War costs money, lots of money.
And when you can fund a war by printing the money to run that war and fight that war,
you are more inclined to go to war.
You put nations in debt, you control them.
What matters is who can print the money.
And when someone stands up and says, no, I'm breaking away from that system,
you can expect a bullet in your head.
Now, whether you're Abraham Lincoln, JFK, or Donald Trump himself,
you can see hot lead starts flying through the air.
It is one massive Ponzi scheme.
All fiat always fails.
That's a matter of fact, in my opinion.
It's got nothing to do with the safety of children and it has everything to do with control.
Like if these things come out, digital IDs and you start to rally people, they'll just...
Welcome back to G'day Bitcoin.
I'm your host, Sean.
Join us today is Adam Stokes, host of Adam Stokes' YouTube channel and one of Australia's
most respected voices on Bitcoin and digital asset education, as well as macro finance.
known for breaking down really complex topics like Bitcoin, more so inflation,
and the evolution of money into clear, relatable insights.
Adam's work has helped thousands of people, especially here in Australia and worldwide,
understand why Bitcoin matters.
In this episode, we're going to dive into some deep truths,
his views on Bitcoin, the gaslighting from the Australian government,
and escaping the rat race.
Adam, welcome to the show. How are you?
Sean, so good to see you, and what a lovely intro. Thank you so much.
My pleasure.
First off, I just want to say thank you so much for serving for the country of Australia.
Well, I appreciate that.
But I equally thank you for what you're doing here, because I think the service that we can give through education and freeing ourselves from the biggest Ponzi scheme in the history of humanity, that being FIAT, we start to realise that there's many ways that we can serve our community.
And what I found is that I think I can give more, we can give more by talking and learning together in front of a camera and microphone so we can be freed from this money of war as we move into a money of peace.
Yeah, I love that.
So let's kick off right there.
I wanted to take this in a little bit of a different direction.
But how is Bitcoin a solution to fiat currency as you labeled it, the money of war?
Well, great question.
Let's dive straight into it.
War costs money, lots of money.
And when you can fund a war by printing the money to run that war and fight that war, you are more inclined to go to war.
But when war is funded by real money, that is hard money, let's call it gold or Bitcoin or labor or real estate or real assets that just can't be printed out of thin air, it changes the behavior of all humans globally.
So we talk about fiat being a money of war and Bitcoin being a money of peace, because
many believe, rightfully or wrongfully, that if we didn't have fiat, there wouldn't be
so many wars.
Now, of course, there's always going to be conflict.
There's always going to be disagreements.
And if you get pushed into a corner, there's going to be a reaction.
But human behavior nationally, globally, will change when you have to actually work for
the money that allows your troops to go to war.
When you can just print your money to go to war, things change. So as we adopt a money that is fair, sound, open, neutral, borderless and censorship resistant, the way that we look at everything around us in the macro and in the micro and even in human relationships with each other, things change.
And we can see now that when you're excited about what the future holds peacefully, the way you act beyond printing money to run the war machine and run the Ponzi scheme, you start to innovate and you start to create.
So it goes beyond just printing your money to go to war.
We now have a money that gives us hope in so many ways.
And because it's a hard, scarce money, it changes the way we spend that money.
Beyond war, Sean, if you think about, I've been test driving a car recently.
And I thought, well, do I really want to buy this car with my Bitcoin?
Because if I hold my Bitcoin, tomorrow it's going to be worth more and more and more,
whilst my car that I've just purchased is going to be worth less and less and less.
So consequently and ironically, because I'm using this hard money,
in many ways, I'm better for the environment because I consume less.
And because I consume less, I can now think and contribute more
because I'm not just going shopping and buying the latest thing on offer.
Yeah. One thing like Bitcoin to me, and I agree with you, like if the world was on a Bitcoin standard, 100% wars would slow down if not stop. And yes, of course, the little skirmishes and stuff, but I believe the world would be a more of a peaceful place.
But the way that I've seen Bitcoin adoption over the last 16 years, I've been here for six years, is it's really from like it's a people's revolution.
It's money for the people. That's where it started at the bottom up to the top.
And we can see Nayib Bukele kicked it off in El Salvador adopting Bitcoin as legal tender, though IMF absolutely hates it.
They're trying to stop them doing it all the time.
But then President Donald Trump went through and he announced that they'd establish a Bitcoin strategic reserve.
My only hesitation with this is a couple of things.
Number one, they can print endless amounts of money to accumulate more Bitcoin and then hyperinflate the dollar away.
So it's whoever hits the money printer first will win.
But what's their incentive for moving over to this hard money?
Because then they lose the power of the printing press and they can't fund wars, these endless socialism schemes that they want to put out.
it. It's a lot harder to be able to control the general public if we were on a Bitcoin standard or
a hard money standard. So what's that transition from where we are now? People in control,
fiat, money printer, guns, war, death, destruction, misinformation, disinformation,
shutting it down, any view, any opposing view. How do we get to that peaceful world?
So when you hold debt, the person who issued the debt is in control of you.
So I've asked the question for many years, Sean, who's in charge?
And if we get, first of all, bring it to Australia, who's in charge?
Is it the Australian government or is it the lobbyists?
Is it the banks?
And what we're seeing is it's in fact, whoever's got the most money.
And then you say, well, where does the money come from?
It's like, well, who gets to print the money?
Now we move into the global stage.
The global reserve currency of the world, of course, is the US dollar.
and we say well is the president of the united states in charge of america well we'd hope so
but what we can actually see it goes back to who prints the money and so then when you expand it
wider and you read the creature from jekyll island and most certainly um the confessions of an economic
hitman we can see that great books oh great books but particularly the confessions of an economic
hitman to the viewers out there i implore that you read that book then we start to see there is no
loyalty from those at the top, the very top. I'm talking beyond presidential standards,
like much higher than that. There's no loyalty to a nation. There is a loyalty to power and control.
When you put nations in debt, you control them. When you can print money, you have the absolute
power. It doesn't really matter who's in the presidential or prime ministerial chair. What
matters is who can print the money. So love or hate Trump, I believe, and I can't substantiate
this just based on my economic and political and global experience is that he understands this he
understands that he who prints the money is the person in charge and then when someone stands up
and says no i'm breaking away from that system you can expect a bullet in your head now whether
you're abraham lincoln jfk or donald trump himself you can see hot lead starts flying through the air
once you start standing up and saying hang on i'm pushing back against this system this is why and
for those many of you may hate Trump and you say, well, why do you hate Trump? And it's because
that's what you were conditioned to do. You were conditioned to hate Trump. Now, this isn't a pro
Trump or negative Trump thing. It's just we need to understand where does money come from and what
is the effect of when someone can print money and put nations into debt? So the US at time of
recording has about $37.5 trillion of debt. And we can see this push-pull effect of who is the most
powerful man in the world. Now, we would suggest we think it's the president of the United States,
but he doesn't control the interest rate. He doesn't control the money supply. The Fed does.
