Latest / Simply Bitcoin / How Bitcoin Brings Back the American Dream | EP 956
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- 0:03It's. All going to zero against
- 0:05Bitcoin. It's.
- 0:07Going up forever, you're. Against Bitcoin?
- 0:17You're against freedom, yo. Welcome to another episode of
- 0:24Simply Bitcoin Live, your number one source for the peaceful
- 0:27Bitcoin revolution. Curbing breaking news.
- 0:29Culture, Matic Warfare. We'll be your guide through the
- 0:31separation of money and state. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to
- 0:34the most watched Daily Bitcoin live show on YouTube.
- 0:38Rumble. Annex.
- 0:39Simply Bitcoin. I want to talk about something
- 0:42today that I think a lot of people inherently feel, but
- 0:47perhaps they're not completely aware of it.
- 0:50And as a first generation American, you're sold on the
- 0:55idea of the American dream, This idea that you can come to this
- 0:59country with nothing in your pocket.
- 1:03And if you work really, really hard, you can achieve great,
- 1:07great things. Something that my parents have
- 1:10done, something that my my parents in law have done.
- 1:16But I think that in their era, right, you know, 20-30, forty
- 1:20years ago it was, it was a lot it was a lot different back
- 1:23then. Perhaps the American Dream in
- 1:27the traditional system was achievable.
- 1:29But in today's world, I would say I trying to achieve the
- 1:35American Dream is becoming out of the out of reach for most
- 1:39people, right? You.
- 1:40You really have to be part of the, you know, the the top
- 1:44income bracket to achieve the American dream, to have the
- 1:48house with the white picket fences, You know, to work one
- 1:53job and you know your partner, whether that's your wife or your
- 1:55husband, could stay home and take care of the kids.
- 1:58And I think that Fiat has fundamentally broken that.
- 2:01And I'll make the case for that today.
- 2:04But the American Dream isn't dead.
- 2:06In fact, the American dream has now been made international.
- 2:12Anyone could achieve the American Dream no matter where
- 2:14you are. And that's because of Bitcoin.
- 2:18Bitcoin not only makes the American Dream achievable, but
- 2:25make Bitcoin makes the American Dream a reality once again.
- 2:30Because if you've been living on a Bitcoin standard, or if you
- 2:33are living on a Bitcoin standard, that house with the
- 2:37white picket fence or that condo for whatever reason, you want a
- 2:41condo. OK, whatever floats your boat
- 2:43now it's affordable. Now you can actually see
- 2:47yourself in the future being able to afford that certain
- 2:50thing if you work hard enough to be able to afford it.
- 2:54And it's our job as you bitcoiners, as Bitcoin educators
- 2:59to really wake people up to the reality that you know these
- 3:06politicians, right? It is an election year in the US
- 3:10aren't going to do this for you. What you have to do for
- 3:15yourself. You have to take agency and
- 3:17action over your own life, responsibility over your own
- 3:20life. And you have to vote with your
- 3:25wallet. You have to vote by opting out.
- 3:29It's the peaceful revolution. It's the protest of bitcoiners.
- 3:35It's the protest of individuals. And the awesome part about
- 3:41Bitcoin is that no one can stop you.
- 3:45No one can tell you not to do it, even though they're trying.
- 3:49But it's going to be a very, very, very incredibly difficult
- 3:52for them to do. So now you can only realize this
- 3:58newfound sovereignty, this independence, if you not only
- 4:02buy Bitcoin, earn Bitcoin, mine Bitcoin, but you also have to
- 4:06take it into self custody. And by doing that you have a
- 4:11shot to live out the so-called American Dream no matter where
- 4:18you are on planet Earth. So we're going to talk about
- 4:20that today. And also quick update for you
- 4:23guys because the whole theme of this show is the separation of
- 4:27money and state. And we like to point out for you
- 4:31guys and we like to keep you guys informed of what is the
- 4:36other alternative, the other alternative we always say
- 4:38Bitcoin or slavery. The other alternative is central
- 4:42bank digital currencies. The other alternative is the
- 4:45continuation of the current system, the continuation of the
- 4:50pit, the pillaging of the average everyday man by the
- 4:56elites using the traditional financial system.
- 5:02This started in 2008 with the first bailout.
- 5:07Satoshi knew. It's written in the genesis
- 5:09block. Chancellor on the brink of the
- 5:11second bailout for banks. He knew that they were just
- 5:14going to continue printing money.
- 5:16And like we've told you guys many, many times, when they
- 5:20print money, it's a wealth redistribution mechanism, OPTI
- 5:24showed the meme on on the Monday episode.
- 5:27It's a wealth redistribution mechanism from the lower and
- 5:30middle classes that don't have the means to save an assets.
- 5:34Therefore, they don't benefit from asset inflation.
- 5:37They're saving and Fiat money and it's back to the government
- 5:41and it's back to the extremely wealthy.
- 5:44Everyone else gets left behind. Bitcoin is your opportunity to
- 5:50say enough is enough. I'm tired of being stolen from.
- 5:54I want a future not only for myself, but for my kids and my
- 5:58kids. Kids and I deserve very strong
- 6:03word to live a good life full of hope and optimism and Bitcoin
- 6:09can provide that for you. So this is what it's about.
- 6:13This is what the peaceful revolution is about.
- 6:16It's about fixing the money and by doing so we fix the world.
- 6:20Anyways, I do want to bring up my legendary Co host who's
- 6:22always optimistic. He has a giant smile on his
- 6:25face. How you doing Opti?
- 6:26And looking good man. The Bitcoin Johnny Depp is back
- 6:30in the house. I ate some candy yesterday.
- 6:33I think I got a pimple. So it is what it is.
- 6:36I dude, I love candy. I'm trying not to eat candy, you
- 6:39know, and and actually today's guest would probably be a good,
- 6:42a good little whip in the in the bum about eating candy.
- 6:46But anyway, before we get into that and who our guest is today,
- 6:49you know, This is why we say Bitcoin is hope.
- 6:51Bitcoin is hope for the world. We understand, especially as
- 6:55bitcoins. We understand the financial
- 6:57trickery and how it has essentially kept the majority of
- 7:00people down so that the elites can profit off of, you know, the
- 7:04backs of everyday men. And This is why Bitcoin is going
- 7:07to be successful. This is why Bitcoin is
- 7:09successful. Someone in the chat said Bitcoin
- 7:12is our financial 1776. I would say it's the world's
- 7:15financial 1776. You don't have to be an American
- 7:18quote UN quote to see the benefits of Bitcoin and today's
- 7:23going to be a good guess because we do have a non American on the
- 7:26show. So shouts out to coach carbon a
- 7:29part of the Bitcoin Ballers Academy.
- 7:32He we're going to be talking about getting your mind right.
- 7:34Getting your body right. And I I really like that we have
- 7:37someone that's not American on today's show so you can chime in
- 7:40on the quote UN quote American dream and what that means to you
- 7:44and and all that good stuff. Anyways, how you doing today
- 7:46Coach Charvin? Glad to have you.
- 7:49I'm more good, Nico, just want to give you a round of applause.
- 7:51That intro, it got me fired up. Before we jumped on, Opti's
- 7:56asked me how I'm doing. I said every day I wake up
- 7:58positive, in a happy mood. But then you go through the day
- 8:01and you see the Fiat clown waters going on.
- 8:03It can bring you down. But that that intro, brother, it
- 8:08was deep and it's the you spoke about the peaceful revolution
- 8:10and the opportunity. And as you just mentioned, Opti,
- 8:13the American dream. I see.
- 8:14I see. It's the human dream, yeah.
- 8:18Every single human being has an opportunity to live a better
- 8:21life. And which vehicle are you going
- 8:24to use? We've tried many over the years.
- 8:27Bitcoin is the best one I've seen.
- 8:28No one's coming. No one's coming out with an
- 8:30alternative that is viable. So yeah, it's Bitcoin until we
- 8:34die, as I say. 100% it is Bitcoin or slavery.
- 8:39Anyways, ladies and gentlemen, it's going to be an incredible
- 8:41show. I'm incredibly excited.
- 8:43We have so much to uncover. We have so much to talk about,
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- 11:57Today at the time of recording, the Bitcoin price is 69,160 SATS
- 12:03per dollar. 1446 block height 836,527 blocks to having 3473
- 12:15having estimate April 20th, 2024 Total Lightning Network capacity
- 12:204381 Bitcoin capacity value 302 million U.S. dollars.
