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Michael Saylor Keynote @ BTC Prague

BTC Prague · 2023-06-26 · 40m · View on X →

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Unbelievable energy here, huh?

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Orange energy.

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Orange energy.

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Well, it's an honor and a privilege to be with you all here today and get to interview

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my closest friend for 20 plus years, Michael Saylor, who obviously needs no introduction

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but whose contribution to the Bitcoin community has been nothing short of extraordinary.

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So I thought we would start off kind of at a high level macroeconomic view and talk

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about what's happening on a macro level, respect to interest rates, currencies, things of

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that nature and how it seems to be pushing the whole world into Bitcoin.

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You know, I discovered Bitcoin starting around March, April of 2020 and that's because

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the world came to a grinding halt.

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Interest rates went to zero.

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The lockdown shut down the economy everywhere in the world.

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It's a, the plane stopped flying, the ship stopped moving, the car stopped driving and I looked

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at the interest rates at zero and I thought this is kind of the same as trying to stop

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the passage of time.

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And for about 18 months, the entire economy was kind of frozen and stuck.

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And then around about a year ago, a bit more than a year ago, the Federal Reserve started

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raising the short term interest rates and they went from zero to 25 to 50 to 75 to 100

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and they went straight up to 500 basis points and they, and that's the fastest rate of increase

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in the interest rate in our lifetimes, you know, in our business career.

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And so I like to, I like to think of it as it's like in Top Gun 2, the movie where the

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interest rates were about 250 basis points in the middle of 2018 and then the feds flying

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the plane and it gets about 180 basis points in about February of 2020 and then it steep

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dives down to zero and it buzzes the valley.

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This is flying the world's economy at zero for about 18 months and then someone decided

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that they could go into a 9G lift and they just started pulling back on the wings of the

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plane and they're flying as hard as they can up to 500 basis points and that's the point

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of which you either black out or you rip the wings off the airplane, right?

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And then the movie Top Gun, the pilot started black out but we, we've got the point where

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the plane is almost about the stall, the plane being the worldwide economy.

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A lot of people are blacking out.

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You saw this in the UK about six months ago where the prime minister and the head of the

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minister of the ex-checker lost their jobs in a matter of weeks because they almost blew

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up the entire insurance pension fund and banking business in the UK.

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A few months after that we started ripping the wings off of the banking system in the

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US and we saw the failure of Silicon Valley bank and Silvergate bank and signature bank

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and first republic bank and so where we are right now is we're getting to the end of that

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incredible adjustment where the bankers are trying to reverse the excesses of taking

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interest to zero and the result is we know we can't keep raising interest rates much

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faster, much longer because we'll just crash the entire US and Western European banking

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complex.

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I mean all the banks technically insolvent when they raise interest rates that fast because

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they crash the bonds.

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So the Western bankers have slowed down that process.

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Now they're ambivalent.

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Can they move forward a little bit?

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Do they have to back off a bit?

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What's happened in the meantime that people don't notice is when we crank the interest

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rates up so fast we destroyed the value of all the sovereign debt and all the long mid-size

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debt in the world.

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What we're also doing is we're sucking all of the energy out of second out of the developing

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world currencies.

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So indirectly or maybe directly the interest rate saga has crushed the currencies of Turkey

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and the currencies of Argentina and the currencies of every developing nation that doesn't have

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an extremely strong economy.

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They're all collapsing right now.

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So where are we in the macro cycle?

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We're at the point where the inflation hasn't really gone away.

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It's backed off of the most extremes but we still have inflation and excess of the interest

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rate.

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We can't really keep raising interest rates without destroying all of our allies currencies

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and we can't raise interest rates without destroying a lot of the Western banks and pension

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funds and the rest of the bond complex.

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So the political pressure is going to grow on the banking community to stop raising rates

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but of course they're going to want the inflation to go away and they're going to want to save

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all of these other developing nations.

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So I would expect the logical thing to happen now is all of the economists will start to

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redefine inflation.

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And so instead of hearing CPI you're going to see other inflation measures that we want

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to focus on.

