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Anyways, today what we're going to talk about, we did an episode
on this specific topic about a month and 1/2 or or ago.
So it seems like you guys really enjoyed it and basically it was
Adam Back's, I wouldn't call it it, it was just a guesstimate or
something. But he basically made the
argument that this having Bitcoin could potentially flip
gold. So we're going to talk about
that as well. Also the FISA, FISA stuff that's
going on in Congress. I think it's a really important
topic to talk about. The fight for free speech is the
fight for Bitcoin. If you think that, if you think
that they if they are not OK with you talking freely, what
makes you think that they'll be OK with you transacting freely?
So we always like to talk about freedom of speech issues.
I think this is an incredibly important one that I think a lot
of people are not aware of. We also have a clip of you guys
from the famous Tucker Carlson and Mike Benz interview and it
race. It really like reaffirms the
argument, the case that we've been making for you guys for a
while now, that the Internet really distant started to
disintermediate things. First it started with
information, then it moved on to money.
Before, there was only a handful of media outlets for the state
to control. Now there's millions upon
millions of individuals talking freely amongst each other.
This morning I posted something on Twitter and it showed the
decline in viewership of the legacy media.
Some platforms were 25%, some were 44%.
And what is filling that void? Well, it's independent media.
It's the rise of citizen journalists.
And so that's why it's so important to make your voice
heard. One of the things that we say
during the meme review, and you could take it as a joke, but
it's really not, is if tweets are bullets, memes are artillery
in this information narrative trench warfare that we're
fighting on the battlegrounds of the Internet, trying to win over
the hearts and minds of individuals and trying to wake
them up to the reality that it's not left versus right, it's not
red versus blue. It's really the party of green,
the party of Fiat, nihilism, slavery, war versus the party of
orange, the party of hope, opportunity, prosperity and
Bitcoin, right. So we really got to wake up
people to that reality. So I'm really excited to talk
about free speech. I'm really, I'm really excited
to talk about this whole FISA thing that's happening in
Congress. And in the beginning.
Also, we have another interview from Tucker.
He actually interviewed the CEO of Telegram.
I'm sure if you're a bitcoiner, you use Telegram.
A lot of people use Telegram. Everyone's on Telegram, but the
CEO is really like not a public figure.
He's, he hasn't really done a lot of interviews.
And one of the fascinating things that he said is like,
look, I don't really like property.
I value freedom. And he said that, you know, I
have a bunch of cash in my bank account, but I also have Bitcoin
and I've been holding it for, you know, for decades.
So I think it's a testament of of Bitcoin.
It's a testament of the fact that the Overton window is
shifting. We're slowly heading into this
new era where Bitcoin becomes mainstream in the popular, in
the in the mainstream consciousness.
I think we're really heading into that era.
And I'm really, I'm really excited for that era because I
think people are going to realize that there's an
alternative to, you know, this inflationary control system,
garbage money that the government is like trying to
shove down our throat. So I'm really excited about this
episode. And of course, we have the
organizer of one of my. Favorite Bitcoin conferences?
And of course, I'm talking about Bitcoin Boomer that just got an
awesome. A Bitcoin trading card done by
BTC trading cards. We have Gary Leland on the show.
How you doing, Gary? Yo-yo, yo-yo.
Good, good. Doing good.
It's. I'm back in this battle.
It took me a couple days to get the rested after bitlock boom.
But I'm back. That wears me out bad.
I I bet, I bet putting together a conference was I I mean OPTI
and I get completely burnt out just setting up.
So I can't even imagine what it's like setting up an entire
conference. And it's just, it's not even
setting up the conference. It's just being on my feet all
weekend, 'cause I don't think you saw me sitting around a lot.
No, no, you. Gotta make sure everybody's
taken care of. I try to make sure everybody
knows. I appreciate them coming.
So I'm on my feet quite a bit. I guess that just wears me out.
If I was just sitting around like you, I wouldn't have much
of a problem. Yeah.
I mean, you're just going all over the place, shaking the
hand, I mean, but like to give Gary credit like you like you're
on top the whole. It's not only that you're on
your feet. You have to make sure that every
box is checked and everything is going to work correctly, right.
So I think it's, it's, it's a combination of things.
But yeah, it was an epic bitblock boom conference this
year. You guys had a workshop day, you
guys had a conference day and and then a bunch of side events
as well. The the shooting one was
hilarious where you set up targets of all coins and just
people went to the gun range and shot those up, which is
hilarious. You know, on that we had a well
known shit coiner I had talked to.
Actually Ben from Who's that guy that just got in all the trouble
with Where's my Lamborghini? You know what I'm talking about.
Bring up Opti. Where's no idea.
Lamborghini. No idea.
Yeah, yeah, someone will. Somebody will probably know it
in there. But there's a guy named Ben
who's a big, big shit coin and ripping people off.
And I and I actually contacted him and asked him we could put
his face on the things, everybody.
I'm sure that someone here knows him and he said sure.
Sounds good to me. Is that bit boy?
Yes, yes.
We were putting Bit Boy on the on the things and the shooting
range wouldn't let us do it. You can't have any people on
custom on custom things. You can't have people on there.
So we were he was cool with it said oh it sounds good to me
shit I'm putting his ass on these things And yeah, Ben
Armstrong, thank you Phil. But they they would not allow me
to do it. They said you can put anything
on custom targets except a person.
Oh man, that's. When we put the coins up there,
but that was fun. Yeah, that would have been.
Real fun with him up there. And then I gotta say the Texas
BBQ, which I like go above and beyond.
You guys had it at the, I think the name of the venue was Ferris
Wheelers. It was outside.
You guys had a live band and I think I did that the buffet line
at least two or three times, which is absolutely delicious.
You know, and we had and we had a little issue there.
Some people got pissed because they didn't, they couldn't walk
and get like 100, you know, at the at the end I said, OK, add
ribs to all the dinners, which was I think the ribs were like
$2.00 per rib or something, you know.
And so I want to make sure everybody got a couple, you
know, so they would have been gone by halfway through the
line, but they were told to give out two and then they could come
back through the line. But some people were like, I
couldn't get pieces. I want to say, well, you know, I
should have left it like I was and just had pork.
That's going to be the deal, you know.
And then, you know, because I changed it the last like couple
of days before because those ribs are really good there and I
thought everybody needed a bite of them And and then there were
plenty, you know, for people to go through the line more than
once and get them. But I don't want to take a
chance on the people at the half of the line back, 'cause I would
have just got all ribs on my plate if I was, let's say,
anything else, give me about 10 of them ribs.
So. So I wanted to make sure that
didn't happen to people at the end of the line.
Oh man, Well I'm excited for the bit Block Boom 2023 debrief
we're going to hit it with. Opti, Opti, how you?
Doing this morning saw a smile on your face, which means it's
going to be a great show. Are you excited to host?
Tomorrow and Friday. Not really.
But you know, we gotta make sure the show keeps going anyways.
