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state. We are back in our studios.
It was a crazy week in Los Angeles, CA at the Pacific
Bitcoin Festival. Opti was holding it down
backstage, doing a bunch of interviews you should be
dropping. Some of those very, very soon.
We got some pretty, pretty big names.
I think the one with Preston was dropped over the weekend, but
yeah, it was a whole lot of fun. I can't recommend Bitcoin
festivals and conferences the mo more because that's really where
you're going to find those, like in real life connections, right?
There's you can't replace that. You know as much as you know.
You interact on Bitcoin Twitter, you go on YouTube, and you watch
your favorite bitcoiners. When you meet in real life,
there's something special about it.
We're going to go to one more conference this year, the
unconfiscable conference thrown by Tone Base and Co in December
of this year. Hope to see you guys there.
Opti and I are going to be, we're going to be holding it
down. We'll probably have a news desk
and and such. So it's going to be a whole lot
of fun. Anyways, today we're going to
talk about. The one, the only, the most
popular broadcaster on planet Earth, 11,000,000 views and
listens per episode. We're going to talk about the
man, the myth, the legend himself, Joe Rogan.
And Joe Rogan is something that we've covered tremendously on
this show because he is someone that is outside of the Bitcoin
echo chamber, right? So it's like when Lex Friedman
had Michael Saylor on his show when.
Tucker back when he was on legacy media, when he had Diane
Bokele, Max Kaiser, Matt Odell, Sorry, Marty Bent.
Michael Saylor on on, you know on his show Tucker Carlson
tonight to Tucker Carlson today. Those are the things that
really, really shift the Overton window.
Those are the things that really break the over break the Bitcoin
echo chamber. And for anyone who doesn't know
what the Bitcoin echo chamber is.
Is a lot of people don't understand is Bitcoin content
creators are making content for other bitcoiners, but that's not
going to move the envelope. How do you get to that
intransigent minority of bitcoiners in the US?
How do you get to that point where you break the Bitcoin echo
chamber? You get non bitcoiners to talk
about Bitcoin, to embrace the Bitcoin ethos, and to ask one
very simple question. Which is, why am I being forced
to use the money that steals from me?
Why am I used being forced through legal tender laws to use
the money that loses purchasing power over time?
The more people ask that question, the harder it is it's
going to be for them. They don't have a good response
to that question. They ostrich it.
They just put their head in the ground.
They're like, look, it's a fact of life.
This is Mother Nature. Money has to have inflation.
But the thing about Bitcoin? That is a problem for them is
that Bitcoin does not go away. They can't make it go away.
So because they're they can't make it go away there.
They have to compete with it. And on A and and on a
competition level, when you, when you, when people have a
choice between a money that is deflationary, increases in
purchasing power over time, money that is censorship
resistant versus money that is censored at the whim of a
bureaucrat. And money that is inflationary,
meaning it loses purchasing power over time.
Over time, people are going to choose the better money.
And that's just a fact. So the only thing they really
have left is narrative, propaganda, spin and
misrepresentations. That's why you're seeing the
high production value videos coming out of the I MF.
Explaining to you what inflation is without with with
conveniently leaving the fact that inflation is literally
caused because governments print money that they don't have and
of course they have to leave that part out.
Or when Christine Lagarde is blaming inflation on, on, or
better said, the European Central Bank is blaming
inflation on workers asking for more money for more
compensation. Right.
So. That is literally examples of
them gaslighting you. That is literally examples of
them trying to throw you off and saying, hey, we're not
responsible for this, it's everything and anything but
ourselves. We did not cause this and that
is why people like Joe Rogan are so important when they start
asking questions about Bitcoin. This is why people like Tim
Poole when he says his comments about Bitcoin are so important.
Because these are non bitcoiners.
These are, these are these are broadcasters and podcasters that
have garnered massive audiences that are non bitcoiners.
And when you're exposing them to the solution to a lot of the
political mishaps, a lot of the political discourse, a lot of
the a lot of the political division, because that's what
Bitcoin is. It's a solution to these
problems. It's a solution that is not a
voting solution. It's a big deal and I think Joe
Rogan is almost there and we have a clip for you guys to
prove just that. Anyways, I want to bring up my
legendary cohost. He's traveling at the moment.
He's he's still in Cali, Opti's in Cali.
How you doing Opti? Yeah, what's up guys?
I Nico rug pulled you guys. I'm not back at the home studio.
I'm actually at my parents house so I'm I'm in my dad's office
right now. But hey, the show goes on.
We will still get you guys all the signal but on that note
guys, I was telling everyone this.
I just told everyone in spaces as well.
We are live on on Twitter spaces this week.
It's so it was so good to see all you guys because Nico and I
just ran into a computer and you know we're just friends that ran
to do the computer and we forget that there's people out there
that enjoy what we're doing and the amount of just kind things
people were telling us all week. It was it is just really kind
man and and it really kind of just makes us want to work
harder and and keep giving you guys a show that you enjoy and
give you guys content that you guys want to watch want to
continue to come on and hang out with us.
And it's just man, like I I see people showing love in the chat
and it's just it was good to see you guys.
We'll see you guys again. But yeah on that note not the
same studio there might be dogs barking my my my family dogs go
crazy sometimes so I'll do my best to minimize all the
auxiliary noise and all that stuff but hey show goes on.
I think we're going to have a good show today and I'm pretty
excited about today and just getting back to work and you go,
especially when you're throwing me curveballs all weekend, bro.
It's so much more simple when you just come on the show,
simply Bitcoin and do what we normally do.
It's almost like we're professionals over here, bro.
Yeah, almost. Almost.
Maybe. Maybe so.
Anyways, no more delay. I wanna bring up our very
special guest. Vendetta E is the founder of the
Bitcoin way. And they essentially they're,
they're your on ramp. They help you, you know, if you
want to set up your cold storage, you know basically it's
customer service. If if you are, you know, if you
haven't been exposed to Bitcoin yet, the Bitcoin way guys will
definitely, you know, hand hold you through the process.
So Vendetta, thank you so much for for for joining us today.
Appreciate you bro. It's my pleasure, man.
Thank you for having me. And if anyone who doesn't know,
his actual name isn't Vendetta, but he does have a rose next to
his handle and stuff. And I know that his favorite
movie is V for Vendetta, so it is in my nature to give
nicknames when I see fit. And yeah, man, why is V for
Vendetta your favorite movie? I feel like that's another
Bitcoin movie just as The Matrix.
V for Vendetta? Absolutely, man.
It it's a direct reflection of what's been going on for the
past three to five years. The totalitarian nightmare that
we've been living through has been put into the movie.
One of the best sellers and I've watched this movie like
countless times, never gets boring.
You watch that movie and you sort of see your life in real
time how it plays out and hopefully it ends the same way.
100 percent, 100%. It is a very, very reminiscent
of the times and also, you know, I think it's also a shot.
It's like a it's a foreshadowing, it's a warning,
you know of of how things can get.
People get scared. Governments use that.
