It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
It's. Going up forever.
You're against Bitcoin. You're against freedom because
they, well, because they want to sell.
It eventually Michael. I mean let's be honest most of
the people who are, yes sure some people pass it on to their
children, but like most of the people who are buying assets at
some point want to sell the assets at a profit.
So let. Me say it differently.
People that use Fiat currency as a store of value, there's a name
for them. We call them poor.
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Welcome to simply Bitcoin. I just look, I I mean Michael
Saylor is not only talking the talk, right?
So we played you guys that clip. When it broke, you know, it
literally broke the Internet, Broke Bitcoin.
Twitter better said we are still in our echo chamber even though
we're breaking through it. But also something to keep in
mind is that not only does he talk the talk, he walks the
walk, he doubled down, he continued.
He continues his speculative attack on the dollar micro
strategy announced literally like two days after they
announced their first proposal. But they just announced a new
proposed private offering of $500 million of convertible
senior notes. This is an addition to the 800
million UH offering of convertible notes, which they
offered in the same week. And by the way, so it was they
are he offered the $800 million offering.
He had that media interview and then the next day they announced
the $500 million offering. Michael Saylor what an absolute
Chad. Not only talking the talk but
walking the walk and this is a speculative attack on the
dollar. Like it's it's it's crazy that
he continues to do this. But I mean look he's very, very
convinced and he's very convicted as we all because we
know that Bitcoin is you know the best money that has ever
existed in the history of mankind.
Also breaking news, Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto ruled by
a judge and the the summary was it was there is there's nothing
open to interpretation anymore. I'll read you guys the exact
quote from the judge when we get to the new segment, but
basically said, look, you did not write the white paper, you
did not invite, you did not invent this technology.
This is vindication for not only Peter McCormack but also our boy
the space cat Hodlenaut that have been persecuted by Craig
Wright and Co in order to silence them for for, you know,
basically saying that he isn't Satoshi.
I mean Satoshi that invented Bitcoin, right?
Or discovered Bitcoin. However which way you want to
see it. You would think that you know
unsensible money. You would.
And you'd think that the creator of unsensible money would use
the state would use law fair to try to silence someone else.
I mean you know it doesn't quite make sense.
So this is, you know. Again shout out to Hodelna and
McCormack. They were attacked financially
millions of dollars in legal fees.
So for them to finally be vindicated, this is a, this is a
this is a big win for Bitcoin and big win for Bitcoiners,
right? I, I, I, I, I believe that you
know Craig Wright was an enemy of Bitcoin.
You know, attacking fellow Bitcoiners, you know for for
differences of opinion and then trying to use law fair to
silence them. That's not cool.
So we'll get to that also. And then I also want to focus on
the so-called TikTok ban bill. There's two sides to this,
right? So we're going to talk about
that and I'm going to connect it with what's happening in Canada.
Supposedly, there's a draft Canada law that Wood Forest
social media companies to quickly remove harmful content.
Now the problem with this is who gets to determine what harmful
content is, right? So let's say you're the
political party in power and your political opponents are,
you know, posting some things that perhaps make you look bad.
You could say that's harmful content.
They've done that in the past before, right?
You've heard this with, you know, the whole hate speech,
misinformation. You've heard these things
before. And that's exactly why, you
know, the 1st Amendment is structured, how the 1st
Amendment is structured in the United States.
Because the Founding Fathers realize that, like look, if
government gets to decide what speech is acceptable and what
speech is not acceptable, government is going to use that
as a political Moat to protect themselves.
So very interesting discussion. And of course we have two
legendary bitcoiners. Also because of mine of course
about BJ Ditcher and Brandy Brandon Gentle.
They are the host of the Political Bitcoin Hour Twitter
Spaces. BJ is the author of Honking for
Freedom, also a freedom fighter himself.
He was part of the Canadian truckers protest.
Shout out to BJ and of course Brandon is the head of marketing
for BTC trading cards and my legendary Co host.
Always optimistic, he has a giant smile on his face today,
which means it's going to be an excellent show.
The one the only Optimus fields. How you doing Opti?
I'm doing wonderful, man. I'm doing great.
Life's great. Life is beautiful.
Here we are. We get to be bitcoiners.
We get to watch clown world burn around us while we build a
better world. And yeah man, I'm, I'm excited
for this one. You know, I I love BJ and
Brandon and every time I talk with them we always go into the
weeds on on all kinds of awesome conversations.
And you know today's culture is going to be one of those where I
know it's going to get spicy for everyone in the chat.
I know this is going to be Nico's favorite conversation
too. The importance of bitcoiners
getting political or whether it matters or not, and I mean also
since considering we're talking about Canada, I I feel like we
couldn't have a better guess than BJ on the show today as
well. And man, just just super hype,
super hype to be here man. Nico, we we got the best job
ever. Yeah, we're we're, we're pretty
lucky man to be able to talk about Bitcoin every single day.
But that wouldn't be possible without all our fans, all our
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Holy cow. We got so many super chats
yesterday. We're blessed.
And we appreciate you all. Anyways, BJ, how you doing, man?
Bro, last time I think I saw you, we were we were in Miami
together. You're in Miami.
You should be in Miami soon, right?
Maybe. Maybe yes.
No. Maybe so.
I'm in and I will be down. Dinner again.
I know you're not sleeping at all with the so why do you?
You don't deserve an hour's out for drinks with myself, brother.
And I hope you're all well. Oh man.
Well, I'm excited. I'm excited to get to hang out
with you again. And yeah, well, you know I am.
I am working on fumes. It's it's crazy.
But shout out to my wife, Internet Sophie, 'cause she's
been absolutely crushing it, being a mom, Just, you know,
being on top of everything. Anyways, Brandon, how you doing,
man? I think last time that we
crossed paths was at Unconfiscatable Epic Conference
and good to see you again and happy to have you on the show.
Yeah, thanks, Nico. Opti having us on this is an
absolute blast. And yeah, looking forward to
some conferences this year with you guys and probably a bit
block boom coming up and so really excited about that and
man, it's going to be a good show.
Yeah man. I'm excited.
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OK, so one of the themes in the show that we talk about right is
the separation of money and state, right.
The peaceful revolution. But what started this
revolution? What started the fire, right?
What kindled that fire? What started it?
It was the Internet in the Internet.
What? What the Internet did, What the
Internet enabled individuals to do, is basically circumvent the
gatekeepers of information. It disintermediated information.
It democratize the process of broadcasting, right?
So all of a sudden this in exists. 15 years ago, any person
could buy themselves a microphone and a camera, create,
you know, an account on the multiple different platforms.
Now you can, you know, create an account on Noster and you
literally can't be banned. Period.
Right. And you could broadcast to the
world directly, peer-to-peer, right?
So I can broadcast to you. I can make my thoughts known, my
speech known, and, you know, can't really do anything about
it. The governments are having a
hard time doing something about it.
And of course, it's kind of like throwing them into a frenzy
because they've been used to operating in a world where
there's been a handful of legacy media institutions.
And you know, there's been many, many examples throughout history
where those legacy media institutions that you, you know,
would trust, so to speak, it's come out that they weren't
exactly so truthful. And that's why I believe you
have, you know, the most popular broadcasters in the world are
not legacy media. They're individuals like Joe
Rogan. They're individuals like Tucker
Carlson, of course. And you can make, you can make
the case that they're exactly not that, that you know, they
have their own biases. But I would like to believe that
in a world where everyone is able to speak their mind, let
the free market of ideas get to decide, you know, what ideas are
good and what ideas are bad. I don't think, you know, got
powerful government bureaucrats should be, should have a
monopoly on that. Anyways, So, look, so with
everything I just said, connect it with this, right?
And you know, of course, Joe Biden, current president of the
United States, he grew up in a world where, you know, there was
only a handful of legacy media institutions, right.
So, you know, they're able to get away with stuff like this.
So let's check out what he has to say.
