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BITCOIN PUMPS While Trump Attacks El Salvador | EP 1036 · Simply Bitcoin

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  It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
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  It's going up forever. You're against Bitcoin, you're
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  against freedom. Salvador's an interesting one
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  because I know the president, he's a young.
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  Guy. Young guy.
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  And he's been getting this great press, this great press that his
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  crime rates way down and they're training.
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  They're criminals. Well, you don't train criminals.
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  OK? You know, maybe every once in a
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  while you get lucky. But, you know, so in El
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  Salvador, murders are down 70%. He said, yes, we're teaching.
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  He's different. Most of them just say, well, the
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  United States is stupid, so we're dumping all our criminals.
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  He does it differently. Smart because we're working with
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  our people that are causing problems in crime and he's not
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  working with him. He's dumping them in the United
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  States and their crime rate, their murder rate is down 72
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  percent. 73. We're going to simply Bitcoin
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  the separation of money and state.
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  Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the most watched
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  daily Bitcoin only live show on YouTube.
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  Rumble and X sit back, relax, enjoy the ride lots to cover
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  today, specifically with the cold opening.
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  This is the second time, first speech that Trump had after his
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  attempted assassination was at the RNC convention and he
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  mentioned El Salvador by name. This is the first rally that
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  he's had since the attempted assassination.
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  And once again, he names El Salvador by name.
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  Very strange. He attacks, he attacks Naimbu
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  Kelly. He's basically saying, trying to
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  make the case that the reason that the crime rate is so low is
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  because they're just exporting all these people through the
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  southern border. That's how they're getting them
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  in. And I got to say, guys like, I
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  just don't like this. Why don't I like this?
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  Because it's like you have potentially a pro Bitcoin
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  administration going into power in 2025, President Trump, JD
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  Vance as VP and of course you have the Bitcoin country, El
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  Salvador. You would think that they would
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  be working together, but you have Trump here attacking the
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  president of Bitcoin country. Mind you, all the countries
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  around El Salvador, you know, around that area, they're not
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  necessarily doing great either. Like, I think it's like
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  Nicaragua, what they might I forget, but they they straight
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  up have like a communist government, right?
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  Not to mention the crime rate out of all these countries.
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  And it seems like Buchele has been the only one to have
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  figured this out. And you have Trump getting in
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  there and attacking the guy. Very strange.
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  Could it be that he's jealous? That mean that's what Max Keiser
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  has been saying all weekend. I would say that we're stronger
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  together. I would like to see, you know,
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  the potential, you know, if Trump gets elected, a potential
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  Trump administration working together with the Buchele
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  administration because, you know, the incentives are
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  aligned. This is very strange.
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  A lot of people are speculating that this is like the art of the
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  deal that Trump before like it part of his negotiation tactics
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  is that he kind of, you know, he he craps on his opponents a
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  little bit. Like remember with Kim Jong Un,
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  like the the North Korean leader, he called him the crazy
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  them basically like a fat rocket man.
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  And then, you know, within a month or two, they were shaking
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  hands at the DMZ. So like, is he using the same,
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  you know, the tools and tactics? I don't know.
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  We'll break that down today. But on, on on the good news side
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  of things, Matt Gates, Representative Matt Gaetz
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  actually went down to El Salvador and he actually made a
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  video with name Bukele showing that the fact that the reason,
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  the reason as to why the crime rate has gone down was because
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  they're locking the gang members who are doing the killings and
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  the crime in prison. And they did a video of that.
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  So shout out to Matt Gaetz for getting that out there.
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  I hope that gets to the Trump campaign.
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  I do not understand why he's attacking El Salvador, why he's
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  attacking the Bitcoin country. Please let us now, let us know
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  in the comments what you think. I, I'm a little perplexed.
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  Like for me, I just don't understand it.
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  In other news as well, President Joe Biden seems to he has
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  announced that he is not running for re election.
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  This news broke on Twitter out of all places.
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  Twitter actually was the first one by a couple of minutes.
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  I'll show you guys that this is another theme of the show that
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  we talk about, which is the great disintermediation.
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  This first is the great disintermediation of information
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  mass scale, peer-to-peer communications as predicted by
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  the book to sovereign individual.
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  And of course, what is coming, what is on the verge, what is on
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  the verge of beginning, which is the disintermediation of money,
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  which I am extremely bullish about because I think it really
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  does fix a lot of things. But anyways, back to Biden.
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  Biden saying that he's not running for re election.
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  This news was broke. It was broke on Twitter.
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  And This is why Twitter is the most popular news app at the
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  moment, because it's just a bunch of individuals breaking
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  the media themselves rather than a handful of publishers,
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  intermediaries that it's so obvious have been Co opted for
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  such a long time, right? Like mainstream media, if the
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  last five years have shown and what social media, social media
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  basically took the veil off, right?
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  But mainstream media is they're not really journalists.
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  Like we should call them propagandists because that's
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  really essentially what they are.
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  Also, in other news, Elon Musk, he put he put on some laser
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  including sailor that of course it has to do with with with
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  Bitcoin. And there's also hints that he
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  would be making a surprise appearance at the Bitcoin 2024
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  conference next week. I mean, it wouldn't it's not too
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  crazy to think about just because, you know, big Elon Musk
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  has been a very pro freedom lately, specifically what he did
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  with X. You know, he made it a pro free
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  speech platform as much as he can.
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  Of course, we're friends of Noster here on simply Bitcoin.
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  So, but it is very strange the whole thing, the resignation
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  with with with with Biden and how it happened through Twitter.
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  And that's something that I want to explore today, which is this
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  new way of getting breaking news is taking the world by storm.
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  You have the rise of individual content creators, and I think
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  the world is going to be a much better place for it.
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  Also, something else to keep in mind about Elon Musk
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  specifically is that Tesla is like the third largest Bitcoin
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  holder of, you know, some of these companies.
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  it's not so out of the question, but at the moment it is just
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  speculation. So we have a loaded show for you
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  Anyways, I do want to comment a little bit on President.
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  I played you guys. I played you guys a video on the
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  cold opening. Donald Trump, in his first rally
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  since the attempted assassination, once again
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  focuses on the very small country of El Salvador,
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  specifically on the president. He's saying he's basically
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  accusing Naimbu Kelly of dumping those criminals into the United
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  States. I don't see any data to support
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  that whatsoever. So I don't know what's going on
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  there. But we'll explore that topic on
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  today's episode. So this is what I said and this
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  tweet blew up so it resonated with people.
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  Not a fan of Trump once again attacking El Salvador and
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  President Buchele using false information.
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  If he wants the vote of bitcoiners this is not the way
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  to do it. I went out to say still voting
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  for Trump, obviously only due to his pro Bitcoin policies.
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  I'm a single issue voter myself but this needs attention.
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  I don't think his campaign is giving him the right information
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  on this. Then I went on to say a Trump
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  and bouquet alliance would be so powerful for the movement it
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  puts bitcoiners in a tough spot seeing one attack another.
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  I support both but the division is unnecessary.
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  Together we are stronger. Seems like Pierre Rashard, VP of
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  research at Riot. It seems like he agrees
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  President Trump should host President Buchele at Mar a Lago
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  and set up a two of two multi sig with him.
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  Send 100 BTC to it to it as a demonstration of American unity,
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  peace in diplomacy. I 100% agree with that.
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  Anyways, seems like it was like the timing of this is
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  suspicious. I'll just say that it's it's
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  very suspicious. So after that, Matt Gaetz, Matt
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  Gaetz is part of the populist movement of of the America First
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  part of the Republican Party, which is, you know, part of
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  Trump's wing of the party. And very, very shortly after
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  Trump criticized Naimbu Kelly, this happened.
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  Matt Gaetz and Naimbu Kelly met, which is very strange.
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  And another thing also big coincidence, Matt Gaetz
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  addressed exactly what Trump was talking about in the speech.
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  So here's about a two-minute video of Matt Gaetz touring the
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  prison facilities of of of of El Salvador that houses all the
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  violent gang members. Let's check it out.
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  I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz from Florida, and I serve on our
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  committees in the Congress to deal with the military and our
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  justice system. The people in the United States
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  of America are very grateful for the state of exception, and
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  we're grateful that CCOT exists so that these criminals are not
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  harming the people of El Salvador or harming the people
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  of the United States. A lot of the people behind me
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  would have found a way to make their way to the United States
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  and harm Americans. And we are grateful to President
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  Buchele and his administration for establishing security and
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  the state of exception, and for all the good work that the
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  people do here to keep everyone else safe.
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  El Salvador is a country on the rise because people are safe and
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  they are hopeful, and they will be prosperous and they will grow
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  great families and great churches and great businesses.
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  And all of that is possible because the people here are not
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  committing the murders and committing the rapes and the
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  robberies and all the things that stop a strong country from
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  standing up and fulfilling its great destiny.
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  Well, in past years, I think the United States Congress has been
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  too willing to lump El Salvador in with Honduras and Guatemala
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  on our policies. And we formed the El Salvador
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  Caucus because El Salvador deserves its own respect.
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  It deserves its own relationship directly with the United States
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  that isn't colored by what else is going on in Central America
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  or with your neighbors. We think the good ideas in El
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  Salvador actually have legs and can go to other places and help
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  other people be safe and secure and hopeful and prosperous.
