What's going on?
This is Rod Balmer.
I prepared a brief statement for Bugle listeners today.
Before I begin, a few acknowledgements.
First, I believe Bitcoin is money.
Alright?
Okay?
We all do, retard.
we're trolling you when we say that bitcoin is anything other than money
all right we're for obviously we're trolling you we know that you know that what is ray bond
and hgx that got the blueberries hashtag we know we know if you don't know that we're trolling you
and we realize it,
we're the loss of respect viewer.
We're just bullying you because it's fun
and because it's easy.
Second, I believe spam is bad for Bitcoin.
Again, same situation as I just mentioned.
If you don't get it,
we don't have time to explain it.
We're just going to treat you the way
that you have demonstrated you deserve to be treated.
like pled cannon fodder.
And third, I believe the people loudly championing Bitcoin knots
often make valid, important points about resilience, attack surfaces,
and the long-term viability of Bitcoin.
Those arguments matter.
The future of Bitcoin against motivated, self-interested actors is not a joke.
And I'll be the first to admit, Bitcoin Core has a culture problem.
It has a growing legitimacy problem.
The development process has flaws.
The funding process has flaws.
The incentives of some key core contributors are, at the very least, suspect.
And if CORE ever expects users to give it the benefit of the doubt again, changes are necessary.
I also want to acknowledge friends, colleagues, feds, and fellow podcasters on both sides of this node-client debate.
I count many communists and many Nazis as allies, peers, and partners in this weird ecosystem.
Hell, I'll even smoke a cigarette with a low-level Fed if he has the decency to take off his badge when he comes to the smoke pit.
Also, I'm not being paid by any actor with a stake in core or knots.
aside from the tiny public boosts
you will get on fountain
which we even read them in each episode
for transparency
for non-fountain users
and also those boosts are laughably small
and wouldn't buy anyone
you know a coffee
much less my fucking opinion
but let's be clear
can we
can we be adults
can we cut the LARP
okay
Many Nazi influencers are bad actors.
Not all of them, but many.
There are countless plaids in everyday Bitcoiners who are caught up in this because they're worried and some are genuinely scared.
They are scared for Bitcoin.
They are scared for the security of their savings.
they're scared of how the government the state might react to policies pushed by woke core
developers and they are woke some of them and they don't listen to bitcoin podcasts clearly
oh but that fear is real because the trust has been shredded across society people don't trust
neighbors, co-workers, or even their own family members. Republicans don't even trust Israel
anymore. Think about that for a second. Republicans, they don't even trust Israel anymore. Don't take
that for granted. It's not just a joke. This has serious ramifications. They don't trust the
institutions that used to be the scaffolding of civil life. Credentials are the glue.
Because we live in a low-trust society, and there's no going back. Shout out to Satoshi,
great foresight, by the way. You know, don't trust, verify, used to be a meme on Twitter,
and a catchphrase on podcast, still is. For a lot of people, it was rhetorical candy,
cute, performative, harmless. Well, it's not optional anymore. We cannot blindly trust anyone,
not even Cordets. Bitcoin Core is not an exclusive cabal of C++ coders. Bitcoin Core is not Shinobi,
it's not Gloria, it's not Greg Maxwell, it's not Peter Weill, it's not Adam Back or Luke Jr.
standing alone at that altar.
Bitcoin Core is an institution,
like the education system,
like the healthcare system,
like the criminal justice system.
It is a story,
a mental model people use to reach consensus.
It's a process for resolving autistic,
pedantic, technical conflicts.
And like many institutions,
and institutions in terminal decline
the coin core is taking a legitimacy hit as the bigger quote-unquote vibe shift plays out
you know it we're in the what is it fourth turning whatever you want to call it at the end of the day
the story the end of the story has not been written it is uncertain and uncertainty makes
people fearful, and fear is a fertile ground. And the bad actors, mostly on the not side,
are harvesting that fear like it's crop season. And it's like, listen, those who have built their
reputations inside Bitcoin Core's institutional framework will fight tooth and nail to defend it.
That is predictable. I get it. But the hallmark of a frightened Nazi pled is this.
Fear of the state.
They believe Bitcoin Core can no longer shield them,
can no longer be trusted to shepherd this project for them.
So they are in search of a new priesthood to protect them.
Here's the rub.
Many Nazi influencers would rather pick fights with Bitcoiners than with the state
because it's a hell of a lot easier.
they'd rather cash in on your fear than confront the real threat they want you scared because
they're selling solutions they're selling node hardware mining software premium newsletters
all kinds of content and if they're not taking your money directly they're still selling your
attention. Attention is a currency. It costs your time, your sats, and your anxiety. Bad actors are
actively stoking that fear to gain influence over your mind and your ability to afford your taxes.
And a retard, you don't have to be afraid. You don't have to be dragged into their histrionics.
But you do have to take personal responsibility.
If you want protection, if you want the government to protect you, great.
Keep using fiat.
Use stablecoins.
Wait for the CBDC.
Wait for Tether to roll out.
Let them tuck you in.
Bitcoin is about separating money from the state, not about running statist-approved nodes subscribing to their pedophile apparatus.
Now you might be wondering, why should you listen to a pseudonymous podcaster who jokes about smoking cigarettes for breakfast?
The short answer is you shouldn't.
You shouldn't listen to anyone who tells you what no drum.
Don't take Luke, Shinobi, Mechanic, Dr. Adam Back, or any influencer at face value when they issue edicts.
Think for yourself.
If you think for yourself,
Shinobi calling you a retard stops having power.
NVK saying your no doesn't matter, doesn't matter.
Matthew Cratter's fear campaign looks correctly
like a staged performance,
because that's exactly what it is.
And a word of practical advice.
Be extremely skeptical of anyone who encourages you to publicly identify as a node runner.
If you think child porn on your node is going to cost you peace of mind or attract government attention,
do not dox yourself and become an easy target.
Be skeptical of anyone who demands that you choose sides.
When people force you into public affiliation, ask,
Who benefits?
If someone's turning your fear into a product or a crusade, their interests probably don't align with yours.
The battle for Bitcoin is real and it is important.
But it is not decided by whether you run Core version 30 or not.
It is decided by the individual.
