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this morning anyways for this afternoon today we're going to
talk about Michael Saylor saying the quiet part out loud on
legacy media, basically saying like look, you're you know
billions of dollars in profit, when are you going to sell?
And Michael Saylor's reached a point in the his rabbit hole
journey. When you come to realize and and
I get this question all the time, which is Neo, what are you
going to sell? It's like sell for what?
What are you going to sell for? And it's like you're going to
take profit. It's like, OK, so you want me to
sell something that has absolute scarcity for something that you
can create an infinite amount of, that bureaucrats in DC can
just print out of thin air. Is that what you want me to
sell? And then that kind of, like
gives you a little bit of clarity, but I understand
because the first year or two, you know, you're getting, you
just take the orange pill, you're looking in, you're
looking at those profits. So once again, I'm glad that
Michael Saylor is moving the Overton window, shattering the
Overton window, getting this message out there, saying this
on legacy media. And he's not only talking the
talk, right? He has the proof of work behind
him, right? He has the fact that his
strategy, the micro strategy, Bitcoin strategy has
outperformed everything since they've adopted it.
So it's outperformed the SNP, it's outperformed all the big
tech stocks. And so he has that backing
behind him. I think it's just a matter of
time before another public company follows in his
footsteps. And in other news as well, you
know, Tucker's really been blowing up.
You know, he left Fox News and you know he's become an
independent journalist and he's been doing these, you know,
interviews with with public figures.
And yesterday he had or maybe a couple days ago, but he had an
interview with Glenn Beck from Blaze TV.
And it's very interesting. He apparently asked for an
interview with an ex Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
and apparently that ex prime, you have to trust him, you know,
for what he's saying. But at the same time, it doesn't
surprise me. The guy asked him for either
$1,000,000 in cash, $1,000,000 worth of gold, or $1,000,000
worth of Bitcoin, right. So as much as, like, governments
and nation states demonize this thing, don't pay attention to
what they say. Pay attention to what they do.
Like the fact that they, he asked for Bitcoin is kind of a
big deal, right? So we're going to talk about
that. We're going to unpack all the
news. It's going to be a great show.
And we have a very special We have the Big Sean Harris.
How you doing buddy? I'm doing great, man.
I'm doing great. I would like $1,000,000 in
Bitcoin as well. I just want to know where's
Tucker at with that $1,000,000. Yeah, we gotta, we gotta get, we
gotta get Big Sean Harris paid, man.
We gotta get him on Tucker and paid as well, paid in Bitcoin.
Would you take, would you take that?
$1,000,000, of course. Wait, wait, wait, Didn't we send
Big Sean Harris $1,000,000 for this appearance?
Like what's going on? Did yellow.
Did did Did Did Yellow take it? I don't want people to know my
prices, yeah. Dude, Big Sean Harris.
Big Sean Influencer Harris. Over here, yellow.
Yellow took the money and ran. Huh.
Yeah, of course. Wait, here he is.
He's in. He's in Miami.
OH, right now. He's invisible.
Taking your money. Yeah man, Nico, it's it.
I was honestly legitimately surprised when I saw that clip
and and we'll talk about it more.
But again, guys, this just goes to what I've been saying for I
don't even know now I'm a broken record at this point, but
Bitcoin is saturating popular culture.
Oh, sorry guys, I guess my mic's off.
Your Eastern is messing up on me.
Over here. Boom.
All right.
But yeah, man, it really goes to show that Bitcoin is saturating
the popular culture. And we're only at the second
month of this year the Bitcoin price is it hasn't even started
ripping. It's going to get absolutely
crazy. But anyways, we'll talk about
that during the show. What we're going to talk about
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Well, I'm so glad I brute forced it on everyone 'cause I would
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the chat, they're. Like hit the horn, hit the horn.
All right, all right. Anyways, anyways, Nico, I'm.
I'm getting hyped this morning. I.
Swear there's a There's a Bitcoin kindergarten that I
listened to one time and Opti had the horn going non-stop.
That's when I first got it. There's something to the horn.
Even when Nico first got the soundboard, actually my greatest
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their audio game up. And once, once you get the sound
board going, it's hard not to. Abuse it.
But anyway, Sure, Odell followed in your footsteps.
Everyone did. Dude, I'm an influencer's
influencer. Oh, he's.
Your favorite He's your favorite Bitcoiners.
Bitcoin. Oh man, I don't know about.
I'm probably the most hated bitcoiners bitcoiner, but.
Hey, we'll take it. We'll take it if.
If they're if they're all stealing the sound board, I This
is good for Bitcoin. I'm voting for Opti in 2024 too.
Bad opti for. He's doing his part.
He's doing his part right now, all.
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So before I show you guys the guys, the video, like I said,
Michael Saylor is breaking the Overton window.
He's going on the legacy media and he's just, he's just
dropping, watching the quiet parts out loud, the the, the
parts, you know, you could never imagined bit corners would be
saying on mainstream television television.
So it's kind of a kind of a big deal.
Anyways, so the reporter apparently asked him, You own 10
billion Bitcoin, where $10 billion with the Bitcoin?
When do you sell for profit? And then Michael Saylor replies,
like an absolute legend I'll be buying forever.
Let's check out the full clip. Last I checked, you have just
under 200,000 Bitcoin. You take a look at the new spot
Bitcoin ETFs. All told, they own over 700,000.
Of course, a lot of that is the Grayscale Trust, but a lot of
that too. 200,000 or so is from the 9 new ETFs on the market.
With this new competition, is it going to become harder to source
new Bitcoin for MicroStrategy to buy?
Well, I think it's a very virtuous cycle.
The spot ETFs have opened up a gateway for institutional
capital to flow into the Bitcoin ecosystem.
The demand for the spot ETFs, especially the new ones net has
been far in excess of the supply from the miners every day, in
some cases up to 8 to 10 times as much demand as supply every
day. This is this is a rising tide
that's going to lift all boats. MicroStrategy has got a levered
operating strategy for Bitcoin. But if you look at what these
spot ETFs are doing, they're facilitating the digital
transformation of capital. And every day, hundreds of
millions of dollars of capital is flowing from the traditional
analog ecosystem into the digital economy.
And to your point, I mean it actually, Gemini Co founder
Cameron Rinklevoss, he tweeted last week that the demand from
the new Bitcoin ETFs, it's at least 10 times as much as the
number of new tokens that are actually being minted by those
miners. So really interesting supply
demand dynamics going on there. But let's talk about your
existing holdings. As I mentioned in the intro, now
worth around $10 billion. You have paper gains of about
70% or so, which a lot of people would like to see that sort of
return at any point, would you sell?
When would it make sense to take profits there?
Well, I've famously said I'm going to be buying the top
forever. Bitcoin is is the exit strategy.
It is the the strongest asset. So what we see right now is the
Bitcoin has just emerged as a trillion dollar asset class and
it's alongside names like Apple and Google and Microsoft.
But the difference between Bitcoin and the Magnificent 7 is
bitcoins an asset class. It's not a company.
There's not a lot enough room in the capital structure of those
companies to hold 10 trillion or $100 trillion worth of capital.
