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Welcome to Pleb Chain Radio, a live show brought to you by Plebs for Plebs, which focuses

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on the intersection of NOSTER and Bitcoin protocols.

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Join QW and Avi as they run down the weekly news and developments, breaking down the current

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thing and the future frontier with the foundation of decentralization, the builders, thinkers,

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doers, and plebs.

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All right, we are live.

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Welcome to Pleb Chain Radio, 130th show.

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Today is Friday, 926, 2025.

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The time right now is 3.10 p.m. Eastern Time,

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which would be Avi time.

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Avi is not here today.

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He will be back next week.

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I thought he would be back this week,

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but he's not quite back from finding home in Paraguay.

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So look forward to it next week.

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Today's guest is Rick with CryptoCloaks.

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We had a brief show last time, and it looks like we're going to dive into some more topics.

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Reminder, you can listen on Fountain, and we recommend that.

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Please subscribe for access to bonus episodes if you would like to support the show.

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The show is streamed live on zap.stream or any other Nostra client that supports streaming,

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such as Amethyst, Nostr, Fountain, and Primal.

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Culture Corner, the Alliance Upindo Block Party next Saturday, October 4th.

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If you're not in the block party, if you're not solo mining, I recommend it.

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You know, we like to bring our solo miners together for these block parties.

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It's a way to kind of unite a rebellion against the behemoths in the mempool.

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So join the fun, join the community.

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It's educational, and we'll get into that later in the show.

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Noster Valley 2.0. It's coming back. State College, Pennsylvania. If you're in the Pennsylvania

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area, October 18th, that's a Saturday. I'm sure you'll hear all about it on Noster.

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An account like Derek Ross probably won't stop talking about it until that day comes.

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So it's a big event. It's also going to be a value for value event. I think the Costellos,

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Ainsley, I think even Heather Larson, my local friend will be there.

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So I highly recommend Nostra Valley 2.0.

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Love to see that it's coming back.

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And today's sermon, Keeping Bitcoin Real.

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Gentle plebs, hodlers, cypherpunks, everyday folks, gather round this flickering ledger flame.

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Bitcoin's true spirit, that wild lightning bolt from Satoshi's forge, is being smothered under a blanket of big money fog.

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ETFs like silent sentinels stifling the thunder of our private keys,

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company treasuries chaining the untamed stallion of sovereignty.

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Where are all the cypherpunks?

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Those digital nomads slinging arrows at the fiat dragon.

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The warriors demanding money as a free river, unbound from the government's dam.

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Many have slipped into Noster's vast shadow, uncharted wilderness,

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a relay-rooted rebellion where echoes can't be erased.

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Is X now a parrot in the state's gilded cage, squawking edicts from the storm cloud turned to drizzle?

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It feels like the river's inevitable bend as Bitcoin swelled from a spark to a roaring inferno.

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The endless dilution of penny stock posers and Satoshi-cloaked grifters has to end.

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The centralization of hash rate has to end.

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The greatest mechanism against the grift is a strong community built on a protocol with a sovereign heartbeat.

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a rebellion of solar miners a rebellion of nostriges a rebellion of node runners a rebellion

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of decentralization slay your heroes and keep bitcoin real that's my sermon and i would like

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to bring on our special guest rick with crypto cloaks what's up my brother yeah i'm just happy

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we made this happen to be honest can we talk about this for a second so both of us battle

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Both of us have little warriors, little ones.

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So we always try to plan these meetings.

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I mean, essentially the show, this conversation.

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And it's amazing how tough it is to actually just have one hour of free time to talk.

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And I try, man.

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But I'm on the part, and I think you understand too, like family first always.

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So anything in the Bitcoin space can always take a sideline.

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no matter how rough it is. And yeah, it's a, it's wild. Like just trying to balance out

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because we, me and my wife, we don't do daycare and I love that aspect. And it's a battle because

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we both work from home. So we always trade back and forth on when we have meetings and trying to

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do podcasts. Sometimes it doesn't line up ever. How many times did we try to like reschedule this

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thing? Yeah. Well, in two weeks ago, I, I, I got, uh, my, my wife was sick. My son was sick. I mean,

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we were snorting Tylenol and, uh, no, but, uh, really it was, it was one of those moments where

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I'm like, I can't do this. I mean, I, you know, I, I understand I have a purpose. I want to deliver,

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uh, you know, for, for people, I want to do my part for the community, whatnot, but

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family first. And sometimes that just, that's just the way it is. And it, and it seems like my son's

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two, two and a half, and he's just, he's chaos, man. So it's, it's really, and he, and he loves

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his daddy so if he's in the house and he knows i'm in the house the the the door's just just

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getting in his way you know oh yeah dude i love it my kid's a year and a half now so little little

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dude's on fire he's running around everywhere and it's it's a whole different ball game i love it

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have you 3d printed him anything uh yeah what the hell have i 3d printed them little toys i literally

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uh so he just got a bunch of like duplo blocks that uh grandma brought over and he didn't have

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any like platforms to build on so i was like screw it man just found a file online and 3d printed

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like green grass that he can build on so we've been having fun with that that was the latest thing

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it's just like shit like that man i freaking love it yeah i mean i i don't have a 3d printer it's

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something that i'd probably have some fun with but i am the one that he so my son breaks everything

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yeah he just comes up he's like daddy fits it daddy fits it like he just assumes i'm gonna fix

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it uh but i'm like glue some wood glue i got a little wood shop printer brother i could fix some

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things but uh yeah i can't recreate things that are absolutely destroyed so um oh yeah that's neat

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and then you can upgrade them you know you can upgrade i'm sure every time you see something

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you're like hmm i found like a kit i found a kit for like squirt guns that look like tech nines and

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you can do like everything on them and i was like oh man i bought the kit for like the water part

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and electronics and so i can 3d print him his own like custom squirt gun so that's that's on my list

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of things to do and he's like one and a half like he has no idea what the hell i'm even planning for

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him yet remember growing up when we we had those uh those plastic guns and and they didn't have the

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little red tips on them so like they actually looked real uh the good old days man you know

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what i mean we're never going back to that now it looks like it's a shooter from a toy story or

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something it's all green and white and it's like obviously this is a this is this is whack but

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that's the best part about 3d printers man you can make them look pretty realistic and then people

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are like why the hell are you doing this and you're like i don't know it's fun dude so you've

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been 3d printing um for a long time and we talked about it a bit in our last show um but you you've

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taken on a role of kind of uh so we built this alliance a solo mining alliance and um you know

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It's really just to make solo mining fun, kind of bring a community together, have our gamified block parties.

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But you didn't have to do it, and you did, printing the stands for the alliance.

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But what is it about the communities that you see in Bitcoin?

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Because I'm sure you've seen a lot of them pop up over the years.

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What is it about that you want to help them?

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I don't know, man.

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I feel like as time goes on and you can really see in this last like a couple of years, like

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Wall Street entering the game, everything fucking changes. Basically, you see almost

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like a Bitcoin culture dying. And when you see like small pop ups happening, you're like,

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holy shit. Honestly, it's nostalgia. Like it's crazy, like in an eight year span, which

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is nothing like normally you think nostalgia 20, 30 years ago or 40 years ago, but it's

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like eight years like and for me nostalgia is five years ago back in like 2018 or 2021

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i i see everything happening it's it comes in cycles but every time you see it come in a cycle

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you're like holy shit like this is awesome and that's that's where i get the passion from and

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it always has been and especially since like wall street has entered the game and now all of a sudden

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And you just, all you see is influencers talking about paper Bitcoin, which nobody gives a fuck.

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Truly.

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Everyone's just trying to meet the rich and famous.

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And in the long run, like, I really don't give a shit about any of that.

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I never have.

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And when I see little, little places pop up, like the Alliance, and all of a sudden I'm like, oh, what are these guys doing?

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And I kind of dive in.

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I'm like, oh shit, this is fun.

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Like solo mining, it's kind of lonely.

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Like that's to be expected.

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So like the alliance that you got, like the alliance, the group mining thing that you kind of have built, I kind of love because I joined in it.

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And now like if I win, everyone wins.

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And like it's this tiny little community of us just like trying to mine a block.

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And like we all get hyped up during the block parties.

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And if we don't get a block, whatever, but we still have fun.

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And then eventually, like when we do or like when we hit a block, it's going to be the greatest thing ever.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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And, you know, you say nostalgia, but I think I feel like the solo mining, you know, these small, inexpensive devices that basically you cast your hash, one chip, one vote.

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All these newcomers into Bitcoin don't know what that nostalgia, don't know what Bitcoin mining was eight years ago.

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And that the barrier for entry to be an actual profitable miner, everything today with the hash rate going nuts, it's almost just out of touch for just your everyday person that wants to understand.

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So I'm speaking from experience.

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It's nostalgia because maybe you actually participated back then.

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But a lot of us, we just have no idea.

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We're in like this state of bliss where like we're learning, we're growing, and we're actually interacting with a part of the Bitcoin network that we never would have even known about unless we got these little, just like a raspy pie and a node type of thing.

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No, I totally understand.

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And I kind of love that whole aspect of the Bitcoin mining space with all these little mini miners that you can buy.

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And you can just have fun lottery mining or like group mining with like your friends or you find a group and you're like, oh, shit, let's let's have some fun and just try to get a block.

