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Will the NEW MSTR Shares Send Bitcoin to $1M? (FULL BREAKDOWN) | EP 1146 · Simply Bitcoin

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  Yo everyone believes that MSTR's new breaking $10 billion stock
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  split could be the catalyst that sends Bitcoin to $1,000,000 per
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  coin. Some people have been saying
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  that this would hypothetically add. 3.3 trillion to bitcoins
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  market cap. But today we want to run the
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  numbers and explain the truth behind what MSTR is doing and
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  explain what comes next. Sailors initial plan to buy $42
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  billion of Bitcoin over three years has shocked everyone and
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  it's proved to be an overwhelming success.
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  And even more so considering he's nearly bought all of that
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  Bitcoin in the last three months alone.
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  His new announcement yesterday to issue all these new shares
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  could be even more surprising. So what does Michael Saylor have
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  up his sleeve? Before we start that
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  conversation, I do want bring up my legendary Co host Optimus
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  Fields and of course our special guest for today, Gen.
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  Z Bitcoin. So what am I talking about?
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  Let's pull up the screen. Here is a tweet by Joe Burnett,
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  one of he's a great content creator.
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  I believe he is with Unchained Unchained and he went out with
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  this tweet yesterday. He said MSTR wants to issue 10
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  billion more shares. At current market prices that
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  would be 3.3 trillion or $36 million.
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  Thirty 6,000,000 Bitcoin. What come next?
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  What comes next will be unprecedented, something we'll
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  have to give. And I'm guessing the price of
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  Bitcoin will be going much higher.
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  He continues to say obviously this will not happen tomorrow,
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  but just like their $42 billion plan from October, this would
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  authorize them to issue 10 billion additional shares which
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  would currently be worth 3 trillion.
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  Of course, Sailor would only do this overtime if a credit to
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  accredited shareholders. It continues to say.
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  This could also include potential future stock splits.
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  Assuming a 12:50 split occurred soon, then it would enable MSTR
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  to issue 300 billion of new shares at current market prices.
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  Still a massive ATM moment equity issuance that would occur
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  over time. Now this interest I saw this
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  article is fascinating. And again, like I think really
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  what's happening from my perspective is sailors taking
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  advantage of the Fiat system to buy something that has absolute
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  scarcity. So he takes on debt, uses his
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  company as collateral, he uses that loan from that debt to buy
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  more Bitcoin. He puts it on its balance sheet,
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  his share price goes up. And he does the exact same thing
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  over and over and over and over again.
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  And of course, this has LED MicroStrategy stock to
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  outperform almost the entire the S&P 500, leading to companies
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  like Microsoft and Amazon to question putting Bitcoin on
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  their balance sheet. I mean, over the last five
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  years, the stock is up to 1362%. This was essentially a dead
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  stock since the 2000s a.com crash.
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  It went all the way down to $2.50.
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  Fast forward, you know, 20 years later, essentially the stock
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  went up to $16.00. But it's not like a huge,
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  massive winner. And the moment he adopted a
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  Bitcoin strategy, you'll see what happens.
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  This thing literally hockey sticks up for our audio
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  listeners. And what's fascinating again is
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  you see all the bears on micro on on micro strategy on X.
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  You're saying short this, short this.
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  I think we're seeing a phenomenon that the debt based
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  system that we live in is not ready for.
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  So when Sailor goes on these news networks and says stuff
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  like the first country to use their Fiat money printer to buy
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  Bitcoin is going to win, that's essentially what he's leveraging
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  his company to do. Because it's you're using
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  something that you can create for free and you're using it to
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  buy something that has absolute scarcity.
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  Like if we take Joe Burnett's, you know, numbers at face value,
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  there is no 36 million Bitcoin, just like there's 50 to 60
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  million millionaires all around the world, but there's only 21
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  million Bitcoin. It's the same math.
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  Something's going to something's got to give at one point and
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  what that thing's going to give is number go up.
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  We have this breakout, what people call it, you know, the
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  the last cycle, so to speak. And I think all bets are lost
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  when nation states start acquiring Bitcoin.
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  You think what Sailor is doing is interesting?
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  Wait till a central bank that can just print money out of thin
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  air does the exact same thing. I think this is just going to
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  blow people's minds because people still don't understand
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  two things. Thing number one is Bitcoin is
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  designed to go up forever. Laura and thing #2 is absolute
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  scarcity. It's a concept that's extremely
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  hard to get your head around, especially if you're trying to
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  if you're just getting into Bitcoin like for example, gold
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  is scarce. The thing is, when the price of
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  gold rises, the more production of gold comes along with it.
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  Think about it, if the price of gold double S, then miner gold
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  miners are incentivized double to mine more gold.
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  So the inflation rate of gold is roughly around 1 to 2%.
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  The inflation rate of Bitcoin currently, it's at like 1 one
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  point something, but it's literally destined to go down
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  forever because of the halving and because of the absolute
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  scarcity. And that's that's what makes
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  Bitcoin so uniquely different. And I think it's going to take
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  the financial world by storm. Now, not everyone agrees with
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  this. Here's Joe Park, and he says
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  MSTR is not issuing 10 billion shares to buy 3 trillion worth
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  of Bitcoin. I can't believe I'm tweeting
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  this on Christmas Eve. Now, what I would say is, when
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  MSTR adopted, did we lose? Gen.
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  Z did when MSTR adopted a Bitcoin strategy four years ago
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  back in 21, the market cap of MicroStrategy was roughly $1
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  billion. The market cap of MicroStrategy
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  today is 100 billion. He 100 exed his company using a
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  Bitcoin strategy in four years, four or five years.
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  Now apply that to individuals. Bitcoin has completely changed
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  my life economically. Career wise, it's done the same
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  to Opti. Do you think it's a coincidence
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  that the first country that made Bitcoin legal tender, and of
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  course I'm talking about El Salvador, has the most popular
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  president in the Americas. He has a 93% approval rating.
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  Do you think that's a coincidence?
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  Just like it's a coincidence that the first company that
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  adopted a Bitcoin strategy is outperforming the rest of the
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  S&P 500. That's a coincidence too.
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  Just like it's a coincidence with me where all of a sudden
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  housing and groceries are not getting more expensive for me
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  because I'm on a Bitcoin standard.
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  Everything is getting exponentially cheaper.
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  In fact, if you look at groceries or housing or energy
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  over A5 year scale, they've all gotten 90% cheaper.
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  For me, because I've been living my life on a Bitcoin standard,
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  the world has not awakened to it yet, but I think it's going to
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  take the world by storm and I think a lot of people are going
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  to be incredibly surprised. Anyways, I'm going to pass it on
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  to Opti. But before I get to that, I do
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  want to give a shout out to the roughly 1100 of you guys
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  watching live between YouTube and X.
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  This is crazy dude, 100X100XI mean like who would have
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  thought? Who would have thought?
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  But again, like it's not surprising because I've been on
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  a Bitcoin standard for eight years now and I could and I and
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  I know how it's radically changed my life for the better.
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  And I could see I could say the same thing about you, man.
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  Like Bitcoin is the. Hack.
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  Yeah, no, without a doubt, Bitcoin is very obviously the
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  hack. And you know, someone in the
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  chat said Time magazine man of the year for 2024 is obviously
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  Michael Saylor. I think this is he's been
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  putting on a master class. He's been putting on a master
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  class all year long. And I think the real big signal.
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  Well, first of all, the funny part is I I didn't know Bitcoin
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  had 36 million coins. So that's news to me.
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  You know, shots at the Joe Burnett for the breaking news
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  here. Now obviously I'm trolling it.
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  It just means that the Bitcoin on the market or rather the
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  bitcoins that you hold will be more expensive.
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  You know, if you really think about it, the Bitcoin market cap
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  right now is at $2 trillion. If $3.3 trillion does enter the
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  market, obviously if you look at kind of the data here, it's it's
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  optionality. So he will be able to issue that
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  much, you know, that many shares and obviously it's all going to
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  go into Bitcoin now. I think the real signal here is
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  that all year long, Sailor has been putting on a master class
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  for every other CEO and corporation in the world right
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  now. And he's really forcing their
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  hands. He's really doing the the meme
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  like, hey, if you don't want to compete in Bitcoin, if you don't
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  want to buy Bitcoin, that's fine.
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  I will scoop up as much Bitcoin as possible.
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  I will convert as much debt as possible, and I'll just keep
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  stacking Bitcoin. And he's really kind of doing
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  the have fun staying poor meme right now where it's like, hey,
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  you know, Microsoft or sorry, yeah, Microsoft, you don't want
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  to buy Bitcoin. Your shareholders don't want to
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  buy Bitcoin. Well, that's cool what my
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  shareholders do and we're going to do whatever we can to buy as
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  much Bitcoin as humanly possible.
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  And I think this is going to catch on very clearly next year.
