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state. Yesterday was an absolute
disaster. Like, honestly, like, I don't
know what's going on. A lot of projection.
We're going to break it down. But essentially what happened
was a the apparently the SEC Twitter account got hacked and
they announced that the ETF was approved.
It was later discovered by Gary Gensler.
Like they they were just announcing this that no it would
that the account was actually compromised.
That tweet wasn't real. The ETFs actually haven't been
approved. But what's really interesting is
that the legacy corporate media all covered for the SEC.
They said, oh this is actually this was actually Twitter that
got hacked. Of course we know that that
wasn't the case. It was actually that the SEC
account did not have to affay on even though.
And we have the receipts for you guys.
They there's tweets from not only Gary Genser but from the
SEC themselves literally telling people turn on your two FA
protect your accounts. So again once it it it's another
example of rules for thee, but not for me.
And then not to mention the fact that the SEC, the sole purpose
is to protect people from market manipulation.
That tweet literally manipulated the market.
If you had a short open, if you had a leverage long open, you
got absolutely massacred yesterday and you know who's
responsible? The SEC, which is absolutely
really like you could not like, it's so fun working in Bitcoin
and like getting to cover this stuff because literally there's
not a dull day and then every anything that you like you
couldn't write a script about this better if you tried like
just think about the last year. It's just absolutely crazy.
I think this is a vindication for Elon because one of the one
of the charges that one of the charges that the that the SEC
pressed against Elon was manipulating the stock via
tweets, right? And I just find like, I just
find it poetic that, you know that the SEC themselves
manipulated markets with a tweet.
So it's just absolutely hysterical, guys.
It is. It is a very, it was a very long
story. A lot, a lot of events happen.
But we have all the tweets for you guys, we have all the
receipts. So we'll bring you from A-Z what
happened. But it was absolutely crazy.
And other news, apparently you are to believe it.
Today is the day that the so-called Spot Bitcoin ETF is
going to get approved. There was a from a Bloomberg
Terminal. We'll show you guys the tweet in
the numbers section. It shows that that apparently
the approval is going to happen today at six between 6:00 PM and
8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. So let's see what happens.
You know, are we on the verge of another approval?
Is it going to be denied? But again, a huge, huge, huge
ball drop by the government agency that is supposed to
protect consumers, which I think is absolutely hilarious.
They've been grandstanding, they've been grandstanding this
entire time. You know, crypto projects are
bad. You know, like, I tend to agree
with that. I think crypto is a scam.
Bitcoin, not crypto. But you know, it's just, it's
just fitting. It's a bit of cosmic justice.
I'm going to say this does not look good on Gary Gensler
whatsoever. If there is no accountability
for this, I'm gonna be highly disappointed.
Just like the DOJ press conference a couple weeks ago
where they were lecturing us essentially about Binance
circumventing all these money laundering laws, et cetera, et
cetera. You know, at the same time, you
know, I'm not going to get into any specifics, but, you know,
why is it that some members in Congress are worth hundreds of
millions of dollars out of a off of a government salary And why
do they keep sending, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars
to foreign countries to fund foreign wars that have no
benefit for the American people? You know, so again, like it, it
it, it, it's hard to get lectured by, you know,
government officials. And again, I think it's a
psychological protection a, a projection.
There was that New Jersey senator that was basically, you
know, saying that Naimbu Kayleigh was a dangerous to
Democrat danger to democracy. That you know, that he was
guilty of of of conspiracy, guilty of fraud, guilty of money
laundering. Fast forward a year later,
literally they find cash and gold bars in this guy's trunk
and they charge him with with corruption.
Like literally, he, he, he, he, he, he, he accused Nayeem
Bukheli of what he was guilty of himself, you know, But you know,
this is what the book, the sovereign individual predicted.
You know, once you get to the end of a cycle, that's when
things really get off the rails. And I think that's really what
we're living through. Some people call it the 4th
turning, but all of this doesn't matter.
You're watching on the sidelines eating popcorn.
If you have your Bitcoin in self custody, you're just looking at
that stuff and you're like wow, this is entertainment and the
UPS and the downs, The downs is a great opportunity for you to
stack cheaper stats. Anyways guys, no more delay.
I do want to start the show and I want to bring up our guests.
First we have our guest Craig, and of course my legendary Co
host. He is always optimistic he's
dressed up. We have Johnny Depp back in the
house. Opti Depp.
He's gonna be unbuttoning, unbuttoning his shirt as the
show progress. Starts sweating all day.
As the show progresses. Guys, the adults are in the room
now, so I feel like we have to actually wear suits on the show
to be taken seriously. I'm gonna wear a suit, dude.
You and Ruston are making me look.
Bad. I'm gonna have to actually buy a
suit. But anyways, Nico, not to like
blow up what's going on on the news, but it looks like the ARC
might the ARCA 21 ETF might have just gotten approved.
Again, we can't verify this yet. I'm sure we'll get some news
later. Shouts out to Billy Macdo.
It says accepted and it is the ticker are on fidelity right now
so this is all happening in real time.
We'll we'll probably cover this in in detail tomorrow, but it
looks like it's actually the day and the spot Bitcoin ETF is
getting approved as we speak, so.
I'm. Looking What a day, what a day.
Information. It seems like there isn't any
official there's. No official.
Word. No official word Did we know?
Their website wasn't hacked. Yeah, exactly.
So we there's no official wording, but this could be a
very very historic day for Bitcoin.
And I also want to mention guys, it would be extremely fitting
because many, many, many years ago, the one the only, the
legendary Hal Finney tweeted running Bitcoin and you know
what day he tweeted it. It's giving me chills, saying.
This. January 10th and today is
January 10th and today could be the day that the Bitcoin Spot
Bitcoin ETF. It's no longer just running
Bitcoin. It's running Wall Street.
Let's go. Yeah, so this is, this is crazy.
I got, I got, I got chills like thinking about that because it's
so fitting. You know, this absolute Bitcoin
legend, and this is the day that that happens.
