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Brian Brooks: Bitcoin WILL Replace Banks | EP 913 · Simply Bitcoin

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  It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
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  It's going on forever. You're against Bitcoin.
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  You're against freedom. Yeah.
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  Welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live.
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  You're your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin
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  revolution code, bringing you use culture, mining, warfare.
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  We will be your guide through the separation of money and
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  state. Brian Brooks, he was the
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  Comptroller of the currency said the quiet part out loud.
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  He said that Bitcoin is going to replace the banks right.
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  And now I said that it kind of makes sense why Jamie Dimon
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  reacted the way that he reacted, right.
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  And and if you think about it like, from, like a common sense
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  perspective, like at the end of the day, you know, banks make
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  money off holding your money, but what's in it for you?
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  What's in it for you is the convenience of it, right?
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  It's not really convenient to hold like $1,000,000 under your
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  bed, right, in cash. And then they charge you a fee
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  for that, right? They charge you like if you have
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  any bank in the US, if you like under like 1500 bucks in your
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  account, they charge you like a quote, UN quote, convenience
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  fee. And it's like what?
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  It's like $15.00. So like, it charges you.
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  The banks are charging you for holding your money even though
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  they're making money off of your money, right?
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  So it's kind of weird. It's kind of strange.
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  And it used to not always be that way.
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  Like banks used to actually pay you like a decent interest.
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  But obviously things have changed, obviously.
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  So yeah, I I really think that that's the reason that Jamie
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  Dimon, why he's so against it, 'cause I think he sees the
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  writing on the wall. And OK, you could say that's
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  just a bit bunch of Bitcoiners speculating and theorizing, But
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  you have Brian Brooks. Brian Brooks was the former
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  acting US Comptroller of the Currency and during the Trump
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  administration, right. And he was a huge fan of
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  Bitcoin. And he's been saying that like,
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  you know, quote, UN quote, cryptocurrency does not seek to
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  replace currency. It's a bad name.
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  Cryptocurrency seeks to replace banking, right?
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  So and it's interesting, 'cause, you know, we know how Trump
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  feels about CBD CS. Obviously he hasn't talked
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  negatively about Bitcoin, but here's someone that was part of
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  his administration that actually looks at Bitcoin favorably and
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  he was pretty up there, right? So anyways, a lot of stuff to
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  talk about. We have a lot of stuff to get to
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  part of the show. I want to bring up my legendary
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  Co host. Always optimistic.
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  How you doing? Hey Nico, I'm I'm gonna let you
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  continue, but you're way too low energy.
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  Hey, what is going on? Miko needs some coffee.
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  I was just saying that I was low energy.
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  I only had two cups of coffee this morning.
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  But man, Nico, you got to really bring bring the.
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  Heat. I got to step it up.
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  Yeah, yeah. I think, I think we need some
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  more five over there. We need like a maybe even at a
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  four, maybe even at a four. But anyways, anyways, I I want
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  to read this comment over here on Rumble because it's
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  absolutely hilarious. Shouts out the UTXO, he goes,
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  Garth Brooks said. Bitcoin is going to replace
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  banks. Brian, Brian Brooks I.
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  Don't think Miko even knows who Garth Brooks is.
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  But that doesn't even. Know who?
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  Who is Garth? Who is Garth?
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  He's a country country singer. OK Anyways, anyways.
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  Anyways, our friend, our friend Josh Friedman, Did I say right?
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  Josh Friedman did. I say.
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  Right. You got it right.
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  Yep. This guy's last name, this guy's
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  last name is literally freedom man.
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  Like couldn't make up he's he's in the right industry Anyways
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  Josh everyone knows culture. We feature our our guests.
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  So Josh you work with slice and and this is the first time I've
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  heard of it. So let's give the audience a
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  little TATLDR and then and then we'll go into the the nitty
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  gritty during the culture. For sure.
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  So Slice, basically the what I do is I ask people, would you
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  rather make money online or not when you're browsing.
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  What Slice does is we basically will show you ads and instead of
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  you know, taking all of your your data, not giving you
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  anything, what we do is we split ad revenue with users.
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  So if you see an ad, we make some money and we're going to
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  give you half that money. So over time, obviously you're
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  starting to make a little bit of money.
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  When you're browsing, you can cash that out for dollars, go to
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  PayPal, take a 4%, you know, cut from it and take it, take it in
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  USD or you can get it in Bitcoin.
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  So most of our users prefer Sats, and I think this is an
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  amazing tool to help the next, you know, however many millions
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  of people, as we gain users begin to see that Bitcoin is
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  better because not all these people who use Slice are
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  necessarily bitcoiners, but they they're thinking, hey, if I can
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  get some Bitcoin, might as well. So Slice, I'm excited to be a
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  part of the team. I've been part of the team for
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  like 6 or seven months, or six or seven weeks, but I've been
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  the Slice user for about eight or nine months.
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  OK, awesome. Awesome.
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  All right, well, we'll we'll break it down during the
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  culture. But sounds sounds super cool,
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  man. Really excited for this one.
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  Yeah, it's it's kind of like a new kind of model, right?
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  Because like, I'm sure we'll talk about this during the
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  culture, but it used to not always work like that, right?
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  Like. Plus value for value, right.
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  So like it's one of those things where we're, we're sharing value
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  with the consumer. So it's kind of flipping value
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  for value a little bit on its head because I'm also a creator.
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  I love Fountain because people can send me some Sats, but we
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  also have never they had a great way to give the consumer Sats as
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  well, and that's what Slice is helping to do.
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  Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool, man.
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  Well, I'm excited to talk about that.
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  Sounds really, really interesting project.
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  Everyone's talking about my energy, so I'm going to step it
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  up. Yeah, dude, you need it.
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  What? What is the Bitcoin Live?
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  Nika's already on the weekend, bro.
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  He's already on the weekend I. Gotta take it from the top.
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  just getting started. Anyways, this is a video that I
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  have for you guys, but first I want to explain who Brian Brooks
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  Brian P Brooks is. So he's an American lawyer,
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  banker, and entrepreneur. He served as Acting Comptroller
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  of the Currency, succeeding the 31st Controller of the Currency,
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  Joseph Otting, and he was nominated twice by the previous
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  president. He also worked at Bitcoin and
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  crypto companies he worked at. He was the chief legal advisor
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  at Coinbase from 2018 to 2020 and Bitfury from from October
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  2021 to 2022. So I mean Bitfury from my
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  recollection, I think it's one of, it's a very big mining
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  company. So I mean, yeah, like it's
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  interesting to have someone like within the halls of government
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  in the administrative state that is so bullish on Bitcoin, right?
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  And then he said this in regards to what Bitcoin is actually
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  going to replace. So specifically to use his
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  words, what cryptocurrency is going to replace.
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  So I'm going to play this and then we'll talk about it.
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  Cryptocurrency does not seek to replace currency.
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  It's a bad name. Cryptocurrency seeks to replace
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  banking. The core things that banks have
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  done since the 1300s, those are going to go away 100%.
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  And and let's just be clear what I mean by that, the reason that
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  we even have banks, banks originated in Italy around the
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  year like 1340. All right.
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  And the reason they originated was because of a set of
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  accounting advances that allowed banks to serve as trusted
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  intermediaries between parties that owed each other money.
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  Before that, literally I would write you a note and I would
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  promise to pay you money and you'd put the note in your
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  pocket and you'd see if anybody else would take the note.
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  You know, that's that's why we prefer to discounting notes.
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  And then banks arose and it was like, you no longer need to do
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  that. We'll take care of it for you,
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  but you're going to have to pay us to do that.
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  That function of needing a trusted intermediary to maintain
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  ledgers of account to figure out do IO Brooks money or does
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  Brooks owe me money. It turns out that function no
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  longer has to be done by human beings, the same way we don't
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  need postal clerks anymore. I can send you an e-mail for
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  free and it's instant. And that's just the end of the
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  post office. Sorry, but it just is.
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  That function will go away. The the what's going to be left
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  for banks is the high value add services.
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  You know, structured finance, investment advisory, you know
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  all of the things that make a dynamic economy function.
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  We we still need people to do that.
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  There's a lot of creativity going on in finance.
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  But the core of banking, the base of the pyramid, the thing
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  that drives most of their revenue doesn't need to exist.
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  And that's why I say, and I was saying to one of the organizers
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  even before we set up on this panel, cryptocurrency does not
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  seek to replace currency. It's a bad name.
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  Cryptocurrency seeks to replace banking just if you take nothing
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  from this panel but that. That's what you need to
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  understand. I mean, and then, you know, he
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  might know what he's talking about.
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  Here's the title for the Office of the Control of the Currency.
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  The Office of the Control of the Currency charters, regulates and
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  supervises all national banks. It also supervises the federal
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  branches and agencies of foreign banks.
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  So I mean, pretty big statement and now it.
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  Now it's so clear in my mind why someone like Jamie Dimon, the
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  CEO of one of the world's largest bank, if not the world's
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  largest bank, why he's so hell bent against Bitcoin.
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  Like, it makes perfect sense now because he kind of walked it
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  back a little bit and he said like, Oh no, like there's still
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  going to be opportunities for banks.
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  And then he and then he like kind of doubled down.