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  It's still a little early. We've seen and we've covered
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  this year, so many things have changed in the Bitcoin landscape
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  over the year of 2024. And I think 2025 is going to be
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  a crazy year. Obviously, we've been covering
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  this all year. We are kind of at the year end
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  wrap up, but the big changes are obviously the Bitcoin ETFs,
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  institutional capital is is finally able to get into
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  Bitcoin. We're seeing nation states talk
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  about Bitcoin and then of course the faz be rule change and then
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  also the talks of banks custodying Bitcoin.
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  So things are fundamentally changing and sailors out here
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  like, OK, I think sailor even himself is starting to feel the
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  FOMO of all of us talking about wow, well, how high is the price
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  going to go next year? And if it goes that high, then I
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  can't acquire as much Bitcoin as I want to.
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  And so you're seeing him starting to make very quick
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  moves to try to acquire as much Bitcoin as humanly possible.
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  And let's not forget, you know, we, we kind of glossed over it
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  in the beginning, but he issued the, the same amount of
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  convertible debt to buy $42 billion of Bitcoin.
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  And as the math shown, he's pretty much bought an all he's,
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  he's already deployed, I think it was like 30 something billion
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  of that convertible debt into Bitcoin.
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  So he's even feeling the the same thing that all of us are
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  probably feeling where it's like, like, man, you guys still
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  have Fiat. Like, how can I get more Fiat to
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  buy more Bitcoin though? He's doing it on a level that
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  most of us can't comprehend. And I actually saw a really good
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  tweet this morning. It was something on the lines
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  of, you know, 1% of the population understands Bitcoin
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  and then like 1% of Bitcoiners understand what MicroStrategy is
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  doing. And I, I think I fall into that
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  99% where I don't, I, I can't claim to, you know, say that I
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  understand everything that sailors doing.
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  But man, he is really, really putting on a master class to
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  show how to run a corporate level and acquire as much
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  Bitcoin as possible. So we'll, we'll see what happens
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  in 2025. I, I think sailor is going to
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  become the richest man in the world pretty soon.
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  You know, Elon much better. Watch out.
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  I, I completely agree. I think that he's competing
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  again. It's like, you know, and I, and
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  I see this, I can't talk about it because first of all, I don't
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  have, I don't have experience to talk about it at, at those
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  levels, you know, public companies and all that.
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  But I could talk about it from an individual level.
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  I see all my normie friends and they're struggling to pay the
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  rent and you know, they're, you know, they're just getting by.
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  They live this like very nihilistic existence.
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  I live in Miami, right. So it's like, it's like the
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  short time preference capital of the world, very, very fun, but
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  like, you know, not if you're trying to build a career or
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  build a family and, you know, trying to get ahead economically
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  and all that. And, you know, I, I, the
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  difference between someone who's adopted a Bitcoin standard and
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  someone who's still in the Fiat standard is night and day.
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  You have a cheat code to your financial future and you know it
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  and it's not easy. This is not a get rich quick
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  scheme. I love Lops quote on this, which
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  is it's not a get rich quick scheme.
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  It's a don't get poorly scheme. Don't get, don't get.
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  It's. It's not.
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  A get rich quick scheme. It's a don't get poor slowly
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  scheme. Exactly right.
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  Like all Bitcoin is doing. And and I I love Jeff Booth's
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  take on this because it's so insightful.
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  It's incredible. He basically makes the argument
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  that the world should be naturally deflationary because
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  of all the advances in productivity and technology.
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  The problem is that because governments keep manipulating
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  the markets and money, the common Joe, the average everyday
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  individual is not feeling those benefits.
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  You know we all know the trope, you know in Bitcoin land, right,
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  what the F happened in 1971, same questions like what the F
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  happened in 1971, you know and you just see all the charts
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  again. Is that a coincidence too, just
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  like the the El Salvador coincidence, just like the
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  MicroStrategy coincidence, just like the coincidence on an
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  individual level of Bitcoin adoption.
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  These must these are just all incidences or it could be that
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  the money is broken and despite the money being broken, markets
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  are still functioning anyhow. But imagine how markets would
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  perform and how different wealth building would be if the world
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  adopted a sound money standard. And I think we are in the midst
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  of that happening. It's fascinating to watch.
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  Anyways, I do want to welcome our special guests.
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  We had a little bit of technical difficulties yesterday and, and
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  starting today, that is Christmas week and Opti and I
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  are both travelling. We're with our family.
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  So I apologize for that. But the show don't stop.
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  Gen. Z, welcome to the show.
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  What are your what's your take on Michael Saylor and his stock
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  performance since adopting a Bitcoin strategy?
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  I think, can you, can you hear me first of all?
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  Yeah. I think is it?
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  Is it good? Yeah, a little staticky, but
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  it's OK. OK, I'm, I'm sorry about that.
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  I think that it is like very incredible that all the big
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  money's going in. And I think it's really cool
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  that people are starting to take advantage of it and be able to
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  use it against Fiat money. And I think that's like amazing.
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  And I think that people should be educated on what's actually
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  happening with the company. I've watched a few videos.
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  I'm not like no any economic genius or anything, but I do
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  think that it's pretty cool what they're doing and more people
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  should learn about it around my age.
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  And I think it's going to be like an opportunity for people
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  to learn because everybody my age wants to make money and they
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  just need to like learn the right things from the right
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  people. And I think that could be really
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  good learning point. Absolutely, 100%.
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  I 100% agree with you man. And you know, it's, it's
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  inspiring. And the reason that we wanted to
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  have you on the show today is, you know, then I say this all
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  the time if you guys are regular simply Bitcoin viewers.
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  It you know, if you are a Gen. Z or sorry, if you are a
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  millennial or a if you're a millennial or a millennial or a
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  Zoomer, you don't have the opportunities that your parents
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  had. Things are expensive, housing is
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  expensive. You don't have as much economic
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  opportunities, but that's only if you are using Fiat as your
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  unit of account. So our generation, we are not
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  adopting Bitcoin for speculative reasons.
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  We are adopting Bitcoin out of necessity, right?
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  but you know, there is no alternative.
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  It's it's it's Bitcoin or you know, it's discontinuation of
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  At the time of recording, the Bitcoin price is $98,650.
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  Block height 876,189 SAT's per dollar 1014 Market cap 1.95
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  billion Bitcoin verse gold market cap 10.71% Percentage
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  issued 94.28% Decline from all time high -8.9% Realized
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  monetary inflation 1.12%. In the grand scheme of things,
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  we are just getting started. All right, everybody moving on
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  to the next bit. This article by Yahoo Finance,
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  Optiou was covering it yesterday, but we do have some
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  clips of you guys again, if you're connect, if you are to
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  connect the dots with what we were talking about earlier on in
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  the show regarding the coincidence that for some reason
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  anyone or any institution or any country that adopts Bitcoin
• 23:12
  makes it legal tender, puts it on it's balance sheet for some
• 23:15
  reason, just coincidence. Their life improves, their stock
• 23:18
  price goes up. That's just a coincidence,
• 23:20
  right? You couldn't like it's, it's
• 23:22
  just a coincidence. It's, it's, it's happening
• 23:23
  across the board. So Rumble secured a $775,000,000
• 23:30
  investment from tethered. I know Opti feels a certain way
• 23:33
  about stablecoins. I personally like stablecoins.
• 23:36
  I think they're a great stepping stone towards Bitcoin,
• 23:41
  especially in developing countries.
• 23:42
  Initially, what Bitcoiners anticipated was that in
• 23:47
  developing countries you would see this mass adoption of
• 23:50
  Bitcoin. There is an adoption of Bitcoin
• 23:52
  in developing countries for sure, without a doubt.
• 23:55
  However, what is getting adopted more in developing countries is
• 24:01
  stable coins, specifically Tether.
• 24:03
  USDT is incredibly popular all around the world.
• 24:07
  Why? Because if you are in Kenya, or
• 24:10
  if you are in Cuba, or if you are in Venezuela, you cannot
• 24:14
  open AUS dollar account. And you live in a country where
• 24:20
  there's a great deal of inflation.
• 24:24
  So what do you do? You can just download a wallet
• 24:28
  and all of a sudden you have access to dollars.
• 24:30
  Now is it Bitcoin? No, but again, we understand
• 24:35
  inflation because you know, and I'm assuming most of our
• 24:38
  audience because we we do have the analytics for you.
• 24:40
  For for that. Most of our audience lives in
• 24:42
  the developed world. And if you live in the developed
• 24:46
  world, you know you have the financial privilege of dealing
• 24:49
  with 2%. At the height of the pandemic,
• 24:52
  it goes 10 percent, 8% maybe for a little bit, and then it went
• 24:55
  down. If you live in the developing
• 24:57
  world, you're dealing with multi year double digit inflation and
• 25:08
  you cannot conceive what that's like.
• 25:11
  Imagine if you make a salary and all of a sudden one month from
• 25:15
  now your purchasing power of the salary gets reduced by 50%.
• 25:21
  It's unsustainable. That's why you're seeing so much
• 25:24
  record Tether USD adoption now. What I think is going to happen
• 25:30
  eventually, just like in the developed world, a lot of us
• 25:34
  have realized that the dollar's a scam, inflation is a scam,
• 25:39
  Bitcoin's a better unit of account.