- 12:27Realize monetary inflation 1.73%.
- 12:31The market capitalization of Bitcoin currently sitting at
- 12:341.36 trillion Bitcoin versus gold market cap 9.84%.
- 12:41In the grand scheme of things, Bitcoin is just getting started.
- 12:45So let's talk about today's theme of the episode.
- 12:49So what is the American Dream? The American Dream is the belief
- 12:52that anyone, regardless of where they were born or what class
- 12:56they were born into, can attain their own version of success in
- 13:00a society in which upward mobility is possible for
- 13:04everyone. Now let's actually take a look
- 13:07at how this is doing so far, right.
- 13:10That's the idea of the American Dream.
- 13:12That's how you were sold on the US You know, especially if
- 13:16you're an immigrant, you're sold on this idea of what the
- 13:19American Dream is. But let's kind of dig into the
- 13:23details. So it says owning a home has
- 13:25long been considered the quintessential American dream.
- 13:29But the path to those white picket fences is far from
- 13:32smooth. Although 84% of Americans say
- 13:35they they would like to own a home one day, 51% who don't own
- 13:40today worry that they'll never get there.
- 13:43So let's. Let's talk about why that is.
- 13:45Well, first, this happened earlier on in the week.
- 13:50And once again, you know these. How do I say this nicely?
- 13:57The bureaucratic elite are spending money they don't have.
- 14:02And what do I mean by that? You know, the US government
- 14:06spends about 1 to $2 trillion more than it collects in tax
- 14:11revenue every single year. How are they able to afford
- 14:15that? Well, they print the difference
- 14:18and printing money, as much as they would like you to believe
- 14:21it's free, isn't free. It hell, it hurts everyone that
- 14:26saves and earns in that specific money that they're printing.
- 14:30In the case of the US, it's obviously the US dollar.
- 14:33Now the US, the the, you know, the US, because it's a world
- 14:36reserve currency, has a little bit more leeway so they can get
- 14:40away with a little bit more printing without hyperinflation,
- 14:44but it still has consequences, right?
- 14:48And those consequences affect specifically the younger
- 14:53generations the most, the millennial generation, the
- 14:56zoomer generation. Because generally what happens
- 14:59when you're younger, you're less wealthy, you've had less time to
- 15:02accumulate wealth, right? So when they when you hear these
- 15:07bills, when you hear, when you hear these bills being passed,
- 15:10house passes, $1.2 trillion spending bill, just understand
- 15:16that they're stealing from you. That's what's happening.
- 15:19That's literally what's happening.
- 15:21Especially if you don't have the means to save an asset,
- 15:24especially if you're not saving in Bitcoin.
- 15:27Here is a tweet by the Pacific Bitcoin handle.
- 15:32It says the US House passes $1.2 trillion spending bill, meaning
- 15:36they're going to print it out of thin air.
- 15:38This is what $1 trillion looks like.
- 15:42So here's a ten $10,000 stack. Here's a $1 million stack.
- 15:46Here's $1 million next to a guy. Here's $100 million next to a
- 15:50guy. For audio listeners, it's about
- 15:52a pallet next to, you know, a, A, you know, average average
- 15:57male and there's $1 billion and it's about 10 pallets, right?
- 16:03You know those, those warehouse pallets, right?
- 16:05So they're pretty big. And then check this out, one guy
- 16:10next to $1 trillion and it's an absurd amount.
- 16:15It is like literally like a football field, like 2 football
- 16:19fields put together of pallets that are stacked on top of each
- 16:24other just to kind of give you a visual reference of what a
- 16:29trillion dollars looks like. And they're passing that,
- 16:33they're printing that it's coming out of thin air.
- 16:35OK, so now what are the actual, you know, consequences of this
- 16:40money printing? So here's the M2 money supply
- 16:44represents how much basically how much money is being added to
- 16:47the money supply. And this is, this is the, you
- 16:51know, this is pandemic, right? This is what happened.
- 16:53This is the, you know, this is QE to Infinity and they turn on
- 16:57the money printers once again and there's consequences to
- 17:01that. What are the consequences to
- 17:02that? Well, take a look at this.
- 17:04Isn't that a coincidence, everyone, that the medium sales
- 17:08price for a home went up directly?
- 17:12It's almost as if it's correlated to the amount of
- 17:15money that they're printing. So it's not that the housing
- 17:20prices have doubled, it's that people are like desperately
- 17:25trying to seek places to find a store of value so that their
- 17:32money so that their purchasing power doesn't decrease, their
- 17:36purchasing power doesn't get debased, and then what does that
- 17:40happen? What happens when there's a
- 17:42monetary premium on top of real estate because people are using
- 17:48it as an investment vehicle rather than as housing?
- 17:53Well, anybody that can't afford, you know, anyone who's just
- 17:57getting into the, you know, it, just trying to purchase their
- 18:01their first home. They're outpriced.
- 18:04That's what happens. And then tie this back in with
- 18:07what I was saying about the American dream.
- 18:11It steals the American dream. There was an episode with
- 18:15Breedlove and McCormack and Breedlove the did an amazing
- 18:19rant about how much time was stolen with the trillions of
- 18:25dollars that they printed and the number that he got to and
- 18:29the way that he did the math is you know the ad the person works
- 18:33from 18 years old to 65 years old.
- 18:37If you include all the money that was that was that was
- 18:41printed, they basically stole the working life of 3.2 million
- 18:50people. When they printed the money that
- 18:52they did, there's a real life consequence to that.
- 18:57Now what does that look like on a graphic level?
- 19:00So here is investing, Rob and he said is is the American Dream.
- 19:07The estimated cost to achieve the American Dream is now $3.4
- 19:11million. That includes buying a house,
- 19:15raising two kids, investing for retirement and more.
- 19:20Do you think the dream is dead or has it evolved into something
- 19:24else? Right.
- 19:25And here for audio listeners, here's a graph between the baby
- 19:30boomers and the millennials. Right, and the medium household
- 19:36income for a baby boomer back in the day, right?
- 19:40Buying a home in 1985 was $23,000.
- 19:45The average home was $83,000. Now, the medium household income
- 19:52for millennials is around $74,000, but the medium home
- 19:56price is about $468,000. Now, when I read into this tweet
- 20:04this morning when I was kind of building up the show and seeing,
- 20:08OK, what are we gonna talk about today, it dawned on me.
- 20:13I said the American Dream isn't dead.
- 20:16You just aren't on a Bitcoin standard.
- 20:19So what do I mean by that? I love this website and I'm
- 20:23going to continue showing this website so that you guys,
- 20:25hopefully the listeners, the people that are on the fence,
- 20:28the people that perhaps haven't taken the orange pill, the
- 20:30people that have perhaps not taken self custody yet and we
- 20:34get comments every once in a while saying hey finally took
- 20:37self custody, finally get it. So I'm going to keep beating
- 20:40this battle drum if you've been living on a Bitcoin standard,
- 20:44even with this insanity right here.
- 20:48Even with this, even with housing going from the average
- 20:52house in 2020 being 322,000 to the average house in Q 4/20/22
- 20:59almost being half $1,000,000 down to 417,000, but still a lot
- 21:05higher than where it was in Q2 of 2020.
- 21:09If you've been living on a Bitcoin standard, the average
- 21:13house in the US has gotten 87% cheaper.
- 21:19And because we have a special guest today from the US, from
- 21:22the UK, let's talk about the UK as well.
- 21:25If you've been living on a Bitcoin standard, the average
- 21:28house in the United Kingdom has gotten 92% cheaper.
- 21:33In the United States it's got an 87% cheaper on a five year
- 21:37scale. On a three-year scale, it's
- 21:40gotten 68% cheaper. In the United Kingdom and the
- 21:45United States, it's gotten 75% cheaper.
- 21:49Bitcoin enables the American dream.
- 21:53I also found this very interesting article by someone
- 21:58that we've brought up on the show.
- 22:00It's a It's an article over a Bitcoin magazine, and the
- 22:04headline for audio listeners is Bitcoin will completely change
- 22:07real estate markets and interest rates.
- 22:11It goes on to say people used to own real estate because of its
- 22:15utility value, which is characterized by the fact that
- 22:19you can live it in it and use it for production.