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  There's a lot more discipline in this prison than we see in a lot
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  of the prisons in the United States.
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  And there are a lot more murderers here.
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  The people here have been doing a lot of killing.
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  And in the United States, you get a mix in prison of people
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  who've done a variety of things. But this is a concentrated
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  effort to solve what was a terrible problem for the people
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  of El Salvador. And so this is the solution.
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  The solution is to separate the killers from the people who want
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  to grow in their life and do more things for their neighbors
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  and for their country. So I mean, very strange, very,
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  very strange. The timing of it, like it was
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  addressed like like Trump said something and then a, a, a
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  representative from the House that is part of the Trump
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  caucus, like part of the whole Make America Make America Great
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  Again wing of the Republican Party.
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  Like the next day he's talking with Naimbu Kelly about the
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  crime problem and all that stuff.
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  Like that's a massive coincidence to say the least.
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  And this is when I ran into CJ KS post, which makes sense.
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  This is why I brought up Kim Jong Un of North Korea.
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  But CJKI think he's an excellent analysis.
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  And he says dictators meet threats with violence always
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  like those who took the shot on Donald Trump business
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  businessmen like those who first formed a union negotiate.
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  Trump is pulling the art of the deal with these Naeem Bukele
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  comments. Before he made history and met
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  with Kim Jong Un of North Korea. He called him out and even named
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  name called him the little rocket man.
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  I think Trump is pre positioning himself to make easy concessions
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  to Bukele on that false information that allows Trump to
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  be agreeable and progressive when they first meet, allowing
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  Bukele to clear up reality and develop trust with Trump.
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  This puts Trump in the position of power to get what he wants
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  while Salvador gets their true narrative to the world.
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  Maybe even dollar currency dominance in El Salvador with
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  Bitcoin as as as a strategic reserve asset plays a larger
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  role in USA seeing currency and money work together for good.
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  Later Trump will applaud Buchilla and point to him as an
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  example for other South American nations.
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  A once perceived enemy becomes a friend and ally in demonstrating
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  the genius of Trump's BTC promise.
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  Trump works in mysterious ways compared to politicians, and he
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  always likes to work in extremes.
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  It's a powerful tactic that gains and keeps attention.
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  It's the art of the deal. Now, what's really interesting
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  about this post is that it came out before this whole Matt Gaetz
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  photo op and video op, right? So yeah, is this negotiation?
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  Is this, you know, am I reading too much into it?
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  The timing on this, I got to say lots of coincidences these last
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  couple of weeks, ladies and gentlemen, to say the least.
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  I just, I don't know if I believe that this is a
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  coincidence. Like this is just the timing of
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  this is, is very, is very interesting.
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  So I'm going to ask Dom for his comments, but what I'm going to
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  ask him for is to do the the comments in Trump's voice.
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  Well, you know, it comes down to the fact I heard that Boo Kelly
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  started his own coffee. He has his own coffee now.
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  He sent out beans of fire and I didn't get any beans of fire.
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  And so I had to show him who's boss and, and let him know.
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  No, Yeah. Interesting attack on on Boo
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  Kelly. A couple things real quick #1
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  MS13 was a cornerstone of Trump's immigration policy in
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  his last term. So I think in looking up and
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  reading articles on how he addressed El Salvador, there's
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  some carryover I think that hasn't been updated to reflect
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  the new administration there, etcetera.
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  And I think I think like you pointed out, too, attempts to
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  kind of in line with Trump's kind of philosophy of the art of
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  the deal, knock down Buchelli a little bit.
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  And not saying I agree with the move.
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  I'm just trying to give some rationales to why he would do
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  that. On the positive side, the fact
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  that, you know, in the world of Trump like backhanded slaps, I
• 22:30
  think this was he said some good things.
• 22:32
  It wasn't like an all out attack.
• 22:34
  He said he was a great leader doing a great job and he admires
• 22:38
  him, so that should give a hint that this is more Art of the
• 22:41
  Deal territory and he's planning actually and working with El
• 22:45
  Salvador if he gets elected. Yeah, and I, I agree.
• 22:49
  I mean, like, don't pay attention to what they say, pay
• 22:51
  attention to what they do when you have a MAGA Republican
• 22:56
  literally day the meeting with Diane Buchelli, the day after
• 23:00
  the Trump comments, like it makes me a little, you know,
• 23:03
  like, OK, something is going on here in the background.
• 23:06
  Also, shout out to Dom for his incredible impersonation as
• 23:10
  always. That was one of my favorite
• 23:12
  shows. Man, Dom pulling out all those
• 23:13
  impersonations was absolutely hilarious.
• 23:16
  Anyways, Opti, what's your take on this brother?
• 23:19
  Yeah, so like everyone in the chat, you know, at first when we
• 23:23
  heard the initial sound bite at the RNC, it seemed a little
• 23:26
  weird where like maybe he made a mistake.
• 23:28
  What's going on here? Even though he was talking about
• 23:30
  Buchelli and, you know, was saying, oh, they're they're
• 23:34
  exporting the criminals to the US When he did it the second
• 23:37
  time, it's not by accident anymore.
• 23:39
  I think it's a very deliberate ploy.
• 23:41
  Exactly what Dom was saying, exactly what CJ was saying that
• 23:45
  this is this is some some Trumpism going out and so, you
• 23:50
  know, kind of knock down Buchele.
• 23:52
  But really what we talk about here all the time on the show is
• 23:55
  is like all all conversation is good conversation.
• 23:59
  And I think this is one of those attempts, whether he's doing it
• 24:03
  consciously or subconsciously of like shifting the Overton window
• 24:06
  at first. I think only in Bitcoin land is
• 24:09
  El Salvador like a huge news story to us.
• 24:11
  Like I, I, I think every Bitcoiners like that has heard
• 24:15
  about Naibu Calais has heard about Bitcoin country and it's
• 24:17
  like a big news story. But for the average person out
• 24:20
  there, they probably don't even know where El Salvador is on the
• 24:22
  map. They probably haven't heard
• 24:23
  about El Salvador in any good light except for all the gangs
• 24:27
  and criminals coming out of it. So I do think this is kind of
• 24:30
  one of those art of the deal things where he's going to, you
• 24:33
  know, make concessions eventually.
• 24:35
  But the interesting part about this was the Matt Gaetz video
• 24:38
  that literally followed followed the the second speech, what by
• 24:41
  like a day or something like that.
• 24:43
  So it does seem a bit coordinated here.
• 24:45
  And the most interesting part of that video that I heard was when
• 24:49
  Matt Gaetz said, you know, Naibu Kelly has implemented a lot of
• 24:52
  good new ideas that we can also look to and do ourselves, which
• 24:57
  doesn't necessarily just mean that like lock up criminals.
• 25:00
  It's I think hinting towards the idea of embracing Bitcoin as
• 25:05
  we've seen the whole GOP start to shift the rhetoric around
• 25:08
  embracing Bitcoiners, embracing Bitcoin in America.
• 25:11
  So I think this is laying groundwork for or eventually
• 25:15
  going towards what we would all hope to do or hope to see as
• 25:18
  Bitcoiners like them embrace Bitcoin, embrace the things that
• 25:21
  Naibu Kelly has done and, you know, to use Trump's terms, you
• 25:25
  know, make America great again. Like this is what we're all here
• 25:28
  for, whether you're left or right.
• 25:30
  This is about improving our country.
• 25:31
  Of course, we're we're Americans.
• 25:33
  We live in America. So this is our concern.
• 25:35
  But it really goes to show that Naibu Kelly is making noise like
• 25:41
  it's a tiny country. It barely just got on the map
• 25:43
  because of the Bitcoin law, because of all the things Naibu
• 25:46
  Kelly has done, because he's literally the most popular
• 25:49
  president in all of the Americas.
• 25:51
  I find it hilarious that even they're even talking about
• 25:55
  Bitcoin or sorry, Naibu Kelly. And I, I kind of was laughing at
• 26:00
  the beginning when because I didn't see that clip, I heard
• 26:02
  people talking about it. And, and like Dom was saying,
• 26:06
  you know, if you read between the lines, it's kind of
• 26:08
  hilarious. He was like, he was like, I
• 26:11
  love, I love Naivu Keller. He's doing great things.
• 26:14
  But you know, also he's exploiting all his criminals
• 26:17
  here. Like I don't like him.
• 26:18
  And it's just like literally in what, 30 seconds, he kind of
• 26:21
  flip-flopped on it. So I, I really do think this is
• 26:23
  one of those like, but what CJ was saying, Kim Jong Un, art of
• 26:27
  the deal where, you know, you lay, you lay kind of the Overton
• 26:31
  window groundwork of what people think is going on.
• 26:34
  And then you meet with him and then you open concessions and
• 26:37
  then you really break the Overton window and show that
• 26:39
  there's some good things going on.
• 26:41
  So it really feels like it it it really feels like some K fab
• 26:45
  going on right now. You know, it's just like, oh, I
• 26:47
  don't like him. And then they're going to come
• 26:48
  in and be like, look at this, I'm a great leader.
