Scott Bessents Bitcoin ATTACK JUST BACKFIRED! HERES THE PROOF | EP 1588

0:00over the past two months, the US Treasury has tried multiple times to sanction Iran for using Bitcoin in international trade. However, the financial times released a new article this morning highlighting that the US Treasury's attack might have backfired. Iran has been forced to go all in on Bitcoin. But of course, we've been covering that they're not the only country who is using Bitcoin to escape a Western sanctions. But as I've been saying, and I'm not the, you know, I'm right here. But one of the interesting things for me in regards to what has happened in the US or on war is that Bitcoin does seem to be the big winner here. It has entered the macro geopolitical mainstream. Literally the thesis that a lot of Bitcoiners have been using for a long time of using Bitcoin. If you are in a hostile regime to escape,

1:03it's coming through at the nation state level. It's one of the crazier stories that we've seen throughout the Iran war. It's actually been maybe for us, Bitcoiners, one of the highlights of the war. And I'm not saying, you know, we're endorsing Iran here. I'm just saying the Bitcoin thesis that we have held for a very long time is coming through. If you are in not only a chaotic place, but if you are in a situation where you need a non political neutral money, you're going to be forced to use Bitcoin. And that's exactly what's going on in Iran. It's actually kind of a crazy story. So let me just dive into the article first. And then I guess maybe I'll give a little bit of background here. So financial times reported Iran turns the crypto to show up economy. The sub headline authorities have quietly relaxed controls on foreign currency to encourage traders to repatriate much needed funds. Pretty interesting. Obviously, of course, we heard what was it two weeks ago, the economic D day, a K a operation economic outcasts, they have doubled

2:08down on sanctions on Iran. Again, depending on what new source you're reading, it is a way to get a chokehold on Iran. Because obviously, if you stop the money, you defund the IRGC, then, you know, they're not capable of doing any military actions. That was the intended goal here. Well, now it seems that Iran's basically just using Bitcoin now. There is a little mention of tether there as well. But obviously, we will highlight the Bitcoin part because, hey, you know, even though tether is, I think now, officially, the most used stable point in the world, it is still dollar backed and further, you can get cut off on tether. So it's a baby step, I would say, if the majority of use in Iran is tether, I guess it's a first step until they realize, yeah, actually, we need to use Bitcoin. But anyways, going further, excuse me guys, sorry. Wow, amazing. So here is the article. Iran is turning the crypto to try and keep trade flowing

3:13during the US war in blockade, relaxing its strict foreign currency controls in order to counter tightening sanctions. Obviously, Iran has been shut off from the Western global financial system. And for years, it was impossible for them to kind of route around this and they were very much subject to these sanctions. And at the same time, Iran really wasn't that open to using Bitcoin. And as this article will mention tether either, they were still trying to use their local currency. And then obviously, what this article doesn't mention is the Iranian Rial has hyperinflated. I think I forget what the numbers were, but it was like 100, I don't know, it was like 100 million reals per dollar. And I don't mean to laugh about it. It's just the it's the Zimbabwe all over again, right? So there's two factors going on here. Obviously, the US has ramped up the sanctions on Iran. They are the big boogie man here. You know, they're the part of the,

4:20I think I'm the only one coining it, but I swear I've heard them say like the access of evil here. They are the nemesis in the Middle East, the pariah state, the radical quote unquote lunatics in the Middle East that are destabilizing everything going on in the Middle East. So we've ramped up sanctions. And at the same time, as this war continues to go on, the Iranian local currency is hyperinflating. It's just like it's basically useless, which if you are even a, you know, simple student of history, this is usually what happens around a very big war. How do you how do you pay for the war efforts? Well, usually you just print more money. At least since World War II, that's pretty much how this plays out. If you are in a war, you will just print more money to keep your economy afloat, keep your military afloat. Obviously, that has disastrous effects for the population of that country. Well, in fact, we're seeing that

5:22happen right now. And luckily enough for the people of Iran, again, I'm not really thinking of this in terms of the leadership aspect of this, but Bitcoin is the people's money. And it seems, as we've said before, actually, it was the show that almost got us kicked off of YouTube, shots up to YouTube for bringing us back. But there is a very famous safety in quote where I'm going to paraphrase here, but you know what I'm going to say. Essentially, people will be forced to use Bitcoin, not because they believe in it ideologically, but because it is a tool of survival, it's playing out exactly like that in Iran. So going further, it goes, um, Iranists for years and post honors hurdles on importers and exporters in order to control the supply for and currency, prompting businesses to build up what the judiciary estimates is more than a hundred billion dollars in undeclared earnings at home and overseas. But Iranian businesses regime insiders and analysts say the central bank has in recent months quietly encouraged traders

