1 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:06,240 It's all. Going to zero against Bitcoin. 2 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:17,000 It's going on forever. You're against Bitcoin. 3 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:24,520 You're against freedom. Yo, welcome to another episode 4 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:26,400 of Simply Bitcoin. Live your number one source for 5 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,600 the peaceful Bitcoin revolution, card breaking news, culture and 6 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:30,560 medic warfare. We will be your guide through 7 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:32,040 the separation of money and state. 8 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:34,280 Ladies, gentlemen, welcome to welcome to Simply Bitcoin, the 9 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:36,640 most watched daily Bitcoin live show on YouTube. 10 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,920 Rumble Annex by the way. Shout out to Rumble, we just got 11 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,040 verified on Rumble, so everyone watching us there, we really, 12 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:45,800 really appreciate your support. It really means a lot to us. 13 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,840 Anyways, today what we're going to talk about, we did an episode 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,920 on this specific topic about a month and 1/2 or or ago. 15 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:56,800 So it seems like you guys really enjoyed it and basically it was 16 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:01,200 Adam Back's, I wouldn't call it it, it was just a guesstimate or 17 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:02,720 something. But he basically made the 18 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:06,160 argument that this having Bitcoin could potentially flip 19 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:07,320 gold. So we're going to talk about 20 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:11,880 that as well. Also the FISA, FISA stuff that's 21 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,960 going on in Congress. I think it's a really important 22 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:18,440 topic to talk about. The fight for free speech is the 23 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,480 fight for Bitcoin. If you think that, if you think 24 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,680 that they if they are not OK with you talking freely, what 25 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,240 makes you think that they'll be OK with you transacting freely? 26 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:32,400 So we always like to talk about freedom of speech issues. 27 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,240 I think this is an incredibly important one that I think a lot 28 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,760 of people are not aware of. We also have a clip of you guys 29 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,120 from the famous Tucker Carlson and Mike Benz interview and it 30 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:45,480 race. It really like reaffirms the 31 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,400 argument, the case that we've been making for you guys for a 32 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,400 while now, that the Internet really distant started to 33 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:53,840 disintermediate things. First it started with 34 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:56,240 information, then it moved on to money. 35 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,960 Before, there was only a handful of media outlets for the state 36 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:02,480 to control. Now there's millions upon 37 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,920 millions of individuals talking freely amongst each other. 38 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:10,199 This morning I posted something on Twitter and it showed the 39 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:13,200 decline in viewership of the legacy media. 40 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:16,680 Some platforms were 25%, some were 44%. 41 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,040 And what is filling that void? Well, it's independent media. 42 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:22,640 It's the rise of citizen journalists. 43 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:25,520 And so that's why it's so important to make your voice 44 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,280 heard. One of the things that we say 45 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,440 during the meme review, and you could take it as a joke, but 46 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:34,520 it's really not, is if tweets are bullets, memes are artillery 47 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,560 in this information narrative trench warfare that we're 48 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,120 fighting on the battlegrounds of the Internet, trying to win over 49 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,880 the hearts and minds of individuals and trying to wake 50 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,160 them up to the reality that it's not left versus right, it's not 51 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,720 red versus blue. It's really the party of green, 52 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,600 the party of Fiat, nihilism, slavery, war versus the party of 53 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,960 orange, the party of hope, opportunity, prosperity and 54 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:58,000 Bitcoin, right. So we really got to wake up 55 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,800 people to that reality. So I'm really excited to talk 56 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:02,880 about free speech. I'm really, I'm really excited 57 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,120 to talk about this whole FISA thing that's happening in 58 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,040 Congress. And in the beginning. 59 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,080 Also, we have another interview from Tucker. 60 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,920 He actually interviewed the CEO of Telegram. 61 00:03:11,920 --> 00:03:13,960 I'm sure if you're a bitcoiner, you use Telegram. 62 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,720 A lot of people use Telegram. Everyone's on Telegram, but the 63 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:18,600 CEO is really like not a public figure. 64 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,280 He's, he hasn't really done a lot of interviews. 65 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,040 And one of the fascinating things that he said is like, 66 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,120 look, I don't really like property. 67 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,280 I value freedom. And he said that, you know, I 68 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:32,480 have a bunch of cash in my bank account, but I also have Bitcoin 69 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,560 and I've been holding it for, you know, for decades. 70 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:38,240 So I think it's a testament of of Bitcoin. 71 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,480 It's a testament of the fact that the Overton window is 72 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:43,280 shifting. We're slowly heading into this 73 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:47,440 new era where Bitcoin becomes mainstream in the popular, in 74 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:50,560 the in the mainstream consciousness. 75 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:52,880 I think we're really heading into that era. 76 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,360 And I'm really, I'm really excited for that era because I 77 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,160 think people are going to realize that there's an 78 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:02,000 alternative to, you know, this inflationary control system, 79 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,960 garbage money that the government is like trying to 80 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,160 shove down our throat. So I'm really excited about this 81 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:09,800 episode. And of course, we have the 82 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,360 organizer of one of my. Favorite Bitcoin conferences? 83 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:16,839 And of course, I'm talking about Bitcoin Boomer that just got an 84 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,760 awesome. A Bitcoin trading card done by 85 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:22,840 BTC trading cards. We have Gary Leland on the show. 86 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:25,080 How you doing, Gary? Yo-yo, yo-yo. 87 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:26,080 Good, good. Doing good. 88 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:28,320 It's. I'm back in this battle. 89 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:31,040 It took me a couple days to get the rested after bitlock boom. 90 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:34,880 But I'm back. That wears me out bad. 91 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:39,040 I I bet, I bet putting together a conference was I I mean OPTI 92 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,400 and I get completely burnt out just setting up. 93 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,960 So I can't even imagine what it's like setting up an entire 94 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,080 conference. And it's just, it's not even 95 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:50,560 setting up the conference. It's just being on my feet all 96 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:52,920 weekend, 'cause I don't think you saw me sitting around a lot. 97 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:55,040 No, no, you. Gotta make sure everybody's 98 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,040 taken care of. I try to make sure everybody 99 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:58,360 knows. I appreciate them coming. 100 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,520 So I'm on my feet quite a bit. I guess that just wears me out. 101 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:03,560 If I was just sitting around like you, I wouldn't have much 102 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,440 of a problem. Yeah. 103 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,840 I mean, you're just going all over the place, shaking the 104 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:12,880 hand, I mean, but like to give Gary credit like you like you're 105 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,120 on top the whole. It's not only that you're on 106 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,240 your feet. You have to make sure that every 107 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,200 box is checked and everything is going to work correctly, right. 108 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:22,560 So I think it's, it's, it's a combination of things. 109 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:25,240 But yeah, it was an epic bitblock boom conference this 110 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,840 year. You guys had a workshop day, you 111 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:30,560 guys had a conference day and and then a bunch of side events 112 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,840 as well. The the shooting one was 113 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:36,280 hilarious where you set up targets of all coins and just 114 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:38,440 people went to the gun range and shot those up, which is 115 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:42,080 hilarious. You know, on that we had a well 116 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,200 known shit coiner I had talked to. 117 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:49,800 Actually Ben from Who's that guy that just got in all the trouble 118 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:54,280 with Where's my Lamborghini? You know what I'm talking about. 119 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:57,320 Bring up Opti. Where's no idea. 120 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:58,520 Lamborghini. No idea. 121 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,160 Yeah, yeah, someone will. Somebody will probably know it 122 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:03,640 in there. But there's a guy named Ben 123 00:06:03,840 --> 00:06:06,120 who's a big, big shit coin and ripping people off. 124 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,640 And I and I actually contacted him and asked him we could put 125 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:11,960 his face on the things, everybody. 126 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:14,360 I'm sure that someone here knows him and he said sure. 127 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:15,880 Sounds good to me. Is that bit boy? 128 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:17,680 Is that bit boy? Yes, yes. 129 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:21,280 We were putting Bit Boy on the on the things and the shooting 130 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:23,520 range wouldn't let us do it. You can't have any people on 131 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,480 custom on custom things. You can't have people on there. 132 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:29,920 So we were he was cool with it said oh it sounds good to me 133 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,320 shit I'm putting his ass on these things And yeah, Ben 134 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,200 Armstrong, thank you Phil. But they they would not allow me 135 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:37,560 to do it. They said you can put anything 136 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,160 on custom targets except a person. 137 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,080 Oh man, that's. When we put the coins up there, 138 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:45,360 but that was fun. Yeah, that would have been. 139 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,840 Real fun with him up there. And then I gotta say the Texas 140 00:06:48,840 --> 00:06:52,600 BBQ, which I like go above and beyond. 141 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,360 You guys had it at the, I think the name of the venue was Ferris 142 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,200 Wheelers. It was outside. 143 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:01,440 You guys had a live band and I think I did that the buffet line 144 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,880 at least two or three times, which is absolutely delicious. 145 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,160 You know, and we had and we had a little issue there. 146 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,280 Some people got pissed because they didn't, they couldn't walk 147 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:12,200 and get like 100, you know, at the at the end I said, OK, add 148 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:15,320 ribs to all the dinners, which was I think the ribs were like 149 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:17,680 $2.00 per rib or something, you know. 150 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,040 And so I want to make sure everybody got a couple, you 151 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,080 know, so they would have been gone by halfway through the 152 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,720 line, but they were told to give out two and then they could come 153 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:27,360 back through the line. But some people were like, I 154 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,360 couldn't get pieces. I want to say, well, you know, I 155 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:32,320 should have left it like I was and just had pork. 156 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:33,960 That's going to be the deal, you know. 157 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,280 And then, you know, because I changed it the last like couple 158 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,880 of days before because those ribs are really good there and I 159 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,560 thought everybody needed a bite of them And and then there were 160 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,840 plenty, you know, for people to go through the line more than 161 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:46,520 once and get them. But I don't want to take a 162 00:07:46,520 --> 00:07:49,200 chance on the people at the half of the line back, 'cause I would 163 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,160 have just got all ribs on my plate if I was, let's say, 164 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,720 anything else, give me about 10 of them ribs. 165 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:56,840 So. So I wanted to make sure that 166 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,520 didn't happen to people at the end of the line. 167 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:04,040 Oh man, Well I'm excited for the bit Block Boom 2023 debrief 168 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,200 we're going to hit it with. Opti, Opti, how you? 169 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,760 Doing this morning saw a smile on your face, which means it's 170 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:11,240 going to be a great show. Are you excited to host? 171 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:15,560 Tomorrow and Friday. Not really. 