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FIRST European Central Bank Buys Bitcoin & Sends HUGE WARNING To World!! | EP 1376 · Simply Bitcoin

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  The first European Central Bank just bought Bitcoin, and while
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  the rest of Europe and the UK try to pass digital IDs and CBD,
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  CS1 Country is trying to escape. But before we get to all that,
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  let's just remember what Christine Lagarde said very
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  confidently at the beginning of this year in January.
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  This matter that you referred to and whether reserves of central
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  bank should or could include bitcoins.
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  I think there is a view around the table of the governing
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  council and most likely the general Council as well that
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  reserves have to be liquid, that reserves have to be secure, that
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  they have to be safe, that they should not be plagued by the
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  suspicion of money laundering or other criminal activities.
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  And as a result, I'm confident that reserves will not enter,
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  sorry that bitcoins will not enter the reserves of any of the
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  central banks of the general counsel.
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  I had a good conversation with my colleague from the Czech
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  Republic, and I leave it to him to make whatever announcement he
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  wants to make. But I'm confident that he's
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  convinced, as we all are, of the necessity to have liquid, secure
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  and safe reserves. Very interesting take from
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  Christine Lagarde and of course, I we got a full house today.
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  I got Nico Dante and of course Bitcoin Ben with us today.
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  So as you can hear, Christine Lagarde, this was January 2025
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  went out there did this pan on was like there's not going to be
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  any country in the EU that's going to hold Bitcoin.
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  And this was talking about the Czech Republic.
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  This was the very beginning of the year where they started
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  talking about hey, our central bank will potentially add
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  Bitcoin to their reserves. Christine Lagarde came out and
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  said yeah, this is not going to happen by any chance on my watch
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  and here we are Fast forward what 11 months and guess what's
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  happened guys, the Czech Republic has added well, they
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  didn't really add Bitcoin to their reserves per SE, but they
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  did buy Bitcoin. So let me break this down a
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  little bit and then we will chat about it.
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  So again, the big news here, this is coming from I, I can't
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  pronounce this guys, but it's a Czech National Bank, *** The
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  Czech National Bank has purchased digital assets for the
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  first time in its history. They, they are using digital
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  assets, guys, for the purists out there, it's, it's not just
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  Bitcoin, it's mainly Bitcoin, but we'll break it down.
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  So through this U.S. dollar $1 million investment, the Czech
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  National Bank has created a test portfolio of digital assets
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  based on blockchain. It's crazy that we're in 2025
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  and it just still sounds like buzzwords, but you know, it is
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  what it is. In addition to Bitcoin, the
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  portfolio will include a test investment in the form of AUSD
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  still coin and tokenized deposits on the blockchain.
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  The purchase was made outside the CN BS existing international
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  reserves. The total amount invested will
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  not be actively increased. Quote I came up with the idea of
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  creating a test portfolio in January 2025, hence why we
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  started with Christine Lagarde and her reaction to it.
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  The aim was to test decentralized Bitcoin from the
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  central bank's perspective and to evaluate its potential role
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  in diversifying our reserves. The bank board then decided to
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  have an analysis prepared. Subsequent internal discussions
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  brought in the scope to include the future of payments and the
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  tokenizations of assets. As a result, stable coins and
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  tokenized deposits were included alongside Bitcoin.
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  And we will inform the public about our experience on an
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  ongoing basis and present an overall assessment of the
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  project in approximately 2 or three years.
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  So it looks like they either very publicly defied Christine
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  Lagarde or really didn't care what she said.
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  And of course, it's just a test pilot.
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  It is only $1 million, which to us is a lot of money, but from a
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  central bank it's really not that much money yet.
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  So it is a tiny, tiny grain of capital going in.
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  Though of course, this isn't the biggest nation in the EU, but
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  they are an EU nation. And so hey, it does look like
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  all the institutions want your Bitcoin now, guys.
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  So, you know, don't be selling that Bitcoin at this point
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  because you're selling it to a national central bank, which is
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  obviously what we've been trying to do this whole time is
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  separate money from state. So big news for today, Czech
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  National Bank bought Bitcoin, yes, $1,000,000, yes, there is
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  some shit coins involved in this, but it's mainly Bitcoin.
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  And I think the kind of implications here, again,
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  Christine Lagarde came out here very confidently, was talking
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  about we're not going to do this.
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  Fast forward 11 months, they're doing it.
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  It is interesting because we always talk about the fact that
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  all these institutions are not a monolith, that yes, they can
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  come out and say one thing, but it looks like Czech Republic is
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  looking for the escape. And they do have very good rules
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  there, like their laws in the Czech Republic are very
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  favorable for Bitcoiners. We know there's a huge Bitcoin
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  community in the Czech Republic. It sounds like the head of the
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  Czech National Bank is a Bitcoiner, though again, it's a
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  two to three-year pilot project. They're not even going to add
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  more to it. They might even rebalance their
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  holdings eventually. So I mean, not perfect, but I
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  think it is one of those moments that 2025 is showing the
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  institutions are here. They're not going in fully on
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  board on Bitcoin. This is why it's so important
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  for you guys to not be selling your Bitcoin, taking your
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  Bitcoin into custody because they're here and they want your
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  Bitcoin. So since I have such a big
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  panel, I'm I'm going to open it up a little earlier than usual.
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  I'll go with Nico here. Nico, what's your initial
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  thoughts on this? Yeah.
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  So a couple thoughts. First of all, OK, so the fact
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  that a central bank is at least signalling right not 100%
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  confirmed that they have the intention of buying tiny little
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  bit of Bitcoin. I think, you know, I, I think
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  it's a step in the right direction in terms of moving the
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  Overton window. Now the other things regarding
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  Christine Lagarde, I was connecting some some dots the
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  other day. We were covering news, I think
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  it was one or two days ago or this week, is just flying,
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  flying, flown, flown by and essentially in, in the European
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  Union, they're making it illegal to conduct €10,000 transactions.
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  So in cash. So if you have more than €10,000
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  in cash, you cannot use that cash to purchase whatever you
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  want. Simultaneously, around the same
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  time you have Christine Lagarde going out on her ex account
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  announcing a central bank digital currency.
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  Simultaneously you had Apple announced that they're bringing
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  a digital ID to the iPhone. Simultaneously you're talking,
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  you're hearing talk about them bringing digital IDs to Europe.
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  So if you don't think that the $10,000 cap or the €10,000 cap
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  is unrelated to the introduction of CBD CS and Digital I DS, I
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  think you're not paying attention whatsoever.
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  It's not a coincidence. It's completely related.
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  And the purpose for that is super simple.
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  They want to keep you within the system.
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  To use her own words, they see Bitcoin as an escape valve,
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  right? So they need you within the
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  system. If a DVD, if a digital ID gets
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  implemented and the majority of people use it, that is a
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  dystopia. The government will see what
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  apps you're accessing, what food you're eating.
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  Like this isn't a conspiracy theory.
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  Listen, if you look through human history, there's been so
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  many examples of the state or the government, the the the
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  centralization of power, abusing that power in order to maintain
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  power. So what is a problem that a CBDC
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  is fixing? Name me one.
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  I don't think ACBDC would even be a thing if Bitcoin wasn't
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  discovered. I don't think they would care so
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  much. But the fact that they have a
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  competing system, I think freaks the hell out of them.
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  And they're responding by trying to clamp down and building a
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  mechanism to keep you within. And remember, this is soft
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  power. So the way that these digital
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  IDs and these CBDCS will work, and it's not direct coercion,
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  it's indirect coercion. What do I mean by that?
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  So it goes into the whole social credit system, how it works.
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  If you do certain actions or say certain things online that the
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  government doesn't like, they shut off your access to certain
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  things. And if you think, oh, this can't
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  happen in the West, this is only happening in authoritarian
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  countries like like China. Do you guys remember the
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  Canadian truckers protest? They literally shut off people's
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  accounts because of their political ideas, and we are
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  supposed to be living in a democracy or Canada was supposed
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  to be in a democracy. So how could you even consider
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  trusting bureaucrats with even more power?
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  I think it's just a terrible, terrible idea.
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  So, yeah, I mean, it's good, you know, that a central bank is
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  announcing to the world, hey, we want to buy Bitcoin.
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  I think it moves the Overton window.
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  It legitimizes it in the eyes of institutions.
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  But the signal here and not the noise, is the fact that, listen,
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  it's not a coincidence that they're introducing a digital
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  ID. Apple's going around and
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  advertising it as if it's the new F thing.
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  I iPad or something like Steve Jobs is rolling in his grave.
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  Steve Jobs liked privacy like this is nuts.
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  This is crazy anyways guys we are live streaming from mining
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  disrupt in Texas the first time in Texas and of course I'm
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  joined with one of our legendary hosts, one of our one of the
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  most talented hosts that we have the man, the myth legend Dante,
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  he is the most. Talented.
