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Coach Carbon is here to talk about football,
the Bitcoin Ballers Academy,
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And now on to our sermon, You Can't Cheat Proof of Work.
football is sold to us like a religion and run like a casino
it's banners broadcast packages sponsorship activations transfer rumors
club valuations influencer kits and tv rights carved up like empire territory
the commercial game is a monument to paper claims a lot of people getting paid because
attention showed up not because truth did. It's fiat football. Narratives minted, hype injected,
winners pre-sold, and loyalty turned into a subscription. But then you step off the screen
and onto the training ground, and the whole illusion shatters. Because the pitch does not
accept marketing. A body doesn't care what your agent promised. Hamstrings don't negotiate.
Touch under pressure doesn't appear because you posted the right montage to Instagram
You can rent a reputation, but you cannot rent a first step
You can buy boots, but you cannot buy lungs
You can have a million followers and still lose the ball with one bad angle and one lazy scan of the pitch
Elite athletes live inside a different economy
One the cameras can't fully capture
they inhabit the economy of repetition the quiet unglamorous compounding of fundamentals
the invisible deposits sleep nutrition hydration mobility recovery restraint the lonely minutes
with cones the extra rep after the session ends the decision to do the boring thing again
because the boring thing is the door to brilliance.
It's the one profession where the receipts are unavoidable,
where you cannot cheat proof of work.
In most areas of modern life,
you can lawyer your way around reality.
You can inflate credentials.
You can spin outcomes.
You can outsource competence.
You can MacGyver it.
But on the field, proof is public.
The game audits you in real time.
It's a distributed truth machine run by grass, gravity, and witnesses.
This is why sports matter beyond entertainment.
Sports are serious infrastructure.
Sport trains human beings in the laws of the wider world,
which it keeps trying to overwrite.
The wider world keeps trying to overwrite.
And these laws are cause and effect, humility, accountability, teamwork, resilience, and earned confidence.
It teaches the simplest gospel that still shocks a fiat society.
You become what you repeatedly do.
So if the commercial football world looks like a circus of skullduggery,
remember the deeper ritual underneath it.
The ball is honest.
The body is honest.
The game is honest.
And honesty, practiced daily, turns into a kind of freedom that no sponsorship can buy.
And joining me today is a man who understands this rebellious union between the commercial veneer and the unescapable honesty we've just talked about.
A man who most certainly doesn't cheat proof of work.
Coach Carbon, welcome to Plep Chain Radio.
avi wow what an incredible intro i'll definitely be listening back to that and clipping that and
sharing it with um friends and family and all the ballers you mentioned everything that emboled
proof of work um and it's what i've come to recognize with bitcoin and obviously with what
i do with football and fitness so yeah thank you for that intro thank you for having me on
and and you know it's and i've spent a lot of time thinking about this i've
unfortunately, I can say this now,
with retrospect,
I wish I had trained to become an athlete,
a school or college athlete.
I didn't.
I went down the academic route.
But my son, who I think you met him in Madeira,
and I think you would.
I have, yes, yes.
Very talented young baller.
And he wants to go pro,
and he's been training very hard
to do so for the last several years.
And the thing that strikes me is this,
in being an elite athlete, right?
Set aside the stuff with the nonsense
that happens with FIFA and UEFA
and all of that stuff, right?
The politics and really that fiat world.
But on the pitch, being an elite athlete,
this is the only profession
where you cannot cheat proof of work.
You can cheat it as an engineer.
You can cheat it as a lawyer,
even as a doctor, right?
You can BS your way around getting degrees and getting a good role.
You just cannot as an athlete.
Definitely not.
You mentioned about the ball not lying.
Some of the ballers I've worked with use that in football sessions that we do.
The ball doesn't lie.
So if it ends up in the back of your net, you've conceded a goal,
then the other team deserves to score.
If it ends up in their goal and you've scored,
then obviously you deserve to score.
So, yeah, there are no hiding places once you're on the pitch and proof of work does show.
Your talent may not always come through.
You may be really talented, but on a particular day, on that performance, your performance is what you can do in that moment.
So proof of work every time you cross that white line and step onto the pitch.
Yeah. So, Coach, for folks who are not that familiar with you, what is the Coach Carbon origin story?
We could talk about a lot of the projects you're involved in, but really, where did this begin?
How did you get into this world of building out?
How did Bitcoin and football come together in your mind?
I try to make this as short as possible, but with as much information that people understand my angle.
So I myself love football, been playing football since I was five years old.
I went through the football system in and out with an academy then got released when I was 12
years old then rejoined the same academy when I was 16 when I left school and I actually did a
three-year football scholarship unfortunately at the age of 19 I wasn't offered a professional
contract so I went out in the wider world to get a job a trade with a mindset that I was still
going to be a professional footballer so I was still playing semi-pro at the time and working
or training to be a carpenter. Fast forward 15 years I'm a father with two children I'm a
construction project manager and the football dream is a distant memory and the the time just
seemed to fly by but in that time lots of things happened wasn't quite happy with my work didn't
feel like I belong just felt like it was something that was a means to an end. This happened or
occurred around the same time as COVID in 2020 which I call the year of the awakening where
people's eyes were opened and at that time I was trying to find my way out of construction.
I was looking down the health and wellness fitness route training to be a personal trainer
and then in the middle of 2020 redundancies were up at work and I took the opportunity to leave
to focus on health wellness and fitness and what that allowed me was time I had time freedom and
I will be forever grateful for the company that I worked for for all those years they allowed me to
leave and focus on myself but they gave me the time freedom and coincidentally in that time freedom
in a group chat with some friends somebody in the group chat just said who wants to speak about
crypto and I'd missed other opportunities before on the same whatsapp group chat with the friends
where I hadn't responded or hadn't asked any questions but knowing that I couldn't miss another
opportunity to learn something I just said yeah let's talk primarily in a message he just said
do your own research which is what I did and because I had the time freedom I was going to
the gym every day and it was just podcasts youtube videos reading books did about a month deep dive
and at the end of the month i was like felt like neo in the matrix wow i've been unplugged bitcoin
is the thing that's going to save humanity uh but i appreciate at that time i probably seem like
a raven madman to friends and family because it was listen to this watch this i was sending people
linked YouTube links to Robert Breedlove's Masters of Slaves and Money. I was sending them
the Sailor Series of 10-hour videos and they were never going to watch that one because they had no
time and secondly because they've seen me as a construction project manager who had left work
and then all of a sudden is talking about Bitcoin. So after some conversations with people in the
space notably uh daniel prince and also john ballas i was looking for a way to help educate
or give back to the community and john ballas again forever grateful to him for making the
comment provide value in your local community and that was in march 2021 at that moment bitcoin
ballers was born i said i've loved football i've always played it i understand the the
crossover with the fundamentals and principles of Bitcoin We talk about proof of work We talk about doing your own research We talk about your training which I liken it to So many aspects about being disciplined lowering your time preference
All of that embodied what I felt Bitcoin is and also what football is.
