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Rumble NX. We have so much to unpack today.
Look, I'll be honest with you guys, like when they arrested
the samurai guys, Operation Choke .2 Point O, when they
denied Caitlin Long's federal banking charter, I was like we
have a crazy fight in front of us.
When the FBI released, you know that so-called warning basically
trying to scare people away from taking self custody, I was like
wow, this is going to be hairy. But what's interesting is
Bitcoin's game theory. As Knut just mentioned
backstage, we're going to bring them up in a second.
Bitcoins, incentives. And we've been making the case
on the show for a very long time that the reason that Bitcoin's
going to win fundamentally is because it has superior
incentives. And all they really have left is
coercion. My money's on incentives and
what we've really seen over the last couple of days, Opti talked
about it on yesterday's show, is a complete 180 from the hostile
elements in the US government that have had it out for this
industry. They've completely changed tune.
And the reason for that is because they've seen the writing
on the wall and they realize that, you know, it's probably
not a winning campaign strategy to go after an industry that is
so popular with a huge part of their voter base.
So they're completely changing tune now.
Do I believe them? Absolutely not.
But you know, I got to say it is positive from a regulatory
perspective in the United States specifically because we've seen
this Max exodus of multiple lightning companies including,
you know, we have Wallet of Satoshi that left.
First we have Phoenix. They put the Samurai wallet devs
in a box. You know, they arrested.
I mean a lot of people don't like Rodger Verk 'cause he's a,
you know, he's a Bitcoin casher and whatever, this and that.
But they're basically trying to make examples of people and
trying to scare people. And it's really not enforcement
by legislation, it's enforcement by law enforcement literally.
Like they're just like forget about legislating, let's just
start locking people in a box that will scare people, that
will de incentivize them from you know creating businesses or
Lightning businesses or Bitcoin related businesses in the US and
that is incredibly UN American and but it seems like they've
done a 180 and that's because the election is coming up in
November. So we have an update.
We have an update for you guys on that front.
I really thought that this was gonna take a lot longer.
This is something that Opti and I have been covering for the
last two years and it was like this ominous dark clouds heading
towards us slowly. But it seems like it was just a
rain shower. It seems like they lasted for
like a week or two, like a week of thunderstorms and they just
pushed over. But I'll say this guys like I
still think that they want to roll out a CBDC, but you know
it, they're politicians. So they're going to say anything
and everything to get elected as soon as they're back in power.
I I wouldn't be surprised if they change tune completely
again. But anyways, so we're going to
talk about that today. Also you've I always pronounce
his name incorrectly. So Yuval Harari, he's the author
of that famous book Sapiens. And of course he's the guy that
the World Economic Forum and the Bank of International
Settlements, they roll him out on stage.
And he had this video that went absolutely viral about a week or
two or a week or two ago. And essentially, he was
basically saying that he doesn't like Bitcoin because Bitcoin is
a currency of mistrust and we should trust governments even
more. The last century has shown that
giving governments the ability to create money out of thin air
that everyone has to work for has turned out to be an
excellent idea, and we should continue doing that.
It's been an absolutely horrific idea.
I mean, the two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Great
Recession, What the F is he smoking, man?
I want to know. Anyways, it seems like we got
under his skin because he made another video, this one a lot
longer, 2 minutes and 30 seconds where he was trying to justify,
you know, his reasoning as to where he was coming from.
It's my belief that he just dug himself an even deeper hole.
So anyways, you can't stop the central planners from wanting to
continue to central plan. Also in other news, I do want to
cover this because it does relate to the political
situation because we have not won as bitcoiners in the United
States until Ross Albrecht and Julian Assange and many other,
you know, casualties of the separation of money in states,
the separation of information in state are completely out of
prison and they're free. Julian Assange can appeal
extradition to the USUK High Court rules.
So we'll have an update for you guys is on that as well.
And we have two incredible special guests today, heavy
hitters. We have Canutes Van Home and
Luke from the Freedom Footprint Show.
So I'm going to bring on stage of course my legendary coach who
is always optimistic, optimist fields Canute.
How you doing today, brother? Awesome.
Of course I'm on your show. Thanks.
Also breaking news, ladies and gentlemen.
Canute Span Home never does price predictions, but he has a
price prediction for us today. Wait, wait, let me full let me
full screen him. All right, you're ready for the
price prediction. Here comes we're live, right?
Yes, Sir. All right.
So can you spend home price prediction?
It's not a green. Beef low resistance.
It is a green cactus going to the absolute moon.
And of course, Luke, how you doing?
What's up, brother? Awesome guys.
Great to be here. Well, thanks for joining us,
man. We really appreciate it.
And of course, Opti, how you feeling today, brother?
I am doing wonderful, obviously as a bitcoiner.
Life is always great, but this morning might be even greater
than usual because my phone didn't charge last night so I
slept through my alarm. So I actually got some sleep.
This morning. So I feel wonderful, dude.
I'm a bit concerned because I was like, Oh my God, the
political situation's gonna give us so much to talk about over
the next year or two. We might move, we might move to
El Salvador like we've been making all these It's like a
week or two. They completely capitulate 180
oh, you know what we love? We love crypto.
We love Bitcoin and shit coins. Ethereum ETF.
Absolutely, 100%. Let's fire this person.
Dude. It's crazy.
It's crazy like it's it's it's so nuts how And they must be
panicked. They must be panicked.
That's what it is. Like they see the election
coming up and they see the poll numbers and they're like you
know what Actually guys do you do you opti, you know that meme
where it's like that that older dude and he's dressed up in like
that skater skateboard outfit. Oh yeah.
Hello fellow children. Hello, fellow bitcoiners or
fellow crypto people, whatever. Like, you know, we're we're
here. Like we're cool.
We're you know, but I, I, I don't buy it.
I, I, you know, and and then another thing also and I don't
want to get your takes on a take on this canoe before we start
the show. Like like, I know a lot of
bitcoiners were cheering, including Michael Saylor by the
way. He was in this camp as well.
But they were like, a lot of people were excited that the
government was going to step in and they were going to say only
the Bitcoin ETF was going to be approved.
And now it seems like, you know, if if you take, if you take a
look at what, you know, Bitcoin, Twitter is saying that there's a
high probability that the Ethereum ETF is gonna be
approved as well. Now my take from a libertarian
is just kind of like, look, let Bitcoin win on the free market,
which it will because it has the best incentives.
It's superior to all the other shit coins.
But you know, Ethereum is gonna have an ETF after all.
What's your take on that man? Well, I it's a it's such a
simple philosophical thing and it still baffles me to this day,
that people don't get the simple, the simplicity of this
argument. Like all the so-called
cryptocurrencies, they're all trying to do the same thing.
They're trying to solve the Byzantine General's problem and
thereby create something in computers that cannot be copied.
Now everything on a computer can be copied.
So something that cannot be copied would have to be sort of
outside it somehow. And that is the problem that
Bitcoin solved. And that is a problem that can
only be solved once because of the very nature of the problem.