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They're going to redefine the measure.

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They're going to make adjustments to the market basket of goods and services in the inflation

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metric.

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So we're going to take out expensive items and put cheap items into the index so that

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the CPI looks lower.

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And you're going to start to see new novel financial instruments like swaps where we're

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simply going to swap billions or hundreds of billions of dollars for hundreds of billions

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of dollars of another currency.

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It will be an off balance sheet adjustment.

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And all of these things will be meant to massage the macroeconomic problem.

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We'll be trying to support other currencies.

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We'll be trying to keep our bonds from crashing.

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We'll be trying to make the inflation look lower.

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We're going to re-normalize.

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So instead of 2% inflation maybe it'll be 3% is normal.

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And instead of 3% of inflation defined 10 years ago it'll be 3% of the new inflation

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metric that we just came up with because this is the proper one because the world is different

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today and technology is different.

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And of course pretty soon you'll have ad finance, YouTube videos and the CPI because that's

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a little bit easier metric to manage.

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So I think we're at that cycle where the money printing is going to continue.

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We're going to have more of a delamination between monetary inflation and asset inflation

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and producer price inflation and CPI inflation and the general inflation rate.

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And politicians and bankers are going to struggle to hold it all together with a lot of

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novel new programs and new ideas.

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I think that's a great backdrop for the next topic I want to talk about.

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Everywhere we've gone for the last week everybody has wanted to ask about your views on what's

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happening on the regulatory front.

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The SEC has come out quite strong against a number of large crypto players.

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And so I thought it would be helpful to chat a little bit about what your views are on

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how this impacts Bitcoin both in the short term as well as the long term.

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Yeah well you know Bitcoin's a rabbit hole and when you start going down the rabbit hole

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first you have to learn all about Bitcoin and then you have to learn all about the block

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size wars.

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And then you have to learn about the history of the crypto industry.

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And somewhere along the way I started studying Gary Ginzer I took his class at MIT.

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I went back and I watched every minute of 20 lectures at MIT.

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And then I started reading everything written by anybody.

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And as you know I read all the lawsuits.

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I read the CFTC lawsuit.

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I read the Betrix lawsuit.

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I read the Coinbase lawsuit, the Binance lawsuit, all of the legal judgments.

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And I listened to all the congressional testimony like every minute.

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Like everything that every Congress person or every Senator has said about Bitcoin for

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the past three years.

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This is true.

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And then I talked to you about it.

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And so here's my opinion.

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First of all in the beginning there was Bitcoin and it was good.

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And there was a unit of account and it was called BTC.

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And there was a network that could not be censored and it was called Bitcoin.

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And then along came smart people that learned about Bitcoin and they arrived to fix Bitcoin.

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I just heard about Bitcoin.

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I'm here to fix Bitcoin.

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And they divided into two factions.

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There are the people that heard about Bitcoin and wanted to help Bitcoin the hard way.

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And they worked on lightning and it took years from 2015 and they're still working at six

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seven eight years later.

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And they worked on Bitcoin applications and they worked on Bitcoin companies and they

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worked very hard to raise millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions and billions

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of dollars to buy Bitcoin.

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That's the hard way.

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And those people were in this room and they're in the Bitcoin ecosystem and that's Bitcoin

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and lightning and Bitcoin maximalist and people that we Bitcoin.

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It's the Samson Mous and the Adam Bax and you know and it's the Elizabeth Starks and

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the Jack Mawlers and the Jack Doris season.

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You know who they are.

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And it's hard work.

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It takes a lot of time, a lot of money, a lot of bleeding.

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Then there's another group of people that heard about Bitcoin and they wanted to fix it

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and they took the easy way.

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And the easy way is a few shortcuts.

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It was I want to make money by copying Bitcoin.

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I want to compete with Bitcoin with a new token.

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I want to bank Bitcoin.

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I want to re-hypothicate Bitcoin.

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I want to loan you money on Bitcoin.

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I want to generate yield on Bitcoin.

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I want to run a Bitcoin exchange.