So I launched Bitcoin Borders over that moment it was born.
We actually officially launched on the 21st of April 2021.
So lots of 21-ism themes within the Football Academy.
so 21.421 was the date block height 680.005 if you want to go and check that out and at that moment
it was just an Instagram page a page where you could come and interact I would put news on there
anything that I'd heard or read about I would put on there on the Instagram page then I started doing
engagement where you could win sats I was using lightning at the time you could interact with
the page and win sats just by leaving a comment which the first one nobody actually did then I
made it more real world so you could do some skills and send in a video and win sats that way
a little bit further on down the line i met with the coin corner team they sponsored us we allowed
us to get our first football kit which then allowed us to enter football tournaments wearing
the orange strip with satoshi's name on the back the different numbers the coin corner logo on the
front and our little tagline fix the money fix the world on the shoulder fast forward again a couple
of years we've been to tournaments we've played in tournaments i've hosted tournaments in my local
community for young people we've been to amsterdam obviously we met you and your son in madeira where
we did some challenges some football challenges we had the football tournament there we've had
football tournaments again i think amsterdam where else have we been somewhere else again
local in the uk we'll go into bitcoin conference ireland in may of this year 2026 so it's just
been a whirlwind I still feel like a noob in the space I'm still learning every day but my passion
is educating young people on the principles of Bitcoin through football letting them understand
that they can work towards being a professional footballer if that's their dream like Bitcoin
there's no guarantee it's going to take work and effort but the more effort you put in the more
charts you have and it's not just I'm going to put effort in today not tomorrow maybe two days
time not for another week maybe a week's time it's consistent effort daily now that doesn't
never have to meet doesn't mean you have to go and sprint a 5k every day but what are you doing
in terms of your training are you living well are you eating well are you training well are you
recovering all of that that professional football is already doing as a young person can you start
that early then when you get to the age of 16 when you're leaving school do you have an opportunity
now to go and play for an academy if that doesn't work out is that that's not part of your journey
can you still train like an elite performer and this is where the bitcoin education comes in
because of what i would love to see and what i am seeing with my own son who's now playing
professional football for middlesbrough football club can you amass a stack of sats that can be
your support that you don't have to necessarily like I did go out and find a trade straight away
you can train and play as if you're a professional you might need a little part-time join aside that
then the support you stack in sacks if you need to spend and replace spend four years a cycle
training to be the best of your best of your ability after that cycle in four years you might
have to make a decision to say maybe my proof of work isn't enough I had to make that decision at
I'm putting in my career the work I was putting in wasn't enough to take me to that next level
but my mind wasn't fully dedicated on my on my craft which was football I was concentrating also
on being a carpenter then a project manager and also a father but at a young age if you're so
if you're passionate about something you're ikigai something that you love something that
the world needs something you can get paid for if you want to do that allow young people to focus
on that and we hear all the time stacy herbert max kaiser talking about um the new the new age
that the renaissance renaissance 2.0 in the original renaissance because we were on a sound
money stand monetary standard people allowed to concentrate and work on their craft and be experts
and be excellent and be elite,
which is what is not allowed now in the fiat world.
We are forced to go and join the rat race
constantly on that hamster wheel,
looking to try and get more money as inflation goes up.
So I hope that makes sense, my little bank story.
But yeah, that's how I came about of creating Bitcoin Ballers
for young people that would like to,
one, learn about Bitcoin in a fun way
and earn rewards through proof of work,
but also use it as a stepping stone to prove a potential career in football in some way.
You know, that's great.
That's a great story there, coach.
And, you know, the point you brought up about just having the mind space
and the ability to, for young people especially,
it's applicable at any age, but young people especially
in that formative time of their lives, to be able to focus on their craft.
And it's so rare. I didn't know what I wanted to do till I was in my 30s. Maybe, heck, maybe even till I turned 40, I didn't know what I wanted to do. And it's rare for someone like someone, an aspiring young footballer, because they know that they know what they want to do with their lives.
and as a society, I think we fail a lot of these folks
with that passion who want to focus on their craft
because, well, they can't do that 100%.
Especially once you turn 17, 18,
you've got to fend for yourself, right?
You've got to pay the bills somehow
and it gets harder and harder to pay the bills
for the reasons you state, inflation and so on.
This is a recurring theme on the show, by the way, Coach,
not just with sports, but especially with artists as well, right?
There's so many musicians, painters, and others who've spoken on the show.
And they all say the same thing.
Look, this is what we feel we were on this planet to do.
Create this incredible beauty, right?
Express ourselves with our God-given talents.
But we have to do four different jobs just to keep up with rent and food and gas and all of that stuff.
So where's the time to focus on our craft?
We're burning the candle at both ends.
We're burning ourselves out.
And I think for young kids, and presumably you're talking about aspiring football kids,
it's like in the 17 to 21 age group, right?
That's the make or break age, whether you make it or you don't.
And we as a society, we just don't provide that space to the kids to explore what they're good at.
no definitely not and before bitcoin or understanding the current monetary system
i kind of knew there was something wrong but couldn't put my finger on it but once you go down
the rabbit hole as they say it's a deep rabbit hole you never stop learning but you understand
that the world is working for some people um people at the top the elites but not for everyone
or how it should be and as a as a father you'll appreciate this knowing what we know now is
It's our duty to educate the young people in any way we can.
So I'm using my knowledge in fitness and football and sport.
Other people are using their gifts.
We're seeing fantastic artists, authors, writers, musicians.
You mentioned it already.
People are finding their crafts or going back to their crafts and thinking,
I'm going to use Bitcoin to support other people, to help other people.
yeah so your team uh coach uh is that a fixed team a fixed set of players is it a youth team
or amateur go back back to the bitcoin theme it's a decentralized team so anybody can be a bitcoin
baller um an individual a group of people a team as i've mentioned before in amsterdam when i was
being interviewed
if you just put on the shirt you are by
by default a Bitcoin baller
so we've had teams
represented at different tournaments
so obviously when we went to Amsterdam
and when we went to
Madeira
we had Fetty Mint had a team by putting
t-shirts on, Bitcoin ballers were represented
so yeah anybody can be a Bitcoin
baller if you want to come and
find me, DM me after the call
if you're listening and want to find out how you can get
involved we had an academy in in Uganda called Hampton Warriors Academy they competed in one of
our challenges last year called the peer-to-peer challenge so simply just see how many times you
can keep the ball up in the air between between your peer they reached 68 transfers nobody else
was able to get close my son and I did it I think we got to 20 something I also met with a local
freestyler she's one of the third in the UK for freestyle skills we did it and we
got a little bit better than my son and I, I think.
