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Bukele's Plan to Keep El Salvador Bitcoin Country | EP 818 · Simply Bitcoin

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It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
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It's going up for everyone. You're against Bitcoin.
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You're against freedom. Yeah.
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Welcome to Simply Bitcoin Live. We're number one source for the
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peaceful Bitcoin revolution. Code breaking news, culture,
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magic, warfare. We will be your guide through
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the separation of money and state.
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Speaking of the separation of money and state, very
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interesting article coming out of El Salvador.
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Well, officially it's an article by the Coin Telegraph and I know
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it. A lot of, I think it's multiple
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publications have picked it up, but this just dropped El
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Salvador to introduce Bitcoin education in schools by 2024.
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Now this is a very, very big deal.
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I fundamentally believe that this whole transition that we're
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living through is going to be a multigenerational thing because
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a lot of people have spent the majority of their lives living
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in the Fiat matrix, right? They're comfortable with it.
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They're comfortable with using money that has presidents.
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I mean, faces of really old people and presidents and all
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that stuff. If Opti gets back with Chrissy,
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OPTI will be on the face of the euro.
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We shall see, potentially. But in all seriousness, people
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have spent a lot of time living in this system.
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If you're in the developed world where you have you live in a
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country and you have the privilege to have a relatively
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stable inflation rate, you don't really have the incentive of
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someone who's living in the global South, of someone who's
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living in the in the developing world where they they have to
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seek an alternative. Now what I love about this news
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is that, and to to use the word, to be frank, right, like I'm
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just going to be totally blunt and maybe some people beat me up
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for it, indoctrinating people with the Bitcoin philosophy,
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indoctrinating kids with the Bitcoin philosophy.
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And I think that is why this is such a big deal, right?
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Schools teaching about Bitcoin in a very, very young age.
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And it's crazy. We know that public schools here
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in the US, they don't even have financial education in the 1st
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place. So this is absolutely bonkers.
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This is a step in the in the right direction because when
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these kids grow up, right, they're they're going to grow up
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already understanding what is Bitcoin, already understanding
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what the benefits of Bitcoin, rather than going through the
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process of what a lot of us have to go through or you have to go
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through this unlearning process because you've spent the
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majority of your life in the Fiat matrix.
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So I'm really excited about today's show.
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I'm going to bring up my legendary cohost, always
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optimistic. He's smiling.
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Is it true, Opti? Are things going good with
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Chrissy? Is she going to put you on the
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face of the euro? Wait, wait, how's this comment
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about Nico? It goes simply Bitcoin.
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I think Nico just predicted you're going to be dense.
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Wait, how did I do that? Because.
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Only dead presidents are on the on paper money.
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Oh God, no. Bad.
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God forbid. Well, opti's going to be the
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first one who's. Oh my goodness.
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Wow. Well, what a day.
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What? What?
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A way Start today's show. Oh man.
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Anyways, what were we talking about?
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Oh yeah, education, man. Actually, we were.
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We were kind of having this conversation before the show
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about not. And actually we were having it
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yesterday as well. The importance of spreading the
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Bitcoin signal and educating people, because my one concern
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is literally people's being apathetic.
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Like do do people just not care about Bitcoin and hard money in
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general? Because it's really simple in my
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opinion. Yeah, the tech, it's
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complicated, but people just seem to not care.
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And I think it's just going back to the theme, the running theme
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of the show constantly in the last couple of weeks is that
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people are starting to feel the pain, the inflation shock.
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Is is almost unavoidable at this point and people are starting to
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ask questions and hopefully they end up on the Bitcoin standard.
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They at least try to find alternatives and This is why
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we're here, This is why we constantly try to spread the
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signal on YouTube and combat all the noise out there.
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But man, yeah, I I think Bitcoin education is one of the most
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important things to be doing right now.
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At least as we say, you know, winning the hearts and minds of
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the masses out there, 100 percent, 100%.
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Also want to bring up our very special guest host of Cafe
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Bitcoin and he is the host of the Bitcoin Veterans Podcast,
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which just launched Alex Danzig. How you doing, Alex?
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I think you. Did we are having some audio,
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audio difficulties, but Alex Danzig has joined us today.
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So we're super, super hyped and it's going to be a great show.
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Anyways, I want to show you guys this video from I want to show
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you this video from the Meese's media and we actually showed you
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guys a video from them yesterday.
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There's another video that that that they had in the same
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playlist and it is awesome in 3 minutes and 17 seconds and I'm I
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played at 1.25 the speed so it shouldn't even take that long.
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Literally the name the topic of the video is money and the state
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and I think it perfectly summarizes it in such an
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articulate manner in such a well written well thought out very
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precise money and state what the government has done to our
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money. Now keep in mind, Bitcoin is
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Bitcoin actually provides a solution to this, which I think
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is, you know, which is, which is what I think is the the awesome
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part, right. You can complain, you could say,
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look, you could say all these things, but Bitcoin is the
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solution to this. I don't think it's gold, I think
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it's Bitcoin. I think gold because of its
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physical characteristics, I think it limits it, its
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potential to do to separate money from state.
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And I think that's what we all want.
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And I think this video really highlights literally it starts
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with the title card, What has government done to our money?
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So let's check it out. Money and the state governments,
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unlike all other organizations, do not obtain their revenue as
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voluntary payment for their services.
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Consequently, governments face an economic problem different
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from that of everyone else. Private individuals who want to
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acquire more goods and services from others must produce and
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sell more of what others want. Governments need only find some
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method of expropriating more goods without the owners
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consent. One way is theft, which in a
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monetary economy is called taxation.
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But taxes are unpopular, and too much of them can spark rebellion
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from the public. As a result, governments
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discovered another way to enrich themselves, counterfeiting
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creating new money out of thin air rather than earning it
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through exchanging goods and services.
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While much has changed throughout history, governments
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dependence on counterfeiting goes back thousands of years.
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For example, in ancient Rome, emperors would shave off bits of
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metal from coins or replace them entirely for inferior metal.
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In doing so, the government would create new coins for it to
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spend at the expense of the citizens whose money was now
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less valuable. Governments today do not inflate
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the currency by cutting coins, but they continue to expand the
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money supply at the expense of everyone else.
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How? Two ways.
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One is by creating it directly. One consequence of using paper
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was that it became easier to print new money into the system.
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Every new dollar that the government created, not backed
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by any commodity, had the same effect as shaving off metal to
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create new coins. In today's world, it is even
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easier. Now that most transactions are
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done electronically, central banks like the Federal Reserve
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can create trillions of new dollars with a keypad.
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This can then be pumped through the banking system, with the
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central bank buying assets like government debt or mortgages in
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exchange for the newly printed money.
