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What a crazy crazy day we had yesterday.
I I am personally, in my opinion, I think we had some
pivotal moments in the separation of money and state
that happened yesterday. First of all, as you guys can
tell from the title, Naive Bukele went to CPAC, the
Conservative Political Action Conference and warned the world
and of course conservatives and Americans about fighting for
freedom naming names I I highly recommend you guys watch the
whole video. But especially important for us
the disastrous problems of money printing and its effects on the
world at large. But of course you guys as
Americans and all of us freedom minded people, a conversation
we've been having here on simply Bitcoin, like literally every
single day. That money printing is what's
destroying the world and it's very obvious to everyone.
I say it all the time, most people know the problem, but
very few people know the solutions.
The solutions are not talked about enough.
And of course we think it starts with simply Bitcoin.
And then on the flip side, I guess guys, this this might be a
little politically change show today.
There is a theme here. But Trump was asked at a town
hall meeting what his thoughts were on Bitcoin, and though he
didn't embrace Bitcoin, he didn't necessarily say anything
bad about Bitcoin. And and before you guys would be
like simply Bitcoin, a bunch of Trumpers, we're just
acknowledging what's going on in the world.
Again, this is another theme we've been talking about
constantly on simply Bitcoin. And it is Bitcoin saturating
popular culture and becoming a defining conversation in all
political It's not left versus right, it is orange versus
green. And man, you know Trump is a
huge dollar maxi. But I think there is some wiggle
room here where where he could potentially embrace Bitcoin.
And before again, you guys all lose your mind and go full Trump
Derangement Syndrome on me, guys, you know, love him or hate
him. The guy's hilarious and he has
power. People listen to him.
He's influential. And man, if he does embrace
Bitcoin, on the one hand, we will see people follow him, you
know, follow him to anywhere, the promised land, quote, UN
quote, as people say, and then we'll see the Trump Derangement
Syndrome on the other side and that will go directly to the
Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome. So man, we're in some
interesting times here as Bitcoiners.
It's only what the second month we're about to be.
In the third month of the year, I think things are going to
start heating up for us in in Bitcoin land, but rather in the
world at large. And of course, as we say all the
time, actually, I can just pull it up on the sound board.
Everyone will have to have a Bitcoin point of view.
It's only a matter of time until that conversation is happening
everywhere. Anyways, I'm not alone.
I'm here with Chris Alamo, What's it?
Programming director at Swan because hey guys, send some love
and thoughts and prayers. And Nico, a new bitcoiner was
just born. A new member of the Simply
Bitcoin family was just born. So I got the news this morning.
Nico and Sophie have delivered a beautiful baby girl.
So send them your love guys. But in the meantime, the show
goes on and we got Chris Alamo. How you doing today, bro?
Good to have you back. Doing well.
Sending my love to Sophie, Nico and the new baby girl.
New bitcoiner is born. You know, a big number of
bitcoiners go up one way or the other through procreation or
conversion. Dude, propagate the memes.
You got to propagate the memes. And the best way to do it is by
creating more bitcoiners. So you know, I still got a long
ways ahead before I do that one, but shouts out the Nico and
Sophie. Anyways, we're not alone here
guys. We have, I would consider a good
friend. We have Ben Jessman, AKA the
Bitcoin wine guy, AKA a Bitcoin entrepreneur.
He creates the wine Peony lane. Good to have you bro.
Actually also a very strong memer in his own right, creating
some very good memes. So how you doing bro?
I'm excited for this conversation.
It'll be a little less wine focused and a little more
entrepreneurial focus. So yeah, man, how you doing?
OK, Someone's telling me my my mic's messed up, but here we go,
here we go. What a morning.
How you doing, Ben?
I'm so good. Thank you for having me here.
It feels great to be welcomed with arms wide open and.
And look at this back. Look at that.
Beautiful day today with you guys.
Yeah. The best background.
Filling in the wine cave. Let's go.
All real. All right.
Well, we got a lot to talk about.
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numbers guys. We're over here on Clark Moody's
dashboard and of course the block height.
The number that matters the most in my opinion is TikTok Next
block. Bitcoin is working exactly as
designed and we're at block height of 831,712.
The Bitcoin price is currently at 51,000 and $40, which means
the stats per dollar is 1960. The total percentage of Bitcoin
that will ever be issued is 93.5.
Wait 93.50%? The market cap of Bitcoin is
teetering at $1 trillion. The realized monetary inflation
taking Fiat currencies to schools at 1.74% and the Bitcoin
versus gold market cap, we're inching towards that 10% of the
gold market cap. We're at 7.26%.
The total lightning capacity is currently at 4000.
Wait, public lightning capacity 4707.78 BTC and the hash rate
the last 90 days it's absolutely going.
Nuclear numbers going up on hash rate we are currently at well
roughly at estimated that 527.1 XA hashes depending fees in the
mempools right now. Or at least the one Clark
Moody's hooked up to a 7.07 BTC and the blocks to having is 8288
with an estimated date of April 19th 2024.
So hopefully we can slow that down and get get the meme
number. Anyways, of course we do have a
Bitcoin ETF update, and I I don't.
I'm not going to use the Bitcoin treasuries.net site today
because our team dropped a solid meme and it it really just goes
to show how much Bitcoin these ETFs are scooping up.
And there's what, 12 of them? And I'm only going to touch on
2, The biggest one. So BlackRock and Fidelity now
own a combined 218,594 Bitcoin worth $11.1 billion for the
Bitcoin ETS. Guys, if you've been following
along in the last few weeks when we've been covering this, you
know the ET FS only a month old. They're scooping up like
thousands of Bitcoin a day. So you know what we think here,
it's only a matter of time until number goes up.
All right. Anyways, let's get into the
numbers for today. And of course, this is the Trump
video that went around yesterday.
And again, guys, before you guys all say we're Trumpies or Trump
bites or whatever the meme is for Trump, before you say we're
MAGA country or whatever, we like to separate the
conversation. It's not left versus right, it
is Bitcoin versus Fiat money. It is orange versus green.
But it's becoming very obvious to us, Bitcoin, especially since
we're in the front line, that Bitcoin is becoming a defining
conversation. And as you can see here from
this Bitcoin mag tweet shouts out to our boy Nick Camp mine
over there at Bitcoin Mag and the whole Bitcoin mag news team
Donald Trump says, quote, many people are embracing Bitcoin and
he's seeing more and more people wanting to pay in Bitcoin.
So before we get into this video, Trump is a Fiat maxi.
I think we can all agree that Trump's a Fiat maxi.
It is what it is. But I want you guys to notice
what he's saying. When he's talking about dollars,
he's saying I like one powerful thing.
It is dollars. We all know that dollars rule
the world right now. You know, we get trolled in the
chat all the time, every single day saying like, oh, you don't
care about the price, but you price Bitcoin in dollars.
Like, yeah guys, dollars is the world reserve currency right
now. It's a unit of account for
basically the whole world, but we know as Bitcoiners that
Bitcoin is much more powerful than the dollar.
Bitcoin is way better in terms of tech, money, technology than
the dollar. So I think it's only a matter of
time until everyone embraces Bitcoin whether you like them or
not. And we all know that Vivek has
been in Trump's ears and that's probably why he's coming out as
anti CBDC's. Well, I think it's only a matter
of time until he embraces Bitcoin and literally breaks the
Internet when he does. Anyways, let's listen to this
clip that made the rounds on Twitter and then we'll talk
about it. China obviously has its own push
in the Chinese digital currency. But isn't the next logical step
for you to embrace Bitcoin? Because Bitcoin obviously is
decentralized, the government can't get its hands on it.
What about Bitcoin? All the young people, including
African Americans, who are, are very interested.
Well, a lot of people are doing it.
I always liked one currency. I I call it a currency.
I like the dollar, but a lot of people are doing it.
And frankly, it's it's taken a life of its own.
