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over time? Why would anybody do that? Like none of this surprises me because I've come to appreciate

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very clear and obvious that Epstein was interested in trying to co-opt Bitcoin and Bitcoiners and

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Bitcoin companies. Bitcoin is a journey and just because you pick up the Bitcoin standard and you

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finally read it and you're like, wow, this makes a lot of sense, doesn't mean suddenly that your

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eyes have been open to all of the things I've learned over the last four years. The governments,

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way podcast thank you for tuning in today on the show i have adam somek a good friend of mine

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awesome guy building the space we cover uh the epstein files price action treasury co's why he

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finds one of strategies products particularly interesting cover a lot of ground and he gives

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a very very good unpopular opinion at the end so stay tuned for that i think you're going to

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really enjoy this conversation hey everyone like i said in the intro i have adam here adam

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welcome back to the bitcoin way podcast thank you michael appreciate you having me it's always

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always a pleasure to be a part of this it's always this one's always fun we get to catch up a lot more

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often these days than we used to so it's been a lot of fun uh getting to have you uh on banter

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on our spaces a lot of different things so dude i i'm really prepared for this because i think we

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have a lot of things we could potentially talk about where do you want to start the conversation

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well this is always easy um so for anyone that doesn't know michael and i talk quite a bit

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offline. So we're always good for a rant and a ramble, but, um, you know, we definitely want to

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keep things entertaining and on topic, but my, uh, uh, I think what I want to do is kind of maybe

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just start with some recent events and expand on, on where we are. Um, the most obvious one,

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I think that the people are, are interested in is, is the price and that's fair. Uh, as of right now,

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the price is low as far as, you know, recent history. People are feeling it. It's not low for

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Bitcoin, right? Bitcoin's still up significantly, you know, and it's more extended history. But

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over the last few years, it's feeling like quite bearish. And so obviously we have a lot playing

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of more of where I like to put most of my understanding in, you know, what Bitcoin does.

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So obviously we have the Epstein files that have apparently been released.

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and you know my belief on that is that you know there's some truth to them if not all true I don't

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video of Simon Dixon on BTC sessions and he goes through that in detail from his perspective and I

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And that's mostly that, you know, the Epstein stuff is, well, it used to be a conspiracy theory that Epstein was connected to this giant, you know, ring of deep state Mossad stuff.

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We are, you know, vindicated. But my point is, is that's, of course, what I agree with at this point. And the official narrative is like, it's so bad. Like, how do you not agree with it? You know, like they implicated themselves. And it's so vile and disgusting that it has to be true. Right. I don't know. Maybe I'm not even thinking that.

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But I think I think the big the the thing that most people fail to appreciate is the depth of potential human depravity.

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Like none of this surprises me because I've come to appreciate just how evil people can be.

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And I think we're I think I have a feeling we're scratching the surface in the Epstein files from what we've seen so far.

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And I don't know how conspiratorial I am about, I mean, I'm not afraid to be conspiratorial because we've proven to be right so many times the last, you know, six years.

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But I have a feeling these were not, because I've said for the longest time, we're never going to see the Epstein files.

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And so I think we're still seeing just a hint of really the depth of them. But I have a feeling it was coordinated in some way to send a message to people, to someone or maybe to many people who aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing and have been blackmailed or what have you.

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And it's like, hey, we really will produce some of this. And the next wave is going to be worse if you don't do X, Y or Z. So that's kind of where I tend to fall.

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I think that's exactly right. Obviously, there's in my from my perspective, there's no way for me to know how much whether or not that that's fully true. But the incentives point us in that direction. And, you know, I think it was Simon Dixon. His point was, you know, they they showed us exactly what they wanted us to see. Right. That's what they released. They released what they wanted us to see. And I think that's a good way to put it.

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I don't know if there's necessarily a plan to release more, but I think this ties into a lot of events that happen.

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I would probably even throw, you know, the Charlie Kirk assassination in there and that it was a message.

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I think that this was connected much higher.

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That's just my take, my philosophy based off of the evidence that I've seen and the research that I've done.

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Unfortunately, I spent way too much time on that.

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But yeah, it's just it's all really sad and and very gross and evil and disgusting.

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But I think that, you know, there's certainly maybe not like a singular binary like type of group, but that there is a group of people out there that we often refer to as like, you know, the elite or I don't have different words for them.

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They're just they're just the pedophile class to me, you know, so that, you know, they control our money.

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I mean, we could even see from the Epstein files that it's very clear and obvious that Epstein was interested in trying to co-opt Bitcoin and Bitcoiners and Bitcoin companies.

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So it's not to say that it has been, just that the documents very clearly point to the fact that that was part of the goal.

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I think this is like the latest Fuddice flavor.

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they're reaching out to me asking me if I believe that Epstein is Satoshi.

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which is absolutely crazy like if you know anything about bitcoin at all it's very clear

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that he's not and that's and it's fine if you're not to that point yet but my point is it's like

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it is and sure, you know, whatever it could be, you know, let's just assume it is, even if it was,

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it doesn't matter. It's a protocol. Um, but Jeffrey Epstein, whoever Satoshi Nakamoto is,

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was very clearly a very humble person. Um, I would even go as far as to say there was,

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self-sacrifice for a lot of things that he did for humanity. Um, and, uh, I mean, he, he took no

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recognition. Um, he didn't take any of the, the wealth or the fame that could have come along with

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that. Neither of those things, I don't believe Jeffrey Epstein could have done, which are,

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it's very, that's a very clear indicator of who is not Satoshi, in my opinion. Um, that's a good

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litmus test. So if it's somebody who wants to take credit for things and is, you know, addicted

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to money, fame, uh, popularity, you know, whatever, um, that is very, a very clear indicator that we

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are not talking about satoshi yeah yeah well the first of the price so the price dipped post epstein

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everything together i think there is a coordinated attack happening right now um i think it started

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So there's a lot of stuff that was directed to, you know, let me just say a lot of stuff that directly affected the Bitcoin economics.

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I think the Bitcoin thing, I think this is intentionally directed FUD, fear, uncertainty and doubt, directed specific to Bitcoin in the Epstein files.

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about the activity around Bitcoin.

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It's unfortunate anybody has gotten involved with Epstein.

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forgive me for not knowing who this person is,

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but there's some high-profile individual that was kidnapped.

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and again, I'm sorry, I don't know all the details, but high profile

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individual's mother was kidnapped or adult-napped

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whatever, they were abducted and the

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the ransom is in Bitcoin. And it seems interesting to me. I mean, it's not interesting. It's like

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a very clear red flag to me. But every time that they bring up this abduction,

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they are almost required by their overlords to mention that the ransom is being held

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but Bitcoin is by far the worst way to hold somebody for ransom because it's a

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I mean, take ransom and bananas for all I care, but just don't do it in Bitcoin if you want to get away with the crime.

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Nobody's going to get paid in Bitcoin because if they did, we'd all track it.

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It's just, I think, anti-Bitcoin propaganda is what this is.

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This is just meant to slander Bitcoin.

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so i i put that in the same category of all these other things and i'm looking at these everything

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that's happening as a whole and that's why i come to the conclusion that there is a coordinated attack

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right now on bitcoin um yeah i think it's yeah i yeah no i i think it it only makes sense

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that said what i what i will say is that we are still sufficiently early in bitcoin that

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when when the world looks to be in turmoil as it has with Venezuela, Iran, the Epstein fight,

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all of these things happening, there are very few people who run to Bitcoin as a safe haven

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today, the way that they run to something like gold. Right. And there are, you know,

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relatively large numbers of people who are somewhat tourists of Bitcoin, who leave Bitcoin when when

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the world looks to be in turmoil. And so while we understand that Bitcoin is the safe haven

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from a fiat denominated price perspective, it doesn't look like it when you've got casual

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Bitcoin holders selling amidst turmoil and no new people running into Bitcoin, but instead

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running into things like gold. When we reach sufficient adoption, when education reaches

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you know a broader cohort of people then suddenly i think in these times of you know war and all of

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the things that we see in the world today then i think bitcoin just flies right but what do you

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think one percent of the world understands bitcoin in some fundamental way maybe less

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you know it's it stands to reason in my mind that we are going to see sell-offs however the the

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extent of the dumping that we've seen, I think is, is evident, uh, as evidence of, I don't know,

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wall street manipulation, nation state manipulation. I don't know. It could be a lot of things. Um,

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certainly with margin calls, people have to sell off their Bitcoin to meet margin calls right now.

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of variables, some of them probably nefarious actors and others just, you know, basic economics.

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yeah the leverage stuff isn't new um you know we've been dealing with this for a long time uh

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margin trading but but the downside effects can be the same in in any era of lending and there's

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probably more of it going on there are more lending platforms and things like that yeah i

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pressure. Definitely wasn't disagreeing with you. I think that that's a, I mean, this, this is why

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we see all this volatility in Bitcoin. And until people learn, you know, not to play with fire,

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they're going to keep getting burned. Um, and unfortunately people just, I mean, not everybody,

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but a lot of people never learned the people like, you know, these are the tourists that you were,

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you were taught referencing a moment ago. They come in, they treat Bitcoin like a speculative

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asset. And then they just trade the chart. They trade the fundamentals, whatever they're trading

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it, right? Some of them start to, you know, get more and more out on the risk curve. And they,

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you know, try to make their money back, or they want to make a quick buck. And they're

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increasing their risk profile by taking on additional leverage. And the way that that

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looks today is a lot of people are getting Bitcoin backed loans, right? Because they're popular

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these days. And that is a form of leverage, right? Especially if you're using it to buy more Bitcoin,

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which I've actually done. I did it once just as a test. I wanted to see, you know, the process,

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what it was like. I used the strike Bitcoin backed loan because a lot of people ask me about it.

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So I think that, you know, I would just say I've never recommended that the general person go out and get a Bitcoin backed loan.

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Like for most people, I would say don't like just don't do that.

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There are way more risks than most people understand for, you know, if you really know what you're doing and you can manage your risk appropriately.

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And this is something that you have a lot of experience in and you're not going to listen to me anyway.

