Yeah, welcome to another episode of Simply Bitcoin, live
streaming from the beautiful, beautiful freedom country of El
Salvador. Today we're going to make the
case as to why $850,000 Bitcoin is inevitable, Why Bitcoin
yesterday finally overtook the market cap of silver.
Silver had a 4000 year head start and within only 16 years
Bitcoin overtook silver. Why?
Because Bitcoin is the superior asset and it shows no signs of
slowing down whatsoever. I think if this thing reaches
100K by the end of the year, I think we're going to we're going
to blast by 200K next year. I think a lot of people still
have PTSD from the 2021 bull market that I think was cut
short due to the China mining ban.
I don't think there's going to be a mining ban this year.
In fact, you have, you know, Trump who's super pro Bitcoin
mining. You have the governor of Texas
saying he wants to make Texas the Bitcoin mining capital of
the world. Could this be potentially the
start of the Bitcoin super cycle?
We don't know, but everyone's excited or on the verge of the
bull market year of 2025. Things are getting excited.
Guys are going to want to stay till the end of the show.
We have so much news to unpack today.
I'm here with my legendary Co host Optimist field in the Co
host seat streaming again live from El Salvador.
The beautiful volcano in the backgrounds.
Guys, you have no idea how difficult it was to get this
rolling from a technical perspective just because and
we're backlit from the sun, we're competing against the sun
with the lights. But Opti, I mean, yesterday's
show was so much fun, breaking all time highs in the show.
We reached 89 K. We almost touched 90K yesterday.
It was absolutely freaking crazy.
How you doing my friend? Well, I am doing wonderful.
I have yet to eat a pupusa, so you know, that's the only thing
on my bucket list so far. But man, yesterday.
That is unacceptable bro. Yesterday we were all like in
disbelief. We, we even us have been around
a Bitcoin for so long. We're in disbelief just seeing
the price of Bitcoin consistently rise like the show.
I think that by the time the show ended, it was like 84 K or
something like an hour later it's like 85 and all day we were
just sitting here like it's 86 like are you kidding?
Wait 87 what 8889 like what is going on here?
We are still in disbelief and I, I think we're still a little
dead inside until 100K. But hey, you know, the the price
is going to start running. Actually, we got some funny
tweets or comments from one of our boys over here.
It's like, yeah, my friend was like, hey, I'm not buying 90K
Bitcoin. I'm going to wait for a dip.
And we're like, this is the dip. It's at 5:00 today.
This is probably the best dip you're going to get.
So it's happening, guys. It feels good.
You know, Ron Paul, me, it's happening.
It's going to be an incredible end of the I think 100K is in
play by 2024. Who knows?
I don't know, man. What?
What do I know? I, I, I think so I, I'm, I'm,
I'm making the call, you know, and, and this kind of caught
everyone off by like off guard, right?
The fact that we ran up the way we did at the speed of which we
did, I think it caught a lot of people off guard.
So I, I really believe that by the end of of the end of this
year, I think we're going to have a great performance buy
Bitcoin. But anyways, let's get straight
into the news ladies and gentlemen.
So First off with this Bitcoin yesterday in its historic run up
guys, we almost had a 10K God candle.
Do you understand how nuts that is?
Look, it was only like 5 years ago or like 7:00 to 6:00 6-7
years ago where the all time high of Bitcoin was 10K itself
and it took like a decade to get there.
The fact that we had that type of price movement and one day is
historical. So we were 1K away from the
coveted God candle. We were at $9000.
And I actually made a prediction about a week ago, a week ago or
so. And I said that, listen, I think
that this is inevitable that we are going to have some type of
God candle in this bull run. We've had a what?
What's it? What's the opposite of a God
candle? I have no clue.
I don't think we have a name A. Hell Candle a a, a demon candle.
So we've had a, we've had a demon candle already this year
when we had that crazy dump, but we haven't had a God candle yet
and we are 1K away from that God candle anyways.
Historic, historic times. So yesterday, as you can see,
ladies and gentlemen, Bitcoin overtook the market cap of
silver. Silver had a 4000 year head
start. Now here's the very, very
exciting part. I actually got the math wrong in
this tweet. It's actually even more bullish
than this once Bitcoin reaches the next precious metal, which I
think is inevitable because Bitcoin is a superior asset.
Gold has inflation, believe it or not, Gold also doesn't have
absolute scarcity. Gold is also limited by its
physical characteristics, meaning it's actually pretty
difficult to to transport. It's pretty difficult to store,
especially in large quantities. This is something that Bitcoin
fixes. You can write down a 12 to 24
word seed phrase you can memorize in your head.
You can stamp it into titanium and you could take that anywhere
around the world. You can send that Bitcoin
anywhere around the world for pennies on the dollar.
I'm talking about like I've seen billion dollar Bitcoin
transactions and they pay like a dollar fee.
Try doing the same with gold. You're going to have to pay for
security, the transportation costs like it's going to be
expensive. And that allows the
centralization of the custody of gold, which inevitably leads to
these paper gains, right? Which a lot of people
hypothesize is the reason as to why, you know, the price of gold
has been suppressed. You can make a case for that.
That isn't the case with Bitcoin because it's so easy to take
self custody of it. It's so easy to send it.
That's the reason that as to why I believe Bitcoin has overtaken
the market cap of silver and why it's inevitable that it
overtakes the market cap of gold.
Now, I redid the math. Once Bitcoin overtakes the
market cap of gold, which is roughly about a 10X from here.
Bitcoin's current market cap is roughly at 1.7 trillion.
It the market cap of gold is roughly 17 trillion last time I
checked. That's roughly a 10X.
That would put the price of Bitcoin at roughly $860,000 per
coin. That's I.
I think it's inevitable. I think you don't stop this
train. Silver had a 4000 year head
start. Bitcoin did it in 16 years.
I'm not the only one that did this.
You guys are a big fan of British Huddle.
Makes great content on YouTube. Also great content on X's on X
as well and also a friend of the show.
Hopefully we bring them back on soon.
He says goodbye silver, Bitcoin is worth more.