I do want to. You do a good job.
I enjoy watching you up either still.
Appreciate it. Appreciate it.
Yeah, it it makes, it makes my job a little, a little more
hectic, having to deal with everything at once.
So I like hanging out in the chat with everyone.
But yeah, you know, I got to do what I got to do.
Anyways, I do want to mention and I showed this to Gary, but I
did get a holographic. Gary Oh, I'm so glad that you
got that. So you guys can see it there.
Absolutely hilarious, shouts out to the Bitcoin trading cards.
I should have brought my wife went down to 'cause I I ended up
a couple of those that people handed me, and my wife went over
to the framing place and had one of those framed up in a little
frame and she's got it on the bookcase downstairs.
I, I I did the same. I did the same thing with mine.
I framed 2 and they're like these little ASIC boards
actually have them right here and super proud of it.
Yeah. Oh.
Let's go. Yeah, I I I love, I love these.
I love these. They're so cool.
But you, Gary, you also had a painting as well.
Yeah, the, you know, the person who did the cards heard.
That is like my best buddy. We've been buddies for 40 years
and I told Aladdin I'd like her to do the artwork for my card.
Just trying to give her, you know, some exposure in business
because she's a great artist and I thought she's just going to do
it on a computer, but she ended up doing a 4 foot by 4 foot, you
know, original painting of it. And I was like, oh, I didn't
expect all that, you know, So it was good looking.
So I just, you know, my did my picture pose, buy it, blah,
blah, blah. So, But it was really kind of
interesting to see a big painting of me riding a bull.
With the with the dynamite in your hand, it was absolutely
epic. Good job.
It was absolutely epic by the way guys.
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this 'cause I think it's a huge deal.
The CEO of Telegram, he's not really a public figure.
He kind of, you know, stays underneath.
Telegram is one of the most popular messaging platforms on
the entire in the entire world. They don't spend a dollar on
marketing. I I love it.
I think it's really cool. I think it's a great way to
connect with other bitcoiners. It's like really easy to use.
But anyways, he had something really kind of interesting to
say. Let's check it out.
Also, for me it was never about money, right?
So I have a few $100 million in my bank account or in Bitcoin
since 10 years ago and I don't do anything with it.
I don't own any real estate jets or yachts.
I don't think those this lifestyle is for me.
I like to focus on what we're doing now.
With Telegram you don't own anything like big assets, you
don't. Own no big assets.
Exactly. An island in Hawaii or.
No, no land, no real estate. Nothing.
Why? Well, because for me, my number
one priority in life is my freedom, also for me.
I mean like he sounds like a bitcoiner.
To be honest with you, I think this is a a truth that
bitcoiners know, right? You you need a place to live.
OK, right. But other than that I mean.
I've heard this saying before from like.
I don't know where I've heard it before, but it's this idea of
like if you own a lot of stuff like.
Specifically like a yacht, which is like setting money on fire.
You don't own them, they own you.
Right. And I think, you know, I think
the way that he says it, right, in terms of, you know, kind of
minimizing things and just owning Bitcoin or owning, I
don't know why he said cash in the bank account, 'cause I
wouldn't consider that freedom. But I I like the way he's
thinking and definitely sounds like a bitcoiner.
I mean, if he's holding, if he's in holding Bitcoin for 10 years,
he's definitely done extremely well for himself.
So I I thought that was really, really interesting and I think
it's just another example of and you guys are going to kill me
for saying this, but I'm going to keep continue saying this
throughout the entire episode because it's one of those
episodes. The Overton window is definitely
shifting not only in terms of money, but also in terms of.
Really. People valuing freedom, right?
You, you saw this with the election of Javier Malay in
Argentina, right? They elected an Austrian
economist and someone who is a libertarian and that's never
really happened before. So you can't, you can't deny
that this, this, this urge for freedom, this urge for change is
is happening worldwide. This, this, this freedom mind
virus is happening worldwide. And I think the world would be a
much better place for it after we get over this little hump
that we're currently going through.
Anyways, OPTI, what's your take on?
This and we'll pass it on to Gary.
Yeah, well I mean, you asked a rhetorical question of why he's
holding cash, but let's remember he probably is holding cash to
run his business. So can't really fault him for,
you know, too much on that point, Nico.
But also didn't Telegram have like a shit coin or something
like that? I I forget all the details
there. So like, well, we'll we'll just
put a pin on that point as well. But you love the conversation.
You love to hear other people that aren't necessarily in the
Bitcoin echo chamber say exactly what we've been saying.
You know, we saw Jack Mahler say this recently.
He's like all he owns is basically like his house and
Bitcoin and everything else is irrelevant.
And I just love that he basically said what we say all
the time. He's like, yeah, I literally
only own Bitcoin because I only care about freedom.
And Nico, everyone in the chat saying that, that quote's from
Fight Club. The things that that you own own
end up owning you. So there we go, another
connection. But I really love seeing Tucker
try to wrap his head around this.
Like you can tell he's just so wrapped up in the Fiat world
that he's like, wait, you only own Bitcoin and nothing else?
Like, what is wrong with you and and all of us bitcoiners are are
thinking the opposite. Like what is wrong with you guys
owning all this other stuff? Don't you realize there's only
one thing you can truly own in the world right now and it is
Bitcoin? Even if you own a house, you
technically probably don't actually own it because you
still have to pay, you know, mortgage and taxes on it to the
government. So you're basically just renting
your house from the government. But that's a totally other
conversation that people aren't even ready for.
But I just love that he basically said, like I only care
about freedom, hence why I basically only own Bitcoin.
And I think this is something that all of us Bitcoiners, you
know, we we all are doing this in our own way.
And as we're seeing right now with the ETFs and the
institutions and all that stuff, you're starting to see that
people are slowly but surely a big emphasis on slowly here.
But you're seeing that they'll get, you know, like 1% price
exposure, maybe 5 percent, 10%. And soon enough everyone will
get the the epiphany moment and be like Oh my God, I don't want
to own anything else but Bitcoin.
And we have the meme and Bitcoin of sell your chairs even though
you know I'm I'm sitting in a chair right now because as Gary
was telling us, I and I, I, I talk on the Internet all the
time. I, I, I I can't stand up for
hours a day guys. So I do own a chair.
But it just goes to show that the signal is spreading and
shouts out the Tucker for for having these conversations.
Because Tucker is basically I think besides Joe Rogan the
biggest content creator on the Internet.
And so the fact that these messages.
Are getting spread out. The fact that the signal
starting to spread and more people are waking up to the idea
that hey, if you believe in the ideas of freedom, if you believe
in freedom of speech and property rights, then there's
only one thing to really own and that is Bitcoin.
So soon enough, the world will wake up to this message, and
This is why we do what we do, that hopefully more people wake
up to the idea that there's only one thing you can truly own in
the world right now, and that is Bitcoin.
Obviously taking Bitcoin into custody and holding the private
keys yourself, that is true freedom, owning Bitcoin and as
much Bitcoin as possible. Amen.