- 22:22Today, however, it serves the world as the primary asset for
- 22:26storing value, a former function of money that is no longer
- 22:30possible due to decades of monetary inflation that has
- 22:33decimated people's purchasing power.
- 22:37As a result, housing, therefore the cost of living have
- 22:42increased significantly since the introduction of Bitcoin in
- 22:462009. There has been sound money
- 22:48again, which serves as a store of value by default.
- 22:53By functioning as an actual store of value, Bitcoin will
- 22:57most likely absorb the monetary premium that real estate has
- 23:01accumulated over decades of monetary inflation, and housing
- 23:05will collapse to its utility value.
- 23:08The properties of Bitcoin make it an ideal store of value, so
- 23:13there's a lot to unpack there. Thing number one, you can't just
- 23:18pick up a piece of real estate and take it with you, Thing #2
- 23:23upkeep, right? You have to maintain the piece
- 23:26of real estate, rather maintain the land, maintain the actual
- 23:30building, you know, because it it, you know, it degrades over
- 23:34time. So you have to reinvest in kind
- 23:37of, you know, fixing it back up again and stuff.
- 23:43And then two other things. Thing #1 is not only is saving
- 23:50in Bitcoin going to make housing affordable for you, but over the
- 23:59long term, as more people realize that Bitcoin is the
- 24:03superior store of value, the prices of real estate are gonna
- 24:07go down because the monetary premium goes away As more people
- 24:13realize, OK, instead of buying, you know, all these properties
- 24:18just to maintain my purchasing power, I could just store it in
- 24:22Bitcoin without having to pay property tax and without having
- 24:26to pay upkeep. Bitcoin literally fixes this.
- 24:32So Bitcoin brings back the American Dream not only for the
- 24:37US, but bring Bitcoin exports the American Dream all over the
- 24:43world. And if you save in Bitcoin, it's
- 24:47an undeniable fact that your life gets cheaper.
- 24:52Everything becomes more affordable over time.
- 24:57Now our job as bitcoiners is to wake people up to this beautiful
- 25:02world, this bright orange future, so that they stop
- 25:07getting distracted with the divide and conquer politics of
- 25:12the left and the right, The Republican versus the Democrat,
- 25:15the liberal versus conservative. Because I think a lot of people
- 25:19feel the economic hardships and they continue to seek a
- 25:22political solution where the solution is not necessary a
- 25:26political one. The solution is to opt out of
- 25:30broken money, and I think by doing that, it will bring the
- 25:34world together and it'll make the world a much better place, a
- 25:38much affordable place, a much hopeful place, a world of peace
- 25:43and prosperity, which usually coincides when the world is
- 25:47living under a sound money standard.
- 25:50So let's let's bring this back. As bitcoiners, we have a we have
- 25:56a a monumental task in front of us to orange pill the people
- 26:01around us that are still getting distracted, that are still
- 26:05hurting unnecessarily so. And it's our job to take agency
- 26:10and personal responsibility to push this message out there
- 26:16because I really believe that it will bring the world together.
- 26:19It won't bring the world apart. Anyways, that's my take.
- 26:22Opti, what's your take on all this?
- 26:24And then we'll we'll go to Coach Carbon.
- 26:29I love AI, love a hopeful Nico in the morning.
- 26:31This is nice. This is nice, even though I can
- 26:33tell you're you're a little sleep deprived.
- 26:35But still. Anyways, just coming back to the
- 26:37topic. You know, bootstrapping yourself
- 26:41in in recent public consciousness has kind of been
- 26:45turned into a dirty meme of like, work hard, acquire assets,
- 26:48build yourself a better life. And we're kind of in this weird
- 26:51place right now where like everyone wants to be a victim
- 26:54and everyone's trying to be the winner and the victim Olympics.
- 26:57But what I love about Bitcoin is that something about saving in
- 27:01the hardest, best money in the world, it turns out fire within
- 27:05you on, and you just want to be a better version of yourself.
- 27:08And once you have a money that doesn't perpetually lose value,
- 27:11you have hope for the future. And if you're not hopeful about
- 27:14the future, how are you going to work towards a better life and a
- 27:16better world? And we're seeing right now that
- 27:18this is a global and ongoing right now, that everyone's like,
- 27:22nihilistic, they have no hope for the future.
- 27:24They're all stuck in the rat race.
- 27:26And Bitcoin allows us to live a better life.
- 27:28And to me, that's what the American dream is all about,
- 27:31about the fact that you can move up the social hierarchy, you can
- 27:35move up the social ladder, the economic ladder, and and, you
- 27:39know, build things, provide for your family, build a family and
- 27:43and live a better life. And you can literally do that by
- 27:46just saving some of your capital into Bitcoin.
- 27:48Literally just by saving in Bitcoin.
- 27:50That dream that meme of the American dream is attainable to
- 27:54every single person on planet earth.
- 27:56And you know to your point Nico, I, I find it very interesting
- 28:01that you know we are American centric.
- 28:04So we'll pass it to Coach Carbon to get more of a a global view
- 28:06on this. But I find it very interesting
- 28:08how American patriotism has been so wrapped up into the dollar
- 28:12that the government must back the money.
- 28:15And you know that the America needs a dollar for to continue
- 28:18its prosperity. And I just think it's flawed.
- 28:21Like, I think if you have a better money, your society will
- 28:24be a better society. And I believe America was built
- 28:29on the idea of of working hard, bootstrapping yourself, building
- 28:32things, providing value, and acquiring land and assets and
- 28:36things that allow you to live a better life.
- 28:38And now again, this is attainable for every single
- 28:41person on planet Earth. But I find it interesting how so
- 28:45many people wrap up their identity, their patriotism,
- 28:48their nationalism with their local currency.
- 28:51And I just think it's flawed thinking.
- 28:52Obviously it's brainwashing for lack of better terms, the SIOP
- 28:55by the nation state to basically keep you in your place.
- 28:58You know, we we all know the idea of like the the elite.
- 29:01It's go back to the meme that I played on Monday that you know
- 29:03the the elites have used the cantion effect the the money
- 29:07printer to benefit their friends and family and and a lot of
- 29:10people are blaming this on capitalism.
- 29:12You know, there's a there's a big trend, at least in America
- 29:15and and the various parts around the world that like, oh,
- 29:18capitalism's bad. And in reality, we just live in
- 29:21a crony capitalist system where it's like, if you're closer to
- 29:24the money printer, you're gonna live better.
- 29:26And I think people subconsciously understand that
- 29:28there is a problem, but they don't understand that it's all
- 29:31about the money. It's always been about the money
- 29:33and it will always be about the money.
- 29:35And to today's point of the bit that we're seeing, you know,
- 29:38money printing makes us all poorer.
- 29:41And the fact that the bureaucrats can print money out
- 29:43of thin air, it makes us all poor.
- 29:46This is why we have proof of work.
- 29:48In Bitcoin you need to have work behind your money.
- 29:51You need to make the money hard to create.
- 29:54This is why it's called a hard money in the 1st place.
- 29:58And so as Niko always says, and he didn't say it today, and I'm
- 30:01glad he didn't cuz then I can say it's like why must I work
- 30:04for a money that another man can print for free?
- 30:07Well the answer is I don't have to.
- 30:10I save in Bitcoin and let them play their stupid Fiat games.
- 30:15And you know, again, the other last thing I want to say before
- 30:18I pass it on to Coach Carbon, I find it so interesting because I
- 30:21have, I have friends that, you know, they they basically troll
- 30:23me. They're like, oh, you're a
- 30:24bitcoiner. You know, I'm buying real
- 30:25estate. Like that's the safest way to
- 30:27save money. You know, my house went up X
- 30:29dollars this year X percentages, and I'm usually just like
- 30:33beating my head against the wall.
- 30:34It's like, it's not that your house got more expensive guys,
- 30:37it's that the dollar got weaker. It's that your local currency
- 30:40got weaker because they're printing obscene's amount of
- 30:42money and it's just using these mental judo tricks to try to
- 30:46explain to people what is actually going on.
- 30:49Because if you've learned anything by trying to orange
- 30:51peel your friends and family is that logic doesn't work on them.
- 30:54So you got to hit them in an emotional, you know, maybe
- 30:57humorous, maybe mock them a little bit so that they start
- 31:00to, I don't know, wake up so that the the crack in their own
- 31:04logic in their own mentality starts to break so that they
- 31:08understand what is actually going on.