172 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:20,960 But you know, we gotta make sure the show keeps going anyways. 173 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:23,920 I do want to. You do a good job. 174 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:25,520 I enjoy watching you up either still. 175 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:26,960 Appreciate it. Appreciate it. 176 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:30,240 Yeah, it it makes, it makes my job a little, a little more 177 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:32,559 hectic, having to deal with everything at once. 178 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:34,480 So I like hanging out in the chat with everyone. 179 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,320 But yeah, you know, I got to do what I got to do. 180 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,120 Anyways, I do want to mention and I showed this to Gary, but I 181 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,720 did get a holographic. Gary Oh, I'm so glad that you 182 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,240 got that. So you guys can see it there. 183 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,240 Absolutely hilarious, shouts out to the Bitcoin trading cards. 184 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,280 I should have brought my wife went down to 'cause I I ended up 185 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:57,520 a couple of those that people handed me, and my wife went over 186 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,440 to the framing place and had one of those framed up in a little 187 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:03,240 frame and she's got it on the bookcase downstairs. 188 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,720 I, I I did the same. I did the same thing with mine. 189 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,480 I framed 2 and they're like these little ASIC boards 190 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:14,160 actually have them right here and super proud of it. 191 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:15,400 Yeah. Oh. 192 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:18,920 Let's go. Yeah, I I I love, I love these. 193 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:20,000 I love these. They're so cool. 194 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:22,720 But you, Gary, you also had a painting as well. 195 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:27,680 Yeah, the, you know, the person who did the cards heard. 196 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,760 That is like my best buddy. We've been buddies for 40 years 197 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:36,840 and I told Aladdin I'd like her to do the artwork for my card. 198 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,320 Just trying to give her, you know, some exposure in business 199 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,200 because she's a great artist and I thought she's just going to do 200 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:47,600 it on a computer, but she ended up doing a 4 foot by 4 foot, you 201 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:50,000 know, original painting of it. And I was like, oh, I didn't 202 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,200 expect all that, you know, So it was good looking. 203 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,840 So I just, you know, my did my picture pose, buy it, blah, 204 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,520 blah, blah. So, But it was really kind of 205 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,400 interesting to see a big painting of me riding a bull. 206 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:08,200 With the with the dynamite in your hand, it was absolutely 207 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:09,440 epic. Good job. 208 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:11,240 It was absolutely epic by the way guys. 209 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:15,480 Go to BTC trading cards and get yourself a a a limited edition 210 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:16,360 bit block. Boom. 211 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:21,040 BTC trading cards pack and gives you an opportunity to win a Gary 212 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:23,640 and a bunch of other awesome Bitcoin boomers. 213 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,480 We have BJ Ditcher in the chat. 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So take advantage of that 50% 267 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:09,920 off. That's a huge discount. 268 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,880 Head over to Stamp Seed that's in celebration for the halving. 269 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:15,640 So we'll be get we'll remind, we'll be reminding you guys 270 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:16,880 every couple of days. I think. 271 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:19,480 I think the sale goes on the halving day might be on now. 272 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,480 But definitely go check out Stamp Seed and remember you want 273 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:24,200 to store your generational wealth and you want to do it 274 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,560 properly. So don't write it down on paper. 275 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:29,440 Put it on titanium. At the time of recording, the 276 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:36,760 Bitcoin price is 60,740 stats per dollar 1646 block height 277 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:44,840 839,658 blocks to having only 342 to go having estimate April 278 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:51,000 19, 2024 Total Lightning Network capacity 4414 Bitcoin capacity 279 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:57,760 value 200. 67,000,000 realized monetary inflation. 1.73% Oh, 280 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:00,520 it's on sale right now, Smash. By head over to to. 281 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:05,680 Stamp seed Market capitalization 1.19 trillion oh stamp seeds in 282 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:08,160 the chat. Titanium plates. 50% off 283 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,880 tomorrow includes generic and designer plates. 284 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:15,000 So head over to to Stamp Seed tomorrow and I'm sure they're 285 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:19,160 going to have it live on the halving day and you get 1550% 286 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:20,920 off. You get yourself a stamp seed. 287 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:23,200 I'm going to, I'm going to literally buy oh not tomorrow 288 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:25,360 the 19th. Thank you, Stamp Seed, 289 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:28,760 appreciate it. The market capitalization is 290 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:33,880 1.19 trillion Bitcoin versus gold market cap 8.61%. 291 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,840 That's right guys. Go to Stamp Seed the day of the 292 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:41,000 having April 19th and you'll be able to get the the little 293 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,320 stamps 50. Percent off and they have really 294 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:45,920 cool custom ones. I have a limited edition, simply 295 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:47,600 Bitcoin One. It's absolutely badass. 296 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:50,480 I don't think they sell those, but I'm definitely going to buy 297 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:54,080 a couple. Anyways, I do want to talk about 298 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:55,600 this 'cause I think it's a huge deal. 299 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,320 The CEO of Telegram, he's not really a public figure. 300 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,520 He kind of, you know, stays underneath. 301 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:06,400 Telegram is one of the most popular messaging platforms on 302 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,640 the entire in the entire world. They don't spend a dollar on 303 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,440 marketing. I I love it. 304 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,840 I think it's really cool. I think it's a great way to 305 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:17,440 connect with other bitcoiners. It's like really easy to use. 306 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:20,960 But anyways, he had something really kind of interesting to 307 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:21,880 say. Let's check it out. 308 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:24,720 Also, for me it was never about money, right? 309 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:30,280 So I have a few $100 million in my bank account or in Bitcoin 310 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,280 since 10 years ago and I don't do anything with it. 311 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:41,160 I don't own any real estate jets or yachts. 312 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:45,120 I don't think those this lifestyle is for me. 313 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,040 I like to focus on what we're doing now. 314 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:52,920 With Telegram you don't own anything like big assets, you 315 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:53,800 don't. Own no big assets. 316 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:55,800 Exactly. An island in Hawaii or. 317 00:15:55,840 --> 00:16:00,280 No, no land, no real estate. Nothing. 318 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:03,760 Why? Well, because for me, my number 319 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,720 one priority in life is my freedom, also for me. 320 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:10,880 I mean like he sounds like a bitcoiner. 321 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:13,840 To be honest with you, I think this is a a truth that 322 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:16,120 bitcoiners know, right? You you need a place to live. 323 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,920 OK, right. But other than that I mean. 324 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:23,200 I've heard this saying before from like. 325 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,080 I don't know where I've heard it before, but it's this idea of 326 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:28,480 like if you own a lot of stuff like. 327 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:31,480 Specifically like a yacht, which is like setting money on fire. 328 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:33,520 You don't own them, they own you. 329 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:35,720 Right. And I think, you know, I think 330 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,320 the way that he says it, right, in terms of, you know, kind of 331 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:42,240 minimizing things and just owning Bitcoin or owning, I 332 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,520 don't know why he said cash in the bank account, 'cause I 333 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:48,200 wouldn't consider that freedom. But I I like the way he's 334 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,640 thinking and definitely sounds like a bitcoiner. 335 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:54,600 I mean, if he's holding, if he's in holding Bitcoin for 10 years, 336 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,120 he's definitely done extremely well for himself. 337 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:00,560 So I I thought that was really, really interesting and I think 338 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,960 it's just another example of and you guys are going to kill me 339 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:05,079 for saying this, but I'm going to keep continue saying this 340 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:07,319 throughout the entire episode because it's one of those 341 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:09,920 episodes. The Overton window is definitely 342 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:15,079 shifting not only in terms of money, but also in terms of. 343 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,040 Really. People valuing freedom, right? 344 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:20,480 You, you saw this with the election of Javier Malay in 345 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,440 Argentina, right? They elected an Austrian 346 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:28,160 economist and someone who is a libertarian and that's never 347 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:31,080 really happened before. So you can't, you can't deny 348 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:36,160 that this, this, this urge for freedom, this urge for change is 349 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,120 is happening worldwide. This, this, this freedom mind 350 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:41,760 virus is happening worldwide. And I think the world would be a 351 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:44,600 much better place for it after we get over this little hump 352 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,200 that we're currently going through. 353 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:47,920 Anyways, OPTI, what's your take on? 354 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:49,520 This and we'll pass it on to Gary. 355 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,440 Yeah, well I mean, you asked a rhetorical question of why he's 356 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,760 holding cash, but let's remember he probably is holding cash to 357 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,000 run his business. So can't really fault him for, 358 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:01,000 you know, too much on that point, Nico. 359 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:04,160 But also didn't Telegram have like a shit coin or something 360 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:05,920 like that? I I forget all the details 361 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:08,480 there. So like, well, we'll we'll just 362 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:12,800 put a pin on that point as well. But you love the conversation. 363 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:17,280 You love to hear other people that aren't necessarily in the 364 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,000 Bitcoin echo chamber say exactly what we've been saying. 365 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,280 You know, we saw Jack Mahler say this recently. 366 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:25,440 He's like all he owns is basically like his house and 367 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:27,560 Bitcoin and everything else is irrelevant. 368 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,840 And I just love that he basically said what we say all 369 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:32,280 the time. He's like, yeah, I literally 370 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:35,520 only own Bitcoin because I only care about freedom. 371 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:38,120 And Nico, everyone in the chat saying that, that quote's from 372 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:40,760 Fight Club. The things that that you own own 373 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:43,400 end up owning you. So there we go, another 374 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,240 connection. But I really love seeing Tucker 375 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:47,720 try to wrap his head around this. 376 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:52,920 Like you can tell he's just so wrapped up in the Fiat world 377 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,680 that he's like, wait, you only own Bitcoin and nothing else? 378 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:58,600 Like, what is wrong with you and and all of us bitcoiners are are 379 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:00,880 thinking the opposite. Like what is wrong with you guys 380 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,240 owning all this other stuff? Don't you realize there's only 381 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:05,440 one thing you can truly own in the world right now and it is 382 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,720 Bitcoin? Even if you own a house, you 383 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:10,360 technically probably don't actually own it because you 384 00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:13,040 still have to pay, you know, mortgage and taxes on it to the 385 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:14,480 government. So you're basically just renting 386 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:16,800 your house from the government. But that's a totally other 387 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:18,760 conversation that people aren't even ready for. 388 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:21,960 But I just love that he basically said, like I only care 389 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,840 about freedom, hence why I basically only own Bitcoin. 