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  He literally. Dante the only one of us that
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  could touch the rim. Dante cook in the house.
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  Hey Dante, thanks for joining. No, we.
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  Could put Jacob on a stool that's we could get him up
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  there. Yo, Nico just went crazy right
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  there. Just three minutes of bars
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  straight, You know, the, the article, the, the, the title
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  was, you know, EU, you know, central bank, you know the Czech
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  Republic buys a $1,000,000 in digital assets.
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  You know, that's a much better title than you know, they bought
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  a single family home in Detroit. They bought M&M's childhood
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  home. My name is Jimmy, his is Greg
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  Buell. Me.
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  Him and you, we went to the same school, so it's not that much
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  money, but it's interesting when you think about the people and
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  how these processes come out, right?
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  This isn't just an off the cuff riff.
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  This isn't a simply Bitcoin live show where we're coming off the
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  cuff with straight bars and straight fire.
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  These press releases are written intentionally by a team of
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  people. So when you talk about what they
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  said they're going to do, they're going to benchmark the
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  performance and the ability to hold these digitalized tokens
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  over the course of two to three years.
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  Now, you look at what actual tokens were named and mentioned
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  in that press release. There's only one, right?
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  So which one do you think in two to three years is going to get
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  the bad rap? Well, they can't actually settle
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  payments. Well, they can't actually move
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  the money. Well, it's actually not that
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  secure. Well, it's actually not this and
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  that. They're going to name Bitcoin as
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  the scapegoat in two to three years because that's the only
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  token and asset that they named in the press release bars.
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  So what you know is going to happen is they're going to
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  create their own digitalized token, right?
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  Which, by the way, not a new and novel concept, right?
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  They just shut down yesterday. They they minted the last penny,
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  right? There is no more physical coins.
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  We will live in a digital tokenized world.
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  That is the dollar today, news flash.
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  But there's only one single asset that cannot be minted in
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  mine without energy and proof of work.
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  We're at the Bitcoin. You know that the mining disrupt
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  conference and that is Bitcoin. And that's why it is a threat.
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  That's why she called it an escape valve.
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  The story is being played out right in front of us.
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  You need to wake up. You need to understand what's
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  going on. And I think the biggest thing
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  that's happening right now that is a counter factual to this
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  sort of report is what's going on with like square, right?
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  Like they just enabled what? What, 58 we're going?
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  To talk about that. Oh no.
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  No, we we got to get to it right now the.
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  Limits the limits, huh? Yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah, bro. No, no, no.
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  They opened up Bitcoin rails to all their cash out, but dude,
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  there's. Limits bro.
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  OK, we'll chat about it. We're going to chat.
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  About that but Christina Christine her government name
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  like we already know what she's on we know that the type of
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  central banking system that that is going on behind the scenes
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  you're going to see you know potentially Ukraine you're going
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  to see some of these other favored EU nations talking about
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  building an additional tokenized system that's built on the
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  blockchain that is outside of Bitcoin.
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  Bitcoin is going to be the enemy, Mark my words.
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  This is going to be what's going to come out in this report in
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  two to three years. Hot.
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  Take hot take. I completely agree with Dante
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  100%. And of course, we got Ben in the
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  house. Ben just launched private
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  KeyBank Credit Union in El Salvador, made 4 Bitcoiners.
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  Ben, we're on YouTube, bro, please.
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  But I know you got a lot of thoughts about CBD, CS and
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  digital IDs. And my question to you is bro
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  contain yourself 90% but let let us know your thoughts, Ben.
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  You are all right. It's, it's we've, we've reached
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  a point and I just want to bring this up.
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  The head honcho, the CEO of BlackRock is now the leader of
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  the World Economic Forum. But there are people in our
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  industry who are not on our side.
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  We, yes, they go on TV and they say, oh, you know, bitcoins the
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  next this, you know, bitcoins the next that.
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  Yeah. Well then what the hell are you
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  doing leading probably the worst and evil and most satanic group
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  in the world, the World Economic Forum, who has LED us into more
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  wars and they have actually killed more friggin people than
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  any any other entity in the world.
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  And yet what we need to realize is they know what we know.
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  He who owns the Bitcoin has the power.
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  If you truly think that the European Union isn't
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  accumulating a bunch of Bitcoin, they are.
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  You know how BlackRock, because what we're doing is we are
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  transitioning. This is the whole point of the
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  Communist Manifesto is eventually evolve out of the
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  need of the governing of the government.
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  All right, Well, we are evolving out of a government structure
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  right into a corporate structure.
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  That's why Apple is actually going along with the digital ID
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  because we have a group of very wealthy people that were
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  actually put in place generationally to progressively
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  move us into global communism. Now we, we aren't educated or a
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  lot of us average people aren't educated that the system
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  they're, they are not going to roll out and say hi, we're
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  communist. We're here to take over your
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  world. No, what they're going to do is
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  they'll launch BlackRock in 1989 and then they'll legislate and
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  they're put in laws where black, black can accumulate enough
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  shares where they can then manipulate all of the
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  corporations into let's add this sugar.
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  Let's add that sugar. Yeah, How?
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  How do you get rid of Americans? You kill them, but you don't
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  actually kill them right away. You slow kill them.
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  You put a bunch of ingredients. Metaphorically.
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  Metaphorically, metaphorically. Well, I mean.
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  Am I wrong? Show.
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  Show me a cereal that they advertise that's healthy.
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  No, no. It's true.
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  But let, let me, let me, let me clarify for the sake, 'cause we
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  just for the sake of YouTube, right?
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  So it's essentially you're creating an environment with
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  poor nutrition, You're creating an environment where it's very
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  unhealthy for the average American to live.
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  And that's why, you know, they're, they're, they're having
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  these health problems very, very early on.
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  So that's essentially what you're saying then, is that
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  like, you know, they like a lot of these organizations, right?
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  A lot of these international organizations are advocating for
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  things that aren't exactly for, you know, the betterment of
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  humanity. It's for for, for the betterment
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  of people's health, right, for their own self-interest, not
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  actually going out there and using kinetic violence.
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  And you know, I'm sure there's some of that, but the majority
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  of it is, is insidious. It's, it's kind of through the
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  back door. It's, it's, it's incentivizing
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  people to make certain behaviors that is acting against their own
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  best interests and their own health.
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  I. I will say this as nicely as I
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  can. There's a Group, A large group
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  about 200,000 people over the world whose generational agenda,
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  that means their dad was part of it, their grandfather was part
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  of it. Here's a great example.
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  All right, let's talk about the ex CEO of Microsoft.
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  All right, Miss Mr. Bill Gates. How did he actually become rich?
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  Well, he actually purchased what was called Doss.
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  Who did he buy it from? Texas Instruments.
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  Who did Texas Instruments actually actually get the
• 19:17
  software from? That would be DARPA.
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  And who was his dad? Who was Mr. Bill Gates Dad?
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  The CEO of the largest abortion clinic in the world, Planned
• 19:38
  Parenthood, right? It's it's again you connect the
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  dots, they're. Not our friends.
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  These this is not people kind of making bad choices that wind up
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  going bad. These are people who have an
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  agenda to progressively eliminate.
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  Enough of us where we're no longer a managerial issue.
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  Now they're bringing in AI, they're bringing in robots.
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  Why do you need humans, Those crazy little useful useless
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  eaters as they call us? Why do you need those when you
• 20:20
  can just roll up a robot? It's we have to realize that
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  we're at a point where either humanity lives or humanity
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  doesn't. No, it's true.
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  I mean, the, the, the crossroads and again, like a, a great kind
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  of representation of, of this crossroads is I think humanity's
• 20:45
  biggest existential threat is the continuation of Fiat, the
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  continuation of central banking, which is the source of, of a lot
• 20:54
  of these evil organizations or, or to put it nicely and
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  politically correct, misguided organizations.
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  I think that once you get rid of the Fiat and the world
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  transitions to a Bitcoin standard, you're going to get
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  much, much more different outcomes, right.
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  So, yeah, I mean, love having Ben on the show.
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  He moves the Overton window like nobody else.
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  But guys, we have a fantastic show for you guys lined up and
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  is 923,475 S Anyways, I'm sure Opti's got something.
• 25:01
  Yeah, yeah, for you guys. I got a I'm I'm.
• 25:04
  Sneaking in another new story on today, 'cause there was a lot of
• 25:06
  good news. This one is obviously Dante
• 25:09
  brought it up. So a new feature just rolled out
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  on Cash App where they're allowing you to pay from Cash
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  App over Bitcoin rails using your USD balance, no Bitcoin
• 25:19
  required. So they literally have just
• 25:22
  unlocked Bitcoin payment to I believe it's like 58,000,000
• 25:26
  users. Here's a little more breakdown.