Next is gold. Then here's the key ladies and
gentlemen. This is where things get super
effing exciting. Next is gold, then all eyes on
the real prize, real estate. Now why does he say that?
He says that because real estate has been being used, has been
used as a store of value, why people are trying to escape the
ravages of inflation, especially if you are a high net worth
individual. Let's say your net worth, you
know, is in the couple millions of dollars.
If you leave that money in the bank, it's like a melting ice
cube cube. It's constantly losing
purchasing power. So here is where real estate
comes in and real estate, it's not that real estate is, you
know it. It's not that real estate
doubled when they printed all that money.
All that happened was that it kept up with the money printing,
right? So people perceive real estate
as this store of value. And you know how fucked up that
is, especially if you're a Gen. ZR or you're a millennial and
you're in the market for a new home.
Homes have a monetary premium because people are using homes
as a store of value rather than its basic utility, which is just
being a home to live in. You shouldn't have to be forced
to invest just to maintain your purchasing power.
And the fact that we've been psyopped as a society to think
that a home, which is really should be a depreciating asset
because there's maintenance, there's property tax, people are
looking that as a store of value is a testament to how fucked up
our financial system is. But the good news news is that,
like a lot of things, Bitcoin fixes this Anyways, I found this
article that I think is very applicable to today's episode
and it goes on to explain how real estate became so valuable.
Historically, money, particularly in forms forms tied
to gold or other stable assets, served as the primary store of
value, maintaining purchasing power.
Over time, however, when the global financial system
underwent a profound change and you guys know 1971, what the F
happened in 1971, this shift to Fiat currencies, which are not
backed by stablecoins allowed for an unprecedented expansion
of the monetary base. The Nixon shock, the pitiful
moment, You guys all know that video when Nixon gets on, you
know, the TV and he says we're going to temporarily,
temporarily suspend the convertibility of dollars to
gold, which it was never temporary, you know, and he took
us off the gold standard. It goes on to say by then the US
held about 3/4 of the world's gold reserves, making a pure
gold standard untenable. The agreement pegged all allied
nations currencies to the US dollar which was convertible,
which was convertible to gold at a fixed rate of 135th of an
ounce per dollar, thereby positioning the US dollar as the
global reserve currency, moving the way move away from a pure
gold standard. However, as the dollar was
backed by gold, it enhanced the USS ability to spend AKA
printing money. This is unfortunate for
politicians. This is why the US government
wanted to get off a Bitcoin standard because they wanted to
print. They wanted to print.
They wanted to spend money it didn't have.
Anyways, this is where's the where's the gold of Fort Knox
bro? We haven't seen it since the
70s. The last time we saw it was a
video of 1 Volt. Is that gold and Fort Knox
really there? Because all they're saying is
just trust me bro. Anyways, Fort Knox that that
gold isn't there. This and the video was like
black and. White, it was like black and
white, They visited one. They weren't even allowed to
touch the gold bars. Like, who's to say those gold
bars weren't fake, like, And then that's in complete contrast
to what Naimbukele is doing with El Salvador's Bitcoin reserves,
which you can audit because it's on a public Ledger.
It's on the Bitcoin blockchain, which makes it very difficult
for politicians to skim skim a little bit off the top anyways.
The situation was exacerbated by expensive expenditures on
foreign military operations, AKA endless wars, notably in
Vietnam, leading to a a depletion of the US gold
reserves by 1970 and participating a liquidity
crisis. In response, President Nixon
announced that the United States would abandoned the gold
standard, a decision that had global repercussions due to the
dollar's position as the world's reserve currency.
The Fiat Based Monetary System The significant shift towards a
Fiat based monetary system characterized by floating
exchange rates and the absence of a fixed currency standard has
transformed the global financial landscape and created the role
of real estate as a key tool for preserving wealth in the face of
soaring monetary inflation. So you, you guys heard that
right. It was because the US went off
the gold standard, the inflation that essentially forced people
to look for assets just to maintain their purchasing power.
One of those assets being real estate.
But there are unintended consequences of that.
What are the unintended consequent?
What are the unintended consequences?
You have institutions like BlackRock.
You have foreign individuals that are coming into big cities
and they're just buying these properties just to like just to
store their wealth. They're not even using them.
They're not even using them for their utility.
They're using them as an investment.
That is absurd, especially if you've taken the orange pill.
You've woken up to Bitcoin and you're like, wait a second,
like, like, you know, this house is like, I need a house because
I need a place to live. But this is utility.
If you compare and contrast real estate to Bitcoin, real estate
is a shit coin. Why is it a shit coin?
It's a depreciating asset. You have to pay maintenance on
it, but most importantly, it's taxed every year you have to pay
property tax for Bitcoin. Now, if you compare that with
oh, sorry for real estate, if you compare that with Bitcoin,
you just buy Bitcoin, earn Bitcoin, mine Bitcoin, put that
Bitcoin into self custody and it just stays there, my friend just
stays there. It thrives, it's great, it's
wonderful. You don't have to do anything.
So it's the superior asset. Now this is where the math gets
really exciting. This is a little bit dated
because when Jesse Myers created this, it was a couple years ago,
but it basically shows the world's total addressable like
asset, the global asset value, it's about roughly 900 trillion.
Now, some of these numbers have changed, particularly Bitcoin.
Obviously right now it's at 1.7 trillion.
Gold is at 17 trillion. Real estate is a little bit
bigger, but for the sake of this example, let's just use this
real estate number and let's take a conservative approach.
And let's say Bitcoin is able to capture about 50% of 330
trillion. That would put the price of
Bitcoin at roughly $8 million per coin.
Now, this isn't taking into account gold, this isn't taking
into account a percentage of bonds.
This isn't taking into account a percentage of money in general,
art, collectibles, equities. It's not taking any into any of
that into account. It's just taking into account
real estate. So This is why, you know,
Michael Saylor's Bitcoin 2024 prediction doesn't sound too
outlandish if you look at it from that lens.
And just to give you guys a little bit of refresher, he made
three cases, his famous bear case, his famous base case, and
his famous bull case. And his bull case is $13 million
of today's money per coin, which would give it a market cap of
280 trillion. The bull case would give it a
market a cap of 1030 trillion and the bear case, which I think
is is way too bearish, would give a market cap of 68
trillion. And guys, this is happening.
