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We are back and as you can tell Elon's doubling down on the
everything app the we chat of the West.
Apparently X or Twitter obtains a license to store, transfer and
trade Bitcoin. And and you guys know I I can't
cuss in the first few minutes so.
And crypto. Now we all know it's Bitcoin
only so it really makes you wonder will Elon take this
seriously or will he troll and add crypto to Twitter or is he
just going full Fiat? Well, we'll dive into this.
Is Elon going to provide a platform that doesn't do a
disservice to his user base? I don't know.
Only time will tell, but we are seeing that he is doubling down
on the Everything app. They are taking steps to ensure
that they can finally, finally put payments on Twitter.
So this is something we've been covering for a while.
Of course, there has been some trends shouts out to our boy
Matt Odell on the the dystopian nature of the Everything app.
We've covered that in the past. We probably won't get too much
into it. We might just kind of touch on
it. And then next on the docket,
guys, for today's news. We also have some amazing news
coming out of El Salvador that apparently Google will open up
an office and bring digital infrastructure to El Salvador,
which further proves that if you allow for innovation in your
country, you'll attract capital and the brain drain will follow.
So interesting, interesting stuff happening in the world.
And of course I am not alone today.
I'm not doing the show by myself guys, but we do have a guest.
We do have Dell in the building, so welcome to simply Bitcoin.
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Without further ado, let's bring in our Co hosts.
Dell, how are you doing today? Good to have you back twice in
one week. Yeah, they're setting records
here. Yeah, us in Bitcoin.
So that was interesting yesterday.
I'm watching. I don't remember what it was.
I'm usually checking time chain calendar.
That's where I go for so much information packed into a nice
little shiny, easy to read, understand package and I just
saw the price going clunk. Clunk just kept on going up by
about 100 bucks every couple of minutes.
I was like, what is going on here?
What's happening? I text my brothers and I'm
watching it go up and I'm it's weird to be in Bitcoin because
once you have gone down the rabbit hole far enough, the
price going up is a sign of of worry for a lot of bitcoiners.
Like yes, you wanted to go up on the one hand, but on the other
hand I was really hoping to get some more cheap SAT.
So it's it's this weird emotional pull at the same time.
And I. I never dabbled in stocks all
that much, but I wonder if it's the same thing for people that
do stock stuff or other things like, oh, I I get the impression
that people in anything other than Bitcoin, with maybe some
exceptions, very few of them, just want the price to go up.
They're just like, I want that Fiat number to go up, I want
that Fiat number to go up. Whereas Bitcoin is like, no, no,
no, I want more Bitcoin because the the everything is going to
be priced in Bitcoin at some point.
Like, I I I can't wait to buy a steak for a hundred sets.
Nice steak dinner. All right, well, without further
ado, let's bring in our guests Sandy Waves from El Salvador.
It just so happens that we have a news story on El Salvador
today and we have a local. So this is going to be super,
super exciting. How are you doing this morning,
Sandy Waves? Hi, guys.
I'm doing really good. Happy to be here.
So thank you for inviting me. Love it, love it.
Well, before we move on, let's give the people like Sandy.
You're from El Salvador. And maybe, you know, tell the
people what's your thoughts on Bukelle real quick?
That's amazing. It's a really good talk.
He's my president. I'm really happy that I vote for
him and we're gonna reelect him again.
Let's go. OK.
Have another good time with him improving the country, improving
our life, investing in the country and attracting more
people to El Salvador. What's?
What's the term? What's the term?
Is it four years? Yeah.
Four years. OK, OK, awesome.
Awesome. Well, on today's docket, we have
an example of a new story that is doing exactly that in El
Salvador. So I'm excited to get your take
as a local. And of course we are Bitcoin or
so. We see good news coming out of
El Salvador. We love it.
We are huge fans of Bukele and what he's doing in El Salvador.
And we can't wait to see El Salvador continue to improve
moving forward in the digital world.
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numbers guys. As you guys know, we are over
here on Clark Moody's dashboard. And of course, my favorite
number, and This is why it's the first number.
It's a block high and we are currently at 805,472.
Tick tock next block. It's almost like Bitcoin works
anyways. The next price or the next
number is the price. Guys, we are at 27,145.
I know there was a lot of talk yesterday whether we were going
to stay in the 27 KS. What's going on with the price?
It reacted pretty favorably to the grayscale ETF news and it
seems to be holding on. Are we going to get one more leg
down? I don't know.
Only time will tell, but it doesn't really matter.
Just keep stacking them sets and of course the next time the
Moscow, the Moscow time, the next number sets per dollar, aka
how much your Fiat dollar is worth, aka how much Bitcoin you
can buy for a single dollar. It's currently at 3685 and the
total percentage issued of Bitcoin is at 92.72.
It's almost like it hasn't changed in a while.
Well, it's going too soon guys. It's going, it's going anyways.
The market cap in Fiat terms of the Bitcoin price is 528,000
point $4 billion. The realized monetary inflation
taking Fiat currencies to school is currently at 1.75%.
There's literally no other currency in the world.
Fiat currencies in the world that can even come close to
bitcoins. Realized monetary inflation
right now and it's going to get cut in half.
Ah man, it feels so good to be a Bitcoin.
It feels so good having your money hardened in real time.
Anyways, the Bitcoin versus gold market cap is currently at
4.09%. So much room to run in the hard
money game. The total lightning capacity
public lightning capacity is 6000 or 4646.
The hash rate in the last 90 days.
The estimated hash rate the last 90 days is 378.7 exit hashes.
If you remember, it went up one exit hash since yesterday, but
of course it's an estimate and the pending fees.
It's currently at 3.37 BTC so the Wizards have not broken
Bitcoin. Anyways, let's get into the news
story today. So as you guys can see I don't
have the the Bitcoin Magazine official tweet out, but
yesterday you know we were all caught up on the grayscale news
and the fact that their GB TC will eventually become a spot
Bitcoin ETF. That this news also dropped
yesterday. And maybe this is also why the
Bitcoin price pump two knows. No one knows why the Bitcoin
price does what it does. It just does what it does
anyways. But we're over here on Bitcoin
Magazine and you guys can see here that XAKA Twitter obtains a
license to store, transfer, and trade Bitcoin and unfortunately
shit coin. So you know, we do our best to
separate any story that is Bitcoin and shitcoin, and it's
not news unless it's Bitcoin. But we have been covering the
Twitter, aka X Everything app for a while and so we're
doubling down on this. And I know there might be some
contention out there whether they are actually embracing
Bitcoin, we won't know until it actually gets rolled out.
But let's cover some of the sauce in here and then we'll get
some of the Bitcoin takes on top of this.
So in Rhode Island, they've officially approved the license
request by Twitter Payments LLC, Access Payments Branch to be
able to store, transfer and exchange Bitcoin and other
digital assets on behalf of its users.
So I'm over here and I went to the official website over here
on nmlsconsumeraccess.org and you can see Twitter Payments
LLC. They have gotten money
transmender license in Arizona, Georgia, Maryland and Michigan.
They have got a sales of checks and money transmender license in
Missouri. They have a money transmitter
license in New Hampshire and a currency transmitter license in
Rhode Island. So let's go back over here and
you can see some of the takes here from Bitcoin Mag.
