Latest / Simply Bitcoin / Michael Saylor's Bitcoin Strategy Goes Mainstream | EP 1007
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- 0:02It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
- 0:06It's going up forever. You're against Bitcoin.
- 0:16You're against freedom yo welcome to another episode of
- 0:24simply Bitcoin live. Remember what source of the
- 0:25peaceful Bitcoin revolution recovery rate can use culture
- 0:27matic warfare. We'll be your guide through the
- 0:29separation of money and state. I'm starting the show
- 0:31differently. I have Opti on air with me.
- 0:34Is it is it weird? I don't know keep.
- 0:36Going. Keep going.
- 0:37Is it weird? I I wanted, I'm not used to, I
- 0:40wanted, I wanted to throw a curveball.
- 0:42Well, anyways, guys, yeah, what's up, Bros?
- 0:45I mean, look, it's the Friday episode.
- 0:47Tons to talk about. I know that there's this
- 0:49legendary stream that's going on right now by the roaring Kitty
- 0:54taking down the financial establishment using a stock.
- 0:58That's not the way you do it, bro.
- 1:00You want to know how you do it? You do it by taking self
- 1:02custody. They're just gonna keep off
- 1:04turning. They're just gonna keep turning
- 1:06off the the, you know, they're just gonna keep on turning on
- 1:09the circuit Breakers. Yeah, not only that, I saw that,
- 1:11I don't know all the details to this, but I saw that the game
- 1:15stock, they diluted their stock to try to dilute Roaring Kitty's
- 1:18position. It's like bro, this is.
- 1:20They're gonna keep. Just why you Bitcoin?
- 1:22They're gonna keep dumping it, bro.
- 1:24That's what I'm saying. Like it's such a, but it's such
- 1:26a strong movement. Like it's such a, a powerful
- 1:29movement and it's his heart and that movement is in the right
- 1:34place. It's just a shame that the
- 1:37virality it's gone viral on, on a, on a, on an inferior tool
- 1:43like Bitcoin is the move. It might.
- 1:45Is it boring at this point? Like, is that what it is, bro?
- 1:48I think it might just be boring bro.
- 1:51I think it's just people still think it's nerd money.
- 1:53They don't get why we Bitcoin. They don't get literally.
- 1:56I've been saying for a minute that Bitcoin is the real
- 1:58GameStop movement, and yet I am. Surprised that all these.
- 2:02People still haven't found out about Bitcoin.
- 2:05They still think they can change the system from within the
- 2:07system. And it's like, no, the game is
- 2:10rigged against you. Like when are you going to wake
- 2:13up to that very simple fact that it's rigged against you?
- 2:16It is not meant for the little man to win.
- 2:19Yes, it is a defining moment and a defining movement.
- 2:23And it I think it's one of those movements and, and like a a
- 2:27moment in time that has to happen to show to everyone out
- 2:30there that it is actually rigged against you so that more people
- 2:33start to wake up to just like the pure illegitimacy of the
- 2:37system at large. And you know, like, I think, I
- 2:40hate to say it, but it feels like it might be a necessary
- 2:43sacrifice. Like it's got to be one of those
- 2:45battles that goes down. It's like one of those battles
- 2:47that you have to lose to win the war.
- 2:49I mean, he's still like, it's, he's still winning somehow, you
- 2:53know, he's still like, in their survival.
- 2:56Like dude, he. They shut it off money, they've
- 2:59shut it off. They've turned off the trading
- 3:01like they've done like basically everything possible in order to
- 3:06sabotage this guy's success and he just keeps going.
- 3:09He's got the love of the people. But again, I got to say like
- 3:13Simply Freedom channel, I love that.
- 3:15But like he's just using the wrong tool.
- 3:18He's just using the wrong tool completely.
- 3:20Anyways, guys, today we have a very special show for you guys.
- 3:23Of course, it's Friday, so we're going to do the meme review.
- 3:26But also, I have a really interesting topic for you guys
- 3:29and it's happening and I haven't seen a lot of people talk about
- 3:32it, but it is absolutely seismic.
- 3:36This is massive. OK, So do you remember that
- 3:38company that followed in the steps of of MicroStrategy?
- 3:42They're kind of like a zombie company.
- 3:45It's a company called Similar Scientific.
- 3:48It's a medical device manufacturer.
- 3:50And they acquired Bitcoin. Their stock pumped like 30% and
- 3:54they just announced 6 hours ago that they're going to raise $150
- 4:00million to buy more Bitcoin. Now, it's interesting because
- 4:04we've seen this play out before with MicroStrategy.
- 4:08They've been using the infinite money glitch.
- 4:10Like their stock goes up, they lend out, like they borrow
- 4:14against their stock, they raise more dollars, they use those
- 4:17dollars to buy Bitcoin, the stock goes up.
- 4:20Then they rinse and repeat. And it's like kind of like a
- 4:23speculative attack on the on the dollar because it's using the
- 4:26traditional financial system against the traditional
- 4:29financial system so that you can win.
- 4:32And it, and it just highlights like the insanity of like this
- 4:35debt based system that you can just literally just like borrow
- 4:39unlimited amounts of money, but you're borrowing unlimited
- 4:41amounts of money for a scarce asset, for something that is
- 4:44absolutely scarce. So in a way it's an attack
- 4:47because you're using the system in order to buy something that
- 4:51is absolutely scarce. And then you're taking basically
- 4:54it's like it creates like this like infinite feedback loop of
- 4:57some sorts. And Jimmy Song wrote this
- 5:00amazing posts on Stacker news that covers this phenomenon.
- 5:05So I'm going to put that post together with the news of today.
- 5:09And I think I think you guys are really going to appreciate it
- 5:11because it's super interesting. Like Michael Sealer
- 5:14speculatively attacked the dollar for sure, even if he
- 5:17didn't do it on purpose. And now it seems like other
- 5:19companies are following this footsteps, but they're not doing
- 5:22this out of like maliciousness or just like kind of like
- 5:26central planning type of thing. They're doing this just because
- 5:30of Bitcoin's incentives and they're taking advantage of the
- 5:32debt based system. They're taking advantage of the
- 5:34traditional system. So I find that interesting.
- 5:37Also for you guys today as well, there's a couple TikTok videos
- 5:41and it's just, it's just kind of sad.
- 5:43It's people like in the middle class, lower classes here in the
- 5:47US and and they're just like, dude, like what the fuck is
- 5:49going on? I can't afford anything.
- 5:51And This is why this movement that we're currently living
- 5:56through is so important because crypto kitties, sorry, not
- 6:01crypto. What is it?
- 6:02Roaring kitties? I don't even know.
- 6:04I'm not in the know in in these things, but roaring kitties is.
- 6:10He's an escape valve of the frustration that people feel
- 6:14towards the system. He's a representation.
- 6:16He's a manifestation of FU to the man, like the Rage Against
- 6:21the machine. That's what Roaring Kitties
- 6:24represents. You have a whole generation of
- 6:27millennials and zoomers and the younger, younger Gen.
- 6:31XS, Gen. Xers that have been completely
- 6:34disenfranchised and fucked over by the 2008, 2000 financial
- 6:402008, 2009 financial crisis. No one really paid the
- 6:44consequences for that. One banker went to jail.
- 6:47No notable bankers went to jail, right?
- 6:49And they're putting us in a box. They're putting Bitcoin privacy
- 6:52developers in a box. We as a society have not, that
- 6:56circle has not been completed. Like we haven't tied that knot
- 7:00yet. And that's why you have these,
- 7:03these, these, these like the the rise of populism as well
- 7:06politically all over the world. And you have the rise of people
- 7:10like Roaring Kitties that are just basically saying, like, you
- 7:12know what, you're going to try to destroy one of the shops that
- 7:16meant a lot in my childhood as I went to go buy video games.
- 7:20And as a gamer myself, like, yeah, GameStop.
- 7:22And I think there's another one that's called Game Boutique or
- 7:24something. Like you'd go there to get any
- 7:26video games. You don't have to do that
- 7:27anymore because you can download online.
- 7:29But it played a major role in some of these people's lives.
- 7:32And then you were like all these hedge fund people that, you
- 7:35know, they're just using the contilionary effect and the Fiat
- 7:38system and they, they want to destroy something that meant a
- 7:41lot like fuck you, I'm gonna say no, I'm gonna make you guys go
- 7:44broke. But what was really interesting
- 7:46is how much that shifted the Overton window and how much that
- 7:50exposed how corrupt the existing system is because it's
- 7:56capitalism. As long as it's going our way
- 8:00and as soon as it's going against us, it's actually
- 8:03socialism. The government has the duty to
- 8:05bail out the big banks whenever they get into, you know, some
- 8:11trouble. You hear these terms too big to
- 8:14fail that that's not a thing. Like that doesn't exist.
- 8:17And what that perpetuates is these fucking zombie companies,
- 8:21right? That doesn't, that doesn't
- 8:24motivate or create an incentive structure where you have the
- 8:27pursuit of excellence by entrepreneurs.
- 8:29That creates an incentive structure where it creates
- 8:32complacency. You have companies like Boeing,
- 8:35right? You know, these are companies
- 8:37that are getting like $100 billion government contracts to
- 8:40create planes and like, weapon systems and all that shit.
- 8:45Dude, they couldn't even get a rocket in the air.
- 8:47Like it failed. Their planes are falling apart.
- 8:50And essentially you're creating like corruption.
- 8:53It's corruption, It's bureaucracy.
- 8:56That's that's the incentive structure that that that Fiat
- 8:58creates it like breathes in society.
- 9:01So yeah, I mean, shut. Look, he might not be a bit
- 9:03coiner yet, but shout out to what the roaring Kitty movement
- 9:08is doing because at least it's waking people up.
- 9:11It's our job as Bitcoiners to really arm them with the correct
- 9:14tools in order to really stand up to the system and fight the
- 9:18establishment. And that's the only correct tool
- 9:21in this because of its decentralization, because no one
- 9:24could change the rules to benefit themselves is Bitcoin
- 9:28that's the only one that exists, and it's only Bitcoin that you
- 9:31take in self custody. That is the revolution.
- 9:34You buy Bitcoin, earn Bitcoin, mine Bitcoin, you put it into
- 9:36self custody. If enough of us do it, we win.
- 9:39That's it. It's as simple as that.
- 9:41They won't be able to debase your wealth and they won't be
- 9:44able to confiscate it from you. Especially on a mass scale.
- 9:47They won't be able to do it completely changes the balance
- 9:49of power. The elites are fucked.