- 31:09Again, it's always about the money.
- 31:11It will always be about the money.
- 31:13And until the world is on a better money standard, they're
- 31:17just going to keep getting poorer and more nihilistic and
- 31:20they're going to complain more. So This is why we are more
- 31:24hopeful. We spread a message of
- 31:26positivity and and that there is an escape route and and to me I
- 31:31think that's what the American dream is is basically in a
- 31:34nutshell that you can live a better life if you put in the
- 31:37work and now this has been exported to everyone on planet
- 31:40earth and you just love to see it the the world's going to be a
- 31:43better place trust you me. Anyways, Coach Carbon, jump in.
- 31:45What's your thoughts on this? I think, I think we need to
- 31:48change the term. We'll call it the Bitcoin dream
- 31:50so. Yeah, exactly.
- 31:51They. Were going to light the flame.
- 31:54We'll be a beacon because there's never enough time to
- 31:57tell people about how Bitcoin can save the world or how
- 32:00Bitcoin is hope. You mentioned about why do we
- 32:02work for and money that people can print.
- 32:04I shared a Instagram story today that said why do I pay taxes
- 32:08when the government can print for free Before I became a
- 32:12bitcoiner. He's like Neo in the Matrix.
- 32:14You know something's not right. People realise something's not
- 32:16right but name. The title of the show is simply
- 32:18Bitcoin. It's very simple, the money is
- 32:21broken. But unless you do the work and
- 32:24look into Bitcoin and understand it, you won't.
- 32:27You won't see it. And I kicked myself because I
- 32:29had various opportunities to see Bitcoin before and didn't.
- 32:33What I did about 3 1/2 years ago, I had the time, the time
- 32:36freedom to do so. And that's what people need.
- 32:39People need the time freedom. But also people like ourselves
- 32:42speaking daily about it have having being that person, that
- 32:46resource that they can go to and ask questions.
- 32:48It's just there's so much that the money effects that we don't
- 32:51realize and the way society is set up, the education system,
- 32:54the political system is set up in a way that we don't ask that
- 32:58question or we can only get so far by asking questions.
- 33:02They tell us what they want to tell us to keep us in that
- 33:04matrix. But slowly but surely, one by
- 33:07one, we are breaking people free.
- 33:09Love it. And to your point, Coach Carbon,
- 33:11apparently today is the 25th anniversary of The Matrix, so
- 33:13I'm glad that you brought it up. Wow.
- 33:17Total total total coincidence. Anyways guys, if you are
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- 34:00It's here for everyone. It's just a matter of waking
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- 36:32All right, so I do want to do a quick ETF update.
- 36:37So BlackRock continues to stack those sats.
- 36:39They're almost at a quarter million Bitcoin.
- 36:43They're currently sitting at 245,000 Bitcoin.
- 36:47Fidelity. Finally, a little bit of an
- 36:48uptick from 135, they're up to 143,000 Bitcoin and the
- 36:55Grayscale Bitcoin Trust continues to go down.
- 36:58People seem to be dumping that grayscale MicroStrategy still
- 37:02sitting at 214,000 Bitcoin. I think Michael Saylor really
- 37:06wanted to hit that 1% mark of the total Bitcoin supply, and he
- 37:10totally did. It's just a matter of time
- 37:12before other public companies follow in his footsteps.
- 37:17Bitcoins incentives are resistible.
- 37:20So we're talking about the Bitcoin dream as coach Carbon.
- 37:24So, so elegantly put. But we have to understand what's
- 37:28on the other side, right? So we always say Bitcoin or
- 37:32slavery. See, some people think it's
- 37:34hyperbolic. It is not hyperbolic whatsoever.
- 37:37You have a future. You have two futures in head in
- 37:41front of you. You have a future of central
- 37:44bank digital currencies. You have a future of state
- 37:48money. You have a an inflationary
- 37:51future. You have a nihilistic future.
- 37:53You have a poverty future. Or you have the exact opposite.
- 37:57You have a Bitcoin future. And make no mistake, they're the
- 38:01very powerful elites, the bureaucratic elites that have
- 38:04benefited tremendously from being able to create, create
- 38:08money out of thin air. These bureaucratic elites want
- 38:12you to continue using their system, and if it means trying
- 38:17to coerce you to use it, make no mistake, they will definitely do
- 38:21that as well. And it if you guys been paying
- 38:24attention to simply Bitcoin and look guys, this is going to
- 38:28become and it's starting, it's starting, but it hasn't really
- 38:33got in there yet. But this is going to become
- 38:36extremely political. This is going to enter the
- 38:40political discourse in a country near you or in your country in
- 38:45the US. It's already happening.
- 38:47You have the leading Republican, no the Republican candidate for
- 38:51president, Donald Trump, saying if you were to elect him to
- 38:54office he will make sure that no CBDC's will get rolled out under
- 39:00his presidency. You have RFK Junior saying
- 39:05something very similar, protecting the right to self
- 39:07custody. You had Ron DeSantis who dropped
- 39:09out of the race saying something similar.
- 39:12You had Vivek, who's the actual who's the person who actually
- 39:15told Trump about central bank digital currencies.
- 39:18He is talking about basically the dangers of CBDC's and also
- 39:25he's pro Bitcoin. Looks like Trump hasn't come
- 39:27around for the whole Bitcoin thing.
- 39:30But at the same time, if you're anti CBDC, in a way you're pro
- 39:35Bitcoin because you're what you're doing is that you're
- 39:37slowing down the competitor. Now here's the thing, and we've
- 39:41always talked to you guys about this, Bitcoin relies on
- 39:45incentives. My money is always on
- 39:47incentives. The other system relies on
- 39:50coercion. If people had a choice and they
- 39:54were educated on the matter, This is why this information,
- 39:58narrative trench warfare is so important.
- 39:59This is why sharing this type of content.
- 40:01This is why making memes, This is why telling the people, your
- 40:04friends and family around you about what the actual two
- 40:07choices are. Because again there's the the
- 40:10other side is gonna rely and hope that you're not fully
- 40:15informed on the matter. OK, so people had a choice
- 40:20between something that. Can be censored and something
- 40:24that can be debased and something that can be debased
- 40:30and versus something that has a cap supply, it's absolutely
- 40:34scarce, it's censorship resistant.
- 40:37What do you think people are going to choose if they are
- 40:40fully aware of the two options? People are going to choose
- 40:44obviously the better option. And the reaction from government
- 40:49is obviously going to be it's not going to be a really good
- 40:53one because you have to understand how much power comes
- 40:58from their ability to just print money.
- 41:02There's an evil alliance between the central bankers and the
- 41:06politicians. The politicians provide air
- 41:08cover and the central bankers print money, right?
- 41:14And this infection has been here in the US since 1913, right?
- 41:19And I love Ron Paul's quote, his famous quote, which I think is
- 41:22so fitting. It's not a coincidence that the
- 41:25bloodiest century in human history is also the century of
- 41:28central banking. All of that being said, I had to
- 41:31give that preface because it's important that we stay on top of
- 41:35what is going on. So this is an article that
- 41:39dropped two days ago from Reuters.
- 41:42Swift planning launch of new central bank digital currency
- 41:45platform and 12 to 24 months. It goes on to say global banking
- 41:50messaging network. SWIFT is planning a new platform
- 41:53in the next one to two years to connect the wave of central bank
- 41:57digital currencies now in development in the existing
- 42:00finance system. The move, which would be one of
- 42:04the most significant yet in the nascent CBDC ecosystem given
- 42:09Swift's key role in global banking, is likely to be fine
- 42:12fine-tuned to when the first major ones are launched.
- 42:16Around 90% of the world's central banks are now exploring
- 42:20digital versions of their currencies.
- 42:23So This is why we say what we say.
- 42:27This is why we say it's Bitcoin or slavery.
- 42:30This isn't simply Bitcoin's words, it's a Reuters article
- 42:35and they're literally telling you 90% of the world's central
- 42:40banks are now exploring digital currents, digital versions of
- 42:44their currencies. If you take a look at this very,
- 42:49very nicely put website by the Atlantic Council, it literally
- 42:54has a diagram, has a map of the world and it'll literally tell
- 42:59you what the stage of of the CBDC rollouts are, right?