And so, well, who employs the Fed? And this is where it starts to get pretty deep. You start to
realize, well, hang on a second. It doesn't matter which head we have in which chair, whether we're
looking at President Trump or Biden or Obama or even Harris, had she got in. If we look at the Fed
chair, it doesn't really matter who's there. It's like, well, where does the money come from?
Now, of course, when we look at money in the macro, the government can get money from taxing you,
or they can write an IOU, also known as a bond or a treasury, and they give it to another person,
another party, and then they print this money out of thin air. And when they print this money out of
thin air, the government or the people then have to pay back money that never existed in the first
place with interest on top of it. Now, with the $37.5 trillion in debt, it's just an astronomical
number that most people can't wrap their head around, you've got to pay interest on that debt.
Now, of course, this debt will never, ever, ever be paid back because the money was created out of
thin air to start with. Then you have to pay interest on money that never existed. So you
need to print more money to get the interest to pay back the money that never existed. It is one
massive Ponzi scheme and one massive house of cards that's about to collapse. So even the richest
nation in the world that we think is the United States, in reality, and ironically, has the biggest
debt in the world and has the biggest debt to service in the world. So we're moving to a
breaking point. All fiat always fails. That's a matter of fact, fiat being the Latin word for
by decree. And every currency, every fiat currency around the world is government issued to an extent.
But again, the government doesn't print the money. The government prints the IOU and then a federal
reserve equivalent or a central bank, which is neither a federal entity nor has reserves of
anything, prints money out of thin air. And you start to realize it's like, hang on a second,
who's printing this money and where is all of that interest going to? So someone had to stand up.
Now, I would suggest the first person who stood up, maybe if you look at, you go all the way back,
perhaps Lincoln, perhaps Kennedy, perhaps Trump. And as I mentioned, all three of those men,
one way or another got hot lead flying through the air towards their head. Some hitting directly,
some just skimming across it. Now, these are powerful words, but the truth is those at the
top want this system to continue. But those who believe in the free market and a hard, sound,
open, neutral, borderless, censorship-resistant money, they realize that it's Bitcoin. Now,
of course, some people believe it's gold, but the issue with gold is that I can't spend gold at
Woolies or Coles. I can't use it on Amazon. And so if you ask Peter Schiff, you say, well, I know
what we'll do. We'll put the gold in a vault, then we'll write a note against it, and then we'll be
write and you're back to fee it. You centralize the gold, you write two notes against it,
you've now double spent the gold and we're back at square one. So it all comes around to this,
who is in charge? And once you start to understand the person in charge isn't the person who was
elected by the people, it wasn't actually the person who owns the television networks or the
newspapers, it's not even the Fed chair, it's whoever's behind the big Ponzi scheme. And this
is where you start to understand the creature from Jekyll Island. Then you link it, as I discussed,
Confessions of an Economic Hitman. And it's like, it's all a facade. It's all a charade.
So the reason why, it's a very long answer, I realize, it's a very long answer to say,
the reason why they push back against Bitcoin is because it takes away their control and their
ability to print. But conversely, and more specifically to answer your question, the reason
why Trump, I would suggest, and those who understand the free market want a hard, sound,
immutable, open, scarce money like Bitcoin, is because they believe in capitalism and the free
market. And they believe that the only way the free market can truly operate is with a free money.
Not free as in we can print it, but free from control, free from corruption, free from all of
the shenanigans that's happening in the background, free from inflation. So if you believe in freedom,
the layer one to life, no matter if you like it or not, is money. Some people say, no, my family's
the most important thing to life. Great. How are you going to feed them? Some people say, no, it's
my church. Great. How are you going to support it? How are you going to build a building? Some people
say, no, it's my footy club. That's the most important thing. Awesome. How are you going to
attend the game? How are you going to buy a footy? How are you going to buy a jersey? And others say,
no, no, it's just me. All I care about is myself and my health. Fantastic. How are you going to
feed yourself? How are you going to put a roof over your head? It's all money. So once you realize
money is broken, you start to see the effect of why life is starting to break. Then when you
understand that, you say, well, hang on a second. If we can fix the money, we can fix the world.
And the step one to all of this is adopting a hard money. And that hard money, some believe it's gold,
but I've described the problems with gold. Most people are waking up, the answer is Bitcoin.
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Yeah, I definitely agree. And I think we're seeing like, even though gold's at all time highs, which is Bitcoin's just under timer recording, Peter Schiff comes out and said, you know, Bitcoin hasn't made new all time highs against gold and it's lagging behind. And then once it obviously pushes past, he will. But that's obviously still like that fiat mindset. One Bitcoin's one Bitcoin, one ounce of gold's one ounce of gold.
But with what you're saying, say specifically in the US, there's the Federal Reserve and then there's President Trump and he believes more in the free markets.
Do you think what he'll do is just relax the laws, provide a little bit more regulatory clarification around Bitcoin as the digital asset, which will allow the common folks to adopt it and it'll continue just to be this ground up movement?
And then over time, that makes fiat currency less and less relevant?
Is that how we get to the Bitcoin standard?
Or is it just they start to put in the frameworks and everything like that, and then President
Trump just says, all right, hit the money printer, let's buy as much Bitcoin as possible.
They hyperinflate the dollar away, it causes chaos for everyone, not holding hard assets.
Can you like sort of envision the way that we actually get there Yes So step one is actually stablecoin So what they doing now is they extending the life of the dollar And the way they extend the life of the dollar is by bypassing the Fed Who would have thought a stablecoin could be so complicated But the
reality is, let's go to the basics. A stablecoin, as you know, is just one coin is backed by $1.