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  He's like, but the bulk of their revenue is just going to
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  disappear. So if I was like someone like
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  Jamie Dimon, what's that saying, Opti, that we always say like,
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  you're not going to understand something that you're that
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  you're like, you're like your life, your living depends on.
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  So yeah, I mean, you know, if I was a container banker
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  benefiting off the Fiat parasitic system, I would
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  totally be against Bitcoin too. But I love Jack Mahler's the way
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  that he approached it. You know, he was dropping some
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  Epstein bombs in there and he was just basically saying, like,
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  I don't care what this person thinks.
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  So but fine, you might not care what this person thinks, but you
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  might not understand, you might not fully understand what his
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  motivations and what his reasonings are.
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  I think Brian Brooks explains it perfectly here.
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  And it's not just a Bitcoiner on the Internet, right?
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  This is someone who's in the top echelons of government and he
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  also worked in the private sector, you know very you know
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  in in big companies as well in the industry.
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  So this guy obviously knows what he's talking about and I I think
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  he hit the nail on the head. And I mean, it's obvious.
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  I mean we were talking about it like in the very part, very
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  first part, very beginning of the show.
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  Whereas basically saying like self custody and the ability for
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  people to transact peer-to-peer, it it just like it kind of makes
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  all of like, dude, like try sending a wire, Like sending a
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  wire. You have to pay $30.
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  You don't know why you're paying that $30.00, but it's always
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  this $30. Sometimes it's sometimes it
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  arrives the same day, the next day, you know, it arrives
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  sometimes this happened to me where it gets lost and you're
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  like, where is that? And then, you know, you call the
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  bank and you're like, Oh no, it's in compliance And you're
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  like what? What's going on there?
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  It's like compliance can't talk to you.
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  So like, it's like some weird kind of opaque system and the
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  moment you send Bitcoin on chain, it just clicks for you
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  because it's instantaneous, it's open, it's transparent.
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  The other person can't say I can't, I didn't get the wire
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  because you literally send them a link with the blockchain and
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  like the transaction, the TX ID and all that stuff and it's
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  like, it's there, bro. I sent it, right?
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  So I mean, yeah, I fundamentally agree with him.
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  I think that it is going to replace banking.
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  I think it's it makes their it destroys their business.
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  Like their business model kind of goes away, right?
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  If people could take self custody, if people don't need to
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  go through an institution to send a wire and people could
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  just do it peer-to-peer. Yeah it makes it go away.
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  So I agree with him. I agree with him and explains
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  why Jamie Dimon got so upset, got so butthurt.
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  Anyways, Opti, what's your take bro?
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  Yeah, well, I mean, look, Jamie Dimon.
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  Wait, what did Sean say? Jamie Demon.
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  He's not a dumb guy. I I am convinced now after
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  everything we've been talking about, you know for a long time,
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  you can make the case that these people just don't know what's
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  going on with Bitcoin. And and you can still make the
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  case that they probably don't understand Bitcoin on a
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  technical level, which most of us probably don't have.
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  You know a technical understanding like Bitcoin core
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  devs in general. But these people aren't dumb.
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  They understand what is at stake.
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  They understand what game's being played.
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  And if you route around them, you know the the quote, build a
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  parallel system that they cannot control.
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  Of course they're going to come out against Bitcoin because,
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  look, it's in the, it's in the first paragraph of the white
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  paper. Like the financial system that
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  we are using right now is based on a lot of trust and that is
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  based on a lot of trusted third parties.
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  Now Jamie Dimon is one of those trusted third parties.
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  Like, why? Why do we think that he's not
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  going to come out against Bitcoin when it literally will
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  eventually destroy his business model if he doesn't adopt
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  Bitcoin? So of course they don't want
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  competition and we know right now with what's going on in the
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  world, there is competition on the dollar and they don't want
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  to compete on the market and that's just where we are right
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  now. And you know, to that point of
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  Brian Brooks talking about in that clip, Bitcoin is just a
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  global digital Ledger that isn't controlled or manipulated by
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  anyone like say that that will eliminate banks or maybe it is a
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  currency. Like, I think it's besides the
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  point. It's like an uncontrollable
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  digital Ledger. Of course the banks out there
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  don't want you to use a Ledger that they can't control because
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  that's how they're able to make the profits.
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  That's how their business model is run, is by basically
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  manipulating text message and ledgers worldwide.
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  So of course, the trusted third parties don't want you to join a
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  monetary system that they cannot control.
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  And so as much as people still think and fall for the authority
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  fallacies out there, you know, Jamie Dimon is a well respected
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  person in the traditional financial world.
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  It's no, it's finance. Finance.
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  Yeah, sorry, we're getting. We're fancy, bro.
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  We're fancy now, of course. Of course he.
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  Say it Opti. Of course of course he's
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  incentivized to continue to gaslight the population out
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  there until of course you know they they get their bags packed
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  and and let's not forget guys, Jamie Dimon is an authorized
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  participant to the Black Rock Spot Bitcoin ETF.
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  So don't listen to what they're saying watch what they do and
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  I'm I'm convinced that these bankers out there they they got
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  to have some Bitcoin. I I don't think that they are
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  are as as dumb as we would like to make them out to be.
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  Like if they don't have Bitcoin directly they know what is going
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  on and they know why you want to hold some Bitcoin.
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  Maybe they're just totally entrenched in their business
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  models and and someone in our Telegram chat Nico played that
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  one Chrissy Lagarde clip that was like 2 years ago or whatever
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  about like the inflation and and expanding the balance sheet like
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  it will come down and it's so funny.
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  In In Due time. In due time it'll come down and
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  it's just so funny that that she had to very directly be like
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  there is no cryptocurrencies on the EC BS balance sheet and
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  it's. Like she's kind of she was kind
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  of snappy about it it. Kind of a little bit.
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  It's 'cause you you got to know that they are getting asked
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  about this constantly. So every banker in the world, as
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  far as I'm concerned, at least these big bankers, obviously
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  they're incentivized to not embrace Bitcoin because we know
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  the playbook guys, you FUD Bitcoin, you stack your bags and
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  then once you have your position, you start to endorse
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  Bitcoin. And we are in the then the
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  Endorse Bitcoin part of the journey.
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  So oh man, it's so awesome being a Bitcoin.
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  Anyways, let's get Josh Josh's take on this.
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  Yeah, well, kudos to Brian P Brooks for saying the quiet part
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  out loud. It's not something that Jamie
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  Dimon he needs to know. He already knows it.
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  But I think a lot of people who are listening to Brian, they
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  probably haven't ever thought about Bitcoin as something
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  besides a currency because we use the term cryptocurrency.
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  But replacing the banks is something that, you know, there
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  are a lot of ways that could happen.
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  I liked his example of letters versus e-mail.
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  People still today like sending letters to their friends and
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  their loved ones from time to time.
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  It's, you know, romantic, idyllic, quaint.
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  In the future, you know, Who knows?
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  I I doubt it because last time I went to the bank, I hated having
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  to go through the the hoops of sending a wire transfer.
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  But, you know, maybe in the future people will want to send
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  a wire transfer as a way to kind of relive the old days.
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  But I'm thankful for what Bitcoin is at least making
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  possible for people now, and it's great to be seeing all
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  these new services that are being provided to Bitcoiners
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  like on a consistent basis. And I think it's just ramping up
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  like 2024-2025. We're going to keep on seeing
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  the businesses that have already been going for a while continue
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  to grow and some really cool projects I'm sure are going to
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  be just over the horizon. Couldn't agree more.
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  Wait, wait. Before we go on Josh saying that
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  people will be using wire bank wires, like just just for
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  nostalgic reasons. It's like us pulling up a
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  landline. Like Oh my God dude, telephones
• 19:39
  are connected to the wall. This is amazing.
• 19:42
  Well, and so he people look back like, you know, you there's
• 19:45
  stuff on social media every once in a while people will be like,
• 19:47
  oh, this is a really cool thing they used to have.
• 19:49
  I think it's mainly a joke. At the same time, you can look
• 19:52
  back at the past and say, oh, that was really cool.
• 19:54
  Like, I wish we could go back and have some retro vibes.
• 19:57
  But at the same time, it's good to remember there's a reason we
• 20:01
  moved past old technology and moved on to new things,
• 20:06
  especially if it's what the market demanded.
• 20:08
  You know, you could say central banking is not necessarily
• 20:10
  something that the market demanded.
• 20:11
  We have it for now. But I think, I think that
• 20:14
  there's just going to be a lot of really cool stuff that's
• 20:16
  built in the future. And people might go back to the
• 20:18
  old ways just for fun, for a little little time, but they'll
• 20:21
  always go back to the newer and. Better tech.
• 20:23
  It's like, yo, what are you doing this weekend?
• 20:24
  I'm going to send a wire bro. OK.
• 20:28
  Last last time I was at the bank to send a wire transfer, I asked
• 20:31
  the guy if he ever thought about using Bitcoin.
• 20:34
  Whatever else, you know, like your thought about incorporating
• 20:36
  Bitcoin into banking or like looking at it for collateral for
• 20:39
  a loan. And the way that he looked at me
• 20:42
  and responded to me, I knew he was just thinking this, this
• 20:45
  poor idiot. You know, he doesn't know what
• 20:47
  he's talking about. And in that moment I was like,
• 20:49
  either he's really wrong or I'm really wrong.
• 20:52
  But those two perspectives? Not necessarily the two people.