It makes me kind of like it makes me kind of want to tear up
a little bit, you know? So anyway.
So you are the wet and re liked the tweet 'cause that's
something you always have to do. I do it.
I I even commented today, you
know, because it's it's so fitting if this gets approved
today like that is that is full circle.
That is full circle. Maybe that's more more receipt
to the fact that Gary Gensler is a Maxi out here.
This is what he was waiting for. This is all the delay was about.
It was him just making sure it's dropped on this historic day.
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All right everybody, we have to go.
We have to go back in the past. I am on Sophie's computer,
that's why you see this down here.
By the way, my computer is still getting fixed.
I dropped a glass water bottle on it because Octi and Sophie
were pressuring me to switch to glass and don't drink out of
plastic. So I I partially blame them for
having to pay all that money to fix my laptop.
But anyways, anyways, how Finney?
January 10th, 2009. Absolute legend running Bitcoin,
right? And today apparently is the day.
Here is Eric Bacunas. He is a senior ETF analyst for
Bloomberg, so he knows what he's talking about.
And he says I love that they use New Jersey time, although
accurate, it's the same as New York time by the way.
So he's just commenting on the time.
But here is the Bloomberg Terminal reporting, quote UN
quote, Crypto news breaking Bitcoin ETF set to be approved
today between 6:00 to 8:00 PM New Jersey time, not New Jersey
time. That's the same as Eastern
Standard Time. So 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
I think everyone's gonna be watching.
But you can't stop Jamie Dimon. You know, the CEO of America's
largest bank to not stop, you know, making his thoughts known
on this. So I have a video for you guys.
I'm going to play. It's about 31 seconds long and
we're going to have a discussion about all this.
There's also a new regulation coming on Bitcoin and you, you
know, famously said recently that you would shut it down if
you were in government. Can you give us more clarity on
that? I've always said that Bitcoin
doesn't have value and I don't care that people do a Bitcoin.
But I was also pointing out is that the the the actual use
cases are sexual trafficking, tax avoidance you know anti
money laundering terrorism financing.
It's not people just buying and selling Bitcoin that that's
there's no value to you know you you're like that is some that is
some bullshit like that that that's art like look, Elizabeth
Warren released the the data. Sorry not Elizabeth Warren.
She definitely didn't release the data.
She doesn't want this data to come out.
Cynthia Lummus released the data. 99% of illicit finance is
conducted using the traditional financial system.
So why is Jamie Dimon saying this?
Because really, Bitcoin is a threat to banks.
Why? Because once the the general
public starts to figure out that all of a sudden I don't have to
leave my savings in a Bank of which charges me a monthly
maintenance fee if I don't have a certain amount on there.
Not to mention that you're not holding Bitcoin in a bank,
you're holding dollars in a Bank of which they're also losing
value. So you're just getting like
screwed in so many different ways and they figure out, wait,
I could take self custody of this thing.
I don't have to pay a fee #1 and #2.
It's number go up technology. It's a deflationary currency.
Your purchasing power increases over time.
So if I was someone like Jamie Dimon, I'm like, holy shit, as
soon as people figure this out, this is not a good thing, right?
You know? And of course he he teams, he
teams up with Elizabeth Warren and you know they they they try
to, you know they try to convince the public and try to
gather enough political support off misrepresentations because
both their claims have been debunked in order to try to stop
this thing. But you can't stop the honey
badger. You could slow it down in
certain countries and whatnot and this since and that the
bitcoins incentives will rule the day.
Anyways, we were talking with Craig earlier on and he wanted
to talk about the halving because the halving is coming
up. So Craig, what are your thoughts
on the halving? And then I want to get off these
thoughts on the video and the the supposed the supposed
approval of the ETF at 6:00 PM. Well, I just wanted to when we
were doing the numbers, I was thinking that like we're we're
less than 15,000 blocks away. I think it was like 825,000
blocks around right now and the halving's at 840,000 blocks.
So it's coming up quickly. I think the the estimated time
is like around April 20th, which is another great hilarious date
for celebration. I think talking about the video
too. I mean, watch what they do, not
what they say. Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase is
an authorized participant of Blackrock's ETF, so he's on TV
talking trash right now about Bitcoin.
And meanwhile, in the background, they are a a
necessary partner for BlackRock to be handling the the trade,
insurance and outs of the ETF. 100% OPTI, what's your talk,
what's your take on Craig on, you know, Craig Craig's comments
and then what's your take on, you know, the supposed approval
if we can't trust the SEC, we could be?
Trustful. Well, I'm glad Craig brought
that up because I was going to say the same thing, you know,
and and I love. How do you frame it?
Well, not don't listen to what they say, watch what they do.
And then like he said, you know, JP Morgan is literally the
authorized participant for the BlackRock ETF.
So it's funny that on the one hand, I mean we've been saying
this for a while, the the the billionaire banker, politician
playbook is all the same. You publicly FUD Bitcoin, you
probably stack Bitcoin on the back end and then once your bags
are packed, you come out publicly, very publicly and say
like, Oh yeah, we love Bitcoin. And this is what they've been
doing for a long time in the Bitcoin space, and we can almost
be certain that they have their own holdings of Bitcoin.
Maybe they there's some legal fiduciary responsibilities of
reporting on that, but there's always, you know, pigeons and
people that they can use to stack Bitcoin in their name.
But anyways, the Jamie Dimon video doesn't surprise me at
all. Yeah, I think it's just funny
that he does this on this day, considering like the importance
of what's happening right now at the spot Bitcoin ETF.
But remember, Elizabeth Warren was, quote UN quote, grilling
him the other day and he said the same thing.
This is not a new statement by Jamie Dimon or bankers and
central bankers and their ilk. So I'm not surprised that this
is what they're saying. Of course, they cannot fully
endorse Bitcoin because we know what Bitcoin does.
It literally disintermediates their job.
So they're obviously not going to come out at least on the very
first of this and be like, oh, we love Bitcoin.
You guys should go jump in and save in Bitcoin.
