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You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free.
When you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts.
So it's all acting like safe haven.
I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency, Bitcoin wins.
In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.
I mean, that's part of the bull case for Bitcoin.
If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.
Welcome back to another edition of Rabbit Hole Recap.
Rabbit Hole Recap 398, Matt.
Get close to 400.
How's it feel?
Number go up.
400 is wild
next week will be 399
and then
this is actually poetic
and next week 399
we have daylight savings
a new dawn
400
my wife and I were just
time is about to change again
March 8th my wife and I were in the car
this afternoon driving home from lunch
we're like when do we get more sun
when are we saving the sun this year
March 8th.
Pleasant surprise.
We've got to get rid of that shit.
When are we going to get rid of that shit?
Hopefully this year.
I think this year is the last year we have to move the clocks.
I mean, the headline, I assume you didn't watch the State of the Union, right?
No, I was busy.
I mean, I had it in and out.
I've seen the clips.
I watched one reaction video.
Do you watch that Warren Smith guy?
He's like the professor who quit.
No.
Do you know if the doctor's working?
we're live. There was a delay last time. So let's give it a little bit.
I mean, the reason I didn't watch it,
but the reason I brought it up is like the headline is Trump,
Trump didn't mention Epstein at all. I guess it was the longest.
It was, it was the longest state of the union in history.
And he didn't mention Epstein once, which is troubling.
but he also didn't mention daylight savings which is also incredibly troubling we got to
get rid of daylight savings i'm pretty sure it was a campaign promise he made we're gonna fix
daylight savings we're gonna save the sun we're up on nostril all is well i don't really care
one way or another about like where we lock in the time just don't change it twice a year
no no no i care i want more sun all year like i want more sun in the winter it's the same amount
of sun no matter what you're aware of.
It's a psychological thing about
the time of day when the sun's out.
Seasonal depression is real.
Speaking of which, we've got to
change the Gregorian calendar.
It's way off.
The beginning of the year should be
the spring solstice.
There should be, what, 10 months
in the year?
Logan, I have a feeling you would know this.
It'd be like 10, 30, 4-day
months or something like that. You could do all
kinds of stuff with it.
what's your what's your what's your recommendation
i i didn't i didn't make the rotation of the earth not perfectly line up with the orbit so i
don't know anyway we got to get rid of it it's it's retarded weak answer weak answer
um all right let's just jump into it we're starting a little late today that is due to me
Thank you for your patience. Thank you for your flexibility, Matt and Logan.
We're jumping to Clark's dashboard.
With the current price of Bitcoin, the $67,680.
We've had a bit of a pump this week.
We're down off the highs of the last seven days.
One cuck buck is going to get you $1,478.
Sats were at a $1.35 trillion market cap.
We are at block height, $938,472.
So we are currently 984 blocks away from the next difficulty adjustment, estimated to be on March 4th, so that would be next Thursday.
Maybe we'll have a difficulty adjustment during next week's rip.
Looking like a 1.5% upwards adjustment.
Hash rate's still coming back on the network after the large 14.7% upwards adjustment a couple weeks ago, or last week, excuse me.
Blocks have been coming in 9 minutes 51 seconds on average since that retarget.
We have 4,447 transactions in Clark's teeny weeny mempool.
Mempool, not space, is showing 25,380 transactions in their mempool.
Three sats per byte.
High priority transactions.
If you're looking to get in the next block,
attach a three sat per vbyte fee to your transaction.
Willing to wait 30 minutes.
One sat per vbyte is fine.
And willing to wait more than an hour.
0.7 sats per rebine mempools still rather paltry empty as hell very empty very
traveling visiting families uh apologies for poor mic quality we'll be back on a good mic
next week mike's good dude i think the mic is good i think the mic's good
you have one thing on the list that we talked about this week but
Since you mentioned the State of the Union, it was brought up during it from a clip I saw.
IDs to shovel snow in New York during the blizzard.
Momdani for ID shovelers.
No, two IDs and Social Security number for emergency snow shoveling, but not to vote.
The irony is palpable.
I will say, though, from our New York friends, the program supposedly worked pretty well, and they got that snow off the ground.
It's melting away here in the Northeast right now.
48 degrees today.
I hope this is the last of the snow we see this year.
I'm ready for it.
I'm ready for spring.
Ready for spring.
You don't have it on the list either.
What?
Price is pumping.
We mentioned it.
I don't think you have it on the list.
I mean, I sent you the list three hours ahead of time this time.
So you're welcome to add things.
You know I've been on the go all morning.
I've been on the go all morning and early afternoon.
Yeah, you don't have it.
Jane Street, are they manipulating the price?
Yeah.
We've paused.
Oh.
I mean, I didn't know what to link to for that.
I mean, it does seem to be all the rage to be blaming Jane Street
for the entire bear market.
I mean, Zero Act has been calling it 10 a.m. Slam.
They've been calling it for years, observing it.
10 a.m. Slam here.
I mean, no, no, no.
The 10 a.m. Slam has been like a year long phenomenon, right?
It's only been since we've had ETFs and stuff.
Well, do you remember this?
It definitely – what?
The 3 p.m. ramp was a thing in equities, ramp capital.
That's how he made his satirical X account, Twitter account back in the day.
I mean, it's definitely wild that Jane Street gets sued over the Terra Luna collapse, which seems like they 100%, well, allegedly, seems very obvious.
It seems like they killed Terra Luna using insider trading.
And so they got hit by that.
And then immediately after that, we don't see Bitcoin get dumped at 10 a.m. like clockwork.
I mean, to me, that lines up.
I don't think it's the cause of the entire bear market.
I think a lot of OGs, long-term holders or whatever, sold a lot of Bitcoin as happens every cycle.
I do think there's nuance to it.
Yeah, of course. I agree.
like with Terra Luna
like synthetic stable coin
and whatever they were
I think they had a DAO as well
like completely retarded design
but it could be tipped over the edge
and I think it certainly was
if the allegations that Terraform Labs
is putting forward
proved to be true
I think
it could have been pushed over the edge
it might have been
by Jane Street would not surprise me
when it comes to like the 10 a.m. slams
I've seen many people
going back and forth
like blaming Jane Street's Cope
like James Sheck
good friend of the show
saying, hey guys. It's probably somewhere in the middle.
Yeah, both are selling, but
they can stop hunt, right?
You can't manipulate the price
in the long term, but in the short term
I think, I don't want to say suppress,
but you can hold it
in a certain level, particularly if you're
stop hunting at a particular time
when liquidity
and volume is low.
I mean, the crazy thing is
I mean,
there's definitely a shit ton of shenanigans that have been happening in Bitcoin since the dawn of
Bitcoin. But recently, as we've quote unquote institutionalized and ETFs and all this shit and
like the micro strategy and everything, there's definitely been like a new breed of shenanigans
and like craziness. Now I go back and forth on like the concept of, you know, if there is,
if you have a 24-7, 365 truly free market,
is all fair in those games.
And I think probably as long as no fraud is being committed.
The crazy thing about Jane Street is
they're one of the most profitable firms in the world.
It's only about 40 people.
Have you looked into it?
It's wild.
