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We have a lot to talk about today.
Lots to lots to analyze, lots to unpack.
Jack Dorsey's block is adding more Bitcoin to their balance
sheet. I think this is setting a road
map for other companies. They're putting 10% of their
profits into Bitcoin at the. I think it's at the end of every
quarter. And of course every company that
adopts a Bitcoin strategy or adopts some type of a Bitcoin
standard has a major competitive advantage.
They have a cheat code against other companies.
That's why it was a huge deal when the second largest bank in
Europe announced yesterday they they made a very small purchase.
It was like $40,000. They bought $40,000 worth of the
BlackRock iShares ET Bitcoin ETF, but still number go up,
it's going to do its thing and then market incentives, you
know, will take care of the rest.
So definitely making progress in that sense.
And the other thing that I wanted to talk about today as
well and really break it down is this gentleman called Jared
Bernstein. There's a video of him that's
going absolutely viral on on Bitcoin Twitter.
I believe it's a, it's a clip from a, a, a, a, a, a movie of
some sort. But anyways, he is the chief
economist and economic visor to He was the chief economist and
economic visor to Vice President Joe Biden in the Obama
administration. And now he's currently the chair
of the United States Council of Economic Affairs economic
Advisors. Anyways, in this clip, he kind
of fumbles. And he he he's like, I don't
know, like we just print money and he can't explain it.
He can't justify it. And a lot of bitcoiners are
saying, like, look like these people have no idea what they're
doing. I'm gonna make the case that
they know exactly why they're doing.
Why am I saying that? Because he is part of the
Council of Economic Advisors, and they're the ones that are
responsible for writing the annual Presidential Economic
Report. We've covered that report.
That report in 2023 dedicated 20 pages, making the case as to why
central bank digital currencies are necessary and making the
case against Bitcoin. So you know, it's it's a lot
easier to play dumb. Like we have it, we even have a
saying in Spanish for it, which is like ACT El Pendejo, which
basically means like act dumb, be stupid.
And you can get away with a lot of things when you act dumb and
you pretend like you don't know what you're talking about.
So we're going to break it down and just kind of make the case
for you guys. Also, Coinbase finally launched
their Lightning integration and as much as you guys dislike
Coinbase and they are an altcoin casino, totally agree with that
you should be using Bitcoin on RAMPS.
You know the fact is that they have a massive user base, right?
So the fact that they're integrating Lightning I think is
a big win for the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
It's a big win for more people using Lightning Network, for
more people using Bitcoin. And I understand a lot of you
guys feel a certain way about Coinbase and it's totally
understandable, but that's the reality, like Coinbase is user
base is absolutely massive. So anyways, it's going to be a
great show everybody, so buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Anyways, I do want to bring a legendary Co host who's always
optimistic. He's currently modeling the
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We also got dad hats, snapbacks, all that stuff doing Opti.
What's up, bro? Man, I'm doing great.
It's a great Friday. And yeah man, just lifes, good
Lifes, good on the Bitcoin standard.
But there is 2 things I want to hit on.
First and foremost, you know, I really understand the the
economic advisor guys. What's his name?
Bernstein. You know, acting stupid.
That's my whole shit, guys. I just act stupid and look at
you guys. You love it.
It's amazing. Matt, there was one other thing
I wanted to say, but I completely forgot already.
It's just a Good Friday. Everything's great.
Let's let's bring up our guests, because we are.
We're already having a spicy conversation before the show.
We probably can't say half the stuff we were saying live on
it's. Hard.
But hey, yeah, we're being very good here, Very good here.
What are you talking about? Dude, we got the legendary Alex
Stanzik and Shane Hazel. Good to have you guys.
How you guys doing this morning? Awesome man.
Good to be here, you. Guys.
Yeah, well let's go. I'm excited cuz we're gonna talk
about one of my favorite projects in Bitcoin recently and
I've seen Alex go through the motions.
You know, you guys created this, Shane, all of you guys and you
guys created the Bitcoin veterans, right?
You guys have a podcast, You guys are inviting incredible
guests. But more importantly, the way
that I see it is the community that you guys are fostering and
the amount of interest that you guys are seeing, you know,
nationwide on all these veterans, armed veterans that
love Bitcoin. So you know, that's that's
absolutely awesome. So, you know, if you guys could
give like a quick elevator pitch, what is Bitcoin veterans,
you know what it's about? Can anyone join Alex Shane?
Yeah, I'll, I'll jump in on that.
So Shane and I started this on Twitter some time ago.
We're like, hey, we should maybe, you know, make a group
that we could talk to each other on Twitter.
We opened up that group. Next thing you know, within like
48 hours we hit the limits on it in terms of how many people we
could have. And we're like, oh crap, we need
a bigger boat maybe. And then let's let's start this
thing up on Signal. Started adding channels where
people could come and talk and it's really blown up since then,
I think we've doing it, been doing it not quite a year,
something like 8 months or something like that, but we're
already approaching close to 500 people in our different chat
groups. It's exploding.
We had no idea there were this many veterans in Bitcoin, but
really apparently all it took was somebody planting a flag,
going boom, we're here, let's get together, let's talk.
And it's an amazing thing. So our vision for this thing is
basically Bitcoin veterans is here to help warriors find
purpose, develop leaders, create communities, extended support
networks. We want to inspire veterans to
continue to learn, grow, become better men by sharpening each
other, getting around a bunch of dudes that are not going to put
up with any bullshit. They're not going to, they're
not going to buy your weenie ass excuses.
It's going to just be like straight up, like, you know,
hey, this is the deal and if you need to improve, it becomes
pretty obvious. We don't even need to say
anything. Like this is what I've noticed.
All the guys who get around it, they just start getting better,
man. They do it with the they, they
look at their own. They take stock of themselves
and like, all right, I need to fix this.
Maybe I'm too fucking fat and I need to get start working out
again. Or maybe I need to improve this
thing over here in my life or whatever the case may be.
Am I allowed to say that word on your show?
I'd already did. So, yes.
So like, yeah. And then like the rest of it is
we want to empower leaders to basically integrate and
strengthen resilience in their local communities.
And it's we're also real big on renewing the bonds of honor and
respect among each other and amongst men.
Anybody can get involved. You don't have to be just a
veteran to get involved. You got first responders, law
enforcement guys, firefighters. And we also have a completely,
we have what we call a civilian division that things blowing up
too. So reach out to us.
Yeah, dude, that. That's absolutely awesome, dude.
Shane, do you want to chime in? Yeah, I I think there's, you
know, there's a kind of this mysticism around military life,
I think, from a lot of people that we're never in.
I think a lot of people just think that everybody's like,
hey, this bloodthirsty combat. And I'm not saying everybody
obviously in in the South, everybody's like, Oh yeah, But
the the idea that a lot of these guys had signed up in the
beginning because they wanted to go off to war or they wanted to
go and and and kill people or, you know, take over countries or
do any of this really sinister, terrible stuff, we like to try
to dispel that right up front. Most of these guys that, you
know, we're in were first of all, not combatants.
You know, first and foremost. The second side of that is, is
even the combatants that do go in, they're not, you know, 99.9
something percent of them are not going in to be these these
war mongers. They they really sign up because
of a sense of of pride, of protection.
They love the idea of America. They love the idea of freedom,
self sovereignty, the, you know, the American dream.
Being able to own your own house and have a, you know, wife and
kids and all these things and and basically you know, make
make a living for yourself and really hurt nobody at the end of
the day. And.
And that's what they went off to protect.
You know, when they signed that dotted line.