• 26:50
  So I think this is good for not only Bitcoin in general, but to
• 26:55
  put Naibu Kelly and El Salvador on the map and show that they're
• 26:58
  doing great things. So this is a Bitcoin topic. 100
• 27:01
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• 29:32
  All right, everybody, so I this is like this whole these last
• 29:40
  couple of weeks have been absolutely bonkers, right?
• 29:43
  You know, assassination attempt now Joe Biden basically saying
• 29:46
  he's not running for re election next year.
• 29:49
  All of that I think is just Fiat politics, Fiat madness, late
• 29:55
  stage Fiat. If you guys want to have find
• 29:58
  peace within the chaos and serenity, literally just take
• 30:03
  self custody, your Bitcoin, put it in cold storage and forget
• 30:07
  about it and your life will get better.
• 30:09
  I promise you. So I'm not even going to read
• 30:12
  this like thing. I just don't even think it's
• 30:14
  worth it. I mean, I guess I'll read some
• 30:17
  of it. But anyways, on Sunday, on
• 30:19
  Sunday out of all days, right? You know, Joe Biden said, my
• 30:22
  fellow Americans, over the past 3 1/2 years, you've made great
• 30:25
  progress, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
• 30:28
  But yeah, basically he's saying that he will not be seeking re
• 30:32
  election and it's going to be Kamala Harris who will be
• 30:35
  seeking re election. Now, I think this is a great
• 30:38
  opportunity for the Democrats because Bitcoin is inherently
• 30:41
  bipartisan to one up the Republicans in a way, one up
• 30:45
  Trump and say, you know what, actually, you know, we're not
• 30:48
  going to be listening to the Elizabeth Warren side of the
• 30:51
  Democratic Party. That's inherently anti Bitcoin.
• 30:54
  We're actually going to take, you know, a different, different
• 30:57
  approach. Are they going to do that?
• 30:59
  I don't know. We shall see.
• 31:02
  I don't think so though. So why is this happening?
• 31:05
  Why did the Twitter, why did the information break on Twitter
• 31:08
  first versus every other platform?
• 31:11
  Well, it's what I was saying in the beginning, the opening
• 31:13
  monologue, what we're living through.
• 31:15
  This was enabled by information technologies.
• 31:17
  This was enabled by the Internet.
• 31:19
  What we're witnessing is very pivotal moment in human history.
• 31:23
  I call it the great disintermediation, right?
• 31:26
  So essentially as human beings, you know, 20-30, forty years
• 31:31
  ago, there was only a handful of media outlets.
• 31:35
  And over time what happened is that governments, even in the
• 31:38
  United States, inevitably Co opted them.
• 31:41
  So there was an approved narrative.
• 31:44
  This is how they convince the American people that Iraq had
• 31:48
  weapons of mass destruction back in the 2000s.
• 31:52
  We later found out that that information came from the
• 31:55
  intelligence agencies. This is why certain information
• 31:58
  before Elon bought Twitter was just completely de platformed.
• 32:03
  People were censored, people were banned.
• 32:07
  This is why this is happening, because governments have been
• 32:11
  used to operate. I've been used to operate in an
• 32:14
  environment where they just are able to control the flows of
• 32:19
  information, and that is incredibly powerful.
• 32:22
  Imagine being able to propagandize your entire
• 32:26
  populace. And what happens with mass scale
• 32:30
  peer-to-peer communication is that all of a sudden, you can no
• 32:33
  longer control the narrative. That's why you're seeing the
• 32:36
  rise of the rise in popularity of independent content creators.
• 32:41
  That's why when Tucker was fired from the Fox for not towing the
• 32:45
  official party line, his popularity just continued to
• 32:49
  rise. This is why Joe Rogan is one of
• 32:51
  the most popular content creators on the face of the
• 32:53
  planet. It's very difficult to Co opt,
• 32:57
  you know, individuals. And if one of those individuals
• 33:00
  starts lying, you know, if they start basically saying stuff
• 33:04
  that people don't agree with, people will just tune into
• 33:07
  another. It creates an opportunity for
• 33:08
  another independent content creator to kind of fill in that
• 33:11
  void, right. So this is what's happening.
• 33:14
  It's called the great disintermediation.
• 33:16
  So first, what's happening now, what we're living through, It's
• 33:19
  already happened. I think Elon, you know, buying
• 33:22
  Twitter, freeing the bird, so to speak, really focusing on
• 33:26
  freedom of speech, not to mention protocols like Noster,
• 33:29
  which I think are just in its infancy.
• 33:32
  You're just the government no longer has the ability to
• 33:36
  control the narrative, right? And they hate it.
• 33:38
  That's why they've tried to, you know, call it misinformation and
• 33:41
  hate speech and all this bullshit.
• 33:44
  So this is where we are right now.
• 33:46
  We're in the thick of it. I think we already won the
• 33:48
  battle. They're going to continue to try
• 33:50
  to walk this back. But I think the genies out of
• 33:53
  the bottle, you can't walk it back.
• 33:56
  What is happening next, what we're going to try to prepare
• 33:59
  you for, and I think the battle is going to be a lot more
• 34:02
  vicious, is the disintermediation of money.
• 34:06
  And that's when individuals remember, talk to your normie
• 34:10
  friends and you let me know if they they probably have heard
• 34:14
  about Bitcoin. If they're in a Western country,
• 34:17
  they're like, have you heard about Doge?
• 34:19
  And they'll talk to you about altcoins and they'll talk about
• 34:21
  this. Bitcoiners want the separation
• 34:24
  of money in state. All coiners want Lambos.
• 34:27
  We are not the same, right? And totally different goal here,
• 34:31
  right? We want the separation of money
• 34:33
  in state because we believe in the separation of money in
• 34:35
  state. We'll end the endless wars.
• 34:38
  We'll make this. We'll just decrease the size of
• 34:41
  government. We'll increase the freedom of
• 34:44
  the individual, right? And this battle is just
• 34:47
  beginning. That's why Bitcoin entered the
• 34:50
  political sphere, the political discord this year, right?
• 34:54
  And that was an opportunity, by the way, that was brought upon
• 34:57
  by the Democrats for taking such an anti Bitcoin stance.
• 35:03
  It's not that Donald Trump likes Bitcoin.
• 35:06
  It's not that, you know, any of these politicians like Bitcoin.
• 35:11
  It's that they see an opposing party going after an industry,
• 35:15
  going after a voter base. And then as a politician, you're
• 35:18
  like, OK, well, if you're going to disenfranchise all the
• 35:22
  Bitcoin holders in the country, you know, you guys vote for me.
• 35:25
  I'll protect you guys, right? Creates an opportunity.
• 35:28
  And I think it's a testament to the power of our movement.
• 35:32
  Bitcoin doesn't need Donald Trump.
• 35:34
  Donald Trump needs Bitcoin to win, right?
• 35:37
  And I can't emphasize that enough.
• 35:39
  That is so powerful. This is another example.
• 35:42
  This is literally from this morning.
• 35:44
  The most popular news app right now on the App Store is not CNN.
• 35:51
  It's not Fox News. You know, it's not a look what
• 35:54
  it is. It's literally Twitter.
• 35:56
  It's X. Right after that is Reddit.
• 35:59
  But the point still stands, right?
• 36:01
  Like paid apps, right? You know, like why?
• 36:04
  You know, just like the breaking news is happening on Twitter
• 36:08
  now. Check this out when Biden
• 36:11
  announced his resignation on Twitter broke at 1:46 PM on
• 36:19
  CBS2O2NBC2O2 ABC News 2O four. I mean that tells you everything
• 36:27
  you need to know about the future of media and the future
• 36:30
  of content. Now this is where it's important
• 36:33
  for you guys. Like what is happening?
• 36:35
  What is this phenomenon? It's mass scale peer-to-peer
• 36:38
  communication. Individuals now are now the
• 36:42
  mainstream media. The days of a handful of
• 36:44
  government Co opted institution breaking the news are over.
• 36:48
  Authenticity and truth will flourish in the marketplace of
• 36:52
  ideas and discussion. If you're not authentic, if
• 36:55
  you're not truthful, that will get smelled out very quickly on
• 36:59
  the Internet. People like authenticity.
• 37:02
  People are tired, sick and tired of the bullshit, right?
• 37:07
  Here's kim.com. I think he has a great take on
• 37:09
  this, said Elon Musk enabled the disruption of the corrupt
• 37:13
  Democratic Party. All it took was free speech.
• 37:16
  Let this be a lesson to those who think they can lie to us in
• 37:20
  an industrial scale and censor the truth.
• 37:22
  We the people will put an end to the criminals who are running
• 37:25
  the world and I, and I just want to mention something also about
• 37:28
  the Democratic Party. I don't think the Democratic
• 37:31
  Party in there specifically when it comes to the censorship of
• 37:35
  information and specifically when it comes to having an anti
• 37:40
  Bitcoin stance. I don't think they're properly
• 37:43
  representing their constituents. I don't, I think their
• 37:46
  constituents love the idea of free speech and I think that
• 37:49
  they love the idea of, of, of Bitcoin, right.
• 37:55
  So, you know, I, I, I, I hope that, you know, if the Democrats
• 37:59
  lose in November, it makes them self reflect and say, you know
• 38:04
  what, perhaps we shouldn't have an anti Bitcoin stance.