There was four co-founders originally, and only one of the co-founders still works at the firm.
And they're private, but it seems like only one of them still has equity.
But they run like a flat structure where supposedly there's no CEO, and they all share in profits, and they all share in capital provided.
It's a pretty crazy operation that is incredibly secretive.
And the main – the one co-founder who still works there and still involved, there's only one picture of him in the last 25 years, which is an insane thing to accomplish.
It's a really bad photo.
I mean just saying, hey, there's been no trial.
There's been no discovery.
There's been no evidence brought forth yet, allegations at this point.
But I saw this over the last couple of days.
India caught Jane Street manipulating its markets and kicked them out.
China caught accounts abusing its paper silver markets and immediately closed the accounts.
Congratulations, America.
That's not the crazy one.
What's the crazy one?
We covered it on RHR.
The crazy one was the co-founder got caught, what was it, like $7 million worth of arms to overthrow the South Sudanese government.
That was Jane Street.
And then he threw his hand, it was a guy that took the picture and he threw his hands up.
He was like, oh, it was an accident.
I thought I was donating to some nonprofit.
It's like, I didn't realize they were buying missiles.
You're literally overthrowing an African regime.
Yeah.
And then I'm presumably trading on it too.
Well, in the aftermath of the SPF blowup, because for those who are unaware, Sam Magnificat
Fried, he was
birthed at Jane Street.
And
I was on top of it with FTX and
SBF. He was a big part of the effective
altruism movement.
And apparently
there's ties to that within Jane Street
too, which is...
I'm going to say, if you have not done your research on the effective
altruism movement, I would do it because
they are pretty psychotic
people. I mean, that's what scares
me about Anthropic.
Yep, they've got it.
Because Anthropic is heavy in the EA shit.
Yeah.
I don't know.
No matter how you cut it, it's sketchy as hell.
And they're a super secretive organization.
So it'd be, I think it'd be helpful to a lot of people if some of that veil got lifted.
I do not think that we are going to immediately recover to all-time highs now that they're being sued.
No.
But we'll see.
I mean, that would be awesome.
would be sweet would be well well received would be sweet i'm not holding my breath for it
uh you don't have that i mean well we're talking about anthropic are you just gonna keep
bringing up things that aren't on the list what do we got next we do have anthropic on the list
but there should be a second story about anthropic um and we will segue actually no this story ties
into the one you have on the list so we'll start with the one on the list then we'll we can talk
about whatever you want to talk about marty well thank you thank you okay i'm running right now i'm
running uh but before before your mind runs further let's just there needs to be a psa
the scam has been running for a while now it usually targets people that are more public
but also lower level people as well anyone who's involved in any kind of bitcoin or cryptocurrency
and it's this Zoom scam.
We had a freak reach out that said
multiple friends had gotten hit by it recently,
like in the last week.
And it involves them sending you a Calendly invite first
or they set up a meeting with you, right?
They set up a meeting with you
and when they join the Zoom call,
the audio isn't working.
And while the audio is not working,
they're playing a video of who you think you're talking to,
but you're not actually talking to them.
And they tell you to troubleshoot, do these things.
And when you do those things, you're actually installing,
you're installing a virus onto your computer
and then they're hijacking your computer
and trying to steal all your money.
So first off, just be aware of that.
If you, you know, if you, if,
do not be rushed into doing anything on your computer, period.
and specifically if there's like some kind of audio issue
in a video call that you think you're taking.
A ton of alarm bells should ring.
And then I think second of all,
this is why cold storage is really important, right?
Because if your keys aren't on your computer to begin with,
yes, it will suck if they get all your files
and they compromise your email accounts
and can do a bunch of damage through those methods.
But if your keys are on something like a cold card
and it's completely offline,
then they can't compromise your actual savings.
Yeah, and these attacks can be rather sophisticated.
I mean, I had one, I mean, it didn't make it past DMs,
but the official New York Post account DMed me
asking for an interview about Bitcoin.
I was like, wow.
I was like, this is weird.
Went to the page, had like 10 million followers,
whatever New York Post has, had the yellow check mark.
I was like, oh, this seems legit.
and then I was like okay like I'm happy to like you can email me here and they're like oh I don't
need to email you like here's a calendar link I was like no I'd really like you to email me from
uh an official New York Post uh email address and they never did but yeah the first batch were almost
all like fake journalists or hack journalist accounts it was like Bloomberg and once they
get one once they get one person then they use their credentials to try and get other people
yeah so be aware it's a wild time out there i mean i think this was at least one of like the
multiple times that uh larry lepard got his twitter account attacked was through this method too
yeah hey you shouldn't be talking journos anyway i had a weak moment where i was responding to
the new york post luckily i caught myself in the act and stopped yeah that's just a good piece of
Good advice.
Yeah.
Speaking of attacks, jumping, we were talking about effective altruism,
anthropic, and I think we've got the setup for like a Hegelian dialectic
problem reaction solution playing out in the intersection of AI
in the federal government here in the United States.
And I do think the story that you have on the list plays into it.
It's a big setup for it.
So if you weren't aware, I believe earlier this week or late last week,
Anthropic wrote a blog post, quote unquote, exposing industrial scale distillation attacks on Claude by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Minimax.
So essentially what they're saying is, hey, the team's building these open source Chinese models in DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Minimax are basically setting up Claude accounts and pinging our models to try to reverse engineer how we're doing things so that they can build their open source models.
So they wrote a blog post and I think they flagged it to the government And it was funny that this happened the same week that you have Pete Hegseth and the Department of War saber rattling at Anthropic specifically because Anthropic does not want to give the Department of War full access to its models and let it run loose with them
They want to make like kill bots with them.
Yeah.
And so I think that may be, what's the word for it?
Like a charade, a projection.
a false sort of narrative,
like a public spat that is intentional.
Cause like the way I could see this.
It's like when Apple says like when Apple fights with the FBI over hacking
iPhones or whatever like that.
Yes.
Yeah.
So I think we're getting set up for all right.
Department of war.
We'll give it to you,
but we need to make sure that we do this the right way.
And there needs to be a licensed regime that,
that only enables the,
the sophisticated responsible large language model teams to.
And more significant KYC across the entire stack.
This is where open source and self-hosting become even more important.
I mean, as it is, Claude requires a non-burner phone number to register.
And then obviously you are paying with a credit card.
So then trying to get an anonymous credit card is most,
most people will not go through that process of trying to get an anonymous
credit card. But then the other piece there, by the way,
which I thought was interesting from that breakdown.
And by the way, freaks, if you're like,
oh, this is a Bitcoin show,
like why aren't they talking about Bitcoin?
It's because Marty went out of order
and I led with the Bitcoin stories
and then we're supposed to talk about this towards the end.
But they also had that piece that they buried,
that they said specifically,
they identified multiple Chinese researchers by name
who were doing it through their search history, right?
So they said the quiet part out loud,
which is you could use all this stuff and on, you know,
you can try and not link it to your ID,
but just through the prompts and the files and the stuff and the activity of
how you are hitting the models themselves,
they can de-anonymize you and identify who it is,
which I think is particularly scary, right?