Gary, what's your what's your
thoughts? Well, I I like everything he's
saying on Telegram. Telegram guys saying, you know,
but it's not surprising because after, you're right, they tried
to come out with a Telegram coin, I think like what, two or
three years ago and had a bunch of backlash on it and drop that.
But yeah, he's smart if he's just holding Bitcoin.
I personally am not holding just Bitcoin because I do have a home
that's paid off that I'm just going to live in till I die.
They'll have to carry me out of here.
I'm not taking any chances, but all of my assets are in Bitcoin,
my investments, I hold Bitcoin. Even things that were in Iras
are in have been transferred into.
I don't want to pay capital gains to pull it out, but they
transferred into things like Riot and Marathon and micro
strategy. So I like to say I'm 100%
Bitcoin even though I'm not. I'm as close as I'm going to be
able to get without selling my home and cars and personal
items. So I think everybody who's
watching the show knows Bitcoin is going to be the thing that
takes us to the missile. And, you know, and you find
yourself, Nico, trying to convince everybody of this if
you're really, really, I'm actually just not because you
don't want to. You're not trying to make your
Bitcoin go up in value, but you're trying to bring them with
us to the promised land. And so that's how I look at it.
I I try not to be too much of A hardcore fanatic on that around
my friends. So until they start asking, but
once they ask, oh hell holy hell breaks out for him and then I
get it when I'm in the car with my wife.
So love it. Love it.
Yeah I I mean no and and and and to be specific right like you
gotta you have to own a there you you sometimes it's it's a
good it's. Probably a good idea to own have
a place to live, right? So that's it's probably a good
idea to do that. And actually, once you reach my
age, if your home's paid off, I mean, I couldn't afford to buy
this house anymore because I bought it with 30 years ago.
I couldn't afford to buy this house and it's paid and what I
pay and can't even rent an apartment for now.
So it did work out good for me. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
And no, also too like a lot of these, whether it's micro
strategy, cuz The thing is like specifically if you have an IRA
or something like that, right, like you get penalized if you're
gonna liquidate that, right. So, right, another what I've
seen people do is like instead of kind of you know liquidating
it, they just get exposure to the ETFs or they get exposure to
micro strategy which is kind of like a levered Bitcoin play or
you get exposure to the mining stocks as well, right.
So I mean, but that is still you're, you're still exposed to
Bitcoin, like maybe it's indirectly but it's still, you
know, it's still exposure. Yeah, exactly.
I mean you're you're into it and according to when you got into
micro strategies, but it's had a good run even though we're down
a little bit, absolutely. But I think a lot of people who
may be doing ETFs right now are in that situation.
You know, they had money in their retirement, they were
interested in Bitcoin, but they're not wanting to take a
20% capital gains hit to pull it out and then go buy Bitcoin.
And and the two of those together are, hell, I'm losing
20% right off the bat. Put in a Bitcoin, it's like
really goes crazy. I couldn't drop 20% there.
You know, I'm waiting for it to go up, have a heart attack, have
a stroke. Their family's going to miss
them. So I can see why they want to go
into ETFs. It's an easy way for them to get
in without taking a 20% hit. 100% IA 100% agree with you.
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this, right, Which is kind of like this weird kind of moment
in history that we're going through.
So first, the Internet changed everything.
It disintermediated information and a disintermediation in
disintermediated money, just like the book the sovereign
individual predicted. We're currently going through
the disintermediation of information.
That's that's what governments are currently reacting to.
What I believe is going to happen in the next 5 to 10 years
is just like they're reacting so hardcore, like they're reacting
viciously against the disintermediation of
information. They're going to start reacting
this way towards the disintermediation of money.
They're starting to do it. That's what, like the Elizabeth
Warren bill and all that stuff that's hostile towards
bitcoiners, towards the Bitcoin industry.
You had the proposal that wood forest public miners to register
with the government, all this stuff.
You seen the regulatory attacks on Bitcoin miners all over the
world. I think the most popular one is
the, the, OR the most famous one is the China, the infamous China
ban. So we're starting to feel the
effects of the disintermediation of money, but we're not quite
there. But where we are, and it's very,
very apparent just because of how hard they're fighting, is
the disintermediation of information.
Now there's this episode that Mike Benz did with Tucker, and I
highly recommend you guys watching the entire thing.
Here's a small clip and the way that he puts it is so awesome.
Let's check it out. Yep.
From their perspective, they just weren't ready for the
Internet. 2016 was really the first time that social media had
reached such maturity that it began to eclipse legacy media.
I mean, this was a long time coming.
I think folks saw this building from 2006 through 2016.
You know, Internet. One point, O didn't even have
social media. From 1991 to 2004, there was no
social media at all. 2004 Facebook came out, 2005 Twitter,
2006, YouTube, 2007 the smartphone and so.
And in that initial period of social media, nobody was getting
subscriberships at the level where they actually competed
with legacy news media. But over the course of being,
you know, so initially even these dissident voices within
the US, even though they they may have been loud in moments,
they they never reached 30 million followers.
They never reached you know a billion impressions a year type
thing as a uncensored mature ecosystem allowed citizen
journalists and independent voices to be able to out compete
legacy news media. This induced a massive crisis
both in our military and in our State Department and
intelligence services. And I give a great example of
this in 2019 at at at meeting of the German Marshall Fund, which
is you know, an institution that goes back to the US.
Basically I don't want to say bribe but the essentially the
soft power economic soft power projection in Europe as part of
the reconstruction of European governments after World War 2 to
be able to essentially pay them with Marshall Fund dollars and
then in return they basically were under our thumb in terms of
how they reconstructed. But the the German Marshall Fund
held a meeting in 2019. They held a million of these
frankly, but where they where a four-star general that got up on
the panel and and said that that the what happens?
He posed the question what happens to the to the US
military What happens to the national security state when the
New York Times is reduced to a medium sized Facebook page and
he. So I mean.
That is an extremely powerful statement and it's happening
right now as we speak. This is, this explains the
quote, UN quote, the disinformation government's
board, which is completely against the 1st Amendment right,
which would basically have the US government kind of meddling
and going in and determining what is misinformation, what is
disinformation. And this is all because of the
Internet. The the Internet has
disintermediated information. It's decentralized peer-to-peer
communications without gatekeepers.
And it freaks them the F out. I mean, you could hear it from
the horse's mouth, right? This is the CEO of NPR, right?
She's on a podcast of the Atlantic Council.
This is the same Atlantic Council that has a website
tracking all the developments of the CBD CS, and let's check out
what she has to say about the 1st Amendment.
The number one challenge here that we we see and is of course
the 1st Amendment in the United States is a fairly robust
protection of rights And and that is a protection of rights
both for platforms which I actually think is very important
that platforms have those rights to be able to regulate what kind
of content they want on their sites.
But it also means that it is a little bit tricky to really
address some of the real challenges of where does bad
information come from and sort of the influence peddlers who
have made a real market economy around.