The currency Transmender license is required for companies who
want to perform these activities related to Bitcoin and crypto on
behalf of its users. This license also includes
related service providers such as wallet payment processors and
exchange. Elon Musk has previously stated
that he wants to turn X into the everything app, sharing that the
platform will add comprehensive communications and the ability
to conduct your entire financial world.
Well I went over here to watch our guru cuz they also reported
on the news to maybe add a little more sauce on here for
you guys. So again on the same idea, X
Twitter can now conduct crypto activities.
A currency transmitter license is the legal requirement for
companies wishing to conduct any activities related to crypto
currencies on behalf of their users.
The license permit X to store, transfer, and exchange digital
currencies. It also allows for a
comprehensive range of services related to crypto assets.
So as you can see here, Rhode Island's granting of this
license adds X to a list of entities such as crypto
currencies, exchanges, digital wallets, and payment processors,
all of which are now legally allowed to maintain control of
virtual currency transactions on behalf of others.
So as you can see, this does look like they might be getting
into the shit coin round. And we all know that Elon's been
trolling all of Bitcoin and and maybe not even taking this
seriously and being a doge maxi and embracing doge and adding
doge to the Twitter tips for a while, even changing the Twitter
logo to the doge dog. So do we know exactly what is
going on here? No.
But we do know that they are doubling down.
They are taking more steps to turn Twitter into the Everything
app. And like I mentioned, you know,
Matt Odell's been on the case for a while that the the Twitter
blue ky seeing of social media is a dangerous precedent moving
forward. And maybe they are turning
Twitter into the we chat of the West.
Like Elon Musk has said himself and you know as a bitcoiner, as
a paranoid, tinfoil hat person on Bitcoin, it does make you
wonder how dystopian this is going to go.
But I think it is becoming very clear, and especially as a
Bitcoiner, as a Bitcoin only show, if Twitter does want to
become the Everything app, the best form of money it should
embrace is Twitter. There's less loopholes, there's
less obstacles to just deploying Bitcoin on their platform, but
do we know what's going to happen?
Not really. And there is some contention on
what exactly Elon is doing. So I did see some tweets here
and it really makes you think and I think adds a little more
context on to what exactly is going on.
Of course we have the Watcher guru tweet here and he goes X,
aka Twitter, obtains license required for crypto payments and
trading and shouts out to Chris Black and he goes license
required for crypto payments. Laughing emojis.
And then we have LP Capital Chi and he goes classic Elon and
it's a quote tweet from Elon July 13, 2021.
And Elon goes any money transmitter or other licenses
needing to use this in USA And what's he commenting on?
He's commenting on blue wallet and implementing the lightning
dev kit. So is he going to be adding
lightning? I don't know.
We've been talking about this for a while, but you can see
blue wallets response here. No, Elon Bitcoin Blue wallet,
the Lightning developer Kip is non custodial, open source, just
software running on your phone and you do not need a money
transmitter license. So it really makes you think
what exactly is planned for Twitter aka X?
And again, you know, obviously as bitcoiners we get bullish
when we hear this is like, oh, it's coming, you know, Twitter's
going to embrace Bitcoin and finally we're going to get some,
some global reach in Bitcoin. Because truly as a Bitcoin, we
know that if Twitter embrace Bitcoin and they allowed a
seamless integration of Bitcoin, that would not only do wonders
for Bitcoin adoption, but it would be in the most epic move
for Twitter. But hey, we know Elon Musk is
trolled. We know he's a doge maxi.
We know he doesn't really take Bitcoin seriously.
At least it's public persona. I've heard rumors that privately
he understands Bitcoin, he understands money.
Well, publicly it seems to be different.
But here's a take from Francis that I think is worth responding
to worth mentioning. We got Francis Poulier, aka the
CEO and creator Bull Bitcoin in Canada and he goes, Twitter's
probably developing in the internal payment system.
Just a database moving Fiat numbers around.
Possibly a Fiat on ramp slash off ramp for Twitter bucks.
If we're lucky it will be just a Fiat balance, no shit.
Coins related, almost no chance their license is for Bitcoin.
You don't need a license to accept Bitcoin payments as a
merchant, and they don't. Neither do they do payouts.
No need for a money transmitter license for that either.
So very interesting stuff going on right now.
The one thing we know for sure is that Twitter has obtained the
license for Money transmitter to become a money transmitter.
And where is this going? Are they going to roll out
Bitcoin? Are they trying to do this all
legally? Are they going to roll out on
shit coins on the platform? It does seem like they will.
If they do embrace Bitcoin to start, it will be a Bitcoin
slash shitcoin type product obviously because we know Elon
is a huge Doge fan so I'm guessing there will be some shit
corner that's being involved. But will it?
Will this just be a full Fiat payment platform?
I think only Time or town is someone that is a bitcoiner.
We've covered the story for a while.
We've doubled down on the idea that if Twitter really wants to
innovate, then they need to embrace Bitcoin.
Obviously, Bitcoin is the digital money for the digital
world. Twitter is basically the town
square of social media, the town square of communication, and if
they want to do this correctly then they should embrace
Bitcoin. But again, should have could
have, would have, don't exist. And only time will tell whether
this gets rolled out Bitcoin only, or whether it'll be
integrated with shit coins or whether it's just going to be a
complete shit coin platform aka Fe out platform.
But it is very interesting that Elon is doubling down on the
Everything app and it's happening in real time and
you're on the front lines. Anyways, Dell, we did kind of
have a low key conversation about this in the beginning.
What's your thoughts? And all this?
Is this significant? Is this just us bitcoiners with
more opium? Is this noise?
What's your thoughts? It's definitely noise.
There's always some amount of signal amid all the noise, but
how much there is I I have no idea.
It's like I commented on on Monday when you played that clip
from Christine Lizard saying how or I'm sorry, my apologies off
the Chrissy Lizard when she was saying how.
Was it? We've taken everything into
account. Like everything.
Everything entails a lot of things.
So the chances that you did that is exactly 0.
There's zero chance that you took everything into account.
And even if you took everything, not that it's possible, but even
if you did take every known thing into account, everything
that happened from this moment, right now that I'm speaking and
prior, you still cannot possibly account for the things coming
down the line. And I'm saying this because we
have no idea what Elon Musk is planning.
Yes, as you said, we don't. You don't need a money
transmitter license, You don't need anything to move Bitcoin
around. All you have to have is some
sort of wallet, some amount of Bitcoin that you can move and
then somebody able to accept it. That's it, that you just need
those things. You need three active or not
even active 3 three pieces, two people that are willing or more
to to transact with this money, and then the money to transact
with. So if a store says we accept
Bitcoin and you have some Bitcoin, if you want to use X at
the time to do that, and you have some on there, then sure, I
suppose that might be an option along with Fiat, along with the
doge along with some other nonsense on there.
And we all know the bitcoin's going to win at the end of the
day, so who cares what they mess around with if he has it on
there. But the store doesn't have to
say oh, we only it doesn't make sense to say we only accept
payments. In Bitcoin from X, that'd be
like saying we only accept U.S. dollar from Visa and some stores
might say we don't accept this or we don't accept that because
of the fees are so high, but the fees are what they are.
With Bitcoin there is just one fee.
Like I can look over here and see if the on chain transaction
fee is 15 for that, but that's on chain.
Stores aren't going to be moving things around on chain.
You're going to be using Lightning, you're going to be
using some second layer. So it doesn't make sense.
