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IMF Demands Changes to El Salvador's Bitcoin Law | EP 968 · Simply Bitcoin

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It's. All going to zero against
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Bitcoin. It's going on.
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Forever. You're against Bitcoin.
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You're against freedom. Because they well.
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Because they want to. Sell.
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It eventually, Michael. I mean, let's be honest, most of
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the people who are, yes, sure, some people pass it on to their
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children, but like most of the people who are buying assets at
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some point want to sell the. Assets at a profit.
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So I. Mean.
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Let me say it differently. People that use Fiat currency as
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a store of value, there's a name for them.
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We call them poor. Yo, welcome to Simply Bitcoin
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the separation of money and state.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are streaming live Friday, April
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12th from the floor of Bit Block Boom.
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We managed to pull it off. I'm here with my optimistic Co
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host, the Optimist Field. We have the Managing Director
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and the the host of Bitcoin veterans, Alex Stanzik and of
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course our boy Adam O'Brien, CEO and founder of Bitcoin.
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Well, it's going to be a great show, ladies and gentlemen.
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The IMF is holding El Salvador hostage.
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They they apparently want to they want the they want El
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Salvador apparently to change some some rules apparently in
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regards to Bitcoin and they're dangling that that IMF loan over
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their heads. It's almost as if the IMF is
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scared of Bitcoin. I mean isn't the whole point of
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the IMF is is to help these these developing countries.
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It's almost as if they're allegedly it's almost as if
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they're doing the exact opposite.
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It's almost as if the IMF is a system of control.
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Isn't it convenient that the IMF is is literally located in
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Washington DC? Just it's another coincidence.
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It's just these are all coincidences.
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Anyway, it's going to be a great show.
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We're going to talk about Bitlock Boom.
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We also have a very, very special guest joining us today
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as well. And we, we have some videos in
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regards to the legacy corporate media of them trying to justify
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and explain inflation. So we're going to get some live
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reactions from our A Like A List panelists that we have on today.
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And of course, let's bring up our guest, Jeffrey.
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Jeffrey, how you doing, man? Thank you so much for joining us
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on the show. Thanks man.
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Thanks for having me. Really appreciate it.
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We put up looking forward to it. Man, thank you for joining us.
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So Jeffrey, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself,
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how you doing? I'm doing well.
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I'm a quick elevator pitch. I'm a 30 year serial
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entrepreneur in the Fiat world down the Bitcoin rabbit hole.
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In 2020, Co founded Mass Adoption, which is a New England
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Meet up group, and we're on tap for our second Freedom Festival
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in May. That's it.
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You know, it's actually interesting that you tell me
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that because I was speaking to Adam.
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Adam got in at an ungodly hour last night and we were talking
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and he was like, and I was like, dude, these Bitcoin conferences,
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bro. Like, holy shit.
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And then he's like, he looks at me, he's like, Nico, you got to
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do the freedom festivals. So are you going to that one,
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Adam? I am going to be there with my
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entire family, all four of my kids, my wife, even my mom.
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Where are you going to go and get some freedom in I I thought
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it was in Boston, but it's my geography is like, not awesome.
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So it's it's it's nearby Boston is is where it is.
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So Speaking of freedom, I know Alex absolutely loves freedom.
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Actually, Alex can do many things.
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Alex Stancic can cut through a hot knife with butter.
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When Alex Stancic jumps into a pool, he doesn't get wet.
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The water gets Alex Stancic. Alex Stancic could light a fire
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by rubbing 2 ice cubes together. Alex Stancic can also make
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opinions cry. Alex is that true?
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I. Don't know about all that.
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I don't know. I can't believe you just did
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that live. Wait, wait, wait.
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Hang on, hang on. Not, not all that, but some of
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that might be. True.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait. Can we do the light one?
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Do the light one. No, but I butchered it last time
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but. You have it on your phone.
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No, I don't know where it is. Got it.
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Alex. The Darkness recedes out of
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respect when Alex walks into the room.
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It's unbelievable. I can't believe.
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I can confirm it was so. It was so strange.
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Like, I'm not going to lie, guys, like we we walked into a
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dark room and then all of a sudden the room doesn't even
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have lights and it just turned light and I'm like, what the
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fuck is going on? And then Alex confirmed it to
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me. It was just because the darkness
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was scared of him. So anyways, Alex Stanczyk is
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also the host of of no. Of Bitcoin veterans, which we
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can't show. Here we go and I'm a huge fan.
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What they're doing, it's going to be absolutely awesome.
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At the at the time of recording, the Bitcoin price is $68,820.
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That's per dollar 1453 block height 838,883 blocks to having
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1117. We're coming up to the having
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ladies and gentlemen April 19th. I think I might know.
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I don't know if I could say it but I might have a surprise for
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you guys next week having estimate April 20th.
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Oh so it's back to 420 that is good, you know because it's been
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kind of fluctuating between April 19th to April 20th.
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It's interesting. Total lightning network capacity
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4372. Capacity value 300 million U.S.
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dollars realized monetary inflation 1.73%.
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The total market capitalization of Bitcoin 1.35 trillion U.S.
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dollars Bitcoin verse gold market cap 9.80%.
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So we have this awesome panel today, and because we have this
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awesome panel today, I'm going to play you guys some clown
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world propaganda media and then talking about, you know,
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inflation and all this stuff. And you guys already know my
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thoughts on how, you know, the media treats inflation and how a
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lot of people are just not awakened to it.
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You know, when they say inflation is down, you see the
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White House press secretary go, inflation is down.
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What they're not telling you is that the prices aren't going to
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go back down to the original prices.
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What they're telling you is that the rate of which prices are
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increasing is slowing. But of course, no one knows the
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detail. No one, no one actually like,
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pays attention to that. Anyways, let's check out the
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clip. Poor inflation, which is a
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better indicator of sort of what's happening with underlying
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inflation that also picked up. So taking a look at some of the
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categories we saw in the month of March that continued to
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increase. So gas prices, that was a pretty
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big contributor here, right. It was really gas and shelter, I
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should say, that contributed to more than half of the.
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Shelters, I mean. Shelter going down at all.
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I mean, I can't even remember a month where it's actually gone.
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We've seen a decrease. It's a really important point,
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it hasn't and so we had been hoping actually because if you
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think about shelter, if you think about rents for example 12
11:26
month leases, we were hoping that this was a lagging
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indicator that we would actually start to get some progress with
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shelter, but that didn't that didn't happen poor inflation
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which is a better. So that that applies to everyone
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for some reason if you're still living on the Fiat standard.
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Because if you've been living on a Bitcoin standard while all
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these you know, people continue to just try to explain and
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justify why money should just decrease in purchasing power as
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if it's like a fact of nature. The rest of us that have been
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living on a Bitcoin standard housing has got an 87% cheaper
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on a five year scale. The S&P 86% cheaper, Gold 92%
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cheaper. That's for you, Peter Schiff.