People get people getting scared to justify taking away the
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At the time of recording, the Bitcoin price is 27,450 sats per
dollar, 3644 block height 811,396 blocks to having 28,604
having estimate April 21st, 2024 total Lightning network capacity
5232 Bitcoin. Capacity Value 143,000,000 U.S.
dollars Realize monetary inflation 1.74% The market
capitalization of Bitcoin $534 billion The be Bitcoin versus
gold market cap 4.27% In the grand scheme of things, Bitcoin
is still a baby. My favorite statistic out of all
this is a 1.74% because it continues to embarrass Fiat
currencies. And you know, as the havings
come and this just this number just keeps on going down, it's
just going to continue highlighting the fact that
Bitcoin is just better money. More importantly, before I play
you guys to Joe Rogan clip that money can exist and work just
fine without inflation and that is good.
That is something that governments don't want you to
know because as soon as that gets out of the bag.
Governments are going to have a really hard time explaining
that. Because remember, governments
use the money printer to pay for things they cannot afford to pay
for without the money printer, without creating money for free
that everyone else has to work for their only way of raising
funds. Is through direct taxation.
And if it's through direct taxation, all of a sudden the
incentives align with politicians because all all of a
sudden they're they're incentivized not to get as close
as humanly possible to the money spigot.
They're incentivized to actually do good by their constituents so
that they can remain in power and also so that they can, you
know, potentially raise funds to pay for whatever idea they, you
know, they see fit. So anyways, here is the clip
from Joe Rogan from The Joe Rogan Experience.
Here's the Bitcoin mindset saying Joe Rogan is almost there
time for Sailor to be on the podcast.
Jimmy Song did an episode and he was questioning like, hey like
why isn't Sailor? You know why hasn't Sailor been
invited? Why hasn't a prominent bitcoiner
been invited, especially after everything that's been going on,
whether that's Nine Boo Kelly and El Salvador Michael Sailor
choosing Bitcoin as an alternative to cash?
To holding Bitcoin on on his balance sheet you know and and
Bitcoin mindset ask a very basic question very simple question
which is like you know like what's going on here like why
isn't you know like you know like you know why.
Why is Why is Sailor? Why hasn't Sailor been invited?
On the Joe Rogan Podcast? Jimmy Song did a great post and
he went into a lot of the the multitudes of reasons, right?
Whether that is, you know, the fact that he'll get peer
pressure not only to bring a bitcoiner on the podcast, but
also a shit coiner. To kind of placate both sides,
maybe the heat that comes from it, remember when Elon Musk
allowed Tesla to be to accept Bitcoin as payment?
He kind of reversed that decision real quick.
And he said we're not going to, we're not going to change course
until it's proven that 50% of Bitcoin mining is, you know,
powered by renewable energies. Well, we're currently sitting,
according to the latest Cambridge report, we're
currently sitting at 56%. Of Bitcoin mining is currently
powered by renewable energies. Looks like Elon hasn't changed
of course. So I think that there's a lot of
pressure on Elon a lot of pressure on Joe Rogan because
they're so influential because they're big.
They're out of the Bitcoin echo chamber.
I think that their whole, their, with their words hold a lot of
weight. And if you don't believe me,
look at what happened with Russell Brand right as soon as
he, you know, started touting. Things that were, you know, not
necessarily the friendliest towards governments in the UK.
The UK government, literally the parliament of the UK, literally
asked Rumble to demonetize Russell Brand.
So these independent content creators that governments are
having a hard time coopting because they are independent.
Yeah man, as soon as they start asking that question, hey, why
are we being forced to use the money that steals from us?
Once that is out, once most people are asking that question,
it's game over. It's game, set and match.
Anyways. Let's play the clip by Joe
Rogan. I mean the the real fascinating
crypto is Bitcoin to me. I mean that's the one that I
think has the most likely possibility of becoming.
A universal viable currency, And it's.
You know, it's limited in the amount that there can be.
It's, you know, you people mind it with their own.
It's like that to me is very fascinating and I love the fact
that it's been implemented and that at least something like
I've had Andreas Antonopoulos on the podcast and he's when he
talks about it, he's living it. He's spending all of his.
Everything he has paid is in Bitcoin.
He pays his rent in Bitcoin. Everything he does is in
Bitcoin. So again, he's getting so close.
He's so close. Tim Pool by the way, very, very
similar wording. They're so close.
And again, the reason that we focus on these like you know,
large non Bitcoin related figures is because they're large
non Bitcoin related figures. They're outside of the Bitcoin
echo chamber. It's people like Joe Rogan that
have the ability to move the Overton window.
Outside the grasp of Captured media, I would say government
media, Parker Lewis, when we did an simply Bitcoin IRL, you know,
I said hey, like why is the corporate media doing this?
And he he stopped me and he said no, Nico is not the corporate
media, this is government media. So yeah, it's outside the grass.
We had an article that was released by the BBC last week
that literally said that, you know.
Inflation is not a tax, You know, so clearly, you know, they
they they're used to controlling the information flows.
And the Internet is just kind of throwing a wrench in that.
And now it's giving the ability for anyone to just spin up a
podcast. You know, create a Twitter
account, communicate directly with their audience, right?
Without the without the need of an intermediary.
Anyways, now this is my take to it.
I tweeted this out I think it was yesterday and it connected
with a lot of people and I think it really connects with what Joe
Rogan has to say. I said go on offense, force
them. To answer a simple question, why
are we being forced to use the money that steals from us?
If enough of the populace is aware of this, we will win 100%
agree. Not only not only is if is if
enough of the populace is aware of this.
It's also if enough of the populace is aware of it, and
also buying Bitcoin and also taking that Bitcoin into self
custody. That is how things change.
This is not a voting thing. Voting is like you're voting
either political party, you vote into power.
The issue remains the same. There's a bureaucratic elite
that gets create money for free that everyone else has to work
for, and that completely misaligns the incentives of the
ruling class and the rest the you know, the rest of us.
Right. So you really do have to fix the
money. If you fix the root problem, if
you fix the base layer of society, I suspect a lot of
these issues, whether there's social issues, cultural issues,
I think they will literally just go away.
Anyways, Opti, what's your take on this?
And then we'll move on to Vendetta.
Yeah. So first and foremost, of
course, it's Bitcoin. Not crypto.
We we we say that all the time. Like there's Bitcoin in the shit
coins. And I I I'm just, I'm loving the
fact that Joe Rogan's having this conversation with Sam
Altman the world coin scam guy and chat GB T guy and he's just
like, yeah, Nah, like there's Bitcoin and then the shit coin.
And of course I'm sure people out there and I didn't really
see people's response to this since we were busy over the
weekend. But I'm sure people out there
kind of still saying the same thing.
They always say it's like oh why isn't Joe Rogan talking about
Bitcoin more And it's like guys, that's not really his job.
Like that's our job to talk about Bitcoin.
But he's saying what we say all the time.
You know, like there's only one viable quote UN quote crypto and
that is Bitcoin and it's because it's hard cap.
