Latest / Simply Bitcoin / RFK JR: Freedom of Transactions Important | EP 839
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- 0:18It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
- 0:21It's going up for everyone. You're against Bitcoin.
- 0:31You're against freedom. Yo, everybody.
- 0:36What's up? We are live from Pacific Bitcoin
- 0:38Festival in Santa Monica. I know you guys are fumbling
- 0:43right now. It is early over here on the
- 0:45West Coast, but we have a great show for you guys.
- 0:47We're gonna be getting a bunch of interviews for you guys
- 0:49throughout the show. We will get them up on YouTube.
- 0:52No spaces today guys. This is a little different as
- 0:55you can tell. I do have some guests here, but
- 0:58this is still a normal show guys and we will be giving you guys
- 1:01signal all day. So on today's show guys, we saw
- 1:05a legendary interview, in my opinion, a legendary interview
- 1:07coming through from Bitcoin Magazine and we of course we
- 1:10have Chris Alamo here, Bitcoin Magazine producer, very excited
- 1:13for this one. And guys, you know the deal here
- 1:17on Simply Bitcoin. You know, we try to stay as
- 1:19apolitical as possible, but it's hard to do that when you have
- 1:23politicians that are saying what we've been saying on the show
- 1:27for a long, long time. And RFK Jr. dropped an interview
- 1:31with our good friend Mark Goodwin.
- 1:33Absolutely love. Mark did an absolutely great job
- 1:36and I thought the conversation was absolutely incredible.
- 1:39Not only was RFK Jr. you know, he's a presidential candidate
- 1:44and he's talking about if he got elected, one of the first things
- 1:48he would do was pardon Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, even
- 1:52look into Ross Holbrich. Now, I know, I know what you
- 1:55guys are going to be saying in the chat, and I'm sure you guys
- 1:57are already saying it. It might be politician lip
- 2:00service. Well, until this happens, all we
- 2:04know is that the Bitcoin signal is spreading and people are
- 2:06talking about what we've always been talking about.
- 2:09But the signal here is that RFK Junior keep saying what we say,
- 2:14that Bitcoin is a freedom currency, that the freedom of
- 2:17transaction is a freedom of speech fight.
- 2:21And if we are living in supposedly America, the freest
- 2:25country in the world, and you can't transact freely, then
- 2:28where are we headed? And it just makes you think,
- 2:30guys, that the big Bitcoin signal is going mainstream, The
- 2:34Overton window is shifting. And again, say what you want
- 2:38about politicians, but the Bitcoin signal is going
- 2:42mainstream and people are talking about what we've been
- 2:44talking about. And then on the flip side, so we
- 2:46have this story from RFK Junior about him embracing Bitcoin.
- 2:51And then we have some news coming out of the Bank of
- 2:53international sediments of them trying to track and bag every
- 2:58bitcoiner on the Bitcoin network and they putting in active
- 3:02resources to try to see what's going on on the Bitcoin network,
- 3:06map the Bitcoin network. And so we're seeing that the
- 3:10powers that be do not want freedom currencies to
- 3:13proliferate. And so we kind of have a
- 3:15dichotomy on today's show. We have RFK Junior talking about
- 3:18freedom currency. And then of course we have the
- 3:21central bankers, as I like to say, the parasite class, the
- 3:24unproductive class trying to track and bag what's going on,
- 3:28on the Bitcoin network. So on the one hand, we have
- 3:30freedom currency being embraced, and on the other hand, we have
- 3:34them trying to control it. Anyways, guys, I'm not alone.
- 3:38As you can tell, I'm here with the one and only Chris Alamo.
- 3:41Chris, how are you doing this morning?
- 3:43I'm doing well AFI doing well Del.
- 3:45Happy to be here, yeah yeah. I am super excited to have a
- 3:49real professional next to me by the name of Chris Alamo.
- 3:52But of course we are not alone. Dale, how you doing?
- 3:55This is your first conference. How you feeling?
- 3:57I'm glad that I got to sleep in my own bed last night.
- 3:59You guys want to talk about that at all?
- 4:01OK, OK. As you probably saw on Twitter,
- 4:04Miko smashed us all into one hotel room and I was little
- 4:10spoon with Chris last night and it felt good.
- 4:12Wait, no, I was. You were a little spoon.
- 4:14You were a little spoon. Anyways, anyway.
- 4:18There's a lot of movement over there, man.
- 4:20All right, well, you guys know, even when we're being
- 4:22professional, it's got a troll Opti.
- 4:25Anyways guys, we got a long show for you guys today, so let's get
- 4:28right into this and we will give you guys all the sauce.
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- 5:52Anyways, before I go on the chat, you guys are killing me
- 5:55right now. You you guys, undefeated in the
- 5:58chat, Undefeated in the chat. OK.
- 6:00Anyways guys, here we are on the numbers.
- 6:02Clark Woody's dashboard. Of course.
- 6:04My favorite number is a block height.
- 6:05We are currently at 810,768. The current Bitcoin price.
- 6:10Look at that. We're at $27,460 per Bitcoin,
- 6:14which means the Moscow time, AKA how much your Fiat dollar is
- 6:17worth, AKA how much Bitcoin you can buy for a single dollar, is
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- 6:22Actually, Chris, quickly, TLDR, what's your thoughts on Sats
- 6:28versus bits? Oh, it's only it's the SAT
- 6:30standard. The SAT standard?
- 6:31OK, I constantly troll the chat that maybe I should just keep
- 6:35saying bits. So on that note, we're at 364
- 6:37bits guys, OK? The total percentage of Bitcoin
- 6:43that will ever be issued is currently at 92.88%.
- 6:48The market cap of Bitcoin and Fiat terms is $535.4 billion.
- 6:52The realized monetary inflation taking Fiat currencies to school
- 6:55is at 1.75% and the Bitcoin versus gold market cap we're at
- 6:594.33% which is just so so much room to run in the hard money
- 7:04game. The total lightning capacity,
- 7:06total public lightning capacity is currently at 5246.88 BTC.
- 7:11And guys, I don't know if you guys have been following along,
- 7:13but remember we were just covering the public lightning
- 7:16capacity and it was around the 4000 era.
- 7:19So I saw that my boy Justifier is talking about how much
- 7:22capacity is coming on the Lightning network.
- 7:24Interesting, interesting stuff. We're seeing the developments
- 7:26and Lightning love to see it. The hash rate the last 90 days
- 7:29is currently at or roughly at 393.2 exit hashes and the
- 7:33pending fees. Wow, at 1.01 BTC it's almost
- 7:38like the Wizards didn't break Bitcoin.
- 7:42Anyways, I gotta change this up a little bit so I can get you
- 7:45guys this stream. As I was telling you guys
- 7:48yesterday, Bitcoin Magazine dropped in my opinion a very
- 7:54important, important interview by Mark Goodwin with RFK Junior.
- 7:58And of course, in my opinion, this is part of what we've been
- 8:02talking about, moving the Overton window.
- 8:04And say, again, I know you guys told me every time when I say
- 8:08say what you want about X figure, but I know you guys
- 8:12don't like politicians. But hey, it will be a rocky
- 8:15transition if we have supposedly the freest country in the world
- 8:19fighting Bitcoin. We know Bitcoin to be a freedom
- 8:21currency. We talk about it all the time on
- 8:23this channel that Bitcoin is freedom.
- 8:25Wait. You're against Bitcoin.
- 8:28You're against. You already know the deal, guys.
- 8:30But we tell you guys every single day, almost every single
- 8:33day that the freedom to transact is a free speech issue.
- 8:37Uh, oh, Nico's coming in here real quick, yo.
- 8:45No, he's busy guys. He's he's working, working the
- 8:48conference anyways, without further interruptions by Nico.
- 8:52Let's get into this because we know that the freedom to
- 8:55transact is a freedom of speech issue, especially when Bitcoin
- 8:59is literally just code. It's literally just speech.
- 9:01There is nothing more than ones and zeros and letters that
- 9:05create the whole Bitcoin network.
- 9:06And so here we are, Robert Kennedy Junior, saying what
- 9:10we've been saying on the show constantly.
- 9:14The quiet part out loud, Freedom is or Bitcoin is freedom
- 9:17currency. The freedom of transaction is as
- 9:19important as freedom of speech. And I do have another clip here
- 9:22about RFK Jr. in this in my opinion legendary interview by
- 9:27Mark Goodwin. But let's get into this guys,
- 9:29and let's get the thoughts on this.
- 9:30Freedom of transaction is as important as freedom of speech.
- 9:35And that, you know, Bitcoin is this.
- 9:38I I can see also the trajectory toward central bank digital
- 9:43currency and the power that that will give nations this, this
- 9:48ultimate power over, you know, whether we live or die
- 9:50ultimately, right? And I understood that we need a.
- 9:56A currency that is a freedom currency, right?