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Crude oil, 92% cheaper. the United States dollar 92.64%
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cheaper. So the American Dream isn't
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dead. The American dream is dead on a
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Fiat standard. But on a Bitcoin standard, the
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American Dream is thriving. And not only is it the American
12:21
dream anymore, now it's a worldwide dream if you adopt
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Bitcoin, right. So I just find it like funny
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that legacy media continues to kind of like, like you know,
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explain like they take the government numbers and they're
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like, yeah, you know like and then the the even the anchor
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ladies, like I don't kind of believe that like housing prices
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has gone through the roof. Like it's so obvious they just
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continue to rig the numbers, you know to to benefit their
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political allies. It's just absolutely crazy.
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Alex has a a very special name for these people.
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He calls them lizard people. Alex, do you have any comments
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on that? Just that it's it's fascinating
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and it's important to keep in mind that that whenever these
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inflation numbers are are presented and reported that
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there are there are incentives for these folks to to under
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report the actual rate of inflation.
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There's a lot of things that are tied to these indices.
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How much government employees are paid?
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How much their salary increases each year?
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Social Security payments. There are a ton of different 2nd
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and 3rd order ramifications to these reports and if you work
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for the government or the government itself has has sort
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of an incentive to to not really tell you that the full picture.
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And so my understanding is that the actual CPI numbers have been
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kind of tinkered with quite a bit over the last couple of
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decades. If you go back and you talk to
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anybody who tracks inflation the way it was calculated back in
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the early 80s and they will tell you that based upon those
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basically the the ways that they calculate the inflation from
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back then. If they use the same methodology
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today, we'd be seeing 10 plus percent inflation every single
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year in CPI. So that's kind of mind blowing.
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I don't think I'm telling anybody anything they don't
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already know. Anybody who actually shops for
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food already knows this is happening in many, in many other
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areas. So just important to keep in
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mind, I mean opt out like this system is mathematically at a
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point right now where I think it's just going to continue to
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get worse. I think the number that they're
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talking about lately is, is that they're printing something like
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a trillion dollars every hundred days now.
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I mean, come on guys, we're we're at a point where this
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thing is, it just feels like it's it's getting a little
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wobbly, right? And people, people know it.
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Death spiral. It's we're starting with death
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spiral. Do you want to continue with?
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That yeah, I mean like you know what actually stuck out to me a
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little bit more in that is they're talking about shelter
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and they're like, oh, I really wished I was hoping to see the
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shelter would drop And then and the same breath, those same
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people will tell you to go into 30 years of debt to buy a house.
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Which by the way guys house is shelter.
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There's so they're simultaneously saying shelter is
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too expensive. I wish to go down but you should
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buy shelter like they they're talking out of both sides of
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their mouth. It's just pissing me off housing
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we actually just make. I just made a video about this
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talking about how shelter and houses are just massive
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liabilities and not even close to assets.
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The only real estate that exists is Bitcoin because you can
15:18
actually self custody it. You can take it away.
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It's not taxed just to own. There's no maintenance required.
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It's just the number one form of protecting and preserving the
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value that you create with your time.
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And so, yeah, man, like this system mathematically incapable
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of success, mathematically incapable of of moving forward
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and of growing. And the Bitcoin standard is
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coming and it's, it's going to be, I think Safe said it best.
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The adoption is not some cute tech graph like an iPhone where
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it's like, oh, look at this uptrend.
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We got the S curve. It is vertical.
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It's like gunpowder. You adopt it or you die.
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That's it. Period.
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And the Bitcoin adoption curve will be a right angle.
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Absolutely. Bitcoin, Bitcoin or slavery,
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right. You adopt it or you get left
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behind. You know, it's your choice,
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ladies and gentlemen, right? Are you going to get on a sound
16:06
money standard or you going to, you're going to get left behind
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really. And I think, you know, I think
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it's it's this is going to happen a lot quicker than people
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anticipate just because of kind of what has happened, what has
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transpired over the last year or so, right.
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You have Naimbu, Kelly vindicated the nation state
16:22
strategy. You have Michael Saylor
16:24
vindicated on the public company level.
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You have the, the introduction of the Bitcoin spot ETFs which
16:30
is like it's kind of like a legitimization of Bitcoin in the
16:32
eyes of institutional investors. So yes, we're you know I I think
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that this is we're we're heading into the all at once point and I
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think we're heading there very, very quickly.
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Anyways, Opti, what's your take on this brother?
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Yeah, I mean, I always say the same thing guys.
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If you're still believing the official numbers, you are lost
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in the sauce. And then the the worst part
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about the CPI numbers, guys, and and not to rehash what everyone
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says, but they're literally taking out like the essentials
16:58
of life and they're like, yeah, CPI numbers.
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It's still high. But like, don't worry about the
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fact that your food is more expensive, your real estate is
17:05
more expensive. Everything that matters is more
17:07
expensive. Energy is more expensive.
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But guys, you know, inflation, it's a little higher than we
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thought it was. But hey, it's not that bad.
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And it's like no anyone that is actually awake or actually goes
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to the grocery store, you know pays their utilities.
17:21
They understand one thing. My dollar is not going as far as
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it used to. And what sneak always say you
17:25
can't hide the the dollar shock of the fact that you are getting
17:29
poorer. This is what's.
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Happening. You can't.
17:31
You can't hide this sticker shock.
17:33
Sticker shock does not lie. Anyways, I'm going to pass it on
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to our guest, Jeffrey. I mean, you are throwing a
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Freedom Festival. I feel like.
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I feel like you. You can't be free unless you're
17:43
you know you have Bitcoin and self custody.
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I think you know, I, I, I I think that the two.
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I think that and I actually tweeted this out a couple days
17:51
ago. You can't be pro freedom and
17:53
anti Bitcoin, right. Like and you can't be pro
17:55
freedom and not talk the Bitcoin gospel, right.
17:58
Because you're literally not talking about one of the most
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powerful tools in human history has ever been invented to
18:05
protect the sovereignty of individuals, the financial
18:07
sovereignty of individuals. So, you know, I think the
18:10
freedom movement and the Bitcoin movement go hand in hand.
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So Jeffrey, I want to take your, I want to get your take on, you
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know this clown world, CPI updates on the legacy corporate
18:22
media, which independent media is slowly replacing by the way
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drop. Mike, well Nico, I completely
18:28
agree with everything all you guys said, so I won't rehash it.
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But just one more point, just so you understand everything that
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comes from the mainstream media is a complete fabrication.
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If you guys, I'm sure most of your audience has read 1984, Up
18:44
is down, Up is right. You sound like an extremist.
18:49
I'm an extremist until I'm in stream and that's gonna happen.
18:53
So and also you have to understand the incentive of
18:57
making lower fabricated CPI numbers is directly tied to cost
19:02
of living increases that people on Social Security and all the
19:05
social benefits get with their increase every year.
19:08
So they're incentive to keep it low on purpose so they don't
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have to increase the amount of money they give to people trying
19:14
to fight inflation. 100 percent, 100%, really good take.
19:18
We had a question in the chat. Someone was asking what a
19:21
Freedom festival is. So if you can give a quick like
19:23
one to two-minute elevator pitch, Jeffrey.
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Great question. So you know, when we initially
19:29
started it, we didn't want to do another Bitcoin festival, a
19:32
conference. There's a lot of great ones out
19:34
there and we'll let them do that.
19:36
We wanted to create a festival that is powered by Bitcoin.