They're going to do their best to gaslight the masses out
there, the population, the normie population that they
probably shouldn't get as much Bitcoin exposure as they should.
They'll start to trinkle that that signal out slowly but
surely obviously at first tell their high net worth individuals
that yeah, maybe you want some Bitcoin exposure and then
finally Main Street will get the get the signal and they'll get
told to buy Bitcoin. But anyways, on the approval it
is technically on their website now.
Nico and I and I showed the whole thing here.
So SEC dot. I mean, so are are we?
Are we on the website? This is the website.
This is not. As and this is on the website
yes apparently we we had the Twitter team right now they said
that they they're confirming this as well but hey no official
announcement yet but apparently you can see here accepted today
at what 1056 Eastern. So yeah it looks like it's
official but we'll we'll wait for the official announcement to
fully go in from the SEC or Gary Genser themselves to approving
all of the spot Bitcoin ETFs. But yeah man I guess it is a
historic day. January 10th is not just the
historic tweet of running Bitcoin.
It is the day apparently allegedly, that the spot Bitcoin
ETF gets approved. But guys, again, we're we're
trying to do this in real time. So if if for some reason
something happened, maybe they got hacked again on their
website, we'll see what happens later.
So yeah. So, so, Twitter.
So, so, so Twitter team. Twitter team, if you're
listening, please put the link. Below the We got it.
Oh, yeah. OK.
Yeah. Yeah, thread the website link
and then just specify Opti that you know, according this is a
link to the website don't trust, verify, you know 'cause if we
can't confide on the SEC to say what's approved or not.
But that according to the SEC website, as it stands right now,
the ARC ETF has been approved, you know, So that's where we
stand according to the website. Maybe we're reading it wrong.
If you guys think we're reading it wrong, please, please let us
know down in the comments. All right, everybody, let's get
to the news. Well.
I was just gonna say I'm surprised that they would just
put it on their website without making a live announcement after
yesterday. Yeah, well, maybe, yeah, that's
true. But maybe they're waiting to
approve more. And then they'll announce, like
all of them in a bunch. But hey, maybe they're trying to
avoid more bad PR. And and actually all that.
No, actually, no. Let's let's go.
If, Nico, if you're going to cover the whole thing, let's do
that. And then I'll save my take on
what actually happened. OK, cool.
Could you thread, could you thread the the website Opti, we
got to change that, We got to change that wording, We got to
change that wording from the simply account that that's a hot
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, I do want to talk about the
media framing against Elon. Right 'cause this is nuts.
This is so crazy I cannot believe it.
Like what the F is going on here?
SEC account hack amplifies concerns over security at Musk's
X. Right.
Breach underscores questions about reliability of news on X
Elon Musk's X has been seeking to win back advertisers.
Ladies and gentlemen. Framing is extremely important.
Wording is important, OK? Wording is important.
Framing is important. What they're doing is basically
saying, and I'm we're going to go through the receipts.
This isn't just Nikko just talking shit, right?
We're going to go through the receipts.
What they're doing is that they're pushing the blame from
the SEC for not properly securing their account, and
they're pushing the blame to Elon Musk.
We know that the Biden administration does not like the
X platform. We know that, you know, Europe,
the European Union does not like the X platform, right?
Yeah, I I saw in the vault tweet, the other say it said
Elon freed the bird, right. We know for a fact once the
Twitter files were released that the US government, even though
this is completely against the 1st Amendment, was working with
Twitter to censor certain American speech, right?
But it's just interesting how the legacy media is framing it
in a way where the government, even though they dropped the
ball, is not responsible, it's actually Twitter is responsible.
And I also want to point this out as well.
Right Underscores questions about reliability of news on X.
What about the reliability of the New York Times?
What about the reliability of the legacy corporate media?
Look at their behavior over the last three or four years.
They haven't been quite reliable.
There's a lot of things that they got blatantly wrong, but of
course they don't take responsibility for that because
they're the legacy media, right? You know, this is, this is, this
is crazy. This.
I'm telling you guys, this is narrative Trench warfare.
They're literally telling you don't believe your eyes.
It is actually the fault of. It is an actually the fault of
of it's actually the fault of Twitter.
So it goes on to say the SEC said in its account on social
network X was compromised leading spike in the price of
Bitcoin, raising fresh concerns about X, reliability as a source
of information and the strength of its security practices.
The incident, one of the most consequential breaches in years
on the platform formerly known as Twitter, began with the post
on the SC CS Official Verified Account which inaccurately
shared that the regulator had approved spot Bitcoin exchange
traded funds. A decision, a decision that has
been anticipated for later this week.
The the price of Bitcoin quickly shot up more than 2.5% as news
of the post spread online and via media outlets, including
Bloomberg News that were watching the SC CS feed for such
an announcement. OK, and you think, wow like holy
shit like Elon, like what's going on?
Even even the legacy corporate media is saying the same thing.
Here's a clip from CNNBC yesterday.
OK. And so I'm just going to
reiterate one more time. It would appear that X has been
hacked, that the US government, the SEC, has not been hacked,
which in of itself would have been quite interesting since the
SEC is also regulating all of these cyber security issues and
hacks for public. Do you?
Do you, do you see that? Do you do you hear what they do
you? Do you hear the doubt in her
voice? Do you hear that the US
government has not been hacked? It is actually X, the platform
that was hacked. And here's Elon.
That's how the legacy media runs right now.
Let's go, let's, let's take the like a trip down memory lane.
Right. So here is, you know, September,
it's September twenty 18th, 2018.
Elon Musk charged with securities fraud for misleading
tweets. OK, OK, here's the official
tweet that says today the SEC grants approval for Bitcoin ETS
for listing on all registered national security exchanges.
The approved Bitcoin ETF will be subject to ongoing surveillance
and compliance measures to ensure continued investor
protection, right? So this is the this is the this
is the hack tweet, supposedly. Now here's the thing though,
right? And again, the whole thing about
the SEC is, is consumer protection, consumer protection
brought to you by the SEC. Now I know a lot of you guys are
thinking, OK, maybe the X platform was hacked, right?