So now we have among the lowest inflation rates of any country
in America. And still we're still fighting
to lower it even further. So like not to mention the fact
that you can't really understand what he's saying, right.
We have one of the lowest inflation rates of any country
in America. I mean so first of all, the
actual statement itself doesn't really make sense.
And then the, the other statement which is the idea of
like, OK, yes, the, the inflation has been lowered.
OK, great. But just because inflation, the,
the, the rate of which your money is losing purchasing power
is decreasing, that doesn't necessarily equate to prices
going back down to where they were before the spending spree
that was justified because of the pandemic, right.
And of course they blame the war and they blame the supply chains
and they blame everything in their mother, right.
So yes, they're able to kind of get away with a lot of these,
you know, a lot of these things because again, they've been used
to somewhat controlling the the information rails.
And then this leads me to my other point, right.
So governments all around the world in, in the, in, in the EU,
in Canada and the United States are kind of trying to do
something about, I mean again, it's kind of like a losing
battle, right? The the best you know, quote
that comes to mind is you can't stop by an idea whose time has
come. You know, the printing press and
how that completely changed everything.
The Internet's changed everything, right?
But of course the old world is adjusting to that.
There's a bit of a, there's a little bit of chaos because of
that. But this is one of the latest
attempts and this is kind of scary, right?
And if you pull up like CNN or something on Instagram in
Canada, it will literally tell you, like we can't show you this
because of some like Law and count, which is absolutely crazy
that we live in this type of world.
But anyways, the headline of this article is Canada Law Woods
for social media companies to quickly remove harmful content.
Who gets to decide what is harmful content?
And bringing this back to United States, yesterday the so-called
TikTok ban, the TikTok, the TikTok bill was passed and here
is Representative Mike Gallagher.
And by the way, this was a bipartisan thing.
So this is Republicans and Democrats.
And you know, here's a quote that he said during his speech.
He said becoming the dominant because TikTok was becoming the
dominant news platform for Americans under 30.
Now of course, there's two sides to this and I'll get to it, but
I'm going to get to the Bitcoin side 1st and then I'll pass it
on to BJ to talk about the other side, the other perspective.
So here's CK he was the, the he was, he was basically running
Bitcoin Magazine for a while. Now he's with the Human Rights
Foundation. He said this tiktok ban is a
wolf in sheep's clothing. It's more about control than it
is about Tiktok. Here's Odell.
This is a screenshot from Noster.
I'm assuming this is the primal app.
He says the Tiktok ban bill going through Congress right now
will give government insane power to restrict speech.
At the same time, Section 230 protections are about to be
neutered by the Supreme Court, which will add an insane amount
of liability to centralized platforms, inevitably increasing
censorship. Restricting free speech in
America has bipartisan support among our corrupt political
class. Noster is about to have its
moment to shine. We need to be ready for billions
of new users. So I think that's a really good
point from Odell. But BJ, we were talking kind of
before you had a little bit of a little bit of a different kind
of perspective on the on the TikTok bill because again, it's
not so black and white, right, Tiktok, You know guys, if you
ever go on a shorts feed on YouTube on Tiktok, before you
know it, you've lost like 30 or 40 minutes of your time it the
platforms are literally like designed to hijack your dopamine
receptors and you just to start scrolling.
Now the problem is that the content of which they show in
China is actually like productive content, right?
It's like it's wholesome content.
It like it encourages you to, you know, go and, you know, do
exercise and do this. And you know, you could say that
the content here in the US isn't exactly, you know, the
healthiest content for, you know, the younger generation to
consume. So I I see kind of two points
here. BJ point #1 is OK.
I, you know, I wouldn't put it past the government that is
definitely feeling the pain of social media and getting, you
know, fact checked in real time and people talking peer-to-peer.
I wouldn't put put it past the government to take advantage of
all these parents up in arms to, you know, pass a bill that, you
know, gives the executive branch this crazy power just to kind
of, you know, restrict certain types of websites, like you
said. But at the same time, like, I
don't think that the CCP has the best interests of, you know, of
the American public, right. You could even say they're
adversaries. So BJ, what's your, what's your
thoughts on all this, you know, the censorship of speech and.
And again guys, this is a Bitcoin show.
The freedom of speech is the frontline for the battle for
Bitcoin. If if you don't think that
they're going to be OK with you speaking freely, they're
definitely not going to be OK with you transacting freely.
BJ. Wow, that's a lot to uncover in
just a couple of minutes, but I'll try to make it short.
I mean, look, I am as free speech, anti censorship,
absolutist, as humanly possible. As you know, I had all my bank
accounts frozen, my credit cards, my lines of credit,
absolutely everything frozen because of the of our desire to
speak and speak out against what the Trudeau government was
doing. And by the way, it's not just
the Trudeau government. It's not about left or right.
This is about top versus bottom. The political establishment who
thinks they're living in the 1960s of unidirectional media
and they don't want to engage in the open discourse and debate
with bi directional media, which is the nature of the world that
we live in today. Now I think we're conflating.
I mean, there's a lot of nuance here, but I think we're
conflating 2 separate things. So firstly, on the TikTok side,
I'm very sympathetic. I think we all are.
Those of us who understand, who have a background in
communications, some degree of persuasion and marketing, that
TikTok has been turned into a cyber weapon within the US and
it targets younger people who are easily brainwashed and
influenced. That's why TikTok is banned
within China. So it's banned within their own
jurisdiction, but they're utilizing it for degeneracy.
Here I have a sister-in-law who is very high up in public health
and she was telling me over, you know, they have Christmas
dinner. So over their Christmas dinner
she says to me, you wouldn't believe when we see the text
messages from kids in middle school, she said, you know what
they talk about? And I said no, she said.
They obsess over one thing and one thing only, their gender.
They don't know if they're a boy.
They don't know if they're a girl.
Their gender fluid. Should they change their gender?
Should they get puberty blockers?
Where can I get puberty blockers without my parents knowing?
She said. It's bored.
It's on the point that it is obsessive behavior, she said.
They don't talk about cars, They don't talk about sports.
They don't talk about dolls. They don't talk about the things
that kids would traditionally have spoken about at that age in
previous generations, so that needs to be addressed.
However, what we've seen once again the political class
stabbing all of us in the back by inserting a poison pill in
this bill which gives the President absolute powers for
censorship. Which I'm not in favour of
either and I'm. I'm really shocked and surprised
that it went through with the poison poison pill on the
Canadian side for the Online Harms bill or the Online Harms
Act. What that is, it is not yet
passed. I think it went through first
reading, if I'm not mistaken. Remember, you have a
parliamentary process. It is designed for obviously for
people online, not limited to online, and this is what it
says. There's two aspects that are
very, very dangerous of this. OK, very short.
It says section 320.1001. Everyone who can.
Anyone who commits an offence under this Act or any other Act
of Parliament, if the Commission of the offence is motivated by
hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, colour,
religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sex
orientation or gender ideology, ideology or expression, is
guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment
for life for life, which is 25 years under Canadian law.
This is the part that Scott Adams read a few days ago.
Then there's another aspect to it, very important, that ties
into it very short 810.012. A person may, with the Attorney
General's consent, lay an information before a provincial
Court judge. If the person fears on
reasonable grounds, whatever that is, then another person
will commit an offence under section 318 or any of its
subsections. An offence under section 320.
What does that mean? That means, Nico, I think you
might commit some hate speech in the future that I find
offensive. So I'm going to drag you to not
the regular court system, but the Human Rights Commission,
which Jordan Peterson made very famous.
It's a parallel court system, not based on objective facts,
but based on feelings and emotions, not ruled on by a
judge, but by a justice of the peace.
And it's all subjective and I can in the past, many comedians
have been dragged through the Human Rights Commission and then
issued fines. But Section 17 was removed about
10 years ago. They want to bring it back and
give the Human Rights Commission the power of imprisonment for
life for saying something that somebody doesn't like.
I think those that is very, very overwhelming.
And that's also separate from the the TikTok issued.