19:41
So you can't have freedom without Bitcoin.
19:44
So we don't even have to really mention Bitcoin in our in our
19:47
marketing because it's freedom. And then we get people under the
19:51
tent at our freedom festival and show them that Bitcoin is the
19:54
tool to solidify and protect your your freedoms.
19:59
So it's basically a day of amazing speakers.
20:02
Last year we had Greg Foss, Larry the pard, BJ Dichter,
20:06
Jason Mayer, a lot of great people.
20:08
This year we have a great line up as well.
20:10
We have amazing activities. A day of just healthy living.
20:15
We have Texas Slim with a cattlemen's feast.
20:17
So we're there for education and we're there for just like minded
20:22
people. Gathering a couple of points,
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I'd like to like to mention anyone under the age of 16 is
20:28
free. So we're not in this to make
20:30
money. We're truly in this to educate
20:33
people and spread the word of Bitcoin and mass adoption.
20:37
So bring your family. I know Adam's bringing his
20:39
family. Anyone on the age of 16 is free.
20:43
And we've also come up with an initial we're we're trying a new
20:46
thing our our ticket price is only $100.
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We're trying to keep it very favorable to the plebs, but
20:52
we've come up with an innovation of something called a non coiner
20:55
ticket. We have a $25 festival ticket as
20:59
a non corner. You don't Get full access to all
21:02
the activities at the festival, but you get in, you get to hear
21:05
the speakers and you get to interact with the bitcoins.
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Because we were thinking if you're a non corner you don't
21:10
want to spend $100 to go to a Bitcoin festival.
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So we're really, truly trying to entice everyone to come with a
21:16
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21:20
Love that the freedom movement is the Bitcoin movement.
21:22
I think it's just a matter of time before people come to
21:26
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21:27
before we get to the news, I do want to drop a quick fact.
21:31
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21:34
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23:13
I do want to talk about the breaking news of today, which I
23:19
think is just absolutely fascinating, but it also tells
23:22
me that we are winning. And the reason for that is
23:26
because you know, you guys know the famous saying the flock is
23:30
heaviest over the target. By the way, there's probably no,
23:32
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23:42
It really helps with the algos. Anyways.
23:45
So I would do want to read a little bit from this Bitcoin
23:48
Magazine article that no, not this one.
23:51
I apologize guys. This one right here that was
23:54
reposted by the NASDAQ. So IMF demands changes to El
23:59
Salvador's Bitcoin law, goes on to say the International
24:03
Monetary Fund is reportedly demanding changes to El
24:06
Salvador's pro Bitcoin law hindering the country's attempt
24:08
to secure a $1.4 billion credit line as as reported by Info Bay.
24:15
El Salvador made history in 2021 by adopting Bitcoin as legal
24:18
Thunder as under President named Buchelli.
24:21
The country has since bet big on Bitcoin, building Bitcoin
24:24
reserves, mining Bitcoin and launching educational
24:27
initiatives. However, the IMF has objected to
24:29
the Bitcoin law amid loan negotiating loan negotiations
24:33
with El Salvador, which needs financing to pay debts and
24:36
obligations talk. The talks have stalled for
24:39
nearly two years over the IMF's calls to limit Bitcoin scope in
24:44
the country. What I got to say is, like,
24:47
isn't El Salvador a sovereign country?
24:50
Don't we always hear about the importance of democracy?
24:53
Don't we always talk about, you know, we always hear this, But I
24:57
feel like it's like if democracy goes a certain way, that's what
25:00
they're talking about, You know, this is absolutely absurd.
25:04
You know, El Salvador voted on this.
25:06
Vast majority of of El Salvador's candidates or sorry
25:11
politicians and, you know, electoral body or whatever,
25:14
voted the Bitcoin law legally into law that people of El
25:17
Salvador wanted to make Bitcoin legal tender.
25:20
And you're here, you have an international organization
25:23
literally holding El Salvador hostage because of the Bitcoin
25:28
legal tender law. What are they so afraid of?
25:31
I'll get to that in a second. And this isn't only something
25:33
that has happened in El Salvador.
25:35
This also happened in Argentina as well, Part of the conditions
25:39
that the IMF gave Argentina when they gave them another another
25:45
bailout, specifically a $45 billion loan.
25:49
Part of the conditions, to quote the Coindesk article, Argentine
25:53
Congress approves IMF debt deal that would discourage crypto
25:57
use. That's right, the IMF went to
25:59
Argentina, said We'll give you a $45 billion loan, but you have
26:03
to discourage your populace not to use Bitcoin.
26:07
Meanwhile, meanwhile, at the time the Argentines were, the
26:13
Argentines were dealing with 145% inflation.
26:17
So excuse my language, what the fuck is the point of the IMF?
26:21
Like they tout themselves as you know, being, you know,
26:24
supporting the little guy, supporting the poor, supporting
26:27
these developing countries. But what I'm seeing here is that
26:30
the IMF is self interested. It seems like a system of
26:33
control. In fact, it's hurting people,
26:36
it's potentially hurting El Salvador.
26:38
And what does this all boil down to?
26:41
Well, I think it just comes down to the simple fact Bitcoin
26:44
provides an alternative for poor countries to operate without the
26:49
necessity for the IMF. That's what it boils down to.
26:53
And Alex, sorry, Alex Gladstein has done incredible work on
26:58
this. He wrote a book about it, had a
27:01
had a had a one-on-one fireside chat at thank God for Bitcoin.
27:05
And we were talking about this specific subject, right, about
27:09
how the IMF, I'll read the words, you know, from the
27:13
Bitcoin Magazine article, how the IMF and the World Bank
27:16
repress poor countries and funnel their resources to rich
27:21
ones. The IMF and World Bank do not
27:25
seek to fix poverty, but only enrich creditor nations.
27:30
Could Bitcoin create a better global economic system for the
27:33
developing world? So, I mean, you know, one of
27:36
the, my favorite features of Bitcoin that a lot of people
27:39
don't talk about is that Bitcoin exposes incentives, right.
27:44
And what you're seeing here is that Bitcoin is exposing the IMF
27:48
for what it is. It's a system of control.
27:51
It's a system to keep these countries, these these
27:54
developing countries in perpetual poverty and all of a
27:58
sudden they have an escape valve.
28:00
They have Bitcoin, They have something that they can't touch.
28:03
And El Salvador is is a beachhead.
28:05
Because if El Salvador succeeds in paying back their debts,
28:08
which they have been, if if El Salvador succeeds in their
28:11
government model, if Naimbu Kelly succeeds for making a
28:15
friendly environment for businesses, a friendly
28:18
protecting private, private property rights, then the IMF,
28:22
they really have nothing to say. This is why the mainstream media
28:25
is so hell bent on attacking, on attacking Naimbu Kelly and
28:30
talking, attacking El Salvador. This is what it's about.
28:33
So I love that bitcoins exposing incentives again, I love that
28:37
bitcoins exposing the IMF for what it is.
28:40
And it's absolutely disgusting. You know, they never really
28:43
cared about poor people. It was always about controlling
28:46
the country itself. Anyways, Opti, what's your take?
28:48
And then we'll move on to our guest.
