It's all going to zero against Bitcoin.
It's going up forever. You're against Bitcoin.
You're against freedom. Incitement to racial hatred
involves publishing or distributing material which is
insulting or abusive, which is intended to or likely to start
racial hatred. So if you retweet that, then
you're republishing that and then potentially you're
committing that offence. And we do have dedicated police
officers who are scouring social media.
Their job is to look for this material and then follow up with
identification arrests and so forth.
So it's a really, really serious people might I think they're not
doing anything harmful. They are and the consequences
will be visited upon them. Thompson now to talk through
this. So Matthew, the last point there
is crucial, isn't it? Some people might be sharing
simply to warn their friends, but it could be considered an
offence because they're amplifying.
This absolutely. And that's the key message is
that however you, you know, think you're acting innocently
on social media, whatever platform it is, you're just
sharing something for whatever reason that could potentially be
a criminal offence. And and look it, it's not an
idle threat either because the Crime Prosecution Service were
keen to point out that they've made a number of charges in
relation to stirring up of racial hatred online, one of
which this morning was for distributing a recording that
could in intending to stir up racial hatred.
And so they are actually already bringing charges in relation to
this sort of thing. So it's a very, very clear
message based in the harsh reality, if you like that, if
you do this kind of thing, you are potentially committing a
criminal offence. There, he said it.
They've got teams of people scouring the Internet looking
for this sort of thing, and if you are in the business of
sharing or retweeting whatever platform it might be,
potentially criminal material, well then you could find
yourself prosecuted. Yeah, we're going to submit
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That's right, ladies and gentlemen, in UK, they're
literally locking people up for retweeting certain types of
content. Now, of course, I don't think
anyone likes racism, but history has shown, I think over the last
five years is they'll use noble causes in order to obfuscate.
Like, you know, one of the things that we always hear is
like this and this and that is a danger to democracy.
Like, and it starts to sound like everything that is against
the official party line is a danger to democracy, right?
So when you say, look, you know, we we locked him up because his
tweet was racist versus we locked him up because his tweet
was politically incorrect and it made the government look bad.
Like, you know, you're going to you're going to approach that
very differently. And this is something also to
that we've been talking about many, many times on the show for
the last couple of months. Like I've been saying, this is
the great disintermediation. The Internet has allowed mass
scale peer-to-peer communications via social media.
And it's taken a lot of the power away from the legacy media
outlets. And those are the outlets that
the government used to be able to control.
Naimbu Kelly wrote this amazing piece for Bitcoin magazine.
We quote it all the time. It's called don't drink the
elites Kool-aid. And in that piece, he said their
most important weapon is their control on truth.
I mean, we we've been saying it guys like Opti, we don't really
do the mean we we do the meme review, but not as much not as
often anymore. But one of the things that Opti
says there is, you know, if tweets are bullets, memes are
artillery in this information warfare on the battlegrounds of
the Internet. And there you go, like, people
are literally, you know, getting locked up for retweeting things
that aren't politically acceptable by, you know, the
current regime in the UK, which is just, it's so crazy to say
that. And it also makes me really
thankful because here in the US, of course, you're protected by
the 1st Amendment. So unless you're like, directly
calling out for violence, you know, your speech is much more
protected than it is in the United Kingdom.
So, yeah, I mean, pretty, pretty crazy if if they're not OK with
you speaking freely, what makes you think they're going to be OK
with you transacting freely? Like these are also the same
people that want you to trust them with the central bank
digital currency. They can't even help themselves
with information. Could you imagine the power
they're going to have with something like money and, you
know, being able to influence certain types of behavior?
So pretty crazy. We're going to talk about that
today. But also the breaking news that
I want to focus on is it's almost as if maybe the
Democratic Party was watching simply Bitcoin because we did go
hard in the paint yesterday. I'm going to bring up Opti.
We go hard in the paint and I, I don't want to say it's a
coincidence, but it sure does feel like a coincidence that,
you know, after yesterday, Opti and I went pretty hard.
You know, literally the morning of the IT came out on Fox
Business or maybe late last night.
No, it was this morning. They basically made an
announcement that you know, the, the Biden, sorry, the the Harris
campaign is reaching out to the so-called crypto industry in
order to talk with the industry. Now the we've heard this
multiple times over the last month or two.
A we've been we're sticking to our message, which is like talk
is cheap, action is expensive. The Biden administration
currently has the executive power to free Ross.
So go show a gesture of goodwill.
Like you can do it right now, right?
You don't have to wait for an election.
You can do it right now. You have the power to do so.
And again, if you pay attention to their actions, and this is
actual just breaking news. It broke about 30 minutes ago.
It seems like the federal government or branches of the
federal government are still going after banks that are
dealing with Bitcoin and crypto in the United States.
So it seems like Operation Choke point O is still happening and
they want the best of both worlds.
They want the votes, but they don't want to put up or shut up.
So, you know, I'm sticking to what I said yesterday.
It's just, you know, there's what what's the saying, Opti?
There's no conspiracies, but there's also no coincidences.
I'm not saying they're watching simply, but that was a big
coincidence bro. Opti, what's your talk?
I don't think it's, yeah, you're giving us a little too much
credit here. I don't think it's them watching
simply Bitcoin. I think it's just a clear
response to the fact that the Republican Party is going full
in. Are you saying that there is
one? Democratic staffer that
potentially watches our show. At this point, I wouldn't be
surprised. In their lives yo, like they're
the bitcoiners are upset man. Wouldn't be surprised if they
were. But on that note, This is why I
am so happy to be an American because I am pretty sure that
all of my Twitter or social media accounts would have fully
gotten nuke by now and I wouldn't be on the show.
So as I tweeted this morning, you know, let's continue to make
America not UK again. So let's double down on on this
ideals that This is why we left the UK in the 1st place is so
that we can have free speech and, and we can talk about
things. And you know, my view on free
speech is like, let's, let's have all the conversations
happening so that we can actually see who the dumb people
are. Like, you don't know what's
actually going on if you have to censor information.
And I think it's very powerful to let people have these
conversations and let let ideas be exposed, because then you can
clearly see where people stand. And, and if you hide the hide
the conversations, then it's literally like Big Brother 1984.
Stuff like this is where we are right now, full totalitarian
dystopian future that was a warning of where not to go.
And yet, but here we are right now, it's just it's absolutely
incredible that this is where we are.
And I mean, I, I said it this week, Nico, I said it once.
You know what was the meme? I always butcher the meme.
But like born too early to see the moon landing, but born just
in time to be, you know, a a digital freedom fighter on the
Internet. So here we are.
Can't. Be a tick tocker but could be a
YouTube. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Can't be a tick tocker, but can be a freedom money advocate.
So incredible, incredible stuff. Very interesting in, in the
worst way possible of what's going on in the UK.
It's just, man, it's, it's terrifying that obviously the UK
usually leads in response to, you know, where the progressives
are going and man, it's, it's not looking good for the UK.