- 9:52They don't have special privileges like they do in the
- 9:54Fiat system. They don't have a government to
- 9:56call. They don't have someone to bail
- 9:58them out. That's what we're fighting for
- 10:00is bit corners, right? If you use the system,
- 10:04eventually the system is going to, you know, they're going to
- 10:06cut corners because they don't. It doesn't like getting screwed
- 10:09over. So anyways, guys, it's going to
- 10:11be a hell of a show. Really excited for it.
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- 13:45off All right everybody, at the time of recording, the Bitcoin
- 13:48price is $70,980. Stats per dollar 1409 block
- 13:53height 846,911 blocks to having 203,089 having estimate March
- 14:0025th, 2028 Total like network capacity 4765 Bitcoin capacity
- 14:06value 338 million realized monetary inflation 1.61% market
- 14:11capitalization 1.4 trillion Bitcoin versus gold market cap
- 14:158.62%. The grand scheme of things.
- 14:17We're just getting started. Anyways, I have two videos for
- 14:19you guys and I think it's a representation of people feeling
- 14:24the pain all over the country. And you know why?
- 14:28You know, GameStop and these alternatives are are becoming so
- 14:32popular. I think people inherently know
- 14:33something is wrong with the system.
- 14:35They can't afford anything. What is the role of government
- 14:39in my life? Are they making my life better?
- 14:41Like, you know, because these politicians, they promise you
- 14:44the world and all of a sudden things just keep continuing to
- 14:46get more expensive. There reaches a point where
- 14:49people ask the question like what the fuck, you know, like
- 14:53what what's going on here? Like I'm getting duped, I'm
- 14:56getting scammed and I'm starting to see these videos more and
- 14:59more and more. But again, there's a solution to
- 15:05excuse me, his problem and her problem and the solution is
- 15:09Bitcoin. Bitcoin is not a get rich, get
- 15:12rich quick scheme. It's a not get poor scheme.
- 15:16That's all it is like over time, your wealth and your work is
- 15:21valued at what it should actually be valued at.
- 15:25That's all Bitcoin does. Life shouldn't get progressively
- 15:28more expensive. You shouldn't have to earn more
- 15:30and more money. You shouldn't have to work
- 15:32harder and harder, especially if you're working for sound money,
- 15:36If you're working for a money that someone else can't create
- 15:40for free. So here's Walker America.
- 15:42He says if I don't pay you 700, I go to jail.
- 15:44What is slavery then? So let's check this out I.
- 15:47Got a bill today from the IRS for $700.00 and I'm gonna
- 15:50explain to the IRS why I don't fucking have it.
- 15:53First off, everyone that is inside of the federal
- 15:56government, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, I don't
- 15:59give a fuck if you work up there, it's your fault.
- 16:01All of you have decided that printing money and destroying
- 16:05the economy is just totally fucking OK.
- 16:07A bag of Doritos went from $2.00 to $12.00 in two years and you,
- 16:11you want money from me for doing that?
- 16:14On top of that, I, I don't, I don't have any money because
- 16:18you're taking 60% of what I make through my LLC and absolutely
- 16:22crushing small businesses. And on top of that, the only
- 16:25reason I'm a small business is because during the imagination
- 16:28period of the flu scare of 2019, until fucking forever, I guess
- 16:34you mandated that I take an imagination shot that I didn't
- 16:37need and no one knew anything about.
- 16:38And if I didn't take it, you took my fucking career away from
- 16:42me. You took my ability to feed my
- 16:46child. You took that away from me.
- 16:49And for two years I have sold T-shirts and parking lots and
- 16:52I've worked this dead end job at a gun store.
- 16:55And I have cut trees and mowed lawns and done anything I could.
- 16:59Everything I had to do just to feed my child.
- 17:02Not vacations, not new clothes, not a new truck, not thriving in
- 17:06my life, not living in my life, just surviving day-to-day.
- 17:10And if I don't pay you $700.00, I go to jail.
- 17:13What is slavery then? I mean like here's another one.
- 17:21What to do anymore? And at the risk of looking like
- 17:27some like whiny pathetic like person, this is just
- 17:34unsustainable. I'm a dance teacher.
- 17:39I work from September until June.
- 17:42Like generally like the school year and even with a career I
- 17:51don't have enough money to pay my rent, I don't have enough
- 17:55money to buy groceries every week, and now that it's
- 17:59summertime I'm looking for a part time job and I can't find
- 18:03one. I have put in over 30
- 18:08applications with a brand new resume that I have updated
- 18:17fluffed up. So a couple things here.
- 18:22And it's like a very serious conversation because those are
- 18:24hardcore videos. You can look at this different
- 18:29ways, right? You can look at it from the way
- 18:31of like, clearly they're not working hard enough.
- 18:33Clearly they've made wrong decisions.
- 18:36That's their fault. You can look at it that way.
- 18:38The other way of looking at it is like, clearly these people
- 18:40need help. Like, clearly the government
- 18:42needs to step in and, you know, provide these people with help
- 18:46and assurance. I would say both those outlooks
- 18:51are, one is partly correct. You can make the case for that.
- 18:57The other one, it's just exacerbating an already bad
- 19:02problem. So what is the actual solution
- 19:06to this? When I got into Bitcoin, I was
- 19:10working a minimum wage job and I was living on my friend's couch.
- 19:14It's 2016. I've worked really hard.
- 19:20I dropped out of college, so I don't have like a professional
- 19:23kind of background. And whatever I will tell you I
- 19:26can, I can guarantee you that my life has progressively gotten
- 19:32cheaper because I've been living on a Bitcoin standard.
- 19:38I've seen this not only in my life, but also Optis people
- 19:44around me that have adopted a Bitcoin standard, their lives
- 19:48have gotten cheaper. It's not a cheat like it is a
- 19:50cheat code, but it doesn't save you from the hard work.
- 19:54Like it doesn't save you from like, it's not like you buy
- 19:57Bitcoin and then all of a sudden the next day, you know,
- 20:01everything's going to be great. And I, people always ask me that
- 20:06and I, my response is always, it takes four years to realize you
- 20:09made a good, good decision. Because that's the full halving
- 20:12cycle takes really eight years to start feeling the, the like
- 20:16the true benefits. And then I'm not on year 12.
- 20:19So I can't tell you what that feels like.
- 20:22But just based on the people that have been here 12 years and
- 20:26the length of their beards and the length of like, I don't
- 20:28really give a fuck. I'm assuming, you know, they're
- 20:31in a good place spiritually and economically.
- 20:35So this guy's frustrated as hell, rightly so.
- 20:43This is where we are feeling as a community because he's not
- 20:47even aware that this is an option.
- 20:49Because I promise you that if he was working that hard and he put
- 20:53like a little bit of money into Bitcoin, like a percentage of
- 20:57his whatever, he would be ahead. Like he would be able to pay for
- 21:01things around him because everything gets progressively
- 21:04cheaper on a Bitcoin standard. You don't even need to grow your
- 21:08stack. Like you can literally buy $50,
- 21:11forget about it, come back ten years and it's going to be a lot
- 21:14higher than what it was in terms of Fiat purchasing power.
- 21:19So we have a lot of work to do because there's a lot of people
- 21:22like that. And it's not only in the US,
- 21:24it's all over the world. And they're in that similar
- 21:27situation. And the worst thing that people
- 21:31like that, people like him, people like her can do is now
- 21:37Nico's working him in a woods job and sleeping on his own
- 21:39couch. Exactly.
- 21:40Boom. So the worst thing that people
- 21:43could do is just parade politicians.
- 21:48They're the ones that caused it. You have to understand that.
- 21:51Like, it wasn't like the, it wasn't the pandemic that closed
- 21:56everything down. It was governments that closed
- 21:58everything down. And there was governments that
- 21:59decided to print all that money, which doubled the cost of
- 22:03housing and made everything that much more expensive.
- 22:06An unintended consequence of these central planners thinking
- 22:09that they can centrally plan themselves out of everything
- 22:12because they have the ability to create money out of thin air.
- 22:15It's not politicians that are going to save you, it's you
- 22:18that's going to save yourself by taking a little bit of personal
- 22:21responsibility, buying a Bitcoin, earning Bitcoin, mining
- 22:24Bitcoin, and then taking that Bitcoin into self custody.
- 22:27And then I promise you, your life will get progressively
- 22:31better over time. You will start to have hope for
- 22:34the future. It's not a question of will you
- 22:36be able to afford things, It's how long how, how long do I have
- 22:40to work and how long do I have to wait in order for me to be
- 22:43able to afford my first home, in order for me to be able to
- 22:46afford my first car? It's not a question of am I
- 22:49going to be able to afford this? It's a question of how long do I
- 22:53have to work until I'm able to afford this?
- 22:56Like someone says in the chat, Fiat destroys lives 100%.
- 23:00And what you're seeing there is just people destroyed by the
- 23:03system and they don't know where to point that frustration.
- 23:07And this is where people like Roaring kitties.
- 23:10Like it's like that's a manifestation of people's
- 23:13frustration, but they're not using the correct tools.
- 23:18And it has nothing to do with, oh, I missed the boat with
- 23:21Bitcoin or whatever. I didn't get in 2013.
- 23:24I didn't get in 2020. I like I bought Bitcoin over 10
- 23:28Ki didn't get Bitcoin at 1000 and then get Bitcoin at 5000 has
- 23:32nothing to do with that. You're just adopting a better
- 23:35money. You're adopting a better
- 23:37monetary unit that isn't stealing your energy like that.
- 23:41That's it's as simple as that. Like even with you put the gains
- 23:45and you put the multiples and you put all of that aside,
- 23:48you're just adopting superior money and those types of issues
- 23:54that those people are are experiencing.
- 23:56Specifically the first guy, like literally he's describing how
- 24:01broken and corrupt the system is.
- 24:04And then the system is coming to me.
- 24:05It's like, OK, first you debase the currency, then like, you
- 24:11know, you, you, you create this like hostile environment for my
- 24:15business to thrive. And now you're basically taxing
- 24:19me. What the fuck is going on,
- 24:22right? And and that is the question
- 24:23that I have to you guys is, and this is the theory from the
- 24:26sovereign individual is are you really getting in return what
- 24:31you are paying in taxes every single year?
- 24:35Are you getting a benefit for that?
- 24:37And I'm not talking about direct income tax.
- 24:39I'm talking about the inflation tax.
- 24:42Are you getting, are you getting the benefits of that?
