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Anyways, today we're going to talk about some interesting
stuff. We're going to start off the
week strong. I'm in a good mood because I
leave till Salvador tonight. My first time in Bitcoin
country, the shining country on a hill.
El Salvador, the savior first country to make a Bitcoin legal
tender, the beachfront for the Bitcoin movement worldwide.
So I'm really, really excited for that.
But we had some interesting characters.
We had Pierre, Richard, we had Kathy Wood and they were
throwing some very, very interesting calls for this
cycle. And I also want to make the
case, and I've made this case strongly and I haven't heard
enough people talk about it, how I believe that the last cycle
was cut short because of the China mining ban.
And I think this time things are completely different.
The hash rate is going absolutely parabolic.
I think the reason that we didn't hit 100K minimum last
cycle was because of the China mining ban.
I think this cycle things are completely different.
What is different? Well, obviously the China mining
ban could only happen one time. The majority of the hash rate is
located here in the US in the great state of Texas.
Texas is extremely pro Bitcoin. There's some hash track, there's
some hash in in Kazakhstan as well.
It's decentralized worldwide, so I think that the probability of
a mining ban in the middle of the next bull cycle is quite
low. You never know what could
happen, but it's quite low in my opinion.
And also the stars are aligning in the sense that the ETF got
approved January 9th in 2024, the same day many many years
ago. That how Finney tweeted out
January 9th, 2009 running Bitcoin.
So quite a coincidence there, but the ETFs got approved and
the ETFs are absolute game changers.
Not to mention the fact that Larry Fink said that the ETF,
the Bitcoin ETF, was the best performing ETF in history.
Really. Not to mention the fact that the
Bitcoin ETFs, two of them, the Fidelity One and the BlackRock
One, are already in the top five out of 3100 ETFs and it's only
been a couple months. So the amount of institutional
demand coming in, you know, is absolutely insane.
And then this month in 2019 days is the Bitcoin halving.
So it looks like all the stars are aligning and you know, if
you take a look at the numbers, it makes sense.
This is the first time in Bitcoin's history that Bitcoin
made an all time high before the halving, right?
So we're in uncharted territory. I think the best is yet to come.
I think we're gonna, you know, this is going to be a great
cycle. And another reason that I
believe so is because a lot of people still have PTSD.
Like if you look at the Wall Street Cheats CHEAT SHEET, one
of the sections is kind of like the disbelief.
I think we all got so PTSD from the last cycle, you know, this
kind of like the the double top and it just didn't really go
parabolic like a lot of people thought that.
A lot of people, what I'm seeing this time, unlike the previous
cycles, the previous cycle, everyone thought that Bitcoin
was gonna hit 100K guaranteed. What I'm seeing this cycle is
that people are like being a little bit bearish and Bitcoin
and markets tend to do the exact opposite of what the masses
think they're gonna do, right. So I think we might be in for,
you know, a pleasant surprise on the price level.
But remember guys, the revolution is self custody.
So you guys could be benefiting from the price if you bought
Bitcoin and you know you bought that Bitcoin ETF, but it's not
really your Bitcoin. So remember guys, buy real
Bitcoin, earn Bitcoin, mine Bitcoin and take that Bitcoin to
self custody. And you know, that's that's
really how we really change the world.
If enough of us do that, if enough of humanity does that,
that's the separation of money and state.
So anyways we have a lot of video guy.
We have a lot of videos for you guys today, a lot of like kind
of like price speculation, price analysis.
I'm going to make the case for the China ban and also how the
China ban affected the price last run up.
And also I have a video for you guys as well from I think like
10 years ago where they were just talking, you know, S on
Bitcoin. And you know the price of
Bitcoin at the time was $300 or $400.00.
Right. And the reason I like playing
these types of videos is 10 years from now, where do you
think the price of Bitcoin is going to be?
You know, I think a lot of people are going to kick
themselves in the foot metaphorically for not stacking
those sats AT68K. Anyway, it's going to be a great
show. I want to bring up my legendary
nose. He's smiling today looking
beautiful. The legendary Optimus fields.
How you doing Opti? I I I'm doing wonderful.
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Dude, Jesse, we gotta we gotta make Bitcoin fun, sexy and cool.
So I guess we're on the forefront of that one Nico.
But hey man, it's Monday and we're starting the week off
strong, getting very bullet hearted.
This is my favorite things to do.
Obviously we get young all the time.
Uh, speculating, click baiting and all that stuff.
But this Pierre Rashard quote or clip that I know we're going to
play today is is absolutely, it's like just chef's kiss.
It's it's such a good clip. I'm, I'm super excited for this.
And Pierre Rashard, one of the best memers, one of the OG
memers in the Bitcoin space. So I love hearing his takes and
I think you're right. You know, I always jokingly say
with wine all the time that I counter trade Bitcoin Twitter
all the time. So whatever Bitcoin Twitter
says, you just counter trade it. And I it's my it's my contrarian
view here. So if we're all having PTSD
right now about 100K Bitcoin, then you counter trade that and
we're going way past 100K100K is bearish.
I said here first, we're getting bull tarded this morning, it's
OK, it's OK Monday bull tards. This is where we're at right
now. No, no, no.
But I'm telling you I'm telling you like we could and and again
guys we'll be replicate for on simply Bitcoin is stay humble
stack SATS stay solvent and just DCADCA is the way time in the
market beats timing the market every time.
I'm telling you that from experience, OPTI experience to
two most bitcoiners I've talked to, this is this is what they
this is what they say as well. Don't don't try to time it.
Just stay humble. Stack SATS, literally just focus
on increasing your income and putting as much of it as humanly
possible into Bitcoin while keeping your expenses low.
Also, during the culture segment, we have a very guest.
We have Will who's trying to one up Brian de Mint by reading his
his book. He's reading his three books.
Let me let me make you full screen.
He's reading three books at the same time.
Hey, guys. Yeah, I didn't see you there.
I saw Brian on the live show Friday Reading.
And yeah, I just read three books at the same time.
So you know, there you go, Brian.
No man. All right, so Will is an author.
Will, what books did you author, man?
Yeah, so my first book The Bitcoin Dog, following the scent
to the Bitcoin C++ source code. Really having fun.
My dog running around the Australian Outback talking to
animals to read the actual C++ code of Bitcoin and go into the
code. Second book, which I'm going to
talk about today is the fiction novel Bitcoin Girl.
Save the world, have a new anniversary edition with a new
cover. Hopefully later in the show OPTI
can read chapter one out loud. You don't want to miss that.
And I wrote a short story for the first ever Bitcoin fiction
anthology 21 Futures Tales from the Time Chain published on
Consensus Network. So that's A and I promoted that
a couple months ago on simply Bitcoin.
Awesome, man. Well, dude, I'm excited.
I'm. I'm excited to talk about your
works today and what they're all about, why people should buy
them, why people should get them.
And guys, I can't emphasize this enough.
If we want to win this, we gotta, we gotta win over the
culture. That's that's how we do it.
And the way that you went over the cultures by writing books,
reading books, write, making music, making content, you got
to, you got to get that into people's minds, man.
You fix the money, you fix the world.
It's not left versus right. It's not liberal versus
conservative. It's the party of green versus
the party of orange. And the way that you raise
awareness to this is you make Bitcoin cool, you make you know.