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I want to offer you Bitcoin derivatives and I want to create every other flavor of Bitcoin

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and I got the new Bitcoin, the quantum resistant Bitcoin and the energy efficient Bitcoin and

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the faster and more beautiful Bitcoin with the crypto kitties on it.

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Okay, that's the other set.

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Okay, that's crypto.

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Now what's going on right now is that people and I wanted to create the US dollar on

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a crypto rail and I'm going to give you Bitcoin without volatility and I'm going to give you

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a network, a crypto network that clears in one second which is cheap and free.

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So what you see with the regulation right now is the regulators are saying, we're not

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comfortable with a stable coin, we're not comfortable with the crypto exchange, we're

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not comfortable with the crypto token, we're not comfortable with the shortcuts.

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We don't want you to do an ICO.

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We don't want a corporate coin and the result of all of that is the crypto ecosystem which

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in the beginning was Bitcoin and then bifurcated into all these other things is going to come

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back together and unify on Bitcoin again.

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What we're going to see is that instead of the unit account being the dollar and instead

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of the network being a crypto exchange offshore, now the unit account is going to be BTC and

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the crypto network is going to be Bitcoin and if you want a fast Bitcoin network, a fast

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payment network, it's not going to be a crypto exchange, it's not going to be a proof of

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stake token, it's going to be lightning and the gas is going to be satoshies and everything

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is going to anchor into Bitcoin.

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So this is a very painful time period for the crypto industry and you can read it on the

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news but it's a very expensive, painful, difficult, educational episode where people that believed

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in Bitcoin but then went off to do all of their other all-coin experiments and crypto experiments,

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they're going to realize that there was a reason that you might want a censorship resistant

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network that sped out of block every 10 minutes.

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They're going to realize that there's a reason for a mining network that spits out 400

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exohash of digital power.

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They're going to realize that there's a benefit to working really long and hard for many,

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many years to do a lightning type network.

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They're going to realize that these things they took for granted, they thought we can

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just have our cake and eat it too.

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We can have a decentralized network that has the dollars, the unit of account and we can

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move the money to speed of light for free and we don't really need to use energy and mining

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a six and Bitcoin and we don't have to pay for Bitcoin for gas.

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We'll just issue our own yo-yo coin and we'll use that for gas.

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Those people are going to realize that Bitcoin is the safe haven asset.

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Bitcoin is the risk off asset.

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Bitcoin is the censorship resistant network.

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Bitcoin is the reserve asset of the ecosystem and that means that as they lose confidence

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in their tokens, they're going to trade their tokens back into the reserve asset of

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the ecosystem which is Bitcoin.

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When they lose confidence in an offshore or an onshore crypto exchange, they're going

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to trade back into Bitcoin.

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When they lose confidence, when they think that, well, that's not censorship resistant

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anymore, right?

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Those are all nation state captured networks.

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They're going to go back to Bitcoin.

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I actually think that this is reminding everybody why Satoshi did what Satoshi did.

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It's going to bring everybody back to their roots and as people lose confidence in all

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of these other crypto ideas which were meant to make Bitcoin better or fix Bitcoin, right?

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I'll give people a benefit of that.

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They're trying to fix Bitcoin but they're taking shortcuts or maybe it was their business,

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right?

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They're taking the business of trading Bitcoin, re-ipothecating Bitcoin, hedging Bitcoin,

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trading competitors to Bitcoin and proving Bitcoin.

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That was their business.

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I think that they're going to realize that in fact the best idea always was to buy and

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hold Bitcoin, take the long view and if you see an issue, if you see something that is

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suboptimal like I want to pay for a cup of coffee in a split second for free. If you can't do that with

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Bitcoin, you don't reinvent the ecosystem. You go back and you focus on creating either a layer

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two or a layer three solution on top of Bitcoin and you solve the problem via lightning or solve the

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problem by a custodial Bitcoin wallet. And so ultimately, the capital and the crypto ecosystem

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is going to migrate from the other crypto assets to Bitcoin. As people lose confidence as they get

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fearful about all these other crypto assets and crypto exchanges, they're going to go to the thing

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they know, the thing they trust. And the truth of the matter is, as Eric has you told me many times,

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the crypto people don't, they don't want just like Bitcoin, they actually like Bitcoin. They

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just thought that there might be another way and there might be another possibility. And now they

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realize that Bitcoin is the way. And there's no second best. There is no second best.