You don't have to trust Core.
You don't have to trust Loop Dude, Loop Junior.
You don't have to relay spam. Run whatever node client serves you best.
But if you can pick the old compelled to justify your node choice to strangers on the internet, you've already lost the plot.
That's not what all of this is. The point of this whole thing is not for you to run the node that somebody on Twitter tells you to.
and i'm done debating this shit i am done getting framed or farmed for engagement i am done
wasting precious time that could be spent listening to bitcoin podcasts and this is
my final statement on the no debate if you catch me engaging again i want you to call me out
publicly shame me for breaking my pledge to disengage hold me accountable because i will
appreciate it.
The too long don't read
of all of this.
Stop scaring the plebs to sell merch and raise money from Jack Dorsey Just stop Stop all this bullshit It annoying
It sucks.
You're pissing me off.
And you're scaring the plebs.
End of statement.
It's over.
I'm done.
Thank you.
So you went on Pleb Chain Radio and decided to do a sermon.
Is that what happened here?
Yeah, exactly.
i uh i went on plug chain radio and part of the thing i appreciate about plug chain radio
is the sermons but uh obvi was not there he couldn't find his house or something like that
um so we didn't get a good sermon so i wrote my own well i enjoyed it yeah there there's this
problem with uh you can't really do a whole lot of thinking when you're afraid right it is a very
high time preference activity to be afraid fear is fear is an important emotion it it's an emotion
that allows you to identify threats but i think fear also is weaponized it's something they taught
us in journalism school is how to use fear to forward and promote whatever the cia's agenda is
the cia is really good at fear intelligence agencies are really good at it trained journalists
are really good at it. They're good at making the plebs,
the uninitiated, the unintelligent,
afraid, turn their brains off
and then react in a certain way.
It happens over and over and over again.
You're afraid of the Muslims, so you're going to support
the invasion of Iraq. You're afraid of
whichever group.
You're afraid of drug traffickers, so you're going to support
the feds bombing uh venezuela you're afraid of the truth so you're gonna let the pentagon
throw journalists in jail for reporting on the news you're afraid of losing your nice things
so you're gonna let the pedophiles continue to run society exactly you have to ask yourself
Every time the government tells you what you should be afraid of, every time the government tells you that you should be more afraid of Ginny Kimmel or you should be more afraid of Venezuelan fishing boats than the fact that the government is full of criminal pedophiles who are all enabling each other and have full control and power and authority over your life.
If you think that that's less scary than Jenny Kimmel, it sounds silly on its face, right?
But unless they've got something scarier than what Epstein represents, it's a scion.
Absolutely.
And clads are very susceptible to scions.
I think that's important.
I think we all know that.
So it's not, it is not nice to bully plebs.
They are canon for their, it sucks enough to be a pleb.
It's scary out there.
And you don't know what to do.
And scaring them on purpose to sell them hardware wallets and nodes and all these things, it's just not very nice is all I'm going to say.
You should be helping the plebs.
you don't have to spend all your time
explaining every little corner of Bitcoin
C++ to a pleb like Chris Guida
just because he asked too many questions
you don't have to spend all your time
helping the plebs
but if you have the opportunity to scare them
or to comfort them
and it costs you the same amount of energy
it's just not nice to scare them
and sometimes
people just
they they use scaring the plebs to their benefit and it's just it's a bad act that's what i mean by
bad actor i think we're all tired of talking i'm not going to make the commitment not to talk about
it anymore uh but i'm just not that interested in talking it so i appreciate uh your desire to not
get roped into it anymore i've i've been focusing on things that matter more to me
personally i've been having a good time i've been enjoying life while while while people
walking around they're they're afraid i'm confused by it because i think in a lot of ways is good time
because i think i've said this over and over again it's just i think one of the issues a lot
of people are experiencing and what they've done is they spent a lot of time they're listening to
kind of the Doomer narratives on Bitcoin podcast,
and they didn't take action
because the fear put them in a freeze situation.
They didn't adjust their behaviors.
They didn't adjust their relationships.
They didn't adjust their strategies for the fourth turning.
So instead of doing the things that they needed
to be able to prepare for it,
they uh just were stuck and they're smoking weed they were angry at david bailey they were
doing whatever that wasn't productive and i i think that's a that's a dangerous spot i i haven't
experienced that i've been preparing and yeah i encourage you guys if if you're if you were like
that if you were just you've been so terrified you haven't been able to prepare uh there are
some behaviors that need to change maybe you need to log off of social media and you need to read
atlas shrugged and you need to uh be a grown-up and you need to uh go buy a suit at a store and uh
turn in your gym shorts at least some of them there's i think there's also i think where i'm
coming from is a sense of feeling guilt. I feel guilty because I took the time to, to send before
turning hardcover to a hundred different friends and family members. I sent them
countless uh bitcoin podcasts articles tweets bitcoin magazine articles um books to to tell
the and told them like the fourth turning is coming hyper bitcoinization is coming it's a
gradually then suddenly situation you can't trust you have to bear i've been warning them and so many
people just didn't take the advice they didn't listen to 40 hours of bitcoin podcast per week
like i did and i feel a sense of guilt that uh they're not ready and you know i'm i perfectly
positioned myself for this fourth turning um but you have to assuage yourself of that guilt i think
because no matter how hard you tried to orange bill them ultimately they had to make that decision
for themselves um and just like you didn't find bitcoin as early as you could have you know the
best time to start listening to bitcoin podcasts for 40 hours per week was 20 you know 15 years ago
when bitcoin came out um but the second best time is today and so as people realize you know
that they were prepared at least there is a lifeboat yeah well last week was a pretty interesting week
i wasn't online as much as uh i could have been i was busy uh bitcoin podcasting with odell
i was busy talking to people like michael goldstein and dr adam back i what was it like
to be in the presence of you know such that you know experienced podcasters because even if the
cameras aren't recording you know it's still a very similar atmosphere to a bitcoin podcast is
that how you felt it was definitely a bitcoin podcast in person i i was afraid to talk to dr
anabak because i think i i thought i was going to fall asleep i thought i was going to walk up and
i was going to fall asleep and uh what actually happened i think having michael gold michael
goldstein he's kind of like walking cocaine his brain's just firing on all cylinders he he's all
excited he's high energy he's talking quickly uh the stuff he's saying is so profound so when
back starts talking about relay policy you know goldstein really
brings brings things back into being interesting and uh talks about different topics but yeah one
of the things that michael goldstein was talking about which i thought was really fascinating
was this idea. It was called the Nirvana effect.