- 43:07You have a pilot program, you have a pilot program in Russia,
- 43:13retail, wholesale, you have a, it's develop, it's developing in
- 43:18the United States. Even though that, you know
- 43:21Jerome Powell is saying it's not, it's retail wholesale in
- 43:26China and Europe. It's basically being rolled out
- 43:29as well. You guys have to understand
- 43:31what's at stake here in Nigeria. It launched by the way, it was
- 43:36an absolute total fucking failure.
- 43:39They got to the point that it was such a failure.
- 43:42They they launched a arrest warrant for Binance executives
- 43:47because Binance was the on ramp to the alternatives to the CBD
- 43:52CS because people didn't want to use the CBDC.
- 43:54And I can tell you why people didn't want to use the CBDC in
- 43:57Nigeria because the CBDC does not solve the fundamental issue
- 44:04of inflation. Like people aren't seeking a
- 44:08more efficient means of payment. That's the talking term.
- 44:11Like that's the rhetoric in the US you have Zelle, you have
- 44:15PayPal, you have cash app that it's incredibly easy to pay
- 44:19someone, but it doesn't solve inflation.
- 44:24They don't talk about that. They don't want to talk about
- 44:27that because they want to be able to retain that privilege,
- 44:31that power of being able to create money out of thin air.
- 44:36And what Bitcoiners are advocating for is a more equal
- 44:38system where if you want to make more Bitcoin, you have to get in
- 44:42line like everyone else. Pay for the cost of electricity,
- 44:45pay for the cost of manufacturing and if you want to
- 44:49do it that way then you can make more Bitcoin, but you don't have
- 44:52a privilege of just being able to create it out of thin air
- 44:56anyways. Swift's head of innovation Nick
- 44:59Kerrigan said its latest trial, which took six months and
- 45:02involved 38 members of central banks, commercial banks and
- 45:05settlement platforms, has been one of the largest global
- 45:08collaborations on CBD, CS and tokenized assets to date.
- 45:12It focused on ensuring different countries, CBD, CS can all be
- 45:16used together, even if built on different underlying
- 45:19technologies or protocols, thereby thereby reducing payment
- 45:23system fragmentation risks. It also showed that they could
- 45:26be used in highly complex trade or foreign exchange payments and
- 45:30potentially be automated so to speed up and lower the cost of
- 45:33the processes, Kagan said. The results, which had also
- 45:37proven banks could use their existing infrastructure, has
- 45:40been widely regarded as a success by those who took part
- 45:44and given SWIFT a timeline to work.
- 45:46To quote we are looking to, we're looking at a road map to
- 45:52product size launch as a product in the next 12 to 24 months.
- 45:56Although the time frame could still shift if major economy
- 45:59CBDC launches get delayed. Getting out the blocks for when
- 46:03they they would be a major boost for maintaining Swift's
- 46:07incumbent dominance in the bank to bank plumbing network.
- 46:12Countries such as the Bahamas, Nigeria and Jamaica already have
- 46:15CBD CS up and running. China is well advanced with real
- 46:18life trials in the EU on the the ECB, European Central Bank has
- 46:23digital EUR 1 underway too, while the Bank for International
- 46:27Settlements, the global central bank umbrella group, is running
- 46:30multiple cross-border trials. It goes on to say Swift's main
- 46:34advantage though is that the existing network is already
- 46:38usable in over 200 countries, right?
- 46:42So after I read all of this, this is what they want.
- 46:49This is what they want. This is, this is what they want
- 46:52for you. This is what the central
- 46:53bankers, this is what the bureaucrats, this is what the
- 46:55politicians This is the future that they want for you.
- 46:58They want ACB. They want you living on a CBDC
- 47:00future so that you can use a system that they control.
- 47:05They have special privileges. They have the ability to create
- 47:09money. They have the ability to, you
- 47:12know, control the money flows or you have a Bitcoin future.
- 47:17The choice is 100% up to you. What future you want to live in.
- 47:21You want to live in a in a in a in a free future or do you want
- 47:24to live in a slavery future? They're moving full steam ahead
- 47:30with this program. This isn't stopping.
- 47:35And and I'm telling you, the reason that this thing was even
- 47:38created in the 1st place was because they've saw the writing
- 47:41on the wall with Bitcoin and they're like, no, no, no, no,
- 47:44no, no, no, we can't have that. So wake up, get involved.
- 47:50The awesome part about this is that it really doesn't take that
- 47:53much effort on your part. It's just a matter of buying
- 47:57Bitcoin, earning Bitcoin, mining Bitcoin, and taking that Bitcoin
- 48:00to self custody. If enough of us do it, we win.
- 48:02That's it. That's how we win, right?
- 48:04Anyways, there's 600, there's 735 people watching us live on
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- 48:12If you guys are enjoying the show, make sure to smash that
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- 48:17algos. I'm going to pass it on to Opti.
- 48:20Opti. I mean, we've been covering this
- 48:22for quite a while, dude. Things are heating up.
- 48:24They're telling. They're telling everyone what
- 48:26they want to do. I'm surprised people are just
- 48:28not woken up to this enough. Look, I'm glad that it's being
- 48:31included in the political discourse now.
- 48:34Like, I'm glad that it's being talked about by presidential
- 48:37candidates. You know, I'm glad that
- 48:39libertarian candidates are being elected, like in Argentina, you
- 48:43know, I'm glad that we have Naimbu Kelly, the beach head of
- 48:46the Bitcoin movement in El Salvador.
- 48:48But, like, bro, like, you know, I think that more awareness
- 48:51needs to be brought brought to this man.
- 48:54And I think less people have to get less distracted by the
- 48:57bullshit. Like to put it Frank, man, The
- 48:59bullshit. The bullshit.
- 49:00Like the whole, Oh my God, the politics and the thing and then
- 49:05that. Like guys, what's really
- 49:07important, what's really going to make a fundamental difference
- 49:13for the lifestyle of you and your children and your
- 49:17children's children is this battle at hand.
- 49:19It's Bitcoin versus CBD CS. That's literally the future.
- 49:23It's not left, right, Democrat, Republican, conservative,
- 49:28liberal. It's not that that that's the
- 49:31distraction. What's actually going to make a
- 49:34difference is what money will you be using, and then how hard
- 49:39is the state going to fight back in order for you to use the
- 49:43money that you want to use. That's really what's happening
- 49:46here. I'm glad that some people are
- 49:48waking up to this. I'm glad that it's being
- 49:50included in the political rhetoric, but I want to see more
- 49:53of it. Opti.
- 49:55Yeah, I mean, well, you asked a question and I'm sure it was
- 49:58rhetorical, but and we're dropping it today, so check out
- 50:04the IRL that we're gonna drop later today.
- 50:06We recorded it yesterday with Daniel Prince, and he hit the
- 50:10nail on the head. You asked a question.
- 50:12Why aren't more people talking about this?
- 50:14Well, for lack of better terms, and then maybe not the nicest
- 50:17terms, but everyone is basically sleepwalking.
- 50:20Almost everyone is sleepwalking out there.
- 50:22They've all been indoctrinated in state schools.
- 50:25No one's been taught exactly what's going on with the money
- 50:28because they don't want you to know about the money.
- 50:30Hence why everyone's like, oh, what's going on?
- 50:33The CBDC thing, That sounds good.
- 50:35You know, they're going to give me Ubi.
- 50:36They're going to give, they're going to, you know, make
- 50:38payments better. This is exactly what we need to
- 50:40do. Like, it's not like payment
- 50:41aren't already good. Now we're not already using them
- 50:44on our phone anyways. But anyways, I want to go back
- 50:46to the Swiss stuff. You know, I did not have Taylor
- 50:49Swift endorsing a CBDC on my bingo card for 2024.
- 50:54Guys, what is going on here? I I thought she was a wholesome
- 50:57musician here. No, obviously that's a joke, a
- 50:59bad joke. But anyways, it is no surprise
- 51:04that the central banks of the world, 90% of them want to or
- 51:09are actively working on a CBDC when we know what it's all
- 51:13about. It's always been about control
- 51:15and the powers that be are not going to let up that control
- 51:18easily. Of course they're going to
- 51:19gaslight us and say that, oh, the CBDC system is just about a
- 51:22payment, or oh, the Fed now is not really a CBDC.
- 51:26Or oh, Swift just wants to have interoperability or whatever the
- 51:30word is for the for the world. Like, this is not as nefarious
- 51:33as you conspiracy tinfoil hat wearers we're talking about on
- 51:36the Internet. But in reality, that's what it
- 51:39is. They want to have a digital
- 51:41system wholly controlled by them, even though our money is
- 51:44already digital. We can kind of argue on Nuance
- 51:46that we are already in a CDC system.