Oh, we're going to accept Lightning only from X.
What is? What is the store care?
You're going, you're going to say nobody else can pay, Come
on. So what this means down the road
remains to be seen. But it is bullish that it's
being talked about. And once again, and as we're
commonly saying here, the Overton window is shifting, more
and more people are going, what is money, how does it work and
what is going on when when people are saying this over here
and how is that, how is a Elon going to change things or how
what is what's going to happen over here?
All that matters is people are starting to question money and
why they're being stolen from and how they pay is kind of a an
irrelevant point. Let's go.
Everyone in the chat is doubling down on Bitcoin is peer-to-peer
and it doesn't need Twitter X or Elon Musk cuz he's a shit
coiner. I fully agree, but this does do
something for the normie brains out there.
You know, like the the Normies out there still for lack better
terms and for better or we're still thinking and and looking
towards authority figures for them to embrace new technology.
This is just where we are right now.
So we'll see, we'll see how this goes and we'll keep covering
this. But anyway, Sandy Waves, what's
your thoughts on all this? I think definitely he's gonna
accept cheatcoins and This is why he needs permission, because
who needs permission to use only Bitcoin, so definitely.
He's going to accept a lot of shit going there and you know
there has a lot of shit goingers and people who use Fiat.
So definitely is the why he is asking for that, Yeah.
Yeah, definitely love it. Sandy's so toxic.
Let's go like she's she's. Not wrong.
He's going to give the people what they want.
And if there are in in totality more shit Coiners than
Bitcoiners and they're saying, hey, we want to be able to move
this stuff around, Okay. Fine, play around, play your
stupid games. You're going to win a lot of
stupid prizes as time goes on, but eventually come around to
Bitcoin just gives us more time to stack cheap SAT, so have at
it. That's the signal there more
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the news. So before I give you guys the
news, I want to lay some context because this is something we've
been talking about. We've said it so many times on
the show. That if you align incentives in
your country, if you offer free market solutions, then you will
attract capital. You will attract the smartest
people in the world. And not only that, but your
country will improve. And Bukele has constantly shown
that El Salvador is improving. I think it's been what, two
years? So hey, I hear my boy in the
chat saying two years is not enough data points.
I agree bro, but it's showing signs of improvement and you
cannot deny this. So give some context here.
This was March 23rd, 2023, El Salvador President aka Naive
Bukele to eliminate all income, property and capital gains taxes
on technology innovations. And then we covered this the
other. The other day, what was this
August 15th? So at the beginning of this
month on Bloomberg, there's an article Bitcoin touting
Bokelli's bond rally Draws JP Morgan.
And again, just to rephrase and rehash this El Salvador
president, naive Bokelli scared off many on Wall Street by
embracing Bitcoin. But two years later the bond
rally he's overseeing is proving too lucrative to resist.
And then yesterday, or was this this morning?
Yesterday we got this news from naive Bokelli.
Google plans to establish operations in El Salvador, and I
got you the official press release, but we also got Google
Clouds tweet here and it goes. We're partnering with
Presidentia SV, aka El Salvador, to build a technological hub in
Central America. We will open an office and bring
digital infrastructure to El Salvador with cloud tech at the
center of the country's modernization in areas like
government services, healthcare and education.
And you can see Bukele and I don't know exactly who this is,
but I'm. Guessing it's like the CEO of
Google Cloud, they're signing the paperwork, they signed it
into action and they have committed to this.
So let's get into this press release so we can get over some
of the details. And here we're on Google Cloud
Press corner and it goes. Google plans to establish
operations in El Salvador. And just getting into the meat.
Google, Cloud and the government of El Salvador announced today a
multiyear agreement to support the country in its journey to
become a technological hub in Central America based on.
Mutually agreed upon conditions. Google Cloud plans to establish
a local entity in a Google Cloud office in the Republic of El
Salvador, initiate a Google Distributed Cloud instance for
the country which will bring infrastructure closer to well El
Salvador's data is generated and set up a Cloud Center of
Excellence to offer technical guidance to businesses and
organizations on how to achieve the greatest benefits from cloud
technology and innovations throughout this seven-year
strategic partnership, pending legislative approval, Google
Cloud and the. Government of El Salvador will
work together to put cloud technologies at the center of
countries modernization efforts in three distinct areas.
And just to lay out the areas we have digital government you can
see Google Cloud will be El Salvador strategic innovation
partner helping a securely digitized government processes
and projects including electronic invoicing, permitting
and other initiatives. El Salvador will be using
Google's distributed cloud as the foundation for this
transformation and you can see I highlighted here Google Clouds
delivery. Of GDC and El Salvador makes it
the first Latin American government to benefit from this
powerful cloud technology. Second, we have healthcare to
support the country's efforts to deliver world class healthcare
to residents. They're also doing this and then
education, a commitment to implement a unified education
data. Platform providing
administrators, educators, parents, and public education
leadership the capabilities to receive timely, efficient and
consistent information. This announcement advances the
country's modernization efforts that began in 2021 when El
Salvador's Education Ministry and the country's Department of
Innovation adopted Google Workspace as its main
collaboration platform for 83 government agencies and more
than 1.5 million students and teachers.
And before I wrap this out, we have a few quotes here, one by
Naive Bukell and it goes. El Salvador is moving forward.
We believe technology and foreign investment are key for
development. We are quickly becoming a hub
for innovation. This groundbreaking alliance
with Google Cloud opens unprecedented avenues for
innovation, economic growth, and enhanced public services.
Google's global expertise, combined with El Salvador's
audacity, is set to redefine the technological landscape, said
Nayeem Bukele, president of Republic of El Salvador.
And next we have Google Cloud CEO Thomas Korean.
And he goes, we look forward to working hand in hand with El
Salvador to foster technological development in Central America.
Access to cloud computing has dramatically expanded across
industries and regions throughout the world, enabling
both small companies and the public sector to utilize the
very same applications and services.
In more mature markets, cloud computing can truly transform
Latin America and we look forward to exploring the full
potential of these possibilities in El Salvador, benefiting its
citizens and boosting economic development.
And these efforts are aligned with Google's commitment to
collaborate in the creation of a solid digital future for Latin
America now. Obviously as a Bitcoin and
shouts at the Steven Love cut because he he summarized it
perfectly in a tweet and he goes Google establishing operations
in El Salvador is entirely due to their adoption of Bitcoin and
I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
I think that's probably the reigning sentiment for us as
well, but it's something we talk about here on the show all the
time. Bitcoin's incentives are aligned
and free markets will truly innovate.
And if you create an environment where.
Entrepreneurs where companies can innovate, they can
experiment, they can have the least amount of frictions in
your country. Then you will attract the
capital. You will, you will attract the
smartest people in the world. And look, I know you guys in the
Chatham, I can't even see you guys right now.
But I'm, I can only guess that you guys are being a little
concerned about Google because they are you know the big one of
the biggest corporations in the world.
They are one of the biggest. I don't know what what you say
it like KYC trackers in the world they're they're building
that a I to attract everything we're doing.
And yes, there is some concern about it being headed towards a
dystopian authoritarian route, tyrannical route.
But I think it further proves that if you create an
environment where companies can come, they can innovate.
And again, This is why I started with the beginning of El
Salvador, eliminating income, property and capital gains taxes
on technology innovations, You attract businesses.