So bitcoins competing against gold, which is 10X what it is
right now. It's competing against the S&P
index, it's competing against real estate, $100 trillion plus
asset class as a store of value. So we believe capital is going
to keep flowing from those asset classes into Bitcoin because
Bitcoin is technically superior to those asset classes.
And that that being the case, there's just no reason to sell
the winner to buy the losers. I mean, absolutely bullish.
And yeah, I mean something that was saying.
What did he say at the very end, which is like absolute sauce.
There's no reason to sell the winner for the losers.
Was he referring to Fiat currencies?
There? Was that like a little jab?
If so, it's a jab at everything. It's a jab at everything, right?
Just Bitcoin, man. I saw the laser eyes coming out
of him and the reporter like, I feel like she gave.
She gave him a layup, 'cause she smiled after she like she always
she like, almost knew. What?
He was holding bags. There's.
There's some tension on there, but going between Sailor and any
female reporter, that's that's always Did you hear that she
called? She didn't call him Cameron
Winklevoss. She called him Cameron
Wrinklevoss. You think that was on purpose?
Yeah, that at the Winklevike you.
Think that was on purpose? No.
I. Don't, actually, I don't think
it was. I don't think.
But I, I, I, I do see the tension though.
I do see the tension that that was there, that existed, that
wasn't I I didn't imagine that. Yeah, you know, there's there's
no greater aphrodisiac than Bitcoin, so.
Anyways, Opti, what's your take? What's your take?
Oh man, love it. Yeah, so as as Taylor was
saying, I I've been saying this for a long time as well.
Like, I can also not imagine a future where I will not buy
Bitcoin. Like, what else are you going to
save in? I'm trying to save in the
hardest money possible. Bitcoin, as far as I can tell
and for the foreseeable future, is the best thing to be holding
until a future where you know other assets can keep up to
Bitcoin. Just saving in the hardest money
in the world is the best bet and the most conservative bet.
So I've been saying for a while, like what are you going to do?
Just sell your Bitcoin for dollars?
Like what? What do you say?
Like, I'm I'm never going to sell my winners for my losers.
And we all know that the dollar paper currencies, IOU like those
are the losers. This is what's going on here.
We are repricing the world in Bitcoin.
The dollar is a bad way to store your value.
And I say it all the time. You know, I used to be one of
the just the the average normal person that was very big on
saving dollars under the mattress until I realized that
that is what's wrecking me and that the dollars is what's
keeping me pouring in the rat race.
And so, you know, kudos to the reporter lady because even
though she's like playing her part, she's kind of doing the,
you know, the smirk. I'm guessing she probably holds
a little Bitcoin. She's definitely heard Taylor
talk about Bitcoin before. It still amazes me just how many
people miss the mark, how many people still don't fundamentally
understand where the world is going.
And if you're watching this show, you're smart, You
understand where the world's going, You understand Bitcoin is
the best way to store wealth. And you're so ahead of the game,
it's absolutely incredible because look, I I don't really
like using the meme where it's still early, but what's the
global full adoption of Bitcoin? Or even even even on a lesser
term, the amount of people holding Bitcoin is still a
minuscule portion of the global population.
So there's still a long room to run.
I I keep quoting that number of like $900 trillion of total
assets in the world. Now we all know Bitcoin isn't
going to, you know, scoop up all that $900 trillion of total
assets in the world. But it take, if it takes just a
portion of that, Bitcoin has to go up.
We all know it's going up forever.
So the world is being repriced in Bitcoin.
And as my boy wine always says, you know, we buy historical
tops. No, we buy tops because of
historical time stamps. So you know, you you're gonna be
telling your kids, like, yeah, I bought Bitcoin at 69 K and
they're gonna be like, man, my grandpa was a legend, You know,
my dad was a legend. How did he even do that?
He bought it 69 K and then it went down to 15 K and then he
rolled it all the way up to 1,000,000.
Like, what an absolute Chad of a bloodline that I am a part of.
And yet people get terrified when they buy, when they see the
Bitcoin hit 69 K or all time high and then it drops.
And I was even saying this to Niko this morning.
It's like we can see on our viewership from on our audience
and and what happens on YouTube when the price pumps.
People love Bitcoin and then it goes sideways for a little bit.
And like no one likes Bitcoin. And it's like if you liked it
when it was pumping, why don't you like it when it's on
discount? It just makes no sense to me.
Like we still have a lot, a lot of work out there.
We still got to educate a lot of people.
We still have to entertain. We'll have a job for a little
bit, Nico. Dude, I mean it's like it's like
the like human psychology. Like you know, like it.
It's like you you you like it when number go up.
Wine gets you like it when number go up, right you you kind
of ignore it, you know? And every other wine, Wine says
he's smarter than Michael Sailor.
Cap If you got into Bitcoin before sailor, does that make
you smarter than sailor? Well, you wonder, can I jump in
here, Nico? And then Sean, you guys jump in
as well. You know I'm so left side of the
bell curve that I transcend the bell curve and I get to the
right side of the bell curve. Oh man.
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live. Anyways, Big Sean Harris, what's
your take man? My take is, you know, so many
people just don't understand what Bitcoin is yet because
they're so caught up doing their jobs, right?
You, you have so much that you have to do.
There's all this money that you have to make, You have your
families you have to take care of, and you just don't set the
time apart to sit down and think, when I'm earning this
dollar that I earn or whatever Fiat currency, what is it that
I'm actually earning? Is there some work that's put
behind this money? Why is it fungible with another
thing that they can print in Washington, DC by the Press of a
button? When I have to work, you know, I
have to work my butt off every single day for this thing.
And so as people start to go down that rabbit hole, and what
pushes people down that rabbit hole is inflation, because they
realize that they're that they're losing the value of
their money. And when inflation hits hard
enough, then people start to realize and they start to go
down that rabbit hole. And so that's all it takes is
we're going to see more inflation because we live in a
world that's full of Fiat currencies.
And one by one, each country will see all time highs in
Bitcoin. And we've already seen it's like
20 different fiats out there where Bitcoin's already at its
all time high because of inflation.
And so it's only a matter of time where we'll see that in the
dollar again and and that'll that'll happen that more more
than likely, in my opinion, pretty soon after the having.
So I can't wait to watch it happen.
But it's more than just price. And I think that's what a lot of
people don't get. That's what these reporters
don't get. These economists don't get that
obviously the price is going up, but there's a reason why the
price is going up. And that's because Bitcoin
fundamentally is better money. And you have to figure out what
the characteristics of money are.
And when you figure that out, then it makes all the sense in
the world why the price of Bitcoin keeps going up.
Forever. Wait up, Sean.
You you you just sparked an idea here.
This is a free product Shark Tank idea.
We need some Bitcoin dominoes. Like we need dominoes that are
orange colored Bitcoin branded because the dominoes are falling
in real time and you're watching them fall.
I like that. I like that transition.
Anyways, ladies and gentlemen, let's get to news.
We got a lot to talk about. Let's check it out.
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Anyways, I do want to talk about this very, very interesting and
I'll kind of summarize it with everything else that's going on,
right. So we've been covering this for
quite a bit, many, many months now.