You probably have to do some regulation, as you know, but
many people are embracing it. And more and more I'm seeing
people wanting to pay Bitcoin and you're seeing something
that's interesting. So I can live with it one way or
the other. I've always liked one really
powerful thing, and that's called the dollar.
I think that I think there's some points there, there's some,
there's some few points in there that that Trump's talking about.
Of course he loves the dollar. He's a dollar Maxi.
He loves the one powerful thing, the dollar.
But let's just kind of break it down a little bit, you know,
First off, he acknowledged that Bitcoin is saturated in popular
culture, that people are using it, that it's becoming a
defining conversation that people are asking to pay in
Bitcoin for. Probably his merch.
I know you just dropped like a sneaker or something.
So I think this is kind of part of the things that we all talk
about as Bitcoin is is like ask the merchants to accept Bitcoin.
And we're seeing constantly and I think we are highly
underestimating the impact of Bitcoin saturating popular
culture in this year moving forward.
But Trump said himself, I like one powerful thing and it's a
dollar. Of course he's a Fiat maxi.
He's, I mean I think at one time was a billionaire.
Now he just likes dollars because of what dollars can buy.
The purchasing power of the dollar.
Still technically the best out of all the other paper
currencies, but it's melting ice cubes guys.
And of course the dollar is a world reserve currency.
It's a unit of account of the world.
So it's, you know, the Petro dollar.
It basically controls the world right now, but it's a leaky
bucket and it loses value at a very least of 2% of its
purchasing power a year. And as we've been seeing and
covering on the show, inflation is running rampant. the Fed is
seemingly not able to control the dollar.
It seems like the dollar is losing its position in the
world's losing that power and we think that Bitcoin is the thing
to replace it. And let's just ask.
Let's just ask a little little simple question, a little
thought experience. What sounds like the stronger
currency, something that is censorship resistant, that is
hard capped, that is globally accepted with no middleman,
quick as lightning stores your wealth through time and space or
the opposite, It loses 2% at minimum per year.
It is sensible, it's literally infinite, and it's not accepted
everywhere unless you know you're forced by some, some,
some violence. And it can't be set lightning
fast. It's physical, you know, it's
paper, it's literally destructible and it doesn't
store your wealth through time and space.
Like, to me, it's a very simple question.
Of course I know my bias, it is Bitcoin.
But to say the least, love Trump or hate him, I think it's only a
matter of time until Trump embraces Bitcoin and he
literally blows people's minds up.
Because once Trump embraces something, he's so devices that
people are going to have to talk about it.
And even though Trump is noticing that something
interesting is happening with Bitcoin and it's saturating
popular culture, people are asking about Bitcoin, He's still
kind of like, yeah, you know, I can leave it or take it.
I really don't care. So once he actually embraces
Bitcoin, I think it's going to be very interesting and it's
really going to break the game theory of Bitcoin whether he
gets there or not. You know you guys can debate it
in the chat, but I find it hilarious that the Trump
Derangement Syndrome AKA the Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome
that will follow. Oh man, it's going to be so
beautiful to see all the Fiat Maxis, the anti Trumpers go out
there and literally shoot themselves in the foot And as
bitcoins like to say have fun staying poor.
So hey, this is where we are in the story.
We have the biggest political figures being asked about
Bitcoin, talking about Bitcoin and noticing that Bitcoin is
slowly but surely taking over the world.
And we're only in the second month of 2024.
We haven't even got the last leg of the bull run.
Man, this year is going to get absolutely crazy.
It's oh, it's so awesome to be on the front lines and be a
bitcoiner and just document all this stuff.
It it's coming becoming easier and easier every day to show up
and do a Daily News show because it's like everyone's talking
about Bitcoin and we're just getting more and more people to
talk about Bitcoin. And on the flip side, it's
becoming more and more obvious to average everyday people why
they need Bitcoin. I I know you guys have seen the
the clips on social media. You know all the Gen.
ZS and millennials are all complaining about inflation.
They're complaining about like, man, I can't even survive.
I wasn't born to work two jobs. I don't have a social life.
Like, what is going on guys? It's the money.
The money is breaking in real time and we have a solution.
It is simply Bitcoin. Anyways, Chris, you're usually a
little more level headed, you know, a little more right side
of the bell curve than I am. So what's your thoughts on this?
Well, I I think I'd say the dollar is the best crack house
on the street. That's the famous line that Greg
Foss always says and I love using that line.
So while Trump is advocating for the dollar, it makes sense he's
a former president, obviously advocating to be the president.
Nowadays strong dollar, you know, technically means a strong
U.S. economy. We can don't have to get in the
whole dynamics of you know the the issues that come with the
strong dollar globally and issues for importing stuff.
But that's another thing. This morning on Cafe Bitcoin Joe
Carlos sorry brought up a Republican survey.
So it was a survey. I know we don't always trust
surveys fan but hear me for a second.
The survey was sent out to Republican voters talking about
their thoughts on strengthening the dollar and 92% of the
Republicans in that survey said they opted for that.
Then they asked the next question about gold.
Would they want the US dollar to be backed by some type of gold
or other precious metal. 60% of the people in that survey said
that they would like gold to back the US dollar.
The obviously the mechanics of that's a little bit more
difficult, but they opted for that.
The most bullish part of the survey though was Republicans
that received the survey. They said what are their
thoughts on Bitcoin? Or is that something that should
be on the Fed's balance sheet or something like the US dollar
being backed by Bitcoin, 40 percent, 40%.
We are very early and 40% of Republicans are positive or
neutral to positive about Bitcoin being on the balance
sheet of the US government. So the masses are coming, people
are waking up and people are learning more and more about
Bitcoin. Hopefully not.
They're avoiding the cryptocurrencies at all.
But it was very cool and bullish thing on that survey.
Obviously, with 92% saying they'd love a stronger dollar,
Trump is obviously, you know, kind of using that survey to his
advantage and saying like, Yep, we should have a stronger
dollar. You know, it's a good talking
point. A lot of Republicans surveyed
and said that they would like that.
With that being said, you know, I don't want this to become a
partisan issue, obviously. Remember in 2022 we had Kirsten
Gillibrand and Cynthia Lummus. They were trying to pass a
crypto and Bitcoin bill, basically allowing for like
$600.00 of spending. If you're below that limit, that
it's not taxed or they're trying to include a lot of different
things. Ultimately it was kind of shut
down. I hope a version of that bill
comes back to making it more tax friendly for using Bitcoin.
But you never want to spend your Sats.
Everyone but I know Ben can probably talk to, he loves
taking your Sats for his wine. That is something about my Sats
for 'cause I do like his wine. It's very great products.
But I think that the point is we need more people on both sides
of the aisle. Kirsten Gillibrand is a great
example. She's a Democrat from New York,
where Cynthia Lummus is a senator from Wyoming.
And we want more, you know, across the aisle.
Cooperation like this is this doesn't have to be political
issue. It's not.
The political issue is people weaponizing the dollar against
their constituents and abroad, and people are losing their
purchasing power. They are hurting.
You know, obviously inflation has not been 2% as their target.
It's been much, much higher over the last four years, even
probably longer than that. But they're able to hide it
through various things like hedonic adjustments and such.
With that said, don't trust politicians.
Don't trust, verify, obviously, you know, trust.
Believe what they do, not what they say.
I think that's the best way to look at it.
And if these politicians did a little bit of research, even
just a tiny bit of research and checked out like priced in
Bitcoin, I know Trump is an avid real estate guy.
If you've looked at real estate prices priced in Bitcoin,
they've collapsed. Meaning that the value of homes,
I've gotten cheaper and cheaper if you're living on a Bitcoin
standard. So I'll leave you guys at that.
You know, Stack sats. Stay humble, Stack sats.
And I'll just leave you that. Chris, love it, Nigel.
And the chat goes, Chris bringing too much grown up
analysis, what's going on today. Chris, dropping this out.
I completely missed that survey in that poll and that.
I think that's a microcosm of what's going on in the site.
Guys. And again, guys, you know
Bitcoin is for anyone and what I don't care what side of the
aisle you are on. You know, the the progressives
usually care about like social problems.