It's like you can only discover America once.
It's so easy. Like it's because the only thing
discovered is resistance to replicability.
So trying to replicate something that cannot be replicated is
obviously not going to work or or it it cannot work in the long
run and the like a a competitor to Bitcoin would have to
differentiate itself so much so that it wouldn't be nothing like
Bitcoin and hence it's not the same thing.
It's it's not worth anything because money is the most basic
thing there is like that you can exchange it for everything else.
That's the thing. That's the whole point of it.
That's why KYC is so stupid. So, I mean, ETFs here and ETFs,
they're play Fiat games and win Fiat prizes.
Good luck with that. This is not this is this
generation stuff. But we're living in the future.
We're already in the future. We're already living the lives
of our grandchildren here, so we don't fucking care.
Hey Nico, I know we've missed the meme review, but I did make
a meme on this yesterday so let let me let me pull this up.
Just just, uh to give the people what they want here.
So here's my take. You know the guy drunk guy
yelling at the pretty girl in the corner goes the ETF will
bring Wall Street to his knees once the ETH Ponzi blows up and
Bitcoin Maxi's laugh as financial engineering as a top
job in society finally comes to an end.
While Bitcoin Maxi's usher in hyper Bitcoinization and the
Bitcoiners not wanting to hear it.
Let's let's let's hope Wall Street blows up because of this
ETH scam. That'd be absolutely, absolutely
beautiful. So get in the ETF, Wall Street
and all you political. Financial engineering.
Just listen to that. The stupidity of that word.
If money was working, there would be people wouldn't even
invent that fucking word. The the financial sector is is
not needed on a Bitcoin standard.
If money is working, we don't have these fucking bullshit
problems. 100% because no, 100% because like a lot of these, you
know, a lot of these, quote, UN quote, wealth management
organizations, right? They're all based on, you know,
very wealthy people trying to maintain their purchasing power,
trying to get a return. Bitcoin just comes out of left
field, says Hey, all you got to do is buy Bitcoin, put it into
self custody, That's it's so simple.
It's actually so simple that I've actually had trouble with
the older generations when I explain it to them and they're
like that's impossible and I'm like, yeah, that's all you got
to do, you know. And then when they adopt A
Bitcoin stand, they're like, wow, it really is this easy.
So I completely agree with you Kanu.
It's like the over financialization of everything
and it really doesn't have to be that complicated.
And that is literally, oh, I love this comment, the Simply
Freedom Footprint Bitcoin Show. Wow.
Oof. Absolute bars there.
You want to see what Bitcoin coming in from the left field
looks looks like by the way. Absolutely.
Here it comes. Oh man, oh man.
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the first hour of the show. I'm so excited to react to this
video because we have a superstar guest joining us
today. We have this guy Yuval Noah
Harari who is the central planner of the central planners.
He really fundamentally believes that, you know, he knows what's
best for your life. And yeah, he got a little bit
triggered, I guess, by the reactions to his video where the
Bank of International Settlements rolled them out on
stage. And he was there like, you know,
their Muppet, their talking head.
And he was just like, yeah, I don't like Bitcoin because it's
a currency of distrust. And you should trust the
government more because it's not like they've ever abused that to
take advantage of you and completely debase you and fund
these endless wars of which your children were drafted and rolled
out to, you know, go die in a foreign land.
No horrific things that Fiat has enabled.
Let's completely ignore that and let's give them even more trust.
It's not like they will ever use that against us whatsoever,
anyways. So this was his response.
Do I have a problem with Bitcoin?
Let's check it out. Do I have a problem with
Bitcoin? I've recently said that Bitcoin
is a currency of distrust. I was just repeating what
Bitcoin fans themselves often say.
They argue that they don't trust the banks and governments that
create dollars, yens, and other currencies, and therefore they
prefer Bitcoin. Bitcoin fans may have good
reasons to distrust banks and governments, but it doesn't
change the fact that Bitcoin is based on distrust of human
institutions. This is unfortunate, for the
whole purpose of money is to create trust between strangers.
Farmers grow food, shoemakers make shoes.
What is the function of the financial system?
Finance creates trust. Financial devices like
currencies, bonds, and shares create trust between millions of
strangers, who can then pull their knowledge and resources
together and cooperate on shared projects.
Originally, there was very little trust in institutions
like banks and governments, so money was minted from gold.
Since gold was scarce, this limited the amount of money and
limited Economic Cooperation. In the modern age, trust in
banks and governments increased, so they started to create tons
of new money from paper and later also from electronic data.
Today more than 90% of dollars, yens, EUR and other currencies
is just data in computers. Bitcoin is basically a return to
gold. Electronic gold, it assumes.
That we shouldn't trust human institutions and shouldn't allow
them to create money at will. I understand the causes for this
distrust, but it is an alarming development.
I hope that humanity finds a way to build trustworthy human
institutions instead of adopting technologies of distrust.
Humans control the world because we learned to trust one another
and cooperate with one another. If we now lose trust in human
institutions and instead put all our trust only in algorithms,
then the algorithms will control the world.
Like what I got to say about that is just simple, like if you
live in Argentina or if you live in Venezuela, you've been
absolutely royally effed for trust in someone else in regards
to in the United States specifically no.
Like notable banker went to jail for what happened in 2008.
They completely stole the opportunity the time the energy
the work from you know the lower the the, the the lower classes
the lower middle classes that don't have the means to save an
assets. They completely you know
destroyed the opportunity for the new newer generations to get
ahead in life. So I mean forgive me if I don't
trust whatsoever you know what the government is doing.
I I I don't I I think that you know with Bitcoin it's it's very
easy it's you know Knute is literally wearing the wearing
the shirt right now Infinity divided by 21 million.
I know for a fact that there's 21 million Bitcoin.
It cannot be debased it cannot be confiscated easily It's on
it's censorship resistant. Yeah I trust that system way
more than people like him that are telling me that you'll own
nothing and be happy and eat the fucking bugs.
I'm sorry bro. I don't trust you at all.
Don't trust verify. And if you still using a system
that requires trust in today's day and age, I mean, yeah,
you're you know, you're you're at the, you're at the whims of
this guy. You know, centrally planning
your life for the rest of your life.
Anyways, Knute, I'm going to start off with you brother.
What's your take on this? What's your take on this
intellectual from the World Economic Forum that knows
clearly knows what's best for the entire planet?
I feel sorry for the guy. I mean, first of all, like Big
Bitcoin isn't. It's an agreement on a on a
fixed set of rules and nothing else.
So we agreed to these rules because these rules are, they're
more expensive to try to break than to just follow.
That's why we agree and voluntarily opt into this
system. It's a beautiful thing and this
guy just doesn't get that. There's there's like I enjoyed
the first part of Sapiens but I found the rest of the book
boring and I put it down after a while And one of the which is
one of Yuval's books and one of the words he introduced to me at
least in that book was the word inter subjective which I think
is a great word and and Bitcoin is an inter subjective thing so
it's all money so he he should understand this and but he's
when you're so deep in in Fiat land and and you're working with
all of these institutions and everyone in this institutions I
mean they're people too and I think they think that they are
doing a good job and that they are doing their best to make the
world a better place. It's just that they don't make
the world a better place. That's the problem.