And the way that he described the Nirvana effect is people getting frustrated and grumpy because
things aren't perfect, which I think a lot of this is something that has happened over
and over in Bitcoin. I think Roger Ver is an early example of this where he got Bitcoin
derangement syndrome because it wasn't the perfect thing that he wanted right and other people failed
his purity test the users of the network failed his purity test so he had to fork off
same with vlad costia just got bitcoin derangement syndrome because it wasn't it didn't meet his
purity test for how privacy how privacy should work or how you know whatever it should work
And there's a lot of people that tend to do this.
And I think we,
we were discussing the Nirvana effect earlier and we looked up the definition
on Urban Dictionary and it talked about the definition being like talking
about something too much.
It's like being too close to the signal can kind of like make you lose
perspective.
They say like you fail to see the forest through the trees.
and we're talking you're too close to the conversation you tend to realize how imperfect
or you know the story is not as optimistic as you thought or there's more problems than you
realized there would be and it starts to make you get bitcoin derangement syndrome or get
frustrated or grumpy um is that kind of like is that kind of mesh with what uh they were thinking
in there yeah I think it's good to I was experienced this on the roster so I I posted a
controversial Nostra post I don't know what to call it when you do a post on Twitter you call it
tweets a Nostra I guess you call it posts but I think there needs to be a better Notes Notes Notes They call it notes So I was noting when I did my Noster post
I was noting.
I don't like the sound of that.
There needs to be a better term than noting.
Notice. You should be noticing, not noting.
I guess noticing is what you would be doing
if you're reading Noster posts, right?
I don't know.
We got to workshop this a little bit.
We'll put something up in the Bugle newsroom and maybe do a bounty.
This would be a good use for a lightning bounty right here.
Come up with the terminology of what it means to post on Noster.
But anyways, I posted a controversial post on Noster saying that the memes need to get better.
Because I was scrolling the Noster timeline, and I couldn't believe how bad and cringy the memes are.
and there's this constant issue you know you go to the party and you're talking to a guy and the
guy likes to uh listen to himself talk and doesn't know how much everybody else hates him
hates hearing them talk
there's a lot of that going on in this ecosystem and absolutely i think what's really important
for people to understand right now there's been people that have been around for a while
and they've gotten tied to this identity of fighting the culture fighting the system of being
the underdogs and so you know i was talking with some people as again michael goldstein i gotta
to say that guy i i'm genuinely impressed by him uh it's very rare that i get super excited and
impressed about somebody in bitcoin but that guy well i think uh i think it's good to remember
his personality of the unit it seems like he's always doing coke just excited and talking fast
and that's how you sound to your friends and family members when you're talking about bitcoin
Especially when you first get an orange bill, you seem like you're on a stimulant and you're just talking so fast and you're so excited and so optimistic.
And they notice that.
And it's important to hone your ability to communicate your optimism.
And Goldstein does a great job of that.
He continues to be excited and optimistic about things, including Bitcoin, in a coherent way.
And I think it's very, when you, when you're around somebody who does that, it is contagious and it is exciting and it does, it is, you know, it spreads your optimism.
So try to be that presence instead of just a rambling, you know, somebody at a party who's actually on cocaine and is rambling about incoherent business ideas.
Well, I mean, he was wearing a suit and Dr. Back wasn't.
so it it's easy to right one thing that i've learned working in the media is never underestimate
a jew first and foremost but um also never underestimate a guy in a suit a jew in a suit
you got to take him seriously and then when they're uh a prolific bitcoin podcaster
truly a pioneer in a lot of ways a very very impressive pioneer uh i'm very impressed by this
but you know i've been impressed by him for a while following his work for a while but you know
having the first interaction in person was very and this is but this for me is the key takeaway
is see what coiners are like jews you don't have to like them but never underestimate them
Yeah. But we were talking about the libertarians and we're shitting on the libertarians.
And the libertarians largely have failed to understand the importance of Bitcoin.
And part of the reason is because Bitcoin is a technology that could allow them to win for the first time ever.
And they've tied their identities to losing over and over and over again.
They just want to issue purity tests and sit on the sidelines and lose.
That's where their identities are.
And I think a lot of the Bitcoin ecosystem is like that, too, where they've tied their identities to being.
the outcasts,
they don't understand
that Bitcoin is one,
that it is a culturally relevant topic
that in many ways is going mainstream.
The NPCs, the plabs are starting to come in.
They're starting to get interested in it.
They have their retarded opinions.
They're going to have their retarded opinions.
You can't change retards.
They're going to be retarded.
but uh things are changing pretty dramatically and it's time to to grow up like if what i would
suggest for i wouldn't suggest people to liquidate their bitcoin positions like that ocean guy jason
or whatever his name was but if you want to be a loser and that's where you want your identity to be
go hang out with the libertarians because the bitcoin ecosystem is not full of a bunch of
losers anymore it's full of a bunch of winners is full of a bunch of pioneers is full of a bunch of
people that have radically changed the world and i think it's really important to have at least
an ounce of self-respect when you look at yourself and you've interacted in this community to know
that you're actually kind of cool
and kind of the shit
for having being a part of this.
The Bitcoin podcasters...
Like,
there's something that has bothered me a lot
is, you know,
Bitcoiners have, like, groveled
at Joe Rogan's feet. Like, have a
Bitcoiner on. Have a Bitcoiner on.
Fuck Joe Rogan.
Where we're going, Joe Rogan's
going to be begging to come on our podcast.
Yeah.
We don't need to give a shit about this bald old man who is a horrible comedian and is very unintelligent.
The dude has never listened to a Bitcoin podcast.
Why the fuck would you give a shit about a guy's platform or opinion that has never listened to a Bitcoin podcast?
Sure, he's got a lot of subscribers.
He's done a lot of cool things, but you don't have to give a shit about it.