Yeah, obviously that gets perverted along the line
somewhere, whether it was in the indoctrination courses that we,
you know, got forced into at five years old until we
graduated. Some of us went on for, you
know, higher indoctrination and in colleges where you see a
bunch of, you know, the the Marxism and everybody else, same
here, Opti. And you really start to see that
perversion where they twist that love for your fellow man into
this, you know, you know, channel that well, hey, we're
going to go overseas and we're going to start othering people,
We're going to start taking over their country.
This is what we're telling you we're going over here for.
And then you get over there and you actually see what you're
there for. And it's obviously the MIC, it's
the banks, It's all these, you know, ridiculous politicians
that are out there that you know, benefit from a Fiat
system. And when you see it, you can't
help but go, maybe this isn't for me.
Maybe I I I recognize the the bill of goods that I was sold.
And it's absolutely fake and and perverse.
And at that point, you know, guys come back and a lot of
times they are, they're, they're not the same guys, first and
foremost. You know, a piece of them maybe,
you know, stayed over there, maybe part of their soul, things
that they're going to deal with the rest of their life.
And they start looking at, you know, their their life here in
America as, you know, a little more, you know, nihilistic.
And, you know, we're going to have to fight our way out of
this and, you know, you know, blood and guts again and all
that fun stuff. And you're like, no guys, hey,
listen, let me tell you about this Bitcoin Standard thing that
that we're we're rocking over here.
There is a lot of hope. There is an amazing amount of
minds over here that is just absolutely aligned with the
ideas of America. You know, this, this freedom,
this putting the individual first before you know that you
know the rest of society. And so to help introduce people
and and guys that had just, you know, so much love for this
country and their fellow man back into this passion, this,
this mission that is, you know, the American idea of freedom.
It's it's a hell of a thing to be a part of.
And you know, like Alex was saying, you know not only are
we, you know across you know the the United States, but you know
we we've got a in an international footprint now.
And there are guys from all over the place that are not only
looking for this, but they are gravitating towards it and they
fix themselves because of what they see and it's an amazing
example to be a part of. I love that, man.
I love that. Wait, wait, the chat says.
We need some. And then also Anika.
Go on, go on. Sorry, we got a super chat
though, but go on. Quick super chat.
Thank you John for the $20. The info and knowledge you guys
provide every day is priceless. You all will be our future
leaders. I appreciate that and I'm trying
to be just trying to tell you guys the news and make content
for you guys, but I really appreciate that.
Thank you. We're.
The future leaders, we got problems.
No, I mean I'm not. I mean like bro, like I'm I I
really believe in the theory of the sovereign individual bro
where Bitcoin makes politics irrelevant.
You know and let let the let meritocracy take hold.
Let the entrepreneurs Dr. society rather than politicians.
That that's where my head's at anyways.
Maybe that's an extremist point of view but that's what I
believe. Anyways, going back to Shane's
point before we jump into the numbers.
Yeah, dude, I I, you know these these these veterans, man, they
they you know they serve their country.
You know war is hell. They they experienced things
that people can't even imagine and they come back and and it's
like they're on a Fiat standard which like it like it
exacerbates you know the the already kind of you know
potentially vulnerable state that they're in and I it's
exactly what you said Bitcoin provides that hope Bitcoin
provides this way forward to really not only heal America but
like heal the world really and and and it you know and it's
it's I'm gonna I'm gonna steal your line Alex.
It gives people a new found mission right?
Like a new found purpose. And all you got to do to be a a
part of that is you know take Bitcoin into self custody and
your you know your revolutionary fighting freedom right.
Anyways, it's gonna be a great show.
I can't wait lots to unpack. It is Friday so last time I
tried to take out the meme review but Opti yelled at me and
it seems like he the show did well.
So you guys appreciate it. So we're.
Gonna do the meme, show long size and show it.
Is a long Friday show, but it seems like you guys enjoy the
meme review, so we're definitely gonna do it.
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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 first
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.
Before I continue, guys, this is the chair of the Council of
Economic Advisers to President Joe Biden.
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
ear 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. I mean like again if this.
I love the background music. Sorry, Nikos.
Background music was great. No.
And and and for dramatic effect. If if this was just some person
off the street and they would say that response, you would
say, OK, you know, that's fine. But this was the chief economist
and an economic advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, the Obama
administration, and now currently he's the chair of the
United States Council of Economic Advisors.
He also said something during that video that was really
interesting. He said, yeah, you know,
Treasury issues bonds and people buy them.
Listen, there is no sovereign wealth fund or country on earth
that has the money to buy the amount of bonds the Treasury's
issuing. You know who's buying them?
The Federal Reserve themselves. Right.
So, like, again, it it's like it.
But most people don't know this. And honestly, I don't like, you
can't say this person's dumb. He went to Columbia University,
right. He had a he's a doctorate,
right. You can't say he's dumb.
You you don't become the chief economist and economic advisor
device. I mean, depends on who you're
asking. But you can't.
You can't say he's he's not intelligent.
You can't say he's not a capable person.
I will make the case that I believe it's a little bit more
sinister than this. And the reason for that is
specifically, and when I saw that, when I discovered that
this morning when I was doing research for the show, my jaw
dropped. So what is the Council of
Economic Advisors? So the Council of Economic
Advisors writes the says, is is a United States agency within
the Executive Office of the President, which advises the
President of the United States on economic policy.
The CEA provides much of the empirical research for the White
House and prepares the publicly available annual Economic report
of the President. Now we covered one of these
economic reports when they came out last year because in one of
those economic reports you know what they did, they attacked
Bitcoin and you know what they promoted, they promoted central
bank digital currencies. And this report was very, very
well written. So again like I, I, I I'm sorry
if I don't like his answers or just like non answers like I
like I don't know what they do, like they borrow the money.
Like it it it's it's almost feels a little bit like a
deflection. And in this report they
dedicated 20 entire pages, basically making the case for
central banks, making the case for Fiat money, making the case
for central bank digital currencies and criticizing
Bitcoin, saying Bitcoin can't be money.
Well it's apparently money when it's convenient to the law
enforcement, right? But anyways, I kind of want to
read you a little bit of the beginning of this report that
came out was released last year. And by the way it came out of
this guy's office who just did that video that that that
interview came out of his office, right?
So anyways, it goes on to say the name of the chapter is
Digital Assets Relearning Economic Principles.
Multiple financial crisis crisis have have struck the United
States during the last two centuries.
Most of these crisis have been caused by institutions that
function like banks but are not registered or regulated as
banks, so-called shadow banks. For example, the 1907 crisis,
then called the panic, was mainly caused by trust
companies, which were state charted entities that competed
with banks for deposits. Because these trusts were not
part of the central payment system and thus processed only a
small amount of payments, they did not hold a large amount of
cash relative to deposits. To earn profits, they made as
many loans as possible. After a series of events in
October 1907 set off a rush for withdrawal, several trust funds
faced a run and were forced to suspend credit and liquidate
assets, acting as a catalyst for a larger fire sale in financial
markets. To save the financial system, JP
Morgan, owner of the eponymous bank, and a small number of
other financial leaders individually chose which banks
to bail out. This helped government policy
makers realize that when faced with the crisis, the financial
system as then constituted would rely on a privileged group of
individuals seeking to maximize their own profits, rather than
institutions that had an obligation to protect the
public's interest. OK, that sounds nice.
You're like, wow, you know what? That's that's so true.
Like this 1907 crisis. All right, I'm going to curse
and I apologize, guys. You know what the biggest
motherfucking crisis in U.S. history was?
