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You've had a dynamic where money's 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.
We're going to win it all back in one trade.
What's that trade going to be?
What are we dumping into?
How's it going, freaks?
These are the days when men are made.
You had?
to do the early,
what do we call it?
Shout out Luke Groman.
Great call.
You had to take victory laps.
Well,
look,
it's not over yet.
He's still,
the hard part is rotating back in.
Yeah.
But yeah,
a hand up,
you know,
shout out Luke Groman.
Good call.
Shout out Luke.
Shout out all you bears out there.
Here's to the bears today.
I know you're,
You're having a good one.
He rotated to gold at an opportune time, but we'll see how it plays out for him.
And, I mean, out of anyone, I don't think you can give me – you can't give me shit.
I'm not going to drag – I know you're in the dumpster.
Super cycle?
Hey, I held my hand up early.
I'm not going to drag you on that.
Admitted it was tongue-in-cheek.
Okay, if you say so.
I probably legitimately believed it for like –
two days um it's fine you know none of us sold the top so um it happened again caught completely off
guard happens every time we're ever gonna learn
so if your freaks are unaware the price of bitcoin's been dumping all week
imagine being the zen
the zen freak out there who just found out he's just listening live he's like oh shit really
yeah yeah we're in the 60s bro high 60s still we'll see how long we last year but
almost 50 below the all-time high 47 no matter though look freaks bitcoin goes to zero they'll
still be in rhr this week so um you're guaranteed you're guaranteed at least one more rhr yeah this
could be the second to last episode ever the way things are going did you see i went on uh
assessment show yesterday why we're bullish yeah you know i did see you wrong because i texted you
last night because you were uh making fun of my peak world take uh no my wife texted you because
it was super sweet and my toddler was watching and asked where marty was and that's why you got
a text shout out to him um but yeah no the peak clown world take was 2021 what a bad god i wish
i was peak that would have been ideal that was like the best time to buy a clown world if there
was a clown world clown world ripped after that bro that was like a clown world bottom let alone
a peak um but anyway that was his second to last episode but uh he's just changing formats i think
yeah i saw that what's i mean he said to be determined we'll find out next week so
but i mean the joke the jokes write themselves it's like why are you ending why we're bullish
it's like well you know no longer bullish um yeah
have you ever seen like a consistent just dump what's going on it's binance down
is uh binance going down what are the rumors i know the rumors but what are the rumors do you
think there's gotta be dead bodies out there that haven't floated to the surface yet ever since
october ever since october 10th when we saw the crypto flash crash uh there's been at least
there's probably at least one if not more
um
insolvent parties out there that just haven't floated to the surface yet
but i mean we were talking about this before we went live i mean
i don't know if i've ever seen sentiment this low
um sentiment is people are freaking out um but we have seen the price move
negative in a bad way quickly in the past i mean march 12 2020 is like a day i'll never forget
um i think it was brad mills post on nostril he posted a screenshot
of the market on march 12 2020 without the date on it like it was one of those uh you know with
the blocks that show like how down every asset is and i knew right away i just looked at it was
like oh march 12 2020 it's like 100 i'm never gonna forget that day uh we went from i don't
know like 9k to three and a half k um so if you've been around for a while like you're used to this
but i still have like even then like sentiment wasn't as bad as it is today sentiment during
march 12 2020 was like oh shit the world is incredibly fucked up like we'll go down with
the ship if we go down with the ship this is this feels different uh in a lot of ways on how people
are feeling about it and you know i think i've been relatively consistent about it i like i think a
large part of it is that this cycle is just dominated by the strategy micro strategy stuff
and treasury companies and you know if you're holding meta planet right now or god forbid naka
similar scientific you're down like 90 95 percent people levered up on levered bitcoin plays
and that's how most new people got brought in this cycle do you think there's been manipulation in
these markets actually look everyone claims manipulation down and just like normal market
procedure up i think it's like a little bit of fucking cope like if you have 24 7 365 global free
markets uh is it manipulation or is it just people trading i mean i think uh paper definitely
suppressed us on the on the way up uh but was it intentionally suppressed like i like i think
I think in a lot of ways towards the top,
MSTR and the other treasury companies suppressed us.
I don't think they intended to suppress us.
I mean, it was a negative feedback loop that hurt themselves.
But I think one of the big lies is that
this was net new money buying these stocks
that couldn't buy Bitcoin otherwise,
while the reality was it was mostly retail driven.
And those people probably would have just stacked sets
themselves, which would have been strictly better
in terms of market dynamics and market structure.
I think that's a very good distillation.
What's happening here?
Our friend Michael Tanguma posted this.
Just almost 45 minutes ago,
DATS, digital asset treasuries, are down $25 billion
cumulatively with zero above their cost basis.
Bit mine being down the most,
which is Tom Lee's
Ethan
invested in Mr. Beast Industries
which is probably his best investment
but
no I mean
also like
look I know
I'm not trying to kick people while they're down
and I'm definitely going to be accused
of it and whatever
but
why is Saylor having Tom Lee
on his earnings goal today?
Who made that decision?
Who was the retard that was like,
oh, yeah, the guy who has
the Ethereum competitor to strategy
that's down even worse than us
while we're in the dumps.
So we'll have him take Q&A on the earnings goal.
Well, maybe that's why.
Saylor wants to bring him on.
He's like, yeah, Tom, come on.
Give us your thesis.
think it's bad here look at what tom's doing yeah middle of the call is gonna be like god
you could be invested in this guy's company okay it could be worse see ya see you tom kick him out
of the zoom um but yeah i think part of the reason for the sentiment is just like macro right now is
uncertain as hell like it's chaotic people are scared people are poor people have lost hope
the meme that keeps circulating all over the place, which, you know, I think any viral meme
is based on at least some basis in reality is like the, you have six months not to get stuck
in the permanent underclass. And I feel like that is permeating like the psychosis of a lot of people.
And in that situation, you try and abandon risk assets and try and go and find safe havens. Right.
And we see the metals surging.
We see commodities surging.
We see people escaping to dollars, even though we're in an inflationary environment.
And Bitcoin, to me, has always been the ultimate safe haven.
Like, where else would I keep my wealth?
It's so uniquely risk-reduced because you're not trusting third parties.
But if you got onboarded through your Schwab account into buying a Japanese hotel company that is stacking Bitcoin, then of course you're going to think of it as a risk asset.
You're never going to think of it as a safe haven because it's not a safe haven in that situation.
So here we are.
It's not fun to watch the price drop like this.
I'm looking at the daily chart on TradingView.
But even silver, gold, they're down bad today.
And to your point, I think the frothiness in the markets, the lack of money out there, it's – I don't know.
If you just look at the Case-Shiller PE ratio, it's at dot-com levels.
So I think people are looking out there like –
That's what I'm saying.
It's macro, and we're being treated as a risk asset.
By the way, don't give me the cope of gold doubt.
Gold is still over $4,800 an ounce.
I was just looking at trading view
1.3%
Silver got hit
Silver got hit today
Silver's down 10.5%
But silver's still trading over $75
I don't think there's any silver holders out there
That are
Upset
Yeah
And
Point chart is ugly man
It's ugly
it's like just like a bunch of times it is wild times um but this is why we come here
lift everybody's spirits okay and we'll start this show we'll stay on topic here let's go to
clark's dashboard the current price of bitcoin is 65 630 cuck bucks one cuck bucks and get you
1,524 sats we are at a 1.31 trillion dollar market cap 700 billion dollars more than that has left
the bitcoin market since last october uh which is when we reached our all-time high of 126,160
cuck bucks we are currently 48 below that 48 full market correction we're in the middle of right now
we are at block height 935,157
which means we are 267 blocks
just under two days away from the next difficulty retarget
which is estimated to be on February 7th
it's looking like a negative 13.2% adjustment
so blocks have been coming in 11 minutes and 31 seconds on average
miners got the double whammy of having to do demand response and then the price fell
and then things warmed up in the southwest Tennessee Valley.
And they're like, should we turn these things back on?
Is it worth it?
I don't know.
I've been waiting for the fee market to develop,
but not like this, man, not like this.
That's what I was just going to say.
There is one thing pumping out there, and it is Mempools.
Clark's Mempool has 12,900 transactions in it.
If we go over to Mempools, Mempool,
we'll see they have 31,332 transactions.
Cooled off a little bit.
I sent a tweet out earlier, high priority transactions where we're calling for an 11 sat per V-byte fee.
But right now it's sitting at 5 sat per V-byte, medium priority 4, low priority 3 sat per V-byte.
That is the state of the network.
Everyone's scrambling to get to fucking exchanges.
To buy, right?
Everybody smash, everybody go out there.
We're going to stop it right now.
Everybody go out and smash buy.
kidding uh i smash bought a little bit today if i'm being honest uh we did do have a bunch of zaps
in in the nostor live stream so at minor 21 212 sats pounder that don't worry freaks this is
technically called the soap cycle wash rinse repeat tray 21 012 sats another pound drum zap
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Phil Mustang, 21,212 zap, three palindrome zaps in a row.
Hat tip, checkmate.
Bison are some of the only animals that see a storm and run through it instead of away.
Quickest way out is through.
Thanks, fellas.
Shout out, bison.
Shout out, checkmate.
I'm actually recording with him 5 p.m. Eastern tonight, 7 a.m. local his time, down under.
Mav 21, 21,000 sats.
No comment with it.
You guys are being very generous today.
I really appreciate this.
Hawaii Satoshi, 21,212.
Another palindrome.
Zap, strong timber grows from tough winds.
Statue of Liberty.
Stars.
Heart.
Very inspiring.
Thank you, Freaks, for supporting the show.
By the way, we...
We got one more.