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And that's fine. But the general the general person thinks that Bitcoin backed loans are some like silver bullet. They're not. You're giving up a lot of your a lot of the value of what Bitcoin was created to provide is is being given up to some a third party. You have counterparty risk now, most of which you don't even understand or recognize, most of which is not even public knowledge. Right.

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So it's way riskier than most people realize.

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Not to mention on top of that, it's a terrible deal.

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It's a fully collateral.

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I mean these days most popular Bitcoin backed loans are fully collateralized and you paying extremely high interest rates compared to essentially any type of a loan You could go get a standard fiat loan from your bank that

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has zero collateral attached to it, meaning that the bank is taking all of the risk

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and get an interest rate much lower than what you're getting in the open market for Bitcoin.

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And I understand. That's just the rates that exist. And that's what Jack Mahler has said

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many times, and that's fine. I'm not taking any jabs at him or strike or whatever. I've actually

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said many times that the interest rates on Bitcoin-backed loans need to be way higher

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because the people that are taking that risk understand what the alternative is, which is

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Bitcoin. And the rest of the system is collapsing. And the rest of the system is propped up through

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different types of government subsidies and bailout structures.

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Right. So, yeah, my point in the past has been if if the company that is offering you a Bitcoin back loan is giving you a rate lower than their than their inflation.

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Right. Not necessarily the CPI talking about the real their real inflation inflation rate, then they are losing.

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Right. And they can't that that model is not sustainable. And I've I've typically said the range needs to be somewhere between like 10 and 15 percent.

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So if you're getting a Bitcoin back loan lower than 10%, you're playing with fire and you are probably going to get burned because that's not a sustainable model if the real inflation is higher than that because that business will be going out of business.

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You also mentioned, you know, the price cycles and, you know, how people see Bitcoin.

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There are, like you mentioned, the tourists that come in.

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I think these are like the people that come in for their first taste.

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this is probably, you know, I like to, I believe, I still believe in cycle theory, by the way. So

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I'll say, you know, when I say cycles, I'm just referring to the four-year Bitcoin cycle.

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I think those still exist. And I think that as of right now, I'm, I'm, I'm becoming vindicated,

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vindicated on that. A lot of people would say, you know, we're in a super cycle. We're not going

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to see, you know, a bear market. It's kind of looking a little bear market to me right now.

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So I don't know. We'll see. I'm still optimistic, but and I'm definitely not selling. Right. I don't I'm never I'm never going to go back to Bitcoin. Bitcoin is my money. I'm all in on Bitcoin and I'm never going to change that. But my point is, there are also the other people who have seen this happen before.

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Obviously, Bitcoiners that have been around for a while, that it's not our first rodeo, you know, it's very clear to see.

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But also like the people that are maybe not necessarily, they haven't been holding for super long.

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Maybe this is still their first cycle that they've held.

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and so if you haven't really seen Bitcoin for a full four-year cycle

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it's really easy to look at this through the lens of how you see everything else that's speculative

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because you're seeing Bitcoin as a speculation

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but the signal to me in all this noise is

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I'm getting a lot of conversations

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I'm having a lot of conversations with people that

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haven't been, I would say, sufficiently orange-pilled or people that are new that are telling me that they are buying the dip.

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And I think that that's really cool because they're telling me every dollar that Bitcoin goes down, they're buying more Bitcoin.

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And these are people that in the past wouldn't touch Bitcoin.

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And they've dipped their toe in at this point.

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And, you know, these are these are like the what I would call, you know, last over the last cycle, they were no coiners this cycle.

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They're buying the dip. And that's what that's what I'm seeing, like in my circle.

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And so obviously, I know there are a lot of a lot of people that are, you know, scared of the current current price action.

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And they are just jumping ship because they think it's going to just keep going lower.

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literally they know that bitcoin is going to infinity and uh they probably can't time the

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market yeah i i so i pulled up i don't have the original tweet but i have a few screenshots so

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someone said that yesterday they had six years of bitcoin stacking get liquidated monthly interest

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was over a thousand dollars not worth the cost to maintain through a bear market so he's starting

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over someone else replied to that said uh i wrote three and a half million down to a hundred k

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on a combo of Bitcoin, MSTR, and long calls on both.

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It's horrible living to fight another day though.

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Someone said,

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sold about 90% of my stock portfolio yesterday.

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New Bitcoin loan liquidation price is 61K.

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I mean, like went from about 450K

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to now about 175K.

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80 of that 175 is locked up in a loan

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that I'm constantly having to add collateral to.

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I don't think,

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I did not think the bull run would end in October

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and did not anticipate falling to these levels as fast sucks but nothing we can do and so i guess

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here's kind of my my observation on like the loans first of all philosophically i think you're feeding

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the fiat engine like i think you're you're playing fiat games second while the qualifier here is that

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you're an adult and you get to make your own decision and that the companies aren't necessarily

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responsible for the fact that you're bad at risk management. But practically, most people are bad

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at risk management, or they just don't understand that so many factors are beyond their control.

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I did not see price, you know, fiat denominated price dipping into the $60,000 range.

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It could go lower. I have no idea where it's going. But it doesn't matter because I've chosen

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because I cannot make that assessment with any level of certainty. And I have no idea what Wall

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Street or nation states are going to do. I have no idea what the next FUD is going to be. I don't

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know if Quantum is, you know, or Epstein being Satoshi, what would like how much that FUD is

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going to affect price action. I'm just not playing that game. Philosophically, I can't like, I just

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feel completely unaligned with anyone who is opting to shill those products. But practically,

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it just doesn't make sense to me. My goal is to have more sats, not more dollars. And

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what these lending products are is a, an engine for producing dollars for your disposal. And

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I just, I have no interest. And so when, you know, yeah, the terms are clear, uh, you're an adult,

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right. But like, that doesn't make it smart for most people. I think kind of the point you're

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making, if you're a professional investor, you understand what you're getting into. You're,

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you're ready to get, you know, margin called when Bitcoin dips to $40,000 or whatever it could end

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up going like, okay, good for you. You're not going to listen to, you know, you or I anyway,

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for the average person, like, I don't know. I'm just tired of hearing these ads everywhere. And,

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you know, like, Hey, you're an adult, you can make this decision. And it's like,

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just don't put people in that position in my mind. You know, it's, it's a shitty product.

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And I wish people would generally just kind of leave it alone.

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I agree. I'm actually, if anybody's curious, what I do, you know, what my stance is, is I believe that the best way to go about benefiting from Bitcoin is to replace the money that you use with a better form of money.

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Get rid of fiat and replace it with Bitcoin. And that means, yes, that means spending Bitcoin. Right. And people have a hard time with that.

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And I think that's okay. I think it's okay to take that huge process and condense it into small incremental steps. I didn't do it. It took me years to get to the point where I am, where I see Bitcoin as my base money now. But most people, it takes some time.

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And so I think that it's okay to just to say both. I think it's okay to say the eventual long-term goal is to use Bitcoin as money. And I think that there are ways that you can make steps to get there.

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And if somebody says, you know, they're not ready to replace all of their fiat with Bitcoin, that's probably not a good thing to push them because they're going to do the same thing that these other people are doing.

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They're going to freak out when the price dips price, you know, one Bitcoin equals one Bitcoin.

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But when the dollar exchange rate dips, they freak out and then they jump ship.

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And then those people end up not coming back until the Bitcoin price is much, much higher, which ends up damaging, you know, the their their view of Bitcoin.

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So I see some of these like fiat instrument steps as useful tools.

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And by the way, I'm not necessarily saying that you should get a Bitcoin back loan.

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That is not what I'm saying.

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But there are other ways.

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I was having a conversation with somebody last night about he told me that he wants to move on to a Bitcoin standard.

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And the way he wants to do it is he wants to receive his deposit, direct deposit from his employer into Bitcoin.

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And so he's going to get he's basically buying all of the Bitcoin that he can with the fiat as he gets paid.

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and then he's going to use credit cards

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to pay for the things that he used to in his life

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and then pay off those credit card bills with his Bitcoin.

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And I think that is a great first step.

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I don't think that is the end goal.

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And you said it earlier that it feeds the fiat machine

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because it really does.

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We have a saying called fix the money, fix the world.

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and we say this because we have to fix the base money

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in order to fix the problems that the broken money caused

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and Bitcoin can only do this if you're using Bitcoin

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in a particular way

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you have to use Bitcoin using Bitcoin itself

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and not through a third party

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self-custodial Bitcoin is the only way

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that this fix the money, fix the world happens

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otherwise if you're using any of the systems that we've already talked about with these

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fiat rails so to speak it doesn't move us that much closer to fixing the world and changing the

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money so but it is a good first step because psychologically what i was talking about i think

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that's a good a good call for a lot of people who are new and using you know credit cards for example

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You'll have to make your own decision on whether or not you believe in doing that.

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Credit cards are obviously their own form of risk.

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But my point is, I think that's a good step because telling somebody to go, you know, zero fiat is very, very difficult.

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I mean, even I'm not, quote unquote, completely zero fiat.

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Like I use I still use FI. I still have bills that I have to pay in fiat.

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I still pay my taxes, admittedly.

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You know, that's an unfortunate circumstance, but, you know, I still do.

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So, yeah, I think I would never give somebody the advice to not pay their taxes.

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But if you do fall into that category, I have full sympathy for you and you're fighting a good fight.

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I appreciate what you do, but that's not me.

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I will not publicly ever endorse not paying taxes.

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It's just a dumb thing to do, and it's a good way to put a target on your back.

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So not something I wouldn't mind me doing.

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But the truth is bigger than the facts on some of this stuff, right?

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Like the reality is, yeah, I've got fiat bills to pay.

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I haven't orange-pilled every local producer of goods and services that I'd like to.

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And so I obviously have that obligation. I think the more important thing is, to your point, I mean, I think this is really the kicker.

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Like Bitcoin is a journey. And just because you pick up the Bitcoin standard and you finally read it and you're like, wow, this makes a lot of sense,

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doesn't mean suddenly that your eyes have been open to all of the things I've learned over the last four years.

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and I am 100% positive.