Have I made like my case out well?
100% you. You laid it out in such an
amazing manner. And just to give that context
and you know, I was basically trying to paint an overall kind
of overarching, overarching narrative just to kind of show
everyone where we are in history and the separation of money and
state, the great disintermediation that was
caused by the Internet. But you really dug deep into the
details and the the nuances of both those elements.
I really, really appreciate that BJ.
But yeah, man, this is go ahead. What happens when Bitcoin is
considered far right hate speech?
Oh, Nico wanted to teach me about Bitcoin.
He wanted to recruit me into hate speech.
He should be arrested. Let's take him in front of the
Human Rights Tribunal A. 100% And then you know what, what,
what, when are they going to say that?
You know and you're already starting to see this.
And I don't know if we're going to have time to cover this today
guys, but we're going to cover it on Friday at least.
But some news coming out of Nigeria, Nigerian authorities
blame Binance for the 70% Naira devaluation and move to issue
arrest warrant against CEO and some other news.
Also JP Morgan Bitcoin surge could raise concerns at the Fed.
So you kind of see where this is going, right?
Where they will use Bitcoin as the excuse as to why Fiat is
failing, the excuse as to why the welfare state is breaking
down. And you can see them going after
Bitcoiners. Right.
And this is something again, that it it, it's not only you
kind of start to see the ominous clouds in the distance, but this
is something that was predicted in the book, the sovereign
individual, right. You know, if you have people
that have been living in, in this world for in this very
specific type of world for a very long time.
Right. So yeah, BJ, thank you so much
for breaking down the nuances and the details, but this is
what it's all about, guys. Keep up the pressure.
Your #1 weapon and all this is, this is not a kinetic war.
Your #1 weapon here is just the truth.
You know, get people informed. Because the reality is that a
lot of these politicians take advantage of a lot of people
that perhaps are not informed, like they're not fully aware of
what is actually going on. They're still consumers of of
what I call the controlled media.
Anyways, I'm gonna pass it on to Brandon.
Brandon, what are your thoughts on this?
Your guy, you guys host a, you know a a a space is called the
political Bitcoin Hour. So I'm assuming that you guys
have talked about this somewhat. Yeah, we we just talked about
this yesterday, Wednesday at at 1:00 Eastern Time is when we we
do this, we go for a couple hours and join up with Toxic
Happy hour actually. But First off, really quick to
Congrats to you and Sophie, by the way, I didn't say that
earlier on the little one, Nico, so Congrats there.
But yeah, this is, you know, it's the whole like, you know,
people saying billionaires forgot who it was this week.
But it was saying that, you know, billionaire should, you
know, not put a smile on their face.
They should be just giving away their money just wherever and
whenever with no strings attached.
And you see this, this ruling class, you know, whether it's
Rogan or Musk or Taylor, so really pointed at these people.
But you see, you know, we have to join the political discourse.
You just have to and it's you have to overwhelm the system and
decentralized powers are not used to being talked back to.
Period. They, you know, think of think
of some of these families. They're hundreds of years in
power. Hundreds of years.
They've never been talked back to in their life.
And you just mentioned it earlier, Nico, and you too, BJ.
But these people have never heard anyone, anyone, I mean for
hundreds and thousands of years, they just, you just go to jail.
Someone did anything. I mean, you can look through the
Bible. You can look your history books
and it's it's throughout the entire thing that you just jail.
You'd kill them. You'd cut their head off
whatever it was like, OK, get out of here bud.
And now for the first time in human history with Bitcoin, with
separation of church and state, but then now the separation of
money and state and now the separation of media and state,
they have this real threat to their, you know, oligopoly,
whatever you want to call it, this, this power structure that
they've built. And they, they don't know what
to do. And that's why it's going to get
worse before it gets better. And you know, after you in the
space, as I was joking with you guys earlier, that you need to
bring it back. But we used to say all the time,
you know they you don't none of us want to be martyrs, but some
people will be. You know, we need some martyrs
in society. We need you know, like we talked
about huddle now. We talked about Peter McCormick
already And these things happen and they're going to continue to
happen until we push this political discourse to a point
because and and BJ says it's all the time too is the Breitbart
quote of politics is downstream from from culture and you have
to keep pushing the culture and doing what we're all doing here
every single day. Overwhelm this is done more
podcast more blogs more TV spots whatever it is and whatever
everyone can do to continue the the narrative because this stuff
is real. The TikTok bill.
I mean this is This is why we started political Bitcoin hour.
This is why we started Bitcoin trading cards as well and what
we're doing there because we have to get the kids we got to
pull them away from a screen somehow.
How are you going to learn? They're not learning in
government schools. We all know that.
They're not learning it on TikTok.
They're not learning it on Instagram.
They're not learning it in this digital world.
Like you said Nico he's the the dopamine hits you get from it
are incredible. So how do we pull them away from
this and learn in a different way And and that's why we
started some of these initiatives and some of these
things to do something differently.
I mean you look at the, what is it, TikTok bill or Bill C63 in
Canada, the the Dame mining tax bill, omnibus bills.
I mean you go on down the list, it's it's endless and it's, it's
almost, it's speeding up, right, 'cause they're the the drowning
man in the water and they're going to get crazier and crazier
as you're as you're trying to rescue a drowning man.
What is he doing? He's, he's grabbing at you.
He's pulling you under the water and that's a part of that.
You know, then they fight you stage we're in right now. 100
percent, 100% Also shout out to Breitbart.
Absolute legend, a man before his time.
Guys, if you see Breitbart interviews from, you know, 1012
years ago, he predicted a lot of the things that are coming true
now. So shout out to Breitbart
anyways, Opti, what are your thoughts on this, brother?
Yeah, I'll go also. Speaking of martyr, Opti is not
a degenerate anymore. He told me that he's not a
degenerate anymore, so. We're using.
I'm calling him St. Opti from.
Always has, but always. Forward so when I.
Hold on, let's kick him off. Well, that's enough of that.
That's enough of that. When Bitcoin hits 150, K Opti
will become. A priest.
He took me last night. I don't know about all that.
I don't know about all anyway. Anyway, let's get back to the
topic here. Miko's always got to troll me on
the show. First and foremost, I totally
agree with everything that BJ and Brandon and Niko was saying.
It really I think is an important thing point to make
that this is the cultural war happening in real time.
And we know that. Like I don't know if you guys
watched that Mike Bend interview with Tucker Carlson a couple of
weeks ago or last week or so. But he said something in there
that we say all the time on this show and he has a like an
encyclopedic memory on what's going on.
Names and figures and something Nico and I always say on the
show is like the establishment wasn't ready for the Internet
and social media and all of us having these conversations and
spreading the truth and spreading the signal.
And so now it's them trying to fight back.
And the same thing is happening with Bitcoin, where they're
losing control of the money and it all goes hand in hand.
I know someone in the chat was kind of like, wait, I thought
this was a Bitcoin show? What are they even talking
about? Well, I know we, we talked about
in the chat, but freedom of speech is a Bitcoin issue.
Like, if you think that you can't talk freely on the
Internet, what makes you think that you're going to be able to
transact freely? These things go hand in hand.
And the establishment wasn't ready for Bitcoin to basically
free all of us transacting, sending money where we want
without them being the middleman.
And now they're trying to scramble and control it.
So we're seeing in real time that what the Internet did to
information, Bitcoin is doing for finances.
And you know, Bitcoin is code, Bitcoin is speech.
And so the more they try to trample on communication and the
more they try to corral information, the more you know
that we are winning and that we have to continue to spread the
signal. And then just like touching on
the TikTok stuff, because I don't wanna rehash what you guys
are saying, but personally, it just kind of always goes back to
that meme that a a government will not let an emergency go.
What's the saying? I forget I'm.
It's a Churchill quote and it's like never let a crisis go.
Yeah, never go exactly. And so you're seeing that now we
have a new boogeyman, you know the the IT was Russia for a
little bit and now it's becoming China again.
