1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,680 It's all going to zero against Bitcoin. 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:17,200 It's going up forever. You're against Bitcoin. 3 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,960 You're against freedom. Yeah. 4 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:24,160 Welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin Live. 5 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:26,360 We are your number one source for the peaceful Bitcoin 6 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,240 revolution of color, breaking news, culture, matic warfare. 7 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:33,040 We will be your guide through the separation of money and 8 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,320 state. Yesterday was an absolute 9 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,760 disaster. Like, honestly, like, I don't 10 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:43,000 know what's going on. A lot of projection. 11 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,880 We're going to break it down. But essentially what happened 12 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:52,640 was a the apparently the SEC Twitter account got hacked and 13 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,760 they announced that the ETF was approved. 14 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,200 It was later discovered by Gary Gensler. 15 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,920 Like they they were just announcing this that no it would 16 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,040 that the account was actually compromised. 17 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:09,040 That tweet wasn't real. The ETFs actually haven't been 18 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,040 approved. But what's really interesting is 19 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:16,960 that the legacy corporate media all covered for the SEC. 20 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:21,600 They said, oh this is actually this was actually Twitter that 21 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:24,840 got hacked. Of course we know that that 22 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,400 wasn't the case. It was actually that the SEC 23 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,840 account did not have to affay on even though. 24 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,640 And we have the receipts for you guys. 25 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,760 They there's tweets from not only Gary Genser but from the 26 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:41,840 SEC themselves literally telling people turn on your two FA 27 00:01:42,080 --> 00:01:45,360 protect your accounts. So again once it it it's another 28 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,160 example of rules for thee, but not for me. 29 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,440 And then not to mention the fact that the SEC, the sole purpose 30 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,840 is to protect people from market manipulation. 31 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,440 That tweet literally manipulated the market. 32 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,400 If you had a short open, if you had a leverage long open, you 33 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,800 got absolutely massacred yesterday and you know who's 34 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:10,000 responsible? The SEC, which is absolutely 35 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,240 really like you could not like, it's so fun working in Bitcoin 36 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,160 and like getting to cover this stuff because literally there's 37 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:21,200 not a dull day and then every anything that you like you 38 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:26,120 couldn't write a script about this better if you tried like 39 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,480 just think about the last year. It's just absolutely crazy. 40 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,840 I think this is a vindication for Elon because one of the one 41 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:38,920 of the charges that one of the charges that the that the SEC 42 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:43,080 pressed against Elon was manipulating the stock via 43 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,160 tweets, right? And I just find like, I just 44 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:51,440 find it poetic that, you know that the SEC themselves 45 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,680 manipulated markets with a tweet. 46 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,360 So it's just absolutely hysterical, guys. 47 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,280 It is. It is a very, it was a very long 48 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,680 story. A lot, a lot of events happen. 49 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,560 But we have all the tweets for you guys, we have all the 50 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,240 receipts. So we'll bring you from A-Z what 51 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,520 happened. But it was absolutely crazy. 52 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:15,320 And other news, apparently you are to believe it. 53 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:20,480 Today is the day that the so-called Spot Bitcoin ETF is 54 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:24,280 going to get approved. There was a from a Bloomberg 55 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:26,240 Terminal. We'll show you guys the tweet in 56 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:30,520 the numbers section. It shows that that apparently 57 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:35,200 the approval is going to happen today at six between 6:00 PM and 58 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:39,840 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. So let's see what happens. 59 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,680 You know, are we on the verge of another approval? 60 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:47,680 Is it going to be denied? But again, a huge, huge, huge 61 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,360 ball drop by the government agency that is supposed to 62 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:57,160 protect consumers, which I think is absolutely hilarious. 63 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,680 They've been grandstanding, they've been grandstanding this 64 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,040 entire time. You know, crypto projects are 65 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,520 bad. You know, like, I tend to agree 66 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:06,920 with that. I think crypto is a scam. 67 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:10,960 Bitcoin, not crypto. But you know, it's just, it's 68 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,200 just fitting. It's a bit of cosmic justice. 69 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,680 I'm going to say this does not look good on Gary Gensler 70 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:22,000 whatsoever. If there is no accountability 71 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,880 for this, I'm gonna be highly disappointed. 72 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,640 Just like the DOJ press conference a couple weeks ago 73 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:33,560 where they were lecturing us essentially about Binance 74 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:39,480 circumventing all these money laundering laws, et cetera, et 75 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,280 cetera. You know, at the same time, you 76 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:46,040 know, I'm not going to get into any specifics, but, you know, 77 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,400 why is it that some members in Congress are worth hundreds of 78 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:53,240 millions of dollars out of a off of a government salary And why 79 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:57,240 do they keep sending, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars 80 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:00,160 to foreign countries to fund foreign wars that have no 81 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,360 benefit for the American people? You know, so again, like it, it 82 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,960 it, it, it's hard to get lectured by, you know, 83 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:10,800 government officials. And again, I think it's a 84 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,480 psychological protection a, a projection. 85 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,320 There was that New Jersey senator that was basically, you 86 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,240 know, saying that Naimbu Kayleigh was a dangerous to 87 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:23,360 Democrat danger to democracy. That you know, that he was 88 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:27,200 guilty of of of conspiracy, guilty of fraud, guilty of money 89 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,600 laundering. Fast forward a year later, 90 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:34,920 literally they find cash and gold bars in this guy's trunk 91 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,040 and they charge him with with corruption. 92 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:42,280 Like literally, he, he, he, he, he, he, he accused Nayeem 93 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:46,000 Bukheli of what he was guilty of himself, you know, But you know, 94 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,360 this is what the book, the sovereign individual predicted. 95 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,480 You know, once you get to the end of a cycle, that's when 96 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,440 things really get off the rails. And I think that's really what 97 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,680 we're living through. Some people call it the 4th 98 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,640 turning, but all of this doesn't matter. 99 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,120 You're watching on the sidelines eating popcorn. 100 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:04,840 If you have your Bitcoin in self custody, you're just looking at 101 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:07,760 that stuff and you're like wow, this is entertainment and the 102 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,120 UPS and the downs, The downs is a great opportunity for you to 103 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,040 stack cheaper stats. Anyways guys, no more delay. 104 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,360 I do want to start the show and I want to bring up our guests. 105 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:21,120 First we have our guest Craig, and of course my legendary Co 106 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,720 host. He is always optimistic he's 107 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:27,040 dressed up. We have Johnny Depp back in the 108 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:28,600 house. Opti Depp. 109 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,080 He's gonna be unbuttoning, unbuttoning his shirt as the 110 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,280 show progress. Starts sweating all day. 111 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,720 As the show progresses. Guys, the adults are in the room 112 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:41,080 now, so I feel like we have to actually wear suits on the show 113 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:43,600 to be taken seriously. I'm gonna wear a suit, dude. 114 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:44,800 You and Ruston are making me look. 115 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,040 Bad. I'm gonna have to actually buy a 116 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,120 suit. But anyways, Nico, not to like 117 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:54,080 blow up what's going on on the news, but it looks like the ARC 118 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:58,600 might the ARCA 21 ETF might have just gotten approved. 119 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,120 Again, we can't verify this yet. I'm sure we'll get some news 120 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:04,200 later. Shouts out to Billy Macdo. 121 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:10,320 It says accepted and it is the ticker are on fidelity right now 122 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:12,000 so this is all happening in real time. 123 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,760 We'll we'll probably cover this in in detail tomorrow, but it 124 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:19,440 looks like it's actually the day and the spot Bitcoin ETF is 125 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:21,400 getting approved as we speak, so. 126 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:23,120 I'm. Looking What a day, what a day. 127 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,800 Information. It seems like there isn't any 128 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:27,200 official there's. No official. 129 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:28,960 Word. No official word Did we know? 130 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,080 Their website wasn't hacked. Yeah, exactly. 131 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:35,280 So we there's no official wording, but this could be a 132 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,240 very very historic day for Bitcoin. 133 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:41,760 And I also want to mention guys, it would be extremely fitting 134 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,600 because many, many, many years ago, the one the only, the 135 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,440 legendary Hal Finney tweeted running Bitcoin and you know 136 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:51,720 what day he tweeted it. It's giving me chills, saying. 137 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,560 This. January 10th and today is 138 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,280 January 10th and today could be the day that the Bitcoin Spot 139 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,400 Bitcoin ETF. It's no longer just running 140 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,600 Bitcoin. It's running Wall Street. 141 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,800 Let's go. Yeah, so this is, this is crazy. 142 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,320 I got, I got, I got chills like thinking about that because it's 143 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:13,040 so fitting. You know, this absolute Bitcoin 144 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,600 legend, and this is the day that that happens. 145 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,720 It makes me kind of like it makes me kind of want to tear up 146 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:20,160 a little bit, you know? So anyway. 147 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,080 So you are the wet and re liked the tweet 'cause that's 148 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:25,400 something you always have to do. I do it. 149 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:27,480 I do it. I I even commented today, you 150 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,240 know, because it's it's so fitting if this gets approved 151 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,840 today like that is that is full circle. 