6:28to repatriate funds by whatever means necessary to help sustain the battered economy. And of course, this includes using crypto and they are using crypto in the financial time. Even though we consider them here, the fiat times here, they are using crypto to basically say Bitcoin and tether. So it says includes using crypto notably tether, but also Bitcoin to settle cross-border transactions through Iranian crypto exchanges. Under this more relaxed system, traders can also exchange foreign currency through the country's large open market rather than using government approved rates and can use export proceeds to finance imports directly without having to channel their earnings through the official foreign exchange system. Essentially gray markets, okay, not necessarily fully black markets. But it seems as if the population of Iran is now able to use these gray markets to get better returns on their foreign currencies, which we've seen happen and play out in many countries around

7:29the world, not in terms of them adopting Bitcoin, but when your government gets into a position where they really can't pay for themselves, they're kind of crumbling, they're in a pinch. The regulation starts to relax and instead of trying to punish your citizens, you're kind of like, okay, look, you don't have to go to the government sanction foreign currency exchange platforms. You can use the gray ones so that you can survive. Also, as this article further proves, it's like we're really not going to be looking into your fund because again, by whatever means necessary, we need money being attracted into our country or else we're going under. So actually, on one hand, it does look like Operation Economic Outcaster, all of the sanctions that we're seeing from the US Treasury on Iran are actually doing what they want it to do. There is a lack of funds getting into Iran. And so on the one hand, it is doing what they want it to do. On the other hand,

8:35it's obviously forcing people into Bitcoin. And that is, I think, the political chess board tool here that maybe wasn't fully addressed in the mathematics of what is going on. If we were in a time before Bitcoin was created or rather, if we were, if this war happened in Iran with the US maybe in like 2017, 2018, there probably wouldn't have been an influx of capital finding its way into Bitcoin. But now in 2026, eight years later, as we all have been covering, as you and I have been watching together in real time on this show, the fundamental perspective around Bitcoin is changing. People are a lot more open to using Bitcoin, whether it's Wall Street or whether it's nation states, of course, El Salvador was the first one to kick the can or rather kick the first domino. And then it was Black Rock Wall Street embracing Bitcoin with the ETF.

9:39And then of course, at the end of the year, it was Trump announcing on the world stage in his presidential campaign that he will embrace Bitcoin. And he wants Bitcoin to be the, or sorry, he wants America to be the Bitcoin superpower of the world. Interesting little subplot here. I don't know if you guys are on Twitter watching, but it looks like Trump is doubling down in urging Congress to pass the Clarity Act because again, quote, if we don't pass it, we will lose the front running position on the Bitcoin capital of the world. I think all of this is playing out together. I think all a lot of the stories that I'm reading right now in macro land, a lot of the geopolitical and macro topics right now. I think are all intertwined, whether it's what the Treasury is doing, whether it's what the, you know, war is the effects of the war happening in the Middle East. And then of course, Trump and Congress and Clarity Act, a lot of this stuff is intertwined. I don't think we can look at these stories in a vacuum. I think a lot of the stuff

10:42we're seeing are it's kind of like a tip for tat thing, you know, when you push hard in one way, something else pops out and then you got to go back. It's like a game of lacomal right now. Even though we're seeing in the US Congress that the Democrats are seemingly still fighting the Clarity Act over at least the kind of prevailing narrative is the ethics provision. I think I might chat about that a little more in the numbers today because we got a slightly hilarious story here, but it is involved with this. Even though they're trying to stop the Clarity Act, Trump is trying to double down on Bitcoin and more in particular stablecoins, dollar backstable coins, which really goes into the dollar milkshake theory, which is a topic in a show that I that I've been wanting to do for you guys for about a week or so because a lot of the stuff I'm hearing from Scott Besson is like, yo, dollar milkshake theory is playing out in real time and they're using stable coins to do that. But I don't know if I can package it correctly to get people to watch, but maybe I'll chat about it later on in this week or maybe I'll do it later