So in the past, a dollar, a stablecoin was backed by a dollar. But under the Genius Act, of course,
now what they can do is that they can actually say, well, hang on a second. We can have,
ironically stable coins backing the dollar so again it used to be the dollar backing a stable
coin but now it's stable coins backing a dollar and this is where it gets really deep and really
powerful in the past you needed the fed or the free market to buy the treasuries to buy the
bonds now if the free market didn't buy the bonds which is in simple terms is an iou the american
government says i need a trillion dollars who's going to give me a trillion dollars okay we'll
tax it as much as we can out of the people all right we've taxed as much as we can we still need
a trillion dollars, where we get it from. I know we're going to print IOUs, these IOUs,
bonds or treasuries. And they say, who wants to buy these bonds? And you say, well, why would I
buy your bond? And they say, well, if you buy the bond, I'll give you a yield. I'll give you 5%
on a two year, a five year, a 10 year, there's different lengths. And every year we'll give you,
say you lend me a trillion dollars, I'll give you 5% per annum. And at the end of the five year
treasury, as an example, I'll give you back the trillion dollars. That's a great deal. And many
people were doing that for many years. Why? Because the US dollar was, and currently is,
still the best fiat currency in the world. I have to be careful with these words here,
the best fiat currency in the world, the best of the worst currencies. But what we've seen recently,
Sean, is that the US, no one wants to buy these bonds anymore because they realized that the
Ponzi scheme is up. They're like, well, we don't want to buy the bonds because you keep printing
your money. And if we don't do as you say, you're going to call us oligarchs. You're going to cut us
out of the swift network you're going to seize our bank accounts and you keep inflating this money
so your yield isn't meeting the inflation rate so your interest rate your return is not any good
anymore because you're printing too fast and your dollar is going down further and faster than your
yield return okay so what we saw recently is no one wanted no free market no other nation
no corporation wanted to buy the u.s bonds so who stepped in well the fed stepped in and the fed
said, all right, we'll print money and we'll buy the bonds off you. So you have the American
government borrowing money from an American federal entity, which is not a federal entity,
it's just got the name Federal Reserve, has reserves of nothing. And so now the US government
has to pay back interest to some random entity called the Federal Reserve. And this is where
you see the conflict between Trump and Fed Chair Powell. So because rightfully, Donald Trump is
saying, hey, can you lower the interest rate because you're killing us here? I can't afford
four to 5% on a $37 trillion debt. Can you lower it to 2%? And he's like, no, I've got to do what's
right for me. Now, this is a whole video in itself. But what stablecoins enable us to do now,
stablecoins saying, I want to say us, I mean the US government, they enable the free market,
everyone else to say, who wants a stablecoin? And everyone goes, well, I want a stablecoin.
It's like, well, what backs a stablecoin?
Well, the stablecoin company, they can buy the treasuries from the US government now.
So you don't need a central bank.
You don't need a federal reserve.
You don't need any of these corporations in the sense that now you can go directly to the stablecoin issuer.
The stablecoin issuer says, I'll print a billion dollars if you accept the treasury as the backing.
And the government goes, yeah, no problem.
We'll give you an IOU.
The stablecoin company prints money out of thin air.
Now, before it was the Fed printing money out of thin air, but now it's the stablecoin issuer printing money out of thin air.
And the key difference here, Sean, is that in the past, when the money printer went brr in the United States, it was the good American people that first took that hit of inflation.
Yes, it's the US dollar.
Yes, it's a global reserve currency.
And yes, it goes out into the global economy.
But now with the Genius Act, when they print these stable coins, you can leapfrog, if you will, the reserve banks.
You can leapfrog the Fed and the SWIFT network, and you can go directly into my wallet and your wallet and everyone's wallet around the world.
Okay, so why do we do that?
First of all, that lowers as a ratio the amount of money you owe.
You still owe $37 trillion nominally, but as a real value, it's now less that you have to pay back.
The best example I can give is this. If there's $2 million in the world and $1 million of that is your debt, 50% of the world's currency or the world's liquid supply is your debt. That's 50%. So in this example, $2 million is in the world. $1 million of that is your debt. So you owe 50% of the money's supply back in debt.
but if you increase the money supply from $2 million to $10 million, well, hang on a second,
I still only owe $1 million, but now instead of my debt being 50% of the world's supply,
my debt is now only 10% of the world's supply. So it's still a million dollars on paper,
but it's now a much lower percentage of the global supply. And that's what they talk about
inflating away the debt. So step one will be, they're going to print the crap out of the US
dollar. They're going to print the crap out of it. But they're now going to do it not just through
treasuries to the Fed or central banks. They're now going to do it through stable coins, bypassing
the SWIFT network, the Federal Reserve, central banks, not just in America, but around the world,
and go directly to you and I. That's going to take care of the debt. The second part is,
as you said, someone's got to push the button first. Someone's got to start the race first.
The second they go, right, we're going to print our money to buy Bitcoin. That's when it's going
to be a cascading effect. It's going to be like a dam busting. You're going to see a little trickle
or a wet patch, then a little bit more of a wet patch, and then bang, the whole dam is going to
break. And that's what's going to happen. Step one, they're going to inflate the crap out of the US
dollar through stable coins. Step two, they're going to somehow quietly, covertly, and perhaps
right now they're doing it, buying as much Bitcoin as they possibly can. And then eventually, whether
it's this year, next year, or in 10 years, the dollar will collapse. Why? Because it's a fiat.
All fiat's always fail. It doesn't matter how many aircraft carriers you've got. It doesn't
matter what language you speak, what flag you fly. All fiat always fails. And Scott Bessent knows
this. He's a smart guy. Trump knows this. He's a businessman. You and I know this. We're economists.
It's just, okay, how do we time it perfectly to A, extend the life of the dollar a little bit more?
How do we get a little bit more bang out of our buck, so to speak, until it all collapses?
How do we reduce the ratio of the debt that we've got at the moment?
And then how do we convert to the new hard money, whether it be gold, which again, I reckon they're going to double.
You can't really do gold because I don't even know how much gold they've got.
But then how do we move to Bitcoin?
I believe, I can't substantiate this, it's just my opinion.
I believe that many nations are already buying Bitcoin in the background, but they can't do it too fast and too hard.
Yeah, they're going to price themselves out of their positions.
So for you and I, my friend, what do we do?
Well, we sit back, we grab our popcorn, we enjoy the show,
and we just stack sats and chill.
Yeah, and put in self-custody.
I think on this thread, you know, just before I hit record,
you asked what I was up to, and I said I was watching this video
of E-Karen about the social media bill, and you're like,
don't get me started.
I'm like, 100%, I'm going to get you started on this one.
So I think this is one of the most dystopian things that's ever been proposed in Australia.
I believe we're about 63 days out from this being enacted.
I've got my own thoughts about this, but instead of putting words in your mouth, how do you see the social media bill?
What's the point behind it?
What do you believe the real intention is versus maybe what they are saying they believe it's for or the misinformation, disinformation or the propaganda that's coming out from their side?
And then we'll take this towards digital IDs and social credit scores.
Well, in my opinion, it's got nothing to do with the safety of children and it has everything to do with control.
Now, in my opinion also, it's not the government's responsibility to look after people's children.
It should be parents' responsibility to look after people's children.
But this is an expansion on fiat.
I'm going to get a bit philosophical here.