- 51:50It's just not completely connected worldwide.
- 51:53Excuse me? Well, what happens when the
- 51:56whole world is on a digital money that can be controlled by
- 51:59a small cabal of people? It doesn't sound like a future I
- 52:02want to be a part of. And This is why I'm a bitcoiner.
- 52:05And again, of course every central bank wants to work on
- 52:09this. It is always about control.
- 52:11It will always be about control. Because if you control the
- 52:13money, what's the. I think it's Nathan Rothschild
- 52:16quote where he says give me control of a nation's money and
- 52:19I care not who they vote for. This is the game going on, guys.
- 52:23They want to control the the money.
- 52:24They're not gonna let that control over the money go easily
- 52:27and hence why we're seeing all the central banks around the
- 52:30world, or most of the central banks around the world actively
- 52:33work towards a CBDC system. Because they know the game like
- 52:38we know the game. They understand that Bitcoin
- 52:41eats their lunch, that Bitcoin is a checkmate on the Fiat
- 52:45system, and they have to perpetuate this system for as
- 52:48long as they can and try to get as many people trapped in the
- 52:51system as possible. Because you know the saying we
- 52:54say all the time of it's Bitcoin or slavery.
- 52:57Like when we first were saying it, it seemed hyperbolic.
- 52:59But the more you listen to what Klaus Schwab in the World
- 53:04Economic Forum talk about, the more you understand that they
- 53:07want to corral you in a totally digital, dystopian, tyrannical
- 53:12future where the quote UN quote, elites are in control because
- 53:15they know better than you. Who are you peasant out there to
- 53:18know how you should spend your money?
- 53:20You know we know better than you.
- 53:21You need the nanny state. You need the perpetual nanny
- 53:24state to protect yourself from yourself because you don't
- 53:27understand how things work and it's really a slap in the face.
- 53:30It's anti human as far as I'm concerned and This is why I'm a
- 53:33bitcoiner. It's like no, I'm an adult.
- 53:35Well barely an adult. You know, I'm barely an adult at
- 53:37this point. But I I want to control my own
- 53:41money. I've been saving dollars under
- 53:43my mattress since I was like 12 years old.
- 53:46And now I have a money that is completely outside of their
- 53:50system. And the more they actively work
- 53:52against Bitcoin, the more I know we are correct and that I just,
- 53:57I, you know, like like Coach Carbon was saying, you know I
- 53:59just wake up happy and like knowing that I'm on the purpose,
- 54:03I'm on the mission and spreading Bitcoin is the most important
- 54:06thing to be doing. But of course, first you got to
- 54:08plant those seeds and and educate your friends and try to
- 54:12wake them up from their slumber because that's what's going on.
- 54:15Everyone is asleep at the wheel except for bitcoiners.
- 54:18Except for people that understand that it's always been
- 54:20about the money. It will always be about the
- 54:22money. And more and more people I think
- 54:25are waking up to this, this the game being played, the charade.
- 54:29You know, the the emperor wears no clothes.
- 54:31It's literally the Wizard of Oz. You know, literally.
- 54:35And the Wizard of Oz is is about the gold money standard.
- 54:37Like it it it all goes back to the money and the manipulation
- 54:41of money And now that game is being broken in real time and
- 54:46you just love to see it and love being a bit coiner.
- 54:49Anyways, Coach Carbon, jump in. What's your thoughts?
- 54:50So. Nico, you mentioned about the
- 54:53writings on the wall CBDC's came about to counteract Bitcoin.
- 54:58We're past the ignore you stage. They they're done laughing at
- 55:01us. Now they're fighting us.
- 55:03I do wonder what their game panel end game is.
- 55:06So obviously we as bitcoiners, we've done our work.
- 55:08We see where it's going when we separate money from the state.
- 55:11They're bringing in CBDC's to trap as many people as possible
- 55:15into slavery. I wonder are we going to have a
- 55:192T or yeah, 2T or two parallel civilizations where you have
- 55:25politicians now who some of the we see as puppets but they're
- 55:28going against the elites. We have nation states rising up.
- 55:30You've seen the Renaissance in El Salvador.
- 55:32Bitcoins are going to go where we're treated best.
- 55:34So we're going to seek out these places the the elites or CBD CS
- 55:39that they're bringing in. Do they plan on just capturing
- 55:42as much as they can and keeping it or incentive structures?
- 55:45Do they at some point join the Bitcoin community and try and
- 55:49try and fight us that way? I don't think they're that naive
- 55:52to think the CBDC's are going to win outright.
- 55:56They must have, they must think about something else.
- 55:58They may not. They may not be bringing their
- 56:00best. I'd say big corners.
- 56:01We bring our breasts in breasts. In terms of discourse,
- 56:04discussion, attitude, there's stuff that we don't know but we
- 56:07can try, We try and figure out along the way.
- 56:11They seem pretty hell bent on CBDC's, but we spoke about ones
- 56:14that have come out already that haven't worked.
- 56:17We know anything that the government's control tend to
- 56:20fail. But the elites, they must have a
- 56:23plan. I don't think they're that naive
- 56:24to to think just to see what you see on their own are going to
- 56:26work. I just wonder what you guys
- 56:28think about that. No, I 100% agree.
- 56:31Like, I think it's naive to think that there isn't people
- 56:33within the Bitcoin community that are already glowing in real
- 56:37time and that they are. They're what's the what's the
- 56:40I'm I'm, I'm blanking on the word right now, but they are
- 56:43misdirecting the conversation right now and actively pushing
- 56:47for things that are harmful for Bitcoin.
- 56:49I I think that's happening as we speak.
- 56:53Yeah, I think, I think the, you know, I think the government is
- 56:55going to definitely try to like. I think they're going to try
- 57:00because it's like, yes, they're not going to win.
- 57:02If people have a free choice, I think they're going to attack
- 57:06the whole free choice aspect of it.
- 57:08I think that's really what they're going to focus on.
- 57:11And then it becomes an educational issue.
- 57:15Then it becomes, if people are awake to what is actually going
- 57:19on, then obviously we're gonna win this thing.
- 57:22So I truly believe it's gonna be some type of information
- 57:26warfare. And you see them doing that,
- 57:29Like, I mean they're doing that already where the, the
- 57:31gaslighting about the inflation, like the gaslighting how the
- 57:34prices are going down like this. I've seen, I saw this happen in
- 57:38the UK you know the the current Prime Minister was doing this.
- 57:41He's like, Oh yeah, you know the war in Ukraine, you know, the
- 57:44pandemic, all this thing. It's like that's what caused all
- 57:47the inflation. It's like, no, you guys just
- 57:49literally printed the money, right.
- 57:51So, you know, I I think that as as more people wake up and they
- 57:56start to understand what is money and they start to kind of
- 57:59wake up to this reality. I think, you know, I think we
- 58:02have a, a, a, you know, an opportunity to win, so to speak.
- 58:07But that that's where it really falls down to us individuals to
- 58:11really, really push that message forward and wake people up to
- 58:15that reality. Anyways, ladies and gentlemen,
- 58:17let's get to the culture. I do want to talk to Coach
- 58:19Carbon, what he's working on and what his personal projects are.
- 58:23Let's do it. Here we go.
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- 59:22All right, Opti. What's up, man?
- 59:24Let's go. All right.
- 59:26Well, before we get into everything that Coach Carbon is
- 59:29working, I know our audience loves the Bitcoin origin story.
- 59:32So maybe give the people How did you find Bitcoin?
- 59:35Why did you fall in love with Bitcoin?
- 59:37And then we'll go into everything that you're working
- 59:38on. OK, in a very quick nutshell, I
- 59:42believe I was. I was a bitcoiner before I was a
- 59:43bitcoiner. Insane 2018 I went down a rabbit
- 59:48hole of health and Wellness. I missed Bitcoin a couple of
- 59:52times before and during that that time purely because I think
- 59:55I didn't have the time to to to look at it properly.
- 59:59But COVID came around. I was given the opportunity then
- 1:00:02to look into Bitcoin, for a friend of mine said he wants to
- 1:00:05speak about crypto. I had the time freedom to to do
- 1:00:07it, but I'd already conquered delayed gratification, proof of
- 1:00:12work in terms of my my physical appearance and and Wellness.