390 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:29,040 And I think this is something that all of us Bitcoiners, you 391 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:32,040 know, we we all are doing this in our own way. 392 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:36,480 And as we're seeing right now with the ETFs and the 393 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,680 institutions and all that stuff, you're starting to see that 394 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,920 people are slowly but surely a big emphasis on slowly here. 395 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:45,880 But you're seeing that they'll get, you know, like 1% price 396 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,440 exposure, maybe 5 percent, 10%. And soon enough everyone will 397 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:53,160 get the the epiphany moment and be like Oh my God, I don't want 398 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:54,920 to own anything else but Bitcoin. 399 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,520 And we have the meme and Bitcoin of sell your chairs even though 400 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,800 you know I'm I'm sitting in a chair right now because as Gary 401 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:03,560 was telling us, I and I, I, I talk on the Internet all the 402 00:20:03,560 --> 00:20:05,720 time. I, I, I I can't stand up for 403 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,280 hours a day guys. So I do own a chair. 404 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:12,400 But it just goes to show that the signal is spreading and 405 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,000 shouts out the Tucker for for having these conversations. 406 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,720 Because Tucker is basically I think besides Joe Rogan the 407 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:21,480 biggest content creator on the Internet. 408 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:22,720 And so the fact that these messages. 409 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,000 Are getting spread out. The fact that the signal 410 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,440 starting to spread and more people are waking up to the idea 411 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,600 that hey, if you believe in the ideas of freedom, if you believe 412 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:32,840 in freedom of speech and property rights, then there's 413 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:34,960 only one thing to really own and that is Bitcoin. 414 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:39,360 So soon enough, the world will wake up to this message, and 415 00:20:39,360 --> 00:20:41,720 This is why we do what we do, that hopefully more people wake 416 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,320 up to the idea that there's only one thing you can truly own in 417 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:45,920 the world right now, and that is Bitcoin. 418 00:20:46,120 --> 00:20:48,880 Obviously taking Bitcoin into custody and holding the private 419 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:53,160 keys yourself, that is true freedom, owning Bitcoin and as 420 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:55,200 much Bitcoin as possible. Amen. 421 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:56,440 Amen. Gary, what's your what's your 422 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,080 thoughts? Well, I I like everything he's 423 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,480 saying on Telegram. Telegram guys saying, you know, 424 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:04,200 but it's not surprising because after, you're right, they tried 425 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,240 to come out with a Telegram coin, I think like what, two or 426 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:12,200 three years ago and had a bunch of backlash on it and drop that. 427 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:15,480 But yeah, he's smart if he's just holding Bitcoin. 428 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:18,440 I personally am not holding just Bitcoin because I do have a home 429 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:21,680 that's paid off that I'm just going to live in till I die. 430 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:22,920 They'll have to carry me out of here. 431 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:27,240 I'm not taking any chances, but all of my assets are in Bitcoin, 432 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:31,880 my investments, I hold Bitcoin. Even things that were in Iras 433 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:33,920 are in have been transferred into. 434 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:36,960 I don't want to pay capital gains to pull it out, but they 435 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:41,400 transferred into things like Riot and Marathon and micro 436 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,520 strategy. So I like to say I'm 100% 437 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:45,920 Bitcoin even though I'm not. I'm as close as I'm going to be 438 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:49,800 able to get without selling my home and cars and personal 439 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,760 items. So I think everybody who's 440 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:57,000 watching the show knows Bitcoin is going to be the thing that 441 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,440 takes us to the missile. And, you know, and you find 442 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:04,680 yourself, Nico, trying to convince everybody of this if 443 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,160 you're really, really, I'm actually just not because you 444 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,880 don't want to. You're not trying to make your 445 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,360 Bitcoin go up in value, but you're trying to bring them with 446 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:14,880 us to the promised land. And so that's how I look at it. 447 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,800 I I try not to be too much of A hardcore fanatic on that around 448 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:21,160 my friends. So until they start asking, but 449 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,040 once they ask, oh hell holy hell breaks out for him and then I 450 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:25,520 get it when I'm in the car with my wife. 451 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:27,920 So love it. Love it. 452 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,680 Yeah I I mean no and and and and to be specific right like you 453 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,520 gotta you have to own a there you you sometimes it's it's a 454 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,080 good it's. Probably a good idea to own have 455 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:42,480 a place to live, right? So that's it's probably a good 456 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,080 idea to do that. And actually, once you reach my 457 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,080 age, if your home's paid off, I mean, I couldn't afford to buy 458 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,800 this house anymore because I bought it with 30 years ago. 459 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:54,320 I couldn't afford to buy this house and it's paid and what I 460 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,320 pay and can't even rent an apartment for now. 461 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:00,440 So it did work out good for me. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. 462 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:04,120 And no, also too like a lot of these, whether it's micro 463 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:07,320 strategy, cuz The thing is like specifically if you have an IRA 464 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:11,160 or something like that, right, like you get penalized if you're 465 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,840 gonna liquidate that, right. So, right, another what I've 466 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,880 seen people do is like instead of kind of you know liquidating 467 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:21,360 it, they just get exposure to the ETFs or they get exposure to 468 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:24,360 micro strategy which is kind of like a levered Bitcoin play or 469 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:27,400 you get exposure to the mining stocks as well, right. 470 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,920 So I mean, but that is still you're, you're still exposed to 471 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,800 Bitcoin, like maybe it's indirectly but it's still, you 472 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:36,400 know, it's still exposure. Yeah, exactly. 473 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,400 I mean you're you're into it and according to when you got into 474 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,960 micro strategies, but it's had a good run even though we're down 475 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:45,320 a little bit, absolutely. But I think a lot of people who 476 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:49,400 may be doing ETFs right now are in that situation. 477 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,520 You know, they had money in their retirement, they were 478 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,360 interested in Bitcoin, but they're not wanting to take a 479 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:57,880 20% capital gains hit to pull it out and then go buy Bitcoin. 480 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:01,600 And and the two of those together are, hell, I'm losing 481 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,160 20% right off the bat. Put in a Bitcoin, it's like 482 00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,720 really goes crazy. I couldn't drop 20% there. 483 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,480 You know, I'm waiting for it to go up, have a heart attack, have 484 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:11,920 a stroke. Their family's going to miss 485 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:13,800 them. So I can see why they want to go 486 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,960 into ETFs. It's an easy way for them to get 487 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,760 in without taking a 20% hit. 100% IA 100% agree with you. 488 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,080 Anyways, ladies and gentlemen, if you're enjoying the show so 489 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,120 far, we're at 90 likes. Help us break 100 likes within 490 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:27,440 the first hour on YouTube. So if you're enjoying the 491 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:29,880 content so far, smash the like button. 492 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,200 Appreciate all of you guys watching us on rumble. 493 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,120 We just recently got verified which is extremely exciting. 494 00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:38,800 The 64 of you guys watching us on Rumble and we have a pretty 495 00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,960 big audience, 622 of you guys watching us on Twitter. 496 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,800 So if you guys are enjoying the show so far, smash that like 497 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,680 button. Anyways, everybody, let's get to 498 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:48,920 the news. We have a lot to talk about 499 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:49,640 today. Let's check it out. 500 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:55,280 Here we go. The Daily News. 501 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:00,440 I want to give a shout out to our sponsor, Foundation Devices. 502 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,920 It's self custody done right. 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We're currently going through 529 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:26,760 the disintermediation of information. 530 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,960 That's that's what governments are currently reacting to. 531 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,320 What I believe is going to happen in the next 5 to 10 years 532 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:37,600 is just like they're reacting so hardcore, like they're reacting 533 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,920 viciously against the disintermediation of 534 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,560 information. They're going to start reacting 535 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,880 this way towards the disintermediation of money. 536 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:48,320 They're starting to do it. That's what, like the Elizabeth 537 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,440 Warren bill and all that stuff that's hostile towards 538 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,600 bitcoiners, towards the Bitcoin industry. 539 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,320 You had the proposal that wood forest public miners to register 540 00:26:58,320 --> 00:26:59,920 with the government, all this stuff. 541 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:03,320 You seen the regulatory attacks on Bitcoin miners all over the 542 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:05,160 world. I think the most popular one is 543 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,720 the, the, OR the most famous one is the China, the infamous China 544 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,320 ban. So we're starting to feel the 545 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:15,160 effects of the disintermediation of money, but we're not quite 546 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,760 there. But where we are, and it's very, 547 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,480 very apparent just because of how hard they're fighting, is 548 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,200 the disintermediation of information. 549 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,960 Now there's this episode that Mike Benz did with Tucker, and I 550 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,800 highly recommend you guys watching the entire thing. 551 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,720 Here's a small clip and the way that he puts it is so awesome. 552 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,000 Let's check it out. Yep. 553 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,840 From their perspective, they just weren't ready for the 554 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:46,600 Internet. 2016 was really the first time that social media had 555 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:51,080 reached such maturity that it began to eclipse legacy media. 556 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:52,680 I mean, this was a long time coming. 557 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:57,760 I think folks saw this building from 2006 through 2016. 558 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,200 You know, Internet. One point, O didn't even have 559 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:04,040 social media. From 1991 to 2004, there was no 560 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:08,320 social media at all. 2004 Facebook came out, 2005 Twitter, 561 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:11,760 2006, YouTube, 2007 the smartphone and so. 562 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,840 And in that initial period of social media, nobody was getting 563 00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:19,040 subscriberships at the level where they actually competed 564 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:23,840 with legacy news media. But over the course of being, 565 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,680 you know, so initially even these dissident voices within 566 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:31,720 the US, even though they they may have been loud in moments, 567 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,520 they they never reached 30 million followers. 568 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,440 They never reached you know a billion impressions a year type 569 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:44,920 thing as a uncensored mature ecosystem allowed citizen 570 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,720 journalists and independent voices to be able to out compete 571 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:53,120 legacy news media. This induced a massive crisis 572 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,680 both in our military and in our State Department and 573 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,000 intelligence services. And I give a great example of 574 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:03,480 this in 2019 at at at meeting of the German Marshall Fund, which 575 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,920 is you know, an institution that goes back to the US. 576 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,600 Basically I don't want to say bribe but the essentially the 577 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,360 soft power economic soft power projection in Europe as part of 578 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:19,120 the reconstruction of European governments after World War 2 to 579 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:23,040 be able to essentially pay them with Marshall Fund dollars and 580 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:26,520 then in return they basically were under our thumb in terms of 581 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,360 how they reconstructed. But the the German Marshall Fund 582 00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,960 held a meeting in 2019. They held a million of these 583 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:38,160 frankly, but where they where a four-star general that got up on 584 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:43,880 the panel and and said that that the what happens? 