This is happening in real time. And yesterday was a historic
milestone in bitcoins history because it took one of the
second most popular precious metal, which is of course
silver, and it overtook it. It's it's not anymore.
It went down again. Actually, no, we're back at
87,835. So it overtook it again.
But but yeah, a pretty exciting stuff in in bitcoins history and
it's coming for gold. It's going to catch up gold.
It's inevitable in my opinion, because Bitcoin is the superior
asset. It is a black hole.
It's just going to bring everything in there anyways,
Opti, what are your thoughts on this?
Like I, I mean like, bro, it it it's yesterday was a crazy day
and we haven't even started. Yeah, I was tweeting this out
yesterday, everybody. I was like, we have 10 months of
this shit. We have 10 months of this party.
It's just getting started. And I'm telling you, if we, if
we hit 100K by the end of the year, which is a total
possibility, we're like 10K away essentially, give or take.
I think we're blowing past 200 K next year.
And I think it's because a lot of people have PTSD from 2021.
So I'm incredibly bullish. Opti.
How often am I bullish? Not that, not that often.
Literally never. He's the bear.
Here, right? Not that often.
And the fact that we had this crazy run up that way that we
did tells me that we're in a very, very good place.
Not to mention the incoming Trump presidency.
And of course, the talk around town.
David Bailey is saying that another nation state has adopted
a Bitcoin stand, you know, adopted a Bitcoin accumulation
strategy and of course, the famous Bitcoin strategic reserve
in the United States. I mean, dude, like I would not
be surprised that if those things went through, we shot up
to $1,000,000 very, very effing quickly.
Opti, what are your thoughts? Yeah, well, First off, I I I am
a little surprised to hear Nico start to say 200 K Bitcoin.
So you can tell that he's starting to feel the FOMO
because I was saying this in like April where I'm just like I
have a feeling this bull market going to go to 200 three 100K
and everyone is kind of getting really bullish.
So you you love to see it with Nico reigning bear on the show
starts to get bullish. You know, we're starting to feel
and enter into the frenzy stage of the Bitcoin bull market.
But putting a bow tie on that, what I really love about the
fact of Bitcoin passing silver's market cap is one of them.
It is kind of personal. My my dad to this day is still a
silver bug. Like he always, always talks
about, oh man, my silver's at all time high or you know, my
silver prices are going up. It's all time high holdings for
me. And I'm always sitting there
like, dad, come on, man. Like, when are you going to go
deeper into Bitcoin? Like, yeah, silver was cool, but
he's still, he's still a dinosaur here and he's still
thinking that silver's monetized and that it's going to make a
good run. And hey, maybe his silver bags
will be good. So I love seeing this.
He actually tweeted me this morning.
He's like, man, Bitcoin, Bitcoin's running.
I hope you're having fun down in El Salvador.
And I'm like, yeah, it's it's going to be a crazy, crazy next
year. Anyways.
I think the other significant aspect of Bitcoin passing the
silver market cap is we did have bimetalism for a long time.
And of course, Nico just went down and ran down the 1971, the
Nixon shock. And we're starting to see that a
new bimetalism is starting to proliferate around the world.
And of course, we're talking about Bitcoin and Fiat
currencies. And I think this is the new
trend that we're seeing that Bitcoin will for at least the
foreseeable future coexist with Fiat currencies.
And if we look at what happened in the past in the bimetalism of
gold and silver, obviously you know, you store your value in
gold. And you use your silver to make
payments. Well, now that old paradigm is
starting to shift into Bitcoin, where you store your Bitcoin and
you use your dollars. And I think this is kind of what
we're seeing play out in real time.
That trend and that education level hasn't really hit the
mainstream yet. But you're starting to see that
people are pivoting into Bitcoin.
The conversation around Bitcoin is improving.
People are starting to get bullish.
Everyone's talking about 80 K Bitcoin.
Well, actually, I'll take that back.
Not everyone is talking about 80 K Bitcoin because I still
haven't got my friends text messages yet of being like,
Dang, Bitcoin's at 90 Ki should have listened to you and bought
it at 15 K etcetera. But we're starting to see that
as we move into that 6 figure number, things are going to get
crazy. And I know I've been saying
super cycle for a long time, so I don't want to jinx it because
if I say it, it seems like the price starts to drop.
But when Nika says it, the price starts to go up.
But it is starting to feel like maybe we might be either seeing
our last four year cycle or hey, maybe it is going up forever
now. I don't know.
Dude, I always hear this every single cycle.
I know the Super cycle, the Super cycle, the Super cycle,
the Super cycle, then every there's no super cycle, then
just love of it. So I mean, we shall see, but I,
I will tell you this guys, my strategy has always been stay
humble, stack stats, stay solvent, be careful with
leverage and you know, just literally just stacks ATS your
life will get better. Try not to trade, even though I
know it's a lot, it, it's very appealing for a lot of people.
But I, I've been doing this for quite a long time and I'll tell
you this, I have talked to many people that they've essentially
told me like, if I did absolutely nothing but just held
on to the Bitcoin, I would have more Bitcoin today than if I did
everything that I tried to do right.
And I think there's a lesson in that.
And I'm not saying it's 100% of people, but I'm saying it's the
vast majority of people that I've that, that I've spoken
with. So anyways, guys, it's gonna be
a great show. We have so many topics loaded up
for you guys. We're going to talk about Naimbu
Kayle's vindication against the IMF.
You know, the same IMF that was telling him that, hey, listen,
be careful. Bitcoin is going to cause
financial instability in your country.
And it's going to, you know, it's going to cause, it's going
to cause all this mayhem. And you know, people are going
to go broke and it's going to be terrible.
Well, IMF, you guys got it effing wrong, totally wrong.
Naimbu Kayle completely vindicated.
So we're going to cover that. And then also during the numbers
segment, Natalie Burnell went on legacy media and she was talking
about the American Dream. So guys, stay tuned.
It's going to be a great show. And of course, Opti's got a
special surprise for you guys lined up during the culture.