11:46in the show. And then of course, Iran fighting the US sanctions. They're using Bitcoin also tether. And then that doesn't even account for the fact that the US treasury or rather the US bond market is is on life support right now. Again, it is a perfect storm of macro geopolitical factors playing out right now. And like I've said before, and I might have just said this in the beginning of the show, I think I did actually I'm blanking Bitcoin is I think the real winner of what we've seen in the war in the Middle East. It's brought Bitcoin into the main stage. It is a macro geopolitical tool now. Bitcoin is a part of the macro conversation. And as we're seeing today with this story, it is also a part of the geopolitical conversation like Bitcoin has grown up here. We are no longer just in the dark corners of the internet. We are no longer just magic internet money. We are entering the Bitcoin is for survival stage on the nation state level. Obviously,

12:50we haven't necessarily seen it on the individual level. Though we've all felt it. If you are not adopting Bitcoin as an individual as a matter of survival, you might be in for a rude awakening. Anyways, enough enough tangents. Let's get back to this article. So quote, the central bank doesn't ask how that money was transferred one business executive who was close to the regime said adding that the relaxation had become prevalent since the US and Israel launched the war in a February. Quote receiving cryptocurrencies for exports is now totally established. The central bank declined the comment. I love what journalists do that. Of course, Iran spent years building a system to circumvent the sanctions, including with the help of crypto, but its efforts to find alternative means to sustain cross border transactions have taken an added urgency during the war. Obviously. And guess what? They're looking at Bitcoin. Bitcoin has been the life raft. We've said this forever.

13:52And again, this is not to embrace Iran or the IRGC or anything. It's just to prove that the Bitcoin thesis that we've had for the longest time over a decade actually since probably the creation of Bitcoin since the early years of Bitcoin was that as countries start to print more money and further as the dollar becomes weaponized, people will adopt Bitcoin. And I know adoption stories are really not like the hottest flavor on the month. They're not really the most trending news for everyone, but guys, it is happening. Yes, I know clarity act is kind of more popular. It's a lot more sexy because it implies that the US will eventually buy again scientific term shit ton of Bitcoin. You know, there's rumors of the million dollar Bitcoin or million Bitcoin buys. And of course, that leads into number go up. But people are using Bitcoin because they have to. It's a matter of survival. It's a matter of not only the nation state survival, but as an individual,

14:56if your currencies are hyper inflating, which we've seen around the world multiple times. But never I would I would say a concerted effort from the top down to be a little more relaxed on people using Bitcoin. Obviously, the other example we've seen in the last few weeks is Russia. Russia's done something very similar though they launched a digital rubble. They are sort of being lenient on people using Bitcoin. It's because of course Russia's been cut off from the Western global financial system. So it is happening in real time. Yes, it's happening kind of slow, but it's it's happening. So further, the treasury also threatened anyone transaction with Iran using digital assets saying that quote, the Iranian regime increasingly turns to crypto as a tool of choice for sanctions evasion. Obviously, it is kind of interesting in this context that and they do kind of mention it that Donald Trump is rhetorically publicly saying, hey, we want to be the Bitcoin capital of the world because if we don't do it, we're going to lose out

15:57the China. And at the same time, it's like, well, if we don't embrace Bitcoin and all these other countries are embracing Bitcoin, that are quote unquote, our enemies here in the US, whether it's China or on Russia, we're going to lose out on that race. And I think this is why we're seeing Trump now throw his hat in the ring even even stronger than he has before and he's urging Congress to past the clarity. It's because of stories like this is because you're seeing countries start to embrace Bitcoin again for a matter of survival. Now, there is one more interesting note here. And it goes into the Petro sat idea. So before the war, Iranian exporters of oil and other goods were required to return a large portion of their earnings to Iran and foreign currency and sell them through a designated government run platform at official exchange rates. Again, it was often far below the market price. Now we're seeing they can go to grain markets. And then further, it goes, this guy is a Biala Kodion, the head of Iran's general inspection

17:01mention that among the people, among the businesses that are using Bitcoin, many of them are state-owned oil and gas companies, including the national Iranian oil refining and distribution company, the national Iranian gas company and the Iranian offshore oil company, which he said had chaotic accounts. So guys, a lot of narratives are playing out in this single fiat times article. One, because Iran's been cut off from the Western global financial system, they are looking to Bitcoin, but further, they are relaxing their policy, relaxing their regulations amongst its people and tacically, basically, you know, just kind of allowing it because it might be like a two front war here. It's like, look, we're getting bombed a hell right now. Like, we don't really have time nor money to really focus on what our people are doing. Hey, if you guys want to use Bitcoin by all means, go for it. We're not going to come after you yet.