585 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,400 He posed the question what happens to the to the US 586 00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,280 military What happens to the national security state when the 587 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,480 New York Times is reduced to a medium sized Facebook page and 588 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:56,440 he. So I mean. 589 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:02,080 That is an extremely powerful statement and it's happening 590 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,960 right now as we speak. This is, this explains the 591 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,840 quote, UN quote, the disinformation government's 592 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,280 board, which is completely against the 1st Amendment right, 593 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,800 which would basically have the US government kind of meddling 594 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,880 and going in and determining what is misinformation, what is 595 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,600 disinformation. And this is all because of the 596 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:24,640 Internet. The the Internet has 597 00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:29,040 disintermediated information. It's decentralized peer-to-peer 598 00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,720 communications without gatekeepers. 599 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,400 And it freaks them the F out. I mean, you could hear it from 600 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,080 the horse's mouth, right? This is the CEO of NPR, right? 601 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,240 She's on a podcast of the Atlantic Council. 602 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,640 This is the same Atlantic Council that has a website 603 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,760 tracking all the developments of the CBD CS, and let's check out 604 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:48,400 what she has to say about the 1st Amendment. 605 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:52,160 The number one challenge here that we we see and is of course 606 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,920 the 1st Amendment in the United States is a fairly robust 607 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,880 protection of rights And and that is a protection of rights 608 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:02,960 both for platforms which I actually think is very important 609 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,680 that platforms have those rights to be able to regulate what kind 610 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,440 of content they want on their sites. 611 00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,440 But it also means that it is a little bit tricky to really 612 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:15,240 address some of the real challenges of where does bad 613 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,960 information come from and sort of the influence peddlers who 614 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:19,640 have made a real market economy around. 615 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,760 Who, like I, I got to say, you know, when the press secretary 616 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,760 is going out there or when the Treasury Secretary is telling us 617 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,600 that there's going to be no inflation even though there's a 618 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:33,000 record amount of money printing, Not to mention all the other 619 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,680 information that came out during the pandemic. 620 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:38,560 That you could say. At best was questionable. 621 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:43,880 At worst you could say it hurt. People like the framers designed 622 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,960 the 1st Amendment in in a way, because they knew that the the 623 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,520 people that get to decide what information is true and what 624 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,200 information is not true is going to use the is going to use that 625 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:56,840 information to empower themselves. 626 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,280 That's why the 1st Amendment is the way it is. 627 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:03,160 It's precisely to protect from the tyrannic, the the, the 628 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,000 potential tyrannical state, right. 629 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,680 So you know it. It's just fascinating though, 630 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,920 the fact that once the Internet was born, we're learning 631 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:16,520 basically that all these legacy media outlets that a lot of 632 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:20,160 people put a lot of faith in tended, you know, it came out 633 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,800 essentially that were they really actually, were they 634 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,920 actually doing media media or were they actually doing 635 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,200 propaganda, which I think is fascinating. 636 00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:31,920 So the latest kind of update on this is what's going on in the 637 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:32,960 house. Right. 638 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:38,000 So, Patriot Act two point O and it is the US House passes FISA 639 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,120 7O2 surveillance expansion reform. 640 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,800 Today the US House of Representatives vote voted on 641 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:48,200 passing A2 year extension of Section 7O2 of the Foreign 642 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,240 Intelligence Surveillance Act. A controversial warrantless 643 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:54,320 spying authority and an extremely narrow tie vote 644 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,400 rejected critical reforms to stop rampant abuse of the law. 645 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,560 Right. This is the same law that they 646 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:04,920 used to that Edward Snowden initially uncovered, and again, 647 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,360 it's against the Constitution. It's against the 4th Amendment. 648 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,000 No unreasonable searches and seizures, right? 649 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:15,760 So as a quick update on that FISA Section 7O2 Reauthorization 650 00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:20,240 bill Will allowing NSA to Force US Businesses Serve As Surrogate 651 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,440 Spies Advances to the Senate U.S. 652 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:27,200 House of Representatives voted 259 to 128 on Monday to prevent 653 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,720 reconsideration of last week's FISA 7O2 bill. 654 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,440 The expanded version of the bill is now heading to the Senate and 655 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,320 is expected to be voted on this week. 656 00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:38,880 Now why is this happening? Well, I mean, sovereign 657 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,280 individual again predicted this perfectly, right? 658 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,960 So here's a couple quotes from the book and then we'll pass it 659 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,240 on to Gary and Opti. The first one is genius will be 660 00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,480 unleashed, freed from both the oppression of government in the 661 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,440 drags of racial and ethnic prejudice in the Information 662 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,800 Society. No one who is truly able will be 663 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,040 determined by the ill formed opinions of others. 664 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,040 It would not matter what most of the people on earth think of 665 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:04,000 your race, your looks, your age, or the way you wear your hair 666 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,760 and the cyber economy. They will never see you. 667 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,679 The ugly, the fat, the old, the disabled will vie with the young 668 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,480 and beautiful and equal terms and utterly colorblind anonymity 669 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:14,320 on the new frontiers of cyberspace. 670 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,400 The authors have also predicted that with the rise of this new 671 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,480 cyberspace and consequently cyber money, it will become 672 00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,400 harder for nation state to collect taxes from its citizens. 673 00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:27,120 They compare the state to a farmer keeping cows in a field 674 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:30,239 to be milked, but that soon the cows will have wings. 675 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,920 They predict that for the government to collect taxes from 676 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,800 its citizens in this type of society, it will have to violate 677 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,199 human rights and even traditionally civil countries 678 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,440 will have to resort and turn nasty. 679 00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,800 It goes on to say lacking their custom scope to tax inflate, 680 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,080 governments even in traditional traditionally civil countries 681 00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,560 will turn nasty. Businesses that offer services 682 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,920 that facilitate the realization of autonomy by by individuals 683 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,760 will be subject to infiltration, sabotage and disruption. 684 00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,200 Arbitrary forfeiture of property, already commonplace in 685 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,760 the United States where it occurs 5000 times a week, will 686 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,840 become even more pervasive. Governments will violate human 687 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,320 rights, censor the free flow of information, sabotage useful 688 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:11,320 technologies, and worse. So, ladies and gentlemen, this 689 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,680 is where we are in the movie The disintermediation of money and 690 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,920 the disintermediation of information. 691 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:21,440 And it's incredibly important in these times, right to download 692 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:25,000 protocols or, sorry, use protocols like Noster, use 693 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,480 protocols like Bitcoin, and empower yourself. 694 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,960 Become that sovereign individual, you know, as much as 695 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,000 Elon, you know and and I, I, I there's things about Elon that I 696 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,400 don't like the fact that you know, he's he supports shit 697 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,840 coins. But as much as Elon freed the 698 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:43,360 birds, so to speak, it is still a centralized platform and he 699 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,120 does have a target on, you know on his back. 700 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,920 And that's the reality of it. Unlike Bitcoin and unlike 701 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:53,840 Noster, there is no metaphorical CEO to go after, right? 702 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,200 There is no central party that governments could apply pressure 703 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,320 to. This is why these protocols are 704 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:01,480 so important for the freedom movement. 705 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,800 This is why these protocols are so important for the separation 706 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,080 of money and state. But make no mistake, this is 707 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,040 information, information, narrative, trench warfare, and 708 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,680 this is what we're what we're living through. 709 00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:15,680 But it's also extremely exciting times for the individual because 710 00:36:15,680 --> 00:36:19,640 I think once we get over this hump, I think humanity will have 711 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:22,600 a a freedom the likes of which has never been seen before in 712 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,560 human history. Anyways, Gary, what are your 713 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:25,800 thoughts? And then we'll pass it on to 714 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,760 OPTI. But there's a lot there. 715 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:30,480 Let's go to the first guy who was talking on Tucker there. 716 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,560 You know, he's really got it that laid out pretty well. 717 00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:34,560 And I don't, I don't believe a lot of people, because they've 718 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:38,000 grown up with all this, realize, you know, we didn't even have 719 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,280 any of this stuff. So short amount of time ago, you 720 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,720 know, in 96 I set it up my first e-commerce site and everybody 721 00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:45,920 told me I was an idiot. People wouldn't buy stuff on the 722 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:47,600 Internet. But I went forward anyway. 723 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:52,680 Then 2004, you know, Adam Curry came out with the first podcast. 724 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,400 He basically invented podcast just back in 2420, years ago 725 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,600 when he came out with the daily source code. 726 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,680 I mean, if people realize how short amount of time has really 727 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,520 gone by since we went from nothing to the whole thing now 728 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,200 is kind of falling apart for him. 729 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,360 I mean, there's so many attacks on traditional media, 730 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,240 traditional money, traditional, everything that it's kind of 731 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:15,680 amazing here. And also it's amazing how many 732 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,800 things, if you think about in the book, the sovereign 733 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,320 individual they got, right? Oh my gosh, That's like if you 734 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,280 haven't read that book, you don't need to just see Nico put 735 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,200 a picture of it here. You need to get that book and 736 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,880 read it. It's amazing how good of a job 737 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,760 they did to me. But that's my thoughts on it. 738 00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:36,800 I mean quick and sweet. Yeah, absolutely. 739 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,520 UH Opti's asking me what tweet? Opti oh, the one that I posted. 740 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,200 In the media picture, yeah, well, I go pull it up, 'cause I 741 00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:45,120 I think it makes a really good point. 742 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,120 Anyways, guys, it's uh. And then This is why I'm telling 743 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,680 Nico to pull up the tweet because it's incredible. 744 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:52,280 Uh what? What? 745 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,440 Like what we're actually doing here as bit corners when you 746 00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:59,160 really see the numbers and you see what's actually happening 747 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,360 out there. Like independent content 748 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:02,960 creators are really the new media. 