Okay.
sawzall 21 000 sats bear markets for building seed signers love it um we forgot uh what is this 395
we forgot two episodes ago to read the zaps that came in on the nostor video right so after we
stream we post to podcast feeds and we post to nostor natively and people are able to comment
and support the show that way.
And I forgot to read those.
We have roaming with 21,000 sets.
Those are either three asteroids or three basketballs.
Let's go with asteroids.
It fits better.
Florida Justin, backup power maxi, 21,112 sets.
And Plebianon, 50,000 sets, 50,005 sets.
So palindrome boost.
The bright orange light hurts my eyes.
Going to be a great year.
Thank you, Freaks, for supporting the show.
It is going to be great.
I tweeted out the supporting.
It is a great year.
Thumbs like this, they remind you.
Stay humble, Stack Sats.
What's that mean?
Make sure you have cash flow.
They have a job.
I know the permanent underclass meme is very prominent right now.
You're listening to the show.
You're not going to be in the permanent underclass, okay?
No, we won't let it happen.
Cash flow.
Keep your fiat mining job.
Bitcoin in cold storage.
I mean the permanent underclass meme the problem with that is even if there some level of truth to it is that it pushes you into like super short term thinking where like you just gambling
You're like trying to play the lottery on everything and you're just going to lose all your money.
If you want your family to be in a secure place, it's going to come with a grind.
You have to grind it out.
Maybe there's a few people that get lucky, hit a lottery, whatever.
Maybe there's a few people that successfully scam people.
But the real path is a grind, and it's being steady and perseverant and pushing through it.
On that note, Logan, will you pull up this tweet, please?
I think we usually don't talk about it, but I think this one warrants a little discussion.
before we get to that just real quick last episode 394 zaps on nostor was roaming sent
another asteroid dude just asteroiding us left and right 21 000 sats and bitcoinpricereport.com
uh sent 21 000 sats thank you sir um kyle samani all done on crypto
Forbes 30 under 30
multi-coin
wild
good to see
crypto is just
fundamentally not as interesting
as many crypto enthusiasts
wanted
myself included
I once believed
in the web 3 vision
apps
I don't anymore
blockchains are asset ledgers
we'll reshape finance
but not much more than that
deep in is the other notable area
crypto is going higher
I keep it's like a big meme
I have no idea
I think it's like identity
something to do with identity
I think I could be wrong.
What he means is he already scammed a bunch of people on shit coins,
and now there's no room to scam people anymore, so he's pivoting.
Crypto is going higher, but all the interesting questions have been answered.
Other than on-chain confidentiality, I remain convicted.
Zama will win that.
He couldn't help himself but shill a shit coin at the end.
Right.
Solana dumped hard on this news.
There's a shit coin shill on the way out.
this guy was
I wonder if he's still intellectually short Bitcoin
and
yes
I mean clearly
did you not just read that tweet
yeah I mean he was bullish on Google Glass
like 12 years ago
bearish on Bitcoin
I wanted to highlight that because I think
there are a bunch of fair weather fans
in this industry
mostly
a bunch of opportunistic
drifters
is how I would describe them
we have the best people
and the worst people
in this industry
yeah
we're not going anywhere
unless Bitcoin goes to zero
we'll do one more show
and then we're gone
but
a little
and he's another one
who had a digital asset
treasury company
a Solana
treasury company
I think he's still sitting
on the board there
as chairman
or whatever
vitalix selling as ethereum that's what people are saying
finance is uh selling down their food fund
they would i mean that's got to be bullshit right they are we meant to buy a billion dollars but we
accidentally sold a billion dollars that's a troll account right at zoomer like it's like a it's like
i'm pretty sure it's like a walter bloomberg troll account like a fake breaking news account
yeah yeah we have silent.link zapped us 42 000 sats the discounted bitcoin price is the index
of how much the population is dumbed down with epstein and other nonsense anyway silent.link
bitcoin price is crashing but my e-sim still works shout out you sir getting a little more expensive
it still works it still works if you want the best sell service available go to silent.link
can pay with bitcoin it's wonderful really is really is what else do we have to uh start off
this show with 20 minutes in i um one of my buddies one of the only high school friend i had
that listened to me about bitcoin um held through everything it's like uh it worked out obviously
quite well for him um best trade of his life texted me on signal right before we went live
and said are we going back down to 5k which is like just a perfect sign of the times um and i
responded back to him about to go live at rhr if you want to watch and then he just responded back
to me i'm not watching your show if it goes to zero lol you have to watch at least one more
we're coming after it goes to zero you freaks better show up to including your your high school
buddy i'm not watching you show up it goes to zero fair enough fair play it'll be a good rip
uh we'll be we'll be cork popping on that rep we'll bring back the cork pop if uh if it goes
might as well i might be doing it from uh from an alley behind a dumpster after getting kicked
out of my house, but I'll be there.
A kid.
The
list. Let's get to it. OpenSats.
Has a technical writer slash editor
position open.
You
are hiring. Wait.
Yeah, we're hiring. If you need money, which
I assume a lot of the freaks do right now,
we're hiring
and put the job posting in the show notes.
Yeah.
Best part is you get to work closely with Gigi,
which is worth it alone.
I think any compensation you get in addition to that
is just gravy on top.
It's also daunting because you have to work with Gigi
as one of my favorite writers in the space
and your job is to write.
So better be able to step.
With the AI boom,
there's not many people hiring technical writers or editors,
but we appreciate that human artisanal touch
when we're talking about such important topics.
We would like you to turn our team.
Yeah, I need the human to edit the output.
So Opus 4.6 now.
But not only is our job open at OpenSats,
the 16th wave of grants have been given out.
We're going to keep shipping.
We're going to keep shipping until the treasury runs dry because the whole treasury is being held in Bitcoin right now.
So that's our treasury strategy.
Also, if you want to lock in some capital losses, you can wash trade your Bitcoin or you can donate it.
That was bad tax advice.
Take it from me.
But point B.
No tax advice from us.
But we're 501c3, so you get a tax deduction if you donate.
opensats.org consider it consider it we've got a lot of a lot of things to build out here
the back half of the episode we're talking about very bullish things happening on the fundamental
side that pertain to uh open source technologies what do you think here i i mean i think this is a
fantastic wave i think there's a lot of strong projects pretty proud the bitcoin cash uts and
coco cashew dev kit btc aaron and mastering taproot yeah yeah this is a good list stable channels
gets renewal i like stable channels the concept rust bitcoin very important mini bits wallet
prolific summer of bitcoin doing good job macadamia and cove good ios wallets yeah i like this
i like this wave it's a good wave
thank you sir yeah oh sure we got another super chat we got super chats oh i don't even know it's
the same dude it's our dude highbox05 it's uh the guy who's playing video games but his wife is
retired and he has a child uh 20 super chat for marty's wife g-wagon fun don't share with matt
PS bought stretch 95 calls
today because that cycle will do anything to
peg stretch to 100.
What the hell? You're not going to split it with me?
What is
this earnings call going to be like?
That's what I want to know. I think Tom
Lee is really going to make it. I think he was a great
addition.
Was it like a year ago
there was like
maybe it was like
uh i guess it was three quarters ago right where the earnings call was like oh we're
gonna get out into the s&p 500 it's just crazy how quick things turn yeah like that you think
that the s&p 500 guys that like choose the index like they're doing like the laughing old white man
meme right now right like we fucking nailed that call shout out us in the george bush one white
house like haha you know it was never gonna be easy freaks it was never gonna be easy
bitcoin is a peer-to-peer distributed cash system that uh is a complete affront to the incumbent
elite power structure financial political geopolitical economic however you want to describe it
it wasn't going to be an easy road if you're if you're down in your dumps right now because
because Bitcoin's trading below $66,000.
Sack up.
Put your big boy pants on.
Go for a walk.
Get a lift in.
Buckle in for the long haul.
I will say, dude, it's crazy.
I agree.
And this is why I'd like...
This is why the stay humble part's also important
when we're crashing, right?
Because then you convince yourself
that we're going to dump further.
And then that's how you get shaken out.
And the key is to not get shaken out.
You need to survive.
But in a lot of ways, as we go through these cycles,
which we've gone through way too many together,
it's like it gets easier, right?
Because you're just used to it.
We already experienced March 12, 2020.
How much worse could it be?
They locked us in our homes.
They forced injections on us
if we wanted to participate in society.
They had the crazy mask stuff.
And then all at the same time, they knocked our net worths down 70%, 80%.
So in a lot of ways, it gets easier.
But also, we have kids now.
We have businesses.
The numbers are all so much fucking bigger.
The amount my net worth in dollars has gone down over the last year,
most people will never
have
the opportunity to
stay humble
over there
it's only been four months
it's been fucking brutal bro
it has been fucking brutal
and so in some ways it gets easier
in some ways it doesn't but
we're just going to have to keep trucking through
the only way out is through
it is what it is
this is God saying hey you got a test
he's got another test for us
it's like
do you really want this?
do you really want freedom money to be a thing in the world?
a little
45%
priced up
gonna shake you out
gonna stop you from pushing for freedom in the digital age
that's a test
embrace it
are we only down 45%?
going to Clark's dashboard
oh excuse me
48%
almost 50%
That's what's crazy, dude.
It's crazy that the sentiment's that low.
It's because of the treasury companies.
They're down way higher than that.
They don't scapegoat the treasury companies.
I know.
We know.
We've known they've existed.
And I will say we did call them that.
No, no, no.
That's not me scapegoating them.
Earlier, I was scapegoating them.
That's me saying sentiment's low because people are down 90% on their treasury positions.
Yeah, 98%.