- 24:47I don't think anyone is, I don't think anyone has agreed to the,
- 24:50the, the, the inflation tax. I don't think anyone has agreed
- 24:53to the basement tax. You can make the argument that,
- 24:58OK, we need, you know, we need an income tax because, you know,
- 25:04we want equality. We need to pay for the I don't
- 25:07agree with that argument, but you can make the argument.
- 25:10They don't make an argument for inflation.
- 25:12What why does inflation? Like if people actually knew how
- 25:16it worked, I don't think people would would would agree to it.
- 25:20So we're we're basically mandated, we're forced by the
- 25:23state in order to use the money that steals from us and we have
- 25:29to pay them a portion of our income.
- 25:32I remember seeing the meme and Opti, you're going to be
- 25:34familiar with it, which is like back in ancient Egypt, the
- 25:36Pharaohs would make the slaves pay them like 20% of their
- 25:40income. And like now like the top income
- 25:43brackets like 39%, but Biden wants to move it to like 44.
- 25:48Like the capital gains like and it and it's A and This is why I
- 25:51always say to you guys, this is part of like one of the main
- 25:54theories of the show, main themes of the show better said
- 25:56Bitcoin or slavery. Like it's literally slavery.
- 26:00Like he is describing slavery. She's described.
- 26:03Look, why do you have to be a sophisticated investor in order
- 26:08to maintain your purchasing power?
- 26:09Why do you have to be a sophisticated investor in order
- 26:12for you to get wealthy? Why can't you just hone in on
- 26:15your craft, make money on your craft and just put that money
- 26:21away for a rainy day? Why do you have to be forced to
- 26:24invest in real estate and stocks and this just to get ahead or be
- 26:30better even said like better said, just to maintain where
- 26:34you're at. That is insane.
- 26:36Like that is crazy. And you know, you get people
- 26:41that are frustrated and then and eventually like what's going to
- 26:43happen when the majority of the population starts to feel that
- 26:48way? Like history has many examples
- 26:51of, of, of countries that went through like kind of very
- 26:55similar frustrations in terms of their economic situations.
- 26:59And let's just say like, things didn't end very well, right?
- 27:03It's literally one of the reasons World War Two started,
- 27:05right? So anyways, I mean, Opti, those
- 27:08videos were intense, bro. Like that.
- 27:10That first one really struck a chord with me.
- 27:13Yeah, that that first guy, he's my spirit animal.
- 27:16I absolutely love that guy. I wish I could rent like that on
- 27:20my cell phone. That'd be great, man.
- 27:22I don't mean to laugh at the guy because I think this is a very
- 27:25real feeling that a lot of people are feeling.
- 27:28And, you know, my heart goes out to that girl because I've been
- 27:31seeing a lot of videos of people saying very similar things.
- 27:35And it kind of goes back to what I always say on the show.
- 27:38You know, human psychology is very interesting.
- 27:41And until you really feel the pain, then you don't search for
- 27:44solutions. You're kind of just like
- 27:45sleepwalking. And most people have been syoped
- 27:49or rather brainwashed or whatever.
- 27:52Verb or I don't know. I don't know.
- 27:54Yeah. Yeah, I think it's verb.
- 27:55I forget my grammar here, been syopt or brainwashed into
- 28:00believing that if they follow the rules, they play by the game
- 28:04of the rules and they can get ahead in life.
- 28:06And it's becoming very clear, at least to me personally and
- 28:09probably to everyone in the chat right now, you kind of have to
- 28:12do the crazy thing to get ahead. And for most people, that crazy
- 28:15thing is just like going all in on Bitcoin.
- 28:17But as we constantly show and bring the receipts on the show,
- 28:21like Bitcoin, if you hold Bitcoin long enough and you save
- 28:24in Bitcoin, you live below your means.
- 28:26You, you know, put your excess profits into Bitcoin like your
- 28:29life gets better. And you know, Nico was talking
- 28:30about wait, before he got into Bitcoin, he was on his friend's
- 28:33couch. Like I was at my parents house,
- 28:36like I was literally in my mom's basement.
- 28:38And now because of Bitcoin and because of just providing value
- 28:42and upping my skills, like I have a whole new lease on life.
- 28:45And this kind of goes to what Nico and I stay here on the show
- 28:49all the time. And I think these videos are a
- 28:50good culmination of everything we're saying.
- 28:53And it's a it's a visual example of what we say.
- 28:55It's Fiat is a world of pessimism and nihilism.
- 28:58It's literally number go down technology.
- 29:00And Bitcoin is a world of positivity and optimism and
- 29:03there and hope, like Bitcoin is hope and Fiat, like I said, Fiat
- 29:07is number go down money tech. Bitcoin is number go up money
- 29:10tech. And This is why we Bitcoin
- 29:13because we have a better worldview.
- 29:15We're trying to get healthier. We're trying to get financially
- 29:18sound and when you build on a Bitcoin standard on your
- 29:21personal level, like your life gets better.
- 29:23And I fundamentally boil everything down to a very simple
- 29:26axiom, a very simple meme. If people just want to live a
- 29:29good life. And our job is to try to show
- 29:32people that life on a Bitcoin standard, life saving in Bitcoin
- 29:35is better than the status quo right now, which is the Fiat
- 29:39world. And I think this is only going
- 29:41to escalate. We're only going to see more
- 29:44people start to complain on social media.
- 29:45And now, you know, we can argue about whether like they should
- 29:49be arguing on social media or whatever, making those posts,
- 29:52like that's a totally different conversation.
- 29:54The point is a lot of people are starting to feel helpless,
- 29:57especially now in in like America or the first world.
- 30:01You know, we got brought up with the idea that like we live in
- 30:03the best country and now most people can barely survive now.
- 30:06And we're all wondering like, what is going on?
- 30:09And it again, it goes back to what we've been saying on the
- 30:11show a lot in the last couple of weeks is that I don't know if
- 30:16I'd say necessarily that the empire is, is like completely
- 30:19dead, but the faith in the institutions is crumbling and
- 30:24people are starting to feel that pain.
- 30:25And it's because they printed, I forget what the number is now,
- 30:28but since 2020, they printed, I think at now it's like 50 to 60%
- 30:33of all dollars that were ever in existence.
- 30:35Like, no wonder everything's more expensive.
- 30:37No wonder everything costs twice as much now.
- 30:40It's because they completely decimated the dollar, the
- 30:43purchasing power of the dollar. And we're just supposed to take
- 30:46it like, I mean, look, I'm a first generation American and
- 30:52the founding fathers revolted for much less than 30% of all of
- 30:56your money coming in. They, they revolted on a 3% T
- 30:59tax. Like we need to go back to the,
- 31:02the founding fathers ethos here because we're literally, we're
- 31:05literally tax slaves in this system.
- 31:08And I think more people are waking up to the idea that like
- 31:11this system is not set up for us.
- 31:13It's actually one of two things. It's either set up in a specific
- 31:17way to ensure that you can never get ahead or it is broken.
- 31:22Now you can decide which side of the aisle you are on.
- 31:25So the system's either working exactly as design and, you know,
- 31:28keeping you in your place, or it's not working for the
- 31:32majority of people anymore. And that's what we constantly
- 31:36show in the show. Like, there's a better option.
- 31:38It is Bitcoin saving Bitcoin. Work hard, get fit, focus on the
- 31:43things you love and saving Bitcoin and your life is going
- 31:45to get better. It's literally that simple.
- 31:47Amen to that. I also want to give a shout out
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- 34:45So you guys all know how MicroStrategy has absolutely
- 34:49killed it since they adopted a Bitcoin strategy since August
- 34:5210th 2020. They did basically a 10X, which
- 34:56is absolutely crazy. And of course, Bitcoin is
- 34:59outperformed every other company or asset, including the SNP 500,
- 35:05including NASDAQ, including gold, including the big tech
- 35:08stocks, including the enterprise software stocks.
- 35:11So it's just been a superior asset.
- 35:14Here's James Lavish, she says Bitcoin and the ETFs, yes, the
- 35:17institutions are here, but not many of them and not yet in
- 35:20size. And here we are bouncing around
- 35:23just below the all time highs. I think that's a really good
- 35:25point. Now what's really interesting
- 35:28about this is we were wondering for a very long time why no
- 35:33other company has followed in Michael Saylor's footsteps.
- 35:37And now it seems like the dam is starting to break.
- 35:40And that first company, the name of the company was Semler
- 35:43Scientific. So they made a really good case
- 35:45and they came out with a post as to the reasoning as to why they
- 35:49are adopting Bitcoin as a treasury asset.
- 35:51And they said that it was superior to gold, that a lot of
- 35:54potential. And then make no mistake, a week
- 35:57or two after they did that, they made this announcement dropped 7
- 36:02hours ago that they plan to raise 150 million to buy more
- 36:06Bitcoin. Medical device maker Similar
- 36:09Scientific acquires 247 more Bitcoin and plans to raise 150
- 36:13million to further expand its Bitcoin treasury holdings
- 36:17following Microstrategy's lead. And that's absolutely
- 36:21fascinating. Now, why are they doing that?
- 36:24Well, I mean, it's obvious and you don't even know what company
- 36:26is similar scientific, but I promise you that because they've
- 36:30adopted Bitcoin into their treasury, they're going to start
- 36:34outperforming a lot of these companies just because people
- 36:37are going to buy the stock because they realize, oh, this
- 36:39company's holding Bitcoin and Bitcoin's going to the moon.
- 36:42And and that's the that's the realization.
- 36:44Like that's that's the thing that like these companies
- 36:48haven't woken up to this. Like they're holding bonds,
- 36:52they're holding dollars. Dollars is like holding onto a
- 36:54melting ice cube, but they haven't realized like the
- 36:58superior asset that is Bitcoin. Now, what's really interesting
- 37:02is that they're using the debt based system, they're using the
- 37:05Fiat system, they're using the pre-existing system as a way to
- 37:08kind of leverage it to raise more fake dollars really to buy
- 37:14something that is absolutely scarce.
- 37:16And in the process, I really call it a speculative attack on
- 37:20Fiat using the very system of Fiat itself.
- 37:24Right? Here's Jimmy's song, and he
- 37:25wrote an incredible post for you guys regarding the quote UN
- 37:31quote speculative attack on the dollar.
- 37:33This is originally posted on Stacker dot.
- 37:35News. Can you zoom in a little bit,
- 37:36Nico? Yeah, absolutely.
- 37:38So he goes on to say there is a speculative attack on USD coming
- 37:43soon. If it does, it's going to be
- 37:45crazy sight to see every institution that can borrow will
- 37:49and essentially short the dollar by going long Bitcoin.