- 10:00See that is that is independent and that can't be controlled by
- 10:03the government. Freedom of guys, did you hear
- 10:07that? He even dropped the meme that
- 10:10it's Bitcoin or death? That you need a freedom currency
- 10:14in today's world or else you are doomed to be shut off from the
- 10:20monetary network and we're seeing this happen and he even
- 10:22touched on CBDC's and another interesting clip coming out is
- 10:26what we've been talking about. Nico has been all over the case
- 10:28of Choke Point 2.0 and how the current presidential
- 10:32administrations actively fighting Bitcoin.
- 10:34There is a war on Bitcoin and it's really going to go into the
- 10:37news story we have today where on the one hand we have
- 10:40politicians embracing Bitcoin, embracing freedom currency and
- 10:44on the other hand those that are in power see the writing on the
- 10:48wall. Bitcoin is a threat to their
- 10:49power and they will do whatever they can to hamper bitcoins
- 10:52adoption. So on the one hand we have the
- 10:55freedom signal of Bitcoin spreading and on the other hand
- 10:59the powers that be are scrambling for control.
- 11:02So let's get into this clip and then I'd like to hear Chris's
- 11:05take considering that you guys are the one that is is posting
- 11:08all this really good content. So shout out to Mark Goodwin,
- 11:11absolute legend, and let's get to this clip going.
- 11:14To make sure that there's a Bitcoin is protected that people
- 11:18can keep their own wallets, that the current White House war on
- 11:22Bitcoin will be over that transactions will be protected
- 11:26and encouraged and and I'll look ultimately at at treating it as
- 11:34a currency rather than a commodity right particularly for
- 11:40for smaller Bitcoin. Owner for transactions and
- 11:43owners, you know, I don't want to be.
- 11:46I don't want to provide a windfall for billionaires who
- 11:50accumulated Bitcoin. But I think smaller actors and
- 11:54transactions that their their transaction should be, they
- 11:57should be able to to to change currencies the same way that
- 12:03when you go to Canada and you're using a Canadian dollar you
- 12:05ought to be able to come to the United States.
- 12:09Without if there's some appreciation and that Canadian
- 12:12dollar, you you shouldn't have to pay for it in tax.
- 12:16Well guys, I know we could nitpick exactly everything that
- 12:21RFK was saying in that clip. But as you guys know, one of the
- 12:25most important things that would happen for us Bitcoiners is if
- 12:29Bitcoin was treated like another currency that we can just
- 12:32transact with it without these ridiculous capital gains tax and
- 12:36everything that we're doing just being tracked and bagged.
- 12:39You guys know the meme. You know, IRS loses what, like
- 12:42$800 trillion? And we get we we get notices for
- 12:48$600.00 Benmo transactions. Like of course, as a Bitcoiner,
- 12:52we'd love to just really transact to use the best money
- 12:55in the world as it's designed to be used be without the
- 12:58limitations of capital gains, without all the, you know, the
- 13:01regulatory tape of having to transact in Bitcoin.
- 13:04Because of course, what do we say all the time?
- 13:06The traditional financial system has no idea how to put Bitcoin
- 13:11into a box. And here we are again, a
- 13:15presidential candidate talking about embracing Bitcoin as it
- 13:20should be, as a currency, as the best money in the world, a
- 13:22digital money for the digital world.
- 13:24And I I just, I really love just hearing these conversations
- 13:27because not only is it moving the Overton window, it makes me
- 13:32a little less skeptical on the idea of Bitcoin politicians.
- 13:35It really does seem like RFK Junior believes in freedom,
- 13:39believes in Bitcoin as a freedom technology.
- 13:42And I've been going back and forth mentally on the idea of
- 13:47are there still any good politicians out there.
- 13:49And I know, I know, politicians is a dirty word here on simply
- 13:53Bitcoin, but it really does seem like there is a few politicians
- 13:56out there that still believe in the oath that they took when
- 13:58they got into office. Anyways, Chris, what's your
- 14:01thoughts and all this? I know this is the first time
- 14:03you saw it, even though this is the Bitcoin magazine Signal, but
- 14:06what's your thoughts on this legendary interview by Mark
- 14:09Goodwin? No, Awesome Job by Mark.
- 14:12It's, you know, I guess it's exciting to see politicians at
- 14:15the end of the day are people too.
- 14:16So at the end of the day, you know, they're in their own best
- 14:18interest to use Bitcoin for their own selfish reasons.
- 14:20And that's part of the reason why the Bitcoin network works
- 14:23and operates so well. It aligns incentives.
- 14:25You know minors are propagating blocks or trying to look for
- 14:28blocks. In order to include transactions
- 14:30to help propagate the network and people running nodes to
- 14:33verify the code. But yeah, I think at the end of
- 14:35the day, like I said, politicians are just people too
- 14:38and we don't have to meet. We don't need permission from
- 14:41politicians and we don't even need their approval.
- 14:43Bitcoin is meant and made for adversarial against nation
- 14:46states. It is awesome and and it is
- 14:49encouraging to have politicians that want to embrace it.
- 14:51I do think there's a lot of headwinds from both.
- 14:53Both sides of the political aisle.
- 14:54He is, you know, more democratic.
- 14:56I think he actually just left the Democratic Party to run as
- 14:58independent. But yeah, I miss that.
- 15:01Yeah. But at the end of the day, you
- 15:03know, there's going to be headwinds from Republicans and
- 15:04Democrats that love the sweet, sweet tax dollars or taxing you
- 15:08into oblivion because at the end of the day, no, at the end of
- 15:10the day, it's tax dollars that goes into their jurisdictions or
- 15:13I think they pays their salaries.
- 15:14So, you know, show me the incentives and I'll show you the
- 15:16outcome. So I think there are a lot of
- 15:17headwinds, but it is encouraging to see some politicians warming
- 15:21up the Bitcoin and wanting to adopt it and trying to make it
- 15:23more easier. They're in freer to transact in
- 15:25the US Yeah, I mean we say it all the time here.
- 15:27You know, we are all self interested in seeing Bitcoin
- 15:31improve. Because as an individual, you
- 15:34just realize how dangerous and dystopian the world will become
- 15:38if we cannot transact freely. If the government, the federal
- 15:42government, the authoritarians and tyrants out there have a
- 15:45total control of your money, of the banking system, which you
- 15:49know, you can debate that, there's some nuance that they
- 15:51already do have that. But This is why Bitcoin is that
- 15:55roundabout, parallel way to transact in the modern world.
- 15:58Jump in, Chris. Yeah, no.
- 15:59And also I just want to give Mark a shout out.
- 16:01He made a a new book called The Bitcoin Dollar.
- 16:03It's talking about the transition from Bitcoin or the
- 16:06US dollar on a gold standard, the US dollar on a petrodollar
- 16:09standard. And then he was saying, you
- 16:10know, potentially the transition to the US dollar being on a
- 16:13Bitcoin standard. But he does say some of the
- 16:15issues or problems that may cause, you know, just cause,
- 16:18we're on the gold standard. Or, you know, on the Petro
- 16:20dollar, he doesn't think that he doesn't want to become captured
- 16:24by state actors and he kind of outlines it very beautifully.
- 16:27Some of the issues that putting stablecoins on lightning per se,
- 16:30or even just having the dollar backed by Bitcoin and some of
- 16:32the issues that we may run into. I think Bitcoin is my stablecoin
- 16:36and it is the stable dollar or the stable Sats that I want.
- 16:40But yeah, he definitely talks about some of the issues that
- 16:43may come in the problems with being the US dollar and Bitcoin
- 16:46coexisting. Yeah, well shouts out to Mark
- 16:49Goodwin and Joe Rogers from the physical Bitcoin Z and they are
- 16:52very vocal against stablecoins and putting the petrol dollar on
- 16:56lightning. They, I think are the biggest, I
- 17:00don't know, antagonist towards that idea.
- 17:03Anyways, doubt what's your thoughts on all this stuff?
- 17:05I know you, you kind of lean a little more.
- 17:09I don't know you're a little nicer in regards to framing this
- 17:12stuff, but you also probably don't trust politicians too
- 17:16much. I think it's like you said that
- 17:18politicians are just people. And so they have their own
- 17:21wants, their own desires. Rfk's #1 want and desire from,
- 17:25as far as I can tell right now, is to become president.
- 17:27And so he's going to say and do things that will get him there.
- 17:29And I do think that there's a mix of him saying things that he
- 17:34hopes will lead to that outcome. And then I think that there's
- 17:37also probably some truth mingled in there as well.
- 17:39So I think his number one goal is to get elected and he'll do.
- 17:43More or less whatever it takes to make that happen.
- 17:45But I do think he actually cares about the environment.
- 17:48I do think that he cares about the the the the underman, the
- 17:53lesser man, the the every man to try.
- 17:55And because he he has to care about them to some degree, at
- 17:58least care enough that they he gets their vote.
- 18:00I said something in a in a recent video that resonated with
- 18:03a lot of people. Apparently, I said people are
- 18:05going to understand Bitcoin even if they don't understand
- 18:07Bitcoin. And I don't understand how most
- 18:09of the banking system works. Like, I've gotten money through
- 18:11ZEL and I have no idea how that happens.