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The other way is by regulating how banks can issue loans.
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With a fractional reserve banking system, the government
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can increase the money supply by changing the requirements for
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reserves and bank deposits. Requiring a 90% reserve means
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only 10% of a bank account can be loaned out.
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Changing that to a 10% reserve would allow for an exponential
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increase in the money supply. Given the way money can multiply
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in such a system, this increase in the money supply can give the
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economy the appearance of increased wealth in an economy.
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More money means its price, also called the interest rate or the
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cost of borrowing. Money goes down, which means
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that it is cheaper to invest in a new project than an individual
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may believe to be profitable. Without an increase in money.
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This would require an increase in real savings, which would
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reflect a change in consumer preferences.
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Instead, this artificial boom leads to investments in projects
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and industries that would not have appeared profitable with
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real market prices. A short term boom becomes a bust
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as there is not enough profit to justify the debt.
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A government that controls the money and banking systems in an
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economy can use it to confiscate wealth through inflation,
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monetize its debt, and interfere with general investment
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activity. It can do all of this without
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the brutality of police forces or militaries.
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How do governments achieve this power?
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To help understand that, let us look at the history of our
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Federal Reserve, so the. Creature from Jekyll Island?
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Well look, it just keeps going. It's just a very nice playlist.
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Guys. Check it out.
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Check out Ms. Meese's media and also shout out to them they have
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a Creative Comments Attributes license so they allow people to
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reuse this awesome content for educational purposes.
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So definitely check it out, dude.
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It is. It is what we say every day.
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It's just in a more articulate manner.
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We're trying to get Alex on the show so that we're having a bit
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of some technical difficulties before we get Alex on here.
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Opti, what's your take on on the video?
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Yeah, first and foremost, who's making those videos?
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Nico Cuz they're really good. Yeah, Well, I mean.
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Meeses Media. They're incredible Mees Media.
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Yeah, I might just show them like, for the next couple of
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days. They literally have a playlist
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of like 9. OK, and they're incredible that
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I'm absolutely loving. It really goes into what we say
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all the time, like the problem is very easily identifiable.
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And obviously as a Bitcoin channel, we would say that the
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problem is the fact that we gave a small cabal control over the
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money, that there is, you know, the state in between you and
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your money and they can do whatever they want with money.
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And of course Bitcoin fixes this.
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But this example really makes me wonder.
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And maybe I'm being like a jaded Bitcoin today.
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Maybe. Maybe I'm feeling a little
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pessimistic fields today. But it really makes you wonder,
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like, why people ignore the problem of money printing and
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why they're giving. Control to the money to the
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state or or rather why they're digging their heads in the sand
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that this is the problem and I'm just I'm I don't know I can only
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make me think today that it's just people don't want to
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believe that governments and politicians are stealing from
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them they they want to believe that those empowered still have
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their best intentions and and it's kind of like the Wizard of
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Oz you know looking behind the veil and and it just it's too
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painful for most people like people are too.
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I don't know, like the sunk cost fallacy keeps popping in my
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head. Maybe just people are too
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connected and too emotional about this situation where they
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don't want to believe that all of the feel good projects that
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their government are supposedly laying out for them are
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literally making them poorer. And This is why they're
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struggling in their everyday life.
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And it's like, man, we have these examples that are so
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simple. And and you know they're catchy
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and they're animated. And it's like it's it's so
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simple, even a child can understand this.
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But what's that saying where like if your job depends on if
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your paycheck depends on it, it's going to be impossible for
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you to teach someone about it. And this is kind of where I
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think we're at. Like most people are so involved
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in the status quo that things. I can hear, Alex.
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I think we can hear you. I can hear you.
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Alex is Alex is here. What's up, Alex?
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Am I here now? Alex Danzig, host of Cafe
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Bitcoin and Bitcoin veterans. How you doing man?
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I'm doing great. Thank you.
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Happy, happy to happy to join us.
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We just saw this awesome video from Mrs. Media.
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They like they open the license so that you could just share it
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and play it. But literally the topic of the
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video is what governments have done to money.
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But what's really interesting is that again like they highlight
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the problem. They they they they're like,
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look this is what they've done. It gives them this ability to
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essentially counterfeit money, spend money that they, they they
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wouldn't normally be able to because the only other method is
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direct taxation. You can't, you know, tax your
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people too crazily without creating a revolution,
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basically. So governments have figured out
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this like, you know, this, this, this, this hidden tax of
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inflation. And they did it.
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It did an incredible job highlighting that.
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Now what I think is missing from all these videos is as as
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amazing as they are is what is the solution, right.
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So I I think gold failed. I think it's because of its
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physical characteristics. I think it was inevitably
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coopted, but I think Bitcoin can succeed where gold failed
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because of its physical characteristics, because it's of
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its ability for for because people can just store 1,000,000
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billions trillions of dollars theoretically by writing down a
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12 word seed phrase, right? It it makes it incredibly easy.
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And not to mention you can send this Bitcoin instantaneously
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anywhere around the world at a snap of a finger at a very low
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cost, right? So anyways, Alex, what has
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government done to money in, in your opinion?
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Government has created this situation where the money is
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dishonest. It benefits a certain group of
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people over another group of people.
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It's it's causing this massive bifurcation of wealth.
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This inflation effect, by the way, it's compounding inflation
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effect is essentially hollowing out the entire middle class of
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the United States of America, and it's transferring all of
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that wealth into the hands of a very small number of people.
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And it's incredibly bad for the stability of the country, the
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stability of the society, not to mention the fact that it's
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basically stealing the time and the life and the labor of all of
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these innocent people, many of whom have no idea and don't
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really understand how or why this is happening to them.
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All they know is. They can't afford anything.
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Groceries are stupid, expensive. Gas is stupid and expensive.
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I keep seeing these videos popping up where there's there's
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there. There's this one video I saw.
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There's this one gal at the gas station, right?
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And she's on the hood of her car, like counting out pennies
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and change to try to put gas in her car.
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And so while she's doing this, this other dude pulls up next to
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her and he's looking over and he's watching her do this.
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She's like, man, that's messed up.
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So what he does is he sneaks around the other side, he puts
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his card and he he authorizes the payment for her.
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And she comes back and she could just pump gas.
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She started crying. She climbs in her car and she's
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just bawling and it tells you what's going on.
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This is this is like happening all over the country right now.
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And I think you're feeling it like people are feeling it.
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I think we're on the verge of people basically saying, yeah,
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we're done. We're fed up with this.
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Maybe we don't understand what's happening, but mathematically we
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can't keep doing this. It's gonna be a problem 100%.