18:06I will, I will imply yet right now, we'll add that into that. And then further, as we're seeing, amongst some of the big businesses that are using it, it's not just individuals, but a lot of them are, of course, oil exporters, natural gas, liquid natural gas and oil, using Bitcoin to settle their cross-border payments, their international trade, which is something as Bitcoiners have been saying for a very long time. That once we get to the point, actually, I think the best way to sum it up is what my boy Nolan said, which is essentially the only two industries that matter in the world is energy and Wall Street or finance and energy. And obviously, we've seen that finance, aka Wall Street, they have gotten cut up in the, how does it, the greed of Bitcoin, you know, they're looking dollar signs. They're like, we can make a, again, scientific term, shit ton of money in this Bitcoin blockchain space,

19:08though, they don't really embrace Bitcoin. They're kind of doing the 2017, I like blockchain, not Bitcoin, kind of rhetoric tokenization of all the things is all the rage. We're seeing basically every big bank in the US, either about to launch their own dollar pegs, stablecoin or just launch their own dollar pegs, stablecoin, most notably today, the US bank or US bank, the fifth largest commercial bank tested their own dollar pegs, stablecoin. It's like they're, they're viewing this from obviously a greedy perspective, but then we have energy and they're all starting to realize, well, hey, maybe we need a politically neutral money as well. And once we get the point where energy is priced in Bitcoin, it is literally game over. It is almost, I don't want to say guaranteed, but it is almost like the very end of end times for not, I wouldn't say fiat,

20:10because I think we're going to be in a bi-metal era for a while. But the end of, I guess it would be the end of the beginning for Bitcoin. If we get what I like to coin, the Petro sat, which is still not the best way to explain it, but once we start seeing the majority of the world settle energy contracts in Bitcoin, there, it's literally only up from there. It's like game over as far as I'm concerned. Once we see, you know, Bitcoin, as we like to say energy money or energy back money, if that makes more sense to you, settling energy, the commodities, it's like, all right, we we're going to find an equilibrium here. And the energy backed money is now the metric of value for energy. It's a win. That's like the biggest win ever. So I found that to be one of the most,

21:13probably the more powerful sentences of this fiat times article is you're seeing a literally Iranian state backed oil companies starting to settle international trade in Bitcoin. It's kind of a huge, huge story, at least in my mind. Now there is one thing at the end of this article that I do want to mention. First one is overall the central bank or at least the IRGC from the top down have relaxed regulations in general. Like overall, they're not really trying to track all the income. They really are just trying to again, by whatever means necessary, a track capital into the country because they're broke. Like their currency is hyperinflating. They need to find a way to attract money into the country or else from a very simple perspective. If the IRGC, even though the top brass, the leadership is has their heels dug in and essentially willing

22:16to fight this war literally to the death. By any means necessary, it is a life or death situation from the leadership position of the IRGC. There's still always somewhat of a concern about the population. And if the population becomes so broke and destitute, then there is a very real of social unrest. If the people are so poor and there's no money in the country, then their positions as leaders is obviously going to be tested. Very much, Aula, you know, a French revolution type scenario, obviously not the same. But as we know, as the famous saying is, you know, let them e-cake, which is one of the mantras around that gets thrown around all the time. As the richer continue to get richer and the poorer continue to get poor, that's when you get social unrest. And that's when you get, I know I'm on YouTube. How do I say it? Is heads to roll? Is the head

23:16to metaphorical heads to roll? I don't know. I probably put myself in a pickle on that one. But that's why there is a relaxation of regulation from not only central bank, but the IRGC that like, we can't piss off our population too much. Because from what I've kind of, at least, and I could be mistaken here. But from people that I know that are Iranian, when they tell me about the IRGC, and I always ask them, like, what does the native population think about them? And like, most of them are not the biggest fans of this radical, religious sack running the country, but they have the power and most people can't really do anything. But if it does get so bad that people are willing to revolt and protest, then obviously there's more of the population than there is in the leadership. But as I'm now, they're like, okay, you guys, he kind of did the Trump thing. It's kind of, it's kind of, it's kind of giving the Trump thing of, sorry, sorry, that was cringe. I had