And personally I think Bitcoin can help those people.
Like Bitcoin helps people get out of poverty.
It helps people bootstrap themselves.
It is a beneficial force for humanity.
And on the right, you know, they care about taxation and property
rights and it's like Bitcoin is property in cyberspace encrypted
by the cyber Hornets or whatever, Sailor says.
It's like. Bitcoin and the dollar, which we
will see with the Buchelli clip following it, has been
weaponized. And Bitcoin basically breaks
that control. And all you have to do is just
saving Bitcoin, live your life, provide value to your fellow
man, literally be a good human and saving Bitcoin and everyone
wins here. So you know, let's try not to
get too divisive here. I know, I know, Trump's such a
polarizing figure. But our job here is to cover
everyone talking about Bitcoin, whether it's good or whether
it's bad, Whether we like them or yeah, that we don't.
Everyone will be talking about Bitcoin anyways.
Ben, what's your thoughts on all this stuff going on today?
I was so much more interested in the question that was asked and
how it was phrased than Trump's answer, because as, excuse me,
the president of the United States, it's pretty hard to be
like we want to go to a Bitcoin standard.
That's huge upheaval in the world.
And ultimately, the better strategy is to just stay quiet,
stack stacks on the side, not tell anyone, and then let the
global financial system meltdown whatever, you're all set up.
The way the question was asked was, isn't the next logical step
to go to Bitcoin and not crypto, just specifically Bitcoin?
It was like the way she phrased that just got me so fired up
because it was so on point. And then she finishes the
question with just like how African Americans in the United
States really love Bitcoin and that kind of gets past the like
just this Trump. Because if you go to the left
side, I mean they love identity politics.
They love race based stuff and and helping like perceived
victims and if their perceived victims are all jumping onto
Bitcoin it's a little bit harder to like shut it down as this
hard right wing conspiracy. I mean, I think that they
obviously they will try to do that because it takes power away
from the state, which is more the leftist side of the side of
the spectrum. But like, I don't really expect
Trump to be a super pro Bitcoin figure.
Even the VAC in the hindsight backside.
Like if if he chooses for the VAC as a running mate, the VAC's
very pro strengthening the dollar and everything and it's
more just don't be anti. And I feel like his stance since
the last time I heard him talk about it was has changed from
like anti to neutral slash, not really still knowing anything
about it. So we'll see what happens.
But it was pretty cool to see him talking about that.
And then they zoom in on the crowd and it's just a bunch of
like old Republican caucus goers.
Like it was just is a really cool frame to have that specific
Bitcoin question said in that stage with all that context
specifically about Bitcoin. No crypto conversation at all in
that clip. Love it, love it.
Couldn't agree more. And let's not forget, I don't
even know how to say your name, but Melania Trump tweeted about
the Genesis Block. Wasn't it like a few years ago?
So I think we can. And then this year, this year,
yeah. And they they just dropped,
like, didn't they do like a Trump ordinal or NFT or
something like that? So at least they kind of know
what their audience is doing. And I think it just goes to show
that Bitcoin is highly saturating the culture.
And then someone said it in the chat, you know, that we should,
you know, like man up and and embrace Trump or whatever.
It's like, guys, I literally don't like any politician at
all. I am so anti politics.
It's absolutely hilarious. But Bitcoin is highly political
because it is a political and the main political tool going on
in the world is the dollar. So hey, if they're embracing
Bitcoin, I'm not one of these like 1 issue voter guys.
I fundamentally like. I like people talking about
Bitcoin, but also like I voted once and I don't know if I'm
going to vote again. Full disclosure, I feel like I
got scammed. But anyways, this just goes to
show that politicians are having these conversations.
Everyone's going to be having these conversations and now
everyone's going to have to have an opinion on Bitcoin and it's
just beautiful to see. We are moving the Overton
window. It's Friday guys, so you guys
can drink on your bingo card today.
The Overton window is shifting and everyone is talking about
Bitcoin. So man, what a crazy, crazy
world we are moving into. Anyways, let's get into the news
because Bukele absolutely destroys the dollar and the Fed
and really, really, I think shares a strong warning for the
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All right anyways let's get into this clip here guys.
Because man I I truly think this was a historic historic speech
here. You know Bukele has been
absolutely killing it in the PR recently.
I don't know if you guys caught his acceptance speech when he
got re elected at last week like I I was getting the chills and
we don't have the whole clip here.
But I highly suggest you guys go watch the whole Bukele CPAC
speech because he absolutely decimates everything he he named
names. He's talking talking about
fighting for freedom. That is not too late.
But for us here at simply Bitcoin we always pinpoint when
it comes to finances, when it comes to the dollar and when
people talk about the real problem AKA the dollar, the
money printing going absolutely nuclear.
You know money printer going Burr, we have to highlight it.
So here we go shout out to the Simply Bitcoin team.
They go new El Salvador President Naive Bukele speaks at
the 2024 C pack in the US and they got a quote here.
The real problem is that you pay high taxes only to uphold the
illusion that you are funding the government, which you are
not. All right, guys, So let's watch
this whole video. It there is there's a part after
this video which is basically, I wish we added this to.
It was basically like, there's still hope for you guys.
And he didn't really say Bitcoin, but you know, he was
going there. Actually, someone did yell
Bitcoin when he's talking about this.
And you'll hear all this, but there's still time for us guys.
And of course we say saving in Bitcoin.
But let's get into this clip. For instance, the financial
situation of the United States. When I talk to my conservative
friends right here, they always tell me that the problem is high
taxes, that they're wrong. Of course, high taxes are
extremely high here in the United States.
I I give you that. You're right in that.
But that's not the real problem. The real problem is not the high
taxes themselves, but the fact that they are not even really
funding the government. Not even those high taxes higher
than a lot of places in the world.
Not even those taxes are really funding the government.
So who's financing the government?
Government is financed by Treasury bonds.
They. And who buys the Treasury bonds?
Mostly the Fed. And how does the Fed buy them?
By printing money. But what backing does the Fed
have for that money being printed?
The Treasury bonds themselves. So basically you finance the
government by printing money out of thin air.
Someone could ask. Someone could ask.
Well, so if the government can print the limited amounts of
money out of thin air, why did they collect taxes?
I mean, the theory will make sense, right?
If they can print unlimited amounts of money, why would they
need taxes? The answer is simple, but it's
very shocking. The real problem is that you pay
high taxes only to uphold the illusion that you're funding the
government, which you are not. It's shocking that it's true.
The government is funded by money printing paper backed with
paper, a bubble that will inevitably burst.
The situation is even worse than it seems, because if most
Americans and the rest of the world were to become aware of
this virus, confidence in your currency will be lost.
The dollar will fall, and the Western civilization with it.
If the next President of the United States doesn't make the
necessary policies and structural changes, sooner or
later that bubble will burst. Sheesh.
Absolute mic drops. Absolute mic drops.
I love the guy yelling Bitcoin from the audience.
That's. Great.
Yeah, exactly, exactly. And man, there's so much to
unpack here. But before I do that, I really
want to highlight the article from Bitcoin Magazine.
If you watch the show, you know, we reference this all the time.
It's called Stop Drinking, the Elite's kool-aid.
And there's a very powerful quote in here.
And again, we, we reference this quote almost, I don't know,
probably once a week anyways, he goes.
The interesting part is that the first and second group exists
mostly because of the 3rd, and he's talking about people that
either support or are detractors of not only Bitcoin, but of
freedom. And he says, why?
Because the most vocal detractors are the ones who are
afraid and pressuring us to reverse our decisions are the
world's powerful elites and the people who work for or benefit
from them. They used to own everything, and
in a way they still do. The media, the banks, the NGOs,
the international organizations, and almost all all the
governments and corporations in the world.
And with that, of course, they own the armies, the loans, the
money supply, the credit ratings, the narratives, the
propaganda, the factories, the food supply.
They control international trade and international law.
But their most powerful weapon is the control of, quote, truth.