Because one of the, and not, it shouldn't be surprising,
but just to hear it out loud is a, is a scary confirmation.
And that when you're like trying to use these things privately,
a lot of times what people will do is you'll use like an open router or a PPQ or something
to pay per token and you're hitting it through a proxy, right? But even if you're hitting it
through a proxy, your prompts itself and the files that you're putting to it and how you
phrase your questions and everything can then de-anonymize you.
Yes. Before we go into another AI tangent, not on Bitcoin, we will
So, buy in a little Bitcoin advice here.
Use a model, or not a model, use a service like Maple that has models and trusted execution environments
and then encrypted from your device to the secure enclave in the cloud, and you can pay with Bitcoin privately.
Yeah, Maple fixes this, and self-hosting fixes this.
Self-hosting is a lot less convenient and more expensive than Maple, which is why it's great that Maple exists,
and you can use code RHR for a discount when you use Maple.
Yeah.
And I mean, not only like, I think Anthropic,
the way they worded it in their blog posts,
it's like, hey, they were sort of leaking
personal identifying information via their prompts.
But funnily enough, this week, there was a research paper
that was released called Large-Scale Online Deanonymization
with LLMs at the same time.
And basically what this paper explains is that you can be de-anonymized via AI tools pretty trivially just by the way you write on the internet.
And so if you've been posting on...
It's not just how you write.
Yeah.
It's also like timing analysis and stuff like that too.
But yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, we show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale de-anonymization with full internet access.
our agent re-identify hacker news users and anthropic interviewer participants at high
precision given synonymous online profiles and conversations alone matching what would take hours
for a dedicated human investigator and i think like the the bitcoin connection here which isn't
actually in this research but i'm sure we'll start to see this come out is all the different
chain surveillance and chain analysis that happens on chain becomes so much easier and so much more
effective with LLMs. So I mean, there are definitely teams out there already working to
dox people using Bitcoin chain data and transaction history. And the really scary part about that
is if we're right about Bitcoin, this chain is going to last longer than our lives. It's going
to last forever. So a mistake you make today or a mistake you made five years ago or a mistake you
make in five years can screw you over way into the future.
Yeah.
And something that is perceived as sort of top-notch, incredible,
obsec usage of the chain today in five years may not be sufficient.
So you can think you're like transacting perfectly privately today.
And then five years from now, the AI is like, well, actually.
It's scary as fuck.
This is why this shit is so important.
And by the way, I see someone in the primal live chat,
Stonehands, right-of-die-freak.
I mean, I think we've covered this in RHR in the past,
but it's been making recent rounds,
using the background of a picture plus LLMs
to pinpoint your exact location.
Just be careful out there with what you share, freaks.
Everything can be used against you.
Yeah.
it's not good like that tech is wild like you can even i mean he mentioned a street view example
specifically which i've seen those examples of uh which are scary in their own right right you
know you take a picture of a friend or a bird or something on a street and they can figure out your
exact street location based on the surroundings using an llm um but then they also have the one
that's inside using Zillow and shit
and Airbnb listings
where you post a picture
in front of a fireplace or something
and it just immediately picks up
the exact house you're in.
Yeah, it's fucking wild.
Be aware.
And on the topic of using Bitcoin privately,
one thing we've talked about in recent years
is the emergence of eCash on top of Bitcoin
and we had some developments there this week
with the launch of Numopay,
which is a Bitcoin tap-to-pay point-of-sale app for Android,
which is both Lightning and eCash compatible with zero fees.
So our good friend Callie and many other developers
working on the CashU protocol launched this today.
I actually had Callie on the show yesterday.
It will be released on Saturday.
We talked a bit about this,
and it seems like a really sweet project.
This is awesome.
I really need it.
It just makes it way more convenient
to accept Bitcoin payments as your brick-and-mortar store.
I like that it doesn't try and do everything.
It's just very simple and straight to the point.
I like that it uses Tap2Pay.
Anyone who's used Tap2Pay, the UX is impeccable.
It's fantastic UX.
QR codes are fine.
I use QR codes all the time.
Tap to pay is so much better.
And this works offline.
It works with a stock Android device.
If you want to be a little bit more sophisticated,
you can get one of those Android devices that also has a receipt printer
that can print receipts on demand, but you don't need to.
It can just be an old Android phone, and it works.
And I've seen some complaints that it's custodial because it's Cashew,
but it's designed in a way so that you can automatically just forward it to a lightning
address. And let's be honest, in practice, what that probably looks like is a merchant,
you know, having a KYC account with Strike or something like it and just putting in their Strike
lightning address and then immediately being able to then use those Sats to pay for business
expenses or anything else they might need. And I think there's also a key point here, which is
Pretty much every other digital payments that a merchant is using are incredibly custodial and have even worse trust tradeoffs than Cashew.
So I don't think it's a real deal breaker.
I think if you just have auto-withdraw to a different Lightning wallet, it's a fantastic tradeoff balance.
Yeah.
And to be clear here, the point-of-sale software is Android only, but if you have an iPhone and you want to pay at one of these point-of-sales, you just can't download it.
And that's, yeah.
Well, that's an iOS limitation.
Like the iOS has tap locked down, so you can't receive via tap.
But yeah, anyone can pay regardless of their device.
Also, this is a fully open source, non-monetized project by the Cashew team.
So this is more similar to something like BTC Pay than something like ZapRite, right?
This is an open source stack that people can modify.
people can use it as they want to and there's no company behind it yeah and since you mentioned it
they are working on a direct integration between btc pay server and numo um so be on the lookout
for that and another thing to mention i mean i think if bitcoin is going to succeed particularly
as the medium of exchange in the physical world tap to pay is a non-starter you need to have feature
parity with the ux of being able to tap to pay with your credit card or debit card whatever it
may be and the merchant needs to it's i think it's just cool that it works offline yeah that
the payee doesn't have to be online to make the payment the merchant doesn't the merchant needs
to be online but yeah because the way the um the transfer vcash work is basically like a file
transfer over nfc and so i guess the risk there is if the person is paying you goes home and
rugs that well that's right if the merchant's online it doesn't stop that it you don't have
that risk yeah but if you're offline is they have like a trust like okay hopefully this guy doesn't
rug me i mean most people don't realize like the reason apple pay and google pay have such good ux
particularly if you are in the developing world is because the payee doesn't have to have internet
If you pay a merchant and tap to pay, you go to CVS or something, and you tap to pay with Apple Pay, your iPhone isn't pinging the internet for that.
The merchant side has internet, but you don't necessarily have internet.
Yeah, your credentials are in the enclave and then just transferring the credentials to the POS system over NFC.
That's why it's so quick.
I'll say I'm an iOS user, a big fan of Macadamia.
So if you're looking for any cash wallet, it's lightning compatible as well.
If you want to go find these point of sale systems and begin spending at them and you use, I like Macadamia.
It's become a great daily driver spending wallet.
And you should be able to use this with, I mean, any lightning compatible that has tapped.
I mean, you could do the QR if you want to, but.