Absolutely 100% agree with you anyways, we got our boy Tony
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Anyways. Not only Burnell continues to do
the rounds on legacy media and she's been doing an incredible
job. Here she is again on Fox
Business. Fox Business, I got to, I got to
give them credit that that Channel has been very positive.
Just the, the, the coverage that they've, they've done on us or
our industry better said it's, it's been quite positive.
And of course, Natalie's a great voice and a great representation
of our movement. And of course, she has that
legacy media training as well. So she's able to say a lot of
information in a very condensed fashion.
Anyways, already, everybody, let's play the clips about two
minutes. So the, the comeback in, in, in
Bitcoin and and a theory and some of these others is
indicative of of maybe something that might have more staying
power. But it's only a day.
Let's go to Natalie. Natalie Brunell.
If she is the coin. Store's podcast host Natalie
should I believe today. Or yesterday when it comes to
some of these crypto plays. Hi, Neil, Great to see you.
Well, you know, Bitcoin, it's a great day to buy every day.
And there's a saying I think of during times of panic, and that
is a genius is the man who can do the average thing when
everyone else around him is losing his mind.
And the genius thing is just a dollar cost average into
Bitcoin. Ignore the noise.
Bitcoin was $25,000 last August. So we're zoom out and remember
that markets go up, but they can also come back down.
And the corrections are really great buying options now given
the market volatility, I thought I would have seen, you know, the
Bitcoin and some of these other plays hold their own as an
alternative. Gold typically has been the
hedge of late. It's down a little bit today,
but it's in and out of these all time highs of close to $2500 the
ounce. Is it a battle between gold and
Bitcoin and some of these others?
I think Bitcoin improves upon the properties of gold, and
Bitcoin is really digital capital.
You can trade it at the speed of light globally, 24/7, without
permission from any intermediary.
So when people want to express sentiment on market shifts or
geopolitical risks overnight or on a weekend, there are very few
things that they can sell instantly.
And so think about what that says about our 21st century
system. Neil and I credit Michael Saylor
for pointing this out too. We are interconnected through
digital technology and yet we're crawling on 20th century rails
and schedules when it comes to moving capital.
Securities trade Monday through Friday, 9:30 to 4:00, so 135
hours of the week. You can't move capital.
Everything is slow and expensive and you have to get permission
from your bank, which has to get permission from the central bank
and what's ultimately an over leveraged over financialized,
undercapitalized system. And so while many people don't
understand this yet, Bitcoin is digital capital and its
volatility in times of panic is actually a feature, not a bug.
It shows how liquid and reliable it is.
Well, you're quite right about that.
You can trade a 24/7 now. Well, and Natalie does an
incredible job and also one thing that I want to mention as
well is they kept mentioning they kept like lumping in
Bitcoin with the other alternative cryptocurrencies and
it's not a good comparison, right?
Like Ethereum or Solana or whatever.
Like it hurts me saying them, but you know, all these
alternatives, like they might be up dollar terms, but if you
compare which should be the only a pair that you should actually
care about, if you compare any of these alternatives to their
Bitcoin pairs, they're still down from like 2021, like they
haven't recovered, right? So always pay attention to the
Bitcoin pairs, not the dollar pairs because you should be
measuring your net worth in Bitcoin.
You should be measuring your net worth in dollars.
So anyways, all that being said, the reason I'm bringing that up
is because I think it's a little bit of a disservice.
Like if your legacy media, you're essentially equating
Bitcoin with all these others. And, and then not to mention the
graphics that they're pulling up, you know, they're pulling up
like Ethereum and they're pulling whatever.
Like one doesn't equal the other, right?
Bitcoin is unique. Bitcoin is completely different
than all these other cryptos, Bitcoins, the only one that is
truly decentralized. You can't manipulate the rules
to benefit yourself, but you can't do that in any of the
other. The other cryptos don't offer
that. So a lot of people are
attracted, attracted to the other ones because of the short
term volatility. In my experience just, and I've
been maybe doing this for a little bit, you tend to end up
with more Bitcoin if you just stay humble, stack stats and
stay solvent. Then if you try to play the the
trading game, not to say that you can't succeed, but just a
general trend is I've seen more people wreck themselves then,
you know, actually pull off successful trades and stuff.
So anyways, so yeah, I mean, definitely heading the right
direction. Also, another comment that I
saw, which I think is I think it was David Bailey that said this
because I think a lot of people were exactly lightning goats
pointed it out. That was exactly what was about
to say. Do you remember the 1st day or
the first week or the first six months that you got into
Bitcoin? You were probably in the depths
of hell of the the most shitty of the shit coins that you can
ever imagined. And only through calling through
those piles of shit coinery do you actually realize that
Bitcoin is different. Like expecting someone to just
get it on the first day is incredibly naive.
And that applies to legacy media and that applies to Trump.
And that applies to Trump's family.
Like, it, it just like thinking that you don't like maybe in
five years, if they're still, you know, like trying to do
that, then maybe let's have a different discussion about it.
But they just got like, they just got into the game.
So did legacy media. Like, they don't know any
better. Like for them, like Bitcoin and
Ethereum are exactly the same. It's just different branding,
right? Anyways, I want to pass it on to
Opti. What do you think?
Yeah, so First off, I do want to talk about the the anchor.
I I don't know his name, didn't catch his name, but it's funny
how he kind of framed it. It's like, OK, you know, Bitcoin
dumped and it it rebounded. And this just, you know, goes to
show and he's questioning the staying power of Bitcoin.
Whereas all of us in Bitcoin that have been here for, you
know, longer than a year or so and have delved into Bitcoin,
understand that like Bitcoin is the new stability in the
financial world. And you can count all of the
what, like 200 obituaries about Bitcoin dying and then it always
comes back from the grave or in in mean terms, you know, there's
that like classic Undertaker Bitcoin meme where he like comes
out of the coffin and it rises again.
It's like, this is what happens with Bitcoin.
It always seems like it's dead to the person that doesn't
understand Bitcoin. And then if for some reason, you
know, Bitcoin is always able to come back from the dead and.
It reaches new all time highs and this is just how you can
tell, like to the point that you and lightning goats made that
legacy media or even the new figures or new people coming
into Bitcoin don't fully understand Bitcoin yet.
And this might be one of those things that you kind of only
learn through experience as when you come in new to Bitcoin.
I remember when I got into Bitcoin 2017 and we had that
2017 blow off top. I was still learning what
Bitcoin was when it when it basically blew up in 2018, or
rather the end of 2017, early 2018.
And that's when I was doubling down and my understanding of
what Bitcoin is. And so you kind of have to learn
these lessons through experience or you know, you can be wise and
listen to other Bitcoiners that have been around, hence hence
simply Bitcoin. But as Natalie Burnell was
saying, and as the classic trope goes, you want to buy assets
when there's blood on the streets.
And it still blows my mind. And I don't understand people
that sell their Bitcoin in the face of financial uncertainty
when Bitcoin is like the most certain thing period.