And so they're they're aiming this as a way of like protecting
American citizens from China. And you know, like I don't like
TikTok, it's a necessary evil for us.
We're we're posting stuff over there on TikTok.
But you're seeing in the wording of this bill that was passed
that it's going to be just wholesale for any website.
It's starting to get aimed at exactly what BJ was saying about
in Canada, that if you are saying things that are going
against the establishment, then they have full reign to
basically shut you down. Fine, you.
And so again, this is just part of that culture war going on
where they are losing control. Or rather, in my opinion, they
have lost control of information.
They have lost control on the monopoly of the narrative.
And now they're trying to scramble and find new ways to
ensure that their narrative is getting propagated.
Because all of us on Twitter are just, you know, the the Twitter,
what's Fact Check. You know, the Twitter community
notes like they can't get away with just propagandizing people.
And now they're trying to figure out ways how to use the courts
and the laws to basically push all you guys back into the box
because they've lost that control.
And so freedom of speech is a Bitcoin issue.
Bitcoin is literally code. It's ones in zeros.
It's letters. And so the more they try to
control information, not only do I know that we're on the right
side of history here, but the more I know that they're
scrambling and they're very concerned about us having these
conversations and hence why we do our show in such a certain
way so that YouTube doesn't nuke us.
So guys, we know what's going on.
We see the writing on the wall, but it's kind of one of those
necessary evils where we got to go meet people and try to plant
these seeds of freedom and these ideas of freedom in people's
minds and show the hypocrisy so they understand what is actually
at stake. It's literally all at stake
right now. It is bit corner.
Slavery. Oh beautiful.
Beautifully said. By the way, Shout out to the
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gentlemen. Let's see where MicroStrategy
stands and this number is going to go up.
I think Michael Saylor wants to get to that 1% number.
He's currently, Microstrategy's holdings currently stick stand
at 205,000 Bitcoin and Fidelity, Wow Man, Fidelity and BlackRock.
Fidelity currently stands at 132,000 and BlackRock 223,000
Bitcoin. It took MicroStrategy 3 years to
accumulate their Bitcoin stack. It took BlackRock, you know, a
matter of months, right? And that institutional interest
continues to go through the roof.
You could see it with the lines, you know again guys they
wouldn't be stacking if it wasn't their customers buying
it, right. So that's that's kind of a big
deal. Anyways, quick updates on this
this saga this man, this has lasted a very very long time.
A very very long time and then shame on you know Craig Wright
and you know and and Calvin for for doing this for.
And again, look, you can make a claim, right?
But you know, there's there's these awesome things called
cryptographic proofs you can sign for addresses that you
know, that, that a lot of people believe belong to Satoshi.
To prove that you're Satoshi #1. I don't think Satoshi would do
that because I think that part of Bitcoin's mythology, part of
Bitcoin's power, is the fact that the ruler stepped away.
The creator stepped away, not the ruler.
The creator stepped away from his creation and left it to its
own devices. I don't think it would be a good
idea if people knew the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto.
I think that would put a target under his on his back.
I think that's the reason why he disappeared.
People would start to see the flaws in the human being or the
group of human beings that are behind Satoshi Nakamoto, rather
than focus on what was left, what was created, which is
Bitcoin, right? And then again, because it's
anonymous, because Satoshi's not here anymore, because he's
basically disappeared. We are all Satoshi in a way,
except for Craig Wright. And you know, this is it.
It was, you know, it was a tragedy.
It was a tragedy what happened to HOT or not.
And it was a tragedy what happened to Peter McCormack
getting law fair basically trying to silence them for
calling Craig Wright not Satoshi and again that could have been
an opinion. Craig Wright had multiple
instances to prove that he's that he know he he as he he is
who he claimed he he is or he was.
But that's over now. And we, you know we we we've
tended not to be so blunt and open about it you know on simply
Bitcoin. But this is a judge now saying
that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto.
Not to mention the fact that judges in three different
jurisdictions, Florida, the United Kingdom.
And I think Hadanat's trial was like in Norway, I believe, but
in three of those jurisdictions, the judge and you know, some
were a little bit nicer than others, but they basically said
that Craig Wright was dishonest in a lot of his testimony,
right. So in three separate
jurisdictions, you know, multiple judges has said, you
know, Craig Wright is being dishonest now it is so point
blank. It is so blunt in this latest
ruling that it's undeniable and the judge made it undeniable,
right? So this Wahanat said the judge
just ruled from the bench. Craig Wright is not Satoshi
Nakamoto. Further findings of fraud will
come in the written judgment. Welcome to law.
Welcome to law is a line that Craig Wright famously used to
prove. You know, he'd say, listen,
we're going to sue you out of existence.
Welcome to law. You know, sailors jumping in
saying Craig Wright is not Satoshi.
And here is the actual quote from the judge itself, from the
judge himself. And here is of course, Jack
Dorsey, you know, fellow Bitcoiner posting the quote and
he says W up top for for when says quote, I will make certain
declarations which I am satisfied or useful and are
necessary to do justice between the parties.
First, that Doctor Wright is not the author of the Bitcoin white
paper. 2nd Doctor Wright is not the person who adopted or
operated under the pseudonym pseudonym Opti.
How do you say that word? Holy cow.
All right guys, forgive me English.
My second language, Satoshi Nakamoto in the period of 2008
to 2011. Third, Doctor Wright is not the
person who created the Bitcoin system.
And 4th he is not the author of the initial version of the
Bitcoin. Softer.
Any further relief will be dealt with in my written judgment.
I will extend time for filing any appellants notice until 21
days after the form of order hearing, which will be appointed
following the hand down of my written judgment.
And I asked the parties to seek to agree and order giving effect
to what I have just stated. So I mean, look, you can't be
more blunt than that. There is no doubt left there.
There's just no doubt. There's no like anything left
that could be interpreted in a different light.
The judge was pretty blunt, like he said it like this guy did not
create Bitcoin. The white paper, the early firms
of the software, This guy is not Satoshi Nakamoto, full stop,
period. Right.
So again, congratulations to to Hoddle.
Not congratulations to Peter McCormack.
They, you know, they took the blunt of this and I'm sure that
there's other bitcoiners that were pursued as well.
Congratulations to them. And this is a big win for the
Bitcoin community. BJ, what do you what do you
think about this man? Well, I think law fair is one of
the biggest problems in society right now that often gets
ignored. It's ignored by all our
politicians because it's just another form of censorship.
I've been through it myself. I'm going through it right now.
You know, the truckers and I, about 400 plus of us have been
slapped with a $450 million law fair harassment suit by people
who are tied to the Trudeau government or the the Liberal
Party. I talked about it on
trigonometry when I was interviewed on them in the UK.
This is a very, very serious problem.
And this is also why we do need to get involved in politics.
I know Bitcoiners hate politics and I get it, politics is
garbage. But Paraceles, the Greek
philosopher, said just because you don't take an interest in
politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
So our means of fighting back is putting the pressure of
governments and legislators on people like Craig Wright.
And I know many of us are anti statist, I get that.
But you got to use the tools that are in front of you because
if not, we're all just going to be the victims and we're going
to be the ones that are targeted permanently.
We need to fight back. 100% beautifully said.
Also want to give a shout out to our first super chat of the day,
we from Thomas Hara up. There we go.
I'm having trouble so I'm going to read it.
I'm having trouble pulling it up for some reason, but Thomas
Harris said support the show, guys, exclamation mark.
Appreciate it. Thomas, thank you so much for
the Super chat. Anyways, I'm going to pass it on
to Brandon. Brandon, what's your take on
this, man? Like, you know, we we've all
been, you know, the the, we the, the, there's been a couple
sayings, right? We are all Satoshi, but we are
all hot or not. And that was a way to kind of,
you know, show our support as the Bitcoin community to rally
behind the space cat while he was being personally attacked.
Man. Craig Wright sent private
investigators to docs. The guy OK, like clearly this is
someone who values their anonymity.