• 20:54
  But those two perspectives can't coexist in the long term.
• 20:58
  Yeah, And and that's a really good observation and I'm glad
• 21:01
  that you brought that up, 'cause I remember the first couple
• 21:03
  years in Bitcoin, I would bring it up to everyone, anyone that I
• 21:08
  thought had some type of financial authority.
• 21:10
  So like friends of mine that worked in, you know, it's for
• 21:14
  for wealth management, banks and all that stuff, you know, going
• 21:18
  to my local bank, right. And go in there and be like,
• 21:21
  what do you think of Bitcoin? And the the reactions are always
• 21:24
  different, right? Some, some people are like, I
• 21:26
  love Bitcoin and then some people are like, no, I didn't
• 21:29
  say the government is going to ban it or something like.
• 21:32
  But Long story short, the TLDR is that in my you know, I I
• 21:37
  don't do this anymore. But in my six or five years of
• 21:40
  doing 5 to 6 years of doing this, I never ran into one
• 21:44
  person that gave me a good reason as to why Bitcoin was a
• 21:49
  bad idea or as to why this thing wouldn't work.
• 21:51
  It was always like like repeating the rhetoric that they
• 21:55
  saw and heard on TV or just the like the same old BS kind of
• 22:03
  talking points. Or I could just tell that they
• 22:05
  don't understand what's happening, but it was never cuz
• 22:07
  they actually gave me a good reason.
• 22:10
  So that's just that's interesting.
• 22:12
  I mean, like, it's very simple. Like if you use Bitcoin and then
• 22:17
  you go to a bank, you're like, wait, which one is easier to
• 22:20
  use? It's just like it's Bitcoin.
• 22:23
  It's very obvious that it's way easier once you actually
• 22:25
  experience it. Bitcoin is so much simpler than
• 22:30
  going to it. Like you don't even have to
• 22:31
  leave your house to move your money.
• 22:32
  Like who doesn't want to not go to a bank and move your money
• 22:35
  around it. It's so much simpler.
• 22:37
  It's actually amazing that people think it's complicated.
• 22:40
  I'm not really convinced that like what we have to do, the
• 22:42
  hurdles we have to go through at banks, like we don't even need
• 22:45
  those. But it's just they've been able
• 22:46
  to make it as difficult as they want and have as many standards
• 22:50
  as they want. I'll be interested to see if
• 22:52
  there's as Bitcoin becomes more competitive as as the the
• 22:55
  banking world sees Bitcoin as more of a competitor, if they
• 22:58
  begin to make things a little bit easier to try to compete
• 23:01
  with Bitcoin. You know, I think that we all
• 23:03
  know that any anyone or anything that tries to go head to head
• 23:05
  with Bitcoin doesn't tend to win out.
• 23:08
  But it'll be interesting to see if banks try to to improve the
• 23:11
  user experience over time as they get a little scared.
• 23:14
  Like a little more scared than they already are.
• 23:16
  Well, Josh, don't, don't, don't forget they're trying to roll
• 23:18
  out the Fed now. So they they're already working
• 23:21
  on it. Yeah, that's a that's a a shade
• 23:24
  of a shade of Bitcoin. You're here for digital
• 23:26
  payments. Your digital payments need to be
• 23:28
  better people. More efficient digital payments,
• 23:31
  bro. This is not about Bitcoin.
• 23:33
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• 23:48
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• 23:50
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  we are going to cover this topic.
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  So yeah, let's talk about the space cat and let's talk about
• 26:03
  what's going on. So of course, we all know Craig
• 26:06
  Wright. He sued multiple people for
• 26:10
  essentially calling him fake Satoshi.
• 26:13
  And you know, Hodelnot and Peter McCormack had to spend a lot of
• 26:17
  their own money, a lot. The Bitcoin community supported
• 26:20
  them. But it seems like, you know it,
• 26:23
  it seems like there is a, there's a, there's a final
• 26:25
  conclusion to this. So we're going to get to the
• 26:29
  space cat in a little bit. But Peter McCormack also sued by
• 26:34
  Craig Wright. And here's the thing about the
• 26:36
  UK and a lot of these jurisdictions is it does, It's
• 26:40
  not like the US, right? In the US, it's very difficult
• 26:43
  to sue someone else because of their speech.
• 26:45
  But the UK specifically is notorious for their libel law,
• 26:49
  to the point that the Obama administration actually had to
• 26:51
  pass a law to protect American citizens from that law, right.
• 26:57
  So Craig Wright used the UK system to go after anyone that
• 27:03
  said that he was fake Satoshi, one of them being Peter
• 27:08
  McCormack, one of them being the space cat Hoddle.
• 27:10
  Not so. That whole saga lasted at least
• 27:14
  a couple. I mean, it was a very long, I
• 27:16
  mean, look, five years of hell specifically.
• 27:19
  And I remember when it started and shout out to Peter McCormack
• 27:22
  for holding it through, but it seems like it's all done now.
• 27:25
  Seems like it's over. So this is what McCormack said.
• 27:28
  He says. My lawyers have just confirmed
• 27:30
  that Craig Wright has had his final appeal denied by the
• 27:34
  Supreme Court. It is over.
• 27:36
  I won. Welcome to law, Mother Effer.
• 27:38
  Permission to appeal was refused by three Supreme Court justices.
• 27:42
  Lord Briggs, Lady Rose, Lord Richards, on grounds the appeal
• 27:46
  did not raise an arguable question of law.
• 27:49
  This is the end of the line for Wright's substantive claim
• 27:52
  against me. Five years of hell over a small
• 27:55
  amount of hell to deal with on cost.
• 27:57
  Still, but we did it. I have so many people to thank,
• 28:00
  my lawyers, my brother, hot or not, and all the people who
• 28:02
  reached out with support, the people who helped with some of
• 28:06
  the cost. You know who you are.
• 28:07
  And now we turn to our brothers, Hot or not, Cobra, Bitcoin and
• 28:11
  the businesses and developers still under attack.
• 28:13
  No mercy. Let's finish them.
• 28:16
  Absolutely, absolutely. Hit the nail on the head.
• 28:20
  And here is hot or not. And he said, and there is this.
• 28:23
  And there is the settlement offer.
• 28:25
  Curious timing that it would come just after the latest bunch
• 28:28
  batch of evidence was dismantled.
• 28:30
  PS there is no way Copa will accept this.
• 28:33
  It's ridiculous. And yeah, Copa did not accept
• 28:36
  the quote UN quote settlement and their reasonings were
• 28:41
  actually pretty good. So let me pull that up in a
• 28:43
  second. This is quite entertaining to
• 28:48
  read. Wow.
• 28:51
  Nico's not only low energy, but he's unprepared for today's Show
• 28:55
  I. Can't find it.
• 29:00
  I tell you what you can see the the passion from Peter coming
• 29:02
  through and that I saw that earlier today and I feel bad for
• 29:06
  him. He's really gone through a lot
• 29:07
  and I guess I've seen more of his than huddle knots, but it's
• 29:11
  great that it's starting to come to an, yeah, I mean, final
• 29:14
  close, right? It just took a very long time.
• 29:17
  But yeah, it's finally coming full circle, which I think is a
• 29:20
  good thing. Here's COPPA and it says hard
• 29:23
  pass on that quote settlement, just like Craig Wright forges
• 29:26
  documents and doesn't quite tell the truth.
• 29:29
  His description of the settlement offer isn't quite
• 29:31
  accurate either. It comes with loopholes that
• 29:34
  would allow him to sue people all over again, right.
• 29:38
  So I mean, is this the conclusion, this is it over?
• 29:43
  I don't know. But you know, I, I, I, I, I
• 29:46
  don't know. I don't know what?
• 29:47
  I don't know. What I got to say, dude, about
• 29:49
  this whole saga, like when it was happening, I personally, I
• 29:53
  don't believe Craig Wright is Satoshi.
• 29:55
  All he had to do is just sign an address that he quote, UN quote,
• 29:59
  you know, that people know that belonged to Satoshi and he could
• 30:02
  have signed it and proven that he had those keys.
• 30:06
  Therefore, there's a high probability that he was Satoshi
• 30:09
  and he and he didn't. He never did.
• 30:12
  He had the opportunity to. There was multiple judges in
• 30:16
  multiple jurisdictions, 2 in Europe and one in the United
• 30:20
  States, that the three of them not simply Bitcoin but those
• 30:23
  judges called him a liar, essentially that he
• 30:26
  misrepresented the data. And then not to mention the fact
• 30:30
  that how anti Bitcoin is that behavior where you're
• 30:34
  essentially trying to silence someone else's speech because
• 30:37
  they disagree with you and you're trying to tell me that is
• 30:40
  Satoshi Nakamoto, that is so anti Bitcoin.
• 30:44
  That is like the opposite of what Bitcoin represents.
• 30:46
  So it's multiple reasons why I don't believe he is Satoshi and
• 30:50
  and I think that he used, you know, his business partnerships
• 30:54
  and his relationships to kind of try to bully certain
• 30:58
  influential, influential bitcoiners into silence, which
• 31:01
  is just total bullshit. I'm glad that it had a great
• 31:05
  resolution, but it took five years, you know, five years.
• 31:09
  It's a big percentage of your lifetime fighting this.