And of course, doubling down on that getting the bitcoiners
takes we have John Carvalho here and he goes, this is nice for
users, but you also have a chance to bootstrap a
peer-to-peer economy instead of give all of your country's data
to the US government. So yes, there is that concern
about Google. Remember, what was Google's old
model like? Don't be evil.
Yeah, do no evil or do no harm. Something like that.
I know, as bitcoiners. And as a privacy advocates and
people that don't really like KYC, we're kind of like OK, I
don't know how I feel about Google going down to El
Salvador, but it still remains the same that if you provide
incentive for companies to come into your country, it will
further not only benefit the people around there, but it will
further benefit technology. And so you know again, guys.
Maybe two years isn't enough yet to prove that Bukele is really,
really changing things in in Central America and El Salvador
itself. But it goes to show that if you
try to stop innovation, it will just get rounded around.
And if you embrace innovation, then you will attract the
smartest people. You will attract capital.
And so this is something that Nico and I just love to see.
You know, we are both Latinos. We both love seeing El Salvador
improve their country. We we have multiple, multiple
examples of people that are going back to El Salvador that
say nothing but nice things about Bukele and the country and
what they're doing. So I think this is just more
signal and more signs that they are actually improving that.
But Kelly really is a revolutionary that he's doing
incredible things for his country.
And and I'm just reminded of the conversation I had with Stacy
and Max at Austin. And just there, there was a
point in this press release that that literally triggered the
thought of what Stacy always says of just how profound and
forward-looking Bukelle is. And it's right here.
It's the idea Google's global expertise combined with El
Salvador's audacity. Is set to redefine the
technological landscape of not only El Salvador but Central
America. And I don't know that's just one
of these bullish things that are happening in real time that you
just makes you wonder, man, especially as an American that
lives in America. It's just like, man, I I really
do wish that our government would stop fighting Bitcoin
would stop fighting technology because they're so afraid of the
regulatory mode and embracing technology.
Of course, there is the concern about.
We'll, we'll call it the bureaucratic state combining
with technology and the fears of a dystopian authoritarian
society that again, connecting this with the WeChat and the X
Twitter Everything app. You know, there's ways that you
can make this be negative. There's also ways that this can
be a positive thing. I think this is one of those
things that it's just going to be a time.
Only time will tell. Where are we headed?
I don't know, but all I know is that Bitcoin entrepreneurs out
there are redefining the technological landscape.
And what do we always say? You better get on board because
Bitcoin will out innovate bureaucracy.
And here we're seeing Maine, you know, El Salvador, even though
they're our government, they're they're innovating and they're
doing some great, great things. But Dell, let's get your takes
before we get Sandys, because I I really want to get the local
perspective of this. But Dell, what's your thoughts
on this? I think it's just like you said
that Bitcoin and incentives are going to find a way.
I mean, I've seen this in video games 1000 times.
The developers try and do something and the players figure
out a new way to abuse the system.
Like that's that's what players are going to do.
There's certain laws and that's there's laws of the universe,
there's laws of gravity, there's the laws of physics, and we are
constantly trying to find ways to break them.
Are we supposed to have electricity?
I don't know. It's not what Caveman had.
They didn't have machines and all the stuff doing work for
them. So we found ways to break the
laws of the of physical reality and make it work in our favor.
So when there's money to be made, companies like Google are
going to go to where the incentives are.
Love it. Love it.
OK. Sandy, what's your thoughts on
this? You are an El Salvadorian
yourself. How's this make you feel?
If like I have two opinions about these like for example
yesterday when I saw the post about that, it's like Google is
coming here and it's gonna have all our data from El Salvador.
So it's like okay. I thought Bitcoin is
decentralized and you know it's nobody knows your client and
everything like that. So I was thinking like okay,
innovation, technological and El somebody is attracting all these
technological companies, investing in El Salvador and
infrastructure. And when I saw that I was like,
I don't like it, but at the same time I'm thinking like these
people invested in the country. So this company is going to hire
a lot of people and you know, in this country it's really
difficult to go to any place from the government.
And even if it's not from the government because our data is
still on papers like old school. So you go to the major office
and you need your certificate, birth certificate.
So they had to go through a lot of papers and files.
Like I don't know in your country how many years ago you
didn't have that, but here you go and you take hours to get
that. So if you go to have your ID,
renovate your ID, because you lost it, because you break it,
somebody rub it anyway, anything.
So you have to be spending a lot of time there because our data
is still on papers. If you go to the hospital that
you still have all your medical record on papers.
And if you have to go in another hospital because another reason
they have to send the documentation in a motorcycle.
It's not like they just can and send your dad.
And no, it takes days, probably months to get appointment on the
doctor. So I think there's like pros and
cons about Google close coming here and having all the
documentation, information, data from us.
Anyway, you know, we agree about the when you download any app
from Google, you agree about that.
So anyway, they have our data and we're giving a little bit
more data, but I think it's going to improve our system.
So we're going to be a technological company already.
You know, we have technological money, the best money.
And now things are going to be easier.
And we have a lot of foreigners, we're located to the country.
So it's going to be like easier for them.
Also because if you come here, you're like in an old school
country, like I don't know is everything is, is when you go to
Europe or United States and Euro Salvador and you're like, oh
wow, this is how works here. And then you come back to your
country and it's like, oh shit, oh sorry for that.
So that's. You can catch.
It's all right. Don't worry about it.
It's it's because the feeling of
being in like a really not technological country, the
feeling is weird when you know how it works in another country.
And anyway, like I told you, they have all their data.
Yeah, yeah, I think that's obviously the main concern is
like you said you know I I personally try to use cloud as
as minimal as possible. I I don't have any kind of cloud
set up but but I'm starting to think of like the start nine set
up where like I become my own cloud server.
But anyway that's a totally other tangent but it really is
that's, that's the main concern here, you know.
Yes, on the one hand, like you said.
Revolutionizing technology, modernizing the infrastructure
in El Salvador obviously is going to be beneficial for the
country. But also like you said, giving
Google all your all the access to all your information is
obviously a very scary thing. So again, it's kind of one of
these things like is this, is this bullish news, is this going
to be better for the country, is this going to be detrimental to
the country to to the citizens privacy?
It's one of these things where it's it's hard to tell.
Maybe it's because we all don't really like Google too much,
where we're kind of like, it makes me feel like this is a
good thing, but maybe it's a bad thing.
But nonetheless, I think it still goes to show that if you
create a space, an environment where technology companies and
individuals can come to your country, you will attract the
best and the brightest. And hey, for better or worse,
Google is. You know, some of the best and
the brightest out there, they have a lot of capital and they
see an opportunity. So it's it'll be interesting and
it's something I think it's Elaine said in the chat that you
know, Bitcoin has a way of of changing people's minds so well,
you know, we said in the past, well will Bitcoin change
BlackRock? Only time will tell.
Will Bitcoin change Google? Probably not, but only time will
tell. You know, as the saying goes,
there is a lot of concern about the Kelly down there and what
he's actually trying to do. But it seems like he's doing and
trying to achieve good things for the country.
And you know, it's just awesome to see as as just the third
person observer, it's like, OK, he's making moves.
He's actually trying to change the country to improve the
country, which I don't think many politicians can claim
anyways. Doug, do you want to jump in
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Yeah, let's get to the culture. OK, cool.