There is this attack, this attack from different elements
of different governments that are extremely hostile towards
Bitcoin. Even in, you know, the United
States where you would say, you know, supposedly this is the
home of the free, you know, whatever the saying is.
Right? But apparently it's not
functioning like that. It's, you know, we had that
infamous tweet coming out of wallet of Satoshi basically
saying that, you know, we're not available in China, North Korea
and the United States. Like, that's a very powerful
statement, you know, And you would think somewhere like the
United States is supposed supposedly the bastion of
freedom and individualism and capitalism, you would think that
it it would be, you know, at the vanguard, the forefront of
innovation. But it's very interesting
because maybe it's not. And the reason that it's not is
because, you know, the government of the United States
benefits tremendously from having this control over money.
And apparently other wallets are following suit.
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Lightning, right. And I think this has to do with
the FinCEN proposal. This has to do like it is not a
friendly environment to do business.
And I think essentially what they're trying to do is that
they're trying to KYC Bitcoin, like any type of Bitcoin
transaction, right? They want a KYCI.
They want to make it an extension of the existing
system. But The thing is, from an
architectural perspective, you can't do the same thing, right?
Like, how do you stop? You know, let's say I wanted to
send, you know, 100, you know, 100,000 Satoshi's to Big Sean,
right? How do you stop me?
Right. Big Sean sends me his address.
I send it to him. We're not going through a
middleman. You know, I can connect to a
Bitcoin node that's, you know, orbiting the Earth, shout out
block stream, right. You know, you could like,
theoretically broadcast, and this has been proven like a
Bitcoin transaction using radio signals, using ham radio.
So it's like, like it's it's like, I get it right?
Like all that stuff is like exceedingly complicated.
But the point that I'm trying to make is like, how do you stop
this? You don't.
Right. So and then I think the
inevitable conclusion of because you can't stop it is, is that
it's going to change society. Like the fact that governments
can't access the wealth of, you know, a a percentage of the
population that is taking Bitcoin into self custody is
going to kind of and not access, not access it easily, right.
Because their only other option is to like knock down doors and
be like, yo give me your Bitcoin like that's crazy.
Like the reason that they were able to, like, peacefully get
away somewhat peacefully get away with the 6102 order is
because everyone custodied their gold with these banks.
So the government really only had to knock on the door of a
handful of banks and say, hey, you know what, that gold is mine
now. They didn't have to go to
individuals and say that gold is mine now, right?
Is it that that would have been a totally different
conversation. Right.
So yeah, I mean, it kind of sucks.
It's not surprising. And then here comes this other
video where they, they finally said the quiet part aloud.
And this is something that we've been speculating on.
This is something that we've been saying was going to happen
because it was incredibly obvious, right.
Which is this idea that that they're going to try to force
Bitcoin miners to censor, specifically to censor, you
know, Bitcoin addresses or whatnot that are, you know, on
the list of the Office of Foreign Asset Control.
They don't want Bitcoin to be used to circumvent sanctions.
And it's like, like, you know, we had Tucker and he had this
very, very monumental kind of interview with with Putin,
whether you agree with the interview or not.
But there was a part of the interview that like, I
completely agree with, which is this idea that the dollar has
been used as a political tool. It's been weaponized.
And the moment that you do that, you create an incentive for
other countries to seek an alternative.
So it's kind of like the Pikachu meme.
Like, you know, it's like U.S. government does something then
that causes something else. And they're like how could that
happen? Like, you know, like what do you
mean people are seeking alternative like that's
ridiculous. Like, you know, and it's like,
yeah, bro, like what do you think was going to happen?
So they're trying to expand this sanction policy to Bitcoin and
we've been covering this for many, many months.
I don't think they'll be successful.
All it takes is 1 miner around the world that's not following
the OFAC to, you know, find a block and then include that in
the block and then what are they going to do?
Are they going to fork it? Right.
A lot of people are speculating that but like it gets kind of
complicated is what I'm trying to say.
Right. So the the the worst they can do
is technically they could slow down transactions or they could
say, OK, you know the OFAC transactions, you can't, you
can't have those. But it's like, yeah, then you
have a Russian mining pool that's like, yeah, I'd love to
include these, like why not? Like, you know, they're paying a
high fee. So the worst I could do is like
slow it down and then are are we gonna get into the conversation
where there's gonna be a U.S. government approved fork and a
non-us government approved fork? Like are we gonna head down that
maybe we do, but like what I'm trying to say is it's not easy.
So anyways, let's check out this clip.
So in the D5 report that you mentioned, we highlighted lots
of different types of technical features and compliance controls
that can be built in at different layers of the
ecosystem That could focus, for example, at the network layer
where minors exist. A good place to start might be
something like sanctions. OFAC has already stated in their
compliance guidance that minors may already have sanction
screening obligations. So a good place to start right
now before imposing new AML obligations on minors or those
who exist at the network layer could be to enforce the existing
obligations when they, when they validate transfers.
Going to sanctioned actors like Lazarus Group, I mean it's just
like it's crazy. This is something that we've
been saying for a while. This is why, you know, the ocean
mining pool Stratum V2 is so important because yes, like this
is a known kind of attack. And again, like, I don't think
they'll be like unless they capture every single mining pool
around the world, I just don't see that happening.
And then of course like go ahead Sean, I.
Was gonna say even if they catch your mining pools, remember when
China banned mining and there were still miners that were
mining in China after they banned mining?
Like, it wasn't like it went to 0% hash rate in China.
But there's still gonna be people that are just gonna say
we won't comply. And they're smaller miners.
Obviously they're not the huge miners, but they're smaller and
they will continue to mine and they're not going to comply.
There's going to be people who who stand up and and will stand
up for what they believe in. And we'll just say, like this
rule, and this law is ridiculous, I'm going to keep
doing what I'm doing and it'll be extremely hard for the
government to really find them. Yeah, I I 100% agree with that
and it's really interesting and this is what brings me full
circle. This brings me to this next
clip, which is this idea of, like, you know, don't pay
attention to what I do. What was the.
It's like The thing is saying, like, don't pay attention to
what I say, pay attention to what I do.
And here's Boris Johnson. Boris Johnson was the Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom before the new Prime Minister.
And it's very interesting. I'll, I'll, I'll play the clip
and then we'll talk about it. For an interview with Boris
Johnson's, I have many times because he's constantly
denouncing me as a tool of the Kremlin.
He says no. So I'm thinking about saying
getting more annoyed. So I know a lot of people who
know Boris Johnson, so I reach out to them.
Finally, one of his advisors gets back to me and says he will
talk to you, but it's gonna cost you $1,000,000.
He wants $1,000,000 what? In U.S. dollars, Gold or
Bitcoin? No one.
This just happens. So I mean, like that is, you
know, that's sauce, right? Like, why is that sauce?
Because you see kind of the, the demonization, right, the
demonization of Bitcoin, right? Like this thing is bad.
It's skirting. So why is this politician
wanting, you know, gold and Bitcoin?