And they're willing to fight, lie, smear, destroy, censor,
confiscate, print and do whatever it takes to maintain
and increase their control over that truth and everything and
everyone. And here he is at CPAC basically
saying what we say here on simply Bitcoin all the time is
that they have hold on I they have to keep printing money to
continue the charade that the real Fiat, the real Ponzi is
Fiat money. It's literally a Ponzi backed by
papers. It's paper backed by paper.
And the more they print, the more they debase your savings.
The more they steal your labor, the more your purchasing power
decreases. And I think the the hardest
hitting part about that speech of Bukele, he's like if the
world doesn't wake up to this, rather if Americans don't wake
up to this, the bubble's going to burst and we are seeing that
bubble decline. We're seeing the power of the
dollar dwindle, whether it's from the BRICS nations, whether
it's people not wanting to buy government treasuries Like we're
seeing in real time that the dollar is losing its foothold
and we think Bitcoin will be the thing to replace it.
And we constantly show you the debt clock.
And this is just a visual example of what Buchelli is
talking about. Again, I'm over here at U.S.
debt clock. We we bring this up all the
time. Everyone knows that U.S.
National debt, it's just past $34 trillion.
And what Buchelli was saying, the idea that your taxes don't
won't ever pay that debt, It's just the illusion of you
financing the government, but it's really being financed by
money printing. Well, again, just compare this.
You know, U.S. National debt, $34 trillion.
U.S. Federal tax revenue is $4.6
trillion. And that doesn't even account
for the unfunded liabilities of $213 trillion.
Like, need I say more? Your dollars and the taxes that
you guys pay will never, I repeat will never pay off the
debt that the US has incurred. And This is why we always say
fix the money, fix the world. It starts with the money.
We've been covering it on this show very hard the last two
weeks that the dollar is the main control mechanism and now
everyone is waking up to it. Now everyone is taught well not
everyone, but a lot of people are talking about the dollar as
a control mechanism and I find it very interesting that
Buchelli went to CPAC. It's the conservative I I forget
what it what it stands for. I have it over here in my notes
for you guys, Conservative Political Action Conference.
And he's pinpointing the problem.
It's the money guys. If you really care about taxes,
if you really care about private property, then you need to have
a money that cannot be censored, that cannot be stolen, that
cannot be debased. And of course that is Bitcoin.
So we're seeing in real time that the big Bitcoin signal is
going worldwide, it's going global.
Everyone and their mother's going to be talking about
Bitcoin. But this is what we say here all
the time. If you're in the know, you know
the problem. But few people are talking about
the solution, and the solution is getting on the Bitcoin
standard on an individual level. Whether that and then of course
the corporate level, the nation state level, everyone will adopt
Bitcoin for their own survival. Stop looking for someone else to
help you. No one is gonna come here.
No ones gonna be your savior. You need to save yourself and
save in Bitcoin, man. I'm sure we can unpack Bucheles
speech 3 minutes for like an hour.
I think he absolutely destroyed the dollar.
He destroyed the fraud that is the central banks and the real
Ponzi is the Fiat Ponzi, not Bitcoin.
And and we're moving into the cycle where everyone's going to
be talking about Bitcoin and they're going to be like, oh,
bitcoins, A Ponzi or what was it?
Bitcoins, Tulips. And it's like, man, the real
Ponzi is Fiat money. It is backed by money printing.
It is paper backed by paper backed by, you know, what's
what's it say on the dollars? I haven't held a dollar in a
while. So I forget what it says.
But backed by the full faith and credit of the federal
government, what's looking like? They are losing that legitimacy.
And This is why Bitcoin. This is why I I for a long time
opted out of politics. And now I realize the power of
politics. And so I I realized that like,
hey, people talking about Bitcoin's a good thing.
The more we spread this message, the more people wake up, the
more they're able to save and protect themselves.
We're moving into AII hate using the phrase, but a brave new
world, a brighter new world. You know, Orange World, It's so
beautiful being a big corner and just showing up and watching
everyone else catch on to Bitcoin.
Anyways, let's go to Chris so he can, you know, tone it down and
get a little more right side of the bell curve here.
What's your thoughts on this, Chris?
No, I think it was a really good talk.
I think Bouquet is obviously not dumb.
He understands financial literacy.
He understands how the whole system is backed.
Obviously, that's why he made the decision that he made for El
Salvador in 2021. You know, buying Bitcoin and
putting it on the balance sheet of El Salvador and obviously
trying to attract entrepreneurs and people to El Salvador with,
you know, tax, tax incentives and and things of that nature.
I think one of the things that it was kind of missed, I mean
he's right, but is even more nefarious about the high taxes
that we mentioned is when you have high taxes, it actually
acts as a way to reduce prices. So it's the way that the federal
government and the Federal Reserve use high taxes in order
to reduce inflation. And the way that they're doing
that if you're they're taking more of your money, that's less
money that can go out into the economy and drive up prices
further. Imagine if all of the tax money
that you had, you were taxed at 0% and you had a much larger
salary because of the reduction in taxes.
It's a way that they can prevent.
They can prevent prices from running away because if they tax
the middle and lower class, more and more money and they creep up
and they tax the, you know, the Uber rich as well, you know,
it's a way to prevent prices from running away.
So you can always keep increasing taxes so people have
less money, so they can put less money into the economy and
spend. And that's something that is is
kind of even more nefarious that if they were to just drop it to
zero and then just fund the government with money printing,
I mean obviously we'd see even more runaway inflation and such.
But yeah, I I think that's even part of the more nefarious fact
of it. But I'd say overall great clip
from Bouquet, like I think the whole interview was like 30
minutes. Is that right it?
Was like 25, I think. Yeah, like 24.
Yeah, definitely something I need to watch the whole thing
of. But I mean, that was a great
three clips, that three minute clip there.
Yeah, that was, of course, as a Bitcoin channel, that that was
the most defining, important part of that clip.
But the, I think the theme of the whole show was essentially
like we are all frogs boiling in water.
And at a certain point, you're going to have to stand up and
fight for freedom, fight for what is good.
And you still have time to change the course of America
like there's still time for us. But if we keep going down this
path, if we still, if we continue to believe in the
corrupt politicians that they have your best, you know, you're
you're, they have your best interest in mind, you're going
to wake up in a world, what's a, what's AI?
Forget the founding father meme. That's like if you are not
vigilant, one day you will wake up in the world that is
completely owned by the banks and you will have lost the
country that your forefathers have built.
And you know, as a first generation American like I, I
believe in the meme of home, of the brave land of the free.
And I I think America is still the best country in the world.
And I do not want to see America crumble because that means even
worse situations for the rest of the world.
Like we are the last bastion of freedom.
I'm wholly convinced of this. So I hope that more people wake
up and we can actually course correct.
And of course, I think, you know, humbly and maybe naively,
it starts with the money you need to opt into Bitcoin and
protect yourself. Freedom, money for a freedom
country. This is the way.
Anyways, Ben. It's Friday.
People came for the memes, and we know that that's like the
most effective warfare that we really have.
And you snuck a little one in there that Kayleigh did with the
If they can just print unlimited money, why are we paying taxes?
That hits so many people. He paused there.
He took the time. He got everyone to like, look at
that. See the the wildness of that
juxtaposition? And then he landed the plane,
and he tells us why those taxes are high, why they're there, why
we're getting scammed with that. That's what gave me chills.
Listening to that clip was how eloquent he was, he
acknowledged. You could see he saw the guy who
yelled Bitcoin, but he kept going.
He landed the plane and he hit it with like people with some
real knowledge after a meme that got their mind open.
Let's go, let's go. All right, everyone saying give
them what they want. Let's wait till the meme review
and I'll go. Heavy on the horn, guys.
Okay. All right.
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Anyways, before we get to just plugging Penny Lane.
Ben, how you doing bro? I'm, I'm super excited about
this one actually. I'm going to, I'm going to dox
you a little bit. I'm going to put you on the hot
spot. When I saw you in Vegas, you're
like, dude, I'm like, yo, can we come on simply Bitcoin.