• 25:42
  We already have that advantage. We already have that like
• 25:47
  experience. They don't necessarily have that
• 25:51
  over there. They're just trying to survive
• 25:55
  and for them tethers a way of survival and I think eventually
• 25:59
  when they're not dealing with just surviving, they're dealing
• 26:02
  with living and they're able to build wealth.
• 26:05
  All roads eventually leave to Bitcoin because Bitcoin is the
• 26:08
  better money. So you know, I know understand
• 26:12
  some Bitcoiners feel a certain way about it.
• 26:14
  That's how I feel about way about it.
• 26:16
  Another thing too also is that you know this thing is a huge
• 26:20
  deal. The fact that they invested in
• 26:25
  one of the largest video free speech platforms in the world is
• 26:29
  absolutely massive. Now here's some of the details
• 26:32
  that goes on to say digital assets company Tether made a
• 26:35
  $775,000,000 strategic investment disclosed by Rumble
• 26:39
  after the announcement. Rumble stock price is up 76%.
• 26:44
  Under the deal, Tether will buy 103 million Rumble Class A
• 26:48
  common stock shares at $7.50 each from the earnings.
• 26:53
  Rumble intends to deploy 250 million to support its financial
• 26:58
  sheet and drive its growth objectives.
• 27:01
  The remaining money will help to finance a self tender offer for
• 27:05
  up to 70 million Class A common shares, therefore giving
• 27:09
  liquidity to owners. And here's a clip of the Rumble
• 27:14
  CEO being interviewed, I believe on Fox Business.
• 27:17
  Let's check it out and we'll be right back.
• 27:19
  This is a widely adopted currency and you know,
• 27:23
  contrasted to what your previous guest said, it is being used,
• 27:26
  it's being used multiple different ways.
• 27:27
  And one of the ways that I would like to see it being used is on
• 27:30
  Rumble where creators can receive donations in BTC or
• 27:35
  Tether. They can receive donation or
• 27:37
  even get paid in BTC or Tether or U.S. dollars, whatever they
• 27:41
  they prefer. And that's kind of the the, the
• 27:43
  way we're moving the the company and.
• 27:48
  All right, everybody and we're back here is the CEO of Tether,
• 27:54
  Paolo and he's comment on it and he says Tether is actively
• 27:58
  working with it's partners to build the widest real world use
• 28:02
  cases for BTC and USDT and other common freedom tech.
• 28:08
  Our dedication goes to the hundreds of millions, likely
• 28:11
  billions, of people in our network of reach.
• 28:14
  Unstoppable, Unstoppable will be a great 2025.
• 28:19
  Now what's really interesting too is here is the CEO of Rumble
• 28:24
  commenting. Imagine you can easily tip your
• 28:27
  favorite creators with BTC or USDT, correct directly on
• 28:32
  Rumble. And I said bullish on Rumble.
• 28:34
  Give us a follow. Yes, we do.
• 28:36
  We pay a lot of attention to our Rumble channel, stream all our
• 28:38
  shows there and we've been uploading all our content there
• 28:41
  from Dante and Rustin as well. So anyways, I want to pass on to
• 28:46
  Opti get your thoughts on this because I think it's I think
• 28:49
  it's incredible news that, you know, a free, a video free
• 28:53
  speech platform like they, you know, advertise themselves, get
• 28:58
  such a big investment. And then again, do you think
• 29:00
  it's a coincidence that as soon as that investment was made, the
• 29:03
  guys on X basically saying, hey guys, you know, we're going to
• 29:07
  be able to add? Bitcoin tip functionality very,
• 29:10
  very quickly, like, you know, that's beautiful to see in real
• 29:13
  time. Now, Opti, I know you're not
• 29:16
  such a big fan of, of, of stable coins like I am, but what's your
• 29:21
  what's your take on this? I think it's a it's a huge net
• 29:23
  positive for the industry in my opinion.
• 29:26
  Yeah, well, yesterday I think when I covered this, the stock
• 29:30
  only hit like, well, hold on, only hit a 55% increase and the
• 29:34
  see it end at the very end of the day with a 75% increase on
• 29:38
  its stock prices. I think more signal to the idea
• 29:41
  that if you start adopting Bitcoin that it's going to
• 29:44
  increase shareholder value. And obviously I think it's a
• 29:47
  match made in heaven between Rumble and Bitcoin.
• 29:50
  And, you know, we love Rumble and we constantly as content
• 29:54
  creators are always thinking about can you know, Rumble get
• 29:58
  some mindshare or have a bigger network effect than YouTube
• 30:02
  eventually, or I think it does. I think it does, and mind you, I
• 30:06
  wanna preface that I love YouTube as a platform.
• 30:09
  Yeah, I grew up on YouTube. Still, I consider myself a
• 30:13
  YouTuber. But it's good to have multiple
• 30:16
  platforms competing for views because that creates
• 30:19
  competition, right? So I just wanted to.
• 30:21
  Preface it with. No, yeah, no, totally.
• 30:22
  And that that's the that's the fundamental question.
• 30:25
  And I think with them adopting Bitcoin, I think that is how
• 30:30
  they do get a lot of the mindshare and the network effect
• 30:33
  to push them a little, you know, over the edge here.
• 30:35
  And I think it's obviously a match made in heaven, free
• 30:38
  speech and Bitcoin is obviously, you know, symbiosis and it
• 30:43
  really is a no brainer. And so I'd love to see this move
• 30:46
  by Rumble. I think this is an incredible
• 30:48
  move. Obviously yesterday when I
• 30:50
  covered this news, my, my Internet and all that was acting
• 30:53
  up a little bit and I was really more just covering the news.
• 30:55
  But I think everyone here knows kind of my take on stablecoins.
• 30:59
  I think Bitcoin is superior money than Fiat money.
• 31:02
  And I, it does feel like stablecoins are just a way to
• 31:05
  dollarize the world. I think Bitcoin is going to
• 31:08
  eventually take over. I think all roads lead to
• 31:10
  Bitcoin, hence why I am a little more negative in regards to
• 31:13
  stablecoins. But we all do know, or at least
• 31:16
  we hope, that going to stable coins like Tether is a first
• 31:20
  step to eventually getting to Bitcoin.
• 31:22
  I think my main concern is that people don't take that next step
• 31:26
  and they just stay in Tether. And I think that that would be
• 31:30
  obviously a misstep by a lot of people, hence why I'm always
• 31:33
  like, yo, you need to get the Bitcoin.
• 31:35
  All roads lead to Bitcoin. But very clearly this is a solid
• 31:39
  move by Rumble and it's obviously increasing shareholder
• 31:42
  value. And I think this is kind of
• 31:44
  going back what we've been saying in the beginning of the
• 31:46
  show, that every country needs to on some level have a Bitcoin
• 31:51
  plan, whether it's getting investment by Bitcoin companies,
• 31:54
  whether it's adding Bitcoin to their balance sheet or doing the
• 31:57
  micro strategy strategy and getting convertible debt to
• 32:00
  stack as much Bitcoin as humanly possible.
• 32:02
  I think we're going to see in 2025 that more companies, very
• 32:06
  big companies might I say, are going to embrace Bitcoin.
• 32:10
  And if you embrace Bitcoin very late, then you know you're not
• 32:13
  going to be able to compete in the digital age.
• 32:15
  And I think these companies in 2024 that have taken that step
• 32:19
  are just proving what we've been saying forever.
• 32:21
  They're proving the theory correct that if you embrace
• 32:24
  Bitcoin, this is a good thing for your company, this is a good
• 32:27
  thing for you individually. Everyone should be embracing
• 32:30
  Bitcoin on every level. And now we're seeing that by the
• 32:33
  end of 2024, we have some really big names doing this.
• 32:36
  And I think Nikka, we, we basically said this in the
• 32:38
  beginning of the year that 2024, we're going to see some awesome
• 32:40
  names and huge names come into Bitcoin, even talk about
• 32:43
  Bitcoin. Now it's, it's only a matter of
• 32:45
  time until the dominoes fall. And I think that's going to be
• 32:47
  in 2025. Yeah, 100 percent, 100% agree
• 32:51
  with you, Gen. Z, What is your take on this?
• 32:57
  I think that everything Opti was saying is true and I agree more
• 33:01
  with that. We need to stick with Bitcoin, I
• 33:03
  think as just a superior currency to everything else.
• 33:07
  And Bitcoin will always beat Fiat.
• 33:10
  And yeah, I think we should keep it at that.
• 33:12
  With me, I don't know too much about other stuff.
• 33:17
  I'm going to be honest. It's more of a Bitcoin or guy
• 33:19
  it's. Short, short and to the point.
• 33:21
  All good. My friend, I want to ask you,
• 33:23
  let me. Let me.
• 33:24
  Let me, let me, let me. Pivot the the the question in a
• 33:26
  second. So you know, Genzi, we're
• 33:28
  talking about this earlier on and Opti, we'll have to pivot a
• 33:32
  little bit during the culture and just adapt it.
