:12
It's the same thing with Bitcoin.
1:11:14
And for Bitcoin, all we're giving the world is positivity.
1:11:18
Doesn't matter where you are on the political spectrum.
1:11:21
If you want to help poor people in the third world, or you want
1:11:24
to if you're more on the investment side and business
1:11:27
side in the developing world, doesn't matter.
1:11:30
Bitcoin has freedom for everybody and once you once you
1:11:34
message around something that's positive, that brings people
1:11:37
together, it's so easy to get them on board.
1:11:40
Love it, DJ. Love it.
1:11:42
Beautiful Brandon, jump in on that.
1:11:43
What's your thoughts? What can we do?
1:11:46
Well, getting involved, you know, locally, obviously the
1:11:49
decentralized nature of America and how we were founded is the
1:11:52
big thing. And again, you know, I know all
1:11:54
the four of us have talked about this many times, you know, over
1:11:56
the last couple years. But truly, you know, we just,
1:11:58
you know, like I said earlier, getting going to one meeting,
1:12:01
you know, and not everyone has to do it, right.
1:12:02
If that's your thing, great, go do that.
1:12:04
If. If that's your thing is to go
1:12:05
create a blog or YouTube channel, you know, writing, you
1:12:08
know, audio, visual, whatever it is.
1:12:10
But the more we can overwhelm the system, you know, and and
1:12:12
Nico touched on this earlier as well and it's the 10 million
1:12:15
bitcoiners, the 3%. If we can get to that.
1:12:18
You really start changing the culture because politics is
1:12:21
truly downstream. And for people to sit back and
1:12:24
know it's funny, let you watching some of the comments.
1:12:26
You know again like I my first foray I in a way was like I said
1:12:29
my father was very active and he taught me I was born in 87 and
1:12:34
so I'm I was probably about 10 years later about 97 or so I my
1:12:37
first real like seeing like a libertarian.
1:12:39
Like my dad was a libertarian but someone else that and and
1:12:43
they didn't vote so my my dad voted but my this guy that was a
1:12:47
friend of ours or someone I played hockey with it was his
1:12:49
father and he didn't vote and I like he has a 10 year old that
1:12:53
didn't make sense to me. I was like why why did he not
1:12:55
vote and I would ask my dad and stuff and he he's like honestly
1:12:58
son like I I don't know you know and you know and there's part of
1:13:01
it you can say like well your vote doesn't matter and things
1:13:03
like that and whatever but it's more of the people seeing you go
1:13:08
do things right if you're just sitting at your house right it's
1:13:10
it's the act of actually going and doing things people seeing
1:13:13
you out and about. It's the the very you know you
1:13:15
we discount like hey would you go do today.
1:13:18
Well, I I went and voted or hey, I went to this meeting or hey, I
1:13:20
went to this town hall or whatever it is.
1:13:22
All those things build on each other.
1:13:23
And when, you know, and I I think about there was the
1:13:26
Chicago Blackhawks again, hockey guy, but they weren't they
1:13:29
weren't on TV for years. The Rocky Worcer old owner was
1:13:32
not. They didn't put them on TV.
1:13:33
They're like, well, if we don't put them on TV, then people show
1:13:35
up at the game at the United Center.
1:13:36
No one went, you know, it's out of sight, out of mind.
1:13:39
And when you're just like I don't need to do it or you know,
1:13:42
it doesn't matter. Well, then that's that's the
1:13:44
perception. You know, or one of our higher
1:13:46
faculties is perception. You create that story.
1:13:48
Life is just a collection of 8 billion stories we're all
1:13:51
telling ourselves. So whatever you tell yourself,
1:13:53
well, that's reality, That's all there is to it.
1:13:55
So if you believe that that's the case, well then that's the
1:13:58
case. If you don't believe, if you
1:13:59
think you have a, a, a, a choice to go do something about it and
1:14:02
actually make a change, one person can make a change, which
1:14:05
they can. Then you go start doing whatever
1:14:08
it is. Your brain starts finding ways
1:14:09
to get involved and start doing things.
1:14:11
Obviously the best way is to do it, start local or, you know, do
1:14:14
the things you can do around you.