Doubling down that Nico, it's truth versus lies at this point.
Optic coming in strong. Anyways, ladies and gentlemen,
it's going to be a great show. I am extremely excited.
My last show in Miami before I go to El Salvador.
I can't wait. I can't wait.
I heard so many good things about this place.
Can't wait to, you know, buy some things with Bitcoin, like,
like, I can't. I like that.
Get some pupusas with. Lightning Can't even believe it.
Can't even believe it already loaded up my Lightning wallet.
Like, ready to go. So it's gonna be great.
That's where she goes. Nico, the Bitcoin girl Destiny
goes to El Salvador, so you're gonna have to read the book to
get ready for. Your trip there I am.
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Anyways, at the time of recording the Bitcoin price is
68,580 stats per dollar 1000 four 1458 block height 837,266
blocks to having 2734 having estimate April 20th 2024 Total
Lightning network capacity 4407 Bitcoin capacity value 302
million U.S. dollars Realized monetary inflation 1.73% The
market capitalization of Bitcoin 1.35 trillion U.S. dollars
Bitcoin versus gold market cap 9.76%.
In the grand scheme of things, Bitcoin is just getting started,
just revving up its engines. Anyways, I do have a video for
us to react to today. Here's Neil Jacobs, and he's
posting a clip from exactly 10 years ago when the Bitcoin price
was at $479. Don't you wish you can buy
Bitcoin at $479? That'd be great.
Anyways, let's check out what the legacy media had to say on
Bitcoin. Let's take a look at it.
Technically, two ways to look at it.
Obviously, rich, big, downtrend from its highs.
Lost more than half its value. But it is only back to the level
it was back in mid November of last year.
It's not like Bitcoin is completely collapsed, you know
to to levels of just a couple of years ago.
Technically, any sign of support here for Bitcoin?
Yeah, it it hasn't completely collapsed yet.
I think is the point here, Brian.
This has transitioned from a trade into a scandal, which is
like a duck transitioning into Ala Raj.
It's not a good thing here from a technical standpoint.
We have this massive descending triangle with the peak up around
1100. The base of that triangle very
well defined around $500. A key psychological level I
guess to some. Now that break below 500
actually projects measure downside to -100.
Now that doesn't really make sense but given the recent
history, given the Mount GOC scandal or jocks if you will, I
could see this thing in negative.
It could actually cost you money to own this thing.
At the end of the day, it could just disappear that quickly.
So not a big fan either. I'm with Gina as well.
Probably get some negative comments out there.
But Brian, this is not a good chart.
It's not a good story. I I I don't know what good could
really come of it at this point. You guys are negative.
Listen, I, I, I don't have an opinion on the way, but I will
say this, it's got a lot of backers, got a lot of believers.
It's got some very powerful. Backers as well.
I'm not sure I'd write Bitcoin off just yet, even though it is
obviously evolving. It's new.
It could change. Someone's got to take the other
side. That's about the best I can do.
Rich Ross, Gina Sanchez, thank you very much.
Folks, what do you think about Bitcoin?
Obviously, a difficult last couple of months for the digital
currency or digital property. What will happen?
Let us know. We're on Twitter at CNBC
numbers. I'm Brian Sullivan.
Talk to you soon. I mean, I mean that guy must Oh
yes, someone put it in the chat. That guy is now unemployed.
I hope not. That'd be that'd be that'd be
me. But look, the reason that those
videos are so significant is not to beat yourself up and be like,
Oh my God, like, it's because you have to remember that you
will look back and these times right now, and you will see the
same thing. It's going up forever, Laura,
right? It's Infinity divided by 21
million. So there will be a moment in
time where you'll look back 510 years from now and you'll think,
holy crap, this thing was at 60 AK and this thing's now at $1.5
million. Or this thing's at $5 million,
or this thing's at $10 million. You know, you know, 10 years
from now, 15 years from now, 20 years from now, and you had an
opportunity to buy it at 68 K It's going to be the same thing,
right? So those types of videos are
just kind of a like, a reminder. Like, look at the confidence in
that guy's voice. He's like the Mount G ox thing
happened. It's a descending triangle.
This thing peaked at 1000. Oh, it's going back to three,
$200. Could you have imagined buying
this thing at 3 to $200? It would have been insane,
right? So you you when when in doubt,
you got to zoom out, right? The opportunity's still there.
The vast majority of the world go into an Uber.
Go talk to people on the street, talk to them about Bitcoin, see
what they say, and you'll know. We're early.
People still don't know what this thing is.
We're jumping the the chasm between or the chasm between the
innovator stays the early adopter to the early majority,
right. We're like jumping that we're in
the process of that. I really believe we're in the
beginnings of the early majority phase.
There's still a minimum of 100 X in this thing, right?
So you got to ask yourself, you know you're going to, you're
going to be that guy. At least the anchor was humble
enough to be like, you know, a lot of powerful people like he
had a little bit of humility, right?
But that guy doesn't look very, very smart right now.
So you either jump on the train or you get left behind.
Now all of that being said, I want you guys to put that video
in your forefront. When we start talking about when
we start playing you guys, the videos from Pierre, Richard and
Kathy Wood, and they're talking about $1,000,000 Bitcoin, $1.5
million Bitcoin, right? Just just put that video in your
mind. If you think it's unbelievable,
if you think it can't happen as quickly as they say it could
happen, no one knows the future. But I can tell you something.
There will only ever be 21 million Bitcoin.
It is the best asset the world has ever seen.
It is a black hole. It's the best money the world
has ever seen. It is uncorruptible sound money
that is, you know, literally designed to go up forever.
Because they're going to continue printing dollars
forever. So anyways Opti, I want to get
your point on. I want to get your thoughts on
that dude, that guy. Like holy cow man, holy cow.
Look look to be fair, at that point Bitcoin was still new.
Like no one knew what it was. Like all the on ramps that you
guys benefit from right now, like Bitcoin.
Well and all the other ones, they didn't exist back then.
Like it would like this thing. Like Mount Gox was the thing,
right. So the thing to buy Bitcoin
literally just disappeared off the face of the planet.
So it was very uncertain times. Michael Saylor, even at that
moment in time, that moment in history was like, no, this
thing's going to go away, right? So it's a lot easy to say.
It's a it's a lot easier to say, oh, I would have bought Bitcoin
at that time. No, there is a whole lot more
uncertainty now. There's a lot more certainty
right now. I think it's incredibly obvious
at this point, but there's still people that don't think so,
which is why Bitcoin is still only at 68.
Ki think if people really woke up to Bitcoin and they really
found out how powerful this thing is, I think we would be
north of 100K easily by now. Anyways.
Opti, what's your take? And then we'll get Will's take.
Yeah, just on that last point, I I always say it on the show, I
don't know every other couple of weeks that I think the Bitcoin
price is a real time metric of people's understanding of
Bitcoin. And like Niko said, you know, if
people really understood what Bitcoin is, then we'd have a lot
more people holding Bitcoin currently and we wouldn't be at
these prices. So this has been an opportunity
for all of us to try to stack as much Bitcoin as humanly possible
before the Larry thinks of the world came in.
And you know, going back in time, what what year was this?