749 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,040 Yeah, Nico, let's, uh, showed these people for the audio the. 750 00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:08,800 Audio So this is what I this is what? 751 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,120 And again like I've simply we've been covering this, this 752 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,480 phenomenon for a couple of months now, if not years, right? 753 00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:18,720 But it's happening in real time. And I said you are the media 754 00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:20,760 now. This is the rise of independent 755 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:24,040 journalism. Anybody could be a journalist. 756 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,800 If you're posting on Twitter, you're posting news or you're 757 00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,360 taking, you pull out your phone and there's an event happening. 758 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,320 You're recording that you're posting on social media. 759 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:33,760 You are now basically a reporter. 760 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:37,400 You're now a journalist in this, in this new in this new world. 761 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,520 So anyways, it says unique visitors. 762 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,560 January 2020 versus January 2024. 763 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:47,760 There's been a 24% decline in viewership on Fox News, a 20% 764 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:52,160 decline in viewership on CNCNNA, 22% decline in viewership from 765 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,760 the New York Times, and a 45% decline in viewership from the 766 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,560 Washington Post. This is exactly what Mike Benz 767 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:02,080 was referring to in that view when he was freaking out, when 768 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,760 that general was freaking out in Europe, supposedly about the 769 00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,000 fact that he's like what happens when the New York Times 770 00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,320 literally just becomes an unpopular Facebook page, How are 771 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,960 we going to control the masses? People don't remember this, 772 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:17,640 right? But it was the Wall Street 773 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:21,760 Journal that was used to attack Bitcoin, and they tried to 774 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,240 convince some senators and some politicians that Bitcoin was 775 00:39:25,240 --> 00:39:27,880 being used to raise money for Hamas. 776 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,240 They came out after the fact due to the amount of pressure that 777 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:33,040 Bitcoiners put on on social media. 778 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:37,920 And we had Tom Enemer interview the head of the Fin CEN. 779 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,760 And the head of the head of Fin CEN even admitted that 780 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,320 terrorists prefer to use the traditional financial system. 781 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:45,120 Right. So it's the Wall Street Journal 782 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,000 that attacked Bitcoin. They made false claims. 783 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,960 And then in one of the most powerful tweets I've ever saw, 784 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:52,240 and I think it was from Jack Posobik, and it's basically 785 00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:55,440 like, look, if social media existed back in the 2000s, we 786 00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,840 have, we would not have gone to war with Iraq. 787 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,520 It was the, it was the intelligence agencies that 788 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:05,960 originally fed the New York Times the idea that Iraq had 789 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,000 weapons of mass destruction. Right. 790 00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:11,840 So again, you know, once once you have millions upon millions 791 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,480 of individuals, that can't be, it's a lot harder for 792 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,600 governments to corrupt every single person. 793 00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,560 You know, it becomes extremely hard to control the narrative. 794 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:21,960 And I think that's why they're pushing back. 795 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,880 That's why they tried the disintermediation, the 796 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,480 disinformation. Governments board. 797 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,720 That's why you have this lady literally saying I hate the 1st 798 00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:32,600 Amendment, right. That's why you're seeing that 799 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,480 because they can no longer control the narrative in mass. 800 00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:39,440 Now what's coming next, right is when they can no longer control 801 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,040 the money in mass, and that is their source of power 802 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,000 fundamentally. Anyways, OPTI, what's your take? 803 00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:45,760 And then we'll move on to Adam back. 804 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:47,360 Yeah. And and just to add a little 805 00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,760 more context on these numbers because I think it's absolutely 806 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:53,000 incredible. The numbers go from CNN at 807 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,760 roughly around 100 and I don't know, 12,000 unique viewers down 808 00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,080 to the Washington Post at around, I don't know, under 809 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:03,120 50,000 unique viewers. And that's literally just a 810 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,080 small Twitter account like our our Simply Bitcoin Twitter 811 00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:10,960 account has more unique Subs or viewers than the Washington 812 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:12,440 Post, which is absolutely incredible. 813 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:17,320 And and really This is why you're seeing such backlash 814 00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:18,240 right now. This is why you're seeing the 815 00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:20,680 Faisal Rules is because what Mike Ben says they they 816 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,880 understand that they have lost the ability to control the 817 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,800 narrative. And it's just people haven't 818 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,840 woken up to that idea like you as a viewer here you as someone 819 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,880 that tweets on on X or Twitter or whatever you want to call it. 820 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:36,800 Like, you really underestimate the power of you communicating 821 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,200 peer-to-peer with, with other individuals, with your family, 822 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,520 with your friends. We really have the ultimate 823 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,920 power here and hence why you're seeing the backlash on freedom 824 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:48,080 of speech, hence why you're seeing them re about, you know, 825 00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,760 fake news and all this stuff is because what's happening is the 826 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:52,520 gaslighting of information right now. 827 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:54,440 They understand. What we understand here at 828 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:58,280 Simply Bitcoin is that we have the ultimate power right now 829 00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,120 with the Internet, social media. The rise of social media 830 00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:04,960 basically destroyed their echo chamber and now we have Bitcoin 831 00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,120 on top of that. That's basically steroids on the 832 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:13,440 Internet to really exponentially push the freedom to transact, 833 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,680 which of course is the freedom to speak. 834 00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:18,840 And this is all one and one. Remember, Bitcoin is just a 835 00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:20,360 database. It's literally just ones and 836 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:21,800 zeros. It's literally just words. 837 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,560 And This is why you're seeing them try to regulate Bitcoin. 838 00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,800 This is why you're seeing them try to stifle the communication 839 00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,600 on the Internet. And again, just doubling down 840 00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,400 guys. You really and we do this too at 841 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,120 simply we really underestimate the power available to us 842 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:40,400 communicating directly to you on YouTube, directly to you guys on 843 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,240 Twitter and spreading information peer-to-peer. 844 00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:47,600 And This is why censorship is such a hot button topic right 845 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,560 now is because they can no longer stifle the flow of 846 00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,200 information. And This is why they're freaking 847 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,040 out so much. And remember I I keep saying 848 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:58,200 this all the time, the meaning of Fiat is literally by decree. 849 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,200 It's literally by them telling you what currency is or what 850 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,920 money is, and as the trusted institution starts to crumble, 851 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:06,600 as you can see, it's happening in real time. 852 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,040 Basically. You know, maybe only a small 853 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,400 portion of your parents or grandparents are still watching 854 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:14,640 the television. Their power will diminish in 855 00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:16,760 real time, and you're seeing this happen right now. 856 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:21,600 The only thing keeping the the narrative working right now is 857 00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,040 that people still trust in the institutions. 858 00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:27,360 And of course, This is why we constantly tell you guys to use 859 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:29,720 Bitcoin, to use the freedom technology. 860 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,680 Because as Nico pointed out in that sovereign individual code, 861 00:43:32,720 --> 00:43:36,200 that is the wings that gives the cows freedom that that's the 862 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,880 yeah, that's the wings that they put on the couch. 863 00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:42,320 This is what frees everything is by humans being more 864 00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,560 interconnected. And I know that's a scary thing 865 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,800 for most people. It's like, Oh my God, and humans 866 00:43:46,800 --> 00:43:49,200 being connected, the powers that be are like, we can't let the 867 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,360 plebs talk about everything because it's, you know, it might 868 00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,560 hurt people. And it's like, no, this is what 869 00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:58,120 propels us forward is we're in a digital world and connecting 870 00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,080 individuals. That's how we become more 871 00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,440 prosperous, idea sharing and people waking up to the truth. 872 00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:07,160 This is how we improve the world in real time. 873 00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:08,640 Amen to that. Amen to that. 874 00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:13,320 We got a awesome comment on Rumble MMZ. 2G says hello. 875 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,280 Simply Bitcoin. I'm watching your live channel 876 00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:19,000 from a country with political problem to use rumble, but I'm 877 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,200 using VPN. Love you guys time, love you 878 00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,800 guys. Bitcoin at 60 K time to buy, 879 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:26,560 right? That is absolutely. 880 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,960 You know that's the power of the Internet, right? 881 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,240 Can't stop the signal. Anyways, I do want to cover this 882 00:44:32,240 --> 00:44:36,000 topic 'cause it is the theme of the title of today's episode. 883 00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:41,080 This is Adam back December 3rd of 2023, says digital gold. 884 00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:45,000 Bitcoin will surely flip physical gold sooner or later. 885 00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:48,760 And probably this having So within a year or two currently 886 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:52,840 I'll take 700K Bitcoin, but it may be partially a substitute. 887 00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,600 Some people start selling gold to buy Bitcoin, crossing the 888 00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:59,600 market caps below that. Also, here is Samson Mountain, a 889 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:03,400 recent podcast where he says we won't be pricing things in 890 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,600 Bitcoin in five to 10 years. Check it out. 891 00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:07,880 And what do you think then students, we're talking about 892 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:09,240 price. What do you think is a fair 893 00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:12,720 price for Bitcoin? You know, in, you know, next 894 00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:17,400 five years, 10 years is there in five to 10 years, I don't think 895 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:20,080 we'll be pricing Bitcoin in terms of other things. 896 00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:24,080 It'll just be things are priced in Bitcoin in terms of 897 00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:25,920 Satoshi's, the smallest unit of Bitcoin. 898 00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,920 So. When you buy a sandwich, it 899 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,600 might cost you 5 satoshi's. Oh, I like. 900 00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:34,440 That idea, so total flip over in terms of of of how you pro how 901 00:45:34,480 --> 00:45:37,520 how you value put a value on the goods that you're buying. 902 00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,320 So I mean I think, you know, I think that's like the the kind 903 00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:45,600 of reminds me of the the Neo meme, right. 904 00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:49,080 Or Morpheus meme where like Neo is basically asking Morpheus 905 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,600 like so you're mean I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have to sell my 906 00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,640 Bitcoin for dollars and then Morpheus is something like Neo. 907 00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,040 What I'm trying to tell you is that when we get to where we 908 00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:00,960 where we get, when we get to where we we're going, you won't 909 00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,000 have to sell your Bitcoin in the 1st place, right. 910 00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:06,200 So yeah, I mean. You know, it's bullish, I think. 911 00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:11,640 I think 700K in this cycle is overly optimistic by Adam Back, 912 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,800 but at the same time, I think Bitcoin does the exact opposite 913 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,760 of what you know what, what people think. 