But yeah, it was open to anyone.
Anyone could take part.
Just had to submit a video.
And by the end of the year, they were the winners.
So they were able to receive sats.
They were onboarded with a wallet from Wallet of Satoshi.
And again, it was the education part.
Onboarding them with a wallet,
showing them how the transaction works
and also showing the world there's no limit.
You could be anywhere in the world
and we can transact peer-to-peer.
so at the tournament uh so you're going to the bitcoin island uh conference is that right that's
right yeah so i'm i spoke with lawrence i met lawrence actually in amsterdam in 2022 at the
first bitcoin conference um but we've almost stayed in touch so he's inviting me over to come
and host a tournament uh so we're inviting people to come along as individuals or as friend friendship
groups we'll make teams on the day similar to what we did in madeira so you can just rock along if
you're an individual we'll make a team we'll hopefully get some partnership or sponsorship
with other bitcoin companies and they can have their company represented as a team and then we'll
just we'll just play for for the bitcoin island cup this is great it's like it it's pickup football
but with a nice theme to it
and embracing the decentralized nature
of this community anyway.
Yeah, and that's what I love about it
is just anyone can get involved.
When we went to Madeira,
it was actually going to be a youth tournament
but somebody in the group chat,
who was it?
It was the young guy who does the Nomad podcast.
Yanis asked in the group chat,
can adults play and he i think he just turned in 16 or 17 and we said well i hadn't thought about
that so we opened it up and we actually had a youth tournament and their adult tournament at
madeira which was nice yeah the youth one was far more entertaining i have to say
the adults don't really like running much no the kids were putting in the yeah they were playing
seriously, running hard after the ball.
No, that was fun.
It was also nice to see them take part in some of the games as well.
So we had the peer-to-peer challenge,
also a game we call 21 Seconds to Glow,
see how many skills you can do in 21 seconds.
And another game which Daniel Prince's son won, Samuel,
he won the all-time high.
So how many kick-ups can you do?
And I think since then he's broken his all-time high record,
Princey showed me a video on Twitter recently
where he smashed his previous record
from a couple of years ago.
That's great.
Yeah.
Madeira was lots of fun.
The funny thing is this is like
the fourth or fifth episode in a row, Coach,
where with the guest,
Bitcoin Atlantis has come up.
It just goes to show a conference
that happened almost two years ago.
and it's come up organically in conversation.
I think it's left a deep imprint on a lot of people
for different reasons.
Yeah.
All right, so we've talked about,
so that's Bitcoin Ballers.
Now you have something called Proof of Work Academy, correct?
Just Proof of Workout.
So it's something that I watched at the start of last year.
um so through my work as a fitness instructor and doing health and wellness for the past
say seven to eight years we speak a lot about consistency and ironically 21 was a big number
in my world beforehand we used to do challenges and say to people okay we do a 21 day challenge
and now obviously into bitcoin the 21 ism is all over the place so i do love it so the proof of
workout which I launched last year was just a fun way of people being accountable to say here's a
tick list that you can tick off every day um on social media so you could put an emoji for the
workout that you did um and just show your proof of work so show a picture of you in the gym
and show a picture of you running or walking it could be any workout something that was just got your your heart rate elevated for 21 minutes um once so once a day at least once a day for 21 days of the month so some people did it religiously they were joining in
every month showing photos some people might have done it just one month of the year but for me it
was just okay here's something that i am doing i'm going to offer it to the community to jump on board
we had t-shirts made up so my logo our coach carbon logo just 21 um logos on the back again
21ism to show people you haven't got to be as I say smashing 5k runs that you might see people do
every day that's not necessarily good for you you might not necessarily find that enjoyable
and then it's going to make it difficult for you to sustain that but if you find something that
you do enjoy and again it might just be going for a walk after dinner every day but if you do that
consistently if you can do it for 21 days then it creates a habit you might do it for the whole month
But if you can do it for at least 21, and then if you can do it for every month, then you then should hopefully feel and see the difference that doing those workouts, those proof of workouts do for you and your body and your mind.
Is that just the idea of the elite athlete, right?
We're talking about consistently working out.
and from the elite athletes that you've seen close up
and your son is now one of them, right?
He plays for Middlesbrough.
Is that a championship team now?
I know there used to be a Premier League team once upon a time.
No, they're in the championship.
They're vying to be in the Premier League next year.
They're second in the championship at the moment.
So it should be an exciting end to the season.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, so you've seen a lot of elite.
question about elite yeah yeah so you know you get to see elite athletes up close including your
your son being one of them uh and we're talking about you know consistently uh showing up for the
for the workout the proof of workout essentially right true where you start seeing the results
what is the difference in mindset that you see that separates elite athletes from
let's say just enthusiastic people
it's it's the discipline so right now i'm on the call and it's raining outside i can hear the rain
against the window is the discipline of i have to work out because i want to be better rather than
oh it might be uncomfortable so i'm not going to do it today and i think it was kobe bryant or
michael jordan made that made a statement that said never quit because if you quit once becomes
a habit so if you want to be the best or be elite you have to understand that you're going to have to
be uncomfortable and you're going to have to get comfortable being uncomfortable constantly
consistently it's not I have a coach that I hold in high regard and he used to say to us when we
were younger you cannot turn it on and off talent you can't just say oh today I'm going to be
talented today I'm going to work hard but tomorrow I'm not it has to be every day and you're not
always going to get a result so his his quote was you can't guarantee a result but you can guarantee
a performance and guaranteeing guaranteeing a performance comes from consistency and we liken
it to again the bitcoin network i don't do price predictions or anything but people are attracted
to that now at the moment you could say well the bitcoin exchange rate as i call it is low but
it's a consistent network that has been up has a 99.9 uptime there will be ups and downs
but as Saylor says it's volatile to the upside so likening again that to football if you consistently
put your your effort in your training sessions in your you're attending your training sessions
you're available for selection in games you're playing games the more minutes you put in effort
wise the more likely is you are going to be say successful you're going to be able to succeed if
you haven't put the minutes in on the training ground you cannot expect to go and cross the white
line on a match day and perform to the best of your ability yeah no for sure um it it's that's
what separates the very good from the great right just that it's almost like a mad focus
uh mad level of intensity that you need to have yeah it's it's an obsession it's an obsession
yeah yeah you have to be obsessed or you're going to be average and i joke i think when i was on the
first my first conversation i had with daniel prince on the once bitten he joked and said when
did you realize you weren't going to be a pro and i joked and said i still think i could be it now
now me saying i still think i could be a professional footballer and me putting in the
work to be a professional footballer are two different things now looking at my son and those
around him that are at a similar level I now understand the work that I didn't put in so
although I believe I was talented although I believe I was putting enough work in I can now
look back retrospectively and be honest and say I didn't show enough proof of work now there's no
guarantee to say if I did put as much work in as my son has done or as much work I think I now
should have done there's no guarantee that I would have made a professional footballer there is an
element of luck of being seen being scouted but i believe i would have had a better chance
yeah yeah i mean luck does play a role here right uh and also this is the other thing
you can have amazingly talented kids who are putting in the work right putting in a ton of work
but a little bit of misfortune
could be getting an injury
because I've spoken to a lot of people
who become football coaches
and they were aspiring young footballers
once upon a time
and I say, hey, what happened?