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The exchanges will simplify. They will go from trading hundreds of tokens or thousands of tokens

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or tens of thousands of ideas and they will simplify and they will consolidate. The ones that are

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going to last are going to focus on Bitcoin. They're going to realize that the investors are going

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to realize they should focus on Bitcoin. The technologist, whatever their idea is fast payments,

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DeFi, some token, some any kind of security thing, they're going to focus on Bitcoin. They're going

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to focus on Bitcoin, Lightning. They'll be an explosion of interest and protocols. The VC are

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going to move over from crypto tokens with Solana named as a security with Cardano named as a security

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with all these other 15, 20, 30 tokens named as securities. The VC and Silicon Valley are going

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to say, wow, what was that thing about Bitcoin? I was not lightning. You mean I can do this on

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Bitcoin with Satoshi's and you're going to see the VC's move over to Bitcoin and Lightning.

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You're going to see a renaissance of development on Bitcoin. You're going to see an acceleration

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of lightning. You're going to see an expansion and all of this is in essence a massive educational

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campaign to teach politicians the difference between Bitcoin and an ethical commodity and a security.

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And you can see it. It's like the senator says Bitcoin. The governor says Bitcoin. The Congress

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person says Bitcoin. The regulator says Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Bitcoin. And all of these lawsuits

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and I've read thousands and thousands of pages. There's one word conspicuously missing from all

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of the thousands of pages and that one word is Bitcoin. Okay?

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So bottom line, right? It's bumpy. It's a turbulent transition. It's a rationalization

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in the industry. The business, the industry is growing up but it's long term good for Bitcoin.

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And I think you can expect a lot of the crypto bros that got distracted. Maybe they took off

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their laser eyes. Maybe they love Bitcoin between 2010 and 2016. I think they're coming back to

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Bitcoin from 2023 to 2030. And you're going to see there's going to be an avalanche of people

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returning to the fold building on top of Bitcoin and they're going to rediscover the roots of the

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crypto revolution. Right? The whole idea of cryptography, decentralization and asset without an

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issuer. Right? And that is what's going on right now. It's going to educate the politicians. It's

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going to educate the mainstream media. Watch CNBC. They get it. Watch Bloomberg. They get it.

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Read Wall Street Journal on New York Times. They get it. And so I follow all you guys on Twitter.

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And I remember when I first got in this space in 2020, people said, when will the mainstream media

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talk about us? Nobody talks about us. Nobody talks about Bitcoin. Nobody talks about any of this.

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And then for a while, they talked about a lot of stuff and it was very confusing and it was very

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scary and it was unclear whether it was different between Bitcoin and FTT token. And now they're

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talking about us but it's very clear. Like Bitcoin is a commodity. There's other stuff as uncertain.

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Right? And Andrew Ross Sorkin says, tell me what you think about Bitcoin.

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And so I think that this has been, it's a catalytic experience. It's cathartic for the crypto community.

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I think we should welcome them back with open arms when they're ready to return to the fold.

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But meanwhile, Bitcoin is going to continue to motor forward. We have

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all of the people re-hypothicating and shorting Bitcoin. They're all bankrupt.

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If you thought it was a good idea to loan your Bitcoin to someone so they could short it,

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you probably lost your Bitcoin. Everyone in the business of shorting Bitcoin, they're all fallen.

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Right? Everybody that embraced the altcoins is being equal to Bitcoin. They're realizing that

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was a bad business idea. I think it takes a while for the market to work out these issues.

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The law of thermodynamics will not be denied. Bitcoin is the technically superior asset.

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It is the economically superior asset. It is the ethically superior asset.

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And believe it or not, the vast majority of the disinterested population around the world

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will eventually give in enough time and information. Realize that.

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And they are realizing that. That's what's happening in front of your face. It's not pretty.