That's why they use the handle, hot or not right.
Not their personal name. And they spent money to try to
find out who this guy was. And the last time, I think one
of the things that they said, they showed up to his work, to
his job. It's pretty crazy what happened,
right? This is justice.
And I'm really glad that this had somewhat of a happy
conclusion. Brandon, what's your take?
And then we'll move on to Opti. Yeah.
And sometimes in the chat there, you know, saying like why do we
need to judge to tell us, you know what the truth is and we
don't, you know, at the end of the day.
But you know, it is a part of the vindication in a way.
And it's, you know, for people that were involved obviously
huddle, not Peter McCormack and and many people that were
involved just indirectly and all of us to a degree, right.
It's one of those nails in the coffin type of things.
It's a way to put things behind people but it's the overall
just, you know, again like like BJ said, you know, whether it's
Pericles or Plato, like some of these great philosophers of of
our day. Again, why it's so important to
be involved. And it doesn't take many people.
I mean we've talked about this so many times on the shows
faces, you know the 3%. It it only takes a a small and
transient irate minority in order to to really make change.
And when you're just spider man memeing and everyone's like
pointing at each other like Oh well, are you are you going to
stand up and do something? Are you going to stand up and do
something obviously the last four years or many opportunities
to do that? I'm for myself pretty
embarrassed as an American how few people really kind of stood
up Still mind blowing to me at this point.
But I think it was good in a way because a lot of people learned
you know that we you need to stand.
You have to be vocal. You have to be involved
politically you can't because again like a Craig not not a
Craig but a Huddle Notch or McCormick or people that are
getting attacked this this is going to happen many ways.
I think there's a lot of ways that people will get attacked
this then they fight you stage look we're seeing the the bills
like we just mentioned earlier we're seeing law fair we're
seeing you know direct attacks indirect attacks.
There's going to be things that we don't even think about this
point. A lot of most of us are good
people. So we don't spend our time
thinking as a criminal would or as a a liar or a cheat.
We don't, we don't do that, right.
So we're gonna get blindsided. We're gonna have like this Black
Swan of type of events where you kind of get blindsided or you
realize maybe down the road a little bit like, oh, like what
is this like this is a little different than I thought it was.
So we all have to be on our toes.
You have to coalesce as a community.
We talk about this all the time as well is community is the
number one aspect in the survival situation.
So us coming together, coalescing Bitcoin conferences,
your community coming together on shows like simply the simply
Bitcoin people in the chat, building those community people
is the biggest thing you can do. And coming on spaces, whatever
it is. Because when you have that, that
group of people that can stand up and be vocal, you can you can
vote traditionally with the MO box or the ballot box.
And now we have the ways to deal with our wallets, with our feet
and with our voice. We now have five ways we can
really be voting. We didn't have all those ways.
So now that's where we hope he doesn't it doesn't get to the MO
box, you know that's the last option.
So can we can we utilize these first couple, you know, our
voice, the money, things of that nature to impose our will.
Again, the right part, quote politics is downstream for
culture. Can we shift things and and push
back on that Overton window that keeps going to the the American
left? I guess the Marxist way, that
direction. Can we push back on that and
start regaining some of that freedom, whether it's through
the money or whether it's through people just learning
these experiences of of bad things happening?
Unfortunately, my my father always said pain is a great
teacher. And he's the one that I learned
from very early on, from a young age, was always questioning the
news, was always questioning everything and pointing out all
the fallacies and the hypocritical things that were
going on in legacy media or academia.
He would study my textbook, you know, like whatever it was he
was, he was like, what are they teaching you in school?
What is going on? So I saw very early on I was
very lucky that I had that influence in my life, but not
everyone does again. So it's how can we get into
these communities, how can we get the younger generations
involved, how can we do things that are going to start
educating people. And again, the money, why we're
all here number one, to start defunding the centralized
entities so they can we can defund these brainwashing
apparatuses whether it is legacy media or government run schools
etcetera. Beautiful, beautiful man Brandon
guys drop sauce guys you got to check out their their spaces.
You got to check out Political Bitcoin Hour.
These are two you know intellectual heavyweights right
now dropping so much sauce. So appreciate them coming on the
on the show guys. We are.
We are tight on time. But I do want to address the
news, Opti, if you don't mind, real quick in terms of the, the,
the sailor stuff. And then we'll, we'll transition
to the culture segment to talk more about what these gentlemen
are working on. So, yeah, guys, look, Michael
Saylor continues his speculative attack on the dollar and it's
absolutely hilarious. I mean it, it's hilarious in the
sense that let let me tell you the story real quick, Let me
break it down because there's a series of events, right.
So first MicroStrategy completes $800 million.
I don't know what happened, Opti, thank you very much.
OK. So this was March 11th, 2024.
Then a couple days later, March 13th, 2024, Micro Strategy
announces proposed private offering of $500 million of
convertible senior notes. And just to kind of simplify it,
to kind of understand what is happening, here's our boy.
The Bitcoin therapist drops amazing content on Twitter, by
the way. Definitely recommend giving him
a follow and he said sailor found the infinite money glitch.
The infinite Bitcoin loop, Bitcoin MicroStrategy, debt,
Bitcoin wash and repeat and this this thing will go much higher
the next loop Bitcoin MicroStrategy, S&P debt,
Bitcoin. There is no top to this cycle.
We go up forever. So the man is literally, And by
the way, I had, I interviewed James Lavish yesterday and he'll
break down the technical details of how Michael Saylor or the
financial details of how Michael Saylor is actually doing this.
But essentially he's leveraging his company.
His stock goes up in value. He borrows against it, right?
He raises more money to buy more Bitcoin.
The Bitcoin goes up in value because micro Strategy is
holding so much Bitcoin. Their stock goes up in value and
rinse and repeat and the rates at which he's borrowing this
money. Is.
Tiny, right. You're you're talking about like
less than a percentage point. So, like, Sailor literally has
hacked the system. Here's our boy Nick Camp, mine
head of news at Bitcoin Magazine.
He said Sailor raised 800 million to buy more Bitcoin two
days ago, went on Yahoo Finance, called people who save in Fiat
poor, and now he's raising another 500 million to buy more
Bitcoin. What a legend.
Here's the clip. Well, because they.
Want to sell it eventually, Michael.
I mean let's be honest, most of the people who are, yes, sure
some people pass it on to their children, but like most of the
people who are buying assets at some point want to sell the
assets at a profit. So I.
Guess. Let me say it a different way.
People that use Fiat currency as a store of value, there's a name
for them. We call them poor.
After that interview, the dude literally the the next day was
like, all right, I'm just going to buy more Bitcoin.
What an absolute Chad by the sailor.
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All right ladies and gentlemen, this is the culture and we have
a crazy, crazy as in crazy good guest.
Today we have the legendary BJ Ditcher and of course, Brandon.
BJ. What are you up to these days,
man? You.
So you wrote, you know you wrote the book.
I know you're making content these days.
What's up, man? How's life?
Yeah, well the book is important because there's two chapters in
here. Chapter 29.
In Chapter 30, Chapter 29, this was Bitcoin's moment.
And Chapter 30, Bitcoin Proves its power.
And later on this year at the Canadian Bitcoin Conference,
myself and Caribou, who was the one who was distributing the
Bitcoin directly to the truckers, we'll be together on a
panel for the first time. So if you're in Montreal,
Canada, come join. My sub stack is growing.
DJ dictor.substack.com Obviously I talk to talk a lot about
politics and about Bitcoin, trying to bridge that gap and
bringing people together. I do a lot of radio stuff and
yeah, all, all over the place, man.
Honking for freedom.com. Where is where you can get the
book. And the last thing, by the way,
I just want to mention this very important point because Brandon
touched on it when he said this sort of stuff is not going to
stop, you know, before the trucker convoy.
And regardless of your opinions, politically Abramovich had his
soccer team and all his assets seized and stolen by the UK
government. Then the trucker protest
happened. We had all our bank accounts and
credit cards and lines of credit were frozen.