The 1933 Depression. You know what?
The second biggest, 2008. You know what happened?
The central Bank was there. It was there.
It existed. It was established.
What the fuck happened? They're completely ignoring
that, Completely ignoring that. Completely ignoring the fact
that we still have not completely gone over 2008.
The wealth redistribution, the fact that it's taking the
opportunities from the lower and middle classes, which
disproportionately are the zoomers and the millennials,
doesn't allow them to buy a house like, like, yes, there's
consequences to this. And that all happened.
That all happened when the government had control.
That all happened when they had the central bank that they're
touting. So the fact that they're picking
and choosing dates, Nineteen O 7, what about 1933?
That's not a convenient date. So they can't say that, right.
What about 2008? They can't say that.
That's not a convenient date. Right.
So again, forgive me if I don't believe his shtick and saying
yeah, the government prints money and like it kind of
borrows months. And like if you say that, then
you don't have to answer. You don't have to.
You don't have to actually answer to what is happening.
You don't have to answer to the unintended consequences or maybe
they are intended who knows, right, of what a central banking
system has done to this country. And I and and I can't help to
think of Ron Paul's and you know we have the Bitcoin veterans
here. But you know, I don't think it's
a coincidence that the bloodiest century in human history was
also the century of of of central banking.
That's on my quote, that's Ron Paul's quote.
But I mean like is that what you're, is that what you guys
are standing up for? Like is that what you know that
is, is that what it's about? I think it's a bunch of BS in my
opinion. And and if you continue down the
court like for example look, look at this guys, look at this
a a a taxonomy of digital assets and central bank money.
Look, look what's in the middle. Everybody, right?
But no, remember, they're not working on the CBDCS.
That's impossible, right? It's coming out of the White
House, right? Central bank, money, cash.
You know, cryptocurrency stable coins, NFTS, crypto assets,
digital assets and CBDCS are perfect.
They're right in the middle. They have all the benefits of
the two. So again, don't.
Don't pay attention to what they say.
Pay attention to what they do. And remember, just like the
Bible says, it's basically an intergalactic invasion into this
space through people. I'm telling you, it's what all
the ancients said. It's what they warned of.
It's what we're dealing with. They're demons.
So, yeah, man, I, I, I, I just, I don't know what to say.
Like a bunch of BS, you know, like, that's my take on all
this. Anyways, Opti, I'm gonna start
with you and then we'll pass it on to the OH.
My God, I'm in tears. I'm in tears.
That was hilarious. That was a good segue.
That was a good segue, Nico. Good stuff, Good stuff.
That's good entertainment, I'll tell you.
All right. First and foremost I really love
the the take you're you're saying on today's show but
taking the more like norm you take here.
You know like the MMM tears the Modern Monetary Theory guys
people, women and men out there. Like they're a complete joke.
Like I seriously don't believe that they even believe the
nonsense that they say publicly but they still come out and say
this stuff. And and the worst part in my
opinion is that people eat this up, that people actually believe
this is how economics works and this is the best for the economy
or this is the best for the world.
And it's like you guys are so detached from reality.
It it goes back to what we always say about the
brainwashing and and the psyoping out there and the
gaslighting and that this is the only way to have a functional
modern economy and all this nonsense when all of us, you
know, left Bell IQ bit corners that are Austrian bit corners,
they're like look humans act purposefully like you.
You don't need to influence people to spend their money.
They will do that anyway. And This is why we always say on
the show constantly, we're probably a broken record at this
point. It's like, just simplify your
life. Guys like seek the simple
answers. It's simply Bitcoin saving
Bitcoin. This is how you protect
yourself. Because even these guys and I, I
love how Nico framed this because they couldn't even
answer the the questions like simply they're they're even lost
in their own lives at this. Point I I just don't.
I I don't think that I totally agree.
I totally agree. Much easier to just play dumb.
It's so much, 'cause then then it's like, oh, they just don't
know any better. But they're they're trying like,
they're trying to like, it's so much easier to do that than
being like the malicious twirling your mustache.
It's like, yeah, the government prints money like, like, it
reminds me of that politician the in California, right, where
he literally said the quiet part out loud, right.
He's like. Brad Sherman, my favorite
politician. He's like, yeah, the US
government prints money, but we're the US government.
Like, I don't think that would be a very popular stance with
the portion of the population. Right.
So I think it's a lot easier to just be like, oh, well yeah,
yeah. I mean they.
I'm actually not qualified to answer this question, bro.
Economic adviser of the president.
Who the fuck is? Well, Nico, going further, going
further, they can't outright say, yes, we are trying to steal
from you as much as we can because most people would freak
out. And I think that's why MMT or
modern economics, quote UN quote, is so complicated on
purpose. It's all engineered to confuse
you so you get lost in the rabbit hole.
So you really don't understand what's happening and that's why
they come out here and and act stupid.
So they're like, oh man, I don't know, it's super complicated.
You you wouldn't get it. It's like, yeah, we're trying to
steal from you and we make it complicated on purpose.
Anyways, let's go to Alex. Alex, jump in.
I I think that's all. I think that's all correct.
I agree that this guy probably actually knows he has to pretend
he doesn't know like and there's a couple of parts that you
mentioned here. Number one, do these people
actually believe this nonsense that they're spouting or I I
don't think that they necessarily do.
I think there's an agenda and then they will create a certain
narrative. They'll create a certain amount
of propaganda. And and there are a lot of
people who aren't that smart who will believe this nonsense.
But I do believe these guys know what they're doing.
I do believe that. Nico, you mentioned that it
looked like a deflection possibly.
I agree with that 100%. I think he was absolutely
deflecting. I think that all of this stuff
is made intentionally obscure and complex and difficult to
understand. Why?
Because it stops people from digging too far into the con.
The other thing about it is really what she's saying is
she's getting at the root of the of the issue, which is, well, if
they're just going to print all this money and they can print
all this money, what's the point of borrowing it?
It's the same question that gets asked by people like, well, if
they're going to print a trillion dollars every hundred
days, why do we pay taxes? And the answer is essentially
the same. See, if they pretend that
they're borrowing it right, that gives it an air of of moral a
cover. That sort of implies that it's
going to get pay back later. So it's not really just outright
printing the money. And the same is true for the for
the tax thing. Like if they just stopped doing
that, we're borrowing it and going to pay it back.
And if they just stopped doing the we need your taxes and
instead just printed whatever freaking they amount they wanted
that would would take the mask off the well, I I guess you
would just see it for what it is like this is clown world.
Like nobody would take it seriously anymore.
Confidence in the United States. Dollar would implode and the
whole world would be like, holy shit, this whole thing's a con.
And it's obvious. Yeah, yeah.
Well, remember Stephanie's very famous.
I'm. I'm pretty sure it's stuff to
Stephanie Count and who who came out and said, you know and every
other economist out there, debts.
What's it? Debts.
Money we owe ourselves, Alex. So why are you so selfish?
It's. Utterly ridiculous, man.
I'll jump in, Shane. Yeah, let's.
Let's understand first and foremost we are in economic
warfare and I think this is maybe something that we kind of
bring to the table that we maybe a lot of people don't see is
when we go in or we do any sort of revolutionary, you know,
operations in another country, whether it's you know, military
or you know three letter agencies.
One of the first things that we do is we start hitting them
economically years before, whether it's sanctions, whether
it's, you know, cutting off ports or whatever we have to do
in terms of blockades. And that's where America
started. I think we really ramped it up
into high gear in 2020 when you started to see the the
government come out. And if you didn't do certain
things with certain medical, you know, vaccines that were coming
out at that time, they started forcing thinking people out of
positions in, you know, in in the economy.