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I totally understand that aspect because like beyond like before back in like 2018 I mean I bought S19J Pros for 20 grand I barely got my money back back in the day And that was like 96 terahash And I was heating my house and I was building shrouds and stuff

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And nowadays you can get the S21s that are I don't even know how many terahash anymore for like six grand.

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And you're like, holy shit.

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You just can't compete.

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It's wild.

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I look at all this and I look at the power.

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And so inflation is obviously going to keep going up.

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The power bill is going to keep going up.

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I look at a halving coming where the block reward is going to be split in half.

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I look at paper Bitcoin summer turning into this cycle's demise as a possibility.

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I don't see, and maybe it's all state funded or maybe it's something where it's subsidized,

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but I do not see a world where the hash rate continues to keep doing what it's doing with all those three things happening.

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So the cycle going down, the halving halving, so your block reward split in two, and the power just continue to be more expensive.

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I think the rise of the pleb is definitely a real possibility in the future because we have nothing to lose.

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And I think that's a very powerful thing.

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When I buy something from CryptoCloaks, I buy, you know, well, let's see here, the Nano 3S right next to me or these two Alliance bid axes.

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is I really have nothing to lose.

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I mean, I'm powering a few light bulbs, essentially,

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is what I'm giving to the hash.

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So it's something where, you know, I can kind of smile

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and watch this centralization panic.

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I sleep well at night.

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I don't have to worry about it.

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And, you know, install, and especially how quiet these are,

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my wife doesn't even know.

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So it's something I'm, you know, I got this hidden rebellion going on.

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Yeah, you guys have no idea what it's like plugging in an S19J Pro into your furnace system, flipping it on for the first two minutes, and then all of a sudden you start hearing pounding from upstairs.

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And your wife's going, what the fuck is that?

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And I go, oh, shit.

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Are you watching Top Gun down there?

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What the hell's going on?

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And then you go through all this shit to try to make these things as quiet as possible.

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You don't hear this loud-ass industrial hum into your furnace.

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And, oh, man, I mean, that's that's definitely the nostalgia part for me is like plugging in that first giant ASIC into the house.

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And your wife is just like, you're not fucking running that.

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And you go, well, I just spent 20 grand on this thing.

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I need to fucking run this thing.

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Yeah, I need to run this thing.

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So I need to figure out ways.

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And that's wild, man.

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Yeah, I couldn't.

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I mean, it was there was always out of touch.

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I mean, always out of reach.

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And, you know, my where I'm sitting right now, I have three miners and about 15 feet away.

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My son sleeps at night.

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So, you know, I'm trying to keep the keep my miners safe.

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So I'm using the the appropriate power supplies.

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I'm keeping them at eco mode, essentially, unless it's block party and I'm here and then I ramp them up.

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Oh, yeah. But it's just something that it's quiet as a church mouse.

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I mean, I got my microphone right here and I have three miners around me.

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So that's the state of the state of mining for these these gentle plebs out there.

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Yeah, it's it's awesome to see.

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It's definitely the next generation type stuff.

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And it's it's really it's a really cool aspect of it, to be honest.

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I don't have to deal with the noise.

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I'm not going to act like you're a professional miner or you have, you know, this.

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I'm nowhere near.

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I'll tell you that right now.

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Yeah, but I'm looking at all these chips are just from China, right?

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They're all just ASICs from China.

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Except for the new ones that Dorsey made.

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That we're going to kind of watch that one.

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And then Intel was supposed to get in the game, and they kind of like, I don't know what the fuck they did.

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Yeah, they left.

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Well, I think that was all just a chart-pumping ruse, honestly.

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They just wanted to, I don't know.

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What's new, man?

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I take everything with a grain of salt, to be honest.

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So, you know, with that said, I've noticed in the community, you know, I've been into Discord groups.

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I've noticed other people, they really love their open source.

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And I don't know if I see the value in open source as much in mining as I do in like wallets, as in, you know, at the end of the day, these are Chinese ASICs.

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and they're just trying to pump, you're just trying to pump terahash into the network, right?

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So I don't know how that really, I don't know if there's an attack vector there,

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or I mean, do you happen to know if there's any reason it needs to be open source versus like,

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let's say my cold card, I'd like to know that's open source.

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I'd like to be air gapped.

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Be able to verify the code and everything around, yeah.

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Yeah, so it's something to me, I don't know.

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And I don't even know if jacks are open source.

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so it you know it's it's kind of a larp to me there's a lot of puritans out there but i'll just

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leave it at that i i don't really know but it's it's funny because i i do every time i join these

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kind of subcultures i look into it and then there's always these people that are super super

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extreme about it then there's these ones that are kind of the the i don't know jpeg people so as time

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As time goes along, you will realize that there are an unlimited amount of purity tests and you will never be able to satisfy any of them.

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God, I couldn't tell you how many that I've went through.

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And it's really funny.

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So you're at the Bitcoin and chill stage.

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Yeah, like I really don't give a shit anymore.

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I did what I needed to do in the past.

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I helped a lot of people out.

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And now I literally just sit back and I'm at the I don't give a fuck stage.

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in my Bitcoin journey. It took me eight years to get here, but you like, sometimes you care too

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much. Well, that's it. It's gotta be sustainable, right? Yeah. And then it's just, it's not,

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and you have to, I, I just had to take a look inward on honestly and just be like,

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there will always be bullshit. There will always be scammers. I've been in this far too long to

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waste my time. I have a family I'd rather deal with than all this other bullshit. Somebody else

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can take the torch and tear it down if they see something they need and purity tests are like the

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biggest larp on the fucking planet um there will always be a new one that you need to follow or

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somebody will rip you or rip your nuts off for it i just laugh at every purity test i see

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the only ones that i get are like yeah jpegs on the blockchain like we don't fucking need that

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shit like yeah if that's if that's a purity test sure that's one that i'll pass i'm certainly not

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looking to make my money transmitter a data storage for uh nor should it like uh i want to

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send money peer-to-peer that's what it's for that's what i've always wanted it as and that's

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what it should stay as i mean that's the simple are you following that whole knots verse core

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i muted all that bullshit man it's just wild it's it's literally to me i watch both sides

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and i go this is literally the left first right politics there's so much propaganda and bullshit

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i can't even keep up with it and like it's escalated text messages it's like what are we

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doing right now like what part of literally just escalate nothing there's nothing about it anymore

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it's literally a larp fest on both sides it's just it's getting out of control so i laughed and i

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just muted it all and i go the best part is bitcoin honestly if you truly understand bitcoin

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it doesn't give a fuck about both of these sides and it will continue anybody that's saying bitcoin

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will die from any aspect of what they're arguing is retarded in my mind and i will say that and

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that's where my line is um we've watched it in the past bitcoin will survive it doesn't give a fuck

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i muted it all and it's just wild it's like watching politics it you know because because

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you do you do get tribalism you get the factions and and and humans are kind of always like

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Bloods versus Crips, but really

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if we can get more

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options, more instances

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Oh yeah, there should be a third option

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Why are we still doing this two party bullshit

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in Bitcoin? What are we doing here?

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I mean, I was always a libertarian

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growing up, you know, God bless

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Ron Paul, but I never thought I was a Republican

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but that was where I had

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to be, you know

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Exactly, I think that's the whole thing with Corn Knots

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It's like, okay, so we're back to the two party bullshit

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system that everyone hates in politics

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great where's the third option or the fourth let's do it like that's that's the truth let's get the

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green party you know let's get the i want as much energy usage as possible i want to drain your pool

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party uh bitcoin but like seriously in the long run like i am at the bitcoin and chill stage where

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i love bitcoin i will keep stacking bitcoin and i just sit back i don't care about all the

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arguments anymore, to be honest. Like, yeah, I really don't. I love the fact that, you know,

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getting into mining, I'm casting my vote, um, running a node, I'm casting my vote, uh, using

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open source, uh, uh, using a, let's say a cold card, uh, and seeds, seeds, like stamping, uh,

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onto washers or something. I love that part of, of a Bitcoin. And I think that's the focus on.

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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, roll some dice, get some entropy. Let's, let's, you know,

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it's amazing to explore that world of bitcoin uh not this papered over culture uh where i kind of

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feel bad for this generation to be honest like the the newbies from like 2021 and on like you guys

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you guys don't have people on x and everywhere else just spouting what we got to enjoy in 2018

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is like stack sats hold your own keys cold storage be sovereign like you don't see that anymore and

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it's like, I feel bad. Well, look at the mempool, man. No one's moving Bitcoin.

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Yeah, I know. It's wild. There's theories that some of these shitcoin

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companies, these, well, they're treasury companies, but they're really just penny stocks

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that like have one hotel and they just basically a shell company that has a treasury. But I don't

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know, maybe OGs are getting on the board and they're moving the Bitcoin that way.

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That's the problem.

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They're joining fucking boards of BTS.

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It's not actually moving on chain.

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Nothing's really happening.

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And yeah, it's just dilution, man.

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And it's interesting because, you know, everyone looks at these cycles and they're supposed to keep going up, up, up.

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But we keep BART heading.

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Oh, dude, I know.

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It's hilarious.

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So it's just going to be interesting, man.

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And then on the flip side, you know, we got ourself a global recession.

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No one's really doing well.

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And Bitcoin's never been in that.

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Fuck, pal.

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Bitcoin was born from that.

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So it's interesting to see this first ride through a little bit of global poverty.

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And I mean, I think we're doing pretty good if Bitcoin's still at $109, $110.

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I think so too.

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With a recession and people are bearish.

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I go, Jesus Christ, you guys have no idea.