- 37:52Did you hear that? This again was written March
- 37:551st, 2021. This article dropped 7 hours
- 38:00ago. We know that Michael Saylor has
- 38:02already adopted this, and now it seems like another company's
- 38:06falling in its footsteps. Now what happens?
- 38:09I'm going to ask you guys this question, and it's such an
- 38:12incredibly obvious answer, but I'm going to ask it to you.
- 38:16I'm going to ask you guys anyways.
- 38:19What happens when this country, I'm sorry, this company that no
- 38:25one knows, like like no one knows what this company was
- 38:29before. No one knew what MicroStrategy
- 38:32was before. No, that stock was going
- 38:35sideways forever, OK? No one knew who they were.
- 38:42What happened? As soon as they adopted a
- 38:45Bitcoin strategy, they outperformed everyone else.
- 38:49And now my question to you is, do you think that MicroStrategy
- 38:53has provided that much more value than something like Apple,
- 38:59something like Google, something like Microsoft, something like
- 39:01Meta, something like Netflix, something like Amazon?
- 39:07I think it's just, it's just using a, it's just they, they're
- 39:10using their, they've adopted a superior asset.
- 39:13That's it. That's all it is, right?
- 39:16So what happens when this company starts to outperform
- 39:18everyone else on the stock market?
- 39:21What do you think is going to happen?
- 39:22Who do you think is going to start asking questions like,
- 39:24wait a second, like why the fuck are we holding dollars like
- 39:28these, these, these like companies that no one knows is
- 39:31outperforming everything just by the mere fact of holding
- 39:33Bitcoin? Why don't we do that?
- 39:36That is the speculative attack. And the best part is that
- 39:40they're able to leverage their stock valuation going up in
- 39:44order to borrow more money so that they can buy even what they
- 39:47can buy more Bitcoin. It's like this never ending
- 39:50feedback loop of this infinite money glitch using this the very
- 39:54system itself against itself in order to go along Bitcoin like
- 39:59Jimmy Song said. So it goes on to say the dollar
- 40:01will become will begin hyperinflating and there will be
- 40:04a lot of unhappy rent seekers that will want some blood.
- 40:08It may in the end create calls for a CBDC to control the
- 40:11lending slash printing of money, which is currently in the hands
- 40:14of too many banking institutions.
- 40:17But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
- 40:18Let's start from the godfather of the speculative attack,
- 40:22Michael Saylor. For those with assets, loans are
- 40:25really easy to get in the Fiat economy.
- 40:28Loans have no opportunity cost, so banking institutions are
- 40:32incentivized to lend as much money as possible to qualified
- 40:35borrowers. More loans, more interest
- 40:38payments, more profit. And the rich borrow a lot.
- 40:41Loans are how contillionaires stay rich.
- 40:44They use the newly printed money to invest in all sorts of stuff,
- 40:48and as long as their investment returns higher than the
- 40:50minuscule interest rate from the bank, they come out ahead.
- 40:54Sometimes make, sometimes many multiples.
- 40:58Using these loans to buy Bitcoin is what a what is we call a
- 41:01speculative attack on the dollar.
- 41:03That's essentially what Michael Saylor has done with every kind
- 41:06of loan he can get. He used unsecured loans, secured
- 41:09loans, the stock issuance, among other things to acquire as much
- 41:13Bitcoin as possible. I'm sure he'd take out more
- 41:15loans if he could, and I have no doubt in my mind he's looking to
- 41:18more ways to add more to the incredible Bitcoin position he
- 41:22has. Ladies and gentlemen, it's not
- 41:25only Michael Saylor anymore. I can't emphasize how historic
- 41:30this is. Now you have another company
- 41:33that is literally speculatively speculating us attacking the
- 41:38dollar using the very system itself.
- 41:43And this is going to like escape like a runaway train when all
- 41:47these companies start to realize, holy shit, we can make
- 41:51our stocks perform like this. All we have to do is buy
- 41:55Bitcoin. And then when our stock
- 41:57valuations go up, we can just borrow against our stock going
- 42:01up and buy even more Bitcoin with that borrowed money.
- 42:06And imagine like 5-10 companies doing this.
- 42:08Do you think that like that? Like, is that sustainable?
- 42:11Like, This is why it's called a speculative attack on the
- 42:14dollar. Anyways, it goes on to say
- 42:16what's going to be even crazier is that he will soon be able to
- 42:19use that Bitcoin itself as collateral.
- 42:21Wall Street isn't that comfortable with this idea yet,
- 42:24But at some point, they're going to because there's too much free
- 42:26money in it for them. And then the real leverage games
- 42:30can begin. He's in deep profit on his
- 42:32Bitcoin position. And as the price goes up, there
- 42:35will be more loans available. But at least at the moment,
- 42:38banks aren't loaning with Bitcoin as collateral just yet.
- 42:42As such, he has to wait for more stock issuance to buy more
- 42:45Bitcoin. With almost 1% of all Bitcoin in
- 42:47his treasury, that's a lot of demand for his stock.
- 42:50And with additional issuances, the market knows he'll buy more
- 42:55BTC. As a result, he can keep issuing
- 42:58stock and buying Bitcoin this, buying Bitcoin this, until he's
- 43:01saturated market demand. The result is that MicroStrategy
- 43:05now trades like a 2X long Bitcoin ETF.
- 43:08But here's where it gets fun. What happens when there's no
- 43:12more room? There's there are more companies
- 43:15besides MicroStrategy to that use this strategy.
- 43:18That's already happened. That's happened already.
- 43:21That's not a question anymore. That's not a theory.
- 43:24It's happened. You already have one.
- 43:27Many soon will follow because this is going to happen to their
- 43:30stock, especially if they get big exposures to Bitcoin.
- 43:35Anyways, goes on to say you really just need one more CEO
- 43:39with this level of conviction to take this strategy to the next
- 43:42level. It's already happened.
- 43:43The stock returns have been so insanely high that some company
- 43:46will mimic it. Heck, even someone that doesn't
- 43:49have a company right now could perhaps buy up a small cap stock
- 43:53with some cash on its balance sheet, buy Bitcoin with it, and
- 43:56then issue more shares to buy even more Bitcoin.
- 43:59It would be slower, of course, but there's no reason why it
- 44:02won't work. The key is a large cash position
- 44:05and a way to get lot way to get lots of debt.
- 44:09This hypothetical hyper hypothetical alternative to
- 44:12micro strategy would have to have some differentiation, of
- 44:15course, and perhaps they'd use more or less leverage than micro
- 44:19strategy. For that matter, could we see a
- 44:22mining infrastructure company go in the direction, keep lots of
- 44:26Bitcoin on their balance sheet and use USD to mine more?
- 44:30If the treasuries and BTC and the acquisition strategy is
- 44:33mining, then it could very well use its line of credit to become
- 44:36something like micro strategy, only a bit more related to
- 44:40energy production. How about one of these zombie
- 44:43companies? A visionary CEO could turn a
- 44:45zombie company into a living one by making it into a Bitcoin
- 44:49substitute. A company like IBM has lots of
- 44:52assets to get loans with. Use those assets to buy Bitcoin
- 44:55on the treasury. It can quickly become another
- 44:58stock that's a store of value. Speaking of which, the reason
- 45:01MicroStrategy is doing so well is because it's taking the store
- 45:05of value premium away from other stocks.
- 45:07Stocks have functioned as a de facto store value for a long
- 45:11time. The premium now is now leaking
- 45:13towards something that holds its value better.
- 45:16The presence of Bitcoin on the balance sheet turns a store
- 45:19value premium in these stocks into Bitcoin substitutes.
- 45:22And it really won't take many companies to do these things for
- 45:25the entire market to expand USD and complete the monetization of
- 45:30Bitcoin. And that, ladies and gentlemen,
- 45:32is happening. And you want to know what
- 45:36GameStop should be doing now that they got so much cash, now
- 45:40that their stock is going to the moon.
- 45:42If they no longer want to be a zombie company, you know what
- 45:46would really break things? They should just buy Bitcoin.
- 45:50It's as simple as that. That's what the GameStop should
- 45:53do. And then all of a sudden, it's
- 45:55not a it's not a zombie company anymore.
- 45:58Like they're not going to go out of business.
- 46:01They become, like Jimmy Song said, like they become a store
- 46:04of value. That's what it is.
- 46:06And it's really interesting also is the premium aspect.
- 46:09And that's something that we, we don't talk enough about, right?
- 46:13And that's something that people don't really understand is that
- 46:16everything around you, like whether it's real estate or
- 46:20stocks, the reason that they're as elevated as they are is
- 46:24because people have been using them as mechanisms to escape
- 46:29inflation, to outpace inflation. Things shouldn't work like that,
- 46:34Like a house shouldn't be seen as an investment, but it is
- 46:38right now because of how broken the system is fundamentally.
- 46:42And that's what Bitcoin ultimately fixes.
- 46:45Like this is like one of those things where you can truly say
- 46:47Bitcoin fixes this. And that theoretical case that
- 46:52Jimmy made is no longer just a theoretical now it's real.
- 46:57It's super real because another company has followed in the
- 47:01steps of MicroStrategy. They made a major announcement
- 47:04and within a week they came to the realization that Michael
- 47:08Saylor did, which is holy shit, we can borrow against our
- 47:12company to buy even more Bitcoin and create this never ending
- 47:17feedback loop. Now let's see if they get the
- 47:18loan. But if they do and six from six
- 47:21months from now, their stock goes higher, I guarantee you
- 47:25that another company that you've never heard of that's publicly
- 47:29traded, that stock's been going sideways for many years, is
- 47:32going to say holy shit, like, let's get rich.
- 47:36Let's follow this. This clearly this is working,
- 47:39right? And then I think all hell breaks
- 47:42loose, which we can't like really imagine right now.
- 47:45But I guarantee you it's going to happen.
- 47:49I guarantee you this is going to happen within the next 5 to 10
- 47:54years. As soon as you hear Google,
- 47:56Facebook, Apple, Tesla already has Bitcoin or any of these
- 48:02companies publicly announced like, hey, holy shit.
- 48:05You know, we're buying Bitcoin, we're putting in on its balance
- 48:07sheet and we're doing this as an alternative to holding dollars.
- 48:10And then all of a sudden that stock starts to outperform all
- 48:13the other tech stocks that haven't adopted that strategy.