They said, well, you know what?
After my fourth surgery,
I kind of lost the joy of playing
and that does happen, right?
Definitely, yeah.
I've seen players that
even the injury aside just to have the luck of the draw to get to get scouted at the right
opportunity or then had to get a job and couldn't couldn't commit but that aside going back to the
fundamentals and principles the beliefs of bitcoin which i see crossover with with football
if you adopt that mindset of working hard or wanting to be be elite if you don't happen to
make it to that elite level you can still play at lower level if you're not injured but if you do
get injured and do then have to do something else the mindset that you have will then see you good
i believe in any walk of life that you that you go down because you have those that mentality
you have that discipline ingrained in you yeah definitely and you know there's a lot to be said
to just study in Bitcoin.
Yeah.
You know, we're talking about the kids here
and the dedication and everything that needs to go
into becoming an elite athlete.
And then you have the game itself.
And I was kind of trying to draw the contrast
in my opening segment,
which is it is completely fiat, right?
Do you see anything redeemable at the organizational level,
UEFA, FIFA, all these other bodies?
I think you can see it going one way,
especially if you look at the World Cup
and the fanfare that they had for the States.
Donald Trump at the ceremony recently.
It is heavily marketed.
There is a lot of money,
but it's entertainment.
So we're looking at people that are elite and talented,
and we're watching them.
So here's where we come to a,
don't say a crossroads,
a juxtaposition of thoughts.
As Bitcorners, we know about the fall of Rome.
We think about Rome all the time.
And we are at the bread and circuses, right?
So I fully understand
when I'm saying to young people
who want to be footballers,
this is how you can do it.
But we are creating the circus
for people to be entertained.
You can see as a Trojan horse,
be the best,
create that elite mentality
not that you want to
extract
all the energy out of the game
but you will be
well can be paid handsomely
now with that
what are you going to decide to do?
as a Bitcoiner
I hope that you then decide
at the end of your career
which they are short careers
so we talk about
how much money is in the game
but if you extrapolate that
for the years out of the game
it's probably not that much
for a lot of people
the elite ones
that are earning millions
nearly billions
you could argue that is way too much money but there are lower level players that are probably
earning less than people that are doing middle middle level mid-level jobs so without sounding
too crude get in do your proof of work earn your money and then decide what you're going to do for
the rest of your life and hopefully you will be a net benefit to society with your knowledge of
Bitcoin. I'm not saying you have to be a mad
rabid Bitcoin like I am, but
again, the fundamentals, belief, principles
that you understand
can you then take out into the wider world
and then support and educate the next
generation. So, yeah, I'm not
sure how much redemption, well, that
probably is redemption, right? We are
infiltrating the game as Bitcoiners.
We're creating elite
footballers or elite ballers
who understand proof of work
and then they are going to change the game.
yeah we're infiltrating the circus because that's where the people are right uh the people have
flocked to the circus to watch what's happening and then we're spreading the message there i think
that's a that's a really interesting way of looking at it but but coach you know your your
point about this being bread and circuses this is so true because before i became a bitcoiner i used
to watch i don't know eight to ten hours of football a week maybe more and it was completely
obsessive. And it wasn't just football. I used to watch other sports too, right? So,
so much of my productive time in a week used to be sucked into this. And once I went down the
Bitcoin rabbit hole, and I'm not the only one, by the way, right? You mentioned Daniel Prince,
he says the same thing. He used to watch a ton of sports too, and others. Other Bitcoiners say
the same thing and one you know sports now watching football it feels like especially me
like what am i going to do watch a bunch of a bunch of men half my age prance around a ball
it makes zero sense when i could be doing so many other things
i don't know if you've you've experienced that yeah that feeling especially watching that obviously
yeah yeah yeah so obviously i watched through a couple of different lenses um as a as a father
as a fan i'm watching my son perform as a coach um previously coaching young people um for some
professional i am there to help develop and coach so i'd like passing on my knowledge
in terms of actually watching games i i watch match of the day which are the highlights which
I do keep up with but I do get your thoughts on mainstream TV as a big caller you probably don't
watch anymore but I don't watch reality TV shows every time I switch a TV on I'm drawn to watch
something that is gonna enlighten me or nourish me so again YouTube videos I'm looking for something
that's I'm gonna learn something from I don't want to be just watching stuff that is just brain
mush as I see it now other people may find value in that and I can't dismiss that but
But for me, it's like there's no interest.
So, yeah, I totally get where you're coming from.
But for me, I still have a, say, two feet in that camp because, well, I do enjoy football.
I'm now looking out for the next Bitcoin baller.
And I do want to stay up to speed with current affairs in football in terms of players, skills, goals and everything.
So, yeah, that's my starts on it.
So when you say you're looking out for the next Bitcoin baller, it's almost like a scout, right?
you're trying to find
the next person to join your team
exactly
how many
people have you scouted?
as I said you can be a Bitcoin baller
and in terms of
signing Bitcoin ballers up
I would like to
offer something so I have an award for
goals for assists all I need
to see is proof of work so whether it is
a post or video
on social media, show me the proof of work
and you'll be rewarded.
When we enter tournaments, you get first refusal
if you're available, depending on
where you are in the world.