So in the olden days, I'll use my grandfather as an example.
My grandfather was a blue-collar worker, had seven children and a wife.
And they were a very close family because my grandmother was at home raising all the kids.
And he would come home and he could afford to buy a house.
he could afford to look after the family and he could have quite a humble life and that did quite
well. When you dilute money and you push the other parent into the workplace, you now have
pushed the child into someone else's care. Now, this isn't about a woman power or manpower or
the patriarchy, it's about economics. When there is no one there to look after your children because
you have to work so much because the dollar is diluted, the children are raised by the state.
and when the children are raised by the state you can see through history you then can start to
ideologically subvert the children because when you have a close family unit and the parent whether
it's a mother or father it's relevant is at home instilling values onto the family you have a
a society first of all a family with values and then a society with values and those values um
over time we can see over thousands of years they've worked to get to where we are now
when you break down the family unit you break it down either through family courts you break it down
through the need to do two jobs three jobs four jobs you break it down by pushing kids out of the
parents care into centralized state care the state then becomes the daddy state and the daddy state
can instill the values so what's the antithesis to all of this well the antithesis to all of this
is truth and honesty and discussion and what we're doing right now in the past the narrative can be
could be controlled entirely by whoever controlled the newspapers, the radio, and the television.
But now we've got this magical new technology called the internet, and that expanded with other
platforms using layer twos on the internet, if you will, such as Spotify and YouTube and TikTok.
And that enables people like you and I to have a discussion and to challenge ideas. I'm not paid
by anyone. I don't think you're paid by anyone to run this. We can see that when the news announcer
reads, he's just reading off his script. He's got a script and a narrative that he has to adhere to.
And if he doesn't adhere to it, he loses his job and he or she gets replaced. So it all comes down
to this. It's controlling the narrative. And by controlling the narrative, you can control the
population. And you can start to say, well, why do they want control over money? Because then again,
you can control the media outlets and you can control the narrative. I believe that it's got
nothing to do with child safety. And I hope I'm wrong. And I hope it is about child safety.
But the truth is, we now all have to use ID, and you can see what's happening in the UK,
and it's going to evolve to this, that we're all going to have to conform with the government
overlords to have the ability to speak. And if we say something that the overlords don't like,
then we'll be shut down. And you can see with the misinformation and disinformation bill,
I've gone into deep thought experiments and discussions with some good philosophers on
this channel. On my channel, it's like, well, who determines truth? Is my God real? Is your God real?
Are there two genders? Are there 400 genders? Is left good or is right good? Who gets to determine
truth? And truth is discovered through dialogue. But if we can't speak, truth can be suppressed
and truth can be manipulated and the narrative can be put forward.
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seen by him and was like I don't agree with everything Charlie says I agree with a lot I
like a lot but there's some things that just don't align and that's cool but what I found so profound
is he was a man that just believed in his beliefs so deeply had so much integrity and he would be
like, here's a microphone. Disagree with me. Let's talk about it and let's have this discussion.
It floored me to see that because someone couldn't use their words. Lead starts flying,
like you're saying, hot lead starts flying. So what happens? You said the misinformation,
disinformation bill. Last year when they're trying to bring it in, there's this line by the bankers
saying that people like you and I, say on YouTube, wouldn't be able to say that the banks were
insolvent or they're rehypothecating their cash. Even if the bank was about to go bust,
like Silicon Valley Bank or something, if you put out a warning like that, if this misinformation,
disinformation bill passed, then you would be classed as providing misinformation, disinformation,
even if that was the actual reality, like base reality at that time.
So I also don't think it's about the kids in my own opinion. Again, I hope I'm wrong.
But say they bring this in, then I guess a couple of questions that you raised in my mind.
Who does get to control the truth?
And then what happens next?
Because if everyone's got a digital ID, they've got so much data and with AI and everything like that, then that starts to lead towards thought policing in my head.
Like it feels like it's straight out of 1984.
I don't know if I've gone too deep down the rabbit hole.
the tinfoil hat is maybe a little bit too tight. And I hope I'm wrong, but I can't see.
I think in the short term, nothing will go wrong, but they'll just bring it in. But then there'll
be some crisis, whether real or engineered or whatever. And then they'll start to use these
powers that they've given themselves through this to really clamp down on people having open
discourse and disagreeing. It goes back to control. I mean, it's all about control. If
they control the narrative they control your thoughts so there's this interesting experiment
by the CIA years ago and I could give you countless examples but this is probably a simple one
so they wanted to see if they could control people's thoughts through a narrative and there's
there's many many studies but again this is a simple one so they they got 18 volunteers to come
to this room and they wanted to do some social experiment and they get 18 volunteers to come
into the room.
But here's the thing, Sean,
17 of the 18 were actually CIA agents and one of them was just a member of the public The narrator the facilitator comes in and goes
G'day everyone, or howdy everyone, whatever.
We're just doing this experiment.
Thank you for joining us.
We just want to start with some basics here.
What shape am I holding up?
And the facilitator holds up an image of a square.
And he goes to the first person and the CIA agent goes, that's a triangle.
Next person goes triangle, triangle, triangle, triangle,
even though he's holding up a square.
And then when it gets to the 18th person who was not a CIA agent,
that person goes, well, I can see a square,
but everyone's saying it's a triangle.
It must be me.
It must be a triangle.
And that person went along with the narrative.
Now, what that study, along with countless others show,
is that as long as you can control the narrative,
you can control thoughts.
And it goes back to why do so many people hate Trump?
Now, maybe he's a really bad person, or maybe that's what you were conditioned to believe.
Why do so many people that believe that the world's going to boil? Because when I was a child,
the world was going to freeze, and then the narrative changed, and now it's going to boil.
Now, why is that the narrative? Well, that's because what we're constantly told. Then there's
so many narratives there that are just shoved down our throat. White men, bad, heterosexuality,
bad, Christianity, bad. Well, why? And it's constantly dividing us. So in the first example,
we divide and conquer. Well, yes, first we divide and conquer. Men against women, black against white,
gay against straight, left against right, vax against non-vax, take your pick. There's always
something else that breaks us apart. And if we're not united, then we start to be easily malleable.
Now we can see we've also got in Australia rich against the poor. It's like, well, we're going to
tax the rich. Well, no, it's actually just the mega rich are fine. It's about taxing the crap
out of everyone. But we need to justify this act by saying it's those evil rich people. You know,
We told you to go to university. We told you to work hard. We told you to build your wealth. But
if you get there, then you're suddenly a bad person. So being rich is bad. Yeah,
we want to get those bad people. So once we divide the society, it's easier to conquer.