It is censorship resistant and I'm really glad that he did
mention Andreas on Tonopolis because like Nico and I both
have a, you know, a soft spot for Andreas.
He's the reason why we became bitcoiners in the 1st place.
I'm pretty sure we both saw Andreas videos and like that's
like when we first got into Bitcoin and then we're like, Oh
my God, this is incredible. And what Andreas was on Joe
Rogan like, I don't know, five years ago, six years ago or
something and hasn't been on since.
And I think going forward in this bull run, we will see a lot
more Bitcoiners coming on the show.
And I think it's just going to be like part of the zeitgeist
that Joe Rogan will bring them on.
I'm I'm pretty sure Joe Rogan is still confirmed to be holding
some coin. He is definitely, in my opinion,
already a Bitcoiner. There's a lot of overlapping
ideologies and hobbies that he likes with bitcoiners.
But again, I just don't think it's his job to necessarily just
only show Bitcoin like he's he's it's just like a world podcast.
He talks about all interesting stuffs around the world and
that's why we do our show. But he is going to be doing a
disservice to his audience if he doesn't bring bitcoiners on.
Because when it gets frothy again in the bull run, there's
going to be so many people that get just like, you know,
bamboozled going into the shit coin runs.
I'm sure we're going to see another shit coin season coming
up, and so I'd much prefer to see bitcoiners go on the show
and give that pure signal, whether it's sailor or Safe Dean
or, you know, like I'd love to see Eric Cason and Joe Rogan.
Like you know just just or breathe love even like having
these bitcoins go on the show I think would do a mega service to
his audience. But I mean Joe Rogan said what
they're gonna say anyways like he already said it you know
Bitcoin can't be stopped. It is hard cap.
It's the only viable crypto in the space and so in my opinion
he gets it. It's just like it's not really
his job to just go around and and just be like, you know, I
know we all want the like Joe Rogan DMT moment where he's just
sitting there like mind blown, like Oh my God, really like this
is incredible. I think we will get that moving
forward. And I I just think it's about
bitcoiners. Not necessarily working on our
narrative per se, but just maybe being a little patient and then
kind of understanding where Joe Rogan is and what his audience
wants and then angling the Bitcoin message in there.
And we talk about this all the time like This is why we do our
show. This is why we are simply
Bitcoin is so that we can constantly cover Daily News on
Bitcoin. And you know not saying that we
will be Joe Rogan in the future, but like This is why we designed
our show a certain way so that we can potentially start to give
good media for for the average person out there.
And so I think it's only a matter of time until we get
really good bitcoiners on the show again.
Where are the depths of a bear market right now guys?
So like no one but us cares about Bitcoin at this point and
so it's just a blessing and and I guess low key occurs so like
we build stuff out Joe you can say in the quiet part out loud.
I keep saying that I think Bitcoin has crossed the Rubicon
into mainstream consciousness. I'm I'm like I know it's not
actual facts but I'm I'm almost convinced that pretty much
everyone in the world has heard about Bitcoin.
They've got their first couple touches and it's only a matter
of time until they get the next touches and they start getting
involved in Bitcoin. Especially when number starts to
go up again, everyone's gonna catch the FOMO and it's just
gonna get crazy. So shouts at the Joe Rogan, I'm
pretty sure that he's seeing what we're seeing, especially
he's been covering Cbdc's digital ID systems like he's
knows what's going on as well. And he, you know, has been a
quote, UN quote conspiracy theorist for a long time.
So I am almost positive he is looking for solutions.
It's just a matter of time until he's fully on board and just
like shilling Bitcoin wallets and stuff.
So I think there's help moving forward.
But again, I I just don't think it is Joe Rogan's job to be just
a constant Bitcoin show like we are.
It. It's just the the way of the
beast. And so I think slowly but surely
he will have more of these conversations because again, we
say it all the time and and I really do believe this, like
most people know what the problem is or most people like
in Joe Rogan's position understand what the problem is.
It's just they don't fully know that the solution is to fix the
money. And so as we fix the money, as
we separate money from state, as we take away the money printer
from these war mongers out there like the world will slowly but
surely start to fix itself. And Joe Rogan will have that
mind blown moment and we can meme it and I'm sure we will
parade around it. But again, Bitcoin is bigger
than any one person. But I do like to see these
efforts of content creators, of popular content creators
breaking the echo chamber. Because that's all we're doing
here guys, is trying to get Bitcoin outside of the small
community that we are on Twitter or even off of Twitter.
Like Bitcoin global adoption numbers are just minuscule and
and I'm just convinced Bitcoin is the best money and it just
blows my mind that more people aren't bitcoiners.
So shouts out to people like Joe Rogan that are having these
conversations and it's only going to get stronger as we move
forward. So just just awesome to see.
100% What's your take? Vendetta.
Oh, sorry, I had you made it jump again.
Absolutely agree with everything you say.
Bitcoin is the future 100%. I'm totally convinced of this.
And the more I see things get progressively worse around the
globe, the more it solidifies the the belief that sooner or
later, even the most resistant human being is going to
understand that they cannot continue living in a world where
their money is controlled by someone else who has this
delusion, this grandeur of wanting to play God to control
what you do with it. That's not what money should be,
and no one should be subjected to any of it.
You work for your money, You do. You decide what you do with it.
It's not up to anyone else to tell you what's right and what's
wrong. That must stop.
And Bitcoin was created specifically to put an end to
this nonsense. You know, preservation of
wealth. 100% Wait, wait, Nico, how's this comment right here?
Skip on down the road. Jamie, bring up that video of
the bear fighting the Bitcoin. I can't wait till we have Joe
Rogan bringing up memes on his show with Jamie.
Ready. Bring up that Bitcoin.
Oh man, dude, that, that that is going to be hilarious.
We got to manifest that. Just manifest that into reality.
What Bitcoin meme are is going to be featured on the Joe Rogan
experience first, first? Oh man, that's gonna be that's
gonna be great. It's gonna be glorious.
But yeah, no listen guys, in all seriousness, people like Joe
Rogan, people like Lex Friedman. I know a lot of people dislike
Lex Friedman, cuz he brought metallic on people like.
People like Tim Poole, right? They're so important.
Russell Brand, they're so important in this movement
because they're out of the corporate media or how Parker
Lewis said. The government media sphere of
influence. So they're not bought and paid
for so to speak. And when they talk about a lot
of, when they talk about Bitcoin, it holds a lot more
weight than when we talk about Bitcoin.
We are. If you think about it, they're
at the tippity top of that funnel.
We're like. We're pretty close to the top of
the funnel because we're not a technical podcast, we're an
entertainment focus podcast, but or show better said.
But yeah, that those guys are like, you know, I bet you Tim
Poole minted a crap ton of bitcoiners the moment he said.
You see all this stuff that's going on with banks F that I'm
going to Bitcoin, right? So we need more of that.
That's how we win the race to avoid the war.
That's how we win this. You know, that's how we awaken
people to the reality and the dangers of central bank digital
currencies because people are not aware of that.