And when you do that, what you're left with is a bunch of
yes men probably that aren't as good at their job.
And you you're starting to see the 2nd and 3rd order effects of
that in in America now from 20, 2021-2022.
As as those companies are now starting to really kind of go
through the the death rows this, this economic warfare plan that
they have is is coming, you know full circle the idea that this
guy is, is smart, yeah, maybe he is obviously Columbia
University. But there's also this side of
what happens in these revolutions with three letter
agencies out there where they will literally install these
guys who are that are fart sniffers, right?
Like these guys will sit there and sniff their own farts long
enough and believe everything, you know, all the accolades and
everything else that's been heaved on them by academia and
this Fiat system. And then they get put into these
positions and a lot of times these guys are recommended or
pushed to the top by the three letter agencies.
So if you start to, if we really understand and hey, maybe this
guy, maybe he is really, really bright, but maybe he's also a
useful idiot at the same time. Both through.
Right. And so if you're if we were
watching this guy and saying yeah you know maybe he does
maybe he doesn't or maybe he's so far down the line because
what they what they know they need is an economic collapse of
the United States of America to to push this thing full circle.
So if if if we all if we understand this in a in a bigger
context and there are obviously MMT is is coming or on the way
and CBD CS are right behind it. You know the idea that you know
we're we're we're talking about you know Powell or any of these
others out there that you know we'll we'll get up in front of
microphones and and talk like they're experts that really
don't have any plan what way or another because they you can't
raise interest rates you can't lower interest rates And if if
we were looking at it and going well obviously you know they
launched Fed now in the summer of 2023 that's a full on
admission that the dollars in deep shit.
And if the dollars in deep in deep shit they know it, then
they're going to have some sort of contingency plan because at
the end of the day, you know you have what, $220 trillion in
unfunded liabilities? Things begin to happen when you
begin to rob an entire populace of its savings and retirement.
You told him that was going to be there without any sort of
backstop plan or a way out of that.
So I don't know. Could be an extremely bright
guy, but also a useful idiot for the state at the same time
because that way they can point at him and go, well that was the
guy and now he's the guy instead of the the three letter agency
taking the the hit. Yeah.
That's a really good point right.
The the level of statecraft, right.
It is. I think it's it's lost upon a
lot of people because you know these three, these three letter
agencies are are they've mastered regime change.
They've mastered controlling the populace.
They've mastered statecraft. So yeah, I mean I would not put
it past them. That's actually really, really
good observation, Shane. Yeah man.
But listen, I think this is one of those things that Bitcoin
fixes and but but at the same time I don't expect them not to
to fight back. And I think you know the the
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Anyways, what I want to talk about today is Jack Dorsey Jack
Dorsey's block adding more Bitcoin to balance sheet and
presents road map for others. It goes on to say payments firm
Block has begun a dollar cost averaging program to add to its
already sizable Bitcoin stack. Led by CEO Jack Dorsey, the
company in April began using 10% of its monthly Bitcoin related
gross profit to buy additional Bitcoin, with plans to do this
each month for the remainder of 2024.
For perspective, Block had $80 million in Bitcoin gross profit.
In the first quarter, according to its earning results, where
that level of profit to continue through the rest of the year,
the company under the program would add another 24,000,000
worth of Bitcoin to its balance sheet.
Block already had substantial Bitcoin holdings, having
purchased 4709 bitcoins in October 2020, another 3318
tokens in early 2021. At today's price of a of about
59,000, that Bitcoin is now worth roughly 4.7 billion.
Alongside that news, the company also released its Bitcoin
Blueprint for Corporate for corporate balance Sheets, in
which it describes the process through which it is able to
acquire large amounts of the crypto without unduly moving the
market and how it custodies, ensures and accounts for the
holdings. Look, I I can't.
And I and I believe, if my memory serves me correctly, I
believe Michael Saylor did something very similar.
But this is incredibly important and the reason for that is this
is the this is what's going to happen this epoch, right?
Michael Sailor has been vindicated.
Clearly, the MicroStrategy Bitcoin strategy is working.
MicroStrategy has outperformed everything else.
And here you have another very notable company.
You have a notable figure, Jack Dorsey, basically saying like,
look, we're adopting a Bitcoin strategy.
We're going to put 10% of our profits each quarter into
Bitcoin. And here's the thing, as number
go up does its thing, market forces start to do what market
forces do best. And then other companies that
are competitors of block, other companies that are competitors
of MicroStrategy start to be at a start to be at a major
disadvantage for them not adopting a Bitcoin strategy as
well. So I think Jack Dorsey is
definitely accelerating massive adoption at least on the
corporate level with this move. This is very, very positive
news. And remember, guys like, look,
there's not enough Bitcoin to go around, right?
So like the the, the daily supply that already got cut in
half, it's just getting gobbled up.
What do you think's gonna happen, right?
It's it's just common sense. And then just kind of, and if
you connect this with what we were talking about yesterday,
the second largest European bank is they're not buying Bitcoin
directly. I don't know if they can, but
they announced that they're buying exposure to Bitcoin
through Blackrock's Bitcoin ETF. Now the second bank in in the
second largest bank in Europe, BNP Paribas.
I think I pronounced that correctly.
Now they have the cheat code. Now they have a competitive
advantage to every other bank that is not adopting a Bitcoin
strategy. So I think game theory is going
to take a foot very, very quickly.
As you know this cycle continues to ramp up as number go up does
its thing and block is going to have an advantage.
This bank is going to have an advantage.
Micro strategy is going to have an advantage.
And I think the likes of Facebook, Google, you know, all
the Tesla, all the Tesla already has, I think, I believe.
But these companies, they're gonna get left behind if they
don't start putting Bitcoin on their balance sheet.
And look, a lot of these companies have a tremendous
amount of cash, right? And it's like sitting on a
melting ice cube, right? They can compensate for losing
that purchasing power on a yearly basis, which they're OK
with because they're so profitable.
They can compensate for that if they just put 1%, two percent,
3% of their cash reserves into Bitcoin.
And I think it's just a matter of time and you're starting to
see the the damn break with these types of moves.
So once again, I think Jack Dorsey leading the charge and I
think it's a good thing. Anyways, I want to get your
guys's takes. Start off with Alex.
I feel like this is up your alley.
What's up, man? Yeah.
So it this is not surprising to me at all actually we've been
saying this for a long time. But even back in the you know
when I was the host of Cafe Bitcoin doing that talking about
how like the sailor sort of playbook of of using your
balance sheet using the profits from your company to put more
Bitcoin on your balance sheet as a as a as a part of your
treasury. Like is it becomes a no brainer
overtime. And I think you know one thing
we've been saying is you're going to see lots of companies
copy this playbook doubt by the thousands.
I think in time you'll see thousands of companies doing
this and eventually if it's not already happening you're going
to see central banks doing it. Now when central banks do it,
they're not going to announce it.
That'll be done, done completely in secret.
You'll find out much much later that they've done this.
But I think all of these things are inevitable. 100% I think
it's inevitable. The game theory is the game
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Shane, what's your take on this brother?
I think it's really interesting to see European banks going in
through the BlackRock ETF. When you when you understand you
know who BlackRock is, is basically the Fed's trading arm
and that they're storing these things in Coinbase.