I mean, there's something culturally relevant here,
and I think it's important for individuals to have higher standards for themselves.
Well, Scrooge, you're a road, and the question is,
do you want to pass Ron Paul's purity test, or do you want to win?
Because, I mean, you talked about, like, libertarians are addicted.
to losing uh they're addicted to lose they know they have nothing to to offer they would they just
want to feel morally superior because they pass enough purity tests um but we've already discussed
time and time again on this show that the effort of trying to pass all the purity tests is a losing
effort. We are all
purity test failures.
And we're born that way.
So do you want to win or do you want to pass
purity tests? Because you can't do both.
And just because
an unfunny podcaster,
unfunny
comedian gets fired from The Tonight
Show,
that doesn't mean you have to halt
your efforts to try to pass
a purity test. And don't
let people use purity tests
to try to
dissuade you from building if you're proud of what you're doing and you want to win and you're
playing to win don't let somebody who doesn't listen to 40 hours of podcast bitcoin podcasts
per week and who hasn't been listening to 40 hours of bitcoin podcasts per week um tell you
that you can't do what you're doing
or that you shouldn't have a chance to win
based on some purity tests you failed.
Their opinion doesn't matter.
I think it's time for self-respect.
That's what the suit is.
The suit is a sign of self-respect.
There's a lot of people that are really resistant to the suit.
There was a time in American history
where men almost universally wore suits.
there was a time in American history where men looked at themselves in the
mirror and they had self-respect.
There was a time when women had self-respect and I think we need to,
that's what I want to go back to.
That's what I want to experience in my life.
And it is what I experienced in my life is I have self-respect.
That's why I do the things that I do.
That's why I'm a Bitcoin podcaster.
That's why I don't waste my time, you know, getting sucked into stupid arguments constantly about nonsense.
That's why I don't live in fear, you know, being terrorized by, you know, these, you know, very silly ideas.
And I actually, you know, slow down and ask questions because I have fucking self-respect.
Guys, you're not a pleb anymore.
if you're if you are a pleb and you're you're stuck trying to hold on to this you're you're
going to have a bad time you're not going to do well you want to hold on to the you you want to
listen to plebslop the plebslop podcast you want to listen to macro gibberish that confirms that
you're right but it doesn't make sense that's what you want to do with your time
yeah the you talk about there was a time where everybody wore suits and we got away from that
if you look at the correlation started around 1971 uh with technology computers the acceleration
that we think of today coming with ai were really began in the techno technology information age
and people were so you know computer programmers tech guys they were so smart and they were like
so ahead of the time ahead of the curve that they didn't have to wear seats to work anymore
they were so rare that they were so early and so technically proficient and had so much foresight
that they could look like you know they could wear a t-shirt and sweatpants to work and they
didn't have to comb their hair or wear deodorant uh and there was a time like that where it was
enough to have a you know look like a sloppy wizard in cargo shorts with a Bitcoin t on because you were so early to Bitcoin that you didn have to wear a suit You didn even have that self
You just, people still had to respect you.
We're not in that point anymore with Bitcoin.
We're not that early.
So wearing a suit is now, it's like, okay, you own Bitcoin.
Well, congratulations, everybody owns Bitcoin at this point.
But do you actually have self-respect?
Do you not have the skill and the talent to run your own node and manage your own self-custody?
But do you still have the self-respect that a Bitcoiner should at least exude that self-pride that you listen to podcasts?
Well, that's how you represent that with a suit.
I don't take self-custody, but I still have self-respect.
well uh there's a lot of stuff going on in the world this week
so what one of the things i'm really wondering i mentioned it to odell i asked him on the interview
was uh what do youtube thumbnails look like in in p clown world i think this is an interesting
idea to speculate on you have to wear you have to wear clown makeup to succeed in clown world
is that the question is marty band have to wear clown makeup to succeed it as a you know
podcaster in this clown world i think it's something that we have to track i mean i do think that is
reasonable maybe that's where you know i was speculating that these guys start
turning themselves into ai women and bikinis thong bikinis but maybe it is that they they get
to the point where they have to well wear clown makeup in their youtube maybe that maybe the
choice is we either put on a suit or you post open out open mouth thumbnails because those are
the only two ways to identify on youtube or you know on the timeline anymore i would like to ask
the simply bitcoin guys what they think not everybody who wears clown making what do they
say what's the old it's it's a cliche about clowns is that they're usually sad a sad clown
and i think if you think of it through that lens it's especially if you know right there's a lot
of people who post open mouth thumbnails who are not proud to open open open mouth thumbnails they
They are, you know, their response is like a man's got to eat, got to make money, got to compete on the timeline and the algorithm.
And that's how it works, you know, open mouth thumbnails.
But they're not happy about it.
And a lot of those open mouth thumbnails, if you really think of them as a big frown, they're sad.
It's something that we have to track for sure.
Folks, if you put your face on the Internet, it might be used for an open mouth thumbnail, whether you have your mouth open or not.
because you can edit it with AI now.
Fun fact.
Somebody could, you know,
it's like Scottie Pippen.
Somebody could take your whole brand,
your whole persona, your whole platform
and turn it into an open mouth thumbnail platform
on their own, you know, account.
Be more popular than you.
They could take over.
They could just turn you into a clown
and control your entire reputation.
Some people make it easy to do that.
Like David Dennis Porter, excuse me.
he doesn't mind being a clown um so i think it was the week prior uh jimmy kimmel got fired
no it was it was like five days ago four days ago okay so it was this last week so so there was a
fake attack on journalism and there was a real attack on journalism that happened this week
people got upset about the fake attack and they don't seem too particularly upset about the real
attack which is not surprising you shouldn't be surprised here but uh the fake attack was jimmy
kimmel getting fired uh for cause you know when somebody sucks when an employee sucks
and they are paying enough money to afford expensive jewish lawyers it's it's tricky to
fire them right it can be tricky to fire them because the expensive jewish lawyers might
sue the organization uh so what they did is they you know jimmy kimmel has been saying
absolutely retarded shit for years nothing new they're saying off color stupid nonsense
but they they got him for one he said something about charlie kirk and you know
got canceled for it and they whipped up a mob of angry plebs and uh they use that as an excuse to
fire him because his rating sucked he just people weren't excited to listen to his uh
nonsensical liberal plebslop uh but the real attack on journalism folks is that the pentagon
is uh threatening journalists reporting on the things that they're doing
right now pentagon saying that journalists can't report on stuff that they're doing for national
security risks once we've seen this before this is we've talked about this over and over you have
podcom approved podcasts and non-podcom approved podcast uh just change a few letters one word
if pentagon approved podcasts and non-pentagon approved podcasts that's the new future right
That's what they're trying to set up.