Ultimately, it's a
value for value. I'm after your content
and when I get your content
as a Bitcoin brawler, I can then share that on my
platforms and then I will
reward you for that.
My hope is to create a catalogue,
a platform
where people go and seek out,
oh, he's a Bitcoin brawler. Let me look on
on coaches page or the Bitcoin Warner page
and I'm gonna see that person's footage, their reels,
which in the future I hope will lead to maybe a trial at a team or lead to something further that furses their football journey So knowing what I know now
in terms of many reasons why I believe I may not have made it,
I'm trying to create so many options or opportunities
for young people to say,
come and sign us a bit con baller
and I will do all in my ability
to put your content out there
to help coach you and advise you.
And again, there's no guarantees,
but the more work you put in,
The more work I'm going to put in, the more chance or more options
that are going to be available to you.
And a question for you, Ravi.
How is your son getting on?
You mentioned, obviously, he's still...
yeah yeah yeah sorry there's the internet connection is a bit weird today a bit of a delay
and uh it keeps uh but but i i caught your question coach uh he's he's doing well you know we it's a
little it's always challenging in america which is not as football crazy as as england and and
you know other european countries um and we're kind of in a you know we're about three hours
actually almost four hours away from New York City.
So it's a bit of a challenge finding good football.
So we drive basically an hour.
We drive him an hour four times a week to an academy.
And he's, you know, he's doing well.
He's playing with kids who are a year older than him.
So it's a bit of a challenge for him.
And he still wants to go pro.
So it's, yeah, he still remembers you fondly though, coach,
that time in Madeira.
That was good fun.
Yeah, I remember fondly the skill that he did around the world,
which I still haven't mastered yet.
But again, he showed his proof of work.
He's part of the Madeira video,
pass it on challenge where he was throwing the ball
and managed to do around the world
and pass it on to the next person.
but talking about mindset.
So the fact that he,
you have to travel often and quite far and he still wants to do it.
I,
I take my hat off and applaud that.
I said the same thing to my son when he was younger at the age of 12,
we used to have to travel the same about an hour away,
three to four times a week.
And I said to him one day,
if at any point mate that you don't want to do this or becomes too much,
just let me know.
And he said,
no,
I love it.
Dad.
and I appreciated that time
because it meant
we got to spend time together
in the car
but for him
it was a way
and although
it didn't work out
at that particular club
at the time he was released
you could have argued
oh what a waste of time
but it wasn't a waste
because it was his education
it was his training
and then
when he's travelled further
afield to go and play
that hasn't quite worked out
to now
he's four and a half hours
four and a half hours away
by car
but he's living his best life
he's living the dream
he's doing what
he wants to do that's brilliant it is that that one hour drive up and one hour back definitely a
really good way of connecting um i both my wife and i we take turns doing it and we we enjoy that
uh so coach let's talk about you have a line of clothing coach carbon clothing is that right
that's right yes that's right yeah and again bitcoin has enabled me to realize a dream
um on one of the latest videos that i've posted it tells the backstory so when i was 13 or 14 i
think my uncle gave me a book at christmas a notebook sketchbook because i was into art and
drawing and i listed all the things i was going to do when i was older and i was inspired by
richard branson so i'd written carbon airlines carbon bank carbon clothing there's about 10
different things that I was going to do put my name to and be an entrepreneur as I said fast
forward I became a footballer then a carpenter then a project manager and all those ideas
got left left to the wayside then having the time freedom working on projects that I found
find value in I revisited the clothing and it was for me it was I was going to make statements so
each each piece is a statement that I've made whether it be on Twitter or X Instagram
but it's timestamped with a block height so if you look on the block in the blockchain put in the
block height you will recognize when I made that statement now at the time the statement might have
been outlandish it may have come to fruition but it's something that I believed at that time
and if you browse the collection and you find a statement that resonates you can also purchase it
and wear that statement and going back to the value for value how the coach carbon clothing
brand works if you wear it and you're spotted in the wild which means again showing proof of work
taking a photo anywhere in the world i will reward you with sats now why would i do that well i'm
getting the promo because you're sharing on social i can use that as content and then the value you
are getting back is sats in your wallet now you as a noob or someone who doesn't even know about
bitcoin a pre-corner that's part of the education so it's wear and learn or wear and earn so you're
learning well what is bitcoin what is the block height what does the message mean how do i earn
my rewards how do i have a wallet what are sets and it's just giving people an entry point into
the rabbit hole um allowing me to fulfill a dream of having a clothing range with a message to share
with people and it might only be a handful of people that ever claim the sets and wear it and
take pictures but for me it's something that bitcoin has allowed me to to pursue
is there global distribution for this clothing line yes yes you've got my website you can order
obviously there will be um delivery charges depending on where you where you are in the
world but yes again like the bitcoin baller anyone can be a bitcoin baller anybody can wear
coach carbon clothing as long as you can you can order and and receive receive a
package i know some people don't want to dox themselves and receive their
home address they can receive a work or po box number um and again they'd all they'd have to do
to receive their rewards if they're spotting in the wild is share their ln url with me so barrier
to entry would be a mobile phone with a with a lightning address or lightning wallet that they
share with me that i would then happily share share some sets if they if they share their message
so you heard it here folks if you want coach carbon stats all you have to do is go to his
website and order a piece of clothing then wear it and send post a video on nostre coach you know
uh there there are marketplaces on nostre as well there's plebeian market there's shopster and others
have you looked into the nostre marketplaces for for distributing your clothing
you you put me on the spot there um i haven't no that was that would be on my list to do
obviously i am on on luster i have uh i have used it um but it's something that i should probably
as a bit corner focus more on i say thank you for that i will venture down that rubber hole some more
and and since you mentioned the privacy thing doxing your address
there are people working on solutions to that.
How can you send a package and use a network of couriers
to get it from point A to point B
without the sender knowing the address of the receiver?
It's still a work in progress,
but there are people who are thinking about
these types of privacy things in meatspace
as deeply as people are working on digital privacy as well.
yeah it's cool stuff um and then your uh the oxpit meetup talk a little bit about that
that's something else you're involved in right
yes that's right so that actually launched nearly four years ago
um march 2022 i think we had the first meetup um that came about again my uncle
he's been one of my biggest supporters i hosted a bitcoin ballers winter cup for young people in
2021 it was the first one i ever did invited young people to come and play and rewarded them with
some bitcoin prizes so the bitcoin bottle we were sponsored by or supported by coin corner
bit refill i think and also bottle pay at the time who were around the way they were a uk
Bitcoin exchange.