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All right guys, before we move on, before I give Dell the floor
and Sandy Waves, of course. If you're not in Europe, if
you're on the West Coast of the United States, come hang out
with us October 5th through 6th in sunny LA at Pacific Bitcoin
Festival last year. It was super awesome.
I can't wait to go back to the hangar.
I will be hanging out with some family over there as well.
So I'm excited to get back to the West Coast right now.
And of course man, get yourself a ticket.
We want to hang out with you. This is a celebration of
Bitcoin. All your favorite bitcoiners
will be there and you can get a ticket today $600.00 General
admission. If you want the Whole VIP
treatment, $2900 but. The most important thing to do,
guys, is to get around other bitcoiners, to continue to build
these relationships in real life.
Because you never know, maybe maybe you're going to meet a
bitcoiner at these conferences at this festival that you can
create a Bitcoin company with. Or maybe you just build some
lifelong friends. Anyways, Dell, what you got on
the docket for us? Well, the the biggest speaker
that's going to be, well, he's not all that big.
He's like 5-5. It's not that big.
Oh, we're doing this. Yeah, why not?
All right, do it. All right, plug.
It as I know, as far as I know, it's not 100% locked in, but
it's looking pretty locked in that Dell para right here.
The Hoddle Sapien will be at Pacific Bitcoin as a speaker and
when I say a speaker, I mean I will be there talking to people.
I probably won't get up on a stage speaking.
But I will be talking. I will not be mute.
So technically speaking, I will be a speaker at Pacific Bitcoin.
You ready for that? Yeah.
So you don't want to shake my hand, give me a hug, Whatever.
Pat me on the head. I'm short.
I'm like a Hobbit. You can do that.
Give me a hug. You're shaking my hand.
You cracked me up. Alright, Doug, get to the bit.
Get to the culture. OK, All right.
So Sandy, I'm going to pull up your website here and leave me a
second to do do do go to here Actually before you do that
Dell, can we Sandy, can you just tell us your Bitcoin rabbit hole
story? Cuz people really love hearing
how other people found Bitcoin. Yeah, definitely.
Okay it was look down before look down.
I had a fashion designer company, a clothing designer.
How could Thor Designer? So the president said that we
going to be locked down and the kind of company that I had at
the time cannot work at the time because we don't need clothes
when we're going to be locked down.
So I celebrity and I moved to the beach first day of
quarantine. So being here, I learn English.
I sign up in a English lesson online and every day I had like
45 minutes. Class.
And I had to practice more English.
So I was just outside of my house at the time and I met a
bunch of people foreign. So it's like, OK, let's practice
English. And one of this guy was just
talking, complaining about the government, the world, The Who,
the web. And I was like, Oh my God, this
man is complaining for everything, complaining about
the money, the inflation. But is, you know, is.
Like, OK, you are just practicing your English.
And he was talking to me about Bitcoin and I was like Bitcoin
OK And I asked him, well he does for living and he told me he
wanted to sell a Bitcoin ATM in El Tunco.
Tunco is the beach that I live in, a libertarian Salvador, and
I moved to the place the first day of quarantine.
So I was like, who the hell is good now by Bitcoin in El Tunco?
You know who bought Bitcoin in El Tuco?
It's me. But at the time I was like, this
is the first time that I heard about Bitcoin and I was like
very interesting. And I remember one day the
president, like couple of months later, he said that he's going
to accept Bitcoin as a currency. And I hate the idea about
accepting Bitcoin as a currency, because in the past we have
colonies. Yeah, Salvadorian colones.
And I remember I was still young.
Like really, really young. Not that I'm not young.
I mean, I was younger than now and he and at the time I
remember they change everything so fast.
So there's a lot of people who like they don't read or they
don't do numbers, math, so they don't go to school, so.
They don't have electricity or it's like, you know, we are
still a poor country improving a lot and fast.
But when this happened like 2020 probably you have to learn how
to convert colonists to dollars. So nobody's going to review of
and it was really difficult for a lot of people.
I was young, little little kid, so it was easy for me.
But I was thinking, okay, now it's technological money and we
have to convert dollars to technological money.
And I thought he was just going to change in couple of days,
weeks, months, probably. But.
And I was worried about those people who doesn't have
technological stuff, Internet phones and my grandma, for
example. But then I learned how to do it,
and he's like, it's so easy. It's so easy to pay with
Bitcoin. It's so easy does a bit can,
it's so easy to buy Bitcoin. So he made a new app, the new
Wallet, that is an wallet only for Salvadorians, or at least
for people who has a citizenship.
So if you have an ID Salvadorian ID, you can download the Achebo
app that is Achebo Wallet, so you can sell Bitcoin there and
you can just send around the world, no matter if it's from
Chibo to another wallet. So I learned how to do it and I
was like, Oh my God, I love it. And something that I like it is
like okay, I can accept it going as a payment and nobody's going
to track the money that I'm accepting my payments and
everything. So no taxes And it's like, oh, I
like it because in the past my company, I had to pay taxes and
even the we don't have like big amount of taxes, this is still
taxes. I don't want to pay taxes.
And I learned how to do it, and I like it.
I fall in love to Bitcoin. So that was my first step to the
rabbit hole. And then into Bitcoin.
I was like, Oh my God, going down and down.
So I was learning more about the money, the politicians, the
world, the story, health. And I fall in love about that.
It was crazy, all these. So I'm teaching about Bitcoin to
people who doesn't know or are scared about Bitcoin because we
also have a lot of people who doesn't know the Bitcoin because
they don't know how it works. So like, Long story short, this
is my story and I was like, Oh my God now.
I've got a quick question. Hold on.
I absolutely love it. Absolutely love it.
Jump in down. Did you?
Did I understand this right? You didn't know English before
the lockdowns? No, I didn't know.
So you're on here talking and perfectly legible English in
like 2 years. Makes me feel completely stupid
that I can't go and pick up Spanish or something.
I guess I'd have to practice, but man, that's that's amazing
that you're here talking. I mean fully.
It's like there's not have been a point where like, I have no
idea what you're saying you. So yeah, that's that's the most
impressive part of the whole story to me.
Thank you so much. Love it.
OK, before, before we go on to the project that you're working
on, I I kind of want to double back and circle back on the idea
of I I find it very interesting that you dislike Bitcoin
originally and then you just then you just found out how easy
it is to use Bitcoin. And this is what I try to tell
everyone. It's like, it's so simple to use
Bitcoin compared to what we're used to.
And so personally, I love that that happened.
But is this rippling out to other people in El Salvador?
Like, what do people think of Bitcoin currently?
Like when you're going around talking to people?
It's difficult. It's depending on who I'm
talking. For example, I'm trying to
install the POS to different people so they can accept
Bitcoin as a payment. And you know my clients.
Are exclusive bitcoiners. I don't work for anyone who is
not a bitcoiner because I want to get payment on Bitcoin and I
can accept dollars. It's okay but only if the wallet
or Internet is not working. But I'm explaining people how
easy it is. So I have two phones, I have one
phone charging over there who I have the POS and I have
different POS. So I'm explaining in the basic
way like Bitcoin for dummies. Like I'm explaining to my mom
like mommy, this is Bitcoin. And Bitcoin works exactly like a
bank account. It's electronical money.