1:14:15
But I think to me that's that's the biggest thing.
1:14:17
It could be, again, tuning into simple Bitcoin, tuning into a
1:14:20
political Bitcoin hour, getting some cards, passing them out.
1:14:23
You know, it just anything helps because all those actions lead
1:14:26
up and we we've been compounding the wrong way.
1:14:28
The Overton window's been shifting so far for so long the
1:14:31
other way. We need to start taking these
1:14:32
positive steps and let those start compounding on each other
1:14:34
over time. Love it.
1:14:36
Beautiful. Beautiful.
1:14:38
Get involved. Take action, take agency.
1:14:41
You know, this is about winning over the hearts and minds of
1:14:44
individuals and bringing them together and getting them to
1:14:47
understand that what BJ was saying is absolutely spot on.
1:14:51
This is not left versus right. It's not green.
1:14:53
I mean, sorry, it's not blue versus red.
1:14:56
It is the party of Green, the party of nihilism, war, slavery
1:15:01
versus the party of Orange, the party of optimism, peace,
1:15:03
prosperity, opportunity and optimism and OPTI And so vote
1:15:09
OPTI 2024. No.
1:15:10
But yeah, like that. That's really what people have
1:15:13
to understand because a lot of their, you know, a lot of the
1:15:16
political like division right now is if you really identify
1:15:21
the root 'cause, you could you could say, OK, the long, the
1:15:23
long walk through the institutions, right.
1:15:25
You know, the kind of like the takeover.
1:15:27
But I think it kind of really stems down to like, if you
1:15:30
really, really break it down to a root cause, is the fact that
1:15:35
there's a bureaucratic elite that have the privilege and the
1:15:38
ability to create money for free that everyone else has to work
1:15:41
for. It's a misaligned incentive
1:15:44
structure society that gets a tremendous amount of power to
1:15:47
the political class, and they don't have to really do good by
1:15:51
their constituents. They're not incentivized to,
1:15:54
they're incentivized to just get as close as humanly possible to
1:15:59
the money spigot, right. This is what the separation of
1:16:02
money in state is all about. This is what the peaceful
1:16:04
Bitcoin revolution is all about and all you have to do to
1:16:06
participate. Just buy Bitcoin, earn Bitcoin,
1:16:09
mine Bitcoin, and take that said Bitcoin into self custody.
1:16:11
You're revolutionary whether you realize it or not.
1:16:14
Like, it's that simple, right? And if we get that message out,
1:16:18
like Brandon said, if we get that intransigent minority of 10
1:16:21
million bitcoiners in the United States, it's gonna like if
1:16:24
they're gonna try to pass any type of anti Bitcoin
1:16:27
legislation, it's gonna become like the gun laws, man, try to
1:16:29
pass a gun law in the US It is impossible.
1:16:32
Why? Because there's so many gun
1:16:34
owners, right? So even though they get all
1:16:36
riled up, it's like if a huge percentage of the population,
1:16:40
you know, is, is is owning guns, then it's like good luck trying
1:16:43
to pass a law. You know, we had, I forget what
1:16:46
his name was, Opti. We had this amazing guest
1:16:49
earlier on this week, and he's a cannabis grower, right?
1:16:53
And he was talking about essentially Eric.
1:16:55
And he was talking about essentially how, you know, the
1:16:58
government tried to force a lot of these, you know, cannabis
1:17:02
producers in California to register with the government and
1:17:08
you know, out of the 12,000, only 153 registered and then the
1:17:13
government had to change the law, right.
1:17:14
So look guys, it it might seem like this is this monolithic,
1:17:20
you know, creature this, this this system that can't be
1:17:23
defeated. But you know, all it takes is
1:17:26
just strong minded individuals to stand up and say, look,
1:17:30
enough is enough. Integrity's important.
1:17:32
Honesty's important principles are important.
1:17:35
Sound money is important. The truth is important, and
1:17:39
things will change. So I do want to give BJ and
1:17:43
Brandon opportunity to give us some closing thoughts for the
1:17:47
audience. And if you guys want to plug any
1:17:49
things, I'm going to start with you, BJ.