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Like I'm still finding ways to lower my time preference

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in my daily life.

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Four years from now,

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I'm gonna probably be in a very different place

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in terms of conviction, not just about Bitcoin,

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but about a lot of things.

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And I think, yeah, I think to expect everyone

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to read a book, listen to a podcast

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and suddenly be as orange-billed as we are

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makes no sense.

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That said, where I get frustrated at times

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is the relative lack of curiosity.

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And again, I'm sympathetic

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because four years ago, that was me.

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Like, you know, I was doing all the normie stuff

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and it was just a matter of curiosity.

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I think what's maybe most frustrating

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is in 10 years,

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how many people in my life

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are going to be kicking themselves.

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And they're like,

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I knew a guy who talked about Bitcoin,

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told me I should study Bitcoin,

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worked for a Bitcoin company,

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hosted a bitcoin podcast like most people don't have someone like that in their life they might

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have like a guy who's casually in bitcoin maybe it's got some xrp and ethereum but like most people

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don't have someone who's like guys this is what's going on in the world you need to buy bitcoin

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and most of them are just you know sitting on the sidelines doing their fiat thing and

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it's frustrating because i'm gonna i don't want to have like a told you so moment and i'm not

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never going to rub it in their nose or anything.

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I'm just not that type of person,

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but man,

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I'm going to feel like it,

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you know?

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So some people,

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some people might say Bitcoin,

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as I told you so money.

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they're going to have fun staying poor.

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I'm just not going to say that to their face.

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I,

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I think the way,

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the way that I like to frame it is this is my advice.

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And this is,

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this advice would apply to,

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general people. So I think that, you know, earlier I talked about, you know, the recommendations

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about Bitcoin backed loans, right? I don't recommend that to the general population. This

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is one that I do recommend, right? So if you're just, if you don't have a strategy, you don't

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necessarily know what you're doing, maybe you're new. This is what I recommend doing. I recommend

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And switching your money to Bitcoin, providing value to the economy and society around you in a way that allows you to reap a reward, turn that reward into Bitcoin, hold Bitcoin, save more than you spend, and then spend in Bitcoin when you can.

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And when you can't, sell it for fiat.

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A lot of people have a hard time with that last part. And I think that that is just some like, I don't know, zealotry. Right. I think that we're like against, I mean, obviously, if you're a Puritan, I consider myself a Puritan, a Bitcoin Puritan. You know, I think that you should sell your Bitcoin for fiat as little as possible. And I think that's a great attitude and perspective to have.

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To say that you shouldn't ever do it, though, I think that's going to cause more pain for people than help.

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And so once you get over the fact that you realize you can sell your Bitcoin for fiat and not feel bad about it, it opens up a lot more freedom for you.

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Because now you're not worried about holding dollars anymore.

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And holding dollars is really dumb.

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00:36:02,739 --> 00:36:09,339
mathematically, on paper, even ethically speaking, like holding dollars,

403
00:36:09,859 --> 00:36:16,539
you can't make too many good arguments to hold dollars. I mean, dollars are one of the better

404
00:36:16,539 --> 00:36:21,499
fiat currencies out there in the world. And so this same logic would apply to every other

405
00:36:21,499 --> 00:36:31,179
fiat currency as well. But why would you hold a central bank backed by nothing fiat note that

406
00:36:31,179 --> 00:36:38,359
is guaranteed to lose value over time. Why would anybody do that? So that's why I say upgrade your

407
00:36:38,359 --> 00:36:43,519
money, hold your money in Bitcoin. You can still use, you know, dollars in the fiat system as a

408
00:36:43,519 --> 00:36:50,339
tool. There's nothing wrong with selling a little bit of Bitcoin to go buy groceries. When the

409
00:36:50,339 --> 00:36:55,219
reason is because all of your money's in Bitcoin. Now, people listen to me say something like that,

410
00:36:55,219 --> 00:37:16,459
And they think what I'm telling them to do is sell off their Bitcoin indefinitely. That is not what I'm saying. I'm not saying only buy Bitcoin once and then sell that stack until it goes to zero. That's the absolute opposite of what I'm saying. Always have more Bitcoin than you did the week or the month before.

411
00:37:16,459 --> 00:37:44,039
Right. Continually increase the amount of Bitcoin that you have, which that comes into the part of where I said provide value to the world. Right. You need to maybe work a job or be self-employed, do something so that you can get more Bitcoin over time. And then with those profits, you know, you pay your bills, you live your life, you buy the things you need and you make sure that you have more Bitcoin at the end of the month. You do all of those things. You will be wildly successful. That is my opinion.

412
00:37:44,039 --> 00:37:49,839
um yeah and that's i agree the thing you got to keep in mind is the only thing more scarce than

413
00:37:49,839 --> 00:37:57,919
bitcoin is time and so i could probably find a grocery store within a thousand miles of me

414
00:37:57,919 --> 00:38:03,459
that i could pay for all of my groceries in bitcoin the practical reality is i've got a

415
00:38:03,459 --> 00:38:07,259
family i've got work to do i i can't drive a thousand miles to go to a grocery store

416
00:38:07,259 --> 00:38:13,419
you know even though i could pay in bitcoin so i'm going to have to exchange some of my bitcoin

417
00:38:13,419 --> 00:38:21,259
for fiat in order to buy my next bag of groceries. What you can do though, is within your community,

418
00:38:21,379 --> 00:38:25,659
within your personal life, try to find ways. Like right now, I've talked about this before,

419
00:38:25,759 --> 00:38:30,119
I'm trying to orange billing my church. I'm trying to start them off on a Bitcoin treasure,

420
00:38:30,259 --> 00:38:36,719
get them accepting tithes and offerings in Bitcoin. My goal this summer is when the farmer's market

421
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:42,659
that happens five minutes from my house opens up, everyone who I, maybe all of them, but certainly

422
00:38:42,659 --> 00:38:46,239
the people who I buy from, I'm going to walk around and try to orange pill all of them. I'm

423
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:52,159
already in process on one of my, uh, my big suppliers of, uh, eggs and meat and that, um,

424
00:38:52,399 --> 00:38:58,299
you know, raw goat milk, that gal down the road from me, like I'm paying her in Bitcoin. Um,

425
00:38:58,539 --> 00:39:02,459
and so just finding ways, like who are the people in your life who you are, you know,

426
00:39:02,459 --> 00:39:08,539
want to be purchasing from that you can influence to, to accept Bitcoin, like do that. So that way

427
00:39:08,539 --> 00:39:12,699
You don't have to sell your Bitcoin for fiat because that, you know, that's suboptimal.

428
00:39:12,959 --> 00:39:13,099
Yeah.

429
00:39:13,259 --> 00:39:18,379
But yeah, I'm with you in the meantime, even as a Puritan, we still live in a fiat world

430
00:39:18,379 --> 00:39:21,639
just because I'm operating on Bitcoin standard doesn't mean the rest of the world wants to

431
00:39:21,639 --> 00:39:22,079
play ball.

432
00:39:22,859 --> 00:39:24,719
So do what is reasonable.

433
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,399
But I guess my encouragement is do everything you just said.

434
00:39:27,619 --> 00:39:28,399
Just don't get lazy.

435
00:39:28,559 --> 00:39:30,119
Try to orange pill your church.

436
00:39:30,219 --> 00:39:31,599
Try to orange pill your local farmer.

437
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,819
Try to orange pill, you know, the people who you're interacting with, your barber, you

438
00:39:35,819 --> 00:39:36,439
know, whoever.

439
00:39:36,439 --> 00:39:47,938
and at least give them an opportunity to understand that you can study this thing I can pay you in better money And if they opt out and it easy to switch to someone else great

440
00:39:48,058 --> 00:39:52,458
If it's, you know, 500 miles or a thousand miles away, you're probably not going to do

441
00:39:52,458 --> 00:39:53,478
that, understandably.

442
00:39:54,278 --> 00:39:57,498
But just do what is within reason, I guess.

443
00:39:57,498 --> 00:39:59,238
And don't be complacent.

444
00:39:59,419 --> 00:39:59,718
I agree.

445
00:39:59,938 --> 00:40:05,898
A lot of a lot of I run into a lot of people that fall into the category that, you know,

446
00:40:05,898 --> 00:40:11,858
They bought Bitcoin and they heard somebody tell them to buy Bitcoin and never sell it.

447
00:40:11,998 --> 00:40:15,158
And so they're at the stage where it's still a speculation to them.

448
00:40:15,738 --> 00:40:16,598
And that's what that is.

449
00:40:16,638 --> 00:40:23,058
If you're buying Bitcoin as an investment and you're holding it, you're not doing anything else with it except waiting for the price to go up.

450
00:40:23,438 --> 00:40:24,478
You were speculating.

451
00:40:24,718 --> 00:40:25,478
And that's fine.

452
00:40:25,758 --> 00:40:27,098
That's how I got into Bitcoin.