Which podcast is Pentagon approved?
Well, it might not be as obvious as the podcast with a big stamp and a label on it, but it'll have the same feeling.
feeling um you know the pentagon podcast the pen the journalists who satisfy the pentagon's
security tests um they'll just blatantly not state obvious things even though they're obvious
like lynn alden is hot a podconf approved podcast won't say it nobody knows why there's been no
official documentation on whether or not it's uh allowed to acknowledge that lynn alton is hot on
this podcast but um it just you know it just won't be discussed and i have a feeling that's going to
be how this works some journalists will be able to say obvious things that seem completely
unoffensive unless for some reason everybody else won't say it yeah so this uh reporter at
Bloomberg put this article out that uh disclosed tv is circulating it says the pentagon limits
journalists access to military information uh the guy who wrote the article he's got some stupid
Polish name with a bunch of C's and Z's in it,
Tony Zucza.
So apparently the Pentagon is requesting
or threatening journalists saying that they can only
report on pre-approved information,
even if it's declassified.
So they're saying journalists cannot report on even declassified
information that's open for the public to know about.
so an organization that has never passed a financial audit that has a huge military black
budget that has committed countless war crimes invaded countries uh
based on lies that the new york times and other organizations have propagated is now telling
journalists that they cannot report on things that are declassified and they have to go off of a
pre-approved list i mean they're really taking that that podconf approach
and people are upset about jimmy kimmel getting fired right now folks this is what they are saying
with this policy and this is what it boils down to if you're a journalist you can't repeat
the things you hear on podcasts.
They don't want journalists to report
what they hear talked about,
discussed, or information
that is broken by podcast.
It has to go through the Pentagon's filter first.
If the Pentagon doesn't approve
what the journalist hears on a podcast,
it can't report on it.
It can't be written about.
This is why you have to listen
to Bitcoin podcasts
because the journalists
will no longer be allowed
to cover what they hear
on a podcast
until it's approved by the Pentagon.
So you have to listen to podcasts yourself.
You cannot trust...
Honestly, this makes it so
you cannot even trust anybody
to tell you what they heard on a podcast
because by doing so,
they could be labeled.
I mean, they could call you a journalist.
I would argue that podcasters are journalists
in a lot of ways.
some better than others some uncredentialed some non-credentialed
joe nakamoto doesn't have his credentials obviously but
yeah these are the danger this is a problem with purity tests
a lot of times is uh the people get emotional about purity tests and they'll get more emotional
over you know very silly purity tests like uh you know whatever david bailey's working on
whatever sort of financial nonsense he's doing they'll be mad at david and they'll they'll
miss the entire point of what's going on they don't have enough emotional energy left to even
think about something like this the rate of pleditor tweet they'll start spiraling into
circles they'll be so upset i can't believe that this person did this and then
like we're at the precipice of something dangerous right now on a lot of different fronts so you know
people got excited about trump he said play with your bitcoins at the bitcoin conference he said
no new wars uh now he's threatening afghanistan he wants to go back into afghanistan he's talking
about invading venezuela things are he he promised to end the ukraine war that seems to only be
escalating who knows what's going on over there and people are mad about shit coins and taproot
wizards fees are at all-time lows blocks are near empty mining pools are going to subset
one set a fee by transaction fees where are people's priorities right now holy fucking shit
like they're
they're more willing to get upset
about
shit coins
than a potential
like
global war escalating.
They're either their kids or them,
if they're young enough,
getting drafted to go get slaughtered by drones,
suicide drones.
The Epstein client list running rampant,
a guy that should be running a 7-Eleven,
running the FBI,
telling a Christian man that he'd see him in Valhalla,
saying that Epstein didn't kill himself
after going on podcasts and saying that he did.
There's some things to be frustrated about
and angry about right now.
And instead of...
I guess I was talking about this recently on my music show.
It's just people's compasses are malcalibrated.
their sense of direction is completely upside down right now
the institution of journalism is it's important
this is why podcasting is important because much of the institution of journalism has been co-opted
we know this we know that a lot of journalists have zero self-respect this is why the bugle is
important because we have self-respect many journalists have very little self-respect you
look at pete rizzo right now you know that he doesn't have any self-respect you look at his
clickbait tweets that he puts out he doesn't have any respect for his readers too i think this is
part of the clickbait stuff if you're putting out clickbait you don't have respect for the people
watching your content and it's it's important to slow down and to think a little bit about what
you're seeing what the highest levels of priority are and i think one of the highest levels of
priority right now is to preserve the ability to disseminate information that is accurate
to question information that is inaccurate
because you know if the pentagon gets away with this like the next thing you know we're
going to be like the uk where people are being arrested for posting memes the
the ultimate takeaway for me is um it's very obvious and it's been obvious and i for years
now and i don't part of my journalism is an attempt to communicate this message which is
the media journalists politicians everybody brands companies corporations they the content they put
out uh what they don't respect you they don't respect their audience they don't respect you
and you shouldn't if you start to come across anybody whether it's a company an ordination or
an individual who doesn't communicate with you in a way that demonstrates that they respect you
like that they have any respect for you um you know you don't have to pay attention to them anymore
and this is part of the problem which is as long as we're all spanning each other's notes
we're not focusing on what the real issue is um we're just trying to troll each other and figure
out different ways to prove that no matter how many filters you put in front of you we can still
span your note and at the end of the day we need to be coming together this is like why we need to
stop doing this it's not if you're a core person or a nazi or republican or a democrat this message
should not be resonating with only your side.
Everybody needs to hear this.
We need to come together and focus our energy.
We need to spam Palantir, not each other's notes.
Spam Palantir. Spam the Pentagon. Spam the pedophiles.