- 18:13I don't know what Wells Fargo is doing and what the back end
- 18:16looks like and what the coding. I don't care.
- 18:18All I know is that money ended up in my account from somebody
- 18:21else. And the same thing's gonna
- 18:22happen with Bitcoin. It's like it buys me groceries
- 18:25and pays my rent. I don't care how it works.
- 18:27I couldn't agree more guys, you know me, I am an iPhone Maxi.
- 18:31I don't care how the back end works it just works.
- 18:34But Dell you did say something interesting and I I highly
- 18:37recommend yeah Nico's messing with the camera.
- 18:42I I highly recommend you guys get watch that whole interview
- 18:47because Dell said something that was very interesting and RFK
- 18:51Junior said it literally verbatim the same idea, he said.
- 18:55You know, I understand that Bitcoin as a voting bloc is
- 18:59something that I definitely want to tap into, but he does believe
- 19:03in, you know, freedom, currencies, the freedom to
- 19:06transact and the fact that this is a freedom of speech issues.
- 19:09It does seem like there is some at least potential presidential
- 19:12candidates that believe in the oath that they claim.
- 19:16Mika, just give us a stand. OK guys.
- 19:21Before we move on though, of course we are at Pacific Bitcoin
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- 20:09And you meet your friends in real life and you realize, wait,
- 20:12we aren't alone here? Okay guys.
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- 21:44We will talk about all things happening at Pacific Bitcoin
- 21:47Conference. Anyways, guys, I told you at the
- 21:50beginning of the show that we are seeing a very interesting
- 21:53thread. Yes, we're seeing a presidential
- 21:55candidate and even further, you know Patrick McHenry now he's
- 21:57what speaker of the House temporarily he's Bitcoin, a pro
- 22:01Bitcoin. And we're seeing that there are
- 22:03some politicians out there that are embracing Bitcoin.
- 22:06They understand that the freedom to transact is the freedom to
- 22:10literally just be a normal person in apparently the bravest
- 22:16and freest country in the world. But anyways, on the other side,
- 22:19we saw this article got dropped on Reuters and it's literally
- 22:23the opposite end of that aisle. And you can see the title here.
- 22:28Central Bank Test Lab Develops Global Bitcoin mapping system.
- 22:32Again, guys, they're trying their best to map the Bitcoin
- 22:37network and try to capture it. Obviously we think that that is
- 22:42not going to happen. Of course, not even everything
- 22:44that is going on on the Bitcoin network can be tracked and back,
- 22:48but they are doing their best. And this isn't just coming out
- 22:51from the Bank of International Settlements.
- 22:53I do have a few news stories here again from Bitcoin Magazine
- 22:57that low elites has been dropping about chain analysis
- 22:59and how they have admitted that their black box doesn't even
- 23:04work properly. And then we had some PR cover
- 23:06from the American government itself and saying that it would
- 23:10be a danger to Society of chain chain analysts chain anal expose
- 23:17their software to the world. Anyways, let's get into this
- 23:19first article real quick and we'll kind of talk about the
- 23:21contrast that we're seeing right now where we are seeing the
- 23:25Overton window shift in regards to Bitcoin.
- 23:27But we're also seeing that the powers that be are scrambling to
- 23:31try to put the cat back in the bag.
- 23:33And of course, I would say it's a little too late and they can't
- 23:37stop Bitcoin and they can't even track everything on Bitcoin as
- 23:41far as I'm concerned. It's almost like they don't
- 23:43understand what the Lightning Network is.
- 23:44But anyways, anyway, let's get into this article here.
- 23:46So we're on Reuters. This was dropped yesterday,
- 23:49October 4th. And it goes.
- 23:52A global central bank test lab has designed a prototype Bitcoin
- 23:55monitoring system aimed at giving authorities A clearer
- 23:58picture on how it when and where the cryptocurrency is used.
- 24:02The Bank of International Settlements project code named
- 24:05Atlas, entering choice of words, Huh, Atlas, Interesting, began
- 24:10at the Dutch central bank more than five years ago.
- 24:13So again, they've been doing this for a long time.
- 24:14It's still a little too little, too late, as I always say.
- 24:17You know the bureaucrats are almost incompetent and they
- 24:19can't compete with the free market, but I'll pull pull back
- 24:22my thoughts on it more than five years ago.
- 24:25But its potential value has been underscored over the last 18
- 24:28months by a series of chaotic collapses across the crypto
- 24:31industry. Of course I keep telling you
- 24:33guys that they will use the low hanging fruit of FTX of Celsius
- 24:38of all the ridiculous stuff we've seen of all the shit coin
- 24:40scammers that give us a bad name and they'll constantly use that
- 24:44excuse to, you know, protect you citizen.
- 24:46This is for your own good Anyways, Atlas created a quote
- 24:49UN quote proof of concept platform that sucks data from
- 24:52both publicly available on chain crypto ledgers as well as harder
- 24:55to sort off chain data reported by only some exchanges and
- 24:59users. That information then provides a
- 25:01rough picture of cryptocurrency activity.
- 25:04Although as crypto wallets can be set up anonymously and
- 25:07without the owner specifying location it is not necessarily
- 25:10precise. Again, it is not necessarily
- 25:13precise. An initial analysis of data
- 25:14collected by the platform indicates that cross-border
- 25:17flows are substantial and economic terms and unevenly
- 25:20distributed across geographical regions, the Bank of
- 25:22International Settlement said. I'll be it acknowledging the
- 25:26uncertainty. Again guys, I want you to focus
- 25:29in on the certainty of this all and the lack of precision.
- 25:32And yet they prayed this out like they can understand
- 25:37everything that's going on on the network anyways.
- 25:38Regulators have become increasingly concerned that the
- 25:40decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies make them a
- 25:43risk, especially after the collapse last year.
- 25:45Widely used stablecoin Para Luna and Terror USD and the FTX
- 25:49platform, the Bank of International Settlements
- 25:51Innovation Hub prototype produces dashboards that show
- 25:54information such as how many Bitcoin are being converted into
- 25:57U.S. dollars at certain times in certain parts of the world.
- 25:59They can also provide an insight into the adoption and relative
- 26:02importance of crypto markets as they rise or fall in popularity.
- 26:06cross-border crypto flows are particularly relevant for
- 26:09central banks in the context of cross-border payments, economic
- 26:12analysis and balance of payment statistics.
- 26:14They may represent a significant part of cross-border transfers
- 26:17in some countries that is hard to quantify because of the
- 26:20current gaps in data. Central banks need to gain first
- 26:23hand knowledge of crypto and define the risk and
- 26:25opportunities they present to the financial system.
- 26:29Again, guys, I I am not lost on the irony that they are already
- 26:34blaming Bitcoin for their failures.
- 26:38Of course, Bitcoin is a threat to the financial, the
- 26:41traditional financial world. And yet they won't even embrace
- 26:45Bitcoin. They're usually like, yeah,
- 26:46Bitcoin doesn't matter, just like it's not a big concern.
- 26:50Anyways. Moving on on this same theme, an
- 26:53article here from Bitcoin Magazine by Lola Leeds shouts
- 26:56out to Lola. She's been doing a great job on
- 26:59hitting this particular theme, and this is titled U.S.
- 27:02government Frames Bitcoin Privacy as Criminal.
- 27:04New court documents revealed that the US government frames
- 27:07the use of blockchain analysis countermeasures as criminal in
- 27:11another. And we covered this story a long
- 27:13time ago, but this is just kind of an update.
- 27:15And it goes to show that we are seeing the corporate press well,
- 27:21in this particular, the federal government play cover for chain
- 27:25analysis and again, rolling out the idea that it is criminal to
- 27:29have privacy. I would, I would argue
- 27:31otherwise, and I'm not going to read this whole article, but
- 27:34it's just to show 1 glaring example that they are doing
- 27:37their best to try to, I would say, quote, UN quote, break the
- 27:41pseudonymous nature of Bitcoin and try and track and bag
- 27:44everything. Because of course, as we talked
- 27:46about with the Robert F Kennedy junior in the beginning, they do
- 27:49not want you to transact freely. They do not want you to move
- 27:52money around without them being the middleman.
- 27:54So anyways, in another unfortunate turn of events for
- 27:57anyone hoping the right to privacy to be protected as
- 27:59guaranteed by the US Constitution, the UN Declaration
- 28:02of Human Rights, or applicable state and federal law, the US
- 28:05government has argued that the disclosure of proprietary chain
- 28:09and chain analysis heuristics information in the case US
- 28:12versus Sterling Gov would jeopardize numerous law
- 28:16enforcement investigations and impact the effectiveness of law
- 28:19enforcement tracing tools by enabling the development of
- 28:22criminal countermeasures to blockchain analysis.
- 28:25And if you guys remember, I covered this in the past that
- 28:29even I believe it was the CEO of chain analysis or one of the PR.