They're they're asleep, right. It's not that they don't like
it. It's not that that most people
are, are you know, are just inherently like.
Yeah, like. So, you know, totalitarianism,
this is great. They're just low information.
Like they are not informed. And the information that they do
get, they get it from captured corporate media, right.
So it really falls down to you, the individual, you know, of
course we're doing our bit, but it falls down to you to really
spread the orange gospel and really tell them, hey guys, it's
not left first right, it's. It's not left first right, it's.
It's you know, it's not left first, right?
It's orange verse green. All right, everybody, let's get
to the culture. Let's do this the daily culture.
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All right guys, we're going to jump right into the culture.
We got Vendetta, Twitter is V for BTC.
Go follow him. He works with Bitcoin way they
sponsored the Clips channel. If you guys are watching the
clips with Dow and Ruston, then you guys have heard them
already. And Vendetta, I asked Dow and
Ruston if they had some questions for you guys.
And I think first and foremost, let's just start with what is
the Bitcoin way and what is your goal and then we'll get into
some of their questions that the they thought would be very
fitting for you to answer. Sure thing, man.
Well, the Bitcoin, what you think of us is like the IT team
in the Bitcoin space. I mean, we come from over 25
years of cybersecurity, encryption and privacy and bring
a lot of that knowledge, you know, into the Bitcoin space of
which I've been in for a little over five years.
So our mission, our objective is to fast track the onboarding of
anyone into Bitcoin self custody properly and securely and we
hand hold them through the entire process.
So whether it's cold wallets, nodes, how to buy, no KYC,
Bitcoin inheritance planning, integrating Bitcoin payments
into your business, you name it, we cover it all and we make it a
BC easy for anyone to to learn during the process.
But we we take care of the technical stuff for them.
So those that are, you know, that are nervous approaching
this because of the tech. Well, we do our best to remove
that anxiety that usually becomes associated with it.
Love it. Yeah.
I think when we first talked, I had this epiphany and I might
have brought it on the show 1 day.
I went to the Apple store with one of my friends and I was
looking at the Apple care team like the I, I T team and I'm
like wow, like Bitcoin really does need some kind of like
Apple Care IT team. And I was like, oh wait like we
are that Apple Care like we are the IT team and OK, all right.
Anyways, that that's just me blowing my own mind.
Anyways, Dow asked me to ask you if someone called you vendetta
and they were like, look, I don't know anything about
Bitcoin, Can you help me? Where would you start?
What would you tell them? Well, the 1st 30 minutes are
free in any call when when anybody calls us.
So we usually start just by getting to know one another, you
know, to understand you know what it is that every individual
knows where they stand, you know, on the Bitcoin journey and
we just have a casual conversation, you know, to see
what how much FUD are they coming with or whether they
actually know anything to to begin with.
Then we. We explain to them the process
of why Bitcoin is important so that they get into it, you know,
for the right reasons. We absolutely do not want
someone to go into Bitcoin, you know, with the purpose of
selling it. When the price goes up to sell
it back out into toilet paper, you know, that's not what this
is about. So we ensure that they have
fundamental understanding of where the value of Bitcoin is
and what it really represents, and then we guide them through
the steps necessary. I mean, we do things by phases
just to break down the process because we don't want to hit
individuals with a tsunami of information at once.
So we usually start with the explanation around the cold
wallet, which is absolutely necessary step one for any
Bitcoin. And once that's done and set up
properly, the default for us is an air gap set up so the device
itself never goes online. Once that's handled, you know,
we move on to the Bitcoin node. And that's a big one because
most Bitcoin most bitcoiners don't even realize that they
need one. And we push that very strongly
because you are neither 100% private or sovereign if you
don't have a node. It's almost like having a house
with no roof. The node is a must because
obviously it adds to the decentralization and strength of
the overall, you know, Bitcoin network, but more specifically.
It makes every individual private, whereas you're not
leaving fingerprints of your Bitcoin activities all over the
place. You may not be thinking about
this as a big deal now you know, as bitcoins 27,000.
But I can assure you, once Bitcoin goes parabolic and
becomes worth millions of dollars, you're going to wish
you had a node and had not left, you know, your trail of
activities all over the place. So privacy is a very big deal
and we make sure you know that people understand this.
And once that's done, like we move on to explain what are the
benefits between for learning how to buy no KYC Bitcoin.
We help people through the process, we set them up with the
proper wallets in case they have own Bitcoin already, which is
most of the time is KYC. So we create no separate wallets
for that, Keep the funds separate.
Explain to them why they should never mix them.
Get them involved in coin joins. You know if if privacy is a big
concern for them, we really go deep but bit by bit that's
that's the key for us. You know we we don't bombard
them all at once. It's it's really a hand holding
process, individualized and personalized and customized for
everyone so that everyone's always at ease throughout the
entire journey. Love it, OK?
On that note, you you have been kind of talking about privacy
and stuff, I think maybe out there.
There's usually a few cynics in the chat.
What would you respond to them saying that there is some kind
of moral hazard while you're guiding people setting up their
wallets and all that stuff? Like what is your incentive not
to necessarily rug pull some of your individuals out there?
We can't rug pull anyone. It's technically impossible
because we control nothing. In fact, we just announced a new
service today. I'll he'll be the first to hear
about it is that we're now offering collaborative custody.
We in order to maintain the standard of Bitcoin custody and
we've strategically, you know partnered up with Nunchuck which
is you know very popular Bitcoin wallet on that front.
And now, due to heavy demand on this, we are doing collaborative
custody, but in a way that keeps the individual 100% in the
driver's seat. We cannot do anything as a
company. All we are is think of us as
sort of like a backup to one of your keys in case whatever
happens to it, you lose it, you know, and so forth.
So that's we've been getting a lot of, you know, people asking
for these things. I'm a very big proponent of self
custody. I don't believe anyone's too
stupid to learn it. It's just a lot of it makes a
lot of people nervous because of the tech and you know, we we
guide them through the process to make the tech easy to grasp.
That being said, there's still a heavy demand for those, you
know, that sort of want the Peace of Mind knowing that just
in case, you know, they make a mistake along the way that
someone can help. And for that reason, you know,
we we we put out the collaborative custody package
now where we can definitely hold a backup key for anyone.
It's a multi sig setup, so that automatically upgrades your
single sig configuration to something technically much more
secure. But without reducing your level
of control over your keys, the Bitcoin weight cannot send or
withdraw anything from anyone. The individual always maintains
both keys, so without them nothing happens.
And that's something that, you know, we emphasize very heavily
so that everyone knows that when you're in self custody, you're
the boss, but at the same time, the onus of responsibility is on
you. This is why education and
understanding this process is critical.
You know, guarding your yourself custody set up is something you
should, you know you should be guarding it with your life
because at some point it's going to become so valuable.
And if you want to pass it on to some loved ones, well you know
you need to have a fundamental understanding of this and so do
they. And so we were very active in
that process as well to ensure that everyone coming to us from
anywhere. At any at any stage, whether
you're a technical person or not, it doesn't matter.
We will guide you. We will fine tune your setup.