24:19Sophie in my head giving, it's giving Trump. You guys can play with your bitcoins, just like whatever, just don't kill us, you know, don't start to revolt. Like we're trying to win a war here. Like it's life or death for us. But like, go play with your Bitcoin. We won't come after you. Just to track capital into the country. So that is also kind of a big point here. But the last point I wanted to get is at the very end of this article. And it goes, quote, the more the economy goes underground, the more there is a need to use cryptocurrency that the blockade has holes. And I think that's a very interesting statement here. And this is from Saeed Leylaz, a political economist in Toronto. And it says, did you ask it to become all the more important in light of the leo, the latest US efforts to close Iran's remaining financial channels with the world. Again, the more the economy goes underground, the more there is a use for crypto Bitcoin and tether in this case. Again, it's a matter of survival. But it does seem as if there is an unintended

25:27consequence to the sanctions. And maybe Bitcoin wasn't factored into what we're seeing in the geopolitical kind of landscape here. Obviously, I think if we had heard about this story 2017, 2018, maybe even 2020, it would have been like world-breaking news for us, Bitcoiners. But right now, because of where we are, and I think also truthfully, because of the kind of periastate that Iran is, it is almost looking like not necessarily the best story for us. I'm not, I'm, you know, full disclosure. It is kind of a thing that we've already seen weaponized against us in particular Elizabeth Warren. Now, I'm not here to necessarily choose political sides because, hey, look, I am an American. Obviously, I love America. I want to see America win. I'm not the biggest fan of this war

26:28in the Middle East. And personally, maybe it's because I'm a public school student in America. Like I could honestly, and this is insensitive, I know, but I could honestly care less about what's going on in the Middle East. I, it's like, I grew up during the Bush, you know, Iraq, Afghanistan wars. Like that was my formative years in childhood is seeing a debacle in the Middle East. And here we are seemingly back in another one. So I'm like, whatever. But we are seeing that Bitcoin, again, as a politically neutral money, as a money that no country can control, that no single entity can control is being adopted for survival needs. And I think this is going to increase further and further and further. As we start to see more local currencies start to hyperinflate, as we start to see more countries, essentially on the verge of bankrupting themselves, as we see

27:33more countries start to tax and inflate their currency away. A second tax, as they try to distribute as much wealth away from certain citizens to either line their own pockets or to help other people, we are going to see more people adopt Bitcoin. It's happening right now. And really in the context of everything going on in the world, whether it's a macro or geopolitical, it does look as if there is a perfect storm for Bitcoin to succeed. Now, obviously, I do believe that Bitcoin would succeed without any of all this stuff happening. I think Bitcoin will do what it does that more people will adopt Bitcoin once they start to understand the position that everyone is in. But if we're seeing all of these different factors play out, all these different variables, it's honestly extremely hard for me to be bearish right now about this next bull run. Or as I've seen some people say the big S word, you know, the Superman cycle. That was to confuse the algorithms.

28:42But perfect storm right now. And also on the flip side, I think I've said this on the show. And then I'll keep it moving. Even though we're seeing a lot of like, as I said, the perfect storm, brewing, the perfect tailwinds for Bitcoin, for people to adopt Bitcoin, for a lot of capital to find its way in Bitcoin, there is a part of me that is a little scared about how this is going. Because look, as Bitcoin holders, yes, number is going to go up like we will, in fact, you know, get richer. We will be, we will be able to outperform the inflation. We will be able to outperform the destruction of your purchasing power. We have the ultimate store of value. We have the best money in the world. As big pointers, I do believe we are on, you know, the metaphorical Noah's arc here, like we will be okay. But at the same time, what will our societies start to look like

29:45if these macro factors do get more dire, if it does become worse for all for the entire world, for, you know, obviously in particular, certain, certain countries, but further, if on a global scale, we see some form of meltdown or some form of a reduction of living, wow, I'm blanking on it. What am I trying to say, living quality of life? That's kind of what I was looking. If we see on a global scale, the destruction of the quality of our lives because society is on the verge of crumbling, I think, you know, it's not even a stretch to say, like big pointers, we will be, we will be safe. But at the same time, a lot of our friends and family and most people around the world, because not that many people have adopted Bitcoin, there's going to be a lot of pain. And I think, as I've said, for a while, I think we will be looked at as scapegoats. They will try to blame us for the