28:50
Yeah, I mean, guys, I always say it, you know, remember that El
28:55
Salvador, the GDP is like $32 billion.
28:58
I, I, I don't know what the actual population number is, but
29:01
it's a tiny country. And the fact that the IMF is so
29:04
concerned of what's happening in El Salvador just goes to show
29:07
the importance of what they've done by going on the Bitcoin
29:10
standard of of of trying to make their country actually safe and
29:14
and and somewhere that their citizens want to live at.
29:18
Imagine that. The the novelty of having a
29:20
politician or rather a president that cares about its citizens.
29:23
Yeah, that's what naive Buchelli is doing and he's getting flat
29:27
for. So again, the reason they even
29:29
care what's going on in El Salvador, the reason the IMF
29:32
cares about what's going on in Salvador is because they do not
29:34
want the signal to spread to other countries, other Latin
29:37
American countries, other developing countries in the
29:39
world. And remember the idea I was
29:41
talking about last week? The the new meaning of the IMF
29:46
is the International Mafia Foundation.
29:48
So we know they're using mafia tactics to basically strong on
29:51
these countries. They've been doing it forever
29:53
and they're going to continue to do it until that playbook
29:56
doesn't work. So.
29:59
I. Don't know what, I don't know
30:03
what that was talking about. You guys heard it on the stream.
30:06
Anyways, Nico, let's pass it on. Oh, oh, oh, I know.
30:09
OK, OK, OK. Wait, no, I don't have the right
30:12
one. I can't play that on.
30:13
YouTube chucks. OK, pass it on to Adam.
30:18
Adam O'Brien. What's your take on this,
30:19
brother? Yeah man, loans that come with
30:22
that level of string is going to expose the time preference and
30:26
like you said, the incentives of the politicians in charge,
30:29
right. If we see someone agreed to that
30:33
even like it's going to I I am getting so pissed off for these
30:36
politicians talking about Bitcoin when price is going up
30:40
and then completely evacuating when the price goes down or they
30:44
get a little bit of pressure for their stance.
30:46
Obviously. I think Javier is like hopefully
30:48
going to to you know do the right thing but like it's it's
30:52
it's out of hand that the Bitcoin exposing the incentives
30:57
but also the time preference of the politicians.
30:59
Also, I really don't like when people say they take bets on
31:03
Bitcoin because the old like nobody says people are taking
31:06
bets on Fiat. Nobody says people are taking
31:09
bets on the government or on the legacy financial system.
31:12
We all say take a bet on Bitcoin.
31:14
Bitcoin is opting out and and when you're not opting out,
31:17
you're opting in. It's still a choice though And
31:19
so that that frustrates me when people say I'm, you know, El
31:23
Salvador took a bet on Bitcoin. Like no, they just stopped
31:26
betting on the US dollar. They stopped betting on Fiat.
31:29
They stopped betting on this slave money that has been
31:32
driving the economy, the fake economy, the high time
31:34
preference economy, the cocaine garbage that exists and and they
31:40
started, you know, actually investing and actually saving in
31:43
sound money. And so I don't know man, I'm a
31:45
little bit fired up. I've had like Nico and I were up
31:48
late last night solving the world's problems.
31:50
You know, maybe a little over caffeinated like I just it is,
31:55
it is quite irking when politicians get involved in
31:58
sound money and that, and that bothers me and that offends me.
32:02
Wait, I do have the sound board for you, Nico.
32:05
Do you understand that? Anyways, Alex Stanczyk, what's
32:12
your take on this brother? Yeah, so many people would have
32:16
heard of this book called Confessions of an Economic Hit
32:18
Man, right? So this is one of the guys that
32:21
go check it out, go read it for yourself.
32:23
This is not conjecture, this is not tinfoil hat stuff is all
32:26
very well documented how the IMF operates.
32:28
I can remember talking to one of the members of Parliament for
32:33
Tonga, explaining basically the same things like the IMF will
32:36
come in, they'll give us a loan, but there's always conditions,
32:38
and the conditions always have to do with extracting resources
32:41
from the country and feeding those resources into the big
32:45
Western nations, so to speak, with deals.
32:48
And you know it just goes back and it reminds me the other day,
32:52
Senator Lummus was just in a conversation, I think it was at
32:55
the BPI, the Bitcoin Policy Institute Summit in in
32:58
Washington DC And she was explaining like when you see
33:03
legislators, politicians, regulators, whatever the case
33:06
may be coming against Bitcoin, you you know part of that is
33:11
that they're used to having a system of control.
33:14
This system of of control has existed for over 100 years, ever
33:18
since 1913 with the passage of the Federal Reserve backed in
33:21
America. Controlling the money is the
33:26
most powerful system of control. I think it was one of the
33:28
Rothschilds that says I care not basically who makes the laws.
33:33
If I can, I'm paraphrasing him if, but if I can control the
33:36
money, I'm in charge, right? And so that's that's essentially
33:40
what they're accustomed to doing.
33:41
They're essentially accustomed to having control of all their
33:44
citizens. She's like, they're they're
33:47
they're acutely aware that Bitcoin represents a break from
33:51
that system of control, and it scares the crap out of them,
33:54
essentially. Dude.
33:55
And it's it's shocking to see how these these overlords still
33:59
think they can control Bitcoin. They still think that they can
34:02
dangle Fiat over these countries heads that are literally being
34:06
ruined by by Fiat. And they and they have the
34:09
assumption that they're still in control, not realizing that
34:12
Bitcoin literally puts governments in competition with
34:14
each other. People ask me all the time, well
34:15
what happens when the Canadian government what happens when the
34:18
US government makes Bitcoin illegal?
34:20
It's like I pack up my seed phrase and get on a plane, like
34:23
gone. See you later.
34:24
And so does every other Bitcoin in the nation or Bitcoin or in
34:27
the nation, like see you later, GDP by the billions, leaving the
34:31
country because you made a dumb choice.
34:33
Bitcoin puts. And then if one if one single
34:36
jurisdiction decides, they're pro Bitcoin, which by the way
34:39
they're happening right now, jurisdictions are becoming pro
34:42
Bitcoin. That's where the bitcoiners
34:43
flock. That's where the talent goes.
34:45
That's where the proof of work goes.
34:46
That's where the freedom and the sovereignty goes.
34:48
And it's like aligning incentives, man.
34:50
That's it. Bingo.
34:51
It's putting Bitcoin or governments in competition with
34:54
each other. OK, SO11, really quick thing to
34:56
add on that. Anecdotally speaking, just this
34:59
week I'm not gonna name the country, but I was, I had a zoom
35:03
call with a consular to the president of one of these
35:06
countries in Africa. Yeah, I'm not gonna name the
35:09
name, but what I'm what I'm gonna say is that this is
35:12
happening. This is, this is real.
35:13
This is not conjecture. This is not theory literal.
35:17
Nation heads of nation states are asking questions, kind of
35:21
coming to the Bitcoin ecosystem because we're on the cutting
35:24
edge of all of this stuff. And they're like, who do I need
35:27
to talk to? How can this benefit my country?
35:30
What are the ways we can implement this stuff?
35:32
How does it work? Dude, And that's the right
35:33
mindset. Governments are finally saying,
35:35
like, you know, this is gunpowder.