• 25:28
  So this means for Cash App customers, no taxable events, no
• 25:31
  decrease in Bitcoin stack, for Square merchants, no fees, no
• 25:34
  chargebacks and for the world, no middleman, just pure open
• 25:37
  network feels like the future Across blocks, we will continue
• 25:42
  to increase accessibility, accessibility to all the
• 25:45
  benefits of both Bitcoin, the asset plus Bitcoin the network.
• 25:48
  So essentially to break this down, guys, if you use Cash App,
• 25:53
  a lot of people do use cash. I literally have been living off
• 25:56
  cash app for like the last three years, guys, not going to lie,
• 25:58
  full Full disclosure here. And so you could literally you
• 26:02
  don't even have to have Bitcoin in your account.
• 26:04
  You could send dollars and in the app it will ask you, do you
• 26:08
  want to send dollars or Bitcoin to the person?
• 26:11
  So you'll, you're sending dollar value from your account and then
• 26:15
  the person receiving it can receive it in Bitcoin.
• 26:18
  Now, I know a lot of people, maybe you're thinking like,
• 26:20
  well, you know, this isn't really using Bitcoin
• 26:23
  peer-to-peer here, but it is unlocking Bitcoin to a whole new
• 26:28
  network. I know Strike does something
• 26:30
  very similar, but I would argue Cash App is a way bigger
• 26:34
  financial app. So this is going to a whole new
• 26:37
  market of people. Obviously, they're still going
• 26:39
  to need some education on this, but Cash App actually rather
• 26:43
  Jack Dorsey, whether it's bit key, whether it's Square,
• 26:46
  whether it's Cash App, he is doing exactly what he's been
• 26:49
  saying the last couple of weeks that he wants people to use
• 26:52
  Bitcoin as money. And he's literally putting his
• 26:55
  mouth where his money is right now, like he is unlocking all of
• 26:58
  his apps to use Bitcoin. So you absolutely love to see
• 27:02
  it. Now I'm going to open this up to
• 27:04
  you guys because you guys were talking about something here.
• 27:07
  So maybe it's Dante, Maybe I go to Dante first.
• 27:09
  Dante, what were you mentioning earlier bro?
• 27:12
  This is massive. This is monumental.
• 27:14
  You know, besides the fact that Jack Dorsey is one of the
• 27:17
  original, you know. Wait, wait, wait.
• 27:19
  Are you going to do this? Are we going to do this?
• 27:21
  No, no, we're. Not going to do it, we're not
• 27:22
  going to do it. We're not going to do that.
• 27:24
  But the fact that like, so you think about this like a
• 27:27
  restaurant, like a merchant, one of the one of squares, 4 million
• 27:30
  merchants. You think about a restaurant
• 27:31
  profit and loss statement, you've got 30% food, you've got
• 27:35
  30% labor and you've got 30% OpEx.
• 27:37
  They try to hit a 10% profit number if you're trying to put
• 27:40
  together AP and L for a restaurant.
• 27:41
  So when the overall percentage of your revenue is 3 1/2% credit
• 27:46
  card fees, 30% of their profit, it goes to a credit card
• 27:50
  network, right? This doesn't even factor in
• 27:52
  chargebacks. This isn't factor in anything
• 27:54
  else. Think about walking into a
• 27:56
  restaurant like I paid for that bread 2 weeks ago out of my
• 27:59
  inventory. I've got to pay my waiters and
• 28:01
  my waitresses that single day once they get their tips.
• 28:03
  But your payment, when it comes in, I don't get paid for another
• 28:06
  five to seven days. So you have the length of cash
• 28:09
  conversion cycle. So everyone talked about
• 28:11
  bitcoins not practical for buying coffee.
• 28:13
  It's always been practical for buying coffee.
• 28:15
  There was just never the rails or the platform or the app to
• 28:18
  unlock that capability. So now with the Cash App app,
• 28:21
  people can walk into a Starbucks, they can walk into
• 28:24
  whatever sort of coffee shop of their preference, and they're
• 28:27
  going to have a 30% profit increase overnight, right?
• 28:32
  This has nothing to do about whether they know about Bitcoin,
• 28:34
  whether they care about Bitcoin at all, because I can use my
• 28:37
  U.S. dollars, it'll go over Bitcoin rails and then they can
• 28:40
  convert that to Bitcoin, which they can stack, which further
• 28:42
  supports the network. They can convert that to Fiat or
• 28:45
  they can take a Fiat payment and convert it to Bitcoin.
• 28:47
  You have all of the single rails that are available with one
• 28:50
  single payment experience. So this boosts the profitability
• 28:53
  overnight. This decreases the cash
• 28:55
  conversion cycle for business owners all across America.
• 28:58
  And so this is going to be a slow but steady educational
• 29:03
  process for people when they see that sign paying Bitcoin and
• 29:07
  we'll give you back a reward. What if they start to share
• 29:09
  those reward back? Hey, we'll give you back an
• 29:10
  extra percent. We'll give you back 2% with no
• 29:13
  credit. That's the thing.
• 29:14
  We're removing credit from the system because they're doing it
• 29:16
  on actual debit transactions where we don't even have to use
• 29:20
  future credit for it. So this is going to unlock a lot
• 29:22
  of payments. This is going to unlock a lot of
• 29:24
  bitcoiners for the first time. And I think it's a massive,
• 29:27
  massive news. Yeah, I completely agree with
• 29:30
  Dante. I mean it the the Dante, one of
• 29:33
  the things that you mentioned that really stuck out to me was
• 29:35
  the fact that people are getting exposure to Bitcoin without even
• 29:41
  having to know Bitcoin. Yeah, right.
• 29:43
  And that's, you know, the beauty of it, right?
• 29:45
  This is the whole point of the Bitcoin network.
• 29:46
  This is open monetary network that is superior to the the
• 29:51
  current existing networks today. But again, I think one of the
• 29:55
  biggest friction points for people is the educational
• 29:59
  component. But the way that Square threaded
• 30:03
  the needle with this is that, again, they're using the
• 30:06
  technological advances, the capabilities that the Bitcoin
• 30:08
  network offers without directly advertising to people.
• 30:12
  Hey, you have to use it now. They give the option.
• 30:15
  I agree with you, Dante, 100%. I think that over time, people
• 30:19
  are going to say, you know, let me try that out.
• 30:21
  Like, that doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
• 30:24
  And I think the Bitcoin movement, at least in the United
• 30:26
  States and worldwide, is just in its infancy.
• 30:29
  Like Bitcoin only media is just in its infancy.
• 30:32
  There is no channel that has a million.
• 30:35
  The fact that our industry, right, has no channel that has a
• 30:39
  million subscribers tells you how small this is, right?
• 30:44
  We're just in the beginning. I think over the next 10 to 15
• 30:47
  to 20 years, the idea of Bitcoin, the ethos of Bitcoin
• 30:52
  are going to become mainstream. But in order for that to happen,
• 30:56
  you need these types of products being developed, You need this
• 30:59
  type of infrastructure being rolled out.
• 31:03
  And to be honest with you guys, like I love, I love a lot of, I
• 31:06
  love every Bitcoin startup, but you need a heavy hitter.
• 31:10
  You need someone like Block that is well capitalized, that is
• 31:15
  able to invest in the R&D, is able to invest in the technology
• 31:19
  and the software in order to roll this out on a national
• 31:23
  level. Let me.
• 31:24
  Add one more piece that I think is really critical because I
• 31:26
  haven't dug into the technicals on this, but what what is
• 31:29
  actually happening is because right now you have the minimus
• 31:31
  capital gains right the cost of the any transaction under I
• 31:35
  think I don't they haven't fully passed the laws and the rules,
• 31:37
  but you would have capital gains taxes on these Bitcoin events.
• 31:41
  What's actually happening is that they're using Bitcoin
• 31:44
  between Square or Cash App in the seller and therefore there
• 31:47
  is no transaction. There is no sale from Bitcoin to
• 31:51
  Fiat, which would trigger a capital gain.
• 31:54
  What they're actually doing is Square is the intermediary.
• 31:57
  They're doing it instantly over time.
• 31:59
  So there's not actually going to be any taxable events.
• 32:01
  That's another big thing too, because people would say, well,
• 32:03
  what what would happen if I actually, you know, spent my
• 32:05
  Bitcoin and I would have a, you know, capital gains tax?
• 32:08
  Well, they were moving that barrier, at least on the
• 32:10
  business side, but even on the consumer side, because you don't
• 32:13
  actually have to use Bitcoin. I 100% agree it's very exciting.
• 32:18
  Also got to say this as well is you know a lot of people say
• 32:21
  elections don't have consequences.
• 32:23
  I think none of this would have happened if you didn't have a
• 32:27
  pro Bitcoin administration going into the White House, ending
• 32:32
  operation choke .2 point O and getting two key pieces of
• 32:36
  legislation 1 already over the finish line.