Like, like, why is that? And then remember the politician
that it was a, it was a Democrat, if I forget from which
state, which was like accusing Naimbu Kelly of corruption And
then they found gold bars in his trunk and they like it.
It became apparent that he himself was corrupt, right.
So why is it that these politicians want gold bars and
Bitcoin? Like, if they were so confident
and they believed in their system so much, why isn't that
they're asking for their own Fiat currency?
Like like Boris Johnson's from the UK?
Like why isn't he asking for British pounds?
Why is he asking for gold? Why is he asking for Bitcoin?
Like why, right? It tells you everything you need
to know. Like it tells you what they see
as the better money, Like it tells you everything.
And I was basically saying about how this is spreading
everywhere, right. I think that this is a kind of a
long term strategy and it came out earlier this earlier this
week, a couple days ago, February 19th, that Coinbase
commerce merchant payment processing platform no longer
supports Bitcoin. Now I'll give you the reasons as
to why that is. I suspect I'm calling it now.
We've been pretty accurate with our calls the last year or so.
I think this has to do with this.
I think this has to do with regulatory reasons.
And it's a lot easier for Coinbase to say, you know what?
Like, yeah, you can send crypto to each other as long as you
have a Coinbase account. So like, you know, like it.
It's just like, it's just bullshit, you know?
And then they're basically trying to demonize Bitcoin,
'cause they're saying it's too expensive for the fees.
Like, no. And they and and I remember
Coinbase promising that they wanted to roll out the Lightning
Network. Like, whatever happened to that?
You know? So I thought, it's bullshit,
Sean, You were going to say something.
I, I was just going to say you know, going back to even even a
mining ban, right? Like look, this is what's going
on in Latin America. It's what's going on in El
Salvador is people are are deciding that they they are
sovereign individuals and they're not held down by
sovereign countries. And so they're deciding to move.
And if you just saw recently too in Ethiopia, they just opened up
like a $250 million operation to to do mining out in Ethiopia as
well. So like we have, if we wanted to
mine, we can mine in the US if we want to or we can mine in
China if we want to. But if they shut that down, it's
like the miners will go to wherever, wherever they're
treated the best. And there will be countries that
will welcome miners with open hands.
And and so it's gonna happen no matter what.
It just may. It just may be that the United
States like what China did, the United States may shut
themselves off to Bitcoin, right?
Like the whole You can't ban Bitcoin.
You just ban yourself from Bitcoin.
And we see that happening. Yeah, 100%.
And it's just it's just crazy. It's you know it's it's crazy
that again it's crazy that it's happening here in the US right.
That's the crazy part cause how the US markets itself, you know
what the country's ethos is. You know it's kind of going
against it. So here's like the official
statement. So it says customers can use any
self custody EVM wallet to pay the fastest checkout is with any
native asset or ECR 20 token including Rap Bitcoin on Layer.
Two's customers can also pay with any asset in their Coinbase
account. Quote The new commerce product
enforces the details of each payment on chain, supports
hundreds of assets native and ECR 20s across base Polygon,
Ethereum, and automatically converts payments to USDC on
chain at a Guaranteed Rate to merchants.
Delivering the same capabilities on the Bitcoin blockchain
without smart contracts and stable coins was challenging and
we therefore made the difficult decision to remove Bitcoin and
other UTXO support. I mean, that's kind of weird.
Customers retain the ability to pay with UTXO assets like
Bitcoin from their Coinbase account, which accounts for a
significant portion of the Bitcoin volume we were seeing
before making these changes. Since making the change, the
results have brought us much closer to executing on our
mission, which is what exactly? See, this is the problem.
Like, like there's a problem with, like, altcoin exchanges.
It's like it's not the separation of money in state.
And what's really scary also is that Coinbase is a custodian for
all these ETFs, right? So they're a big player.
They're not going anywhere. It's a it's a giant public
company. And like, clearly, they're not
working for Bitcoin. Like, clearly, and you can make
the argument that they've always been anti Bitcoin.
Their business model is trying to convince you that these
altcoins are gonna somehow, you know, overtake Bitcoin, That
that's basically their business model, right?
So I mean, it's just kind of disappointing.
And then we had different takes from we had different takes from
different bitcoiners, like influential bitcoiners.
So this is a BTC, say, server, BTC pay server, retweet or
repost. And the original tweet came from
Nicholas Darriere and he said the best time, the best time to
switch was six years ago. The second best time is now,
Jimmy Song said. Coinbase doesn't think Bitcoin
has smart contracts. This has never been and never
will be a tech company. It's a regulatory arbitrage
slash rent seeking company and they deserve every bit of scorn
they're getting. Here's Francis Pulio.
He says. Very poor excuse from Coinbase.
Bitcoin does have smart contracts, but this has nothing
to do with accepting on chain or lightning payments.
It's wild that bull. Bitcoin.com has been processing
Bitcoin payments for thousands of billers when instant with
instant exchange rate lock in and Fiat settlement since 2013
with 0 VC funding. And we built open source
Lightning network processing in 2020 with a couple of devs, and
somehow a multibillion dollar public corporation with
thousands of employees cannot pull it off.
Even more. Wild Bitcoin Jungle CR is
processing payments for hundreds of merchants in Costa Rica on
chain via Lightning and it is run entirely by volunteers doing
this for fun as a side gig and via bull Bitcoin we can convert
and settle inbound payments from self custodial lightning to 3rd
party Fiat in a local bank account in seconds.
But Coinbase cannot pull that off.
I completely agree. Like I I completely agree with
Francis. I think Francis has the best
take. We've seen this with Bitcoin
only companies that they're focusing exclusively on Bitcoin
because they know that Bitcoin is the base layer, Bitcoin is
the better money. What's the point of building on
an inferior, you know, system, an inferior network?
And then you could say, OK, but Bitcoin's too expensive.
Well look, the reason the fees are the way they are and the
reason that Bitcoin is designed the way it is, is
decentralization above all. If you don't have a truly
decentralized cryptocurrency, which Bitcoin is the only one in
my opinion, you cannot separate money from state and whatever it
is, it will inevitably be Co opted by the state.
So it has to be actually decentralized.
And I believe, and Jimmy Song really touched upon this.
I think it is a regulatory capture.
I think that's really what is. I think that's really what it's
all about. Like, I think, you know, they
got the thumbs up from the from the SEC, like, oh, you guys want
to custody, you know, the spot Bitcoin ETFs, you guys want to
make a ton of money off of that. Well, let me tell you about some
concessions that you can make. I don't think Coinbase is an
ally of Bitcoin. I'm saying it.
They haven't acted like it. They say they're going to
develop the Lightning Network. They never did, and now they're
rolling back the ability to pay. Would Bitcoin like, what is
that? Like, what does it cost them?
Like they had to, like, actively shut that switch off.
Like that's like a sign of aggression.
Anyways, Big Sean, what's your take?
I just think what you're saying is spot on, right?
The the mission of Coinbase is not the mission of Bitcoin.
And I think that's that's the issue with a lot of these big
companies is they realize that their mission is to stay in
business. And so they're doing everything
that they can to to follow along with whatever the government
tells them to do. And it seems like that they have
been captured by the government. That's what would be my
assumption is that there's someone in government telling
them how they can act and what they can and can't do.