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Bitcoin price is back up at 87,510 dollars.
Block height 870,000 flat sats per dollar, 1143 market cap,
1.73 trillion Bitcoin price in gold, 33.9 oz Bitcoin versus
gold market cap 9.67% percentage issued 94.19% decline from time
high -2.6%. And the realized monetary
inflation. I love this one.
Continuing to take Fiat currencies to absolute school.
We are at 1.23%. Anyways guys, let's talk about
this, right? Let's talk about the American
dream. So the American Dream is this
concept. Me and Opti are, are first
generation Americans and we, we immigrated to this country, Opti
from Mexico, me from Venezuela, and we were sold on the idea of
the American Dream. The the idea of the American
Dream is if you work hard enough, if you put a pedal to
the metal, if you believe, if you suffer, you struggle, you
pay your dues, you're able to live a good life.
That means a white picket fence. That means a car.
That means dignity, right be to be able to afford housing and
raise a family. The American Dream is dead on a
Fiat standard. It's been dead for a long time,
especially if you're a Gen. Z, you're a millennial.
You are now become part of the renter class.
You're basically nothing more than a Russian serf.
I mean, the World Economic Forum that I call the contillionary
conference, they're even telling you you owe nothing and be
happy. Well, that sounds very somber
and that sounds very depressing and sad.
What I got to tell you guys is the American Dream isn't dead.
You're just using the wrong unit of account.
The American Dream is thriving, and not only is it thriving, it
has been exported all over the world if you're saving on a
Bitcoin standard. Now before I play Natalie
Burnell on Legacy via moving the Overton Window talking about
this, I do want to show you guys the proof.
So here is a very, very power site that we use all the time
called Priced in Bitcoin 21 and it shows you what happens when
you start adopting Bitcoin as your unit of account.
So it has the dollar, it has oil, it has gold, it has the S&P
500. If you've been saving a Bitcoin,
oil has gotten 94% cheaper over the last five years.
If you've been saving in gold, gold has gotten 93% cheaper over
the last five years. If the S&P has been has gotten
75% cheaper over the last five years, a house, even with
housing prices doubling, quote UN quote, a house has gotten 89%
cheaper over the last five years.
Over the last three years, a house has gotten 80% cheaper.
Over the last year, a house has gotten 78% cheaper if you've
adopted and you've been saving on a Bitcoin standard.
So the American dream isn't dead.
It's alive and well. It's thriving, but only if
you're using Bitcoin as a unit of account.
I'm not the only one to think this here is simply bitcoins.
Dante Cook, host of the Bitcoin Simply Show, which I believe
it's Tuesday, so he's going to be dropping a show for you guys
later on in the day. And he's this is his quote, this
is his tweet. He says Bitcoin is the purest
expression of the American dream five years ago.
Medium house price $329,000 AKA 44 Bitcoin today medium house
price in the United states 434,000, which you'll see is
higher in Fiat terms, but that equates to less than 5 Bitcoin
Saving Bitcoin and afford a home now.
Our job as Bitcoin content creators and Bitcoin in general
is to really get this message out there so that people stop
infighting and most importantly, people stop seeking solutions,
solutions from politicians. People start taking personal
responsibility and start to realize that, hey, you can save
for a better future. All you have to do is transition
to a Bitcoin standard. Anyways, here is Natalie Burnell
who kills it every single time on legacy media, Fox Business
with Charles Payne. Let's check it out.
Talking about the American dream and Bitcoin.
Want to bring a Coin Stories podcast and Natalie Bernal
joining me by phone. So Natalie, you know what I
thought was intriguing? If you look at the places where
Trump outperformed with young men, 18 to 2942% are in crypto,
Black, black Americans, 23% are in crypto, 21% of Hispanics.
Those it's, it's interesting to me in the sense that these are
people who are finding a different way of saying, hey, I
think I can get a piece of the American dream, but it's got to
be something non traditional. And you kind of talked, you knew
about this and talked about it a long time ago.
That's right, Charles. Well, you know, Bitcoin is
really the purest expression of the American dream of freedom
and self determination. And Bitcoin is a financial
system that was created by the people for the people.
It wasn't funded by big corporation or venture capital
or government and special interest groups.
It grew from the ground up entirely organically.
And how often do we see something like that?
I mean, Bitcoin offers this entirely new vision where we can
truly own our wealth and it really transcends politics and
borders and backgrounds, which is why I think it's the
opportunity of a lifetime. I got to tell you all young,
whenever a young adult approaches me, I know 9 out of
10 they're going to ask me about cryptocurrency.
Do you know that tomorrow is the three-year anniversary, The
first time that you gave that your little rant about this
money printing in Bitcoin to the world.
Take it, take a listen. We're addicted to the money
printer in this country. And I think a nation that lives
by the money printer runs the risk of dying by it as well.
I mean, we used to be the world's biggest creditor nation.
We made stuff. Now we're the world's biggest
debtor nation. We hardly make anything except
debt. That's why Bitcoin is so great.
You can't print more of it. It's programmatically scarce
hard money. And as my friend Preston Push
said very well today, Bitcoin literally feasts on corruption
and manipulation, and boy is the plate holder.
Absolutely 100% Natalie Burnell hit, you know, hits, hits the
ball out of the park like usual. Forgive me, guys, we are, you
know, the Internet is is a little interesting.
So the the video was a bit pixelated.
We'll make sure to download it into Restream itself.
So it's a little bit better next time.
But anyways, Opti, I mean, dude, this is something that you've
been experiencing. This is something that I've been
experiencing us running this like Bitcoin bootstrapped media
company and like, you know what like the wonders that it has
done for us as a company because a portion of our treasury is on
a Bitcoin standard. And because of that, the runway
just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.
And that gives us Peace of Mind. We're able to make payroll.
We're not, you know, freaking out and we're able to expand as
well. So can you talk a little bit
about that Bitcoin, the American dream?
You specifically like myself as an immigrant, you know, we were
sold on this idea coming to America.
Yeah, 100%. And I mean, look, I still fully
believe in the American Dream and we actually had a long
conversation about this last night with everyone here at the
Airbnb that the American Dream isn't dead.