Maybe it was hacked. Maybe, you know, maybe, maybe,
you know, maybe they're on to something.
So here's what the Twitter safety team said.
We can confirm that the account at the SEC Gov was compromised
and we have completed a preliminary investigation.
Based on our investigation, the compromise was not due to any of
any breach of X systems, but rather due to an unidentified
individual obtaining control over a phone number associated
with the SEC government account through a third party.
We can also confirm that the account did not have two factor
authentication enabled at the time the account was
compromised. We encourage all users to enable
this extra layer of security. More information and tips on how
to keep your account secure could be found in our help
center. OK, right, so but look at what
the media said. Look at what the legacy media on
TV said. It's not the US government that
messed this up. No, no, no, no, no, no.
It was Twitter that messed this up.
Twitter looked into it and said guys, you didn't have your two
FA on. Now here's the other thing,
which I think is absolutely hilarious.
They themselves literally advocated for two FA.
This is a reminder to This is a tweet from Gary Genzer.
For audio listeners, this is a reminder to secure your
financial accounts as well as protect against identity theft
and fraud. Remember to use strong
passphrases and passwords. Set up multi factor
authentication. I guess they didn't.
I guess they thought they were above that.
And here's the thing, there is more history of of of this as
well and I'm going to pull it up.
So check this out. This is another tweet by the
SEC. Careful what you read on the
Internet. The best source of information
about the SEC is the SEC. But what happens when the SEC
tweets this and then this happens?
Which leads me to led me to tweet this out yesterday.
Consumer protection brought to you by the SEC.
Now this brings me back to remember what they tweet.
Remember what they accused Elon of?
Elon Musk charged with securities fraud for misleading
tweets. So is the SEC going to sue the
SEC for misleading tweets? They didn't follow 2FA, They
didn't follow their own rules. And then of course, because it
makes them look bad, they get the legacy media to basically
say Twitter was compromised and hacked, when in reality they
just didn't feel like setting up the two FA themselves.
And you know, a lot of people have thoughts on this.
First, I'm going to start off with Jack Mahler's.
This is the same Washington DC that that manages your monetary
policy. I think he hit the nail on the
head. Here's Bitcoin Magazine.
Securities lawyers tell Fox Business that the SEC will have
to investigate itself for market manipulation 100%.
Some senators are pissed off. Here is Senator Bill Haggerty.
Just like the SEC would demand accountability from a public
company if they made such a colossal market moving mistake,
Congress needs answers on what just happened.
This is unacceptable. Here's the Bitcoin Senator,
Senator Cynthia Lummis. Fraudulent accounts like the
ones that that was made on the SEC social media can manipulate
markets. We need transparency on what
happened. Absolutely.
But you know what? The worst thing that you can do
is is say the SEC account hack amplifies concerns over security
at MUX X. You know what the worst thing
that you can do is is get the talking heads on legacy
corporate media to say shit like this.
It would appear that X has been hacked, that the US government,
the SEC has not been hacked. Which in of itself would have
been quite interesting since the SEC is also regulating all of
these cyber security issues and hacks for public or private
sector as well right now. But bottom line, you hear the
reporter when she's saying that because she's coming to the
conclusion and she it's in her face she's like, holy cow, like
if they can't even do a Twitter account like and they're
responsible for this. So like, look, this is what I
got to say about this. Cut the BS Clearly you guys.
The SEC has elongated the approval of the spot Bitcoin ETF
process. I believe for political reasons
we know that the current administration does not like
Bitcoin. We know for a fact, right?
Thanks to the awesome journalism from from Fox News that the
Elizabeth Warren colluded with Gary Gensler on testimony
regarding specific I think it was stuff in relation to
Bitcoin. So like cut with the political
BS, take responsibility for the drop ball and stop blaming Elon.
You guys are guilty of the thing you guys have spent years of
accusing other people of and it makes them look so bad that they
cannot accept that they can't say because it makes them look
terrible. And that's what this is about.
If we if we are living under a government that is not going to
take responsibility for their mess ups, they would rather
blame the private sector because it's easier.
There's no accountability there. There's no consequences to bad
actions you know and I saw beauty on go on a on a on a
tangent OPTI maybe we can pull that up basically saying that
the SEC shouldn't exist at all and this is this is this is like
like this is disgusting. I I'm sick of this and it it
it's just like they charged Elon for a crime for doing this.
They themselves did this yesterday.
You know how many longs and shorts got completely wiped out
with that move that came out of that account?
So stop with the grandstanding. Take responsibility.
I agree with Lummus and I agree with the other senator.
Answers need to We need answers, right?
We need answers. The Twitter team already
investigated it. The ex team already investigated
it. They already looked into and
they said, listen, you guys didn't have two FA at the same
time. They're telling you guys you
should have two FA on. Who do I believe more?
Because I mean, like if you take a look at, you know, the US
government, again, not to get political over the 5-10 years,
they don't really have a great track record of telling the
public the truth. And they use the legacy media in
order to propel narratives. Remember what happened in two in
the 2000s? They used the New York Times,
the intelligence agencies news, the New York Times to tell the
American public that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and
that led to the invasion of Iraq.
There was never any weapons of mass destruction discovered in
Iraq, right? Like, we got to be blunt here,
like like come on now, right. And if there's no
accountability, if there's no responsibility that's been
taken, that's a big issue. So anyways, OPTI didn't pull up
the. Who are we kidding like this?
This has been much longer than just the invasion of Iraq.
Like, we're talking Gulf of Tonkin for the Vietnam that
started the Vietnam War. We're talking JFK assassination.
I mean, it's likely September 11th was an inside job.
Like, there are so many different things that have led
much longer than just the Iraq invasion that they haven't done
and the investigations on they had.
It's likely inside jobs they haven't told the truth about and
we're expecting the SEC to now investigate itself to find
justice. Like there's just no way that
that's going to happen. I mean, to me, this Bloomberg
post about X being hacked, which we know is not the case, is just
the legacy media on its dying breath trying to like grasp at
straws to do anything it can to make itself credible in the eyes
of the people. There's just no way that that's
actually what happened. I'm finding it even more
difficult to believe that they didn't.