You know this this might be anecdotal but the idea that
you're going to move your your reserves from Europe over to the
US into Coinbase and God knows if they if they ever fork the
code through BlackRock and then you have to take the tokens that
they fork to and that money is just sitting there for the the
Federal Reserve raises a lot of questions in what's going on for
me. And I I can't think that they've
done their due diligence and and understanding any of this in
terms of Bitcoin. But yeah it it definitely looks
like it's it's I don't know it looks like this is going to
continue. The side that I see, you know on
a daily basis over at Swan is you know the we have more and
more businesses coming in with with lots and lots and lots of
money and we're in a crab market right now.
So if we're in a crab market and we're seeing people getting out
of the blocks and maybe this is the slow part, you know, later
on the summer this fall as we head into, you know, the
election season and everything else that's going on, I I
totally expect this to accelerate. 100% and I actually
agree. I it's just game theory.
Like it's just like it's just like it's a common sense, right
where where this is going, Opti, what's your take, brother?
Yeah, well, first and foremost, I absolutely love seeing Jack
Dorsey turn Block into a de facto Bitcoin company.
You know, they're making the bit key.
They got TBD where they're doing development.
We have cash app that you can not only buy Bitcoin, but you
can turn your your corporate payments into Bitcoin.
It's just like Jack Dorsey in my opinion is killing it right now.
And I know the Chad's going to say, well, he was part of
Twitter and all that stuff, but what he's doing now I think
makes up for a lot of the stuff that you might hate him for.
And I absolutely love seeing this move right here.
You know, just doing a consistent monthly buy pressure
for Bitcoin heading into a bull run.
It's going to be absolutely marvelous to watch.
And like we're saying more companies are going to follow
this lead and everyone out there, I highly suggest you read
the press release. It's because it's a great read
and he absolutely open sourced. His whole strategy wants people
to come talk to him and follow lead.
And I think like Shane just said, when we see other
corporations follow this, it's really when things are going to
kick into OverDrive. I saw Luke Brodes do a great
thread this morning about the Apple stock buybacks.
They did 110 billion stock buyback this morning.
I think it's the largest one ever.
And imagine if they did that and then did the sailor move and
bought Bitcoin. It's like I don't think people
really understand what the game's being played right now
and of course you know we're more freedom go up Maxie's but
everyone loves number go up. So it's once this playbook
starts to really kick into OverDrive it's going to be
absolute fireworks. So it's just men.
We're still in the early endings and shouts at the Jack Dorsey
for for again putting his money where his mouth is and and just
being like yeah we're going to consistently DCA into Bitcoin.
And yeah it's not a sailor move where they're buying hundreds of
millions or 100,000 coins but every month a consistent what
what they say they're going to buy 2524 million in the this
year. So that's going to be you know a
consistent couple of million buy pressure every month.
That's going to be great. That's going to be setting the
floor And then once other people follow this, I think you guys
are ready for what's coming. You guys are too bearish in the
chat. I can see you guys.
It's bro. It's.
Going wait, actually Mikos too. Bearish in the chat.
It's going, it's going up, it's going up forever.
It's going up forever. Anyways, the next topic that I
wanted to talk about is optis exes.
So first we're gonna start with, of course, you guys know
Christine Lagarde, you guys know Augustine Carson.
But breaking news, you guys didn't know this Brian Armstrong
as well. So why don't, why don't want to
talk about Brian Armstrong, Brian Armstrong?
Looks like the guy from Dune. I had to figure out a Segway
somehow. Oh man.
I think he's got a much bigger Dome, like the guy from Dune,
just with a bigger egghead. Bro Opti Opti gets plugged in.
Man Opti Opti shoots high. Hold on, hold on.
I'm on the full screen myself. I'm trying to get the bag.
All right. Can you blame me?
I need to stack more sets. Oh man.
OK, so why am I talking about Brian Armstrong?
Look, I think all of us here, right?
Not a fan of Coinbase, obviously.
Shit, the largest shit coin casino in the United States.
However, they finally integrated Bitcoin's lightning network and
the reality is that they have a a ridiculous amount of of users.
So I think this is a very positive for the Lightning
Network. You know I I know that there is
a tremendous amount of pressure on Opti's X from Bitcoin Twitter
and it seems like he you know he came through in in this sense.
So I think this is great for for Bitcoin adoption for the
lightning network and it kind of defeats the purpose for a lot of
those shit coins that you know are being peddled on Coinbase
right. You know cause a lot of the, a
lot of the a lot of the narratives from people were that
like look like you know this is faster than Bitcoin.
Bitcoin can't scale. Now all of a sudden you know if
they're offering lightning for withdraws like I mean it's kind
of counter intuitive I would say but you know who would have
thought out of all people you know in this world you know
Brian Armstrong, you know played such a a would say a a big role
in in potentially lightning adoption.
So anyways, I know that is not exactly the the the most
bitcoiner thing to say, but you know Coinbase has a massive user
base. That's right.
I think the last time there was like 100 million users or
something. Anyways, Opti, what's your take
on this? And then we'll move on to Shane
and Alex. Yeah, well, you know, I'm not a
big fan of Coinbase, even though Coinbase is like the first
platform that I bought Bitcoin with.
And you know, they're still the biggest platform out there and
people are people still don't understand that, like Coinbase
is like, it's not just an exchange.
But hey, that's all beside the point.
I'll give them their props, I'll give them their flowers when
when they do something good. And this is one of those good
things. It's like now their whole shit
coin narrative in my opinion, is absolutely dead.
I haven't used this, but I love to see when more exchanges start
using Lightning it. I think that's an important
thing to see. And shots at the Lightning
Goats, he says he tried it and it's absolute trash.
So hey, you know, I haven't used it.
I haven't used it, but at least they are making moves.
You know Brian Armstrong, I think it what was it like last
year? Nico the Walker America was like
tweeting at him about using lightning and he didn't even
know that he could use it. Or like, no, his lightning
addresses and now at least you know.
Yeah, I thought it was. An e-mail.
And at least now they're making some moves.
It might be what, like 2 years? Two years late?
But at least they're making moves to do it.
So hey, it's a good thing to see.
I can't wait to see it. Basically every Bitcoin exchange
and even shit coin casinos use lightning because in my opinion
it's it disproves the whole narrative for shit coins.
Like that's the whole reason for most shit coins existence.
It's like oh bitcoin's slow and clunky.
It only has seven transactions per second bro.
Like it's like now it just use lightning.
This is, this is this is a good thing to see.
But hey, hopefully, dude, Oh my. God oh man, that's hilarious.
Anyways, Shane, Alex, what's your guys takes on this?
I mean. Brian Armstrong is that guy
that's just notoriously slipped through the figures of the US
government and securities fraud. But I don't know, I I've got
clients that come to me every day that are trying to run away
from Coinbase as fast as possible, and if they're
introducing Lightning to help them run away, that's great.
The problem is if they're Lightning runs like they're on
chain withdraws, but it's still, you know, zero, right?
You know, guy after guy after guy that's trying to get away
from these kinds of like, hey, they're not allowing me to take
my Bitcoin off their exchange. I don't know, maybe it works,
maybe it doesn't. If it's trash and we're already
hearing that it's trash, I wouldn't be the least bit
surprised. You know, when markets move and
they want to, you know, clamp down and have a an issue with
their software or firmware or user interface or whatever,
they're going to blame it on that day.
I I think that's still going to happen over there at Coinbase,
so. Yeah, to change point, how are
they going to shut down now? You know for operations when
they're using the Lightning, right?
Yeah, when the circuit breaker was.
Lightning, Alex, what's your take on this?