And then once everyone falls in line because they're just ideologically subverted through
one narrative, anyone who questions the narrative is shut out of the financial system. And even if
you know the narrative is not real and they're just ideologically subverting you, you have to
conform because the banks control your money. And if you don't do as you're told, if you look at the
United Kingdom as an example, you can see what terrible things happening over there. And this
is the UK. Who would have thought? In many instances, the founder of democracy, if you look
at how the Westminster system worked and spread around the world and the Commonwealth that we're
part of, think of what was created. And now that seems to be the spearhead of moving to a communist
society. So it's moving very quickly to the extent that they're controlling the narrative,
you have to stop people like you and I speaking because if we speak then people can think
and when you and I talk it's pretty obvious it's not what we're telling people how to think it's
just question everything that's my motto question what I say question what you say even question
what you think in yourself and that enables you to to seek the truth but if you can't question
everything if you can't talk you'll just fall in line and if you just fall in line it comes back
to the underlying I guess motto or theme of this discussion today Sean it's all about control
Control the narrative, control the money, control the people.
And those at the top, not the 1%ers, not the 0.1%ers, not the 0.0001%ers, but this tiny,
tiny, tiny minority who are playing us like fools.
Yeah.
I want to come to Bitcoin as hope.
But before we do, let's just go down this dystopian, tyrannical track a little bit more.
So another thing that the Australian government, let's just actually just put a pin in the social
media band.
So it's digital ID.
It looks like it's playing out in the UK, Canada, Australia, all at the same time, which is maybe it's just a coincidence or whatever.
And I don't know if really there's any way out of it once it comes in.
It'll probably be mandatory for most people.
I was reading an article in New Zealand that digital IDs are coming, but you will still, by law, they're protected.
They can still use paper documents and stuff.
They'll have an alternative.
It doesn't just have to be digital IDs.
I'm like, cool, at least that's something.
I'm sure they'll make it very bloody and convenient for people.
I think all of that's coming, and I think maybe the only way
to be able to prepare is Bitcoin self-custody,
but we'll come back to the saving yourself.
The Australian government, Labor in particular,
has proposed this unrealised capital gains tax
and superannuation balances over $3 million.
I've had Jeff Wilson from Wilson Asset Management
come on the show.
I've had some really high-profile people talk about it,
And they're like, it's the worst thing that anyone could ever do, I think, even.
But you've spoken a lot about it as well.
But what are your thoughts in regards to it?
And especially the narrative about it's just for, it's only going to apply to like 1% of people with superannuation balances.
Only 80,000 Australians are going to be affected.
I believe it's written, so it's going to apply to everyone over time.
But how do you see and perceive it?
Well, first of all, it's blatant theft.
let's go to first principles. Discrimination is wrong. So we don't discriminate, we shouldn't
discriminate against someone's color or gender or sexual preference. But we've now openly said,
well, we're going to discriminate against your financial status. And it's like, well, hang on a
second. Aren't we all striving and working to get to that financial status? Yes. And when I get there,
what are you going to do? Well, we're going to treat you differently. Why? Well, because you're
rich. And it's like, well, hang on a second. This isn't me sitting on a pile of gold. This is what
I've been working for. This is my retirement. So in the very first instance, it's blatant theft
to steal money. I believe in taxes to the extent that nations need roads and hospitals and
infrastructure and a military, and we need fire and police. So I've got no issue with taxes.
I've got issues with how they're spent. And then I've also got issues with the disproportionate
use of those, taking of those taxes. And what we can see with taxing unrealized gains is that
because it's not indexed, those who are financially illiterate, which is the majority of people,
not because they're stupid, but because they've been denied an education. Most people still think
that there's some mythical cave of gold somewhere that for every dollar that they print, there's
gold in the background. It just doesn't exist. So people are financially illiterate, not because
they're bad, not because they're stupid, but because they've been intentionally and purposefully
denied an education on money. One of my degrees is in economics, and it wasn't until I got into
Bitcoin that I understood money. Now, I mentioned that. It's crazy. Yeah, it is crazy. Because if I
went to university for many years to get many degrees and a master's, and I didn't understand
money until I got into Bitcoin, then what hope do the masses have? So the way they present it,
it's only for those evil rich people. We don't discriminate against anyone except for straight
white men and the evil rich people, that discrimination is okay. And people go, yeah,
we're going to get those rich people. But $3 million is in the first instance, a very low
amount when you have to sustain yourself for the rest of your life. But equally, as they keep
printing money and that $3 million is not indexed, meaning it doesn't go up with inflation, that
threshold, Australia, you're next. Very shortly, that $3 million is going to start affecting you.
and of course then is going to expand to other areas.
It's going to be your property portfolio.
It's going to be your own house that you live in.
It's going to be your Bitcoin holding.
So it's just a little step in the door before it expands wider
and wider and wider.
So we have to ask, why are they stealing our money?
Now, again, I believe in taxes for roads and infrastructure
and lighting and hospitals and ambulance and welfare
for those who genuinely need it.
I actually absolutely support that, just as I insure my house.
Yeah, so do I.
yeah, we need to insure our nation. And typically a military is 2% of the nation's GDP. And if you
look at your own life, all your insurances, there are variations, but typically it's around 2% of
what you earn is on your health insurance, your car insurance, your home insurance, and so forth.
So that's pretty consistent. But we need to ask, what are you spending the money on? Where's the
money going? Because when my grandfather was working alone, you didn't need to tax his retirement.
and when my parents were working, you didn't need to tax their retirement.
So why do you need to tax my retirement?
And that's the question that we have to ask.
What are you spending the money on?
Then we start to expand it and you see this triangle of dependence on the government.
So we calculate there's about 50% of the entire nation
that is directly dependent on the government for this money.
Now, whether it's through working for the government,
getting welfare from the government,
being a contractor to the government or a subcontractor to the government or getting
some type of support one way or another at least 50 percent of the people need support from the
government and they say well why is that well when we scream we don't need no man and we break down
the family unit well instead of now depending on the family unit to support each other we now
lean on the daddy state so the breakdown of the family unit the breakdown of being independent
the breakdown of money means that we are all by default more dependent on the government.
Now, I'm actually going to defend the government here. The government is like, well, hang on a
second. We've inherited this mess. How the hell are we going to fund this? Okay, we're going to
tax the crap out of the people. We've already taxed them to the max. Okay, well, what are we
going to do now? Let's import more people because they're more taxpayers. All right, we'll get more
people in. Okay, what are we going to do now? We can't import more people. We're in a world of hurt
because there's nowhere to live anymore. Not even the migrants coming in here, they've got nowhere
to live. So where do we get the money from? We'll sell all of our resources. We've already done that.