Cybersecurity best tips and practices are like a de facto
thing that we that we, you know, integrate for everyone.
I mean, essentially we help you become a ghost.
So ghost, you know, we have no point of attack.
Well, then you're safer than you were when you started.
And like all of these things, they happen through
conversations to understand, you know, each one's needs, You know
what they know, what they don't know, what they're comfortable
with, what they're not comfortable with.
And by the end of that conversation, we're usually able
to strike a balance between security and usability.
And most individuals that we've worked with so far have been
extremely happy with, with the result.
They've come from knowing nothing to, you know, feeling as
comfortable as using a credit card when it comes to Bitcoin.
And that's a win in our book. Love.
It yeah, 100%. I say it all the time, you know
at first before you take self custody it it seems so daunting.
It's it's so terrifying. And then now after years it's
like it's like sending an e-mail.
So on that note, Vendetta maybe for someone that is new watching
this show still has the coins on the exchange.
Why is self custody the revolution?
Why do they need to take self custody and maybe persuade them
that it's not as terrifying as they might be thinking self
custody is? Absolutely not terrifying.
I mean, it's just new. That's all it is.
And you know, like anything, I mean driving a car, you have to
learn it. No one was born a driver.
So it's just another skill that you have to learn.
Leaving your money on exchange is no different than leaving
your money on a bank. It does not belong to you.
It can be taken away from you on a win.
And if that's not abundantly clear in the last three or five
years, well then I wouldn't recommend that you wait around
until your turn comes because it is coming.
I genuinely believe that Fiat currencies are all going to
zero. It's just a question of when it
reaches certain cities in certain countries.
It's no longer a question of if as far as I'm concerned.
So if you want any form of control over your your wealth,
preservation of your wealth, you need to have full control over
it. Leaving it in something that's
not in your hands, that's where somebody else decides what you
can and kind of do with it is is insane.
I mean, I don't know what kind of life you know you want to
live, but if anyone that wants to live with any form of.
Dignity, integrity and self value will absolutely not allow
themselves live under the dictatorship of somebody else.
And if you don't control your money, you have nothing.
You are a slave to the system and so in order not to fall into
that trap, you need to opt out. Fortunately we have Bitcoin.
It is the only exit available out there.
There is nothing else, even traditional things where people
used to preserve well, like golden real estate, those are
not safe anymore or or are not as safe as many people think.
That is a fact I've I've seen. I've seen these things stolen
from folks, legitimate folks you know too many times to to even
want to listen to that conversation anymore.
Those shilling it are not, are doing it from a financially
privileged position. They don't know what really
happens when things get really bad and when they do.
Let me tell you, anything physical is not safe unless you
have an army behind you to protect it, which 99% of the
world does not. 100% and and that's what you guys do.
That's what you guys do at the Bitcoin way.
You you you literally hand hold, hand hold, hand held or hand
hold. I can't think of the correct
terminology. Hand hold people to and and
these are essentially people that have are not familiar with
self custody. Perhaps they see self custody as
this daunting thing, which it really isn't once you get the
hang of it. I think it's a lot easier than
opening a bank account in my opinion, right?
But I could see why. If you spend the majority of
your life in the Fiat matrix and then you come to Bitcoin, you
look at that, you're like, holy cow, hell no.
This stuff is absolutely terrifying.
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Anyways, check out this article by Bitcoin Magazine or friends
over at Bitcoin Magazine. U.S. government frames Bitcoin
privacy as Criminal New document New court document reveal that
the US government frames the use of of blockchain analysis
countermeasures as criminal right and this is a continuation
of the trend. What trend right The remember
the proposed bill by Elizabeth Warren, she she's using wording
in there that would basically criminalize unhosted wallet.
What is an unhosted wallet? An unhosted wallet is anything
If you take self custody of your Bitcoin and it's not an
exchange, it's not on a brokerage, that is an unhosted
wallet, right? And why are they so hell bent on
attacking privacy? Why are they so hell bent on,
you know, attacking the right to self custody?
Well, it's obvious because it's out of their control.
And this reminds me of Before I get into the article, this
reminds me of this, this passage from The Sovereign Individual, a
book that we highly recommend that you read.
And it goes something like this. New technologies will allow
holders of wealth to bypass the national monopolies that have
issued and regulated money in the modern period.
Their importance for controlling the world's wealth will be
transcended by mathematical algorithms that have no physical
existence. In the new Millennium, cyber
money controlled by private markets will supersede Fiat
money issued by governments lacking their custom scope to
tax and inflate. Governments, even in
traditionally civil civil countries, will turn nasty.
Businesses that offer services that facilitate the realization
of autonomy by individuals will be subject to infiltration,
sabotage, and disruption. Arbitrary forfeiture of part 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.
Right? As governments continue to lose
their monopoly on the creation of money, their monopoly on
information, You know, these things start to seem crazy
because remember the there's there's literally in the US
Constitution, specifically the 4th Amendment.
It literally says no unreasonable searches and
seizures. This sounds fucking totally
unreasonable to me, doesn't it? Because that fundamentally what
is happening is they've never had competition.
More importantly, the competition that they've had in
the past, they've been able to use their monopoly on violence
to shut it down very, very quickly.
Remember what happened when Libra announced that they were
launching their own, their own currency?
This is why I believe that x.com Twitter, if it's not going to go
the way of PayPal, is eventually going to use Bitcoin because the
only currency is the only network that governments cannot
censor, that governments cannot stop, And because they can't
stop it, because they can't censor it, they're forced to
compete with it on equal footing anyways.
It goes on to say U.S. government frames Bitcoin
privacy as criminal and another unfortunate term, unfortunate
term of events for anyone hoping the right to privacy to be
protected as guaranteed by the US Constitution, the United
Nations Declaration of Human Rights, or applicable state and
federal law. The US government has argued
that the disclosure of proprietary chain analysis
heuristics information in the case US verse Sterling Sterling,
Sterling of would quote, jeopardize numerous law
enforcement investigations and impact the effectiveness of law
and face law enforcement tracing tools by enabling the
development of quote criminal countermeasures of blockchain of
blockchain analysis. Remember we saw very similar
wording when the US used North Korea as a justification to
sanction open source software that has never been done in U.S.
history. Sanctions are meant for
government. Sanctions are meant for
individual businesses or individuals.
They were never met for software.
Software is a tool, right? It's a tool.
Anyone could use it. And if you set that precedent of
being able to sanction certain open source software, you know
what else is open source software?
Bitcoin. How long until they say we can't
have Bitcoin because it's a threat to US sanction policy?
How long are they going to say we can't have Bitcoin because it
becomes incredibly hard for us to surveil things because this
is the direction that it's going.
This is the inevitable clash that Corey Clifton, CEO Swan, is
talking about in the race to avoid the war.
This is why it's so important that you take it upon yourself
to orange pill. As many people around you as
fast as possible. Don't get distracted with the
left and right. Don't get distracted with the
Republican versus Democrat or in your country, the conservative
versus liberal right. It is not.