• 32:39
  The genius act, the stablecoin Act and the clarity Act, which
• 32:43
  if you look to any of the Washington, you know, sources or
• 32:47
  insiders say has a very high probability of passing either,
• 32:51
  you know, this year or early next year.
• 32:54
  And I think that would be massive from a regulatory
• 32:56
  clarity perspective, but also giving clarity to entrepreneurs,
• 33:00
  giving clarity to businesses as what Dante was saying, like
• 33:03
  think about it from a tax implication perspective, right?
• 33:06
  Because if there isn't this, you know, at least this minimum
• 33:10
  amount of Bitcoin that you can spend without having at the end
• 33:13
  of the year to go and calculate the capital gains.
• 33:16
  That's a huge misincentive or I don't even know if that's a
• 33:20
  word. But you guys know what I'm
• 33:22
  saying, for people not to use Bitcoin as it was designed to be
• 33:26
  used, which is as money. Ben, I'm going to push this on
• 33:30
  to let me. Let me say one thing because I'm
• 33:31
  going to get Ben going right here.
• 33:33
  So there was this approval that came out when in our childhood
• 33:36
  that was called I robot Will Smith, right?
• 33:38
  So basically there was this brilliant scientist who
• 33:41
  developed this robot that had this, you know, artificial
• 33:43
  intelligence and this thinking, I forget the name of the big
• 33:45
  corporation, but that it was. But literally there's a scene
• 33:48
  where they're driving through the middle of the highway and
• 33:49
  this this robot bus turns to the side as Will Smith was driving.
• 33:53
  All the, all the robots jump out.
• 33:55
  Go watch Tesla's big Optimus reveal and you see literally
• 34:00
  that same bus. From 2. 1000 in in the actual
• 34:04
  reveal that was in the movie it's actually insane if you
• 34:07
  think about it, they're actually telling us something here, but
• 34:09
  there's a robot that they program that doesn't have all
• 34:12
  the same capability they he he left him human right he left the
• 34:15
  part of this robot human and the robot's name was sunny right.
• 34:18
  So when you think about like what Square is is doing in a
• 34:22
  way, right? You guys got it.
• 34:25
  You guys like bro, like literally it's the same bus that
• 34:29
  is insane. They're telling you that we are
• 34:32
  fitting to take over the world with these robots.
• 34:34
  And if you don't have a sunny bro, you got issues.
• 34:37
  So what Square is doing, right? This is a programmable sunny,
• 34:41
  right? We're, we're trying to
• 34:42
  incorporate a sunny, a robot with human features with
• 34:45
  limitations, with connections as we move into this tokenized
• 34:47
  world. We talked about.
• 34:48
  They just minted the last penny last year.
• 34:51
  They lost $86 million on pennies.
• 34:54
  We don't have pennies anymore. So this is a fully digital
• 34:57
  tokenized world. So we need to have a sunny robot
• 35:00
  or a digital payment rails outside of the tokenized system
• 35:04
  that will allow us to fight back with the system if there was no
• 35:07
  Sonny and no Will Smith, but he might also be a part of that
• 35:10
  too. I mean, Ben might get going on
• 35:12
  that. But literally like, what's our
• 35:16
  fight? What's our fight back from CBDC,
• 35:18
  from digital tokens in this whole world, right?
• 35:22
  Man I love Dante's references. I'm picturing I Robot as if I I
• 35:27
  watched it yesterday. Fantastic.
• 35:30
  Dante Niko wants to replace me with a Tesla Optimist.
• 35:34
  You know that the Tesla robot is called the Optimist, right?
• 35:38
  Bro that's crazy he wants. To he wants.
• 35:39
  To buy one, yeah, that's what I'm.
• 35:43
  Saying. All right, so.
• 35:46
  I want to get at least two. I'm going to.
• 35:47
  I want to get 2. Optis he wants to get an opti
• 35:50
  that agrees with him. An agreeable opti and then like
• 35:55
  hyper aggressive opti, right? That's the besides the first
• 35:59
  part. I wake up in the, I wake up in
• 36:01
  the morning. I'm like, hey, Opti, could you
• 36:03
  make me a sandwich? One of them's going to say, of
• 36:05
  course, Nico, I would love to the other one.
• 36:07
  The other one's going to say what Opti would regularly say
• 36:11
  anyway. Anyways, let's get Bitcoin
• 36:12
  vents. Go F yourself.
• 36:15
  Yeah, everything you actually said is exactly right.
• 36:21
  I mean, we've we've reached we've reached a level
• 36:26
  technologically where humans are are no longer as valuable as we
• 36:32
  used to be. We are, let's just say they look
• 36:38
  at us as they're gold and these new Rove bots are Bitcoin
• 36:47
  because just like the robots, it doesn't argue with you.
• 36:52
  You send it, it doesn't argue. It just goes.
• 36:55
  That's, that's exactly what Bitcoin does.
• 36:58
  There you go. And and what what they're
• 37:03
  rolling out in Cash App, this is what I want people to wrap their
• 37:08
  heads around. This is only unique in America.
• 37:12
  Everyone else in the world, they're actually doing exactly
• 37:18
  what we are about to do as soon as we receive a couple dollars,
• 37:23
  we rush and we exchange it for Bitcoin over over in Europe and
• 37:30
  areas in like the Middle East and Africa and I get hell like
• 37:34
  South America, they'll actually they'll actually get paid in
• 37:40
  their local currency. Then they head over and say,
• 37:44
  look, I, I have EUR or I have this or I have that.
• 37:49
  Let me exchange this for U.S. dollar, US currency.
• 37:55
  They're flipping out of a shit dollar into what they perceive
• 38:02
  as a better dollar. Well, we know and a lot more
• 38:06
  people are learning the US dollar is just a really big shit
• 38:12
  coin. It's it is EOS on crack.
• 38:19
  Like that's what. The US dollar is well.
• 38:23
  It's, it's, it's, it's the best piece.
• 38:26
  It's the best piece of shiitake in a shiitake bucket, right?
• 38:30
  Like, like I've said, you know it, there's a lot of dung.
• 38:34
  The dollar is the best piece of dung.
• 38:37
  The. Warmest.
• 38:37
  Piece. It's, it's we are living in a
• 38:41
  world that is corrupt. All of the money except the
• 38:46
  Bitcoin is corrupt. This is what people have to
• 38:51
  realize. The Federal Reserve.
• 38:55
  There are so many people in the US and everywhere who are
• 39:00
  arrested for manipulating the market.
• 39:05
  Our system is actually based on manipulating the market of the
• 39:10
  currency. Hey SEC, why don't you go over
• 39:15
  and arrest a few people at the Fed because that's the source of
• 39:21
  the manipulation. And everything rolls off of that
• 39:26
  like we're, we are going to adjust an illusionary interest
• 39:32
  rate and then we're going to send out currency or we're going
• 39:37
  to bring in currency on that interest rate.
• 39:41
  Let's all be honest with America, where we're at now, our
• 39:47
  interest rates should be in the 20s.
• 39:50
  We got shit credit, right? We, we are sitting at, we're
• 39:56
  sitting at about 5:20 and we're applying for a home loan.
• 40:04
  Come on, man, let me get that house.
• 40:06
  Come on. I don't know why I got you a
• 40:07
  credit and and I want a low interest rate on that loan.
• 40:13
  It's all a system that was created to destroy our labor
• 40:19
  value and roll it up into the government.
• 40:22
  It isn't a coincidence the federal government has gotten
• 40:26
  bigger and the average middle class has gotten smaller.
• 40:32
  It isn't because there's less people.
• 40:35
  There's a lot more people. The problem is, is all of the
• 40:39
  value add was rolled up into the government using the Federal
• 40:45
  Reserve, using taxation, and we have actually been robbed.
• 40:51
  And nothing against everyone listening.
• 40:55
  I'm watch. I'm literally watching people
• 40:58
  freak out the bitcoins. Only at 99,000 brother.
• 41:04
  We are. It is 1973 and we're from Cuba
• 41:10
  and we're going to Miami and you are fucking complaining that we
• 41:17
  aren't there yet, right? We're on the journey and you're
• 41:24
  like, well, we're almost free. But for some reason the waves
• 41:29
  they keep kind of pushing us back a little bit.
• 41:32
  Fuck it, turn around. Let's go back to Cuba, right?
• 41:37
  That's not how you win your freedom.
• 41:39
  You don't win your freedom. Worried about their manipulated
• 41:43
  money. You win your freedom,
• 41:46
  accumulating the people's money. That's how we win this.
• 41:51
  We win when, number one, we have to get used to telling people to
• 41:57
  have a hot cup of fuck off, and that includes people from the
• 42:03
  government. George Washington was a
• 42:08
  revolutionary from the point of view of the King.
• 42:14
  George Washington is one of our greatest heroes.
• 42:19
  George Washington would slap the shit out of every single one of
• 42:23
  us right now. Well, Ben, I found a picture of
• 42:28
  us on the rafts escaping. That's awesome.