152 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,320 That is full circle. Maybe that's more more receipt 153 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,080 to the fact that Gary Gensler is a Maxi out here. 154 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,520 This is what he was waiting for. This is all the delay was about. 155 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:43,840 It was him just making sure it's dropped on this historic day. 156 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:47,320 100% A. 100% Anyways, ladies and gentlemen, it's going to be a 157 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,480 great show. Buckle up and let's jump 158 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:52,560 straight into the numbers. Let's do this. 159 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,600 The Bitcoin numbers. Is your Bitcoin and cold storage 160 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,600 really secure? Is your seed phrase really 161 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:03,160 secure? Stamp seeds? 162 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,840 Do it yourself. 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All right guys, at the time of 184 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:19,680 recording, the Bitcoin price is 45,660 SAT's per dollar. 2190 185 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:26,560 market cap 894 billion U.S. dollars declined from all time 186 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:31,680 high 33% days. Since all time high 790 days. 187 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:33,560 It's been a long time, ladies and gentlemen. 188 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:39,440 Bitcoin versus gold market cap 6.55% that that number is going 189 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:41,600 to go up forever. It's going to be so great when 190 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:45,240 that passes over 100%, then it goes to 110, goes to 150, that's 191 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,280 going to feel real good. Supply percentage in corporate 192 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,360 treasuries about 10%. Total lightning network capacity 193 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:55,640 5000 Bitcoin and the block height continues to make all 194 00:10:55,640 --> 00:11:00,800 time highs like always 825,167 Bitcoin. 195 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:02,880 All right everybody, we have to go. 196 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:05,240 We have to go back in the past. I am on Sophie's computer, 197 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:06,280 that's why you see this down here. 198 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:08,440 By the way, my computer is still getting fixed. 199 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,640 I dropped a glass water bottle on it because Octi and Sophie 200 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,160 were pressuring me to switch to glass and don't drink out of 201 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,840 plastic. So I I partially blame them for 202 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:19,680 having to pay all that money to fix my laptop. 203 00:11:20,440 --> 00:11:25,720 But anyways, anyways, how Finney? 204 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:32,280 January 10th, 2009. Absolute legend running Bitcoin, 205 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,440 right? And today apparently is the day. 206 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:39,320 Here is Eric Bacunas. He is a senior ETF analyst for 207 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,120 Bloomberg, so he knows what he's talking about. 208 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,000 And he says I love that they use New Jersey time, although 209 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,840 accurate, it's the same as New York time by the way. 210 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:48,480 So he's just commenting on the time. 211 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:52,860 But here is the Bloomberg Terminal reporting, quote UN 212 00:11:52,860 --> 00:11:56,640 quote, Crypto news breaking Bitcoin ETF set to be approved 213 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:01,560 today between 6:00 to 8:00 PM New Jersey time, not New Jersey 214 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:03,680 time. That's the same as Eastern 215 00:12:03,680 --> 00:12:07,560 Standard Time. So 6:00 to 8:00 PM. 216 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:09,000 I think everyone's gonna be watching. 217 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:12,800 But you can't stop Jamie Dimon. You know, the CEO of America's 218 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:17,840 largest bank to not stop, you know, making his thoughts known 219 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,520 on this. So I have a video for you guys. 220 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,120 I'm going to play. It's about 31 seconds long and 221 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:24,960 we're going to have a discussion about all this. 222 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:28,080 There's also a new regulation coming on Bitcoin and you, you 223 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,160 know, famously said recently that you would shut it down if 224 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:33,720 you were in government. Can you give us more clarity on 225 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:35,960 that? I've always said that Bitcoin 226 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,920 doesn't have value and I don't care that people do a Bitcoin. 227 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,960 But I was also pointing out is that the the the actual use 228 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,560 cases are sexual trafficking, tax avoidance you know anti 229 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:49,240 money laundering terrorism financing. 230 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:52,280 It's not people just buying and selling Bitcoin that that's 231 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:58,320 there's no value to you know you you're like that is some that is 232 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:03,880 some bullshit like that that that's art like look, Elizabeth 233 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,840 Warren released the the data. Sorry not Elizabeth Warren. 234 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:09,080 She definitely didn't release the data. 235 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:10,200 She doesn't want this data to come out. 236 00:13:10,880 --> 00:13:16,960 Cynthia Lummus released the data. 99% of illicit finance is 237 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:19,440 conducted using the traditional financial system. 238 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,120 So why is Jamie Dimon saying this? 239 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:26,480 Because really, Bitcoin is a threat to banks. 240 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:28,800 Why? Because once the the general 241 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:33,120 public starts to figure out that all of a sudden I don't have to 242 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:37,720 leave my savings in a Bank of which charges me a monthly 243 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,120 maintenance fee if I don't have a certain amount on there. 244 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,760 Not to mention that you're not holding Bitcoin in a bank, 245 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,720 you're holding dollars in a Bank of which they're also losing 246 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:50,280 value. So you're just getting like 247 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:54,000 screwed in so many different ways and they figure out, wait, 248 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,760 I could take self custody of this thing. 249 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,920 I don't have to pay a fee #1 and #2. 250 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,200 It's number go up technology. It's a deflationary currency. 251 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:04,920 Your purchasing power increases over time. 252 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:07,760 So if I was someone like Jamie Dimon, I'm like, holy shit, as 253 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,280 soon as people figure this out, this is not a good thing, right? 254 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:13,640 You know? And of course he he teams, he 255 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:17,080 teams up with Elizabeth Warren and you know they they they try 256 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:21,440 to, you know they try to convince the public and try to 257 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:26,120 gather enough political support off misrepresentations because 258 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,200 both their claims have been debunked in order to try to stop 259 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:30,680 this thing. But you can't stop the honey 260 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:32,280 badger. You could slow it down in 261 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:34,920 certain countries and whatnot and this since and that the 262 00:14:34,920 --> 00:14:36,920 bitcoins incentives will rule the day. 263 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,800 Anyways, we were talking with Craig earlier on and he wanted 264 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,440 to talk about the halving because the halving is coming 265 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:45,840 up. So Craig, what are your thoughts 266 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:47,480 on the halving? And then I want to get off these 267 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:51,080 thoughts on the video and the the supposed the supposed 268 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,880 approval of the ETF at 6:00 PM. Well, I just wanted to when we 269 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:57,160 were doing the numbers, I was thinking that like we're we're 270 00:14:57,160 --> 00:15:02,240 less than 15,000 blocks away. I think it was like 825,000 271 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:06,560 blocks around right now and the halving's at 840,000 blocks. 272 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:10,200 So it's coming up quickly. I think the the estimated time 273 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:13,800 is like around April 20th, which is another great hilarious date 274 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:18,040 for celebration. I think talking about the video 275 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:20,120 too. I mean, watch what they do, not 276 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,280 what they say. Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase is 277 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:28,160 an authorized participant of Blackrock's ETF, so he's on TV 278 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,920 talking trash right now about Bitcoin. 279 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:34,640 And meanwhile, in the background, they are a a 280 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:40,680 necessary partner for BlackRock to be handling the the trade, 281 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:46,680 insurance and outs of the ETF. 100% OPTI, what's your talk, 282 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:50,480 what's your take on Craig on, you know, Craig Craig's comments 283 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,600 and then what's your take on, you know, the supposed approval 284 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,760 if we can't trust the SEC, we could be? 285 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,000 Trustful. Well, I'm glad Craig brought 286 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,360 that up because I was going to say the same thing, you know, 287 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:02,680 and and I love. How do you frame it? 288 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,920 Well, not don't listen to what they say, watch what they do. 289 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:11,040 And then like he said, you know, JP Morgan is literally the 290 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,400 authorized participant for the BlackRock ETF. 291 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,440 So it's funny that on the one hand, I mean we've been saying 292 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:20,320 this for a while, the the the billionaire banker, politician 293 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:23,240 playbook is all the same. You publicly FUD Bitcoin, you 294 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:25,800 probably stack Bitcoin on the back end and then once your bags 295 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,880 are packed, you come out publicly, very publicly and say 296 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:32,280 like, Oh yeah, we love Bitcoin. And this is what they've been 297 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:37,000 doing for a long time in the Bitcoin space, and we can almost 298 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,600 be certain that they have their own holdings of Bitcoin. 299 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,840 Maybe they there's some legal fiduciary responsibilities of 300 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:47,440 reporting on that, but there's always, you know, pigeons and 301 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:51,280 people that they can use to stack Bitcoin in their name. 302 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:55,760 But anyways, the Jamie Dimon video doesn't surprise me at 303 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:57,520 all. Yeah, I think it's just funny 304 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:01,920 that he does this on this day, considering like the importance 305 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,240 of what's happening right now at the spot Bitcoin ETF. 306 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:07,440 But remember, Elizabeth Warren was, quote UN quote, grilling 307 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:09,079 him the other day and he said the same thing. 308 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:12,359 This is not a new statement by Jamie Dimon or bankers and 309 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,920 central bankers and their ilk. So I'm not surprised that this 310 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,400 is what they're saying. Of course, they cannot fully 311 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:20,839 endorse Bitcoin because we know what Bitcoin does. 312 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:23,200 It literally disintermediates their job. 313 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,200 So they're obviously not going to come out at least on the very 314 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:28,440 first of this and be like, oh, we love Bitcoin. 315 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:30,520 You guys should go jump in and save in Bitcoin. 316 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,800 They're going to do their best to gaslight the masses out 317 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:36,360 there, the population, the normie population that they 318 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:38,920 probably shouldn't get as much Bitcoin exposure as they should. 