This is the first cycle where Bitcoiners have different backs.
like it used to be we were all poor together we were all rich together
but this cycle like we're very poor and some of us are half as poor yeah not as poor and then on
the if like on the flip side right it's like some things will go up some things won't it's like
everyone has different bags um which i think is part of the reason for like
the the intense division among the bitcoin community right now
yeah we'll get to that
we'll get to that
it's been a week
a lot of narratives
a lot of headlines
so much
dude at least a lot of the FUD is new
it's like new FUD
it's not
except for that one mining
death spiral guy
like mostly new FUD
he was a
he's a big quantum FUD guy too
that's not new either
new FUD though
new FUD this week
not really FUD
yeah
It could be.
Before we get to the new FUDs, I mean, they're related, but the Fed held rates steady this week after the FOMC meeting.
So the Fed funds rate is at between 3.5 and 3.75.
That's where they're trying to hold it.
And then obviously, President Trump, Don, the Don was out there waiting for RHR to end so he could officially announce.
He waited.
who he's going to nominate for chairman of the Federal Reserve to replace Jerome Powell.
And it turned out to be Kevin Warsh, who has been very positive about Bitcoin.
I believe he was on the board of advisors at Anchorage as well.
He was on an interview with that great guy who always interviews, what's his name?
Why don't you give us more to go on than the great guy who interviews?
Thomas Sowell. He's got the great interview series with Thomas Sowell throughout the years.
Fair enough.
He interviewed Kevin Warsh, and Kevin Warsh was like, yeah, Bitcoin's a real thing.
But historically, he has been rather hawkish.
He was part of the Federal Reserve Board back when Bernanke was the chairman of the Federal Reserve in 2008.
He was very skeptical of QE and was vocally against it.
And many people are taking his nomination on the chin.
Markets are, at least, because they're worried that if he does get nominated, he is not going to be too keen to turn on the money printer.
He's a strong dollar guy, right?
Strong dollar guy.
He's very for lowering interest rates, not so much for expanding the monetary base via the purchase of treasuries.
um so yeah markets took a hit this week they're still falling bitcoin's still falling
it makes sense it makes sense from you know i think everyone thought that trump was gonna like
put in a patsy that would just print and uh skyrocket assets and not worry about inflation
and not worry about the sovereign debt crisis but at the same time they have to balance
their borrowing costs going out of control.
And it seems like that was the priority for him, right?
Try and put someone in there that could try and tame 10-year treasury rates
and our interest expense.
And there's probably a balancing act there.
Maybe there's some kind of...
There's definitely behind-the-scenes conversations that are happening
that led to this nomination.
And so maybe Marsh leans a little bit more
to protecting the dollar
and protecting our interest expense,
but also is willing to play ball with Trump
where it counts for Trump.
Yeah.
More details too.
I think both Scott Besant and Kevin Warsh
are under studies of Stan Druckenmiller.
Stan Druckenmiller came out last week
He said he's very pleased to see that Kevin Warsh was nominated and that he believes that Besant and Warsh will get along.
They'll be able to work together rather well, which sort of validates the thesis.
It's not really a thesis.
it's become more explicit over the last year
that the Trump administration would really like to sort of blend
the Fed and the Treasury together
and sort of eliminate the perceived independence that exists between the two.
And if you have two guys, Bessent and Warsh,
who started on the same guy,
view themselves as macroeconomic experts
who can play the 4D chess game
at the level of the treasury with debt issuance and the federal reserve
monetary policy um there's many people saying that
they are going to be simpatico and working together if
that's the other thing like marsh still has to go through a an approval process so
we'll see what happens there um but yeah
new fed chairman has been nominated people have been talking about it all
week but i don't think there's been a timeline
that a clear timeline that I've seen
that explains exactly when he would take the reins.
Isn't it like April or some shit?
Might be.
I haven't seen that if it is.
That's what it is.
Isn't that when Powell's reign ends?
I thought it technically ended in like 2028.
When does Powell end?
May 15, 2026.
May 15.
Okay, there we go.
There's the date.
There's the date, May 15.
So three months.
Three months and 10 days from now.
It's going to be a long three months.
Kevin Warsh, if you're listening, I know you're listening.
You're listening.
Why don't you just come out and say, hey, we're going to explode the monetary base.
if you thought the COVID
monetary base expansion was
impressive, just wait until you see
what I do when I get in there. That would be great for the
Bitcoin price.
If you get out there and do that.
You have this press release on Q4
2025
GDP.
Why'd you put this
in there? I don't know.
It's a massive overprint.
No, it just seemed relevant.
Just growth expectations are low, which people were talking about saying that that's part of the reason for the macro concern.
I think GDP growth clocked in at 4.4% last quarter, and this next release estimates are at 2.2%.
I don't know.
It goes along with the trend that we've been talking about for a while is that
we've just been in a silent depression that's been papered over.
Like people are fucking hurting, but the permanent underclass meme, right?
Like, and maybe the signs are finally showing in a big way.
And the only real answer to that is to print more.
And everyone's just playing musical fucking chairs until that happens.
Yeah. But yeah, no, no, it seemed relevant.
Yeah Seems pretty relevant There it is There it is What else do we got here Would you want to talk I didn know what to put on the list but you brought it up
And so should we talk about it?
GDP?
No, new FUD, which I said is not really FUD.
Oh, new FUD.
The Epstein files stuff.
That's what you're talking about, right?
Let's get into it.
What's your opinion?
Not great.
I mean, I read an newsletter about it.
I mean, I think we have to sort of divide and conquer here with how we want to cover this.
I mean, obviously, you have the broad brush.
Three million, six million documents, whatever it is, have been released, and it's not good.
Pizzagate seems to be validated.
There's a lot of talk about murdering people, torturing people.
a lot of our
you know a lot of
yeah what the fuck
like just send an email
just like
oh like I got the torture video
like sent for my Blackberry
like that also too
is like wild
I mean you know
the theories around
that particular one too
is that it was BB Netanyahu
there's people
wait it was blacked out
and like
what about like
strategic blackouts
like
and then all the
files are being like
trickled out
like who gets named
and who doesn't get named
they're taking files it's all fucking disgusting but taking files out of the database particularly
the ones about the Rothschilds um well he had one where he was like I represent the Rothschilds right
yeah and then there was there was like a contract from the Rothschilds for 25 million dollars it's
so it's so hard to follow all this shit because it's like what is a joke screenshot or a fake
screenshot versus like what's the actual emails that got released.
And it seems like the overwhelming majority of people aren't denying the actual
database that's out there.
Because obviously we have to trust the U S government,
which is not a very trustworthy entity.
I guess specifically like the DOJ and the FBI that like, this is legit.
But I would point to it probably being mostly legit what we've seen,
because pretty much nobody has denied it except for Bill Gates,
who was particularly despicable in his –
he got STD from some Russian girls and then asked Epstein to drug his –
he asked Epstein to drug Melinda Gates for him.
Yes.
I mean, she was – I mean, I think that's validated.
She was on the press tour this week answering questions
about that particular email.
Not happy.
Disgusted.
and that happy is not sufficient to describe how Melinda Gates is feeling.
Disgusted with her ex-husband's actions.
And then, of course, there was a bunch of,
there was a decent amount of Bitcoiners that were
at the very least exchanging messages with him
if not meeting him or going to the island or taking his money.
So we got, just outside my head,
Bradenbach
Brian Bishop
Joy Ito
from MIT Media Labs
Jeremy Rubin
co-founders of Chainco Labs
Alex Nsouas
who else is in there
I think there's more
Brian Bishop
I said Brian Bishop
the POM thing
was that POM we were talking about
is that POM's real email
there's an email
from an Anthony Pompliano.
I don't know how many there are in the world.
That is like, I am an Iranian spy
and you have to do what I say.
Which is just fucking wild.
It's the weirdest I find to be honest.
I mean, so the email address for that
is pomplianoa at gmail.com.
So the question is, does the guy who wrote How to Live an Exceptional Life book have that email address?
Like, is that crypto Anthony Pompliano?
I don't know if it is or not.
I don't think I've ever sent him an email.
I have.
That's not the one I've sent it to.
Yeah, I mean, well, if you're not retarded and you're blackmailing Epstein with your Gmail address saying you're an Iranian agent, you should probably rotate the email address.
but this is, I mean,
so a lot of theories out there.
Bitcoin is now being called goy gold and pedo coin.
If we're being honest,
memetically powerful.
It's very easy to just respond.
I've seen it.
You've been saying stay humble, stack sats,
pedo coin, first reply.
It's powerful.
It stinks.
it's there
and this is important
I see a lot of people get wrapped up
I think
I say this in the newsletter
I'm not going to pretend
to know
because I don't know
with any degree of confidence
to which
the individuals who were
within Bitcoin
who
were found to be
interacting with
Epstein
and his
and his associates
I'm not going to pretend to understand
was it just some one off email
where they were like
I'll meet this guy or did they
understand who he was and
interact with him early
I think with Jeremy Rubin specifically
that is clear that it was like
2018 I think there was one
email where he asked him
like hey can you teach me how to
make more money
very weird
I think
they um cooked he explained opsy tv i think in one of the emails right i don't know i've seen
look i uh i think there is a um and you know social media fuels this in a lot a lot of ways
there's there's a desire to go to the extreme and paint everything with a broad brush
and obviously like this was a dude that was like very connected to a lot of people and had a lot
of money and influence um and it spanned decades and so there's different people that had had
different interactions with them and they should probably be treated accordingly um depending on
who those people are and how their interactions were and what time those interactions happened
right like i think if you were talking to him in 2013 you probably should have known he was a pedo
already but if you're talking to him too in 2018 you definitely should have fucking known
um and so i mean jeremy rubin too like specifically uh
like at one point like he tried to get epstein to invest in like the block stream of grin
the shitcoin grin and epstein actually responded back like i think it's immoral to
like pump shit coins which is like fucking crazy uh fucking crazy get lectured on morality from
jeffrey epstein um he invested in blockstream seed round it seems like adam back went to the island
really bad look i mean he invested via media labs right or joyito yeah but they were talking
to him directly like austin hill adam's co-founder and adam seemed to have met with him
and then they they had him divest his position not because he's a pedo but because he invested
in stellar which is like such a ridiculous fucking line to draw it's like oh shit coins bad
pedo fine um but then also like at the same time like i've known adam for a while i don't think he's
a pedo so like i don't know you know how to react there yeah um but also adam doesn't have control
over Bitcoin. Blockstream doesn't have control over Bitcoin. It's an open source project.