The only thing was that they just didn't have two FA on.
I mean to me I think they just maybe bungled the scheduled
tweet about like acknowledging or announcing the the ETS being
approved and now they have to backtrack and they're caught on
their back foot. I think it I saw I saw a post in
the comments about the the ME material has been unreal.
Like yesterday was one of the funniest days I that I've
experienced in Bitcoin and I've been here for a little while it
was hilarious. I mean, we're talking the
Regulatory agency that is supposed to protect consumers,
that bungles and announcement gets hacked for doing the same
exact thing they warned against and now they are looking like
absolute clowns to me. This is like the funniest
possible response, the funniest possible way that this ETF could
get announced. I don't even care about the ETF.
Like the only way you should be investing in Bitcoin is buying
it and holding it in self custody.
That is the only way that you should be holding Bitcoin.
And here we are focusing on ETFs, which is fine.
We're getting like the boomers involved in Bitcoin.
That's great, but the real Bitcoin is Bitcoin in self
custody. This is hilarious. 100% This is
absolutely hilarious. And Michael Saylor actually had
some He dropped some funny ass. Michael Saylor really has some
great comedy opti pull down the screen for a second.
While I share this, he did say Bitcoin will be the only thing
ever approved twice by the SEC, which is absolutely hilarious.
How was the? OP RETURN do you see the OP
RETURN? Someone posted like Chairman on
the brink of second Bitcoin ETF approval?
So. Good, 100%.
And I also want to specify guys, because we are on YouTube and
Craig did mention something about September 11th, that that
is his opinion. You know, that is not the
opinion of simply Bitcoin. You know, just just YouTube if
you're watching. Just to clarify that you know,
we like to have open discussions with our guests.
OK. So OK, anyways, I do you.
Want to pull up that beauty? Yeah, beauty on rant.
I love good beauty on rant. Yeah, so he says.
Opti, could you zoom in? Pinch.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got you.
Wait, maybe you want to?
There you go. No, that's great, Pierre.
Rashard 1I. Just got So yeah, let's start
with the Pierre Rashard one. Actually, I think that's
appropriate. So it says Pierre Rashard says
the ETF should not. That should not need regulatory
approval. The SEC should have approved the
first Bitcoin ETF that applied in 2013.
It took ten years for the SEC to finally make the correct
decision to approve. After losing in court, the SEC
completely bungled the announcement.
Mind you, the price of Bitcoin the first time 13 years ago was
like 100 dollars, $100. How is that consumer fucking
protection? I don't know.
Anyways, the SEC is this is Beautyon and the beautyon's
absolutely based goes on to say and he's the by the way for
anyone doesn't know he's the founder of of a stucco goes on
to say the SEC is unconstitutional and unamerican.
In the Anglo-Saxon legal system, all citizens benefit from the
presumption of innocence. That means you should be free to
provide goods and services without oversight or scrutiny,
and only be subject to investigation if a complete is
raised. The SEC does not operate in this
way. Not only does it purse prosecute
you where no crime has been committed or person injured, but
it acts like an extra legal, legal, ultravidious rule maker
using its arbitrary standards and ideas to categorize
constitutionality protected activities.
Could you Scroll down OPTI? It goes on to say it appears
that members of Congress are fed up with the SEC.
You you can say in this context, that's the, that's the.
Regarding progress, and are going to act.
They will not abolish it. However, under the pretext of
keeping people safe, which is the death dirge that is killing
American innovation and industry.
I mean, what is that Ben Franklin quote, right?
If you want the people, what was it?
I I did such a good quote. I like liberty and safety, one
or whatever. Yeah, Liberty safety.
Like if you. I I I'm butchering it.
Obviously I always butcher quotes, but if you like,
optimize for safety over liberty, you don't deserve
either or something like that. I got it right here.
Those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Now what makes that even worse, ladies and gentlemen, is the
people that were supposed to, like, provide safety are now
responsible for actually causing harm to the public with this
tweet. Right.
So, like, yeah, it is, guys, I'm.
I'm telling you, like, it is kind of like a mess up.
Fine, It happens. It happens.
It, it happens to the best of us.
That's OK. We're all human, right?
But what I got to say is take responsibility.
Take responsibility. You didn't properly secure your
account. Take responsibility for it.
Own it. Don't blame Elon.
And what I also got to say is enough with the BS like Sakawo.
It's done. It's over.
OK? Just just accept this thing,
Approve it. OK?
The horse and pony show is over. Clearly the market wants it.
You took out Binance, right? You took out SBF.
You know, like it's it's over. It's done.
Just accept it. Bitcoins here to stay, right?
If this doesn't get approved today, this is this is a
disaster. This is just like it's
embarrassing. What is going on?
No accountability. Anyways, Nico rant is over.
I just when I saw this guy's yesterday, I went on a tweet
rampage. I haven't gone on one in forever
and it was just it was just crazy to witness all this.
Anyways, I do want to pass it on to Craig.
Craig, what do? You he went, he went.
He he, he, he rented. Unless he's got more to say.
But. Yeah.
Let's pass it on to Craig again, then we'll pass it on to Opti.
Cool. I gotta.
I feel like you gotta be a little careful here.
I mean, I love beauty On. YouTube.
You know we love YouTube. Yeah, we love.
You. I know I'm.
Platform. We want to stay there, so yeah.
I know. Well, you know, YouTube's one
that feels the the concern about being demonetized too.
I think that like you know what's interesting to me is how
people are coming to the conclusion that the SEC, it
might not be a legitimate organization or at the very
least doesn't actually protect consumers in the way that it
claims to. So I think that you know, now
we're expecting them to investigate themselves.
Can we really believe that that's going to be the they're
going to come to a conclusion that is fair And just now like
also not only that, but we're seeing blame placed on other
organizations, private organizations.