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And I think, honestly, I think that's it's responsible for a
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lot of the political atmosphere that we see nowadays, right?
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I think a lot of people are continuing to seek a political
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solution to this and they go into, you know, their
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ideological side. But whoever gets elected into
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into office, into power, the issue remains the same, right?
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You know, this this bureaucratic elite has the ability to create
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money for free that everyone else has to work for and it
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misaligns incentives completely. And it's the lower middle
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classes like you said that get affected the most because they
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don't have the means to save an assets, right.
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They're saving in dollars. They're earning in dollars.
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And this is, this is something that that came to mind.
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This is an article that we covered not too long ago, Alex,
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which is 61% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
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Inflation is still squeezing budgets, right.
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So, you know, so this is, this is, this is Fiat money for you,
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but Bitcoin absolutely fixes this, and I think it's our
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responsibility as bitcoiners so to really spread that message
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far and wide. Anyways, Opti, I know, I rudely
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interrupted. You what's your take?
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I mean, I can't. I can't add to what you guys are
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saying, but that little article reminded me of a new statistic
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that I saw. I forget where I saw it from,
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but it was saying that like the US credit debt is now at like
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all time high. So as you can tell, not only do
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people not have enough money like to live paycheck to
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paycheck just based on their normal Fiat job, but everyone is
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on credit. Everyone is.
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You know, shackled with debt at this point.
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And if that's not signs of people feeling the pain of their
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purchasing power being diminished, like I don't know
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what is and people are feeling that pain and and you know, this
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might be a tangent, but I was watching Snowpiercer last night.
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It just, it went on the TV. And when when Alex was talking
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and you said we're, we're almost at the point where.
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And then literally my head was like we're almost at the point
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where people are going to start like eating each other.
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Like, I know we're not there, I'm being hyperbolic.
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But like, you can feel. It.
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Sorry, sorry, obviously I'm kind of joking, but like, it's like
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painting a picture that. You know, a few years ago when
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things got locked down, we were at the point in social unrest
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where people were rioting, where people were protesting.
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And that was for different, for different reasons.
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But I think we're getting to the point now moving forward and
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we'll see by next year whether this becomes true or not.
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That people are going to be running in the streets, and not
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just for the lockdown, but because they're poor, because
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they are feeling the pain. You know, I'm getting visions of
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what happened during the French Revolution, of people just
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running in the streets and being so just pissed off about what's
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going on in the world that, you know, like, I won't say it, but
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you know what I'm saying comes we're talking about the French
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Revolution. Things are gonna be crazy.
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I guess just the the another another frame, right?
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We're reaching a boiling point where people can't even, you
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know, pay for basic goods and services.
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And history has shown, like if that trend continues to happen,
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there's a lot of political unrest that, you know, that
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starts to, you know, that starts to propagate people, people get
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desperate. And then there's been many
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examples of that in history. And I think we're we're, we're
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we're very, very fast. We're we're approaching fast.
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This situation where it's it's already you guys read the
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headlines, 61% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
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I remember that video of of of that of that woman crying when
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she was trying to put gas in the car.
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There's also videos on TikTok of people saying, look, I work 2
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jobs. My husband works a job and we
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still can't make ends meet. What's going on here?
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What's going on there is the money's broken, it's been
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stealing from everyone blind and I truly believe it's our job to
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to news. Very interesting.
23:11
I'm going to start off with this quote and it's referencing what
23:14
I was talking about in the beginning.
23:17
About this idea that if you spend a lot of time in the Fiat
23:21
matrix, you grow accustomed to it.
23:23
You grow accustomed to the convenience to this idea that
23:27
the government should have the ability to.
23:29
They're the only ones that have the ability and the capacity to
23:33
to do money. No one else can do that.
23:36
And I think that this is a great analogy movie The Matrix that
23:39
we've referenced many, many times on simply Bitcoin.
23:43
This is a quote from Morpheus and this is right after Neo was
23:47
first woken up in the Matrix and he he goes into a denial attack.
23:52
He's like, no, this is impossible.
23:54
He like passes out and then and then in the following scene he
23:57
wakes up. Morpheus is standing like right
24:00
beside or right beside him and he says, I feel I owe you an
24:03
apology. We have a rule.
24:04
We never free in mind what's it's reached a certain age.
24:07
It's dangerous. The mind has trouble letting go.
24:11
I've seen it before and I'm sorry, I did what I did because
24:13
I had to. It's why I focused so much on
24:16
working with the younger generation.
24:19
So anyways, speaking on that last line, which I don't think
24:23
is from the movie, this is in reference to what we're going to
24:26
talk about today, which is this news that dropped out, dropped
24:30
El Salvador to introduce Bitcoin education in schools by 2024.
24:34
Goes on to say the Ministry of Education of El Salvador, the
24:37
nonprofit nongovernmental organization meet permit
24:40
Bitcoin, meaning My First Bitcoin partnered to add Bitcoin
24:43
education to public school curriculum by 2024.
24:46
John Den Heny, the founder of MVP, confirmed to Coin Telegraph
24:52
that this is a project of the Ministry of Education that MVP
24:55
is assisting with along with Bitcoin Beach.
24:58
It goes on to say, he said training for the pilot program
25:00
begins on September 7th with the assistance from Bitcoin Beach.
25:04
The Bitcoin Diploma program will be taught to 150 public school
25:08
teachers from 75 schools to provide them with a base
25:11
knowledge of Bitcoin. Quote As the First Nation to
25:14
adopt Bitcoin, El Salvador will be an example for the world.
25:17
Quality education is our best chance to ensure that the
25:20
example is a +1. It goes on to say when my first
25:23
Bitcoin be when my first Bitcoin began 2 years ago, one of the
25:27
dreams was to educate a nation. This is a significant step
25:30
towards that. In a recent interview with
25:32
Bitcoin Beach, it's community leader Roman Martinez told Cold
25:36
a Coin Telegraph that over 25,000 students in El Salvador
25:39
have already learned about Bitcoin in the classroom.
25:42
It goes on to say, quote, El Salvador is leading the way with
25:45
public Bitcoin education and we expect other nations to follow.
25:48
The world is watching and it's really interesting.
25:52
Apparently they're trying to. This is Cuba Bitcoin.
25:56
And apparently they're doing something very similar over
25:58
there. I don't know.
25:59
But anyways, this is really, really interesting for a couple
26:02
of reasons. Reason #1 is that Morpheus
26:05
analogy, that matrix analogy that I told you right?
26:09
It's so much easier if it's a fresh mind.
26:12
You know, they're they're they don't even know what money is,
26:14
right? And it's interesting.