That's not the fight. That's the divide and conquer
strategy. Get in tune with what's really
going on. It's really the party of
freedom, peace, Bitcoin, prosperity versus the party of
green. The party of nihilism, war,
poverty, destruction. That's really what's at stake
here. When I mean Bitcoin or slavery,
I'm not exaggerating. And beauty on at bit block Boom
said it even better. No, Nico, it's not Bitcoin or
slavery. It is Bitcoin or death, right?
It's very strong words, but I agree with him anyways.
It goes on to say the oath each and every U.S. government
employee pledges when first taking office reads.
I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the
Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic, that I will be that I will bear true
faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this
obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of
evasion, and that I will well and faithfully the start
discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to
enter. So help me God.
Apparently, this oath is only applicable so long.
So long it serves the US government's agenda.
While attempting to retain a protective order to seal the
disclosure of chain analysis heuristic information, the US
government has in essence, argued that the right to privacy
does not exist when transacting on the blockchain.
In the newly released court documents, the US government
defined software developed to protect individuals financial
privacy on the blockchain, such as coin joins as adversarial,
contending that the disclosure of chain analysis, training
methods and techniques bears the response a reasonable
expectation to enable circumvention of the law.
That's right, your privacy, because you're seeking privacy.
They're literally telling you because you're seeking privacy,
even though you're not committing a crime, you're
circumventing the law. This is crazy, crazy rhetoric.
This is crazy. They're telling you how they
feel about this and connect us with the wording coming out of
the Elizabeth Warren bill. Connect us with the wording that
came out of the Presidential economic report that was a hit
piece towards Bitcoin, towards non government money.
And it was, it was advocating for, you know, what central bank
digital currencies, you know what central bank digital
currencies is not going to allow.
It's not going to allow privacy. It's going to allow total
totalitarian control of your money by governments.
So they're setting the frame, They're using the rhetoric,
they're using very aggressive rhetoric to try to villainize
Bitcoin in the eyes of the uninformed.
Which is why we were talking about Joe Rogan in the very
beginning of the show, because people like Joe Rogan, they have
such a large platform, they could talk about this stuff.
In fact, he has talked about Cbdc's.
Unfortunately, the people that benefit from the Fiat money
printer, in fact their jobs depend on it, are obviously not
going to be fans of Bitcoin because that means it's the end
of the racket. It is the end of this wealth
redistribution mechanism that affects the lower and middle
classes the most because they don't have the means to save an
assets back to the back to the government and back to the very
wealthy. It's the end of the party.
So they're going to attack, they're going to attack Bitcoin
with everything they have. And This is why we have to
garner enough popular support, enough people need to be holding
Bitcoin in those said countries because we do become an
intransigent minority. At that point.
It's like, you know, all you need is like 5 to 10% of the
population that does not move on the issue and it becomes
incredibly difficult to pass anti Bitcoin legislation.
The gun lobby in the US is a great example of that.
Try passing a gun law in the US. It is incredibly difficult, if
not impossible. Why?
Because a large portion of the population loves guns.
So I hope we can get there fast enough before they roll out the
CBD C's. Because I suspect once they roll
out the CBD C's I don't think they're going to want
competition to be honest with you.
Anyways, it goes on to say unfortunately it is unclear
which laws the US government is referring to.
The arguments that the disclosure would enable, quote
criminals, drug trafficking organizations, and terrorists to
circumvent law enforcement cannot be made in good faith as
chain analysis is Own 2023 Crypto Crime Report has found
the overall transaction volume of illicit activity to lay at a
merely .24%. Not to mention that the fact the
the the the vast majority of criminal activity, drug
trafficking and terrorism, what they use is U.S. dollars.
OK, they use Fiat currencies. So why are they so focused on
this tiny percentage? I mean, it's obvious they don't
like competition. Just as the early Internet was
allegedly only used for crime, the share of daytoday commerce
on the blockchain increases. That Bitcoin adoption grows
therefore, cannot be argued that the development of privacy
protection protecting software is adversarial in any sense of
the world, except to chain analysis, business model, and
the surveillance agenda of the US intelligence complex who
invested 1.6 million in chain analysis in 2020 and another
1.64 million in 2021 via the CIA's venture capital fund in Q
Tel. As long as the development and
use of privacy protecting software such as PGP, E to EE or
VPN's cannot be deemed as criminal under the 1st and 4th
Amendment, neither can the development or use of software
aim to protect one's financial privacy in Bitcoin.
However, it appears that constitutional frameworks do not
stop the US government from putting forward statements which
directly undermine the people's right to protect from unwanted
surveillance. Verifying blockchain
surveillance countermeasures such as criminal is Jews is just
another step the US government has been taking towards total
surveillance of U.S. citizens communications in recent years.
In 2015, Congress voted for the prolonging of the Patriot Act
via via the US Freedom Act, which continues to allow the
bulk collection of telecommunication data via
telecommunication providers and the proposed Earn It Act, which
would in essence would outlaw end to end encryption.
So far, the only attempt to circumvent the the law in the US
government's response to minute order is to be found in its own
argument argumentation. So again, like the the Earn It
Act, the the the Act proposed by Elizabeth Warren, that would be
a de facto ban on Bitcoin in the United States.
Like whose side are these people really on?
Like, that's the question that I have for you guys, like this is
absolutely bonkers. Even in the US where the
Constitution, the Constitution, even though no one's following
that nowadays, the constitution specifically says you cannot do
these things. It looks like they don't give a
flying fuck. And why don't they give a flying
fuck? Well, it's obvious they do not
like competition and they see Bitcoin as a clear and present
danger when there's competition. You know, all of a sudden, yeah,
Bitcoins for terrorism, Bitcoin is for extremists, Bitcoin is
for drug dealers. Bitcoin is what about dollars?
They just put their head in the sand.
They completely ignore the dollars aspect of that.
They completely ignore the fact that, you know, the Mexican
cartels, you know, you know what they like?
They like hard, hard, cold cash. They they ignore that aspect.
No, it Bitcoin is the boogeyman, right.
So look, their hope is that enough people read this that are
uninformed. That's their hope.
Because as soon as people are informed with the truth, as soon
as people are informed with the facts, and they're able to make
good decisions based on reality and truth, they have no choice.
They have no hope in trying to convince the American public of
what's going on. So it falls down to you to share
this type of content, to be informed with the facts so that
when you go to your Thanksgiving dinner, you know, and and Uncle
Jim is like Bitcoin is for terrorism, you're gonna say no,
I got the facts. The US dollar has been the one
used for terrorism, right. So, yeah, that's my take on
that, Opti. I'm curious what you think.
And then we'll move on to vendetta.
Yeah, I mean, I've said it on the.
Show plenty of times. We all know that the dollar
paper money is is the real money of criminals.
But I find it absolutely incredible that they will use
this narrative that Bitcoin is for money launderers, Bitcoin is
for financial criminals, and and they're going to constantly use
this until it is no longer worth its salt.
Because the field world is terrified.
And of course they understand what we understand.