- 48:15They're at a disadvantage and they're going to fall in the
- 48:17footsteps. So you know, this is crazy, like
- 48:22this is a game changer 100%. And I don't think people are
- 48:28bullish enough for this upcoming cycle because this is really the
- 48:31cycle of institutions. And we like seven years ago, I
- 48:35never forget, I always say this 2017, the cope was bro, the
- 48:42institutions are coming man. It's going to pump the price
- 48:46back up. And we dropped from like 20 K to
- 48:49like 3500. And that was one of the coping
- 48:51mechanisms that we used to try to make ourselves feel better.
- 48:54But in reality, they weren't. They weren't even close.
- 48:59They weren't even close. The institutional game started
- 49:02as soon as the ETF was approved in January.
- 49:06Everything changed that moment. As soon as BlackRock put its
- 49:10stamp of approval and said this is a legitimate asset for
- 49:14institutions to hold, everything changed.
- 49:18And Michael Saylor came early. If you came in before 2020, you,
- 49:24you outpaced Michael Saylor obviously has a lot more
- 49:26purchasing power, but you were, you were first.
- 49:29And if you were before January, you were before the institution.
- 49:32So you front run, you front ran like we always say here, it's
- 49:36simply Wall Street. And usually it's Wall Street
- 49:39that front runs everyone, Main Street.
- 49:41But in Bitcoin's case, the complete opposite.
- 49:44Bitcoin is the peaceful revolution.
- 49:46Bitcoin is the Rage Against the machine.
- 49:49Bitcoin is the real GameStop movement, and because people
- 49:54haven't woken up to that, that presents an opportunity to you.
- 49:57If Bitcoin was the mainstream, the mainstream thing, if Bitcoin
- 50:03and a Bitcoiner were getting like 600,000 people watching him
- 50:07live shit on GameStop, then the opportunity wouldn't be there
- 50:11for you anymore, right? So I think people are going to
- 50:15wake up to this as Bitcoin continues to shine anyways,
- 50:18Opti, what's your take on this, brother?
- 50:20Oh, bad, good. Yeah.
- 50:21I mean, I, I couldn't agree more with what you were saying.
- 50:25Totally agree. And and it's something that I
- 50:27think we're all as bitcoins. Once you've been around long
- 50:30enough and you really understand the problems of not only the
- 50:34traditional financial world, but of Fiat money in particular, you
- 50:37realize that everyone has the same problem.
- 50:39Whether you're a corporation, an individual, a nation state, even
- 50:43the banks and the central bankers, we all have the same
- 50:46problem. There is nothing to store value
- 50:48in because they can print as much Fiat money as possible.
- 50:52And any hard asset, anything with real value is of course
- 50:56going to seemingly go up because of the value of the dollar, the
- 51:01purchasing power of your Fiat currencies are getting debased.
- 51:04So it looks like everything's going up.
- 51:06And once you realize this game, once you realize the mechanism
- 51:08of the game and you start to look for alternatives, then
- 51:12eventually all roads lead to Bitcoin.
- 51:15And man, I've been been joking about this for a while on the
- 51:18show that I, I wish we at simply Bitcoin basically had free loans
- 51:22because we'd be taking out a shit tons of money to stack
- 51:25Bitcoin as a company. Like if we had the sailor plan
- 51:27where you're basically getting, you know, billions of dollars
- 51:30for free on a six year loan and you stack that into Bitcoin like
- 51:35it's basically printing free money.
- 51:38Like it's an infinite money glitch and it's a speculative
- 51:41attack on the dollar or Fiat currencies, no matter how you
- 51:44dress it up. So people can say whatever they
- 51:46want, you know, like, oh, this is just good for our balance
- 51:49sheet. But once you really understand
- 51:51the game theory, you understand that people really are starting
- 51:55to catch on to the game that, Oh my God, I can basically take out
- 51:59as much of this paper currency, these these IO us this, this
- 52:04government debt. And I can stack it into
- 52:06something that cannot be the base.
- 52:07Like anyone that thinks clearly and and can kind of zoom out a
- 52:12little bit from what is the status quo realizes that this is
- 52:15the game being played like this is the only game in town.
- 52:18Because Nico, I don't know if you saw, but we just got this
- 52:21happened in the beginning of the week.
- 52:23We just got news that China dumped 50 billion of U.S.
- 52:27Treasuries and they continue. At this rate, they will be
- 52:31completely out of U.S. Treasuries by 2026.
- 52:34That's two years from now. So everyone is waking up to the
- 52:38idea that the dollar or the OR U.S.
- 52:41Treasuries. Faith in the US government like
- 52:44they're like holy shit like these guys are spending like
- 52:47fucking crazy Oh, and not only that, right, so the so China,
- 52:52you're right, they're dumping U.S.
- 52:53Treasuries. They're stocking gold, right
- 52:56yes, but it was Saudi Arabia that didn't sign up to the Petro
- 52:59dollar deal anymore. So for anyone one who's not in
- 53:01the know, back in the 70s, Saudi Arabia, major supplier of the
- 53:06world's oil supply or major supplier to the world.
- 53:09And in terms of oil, they basically had a deal with the US
- 53:13government. the US government would provide defense and
- 53:15weapons and all that. And in return, Saudi Arabia
- 53:18would only sell oil to other countries in the dollar.
- 53:23So it created the situation where you wanted to buy oil, it
- 53:26had to be in dollars, right? Saudi Arabia basically said, no,
- 53:29we're not doing that anymore, right?
- 53:31So you can, you don't have to use dollars to buy oil anymore.
- 53:34Now let's see what happens, right?
- 53:36The market's going to decide, not a government, but I find
- 53:39that interesting too. So clearly in 10 years, is the
- 53:43US government going to continue to have the ability to spend
- 53:48this crazy, absurd amount? Look, last year, 2020, three,
- 53:52$1.7 trillion, they spent more than they collected in tax
- 53:57revenue, deficit spending. Where did they get that money?
- 53:59That's the GDP of most countries on planet Earth.
- 54:03Just to kind of give you an idea, El Salvador has AGDP of 35
- 54:06billion. the US government spent 1.7 trillion with the T just to
- 54:12kind of give you an idea of how much money it is.
- 54:15And the only reason the United States is not like Argentina in
- 54:18terms of its inflation situation is because of because of the
- 54:22fact that it's the world reserve currency.
- 54:25So it has this unique ability to just keep spread, like spending
- 54:29all this money because everyone is holding dollars all around
- 54:33the world. That's the case now.
- 54:36Is that going to be the case 510 years from now?
- 54:39I don't know. But what I will say is that if
- 54:43you're in the US, you benefit tremendously from living in a
- 54:47country that is the world reserve currency.
- 54:50When that party ends, you better hope you own Bitcoin.
- 54:55You read that book. Odell was talking about it all
- 54:58the time. Mandibles, right?
- 54:59Like, dude, if things will get bad, like really bad, the
- 55:05government's not going to be able to pay for things like they
- 55:07used to, like the infighting, the tension.
- 55:10Look at the political atmosphere now.
- 55:12Do you think that's unrelated to what happened in 2008?
- 55:18Look at how that person felt in that first video, how charged,
- 55:22how heated he is. There's a big portion of the
- 55:26population that feel the way he does.
- 55:29We can't afford housing, we can't afford these things.
- 55:32It's not our fault, right? Creates a very interesting
- 55:36situation to say the least. I do want to go before before we
- 55:39go on, though, I just wanna add something to to what you said is
- 55:43at first people will go into gold because they're so used to
- 55:46it and eventually they're gonna end up on Bitcoin like, you
- 55:49know, similar MicroStrategy. And once we see the corporations
- 55:52all do this, like I'll make a candle coming.
- 55:55Amen to that. All right everybody, I do want
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- 57:53All right, man, I'm really excited today's episode because
- 57:56Naim Bukele had a phenomenal interview with the most popular
- 58:02broadcaster on the planet, Tucker Carlson.
- 58:04It seems like you have a clip pulled up of it, Opti.
- 58:06Yeah. Yeah.
- 58:07So just giving some context. This is the culture and what we
- 58:11want to do here is not only feature Bitcoin culture, but
- 58:14also have some social commentary on things that are happening
- 58:18outside of Bitcoin. And I highly recommend everyone
- 58:21go watch this interview, send it to your friends and family.
- 58:24I'm I'm going to try to force my parents to watch this because
- 58:27it's like it's, I think it's kind of a master class of what's
- 58:30going on. I watched it a few times.
- 58:33I did take a couple notes, guys, but I, I think I picked the best
- 58:37part of that clip that it's only two minutes.
- 58:40So, but I wanted to highlight a few different things that Naive
- 58:43was saying throughout this whole interview.
- 58:45And you know, you may agree with some of it, you may not.
- 58:48And that's the beauty of the show.
- 58:49But I put some some time stamps here.
- 58:52So at the three minute mark, Naive Buckley goes, you can't do
- 58:55anything if you don't have peace.
- 58:56You need basic rights respected before you could even get to
- 59:00peace. Or like you need the basic
- 59:01rights respected to get peace around the nine minute part,
- 59:05which was very interesting that, you know, I, I've never heard,
- 59:08but any politician probably said this, that they praised for
- 59:11wisdom and that their whole cabinet, their whole people in
- 59:15office, they all believe in God, which is very interesting
- 59:18considering what's going on. And I know you guys might
- 59:20disagree there. At the 15 minute mark, which I
- 59:22thought was a very powerful quote.
- 59:23He goes, there is a spiritual war and there's a physical war.
- 59:26If you win the spiritual war, it will reflect into the physical
- 59:29war. I absolutely love that.
- 59:31At the 20 minute mark is where Naive Bukele responded to the
- 59:36condemnation, the hate he got from the human rights
- 59:40organizations out there. And he was surprised that people
- 59:43cared more about the criminals rights in the honest citizens
- 59:46rights, which is very interesting considering what's
- 59:48going on in the world. And it kind of makes you think
- 59:50of what we've been saying in the beginning that maybe we're at a
- 59:53point where the laws aren't actually helping the the
- 59:57everyday person out there. At the 33 minute mark, Naive
- 1:00:00Bukelli says something we say all the time on this show that
- 1:00:03the incentives are wrong, that the incentives are broken.
- 1:00:06And This is why the system is eroding at the 43 minute mark.
- 1:00:10He talked about the money printer, about the US having
- 1:00:12unlimited resources because of the money printer.
- 1:00:15And yet we're still extremely efficient, inefficient, sorry,
- 1:00:18inefficient. What's going on here?
- 1:00:20And the part that I'm gonna bring up is at the 48 minute
- 1:00:23mark, it says that the US has everything and yet it's still
- 1:00:26crumbling. Why?
- 1:00:27And this is yes, and this is the part that I want to play.