And then six weeks later, Lula did the exact same to the
truckers in Brazil when they protested.
And after that, the Iranian Moolahs froze the bank accounts,
the people who fund Hamas. They froze the bank accounts of
peaceful protesters in Iran that wanted some greater freedoms,
right? Last year we had a liquidity,
liquidity issue in TD Bank that everybody in government and all
cabinets know about but are keep trying to keep quiet and hush
hush. And right now, if you go on to
Reddit, you're going to see all sorts of comments about problems
with transactions all over the world that are being frozen for
whatever reason. We don't know if it's a
liquidity issue or it's a censorship, censorship issue.
So this is not going to stop. This is why you need to start to
be vocal. And the best way to be vocal is
to start preaching about the importance of what what I call
the freedom, the the freedom protocol, which is Bitcoin.
And that's how I try to orange peel with people with it.
So don't don't remain silent. Speak up.
Amen. Amen.
Beautiful, beautifully sad. BJ and look, let's let's talk
about this concept 'cause you burg the lead there a little
bit, right, Which is the aspect of bridging the gap between
politics and Bitcoin, right. You know, I think it was Brandon
that said that, that famous quote from Plato, right?
Like you might not think that politics is important, but you
know, like and I say this all the time, you know, and and
bitcoiners have this this sense of you know, like bro, you know
I got my private keys. I got self custody.
I'm OK All right guys things could get way worse.
You know Venezuela where my family's originally from.
You know, it went from one of the most prosperous nations to,
you know within 20 years of collectivism you you could say
socialism if you want to be blunt, you know, completely
destroyed the society, right. And again, the idea that to
think that that can't happen where you are is absurdly naive.
So it's not just A1 tool fix all, it's a multitude of things.
And if you don't get up and speak up and say something.
You know Schultz and Itzen has so many quotes regarding what I
just said. Maybe I could find one before I
pass it on to? BJ Nico, just to add to your
point, look Caribou had we we raised a total of 21 Bitcoin for
the the the trucker protest and I believe approximately 17 was
distributed directly to the truckers.
But the government managed to to gain access and to seize the
remaining 5. Do you know how they did that?
That fifteen officers raid his house at gunpoint from both
federal and provincial police officers took his computer took
his phones and demanded he surrendered a seed phrase.
The guy's never been in trouble in his life.
He freaked. He panicked.
He was afraid and and I don't I I don't fault him.
It's it's a very difficult thing.
It's very easy to say all the government's going to come in.
I don't care. I'm going to tell them the F
off. Well, yeah, you you tell you try
that when you have a warrant for your arrest and guns in front of
you and 20 police cruisers in front of your house that are
going to drag you away. It's a very difficult scenario
to actually be experiencing that.
So we can all pretend to be tough guys, but the way to push
back is to push back now, now, not when they're raiding your
house. Push back now, get more people
on Bitcoin and start advocating to the people who do hold
political power. Like, I've orange peeled a
number of politicians quietly behind the scenes, so I know
they at least get it. Do as much of that as possible,
because if not, you never know when those fifteen officers can
come to your house. 100 percent, 100%, You know, you have to you
have to stand up. You have to stand up.
You have to say something because when it gets too late,
they're like when it becomes too late, the the only the only kind
of way out of that. It's a kinetic option, right?
That's right. Or you leave.
Most people don't choose the kinetic option.
Most people leave. But what happens when there
isn't anywhere else to leave to, right?
Me and Opti make this joke all the time about the.
US joke. But it's it's in a way it's not
really a joke in a in a way we're being you know dead
serious, which is we're gonna try to hold it down in the US
the US has a lot of things going for it, like the First
Amendment, the Second Amendment, the individual sovereignty of
the States. But at the same time, you know
if the US goes down the collectivist path, you know, we
we, we, we we joke about it. We said we're going to rebrand
the show or call it, call it simplemente Bitcoin and we're
going to move to El Salvador. Right.
The land of freedom, right. And hope.
Right. So I mean look I I am you know
in a way like you know we are kind of saying this in in you
know perhaps maybe not a light light hearted manner but take it
seriously like take what BJ says seriously look at his
experiences. My buddy Ben which I'm doing the
show with tonight, BTC sessions he was part of that.
He was kind of you know he's caught caught in the in the you
know tyrannical net of what happened in Canada during the
truckers protest. So to think that this can't
happen here you're you're you're absolutely kidding yourself.
We got another super chat from Lawrence so shout out Lawrence
thank you appreciate the Super chat says great show gents.
Keep up the good work. Let's all fight the good fight.
Thank you, Lawrence. Really, really appreciate it.
I'm gonna press it on to Brandon.
Brandon, what are your thoughts on what BJ was just saying?
Why are politics and Bitcoin important?
Oh boy. We need another whole entire
show for that. You know, like we did, we
mentioned the quote, the quotes, Pericles, Plato, you know it's
it's part of life in in government.
It's gonna be here whether we like it or not, whether you
know, we have hyper bitcoinization.
It's gonna be here for a while regardless.
Like this whole system needs to be defunded and it's not just
going to go away overnight. I always think about the hippie
bubble. You know we're we're run by the
the gerontocracy, the 60-70 and up class there in every walk of
life obviously, whether it's academia, politics and you know
their their sun setting and it's going to really flip a lot of
things and a lot of what we talked about now probably won't
be a thing I would imagine, you know 5-10, fifteen years from
now. But we still have to make it
though you know we still have to get there.
We we can't give away everything and just sit back and do nothing
And that's that's why it it can be anything.
It can be voting. It can be getting vocal starting
A blog it could be going to one you know PTA meet up and it
could be one the local you know Township meeting a year you know
and if if just one percent 3% of people did those things and all
all of us doing our own little things you know society changes
very quickly because now you're getting pushed back.
You know for decades no one was pushing back.
It was you know God loved the the older generations right.
Our our parents, our grandparents, great grandparents
you know I'm in my mid my mid 30s and it's you know they were
my grandfather admitted to me he was like well I just, you know
he flipped like 20 years ago and and he was very you know you
know Liberal Democratic. You know the best way to say it
but you know he saw the writing on the wall.
He was in unions and so he was just told what to do.
But he even told me like hey I just they it was handshake
society. Like I didn't who would think
that someone would just be lying to you.
We just assumed that people had our best interest like we were
Americans, like we just, that's just what we did forever.
And so you have this, this process of the frog in the
boiling pot for 100 plus years and people at work to to try to
change society and then you have the just collective malaise
right, when you're destroying the money.
And you know BJ, you talk about this all the time, right?
But it's, you know, people try to search for conspiracies or
things that are going on when a lot of times it's just
centralized huge masses of people or centralized
governments doing Dumber and Dumber things.
Again, spider man, meaning like, well, you got it and all you got
it. And then this person's taking
from the coffers there and then that person's skimming off the
top and then it just builds on itself.
And it's been doing that for 110 years and here we are.
So that's why it's again the political Bitcoin hour, what we
started doing there to try to bridge this gap a little bit.
Bitcoiners, obviously. Bitcoin trading cards again,
Aladdin started that to Trojan horse, you know, people and to
incept this into people's minds because no one wants to talk
about this stuff. Again, a lot of bitcoiners
don't. People you know libertarians
they don't want to talk about it and and for whatever reason we
need to get into that conversation and and understand
that this could change overnight.
This isn't we're not asking someone to get into a
bodybuilding competition like hey you got to have a six pack
in the next like year or two. That takes a long time.
It's it's a decision. It's overnight.
This could change and we accept Bitcoin.
It is the money and it's a decision.
You know, it's it's your higher powers your your brain using the
the greatest gift we all have and it's starting to get people
to understand those things. So you know that's what we're
trying to do with global Bitcoin hours, what we're trying to do
with the trading cars. We want to be the entertainment
arm and in whether it's bringing mascots, bringing things to you
know, big huge partnerships. We just partnered with Fanatics
Live. So there's going to be huge
things. We're trying to get to the
normies, you know, we're trying to get to what what is the
things we can do to get to the normies.