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Yeah, World War III.

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I think there was like 100 generals meeting today to get there.

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Yeah, it gets wild.

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Undisclosed location.

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uh i mean we used to just deal with the china china man uh banning mining you know so like that

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was the biggest fun on the planet that would tank bitcoin by 10 20 percent now look at us we in a recession and nobody spending money and we at 109 and you fucking bearish What are we what are we doing here That what I that what I always

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ask. Speaking of spending money, how's crypto cloaks doing as a business? How many locations

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do you have? How many Amazon depots do you have? So we sell on Amazon Mopar mining out of Florida.

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He runs our crypto cloaks, Florida shop. He runs all of our Amazon orders and we're still doing

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good i mean we're still pulling in 60 to 150 orders a month on there which is honestly just

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like extra money for us which is great um overall business i mean it's just it's miners right it's

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wild like uh home mining is how much is this mining kind of just gave you a second wind

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i mean it's been nuts so home mining allows me to basically get revenue to do what whatever the

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hell I want and build what I want on the long run on like products, which before I would have to

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focus on certain products because they would get money in. And now I can like have home miners sell

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on the side while doing what I want and doing what the community wants to see designing that and just

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like releasing those 3d printed things. So I'm having a blast. I've literally taken a step back.

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I've kind of like refocused my business, refocused myself, my thoughts on Bitcoin and like

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going back to the roots of what crypto cloaks really was and just building. I want to build

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more shit. I want to 3d print more shit. Home mining is awesome. And I'll continue to sell

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home miners and the newest ones, but I really want to like folk, like my passion is design work

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and 3d printing. And I, for like the last month and a half to two months, I've kind of

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refocused on that aspect and trying to get people to like understand 3d printers and

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get their own because that was my mission back in the day and i kind of veered off from that and i

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kind of want to go back yeah because i saw you gave away one and uh dude i want to give away more

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i love it i love giving people sovereignty but you've been established enough to where

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yeah they might even send you one just to get uh accessories or something like kind of mapped out

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because I think a lot of these companies aren't like,

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it's not like they're selling to millions and millions of people.

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It's a proprietary market, right?

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Yep.

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So do you ever get free stuff just to build a shroud or build a case?

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I think you actually shipped off your cold card.

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Oh, God, dude.

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That thing's gone, man.

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That you used as a mold, essentially.

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Yeah, that thing's gone.

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Uh, yeah. So cold card is nice enough to send me a cue to design, uh, sleeves around to make custom

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sleeves. And I've had that thing for two years, just like test fitting before I would ship out

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the products. And I think I accidentally left it in one of the sleeves. It's crazy. You get all

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your Bitcoin on that too. All of it's on there guys. So yeah, that's what I would do. I would

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totally use a hardware wall to test fit shit. It's a 3D printed world of boat accidents.

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basically yeah that's the next boat accident uh no but it's gone and whoever got it i mean you can

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use it it's brand new it's i don't even think i turn it on or put batteries in it but if you want

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to return it back that'd be great because that's how i used to test fit q cases before shit yeah

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i so what do you make for the q well i guess i should start with uh i saw the mx was it mx4

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is that what it's called mk4 mk4s yep um you you've been doing laser engraving or what's this

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new technology that you're a new toy i should say that you've been having fun with yeah so

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i found this by accident uh i was laser engraving a bit axe pcb board and the the engraving or

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engraving went past the board onto black pla plastic and and it turned it white and i go holy

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shit that's cool uh i could probably use this so then i started using just black pla and now i can

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laser engrave the black pla and put in any design i want so like all of the cases and sleeves that i

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make i can laser engrave and now people have full customization options and i'm like this is some

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next level shit this is fun because now people can do whatever they want with these just an accidental

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happy little accident man and that's just me going back to like building and fucking around

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and it pays off because that's that's where i want to be that's where i find cool stuff that

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happens and yeah it's been it's been fun you you've been uh engraving uh the alliance grows

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is that correct on on the alliance yeah yeah on the pcb boards yeah there's a rumor that

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that engraving actually adds one tera hash to that's what i heard too i can't advertise that

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because i'd be liable but that's what i heard too the rumors going around man hey i've been getting

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a lot of uh so i noticed on your store that the the power supply is upgraded for the bid acts um

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what tell me about what kind of shit you've been dealing with on the the unupgraded ones and what

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made you change that and then okay that's old now yeah yeah so that's old that i should technically

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take away the upgraded ones because what happened is way before like when gammas were going like

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skyrocketing and gaining popularity and selling like tens of thousands of units everybody was

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first using five amp plugs well that wasn't working well um you would have defaults and power power

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issues so then all of a sudden they went to six amps and that's what that upgraded power supply

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is you got one more amp of power that could draw and normally you'd see like on your your pcb uh

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bit x os you'd see like it draws like 5.1 or whatever now and that's what you want and

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before it was like low power drop because it was technically not able to get as much power as that

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board needed in cases because especially if you like start overclocking and start messing around

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with that i mean you're done that that piece that psu is basically stock and if you touch it it won't

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have enough power to do anything and the six amp allows you to at least yeah yeah so the six amp

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allows you to at least overclock it a little bit but then that's a whole nother ball game because

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then all of a sudden people in like a month go, Hey, my board doesn't work. And I go, okay, well,

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I have, I have no way to ever see if you overclock that board and people were frying boards and I

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had to start doing different policies because I mean, even Altair tech was showed, uh, his,

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a bid X board he got back from like an Amazon order. And it was basically just completely

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fried up. And you're like, Holy shit. Like what, what are we doing? That's, uh, that it's,

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it's gotta be a tough market to be a retailer in, uh, when you're, when you're, it's not like,

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uh, you know, when people, when you ship it out, because it's such an experimental market,

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uh, and people don't really know what they're doing. So they start tinkering.

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Uh, and as soon as you tinker, you could fuck something up and then, and then you're like,

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my board doesn't work. And I'm like, really? Okay. What did you do? And they tell me something.

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I go, well, you just fried your board, but they're like, well, I'm going to return it.

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There is trends and issues, right?

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So you kind of notice, okay, this lot or this style,

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it seems like my number one feedback is overheating.

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Oh, God, dude.

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Yeah.

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Just stop.

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I just plugged it in.

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That was the biggest fucking thing, man,

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and the biggest pain in the ass, to be honest.

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And those just came straight from the manufacturer,

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and people were bitching for six months to a year

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until they finally changed it and those are for like the main manufacturers in the u.s so now they

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have like the black the black uh heat sink on them now on the new ones i don't buy those anymore but

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yeah man it was wild uh the biggest factor was when you got the boards and you ship them

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since it only had two prongs in there and those orange heat sinks yeah if if they moved a little

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bit the paste the thermal paste on the bottom would come off the it could rock it a little bit

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to where it would create a separation so as soon as they plugged them in well now you don't have a

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a perfect line of thermal paste so it's going to overheat instantly

412
00:31:45,051 --> 00:31:52,991
yeah it's it we all learn the hard way like when i all of the distributors when i took that heat

413
00:31:52,991 --> 00:31:59,430
sink off um or you know the yep the the two little toggle i don't even know spring loaded

414
00:31:59,430 --> 00:32:05,191
deals when i put it back on it's like so it just i plug it in overheat so i'm like okay let me just

415
00:32:05,191 --> 00:32:11,171
take it off again you have to like be very very careful how you seed it um and then once you get

416
00:32:11,171 --> 00:32:16,091
it right then just be careful don't be careful and the problem is when you buy like a hundred

417
00:32:16,091 --> 00:32:20,271
to a thousand at a time and they come in boxes right yeah and all of a sudden you have to test

418
00:32:20,271 --> 00:32:23,951
every single one and when they come to the shop you're like oh thank god all these work all these

419
00:32:23,951 --> 00:32:32,151
ones don't so i'll repaste them and then as soon as you ship it off the worked one ups or usps could

420
00:32:32,151 --> 00:32:36,691
be kicking that thing like ace ventura the customer gets it and he goes this thing doesn't

421
00:32:36,691 --> 00:32:41,451
work it overheats within two minutes you're like jesus christ the the fucking thing rocked or

422
00:32:41,451 --> 00:32:44,791
something happened with the thermal paste again and it's like okay well you can return and i'll

423
00:32:44,791 --> 00:32:49,491
give you a full refund they're like well i just want a new one it's like i got so sick of sending

424
00:32:49,491 --> 00:32:56,131
new ones out at the beginning for refunds because it would just constantly be the same issue

425
00:32:56,131 --> 00:33:00,531
and i finally hit a point where i said fuck it i'm almost going to stop selling bid access

426
00:33:00,531 --> 00:33:04,811
altogether and i go no i'm just going to do ice towers and that's what i have officially swapped

427
00:33:04,811 --> 00:33:10,831
all my stuff to is just ice towers my come they're they're screwed into the board i set them myself

428
00:33:10,831 --> 00:33:18,131
with thermal paste zero issues sending those things out zero overheating it's honestly it's

429
00:33:18,131 --> 00:33:28,711
It's been amazing because, God, the amount of time you'd waste on overheating on this stock heat sinks was just a nightmare, dude.

430
00:33:28,930 --> 00:33:35,471
It's funny because it's such a rabbit hole getting a big X because eventually you're just going to start tinkering.

431
00:33:36,131 --> 00:33:37,291
There's too many accessories.

432
00:33:37,591 --> 00:33:38,391
There's all this fun.