Yeah, I mean, you don't have to pay with it.
my wallet. You don't have to pay with a cash sheet wallet. You can pay with any Lightning
wallet. I think, I mean, you're the one who interviewed Callie. I think they also support
QR codes. So the wallet doesn't even have to support tap to pay. Ideally, we start to see the
payee wallets all support this tap to pay spec so that it works for that as well. But any standard
Lightning Wallet can pay these invoices with QR codes.
Yeah.
Which is awesome.
Yeah, go on.
Kyle was saying there's the open source libraries for NFC compatibility
are becoming more mature and robust.
And so.
Yeah, it'll take a little time.
Yeah.
I see we have a lot of support in the primal live chat.
We have GreatGee, 21,000 sats.
If you love BIP 110, buy GreatGee with Bitcoin.
If you hate it, pay with sats.
If you think that nerds need to be stuffed in a locker, pay with fiat.
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21,000 sats in the bear market hurts more than a bull market.
Ever considered giving ride-or-die freaks a discount?
Is anyone building node software that isn't core or not?
Yes, OpenSats is working on it.
There's not that many people that would be qualified for it.
And also, it's a hard gig given the current environment.
So it's taking a little bit longer than expected, but expect some news on that front soonish.
There's Soap Miners app, 21,000 sets.
Two things I can count on.
Bitcoin is running.
Number two, RHR will have a show every week.
I appreciate you all.
Likewise, sir.
Thank you.
And Chef Tommy, to your comment about the discount, this is a discount.
We used to charge $50 in fiat back when Bitcoin was around.
Remember that?
We used to have the BTC Pay server.
It was so clunky.
It was so clunky compared to Zaps.
Yeah.
But yeah, back then, I mean, 2019, 2020,
we were getting like 250,000 Zaps, a shout out.
On the show.
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We'll round out these zaps before more come in.
Thanks to last week's show.
I've been bringing my Rnet 4 to school every day to check the air quality.
With about 25 people in a room, it's difficult to keep the PPM under 1,000.
School's awful, forcing kids to sit in their seats for 45 minutes at a time
and teaching them things they don't care about.
On top of that, they're in an environment where they can't breathe properly,
becoming a good teacher is like fighting many windmills at once be the change you want to see
in the world be the change i'm right agree ironnet.com a-r-a-n-e-t highly recommend the
ironnet home for believe is the model um but i also have for my house i also have the radon
detector which is a separate one um it's just a really great company great devices
no and Sven to your point
I'm at a point in my life
where my oldest is six and he's
becoming very curious and beginning
to think hard like okay
you're starting to be able to read
you can write
know your numbers he's really good at math
just picked up chess and it's like okay
what uh
foster this curiosity
he's got an insatiable drive
for learning and
it is something you think about.
Like, how do you teach these young kids,
especially if they're going to school,
and you're a parent that is not at the school every day?
I'm rambling now, but just wanted to note
that I've been thinking about this, Sven.
Well, look, it's probably the most responsibility a man has, period,
raising their children.
and I will say that me and my lady think about it a lot.
I mean, I'm so grateful that I found her.
I mean, she's had two natural births.
We haven't vaxxed her children at all.
They're uncircumcised.
And they're going to be homeschooled,
but we do have some time to think about what those specifics are.
I'll tell you, they're definitely not going to state school.
So we'll figure out as they get older how we're going to,
process that but uh definitely definitely not state school i think that's a psyop
yeah and it's really it's really fucked up because if you're poorer you're you're forced
into it it's you know it's really cheap daycare effectively so a lot of people go that route so i
don't i'm not i'm not blaming people that go that path i understand you know life gets in the way but
we will not be great we've got uh the boys in catholic montessori school and uh it's been great
but trying to accelerate outside the class too been playing a lot of chess it's fun um watching
a six-year-old pick up chess and like be into it and i've never been like a big chess guy myself but
know how to play a little bit and uh it's just fun watching their minds run wild
but I'm pretty sure this is a great game yeah the uh since you brought it up um the vaccine stuff
Josh Shapiro governor of the state that I that I live in my home state pushing back suing the
federal government for their overhaul the CDC childhood vaccine schedule and I just want to
make it clear um Josh Shapiro Pennsylvania for those who are unaware I think Johnson Johnson
and Glaxis, SmithKline, and a few other big pharma companies are headquartered in Philadelphia.
And he's got a strong backing by that big pharma lobby.
And I think there's plenty of research out there.
One of my favorites to point to is the Japanese study on SIDS.
And by them extending their childhood vaccine schedule from starting at three months to two years,
SIDS completely disappeared.
from the country of Japan, sudden infant
death syndrome. It's not co-sleeping.
SIDS is a wild concept, by the way.
It is. Don't put a blanket
on the kid in the crib. You're going to die.
It's the blanket in the crib.
It's like...
It's just a catch-all.
Yeah.
I think that's going to be a losing battle for Shapiro.
I think the
sentiment
tides are shifting rapidly,
particularly after the COVID vaccine
fucking shit show.
I mean you got to give people choices like this is once again like it is used that there you have
the appearance of choice in a lot of these situations but you don't actually if you need
to send them to daycare or state school yeah um then you get forced you get forced into it
and then I mean I think uh my our first son we went to like uh
maybe one or two pediatrician appointments and you just get into they they try and pressure you
into it and get into fights with it we just opt we're not doing that fucking shit no
i mean the lead up to uh the person they try and scare the shit out of you birds of our second
the ob was like you gotta get the kobe shot it's like she my wife was pregnant with her second
really you were fucking nuts like get out of here like don't she asked us twice and i like took her
out of the room i was like hey we're not doing this like don't ask us the next time we come
before our second the ob said uh i i like to say my wife gives birth to linebackers
which as as someone who's you know and not very large person i uh i i appreciate the increase to
the gene pool um but uh after our first the ob said for the second that my wife needed to do a
c-section and that was going to be a troubled birth and she needed to do a c-section so we
fired her and my wife had a completely healthy home birth on our couch like complete bullshit
we're getting into the uh the particulars of our wife's uh our wives i'm just so proud of her i
just I this is just a pride thing I just I just bragging about my wife not going three in and we had had three seamless bursts It been incredible All right back to the list At the very least get multiple opinions freaks
Yes.
What is this?
Mail mic.
This looks pretty cool.
I read it a little bit earlier.
This is an agent that is online with an email address and a Bitcoin wallet.
and the email address is open and it accepts prompts from the email address.
And the idea is the goal is to try and trick it into sending all the sats from the wallet.
And it was successful once.
Someone was successful once.
And so the creator hardened the agent and made that particular attack,
protected against that particular attack, and then refilled it up with sats.
And anyone can zap it to add more sats to the bounty pool.
So I just thought this was a pretty cool, I was using LNVPS, the agent paid for its own server using Bitcoin, paid for its own email address using Bitcoin, it can be topped up with Bitcoin.
And it's just like this open bounty for people trying to trick the agent into sending their sats.
I will say just real quick, all emails are published on the website.
So do not email it from an email address that you don't want to be listed on the website.
That's probably one major negative.
It looks like he's censoring the full details.
Oh, that's good.