• 33:34
  But you know. Let's talk about that.
• 33:37
  You know, I'm assuming you've adopted Bitcoin.
• 33:39
  You adopted Bitcoin at a very young age.
• 33:41
  Obviously you know. How has it changed your life?
• 33:46
  So I got into it when I was about 13 because of my mom and
• 33:51
  my household doesn't make a ton of money or anything like we're
• 33:55
  not like we're, we're fortunate to have.
• 33:58
  I'm fortunate to have what I have.
• 33:59
  I'm very grateful, but definitely not like doing very,
• 34:03
  very stable. I can't buy anything I want to
• 34:05
  buy, and I know I won't be able to buy anything when I'm older
• 34:09
  without Bitcoin. And I think it has an
• 34:11
  opportunity to help me and other people own my own wealth.
• 34:15
  Like when I work, I'm going to be able to gain all the wealth I
• 34:17
  can from that and keep it the same and not let other people
• 34:21
  manipulate the money that I use. It's going to give me an actual
• 34:24
  source of money, like what we've been missing out on.
• 34:26
  I've been reading lots of books over the last few years, like as
• 34:30
  much as I can. I'm not very good at reading and
• 34:32
  understanding kind of how world history have worked.
• 34:34
  Like in my class right now this year, learning about world
• 34:37
  history and what's happened with all the other empires and how
• 34:40
  they all ultimately fell either because of power or money.
• 34:43
  And whenever they lost power and religion, because people could
• 34:47
  start to move around the world, they had to gain power and money
• 34:50
  to be able to pull strings whenever they wanted to.
• 34:52
  And with Bitcoin, I think it's going to kind of be the checks
• 34:54
  and balances of the world and help individual people like hold
• 34:59
  their value. Like every, everybody can do
• 35:02
  their own thing and be valuable to other people.
• 35:04
  But when the money's corrupting it, it like evaluates every
• 35:07
  single person. So that's what I think.
• 35:10
  Absolutely, I think that's a really good point.
• 35:12
  We're going to fully explore this man.
• 35:14
  You know, I, I wish I had that type of wisdom, you know, in my,
• 35:18
  in my earlier years, me too. But you know, it's this is this
• 35:22
  is what it's all about is educating the next generation on
• 35:25
  on alternative money, not only an alternative money, but an
• 35:29
  alternative mindset that comes with Bitcoin.
• 35:32
  I tweeted this out. I think it was like one or two
• 35:35
  days ago, But you know, I had like a Eureka moment late last
• 35:39
  night or a couple nights ago and I was basically thinking like
• 35:43
  when you have Bitcoin in self custody and you do that for a
• 35:46
  long. Period of time, it will
• 35:48
  fundamentally change who you are as a person and how you view the
• 35:52
  world fundamentally, right? And this is an educational
• 35:57
  thing, like this is a message that we need to continue
• 36:00
  providing towards the future generations so that they wake up
• 36:04
  and they actually adopt the money that values their time and
• 36:08
  energy and work. That, you know, think about it,
• 36:11
  you spend all this time working for, for what, For a money that
• 36:14
  another person can create out of nothing like that Sounds like a
• 36:18
  scam. And I think it is a scam.
• 36:19
  I think inflation is one of, you know, I think it's, it's, it's
• 36:23
  something that they've been able to get away with because they've
• 36:27
  been able to control the mediums of information.
• 36:30
  For a long time, but now that the Internet has essentially
• 36:34
  opened up abilities to, for people to seek the information
• 36:39
  they which they they wish to seek to do their own research,
• 36:42
  to think critically, you know, eventually push comes to shove,
• 36:47
  they're going to have to ask a very basic, they're going to
• 36:50
  have to answer a very basic question.
• 36:52
  Why is inflation necessary? Like, why should inflate?
• 36:57
  Like, why is it necessary? We already pay taxes.
• 37:00
  We agree to taxes. It's part of the law.
• 37:02
  It is what it is. That's the discussion for
• 37:04
  another day. But we, I don't think anyone has
• 37:07
  ever agreed to pay the money tax.
• 37:10
  And the inflation without a shadow of a doubt is a form of
• 37:14
  taxation. And it's not the it's not
• 37:16
  companies doing this. It's not, you know, price
• 37:20
  gouging or Putin or war or whatever it is.
• 37:23
  It is literally because the central bank is debasing the
• 37:28
  currency, full stop. That's the only reason, and I
• 37:32
  don't think that has gone out enough yet, but I think we're
• 37:36
  getting there. I think we're making tons of
• 37:38
  progress. I believe I saw Jack Mahler's on
• 37:41
  the Tim Poole show the other day.
• 37:43
  That's a great example, right? Anyways, guys, we're gonna get
• 37:46
  to the news. We have tons to talk about.
• 37:48
  Let's check it out. We'll be right back.
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  All right, everybody, let's get to today's news.
• 40:31
  So first, First off, you know, we all remember this news about
• 40:35
  Putin signing a law to legalize cryptocurrency mining in Russia.
• 40:41
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill
• 40:44
  legalizing cryptocurrency mining in Russia from November 1st,
• 40:48
  2024. The document is published on the
• 40:51
  website for official publication of regulatory acts.
• 40:54
  The law provides definitions for such terms as cryptocurrency
• 40:58
  mining, mining pool, mining infrastructure operator.
• 41:01
  In particular, the law proposes defining the activity of
• 41:04
  cryptocurrency mining as the activity of conducting
• 41:08
  mathematical calculations by means of operating technical
• 41:11
  means for making records and an information system that uses, in
• 41:15
  particular, distributed registered technology for
• 41:18
  issuing digital currency or receiving.
• 41:21
  I don't even know what that word is.
• 41:22
  The point is, is that they made this big splash about legalizing
• 41:26
  cryptocurrency currency mining. Then Putin on one of the videos
• 41:31
  that he did of him being interviewed, they were basically
• 41:34
  asking him like, hey, you know, you know, Bitcoin and this
• 41:38
  Bitcoin, then he's like, look, Bitcoin can't be banned.
• 41:40
  You know, that's one of the and he said it in Russian, of
• 41:42
  course. And that was my terrible,
• 41:44
  terrible attempt at copying a Russian accent.
• 41:47
  But you know, then we got this news literally like a month
• 41:51
  later, Russia enacts 6 year blanket ban on Bitcoin mining in
• 41:56
  10 regions. It continues to say Bitcoin
• 41:59
  mining will be banned in 10 regions and territories.
• 42:03
  And it goes on to, I'm not even going to try to pronounce that.
• 42:05
  I'm sorry guys. A bunch of regions in Russia.
• 42:08
  It goes on to say Russia will also enforce partial
• 42:10
  restrictions on mining operations in three Siberian
• 42:13
  regions during the winter, aligning with high energy
• 42:17
  consumption periods. These restrictions are set to
• 42:19
  start from January 1st to March 15th.
• 42:23
  It goes on to say the ban. The ban effects both mining
• 42:26
  pools and individual cryptocurrency mining
• 42:28
  activities. The list of regions and
• 42:31
  territories is not final and is subject to change based on the
• 42:35
  decisions made by the Commission responsible for the development
• 42:38
  of the electric power industry. These restrictions aim to ensure
• 42:43
  a balance on energy consumption while considering the needs of
• 42:47
  various industries. Since November, mining in the
• 42:50
  Russian Federation has been legalized, provided that
• 42:53
  individuals submit information on the required assets and
• 42:57
  cryptocurrency addresses to the Federal Tax service.
• 43:01
  It goes on to say rushing mining pool.
• 43:04
  E4 pool shut down it's operations earlier this month,
• 43:08
  citing regulatory restrictions. Now this all reminds me of an
• 43:13
  article that Alex Gladstein wrote four years ago.
• 43:17
  And the name of the article is Bitcoin as a Trojan Horse for
• 43:19
  Freedom, he goes on to say. And this is, I think, the part
• 43:23
  that sticks out the most. The Trojan horse has been
• 43:26
  popularized in computer science as a malicious program disguised
• 43:30
  as a helpful update. But it is.
• 43:32
  Also an effective metaphor for how Bitcoin stealthily co-ops
• 43:36
  actors who do not care about or do not like freedom to promote
• 43:40
  it anyway. The meme begins with wealthy
• 43:42
  individuals, corporations and soon governments.
• 43:45
  This is where we are. This article was written four
• 43:47
  years ago, which see Bitcoin as a glittering digital gold.
• 43:50
  Out of self preservation and greed, they're incentivized to
• 43:54
  buy mine and or one day tax this new prize to accumulate the
• 43:59
  soundest money and gain an advantage over their rivals.
• 44:03
  Bitcoin does, after all, on an exterior look very appealing.
• 44:07
  It is the best performing financial asset in the world
• 44:10
  over the past 12 years. I mean, this is what's
• 44:15
  happening, right? And later on in the article, he
• 44:18
  goes on to mention that freedom go up technology and number go
• 44:25
  up technology are inextricably linked, meaning you cannot
• 44:29
  disconnect the two. But that's not going to stop
• 44:32
  dictators and oppressive governments from wanting to
• 44:36
  benefit from Bitcoin. But saying, you know, I want to,
• 44:39
  I want all the the number go up, but none of the freedom stuff.