• 31:12
  So I think, you know, you know it 50 years from now, you won't
• 31:16
  regret that you did this. I think it's like, you know,
• 31:18
  it's part of part of Bitcoin's history and all that.
• 31:21
  But I'm sure that it wasn't uncomfortable.
• 31:23
  I'm sure that it was very uncomfortable to go through.
• 31:26
  And there was points where Peter even said that this almost
• 31:28
  brought me on the verge of bankruptcy, right.
• 31:31
  You know, I had to spend a lot of money just to deal with this.
• 31:34
  And you know, Peter has a pretty successful podcast.
• 31:37
  He's in that position where you know, he might have that income
• 31:40
  to necessarily to pay those legal bills.
• 31:43
  But imagine if you didn't have that, like imagine if you didn't
• 31:46
  have that wealth. Imagine if you didn't have that
• 31:48
  situation he could have silenced you into, He could have, you
• 31:52
  know, like essentially forced you into silence, which I think
• 31:55
  is crazy, you know that that that mechanism is still exist in
• 31:59
  today's world. Anyways, Opti, what's your take
• 32:01
  on this? Yeah, well to be honest, like I
• 32:05
  am kind of surprised that this has been dragged out for so long
• 32:08
  and I'm, I'm glad that we can finally like close this chapter
• 32:11
  and put it behind us. As you know, quote UN quote
• 32:13
  community it. It is really amazing that Craig
• 32:18
  Wright has been able to run this affinity scam for this long and
• 32:22
  and actually like dupe a lot of people into believing he is
• 32:25
  Satoshi and then the like BSV cult out there.
• 32:28
  It's absolutely amazing that people still believe that he's
• 32:31
  Satoshi after everything that's came out and like we can fill up
• 32:35
  a whole show probably of just all of the things that prove he
• 32:39
  isn't. But you know people people
• 32:41
  really do want a saviour. And personally what's this
• 32:44
  saying? I forget who said it first but
• 32:46
  like if you see Satoshi on the road, kill him as like the play
• 32:48
  on the Buddhist meme. I I just, I don't think it
• 32:52
  really matters and I don't understand why someone would
• 32:54
  want to come out as Satoshi. Like it's, you know, Satoshi
• 32:58
  left for a reason and it was when what Gavin went to speak
• 33:03
  about Bitcoin at the CIA, like you would not want to come out
• 33:05
  as Satoshi. And it really makes you wonder
• 33:07
  why his what his incentives are to do this.
• 33:11
  I mean, most people would just say he's like a narcissist, but
• 33:13
  to get? People to buy BSV.
• 33:15
  Yeah, of course. You know, of course, like
• 33:18
  Satoshi's vision, Bitcoin Satoshi's vision like.
• 33:20
  You know. It's in the name.
• 33:22
  Shouts out to the space Cat and Peter and and even Cobra
• 33:26
  everyone that had to deal with this because it really if this
• 33:30
  if this attack worked it would really set a a terrible
• 33:34
  precedent for the Bitcoin community in general.
• 33:37
  And like the fact that bit you know you we there's a lot of
• 33:40
  contention on bitcoin.org. But like the fact that they
• 33:43
  can't put the white paper on that website or you can't even
• 33:46
  put the white paper in the UK right now and host it on your
• 33:48
  website like it's absolutely crazy that we have gotten to
• 33:51
  this point. So hopefully we can finally
• 33:53
  close this chapter and this story and moving forward.
• 33:57
  No one would ever make the mistake of trying to come out as
• 33:59
  Satoshi. Just it just makes no like
• 34:02
  there's there's no no sense to this unless it is to affinity
• 34:06
  scam with your own shit coin. So hopefully this chapter can
• 34:10
  finally close, but we'll see what happens anyways.
• 34:13
  Josh what's up? Yeah, I don't have a whole lot
• 34:16
  to add here. It's like I'm pretty sure I saw
• 34:18
  something in the past about some BSV Ers kind of distancing
• 34:21
  themselves from Craig Wright. If so, that's great.
• 34:24
  I just don't pay attention to it.
• 34:26
  I have paid attention to some of the legal issues.
• 34:29
  One thing that I think I would I would rather after all of this
• 34:33
  is like having to experience something in the United States
• 34:36
  as opposed to the United Kingdom or or other places.
• 34:38
  It seems like their legal system is so different and probably a
• 34:42
  lot harder to defend yourself in.
• 34:43
  So yeah, I I don't have a whole lot of other things to add
• 34:47
  besides that, but it will be. I feel like people care less and
• 34:50
  less about who's Satoshi Nakamoto is.
• 34:51
  Maybe. As more people.
• 34:53
  It doesn't matter. I'm wondering, I'm wondering if
• 34:56
  it changes as more people kind of come into Bitcoin 'cause I
• 34:59
  think anyone who comes in this, like they ask that question at
• 35:01
  first, right? I I think it like the more the
• 35:05
  the more Bitcoin gets bigger, the more I hope Satoshi never
• 35:09
  comes back because I think human beings have a tendency to like
• 35:14
  put like the fact that Bitcoin's beginnings are so mythological
• 35:21
  really play into the story of Bitcoin's creation.
• 35:25
  I think that once you put a human being behind it, I think
• 35:29
  it it kind of tarnishes the image a little bit.
• 35:32
  It it affects it right? It it puts a mortal behind what
• 35:35
  is happening, right? But I think that if you separate
• 35:38
  the two and it's just this anonymous name, no one knows
• 35:41
  what the fuck he looks like, you know, it's I guess it's
• 35:44
  Japanese, you know, no one can really fucking explain it.
• 35:49
  It like adds to the mystery of it.
• 35:51
  And I would say that's very, very unique to Bitcoin because
• 35:53
  every other shit coin, every other, all coin, the founder is
• 35:57
  still in the picture and you know who created it and they got
• 36:00
  a pre, mine, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
• 36:03
  Satoshi disappeared. And that was like, if not the
• 36:06
  most important thing he did, or the second most important thing
• 36:09
  he did behind creating Bitcoin itself.
• 36:11
  We're discovering Bitcoin depending on if you ask.
• 36:13
  If they don't have it out yet, you know History Channel's going
• 36:15
  to come out with a banger at that point on Satoshi Nakamoto
• 36:17
  is, and it's going to be an alien.
• 36:21
  Well well to to Josh's point though Niko.
• 36:23
  To Josh's point though, like it is very interesting that new
• 36:26
  entrants that coming to Bitcoin, like it's always that's like one
• 36:30
  of their earliest questions like who is Satoshi?
• 36:33
  And then when you tell them like, Oh, no one knows.
• 36:35
  It's it surprises me that people get scared of like, oh wait, we
• 36:38
  don't know the creators. And we're like, no, like, that's
• 36:41
  a good thing because you can't go to a certain person to shut
• 36:44
  down this whole thing. But it's very interesting when
• 36:47
  you get into just like a new Coiners and like mindset of
• 36:52
  getting into Bitcoin. They're like, wait, we don't
• 36:53
  know who created this. Maybe, maybe it's like the NSA
• 36:57
  or something. It's like they created the
• 36:59
  Internet, bro. Like you still use it and you
• 37:00
  don't care. Like, it doesn't matter who
• 37:02
  created Bitcoin. And I think like I said,
• 37:05
  hopefully moving forward we can continue to just like beat that
• 37:08
  in people's heads metaphorically that like it doesn't matter
• 37:11
  matter who created Bitcoin. It is a network and it runs and
• 37:14
  you can verify the code for yourself and and run a node for
• 37:17
  yourself and and just follow the rules and it doesn't matter who
• 37:20
  created this. A hundred 100%.
• 37:23
  Well, matters are the the someone said it in the chat.
• 37:26
  Satoshi doesn't matter. The ideas and principles of
• 37:29
  Bitcoin matter. I 100% agree with that statement
• 37:31
  and other news to kind of wrap up the Newsweek this week
• 37:34
  because we had a lot of stuff. It's a great Newsweek, great
• 37:37
  news cycle week. So Swan Bitcoin launches, Swan
• 37:41
  mining out of stealth mode, goes on to say this is part of the
• 37:46
  announcement on X. We've been working hard on a big
• 37:49
  opportunity that came our way last year and today we're
• 37:52
  excited to bring our mining operation out of stealth mode.
• 37:55
  Swan mining began operations in summer 2023, currently operates
• 38:00
  at 4.5 XA hash with deployment expected to exceed 8 XA hash by
• 38:04
  March. Over 750 Bitcoin mine to date,
• 38:09
  Swan Mining developed and deployed at warp speed.
• 38:11
  Our understanding is that this is the fastest ever initial
• 38:14
  development of hash rate at the scale in Bitcoin history, said
• 38:18
  Hoffa Zaghuri, a chief investor, chief investment officer at Swan
• 38:22
  and head of Swan Mining. Quote.
• 38:23
  SWAN expanded dramatically over the past year, doubling team
• 38:27
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• 38:31
  The company intends to raise its Series C financing in the in the
• 38:35
  next in the coming months with uses of capital equally split
• 38:39
  between financial services, mining and acquisitions was
• 38:43
  stated in the press release. Swan founder and CEO Corey
• 38:46
  Clipson also said that quote the company is actively working to
• 38:50
  achieve a public listing within the next 12 months.
• 38:54
  So I mean this is crazy. I think I saw the some of the
• 38:58
  right here it says it on the top.