Who, like I, I got to say, you know, when the press secretary
is going out there or when the Treasury Secretary is telling us
that there's going to be no inflation even though there's a
record amount of money printing, Not to mention all the other
information that came out during the pandemic.
That you could say. At best was questionable.
At worst you could say it hurt. People like the framers designed
the 1st Amendment in in a way, because they knew that the the
people that get to decide what information is true and what
information is not true is going to use the is going to use that
information to empower themselves.
That's why the 1st Amendment is the way it is.
It's precisely to protect from the tyrannic, the the, the
potential tyrannical state, right.
So you know it. It's just fascinating though,
the fact that once the Internet was born, we're learning
basically that all these legacy media outlets that a lot of
people put a lot of faith in tended, you know, it came out
essentially that were they really actually, were they
actually doing media media or were they actually doing
propaganda, which I think is fascinating.
So the latest kind of update on this is what's going on in the
house. Right.
So, Patriot Act two point O and it is the US House passes FISA
7O2 surveillance expansion reform.
Today the US House of Representatives vote voted on
passing A2 year extension of Section 7O2 of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act. A controversial warrantless
spying authority and an extremely narrow tie vote
rejected critical reforms to stop rampant abuse of the law.
Right. This is the same law that they
used to that Edward Snowden initially uncovered, and again,
it's against the Constitution. It's against the 4th Amendment.
No unreasonable searches and seizures, right?
So as a quick update on that FISA Section 7O2 Reauthorization
bill Will allowing NSA to Force US Businesses Serve As Surrogate
Spies Advances to the Senate U.S.
House of Representatives voted 259 to 128 on Monday to prevent
reconsideration of last week's FISA 7O2 bill.
The expanded version of the bill is now heading to the Senate and
is expected to be voted on this week.
Now why is this happening? Well, I mean, sovereign
individual again predicted this perfectly, right?
So here's a couple quotes from the book and then we'll pass it
on to Gary and Opti. The first one is genius will be
unleashed, freed from both the oppression of government in the
drags of racial and ethnic prejudice in the Information
Society. No one who is truly able will be
determined by the ill formed opinions of others.
It would not matter what most of the people on earth think of
your race, your looks, your age, or the way you wear your hair
and the cyber economy. They will never see you.
The ugly, the fat, the old, the disabled will vie with the young
and beautiful and equal terms and utterly colorblind anonymity
on the new frontiers of cyberspace.
The authors have also predicted that with the rise of this new
cyberspace and consequently cyber money, it will become
harder for nation state to collect taxes from its citizens.
They compare the state to a farmer keeping cows in a field
to be milked, but that soon the cows will have wings.
They predict that for the government to collect taxes from
its citizens in this type of society, it will have to violate
human rights and even traditionally civil countries
will have to resort and turn nasty.
It goes on to say lacking their custom scope to tax inflate,
governments even in traditional traditionally civil countries
will turn nasty. Businesses that offer services
that facilitate the realization of autonomy by by individuals
will be subject to infiltration, sabotage and disruption.
Arbitrary forfeiture of property, already commonplace in
the United States where it occurs 5000 times a week, will
become even more pervasive. Governments will violate human
rights, censor the free flow of information, sabotage useful
technologies, and worse. So, ladies and gentlemen, this
is where we are in the movie The disintermediation of money and
the disintermediation of information.
And it's incredibly important in these times, right to download
protocols or, sorry, use protocols like Noster, use
protocols like Bitcoin, and empower yourself.
Become that sovereign individual, you know, as much as
Elon, you know and and I, I, I there's things about Elon that I
don't like the fact that you know, he's he supports shit
coins. But as much as Elon freed the
birds, so to speak, it is still a centralized platform and he
does have a target on, you know on his back.
And that's the reality of it. Unlike Bitcoin and unlike
Noster, there is no metaphorical CEO to go after, right?
There is no central party that governments could apply pressure
to. This is why these protocols are
so important for the freedom movement.
This is why these protocols are so important for the separation
of money and state. But make no mistake, this is
information, information, narrative, trench warfare, and
this is what we're what we're living through.
But it's also extremely exciting times for the individual because
I think once we get over this hump, I think humanity will have
a a freedom the likes of which has never been seen before in
human history. Anyways, Gary, what are your
thoughts? And then we'll pass it on to
OPTI. But there's a lot there.
Let's go to the first guy who was talking on Tucker there.
You know, he's really got it that laid out pretty well.
And I don't, I don't believe a lot of people, because they've
grown up with all this, realize, you know, we didn't even have
any of this stuff. So short amount of time ago, you
know, in 96 I set it up my first e-commerce site and everybody
told me I was an idiot. People wouldn't buy stuff on the
Internet. But I went forward anyway.
Then 2004, you know, Adam Curry came out with the first podcast.
He basically invented podcast just back in 2420, years ago
when he came out with the daily source code.
I mean, if people realize how short amount of time has really
gone by since we went from nothing to the whole thing now
is kind of falling apart for him.
I mean, there's so many attacks on traditional media,
traditional money, traditional, everything that it's kind of
amazing here. And also it's amazing how many
things, if you think about in the book, the sovereign
individual they got, right? Oh my gosh, That's like if you
haven't read that book, you don't need to just see Nico put
a picture of it here. You need to get that book and
read it. It's amazing how good of a job
they did to me. But that's my thoughts on it.
I mean quick and sweet. Yeah, absolutely.
UH Opti's asking me what tweet? Opti oh, the one that I posted.
In the media picture, yeah, well, I go pull it up, 'cause I
I think it makes a really good point.
Anyways, guys, it's uh. And then This is why I'm telling
Nico to pull up the tweet because it's incredible.
Uh what? What?
Like what we're actually doing here as bit corners when you
really see the numbers and you see what's actually happening
out there. Like independent content
creators are really the new media.
Yeah, Nico, let's, uh, showed these people for the audio the.
Audio So this is what I this is what?
And again like I've simply we've been covering this, this
phenomenon for a couple of months now, if not years, right?
But it's happening in real time. And I said you are the media
now. This is the rise of independent
journalism. Anybody could be a journalist.
If you're posting on Twitter, you're posting news or you're
taking, you pull out your phone and there's an event happening.
You're recording that you're posting on social media.
You are now basically a reporter.
You're now a journalist in this, in this new in this new world.
So anyways, it says unique visitors.
January 2020 versus January 2024.
There's been a 24% decline in viewership on Fox News, a 20%
decline in viewership on CNCNNA, 22% decline in viewership from
the New York Times, and a 45% decline in viewership from the
Washington Post. This is exactly what Mike Benz
was referring to in that view when he was freaking out, when
that general was freaking out in Europe, supposedly about the
fact that he's like what happens when the New York Times
literally just becomes an unpopular Facebook page, How are
we going to control the masses? People don't remember this,
right? But it was the Wall Street
Journal that was used to attack Bitcoin, and they tried to
convince some senators and some politicians that Bitcoin was
being used to raise money for Hamas.