Like full stop. Bitcoin monetary policy is the
the only stable monetary policy in the world.
Bitcoin runs 24/7 365. It's the most liquid market
period. It's the only free market left
in the world. And it's just, it's really,
yeah, I think it really highlights the fact that most
people still don't fundamentally understand what they hold when
they hold Bitcoin is because they're, you know, as much as we
get bad raps, for all of us Bitcoiners being speculators, we
would all argue that we're just saving in something that cannot
be debased. You know, we just want to store
our value and transact freely. But when new entrants come into
Bitcoin, you can tell that they're basically here just to
speculate on the price. Or as the other Bitcoin meme
goes, you know, you come for the money and you stay to fix the
money or you come for the money, you come for the gains.
But you stay for the revolution and you're starting to see that
people are learning about Bitcoin slowly but surely.
But again, most people don't have the time or rather don't
have the pain point that most of us Bitcoiners have found in our
own lives that they they want to, you know, do hours of
research into understanding Bitcoin.
They're just like, OK, I'm going to throw some money at it and
hopefully it goes up and I'm going to forget about it and
I'll be good in the future. Whereas like, you know, we have
Tony on today from Bitcoin. Wait.
It's like there is a learning curve to understanding the
Bitcoin market, the best Bitcoin practices.
And it's kind of just like how it was when we all got the
Internet in the first time. Like there is a learning curve
to understanding how to use new technology.
And you're seeing that people are, you know, slowly but surely
waking up to this fact that, hey, it's not as easy as just,
you know, throwing your money at Bitcoin and leaving it on
Charles Schwab accounts or whatever the equivalents are and
you're going to be good. It's like, no, there is a
certain learning curve. There is a certain amount of
experience and behavioral change that will become a part of your
Bitcoin journey. And all of us Bitcoiners that
have been here for a long time, you know, looking backwards,
it's very easy for us to be like, oh, these people are
idiots. They don't understand Bitcoin.
Like we understand, you know, get on our high horse and stuff.
But hey, I'm pretty sure most of us went through our own shit
coin phase and then we realized that, hey, this isn't the get
rich quick scheme. I thought it was.
Maybe I need to figure out what Bitcoin is because I'm getting
poorer and that's what everyone else is feeling.
You know, the ultimate shit coin is the dollar.
And yet people just still think that there's stability in the
Fiat currencies because $1.00 equals $1.00.
Little do they understand that like This is why life is getting
harder is because your dollar is losing its purchasing power.
So there is a learning curve and a certain understanding that you
have to get through to finally become, you know, Bitcoin maxi.
But it does come with experience.
So I think in time we're going to get to a point where they
they're, you know, kudos to like Joe Kernan and what's his name,
Charles Payne, who are like already full blown Bitcoin Maxis
on Fox News. But we're going to get to a
point where everyone else realizing what the real game is,
which is holding Bitcoin for as long as possible.
Absolutely, Tony. What do you think, man?
Yeah, man, you, you guys summed it up pretty, pretty nicely.
People that come, you know, from places of privilege, actually,
you know, it's, it plays against them, you know, when they get
into something like Bitcoin because you know, they're
coming, you know, they're coming with the idea that this is just
another speculative asset, another stock, another
investment, you know, that I'm going to get into and hopefully
become, you know, very rich, you know, dollar rich or euro rich.
And ultimately, you know, they don't understand money to begin
with, which is, you know, the, the biggest differentiator
between a, a real bitcoiner and someone just coming in for the
ride. And so when things were the
number goes up, you know, they get all horny, everybody's
happy. And then when it comes crashing
down, everybody calls it a scam. And, you know, all sorts of all
sorts of rubber starts spewing out.
So I, I think this is like a big catalyst for those, you know, in
North America, in the, in the EU that come from places of
comfort. Still they haven't felt the pain
versus those that are coming from places of destruction.
You know, like how I where, where I came from and what led
me to Bitcoin. And when you come, you know,
there's a very different narrative that's that forms in
your head when you're coming from darkness, then when you're
coming just to have to, to have a good time.
So you need to fundamentally understand, you know, that the
world that you live in is 99% of fabrication.
It's a lie that you've been fed since the day you were born.
And until you accept that, it's going to be very difficult to
focus on something like Bitcoin beyond the number go up
phenomenon. And but it's only a matter of
time because we've, we've come to a point, you know, in the, in
this world where the, the corruption and the
inefficiencies and the bad decisions have gone so extreme
that everything is falling apart.
You know, I mean, you see the hatred, the division, the
situation in the UK, the dystopian nightmare that, you
know, that has manifested into the wars and all that.
All of these are intended distractions, you know, to to
shift your attention away from what's truly going on is that
the system is falling apart. And so the powers that be, they
need this in order to continue playing on the ignorance and the
fear of the masses in order to hopefully maintain their, you
know, their reign of power to guide them where they want them
to go next. You know, which is somewhere you
definitely don't want to be because it is 100% not in your
best interest. So Bitcoin for the first time
in, you know, in humanity is the option that we have to exit the
system to tell the powers that be, we don't want you anymore.
We don't need you anymore. We want nothing to do with you.
And now we have the means to stand up on our own, live our
lives without ever having to look back and even acknowledge
your presence. So in about 50 years, you know,
people born at that time, in my opinion, we'll not even know
what a bank is, thankfully lucky for them.
And those that study history, you know, and they, they see
what we went through. They might call us crazy.
You know, what kind of what kind of fools, you know, who believe
that, you know, worthless toilet paper controlled and created by
a bunch of thieves actually has value.
You know, like, I mean, there's a lot of that.
Absolutely. I I, I 100% agree with you.
I think I think it we're going to look back on these moments in
history and we're just going to be like, can't believe we used
paper as money. I even look at Fiat currency
today and I'm like, this is so insane that, you know, society
just look at it like This is Money.
It's just like a piece of paper. Yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm very, very
optimistic on the future. I think it's going to be a much
that the world's going to be a much better place on a on a
Bitcoin standard. Anyways, I do apologize for Opti
blocking people in the chat. Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Let's not. You didn't mean to do that.
That was my accident. I unblocked it already.
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I do, I just want people to I want people to to keep their eye
on the prize and the eye on the prize is the separation of money
and state. Like that's essentially what we
want at the end. We really believe the world's
going to be a much better place for it.
And like I think David Bailey, David Bailey's the CEO of
Bitcoin magazine, BTC Inc and the Bitcoin conference and is
being anti Bitcoin is like being anti Internet.
It's not a viable position. This is why you should have No
Fear that Bitcoin will become nonpartisan.
We just need to defeat the Luddites first and the message
will be heard. I think it's a lot easier said
than done. I think there's elements of the
administrative state. Some people call it the deep
state. Essentially, it's not
conspiracy, it's just the unelected bureaucrats that
remain in in and they keep their jobs regardless of what
political candidate is in office.