We've already sold our resources to international companies. And so the government legitimately is
like, we have to fund this mess. Where are we going to get the money from? And so that's where
they're looking around now. It's like, well, we have literally financially griped every section
of society what is left. And there's this massive honeypot of superannuation funds. And it's like,
ha, there's the next honeypot that we can get our hands on.
But what's happening now is I'm not sure if you're familiar with the Laffer
curve.
The Laffer curve shows, it's just a very simple curve that goes up and down.
And it just shows when you tax your society,
you can get so much money out of your people by taxing the crap out of them.
But then it gets to a tipping point and people then go,
you're taxing me too much.
I'm fleeing.
And that's where we are now.
Australians are fleeing the country because we've gone past the tip of the
Laffer curve, and now people are going to where they're treated best. If I go to Dubai, Singapore,
Thailand, even Burma, El Salvador, there's countless nations I can go to and be treated better and
taxed less, even though I didn't serve their military, even though I've never paid them taxes
before, even though I wasn't born there, I can be treated better as an Australian in a foreign land
than I can as an Australian in Australia.
Now, people, we're just trying to survive here.
It's like, well, how much money do you need?
It's like, well, hang on a second.
First of all, I worked for this money.
It's a free market.
You told me to go to university.
You told me to get a job.
I've done everything you asked me to do.
I paid my taxes.
And now the reward is you're going to tax money
that I haven't even touched yet.
And if I stand up and speak and say,
I've got an issue with this,
the response is you're a right-wing Nazi extremist.
And it's like, where did right-wing Nazi extremists
come into all any of this i'm just talking about trying to survive here i'm not even talking about
politics i'm just trying to survive and it's like well you're really racist now or you're sexist and
these are all the words that they throw at you right-wing extremist nazi alt-right sexist and
people just go you know what i've done my time i've paid my money you just want more and more from me
i'm just going to part ways and then when you try to leave it's like right now you're leaving now
we're really going to tax you and it's like people have to leave and as you know i spoke to adam
hudson recently and he said it quite well he was attacked for people saying you've betrayed your
nation and he goes no no australia betrayed me and yeah i can really understand that and it's
tragic it's tragic because so sad we're all just trying to get ahead and what's our what what do
we do wrong what did we do wrong and where did it go wrong and again this is where i bring it back
to this it's not actually the current government's fault i am actually defending the government here
And I know people get upset with me, but they inherited this mess from someone else.
It's not like we suddenly got, Australia's about $1.2 trillion in debt.
I think a bit more, I have to look it up.
I think it's over a trillion dollars.
The Labor government didn't get that in the last few months.
They inherited that debt.
Equally, the Labor government didn't create the housing Ponzi scheme.
Equally, the Labor government didn't put all of us, squeeze all of this immigration in.
Now, certainly it's ramped up and it's getting worse.
but I genuinely wonder Sean would it be any different under the liberal government well
we'd still have fiat we'd still have incredible inflation we'd still have this housing mess we'd
still have the banks probably in charge we'd still have this huge tax burden that we've got
to somehow or welfare burden that we've got to fund so even if I were in power today or you're
in power you've got to fund the NDIS you've got to fund everything that's going on in the welfare
estate. You've got to fund the public service. You've got to fund the whole mess. So it's difficult
for all of us. The government on one hand is like, well, we've got to fund this mess.
But we're at the bottom and it's like, well, they're taking the money from us. So what's the
tipping point? And I really wonder what is going to happen. Is there going to be civil unrest? Is
the economy going to collapse? Are the rich going to just flee in bigger numbers as they already are?
Or could there be a reset? And what does that reset look like? In my opinion, it comes down to this.
We can only control our sphere.
We can only work on our sphere of control.
And what's our sphere of control?
Well, health, wealth, love, and happiness.
So look after your body, look after your mind,
look after your family, and look after your finances.
And if it's not working here,
then you have to leave and go to where you're treated best.
Yep, and that's where I want to pivot the conversation.
But just, I guess, maybe to add my own thoughts
to you defending the government or the Labor government,
I don't think it matters whether it's liberal
or labor. It's just the system is broken. And like you're saying, it's a fiat system.
Fiat is intrinsic value is $0. So everything crashes, everything gets more expensive.
With it, is there anything else they can do? I don't know. I'm not smart enough.
Hard money reset, go into the Bitcoin standard. But I think we need to get a little bit more
pain there. In regards to a revolution, though, I guess what I see with the social media ban
coming in and like digital IDs and stuff is they'll link that to everywhere with absolutely
everything. You start to say things that they don't like, like, maybe we need to have a protest
against the reckless spending or whatever it is. And that gets pinged by the AI algorithm. They're
like, we don't want these people to stand up, rise above us or whatever. And we've just seen
with the new Australian Federal Police Commissioner that that's come in. The information that's coming
out is that we've seen a lot of protests coming out with right-wing neo-Nazis and stuff, and they're
just aiming at the right-wing, and then they're focusing on the neo-Nazis. Now, I don't know if
the neo-Nazis were placed there by the left to be able to destroy the right, and if the right
places when the left are marching, a couple of idiots at the front, that caused all the issues.
Because I think whether it's the left or the right protesting or any group of people protesting,
99.9% of them there for their beliefs and they just want to be able to be heard but it's the
small minority in the first like one to two lines that just get all the media attention and cause
all this shit but it's just such a small proportion but then the media blows it out but anyway like
if these things come out digital ids and you start to rally people or whatever let's march for
australia or march for palestine or do whatever the fuck you want to do to organize people to get your voice heard But it agrees with the ongoing narrative at that stage They just shut down your bank account
Or if it's all digital IDs connected to CBDCs, you won't be able to get the plane or the train or the bus to be able to get to wherever it is.
Obviously, we saw that in Canada with the Canadian truckers protest. People go in there, they shut down their banks.
it makes it hard so i do see that that coming and there's technology and tools like vpn and
nostrum stuff that they really can't shut down not something that the masses are going to adopt
and by that time it may be a little bit too late so that comes down i guess like what do you do and
i think you touched on it's like look into a plan b passport so how are you approaching that and
having your options open if the proverbial shit really does hit the fan here well step one you
You need to look after your body and mind because I might even put my military hat on here.
You need to be able to move.
So I've released a series, a survival series about urban survival.
So if the poo really hits a fan, what do you do if the water goes off?
What if you do electricity goes off?
What if your bank accounts are cut off?
I spoke to Senator Roberts recently and I said to him, I said, Senator, does the government hate us?
And I asked him that because, you know, the cost of living is out of control.
We don't seem to be heard.
As soon as you raise the flag, you're a Nazi.
As soon as you speak, you're extreme.