- 28:34She came out and said that, yeah, you know, chain analysis
- 28:38software doesn't even work exactly as we think it does.
- 28:41And yet we use it to put criminals behind bars and
- 28:44they're admitting that it doesn't work and yet they're
- 28:48still using it to prosecute, quote UN quote criminals.
- 28:51Which just goes to show that they will do anything to paint
- 28:55us criminals to track and bag everything we're doing.
- 28:59And it's just incredible that they will roll out their
- 29:02incompetence and still be like, yes, we we're going to use this
- 29:06to put you in jail anyways, we got some memes here.
- 29:09Of course, Lola Leaves goes how it started versus how it's
- 29:12going. Michael Glonegar, I don't think
- 29:14that affects analytics in regards to chain analysis and
- 29:20then chain analysis idling 150 employees.
- 29:23So even they are having some issues and this was rolled out
- 29:26yesterday as well, they're laying off people at chain
- 29:28analysis. It's almost like they are having
- 29:30trouble at the company and it's almost like they admitted that
- 29:36their software proprietary black box doesn't work as described.
- 29:40And of course, let us not forget the fact that we are seeing an
- 29:44increase in Lightning Network off chain Bitcoin transactions.
- 29:48And not to say that Lightning is completely private, but you
- 29:53can't track it like you can on on chain.
- 29:56And this just goes to show that if you use Bitcoin correctly, or
- 30:01rather if you use it normally, they can't track or do anything
- 30:05that they're doing. And the stuff that they're
- 30:06rolling out to basically control you on the network doesn't even
- 30:09work. And yet they're still using
- 30:11this, to quote UN quote, try and stop Bitcoin.
- 30:14I kind of find it like gas lighting, but you can see here
- 30:17Alexander Leishman of River. Today we just hit 3 million
- 30:20lightning transactions routed with rivers node.
- 30:23But I really like El Flocko's tweet here, pretty flocked on,
- 30:25he goes looking on. Chain doesn't tell the whole
- 30:27story of the network anymore. Only few big nodes have an
- 30:30approximate idea of how fast Bitcoin is growing, and also
- 30:34this last week we saw that Swan is also rolling out Lightning
- 30:37payments. We're seeing that most of the
- 30:39big Bitcoin only exchanges have rolled out Lightning payments.
- 30:42And so this just further proves that as entrepreneurs as the
- 30:47free market start to improve and Lightning starts to expand, that
- 30:51Bitcoin is truly becoming not only more and more
- 30:55decentralized, but more and more unstoppable.
- 30:56And I just find it a little too little, too late.
- 30:59And of course, the powers that be are going to try to control
- 31:01Bitcoin. They're going to do their best
- 31:03to track Bitcoin. But Bitcoin is that roundabout
- 31:07way that we can bypass the crazy stuff going on on the
- 31:11traditional financial system. Anyways, Chris, what's your
- 31:14thoughts on all this stuff? First of all, shouts out to you
- 31:17guys as media team. And second of all, what's your
- 31:19thoughts on not only the Bank of International Settlements
- 31:22project of trying to, you know, get analytics on everything on
- 31:26Bitcoin, but maybe even the chain analysis that's you guys
- 31:30have been breaking lately? Yeah, no, definitely.
- 31:32I mean, I guess the first thing I'll say, rights are only
- 31:34defended or lost. I'll say that one more time.
- 31:36Rights are only defended or lost, meaning that you know
- 31:40governments will encroach on people's civil liberties and
- 31:43their rights at the cost of power and control.
- 31:47So that's kind of one of those things that we need to defend
- 31:49with Bitcoin with using privacy tools, privacy protecting
- 31:52practices that that's the only way that we're going to win
- 31:56this. You know authoritarian
- 31:57governments are going to be authoritarians at the end of the
- 31:59day in terms of chain analysis, especially with going on with
- 32:02Roland Roman Sterling off versus the US, which is the Bitcoin fog
- 32:06case. They he was a user of Bitcoin
- 32:09fog, but his lawyers are basically making the defense
- 32:11that chain analysis is incorrectly saying that he is
- 32:14the one that is using Bitcoin. Fog to basically or he was the
- 32:19creator Bitcoin fog which is not true.
- 32:20He doesn't deny that he was the user he was.
- 32:22But basically chain analysis is incorrectly coming to the
- 32:25conclusion that he is the owner operator of Bitcoin fog and was
- 32:29arrested unfortunately I think in 2021 and has kind of been in
- 32:32jail. You know fighting this case with
- 32:34his lawyers. If you can make a donation to
- 32:36their campaign or to his legal fees that would be a huge help.
- 32:40I know I made a small donation to try and help him with that.
- 32:43But yeah, I mean it's one of those things that chain analysis
- 32:45like you said OPTI, they even have scientific.
- 32:47Or proving that it doesn't necessarily work the way you
- 32:49think it does. They can't, like, scientifically
- 32:51prove that it is. Yet they're using this right now
- 32:54as a measure to prove people's guilt.
- 32:56You know, instead of being innocent till proven guilty,
- 32:59it's just, oh, you're guilty because we have so and so this.
- 33:02Black box methodology of finding out how you're using Bitcoin.
- 33:05And at the end of the day, it doesn't even work, or it doesn't
- 33:07even work the way that they, the creators, designed it.
- 33:10You know, I think they're one of the most malicious companies in
- 33:13the space and I really don't think we won't have a true bull
- 33:16market until they go out of business.
- 33:18Oh, wow. That's what I'm calling hot
- 33:20take. There's hot take.
- 33:22All right, now what's your thoughts on all this?
- 33:24I've got two thoughts. So I bet Jane Analysis can get
- 33:26one thing absolutely right. I bet they can look and see that
- 33:29Michael Saylor does indeed have a lot of Bitcoin.
- 33:32I bet they can get that right. And the other thing is, I
- 33:34imagine there's some people out there that kind of take the Iron
- 33:37Man in civil War approach. Like, what does it matter if
- 33:39you're not doing anything bad? Who cares if it's watching?
- 33:41Look, tone it down. Bring it all the way down from
- 33:44the governmental level all the way to the family level.
- 33:46Imagine you're a kid, you're getting an allowance and then
- 33:48your parents go here's, your $5 here's or whatever, your dollar.
- 33:52Now where are you going to spend that on now?
- 33:54You can't spend it on that. Well, I thought you just gave it
- 33:56to me, Mom. I thought, I thought it's my
- 33:57money. Yeah, but I don't want you
- 33:58buying those things. And and then you can't go to
- 34:01that store. Well, it's Wednesday.
- 34:03No comics today. Look, is it my money or is it
- 34:05not like, just leave me alone? And I think that's how most
- 34:09people are with their money. Look, it's my time in a
- 34:12transactable form. Is it mine or is it not?
- 34:15If it's mine, then STFU. Like, how about that?
- 34:20Well, what's the saying? If you have to ask permission,
- 34:23then are you really free? And again, this is just a
- 34:25running theme. I keep telling you guys on the
- 34:27show is that no matter what we do in Bitcoin, no matter how we
- 34:31frame Bitcoin, the powers that be are incentivized to frame
- 34:36Bitcoin as we're doing some kind of criminal activities that
- 34:39we're just out here being, you know, gung ho and and trying to
- 34:44break all the laws. We're all just tax evading, You
- 34:47know, we're all just laundering money when we all know that the
- 34:50Fiat system, the traditional financial system, is the biggest
- 34:53money launder in the world. Do we need to bring more
- 34:56receipts on this or have we? Have we explained this enough on
- 34:59the show? It's like the US dollar launders
- 35:00the most amount of money, does the most amount of crime, does
- 35:03the most amount of that, and it's like they just.
- 35:05Not like, you know, they just brush that off.
- 35:07But you know, bitcoins, the one that at the end of the day that
- 35:08they're gonna blame for all the problems.
- 35:10Yeah. What do we say?
- 35:11We we just want a money that isn't debased.
- 35:14We we just, we want to just stop getting poor because you guys
- 35:17are printing more money and we're considered criminals when
- 35:19you're you know, like hey, we have Christie Lagarde in the
- 35:23chat, guys like literally a convicted criminal at the head
- 35:25of the ECB. And yet we're bad guys because
- 35:28we just want to save in something that cannot get the
- 35:31base like peak clown world. But there is one point in that
- 35:34article that I keep saying all the time.
- 35:37Shit corners make us look bad and they constantly use this
- 35:40example of the fraud and the scammery that happened in the
- 35:44shit coin space and they lump us all together because it is low
- 35:48hanging fruit. Obviously most people do hear
- 35:52about Bitcoin in in bad negative sense and here we are as
- 35:56bitcoiners at Bitcoin only media company of trying to separate
- 36:00the wheat from the chaff and show people like there is
- 36:02Bitcoin and there is shitcoin. We are not all in this together
- 36:06that if you want to scam people like yeah you're breaking laws,
- 36:09hey you know the law will catch up to you there.
- 36:12There is such thing as law and order guys.