You know, like you said earlier, Nico, we're in our echo chamber
and we got more people coming in, fortunately now that are
starting to because the bull market's starting.
But we need to keep expanding, keep growing because we've got
to minimize the collateral damage from here.
This crosses a little rickety bridge from this Fiat matrix
we're in to that hyper bitcoinization.
And there's a really rickety old bridge.
I was think of Jurassic Park 3 when they're crossing the
pterodactyl cage and they're crossing that little bridge and
you got to go 1 by 1, each person has to cross.
We got to get to the other side somehow and we want to minimize
the collateral damage. We want to minimize the martyrs
that are taken along the way. It's up to us in order to do
that while things are still somewhat sane.
I, I, I, I hesitating saying that a little bit, but this
could get much crazier if if we if we don't be careful.
But that's why again, like the cars they talk about taxation is
theft. They talk about the Bretton
Woods agreement, they talk about government not being able to
stop Bitcoin and all these things.
Centralization, decentralization.
The schools aren't doing it, you know, people aren't doing it
anywhere. The legacy meeting is not doing
it. So how are we going to do it?
Well, it's on us. It's on all of our shoulders.
Amen to that, man. Beautifully, beautifully put,
Opti. You want to chime into the You
want to chime. Into Yeah, yeah.
So I mean, I think everyone knows my take on this I I've
been very black pilled in regards to politics and only
after getting involved with simply Bitcoin as it started to
dawn on me like how important of a fight it actually is.
And of course, like I always say, the classic meme of the
best way to vote is either with your money or your feet.
And even though Nika says we're going to El Salvador, I, I, I
just, I have the thought in my head of like, man, if America
falls, like there's nowhere else to run.
So we got to hold it down. And on that point I want to ask
Brandon and BJ, like what is your advice for people out
there? What what should people be doing
in your opinion right now to actually further the Bitcoin
movement? The first thing is, especially
when you get into political framing and discussions, don't
be so combative. And you're not red or blue
liberal, Democrat, Republican or whatever.
Your orange, your team orange, which means you can work and
find the positive attributes of people on all sides.
What you aren't is a collectivist, You're an
individualist and take your patience with people you know.
There's some people are predisposed to get involved with
party politics, which is horrible.
So if you can avoid that, try to.
But some people are just predisposed to that.
They're very good organizers. They're very good at bringing
people together, and those people should probably get
involved in the party structure. But you know how we gain our
freedom? Talk to your family, talk to
your friends, talk to your people at work and be patient
with them. You have to take a long
strategic approach with them. It's not going to be one
conversation. It's not going to be one
statement. It's going to be through
repetition. Many, many months when they're
primed and they're ready to talk about Bitcoin and freedom,
that's your opportunity. Just be patient with people and
if we all do that, then we'll get somewhere.
I gave, I tell this story often about during the lockdowns in
Canada, which were quite authoritarian and I used to do
this. I never put on a mask.
Only if like a, you know, a part time employee asked me, it's not
their fault, right? So I'd go to the coffee shop, my
local coffee shop, and remember this one time I'm in line, I get
my coffee or I'm waiting for my coffee, the other end of the bar
and some woman comes up to me who's you know, 5 foot nothing
with a mask on and she says you're not wearing a mask.
And as she I was about to respond, she says no, no, no,
no, no. I don't want to wear a mask
either. And I said then take it off.
I said for two years I have not once walked into a place with a
mask. And every time I notice the same
thing. Everybody in line watches to see
if I get attacked, harassed, arrested, or the Gestapo comes,
and after a minute and a half they realize that no one's going
to control me. You know what happens?
One by one, they start taking it off.
People just need somebody to stick their neck out just a
little bit to be a little bit more of a leader and a little
bit more sane. And you know what?
The rest of them will come in line.
It's the same thing with Bitcoin.
And for Bitcoin, all we're giving the world is positivity.
Doesn't matter where you are on the political spectrum.
If you want to help poor people in the third world, or you want
to if you're more on the investment side and business
side in the developing world, doesn't matter.
Bitcoin has freedom for everybody and once you once you
message around something that's positive, that brings people
together, it's so easy to get them on board.
Love it, DJ. Love it.
Beautiful Brandon, jump in on that.
What's your thoughts? What can we do?
Well, getting involved, you know, locally, obviously the
decentralized nature of America and how we were founded is the
big thing. And again, you know, I know all
the four of us have talked about this many times, you know, over
the last couple years. But truly, you know, we just,
you know, like I said earlier, getting going to one meeting,
you know, and not everyone has to do it, right.
If that's your thing, great, go do that.
If. If that's your thing is to go
create a blog or YouTube channel, you know, writing, you
know, audio, visual, whatever it is.
But the more we can overwhelm the system, you know, and and
Nico touched on this earlier as well and it's the 10 million
bitcoiners, the 3%. If we can get to that.
You really start changing the culture because politics is
truly downstream. And for people to sit back and
know it's funny, let you watching some of the comments.
You know again like I my first foray I in a way was like I said
my father was very active and he taught me I was born in 87 and
so I'm I was probably about 10 years later about 97 or so I my
first real like seeing like a libertarian.
Like my dad was a libertarian but someone else that and and
they didn't vote so my my dad voted but my this guy that was a
friend of ours or someone I played hockey with it was his
father and he didn't vote and I like he has a 10 year old that
didn't make sense to me. I was like why why did he not
vote and I would ask my dad and stuff and he he's like honestly
son like I I don't know you know and you know and there's part of
it you can say like well your vote doesn't matter and things
like that and whatever but it's more of the people seeing you go
do things right if you're just sitting at your house right it's
it's the act of actually going and doing things people seeing
you out and about. It's the the very you know you
we discount like hey would you go do today.
Well, I I went and voted or hey, I went to this meeting or hey, I
went to this town hall or whatever it is.
All those things build on each other.
And when, you know, and I I think about there was the
Chicago Blackhawks again, hockey guy, but they weren't they
weren't on TV for years. The Rocky Worcer old owner was
not. They didn't put them on TV.
They're like, well, if we don't put them on TV, then people show
up at the game at the United Center.
No one went, you know, it's out of sight, out of mind.
And when you're just like I don't need to do it or you know,
it doesn't matter. Well, then that's that's the
perception. You know, or one of our higher
faculties is perception. You create that story.
Life is just a collection of 8 billion stories we're all
telling ourselves. So whatever you tell yourself,
well, that's reality, That's all there is to it.
So if you believe that that's the case, well then that's the
case. If you don't believe, if you
think you have a, a, a, a choice to go do something about it and
actually make a change, one person can make a change, which
they can. Then you go start doing whatever
it is. Your brain starts finding ways
to get involved and start doing things.
Obviously the best way is to do it, start local or, you know, do
the things you can do around you.
But I think to me that's that's the biggest thing.
It could be, again, tuning into simple Bitcoin, tuning into a
political Bitcoin hour, getting some cards, passing them out.
You know, it just anything helps because all those actions lead
up and we we've been compounding the wrong way.
The Overton window's been shifting so far for so long the
other way. We need to start taking these
positive steps and let those start compounding on each other
over time. Love it.
Beautiful. Beautiful.
Get involved. Take action, take agency.
You know, this is about winning over the hearts and minds of
individuals and bringing them together and getting them to
understand that what BJ was saying is absolutely spot on.
This is not left versus right. It's not green.
I mean, sorry, it's not blue versus red.
It is the party of Green, the party of nihilism, war, slavery
versus the party of Orange, the party of optimism, peace,
prosperity, opportunity and optimism and OPTI And so vote
OPTI 2024. No.
But yeah, like that. That's really what people have
to understand because a lot of their, you know, a lot of the
political like division right now is if you really identify
the root 'cause, you could you could say, OK, the long, the
long walk through the institutions, right.