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It's not pleasant. But this is the way that Bitcoin rises above the noise and establishes its dominance

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as the world's greatest crypto asset network.

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So we've got a macroeconomic landscape where nation states and central banks are doing their best

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to destroy the purchasing power of 8 billion people in the world, pushing people into Bitcoin.

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We've got a regulatory environment that you've just eloquently described as being very good for

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Bitcoin certainly in the long term. I think the title of our chat here is the investment case for

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Bitcoin. So let's get a little more granular talk about that. Take it any direction you like,

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whether you want to talk about different products or the different investment groups,

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whether it's individuals, family offices, corporations, what are your thoughts on the investment case for Bitcoin?

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Well, I think people are losing confidence in technology investments and stock and equity

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investments right now. If you look at the performance of the S&P and the NASDAQ and most

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conventional companies, they've had a wall. And so investors in the equity market are scratching

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their head and they're increasingly fearful. They've got high interest rates, they've got inflation,

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they've got regulation, they've got trade barriers. So they're looking around. The commercial

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real estate market took off in 2020 because interest rates went to zero and so the cap rates of these

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companies were extraordinary and the multiples on commercial real estate were extreme. And there's

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always like a three-year lag. Like you and me, we sit around our pool in March of 2020, we go, oh my,

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these commercial office buildings are going to be empty. Who's going to want this space?

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Well, it takes three years for people to go, wow, commercial occupancies are low, who wants the

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space. So sometimes you don't really want to know three years in advance or at least you

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have to think about it. But I think investors are going to disenchanted with real estate.

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They're getting disenchanted with equity. They're getting concerned, I mean the entire commodity

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thing is a concern. Commodities don't work and they're realizing that that's a challenge.

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So they're also losing confidence right in their ownership of these properties, right? You've

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seen so many people had their assets seized or frozen and that's continuing. So Bitcoin is emerging

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as digital gold. Its proposition is gold is stronger than ever because gold is not performed at

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all in two and a half years and Bitcoin is beating every asset class in the same time period.

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So the gold hypothesis is much, our thesis is much stronger. Bitcoin is digital property is much

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stronger. The idea that I could buy a million dollars worth of Bitcoin and move it anywhere in

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the world is becoming appealing to people as they start to struggle with property taxes and they

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know there's going to be an increase in tax over time. So Bitcoin is emerged as a digital commodity

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better than gold, as a digital property better than commercial real estate. It's emerging as an

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alternative to people that have seen their residential property monetize and it's also emerging as a

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world's monetary index because as the regulators differentiate between Bitcoin and everything else

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as they hammer over and over and over again, Bitcoin is an asset without an issue or it is unique.

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As that happens, the significance of Bitcoin being that green ticker in the lower right corner of

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a CNBC television episode or newscast or Bitcoin being at the top of the mass head of the Wall Street

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journal every day, right? That's sending a message to the world. This is the world's global monetary

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index. In fact, this is the greatest of the world's global monetary indexism. I think Bitcoin has

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successfully morphed from being speculative, scary digital asset to legitimate monetary index,

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legitimate monetary asset everywhere in the world. We talked about this before. I think that if you

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get people to acknowledge that Bitcoin is an asset with a period, then Bitcoin 10 X is from here.

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Like, we don't really have to conclude anything else. I have my hierarchy of investors. It's like

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a five-part hierarchy. Okay, here are Bitcoin investors. There's the Bitcoin denier like the Peter

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Chef. Bitcoin is tulips. It doesn't exist. It's a scam right over. The Bitcoin deniers have actually

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been discredited. They've not got no credibility left. When the head of the CFTC, the SEC,

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the White House, Congress, Senate, the Treasury, the head of the central banks of the

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European United States, when the Wall Street journal, the New York Times, when CNBC, when they all

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acknowledge Bitcoin as an asset, the deniers just look silly. So the deniers have kind of been

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silenced. Now you've got the skeptics. Skeptics are those that say, oh, Bitcoin, it's an asset.

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It may be digital gold. It's too good to be true. So the government will ban it.