This was around Mountain Gox. So, you know, a long time ago in
Bitcoin world and real like in the recent memory or rather in
the current zeitgeist of where Bitcoin is like in my opinion
and to all of us bitcoiners and I think to anyone that is
starting to gain interest in Bitcoin, Bitcoin is the least
risky thing to be holding today. It's been de risk.
You know, we have Larry Fink now embracing Bitcoin sailors been
vindicated. We have IE Bukele with El
Salvador having Bitcoin. And so that signal is getting
out there. And we had a really cool
conversation the other day Nico and I and I don't wanna dox him
but a friend of ours was basically telling us that he was
having conversations with very high net worth individuals and
you know basically traders and and people with with a lot of
capital and they are moving slowly right now and they're
doing the research like they basically do their research
before they invest a lot of money.
Whereas all of us bitcoiners just like throw money at it and
then we learn on the back end. So we're seeing that the signal
is starting to spread and it's getting de risked in real time
and people are looking towards Bitcoin as a viable solution, or
rather a viable alternative to the traditional financial world.
And in that time when that video was being played, most people,
even bitcoins, didn't even know what they were holding.
And it's just funny because I don't even remember how many
obituaries there are for Bitcoin.
But Bitcoin never dies. And every time I see these types
of videos, it always reminds me of the early, like, I don't
know, early 20, 10s, ish when or early 2000s rather when people
were talking about like the impact of the Internet or social
media. And you see these clips all the
time on the Internet and they had no idea what the Internet
is. They're like literally like
monkeys looking at typewriters, like what is this thing?
And if you go and look back on those videos, you're just like,
Oh my God, like the Internet is basically ubiquitous with the
modern world. And even when a new technology
like the Internet comes out, people are still hesitant.
They don't understand and what it is, they're afraid of change.
And it's just funny looking back at old Bitcoin videos because it
reminds me of people talking about, you know, I think there's
one of like Oprah talking about the Internet and they're like
this. They don't understand what's
going on. And and this is just kind of the
the, the, the facts of the matter when new technology comes
out, people, I wouldn't say they're dumb, but they're slow
to deep dive the technology until it has an actual effect on
society and we're seeing this happen in real time in Bitcoin.
So it's so awesome looking back on those videos.
And then another point, This is why we tell you guys to not
trade Bitcoin. Time in the market beats timing
the market. Because if you're just looking
at charts, you know, you're looking at lines on your charts,
you may think you've you're late to Bitcoin, you may trade
yourself out of a position. But remember what I keep telling
you guys, we're playing Hungry Hippo with Bitcoin.
The name of the game is accumulate accumulate,
accumulate. Buy as much Bitcoin as you
possibly can hold it for as long as you can and you're gonna be
happy in the future and and you won't go back and look at videos
of yourself talking about Bitcoin and and like beat
yourself up about it. I mean we have the the famous
sailor tweet where he was calling Bitcoin dead and now
he's like the biggest bull in the game.
So like I think it's another meme we always talk about here
in in Bitcoin land is that there are no critics to Bitcoin.
Because once you actually start to test your assumptions against
Bitcoin and you deep dive Bitcoin, all your criticism kind
of flows away. Because you, the more you try to
criticize Bitcoin with an actual open mind and and in good faith
you start to realize, wait, this Bitcoin thing might be something
huge like. And then This is why all of us
bitcoiners always say they're not big, bringing us their best
critics. Because the best critics of
bitcoiners always end up being bitcoiners.
And you can just tell who is. You know for lack of better
terms, the NPCS out there that are just regurgitating the same
headlines they've heard from other people and those that
actually try to understand what is going on in good faith
because they always end up being bitcoiners.
So this is just part of the process. 100 percent, 100% will.
What's your take on that video, my friend?
Yeah, really fast. I want to say stick around for
the culture segment. I'm going to give away two
signed copies of Bitcoin Girl, Save the World.
I forgot to say that earlier. My take on the video is it's so
early, let's go, let's do it. I mean, just like look at these
guys drawing lines on charts, $1000 crashing to $500.
We crashed $1000 while we were recording and nobody even say
anything. Nobody even noticed.
So I absolutely remember Bitcoin in 2013.
In 2014, when Mount Gox collapsed, I was like, oh, this
is a scam. This is going to zero.
I'm. I'm not going in.
But look, here we are. It takes education.
It takes shows like simply Bitcoin.
It takes people to learn. And how I know we're so early to
Bitcoin is all of us here on this podcast listening live.
We are the ones we weren't in the space earlier.
Some of us might not have been here in 2013, including me.
I know Nikko, you said you were class of 2016.
Every year we're only going higher and higher and look the
previous, I know what you're talking about in terms of the
PTSD this bear market, we fell below the prior cycle all time
high 19,000, we fell into the 15 thousands.
But now look at us, we're breaking all time high before
the having something that has never happened in Bitcoin's
history. So it's it's only bullish from
here. Let's go.
I'm ready. Hold on, hold on.
Let's. Don't forget be humble.
Yeah, don't forget be humble. Let's.
Effing go. Wait.
Hold on, Miko. Seems like we got a super chat
from from from from vague let's. The homie Vague.
Opti's cycle is very conservative.
Just like Bitcoin, he only beat bleeds once dude shuts up.
Vague, appreciate, appreciate the 10 bucks.
Vague. By the way, guys, by popular
request we have the Super chats live.
So if you guys are enjoying the show, really, really appreciate
the Super chat. Also, our Bitcoin address is
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Also, we have lightning there as well anyways.
Anyways, that's fun. That's that's having hilarious.
God damn. God damn it.
The other thing I was thinking was the other thing the guy said
is for every seller there is a buyer.
That was his last defense. And that's us.
We are the hobblers. We are the remnant.
We are the ones accumulating all. 100% I'll buy it from you,
dude. Like if you wanna take that
attitude, that pomp like I was going to zero, I'll buy it from
you anyway. Oh Hamasito, appreciate the 2
bucks man. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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I'm. Going to be bringing some merch
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Anyways, let's check out quick ETF update.
Let's refresh the page. MicroStrategy currently holds
still 214,000 Bitcoin, grayscale, continuing to sell
off 335,000 the BlackRock ETF, 252,000 Bitcoin.
The Fidelity 143,000 seems like it's going sideways.
None of them have really increased that much all that
much. So interesting.
The ARK and VEST seems to be going up 44,000 Bitcoin bitwise,
31,000 Bitcoin. So very interesting.
Very interesting. Clearly there's been, there's
been some winners in the ETF front and I really do believe
it's Arc, Fidelity and BlackRock out of all.
I think it was like 11 ETFs that applied.
But it seems like these guys are the winners.
And it seems like that grayscale people just continue to dump the
the the grayscale ETF. Maybe it's because of the
pricing, maybe they had a bad experience with GBTC, Heard a
lot of people had bad experiences with GBTC.
Anyways, I do want to play this clip.
This is what we're all here for. Here's Pierre Richard on on
Marty Bench show TFTC. Huge fan by the way.
And he had some something interesting to say in terms of
Bitcoin and this cycle and where he thinks it could reach.
And we'll make the case for it. We'll make the case for it
right. This isn't just, you know,
complete bull porn. We'll make the case for it is
Monday. We want to start off strong, but
we'll make the case why this is. And again guys, we at Simply
Bitcoin we don't make price predictions ever.