Therefore, there's really no lot, there's not a lot of
accountability there, right? So anyways, they get a
tremendous amount of power from money printing, right?
It's why I believe all these governments all around the world
are so huge. It's because they have this
unique ability of creating money for free that everyone else has
to work for. And I think that system, and
again, not conspiracy, not conspiracy theory or anything,
that system is going to at least fight to protect itself.
It's not naive to say, it's not naive to think that like, and do
you blame them? Like, you know, that it's like,
you know, they probably see Bitcoin.
They're like, this is going to replace us.
What are you talking about? The people need central banking.
So anyways, so that's what I want to talk about today,
because what's really interesting is that because of
the political environment in the US and because it's an election
year and and honestly because actions of Elizabeth Warren
really a turn off alarm and the what's playing that's an ad
because of the the options of Elizabeth Warren and elements of
the Democratic Party, they essentially created a political
opportunity for their opposing candidates because like I was
saying it, this is an election year.
So the, you know, Bitcoin and crypto community is basically
saying like they're going after us, the Republican Party and RFK
is like, oh, OK, you know, we'll, we'll stand up and we'll
protect Bitcoin and crypto. So that's what happened during
the Nashville conference. I think it was monumental.
It was a historic milestone for our industry, for our movement
here in the in the United States at least.
And I think it was very positive overall.
But that creates a situation. What is that situation?
That situation is that Bitcoin is not a left and right thing.
Bitcoin is not a Democrat, Republican thing.
Bitcoin is for everyone. Bitcoin is anti tyranny.
So if you're a tyrant, Bitcoin exposes you first and it
protects individuals from your shenanigans.
So if you're a tyrant, you want to control people, you're not
really going to like Bitcoin very much.
That's really the way that I see it.
However, if you do live in a quote, UN quote democratic
society, your voter base or percentage of your voter base, a
notable percentage is going to dislike that.
And I'll even add to that now, not only is it a notable
percentage of your voter base, now the industry is becoming a
notable donor base as well. And it's actual donors that get
politicians elected in the US. You know, as much as they say
it's the people, yes, it's the people, but it's really the
money behind the the the campaigns.
So and all of a sudden the Democrats don't want to lose out
on that those donors and they don't want to lose out on that
industry. The thing is, we don't believe
you anymore. Talk is cheap and we keep seeing
this every three weeks or so, you see a little heartbeat.
So the latest heartbeat and it was is Democrats launched quote
crypto for Harris campaign to counter Trump's industry appeal.
It goes on to say the Democratic arm of the cryptocurrency
industry is determined not to let former President Trump run
away with the crypto vote this fall.
Fox Business has learned that a new pro Kamala Harris advocacy
group called Crypto for Harris plans to host a virtual town
hall meeting next week with a working speaker lineup that
includes left-leaning billionaire entrepreneur and
crypto advocate Mark Cuban, Skybridge Capital founder and
Trump critic Anthony Scaramucci, and a handful of Democratic
members of the House of Representatives.
Top Democratic Senate leaders have also been invited to speak
at next week's virtual town hall meeting, which is open to the
public. And we'll discuss ways to
support the Harris campaign and promote fundraising initiatives.
Crypto for Harris currently touts around 50 members, with
its main organizers consisting of industry participants and
policy experts. Quote, the United States must
continue to be a leader in blockchain and crypto, and
groups like Crypto for Harris are working hard to ensure the
right policies and conversations take place to ensure that
outcome. The move comes as the race for
the White House narrows between Trump and Harris, the respective
Republican and and Democratic nominees.
Trump has a huge head start in attracting crypto luminaries to
his campaign amid the regulatory assault unleashed by the Biden
administration, for which Harris has served as vice president.
After Biden's withdrawal from the race, she is now its
standard bearer in the November election.
So this, this article came out either today or yesterday and
you'd be like, Oh my God, they're changing tune.
Like, you know, they're, they're showing us that they care.
This is awesome. But again, I'm gonna keep
reiterating what I've been telling you guys every single
time we get a little heartbeat, which is don't pay attention to
what they say, pay attention to what they do.
So here's the latest news Customers Bank had hit with Fed
enforcement action for digital assets, dollar dollar token
activities, order flags, gaps in MLKYC and OFAC compliance.
So this continues Nick Carter comments customers with one of
the biggest pro crypto banks out there fed and FDIC are
systematically dismantling all crypto friendly banks one after
another. Here is Caitlin long and Caitlin
long is the founder of the custodia bank and she was
targeted by the the so-called operation choke .2 point O
Caitlin long comments Well, well isn't it interesting in timing
that the Fed drops this enforcement action on the same
day as Ro Khanna's crypto reset? It's almost as if they're trying
to send a message, right, that like maybe there's an internal
struggle within Democratic Party, but hey, I don't got time
for that. Like, OK, you guys might be
struggling and stuff. But if there's one political
party that's basically saying we'll be pro Bitcoin and then
there's other one that like it, like, you know, they're saying,
oh, we're pro give us money. But at the same time, you know,
they're metaphorically hitting you with a 2 by 4.
Like, I'm sorry, man, like I don't I don't have time for
that. Like you guys have to deal with
that internally. So anyways, it goes on to say
the Fed has a history of timing its actions.
Anyone who thinks the timing of the Fed dropping the enforcement
action during the quote UN quote crypto reset meeting is purely
coincidence, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Operation Choke .2 point O is still alive and well in DC,
unfortunately, and the Fed just proved that.
So yeah, this is cheap. This right here, this is cheap.
This is cheap talk. This this is doesn't count.
You got to pay attention to their actions, right?
And their actions are they're still going after the industry.
If you look behind the door. Here's Tyler Winklevoss Tyler
and Tyler and Cameron were actually one of the biggest
donors to Trump when he went to Nashville.
They threw an again together with David Bailey of Bitcoin
magazine. So Tyler says Operation choke .2
point O is alive and well. The Biden Harris administration
reign of terror continues. If this goes unabated for four
more years, the crypto industry in America will be dead.
Like that is a very strong statement.
I also believe that Gemini uses that bank, customers bank.
I don't know that for sure, but I believe that's the case.
Here's Balaji. Balaji says the dem scam in VC,
it's not real until money is wired, right?
That's what I've been saying, like don't pay attention to what
they say, pay attention to what they do.
And in DC, it's not real until Gensler is fired.
That's why crypto for Harris is a scam.
They want crypto votes without spending any political capital.
If the policy shift was real, they would immediately fire Gary
Gensler. Free roaming storm.
And in this in an innocent developer, repudiate the
unrealized capital gains tax. And number four, stop the SEC
show trials. And that's just the start.
Obviously, the party can do this instantly.
After all, they just got a sitting president to stand down
by threatening the 25th Amendment, pulling his donor
support and smashing him in the press relentlessly.
So Gensler would fall through a trapdoor in a second if the
right people push the right buttons.
That's such a great, like, some like, summary of essentially
what we've been saying, right? Like it's so talk is cheap,
actions are expensive. And I just I don't believe them.