- 1:00:15So when I saw Bitcoin and looked into it for maybe 10 hours a day
- 1:00:18for for a whole month, my mind was blown.
- 1:00:20I was like, this is it. And I told everyone I knew about
- 1:00:23it. I sent them three loves, masters
- 1:00:26of slaves, of money. I sent them the Sailor series.
- 1:00:29That's not how we are into poor people, that's not going to
- 1:00:32work. I've changed my tacks, but
- 1:00:34that's every honour of the journey of of networking with
- 1:00:37people in the space I met. Daniel Prince was avid listener
- 1:00:40to his podcast amongst others. I joined learning group with
- 1:00:44Daniel Prince online. We used to jump on the call
- 1:00:46every week, people from all around the world.
- 1:00:48We then had a mystery call with John Vallis one day.
- 1:00:51So I tell people outside of the space and they say who's John
- 1:00:54Vallis? But those who know know John
- 1:00:56Vallis Said a memorable sentence to me.
- 1:00:59When I said I wanted the job in in the space, I wanted to give
- 1:01:01something back, he said. Why don't you provide value in
- 1:01:03your community? That night the penny dropped,
- 1:01:06Bitcoin Baller was born. I recognise the synergy between
- 1:01:09football or soccer as you may guys may call it, and Bitcoin
- 1:01:13and I created just an Instagram page.
- 1:01:15People could interact and earn Sats.
- 1:01:18I then hosted football competitions, did skills
- 1:01:20competitions, then hosted and then put teams into tournaments
- 1:01:24linked with guiser and coin corner to get a football strip
- 1:01:26with a Bitcoin logo on. I've been to Amsterdam to host a
- 1:01:29satellite event, just come out from Madeira and yeah, 3 1/2
- 1:01:33years in the space I am where I am because of the community so
- 1:01:36I'm so grateful. Yeah, you see the web page
- 1:01:39there? I now have Bitcoin Ballers.
- 1:01:41We were able to receive Sats through that, through that proof
- 1:01:43of work every day. I would say I wake up optimistic
- 1:01:48for the opportunity that I have, but also that I'm able to offer
- 1:01:51other people as well. Love it.
- 1:01:53Love it. Let's let's do this.
- 1:01:54What? What is this?
- 1:01:55Make your own proof of work. You're you're saying you can get
- 1:01:58SAT. So how's this work for people?
- 1:02:00Yes, so through IBEX. Awesome.
- 1:02:04Find it with Bitcoin borders through their proof of work.
- 1:02:07They submit their videos to me, I host on my website and
- 1:02:09YouTube. People can scan the the sets,
- 1:02:12scan their QR code and stream the sets.
- 1:02:14The idea came from Perf Heat, who did it originally with the
- 1:02:17baseball. Yeah, so I linked over IBEX and
- 1:02:20we do that with all our Ballers who sign up.
- 1:02:23So through their say, through their proof of work, they're
- 1:02:25incentivised then to go out and perform on the pitch.
- 1:02:29But their proof of work doesn't just come from one game of
- 1:02:32playing well. They have to do training
- 1:02:34sessions and when they train and play, how long are they going to
- 1:02:37do it for? Is it a week?
- 1:02:38A month? A whole season?
- 1:02:39And over time they'll create a catalogue of their proof of work
- 1:02:42over a period of time. Again, incentive structures.
- 1:02:45You are incentivised to bring your best every day to to try
- 1:02:49and receive stats, but also to improve yourself as a player and
- 1:02:52as my website says, Health, wealth and life.
- 1:02:55I started off as a health coach and then talked to people about
- 1:02:58wealth through Bitcoin and their lifestyle.
- 1:03:00They're they're all-encompassing.
- 1:03:01If you utilise Bitcoin principles and fundamentals as
- 1:03:04the base day of your life, I believe your life becomes
- 1:03:07better. But it's not going to happen
- 1:03:10over a day, a week and Monday. It takes time.
- 1:03:13We go through cycles. I'm going to the end of my first
- 1:03:15cycle now. People that know me in a
- 1:03:17previous life, they think, who's this crazy guy wearing orange
- 1:03:20all the time with his tin hat on.
- 1:03:21But they can't dismiss that my life has been made better, the
- 1:03:24people around me their life have been made better, and I strive
- 1:03:28to help other people daily. Love it, love it.
- 1:03:31Well, I love your catch phrase Coach Carbon.
- 1:03:34I I've been saying this for a long time on the show, but I
- 1:03:36think you may be said it more eloquently.
- 1:03:39Health, wealth and life. Change your habits, change your
- 1:03:41life. And that's one of my favorite
- 1:03:43things about Bitcoin. And we were kind of talking
- 1:03:45about that before the show of just like there's something
- 1:03:47about when you get on the Bitcoin standard, your every
- 1:03:51part of your life gets better. And I don't know, how do you
- 1:03:54communicate this message to footballers out there or people
- 1:03:58in your community? But I use the term the three
- 1:04:01selves, so we start with self discovery.
- 1:04:04With Bitcoin you first have to do your own self discovery.
- 1:04:07Look into it. With football, when you're
- 1:04:10learning new skills, it's that it's down to you to get on the
- 1:04:12football field and and practice. Once you learn those new skills,
- 1:04:15you need to take ownership of them.
- 1:04:17So when you get on the pitch and you do a skill and it doesn't
- 1:04:20quite work out, you can't blame the other player, you can't
- 1:04:22blame the referee, you can't blame the fans.
- 1:04:23It's down to you. Similar to your your Bitcoin
- 1:04:25journey, when you're learning about Bitcoin and you're you're
- 1:04:31getting a stack, do you self custody it?
- 1:04:33If the exchange goes down, that's down to you and then that
- 1:04:37leads into the self-discipline. You have your you have your
- 1:04:41skill set you're on the pitch, you're you're playing well can
- 1:04:44you do it consistently over time with with Bitcoin daily you're
- 1:04:49you're you're using all those habits into your daily life also
- 1:04:52into into your Bitcoin knowledge.
- 1:04:53Are you learning every day? Are you speaking to people?
- 1:04:56Are you living the Bitcoin life? Basically, so yourself
- 1:04:59discovery, self ownership and self-discipline.
- 1:05:02Love it, love it. And then one other things you
- 1:05:04mentioned, you know you mentioned John Vallas, I love
- 1:05:06John Vallas, I love the the Hotto Hangouts, I love the
- 1:05:10Bitcoin Rapid fire. But I think a message that we
- 1:05:13try to get across to our audience as much as possible and
- 1:05:17you basically went down that same rabbit hole.
- 1:05:19It's like, look, guys, you don't necessarily need to be a Bitcoin
- 1:05:22developer or a miner or are making podcast.
- 1:05:25All you have to do is use the skills you already have and
- 1:05:29incorporate Bitcoin into it. So on that note, you were
- 1:05:33telling me I'm going to butcher this, You're a fitness
- 1:05:36instructor, right? Not a physical trainer.
- 1:05:39Forget that. There's some some accolades you
- 1:05:42need there. But I don't know, do people, can
- 1:05:45people pay you and Bitcoin? How's this work?
- 1:05:47You know, And then just kind of touch on the idea of like adding
- 1:05:50your normal skills and just putting Bitcoin on top of it.
- 1:05:53Yeah, they can. I can receive Bitcoin.
- 1:05:56Always do promote that. I'm going to call Aaron Dorn.
- 1:05:59Actually, he's a hairdresser from the UKA professional
- 1:06:01hairdresser, used to do lots of famous people.
- 1:06:03He coined the term. When your passions in line with
- 1:06:06your incentives, the major things happen.
- 1:06:08So when you incorporate Bitcoin in that, you see people with
- 1:06:11different passion projects. You have athletes, you have
- 1:06:14artists, you have designers. Lots of different people, film
- 1:06:19makers. They're using their passions,
- 1:06:21incorporating Bitcoin and seeing amazing things happen.
- 1:06:24You mentioned about why my title I am a fitness stroke.
- 1:06:27I can't call myself a personal trainer because I haven't paid
- 1:06:30to do that next level of training.
- 1:06:31So myself as a health, wealth and life coach.
- 1:06:34People, when I first started, actually yesterday was four
- 1:06:37years since I coined the term Coach Carmen and became said to
- 1:06:40the world, I'm a coach now. People at that time could argue,
- 1:06:43well what have you done 3 1/2 years later?