Don't spam my note.
And I think if we come to this consensus,
this we won't have to have this argument about mental policy anymore yeah i don't love like the
idea of like coming together because i think a diversity of opinions is good because it means
that people are thinking for themselves like i don't think there needs to be any unity so to say
like you should if you don't like shinobi i don't i don't think you should start liking him
necessarily or you know mechanic or whoever it is that you're grumpy at but it's just
i think it's vital to to choose where you direct your energy and to not get caught up in distractions
of things that don't matter and
to focus on what the what the problem is you know if the pentagon gets away with this and they
they start to regulate what journalists can and can't report on the next thing you know
mining pools are going to start censoring transactions and they say hey you cannot
or or you know other platforms will start censoring transactions and they say hey you
can't send this podcaster bitcoin that's the that's the problem with where we're at in the
direction that we're heading at and so i don't i don't think like you you can find unlikable people
allies in a lot of ways like there's you might you don't have to like them but there's going to be
people out there that are much more on your side than uh than other people for sure did it at the
end of the day, spamming other people's nodes means you're spamming yourself. If you run a node
and you want to spam Matthew Cratter's node, the trade-off is that you have to spam your own node
because that's how Bitcoin works. And that's how society works. And that's how life works. If you
want to spam shinobi if shinobi wants to spam you they're ultimately spamming themselves because
there there is a constraint on the amount of resources and energy and time that any of us have
any given 10 minutes of our lives um and if we want to spam each other we're ultimately spamming
ourselves so just broadcast what you think is best for you and most beneficial to you and stop
even when it's cheap, even when it's easy,
even when the fees are low,
it's just not...
Ask, is it really worth spamming and trolling your opponents
when at the end of the day,
they're also spamming your own time and yourself?
Yeah, I think people are way too hyper-focused on...
There are some people.
This isn't everybody.
And I think this is the hard part of where we're at right now
is actually gauging sentiment.
People are going on Twitter.
They're trying to gauge what the sentiment is.
It's not really a good platform to be able to do that
because you don't know who you're interacting with.
The government does.
The NSA does.
But you don't have the power.
You don't have access to Palantir.
So it's people's brains are being spammed.
And I think that's more dangerous than your node getting spanned, your brain getting spanned.
And so finding ways to filter the spam in your brain is important.
They're not relaying it up.
Don't bog down your mom, your dad, your co-workers, your grandma, your neighbor.
Don't bog down their resources, their mental faculties with other people's spam.
Like, you don't have to share everything just because it pissed you off.
Just because Shinobi called you retarded doesn't mean you have to board and relay that information to everybody around you.
Absolutely.
Yeah, be careful about what you're relaying.
But yeah, I guess it's been kind of a heavy podcast.
And I think the last one was a little bit heavy too i think it important to remember that there good things happening right now to highlight those good things that are happening
folks we're entering in the golden age of bitcoin podcast we are in many ways entering in the golden
age of Bitcoin smell the roses take time to smell the roses take time to enjoy the people around you
take time to enjoy posting good memes people got grumpy with me for saying that the memes on
Noster suck not all of them suck I don't know who it was but somebody pointed out to me to go find
corn delorean on oster and i was very impressed with corn corn delorean's memes those are some
good memes this is the problem with letting your brains get spammed is you miss all the good stuff
that's out there there's a lot of good stuff the the noise overtakes the signal the signal
it's not that the signal doesn't exist it's that it's being drowned in the noise and so
we need to we need to operate with a hot with a much tighter relay policy
with for your brains and unfortunately social media is difficult makes it difficult to do so
because it's just filled with spam.
It's filled with pleb slop.
It's filled with nonsense.
That's part of the reason why it's nice
to hang out with people in person.
Shake your favorite podcaster's hand.
Smoke cigarettes together.
Talk about things other than
the same stuff that you talk over and over and over again.
Talk about interesting things happen in the world.
Talk about music.
Talk about books.
i've been reading a really good book uh this week i really really like it so you know jk rowling has
a uh another pen name uh robert galbraith do you know this rod so she wrote this series uh
about a private detective that i really like the the book is titled the hallmarked man
and it's like the seventh book in the series or something like there's a bunch of them but
fuck is it a good book it's a compelling story and there's tons of shit like that that you could
be doing my my my little perspective on it is that you're right everything you're saying is
right my but it is refreshing to be around people who understand the gravity of the situation
you know the past two episodes you said have been heavy people who understand the weight of the
world we live in right now and are still gleeful because i think that is the message because it is
heavy it is serious it sometimes is scary and the user experience is very terrible in many situations
but we're not grumpy we're so gleeful and the people who are grumpy right now and all they want
to talk about is that is the weight of the world that's not an optimistic story being gleeful despite
you know that's like the book of job job in the bible right like his entire he had a million
reasons to be grumpy but he refused he refused to be grumpy he chose to be gleeful and that
and that's an inspirational story to me it tells you that uh there's always a reason to be gleeful
always a reason to be bullish that's an interesting take i've always i thought the book of joe i get
a different take from the book of joe that god's kind of a prick but uh it's kind of a prick i don't
think it's i don't think there's anything i don't think there's anything wrong with admitting that
god is a prick um but just because god is a prick doesn't mean that you have to be grumpy like don't
let God make you grumpy. That's, that's a pretty powerful place if that you can sit in, if you're
not allowing God to make you grumpy. I don't know if it is achievable by people, by most people,
by anybody. I don't know if, I don't know if even a Buddhist monk can, can be so Zen that he doesn't
let God make him grumpy, but you know, God's not always trying to make you grumpy. So
if you strive to make it so that god can't make you grumpy well then if you succeed nobody else
will be able to make you grumpy only god and if god's not always trying to make you grumpy
there'll be times in your life where you'll have no excuse to be grumpy if god can't make you grumpy
paper bitcoin can't make you grumpy spam can't make you grumpy god is if god is not trying to
make me grumpy you know who could possibly be able to hell yeah well uh nothing stops this glee