So after that event,
my uncle said, well done, it was great.
Now what?
You need to do something else.
I thought, well, I love
networking, I love meeting people, I'm going to do a meet-up.
At that time, we were
working with
Oxford City Football Club,
who were one of the first teams,
I think, I believe, to accept lightning
payments at the club. They had
the Bitcoin logo on the back, they were sponsored by
corner they had bitcoin logos on the placards around the stadium in that season um they actually
got promoted and their last game it was a playoff final game it was streamed live on bt sport so
we have video footage of a bitcoin team winning the cup celebrations along the pitch and what i'm
looking forward to in maybe 10 years time when everybody understands or knows what bitcoin is
they can look back at that moment and be like, wow, it was hiding in plain sight.
Bitcoin was out there and we knew nothing about it.
But going back, so that's where we hosted our first ever meetup at Oxford.
It was at Oxford City Football Club.
Had people coming from all over.
Like Bitcoin, it's constant.
We used to have it every quarter.
We've now gone to monthly.
And what I mean when it's like Bitcoin, sometimes there are lots of people interested.
Sometimes there aren't any people.
It's just myself and my family.
but I have chosen
I think maybe two years ago
that we were going to go to a monthly meetup
we've changed locations a few times
we've tried to onboard different merchants
the location we have now
is a restaurant called Taste Tibet in Oxford
they are
they've taken the armature pill, they're interested
they accept Bitcoin payments so if you're ever in
Oxford, UK
visit Taste Tibet, you can have some
lovely fantastic Tibetan food
and I'm sure they'll be happy
to seat you in the restaurant
indoor or
outdoor if the weather's nice
and then yeah you can
give them your sats, value for value
obviously spend and replace
but for me it's
everything that I do within the space
in my community that has
Bitcoin as the base list, it's just a passion
project, there's a guy
called Aaron Dorff, a hairdresser
in the UK and he coined
the term, or the phrase
let your passions align
with your incentives and then sprinkle a little bitcoin on it and amazing things will happen and
right now i have one of the t-shirts and hoodies is living the dream i feel like i am living the
dream obviously you can have further dreams but i get to meet some fantastic people have great
conversations with people like yourself and orange prilling that's what i love to do not saying i
know everything and not saying i'm right but i'm with a community of people that ultimately want to
make the world fairer and make it a better place.
It will take time.
It probably won't happen in our lifetime.
It may take two generations, three generations,
but if we sow the seeds now,
hopefully other people can pick up the baton
and make the world a better place.
Yeah, that's great.
So, Coach, let's do this.
We're approaching the hour mark,
and I think this is a good time to move into our independent music segment.
So I played this new band that has joined this open music ecosystem
called Heartlight on one of my Sunday brunch episodes a few weekends ago.
And honestly, the feedback was so good that I had to bring them back for the main show.
this track is just straight up galloping heavy metal it's got a rhythm that sounds like iron
maiden with a symphonic polish that this french band does so well the track is called and nature
unfolds once again it's fast it's melodic and it's the perfect way to launch into the weekend
We'll be right back.
The fool climbs the ladder, Leaning against the law
The horrors of the woman and her full colors
That stick the coin that can stand up soon
I cannot betray my calling
To my own many pain I bleed
Walking so much with the devil
Eagle crushed upon their fall
The eagle flies over the great beast
This can't shine so blunt radiance
No wonder, no power is built
So to this breast with a thousand plans
And nature evolves once again
By the breath of the great work I take the path of the tarot
Each step embodies an illustration
That carries me and light turns my father
I read a story of all my life
As number six of the reeling had us
I fought with my mirror tower The brighter light beyond the end
The eagle's face of the third red beast The sky shines on light radiance
The wonder garden of our spirits
Situ these breasts with a thousand plans
And nature at once once again
guitar solo
No more!
The broken hand of
With a thousand iconic eyes
I contemplate the rain
And my thoughts are spinning again
I've forgotten
Its silver fillets
I'm being a slice
Over the great beast
The scales of love's radiance
The world's gardener, no power is built
Sub to this breast with a thousand blitz
And nature unfolds once again
That was And Nature Unfolds Once Again by Heartlight.
You can hear that galloping triplet feel in the guitars.
It just pulls you forward and then hits you with a chord progression that ties your brain into knots.
It's a totally different energy from the slower, more hypnotic, as above, so below that I played on the Sunday Branch episode.
And look, the title's fitting.
nature unfolds once again that is my stoic month mantra for the next month or so as i stare
out of my window at the unforgiving monochrome of the arctic tundra that is upstate new york this
time of year i've got 90 splits set up for this chapter if that gallop got your head nodding hit
that rewind button by a minute or two and send some sats to heartlight and help independent metal
thrive coach are you much of a metal person i would say no but i absolutely love that track
um i'm not sure if you're aware of you're a he-man fan but there's a new masters of the
universe film coming out and as i'm listening i'm just picturing that they're talking back to
being a kid and watching those sort of things um in the uk or not the uk so flash gordon you wear
flash gordon that sort of genre i like that of a film of a hero story and i think that that track
there was just fitting i'm gonna go back and listen and stream of some sats because i sat here
absolutely loved it yeah yeah and that's the cool thing about this ecosystem that we you know it's
growing and there's there's uh the as the joke goes the revolution has bad user experience right
bad ux uh but the cool thing is we can support artists this way uh i i play a song uh every week
and then when someone's streaming sats,
during the song, 90% of the sats go to the band.
Or if someone wants to boost,
they can, at the time the song is playing,
they hit the boost button on Fountain.
And again, 90% goes to the band.
And if they do it at any other point in the show,
you know, it's a 50-50 split
between the guest and the show.
So it's really cool that we have these tools
to help support each other,
support the ecosystem,
and build that renaissance, right?
that you talked about.
Yeah, and it's incredible to see what's happening.
For me, as a Bitcoin,
a lightning has always been around.
We were just obviously 2019 I think Was it 2017 Have I got that right I think 2017 2017 but you know I mean unusable almost for two years Yeah so when I went down the road Lightning was there
So I'm amazed when I meet Bitcoiners who I call OGs that have never used it,
I'm like, this is going to onboard everyone.
And I use it in everything I do.
And you mentioned Fountain, so podcasting musicians.
