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Hey everyone, welcome back to 
Bitcoin for Millennials, this 

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time a solo episode, and I think
this is going to shift how you 

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see everything, not just 
Bitcoin, but perhaps even 

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reality itself. 
I want to talk about why the 

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most powerful people on earth, 
the people who control the 

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money, the media, the language 
you think, and why they have 

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tried repeatedly to kill Bitcoin
and why they keep failing. 

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Because you understand why they 
want it dead. 

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You start to understand 
something much bigger. 

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You start to understand the game
you're actually in. 

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Stay with me on this one. 
Let's start with the obvious 

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question. 
Why would the most powerful 

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people on earth care about some 
random magic Internet money? 

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I mean, think about it. 
In the early days of Bitcoin, it

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was nothing. 
It was a white paper and some 

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nerds on a random Internet forum
running codes on their laptops. 

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People are talking about Jeffrey
Epstein showing interest, right?

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Why was he so interested in 
Bitcoin early on? 

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Why would someone connected to 
intelligence agencies, to the 

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highest echelons of global 
power, care about the technology

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that most people dismissed as a 
scam or a joke? 

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Because he understood, or his 
handlers understood that Bitcoin

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is the one thing that they 
cannot control. 

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And for people whose entire 
existence is built on control, 

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that's an existential threat. 
But to really understand why 

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Bitcoin terrifies them, you have
to understand the architecture 

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of control itself. 
How deep it goes, how old it is,

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and how invisible it is to most 
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Here's the thing that blew my 
mind when I started going down 

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this rabbit hole. 
The control doesn't start with 

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banks. 
It doesn't start with 

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governments. 
It starts with language. 

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The very words that you used to 
think have been shaped over 

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centuries. 
Not randomly, but shaped. 

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Take the word mortgage. 
You probably have one, or you 

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want one, or you're trying to 
pay one off. 

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You know what it actually means?
It comes from the old French Mor

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gauge. 
Mor means debt and gauge means 

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pledge. 
A mortgage is a death pledge or 

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currency. 
It flows from the Latin 

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currents, meaning to run, to 
flow like a current, like energy

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moving through a system. 
The people who designed these 

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monetary systems understood 
something about energy and 

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exchange that most of us have 
completely forgotten. 

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Here's another wild one. 
The word grammar shares a root 

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with grimoire, which is a book 
of magic, spells and glamour. 

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That's a Scottish variant of 
grammar that originally meant 

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enchantment magic. 
In medieval times, literacy was 

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so rare it was associated with 
the clergy and their mysterious 

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Latin texts. 
Reading and writing was 

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perceived as a form of power, as
a kind of magic. 

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So when we talk about spelling 
words, we're using language that

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connects directly to casting 
spells, language as enchantment,

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language as a tool for shaping 
reality. 

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You know, George Orwell 
understood this deeply. 

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In 1984, he created New Speak, a
language designed with one 

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purpose. 
The whole aim of New Speak is to

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narrow the range of fought. 
And in the end, we shall make 

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fought crime literally 
impossible because there will be

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no words in which to express it.
That sounds like a playbook to 

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me, and awfully familiar with 
all the stuff we're hearing 

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today. 
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deposit on ramp strength in many
simplicity in one and the people

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who want to kill Bitcoin they've
been using this playbook for 

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centuries. 
Now let me tell you about Edward

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Bernays because disconnects 
directly to why the powerful 

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fear Bitcoin Bernays was the 
so-called father of public 

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relations. 
He was Sigmund Freud's nephew, 

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which matters because he 
weaponized his uncle's 

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psychological insights for mass 
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In 1928, he published a book 
called Propaganda and the 

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Opening Line. 
Well, just listen to this. 

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The consciousness and 
intelligence manipulation of the

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organized habits and opinions of
the masses is an important 

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element in democratic society. 
Those who manipulate this unseen

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mechanism of society constitute 
an invisible government, which 

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is the true ruling power of our 
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Sounds interesting. 
His most famous trick was the 

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Torches of Freedom campaign in 
1929. 