But, but when notable, reputable figures like Samson Mao, Adam
Back, Pierre, Richard, Max Kaiser, Kathy Wood, when they
bring up, you know, these these, these, these, these these price
speculations, we like to cover it and we like to try to make
sense of it. Sometimes they don't make sense
whatsoever, but we at least like to have the conversation and
remember the video that we played for you guys during the
number segment? That guy was literally making
fun of Bitcoin. Bitcoin was at $200.00 at that
point. If I told you back then that
Bitcoin was eventually going to hit $70,000 ten years later, you
would have laughed me out of the effing room.
You would have laughed me out of the room.
So just keep that in mind. Keep that in the back of your
mind. Anyways, let's check it out.
And I think that the ETFs opened that up and we're starting to
see the banks say, hey, in the past we have not been able to
touch Bitcoin due to, you know, the Fiat maxi overlords.
But because BlackRock and everyone else can get their
hands on Bitcoin, we're at a disadvantage competitively and
it's not fair. We need to level the playing
field and allow everybody to, you know, be able to use
Bitcoin. And so I think that we're
starting to see a move in that direction.
And so now I think that we've got a lot more clarity on the
path to hyper bitcoinization completion, right, because
obviously we've been in hyper bitcoinization for 15 years now,
right. You don't go from a $0.00 to $1
trillion market cap and not call that hyper Bitcoin organization.
Bitcoin's the 5th largest base money in the world.
Yeah, in an astonishingly short period of time.
You know, given that human civilization has only been
around for 1000 years or whatever.
So yes, the answer is yes. And now?
We got to we. Got to caution people, there are
going to be big drawdowns, right?
So it's not going to be a straight line up and to the
right, it's going to crash obviously.
So don't go crazy with leverage, don't use leverage, don't use
the ETFs. Also things might get hairy.
So you know, learn how to use a cold card, learn how to use
multi sink and get get not your keys, not your Bitcoin, you
know, get it off the exchanges because we're going to go in for
a wild ride here. How wild?
$1,000,000, you know, is kind of my expectation for for this
cycle. Really.
Absolutely. And like and arguably that's
just like naively conservative because of massive tailwinds.
I think the biggest headwind, honestly, is the paper hands,
the people who are like the lettuce hands who.
The Dave Portnoy's in the world. So I mean, again, it's not
coming from simply bitcoins, it's coming from Pierre Richard.
Pierre Richard is the VP of Research at a publicly traded
mining company, Riot Platforms. It's on the NASDAQ by the ticker
symbol Riot. So I mean, like, yeah, like,
obviously his incentives are for him to say stuff like that.
Just like it's Samson Maus incentives to say $1,000,000
Bitcoin, just like simply Bitcoins incentives to be
perfectly transparent, it's to say $1,000,000 Bitcoin.
But at the same time, remember the video that I played you guys
in the beginning of the show? Look, Bitcoin is an aligned
incentive structure model, right?
So miners, they're not mining out of the goodness of their
heart, They're mining out of the pursuit of profit.
Node operators are not roading. They're not running their own
nodes out of the goodness of their heart.
They're running nodes because they don't want to trust someone
else's copy of the Bitcoin blockchain or they want to run
their own version of their Bitcoin software.
By the way, if you're thinking about running your own Bitcoin
node, which you truly should, you got to take self custody.
You got to get yourself a Bitcoin node.
I recommend the Start nine. That's the one I personally use,
Start 9 Pure. It is absolutely badass.
There's a promo in the link in the video description if you
guys are interested. But yeah, I mean $1 million
Bitcoin, $1 million Bitcoin this cycle.
I love the fact that he's like, it's conservative.
Exactly. Thanks, Opti.
Is it possible? Absolutely.
I think anything's possible. I think you kind of have to
prepare yourself for any type of possibility.
Look, we're only AT70K, right? We're at .07 million right now,
per Bitcoin. The the having hasn't happened
yet. The bull hasn't happened yet.
I mean, are you trying to make the case to me that we're gonna
just hit 100K and then pack it up and then wait like another
cycle? Or like maybe maybe that's the
case, Maybe maybe that's the case, maybe I'm not.
But you know, I think when Pierre Richard speaks, it's a
good idea to listen anyways. So this many, many times Bitcoin
is likely to scale into a multi trillion dollar market.
And here's the Barrett, the barrier case, the bull, the base
case, the bull case, the bear case is 258,000.
The base case is 682,000. The bull case is 1.5 million.
Now Kathy Wood released this in 2023, right?
She's completely changed her outlook on this 100%.
She's actually fast forwarded it to 1.5 million by 2027.
And the reason for that I think is the same reason that Pierre
Richard is bringing it up. It's because of the spot Bitcoin
ETFs, the spot Bitcoin ETFs and the amount of institutional
inflows. Not to mention the vindication
and the validation of the Bitcoin public Company Strategy
by Micro by Michael Saylor Michael Saylor.
Have you guys seen his stock Opti?
Could you pull up the micro strategy like?
Yeah, it's nuts. It's.
Absolutely absurd. I have to show this to you guys.
Like, guys like this is insane. You don't see this on Wall
Street, OK? You see this hockey stick, You
see this, like, look, his stock was going sideways for like 10
years, OK? This is when he started the
Bitcoin strategy, right? When it peaked at 800, went back
down to like $200.00 and this thing went to it's at 1782
dollars. All he did.
Look, right now, five on a five year scale, it's up 1000.
It's 10X on a five year scale. OK, why is this happening?
OK, all he did, he didn't change his business strategy into
whatever. He leveraged his company to buy
Bitcoin and hold Bitcoin on their balance sheet.
And I'm not saying that every company could follow has to
follow Micro Michael Saylor's footsteps.
But if you're a company like Apple or Google, right, and you
are holding massive reserves of cash that are like melting ice
cubes, if you just put 1 to 2% or 3% or 4% or 5% into that,
into Bitcoin, it could, it could compensate for the amount of
purchasing power you're losing by holding cash.
And as Micro Saylor has proven, it could also potentially help
your stock price if you're holding a good amount of
Bitcoin. This is what Michael Saylor is
proving. No, no, no, no.
This is not what he this is not what he's proving.
He proved this already, right. OK, So that's the public company
aspect of it. Now on the nation state level,
it gets very fucking exciting. You have Naim Boukale, who's
been buying one Bitcoin a day since this thing was at 26,000
and he's in the profit too. Do you remember how much S the
legacy media was giving him? The IMF was like, this is going
to be a disaster. They had to eat their effing
words. In fact, it kind of reminds, it
reminds me of this guy right here talking.
So surely that's how that's the IMF gave me those vibes when
they're like saying they were talking S about El Salvador
adopting a Bitcoin standard, right?
So look, markets do what markets do best.
And at the end of the day, if this micro strategy stock keeps
performing the way it's performing, other public
companies are going to get pressured by their investors to
say, hey, what are you guys doing, how you guys being out
competed by a company that's literally just holding Bitcoin.
That's where the pressure is going to come in.
And I think it's going to happen a lot faster than people
realize. All it takes is NVIDIA,
Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple, All it takes is 1 press
release saying Chevron. Chevron.