433
00:33:38,471 --> 00:33:42,251
So why not start with a great upgrade like that?

434
00:33:42,251 --> 00:33:52,111
You know, something that you're eventually going to have to decide between what kind of heat sink you want, what, you know, getting a Noctua fan is just make it quieter.

435
00:33:52,551 --> 00:33:52,671
Yep.

436
00:33:52,871 --> 00:33:57,791
All those little tiny things that you're just, you know, you might say, oh, this is $90.

437
00:33:58,311 --> 00:34:00,371
I'm going to save, you know, I'm going to save this money.

438
00:34:00,430 --> 00:34:08,991
But then you end up, you look at your unit after you're done with your, you know, custom Honda car and the amount of money you put into it.

439
00:34:08,991 --> 00:34:11,991
And that's honestly the thing is I don't think people understand this.

440
00:34:12,251 --> 00:34:40,571
Yeah, like you can buy. So that's what I did for a while. We just sold bid X's like 100 bucks for a while. And it was stock heat sinks. And then like we go buy. Eventually, I just started saying buy these at 100 bucks if you plan on modding them. The problem is a lot of people just bottom and working to bottom. And I was like, okay, well, you run the risk of the same shit that I've dealt with for years. And eventually I was just like, no, I'm not going to do that anymore. I'm going to I'm going to make it easier for the community.

441
00:34:40,571 --> 00:34:45,851
I'm going to save myself a million emails, pissed off customers. Cause I hate having pissed off

442
00:34:45,851 --> 00:34:50,171
customers. And the fact that people get mad at me when I say, I'll just give you a full refund.

443
00:34:50,231 --> 00:34:54,690
They go, I don't want a refund. I want the board. And I go, okay, well I get that, but this could

444
00:34:54,690 --> 00:35:02,311
happen five more times. Cause it was basically a 25% chance when you sent a board out that you'd

445
00:35:02,311 --> 00:35:20,816
have to return it send out a new one And after after I saw the percentages I go this is just this is stupid This isn consistent We have to fix something from the base I think the ultimate goal with the BIDX project was really trying to make the lowest barrier of entry

446
00:35:21,496 --> 00:35:25,356
Making it as affordable as possible to get your hash on there.

447
00:35:25,516 --> 00:35:30,836
But at the same time, you need to make sure your user experience is sticky.

448
00:35:31,456 --> 00:35:32,736
You don't want people like that.

449
00:35:32,736 --> 00:35:36,056
Because BitX has became like the normie tool to learn mining.

450
00:35:36,176 --> 00:35:37,076
And that's what you want, right?

451
00:35:37,096 --> 00:35:38,336
You need a tool for normies.

452
00:35:38,476 --> 00:35:47,596
But the problem is a lot of normies aren't going to be like, oh my God, I'm going to tear this heat sink off, reapply thermal paste, follow this guide or video to do it and have a new heat sink.

453
00:35:47,656 --> 00:35:48,796
Like that's not going to happen.

454
00:35:49,816 --> 00:35:50,016
Yeah.

455
00:35:50,016 --> 00:35:57,036
We would love to think, but the cypherpunk age of Bitcoin is dying and there will be few that do it on the tail end.

456
00:35:57,116 --> 00:36:01,136
But now you have an influx of just the normies coming in and that's what you want.

457
00:36:01,196 --> 00:36:02,596
That's how Bitcoin succeeds, right?

458
00:36:02,736 --> 00:36:05,336
That's how they understand money and the power of it.

459
00:36:05,396 --> 00:36:09,776
But you won't have tinkers that literally built PC gaming rigs from scratch.

460
00:36:09,816 --> 00:36:12,796
You won't have people coding their own electronics.

461
00:36:12,796 --> 00:36:14,696
You just won't have that in like the mainstream.

462
00:36:14,936 --> 00:36:19,836
So when you sell a product, you really have to take a step back because that's what I learned during this whole process.

463
00:36:20,236 --> 00:36:25,936
It was definitely the greatest learning experience I've had on like home mining in a very long time.

464
00:36:25,936 --> 00:36:34,576
very humbling is normies are entering the game and it's not going to be, Hey, they'll be able to

465
00:36:34,576 --> 00:36:39,196
figure it out on their own. Back in the node days, when we were reckless with lightning,

466
00:36:39,656 --> 00:36:46,196
every single node case I'd sell, every single full built node I'd sold, everybody was okay

467
00:36:46,196 --> 00:36:52,396
with like learning if they had to tear things apart or recode things or reflash. Um, that's

468
00:36:52,396 --> 00:36:58,716
just not the case anymore um and i learned that the hard way a lot of pissed off customers but i

469
00:36:58,716 --> 00:37:03,336
tried to like make sure that they were still happy in the end and if they still weren't happy when i

470
00:37:03,336 --> 00:37:07,636
gave them a full refund after swapping out a couple of boards i mean there's that's just the

471
00:37:07,636 --> 00:37:11,536
name of the game you know and you have to learn from those experiences and you have to figure out

472
00:37:11,536 --> 00:37:19,156
how can you give a normie or people that aren't modders a really good experience without having to

473
00:37:19,156 --> 00:37:25,536
deal with that and it just comes down to tinkering and kind of learning as you go how much has canon

474
00:37:25,536 --> 00:37:32,556
help with this as an option the nano i i don't think there's anything bad i can say about it

475
00:37:32,556 --> 00:37:40,296
other than there's just when you go from a bidaxe to an avalon uh nano 3s like there's no

476
00:37:40,296 --> 00:37:45,936
customization really so it just kind of sits there it's it's like one of those that's a game

477
00:37:45,936 --> 00:37:51,036
where you want to play right come on do something i think can ans are better for normies to be honest

478
00:37:51,036 --> 00:37:58,256
because it's it's plug play here's here you go done yeah bit x's are for tinkerers but i think

479
00:37:58,256 --> 00:38:03,616
they were marketed for normies when in in reality they're not they're not for normies bit x's are

480
00:38:03,616 --> 00:38:11,416
not for normies they're for tinkerers the cypherpunks um because there was just so much that

481
00:38:11,416 --> 00:38:17,256
you could do to them right and in reality you want the most basic shit where normie can plug

482
00:38:17,256 --> 00:38:22,876
something in type a few things in off to the races set it and forget it that's what they want

483
00:38:22,876 --> 00:38:29,396
i love i love that there's so many different uh you know there's etsy and uh there's a lot of 3d

484
00:38:29,396 --> 00:38:38,336
printed parts for this is trying to retrofit basically raspy pie uh heat sinks and fans and

485
00:38:38,336 --> 00:38:42,796
everything you would normally see on a yeah like everybody using ice towers on bit axis we were

486
00:38:42,796 --> 00:38:49,056
doing this shit back in raspberry pi four days on reckless nodes back in like 2018 2020 and it's

487
00:38:49,056 --> 00:38:54,476
hilarious like we're literally just using them now on bit axis so it is really fun to kind of watch

488
00:38:54,476 --> 00:39:00,476
it because you get all the stuff that you've had pi manufacturers like why the hell are these all

489
00:39:00,476 --> 00:39:05,036
of a sudden selling and you find out oh these people are retro it's bitcoin again it's it's

490
00:39:05,036 --> 00:39:09,676
the plebs again they they're not doing nodes anymore they're now doing miners now they're

491
00:39:09,676 --> 00:39:15,336
doing like mini miners yeah it's wild man like the geek pies though back in the day those things

492
00:39:15,336 --> 00:39:19,516
were selling out you could never get them on amazon because people were like building so many

493
00:39:19,516 --> 00:39:24,796
lightning nodes and i sold i was selling custom cases on lightning nodes through the roof and

494
00:39:24,796 --> 00:39:28,356
people were buying and they're like hey what what would you put as a cooler on here i'm like ice

495
00:39:28,356 --> 00:39:35,356
towers like and all of a sudden like that that like the fad of building your own node kind of

496
00:39:35,356 --> 00:39:40,456
died and now all of a sudden you can't buy ice towers anymore because they're selling out for

497
00:39:40,456 --> 00:39:45,636
bid axes and it's actually pretty cool like if there's a will there's a way man yeah and you're

498
00:39:45,636 --> 00:39:50,576
just seeing that over and over and over again in the in the lowest common denominator uh just these

499
00:39:50,576 --> 00:39:57,936
cheap these cheap mods uh just trying to get them out globally uh i think that's the best part

500
00:39:57,936 --> 00:40:02,696
BitX even has one for Africa.

501
00:40:03,736 --> 00:40:06,096
And I think it's in Swahili or something, BitX.

502
00:40:06,256 --> 00:40:06,356
Yeah.

503
00:40:07,476 --> 00:40:08,456
That's great.

504
00:40:08,736 --> 00:40:09,336
And you know what?

505
00:40:09,456 --> 00:40:15,416
That goes to our other point of making Bitcoin nodes only process peer-to-peer.

506
00:40:16,316 --> 00:40:22,976
You're basically pricing out these people all over the world based off of your own beliefs in your first world.

507
00:40:22,976 --> 00:40:26,116
So it just kind of makes me sickening away with that.

508
00:40:26,116 --> 00:40:40,116
But I love the revolution. And you know what? With all that that tinkering, the difference between this and that, that's what that telegram group that we're in, Alliance, the Wrigley community, that's what it's for.

509
00:40:40,116 --> 00:40:43,636
I mean, you can come in there and just ask the dumbest question.

510
00:40:44,296 --> 00:40:46,716
Then we'll throw about three stickers at you.