319 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:43,000 They'll start to trinkle that that signal out slowly but 320 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,600 surely obviously at first tell their high net worth individuals 321 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:48,680 that yeah, maybe you want some Bitcoin exposure and then 322 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,760 finally Main Street will get the get the signal and they'll get 323 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:55,280 told to buy Bitcoin. But anyways, on the approval it 324 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:57,680 is technically on their website now. 325 00:17:57,680 --> 00:17:59,400 Nico and I and I showed the whole thing here. 326 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,160 So SEC dot. I mean, so are are we? 327 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,240 Are we on the website? This is the website. 328 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:06,440 This is not. As and this is on the website 329 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:10,040 yes apparently we we had the Twitter team right now they said 330 00:18:10,040 --> 00:18:13,520 that they they're confirming this as well but hey no official 331 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:18,880 announcement yet but apparently you can see here accepted today 332 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:24,680 at what 1056 Eastern. So yeah it looks like it's 333 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,680 official but we'll we'll wait for the official announcement to 334 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:33,000 fully go in from the SEC or Gary Genser themselves to approving 335 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:36,240 all of the spot Bitcoin ETFs. But yeah man I guess it is a 336 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:39,040 historic day. January 10th is not just the 337 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:40,760 historic tweet of running Bitcoin. 338 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:44,880 It is the day apparently allegedly, that the spot Bitcoin 339 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:48,160 ETF gets approved. But guys, again, we're we're 340 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:52,040 trying to do this in real time. So if if for some reason 341 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,280 something happened, maybe they got hacked again on their 342 00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:55,840 website, we'll see what happens later. 343 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,240 So yeah. So, so, Twitter. 344 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:01,400 So, so, so Twitter team. Twitter team, if you're 345 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,280 listening, please put the link. Below the We got it. 346 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:05,160 Oh, yeah. OK. 347 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,560 Yeah. Yeah, thread the website link 348 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:12,080 and then just specify Opti that you know, according this is a 349 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:17,120 link to the website don't trust, verify, you know 'cause if we 350 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:21,800 can't confide on the SEC to say what's approved or not. 351 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:26,400 But that according to the SEC website, as it stands right now, 352 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:32,000 the ARC ETF has been approved, you know, So that's where we 353 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:36,120 stand according to the website. Maybe we're reading it wrong. 354 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:40,040 If you guys think we're reading it wrong, please, please let us 355 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,640 know down in the comments. All right, everybody, let's get 356 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:43,240 to the news. Well. 357 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,400 I was just gonna say I'm surprised that they would just 358 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,320 put it on their website without making a live announcement after 359 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:50,720 yesterday. Yeah, well, maybe, yeah, that's 360 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:52,440 true. But maybe they're waiting to 361 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,160 approve more. And then they'll announce, like 362 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,560 all of them in a bunch. But hey, maybe they're trying to 363 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:01,400 avoid more bad PR. And and actually all that. 364 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:02,800 No, actually, no. Let's let's go. 365 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,080 If, Nico, if you're going to cover the whole thing, let's do 366 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:06,520 that. And then I'll save my take on 367 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:09,600 what actually happened. OK, cool. 368 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:13,040 Could you thread, could you thread the the website Opti, we 369 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:17,800 got to change that, We got to change that wording, We got to 370 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,640 change that wording from the simply account that that's a hot 371 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:23,400 potato. All right, everybody, let's get 372 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:24,840 to the news. We got a lot to talk about. 373 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:31,320 The Daily News. I want to give a shout out to 374 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:35,680 our sponsor, Foundation Devices. 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And you gotta do that by 408 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,400 properly securing your seed phrase and of course getting 409 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,560 yourself a bad ass hardware wallet. 410 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,440 And of course we recommend our sponsor, Passport by foundation. 411 00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:31,080 All right, ladies and gentlemen, I do want to talk about the 412 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:34,560 media framing against Elon. Right 'cause this is nuts. 413 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:36,640 This is so crazy I cannot believe it. 414 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,000 Like what the F is going on here? 415 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:46,200 SEC account hack amplifies concerns over security at Musk's 416 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:47,360 X. Right. 417 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:52,240 Breach underscores questions about reliability of news on X 418 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:57,360 Elon Musk's X has been seeking to win back advertisers. 419 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:01,360 Ladies and gentlemen. Framing is extremely important. 420 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:05,280 Wording is important, OK? Wording is important. 421 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:10,040 Framing is important. What they're doing is basically 422 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,160 saying, and I'm we're going to go through the receipts. 423 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,720 This isn't just Nikko just talking shit, right? 424 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:15,960 We're going to go through the receipts. 425 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,760 What they're doing is that they're pushing the blame from 426 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:24,720 the SEC for not properly securing their account, and 427 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,040 they're pushing the blame to Elon Musk. 428 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,480 We know that the Biden administration does not like the 429 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:37,600 X platform. We know that, you know, Europe, 430 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:41,040 the European Union does not like the X platform, right? 431 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:45,040 Yeah, I I saw in the vault tweet, the other say it said 432 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:49,360 Elon freed the bird, right. We know for a fact once the 433 00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:53,040 Twitter files were released that the US government, even though 434 00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:56,800 this is completely against the 1st Amendment, was working with 435 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:01,840 Twitter to censor certain American speech, right? 436 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,040 But it's just interesting how the legacy media is framing it 437 00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:09,280 in a way where the government, even though they dropped the 438 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:14,280 ball, is not responsible, it's actually Twitter is responsible. 439 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:16,680 And I also want to point this out as well. 440 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:21,000 Right Underscores questions about reliability of news on X. 441 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,280 What about the reliability of the New York Times? 442 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,240 What about the reliability of the legacy corporate media? 443 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,040 Look at their behavior over the last three or four years. 444 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,240 They haven't been quite reliable. 445 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:38,320 There's a lot of things that they got blatantly wrong, but of 446 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,480 course they don't take responsibility for that because 447 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,280 they're the legacy media, right? You know, this is, this is, this 448 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:45,240 is crazy. This. 449 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:47,760 I'm telling you guys, this is narrative Trench warfare. 450 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,960 They're literally telling you don't believe your eyes. 451 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:57,720 It is actually the fault of. It is an actually the fault of 452 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,240 of it's actually the fault of Twitter. 453 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,520 So it goes on to say the SEC said in its account on social 454 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,480 network X was compromised leading spike in the price of 455 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,000 Bitcoin, raising fresh concerns about X, reliability as a source 456 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,640 of information and the strength of its security practices. 457 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,760 The incident, one of the most consequential breaches in years 458 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,480 on the platform formerly known as Twitter, began with the post 459 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:23,960 on the SC CS Official Verified Account which inaccurately 460 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:28,160 shared that the regulator had approved spot Bitcoin exchange 461 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,680 traded funds. A decision, a decision that has 462 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,520 been anticipated for later this week. 463 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:37,360 The the price of Bitcoin quickly shot up more than 2.5% as news 464 00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:40,680 of the post spread online and via media outlets, including 465 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:44,000 Bloomberg News that were watching the SC CS feed for such 466 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:48,000 an announcement. OK, and you think, wow like holy 467 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,280 shit like Elon, like what's going on? 468 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,760 Even even the legacy corporate media is saying the same thing. 469 00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:55,680 Here's a clip from CNNBC yesterday. 470 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:57,640 OK. And so I'm just going to 471 00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:59,880 reiterate one more time. It would appear that X has been 472 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:04,200 hacked, that the US government, the SEC, has not been hacked, 473 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,880 which in of itself would have been quite interesting since the 474 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,160 SEC is also regulating all of these cyber security issues and 475 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,520 hacks for public. Do you? 476 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,480 Do you, do you see that? Do you do you hear what they do 477 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,320 you? Do you hear the doubt in her 478 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,080 voice? Do you hear that the US 479 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:26,520 government has not been hacked? It is actually X, the platform 480 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,160 that was hacked. And here's Elon. 481 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,600 That's how the legacy media runs right now. 482 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,000 Let's go, let's, let's take the like a trip down memory lane. 483 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,840 Right. So here is, you know, September, 484 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,480 it's September twenty 18th, 2018. 485 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:44,520 Elon Musk charged with securities fraud for misleading 486 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:49,000 tweets. OK, OK, here's the official 487 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:54,040 tweet that says today the SEC grants approval for Bitcoin ETS 488 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,360 for listing on all registered national security exchanges. 489 00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:01,480 The approved Bitcoin ETF will be subject to ongoing surveillance 490 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,480 and compliance measures to ensure continued investor 491 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,520 protection, right? So this is the this is the this 492 00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:13,160 is the hack tweet, supposedly. Now here's the thing though, 493 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:18,280 right? And again, the whole thing about 494 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:23,160 the SEC is, is consumer protection, consumer protection 495 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:26,080 brought to you by the SEC. Now I know a lot of you guys are 496 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,320 thinking, OK, maybe the X platform was hacked, right? 497 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:33,360 Maybe it was hacked. Maybe, you know, maybe, maybe, 498 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:34,960 you know, maybe they're on to something. 