• 44:43
  The freedom stuff is terrible. But The thing is you can't
• 44:45
  disconnect the two. It's a runway.
• 44:47
  It's a one way Rd. So it's just fascinating again
• 44:51
  to see this game theory. You know, Russia couldn't help
• 44:55
  itself when this news broke out that Russia you know that we got
• 45:01
  BTC sessions my brother from another Mother Mother in the
• 45:04
  chat. Putin wants no competition while
• 45:06
  they mine on the low for the Kremlin.
• 45:08
  Exactly spot on. So yeah, I mean, like, like
• 45:12
  think about it from from that perspective, right?
• 45:14
  Like it's like, you know, they they want all the benefits, but
• 45:19
  they don't want to lift the restrictions up on their
• 45:22
  citizens. However, I think as Alex
• 45:25
  Gladstein pointed out, it's a Trojan horse.
• 45:27
  Like once you let that in, you can't go back.
• 45:30
  And again, this doesn't surprise me because I was really
• 45:33
  surprised when Putin said, hey, we're going to unban Bitcoin
• 45:36
  mine. Me and Opti were like, wait,
• 45:37
  what the heck is going on, right?
• 45:39
  But they can't help themselves. And this is another part that I
• 45:42
  love about Bitcoin that a lot of people don't understand, which
• 45:46
  is Bitcoin exposes all incentives.
• 45:49
  So if you are a tyrant, regardless of whether you're
• 45:53
  left or right, Bitcoin will expose you for who you are.
• 45:57
  And that's what it's all about anyways.
• 46:00
  Opti, what's your take on all this?
• 46:02
  I mean walking it back, walking it back.
• 46:05
  Bro, what's going on? Well, I mean really Nika, are
• 46:08
  are we surprised? I think you laid out the case
• 46:10
  really well. You know, everyone knows Bitcoin
• 46:12
  is freedom. Putin's even been saying that.
• 46:15
  But it is very interesting. But it's like you can't ban
• 46:17
  Bitcoin. Ban Bitcoin mining, you know.
• 46:20
  Yeah, exactly. Well, it is interesting.
• 46:21
  So like, you know, I'm really being reminded of the meme on
• 46:26
  Twitter. You know, like in Mother Russia
• 46:27
  meme. You know, like in Mother Russia,
• 46:29
  we can use Bitcoin, but our citizens can't.
• 46:31
  And it is really interesting that on the state level, they
• 46:34
  see the problem. You know, they've been kicked
• 46:36
  out of the SWIFT system. They're looking for new payment
• 46:38
  mechanism. They're looking for a new
• 46:39
  currency. They're even trying to, you
• 46:41
  know, make their own currency. And because they see that what
• 46:44
  we've all been talking about is bitcoiners for a long time that
• 46:47
  the dollar has been weaponized. If you're an enemy of the US,
• 46:49
  then you obviously going to kick off the dollar system.
• 46:52
  The dollar still were reserve currency.
• 46:54
  And so it's funny that on the highest level you have Putin
• 46:58
  basically saying you can't ban Bitcoin.
• 46:59
  And then within this country, he's like, yeah, actually, you
• 47:02
  know, you have to, you know, go through all these obstacles for
• 47:05
  you to become a Bitcoin miner. So it, it is a very interesting
• 47:09
  take. And I I think diving into this,
• 47:11
  Nico, it would be very interesting if we could get the
• 47:13
  the data on how rich those regions are with energy.
• 47:18
  And it really it goes back to, you know, the have fun staying
• 47:21
  poor me minute. And it's really horrible if you
• 47:23
  really kind of break it down, because I would argue that those
• 47:26
  are probably very high energy areas.
• 47:30
  And the fact that they're basically saying like, oh, you
• 47:32
  can't mine Bitcoin, We're going to ban it for five years.
• 47:35
  It, it, it's a dumb move. It, it's a bad move, obviously,
• 47:39
  like very clearly as anyone that understands the Bitcoin
• 47:41
  incentives. But are we surprised?
• 47:44
  Like, no, not at all. We we know that on a state
• 47:46
  level, Russia's obviously looking for a money that they
• 47:49
  can't be sanctioned off of. And so of course they are kind
• 47:53
  of talking out of two sides of the mouth.
• 47:55
  They're like, yeah, we're we'll probably use Bitcoin on the
• 47:57
  state level. But when it comes to our
• 47:59
  citizens, you know, you can't just mine Bitcoin.
• 48:02
  You're going to have to go through all of the the
• 48:04
  legalities and regulations to sign up to mine Bitcoin.
• 48:09
  And I'm sure those regulations and laws and standards are very
• 48:12
  stringent, which means most likely it's not going to be
• 48:15
  anyone that wants to mine Bitcoin will be able to mine
• 48:18
  Bitcoin. So am I surprised?
• 48:20
  Not at all. I think it was very surprising
• 48:22
  at first that we heard Putin talk about even embracing
• 48:26
  Bitcoin. Obviously he's being forced on a
• 48:28
  nation state level, considering that Trump is talking about
• 48:31
  Bitcoin and, you know, embracing Bitcoin, a strategic Bitcoin
• 48:35
  reserve. And so Russia kind of had to
• 48:37
  come out and say something similar just to compete.
• 48:40
  But hey, it it's are we surprised?
• 48:43
  Like not at all. It it is going to be interesting
• 48:45
  to see if this stands. Obviously banning people from
• 48:49
  mining Bitcoin for five years is like the worst kind of
• 48:53
  handicapping you can do to your citizens or even to your economy
• 48:57
  and the the companies over there.
• 48:59
  So it is a very interesting seeming kind of wild move that
• 49:03
  we're seeing. But like Nico pointed out, you
• 49:05
  know, Bitcoin is the Trojan horse for freedom.
• 49:07
  So are we surprised? Like not at all.
• 49:10
  But it is, it is kind of, it is kind of horrible to see.
• 49:12
  Hopefully they would embrace Bitcoin, but I'm not really
• 49:16
  surprised. It is just a weird move, like
• 49:18
  just kind of looking at it on the surface, like what a strange
• 49:21
  move. And it's obviously a very bad
• 49:23
  move if you ask me. 100 percent, 100%.
• 49:28
  Jen Zier, what are you thinking about this brother?
• 49:30
  What are you thinking about this?
• 49:31
  I know, I know you're talking about earlier.
• 49:33
  You're just focus on your life and building your stack and
• 49:36
  just, you know what you're doing.
• 49:37
  But I don't know if you want to offer a couple quick takes
• 49:40
  before we get on to the culture. Yeah, sure.
• 49:43
  So I'm still learning as a kid and a person like everything I
• 49:47
  can learn. And one thing I would ask myself
• 49:50
  about like this question is what makes the country rich and what
• 49:54
  makes the country poor? Like it may be obvious to you
• 49:56
  guys, but like I'm a kid, I have questions like that.
• 49:59
  And I could say is it the answer?
• 50:02
  That question? Is it how much you can get your
• 50:04
  citizens to work for you for free?
• 50:06
  Pretty much. If you can print your own
• 50:07
  currency and pay your citizens that currency you're printing,
• 50:11
  does that make your country rich?
• 50:13
  The citizens definitely aren't rich.
• 50:14
  They don't have any buying real buying power.
• 50:17
  And with Bitcoin being a thing that you cannot print, I think
• 50:20
  governments are trying to get a hold of that.
• 50:22
  Like of course, it's giving them through actual first real power
• 50:25
  you can buy would be Bitcoin. You have power across the whole
• 50:28
  world, but they don't want their citizens getting that.
• 50:31
  But for them to get the Bitcoin, like you said about the Trojan
• 50:35
  horse, they're going to have to start like showing that they're
• 50:38
  buying it and using it. And they're worried that they're
• 50:42
  going to lose the control over their citizens with Bitcoin.
• 50:45
  And I think that's what's happening.
• 50:47
  I mean, I know their their country's not ran the same way
• 50:50
  America is for sure. And with the Dick, the
• 50:54
  dictatorship, the big dictator. Dictator, Yeah.
• 50:58
  I don't even really know how Russia works, if I'm being
• 51:00
  honest. I'm not political or anything.
• 51:02
  But that's what I think, that they're going to lose control of
• 51:04
  their citizens, and that's their definition of wealth and powers,
• 51:08
  how they can control their citizens with Bitcoin, they
• 51:11
  won't be able to. You get what I mean?
• 51:14
  Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
• 51:15
  That is words of wisdom, man. Absolutely, 100%.
• 51:20
  I think that's absolutely spot on.
• 51:23
  And yeah, I mean, dude, I, I wasn't speaking like that at
• 51:27
  your age, you know, there's. Help for the youth, Nika,
• 51:29
  there's help for the youth. Very, very wise.
• 51:32
  And I think that's a great statement, right?
• 51:33
  You know, I think it boils down to control.