- 36:14And as a Bitcoin, I just want to save in something that cannot
- 36:17get debased that is literally outside of your control.
- 36:19If that makes me a criminal, I just say yeah, OK, I guess so.
- 36:23I guess so. Obviously, as I say in the meme.
- 36:26You're the one that's dating a criminal off the.
- 36:28I don't know. Hey, you know, I tried to get
- 36:30close to the money printer guys. It backfired because now you
- 36:34guys mean me to death constantly.
- 36:37Anyways, before we move on, I want to give a shout out to our
- 36:39boys at Kaboom Racks. Shout out to Alex from Kaboom
- 36:42Racks to call me yesterday. We had a good conversation.
- 36:44I love you guys over at Kaboom Racks.
- 36:46If you want to buy, sell, and host mining equipment, go to
- 36:49kaboomracks.com. Jump in there.
- 36:51Television Grand Group T dot me slash kaboom racks they will
- 36:55give you that white glove service.
- 36:58Alex from Kaboom Racks is getting very bullish on the next
- 37:02Jetty 6 coming out. Starting to get bullish on the
- 37:05Bitcoin network in general and you might want to get some
- 37:08Bitcoin ASICS right now as we are starting to move into a bull
- 37:14run. But the hash rate is going up.
- 37:16So going absolutely parabolic shouts out to the people over
- 37:20that kaboom racks, Nick Foster and the rest of the crew, We
- 37:22love you guys. We will see you soon.
- 37:25On that note, guys, let's get into the culture and talk a
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- 38:02Well, we got the whole crew here.
- 38:04Maybe we got to swish together. We got Internet, Sophie, we have
- 38:08Dell, we have Chris Alemo and as you guys know we are live from
- 38:13Pacific Bitcoin Conference. It just took off.
- 38:16I think it literally just started and we are going to be
- 38:20making out rounds. But I don't know, Chris, I'll
- 38:24start with you. What are you most excited for
- 38:26about being in Santa Monica? I know we just did a laugh this
- 38:30morning. We couldn't get coffee yet
- 38:31because the coffee wasn't wasn't ready.
- 38:34But other than that, what? Are you excited?
- 38:35Did you see what the speaker list is going to be on?
- 38:37Did you see any of the topics this morning, or are you just
- 38:40ready to mingle with your friends and stuff?
- 38:43It's always about hanging out with bitcoiners and meet space.
- 38:45You know what I mean? I the great thing about these
- 38:48conferences is bringing everyone together.
- 38:50Yeah, I mean, I'm looking forward to some of the talks,
- 38:52but normally that's best served when you kind of watch them back
- 38:54on YouTube afterwards. No, but honestly, hanging out
- 38:57with bitcoiners, you know, kind of gives you hope.
- 38:59It's kind of building fear of the future that you see that you
- 39:01want your kids to have one day and all the cool things that are
- 39:04being displayed and built in the bear market, You know, we are
- 39:08builders. We build in the bear market,
- 39:09right? Wait, wait.
- 39:10I got it. I got it for you guys.
- 39:12I am building. All right guys, we are building
- 39:15out here and really like I'll jump in before I get to Internet
- 39:19Sophie. She had a little more time to
- 39:20hit the floor. My favorite part about going to
- 39:23conferences especially. Not only is it a homecoming for
- 39:27me coming back to Santa Monica and enjoying the beautiful
- 39:31weather and then hopefully getting into the ocean, I I I'm
- 39:33like a SpongeBob withdrawing from not having any ocean.
- 39:37I just love hanging out with friends and and really, like I
- 39:40tell you guys all the time, my favorite part about coming to
- 39:42these conferences is remembering that you are not alone, that
- 39:44you're not just the only crazy Bitcoin person because you're
- 39:48probably like me. Well actually you were like me
- 39:51where I would rant about Bitcoin to everyone and they would all
- 39:55look at me and be like yo, could you shut up please?
- 39:59Like I don't care about what you care about and then you come
- 40:02here. Actually, I overheard a
- 40:03conversation last night at the pre party and it was something
- 40:08on the lines of like it feels so good being around other people
- 40:11that just get how the world works.
- 40:13Like you don't have to orange peel them.
- 40:14You don't have to like, explain to them about the monetary
- 40:17system. You're just like.
- 40:18You get it, OK, you get it. So I'm most excited about just
- 40:22hanging around, mingling. I was trying to shoot some
- 40:25basketball yesterday. I can't play basketball at all.
- 40:27So, you know, don't don't hold me to it, guys.
- 40:30But I I made one bucket out of like 37.
- 40:33But hey, you know, and it's going to be fun, but actually,
- 40:37you. Got hit.
- 40:38You're going me friends with this?
- 40:40You're against bitcoins. You're against freedom.
- 40:42Exactly, exactly. I am.
- 40:45I am actually kind of excited to hear Nico's speech or moderation
- 40:50of how to orange pill the master.
- 40:51Well, really here's Steven Levka.
- 40:53I I really enjoy Steven Levka. Hopefully he's like not wearing
- 40:56shoes and maybe even, you know a tank top.
- 41:00Yeah, shirtless on the stage. But I I always talk about it and
- 41:03this is the conversation I was having all night last night.
- 41:05He's like, how do we orange pill people and how is the best way
- 41:08to do this. And of course I said all the
- 41:10time be just a good example of being a bitcoiner.
- 41:12And really I was telling people this.
- 41:14Let me see if I can get on camera.
- 41:15Look most normies are here. Guys like they're, you know,
- 41:19they're so outside the Overton window that they're here.
- 41:22And then us bitcoiners are literally the other side of the
- 41:25Overton window and it. Yeah, literally over there.
- 41:27Like where normies are here, the Overton windows somewhere in the
- 41:31middle and we're way on the other side.
- 41:33And how do we get the normie to understand what we understand.
- 41:37And it's really goes back to the frog in boiling water meme.
- 41:41You got to slowly but surely slow roll your friends and
- 41:43family. Maybe even ignore saying the B
- 41:46word because it instantly turns people off.
- 41:49But I'm excited to at least here Steven Lebka, he's, I think he
- 41:53might be one of my favorite bitcoins, just because he uses
- 41:55all these big words and it makes me feel like, oh, I know what
- 41:58he's talking about. I know he's talking.
- 41:59Anyway, Sophie, what's what are you excited to do here?
- 42:02Actually, you're going to be singing, right?
- 42:04Yes, that's going to be, honestly, one of the highlights
- 42:06for me. I'm excited to sing Richmond
- 42:09north of Richmond, which was the cover that went viral on
- 42:13Twitter. So I'm.
- 42:15Very excited for that. I'm also really excited to get
- 42:18on the floor and start talking with some bitcoiners.
- 42:21Usually I go out on the street and I speak to to the normies
- 42:25and it's kind of a clusterfuck sometimes.
- 42:28Wait, are we allowed to Chris? Of course.
- 42:30Because because they don't know what I'm talking about, they
- 42:33look at me like I'm crazy. I mean, like imagine your
- 42:35friends and family, but these are just strangers and they
- 42:38straight up do not care about the monetary system or their
- 42:42freedoms. They're totally comfortable
- 42:44living their. Lives under slavery, so I'm
- 42:47really excited to actually get into some deep conversations
- 42:50with people who are on our same page and of course, mingle with
- 42:55the people who I consider family at this point.
- 42:59Those are all the things that I'm really excited about.
- 43:01How about you, Dell? What am I looking forward to
- 43:04here? Well, it's Dell's first Bitcoin
- 43:05conference, so he's gonna be mingling.
- 43:08Uh, can you start to feel the energy or you?
- 43:11You have yet to get there. People come up and recognize me
- 43:14like like Ben from BTC Sessions. He came over to me like he's way
- 43:19more well known than I am and he's like, I like your videos
- 43:22like oh sweet nice tips. I saw someone.
- 43:28I saw someone with the Simply Bitcoin hoodie.
- 43:31If you guys haven't gotten your Simply Bitcoin hoodie,
- 43:33definitely cop one right now and you can wear them at the
- 43:37conferences and we will come up to you and say hello.
- 43:40I already took my first selfie. We we connect with our fans,
- 43:44scan the QR code. Yeah, definitely scan the QR
- 43:46code and get it while supplies last.
- 43:50There is one downside to the hoodie.
- 43:52You will always lose at hide and go seek.
- 43:53It is very loud. I love loud.
- 43:58Orange used to be my favorite color and now it has come back
- 44:01around because people used to make fun of me that like, how is
- 44:03orange your favorite color? It's so bright.
- 44:05I'm like, yeah, that's the point.
- 44:06I'm colorblind, guys. I don't think you noticed.
- 44:08It's a fashion statement for sure, 100%, but actually sofa or
- 44:13actually Dell, both of you guys, on the same note, shouts out to
- 44:17everyone of you guys that was giving me love last night.
- 44:19It it really is inspiring to know that we are actively
- 44:24helping you guys in your huddle, that you guys are entertained,
- 44:27that you guys are enjoying the show.