- 1:06:45I have my proof of work now. Technically not a personal
- 1:06:49trainer. If I call myself a wealth coach,
- 1:06:52I can't call myself a wealth advisor because I haven't got
- 1:06:54that bit of paper. And a life coach.
- 1:06:56Again, to be a life coach need a bit of paper.
- 1:06:58But if somebody wants to work with me, we can discuss health,
- 1:07:01we can discuss wealth and we can discuss life.
- 1:07:03And I'm pretty damn sure the conversation you can have with
- 1:07:06me, I can advise you or talk about things that is going to
- 1:07:09make going to make your life better.
- 1:07:10Do I need a bit of paper for that to say that I can do that?
- 1:07:14No. But the Fiat world tells people,
- 1:07:17I would argue, look at my proof of work, look at other people's
- 1:07:20proof of work in the Bitcoin space.
- 1:07:22What are they doing? What have they done?
- 1:07:23What are they saying they're going to do?
- 1:07:26And if it's not, say, scammy, then then I would advise
- 1:07:30checking out what they're doing. So yeah, you don't need that bit
- 1:07:34of paper that the Fiat world demands that they want money
- 1:07:37for. We've left that world behind.
- 1:07:39Now show your proof of work. Cycles go by quickly.
- 1:07:42I can't believe how quickly the time's gone right now.
- 1:07:45Four years ago we were in the midst of the C word plandemic.
- 1:07:49But for me it was a it was a lifesaver that gave me an
- 1:07:51opportunity to literally down tools.
- 1:07:54I was a construction project manager.
- 1:07:56I left that lifestyle behind me. Now that's a distant memory.
- 1:07:59And now, as Saylor says, curate your environment.
- 1:08:01I've literally done that with the help of bitcoiners to
- 1:08:05mention again, I can't shut them out enough.
- 1:08:06Daniel Prince, John Valles, There's so many others that who
- 1:08:09I've reached out to BTC sessions.
- 1:08:11Everyone is a degree of separation away.
- 1:08:14You can reach out to them and not everyone always has the time
- 1:08:17or it might happen straight away.
- 1:08:18But just be consistent in your work, consistent in your your
- 1:08:21habits and and and it will happen, I believe.
- 1:08:25Love it, love it. Couldn't agree more.
- 1:08:27Very similar journey. But I want to talk about.
- 1:08:30I say it all the time. You know proof of work is a
- 1:08:31lifestyle and you are mentioning that that exact thing.
- 1:08:35And we were even talking before the show started of I, I, I
- 1:08:38forget what your phrasing was but I was using.
- 1:08:41It's like you are a walking billboard for Bitcoin.
- 1:08:43Like, live a good life and that's the best way to spread
- 1:08:46the message. And you, you have a good meme
- 1:08:48for it. You want to go on that meme?
- 1:08:49I forget what it is. I forget what you said.
- 1:08:52You've lost me, a friend of mine once said.
- 1:08:54You're an advertisement for yourself.
- 1:08:55When I was had a packing a few pounds, I don't.
- 1:08:58I can't remember what the other meme you were talking about was.
- 1:09:00It's like something about being better.
- 1:09:03I forgot. I forgot what you said.
- 1:09:04It's like your. Best.
- 1:09:07Yeah, say it one more time. Bring your best.
- 1:09:09Bring your best. In your daily habits and your
- 1:09:12actions and your thoughts bring your best.
- 1:09:14At the start of the year they have the hoodie.
- 1:09:16This, this hoodie is Bitcoin is dead one.
- 1:09:18But I do have the hoodie to bring your best.
- 1:09:21Basically it came about I think on on a Twitter thread where I
- 1:09:25said the people that are attacking Bitcoin, they're not
- 1:09:27sending their best people. But if we bring our best, when
- 1:09:30they do eventually do their work and bring their best, we'll
- 1:09:33we'll be able to beat them because we're going to be anti
- 1:09:35fragile. But that's why I mentioned the
- 1:09:37the elites and the CBD CS, the people that they're sending to
- 1:09:40attack us. Is it?
- 1:09:42Is that to put us in Lalos into a false sense of security?
- 1:09:46Because each time the attack comes in thinking, guys, you
- 1:09:49haven't done the work, we're doing the work.
- 1:09:51What work are you doing? Where's the one the ultimate
- 1:09:54boss now? Love it and and I really love it
- 1:09:57on like a personal level. Like bring your best every
- 1:09:59single day. Like that's what we have to be
- 1:10:01doing. Or personally, what I strive to
- 1:10:03do every day. All right, Coach Carbon, really
- 1:10:06love that. But I want to give you one last
- 1:10:08chance. What's the last two sets you
- 1:10:10want to leave with the audience? It could be about life, it could
- 1:10:12be about fitness, it could be about Bitcoin.
- 1:10:14What's the last message you want to leave with the people?
- 1:10:17It's it's shameless Phil back Bitcoin Ballers I'm doing.
- 1:10:21I did a talk in Madeira, a bit called Atlantis.
- 1:10:24I'm going to do one in Carlton FC in Nottingham in the UK in a
- 1:10:28couple of weeks and it's about how do we get the world to adopt
- 1:10:30Bitcoin. About using your passions.
- 1:10:32I'm using using football. We have a great opportunity as
- 1:10:35Bitcoin Ballers each day that goes by slimmer and slimmer.
- 1:10:39But we have an opportunity to enter the world's biggest 7V7
- 1:10:43tournament in in Cary, NC. If we've signed the agreement,
- 1:10:47we just need the funders. So we're looking for a big
- 1:10:49sponsor that can come on the front of our shirts.
- 1:10:51They've just announced the 28 team out of 48, so there are 20
- 1:10:54I think 20 spaces left. We're hoping to do one of them.
- 1:10:58We're doing everything well. I'm doing everything we can as
- 1:11:00we can. There's others help that can
- 1:11:02support me. There's other big corners in the
- 1:11:03community but we're looking for a whale.
- 1:11:05But but the message I'm going to leave everyone with is do what
- 1:11:09you can do for the community. Big corners will support your
- 1:11:12vacuum. Again.
- 1:11:13I am where I am right now because of bit corners around
- 1:11:16the world and I thank them everyday for it.
- 1:11:18I am now looking to to pass on that opportunity, leave the
- 1:11:21leave the ladder down for other people coming up.
- 1:11:24But if I can get Bitcoin Ballers to the football tournament, have
- 1:11:27the Bitcoin logo on show, there's going to be over
- 1:11:291,000,000 viewers, over 70,000 people on site supporting, yeah,
- 1:11:34I'd love to have a Bitcoin team there to show what bit corners
- 1:11:37are about. We are about the community.
- 1:11:39We are about education. And it's not what the mainstream
- 1:11:42media tell you in the news. We're gonna get rid of all the
- 1:11:45FUD. Yeah, that's my message.
- 1:11:48Do what you can do for the community on a daily basis.
- 1:11:51Amen to that. Love into that.
- 1:11:53Well, also low key. You know.
- 1:11:54Nico may not be in football shape anymore, but he does love
- 1:11:59playing FIFA. OK.
- 1:12:05Alright hold on Nico, I I gotta, I gotta, I gotta say something.
- 1:12:08The Bitcoin bugle is trolling me goes Opti.
- 1:12:10When are you going to talk about the March Maxi madness bro?
- 1:12:13You you guys vote for me on the Twitter.
- 1:12:17Vote vote for Opti, but I mean bro.
- 1:12:19The Bitcoin bugle put me with the like with Jack.
- 1:12:22Muller. Like against that was like my
- 1:12:25first bracket was Jack Mahler's bro.
- 1:12:27Right vote for Jack Mahler's, but vote for Opti on.
- 1:12:31Twitter got the Bitcoin bugle. God damn man all.
- 1:12:35Right. Well, Coach Carbon, this is
- 1:12:36great. Really appreciate the message
- 1:12:38man. Vote for Opti so Opti can make
- 1:12:40it to the next bracket. Anyways, Coach Carbon, thank you
- 1:12:43so much for joining us on Simply Bitcoin Live.
- 1:12:45We appreciate it guys. Go check out Coach Carbon
- 1:12:48support. Fellow Bitcoiners, it was great
- 1:12:50to see you in person. And guys, thank you so much for
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