26:15
They don't teach about money in the American educational system,
26:20
which I think is really, really fascinating.
26:22
Anyways, this kind of reminds me of this video, very very famous
26:27
video on YouTube and it's about this K GB defector Yuri Beznov
26:33
Bez Minov and he talks about this idea of if you want to
26:37
cooptination. Of course he's talking about a
26:40
collectivist ideology specifically, but it kind of the
26:43
same thing applies in a way, right?
26:46
If you really want to change. If you really want to change
26:50
people's perspective on things, what's the easiest thing to do?
26:54
What is, what is the first thing that you want to do?
26:56
You want to educate the new generation, the generation
26:59
that's coming in, right? Shout out to El Salvador for
27:02
taking this very, very brave step in doing that.
27:05
I don't think they even teach about finance and about money in
27:09
American public schools. A lot of people feel that, you
27:13
know, that's that's for for. They do that on purpose.
27:17
We're not going to take that stance on simply Bitcoin, but it
27:21
is quite a coincidence that they don't, that they don't, they
27:24
don't, they don't talk about that, so to speak.
27:26
Anyways, here is I'm going to show you guys the video of Yuri
27:30
Besmanov. He is a defector from the Soviet
27:32
Union. He came to the US and he talks
27:35
about this idea of ideological subversion, which is really
27:38
interesting. So it's about a two-minute clip
27:40
and then we'll talk about it. Mr. Besmanov was born in 1939 in
27:44
a suburb of Moscow. He was the son of a high-ranking
27:46
Soviet Army officer. He was educated in the elite
27:49
schools inside the Soviet Union and became an expert in Indian
27:51
culture and Indian languages. He had an outstanding career
27:55
with Novesty, which was the and still is, I should say the press
27:59
arm or the press agency of the Soviet Union.
28:01
It turns out that this is also a front for the K GB.
28:04
He escaped to the West in 1970 after becoming totally disgusted
28:07
with the Soviet system, and he did this at great risk to his
28:10
life. He certainly is one of the
28:12
world's outstanding experts on the subject of Soviet propaganda
28:15
and disinformation and active measures.
28:17
When you spoke several times before about ideological
28:20
subversion, that is a phrase that I'm afraid some Americans
28:23
don't fully understand. When the Soviets use the phrase
28:26
ideological subversion, what do they mean by?
28:29
It ideological subversion is the slow process.
28:32
Which we call either ideological subversion or active measures,
28:36
actively Meritia in the language of the KGB or psychological
28:39
warfare. What it basically means is to
28:41
change the perception of reality of every American to such an
28:46
extent that despite of the abundance of information, no one
28:50
is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of
28:53
defending themselves, their families, their community, and
28:56
their country. It's a great brainwashing.
28:59
Process which goes very slow and it's divided in four basic
29:03
stages, the first one being demoralization.
29:07
It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation.
29:10
Why that many years? Because this is the minimum
29:12
number of years which requires to educate one generation of
29:15
students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of
29:21
the enemy. In other words, Marxism,
29:22
Leninism, ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at
29:26
least three generations of American students.
29:28
So. Stop it right there.
29:30
And another another interesting fact about that video, by the
29:33
way, You know who was doing that interview?
29:35
You know who was the The interviewer, G Edward Griffin,
29:39
who is also the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island,
29:42
which exposes the Federal Reserve.
29:43
A lot of interesting thing, a lot of coincidences.
29:46
Put the political talk aside. Put the collectivist talk aside.
29:51
Put that aside, But in the eyes of a Soviet agent, right, whose
29:55
whole purpose was to change the ideology of a country, of a
29:59
nation, he's literally telling you it will take between 10 to
30:03
15 years. And the reason it takes that
30:07
long is because that's how long it takes to educate an entire,
30:11
an entire generation, entire group of people.
30:16
And I think El Salvador is really pushing this forward, but
30:19
not on a negative way, not on a statebased ideology, not on a
30:23
collectivist ideology, but they're pushing forward and
30:26
they're teaching kids about Bitcoin, and that is really,
30:31
really awesome. They're not teaching kids about
30:32
Fiat. They're not teaching kids about
30:34
politics. They're not teaching kids about
30:36
ideologies. They're teaching kids about
30:39
Bitcoin and I think this is really, really pushing the
30:42
envelope. I think this is exactly why the
30:43
MIMF has attacked El Salvador the way it has.
30:46
I think This is why the Fiat media has attacked El Salvador
30:50
the way it has, because they see what's happening there and I
30:53
think it scares them to death. Not to mention also that they
30:57
made President Naim Bukele. President Naimbukele made safe
31:03
Adina Moose, who is an Austrian economist.
31:07
The presidential economic advisor, right.
31:10
Just to just to highlight how you know how far off these guys
31:15
are going. They're really, really serious
31:16
about this Bitcoin thing. So anyways, that's what I wanted
31:20
to cover today. I think it's really, really
31:22
important that not only is Bitcoin taught to kids at a
31:26
very, very young age, but also more importantly.
31:31
That you know this hat, this happens worldwide, right?
31:35
And I'm going to pass this question to Alex.
31:37
Alex, do you think it's a coincidence that financial
31:39
education is not given in high school, Money is not talked
31:43
about during high school? Is that a coincidence?
31:44
What's going on there? Not at all.
31:46
I don't think that's a coincident coincidence at all.
31:49
If you look at the type of things that are being taught in
31:51
American schools today, this concept of really demoralizing
31:57
the nation and kind of getting people into this mode.
32:01
That goes along with this feeling of disempowerment.
32:03
So it kind of switches them into this mode where they where they
32:06
just don't believe in the system, they feel very
32:10
disempowered, They want to attack everything that has
32:13
anything to do with power or authority or unfortunately even
32:18
success. Like there's this video that I
32:22
saw the other day that I thought was really good.
32:24
It was called Postmodern Resentment.
32:26
I'm trying to rename. Remember the name of the guy
32:28
that had it, But he was basically talking about how like
32:31
people get into this situation where especially in an
32:34
environment like this where you've got inflation that is so
32:36
high, people begin to feel powerless.
32:38
So once they begin to feel powerless, if they own that
32:42
enough, they start to resent anybody who's doing well.
32:46
And that is a perfect breeding ground for these types of ideas
32:52
which are then used. Really to destroy the systems of
32:56
the existing Free State. It's very dangerous pathway and
33:00
I think it was Bastiat that said and I'm paraphrasing him because
33:05
this is not the exact quote but it's something like this, is
33:07
that if you want to take over a country you do it in the
33:10
schools. And I saw this kind of stuff
33:13
happening many years ago. I want to say in the early
33:16
2000s. I was very concerned about it.