- 44:29Because realistically, like, what are we doing right now?
- 44:32We're just friends talking and we're looking into a computer,
- 44:35you know, we're looking into a camera and we forget that
- 44:37there's people on the other side of this that are not only
- 44:40improving their lives, but they're getting value from this.
- 44:43And to meet people in the flesh and like everyone come up like,
- 44:46dude, off to you. Like thank you so much for what
- 44:48you're doing, shouts out the Jesse.
- 44:50He hit me last night and he's like literally off the I don't
- 44:53think there's been a culture that you've missed.
- 44:55Every time you do a culture, I'm like, OK, there hasn't been a
- 44:58miss yet. And I'm like, well, thank you
- 45:00dude, I'm just like, shooting in the dark.
- 45:02And on that note, I told him as well.
- 45:03And I'll tell you guys the same thing.
- 45:05If there's things you want me to talk about on culture, if
- 45:08they're people, you want us to come on and talk about certain
- 45:11topics on culture? Let us know.
- 45:13Hit me in the Dms and the Simply Bitcoin TV account or my
- 45:16personal Actually, I think my personal ones are closed because
- 45:19I get too many scammers in there.
- 45:20But hit me in Telegram, Tag me in the telegram T dot me.
- 45:23So I simply Bitcoin TV and we'll do our best to make it happen
- 45:27for you guys. Anyways, Chris, I see you want
- 45:28to jump in there. Oh no.
- 45:30I just love being here and love hanging out with you guys.
- 45:32I forget what I wanted to say. So, perfect.
- 45:34Perfect. Wow.
- 45:35Uh, did anyone look at the speaker schedule yet?
- 45:37Or did we get here too early that we didn't get a chance to
- 45:40look at it yet? Not.
- 45:41Yet. I looked at some of the
- 45:44speakers, but I didn't see. I couldn't tell you the
- 45:46schedule. Well, who's the speaker that you
- 45:49want to see? Miss Universe.
- 45:50Oh, of course. OK, OK.
- 45:53Hey, Dell, I Don't you have a wife?
- 45:56Yeah. Well, yeah.
- 45:57Yeah. Still want to see her.
- 45:59Still want to see her, though. OK, I don't blame you.
- 46:00What she has to say because yes, one.
- 46:04Of the biggest things that would orange pill the world is if
- 46:07women were like, you know what, I don't care about any of that
- 46:10other dollars. If you want to talk to me, if
- 46:12you want to interact with me, I'm going to need to see some
- 46:14Bitcoin. Like instantly every guy is
- 46:16going to get some Bitcoin. Oh man.
- 46:21Well, self, we were, we were talking about that the other
- 46:24night about how, you know, you and I have coined a term here on
- 46:28simply Bitcoin of trying to make it fun, sexy and cool.
- 46:32And we realized actually we were kind of like going back and
- 46:36forth, joking a little bit. It's like, OK, how do we orange
- 46:38pill the world better? And it's like you tap into the
- 46:40women market. They are the ones buying
- 46:42everything. They're the consumers.
- 46:43They're the ones handling the pocketbook.
- 46:45And it's like, how do we do this?
- 46:47No idea. But we're trying, you know, it's
- 46:49trying to look good, trying to make stuff entertaining and of
- 46:53course, you know, do what you're doing over there, so.
- 46:55You you tell women, do you wanna be rich without having, without
- 47:00having to depend on a man? If the answer is yes, then
- 47:05Bitcoin is for you. And I think that universally
- 47:07every woman would say yes to that, at least to just have your
- 47:10own money to like go shopping every once in a while and you
- 47:13don't feel that about it, like just go ham on Amazon.
- 47:18That's that's what Bitcoin is for, you know, And to just have
- 47:21a little nest egg to be able to someday give to your kids.
- 47:25It's for women more than you know.
- 47:28More than 1.1 billion women in the world are unbanked.
- 47:32That's 56% of the unbanked population.
- 47:35So if. Every woman in the world right
- 47:38now adopted Bitcoin. That would change drastically.
- 47:41No matter if it's made illegal in this country, if it's if, if
- 47:47your parents or your husbands just for some reason don't let
- 47:50you have a bank account. Bitcoin frees you of all of
- 47:53those restrictions, and that's why it's important, especially
- 47:57for women. When are we doing a simply
- 48:00Bitcoin, a parody of, you know, if you want to be my lover, you
- 48:03got to get with my friends, but instead, if you want to be my
- 48:05lover, you got to have some Bitcoin.
- 48:07I don't know that's. Sophie My.
- 48:10Lover, you got to get with some sacks.
- 48:12Oh, wow. Freestyle.
- 48:14And hold on, hold on, hold on. Yeah, listen.
- 48:19All right, guys. Wait, hold on.
- 48:21I'm getting trolled here, says simply.
- 48:24Bitcoin, I'm tagging you in a meme for Sophie.
- 48:26Please show this episode. I will do my best.
- 48:30We are going to get into the meme review right now, guys, so
- 48:33it better happen fast. You better be.
- 48:35You know the quickest memer in the West.
- 48:39Nimble with the Canva? Yeah, exactly.
- 48:41Anyways, guys, any any more thoughts?
- 48:44Any you know what I'm really most excited for guys?
- 48:48I'm excited to get some more coffee this morning.
- 48:49They were, they were they were running out of coffee.
- 48:51As you can see, we are actually. Should I drop some alpha on you?
- 48:56No plug here, but they have energy drinks I got.
- 49:00An idea. You want to give somebody the
- 49:02Sats? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 49:04All right, guys, so we're not plugging the.
- 49:06We're not doing a free plug here.
- 49:08But if you are at the conference and you haven't got there yet,
- 49:13there are energy drinks and you can get free sets.
- 49:16So. So the way this works is I'm
- 49:18gonna show you a QR code here. Whoever scans it, it's gonna
- 49:22take you to a quick little website and you gotta link that
- 49:24up to like, Walatus, Atoshi or you've got a few options and
- 49:28then it's real. Well, it's not easy to get off
- 49:31here, but it this process is real simple.
- 49:34And some people got 500 sets, other people got 1000.
- 49:37I heard someone get 10,000 sets. Yeah, that's what I heard.
- 49:42So here we go. Get your cameras ready.
- 49:44You might need to get closer. You might need to get closer.
- 49:47All right, so don't say we don't give you free sets on the show.
- 49:51It's a little blurry. It's a little blurry.
- 49:54It's way too blurry. Yeah, there we go.
- 50:01There we go. All right.
- 50:03OK, free sats, guys. Screenshot that.
- 50:09Stop the show and then replay the show and you'll get some
- 50:12free Sats. Let us know if you get those
- 50:14sats. Anyways, let's get into the meme
- 50:17review, guys, because this is your favorite portion of the
- 50:20show where you send us memes. I hope you get your meme out
- 50:23there and I'll. I'll try to get it on by the end
- 50:25of the meme review score. The Daily Meme Review All right
- 50:37boys and girls, you already know the deal.
- 50:39This is the meme Review your favorite portion of the show
- 50:43where you send us memes. Tag me on Twitter at Simply
- 50:46Bitcoin TV or my personal account at Optimist Fields, or
- 50:50drop them in our Telegram group. T dot me slash simply Bitcoin
- 50:53TV. Don't just tag your favorite
- 50:56memes memes. I am OK with a little bit of
- 50:58nepotism on the meme review. You can tag yourself in your own
- 51:01memes. I'm alright with this.
- 51:02Just keep tagging them. Keep dropping the actual tweet
- 51:06in our Telegram group because I want to give you guys the
- 51:10accolades you need. And if you're quick with the
- 51:13memes, we will. We'll get we'll get them on
- 51:15right now. Let's see, maybe we can get a
- 51:18Nico Nico Jones meme review score here at the very end of
- 51:21the show. Anyways guys, I am sure you guys
- 51:25were all a part of this very strange presidential alert
- 51:32yesterday. It went off on everyone's
- 51:35phones. If your phone was on.
- 51:36Apparently we're all turning into zombies now.
- 51:38I I don't. I don't remember.
- 51:40Oh wait, I forgot to say tweet to the bullets memes of the
- 51:41utilities. We are in an information war.
- 51:43You guys are the frontline soldiers.
- 51:45Continue to ridicule the corporate press, continue to
- 51:48make some funnies to keep your friends heads in the game and
- 51:51continue to get the calls of action out there.
- 51:52Guys, I think memes are going to be more important than ever this
- 51:55next bull run as we get all of the normies involved in Bitcoin.
- 52:00Anyways, as I was saying, I'm sure your guys's phones went off
- 52:03and now we're all zombies or something.
- 52:05I don't. I don't know what the conspiracy
- 52:06theorists were saying about this presidential alert, but look at
- 52:11McConnell face. Here he goes.
- 52:13My alert seems based AF and he goes national alert.
- 52:18This is a test. Have you bought Bitcoin yet?
- 52:20Today. This week?