And so this is what they've been told.
And so it's it's not, it's not a company that's ever been their
mission to advance Bitcoin. And yeah, it's probably where
most of us, you know, a lot of us bought our first Bitcoin was
on Coinbase, You know, I know I did.
And so that's great. But once you realize, you know,
once you go further down the rabbit hole, then you realize
like they've just been peddling altcoins this whole time, they
didn't even save that much Bitcoin for how much, you know,
for how long they've been in business for and how much
Bitcoin they could have saved this whole time.
So they're not really bitcoiners.
I would say they're more Fiat shills.
They're trying to get government capture.
That's just how they're set up. And you know for us as
Bitcoiners we realized that our goal is the separation of money
in state. It's that we can't, we don't, we
can't live with a trusted third party and and that's what
Coinbase essentially wants to be, is the trusted third party
that you'll do deals with them and hope that that they won't
rug pull you, that they won't steal your money from you and
that they won't 61 O2 you. So all those things, that's
that's my take. I don't think that.
I don't think Coinbase is really a bitcoiners A bitcoiners
exchange in my opinion. I 100% agree and we actually had
a really good comment, Hajami said.
Brian Armstrong is part of the establishment.
We know this CZ out of the way and now Coinbase can shine with
the blessings of the USA. I think that comment is on
point. Yeah, I completely agree.
You know, I know that Binance was like, you know, 'cause it
was over, quote UN quote, it was overseas, you know, and I know
that it was a pain in the ass for them.
Like, from a regulatory standpoint, I feel like Coinbase
is like, let's take a different approach.
Let's just get in bed with these guys.
Yeah. And I actually saw a video.
It was, it was, it was like trending on Twitter.
It was like a couple days ago or something.
But it was basically like someone from Coinbase, like
basically complaining about tether.
And just being like Tether is overseas, like basically skirts
compliance, like essentially like we have USDC.
Like they're not talking shit about Tether just to talk shit
about tether. They're talking shit about
Tether cuz they got their own stable coin and they want their
own stable coin to be adopted and used.
So yeah, I mean you might see an evil alliance, or maybe there
already is one. I suspect there already is one.
I suspect they're already in bed together, Coinbase and the
government. Here's the thing, If if you
shoot at the king, you best not miss.
And right now the king is the US government.
And so if you're Coinbase and you, they missed, right?
They tried to shoot at the US government and they missed and
they realize it. And This is why you're seeing
people moving to El Salvador, because El Salvador is friendly
towards Bitcoin, not altcoins, not crypto.
They're friendly towards Bitcoin, and they're on a
Bitcoin mission. You know, Bukele didn't give his
people some El Salvador coin, right?
He didn't make up his Miami coin like Suarez did in Miami, right,
Bukele? He freed his country.
And then what does he do? He gives them freedom, money in
Bitcoin. Like it's amazing and they're
friendly towards Bitcoin and they want advancement.
They're not worried about capturing their piece of the pie
and their power they want. They know that the best, like
the best model right now is to provide freedom for their
citizens. And then people will come to
them. The best talent will be
attracted to them and that's what they're doing.
And it's a winning strategy. And we're only we've only seen
the beginning of this. And so it'll be a lot of fun to
see how much, how much more growth we can see in El Salvador
over the years because of the strategy that they're playing
versus the strategy that the United States is playing, which
this is the strategy, it's strategy that any government
that is ruling the world would play.
They want to hold on to whatever they have because it's hard to
think about moving towards a new future.
And it's easy for El Salvador to do it because they don't have
the power, right. So it's easy for them to say we
can take an alternative route to getting more, to getting more
citizens and more money in our in our country.
And and it's the correct decision to make.
It's the right decision for them. 100%, I I 100% agree with
that statement, dude, it's it. It it's a lot easier, 'cause
they didn't have a legal tent, they didn't have a legal, they
didn't have a Fiat currency, they were using the dollar.
So they were already outsourcing their monetary policy and
they're just like, you know what, it's time to try something
new. And you know how I know that El
Salvador was over the target, the amount of attacks that were
coming from the legacy media, which I would say is an arm of
the government. Like I know that's very
controversial, but I mean I really suggest the Tucker
interview that dropped like two or three days ago.
There's so much fire in there. I I just, I see it.
You see the this legacy machine, legacy media machine.
And once you see you can't Unsee it like it's so crazy how like
they just act in like they they just like it's like a step by
step. As soon as Larry Fink and
BlackRock was like, you know, this Bitcoin stuff is dope, all
of a sudden, right? You, you have anchors on legacy
media defending Bitcoin to the death, even with Gary Gensler,
right? So like clearly, like the legacy
media, like it's it's just it's captured by special interests,
whether that's the government or these large corporations like
BlackRock. I just don't trust it.
I don't trust it. And the amount of vitriol, the
amount of hate going on to El Salvador, even though it's a
country that went through like a 30 year civil war, one of the
most violent countries, you know, until Bukele, of course.
And then they like got their stuff together and you would
they ignore every other country in Central America, right?
It's just they ignore that and they're like El Salvador is a
problem. And it's like, why is El
Salvador is a problem? Did you guys see?
Actually this reminds me, Opti, do you have the video of Bukele
replying to the BBC 'cause he just absolutely.
I can pull it out real quick. He just absolutely did, which I
think it's worth playing that video.
That video's so good because it was like 11 minutes long though,
right? Yeah, we won't play the whole
thing, but I do have it right here.
So one second all. Right.
Yeah. Because I think it's worth it
because it just kind of shows like, it just shows like how
disconnected it is. Thank.
You I. Don't think anybody could
suggest. That you haven't changed the
face of security in the last five years, but my question?
Is. It'll get louder.
Guys, hold on. Specifically.
In terms of thousands who have the rights organization, so no
consent will be. He's asking about the innocent
people that are locked up in. And I can pass, obviously on His
mother was bringing food to the prison where he was at.
It turns out he'd been moved to the secot some weeks, months in
fact, earlier, while she was faithfully bringing food to the
prison. Seems like he's completely lost
in the system. And there are two Ordoganis de
Liberacion in his name, one as recently as June last year and
yet he's simply not been released even over 20 days is
obviously now six months ago, by which time he should have been
out. I'm wondering what if if your
intention is to sort of work on the legal side of things,
assuming you win today and that you are president for the next
five years to start unpicking those sorts of problems and
errors in in in the state of exception.
And secondly, if you also plan to only serve one more term from
here, and if you don't plan to lift term limits altogether.
Thank you. Well, it's important to say that
every police in the world, because I find this some
somewhat amusing when they say, oh, but you know what, El
Salvador, they arrest people and some of the arrested are
innocent. And I'm a little baffled because
I wonder if in the UK all of the arrests are of guilty people or
your police. Some sometimes arrest innocent
people. I mean I bet there will be a
percentage of people arrested by UK police, the police of the
government that you work for. And they will arrest sometimes
innocent people as a mistake or because they were they had a
wrong tip or. But they will go to a judicial
system. If there were no arrest of
innocents in any. If there was one police in the
world, one police force, UK, Spain, France, you name it, any
country, the US, Canada, any police force that has only that
has zero percentage of margin of error.