It's simple like that. It's like in the past you didn't
know how to download the bank online account and it's the
same. Download the app and now you can
buy Bitcoin or you can accept Bitcoin and it's easier than
that because you know banks only work like office schedule.
But Pete can is 24 hours is around the world and I don't
have to have permission to anybody to make like any amount
of money transaction to different countries.
Like I can send $5 I can send 5000 dollars $5,000,000 like any
amount. Nobody's going to ask you what
do you need this money to send it.
Nobody is going to have frozen your.
Bank account, your money. It's like it's my money.
Of course if you have in your wallet, like not in an exchange
by the way. So I'm doing this a passionate
You love it. Absolutely love it.
All right, Go on, go on Dow. What else?
You have. I'm looking at my web page, by
the way. I'm gonna improve my web page in
probably two more months. I'm working on that.
New logo, new image and my business is growing really fast.
I had to improve and make the bookings and implement payments
in my webpage. Make the reservation direct to
the webpage. So love it.
Okay for the audio listeners that aren't watching the video.
What exactly is Sandy Waves? What are you working on?
And it's just so awesome to see that Bitcoin is is opening up
new avenues for you. But but what are you working on,
Sandy? Okay.
I'm a very social person. So when I was looked down, I
realized that I have social skills and I love the beach, I
love to travel, I love to go to different places, click the
surface where, yeah, so you can see like you can schedule of
this. So I'm surfing right now.
And I'm going to mountains. And I was doing this because I
love it. I love my country.
It's really beautiful. It's amazing.
And we have a lot of spot that is like nobody close there.
So you can go and enjoy the time there.
You can surf in beautiful waves. You know, like we have the best
ways in the world. I probably the five best waves
in the world. We have the ISIS surf
competition here and I can take you all those places.
We can go to volcanoes. Beach.
So I was doing all this because I like my country and I was
helping people finding it. Taxis, cabs, transportation,
helping to rent a car. Like I was working after the
lockdown in a hotel. So I was discovering that we
have a lot of hotels in Saint Salvar in different places.
So I realized that I I didn't need to work for somebody else
and I can just open my own business.
And I realized that is the best way to live.
I can have my own schedule. I can meet more people, good
people because our only bitcoiners.
So I can tell you the one like 99% of the people that I met is
very nice because our bitcoiners.
So I managed all these guy help me with the web page.
He showed me how to make my, so I made my own web page.
I don't know how to make a web page in the past.
And he told me, okay, Those are the tools, This is the language.
And if you want to do something, just read this and you're going
to do it for yourself. And just took like a couple of
months. I was just sitting in my chair,
my desk, and I did it for myself.
So you see, now I'm going to pay for somebody else to make my own
web page and implement the payments and everything like
that. But.
You know, if you want to discover the country like like
you're a bitcoiner and you want to discover this country and pay
with Bitcoin, let's close it with Bitcoin.
Just come with me. Yes, I can show you how to live
with Bitcoin Standard. I'm living with Bitcoin
standard. So love it.
Absolutely love it. A few things that come to mind.
It's just incredible. And I and I say this all the
time how Bitcoin as entrepreneur money once you're able to grasp
the idea of Bitcoin you really are able to look at your skills
and be like okay. I don't need someone else to do
what I what I can offer the world.
I can provide value and they pay me directly in Bitcoin and it
it's just so awesome that you're a living example of this, that
you're you what you just told us you learned English two years
ago maybe three years ago you found Bitcoin all at the same
time and now you're your own boss and you're doing tours of
the country that you love and it's all on the Bitcoin
standard. And I just think that's awesome.
But Dell, before I rant more, you got any more questions or
well, you got some comments? Does El Salvador have sonote
caves? Thank you, Naomi.
Well, I'm coming to you right here, yeah.
Yes, I gotcha. Gotcha.
Does El Salvador have sonote caves?
No, repeat the question. The sonote caves where there's
water and it's like a cave. I don't know how to describe it.
It's a sonote is an underground chamber where The Cave, it's
like it had been a cave, but then the roof falls and so
there's water and but you can see the sky up above.
There are those in, I know they're in the Yucatan
Peninsula. I just didn't know if there was
any in El Salvador. You have waterfall waves.
OK. All right.
Yeah, maybe we don't have this. And this is what I don't know
about that. OK, no worries.
Yeah. But we have beautiful places.
Okay. Who understands Bitcoin easier,
Children or adults? People who has open mind, it's
simple like that. It's like if you open your mind,
you can understand Bitcoin. But we have a lot of kids
learning about Bitcoin and it's really easy to do it.
And I explained to my mom how it works.
Bitcoin so. I was telling her, okay, you
want me to send you money. I can send you money, but I'm
not going to send you Fiat. You have to download an app, a
Bitcoin, and I'm going to send you money.
I'm not sending you Fiat. No, no, no.
So I'm sending payments. And I'm like like like he's
like, you know, you have to understand people, read them the
the people, so you can understand why they show us a
Bitcoin. And one of my friends and I know
that he's going to watch. This video, I asked him for a
juice, vape juice and I told him, can you bring me the juice?
But I'm going to send you the money so you know that I'm going
to pay you. And he's like, no, no, no, you
can pay me when I give you the juice.
And when he was here, he's like, OK, I'm going to pay you.
But I don't have cash, you know, I don't have cash.
So can you download a wallet? And I'm going to pay you.
And he's like, he was like should they did OK.
Tell me how I can do it because I really want you to pay me.
So he downloaded app now he's stuck and sad and I told him
don't move your sad and he was putting on a stable sad and I'm
like no don't do it just keep it on Bitcoin.
And one day he told me, hey, Bitcoin is going up and he's
like, I tell you and I'm teaching people like in that
way, like I have a friend who has a bar and I I'm taking all
my friends and my customer to the bar and I'm like.
Just do me a favor, I'm telling to my clients, go and ask if he
is accepting Bitcoin and he's like, okay, can we play you with
Bitcoin? And he's like, no.
And then he's just looking at me like, so I'm taking more
bitcoiners and he's like, Okay. You know what?
Just help me with that. How is Bitcoin working?
And I download the app and he is accepting Bitcoin through the
POS now. And I'm just trying to read
people's mind like okay. How I'm going to make them to us
a Bitcoin. Why they need Bitcoin.
It's simple like that. It's like why my mom need to
download the wallet thing. Why she needs to us a Bitcoin
Okay. She want me to send money okay.
I'm not going to send you feel just download the app and I'm
going to send you and I can teach you so easy.
And my friends is like okay. I'm like we going to the bar and
I'm like okay. If you want me to pay for
alcohol, okay. Down in the app, I'm going to
send you Bitcoin. You're going to receive Bitcoin
and you pay with dollars. Simple like that.
And he's like, OK, you know what?
We need more money to buy more alcohol for the party.
And if we're going to pay with food, it's like, OK, I'm going
to pay, but let's go to a place that has said Bitcoin.
So I'm going to invite you and pick a place of said Bitcoin.
And they are like, oh, I love it.
And they are like, you know what?
Bitcoin is so easy. And one day I told a friend that
I was no that story is for my sister-in-law.
It's my brother's wife. So I was telling him, Okay, I'm
going to invite you to a coffee. Let's go for a coffee.
And she told me Okay, perfect. And I told her you're going to
pay it. But you told me that you're
going to pay. Yes, but I'm going to give you
the money. And so why you don't pay?