• 38:59
  We're mining at 4.5 XA hashes, cloning it, closing in, closing
• 39:03
  in on 1% of the network with equipment in hand to ramp it up
• 39:08
  to 8X hashes. So I mean huge announcement from
• 39:11
  Swan, a lot of people are kind of wondering where you know
• 39:16
  where this money came from. I saw, I saw it on Rabbit Hole
• 39:20
  recap and I saw some of of Bitcoin Twitter speculating that
• 39:24
  maybe it came from tether, I don't know.
• 39:26
  I'm sure we'll kind of find out over the next couple months more
• 39:29
  details as this comes out and but pretty big win for Swan and
• 39:34
  you know 1% of the network, I think that's that's a big
• 39:37
  accomplishment. But I think a lot of people
• 39:39
  still have certain questions about the operation, not to
• 39:42
  mention the fact that they pulled this, I mean Hoffa really
• 39:47
  addressed this, but they pulled this off very, very quickly.
• 39:50
  It's not so easy to deploy miners very, very quickly.
• 39:53
  So, but I'm sure like I said, they're going to answer a lot of
• 39:56
  these questions are going to be answered in the next couple of
• 39:58
  months as more information becomes public.
• 40:01
  So anyways, Opti, did this surprise you at all?
• 40:04
  Yeah, I mean like coming out of stealth mode with that much hash
• 40:09
  power is absolutely incredible. And the and the fact that
• 40:12
  they're going for 1% of total hash, like that's that's huge.
• 40:15
  So you know, me personally, I don't ever root against Bitcoin
• 40:19
  only companies. And you know, I I wish Swan the
• 40:22
  best. But like coming out of stealth
• 40:25
  mode with that much hash power and then claiming they're going
• 40:28
  to get even more like basically doubling their hash power by
• 40:31
  what like the end of this year something like absolutely crazy
• 40:34
  crazy stuff happening over there.
• 40:36
  So again you know I'm just I'm reading the news like everyone
• 40:39
  else is like oh snap you know four point what was it 4.5 XA
• 40:43
  hash is released like out of nowhere and and just the amount
• 40:47
  of I don't know work and capital it must have took to deploy that
• 40:52
  that much hash power is just it's crazy and then come out of
• 40:56
  stealth mode right now and and then kind of wanting to acquire
• 40:59
  more it's like wow they're they're building something huge
• 41:03
  over there and it's it's going to be incredible to watch moving
• 41:05
  forward. Well, I think I saw that, Corey
• 41:07
  said. Is that 4.75 now?
• 41:09
  So wow, that's pretty cool. Now I I don't know their numbers
• 41:13
  and I don't think that they've shared them, but it'll be
• 41:15
  interesting to see how they they deal with this going into the
• 41:18
  halving. It's not an easy time for
• 41:20
  minors. And so I guess you know, they've
• 41:22
  been going at it for a while now.
• 41:23
  They've just publicly disclosed it.
• 41:25
  But it'll be interesting to see what happens with the halving
• 41:28
  and how effective of a business this is for them or at least an
• 41:31
  arm of their business going into April, May, June.
• 41:34
  You know, I guess in the near future, as the price will likely
• 41:39
  appreciate, it won't be as tough.
• 41:41
  But I know right around the halving can be really difficult
• 41:43
  for a lot of minors a. 100% and. And well the one question I have
• 41:47
  are they using ocean? As their pool or what's doing
• 41:50
  now. So we're just recently reading
• 41:53
  the press release. We know as much as everyone else
• 41:57
  that press release is. I tried to do as much research
• 42:00
  as possible in terms of the reaction from the community and
• 42:03
  the general consensus was like like where they raise that
• 42:07
  money. Some people were speculating
• 42:09
  that it came from Tether. Magoo was like basically putting
• 42:12
  these things, basically saying that Tether was that he was like
• 42:16
  connecting the dots between a Tether press release months ago
• 42:19
  and the the Swan press release. But again, that's all
• 42:21
  speculation. We don't know anything for
• 42:23
  certain, but I'm sure that more details will come to light as
• 42:28
  the days goes on. But I mean you know if you take
• 42:31
  the press release at press value, this is a big win for
• 42:34
  Swan. You know, a lot of hash, right?
• 42:36
  And again, you want Bitcoin companies to succeed like you
• 42:39
  want more hash rate coming online that that is, these are
• 42:42
  all things that are good for Bitcoin, right.
• 42:44
  So but yeah, like I said all the I'm sure a lot of this stuff
• 42:48
  will be covered and we'll we'll give you guys an update once we
• 42:51
  wait. Let's read this comments Justin
• 42:54
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• 42:57
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  All right, let's go, Josh. So again, maybe just start with
• 44:58
  what slices again and then we'll get into some of this nitty
• 45:00
  gritty and expose our audience to why they might want to add
• 45:04
  slice to their browser. Sure.
• 45:07
  So the basic idea for Slice is that you know when you're
• 45:11
  browsing online, you're being advertised to all the time.
• 45:14
  Or you block ads. You know, 40% of the Internet
• 45:16
  uses an ad blocker. I'm one of that 40% and Slice
• 45:20
  basically comes in and says, hey, if we share our revenue
• 45:23
  with you, would you be interested in seeing ads.
• 45:26
  So Slice has really been grown across 2023 into 2024.
• 45:30
  We have 550,000 downloads as of a couple days ago and anytime.
• 45:35
  Well, once you install the it's a Chrome extension.
• 45:37
  You can get it on other browsers as well, but once you install
• 45:41
  it, you'll start seeing ads from Slice and every time you see an
• 45:44
  ad, you're going to get what we call a slice, which I will say
• 45:47
  is not a token. It's just kind of the way we
• 45:49
  denominate how much you have on using slice.
• 45:55
  But each each slice is 1/10 of a penny and you can either take
• 46:00
  that whenever you're ready, get the payout in USD or in Bitcoin.
• 46:04
  And 75 to 80% of people prefer SAT's, which is pretty cool.
• 46:10
  You know, talking about Bitcoin evangelism and trying to reach
• 46:13
  10 million people. I think that this is a great
• 46:16
  tool across the next couple of years especially to encourage
• 46:21
  people to get Bitcoin. It's one of those things where
• 46:24
  they haven't paid for necessarily, but whenever it
• 46:26
  comes time to cash out the slices, they see that they can
• 46:30
  either get a 4% cut if they want dollars via PayPal or using the
• 46:34
  Lightning Network, they can get Bitcoin and they don't lose any
• 46:38
  of their money to fees. So it's a pretty cool thing.
• 46:41
  I will also say if you're a business and you want to run
• 46:44
  ads, this is as far as I know, the only way across all of the
• 46:48
  advertising industry to actually be able to advertise to people
• 46:53
  with ad blockers. Because people have said hey, I
• 46:56
  have an ad blocker, but I'm happy to see ads if I'm getting
• 46:59
  paid. Interesting.
• 47:02
  All right, so just to be clear, like where is the ad money
• 47:04
  coming from? Is like Google ads like.
• 47:07
  Yeah, so, so right now we're we're partnered with you know
• 47:10
  there's a company like Tabula, they they send ads and we'll
• 47:14
  show those ads. But what I was brought on to the
• 47:17
  team to do is develop relationships with Bitcoin
• 47:20
  companies. That's who I'm reaching out to
• 47:22
  right now. But eventually like direct to
• 47:23
  consumer companies, all these other companies and they would
• 47:27
  pay us for ads and whenever we get that money when someone sees
• 47:29
  it and then we just split the ad revenue 5050 with the user.
• 47:33
  Now Roman asked a great question Sound, he says sounds like a
• 47:36
  token. Why not just denominate it in
• 47:38
  SAT's? Well it's not a token because
• 47:40
  you can't really trade it. It's just a way that the it's
• 47:43
  denominated as a bitcoiner. I wish it was denominated in
• 47:47
  Bitcoin, but the prize appreciation can really I guess
• 47:51
  catch people off guard potentially.
• 47:53
  So unless we kept all of our ad revenue in Bitcoin that would
• 47:59
  that could really mess this up, especially across the next
• 48:01
  couple of years. But yeah, it's the Brave browser
• 48:04
  is one of those things that they have their attention token or
• 48:07
  whatever it's called, essentially slices like Brave,
• 48:10
  but we're browser agnostic and instead of getting a scam token
• 48:15
  that you're never going to use, you can get stats.
• 48:19
  So that's I'm really excited about the opportunity to orange
• 48:22
  peel a bunch of people as they say, hey, I'm ready to cash out
• 48:25
  and see that they can save some money if they go into Bitcoin.
• 48:29
  Love it. And we had a question here and
• 48:31
  I'll pull up the numbers here. So what kind of revenue we
• 48:33
  talking here? Let's incentivize the users out
• 48:36
  there. So if if I do my job well, the
• 48:39
  users are going to be making more money.
• 48:42
  I I've, I've been using it across the last, you know, I
• 48:44
  think I said like 6-7, eight, eight months.
• 48:47
  I think it was last fall I was talking to Mike Jarmus and he
• 48:51
  told me about it. I downloaded it.
• 48:53
  I just cashed out recently and got like 16,000 SAT's.