35:37
They're like, well, we were playing with war, with bubbles.
35:40
We had this, this, this bubble before and it was working so
35:43
well. People were getting bubble sauce
35:45
in their eyes and it was hurting.
35:46
And now there's guns. What are we going to do?
35:49
And it's like we got to either like you're going to adopt or
35:51
die. Governments will fail.
35:53
At 100 percent, 100%, I actually have the clip from Cynthia
35:56
Lummus. I'm really glad that Alex
35:58
brought that up. Let's check it out.
36:03
So the state of play on Capitol Hill is, I think, best explained
36:10
by what I see as the overarching motivations.
36:14
And in this administration, there are a number of a
36:21
high-ranking policy positions that are held by people who are
36:28
threatened by Bitcoin because they know they can't control it,
36:33
They know it's decentralized, they know its potential.
36:39
And these are people that are so wedded to the government being
36:44
in control of the money, how it's spent, how it's used, that
36:52
they find it threatening that something exists that they can't
36:57
control. And so with that policy
37:01
overarching motivation, we're seeing things like a proposed
37:05
30% tax on Bitcoin mining. We're seeing things like that.
37:11
Truly odd regulatory overreach by the energy EIA Energy
37:22
Information Administration over at Energy to send out
37:26
questionnaires about mining consumption of energy.
37:33
That was just egregious. And so these are the policy
37:40
headwinds that the Bitcoin world is facing right now.
37:48
And it's really, I think, entirely based on this
37:53
administration's fear of things they can't control.
37:57
So this is exactly what we've been referencing, right?
38:00
And again, but the the big deal here is the fact that you have
38:04
to remember this is not just bitcoiners saying this.
38:07
Now you have AUS senator saying the choir part out loud.
38:11
I Remember Me and Opti were going back and forth like I was
38:14
like giving them the benefit. Opti from day one was like, Nah
38:16
bro, they just want to like, Nah, they just hate Bitcoin
38:19
because they can't control it. And I was like giving them the
38:20
benefit of benefit of the doubt. The when I saw the fake Wall
38:24
Street Journal article, when I saw them take advantage of, you
38:27
know, the tragedy happening in Palestine and and Israel to try
38:33
to like sneak in using the Patriot Act, this like Fencen
38:36
proposal that would, you know, just put even more surveillance
38:40
on Bitcoin. When I saw the head of the
38:42
Fencen admit to Congressman Tom Emmer that terrorists prefer
38:46
using the traditional financial system which has all these rules
38:49
already in place, versus Bitcoin, then I knew it was all
38:52
both focus, right and actually have some words of wisdom for
38:55
all of. Them, just like the Bible says.
38:57
It's basically an intergalactic invasion into this space through
39:01
people. I I'm telling you, it's what all
39:03
the ancients said. It's what they warned of.
39:05
It's what we're dealing with. They're demons all.
39:07
Right, ladies and gentlemen, So we're going to, we're going to,
39:11
we're going to pass it. Welcome to Simply Bitcoin, guys.
39:13
If you're enjoying the show, make sure to smash that like
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button. I'm going to pass it to Jeffrey.
39:17
Jeffrey, what are your What are your thoughts on the demons?
39:21
Well, guys, how can I follow up? You guys just were unbelievable.
39:25
So you you nailed it. You you haven't left me a lot to
39:28
chew on here, but but I will say a couple things.
39:30
I'm happy Alex brought the book by John Perkins, Confessions of
39:35
an Economic Hitman. I recommend everybody read that
39:38
so you'll understand that what everyone's saying on this panel
39:41
today is not something that we just made-up.
39:44
It's proven. It's the way the system works.
39:48
In my opinion. This has been a plan since, as
39:50
Alex said, since 1913 when they got the the Federal Reserve into
39:55
action. That's been the whole plan from
39:57
1913 on is to steal the wealth of everybody and raise it to the
40:01
top one or 2% of society. And that's what's happening.
40:04
So you have a choice, it's Bitcoin or slavery, just like
40:08
you say Nico. So I completely agree.
40:11
You're against Bitcoin, You're against freedom.
40:13
Amen to that. Amen to that.
40:15
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41:21
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41:24
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All right, Opti. What do you have for us, my
42:09
friend? Well, do we start with our
42:13
guests or with the our panelists, Where do we start we
42:15
got? So much to talk about today.
42:17
Let's OK, let's let's start with let's start with Adam.
42:20
Adam man, you've been you've been literally exiled from the
42:25
US you they finally let you back in.
42:29
Basically what happened was that that Adam was caught with that
42:34
Alex Jones video that we played you at the airport and they they
42:39
haven't let them back in since, but they're.
42:41
Just playing it on repeat on my phone, just getting all hyped
42:44
up. 30 demons, 30 demons, 30 demons, 30 demons.
42:46
And they didn't like that at the customs agency.
42:49
I don't know. So, so strange.
42:51
It's almost as if, like, they're demons Anyways, how are you
42:54
enjoying being back in the States and being back at your,
42:57
you know, first Bitcoin conference in a while?
42:59
Have things changed? Do you see like the the the
43:02
movement picking up steam? Do you have you seen any new
43:04
faces? What's your take?
43:07
Yeah, man. Some new faces, some old ones.
43:09
It's it's nice to to be able to see some some people.
43:12
I mean I've been in the space a long time.
43:13
So it's great to see people that I haven't seen in a while.
43:15
But yeah, I think it's so nice. I'm.
43:17
I'm a little bit more selective with the the conferences that I
43:20
attend which is why I'm so excited for for Jeff's
43:23
conference in somewhere near Boston.
43:26
And I think that people don't understand that there's this,
43:29
this chasm that's widening between like the freedom
43:32
movement and then like the, you know, let's pump meme coins
43:36
number go up, put heroin in my in my arm, you know type of
43:40
conferences. Metaphorically.
43:42
Mostly metaphorically or yeah, but like.
43:46
YouTube I just want to say it's a joke.
43:48
It's just a joke. It's just a joke, but like these
43:51
conferences are are good because it's high signal.
43:54
It is very much like Bitcoin focused, freedom focused,
43:58
sovereignty focused. Get your coins off exchanges.
44:00
Your coins will be stolen when they are sitting in an exchange,
44:03
they are subject to honey pots, they're subject to bad people,
44:05
they're subject to 61. O2.
44:07
Like it is just awesome when we talk about Bitcoin as a freedom
44:11
asset, as an asset that can literally change your family's
44:14
future, your bloodlines future depends on you having Bitcoin
44:18
locked in self custody away from anybody else's control.
44:22
And that is just like so beautiful.
44:24
Everyone here, everyone watching right now, everyone like
44:28
listening to people talk. I mean it's just it's it's
44:30
dynamite. So yeah, it's quite a bit
44:32
different. You know Bitcoiners have had a
44:33
weird journey of like figuring out we always known Bitcoin was
44:36
for freedom and then got confused with like all of the,
44:40
you know, the bad things that tempt you in your time
44:42
preference. That I won't say for for YouTube
44:44
algo purposes but it's it's really nice to to be on the
44:49
right track and have everything go.
44:50
Also just quickly to give you guys, the viewers at home, a
44:53
little bit of like a peek behind the scenes.