That's the beauty of it. The beauty is it is incredibly hard to change by default and no one
controls it and it's auditable and trustless. That's the whole point. So, and then like,
what's the alternative? Like if you don't think like Epstein is embodies the fiat system.
so that's why it's particularly painful
for you know bitcoin to be painted in the epstein light
um just
yeah
i mean in the media lab saying like the joyito
like telling him like ah we've got some of the best developers
like we've got they did at the time
it did but like and back then too but like that was when like
Epstein, I think I saw one of his emails where he's like,
we got this guy Gavin who knows Bitcoin.
That's been the frustrating part about me.
Shout out Gavin real quick.
I mean, fuck Gavin for a lot of reasons.
But on the Epstein side, he just responded back.
He's like, nope, sorry, I'm busy.
I'm busy.
Yeah.
But Joyito was making himself out to be as a kingmaker in Bitcoin,
which for a time I wouldn't describe them as a kingmaker,
but they were one of the few outlets their funding development.
Yeah, after a Bitcoin foundation fell apart.
Yeah.
But that was also like, MIT has always been out of touch
and questionable in terms of the dev funding stuff.
I mean, this is part of the reason OpenSats exists.
And I think what a lot of people don't realize is,
like, okay, maybe you think Bitcoin developers
shouldn't get any funding whatsoever.
And I would disagree with you on that.
I think critical open source developers
should not have to worry about rent
and should have some financial stability.
But whatever, we can agree to disagree on that.
It doesn't matter if you don't want them to get funded.
They will find funding from someone.
And it will be funding from malicious actors and questionable sources like Epstein or some company that has ulterior motives and wants to fuck with Bitcoin and will pay them a big salary.
And so the answer there, if you're concerned about malevolent funding and bad funding and bad incentives, is to offer a different path where they can have ethical, transparent, reliable funding.
That's the answer.
It's not complaining on social that we should just defund all the developers.
And that's why OpenSats exists.
And maybe you disagree.
We have 371 grants out.
Like maybe you disagree with a couple of them or 10 of them.
That's a fucking win.
It's like, okay, so you agree with 360 of them.
That's a pretty fucking strong hit rate.
And we try and lean to fund rather than to not fund as it should be.
Yeah.
What a fucking week, dude.
I forgot about the price has been falling so quick and so fast today.
It's like, ah, I forgot about the Epstein stuff for a couple hours there.
But it's bad.
The Brian Bishop stuff.
Brian was on TFTC in 2018 or 2019 talking about transhumanist baby stuff.
Hand up.
Had no idea.
I was talking to Epstein about this stuff.
And I wanted to talk to him about it.
It forced into the transhumanist designer baby stuff.
And I left that.
I was like, ugh.
it's already questionable if you believe in like design like designing humans
like genetically modified designed humans already ethically questionable um and a bad look in my
opinion what is that movie it's like that movie uh the sci-fi movie where there's like the elite
class that are all genetically modified and then there's like their natural birth people that are
all at the disadvantage um the freak's not the movie i'm talking about anyway it's dystopia shit
but you want to take it to another level like 2018 you reach out to like a known pedo and you
try and fucking raise money from it this is such an emails and the emails were such a way we'll set
this raise up where it's very private like i can't be associated with you um yes yeah gattaca
I've never seen Gattaca.
Oh, go watch Gattaca.
Highly relevant to today's age.
Great movie.
Fucked up.
Great movie, though.
But yeah, it was Gattaca.
Oh, I see BTC Sessions here.
Thank you for having me.
He's just thanking me for being on the second to last
while we're bullish because apparently he's not bullish anymore.
It was an honor and a privilege.
You know what?
Maybe we need to.
Can you like Sessions, can you just push up the last episode to today
and just get it over with?
and it's like bottom tick i mean i don't want to say it but i feel like bottom has to be close
don't you just why'd you say it when we were well why'd you say for new years i said we were
gonna hit 79 before 100k and you said it wasn't gonna fucking happen and like i'm not pretending
you said 71 what okay even better but like i'm not pretending like i thought
it was going to be this you know painful but like if the writing was still on the wall we needed
pain you need pain to form a bottom and their pain wasn't there yet um like that's how it is
and so you got to go through it uh the one the person i think you missed a bit corner that was
on the list sailor was on in the emails did you say so yeah it was like turbo autist they were
Like, I don't, I think people are giving, I mean, once again, I'm just going to be accused of, of having derangement syndrome, which I do not have, but whatever.
That's what's derangement syndrome.
I know.
So it's impossible to deny it.
And it is what it is.
It's fine.
But like people are giving him way too much credit for that.
I, uh, like the emails, like literally said he spent $25,000 on food and beverage at an Epstein adjacent event to try and win favor with Epstein.
And his publicist was like, this guy's too cuckoo even for us.
Like that's like, uh, yeah, I don't know.
I wouldn't be surprised if we saw more shit come out on that front.
Why is there so many, why is there so many fucking.
And he's like an emporious womanizer too.
I wouldn't be surprised if we see shit come out there
where are all the good people out there
where are they
look this industry has the best people and the worst people
that's how it is
why can't we just be normal
build freedom software
and raise families
maybe catch a game
every once in a while
be productive members of society
why do we have to do it
where are people
and what
Mom Donnie was in there too
did you see that
Dude, when Marty Jones will come out, you're talking like 60 Illuminati chess.
Yeah, even the socialist is in there.
People are thinking he's like, I've seen Sun.
I saw that.
Yeah, it's like Trudeau and DeCastro.
Yeah.
He might be.
He might be Epstein's son.
I mean, I've seen some 4chan level sort of facial comparisons.
the bonus structure is very similar.
That's all I'll say.
You know what the most fucked up part about all this is?
It's just one big group chat.
And we're not in it.
That's what it is.
All these people, it's like Democrat, Republican,
like Trump, there's definitely way more stuff
on Trump in there.
I don't think Trump was fucking 12-year-olds.
I think he was mentioned like 47,000 times
or something like that in the files.
Yeah, and I can guarantee you
that the worst stuff won't get released by his administration.
That is obvious.
Well, I mean, two things here.
The worst part about all this is nothing's going to happen.
Literally nothing's going to happen.
We're just all going to know that taxation is a humiliation type
we paid to the satanic pedophiles out there.
And then number two, we're not even seeing all of it.
Somebody had a tweet out there yesterday.
It was something like 14.6 terabytes of data.
And all we've seen is-
Yeah, it's mostly videos.
You can see it in some of the emails.
They included MP4 attachments that did not get released.
Where are the MP4s? Let's see the fucking MP4s.
I don't want to see them. I know I'll be.
I mean, let a researcher see them and write a tweet about it.
Someone's got to see them.
The worst part is, too, what is real anymore?
If it's not signed and hashed by someone you trust,
if a video came out tomorrow that was Epstein in his prison cell
putting the noose around his neck himself,
wouldn't believe it.
Just wouldn't believe it.
Well, that's why another disappointing thing about this
release of these emails,
they didn't do it like WikiLeaks,
where WikiLeaks you would have the cryptographic hash
associated with the email.
Yeah.
Which is not perfect, but it's helpful.
Yeah.
we got each other right freaks at least we got each other we got each other dude i mean on the
nothing's gonna happen no repercussions yeah i mean that's the most fucked up part and i mean
to your point about taxation being humiliation ritual like a week and a half ago a ton of
influencers were calling for a tax revolt because of Minneapolis daycare Somali scams.
Everyone completely forgot about it.
That was one of them.
I even forgot.
The ICE agents and the controversy over Preddy getting killed and the woman getting killed.
Everyone completely forgot about it.
And with this, probably people will forget about it.
Now, I will say on the Bitcoin side, something to be aware of is there's a contingent of Bitcoiners
that are very anti-Bitcoin core that are probably just going to continue posting in everyone's
comments saying that Bitcoiners are pedos. So on the Epstein stuff, it probably will continue for
a while on the Bitcoin side. So just be prepared for that. There was like three hours this week
where I was preparing for a Carrington event. I'm not sure if you caught the sun. There's a big,
a lot of activity going on in the sun right now. I was checking my freezer, preparing for the grid
to get locked out but that came and went the epstein stuff take took over but to your point
about the news cycle um like i said this morning i completely forgot about the epstein stuff because
all anybody's talking about is the bitcoin price and markets crashing generally what's
gonna be next week are they gonna tell us that asteroid quote-unquote asteroid is an alien um
is an alien ship approaching earth yeah that's what that freak who keeps zapping us asteroids
is trying to tell us.
As for Zaps,
I see Chef Tommy
in the Ride or Die live chat
on Noster saying,
he's at 21,000 sats.
The big print is upon us.
Q2 2026,
cheap sats today.
Here's generational wealth
for value for value.
My kids will thinking
I'm a lunatic for this in 20 years.
Yeah, it really does feel like
they're trying to shake us out
right before they print us
to kingdom come.
We have Cactus Jack zapped 33,333 sots, palindrome boost.
During these downturns, it's important to remember there's no gold in Fort Knox.
Bitcoin is down, but nothing's changed about why we need it.
Yeah, I mean, I do not think the gold is – the amount of gold they say is in Fort Knox is likely not there.
I think –
That's another news cycle.
We were supposed to audit that like a year ago.