• 48:57
  So it's one of those things you're not going to make a lot
• 48:59
  of money. It's it's a small way to thank
• 49:03
  you for your attention, but as I create more relationships with
• 49:08
  businesses, then we actually get more money from that direct
• 49:11
  relationship because we're not working with the middleman and
• 49:15
  so users are going to be making more money as I succeed in my
• 49:19
  part of the job. Love it.
• 49:21
  I mean, it kind of like goes to show that it's just like free
• 49:24
  money on the table. Like it's just there and you're
• 49:27
  now you get paid for it. And if you prefer, if you prefer
• 49:30
  privacy, like if you want to use your ad blocker, go for it.
• 49:34
  Once I found out about Slice before joining the company, I
• 49:37
  thought to myself, if I can get some Sats for seeing some ads,
• 49:40
  I'm happy to do it. So it's one of those things that
• 49:43
  if if if you want to keep your privacy and you want to keep on
• 49:45
  using your ad blocker and never see ads, Nope, no shame in that.
• 49:49
  But if you want to make a little bit of money slices your
• 49:52
  opportunity. Yeah, I love it.
• 49:54
  I I was going to ask you that. Like our audience is generally
• 49:58
  privacy concerned. So what?
• 50:00
  What are the privacy implications here?
• 50:02
  Yeah. So if you go to this, one of
• 50:04
  those things that would be probably pretty boring to talk
• 50:07
  about, we're going to treat you. Obviously we have to, you know,
• 50:12
  have some some data to show you ads, but we don't have like
• 50:16
  cookie tracking or anything like that.
• 50:18
  We use your IP and if you want to really kind of get into the
• 50:21
  nitty gritty of what what it means to use slice, we have ad
• 50:26
  slice.com/transparency. That page is going to be not the
• 50:31
  mumbo jumbo, but some pretty straightforward things connected
• 50:35
  to targeting identifiers, activity, location, all these
• 50:38
  things. So if you wanted to read up on
• 50:40
  that adslice.com/transparency is going to be the best place to do
• 50:45
  that. I feel like talking talking
• 50:47
  through every single one of these might be a little
• 50:49
  laborious, but we try to be pretty upfront with people like
• 50:52
  you have to have some data to advertise.
• 50:54
  But I Google's a black box and question is do you want if if
• 51:00
  you're going to be seeing ads, do you want Google or do you
• 51:02
  want slice? And for me, I've decided slice.
• 51:06
  Love it. Love it.
• 51:07
  OK, next next topic. You are also a content creator.
• 51:11
  Why would content creators want to add slice?
• 51:16
  Well so the the creator thing right now is just for Twitch.
• 51:19
  I think something like Simply Bitcoin will be great once we
• 51:21
  add YouTube. But basically for creators, we
• 51:26
  we've partnered with creators once again over on Twitch, and
• 51:29
  if they're a slice creator, every listener of theirs or
• 51:35
  every, you know, subscriber, whatever else that that is a
• 51:39
  user of slice whenever they're watching, for instance.
• 51:42
  Simply, simply Bitcoin. Simply Bitcoin gets slices half
• 51:46
  the revenue. So remember, like slice splits
• 51:49
  revenue with the user 5050. But Slice, the company says,
• 51:53
  hey, simply Bitcoin. If you're going to be promoting
• 51:55
  us to your audience, we're going to give you our half of the
• 51:58
  revenue when someone's watching your channel.
• 52:02
  OK, yeah, we we do have a twitch, so no one knows we have
• 52:04
  a twitch. We have one person over on
• 52:07
  Twitch right now, shouts out to the Twitch person.
• 52:09
  But yeah, no one knows we're on Twitch.
• 52:11
  So, so if if you're if you wanted to try it out with your
• 52:14
  with your 1 user and you convince them to actually use
• 52:18
  slice, and every time they're seeing an ad, you're going to
• 52:20
  get slices 50%, we figure it's a great way to get in front of new
• 52:24
  audiences and also to be able to give back to the creator.
• 52:27
  Is it KYC? Do you have to put in your ID to
• 52:30
  start receiving SATS? So you have to you have to sign
• 52:33
  up for slice like the the extension, but it's just an L
• 52:37
  and URL so it just pops up and you you know, scan the QR code
• 52:42
  and you got sats. OK, all right, so it's no KYC or
• 52:46
  nothing. You just gotta put in your
• 52:47
  e-mail and like make an account and all that stuff.
• 52:50
  Yeah, yeah. So it's like a go to the Chrome
• 52:52
  Extension store. Look up slice.
• 52:53
  There's also a Slice tab, which is a separate extension because
• 52:56
  of some technical things I'm not well versed in.
• 52:59
  But every time you open up a new tab, you see an ad and you get
• 53:03
  some slices for that as well. So it's kind of a nice little
• 53:06
  thing to get some extra money. Now there's also tracks, you
• 53:09
  know, people, we're tracking people's activity to where if
• 53:12
  you're just like sitting there opening tabs all day, then
• 53:15
  you're going to get a shadow ban.
• 53:16
  But that's it's it's kind of a nice little thing and eventually
• 53:19
  just like what what they do on Brave, we want to have like an
• 53:21
  entire page that's an ad for you know, whatever company like, you
• 53:26
  know, Swan River, any any of these types of companies.
• 53:28
  I think it'd be super cool to be able to just have like an entire
• 53:31
  ad that encourages people to get on a Bitcoin only exchange.
• 53:35
  Because when I came to Bitcoin in 2021 it was through skip the
• 53:39
  crypto stuff all together. I I had great Bitcoin only,
• 53:42
  Bitcoin only education and explanation from the beginning
• 53:45
  and I went and bought Bitcoin from a Bitcoin only platform.
• 53:48
  So the more I can do that and the more I can help people do
• 53:50
  that, the better. Yeah, I love it.
• 53:52
  Love it, dude. Shouts out to our one Twitch
• 53:55
  streamer. Maybe you want to add slice?
• 53:57
  We appreciate it. All right, Josh, let's let's do
• 54:02
  a little pivot before we get into the meme review, guys,
• 54:04
  because I did bring a meme in. It's Friday.
• 54:07
  You, you are a content creator and you are working on some
• 54:10
  other stuff. So let's plug that What's a
• 54:13
  business? Bitcoin Ization is Your Pod or
• 54:17
  What's That podcast? Yep, yeah, Podcast.
• 54:20
  And I just actually came out with an episode with the guys
• 54:22
  from the Bitcoin Film Fest today.
• 54:23
  So if you want to check that out, it's pretty cool.
• 54:25
  They're, you know, getting together.
• 54:26
  The next Bitcoin Film Fest is going to happen during the
• 54:28
  European having party, but business bitcoinization.
• 54:30
  Check it out on Fountain. I saw Torp huddle earlier
• 54:33
  commenting. He's a listener.
• 54:34
  He supports on Fountain sometimes.
• 54:36
  So thank you Torp, for that. Yeah.
• 54:38
  Basically when I came into the Bitcoin space, the ecosystem, I
• 54:42
  was looking around. I've been podcasting for a
• 54:44
  couple of years and I was just trying to see how I could kind
• 54:48
  of contribute something unique and no one was talking about
• 54:51
  business. And so I started the business
• 54:53
  Bitcoinization podcast and I interviewed different business
• 54:56
  owners or or people who have products and services in the
• 55:00
  Bitcoin space that can help business owners and just have
• 55:03
  released 91 episodes as of today and no plans to stop anytime
• 55:08
  soon. So check it out.
• 55:09
  It'd be great to have some some listeners from the show if
• 55:12
  that's kind of up your alley. Let's go and and just like quick
• 55:15
  question, how has been the response from small business
• 55:19
  owners in regards to Bitcoin like do you go one-on-one and
• 55:23
  talk to like business owners or just the podcast?
• 55:26
  Yeah. So a lot of people change the
• 55:28
  subject, change the subject pretty quickly whenever I hang
• 55:31
  it up. But like I said so I actually I
• 55:32
  was saying this offline. So I'll go ahead and say it.
• 55:34
  Now we have the I'm, I'm based in the Jackson, Ms. area and we
• 55:38
  have a Bitcoin meet up. We're planning a having party
• 55:40
  ourselves and place we meet is called Belhaven Town Center and
• 55:45
  the initials for that are BTC. The guy who is kind of behind
• 55:49
  that development project is himself a bitcoiner.
• 55:52
  And so we've been trying to talk through how to, in the most
• 55:56
  attractive and natural way, begin introducing Bitcoin to
• 55:59
  these business owners. And one thing I've kind of come
• 56:02
  to recently is that you can't convince someone.
• 56:05
  Well, you can, but like it's hard to convince someone to
• 56:08
  accept Bitcoin. What you need to do is help them
• 56:11
  to see the value of Bitcoin so that they'll become a bitcoiner.
• 56:13
  Once they're a bitcoiner, they're gonna start saying, hey,
• 56:15
  how can I get some more sats? And then that's when they start
• 56:18
  using the tools like their business to begin trying to get
• 56:21
  some more Bitcoin for themselves.
• 56:23
  Love it. Cool man.
• 56:24
  Don't agree more. OK, Last thing.
• 56:26
  Last thing, Nico. I'm gonna, I'm gonna add to what
• 56:29
  Opti was saying, which is like the, the this is like passive,
• 56:33
  right? So like, even if it doesn't give
• 56:34
  you too much money, like, it's just like it's something that
• 56:37
  you download it, you know, it does its thing, and then every
• 56:41
  once in a while you could just withdraw.