I just don't believe them. Like you guys want, you want
your cake, you want everything, but you don't want to pay for
it. So yeah, like I'm still bullish
on Trump and RFK, not so much from like a this Bitcoin need
these politicians to succeed. Not at all.
But if you are a Bitcoin entrepreneur and a Bitcoin owner
in the United States, you definitely want these guys to
succeed because just unfortunately, like if you want
to do business, you kind of have to, there's some things that you
got to have to do. And yeah, I think that they can
definitely make your life a living hell in the US,
especially, especially if they win this election again, that
that'd be that'd be pretty bad for the industry in the US.
Now, does that mean that Bitcoin isn't going to pump or is it
going to succeed? No Bitcoin survived.
Throughout numerous hostile legislation.
So it's not that Bitcoin needs politicians to succeed.
I would say that politicians need bitcoins to succeed.
Bitcoins going to win regardless.
But like I said, if you're a Bitcoin business owner in the
US, they can make your life difficult, which is why I bring
that up. Anyways, Opti, what's your take
on this bro? I mean, dude, like such
scammers, man, say this is a scam.
They they're so good at the media thing like we do.
How many remember the first time we got really excited in the
segment, like, OK, And the third time, like, you know, you're
just like, all right, dude, you guys are playing me a fool.
But they get the press every time they get the headline.
I think that's all they care about in my opinion.
Like getting that headline. They're just like, look guys,
we're pro crypto too, you know, like the what's that meme of
that old dude with the skateboard?
Hello fellow children. Yeah, exactly.
It's like that. It's like, hey guys, I'm, I'm a
bitcoiner also, you know? Anyways, what's your take bro?
Yeah, well, First off, I do want to give a hat tip to Balaji.
I think he's a really good Twitter account for you guys to
follow. If you're like a toxic Bitcoin
maximus, you know, you, you may have some beef with him for, for
the stuff you've done in the past, but I think he's been very
cogent and very on point with a lot of the stuff that he's been
tweeting lately. So I would highly recommend you
follow his Twitter account. He he does incredible threads
that are, you know, from a vantage point of someone that
knows what's going on from both sides of the aisle on that
point, though, I'm not surprised that we're seeing this happen.
The the well, actually, before I go into that, if you do read
that article, though, and you look at some of the people that
they picked to be a part of this was it crypto for Harris
campaign? It is a lot of shit coiners like
I one of them is from one of the there's two advisors that they
specifically mentioned, one of them from Binance and the other
one's from Ripple. So like, am I, am I holding my
breath that something good is going to come out of this?
No, all I'm saying is it does seem like they are just kind of
trying a little too little too late to claw back the, you know,
quote UN quote crypto vote and persuade the Bitcoin or rather
the crypto industry to embrace the Democrat Party.
But like we're saying, you know, Kamala Harris is basically or
sorry, someone yelled at me yesterday, Kamala Harris for the
guys in the chat, is it already in power?
And if she really wanted to change her tune on the Bitcoin
industry, then there's stuff that they could do right now.
But they've given us help for the last three years.
And now just because we get some headline or a campaign to trying
to persuade our industry to vote for them, it does seem like it's
just hot air that nothing's actually going to change.
They could literally change things today.
So am I surprised that this is happening?
No, not at all as we know as Bitcoiners, or rather, you know,
I was watching Max Keiser on Alex Jones this morning.
He did a he did a great interview and just quoting Max
Keiser again, you know, this is the global hash war playing out
in real time. The Bitcoin game theory is
playing out in real time where the first movers into the
Bitcoin industry are going to be the real winners.
And as we saw with Trump when he embraced Bitcoin and you guys
could say whether he likes Bitcoin or not, or whether he's
a shit coiner or whatever, The fact that he actually put
Bitcoin into to the presidential conversation just goes to show
that if you are going to have an anti Bitcoin stance, you are
going to lose. Like this is the movement here.
I know Bitcoiners don't like to get political, but as a voting
bloc, Bitcoin holders or even at large, the crypto holders, you
know, the shit coin holders, like we are a huge voting bloc.
And if you're going to fight Bitcoin, then you're not going
to win. It's it's becoming very clear
now that you can't fight Bitcoin because Bitcoiners, not only we
have the money, but we have the numbers here and it's only going
to grow. So am I surprised by this
headline? No, not at all.
Do I think that she's actually going to change her tune on it?
No, not at all. Remember yesterday I absolutely
went super hard on the administration and where I think
their perspective is coming from.
But do we need the politicians? No, not necessarily.
The politicians need Bitcoin. As you're seeing, they're trying
to get the Bitcoin vote right now and you know, garner our
favor by saying like, oh, we're pro Bitcoin now or whatever.
So shit coins now. And it's like you, you got it.
You know, like put up or shut up at this point because you've
been giving us help for the last three years and you think 1
little campaigns going to change anything?
It's like, no, not at all. Exactly.
Yeah, I mean, look, like talk is cheap.
Actions are expensive. You're trying to get something
for free without paying for it. And, you know, like I don't,
that's not going to fly. And if you buy into that, like
you're, you're like, you're not paying attention anyways.
Tony, what's your thoughts on this man?
I mean, I don't believe any of them.
I'm not. I hate all, I hate all
politicians, you know, no matter where they come from, they're
all liars. And it's very clear that this
current administration thinks that the American population are
a bunch of morons. You know, obviously This is why
they're putting out these headlines.
They're mocking you, you know, because these people are clearly
evil. They have no intentions of
serving the American people or benefiting the country in any
way, shape or form. And this is as a as a non
American, it's like crystal clear to me from the outside,
what's what's happening? Their actions, you know, are are
going to the complete opposite direction of this rubbish.
They don't even understand what Bitcoin is other than it's
something that they need to gain votes or maybe even they hope.
Well, at least I hope they understand that this thing is a
threat to them and that's why they have to do whatever it is
that they can to sort of keep it at Bay.
But it's clear that they're losing because you cannot stop
peer-to-peer technology. These headlines is like somebody
just told them here, throw out a bunch of buzzwords to the crowd
and hopefully they'll shut up and you know, clap for us.
This is what I see from the outside.
So categorically you have to ignore this 100%.
You pay zero attention to this. Bitcoin doesn't need any of
them. Yes, it's true that if some
politicians embrace it, they might make life easier in the US
specifically in this case. You know, the actions of the US,
while they may influence other countries, you know, they're not
the end all and be all of what's what other places are going to
adopt. And it's very clear because of
the actions of countries like El Salvador, which I think are
going to be the ones cloned going forward.
You know, nations that resort to tyrannical measures will
ultimately fail. Unfortunately, you know that
people are going to have to suffer through that journey and
I'm hoping that's not the case. So, you know, whether you're
Trump pro, whoever, whoever it is, at the end of the day, it
doesn't matter because it's going to come a moment in time
where they're going to realize that their power over money is
over. And that's ultimately the end
game here. The separation of money and
state is the ultimate end goal on everyone that cares about
their lives and their futures and their freedoms.