They think they are, but they aren't.
That's what's the same thing in the Soviet Union.
I mean, free markets are better at decision making than human
beings are because free markets are human beings.
It's just that the weights of each, each and every one of us
opinions are weighed correctly in a free market and not
resources aren't being misallocated.
So he's he's misinterpreting the whole thing and digging his own
grip. 100% agree with that. I'm going to pass it on to Luke.
Luke what? What's your take on all this?
Yeah. Well, just to add on to what
Knut is saying here, I mean, I think, I think the thing about
listening to that video is I is I hear that and everything he's
saying, I think he should be talking about Bitcoin.
You know, like the let's create human institutions that we can
trust in. Well, yeah, that's that's
Bitcoin. But the reason we can trust in
that is because we can verify it, right.
We can trust the money because we can verify it.
We can verify that there is a fixed supply cap.
And the the thing about this is that with with the the, the
trouble with the distrust that I think he's talking about is more
about distrust of the institutions, right.
And we can't verify anything that these institutions are
doing until after the fact they have the control.
The Argentina graph that you pulled up Nico, like it's it's
it's all of this is exactly what we bitcoiners don't trust.
Can't trust right. But we can verify the Bitcoin
and and this is what can create trust between us as individuals.
We can more easily trust our fellow man because we can
verify. And by having a fixed money
supply, we don't even have to worry not about the money
anymore. We don't have to worry that our
money is losing the purchasing power and that our our savings
are are just melting away because because the central
banks think a little bit of inflation is good.
So that's my take on that. And yeah, Yuval Harari is
misguided. Definitely. 100% And I actually,
you know, Speaking of trust, ladies and gentlemen, I have a
video, you know, from Jared Bernstein, who is the chair of
the United States Council of Economic Advisers.
And his role is to advise the president on economic policy.
Let's check out what he has to say.
And you guys, let me know if you know this inspires trust.
The US government can't go bankrupt because we can print
our own money. It obviously begs the question,
why exactly are we borrowing in a currency that we print
ourselves? I'm waiting for someone to stand
up and say why don't we borrow our own currency in the 1st
place? Like you said, they print the
dollar, so why? Why does the government?
Even borrow. Well, the so the, I mean again,
some of this stuff gets some of the language that the MMM some
of the language and concepts are just confusing.
I mean, the government definitely prints money and it
definitely lends that money, which is why the government
definitely prints money and then it lends that money by by
selling bonds. Is that what they do?
They they they, yeah, they they they sell bonds.
Yeah, they sell bonds, right. Since they sell bonds and people
buy the bonds and lend them the money.
Yeah. So a lot of times, a lot of
times, at least in my year with MMT the the language and the
concepts can be kind of unnecessarily confusing.
But there is no question that the government prints money and
then it uses that money to. So yeah, I I guess I'm just I
don't I can't really talk. I don't I don't get it.
I don't know what they're talking about like, because it's
like the government clearly prints money, does it all the
time, and it clearly borrows otherwise we wouldn't be having
this debt and deficit conversation.
So I don't think there's anything confusing there.
So that's the guy you're supposed to trust.
That guy. That guy.
Jared Bernstein, is part of the Council of Economic Advisors.
They're responsible for releasing an annual report
called the Economic Report of the President.
In that report, they dedicated 20 pages making the case for
central banks and also bashing Bitcoin.
That's who you've all wants you to trust and he can't even
answer the question in the 1st place.
I'm sorry bro, I'm sorry I can't trust you man.
You don't even know what's going on.
Anyways, Opti, what's your take? On this?
Yeah. Now, before I come in, Canute
wanted to say one more point, so let's bring him in.
Yeah, no, yeah, no problem. I I mean, just hearing this guy
is so funny. The thing is don't trust that
movie maker either. That woman who is making that
movie is apparently an MMT maximalist.
So, so the the the clip is from a movie that is probably not
very pro Bitcoin either. But what I was going to say
before is like the Is there anyone more trustworthy on earth
than than someone who is stuck to their guns for the the last
decade in Bitcoin and has not ever taking the taken the giant
bag of shit coins offered to them on almost a a daily basis.
No one on earth has more integrity than a Bitcoin
maximalist. That's that's just a fact to me.
There are so many people in this space who I would trust with
anything. Like because you know that you
can trust bitcoiners, you have no idea if you can trust anyone
else. But if the bin Max is for a long
time, then yeah, that's the trustworthiness.
Ironically enough, that's what don't trust verify leads to. 100
percent, 100% agree with that take.
Anyways, OPTI, real quick, 'cause we are we are going,
yeah, yeah, yeah. Mine will be a little quick.
I mean guys like Yuval Harari is the perfect counter signal.
I am so glad that he is like anti Bitcoin and fighting
Bitcoin and now doing all this really ridiculous social media
propaganda 'cause these are the type of people and this might
get Nikko feeling a little weird.
These are the type of people we want to be the last to adopt
Bitcoin. Like this guy is so anti human.
It's absolutely incredible. He basically thinks humans are
useless, that the the the only future for humans is is like
literally be doped up like useless eaters.
Like these are his words, not mine.
And then just like even going to even if you like to talk about
what he's actually saying and try to dismantle he's saying
like he said something. I forget like the point of money
is so that you trust people. And it's like that's literally
the opposite. The point of cash is so you
don't have to trust the person you're transacting with.
But you know this guy's an anthropologist.
Of course we shouldn't expect him to understand anything about
economics. But I think the real elephant in
the room is why don't people trust the institutions anymore.
You've all it's because you guys have abused our trust and now we
don't have to trust them. This is why it's the meme don't
trust verify. And This is why it's The only
way forward is because we know that you can't trust other
humans to not debase the money. And so now we've took in that
power out of the hands of humans.
And you know, as long as every one of us or at least most of us
are running annode ourselves, we don't have to trust humans.
And like Canute was saying, even though we don't trust the
institutions, we don't trust the banks, that doesn't mean that
trust in society won't grow. Once you realize that people are
principled, that they aren't going to rob you or rather don't
have the ability to rob you, then your the your trust levels
can go up. Like with all of us as
bitcoiners, you know there's a certain level of understanding
and you can move forward from there and and that's the beauty
of Bitcoin. But also really again going back
to if we really want to like break down what he was saying
like the just trust us, bro so we can print more money Like
that is the craziest line of logic I've ever heard in my
life. You like you know you you don't
trust us but like trust us, bro, because that's the the world's
been a been doing very well because we're printing more cash
and look how much good things you had and it's like this is
insane. He's like, yeah, trust us bro,
because money printer's going to go Burr and you're like, what is
going on here? The thing is, honesty is
becoming profitable and dishonesty is not.