1:17:51
Yeah, a couple of white pills, you know, just to tack on to
1:17:54
what you just said. The first thing is, you know, I
1:17:56
I ran for Parliament in Canada in 2015, so I know all our
1:18:00
parliamentarians. I know how the entire system
1:18:02
works, and political parties are like cults, except they're cults
1:18:08
where everybody's trying to stab each other in the back.
1:18:11
So it's very easy to divide and conquer within the political
1:18:15
structure. The other thing is, we often
1:18:17
talk about some of the wealthiest people in the world,
1:18:20
and we do sometimes fall into the trap of collectivizing them
1:18:24
under this postmodern worldview that, oh, there's a small group
1:18:27
of people and they control everything and whatever.
1:18:30
That is not been my experience there's been.
1:18:33
There's a lot of very wealthy people who have competing
1:18:36
interests and are competing with each other.
1:18:39
But one of the most fascinating things I ever, I ever realized
1:18:42
by meeting some of these people, you know what they are.
1:18:45
They're fuelled by fear because they are also afraid of the
1:18:51
system collapsing. And many of them are trying to
1:18:53
figure out what can I do to prevent this entire system from
1:18:57
collapsing and where can I throw money?
1:19:00
And sometimes they get taken advantage of, sometimes they're
1:19:03
crazy, they put in the wrong direction.
1:19:05
But a lot of those people are just trying to keep this all
1:19:08
together because they often have more to lose than we do.
1:19:12
So I I think there is hope. This is why I'm always positive
1:19:16
about the future and bringing people together and so hopeful
1:19:19
that people like sailor people of you know well means have
1:19:24
gotten into the Bitcoin space where there's Paul Tudor Jones
1:19:27
and other people that they're now understanding that our
1:19:31
system as it is cannot continue. And there is this protocol that
1:19:36
none of them and nobody and no government controls.
1:19:40
And over the long term that's going to allow us to achieve
1:19:44
greater freedoms. And I look on the political
1:19:47
thing, the political spectrum, the last thing I look to
1:19:50
Argentina and Javier Mile, knowing that Steven Hicks, one
1:19:54
of my podcasters, has known him for many, many years, has shared
1:19:59
a stage with him for many, many years and Argentina is left with
1:20:03
no options. That they have no option other
1:20:06
than to cut the size of their government significantly and
1:20:11
right the ship. And they have been working since
1:20:13
2010 to get somebody like me lay with his policies into power and
1:20:20
they finally achieved it. And if he is successful?
1:20:23
I know the lobby class around the world because I know how it
1:20:26
works. The lobby class that influences
1:20:28
political parties around the world will see there's money in
1:20:32
going with a more libertarian perspective moving forward.
1:20:36
We just have to show them that Bitcoin is part of that vision
1:20:40
and that will become the future for humanity.
1:20:43
Beautiful, beautiful vote BJ Ditcher.
1:20:47
For. For for for Canadian president
1:20:50
of. No, no, no.
1:20:51
Just buy a copy of Honking for Freedom.
1:20:53
You can do for freedom.com. Go to honkingforfreedom.com
1:20:56
Octave. You could pull up on screen
1:20:58
Brandon last message to the audience.
1:21:02
What would you say? Yeah, thanks Nico.
1:21:04
Thanks for having us on guys. You know someone in the comments
1:21:07
again said you know the the Lord will take care of of the the
1:21:10
evil ones and and some of these tyrants whatever.
1:21:12
And and that is true. That's true in a way.
1:21:13
And I thought it's a great comment but you know he will
1:21:15
take care of those people. But I do believe, and that you
1:21:18
know, in my opinion that you know some of us get revealed
1:21:21
truth. I'm gonna.
1:21:22
I'm gonna interject here, OK? I'm gonna interject here, All
1:21:25
right. I'm sorry for interrupting you,
1:21:26
Brandon. Very good.
1:21:28
The Lord gives you the power and the agency for you to take
1:21:32
action, to do something about it.
1:21:34
But if you're just going to look at the sky and expect things to
1:21:38
fall on you, that's never going to happen, All right?