Let's talk about what you're doing.
And he's like, Nah, man, like I got to talk about wine.
Like I don't want to talk about the wine process.
I want to talk about being a bitcoiner.
So even though you are known as a Bitcoin wine guy, when I we'll
talk about wine a little bit, I kind of want to start with the
ideas of being a Bitcoin entrepreneur and how this is
maybe helped you maybe how it's expand your your business model.
Like wait, maybe we start back, how did you connect the two?
Because this is something I talk about with people all the time,
like you don't have to be a programmer, you don't have to be
a developer, you don't have to be a miner to get involved with
Bitcoin. All you have to do is take your
skills and add Bitcoin on top of it.
And I think you're a perfect example of this is like, what's
wine got to do with Bitcoin? Besides the fact that all of us
bitcoiners like some good wine, But how did you connect the two
and and how did you, you know, wrap your head around this idea
of being a Bitcoin entrepreneur? Realistically, I think it's just
the same as everyone where you are doing what you're doing with
life and then Bitcoin comes your way.
You you start to understand it and Bitcoin just seeps into
every part of your life. I didn't like I started my
winery a year before I started learning about Bitcoin and then
it was maybe two years of learning about Bitcoin before I
realized how useful Bitcoin could be for taking payments,
for stacking, for saving, for kind of changing the the time
preference of what I have my value in.
And honestly it wasn't even quite my idea.
It's just like people started, I got on Twitter to learn about
Bitcoin and then people started asking to buy my wine in Bitcoin
and it just became a a no brainer kind of self self
fulfilling prophecy. And really it's like it's been
such a perfect marriage because bitcoiners have this low time
preference. They kind of understand the
value prop of nice wine of holding it, of buying wine that
doesn't make you feel bad afterwards because they have
this bit of a impetus a little push towards like long term
health. So you want to drink wine
without any additives. And additionally I have this
army of cyber Hornets that want to help me win where sailor
talks about that with as far as defense of the Bitcoin network
and and changes and everything. But there's this such a strong
group of that's the wrong link by the way.
It's Penny Lane wine.com. There's such a strong.
Hit of there's such a strong like push for bitcoiners to see
other bitcoiners succeed that that can propel.
I mean a realist any business into a little bit more
stratosphere of success. Because we want to buy from our
communities where like I want to buy local 1st and then if I
can't buy local I live in a small town.
I don't have all the options. I buy from a bitcoiner because I
want to support people that are working towards creating a
better world. And just like I am, and if you
create a good product, bitcoiners value it.
And there's nothing like receiving the value of getting
paid in Bitcoin like the first time that happened and every
time since then it feels amazing.
It's so much better than getting paid in dollars because you
really feel like that person extra values your product and
there's tools now where with strike you can send dollars.
And I received Bitcoin and I think that's kind of the the
future where this is all going, especially because I see a bit
more tax burden coming on that and maybe some more regulatory
pressure. But I want to hold Bitcoin, I
want to get paid in Bitcoin. So I better make a good product
that Bitcoiners want to purchase with Bitcoin.
Otherwise, what am I doing here? No, I I absolutely love it.
And that last part, I think is the key here.
And I think as a modern society, and I'm sure we all have heard
the meme, there's no production in America.
Everything is going to China. We're all used to this plastic
consumerism where everything's cheap.
It's it's designed to throw away.
And once you get on the Bitcoin standard and you're an
entrepreneur with Bitcoin, you you realize it's like, oh man,
if I want to incentivize people to give me Bitcoin, I have to
give them a high quality product or else they're never going to
give me Bitcoin. And I'm I'm reminded of my buddy
by Kingo and I'm not. This might seem like I'm
shitting on my boy by Kingo, but he's like, man, how do you guys
get paid in Bitcoin? No one ever wants to pay me in
Bitcoin. But I guess it's just the
perfect market fit for you where it's just like I don't know,
like people just ask me to pay in Bitcoin for my wine And you
know like you said the cyber Hornets helped you out.
I, I, I you corrected me before the show.
I'm like dude, I saw your numbers.
I saw that bitcoiners have like tripled your your business
profits and he's like you didn't see the numbers you saw the
chart. So let's talk about this man.
Like how long have you been doing Penny Lane?
And then how has your business improved since Bitcoiners have
just started to love your product and shield your product
and just be like, man, just the love you receive.
I see. Like you're you're a memer in
your own right, but also you're an entrepreneur in your own
right and people love what you're doing and it's just
beautiful to. Watch.
I started in 2019, so all of, most of 2019 I was getting my
liquor licenses and then I made my first wine that fall.
And then I had to wait two years.
So I made wine, moved home, built my house, and then made
wine again before I ever sold any wine.
So two years of waiting and then a year of like, oh OK, is my
wine good? Is this going to even work at
all after investing that much time?
And then the third year was confirmation of, or maybe the
4th. The second year of sales was
confirmation that I had something here.
I had a good product and people were liking it.
That time I was not selling to bitcoiners at all, and my idea
was really like I had an Internet side hustle before
selling stickers, selling some T-shirts and stuff.
I didn't really want to work on the computer.
I like working with wine, I like working with my hands a little
bit more. And so I never really had the
intention to sell wine online and living in a town of 2000
people, I lived within two hours of some ski towns.
So I was doing farmers markets and and going to ski towns to
sell my wine to a little bit more affluent people that can
afford to value what I have properly.
And then Bitcoiners started asking to buy wine and all of a
sudden I had a business that shipped wine all over the
country and that's growing. I think it's a little hard to
ask people to buy your product with Bitcoin at the bottom of
the bear market. I definitely got a lot of full
How can I justify buying this nice bottle of wine with
bitcoins at 16 K? And I get it, 'cause like I was
all in on Bitcoin at 16 K trying to get as much as possible sold,
a few bottles at that price that are potentially the most will
become the most expensive bottles ever.
We'll see. I there's probably wine that's
been bought with Bitcoin before that, but it's it's worked out
well, it's it's turned. It's given me the ability to
scale my business in a way that wouldn't have really been
possible without huge capital infusion, to build a tasting
room space, to to be like a really in person business before
I'm ready to do that. That's the ultimate goal is I
want to have a business in my town to make my town a little
bit more the way that I want it, just by bringing in the right
music, the right wine, bringing the right people together.
But right now, it's way better for me to scale up ship wine and
allow people outside of Colorado to get exposed to Colorado wine.
That's a lot of wine makers in around me are stuck in this
world where people don't know Colorado wine and then and thus
don't really seek it out or don't know it exists at all.
And I've hit this point where it's like, it's not about
Colorado wine necessarily my wine.
I have natural wine, no additives, and it's in the
highest elevation wine region in North America.
So it's a different sales pitch where bitcoiners seem open to
the quality, open to trying something new and open to
supporting their own. And it's opening people's eyes a
little bit more to Colorado wine, which I hope will benefit
everyone in Colorado just being exposed to it.
OK, so I'm laughing at the view going the VCs, watching, or
salivating at the thought of investing in Bitcoin wine.
Oh my. God, a no brainer.
Like of course I want to hold Bitcoin.
It's the best asset. Like why would I want to take
profits in in anything else? I mean, that is taking my
profits is literally selling wine for Bitcoin.
Otherwise I just all the dollars I get go back into the business,
go back into creating more wine and I got to have that, I got to
do that. But ultimately it's I'm in a
pretty cool spot where the whole time the previous four years I
either didn't have any wine or didn't have enough wine.
And now, just by the magic of waiting, I have a ton of wine
and can finally scale up the business, scale up the sales and
do things right. And it just happens to time with
a bull run. So I guess you could say my
customers are getting richer along with me.
Let's get. That's probably the yeah.
What's it? Build, build it and they will
come. Man.
It's a perfect time. Anyways, I I do kind of want to
want to touch on like what? What's been the process of you
actually accepting Bitcoin? I saw you were saying like
people just DM ING you like, so like, what's going on there?