Exactly. All it takes is one of those
companies to announce, hey, we're holding Bitcoin and you're
going to see a tidal wave of Bitcoin Bitcoin purchase.
And now here's the thing. Unlike gold, it doesn't matter
how much the price of Bitcoin goes up, the production not only
stays the same, it gets cut in half every four years.
And that is where the supply shock is coming in.
So when you hear Pierre, Richard and Kathy Wood bring out these
predictions, that's where it's coming from.
That's what they're seeing when you have the CEO and chairman of
the largest asset manager in the world, BlackRock, who holds
trillions of dollars, assets under management, say stuff like
this. Look, I'm I'm very bullish on
the long term viability of Bitcoin.
As I say, did that surprise? Me, did that surprise me how
much that's gone up, I mean look at it's it's it is we're we're
creating now a market that has more liquidity more transparency
and I'm, I'm pleasantly surprised and it would never
have predicted it before we filed it that we were going to
see this type of retail. So you thought you'd do good,
but not this good. I thought, well.
Ibid Ibid. Is your ETF over at iShares?
It's about to overtake Grayscale, which was in the
business certainly a lot longer. You look at the gains since
January 11th when it first came about.
Have you ever? Seen this much inflow this
quickly into. Ibid is the fastest growing ETF
in the history of ETFs. Did you hear that?
A Bitcoin ETF is the fastest
growing ETF in the histories? A history of ETFs.
Now pair this guy's connected dots.
This is simply Bitcoin. Connect this with the micro
strategy stock. Literally.
Look at this. Look at that.
That's not normal, right? Wait, Wall Street still has not
completely waken up to this. That's what you guys have to
understand. So we're when when they throw
out these predictions, Pierre, Richard, Kathy Wood, this is
where it's coming from here is Kathy Wood saying $1.5 million
Bitcoin by 2027? Let's check out what she has to
say. We have all kinds of metrics,
but when I was at Abundance the the forecast was our poll case
was $1.5 million in five years, so that would have been 2027.
We still have time and and we still think that's going to be
right. If you just look at the
institutional push into Bitcoin, this new asset class, they have
to consider it as fiduciaries. When you use that those code
words new asset class what it means the correlation of these
returns are very low compared to those of other assets.
Especially as as bonds and stocks are becoming more
correlated, you need something uncorrelated, yes.
Absolutely, absolutely. And so they have to consider it.
Now, what are we saying? There are 19.6 million Bitcoin
out there right now and the highest it will ever go is 21
million. Well, OK, there's real scarcity
value and what what is going to happen?
The price increase for every institutional dollar pushing in
now is going to be much higher than it was last year, two years
ago. It's, you know, we're going to
get into if these institutions really want to own it.
What I found fascinating recently, just learned it this
morning is typically when you go through a a price move, a
Bitcoin price move to the upside, you usually see long
term holders, which is a metric we monitor.
It's on on chain analytic analytics metric and it means
people who have not moved or wallets that have not moved
their Bitcoin in 155 days or more.
Yes. Well, normally when you go
through a price move to the upside, a very nice one like
we've seen in the last year, that tends to start moving down
and it did that true to form, but it has reversed in recent
days because what we learned is GBTC sold some of its Bitcoin.
So that was those wallets hadn't been changed in a long time.
Right Now that is done at least for the time being.
Now that is done and it's going back up again as the price goes
up. That's highly unusual and I
think it is because the long term holder saying why would I
sell now when I know all these institutions which own nothing,
own nothing in this realm, in this new asset class, they have
to consider it because it is a new asset class.
I have friends of mine who. All right.
So all that being said, right, all that being said, now you
have Kathy Wood, extremely intelligent, very successful.
You have Pierre, Richard, extremely intelligent, very
successful, right. But what happened last market?
I'm going to tie it up with this.
And this is something that again, I do not hear enough
people talk about, but I believe that we were destined to hit
100K in 2021. But something happened.
Bitcoin was attacked by a nation state.
In fact, not only was it just any old nation state, it was the
one of the most powerful tyrannical nation states on the
face of the planet. And of course, I'm talking about
China, which is controlled by a single party, the CCP, and they
banned Bitcoin mining and Bitcoin in the middle of the
last bull run. I don't think it was AI, don't
think it was a coincidence. I think it was on purpose.
I think they were trying to attack the price.
I don't hear a lot of people say that, but I'll make the case for
you guys today because again, this is just so obvious.
It's it's so incredibly obvious if you're taking a look at the
data. So the line up top for audio
listeners, I'm going to have to describe this to you, is the
price of Bitcoin at the time. The line on the bottom is the
Bitcoin hash rate. The Bitcoin hash rate is a
representation of the amount of computational power that's
actively mining the mining Bitcoin, therefore securing the
Bitcoin network right and getting rewarded for it.
If you take a look at the price, take a look at what happens with
when the price starts to dump, the hash rate starts to dump
with it. In fact, the hash rate dumps and
the price goes down with it. Now why did that happen?
Well, that's because there was a concentration of the Bitcoin
hash rate in China at the time and all of those Chinese miners
had to sell their Bitcoin stack and their mining equipment to
relocate to more favorable jurisdictions.
And this happened in the middle of the last run up.
Now I think it had so much momentum that that's why we got
the double peak, but not that many people talk about that now.
What's different this time? Take a look at the hash rate.
It's gone absolutely parabolic with the price.
And I don't think there's going to be a ban.
I mean, they're trying to like Elizabeth Warren is trying to
and Co, right? She's doing everything in her
power. But the vast majority of this
hash rate, or good portion of this hash rate is located in
Texas, and Texas is extremely friendly towards Bitcoin mining.
And the more that the price of Bitcoin goes up, the more
friendlier the state of Texas will be, right?
Bitcoin is not a friend of tyrannical governments, which is
why China had to get rid of it and to push forward their
central bank digital currency. So another thing that I wanted
to mention as well is that the hash rate recovered in about 9
to 10 months. It distributed in the process
became more decentralized, right?
Without any type of central authority or any type of CEO or
leader telling them to do so. That's absolutely incredible.
And look, it's just going parabolic.
And why did it do this? Bitcoins, Incentives.
So I think this was one of the key factors.
Last cycle, a lot of people were talking about FTX and the
rehypothecation. I think that played a part, but
I think that this was the primary 'cause.
Now I don't think that's gonna happen this cycle anyways, I
wanted to say that. So not only, you know are you
hearing 1.5 to $1 million Bitcoin predictions by very
reputable figures, but you're you're kind of hearing also the
thought process behind how we're getting to those numbers as
well, right? So very, very interesting.
I'm extremely bullish on this cycle.
What do you guys think? Let us know in the comments if
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Anyways, Opti, I know you're more bull hearted than I am in
general, so bull. Heart is life.
But I mean like bro, like I, I, I, I, I wanted to kind of break
it down. Like I wanted to make the case
as to why they're they're saying these things because you can
just throw numbers out there. But if you don't explain the
thought process behind it, you know, it kind of doesn't make
sense. So you know, now that I broke it
down, we pulled the data. We showed the receipts.
What are your thoughts, man? Is 1,000,000 possible, dude
1,000,000 by 2027? Bro, That's what like 3 years
from now? That'd be absolutely effing
massive. Yeah.
No, I mean, First off, the context here.