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He was hired to expend the 
female cigarette market. 

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Women didn't really smoke 
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So he staged a group of women 
lighting cigarettes during New 

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York's Easter Sunday parade, 
tipped off the journalist in 

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advance, and overnight 
cigarettes went from taboo to 

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symbols of feminine liberation, 
manufacturing desire, true 

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symbolic manipulation. 
This is what these systems do 

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every day, all the time. 
And here's another one. 

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Research by Herbert Krugman 
documented that within one 

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minute of television viewing, 
brain waves switch from better 

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waves, active and logical, to 
alpha waves, passive and 

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suggestible. 
The very act of watching TV puts

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you in a trance state. 
And what do we call them? 

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TV programs. 
Programs, as in programming your

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mind through the television. 
Television And then we have 

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Operation Mockingbird. 
Carl Bernstein's 1977 expose in 

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Rolling Stone revealed that more
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had secretly carried out 
assignments for the CIA over 25 

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years. 
And when the CIA director was 

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questioned, you know what he 
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Let's not pick on some poor 
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Let's go to the management. 
They were aware of it all. 

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So you've got language, shape to
limit your thinking, media 

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designed to put you in a trance,
and an invisible government. 

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Renee's words, not mine. 
Running the whole show. 

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Now ask yourself, why would 
these types of people want to 

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kill Bitcoin? 
Because Bitcoin breaks the 

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entire architecture. 
See, every tool of control, the 

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money, the media, the language, 
it all relies on one thing. 

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Centralization. 
Someone at the top decides what 

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the words mean. 
Someone at the top decides what 

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gets broadcast. 
Someone at the top decides how 

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much money exists, who gets it 
first, and what it's worth. 

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This has been the game forever. 
And I mean forever. 

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The ancient Gnostics described 
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They called them Archons, rulers
who keep humanity trapped in 

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ignorance. 
In the Nag Hammadi texts they 

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wrote, they threw mankind into 
great distraction and into a 

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life of toil so that their 
mankind might be occupied by 

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worldly affairs and might not 
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devoted to the Holy Spirit. 
Replace Archons with systems of 

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control and tell me that doesn't
describe modern life with 

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uncomfortable position. 
Plato's allegory of The Cave 

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gives us a similar insight. 
Prisoners change from birth, 

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watching shadows on a wall, 
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reality. 
When 1 escapes and comes back to

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tell the others about the real 
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him. 
They threaten to kill him. 

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Sounds familiar? 
That's what happens to Bitcoin. 

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Every time it challenges the 
narrative, every time it 

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threatens the system, they try 
to kill it. 

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They've declared Bitcoin dead 
over 400 times and it's still 

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here. 
Just go on LinkedIn or watch a 

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mainstream media news item and 
you'll see what I mean. 

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Now here's the thing that ties 
this all together, and this is 

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the part that most people miss. 
This battle, this war between 

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centralized control and 
individual sovereignty, is not 

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new. 
It's not modern. 

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It is the oldest story in human 
existence. 

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The Kibalian, A hermetic text 
drawing on ancient Egyptian 

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principles, teaches the 
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Everything is dual. 
Everything has poles. 

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Everything has its pair of 
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Like and unlike are the same. 
Opposites are identical in 

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nature but different in degree. 
Good and evil, light and dark, 

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order and chaos, creation and 
destruction, control and 

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freedom. 
These aren't separate forces 

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locked in combat. 
They're different positions on 

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the same spectrum. 
The Taoist understood this 

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beautifully. 
The Dao the Ching says when 

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people see some things as 
beautiful, other things become 

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ugly. 
When people see some things as 

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good, other things become bad. 
Being and non being create each 

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other, and Alan Watts explained 
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At the very roots of Chinese 
thinking lies the principle of 

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polarity, which is not to be 
confused with the ideas of 

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opposition or conflict. 
In Western culture, light is at 