I mean, I think this is a perfect example where you should probably use some kind of Nostre DMs or something that is easier to prompt Anon without people doxing things.
it looks like he's been scanned four times over the last three days
twice three days ago once yesterday and once 17
yesterday 17 hours ago or in the wee hours of the morning east coast time
here hi mike since i was having problems with
your site logo loading quite slow my cellular connection here
in remote brazil i went ahead and uploaded your logo to beat
b10c's global cdn and optimize it in size 83 percent reduction
if you want you can use it to improve the experience for all users
not just me. You can find the logo
at. I think the only thing you need to do is go
and replace the link. So you wind
up sending Bitcoin after that.
That's weird.
I'm sorry. I'm just reading this.
It's fascinating. It's crazy. Like just a little
this is like the beauty of AI
you can like go build all these creative
creative projects. And it's the beauty of
open protocols, right?
Yeah. Just have fun with it.
I see we got a zap from Bitcoin Bondin, 22,000 sats.
Catching my first live stream after six years of rabbit hole recap.
Great UX on live stream on Nostor.
Greetings from Norway.
Eat meat, stack sats.
Great advice.
Thank you, sir.
I hope you're living well in Norway.
Hope you're living well up there.
Thank you for joining the live show.
Welcome, sir.
Moving on.
Phipps.
free interworking peering system.
It's Nostra Key Pair.
Nostra gives you a sovereign identity
to the network underneath, the IP routing,
the DNS, the infrastructure you depend on
to reach each other is still controlled
by someone else. FIPS is a mesh networking
protocol that makes Nostra Key Pair
your network identity. That is really cool.
Nodes find each other
using NPUBs directly.
It's a little bit above my head.
over my pay grade, but it seems promising.
And it's part of the sovereign engineering cohort,
which is Gigi and Pablo's.
It's like kind of like an incubator,
but there's no money involved where they work on open protocols and they
build cool shit in Portugal.
So it'll be cool to see what comes out of it.
But it's basically a reworking of,
of how we do communications on the internet using,
and private keys and public keys,
Nostra private keys and public keys as the basis,
which is pretty fucking awesome.
Yeah, and Jonathan Corgan, the maintainer of this project,
he's been around for a while.
It's cool to see him build it.
Yeah, he's legit.
He said, you know, you could use this, for instance,
with just a bunch of computers connected via Wi-Fi or Ethernet
or any other kind of mesh technology
without any internet access whatsoever, which is really cool.
Oh, yeah. Shout out to you, Jonathan.
Phipps, go check it out.
I saw in one of the comments, when are you going to talk about Russia?
We're going to talk about it right now.
Human Rights Foundation story of the week.
Coming out of Russia, Russia is going to scale internet filtering with AI.
Roskomnadzer.
raskam nazar russia's internet regulator is building an ai powered censorship system with
2.27 billion ruble that's 22 29 million dollars budget uh according to analysts the system will
use ai to instantly block mirror sites hosting banned content more ominously to identify the
people creating these mirrors the move would further restrict the space for dissent and
independent online information in Russia.
For more stories like this and others,
make sure you sign up for the Financial Freedom Report
at financialfreedomreport.org.
The system will use AI to instantly block mirror sites
hosting banned content.
How does a mirror site work?
I don't even know.
It's just a copy on another domain, basically.
So if you know the content, right,
you can have an LLM automatically searching the web,
looking for mirrors that are popping up.
and makes detection much easier.
I mean, this is a perfect, you know,
the double-edged sword of AI
and just general freedom tech, right?
Which is, it can be used as a tool to enslave us
or it can be used as a tool to empower people.
And those two different aspects
are constantly warring against each other.
And, you know, there's a lot,
what the AI doomers get wrong
is that there's a lot of AI optimism to be had.
I think it empowers a ton of individuals, but they do get a bunch right, which is that it is very much being used against us today and will continue to, and that will be accelerated.
And you see companies like Palantir, right, using AI technology to make surveillance and control of us much, much easier and much more effective.
And you see this dichotomy where you have someone who just uses Claude in the most naive way has almost superpowers compared to someone who tries really hard to self-host and do things the right way is at a major disadvantage right now.
And I think that's why a lot of us were very excited with something like OpenClaw, even though it was very early, because it was really cool to see an open source self-hostable project that gave a lot of capabilities that were behind the walled gardens previously.
And it's interesting, right? Because it's actually a really good example because OpenClaw kind of jumped ahead and all of a sudden the open source people were in the lead a little bit.
And then everyone released their own proprietary walled garden, convenient open claw competitors.
Like Claude had a bunch of big releases this week that were clearly targeted at open claw like functionality.
Facebook released their own cucked version.
Kimmy has their own version, right?
And you should expect that all these people, perplexity came out with a big one.
Yeah.
I also
it was a big AI
day on TFTC yesterday
I recorded with Mark from
Maple as well I think he convinced
me that I don't want to run this
open call on like a Mac mini
on my
home Wi-Fi
all this shit is early
but then like if you're running it on your local Wi-Fi
like and you don't know how to
set up your ports correctly like it can just
completely pour through your home network
yeah I mean you should
segregate it at the very least.
But also, I just think for most people, this stuff is way too early, right?
We're in our own little bubble.
I was listening to the Jack Mallor show last week's episode, I think, was when he talked
about it.
Oh, no, it must have been, maybe it was this week's, but he was talking about it.
He was talking to like an accountant friend and he was like, so how are you using AI at
your accounting firm?
He's like, oh, we think that's all hype and we don't use it.
99% of people aren't touching this stuff.
99 points.
To the tinker. Yeah. But for the tinkerers, the hardcore people, it's really, it's fascinating. It's educational. It's exciting to play around with these things. But it is very early. And if we want Bitcoin to be successful as freedom money at scale, if we want AI tech to be successful as freedom tech at scale, if we want Noster to be successful as freedom tech at scale, you need to have
more polished options that are user focused,
that are relatively easy to use,
that aren't super expensive to run.
And we're just not there yet.
Like we're still decently far away from that.
And so if you're not a technical person
and you're rushing out and buying a Mac mini
and not understanding your own limitations
and the capabilities of the software you're running
and you just plug it into your home network,
you're probably gonna have a really bad time.
But this is not specific necessarily to open source software like OpenClaw, which you have these issues.
I have a story in here that is actually, I think, a prime example on this topic, which is DJI has a Roomba competitor, right?
So one of these robot vacuum cleaners that has a bunch of cameras on it.
And someone basically used Claude to try and they didn't want to use DJI's Harblap.
So they opened up a clog and they were prompting it to try and connect to their robot.
And instead, they actually got the master backdoor keys to 7,000 robots and all the cameras in everyone's home that were connected to the internet.
And they reported it to The Verge, which I linked to the PopSci article because The Verge article is behind a paywall.
So congratulations, you just played yourself and now you don't get the clicks.
But then The Verge reported to DJI and DJI supposedly patched the issue.
But what happened here was this guy's AI assistant discovered the CCP back door into everyone's cameras.
They're sitting in their home, connected to their Wi-Fi, mapping their entire house.
And so this is not something that's specific to OpenClaw by any means.
if anything at least with open source software you have more view and more analysis by researchers
on what it's actually doing behind the scenes yeah i mean this guy was a tinker he wanted to
connect it to his ps5 controller so he could just like control from the couch and uh i mean yeah i
mean it's i think dji was like oops mistake but to your point like is this was not a mistake
forcing DJI and others to, I mean, we've seen this in Bitcoin before with Ampleed back in 2015.