You know, speculating is fun. Obviously, we all bitcoiners
speculate on the price whether publicly or privately.
The problem is when you like throw all of your net worth in
Bitcoin at a certain price expecting a higher price or you
leverage your house or mortgage your house or get a HELOC and
you make really risky decisions because you think the price of
bitcoins going up forever. So obviously guys, you know PSA
don't do that. Like that's why I think the stay
humble meme is so strong. It's stay humble in your
finances. You know work your job saving
Bitcoin, try to get provide as much value so that you can get a
good cash flow and then put all that in the Bitcoin.
With all that being said, I absolutely love this bull tarted
take. Pierre is the king of being bull
tarted. I remember him last cycle he
was, he was definitely one of the dudes like Paul Revere.
Like we're going to 100K, like hyper bit colonization is here
and then we all got a little piece of humble pie.
So obviously he might be kind of doing something similar here,
cuz 1,000,000 by 2027, as much as I believe it's a nonzero
chance and there's a very good probability of that happening,
it still seems like one of those far fetched numbers.
But again, when I bought Bitcoin in 2017 at like 10K or it went
to three, Ki wouldn't be saying that we'd be at 70K in what,
three to four years like that. Those numbers seem like, oh,
maybe one day we'll get there. But again, I think what we're
seeing here is that Bitcoin's getting adopted at such an
incredible pace right now and now the floodgates are going to
get open up to Bitcoin. And so I think this is where
Pierre's taking it. Like all your models are broken.
Your your lines on your chart are imaginary lines and and
yeah, there might might be some psychological like point on the
on the Bitcoin price that people want to sell out.
But again what are you selling out to?
You're going to sell your Bitcoin for Fiat.
You're going to sell something that is hard capped, that is
digitally scarce for something that they can print for
Infinity. But I do tend to agree with
Pierre Rochard because what 100K is only like a 50% move from
here. You know you guys can check my
mass on this but it's not that far away.
It's only 30 K away from here. So if you think we're going to
stop this cycle at 100K or you know, I was doing and me and
Nico would have these kind of conversations and then almost
like low key arguments. But I'm like dude, like 300 K
seems like a conservative idea of where the Bitcoin price is
going to be. But again, that was before we
saw the level of demand that we're seeing from institutions.
And again, bringing back the little story I just told you in
the numbers, is that high net worth individuals, they don't
move as quickly here. So they're doing their research
and they move slow, but when they do make a move, they make a
huge splash. So it's only going to take a
couple very rich people with very high conviction in Bitcoin
to move the market and also rather some unsophisticated
buyers like if they're buying. I think I saw over the weekend
Nico and someone can Fact Check me, but someone just bought like
a billion dollars just on the open market over the weekend.
Just like not even caring. Just like stacking Bitcoin.
You know if you're a high net worth individual, you're
probably going to like over the counter Bitcoin sellers.
But there it's only going to take one conviction, 1 high
level conviction from a very wealthy person to really kick
the can down the road and make this start to move.
And so you know the ETFs are what, three months old?
Obviously we don't advise you to buy the ETF, we want you guys to
buy Bitcoin directly. But there was one point in there
that Marty mentioned and it was just in passing.
But Bitcoin today is the 5th largest base money in the world.
I don't think you guys understand what is that, what
what that really means right now.
Like Bitcoin. Yes, all of us bitcoiners are
super excited about Bitcoin. It's all we can talk about.
But again, if you talk to normally people with normal
people in everyday life, they still think Bitcoin is some fad
and yet it's the 5th largest base money in the world.
Like it's one of the biggest monies in the world.
And right now no one's even talking about Bitcoin.
So just wait till that FOMO starts to catch on again.
I remember I got into 2017 and it seemed like it was a FOMO
craze. You get caught up in the FOMO
craze. It does seem like hyper
bitcoinization is coming or it's here rather, but I do think that
we really underestimate the tsunami of demand that is on the
horizon for the next year or two.
So I'm not saying that a million is absolutely bullet hearted.
I think it could be a possibility.
But it does seem like one of those far fetched numbers.
But again, when you put all these dots together, the fact
that they won't be able to ban Bitcoin or Bitcoin mining again,
the fact that we're seeing institutional demand by the
what, hundreds of billions? The fact that we haven't even
got retail to FOMO into Bitcoin, The fact that Bitcoin is only at
what maybe like 1% adoption rate and I would say less on the
amount of people that really understand what Bitcoin is.
I'm not a bear. I'm actually more bullish than
Nico is. But Bitcoin is being adopted at
at a spectacular rate. It's I think at this point we
can safely say it's the fastest adopted technology ever, faster
than the Internet. Like the Internet was made just
for Bitcoin and it's getting getting adopted at an incredible
pace right now. But like I said, the paper hands
out there that are looking at psychological price points to
sell Bitcoin. There will be some pull backs.
It's not going to be just, you know, God candles after God
candles. But This is why we tell you guys
all the time that the real game is holding and accumulating
Bitcoin for as long as possible and not looking for price
targets. Just, you know, as my buddy
Wino, he says he's like, I buy it, I buy a I buy Bitcoin tops
as historical time stamps. It doesn't matter at what price
you buy Bitcoin, it's that you hold Bitcoin long term.
And again, going back to high net worth individuals, you think
they really care about buying Bitcoin AT70K or 65K or 75K.
When they think this is going to $1,000,000, that's just a
rounding error on their balance sheet and they're like, I don't
care buy this, it's going up forever.
I need to store in something that doesn't lose value, and
that's a totally different mind shift than people that are.
Basically treating Bitcoin like a penny stock that are
speculating on the price and they're just trying to turn
their like $1000 into what? Like $1500?
It's like it's a totally different game.
When you understand that Bitcoin is the best thing to store your
value through time and space that has ever been created and
you switch your mindset once you get on the Bitcoin operating
system, you're like, I don't want dollars, what's the what?
Like I don't want dollars, but hey, $1,000,000 by 2027, let's
go. All right.
Will, what's your take on all this?
Are we being, are we being ultra bearish?
Are we being bullish? Bearish.
You you guys are so bearish. I mean, Oh my gosh, I thought
the simply Bitcoin host would be more bullish.
So look, as you say Nico, the revolution is the self custody.
And I'm just, I'm ready because BlackRock is coming.
They're going to try to buy more of our ETF.
They're going to knock on your door, on Alfie's door, on my
door saying please, please can I can I buy some of your Bitcoin?
I have institutional investors who would like to buy some
Bitcoin and there's just not enough on the exchanges.
Please, will you sell it to us for a million?
No, I'm not selling for a million.
I'm not selling for one and a half million because that's not
my price target. Actually, there is no price
target. Bitcoin is freedom and I can't
put a price on that. So we're never.
Selling. Hold on dude, I I absolutely
love our guest today. We are in selling.
I wish we had the Wolf of Wall Street clip, it'd be very, very
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OK, before I was rudely interrupted.
No, we always say all the time the way to win here is by
pushing the culture forward and getting Bitcoin into every Ave.
possible. Talking about Bitcoin and maybe
not so usual ways like a podcast, but it's creating art
and books and music and all that good stuff that gets Bitcoin in
front of their eyes. And well, you're doing this so I
can pull up your tweets and and videos or websites here and all
that stuff, but maybe let's start with what made you create
books. Like what made you write Bitcoin
books? Yeah, well I really didn't want
a divorce. So I love, I love my wife a lot
and I was just talking about Bitcoin constantly non-stop and
she's assured me that she loves me and supports me.