They only arrest guilty people. Why you?
Why would you need prosecutors or defense or a justice system?
You will need that because the police is perfect in your
country. So every country in the world
will have an imperfect police. Now it is different when you
have in countries that promote ethnic cleansing for example.
Or they promote or they arrest political opponents or they
arrest a minority. But in our case all of the
arrests are made to end the bloodshed that was that was that
we lived for decades and we have ended it.
Now there are police made a couple of mistakes.
Of course they did. That's why our judicial system
has been freed innocent people and they will freed every
innocent people that that the police has wrongly arrested and
we have already freed 7000 people.
Now I would, I would assume that the criticism may come from a
hypothetical country that doesn't have any any arrest of
innocence. But I'm sure that in the UK they
do plenty arrest of innocent people And then they are proven
innocent in in court. But sometimes, and we have seen
a lot of cases in the US, in the UK, Europe that they find them
that they're innocent 20-30 years after being convicted
because they found some DNA evidence.
So what does that mean? That means that you shouldn't
arrest criminals. No, it means that police made a
mistake and some retributions have to be made to the people
that have been arrested wrongfully.
But we don't. We don't think, we think it's
it's weird or we're baffled by by the criticism of something
that you know, you well know that any police in the world
would make which is a small percentage of of innocent people
getting in the net. One point on that, of course, is
that 75,000 people in the space of the.
Year, so he just. Keeps going and he like
absolutely slays it. It is a pretty long video, but I
highly recommend checking it out.
And like, this is what I was talking about.
Like when I was talking about and he even said it like, like,
I don't know, is it like a Freudian slip or something?
But he even said it. He's like the government, you
know, the UK, the government that you work for.
Like he, well, Kelly even said it himself, right.
So, you know, this is what I'm talking about.
Is that like the media, the way that I see it, the legacy media,
like it's not it's clearly not unbiased.
It's clearly, it clearly has a bias.
It clearly, like, protects. It clearly is being used as a
mechanism. And I think this has been
happening for a long time. I just think that the Internet
really just opened our eyes to it.
I think before you could have made made the argument that we
were asleep, but I think the Internet opened our eyes to it
because of social media, right? So now you have the rise of
independent content and that independent content is is
telling you the truth more than the quote UN quote reputable
sources and you start to ask questions like you know like
what the F are having what what, what are these people been
telling me this entire time what is going on right.
So anyways, I want to get Sean's take, Opti's take, then let's
let's get to the culture. So I really love this because
this is something I've been talking about a lot, you know,
especially with with being down in El Salvador a couple of
times. I used to live in, in Honduras.
I lived in Honduras for two years, which borders El
Salvador. And I lived in the most
dangerous city in the world in Honduras at that time, and then
ended up the murder capital world, ended up coming to El
Salvador. And for me, it's like a lot of
people come with their eyes from the United States or from
England or from the Western world, and they want to judge a
country that's the murder capital of the world or that was
the murder capital of the world with the same liberal democracy
ideals that we have. And they want to impose that on
them. And it doesn't, it doesn't
translate, it doesn't work. And one of the other points that
that Buchelli ended up making, which I think is the greater
point is, you know, you know, you shouldn't have any errors in
making arrests. I agree like that should that
should be 0. But every country does it does
that make it an excuse? No, it doesn't make it an
excuse. But what the bigger point is in
my opinion is these gang members who who identified themselves as
killers and rapists by their tattoos and that's how they
identify themselves is by their tattoos that they have killed
and then they have raped. And so they identify, they self
identify themselves, they're bragging about their what
they've done and you know what are they doing?
They're killing innocent people. So the question is do do their
kids and their wives and their brothers and their sisters
deserve to be killed innocently because if they don't lock up
the criminals, that's what does happen.
And so that was, that was the dilemma that they faced, was
we're going to arrest all of these murders and criminals and
rapists. And when we do it, there's going
to be an air raid and we're going to arrest some people that
are innocent more than likely because that's what happens in
any police force. But that was the decision that
they made. And you know, and I think it
overall, I think it was the right decision to make.
I think if I was put in his shoes, I would have made the
same decision. And it's a hard decision to
make. But when you see innocent people
dying every day, then you realize, well, maybe if we have
to lock up some innocent people and they're in prison for a few
months, that's better than having our people dying and
being murdered innocently. And that that was, that was what
was, you know, weighing in the balance for them.
And I think it's the right decision.
And it was a tough decision. But look at El Salvador now.
It's a way more safer than it's ever been.
It's the safest country in all of Latin America now.
And if you talk to any Latin American outside of El Salvador
or inside of El Salvador, they all love Bukele.
If they're not in El Salvador, they say we wish Bukele was our
president. We wish he would do in our
country what he's done in El Salvador.
And it's like, would you rather have Biden as your leader or
Bukele like, look at how Bukele speaks.
He can do this in another language.
He can speak better in English than Biden can speak in English,
and that is what is pretty amazing.
So kudos to Buchelli and El Salvador and everything that
they're doing for their people. Yeah, 100%.
I think that's a really, really good take.
Opti, what's your take? Yeah, yeah, so we we strayed a
lot from the videos in the in the beginning.
So let me go back a little bit. First thing we start with like
the lightning, Exodus, dropping Lightning and the Coinbase.
Well you know Exodus is a shit coin wallet.
So connecting the dots, Coinbase is a shit coin casino.
So you. Can't play.
That card. I know, I know.
Satoshi did it. First, I know, I know.
So that's where I was going. You know, the cynical surface
level take is that they probably dropped lightning because
they're incentivized because of the shit coins.
But giving them the benefit of the doubt, we've been covering
the government crackdown on Bitcoin.
And it's definitely, definitely an attempt to try to hamper
Bitcoin. You know, shoot Bitcoin in the
knees hypothetically or metaphorically so that more
people don't use Bitcoin. And we know the classic playbook
flood Bitcoin and we know the classic shit coin playbook too
Fudd Bitcoin. So you buy my shit coin we we we
know the game being played. And then adding that with the
the lady I I don't know who she was and I don't know where she
was testifying. But that video of her testifying
on Bitcoin mining and tagging and bagging Bitcoin miners and
you know we've been saying that this was going to happen for a
while. Now they're actually saying it
out loud and it all goes back to the same thing when you connect
this to that Boris Johnson Tucker Carlson clip.
Don't watch or don't don't watch what I do.
Listen to what I say meme. We know that the people in
power, they maybe not everyone. I'll I'll give them the negative
benefit of the doubt here. But the people in power fully
understand Bitcoin as far as I'm concerned.
At first I was kind of naively thinking that yeah, maybe they
just don't understand Bitcoin because you can hear when they
talk about Bitcoin, they obviously don't technically
understand Bitcoin, but they understand what is at stake and
This is why we're seeing all of this stuff play out.