X is one of them. And not only are they blaming X,
but they are also trying to save themselves in the process by
saying, oh, we are the sort of source of truth.
We are the ones that you can count on for reliable correct
true journalism and I think that we've seen that over the past
few years it's been really put in our face for how that is not
actually accurate. So I think you know we've seen
how X or I should say Twitter rather and the government has
colluded in the past and now we are seeing that the SEC is kind
of asking Twitter and X to kind of have its have its back here
and say hey look we were hacked. Can't you show the the public
that we were hacked And to me, I'm not really buying it.
That's that's just my take. I'm not really buying it. 100%
I'm not really buying it either And again like, you know, I, I
know a lot of people are not fans of Elon.
I I've seen more truth from Elon than I've seen from, you know,
not to name any names but, you know in the last couple years I,
I, I and his opinion, I I truly believe that there's been a lot
of I, I I don't think that there's been a little bit of
dishonesty to be honest. You know, I, I, I clearly
remember like when our officials were telling us that there was
going to be no inflation and then.
Right. You know, if you would have
listened to that, you would have gotten absolutely wrecked.
Right. So again, and it's not like I'm
blaming anything, but it's like, look you're human being.
You're going to get it wrong including the government but
take responsibility own it a little bit you know like and and
take and at least there needs to be consequences to this right.
And he said he say listen this was this is whatever these are
the measures that we're going to take.
That's what all private companies do when there's a
breach right. So why does the government have
special privileges. And and I think that's really
that's that's really the debate that you know that that has to
be had. And the good news is about this
though guys is that this is one of the things that Bitcoin
fixes, you know, because if you separate money from state and
the state doesn't have that money printer, their only way of
raising funds is via direct taxation.
And if you're lying to the public about things so
inconsequential good luck, right.
So like it's kind of like it it it aligns incentives in society
and I think really what we're seeing that really in El
Salvador first country that make to make Bitcoin legal tender but
as long as governments have a Fiat money printer I don't think
they truly care what the public thinks cuz they're good to go.
They're set. They got their money coming in
anyways. I do want to make an
announcement also guys, this was the all time high for simply.
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Opti, I took the mic away from you from an excessive amount of
time. No, I'm going to make, I'm going
to make you full screen. No, you don't have to do it.
Get on your. Soapbox and say opti the F out
of it. First and foremost, this is
apparently going on Twitter right now.
Twitter team's going crazy. Bitcoin Archive just tweeted
that apparently Bloomberg Terminal has listed all 11
Bitcoin ETF as pending listening.
So we still don't know exactly, but it looks like today might
actually be the day. I guess we will cover this in
full tomorrow and break it all down if it's officially
happening. We still have what about 4-4
hours or so until the time that they said it was going to drop
anyways? Just going back to this whole
debacle thing, as a social media manager myself, my first thought
was like, oh, the intern like fat fingered it.
He miss scheduled the date and they dropped it an hour, an hour
before or a day before it was supposed to really happen.
And then it was so funny last night when we were covering this
because we were all, like, losing our brains.
We're like, wait, did it get approved or not?
We're all looking at the SEC website.
And then 5 minutes later or whatever, 10 minutes later, Gary
Gensler goes out and tweets like, Oh yeah, we got hacked.
And what, 20 minutes later they got it back.
And so that was the part to me that was the most interesting.
It's just how quickly they got back their account.
Usually when your account gets hacked, you don't get it back in
what, 10 minutes like you. It's it's never like a literally
done in 30 minutes. Like, it's very interesting how
quick this did happen. So we were all speculating that
like the intern, fat fingered or miss or miss, scheduled the
tweet and then they're like, oops, sorry guys, it didn't
really get approved yet. We got hacked and then I guess
later in the day the Twitter team, the safety at safety
account confirmed that it did indeed get hacked.
SEC account tweeted that they got their account back and they
did get hacked. But it is very interesting, the
Bloomberg articles going out about, oh it was it was Twitter
that got hacked and not there. The SEC Twitter account in
particular, which I think is very interesting or rather maybe
someone did like a you know like a real life kind of hack they
they got some information that they weren't supposed to have.
But anyways anyways, on on all of this, as Craig was saying
earlier and we were saying before the show it it's just
this is what we love about Bitcoin, you know the quote UN
quote. The adults show up to Bitcoin
and some crazy Bitcoin Twitter stuff happens and it's just like
the funniest thing ever. Hence why I'm wearing a pseudo
suit because we're journalists now.
We got to grow up and journalists bro the the adults
are here so we got to look good because no one's going to take
us seriously if we're not wearing suits But man it's just
it's just what what's so fun about Bitcoin and and Bitcoin
Twitter in particular because me and Craig were even saying
before the show like you know you you sometimes forget how fun
Twitter is until days like this and things just pop off and
you're just like Bitcoin just does the most pain and it's just
so awesome. And then on the on the fact of
like trading whether this was like inside trading or something
you know the the whoever hacked this imagine if they put a short
in on that little tweet And then because everyone's been saying
it's a sell the news story and it literally did what everyone
thought it was so on unlike the flip side considering that the
Bitcoin price is kind of pumping right now.
Well it did pump for a little bit and now it kind of had just
had a a a correction check the one minute chart.
These are the days where you like to watch the one minute
chart. Don't trade it but just watch
it. It's better than TV.
It is very interesting to see and consider the possibility
that, you know, whether they did this on purpose or not.
But what happened is, you know, they cleared all the shorts so
that now it's just like we can log it, we're we're going to the
moon now. Like this is absolutely awesome
and Bitcoin is. So it's the funniest thing ever.
And the irony is not lost on me that, you know, the adults are
here, you know, Wall Street here, the adults are here to
mature the market. SEC.
Gary Gens is here to protect consumers and this market
manipulation from their account happens in real time.
And and we were kind of speculating with friends that
like it would be very poetic and also hilarious if Gary Genser
came out later today and was like Oh yeah, this is the very
reason why we're not going to approve a spot big one ETF
because of market manipulation and and the market is so naive
and. It's like.