499 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:37,600 So here's what the Twitter safety team said. 500 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,800 We can confirm that the account at the SEC Gov was compromised 501 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,560 and we have completed a preliminary investigation. 502 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:49,520 Based on our investigation, the compromise was not due to any of 503 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:54,320 any breach of X systems, but rather due to an unidentified 504 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:58,360 individual obtaining control over a phone number associated 505 00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:01,360 with the SEC government account through a third party. 506 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:06,000 We can also confirm that the account did not have two factor 507 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,480 authentication enabled at the time the account was 508 00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,120 compromised. We encourage all users to enable 509 00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:17,320 this extra layer of security. More information and tips on how 510 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:20,000 to keep your account secure could be found in our help 511 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,440 center. OK, right, so but look at what 512 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:29,560 the media said. Look at what the legacy media on 513 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,200 TV said. It's not the US government that 514 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,440 messed this up. No, no, no, no, no, no. 515 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,600 It was Twitter that messed this up. 516 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,200 Twitter looked into it and said guys, you didn't have your two 517 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,720 FA on. Now here's the other thing, 518 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,600 which I think is absolutely hilarious. 519 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,240 They themselves literally advocated for two FA. 520 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,520 This is a reminder to This is a tweet from Gary Genzer. 521 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,040 For audio listeners, this is a reminder to secure your 522 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:58,800 financial accounts as well as protect against identity theft 523 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:00,880 and fraud. Remember to use strong 524 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,720 passphrases and passwords. Set up multi factor 525 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,120 authentication. I guess they didn't. 526 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:09,680 I guess they thought they were above that. 527 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:16,360 And here's the thing, there is more history of of of this as 528 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,640 well and I'm going to pull it up. 529 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,600 So check this out. This is another tweet by the 530 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,960 SEC. Careful what you read on the 531 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,880 Internet. The best source of information 532 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:35,080 about the SEC is the SEC. But what happens when the SEC 533 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:39,000 tweets this and then this happens? 534 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,720 Which leads me to led me to tweet this out yesterday. 535 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:47,680 Consumer protection brought to you by the SEC. 536 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:52,720 Now this brings me back to remember what they tweet. 537 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,920 Remember what they accused Elon of? 538 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,920 Elon Musk charged with securities fraud for misleading 539 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:03,080 tweets. So is the SEC going to sue the 540 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:08,120 SEC for misleading tweets? They didn't follow 2FA, They 541 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:12,000 didn't follow their own rules. And then of course, because it 542 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,160 makes them look bad, they get the legacy media to basically 543 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:20,680 say Twitter was compromised and hacked, when in reality they 544 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,560 just didn't feel like setting up the two FA themselves. 545 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,160 And you know, a lot of people have thoughts on this. 546 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,320 First, I'm going to start off with Jack Mahler's. 547 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,480 This is the same Washington DC that that manages your monetary 548 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,600 policy. I think he hit the nail on the 549 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:37,800 head. Here's Bitcoin Magazine. 550 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,280 Securities lawyers tell Fox Business that the SEC will have 551 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,200 to investigate itself for market manipulation 100%. 552 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,320 Some senators are pissed off. Here is Senator Bill Haggerty. 553 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,560 Just like the SEC would demand accountability from a public 554 00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,480 company if they made such a colossal market moving mistake, 555 00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,400 Congress needs answers on what just happened. 556 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,160 This is unacceptable. Here's the Bitcoin Senator, 557 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:05,840 Senator Cynthia Lummis. Fraudulent accounts like the 558 00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:10,000 ones that that was made on the SEC social media can manipulate 559 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,200 markets. We need transparency on what 560 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,440 happened. Absolutely. 561 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,560 But you know what? The worst thing that you can do 562 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:25,160 is is say the SEC account hack amplifies concerns over security 563 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,280 at MUX X. You know what the worst thing 564 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:31,840 that you can do is is get the talking heads on legacy 565 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:33,640 corporate media to say shit like this. 566 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,600 It would appear that X has been hacked, that the US government, 567 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:41,600 the SEC has not been hacked. Which in of itself would have 568 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:45,440 been quite interesting since the SEC is also regulating all of 569 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:49,560 these cyber security issues and hacks for public or private 570 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:53,680 sector as well right now. But bottom line, you hear the 571 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,480 reporter when she's saying that because she's coming to the 572 00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,640 conclusion and she it's in her face she's like, holy cow, like 573 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,840 if they can't even do a Twitter account like and they're 574 00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:08,200 responsible for this. So like, look, this is what I 575 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:12,960 got to say about this. Cut the BS Clearly you guys. 576 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:17,880 The SEC has elongated the approval of the spot Bitcoin ETF 577 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:21,320 process. I believe for political reasons 578 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,440 we know that the current administration does not like 579 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,200 Bitcoin. We know for a fact, right? 580 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:31,240 Thanks to the awesome journalism from from Fox News that the 581 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:36,600 Elizabeth Warren colluded with Gary Gensler on testimony 582 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:42,880 regarding specific I think it was stuff in relation to 583 00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,440 Bitcoin. So like cut with the political 584 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:54,000 BS, take responsibility for the drop ball and stop blaming Elon. 585 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:59,200 You guys are guilty of the thing you guys have spent years of 586 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,720 accusing other people of and it makes them look so bad that they 587 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:07,000 cannot accept that they can't say because it makes them look 588 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,720 terrible. And that's what this is about. 589 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:13,680 If we if we are living under a government that is not going to 590 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,360 take responsibility for their mess ups, they would rather 591 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,640 blame the private sector because it's easier. 592 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:26,320 There's no accountability there. There's no consequences to bad 593 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:31,520 actions you know and I saw beauty on go on a on a on a 594 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:35,040 tangent OPTI maybe we can pull that up basically saying that 595 00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:39,400 the SEC shouldn't exist at all and this is this is this is like 596 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:44,600 like this is disgusting. I I'm sick of this and it it 597 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,320 it's just like they charged Elon for a crime for doing this. 598 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,000 They themselves did this yesterday. 599 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:55,000 You know how many longs and shorts got completely wiped out 600 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,680 with that move that came out of that account? 601 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:02,320 So stop with the grandstanding. Take responsibility. 602 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:05,040 I agree with Lummus and I agree with the other senator. 603 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,760 Answers need to We need answers, right? 604 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,400 We need answers. The Twitter team already 605 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,880 investigated it. The ex team already investigated 606 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,679 it. They already looked into and 607 00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:18,239 they said, listen, you guys didn't have two FA at the same 608 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:19,560 time. They're telling you guys you 609 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,639 should have two FA on. Who do I believe more? 610 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,600 Because I mean, like if you take a look at, you know, the US 611 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:30,400 government, again, not to get political over the 5-10 years, 612 00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:34,120 they don't really have a great track record of telling the 613 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:40,280 public the truth. And they use the legacy media in 614 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,480 order to propel narratives. Remember what happened in two in 615 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,920 the 2000s? They used the New York Times, 616 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,239 the intelligence agencies news, the New York Times to tell the 617 00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:53,000 American public that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and 618 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:54,880 that led to the invasion of Iraq. 619 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,200 There was never any weapons of mass destruction discovered in 620 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:01,320 Iraq, right? Like, we got to be blunt here, 621 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,920 like like come on now, right. And if there's no 622 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,840 accountability, if there's no responsibility that's been 623 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,680 taken, that's a big issue. So anyways, OPTI didn't pull up 624 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:13,680 the. Who are we kidding like this? 625 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,840 This has been much longer than just the invasion of Iraq. 626 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,680 Like, we're talking Gulf of Tonkin for the Vietnam that 627 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:24,400 started the Vietnam War. We're talking JFK assassination. 628 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,280 I mean, it's likely September 11th was an inside job. 629 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,200 Like, there are so many different things that have led 630 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:35,160 much longer than just the Iraq invasion that they haven't done 631 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,000 and the investigations on they had. 632 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,320 It's likely inside jobs they haven't told the truth about and 633 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:46,120 we're expecting the SEC to now investigate itself to find 634 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:47,840 justice. Like there's just no way that 635 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,920 that's going to happen. I mean, to me, this Bloomberg 636 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:55,080 post about X being hacked, which we know is not the case, is just 637 00:35:55,080 --> 00:36:00,080 the legacy media on its dying breath trying to like grasp at 638 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:04,440 straws to do anything it can to make itself credible in the eyes 639 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,800 of the people. There's just no way that that's 640 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,880 actually what happened. I'm finding it even more 641 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,600 difficult to believe that they didn't. 642 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,760 The only thing was that they just didn't have two FA on. 643 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,400 I mean to me I think they just maybe bungled the scheduled 644 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:23,640 tweet about like acknowledging or announcing the the ETS being 645 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:27,080 approved and now they have to backtrack and they're caught on 646 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,760 their back foot. I think it I saw I saw a post in 647 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:34,680 the comments about the the ME material has been unreal. 