It's it's becoming a losing the the like in Fiat, it's
profitable to be dishonest. In Bitcoin it's not.
It's the other way around. It's the inverse of clown world.
That's what it is. Yeah.
I mean and and I think that's like really like that.
That's the signal right there. And I think a lot of people have
a they don't quite understand that Bitcoin has an aligned
incentive structure and you know, it pays to, you know, it
play, it pays to play by the rules.
And you can make the case. I would say it's more expensive
to try to break the rules in the Bitcoin system then versus the
Fiat system. And I think that's a very alien
concept, specifically for people that have been living in the
Fiat matrix the majority of their lives.
Anyways, let's move on to the news 'cause we have a lot to
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It's so crazy that like Elizabeth Warren is like trying
to pitch us that somehow this piece of of technology is, is is
somehow dangerous. Like that's so nuts that you
know, but I wouldn't put it past them.
Of course they want to retain the the privilege of being able
to create money for free that everyone else has to work for.
Anyways in other news you know this this thing is escalating.
But the game theory, like Knute said before we went on earth but
before we went on air, is absolutely playing out.
So what is happening? The Trump The Trump campaign
announced that President Donald Donald J Trump campaign now
accepting crypto. First major party nominee to do
so goes on today. Today's President Trump's
campaign has launched A fundraising page that provides
any federally permissible donor to the ability to give through
its joint fundraising committee. And now here's the part where
they just completely fall flat using any cryptocurrency
accepted through the Coinbase Commerce product.
Now here's the thing about the Coinbase Commerce product, they
literally took away Bitcoin. So you can only donate Bitcoin
for what? If you want to do that for
whatever reason, using a Coinbase wallet or using a meta
mask integrated wallet, You can't just send Bitcoin, right?
So I mean, I guess it's a step in the right direction, but like
bro. Anyways, so here's a screenshot
of the page itself now accepting Bitcoin and shit coins.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, USDC, DOGE, Meta mask.
I don't know if that's a crypto whatever, but it's just
interesting. Anyways, here is the coin desk
article for the audio listeners as Trump becomes first major
party candidate to accept crypto donations.
The likely GOP flag bearer in the upcoming U.S. presidential
election signaled his friendliness to crypto at a Mar
a Lago event earlier this month. Now here's the thing and here's
where I think the anti crypto, anti Bitcoin, anti crypto
elements of the Democratic Party completely dropped the ball and
they completely got blindsided and I think they're panicking
and I think that's where the 180 is coming from.
Check out this article from Finnbold Biden campaign in panic
mode as Trump accepts crypto donations Not long after
declaring his support for the cryptocurrency sector and making
it one of the defining points of his presidential bid, the former
United States President Donald Trump is now officially
accepting donations from his campaign in the form of crypto
assets. It goes on to say, as per the
press release, the fundraising per page provides.
Anyway, I already read that to you guys and here is where.
Here is where, kind of like the Biden administration, elements
of the Democratic Party are starting to walk it back.
Meanwhile, Biden's team has sent a fundraising text warning
donors that cryptocurrency executives and oil barons are
coming out of the woodwork for Trump.
Around the same time as the Trump campaign made the above
announcement, according to a widely circulated screenshot.
Now here's the thing though, like they picked the fight in
the 1st place, Bitcoin is bipartisan.
Bitcoin doesn't have politics involved in it.
They made it political when they started attacking the entire
industry and putting one of us in a box.
And now it seems like they are walking it back because here is
the first announcement when the House, and also this passed the
Senate as well. They're trying to pass a
resolution that would make it easier for certain financial
institutions to custody Bitcoin. The Biden administration went
out of their way to say if the president were presented with HJ
resolution One O 9, he would veto it A couple days later when
they realize, Oh my God, this is probably not a, you know,
winning issue. Take a look at the language.
It's a lot friendlier. The administration of opposes
passage passage of HR4763, which would affect the regulatory
structure for digital assets in the United States.
The Administration is eager to work with Congress to ensure a
comprehensive and balance regulatory framework for digital
assets, Building on existing authorities which will promote
the responsible development of digital assets and payment
innovation and help reinforce the United States leadership in
the global financial system. HR4763 and its current form
lacks sufficient protections for consumers and investors who
engage in certain digital asset transactions.
The Administration is The Administration looks forward to
continued collaboration with Congress on developing
legislation for digital assets that includes adequate
guardrails for consumers and investors.
We're creating the conditions needed for innovation and
further time will be needed for such a collaboration.
Complete 180 Here's Cynthia Lamas, the Bitcoin Senator from
Wyoming. There is bipartisan majority in
both chambers of Congress in favor of crypto.
The future is very bright. Here's Nick Carter.
He goes on to say the resignation of Choke Point
Marty. And what he's referencing is
Operation Choke Point O, which is something that we've covered
on this show, but essentially with Operation Choke .22, Point
O. Was this collaborated effort by
elements of the federal government in an attempt to
isolate the industry from the rest of the traditional
financial system? Well, it seems like the guy
behind that, the FDIC Chairman Martin Gurenberg, resigned, and
apparently it has to do with some type of harassment.
But I'm sure that someone tapped on his shoulder just because of
the political pressure mounting. Here's Nick Carter goes on to
say this has to be the potential to be the biggest winning
regulatory week in crypto history.
But I think it's important to remember that they're just doing
this 180 not because they've changed your minds because, but
because they see the writing on the wall that politically this
might not be very popular with elements of their base because
it's not only Republicans, it's only right, right wingers in the
United States that are supporting Bitcoin.
It's bipartisan those. So there's left wingers that
support bitcoiners. I mean support Bitcoin.
There's people in the center that support Bitcoin.
This is a bipartisan issue. They are the ones that decided
to make it partisan when they started to go out of their way
not through legislation attack the industry but announce stupid
shit like a 30% proposed tax on Bitcoin miners in the United
States. And when they tap on the FBI to
release a document trying to scare people out of taking self
custody of their of of their Bitcoin and and again this this
is, this is enforcement by executive action.
This is not enforcement via legislation right.
So there's it's just they just don't like the the the industry
anyways. So Nick Carter said something I
think on point he said the Biden administration is marginally
taking their foot off neck for cheap political points because
junior staffers showed them scary internal polls don't be
placated. We still need a clean house and
total regime change. Here is Caitlin Long, who we've
had on the show many, many times and she was.
She actually dropped this on the show and she said look like and
she said this in testimony yesterday.
She said that the reason that her bank Custodia bank got
denied the federal banking charter was because that order
came directly from the White House.
So of course she's reacting to that statement that we just read
to you guys. But she says, ha ha ha.
The same White House that orchestrated the hit on the
crypto industry specifically including the feds denial of
custodial bank don't trust them. What they're really after is a
central bank digital currency, right?
And again, people aren't buying this 180.
Here's Tom Emmer and let's take out what he has to say in
regards to a central bank digital currency.
So a couple things to unpack here.
Just because they changed tune, because they realized how
unpopular this was politically, because there's an election
coming up in November, don't pay attention to what they say.