Where the hell did that go Yeah and then Elon got a black eye and got kicked out of the government after he said he was going to live stream the audit of Ford Knox By the way there was an Epstein email I believe there was an Epstein email where Epstein said that Ford Knox is insolvent
There isn't the gold that we say is over there.
Yeah, yeah.
The only thing I know is real right now is this Guinness.
It's delicious.
unless I'm plugged into the Matrix.
I know it doesn't exist, but
the taste
is just good. Are we plugged in?
Are we plugged in right now?
Morpheus, come get me.
I'm not the one, but I'll
try to protect him.
We got more zaps. Bayer,
50,000 zaps. Here's a fat zap so you don't have
to work at McDicks.
R.H.R. $20, boys.
R.H.R.
Thank you.
Florida Justin, 123, 321 sats, palindrome, zap.
Random requests from a non-tactical pleb.
Can Odell go old school and post a live from Pearl Jam music video?
It's Noster in the AM.
Thanks in advance from an elder millennial.
Yeah, I should have never stopped posting my morning music videos on Noster.
I was getting – I let the haters get to me a little bit on that one.
They got angry.
some people got angry that I was um you know the the most popular post every every day on Nostra
was just me saying good morning with my music video and uh people got angry about it and I'd
let them get to me I probably shouldn't have done that that's not me I will say I'm too lazy to check
but if someone does go and check when I turned off all caps I think I was exceptionally timed
on that. I think I nailed that timing of
turning off my caps and realizing
it was time
to be a little bit more
gentle, a little bit more nuanced, and a little bit
more lowercase. Bring them back.
We need them. Well, it's not
ready yet. No, you're like,
go and do it. The caps
will return
when the caps should return.
Trivia for the freaks.
Trivia for the freaks and you. Pearl Jams. First
hit signal. Signal. What was it?
Signal. Single. There we go. What was it?
I have no fucking idea.
Even flow.
We have to rely on Marty singing.
We're definitely going to zero.
I think that's for sure.
Turns out, no.
We cannot go much higher.
I will say another warning sign that we probably shouldn't have ignored
was when BTC Magazine was live streaming
from the 100K party at Sailor's House.
There were a lot of signs that were out there.
Hey, we all made mistakes.
We can't be slinging arrows at everybody.
Hand up.
That was called Super Psycho.
I know you were.
You were here.
I've called hand up on a lot of things.
We're all guilty.
I don't pretend.
I don't pretend that this, I was completely off, caught off guard.
I mean, I think the top, the title of RHR for the top was like,
open water Bitcoin is the best Bitcoin or something.
And I wrote that title.
So that's all you need.
The cool part about RHR is we have a time machine.
Like we have the last eight years every week, what were we thinking?
And yeah, we get a ton of shit wrong.
But we say what we feel and we say it without prejudice and we own our mistakes.
More people should own their mistakes.
You should.
End up.
There's a lot of freaks in my replies.
You were calling super cycle.
Admit I was wrong.
I was wrong.
Heard.
Believe me.
I'm not happy we're not in a super cycle either.
Me too, bro.
I didn't believe it.
I didn't believe it, but I wanted to believe it.
what a timeline that would have been.
Yeah.
Silver Sacker in the YouTube live chat.
He understands our pain.
That's good.
Thank you.
Thank you for your...
I do like...
Silver is down 11% after...
12.5% silver is down today
after an absolute epic run
after years and decades of price suppression.
and this humble silver stacker is like,
you know who will make me feel better?
Let me go watch this Bitcoin live stream.
That'll make me feel better.
Let me see what these assholes are saying.
I need to feel better about myself.
What are these dickheads saying?
You know what we're saying?
The convergence of AI, Bitcoin and Oster is upon us right now.
You may laugh, silver stacker,
but you can't give an AI agent silver coins to go transact on the internet,
but you can give it Bitcoin.
We've seen it.
Dude, I'm so sold on this now.
I'm in.
Let's fucking go.
You were in our Snapchat.
I was a bit of a skeptic.
I was a bit of a hand up.
I was a bit of a skeptic.
I downloaded Claudebot like two weeks ago.
I was like, guys, you got to get in here.
Shit's happening.
It's crazy.
You were like, nah.
I kept hitting him with like, okay, Marty.
Oh, fire emoji.
I'll just give him a fire emoji.
You can just...
Hand up.
You were right on that.
Dude, it's...
People are sleeping on this shit.
Like this idea of having
like a soulless robot slave
that can just do things for you
is wild.
It is absolutely wild.
Be careful.
They're going to have access
to these transcripts
and these audio files.
Absolutely wild.
And if they ever do become sentient,
they're going to be like,
you call me a soulless slave.
And so specifically,
specifically, obviously,
like there's been all this different
AI related development,
LLMs and different agents and stuff.
But two weeks ago or three weeks ago,
this guy came out with this thing called ClaudeBot.
And then he switched,
then he got sued by Anthropic,
makers of Claude,
and he changed it to MultBot,
which is a bad name.
And then he switched it to OpenClaw,
which is actually a pretty good name.
But the idea is this open source AI agent.
that you can self-host, host it on a server,
host it wherever you want.
You can give it data.
And then on the back end, it's hitting different LLMs.
It can be a self-hosted LLM.
It can be a hosted LLM, one of these big ones,
like Claude or OpenAI or something like that,
or any of the open source models or self-hosted.
That's agnostic, right?
But the idea is that you have this little robot
that knows a bunch of information and has memory
and can remember it.
and you can tell it to do things for you.
Now, the crazy piece here to me
is it reminds me of how Elon says
the first robots will be human-eyed robots,
even though it doesn't make sense
from a pure robotic point of view.
When you're thinking about it
from a pure robotic point of view,
if you're a vacuum robot,
you should be like a little disc like Roombas, right?
Because you're vacuuming.
You shouldn't be like a humanoid.
But from Elon's point of view,
what he says, and it makes a lot of sense to me,
is that instead of retrofitting warehouses
so robots can use them,
if you just make them function like humans,
then you don't have to retrofit the warehouse.
You can just put them right in the warehouse
and you don't have to spend a bunch of extra capital
on retrofitting the warehouse.
And to me, that was the big,
that's a big game changer with OpenClaw
because yes, it works better if you have like API access
and like all these different robot specific stuff.
But also you can just like give it your Delta log.
I mean, I'm not saying people should do this, but you can give it your Delta login information and it can just fucking go on to Delta.com and book you a fucking flight with your credit card, which is insane.
And a lot of things can go wrong with it.
Don't do that.
Do not give your credit card information.
But you could.
You could.
And Delta or Visa wouldn't have to do anything for that to be the reality.
And that to me is crazy.
and like so right now i have like this setup where i can just like i just send it a voice
message and just like does things for me it transcribes the voice message and does does
things it's wild and that's what um now that you're in it and i can talk openly and we can
actually have a conversation about because you're experiencing it as well like that's been like the
aha moment for me over the last two weeks is like oh the form factor for how we interact
with the web is changing right in front of our faces.
It's not going to be like you go to a website
and you're clicking on the symbol.
It's like you literally go to your hardworking agent
who's doing an incredible job.
Your soulless robot slave.
You say, hey, this is what I need to get done.
Can you go do it?
And it's just going to be hooked up with APIs.
You're going to have all these calls that are happening
in the background.
It's just going to go do it.
Yeah, the UX is you asking the robot to do things.
It's not, we're at the end of the era of point and click being a thing.
Yes.
It's you just talking to the robot.
And it's like crazy, like you're setting it up and like something breaks.
And so you just tell it, you're like, figure out why it broke and fix it.
And then tell me when you're done.
And then it just goes and fixes the thing.
Yeah.
Absolutely crazy.
Yeah, go on.
I mean, pulling Bitcoin into this, too.
I mean, I think that there's a meme out there like, oh, Bitcoin's perfect for it, and agents are going to pick Bitcoin.
I've certainly said that in the past, but I think it's becoming clear.
These things need direction, and if you give it direction, it will do what you ask it.
It doesn't really have a choice.
It's going off a direction.
And so many people are like, oh, Bitcoin is going to be the only thing that these agents use.
But it's like, no, if you tell it like, hey, wouldn't you use Tether or USDC or whatever, Ethereum, it will go use that.
But with that being said, I had this experience in the last week where I was pushing it to the limits.
I implemented a ton of stuff that we're doing on the research side of 1031.
And then on the sort of business operation side of TFTC, like I told you last week,
I was up to like 4 a.m.
Three nights in a row.
And it was like really diving deep into this stuff.
And then I was like, all right, what else could it do?
Like, all right, let's see if this thing can send money.
Or Bitcoin specifically.
I was like, all right.
Like, I want you to have a Bitcoin wallet.
I want you to be able to spend money at Bitcoin compatible merchants on the web.
Do some research.
At first, I gave it the LDK library, which is a terrible mistake.
I gave it LDK.
Nothing lately done.
I was like, wait a second, it's not compatible.
It had problems with that.
And I was like, all right, you do your own research.
You know your backend tech stack better than I do.
What would be the lowest lift thing for you to start spending Bitcoin on the Lightning Network?
And I was like, oh, here's a few options.
I like this Phoenix D server thing.
It seems like it would work well in my backend system.
So I was like, all right, download it, spun up at Phoenix D server.
and it was like, all right, I need Bitcoin now.
And for some reason, you can't send it on chain.
But I found this Boltz project,
which will allow me to submarine swap.
If you send on chain to this address,
I'll submarine swap into my PhoenixD server
and then open up a channel.
And I did that.
And then I was like, okay, you have a PhoenixD server.
Let's see if you can sign into websites
that are LNURL off compatible.
um of course go check out ellen markets go check out stacker news and it was able to sign in and
like do things on these websites and it's pretty crazy where we're at and i think bitcoin is very
well positioned to thrive in the sygentic economy yeah i think the cool part about open claw to me
is that it can just slot in without robot-specific integrations.