If you're on the Bitcoin standard, yes, it's damn near
impossible. If you're on the Fiat standard
because you're on the hamster wheel, it's hard to escape
inflation. If you're not making, you know,
20% plus gains investing or getting 20% plus raises every
year, you are barely floating by.
And now we're seeing that Bitcoin is the cheap code that
all you literally have to do is, you know, work your job, save in
Bitcoin and your life gets out much better.
And it really is a throwback to, you know, the 1950s Americana
type vibes where you work a good job, you save in, you know,
whatever money you wanted to and you could still afford a family,
you can still afford a house. And as we're seeing, things are
getting really crazy out there in the Fiat land.
And Bitcoin is as American as apple pie, as the meme goes.
It's the American deals encrypted in cyberspace or
whatever the meme was that Sailor was saying.
And I think it's really it, it really embodies everything that
I was ever told about being an American.
And I absolutely love this meme, especially right now where we're
seeing that a lot of the older generation really is, I don't
want to say brainwashed, but they really have this connection
with the dollar. And that's where their
patriotism is kind of tied up to.
It's like, American is the best where the world reserve
currency, the dollar is the best.
I mean, I was kind of joking with with Murphy over here
about, Hey, he's pricing the the Bitcoin price in Canadian
dollars. I'm like, those aren't real
dollars, bro. Let's get to the real dollar so
we can even play on that idea. But a lot of people's patriotism
is wrapped up in the dollar. And us Bitcoiners are like, look
it it, it doesn't have to be this way.
You just need to save in a good money.
Bitcoin is American, You know, we could argue that Satoshi
Nakamoto was Japanese or even from the UK or what have you.
But I, I kind of believe that there was a lot of American
idealism coming from Satoshi. And I just can't wait to see
more people adopt Bitcoin. Obviously, this is a global
phenomenon, and I want everyone to get on the Bitcoin standard,
saving a Bitcoin using Bitcoin, but I love to see that this
movement that is Bitcoin is helping people, individuals
escape inflation, live the life that we've always been taught to
believe is possible. And it's really super simple.
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us when there's a better option? And we do our best to come out
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simple as just saving in Bitcoin, taking Bitcoin into
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continuing to repeat this process.
As we say, you know, stay humble stack stats I I think we are
going to see a new renaissance not only in America, but
anywhere that adopts Bitcoin and we're seeing this happen in El
Salvador we're in El Salvador. You can see the beautiful
volcano Naibu Kelly is being vindicated.
We see in the the mining and Bhutan now they're, it's like
their holdings are over a billion dollars.
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get to Naimbu Kayla's app close up Opsy, please, let's get to
Naimbu Kayla's absolute vindication.
And remember guys, the IT wasn't only it wasn't only the IMF, it
was the World Bank. It was members of the US
government. There was a law that was passed
in the house that was quote UN quote investigating El Salvador.
Mind you, El Salvador is a very small country.
The GDP is only 32 billion. Why do they care?
Not to mention the relentless onslaught by the legacy media
machine that was just completely annihilated with the Trump
election, by the way. But that whole machine just went
after Naimbu Kele because he wanted to lower crime in the
country, which he did. He, you know, he increased the
GDP, he made El Salvador safe, he increased the hope of the
people and for some reason he was demonized because of it.
And I truly believe that, you know, because I've seen what
adopting Bitcoin has done for me, for my company, for Opti,
for my family, for Michael Saylor, for other.
It just makes your life better when you adopt A Bitcoin
standard. So I think the fact that El
Salvador adopted a Bitcoin standard and then by doing so
fixing the base layer of society, I think that played a
role in El Salvador's success. Now, did it play a huge role?
I don't know. Let's see when another country
plays a Bitcoin standard. But there is something there.
I, I, I, I, I'm really calling that.
So anyway, let's get to today's story.
We have the receipts for you guys, like always on Simply
Bitcoin. That's what we have.
But let's get to this Reuters article, shall we?
So this was back in October 3rd, 2024.
IMF says Bitcoin remains key element in El Salvador program
talks. So this is what they do.
The IMF goes to developing countries and they give those
countries these loans with crazy conditions.
They essentially enslave developing countries with these
loans and they give them the the, the these SDRS.
It's essentially just this money that they just create out of
thin air and the conditions are nuts and they essentially
enslaved. It's like a new form of neo
colonialism, right? And the reason that IMF in the
World Bank doesn't like Bitcoin isn't because Bitcoin is not
going to solve the problems of, you know, these developing
countries. It's because Bitcoin provides an
alternative for developing countries not to have to go
through the IMF. And because it provides an
alternative to not have to go to through the IMF, it relinquishes
control by the IMF over these countries.
And that's why they're scared. That's what it's about.
It has nothing to do with financial stability.
It has nothing to do with a MLKYC.
That's all bullshit. It's the fact that because
there's an alternative, a non sovereign alternative of which
no one can control, it freaks the IMF out because before they
were the only player on the block.
And that's no longer the case. That's why they're so scared and
that's why they're allies in the legacy media whose reputation is
completely gone and dusted. I would even say the legacy
media is no more after the Trump twenty Trump 2024 election that
that that's why they're so concerned about this.
Anyways, so I'm going to read you this article or or at least
the beginning of it. Program talks between the IMF
and El Salvador focus on strengthening reforms while
addressing risks arising from the use of Bitcoin remains a key
element of the discussion quote. What we have recommended is a
narrowing of the scope of the Bitcoin law, strengthening the
regulatory framework and oversight of the Bitcoin
ecosystem and limiting public exposure to Bitcoin.
You know what I got to say? It's the same thing that I told
you guys yesterday when we were talking about the death of the
legacy media. Projection, projection,
projection, projection, projection.
They project on to us what it is they are guilty of themselves.
You know what? I'm going to replace some words
in this article. What we recommend is a narrowing
of the scope of the Fiat law, strengthening the regulatory
framework and oversight of the Fiat ecosystem and limiting
public sector exposure to Fiat. Right, 'cause like, I mean like
I, I showed you guys, we showed you guys priced in Bitcoin.
If you've been saving in Bitcoin, life has been getting
cheaper. If you've been saving in in
Fiat, life has been getting more expensive.