648 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,480 Like yesterday was one of the funniest days I that I've 649 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:42,400 experienced in Bitcoin and I've been here for a little while it 650 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,840 was hilarious. I mean, we're talking the 651 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,520 Regulatory agency that is supposed to protect consumers, 652 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,280 that bungles and announcement gets hacked for doing the same 653 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:58,000 exact thing they warned against and now they are looking like 654 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,840 absolute clowns to me. This is like the funniest 655 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,840 possible response, the funniest possible way that this ETF could 656 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:06,640 get announced. I don't even care about the ETF. 657 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:09,160 Like the only way you should be investing in Bitcoin is buying 658 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:10,520 it and holding it in self custody. 659 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,320 That is the only way that you should be holding Bitcoin. 660 00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:17,120 And here we are focusing on ETFs, which is fine. 661 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,160 We're getting like the boomers involved in Bitcoin. 662 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,680 That's great, but the real Bitcoin is Bitcoin in self 663 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,840 custody. This is hilarious. 100% This is 664 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,200 absolutely hilarious. And Michael Saylor actually had 665 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:32,400 some He dropped some funny ass. Michael Saylor really has some 666 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,960 great comedy opti pull down the screen for a second. 667 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:39,480 While I share this, he did say Bitcoin will be the only thing 668 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:44,040 ever approved twice by the SEC, which is absolutely hilarious. 669 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:45,720 How was the? OP RETURN do you see the OP 670 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:48,760 RETURN? Someone posted like Chairman on 671 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,040 the brink of second Bitcoin ETF approval? 672 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:53,560 So. Good, 100%. 673 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,760 And I also want to specify guys, because we are on YouTube and 674 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,240 Craig did mention something about September 11th, that that 675 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:02,400 is his opinion. You know, that is not the 676 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,400 opinion of simply Bitcoin. You know, just just YouTube if 677 00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,720 you're watching. Just to clarify that you know, 678 00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:09,760 we like to have open discussions with our guests. 679 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:14,960 OK. So OK, anyways, I do you. 680 00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,040 Want to pull up that beauty? Yeah, beauty on rant. 681 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:20,720 I love good beauty on rant. Yeah, so he says. 682 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,080 Opti, could you zoom in? Pinch. 683 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:24,120 Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got you. 684 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:25,920 I got you. Wait, maybe you want to? 685 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:27,640 There you go. No, that's great, Pierre. 686 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,560 Rashard 1I. Just got So yeah, let's start 687 00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:32,560 with the Pierre Rashard one. Actually, I think that's 688 00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:36,480 appropriate. So it says Pierre Rashard says 689 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,880 the ETF should not. That should not need regulatory 690 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,040 approval. The SEC should have approved the 691 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:45,480 first Bitcoin ETF that applied in 2013. 692 00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,000 It took ten years for the SEC to finally make the correct 693 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,320 decision to approve. After losing in court, the SEC 694 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,200 completely bungled the announcement. 695 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:59,720 Mind you, the price of Bitcoin the first time 13 years ago was 696 00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:04,600 like 100 dollars, $100. How is that consumer fucking 697 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,120 protection? I don't know. 698 00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:11,280 Anyways, the SEC is this is Beautyon and the beautyon's 699 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:15,560 absolutely based goes on to say and he's the by the way for 700 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,880 anyone doesn't know he's the founder of of a stucco goes on 701 00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,480 to say the SEC is unconstitutional and unamerican. 702 00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:27,360 In the Anglo-Saxon legal system, all citizens benefit from the 703 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,480 presumption of innocence. That means you should be free to 704 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,680 provide goods and services without oversight or scrutiny, 705 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,720 and only be subject to investigation if a complete is 706 00:39:36,720 --> 00:39:39,400 raised. The SEC does not operate in this 707 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,200 way. Not only does it purse prosecute 708 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,600 you where no crime has been committed or person injured, but 709 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:50,760 it acts like an extra legal, legal, ultravidious rule maker 710 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:55,120 using its arbitrary standards and ideas to categorize 711 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,040 constitutionality protected activities. 712 00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:04,080 Could you Scroll down OPTI? It goes on to say it appears 713 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,760 that members of Congress are fed up with the SEC. 714 00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,800 You you can say in this context, that's the, that's the. 715 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,480 Regarding progress, and are going to act. 716 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,840 They will not abolish it. However, under the pretext of 717 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:21,880 keeping people safe, which is the death dirge that is killing 718 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:23,960 American innovation and industry. 719 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,440 I mean, what is that Ben Franklin quote, right? 720 00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:30,360 If you want the people, what was it? 721 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,800 I I did such a good quote. I like liberty and safety, one 722 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,040 or whatever. Yeah, Liberty safety. 723 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,040 Like if you. I I I'm butchering it. 724 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,000 Obviously I always butcher quotes, but if you like, 725 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,560 optimize for safety over liberty, you don't deserve 726 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,400 either or something like that. I got it right here. 727 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,320 Those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little 728 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:52,440 temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. 729 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:59,200 Now what makes that even worse, ladies and gentlemen, is the 730 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:03,280 people that were supposed to, like, provide safety are now 731 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,680 responsible for actually causing harm to the public with this 732 00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:08,800 tweet. Right. 733 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:11,600 So, like, yeah, it is, guys, I'm. 734 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,840 I'm telling you, like, it is kind of like a mess up. 735 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,640 Fine, It happens. It happens. 736 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:19,040 It, it happens to the best of us. 737 00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,080 That's OK. We're all human, right? 738 00:41:22,040 --> 00:41:25,160 But what I got to say is take responsibility. 739 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,880 Take responsibility. You didn't properly secure your 740 00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:29,720 account. Take responsibility for it. 741 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:31,920 Own it. Don't blame Elon. 742 00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:36,840 And what I also got to say is enough with the BS like Sakawo. 743 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:38,680 It's done. It's over. 744 00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:40,400 OK? Just just accept this thing, 745 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:41,480 Approve it. OK? 746 00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,680 The horse and pony show is over. Clearly the market wants it. 747 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:50,160 You took out Binance, right? You took out SBF. 748 00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:53,400 You know, like it's it's over. It's done. 749 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,280 Just accept it. Bitcoins here to stay, right? 750 00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,440 If this doesn't get approved today, this is this is a 751 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,480 disaster. This is just like it's 752 00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:03,000 embarrassing. What is going on? 753 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,880 No accountability. Anyways, Nico rant is over. 754 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,160 I just when I saw this guy's yesterday, I went on a tweet 755 00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,600 rampage. I haven't gone on one in forever 756 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,080 and it was just it was just crazy to witness all this. 757 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:16,880 Anyways, I do want to pass it on to Craig. 758 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:19,400 Craig, what do? You he went, he went. 759 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,520 He he, he, he rented. Unless he's got more to say. 760 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:22,320 But. Yeah. 761 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,600 Let's pass it on to Craig again, then we'll pass it on to Opti. 762 00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:27,480 Cool. I gotta. 763 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:29,080 I feel like you gotta be a little careful here. 764 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,120 I mean, I love beauty On. YouTube. 765 00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:33,040 You know we love YouTube. Yeah, we love. 766 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:33,920 You. I know I'm. 767 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,080 Platform. We want to stay there, so yeah. 768 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,120 I know. Well, you know, YouTube's one 769 00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:43,040 that feels the the concern about being demonetized too. 770 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:47,440 I think that like you know what's interesting to me is how 771 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:52,080 people are coming to the conclusion that the SEC, it 772 00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:55,640 might not be a legitimate organization or at the very 773 00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:59,480 least doesn't actually protect consumers in the way that it 774 00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,240 claims to. So I think that you know, now 775 00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:05,400 we're expecting them to investigate themselves. 776 00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:10,000 Can we really believe that that's going to be the they're 777 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:15,040 going to come to a conclusion that is fair And just now like 778 00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,680 also not only that, but we're seeing blame placed on other 779 00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,000 organizations, private organizations. 780 00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:25,760 X is one of them. And not only are they blaming X, 781 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:29,160 but they are also trying to save themselves in the process by 782 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,960 saying, oh, we are the sort of source of truth. 783 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:36,000 We are the ones that you can count on for reliable correct 784 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:40,400 true journalism and I think that we've seen that over the past 785 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:45,080 few years it's been really put in our face for how that is not 786 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,480 actually accurate. So I think you know we've seen 787 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:52,640 how X or I should say Twitter rather and the government has 788 00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:58,680 colluded in the past and now we are seeing that the SEC is kind 789 00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,200 of asking Twitter and X to kind of have its have its back here 790 00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,840 and say hey look we were hacked. Can't you show the the public 791 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:09,160 that we were hacked And to me, I'm not really buying it. 792 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:12,720 That's that's just my take. I'm not really buying it. 100% 793 00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:15,760 I'm not really buying it either And again like, you know, I, I 794 00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:17,280 know a lot of people are not fans of Elon. 795 00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:21,080 I I've seen more truth from Elon than I've seen from, you know, 796 00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:25,480 not to name any names but, you know in the last couple years I, 797 00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:29,160 I, I and his opinion, I I truly believe that there's been a lot 798 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,720 of I, I I don't think that there's been a little bit of 799 00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:35,120 dishonesty to be honest. You know, I, I, I clearly 800 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,200 remember like when our officials were telling us that there was 801 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:39,960 going to be no inflation and then. 802 00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:41,560 Right. You know, if you would have 803 00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:43,520 listened to that, you would have gotten absolutely wrecked. 