453
00:40:27,098 --> 00:40:34,538
um but those a lot of those same people would also say that it's you know too hard to spend

454
00:40:34,538 --> 00:40:41,538
bitcoin even if they wanted to and it's that's just lazy um i i think it's also adam it's also

455
00:40:41,538 --> 00:40:45,798
dumb investing because there is no company behind bitcoin that you're betting on if you don't

456
00:40:45,798 --> 00:40:51,158
understand the fundamentals of bitcoin buying it doesn't make any sense buying tesla stock because

457
00:40:51,158 --> 00:40:56,558
you think elon musk is going to innovate and and you're going to see a fiat return makes a hell of

458
00:40:56,558 --> 00:41:01,738
lot more sense than buying bitcoin like yeah you're literally buying magic internet money if

459
00:41:01,738 --> 00:41:05,898
you haven't taken time to study bitcoin as far as you're concerned it's just this thing that happens

460
00:41:05,898 --> 00:41:11,098
to go up in value by chance right when you understand bitcoin that's when you realize

461
00:41:11,098 --> 00:41:17,098
you're not investing you're just saving in better money like buying bitcoin is stupid if you think

462
00:41:17,098 --> 00:41:22,818
it's an investment i mean you're gonna you're gonna benefit from that stupidity sure but you're

463
00:41:22,818 --> 00:41:26,638
also going to have not have the conviction and you're going to sell high because and you're going

464
00:41:26,638 --> 00:41:31,878
to think you won because you got more fiat and it's like totally missed the point yeah i agree

465
00:41:31,878 --> 00:41:36,878
and that's fine you know when i first bought bitcoin i was a stupid investor i bought bitcoin

466
00:41:36,878 --> 00:41:42,058
and i didn't really fully know why i bought bitcoin right i mean i had an idea i thought

467
00:41:42,058 --> 00:41:46,238
it was cool i knew a little bit about the technology but i didn't fully completely wrap

468
00:41:46,238 --> 00:41:51,958
my head around all of it which is fine i learned a lot along the way but just like me a lot of

469
00:41:51,958 --> 00:41:56,838
people find themselves in a similar situation where they buy Bitcoin and the price goes up or

470
00:41:56,838 --> 00:42:00,658
somebody they know about Bitcoin and the price went up and, you know, they see, you know, all

471
00:42:00,658 --> 00:42:07,078
these fiat gains that they made. And what that does is it, it, it requires you to ask the question,

472
00:42:07,698 --> 00:42:14,958
why, why does Bitcoin go up in dollar terms? And is it going up in dollar terms, which is

473
00:42:14,958 --> 00:42:20,158
probably the more appropriate framing, framing that we often get to the point to, and that it

474
00:42:20,158 --> 00:42:24,538
It is really just you're measuring against a currency that's collapsing and dying.

475
00:42:25,858 --> 00:42:28,138
And so, you know, I think that I do.

476
00:42:28,238 --> 00:42:29,278
I love that point you made.

477
00:42:29,278 --> 00:42:47,078
If you're buying Bitcoin and you don't know what it is, you're buying it as a speculation and you're like holding it on an exchange and you you have no idea of the value and the benefit of self custody or the peer to peer nature of transacting in a decentralized fashion, then you don't even know what you have.

478
00:42:47,078 --> 00:42:52,098
like you're buying something you're taking all of the value out of the thing that you're buying

479
00:42:52,098 --> 00:43:00,338
and you're trying to apply that same logic into a system that removes and strips out all of that

480
00:43:00,338 --> 00:43:06,438
value so in fairness in fairness the average person buying the s&p 500 has never read a

481
00:43:06,438 --> 00:43:10,338
quarterly port of any company that they're invested in so like i would argue that most

482
00:43:10,338 --> 00:43:15,778
the vast majority of quote-unquote investors are stupid so it's not that like buying bitcoin is less

483
00:43:15,778 --> 00:43:21,458
stupid because at least if past performance is no indication of future performance however

484
00:43:21,458 --> 00:43:27,998
bitcoin has done so much better than the s&p over the last 17 years that if you're going to be dumb

485
00:43:27,998 --> 00:43:32,178
and just assume that something's going to go up forever because it used to bitcoin is a smarter

486
00:43:32,178 --> 00:43:39,658
investment than the s&p 500 however with you know the s&p or with an individual stock you can at

487
00:43:39,658 --> 00:43:44,358
least take a you can say i don't know anything about tesla except elon musk seems like a really

488
00:43:44,358 --> 00:43:49,498
smart guy. I think Tesla is going up over the next decade. Like that's still smarter than

489
00:43:49,498 --> 00:43:54,238
investing in Bitcoin, investing in Bitcoin. If you literally know nothing about Bitcoin,

490
00:43:54,518 --> 00:43:59,738
because at least you're making that determination based on a guy who you have confidence in.

491
00:44:00,358 --> 00:44:04,318
So if you're listening to this, by the way, if anyone listening, first of all, I'd love to hear

492
00:44:04,318 --> 00:44:10,638
your comments on this, but, uh, but I'm, I'm not, I'm not suggesting you don't buy Bitcoin. I'm

493
00:44:10,638 --> 00:44:14,658
saying understand when you buy bitcoin what it is because you're not going to have you're going

494
00:44:14,658 --> 00:44:20,538
to have lettuce hands when we finally do go to 200k you're going to say great i've you know tripled

495
00:44:20,538 --> 00:44:28,198
my investment and now i'm going to sell it and now you've got a bunch of fiat and in 10 years

496
00:44:28,198 --> 00:44:32,198
you're going to be kicking yourself because no one wants your fiat anymore they want your bitcoin

497
00:44:32,198 --> 00:44:37,898
like that's that's how you're going to have to exchange at some point in the future yeah i think

498
00:44:37,898 --> 00:44:43,358
that yeah you're not going to be able there will be a day where the majority of people holding

499
00:44:43,358 --> 00:44:49,718
bitcoin are going to realize that they don't want to hold fiat anymore and when that day comes

500
00:44:49,718 --> 00:44:56,658
you know it's going to be a lot more difficult to acquire bitcoin like right now we can take these

501
00:44:56,658 --> 00:45:04,318
notes that are that have so much proof of work stripped out of them you know dollars you know

502
00:45:04,318 --> 00:45:08,939
you can acquire dollars in this world pretty easily.

503
00:45:09,158 --> 00:45:12,218
A lot of people acquire dollars with zero proof of work.

504
00:45:12,618 --> 00:45:17,558
They use proof of war and proof of printing and they just,

505
00:45:17,958 --> 00:45:18,518
you know,

506
00:45:18,518 --> 00:45:22,758
they leech off of the government basically.

507
00:45:23,718 --> 00:45:24,338
You know,

508
00:45:24,398 --> 00:45:26,618
a good example of that is these Minnesota,

509
00:45:26,618 --> 00:45:28,178
Minnesota and daycares,

510
00:45:28,298 --> 00:45:28,478
right?

511
00:45:28,518 --> 00:45:32,738
You can just spin up a daycare in Minnesota and get tons and tons of free

512
00:45:32,738 --> 00:45:34,118
dollars from the government.

513
00:45:34,318 --> 00:46:01,818
You know, lots of people did this and millions of people all over the world are leeching from this system. You can't do that in Bitcoin. Right. So all this is doing is you're comparing two different systems. And I like to look at the analogy of buckets of water. Right. So you have two buckets of water. One of these buckets doesn't have a bunch of holes in it.

514
00:46:01,818 --> 00:46:03,658
and one of them does.

515
00:46:03,978 --> 00:46:05,578
And so the one that does have holes in it,

516
00:46:05,598 --> 00:46:07,718
you got to keep taking new buckets of water

517
00:46:07,718 --> 00:46:08,518
and filling it up.

518
00:46:08,939 --> 00:46:11,358
And you're losing all this water

519
00:46:11,358 --> 00:46:13,258
because it's got cracks and holes in it.

520
00:46:13,378 --> 00:46:16,158
But the one bucket that doesn't have the holes in it,

521
00:46:16,558 --> 00:46:18,258
that just stays full, right?

522
00:46:18,378 --> 00:46:19,578
When you add to it,

523
00:46:19,578 --> 00:46:20,858
the bucket level,

524
00:46:21,018 --> 00:46:23,038
the water level just rises, right?

525
00:46:23,098 --> 00:46:24,098
And it stays, it's a container.

526
00:46:24,378 --> 00:46:25,598
It's like a battery,

527
00:46:25,858 --> 00:46:27,098
as some people might say.

528
00:46:28,078 --> 00:46:29,638
But it preserves its value

529
00:46:29,638 --> 00:46:31,498
rather than continually loses it

530
00:46:31,498 --> 00:46:40,258
through these subsidies and, you know, leachers and whatever, you know, that welfare is, is,

531
00:46:40,378 --> 00:46:41,498
is an anomaly.

532
00:46:42,058 --> 00:46:47,518
Welfare isn't something that the government should have the power to do.

533
00:46:47,878 --> 00:46:48,038
Right.

534
00:46:48,118 --> 00:46:53,358
By the way, I believe in like the, the, the concept of welfare, but I think it should

535
00:46:53,358 --> 00:46:54,198
be through the church.

536
00:46:54,558 --> 00:46:59,458
I think the church has a responsibility to take care of the poor and the needy, not the

537
00:46:59,458 --> 00:46:59,798
government.

538
00:46:59,798 --> 00:47:14,138
And I think that that's, you know, an important distinction that I have in my own life is I see, you know, people basically becoming dependent on the government. And, you know, that is taking that is taking a lot away from what the church has done historically.

539
00:47:14,939 --> 00:47:18,538
And now, you know, churches are doing much and much less of that.

540
00:47:19,078 --> 00:47:20,818
You know, it's still occurring.

541
00:47:21,738 --> 00:47:30,778
But churches, from what, in my experience, a lot of that focus has been, you know, focused outside of the United States now.

542
00:47:30,778 --> 00:47:36,158
Because, you know, in the United States, people that are poor and needy, they just mooch off of the government.

543
00:47:36,358 --> 00:47:37,898
They don't really need churches anymore.

544
00:47:38,138 --> 00:47:42,538
And I think that that's kind of sad because at one point, the poor and the needy were the most desperate.

545
00:47:42,538 --> 00:47:46,498
And they were the ones that were, you know, coming to the church to seek help.

546
00:47:46,578 --> 00:47:51,439
And they were receiving that help from people that, you know, truly loved and cared about their communities.

547
00:47:51,898 --> 00:47:53,238
And we lost that.

548
00:47:54,318 --> 00:47:58,478
And also could analyze the nature of the person in need.

549
00:47:58,658 --> 00:47:58,878
Yeah.

550
00:47:59,058 --> 00:48:03,038
Like the government just sends you a check and they know nothing about you.

551
00:48:03,038 --> 00:48:10,018
And, you know, at a localized level, and this is why I'm effectively an anarcho-capitalist, is at a localized level,

552
00:48:10,018 --> 00:48:14,738
you can make that determination as an individual, as a smaller institution like a church.