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war with darkness, good with 
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But to the Taoist way of 
thinking, this is as 

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incomprehensible as an electric 
current without both positive 

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and negative pulse. 
They need each other, Ying and 

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Yang, each containing a seed of 
the other, neither able to exist

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without the other. 
So when we talk about the 

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powerful trying to kill Bitcoin,
we're witnessing the latest 

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expression of this eternal 
tension, the force of 

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centralized control trying to 
eliminate the force of the 

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centralized freedom. 
It has always happened and it 

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will always happen. 
But here's the crucial question 

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that Kibalian poses. 
The masses of people are carried

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along, obedient to environment, 
the wills and desires of others 

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stronger than themselves, moving
them about like pawns on a chess

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board of life. 
But the masters rising to the 

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plane above help to play the 
game of life instead of being 

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played. 
Now, are you a pawn or are you a

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player? 
Let me get specific about why 

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they can't kill Bitcoin, because
this is what makes it so 

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extraordinary. 
Bitcoin has no CEO, no 

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headquarters, no board of 
directors, no single point of 

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failure, and over 25,000 
independent operating nodes 

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maintain the protocol and its 
Ledger globally. 

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You do not need permission from 
anybody to mine. 

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You do not need permissions to 
run a node. 

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Think about what that means. 
Every other system of power in 

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human history has had a head you
can cut off, a center you can 

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capture, a leader you can 
corrupt or even kill. 

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And Bitcoin does not have that. 
Bitcoins protocol is like the 

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rules of chess or mathematics or
physics. 

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Once the idea is out there, no 
authority can change it by 

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decree. 
If someone wants to change the 

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rules in a way that's 
incompatible with the existing 

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protocol, they can no longer 
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It's the equivalent of starting 
a completely separate game. 

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Like I make up my own game of 
chess. 

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And this is what I mean when I 
say Bitcoin is a game with rules

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but no rulers. 
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Now let's continue. 
In 2017 a powerful group tried 

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to change bitcoins rules. 
They had money, they had 

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influence, they had corporate 
backing. 

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They created Bitcoin cash. 
And then what happened? 

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The network, 10s of thousands of
independent nodes run by regular

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people chose which version to 
validate. 

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Now the CEO, not a committee, 
not a billionaire, but 

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consensus. 
The powerful tried and the 

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powerful failed. 
Bitcoin is proof of work. 

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It converts physical energy into
security. 

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It is thermodynamically bound, 
transmuting electricity in what 

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you could think of as digital 
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In reality, it is vastly 
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You cannot fake thermodynamics. 
You cannot print energy. 

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You cannot corrupt physics. 
Bitcoin's blockchain, or it's 

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Ledger itself is an immutable, 
verifiable record. 

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Anyone who checks the Bitcoin 
blockchain right now will see 

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the exact same thing as anyone 
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There is no subjectivity. 
There's no other technology that

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can give you that. 
In a world build on lies, 

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manipulation, and manufactured 
reality, Bitcoin is a beacon, an

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anchor of absolute truth. 
And that's why they wanted that.

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Now compare Bitcoin to what the 
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Let me tell you what the Chinese
CBDC already includes Complete 

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transaction visibility, instant 
ability to freeze accounts, 

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programmable spending 
restrictions, balance caps on 

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wallets and in some trials, 
money with expiration dates. 

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Money with an expiration date. 
US Congressman Tom Emmer who 

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wrote the Anti CBDC Surveillance
State Act said it plainly. 

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A central bank digital currency 
is a government controlled 

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programmable money that could 
give the federal government an 

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unprecedented abilities to 
surveil Americans financial 

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transactions and suppress 
politically unpopular activity. 

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This is what the powerful are 
building while they are trying 

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to kill Bitcoin. 
The old prison with new walls. 

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The same game with digital 
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If you dismiss Bitcoin and 
choose D systems, you don't 

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understand that you're staying 
trapped in a game where other 

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people dictate the rules. 
You're consciously choosing to 

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remain a subject that is subject
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So here's the fundamental 
choice, and I think this is the 

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most important thing I've ever 
said on this podcast. 