And when I saw that Tucker Call video, not gonna lie, I I kind
of maybe thought that Boris Johnson was kind of trolling
Tucker by saying, you know, $1,000,000 in cash, Bitcoin or
gold. And now whether that actually
happened or not within might be debatable.
But again, this goes back to the idea that the politicians, the
central bankers, you know, Jamie Dimon's been saying this for
forever, you know, Bitcoin for only criminals and yet he is the
authorized partner of the BlackRock ETF.
So again, they say things publicly and then behind the
scenes they embrace Bitcoin. So I wouldn't be surprised prize
if we learn that some of these big wigs that come out against
Bitcoin have huge Bitcoin stacks.
And again, it kind of goes into the Bitcoin is for enemies or
Bitcoin is for anyone. So obviously they see the value
of a currency that is separate from the ridiculous things that
the state is doing in every corner of the world.
And let's not forget, did you guys catch the Freudian slip in
that testimony from the lady you know, talking about hard forking
Bitcoin? Are we gonna, are we gonna get
an AirDrop soon? I am so hype.
Can we get an shit coin AirDrop soon?
That would be absolutely amazing, she did say.
Fork, she did say. She did say.
Fork. And then touching on that last
thing, Nico, you were you've been talking about it all week.
And last night I sat down and watched that Talker Carlson
interview with the, I think his name is Matt Benz.
And man, we've been saying this for a while and he just dropped
the receipts on that whole thing last night of the media
corruption and, you know, social media platform corruption and
controlling the narrative and the fact that the Internet has
disintermediated information and how they just were hopefully
unprepared for the boom of Internet and social media.
And it just goes to show that we are really ahead of the vanguard
here as Bitcoiners, as. As users of social media, as
users of Noster and, you know, Telegram and Signal and all the
stuff we talk about constantly that peer-to-peer communication,
peer-to-peer money. Like you're so ahead of the game
that that is why everyone thinks we're crazy is because when
you're that far ahead, everyone's like yo, you guys are
like you guys are in like a sci-fi future.
And I forget that the normie is still like stuck in the Fiat
mindset. They're still stuck in the Fiat
operating system and they don't understand that there is a
solution, that there is an exit route.
And This is why all of us bitcoiners realize the
importance of trying to incept these ideas and educate people
in Bitcoin. Because again I was even ranting
with Nico this morning. We just got on the call and
we're talking about, you know, what we're doing here at Simply
and how we can improve and and whether we're actually be doing
something of value. And we realize that there is
just such a long road ahead because so few people really
understand what is going on. They they really miss the trees
or miss the forest for the trees that they're they're
sleepwalking right now. And you guys have the tools.
We have the tools. Everyone's been talking about
the problems and people are addicted to talking about the
problems. Yet only bitcoiners are the ones
talking about the solution. And it's very simple.
Saving Bitcoin, stack Bitcoin, take Bitcoin into self custody,
and then continue to propagate the meme.
Some more people understand what is at stakes.
This is what we're all doing here.
You guys are frontline soldiers in the mimetic war that we find
ourselves in. Yeah, dude, Bars, bars,
absolutely. Yeah.
And it's, you know, it's a disintermediation of of
information and money. It's all happening at the same
time. And governments are just
unprepared. Like they're not, they're not
prepared for unapproved sources building their own platforms and
having their own ideas. And it's crazy to say that,
like, even in the US, like you'd you would think in the US, you
know, out of all countries, you know, the press would be free,
the press wouldn't be compromised.
But I think over the last five years, what it's really shown is
it's like, are they really journalists or are they
propagandists, 'cause they sound like propagandists to me, maybe.
I might be a little biased, but sure feels like that when I see
them attack, you know, tiny country of El Salvador because
they want to get their shit together.
Like, who are you? BBC?
Like you know, who are you to say that?
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Let's go. OK.
Well, Big Sean Harris, the one and only you kind of touched on
it in the beginning, but let's let's kind of go with like what
sparked the idea to do the Bitcoin having party and what is
the audience gonna gonna experience when they get down
there? Perfect.
Yeah, you know what sparked the
the Bitcoin having party for me was just my first having was in
2020 and I was getting really excited.
I started buying Bitcoin in 2019.
I was studying it all the way from 2017.
Two years later, I finally decided to buy.
And I was very excited for the halving because to me that was
like, oh, the last two halvings. Bitcoin just exploded in price.
And that's what I thought was going to happen.
And it did happen. And then 2020 rolled around and
it was the lamest thing that we've ever seen.
It was pomp on YouTube cracking a beer.
Like I said before, like that's what I did for the halving in
2020, and it sucked. And so since that moment, I was
like, we should do this, like we should do some type of
celebration. Then it just worked out
perfectly when El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender because
then it was like, now we have a place to do the having.
And I've known so many people that have wanted to go down
there that want to have an excuse to go down there.
And it's been great. You know, there's been we've had
right now we have almost 400 people that are coming to the
having party from all over the world.
I was just talking to a lady last night her family's coming
from Australia to the having party and she was just like, you
know we're so thankful that you you finally like we're getting
to El Salvador. And the reason we're getting
there is because of the having party.
And it just makes me really happy because I remember when I
first, when we first went after this, I was a little scared
because, you know, I put down about, you know, I was putting
down some down payments and getting things ready.
And I was like, I don't know if I'm ever going to see this back.
And it's been really cool to just see that if if you have a
goal, we can, we can go out there and make it happen.
And there's a lot of people that are going to come down.
So what to expect? We're going to have just a
blast. We're going to an all inclusive
resort. We're going to have the hardest
working men in Bitcoin, which is the simply Bitcoin crew right
here. Nikku and Opti are going to be
here. They're going to be there.
And in my opinion, they're the hardest working men in Bitcoin.
We're trying. I'm trying to catch up to them
and and so they're going to be there.
We're going to have a lot of good guests down there.
Obviously Max and Stacy are going to be there.
You know Preston Pish and Layer the part and a lot of good
people. You can see him right here.
Anders is going to be doing a toxic happy hour panel and
there's just a lot of good people that are going to be down
there to to celebrate, you know, Miss El Salvador, Mike Peterson
from Bitcoin Beach Tone Vase is going to be doing a poker night.
So it's just going to be a time for bitcoiners to get together
to meet in Bitcoin country. And we will have some speakers.
If you want to learn about Bitcoin, if you want to learn
about the having, if you want to learn how to self custody, BTC
Sessions is going to be there. There's going to be a lot of
good people there to teach you about Bitcoin.
But most importantly, when you go to a conference or you go to
an event that's based on Bitcoin, the best thing is you
get to meet your fellow Bitcoiners and you get to talk
with them and understand a little bit more about their
perspective. And you get to and you get to
move out of that rat race life of when everyone's talking
about, you know, current politics or the current whatever
the normie topic is. And you get to go deeper into
Bitcoin topics. And that's what's going to be
for three days. So we're really excited to to
host this and I see Elaine's comment, Elaine, we'll see you
in 2028, but for everybody else we'll be seeing you in 2024 at
the having party in El Salvador. And don't forget it's promo
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This is the event. If you know this is what I say
to everyone. If you wanted to get to El
Salvador and you haven't gotten there yet, this is your chance
to come to Bitcoin country. This is the time to do it.