- 1:00:30And then the last part, which I thought was very interesting was
- 1:00:33at the 59 minute mark, Naive Bukele was commenting on this
- 1:00:37politician trying to micromanage the art in El Salvador and just
- 1:00:41being completely out of touch with the people.
- 1:00:43Anyways, I'm sure you'll find some more highlights throughout
- 1:00:45this whole clip, but I wanted to bring on a few things.
- 1:00:48And the reason we wanted to bring this on again is to talk
- 1:00:51about culture, cultural commentary.
- 1:00:54But in this clip right here, I think Naive Bukele completely
- 1:00:58sums up what we say on the show every single day about the
- 1:01:01system, about where the US place in it is in it, and whether
- 1:01:06there's still hope for America. And I know we're American
- 1:01:08centric and our audience is global, but I think Naive Bukele
- 1:01:12just absolutely nails it on this.
- 1:01:14It's about a minute or two. It is at 1.25 because that's
- 1:01:16just how my brain works. So let's listen to this.
- 1:01:21Update the screen. You have workers, you have blue
- 1:01:26collar workers, you have trains interactually, interactually.
- 1:01:30But if you sanction Russia have work.
- 1:01:32So to super, to superpower, yes. So they have wheat, they have
- 1:01:36energy, they have natural gas, oil, yes, because they were
- 1:01:39built like that. Industrial capacity.
- 1:01:41Industrial capacity factories, you know, workers.
- 1:01:43So the US is like that too. It was built as a superpower.
- 1:01:47So you have wheat, you have corn, you have workers, you have
- 1:01:50blue collar workers, you have trained skilled factory workers,
- 1:01:53you have colleges, you have universities, you have school
- 1:01:57system, you have infrastructure, you have cities, tourism, the
- 1:02:01Mississippi River. I mean, you have everything.
- 1:02:05You have ships, you have warehouses, you know,
- 1:02:09agriculture, fertile lands. You know what, what you, you
- 1:02:13didn't have before you, you, you, you got right.
- 1:02:16You took from, you know, Mexico or whatever.
- 1:02:18So the US was, was built to be a superpower, right?
- 1:02:24Acquire land, acquire fertile lands, acquire.
- 1:02:26I mean, Texas was part of Mexico, but it's part of the US
- 1:02:29and you have all the oil there. So I mean, and then you have
- 1:02:32California and you have, I mean, the US is built as a superpower.
- 1:02:37So the US has everything to go on for 1000 years.
- 1:02:42It's not like it's doomed to fail, but apparently the leaders
- 1:02:48or most of them, you have probably very good leaders, but
- 1:02:50most of the leaders, they don't, they're not seeing they, they
- 1:02:54either they, they are evil or this is not, you know,
- 1:02:58conspiracy theories. It's just, you know, the options
- 1:03:00you have. Either they're evil and they
- 1:03:03want to destroy the US because of some evil reason or they're
- 1:03:08puppets and they are being handled people that need the US
- 1:03:12to be destroyed by for some reason or they're incompetent
- 1:03:16and they just, you know, doing wrong stuff because they're not
- 1:03:19capable of doing the right stuff.
- 1:03:21Or sorry, I said three, but the incentives, right?
- 1:03:26I mean, changing a country and changing a lot of things that
- 1:03:30are badly done, probably anger will, will anger some people,
- 1:03:34right? Some groups, some, some lobbies,
- 1:03:36some interests. I mean, if you say, OK, we're
- 1:03:39going to stop the railway that's costing us $15 billion per 600
- 1:03:43meters, a lot of companies will be angry.
- 1:03:45A lot of, you know, I don't know, mayors, you have a system
- 1:03:48that that that needs to be needs to be handled.
- 1:03:52So, and that needs leadership and it needs a clear, a clear
- 1:03:56mandate that is probably a little hard to get in the US
- 1:04:01because of, you know, the opposite views and, you know,
- 1:04:03the bipartisanship and but but you need to do it.
- 1:04:08Absolutely love it. He killed that, absolutely
- 1:04:11killed that speech, and it's something again, that's why I
- 1:04:14wanted to give the context of some of the stuff he was talking
- 1:04:16about. But it really boils down to what
- 1:04:18we say all the time, and I even said it earlier in the show.
- 1:04:21It's either that the system is designed this way or the system
- 1:04:25is going completely awry because of the incentives.
- 1:04:28And of course, we at Simply Bitcoin always think if you
- 1:04:31align the incentives, you get on better money, you start using a
- 1:04:35money that you can't debase. And actually, there was a very
- 1:04:37good part in that whole conversation.
- 1:04:40Again, I I recommend you guys watch the whole thing where he
- 1:04:43talks about the incentive structures of being a
- 1:04:45politician. And you don't have to
- 1:04:47necessarily call them evil, But if you have a money printer
- 1:04:50behind you, then of course, you're basically going to be
- 1:04:53buying votes. And then once you take that
- 1:04:55power away, you start to align the incentive structure.
- 1:04:58And as someone that, you know, fix their country in three
- 1:05:00years, like it carries a lot more weight than when Nico and I
- 1:05:05say this and we're just Youtubers and Bitcoiners over
- 1:05:07here. Like he's done it.
- 1:05:09Yes, they still have to ensure that this this goes on longer
- 1:05:13than Naive Buchelli being there. But it all boils down to the
- 1:05:16same thing. The incentive structures of the
- 1:05:18world in the in the first world, in America, in the EU, it is
- 1:05:23it's either completely broken or it is designed this way.
- 1:05:26And we do need new solutions and, you know, we need new
- 1:05:30ideas. And I think Naive Buchelli just
- 1:05:32absolutely, absolutely destroyed the, the narrative, the flood
- 1:05:35lines, all of the hate he's been getting.
- 1:05:38And I saw, I, I didn't double check here, but last time I saw,
- 1:05:42OK, so it's at 6.6 million views.
- 1:05:45Like that is breaking the echo chamber.
- 1:05:47This is how you get these ideas across.
- 1:05:49And I'm going to be spreading this to all my friend, or rather
- 1:05:52more, more of my families because my friends don't really
- 1:05:54care. But my I want my mom and my dad
- 1:05:56to listen to this because I think it's a very great way of
- 1:06:01being objective here and not falling into the left and right
- 1:06:04paradigm. You know, it is a battle of
- 1:06:06orange versus green. Some might say good versus evil,
- 1:06:10but it's all about the inceptive structure.
- 1:06:12And I think Naive Buchelli just absolutely killed, killed it
- 1:06:15with this interview again. Go watch it.
- 1:06:18I watched it twice to give you guys some good, you know, some,
- 1:06:21some quotes and tag lines here. But anyways, Nico, I know you
- 1:06:25watched it. What's your take away from this?
- 1:06:27Dude, so first of all, that is the most popular present in the
- 1:06:30Americas, right? I don't think that's a
- 1:06:32coincidence that the society that fixed the base layer of
- 1:06:36society is a peaceful society, right?
- 1:06:41The president actually does what he's elected to do.
- 1:06:45I don't think that's a coincidence.
- 1:06:47I do not think that's a coincidence.
- 1:06:49I think it's completely related. 100% because Bitcoin fixes the
- 1:06:56incentive structure problem. The issue Washington DC is not
- 1:07:02incentivized to do good by the country.
- 1:07:05He said it like America's a superpower manifest destiny
- 1:07:09right? Literally like from coast to
- 1:07:10coast, isolated, has oceans in between so it can't get attacked
- 1:07:14by another country, has tremendous amount of natural
- 1:07:17resources. And why why the the moral decay
- 1:07:21of society? Why do you have these?
- 1:07:24You know why the end the why the fuck is all this happening?
- 1:07:27Well, it's decadence #1 and #2 it's the money printer.
- 1:07:33That's why Bitcoiners say fix the money, fix the world.
- 1:07:35And it is in I, I love the pact that the, and, and, and I want
- 1:07:39to be respectful to, to some of you guys, right?
- 1:07:42But the part where he said spiritual war, right?
- 1:07:45There's a spiritual component to Bitcoin.
- 1:07:48I don't know what it is, but the general trend that I've seen in
- 1:07:52in people is that they adopt A Bitcoin standard and it heals
- 1:07:57them spiritually in a way, right?
- 1:07:59Like Fiat, I think degrades the spirit.
- 1:08:01There's something inherently corrupt about it.
- 1:08:04And people underestimate how much money plays a role in their
- 1:08:10lives. Like we, I think inherently know
- 1:08:12when we say something like, oh, don't talk about money, it's
- 1:08:15ugly. They're talking about Fiat.
- 1:08:18Like Fiat is ugly. Like it's, it's something very
- 1:08:21ugly to talk about. Bitcoin is very hopeful to talk
- 1:08:24about. It's pretty.
- 1:08:25It's it's equal, right? Like there it's you.
- 1:08:29We talk about Bitcoin every day. We don't get tired of it.
- 1:08:31We don't feel nasty, we don't feel icky, right?
- 1:08:34And you kind of see this like degen and dis degradation and
- 1:08:39not only like Fiat money, but also in shit coins.
- 1:08:44And I and I and I think that they have something in common.
- 1:08:47And look, if you guys are new to this channel, like we're
- 1:08:50libertarians, you can buy whatever you want.
- 1:08:51That's up to you. You can buy GameStop, buy
- 1:08:54Ethereum, that's totally up to you.
- 1:08:56I don't, I don't care, right? But the general trend trend that
- 1:09:01I've noticed is on all these things, they can change the
- 1:09:06rules, they can inflate the supply, therefore debase what
- 1:09:10you have Bitcoin, you can't do that.
- 1:09:14You cannot change the rules to benefit yourself.
- 1:09:18And that I think when you have like an uncorruptible money,
- 1:09:23it's like the pun is totally intended there.
- 1:09:27I think good things happen. I think the human condition
- 1:09:30improves. I think society improves.
- 1:09:34And I think Buchele is a manifestation just like, just
- 1:09:41like Roaring Kitties is a manifestation of the degradation
- 1:09:44of Fiat society. Naeem Buchele is a manifestation
- 1:09:48of a society on a Bitcoin standard, full stop.
- 1:09:55Like that's what Bukili is. And Roaring Kitties is the exact
- 1:10:00fucking polar opposite of that. That is full Fiat degen
- 1:10:04manifestation of the corruption to the core of Fiat and a system
- 1:10:11on Fiat. Like, it is so crazy to me that
- 1:10:16there's an infinite fucking money glitch, right?
- 1:10:21And all these companies are finding out about it.