So shout out for when she watches this recording later.
But it was it was just a little much.
So thank goodness I could channel all of my energy, my
passion for Bitcoin into writing, into writing about it.
And then I could make a book that she could read later.
And then I'll eagerly be like, what did you think?
Did you like it? But yeah, in particular, do your
own research. That's what we always say about
Bitcoin. And for me, my background is a
computer science as a software engineer and I really needed to
understand the code of Bitcoin for myself.
So my very, my very first book, The Bitcoin Dog, following the
scent to the Bitcoin C++ source code to actually read the the
code of the having. Like how does the having work?
How does the 21 million Bitcoin limit actually work?
So here in my book, I have in color that code, and it was
really an exercise in myself, You know, for other people, if
they're able to just watch simply Bitcoin, see the graphs,
see the hash charts that Nico presents, and they get it,
that's fantastic. For me, I had to get into the
actual C source code to really convince myself and have that
conviction to invest a little bit of my net worth into
Bitcoin. So I went from there.
And then when I wrote my first book, I found people really they
didn't like the code parts that much.
They really liked the story. So that's when I had to write
Bitcoin Girl, Save the World to just do a fiction novel Destiny
heading to El Salvador. So I'm excited for Nico to get
inspired for his trip to El Salvador.
The journey just continues from there, connecting with other
fellow authors. Last time I was on simply
talking about 21 futures they had a writing contest to get
inspired and think about where Bitcoin could take us.
So 21 different fellow Bitcoin riders.
My short story Who let the Bitcoin dogs Out.
You read a sample last time and the plebs just keep plugging.
Stack Chain Magazine My latest article will be in the Stack
Chain Magazine volume 3 having issue which is available for
pre-order. Now shout out to any stack
chainers who also follow Simply Bitcoin but I've just really
enjoyed connecting with people. I got my Simply Bitcoin sticker
on and I have this other sticker from some other company that has
some if you know you know so that that's right that's right
and you know also bit plebs LA my local Bitcoin meet up yeah
and I just I love doing participating in the giveaways
were so early that you can enter a Bitcoin giveaway and actually
win. So even this shirt Fix the Money
Fix the World was from a proof of ink giveaway, giving away
free shirts. And that's where I'll be giving
away two signed copies of my book, Bitcoin Girl Save the
World, with a new anniversary edition.
But yeah, that's that's how I got into it.
I just didn't. I just wanted to stay married to
my wife all. Right.
Well, I got a new cover here. Jump in, Mika.
So yeah, just going to hijack test for a second.
We did get a super chat. Appreciate you Ironman.
I hope I pronounced that correctly.
Ironman 3080 Appreciate the 10 Australian dollars.
With the amount of gold it would take to pay off the US national
debt, you can build the entire Eiffel Tower 50 times over.
Give or take $1,000,000 BTC incoming.
I think Opti in my mind with the horns.
All right, Opti, back to OK, well, so let's talk about the
new cover and you want to do a giveaway live and then we'll
we'll, you know, direct people to where they can get it and all
that good stuff. That's right.
So, so Destiny, she actually joins an armed eco resistance
group in El Salvador where all of a sudden she has to get
trained in close quarter combat and guns and jumping into
military Chinook helicopters. So I got some feedback from Brad
Mills on Twitter saying, bro, you got to make this, you know,
cover more aggressive to reflect, you know how destiny is
a badass. So here we go.
So I have a new cover and additionally a new foreword by
esteemed Bitcoin book reviewer Eric Buys, as well as an updated
chapter one with the advice from my writing podcast with Maxwell,
Alexander, Drake and Marie Mullaney.
So yeah, I I'm very excited about it.
I'm excited to give away two signed copies.
OK, so let's let's do that. I think you told us you already
did the the the contest picker or you already picked the
winners, so you're going to have to trust him on this and not and
then you can verify on the back end, but well, maybe tell them
how you picked it and then who the winners are.
Yeah, so to pick you had to repost my post on XI, put it in
the simply Bitcoin telegram. So everybody in that simply
telegram, I had it there ready for you as well as follow me,
follow simply Bitcoin and comment with your favorite
fiction book. So those are the rules to enter
all. Right, cool.
All right, let's let's, let's pick pick the names out of the
hat, all right. Where's my Do you have an air
horn? Drum roll sound Live I.
Got you. Give me one second.
Here we go.
Live. Show.
Let's go. Uh huh, That.
Wait, is this the one? All right, first winner is
Siduck, so Siduck SC, Siduck, Stack Chain.
So congratulations, Siduck. And your favorite fiction book
was Shantaram And the second winner Wait.
Opti OK, hold on. I changed screens.
Mukwano Coffee Guy, the other winner and his favorite fiction
book was RE recaptured. So thank you guys, you are the
winners. I will reach out to you to get
your address to mail you your signed, autographed.
Copies. Let's tell Hell yeah, man, hell
yeah. OK, so let's someone said in the
chat, I I want to get that that the dog book.
So I do have the Amazon page here for for you.
So tell the people where they can get it, and then we'll plug
your website and all that good stuff.
Yeah, sure. So, so on Amazon, if you search
Bitcoin Girl, save the world. Or if you search the Bitcoin Dog
following the scent, that is the way to get to my Bitcoin Dog
book. I have it on Kindle, paperback
and hardcover for Bitcoin Girl. Yeah, you can click big two of
two. The Bitcoin Dog to get to the
series. Yep.
And then there's the Bitcoin dog on the left for for the other
book. But yeah, those are the books if
you want a paperback and hardcover or Kindle version.
And then I have another link for you.
Off the did this one. This is yeah, this is Bitcoin
girl book.com. So I hate Fiat.
Fiat's the worst. I want to pay to read in
Bitcoin. So this is.
I'm really excited about this. This is a lightning powered
website through a lightning startup called Get Mash where
you can pay to read the book one chapter at a time.
So it's only it's online only. But you could do checkout with
Lightning so you don't have to use a credit card or anything.
There's no e-mail address. There's no account name or
password or anything like that. So you could read silently.
You only keep reading as long as you like the book.
So it pushes me to be a better author.
I think it's a new paradigm and MASH has made it so you can do
reactions on a different sections or things.
So I added Laser eyes reaction to the cover for a big three
girls say the world. But so it's more and that's a
premium reaction. So that one costs 2100 sets, but
you can do comment emojis or comment on gifts throughout
throughout the chapter. So in in chapter one also I had
a like a GIF of just slow, so steamy, Sebastian, you know, so
exciting. So yes, I'm just very excited
about where lightning will take us.
Again, we're so early transcend the reading paradigm.
Let's go. Let's go.
All right, let's plug your your other website, Bitcoin.
Yeah. Well, like do can you do real
Bitcoin dog really fast. Real bitcoindog.com.
Oh, OK. Yeah, it's like 4 different
ones. So this is my website,
realbitcoindog.com, which has links to everything.
So you can subscribe to my e-mail newsletter here and then
just Scroll down a little bit. Let's see if the individual is
Yeah, here. So I have a new merch to go
along with the new cover. I got models showing off the
hats. Wow.