Bitcoin can't be stopped. It is hard capped.
It is censorship resistant. It is decentralized, so outside
of the control of these people. It is synonymous.
So you don't know whose money is who and it is fully transparent.
So of course all these features combined are why they're
absolutely terrified, because they want a money that they can
fully control, they won't fully survey.
And here we are as bitcoiners, and it's only 14 years old and
it's already out of their control.
It's already a little too little, too late.
And so of course the Fiat parasites want to stop Bitcoin,
or rather attempt to stop Bitcoin.
And This is why they try to paint us all as criminals.
And This is why they're fighting privacy technology and shouts
out to Lola leads for continuously covering this
theme. She's been doing a very, very
great job. And another piece Lola covered
that the Chain Analysis CEO. Admitted that their black box
software isn't a set in stone as chain Anal would like you to
believe. Like it basically is guessing
and putting people in jail and they admit this stuff.
And now we have a further proof that the US government is doing
PR for chain analysis and so that they can continue to put
people in jail. Continue to put innocent people
in jail, by the way. And this is like where we are
right now, that they're like, yeah, you know.
It would. It would you know it wouldn't
protect people if we told you guys what the software is that
chain analysis is running like it.
It's going to help criminals. It's like, yo, you are literally
hurting citizens right now and it almost seems like chain
analysis is the real criminals. But of course you know criminals
covering for other criminals. It's all part of the game.
But we know and history has shown this that the real
criminals use dollar. Real criminals want dollars and.
Just because Bitcoin is, you know, a fringe technology, it's
on the edge. It's cutting edge technology.
We see this happen all the time. The illiterate luddites that are
known as politicians constantly do the same thing.
They're even doing this to AI or they did it to e-mail and the
Internet. Like they constantly are just in
perpetual fear of new technology because they know that they
can't control this technology and they're trying to protect
their jobs. Like we see this happen in every
space, let alone when you find a new technology or rather build a
new technology that is the best money in the world.
And the only way they are able to do what they do is because of
the money, because of the control of the money.
It's just very obvious why they constantly fight Bitcoin.
It's obvious why they always paint bitcoiners, it's
criminals. It's obvious why they use the
low hanging fruit of bitcoiners or money launderers is because
they have rules that they can attack you with these with this
very simple pretense. And here we are.
They're just trying to fit, you know, the round peg in a square
hole or square peg in a round hole so that they can try to
gaslight and stop the adoption of Bitcoin.
But I would say it's a little too little, too late.
But I mean it just it's it's absolutely disgusting that the
US government is playing PR for chain analysis when when they're
admitting that their software is basically broken and here we are
like it's peak. I want to say peak clown wall,
but it's not it's probably going to get crazier.
But hey man, This is why we tell you guys to run nodes to take
Bitcoin into self custody, to coin join like you know download
Sparrow wallet. People are asking, they haven't,
they haven't downloaded a node. They've not running nodes.
Guys, it's very simple. Like the hardest part for a note
is probably verifying the the, the, you know, the the file that
you downloaded is actually what you think it is and it's not
some kind of spyware. So like it's it's literally
pressing buttons guys. So like you need to do this if
you are taking this Bitcoin thing seriously because you
cannot trust anyone with your money.
And here we are like it. It keeps playing out over and
over and over until everyone wakes up to the idea that like,
oh, I either need an Uncle Jim or I need to become Uncle Jim
for my friends and family. So here we are guys.
It is the bear market. Now is the time to run nodes, to
take Bitcoin off exchanges, to consolidate UTXO's because it's
going to get crazy and you do not want to get caught up in the
FOMO. Anyways.
Vendetta. What's your thoughts on this?
Absolutely. Man, I couldn't have.
Said it any better, we are living in a world of legalized
lawlessness, as far as I see it, and this must come to an end.
I mean, this is clearly a criminal organization at work.
There is absolutely no accountability for anyone.
And that's that's not right. I mean, there's the law is there
for a reason, but no one seems to be following it and no one
seems to be doing anything about it.
Governments, you know, were put in place, you know, by the
people. And you know, on the other side,
we, the people have the power to take them out.
And so we should, because if they're not doing their job
well, then they're not supposed to be there.
And Bitcoin is the peaceful way of going on about this.
I mean, historically, tyranny has only been removed in one
way, and that's violence. Bitcoin gives us, you know, for
the first time, the peaceful way of doing this.
Everybody needs to understand that they do have a choice, a
choice to exit the system that's designed to keep them enslaved.
You work day and night. Your money is losing value and
your tax on top of it. So what's really left?
If if you have a family, it is your job, It's your
responsibility to at least study Bitcoin enough and get off 0 to,
you know, preserve something for the next generation.
We tell everyone get off 0. Get as close as you possibly can
to one Bitcoin as fast as you can.
And if, don't worry about the technical stuff, if you need
help, there's plenty of help. We're here to help you.
We're here to hand hold you to the entire process.
But you cannot continue living your life, you know, under
somebody else's dictatorship. It's just not the way to do it.
100 percent, 100%. And I agree, man, that there's
no excuse, there's no excuse at this point, you know, not to opt
out. There's no excuse not to take
self custody. I think we're more than that
point. Opti was mentioning nodes
before. Definitely check out Start Nine.
It's the one I personally use. It's freaking awesome.
Or you could just download Bitcoin Core on an old laptop.
There's absolutely no excuse to literally stop trusting someone
else's copy of the Bitcoin blockchain.
Use your own copy of the Bitcoin blockchain, right?
You know, take self custody of your Bitcoin.
There's so many great hardware wallets.
There's so many great ones to choose from.
Like it's just like it's so obvious right at this point with
clown world breaking down. You know Bitcoin provides this,
like you know this orange life raft where you can find, you can
find peace there, you know. So anyways, before we move on
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the meme review. The daily meme review.
Alright guys, here we are. This is the meme review where
you send us memes on Twitter. Tag me at Simply Bitcoin TV or
at Optimist Fields. Don't just tag your favorite
memes, tag your own memes. I'm OK with a little bit of
nepotism on the meme reviews. I just need memes.
Guys. I was talking to TK.
He's in our Telegram group. T dot me simply Bitcoin And I
was telling him, guys, we need more memes, so drop the tweets
in our telegram group. I look at them every single
morning. It's a lively conversation, but
it's lacking in tweets. Guys, give me the tweet so I can
get them on the show. Anyways, you already know tweets
of the bullets, memes of the artillery.
We are in an information war and it's upon us as bitcoiners to
spread the Bitcoin signal. There is no Bitcoin marketing
team. You are the marketing team.
So make the memes, get the cause of actions out there, ridicule
the corporate press, make some funny so your friends head stay
in the game. This is all part of the journey.
Get the cause of actions out there so that more bitcoiners
are born every single block. Anyways, 1st meme is by run the
banks AKA at empty under score banks.
He goes every time they drop another sign up.
I like stacking more Bitcoin and we got a I think there's like a
Greek or a Roman statue here and it goes.
Do not concede revolt and it's a peaceful revolution.