They came out after the fact due to the amount of pressure that
Bitcoiners put on on social media.
And we had Tom Enemer interview the head of the Fin CEN.
And the head of the head of Fin CEN even admitted that
terrorists prefer to use the traditional financial system.
Right. So it's the Wall Street Journal
that attacked Bitcoin. They made false claims.
And then in one of the most powerful tweets I've ever saw,
and I think it was from Jack Posobik, and it's basically
like, look, if social media existed back in the 2000s, we
have, we would not have gone to war with Iraq.
It was the, it was the intelligence agencies that
originally fed the New York Times the idea that Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction. Right.
So again, you know, once once you have millions upon millions
of individuals, that can't be, it's a lot harder for
governments to corrupt every single person.
You know, it becomes extremely hard to control the narrative.
And I think that's why they're pushing back.
That's why they tried the disintermediation, the
disinformation. Governments board.
That's why you have this lady literally saying I hate the 1st
Amendment, right. That's why you're seeing that
because they can no longer control the narrative in mass.
Now what's coming next, right is when they can no longer control
the money in mass, and that is their source of power
fundamentally. Anyways, OPTI, what's your take?
And then we'll move on to Adam back.
Yeah. And and just to add a little
more context on these numbers because I think it's absolutely
incredible. The numbers go from CNN at
roughly around 100 and I don't know, 12,000 unique viewers down
to the Washington Post at around, I don't know, under
50,000 unique viewers. And that's literally just a
small Twitter account like our our Simply Bitcoin Twitter
account has more unique Subs or viewers than the Washington
Post, which is absolutely incredible.
And and really This is why you're seeing such backlash
right now. This is why you're seeing the
Faisal Rules is because what Mike Ben says they they
understand that they have lost the ability to control the
narrative. And it's just people haven't
woken up to that idea like you as a viewer here you as someone
that tweets on on X or Twitter or whatever you want to call it.
Like, you really underestimate the power of you communicating
peer-to-peer with, with other individuals, with your family,
with your friends. We really have the ultimate
power here and hence why you're seeing the backlash on freedom
of speech, hence why you're seeing them re about, you know,
fake news and all this stuff is because what's happening is the
gaslighting of information right now.
They understand. What we understand here at
Simply Bitcoin is that we have the ultimate power right now
with the Internet, social media. The rise of social media
basically destroyed their echo chamber and now we have Bitcoin
on top of that. That's basically steroids on the
Internet to really exponentially push the freedom to transact,
which of course is the freedom to speak.
And this is all one and one. Remember, Bitcoin is just a
database. It's literally just ones and
zeros. It's literally just words.
And This is why you're seeing them try to regulate Bitcoin.
This is why you're seeing them try to stifle the communication
on the Internet. And again, just doubling down
guys. You really and we do this too at
simply we really underestimate the power available to us
communicating directly to you on YouTube, directly to you guys on
Twitter and spreading information peer-to-peer.
And This is why censorship is such a hot button topic right
now is because they can no longer stifle the flow of
information. And This is why they're freaking
out so much. And remember I I keep saying
this all the time, the meaning of Fiat is literally by decree.
It's literally by them telling you what currency is or what
money is, and as the trusted institution starts to crumble,
as you can see, it's happening in real time.
Basically. You know, maybe only a small
portion of your parents or grandparents are still watching
the television. Their power will diminish in
real time, and you're seeing this happen right now.
The only thing keeping the the narrative working right now is
that people still trust in the institutions.
And of course, This is why we constantly tell you guys to use
Bitcoin, to use the freedom technology.
Because as Nico pointed out in that sovereign individual code,
that is the wings that gives the cows freedom that that's the
yeah, that's the wings that they put on the couch.
This is what frees everything is by humans being more
interconnected. And I know that's a scary thing
for most people. It's like, Oh my God, and humans
being connected, the powers that be are like, we can't let the
plebs talk about everything because it's, you know, it might
hurt people. And it's like, no, this is what
propels us forward is we're in a digital world and connecting
individuals. That's how we become more
prosperous, idea sharing and people waking up to the truth.
This is how we improve the world in real time.
Amen to that. Amen to that.
We got a awesome comment on Rumble MMZ. 2G says hello.
Simply Bitcoin. I'm watching your live channel
from a country with political problem to use rumble, but I'm
using VPN. Love you guys time, love you
guys. Bitcoin at 60 K time to buy,
right? That is absolutely.
You know that's the power of the Internet, right?
Can't stop the signal. Anyways, I do want to cover this
topic 'cause it is the theme of the title of today's episode.
This is Adam back December 3rd of 2023, says digital gold.
Bitcoin will surely flip physical gold sooner or later.
And probably this having So within a year or two currently
I'll take 700K Bitcoin, but it may be partially a substitute.
Some people start selling gold to buy Bitcoin, crossing the
market caps below that. Also, here is Samson Mountain, a
recent podcast where he says we won't be pricing things in
Bitcoin in five to 10 years. Check it out.
And what do you think then students, we're talking about
price. What do you think is a fair
price for Bitcoin? You know, in, you know, next
five years, 10 years is there in five to 10 years, I don't think
we'll be pricing Bitcoin in terms of other things.
It'll just be things are priced in Bitcoin in terms of
Satoshi's, the smallest unit of Bitcoin.
So. When you buy a sandwich, it
might cost you 5 satoshi's. Oh, I like.
That idea, so total flip over in terms of of of how you pro how
how you value put a value on the goods that you're buying.
So I mean I think, you know, I think that's like the the kind
of reminds me of the the Neo meme, right.
Or Morpheus meme where like Neo is basically asking Morpheus
like so you're mean I wouldn't have, I wouldn't have to sell my
Bitcoin for dollars and then Morpheus is something like Neo.
What I'm trying to tell you is that when we get to where we
where we get, when we get to where we we're going, you won't
have to sell your Bitcoin in the 1st place, right.
So yeah, I mean. You know, it's bullish, I think.
I think 700K in this cycle is overly optimistic by Adam Back,
but at the same time, I think Bitcoin does the exact opposite
of what you know what, what people think.
And also it's Adam back, right? He holds, he holds a lot of
weight. He was originally cited in the
Bitcoin white paper, but look in regards to that comparison,
right? I think Bitcoin is superior to
gold in every which way. It's currently 8.61% of the gold
market cap, and if it's superior to gold, and if it's more scarce
than gold, then you would think that it's not only going to
catch up to gold, I think it's going to blow past it.
But anyways, I might be slightly biased because I'm a bitcoiner,
so I'm going to pass it on to Gary.
Maybe Gary's a little bit less biased than I am.
No, no, I'm not less biased than you are.
I'm talking about that gold. You know, this weekend we had
Bitlock. Boom.
I'm in my suite watching TV. I'm watching, trying to catch
up, keep up, keep up as a Bitcoin show gets over.