• 38:08
  And they still have time, right? You know, the election is about
• 38:11
  100 days out. You know, if they want to one up
• 38:14
  Trump, all they have to do is say, you know what, we're not
• 38:18
  going to wait till Trump potentially gets elected to free
• 38:21
  Ross. We're going to free Ross right
• 38:23
  now. You know what, we're actually
• 38:25
  pro Bitcoin as well. You know, it can create this
• 38:27
  shouldn't be a partisan issue. They made it one anyways.
• 38:31
  Moving on to the whole Elon news.
• 38:33
  Elon, you know, he put on some laser eyes and a lot of people
• 38:38
  were speculating that it it's relating to Bitcoin.
• 38:41
  I don't know, but here is Mario Nepal's take on this.
• 38:47
  He said I heard last week that he would resign at this exact
• 38:50
  time and date. It was widespread knowledge in
• 38:52
  DC. The real powers that be are
• 38:55
  discarding the old puppet in favor of one that has a better
• 38:59
  chance of fooling the public. They fear Trump because he is
• 39:02
  not a puppet. Anyways, here's Nick Carter, he
• 39:05
  says it's definitely weird that Biden withdrew via tweet.
• 39:08
  We generally don't know if he saw or even authorized it.
• 39:11
  Everyone knows he doesn't run his Twitter account.
• 39:15
  Super bizarre. And I think that's another
• 39:18
  component, another very important thing to talk about,
• 39:23
  which is authenticity right now that the leader has the ability
• 39:28
  to communicate to their audience directly, like peer-to-peer,
• 39:33
  like just make your voice known. I mean, Trump does this all the
• 39:36
  time when he, you know, he posts on Truth Social or when he was
• 39:39
  on Twitter, like his tweets were fucking hilarious.
• 39:42
  Some people found them divisive. Some of them potentially might
• 39:45
  have started a global war, right.
• 39:47
  But the point is, though, is that he made his voice heard to
• 39:52
  his his followers. So the people that that were
• 39:56
  listening to him, I think that's a good thing.
• 39:58
  I think we need more of that. I think having your interns run
• 40:02
  your Twitter account is unauthentic.
• 40:05
  And I think we are heading into the the era of authenticity
• 40:09
  because the Internet allows that.
• 40:11
  Right. All right, moving on to the
• 40:15
  speculation of Elon potentially making an appearance.
• 40:19
  Here, David Bailey also mentioned this as well.
• 40:22
  By the way, David Bailey's the CEO of Bitcoin Magazine who is
• 40:26
  responsible for throwing the Bitcoin 2024 conference.
• 40:30
  But anyways, it goes on to say Elon Musk's recent change of the
• 40:33
  profile picture to one featuring laser eyes has sparked
• 40:36
  speculation that he might attend the upcoming Bitcoin 2024
• 40:39
  conference in Nashville. This speculation is further
• 40:42
  fueled by reports of his private jet landing in Tennessee.
• 40:45
  The conference scheduled for July 25th through the 27th is
• 40:49
  also expecting expected to feature a speech by former
• 40:52
  President Donald Trump. The event is generating
• 40:54
  significant interest and anticipation within the
• 40:57
  cryptocurrency community, with many speculating on potential
• 41:00
  announcements or developments related to Bitcoin.
• 41:03
  Right. So moving on to sailors, you
• 41:06
  know, take on this. He says laser eyes are back in
• 41:10
  style. And of course, he's, you know,
• 41:11
  tweeting of of, you know, it's a screenshot of Elon Musk's recent
• 41:16
  change. I also want to remind everybody
• 41:19
  that Tesla, right, if we go back to this list, this is Bitcoin
• 41:22
  treasuries. The great job of just, you know,
• 41:25
  indicating how much Bitcoin each company holds, specifically from
• 41:30
  the public companies. I mean, the most of these are
• 41:33
  miners, right? And then at the top, of course,
• 41:36
  you have Michael Saylor's micro strategy, then you have Marathon
• 41:40
  Digital Holdings and then right below that you have Tesla.
• 41:43
  So Tesla, a non Bitcoin related company, is actually the third
• 41:49
  largest publicly traded company to hold Bitcoin, right?
• 41:54
  They hold 9720 Bitcoin and they've currently almost 2X that
• 42:00
  initial investment. I love how they put let his
• 42:03
  hands because he did sell some of it.
• 42:05
  But the point I doubt they're going to sell any of it now.
• 42:09
  And the point is, though, that I mean, is it like, is it that
• 42:12
  crazy? Is it that much of A stretch?
• 42:15
  David Bailey did say that they are going to be lots of
• 42:18
  surprises. He did say in a spaces that
• 42:21
  essentially Nico Bill. He did say in a spaces that that
• 42:30
  essentially there was going to be a lot of VIPs at the
• 42:33
  conference that weren't necessarily announced before and
• 42:37
  that they were bringing their security details and all that.
• 42:40
  So could it be that Elon Musk, it will be making a surprise
• 42:44
  appearance at the Bitcoin conference?
• 42:47
  Maybe we shall see. But yeah, man, I think All in
• 42:52
  all, just kind of good news. And it's crazy, crazy times to
• 42:55
  live in. And, you know, as independent
• 42:57
  content creators, Opti, like this is crazy, bro.
• 43:00
  Like, you know, and this is something that we started kind
• 43:02
  of experiencing in the early days when we started doing
• 43:06
  simply, we were like, wait a second, bro.
• 43:08
  Like how the fuck are we breaking news faster than CNN?
• 43:12
  You know, like we like Abdi and I would say something and then a
• 43:15
  week later, CNN would break the news.
• 43:18
  And then that started happening over and over and over and over
• 43:21
  again. And we were like, holy cow.
• 43:23
  And that's when I came to the realization that like you are
• 43:27
  now the mainstream media, the individual with the Twitter
• 43:30
  account, with the camera, with the YouTube channel, with the
• 43:33
  rumble, like you have the ability to leverage the Internet
• 43:37
  to make your voice heard. And you're not Co opted by by
• 43:42
  the government. You're not Co opted by, you
• 43:45
  know, these large pharmaceutical companies, right?
• 43:47
  You can speak your mind, right? And of course, they absolutely
• 43:50
  hate it, which is why they're trying to, you know, censor the
• 43:53
  Internet. But, you know, I think that
• 43:55
  makes the world a much freer place if people are allowed to
• 43:58
  have free and open discourse. I mean, the way that the
• 44:02
  original founding fathers that this is how they envision
• 44:05
  speech, right? Of course they didn't plan for
• 44:08
  the Internet, but but you know, the, the, the public square now
• 44:12
  is worldwide, right? And people can make their ideas
• 44:15
  heard. And I think that's a good thing.
• 44:16
  I think ideas competing on the marketplace of ideas is a good
• 44:21
  thing for humanity, not a negative thing.
• 44:23
  I think that once you start to censor and you start to
• 44:27
  manipulate the truth and you start to misrepresent the data,
• 44:30
  history has shown that never ends well.
• 44:33
  I just recently watched the show and I'll pass it on to Dom so he
• 44:38
  can hit this in his Robert De Niro voice.
• 44:42
  But I just I just recently finished watching again this
• 44:49
  mini series on HBO called Chernobyl.
• 44:51
  And like throughout, like towards the end of the show,
• 44:55
  basically, they try to cover up one of the defects with the
• 45:00
  nuclear reactors that led to the meltdown.
• 45:03
  And it was all to save face. It was all so that the state,
• 45:07
  the government would save face at the expense of everyone else.
• 45:11
  Like this. The official state newspaper of
• 45:15
  the USSR was called Pravda. If you translate Pravda to
• 45:20
  English, it means truth, right? So it was like, you know,
• 45:24
  everything was just flipped on its head, right?
• 45:27
  I think the world where a handful of elites get to pick
• 45:31
  and choose what the truth is and what the truth isn't is dated.
• 45:35
  I think it's a bad thing. And I'm looking forward to a
• 45:39
  much more open world. Anyways, Robert De Niro, what do
• 45:44
  you think? I heard things I don't know.
• 45:48
  I saw the press release from Joe and I heard things.
• 45:54
  I did heard things. I'm wearing these new platform
• 45:56
  shoes, 3 inches. I heard things.
• 45:59
  I don't know, I'm not sure. No man, sorry.
• 46:03
  I I got like, oh gosh, something took over.
• 46:07
  Yeah, it's good. 11 Quick note on the the Biden thing, just to
• 46:12
  consider on how that announcement happened.
• 46:16
  I think there was an attempt by the Dems to really differentiate
• 46:20
  Biden the candidate from Biden the president.
• 46:23
  I think maybe that's why there wasn't the presidential
• 46:25
  signature because as you know, there's a lot of scrutiny as to
• 46:29
  whether he can finish his term. And this announcement is
• 46:32
  directly tied to that scrutiny. So that's just one piece there.
• 46:37
  I think X you know, it's it's amazing like you say, this
• 46:42
  having, having information decentralized, it's it's a
• 46:46
  blessing to have when narratives are so heavily spun up from
• 46:51
  multiple sides and in a two party system that seeks to
• 46:55
  polarize people, that's to be expected.