I think you got to remember that Coinbase is that they generate a
majority of their revenue by churning shit coins.
I think it's something like 80% of their revenue is generated by
by churning shit coins. And they're they're in a
situation right now where the SEC is still coming after him
for this. Like there's a fair chance that
the SEC will prevail in this situation.
And if that is the case, then the reality is, is that Coinbase
has been making a market in unregistered securities for a
really long time. And if they're forced to stop
doing that, that's a huge part of their revenue base.
So it's possible that they might just be looking at it from a
strategic perspective, going man, we may have to repair
relationships with the bitcoiners, because if we have
to stop selling shit coins, we're kind of fucked as a
business. So maybe we need to make friends
with these guys again. Dude, I mean, oh that's a that's
a really good take. But I don't, I I don't know if
they could salvage that relationship.
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from Bitcoin Veterans. You guys kind of already gave
the TLDR, but for everyone that's coming up later, what is
the mission of Bitcoin veterans and and what are you guys doing?
Shane, why don't you go? I'll follow you.
I'll follow you up. Yeah, we thought it was pretty
self-explanatory by the title. Bitcoin veterans.
We're bitcoiners. We're veterans.
We're trying to put people back on the mission.
Guys that have maybe found some nihilism in their lives don't
have a lot of hope and still deep down want that freedom,
that American idea, self sovereignty, the little white
picket fence family and all that fun stuff.
We're trying to help guys actually realize that by
introducing them to Bitcoin, get them reintroduced to society, so
to speak, and give them a mission that is going to, you
know, empower them and and take charge of that passion that I
think they signed up for, for the military, you know, in good
faith and turn it into, you know, this this bright orange
future that we're all looking at.
So that's that's kind of a very high level idea of why and and
how we form Bitcoin veterans. Yeah.
Alex, want to jump in? Yeah, sure.
So my perspective on it is, is that like, I think a lot of guys
who join the military, not all and gals do so because they are
what I call sheepdogs. They have an instinct inside of
them to protect other human beings.
And then they, they signed up for the military thinking that
that's what they were going to get to do.
They were going to protect their people.
And as it turns out, I think a lot of guys who go in figure out
after a while that it's not what they thought it was like they'll
get out and they'll realize, man, this is a gigantic machine
feeding a military industrial complex of non-stop forever
wars. And it's the forever wars stuff
that I think grates on a lot of veterans.
They get out and they're like, man, I dedicated my life to this
for X number of years. I signed the dotted line.
I agreed to go over and get shot at and possibly blown up and
dismembered for what? Like what are we doing here?
You know you think you're spreading freedom and protecting
in America when in reality what you're really doing is you're
just feeding this non-stop monster that is never satiated
and that monster is the military industrial complex.
They print the money. They pay those guys for the
bombs and the missiles and The Jets and all the things.
And some of those guys get really freaking rich and our
military. The guys who go out there and
and stand in the gap, go to foreign lands and and do the the
work of these people. You know they got to carry a lot
of bullshit with them for the rest of their freaking life
because of that. Yeah, totally man.
And you know, I think I'm pulling up your website so
everyone can check it out. Go to bitcoinveterans.org guys,
you guys can follow along. But I think to your point, you
guys found such a good market niche.
Because you guys are saying, I think for the most part veterans
are like you say, I love the meme that you have Alex of
Sheepdogs. I think a lot of people do get
in for the right reason of wanting to protect America,
protect all the things that we love especially as Bitcoiners
and to kind of realign their their operating system be like
look guys the mission that you wanted is really in Bitcoin and
this is what we're doing and I just love the community you guys
have built. I was on the phone with Mike
Hobart last I think it was last Friday and he was telling me all
of your. I I think he kind of called him
like decentralized signal groups of I don't want to say sleeper
cells everywhere but of like you know you're different you guys
have different groups for different areas so people can be
organizing everywhere across America and and you guys are
even saying international. So can you talk about that?
You guys aren't only a podcast but you guys are really building
a local you know bottom up community of veterans around the
world getting connected and organized and having great
communication and great discussion.
I I just absolutely love what you guys have been doing.
Yeah. So there's a, there's a thing
called the Dunbar number. And the Dunbar number basically
is, is there a certain amount of people that you once you re go
past a certain number of people in an organization, you start to
lead, lose some of the cohesion, you get to the point where
people don't know each other as well, those types of things.
So early on we agreed that we didn't want to have more than
120 people in any particular group.
So it started with as soon as we started hitting the caps on
these particular groups, we just started adding more groups and
currently we're up to quite a few and we have all these
different initiatives. As it turns out, a lot of these
guys are incredibly intelligent, incredibly skilled.
They have all kinds of stuff that they've learned from the
military that like I tell you what, you don't want these guys
on the other team in a forest plotting against you.
Like for just as one example, we have this one dude who is a
former CITC, which is basically a cyber warfare, cryptologic
kind of super smart dude that used to deploy with the SEAL
teams and feed them intelligence info.
He's the guy that will, if you're transmitting with a radio
in the forest, he will fucking find you.
So like these kind of guys are part of the organization and
we've just got all these different initiatives that we're
building here, like the Citadel network.
We've got this channel of a bunch of dudes who either own
Citadel's or intend to own Citadel's.
And these are not theoretical. You've heard this like Bitcoin
Citadel's thing for years. These are not like dreams.
These are happening. These guys are building these
things right now and we have other guys who like the
intention is to create a ham radio radio relay network all
across the United States linking these things together.
So we're going to be doing that in Nashville.
We're going to have this thing, what we call the the BV Citadel.
We're going to be testing people to get qualified a ham radio
that we're going to have breakout sessions teaching
people about mesh tastic networks, which are basically
off the grid networks that you can build in your local
communities. So if the cell networks go down
or whatever, you've got that point of resilience.
We're going to have guys, they're doing contingency
planning sessions. These are former military
officers, graduates of West Point so on and so forth that
that think adversarially and they're like, look, this is all
the shit that can come against Bitcoin.
Are you thinking about this stuff?
And we want to get as many developers in there as possible
to to kind of war game out best ways to defend against this kind
of stuff. We're going to have start nine
in there that's going to be doing basically breakout
sessions on how to use start 9 servers, all the different
things, man. Anyway, love it gambling there,
but yeah. Dude, keep rambling.
Keep rambling. It's great.
One thing you did talk about the citadels, and I don't wanna dox
anyone on the show, but you guys are very huge on local
communities, so I'm gonna point to Shane.
Can you elaborate on the idea of local communities?
Obviously we talk about it here on the show all the time, bottom
up, going local, making sure that you, you know, know your
neighbor like a very simple thing.
Like talk to your neighbors and make sure that you get more
people around you on board with what we're talking about.
Because This is why Nico and I always talk about getting
meeting bitcoiners in meet space because like, it's cool having
communication on Twitter and all that, but it's a totally
different vibe when you hang out with people in real life.
You know that there's people in your neighborhood that are also
like minded, like you're not as strong being a lone wolf.
You need a community of like minded individuals around you.
Hell yeah. And and and you you breed like I
think it was some somebody in the comments says this is not a
niche. It's a light.
We've got these skill sets. You know, I was a, you know,
Marine Recon guy. We've got Green Berets, we've
got Navy Seals. We've got all these guys who
have done inland warfare through Iraq and Afghanistan where a lot
of what we did was we adopted the Green Beret mission, right?
It was, it was indigenous force multiplication.
For anybody that doesn't speak military.