• 42:34
  But yeah, man, that. Much hair.
• 42:37
  Dude, this is, you know, we, it would be a lot.
• 42:40
  We would be clean shaven in a nice yacht, but we're currently
• 42:44
  at 99,000. So I think it's a, it's an
• 42:46
  appropriate image. It's appropriate image.
• 42:49
  Anyhow, it's it's OK guys, we're at 99,000 shit dollars for one
• 42:59
  freaking Bitcoin. Which is more valuable?
• 43:03
  Oh man, well, dude, super, you know, super obvious answer to
• 43:07
  that question, obviously. Clearly it's Bitcoin.
• 43:10
  It's an opportunity for you guys to buy it at a discount 21%
• 43:13
  right now. If you're buying some, some
• 43:15
  cheap Bitcoin, it's looks like it's going to go into the 98K
• 43:20
  region. So make sure to smash that like
• 43:22
  button, smash some Bitcoin, smash, buy some Bitcoin on
• 43:25
  Bitcoin. Well, you guys, it's going to be
• 43:27
  an incredible show. So we still got 2 segments to
• 43:30
  cover. Opti's got some news lined up.
• 43:32
  And then of course, we're going to be talking to Bitcoin Ben
• 43:36
  about Private KeyBank and El Salvador and also Bitcoin Ben's
• 43:40
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  And also Bitcoin Ben Resorts, which he is launching in El
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• 43:50
  from one of your resorts, man. I'm super looking forward to
• 43:53
  that. You guys smash the like button.
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  Opti. I know we were talking, we've
• 47:27
  been talking about this subject for a a while for a while now,
• 47:33
  but anyone the TLDR guys, is this right?
• 47:36
  And we've been actually, dude, we've done such an incredible
• 47:39
  job covering this because we've been covering it for two months.
• 47:42
  So let me give you guys the the full context.
• 47:44
  So you guys fully appreciate the situation and where we are in
• 47:48
  the movie. And then I want you guys to
• 47:49
  connect the dots with all the things we were talking about
• 47:53
  earlier regarding the digital IDs and the CBDCS.
• 47:57
  What they're trying to do is that they're trying to
• 47:59
  villainize and criminalize privacy, even though
• 48:03
  specifically it is protected by the Constitution.
• 48:07
  It's literally one of the amendments.
• 48:09
  No unreasonable searches and seizures.
• 48:11
  That's just gone by the wayside. But this is what's happened
• 48:15
  during Operation Choke .2 Point O during the Biden
• 48:18
  administration. We told you guys when they
• 48:22
  arrested the Tornado Cash developers and they used the
• 48:26
  justification that it was because they were going after
• 48:29
  the Lazarus group or this North Korean hacker group.
• 48:33
  We told you guys that it was going to set a very dangerous
• 48:36
  precedent. Why?
• 48:38
  Because the government was trying to make the case that it
• 48:42
  could sanction open source software.
• 48:45
  You know what else is open source software?
• 48:48
  Bitcoin. Now connect that with everything
• 48:51
  we just said in the beginning of the show regarding Christine
• 48:54
  Lagarde calling Bitcoin an escape valve.
• 48:57
  So you think all of those things are coincidences?
• 49:00
  After the Tornado Cash case went forward, Coin Center counter
• 49:04
  sued the government and say this is unconstitutional.
• 49:07
  They lost that case. The moment they lost that case
• 49:11
  within a month, they arrested the Samurai wallet developers.
• 49:17
  They acted methodically, strategically, and they went
• 49:21
  after a relatively obscure unknown mixer, which was Tornado
• 49:27
  Cash. So I know what a lot of you guys
• 49:29
  are thinking, Nico, I don't care about Tornado Cash.
• 49:32
  I don't care about Samurai. I don't care about these things.
• 49:35
  Well, you should care because you can't have freedom without
• 49:40
  privacy. And this idea that the world
• 49:42
  can't function if the states or the government doesn't take a
• 49:48
  look and know everything that you do is absolute ludicrous.
• 49:53
  It's it's, it's, it's nonsensical.
• 49:55
  They need to have that coercive system to keep you using the
• 49:59
  money that steals from you. That's what it boils down to.
• 50:04
  They need that. They need to be able to surveil,
• 50:09
  to coerce you to use money that steals.
• 50:13
  That's what it fundamentally comes down to.
• 50:15
  So I had to give that context. Opti, if you could pull up the
• 50:19
  article, this is the latest regarding the Tornado Cash
• 50:23
  development case. We celebrated tremendously
• 50:27
  regarding Trump's victory. We had a pro Bitcoin president
• 50:30
  in the White House, anti CBDC president in the white in the
• 50:34
  White House. But simultaneously, guys, we've
• 50:37
  lost ground when it comes for the battle for privacy.
• 50:43
  We've lost a lot of ground If they're rolling out, if Apple is
• 50:48
  rolling out an effing digital ID on their iPhone and their
• 50:53
  advertising and they're very happy, happy about it.
• 50:56
  And again, the the samurai guy is serving five years in prison.
• 51:00
  He just got sentenced. We're not heading in the right
• 51:03
  direction. And the most difficult thing
• 51:05
  about privacy is that most people don't give a flying F.
• 51:11
  They just don't care. And the problem is that they
• 51:15
  won't care until it's too late, when it's too late and when they
• 51:19
  start to care, when they start to say this is a little bit too
• 51:23
  much, it's too late to do anything about it.
• 51:26
  So it's incredibly important we hold the line where we are right
• 51:30
  now. Anyways, wanted to give you guys
• 51:31
  that context. Want to pass it to Opti.
• 51:34
  Yeah. Yeah, thank you.
• 51:35
  So for the audio listeners, of course, the headline, this is
• 51:37
  from the rage. You guys know, I've been I've
• 51:39
  been talking about Lola Elites highlighting a lot of the work
• 51:41
  she's been doing, or rather the whole rage team.
• 51:45
  Lola's just kind of the figurehead here.
• 51:46
  Anyways, the headline is Roman Storm should not be acquitted.
• 51:50
  Government says quote, the jury reasonably concluded that
• 51:53
  Tornado Cash transferred funds to the government states, of
• 51:57
  course, in October, the Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, who
• 52:00
  was found guilty of conspiring to operate an unlicensed money
• 52:03
  transmitter earlier this year, and the SDNY filed a motion for
• 52:07
  acquittal on all counts. At trial, the jury was unable to
• 52:11
  come to a conclusion on whether Storm conspired to commit money
• 52:14
  laundering and conspired to violate U.S. sanctions,
• 52:17
  resulting in a deadlock. But now the government has filed
• 52:21
  its opposition, arguing that Storm's motion for acquittal
• 52:25
  should be denied because Tornado Cash did transmit user funds.
• 52:30
  Can I? Jump in, Yeah.
• 52:31
  Yeah, go for it. OK.
• 52:32
  So if you guys want to know why Satoshi is anonymous, why
• 52:38
  Satoshi disappeared, This is why.
• 52:41
  This is why. This is literally why he
• 52:43
  disappeared, right? Because what the government is
• 52:46
  trying to make the case for is Tornado cash is open source non
• 52:52
  custodial. Meaning Roman never actually had
• 52:56
  access to people's money. The government is trying to make
• 53:00
  the case that because he developed a software, he is
• 53:05
  somehow responsible for people using that software for illicit
• 53:10
  means. Even though the majority of
• 53:12
  people that were using Tornado Cash and Samurai were not using
• 53:17
  it for illicit purposes, they were using it for privacy.
• 53:21
  So again, it's an extremely slippery slope.
• 53:24
  Now, the other thing that I wanted to added while while Opti
• 53:27
  was covering the the article is why is this happening now?
• 53:32
  Why did the government say, hey, you know what?
• 53:35
  Actually, even though the jury was deadlocked, you know what?
• 53:38
  We don't actually want to drop this case.
• 53:40
  You want to know why? Because the samurai guy just got
• 53:43
  convicted and just got sentenced to five years in jail.
• 53:47
  They have. They.
• 53:48
  Have the precedent now, right? They didn't have the precedent
• 53:52
  before. Now they do.
• 53:54
  And now they feel emboldened. And what they're going to do is
• 53:58
  they're going to make an example out of him, just like they did
• 54:02
  with Ross Olbrich Opti. No, I I think that's, that's all
• 54:07
  I really wanted to cover of this article.
• 54:09
  That that's the meat potatoes. But Ben?
• 54:10
  Ben wants to pop in here. Ben.
• 54:13
  Again, we are on YouTube so you know, be be a little nice to us.
• 54:20
  Oh, I love you guys. Fuck this judge or whoever or
• 54:26
  the prosecutors or the government.
• 54:28
  This is our problem, guys. We have to realize we're ran by
• 54:33
  the largest mafia. That's OK.