Dog you, you were the one that caused this and now you're
delaying the ETF, but it seems like it's almost it's almost set
in stone so we'll see what happens later.
But but anyways, I I could probably rant for a while.
Let's let's get into the culture Nico so, so we can talk with.
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Let's go, guys. All right.
Well, you guys know what we do here on the culture.
We feature our guests talk about what they're working on.
And Craig, you are programming for the Bitcoin conference.
So you guys have a big year. As I'm over here on the website
B dot TC slash conference, it looks like you guys are throwing
three huge conferences. So you can pick whatever lane
you want to talk about, Whatever conference you want to talk
about. What are you most excited for
this year? Well, first I want to say just
in response to your rant, if if this is what it looks like when
the adults are in charge, then maybe, maybe it's time for the
kids to take back the keys. So.
So yeah, I am. I work at Bitcoin Magazine.
I work in the programming on the programming team with an awesome
group of people, and we do have three events on the calendar for
this year coming up. First we have Bitcoin Asia
that's going to be in Hong Kong. The dates are coming up soon.
We will announce them as soon as possible, but we're just ironing
out some final details. I'm really looking forward to
that one. I haven't been to Asia before.
Hong Kong is going to be awesome, so really looking
forward to that. But I have to say I'm most
excited about Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville.
It is going to be our best event yet.
We're bringing it back home, back to where?
Our headquarters are and where the company began in Nashville
and it's the Music City Center where the conference is, is like
right on Broadway, it's right in the center of town.
It's a really incredible venue and we are going to do it up big
there. So I'm I'm really looking
forward to it. One of the things that we do at
the AT on the programming team is we try to find a place for
every type of bitcoiner. So not only the hardcore
maximalist who hold their own keys are fully self sovereign.
But at this event we are also trying to open the door and be a
little bit more welcoming to like the enterprise, the
institutions, the adults of of Bitcoin who are just now kind of
finding their way into Bitcoin. And so we have a lot of great
enterprise speakers, people from the ETF companies.
I do not know if Udi and Eric are going to floss on stage
again. We'll see.
Chad Savage, I told you. The.
Chad Savage, I'm fine with it, man.
You know, I I when in negotiating with them, I said
they have to improve their dance moves if they want to come back
on stage. Like it's got to be you know,
the floss is elementary so they got at least do like a salsa or
something. So yeah.
So you know another thing that we have at the conference is our
is our open source ticket program.
Open source developers can apply and get a free ticket to the
event. We have a phenomenal open source
stage which is where most of the laser eyed Maxis like to hang
out, myself included, when I'm not working, which is the whole
event. But you know I tried to, you
know place myself there so I get to hang out.
That's where we see the best technical talks and to me that's
the most interesting place to hang out.
But that being said, we also have our mainstage where we have
a little bit of a dual main mandate.
We get, you know, big name people to talk to our largest
area, our largest audience, and not only big name bitcoiners,
but people who are like on the cusp of becoming a hardcore
bitcoiner. And so we know we kind of suss
out those people, figure out who's like this close to taking
the orange pill and we make sure that they come to our event and
we hopefully we can be that final step for them to to truly
accept Bitcoin and understand Bitcoin and just see what's
going on because the energy of the event is contagious.
It's infectious. It makes you want to learn more.
You can and have a different experience of what Bitcoin is.
If you are just scrolling Bitcoin, Twitter, Bitcoin might
seem like one thing. But when you go in person to a
Bitcoin event, to a Bitcoin conference, and especially a
huge Bitcoin conference like ours, you really see that
there's something here, there's something going on here and
there's a lot of hope and inspiration and it's a movement.
And so that's you know one of the things we we really try to
bring to as many people as possible.
Obviously, we have a big mining and energy component as well.
100% And I I I just got to say like I I have so many fond
memories at you know the Bitcoin conferences.
I think the first one I spoke at was Bitcoin 2021.
I had the honor to of course you know who he is Greg.
I had the honor to be on stage with Nick.
Can't mine, you know who's, who's absolute.
Baller the go got the algos, he got the.
The algos and you know that was the year of, you know that was
the year of that was the year of name Buchelli making his
announcement. I think the thing that I said on
stage was like quoted in the Financial Times Eric Voorhees
got pissed off with what I said, you know, and it's so many fond
memories. A mean panel, mean panel that
was on I remember the Volcano with the news desk, the Michael
Saylor announcements, the Jack Mahler announcements.
I got to meet Tulsi Gabbard in the In the Deep, the Backstage
with the, you know the the VIP lounge in the Backstage and that
was awesome by the way. Guys, if you if you guys
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But but yeah, I've had so many fond memories and here's the
thing I'm from Miami. So I've I've, I've, you know, it
was so crazy to see the conference at the Miami Beach
Convention Center because that was like literally like 5-10
minutes away from where I grew up.
You know. And it was to see that so many
Bitcoiners in Miami and to to, you know, to celebrate Bitcoin
and to network and to see these amazing speakers on stage.
The fact that you guys got RFK Junior last year, the fact that
you guys got Tulsi Gabbard, clearly, like the Bitcoin
conference is breaking the Bitcoin echo chamber in my eyes.
It's really getting people from outside the sphere.
I know that you guys got Vivec as well, right?
You guys are getting people from without outside of the Bitcoin
sphere and you're getting them in there and they're realizing
wow, Bitcoin truly fixes a lot of these problems.
What RFK Junior said on stage, I would protect your right to self
custody. Like Bitcoin is getting into the
political discussion. Like this is a crazy crazy time
to be alive. So what what are you the most
excited about? You know you guys are going back
to where the Bitcoin headquarters are you know are
at. I I had the privilege to be able
to see this the suite and the and the stadium.
I got to visit Bitcoin magazine headquarters.
CK was kind enough to give me a tour.
I think I did a podcast actually.
I did a simply Bitcoin episode from the offices in Nashville
and absolutely love the crew and the Bitcoin magazine team.
So you guys are going back home, you guys are going to the roots,
right? So I feel like you guys, you
guys know some stuff. If you guys are throwing a party
at home, you know you guys know what the deal is.