• 46:57
  The only thing that we have to caution and be aware of is with
• 47:01
  the Freedom of Information, we have to verify our facts and but
• 47:06
  we always want to jump to theories so quick.
• 47:08
  I mean, what was crazy about the Trump assassination was usually
• 47:12
  right. We I grew I'm old.
• 47:14
  So conspiracy theories came like years after an event happened.
• 47:18
  You get the you get video that you never saw or some fact you
• 47:22
  had theories literally in real time for like, I don't know if
• 47:26
  we've ever seen that conspiracy theories in real time of an
• 47:29
  event and every I mean, there was hundreds.
• 47:32
  And so we just have to be cautious with the Freedom of
• 47:35
  Information to like not rush to jump to a theory.
• 47:38
  Let's make our theories quality not saying to like believe what
• 47:42
  you see, but verify facts and and slowly find you know your
• 47:47
  viewpoint A. 100% I think that's a really, really good point,
• 47:50
  which is this idea of like, you know, the, the Peter the the
• 47:55
  spider man meme, right? Which is like with great power
• 47:57
  comes great responsibility. It's like with this new found
• 48:01
  freedom and this new found ability, you know that it's a
• 48:05
  double edged sword because you could also, you know, post
• 48:09
  something on the Internet that is completely blatantly false
• 48:12
  and it has the potential to go viral.
• 48:15
  And that could potentially do some.
• 48:16
  And especially with the rise of AI at this at this moment,
• 48:19
  right? So yeah, there there is, you
• 48:22
  know, there there are pros and cons.
• 48:24
  I would say that there are more pros than there are cons, but
• 48:28
  This is why it's so important to to tell the truth, why it's so
• 48:31
  important to remain accurate, you know, because the, the
• 48:35
  enemies of this type of of, of, of newfound freedom are this is
• 48:40
  what they're going to say. They're going to say no, you
• 48:42
  can't. This is impossible because how,
• 48:44
  how are people going to, you know, verify that this is true?
• 48:47
  You need official sources. The problem that we find
• 48:50
  ourselves in, though, is that the official sources have been
• 48:55
  lying to us as well as well. So it's like, you know, like
• 48:59
  that's the that's the problem here is that I don't like just
• 49:01
  as as Bitcoin. I don't think Bitcoin would have
• 49:04
  been created if it wasn't for the government shitting the bet.
• 49:08
  I don't think people would be flocking to Twitter as much as
• 49:11
  they are if they weren't sick of the official narratives being
• 49:17
  proven wrong. Like the the whole conspiracy
• 49:19
  theory thing once like, look, the inflation, it's transitory.
• 49:23
  There will be no inflation. But if you talked about that,
• 49:28
  you were basically deemed, you know, you were other like you
• 49:32
  weren't, you know, you weren't, you know, you're basically
• 49:35
  saying like this person is not speaking the truth.
• 49:38
  And then six months later it turned out to be right.
• 49:41
  You know, so it's like we we confide in our leaders and our
• 49:46
  political class to tell us the truth.
• 49:48
  The problem is that they're not telling us the truth.
• 49:51
  And rather than addressing that, they would rather just censor
• 49:56
  communications so that they can keep on, you know, basically
• 50:01
  saying whatever they want to say without accountability.
• 50:04
  Like, that's essentially the fundamental issue here.
• 50:07
  And I think this is something that the Internet addresses
• 50:10
  because on the Internet, the Internet will hold you
• 50:12
  accountable if you're not authentic.
• 50:14
  If you're not truthful on the Internet, the Internet will eat
• 50:17
  you up, literally, metaphorically.
• 50:19
  So anyways, Opti, what's your take on this?
• 50:23
  Yeah. Well, you know, bringing this
• 50:25
  back to Bitcoin and Fiat and all the things we talk about all the
• 50:28
  time, let's remember what Fiat means.
• 50:30
  Literally it means by decree. And as we're seeing in the last
• 50:34
  couple of months, well, really for us Bitcoiners the last
• 50:36
  couple of years is just that all the quote UN quote institutions
• 50:40
  or you know, the the legacy media, corporate press, they are
• 50:44
  very clearly propaganda and they just spew out their narratives
• 50:48
  and they don't care whether you believe them or not.
• 50:51
  That's literally their job is just to spend narratives.
• 50:54
  And now we've gotten to a point now where all the stuff we do
• 50:58
  not only on, you know, simply Bitcoin, but everyone out there
• 51:00
  on Twitter of just trying to get to the bottom of the truth and
• 51:05
  doing your own research and, you know, doing your best to not
• 51:09
  spread fake news and, and try to get to the bottom of things.
• 51:12
  It's such a powerful tool that now even the, the corporate
• 51:15
  press and, and the propagandists out there are realizing that
• 51:19
  they are behind, they're, they're behind the trend here.
• 51:21
  Like we get breaking news on Twitter exactly as it's
• 51:25
  happening. And there's still a seeming
• 51:28
  trend towards there not being much legitimacy on Twitter.
• 51:31
  You know, it's like, oh, you guys are just memeing and you
• 51:33
  know, you guys are spreading lies on Twitter.
• 51:35
  But as every one of us knows, we get the news way before everyone
• 51:39
  else does on corporate press. And then it, there's, there's a
• 51:42
  delay between, you know, what we saw right here 15 minutes to
• 51:45
  days before these news stories get hit on the corporate press.
• 51:49
  And this is the power of social media.
• 51:50
  And we talk about this all the time, that the power of, or
• 51:54
  rather the ability of the powers that be that can't control or
• 51:58
  rather manipulate information right now is why they're
• 52:01
  freaking out. This is why you seen these
• 52:04
  movements towards censorship, this idea of, you know,
• 52:08
  cancelling people because they're talking about the truth.
• 52:10
  So this just proves to me the power of social media.
• 52:13
  And it really just proves that the the institutions, the
• 52:17
  corporate media wings that we're seeing or that have a legacy and
• 52:21
  they have the authority, authority, or rather quote
• 52:24
  authority, they're crumbling in real time.
• 52:26
  And This is why it's so important to continue to talk
• 52:28
  about this information. But like Dom was saying, and I
• 52:31
  was going to say the same thing, there's still a very real
• 52:35
  concern to watch what you're what you're feeding in because
• 52:41
  remember, you know, there's there's the big boogeyman of the
• 52:43
  algorithms out there. And I still believe that social
• 52:46
  media, even though Elon quote, UN quote freed the bird, I still
• 52:49
  think there is some manipulation on what is being seen on
• 52:52
  people's threads, what gets pushed, what doesn't.
• 52:55
  I don't really have much much facts behind this.
• 52:57
  I think it's just kind of a general vibe that I feel in my
• 53:00
  gut feeling that like there's still manufactured conversation
• 53:05
  on the Internet. It's just something to be aware
• 53:07
  of. And this is the importance of
• 53:09
  going to sources that you know, you can trust that you've seen
• 53:12
  put in the work because the, the powers that be are crumbling.
• 53:15
  No, and I think not just bit corners, but more people are
• 53:18
  waking up to the idea that they can't trust the legacy media
• 53:21
  like they used to. You know, the, the, the, the old
• 53:24
  days of like trusting that Walter Cronkite on television to
• 53:29
  tell you the truth is no longer where we are right now.
• 53:32
  We know for a fact that the propagandist, the talking heads
• 53:35
  on legacy media are lying to you.
• 53:37
  They're they're spinning narratives.
• 53:39
  And it's just very important that more people understand this
• 53:42
  because this is how the Fiat illusion starts to crumble by
• 53:45
  people waking up to the fact that, hey, just because all of
• 53:49
  your favorite talking heads are saying the same thing doesn't
• 53:51
  necessarily mean that that's the real truth.
• 53:53
  It's, it's manufactured consent. And this is how things work.
• 53:57
  And then I just want to touch on the last thing on the Elon Musk
• 53:59
  laser eyes. I personally, I don't think that
• 54:01
  was even for Bitcoin, but we'll see what happens.
• 54:05
  I, I think I've been seeing in in normie culture right now that
• 54:08
  the laser eyes are starting to take on like a life of its own.
• 54:11
  It definitely started with Bitcoin and Bitcoin has made it
• 54:15
  cool. And we're, we're the ones that,
• 54:16
  you know, propagate the memes and bit corners have the best
• 54:19
  memes. And so This is why it starts to
• 54:21
  get into normie culture. But I think this kind of has
• 54:25
  more more of A and angling towards like the what the laser
• 54:29
  eyes kind of mean. It's not, you know, for us
• 54:31
  bitcoiners, laser eyes to 100 Ki think laser eyes is kind of
• 54:36
  becoming a meme on its own outside of the Bitcoin space of
• 54:40
  of piercing through the veil and seeing the truth and seeing the
• 54:42
  light. And I I I'm thinking that's
• 54:44
  where Elon's kind of taking it. But hey, we'll see if he's at
• 54:48
  the conference this week, then I will you know, I'll I'll, I'll
• 54:51
  eat my words and be like, OK, he he's he's going back to Bitcoin.
• 54:55
  We'll see how fickle let with his hand Elon is on Bitcoin
• 54:58
  again, if he's going to pump doge and all that stuff.