I'm looking, and it's Peter Schiff having a debate on
Bitcoin. Is that guy an idiot or what?
I mean, you know, You know, I'm sorry to talk about it, but it's
just crazy how much stuff that guy spits out of his face about
Bitcoin being, you know, losing money and gold being up against
Bitcoin. But I guess that's what shit
Coiners like gold coiners have to do to keep an audience there.
Since we're talking about how audiences are shrinking, I think
shift has gotten out of popularity and he's not on shows
anymore, but he keeps plugging that same thing just hating
Bitcoin. I know we weren't talking about
that, but I wanted to bring it up because I just got sick of
seeing that now about BARF, Yeah.
No, it's good. It's good that you brought it
up. Opti, what's your take on this
my friend? Yeah, so I mean look, what do I
know about where the price is going?
All I know is that the price of Bitcoin right now is roughly
around 60K. But if you do look backwards in
time and you know four years ago shouts out the hard huddle in
the chat he let me let me find this comment cause for people
that aren't familiar with what's going on in Bitcoin and how the
price moves, where'd it go? He basically said four years ago
the Bitcoin price, I can't find it right now.
So Nico, if you want to find it, he said four years ago the
Bitcoin price was 7.5 K four years before that it was $450.
So I know we are getting into bigger numbers and and we
probably all do have a little bit of PTSD from the last cycle
where we were expecting 100K. So no one really knows where
it's going. But a simple, a simple, just
thought experiment, you know, four or six figures Bitcoin,
140K is only one double from here and if you don't think
that's possible this year, then you are an absolute bear.
Now on to the 700K prediction. I've been kind of trolling on
the show for the last couple of weeks that you know, we all have
PTSD from Bitcoin not hitting 100K and it only got the 70K.
So you know if we just 10X those those predictions, then we'll go
from, you know, everyone's saying right now like $1,000,000
Bitcoin. I think that that is a little, a
little, a little a little a little bit bullish in in the
next year or two, but you know just just kind of trolling a
little bit. We won't go to a million we'll
go end up to 700 K Bitcoin. But I don't have any metrics
behind this. I'm just kind of I'm I'm really
just like talking shit here, you know.
But I think, I think some signal in this and I don't know exactly
where Mao's time frame is, but I think kind of what he's saying,
he said this cycle. Well, if you kind of factor in
that we're already at the end of this epoch, you know, we're
going to see the halving in, in roughly 2 days or what was it
342 blocks from now. I think we can kind of already
safely start to talk about that. We are already in the next
cycle. So yeah, in a year or two, I
think we're going to see the price go absolutely nuclear.
But in four years, I think the price can vary safely.
I think we can speculate that it's going to be around 700 KA,
$1,000,000 per Bitcoin especially like I keep saying
all all the factors playing out in real time.
But yeah I I mean I agree of course I agree with that in back
who who wouldn't love to see 700K per Bitcoin Bitcoin go past
the gold market cap. But I don't have any metric I'm
I'm really just trolling. I'm I'm counter trading Bitcoin
Twitter right now everyone's saying $1,000,000 Bitcoin.
I still have PTSD from not hitting 100K Bitcoin.
So let's just you know let's just cut it in half.
We're not going to get a million we'll get 700K in the next six
years. I think we can all be OK with
that. Yeah.
And I, I just got to say, like, you know, I think like Bitcoin
tends to do the exact opposite of what everyone thinks it it's
going to do. And I think what I saw last
cycle was everyone was 100% sure that this thing was going to hit
100K. And what I'm seeing this cycle
is just this general consensus of kind of like bearishness,
right? Like, oh, you know, it's it's
only going to hit 100K. It's only going to do.
That's just an observation. It maybe it doesn't mean
anything, but that's just kind of the general feeling that I
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Yeah. So of course and and I think I'm
a broken record at this point, rather Nico is.
But Bitlock Boom does have a special place in our hearts.
This is where Nico and I officially met for the first
time in person and not on the Internet.
So we absolutely love Bitlock Boom.
And I'm super happy came back to Dallas.
It's back on home turf. But anyways, Gary, let's just
get a recap on Bitlock Boom this year.
How was it? How'd everything go?
Let the people know and then we can talk about next year.
Well, first let me tell say thank you to my platinum sponsor
Swan, to my gold sponsor Ocean, to my silver sponsor Atomic.
I need to thank them because they their their funds were
definitely used to help set up everything to make it a good
event. You know Dallas was great to
come back home to. It's 40 minutes from my house.
I think everybody who came to the event was like, Oh my gosh,
this is good to be back here rather than in Austin.
I was, I was concerned I'd have a little blowback about not
being in Austin. But I had more positive comments
about being in Dallas. You know, and and I think both
well, after you live here but Nikko, not living here, you got
to agree coming to Texas in April is a hell of a lot better
than coming in August. Nobody ever said, hey, I'm
sitting around my house up in New York and I want to go down
to to Dallas and or Austin in August.
Nobody in the world has ever said that but April is just
beautiful here. Tickets also when everybody know
tickets do go on sale the 1st May, the 1st for next year at
bitblockboom.com. So you want to take advantage of
that because it just they go up there.
It's amazing to me how many people buy their tickets at the
highest price it could be in April when they could buy them
now. So do buy your tickets now
instead of waiting to April. Sorry guys had to get those out
those things out there and over with.
But we had a great event, I think what you what you think
Opti. I mean, you were there the whole
time I was working my ass off and I thought we had a great.
Event I had a blast. You know, you guys, I saw
sitting in chairs all the time just over there having a drink,
joking around, talking with your buddies, saying you were
working. You know, my life always says
that if I'm if I'm having fun, I'm not working.
I'm just over there having fun, even though it makes money.
For some reason that's not working.
I think I actually have to be sweating and hating what I do.
I've heard that my whole life and I've gone well.
Gosh, I'm sorry, honey. Did I do what I like for?
A I know, right? Yeah.
Always. But yeah, that's just a crazy
way to be. It's great.
It's great to be able to do what you love for a living, right?
Yeah, because then it doesn't feel like work.
Absolutely. So, yeah, so we were taking care
of the live stream, Gary. It requires a lot of, a lot of
sitting and viewing and making sure that everything is going,
yeah, going smoothly. I'm just giving you guys a hard
time. You guys also did a good job of
making sure no one stole anything out of that room.
That was what I was really impressed with.
The job. Y'all.
Did on because. People could have been stealing
that artwork or the BTC cards and you guys had.
A lot. We we were we were quite
worried. Every night we're like oh we're
going to come back and the microphones are going to be
gone. So but yeah no it was it was a
thrill. It was great.
Had an incredible time this year Gary and you know thanks for
thanks for having us back and you know I I love the, I love
some of the panels there the the the mining panel with mechanic
and Bob Burnett was absolutely incredible every time you know
just talking about mining that was that was great.