511
00:40:47,156 --> 00:40:52,396
And then we'll give you an honest answer and you'll come away a better man.

512
00:40:52,476 --> 00:40:54,176
But it's a great learning experience.

513
00:40:54,676 --> 00:40:56,796
So anybody, I definitely recommend it.

514
00:40:57,276 --> 00:41:00,316
Of course, man, because my biggest thing is all hash matters.

515
00:41:01,036 --> 00:41:02,916
It doesn't matter if it's open source or closed source.

516
00:41:02,976 --> 00:41:04,676
That's the biggest LARP on the fucking planet.

517
00:41:05,176 --> 00:41:06,136
All hash matters.

518
00:41:06,136 --> 00:41:11,936
If you join the game as a home miner and you're throwing it at the hash and you're lottery mining, you're a winner.

519
00:41:14,256 --> 00:41:15,216
That's all I got to say.

520
00:41:15,716 --> 00:41:19,576
And there's, it's, it's funny because, you know, there's the lottery miner.

521
00:41:19,696 --> 00:41:24,616
So, you know, let's just, I'm going to point this at, you know, solo pool or whatever.

522
00:41:24,616 --> 00:41:32,116
And, you know, I'll have my, maybe I'll get that block and it'll be 3.15 plus fees.

523
00:41:32,116 --> 00:41:37,016
And I'll just be, you know, just totally with myself.

524
00:41:37,156 --> 00:41:39,376
But the chance of that happening is like, oh, my God.

525
00:41:40,036 --> 00:41:45,256
Might as well have a little fun, pull it together with just friends.

526
00:41:45,496 --> 00:41:48,136
And if one person hits, you get the bounty of one Bitcoin.

527
00:41:48,636 --> 00:41:49,456
The rest is split.

528
00:41:49,636 --> 00:41:52,136
But having that community is empowering.

529
00:41:52,396 --> 00:41:57,876
And I think that's sustainable longer than just forgetting about your miner in the corner of your room.

530
00:41:57,876 --> 00:42:03,656
and another thing i like about the block party while i'm adding to this is it gives me a it makes

531
00:42:03,656 --> 00:42:09,396
sure i go over there and i actually you know juice them up maybe i'll overclock them for six hours

532
00:42:09,396 --> 00:42:15,756
but it makes me aware because these units can overheat these units need a little they can shut

533
00:42:15,756 --> 00:42:19,916
off and if you're not watching that shit that thing could not be running for like a week and

534
00:42:19,916 --> 00:42:24,836
you're like oh shit it says overheat i wonder how long that is like i just leave for three months and

535
00:42:24,836 --> 00:42:30,236
And I love the fact that I can see my miners in the pool hashing away no matter where I am.

536
00:42:30,716 --> 00:42:34,016
So I'm like, all right, I know they're kicking along.

537
00:42:34,336 --> 00:42:38,796
But yeah, this Nano 3S, I mean, this thing is a heat source.

538
00:42:39,396 --> 00:42:43,456
I can't imagine not cleaning out this filter over time.

539
00:42:43,836 --> 00:42:46,756
All those little things that it's easy to forget.

540
00:42:46,756 --> 00:42:48,916
I'm looking at my gaming PC right now.

541
00:42:49,376 --> 00:42:54,096
And my GeForce RTX has a little layer of dust on it.

542
00:42:54,096 --> 00:43:00,616
bro my shop pc is covered in fucking dust i i'm as soon as he said that i looked over real quick

543
00:43:00,616 --> 00:43:06,296
i was like holy shit i need to dust that fucker off i can't treat my minors like i treated my

544
00:43:06,296 --> 00:43:13,176
gaming pc no no no no no they'll overheat way easier yeah so that whole you know being lonely

545
00:43:13,176 --> 00:43:19,136
and and not actually participating in and actually engaging with your minor you know that it does add

546
00:43:19,136 --> 00:43:23,416
a little bit it's just it's it's better to be in a community in my opinion but you know to each

547
00:43:23,416 --> 00:43:27,756
their own everyone can do their thing and if you really want to solo mine you just like set a couple

548
00:43:27,756 --> 00:43:33,116
miners or like one miner to solo block but then you can still have like another one and like join

549
00:43:33,116 --> 00:43:37,216
the community and still be a part of it where you're throwing yeah say the same amount of hash

550
00:43:37,216 --> 00:43:42,716
at the pool with everyone else and and you're just having a good time because my whole thing is it

551
00:43:42,716 --> 00:43:49,996
got boring doing it by yourself yeah well how many uh the last uh block party how many uh miners did

552
00:43:49,996 --> 00:43:58,316
you put online was it a record amount so i was failing i only had like one swapped over for like

553
00:43:58,316 --> 00:44:02,616
months and months and months while we were doing this and i was like all right i got really hyped

554
00:44:02,616 --> 00:44:07,736
for one block party i go fuck it i'm gonna swap over everything over so i swapped over like 25

555
00:44:07,736 --> 00:44:12,196
and i think i just plugged in two more nerd q plus pluses that got returned and said they were

556
00:44:12,196 --> 00:44:19,236
broken but they really weren't so i got like i got 50 terahash now on just bid x's nerd queues

557
00:44:19,236 --> 00:44:27,296
i got a canon nano 3s i have an s9 i got a brains 101 pointed at the at the thing now and they're

558
00:44:27,296 --> 00:44:32,536
just they're just spinning man i just have fun how's your cable management oh fuck dude you

559
00:44:32,536 --> 00:44:38,056
should see the va it's bad it's hanging off a wall right now and got it my shop is a disaster

560
00:44:38,056 --> 00:44:44,276
so you expect my cable management to look good you're just tripping in the dark yeah basically

561
00:44:44,276 --> 00:44:50,196
man it's like holy shit it's tough i mean these things so you know these things aren't necessary

562
00:44:50,196 --> 00:44:56,056
like the fans they give you like eight inch cable eight inch cables uh yeah you know everything is

563
00:44:56,056 --> 00:45:01,416
just kind of you know you want some hodgepodge together the wires uh because you're running some

564
00:45:01,416 --> 00:45:07,456
some some serious voltage through them uh you know for for what they are uh it's it's one of

565
00:45:07,456 --> 00:45:12,716
the toughest things I think is in Bitcoin mining is, uh, is cable management. And I think that's

566
00:45:12,716 --> 00:45:18,516
with any kind of computer nerd type of a setup too. Uh, you know, and wireless just isn't the

567
00:45:18,516 --> 00:45:24,876
same in my opinion. I do have my, uh, you know, the bid axes are only a wireless only. So they're

568
00:45:24,876 --> 00:45:31,876
on the, the wireless network, but, uh, by the way, they only connect to 2.4 gigahertz wifi signals.

569
00:45:31,876 --> 00:45:36,616
If you don't know that I have gotten so many bid axes back going, this doesn't work.

570
00:45:36,616 --> 00:45:43,336
and they were trying to connect it to a 5g and i'll go you guys i literally tell you this but i

571
00:45:43,336 --> 00:45:52,236
will shout it right here it only connects to 2.4 so keep that in mind i i doubt it took me about 45

572
00:45:52,236 --> 00:45:59,556
minutes to get mine on and i even tried the trick where you walk distances away to uh so you oh so

573
00:45:59,556 --> 00:46:05,996
you get out of the 5g range to get to the 2.4 to the 2.4 because the 2.4 is a longer uh band or

574
00:46:05,996 --> 00:46:11,116
whatever but yeah man just go to your router once you got it on then you're good uh and you're good

575
00:46:11,116 --> 00:46:15,736
uh you know and you want to add to the pool i don't know it's it's interesting but the nano

576
00:46:15,736 --> 00:46:23,576
three this nano 3s i could never get it to actually do my wi-fi so i i wanted to do the usb

577
00:46:23,576 --> 00:46:29,136
conversion to uh ethernet so yeah i did it and then that was that was clean i think did it actually

578
00:46:29,136 --> 00:46:35,616
work yeah oh yeah mine's mine's hashing away and i've plugged with an ethernet cable what's that

579
00:46:35,616 --> 00:46:37,136
You're with an Ethernet cable?

580
00:46:37,796 --> 00:46:38,756
Let's see here.

581
00:46:41,836 --> 00:46:43,676
Yep, yep, 100%.

582
00:46:43,676 --> 00:46:45,876
So I can share that with you.

583
00:46:46,176 --> 00:46:49,096
You should definitely share that because I think I'd like to share it with everybody.

584
00:46:49,096 --> 00:46:49,996
It should come with an adapter.

585
00:46:50,156 --> 00:46:51,796
It's dumb, but yeah.

586
00:46:51,896 --> 00:46:52,376
It should.

587
00:46:52,421 --> 00:46:57,921
but they come with a little usb wireless stick is yeah the dongle yeah yeah the dongle

588
00:46:57,921 --> 00:47:03,441
didn't they call you i did not know in high school i don't know what that means but what

589
00:47:03,441 --> 00:47:06,981
i didn't know they actually i didn't know you could actually do ethernet with the

590
00:47:06,981 --> 00:47:12,141
that's smart dude holy shit all right yeah yeah i would like to know yeah send me a picture of it

591
00:47:12,141 --> 00:47:18,101
okay yeah i'll just send you the like the one i bought um it was uh because i know people ask me

592
00:47:18,101 --> 00:47:18,961
And I'm like, I don't know.