804 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,120 Right. So again, and it's not like I'm 805 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,000 blaming anything, but it's like, look you're human being. 806 00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,800 You're going to get it wrong including the government but 807 00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:55,240 take responsibility own it a little bit you know like and and 808 00:44:55,240 --> 00:44:59,600 take and at least there needs to be consequences to this right. 809 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,560 And he said he say listen this was this is whatever these are 810 00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:03,800 the measures that we're going to take. 811 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,440 That's what all private companies do when there's a 812 00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,800 breach right. So why does the government have 813 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:11,040 special privileges. And and I think that's really 814 00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:14,840 that's that's really the debate that you know that that has to 815 00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:17,040 be had. And the good news is about this 816 00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,480 though guys is that this is one of the things that Bitcoin 817 00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:23,960 fixes, you know, because if you separate money from state and 818 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:28,080 the state doesn't have that money printer, their only way of 819 00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:31,080 raising funds is via direct taxation. 820 00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,360 And if you're lying to the public about things so 821 00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:38,200 inconsequential good luck, right. 822 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,960 So like it's kind of like it it it aligns incentives in society 823 00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:43,760 and I think really what we're seeing that really in El 824 00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:48,120 Salvador first country that make to make Bitcoin legal tender but 825 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,480 as long as governments have a Fiat money printer I don't think 826 00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:55,320 they truly care what the public thinks cuz they're good to go. 827 00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,720 They're set. They got their money coming in 828 00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:01,240 anyways. I do want to make an 829 00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:05,080 announcement also guys, this was the all time high for simply. 830 00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:10,240 I think we had 617 live viewers on YouTube alone. 831 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:15,040 We have another we I think we hit 70 on Twitter and we have 70 832 00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:17,880 watching now on Rumble. So we love all you guys. 833 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,560 Thank you so much for supporting the short show. 834 00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,920 A year ago Opti and I were happy with like 50 live viewers. 835 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,960 So like holy cow, I don't know what to say. 836 00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:30,520 This is absolutely crazy. Dreams do come true. 837 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:31,640 You just got to work really hard. 838 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:36,400 I also do want to promote our audio platform in case you guys 839 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:40,040 want to listen to us on the go and you know you for some reason 840 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:43,720 you can't watch us on video. You can, you know, subscribe to 841 00:46:43,720 --> 00:46:46,840 us on Anchor, on Spotify, on Apple, on Fountain. 842 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,640 You can stream with Sats on Fountain, so if you want to 843 00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:54,120 listen to the audio only version of simply Bitcoin, you can go to 844 00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:56,760 all those audio platforms and also if you're enjoying the 845 00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:58,360 show, make sure to smash that like button. 846 00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:01,200 Opti, I took the mic away from you from an excessive amount of 847 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:02,760 time. No, I'm going to make, I'm going 848 00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:04,480 to make you full screen. No, you don't have to do it. 849 00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:07,440 Get on your. Soapbox and say opti the F out 850 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:09,880 of it. First and foremost, this is 851 00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,680 apparently going on Twitter right now. 852 00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:16,160 Twitter team's going crazy. Bitcoin Archive just tweeted 853 00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,480 that apparently Bloomberg Terminal has listed all 11 854 00:47:19,480 --> 00:47:21,680 Bitcoin ETF as pending listening. 855 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:27,040 So we still don't know exactly, but it looks like today might 856 00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:29,960 actually be the day. I guess we will cover this in 857 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,760 full tomorrow and break it all down if it's officially 858 00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:35,640 happening. We still have what about 4-4 859 00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:39,160 hours or so until the time that they said it was going to drop 860 00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:40,960 anyways? Just going back to this whole 861 00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:45,680 debacle thing, as a social media manager myself, my first thought 862 00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,720 was like, oh, the intern like fat fingered it. 863 00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:52,720 He miss scheduled the date and they dropped it an hour, an hour 864 00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:55,200 before or a day before it was supposed to really happen. 865 00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:58,800 And then it was so funny last night when we were covering this 866 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,240 because we were all, like, losing our brains. 867 00:48:01,240 --> 00:48:03,200 We're like, wait, did it get approved or not? 868 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:04,920 We're all looking at the SEC website. 869 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:08,120 And then 5 minutes later or whatever, 10 minutes later, Gary 870 00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,720 Gensler goes out and tweets like, Oh yeah, we got hacked. 871 00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:12,760 And what, 20 minutes later they got it back. 872 00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,960 And so that was the part to me that was the most interesting. 873 00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,440 It's just how quickly they got back their account. 874 00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:22,000 Usually when your account gets hacked, you don't get it back in 875 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,720 what, 10 minutes like you. It's it's never like a literally 876 00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,920 done in 30 minutes. Like, it's very interesting how 877 00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,280 quick this did happen. So we were all speculating that 878 00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:35,640 like the intern, fat fingered or miss or miss, scheduled the 879 00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:38,920 tweet and then they're like, oops, sorry guys, it didn't 880 00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:42,240 really get approved yet. We got hacked and then I guess 881 00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,760 later in the day the Twitter team, the safety at safety 882 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:48,520 account confirmed that it did indeed get hacked. 883 00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,360 SEC account tweeted that they got their account back and they 884 00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,840 did get hacked. But it is very interesting, the 885 00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,920 Bloomberg articles going out about, oh it was it was Twitter 886 00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:01,240 that got hacked and not there. The SEC Twitter account in 887 00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:03,960 particular, which I think is very interesting or rather maybe 888 00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:08,680 someone did like a you know like a real life kind of hack they 889 00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,560 they got some information that they weren't supposed to have. 890 00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:14,400 But anyways anyways, on on all of this, as Craig was saying 891 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,200 earlier and we were saying before the show it it's just 892 00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:20,640 this is what we love about Bitcoin, you know the quote UN 893 00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:22,800 quote. The adults show up to Bitcoin 894 00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:27,120 and some crazy Bitcoin Twitter stuff happens and it's just like 895 00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,320 the funniest thing ever. Hence why I'm wearing a pseudo 896 00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:30,680 suit because we're journalists now. 897 00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,800 We got to grow up and journalists bro the the adults 898 00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,480 are here so we got to look good because no one's going to take 899 00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:40,120 us seriously if we're not wearing suits But man it's just 900 00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,800 it's just what what's so fun about Bitcoin and and Bitcoin 901 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:46,200 Twitter in particular because me and Craig were even saying 902 00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:49,400 before the show like you know you you sometimes forget how fun 903 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,840 Twitter is until days like this and things just pop off and 904 00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:58,200 you're just like Bitcoin just does the most pain and it's just 905 00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,240 so awesome. And then on the on the fact of 906 00:50:00,240 --> 00:50:03,880 like trading whether this was like inside trading or something 907 00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:07,880 you know the the whoever hacked this imagine if they put a short 908 00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:11,120 in on that little tweet And then because everyone's been saying 909 00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:14,680 it's a sell the news story and it literally did what everyone 910 00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,760 thought it was so on unlike the flip side considering that the 911 00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:19,640 Bitcoin price is kind of pumping right now. 912 00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,080 Well it did pump for a little bit and now it kind of had just 913 00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:25,360 had a a a correction check the one minute chart. 914 00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,160 These are the days where you like to watch the one minute 915 00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:28,960 chart. Don't trade it but just watch 916 00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:30,240 it. It's better than TV. 917 00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:35,360 It is very interesting to see and consider the possibility 918 00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:38,240 that, you know, whether they did this on purpose or not. 919 00:50:38,240 --> 00:50:41,400 But what happened is, you know, they cleared all the shorts so 920 00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,440 that now it's just like we can log it, we're we're going to the 921 00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:46,840 moon now. Like this is absolutely awesome 922 00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,160 and Bitcoin is. So it's the funniest thing ever. 923 00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:54,000 And the irony is not lost on me that, you know, the adults are 924 00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,040 here, you know, Wall Street here, the adults are here to 925 00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:57,800 mature the market. SEC. 926 00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:01,120 Gary Gens is here to protect consumers and this market 927 00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:03,680 manipulation from their account happens in real time. 928 00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,240 And and we were kind of speculating with friends that 929 00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:12,160 like it would be very poetic and also hilarious if Gary Genser 930 00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,080 came out later today and was like Oh yeah, this is the very 931 00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,760 reason why we're not going to approve a spot big one ETF 932 00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:21,480 because of market manipulation and and the market is so naive 933 00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:23,160 and. It's like. 934 00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:25,760 Dog you, you were the one that caused this and now you're 935 00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:29,080 delaying the ETF, but it seems like it's almost it's almost set 936 00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:30,760 in stone so we'll see what happens later. 937 00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,080 But but anyways, I I could probably rant for a while. 938 00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:35,520 Let's let's get into the culture Nico so, so we can talk with. 939 00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:37,880 Craig, 100%. But before we do that, I do want 940 00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,880 to give a shout out to one of Simply Big coin sponsors. 