553
00:48:15,298 --> 00:48:20,978
Obviously, I agree with you, but even individuals making these individual determinations to help

554
00:48:20,978 --> 00:48:25,098
people, I think is where it happens most effectively. The struggle, if you're an

555
00:48:25,098 --> 00:48:30,278
institution trying to help people now, is that all of the people who are voluntarily contributing

556
00:48:30,278 --> 00:48:38,298
are being coercively taken from by government at 25, 30, 40 percent. And so they have a lot

557
00:48:38,298 --> 00:48:44,718
less capacity to give either directly or through institutions that they trust. And, uh, and you,

558
00:48:44,818 --> 00:48:48,558
you, to your point, you'd like, you end up with, and this is the, this is the irony and people are

559
00:48:48,558 --> 00:48:53,278
like, well, you need the government to do this. And it's like, is your impression that, that

560
00:48:53,278 --> 00:48:59,198
government welfare has been utopia for people in need? Like, is, is that what you think is that

561
00:48:59,198 --> 00:49:02,498
there just aren't poor people? There aren't homeless people. There aren't people who are

562
00:49:02,498 --> 00:49:07,778
going hungry. Like how many billions of dollars a year are going to these things. And it's half,

563
00:49:07,778 --> 00:49:12,478
half of that billion, you know, those billions a year are staying with government bureaucrats.

564
00:49:12,618 --> 00:49:16,778
Like you lose so much in overhead. It's completely inefficient. And honestly,

565
00:49:16,778 --> 00:49:20,178
they don't really care at the end of the day. Like they don't know these people. They're not

566
00:49:20,178 --> 00:49:25,098
in their community. It's just, it's a vote buying scheme, you know, and it's a dependency scheme.

567
00:49:25,098 --> 00:49:32,419
It's a power play. It, it, uh, is a, it's a good little, um, uh, I don't know, a little way to get

568
00:49:32,419 --> 00:49:41,118
people addicted to the system. And it's a positive feedback loop, right? Because you become,

569
00:49:41,818 --> 00:49:49,078
you reach a state of desperation, which leads to dependency. And I think about this,

570
00:49:49,078 --> 00:49:55,018
it's kind of funny. I think about my chickens. And when I haven't fed them in a while,

571
00:49:55,478 --> 00:50:01,578
they're my best friends. I walk out there, they're all over me. They're, you know,

572
00:50:01,578 --> 00:50:05,478
They're like my little pets. They love me when they're hungry and they haven't had food.

573
00:50:06,078 --> 00:50:09,358
And then after I fed them, they couldn't care less about me.

574
00:50:10,218 --> 00:50:13,118
Like, I'm just, you know, this guy that's a problem to them.

575
00:50:13,258 --> 00:50:18,298
But then as soon as they get hungry again, guess what? They love me again.

576
00:50:18,538 --> 00:50:26,538
And so the governments, I think, in the world have figured this out, whether intentionally or just as a byproduct of, you know, how things have happened over time.

577
00:50:26,538 --> 00:50:29,958
that it's the people that are the most desperate,

578
00:50:30,078 --> 00:50:31,538
that are the most easy to manipulate.

579
00:50:32,698 --> 00:50:34,798
And yeah, it's kind of sad.

580
00:50:35,078 --> 00:50:36,978
I think it's also important to note

581
00:50:36,978 --> 00:50:40,578
that the government doesn't have anything to give people.

582
00:50:40,778 --> 00:50:41,738
They can only take.

583
00:50:42,478 --> 00:50:43,618
The government can't give.

584
00:50:43,958 --> 00:50:45,198
The government can only steal.

585
00:50:46,138 --> 00:50:47,939
And so what welfare is,

586
00:50:47,939 --> 00:50:49,458
it's just theft from somebody else.

587
00:50:49,618 --> 00:50:50,439
That's all this is.

588
00:50:51,058 --> 00:50:53,478
With Bitcoin, you can't do that, right?

589
00:50:53,478 --> 00:50:56,138
You can't just print more Bitcoin

590
00:50:56,138 --> 00:50:59,798
to dilute the value of everybody else on the network.

591
00:51:00,098 --> 00:51:03,058
You have to find a way to get that Bitcoin first.

592
00:51:04,098 --> 00:51:07,118
And the government could do that.

593
00:51:07,578 --> 00:51:09,458
The government could provide value.

594
00:51:10,238 --> 00:51:13,378
The government could operate in a budget surplus.

595
00:51:13,758 --> 00:51:14,798
It's possible.

596
00:51:15,818 --> 00:51:17,138
It's never going to happen.

597
00:51:18,598 --> 00:51:22,238
But it is possible that there are departments in the government

598
00:51:22,238 --> 00:51:23,558
that take in revenue.

599
00:51:23,558 --> 00:51:28,738
And I think there's probably even some individual departments that might even make money.

600
00:51:29,338 --> 00:51:33,818
I believe that the U.S. Postal Service is self-funded.

601
00:51:34,238 --> 00:51:35,318
Is that not true?

602
00:51:36,158 --> 00:51:36,978
No, I don't think so, man.

603
00:51:37,018 --> 00:51:39,558
I think they had like a $9 billion loss a year or two ago.

604
00:51:39,618 --> 00:51:40,398
Well, I don't know.

605
00:51:40,558 --> 00:51:41,318
I know that.

606
00:51:42,098 --> 00:51:43,898
Oh, dude, all you got to do is look at their cert.

607
00:51:43,998 --> 00:51:50,678
Man, if I see a package notification coming from USPS and it's like, hey, it'll be there next week.

608
00:51:50,678 --> 00:51:53,419
I'm like, yeah, I'll see it next month if it shows up.

609
00:51:53,558 --> 00:51:55,218
I don't think they're making money.

610
00:51:55,598 --> 00:51:56,838
Yeah, that is a good point.

611
00:51:57,618 --> 00:52:06,118
If they were truly, that is another connection and problem to make, another connection to make with a similar problem.

612
00:52:06,118 --> 00:52:17,098
And that is that a lot of these heavily dependent institutions and I would, I mean, you can call them companies if you want.

613
00:52:17,098 --> 00:52:28,439
But these monopolies that are essentially government funded and they are subsidized by the government, there's a lot less incentive for them to actually deliver.

614
00:52:29,278 --> 00:52:34,598
And very literally with the U.S. Postal Service, you know, what happens if you receive a package late?

615
00:52:34,878 --> 00:52:36,118
Are you going to go to their competitor?

616
00:52:36,118 --> 00:53:02,718
I mean, sure, there's, of course, private options, too. You've got FedEx and UPS, whatever. But USPS has a very unique position in this country, and they don't necessarily have direct competitors. So they're not going to go out of business if you don't use them. That's the point that I'm trying to make. If a company can't go out of business from making bad decisions, we have a very big problem in our economy.

617
00:53:02,718 --> 00:53:08,939
yeah i agree so i'm gonna i'm gonna take us another direction here i apologize for this

618
00:53:08,939 --> 00:53:14,558
unclean break uh but i want to talk a little bit about uh treasury co's and specifically

619
00:53:14,558 --> 00:53:24,978
well okay let's start with could you give sort of your broad perspective on treasury co's and

620
00:53:24,978 --> 00:53:31,798
then i want you to there's one particular product within the treasury co genre that you've talked

621
00:53:31,798 --> 00:53:37,978
about. And I told you, I was like, dude, you need to explain this to me because I just couldn't care

622
00:53:37,978 --> 00:53:42,618
less about any of this stuff. And you're like, no, dude, there's one thing that actually makes

623
00:53:42,618 --> 00:53:47,778
a difference for Bitcoin. What's your broad perspective? And then talk about STRC.

624
00:53:48,618 --> 00:53:52,518
Sure. Okay. So my broad perspective on Bitcoin treasury companies,

625
00:53:52,838 --> 00:54:01,158
my philosophy is that everybody is going to realize that they need Bitcoin. That applies to

626
00:54:01,158 --> 00:54:06,678
individuals, it applies to private companies, it applies to public companies, it applies to

627
00:54:06,678 --> 00:54:10,878
nation states. Everybody eventually is going to realize that they need more Bitcoin.

628
00:54:11,378 --> 00:54:16,598
And that's just, this is just a manifestation of that. Public companies have come to the conclusion

629
00:54:16,598 --> 00:54:21,558
that holding Bitcoin is better than holding dollars, which I think is great. I think that

630
00:54:21,558 --> 00:54:28,138
there are certain reasons why people would find a lot of interest in Bitcoin treasury companies.

631
00:54:28,138 --> 00:54:44,738
I am one of those people. I happen to have a 401k that allows me to buy stocks of these companies and I can't buy Bitcoin in that 401k. So there are financial products out there, a lot of retirement products.

632
00:54:44,738 --> 00:54:55,278
There are certain funds out there where people are allocating capital to particular businesses for other people.

633
00:54:55,638 --> 00:55:01,858
There are a lot of instruments in the world that can buy Bitcoin treasury company stock and cannot buy Bitcoin.

634
00:55:02,318 --> 00:55:09,858
And I think that a lot of Bitcoiners, that's missed on a lot of Bitcoiners simply because they may not have one of those products.

635
00:55:09,858 --> 00:55:12,598
to put things into perspective for you.

636
00:55:12,958 --> 00:55:18,178
My employer gives me free money for using a 401k, right?

637
00:55:18,258 --> 00:55:20,838
So if I didn't use that 401k

638
00:55:20,838 --> 00:55:23,878
and I just took all of my money

639
00:55:23,878 --> 00:55:26,038
and put it into Bitcoin that way,

640
00:55:26,378 --> 00:55:28,098
I would be leaving money on the table,

641
00:55:28,358 --> 00:55:29,758
which philosophically,

642
00:55:29,838 --> 00:55:31,878
maybe there's an argument to be made

643
00:55:31,878 --> 00:55:35,138
for not doing the 401k route

644
00:55:35,138 --> 00:55:36,858
and then just putting it all into Bitcoin.

645
00:55:36,998 --> 00:55:37,698
And I get that.

646
00:55:37,698 --> 00:55:44,498
Like I've thought about that many times and I might still still just forego the 401k, the free fiat money.

647
00:55:44,498 --> 00:55:50,478
Right. It's it's the the allure of that, you know, free money that kind of hooks you.