The opportunity to talk is being shut down, as we're talking about, with digital IDs and
the Mad Bill and the E-Karen and so forth.
I asked a question with sincerity, and I said to the senator again, does the government hate
us?
I was hoping the senator would come back and say, no, no, the government really cares about
you.
They're just facing all of these issues.
But without flinching, he said, the government doesn't care about you.
Again, this is coming from a sitting Australian senator.
Now, that's one senator and his opinion, and I can only go on what I'm seeing at the moment.
And I genuinely wonder if the government hates us.
So it's like, well, if the government hates us, that's an issue.
But if they don't care about us, that's probably an equal issue because they're not here to help me.
They're here to control me.
Now, again, I don't know.
I only ask the question.
So I said, well, what can I do?
What are the options I can do?
Step one, you need to look after yourself and your finances.
so you need to look after your health your wealth your love and your happiness the very first thing
is your health because if you can't move that everything's going to be difficult right the very
basics and when I say move I mean like literally walk things become more difficult when you can't
walk think about when you roll your ankle everything becomes more difficult but if you don't have money
that becomes very difficult in itself and if all of your money is tied up in a central system that
can just flick the switch and cut you out of that system that's very dangerous in itself so you need
to prepare. Now, some people go, oh, you stupid preppers. And it's like, well, no, every time I
put the seatbelt on in my car, that is a form of prepping. Every time I put shoes on, I'm prepping
in the sense that I don't want to hurt my feet when I walk outside, unless I'm at the beach,
if you will. So you need to prepare for what could happen. You need to prepare at a minimum.
What would you do? Everyone do a thought experiment. What would you do if the logistical
supply chain shut down for seven days? Like everyone look around your home right now. Do
you have seven days of water? And you say, well, I've got water in the tap. No. If that system
shuts down, do you have seven days of water? Do you have seven days of food? Do you have something
you could trade? Now, many people say, no, it's the dollar, it's the banks, it's Bitcoin, it's gold.
Look, I can tell you right now, when the poo hits the fan big time, your gold doesn't matter,
your dollar doesn't matter, and your Bitcoin matters. What matters is the barter economy.
And people say, well, no, gold is the ultimate barter. Well, I can't substantiate gold. I don't
have a little meter with me. And if I did, if there's no electricity, I can't recharge that.
So what's a good barter economy? Food and water, obviously. Yeah, but then you've got random stuff
like batteries and lighters and I hate to say it, but weapons. But even some really powerful things
in the barter economy is cigarettes and alcohol and medicine and Band-Aids and Panadol. And all
of that becomes a currency in itself. Now, again, we're going deep into the pepper realm here,
But I remind everyone what happened with toilet paper when the pandemic hit us.
You had, you know, fat middle-aged women.
That is so stupid, man.
Punch it on for poo paper.
Now, if you reckon things get crazy over poo paper, you wait until it's food.
You haven't seen anything yet.
When people are hungry, shit gets crazy, real crazy, real fast.
Now, again, I say that you should have, I've mentioned seven days,
but I really believe 30 days. So you need to be prepared. Could you sustain yourself for 30 days?
Now, whether that's just pasta and water, go for it. That's all you need. Rice and water,
you're good. Do you have an ability to move? Do you have a plan to communicate?
And where do you run to? Or do you just stay still? The key to survival is really mobility
is key. But then if you're going to move, where are you going to move to? How much fuel have you
got? And what vehicle have you got to move in? But if the state is locking you down,
then what are you going to do? So this gets into some pretty dark places, but there's nothing wrong
with preparing. And it's not hard either. Exactly. It's not hard at all. When I get my car,
I put on my seatbelt. When I ride my bike, I put on a helmet. But then you have to ask, well,
what happens if the global supply chain shuts down? What happens if your bank account shuts down?
What happens if the government shuts down? That would never happen. It's happened in America right
now what happens when the bank shuts you out of the system just ask these twice last week
the bank shut you down yeah really bitcoin yeah dare i ask what bank you're working with
no because i'm still banking with them and it's our company bank account um and they're pretty good
at the end of the day like it's a hassle so it's happened to me five times before this this was
twice in 24 hours with the one bank. And the first time it happened, I'd like just moved a whole lot
of fear to buy Bitcoin. Not long after I went to log back into the bank and it's like, this account
has been closed. Then I got a text message to my phone saying your internet banking app, your cards
have all been cancelled and your online banking pins been cancelled. I'm like, what the fuck?
So I called him up straight away. I was on hold for 10 minutes. And once that person picked up
within 15 minutes of the phone call.
So 10 minutes of that wasn't hold.
So five minutes talking to him.
I had my account access back.
They said that they'd sent the funds and stuff
because I said like, I'm going to keep doing this.
I was doing this transaction.
I'm going to do another transaction
because of the daily limit.
They're like, that's all cool.
We'll leave notes and stuff.
And then I wake up the next morning.
It was on a Monday, wake up on a Tuesday morning
and just check my text messages.
And there's like ANZ.
And I like read it and it came through at 128 at nighttime.
Well, like in the morning.
and it's like same thing your your account your cards they've all been cancelled um you can't log
into the internet banking or whatever your internet banking pins um being cancelled as well and i'm
like fuck there's got to be a joke maybe it's just like a repeat of the first message jumped on to
check the internet banking totally done that time took a little bit longer um to to be able to get
on it's like half an hour on hold ended up speaking with them for i don't know 10-15 minutes
they put me through to the fraud department it dropped out I'd then go and hold again
then talk to the fraud department but just gave them all the information because I've been through
it so many times I had my bank statements there I had two forms of ID to be able to do my address
my phone number all the fucking stupid overwhelming questions that they answer my mobile phone etc
etc etc the last amounts that I'd moved so I just like rapid fire just like did it and just
gave him all the information straight away told him what it's doing told him about the youtube
channel i said this going into bitcoin can you stop locking down my account um and he's like i'm
so sorry to talk about the fraud and blah blah i'm like whatever story you want to tell me that's
fine i'm going to keep doing this stop locking me out or i'm going to change change banks but then
he's like good brother i i get it um we've dealt with that exchange a lot that's that's no issue
and gave it all back to me and stuff but i think he was a bit of a bitcoiner i was like laughing
and he was saying sorry about this and that he got it
and he could understand and stuff.
And he's like, what are you moving this money for?
I'm like, because it's absolutely worthless
and the interest rate that you guys pay is shit
and nothing's ever going to outpace inflation,
like aside from Bitcoin.
Well, not to the extent that Bitcoin does.
It's like, all good.
You shouldn't have any hassles from us.