• 56:43
  And then you were saying, you know, like maybe it's like 5
• 56:45
  bucks a month now, but you know, if Bitcoin 10 XS when Bitcoin 10
• 56:49
  XS from here, that's actually 50 bucks, right?
• 56:52
  So you know, it's maybe it's not a lot of money, but you know
• 56:55
  it's it's money that you weren't going to get anyways and you
• 56:59
  don't have to, like, spend your time doing anything else.
• 57:02
  It's totally in the background. I was actually talking with
• 57:04
  someone the other day on one of their platforms and I was
• 57:08
  talking to her. She said I was telling her about
• 57:10
  slice and then she had forgotten that she even had it.
• 57:13
  She had been using it for a while and had just forgotten
• 57:15
  because it's in the background. Like when I open up a new tab, I
• 57:18
  see how many slices I have. That's because I have the the
• 57:21
  new tab feature as well. But yeah, you you have a lot of
• 57:24
  controls there too. So once you sign up, you'll see
• 57:25
  you can see more ads, less ads. Of course you know I want to see
• 57:28
  as many as possible so I can get as many Sats as possible, but
• 57:31
  you have some controls there there as well for yourself.
• 57:33
  Love it. We do have one question and I
• 57:35
  don't know if you can sneak release or anything, but will
• 57:38
  this be available for like Safari or anything more than
• 57:42
  Chrome or is it just going to be Chrome extensions?
• 57:44
  It's it's Chrome and Chrome based and apparently a lot of
• 57:47
  I'm getting out of my depth here, but a lot of browsers are
• 57:51
  somehow Chrome based. Also it should be on Firefox.
• 57:55
  We're doing some things there to make it a little faster and
• 57:57
  easier, but I don't know if for some reason we don't have with
• 58:01
  Safari. I'm sure there's a good reason
• 58:02
  for that. It may just be an Apple thing, I
• 58:06
  don't know, but unfortunately it's not available for Safari.
• 58:10
  Sounds like an Apple thing. They need their cut, bro.
• 58:12
  They need their cut. OK, last thing before we get
• 58:14
  into the memes, Josh, you do have another project that you
• 58:17
  said is just barely getting off the ground.
• 58:19
  So let's plug that and then we can get some laughs for Friday.
• 58:23
  Yeah. So the man behind this is Daniel
• 58:25
  Hershberger. He he's just starting up a
• 58:27
  nonprofit called Bitcoin is Better, which is focused on
• 58:31
  reintroducing Bitcoin to the working class.
• 58:33
  A lot of people have heard about Bitcoin but don't necessarily
• 58:35
  understand it or know about it. And So what we're trying to do
• 58:38
  is go to the working class especially and promote the
• 58:43
  peaceful adoption of a Bitcoin standard by 2040.
• 58:45
  So that's really what we're looking to do and we're actually
• 58:48
  going to be I think having I think are having party and
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  Jackson is going to be one of the 1st events that's connected
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  to Bitcoin is better. So just kind of getting out and
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  about to the community and sharing with them about Bitcoin
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  in a way that makes sense to them and is valuable to them.
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  So it's bitcoinisbetter.org if you want to check that out, and
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  I'm really excited about being able to help with Bitcoin
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  adoption for the working class. Love it?
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  Yeah, that's. Couldn't agree more.
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  Couldn't agree more. All right.
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  New question I've been asking all of our guests the put a bow
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  on this What is your last advice to the audience out there?
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  What's the last thing you want to leave the people with out
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  there? Man, that's a great question, I
• 59:29
  would say. I mean, check out Slice.
• 59:30
  If you're a business owner, I would love to talk with you
• 59:33
  josh@adslice.com, but find ways where you can stack some Sats
• 59:38
  like I just see someone commenting here full Lolly
• 59:41
  Slice. All these places take advantage
• 59:43
  while you can because in the future, your generation, the
• 59:46
  future generations are going to think you're crazy for not
• 59:48
  taking advantage of these opportunities.
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  So just, you know, stay humble, Stack Sats.
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  I feel like that's kind of a good place to end it, and
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  they're all these tools that you can incorporate into your life
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  now that make it easier than ever.
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  Love it. Everyone likes free money.
• 1:00:01
  Take the free money. Take money.
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  Free money. All right, everybody, let's hit
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  the meme review. We have a lot to We have a lot
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  of memes to review. Let's check them out.
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  I got the daily meme review all right guys.
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  Yeah, I I I'm afraid of updating my Chrome browser over here.
• 1:00:25
  I don't want to update anything. Oh the Oh yeah, the weekly meme
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  review. It's no longer the daily meme
• 1:00:31
  review. All right guys.
• 1:00:32
  You already know the deal. It is Friday and we got some
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  memes for you guys. You guys have been yelling at me
• 1:00:37
  all week that you only come for the meme review which is Cap.
• 1:00:40
  It's big cap. Anyways.
• 1:00:43
  Tweets of the bullets, memes of the artillery.
• 1:00:45
  We are in an information war and it's upon you guys out there.
• 1:00:49
  The frontline soldiers to spread the signal ridicule the
• 1:00:52
  corporate press and of course make some funny So your friends
• 1:00:56
  head stay in the game. All right 1st meme is by our boy
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  American Huddle AKA American Huddle 8 on Twitter.
• 1:01:05
  I guess it's his eighth account. Now we have this this bar here.
• 1:01:09
  You know it's it's from January to December and it's pointing at
• 1:01:13
  January and it goes you are here where SAT you currently huddle
• 1:01:17
  and then you have all year the opportunity to get more cheap
• 1:01:21
  stats before we hit all time high and the bull run and you
• 1:01:24
  can see in April we are going to have the halving so keep
• 1:01:28
  stacking it's going to be a great year I'm I'm kind of
• 1:01:32
  convinced he's kind of bearish on this one his all time high
• 1:01:34
  bull run going to be in December or earlier Nico I am I we'll see
• 1:01:38
  we'll see we'll see Anyways anyways next one is by Dan Webb
• 1:01:42
  AKA Heartland Bitcoin on Twitter and he goes we're at this stage
• 1:01:46
  of Bitcoin adoption and for for all you millennials and Gen.
• 1:01:51
  Xers and boomers out there remember when CD players became
• 1:01:55
  a thing and all your cars had tape tape decks in it.
• 1:01:59
  Well, this is Bitcoin parallels to the legacy financial system.
• 1:02:03
  You have your Panasonic CD player plugged into your tape,
• 1:02:11
  what audio adapter and this is what's going on.
• 1:02:15
  This literally sums up exactly what's going on in traditional
• 1:02:19
  finance. You know, we're talking about
• 1:02:20
  Jamie Dimon. We're seeing Elizabeth Warren
• 1:02:22
  come out against Bitcoin and then we see Gary Gensler approve
• 1:02:26
  a spot Bitcoin ETF. And I've been saying this for a
• 1:02:28
  while. What we're seeing right now is
• 1:02:30
  the traditional fun on system trying to integrate Bitcoin.
• 1:02:34
  But they can't they can't put what's it the square in the
• 1:02:38
  round peg and so they're going to have to reroute everything
• 1:02:42
  they're doing. This is a parallel system and
• 1:02:44
  and it's not, you know they're going to need CD players in
• 1:02:47
  their car. They're going to need aux cables
• 1:02:50
  to the financial system anyways. Next one is by Lena Siche and
• 1:02:53
  she goes trust the process and this week I don't think we
• 1:02:56
  really covered this this week, but FTX had to unload a lot of
• 1:03:00
  the G. BTCS.
• 1:03:02
  People are saying that maybe this is one of the reasons why
• 1:03:04
  the price is down and you can see FTX dumping Bitcoin.
• 1:03:07
  And we have a little hodler over here goes, Oh no, it's going to
• 1:03:10
  crash. And he's got an umbrella because
• 1:03:13
  the price is going down. And then he looks back up and
• 1:03:15
  he's like, wait, what's going on?
• 1:03:16
  How come the price didn't go? Absolutely.
• 1:03:18
  Why didn't it crater on us? Well, it's because we have Wall
• 1:03:21
  Street scooping up Bitcoin and we have Hodler scooping up
• 1:03:23
  Bitcoin and more Hodler scooping up Bitcoin and you guys out
• 1:03:26
  there stacking them sad. So This is why.
• 1:03:29
  OK, you know, we're back at, what are we 41K today?
• 1:03:32
  All right, next one. Shots at the sea door.
• 1:03:34
  Always hitting me in the DM saying they can't wait till one
• 1:03:37
  of their memes gets on. Simply Bitcoin Meme review.
• 1:03:40
  I'm pretty sure I've done one of yours in the past, bro, but here
• 1:03:43
  you go. OK, so we have.
• 1:03:45
  What is this iRobot? I forget, is iRobot?
• 1:03:48
  Will Smith and iRobot. All right, so he goes.
• 1:03:50
  Is Bitcoin really trustless for us?
• 1:03:52
  Greg Brains. And we have Will Smith.
• 1:03:55
  Here goes in regards to Bitcoin. It's open source.
• 1:03:58
  Everybody can check the code and then we have the robot and it
• 1:04:01
  goes can you. And then we have Will Smith.