30:47problems of the fiat system. We see this constantly happening. So part of me is like, yes, we're seeing a perfect storm. Like Bitcoin's going to rip so hard. It's going to go so absolutely insane to the upside. But at the same time, it's like, I think a lot of people are going to be left behind. I think a lot of people are going to be broke and destitute and hurt. And they're going to look for someone to blame. They're going to be looking for, you know, they're going to be grabbing for their pitchforks. So part of it is like, yeah, dude, like, hey, number is going to go up insane. The other part of me is like, we probably should be worried about our physical safety continuing to move forward. So perfect storm for us, big corners. Hopefully, there is no huge collapse. I'm actually really not even that, how do I say it? I'm actually not even that convinced that we will see some kind of

31:49explosion. I'm not that convinced that we're going to see a total collapse of society. Like, I'm not an anarchist in that term. I think we're going to be seeing a very slow. I'm hoping gradual transition. And that's what we're kind of seeing. You know, we're seeing a global reset. Now maybe just maybe the global reset is something crazy like we saw in 2020. But I think we might be seeing a slower gradual reset in real time. And then more people will get on Bitcoin. Now, I don't know if you guys have been following the AI stuff going on on Twitter. But a couple of of high people researchers and et cetera have been having, I think researchers and it was like, wasn't a CEO hadn't thropic, but he was one of the headguides, like head maintainers, I think, of the code. Someone resigned from in thropic and he basically said like these AI people are crazy. He's like,

32:50they believe that Bitcoin or AI is going to destroy humanity and they're continuing to do this. And then it was one of the lead people at Anthropic. He basically responded. He's like, yeah, we literally believe that AI is going to kill us all. And we put it like a under 10% chance, but many of us actually believe that AI will kill us all by 2030. So it's like, it's getting caught. I'm not, look, I know I'm an optimist. And I'm always thinking like the good guys will win. But guys, we got the macro geopolitical stuff going on. You know, we have what JD band saying, yeah, like as a Christian, I will do whatever I can to, you know, have God return. And if that means Armageddon, then so be it. Then we have the AI guy saying like, yeah, I think AI is going to kill us all by 2030, which is what three years away. And then we have like the US bond, or sorry, the US and the Japanese

33:56bond market on the verge of blowing up. So you know, I'm being optimistic guys, but it's like holy shit. Interesting times we live in to say the least, but hey, we have Bitcoin. It's not really going to help us if AI is going to kill us all. And you know, Armageddon happens, but hey, that's why I tell you guys, hey, we are here to improve our financials, our mentors, and our spiritual and physical life. So don't forget to do it all. All right, guys, there is much more to life than just Bitcoin. But anyways, without getting full Doomer and Bro, my dudes, dudes and dudes, and that's Bitcoin's going to rip so hard. I'm really, I know, I know I was wrong last cycle. But man, I think we're going to see a rip in Bitcoin's price that we haven't seen in what close to a decade. Like it's hard for me to be bearish and think like diminishing

35:00returns like, oh, we're barely going to get to 150. I'm like, guys, I think river might be right. By 2030, it's going to be like close to a million dollars. It's going to be insane. Next, what, three years, bull run for the ages. I'm ready for it. I'm so ready for it. But hey, we'll be here along the ride. And if I'm wrong again, I will admit it. Okay, I got over zealous. All right. I was overly bullish. I was bulltarded, but it's on brand for me. Okay. Anyways, I am going to hit the first break. Sorry, guys, but I got to cover the Hunter Biden Shikwon. All right, forgive me. I got to, I think it's setting, I think Trump said probably the worst precedent we, we, you know, in recent years, in terms of embracing Bitcoin, the implications of what this means for us moving forward. And then to wrap up, I am going to end the show, giving you guys kind of an update on the liquid hack, the white hack, well, quote, white

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38:17IMA Wicoff accumulation maxi. It's like playing out perfectly. Guys, I think I think once we break out again out of that 82.83 K range, we are teleporting and it's going to be so much fun. I can't wait. I can't wait. Anyways, anyways, all right guys. So you know, this if you've been a long time Bitcoin, simply Bitcoin viewer like more than a few years, if you were an OG Bitcoin viewer, you'd remember we used to have a segment on this show called the daily fail. This is a throw, this is throwback daily fail, ask, okay, this is daily fail vibes on this one. Okay. So yesterday, wait, was it yesterday? Two days ago, sorry. So Monday, the Wall Street Journal, or Wall Street Journal markets tweeted that Hunter Biden, the former president's son is launching a meme coin that takes aim at present Trump and he's naming it after the most infamous laptop in