It's magic. Speaking from a customer
experience, I just DM Ben. He sends me an address, I send
Bitcoin to it, and he sends me one.
It's magical. Wow.
So the with liquor being a alcohol being a regulated
product, I have to kind of go through these specific
compliance companies compliance use things because I have to
have compliance in every single state.
I'm a one man show. I don't have the ability or
realistically the sales to justify that.
So I use a company that takes 10% of everything.
I I put through them and I have been messaging them for three
years about Bitcoin, allowing me to accept Bitcoin and they
don't. So previously I was using the
Oshi app, which is a great marketplace for Bitcoin products
that it's kind of curated some really high quality stuff in
there and you can buy everything with Bitcoin.
Don't think you can use dollars at all.
And that was great. But ultimately I I need to get
something on my site. So I'm working on the back end
to get something up on the website that you can just buy
Bitcoin directly. But yeah, you can't.
I can't. My hands are tied.
Like I want to accept Bitcoin just like that.
Because when I shop with and use Bitcoin to pay, it's so easy,
but it's not for me and it's really frustrating.
So working on that in the back end right now, yeah, it is
literally DMSI personally write your order.
It's like very clunky on my end. Like I try to make it as easy as
possible for you guys, but it's not it's not sustainable, but at
the at the same time like I'm stacking stats and so that's
that's all that matters. I have to go through the extra
effort. I was going to say like I didn't
mean to dox you there, Ben. Like hopefully I'm not getting
you in trouble with your compliance department or
anything or, but you know you need to hire a a Bitcoin order
taker guy. It sounds like the one role that
you need to hire as you scale up.
Yeah, no, Everything goes through like I accept the
Bitcoin and then I just put it as a cash sale.
So everything goes through the compliance and gets the proper
taxes and everything, and I think I'm covered there.
Probably well wish this video was destroyed in four years.
But oh man, that's too good. OK, Ben, let's.
All right. I know we said we're we weren't
going to talk about wine but let's let's talk about wine.
So I'm over here on your website pennylanewine.com you have a few
different I don't even know flavors what how do you
different wines. I you know I don't know much
about wine. I.
He he just just drinks wine. He doesn't do it.
Talk about wine as much with you 'cause you don't know your shit.
Yeah, I don't. I don't do.
Literally, I I only know that I like red wine.
My mom likes we've had this conversation.
She likes Malbec and tempernios, and I don't know any wine other
than those two, so I don't know. Maybe those are awesome though.
OK, awesome. Those are awesome.
And. I've got a great tempernio
coming, but right now I have 4/20/20 ones released.
So that's the current vintage I'm selling.
And then I have very limited supply of all the twenty 20s.
So there's the Merlot, Oak Shard and Cab Franc which were huge
hits for the 2020 vintage and I've kind of held those back
wanting it to be if you know, you know, if you know these,
these are that great, you can grab them.
And then soon I'll launch my wine club and those will go to
wine club members only whatever is left being kind of an
exclusive access to those wines. So and the 2020 ones are
drinking amazing. I mean as I'm doing this longer
I'm becoming a much better wine maker.
So it's it's cool to open up the new vintages and try the new
ones and see like how much better of a steward I got of
this wine. Because ultimately it's it's my
droll is just to kind of let the wine do its thing and be as have
my hands on it as little as possible but just put it in the
right places to succeed. Because I think I have amazing
grapes out here that produce great, great wine.
And I mean the proof is in the pudding it it drinks great.
But what I'm really excited for coming up, I've got Satoshi's
Reserve bottle, which is my limited edition 210 bottle
release of the best barrel of my 2021 wine.
So I literally just went in bridal, agnostic, just tasted
every barrel, decided this was my best.
And so since there is no second best, I have to put as much
Bitcoin on this as possible. So I'm planning on selling that
only for Bitcoin and release date is not set but before the
halving. And then people have been asking
me about my Pinot Noir and that's my state wine.
That's the thing I'm most proud of.
But in 2021 there was no grapes. We got frozen out.
So I don't have a 2021 vintage to release right now.
But it got me curious. I started tasting my 2022 Pinot
Noir early and it's ridiculously good already, which I thought it
would need more time. But it's it's still, it's insane
right now. So that'll probably release
before June and I've got a few other wines coming that are
going to be really exciting. Love it, bro.
Love it. Let's let's go one quick.
Question on that on the on the Satoshi reserve or the reserve
bottles, are you going to put like the block height as you're
bottling them and stuff? That would be kind of cool.
I'm just saying. Not as I'm bottling because the
that's kind of they've been bottled for a year and a half
already but. Chris.
Nuggets on there. But.
I think the I'm back dating it for sure.
The more important block height to me is the harvest height
because that's really when the genesis of the wine began was
when the grapes were picked. I mean because you can't really
do like when the grapes started growing that year that's that's
impossible. So harvest height, block height
there, that that is definitely going to be on the label.
I promise this was nostril. Oh, let's go.
Wait, wait, wait. Show me a little more show.
Show me one second longer. One second longer.
A paper label. So it's it's just a prototype.
It'll be nice and shiny for you, something you can either put on
your, you know, put on your shelf behind your podcast,
recording studio, or drink. In the wink wink wink.
Don't just verify o'dell. It's on YouTube now, baby.
All right. There is some questions here
that I think it would be great to respond to Ben before I touch
on your meming. So MG Smith says oof pricey
$2.00 Chuck at Trader Joe's for the win.
So let's look at this. You know, I see it on your chart
here. There's a method to the madness.
Look, if you want that cheap wine, by all means buy it.
But you're buying good wine. What would be your response to
this, Ben? It's it's kind of health related
and taste preference related where if you're drinking $2.00
Chuck, go for it. Save the money.
But ultimately, like you're adding a ton of chemicals to
your body. There's no ingredients list on a
wine bottle and anything that that's priced that cheap is
ridiculous. I spend more than that bottle
costs on grapes per bottle, and what they're doing is taking
like all the leftover, all the worst grapes.
And then they're adding a ton of chemicals to it to change the
taste, profile, aroma, texture, color.
It's the wine industry is as shady as the crypto industry.
And shot. Fired.
Yeah. I mean, and it's old.
It's it's scared. It's sketchy, man.
Like I I kind of cringe about the wine industry because there
is so much hidden. There's so much hidden behind
this veneer of just not understanding it.
And there's no clarity because there's no, there's no
ingredients list on the label. I'm not asking for more
bureaucracy, but just so you know, like you're drinking a ton
of super high sulfite wine. And I mean, a lot of those
really crappy wines have an ingredient called Mega Purple to
change the color. So you just feel worse after
drinking it. And if your goal is just to get
drunk, go for it, man. Like, you're going to get
hungover, whatever you're drinking.
But if you're drinking something that's meant for like a nice
dinner with family friends, celebrating something, you're
going to drink a nicer bottle. So this what I make is not
unless you're like, super loaded.
It's it's realistically, it's just not for just hammering down
and getting drunk. It's for enjoying, savoring,
having great conversations with. And the idea is really you're
just going to feel a hell of a lot better the next day than you
would expect to with wine. Because people talk about wine
hangovers. Like, man, I'll never get drunk
on wine again. I felt so crappy the next day.
It's not the wine, it's literally everything else that's
in the wine. So if you drink wine, that's
literally just the grapes, you just feel so much better
afterwards that it's very worthwhile.
It's also like I my wine tastes better, so there's it's more
than just help. Soft flex.
OK, let's go to a few.
Yeah. Hard flex.
Let's go to a few more. So Nigel goes, does Ben grow all
these grapes in the same climate slash place?
I grow Pinot Noir where I am in Peonia and that's the highest
elevation Pinot in North America.
So it's a pretty special wine and that's like my flagship, my
state wine. That's why I want to release the
2022 a little earlier, to have it there.
So that's the one that I'm like full on.