Mel did an introduction for Tone vase and it was it was
incredible so shout out to Mel came from the heart it was such
an authentic kind of introduction I think that was
awesome. So yeah, I mean Jimmy song, of
course. So many, so many great panels,
so many awesome content. Of course, kind of a little news
desk in between just the the interviews, they're just just
going crazy. John from Atomic, you know,
coming in hard, dropping, dropping.
So, so much good stuff. So yeah, he had a great time.
Yeah, he's amazing. John from Atomic is an
incredible. Guy.
He's a great guy. And he was just dropping so
many, so many. Awesome.
He's my kind. Of lunatic dropping.
Dropping signal during the news desk.
So yeah I I love the the kind of like the the dinner the first
day the at the Ferris Wheeler they had a Texas BBQ a live band
that was awesome highlight. I didn't go to the shooting
thing but I had friends that went and they sent me videos.
There's one with the silencer and they're shooting like a
target with with shit coins which was really cool.
Yeah it was just a great kind of experience.
Overall last year was was pretty hectic cause me and Opti were on
the news desk two days in a row. This year was a little bit, a
little bit easier in that sense, but but yeah, it was, it was
great. I love Bitlock Boom Hold, like
Opti said, broken record, but holds a special place in my
heart and I had an incredible time and I can't wait for next
year in Dallas. Bitlock Boom The year of the
pump, supposedly, so no one knows.
Bitlock Boom 2025, so I'm incredibly excited for that.
OPTI Yeah. Nika, before we go on to talking
about next year, I I do just want to give a general plug to
Gary and Bitlock Boom, because it always feels like a family
reunion whenever I go to Bitlock Boom.
Especially now that we're back in Dallas at the Marriott that
we were at, it feels like going back to, you know, the, the home
base there with everyone. And the reason I really love
Bitlock Boom is because of all the people that show up, it
really always feels like a family reunion.
It's smaller, it's tight knit, you can hang out.
We were finally able to do lobby con and pool con once again.
So that's always a pleasure and A+, but yeah, it always feels
like these are my people and when I go to Bitlock boom, I can
just hang out with my friends. And at this point, some of them
I probably consider family and it it just feels like home turf.
So guys, I I know conferences get a lot of bad rap, but This
is why you go to conferences is because it's not just about
talking on the Internet. It's about connecting in person
and building these relationships with people.
And This is why you go to Bitlock Boom.
So on that note, thank you, Gary and I really appreciate you
letting us hold down the media and then let's talk about next
year. So as we were asking you and you
told us, we're going back to Dallas, but we are going to a
new venue. So let's plug the new venue and
the the dates and all that stuff and get people to buy some
tickets. Well, the dates, it's back in
Dallas like you said and it's the first weekend in April, like
maybe in April 3rd, 4th and 5th or something like that.
It's not on the site yet, but it's the first weekend in April.
It's at the Hilton, the Hilton Hotel is on the site.
So you can see that which is going to be maybe 10 minutes
away from the hotel we were at this year.
So it's really, really close now.
Tickets are on the site for sale for people who attended this
year. So if you attended this year,
part of your thank you is we have the QR codes up there where
you can go to the site, buy your tickets at a much reduced price.
Then probably in a couple of days they'll go on sale.
For people who have been to Bitlock Boom before, if you've
been to Bitlock Boom before and you didn't make it this year,
you will get a chance to buy tickets.
And then next year we will have the ticket or in two weeks we'll
have the tickets on sale for everybody.
So they'll be on sale for everybody in two weeks.
So May 1st, basically the tickets will be on sale for
anyone. Ticket prices that are up there
right now are last year. So do not buy your tickets right
now or you'll be buying last year's tickets and you'll have
to go back in time on the Opti time machine to attend the
conference. And you're, you're talking about
everybody's like, you know, the panels, the mining panel, which
CJ Wilson did a great job on and Mel Central, I haven't seen any
of this guys. So I mean, I literally have seen
5 minutes here, 5 minutes there. So I will be cutting up all
those videos and start watching them in a few days.
So I'm excited to see how it turned out and how great
everybody's talks were. I heard Mel's.
I heard the same thing. You're just saying Mel's intro
was was great. I heard that the mining panels
were great. I I thought NVK and Rockstar did
a great job at the end wrapping it up.
I had a lot of compliments on the workshops, which I have to
give creds out to Santos. Santos handled the whole
workshop and the build a Thon. Our first build a thon, which
Michael Tidwell won. You know Tidwell is going to win
whether they had to cheat or not.
He's going to take that. I mean, I'm just, I'm just going
with my casino, like the theme there.
I'm giving Tidwell a hard time. He definitely didn't cheat.
Oh God, I heard the, I heard the.
Casino night was crazy a lot and put everything on 21, the
roulette table and he hit the 21 and.
He had so many, he had so many raffle tickets.
You know, my my concern was I was going, Oh my gosh, he's
going to win everything and everybody's going to be all
pissed off at him. But he gave them all away, which
was great. I should have known better than
to give him a heads up as to what could happen.
But yeah, I think, you know, that Casino night, that's our
third year for Casino night. And I fought it and I thought, I
thought it was stupid and I my wife wanted to do it and then we
did it and everybody loved it. And that's one of the things
they kept saying, are you doing casino night next year?
So that is a staple of bitblock boom.
It's casino night and it's included in your general mission
pass. So it's kind of like a a really
good deal. Yeah, And and you get, you get
Gary Bucks, right. I didn't see your face.
I didn't see your face on the Gary Bucks this year.
I was disappointed. Yeah, The Ocean was a sponsor
for Casino Night, so. We found that one.
There, yeah, I I think my face is seen enough and it's not that
good looking at 70. So you know, I try not to be
appearing any more than I have to at 70, you know?
I I love the Gary Bucks. Anyway, Gary, I have a request.
Is it OK if me and Opti live stream from the middle of the
lake next year? Oh, I don't know.
It sounds good to me. If you get you a boat and get
out there, is that the hotel for next year I'm seeing here?
Yes. I had no idea.
That on the website I'm guessing.
I'm guessing this looks like a vibe.
Well, I came in the hotel from the other side and just walked
around the lobby and the the ballrooms we'll use.
You know, the thing about a hotel, you know, in case you
haven't been the bit block boom, is doing a conference at a hotel
is that you're like forced to hang out with all these
bitcoiners. I mean, whether you want to or
not, you're actually forced to get up when you have your coffee
come down for coffee. See all these bitcoiners down
there? And you're forced when you have
dinner to hang out with a bunch of bitcoiners.
And you're forced when you're taking a break and sitting in a
chair. So it makes you network with
bitcoiners instead of going, OK, I went to the conference, it's
5:00, I'm going home, going to bed, going out to dinner by
myself. I mean, really guys, Don't we,
like, stay together? Like, the whole from the time
you get there? Basically, till the time you
leave Sunday afternoon, you're hanging out with bitcoiners
24/7. Except, I guess when you go to
bed. But some people don't.
They just hang out downstairs all damn night.