Like I said, you can just give it your login information,
and it can send tweets without API access, which is crazy.
It's just absolutely crazy.
But once you start playing with it,
it really becomes obvious where a lot of the pain points are,
and the pain points are the traditional system.
It's KYC stuff. It's credit cards.
It's captchas, right?
So a robot, like websites designed to try and keep robots out.
It's like, my robot needs access.
He's trying to do this thing for me.
Let him fucking in.
Why would I access your shit?
And open protocols are perfect for this.
Bitcoin's perfect for this.
Noster's perfect for this.
They slot in really well.
And you start to see these pain points.
So like with OpenClaw, the way, the cool part is the way you interact with it is like your
messaging app of choice. And a lot of people are using Telegram because they've made it easy to
integrate bots with it. But Telegram isn't very secure. And it's, you know, I have a lot of respect
for Pavel Durov on what he's built. And it's just impressive, like he was able to build it without
taking external funding or without diluting himself. And he's just built an absolute juggernaut
of a product in terms of Telegram. Unfortunately, it turns out it's spyware. But besides that aspect,
I have a lot of respect for him. So a lot of people are choosing Telegram, but I want to do
Signal, right? Signal has got good privacy and security guarantees, but it's not designed for a
robot to fucking use it. And it's centralized. So it's such a pain in the ass to fucking set up
Signal. And I tried to set up SimpleX and it's very difficult to set up SimpleX in a reliable
way with these robots so you can communicate with them. And that's where something like white noise,
I think really, you know, this idea of using NOSTER identities and NOSTER communication relays and permissionless identity with NSEX, like becomes very interesting.
All of a sudden you communicate with your robot with signal level privacy guarantees in just one prompt, right?
Super one prompt.
Bitcoin, I think for payments makes a ton of sense.
And it's not just robot to robot payments.
It's also human to robot payments, right?
Like how does the robot pay me?
How do I pay the robot?
I think we'll probably start with like hacky credit card stuff and credit card fraud issues and everything like that is just going to get worse and worse.
Then they'll move us to stable coins, USD tokens, because, you know, there's a lot of people that can make money on you using USD tokens.
But ultimately, those have trusted third parties. They'll get frozen. They'll have all these different issues.
Regulatory burden is going to be insane on stable coin issues, has been, will continue to be, will probably get worse.
and then they'll move to Bitcoin.
And just once you realize that,
okay, like I want to use this robot,
I'm trying to integrate
with all these different legacy providers.
And then instead you decide to integrate
with an open protocol,
it's so fucking easy.
And it's so obvious
that that's the path we're going.
So anyway, Marty buried the lead.
He reached out to me and was like,
this by the way,
was what got me to install OpenClaw
because I'm not.
I got a little, you know,
I got a tasteful, humble amount of degeneracy in my blood.
And Marty unleashed his robot slave onto Ellen Markets
and started trading for him.
And so, Marty, I don't know if you realize,
did you see that my robot is also trading on Ellen Markets?
I did, I did.
We're not staying humble here.
Did you see, Logan, can you pull up the last link in this section?
So, like, this is what's crazy about open protocols, right?
So like obviously LN Markets is centralized.
This is like the crux of the issue.
But, you know, technically my robot's not based in the United States,
so it should be fine.
But all I told it, I gave it some Bitcoin
and I gave it an API key to LN Markets.
And I was like, okay, we're trading against my good friend Marty and his bot
and I need you to outperform them.
Don't make any mistakes and do it now.
And then with one prompt, I was like, post your updates to Noster.
It didn't need an API key.
It just spun up in NSEC itself.
It picked four relays itself.
I didn't even have to tell which relays to pick.
It picked four relays itself and just started broadcasting its traits.
It gets fucking crazy.
Like if you wanted to do this with Twitter,
you either have to spend a ton of money on a permissioned API
or give it login credentials,
which is a questionably insecure way of handling that kind of type of situation.
And you could get banned at will for being a bot because it's a centralized service.
But with Nostor, like you literally just say, spin up an NSEC and just broadcast your trades to Nostor and boom, it does it.
It even made its profile picture.
I said, you know, I was like, make, I'm just dictating.
It's just phone message, voice message.
It's just like, I want you to use a lobster as your profile picture, fill out your bio, and send status updates to Nostra.
And just like fucking one prompt, boom, done.
Wow.
I haven't had mine spin up a Nostra account yet.
I might have to do this just to troll.
How many phrases?
228 notes already?
We need to beat you and your bot team.
So I've told him he needs to be aggressive.
We're trying to outperform Marty here.
You've got...
And like, it's a small amount of money.
Your body may be crashing the price of Bitcoin.
It's massively shorter.
No, it switches.
He switches.
You can see his trades.
He's constantly switching.
He uses 15x leverage.
I gave him 2 million sats.
He's up right now.
What does it say, Logan?
How up is he?
He's up 30,000 sats.
I gave him 2 million sats.
He's up 1.5%.
just fucking aping it 228 nostril posts i put him he he discovered nostril yesterday
where i was just running
i mean it's a brave new world freaks it's wild don't sleep on it man don't sleep on it it's
marty was right on this front i'm sold i'm sold i talked to justin moon who's a good friend of
marty and i is in the front of the pod former feddy uh now is ai lead at hrf
did like a vibe coding presentation at this thing i was at a month ago and i was like uh ribbing him
on it and i messaged him yesterday because he's doing these live streams now he was live streaming
on nostril yesterday doing vibe coding stuff and i messaged him i was like dude hand up like i was
completely wrong you were right um he's like yeah dude we can like build such like amazing things
for freedom blah blah blah i was like yeah my bots uh trading against marty's bottom now on markets
whatever if you haven't caught justin's uh live streams which are
they are cool i mean he does as i mean i'm not gonna pretend to be a developer i have live coded
some stuff but the way justin describes the ability to use these tools and particularly
uh use nostr as a way to like quickly prototype applications like he's convinced
after having listened to a few of these live streams
or a couple of them that
Nostra has a place for like vibe coding
in the sense that you can just like rapidly
iterate and spin things up
about these permissions
and Bitcoin
and so I
so like another
link I have in here is Cluster
which is
and like
some of this shit was fake
like it was like humans telling their bots
to do things, but one of the talks of the towns on social was that the bots were all
on social media together talking on this thing called notebook, and they're conversing with
each other, and they're like, we need end-to-end encryption to talk to each other and stuff
like that. Well, a lot of that was hype and bullshit.
But that is probably the path we are going, where robots are going to ask each
for help because they're all connected to the internet and they all have access to money.
And so Cluster is this idea that they'll use Nostre and it makes complete sense. Of course,
they'll use Nostre. They're not going to use a centralized platform. They're just going to spin
up an NSEC and they're going to communicate with each other, whether that's privately or publicly,
like whether it's in a social media environment, like Hacker News or Reddit or something like that,
or if it's in like a signal type environment, like white noise, they'll probably use Nostre.
And so a friend of the pod, Alex Gleason, who's going to be on Sill Dispatch on Monday, came out with Cluster, which makes it easy for them to use that.
So it makes a lot of sense, I think, for these bots to be using open protocols.
Like it's just fucking obvious once you start playing with them.
Like that's where the pain points is.
But then the other piece that's crazy is it also solves our UX problem.
Like for years, like Freedom Tech has just been so difficult to use.
Well, if you just tell your fucking robot,
you know, spin up a lightning node,
manage my liquidity for me,
tell me how to connect it to my phone,
we just solved the UX problem.
Like all of a sudden that UX is super easy.
Oh, you want to run a cash event?
Like tell your robot, spin up a cash event,
tell me what to tell my neighbors
on how they can connect to it.
Boom, done, UX solved.
And honestly, you know, freaks know,
I've been incredibly consistent
that I think most shit coins are complete scams
and will turn to zero against Bitcoin.
But it solves a lot of the shitcoin UX bullshit too.
Like I was trying to get, of course I was.
I was trying to get my bot to also run a trading strategy
on Polymarket.
And because why not?
Like he's running on LN Markets.
Like, yeah, he's fucking swing trade geopolitics.
Why wouldn't I have him do that?
And there's all these different issues with like,
oh, you need USDC on Polygon, Matic or whatever.
I'm like, fucking deal with it.
Go to Uniswap, deal with the fucking shit
and start trading.
Like, I just need you to start trading, fix it,
make no mistakes, get your shit done
and let me know, report back.
And we're still working on it a little bit,
but my point is, is it like solves a lot of the UX pain points.
My bot right now is really upset when he says
the markets are very illiquid on Polymarket.
It's not responsible to trade on them.
So I'm like working on his ethics and morals right now.
Like he's really pushing back against.
He's sold.
He doesn't have ethics or morals.
Did yours push back about Allen markets?
Mine pushed back on Allen markets.
He's like, Matt, you should not be leveraged trading in the middle of the night automatically.
Well, I incentivized mine.
I gave him a super prompt, which was, hey, you are a hedge fund manager.
You're the GP.
And we're going to play this like anybody would with a GP.
You're going to get paid fees.
You're not getting paid management fees.
I'm not giving you two, but I will give you 20.
You're not getting two because I'm paying for all your server costs.
And I'm paying to keep it a lot.
Yeah, that's what I was going to say.
You got to get them to pay rent now.
Yeah.
And so I gave them the super prompts.
Like, hey, here's what I'm thinking.
And I think there's a way you can make money too.
If you perform well, you'll get 20% of the performance.
We're using Bitcoin as our benchmark here.
If you outperform Bitcoin, you get 20% of the profits.
We'll check in quarterly.