• 55:01
  But overall, the narrative is shifting towards what bit
• 55:05
  corners have been saying for a long time.
• 55:06
  And bit corners seem to be ahead of the curve on a lot of things.
• 55:09
  So again, this is the importance of going out there talking with
• 55:13
  your friends and family, tweeting what you believe is the
• 55:15
  truth, tweeting and reposting what you think is good signal
• 55:19
  because this is how more people wake up.
• 55:21
  People are waking up to the illusion of the Fiat system.
• 55:24
  You know that the by decree system and they're looking for
• 55:28
  truth and that's what Bitcoin is. 100% Bitcoin is the truth.
• 55:33
  I think that. There you go.
• 55:35
  Appreciate the comment. Bitcoin is the truth.
• 55:38
  It's anchored to the truth via proof of work.
• 55:41
  Anyways, ladies and gentlemen, we have lots to talk about
• 55:43
  still. Let's talk about proof of
• 55:46
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• 55:50
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  Anyways, I'm excited for this. We got V Dom Bay, we got Robert
• 57:12
  De Niro, Trump and Dom in the house today.
• 57:16
  Talk about proof of workforce. So what's up dude?
• 57:20
  Let me let me pull up this visual here because this is a
• 57:22
  cool visual here, Dom. So I'm going to pull up the the
• 57:25
  Ferris wheel and then you could take it from here.
• 57:28
  What are people looking at? What is this news coming out of
• 57:30
  Santa Monica for the audience out there that isn't following
• 57:34
  everything closely on Twitter? What are you working on bro?
• 57:37
  Yeah, so the city of Santa Monica approved the first
• 57:41
  municipal Bitcoin office in the country.
• 57:44
  Very cool occurrence and the story arc to get there is very
• 57:50
  interesting. As you guys know, Santa Monica
• 57:52
  firefighters was the first union in the nation to add Bitcoin to
• 57:56
  the balance sheet and really the initiative what it is, you know,
• 58:02
  they didn't add Bitcoin to the balance sheet.
• 58:04
  It's a very education focused, education based initiative
• 58:07
  exploring how can Bitcoin serve the city of Santa Monica, the
• 58:13
  people and visitors, residents, etcetera.
• 58:16
  So there's an education piece to it.
• 58:19
  There's looking at ways to attract, you know, businesses
• 58:22
  and companies building in the space and individuals building
• 58:25
  in the space. There's a way to expose awesome
• 58:29
  career opportunities in the space for younger people looking
• 58:32
  for work and and that may not be aware of all these incredible
• 58:35
  jobs there are in Bitcoin. And last of all, there's also an
• 58:38
  exploration of any stranded renewable energy in the city to
• 58:42
  mine Bitcoin itself and see not so much like what that operation
• 58:46
  would look like out of the gate, but what can be learned about
• 58:49
  mining Bitcoin at that level? So it's funny, you guys had the
• 58:53
  orange pill app on here. Big shout out to Mateo.
• 58:56
  We had like the, the speakers that showed up for this were
• 59:00
  unbelievably incredible. We had a little meet up before
• 59:05
  and I think the biggest take away from this is we talk a lot
• 59:09
  about on this show and, and, and and beyond, you know, kind of
• 59:13
  the toxic two party system that we kind of get drawn into and
• 59:17
  it's a great reminder to focus attention or don't forget to
• 59:23
  expend energy locally. We talked about these ideas on
• 59:27
  what Bitcoin can become, but if we're unable to introduce
• 59:31
  Bitcoin to our local meetups, to our local organizations, to our
• 59:35
  local towns and cities and demonstrate what the potential
• 59:39
  is, You know, it's hard to go at the national level and go, all
• 59:43
  right, put the whole country on a Bitcoin standard.
• 59:45
  But at the same time, you know, I didn't even really look at
• 59:48
  locally in my own neighborhood to see what I can learn and what
• 59:51
  could be built, etcetera. So momentous development.
• 59:56
  I hope that, you know, the Bitcoin community, they've been
• 59:59
  really supportive of it. It's just a way for a city to
• 1:00:02
  look into Bitcoin. And another reminder is.
• 1:00:07
  Organizations, the bigger we go out from an organization to a
• 1:00:11
  town to a city to a state to a nation, there is going to be a
• 1:00:14
  wider range of interest that we don't agree with.
• 1:00:18
  But I think as Bitcoiners, what we can support is people's
• 1:00:21
  willingness to look into and explore Bitcoin, genuinely like
• 1:00:25
  the core fundamentals and foundations of Bitcoin.
• 1:00:29
  And I think that that's something that we can celebrate
• 1:00:31
  for anyone that looks into Bitcoin, regardless of whether
• 1:00:35
  we align 100% with their total actions and views and all that.
• 1:00:40
  Love it, love it. So what, what, what?
• 1:00:43
  What is part of the education effort that this Bitcoin office
• 1:00:47
  will do? Like what?
• 1:00:48
  What are they? What are they planning to do
• 1:00:50
  here? Yeah.
• 1:00:51
  So the education piece is going to be focused on just teaching
• 1:00:55
  people about the network Bitcoin fundamentals.
• 1:00:59
  That's residents. It could be staff the the the
• 1:01:05
  office is going to bring a handful of initiatives back to
• 1:01:08
  the City Council, but at first we're going to explore certain
• 1:01:11
  things. So that could be an educational
• 1:01:12
  day with a handful of speakers that teach about the Bitcoin
• 1:01:15
  network and start off with like a good educational effort
• 1:01:19
  available to residents, etcetera.
• 1:01:22
  One of the things that's really important and we know we talk
• 1:01:25
  about on the show all the time, there are a handful of bad
• 1:01:28
  actors and scams and fraudulent people in the space outside of
• 1:01:32
  Bitcoin doing other things. And so one of the, the key
• 1:01:36
  points I've always brought to cities or states is, hey, people
• 1:01:39
  are going to get involved in this space with or without you.
• 1:01:43
  It's prudent in being responsible to teach people what
• 1:01:46
  Bitcoin is. Because as we know, the more you
• 1:01:48
  learn about Bitcoin and understand it, the less you
• 1:01:53
  know, gullible you are to frauds and scams.
• 1:01:56
  Because talk to a Bitcoiner about some other blockchain idea
• 1:02:00
  that they say is decentralized and, and a Bitcoiner will be
• 1:02:04
  very, it's easy for them to break that apart and show that
• 1:02:08
  this is not what it seems to be. Whereas if you don't have that
• 1:02:10
  education, you get caught up in the hype.
• 1:02:13
  I don't know, I heard blockchain was the future.
• 1:02:15
  This seems good. So, so education will be at the
• 1:02:18
  core. And then looking at different,
• 1:02:21
  you know, I always say that Bitcoin can solve so many
• 1:02:24
  problems that people aren't willing to kind of consider.
• 1:02:28
  And so by inviting builders into the space, it allows them to
• 1:02:33
  kind of bring ideas for problems that maybe we didn't even think
• 1:02:37
  Bitcoin could offer a solution for.
• 1:02:39
  Love it, love it. So wait, can people?
• 1:02:41
  Just I got to interrupt here one quick.
• 1:02:42
  Question. One quick question.
• 1:02:43
  Can people just get to the big one office?
• 1:02:45
  I got to, I got to interrupt here for a second, man, Dom,
• 1:02:50
  you're fucking awesome, dude. Like what you do, bro.
• 1:02:53
  And this whole thing it like, dude, you are the reason as to
• 1:03:03
  why you know, this type of movement works.
• 1:03:06
  Like you're another example of why this whole thing and why
• 1:03:10
  we're going to fucking win because you've used your own
• 1:03:14
  expertise, right? You're like what you've been
• 1:03:18
  focusing on your your entire life and you applied it to
• 1:03:21
  Bitcoin and you've provided value.
• 1:03:24
  And of course, by as a result, that's provided a trun of value
• 1:03:30
  to a ton of other people. And what I want to tell
• 1:03:32
  everybody watching the show right now is ask yourself how to
• 1:03:38
  get involved. It doesn't matter what your
• 1:03:41
  background is. When I'm hearing Dom speak about
• 1:03:45
  this, when I first heard about it, I, I got to be honest, I was
• 1:03:48
  like, you know, like, like, OK, like, let's let's, let's, let's
• 1:03:52
  see what happens. Like Chris Alemo's involved and
• 1:03:55
  then seeing it develop over time, like I'm like, holy shit,
• 1:04:00
  like and, and, and, and this isn't just Dom doing and Dom's
• 1:04:03
  dope, but this isn't just Dom doing.
• 1:04:05
  It's like every Bitcoiner is progressively fighting for this
• 1:04:10
  with using their own expertise to move this movement forward.
• 1:04:15
  So this gets me so hyped. And when you guys are listening
• 1:04:20
  to this, like I, it sounds cliche, but I'm going to use the
• 1:04:24
  the line anyways. Don't ask what Bitcoin could do
• 1:04:28
  for you. Ask what you can give back to
• 1:04:31
  Bitcoin. All right.
• 1:04:32
  And Opti, I apologize for for for literally taking over that
• 1:04:38
  just taking the conversation hostage.
• 1:04:41
  But dude this just gets me so fucking hyped man.