Pay attention to what they do. I don't forget what they've done
to the industry over the last two years.
Doesn't. The moment that they put one of
us in a box, the moment that they started persecuting us, you
know, makes me very skeptical of any 180.
Just because you've realized a little too late that, you know
this might hurt you in the election, it doesn't mean that
I'm going to completely trust you at this point.
Anyways, let's check out what TomTom Emmer has to say.
This week House Republicans as as Blake just said, they're
going to take action to safeguard our American values by
passing my bill, the CBDC or the Central Bank Digital Currency
Anti Surveillance State Act. With this legislation, we're
going to stop unelected bureaucrats in the Biden
administration from using a central bank digital currency
again, ACBDC, that threatens to destroy the American way of
life. Unlike decentralized digital
assets such as Bitcoin, CBDC's are a digital form of sovereign
currency design issued and monitored by the federal
government. In short, ACBDC is a government
controlled programmable money that if not designed to be just
like cash, open, permissionless and private with a capital P, it
not only could, it will give the federal government significant
transaction level data on individuals and the ability to
suppress politically unpopular activity.
We've already seen examples of foreign governments weaponizing
their financial system against their citizens.
In China, the Communist Party actually has the digital Yuan
that is being used to monitor its citizens and they are
building social scores based on behaviors.
Again, that's an anti American approach.
Closer to home, in the Western Hemisphere, Canada froze the
bank accounts of hundreds of truckers protesting the vaccine
mandate in 2022. If you think it can happen,
think again. It has and it will.
If we allow this to happen here, it's naive to believe that your
government will not weaponize the tools that it has to control
you. This may be why the Biden
administration issued an executive order placing urgency
on CBDC research and development.
All signals point towards this administration developing ACBDC
that can and will be used to surveil and control Americans
the Federal Reserve has even described.
If you don't listen to them when they tell you that they're not
doing anything. The Federal Reserve has already
described CBDC's as one of their key duties in a document that
was provided to my office. In doing this the Biden
administration has proven they are itching to trade Americans
right to privacy for ACCP style surveillance tool.
House Republicans are not going to let that happen. 165 members
of our conference have Co sponsored our CBDC Anti
Surveillance State Act and it is guard garnered wide industry
support. This bill ensures that Congress
not the administration or the administrative state more
specifically retains the authority over the United States
digital currency policy so that it reflects our American values
of privacy, individual sovereignty and free market
competitiveness. If not open, permissionless and
private. Again with a capital P like
cash, a CBDC is nothing more than a big government
surveillance tool that will be weaponized to oppress Americans
freedom and right to privacy. I encourage all of my
colleagues, Republican and Democrat, to support this bill,
which protects innovation and defense against an ever
expanding government surveillance state.
With that, I leave. I yield to our Majority Leader.
So I mean, like enough said, right?
You know, don't pay attention to what they say, pay attention to
what they do. You know the the guy that the
the video of, the guy, Jared, the the one In the very
beginning, the Council of Economic Advisers to the
President wrote a paper literally advocating for CBD CS
bashing Bitcoin. The Biden administration is
being completely hostile towards the industry.
They want a monopoly for their central bank digital currency.
They don't want, you know, they don't want competition.
But clearly as soon as they realized how politically
unpopular that was to go after, you know, Bitcoin and shit
coins, they're doing a 180. I don't believe it whatsoever.
They're just in panic mode. The article said it there
itself. They just in.
But they're trapped into a corner.
And this is the beauty of bitcoins.
Incentives is that it exposes incentives, it exposes tyrants,
right. And now they're exposed, right.
They they don't know what to do. They're like how do we push this
through even though our base doesn't really like this, they
like alternatives, but we we're going to just have to lie to
them a little bit until we get re elected in November and then
we can go back to the plan of rolling out a central bank
digital currency in the US And now what's really interesting
too is that the rollout of the CDC has been an executive action
as well. They have not gone through
Congress to roll this out, which is what this bill that Tom Emmer
is proposing stops, right? And there's already been states
that have gone above and beyond, like the state of Florida and
Governor Ron DeSantis, and they've literally passed anti
central bank digital currency legislation so that the federal
government can't just get away with it.
But make no mistake, that's what they want.
That's why they're attacking Bitcoin.
That's why they're proposing these 30% taxes on Bitcoin
miners. They don't want a competition to
their central bank digital currency.
But they're being insidious about this.
They're not being honest about this because they don't have the
political support to roll this out.
So they have to lie about it. They have to say, actually, you
know what we love Etherium let Etherium ETF.
Yeah, whoop Dee Doo. You know, it's like just because
they saw the polling, it has nothing to do with like, oh,
this is what we want. It's like they saw the polling.
They're like, oh, wait, we might not get elected here, right.
So And you know what? A CBDC is a wet dream for people
like Yuval Harari that we played you guys the video in the very
beginning. Like that is what that guy is
dreaming about. That is what that guy wants.
Because there he can have his currency of trust and continue
to central plan the world and you'll own nothing and be happy.
And if you're not happy, you know, like, you know we will
shut off your money and you're forced to eat bugs.
You ate too much steak this week.
That's what the central planners want.
They want the central bank digital currency, and clearly
they don't want Bitcoin. Bitcoin takes away the power
from the state, takes away the power from the central bankers,
and it truly gives it back to the people.
If you take self custody for whatever fucking reason, you
decide to buy captured Bitcoin, that doesn't give you Jack shit.
It's self custody Bitcoin, of which you have the keys to and
only you, that really empowers you to truly become a sovereign
individual. So I'm going to pass it on to
Knute Knute. I know you're not based in the
USI know you're overseas. But dude, I mean, this is
something that we're seeing worldwide.
This isn't something that we're just seeing here in the US,
right? You have the European Union
going full force, you know, Opti's ex-girlfriend Christine
Lagarde at as Fast as she can, rolling out, you know, central
bank digital currencies. I believe the last time I
checked, the Atlantic Council's keeping track of this 90% of the
world's countries on planet Earth are running as fast as
they can to develop and roll out these CBDCS so that they can
retain the privilege of being able to create money for free
that the rest of us have to work for.
What's your take on that Canute? Well, first of all, I may not be
in the US, but I saw my hat in the US in that ad you showed for
For the party in Nashville. Sick.
So that's why I brought that up anyway.
Remember that this whole clown show like it didn't start, but
like a good example of it. And Bitcoin was born out of
this. When the 2008 election in the
US, the switch from Bush to Obama, so from Republican to
Democrat, that's those two decided to collude and bail out
the fucking banks. And then we've just been rolling
like people say kick the can, kicking the can down the road.
But I prefer rolling the snowball down the hill since.
So it's getting worse and worse and like what are you choosing
between now? You're choosing between Donald
Trump and Joe Biden. Like, are there two worst
candidates for the? UN.
Ever. Like, how Can you believe that
democracy is working when that is the result?
Like, it's so obviously clown world and the thing.