• 51:36
  And again, that Alex Gladstein article just keeps, you know,
• 51:39
  kind of repeating in my head. But anyways, guys, it's going to
• 51:42
  be a great show. We still have a ton to get to,
• 51:45
  so stay tuned. We'll be right back.
• 51:47
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• 53:49
  So I do want to open up this conversation.
• 53:51
  We have Gen. ZBTC joining us today on the
• 53:54
  show and shout out to the 2000 of 2600 of you guys watching
• 53:59
  live between all platforms. And we're on the verge of
• 54:03
  breaking 250 likes on YouTube. So I appreciate you all.
• 54:07
  If you guys are enjoying the show, make sure to smash that
• 54:10
  like button. So what I saw Gen.
• 54:12
  ZBTC is a lot of people in the chat were saying that they loved
• 54:16
  your podcast. I didn't know you had a podcast.
• 54:19
  Could you talk a little bit about about it?
• 54:22
  I don't have a podcast but I've been on a few with some
• 54:26
  different people. So fake.
• 54:27
  News in the chat Fake news in the chat Let.
• 54:30
  Me, let me translate what the chat.
• 54:33
  Let let's start with the. Let me no, no, no hold.
• 54:35
  On hold on, let me translate what the chat meant.
• 54:37
  That meant that people love seeing him on podcast.
• 54:41
  That's what that's what the that's what the that's what it
• 54:44
  meant. And yeah, so Opti, I think that
• 54:47
  is a great question. What is your rabbit hole story,
• 54:50
  Jen? ZBTC.
• 54:52
  OK, so is it OK if I yap for a minute?
• 54:55
  Yeah, go for it bro A. Little bit.
• 54:57
  So I'm just an average kid. I've grown up with a single mom
• 55:00
  my whole entire life in a house. I love playing sports, love
• 55:04
  being active, physical. I play football.
• 55:07
  I've done wrestling for four years and I did football for
• 55:09
  four years. And I wouldn't say there's much
• 55:12
  that separates me from any like normal kid at all.
• 55:15
  Until probably about the 7th grade.
• 55:18
  I had social media. I'll be scrolling.
• 55:20
  And one thing I realized is that I don't want to be poor when I
• 55:23
  grow up. What I meant by poor is that I
• 55:26
  want to be able to afford to take my family and friends out
• 55:31
  and not have to worry about the bill or be controlled by
• 55:33
  something like that. And that's like a very big
• 55:35
  statement to make. Like when I'm young, like I
• 55:37
  would say, oh, I want to be rich when I grow up.
• 55:39
  I was in middle school. That's something I would say a
• 55:41
  lot. That's just like, I don't know,
• 55:43
  I just thought it was like really interesting thing to
• 55:45
  think about like that people have the ability to do better
• 55:48
  than others without putting in the same amount of work.
• 55:52
  You get what I mean? And that was something that I
• 55:55
  thought about a lot whenever I was younger.
• 55:57
  And I was just like trying to see what I can do to take a step
• 56:00
  at starting doing that. So I've got my first book, which
• 56:04
  was Rich Dad, Poor Dad, which is my favorite first book that I
• 56:06
  read. And I enjoyed it.
• 56:08
  I thought it was really cool. And then my mom got into Bitcoin
• 56:12
  and I think I don't want to say the wrong dates.
• 56:15
  I think it was 2020. I don't know if if I'm wrong,
• 56:18
  I'm wrong. It doesn't matter too much.
• 56:20
  She got in probably about like 20,015 thousand just like kept
• 56:24
  going up and stuff. And she would always have videos
• 56:26
  out on the main TV. And I remember that was the
• 56:28
  years that I was playing lots of games in my room and I would
• 56:32
  come out of my room and see her watching it.
• 56:34
  She like she would be like Ben, if you're interested, go look at
• 56:36
  the video on this Bitcoin thing. It's pretty cool.
• 56:39
  I never really did. I could kind of careless.
• 56:41
  I was playing Fortnite with all my friends, having a blast on
• 56:44
  the computer or Xbox. And then slowly one day my mom
• 56:49
  told me about the Canada trucking incident during COVID
• 56:53
  when they all were forced to take the vaccine.
• 56:56
  And like, I don't remember too much about all the facts, but I
• 56:59
  remember being surprised how much control they had over the
• 57:03
  truckers and what they were trying to force them.
• 57:06
  And then I went down this rabbit hole of learning about Bitcoin
• 57:08
  my first time and learning that it has a bigger value than the
• 57:12
  dollar. Like then just making money.
• 57:14
  Like I thought it was just something that people would make
• 57:16
  money with, like any other person would assume.
• 57:18
  And then I learned that that's like the perfect thing for my
• 57:21
  life goal of being in control of my own life would be owning
• 57:25
  Bitcoin. And then that kind of just sent
• 57:26
  me down the rabbit hole of learning as much as I can.
• 57:29
  I'm not that technical yet because I really can't be.
• 57:32
  It's not like I have tons of money to put into it.
• 57:34
  I'm trying to learn as much as I can.
• 57:36
  And my mom would always say one Bitcoin equals one Bitcoin.
• 57:39
  And I didn't even understand that for probably like a whole
• 57:42
  six months. Like you can hear that statement
• 57:45
  and be like, Oh yeah, one Bitcoin's always one Bitcoin.
• 57:47
  But it really doesn't make sense until you understand the whole
• 57:51
  roots of Bitcoin. If you have to understand how it
• 57:54
  works, why it's important. And I kind of just did that over
• 57:58
  years at school. I would read books.
• 58:00
  My kids would make fun of me at school for reading.
• 58:02
  But like, not in a bad way. Like I don't really care.
• 58:04
  I play football and wrestling. So if you hear me saying that,
• 58:06
  it's not like a big deal. It's just friends messing with
• 58:08
  me. But they would make fun of me
• 58:09
  for reading instead of like sitting with them or messing
• 58:11
  around or during lunch. I went to my first conference in
• 58:15
  Miami, Miami my mom took me to and she was really brave to take
• 58:19
  me and her alone to the conference and we met a ton of
• 58:22
  cool people. But leading up to the
• 58:24
  conference, I remember I was so excited and I just read so many
• 58:27
  books about Bitcoin and school and that's about it.
• 58:33
  Recently I've just been trying to stack as much as I can for
• 58:35
  Christmas. I still don't have a job
• 58:37
  technically I can't work yet like full hours until I'm 16.
• 58:40
  I'm currently 15 and I'm just trying to find a way to save up
• 58:44
  some stats right now and then get a job in the future.
• 58:48
  Yeah, I do. I appreciate your mom for, you
• 58:50
  know, signing the release form to get you on the on the show.
• 58:54
  So shout out to your mom for that.
• 58:56
  And again, dude, like, you know, one of the things that, you
• 59:00
  know, when I was when I was your age, I was not thinking about
• 59:05
  money and getting wealthy. But one of the things that I do
• 59:09
  regret now that I'm in like my early 30s is God damn, I wish I
• 59:16
  started sooner. You know?
• 59:18
  So like 10 years from, and I have a theory and I've heard
• 59:23
  this many times through whatever, but I really started
• 59:27
  like focusing on building my career when I was 2223.
• 59:33
  And it really takes 10 years. Like there is no skipping that.
• 59:38
  It takes 10 years to like you're going to go through the first
• 59:42
  couple of years, you don't even know what you're doing.
• 59:44
  You're just trying to get your gauge on what to do.
• 59:48
  And then all of a sudden you start to you start to kind of
• 59:52
  connect the dots. And if you really put your mind
• 59:56
  to it, you know you're going to be in a much better place than
• 59:59
  when you were ten years ago. But I think it takes 10 years
• 1:00:02
  minimum to build wealth. If you just put your just sole
• 1:00:06
  dedication to it, thinking about it, you know, entrepreneurship,
• 1:00:10
  thinking about different ideas, failing, getting up after you
• 1:00:14
  fail, betrayal, heartbreak. All of it.
• 1:00:17
  Goes into it. Opti's been here for some of
• 1:00:21
  that. And if you power through oh, and
• 1:00:25
  consistency and discipline to be consistent.
• 1:00:27
  But if you're, if you power through that man, like it's not
• 1:00:31
  a question of what if you will succeed.
• 1:00:34
  It's just a question of when. And I know that if I started
• 1:00:37
  sooner, I would have learned those lessons much earlier and I
• 1:00:41
  would be in, I would be in a different place than I am today
• 1:00:46
  at an earlier age, right? So I think you're on the right
• 1:00:48
  track and you're all these things and concerns that you
• 1:00:51
  have, it's good like because you have to power through them.
• 1:00:55
  The faster you power through them, the faster you're going to
• 1:00:58
  get to like the next level. It's all part of the process.
• 1:01:01
  Like the NVIDIA CEO like had a video, it like semi went viral,
• 1:01:06
  but basically he like said something along the lines of
• 1:01:09
  like, you know, like what I tell my employees is that like they
• 1:01:13
  need to suffer essentially, you know, they need to suffer in
• 1:01:16
  order for them to succeed. And like there's no going around
• 1:01:21
  that. Like there's there's no going
• 1:01:23
  around the suffering. You have to suffering.