i think should be the uh the mantra yeah so uh dr adam back followed me on twitter this week
and uh so that means shinobi followed me with a different account i don't know if dr adam back
is grumpy or gleeful see that he has a very good poker face a very good podcast poker face it's
hard to tell he says you know like he's bullish he always says really bullish things but a lot of
people do you know and it's he's very good at masking if he's just rolling her out i mean he's
you can't see that little out and back smirk on his face from the most it's on video
he seemed pretty gleeful to me in person when i was talking to him
he seems like he's having a good time
I guess you know
Tether's been really successful lately so he has a reason
to be gleeful
him and Samson
Samson's grumpy though
that's true
that is true Samson has become
grumpy about Bitcoin Core
in the nonce debate
so even if Samson can be
grumpy about it you know anybody
can samson don't you samson's allowing god to be make him grumpy it's pretty apparent we have not
seen the god candle yet and it is making samson grumpy and uh it's interesting
that is that i didn't think of it from that perspective but
there are and there are a lot of people who like samson uh
are grumpy because we haven't had a god candle and you know i bet you they promised a lot of
people in their life that you know bitcoin was god's money and that the candle was coming
and it hasn't come so they're they're frustrated
yeah i think they just need to check their uh their time preference i think we all would have
thought that uh bitcoin would be a lot higher than it is right now but you know one of the
things that you always got to factor into the scenario is that the rest of the world isn't like
you if you're a pioneer you can't accept the plebs to just up and become pioneers you're you're you're
truly a special individual in a lot of ways yeah and if you uh i think better said before we get to
the boosts is that uh you know when if you make the bitcoin price god he it's very often going to
make you grumpy or try it's gonna it's gonna constantly try to make you grumpy anybody who
makes the price of bitcoin their god is usually more often than not pretty grumpy they get a few
months here and there every couple of years but even let you know if it's not volatile enough
people will still be grumpy even when it's at all-time highs do you think pletitor's made the
price of nakamoto stock has gone naka or uh sequins basically as pletter has made david
daily and swan is gods in bitcoin and they are really letting him down
can't even get a webinar on time same with joseph bachelor holy shit that's that is the
problem with making David Bailey your God.
You're going to be pretty grumpy.
Despite David not being a grumpy guy.
Well,
one of the things I'm really excited about this week,
uh,
before we get it in the fountain boost is,
uh,
plan to interview David Bennett of the uh Bitcoin and podcast He one of my favorite Bitcoin podcasters so i excited for that one very uh huge nostor personality goes by none of your business on nostor oh yeah yeah
good dude good dude that'll be a good one absolute sleeper when it comes to bitcoin podcasting there
there's some real sleeper podcasters like people like to talk about natalie and not to say that
She's not a good podcaster, but people like to talk about Natalie or Preston Pish or Marty.
But there's these guys out there like Dave Bennett that are some of the best in the world that I think deserve a lot more recognition.
But yeah, on to the Fountain Boost.
So I'm excited for that interview because we're going to be able to read Fundamentals rebuttal to your comment about him on the Odell interview.
But first boost from Fundamentals, 10,101 sat says, podcaster life insurance is now in development, pays off and found a boost.
We are unstoppable.
Yeah, yeah.
I had a feeling that our Jewish listeners were going to love skits about insurance.
Those guys love insurance.
Who likes insurance more, boomers or Jews?
Or boomer Jews?
Well, a lot of boomers don't like insurance because it doesn't seem to work for them.
But the Jews love it.
Insurance really usually works out for the Jews.
what do you mean it doesn't work for them uh you know people their house burns down
the government comes in a week before a big fire and they're like oh no uh no insurance coverage
for your house if it burns down in fire then it burns down in fire or no insurance for this storm
or this flood or no insurance for uh you know you this exchange went uh bankrupt and now you have no
insurance on your on your bitcoin or your crypto it's just it doesn't seem to work out when things
go wrong but um in all those instances you know it usually does work out you know for the jews so
they're they i think that they have a pretty good uh respect and they like in the insurance industry
the guy that took out the terrorism insurance on the world trade center before 9-11 he sure likes
insurance yeah again i think the i think the jews really benefited from that situation as well
from an insurance perspective
that it worked out for them.
They just know how to play the game
better than anybody else.
Gotta respect it.
They respect themselves.
I've never met a Jew
that's afraid to put on a suit.
That's for sure.
Well, thank you for the boost,
Fundamentals.
We should all respect ourselves
as much as the Jews respect
themselves.
I think that should be
an aspiration all of us have.
Maybe we'd have,
maybe there'd be less conspiracy theories
if we all respected ourselves as much.
There'd be a lot less complaining about the Jews.
That's for sure.
How are you?
The next one is 5,420 sats.
Friend of the show.
Best coffee shop.
Experienced curator in the industry.
That was a bit mire.
When folks cry out to the government
for more legislation to solve a problem,
I'm reminded of the following wisdom
from our modern prophets.
Run the jewels.
that's a uh that's a band by the way you can probably find them on wave like a funny fact
about a cage they never built for just one group so when that cage is done with them and you're
still poor it come for you the newest lowest on the totem well golly gee you've been used
you helped to fuel the death machine
that down the line will kill you too.
Oops.
They probably delivered those lyrics
a little bit more beautifully
and nicer sounding than I did,
but run the jewels.
I mean, they spit facts.
I've never heard of this band.
Interesting.
I think you'd like run the jewel
it is
you know
I wouldn't say exactly hip hop
but it's pretty much a hip hop group
and they don't just sing about
CIA
psyops about you know drugs
and ditty parties they usually have
a
more thermodynamically
sound message
I'll make sure to check them out right after this
i love otis big fan otis otis and i are concocting some plans we're scheming so uh
hopefully we'll have some announcements in the future some cool things to talk about but yeah
but yeah i forgot run the jewels uh that's the lead singer's killer mike who is uh he's a big
i think we talked about that with uh toonster with toonster mike interesting next boost od
40 HPW 2100
says
Ozumbic killed the body positive
movement not the fat
jokes cancel all cancel
culture
that's still
you know this is the problem with purity
tests is even when you try to have
like the anti purity
tests it still becomes a purity test
so
you can't cancel all
culture and
like I said, you want to play to win or do you want
to win purity tests?
And I do
get the sentiment, but
it's just another pitfall. Even
with good intentions, you still
fall into the purity test trap.
Yeah.