• 1:04:45
  Anyways, I apologize Opti. You want to talk to your
• 1:04:48
  chairman on that? Well, I want to say thank you
• 1:04:50
  man, because because that means a lot coming from you.
• 1:04:54
  And again, we're all building in this space.
• 1:04:59
  One of the most beautiful things about Bitcoin is, is literally
• 1:05:03
  that it is for everyone. And and you know, it is like
• 1:05:08
  people depend on us to find this thing and figure out ways that
• 1:05:11
  they can build it. And it's not always easy.
• 1:05:13
  We also have to orange peel people that may hate Bitcoin and
• 1:05:16
  are trying to kill it. But one if we keep pushing to
• 1:05:21
  expose them to the learning the fundamentals with nothing more
• 1:05:25
  than hey, not telling you to buy Bitcoin, not telling you
• 1:05:28
  necessarily to add it to the balance sheet.
• 1:05:30
  You'll get there on your own. Like you said, we will win
• 1:05:34
  because the system is incredible and it inspires people to want
• 1:05:39
  to bring other people on board and encourage them to build and
• 1:05:43
  solve problems and do great things.
• 1:05:45
  And so I appreciate the kind words.
• 1:05:47
  And again, like you said, I'm just a very small little blip.
• 1:05:53
  But collectively, I would not want to be betting against the
• 1:05:57
  Bitcoin community and builders, especially when we come together
• 1:06:02
  on Bitcoin. We get divided sometimes on
• 1:06:04
  other stuff and get drawn into this Fiat system.
• 1:06:07
  But when we come together on Bitcoin, unstoppable force that
• 1:06:12
  will do nothing but succeed and win in the years ahead.
• 1:06:16
  Amen. Amen to that bro.
• 1:06:19
  And that's exactly why it's called proof of workforce.
• 1:06:23
  Hey, Dom, so before Nico so rudely cut me off, can people
• 1:06:26
  just roll up to the Bitcoin office?
• 1:06:27
  Like if you're in Santa Monica, is it like a like an actual
• 1:06:31
  office that people can pull up to?
• 1:06:33
  Or is it more of like a a place that people are going to work
• 1:06:36
  out of? It's, it's a virtual office, so
• 1:06:38
  there's no physical location. It's more of a place for
• 1:06:41
  coordination of efforts and things like that to kind of like
• 1:06:45
  catch different ideas and things that may come together.
• 1:06:49
  So it's a coordination office. Sure, they'll be meet ups and
• 1:06:53
  things in different physical places.
• 1:06:55
  The outreach has been incredible, as you guys can
• 1:06:57
  imagine from Bitcoiners who say, hey, I live in the area, so
• 1:07:01
  excited to see this. I would love to help.
• 1:07:03
  This is going to be a team pull, A-Team lift.
• 1:07:07
  Again, we've seen top down things happen in the world and
• 1:07:11
  we've learned that top down efforts have value, but bottom
• 1:07:17
  up efforts last much longer and they also bear more fruit in my
• 1:07:22
  opinion. So this office will very much
• 1:07:25
  whatever happens from here, whether Santa Monica moves
• 1:07:27
  forward or not will be a collective unifying community
• 1:07:32
  engagement process where if the city is going to move forward on
• 1:07:36
  various initiatives in Bitcoin, it'll be together.
• 1:07:39
  Because we know Bitcoin still has challenges and ups and downs
• 1:07:43
  and big tests and the hardest of tests are only overcome able
• 1:07:48
  collectively as a group, especially when you get to the
• 1:07:52
  level of like city level adoption, state level adoption,
• 1:07:56
  nation level adoption. Love it, love it.
• 1:07:59
  Okay Dom, I do. I don't want to put you on the
• 1:08:02
  spot here, but when I saw this, I thought this was photoshopped.
• 1:08:06
  This actually happened. There was actually a Bitcoin
• 1:08:08
  logo on the Ferris wheel. Yeah, so, you know, in a
• 1:08:12
  celebration and, and just showing love for Bitcoin of
• 1:08:16
  community, all the people building, you know, there was an
• 1:08:19
  opportunity after this, you know, measure passed to put the
• 1:08:23
  Bitcoin logo on the Ferris wheel on the Santa Monica Pier.
• 1:08:26
  And so that's what happened the day after at night, the Bitcoin
• 1:08:31
  logo was on the Ferris wheel for about four to five hours.
• 1:08:35
  And it was pretty amazing. Yeah, It it was a it was a
• 1:08:38
  moment. As you can imagine, there's so
• 1:08:41
  many, you know, factors that came into play.
• 1:08:44
  But but I just I'm so excited for the city willing to take a
• 1:08:49
  look. I I I give tremendous kudos to
• 1:08:54
  the council, the staff who has to sit in these in these
• 1:08:57
  positions as you know, and face criticism or whatever may come
• 1:09:02
  just to take a look. Imagine something so powerful
• 1:09:05
  that there's criticism just to say we're going to learn about
• 1:09:08
  this thing. Not the story wasn't we're going
• 1:09:10
  to add it to the balance sheet is that we're going to learn
• 1:09:13
  about bid the Bitcoin network and see and the fact that, you
• 1:09:18
  know, there were there's been attempts in mainstream media to
• 1:09:21
  paint a negative picture of Bitcoin.
• 1:09:23
  It's evident by just the reaction where if you go to, if
• 1:09:27
  I went to the state of California and said pass an
• 1:09:29
  initiative right now to learn about Bitcoin, there'd be career
• 1:09:32
  risk and fear just to learn about it.
• 1:09:35
  And and that tells you that the negative opinion for the last 10
• 1:09:41
  years on Bitcoin is tremendously lopsided towards unreasonable
• 1:09:45
  because normally if it was more neutral, you'd say, fine, learn
• 1:09:48
  about it. Like, what's this is a no cost
• 1:09:51
  item. There's no dollars expended in
• 1:09:53
  this. So yeah, that was really cool on
• 1:09:56
  the Ferris wheel. Who knows if we'll ever be able
• 1:09:59
  to do that again. It's it's a pretty rare thing.
• 1:10:01
  But but that was that was a shout out to all the Bitcoiners
• 1:10:06
  out there that are building and and sacrificing every day to try
• 1:10:10
  to help people find Bitcoin and learn about it.
• 1:10:14
  Hell yeah, Fuck yeah, dude. Love it.
• 1:10:17
  OK, let's pivot a little bit, Dom.
• 1:10:19
  To just general, what is proof of workforce and maybe some
• 1:10:24
  sneak peeks. What else you got in the line
• 1:10:25
  up? What's coming down the pipeline
• 1:10:26
  for proof of workforce? Yeah, so I've been lucky enough
• 1:10:30
  for y'all to have. Me on the show proof of
• 1:10:32
  workforce started from, as Nico mentioned, my background came
• 1:10:36
  from helping workers and I did union work for the firefighters.
• 1:10:41
  And when I, when I was kind of finishing that, I came to the
• 1:10:45
  spot where where do Bitcoin and workers and wage earners
• 1:10:48
  intersect. And the Santa Monica
• 1:10:51
  firefighters became the first union to add Bitcoin to the
• 1:10:54
  balance sheet in self custody. I will tell you they they
• 1:10:56
  started from self custody and every union ever that's followed
• 1:11:00
  after starts with self custody because it's important to start
• 1:11:04
  with self custody. And so the mission of proof of
• 1:11:08
  workforce is simple. We don't want to see Bitcoin
• 1:11:10
  win, but have wage earners and everyday workers be left behind.
• 1:11:14
  I don't consider that a win. I think you all feel the same.
• 1:11:18
  If corporate America or Wall Street owns massive amounts of
• 1:11:22
  Bitcoin and bitcoins do them to the to the moon and we're all
• 1:11:25
  celebrating. But everyday people are still
• 1:11:27
  struggling, seeing their purchasing power diminished in a
• 1:11:31
  retirement crisis. I don't you know, we don't want
• 1:11:34
  that to happen. So proof of workforce, the
• 1:11:36
  mission is to help workers, workforce, organizations,
• 1:11:41
  unions, pension funds, municipalities find and learn
• 1:11:45
  about Bitcoin as soon as possible.
• 1:11:47
  So we're A5O1C4, we have no overhead as far as like we don't
• 1:11:53
  have any salaried people. We just do everything that we do
• 1:11:57
  goes towards the mission of getting people to learn about
• 1:12:00
  Bitcoin. And yeah, I mean, things that
• 1:12:03
  are we have a lot on our plate right now.
• 1:12:05
  I think we've done a great job in in having first, you know,
• 1:12:08
  the first union to add Bitcoin to the balance sheet.
• 1:12:11
  We had the Wisconsin Pension Board of trustees on the
• 1:12:15
  Nakamoto gauntlet, which Nikko was a part of that show.
• 1:12:19
  And that I'm not saying that we were the reason Wisconsin added
• 1:12:24
  Bitcoin to the balance sheet. You guys totally were.
• 1:12:26
  Well, I I'm proud to. Say we played.
• 1:12:29
  A little role in, in hopefully helping that effort.
• 1:12:32
  So that was the one of the first that was the first top ten
• 1:12:36
  pension to add Bitcoin to the balance sheet.