There's no better time than right now because this is when
everyone else is coming and we are providing an awesome event
and I am personally excited because I'm making the event fun
for me and and I can't wait to meet everybody and to just have
a great time. Wait, Sean, I feel a little bit
rug pulled here because when you first pitched me on the Bitcoin
having party, you told me it was a party and not a conference.
And yet there's speakers. What's going on here?
Yeah, you're right. It is.
It is a party. It's not a conference.
But what else are we gonna do? We're bitcoiners.
We love talking about Bitcoin. We love talking about it and so.
The difference is that you have to fucking force all the
speakers just to take like 10 shots.
Before they like like it's gonna be, it's gonna be a lot less you
know formal right. And that's that's how we.
It's like the regular panel's just like, really fucked up like
that shit would. Be every every panel is a toxic
happy hour. Got it.
Oh man, that's. Hilarious, running three times a
day. That's hilarious.
All right, Well, Sean, I do have this video that Rope told me
that that's a little trailer, but also drop.
When is these dates so that the audio viewers listeners can?
April. We're running April 3rd through
the 5th. So this April through through
through the 5th, if you don't have a passport yet, you don't
have to worry, you can still get one expedited.
My brother just got a got his passport.
He got it in three weeks. Got it expedited, So don't worry
if you if you haven't had your passport yet and you want to
come, there's still plenty of time to to get your tickets.
Get your passport. Come on down.
Beautiful. Beautiful.
All right. All right.
Let's play a little bit of this little trailer from our boy rope
and then we can we can wrap this one up.
Oh wow. Very pretty.
I'm pretty sure this, but yeah. Yeah, let me let me mute this.
Let me mute the audio. And.
Then and then, yeah, we'll play let's.
Do you want to sing over it? No, no, no, no.
I actually, I actually want to ask Sean one more question
because I noticed that this isn't in Elzante.
So how close is this to Bitcoin Beach?
Correct. So, so you've been to Elzante
and you cannot fit 400 people in Elzante.
It's way too small to do that. But it's about an hour down the
coast from Elzante. So it's it's still right as you
can see it's right on the beach and there's these, there's nice
pools, there's four different restaurants, there's two
cafeterias that do buffet style food.
Will yellow be there? Yellow will be.
There in a puppet St. hopefully. In a puppet.
I don't want to see him in real life.
You're going. To meet you're going to meet
Yellow. You will meet Yellow.
His ticket is bought, his flight is bought, and he is coming.
So. OK, Yellow is coming that I'm
really excited for that. Does that say steakhouse?
Oh man. Yes, yeah, there is a
steakhouse. There is a steak.
That's one of the restaurants. That's where that looks
delicious. Yeah, yeah, they got ceviche.
They got desserts. They we're gonna have pupusas,
barbecues, they got cultural shows and rope and yellow are
gonna fall in love. Oh man, no meant to be meant to
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opting. I will be there.
Hope to see you guys there. It's gonna be a big celebration
celebrating bitcoins, what it's like 4th halving, third halving,
3rd or 4th halving. 4th halving with epoch.
Let's epoch so. It's a, it's.
A new it's a new it's a new day in Bitcoin.
Hopefully this is gonna make the price moon and.
I'm really freaking. Wait, Nico, before we fully wrap
this up, because Sean, I have one of my favorite, one of my
favorite people. He's got that winner's
mentality. I I just love where his head's
at. You know, ex pro basketball
player, he knows how to win in life.
So I want to give you the opportunity to just drop the
last two sets on our audience. It could be about the having
party. It could be about life in
general, it could be about Bitcoin.
What's the last message you want to leave with the audience?
My, my last message is, thank you by the way, is when is if
you want to build something on Bitcoin, you don't have to be a
developer to build something on Bitcoin.
And I'm proof of it. I'm a basketball player and I'm
able to build something called the having party on top of
Bitcoin. And so I think that was one
thing that I was worried about when I've seen what Bitcoin can
do, and I want to be a part of this revolution, and I felt like
I couldn't be because I don't know how to code.
And and I just made the jump. I had an idea and I have the
Mean factory with me. And I couldn't have done this
with, you know, this is not just me, This is the mean factory,
that we're doing it together. We have an amazing sponsor, by
the way, named Amber App that's really helping us out.
But more than anything, if you want to go after your goals and
you want to build something on Bitcoin, I mean, look at Nikko
and Opti. They're doing something amazing
right now with simply Bitcoin. They're not developers either.
And so if you feel like you have an idea, you want to make a
difference, you want to do your part in Bitcoin, go after it.
You can get it done. It's scary at first, but believe
me, the right people will pop up along the way to help you along.
And you can always reach out to me.
You can reach out to these guys, and if we can help connect you
to the right people in Bitcoin, we will.
And there's always new things to be built, because this is gonna
be the bedrock of our financial world in the future, and
everything will have to be built on it, just like everything's
built on the Internet right now. Everything will be built on top
of Bitcoin. So get started.
We need more things that are built on Bitcoin.
Amen to that man that was. Beautifully said.
I completely agree. That is, that's what Opti was
referencing. The winner's mentality.
Yeah man, you you got to think that way.
You got to think that way. You.
Know, let me cut you off real quick.
We were literally talking about this exact thing this morning.
We're like, man, are we are we doing anything of value here?
We're just like, yeah, look backwards and then look where
we're going and just enjoy the moment.
It's it's it's weird because like you know, like we are happy
be getting a hundred a hundred live viewers last year and then
you know this year we're like 5-6 hundred and we're like oh
OK, you know, and it's it's just it's crazy how that kind of
happens. But I'll tell you this guys,
it's my seventh year in Bitcoin. It's gonna be the fourth years
of simply Bitcoin dreams come true.
You just have to work really fucking hard and it's gonna be
extremely painful and you're gonna have a lot of moments
where you completely doubt yourself.
I also wanna give a shout out to the rest of the Simply Bitcoin
crew, cuz this wouldn't be possible without them.
So of course, Winekiss Ruston, John Sartak Ani Jack's, Jack's.
Yeah, Sophie, Morpheus, Sophie. Wait, Sophie might be the
biggest unsung hero because she's got to deal with Nico
every day, So. She's the best place.
The numbers. So she does.
So. So yeah, so you know, it
wouldn't be possible about the rest of the Simply Bitcoin crew.
Really. We have this amazing team.
We're blessed. But yeah, if you guys have a
dream or something, you want to contribute to Bitcoin, attack
it. I had no experience in media
whatsoever and it completely opened the doors for me just
starting this journey And then I'm, I'm, I'm assuming Sean, you
had no experience kind of throwing events.
No, so. I'm assuming you learned a lot
of things along the way and you'll refine it for next time.
So yeah, it's it's, you know, it's funny how life works like
that, but we're incredibly excited.
Simply Bitcoin will be at the having party.
I believe we will have a panel as well.
We're going to have like a simply Bitcoin live Winekiss is
going to join us on stage. It's going to be great and it's
going to be a lot of fun. So guys, use promo code.
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