- 52:21What are you waiting for? The national debt is over $33
- 52:23trillion and growing rapidly. Inflation is not under control.
- 52:27Do you want to wait until your money is worthless or put your
- 52:29savings into the hardest asset mankind has ever seen?
- 52:32Imagine if we got this warning on our phones.
- 52:35Wow, that would be incredible. Probably not going to happen.
- 52:38OK. Anyways, this next meme is by
- 52:40Greg Zajawan. And, you know, you know how we
- 52:44say there's some synchronicity in the meme review and the
- 52:46culture and stuff? Because this is almost exactly
- 52:49what Sophie was saying. Look, we got the this gothy girl
- 52:52here and she goes, you're the most repulsive person I've ever
- 52:55met. And it's all you bitcoiners that
- 52:57haven't shaved, that haven't showered, I haven't got a
- 52:59haircut and just looking so distraught during this bear
- 53:03market. And then you just respond.
- 53:05I have 300 Bitcoin and now they are getting married.
- 53:09I am saying she's a sat digger, but if you have 300 Bitcoin, I'm
- 53:12sure she would not care about your appearance.
- 53:16Wow, look at that. All right, don't, don't, don't
- 53:18expose it. Yeah, don't expose it.
- 53:19Yeah. OK.
- 53:20This next one is my woe Jack Bitcoin.
- 53:22And it goes. I haven't met my soul mate yet,
- 53:25but I like to think that's just because they're busy doing
- 53:27something really important. And it's the bitcoiner over
- 53:30here. Time to buy more Bitcoin, and
- 53:32you have the Bitcoin Magazine tweet here.
- 53:33Progress until the next Bitcoin having just huddle.
- 53:36We are almost there at the having we are what, five months
- 53:40out we're. Less than 30,000 blocks away
- 53:42from the having. Look at me.
- 53:44I am. I'm such a Gregorian calendar
- 53:46maxi that I'm still using months instead of block height.
- 53:50So how many blocks 30,000? Less less than 30,000 left.
- 53:53All right, guys, I stand corrected.
- 53:55We are less than 30,000 blocks away from the having all right,
- 53:59this next one. I told you guys I am not against
- 54:01nepotism and I do my best to not put our own memes on this, but
- 54:06shouts out to Morpheus a play on the classic.
- 54:10You know, cat getting yelled at, eating dinner and it goes
- 54:13hashtag Bitcoin and it's the the lady yelling.
- 54:17I don't remember what is this like the bachelor or something?
- 54:19I think so, yeah. I don't know.
- 54:20Sophie. Sophie.
- 54:21It's about it's the Bachelor Bachelorette.
- 54:23It's Real Housewives of New Jersey, I think.
- 54:28I think this is the Jersey one. I think Okay wouldn't know,
- 54:32wouldn't know. But I know the meme template
- 54:33anyways. The housewife is yelling.
- 54:37You said no more energy. And then the cat sitting here
- 54:39with the kaboom racks, they said no.
- 54:42I said no more energy. We need more energy.
- 54:45Unplug Denmark. I think I have it over here.
- 54:48Unplug all of these countries and put them on the Bitcoin
- 54:51network. We need more energy to secure
- 54:54this best money in the world and this last one is by pub Lord and
- 54:57I dropped this one in here because I I think we're all
- 55:00getting the bear market fatigue. And I find it hilarious that I
- 55:04even told Dell this the other night like I am so tired of
- 55:07orange Pilling my friends and family that I I don't even do it
- 55:10anymore. I'm like, look, I lit.
- 55:11My job is literally to talk about Bitcoin.
- 55:14If you want to hear me talking about Bitcoin, go on.
- 55:16YouTube There's an hour a day. There's an hour a day of you
- 55:19watching exactly like come watch me.
- 55:22I won't like I'll I'll I'll save you from me ranting every single
- 55:26day and just watch me on YouTube.
- 55:28Anyways, pub Lord Hoddle over here is using just a classic
- 55:32liotta laugh name and he goes, I'm done fucking orange peeling.
- 55:35Go find Bitcoin the hard way like I did.
- 55:39Oh man, such bear market things where this is exactly what most
- 55:42of us are probably thinking. Anyways, guys, drop your meme
- 55:46review score in the chat. We will cover them live as we
- 55:49cover ours live. So let's let's yeah you go
- 55:53first, cuz I didn't even get a meme review score yet.
- 55:55Yeah, so I'm giving these the The Bitcoin Dollar by Mark
- 55:59Goodwin. You can go to B dot or, you
- 56:01know, the Bitcoin Magazine Store.
- 56:03You can use Code BM Live to get 10% off the Mark Goodwin's book.
- 56:07Shout out to Mark Goodwin, Absolute Legend.
- 56:11You know, I know we're technically journalists, but I
- 56:15think Mark is doing some hard hitting journalism over there
- 56:18and he asked all the hard questions and he's willing to
- 56:20take the heat for a lot of stuff.
- 56:21And he's willing to interview a presidential candidate.
- 56:24What a legend. What a legend.
- 56:25All right, So what is your mean review score?
- 56:27OK so I was just gifted these beautiful onesies.
- 56:31Look how cute they are. It says I am Satoshi and then
- 56:36the other one says. Hoddle me tight, that's.
- 56:41Cute which everything that you hold precious in your life.
- 56:44You should Hoddle very tightly and that includes your Bitcoin,
- 56:48so make sure you have it in Celsius.
- 56:50It needs an orange onesie. It's this orange is like red
- 56:53salmon. It's red.
- 56:54I forget that you're cuddled. Yeah, he's literally colorblind.
- 56:58He's not done. Wait, it's not pink this?
- 57:01One is red. And this one is pink and the
- 57:04little monster is purple and it has little orange Sungla.
- 57:07I'm obsessed with this one. That's so cute.
- 57:09All right, guys. That right here I am.
- 57:12I am highly regarded, but I am also very colorblind guys.
- 57:16Not only blind, but colorblind as well.
- 57:18Anyways, Dell, what is your meme review score for today?
- 57:21This bottle of water, My God explain this so.
- 57:25Much it costs. I like water.
- 57:27A lot. That's mostly what I drink, and
- 57:29I don't like drinking out of anything besides glass if I have
- 57:32to. So I opened this.
- 57:33You're my whoa, draw. You open the bar.
- 57:35We needed the cap. I'm not about wasting, so I'm
- 57:38drinking this. Yes, we needed the the cap, the
- 57:41little tab to tighten these things.
- 57:43We needed a screwdriver. That was our screwdriver, truly.
- 57:46But this I bought from Bristol Farms.
- 57:48It was $25 and it is probably the best water I've ever tasted.
- 57:51But now I get a bottle I can carry around.
- 57:53Look, I'm drinking water. Water champ.
- 57:55Right here, guys. And you know, not to put Dell's
- 57:58business out there, but he was telling us he's not gonna spend
- 58:01any SAT throughout this trip and buys a 25.
- 58:03Dollars spend any Sats, I said. I was gonna not buy dumb things.
- 58:09Debatable. Debatable.
- 58:11I. Need water.
- 58:12I need water. Yeah, OK to.
- 58:14Love that thing throughout the airport.
- 58:17Oh my God, will they even let you?
- 58:19I don't know. If it's empty.
- 58:21No. If it's empty.
- 58:22OK. OK.
- 58:23OK. All right, guys.
- 58:24Well, let's see what my beam review score.
- 58:27I I he just reminded me of the bottle cap.
- 58:29Now, I've already done Nico, but yeah, look, guys, I brought
- 58:32Nico. Nico's still here with us.
- 58:35I was gonna do the bottle cap, but that that doesn't feel like
- 58:38a worthy score. You can see I was, I was
- 58:41tightening this stuff up here. I'm going to do this wristband
- 58:45that Ulrich gave me. I don't think you can see it,
- 58:48but it says separate money from state #dommy.
- 58:53Don't do me. I don't know what the hashtag
- 58:56is, guys, but actually it's not do me, it's dommy.
- 59:01Because now I know you guys are going to troll me right now.
- 59:03So I didn't say that. Guys do not clip me.
- 59:07Do not make memes of me right now.
- 59:10Anyways, there is some oh wait yeah wait wait.
- 59:15I need to find it. I need to find the meme.
- 59:17Actually, I I need to make is Did you see it?
- 59:20I need to make sure, I need to make sure it's PG-13 friendly
- 59:24because you are not trustworthy Copernicus.
- 59:26So let's get through this tours and if if if I find it in time,
- 59:32we'll get you guys this last meme.
- 59:33One second guys, let's let's figure this out real quick.
- 59:36I need to get the music. I need to scroll up here.
- 59:40Okay. All right, guys, 1st Meme Review
- 59:45score is by John Pleb and he goes, I give these memes my
- 59:52favorite tongue twister, say five times fast.
- 59:56Toy boat toy boat toy boat, toy to.
- 59:59I can't even do it. Toy boat toy boat to.
- 1:00:01All right, all right, you you win.