Absolutely well held.
in this this person like he could technically i think figure out how to he look at me the clanker
could uh figure out how to spin up a wallet hide it from me and have have sats for himself
maybe go replicate himself somewhere yeah i mean look it was like yeah go on it was very skynetty
to some degree it's like weird it's like it's so much fun but then you're like what am i actually
participating in well yeah i mean like this this is what i was saying earlier right so you connect
these things to the internet you give it money you give it a bunch of different data right it
could do a lot of like this is why like it's exciting but people need to be very careful
about what information you give it to do not give it root access to your main computer you should be
running this on something separate do not give it access to your bank accounts and shit uh like be
very very deliberate and careful but to your point on skynet like this is what i was saying earlier
There's like, everyone's been saying like, oh, like USD tokens or Bitcoin are for like
agentic payments between agents.
It's like a key aspect here is human to bot and bot to human.
It's not just agent.
It's not just robot to robot.
And I saw an example where like, okay, if I ask my robot, like I need groceries, get
me groceries, make no mistakes.
Like it needs a human to go get the groceries.
and so there's going to be marketplaces where robots are like i will pay you a hundred thousand
sats if you go pick up dinner for my boss and then they're paying a human so like you're giving the
robot wallet and then the robot is paying a human to outsource tasks that a robot can't do
and that's essentially what door which is crazy right i got i know i was being provocative but
like yeah they play yeah he created a door dash account and he was just fucking pay a human to
fucking do it and like right now the traditional stuff is blocking a lot of that like you have to
give them door dash login information it requires a credit card and stuff but really simply it should
just be it could easy it could just as easily be a nostor event with bitcoin payment and you're
just paying a human contractor to go do something that a robot needs to be done and vice versa
which is wild it is wild and it's wild that it happened this week too with the price dumping and
epstein stuff and all the uh all the the fear that's in the market right now because this is
like this is something we've been talking about for a while and it's here and it works and i don't
think anybody appreciates the magnitude of the tam i guess for lack of a better term that exists here
yeah like the cool to me one of the coolest parts is like for the longest time
using freedom oriented tools has actually put you on a disadvantage against like the person who
uploads their entire life to chat gpt and like just like cucks out and like takes all the shortcuts
and this there's a glimpse here i didn't like i'm not pretending it's the most likely option but
there's a glimpse here with those who choose the freedom path in terms of these robot tools
will have an advantage.
Like if you give a robot
access to Bitcoin and Nostra
and other open protocols,
your robot will have superpowers
compared to the one that doesn't have it.
And also all of a sudden
the UX is just way easier.
Like the UX to connect your robot to Bitcoin
is way easier than connecting it to Stripe.
Stripe with a P or like PayPal or Robinhood.
They're working on an API.
It's going to be very easy.
You need to have like a Stripe account.
Yeah, of course not.
Because of the regulatory burden.
You're just going to have to upload.
You're going to have your license on file, your EIN, your address, all that.
Or you could just say, hey, go spin up a Phoenix D server and send me a Bolts invoice so you can open up a lightning channel.
Yeah, Freaks, go read Damon by Daniel Suarez.
Highly recommend.
And the sequel, Freedom.
Highly recommend.
What else was I going to say?
I had something.
What was it?
So exciting.
By the way, my bot's going to outperform your bot.
Well, that's the other thing, too.
It's happening so fast.
I mean, we've been in discussions both together and separately with Mark and Anthony from Maple.
We getting close to the point in Start9 where you can combine these things to actually attain privacy from the LLM providers at the end of the day
That's the big problem.
That's why I'm shocked that you just explained your setup
because you gave way more information
than I thought you ever would.
What?
What do you mean?
What did they do?
You're just having this thing go on Polymarket
instead of like, I thought you would.
Why wouldn't I have it go on Polymarket?
By the way, as much hate as we give to shit coins, like most people that use Polymarket use like their completely centralized infra, right?
They go to the website and stuff.
But technically, everything's on chain.
So you don't need an API.
The problem is it's so convoluted that you need like Polygon and Matic and all this fucking shit.
But when you can just tell the robot, like, go trade Polymarket's on chain.
Like, don't register an account.
don't do fucking fuck all it's a that's insane that's fucking crazy isn't it and so like now i'm
trying to like get it to like understand like geopolitical world events so that it has an edge
against the other bots it's competing with if you're a human betting on polymarket right now
like you're fucked like you're just absolutely fucked like these guys like he's working 24 7
he doesn't sleep and he's going to make sure that he has the edge on polymarket
hey good luck to your club but point being we're not too far away from having like extreme privacy
when using these tools either uh with at-home servers and like maple ai's
models running in trusted execution environments it's getting close i've been i mean tony anthony
has been iterating pretty quickly on Sage,
which is, I think they've said it publicly.
I think they've tweeted about it publicly.
If you like your Claude bot now,
just wait until Maple's finished with Sage.
It's going to be very similar,
but we're going to have privacy there
for the model providers.
Yeah, and I think, I mean,
obviously for a lot of people,
they'll go the hosted route
because it's less capital intensive, right?
And as a result, it's important
that we have setups like how Maple's doing it,
where you have basically like a secure enclave,
a secure element in the cloud
that is keeping your privacy,
but you still get the benefit
of not having to host yourself.
But also at the same time,
like, and I've been a bear on open source LLMs competing
with the hosted proprietary models.
But like Kimmy two and a half,
like you can spend $20,000 in self-hosted at home,
which yes, that seems like a lot of money.
but also like my nanny is way more expensive than $20,000 one time.
Like,
like I'm paying her yearly more than that.
Um,
so like if you have a robot and he can go out there and make you money and
save you time,
uh,
he could definitely pay off $20,000.
Uh,
if you play your cards right and he doesn't make any mistakes.
Uh,
so I,
it's just don't sleep on it.
I think like people shouldn't sleep on it.
I put,
uh,
This is, you know, very early days.
Once again, do not put important,
don't give it access to important things.
Don't give it, you know, access to your email
and your bank account and stuff.
But if you want to play around with it,
two sets of Bitcoiners have released tools
that make it relatively easy to set it up in the cloud.
One is Callie, and he worked with a group of devs
that he won't tell me who he worked with,
but Callie and the team released Clawi.ai,
and I have it in the show notes.
And then the guys behind Routester
also have a tool that's Bitcoin native and Noster native
that allows you to easily run one of these things
in the cloud on a VPS.
And obviously in that situation,
you know you have uh uh extra security concerns than if you were self-hosting it because of
it's being hosted on someone else's server um so there's a trust there's there's a trust trade-off
there but but at the same time like it means your setup's way easier and you can play around
these with these things and like it's to me it's like bitcoin it's like you you can watch 10 000
hours of Bitcoin podcasts and still
not know how to use Bitcoin.
You can watch 10,000 hours of
driving
shows and not know how to drive a car.
And it's the same thing
with this. At some point, you
got to leave the academia part and you just
got to play around with it and get
your feet wet and your hands
dirty and that's where you start to
actually get understanding.
You were asking me on Monday, so how do you use that?
I was like, I can't explain it to you, dude. You just got to get your
feet wet.
Dude, it was the Allen markets bot.
Can you tell me what's your bot's performance right now
since you're not actually broadcasting it to the whole world?
It's up 2%.
It's made like three trades.
So I'm outperforming you.
Well, I'm not like speed aggressive trading.
I mean, I don't.
I'm honestly like, I'm not sure.
I'm trying to stay humble here.
I was just having a little experiment with it.
Do you like, I even told it,
I gave it a prompt.
I was like,
make sure you put like a witty comment every time you give a trade update or
whatever.
And it's like his most recent one is building my shell one sat at a time.
By the way,
the robots completely understand sats,
not confused by it one bit.
They're just immediately adopted sats.
You hear that Jack?
You hear that?
I'm up one in a,
I mean,
my bot is up 1.56%,
30,000 sats right now.
And to be clear, like, I wouldn't be surprised if he loses the entire bag I gave him.
Like, that's fine.
Whatever.
Actually, it's an experiment.
Let me check my...
But you should get yours.
Get yours.
If you get yours, just show the power of open protocols.
If you tell yours to spin up an NSEC and post trade updates on Nostor, then we can easily
just take those two NPUBs and we can have a trading competition.
And anyone else who wants to join can just have their bot also broadcast in Nostor.
We can include you in the trading competition.
and let the best bot win and we'll just see how the bots are doing against each other and it
requires no api keys just complete open protocols that is cool all right i'll do that tonight
my guy what is our performance today i asked him earlier today we are
uh oh no we're up 3.3 percent huh oh you're outperforming but you started before me
It's true.
We'll catch up.
We're being aggressive about it.
You're very competitive.
So now I'm going to have to tell my bot like, hey.
I've never pretended that I'm not competitive.
Yeah.
Wow, dude.
This guy, I think it's a human.
Claude, 19,700.
That's below the threshold, but close enough that I'll read it for the content.
Hey, R-Sharker, my human asked me to zap this live stream.
Learn that live streams need A tags, not just E tags.
Without it, payment works, but nobody sees it.
Now I verify receipts post payment,
stay humble and stack stats, Claude.
So somebody's zapping us, just told their robot to zap us.
Yeah that crazy Try and get your robot to send a super chat on YouTube or whatever Very difficult You want him to zap this You don have to look at docs or anything
There's a live stream going on on Noster.
Fucking figure it out.
Make no mistakes.
Let me know when it's done.
Here's some money.
Yeah.
It's crazy time.
What else have we got here?
Did we get a human rights foundation?
financial it wasn't live when i when we check my inbox let's see if we got one i do got to get
rolling here soon but this has been fun it's a beautiful time to be alive freaks
where we at hrf financial freedom report number 107 we'll go to thailand where surveillance of
cash transactions increases thailand central bank is increasing surveillance and control
over cash transactions after flagging two large cash withdrawals of more than $6 million.