What is more dangerous to the public, Fiat or Bitcoin?
It's obviously Fiat. But if you've built this giant
bureaucracy whose job and livelihood depends on the
continuation of this system, of course they're not going to tell
you that. Of course they're going to tell
you the exact opposite. But the beautiful thing about
number go up, and the beautiful thing about Bitcoin is that it
exposes incentives. So they dropped this article
October 3rd, 2024, and shortly after, very, very poetically,
Naimbu Kelly says I told you so. And why did he say I told you
so? Well, El Salvador now owns $500
million worth of Bitcoin. Bitcoin country is winning.
And by the way, he's doubled. He started buying one Bitcoin
every day since Bitcoin bottomed at $16,000.
So he's doubled his country's Bitcoin reserves.
He made the reserve public so that everyone could audit what
El Salvador's Bitcoin reserves are, unlike the United States
gold reserves. So again, the IMF, basically any
country that is criticizing El Salvador, you are projecting
onto El Salvador what it is. You know you are guilty of
themselves, what you are guilty of yourself.
Shame on you. And until you make your reserves
public, until you match the standards that have been set by
El Salvador, I, I, I don't want to hear about it because you
know what? They always tell us that, hey,
you need the IMF. They always tell us that, hey,
you need to, you know, go in this certain direction.
Naimbu Kelly didn't listen. Naimbu Kelly went in there.
He cleaned up one of the most dangerous countries in South
America in record time. The GDP is exploding.
Tourism is exploding. Hope in people is coming back.
I mean, like, isn't that the whole point of government?
The whole point of government is to protect private property.
The whole point of government is to protect the safety of the
people. And it seems like government is
not concerned about that. Government is more concerned
about these crazy, you know, social programs, top down
control programs. I would say it's about control.
Government is more concerned about keeping control over their
populace rather than actually providing the value of which
we're paying for as taxpayers. And that is a complete
injustice. And this is the last thing I'll
say before I hand it off to Opti.
The IMF said El Salvador adopting Bitcoin would lead to
financial stability. Well, eat that IMF 'cause you
got that incredibly wrong. Like just like you've got in
everything incredibly wrong for the last couple of decades.
You know what? You can hide behind this
legitimacy of this real really crazy emblem and we are at the
IMF and you know, we wear suits and you know, I, I'm Christy
Lagarde and I was the head of the IMF and you have to take us
seriously because you know, these Bitcoin shenanigans are
this, you know what, shut the fuck up.
The proof is in the pudding. Bitcoin is obviously superior.
Bitcoin is better. Bitcoin is obviously giving
people hope, prosperity, opportunity to the people.
And what have you guys done other than enslave of humanity a
new form of neo colonialism? That's the way that I see it.
Look, if these IMF loans have worked, how come you you've
given Argentina like 5 or 6 and they still went through
hyperinflation multiple times? You've done this to other
developing countries in Africa. You've done this to other
developing countries in South America and it still hasn't
worked. So maybe it's time to try
something new. And like, do I think it's a
coincidence that the first country that really tried
something new and adopted a Bitcoin standard is not only
succeeding, but flourishing? No, I don't think it's a
coincidence because I know what Bitcoin's done to my life.
I know what Bitcoin's done to Opti's life.
I know what Bitcoin's done to my company.
I know what Bitcoin's done to Michael Saylor's company.
Do you think it's a coincidence that the first company that
adopted a Bitcoin standard is outperforming the rest of the
S&P 500? No, this is Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is a cheat code. Anyways, Opti, I feel a little
bit passionate today, feel a little bit riled up.
But I mean, this is absolute vindication by Naimbu Kele from
the monetary demons. And we're just going to continue
to win. I mean, Trump's speech just
keeps going on in my head. What you We're going to win so
hard. You guys are going to get tired
of winning. Was he talking about Bitcoin
when he was saying Opti love it, love it?
Yeah, I mean, look, we've been covering this all year, actually
for years now about the attacks from not only the IMF, but of
course, the corporate press. And it really all boils down to
one thing, especially now that Naibu Kelly has been vindicated.
Remember, El Salvador's country has AGDP of 32 billion.
Their Bitcoin holdings are, you know, north of 500 million now,
like that's a significant portion of of their wealth in
Bitcoin, and it's only going to increase.
They're still stacking one Bitcoin a day.
And we've been saying this for a while.
And I think it's becoming truer and truer every single day as El
Salvador does succeed that the IMF, of course, you know, like,
let's, let's not ignore the fact that they use mafia tactics on
countries out here, get them in debt and be like, we're here for
your protection. And yet they do the exact
opposite. They pretty much extract
resources. Now we're seeing that what we're
seeing from the IMF and corporate press in general is
that this freak out has, I think only one real reason is they
don't want other people to follow the lead of Naibu Kelly
and El Salvador. And of course, they don't want
the Bitcoin standard to expand to other countries because then
they lose their power with these IMF loans.
And This is why you're seeing them go out, go all in on these
attacks. I mean, Nika, you mentioned it
in that tweet. We found it super hilarious at
some point this year when they were saying like, oh, El
Salvador is going to be in financial trouble.
And they've never been better in their existence.
And it of course is due in part because of their Bitcoin
strategy. And now we're seeing that it's,
it's undeniable out there that you need to have a Bitcoin
strategy. You don't need to take these
loans. I mean, unless, unless they do
something like take the loans and stack Bitcoin, then maybe
maybe that'll pay itself off, you know, maybe that'll be a
good. Move.
I'm pretty sure that's a condition.
Literally a condition, but hey, you know, a boy can hope, but it
is just it's absolutely incredible, especially here.
You know, we're in El Salvador today.
It's been super cool to come down to El Salvador.
The Bitcoin price is pumping. Of course, El Salvador go or
it's not a sorry, naive Kelly goes on Twitter.
I told you so we're starting to get into the point where us
bitcoiners are going to have to do our best to stay humble
because there is going to be a lot of I told you so is coming
up, especially on a personal level, telling your family like
I told you so you should still buy Bitcoin.
We're seeing naive, but Kelly do this on a global scale, bigger
scale than most of us would do in our personal lives.