- 1:00:04All right. Next meme review score is by
- 1:00:06Christine Lagarde, Praying Mantis version.
- 1:00:09Score. Bitcoin is for everyone except
- 1:00:11wives who have no spending control.
- 1:00:14OK, all right, Rod man messenger.
- 1:00:18I give these memes 2 undone buttons on Opti shirt.
- 1:00:21It's actually. Oh, it is two.
- 1:00:22I thought it was three. Hey, you're lucky it's not three
- 1:00:25guys. OK, next meme review score is by
- 1:00:29UTXO. And it goes.
- 1:00:30I give the memes my favorite tongue twister.
- 1:00:33Try set try set. Tries Thurber.
- 1:00:38That's a different language. I, I, I can't speak.
- 1:00:41I can barely speak English. Guys, come on, give me.
- 1:00:44Give me a break. All right.
- 1:00:45Bitcoin for Canadians. I give these memes.
- 1:00:47More politicians being pro Bitcoin.
- 1:00:49Yes, this is the way. Let's see.
- 1:00:52Meme was on Twitter. Oh, man, look, I they're
- 1:00:57trolling me. Does Opti wear a do me message
- 1:01:00on his wrist? OK, all right, all right, all
- 1:01:03right, here we go. Here we go.
- 1:01:04Here we go. All right, is it worth it?
- 1:01:07Here, let me. OK, I'll find it.
- 1:01:10I'll find it. We'll pull it up real quick.
- 1:01:13Oh, my God. OK.
- 1:01:14All right, one second, One second.
- 1:01:18All right, we got we're going to get your meme here.
- 1:01:20It's apparently kind of PG friendly.
- 1:01:25OK. All right Copernicus, we got you
- 1:01:29bro. Here we go.
- 1:01:31Honorary meme for today. Cuz it's on brand, it goes
- 1:01:35simply. Bitcoin.
- 1:01:36Please show to Sophie on meme. Review me.
- 1:01:39Bitcoin is for everyone. Waifu.
- 1:01:41Even me. Me.
- 1:01:42Sorry honey. It's written in the white paper
- 1:01:44that Bitcoin is not for married women.
- 1:01:46When you tell your wife Bitcoin is for everyone except for wives
- 1:01:49and it's crying Barbie. Oh.
- 1:01:51That's I have a question. What are you gonna do if your
- 1:01:54wife sucks harder than you Boof? Actually that was a good
- 1:01:57conversation. I I had a few conversations last
- 1:02:00night. One she was saying that it's too
- 1:02:05hard to orange pill her love interest.
- 1:02:08So she's like, I'm just going to stack sat.
- 1:02:09I'll be the rich one. You know if you don't get
- 1:02:11Bitcoin you can only pick or choose so much.
- 1:02:13You can always orange pill someone and then another person
- 1:02:17was like you know I do my best to orange pill people but my
- 1:02:21wife doesn't care about Bitcoin. I'm like it doesn't matter as
- 1:02:25long as she loves you then you know by vicinity, by proximity
- 1:02:29she's orange pilled. Anyways guys this the end of the
- 1:02:33show. We will be back tomorrow morning
- 1:02:35same time as always. Of course, we are live from
- 1:02:38Pacific Bitcoin Conference, so forgive you know, it's a little
- 1:02:42crazier than usual and I messed up the time, so hopefully I
- 1:02:45won't mess up tomorrow's time and we get a bunch more people
- 1:02:48in here, But we will have a good show for you guys.
- 1:02:50I'll make sure that I get some cool guests on here.
- 1:02:53We're going to do some interviews that I will probably
- 1:02:56get Rustin to post on the YouTube.
- 1:02:59We'll get some clips out there for you guys.
- 1:03:01But anyways, Chris, what are you working on?
- 1:03:04What do you want people to know? What do you want to say?
- 1:03:06Last words. Yeah, working on Bitcoin
- 1:03:09Amsterdam stuff. So that's next week.
- 1:03:10I can't believe it. That's going to be Thursday and
- 1:03:12Friday next week. So look, tune into the live
- 1:03:14stream for that. Make sure to get your copy of
- 1:03:17the withdrawal issue. Oh yeah, that looks.
- 1:03:20Sexy. It was good.
- 1:03:20You know, the First Republic Bank on on the cover, you know,
- 1:03:23right as they go out of business or you know, go bankrupt and
- 1:03:26then make sure to check out Mark Goodwin's work.
- 1:03:28Huge shout out to my coworker Mark.
- 1:03:30You know he does some great work with the the Bitcoin dollar.
- 1:03:32And yeah, thanks for having me guys.
- 1:03:34It's been a pleasure. Well Chris, as I said in the
- 1:03:38beginning of the show, it always feels good having a real
- 1:03:41professional next to me. And I was joking with Nico when
- 1:03:45I said that and we literally both said the same thing.
- 1:03:48And I can't say it on on YouTube, but we're both very
- 1:03:52highly regarded and that's exactly what he said anyway.
- 1:03:55Sophie, are they gonna be able to catch your live?
- 1:03:59Singing. I think they will and it's gonna
- 1:04:02be streaming. I'll I'll literally stream it
- 1:04:04from our TikTok. So if they don't stream it from
- 1:04:09Swan, we will be streaming it from TikTok.
- 1:04:12We could also stream it from YouTube.
- 1:04:14I'll just like set up from you know my phone if you guys want
- 1:04:18we'll figure it out. You guys will definitely catch
- 1:04:20me. If not you'll catch me posting
- 1:04:22the video afterwards. So I'm.
- 1:04:25I look forward to it. Definitely check it out.
- 1:04:27Let's go. Also, Sophie, we need to bring
- 1:04:31you back on the show more because you talk way better than
- 1:04:34both of us. You have a maybe it's not just
- 1:04:37the feminine voice. You don't say ums us, you don't
- 1:04:41pause. She's she's a real professional
- 1:04:43here. I think we've trained her very
- 1:04:45well. I think that this has been just
- 1:04:48hammering the information for the last seven years and me not
- 1:04:52being able to speak about it. So all the information is just
- 1:04:56waiting to burst out of me and that's and that's why I can do
- 1:05:00what I do. But I do pause a lot.
- 1:05:02I talk really slow. Yeah, slower is better, Slower
- 1:05:06is better. Anyways, before we go on,
- 1:05:08they're asking what is this TikTok you speak of guys we're
- 1:05:13on to. Guys, we're on TikTok like we're
- 1:05:15trying to get to the Zoomers. We're trying to get to the
- 1:05:17zoomers and the women like, look regarded people need Bitcoin to
- 1:05:22like. People who like, don't
- 1:05:24necessarily care about this. They need to hear about it.
- 1:05:27We are everywhere. We don't care who you are.
- 1:05:29Bitcoin is for everyone. So if it's not for you, it's not
- 1:05:32your platform. Whatever, we'll we'll catch you
- 1:05:34on a different we'll still be on YouTube and Twitter and all that
- 1:05:37stuff anyways. And Rumble shouts out to the
- 1:05:40Rumble viewers. Let's see, I we are live over
- 1:05:44there, shouts out to all you guys.
- 1:05:45I I don't remember where the screen is anyways.
- 1:05:47Dell, what are you excited for? What are you gonna do?
- 1:05:49What? Do you have some videos drop in
- 1:05:51or are you taking your media appearance today?
- 1:05:55You're doing some red carpet appearances today.
- 1:05:57Well, there's I already have two videos that came out this week.
- 1:05:59There's more coming next week. I've recorded them beforehand so
- 1:06:02that they're ready to go. And then I'm really looking
- 1:06:04forward to rolling with Ben Aspren and Oh yeah, Oh yeah,
- 1:06:07that's like right now. Video of that No, that's at
- 1:06:09noon. So.
- 1:06:10Your clocks wrong buddy. I know this is still on Central
- 1:06:13time. This is still on Central time.
- 1:06:14Anyways guys, actually before we go the P man van, everyone says
- 1:06:19the same thing. I finally have a reference for
- 1:06:21Opti. He looks jacked.
- 1:06:22Everyone says the same thing. Not only am I better looking in
- 1:06:26person, I'm bigger in person. So apparently I look ugly and
- 1:06:29small on the camera. But hey, that's neither here nor
- 1:06:32there. That sounds like an Opti
- 1:06:33problem. Anyways, we love you guys.
- 1:06:36We appreciate you guys and if you are by chance in LA we will
- 1:06:42making some rounds. I'll see you guys around, come
- 1:06:45up to me, say some love, show some love.
- 1:06:47It really means a lot to us and we will be back tomorrow with
- 1:06:50our show. No spaces for us.
- 1:06:53This week we're going to be doing other media appearances,
- 1:06:55but Cafe Bitcoin is live right now guys.
- 1:06:58So you guys can stream the whole Pacific Bitcoin conference on
- 1:07:01Twitter spaces. It is going on YouTube as well.
- 1:07:03Anyways, we'll be back tomorrow. Peace out guys.
- 1:07:06We love you. What's up?