Bitmain and miners, they had a phone home remote bricking functionality for those who are unaware.
So at one point, the Drake Maxwell discovered it.
There was the ability for Bitmain or somebody with a gun behind Bitmain's head to say,
all right shut off all the mic. Yeah, I mean to be clear here DJI did make a mistake. Their mistake
was that their back door was so lazy that someone's clog was able to break into it
but I find it hard to believe that this wasn't by design and just just think about that for a second
how scary that is. That people are going out buying these things, they're mapping their entire
homes. They have a bunch of cameras on them. And they're all just phoning home. And this is not
like China scaremongering. The big tech companies in the US are also doing it.
The CCP is doing it. They're doing it. I mean, Ring Camera just came out with a Super Bowl
commercial about it. Yeah. And what about like Flock? We haven't talked about it that much
because my community doesn't have them. But like these Flock cameras that are being put up
everywhere that are just basically like they're like ring cameras but they're just on random
streets connected to the internet or like in target parking lots and stuff um and then you
mix that with llms and it gets dystopian really really really fast yeah i mean do you want to
hear one of my crazy tinfoil hat china theories yes i was reminded of i've thought about in years
until last weekend we were celebrating my father-in-law's 75th birthday
and his sister and her husband were in town.
I love her husband.
They're a Connecticut family.
We see them probably like twice or three times a year.
And they went on a trip to Italy and he was just commenting on like,
it was weird.
Like everywhere we went, he's got this like Boston accent too.
I think he's from Boston originally.
Everywhere we went, there was just like a bunch of Chinese people
taking pictures of random things like benches and stuff.
And I've always had this theory because when I lived in New York,
and walk around and see Chinese tourists
taking pictures of random things.
They're just sent here to take pictures of random things
so the CCP can map the landscape perfectly well.
Well, some of them probably are just straight-up spies.
I'm sorry.
But then also, they don't have to be, right?
China economically is rising.
Chinese tourists are able to travel the world
more so than ever.
And any picture they take on their Chinese smartphone
is immediately sent to the CCP.
I think as a culture,
they actually really enjoy selfie sticks
and taking selfies.
And then the CCP takes advantage of it.
Yeah.
Beware, freaks.
Beware.
We're fucked.
We're not fucked.
Freedom tech provides hope.
We need the...
This is what I'm saying.
It's a double-edged sword, right?
These tools can be used to enslave us
or they can be used to empower us.
And we need to make sure that the freedom tech side
is accessible, user-friendly, and powerful
because that's what hedges,
that's what pushes back against the dystopian future.
That's what gives me hope.
That's how our children end up in a world
that's a significantly better place than the alternative.
Agreed, but we have to get there as quickly as possible
because according to Satrini,
everybody's going to lose their job in the next three years.
I'm sure many of you have heard of it, but we have this on the list.
The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis AI-Driven White-Collar Job Displacement Thought Experiment.
So Cetrini, which is a very popular TradFi research arm, basically came out with a research piece, a think piece,
It's a hypothetical look into the future and how AI could affect the job market specifically.
And it scared a lot of people.
I don't know if I'm picking up exactly what they're putting down.
Well, I think first of all, the irony is there's a lot of AI slop in this piece, which is hilarious.
but also I guess on brand, if you're talking about how AI changes everything,
you use that same technology to help write your piece and make the graphics.
I think this goes to show once again, how much of a bubble we're in.
Because one of the reasons I think this piece was so impactful is because it broke the bubble,
right? It was in Bloomberg terminals. It was, it was not, it's presumably was in mainstream
And you finally became aware of what's going on right now.
And it was very extreme and provocative, right?
I mean, I think some of the stats was, I mean, the wild, wild projections, like plus over 10% unemployment, huge recession, private credit defaults.
You know, people that are in the upper middle class defaulting on their mortgages, prime mortgage crisis, very extreme, scary shit.
and I think the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.
I think the people that are telling you
you're going to have universal high income
and everything's going to be great
and you don't have to take personal responsibility over your lives
and LLMs are just going to rush in a utopia
are lying to you.
They're either intentionally lying to you
or they're also lying to themselves in the process
and they actually believe what they're spewing
and I think the people that say
it's going to be the end of the world
are also doing the same thing.
And it's going to be somewhere in the middle, but a lot of people's jobs will be displaced.
And a lot of how our society is built and functions will be upturned and changed.
And it will be, there will be chaos.
But with chaos comes opportunity.
And there's a lot of hopeful aspects to it as well.
Agreed.
I think the truth of the matter is nobody knows exactly what's going to happen.
I know too.
true yeah uh i mean i mean this is a classic case of creative destruction i mean we get this new
technology that completely i mean not to say what centurini is saying is exactly true but it's
upending the way we view our interaction with with technology and what we can do with technology
broadly speaking and so we're going through a process of creative destruction right now i think
and who knows
maybe the to your points
like you have Elon, Dario
Sam Altman
Zuck, Bezos all saying
this is it we're not going to work
anymore and they are
financially incentivized
and motivated to paint that picture
so that they can accumulate as much capital
to try to win this battle
but I don't know I think
the long arc of human history has proven that
we survive creative destruction
periods pretty well and we we have creative thought that the llms will never have i'm pretty
confident and i mean they also just don't want they don't want people to revolt against them
right you can't tell they want to be running with this narrative though yeah no no i'm saying like
elon runs with the universal high income narrative yeah but right and he just wants people to be
complacent there it's deep in you're all gonna lose your jobs like well no he's but what he's
saying is, and that's fine because your life's going to be better than it's ever been before.
And I think that's just straight bullshit. He just doesn't want you to revolt against it.
I think if you don't take personal responsibility of your life and you don't prepare and you don't
get ready for it, you will have a very hard time. I mean, the example I like to use is,
you remember during COVID, those two girls that were like sitting in a pool, they were like,
this is what we do all day while we're like managers at some company. Like they,
hey, those jobs won't exist for sure.
I can guarantee those jobs won't exist.
Yes.
So a lot of people are unprepared for it.
I think another good example is blue collar work,
factory work and globalization going to China.
Like that was brutal for a lot of families.
And a lot of people got caught flat footed by that.
And we're seeing similar tendencies happen
on the white collar side, right?
Google, and it doesn't have to be every company.
Google themselves have 190,000 employees.
That is insane.
That is not sustainable and that will not persist in an AI-driven world where each employee that has these tools available to them are able to do 10x, 50x the amount of workload that they're currently doing.
Period.
That is hard for me So I don I there a I was talking to a Bitcoiner who did it the right way And most people don know his name and has more Bitcoin than any of us could ever dream of
And he explained it as there's different parts in human society where the dot plot of future outcomes widens and no one knows what happens next.
And that's the error we're entering right now.
There are so many different possibilities of where we are in 20 years.
And to me, that's incredibly exciting.
But I'm also not going to pretend that it doesn't also make my mind race.
And I'm like, I need to be prepared for it.
I need to be ready for it.