Oh my gosh. So exciting.
They are not AI generated for everybody who wants to know if
they are AI generated. They are not.
New socks, new bras, new hats. And then we'll go to the merch,
the merch store. So the one you were on before.
But yeah, this is the last site. Yep.
And so just just for you guys, I have a promo code simply for 21%
off. The promo code is only good for
48 hours. So if you want 21% off code,
simply yeah, I love it. And.
I. Yeah, there it is.
And you can buy the epub file here.
So even if you don't have a Kindle, you could buy the
digital version here. But yeah, look at all this
tasty, tasty merch for you to cuddle up.
Snuggle up in your favorite Bitcoin dog or Bitcoin girl
socks. The Bitcoin Girl bras are very
popular. We got trucker hats, we have dad
hats, We have sweatshirts, you know, and a dog feeding that,
that, that and then some pet T-shirts.
Yes, I have that stuff for for the dogs and stuff.
But yeah, thank you guys for supporting your fellow pleb.
And I'm dying for Opti to read chapter one of Bitcoin Girl Save
the world Right now. It's very short.
Chapter won't take too long. Where?
Where's it at? Where's it at?
I sent you the word. OK, And I'm slacking on this,
but yeah, let's see. You're doing, you're doing OK.
I do have it. And then just scroll to where
the chapter. Let's see if I can.
I can pull this up for everyone. All right, here we go.
The illustrious, sultry voice of
Optimus Fields reading Bitcoin. Girl, save the world by whale.
I'm going to ruin your last name, so I'm not even going to
try. Oh my God, Keep So let's keep
going. Let's go to chapter.
One All right, here we are here. We are here.
We are here, we are. Keep going, keep going, keep
going, keep going. That's the.
Forward by Oh my God, Here we go here.
We go. Chapter one, The quiet life.
There will be no future if there never was a past.
I'm trying and trying, but all I get is pain.
Silence. Deep in the jungle of the
interwebs. I'm trying to make my presence
known and leave my mark, but I can't get noticed.
A quiet life is not for me. I don't want to die in nobody.
I want to be remembered for all times.
Going out in a blaze of glory. I go to my bedroom mirror and
apply my makeup, foundation, blush, curl my blonde hair, blue
eyeshadow lashes to the nines and of course, that cherry red
lipstick. I turn on the bright lights of
my vanity and get ready to fire up my webcam.
It's time to live stream to my followers.
I check myself out one more time in the mirror.
Damn girl, you look good. I always say to myself to boost
my confidence, but I have to admit, this morning I don't look
good. I leave a big red smooch on the
mirror as a final good luck kiss.
Open up my laptop and get started.
Good Saturday morning, followers.
It's your girl Destiny here. Ready to give you some of that
tasty influence. No need to wonder what products
to buy. I've got all the answers for you
right here. Now, who wants to pay $5 for a
super chat to ask me a question on a product to buy?
Crickets. My eyes drift down to the
participants. Am I alone?
Yes. No one is online listening.
My hands are trembling on the keyboard.
Sadly, I would only get four out of that $5 after paywall gets
its cut. If only there was a way for my
followers around the world could pay me directly without the need
for an intermediary. Sigh.
If only I had followers. A girl can dream.
Go. Oh man, oh man.
Wait, Where are we? Where are we?
Nika got right here. OK, I look cute in the camera
and I totalled my hair. No super chats come in.
Typical. I've been telling the meathead
jocks at my high school to watch me for weeks now, but they've
shown no interest. I'm now desperate since we're
about to graduate. Yesterday I even went over to
the environmental hippies in their blue overalls at lunch to
ask them to tune in, and they absolutely no fashion.
They absolutely have absolutely no fashion sense and look
completely lost. My computer chimes that someone
has logged on a follower. Words appear on the screen as a
follower. Types.
Hi Destiny, it's Optimus Fields. Good morning, Optimus Fields, I
say into the camera. I don't recognize that name.
All the environmental hippies look the same to me.
No reason to diminish one from the other.
Still, I'm excited to have someone to talk to you this
morning. Thanks for stopping by.
Yesterday at lunch, you told us to tune in for fashion tips.
But that's not why I'm here. You never paid attention to us
or our cause before. But we could use your help.
Use my help. Why could these
environmentalists use my health 4.
All I've seen them do is chain themselves to tree in the middle
of the quad. Seems like they've seems like
they've got it all handled for themselves.
Still, I'm interested. What do you The door slams,
nearly ripping off its his hinges.
Destiny Mom bursts into the room.
I growl for the camera, trying trying to make it cute.
What is it mom? I wear in my chair to give her a
dirty look. Can't you see I'm trying to
promote myself over here? Destiny, it's time for you to
get ready for your community service.
Mom puts her hand, her hand, her hands on her hips.
Do you want to help in the soup kitchen today or pick up the
trash on the on the beach? Why should I care about cleaning
up the beach? It all goes into the ocean
anyways, I reply. Well, that is a weird word.
Smartly, my laptop chimes again. Ask your mom if you can help
join our environmental protest today.
Environmental protest? Uh, those are so annoying.
They close down the main highway and make my Uber ride take twice
as long to get to the mall. Still, I'd prefer to be seen
picking up trash at the beach wearing plastic gloves instead
of tanning in my bikini quote. Sorry, Mom, I've got other
plans. I'm going to head to the
environmental protest down the street with my classmate Optimus
Fields. Oh, that's good to hear.
I'm just glad you'll be outside actually helping to make the
world better a better place instead of just putting lipstick
on and talking to yourself in front of your computer all day.
Mom, you're so embarrassed. Embarrassing.
I slam my laptop shut and storm off, ready to meet Optimus
Fields at the protest. Oh, my God.
All right, all right, hold on. I got to clear something up.
Here would like to skies himself as environmentalist to get the
attention of an E girl. Wait, wait, I got to clarify
things here because Will was telling me I was going to get
put on the spot. So I think I'm the E girl and I
am courting an environmentalist. That that's that's the inside
joke here that I'm the E girl putting my lipstick on to
talking to the computer. Well, Opti is simply so everyone
knows. That man.
Man, this is good. Hold on one comment here.
Loco TX says send this to an AI and let's make it the video
episode. Fade to black.
Let's go. Oh man.
But that's the start. That's the humble beginnings.
She'll go, She'll go to El Salvador, She'll join an armed
eco resistance, She'll start a big Bitcoin mining rig.
It's all going to go wrong. She's captain of Delta Squad.
She's got to jump into the Humvees.
She's literally got to save the world.
And she's doing it by raising Bitcoin on her pocket.
Love it. Love it.
Love it, love it. Oh, man.
All right, guys. So you guys, you guys could get
yourself a copy of the book. Go follow at Real Bitcoin Dog
for more info. Guys, thank you so much for
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Will, thank you so much for joining us today.
I really appreciate it. Always, always laughing.
Always smiling. Bright orange.
Future. Appreciate it, Will.
Thank you so much. All right, guys.
I will be streaming live from the shining country on a hill,
El Salvador tomorrow, 12:15 PM Eastern Standard Time.
I did book a A room with a volcano view, so I'm gonna try
to get that into the shot. I love you all.
Thank you guys so much for coming in.
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