You know, the kind of like the takeover.
But I think it kind of really stems down to like, if you
really, really break it down to a root cause, is the fact that
there's a bureaucratic elite that have the privilege and the
ability to create money for free that everyone else has to work
for. It's a misaligned incentive
structure society that gets a tremendous amount of power to
the political class, and they don't have to really do good by
their constituents. They're not incentivized to,
they're incentivized to just get as close as humanly possible to
the money spigot, right. This is what the separation of
money in state is all about. This is what the peaceful
Bitcoin revolution is all about and all you have to do to
participate. Just buy Bitcoin, earn Bitcoin,
mine Bitcoin, and take that said Bitcoin into self custody.
You're revolutionary whether you realize it or not.
Like, it's that simple, right? And if we get that message out,
like Brandon said, if we get that intransigent minority of 10
million bitcoiners in the United States, it's gonna like if
they're gonna try to pass any type of anti Bitcoin
legislation, it's gonna become like the gun laws, man, try to
pass a gun law in the US It is impossible.
Why? Because there's so many gun
owners, right? So even though they get all
riled up, it's like if a huge percentage of the population,
you know, is, is is owning guns, then it's like good luck trying
to pass a law. You know, we had, I forget what
his name was, Opti. We had this amazing guest
earlier on this week, and he's a cannabis grower, right?
And he was talking about essentially Eric.
And he was talking about essentially how, you know, the
government tried to force a lot of these, you know, cannabis
producers in California to register with the government and
you know, out of the 12,000, only 153 registered and then the
government had to change the law, right.
So look guys, it it might seem like this is this monolithic,
you know, creature this, this this system that can't be
defeated. But you know, all it takes is
just strong minded individuals to stand up and say, look,
enough is enough. Integrity's important.
Honesty's important principles are important.
Sound money is important. The truth is important, and
things will change. So I do want to give BJ and
Brandon opportunity to give us some closing thoughts for the
audience. And if you guys want to plug any
things, I'm going to start with you, BJ.
Yeah, a couple of white pills, you know, just to tack on to
what you just said. The first thing is, you know, I
I ran for Parliament in Canada in 2015, so I know all our
parliamentarians. I know how the entire system
works, and political parties are like cults, except they're cults
where everybody's trying to stab each other in the back.
So it's very easy to divide and conquer within the political
structure. The other thing is, we often
talk about some of the wealthiest people in the world,
and we do sometimes fall into the trap of collectivizing them
under this postmodern worldview that, oh, there's a small group
of people and they control everything and whatever.
That is not been my experience there's been.
There's a lot of very wealthy people who have competing
interests and are competing with each other.
But one of the most fascinating things I ever, I ever realized
by meeting some of these people, you know what they are.
They're fuelled by fear because they are also afraid of the
system collapsing. And many of them are trying to
figure out what can I do to prevent this entire system from
collapsing and where can I throw money?
And sometimes they get taken advantage of, sometimes they're
crazy, they put in the wrong direction.
But a lot of those people are just trying to keep this all
together because they often have more to lose than we do.
So I I think there is hope. This is why I'm always positive
about the future and bringing people together and so hopeful
that people like sailor people of you know well means have
gotten into the Bitcoin space where there's Paul Tudor Jones
and other people that they're now understanding that our
system as it is cannot continue. And there is this protocol that
none of them and nobody and no government controls.
And over the long term that's going to allow us to achieve
greater freedoms. And I look on the political
thing, the political spectrum, the last thing I look to
Argentina and Javier Mile, knowing that Steven Hicks, one
of my podcasters, has known him for many, many years, has shared
a stage with him for many, many years and Argentina is left with
no options. That they have no option other
than to cut the size of their government significantly and
right the ship. And they have been working since
2010 to get somebody like me lay with his policies into power and
they finally achieved it. And if he is successful?
I know the lobby class around the world because I know how it
works. The lobby class that influences
political parties around the world will see there's money in
going with a more libertarian perspective moving forward.
We just have to show them that Bitcoin is part of that vision
and that will become the future for humanity.
Beautiful, beautiful vote BJ Ditcher.
For. For for for Canadian president
of. No, no, no.
Just buy a copy of Honking for Freedom.
You can do for freedom.com. Go to honkingforfreedom.com
Octave. You could pull up on screen
Brandon last message to the audience.
What would you say? Yeah, thanks Nico.
Thanks for having us on guys. You know someone in the comments
again said you know the the Lord will take care of of the the
evil ones and and some of these tyrants whatever.
And and that is true. That's true in a way.
And I thought it's a great comment but you know he will
take care of those people. But I do believe, and that you
know, in my opinion that you know some of us get revealed
truth. I'm gonna.
I'm gonna interject here, OK? I'm gonna interject here, All
right. I'm sorry for interrupting you,
Brandon. Very good.
The Lord gives you the power and the agency for you to take
action, to do something about it.
But if you're just going to look at the sky and expect things to
fall on you, that's never going to happen, All right?
I just wanted to say that no. No, that's and that's that's
exactly where I was going. You know, God doesn't do things
for us. He does things to and through
us. And that's that's exactly where
I was going at this. And you know he reveals truth to
well, I I think everyone if you wanted, but some of us, probably
a lot of us here are the ones that are seeing that truth.
And my fear, you know, is that the ones that have been revealed
allow that truth. You have an obligation in, in my
perspective to do something about that.
I fear getting to the gate someday at the end of my life.
And and and being asked what did you do with that knowledge that
I gave you, with that truth that I gave you.
That's what drives me. That's the scariest thing in the
world to me to be revealed this this darkness that's happening
but have and have that truth and not do anything about it.
It's kind of you know the talents in a way from the Bible.
But you know again with Bitcoin trading cards we're we're trying
to push the envelope like I said be the you know how can we fight
against this. And so it's the the red pill and
orange pill ethos that are the company there is driven by which
is one of the reasons that I I joined it almost a year and a
half ago right when they when Aladdin started it.
So you know, we have kids, you know, there's some that don't
have kids. There's a huge group, you know
of of a community now, 5-6 hundred people on our Telegram
group and all kinds of pack stackers.
So it's an educational project, but we need, you know,
everyone's help. We need to get the the Genesis
cards. We have the cheaper version of
the cards to get spread to education and we need to get the
inventory gone this year. So that way we can do some of
the other the really cool things we have going on.
We just partnered with Spetsky, Alex Spetsky for his Spirit of
Satoshi, his AI project that's going on.
So we just launched that Series 3 coming up obviously and the
conference packs like unconfiscated whole packs that
Nico was just in a few months ago and and they're very
collectible too, which is a really nice side benefit if you
want to trade them for Sats and things of that nature.
So that's the other website isbtc-tc.com, so you can go
check out there. And then the last thing I'll say
is political Bitcoin hour. Again, we're going to continue
ramping this up as well in the coming months and as things roll
forward and you know turn into a YouTube show and and numerous
things as we go here. But it's an it's an outlet for
bitcoiners who want to talk politics and talk about things
we talked about today but maybe don't feel totally welcome in
some other Bitcoin spaces for or whatever reason.
Just bridging this bridging this world from the Fiat matrix to
hyper bitcoinization. Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Completely agree. All I want to say after those
rants, Sainika, Sainika, all I want to say is let's.
Go I I think I start. I'm starting to see a Halo over
Opti's head, saying Opti. Anyways guys, only a Sinner can
be redeemed, Miko. Anyways, guys, guys, thank you
so much for tuning into another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live.
This is BJ Ditcher. Go check out his his book.
He's the author of Honking for Freedom.
And of course we had Brandon on the show today.
He's the head of marketing for BTC trading cards.
Go check them out, they're awesome.
And of course go check out their new spaces, The Political
Bitcoin Hour. I think it's so important you
can you can pretend you know the the the £100 gorilla in the room
is not there, but it's surely there.
So anyways, guys, definitely go check out their spaces.
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You fix the money, you fix the world.
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