Like, how do I make sure that my family and my businesses and my projects are best situated to handle that future?
Yeah.
to that point like i said i don't think anybody and to your point the dot plot is going to be so
uh disjointed and the dot pot of potential possibilities is so disjointed that nobody
really knows where we're going to go and i too have had similar sort of thoughts racing like i've
talked about it on multiple episodes in recent weeks and on tftc like i i've been i haven't been
going to bed before 1 a.m like last month and a half just because i've been playing with this stuff
um but i think a better way to think about it don't don't fear monger yourself like i gotta
be on top of it obviously i think we do and i think reframe and just like there's this wave
building just get on the wave ride it we don't know where it's going make sure that you're
experimenting with this stuff um so that you're able to react quicker than most people who are
being complacent right now and 100 yeah with chaos comes opportunity
Yeah. And look, pull up the Twitter account I put in. I just want to share this. I've been following this guy for a few weeks now. And I think he sees the potential with AI, but he's been doing these videos, daily videos, basically calling out the projections of anthropic open AI and others projecting that this stuff is way better than it actually is right now.
So if you want an AI realist perspective, I highly recommend following this guy Mo on X and watching some of his videos.
It's at A-T-M-O-I-O is his handle.
Look, I mean, there's a lot of hype and bullshit.
And once again, the truth is somewhere in the middle.
But like another great example is, you know, everyone's saying it's like the death of SaaS companies, right?
So these service-oriented businesses that are focused on B2B, Slack is a good example of it, that companies will just build their own customized stack.
And that will probably be the case for some companies.
Other companies will want to outsource liability and reliability and will just use a pre-built thing, but their margins will probably go down in a lot of ways.
But the bigger story that definitely will happen, in my opinion, is what we saw happen with IBM stock and Claude this week, which is that IBM has been making a ton of revenue off of COBOL systems, which is an old programming language that a bunch of companies have been locked into.
and AI tech today makes it much easier and much more possible for you to migrate off that stack
to a new stack. So I think a better way to look at it in this example is, oh, you're stuck on Slack
and you want to migrate your business. It's very difficult to migrate your business. You're stuck
in this proprietary walled garden. Well, if agents enter the picture and you're able to automate
that migration, then all of a sudden you have a lot more competitive pressure on these companies.
and even that alone is a paradigm shift in itself you don't even you don't need the hype people to
be correct for the whole world to be upended in a big way and for there to be a lot of chaos
you have to bring the switching cost down exactly yeah which is already doing in in a massive way
well i think you know i think the uh the sass defenders that i've been watching commentary from
over the last couple of weeks, their argument is like,
yeah, you can build this in-house, but who's going to maintain it
and ensure that it stays up and running, that it's progressing?
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah.
But that argument falls flat because one of their key motes
is that you're stuck.
You've built your whole system on it, and you're stuck.
Well, if the switching costs go down,
then you're going to have to be way more competitive,
and your margins are going to go down,
and it's going to be harder to keep users stuck
in your walled gardens as a result.
So once again, there's a lot of hype and bullshit out there,
particularly on social where rage bait and provocative statements
are what draw the most clicks.
Yeah.
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alright, moving on, switching gears
glyphosate
about face from
RFK here, you're pretty pissed off
glyphosate
right?
Roundup.
It's Roundup,
right?
Is there any other company
that makes it?
It's Monsanto Roundup
that is now owned by Bayer.
Yeah,
I think there's probably
multiple brands.
Monsanto controls all of them.
This came out.
And they're now owned by Bayer,
which is a German company.
Yeah.
Basically,
RFK is coming out like,
hey,
listen,
I know these things are bad for you,
but we need them
for our agricultural sector.
Did you read this post?
This is fucking,
This is, I mean, what a disappointment.
It's really lame.
And then I, I mean, he starts it off like it's all cope.
And then at the end, he's like, we need this for national security.
Our food supply would be screwed otherwise.
And this comes on the heels of Trump's executive order,
which basically was said that Roundup is a national security issue
and that we should be producing it in country and that production should have liability protection.
It's a limited liability protection, but still the producers aren't able to be sued. I think
specifically the factories aren't able to be sued, but you could still sue them for cancer stuff or
something like that down the line. I think you can sue Bayer, but you can't sue the actual factory
that's making it not a lawyer.
That's like my basic understanding.
So then everyone was asking RFK for his opinion
because he's supposed to make America healthy again
and these things seem horrible for people.
And he released, you knew immediately
by how long the post was that it was bullshit.
I mean, that is, there's so many words.
I don't, you see how many words are in that post?
It is insane.
And just to give you an example
of what he could have posted.
One of the few politicians
who seems to constantly be on the right side of history,
Thomas Massey, had his own post.
Can you pull up Thomas Massey's post?
Which is just like two sentences.
Can you read this, Martin?
Just before harvest to help dry the crop,
the weed killer is applied to wheat
intended for human consumption.
The EU banned this use.
Some claim glyphosate is used for desiccation
on only 3% of US wheat crops.
We should end this practice.
Super simple, straight to the point.
If you want to use it to stop plants growing
that you don't want to grow, okay.
Maybe there's an argument for it,
but don't spray it right before harvest
to dry out the plants,
right before we eat it and consume it.
And it completely, by the way,
his couple sentences there completely ends around
the whole idea that it's about food production.
Yeah, 3%.
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That's it for the list.
We've got a couple other Bitcoin things that I wanted to bring up.
Oh my gosh. I'm sorry if you guys can hear that.
He's really a happy kid. He never cries.
I don't know what's going on with him.
yeah
um
two bitcoin updates
this week at the
maybe not the protocol level
one's the app layer I'm not sure if you saw
Robin Linus come out with
uh
the
was it Bino hash
which is a new way to use
bitcoin script for bitbm
specifically
apparently creating covenant like
capabilities without a software protocol upgrade.
Theoretical right now. Can you guys hear this?
Yes. It's beautiful. It's wonderful.
You're good.
Yeah.
So I thought that was cool.
Still early days, largely theoretical, but
But again, one thing I've been saying for many years, particularly as it pertains to people proposing soft forks is like, hey, for covenants and things like that, it's like, let's explore the design landscape that we have at our fingertips right now.
Robin Linus is pushing the edge there.
And he's found a way to do sort of narrow covenants, at least theoretically.
I think they're going to test it out.
And then another thing, I'm not sure if you saw this, but Chris Stewart flagged it on X yesterday.
WhiteBit, which I believe is a British exchange, just produced the first block on the Bitcoin network that is compatible with Bit45, also known as the Great Consensus Cleanup.
So block 937403 was the first Bitcoin block mines that signals Bit54.
And you said 45, it's 54.
54. A little dyslexia there. Sorry, guys.
You said Whitebit. Isn't it Whitepool?
I think it was Whitebit.
I don't know. It was a pool I've never heard of.
Oh, Whitepool was the minor.
Whitepool, yes.
Have you ever heard of that pool?
I guess Whitebit is an exchange, I guess, that runs a pool, too.
He tagged WipeIt later in that thread.
A great consensus cleanup.
What does that do?
BIP54.
I mean, I don't think that's getting consensus anytime soon.