• 1:01:25
  It's part of the process and you know, it's how you grow as a
• 1:01:29
  human being and that after a certain period of time, you
• 1:01:34
  know, eventually you'll find some type of success, some level
• 1:01:38
  of success. I don't know what that is.
• 1:01:40
  But you know, again, most people your age aren't even thinking
• 1:01:42
  about that. They're thinking about having
• 1:01:44
  fun. What's going on in the weekend,
• 1:01:47
  whatever you're, you're thinking about wealth building, you know,
• 1:01:49
  So when you're, you know, when you're 10 years from now, 20
• 1:01:53
  years from now, dude. You'll still be.
• 1:01:56
  Below your 40s, you know, like so you still have a huge runway
• 1:02:01
  of, you know, of, of a lot of wealth, wealth building
• 1:02:05
  opportunities, man. And I and I think in this
• 1:02:07
  Bitcoin world, again, it's so it's, I don't want to say it's
• 1:02:10
  easy, but it's a lot easier than traditional finance.
• 1:02:14
  So that's what I have to say on that.
• 1:02:15
  Opti, do you have any takes? And then we'll wrap that.
• 1:02:18
  Actually, I, I, I told, I told Gen.
• 1:02:21
  Z before the show that even at 15, you know, with no job, just
• 1:02:25
  having this fundamental understanding, I think you're
• 1:02:28
  way ahead of everyone else. And I, you know, like Nico
• 1:02:31
  saying and, and to echo that, like, I wish I had this 10 years
• 1:02:34
  ago as well. You know, I was saying at 20, I
• 1:02:36
  would be happy even understanding Bitcoin, let alone
• 1:02:39
  at 15. And so this is a perfect segue
• 1:02:42
  into considering, you know, you're 15 years old.
• 1:02:45
  I, I really just want to know, like, what are your friends?
• 1:02:47
  Or rather, if you try to orange pale people your age like, what
• 1:02:51
  is their thought process around Bitcoin?
• 1:02:54
  Most of the thought processes are that I'm an idiot or that
• 1:02:58
  they don't care. It's either or normally there's
• 1:03:01
  no in between. I mean, like I've met some kids
• 1:03:04
  who are like, yo Ben, hook me up on that Bitcoin and I'm like,
• 1:03:09
  OK, I will text me later and I promise you I'll sit on a call
• 1:03:13
  with you and get you a wallet and send you a dollar in sats.
• 1:03:17
  And then I never get a text. Like if I I've tried like
• 1:03:21
  explaining it to some of my like closer friends or they're not my
• 1:03:23
  friends anymore, but like you should be closer friends and
• 1:03:28
  they really don't care. Like kids my age won't care
• 1:03:31
  unless it has an immediate effect on them.
• 1:03:33
  Like they here get good grades, go to college, but it doesn't
• 1:03:38
  have an effect on them. It's like hearing when you're
• 1:03:41
  really little brush your teeth or else you get cavities.
• 1:03:43
  Like you hear that, you know, it's true because everybody says
• 1:03:46
  that. But like once you get that first
• 1:03:48
  cavity, you're going to you're going to brush your teeth every
• 1:03:51
  single day because I have how to get a cavity filled before.
• 1:03:54
  Oh, it's bad. You get what I mean by that.
• 1:03:55
  So like, kids are going to hear get good grades, go to college
• 1:04:00
  and like, they could mess up or go to college and like drop out
• 1:04:04
  or not actually like follow up their degree and then get in
• 1:04:08
  debt and it'll be too late. They're going to be screwed.
• 1:04:12
  And I think that Bitcoin is going to be the thing that
• 1:04:16
  teaches people with communication about like how to
• 1:04:21
  just get in control of your life, have a stable life.
• 1:04:23
  Like, what's the word for it? Like have inner peace in your
• 1:04:26
  mind? That's like my goal.
• 1:04:28
  And to be able to help other people get to do that, whether
• 1:04:30
  it's being healthy, socially healthy.
• 1:04:32
  And part of being socially healthy is to have enough money
• 1:04:35
  to do what you would like to do. Not everybody has to be a
• 1:04:38
  billionaire, but I think everybody should be able to do
• 1:04:40
  what they like and work for it if they want to.
• 1:04:43
  I feel like in today's world, if you really want something, a lot
• 1:04:47
  of people can work as hard as you can for 20 years and you
• 1:04:49
  won't be able to get to it just doing normal stuff, working
• 1:04:54
  normal jobs. Totally agree bro.
• 1:04:57
  Actually there was a good comment earlier in the show.
• 1:05:00
  So it was Ron P. He said he met you in Miami and
• 1:05:04
  he was asking if you could tell the story about you.
• 1:05:08
  I think he said telling your teacher to have fun staying for
• 1:05:11
  if. If you don't want to talk about
• 1:05:12
  it, that's fine, but I I think that'd be kind of a funny story.
• 1:05:15
  Yeah, so I definitely didn't say have fun staying poor.
• 1:05:19
  Maybe that's the I probably said that if I'm being honest, but I
• 1:05:24
  wouldn't say that to a teacher's face.
• 1:05:25
  I'm not disrespectful, but when somebody starts being
• 1:05:29
  disrespectful to me and like insulting me, I don't like it
• 1:05:32
  that much. Like I'm a wrestler, I'm
• 1:05:34
  football kids, I don't I don't like when people talk rude or
• 1:05:37
  disrespectful for no reason, especially when you're not
• 1:05:39
  educated on whatever you're talking about.
• 1:05:41
  It was an English teacher I didn't get along too well with.
• 1:05:44
  Got in trouble a few times for like going to the bathroom.
• 1:05:46
  She said not to because I had to go pee.
• 1:05:49
  She like called the whole office and we were beefing a little bit
• 1:05:51
  during the year. And I don't ever beef with my
• 1:05:53
  teachers. I normally try as hard as I can
• 1:05:55
  to stay on good terms with them. But one day it started with a
• 1:06:00
  presentation. We were doing presentations
• 1:06:02
  about different stuff that was supposed to be in the future.
• 1:06:05
  I didn't get to pick the future money presentation, the
• 1:06:08
  economics, but I did pick the future food and I did a whole
• 1:06:12
  presentation about beef and how good meat is really important.
• 1:06:16
  And we don't have to get into that.
• 1:06:17
  But I did a ton of research on how grass fed beef is way better
• 1:06:20
  than normal beef and that everybody should be eating a lot
• 1:06:23
  more meat than we do. And I did that presentation.
• 1:06:26
  At the end of it, the teacher said, disclaimer, everything he
• 1:06:29
  said is wrong. Don't listen to him.
• 1:06:31
  You'll get heart problems if you eat meat.
• 1:06:33
  And then that just like that felt really disrespectful
• 1:06:36
  because she had zero clue what she was talking about and it was
• 1:06:39
  really wrong. And I did all my research on it.
• 1:06:42
  And then some kid was like, Ben, tell the teacher how bitcoins
• 1:06:47
  going to change the world because they knew that that was
• 1:06:50
  going to start something. And then that's whenever it went
• 1:06:53
  off. And then she was like, Bitcoins
• 1:06:55
  stupid. And I was like, why?
• 1:06:57
  And she was like, because it's not backed by anything.
• 1:06:59
  I'm like, what's the dollar backed by?
• 1:07:01
  And she was like, the dollar is backed by the government and the
• 1:07:03
  trust of all the people. I'm like, well, the bitcoins
• 1:07:06
  backed by the trust of everybody around the whole entire world.
• 1:07:11
  And then it just kind of went off and like I, I can't like
• 1:07:14
  argue with the English teacher in front of all the kids because
• 1:07:17
  she was talking loud because she knew everybody was listening.
• 1:07:19
  Like we weren't arguing like this was after class was done or
• 1:07:23
  like about to be done. And it ended up just like kind
• 1:07:27
  of going bad, kind of going good.
• 1:07:29
  We ended up on good terms, but she was just trying to tell
• 1:07:31
  everybody to like, stay away from Bitcoin, don't risk, stay
• 1:07:35
  in traditional marketing. And I didn't like that the
• 1:07:37
  teacher was saying stuff that wasn't true when she is the
• 1:07:41
  teacher of the future generations that are going to be
• 1:07:44
  working. Like, I don't think that's fair.
• 1:07:45
  Do you get what I mean? Like that's the thing that like
• 1:07:47
  messed me up, especially the meat thing when she just said I
• 1:07:50
  was should have wrong when I did like factual research that class
• 1:07:54
  for like a whole hour. That was the thing.
• 1:07:57
  Well, it sounds like you were born to be a bitcoiner dude.
• 1:08:00
  Aren't you disagreeable? Yeah, yeah, dude, that's, that's
• 1:08:05
  funny. Yeah.
• 1:08:06
  I, I, I, I remember, you know, when I was.
• 1:08:11
  Wait Nico, tell your little presentation story real quick.