39:22American political history. Honestly, I'm not going to lie before before I get into just a catastrophe that we've seen play out in front of our eyes. Dude, dollar sign or hashtag laptop for the name of your meme coin. It's kind of hilarious. Like it's kind of good. All right. Okay. It's like, yo, you know, T. Shay well played well played on the name of it. I think that's I thought that's pretty fun. I'm like, look, Hunter Biden launching a shit coin rug poll like, oh my goodness, where? What world do we live in? What timeline? And then you read the name, you're like laptop, you're like, oh, I mean, I'm not going to buy it. Obviously, because the story I'm going to tell you, but it's kind of good. It's kind of good. All right. Like, hey, I don't like Hunter Biden. But dude, the his tweets, some of them are absolutely like he, dude, he's got pretty good social media game. You know, hey, game recognize game. We got it. We got to give it. You know, the devil is

40:24dude. His social media game right now is pretty good. All right. I'm not embracing his politics, etc. Or anything else. But man, laptop meme name. Well, that's pretty good. It's way better than Trump. Like, okay. Anyways, anyways, he did this huge screed on Twitter yesterday. All right. And I think this is where besides the fact that it was a rug poll, I think it's pretty interesting. Because of the precedent that Donald Trump, the president of the United States, set when he launched Trump coin, Melania coin, and further rug pulled the very people that were supposed to be his supporters that were supposed to get rich and, you know, believe in President Trump, they got absolutely rug pulled, which obviously we all saw coming. Anyways, here's Biden's tweet. And he goes, three years, Trump and right wing media have been asking, where's Hunter? Well, here I am clear strong seven years sober and with a lot to say, by now you may have seen

41:29the article in the Wall Street Journal that I'm launching a meme coin called laptop. The symbol that used to try to end me is now a symbol of resilient three-dimption and recovery. But why would everyone support a meme coin? Why something that has been so misused by grifters? I understand this. And as Trump has broken trust in everything he's ever touched and his token was no exception. With Trump, nearly one million wallets have collectively lost roughly $3.8 billion with my token. 20% of the tokens will be airdrop to the community. And I am even including people that lost money on the Trump grift. 30% of the tokens are tied to a pre-programmed mechanism. We publicly say what has to happen in the world? If it happens, the corresponding tokens are permanently burned. If it does not, those tokens are sent to charity. Either way, they leave our hands. Yo, we're going to send 50. What was it? 30% of a shit coin that is probably going to be worthless because it doesn't do what we say to charity.

42:37The tokenomics is great. Anyways, either way, they leave our hand and additional 50 million tokens. We'll go, okay, 50 million tokens. We've got a charity no matter what. Hey, 50 million tokens will go to charity, even if they're worth zero. Honestly, what a good guy. You should not expect me or anyone else to make this token more valuable for you. Laptop isn't just about owning something. It's about saying something. Everybody gets knocked down. How do we help each other? And our country get back up. I spent way too long being a story. Other people told me, yada, yada, yada, yada. Let me see. Is there anything? They turn laptop into a weapon. I turn it into a token. Laptop. Because the truth matters. Oh, man, holy, large, holy AI slot, holy, uh, victim post. All right. Before I get into the like political element of this,

43:40let's just see what happened on launch. Okay. Let's just run the numbers on what happened on lunch. So I saw this. We're in crypto. So no insiders, they said fair launch. They said, Hunter Biden launched laptop. People said he warned everyone two days early. No insider allocations. Fair is launch possible. And guess what, guys, in literally 15 minutes, it went down 95%. Dude, Motocanomic. Um, also there is an interesting kind of subplot here. So except, uh, his substats subcribers, uh, each claimed 4,276 tokens at peak. That was about a million dollars per claim. Fresh wallets never bought a single token. Just claim and dump them instantly. I think now it's around 400,000 coins or whatever. But guys, there was no insiders because the insiders were called subscribers. They didn't need to buy early. They got token for free and dumped on anyone who bought the quote fair launch. Uh, I like this chart a little better from watcher guru.