33:18
In fact, I even left the United States for a period of almost 11
33:21
years to live in another country because I didn't want my kids
33:24
growing up in that school system.
33:25
I think it's very dangerous and it's it's leading to a lot of
33:29
not ideal outcomes right now. Yeah, 100%.
33:32
I 100% agree with you. It's.
33:36
It's it's you, you, you sense it.
33:39
It's this very defeatist mindset, nihilistic mindset.
33:44
But at the same time, I, I, I, I really believe that the root
33:47
cause of it is Fiat itself. I think you know, if you corrupt
33:52
the base layer of society, if the base layer of society is
33:55
based on lies, I think that has a lot of unintended
33:59
consequences. It it infects every facet of
34:02
society. I don't think that it's a
34:04
coincidence. That the first society that
34:07
fixed the base layer made Bitcoin legal tender.
34:10
The person that was elected into office is actually doing the
34:14
things that he said he was going to do if he was elected.
34:17
I do not think that's a coincidence, but maybe I'm
34:21
seeing things. I did ask Max.
34:23
I did ask Max and Stacy. Stacy agreed.
34:26
I did ask Jimmy Song. Jimmy Song agreed.
34:29
But I think it's too early to tell.
34:30
I'm cautious to say statements like that.
34:33
But anyways Opti, what's your take on this?
34:35
What's your take on that video? And shout out to our chat cuz
34:38
our chat was someone in the chat was someone that pointed out
34:41
that's that's Edward Griffin that's making that that that
34:45
that's doing that interview and again like we we all know the
34:48
book that he wrote. Anyways, Opti, what's your take?
34:50
Yeah so first and foremost as a product of the American public
34:55
school student I I think this is awesome.
34:58
And and for those that that aren't from America that don't
35:01
get like the meme about being an American public school student.
35:05
It basically means that like it's a running joke that like
35:07
you're Dumber than your counterparts that go to a
35:09
private school or our home school.
35:11
And look Nika you said that we're not going to say that is
35:14
by design but I'm going to double down and say that I think
35:17
it is by design. Sorry bro but like it's very
35:20
obvious and like you're not taught and and we're talking you
35:23
know we're obviously being rhetorical in these questions
35:26
like why are we not taught taught about money or the inner
35:29
workings of money and how they work.
35:31
And again, I'm going to say that is by design, because if people
35:34
understood the inner workings of banking, of the Federal Reserve,
35:38
of money, of state controlling money, I think they would get
35:42
pissed off. What's that one saying?
35:43
If people knew how banking worked, there'd be a revolution
35:46
overnight. So again, you know, like what do
35:48
we say? There's no coincidences, but
35:50
there's also there's. No conspiracies, but there's no
35:52
conspiracies. But there's no coincidence,
35:54
exactly. And it's like you can't have one
35:56
without the other. You can't have a financial
36:00
system that is designed to steal from them and have an educated,
36:04
you know, citizenry like it just doesn't work like that.
36:07
Or else people would get pissed off and things would change.
36:10
And obviously the status quo wants to remain the same.
36:13
And like maybe this is, you know, Nico and Opti or rather
36:17
we'll say just Opti being conspiratorial here, but safety
36:20
and even says it himself. Where basically American public
36:23
schools are designed to make you into a sober a Soviet labor
36:30
worker. Something like the on the lines
36:32
of our American public school system was designed in such a
36:35
way that they took it from the Soviet Russia education system
36:40
and they basically just make you and design you to be a factory
36:44
worker. So of course they're not going
36:45
to educate you on money or tell you how the inner workings of
36:49
banking work. Like of course this is by
36:51
design. And yes, of course in this topic
36:54
about El Salvador, there is some concern about it being state
36:56
mandated and you know the threat there.
36:58
And I I know bitcoiners get skeptical and we're always
37:01
looking at attack vectors. But I would say overall that
37:03
this is a benefit for not only El Salvador for but for the kids
37:07
out there. Like we say it all the time and
37:09
shouts out the fossil. He says it, but like it's about
37:11
the kids, and the best way to make bitcoiners is to teach them
37:16
young like you. You don't have to talk to the
37:20
older generation and have them unlearn everything about what
37:23
they think to be to be true. Again, I just watched The Big
37:26
Short the other day. And what's that Mark Twain quote
37:28
in the beginning of? It's not what you know that is
37:31
wrong, it's what you think you know that isn't true.
37:33
That really hurts you. And this is where we are.
37:35
There's so many people out there, we would say the majority
37:38
of the citizenry in America or in the first world that believe
37:41
that the world works a certain way and it's literally what is
37:45
causing them to be poor. So like, I don't know.
37:48
I mean I think it's very smart to start with the kids and get
37:52
them on a Bitcoin education program.
37:53
And obviously we haven't been able to fully decipher what the
37:56
program is. But if it's being led by safety
38:00
and I am sure it's going to be an epic, epic Bitcoin education
38:03
program and it really makes me think of, you know, I I I grew
38:08
up playing lacrosse as a kid. And so I I learned a little bit
38:11
about Native Americans. And one of the things that I
38:13
really enjoyed is the meme of seven generation thinking and we
38:17
have Yuri saying it on the opposite side, that if you get a
38:20
control of the kids mind in what, 30 years, 10 years, a few
38:24
decades, you can completely change the fabric of society.
38:28
And this is where we are. And so we're going to have to do
38:31
the opposite, but in a positive manner is teach people how to be
38:35
bitcoiners. Why Bitcoin?
38:36
Why hard money? And start with them young.
38:38
So, like, you know, there's kids out there already that have been
38:41
living in a Bitcoin only world and it's just already second
38:44
nature to them. You know, like my, my little, I
38:47
have a cousin, she's like 10 years old and I and I'll send
38:50
her Bitcoin and she has a Bitcoin wallet and she's just
38:52
like this is so much easier than banking.
38:54
It's like it's so simple. If this is the first thing
38:57
you've encountered, like Nico and I talk about all the time,
39:00
if you go to a bank as a kid, they won't even let you get a
39:03
bank account. And you just download an app and
39:05
it's like, OK, here you go, you are your own bank.
39:08
Mom, send me some sets. It's as easy as that.
39:11
And the kids are going to grow up.
39:13
They're already tech savvy and this is gonna be second nature
39:16
for them. And this is how we win that
39:17
culture award, is by instilling in them young that Bitcoin is
39:21
the way you save. And what?
39:23
Why are you holding this fake paper money?
39:25
Like, what is going on here? Like you, old people are crazy.
39:29
Oh man, oh man. Opti.
39:31
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Here Opti is the the in house outside the Overton window guy.
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It's all yours. Yeah, let's go.