The thing is there's the word democracy doesn't.
It's not. It's nowhere to be seen in the
US Constitution. It's just simply isn't in there.
It's all about property rights and your nation.
I'm sorry, but it has forgotten what it's all about.
It started great, but they wanted a minimal state and
States and their institutions grow like cancers and you don't
get rid of them until you have another revolution and the
revolution is upon you. It's called Bitcoin and it's
it's the most peaceful 1 yet. Absolutely.
I mean, I, dude, you hit the nail on the head.
And I think it, you know, Bitcoin has the, the, it's the
tool that could potentially bring America back to its
founding principles, founding values, right.
And it's completely been hijacked and of course since the
establishment of the Federal Reserve, which is like the
feeder for the administrative state, the feeder for the state
in order to fund its operations in itself.
Yeah. I I I think that you know it's
you know we're we're we're not we're we're not going to go back
we're we're not going to have you know this this freedom that
we all desire until you know people take back that power
until people really take start taking self custody of their
Bitcoin until the government can't debase the currency.
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Anyways, I'm going to pass it on to Luke.
Luke, I also know that you're not American, but what's your
take on this news, man? It's it's crazy.
You know, if you would have talked to Bitcoiners like 15
years, years ago, you could you ever have imagined them like,
you know, like talking about this in the halls of Congress,
presidents bringing this up, like even though they have no
idea what the fuck Bitcoin is, you know?
But they're it's it's being discussed in the political
discourse. Like if that guy that, you know,
sold, I mean sold those 10,000 Bitcoin for two pizzas, knew
everything that was happened today, I don't think he would
have bought those pizzas, man. Yeah man yeah.
So so and just for for everyone who probably isn't aware here.
Yeah, I'm I'm I'm from Canada. Originally I might have escaped
to nice and sunny Finland but I'm from I'm from the great
white N Canada. And yeah, I Canadas had a unique
problem named Justin Trudeau for the last 10 years.
And so, I mean the political situation in both countries,
America, Canada, yeah, right now seems to be at a bit of a
turning point. Maybe the the world is going to
come to its senses a little bit and at least get rid of the
political party that is more to the left than the other.
So that might be positive. But I mean in terms of the
politicization of it it it's it's it's funny because I I keep
hearing arguments that Bitcoin isn't supposed to be political
but naturally there's one side of the aisle that is at least
says that they're going to do less with government infringe on
freedoms less right. So that would be the the right
side of the aisle and in and in in the US obviously right now
that's that's Trump in Canada there's Pierre Poliev and and
he's he's actually being at at a shawarma shop buying Bitcoin up
in up in Canada and so that's that's pretty good for him shout
out to Tahinis but yeah I think the whole situation with the the
political spectrum at the moment it's it's too bad that it's
gotten politicized. But honestly I think it's a
natural consequence of just Bitcoin being freedom go up
technology and so people who are more aligned towards freedom are
going to be the first to adopt it.
And so in terms of Biden versus Trump or in terms of left versus
right, I mean my hope is that it all just goes toward empowering
people and increasing freedom. But in the in the short term,
it's it's probably going to be good to at least get political
parties in that are thinking about Bitcoin and who are
friendlier towards ideas of of freedom and individual
sovereignty. And I play bass with a pick.
A hundred, 100%, Yeah. I I think that during, I think
we all believe in the theory from the sovereign individual
right, where over a long enough timeline, Bitcoin makes politics
completely irrelevant. But during the transition period
that's where, you know, like unfortunately these politicians
can make your life a living hell if if you live in an anti
Bitcoin kind of legislation, can you it?
Yeah. Yeah, so much here.
And I see so much in the comments about Trump being the
obvious better choice. And he and this and that.
And like, are you really sure that a pro Bitcoin precedent
would be a better than one that's against Bitcoin?
Because like, the only thing that can wake people up is
fucking waking up, and people aren't gonna run their own nodes
if they're allowed to run them. This is a freedom tool.
We need to escape the entire fucking matrix.
Trump did trade embargoes and he he gave out $1000 to each U.S.
citizen during the lockdowns, and the lockdowns was on Trump's
watch. He said call me too.
Like, yeah, he prints money just as much as the next guy.
You don't get it. You need to escape the entire
fucking system, and we all do. It doesn't matter where you
live. You need to break out of this
thing and you're not going to do it by political means.
These people are not going to save the world. 1.
Canoe's an accelerationist. 100% was about to say that Canoe is
on the accelerationist camp. And you know that.
And that's the thing. Like that's one of the things.
And and Nolan is making that case.
Love his show, by the way. Break up at 8:00 AM in the
morning. He makes the case for that as
well. He makes the case that, you
know, let's get a Joe Biden and let's get a Trudeau, let's let's
make things worse so that people wake the F up.
And that's a really, really good point.
Canoe. Anyways, Opti, what's your take
on this before we get on to the culture to talk about what Knute
and Luke are working on? Yeah, so I mean, I not to echo
exactly what Knute says, 'cause he, he laid it out great.
And just going back to like the original start of this news
story, you know, like, look, I like the direction that the
political class is taking at this point.
They realize that it's politically unfavorable to be
anti Bitcoin. And I I just, me and Nico been
surprised at how quickly they've been able to pivot and go 180°
against the rhetoric. They've been.
They've been extolling on us for a while and now you know it's
happening way faster than we foresaw.
But of course, you know Trump using Coinbase, commerce is not
the way. Like it's absolute trash.
But hey, you know baby stamps, we can't expect them to get it
right all all the way. But hey, if you are listening,
which we know you do get, you know, set up ABDC pay server,
that'd be lit like that would really get some good favoritism
coming out from the bitcoiners. But you know also, I guess this
is my point here, Nico, and you can say what you want, but don't
send Trump or any politician. Your Bitcoin 100%.
Not only will it most likely be converted back to Fiat
instantly, but stack them. Sad.
It's like this is the point. You know you don't need to send
them your money, especially don't send them Bitcoin.
Everyone's a scammer and of course they want your Bitcoin.
It's the best way to store your values.
So I love it. But one of the things that I was
thinking why the that Trump news story was going on is the the
classic floodline or the meme of like.
But bro like Bitcoin. Is it money because no one
accepts it bro like it falling flat on its face.
Obviously the technicalities here aren't perfect, but hey,
now we have presidential candidates taking Bitcoin.
Like it sounds like money to me, guys.
I don't know, maybe, maybe I'm biased here, but it sounds like
people want your Bitcoin. He's not, though.
He's not taking Bitcoin. He's fucking Coinbase.
The only the only politician that makes sense to me is Javier
Miley in Argentina. He's the only one that speaks my
language. I don't trust him either.
I don't trust any politician, but at least he's got the
fucking freedom thing right. 100% And then last point Nico,
before we move on to the culture so we can get some time.
Did you see the CNBC headline this morning about Trump being
pro Bitcoin and creating a pro Bitcoin army?
I just love the rhetoric coming out of this, especially when you
compare it to Elizabeth Warren's anti Bitcoin anti crypto army.