1:21:41
I just wanted to say that no. No, that's and that's that's
1:21:43
exactly where I was going. You know, God doesn't do things
1:21:45
for us. He does things to and through
1:21:47
us. And that's that's exactly where
1:21:49
I was going at this. And you know he reveals truth to
1:21:52
well, I I think everyone if you wanted, but some of us, probably
1:21:55
a lot of us here are the ones that are seeing that truth.
1:21:58
And my fear, you know, is that the ones that have been revealed
1:22:01
allow that truth. You have an obligation in, in my
1:22:04
perspective to do something about that.
1:22:06
I fear getting to the gate someday at the end of my life.
1:22:08
And and and being asked what did you do with that knowledge that
1:22:12
I gave you, with that truth that I gave you.
1:22:14
That's what drives me. That's the scariest thing in the
1:22:16
world to me to be revealed this this darkness that's happening
1:22:20
but have and have that truth and not do anything about it.
1:22:22
It's kind of you know the talents in a way from the Bible.
1:22:24
But you know again with Bitcoin trading cards we're we're trying
1:22:28
to push the envelope like I said be the you know how can we fight
1:22:31
against this. And so it's the the red pill and
1:22:33
orange pill ethos that are the company there is driven by which
1:22:36
is one of the reasons that I I joined it almost a year and a
1:22:39
half ago right when they when Aladdin started it.
1:22:41
So you know, we have kids, you know, there's some that don't
1:22:43
have kids. There's a huge group, you know
1:22:45
of of a community now, 5-6 hundred people on our Telegram
1:22:48
group and all kinds of pack stackers.
1:22:49
So it's an educational project, but we need, you know,
1:22:52
everyone's help. We need to get the the Genesis
1:22:55
cards. We have the cheaper version of
1:22:56
the cards to get spread to education and we need to get the
1:23:00
inventory gone this year. So that way we can do some of
1:23:03
the other the really cool things we have going on.
1:23:04
We just partnered with Spetsky, Alex Spetsky for his Spirit of
1:23:08
Satoshi, his AI project that's going on.
1:23:10
So we just launched that Series 3 coming up obviously and the
1:23:14
conference packs like unconfiscated whole packs that
1:23:16
Nico was just in a few months ago and and they're very
1:23:18
collectible too, which is a really nice side benefit if you
1:23:21
want to trade them for Sats and things of that nature.
1:23:23
So that's the other website isbtc-tc.com, so you can go
1:23:27
check out there. And then the last thing I'll say
1:23:29
is political Bitcoin hour. Again, we're going to continue
1:23:31
ramping this up as well in the coming months and as things roll
1:23:34
forward and you know turn into a YouTube show and and numerous
1:23:37
things as we go here. But it's an it's an outlet for
1:23:40
bitcoiners who want to talk politics and talk about things
1:23:42
we talked about today but maybe don't feel totally welcome in
1:23:45
some other Bitcoin spaces for or whatever reason.
1:23:48
Just bridging this bridging this world from the Fiat matrix to
1:23:51
hyper bitcoinization. Beautiful.
1:23:53
Beautiful. Beautiful.
1:23:54
Completely agree. All I want to say after those
1:23:57
rants, Sainika, Sainika, all I want to say is let's.
1:24:01
Go I I think I start. I'm starting to see a Halo over
1:24:04
Opti's head, saying Opti. Anyways guys, only a Sinner can
1:24:11
be redeemed, Miko. Anyways, guys, guys, thank you
1:24:15
so much for tuning into another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live.
1:24:18
This is BJ Ditcher. Go check out his his book.
1:24:22
He's the author of Honking for Freedom.
1:24:24
And of course we had Brandon on the show today.
1:24:26
He's the head of marketing for BTC trading cards.
1:24:28
Go check them out, they're awesome.
1:24:30
And of course go check out their new spaces, The Political
1:24:35
Bitcoin Hour. I think it's so important you
1:24:38
can you can pretend you know the the the £100 gorilla in the room
1:24:44
is not there, but it's surely there.
1:24:46
So anyways, guys, definitely go check out their spaces.
1:24:49
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