41:42
Well, first and foremost, Alex, good to have you.
41:45
And let's just start where I'm guessing most people in the chat
41:48
know you from what is Cafe Bitcoin?
41:50
And for those that don't know, you know, give them the TLDR of
41:54
what you guys do over there on Cafe Bitcoin, Alex.
41:57
Sure. Cafe Bitcoin is a live show that
42:00
we do on Twitter Spaces every single day.
42:02
It's an audio show. If you have Twitter, you can
42:05
just listen in. We have a panel of speakers,
42:09
people who come on on the regular.
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Lots of experts come in, lots of featured guests come in.
42:14
We talk about Bitcoin just for about two hours straight cover
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almost every aspect of it, from the technical part of it to self
42:21
custody to mining to how the protocol works.
42:28
Monetary history, economics, geopolitics, all of the
42:31
different areas that that somebody might be interested in
42:35
checking out in regards to Bitcoin.
42:37
So we've been doing this for almost 2 years now.
42:39
I think today we did like Episode 428.
42:43
It's also a podcast up on Spotify and Apple and Fountain
42:47
Everywhere. Your podcast, you can listen to
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it as an audio version. We're going to be soon doing it
42:52
as a live stream as well on video and starting to put it up.
42:55
On video, Nico's gonna be hooking me up with his brainiac
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expertise on how to set up studios and all that other kind
43:02
of stuff, So looking forward to that.
43:04
Wow, let's go. Awesome.
43:05
Awesome to hear. Well, also shouts out to a
43:08
producer Jacob, cuz you guys probably have some of the best
43:11
guests daily coming in on Cafe Bitcoin.
43:14
And you know, wouldn't be a simply Bitcoin show if we didn't
43:17
shout out Jacob over there. But yeah man.
43:20
OK, let's go into your newest project.
43:22
And Mike Hobart, he's a he's. Off the bench member for Simply
43:26
Bitcoin and we've talked about Bitcoin veterans before, but
43:30
again, for those that don't know, what is the goal with
43:32
Bitcoin veterans and who is Bitcoin veterans?
43:37
OK, so thanks for asking. Bitcoin Veterans is a new pod
43:40
and new Bitcoin pod. It's a video podcast.
43:43
We stream it live. We do it every Wednesday night.
43:45
We're doing it tonight, 7:00 PM Eastern.
43:47
If you want to check out or follow, be notified of when
43:51
those are dropping. Look for Bitcoin veterans on
43:53
Twitter. And it's basically five guys all
43:57
prior active duty. Some of us are combat that some
43:59
of us are not doesn't really matter.
44:01
I mean we're coming from a perspective of what our
44:03
experiences in our in our kind of view on life shows us in
44:08
terms of Bitcoin. You know when you're when you're
44:11
in the military you you get sort of.
44:15
But unique perspectives into how this whole system works, how the
44:18
military industrial complex works.
44:20
You start asking questions about why are you're being deployed
44:23
overseas to do certain things in the name of what?
44:25
You start asking questions about Why are they sending us there?
44:29
What's to be gained by this? Are we actually protect the
44:31
United States of America or are we executing the interests of a
44:34
bunch of bankers and politicians?
44:37
What's that all about? Is it just funding the the
44:40
military industrial complex? It's all those kind of things,
44:43
so. The purpose of the show is we're
44:45
going to cover a quite a large range of topics, everything from
44:50
Citadels to we'll probably talk about shooting and all this
44:53
other kind of stuff at some point.
44:56
Resilience man stuff honor, you know, part of it is to take a
45:02
lot. I think there's a lot of younger
45:04
guys right now who are just misguided, especially dudes who
45:07
fall into this kind of category of like they feel disempowered.
45:10
They don't know what to do about it.
45:11
I just kind of. Hopefully try to mentor them
45:14
with some of our experience and then show them the way, a way.
45:19
I should say we're not here to type.
45:21
Try to tell anybody, like we know everything and like, you
45:24
know, this is the only way, but you know these are our
45:27
experiences and what we've learned and maybe maybe this can
45:29
be useful to you. So that's what it's about.
45:34
We find that a lot of prior military like it.
45:38
But also, I mean, I think it appeals to a wider audience too,
45:41
because people like to hear kind of the perspectives of guys
45:43
who've who've seen some things and laid their life on the line
45:47
for ideals and beliefs that maybe it turned out down the
45:51
road, they didn't realize what what it was that they were
45:56
actually fighting for. Started asking those questions
45:58
and we really want to reach out to veterans.
46:02
People who are who are no longer active duty, but also people who
46:05
are active duty and 1st responders people are all kind
46:09
of in these lines of work where they could potentially be
46:12
placing their lives on the line for what they believe in.
46:17
And veterans in particular, who come back from being deployed
46:23
overseas and they try to reinsert themselves into the
46:25
civilian population and they find.
46:28
Sometimes they're a little disillusioned because the whole
46:30
thing is maybe not what they thought it was.
46:33
That's tough on a lot of guys. We lose a lot of guys every
46:36
single year who basically they're just really
46:40
disenfranchised, disenchanted, depressed, all kinds of mental
46:43
health issues. And we want to basically reach
46:46
out to these guys and say look for many guys who join.
46:50
They do it because they're what I call sheep dogs.
46:53
They're all about trying to protect people.
46:56
Who may not necessarily be willing to protect themselves or
46:59
capable of protecting themselves.
47:02
And Bitcoin is a way for us to carry that to a new level.
47:07
It's a new mission. This is a way for people to
47:09
basically take their lives back from what many of us believe is
47:14
a tyrannical system and growing more tyrannical by the day.
47:18
And so this is very serious for us.
47:21
And we have a good time. You know, we we start out having
47:24
a couple of shots of bourbon or whatever the case may be.
47:26
And you know when you get a bunch of military vets together,
47:29
the the dark humor does flow. So hopefully that doesn't offend
47:33
too many people and you guys have a good time and maybe
47:36
hopefully learn something from it.
47:37
Absolutely 100%, dude. I mean, I I'm, I I love that you
47:41
guys are doing that. You know, it's cool that you
47:45
guys came together and I agree. I think that a lot of people are
47:49
are lost nowadays. You know as a bitcoiner by
47:52
default I I I blame Fiat money for a lot of that but I agree.
47:57
I think, I don't know it's usually Opti says these types of
48:01
thing. I I don't think it's a bad thing
48:03
to I don't I usually don't think it's a bad thing.
48:05
I I don't think it's a bad thing to be strong.
48:07
I don't think it's a bad thing to be self-sufficient.