648
00:55:51,218 --> 00:55:58,238
But so that that's why I have that's why I own stock in these Bitcoin publicly traded Bitcoin treasury companies.

649
00:55:58,238 --> 00:56:02,498
And that's just because I can buy them with that money and I can't buy Bitcoin.

650
00:56:02,838 --> 00:56:18,858
There's a lot of money out there that is in a similar situation where they could buy something like strategy, but they cannot buy real self-custody Bitcoin without significant penalties or some of them can't do it at all.

651
00:56:19,638 --> 00:56:20,898
And that's why they exist.

652
00:56:21,178 --> 00:56:31,838
I think that they're going to continue to exist and provide value to the world through a Bitcoin perspective so long as that remains true.

653
00:56:31,838 --> 00:56:43,018
Now, what that doesn't mean is that I don't think anybody should go out and buy these Bitcoin treasury company stocks over Bitcoin if you have the ability to do that.

654
00:56:43,338 --> 00:56:50,858
Again, there's a very specific use case for these, and I don't recommend anybody choose them over real Bitcoin.

655
00:56:51,658 --> 00:56:55,198
Back to some of the things we were saying earlier, it's really kind of dumb.

656
00:56:55,198 --> 00:57:04,638
It's a dumb investment to buy the thing in such a way that doesn't allow you to use it in the way that actually creates the value of why it's valuable in the first place.

657
00:57:05,258 --> 00:57:06,358
Just buy the real thing.

658
00:57:06,878 --> 00:57:07,618
Buy real Bitcoin.

659
00:57:08,158 --> 00:57:10,278
You can use the real Bitcoin as real Bitcoin.

660
00:57:11,078 --> 00:57:20,538
You can't use stock in your portfolio to go buy goods and services in the real world in a way that is permissionless and decentralized.

661
00:57:21,178 --> 00:57:21,919
Can't be stopped.

662
00:57:22,038 --> 00:57:22,778
Can't be censored.

663
00:57:24,278 --> 00:57:24,838
Doesn't.

664
00:57:25,198 --> 00:57:30,998
you know, necessarily nobody can print more of it, so to speak. You know, obviously,

665
00:57:31,278 --> 00:57:35,738
strategy themselves, they print a lot of stock, right? That's part of their strategy.

666
00:57:36,278 --> 00:57:42,378
No pun intended, but they print a lot of stock. And so that's my general perspective. I think

667
00:57:42,378 --> 00:57:48,718
they're useful in a certain capacity. And no, I don't recommend buying any of these, any stock

668
00:57:48,718 --> 00:57:54,098
over buying real Bitcoin. Bitcoin is number one. And I don't think that there's really necessarily

669
00:57:54,098 --> 00:57:58,338
any reason to have to buy anything else to make it.

670
00:57:58,618 --> 00:58:00,898
So just buy Bitcoin, real Bitcoin, hold it in self-custody.

671
00:58:01,018 --> 00:58:03,658
If you don't have one of these retirement products

672
00:58:03,658 --> 00:58:06,218
or a reason why you can't buy Bitcoin,

673
00:58:06,778 --> 00:58:07,738
you should be buying Bitcoin.

674
00:58:09,258 --> 00:58:13,078
The more specific subject on STRC,

675
00:58:13,158 --> 00:58:13,939
why is that important?

676
00:58:14,939 --> 00:58:17,398
You want to explain briefly what it is,

677
00:58:17,459 --> 00:58:18,258
like how it functions?

678
00:58:18,898 --> 00:58:19,758
Yeah. All right.

679
00:58:19,758 --> 00:58:26,338
So STRC is a perpetual preferred stock.

680
00:58:26,498 --> 00:58:30,078
It behaves essentially like a bond, right?

681
00:58:30,158 --> 00:58:34,558
And by that, it just, it's, I want to even simplify it even further.

682
00:58:34,979 --> 00:58:38,558
Think of this as a savings account at your bank, right?

683
00:58:38,778 --> 00:58:45,138
You take your dollars and you give your dollars to the bank and they pay you a small interest

684
00:58:45,138 --> 00:58:47,538
rate to hold your dollars for you, right?

685
00:58:47,538 --> 00:58:56,718
It used to be that they would like invest that money and, you know, they would, you know, pay you off of the profits of that money that they were loaning out.

686
00:58:56,838 --> 00:59:03,018
Now with, you know, fractional reserve banking or zero fractional reserve banking, it's all fugazi anyway.

687
00:59:03,658 --> 00:59:05,459
But the point still stands.

688
00:59:05,939 --> 00:59:15,419
Most people are familiar with the fact that they can open a savings account with their bank account and they will pay them a small interest rate with the money that they hold in that account.

689
00:59:15,419 --> 00:59:17,818
That is essentially how STRC works.

690
00:59:17,818 --> 00:59:22,439
You take your fiat, you go put it in this quote unquote bank account, which is STRC,

691
00:59:22,738 --> 00:59:24,038
and they pay you an interest rate.

692
00:59:24,118 --> 00:59:26,618
Now this interest rate is insane, right?

693
00:59:26,658 --> 00:59:42,818
I mean it is orders of magnitude more than you would find anywhere else with a similar type of product So for example like a standard savings bank account is like you know tenths of a percentage right So you like you know

694
00:59:42,818 --> 00:59:49,218
maybe, maybe 10, maybe 10, maybe 30 basis points of interest rate savings on your savings account.

695
00:59:49,758 --> 00:59:54,857
You're making almost nothing. So you put a hundred dollars into your account, you might make 30 cents

696
00:59:54,857 --> 00:59:59,258
in a year, right? That's, that's what you're looking at for a standard bank account. Now

697
00:59:59,258 --> 01:00:05,597
there are something, there are things called high, uh, high yield savings accounts, um, uh,

698
01:00:05,637 --> 01:00:12,677
HYSAs, which pay more, um, but they have a lot more restrictions. So limited number of withdrawals,

699
01:00:12,677 --> 01:00:17,498
for example, um, you know, they're not as, as liquid. They're kind of somewhere in between

700
01:00:17,498 --> 01:00:25,597
like a savings account and a CD certified deposit. So you're, you're, you're not necessarily using it

701
01:00:25,597 --> 01:00:31,038
in a very liquid fashion. Now that is another reason, another way that STRC differs. You can,

702
01:00:31,198 --> 01:00:34,357
it's, you know, it's, it's essentially fully liquid. So you can put your money in and get

703
01:00:34,357 --> 01:00:39,318
your money out of the quote unquote bank example that we're using here essentially at any time.

704
01:00:39,318 --> 01:00:42,457
Now, it does have its own face value.

705
01:00:43,357 --> 01:00:47,597
And so the underlying product can fluctuate in price.

706
01:00:48,058 --> 01:00:49,137
It's not supposed to.

707
01:00:49,218 --> 01:00:51,137
It's designed to stay at a constant price.

708
01:00:51,238 --> 01:00:52,857
But just keep in mind, there is a risk there.

709
01:00:53,677 --> 01:00:59,637
If you're using it as a bank account, if you put $100 in, you're not guaranteed to get $100 out.

710
01:01:00,438 --> 01:01:03,657
So just keep that in mind that there is that risk.

711
01:01:03,837 --> 01:01:08,398
But that's kind of how I see these products from a general high-level view.

712
01:01:08,398 --> 01:01:12,058
It's a savings account that pays you a really, really good interest rate.

713
01:01:12,558 --> 01:01:13,357
So that's what it is.

714
01:01:14,377 --> 01:01:17,617
Now, why is this cool and important to Bitcoin?

715
01:01:17,798 --> 01:01:22,837
And why do I think that Bitcoiners shouldn't necessarily be too worried about it?

716
01:01:23,738 --> 01:01:29,558
I actually, I wrote an article about this a few weeks ago, just kind of explaining like,

717
01:01:30,058 --> 01:01:34,477
you know, you don't necessarily need to understand STRC for it to still be awesome.

718
01:01:34,837 --> 01:01:35,778
You don't need to own it.

719
01:01:35,778 --> 01:01:36,738
I don't own any.

720
01:01:38,398 --> 01:01:59,597
And, you know, I think it's a great product. I don't own any. Why don't I own any? Well, I understand that. I understand what gives us TRC value. Right. And that is the fact that Bitcoin is going to be more performative than STRC yield. Right.

721
01:01:59,597 --> 01:02:06,738
So if STRC is going up right now, I think they set it at 11.25%.

722
01:02:06,738 --> 01:02:14,597
So at the time of us recording this, if you put $100 in, you get $110.

723
01:02:15,637 --> 01:02:16,857
Sorry, $100.

724
01:02:17,998 --> 01:02:18,837
What is it?

725
01:02:20,058 --> 01:02:23,538
Well, if you put $100 in, you make $11.

726
01:02:23,817 --> 01:02:25,078
You make $11.25.

727
01:02:25,278 --> 01:02:25,657
Thank you.

728
01:02:25,657 --> 01:02:26,038
Yeah.

729
01:02:26,038 --> 01:02:32,198
So I've got a young baby and I didn't get much sleep last night.

730
01:02:32,218 --> 01:02:34,677
So I'm doing math half asleep right now.

731
01:02:35,738 --> 01:02:41,758
So if you put $100 in, you get $11.25 at the end of the year.

732
01:02:41,817 --> 01:02:43,117
Now it's paid monthly.

733
01:02:43,857 --> 01:02:48,438
And so you get your 1 12th of that every single month.

734
01:02:48,657 --> 01:02:51,798
So you're making almost $1 a month if you have $100.

735
01:02:52,317 --> 01:02:53,657
That's how that product works.