Because you're going to pay with beef in this place.
And she told me no, no, but I cannot.
I don't have beef, but I don't know how it works.
Okay, let's download the app. She download the app.
Okay, I'm going to send you the money.
So make receive bill an invoice. And she's like, okay, Teach me
how okay, you press this button, then you press this amount, and
now I'm going to scan your QR code.
And she received it. And he's like, so easy.
Yes. Now you're going to do the same.
We're going to pay for the coffee.
And she said exactly like I'm going to pay with Bitcoin.
And the guy said, okay, perfect. She made the QR code and she
just scan. And she told me it's so easy, so
it's like takes like 8 minutes, 5 minutes, something like that
to teach her how to down and enough how to receive a payment
and how to make a payment. And you know, we have the Chibo
ATM, I know we're from the government, but you still can
buy Bitcoin zero fee. So it's like, who doesn't want
to buy Bitcoin? Zero fee?
Amazing. Amazing.
You're doing more for Bitcoin adoption than I think we are
doing. And you're doing and you're
doing exactly what we tell people to do, which is just
basically like, get Bitcoin into people's hands and they will
realize how much easier it is to use it in their everyday life.
And then after that, once they understand like, oh wait, it's
not as hard or as complicated as I thought it was, then you start
to give him like, yo. And if you save it, the number
will go up, your wealth will increase.
Anyways, before we move on Sandy, if someone is out there
thinking about going to El Salvador, how can they get in
touch with you? What's the process and maybe
we'll get you some new customers.
Definitely they can get through the web page or they can go to
my Twitter account that is real Sandy SV and check the blue mark
because I have a lot of impersonator in me.
So just go there, send me a DM, or just go to the Sandy.
That SP my webpage and just send me an e-mail and you can find
all my social media through there and I'm going to show you
my beautiful country and how to live with Bitcoin and I'm
helping people to relocate to my country and set up business.
I'm doing this with a couple of companies that we are working
together. So I have lawyers and I have the
best lawyers, the best company, and if they want to live in El
Salvador because you know, the world is getting crazy and you
have your kids here and you have.
You want to have a better life here.
Like you can have a beautiful house.
You can rent a beautiful house between 1500 with a pool.
I have my pool over there and between 15 thousand 1500 or
2000. And you can live in the beach.
You can live in a beautiful house, all furnish house for
$2000.00. So I can help you to find a
house to rent, a car to buy a car if you want to.
Legalize and set up your business here.
I can help you with all these things here, so you don't have
to be worried. We're gonna.
I I'm gonna uh oh, did she freeze for me or just for you
as. Well, for me as well.
Yeah. OK.
All right, Sandy, you froze on us, so maybe hop back in real
quick, but man, such an inspiring story.
It's so awesome. Wow, Dell, I I really feel like
we we need to do some more. We need to do more over here
anyways anyway. We have more world tour like
find people and because certainly I know Elvis Salvador
is the kind of the the the queen of the ball right now because of
new Bokelli and all the legal tender and all that.
But I'm sure there's stories of other parts of the world where
that people have adopted Bitcoin.
They've told their grandmother grandma whatever.
You know hey, I'll send you this and I'd love to hear more
stories like that. It's great.
Yeah, I agree. Definitely.
You guys know the deal though. If you're a Bitcoin and you
wanna come on the show, by all means reach out or we'll reach
out and we'll bring you on. Anyways, let's get into the meme
review, guys, because we're getting to your favorite portion
of the show and hopefully Sandy can pop back in.
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Alright, so we got Sandy back in here guys.
This first. Actually, today's main review
will be a little clunkier than usual because I wanted to put
this video here by our boy RDBDC.
But you already know the deal, guys.
Tweet to the bullets. Memes are the artillery.
We are in an information war. It is upon you, the individual,
to spread the message to get Bitcoin into people's hands, to
plant and incept the ideas of freedom.
Money in their mind. And this is how we orange pill
the world. So first and foremost.
First and foremost, we got RDBTC.
Let's, let's play this little video right here.
And he goes hashtag Bitcoin. It's right now.
Punching bears. Hey, bear.
I don't want to have to tell you again.
Get the hell out of here. All right, Get out of here.
Get. Son of a bitch.
Get out of here. OK.
All right. Sorry.
You know. Hey, bear.
Hunting season, I think, is over.
And the Cates are winning out there as we stack them.
Sat. All right.
Getting back to these other memes, guys.
This next meme, this was dropped in our Telegram group.
It looks like it's Matt Odell's Gnoster account, though, But it
is a meme, and someone screenshotted it and dropped it
into our telegramgroup.t.meslashsimplybitcoinasyoucanseeitisodell@werunbtc.com.
And I think this is the prevailing sentiment right now
of everyone in the Bitcoin space.
We have the crying pink whoa, Jack of 25 K it's so over.
And then it pumps to 27 K and it's the smiling.
Well, Jack, we're back. We're so back.
And then we go to 30. We're just we're so back right
now. And then it drops back down to
27 K and it's over. It's absolutely over.
And then it hits 25 K and it's really done for, guys.
Bitcoin obituaries just continue to come in strong.
This is, this is the Bible we're feeling right now.
I'm sure we're all having like emotional fluctuations right now
as the price moves up but couple $1000 and we're like we're so
back. Anyways, again on the same thing
we have Dylan Leclair on Twitter and he goes hashtag or money?
Money tag BTC2023 market summary and here we go, the the this is
like a classic chart for market psychology.
It's not the one that you're probably most used to, but you
can see here we have it looks like, yeah, what's the what's
the you know where the heart beeping thing, The ESG?
Oh yeah, the heart monitor, The heart, it looks like a heart
monitor. Here.
We got on the upside, we have severity of mania.
We have euthemia, hypomania and mania.
And on the bottom side we have severity of depression and we
have subthreshold depression and we have major depression.
And you can see this is just a summary of the 2023 fair market.
And we have, you know, it drops down Bros, oh dot dot dot Bros,
what's going on? And then it pumps a little bit
like where's we're back. And then it dumps and it's like
it's over, It's over. I knew Bitcoin with a scam.
And then it pops again. You're like, we're so back.
It was a genius. And it just continues to happen.
It's over. It's a mixed state Bros, what's
going on? It's so over this time.
And as we just continue to stacks, that's moving forward.
I know you guys are feeling the same thing.
And this next one shouts out the Gandalf, this one cracked me up
at BTC Gandalf because again, obviously we're trolling
ourselves. We get so excited when the price
starts to move green that we kind of forget that we still are
under all time high and and we're still just like we're the
best. Anyways, we got Neil, de Grasse,
Tyson and he's going into hyper. What's it, what's it Hyper
space. I forget what it is.
Anyways, we got Gandalf all caps and goes, Oh my God, Bitcoin is
breaking out and you can see the chart is just a bunch of red
candles going down and then we have one little green candle at
the bottom. It's breaking out guys.
We're so back. Yes, yes, we do get crazy when
the price pumps. But hey, one day soon, the price
will continue to skyrocket. This next meme, again, this is
the same. There's a theme through today's
meme review and it's the fact that hey, if you made it through
this bear market, congratulations, pat yourself on
the back. It looks like we are finally,
finally getting at least in the beginning stages of the next
bull run. But shout that to my boy whining
kids and he goes, We pump a couple thousand, Oh my effing
God. Hyperbicolonization is right
around the corner. We dump a couple 1000.