48:10
I don't think it's a bad thing to, you know, to to stand up for
48:14
yourself and be proud. And I think that we kind of live
48:17
in this world where, you know, maybe you could make an argument
48:20
that those things perhaps are frowned upon a little bit.
48:24
So it's awesome, Alex, what you're doing.
48:26
And why don't you tell everybody where they can find the show if
48:29
they're interested in in subscribing and tuning in?
48:33
I would say the best way is just go to Twitter, find the handle
48:35
Bitcoin veterans and we post live when it's dropping both on
48:39
YouTube, we do it live on Twitter as well.
48:43
And all of the other places that it drops as a pod.
48:45
Let me just one really quick before I wrap up.
48:48
That part is, is that I want to shout out to the other guys on
48:50
the show. We've got Shane Hazel, Mike
48:53
Hobart, Gabe Lord Jordan, aka Operation Libertas.
48:57
For those of you who don't know, Shane Hazel is a prior Special
49:00
Operations Force Recon Marine. Hobart was in the army, Gabe as
49:06
well in the army also. Jordan was also special
49:09
operations as well. We're going to be having regular
49:11
interviews with guys who are both active duty and retired on
49:14
a regular basis. Some of these guys are either
49:16
already Bitcoin errs or they might be Bitcoin curious.
49:21
And the formats, basically, we were trying to get some good
49:23
life lessons from those guys, from their experiences in the
49:25
military, but also why they're looking at Bitcoin.
49:29
As the new mission for their life or why they if if they're
49:31
just Bitcoin, curious when talk to him about it and and figure
49:34
out like what's what's up why, why may this matter for you guys
49:39
and I think it's going to be very useful for a lot of people
49:42
100 percent, 100% Opti. Yeah, I just.
49:46
I'm just thinking. By chance, if there is a veteran
49:51
out there that may be on the fence on Bitcoin, maybe just
49:54
found simply Bitcoin and and just stumbled into this chat and
49:57
we're having this conversation today.
49:59
Alex, what would be your elevator pitch for someone like
50:01
that? Somebody who's just checking it
50:05
out, I would say just get about, get around, you know, the the
50:08
Bitcoin veterans show and listen to our perspective on it because
50:11
we're going to talk in a language that you're going to
50:12
understand. We'll talk.
50:13
We'll come from a perspective that you're going to get.
50:16
We're going to share experiences that you're going to be like,
50:18
yeah, I'm track and I get that. And so I think that sometimes
50:23
that's helpful for people when they can hear it in language and
50:26
from people who they can relate to things that might make make
50:29
sense to them. Love it.
50:31
Absolutely love it. Well, just doubling down, I know
50:34
Nika, said Opti, he's the one to say it.
50:36
I am wholly convinced that the destruction of masculinity is on
50:40
purpose. They want you deaf, dumb and
50:41
blind. And I, you know, I'm, I'm good
50:45
friends with Mike. I absolutely love Mike.
50:47
He's actually going to be on the show tomorrow.
50:48
And we always talk about how there is a direct correlation
50:53
between having principles in in life in regards to everything.
50:58
And being truth oriented and how Bitcoin is just like it, it's
51:03
the match made in in heaven here.
51:05
And I love one of your memes that get on the mission.
51:08
So can we give just some oorah get on the mission signal right
51:11
here before we wrap up and go into the meme review?
51:17
Yeah, you bro. Yeah, I mean, look, just in
51:22
general, man, like that, that's the that's the way to go for us.
51:25
This is the mission like. I'll tell you from my personal
51:29
perspective, the reason I joined the military is because I'm one
51:33
of these guys who wants to try to protect people.
51:35
It's it's my nature to do so. And I see lots of people out
51:38
there who don't know what's happening to them.
51:40
They don't understand what's happening to them.
51:42
They don't understand what's going on with the money.
51:44
They haven't spent the time to look at it.
51:46
And I do not like seeing tyrants take advantage of people.
51:50
Boils my blood. Bullish.
51:55
Bullish. All right, everybody, let's get
51:58
to the memes. We got a lot of memes to review.
52:00
Let's check it out. Here we go.
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52:58
So you guys already know tweets of the bullets, memes of the
53:01
artillery. As you can tell Bitcoin
53:02
education is the most important thing to be doing.
53:05
Getting on the mission and spreading the Bitcoin signal so
53:08
more people opt out of the Fiat clown world is the most
53:12
important thing going on in the world.
53:13
But on that note this first me might be a little contrarian.
53:17
I I think this is the the sentiment going around by all my
53:20
jaded Bitcoin friends on Twitter.
53:22
This is rope and we got a. I guess it's what Venom maybe.
53:27
And he's taking off his spider man suit.
53:29
And the spider man suit is, I have to tell everyone, Sage.
53:32
And the dark dark stage. The jaded Bitcoin stage is
53:37
fucking stage. Like whatever bro.
53:39
You'll get it when you're ready. I you know, I I don't have to
53:42
beat my head against the brick wall.
53:44
You will get on Bitcoin one day. What's the meme?
53:47
You will get Bitcoin at the price you deserve.
53:49
This next one is by stamp seed and it goes hashtag.
53:51
Bitcoin does not care. And I I think there's something
53:54
we try to get across to everyone.
53:56
What do we say? It's not left versus right.
53:58
It's orange versus green. And the meme simply goes
54:01
Bitcoin. It does not care.
54:03
It does not care what your nationality is.
54:05
It does not care what your religion is.
54:06
It doesn't care what your race is, or what your age is, or what
54:09
your gender is. Bitcoin doesn't discriminate.
54:12
Bitcoin is permissionless and is for everyone.
54:14
All you have to do is choose it. It is a choice to opt into the
54:18
Bitcoin network and opt out of the Fiat abuse.
54:21
OK, this next one is a mean from the office.
54:25
And you know, everyone on Twitter is losing their mind
54:28
about it's. It's a constant cycle here.
54:30
Every 12 months, there's always this concern about, oh, Bitcoin
54:33
is not going to work, and we have to change Bitcoin from the
54:36
bottom up to make sure that the incentives appear.
54:38
No Bitcoin works, guys. Anyways, we got this office meme
54:42
and we got Dwight here, and it's smiling.
54:44
He's a Bitcoin enjoyer. And then I forget what her name
54:47
is. But she comes up and scares
54:48
Dwight and he goes, Fees are too low.
54:50
Let's add shit coins. You know the fuck what?
54:52
Where'd you come from? Why are we continuously?