• 1:08:13
  TLDR. You know, yeah, I mean, you're, you're like, like I
• 1:08:17
  never got like all my teachers said I was going to be a
• 1:08:20
  failure. They still made fun of me.
• 1:08:24
  Like, like they not make fun of me, but like, like I like I I
• 1:08:28
  can read in my head perfectly, but some words because like
• 1:08:31
  Spanish is my second language. I learned I learned English at a
• 1:08:33
  like a, a later age. I still can't pronounce some
• 1:08:37
  words. So like, you guys see it on the
• 1:08:38
  show. I don't try to hide it.
• 1:08:40
  I own it. They're like, you know, you have
• 1:08:44
  all these shortcomings and you don't have, you don't check all
• 1:08:46
  the boxes. Like you're never going to make
• 1:08:47
  anything of yourself. And I got so much peer pressure
• 1:08:50
  to like join like, you know, start college and whatever.
• 1:08:53
  But it got to a point where I said like, no.
• 1:08:56
  And mind you, Gen. Z.
• 1:08:58
  This is like before. Like you can even think about
• 1:09:02
  building a business online or anything like that, but I
• 1:09:05
  dropped out of college. It was the.
• 1:09:07
  Best financial decision I've ever made in my life because all
• 1:09:11
  I did was focus on Bitcoin after that.
• 1:09:14
  And look at me now, you know, all those teachers, right?
• 1:09:18
  Like you guys dropped the ball, you guys got it wrong.
• 1:09:21
  So like, you know, it's like, I think that the school system,
• 1:09:27
  the way that it's currently set up is, comes from the industrial
• 1:09:32
  era. It comes from an era that no
• 1:09:34
  longer exists. And it like essentially the way
• 1:09:38
  that I see it and the way that I felt it and you're telling me
• 1:09:42
  that story and I'm like, that sounds familiar.
• 1:09:45
  Is it it? It makes you like a cog in the
• 1:09:48
  wheel, makes you like a cog in the system.
• 1:09:51
  And if you have independent thought and independent
• 1:09:54
  thinking, you can't question certain things.
• 1:10:01
  The problem is that like, what if the thing that you're
• 1:10:04
  questioning is wrong in the 1st place?
• 1:10:07
  Like, you know, like this, this goes down to like first
• 1:10:11
  principles like, you know, and, and so many times like building
• 1:10:16
  this with Opti from so many people, they called this crazy.
• 1:10:20
  They said it was impossible. You can never build a business
• 1:10:22
  out of this. Like I've heard this like so
• 1:10:25
  many times. But I've been on YouTube for
• 1:10:28
  eight years. I like, I know content, like I
• 1:10:31
  understand this. And I, they, and I was getting,
• 1:10:34
  you know, feedback and advice from people that didn't make
• 1:10:38
  content. And like, Long story short, it
• 1:10:42
  was like, like, you know, they were.
• 1:10:45
  Wrong, right. So what I'm trying to say to
• 1:10:48
  you, man, is like, if you believe it in your heart that
• 1:10:52
  you're right, and especially if you did the research and you
• 1:10:54
  know that you're right, like follow your heart like every
• 1:10:58
  single time like and it doesn't matter where that where that
• 1:11:02
  person is authority wise, like I'm not.
• 1:11:05
  Of course, like you have to listen to your parents.
• 1:11:07
  That's really important. But I'm, I'm talking about the
• 1:11:10
  outside. If you know that you're right,
• 1:11:12
  like follow your heart, follow your intuition.
• 1:11:15
  Your intuition's not going. To fail you right like 99% of
• 1:11:19
  the time your gut feeling is 100% spot on.
• 1:11:24
  And I wish more people would have told me that earlier on in
• 1:11:28
  the road. I would have made a lot less
• 1:11:30
  mistakes, right? So, yeah, I mean, it's a it's an
• 1:11:34
  interesting phenomenon, man. But I think that because you
• 1:11:37
  found Bitcoin early on like you did, I think you're going to
• 1:11:41
  turn out fine. And you know, whether that's
• 1:11:44
  entrepreneurship or, you know, a career in the Bitcoin industry
• 1:11:48
  or career and whatever you know. Speaking of that, I want to say
• 1:11:52
  one thing my goal right now as I am sophomore year in high school
• 1:11:56
  and I'm not on track to go to any like Ivy League colleges or
• 1:12:00
  anything. I don't have bad grades.
• 1:12:02
  I have a good like 3.2 GPA or something like that decent in
• 1:12:05
  school and I've been playing sports and know my proof of work
• 1:12:09
  due to wrestling like that's a big thing that translate.
• 1:12:12
  My goal right now is going to be to probably intern for a company
• 1:12:16
  or my my main goal is going to be to go to conferences and go
• 1:12:21
  talk like that's what I want to do.
• 1:12:23
  I don't know if anybody in the chat could be able to help me
• 1:12:25
  with that. I really want to just be able to
• 1:12:27
  go out to conferences and I feel like I could make a difference
• 1:12:29
  with my voice and help educate young adults and even kids and
• 1:12:34
  like just get the word of education out and like Peace of
• 1:12:37
  Mind to like Bitcoin is the option.
• 1:12:40
  So I just wanted to say that to all the listeners.
• 1:12:43
  Anybody could like DM me or something?
• 1:12:46
  Anybody knows anything that would help?
• 1:12:49
  For sure, man, for sure. All right, I actually, we, we
• 1:12:51
  are getting, I think we'll probably wrap up in a minute.
• 1:12:54
  But hey, Ben Gen. ZBTC, if there is a Zoomer out
• 1:12:59
  there listening or maybe we can clip this, what would be your
• 1:13:03
  TLDR? 2 minute elevator pitch for a
• 1:13:06
  Zoomer to get into Bitcoin. Also smash the like button where
• 1:13:09
  285 likes help us break 300 likes before we end the show.
• 1:13:14
  There's 550 of you guys watching live on YouTube.
• 1:13:18
  All you got to do is smash. The like button smash the like
• 1:13:20
  button really really helps getting this message forward
• 1:13:23
  anyways. I'm sorry I didn't hear.
• 1:13:28
  You say it again. All right, So say you're talking
• 1:13:30
  to a Zoomer right now and a fellow Gen.
• 1:13:33
  Zier. How would you pitch Bitcoin to
• 1:13:35
  them? Bet.
• 1:13:37
  OK. So I would pitch Bitcoin as not
• 1:13:41
  a way to get rich like you guys were saying.
• 1:13:43
  Want to pitch Bitcoin as a way to change your life for the
• 1:13:46
  better in whatever way you want to.
• 1:13:48
  If you want to do something and you're struggling with Fiat,
• 1:13:51
  then go to Bitcoin and I it'll make a difference in some way,
• 1:13:53
  whether it's getting healthy mentally, healthy physically, or
• 1:13:57
  healthy socially, using Bitcoin to help you with being able to
• 1:14:00
  do what you want to do. I would say just start sets like
• 1:14:04
  stacking stats as soon as you can and don't be afraid to go
• 1:14:08
  talk to people on social media or talk to people in person.
• 1:14:12
  Talk to people even just like going on Twitter and joining a
• 1:14:16
  spaces and just talking like it's so easy.
• 1:14:18
  Everybody's so nice in the Bitcoin space.
• 1:14:20
  Everybody's trying to help everybody else.
• 1:14:22
  It's like a group of people who are trying to just better the
• 1:14:24
  world as a whole. And I think it's such such a
• 1:14:27
  great opportunity. It makes me happy just to think
• 1:14:29
  about I'm a part of this and I can try to help other people.
• 1:14:32
  That's what I say. I would say stack every single
• 1:14:36
  dollar you can until you can't anymore.
• 1:14:39
  It's just like the option and educate yourself.
• 1:14:41
  Learn how to learn is the big thing.
• 1:14:44
  School doesn't teach us how to learn very well.
• 1:14:47
  Learn how to learn and just buy Bitcoin.
• 1:14:49
  That's probably it. Spot the F on drop mic moment,
• 1:14:56
  guys. We're heading.
• 1:14:58
  We're almost at the top of the hour and I do want to thank
• 1:15:02
  everyone for tuning in. Appreciate it.
• 1:15:06
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• 1:15:17
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• 1:15:20
  If you guys want some content, don't worry, I recorded
• 1:15:23
  something with Larry Leopard and we're going to be talking about
• 1:15:27
  his new book that just dropped and it is.
• 1:15:31
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• 1:15:33
  back. We'll see you guys back on
• 1:15:35
  Thursday after Christmas. But yeah, we're unplugging for
• 1:15:39
  Christmas. But don't worry, we'll still
• 1:15:41
  have content for you guys cuz Honey Badger Media don't stop.
• 1:15:44
  But yeah, go check out Gen. Z, Gen.
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  Z4, BTC on X. I'm your host, Nico.
• 1:15:50
  This is my legendary Co host, Optimus Fields, our guest for
• 1:15:54
  today, Gen. Z.
• 1:15:54
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• 1:15:57
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• 1:16:00
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• 1:16:03
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• 1:16:09
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