So anything that that you guys are looking forward to?
Yeah, I mean I'm, I'm partial, I'm not based in Nashville, but
I think Nashville is that I think it's the Bitcoin capital
of the United States. You know, I know there's a a
little bit of a debate around that.
I think that one thing about Miami that was a little bit
challenging is Miami is very crypto agnostic.
I would say there was a lot of crypto both you know at the
event from people you know who just buy tickets and like are
shilling their their coin and they to me that's like not what
this is about and it to the program team that's not what
this conference is about. And I think Nashville is kind of
a clean slate. It's a a place that is
Tennessee's very freedom minded and I think Bitcoin will fit
right in with the culture of Nashville and I think that you
know that's just one of the things that I'm excited about is
like orange peeling this whole city.
Another thing I'm excited about is Bitcoin Park is in Nashville.
We are you know hopefully figuring out ways that we can
collaborate. Bitcoin Park, if you haven't
been there is one of the is the coolest Bitcoin center.
It's a bit it's a Bitcoin 3rd place that you can go and they
host a meet up there, they host a meet up for meet up organizers
there. I run the Asheville Bitcoin meet
up and so I got to go to Bitcoin Park.
I was going there monthly until my wife was like whoa, slow
down, stay at home, don't be traveling to Nashville so much.
But Bitcoin Park is a is a really incredible spot.
So I'm really excited to be just in the home base right across
from Broadway where all the live music is, where all the bars
are. I think it's going to be a
blast. 100. Percent, yeah.
And and wait before we go, Nico, or or I don't mean to cut you
off if you wanna chime in. Yeah, I I was just gonna ask
Craig a question. Yeah so just just before you do
that I do wanna mention Bitcoin Park Rod Matt that I was I was
there I was I was fortunate enough to do a citadel dispatch.
The first one in Matt's studio at Bitcoin Park did a couple
simply Bitcoin episodes in the in the the building to if you're
facing the buildings, the buildings to the right,
upstairs, it's so cool it's all wired.
It's all wired because it they they essentially they bought it
from. I forgot what the name of the
band is but the band broke up and the these two houses are
fitted for music production right, Which is absolutely
bonkers and you know they throw these amazing events there.
I highly recommend it. If you guys haven't made the
pilgrimage to Bitcoin Park and also the Bitcoin man, you guys
have a storefront too, which is pretty bad ass.
Yeah, the gallery storefront. That's awesome.
So make the pilgrimage. Great job.
Tommy's amazing. Make the pilgrimage to
Nashville. It's amazing.
Shut up, Tommy. Yeah, Tommy's the man.
The Bitcoin conference is gonna be absolutely bonkers this year.
We are. Beyond the last thing.
Go hit it. One last thing, we Our event is
right in between the Republican National Convention and the
Democratic National Convention. And so we are gonna be the place
for people that don't feel they're like they are not
supported or represented by the two party system.
And so we are going to be the place for those kinds of
discussions for you know an Orange party, a Bitcoin centric
place for people and speakers and politicians and things like
that. So that is another thing I think
is going to be awesome. I.
I love that. I love the fact that you
mentioned that because on on the show, many times on Simply
Bitcoin, we talk about it. It's not left versus right.
It's not re red versus blue. It is really the party of
orange. The party of Bitcoin.
Peace, prosperity, opportunity versus the party of central bank
digital currencies, Fiat war, nihilism, slavery, poverty,
right. That's really the two options.
It's not Republican versus Democrat.
People got to wake up to that. So I'm really, really glad you
guys are are really pushing that forward.
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Wait, wait, wait. Before we go to this, before we
go to this, let's give Craig, I want to ask you a question and
for the audience that doesn't know, considering you are
programming for the Bitcoin conference in Nashville, can
people with businesses or can they reach out to you?
Are you still looking for volunteers?
I'm sure we're still early in this process, so I'd like to
give an opportunity for people out there to understand if they
can get involved. Awesome, yeah.
If you want to get involved, go to the website B dot TC slash
conference. We have a contact forum for all
of those different things. Sponsoring, volunteering.
If you have general inquiries, there's a form there.
You can reach out through that and our team will get back to
you. Love it, bro.
Well, thank you for coming on. Get it, Nico?
Yeah, 100% Craig. It's been great.
Love love the crew of Bitcoin Mag.
I'll pull up the the, the URL. Once again go to BTC slash
conference and you can find all that information there and I
can't wait to see what you guys have planned for the conference.
The year of the having and again such a strong political
statement saying hey guys you have an you have an alternative
you have a better alternative. Anyways I do want to make an
announcement this is breaking news.
This has been confirmed right after the Twitter team confirm
this. Yes Sir.
OK so it has been confirmed ARC 21 shares Bitcoin ETF approved
to be listed on the CBOE exchange.
So apparently there has been approval by the SEC of the first
Bitcoin Spot Bitcoin ETF. I can't believe this.
Live, live, live on there, live on air.
I'm sure we'll hear more news as it rolls out, but what a crazy
day. And also very, very fitting
because this is the day in 2009 that Hal Finney said running
Bitcoin January 10th. And this was the day that the
Spot Bitcoin ETF was approved. Sometimes guys, I don't believe
I I. Gary Ganzer's A Maxi confirmed.
Sometimes, yeah, Maxi confirmed. And you know, the universe has
ways of of doing things. And this is this is crazy.
What a time to be alive. Bitcoins growing up.
And for all you guys in the crowd, you friend ran Wall
Street. Congratulations.
All right, everybody. So thank you guys so much for
tuning into the show. I do want to give a huge shout
out to our guest, Craig. You can follow him at Bitcoin
under score fan. I love that the way that he
split Phi like that Bitcoin fan. So Craig, thank you so much for
coming on the show. Really, really enjoyed.
Enjoyed our conversation, coming in hot with the rants,
Absolutely love that and can't wait to, you know, see you guys
in Nashville as well. Yeah.
Thanks for having me. Appreciate it, man.
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