The macro is bearish. Why would anyone buy Bitcoin
during these times? And we have a picture here and
he goes, me at my second rodeo. And they have the Leonardo
DiCaprio face like, uh, you know, And he's, he's sitting
there and it's a little kid. He's just chilling.
And he goes, this isn't my first rodeo, This is all of us, all of
us, you know, relatively newer bitcoiners in our second bear
market. And we're just so you know,
we're dunking all the news, hey, you know, we've been here
before. We're oh, jeez, this isn't my
first rodeo. Me at my second rodeo.
Love it. Wine.
Okay. This next meme is by the BTC
therapist. And he goes, hashtag, Bitcoin is
hope. And we go how it starts.
And you can see we got MasterCard and the World
Economic Forum and New York Times and JP Morgan and CNN and
Visa and the FBI, and it all culminates in them saying
Bitcoin is bad. And then it's just us.
Bitcoin is going, wait, I got it, No, Bitcoin is good.
And then it goes how it ends. And then we have the, you know,
the Bitcoin over here, the Chad Bitcoin are going, yes.
And we have all these countries, you know, El Salvador, America,
Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera,
all of them going soon enough. Bitcoin is good and it's us
agreeing with them. All the countries in the world
right now with hyperinflating currencies are soon enough going
to be looking for El Salvador's lead and get on the Bitcoin
standard and it's it's going to be a beautiful sight to be hold.
And on this last one chested on my boy ropeium he hit me in the
DM's and he was like I'm amazed that you put that meme on
yesterday. Do not cancel me guys.
I I did not see the keyboard. Anyways, let's let's forget
about that ropeium goes. He's got a quote here by GK
Chesterton on Bitcoin it goes. It is not that they cannot see,
the solution is that they cannot see the problem.
And I, you know, rope. Hey bro, I know you're a meme.
I know you're a shit poster, but very profound, very profound.
And you can see here there's two people looking up into an orange
sky and instead of the sun there is the bitcoiner.
How's this one? I didn't see this Ding Dong
iterating on it, see the light Bitcoin.
But it really makes you think. And it's something that that I
kind of felt as well is a lot of people know well.
And this is kind of a counter to what I always say, you know, I
always say a lot of people know what the problem is, they just
don't know there's a solution. But hey, I think it's becoming
very clear as well that many people just cannot see that
there is a problem and they're just lost in the sauce.
And we're here. This is why we're here.
This is why people like Sandy are doing the Lord's work and
getting people on the Bitcoin standard.
Anyways, drop your meme review score in the chat and we will
cover them live as we cover hours over there.
Drop it over there and and we will, we will get it covered
live. OK, my meme review score is, you
guys know I just came back from Austin.
Uh oh just came back from Austin and shouts out to my boy Billy
Mcdoe. Cuz he gave me this Bay Area
bitcoiners hat shouts out to you bro.
Billy Mcdoe really put the team on his back.
Doe OK, Dell, what is your meme review score?
A jar of water? Wait, what?
A jar of water jar. A jar?
Are you fermenting something or what?
No, it's a Mason jar of water. I don't like drinking out of
plastic, so I drink out of glass Mason jars.
Chad. Chad.
All right, Sandy, are you back? It looks like the Matrix has
you. Are you back with us?
No, look at me. It's all right.
It's aesthetic. You fell off?
No. It's because the Internet is
going and coming, because we have a lot of.
Buildings around here, you know we're going to have a new mold
like 3 new gas station, like everything is improving so fast
in El Salvador. So This is why my electricity is
going and coming, going and coming right now.
So I connected to my phone, but it's still going and coming.
So give me one minute and coming soon, alright, no worries.
No worries. If you if you get back in, we'll
get your meme review score. But we do have a few, a few
scores already coming in hot. So let's get to the meme review
scores. Let's see, Let's see.
All right, My boy. Opti's old face, he goes score
opti's old face as a Valentine's card for the memes show the old
face memes don't hide it from the chat.
No, wait, hold on one second, one second.
No, no, no. If you guys know he's meaning me
cuz my my camera was lagging at the beginning of the of the week
and he got some unsavory screenshots of me, to say the
least. OK, the next meme review score
is my hammer saw and he goes. I give those memes passing on
buying BTC at $0.10 only to watch it go a kajillion percent
without you. Lowell.
Ouch. The pain, the pain.
I can feel it. I can feel it.
Okay. This next one is by Elaine.
Shout out to Elaine and she goes score Sandy Waves for president
of El Salvador. Okay, okay.
Next meme review score is by her friend Mclovin.
Yo boy. Meme score.
Wait, wait, sorry, no, can't read that one.
That bad? It says PG13.
I don't know. I don't know.
I'm gonna, hey, you know, Nico's away.
You're here. I'll I'll edit it.
Don't forget your backless chaps.
It's gonna be a wild ride this next cycle, All right?
You can tell there's a lot of a lot of things going on going on.
Oh, man. All right, guys.
All right. Wait, I skipped your.
Where was rope score? Where was your score, though?
OK, let me let me get rope just because he's a big.
Faces just because he's a prima Donna.
Where is it? Yeah, there.
I think YouTube's canceling. I think you said something that
is not YouTube friendly. I don't think it's blocking
things. I think it's just Ayers.
I said something about the tweets and it just didn't or the
likes and it didn't go through Okay.
All right. Well anyways, anyways, anyways,
love you guys. Appreciate you.
Sandy can't come back in her. I guess she's having some
technical issues, but go support her.
Go to Sandy dot SV get in touch with her If you are trying to go
travel in El Salvador. Get in touch with the local
support the circular economy. She's doing so much for Bitcoin
it's absolutely awesome inspiring and and her story oh,
here she is. Is she back?
Yes, in my phone because my
computer is going and coming. Backup as well.
Sandy, thank you for coming on. If there's one last thing you
want to tell our audience right now is the time I I just plugged
the website. So thanks for coming.
Your story was inspiring, but where do you want people to find
you? What are you working on?
What do you got next in the books?
So I just want to help a lot of people who's coming to El
Salvador show you how beautiful is living in standard, so you
have a decentralized life in that way so nobody can track
your money and it's free money to everyone.
So if you want to have this experience in El Salvador
visiting all those places, so just see how he's living in El
Salvador, just get in contact with me.
So hope you coming soon guys. Love it.
Absolutely. In the helping story next year
in the Pacific. Let's go.
All right. Sandy, thank you so much for
coming. What a great, great story today
and we'll bring you back on soon when you have some new
developments and you can keep us updated.
We absolutely love having people on the ground in El Salvador
tell us exactly what they're thinking and what their view of
the country is because you know we're we're only we're subject
to the the news stories and the headlines and so we'd love to
bring you back soon enough and we'll get some updates from you.
Really. Any.
Anyways Dell. What what do you got what do you
got in the books and the dockets for the you tubes out there.
I know you got some stuff. Maybe it's next week.
I don't remember. Yeah, we'll see.
I'm keeping it under wraps right now.
There's always stuff coming. There's always stuff coming, OK,
He's dropping the breaking news that he's going to be.
Yeah, a speaker in the parking lot.
Talking, sharing. Let's go.
I'm told. Secrets of the huddle Sapien of
the huddle sapien. All right, guys.
Thank you all of you guys for hanging out with us.
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