593
00:47:19,161 --> 00:47:21,881
It was like eight bucks or 10 bucks on Amazon.

594
00:47:22,001 --> 00:47:22,341
Oh, yeah.

595
00:47:22,361 --> 00:47:22,781
It's nothing.

596
00:47:23,021 --> 00:47:23,201
Yeah.

597
00:47:23,401 --> 00:47:23,681
Yeah.

598
00:47:24,121 --> 00:47:27,321
I forget the name, but it was one of the main manufacturers.

599
00:47:27,621 --> 00:47:29,061
I learn something every day, man.

600
00:47:29,561 --> 00:47:29,841
Yeah.

601
00:47:30,061 --> 00:47:31,601
But the cues.

602
00:47:32,041 --> 00:47:34,781
So obviously, you know, you have your solo miners.

603
00:47:34,781 --> 00:47:43,521
You have your, okay, I'm just going to be doing home mining, which I equate to like, you know, in your back room, a standard 15 amp plug.

604
00:47:44,061 --> 00:47:44,161
Yeah.

605
00:47:44,161 --> 00:47:51,741
um you know but then you get to the q range where you know the actual efficiency and 100 what 90

606
00:47:51,741 --> 00:47:58,981
terahash god what i think it's 96 i think it's just 96 terash or 90 but you can go but once you

607
00:47:58,981 --> 00:48:04,541
get to that now you're at like 1800 watts or something now you're in that range of you need

608
00:48:04,541 --> 00:48:11,641
to be upgrading to a 220 um or 240 uh you need to so you don't have to you don't have to you don't

609
00:48:11,641 --> 00:48:18,481
have to upgrade to 240 so the canon q is literally on the highest end that you can run a 15 amp fuse

610
00:48:18,481 --> 00:48:26,041
with a 12 gauge wire but that's if you're if that is literally the only lag right yes so yeah don't

611
00:48:26,041 --> 00:48:31,101
get me wrong so if you are running this you are you better be only running this if you're running

612
00:48:31,101 --> 00:48:37,321
this thing in high yeah so the normal mode there's like uh eco mode there's low mode and high mode if

613
00:48:37,321 --> 00:48:42,621
you run high you better be on a 20 amp breaker uh you only have this thing plugged into it

614
00:48:42,621 --> 00:48:49,041
like that's it um if you're running like the lower modes even like the mid the regular one

615
00:48:49,041 --> 00:48:55,821
you better be on a 15 amp and you better not have anything else um besides that if you do the low

616
00:48:55,821 --> 00:48:59,381
eco mode i think you can run i would have to look at the watts because i've actually looked into this

617
00:48:59,381 --> 00:49:05,981
a lot it's kind of like running 3d printers where i think it was like 800 watts yeah 800 watts the

618
00:49:05,981 --> 00:49:14,081
eco um yeah it's it's pretty crazy though because i i don't know if you know i live in phoenix my

619
00:49:14,081 --> 00:49:19,761
yeah i don't have a winter really so but there's places where you're you're plugging in a space

620
00:49:19,761 --> 00:49:24,161
heater and you start looking at the watts and you're like oh shit you know that's the same

621
00:49:24,161 --> 00:49:29,541
and i can be profitable yeah so like that's where back in the day i built the space heaters out of

622
00:49:29,541 --> 00:49:34,941
s9s and i built a full 30 page guide where people could i go if you're running an electric space

623
00:49:34,941 --> 00:49:42,021
heater. So what it actually all stemmed from is my wife at night in our bedroom would run a 1500

624
00:49:42,021 --> 00:49:48,801
watt space heater at night during the winter to keep our bedroom like warm. And I looked at,

625
00:49:48,861 --> 00:49:53,181
I go, what the fuck are we doing? This is 1500 Watts. I'm burning electricity on this thing.

626
00:49:53,181 --> 00:49:57,521
Anyways, why don't I run an S nine? And then people go, well, you can't run an S nine. That

627
00:49:57,521 --> 00:50:02,301
thing's a lot of shit. And I go, yeah, but there's gotta be ways to run this thing and still heat.

628
00:50:02,301 --> 00:50:07,661
so then I went through a whole different aspect of like fine tuning it at different watts running

629
00:50:07,661 --> 00:50:13,141
the minor at and I did hold all different fan combinations and I got to the point where I got

630
00:50:13,141 --> 00:50:20,461
this thing run an S9 at 800 watts and it was under 42 decibels it was it was less than the space

631
00:50:20,461 --> 00:50:26,361
heater and noise it ran at 800 watts so it was more efficient and it heated the same as a regular

632
00:50:26,361 --> 00:50:32,761
electric space heater and i and i've had that guide up for like three years and that was before

633
00:50:32,761 --> 00:50:37,461
like can and actually just entered the space with all these home mining things that basically

634
00:50:37,461 --> 00:50:42,861
changed everything right you don't need the s9 anymore the efficiencies are ridiculous out of the

635
00:50:42,861 --> 00:50:50,821
water now yeah yeah it's it's crazy because like the amount of heat you know with with with chips

636
00:50:50,821 --> 00:50:54,761
you're always thinking okay i need to contain the heat i need to contain the heat i need to bring it

637
00:50:54,761 --> 00:51:01,401
down and you disperse it but on the flip side utilizing it and just having a nice slow fan

638
00:51:01,401 --> 00:51:08,221
roll that out uh dispersing the heat as a as a resource um it's just changed everything

639
00:51:08,221 --> 00:51:14,661
so it's like like avalon if you go on the app i mean they're marketed as space heaters essentially

640
00:51:14,661 --> 00:51:21,941
yeah like the mini 3 from avalon is literally a space heater and it has a uh thermostat in it

641
00:51:21,941 --> 00:51:25,241
So you can set the thermostat and once it hits the power, it like slows down.

642
00:51:25,641 --> 00:51:26,061
Right.

643
00:51:26,361 --> 00:51:26,961
It's nuts.

644
00:51:27,521 --> 00:51:27,701
Yeah.

645
00:51:27,841 --> 00:51:45,266
And when I plug in so when I plug in my Avalon I name which room it in So you can literally have heaters in every room It like a smart house with heaters yeah they gone all in on the heat the heat aspect of it and i love it but if you look back

646
00:51:45,266 --> 00:51:53,526
at like so like heating with bitcoin as a as like a gain right is nothing new because like back in

647
00:51:53,526 --> 00:51:58,706
the day satoshi actually said it in august of 2010 i brought it up because this is very important

648
00:51:58,706 --> 00:52:02,126
Like he knew the heat from your computer is not wasted.

649
00:52:02,126 --> 00:52:03,646
If you need to heat your home,

650
00:52:03,646 --> 00:52:05,926
if you're using electric heat where you live,

651
00:52:06,026 --> 00:52:08,206
then your computer's heat isn't a waste.

652
00:52:08,486 --> 00:52:09,846
It's an equal cost.

653
00:52:09,846 --> 00:52:11,406
If you generate heat with your computer.

654
00:52:11,406 --> 00:52:15,286
And that was back in the day when people were mining Bitcoin with just CPUs.

655
00:52:15,866 --> 00:52:22,106
So like he knew how important it was for Bitcoin mining heat reuse.

656
00:52:22,486 --> 00:52:26,386
And you're really starting to see people understand it with space heaters

657
00:52:26,386 --> 00:52:27,126
mining Bitcoin.

658
00:52:27,126 --> 00:52:33,646
because if you're running an electric space heater at 1500 watts why the hell are you not

659
00:52:33,646 --> 00:52:41,286
just running a bitcoin miner gaining sats or solo mining while gaining that heat in the long run

660
00:52:41,286 --> 00:52:43,786
what about what about bitcoin cash what do you think

661
00:52:43,786 --> 00:52:49,906
i don't i don't even think we need to go there man

662
00:52:49,906 --> 00:52:56,906
there's there's seriously though if i if i look at some of the forums because i've i've dove down

663
00:52:56,906 --> 00:53:04,326
this rabbit hole it's like you you got this you should do bch bro and you're bs me or yeah like

664
00:53:04,326 --> 00:53:08,406
the last block party whatever somebody's like why don't we we could have mined two bch blocks and i

665
00:53:08,406 --> 00:53:13,286
go i don't give a fuck about that like what are we talking about here that's not that's not what

666
00:53:13,286 --> 00:53:19,106
we're here for stay on the stand course man it's not gonna end well i mean if you want to mine bch

667
00:53:19,106 --> 00:53:24,086
blocks and get revenue sure go ahead like more power to you i don't give a shit but like i'm here

668
00:53:24,086 --> 00:53:28,886
to mine and add hash to the network of Bitcoin because it secures the network. And I might

669
00:53:28,886 --> 00:53:31,526
actually hit the block. Like that's what I'm here for. Yeah, that was hilarious.

670
00:53:31,806 --> 00:53:37,486
Go to the Amazon reviews and look at like for the bid access. So number one, I don't ever

671
00:53:37,486 --> 00:53:44,906
recommend buying a bid axe from anywhere that's not reputable. But like, hey man, that legit list

672
00:53:44,906 --> 00:53:49,186
is super legit and I'm not allowed to be on it anymore. Well, it's just so funny because the

673
00:53:49,186 --> 00:53:54,466
reviews are like you know i'm doing doge i'm doing this it's like oh man and but you know what

674
00:53:54,466 --> 00:53:59,826
i mean i get it though right yeah yeah you're you're in it for the uh the gains they want the

675
00:53:59,826 --> 00:54:06,206
gains and you have a better you have better odds right yeah so yeah yeah it's for me it's not about

676
00:54:06,206 --> 00:54:12,346
that for me it's a learning tool and just like just like man if you hit a fucking solo block

677
00:54:12,346 --> 00:54:17,486
Holy shit. Like that's, yeah, that'd be the ultimate, ultimate win, man.