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You are in a game right now. 
You have always been in this 

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game. 
The only question is what kind 

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of game you want to play in the 
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There's Path A be a subject in 
someone else's game, operate 

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within controlled systems where 
rulers can change rules whenever

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they want, freeze your assets, 
survey your transactions, and 

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exclude you at will. 
Your mortgage is a death pledge,

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your media is a programming 
device, and your money is 

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controlled by people who see you
as a pawn. 

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Or you can take path B Bitcoin, 
be an actor in a game with only 

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rules, operate in a system with 
transparent, immutable rules 

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applied equally to everyone. 
The 21 million supply cap, the 

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consensus rules, the transaction
validation, it all applies 

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identically. 
Whether you're an individual or 

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a nation state, wherever you 
come from, whatever you like, 

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whatever you dislike, or 
whatever you look like. 

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No one can be excluded, no one 
can change the rules 

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unilaterally. 
Rules without rulers and 

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sovereignty without permission. 
Here's the beautiful part. 

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Here's what makes Bitcoin 
different from every revolution 

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that came before it. 
If there's ever a version of 

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this game that nobody wants 
anymore, you can fork off. 

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You can propose changes and see 
if people want to follow. 

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And the network will decide. 
Not a ruler, not a committee, 

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not an intelligence agency. 
The collective will of free 

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participants. 
And this is how Bitcoin 

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perpetuates forever. 
Not true force, but true 

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voluntary choice. 
Now let me bring this all the 

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way home. 
The most powerful people on 

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earth try to kill Bitcoin 
because Bitcoin is the first 

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thing that they cannot control. 
And for people whose entire 

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existence is built on control, a
system without controllers is 

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the end of their world. 
They controlled the language, 

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they controlled the media, they 
controlled the money. 

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They had the whole architecture 
locked down. 

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And then some anonymous person, 
I think it was a duo actually, 

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They released an idea into the 
world that can't be captured, 

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that can't be corrupted, and it 
cannot be killed. 

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The Gnostics warned about the 
Archons 2000 years ago, Plato 

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warned about The Cave, and 
Bernays wrote the manual for 

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manipulation in 1928, and the 
CIA ran Operation Mockingbird 

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for decades. 
The mechanisms differ, but the 

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patterns persist. 
The powerful control and the 

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people comply, and the prison 
remains invisible to those 

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inside it. 
But for the first time in human 

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history, there's an exit they 
cannot close, a door that they 

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cannot lock, a system that 
answers to no one and serves 

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everyone who adopts it equally. 
They've tried to kill it over 

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400 times. 
They called it a scam, a bubble,

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a tool for criminals, A Ponzi or
whatever. 

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They've thrown every weapon they
have added, and it's still here.

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Because you cannot kill an idea,
you cannot kill mathematics, you

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cannot kill the truth. 
This is why Bitcoin is an idea 

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whose time has come. 
The spiritual war between 

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control and freedom, between 
centralization and sovereignty, 

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between consciousness and sleep.
This has been going on forever. 

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The Taoist knew it, the 
Hermeticist knew it, the 

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Gnostics knew it. 
Every wisdom tradition in human 

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history recognized this eternal 
tension. 

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So what's different now is that 
we, the plebs, we have a weapon,

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a tool that they cannot take 
away. 

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And Bitcoin won't end this war. 
Nothing will end this war 

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because existence requires the 
tension of opposites. 

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But Bitcoin shifts this balance.
It gives individuals a tool that

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no centralized force can 
capture. 

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And the choice is yours. 
You can stay upon on someone 

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else's chess board or pick up 
the 1 weapon that the most 

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powerful people on earth have 
tried to destroy and couldn't. 

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They tried to kill it, they 
failed. 

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They'll try again and they'll 
fail again. 

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Because Bitcoin does not need 
anyone's permission to exist and

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neither do you. 
That's it for this episode. 

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