We are just in the ecosystem where you can literally get value for value.
and if somebody likes something that they hear or see that they wouldn't necessarily have been
open to before can now reward that person or send value back to that person
would not be possible with fiat i'll tell you that no try imagine sending you know yeah
in real-time streaming value for value um and from your wallet directly to the musicians or
the artist or whoever it could it could even be sports right you could you know here's here's the
crazy thing right if you one of the bitcoin ballers games in theory coach and i'm coming up with this
thing now as we're speaking but this is doable that you can have zap splits set up for a live
stream right so the zap.stream this show right now there's some people are going to be listening to
this to the recording on fountain but there are those who are listening to it live on nostr on
zap.stream. You could do that to a game, right? You can stream a football game.
That has actually been done. In Nottingham, we had a meetup in Nottingham, a festival in 2024,
and each player had a QR code and joined the game in the club room or in the program. You could scan
their QR code and live stream them sats. So if they did a good pass, a good tackle ahead of a goal,
you could send them sats and that was done by who are the gaming people
is it zebedee zebedee so thank you very much zebedee yeah yeah zebedee team yeah and so even
today on three sats friday corn corner i'll be hodl uh we're giving some sats away and so we're
bringing and i just put my all the ballers lnurls and they they got sats so they're probably sat
maybe at training and they got sats into their wallet and they have no idea why or where it's
come from but yeah coaches just put their url out in the ether yeah but you know you can bring even
more automation to it right so there are a lot of these coach cameras or uh in in anyone who any kid
who's trying to go pro at their club they typically have this they have these cameras
that track their shirt numbers, right?
So that you can then go and pull out
the specific clips of yourself.
You have that here in the States.
I'm sure it must be even further advanced
out in Europe and in England,
just given the football obsession there, right?
You can have something like that.
The shirt numbers and then the zaps,
the URLs get attached to the shirt numbers.
So if there's a good pass,
there's some kind of logic AI or whatever it is
sitting there that says,
oh, number eight did a good pass,
and then people can zap it somehow.
So I don't know.
You've seen the vision.
I've seen the vision from the moment I launched Bitcoin Ballers.
It will happen one day.
As I said, it did happen in Nottingham
for that one game at the Nottingham Festival.
But in the future, with the way technology is going,
I believe that will be, it's almost like back to the future
when he had nine screens watching.
We can do that now.
Soon we'll be zapping people,
sets,
joining their performances.
Whilst we're eating bread
and watching the circus,
we can pay them for it as well.
There you go.
So the Carbon Life pods,
talk about that.
So that was, again,
another passion project
that launched
before I went down
the Bitcoin rabbit hole.
It started off, what was going to be actually called, Five Minutes With.
So my son was hoping to be a footballer.
And as I did at Make It, I wanted to speak with friends of mine who were professionals
and just have five-minute conversations for them to give me little nuggets of advice I could pass on.
So the first episode I recorded, I think it was in July 2020, just before I left the Fiat World
and just before going down the Bitcoin rabbit hole.
And it was two friends who were, one who had just finished playing and one who was still playing.
and we had a fantastic conversation.
There was negative parts of the football world,
but lots of positives,
and they actually finished with it and said,
actually, we don't want too many negatives
because it has afforded us a fantastic lifestyle,
but there are parts of it that nobody sees.
So we're talking about maybe bouts of depression
or being away from family,
not being able to go to family events
and the mental bandwidth that it demands.
But they have said it was their childhood dream.
they've fulfilled it and they've loved what they've achieved and then after that conversation
I thought to myself well I want to educate my son I want to educate my daughter why just limit
it to football so then I started having conversations with friends and people I knew of who weren't in
I would say mainstream jobs jobs that you couldn't go into your careers advisor and ask them about
because they would have no idea so I spoke with people that were in their own lane they were
into media, social media, they were videographers.
But then going down the Bitcoin rabbit hole,
I found Bitcoin is interesting.
So going through the conversations,
I've had fantastic conversations with Bitcoiners.
I've had conversations with Jimmy Song, Alex Cognali,
who was a real Bitcoin boiler in the States.
I've had UK Bitcoin Master One, Daniel Prince has been on.
But the whole concept of the Carbon Life Pods
is browse the show, listen to any conversation.
You might not understand what the person's doing.
You might not want to do that,
but hopefully they can give you a bit of advice,
a little sprinkling of knowledge that you can take off
and use to elevate what you're doing.
So 2025 was a little bit quiet.
I've appeared on some other people's shows a lot more,
but I'm bringing it back for 2026.
We're obviously hosted on Fountain App,
linking that with
the Coach Carver newsletter which will be
a video, the audio
and also then via email
you can receive my Coach Carver news
keeping you up to date with what I'm doing monthly
on Fountain
but yeah the podcasting
again there's a back catalogue now
for over five years
of conversations and those conversations
things I've said, things that other people have said
in those conversations may have changed
over a cycle ago but revisit
that and you can now also to comment on those conversations and also receive money back whilst listening So again I a big fan of Fountain have been since I understood what they were doing many years ago
Although it does seem like yesterday,
when I reached out to Oscar, I met Oscar again in Madeira.
It's great to go to events,
on a side shoot now,
it's great to go to events and meet people
that you've spoken to online and may not even know their face.
I was at a conference
in Manchester recently
somebody came over
and I had no idea
who he was
and he mentioned
his Twitter handle
and I was like
oh so we embraced
we hugged
I'm like it's great
to meet you
after all these years
it's just that
realisation
that you are
you are interacting
with real people
with real faces
so I'm going back
to the conversations
everything
we're doing now
even the conversation
we're having now
is just a record
right
a record of what
we believe and understand
at this moment in time
at this block
that may change
in a cycle,
it's time in two cycles,
but this is our proof of work,
our proof of conversation,
our proof of understanding
of the world around us
right at this present moment.
So that's what I'm a big fan of.
People documenting their life,
where they are right now
and other people then using that
to progress in what they want to do,
whatever that may be in life.
Yeah.
And are these video pods?
Some of them have been.
So in 2024, there were some videos going forward using Fountain.
They will be video, but also the great feature.
So the last newsletter I did, it's a video recording,
but you can also just listen to it.
And on that app, you can switch between video and audio.
So you may be lounging in your living room and watching it
and decide, actually, I'm going to go on a run.
So you just switch it to audio, put your phone in your pocket
and go for a run and still be listening to the conversation.
It's a fantastic feature that they've added,
that switching between video and audio.
So the Carbon Life pods, are they like full length,
like an hour and a half, two hour conversations?
They vary generally 40 minutes to an hour.
Some are a little bit longer, some are shorter.
It just depends on what was happening at that time.
Some people were pressed for time.
So again, I appreciate the time that anybody has spent with me
having a conversation about their story.
and something you can really dig your teeth into.