And all of this must be doing everything possible under the
sun to ensure that that twin is guaranteed.
Amen. Yeah, no, ours beautifully put,
100% agree. And we just got to just got to
stay focused and on mission. All right everybody, lots to
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Tony in the house and he's going to talk about the Bitcoin wait.
Nico, Nico, start. Let's start.
Let's play the Let's play the video real quick.
Awesome. So, yeah, so they just, they
just released a new commercial this morning and I'll play it
for you guys about about two or three minutes.
Everything seemed normal. Successful businesses were
functioning as they usually should, money was being placed
in the Bank of savings. Life was good, nobody notices
anything funny. By 2008 hits and all hell breaks
loose. Everything we thought about
money in the banking was a complete lie, a complete sham, a
sponzi, a scam. The whole world fell apart and a
lot of people got hurt financially as a result of this.
The Bitcoin white paper was born.
But yet the same mistakes keep happening over and over again.
People are leaving money on their institutions up until the
last straw, FDX when billions of dollars were lost, families were
decimated, life savings were completely wiped, and people
were wondering what on earth just happened.
We have an option to take full custody of our funds, and that's
Bitcoin. We just have to learn the
process. It's not hard, it's just
something we've never had to do before.
Otherwise, the same mistakes are going to keep repeating
themselves and people are going to continue to get hurt over and
over and over until they learn you need to exit the system in
order to protect yourself and your loved ones.
Man, loved it. Great, great, great video that
you guys put together, the music, the production, the
editing, it was great stuff. And I, I, I want to focus on the
last part before I pass it on to Opti, which is this idea that
we've never really, we've never had this capability before and
we've never really had the capability of being able to
custody vast sums of wealth or just your whole, your entire net
worth. And in an easy way too, right?
Because I would say the only really equivalent would be doing
that with gold. And, and maybe it's unpopular
Bitcoiners like I, I physical gold, like is dope.
Like I have a little gold bar like, and I'm never going to
sell it just because it's like, you know, it's the thing, right?
But I, I just, it's very limiting.
Like like try doing that with with a, a good deal of money.
It's going to be heavy, right? And then good luck travelling
with it, Like good luck going to the airport.
What's the limits? I think it's like $10,000 on the
plane. Like, yeah, I mean, there's,
there's a huge risk there if you take self custody, your Bitcoin
12 words, like good luck, you know, and I think that really
radically changes the game. The relationship between the
individual and the state is completely changed.
It really changes. Society as a whole is this very
simple thing. And usually the the most simple
things are the things are the most consequential.
But it's just like the ability for one individual to custody
vast sums of wealth and also have the ability to send that
anywhere globally, worldwide for very cheap.
That is absolutely revolutionary, those two things.
So anyways, Tony, I don't know if you want to add to that, but.
Yeah, man, Bitcoin, Bitcoin is the 9th 1/8, ninth wonder of the
world. It's the first time, you know,
in the history of humanity you don't need anybody's permission
to use your own money. You know, you don't owe anyone
anything anymore. This is your own time and energy
that you are preserving 100%. I mean, don't you realize that
you're being ripped off on a daily basis working in the
legacy system? It's it's abundantly clear now.
I mean, give you a simple example.
If you're making $1000 a month, it's being debased through
inflation at at least 15%, if not more, depending where you're
living. So chop that off of the $1000.
Then you're paying whatever amount you're paying in taxes up
to 50%, you know, So add that all together, what's left from
that $1000 in purchasing power? What, 200 bucks?
So that means essentially you're working 75% of the year for
free, you know, if you, if you're actually doing basic
math. So why would you keep yourself
in this predicament? And to make things worse, if you
need your money, you need to, you know, get the blessing of
your bank manager. You know, if he's woken up on
the wrong side of the bed one day, or he decided you said
something he didn't agree with, well then you have no money.
He will just refuse you and send you packing home.
Like, why would you want to do that?
Who gave them the right to own so much power?
But again, this was the lie that we were fed from the day we were
born. But it turns out, you know, that
the money in the bank is not yours.
You know, until this day, there's too many people that
still can't comprehend this. And this is where, you know, we
must keep pushing the education and the knowledge to make them
realize that if you don't do anything, if you don't exit the
system, you're going to fall, that you're going to sink with
the ship spectacularly like everybody else who has gone
through this dark journey, unfortunately.
So again, you know, we have this option now.
It's like somebody handing you a lottery ticket.
You'd have to be insane not to sit down and consider taking it.
100% it's it is, it is like a lottery ticket.
And as time goes by, that lottery ticket becomes more
expensive and I, I do want to focus on, and I'm going to pass
it on to Opti because Opti has some questions prepared.
This is where you guys come in. This is what the Bitcoin way
focuses on, which is you guys arm individuals with the tools
and the skill set to really fully utilize the power that
Bitcoin gives or the power that the the tools that Bitcoin gives
you, it gives you. It gives you power.
Really, I don't know. I don't know how else to phrase
it. Yeah, absolutely.
Bitcoin makes you untouchable. It makes you unconfiscatable,
you know, And when you're in that position, you know, those
that who hate you, well, you know, they can't control you.
This is why, you know, Bitcoin is such a threat to the status
quo is because it removes power completely.
You know, the Fiat Fiat system was created for three things and
three things alone. You know, it's the steel sensor
and control. There's nothing else behind it.
Otherwise, you know, you wouldn't you wouldn't see the
pain and destruction being caused by it at this day and
age. But it's technology, OK?
And this is where a lot of people have a hard time with it
because most people don't come from a tech background, so
they're not sure how to approach it.
Am I going to do something wrong?
Am I going to lose my funds? Because that is a valid concern
if you make a mistake in this game, you know, and that the
money's gone, there's no refund center.
And so where we come in is that we remove all of that anxiety by
streamlining the entire process by simplifying it into four easy
steps, taking you from point A to point, you know, fully
airtight lockdown, bulletproof setup in a way that a 10 year
old will understand. And since we started doing this,
we realized that, you know, the needs of individuals getting
into Bitcoin, you know, once the money is secure, you know,
there's a lot more that you can do with it to sort of cement
your sovereign lifestyle. So when you start off with the
money, once that's accounted for, you can move up to
securing, you know, the devices, for example, that you use to
manage that money. This is where our cybersecurity
experience and value comes in. And then we've taken it even a
stage, even one step further. If you don't like where you're
living or you don't agree with the direction that your
government is is, is going in or you don't like what they're
doing and how they're making their your life miserable,
believe you know, there are options out there.
And we have a citizenship program now that will help you
go from wherever you are to a place that one, is Bitcoin
friendly and two, respects you as an individual, respects your
freedoms and doesn't give you a headache on a daily basis
because of, you know, what you're thinking, what you're
saying, what you're doing online.