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Like, follow me that again. It's really good. It's so good that the government's going to ban it.

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That's the skeptic, right? They're not denying they're just saying, well, someone's going to take it

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away from you. Okay, well, that was a very loud refrain three years ago. And you heard that from

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bankers and from big investors. You've even heard it two years ago, one year ago. But if you're

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reading the 10,000 pages of lawsuits right now, and if you're looking what's going on in Congress

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and the Senate, it's pretty obvious they're not taking it away from you guys, right? At the end of

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the day, the one thing that the regulators everywhere in the world are trying to tell you is, if you

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operate a crypto exchange, you can sell in by Bitcoin. That's what they're trying to tell you.

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Bitcoin is good. It's ethical. It's an asset without an issuer. It's real. It's an innovation.

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We don't know what we think of it, but it is tangible. So the skeptics are actually proven wrong

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as well. And now we move to the last three categories. The investor, the technocrat,

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and the maximalist. Investors are people that say, oh, Bitcoin's a digital asset. I think maybe

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I'll buy some. Maybe it's maybe I'll short it. It's correlated to the NASDAQ. No, it's it's

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uncorrelated to the NASDAQ. No, it's negatively correlated to the NASDAQ. They're like traders. They

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change their mind, but if they acknowledge that it's something that they need one percent of it,

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okay, we're actually seeing a migration. And a lot of people are coming on board as investors and

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traders. And that's not a bad thing. That's a good thing. I think I think the regulators in the

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mainstream media are doing a great job of orange-pilling Bitcoin investors. You know, and this is maybe

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the first and greatest asset class, you know, since the creation of the S&P 500, right, and since

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the creation of the S&P index, so the Vanguard index, right, this is the biggest thing for them.

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So, you know, we like investors. The technocrats, technocrats, what I was with regard to Apple

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in 2009, if you'd asked me, I said, Apple's going to be a digital monopoly, a mobile monopoly,

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they're going to crush everybody, they're going to get a billion users, they're going to make huge

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amounts of money, this thing going to go up by a factor of 10. Okay, if you believe that Microsoft

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is going to own the business software market and Google is going to own those search market and

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Apple's going to own the mobile market, then you're a technocrat, a techno investor. And pretty much

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every, every obscenely rich person that you know in this world was a technocrat. You know, the

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Mark Zuckerbergs, the Larry Pages, the Sergey Bruns, the, you know, the Steve Jobs, the, you know,

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all of them, the Zuckerbergs, the Jeff Bezos of the world, they're technocrats, right? A lot

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of people made a lot of money being a technocrat. And so if you believe in, if you understand Bitcoin,

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and you're a technocrat, what you say is, Bitcoin is the world's dominant digital monetary network.

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That's what Kathy Wood just said on CNBC, just today, to Andrew Ross Sorkin. She said,

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hey, it's the world's greatest global monetary network. And the first, and it's going to go to

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$600,000 to a million dollars of coin, that's our base case. Technocrat. And then she went on to say,

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yeah, we like Tesla, we like technology, right? That's okay. Those people are great,

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Warren Buffett eventually bought Apple computer. Carl Icon eventually bought Apple computer.

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Right? Those people once they buy, they'll hold. I started out as a technocrat. And I think anybody

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that understands technology says, well, it's 95% of the proof of work in the world, maybe more.

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It's absolutely dominant. The, the next closest thing is 1%. So it doesn't take a stretch to say,

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Bitcoin is the digital monetary network destined to provide a digital monetary network to billions and

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billions and billions of people in the next one to two decades. And on that basis, it should go

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up by a factor of 100. And we're winning those people. We're going to get them. But the last

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type of investor is the maximalist. Okay, and here's what the, here's my definition of maximalist.