736
01:02:53,657 --> 01:03:01,018
now why why is this important and also subsequently why should bitcoiners not care well in the article

737
01:03:01,018 --> 01:03:07,817
i kind of go through break down how it works and i explain uh ultimately if you understand

738
01:03:07,817 --> 01:03:14,597
that the value is derived from bitcoin which is growing at a faster rate than the yield you would

739
01:03:14,597 --> 01:03:20,438
just buy that thing because they figured it out right strategy figured out that uh bitcoin is the

740
01:03:20,438 --> 01:03:27,677
better thing to hold and that is how it's generating the revenue for strc so if strc

741
01:03:27,677 --> 01:03:35,778
provides 11.25 bitcoin has to provide more than that or the whole thing fails right which is you

742
01:03:35,778 --> 01:03:40,438
know that's on the table right that's possible very unlikely but it you know could happen so

743
01:03:40,438 --> 01:03:45,058
it's worth saying over what time horizon what's the you know what i mean because like right now

744
01:03:45,058 --> 01:03:50,238
it's like the last what six months it's not generating a lot bitcoin isn't you know up

745
01:03:50,238 --> 01:03:59,837
11%? Just long term, right? So just looking at... So does Saylor's backstop of Bitcoin enable

746
01:03:59,837 --> 01:04:07,117
like a long runway for them to continue providing 11% fiat requirement?

747
01:04:07,117 --> 01:04:15,677
Yeah. So strategy in general is backed by a lot of different things. The first line of defense

748
01:04:15,677 --> 01:04:17,918
that they regularly use is their ATM.

749
01:04:18,357 --> 01:04:20,198
And that means, that stands for at the market.

750
01:04:20,398 --> 01:04:22,337
That literally just means that they print shares

751
01:04:22,337 --> 01:04:24,137
of their own stock, right?

752
01:04:24,298 --> 01:04:26,018
So if they have to pay for things,

753
01:04:26,398 --> 01:04:30,498
for example, they have to pay STRC holders

754
01:04:30,498 --> 01:04:31,218
their dividend.

755
01:04:31,837 --> 01:04:33,418
The first way that they're going to do that

756
01:04:33,418 --> 01:04:37,157
is they're going to go to their MSTR common stock

757
01:04:37,157 --> 01:04:38,657
and they're going to print it.

758
01:04:38,957 --> 01:04:40,677
And then they're going to pay people from that.

759
01:04:41,857 --> 01:04:45,578
And that has, you know, a lot of life in it.

760
01:04:45,677 --> 01:04:49,498
and trades over a 1X MNAB right now,

761
01:04:49,657 --> 01:04:53,258
which just basically means that there's more Bitcoin backing MSTR

762
01:04:53,258 --> 01:04:56,877
than the value of MSTR market cap.

763
01:04:58,398 --> 01:05:00,798
That's a whole other subject.

764
01:05:00,957 --> 01:05:02,457
I don't want to get down that too far,

765
01:05:02,538 --> 01:05:04,738
but just understand that their first line of defense

766
01:05:04,738 --> 01:05:07,157
is they can always sell MSTR,

767
01:05:08,157 --> 01:05:11,977
and they could and would have to sell it all the way to zero

768
01:05:11,977 --> 01:05:13,738
before they defaulted, right?

769
01:05:13,738 --> 01:05:18,817
So if you buy STRC, STRETCH, I know there's a lot of acronyms here, so I apologize.

770
01:05:19,238 --> 01:05:24,518
If you buy STRETCH, which is this product we're talking about where it's kind of like a savings account,

771
01:05:24,877 --> 01:05:31,637
you're going to get your dividend pretty much no matter what until MSTR goes to zero.

772
01:05:32,058 --> 01:05:33,957
Because that's one of their backstops.

773
01:05:34,058 --> 01:05:37,457
They just use the ATM to fund the dividends.

774
01:05:37,457 --> 01:05:58,657
The other thing that they have is they, of course, have now a cash reserve, USD cash reserve. That's dollars. And they're using that, you know, as, you know, almost like a form of collateral for the people that are buying stretch, just so that they have the ability to continue to facilitate those dividend payments.

775
01:05:58,657 --> 01:06:20,157
And then they also have, of course, their Bitcoin, which encompasses more than enough to cover all of these things as well. So they have like three very solid backstops that are well like well more collateralized than what I would see or perceive as any other bond in the market.

776
01:06:20,157 --> 01:06:38,518
I think it's, in my personal opinion, buying stretch, even through the lens of viewing it as a bond, I think has less risk than buying a government bond right now, which is typically preserved to be the lowest risk bond product.

777
01:06:38,518 --> 01:06:48,438
So I think stretch in general, if you're buying a bond product, stretch in my mind is the lowest risk way to do it, even over government debt.

778
01:06:48,718 --> 01:06:54,278
Again, government debt is typically been seen as like the risk free rate, basically.

779
01:06:54,898 --> 01:07:03,258
And you're able to get, you know, more than double your of your yield from buying stretch than you could with the government.

780
01:07:03,258 --> 01:07:09,418
And there's, in my opinion, not much of an advantage at all to buying government debt, to buying treasuries over Stretch.

781
01:07:09,817 --> 01:07:13,898
And so we're talking in a language that a lot of Bitcoiners don't care about.

782
01:07:14,038 --> 01:07:14,657
They don't speak.

783
01:07:15,058 --> 01:07:15,677
And that's fine.

784
01:07:15,798 --> 01:07:26,258
Like, if you're a Bitcoiner and you understand the value of Bitcoin, Stretch has very value to you, in my opinion, very little value to you to hold.

785
01:07:27,398 --> 01:07:31,718
Because you're going to get 11.25%, right?

786
01:07:32,038 --> 01:07:32,498
Big whoop.

787
01:07:32,498 --> 01:07:46,038
You can hold Bitcoin over the long term. You're going to get way more than that. Right. On average, you know, we're probably talking somewhere at least I would say conservatively 25 percent, maybe upwards to 70 or 80 percent over the long.

788
01:07:46,038 --> 01:08:10,538
So, so, so Adam, would you say like, if you're, if you're a hardcore Bitcoiner, but you're retired and you've like, you've got all your savings, all your, you know, quote unquote investments, your savings in Bitcoin, but you're like, I need, I need fiat cashflow because when Bitcoin dips, I can't pay my bills or whatever, but like I can earn 11% using stretch to like, to continue to fund my life.

789
01:08:10,538 --> 01:08:17,458
And like you can sell or spend your, you know, as we sort of described what would be preferable, spend your Bitcoin, replace it.

790
01:08:17,558 --> 01:08:20,118
But like the replacing it, you don't have income anymore.

791
01:08:20,237 --> 01:08:21,618
You're 75 years old.

792
01:08:21,958 --> 01:08:26,718
You replace it with some of that yield from from something like stretch.

793
01:08:26,757 --> 01:08:29,837
Is that kind of like a use case, I guess, that you're suggesting?

794
01:08:30,038 --> 01:08:30,277
Absolutely.

795
01:08:30,618 --> 01:08:33,458
And that's actually in the article that I wrote as well.

796
01:08:33,757 --> 01:08:35,377
You know, where are the exceptions here?

797
01:08:35,377 --> 01:08:42,058
you know, that's probably the biggest one is if, you know, if you don't see yourself

798
01:08:42,058 --> 01:08:50,938
able to weather a four-year Bitcoin cycle, you know, maybe you are elderly, you know,

799
01:08:50,938 --> 01:08:55,178
you're retired, you don't have a ton of time left, you don't want to deal with the volatility

800
01:08:55,178 --> 01:09:00,737
of a four-year Bitcoin cycle. That's a good reason. You know, maybe you're terminally ill.

801
01:09:00,737 --> 01:09:10,158
another good reason. You can count on that yield, that dividend. These are some great examples of

802
01:09:10,158 --> 01:09:15,757
who may be interested in buying Stretch. Now, if you're here to fix the money,

803
01:09:16,237 --> 01:09:21,977
if you're here for the decentralized, permissionless, trustless protocol that allows us to interact

804
01:09:21,977 --> 01:09:26,578
with each other without permission from other people, you don't get any of that with Stretch.

805
01:09:26,578 --> 01:09:34,958
it's very financialized. It's very fiat. You know, it's not, it's not doing anything to progress the

806
01:09:34,958 --> 01:09:40,357
world away from the fractional reserve central banking system, which is one of the main reasons

807
01:09:40,357 --> 01:09:45,237
why I'm here. Right. I think that there's a lot of, a lot of wrong done in the world that could

808
01:09:45,237 --> 01:09:52,718
be fixed from getting out of our banking system that's controlled by, by the Epstein industrial

809
01:09:52,718 --> 01:09:59,237
complex, right? We talked about that. So there's a lot of very close ties between a lot of that,

810
01:09:59,598 --> 01:10:06,938
a lot of those same groups of people and the central bankers. So yeah, that's my point.

811
01:10:07,998 --> 01:10:12,197
You know, if you're a Bitcoiner, don't be too focused on this sort of thing, but also don't

812
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hate on it too much because I want to explain the benefits of stretch of it existing and how that

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mechanism works. I'll try not to get too far into the weeds and I'll try to be fairly brief,

814
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but essentially the way it works is there's what's called a par value. All right. That par value for

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stretch is $100. That just means that if the product trades at $100, it is at par. That's

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like the number that is set that all the other math is based off of. And so 11.25% is the yield

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at par. Now, if you buy the product when it's lower than $100, meaning below par, you actually

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get more than 11.25% in a dividend. It's more than that because it's whatever the difference is

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between the current price and the par value, whatever that difference is. And so I don't know

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what that would be called the effective yield. So if you go to strategy.com, you can go through all

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their different products. You go to the one that says stretch and you see a category that says

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effective yield, that's actually what you're going to get paid if you buy stretch right now.

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Okay. So it's important to note that the interest rate that is set by strategy is based off of $100.

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And that's also where this kind of comes into play and this whole strategy of why this is such a big

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deal. Because once they hit $100, they start issuing ATM for stretch. Okay. So they're printing

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shares. And when you go buy new shares, you're not necessarily always buying new shares from

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01:11:46,458 --> 01:11:51,817
somebody that is selling you stretch in the open market. What you're actually a lot of times doing

828
01:11:51,817 --> 01:11:57,237
is buying stretch directly from strategy that is newly printed shares. What does that do? Well,

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that allows them to get a lot of dollars for a product that they're able to essentially almost

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create for free. Now there's, you know, there is some benefit to some of the things they do.

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and they're adding mechanisms that I believe provide value.

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But they take those dollars that they're getting

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and they're buying Bitcoin with it,

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which is strengthening their balance sheet even more.