914 00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,360 And also it's Adam back, right? He holds, he holds a lot of 915 00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,680 weight. He was originally cited in the 916 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:28,280 Bitcoin white paper, but look in regards to that comparison, 917 00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:29,960 right? I think Bitcoin is superior to 918 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:36,400 gold in every which way. It's currently 8.61% of the gold 919 00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:40,360 market cap, and if it's superior to gold, and if it's more scarce 920 00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,600 than gold, then you would think that it's not only going to 921 00:46:43,600 --> 00:46:46,080 catch up to gold, I think it's going to blow past it. 922 00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,120 But anyways, I might be slightly biased because I'm a bitcoiner, 923 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:50,800 so I'm going to pass it on to Gary. 924 00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:53,000 Maybe Gary's a little bit less biased than I am. 925 00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:55,400 No, no, I'm not less biased than you are. 926 00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,120 I'm talking about that gold. You know, this weekend we had 927 00:46:59,120 --> 00:46:59,720 Bitlock. Boom. 928 00:46:59,720 --> 00:47:02,440 I'm in my suite watching TV. I'm watching, trying to catch 929 00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,280 up, keep up, keep up as a Bitcoin show gets over. 930 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:07,680 I'm looking, and it's Peter Schiff having a debate on 931 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,440 Bitcoin. Is that guy an idiot or what? 932 00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:13,920 I mean, you know, You know, I'm sorry to talk about it, but it's 933 00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:17,760 just crazy how much stuff that guy spits out of his face about 934 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,800 Bitcoin being, you know, losing money and gold being up against 935 00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:23,720 Bitcoin. But I guess that's what shit 936 00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:27,400 Coiners like gold coiners have to do to keep an audience there. 937 00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,920 Since we're talking about how audiences are shrinking, I think 938 00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:32,520 shift has gotten out of popularity and he's not on shows 939 00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,320 anymore, but he keeps plugging that same thing just hating 940 00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:37,840 Bitcoin. I know we weren't talking about 941 00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:39,880 that, but I wanted to bring it up because I just got sick of 942 00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:42,240 seeing that now about BARF, Yeah. 943 00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,400 No, it's good. It's good that you brought it 944 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,960 up. Opti, what's your take on this 945 00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:53,600 my friend? Yeah, so I mean look, what do I 946 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:55,320 know about where the price is going? 947 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,640 All I know is that the price of Bitcoin right now is roughly 948 00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,280 around 60K. But if you do look backwards in 949 00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:04,640 time and you know four years ago shouts out the hard huddle in 950 00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:08,040 the chat he let me let me find this comment cause for people 951 00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:11,000 that aren't familiar with what's going on in Bitcoin and how the 952 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,600 price moves, where'd it go? He basically said four years ago 953 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,080 the Bitcoin price, I can't find it right now. 954 00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:17,920 So Nico, if you want to find it, he said four years ago the 955 00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:21,840 Bitcoin price was 7.5 K four years before that it was $450. 956 00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,120 So I know we are getting into bigger numbers and and we 957 00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,600 probably all do have a little bit of PTSD from the last cycle 958 00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:32,560 where we were expecting 100K. So no one really knows where 959 00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,520 it's going. But a simple, a simple, just 960 00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:39,200 thought experiment, you know, four or six figures Bitcoin, 961 00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:42,040 140K is only one double from here and if you don't think 962 00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,600 that's possible this year, then you are an absolute bear. 963 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:48,880 Now on to the 700K prediction. I've been kind of trolling on 964 00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:52,200 the show for the last couple of weeks that you know, we all have 965 00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:56,440 PTSD from Bitcoin not hitting 100K and it only got the 70K. 966 00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,480 So you know if we just 10X those those predictions, then we'll go 967 00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,120 from, you know, everyone's saying right now like $1,000,000 968 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,320 Bitcoin. I think that that is a little, a 969 00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:09,320 little, a little a little a little bit bullish in in the 970 00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:12,880 next year or two, but you know just just kind of trolling a 971 00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:14,480 little bit. We won't go to a million we'll 972 00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:18,920 go end up to 700 K Bitcoin. But I don't have any metrics 973 00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:20,680 behind this. I'm just kind of I'm I'm really 974 00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:21,960 just like talking shit here, you know. 975 00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:27,000 But I think, I think some signal in this and I don't know exactly 976 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:32,560 where Mao's time frame is, but I think kind of what he's saying, 977 00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:35,720 he said this cycle. Well, if you kind of factor in 978 00:49:35,720 --> 00:49:38,560 that we're already at the end of this epoch, you know, we're 979 00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,440 going to see the halving in, in roughly 2 days or what was it 980 00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:45,480 342 blocks from now. I think we can kind of already 981 00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:48,440 safely start to talk about that. We are already in the next 982 00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,800 cycle. So yeah, in a year or two, I 983 00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,560 think we're going to see the price go absolutely nuclear. 984 00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:57,920 But in four years, I think the price can vary safely. 985 00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,320 I think we can speculate that it's going to be around 700 KA, 986 00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:04,080 $1,000,000 per Bitcoin especially like I keep saying 987 00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,400 all all the factors playing out in real time. 988 00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,560 But yeah I I mean I agree of course I agree with that in back 989 00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:14,080 who who wouldn't love to see 700K per Bitcoin Bitcoin go past 990 00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:16,680 the gold market cap. But I don't have any metric I'm 991 00:50:16,720 --> 00:50:19,160 I'm really just trolling. I'm I'm counter trading Bitcoin 992 00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,480 Twitter right now everyone's saying $1,000,000 Bitcoin. 993 00:50:21,640 --> 00:50:24,760 I still have PTSD from not hitting 100K Bitcoin. 994 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,160 So let's just you know let's just cut it in half. 995 00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,640 We're not going to get a million we'll get 700K in the next six 996 00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:31,040 years. I think we can all be OK with 997 00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:31,840 that. Yeah. 998 00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:36,280 And I, I just got to say, like, you know, I think like Bitcoin 999 00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,080 tends to do the exact opposite of what everyone thinks it it's 1000 00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:40,840 going to do. And I think what I saw last 1001 00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:43,920 cycle was everyone was 100% sure that this thing was going to hit 1002 00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,080 100K. And what I'm seeing this cycle 1003 00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:48,880 is just this general consensus of kind of like bearishness, 1004 00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,080 right? Like, oh, you know, it's it's 1005 00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:52,880 only going to hit 100K. It's only going to do. 1006 00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,280 That's just an observation. It maybe it doesn't mean 1007 00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:58,480 anything, but that's just kind of the general feeling that I 1008 00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:02,720 get from every at the moment, the PTSD from the China mining 1009 00:51:02,720 --> 00:51:04,360 ban. Anyways, I do want to give a 1010 00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:07,680 shout out to our sponsor, the Orange Lab Stack Friends who 1011 00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:11,720 stacks at the Orange Pill app is the Bitcoin social layer if 1012 00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:13,600 you're. Going to a city and you don't 1013 00:51:13,600 --> 00:51:15,200 know? 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So of course and and I think I'm 1054 00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:10,280 a broken record at this point, rather Nico is. 1055 00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:13,360 But Bitlock Boom does have a special place in our hearts. 1056 00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:15,880 This is where Nico and I officially met for the first 1057 00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:17,600 time in person and not on the Internet. 1058 00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:19,320 So we absolutely love Bitlock Boom. 1059 00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,560 And I'm super happy came back to Dallas. 1060 00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:24,440 It's back on home turf. But anyways, Gary, let's just 1061 00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:26,800 get a recap on Bitlock Boom this year. 1062 00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:28,760 How was it? How'd everything go? 1063 00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,720 Let the people know and then we can talk about next year. 1064 00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:36,320 Well, first let me tell say thank you to my platinum sponsor 1065 00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:40,360 Swan, to my gold sponsor Ocean, to my silver sponsor Atomic. 1066 00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,200 I need to thank them because they their their funds were 1067 00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,280 definitely used to help set up everything to make it a good 1068 00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,160 event. You know Dallas was great to 1069 00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:50,200 come back home to. It's 40 minutes from my house. 1070 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:54,040 I think everybody who came to the event was like, Oh my gosh, 1071 00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:56,800 this is good to be back here rather than in Austin. 1072 00:53:56,960 --> 00:53:59,400 I was, I was concerned I'd have a little blowback about not 1073 00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,160 being in Austin. But I had more positive comments 1074 00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:04,960 about being in Dallas. You know, and and I think both 1075 00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,160 well, after you live here but Nikko, not living here, you got 1076 00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:11,840 to agree coming to Texas in April is a hell of a lot better 1077 00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:14,760 than coming in August. Nobody ever said, hey, I'm 1078 00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,320 sitting around my house up in New York and I want to go down 1079 00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:20,440 to to Dallas and or Austin in August. 1080 00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:24,040 Nobody in the world has ever said that but April is just 1081 00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:26,400 beautiful here. Tickets also when everybody know 1082 00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:30,160 tickets do go on sale the 1st May, the 1st for next year at 1083 00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:32,240 bitblockboom.com. So you want to take advantage of 1084 00:54:32,240 --> 00:54:33,720 that because it just they go up there. 1085 00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,800 It's amazing to me how many people buy their tickets at the 1086 00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,400 highest price it could be in April when they could buy them 1087 00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:42,200 now. So do buy your tickets now 1088 00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:45,000 instead of waiting to April. Sorry guys had to get those out 1089 00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:46,480 those things out there and over with. 1090 00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:49,280 But we had a great event, I think what you what you think 1091 00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:51,240 Opti. I mean, you were there the whole 1092 00:54:51,240 --> 00:54:54,120 time I was working my ass off and I thought we had a great. 1093 00:54:54,240 --> 00:54:56,880 Event I had a blast. You know, you guys, I saw 1094 00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,560 sitting in chairs all the time just over there having a drink, 1095 00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:02,600 joking around, talking with your buddies, saying you were 1096 00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:04,680 working. You know, my life always says 1097 00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:07,200 that if I'm if I'm having fun, I'm not working. 1098 00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:09,880 I'm just over there having fun, even though it makes money. 1099 00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:11,240 For some reason that's not working. 1100 00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:14,360 I think I actually have to be sweating and hating what I do. 1101 00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:16,920 I've heard that my whole life and I've gone well. 1102 00:55:16,920 --> 00:55:18,960 Gosh, I'm sorry, honey. Did I do what I like for? 1103 00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:19,800 A I know, right? Yeah. 1104 00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:22,080 Always. But yeah, that's just a crazy 1105 00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:23,400 way to be. It's great. 1106 00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:25,400 It's great to be able to do what you love for a living, right? 1107 00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:27,120 Yeah, because then it doesn't feel like work. 1108 00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:30,920 Absolutely. So, yeah, so we were taking care 1109 00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:33,960 of the live stream, Gary. It requires a lot of, a lot of 1110 00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:37,960 sitting and viewing and making sure that everything is going, 1111 00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:42,760 yeah, going smoothly. I'm just giving you guys a hard 1112 00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:45,280 time. You guys also did a good job of 1113 00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:47,600 making sure no one stole anything out of that room. 1114 00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:49,560 That was what I was really impressed with. 1115 00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:50,120 The job. Y'all. 1116 00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:52,440 Did on because. People could have been stealing 1117 00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:55,720 that artwork or the BTC cards and you guys had. 1118 00:55:55,720 --> 00:55:57,240 A lot. We we were we were quite 1119 00:55:57,240 --> 00:55:58,600 worried. Every night we're like oh we're 1120 00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:00,480 going to come back and the microphones are going to be 1121 00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:03,640 gone. So but yeah no it was it was a 1122 00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:04,840 thrill. It was great. 