That just means you go into a local population, sent you
identify some leaders in that set and then you start working
on them, developing these relationships, you know,
reaching out, maybe offering a help or hand establishing, you
know, who might be these, you know, their players, what are
their skills, what kind of resources do they have.
And at that point when you can start to do that and you
actually have a a format for doing that, a blueprint for
doing that, you've done it successfully in non permissive
environments. When you come into your own
community, your own neighborhood and and building your own
Citadel's, trading with local ranchers, farmers and things
like that, talking to them about Bitcoin and freedom first, a lot
of times meeting them where they're at, you start to see the
the fruit of these discussions. So quickly you'll you'll start,
you know, having bourbon nights. You'll start having dinners
together maybe you know talking to people about you know owning
a couple of chickens or something just, you know local
homesteading maybe even homeschooling like my, you know,
my family's into into both of those things.
My wife is you know an amazing homeschooler.
So you start to normalize all these ideas and and and action
items that we, you know, we want as Bitcoiners and it starts to
pull together a community in a in a way that I think is is
palpable. You actually see the results.
And so yeah, these guys have done an amazing job and I, I
mean you know, I don't want to dox.
Anyway, I'll tell you, this is happening all around the US
right now and we're gonna talk about it a lot in Nashville.
So back in the Citadel room, if you're going to be in Nashville
and maybe you're a Bitcoin veteran or Bitcoin adjacent, you
can get in contact with us. We'll get you in there for a big
discount. But yeah, this this move to
create orange communities out there through Bitcoin veterans,
it's it's happening now and it is absolutely amazing to watch
these these communities start to gravitate around these guys who
have seen a thing or two and know if this thing or two
because of what they've done overseas.
Amazing. Dude, I mean it.
It's it's it's it's it's very important to have these
communities that you guys have built, like the these this
network of people that you can reach out to and they can rely
on you, you can rely on them. It's incredibly important.
And you know, of course I'm not a veteran, never went to war,
but you know, I think I've, I love reading about history,
right. And one of the things that I've
noticed is that when you go through conflict with with with
with your brothers, you you start to build a very, very
special bond that I I don't think that you can you can build
in any other type of scenario, right.
So you know the fact that you guys have been able to do this I
think is, is very important and not to say anything too direct,
but I think you know over the next couple of years you know
this, you know as as the separation of money and state
accelerates, you know I think these types of communities are,
are, are are vital for, for our cause anyways.
Can I can I say one thing to that really quickly is that,
yeah, I think you're right. Like when you get guys in
difficult circumstances, they build really strong bonds.
So that is true about dudes who've been in combat together.
And then all these veterans, regardless of service, have that
kind of thing going on. But I also want to say that,
like part of what I see for Bitcoin veterans going forward
in the future is, is that taking guys who weren't military and
doing things where where you face adversity together and you
you can build those bonds with dudes who've been through all
that kind of stuff too with guys who aren't, haven't been through
that kind of stuff because we just need to.
I think I think that's a big thing that's missing in in
Western culture is the ability to get around dudes who are
basically warrior archetypes. When you're not a warrior
archetype and sort of just hang out and learn things right, get
to get it. It's a it's an opportunity to
maybe if you're interested in doing that learn some stuff
whether that's survival skills where there's weren't going out
on the range learn how to shoot. Whether it's just like how do
these dudes approach life? Like a what how does this dude
approach his his citadel, what's he doing?
Like how is he raising his family, all these different
kinds of things. Like if you have an interest in
that, I I I think it's really important that BV continues to
not just grow with wet veterans, but everybody else.
We want to interact with everybody.
Absolutely. Love it.
Incredibly important.
It's it's a it's a brotherhood. It's very important guys.
Go check out Bitcoin. Yeah, yeah.
Wait, Nico, before we go on veterans, how do people contact
you? Like what?
What's that whole process like? Do you guys vet people?
Do you vet the vets or just is everyone allowed here?
Yeah, we we vet people, but we just do so in a way that it it's
like we'll have conversation with them and it's pretty
obvious if somebody's not a veteran, but if you're a
civilian, that's OK We have what?
I mean, we have these this thing called this civilian auxiliary
division, like if you want to get involved with Bitcoin
veterans, you can, even as a civilian if you want.
And then if you're interested in different things that we're
doing, we're more than happy to have you involved.
So, Bitcoin veterans.org. You can also check us out on
Twitter at Bitcoin Veterans. Yeah.
And and I'll add to that too is you know if if you're cautious
about this, this group in terms of what we're about, it is peace
first. You know that that is the main
thing is anybody coming into these, they get briefs.
This is a peaceful revolution. This is the way we're headed.
If you're not on board with that, then you can get the hell
out of here. Secondly is don't worry about
not being the veteran, right? Is this, this is an extremely
accepting crowd. We know we need civilians out
there, and we know there are the warrior archetypes, like Alex
was saying, that are in the civilian population that didn't
waste a lot of their time and effort in the military like a
lot of us did. Don't feel like you're behind.
It's just one of those things where we want to incorporate
you, we want to get you involved and we want you on the mission
with us because that's what we're going to need to grow.
Love it. Love it.
OK, Nico, I know you're trying to get to the meme review in
the, you know, because of time, but I do want to give Shane and
Alex the final two sets. It could be about veterans.
It could be about life, about Bitcoin.
What's the last message you want to leave with the audience?
Well, first of all, thanks for having us on the show.
This is an amazing platform. You guys have done a hell of a
job. I think you guys understand that
if they're fighting us, we're on target.
So just keep up all the pressure, the mimetic warfare
that you guys do over here at Simply Bitcoin, it's working.
I mean everything you can do to ridicule these people in their
place and then you know make sure that they are are seen
under their own weight for the lies and everything else they
you know, put on the the population, make sure that you
just keep, keep pressing, keep moving, be smart about it.
But yeah, you guys are all over the target.
Appreciate that, dude. Appreciate that.
Yeah, just a a quick final comment on that on stuff is is
that like for me I'm just going to say that I, I, I will not
abide a future where my kids don't know freedom full stop.
And I, and I think Bitcoin is the best weapon we have to fight
a peaceful revolution. This is the mission, like I
believe any everybody needs to understand what Bitcoin is.
So like our our goal. All of us as bitcoiners, you
guys, many of you heard me say this kind of stuff before is our
goal should be to spread the word like that is the mission.
Get on the mission. That's it.
Absolutely. Beautiful.
Wait, Hold on, Mika. Hold on.
Oh yeah. All right guys, we still got the
meme review. It is Meme review Friday.
There's 1000. We broke 1000 live viewers
between YouTube, Rumble and X. If you guys are enjoying the
show, smash the like button really, really helps with the
algos. All right, everybody, let's get
to the meme review. Opti's Friday Meme Review.
We gotta do Sophie's voice, bro. You know, I knew you were gonna
say that. I knew you were gonna say that.
But my voice is so sultry. It's so it just it fills me up
with joy in there. These Friday I mean bro like
Christy, Lagarde, Augustine and Brian must have liked your voice
so. Hey, you know, I may not have a
face for TV, but I do have a voice for radio, so I'll, I will
take it. OK.
Anyways, guys, you guys have been yelling at me all day.
You guys are putting pressure on me for the Friday meme review.
I get it, I get it. Keep tagging me on Twitter, drop
them in a telegram group. But if you drop them in the
telegram group, guys, will you tag me?
Because there's there's a lot of messages in there.
So I I don't catch all the memes in there, but if you want it
your meme to get on the show, tag me in Telegram or tag us on
Twitter and I'll bring them on. You guys already know the deal.
We are. What do you say, Nico?