- 1:10:23And then the very thing that made the Fiat system, the Fiat
- 1:10:27system, this debt based system is going to be the demise of the
- 1:10:30debt based system because it's being used against it.
- 1:10:33And how long until they change the rule?
- 1:10:35Because that's what they love to do.
- 1:10:37As soon as shit starts going against them, they change the
- 1:10:39rules to benefit themselves. And what if you don't have the
- 1:10:43ability to do that anymore? What if you don't have the
- 1:10:46ability to print money anymore? How is the government going to
- 1:10:50afford the wars? How are they going to afford
- 1:10:53that? How are they going to afford the
- 1:10:54tanks? How are they going to?
- 1:10:56They can't pay for it. You know what happened in the
- 1:10:58Middle Ages when the king ran out of gold?
- 1:11:00You know what happened to the armies?
- 1:11:02They all went home. Isn't that like an indication?
- 1:11:05It's like, do people actually give a fuck?
- 1:11:09No, I think human beings are simple.
- 1:11:11I think human beings want to raise a family, eat good food,
- 1:11:15have a good time, go home, go to sleep, do it the next day, live
- 1:11:19a good life. I think we are very simple
- 1:11:21creatures. But I think Fiat gives the power
- 1:11:25to the absolute psychopaths in society and it gives them a God
- 1:11:30like of power of being able to create money for free that
- 1:11:33everyone else has to work for. And then they come up with all
- 1:11:36these fucking insane ideas of endless war.
- 1:11:40Like think about the last century.
- 1:11:42Ron Paul's quote is so resonating, right?
- 1:11:46It's not a coincidence that the last century was the most the
- 1:11:49the the century of central banking was the bloodiest
- 1:11:52century in human history. I don't think that's a
- 1:11:55coincidence. I don't think it's a coincidence
- 1:11:57that Nayan Bukele is the most popular president in El Salvador
- 1:12:01made Bitcoin legal tender. I don't think it's a coincidence
- 1:12:04that you have, you know, again, please put the political
- 1:12:08commentary aside because I can care less.
- 1:12:10But you have, you know, the current president of the US
- 1:12:13right now that questionably shot him, shot his pants on stage
- 1:12:17questionably. I can totally say that because
- 1:12:19they totally hate Bitcoin. So that's fine.
- 1:12:22I don't like politicians that hate Bitcoin, but you know, like
- 1:12:27these are all, this is all extremely symbolic.
- 1:12:30All you got to do is just open your eyes and see the signs.
- 1:12:33It's right there that I have no doubt in my mind and I know for
- 1:12:37a fact Opti's going to agree with me that we are going
- 1:12:42through as, as the world, this spiritual warfare.
- 1:12:46Like I have no doubt in my mind that's what we're going through
- 1:12:49as a society. And and and Bitcoin insulates
- 1:12:51you from the degradation and the corruption of Fiat that is
- 1:12:56inherently connected to the bureaucracy.
- 1:12:59It's inherently connected to the system and Bitcoin insulates you
- 1:13:03from that shit anyways. Bro I may be seeing things that
- 1:13:07are not there but I'm making a lot of connections.
- 1:13:09Bro, I, I just want to add one thing and, and I think when you
- 1:13:14look at it this way and you compare Fiat currencies versus
- 1:13:17Bitcoin, if you study human behavior and psychology for,
- 1:13:23for, you know, the history of man, you understand one thing is
- 1:13:26that human behavior does have to get checked at a certain point.
- 1:13:30And if you have the infinite power of the money printer, then
- 1:13:33you can basically get away with anything.
- 1:13:34You're basically God on earth. And once that power is taken
- 1:13:38away, then you have to provide value to your fellow man.
- 1:13:42You're not able to rob people, you're not able to gain ultimate
- 1:13:44power. And that's what's happening.
- 1:13:46As Elaine always says in the chat, you know, Bitcoin is, is
- 1:13:49money of the natural law and it, it, that's what proof of work is
- 1:13:53all about. It's aligning our money
- 1:13:55structures, our, our financial world back to reality because
- 1:13:58right now we're completely untethered with reality.
- 1:14:01And you're seeing this play out with the politicians, you're
- 1:14:03seeing this play out with the degradation of our society, of
- 1:14:07our culture. And Bitcoin will fix this.
- 1:14:10It it's not going to happen overnight.
- 1:14:12It probably won't happen in just a decade, but it will start to
- 1:14:16fix this. And you're starting to see this
- 1:14:18happen. And you know, like Naibu Cale in
- 1:14:21Bitcoin country is a shining example on the hill, as Nico
- 1:14:24always says. And and, you know, I could only
- 1:14:26hope that we could one day get leaders that have the cajones to
- 1:14:31change the system without being afraid of having, you know, a
- 1:14:35little bit of pain in the short term.
- 1:14:36But maybe I'm a little hopeful here.
- 1:14:38But anyways, Nico did Friday and we're going to get yelled at if
- 1:14:41we don't do a memes. But I actually enjoyed this
- 1:14:43Nico. We're going to have to keep
- 1:14:44doing some more social commentary on.
- 1:14:46This social commentary is the best.
- 1:14:47If you guys enjoyed it, please let us know in the comments.
- 1:14:49We guys, we thrive on your feedback, so please let us know
- 1:14:53if you guys enjoyed it or not. Let's check out the memes.
- 1:14:57Opti's Friday meme review. Roaring Kitties is we're taking
- 1:15:07the mantle back in terms of degen Ness, OK, And the way that
- 1:15:11bit pointers degen is by making memes.
- 1:15:16So what are we looking at Opti? What is this?
- 1:15:18Is that a piece of art? Yeah, this is a great meme.
- 1:15:22It's a little bit of both. It's all memes all the way down.
- 1:15:24But you guys know the deal. We missed it last week, but we
- 1:15:27gave you 2 this week so you can't yell at us too much.
- 1:15:31But as we always say, you guys are frontline soldiers in the
- 1:15:34information war playing out on the Internet.
- 1:15:37Tweets or the bullets, memes or the artillery.
- 1:15:39Remember to ridicule the corporate press, to shame the
- 1:15:44politicians and central bankers into trying to get you into a
- 1:15:46digital dystopia and make some funny so your friends head stay
- 1:15:49in the game but also get the calls of action out there.
- 1:15:52Bitcoin is hope and I don't know, I speak in memes and
- 1:15:55sometimes memes just hit me in the fields guys, but I'm gonna
- 1:15:59cover these memes. Drop your meme score in the
- 1:16:02chat. The meme score is a meme in
- 1:16:04itself. But anyways, I really like Alan
- 1:16:08Watts. Alan B Watts's tweets recently.
- 1:16:11He's been doing a great job and I absolutely love it.
- 1:16:13So yes, this looks like a piece of art and eco, you know, it
- 1:16:16looks like, I don't know if this is Greek.
- 1:16:18It looks like it's a Greek Greek structure and there's like a
- 1:16:22maybe a dude. Yeah, it's like, is he holding
- 1:16:25Bitcoin on top of his head? He's got laser eyes.
- 1:16:27Anyways, he, and This is why I brought it up.
- 1:16:30This is a tweet. Save in Bitcoin and focus on
- 1:16:32your craft. This is what we said on the
- 1:16:34whole show, and this is what everyone is starting to wake up
- 1:16:37to that you don't have to become a financial advisor to survive
- 1:16:39in today's day and age. All you have to do is provide
- 1:16:42value to your fellow man and save in Bitcoin and, you know,
- 1:16:46live. A good life Earn in Bitcoin.
- 1:16:48Save and earn in Bitcoin. OK, this next one is just
- 1:16:51absolutely incredible because this is me and Nico all week.
- 1:16:54Shout out the ghost of Whitman on Twitter and it goes hashtag
- 1:16:57BTC. We're back and we got Nico over
- 1:17:00here just dejected just absolutely destroyed.
- 1:17:04You know, we've been saying all week, we're not.
- 1:17:06We're bored at this price movement anyway, we.
- 1:17:08Can't deal with it anymore. Just the NPC Wojack looking at
- 1:17:11the computer screen, it's like plus 2%.
- 1:17:14We're just destroyed. We just went through the burner,
- 1:17:16you know, went through a a horrible bear market and we're
- 1:17:20so back. We're so back and yet we're
- 1:17:22bored. And on that point, Chen it to my
- 1:17:24boy Ben, he goes, I see you have a nice currency there.
- 1:17:28It'd be a shame if I were to play Creed on repeat.
- 1:17:31Hashtag Bitcoin. We're going higher.
- 1:17:34It's going higher. This is I think this is is it
- 1:17:38the one minute chart, One hour chart?
- 1:17:40I don't know. I don't know.
- 1:17:41But anyways, it's going up forever.
- 1:17:43Number go up it's. Going.
- 1:17:45Higher it's going higher. All right this is this is me and
- 1:17:48Nico again and everyone else in the chat shouts out the Mccaudle
- 1:17:50face and we got Sydney Sweeney here and I think this is what's
- 1:17:54it euphoria and she's crying and being like I'm good.
- 1:17:57Anyways it goes Bitcoin is sitting near all time highs and
- 1:18:00she's crying and freaking out. She's like, I have never ever
- 1:18:03been happier. I I.
- 1:18:04Feel good? A manifestation of Fiat, right?
- 1:18:08It's right there on the screen, yeah.
- 1:18:10I swear I'm not in pain. I'm not in pain right now.
- 1:18:12This is great. I'm good.
- 1:18:14Like man, so much symbolism and all this.
- 1:18:17Okay, next one shout. Out the thoughts everyone, it's
- 1:18:20so obvious it's shouting up to. Dennis Hodel AKA Zined Hodel on
- 1:18:25Twitter and he goes Boys will be boys.
- 1:18:27Hashtag Bitcoin. Yeah, we got.
- 1:18:29I don't know what this is like maybe a Roman or Greek warrior
- 1:18:32here looking very regal here in the midst of battle and it goes
- 1:18:38or conquering battle and it goes how my grandchildren will
- 1:18:41imagine me fighting for Bitcoin in the 3rd and 4th epochs.
- 1:18:44Yes, boys, you don't stack sats for your first name, stack sats
- 1:18:48for. Your last name I saw this is
- 1:18:50kind of reminds me of like I saw something the other day, right?
- 1:18:55Which is this this very important concept that after you
- 1:18:59die, you will be forgotten within two generations or a
- 1:19:04generation, right? I don't think so.
- 1:19:07And the reason for that is simple.