54:55
Actually having these conversations, Bitcoin works
54:58
TikTok next block. We do not need your shit coins
55:01
on Bitcoin. And on that note we got another
55:03
meme here. This is by Mitchell Hot only
55:05
goes. Every Bitcoin critic falls into
55:07
one of three categories, the MPC's, the bankers and the shit
55:11
coiners. The first group is simply
55:12
uneducated 0 knowledge of fundamentals such as havings,
55:16
difficulty nodes, etc etc. The other two groups understand
55:20
Bitcoin, but are financially incentivized to spout BS about
55:24
it. The shit corners can be
55:25
subdivided into two categories, those that promote the crypto
55:29
scams and those that fall for the crypto scams.
55:32
And here we got the meme. The three Bitcoin critics we
55:35
have, the MPC doesn't know what they don't know.
55:36
Only chart they've seen is price has never heard of Shaw 256.
55:40
What's the node? And then we got the bankers and
55:42
we have what? What's this guy's name again?
55:44
Jamie Dimon and it got vested. Financial interest in the Fiat
55:47
system knows Bitcoin threatens his monopoly.
55:49
The economy needs inflation and government bonds are safe.
55:53
And then we got the shit corner and we got Brian Armstrong here.
55:55
So Shitcoin to make more Bitcoin push its fake narratives.
55:58
Bitcoin can't scale. Bitcoin is too slow.
56:00
Preys on retail. Traders preys on the noobs.
56:03
These are the Bitcoin critics. Everyone's a scammer guys just
56:07
stack Sats take Bitcoin into self custody.
56:09
This is a way. Anyways, this next meme is by
56:11
Wojack Bitcoin and it goes how shitcoin work and we got a kid
56:15
here and he goes, dad, how do shitcoins work?
56:17
And we have the laser eyed Chad bitcoiner and he goes, first you
56:20
buy them and this one goes and then what?
56:22
And then you have fun staying poor.
56:24
Just stack sats guys, stop complicating it.
56:26
It's literally so simple. It's almost frustrating how
56:28
simple it is. It's Bitcoin.
56:32
And then there's Shit Coin and you save Bitcoin and you
56:35
constantly accumulate Bitcoin and you take Bitcoin into self
56:38
custody and you repeat the process.
56:40
That's literally all you have to do guys, and avoid the noise.
56:44
Anyways, this next meme is by the BTC therapist and he goes
56:46
welcome to Bitcoin. And we got the classic meme
56:49
where he's giving you the side eyes like what's going on, you
56:51
know it's not me. And he goes when you came to get
56:54
rich but found your life purpose on Bitcoin, this is the way.
56:58
This is the way as Alex Fetzke we said, came for the money,
57:02
stayed for the money or came for the money, stayed to fix the
57:04
money. This is the way.
57:06
Anyways last meme is by Lena Sishay and she goes, I can stop
57:09
anytime. My comic for Bitcoin Mags latest
57:12
print magazine The withdrawal issue.
57:15
And you can see Jay Powell here as the little huddler here on
57:18
his money printing machine. And the central bank is just
57:21
constantly printing and says I don't have a problem, I can stop
57:24
at anytime. I I can stop printing money
57:27
whenever I want. And you can see the money
57:29
printed in the background goes I need a break.
57:31
And then we got the Fiat Maxis. It say we love and support you
57:33
and then we have the bitcoiners and the Bitcoin loads like, hey,
57:36
I can fix this. I can literally fix the
57:39
situation. All you need to do is opt in the
57:41
Bitcoin. It's so simple.
57:43
It's literally so simple. Anyways, drop your meme review
57:46
score over there, the other side of Nico and we will cover them
57:49
live. Mine score for today is it.
57:53
Shouts out to my boy. I met him at Austin.
57:56
Big block wait bit block. Boom.
57:59
It is no BTC. Waist signs on Twitter and it's
58:04
this huddle, this orange pill that says huddle and Bitcoin.
58:09
It's made out of acrylic. I think these things are cool.
58:13
You can hear it. ASMR ASMR I'm gonna give it this
58:19
light blue Sharpie. That's my score.
58:22
Anyways. Alex Stanczyk, what would you
58:23
give the memes? I'm gonna go with a tape
58:27
measure. Tape measure.
58:29
Okay. That's a working tape measure.
58:32
It's a working tape measure. Good conventional score works
58:38
and it you can measure shit with it.
58:40
Anyways, guys, drop your meme scores in the live chat.
58:43
We will get them and seems like there's a bit of a delayed out
58:49
there. They're coming in.
58:50
Wait. Wait, wait.
58:50
The point of the delay. Nika, the point of the delay.
58:52
The point of the delay, remember?
58:55
OK, OK. All right.
58:56
I'll, I'll. Wine is gonna kill me.
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59:21
of the scores. OK, OK, I got some right here.
59:25
First one by Kim Gage. I give the memes my Dita Von T's
59:29
meme that Opti is hiding and is safe.
59:33
Hold on, hold on. You know I can't put that on the
59:38
show, bro. I don't know.
59:40
I don't know what you're talking about.
59:41
But all right, Phil, CI give the memes 21 million forever.
59:45
All right, moving on, moving on. Skip down the road.
59:48
Meme score. I have no fox to give.
59:51
I like that. I like that Next one by Elaine.
59:54
Shadow Elaine. The Bitcoin kids are back again
59:56
to visit other lands. Be sure to join them.
59:58
When they do, join them in some Bitcoin to Bitcoin.
1:00:02
Bitcoin. It's great.
1:00:03
Wish we had some. Can't wait.
1:00:04
Oh, it's a rhyme. I like that.
1:00:06
I like that. All right.
1:00:09
Yeah, I can't put some of these on guys all.
1:00:13
Right. I'm gonna put this one on by
1:00:15
Matthew J. My score is 1 Bitcoin veterans
1:00:18
hat. Let's F and go.
1:00:21
I God damn it, Nihilist fields Opti gets too weird and actual
1:00:25
laser shoot out of his eyes. Too wired.
1:00:28
Too wired. Too wired.
1:00:29
Come on all. Right.
1:00:32
All right. Next one by Big Sean Harris.
1:00:33
I give the memes Mike Hobart's white glow farts.
1:00:38
Sorry, that's PG enough. I don't.
1:00:41
Know I don't know what that means.
1:00:43
All right, guys. That was a little weird.
1:00:47
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1:01:04
I want to thank our very special guests for joining us today on
1:01:07
Simply Bitcoin. Alex Stanzyk, thank you so much
1:01:10
for joining us, brother. My pleasure.
1:01:12
Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.
1:01:13
You guys could find out. You guys could find Alex Sanzik
1:01:16
on Cafe Bitcoin and the Bitcoin Veterans Podcast.
1:01:20
Definitely check out his content.
1:01:21
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1:01:41
No, actually. You'll see Opti tomorrow for a
1:01:43
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Peace out. Wait, Wait.
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