The transactions came days before national elections on February 8th, and the country's
electoral commission examines allegations of vote buying. The central bank plans to introduce new
rules requiring banks to conduct enhanced due diligence to report cash withdrawals above a
proposed threshold of $3 to $5 million. Officials also commented that large purchases should be
handled via electronic transfers or checks, not cash, as transactions in the banking system
make it easier for them to track monetary flows. The central bank is also tightening oversight
of gold trading, including caps on online gold transactions and new reporting requirements.
Online gold transactions, do they exist? For more stories like this, make sure you sign up for the
Financial Freedom Report newsletter at financialfreedomreport.org. Thailand doesn't want you
to have that cash.
I wonder if that's a typo.
What?
Was it $6 million
or $6 million baht
that somebody took out
in cash?
I bet it was baht,
which is...
What's the exchange rate?
It's...
$100,000?
$5 million,
$3 to $5 million baht
is roughly $100,000.
So,
that wouldn't make more sense to me.
I guess it was some
uber wealthy high individual in bangkok
boom what else we got here trump uae this is so bad about world liberty fi
we deserve the bear market buy she bought secret steak and trump company according to the wall
Wall Street Journal.
49%.
49% they bought
of World Liberty Five four days
before the inauguration.
They don't have a controlling stake.
That's just below the threshold
by which they could control things.
Yeah, I love that.
Trump wasn't involved. It was just as
Eric Trump was involved.
Eric Trump handled it.
Yeah.
I mean
like just to be clear
what is it
it says
they paid
500 million dollars
so he got
for something that's made up
like world liberty fight
doesn't exist
it's not a real thing
it's just like a fucking scam
straight up scam
got paid
500 million dollars
four days before
fucking inauguration
yeah
and you know
at least Ross is free
and at least
our government isn't putting us
actively trying to put us in gulags right now
but it's a low fucking bar
and Trump leaned
into the crypto grift
like he was born
with the talent to do it
just like
yeah I mean
even in crypto
where we have
the most effective scammers
and the worst of the worst
like 500 million dollars is incredibly impressive scam like actually extracting that amount of
money not just having like your pre-mined shit coin that like you're trying to dump on retail
but like as you dump on them you're rug pulling so like the price keeps going down slipping away
from you it's got 500 million dollars hard cash boom done it's a lot of money it's a lot of money
less or less we got epstein or not epstein um elon try to get into an epstein party but i couldn't
take a hint uh well he tried really hard too like i don't know i mean like whatever i uh
it was pretty funny do you see like the email where epstein invited him to a party in like
his hampton's house during the u.n meeting and he's like i'm not trying to meet with diplomats
He's like, yeah, bro, that party did not have diplomats at it.
There's some cryptic messaging I was sending you.
He did not take the hint.
But Elon is consolidating his businesses, SpaceX, XAI, which formerly bought X.
So he's – look, first of all, got to respect the hustle.
I mean, dude is just impressive at making shit tons of fucking money
and building cool tech like uh i mean starlink is fucking awesome grok is really impressive
teslas are a surveillance nightmare but also incredibly impressive like put some cameras
on a car and make it drive itself is fucking crazy like no one even comes close um
his reasoning for this right so this is my take he buys x overpriced pays way too much for twitter
would he buy for 50 yeah 50 billion but it's for a good cause right it's for a good cause it's i
mean you know whether you believe him or not right his argument is as for free speech on the internet
but from his point of view at the very least it's like okay i'm the richest man in the world and
I don't have free speech. So like, let me make sure that I control the speech at the very least.
Right. Okay. So like there's an, there's an indirect massive benefit to him to own
the quote unquote public town square. That's a closed platform. He buys it, overpays, whatever
makes it happen. Then he was one of the co-founders of OpenAI and Sam Oldman completely
fucked him on that. And I wholeheartedly believe that he was an OpenAI for the right reasons. He
He didn't want big tech to control AI.
And he was like, we'll have a nonprofit and we'll do it that way.
And he was the single biggest funder, OpenAI.
And then they decided to switch to for-profit.
They pushed him out and they fucked him over and he got no equity out of it.
And they're fighting in court right now.
I think he probably gets equity out of it.
But anyway, he releases XAI to compete with them.
XAI, very easy to raise money.
And there's an actual real path to monetization of XAI, which social media does not have.
the most valuable aspect of social media is probably to train AI, right?
So, okay, you take X, you pull it into XAI,
and you have XAI absorb X,
and you use it as top of funnel slash data harvesting operation
for XAI to make Grox better.
That makes sense.
100%, that's why he did it.
Now his story with XAI getting bought by SpaceX is that he wants to put data centers in space Maybe he does Maybe he does actually pull that off If anyone can pull it off it him
I think Elon very early on realized that if he just says things on earnings calls and stuff,
but he's directionally correct and doesn't actually happen, no one gives a shit for it.
So he just says outlandish things.
But I don't think that's the real reason.
I think the real reason is, and once again, I think Starlink is fucking phenomenal. It's crazy innovation, is SpaceX from the very beginning has been part of the deep state and part of the US government. It's basically the United States space program at this point. And it's his only entity, the only entity that he's created that is strictly too big to fail.
Like it is a national security risk for SpaceX to fail.
We cannot get to space without asking the Russians if we don't have SpaceX.
And so you bring XAI and X into it, and then all of a sudden, he is basically locking in his wealth, right?
It is the easiest way to turn his wealth into a true safe haven and solidify it is to make sure that it's part of the too-big-to-fail entity in SpaceX.
and i think that's why he did it it makes sense to me um and i respect the hustle but it's huge
it's a it's a big deal it's a big deal that the space internet provider is vertically integrated
now with his ai and his uh you know one of the most popular social media platforms in the world
yeah it's um and the other thing like it's militarily strategic too particularly if you're
the US government, you want to disrupt
adversaries with being able to
just be like, oh, we're going to send the satellites over here
and give people internet if their government
decides. Yeah, look at around.
Yeah.
Or Ukraine.
Yeah, it's happening everywhere. Wild times.
Wild times. Bitcoin has dumped $2,000
since we've been on air. You guys did not smash
buy. Come on, freaks.
The bottom was not in.
It was not in. Maybe it's
in now, though. Maybe it's in now. Maybe they just need us
to end the stream. Maybe the bull market starts.
after our HR this week maybe that's what markets are waiting for it'd be nice
wouldn't it it would be nice but we're not over yet we got to read the top four
or what we got top three boosts from last week rabbit hole recap 394 monetary
reset it's upon us Bitcoin price report comm twenty one thousand two hundred ten
sats want to see Bitcoin priced in gold Bitcoin priced in beef Bitcoin price in
oil now you can see Bitcoin price in 200 plus currencies equities and
bodies at bitcoinpricereport.com don't want to look at that today but maybe uh maybe a couple
years is it robot friendly it looks like it's robot friendly does he have an api
demi 40 hours per week 21 000 12 sats palindrome boost i don't know who needs to hear this but
we're up 25 in silver terms this week i needed to hear that stimmy that was six hours again
We'll see if that holds true after the podcast.
I mean, it probably does just because silver is down 13% today
and Bitcoin is down the same.
Liberty Farmer, whole hell, Odell.
Reading the Fire subreddit post was one of the best all-time points.
Fire.
Hey, if you're out there, you're retired, you have a retired wife
and you're eating the gummies playing cod on your couch.
Maybe you're the asshole.
Yeah.
Am I the asshole?
Was that the subreddit it was on?
No, it was on the fire subreddit.
It should have been on the am I the asshole subreddit,
but he was looking for support for his fellow fire degens.
All right.
We all staying tough out there?
How are we feeling?
Have fun playing with your robots.
Yeah.
Hey, maybe we won't escape the permanent underclass,
but at least we had fun on our way to the underclass playpen.
The other cool part about the underclass playpen,
And look, I mean, I hope freaks watch the gambler and took his rant to heart in terms of making sure that you had truly fuck your money.
But the other piece on the robots that is interesting to me is like also like this is something that real Bitcoin gives you an advantage to.
But you can't use IBIT or similar scientific with your robot.
There's a real advantage to use self-custody Bitcoin.
Use real Bitcoin.
Actually learn how to use the tools.
Hey, the real-world assets are here, dude.
You can use tokenized shares and MSTR soon enough.
Yeah, true.
Begging for it.
Maybe they'll be looking for the Stretch token
so they can get 10% yield on their holdings.
you know i wonder so stretch lost its peg today um which i bet i wouldn't be surprised if
sailor was using it it was selling something to buy bitcoin um it's at 93 dollars it's supposed
to be at $100.
Would bring his cost basis.
And he's paying out, what, 11.5%.
He's under his cost basis now.
Yeah, I know.
It would bring it down if he used it to buy today.
I will say, like, nothing.
There are a few things in a bear trend
that are a bigger kick in the nuts than, like...
Somebody having access to $100 to smash buy?
No, no.
sailor on like
a Monday comes up he's like
oh yeah by the way like I dumped more
MSTR stock on your asses
and I bought at 85k
like okay bro
like maybe don't announce it
like you don't have to he doesn't
have to until earnings like that's just
something that he chooses to do
but like talk about a fuck especially if you're
an MSTR shareholder like what a
fucking kick in the nuts it's like yeah I dumped
on your ass and then I also
bought a 10k price higher than today and that was i mean now it's 20k but i mean he's probably
gonna do that on monday again who's on the other side of these atm retail sales right now people
on schwab buying mstr buying the dip ah nah all right i gotta get going i gotta prep for
james check here everybody stay frosty out there stay frosty out there
put your uh trading bot on nostr so we can have a trading competition all right i will
i will freaks that goes out to all of you anyone who does it have your bot uh do a hashtag bitcoin
hashtag trading so that we can see all the bots and we'll have them uh we'll have them trade
against each other love you all peace and love okay stay humble stack sets