Like none of this rubbish exists in every country, you know, So
pick how you want to live. Do you want to put up with, you
know, with, with headaches all day long or do you want to
improve your life? If you have kids, it's almost a
must, like a necessary decision that you have to account for if
you don't want them to grow up and live in the future that's
dictated by a bunch of psychopaths that think they're
going to, you know, decide what's what's best for them and
tell them how to live their lives.
Absolutely man. Absolutely bullish man.
You guys embody the Bitcoin ethos, Opti.
Yeah, yeah. So actually you you covered some
of the stuff, but there is a good question here and it'll
kind of pivot to the next question.
So homeschool Bitcoin on Twitter goes, can Bitcoin Way assist
with setting up a full node on old 2010 Mac mini?
So for everyone out there, what are the services that Bitcoin
Way will provide for people? And like, you know what?
Who is the ideal customer for Bitcoin Way?
Everyone who wants to maintain their freedom and full control
over their money. So we cover all aspects of the
technology we know we deal with encrypted vaults, we deal with
air gapped wallets, we deal with Bitcoin nodes.
We make the best and strictest recommendations for the hardware
and software. We are unforgiving on that
front. So we, we have a list of
criteria that we abide by. We test many products that are
out there to, you know, to filter out the good from the
bad. And based on those that pass
these tests, we put them on a list and we send them out to
folks and they pick and choose whatever they want based on
personal preference. And we help them set it up.
We troubleshoot, we offer remote support all year round for
whether it's for training, whether it's to assist with
software updates for more upgrades, all of that stuff.
So think of us as a, you know, like as your personalized IT
team, cybersecurity team in the background available to you all
day long, no matter what it is that you're going to encounter.
And the primary goal here is to have an infrastructure in place
that secures your funds so that you're sleeping well at night
knowing that nothing's going to happen.
And we train you, like really religiously train you, so that
the chances of you screwing something up along the way are
very close to 0. And so far, every single
individual that we've consulted with, and by the way, we consult
with folks from all age groups, most of them are mid to late 50s
and not. So it's not necessarily, you
know, the young crowd that are coming into this space.
It's mostly the older crowd. And for them, this is very new.
And we're very cognizant of this, which is why, you know,
we've, we've streamlined the process and we're exceptionally
good teachers because this can be very daunting to someone
who's never seen it before, especially if they don't come
with the world where they're comfortable with computers and
tech in general. So that's the, that's, that's
really what we eliminate and we hand hold everybody through the,
every single one of our processes, whether it's the
money, whether it's the devices, whether it's their citizenship
and residency programs. We meet you in person, It's a
face to face experience and we hand hold you through all of it.
That's awesome, man. The incredibly incredible it's I
love Bitcoiners, man, love the Bitcoin way Opti.
Yeah, moving forward, moving forward.
So Tony, what is actually, actually I'm going to go back.
How's it been the last year starting Bitcoin Way?
How's that process been? And what's the most rewarding
aspect of your job at Bitcoin Way?
I got into Bitcoin after my life was destroyed, my life savings
completely stolen. And so I was desperate into
finding a solution to this, to ensure that this can never
happen to me again or to anyone else.
And This is why we put the Bitcoin weight together and with
the mission to take the pain that I've went through and
weaponize it into a tool of education to empower everyone
out there who also doesn't want to, you know, find themselves in
that same predicament to, to, to know what they need to do in
order to ensure that their lives remain as free and sovereign as
possible. Since we started the Bitcoin
way, we've met hundreds of folks and it's been incredibly
humbling and rewarding from a human perspective.
I've spoken to people that have come from, you know, all parts
of life from they all have their stories.
Most of the ones that are that impact me the most are the ones
that come from pain because, you know, you understand that these
people are not coming into Bitcoin for fun.
They're not coming in here to speculate.
They're coming in here to survive.
And so they're not playing games, they're not taking
shortcuts. They want to do their part into
into ensuring that as many people as possible understand
this, understand the right message behind Bitcoin and so
that it spreads globally. The ripple effect of this
knowledge and this positivity and this encouragement, you
know, must be the message that's put out there.
And, and, you know, so as as much as many people as possible
embrace it the proper way. You don't want people to come in
here thinking they want to make dollar profits.
That is absolutely the wrong mindset.
And most of the time they're going to get completely
destroyed because we are transitioning from a broken
system into a new one. And as we very clearly see the
powers, you know, that be that control, that corrupt system are
not going to give it up without a fight.
And so this volatility is something, you know, it's, it's
like a headache we just have to deal with.
But if you zoom out and you, you, you know, you're patient
enough, 99% of the time, you come out solidly on top.
So this is where, you know, the message of the Bitcoin wave
comes in. And, you know, we were there to
talk to people, OK? I mean, we have a direct link to
everyone. They can reach out to us almost
24/7 all year round. You know, somebody wakes up in
the middle of the night with a panic attack and a question.
He can reach out. She can reach out.
There's somebody there to respond.
So we ensure that, you know, being on this journey is not
something that you have to go on by yourself.
You're not alone. There's a whole bunch of people
that you know that are on the same side as you were here.
We make sure, you know, we keep the community as cohesive and
cohesive and, and connected as possible.
And wherever we can contribute, you can bet your your ass we're
going to be doing it. Love it.
One of my, one of my favorite memes, Tony, that, that I've
heard you say before is how Apple has like the Apple support
team. Bitcoin way is basically like
the Bitcoin IT team. And I think we, we all in our
small part, do that with our friends and family, like the
Uncle Jim model, where like we're the ones helping our
friends and family understand why Bitcoin, how to do it
correctly. But that's the goal of Bitcoin
ways. Like if you don't have someone
in your life that is a bitcoiner and you're the sole bitcoiner,
then you get in touch with the Bitcoin Way team and they will
make sure that you are protected.
Absolutely, man. I mean, our services go way
beyond, you know, following a manual for a specific product.
This is not what we're about. You know, many people can do
this. We bring in our years of
experience and you know, to a large part my personal story
that brought me into the space. I was retired at the age of 41.
You know, I ran through successful businesses my life,
you know, as far as I'm concerned, you know, that's it.
I can kick back, enjoy life, everything is cool, and then I
wake up one day and it's gone to 0, all of it.
So I'm not an idiot, OK? But I was fed that same line to
thinking, you know, that you, you work hard, you put money in
the bank, that's how life is and everything will be fine.
It's not. And so if it can happen to me,
you know it's going to happen to a lot more people, especially
those that don't take the time to listen to these stories
because these are the ones that truly matter.
Somebody who's sharing their experience from you has no bad
intentions. They are sending out a warning,
you know, trying to capture your attention so that you destroy
that illusion that just because things are OK for you today that
they're going to remain like this forever.
The Fiat system is broken. It doesn't matter whether you're
living in New York and Beverly Hills or in some third world
country, if that's all you're using, your end result for, all
of you is a big fat 0. So if you don't want to reach
that nightmare, you have to opt out.