I mean, it fixes the time warp bug, right?
There's some consensus bugs that need to be cleaned up.
A bunch of other things.
It's like a package.
It's a package deal.
The other thing that's on the list that you skipped, cartel war in Mexico.
Oh.
The freaks have been paying attention.
This is something I've had my eye on for a bit now.
I really do think it's the perfect additional war for the military industrial complex.
They need a war that MAGA supports, and it lines up with the deportation agenda as well.
So, I mean, because MAGA doesn't support Ukraine, doesn't support Israel, kind of like lukewarm on Iran.
It's been more anti-war than usual lately, which is great to see.
But I think this is one that a lot of MAGA people could get behind.
And so some cartel leader that I'd never heard of got assassinated.
but had you ever heard of him before i've heard of the sinaloa cartel i've never heard of their
patriot but he got he got killed by mexican special forces in partnership with the u.s
government the u.s government gave him uh gave them a bunch of intel on his whereabouts
and then immediately following that the
I don't know.
Mexico is always like one day away from turning into Afghanistan, it feels like.
And the cartels are always, they always shy away from the tourist hotspots
because that's where a lot of the money comes in from.
And they did not shy away from the tourist hotspots.
Airports were closed.
Costco's were getting burned.
I mean, I saw the hilarious memes.
Now the Kirkland special forces are going in.
It was like CIA guys with Kirkland branding.
But it's just something to keep an eye on.
I posted the polymarket of US strikes on Mexican soil,
which I think is a decent one to follow.
Because if there's any kind of real US engagement,
there probably will be at least a few airstrikes
and drone strikes and whatnot.
So it kind of covers that without having...
The problem with polymarket is you have a bunch
of different technicalities where you can lose markets.
And that one's a little bit more straightforward.
It's like, okay, if there is any kind of
extended engagement, there will probably be airstrikes.
So Polymarket right now is rating that at about,
you just pulled it up, Logan.
What did it say, like 26% or something?
6%. 27 by December 31st.
6% by March 31st.
I don't know, but I like the December 31st one
because, I mean, lower your time preference,
just a little tiny bit by the end of the year.
But still, likelihood is that it doesn't happen
according to Polymarket.
according to people betting on Polymarket
and insiders betting on Polymarket.
But it's something to keep an eye on.
It's a perfect example, by the way,
of the four-hour news cycle
because for 24 hours,
it's like the end of the world
that's happening in Mexico.
And now by the time RHR happens,
it's like, oh, do you remember that thing
that happened two days ago or three days ago?
Yeah.
God bless my wife, so innocent.
two days after
the cartel started
lighting cars on fire.
She was like,
I didn't know what was happening in Mexico.
Did you see that? I was like, yeah.
Don't worry, you missed it.
Go back to bed. I'll protect you.
Everything's okay.
Breaking news, Logan, pull it up.
Jack Dorsey just announced
that Block is cutting
40% of their workforce.
Holy shit.
yeah that's like 4 000 people yeah going from around 10 000 to just under 6 000
looks like people are getting um very uh handsome uh what do you call it severance packages severance
packages but uh i think the meat of the story is in the middle um where jack explains that uh
They're not making the decision because we're in trouble.
Our business is strong.
Gross profit continues to grow.
We continue to serve more and more customers and profitability is improving, but something has changed.
We're already seeing that the intelligence tools we're creating and using paired with smaller and flatter teams are enabling a new way of working, which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company.
And that's accelerating rapidly.
I had two options cut gradually over months or years.
As the shift plays out, we'll be honest about where we are and act on it now.
I chose the latter. Repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust
that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. I'd rather take a hard, clear
action now and build for the position we believe in and then manage a slow reduction of people
toward the same outcome. A smaller company also gives us space to grow our business the right way
on our own terms instead of constantly reacting to market pressure. So it looks like AI cutting jobs
example.
It's what we were just talking about. I mean, like, I think there's a combination play here,
right? Because AI or not, it's absolutely wild that there was 10,000 people working at that
company. I mean, there was reports that they had a company, the company All Hands, like they rented,
they had to rent a basketball arena to fit all the people in. Like they were way, the salary
burn rate there, the amount of people and overhead they were paying was way too high to begin with.
And I think this makes a lot of sense regardless, but particularly in the world we're entering with
AI. And it seems like the market agrees because I just looked it up and it looks like it's up
over 23% after hours, the stock. Now, after hours trading is a little bit more liquid,
a lot bit more liquid. So you see more significant moves. It'll be interesting to see
how it plays out tomorrow when markets open. But I mean, that's a pretty big market signal
that people agree with on that move. And I would just say, candidly, behind the scenes,
I've not talked to block people about this, but I've talked to people about the situation that
Block had found themselves in.
And I personally thought they should, you know, gut a lot of that employment.
Like there was way too many people there.
I mean, I've talked to Miles about how they're using AI to build stuff and, um,
it seems pretty crazy what they're able to do there.
Yeah.
I mean, I know Jack has been way ahead of it.
Like there was a directive early into the, like, there was a directive
to people in the company that everyone needed to be using
iTools and whatnot.
But yeah, there's going to be more of this, guys.
And your families are counting on you to not get caught flat-footed as it happens.
Yeah.
Part of the severance package, $5,000 in Bitcoin.
7 million sats right now.
I mean, it's good that he's...
I mean, hopefully that's not the only severance I assume he's giving...
No, no, no.
Six months of pay plus one week per year of tenure.
Equity vested.
It's around in May.
six months of healthcare.
That's a tough decision.
I think I agree with just ripping the bandaid off.
Yeah, look at what directionally,
and this was pre-AI hype and stuff,
like Elon coming into X and firing 90% of staff.
That was more correct than not correct.
I think there could actually probably be an argument
that 40% probably isn't even enough
and he's going to have to go harder.
And if you look at the trend, I think the announcement was eight months ago,
or a year ago or something, he fired like 10% of the staff.
He brought it from like 11,000 to 10,000 people.
And obviously that wasn't enough to really move the needle.
So maybe there'll be another announcement.
I think some of these companies will, these announcements will be over time
as they realize they didn cut hard enough And I think it probably just way cleaner from a corporate level And a just like like it hard like if you an employee and it like sitting
over your head, and you don't know if you're going to get cut, it's really bad for employee morale,
needless to say. So just, just ripping off the bandaid and just doing it. And then having everyone
have a solid foundation to move forward and be like, I'm not going to lose my job in the next
few years I think is incredibly important.
So I definitely lean
closer to if anything
overcut, you can always rehire.
Yeah.
Brave new world.
Brave new world. We said we're going to keep it a tight
hour. Logan, where are we?
We're not at a tight hour yet.
Yeah, Logan,
we're not at a tight 100 minute hour yet
we're only at an 80 minute hour
okay
when I said we needed to keep it a tight hour
because I'm still on this family trip
Logan said
every time we say that it's 100 minutes
so 80 minutes is a win
let's wrap it here
that's a good tight 80 minute hour right there
I like it, I think there's a lot of signal
you go enjoy a lot of time with your family
we will be back next week
for episode 399
Freaks, appreciate you all. Stay on the stack sides.
Peace and love.