678
00:54:17,966 --> 00:54:20,686
So talk to me about the Bitcoin bonanza.

679
00:54:21,766 --> 00:54:24,366
Oh yeah. Our Christmas bonanza.

680
00:54:25,006 --> 00:54:30,006
Yeah. Tell me how it started, how it's going, um, how it's progressing, everything.

681
00:54:30,526 --> 00:54:35,606
Yeah. So a couple of years back, I had this grandiose idea that I kind of want to like

682
00:54:35,606 --> 00:54:41,126
throw a giant festival in December for Christmas and just give stuff away to the community as a,

683
00:54:41,126 --> 00:54:44,826
as a thank you for always coming to us for buying stuff and just giving back

684
00:54:44,826 --> 00:54:46,266
because yeah,

685
00:54:46,466 --> 00:54:48,726
fiat's nice and like Bitcoin's awesome when you stack,

686
00:54:48,826 --> 00:54:51,066
but it's also nice to give back to the people that support you.

687
00:54:51,206 --> 00:54:52,586
And I can't like,

688
00:54:52,666 --> 00:54:56,066
if I never had the help of all these bigger accounts,

689
00:54:56,066 --> 00:54:57,686
helping me spread my name across,

690
00:54:57,766 --> 00:54:58,886
I wouldn't be where I am today.

691
00:54:58,886 --> 00:54:59,766
And that's kind of what I,

692
00:54:59,866 --> 00:55:02,066
what I look at as the Christmas bonanza.

693
00:55:02,366 --> 00:55:03,506
I'm not a huge account,

694
00:55:03,506 --> 00:55:07,946
but it's a way that I can give smaller businesses and Bitcoin or entrepreneurs

695
00:55:07,946 --> 00:55:09,366
that are starting their own thing,

696
00:55:09,366 --> 00:55:15,566
a way to show off their products to a bigger audience. So like two years back, we threw

697
00:55:15,566 --> 00:55:21,426
our first Christmas Bonanza where I worked with, I think it was maybe like 20 different companies

698
00:55:21,426 --> 00:55:28,126
and they all, they all sent stuff to the shop. I built 16 bundles of stuff with all of them. And we

699
00:55:28,126 --> 00:55:32,166
did a bunch of marketing and showed off products and then we gave it all away through December.

700
00:55:32,166 --> 00:55:37,806
So we had four weeks of giveaways of four bundles and it was probably three to four grand worth of

701
00:55:37,806 --> 00:55:43,246
stuff that we gave away and everyone loved it. And I go, okay, well, this is going to be my new,

702
00:55:43,246 --> 00:55:49,166
my new thing that I want to do. Cause I honestly love it. Um, you, you can be lonely in Bitcoin or

703
00:55:49,166 --> 00:55:53,026
you can try to have fun with the communities and stuff. And that's, that's my favorite part.

704
00:55:53,786 --> 00:56:01,166
So then I did the last year we had $10,000 and 50 companies worth of stuff to give away. It was,

705
00:56:01,346 --> 00:56:06,906
it was insane. Like it was, what we were giving away was, was wild. We were giving away full.

706
00:56:06,906 --> 00:56:08,186
How do you give away stuff?

707
00:56:08,806 --> 00:56:12,126
So we do it on, so last year and the year before it was all on Twitter.

708
00:56:12,346 --> 00:56:15,426
And this year I want to kind of tie in Nostra because people always give me shit.

709
00:56:15,886 --> 00:56:17,106
Oh, I don't want to go on Twitter.

710
00:56:17,206 --> 00:56:17,786
It fucking sucks.

711
00:56:17,846 --> 00:56:27,651
I want to go on Nostra And I go okay well thank God Nostra saved my life And I guess I going to give away Amen brother Amen Yeah right Nostra saved my life completely And they go why And I go you don need to worry about that

712
00:56:29,211 --> 00:56:30,031
All caps.

713
00:56:30,271 --> 00:56:31,391
Nostra saved my life.

714
00:56:31,491 --> 00:56:34,151
Nostra saved my life because that's how everyone acts on Nostra.

715
00:56:34,351 --> 00:56:38,211
So this year I kind of want to give away some more stuff,

716
00:56:38,591 --> 00:56:42,991
but I want to also allow people that are Nostra only to get in on that.

717
00:56:43,071 --> 00:56:47,651
So we'll do where you like or retweet a Nostra post or just comment on it.

718
00:56:47,651 --> 00:56:49,011
and you'll get entered.

719
00:56:49,511 --> 00:56:51,411
So that's what we did on Twitter.

720
00:56:51,611 --> 00:56:53,211
It was like a like, retweet,

721
00:56:53,631 --> 00:56:55,351
follow every single one of the merchants

722
00:56:55,351 --> 00:56:56,271
that's giving stuff away

723
00:56:56,271 --> 00:56:57,591
because we wouldn't have had

724
00:56:57,591 --> 00:56:59,531
such a crazy bonanza without them.

725
00:56:59,851 --> 00:57:01,531
So I want to make sure they get their money's worth

726
00:57:01,531 --> 00:57:03,271
on what they helped happen.

727
00:57:03,391 --> 00:57:04,731
But yeah, we gave away like $10,000

728
00:57:04,731 --> 00:57:06,371
worth of stuff last year and it was wild.

729
00:57:06,371 --> 00:57:09,091
It was really, really nice stuff.

730
00:57:10,731 --> 00:57:11,891
So we're doing it this year.

731
00:57:11,911 --> 00:57:12,471
How do you pick it?

732
00:57:13,851 --> 00:57:16,331
So we used, last year we used XPicker.

733
00:57:16,331 --> 00:57:19,211
it's just a website

734
00:57:19,211 --> 00:57:20,731
that you click the tweet

735
00:57:20,731 --> 00:57:23,051
you type in what you want

736
00:57:23,051 --> 00:57:25,131
for it was like follow you had to follow all

737
00:57:25,131 --> 00:57:27,031
these companies you have to like and retweet

738
00:57:27,031 --> 00:57:28,891
this tweet and then would choose a user randomly

739
00:57:28,891 --> 00:57:30,911
this year if I do Noster

740
00:57:30,911 --> 00:57:33,131
I'm going to have to figure out how I'm going to do it

741
00:57:33,131 --> 00:57:35,071
where it's going to probably be more work

742
00:57:35,071 --> 00:57:36,951
for me because I'll have to probably go through

743
00:57:36,951 --> 00:57:38,731
and look at every comment on there

744
00:57:38,731 --> 00:57:41,111
and they'll be like give a number to every

745
00:57:41,111 --> 00:57:43,211
post and then select a random number

746
00:57:43,211 --> 00:57:44,731
one through whatever posts are on

747
00:57:44,731 --> 00:57:46,311
on there

748
00:57:46,311 --> 00:57:52,471
have the little man or little yeah yeah right i'll have the little dude just like pick a number

749
00:57:52,471 --> 00:57:58,591
yeah i might just do random shit like that and like twitter if this year's this year right now

750
00:57:58,591 --> 00:58:02,371
we're already set up at like ten thousand eight hundred dollars worth of shit with like four

751
00:58:02,371 --> 00:58:07,471
different companies and there's gonna be there's already like 20 companies still sending stuff out

752
00:58:07,471 --> 00:58:11,751
so i'm hoping to hit like 15 20 grand worth of shit that we're gonna give away this year

753
00:58:11,751 --> 00:58:17,591
so i really need to figure out how i can give stuff away easily where it's not too much work

754
00:58:17,591 --> 00:58:23,031
well yeah because it's it's also you know holiday season where uh you know you're you're you're

755
00:58:23,031 --> 00:58:31,151
filling i'm busy yeah like it's it's wild so yeah i'm really excited everyone should enter and keep

756
00:58:31,151 --> 00:58:35,951
an eye out whether you're a nas or x uh i am working with a bunch of companies and trying to

757
00:58:35,951 --> 00:58:41,431
get everyone in to just give stuff away this year and make this the biggest year yet uh right now

758
00:58:41,431 --> 00:58:45,231
there was like 10 grand's worth of like bitcoin trading cards already given out by like the

759
00:58:45,231 --> 00:58:51,691
legendberg he sent me full sets of like all of season three from like purple to gold it's it's

760
00:58:51,691 --> 00:58:55,491
wild there's there's ten thousand dollars worth of bitcoin trading cards that i'm giving out already

761
00:58:55,491 --> 00:59:00,091
let alone like four hundred dollars worth of other stuff and uh another four hundred dollars worth of

762
00:59:00,091 --> 00:59:07,071
like board games and and that's just like four companies is there a crypto cloak sale bitcoin

763
00:59:07,071 --> 00:59:15,491
trading card yet no but i think we might be in season four if everything works out you should

764
00:59:15,491 --> 00:59:20,351
harass them and make sure that happens but i'm not worried about it it doesn't matter i'll be

765
00:59:20,351 --> 00:59:26,591
honored if i get in if i don't whatever i actually just unplugged my uh one of my bid axes it was

766
00:59:26,591 --> 00:59:33,791
overheating it's because i turned my fan off in here while i talk uh and then i have my computer

767
00:59:33,791 --> 00:59:34,711
and everything running.