OK. And again, for the first time in
the species of the human race, we have that option called
Bitcoin. Thankfully we do, because if we
didn't have it, who knows how bad things will get.
And ultimately, when things get dire enough, your only solution
is violence, OK? And I'm not one who wants to see
that. I've lived through it.
I know that horror movie. It is something that I promise
you, you do not want to see. It's something that no one has
seen before. When good people are desperate
enough and pushed to do bad things.
It is not a sight that you will ever forget.
And so I don't want to see that happen.
And in order to prevent this, you know, we need a large enough
number of people to cut to create that social bottoms up
pressure to do this peacefully. We have an option.
You can either defund the corruption that's destroying our
lives, or you can go to war with it.
Most people don't want to go to war with anyone.
I don't want to go to war with anyone.
So we have the option to defund it, but we have to apply
ourselves to it. We don't, we don't want to
speculate. Bitcoin is not the risky asset.
Fiat is the risky asset because that one is guaranteed to go to
0. Bitcoin may be volatile in the
meantime as we transition into that Bitcoin standard, which
ultimately I'm 100% convinced we're going to get there
because, you know, people, you know, at some point are just
going to snap out of whatever nonsense they have and realize
that their lives are going to hell if they don't react in the
in the right way. And hopefully we can be a beacon
of education, of hope, of strength, of empowerment in
order to fast track that process.
So our services really embody the Bitcoin lifestyle.
OK, yes, we handle all of the technology because that's, you
know, the the fundamentals of it all.
But we assist with the entire Bitcoin lifestyle ecosystem,
from taking you from where you are all the way to moving you to
a jurisdiction where you can continue living as a happy
individual with you, your kids, your family, and whatever else
you want to, you know, embark with on this journey.
Love it, love it, Tony. So wrapping up here, what is the
future of Bitcoin Way and what do you hope to accomplish in the
next year, 23510 years, whatever the end goal is here with
Bitcoin Way, what what's the mission?
We are constantly innovating our services to really to focus on
these three priorities, the money, the devices and the
freedom, you know, the jurisdictions.
And based on that, we're going to keep maturing these services
based on what's happening in the globe.
You know, we're on top of the news.
We see what's going on. We talked to many folks, you
know, on a daily basis. We hear their stories.
We customize our services based on, on, you know, the, the
stories of other people to see how we can fine tune how we can
reach even more individuals in, you know, in parts of the world
maybe that we haven't considered to see how we can sort of find
resources to assist those that that need it.
That's really what we're about. We're we're, we want to push
people into a Bitcoin standard as quickly as possible so that
everybody's life improves. You know, like, I mean, if you
meet someone who's been living on a Bitcoin standard, have you
ever heard them complain? I haven't, you know, I've never
met an unhappy bitcoiner because they're already living in the
future, right? Like their cost of living goes
down when you're on a Bitcoin standard.
Whereas if you're not doing this and you're still, you know, that
hamster on the wheel trying to make ends meet, well, things are
only going to get more dire, more expensive, and, and at some
point, you're just not going to know what to do.
And that's the scenario that I want to avoid, because that's
when all sorts of craziness manifests. 100%, Tony.
OK, what's the last message? What's the final two sets you
want to give to the audience before we wrap up today's show?
Consider Bitcoin. Study Bitcoin.
It's in your best interest. It's in the best interest of
your family. You owe it to them to ensure
that their futures are not dictated by a bunch of criminals
and psychopaths that are not here to serve you.
So opt out and it's not that hard.
And if you need help, we are absolutely here day and night in
order to do whatever we can to to make the the the journey as
seamless and as comfortable and as easy as possible.
Beautiful, beautiful. So guys to get started, go to
thebitcoinway.com. Again, these guys will be your
personal, your personal Bitcoin IT team.
Also, I just kind of want to address someone in the comments.
Kind of been going back and forth and like, like guys, you
have to understand and we've been very neutral on this show
for many, many months now. And we didn't speak up until the
Biden administration locked the samurai got the which is part
of, you know, DOJ. You can say it's all connected.
They locked the samurai Bitcoin developers in a box.
Before that, they went after Tornado Cash to set the
precedent. Not to mention all the other
times that we've had people like Caitlin Long that are really
like entrepreneurs really trying to roll out Bitcoin, you know,
Bitcoin businesses in the United States.
And you have someone like Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler
Winklevoss and you have someone like Nick Carter, like they got
skin in the game. And if they're telling you, you
know, that this current administration is against the
industry, you know, they're probably telling you something.
This is something also that me and Opti saw with our own
research because we are a Daily News show.
So we have to stay on top of the news.
And, you know, for the longest time, and I even got upset at
Opti the first time he brought it up, I, I was like, dude,
like, don't get divisive in the political discussion.
But here's the thing, the moment you locked one of us in a box
and the moment you start to threaten and insinuate that
you're going after self custody is the moment that you cross a
red line and we have to say something.
And not to mention it created a situation where their political
opponents that weren't pro Bitcoin, they didn't have a
stance. It created an opportunity for
them to capitalize on the drop ball that this current
administration, you know, did. So it's like if you can't see
past the political rhetoric of like orange man bad, RFK bad,
Biden good, then you're not really serious about the
separation of money and state. Because at the end of the day, I
don't want like this whole political thing.
And I know Tony feel very strongly about the statement.
This whole political garbage is insane.
Like the fact that we have to vote some guy into office like a
popularity test and that guy is somehow responsible for, you
know, the economy and and society.
Like that idea is batshit crazy. It's insane.
I really believe in the theory of the sovereign individual that
overtime Bitcoin will make politics irrelevant.
The separation of money and state will make politics
irrelevant, where governments can no longer counterfeit money
and their only way of raising revenue is via direct taxation.
And you're going to have different jurisdictions
competing for your business, right?
So yeah, like that's where I'm heading.
And what I see Trump or where I see RFK is I see them as a means
to an end to that, you know, to that world that we want to get
to. I see the current administration
via their actions, not their political rhetoric or not
articles online or none of that bullshit, just their actions.
And we're a Bitcoin show, so we don't focus on all the other BS.
It's incredibly obvious that if you're a Bitcoin entrepreneur in
the United States, two candidates are awesome and take
a look at their speeches at the Bitcoin conference and the
current administration that's in power.
She, Biden and Harris could free Ross right now if they wanted
to. They can do it right now, right?
They've been anti Bitcoin. If you don't have the
self-awareness and you can't see past the political rhetoric,
dude, you got bigger problems. That's what I got to say about
that. So anyways, I hope I explained
it. I hope I got into it and I kind
of kind of ruined the show a little bit because we were, we
were going along with Tony. He was dropping hot fire.
But yeah, I have to. I agree with Tony.
All politicians live.
But hey, four years of good cover for Bitcoin would be
great. Yeah.
So yeah, it would be great for the industry.
Bitcoin doesn't need the the price doesn't need a politician
to go up. It would defeat the entire
purpose of it, right? Anyways, guys, so if you guys
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