44:55
I always kind of thought Nico had a script when he was reading
44:57
those ad reads. There is no script you guys that
45:01
is just off the top of the Dome that is out of hand.
45:04
This is really crazy to watch. Just you know the brain come
45:08
through the the mouth is really nice.
45:10
So props. Wait, what?
45:12
Brain well. I mean all that bleach has to
45:16
has to do something so. Yeah, I mean, people don't
45:21
understand. They still have not learned that
45:23
authenticity on the Internet is a superpower and if you speak
45:26
from the heart, you do really connect with people.
45:28
So we try, we we, we, we try a little bit.
45:30
Anyways, I'm going to pass it on to Alex Stanczyk.
45:32
I, I, I'm, I'm a little bit. I've just received this
45:35
information. Just wanted to confirm Alex
45:38
Stanczyk, is it true that you can strangle someone with a
45:42
cordless phone metaphorically? And is it true that you can make
45:46
onions cry? OK, I don't know about that, but
45:52
deny it I I I will. I will say you know that these
45:57
conferences are fantastic. Being here in person, the energy
46:00
is off the off the hook. It's palpable.
46:02
You can feel it. And I would suggest to people
46:05
who are who are listening to this, there's a process.
46:08
You know, sometimes people Start learning about Bitcoin and then
46:11
they figure it out. By figure it out, I mean a light
46:14
bulb goes off and they start thinking to myself themselves,
46:18
holy cow, is this thing real? Is this really a real thing?
46:21
Am I crazy right now or or is this, does this thing have the
46:25
potential to completely reverse all the bad behavioral
46:29
incentives that the that the current monetary system has?
46:32
Is that a real thing? And you start wondering, am I
46:35
like, like am I imagining this? And then if you come to a
46:39
conference like this, sometimes people are like, well, I don't
46:41
want to go to a conference because I don't know anybody
46:42
there. Yeah, right.
46:43
But it's what I would say is come, because what's going to
46:46
end up happening is you're going to start talking to very
46:49
intelligent people. You guys were joking a little
46:51
bit about, you know, Nico not being that smart.
46:54
Let me tell you something. This is one of the smartest
46:55
dudes I know. Highly intelligent.
46:58
And the man, I'm. I'm sorry.
47:00
I'm sorry. OK.
47:03
There are others that are not Nico that you're gonna run into
47:06
a conferences like this that are super smart and you'll start to
47:09
realize, Oh my gosh, these really smart people also
47:11
understand this. The way I do it is real.
47:15
Oh. Man.
47:16
And the nice thing is, like the first, the first one that you
47:19
come to, the first big gathering of bitcoiners.
47:21
You're right, you know, maybe you're not gonna know everyone,
47:24
but then the second one, you're gonna know more.
47:25
And then the third one, you're gonna know more.
47:27
And honestly, if I'm here and you come up and say what up to
47:29
me, we're going to hang out and we're going to be like let's
47:32
chat about Bitcoin. Let's let's, let's let's lower
47:33
our time preference, protect our grandkids and and do it better.
47:37
And I think that's, yeah, it's it's so good, man.
47:40
Well, well, what a great tee up. Let's let's bring in our guests
47:43
here. Actually, wait, before we do
47:44
that, I actually wanted to give a shout out because this is the
47:47
first bit block boom in the exact same venue that Opti and I
47:52
met each other in the flesh for the first time.
47:55
Well, this is true. This is true.
47:56
But wait, Hold on. Pause.
47:58
Not in the flesh, You know. In it needs.
48:01
Space. Whatever, bro.
48:02
In the flesh. OK, so you guys, you guys know,
48:06
you guys know when we get roasted all.
48:08
Right. All right, Jeffrey, On that
48:09
note, let me mute. Nico, I'm having a great time.
48:13
I'm having a great time. Matthew, just listen to you
48:15
guys. Let's go on that note.
48:17
Let's talk about the Freedom Fest.
48:19
I'll pull up the website, do a do a TDLTLDR and and we're just
48:23
jumping in on on the same idea, just great context.
48:25
This is why you go to these events.
48:28
We're, we're action-packed. We have a day of workshops.
48:31
We have, you know, Bitcoin 101. We have mining workshops, we
48:36
have lightning workshops, We have Schnitzel.
48:39
Mike Schmidt is coming down with his hot tub heated by a six
48:42
miners. We have coal plunges.
48:45
We have amazing speakers. We have Cattlemen's Feast with
48:48
Texas Slim and you know, and we also have the $25 non corner
48:54
ticket, which is very important to get everybody involved
48:59
because I I think just to touch on what Alex was saying, I I I
49:03
think one of the main things is people have to 1st realize that
49:06
there's a problem with the Fiat dollar 'cause if you just come
49:09
at them with the up, look at that, that's one of our #1
49:13
speakers right there. Go meet Adam May 4th.
49:17
But you have to people have to understand that there's a
49:20
problem with the Fiat dollar and then you can start opening their
49:22
mind to well then we have a solution to the problem.
49:25
So I think that's important to stress when you're talking to
49:28
people. And then one one more thing
49:31
about the festival Friday night, we're having a pleb party.
49:34
Andrews will be there. It's not an official Andrews
49:36
Pleb party. Andrews is is the emcee of the
49:39
event, but we're doing it on the rooftop of The MGM Grand Casino
49:42
Hotel in Springfield. We've rented out the rooftop so
49:46
that we have a pleb party Friday night.
49:48
Saturday we have the festival all day long.
49:50
I I just can't encourage people enough to at least try to make
49:55
the effort to attend. I I guarantee your life will be
49:59
better in the positive way at the end of that weekend, and
50:03
I'll give you your money back for your ticket that you
50:05
purchased if that's not the case.
50:08
Talk about speaking with your hands.
50:10
I like that. Damn, man.
50:11
I I I got to I got to go to one of these, man, because I I I've
50:14
done. I've done a lot of the, you
50:17
know, Bitcoin, I've done a lot of the the Bitcoin conferences,
50:20
but I've never been to a freedom festival.
50:22
So and again like if if you are pro freedom, you're pro Bitcoin
50:26
by default you just probably and if you aren't aware of it you
50:31
just still building his vocabulary dude.
50:34
I mean that's never going to faster that's not that's never
50:37
going to that's never going to work out.
50:39
If you speak two languages then let's have a conversation
50:42
anyways. The OK, but no but the the the
50:48
freedom like if you are pro freedom if you're part of the
50:52
freedom movement you're you're a default bitcoiner.
50:55
You just and if you're not you just don't know it yet.
50:58
It's just a matter of education right.
51:00
So I'm really glad that you know, we're we're getting
51:02
outside of the Bitcoin echo chamber And because there's a
51:05
lot of people, there's a tremendous amount of people that
51:07
are pro that, that are pro freedom, but they're just not
51:09
aware. They're just not aware of the
51:11
most powerful freedom enabling tool that exists, that was
51:16
discovered, invented however, which however, which way you
51:18
want to see it in the history of mankind, right.
51:21
So, so, yeah, I mean, yeah, that's that's.
51:24
My that's exactly was our thought.
51:26
We were Trojan horsing in Bitcoin.