• 1:12:38
  Now there's the first municipality to found a, a, a
• 1:12:41
  Bitcoin office. We're going to keep pushing for
• 1:12:44
  first we need we can't do it without you Also support in the
• 1:12:49
  forms of any form spreading the word.
• 1:12:52
  There's been a tons of people that have reached out to say
• 1:12:54
  they want to help volunteer with a nonprofit like again, this is
• 1:12:59
  a team lift. We can't do it alone.
• 1:13:01
  So lots of cool stuff in the pipeline and just know proof of
• 1:13:05
  workforce does not stop working ever.
• 1:13:09
  We grind non-stop and we will help people find Bitcoin and
• 1:13:13
  continue to push first in the space.
• 1:13:15
  Let's go bro. Absolutely love it.
• 1:13:17
  Well. Kudos to all the work you're
• 1:13:19
  doing, but last message, Dom, what's the final two sets you
• 1:13:24
  want to leave with the message with the audience?
• 1:13:26
  It could be about proof of workforce, could be about grass
• 1:13:29
  roots, it could be a Bitcoin, it could be about life.
• 1:13:31
  What's the last final message you want to leave with everyone?
• 1:13:33
  Dom? My last final message.
• 1:13:36
  Ahead of what's going to be an epic week where I hope to see a
• 1:13:39
  bunch of y'all in Nashville is don't forget to build locally
• 1:13:45
  with Bitcoin. The name of the game is the same
• 1:13:48
  your organization, your church, your union, your soccer club,
• 1:13:54
  whatever your group is, they depend on you to find Bitcoin
• 1:13:58
  and help learn how to how to navigate Bitcoin and, and
• 1:14:02
  incorporate it into their goals and their life and their, and
• 1:14:05
  you know what they're working on.
• 1:14:06
  So don't forget about that. And then there's great stuff
• 1:14:10
  happening at the national level. I, I don't diminish things,
• 1:14:13
  efforts at the at the, at the national level, state level, but
• 1:14:18
  don't get drawn into the division that is, that is built
• 1:14:23
  into the polarizing two party system.
• 1:14:26
  It is OK. It's it's OK to support a group
• 1:14:32
  or person or politician or country doing something with
• 1:14:36
  Bitcoin and also say I don't agree with all these other
• 1:14:40
  things they're doing. I simply support their efforts
• 1:14:44
  in Bitcoin. It's OK to do that and not
• 1:14:47
  unleash the venom on everything. Like I say, save your venom for
• 1:14:53
  when the bite needs to count. And in the meantime, celebrate
• 1:14:57
  people's willingness to look into Bitcoin and don't feel like
• 1:15:01
  just because someone gets into Bitcoin means they have to align
• 1:15:04
  with every viewpoint that you may have in the world, otherwise
• 1:15:08
  they're bad. We got to we got to think bigger
• 1:15:12
  than that. So that's my message and and
• 1:15:15
  just keep working y'all like like we have the best community
• 1:15:17
  on the planet in any space of any kind of industry in the
• 1:15:21
  world and I'm just happy to be a part of it.
• 1:15:25
  Ours dude, love it. Great message.
• 1:15:27
  Yeah bro, and great message and. Honestly, Dom, totally honored
• 1:15:32
  to be in in the trenches with you, my friend.
• 1:15:35
  So you know, this is absolutely awesome and what you, what you
• 1:15:40
  guys, what you have done, what, what, what proof of work for us
• 1:15:43
  has done is just absolutely incredible.
• 1:15:46
  And just honestly, it's a, it's inspirational for kind of anyone
• 1:15:50
  just just looking in. And I, I do got to say, you
• 1:15:53
  know, you and Hoffa were, were you guys were, were the talent
• 1:15:57
  on that day's show. But as the producer of of the of
• 1:16:02
  the of the Nakamoto Gauntlet show, I could definitely say
• 1:16:05
  that Wisconsin without a shadow of a doubt, you know, bought
• 1:16:10
  Bitcoin because of that show. Yeah.
• 1:16:13
  Wait, wait, sorry. Before we wrap this up
• 1:16:15
  completely. Dom, we did get a good question
• 1:16:17
  on Rumble and it says, Dom, do you have a go to presentation
• 1:16:20
  that you would take to a city to get them up to speed quickly and
• 1:16:23
  then and then we'll wrap up today's show.
• 1:16:25
  Yeah, we're we're working. You know it.
• 1:16:27
  Was such a dynamic process when when I first getting the 1st
• 1:16:32
  when the firefighters got on board I built like a a write up
• 1:16:36
  on and this is on my sub stack which anyone can subscribe to.
• 1:16:39
  It's basically was like a blueprint to orange pill in your
• 1:16:42
  organization. I'm working on making that more
• 1:16:45
  streamlined so anyone can go get it and then bring it to their
• 1:16:48
  organization. We don't have one yet on the
• 1:16:50
  city because this process was like so intense and just
• 1:16:53
  occurred and we're still learning right now.
• 1:16:56
  But I have had a lot of cities reach out to say, hey, so and
• 1:17:01
  so, you know, I'm in this city. I want to do something similar
• 1:17:05
  and everything we do is open source.
• 1:17:07
  And so I do promise that we will create a kind of like how we how
• 1:17:13
  this came to be the steps, you know, how to organize speakers,
• 1:17:17
  how to get something on an agenda for sure, so people can
• 1:17:20
  bring similar things. I think the engagement is great
• 1:17:23
  in local politics. Like y'all like take a look.
• 1:17:27
  It's it's an area where the toxicity of like the national
• 1:17:30
  stuff isn't fully overbearing. So there's a lot of fun to be
• 1:17:35
  had locally. It doesn't catch as much of A
• 1:17:36
  headline as like the nation adds Bitcoin to the balance sheet.
• 1:17:40
  But man, you can do some creative fun stuff.
• 1:17:43
  And of course, anyone that wants to do something in the city,
• 1:17:46
  reach out to me. I will always expend my time to
• 1:17:49
  help give a breakdown on an e-mail or phone call to someone
• 1:17:53
  that's trying to bring an initiative locally for Bitcoin.
• 1:17:57
  I love it, bro, I love it. All right, plug, plug your
• 1:18:00
  socials. And all that stuff where people
• 1:18:01
  can find you. And then we'll wrap up today's
• 1:18:02
  show. Yeah, Workforce at Workforce
• 1:18:05
  BTC. Is proof of workforce on X
• 1:18:09
  Baywatch one help me beat any of the imposters that may be trying
• 1:18:13
  to, you know, do whatever BS is on there 'cause they block me.
• 1:18:16
  Then I'm going to be presenting at the Bitcoin conference on a
• 1:18:19
  Genesis stage bright and early at 10:00 AM unless David Bailey
• 1:18:24
  puts me in a broom closet 'cause they got bigger people, but I'll
• 1:18:27
  present their two will stack the broom closet.
• 1:18:30
  So any support there on the stage, I'll just be giving an
• 1:18:34
  overview and and yeah, y'all can find me there.
• 1:18:39
  And man, I'm grateful for y'all have me on the show and I love
• 1:18:43
  your audience. You guys have a great audience
• 1:18:45
  and I can't wait to connect with y'all at Nashville.
• 1:18:48
  Appreciate it Tom, it's always an honor to have you on the
• 1:18:50
  show. I'm so glad that proof of
• 1:18:53
  workforce is, is working. It's, it's a, it's an incredible
• 1:18:58
  contribution to our movement and to what we're doing.
• 1:19:01
  And like I said earlier, man, it's an honor to be in the
• 1:19:04
  trenches with you and extremely hyped to be with get to hang out
• 1:19:10
  with you in Nashville. Have you shown people your
• 1:19:13
  boots? All right y'all, you ready for
• 1:19:20
  the Nash? These were gifted.
• 1:19:22
  Because I, I, I covered someone's shift.
• 1:19:25
  So I don't know. I don't know what kind of
• 1:19:28
  texture that is. I don't know the legalities of
• 1:19:31
  you telling us what they are. So I don't know.
• 1:19:33
  I don't know what the boots are. They were.
• 1:19:35
  Gifted. They they're very we'll we'll
• 1:19:37
  examine them in Nashville and yeah, that's going to be a
• 1:19:42
  blast. I'll be running like the usually
• 1:19:44
  I run the Michael J Fox cowboy. It's just like a fake cowboy,
• 1:19:47
  like Back to the Future Part 3 style with the Jordans.
• 1:19:51
  But I have real cowboy boots now, So yeah, incredible.
• 1:19:55
  It'll be fun to hang out with y'all.
• 1:19:56
  And hey, like Nico Opti, I appreciate the kind words, man.
• 1:20:00
  Y'all spoil me with with love, and I'm honored to be in the
• 1:20:04
  trenches with y'all. And we just build on the last
• 1:20:09
  block and we build the next block.
• 1:20:11
  That's all we do. So, and this is exactly why
• 1:20:13
  we're going to win, all right? Everybody, this was the Simply
• 1:20:17
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• 1:20:21
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• 1:20:24
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• 1:20:26
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• 1:20:30
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• 1:20:34
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• 1:20:37
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• 1:20:40
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• 1:20:41
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• 1:20:45
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• 1:20:49
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• 1:20:51
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• 1:20:53
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