• 1:04:03
  You know the teary like, yeah, is it really trustless when US
• 1:04:09
  Greg brains can't really verify the code And then you can see
• 1:04:12
  Luke Dash news. It's not that hard guys.
• 1:04:15
  Okay bro. All right, this next one is
• 1:04:18
  Walker America. I absolutely love this.
• 1:04:20
  This is such a good narrative, he goes.
• 1:04:23
  Twice as much Bitcoin is lost as is currently controlled by
• 1:04:27
  institutions and governments. Only a tiny fraction of the
• 1:04:30
  world owns Bitcoin and after the having in April, only 1.3125 /
• 1:04:36
  21 million Bitcoin will be left to be mined.
• 1:04:38
  It make it might make sense to get some just in case it catches
• 1:04:41
  on. And here's a visuals of you know
• 1:04:44
  all the Bitcoin in circulation. You have Satoshi's coin.
• 1:04:47
  You have all the individuals that have scooped up most of the
• 1:04:49
  Bitcoin. You have more lost Bitcoin than
• 1:04:52
  institutions and governments holding you have unmined
• 1:04:55
  Bitcoin. Man.
• 1:04:57
  It's really when you once you put in a visual it, it really
• 1:05:00
  goes to show just how distributed the Bitcoin is
• 1:05:04
  currently. And you know, and wait, didn't
• 1:05:07
  we see yesterday that apparently the US government is going to
• 1:05:10
  sell their Silk Road coins as well, So US government's going
• 1:05:15
  to have even less Bitcoin? God, just love to see it.
• 1:05:18
  Love to. See.
• 1:05:18
  It said that for a while. Am I am I missing out on
• 1:05:20
  something? I feel like they've sold it so
• 1:05:21
  many times. They've sold some over the
• 1:05:23
  years, but I think, I think they're going to.
• 1:05:25
  Sorry, hold on, I'm joking on my saliva over here.
• 1:05:30
  I think they're going to sell the remaining of their stash so
• 1:05:35
  we'll see what happens. Maybe This is why Bitcoin price
• 1:05:38
  is is cratering because they're selling it anyways.
• 1:05:41
  The next one is by G Money Pepe and he goes New resistance map
• 1:05:45
  to global Fiat tyranny just dropped.
• 1:05:47
  I stand with Bitcoin and the Fed and it is America fully covered
• 1:05:52
  and entrenched in Bitcoin. Crazy stuff going on in the
• 1:05:55
  world. Wait.
• 1:05:56
  You're against Bitcoin. You're against freedom.
• 1:05:58
  Now we are seeing everyone in the world needs some Bitcoin.
• 1:06:02
  If you are against Bitcoin, you are against freedom.
• 1:06:04
  If you do not like the trajectory of the world going
• 1:06:08
  straight into a dystopian tyranny, then you might want to
• 1:06:12
  get some Bitcoin. It it might might make sense.
• 1:06:14
  It might you know, it might protect you.
• 1:06:16
  I don't know. I'm just I I I'm just a biased
• 1:06:18
  bitcoiner. I think Bitcoin is freedom and
• 1:06:20
  you should own some. Anyways, guys, drop your meme
• 1:06:22
  review score in the chat while we cover ours live.
• 1:06:27
  And I just realized I I'm not prepared for my meme review
• 1:06:30
  score. So Nico meme review score.
• 1:06:33
  Why I get a meme review score? I'm going to give it a copy of
• 1:06:36
  Bitcoin Evangelism, Planting Seeds for the Decentralized
• 1:06:40
  Revolution. Scan the QR code on your screen
• 1:06:43
  right now. That's.
• 1:06:46
  Nice, nice. OK, Josh, your score.
• 1:06:50
  Actually, I'm going to give it a Brian de Mint.
• 1:06:52
  Just one Brian De Mint. One Brian De Mint Josh, what's
• 1:06:58
  your score? 21 million, I don't know the
• 1:07:00
  scoring. System That's the best score
• 1:07:03
  ever. Phenomenal score, Opti.
• 1:07:05
  What's? All right, mine.
• 1:07:07
  My score is I'm gonna give it this Lenscrafter receipt for
• 1:07:13
  when I got my new prescription. Wow.
• 1:07:16
  It's super good. Yeah, I'm gonna give it.
• 1:07:18
  I'm gonna give it clarity and vision here for the meme review
• 1:07:21
  score. Great.
• 1:07:23
  OK, all right, everybody, drop your meme scores in the live
• 1:07:27
  chat. I know we haven't done this in a
• 1:07:29
  while, Opti. Wait, Wait.
• 1:07:31
  Wait. Wait.
• 1:07:31
  Wait, Wait, wait, wait. Give him some time.
• 1:07:32
  Nico. Give him some time.
• 1:07:34
  Give him some time. You already know the deal.
• 1:07:35
  You already know the deal. We got to play the merch, bro.
• 1:07:40
  All right, tell all about the merch, bro.
• 1:07:42
  All right guys, We oh, oh, we have gotten the new merch.
• 1:07:48
  We, I think we just got some visuals.
• 1:07:50
  We have yet to fully secure the bag for you guys.
• 1:07:53
  But I think you guys are going to really like the new merch
• 1:07:56
  design. We have partnered with a Bitcoin
• 1:07:59
  artist. We got two designs.
• 1:08:02
  We got some hats for you guys. So Matthew, we got hats coming.
• 1:08:06
  I think we we probably have like 10 T-shirts left.
• 1:08:09
  I think we have like 1010 of these orange hoodies.
• 1:08:12
  We will be getting new designs soon.
• 1:08:14
  We will partner with some more Bitcoin artists to get you guys
• 1:08:17
  some epic designs but I think you guys are going to really
• 1:08:19
  like these new designs that we we got a we got a little edit
• 1:08:23
  from from our distributors chefs at the represent and man it
• 1:08:26
  looks super cool internally we're like yo these ones are
• 1:08:29
  lit. So again they are limited they
• 1:08:35
  they hopefully will go fast and you guys can Rep the merch so.
• 1:08:40
  So they're not just piling up at Nico's house right now, OK?
• 1:08:43
  Let's let's go through the meme scores.
• 1:08:46
  First one by Justin, some good orange volcano coffee for Nico.
• 1:08:52
  Yeah, Nico needs some coffee. Elaine scored.
• 1:08:55
  Not not goal. Guld in a cavern, In a cabin.
• 1:09:00
  In a In a cavern, In a cabin excavating for a mine.
• 1:09:04
  Bitcoin miners. Nothing's finer.
• 1:09:06
  Bitcoin freedom. Just in time.
• 1:09:10
  All right sat wise I give the memes 200K simply Bitcoin
• 1:09:14
  subscribers by the end of the year.
• 1:09:16
  Wine would be extremely happy. Wine gives it Nico, pronouncing
• 1:09:20
  Malay correctly 2 out of 1,000,000 times and.
• 1:09:25
  We got a 21, We got a 21. David.
• 1:09:28
  David Ford. Gives it 21.
• 1:09:30
  Wait, wait, wait, wait. We do have some over here on
• 1:09:33
  Rumble. So first one UT XL goes.
• 1:09:37
  I give the memes a cure for Opti's pneumonotrial microscopic
• 1:09:42
  lycovolcanic gnosis. OK, Narwhal tacos.
• 1:09:48
  My meme score is a + 42 K Fiat price level.
• 1:09:51
  It's cringe, I know, but here it is.
• 1:09:53
  OK, OK, we did it. We did it.
• 1:09:58
  Meme review. Score on Fridays.
• 1:10:00
  Meme review on Fridays. We're back.
• 1:10:03
  You guys can't yell at me anyway.
• 1:10:05
  Wait, wait. Actually, before we go, Nico,
• 1:10:07
  sorry, sorry. I don't mean to cut you off.
• 1:10:09
  I did do a poll. Anyways guys, if you enjoyed the
• 1:10:12
  show, you know what to do. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold
• 1:10:15
  on. I I need to, I need to clarify
• 1:10:17
  things here. The poll was do you laugh with
• 1:10:20
  Opti or at Opti and shouts out the 45% of you that laugh with
• 1:10:24
  me, the 14% that laugh at me and the other 40% that laugh at me
• 1:10:30
  and with me. So shouts out to you guys, you
• 1:10:32
  guys, the real life movies. All right guys, if you enjoyed
• 1:10:37
  the show, you know what to do. Smash that like button.
• 1:10:39
  Consider subscribing if you feel like we provided you value.
• 1:10:42
  And I do want to give a shout out to our guest, Josh
• 1:10:46
  Friedemann. Friedemann, thank you for so
• 1:10:49
  much for coming on the show today.
• 1:10:51
  And check out adslice.com. Really, really really appreciate
• 1:10:55
  you coming on. Yeah.
• 1:10:56
  Thanks for having me. It's been great.
• 1:10:57
  Thanks for coming on, dude. All right guys, it's the top of
• 1:11:01
  the hour. It's the end of the week.
• 1:11:03
  Thank you guys for tuning in this week.
• 1:11:05
  Really appreciate it. We wouldn't be here without
• 1:11:07
  y'all. So we love you.
• 1:11:08
  We appreciate you have an amazing weekend.
• 1:11:11
  Spend time, you know, unplug a little bit, and we'll be back
• 1:11:14
  Monday for another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live.