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And so it is a type of a positive feedback loop.

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It's often referred to as a flywheel

837
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just because it preserves its energy so well

838
01:12:27,638 --> 01:12:30,678
because they're taking the capital that they're raising for these products

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and they're buying a money that is much better

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than the other money that other people are using.

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And so that is one of the reasons

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why strategies had so much success

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and formerly micro strategy.

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So this is cool because once it hits $100,

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every dollar that goes into stretch

846
01:12:49,737 --> 01:12:52,777
is going to replace,

847
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essentially replace the structure,

848
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the monetary structure that we've talked about

849
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that I'm here to replace, right?

850
01:13:01,718 --> 01:13:08,817
whether or not this is it's very clear this isn't like an overt goal but ultimately what this is is

851
01:13:08,817 --> 01:13:15,998
it's it's now putting the banks back on their heels because now they're they're you know they're

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at notice that if they are not able to provide a competitive product which they're not then they're

853
01:13:21,678 --> 01:13:29,817
going to basically lose all their all their power to strategy so now strategy is offering people a

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01:13:29,817 --> 01:13:37,337
product that the banks were able to offer, but giving it to them in a much better way that pays

855
01:13:37,337 --> 01:13:45,178
way more yield, right? So the banks are offering 30 basis points. Michael Saylor is offering 11.25%.

856
01:13:45,777 --> 01:13:51,158
You know, so that's where the magic happens. That's why I think it's a big deal. Now,

857
01:13:51,477 --> 01:13:56,498
who buys Stretch? You know, these are institutions. Again, we kind of went back to who buys,

858
01:13:56,498 --> 01:14:02,518
you know, Bitcoin treasure company stocks, it doesn't have to be you. And I don't necessarily

859
01:14:02,518 --> 01:14:08,078
recommend anybody buy Stretch if they can buy Bitcoin. That's my recommendation, especially if

860
01:14:08,078 --> 01:14:12,817
you're young enough to weather, you know, a cycle or two, you're going to end up way further ahead,

861
01:14:12,837 --> 01:14:17,098
as long as you don't have to sell it within the next four to eight years, just buy Bitcoin.

862
01:14:18,138 --> 01:14:22,817
But there are a lot of people who can't buy Bitcoin. And there are a lot of people who have

863
01:14:22,817 --> 01:14:27,678
to buy bonds, for example, that might be able to buy stretch now because they need a fixed rate.

864
01:14:28,018 --> 01:14:34,197
And so now they can buy stretch and all that money goes into buying Bitcoin. And so that's

865
01:14:34,197 --> 01:14:38,958
good for number go up. Right. Again, it comes back to the, you know, what is the value of Bitcoin?

866
01:14:39,218 --> 01:14:43,958
It doesn't do much other than, you know, number go up, but number go up is a pretty big deal.

867
01:14:44,558 --> 01:14:48,718
That's how a lot of people come into Bitcoin. And so that's where I say it's good for Bitcoin in the

868
01:14:48,718 --> 01:14:52,578
sense that it's helping with number go up. It's not much more than that. It's pretty surface level.

869
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But, you know, I think that anybody buying Bitcoin and injecting Bitcoin into the fiat system as a Trojan horse, you know, they're on my team.

870
01:15:04,857 --> 01:15:08,797
All righty. Well, dude, I got to run here soon. So I got to ask you our last question.

871
01:15:08,857 --> 01:15:11,718
Yeah, which is obviously the one I ask at the end of every episode.

872
01:15:11,958 --> 01:15:16,518
What's an unpopular opinion you have? You get bonus points if it offends some Bitcoiners.

873
01:15:17,377 --> 01:15:19,757
Dang, man, I'm on the spot now. Unpopular.

874
01:15:19,757 --> 01:15:21,538
I should have reminded you.

875
01:15:21,658 --> 01:15:23,237
What's an unpopular opinion you have?

876
01:15:23,317 --> 01:15:24,297
Piss off some Bitcoiners.

877
01:15:25,038 --> 01:15:29,277
My unpopular opinion is that I think, you know,

878
01:15:29,337 --> 01:15:32,977
we're going to stir some, ruffle some feathers here,

879
01:15:33,138 --> 01:15:35,958
but let's just, let's make it spicy for the end here.

880
01:15:36,257 --> 01:15:37,718
So core versus knots, right?

881
01:15:39,297 --> 01:15:41,098
Everybody thinks that there's a dichotomy.

882
01:15:41,277 --> 01:15:42,357
You got to pick one or the other.

883
01:15:42,718 --> 01:15:46,877
My opinion is, you know, let's not be too quick to pick either.

884
01:15:47,697 --> 01:15:51,777
My belief is I believe that we should ossify Bitcoin.

885
01:15:52,058 --> 01:15:56,038
I think that we should do everything that we can to not change it.

886
01:15:56,538 --> 01:15:57,917
No upgrades to Bitcoin.

887
01:15:58,337 --> 01:15:59,518
Bitcoin's working just fine.

888
01:16:00,417 --> 01:16:02,558
We don't need any upgrades, period.

889
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None. Zero.

890
01:16:04,438 --> 01:16:07,977
And until there is an upgrade that is actually needed,

891
01:16:08,417 --> 01:16:11,578
we don't need to proactively change Bitcoin.

892
01:16:11,857 --> 01:16:14,377
So my point to that is people are like,

893
01:16:14,377 --> 01:16:17,158
well, what if they're starting to do quantum attacks on Bitcoin?

894
01:16:17,658 --> 01:16:18,578
Well, then guess what?

895
01:16:18,777 --> 01:16:22,678
You can fork and you can do a quantum fork, quantum resistant fork.

896
01:16:23,218 --> 01:16:23,777
And that's fine.

897
01:16:23,857 --> 01:16:24,958
Like that's how Bitcoin is going to work.

898
01:16:24,958 --> 01:16:29,518
But for us on the network, like for right now, from what I can see,

899
01:16:29,618 --> 01:16:34,538
there's not a good enough reason to risk injecting new code into Bitcoin

900
01:16:34,538 --> 01:16:40,337
that outweighs our potential for fixing the money and fixing the world.

901
01:16:41,118 --> 01:16:42,417
That's what we need to be focused on.

902
01:16:42,417 --> 01:17:07,857
What we have right now works. What we've had for many years works. I think that a lot of the upgrades that have happened over the last few years, they weren't necessary to fix the money. So that's my stance. I think we should ossify. I don't think we should keep changing Bitcoin. Both the knots and the core camp, they want to continually change and upgrade Bitcoin. And that's something I'm fundamentally against.

903
01:17:07,857 --> 01:17:12,797
you're not going to find any arguments here but i think you will make some people mad so everyone

904
01:17:12,797 --> 01:17:17,458
get in the comments tell adam what you think all righty man tell people where they can find you by

905
01:17:17,458 --> 01:17:22,797
by the way thank you so much for coming on always fun chatting uh usually our chats are a little less

906
01:17:22,797 --> 01:17:27,058
formal but this is uh fun to get together and just kind of go through everything so tell people where

907
01:17:27,058 --> 01:17:30,958
they can find you learn about manna anything else yeah thank you thank you so much for having me

908
01:17:30,958 --> 01:17:36,458
on the platform uh i love the bitcoin way by the way shout out to them these guys uh i'm not paid

909
01:17:36,458 --> 01:17:42,098
to say this, they've never paid me single sat. And that's the truth, but I love the Bitcoin way.

910
01:17:42,098 --> 01:17:46,998
Um, and they've helped a lot of people. Um, and they're great to talk to for anybody along their

911
01:17:46,998 --> 01:17:52,357
path, whether you're like just starting out or even for fairly advanced people. Um, I've had

912
01:17:52,357 --> 01:17:55,718
people tell me that they've reached out at the Bitcoin way just to check their strategy is

913
01:17:55,718 --> 01:18:01,337
sufficient and that it works. And, uh, they've gotten a lot of value out of that too. So good

914
01:18:01,337 --> 01:18:04,118
job for everything you guys are doing over there, Michael. Really appreciate you guys.

915
01:18:04,118 --> 01:18:08,498
As far as me, I'm at Adam Semecka on X, Twitter.

916
01:18:09,938 --> 01:18:11,898
Manna is a project that I'm working on.

917
01:18:12,058 --> 01:18:16,297
It is a self-custodial payment solution for Bitcoiners.

918
01:18:17,058 --> 01:18:21,758
And if you're interested in using Bitcoin as a medium of exchange currency, check out Manna.

919
01:18:23,237 --> 01:18:24,018
Love it, man.

920
01:18:24,118 --> 01:18:25,417
Well, thank you so much for the time, Adam.

921
01:18:25,458 --> 01:18:26,337
We'll catch up again soon.

922
01:18:26,518 --> 01:18:26,958
Thanks, Michael.

923
01:18:26,998 --> 01:18:27,438
Have a good one.

924
01:18:27,578 --> 01:18:27,737
Bye.

925
01:18:28,178 --> 01:18:28,638
Cheers, brother.

926
01:18:29,138 --> 01:18:29,977
And that's a wrap.

927
01:18:30,058 --> 01:18:32,138
Again, hope you enjoyed my conversation with Adam.

928
01:18:32,138 --> 01:18:33,297
Go check out Manna.

929
01:18:33,297 --> 01:18:34,917
Go give him a follow on X.

930
01:18:35,078 --> 01:18:36,837
Check out all the work that he's doing.

931
01:18:36,998 --> 01:18:38,938
Great guy doing some incredible things.

932
01:18:39,218 --> 01:18:45,797
And of course, if you need help taking your Bitcoin into proper 100% self-custody, go to thebitcoinway.com slash podcast.

933
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We can explain how it works, why we philosophically do what we do.

934
01:18:50,138 --> 01:18:53,157
We can also help you with online privacy, setting up a privacy phone.

935
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936
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All of the things you need to be a sovereign individual.

938
01:19:00,218 --> 01:19:03,477
Again, that's thebitcoinway.com slash podcast.

939
01:19:03,817 --> 01:19:04,917
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941
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942
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