1123 00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:08,880 Had an incredible time this year Gary and you know thanks for 1124 00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:12,800 thanks for having us back and you know I I love the, I love 1125 00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:16,280 some of the panels there the the the mining panel with mechanic 1126 00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:20,480 and Bob Burnett was absolutely incredible every time you know 1127 00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,920 just talking about mining that was that was great. 1128 00:56:24,120 --> 00:56:27,320 Mel did an introduction for Tone vase and it was it was 1129 00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:30,760 incredible so shout out to Mel came from the heart it was such 1130 00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:34,080 an authentic kind of introduction I think that was 1131 00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:36,720 awesome. So yeah, I mean Jimmy song, of 1132 00:56:36,720 --> 00:56:39,000 course. So many, so many great panels, 1133 00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:41,680 so many awesome content. Of course, kind of a little news 1134 00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:45,240 desk in between just the the interviews, they're just just 1135 00:56:45,240 --> 00:56:48,200 going crazy. John from Atomic, you know, 1136 00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:50,640 coming in hard, dropping, dropping. 1137 00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:53,520 So, so much good stuff. So yeah, he had a great time. 1138 00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:56,040 Yeah, he's amazing. John from Atomic is an 1139 00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:56,720 incredible. Guy. 1140 00:56:56,720 --> 00:56:59,120 He's a great guy. And he was just dropping so 1141 00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:00,120 many, so many. Awesome. 1142 00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:01,600 He's my kind. Of lunatic dropping. 1143 00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:03,960 Dropping signal during the news desk. 1144 00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:08,080 So yeah I I love the the kind of like the the dinner the first 1145 00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:11,840 day the at the Ferris Wheeler they had a Texas BBQ a live band 1146 00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:15,320 that was awesome highlight. I didn't go to the shooting 1147 00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:17,680 thing but I had friends that went and they sent me videos. 1148 00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,800 There's one with the silencer and they're shooting like a 1149 00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:23,400 target with with shit coins which was really cool. 1150 00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:26,680 Yeah it was just a great kind of experience. 1151 00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:31,480 Overall last year was was pretty hectic cause me and Opti were on 1152 00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:35,600 the news desk two days in a row. This year was a little bit, a 1153 00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,600 little bit easier in that sense, but but yeah, it was, it was 1154 00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:40,480 great. I love Bitlock Boom Hold, like 1155 00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:43,360 Opti said, broken record, but holds a special place in my 1156 00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:45,880 heart and I had an incredible time and I can't wait for next 1157 00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,440 year in Dallas. Bitlock Boom The year of the 1158 00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:51,560 pump, supposedly, so no one knows. 1159 00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:55,880 Bitlock Boom 2025, so I'm incredibly excited for that. 1160 00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,160 OPTI Yeah. Nika, before we go on to talking 1161 00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:01,360 about next year, I I do just want to give a general plug to 1162 00:58:01,480 --> 00:58:05,040 Gary and Bitlock Boom, because it always feels like a family 1163 00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:06,720 reunion whenever I go to Bitlock Boom. 1164 00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:10,120 Especially now that we're back in Dallas at the Marriott that 1165 00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:14,640 we were at, it feels like going back to, you know, the, the home 1166 00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:17,240 base there with everyone. And the reason I really love 1167 00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:20,840 Bitlock Boom is because of all the people that show up, it 1168 00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:22,960 really always feels like a family reunion. 1169 00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:25,600 It's smaller, it's tight knit, you can hang out. 1170 00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:29,120 We were finally able to do lobby con and pool con once again. 1171 00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:33,360 So that's always a pleasure and A+, but yeah, it always feels 1172 00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,520 like these are my people and when I go to Bitlock boom, I can 1173 00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:39,080 just hang out with my friends. And at this point, some of them 1174 00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:42,760 I probably consider family and it it just feels like home turf. 1175 00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:46,440 So guys, I I know conferences get a lot of bad rap, but This 1176 00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:50,240 is why you go to conferences is because it's not just about 1177 00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:53,360 talking on the Internet. It's about connecting in person 1178 00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:55,480 and building these relationships with people. 1179 00:58:55,480 --> 00:58:57,200 And This is why you go to Bitlock Boom. 1180 00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:00,680 So on that note, thank you, Gary and I really appreciate you 1181 00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:04,680 letting us hold down the media and then let's talk about next 1182 00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:06,880 year. So as we were asking you and you 1183 00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:10,400 told us, we're going back to Dallas, but we are going to a 1184 00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:12,760 new venue. So let's plug the new venue and 1185 00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:15,800 the the dates and all that stuff and get people to buy some 1186 00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:18,920 tickets. Well, the dates, it's back in 1187 00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:21,280 Dallas like you said and it's the first weekend in April, like 1188 00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:23,600 maybe in April 3rd, 4th and 5th or something like that. 1189 00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:26,960 It's not on the site yet, but it's the first weekend in April. 1190 00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:30,280 It's at the Hilton, the Hilton Hotel is on the site. 1191 00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:33,880 So you can see that which is going to be maybe 10 minutes 1192 00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:35,880 away from the hotel we were at this year. 1193 00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:37,760 So it's really, really close now. 1194 00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,160 Tickets are on the site for sale for people who attended this 1195 00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:43,120 year. So if you attended this year, 1196 00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:46,080 part of your thank you is we have the QR codes up there where 1197 00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:50,000 you can go to the site, buy your tickets at a much reduced price. 1198 00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:53,560 Then probably in a couple of days they'll go on sale. 1199 00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:56,480 For people who have been to Bitlock Boom before, if you've 1200 00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:58,920 been to Bitlock Boom before and you didn't make it this year, 1201 00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:01,080 you will get a chance to buy tickets. 1202 01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:08,200 And then next year we will have the ticket or in two weeks we'll 1203 01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:09,640 have the tickets on sale for everybody. 1204 01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:12,280 So they'll be on sale for everybody in two weeks. 1205 01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:14,520 So May 1st, basically the tickets will be on sale for 1206 01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:16,360 anyone. Ticket prices that are up there 1207 01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,680 right now are last year. So do not buy your tickets right 1208 01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:22,200 now or you'll be buying last year's tickets and you'll have 1209 01:00:22,200 --> 01:00:25,160 to go back in time on the Opti time machine to attend the 1210 01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:27,440 conference. And you're, you're talking about 1211 01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:30,680 everybody's like, you know, the panels, the mining panel, which 1212 01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:35,320 CJ Wilson did a great job on and Mel Central, I haven't seen any 1213 01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:39,000 of this guys. So I mean, I literally have seen 1214 01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:42,200 5 minutes here, 5 minutes there. So I will be cutting up all 1215 01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:44,800 those videos and start watching them in a few days. 1216 01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,640 So I'm excited to see how it turned out and how great 1217 01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:49,320 everybody's talks were. I heard Mel's. 1218 01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:51,080 I heard the same thing. You're just saying Mel's intro 1219 01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:53,680 was was great. I heard that the mining panels 1220 01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:57,920 were great. I I thought NVK and Rockstar did 1221 01:00:57,920 --> 01:00:59,760 a great job at the end wrapping it up. 1222 01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:02,360 I had a lot of compliments on the workshops, which I have to 1223 01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:06,240 give creds out to Santos. Santos handled the whole 1224 01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:09,680 workshop and the build a Thon. Our first build a thon, which 1225 01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:12,800 Michael Tidwell won. You know Tidwell is going to win 1226 01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:13,960 whether they had to cheat or not. 1227 01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:17,760 He's going to take that. I mean, I'm just, I'm just going 1228 01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:20,320 with my casino, like the theme there. 1229 01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:23,120 I'm giving Tidwell a hard time. He definitely didn't cheat. 1230 01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:25,240 Oh God, I heard the, I heard the. 1231 01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:29,680 Casino night was crazy a lot and put everything on 21, the 1232 01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:32,800 roulette table and he hit the 21 and. 1233 01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:37,240 He had so many, he had so many raffle tickets. 1234 01:01:37,520 --> 01:01:39,840 You know, my my concern was I was going, Oh my gosh, he's 1235 01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:41,840 going to win everything and everybody's going to be all 1236 01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:44,080 pissed off at him. But he gave them all away, which 1237 01:01:44,080 --> 01:01:45,560 was great. I should have known better than 1238 01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:47,760 to give him a heads up as to what could happen. 1239 01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:50,480 But yeah, I think, you know, that Casino night, that's our 1240 01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:52,920 third year for Casino night. And I fought it and I thought, I 1241 01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:55,800 thought it was stupid and I my wife wanted to do it and then we 1242 01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:57,760 did it and everybody loved it. And that's one of the things 1243 01:01:57,760 --> 01:02:00,040 they kept saying, are you doing casino night next year? 1244 01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:02,440 So that is a staple of bitblock boom. 1245 01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:05,000 It's casino night and it's included in your general mission 1246 01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:06,480 pass. So it's kind of like a a really 1247 01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:08,960 good deal. Yeah, And and you get, you get 1248 01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:11,720 Gary Bucks, right. I didn't see your face. 1249 01:02:11,720 --> 01:02:13,880 I didn't see your face on the Gary Bucks this year. 1250 01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:18,280 I was disappointed. Yeah, The Ocean was a sponsor 1251 01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:19,840 for Casino Night, so. We found that one. 1252 01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:23,720 There, yeah, I I think my face is seen enough and it's not that 1253 01:02:23,720 --> 01:02:28,160 good looking at 70. So you know, I try not to be 1254 01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:30,960 appearing any more than I have to at 70, you know? 1255 01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:34,760 I I love the Gary Bucks. Anyway, Gary, I have a request. 1256 01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:38,640 Is it OK if me and Opti live stream from the middle of the 1257 01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:41,560 lake next year? Oh, I don't know. 1258 01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:43,880 It sounds good to me. If you get you a boat and get 1259 01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:47,600 out there, is that the hotel for next year I'm seeing here? 1260 01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:49,160 Yes. I had no idea. 1261 01:02:49,160 --> 01:02:50,600 That on the website I'm guessing. 1262 01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:52,360 I'm guessing this looks like a vibe. 1263 01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:55,360 Well, I came in the hotel from the other side and just walked 1264 01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:58,200 around the lobby and the the ballrooms we'll use. 1265 01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:00,840 You know, the thing about a hotel, you know, in case you 1266 01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:04,720 haven't been the bit block boom, is doing a conference at a hotel 1267 01:03:04,960 --> 01:03:08,360 is that you're like forced to hang out with all these 1268 01:03:08,360 --> 01:03:10,200 bitcoiners. I mean, whether you want to or 1269 01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:13,080 not, you're actually forced to get up when you have your coffee 1270 01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:15,120 come down for coffee. See all these bitcoiners down 1271 01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:16,720 there? And you're forced when you have 1272 01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:18,720 dinner to hang out with a bunch of bitcoiners. 1273 01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:20,880 And you're forced when you're taking a break and sitting in a 1274 01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:23,360 chair. So it makes you network with 1275 01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:26,160 bitcoiners instead of going, OK, I went to the conference, it's 1276 01:03:26,160 --> 01:03:28,680 5:00, I'm going home, going to bed, going out to dinner by 1277 01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:31,040 myself. I mean, really guys, Don't we, 1278 01:03:31,040 --> 01:03:33,520 like, stay together? Like, the whole from the time 1279 01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:35,400 you get there? Basically, till the time you 1280 01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:37,840 leave Sunday afternoon, you're hanging out with bitcoiners 1281 01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:40,240 24/7. Except, I guess when you go to 1282 01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:40,960 bed. But some people don't. 1283 01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:42,600 They just hang out downstairs all damn night. 1284 01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:44,080 Yeah. Yeah, now. 1285 01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:46,560 And that's where the lobby con was born. 1286 01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:49,520 And I remember it was. The year of the. 1287 01:03:49,520 --> 01:03:52,720 Pandemic and they had all these, but of course, you know Florida 1288 01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:57,160 and Texas stayed free somewhat and you know the Bitcoin has 1289 01:03:57,160 --> 01:04:00,480 just took over the lobby, you know, and it was it was it was 1290 01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:03,160 like a conference in the lobby of that hotel, which is really 1291 01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:05,120 cool. You know, in the hotel it was 1292 01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:07,600 scheduled at was two blocks up the street. 