It's just hilarious that they're they're they're having to
partake in the Bitcoin memes to succeed.
I it's our meme world. Everyone else is just living in
it. And last point, I don't know
much about Tom Emmer, but I love, I love what he's saying.
I he's great. Every everything that I've seen
and heard from him recently has been absolutely on point.
We need more politicians like that.
Absolutely. I I I think, I think we need to
move to a world, accelerate to a world where we don't need
politicians at all. And I think Bitcoin is going to
enable that. But there is going to be a
little transitionary period, which is definitely what we're
living through these days anyways.
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to finally
transition to talk to these two legends right here.
Canutes van Holm, the author of some of my favorite Bitcoin
books. And of course, Luke the Wolf.
And they have a awesome Bitcoin show currently currently on
YouTube. I believe it's called the
Freedom Footprint. Huge fan of it.
They've done some incredible interviews.
So guys, it's an absolute honor to have you guys on the show
today. How you guys doing?
How do you think we're? Having a blast, you translate to
Canute. I I can't, I can't tell.
I can't tell the the, the, the Nordic stoic answers.
That means he's having a good time.
I live by the motto If they're happy, I'm happy.
If they're not happy, I'm happy. Anyways, I'm going to pass it on
to Opti. Opti we have.
I'm excited, man. Yeah, that's gonna be great.
So we'll talk about freedom, footprint at the tail end of the
culture. But what we really want to talk
about is your guys's latest release, a new book, and
everyone in the chat said this is the best meme.
Coming out of today's show is the new title of your book
Bitcoin the The Inverse of Clown World.
So I don't know who who wants to take this?
You guys can talk about what is this book based on?
Obviously, I think we can tell. I think we can tell.
I could play this video if you want whatever you guys want to
do. The video's a bit alone.
But yeah, I give you a. Couple minutes.
Sure. OK, cool.
Let's we'll play a first one. Of Michael Jackson.
If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at
yourself and then make a change lies a profound call to action
that resonates deeply within the hearts of those of us who dare
to dream of a better tomorrow. This timeless nugget of wisdom
encapsulates the essence of personal transformation and its
ripple effect on the societal fabric surrounding us.
A journey of introspection and self improvement is not just an
act of personal fulfilment, but a pivotal step towards enacting
broader, meaningful change in our interconnected world.
Have you ever found yourself lost in the labyrinth of
existential questions? Questions like why are we here?
What is the purpose of life? How many skateboarders does it
take to screw in a light bulb? These questions invite us to
contemplate our existence and the mysteries surrounding our
being. For the curious, the follow up
question wait, But why? Soon emerges as a constant
companion in our quest for understanding.
Our inherent curiosity propels us to challenge the conventional
to look beyond the surface and to seek truths hidden beneath
the veneer of societal norms. As humans, we constantly strive
for coherence and meaning. We have constructed elaborate
narratives and frameworks to make sense of our surroundings,
and we act like these constructs are immutable truths.
Yet reality is far more fluid. Even when faced with
overwhelming evidence, we find it challenging to accept novel
ideas. The process of updating
conventional wisdom is slow and often comes with a lag,
regardless of what we think about them.
New scientific insights and shifts in our technological
landscape challenge our perceptions.
Yeah. Great, Great, great, great.
Yeah, you can. You can go watch the whole video
on. I'll drop it in the chat for
everyone. Yeah, the the animator is called
Yoni Appelberg and you may know him from my earlier
collaborations with him, especially the Everything
Divided by 21 million video which created this meme here.
So. So we're very happy to announce
that we're releasing the book on Bitcoin Infinity Day, August
21st this year. And me and Luke will be in Riga
for Baltic Honey Badger and the new Day for Baltic Honey Badger
and Nost Riga is also starting there.
So the Noster conference starts we'll be throwing an Infinity
day party. There will be a dinner with 21
guests and all of this. So we're we're we're doing this
with a bang and the the biggest news may be that the the the
entire book will be turned into a Yoni style animation series.
So you will be able to watch the entire thing on on YouTube
throughout the year because you only we have to give Yoni some
time to actually do the animation.
But yeah, the plan is to have Guy narrate and you only do the
videos. Yeah, you can never predict the
future to 100% accuracy, but that's the plan anyway.
And the book is about 95% done I would say or between 90 and 95%
done. And we've had loads of fun doing
it. It's very much inspired by the
conversations we've had on the Freedom Footprint show the last
two years. And yeah, over to Louie.
You, Luke, you maybe you can tell your story here and the
story about the show, Yeah. Yeah, well just just what Knute
is saying. I mean the The Freedom Footprint
show is is our little podcast. That is is really how I got
connected with Knute in the 1st place.
I was I was just looking to contribute to the community and
we got connected through Knute's publisher at the the time and
they they just wanted to start a podcast and and I'd been doing
some podcasting before before I got into Bitcoin and one thing
led to another and we started making the show and it it's just
been awesome and we've we've been focusing on this idea of
the freedom footprint expand your freedom footprint as
opposed to you know your carbon footprint But the the the whole
idea of the show is is just to explore Bitcoin and other
freedom go up technologies and and we really try and dig deep
into those ideas you know and and So what that's brought out
is this this book and of course the the everything divided by 21
million meme is is is timeless But then the the thing that
started to come up over and over again is that Bitcoin is also
the inverse of clown world. It inverts clown world.
And so the book is going to talk about how Bitcoin is the thing
that is going to be the solution to clown world.
But there's a there's a twist though.
And so I I invite you to watch the the whole video because it's
going to get to a bit of a point.
And then what we're going to reveal through the book is maybe
that Bitcoin actually changes you and maybe you're the one
that inverts clown world. And so that's the the whole
idea. So I'm, I'm super thrilled to be
a part of this, this whole process.
Never could have imagined it even a couple of years ago here.
But yeah, that's that's the book.
And so I, I, I know I can speak for Knute on this.
We're both super excited for it, so.
You buried the lead there a little bit.
You buried the lead there all right.
And the the part that I want to focus on is, you know, you don't
change Bitcoin. Bitcoin changes you.
And you know I've been, it's my eighth year to can't believe I'm
saying this, you know down the Bitcoin rabbit hole.
And I've it's not only helped me financially obviously, but I
would even say that it's helped me on on a much deeper level.
I feel like I'm more have a have a my my my perception of reality
is more anchored on the truth than as if I were living on a
Fiat standard. So I completely, fundamentally
agree with you and SPS in the chat saying Opti changes you.
Well, yeah, maybe Knute. So could you you wanna elaborate
a little bit? You wanna talk about that 'cause
I I think that's such a very it's a fascinating point that I
think a lot of people, they don't understand how how much
Bitcoin fundamentally changes you the moment you adopt A sound
money standard. No.
And if you if you read the entire book, you'll understand
why Bitcoin changes you. And if you watch the entire
trailer, you'll you'll get the answer to how many skateboarders
it takes to screw in a light bulb as well.