51:28
We wanted it to be a freedom festival because more people
51:32
align with freedom than they do with Bitcoin.
51:34
We want to get them in under the tent and then teach them about
51:38
the most magnificent tool discovered to mankind, which
51:42
which is Bitcoin. So that's exactly what what we
51:46
did. Bars, bars.
51:47
Well, guys, we have. We skipped last Friday's meme
51:51
review and a lot of you guys got upset.
51:53
So you know, we got Opti's meme review lined up for you guys and
51:58
we'll end the week strong and then we'll, you know we'll go
52:03
back to the conference. By the way, we will be streaming
52:06
the entire conference tomorrow. It's the first for Simply
52:10
Bitcoins history. So we're really, really excited
52:12
for that. We'll be Opti and I will be
52:15
manning the news desk. We'll also be streaming the
52:17
panel's the entire conference, so make sure to tune into the
52:20
Simply Bitcoin channel. We'll also be streaming it on
52:22
Twitter and we'll opti be streaming it on on on Spaces as
52:27
well. So really looking forward to
52:28
that. Should be awesome.
52:30
All right, ladies and gentlemen, no more Delay Opti's Friday meme
52:33
review. Opti's Friday Meme Review.
52:43
We really, we really got to get Sophie's voice on that, like.
52:48
You're the one that's lagging on that.
52:49
Anyway, actually, you know, it'd be fucking hilarious.
52:52
Isawela's voice. Yeah.
52:53
So we need a more Miami voice Opti.
52:55
'S Friday Meme review a little. Bit.
52:57
It's a little bit Valley girl, isn't it?
52:59
It's just, it's just too, too much Valley.
53:01
Not enough, Miami? Yeah, yeah, we need a little
53:03
more Miami anyways. Anyways, enough roasting of
53:05
Opti. This is all anyone ever does on
53:07
the show. This is the meme review.
53:10
It's the Friday meme review, So we have to give it to you the
53:13
Friday. But we're going to change it to
53:14
just Opti's meme review so we can move it around and whatever
53:17
day if we miss it on the Friday. If the show goes too long.
53:19
But you already know the deal, guys.
53:21
Tag me in the memes. Drop them in our telegram
53:23
groups. Tweet to the bullets.
53:25
Memes are the artillery. You guys are frontline soldiers.
53:27
Continue to spread the memes. Continue to get the calls of
53:31
action out there. Continue to ridicule the
53:34
corporate press, the politicians, the bureaucrats,
53:36
every single one of the what? What?
53:37
Like the the reptiles, whatever you want to call them Anyways,
53:41
Anyways, we didn't say that on YouTube.
53:43
All right, first one is from the infamous Darth Maude.
53:47
If you hang out in our telegram group again.
53:49
Guys, this is like a two week old meme review.
53:51
I so I kept some old ones in there and updated some new ones
53:54
but here is Nikko live from El Salvador.
53:57
You can see the volcano in the background and we have Darth
54:01
Maude, the infamous Darth Maude. He goes buy and use Bitcoin Fiat
54:05
de Linda S which I think is Latin for end Fiat.
54:09
You guys can Fact Check me next one is this is might be my
54:12
favorite one here. Here we have Nikko on stage at
54:17
El Salvador having party. He's eating a burger or
54:21
something. And we have Greg Zoj looking
54:25
very lovingly at the burger and with a Big Sean Harris go
54:30
friendship in Bitcoin with Eric Stacks, Greg Zoj and Bitvolt.
54:34
But the real meme here is Joe Rogers And he goes find you a
54:38
man that looks at you the way at Greg Zoj looks at Bitvolt eating
54:42
a hot dog. Wait, did I?
54:44
Yeah. OK, we showed it.
54:45
OK All right, next one. Next one is our boy, the Bitcoin
54:49
therapist. And of course this is the
54:51
hangover, where they're all gambling.
54:52
And it goes when everyone thinks you're gambling, but it's just
54:55
simple mathematics Hashtag Bitcoin.
54:58
And they're throwing the craps dice.
55:00
And it's just, you know the the math behind Bitcoin.
55:03
Hard cap to 21 million Bitcoin. It's just math guys.
55:06
It's not gambling. OK, this next one is by BTC
55:09
breakdown. And he goes, when guys say their
55:14
wife won't allow them to buy Bitcoin, this is who you are.
55:17
Stack sats for your bloodline. This is the way.
55:21
That's a joke, YouTube. That's just a joke.
55:24
What are they? What are they talking about?
55:25
There was nothing bad there. OK, next one is by Boomer, AKA
55:29
the rulers Broken, and he goes on our way to audit the gold in
55:32
Fort Knox at Opti's meme review and then tags Nico and you can
55:36
see Miko sitting on the front of you know a Humvee here.
55:40
And then Opti with the cannon behind me calling the charge to
55:45
audit Fort Knox and he goes simply Bitcoin live chat and
55:48
Telegram crew on the back end. Wait, hold on.
55:51
I think I got a soundboard for you guys.
55:53
Wait, wait. Oh, it's it's not on the first
55:56
page. OK, anyways, anyways, I had a
55:58
soundboard in there. All right, next meme is by
56:01
Citadel is coming and it goes. You have too much Fiat and not
56:04
enough Bitcoin. And we got the classic Drake
56:07
Hotline bling meme here. And he goes, wait, no, not just
56:10
1% in Bitcoin. The true amount of Bitcoin you
56:14
should have is just 1% of Fiat. Everything else is in Bitcoin.
56:18
This is the way, guys. This is the way.
56:20
And then the last one and shouts out the Bitcoin Becca AKA goes
56:23
to Becca and the BT weekly gossip mag and you know updating
56:28
you on all the gossip that's happening in Bitcoin.
56:31
And this one goes BT weekly latest issue.
56:33
All of the spicy details below is BlackRock fighting for
56:37
freedom money. Are Bitcoin debs being
56:39
blackmailed? What really happened in El
56:41
Salvador with yellow speaker FBI agents infiltrate meetups Oh
56:45
right. Becca's never ending pregnancy
56:47
drama and you can see O'dow and sailor on the front.
56:50
It goes Adele verse Taylor showdown over Debs.
56:52
You can see Sean's confession of stealing yellow speaker.
56:56
We have yellow at down here distraught because he lost his
56:59
speaker. We have Magoo up here where is
57:01
the FBI fears government agencies will turn into toxic
57:04
Maxis And then we have a pregnant Becca with laser eyed
57:08
baby and go still pregnant Will her pregnancy ever add.
57:13
OK guys, all right, drop your meme review live in the chat and
57:16
we will cover it. On that note, we have to get
57:19
some some meme scores here, some transition.
57:24
So actually, I know what mine's going to be.
57:26
I know what mine's full screamy. This is mine.
57:29
This is mine. Nico, Sorry.
57:31
I'm going to give the the Fiat Maxis out there some salty
57:36
tears, some sea salt by Bitcoin. Well, in everyone's goodie bag,
57:41
Bitcoin is freedom. Enable independence.
57:44
This looks like some good salt can.
57:45
Can we can we comment on what kind of salt this is?
57:47
Is this pink Himalayan? That is, that is pink Himalayan
57:50
salt I. I'm kind of upset because that
57:52
that was totally going to be my score.