768
00:59:35,191 --> 00:59:36,771
So there's a little bit more heat.

769
00:59:38,691 --> 00:59:40,011
And I've been watching it.

770
00:59:40,131 --> 00:59:44,451
It was like, it was going like 65, 70, 74.

771
00:59:44,691 --> 00:59:46,611
So in the course of this hour,

772
00:59:46,611 --> 00:59:50,951
it's gained 10 Celsius and hit the protector.

773
00:59:51,731 --> 00:59:54,911
So I'm going to clearly need to return this.

774
00:59:55,691 --> 00:59:57,251
Yeah, return it a year later and go,

775
00:59:57,311 --> 00:59:58,191
this thing doesn't fucking work.

776
00:59:58,211 --> 00:59:58,731
It overheated.

777
00:59:58,831 --> 01:00:00,031
Yeah, send it over my way, man.

778
01:00:00,071 --> 01:00:00,931
I can't wait for that call.

779
01:00:01,971 --> 01:00:02,851
Oh, man.

780
01:00:02,851 --> 01:00:09,031
well anything else because uh i think we got a solid hour and i know i gotta get back to my

781
01:00:09,031 --> 01:00:15,991
little warrior absolutely you're doing the baton uh passing around like the baton right now

782
01:00:15,991 --> 01:00:23,791
absolutely we're just daycare disrespecters dude i love that i okay the fact that you just said that

783
01:00:23,791 --> 01:00:29,891
i'm gonna literally make a sticker and add it to orders that's fucking awesome i was just talking

784
01:00:29,891 --> 01:00:36,211
to my wife about this because, you know, fiat is time theft and everyone's trying to get the same

785
01:00:36,211 --> 01:00:43,951
standard of living, but afford it today. When the money printer goes and 40% of the USD is just

786
01:00:43,951 --> 01:00:51,411
dumped on us in a year, over time, both the wife and husband and wife, typically what used to be

787
01:00:51,411 --> 01:00:57,571
just the husband would work and bring home the bacon. Now it's both are working and both don't

788
01:00:57,571 --> 01:01:14,956
have time And then the cost of daycare is continuing to go up Now we have all these sick kids And then on top of that we just dumping Tylenol on them because they overheating like a bid axe uh and and and then you look at this it just kind of i just had this little

789
01:01:14,956 --> 01:01:20,416
epiphany and and maybe i'm wrong but uh it's like i feel like fiat is definitely adding to the autism

790
01:01:20,416 --> 01:01:25,356
so well of course man it's all about fiat like all these fucking companies dump shit on kids

791
01:01:25,356 --> 01:01:30,476
anyways because it's they want the fiat gains yeah it's gross yeah we get we could talk about

792
01:01:30,476 --> 01:01:36,196
that for like another hour that whole thing about no daycare oh man i could just sit here and ramble

793
01:01:36,196 --> 01:01:42,256
on and rant about all the bullshit that they push on that shit oh my god i'm uh i'm taking him to

794
01:01:42,256 --> 01:01:47,116
soccer right now so it's my he's gone like two times and it's it's at this park and there's a

795
01:01:47,116 --> 01:01:51,536
playground nearby and he just all he wants to do is run towards the playground the whole time oh

796
01:01:51,536 --> 01:01:56,476
yeah uh and he you know he's two and a half at soccer and uh i asked him yesterday i'm like you

797
01:01:56,476 --> 01:02:02,396
like soccer but he's like no i just keep bringing him to this thing that he doesn't like so then

798
01:02:02,396 --> 01:02:06,336
it's like okay well we'll take you out of that next season and we'll find you something else

799
01:02:06,336 --> 01:02:10,916
well and that's that whole unschooling thing right you kind of find what they're they're engaged in

800
01:02:10,916 --> 01:02:15,896
um and i like the thing of like if they channel that yeah if they if they're really good at

801
01:02:15,896 --> 01:02:20,156
something don't ever tell them no you need to study more fuck it like did you ever see the

802
01:02:20,156 --> 01:02:26,096
thing where they're like oh man if they're really good at like playing piano why would you

803
01:02:26,096 --> 01:02:31,256
waste all this money and like sending them to this instead of like dumping them into like something

804
01:02:31,256 --> 01:02:34,196
they're passionate about and really good at because they could just be like the greatest

805
01:02:34,196 --> 01:02:37,816
like composer ever i can't remember the exact quote and i go you know what

806
01:02:37,816 --> 01:02:43,496
fuck man fiat really just messed up generations because you look at that and you go yeah

807
01:02:43,496 --> 01:02:50,336
why do you need to shove this kid through school where it's a five-year-old boy or an eight-year-old

808
01:02:50,336 --> 01:02:55,596
boy and he's stuck in a fucking classroom for eight hours and they're like oh man he's really

809
01:02:55,596 --> 01:03:01,696
restless uh we should probably give he has adhd we need to give him meds and stuff and you're like

810
01:03:01,696 --> 01:03:09,196
what the fuck yeah like yeah and and it's just uh it's i hate it man well i mean me historically

811
01:03:09,196 --> 01:03:14,716
if i was into something i'd get an a plus if i didn't i'd get a c that's just the way i'd get

812
01:03:14,716 --> 01:03:20,096
d's and f's man if i don't care i don't like it yeah yeah i would just do the bare minimum i mean

813
01:03:20,096 --> 01:03:26,036
in Spanish class. I, uh, there was a, there was a Mexican kid that sat next to me. I had him do a

814
01:03:26,036 --> 01:03:30,836
lot of my homework. So you find a way to get that C let's just put it that way. Oh yeah. I mean,

815
01:03:30,836 --> 01:03:35,736
back in the day, uh, yeah, if like high school is easy after that, I was like, all right,

816
01:03:35,736 --> 01:03:41,256
if I don't care about it, I really suck ass. But if I love it and passionate, I love doing it,

817
01:03:41,276 --> 01:03:47,196
man. Like I'm, I'm all in it's wild. It's, it's a crazy world. Cause it's your first kid. My first

818
01:03:47,196 --> 01:03:53,196
kid. Yeah. And we have a, we're just running blind at this point. So it's, it's something

819
01:03:53,196 --> 01:03:56,896
we're going to, there's going to be, there's going to be a lot of decisions in the future.

820
01:03:57,456 --> 01:04:04,796
Hell yeah, dude. Well, awesome, man. It's, it was great talking to you again. And we'll just

821
01:04:04,796 --> 01:04:10,476
keep doing this every few months and maybe get it at other subjects, whatever. Yeah, man, I'm,

822
01:04:10,476 --> 01:04:11,436
I'm down to talk about it.

823
01:04:11,456 --> 01:04:13,076
Make sure to cancel a few shows.

824
01:04:13,636 --> 01:04:14,276
Yeah, right.

825
01:04:16,976 --> 01:04:20,776
But other than that, man, anything else, anywhere you want to send people?

826
01:04:21,736 --> 01:04:23,076
Yeah, I got one more thing.

827
01:04:23,316 --> 01:04:29,716
Everyone that is a Bitcoiner and wants more self-sovereignty, buy a 3D printer for the love of God.

828
01:04:29,716 --> 01:04:35,296
If you buy a 3D printer and you want help, reach out.

829
01:04:35,376 --> 01:04:40,116
I will help you, and it'll be the greatest tool in your life besides Bitcoin itself.

830
01:04:40,476 --> 01:04:43,476
So don't feel, buy one, reach out to me for help.

831
01:04:43,896 --> 01:04:45,056
That's what I'm here for.

832
01:04:45,236 --> 01:04:45,956
That's what I love.

833
01:04:47,296 --> 01:04:47,776
Yeah.

834
01:04:48,536 --> 01:04:53,436
And I know Rick from two rooms on Telegram and I get it.

835
01:04:53,516 --> 01:04:54,696
You know, Telegram centralized.

836
01:04:55,076 --> 01:04:56,076
It's kind of bullshit.

837
01:04:56,396 --> 01:04:58,856
It's the way we're kind of watched on there.

838
01:04:58,936 --> 01:05:03,756
And maybe we'll find some sovereign way of creating these rooms in the future.

839
01:05:03,896 --> 01:05:08,636
But Telegram, the crypto cloaks maker space, I believe they call it.

840
01:05:08,636 --> 01:05:09,456
Is that what it is?

841
01:05:09,796 --> 01:05:09,996
Yeah.

842
01:05:09,996 --> 01:05:13,896
That seems to be where there's a lot of conversation going on.

843
01:05:14,316 --> 01:05:16,816
And then that Wrigley community telegram.

844
01:05:16,996 --> 01:05:20,816
I'll put both the links to those in the show notes.

845
01:05:21,356 --> 01:05:24,416
So if you're interested in 3D printing, that crypto makerspace,

846
01:05:24,696 --> 01:05:28,356
and then the Wrigley telegram community, which is our alliance,

847
01:05:28,516 --> 01:05:32,116
you'll find Rick and I both on there actively engaged.

848
01:05:32,476 --> 01:05:33,396
So let's rock.

849
01:05:33,796 --> 01:05:34,136
Hell yeah.

850
01:05:35,336 --> 01:05:37,156
Well, thank you very much, Rick.

851
01:05:37,156 --> 01:05:43,456
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852
01:05:43,456 --> 01:05:49,436
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853
01:05:49,436 --> 01:05:52,256
we'll see you next week let it buck