• 54:37
  Hold on, Ben, Ben. Ben.
• 54:39
  Ben feels very strongly about the judge, right?
• 54:42
  And we feel very strongly about the judge too.
• 54:45
  And yes, when the government gets so big, right, you can make
• 54:49
  very strong parallels between, you know, like they kind of
• 54:55
  operate like a a, you know, like a very organized cartel behind a
• 55:01
  seal of legitimacy, right? So that's what Ben was trying to
• 55:04
  describe. Let me.
• 55:07
  Let me rephrase that. The government is just a group
• 55:16
  of people who create an environment and usually create a
• 55:24
  flag that we can all salute. And then they set a precedence
• 55:30
  of we're the government, you are the governed, and you will do
• 55:37
  what we say. And just like any other
• 55:40
  organization or corporation or whatever, their sole goal is to
• 55:45
  enforce their authority. That's what the government is,
• 55:51
  because really the government all satisfied the government's
• 55:58
  only weapon is violent. Whether they arrest you or they
• 56:02
  shoot you or whatever, the government, if you do not
• 56:07
  comply, they say they can legally bring violence to you.
• 56:13
  Now let's this is good. This is going to go a little
• 56:17
  deep. Legalism actually is an infant
• 56:24
  Chinese way of of organizing a government.
• 56:31
  They were the legalists in the ancient Chinese world.
• 56:36
  Legalists were the largest egg in China and legalists
• 56:44
  implemented the concept of government law.
• 56:51
  And what we have to realize is for thousands of years, law is a
• 56:58
  tool, is a weapon of the government against the people.
• 57:05
  So as and I feel for these guys who are going through this and I
• 57:12
  will be making some telephone calls to Washington, DC.
• 57:17
  Someone needs to unplug this because we've we've reached a
• 57:25
  point when the government is no longer acting in the interest of
• 57:33
  the American people. It is our obligation to lead a
• 57:38
  revolution against them. No, no, I, I am not saying
• 57:44
  violent. I mean, go out and vote.
• 57:47
  Yes, yes, absolutely, absolutely.
• 57:50
  There needs to be a, a, a, you know, a peaceful revolution of
• 57:53
  the people to stand up and say, listen, what's going on?
• 57:57
  But Ben, I'll, I'll even add to that and I'll say, listen, I
• 58:00
  think that I'd, I'd, I don't think a government would be a
• 58:04
  government by the people, for the people.
• 58:07
  I don't think it would be possible unless we, we end the
• 58:10
  institution of central banking. Until we do that, the government
• 58:15
  is incentivized to. They're not incentivized to do
• 58:18
  good by their constituents. If they have another source of
• 58:21
  revenue that again, they're unaccountable, they can just
• 58:26
  print the money they want. They could pay themselves, They
• 58:29
  can fund themselves. They have no incentive to, I
• 58:32
  mean. To change, right?
• 58:33
  It's this is what I was just in Washington, DC last week and I
• 58:39
  hate that place. That place feels evil.
• 58:42
  It is hell Incarnate and I'll tell you why.
• 58:45
  Washington DC is beautiful. They got beautiful buildings,
• 58:49
  they have high end restaurants. They have all this beautiful.
• 58:53
  The roads are gorgeous. Guess what?
• 58:55
  They don't produce Jack shit. I you know what they do?
• 59:00
  They're leeches off of the labor of the American people.
• 59:04
  That's what they are. That is, that city was created
• 59:08
  on the backs of the American people.
• 59:11
  And we, for some reason, we keep on kneeling down and giving me
• 59:17
  old. Yeah.
• 59:18
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. We get it, We get it.
• 59:20
  Let let's get Dante in here, but in the interest of time, because
• 59:23
  we do want to give a lot of time for Ben to talk about his
• 59:27
  project. So Dante, you want to jump jump
• 59:29
  in here real quick. Do come on.
• 59:31
  Dante, I know you got something to say.
• 59:33
  Bro, no, I think y'all covered it.
• 59:35
  And then I, I think honestly it's it's, it is really critical
• 59:40
  because it's the line. The culture is what they say is
• 59:44
  what you allow, right? And when the bar for what you
• 59:47
  allow becomes we are going to prosecute anyone who is against
• 59:52
  our ability to surveil, curtail or control, right?
• 59:55
  That becomes the new bar in the new standard upon which
• 59:57
  everything and every foundation that you live by is built upon.
• 1:00:01
  And so that infringes into all corners of your life, right?
• 1:00:04
  This is our open source development in terms of wallets
• 1:00:07
  and Bitcoin. This goes into what we watch on
• 1:00:10
  our TV's. This goes into what we buy and
• 1:00:12
  what we eat. So when you talk about the
• 1:00:14
  arrows of progress, they will call the arrows of progress.
• 1:00:17
  When we connect this back to the EU and CBDC's and digital
• 1:00:20
  dollars, they call this. Progress, this is not progress.
• 1:00:24
  This is anti freedom. This is collusion at the highest
• 1:00:27
  levels, right? But it's being masked in the
• 1:00:29
  form of legislation and policy, which is what you know, Ben, I
• 1:00:33
  think you were getting that too with with legalism and going
• 1:00:35
  back to the history of that in that term and where it came
• 1:00:37
  from. So it becomes a new bar, becomes
• 1:00:40
  a new standard. And the slope is slippery.
• 1:00:41
  It's not one that you can come back up on what you start
• 1:00:44
  sliding down. So I agree with everything that
• 1:00:46
  you guys said. It's important.
• 1:00:48
  Understand it. Vote with your wallets, vote
• 1:00:51
  with your dollars, vote with your participation, vote with
• 1:00:53
  your action, vote with where and how you you, you, you tend to
• 1:00:57
  spend your content, your money, your energy, right?
• 1:01:00
  And all that's going to flow towards a system that you either
• 1:01:02
  believe in or a system that you don't believe in.
• 1:01:05
  But you will have no control or no power to change what you're
• 1:01:09
  living in. Absolutely.
• 1:01:11
  Amen. To that real.
• 1:01:12
  Quick, this is what I want everyone to hear.
• 1:01:18
  Everyone should go to their job and say I want to be paid.
• 1:01:22
  I want to be paid in Bitcoin. Work for the system that you
• 1:01:27
  want to see when that's what. If you're a good employee, your
• 1:01:32
  boss will figure it the fuck out.
• 1:01:37
  Right. Put that on them.
• 1:01:39
  You say I work for freedom money.
• 1:01:42
  I don't work for slave money. That's.
• 1:01:46
  How you change the system and everyone should hop on Cash App.
• 1:01:52
  I've never used Cash App. I'm going to use it now, all
• 1:01:56
  right? Because this is a movement and
• 1:01:58
  we the people have to lead it. It's why I lost my credit union
• 1:02:03
  in El Salvador, because we either we create the new system
• 1:02:10
  or BlackRock does. Someone's going to create it,
• 1:02:15
  and it should be us, all right? Everybody, we're going to hit
• 1:02:19
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• 1:04:31
  Hey, what? Hey Dante, where'd you go?
• 1:04:36
  No, no, he's going to. Check out the conference.
• 1:04:37
  He's going to check out the Dante.
• 1:04:38
  Had to meet with someone, but yeah also Ben for the
• 1:04:43
  transitions. It's clear on the video side of
• 1:04:46
  things, but during the live stream, yeah, I.
• 1:04:48
  Don't know what's. Going on, yeah.
• 1:04:50
  And during the playback, the the ad looks perfect.
• 1:04:54
  That's fine. Yeah, but but during the live
• 1:04:57
  stream, it it got all. But anyways, what was I going to
• 1:05:04
  say? Dude, Ben, you're we're at this
• 1:05:07
  conference that you're sponsoring and you're not here.
• 1:05:12
  You're, you're talking other things.
• 1:05:15
  You're doing greater things, man.
• 1:05:17
  So what? What are you, what are you up to
• 1:05:19
  right now, Ben? Where are you at?
• 1:05:21
  Where? Where are you with your RV?
• 1:05:24
  But right now I think I am in North Carolina on my way up to
• 1:05:29
  our club up in Massachusetts. We are having an event with
• 1:05:37
  Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk's, his group or his
• 1:05:49
  organization. Because it's, I'm just going to
• 1:05:55
  be honest, guys, I'm in it for the revolution, all right?
• 1:05:59
  I I am sick and tired of living in a world where the evil is
• 1:06:04
  rewarded and the common guy and gal are just working their asses
• 1:06:08
  off 9:00 to 5:00, then getting off at 5, going and driving Uber
• 1:06:14
  until 11, heading home, hang out with their kids for about maybe
• 1:06:19
  10 minutes, then go to sleep and wake up and do it again.