57:54
But bars. Fine I will.
57:56
Fine, fine fine. I will give it a a Bitcoin.
58:02
A Bitcoin. Bitcoin well, Bitcoin physical,
58:05
Bitcoin well. Wait, is that 'cause they just
58:07
coin? No, no.
58:09
Yeah, we have them just lying on the.
58:10
Table in here that that's what I'm gonna give.
58:14
That's my score, cause Opti stole my.
58:16
Store. Hey beggars our choosers.
58:19
And and a Bitcoin veteran's hat. I gotta think I'm gonna win with
58:22
this one 'cause I have I have Opti's bit block boom name tag
58:26
with with the iconic pit bit block boom noob pin and he
58:31
didn't want anyone to know he's he's actually not a Bitcoin.
58:35
You know, I've I've only been here what 3-4 years in a row,
58:38
but I am still a bit block boob noob, OK?
58:41
You'll get there. It's OK one day.
58:44
Alex Stanczyk, what would you give those memes?
58:46
Oh, well, there's one meme in particular that I thought was
58:49
really fantastic. Am I allowed to talk about the
58:50
one I like the most? Yes.
58:52
Yeah. OK, so the one I like the most
58:53
was definitely find yourself a man that looks at you the way
58:56
looks looks at Nico's hot dog. I got to say, that was pretty
59:01
damn good. So I'm going to give that one my
59:04
favorite a Bitcoin Veterans Ostrich helmet operator sticker.
59:10
Fantastic. Absolute bars.
59:14
Absolute bars. Anyways, Jeffrey, what would you
59:17
give those memes? Well, I loved them all.
59:20
My favorite was the the Otel Sailor Magazine color cover and
59:25
I I'm not quite sure how it works here, but I'm I'm going to
59:27
give a mass adoption sweatshirt. Boom.
59:31
That's a great score. That's a great score.
59:33
All right, let's get to some of the audience scores, Opti.
59:36
Let's get through like 5 or 6. All right.
59:39
No people forgot, man. I got some.
59:41
I got. Some MG Smith.
59:44
I give the memes Michael Saylor demanding A paternity test to
59:47
win Becca. Oh man, oh man, oh man.
59:52
Matt Free. I rate the memes a joint Bikini
59:56
whack. I didn't read it.
59:58
I didn't read it. I didn't read it.
59:59
I didn't read it. OK, Tyler Durden swallowed the
1:00:03
red pill. Says I score 2 day old chicken
1:00:06
tenders. OK, soshi Satoshi.
1:00:10
My meme score is my MTV death match of Sailor versus Odell.
1:00:14
If you know, you know, classic, classic.
1:00:16
Love it. Love it all right?
1:00:18
Next one by Mclovin Opti's air horn in an ultimate showdown
1:00:22
with Niko's Cowboy. Whoa, we got one.
1:00:24
We got there. We got it live.
1:00:26
All right, Face off. Now my air horn is way more.
1:00:31
Powerful. You let us know in the chat who
1:00:40
won that face off. All right, all right.
1:00:41
Next one SAT wise Jenks. I give the memes 4 toxic OG
1:00:46
bitcoiners. OK, OK.
1:00:49
This one might be a little iffy, but what we're We're going to
1:00:51
pull it up. Opti's sew back fields.
1:00:54
Never eat or shower at a hotel, then go home to your loving oifu
1:00:58
who's expecting to be very rich. This this knock meme score.
1:01:05
I'm just happy you're paying back your meme review debts.
1:01:08
Oh, OK. I'm sorry.
1:01:09
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
1:01:11
All right, Keith, I give the meme a 9/9 ounce.
1:01:15
Sirloin. Pittsburgh rare, right?
1:01:17
Opti? I think we're out of time,
1:01:18
brother. All right, one more SP.
1:01:21
I give the memes a Nico opti Nick Opti Super Saiyan boltard.
1:01:26
Oof. I love that one.
1:01:28
And that was the buzzer. We're out of time, ladies and
1:01:30
gentlemen. If you guys want more memes,
1:01:32
tune into next Friday's Simply Bitcoin show.
1:01:35
I do want to give a very special shout out to Jeffrey.
1:01:38
Jeffrey, thank you so much for coming.
1:01:41
And thank you for putting together mass adoption.
1:01:43
That's really neat. Maybe go maybe we go next year
1:01:46
simply Bitcoin. It's really, really cool.
1:01:48
Thank you so much for joining us.
1:01:49
For the audio listeners, go to massadoption.net if you want
1:01:53
more information on Jeff. Jeff, thank you.
1:01:57
Thank you guys, really enjoyed it.
1:01:59
Appreciate it, Appreciate it. I also want to give a very
1:02:01
special shout out to ours our panelists.
1:02:04
Today we have Adam O'Brien, the CEO and Founder of Bitcoin Well
1:02:07
and of course Alex Stanzik, Managing Director at Swan
1:02:10
Private and also the host of Bitcoin veterans as well.
1:02:14
So thank you guys so much for joining us.
1:02:16
Guys, I was wait, wait, wait, Nico, sorry, I'm going to cut
1:02:18
you off. Let's get last two Sats from
1:02:20
Alex and Adam before we we go off.
1:02:23
So we'll let's go with we'll go with Alex first.
1:02:25
What is the last two Sats for the audience?
1:02:27
What's the last message you want to leave with the people out
1:02:29
there in cyberspace? Well, I just think one of the
1:02:32
most important things that was discussed today was when when
1:02:34
Nico said that Bitcoin reveals your your intentions.
1:02:40
It reveals basically what you're all about.
1:02:44
And I think what's going to end up happening moving forward is
1:02:46
you're going to have to pick a side like when you said before
1:02:49
that like people who are anti Bitcoin or anti freedom.
1:02:52
I think that is 100% correct and time is proving that out.
1:02:56
There are clearly going to be two sides to this equation and
1:02:59
people who are against Bitcoin are going to be in my mind,
1:03:02
they're against freedom. They want, they want the systems
1:03:04
of control. I don't think that's a good
1:03:06
thing. Any human being alive within,
1:03:08
within the the, the hearing of my voice would prefer freedom
1:03:12
over slavery. Unless you're a lizard, you're.
1:03:15
Against Bitcoin, you're against freedom, Adam.
1:03:18
Final words. Yeah man, I mean part of that
1:03:20
freedom. Bitcoin and self custody, baby.
1:03:22
We cannot harp on this enough. You guys, We're talking about
1:03:25
seat plates. We're talking about hardware
1:03:26
wallets. We're talking about self custody
1:03:27
by default. Get your coins in your hands so
1:03:30
you are not subject to the lizards. 100% and use simply
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bitcoins referral code not Ben's.
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Go to bitcoinwell.com/simply Bitcoin and Ben and I are
1:03:43
currently on a face off. Yeah, I was going.
1:03:45
To say I I hit Nico this morning that that BTC sessions referral
1:03:49
code has has yielded more users for.
1:03:54
Absolute bullshit bro. There's no way you we didn't
1:03:57
even start implementing the referral code till after.
1:04:00
Anyway, Ben got a head start. Anyways, love you.
1:04:03
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1:04:20
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