But yeah, it it's sweet, sweet victory and it feels really good
to be a bitcoiner today. Obviously next year it's going
to feel even better if the price goes to where we believe it's
going to be. But with that being said, and
this is going to kind of tail into what I'm going to cover on
the culture today, you are going to see an increase from these
institutions attacking Bitcoin strategies, attacking El
Salvador as the price goes up, attacking Bitcoiners in general,
which is kind of what I'm going to cover in the culture.
So it is, while it's one of these victory laps, I think it's
very important for us to keep our heads on a swivel and
understand where the attacks are going to come.
At first they attacked us for being, what was it, a financial
illiterate, psychopaths or whatever.
And now they're going to attack us for winning too hard.
So we see the trend, obviously, kudos to Naibukele and the whole
nation of El Salvador. And it's just it feels so good,
especially, you know, El Salvador translation, the
savior. It's the, it's no coincidence,
you know, maybe we do live in a simulation because life is memes
and memes is life. And the first country to adopt
Bitcoin is literally called the savior.
And it's just proven to the world that Bitcoin is your
personal savior on a financial level.
Absolutely, absolutely. Alright everybody, before we
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Anyways, I'm gonna pass it on to Opti.
I don't even know what the cultures like culture is today
man. What do you have in store?
For us, yeah, man, I think, I don't think Niko saw this new
story, but I but I thought I'd be like, it'd be a missed
opportunity if we didn't cover this today, considering that
we've seen exactly what I've been saying would happen for the
last couple of weeks. Is this idea that as Bitcoin
starts to succeed, you're going to see a narrative shift from,
hey, maybe we need to outlaw Bitcoin to wait.
Maybe we need to demonize the Bitcoiners for taking the risk
and winning so hard. And on this note, this is really
touching on the ECB paper that was dropped.
Was it like a month ago? This is the turd of Easter bro.
Oh man, I can't wait for. This, so Nico, he saw it, but
this is something I think, I'm pretty sure I mentioned this
yesterday, that as we move forward and Bitcoin does get
adopted, the price does run really high.
You're going to see a narrative shift and for lack of better
terms, the mob get turned against Bitcoiners winning so
hard. And this is something I've been
saying for a while that we definitely need to be weary of
moving forward because as the Bitcoin price moves forward, we
know what the collectivists are going to think about Bitcoiners.
You know, that it's, it's not fair that they got lucky and
they bought Bitcoin. You know, maybe we need to take
their property. We need to tax them.
Well, let's break down the ECB report, literally bombshell
twist that the ECB report just dropped.
And remember, the ECB dropped the report November 4th.
And they had, they did this whole paper outlining Bitcoin,
the risk of Bitcoin. And then they made a very silent
shift since Donald Trump is to be the president-elect.
And so breaking this down, we have the original ECB paper or
sorry, correction, it was in October.
The original ECB paper. They finished up the paper with
this sentence. In any case, current non holders
should realize that they have compelling reasons to oppose
Bitcoin and advocate for legislation against it, aiming
to prevent Bitcoin prices from rising or to see Bitcoin
disappear altogether. Latecomers and non holders and
their political representatives should emphasize that the idea
of Bitcoin as an investment relies on redistribution at
their expense. Failing to do so could skew
election results in favor of politicians who advocate pro
Bitcoin policies, implying wealth redistribution and
fueling the division of society. Now Trump got elected or is to
be you know, he's the president-elect right now.
He's going to get in office in about a month or so.
And they switched up the ending of the paper very silently from
that last sentence to this. In any case, current non holders
should realize that they have reasons to worry about Bitcoin
and legislations favoring it. Latecomers and non holders and
their political representatives should emphasize that the.
Idea of Bitcoin as an investment relies on redistribution at
their expense. Failing to do so could skew
election results in favor of politicians who advocate pro
Bitcoin policies fueling the division of society.
Now we've talked about this constantly on the show, this
idea that the Fiat apocalypse, you know, all the the Fiat
controllers, the Cantillon insiders, they've been blaming
Bitcoin for the problems of Fiat currencies and the fact that
they're debasing their currencies.
And instead of taking responsibility, they're like,
look, those bit corners are to blame.
And now that we're seeing Bitcoin as a movement start to,
you know, embed themselves with politicians and politics landing
on our door. We all saw the huge crypto pack
or Bitcoin pack that David Bailey in Bitcoin magazine push.
You know, you could argue we did semi influence this year's
election. Now they silently change their
riding to wait. Let's not talk about what what
was it? Let's not just hope for Bitcoin
to disappear. You have reasons to oppose
Bitcoin and advocate for legislation against Bitcoin
adoption to now you should worry about advocating for pro Bitcoin
legislation. So we're seeing that this is
happening in real time where US winning the Bitcoin price
running past 6 six figures and Bitcoin adoption starting to
take place that we are starting to become demonized in saying,
oh, wait, you know, it was not the problem of opposing Bitcoin.
Now you got to worry about pro Bitcoin legislation because
that's the real problem here, not the fact that they are
debasing our currency, that we're all getting broker, that
we're stuck on the rat race and there's no escape from the Fiat
apocalypse. And you're, you know, trying to
find an alternative with Bitcoin.
It's like, no, the real problem here is advocating for Bitcoin.
So again, you're starting to see the groundwork being laid to
demonize Bitcoiners. And I've been saying this for a
long time that as Bitcoin succeeds, the powers that be,
the corporate press, you know, the anti Bitcoin, what's a
Elizabeth anti crypto army out there is going to roll
themselves out and basically say, hey, Bitcoin is winning too
hard. We have to do something about
this. We have to slow down Bitcoin
adoption. And we've been talking about
this on the show for a long time that if you read between the,
the, the lines in between the writing, you're seeing that the
powers that be are actively trying to slow down Bitcoin
adoption. Of course, this is the ECB, this
is in Europe, US in America. You know, you can just see the
writing on the wall that eventually this will come and be
exported into America and of course, everywhere else that
wants to maintain their Fiat chokehold on us.