But like this, this book is about introspection and self
improvement and how Bitcoin is self improvement that that's
literally what it is and used properly, it can emancipate you
and it can turn you into a better human being.
And I 100% believe that. And I know you three do too.
So we just want more people to come on board this wonderful
train and escape clown world. Absolutely man, 100% Anyways,
Opti, I see you have something pulled up.
Yeah so I got your website up here freedomfootprintshow.com
and as AII guess a a philosopher by trade.
I I got a Bachelor's in philosophy.
I really love your your tagline here Bitcoin philosophy podcast
and I I've written down a few notes on myself what the Bitcoin
philosophy is to me personally and I've been meaning to like
write something on on that on that topic I but I only have it
in outline. So I want to ask you guys, what
do you think is the Bitcoin philosophy?
I think there's no one single answer to that question but
Bitcoin. Like in order to really
understand Bitcoin, you must first understand the problem it
solves and that that in itself sends you down so many rabbit
holes and so many philosophical dilemmas that you never thought
of before. So.
So I think it's like the best way to to to to trigger those in
people is to start asking really simple questions like why do we
pay taxes if they can print money or why do people in the
public sector pay taxes And why if you practice something, if a
person practices doing something, do they become better
or worse at that something? And the answer is obviously they
get better at doing that something.
The follow up question to that is yeah, so why are prices going
up? Why if we get better at doing
stuff, why do prices go up? And the only answer is because
the money is broken. So, and that's what Bitcoin
fixes. And by extension, that fixes
everything. That's a very extremist
perspective, Canute. That yeah, but I am an extremist
according according to others. Like I view non violence as what
should be the norm and then you have politics all to the left of
that. It's just different grades of
hell basically. And the the less coercion you
have in society, the better. Bitcoin makes it less profitable
to coerce people into behaviors, and that's just the greatest
thing ever. It's a greatest tool for peace
ever discovered. Love it, love it.
Luke, I I'll ask you the same question.
What? What is your thoughts on this
topic? Well again, and and this isn't a
cop out exactly, but it it is up to the individual to decide what
is the philosophy of Bitcoin. But I'll tell you for for me,
the way I got into Bitcoin was through a different rabbit hole.
I first fell down the Jordan Peterson rabbit hole a few years
before I found Bitcoin. And it really helped me to find
Bitcoin by by watching guys like Rob Breedlove go on, you know
Lex Friedman and other guys like that and and talk about Bitcoin
through a lens of the philosophy of find meaning in life and find
the the the way that the world makes sense based on how we
think and how of course commute with this cactus.
Yeah, but yeah. Yeah and and and so.
So the angle that I came at Bitcoin was basically inserting
Bitcoin into this philosophy of finding personal meaning and
taking responsibility. And that's what resonated for me
with everything that doctor Jordan Peterson was was talking
about. And now actually I I've been
doing it a series now with with Rob Breedlove on on his channel
about Jordan Peterson's maps of meaning.
So we're up to episode 10 or 11 now something like that deep
dive into that book. And I mean, everyone's got their
own background and and philosophy and their their own
take on Bitcoin, But what I just encourage is to to find the
highest good that you can conceive of and put everything
into that. This is what makes heroes, this
is what makes saviors. And this is the Bitcoin rabbit
hole for me. Every Bitcoin, every, every dive
down the Bitcoin rabbit hole is a shamanic journey.
And every and every time you come out of that, you'd become
the hero and you become the savior all at the same time.
Oh. Bars.
That's some bars right there, yeah.
That cool motherfucking boy. Also we got a a caller coming
and joining us on the show and he he has some issues with what
Canute was saying. Canute do you?
Do you have any? Do you have any thoughts?
Yes, exactly what of what I said does he have an issue with?
You obviously don't trust me. Look, you see, I I don't believe
people are evil. Not even Yuval.
I think he thinks that he's doing good.
I I just think the incentives of the system he's living in is
making him do evil things. And and I think that's very
unfortunate and whatever it's the chicken and the egg problem,
the what came first, the evil or the system that created it, I
don't know. But we're living in times where
where it's OK for people to take other people's stuff and people
think that's morally justified. And only when you realize that
that is can never be morally justified can you can you truly
understand Bitcoin, I think. 100% and that's such a that is
such a a key point right this this system because it's it's
not only like you could make the case direct taxation you can
make the case property taxes like you never really own
anything you're always kind of paying rent to the government.
But I think the the very essence of Fiat is is based on theft.
Like, you know, they debase the currency.
It is literally stealing your your energy, your your your life
force, your savings. And it does it through this very
clever mechanism where people are just convinced that it's the
opposing party, the opposing political party that is the
cause of all their economic hardships, all their woes that
they're enduring. And they have this clever divide
and conquer strategy, which is clearly it's working right,
where they're getting people distracted on these things that
have absolutely no impact on their life.
So they can just keep on printing money.
And regardless of the political party that's in power, they both
do essentially the same thing. I think those comments on Trump
that you said earlier can you were spot on right about the you
know the the the the stimulus checks that he sent.
You know the the the printing of money.
So you know it's it's it's it's it's one of those things.
What I got to say is Bitcoin fixes this.
Bitcoin fixes this. The more people adopt A Bitcoin
standard, the more people that you know unplug from the Fiat
matrix. I think it's going to make the
world a much better place and it and over time hopefully it ends
the clown world all together. But I think as as as long as
people live on a Fiat standard clown world will persist.
I think clown world is a symptom of Fiat itself.
It clearly is, and this book will explain why and how things
are connected. So we're very excited for it and
we're having loads of fun. Even though it's hard work we're
having having loads of fun making it and bouncing ideas off
of one another and and trying to make each section as good as it
possibly can be. Well, I'm.
I'm really looking forward to it.
Where can people stay updated if they're interested in the book?
Like where? Where can people purchase a
copy? Where can they see it?
Where can people stay updated on the development and the release
of this? Well, you can follow the Freedom
Footprint Show on wherever we are.
And you can follow me and Luke and the Freedom Footprint Show
on X. Just kidding.
On Twitter and and on Noster. So we're on Twitter and on
Oster, that's our main platforms and we're on whatever podcasts
platforms you prefer to use, including once where you can SAP
people if you're still allowed to do that in the US So you can
follow us on Fountain, for instance.
Yeah. And we'll, we'll talk about the
book on the show. You can also follow Yoni
Appelberg's YouTube channel because that that's where they
will post the videos and his his other videos are just gorgeous
and fantastic. So if you're if you're not
following Yoni Appelberg, you should I I will write his name
in the chats here. Love it, Huenigo.
Before we go, let's do what is the last message you want to
leave with the audience. And we'll start with Luke.
Last messages increase your freedom footprint and invert
clown world. Bars.
Okay. Nice, short and sweet.
Love it. Okay Canute.
Same question. What's the last message you want
to leave with the audience? That sounds so final.
We got a wrap of the show. Like, subscribe and brush your
teeth. Boom.
Dropping the wisdom.
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