Narrative trench warfare. You guys are frontline soldiers.
Tweets are the bull, Memes are the artillery.
Yeah, let me. Let me do it.
Let me do it.
I did it. This is narrative trench warfare
on the this is narrative trench warfare on the battlegrounds of
the Internet. If of if tweets are, well, if
tweets are bullets. Memes are artillery.
Let's pull them on. Did a lot better live on stage,
but anyway, yeah, something like, whatever.
Something like. Anyways, continue to ridicule
the corporate press. Continue to get the calls of
actions out there and continue to make the funnies so your
friends head stay in the game. Okay.
First one is by our actually, I just realized there's a lot of
nepotism on today's meme review. So hey, it is what it is.
It is what it is. First one is Rustin, our boy
Rustin. Go watch his Simply Originals.
He's been killing it on our channel. 10 minute clips.
Absolutely hilarious. Probably has the best voice in
Bitcoin creation, in content creation.
He's a character. Love him all right so at SATS
for live on Twitter and he just goes let go and we got a girl
here on her phone and she goes, Oh my God, what the hell is
happening in the world right now.
And then we got Ron Paul on a computer and he goes exactly
what the fuck I was told. I told you was going to happen
14 years ago and you can see grocery prices 70%, gas prices
up 67%, housing costs up 53%, and wars of 100.
Where is that? All right, great, great.
Next one's my boy Rope, AKA at Ropeium on Twitter.
And he goes, fair warning and this is the classic office meme.
I forget what the guy's name is. Yeah.
Jim, he's he's pointing at the whiteboard and he goes learn
about Bitcoin then consider buying some and then take it
into self custody before the only way you can acquire it is
to work for Bitcoin. It's it's looking that way.
All right. Next one, my boys over at orange
label and this is a classic guy in the corner looking at
everyone partying and they don't know meme and today he's got an
FBI hat and he goes, they don't know they're all unlicensed
money transmitters guys. We're all unlicensed money
transmitter. Your wallet is an unlicensed
money transmitter at this point. OK.
This next one is is actually let's let's give wine double,
double memes today because he yells at me all the time.
So first one, nothing there. But at Wine it gets on Twitter
and he's got 1/4 and it goes flips 256 times, come and take
it And then the next one is after 255 coin flips.
If you flip that coin one more time, I'll arrest you.
And we got the classic, I think it is Pixar.
I don't know what that is, but there's a cop running at you
guys. We're criminals for flipping
coins here. I'm going, I'm actually going
super hard today on last week's news.
So Nico, forgive me, but it is what it is.
This next one is Pedro at retweet and we got the classic
psyop fed boys at the the protests here and it goes.
Hey man, want to do a peer-to-peer coin join with me.
Oh man, absolutely incredible. And the last one I got to give
Cynthia Lummus a shout out. Come and take it with the
Bitcoin logo. This is the way, this is the
way. All right guys, you already know
the deal. Drop your meme review score in
the chat and we will cover ours live.
Or cover yours live and ours live.
So we'll give you some time. But in the meantime, Nico, what
is your meme review score? Oh man.
I mean, I don't think I'm. I'm prepared.
All right, I'm ready. I'm ready.
All right, I got some some orange juice here, but it's not
orange juice. It's actually carrot juice cause
apparently it's like good for my gut or something.
I don't know. I'm, I'm, I'm trying to figure
out my diet here. Your your boy's been breaking
out a little too much. I'm trying to figure this out.
OK, so let's go to Shane. What is your meme review score?
5 out of 510 out of 10 OK on a Friday afternoon.
Let's go. Yeah, so all you guys in the
chat telling me I need to step up my meme review?
Shane says I killed it. OK, all right.
Alex, what's your meme review score?
Yeah, I'm going to give those memes one.
Call it 9MM. Metaphorically.
Metaphorically, as an ECO, he says.
Metaphorically. 9mm bullet. There goes YouTube.
I don't know. I don't know.
How do you scurry YouTube Wait. Wait, it wasn't.
A That wasn't a. That wasn't a weapon.
That was a. That wasn't a weapon, dude.
Can you do the click again near more near the microphone?
Oh, there we go. Got that?
Simply Bitcoin bet Bitcoin veterans ASMR. OK, there we go.
All right, Nico, what are you pulling out of the junk drawer?
I'm going to give it an orange Bitcoin pill pin.
That's nice. Yeah, yeah, That's.
That's a good one. That's a good one.
That's. My score.
OK, let's see. Let me see.
Some of these were dropped a little too early before the
show. So re drop them now so that I
can get to them. Let's see where is the first
one. Where is there?
We get someone rumble, dude. OK, here we go.
Here we go. Cue the music, bro.
Cue the music. There we go.
All right, Keith, I give the memes a cup of coffee that Alex
Jones drinks before he recites from the From the Ancients.
All right, next one from Elaine. Bitcoin screams when every theme
becomes a meme on every stream. This is not a dream.
They wanna. They want the hour meme review
show, Nico. Wow, OK you and wine can host
that. OK, JH my girl on rumble.
JH My girlfriend gives these memes one come and take it very.
Good. Very good.
All right, Matt Fry, I rate the memes. 4 chickens to freedom.
What winekas bullying. Opti is not a meme.
It's life. Oh my God.
That's hilarious. Yes, this is true.
OK Tora paddle meme score is the BTC Vets YouTube intro.
All right. Also, Nico, they're telling us
we need to update our intro 'cause they're killing us on
their intro. Huh.
I'll tell you later. Okay sat wise jinx.
I give the memes Nico and Opti providing pure signal every day.
Thank you bro. Appreciate it.
Next one we got UT XO. I give the memes 100% organic
diet for clear skin. Okay.
Guys, I love bread. I'm sorry, T was.
Samurai Dachs and proud of it. It says getting super high with
my are. You not reading it?
Matthew J. Meme Review score I give the
memes one Bitcoin veterans flag to plant in DC peacefully.
Next one, Robert Schmidt gives the memes a spicy Italian
sausage with kraut and cheese. That sounds delicious.
Come up with this Multi stacker 10/10.
This is the way face fusha tongue out.
OK this knock and meme score. No clue what to say but need to
fill the score. OK and Mac half are an army of
veterans with a new mission to hold the line against tyranny.
Primary weapon of choice? Bitcoin.
Just Bitcoin. Hey, OK we ran out on YouTube,
but I, I wait, wait, let's do Rumble.
Just let's show rumble some of so idle threat.
He goes meme review today. No Nico wet blanket this week.
Don Bali meme score. Get the Bitcoin from my cold
storage. MF first.
Yeah, OK, there we go. There we go.
Oops, wrong one. All right, we, we, we it's the
buzzer. We don't run out of scores.
It's always the buzzer. Anyways, guys, thank you so much
for tuning in to Simply Bitcoin Live this week.
We made it through the week guys.
Have an amazing weekend. I'm your host, Nico.
It's my legendary Co host Optimus Fields.
Our guest today, Alex Stanczak and Shane Hazel from the Bitcoin
veterans. Gentlemen, why don't you tell
everybody where they can find you on the interwebs?
Bitcoinveterans.org guys, you can drop us the line and we
really appreciate the platform. Thank you guys.
And I appreciate you guys for coming on.
All right guys have an amazing weekend.
If you guys enjoyed the content like subscribe and share the
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Anyways, guys, let's. Take some grass this weekend
guys. Yeah.
One last message from our guest. See you guys later.
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I'm telling you, it's what all the ancients said.
It's what they warned of. It's what we're dealing with.
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