You know,
I've witnessed this interesting phenomenon
where
you know,
when I was getting my credentials,
there were these
street preachers that would go out there
and they would say things that were
kind of offensive to people. They would say like
they're going to hell. They'd yell at
women and they'd be like, hey, if you're wearing
yoga pants, you're going to hell or you're a
slut. And
these
people
would like go around
them in a crowd
and freak out at
them and like yell at them as to why
they were wrong.
and what would always happen is they would you know end up on the news or you know they get a
lot more attention as a result of everybody standing around them and i think this is the
importance isn't to go and uh you know screech at you know the cancel culture people as to why
they're wrong uh but to just do something better with your time
cancel the attention that you are paying to them yeah cancel your disney subscription
cancel your netflix subscription cancel your wall street journal subscription cancel your
subscription to jameson lop's uh twitter page cancel your subscription to the cast and steams
Cancel your subscription to their content.
Just move on.
You don't have to make better content than them.
You don't have to.
You don't have to listen to better content.
You just have to pay attention to something else.
Preferably something that is worth your time.
That is more befitting of a Bitcoin podcast listener's time.
Engage in pioneer activities for sure.
Value for value activities.
Very well said.
Well, thanks for the boost, Odie.
Yeah, Odie.
Enjoy.
I think you're like up there in Norway or something.
It's cold as fuck.
Pretty woke.
But you're still positive.
Not even the Norse gods can make Odie grumpy.
Hell yeah.
The next one is from Jason C.
Back on the chain.
The fish guy.
Build.
He based at 1,221 sats.
He says, build, deliver, heal, repeat.
pioneers will win hashtag
40 hours per week
exactly build
deliver heal repeat
pioneers the steps
to you know some of the steps to being a pioneer
uh
and we will win absolutely
pies
121
sat says can I teach a
class at Bitcoin University on how to make sure you get in your 40 HPW That an interesting proposal You know Pies I don know if you have the credentials to be like a tenured professor
but maybe there's an adjunct position there for you.
I think it's worthwhile.
I think it'd be a great adjunct professor to like go to outreach to correctional facilities,
state prisons and you know spread bitcoin universities he's named university of bitcoin
education uh and curriculum to the people who i think were the message his message would resonate
the most soundly that's a good idea yeah i mean i would take class from pies somebody somebody
that listens to as many podcasts as he does the the proof of work is there even i'd love to see
i'd love to see a conversation between goldstein and pies that's like a very similar high energy
and optimism that i think would be an interesting uh you know drinking bread siu coiners and the
blue collar pleads uh blue collar pioneers excuse me uh they really it'd be really interesting
it would be that'd be fascinating i'd love to be a flight that that's a conversation worth
having as a podcast for sure next one is uh 101 sats from the oscar dang pioneer chain
hashtag pioneer chain thank you noscar dang so the mean gangs were all on twitter last cycle
are they going to be on noster this cycle we're going to see some some mean gangs on nosters that
what Nostra gang is?
I think a little bit.
It kind of reminds me of like Bellator.
Some of the retired memers
kind of take in their meme gang,
you know,
their black belt
and being a meme ganger,
taking it to Nostra
and helping grow that network.
Very interesting.
Thank you, Nostra gang.
Then it looks like the last boost
from BTC on board,
100 sats,
three thumbs up emojis.
Folks,
I hope you have a good week.
Yeah.
I,
to reiterate what we talked about,
maybe the last few episodes,
the last few streams,
we've done,
I've done a little bit heavy,
but don't mistake weight
for not being bullish.
We're extremely bullish.
We're not grumpy.
And I think,
as I kind of said
at the beginning of the episode,
it's very hard
to really talk about all this conflict in the bitcoin community anymore without without bullying
one side or the other for me at least and you know that may make me come off as grumpy or just mean to
the plaids and i know i'm done with that so i think i've had there's nothing more i have to
really say in the debate um i want to focus on i'm going to focus my time and my attention on uh
on being gleeful and focusing my time on takes i find productive
looking forward to it i want to do the same that seems like a great take to have right now i mean
it's we're in the fourth turning things are going to be difficult regardless and
the title of last week's show was life isn't gonna be easy life
isn't going to be easy, but it doesn't mean
that it has to be miserable.
And...
Yeah.
Our enemies are going to be...
Oh, go ahead.
I was going to say, you like...
I talked about this on Plead Chain Radio recently.
And we talked about this with
Paper Bitcoin Summer as it pertains to
Pleaditor and how he found him on Noster
to tell him to
join us for Paper Bitcoin. At this point,
it is,
we've figured out
that it's impossible not to be able to find some money and spam their mood and troll them
and annoy them and call them a retard and pick a flight with them um and just scold them tell
them how many purity tests they failed but um you you just don't have to let it make you grumpy
anymore. You just have to learn how to
just because
you have to turn it around for yourself
just because it's cheap to spam your enemies
spam your
spam the pledge.
It's not worth your time.
It's not worth
my time anyway.
Well said.
Well folks
I hope you have a great
great week this week.
I hope
you spend time with the people that you love.
I hope you do the things that you want.
I hope that you
have the ability to
smoke a lot of cigarettes,
listen to the Bitcoin podcast
that you like.
Enjoy sports ball if you like it.
If you like
sports ball, enjoy your sports ball.
Enjoy the things that you want.
They might not always be there.
Folks, thank you for tuning in
to another edition of the Weekly.
and we'll catch you next week.
There are those who blaze trails
whose actions tip history scales
They endure pain and frustration
To prepare for the common devastation
Weak men of May, time's hard
The plebs are being retards
But the pioneer is in charge
The pioneers are in charge
Pioneers are in shock
Even their minds, they stand tall
Moving forward while the masses feel small
Creating change while others are afraid
Choosing to lead instead of obey
Weak men have made times hurt
The plebs are being returged
But the pioneer is in charge
Pioneers are in charge
There's a small remnant that is scattered
They rebuild when everything shatters
They have a vision and a goal
And will never be controlled
Weak men made times hard
The plebs are being retards
But the pioneer is in charge
Pioneers are in charge
The masses stare at their screens
While the pioneers pursue their dreams
Unswayed by the whims of NPCs
They are the ones the world needs