All you got to do is just stack some stats guys.
Opt out of the madness, opt out of the Fiat game and build a
better life on Bitcoin. All right, this next one, this
one's, this one might get a little clunky, but I absolutely
love this one. Shout out the Greg's eyes Greg's
eyes one on Twitter and he goes loving this remix feature on Mid
Journey for Fake Toshi. And I'm a little colorblind so
this one's a little hard for me to see.
I I I can't make out the patterns on this one but they
get clear as we go on guys. So here's the first one it's
it's almost like there's. Someone there behind this
flaming building? Oh wait, is this fake Toshi in
his red shirt? Oh my goodness.
Wait, what is going on? Burning buildings.
But it looks like fake Toshi. Absolutely amazing.
Good stuff, Greg. ZAJ, this is what we mean by
mimetic warfare. OK, next one.
Not that Elon at Eggplant under score Elon and he goes me.
Why am I so broke all the time? Everyone stop buying Bitcoin all
the time, then me. No, not that.
Something else. There's another reason why I'm
broke and it's not because I constantly buy Bitcoin.
What's the reason that we're broke?
HM what is wrong with the money? Maybe it's the money stupid.
Maybe they're printing obscenes amount of money.
But I do buy a lot of Bitcoin and this is probably why I'm
broke. Anyways, this next meme is by at
low Jack Bitcoin and goes Bitcoin is inevitable.
Flames, flames, and we got a shadowy super coder that's not a
Bitcoin. And he goes, every
cryptocurrency that was created before Bitcoin failed, and
Bitcoin will fail as well. And we got the Chad Bitcoin that
goes E cash, B money. Bitcoin and hash cash failed
because they were not decentralized.
Bitcoin is inevitable. Bitcoin is literally
decentralized money in the world.
No one controls it. That's why we're telling you to
run nodes, so that you can help decentralize the network.
But just running a node doesn't mean anything.
You need to run a node and then verify your transactions with
that node. It needs to have economic weight
behind it. Just running a node means
nothing. Don't just spin up a node
because it's cool. You need to spin up a node and
then connect it to your wallets and verify your transactions.
Anyways, this next meme is by the BTC therapist and he goes,
sometimes the truth hurts and we got that picture of the like
sailor girl and she's holding up a sign and it goes, the banks
don't have your money and it's got a Bitcoin.
Lego guys, it's it's so simple. The banks literally don't have
your money. Fractional reserve banking and
they dropped the limit in 2020. Like it used to be 10%.
They only hold 10% of your money.
Now it's literally zero. They don't have your money.
Like there's literally no money in banks.
They lend it all out and you expect your money to be there.
When shit hits the fan guys become your own.
Banks opt out of this stuff. Hold Bitcoin, hold hard asses.
Hold the best money in the world.
It is Bitcoin. We're in a digital world.
You want some digital money for the digital age.
Anyways, next meme is my at 21 JCLP and he's been killing it.
And I saw this first from Sailor and it was just fine Bitcoin.
And then I noticed that our boy 21 JCLP is the one that made it.
So it's like a crazy a I picture and it's an eye, but it's got
the Bitcoin logo in the eye and I don't know, it's got all kinds
of crazy stuff out here. Maybe like cipher punk stuff,
samurai warrior coats. I don't even know what it is,
but super tight. Great job.
All right, this next one is, I don't even think this guy's
necessarily a Bitcoiner. Now he's a Bitcoiner.
Cool small account. Paolo Bagu at the real Paolo
Bagu and he is dropped a meme on Max Kaiser's tweet and Max
Kaiser goes let's not forget who finances the primary cause of
all the misery. Central banks, including the
IMS. Bitcoin fixes this, but that's not what I wanted to put
on. It's just a classic Ron Paul and
we got a picture of Ron Paul here with a quote.
And I think it is very fitting that we end the meme review on
today's show, considering all the crazy stuff happening in the
world. It's a Ron Paul quote that says
it is no coincidence that the century of Total War coincided
with the century of central bacon.
Guys, there is no coincidence. What do you always say, Nico?
There's no coincidence. There's no accidents or
coincidence. There's no conspiracies.
But there's. No, Yes, exactly.
We live in some crazy times. Opt out of this madness.
Saving Bitcoin. Protect yourself.
This is what it's about, guys. Don't You don't need to do
Bitcoin to be altruistic. Like some Bitcoin is like just
say Bitcoin to protect yourself. It's OK guys.
We are going through crazy times.
You need to have some savings. You need to have some money
outside the system. Because when shit hits the fan,
we already know where it is headed.
The banks don't have your money, guys.
All right. Anyways, drive your meme review
score on the other side of Nico and we will cover hours live.
My meme review score again. I'm in my dad's office right
now. Some good score.
Yeah, he's got all kinds of crazy stuff.
He's got this. I think it's a a railroad spike
that was used on the railroad. I think it's steel.
It looks old. It's like even cracked.
Like actually used. Damn.
Railroad Spike. Damn, that's a.
Good score anyways. And data.
What would you give those memes and and eight out of 10?
OK. OK, let's go Classic score I.
Like it? I like it.
OK, I'm going to give it this 3D printed by the F and dip.
That that's going to be my score.
Classic score to start Monday off.
Honestly, Nico, I thought you were going to pull out something
that something else 3D printed, but hey, that's neither here nor
there. That's not here nor there.
So that. That's going to be my score.
All right everybody, please drop
your meme score in the live chat.
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Opti Q. The epic music, please.
All right, first score. By Son of Satoshi I don't, but
I'd let her I YKIYK shirts coming soon.
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Anyways, J Dub. The Laker 21 mil.
Nice to meet you in LA Homie. It was really, really nice to
meet you Brother Chain though. That gold chain though?
Gold chains off fleek, bro. Wish I had more.
Time dude. I was running around like crazy.
But to everybody who I saw in Los Angeles, love you guys.
Thank you so much for tuning in and making the.
You know, possible meme scored the new Bitcoin boy band that
just came out out of Pacific Bitcoin.
The Tri tips. I went Ki went KPS.
They did touch the tips. That's right.
I retouched my tip. That's why it's so intense
today. But we got another tip.
We got Nathan fast and he touched his tip as well.
Elaine. Score Bitcoin conferences
provide name badges instantly. Creates more Bitcoin or friends,
relationships and communities. That's absolutely spot on.
Elaine next one by John Platt Meme score a perfect 333 out of
three allowed YouTube screens for not for forfeiting your
fundamental human right to privacy.
All right, next score we got cuz I cuz then meme score is
Bitcoin. Bitcoin protects you from Gov.
And institutions trying to corrupt you.
I love. I love that.
Love that Next one by. Hey, Guber one Office space.
Very. It's a classic score.
I like it. I'll take it.
All right. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
wait. This isn't a meme score, but
we're going to make it a meme score.
Opti looks. Like ET wrapped in a blanket?
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Maybe we're just going to do like a love fest and recap the
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He's a that boy. That boy dirty.
He's a He's nasty that you that meme score was not.