• 1:06:22
  While this this gut, and I'm trying to say this nicely, this
• 1:06:30
  government structure that we exist in now, it is it is evil
• 1:06:39
  and it was set up to hurt the average American and really the
• 1:06:45
  average global person anywhere. And what I want to create is the
• 1:06:52
  new system. And I don't care if I get killed
• 1:06:55
  trying to do it. But let me let me add to this,
• 1:07:00
  Ben, because I think that first of all, I think we all fall into
• 1:07:05
  this camp, right, which is, you know, this is a peaceful
• 1:07:09
  revolution like this is this is not, you know, you guys have to
• 1:07:14
  understand where we are in human history and the fork in the
• 1:07:18
  road. And you know, this is, this is
• 1:07:22
  serious. This is, you know, this is for
• 1:07:24
  the future of of of civilization, right?
• 1:07:27
  And that's what people have to understand, you know, and what I
• 1:07:31
  will say, Ben, is that the government originally, how it
• 1:07:35
  was structured, you know, by the founding fathers that really
• 1:07:39
  understood what it would what it, what it was like to live
• 1:07:43
  under a tyrannical system. That system of government has
• 1:07:47
  been eroded. I think that system of
• 1:07:50
  government was Co opted in 1913 with the launch of the Federal
• 1:07:55
  Reserve. And that's what I think you mean
• 1:07:59
  by this, right? It's just it, it's not like, you
• 1:08:02
  know, in, in, in China, right, with the government, with the
• 1:08:07
  current government that they have the CCP, you know,
• 1:08:10
  established in 1949 after the Chinese Civil War, like they got
• 1:08:15
  some skeletons buried in their closet.
• 1:08:18
  You know, that was not a very nice government.
• 1:08:21
  You know, the Cultural Revolution, what Mao Zedong did
• 1:08:24
  with the Great Leap Forward, You know, it was horrific, right?
• 1:08:28
  But the original founding vision of the United States as a first
• 1:08:32
  generation American is beautiful.
• 1:08:36
  It's it's beautiful. It created freedom the likes of
• 1:08:39
  which the world has never seen before.
• 1:08:42
  But that current system is under attack.
• 1:08:45
  It's under siege, I would say the, the, you know, they're,
• 1:08:51
  they're already within the gates.
• 1:08:53
  They're already inside, right? And you know, Ben, what you said
• 1:08:58
  about what you said about the working class, I think it's so
• 1:09:04
  important because the fact is, is that as long as we continue
• 1:09:10
  to live in a country with a central bank, the working class
• 1:09:15
  is going to continue to get poorer.
• 1:09:19
  The wealth gap is going to continue to get bigger.
• 1:09:22
  And it's going to be this neo feudalistic type of setup where
• 1:09:28
  you'll have feudal Lords like you'll have the upper class that
• 1:09:33
  basically owns everything. Their their own propaganda is
• 1:09:36
  telling you you'll own nothing and be happy.
• 1:09:38
  What they forget to leave out of that is who's going to own
• 1:09:42
  everything Then if if, if I'm not going to own something and
• 1:09:46
  be happy, who's going to be the one that owns everything, right?
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  They don't leave that part out, right.
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  So it's created this like super, you know, powerful financial
• 1:09:57
  elite class that because of the incentives of the Fiat system,
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  are forced to continue to coerce people to use that very system
• 1:10:10
  so that people continue to go along and and use it.
• 1:10:14
  And this is where we are. This is how we ended up here,
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  right? The the Co option of the United
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  States by the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913.
• 1:10:26
  The biggest world wars in human history has happened since World
• 1:10:31
  War One started, less than half a decade since the establishment
• 1:10:36
  of the Fed. Do you think that's an effing
• 1:10:39
  coincidence? It is not a coincidence you
• 1:10:41
  think World War 2? Listen, those wars would not be
• 1:10:46
  economically viable unless the government had the ability to
• 1:10:51
  print money. So I feel just as strongly about
• 1:10:55
  this topic as Ben because it's affected my generation, Opti's
• 1:11:01
  generation, the Gen. Z's generation the most.
• 1:11:05
  We are the. Same.
• 1:11:06
  Generation, we are poorer than our parents.
• 1:11:09
  We are poorer than our parents. We are poorer than our parents.
• 1:11:13
  Like we're the world has gotten exponentially richer, but our
• 1:11:18
  generation as a whole has less opportunity than our parents.
• 1:11:22
  You gotta ask yourself, why did a bunch of young people elect a
• 1:11:26
  communist in New York City? Their heart was in the right
• 1:11:29
  place. They're saying we cannot afford
• 1:11:33
  anything. And you know what?
• 1:11:34
  They were right. They.
• 1:11:37
  Can't afford anything. But where they're, where they're
• 1:11:40
  misguided and where we try as, as, as hard as humanly possible
• 1:11:46
  to educate people on this subject is they're, they're
• 1:11:50
  seeking a political solution where the solution is fixing the
• 1:11:55
  money in the 1st place. And Ben, this is what you've
• 1:11:58
  dedicated your life to with all these clubs.
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  And one of the things that you told me before we went on air,
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  he said, Nico, you know why I'm not at mining Disrupt?
• 1:12:07
  Because I'm pre. I would be preaching to the
• 1:12:09
  choir, bro. I'm trying to get out of the
• 1:12:13
  echo chamber and preach to people that are outside of
• 1:12:17
  Bitcoin and shake them up a little bit and say, hey, listen,
• 1:12:21
  you're fighting that good fight. I have a super weapon for you,
• 1:12:26
  right? I have a super tool for you.
• 1:12:28
  It's going to fix things and you don't even have to confront it
• 1:12:34
  the the the system head on. You just have to get people to
• 1:12:37
  opt out of it. And it fixes things
• 1:12:40
  progressively over time. So when I hear that you're
• 1:12:42
  meeting with the late Chartie Kirk's organization Turning
• 1:12:47
  Point, which for anyone who doesn't know, who's not tuned
• 1:12:49
  into American politics, it is the most powerful political
• 1:12:54
  organization for the conservative right wing youth
• 1:12:58
  movement in the United States of America, right?
• 1:13:01
  So the fact that Ben is meeting with them, having a conversation
• 1:13:05
  with them, I think it's incredibly important because for
• 1:13:08
  that movement that believes in small, limited government,
• 1:13:12
  right? And as long as you're playing
• 1:13:14
  within the central banking system, I don't care how much
• 1:13:18
  you believe that you're always on defense.
• 1:13:21
  You're always going to concede ground.
• 1:13:23
  It's always going to happen, right?
• 1:13:26
  So yeah, Ben, I just wanted to add that context, man, because
• 1:13:29
  let's talk. About his banks.
• 1:13:30
  No, but I wanted to add that context, man, because what you
• 1:13:33
  said, you know, it's like, yes, I, I think that the US
• 1:13:37
  government is under hostage right now.
• 1:13:41
  Yep. And the hostage takers?
• 1:13:42
  The Central Bank of the United States.
• 1:13:44
  Absolutely No, it's not even. The central Bank of the United
• 1:13:47
  States. It's the Federal Reserve.
• 1:13:49
  Right absolutely. Let me explain exactly what my
• 1:13:53
  mission is all right, we all everyone watching this right
• 1:13:58
  now, we live in the mindset of our childhood.
• 1:14:04
  That's what we remember the good old days.
• 1:14:07
  All right well, what I want people to realize is you're your
• 1:14:11
  child. Your grandchild is not going to
• 1:14:15
  live in the days you lived in if we don't do this.
• 1:14:20
  This is a revolution. Every time that you smashed by
• 1:14:24
  friggin Bitcoin, what you are doing is you are actually buying
• 1:14:29
  your lineages. Freedom.
• 1:14:33
  Don't worry about your pocketbook, worry about your
• 1:14:38
  grandchild's way of life. That's what you're buying.
• 1:14:43
  Because the more that we reach a higher level of adoption, that's
• 1:14:49
  more freedom. And then we reach a point, just
• 1:14:52
  like we did last year. We elected Trump.
• 1:14:57
  It was us guys. It was all of the people who
• 1:15:02
  really believe in this movement. We gave a lot of money to the
• 1:15:07
  politicians. Yeah, we bought the we we
• 1:15:11
  actually, someone's going to buy off the politicians.
• 1:15:14
  Guess what? I'm going to buy off
• 1:15:16
  politicians? Because whether you like the
• 1:15:20
  game or you don't, you got to play the game to win.
• 1:15:25
  Free men do not ask permission. If you're asking permission,
• 1:15:31
  you've already fucking lost. What we need to do why I'm lot
• 1:15:36
  why I launched the credit union in El Salvador is so people
• 1:15:43
  around the world. Mind you, we have global
• 1:15:46
  licensing, so everyone in America has a bank, a credit
• 1:15:54
  union that they can hold their actual Bitcoin in and earn earn
• 1:16:02
  interest on their actual Bitcoin.