This is the best, cleanest wine you can get because I can vouch
for every part of the process. Then the rest, Most of the rest
of my grapes I get from about an hour away from me in a slightly
about 1500 feet lower. So it's 4500 foot elevation,
still very high elevation for grape growing and it's still in
Colorado. So I know the producers, I I
trust them pretty well with with their practices and and know
what they're doing and they grow great quality grapes and also
different varieties than I can grow where I am because the high
elevation really restricts what I can grow.
So I need a little bit of help growing.
I need the different varieties and everything, but what I'm
really resting my my hat on is the Pinot, and then everything
else is made in the same process once it gets to me.
So it's no additives, super minimal sulfites in there,
really just the natural ones. And then you're getting a really
high quality product as well, even though I'm not growing
every one of these grapes. Love it, love it.
OK, we got one more question here.
Sail Dog 18 goes. Which one is an earthy dry red?
I'm really liking the 2021 temper Neo right now it's it's
relatively earthy as in terms of it's kind of got like these like
smoky tobacco notes to it. And then the number one thing
that I've had probably the best wine that I'm selling right now
is the 2020 Cab Franc. That's a deeper, like deeper
fruit, more earthy. It's got a little bit of
vegetable notes in it that people really like with the Cab
Franc, and what I find is people that ask for that style of wine,
that Cab Franc, the 2020 is a hit for them.
Love it. OK, on a personal note, can we
buy cases? Is there a discount if we buy
more than one bottle? Or what's going on here?
So currently 3 bottle minimum. It doesn't make sense to ship
one bottle of wine SO3 bottle minimum.
And then if you order six I ship it to you free so you don't have
to worry about those costs. And then if you buy 12, you get
10% off and then if you slide into my TMS, I give you 10% off
for paying in Bitcoin. So lots of discounts there 20.
Percent off, let's go, let's 11 more question.
Jay Thoreau goes one more question.
What advice does Ben have for bitcoiners getting started in
their own entrepreneur journeys? I think it's figure out what you
actually want to be doing long term.
The part of how what got me on this was I was looking for
something to really commit to and just not have a side hustle,
not give up, just. I have two years of, wow, I just
made wine. I better see this through.
And in that time I was able to really center, like, what do I
want in my life? How do I want to build this
business to get me what I want in my life?
And I was given that time after I started the business, I just
jumped on to start making wine and went for it and then figured
it out later. But if you're figuring out
something that's a little bit sooner, you kind of, I think you
want to get to know what you're good at, what you want in life.
And then, yeah, you can build a team to surround yourself, to
fill your, to fill your weaknesses.
But ultimately, like, if you're an entrepreneur, you're going to
do it. And so build a, build a business
that you're excited to get up and do every day because that's
your life, that's your baby, that's what you're doing all the
time. So wine starting out was not
that for me and it's become that because it's become a vehicle to
so many other things of enjoyment.
Like I get to drink great wine with people, I get invited to
dinners, I have something to do with my hands all the time and a
great product to share with people.
I mean it's it's pretty awesome. I would just stand behind what
you're doing 100% and and I think you'll find your way.
Love it. OK, we are going into the meme
review, But before we do that, we have a few memes that people
want to respond to the Bitcoin bugle.
What songs does Ben sing to his grapes as they grow?
So for a long time I was singing Rage Against the Machine, but
these days I've been singing Can You Take Me Higher?
OK, that's so funny. All right.
And then the last thing that says going into the meme review,
people are saying it's opti's Friday Meme Review extravaganza.
You are known for a very popular meme.
What meme is that, then? You talking about the meat in my
pocket? The meat in your pocket.
The pocket steak? Do you have a pocket steak
currently in your pocket? I ate it before the show.
I figured it was better. Than not, you know, the camera.
Nice, nice. So what?
Like the pocket meme or the pocket steak meme?
It seems like it's taken on a life of its own, and I I
legitimately didn't know that you started it.
I'm like he Ben didn't start this.
And like, apparently you're the genesis of the pocket steak
meme. And now it's only.
Everywhere. Just have notifications on for
Ben's tweets and you'll you'll never know that.
You'll never forget he didn't start a meeting.
Yeah, that's. True, That's true.
So, OK, getting a little serious, what's the what's the
technicals of the pocket steak? You cook it and you just put it
in a zip log in your pocket and you have snacks all day.
I do recommend using protection, but I know there's people who
raw dog their pocket meet. And I mean it's ultimately, it's
just like the best I started. I was just doing it when I'm
skiing, like during the summer, I kind of get it.
You don't really want a sweaty steak in your pocket.
But when you're skiing, yeah, it's cold, it's refrigerated,
whatever, It's on an outside pocket and it's perfect.
Like you rip it out, you grip it and rip it on the lift and
you're full. You're ready to go.
Like it's full. You just take a few bites and
you're ready to go for the rest of the day.
And also added benefit, the reactions of people on the ski
lift when you break out a pocket stake is amazing.
I get everything from total like disgust, repulsiveness.
People like not understanding what I'm doing to people calling
me their hero and that's that's why I get up every day.
Love it. Love it.
All right, Ben. Well, thanks for coming on, bro.
That was great. Great conversation.
All right, guys, it's time. You already know it's Friday.
Everyone thinks we don't like the memes.
No, we just do it on Friday. Here we go.
Opti's Friday meme review. Oh, yeah, you guys like my
transition. Honestly, I need to cut it down.
That was a little too long. But hey, you know, we had to
ship it. We had to ship it and grip it.
All right, guys, go to another deal.
This is Friday where we review Bitcoin memes.
Send me the memes on Twitter. Simply Bitcoin TV.
You can tag my personal one, add Optimus fields.
But I prefer the simply Bitcoin one because don't blow my
notifications up or drop them in our Telegram group.
I look in there as well. But you are another deal tweets
of the bullets, memes of the artillery.
As you can tell from today's show, Bitcoin is saturating.
Popular culture is getting propagated in every corner of
the globe, and the way we do this is by spreading the memes.
So continue to ridicule the corporate press.
Continue to get the calls of actions out there in Bitcoin.
Continue to educate your friends and family and of course
continue to make the funnies so your friends head stay in the
game. All right.
The first one is, you know kind of surprising.
Elon Musk have been going super hard on Twitter.
Love him or hate him it's besides the point.
But he's dropping some fire memes like constantly dropping
fire memes. You know, billionaire meming
with us. Not only sailor, we got Elon
Musk. You know Musk Musk allegedly for
for all you flat earthers in the chat over there allegedly you
know lands land something on the moon yesterday and still has
time to drop memes. It's absolutely incredible and
of course this isn't his meme but I think it's fitting for
today's show and it goes. I'm sure you guys have heard the
the basics of this meme here it's the two wolves one he goes
inside you there are two wolves the black wolf goes I hate the
Federal Reserve and then the white wolf goes lol same oh you
can see at liberty list is the the meme creator.
But I think we can all agree you know the central banks are the
real reason why we are all broker than we should be.
OK, next one is by our boy Rd. under score BTC, who just made a
hot appearance in the Bugle this morning.
And it goes, thanks for your concern hashtag Bitcoin.
And you know we got an MPC Wojack here and he goes, I do
worry about you and your bitcoins and the Chad Bitcoin it
goes, thanks. But And then as laser eyes come
on, it goes. I worry about your reliance on
third parties, your spiraling cost of living, and your woeful
understanding of money. And the NPC just goes, oh man, I
shouldn't have opened that can of worms.
And yesterday we saw the Andrew Sorkin video with Joe Kern and
Tom Lee and he's going out there and you know, trying to debunk
Bitcoin. And I don't know if you guys
caught the moment, but after he said the ridiculous line that he
said he did this like face and so it's a screenshot of his face
and it goes a store of value would stay the same price and he
does it like eyes, you know, so shouts out to TC.
Shouts out to Joe Kern, too Biggest Bitcoin Podcaster?
In the biggest Bitcoin podcaster in the world, you know we're
we're, we're getting put to shame, Chris.
We're getting put to shame. Anyways, the next one is by Jim
Crater, TX Jim Crater, Texas. He was just on the show this
week and like I said, he's part of 58K gang meme gang, 58K meme
gangs, and it's a classic Anakin and Padme meme.