But it is very interesting that we're seeing the narrative shift
so quickly and silently that, hey, it's not enough to oppose
Bitcoin. You got to be very, very
concerned about pro Bitcoin legislation and we all know
where this will eventually end if we don't get ahead of it and
say like, no, I am not for this. I am actively against this.
They're probably not only going to talk about taxing your
Bitcoin, but maybe outright stealing and taking your
property, which is of course Bitcoin.
So I find it very interesting that we're already here.
We're I think we're ahead of schedule on what I was saying,
but the next 5 to 10 years isn't going to be all rosy of us just
winning, getting richer. We have to be very, very
concern, keep our heads on a swivel that the Bitcoin network
doesn't get silently Co opted. Of course, we've seen the
operation choke .2 point O and what they've tried to do there.
Now we're seeing the narrative shift towards demonizing
bitcoiners. They've tried it in the past.
We know it's not going away, but I find it very interesting that
the ECB just silently changed the last sentence on Bitcoin
ever since Trump came in and is like, yeah, we're pro Bitcoin.
So now again, this kind of does relate to what we saw from the
IMF obviously demonizing and we're starting to see this
narrative continue everywhere. So guys, winning is awesome.
We continue to win Bitcoins going to continue to win.
But we have to be very concerned out here and push back against
these narratives that we're the bad guys for taking the risk
saving in Bitcoin, putting our hard earned wealth in Bitcoin.
And of course, profiting off on top of it.
And it's not a redistribution. Well, it depends who the
redistribution people are. Obviously, the ECB paper is
saying that we're basically redistributing wealth from the
lower and middle classes when in reality, we're just defunding
the Cantillon insiders, defunding the great Leviathan.
So very interesting stuff that we're seeing develop.
But Nico. I mean, so like people don't
understand this, but like Europe is essentially funded by the
United States. Like the, the, the, the, the,
whether it's defense, whatever, whatever you, you want to call
it, the United States essentially kind of bankrolls
Europe. And because it bankrolls Europe,
the US government has a tremendous amount of influence
on not only European policy, but European politics.
So when they, you know, there's a lot of talk of, of European,
the, the Brussels, which is the, the head of the European Union
legislative body, they are essentially putting a lot of
pressure on Elon to kind of censor because Europe has, they
don't have the first minute like here in the United States.
And you know, as soon as the Trump administration comes in,
they're going to go in there and forget about it, forget about
the censorship of, of Twitter, going after Twitter.
That's not going to happen anymore.
So just to kind of give you guys a little bit of the, the
political context. Does it surprise me at all
whatsoever that the ECB is kind of walking back their, their
talk on, on Bitcoin as the Trump administration is, is, is is
going into, into power in, in, in January, January 20th of
2025. No, not at all.
They're walking it back. These are bureaucrats watching
their behinds because they know that the Trump administration is
a pro Bitcoin administration. So that's what's happening.
And that's why this election was so important on a worldwide
scale, at least from a regulatory perspective.
Because make no mistake, if Kamala would have won, not only
would we have seen a dump, but the in what I, what I would
suspect, maybe not as bad as Biden, but this kind of like
hostile regulatory environment would have continued.
Gary Gensler would not have been fired right?
In Europe. It would have continued as well.
So, you know, the United States is by far the wealthiest country
on planet Earth, but it's also one of the most influential
countries on planet Earth from a cultural perspective, from a
financial perspective, and also from an innovative perspective.
I mean, you know, you're most likely using an iPhone or an
Android device. Those are both American
companies coming out of California.
So like most kind of big tech, whether it's Google, Facebook,
Tesla, you know, all those innovations are coming from the
United States. the United States has a tremendous amount of
influence. So does it surprise me that the
ECB is, is walking back their, their rhetoric on, on Bitcoin?
No, not not at all. But they're just hoping that in
four years, you know, a, you know, a, a, a non friendly
towards Bitcoin administration gets back into office so that
they can just continue where they left off the right now
they're playing nice because they know that they're
potentially in trouble. But make no mistake, they did
not change their minds. They just know that, you know,
to use Tucker's words, Dad is back in Dad, dad is back in in
house, Dad is back in town. And they know that these
bureaucrats are potentially in danger, their jobs are in
danger. So they're trying to play nice.
That's what's happening. Do they actually believe this?
No, they don't believe this. So we have to stay vigilant and
most importantly, Trump has to keep his end of the bargain,
right? We were reading it a couple days
ago. The industry, our industry.
First of all, we won 48 out of the 48 electric elections,
Republicans and Democrats for pro Bitcoin candidates.
We but also as a collective, we donated $100 million to pro
Bitcoin candidates. That's what the ECB paper was
talking about. Well, ECB, guess what?
You got your asses handed to you bro.
So anyways, yeah. Wait, wait, wait.
Daddy's. Home and Bitcoin is winning.
Nico, I do want to add one thing before we wrap up today's show.
I think another interesting aspect of this is where did that
command come from? Did it come from, you know,
Chrissy Lagarde out there there? Was this just a personal stance
that the author thought that this would be the best move?
I find it very interesting. I think we could argue that this
came from the top brass. It came from the top of command
at the ECB. Change the rhetoric a little bit
because, hey, we all know, like Nico said, that they are
actively against Bitcoin because it really destroys their power
here. So we've argued, actually
personally, I've argued on this show a lot that I don't think we
can be naive enough anymore to just think that the powers that
be don't understand Bitcoin. I think they very clearly
understand the stakes that are that are at hand right now.
They don't, They do go out in public, kind of play dumb about
it. But behind the scenes they are
actively working on how can we minimize the impact of Bitcoin.
So that's just a very interesting thought experiment.
Like where did that change come from?
Where, Where did the the chain of command start here?
Was it just the author on his own or is this coming from the
top brass of the ECB? Which if it does and we do get
another smoking gun of where it came from, really goes to show
that they're terrified about Bitcoin, which means, hey, this
we keep our foot on the gas. We keep spreading Bitcoin, we
keep trying to get as many people as possible holding
Bitcoin directly off exchanges in cold storage.
And this is how we win. So just I, it's absolutely
incredible that we're seeing this play out so quickly. 100
percent, 100%. Anyways, it's exciting times
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