• 1:16:05
  Now that exists elsewhere. Ours You hold your own keys, we
• 1:16:14
  aren't holding your Bitcoin. That's crazy.
• 1:16:17
  I mean it's hold, hold on. Like I'm so this is a non
• 1:16:21
  custodial Bitcoin bank, is that correct?
• 1:16:24
  Yep, because how we had, let's just put it this way, just just
• 1:16:32
  for the applicant, just for the software to run this thing.
• 1:16:37
  I probably put out $200,000 already just for the software
• 1:16:42
  that doesn't include I, I went out and I bought it.
• 1:16:47
  I got a sign, I got all of the licenses.
• 1:16:50
  I, I, I got everything because and another, this is the only
• 1:16:59
  credit union because guys, I'm running this credit union.
• 1:17:03
  This is ran on my principles, but the World Economic Forum,
• 1:17:11
  the World Bank can kiss my Lily white ass because I am sick and
• 1:17:19
  tired of us humans. We have a soul, we are
• 1:17:24
  sovereign. We have a soul that was given to
• 1:17:28
  us and granted to us by God, Jesus Christ.
• 1:17:33
  Whatever, whatever, whatever you view as the Creator, that's who
• 1:17:39
  made you. You are magical, you are
• 1:17:42
  amazing. You are a creature of God, Now
• 1:17:46
  act like it. God has granted you the power of
• 1:17:49
  life Now act like you fucking own it Quit kneeling to anybody
• 1:17:55
  who says oh you're a bad person, you're this you're that fuck
• 1:17:59
  them. That's just words.
• 1:18:01
  What we need to do is exactly what I am doing.
• 1:18:05
  I'm launching the new system now.
• 1:18:08
  If you guys want to join me and help bring this system down,
• 1:18:14
  join our clubs, join our clubs, bring your friends every single
• 1:18:20
  I I have a club in Sarasota, FL. I have a club up in
• 1:18:26
  Massachusetts. I have I have a club in
• 1:18:29
  Nashville. I have a club in Saint Louis.
• 1:18:31
  I have a club in Texas. I have a club in Las Vegas.
• 1:18:36
  We have our our resort in our S Adore.
• 1:18:39
  We have our credit union in El Salvador.
• 1:18:42
  We're launching more and more. This is a movement, guys.
• 1:18:47
  Don't look at this as, oh, I hope I get to collect some more
• 1:18:50
  slave dollars. No, no, quit looking at the
• 1:18:54
  dollar value and look at the freedom value.
• 1:18:57
  That's what people need to realize.
• 1:18:59
  They are they, they are controlling us with the money.
• 1:19:06
  We are all programmed to collect more dollars.
• 1:19:09
  Just get richer and richer and richer and richer.
• 1:19:13
  Wealth is not on this earth going to get emotional.
• 1:19:22
  But I have to. And I'll tell you why because
• 1:19:26
  I'll tell you what, I'm going to live.
• 1:19:28
  If I keep on drinking Red Bulls and smoking, I'm going to live
• 1:19:31
  about 45 more minutes, right? But when I die, I'm going to the
• 1:19:37
  gates of heaven and, and I want God to look at me as I slide
• 1:19:46
  into the gates of heaven with my ass on fire and the devil right
• 1:19:49
  behind me. I want God to look at me and go,
• 1:19:52
  boy, I'm proud of you. You lived right?
• 1:19:57
  You you weren't fucking perfect, but you did the best you could.
• 1:20:05
  If you are not taking your life seriously, you need to.
• 1:20:10
  It isn't the money when you die, it goes away when you die you
• 1:20:16
  are judged on your actions, not your fucking wallet.
• 1:20:20
  So please realize if we don't fix this, our children and our
• 1:20:30
  grandchildren will pay the price of slavery.
• 1:20:36
  Slavery. When you look at your child,
• 1:20:40
  imagine them behind bars. That's what we're going into.
• 1:20:47
  And we have to change the system.
• 1:20:49
  And the only way we change the system is if we unite.
• 1:20:54
  We unite together and we discuss how do we buy Bitcoin?
• 1:21:01
  And we use companies that accept the Bitcoin because it isn't
• 1:21:07
  what it isn't what you're buying that you think you're getting,
• 1:21:14
  you're getting another inch closer to freedom.
• 1:21:19
  That's what you're doing. It's it's we have to look at who
• 1:21:26
  we are. We are magical creatures.
• 1:21:30
  We are gifts from God. We are, we are, we are a peace
• 1:21:36
  of God. Don't look at yourself as just
• 1:21:41
  some 9 to 5. Don't look at.
• 1:21:44
  Don't look at yourself as just living a life for the man.
• 1:21:53
  Fuck that. Live the life for your God.
• 1:21:56
  Live the life for your children. Live the life.
• 1:22:01
  I guarantee your grandchildren, your children, they're not going
• 1:22:05
  to think back on you and go, boy, grandpa really had a had a
• 1:22:10
  lot of dollars in this bank. No, they're they're going to
• 1:22:14
  look back and go, you know what? My grandfather was the George
• 1:22:19
  Washington of his time. Leave a legacy.
• 1:22:25
  That's what you should leave. And your legacy is what is
• 1:22:32
  exactly what you choose. Your legacy is actually paved
• 1:22:37
  with your choices. Don't make the wrong choices.
• 1:22:41
  Choose freedom and sacrifice 'cause we're at war, guys, we're
• 1:22:48
  at war. Air horns, bro.
• 1:22:52
  That that was that was fantastic.
• 1:22:55
  That was a fantastic RIP by Bitcoin Ben.
• 1:22:59
  This is the man behind Bitcoin Ben dot IO.
• 1:23:04
  You you hear him in the flesh, right?
• 1:23:06
  You hear his motivations, you hear what's at stake.
• 1:23:11
  He's not being hyperbolic. Everybody like it's not
• 1:23:14
  hyperbolic at all. Like there's really two futures
• 1:23:17
  ahead of us and you got to choose.
• 1:23:20
  Eventually you're going to be forced to choose, but I would
• 1:23:23
  say before you're forced to choose, you know, pick a side.
• 1:23:28
  Do you? Want a, a, a Bitcoin future or
• 1:23:31
  do you want a CBDCCBDC future? Those are the two choices ahead
• 1:23:35
  of you and as individual you have to choose where where you
• 1:23:40
  where you want to go and you know support freedom tech
• 1:23:44
  support the freedom movement support people that are are
• 1:23:49
  building the infrastructure for freedom minded individuals like
• 1:23:53
  Ben go check out his clubs where you'll meet other freedom minded
• 1:23:57
  people go check out the private KeyBank in in El Salvador like
• 1:24:01
  go check it out. This is so important yeah, this
• 1:24:05
  is not hyperbolic Men is not being hyperbolic when when he
• 1:24:08
  makes the case for you guys let. Me let me explain something
• 1:24:16
  every we offer no KYC Bitcoin it's how I structured the
• 1:24:27
  company we're we are lagging let me.
• 1:24:31
  Be specific right, but you you offer no KYC Bitcoin in a legal
• 1:24:36
  regulated way. Because I shaped our companies
• 1:24:43
  under common law. It's it's they lie to you with
• 1:24:50
  laws. They tell you you're not free
• 1:24:53
  when really you are. And I want everyone watching
• 1:24:59
  right now, we offer home loans, home refinancing loans, so we
• 1:25:06
  can get you some Bitcoin, no KYC.
• 1:25:09
  We if you want to buy some Bitcoin, no KYC, you give us a
• 1:25:14
  call, 941-413-8080. That's it.
• 1:25:22
  Because what I actually believe is it's none of anybody's
• 1:25:29
  fucking business what you guys do.
• 1:25:33
  It's none of anybody's business what I do.
• 1:25:37
  Like I've said, and and I've said this for years, I'm willing
• 1:25:42
  to go to jail for anything I believe.
• 1:25:46
  Because if I'm not, then I don't fucking believe it.
• 1:25:50
  Yeah. It's it's, and please just
• 1:25:56
  forgive me, America's need to grow some balls.
• 1:26:02
  We need to grow some balls and we need to quit kneeling in
• 1:26:07
  front of the shrine of the government.
• 1:26:12
  Yeah, Ben, always an honor to have you on my friends.
• 1:26:17
  Guys, go check out Bitcoin, Ben dot IO, check out the clubs,
• 1:26:21
  check out the resorts in El Salvador.
• 1:26:24
  Ben dropping the hot fire like always.
• 1:26:27
  And yeah, Ben, thank you so much for joining us.
• 1:26:31
  Your rant was effing fantastic like always.
• 1:26:35
  And yeah, guys, we'll, I'll see you back tomorrow in Miami.
• 1:26:38
  I think Opti's here for another day here in Dallas.
• 1:26:43
  See you guys. Next Monday, but.
• 1:26:44
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• 1:26:57
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• 1:27:00
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• 1:27:04
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• 1:27:05
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