If it happens again, and I have alluded to who it is on X,
but if it happens again, I will talk about it
a little bit more deeply. It doesn't really matter what bank it is. This happened to be one of the
big four. I've had two others of the big four shut me down. I've had some of the smaller banks shut
me down and lock me out as well. It doesn't matter. The system hates money leaving Bitcoin,
like the fiat leaving into Bitcoin. Someone said to me, Adam, do you think there's going to be an
issue selling your Bitcoin, getting back into the bank? I said, no, there's no problem putting money
into the bank it's money there they'll take any money going into the bank it's it's when you want
to get out of it that's where the issue is so um when it comes to getting liquidity out of your
bitcoin if you press sell and move off an exchange into a bank yeah you know i've moved six even
seven figures straight into a bank account from an exchange and they don't bat an eyelid but if you
go the other way with just three figures they're like hang on what are you doing it's like settle
down yeah it's so crazy rules for thee not for me um yeah they're very happy to to be able to take
for you back into the system.
But I cut you off in regards to a plan B
and the movement and stuff and prepping
and maybe going a little bit overboard with that.
That's where we were.
And then I interjected with the banks being difficult.
Yeah, so I had a chat with Andrew Henderson,
the nomad capitalist many years ago,
and there's a correlation between those who are into crypto,
Bitcoin in particular, and moving to where they're treated best.
And the plan B is if you don't want to just look
at where you are locally, you want to look
where you could be internationally. So this is where you start looking at visas and more importantly,
passports. There are many opportunities to buy passports from many places around the world.
And you want to do what's hard when it's easy. And it's easy now because when the flag goes up,
if you will, or the balloon goes up, you're not going to have an opportunity to do it then. So
you may like to look at, if you're thinking about leaving, getting additional passports right now.
You may like to look at where you're going to go, when you're going to go, how you're going to go.
But if you don't have the right paperwork, it doesn't matter how much money.
Well, I was going to say it doesn't matter how much money you've got.
You'd be amazed what a lot of money can do in third world nations.
But if you don't have the right paperwork, you probably want to start working on getting that paperwork right now.
Yeah, I agree.
I don't know if you've ever had Tony Yazbek on your show from the Bitcoin way.
I did.
I had him on a while ago and he speaks about his experience in Lebanon about, you know, one morning he's got access to his bank account and then the next he doesn't.
and that's some scary stuff and there's nothing you can do. And you look at the situations in
Lebanon is an example where you've had people rob the bank to get their own money, not to rob the
bank's money. The most powerful example I can think of is this guy, his father needed a very
serious operation. I think it was a kidney transplant and the son had the money and he
wanted the money from the bank and his father was about to die and he went in to get the money from
the bank. The bank said, no, you can't have it. And he goes, no, my dad's going to die. I need my
my money. I don't want a loan. I want my money from my savings account. And they said, well,
you can't have it. So he robbed the bank, but he didn't, he robbed the bank for his own money.
And of course they put him in jail. He saved his dad, but then he went to jail because he stole
his own money from his own bank account. And you know, that's some pretty scary stuff. And that's
not, that's only one example. It happens a lot where people rob a bank, not for the bank's money,
but for their own money. But of course, by definition, when the keyboard warriors are
saying, well, once you deposit it into the bank, it's not your money anymore. Yeah, got it. But why
are we all using banks then? And if there was a very clear notice, hey, by the way, as soon as you
deposit this money, it's no longer yours, would we be using banks? Like really? And this goes back
to financial literacy. We are financially illiterate as a people for very good reason,
not for our benefit, but for the bank's benefit. Yeah, I agree. I guess the reason I brought Tony
up as well as like helping people get bitcoin into self-custody help people get plan b um passports
as well but i think that conversation like within the family unit and stuff for the viewers watching
at home is to take it seriously and by preparing now maybe nothing gets dystopian as what we're
sort of alluding to could happen it's just one possibility maybe every thing turns out hunky
door and it's all good and it's just a great amazing party and everyone's happy drinking the
kool-aid and stuff like that and then it doesn't matter bitcoin still number go up technology is
still going to get wealthier you're going to be able to buy your time back but if everything hits
the fan bitcoin goes up higher and then you're still going to be able to have options as well
and then if you're not in a position to be able to get a plan b preparing and having a plan like
Adams to say, what do you do if the electricity goes out? You can't get water. The shops are shut.
The banks are shut over and over. But we've sort of passed the top of the hour, Adam. I just want
to hand the microphone over to you if you've got a message, something you're thinking deeply about,
some words of wisdom that you could give the G'day Bitcoin community.
Well, first of all, Sean, thank you for your time and thank you for what you're doing. It's
important that we have these discussions. And I guess my main message is to everyone is just
just question everything question what i said question what sean said and question you yourself
the viewer what you're thinking and what you've heard and once you actually start to question
everything you start to get the diamond of truth what he said what she said the interpretation of
what actually happened there's not two sides to the story there's more to it than that but there
is one truth and that the most pure language in history in the world is mathematics and once you
understand that it doesn't matter what i say it doesn't matter what the government says it doesn't
matter what the media says what matters is what mathematics is and mathematics shows us that
when you have an unlimited money, it will fail. That is a money that is printed out of thin air,
linked to nothing, it will always fail. Not because I say so, but because that's the rules
of the free market. So if you understand that an unlimited money will always fail,
you have to say, well, what's the opposite to an unlimited money? And the opposite to that
is a scarce hard-capped money. And the only hard-capped money that we've had in history,
it's not gold. We don't know the supply of gold. We don't know how much is in the ground.
We don't know how much is circulating.
We don't know how much we'll get in the future with advancements in technologies and the
changes in laws.
That is, could we go deeper into the oceans?
Could we now mine more gold out of forests that we couldn't touch before?
Those are all unknowns that make the supply of gold very difficult to calculate.
But when it comes to Bitcoin, it is known how many they're in circulation, how many
there will be in existence.
And once you start to understand that, you start to understand why Bitcoin is the future.
Absolutely love it.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'll put every link to be able to connect with Adam Below's YouTube X, your other social media's website as well.
But thank you so much for jumping on.
I think we'll have to do a round two.
There's so many rabbit holes to be able to go down with Bitcoin.
And I guess the way just because some of these things were a little bit dark in this conversation, I believe when you have Bitcoin and self-custody, it's pretty easy to be able to talk about this.
We could be both wrong and it could just be happy days or it could get way, way worse.
But when you've got Bitcoin self-custody, I feel it's easier to be willing to be able to participate in these conversations because you can see that bright orange future that is coming.
And I guess after even just a couple of years in Bitcoin, you're already sort of like living that bright orange future as an individual.
Absolutely.
I like that bright orange future.
I'm taking that with me.
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