And we got Anakin and goes, we're going to 58 K and she
smiles. She goes then higher right?
And then Anakin smirks. Wait, then higher right.
It's not 58 K forever, is it? Oh man, we're going higher than
58K, right? Right.
I I hope so. I hope so.
All right, this next one. You know Chrissy Lagarde's been
making rounds. Your girlfriend not only in my
DMS but on the timeline. And we got Glocky, AKA at
Clucky's under score on Twitter. And he goes just hashtag Bitcoin
And here's like an AIAI version of Christine Lagarde with a pig
face on her. And he goes, this greedy pig
wants to inflate your savings away.
What do you do? Hashtag Bitcoin?
Saving Bitcoin? This is the way.
OK.
This next one is by our boy Greg.
Zoj one. And it goes, good morning.
And I guess you know, everyone's changing their name to Japanese
figures. Anyways, let's look at this
meme. It's a little longer, but I
figured, why not? It's a meme Review Friday.
So he goes 5 minutes after invention of wheel and you got
you know, the Dharma Buddhist Dharma wheel here.
And it goes bro. Literally though, bro.
The whole world is a wheel turning round and round, an
endless cycle of seasons and lives and realms.
It all keeps turning and it all keeps coming back around.
And then 5 minutes after invention of books, bro.
Literally though, bro. The whole world in the book God
is the author of being and he writes our names in the book of
life. In the beginning was the word
bro. You see bro.
And then 5 minutes after invention of complex gears bro.
Literally though bro. The whole world is mechanical.
God is divine watchmaker and the planet spin along predetermined
path according to the turning of cosmic gears.
It's all just predictable mechanical path from creation to
here. And then 5 minutes after
invention of Bitcoin Pro, I think I just figured something
out. Oh man, oh man.
So good. You know what we figured out
guys? We figured this out right here.
It's going up forever. Laura, this is the way.
All right guys, drop your main reviews going in the chat over
here. We will cover it live.
But before we cover them live, we opt You would have that
yellow island. All right, before we cover your
meme review scores live, we will do our meme review scores live.
I'm going to be doing this. I've been trying to plug this
low key on the show, but but I I haven't actually plugged it.
It's this fresh squeezed orange juice because you know,
everything we do is orange green.
It's delicious. Highly suggested.
It's a little pricey. I'm not going to lie, I'm
getting robbed over here by this cold pressed orange juice.
But hey, it's on brand orange juice is the way.
All right, Ben, let's do you, let's do you next.
What is your meme review score for today?
Nice. I can't get that wolf one at at
10 because I want to see that moon slightly tinged orange with
a little B in it, but it was pretty good.
OK, he's going throwback, throwback, solid 10.
Well, no, no, no, no. No, no.
Oh, OK. That's 6.9.
Come on. 6.9 OK, All right, sweet.
All right, Chris, what is your meme review score for today?
I got the panties for Bitcoin sticker, yo.
Love to see it. Love to see it so.
I was gonna say something inappropriate, but I will spare
spare. Yeah, I.
Will spare the fiance. Anyways guys, before I get to
the meme review scores for today, make sure you scan the QR
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We are on the verge of dropping our next batch of merch.
We got T-shirts, we have tank tops, we even got hats for you
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probably saw it last week, Shouts out to Austin Noah.
I think we're going to get them on the show soon, but it's.
I don't know what's going on. Blame wine, but there's
something that we're waiting on. But new batch of simply Bitcoin
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I think it's like 5 shirts and hoodies left.
So if you want to get you know, if you need to go hunting and
you want an orange sweater, make sure you get yourself an orange
Simply Bitcoin hoodie. There's still a few shirts which
are just the simply Bitcoin branded ones, but the new batch
is dropping soon. I don't know what the delay is,
but there's something's going on.
So anyways, let's get to the meme review scores for today.
First one is by Sail Dog Show Dog 18 goes.
I give those memes 5 solid blasts from the rant horn.
Ohh snaps. I guess I gotta do it.
OK, All right. Next one.
Elaine Lowell. Score Bitcoin Bull run.
Brings all doubters into the light.
Price can't be stopped. But Bitcoin knowledge is the
real winner. Bitcoin trending everywhere.
Bars. OK, next one.
Frank ARN. I give these memes a freshly
mined mint condition. Level 10 PSA Grade Mini Nico.
Yes. OK, still.
See. I give these memes less than 60
days till the halving. Let's go.
OK, Nigel Lowry. I give the memes all the health
and happiness. Tanika, Sophie and the plus one.
Congratulations. Bit corners.
Yeah, man, Send some love to them.
UTXOI, give the memes a glass of orange juice with gold flakes
swimming in it. That sounds delicious.
All right, Mclovin memes, score one big, super sexy cowbell.
Yeah, Chefs, up to all you guys that that love the the air horn.
I love it. OK, Rave elevator.
I scored the memes. 7 green Pickles.
OK, it's just. Wait, wait, wait.
What is what is this, the Vegas reunion?
You know? You know.
All right, Son of Satoshi. I give the memes one salty dude
that doesn't like. Oh, be nice, be nice.
It's OK, MG Smith. I give the memes the hangover
from hell after drinking two butt Chuck.
Yes, this is the way. All right.
Let me go to Rumble. Let me see.
All right, On rumble, we have Veto.
Wait, no MORE Rams score.
Wine. Wine for wine.
Beanie. All right, Veto 1327.
Geez. Super Loudmeter score.
Octi's pig girlfriend smokes a bread and sees Bitcoin as God.
OK, Narwhal tacos. I give those mean 4.5 pocket
steaks. OK, this is the way.
All right. We didn't run out of memes
scores. It's it's the buzzer.
All right guys, well, it's a Friday show.
We'll be back on Monday. I it's still up in the air, but
I think Nico will be gone for the next couple of days.
So Monday Nico's probably going to be gone dealing with the
newborn so I will be holding it down Monday.
I have still yet to find a Co host.
I'm I'm not going to lean on Chris too much because he does
have a job Anyways. Chris, let's start.
Start with you, bro. Thanks for coming on.
Do you want to plug anything? What do?
What do you want people to check out?
Where do they find you on the Twitter verse?
All that good stuff. Yeah, no, thanks, Opie.
Always a pleasure being on. You can find me on Twitter at
Chris Alamo and then the number six or on Noster as well.
Chris Alamo on there. My Nip 5 should, should take me
right to my handle and check out Pacific Bitcoin.
I hope I see a lot of people in in LA.
I'll also be at Bitcoin 2024 in Nashville.
So excited to see all the plugs there.
Let's go. All right.
Awesome, bro. Good to have you.
Always a pleasure, Chris and Ben, Thanks for coming on, bro.
I I really like this show. Obviously light hearted, but I
think the message is very important.
I think people get too caught up in this idea that we all have to
be miners or you know, coders and Bitcoin devs.
And it's like, no bro, just do what you do best and hopefully
you can incentivize people to give you Bitcoin for it.
And I think you're a great example of this and of course a
great member of the community memeing out there with everyone.
So, Ben, last time, what can we plug?
Where can people find you and have people hit you up in the DM
so they can buy some wine? DMS are going to be wrecked at
P&E Lane Wine. Maybe.
Spell it. Spell it out.
Spell it out for. People in audio PEONYLANEWINE.
Hope that was slow enough for you.
Type in Justin on Twitter, find me on Noster as well.
And yeah, shipping wine all over the United States.
I hope you get a chance to try some or get a bottle before the
halving or 100K. Whatever you choose to
celebrate, it'd be awesome to just hear about that afterwards,
hear how great of a time you had.
So let me know if you have any questions about the wines.
My DMS are open and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
Let's go. All right.
Thanks for coming on, Ben. We'll have to bring you back on
soon. Maybe when the limited release
comes out, when the wine club comes out, we'll bring you back
on. But I hope to see you soon, bro.
So thanks for coming on. All right, guys, you already
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