Yeah. Yeah, now.
And that's where the lobby con was born.
And I remember it was. The year of the.
Pandemic and they had all these, but of course, you know Florida
and Texas stayed free somewhat and you know the Bitcoin has
just took over the lobby, you know, and it was it was it was
like a conference in the lobby of that hotel, which is really
cool. You know, in the hotel it was
scheduled at was two blocks up the street.
They called us two weeks before the conference and said they
were shutting down the hotel for COVID.
So, you know, when you got a conference coming in and have
all these people coming from everywhere, I mean, literally
everywhere and you get called that your hotel is closing two
weeks before the conference, that's kind of damn rough.
That's kind of damn rough. But we still pulled it off,
which I was excited about. So that worked out good.
And yeah, Mel, you did hang out and eat my coconut shrimp, and
that was good coconut shrimp, actually.
Yeah, it was. It was, it was it was.
It was a great event. It was.
It was a good time to kind of go back there and then I'm really
excited for this new venue next year.
Someone posted about sailor's boat.
You know, I want to make sure, Michael.
I want to make sure you know, I'm still waiting for $100,000
because I want the party that's going to be on the boat.
Michael and Eric, you know what I'm talking about here.
So don't be forgetting me on the list.
Kathy and I, we talked about this years ago.
All right, go, go. Go ahead.
No, I was just going to say I was over at Sailor's house one
time. Kathy and I were having brunch
with him and Michael, and it was right after he made that post
that he would have a party on his yacht if Bitcoin hit 100 and
said, wow, it looks like we're going to be having that party
lately. And this is when Bitcoin was
like 65. And he goes, yeah, I really
didn't. I think Eric might have said,
yeah, he didn't really expect Bitcoin and be moving up so
fast. He thought he had a few years to
get ready for this. Party.
You got your few years, Michael. I just want to make sure I'm on
the list. Man, that's hilarious, Opti.
Yeah, I was just going to give Gary Gary do like a TLDR of why
people should come to Bitlock boom next year.
And then I I do kind of want to touch on Bitcoin boomers because
we get a lot of we get a lot of Flack for always being
hyperbolic on boomers. So first and foremost do TLDR,
why should people come to Bitlock Boom.
And then I'd like to do a little PSA to the boomers out there
with you. Well, you know, I had so many
people this year told me this was the first conference they've
ever been to. And I guess that's going to
happen more and more as we get to as Bitcoin grows and more new
people come into it. But really, I think you said it
best earlier, better than I can ever say it.
And it's actually what I was hoping for.
Bitlock Boom has turned into a family reunion of people you get
to see once a year. Maybe you're lucky and you see
them twice a year, but for the most part, you might see these
people once a year. I mean, if you are a bitcoiner
that's a seasoned Bitcoin and you're living in South Dakota,
just taking a state at random, you probably don't get to
network with a lot of people that you feel your peers that
you you feel are with you there. So that is why you need to come
to Bitlock Boom. Not only to make these friends,
but to have a group that you know every year you can come
back and see so many people come back every year.
It's mind boggling. I was looking at the emails list
today, clearing outs and stuff and how many people had been
there four years, five years, six years, seven years.
It's it's literally amazing. People do come back and if you
come you will enjoy it and you will come back, you know.
And the thing I do want to say about Bit Block Boom is when
someone comes to speak on the stage, a Bit Block Boom, they
don't come in the back and all of a sudden they're on the stage
and then they leave out the back and you never see them again.
At Bit Block Boom. They'll roll behind the stage.
They're sitting out in the audience, you know, and then
they roll up on. It's like Bob Burnett sitting
there watching the show. And he gets that when it's his
turn to speak and goes backstage, and when he's
through, comes back in the audience and sits down.
So these people are not like, treated like, oh, we got to make
sure no one has time to talk to you or no one bothers you.
We want people bothering them and talking to them and they
know that at Bit Block Boom. So not only do you get to see
people that you watch on YouTube or maybe read their books or
whatever, you get to actually interact with them, meet with
them. And that's the thing.
I think one of the things that makes it different for us than
other conferences that are they're they're bigger
conferences is you don't actually get to meet these
people. They're kind of kept away from
you. I I think that's a big deal.
Love it. Love it.
OK, look. Perfect comment here by Robert.
He's a he, he watches our show all the time.
He's like, you people scare the boomers away.
Come to us, boomers. We welcome your people.
So guys, we love our Bitcoin boomers.
Gary's a friend, a personal friend to us.
So we're we're hyperbolic here. But Gary, if there happens to be
a boomer out there that's on the fence.
What's a message you like to get across to the boomers out there
that are thinking about Bitcoin? Well, you know, and and and you
got to realize boomers are coming from a different place
than everybody else here. They didn't even have computers
when they were in high school, you know, and many of them would
not have a computer now if it wasn't for a phone that they
carry around. So they definitely are not as
technologically advanced as everyone else.
But you know, really, if you're a boomer, you need to start
start throwing 123 percent in there.
I mean, Oh my gosh, if if you're sitting there and you've been
working your whole life, building at this retirement
fund, going, Oh my gosh, I finally have it, I can die and
give it to my kids. Well, if that's your goal, let's
really pump it and give it to your kids and throw some Bitcoin
in there and pump it and give it to your kids.
I'm telling you, this is to me and this is my humble opinion,
it's going to kill everything. Bitcoin going to kill
everything. And all the models now are
broken, I believe with this happening, I think everything
will be broken this time. And I do believe on.
I do agree with a lot of the pricing that I hear predicting,
but you have to get off your ass, figure this out, you know,
And boomers, you know, think about boomers is they all wake
up every day, look in the mirror and they know they're a boomer.
So people act like you can't say the word boomer to them.
They aren't surprised. They see this every day.
You know, no matter how they feel when they wake up within 10
minutes, they know they're a boomer.
So feel comfortable calling them boomers.
And if they can't take it, they just need to shut the fuck up.
I love it. I love it.
All right, Gary, let's give you last moment here.
What's the last message you want to leave with the audience?
Stack sats, stack sats, stack sats.
And if you want to come to bit block boom and talk about
stacking sats, that'd be cool too.
But stack sats, that's the most important thing that's more
important than coming to bit block boom is stacking sats.
Do you stacking a sats? You'll be able to come and bring
your entire family and all your friends with you to bitlock.
Boom Soon. I I love that.
Yeah, Wise wise words. Wise words, wise words.
Anyways, Gary, thank you so much for joining us on the show
today. Really, really appreciate it.
Guys, check out Bitlock Boom. The tickets are going to go
going to go live soon to buy Bitlock Boom 2024 May 1st.
So we'll give you guys a reminder when they go live and
pretty sure that you can use promo code.
Simply Bitcoin will give you a discount and hope to see you
guys next year. Gary, thank you so much for
joining us. Really, really appreciate it.
Like always. Thank you.
Thank you always. Look forward to seeing you all
soon. Absolutely.
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