And I do believe that every single conversation,
there is some insight that they've offered.
I will always ask a question at the end.
So I think even if you just listen for that,
listen to that insight for the final question of each episode.
So it looks like 2026 is going to be a busy year for you, Coach.
You're bringing back the pods,
taking full advantage of Fountain's video audio switching feature,
producing the content.
There's the Bitcoin Island Cup.
When is that again?
In May.
So a few months for people to get training and practicing.
Is the team shaping up yet?
Or you'll find out on a day off.
We're just going through the process of doing the media and the sign-up forms.
And that is going through on Satlantis.
Have you heard of Satlantis?
There's like an events platform.
Yeah, so we're working with Satlantis to get all that up and running.
Excellent.
What else do you have in store for this year?
So the ballers, we are actually signed up to play in a prize-winning tournament.
the BR Ballers Cup in Leicester in the UK in June.
So we've played and competed for the last two years.
We've met or played against some fantastic teams.
A lot of the players have played in a thing called the Ballers League in the UK.
I think there's one in Germany.
I think states are going to get one as well.
So it's a small-sided competition with a few different rules.
They try and get celebrities to play and ex-footballers.
So we've actually competed against some of the players that play in that.
I like to see it as a
showcase for our ballers that go and play
to put yourself in an arena with talented
players and also you have the media
spotlight so a chance to be seen
this year, the last two years
the prize pot for the winner has been
£5,000 but the
nugget or the
incentive is to play in this tournament
because next year in 2027
the prize pot will be £20,000
the prize pot
is a big
lure to entice you into it um we'd love to win it but as i was saying you've got you've got to be in
it to win it but the bitcoin wall is one of the slogans is um if one wins we all win so if we
manage to enter that we'll enter this tournament but if we manage to win this one and enter next
year's and win that it's just going to showcase and highlight what bitcoin wall is is about
i can then preach and tell people about bitcoin showcase other other businesses other people that
are inside the space so if you want to get behind and support bitcoin wallage obviously you can
You can find us on Guiser Fund.
We have a page where you can support.
Even just support by liking our posts
and sharing it on your social media pages.
So that's what I'm working towards with the Borders
towards this summer.
And we'll play some more local ones.
But as you say, a busy year,
which I'm looking forward to.
And what I love now is that it's all in my realm.
I am in charge.
I'm responsible.
I'm not working for anybody else.
I'm working for me.
and obviously the borders and people that come to the meetups
and people that have other shows.
But I love what I do.
So I don't see it as work.
It's all out of passion.
And that's why I'm excited for this year and every year coming forward.
That's the Ikigai, man.
You got to...
Right.
It doesn't feel like work.
Yeah.
Love it.
And this tournament with the £20,000 prize pool,
not this year, but the next year,
That's not a Bitcoin tournament, right?
It's like a broader tournament.
It's not a Bitcoin tournament.
But what we have been able to do this year,
so there's a thing they call the Road to Be Our Ballers Cup.
I did a little video last year.
I've spoken with the organizers,
and they are happy for me to use them as a partner, so to speak.
So we will stack Bitcoin up until the day of the tournament for our entry fee.
So you'll be able to in real time see where our balance is that we're gonna stack daily
At the start of the tournament our stack may be more than what the entry fee is
It may be less but at that point it's a talking point right
If it's more than the entry fee is like well why what's happened
Why is your Bitcoin worth more than the fee If it less well then obviously we top it up But again it a conversation Well at one point Bitcoin was this price and that was this price
What's happened?
But ultimately I want to liken it to our preparations.
Every day we're going to train and prepare.
Every day we're going to stack.
There will be good days.
There will be bad days.
Today might have been a bad day if you're looking at the Bitcoin exchange rate.
It's raining outside.
You might have to run in the rain and not get your best time for your 5k.
or you might have a little injury so you have to rest
and you can't put 100% into your workout.
But if you keep stacking those workouts, those training sessions daily,
come the start of the tournament,
you should be in the best possible position you can be in,
similar to our stack.
Yeah.
That's great.
So, Coach, anything else you want to talk about?
Anything to look forward to beyond what we've discussed?
this is going to sound really out here
but I'm looking forward to
meeting more Bitcoiners
catching up with people that I've met
over the years at conferences online
and making the world
better with our actions
when I was younger
I used to call it the only
child syndrome I was brought up
as the only child, I had obviously cousins
who were close for the majority of the time
which is me and my mother
I always believed I was going to invent something
I was going to do something major that would affect the world.
And as I got older, I didn't think it was ever going to happen.
But with Bitcoin, I feel like I'm doing something small within my skill set,
within my energy that I can give to make the world a better place.
And the more I can do, the happier I am.
That's the Hegelian arc that all Bitcoiners go through, or most Bitcoiners anyway.
you're born, you're an idealist, you think you can change the world,
you're hit with a cold slap of fiat reality,
and then you find Bitcoin, and that's the synthesis, right?
Yeah, I will change the world,
maybe not in the grand way of my childhood dreams,
but in an equally important, maybe more effective,
but more controlled way.
Yeah.
Excellent.
That is a great way to...
going to teach one as my mom would say yeah but oh you know your mom so your mom is amazing uh my
wife still talks about her because i think it was at bitcoin um at atlantis where we where we met
in madera and i think my wife and your mom was we spent the entire football tournament chatting
they weren't even watching anyone play and it was and they got along like a house on fire
so when I said when I was told my wife just before uh oh I'm interviewing coach carbon
remember him and and the first thing she says is oh his mom is amazing say hi to his mom
she has that effect on people
she's a bitcoiner at heart before she knew it yeah now lovely lady uh and uh was really happy
to meet her awesome uh so coach uh any where can people find you uh noster i'm hoping you said you
are on noster yes this is a yeah generally coach carbon at coach carbon on all platforms um
and then we have the youtube channel so carbon tv i think it's actually carbon channel tv if you
have to search it. If you follow me on social media on Instagram or most, you'll see links to
the YouTube channel. So yeah, Coach Carbon, Google that and you should find me.
Excellent. Well, I will get all of that in the show notes. So thanks again, Coach. This is
super enlightening. Yeah, I'm sorry about the technical issues. Every now and then these things
happen uh so there were times when i couldn't quite hear it happens doesn't it yeah yeah yeah
no but appreciate you stopping by and uh sharing all this exciting stuff that you are working on
again thank you thank you for your time pleasure to be on blockchain radio
of course anytime we'll have you back uh with more updates uh hopefully in the next few months
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