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Jack Dorsey said, Bitcoin is an instrument of economic empowerment. I heard those words. They stuck

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with me my entire life. When I first bought Bitcoin, I said, it's the world's greatest digital

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gold network. It's going to be better than Apple computer. But when I heard Jack Dorsey speak, I said,

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Bitcoin is an instrument of empowerment for 8 billion people. It's an ethical good. It's a utilitarian

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entitlement to all 8 billion people in the world. It gives property rights. It gives freedom. It

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gets a hope of sovereignty. That's a little bit better than the value proposition of Apple,

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Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. Which I like. But at the end of the day,

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if you believe that Bitcoin is an instrument of empowerment, then you're a maximalist.

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Right? People don't, when I owned Apple stock, I didn't think it was going to cure half of the

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ills in the world and provide property rights to everybody in China or Africa. I just thought it was

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a really good investment with a technology lever. So much leverage was unstoppable.

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It said it's unstoppable. Like Amazon is unstoppable. Like Google is unstoppable.

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Like Bitcoin is unstoppable. However, the difference with Bitcoin is it's not just unstoppable.

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Right? It's inevitable and it's ethical. And so for that reason, I think it's the most

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important thing I've ever done. And you don't have to be disinvested from everything else in your

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life. You can own a building, own Apple stock. You can believe in supporting your local mayor.

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You can actually own farmland and Kansas. And you can actually mine for silver or you can run

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a natural gas well and you can still be a Bitcoin maximalist. Right? What differentiates Bitcoin

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maximalist is say, this is not just an unstoppable digital network. This is an ethical imperative.

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And if you believe it's an ethically good thing, then you become as passionate as Jack Dorsey is,

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as everybody in this room is, right? As I am. And I think that ultimately is what differentiates

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the decision to support Bitcoin from the decision to support gold or natural gas or oil or

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or any given corporate stock or invest in a building. Those are just mercenary investments. But

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but this is this is a mission. I love that definition because it's that.

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I love that definition of Bitcoin maximalist because it's so inclusive. And I think there's

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often a perception that Bitcoin maximalism is anything but inclusive. So I think that's that's great.

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In addition to that, there's this kind of feeling that there is this strong ideology around Bitcoin,

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which this, you know, role of financial empowerment kind of permeates our industry. And that ideology

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can be viewed. Some people think it's military and has religious connotations to it. Others just

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think it's an ideology. What are your thoughts on the ideological components of Bitcoin?

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I think Bitcoin is definitely an ideology. It's a superior ideology. If you believe in the application

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of mathematics and physics and the laws of thermodynamics to the world of economics and politics

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and human behavior, then you believe in Bitcoin. I don't think you have to apologize for that.

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There was a time when Galileo said, you know, I think that the earth moves around the sun.

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And I observed that because of science and and experimentation and and people thought that was

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a religious belief, but it was just an ideology grounded in science. And I think that everything

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is beautiful in this world, right? The planes that fly, the trains that move, the ships that float,

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that don't sink, right? The electricity, the fire. These are all based on physics and they're

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based on thermodynamics. And if you believe in the cult of fire and the cult of electricity and

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the cult of sailing power and ships that float and don't sink, then yeah, you know, you believe in

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an ideology. But it's an ideology rooted in mathematics and rationale and physics. And I think that

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the Bitcoin, the Bitcoin community is passionate, but it's because we want physics and we want mathematics

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to be applied to money and to be applied to property rights and be applied to politics and be

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applied to economics. And for the first time in human history, we have the technology to bring

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physics and mathematics and thermodynamics to economics. And for everyone that doesn't understand

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that, they may view that as a as an ideology and a bit scary. But the answer to that is we just have

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to educate the world. Because once they understand that there are physics that that we use to fly our

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airplanes and build our skyscrapers and make our mobile phones work and heat our homes. And those

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physics can also be used to make our economies work better and make everyone's life better.

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I think that people will embrace that technology and then they'll realize that, you know, Bitcoin

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Maximus or no more religious zealots than Galileo or Isaac Newton were when they proposed certain

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scientific and mathematical ideas to make the world a better place.

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Well, I think you have the now on the head there with we've got to educate the world and

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the contribution that you've made through your podcast and your colorful metaphors and explanations

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of how to educate the world on Bitcoin has been nothing short of extraordinary. So on behalf of

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everyone, thank you for that. I think we're out of time, but thank you.

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