- 1:19:11Now there's the Internet. What you do lives on forever,
- 1:19:14right? And it will always echo an
- 1:19:16eternity, right? So, so like it's just like I
- 1:19:25think with with these types of things like this imagery, right,
- 1:19:29Like this person didn't exist, but I guess it was like what
- 1:19:32they perceive the Greeks to be like if you think about the
- 1:19:35battle 300, like, you know, and then they they comic book it and
- 1:19:39they make like the movie 300 and then like the actual battle was
- 1:19:42different and whatever. But like kind of like Alexander
- 1:19:45the Great, like the mythology of it lived on.
- 1:19:49Everything we do is kind of documented at this point.
- 1:19:52Like there's a video like like the videos aren't going away,
- 1:19:56right? Like especially if the thing
- 1:19:58isn't like if The thing is popular enough, like and the the
- 1:20:03Internet continues to persist and exist.
- 1:20:06Like none of this is going away. So why am I saying all this?
- 1:20:09Why am I going on this tangent? Well, what you do now right in
- 1:20:14terms of your stacking and your whatever, your great, great,
- 1:20:18great, great, great, great, great great grandchildren.
- 1:20:23We'll be able to look at you like like in video like see you
- 1:20:28talking about Bitcoin when this thing was at $70,195.
- 1:20:36So when we. Say Granddaddy was an absolute
- 1:20:38legend. Like it, It's crazy, right?
- 1:20:41Like if we're right about Bitcoin, this thing persists,
- 1:20:44You know, this thing lasts 1000 years or whatnot.
- 1:20:47Yeah, I mean, it's gonna be nuts.
- 1:20:50What's Nika? Sorry, I don't mean to cut you
- 1:20:52off, but what's that one quote? It's something on the lines of
- 1:20:57your words and your actions echo into Infinity, and it kind of
- 1:21:02goes back to everything we say here on the show.
- 1:21:04It's like you as an individual, you may think you have no voice,
- 1:21:08no power, but your behavior on a day-to-day basis does affect
- 1:21:13what happens into the future. And just remember your role in
- 1:21:16in the future and in building a better world.
- 1:21:18Like we all have that power now. Bitcoin has given us that power
- 1:21:22anyways. Because sorry, No, no, no.
- 1:21:24Just great, great. OK, I do have a few more and
- 1:21:27this one these I added these kind just kind of because of all
- 1:21:30the things going on in GameStop. Shout out to the BTC therapist
- 1:21:34and he goes the financial system is broken and we have roaring
- 1:21:37Kitty here and I I forget what is Reddit name it's like deep
- 1:21:40value something anyways, he goes with the GameStop guy roaring
- 1:21:44Kitty goes post his trading positions.
- 1:21:46It's market manipulation and then we got Nancy Pelosi here
- 1:21:49makes 1,000,000 insider trading and it's completely normal.
- 1:21:52No, no, nothing's going on here. I don't I don't know you know,
- 1:21:55just let's let's get roaring Kitty in jail and on the Senate.
- 1:21:59But let's you know let's not talk about the fact that Nancy
- 1:22:02Pelosi is the greatest trader of our generation.
- 1:22:04All right, this next one, shout out to Marty Ben, this one just.
- 1:22:07This is posted while we went live I.
- 1:22:09Saw it popped up and so you know, here's I guess the live
- 1:22:12stream. I we were live so I wouldn't
- 1:22:14been able to. See 112,000 people watching live
- 1:22:18just to kind of give you guys an idea of how dead the mainstream
- 1:22:23media is and how you are now. The media that is more views
- 1:22:27than CNN or CNNBC or all these professional the news channels
- 1:22:34gets on an average basis. This guy in a fucking like just
- 1:22:39sunglasses talking about a GameStop like was getting is
- 1:22:43getting more views right now. That's the same case with Tim
- 1:22:47Poole. It's the same case with Joe
- 1:22:48Rogan. It's the same case with Mr.
- 1:22:50Beast, right? The Internet is now you are now
- 1:22:54the mainstream media and on you it is you.
- 1:22:57It is no longer CNN. It's no longer Fox News.
- 1:22:59Anyways, I just want to say that.
- 1:23:00Yeah, no, that was great. All right.
- 1:23:02So before. Before, before I read the post
- 1:23:04for the audio listeners, let's let's zoom in on on our Kitty
- 1:23:08right here. I just.
- 1:23:09Like do mad drugs. Like she's a billionaire and
- 1:23:11he's like, let me just buy this fucking mansion.
- 1:23:13Start fucking popping, Perkins. Incredible, incredible.
- 1:23:17Well, on that main Marty bank, this guy's been on a three-year
- 1:23:20long accent. Tree like he looks like he's
- 1:23:22taking. Mad drugs.
- 1:23:23Let's go on. Let's get Ghost of Women a
- 1:23:25second one, because this is my queen.
- 1:23:34Oh man, I'm reminded of the the quote that Elano he says.
- 1:23:40You know, the the most likely outcome is the most hilarious
- 1:23:43one. And man, this is absolutely
- 1:23:45incredible. Absolutely incredible.
- 1:23:47All right, guys, drop your meme review score in the chat as we
- 1:23:50cover ours live. I completely forgot to get a
- 1:23:54score. Sonika, you got to go first.
- 1:23:56I'm going to give it this extremely fancy journal.
- 1:24:01That's my score. Fancy journal.
- 1:24:05Anyways, Opti, what would you give those memes?
- 1:24:07OK. I I'm gonna give it these epic
- 1:24:11Crocs that Nico is jealous of. I am.
- 1:24:13Super jealous of those. Those.
- 1:24:15Are so I would wear those every. I mean, I wear Crocs every day,
- 1:24:18but I would wear those specific Crocs.
- 1:24:20Well, the best part about this is I didn't actually buy them
- 1:24:22and there were a gift, but they're lit.
- 1:24:24Opti is Opti is stylish if you meet him in person.
- 1:24:27I am. I'm black or white, so like I'm
- 1:24:30either. If I'm at home comfortable I
- 1:24:32look like a homeless dude if I'm out and about.
- 1:24:35Miko literally looks like this every.
- 1:24:37Day every every other dress 'cause I grew up in Miami so I
- 1:24:41know how to dress. No, no, only Niko.
- 1:24:43Only if it's like an important event will you dress well.
- 1:24:47Every other time, Niko is in a hoodie, basketball shorts and
- 1:24:50Crocs. OK, comfort over everything,
- 1:24:54man. That's that's my life right now.
- 1:24:56Anyways for? Anyone who's not for anyone
- 1:24:59who's new to simply Bitcoin first of all, shout out to you,
- 1:25:01bro hope hope you subscribe or gal appreciate it and if you're
- 1:25:06new to the meme review, what you do is you drop your meme score
- 1:25:09in the live chat and we'll read it loud on air.
- 1:25:12All right, Opti, let's do this, OK?
- 1:25:16Opti bastardo, poor son of poor of poor dad, Opti field.
- 1:25:20Oh my God. Score Dad wants to get beers
- 1:25:23this weekend and get to know your son.
- 1:25:29All right, Soshi Satoshi meme score is a healthy dose of 1990s
- 1:25:34dad rock to get this bull markets rolling alone.
- 1:25:36Thank you. Yeah, that's 2002, I think.
- 1:25:39Elaine, a meme is the truth. A meme can never lie.
- 1:25:43If it does, it's not a meme, it's just an ad.
- 1:25:47So true. SPI give the memes Nico's
- 1:25:49passport by Foundation hardware wallet.
- 1:25:51Yeah, absolutely this knock. Nobody should have the right to
- 1:25:56print money that another man has to twerk for.
- 1:26:02That is so funny. Robert Schmidt, a one year
- 1:26:05subscription to Nancy Signal Group.
- 1:26:07Oh man, it's, it's so great, so great.
- 1:26:09So great. OK, I just killing it.
- 1:26:11I OK, we got a few over on Rumble, shouts at the Idol
- 1:26:16thread. He goes meme score Rory.
- 1:26:19Oh man, Roaring Kitty's monthly subscription for Bum Bum
- 1:26:23renewed. OK tacos score anything but
- 1:26:26Creed please. Not like this.
- 1:26:28Not like this. Oh, man.
- 1:26:30All right. Well, guys, thank you so much
- 1:26:32for tuning into somebody. Honestly I'm going to do a hot
- 1:26:35take here. Not a fan of Creed at all.
- 1:26:39But hey, you don't. You don't want them to take you
- 1:26:41higher. I do want them to take us
- 1:26:43higher, but I, I do have two last things I want to say, Nico.
- 1:26:47First off, the Oilers are going to be the Panthers.
- 1:26:51They're America's team now We have, we have, we have
- 1:26:56confidence Canadians, they are American now we we have taken
- 1:27:01them. We have, yeah, we have a SERP,
- 1:27:04the Canadian team and they're America's team.
- 1:27:06Now I'm wearing the hat 'cause I lost the bet to the Bitcoin.
- 1:27:09Well, guys. A little bit a little bit of
- 1:27:11context because this is absolutely hilarious.
- 1:27:14So first of all, like the Panther Stadium was like 20
- 1:27:19minutes away from my house. Like it's super close.
- 1:27:21Like like I always knew that Florida had a hockey team, but
- 1:27:24like I didn't care about hockey. And then we hang out with the
- 1:27:27awesome guys over at Bitcoin. Well, incredible team and of
- 1:27:31course, you know they're from they're from Canada and Canada
- 1:27:34is super, super like it's the sport in like it's the sport,
- 1:27:38right. And we saw a hockey game and it
- 1:27:41was fucking awesome. Now I'm a huge hockey fan, but
- 1:27:44what are the chances that the Oilers, which is the Bitcoin
- 1:27:47well team because they're from Edmonton, go against the
- 1:27:51Panthers, which is obviously like the Miami team 'cause
- 1:27:53that's what's close by. Those are the two teams in the
- 1:27:56finals. What are the probability of
- 1:27:57that? Not very high, which I find
- 1:28:00absolutely hilarious and of course, Opti lost the bet, which
- 1:28:03is why he's willing wearing the Oilers hat.
- 1:28:06I gotta say though, like you know, I love the Panthers go
- 1:28:08Panthers right and there's palm trees and stuff, but like the
- 1:28:11Oilers brand is badass. I think it's.
- 1:28:13Pretty cool. No?
- 1:28:14No go stars, go stars. What are the colors for the
- 1:28:17stars? It's green, Black.
- 1:28:20Yeah. Go Stars.
- 1:28:22I don't like that's green, that's.
- 1:28:23Go stars, let's pull the Oilers. Orange bro.
- 1:28:27It's there's there's orange in the in the face.
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