1293 01:04:07,600 --> 01:04:09,680 They called us two weeks before the conference and said they 1294 01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:11,840 were shutting down the hotel for COVID. 1295 01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:14,360 So, you know, when you got a conference coming in and have 1296 01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:17,000 all these people coming from everywhere, I mean, literally 1297 01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:20,680 everywhere and you get called that your hotel is closing two 1298 01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:23,240 weeks before the conference, that's kind of damn rough. 1299 01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:25,400 That's kind of damn rough. But we still pulled it off, 1300 01:04:25,400 --> 01:04:28,400 which I was excited about. So that worked out good. 1301 01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:31,640 And yeah, Mel, you did hang out and eat my coconut shrimp, and 1302 01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:33,160 that was good coconut shrimp, actually. 1303 01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:38,120 Yeah, it was. It was, it was it was. 1304 01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:40,040 It was a great event. It was. 1305 01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:43,760 It was a good time to kind of go back there and then I'm really 1306 01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:46,080 excited for this new venue next year. 1307 01:04:46,120 --> 01:04:47,920 Someone posted about sailor's boat. 1308 01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:49,160 You know, I want to make sure, Michael. 1309 01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:52,240 I want to make sure you know, I'm still waiting for $100,000 1310 01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:54,920 because I want the party that's going to be on the boat. 1311 01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:57,520 Michael and Eric, you know what I'm talking about here. 1312 01:04:57,720 --> 01:04:59,720 So don't be forgetting me on the list. 1313 01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:02,200 Kathy and I, we talked about this years ago. 1314 01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:07,480 All right, go, go. Go ahead. 1315 01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:10,360 No, I was just going to say I was over at Sailor's house one 1316 01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:11,480 time. Kathy and I were having brunch 1317 01:05:11,480 --> 01:05:14,240 with him and Michael, and it was right after he made that post 1318 01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:17,440 that he would have a party on his yacht if Bitcoin hit 100 and 1319 01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:19,160 said, wow, it looks like we're going to be having that party 1320 01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:20,280 lately. And this is when Bitcoin was 1321 01:05:20,280 --> 01:05:23,120 like 65. And he goes, yeah, I really 1322 01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:24,240 didn't. I think Eric might have said, 1323 01:05:24,240 --> 01:05:26,760 yeah, he didn't really expect Bitcoin and be moving up so 1324 01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:28,240 fast. He thought he had a few years to 1325 01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:29,320 get ready for this. Party. 1326 01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:33,080 You got your few years, Michael. I just want to make sure I'm on 1327 01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:35,720 the list. Man, that's hilarious, Opti. 1328 01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:40,320 Yeah, I was just going to give Gary Gary do like a TLDR of why 1329 01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:42,360 people should come to Bitlock boom next year. 1330 01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:46,040 And then I I do kind of want to touch on Bitcoin boomers because 1331 01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:48,920 we get a lot of we get a lot of Flack for always being 1332 01:05:48,920 --> 01:05:52,520 hyperbolic on boomers. So first and foremost do TLDR, 1333 01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:54,080 why should people come to Bitlock Boom. 1334 01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:57,280 And then I'd like to do a little PSA to the boomers out there 1335 01:05:57,280 --> 01:05:59,280 with you. Well, you know, I had so many 1336 01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:01,400 people this year told me this was the first conference they've 1337 01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:02,640 ever been to. And I guess that's going to 1338 01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:05,320 happen more and more as we get to as Bitcoin grows and more new 1339 01:06:05,320 --> 01:06:08,320 people come into it. But really, I think you said it 1340 01:06:08,320 --> 01:06:11,080 best earlier, better than I can ever say it. 1341 01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:13,360 And it's actually what I was hoping for. 1342 01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:17,160 Bitlock Boom has turned into a family reunion of people you get 1343 01:06:17,160 --> 01:06:19,760 to see once a year. Maybe you're lucky and you see 1344 01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:22,080 them twice a year, but for the most part, you might see these 1345 01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:26,000 people once a year. I mean, if you are a bitcoiner 1346 01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:28,480 that's a seasoned Bitcoin and you're living in South Dakota, 1347 01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:31,640 just taking a state at random, you probably don't get to 1348 01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:34,280 network with a lot of people that you feel your peers that 1349 01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:37,720 you you feel are with you there. So that is why you need to come 1350 01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:40,560 to Bitlock Boom. Not only to make these friends, 1351 01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,920 but to have a group that you know every year you can come 1352 01:06:43,920 --> 01:06:46,000 back and see so many people come back every year. 1353 01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:48,480 It's mind boggling. I was looking at the emails list 1354 01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:50,560 today, clearing outs and stuff and how many people had been 1355 01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:53,040 there four years, five years, six years, seven years. 1356 01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:56,600 It's it's literally amazing. People do come back and if you 1357 01:06:56,600 --> 01:07:00,040 come you will enjoy it and you will come back, you know. 1358 01:07:00,040 --> 01:07:04,160 And the thing I do want to say about Bit Block Boom is when 1359 01:07:04,160 --> 01:07:07,760 someone comes to speak on the stage, a Bit Block Boom, they 1360 01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:10,720 don't come in the back and all of a sudden they're on the stage 1361 01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:13,760 and then they leave out the back and you never see them again. 1362 01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:16,080 At Bit Block Boom. They'll roll behind the stage. 1363 01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:18,200 They're sitting out in the audience, you know, and then 1364 01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:19,880 they roll up on. It's like Bob Burnett sitting 1365 01:07:19,880 --> 01:07:21,480 there watching the show. And he gets that when it's his 1366 01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:23,360 turn to speak and goes backstage, and when he's 1367 01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:25,640 through, comes back in the audience and sits down. 1368 01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:29,120 So these people are not like, treated like, oh, we got to make 1369 01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:32,320 sure no one has time to talk to you or no one bothers you. 1370 01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:35,200 We want people bothering them and talking to them and they 1371 01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:38,640 know that at Bit Block Boom. So not only do you get to see 1372 01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:42,360 people that you watch on YouTube or maybe read their books or 1373 01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:44,960 whatever, you get to actually interact with them, meet with 1374 01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:45,760 them. And that's the thing. 1375 01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:48,120 I think one of the things that makes it different for us than 1376 01:07:48,120 --> 01:07:50,280 other conferences that are they're they're bigger 1377 01:07:50,280 --> 01:07:53,120 conferences is you don't actually get to meet these 1378 01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:54,720 people. They're kind of kept away from 1379 01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:56,400 you. I I think that's a big deal. 1380 01:07:57,320 --> 01:07:58,160 Love it. Love it. 1381 01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:00,320 OK, look. Perfect comment here by Robert. 1382 01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:02,080 He's a he, he watches our show all the time. 1383 01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:03,880 He's like, you people scare the boomers away. 1384 01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:06,080 Come to us, boomers. We welcome your people. 1385 01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:09,360 So guys, we love our Bitcoin boomers. 1386 01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:11,600 Gary's a friend, a personal friend to us. 1387 01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:17,080 So we're we're hyperbolic here. But Gary, if there happens to be 1388 01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:19,000 a boomer out there that's on the fence. 1389 01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:22,200 What's a message you like to get across to the boomers out there 1390 01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:25,640 that are thinking about Bitcoin? Well, you know, and and and you 1391 01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:27,640 got to realize boomers are coming from a different place 1392 01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:30,200 than everybody else here. They didn't even have computers 1393 01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:32,680 when they were in high school, you know, and many of them would 1394 01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:35,439 not have a computer now if it wasn't for a phone that they 1395 01:08:35,439 --> 01:08:38,600 carry around. So they definitely are not as 1396 01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:41,080 technologically advanced as everyone else. 1397 01:08:41,080 --> 01:08:43,880 But you know, really, if you're a boomer, you need to start 1398 01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:47,399 start throwing 123 percent in there. 1399 01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:50,279 I mean, Oh my gosh, if if you're sitting there and you've been 1400 01:08:50,279 --> 01:08:52,800 working your whole life, building at this retirement 1401 01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:56,000 fund, going, Oh my gosh, I finally have it, I can die and 1402 01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:58,560 give it to my kids. Well, if that's your goal, let's 1403 01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:01,560 really pump it and give it to your kids and throw some Bitcoin 1404 01:09:01,560 --> 01:09:03,359 in there and pump it and give it to your kids. 1405 01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:08,000 I'm telling you, this is to me and this is my humble opinion, 1406 01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:10,319 it's going to kill everything. Bitcoin going to kill 1407 01:09:10,319 --> 01:09:12,279 everything. And all the models now are 1408 01:09:12,279 --> 01:09:15,319 broken, I believe with this happening, I think everything 1409 01:09:15,319 --> 01:09:19,279 will be broken this time. And I do believe on. 1410 01:09:19,439 --> 01:09:22,720 I do agree with a lot of the pricing that I hear predicting, 1411 01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:27,080 but you have to get off your ass, figure this out, you know, 1412 01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:29,560 And boomers, you know, think about boomers is they all wake 1413 01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:31,560 up every day, look in the mirror and they know they're a boomer. 1414 01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:34,720 So people act like you can't say the word boomer to them. 1415 01:09:34,720 --> 01:09:36,800 They aren't surprised. They see this every day. 1416 01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:39,720 You know, no matter how they feel when they wake up within 10 1417 01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:40,960 minutes, they know they're a boomer. 1418 01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:43,080 So feel comfortable calling them boomers. 1419 01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:45,439 And if they can't take it, they just need to shut the fuck up. 1420 01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:49,640 I love it. I love it. 1421 01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:52,439 All right, Gary, let's give you last moment here. 1422 01:09:52,439 --> 01:09:54,480 What's the last message you want to leave with the audience? 1423 01:09:55,520 --> 01:09:59,200 Stack sats, stack sats, stack sats. 1424 01:09:59,200 --> 01:10:01,680 And if you want to come to bit block boom and talk about 1425 01:10:01,680 --> 01:10:03,600 stacking sats, that'd be cool too. 1426 01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:06,360 But stack sats, that's the most important thing that's more 1427 01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:09,240 important than coming to bit block boom is stacking sats. 1428 01:10:09,880 --> 01:10:12,920 Do you stacking a sats? You'll be able to come and bring 1429 01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:15,240 your entire family and all your friends with you to bitlock. 1430 01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:17,000 Boom Soon. I I love that. 1431 01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:20,800 Yeah, Wise wise words. Wise words, wise words. 1432 01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:23,720 Anyways, Gary, thank you so much for joining us on the show 1433 01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:25,600 today. Really, really appreciate it. 1434 01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:28,720 Guys, check out Bitlock Boom. The tickets are going to go 1435 01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:34,080 going to go live soon to buy Bitlock Boom 2024 May 1st. 1436 01:10:34,440 --> 01:10:36,800 So we'll give you guys a reminder when they go live and 1437 01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:38,680 pretty sure that you can use promo code. 1438 01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:44,320 Simply Bitcoin will give you a discount and hope to see you 1439 01:10:44,320 --> 01:10:46,240 guys next year. Gary, thank you so much for 1440 01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:47,800 joining us. Really, really appreciate it. 1441 01:10:47,800 --> 01:10:49,440 Like always. Thank you. 1442 01:10:49,720 --> 01:10:51,280 Thank you always. Look forward to seeing you all 1443 01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:51,960 soon. Absolutely. 1444 01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:53,640 All right, guys, I was sure if you enjoyed the show, you know 1445 01:10:53,640 --> 01:10:54,680 what to do. Smash the like button. 1446 01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:56,840 I'm your host. Nico, my legendary coach just 1447 01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:58,880 took himself off screen. That's Optimus Fields. 1448 01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:00,920 You guys enjoyed the show. Like I said, smash the like 1449 01:11:00,920 --> 01:11:02,200 button. Consider subscribing if you feel 1450 01:11:02,200 --> 01:11:03,800 like we provided you value. But the number one thing you 1451 01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:06,240 could do to help push the peaceful Bitcoin revolution. 1452 01:11:06,440 --> 01:11:08,520 Share Bitcoin content doesn't even have to be this Bitcoin 1453 01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:09,440 content. Just share all. 1454 01:11:09,440 --> 01:11:12,360 Bitcoin content, share all Bitcoin art, share all Bitcoin 1455 01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:13,640 everything. That's what we do. 1456 01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:15,280 Went over the hearts and minds. Love you all. 1457 01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:17,640 We'll see you tomorrow. Actually, Opti will be filling 1458 01:11:17,640 --> 01:11:21,200 in for me tomorrow. We'll I think we have a no, I 1459 01:11:21,200 --> 01:11:25,280 know we have a podcast at 5:00 PM with Jeff Booth which is 1460 01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:27,480 going to be absolutely awesome. So I'll see you guys in a couple 1461 01:11:27,480 --> 01:11:29,320 hours. But until then, love you all. 1462 01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:33,880 Peace out, everybody. So it was brought to you by 1463 01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:37,960 bitcoinwell.com, a Bitcoin only platform on a mission to enable 1464 01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:39,400 financial independence.