941 00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,200 And of course I'm talking about Kaboom racks. 942 00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,080 Kaboom racks, They are the most trusted place to buy and sell 943 00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:50,360 and host mining equipment. 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All right. 965 00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:55,680 Well, you guys know what we do here on the culture. 966 00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,320 We feature our guests talk about what they're working on. 967 00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:03,560 And Craig, you are programming for the Bitcoin conference. 968 00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:07,200 So you guys have a big year. As I'm over here on the website 969 00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:10,760 B dot TC slash conference, it looks like you guys are throwing 970 00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:14,640 three huge conferences. So you can pick whatever lane 971 00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:16,440 you want to talk about, Whatever conference you want to talk 972 00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:17,680 about. What are you most excited for 973 00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:21,320 this year? Well, first I want to say just 974 00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:24,000 in response to your rant, if if this is what it looks like when 975 00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,480 the adults are in charge, then maybe, maybe it's time for the 976 00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,040 kids to take back the keys. So. 977 00:53:31,720 --> 00:53:34,200 So yeah, I am. I work at Bitcoin Magazine. 978 00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:37,160 I work in the programming on the programming team with an awesome 979 00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:42,640 group of people, and we do have three events on the calendar for 980 00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:46,000 this year coming up. First we have Bitcoin Asia 981 00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:50,720 that's going to be in Hong Kong. The dates are coming up soon. 982 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,120 We will announce them as soon as possible, but we're just ironing 983 00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:56,680 out some final details. I'm really looking forward to 984 00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,560 that one. I haven't been to Asia before. 985 00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:01,960 Hong Kong is going to be awesome, so really looking 986 00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:06,000 forward to that. But I have to say I'm most 987 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,880 excited about Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville. 988 00:54:09,880 --> 00:54:12,520 It is going to be our best event yet. 989 00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:14,440 We're bringing it back home, back to where? 990 00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:19,000 Our headquarters are and where the company began in Nashville 991 00:54:19,240 --> 00:54:22,440 and it's the Music City Center where the conference is, is like 992 00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:26,320 right on Broadway, it's right in the center of town. 993 00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:30,680 It's a really incredible venue and we are going to do it up big 994 00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:32,160 there. So I'm I'm really looking 995 00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:35,200 forward to it. One of the things that we do at 996 00:54:35,200 --> 00:54:41,400 the AT on the programming team is we try to find a place for 997 00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:45,960 every type of bitcoiner. So not only the hardcore 998 00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:50,200 maximalist who hold their own keys are fully self sovereign. 999 00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:54,200 But at this event we are also trying to open the door and be a 1000 00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,520 little bit more welcoming to like the enterprise, the 1001 00:54:56,520 --> 00:55:01,080 institutions, the adults of of Bitcoin who are just now kind of 1002 00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:05,080 finding their way into Bitcoin. And so we have a lot of great 1003 00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:09,760 enterprise speakers, people from the ETF companies. 1004 00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:15,600 I do not know if Udi and Eric are going to floss on stage 1005 00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:16,880 again. We'll see. 1006 00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:18,600 Chad Savage, I told you. The. 1007 00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:20,480 Chad Savage, I'm fine with it, man. 1008 00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:24,680 You know, I I when in negotiating with them, I said 1009 00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,400 they have to improve their dance moves if they want to come back 1010 00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:29,840 on stage. Like it's got to be you know, 1011 00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:33,240 the floss is elementary so they got at least do like a salsa or 1012 00:55:33,240 --> 00:55:35,840 something. So yeah. 1013 00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:38,680 So you know another thing that we have at the conference is our 1014 00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:40,960 is our open source ticket program. 1015 00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:45,640 Open source developers can apply and get a free ticket to the 1016 00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,280 event. We have a phenomenal open source 1017 00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:52,720 stage which is where most of the laser eyed Maxis like to hang 1018 00:55:52,720 --> 00:55:56,360 out, myself included, when I'm not working, which is the whole 1019 00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:57,960 event. But you know I tried to, you 1020 00:55:57,960 --> 00:55:59,920 know place myself there so I get to hang out. 1021 00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:06,800 That's where we see the best technical talks and to me that's 1022 00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:08,480 the most interesting place to hang out. 1023 00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:12,760 But that being said, we also have our mainstage where we have 1024 00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:14,720 a little bit of a dual main mandate. 1025 00:56:14,720 --> 00:56:19,360 We get, you know, big name people to talk to our largest 1026 00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:24,040 area, our largest audience, and not only big name bitcoiners, 1027 00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:27,760 but people who are like on the cusp of becoming a hardcore 1028 00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,400 bitcoiner. And so we know we kind of suss 1029 00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:33,760 out those people, figure out who's like this close to taking 1030 00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:37,720 the orange pill and we make sure that they come to our event and 1031 00:56:37,720 --> 00:56:43,040 we hopefully we can be that final step for them to to truly 1032 00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:45,560 accept Bitcoin and understand Bitcoin and just see what's 1033 00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:48,360 going on because the energy of the event is contagious. 1034 00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,640 It's infectious. It makes you want to learn more. 1035 00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:56,000 You can and have a different experience of what Bitcoin is. 1036 00:56:56,000 --> 00:56:59,240 If you are just scrolling Bitcoin, Twitter, Bitcoin might 1037 00:56:59,240 --> 00:57:02,480 seem like one thing. But when you go in person to a 1038 00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:04,960 Bitcoin event, to a Bitcoin conference, and especially a 1039 00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:08,960 huge Bitcoin conference like ours, you really see that 1040 00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,240 there's something here, there's something going on here and 1041 00:57:11,240 --> 00:57:14,480 there's a lot of hope and inspiration and it's a movement. 1042 00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,760 And so that's you know one of the things we we really try to 1043 00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:19,520 bring to as many people as possible. 1044 00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:23,440 Obviously, we have a big mining and energy component as well. 1045 00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:27,960 100% And I I I just got to say like I I have so many fond 1046 00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:30,960 memories at you know the Bitcoin conferences. 1047 00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,840 I think the first one I spoke at was Bitcoin 2021. 1048 00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,280 I had the honor to of course you know who he is Greg. 1049 00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:39,000 I had the honor to be on stage with Nick. 1050 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:42,160 Can't mine, you know who's, who's absolute. 1051 00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:44,840 Baller the go got the algos, he got the. 1052 00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:51,480 The algos and you know that was the year of, you know that was 1053 00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:54,800 the year of that was the year of name Buchelli making his 1054 00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:57,160 announcement. I think the thing that I said on 1055 00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,800 stage was like quoted in the Financial Times Eric Voorhees 1056 00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:05,520 got pissed off with what I said, you know, and it's so many fond 1057 00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:07,840 memories. A mean panel, mean panel that 1058 00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:11,720 was on I remember the Volcano with the news desk, the Michael 1059 00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:14,520 Saylor announcements, the Jack Mahler announcements. 1060 00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:20,080 I got to meet Tulsi Gabbard in the In the Deep, the Backstage 1061 00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:23,800 with the, you know the the VIP lounge in the Backstage and that 1062 00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,240 was awesome by the way. Guys, if you if you guys 1063 00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:28,600 definitely go to the Bitcoin conference, you can use promo 1064 00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,760 code simply gives you 10% off your tickets. 1065 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:35,640 But but yeah, I've had so many fond memories and here's the 1066 00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:39,560 thing I'm from Miami. So I've I've, I've, you know, it 1067 00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:44,200 was so crazy to see the conference at the Miami Beach 1068 00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:47,480 Convention Center because that was like literally like 5-10 1069 00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:49,120 minutes away from where I grew up. 1070 00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:51,240 You know. And it was to see that so many 1071 00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:55,240 Bitcoiners in Miami and to to, you know, to celebrate Bitcoin 1072 00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:59,360 and to network and to see these amazing speakers on stage. 1073 00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:04,160 The fact that you guys got RFK Junior last year, the fact that 1074 00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:08,920 you guys got Tulsi Gabbard, clearly, like the Bitcoin 1075 00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:13,360 conference is breaking the Bitcoin echo chamber in my eyes. 1076 00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:16,680 It's really getting people from outside the sphere. 1077 00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:18,880 I know that you guys got Vivec as well, right? 1078 00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:22,120 You guys are getting people from without outside of the Bitcoin 1079 00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:26,120 sphere and you're getting them in there and they're realizing 1080 00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:28,960 wow, Bitcoin truly fixes a lot of these problems. 1081 00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:32,920 What RFK Junior said on stage, I would protect your right to self 1082 00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:35,120 custody. Like Bitcoin is getting into the 1083 00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:38,200 political discussion. Like this is a crazy crazy time 1084 00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:40,640 to be alive. So what what are you the most 1085 00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,640 excited about? You know you guys are going back 1086 00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:46,480 to where the Bitcoin headquarters are you know are 1087 00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:48,800 at. I I had the privilege to be able 1088 00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:51,520 to see this the suite and the and the stadium. 1089 00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:54,840 I got to visit Bitcoin magazine headquarters. 1090 00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:57,680 CK was kind enough to give me a tour. 1091 00:59:58,120 --> 00:59:59,640 I think I did a podcast actually. 1092 00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:02,600 I did a simply Bitcoin episode from the offices in Nashville 1093 01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:08,000 and absolutely love the crew and the Bitcoin magazine team. 1094 01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:10,960 So you guys are going back home, you guys are going to the roots, 1095 01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:13,480 right? So I feel like you guys, you 1096 01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:15,800 guys know some stuff. If you guys are throwing a party 1097 01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:18,480 at home, you know you guys know what the deal is. 1098 01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:21,920 So anything that that you guys are looking forward to? 1099 01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:28,800 Yeah, I mean I'm, I'm partial, I'm not based in Nashville, but 1100 01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:33,400 I think Nashville is that I think it's the Bitcoin capital 1101 01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:35,600 of the United States. You know, I know there's a a 1102 01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:37,160 little bit of a debate around that. 1103 01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:40,280 I think that one thing about Miami that was a little bit 1104 01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:43,760 challenging is Miami is very crypto agnostic. 1105 01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:48,240 I would say there was a lot of crypto both you know at the 1106 01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:52,560 event from people you know who just buy tickets and like are 1107 01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:59,240 shilling their their coin and they to me that's like not what 1108 01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:02,360 this is about and it to the program team that's not what 1109 01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:04,600 this conference is about. And I think Nashville is kind of 1110 01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:07,000 a clean slate. It's a a place that is 1111 01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:11,040 Tennessee's very freedom minded and I think Bitcoin will fit 1112 01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:14,920 right in with the culture of Nashville and I think that you 1113 01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,560 know that's just one of the things that I'm excited about is 1114 01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:19,920 like orange peeling this whole city. 1115 01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:24,240 Another thing I'm excited about is Bitcoin Park is in Nashville. 1116 01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:26,960 We are you know hopefully figuring out ways that we can 1117 01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:28,520 collaborate. Bitcoin Park, if you haven't 1118 01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:32,840 been there is one of the is the coolest Bitcoin center. 1119 01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:36,480 It's a bit it's a Bitcoin 3rd place that you can go and they 1120 01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:40,520 host a meet up there, they host a meet up for meet up organizers 1121 01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:43,360 there. I run the Asheville Bitcoin meet 1122 01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:45,840 up and so I got to go to Bitcoin Park. 1123 01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:49,200 I was going there monthly until my wife was like whoa, slow 1124 01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:53,200 down, stay at home, don't be traveling to Nashville so much. 1125 01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,400 But Bitcoin Park is a is a really incredible spot. 1126 01:01:56,400 --> 01:02:01,120 So I'm really excited to be just in the home base right across 1127 01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:03,520 from Broadway where all the live music is, where all the bars 1128 01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:04,640 are. I think it's going to be a 1129 01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:06,400 blast. 100. Percent, yeah. 1130 01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:09,360 And and wait before we go, Nico, or or I don't mean to cut you 1131 01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:12,120 off if you wanna chime in. Yeah, I I was just gonna ask 1132 01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:14,800 Craig a question. Yeah so just just before you do 1133 01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:19,680 that I do wanna mention Bitcoin Park Rod Matt that I was I was 1134 01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:24,600 there I was I was fortunate enough to do a citadel dispatch. 1135 01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:30,560 The first one in Matt's studio at Bitcoin Park did a couple 1136 01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:34,200 simply Bitcoin episodes in the in the the building to if you're 1137 01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:35,720 facing the buildings, the buildings to the right, 1138 01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,720 upstairs, it's so cool it's all wired. 1139 01:02:38,800 --> 01:02:41,480 It's all wired because it they they essentially they bought it 1140 01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:43,120 from. I forgot what the name of the 1141 01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:47,720 band is but the band broke up and the these two houses are 1142 01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:51,520 fitted for music production right, Which is absolutely 1143 01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:55,200 bonkers and you know they throw these amazing events there. 1144 01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:57,880 I highly recommend it. If you guys haven't made the 1145 01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:01,400 pilgrimage to Bitcoin Park and also the Bitcoin man, you guys 1146 01:03:01,400 --> 01:03:03,600 have a storefront too, which is pretty bad ass. 1147 01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:07,040 Yeah, the gallery storefront. That's awesome. 1148 01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:08,680 So make the pilgrimage. Great job. 1149 01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:11,520 Tommy's amazing. Make the pilgrimage to 1150 01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:13,120 Nashville. It's amazing. 1151 01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:15,360 Shut up, Tommy. Yeah, Tommy's the man. 1152 01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:19,360 The Bitcoin conference is gonna be absolutely bonkers this year. 1153 01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:20,960 We are. Beyond the last thing. 1154 01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:24,080 Go hit it. One last thing, we Our event is 1155 01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:28,440 right in between the Republican National Convention and the 1156 01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:32,560 Democratic National Convention. And so we are gonna be the place 1157 01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:37,720 for people that don't feel they're like they are not 1158 01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:40,680 supported or represented by the two party system. 1159 01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:44,400 And so we are going to be the place for those kinds of 1160 01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:47,920 discussions for you know an Orange party, a Bitcoin centric 1161 01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:51,440 place for people and speakers and politicians and things like 1162 01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:52,880 that. So that is another thing I think 1163 01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:53,640 is going to be awesome. I. 1164 01:03:53,680 --> 01:03:55,200 I love that. I love the fact that you 1165 01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:58,160 mentioned that because on on the show, many times on Simply 1166 01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:01,040 Bitcoin, we talk about it. It's not left versus right. 1167 01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:04,640 It's not re red versus blue. It is really the party of 1168 01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:06,320 orange. The party of Bitcoin. 1169 01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:10,440 Peace, prosperity, opportunity versus the party of central bank 1170 01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:15,320 digital currencies, Fiat war, nihilism, slavery, poverty, 1171 01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:17,000 right. That's really the two options. 1172 01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:18,840 It's not Republican versus Democrat. 1173 01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:21,320 People got to wake up to that. So I'm really, really glad you 1174 01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:23,400 guys are are really pushing that forward. 1175 01:04:23,600 --> 01:04:26,920 Guys I do have a promo code for you guys use promo code simply 1176 01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:29,680 gets 10% off the Bitcoin conference. 1177 01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:33,320 Bitcoin 2024 I also have breaking news. 1178 01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:34,960 Wait, wait, wait. Before we go to this, before we 1179 01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:37,200 go to this, let's give Craig, I want to ask you a question and 1180 01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:40,320 for the audience that doesn't know, considering you are 1181 01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:44,040 programming for the Bitcoin conference in Nashville, can 1182 01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:48,400 people with businesses or can they reach out to you? 1183 01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:49,360 Are you still looking for volunteers? 1184 01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:53,240 I'm sure we're still early in this process, so I'd like to 1185 01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:55,720 give an opportunity for people out there to understand if they 1186 01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:57,760 can get involved. Awesome, yeah. 1187 01:04:57,760 --> 01:05:01,280 If you want to get involved, go to the website B dot TC slash 1188 01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:03,680 conference. We have a contact forum for all 1189 01:05:03,680 --> 01:05:07,440 of those different things. Sponsoring, volunteering. 1190 01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:10,280 If you have general inquiries, there's a form there. 1191 01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:12,600 You can reach out through that and our team will get back to 1192 01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:13,880 you. Love it, bro. 1193 01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:15,920 Well, thank you for coming on. Get it, Nico? 1194 01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:19,320 Yeah, 100% Craig. It's been great. 1195 01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:21,400 Love love the crew of Bitcoin Mag. 1196 01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:25,560 I'll pull up the the, the URL. Once again go to BTC slash 1197 01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:30,000 conference and you can find all that information there and I 1198 01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:34,560 can't wait to see what you guys have planned for the conference. 1199 01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:37,640 The year of the having and again such a strong political 1200 01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:41,120 statement saying hey guys you have an you have an alternative 1201 01:05:41,120 --> 01:05:45,600 you have a better alternative. Anyways I do want to make an 1202 01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:48,160 announcement this is breaking news. 1203 01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:51,200 This has been confirmed right after the Twitter team confirm 1204 01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:52,040 this. Yes Sir. 1205 01:05:52,280 --> 01:05:58,080 OK so it has been confirmed ARC 21 shares Bitcoin ETF approved 1206 01:05:58,280 --> 01:06:01,840 to be listed on the CBOE exchange. 1207 01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:07,800 So apparently there has been approval by the SEC of the first 1208 01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:11,080 Bitcoin Spot Bitcoin ETF. I can't believe this. 1209 01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:14,600 Live, live, live on there, live on air. 1210 01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:19,360 I'm sure we'll hear more news as it rolls out, but what a crazy 1211 01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:22,440 day. And also very, very fitting 1212 01:06:22,720 --> 01:06:27,680 because this is the day in 2009 that Hal Finney said running 1213 01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:30,680 Bitcoin January 10th. And this was the day that the 1214 01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:35,240 Spot Bitcoin ETF was approved. Sometimes guys, I don't believe 1215 01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:37,440 I I. Gary Ganzer's A Maxi confirmed. 1216 01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:42,480 Sometimes, yeah, Maxi confirmed. And you know, the universe has 1217 01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:46,520 ways of of doing things. And this is this is crazy. 1218 01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:48,920 What a time to be alive. Bitcoins growing up. 1219 01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:52,040 And for all you guys in the crowd, you friend ran Wall 1220 01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:53,240 Street. Congratulations. 1221 01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:56,840 All right, everybody. So thank you guys so much for 1222 01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:59,840 tuning into the show. I do want to give a huge shout 1223 01:06:59,840 --> 01:07:04,120 out to our guest, Craig. You can follow him at Bitcoin 1224 01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:07,040 under score fan. I love that the way that he 1225 01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:12,200 split Phi like that Bitcoin fan. So Craig, thank you so much for 1226 01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:14,680 coming on the show. Really, really enjoyed. 1227 01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:18,160 Enjoyed our conversation, coming in hot with the rants, 1228 01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:22,040 Absolutely love that and can't wait to, you know, see you guys 1229 01:07:22,040 --> 01:07:23,680 in Nashville as well. Yeah. 1230 01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:25,360 Thanks for having me. Appreciate it, man. 1231 01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:27,000 All right, guys, that was our show. 1232 01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:28,600 If you enjoyed the show, you know what to do. 1233 01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:31,360 Smash that like button. Consider subscribing if you feel 1234 01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:33,480 like we provided you value. But the number one thing you 1235 01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:36,600 could do to help push the peaceful Bitcoin revolution is 1236 01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:40,720 share Bitcoin culture. Share Bitcoin content, Share 1237 01:07:40,720 --> 01:07:42,960 Bitcoin art. Share Bitcoin music. 1238 01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:47,080 You know, I think it was Andrew Breitbart that said that, you 1239 01:07:47,080 --> 01:07:49,520 know, politics are downstream from culture. 1240 01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:50,840 So you want to win over the culture. 1241 01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:52,880 That's the way that you do it, you know? 1242 01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:55,440 And our friends over at Bitcoin Mag are doing a great job doing 1243 01:07:55,440 --> 01:07:58,320 that, throwing these amazing conferences worldwide, I might 1244 01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:00,200 add. All right, guys, that was our 1245 01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:02,560 show. It's gonna be, it's gonna be a 1246 01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:04,880 crazy day. More live streams, I'm sure from 1247 01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:07,360 other Bitcoin content creators covering this subject. 1248 01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:10,480 So buckle up. And we love you guys. 1249 01:08:10,480 --> 01:08:14,720 This is a very special stream for us all time high ETF 1250 01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:18,080 approval and you know of course the legendary Hal Finney. 1251 01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:19,840 So we love you all. Thank you guys so much for 1252 01:08:19,840 --> 01:08:21,359 tuning in. We'll see you tomorrow for brand 1253 01:08:21,359 --> 01:08:23,640 new episode of Simply Bitcoin Live.