44:45Because it's lower. So if you look at this one, it got up to about a 300 billion dollar market cap. I said it instantly dropped in 15 minutes to 8.3 billion dollar market cap. And then the ladies right before I went live on the show, it is down to a 2.4 billion dollar market cap. So I think that 99% dump in about an hour. Absolutely amazing. Now there is a, again, before I go into like the political precedent that was set by Trump, which might be boring to you guys. But I did see a headline. I believe it was on Bloomberg or maybe it was Wall Street, maybe it was Wall Street Journal. Apparently Hunter Biden is in like 15 million dollars in debt. And the headline was something on the lines of a hundred Biden has 15 million dollars in debt and he doesn't know how to pay for it. And then magically, magically just just so happens, I'm launching a fair shit coin.

45:48Hashtag laptop. No rug pulls no inside. Okay, what's the value for you? So anyways, I would suspect some of those subscriber accounts are obviously Biden's accounts here or maybe the funnel that money to a Biden, Hunter Biden account. But another political token, 99% down. I mean, who could have saw this coming? I mean, it's not like all of those big coins have been saying this forever. It's not like this is a Bitcoin only show. And everything else besides Bitcoin is at under scam. But hey, you know, put your hand on the fire, F around and find out. It is so sweet. So sweet to watch. Though, of course, you know, every time I, all right, anytime I joke about stuff like this, there's always someone in the chat's like, Opti's always laughing at people's financial pain. It's like guys, I forget we can't have fun anymore. But what year is it?

46:50People are still trusting shit coin launches like what? How did they not learn? Have they not learned? And here we are. The ex president's son launches a shit coin loses 99% of its value in an hour. Following the lead of the current president launching two shit coins and rug pulling the user base. Guys, Bitcoin in politics is so cooked. We just, we're going to be dealing with this for a few years. Now, that does lead me to look as much as I think that president Trump is sometimes hilarious, that somewhere in there is still the, the me magic that was the notorious rise of Trump.

47:52Now a decade later, guys, and I'm not even like a Maga guy. I wish Nico was here, but I think the Maga movement from my opinion like it's dead. And there's only one person to blame in that's Trump. Now, as we enter the midterms, it is going to be very interesting to see how all this plays out. Obviously, not so much in well, the Republicans lose the house and or the Senate. I'm more focused on what kind of rhetoric we're going to be seeing around Bitcoin during the midterms. And then further in 2028, how strongly will the Democrats push the quote crypto scams to really turn feather anyone that was a part of this Trump administration. They have the, you know, billion dollar crypto scams hard to kind of hard to spin that in a positive way. They have the debacle in the Iran war. They have the list cover up.

48:57Dude, Trump at this point is like a toxic asset. And really, I don't want to see the crazy DSAs on the left, the crazy democratic collectivists run the country in 2028. But there's going to be major assassination metaphorical, metaphorical assassinations happening around crypto scams. Now, that's just the Trump element. The fact we're seeing essentially a copycat of the presidential rug pools now by the ex president son. Are we ever going to get to a point where people realize that these are scams that these are just simply rug pools. New name simply rug pools. Like how, how much more pain are people going to have to go through before they realize that there's only Bitcoin and everything else is a shit coin. Everything else is a scam. Everything else is a rug pool. I guess, you know, people are going to have multiple touch points and they're not going to learn their lessons for a while. But again, just looking at the precedent of this,

50:05it really brings me back to what I said a while ago that as much as I do believe that Trump started the domino of nation state, maybe being lenient acceptance of Bitcoin, or rather maybe the nation state conversation of adopting Bitcoin as much as we will have to give him credit for that. It is starting to look like president Trump is a net negative for Bitcoin. It's just like, well, maybe, maybe if you don't like him, he's just a negative overall for Bitcoin. And I know Nico and I will probably disagree on that. You know, Nico will do he freed Ross and it's like, look, I love Ross Olbrick. I think he was a political prisoner. But maybe I'm a little more selfish. I'm like, okay, look, great morale booster. But what has he done for me? Who's supposed to pump my bags? We get a crypto scam. Supposed to launch a strategic Bitcoin reserve, we still, what, about two years in,

51:08haven't heard anything about it. And it seems like there's a fight within the Trump administration. How do you even handle that? They haven't even done anything. They're supposed to be buying Bitcoin. You can't even pump my bags by you buying it. You know, the only thing, and I've said this in a while, the only thing that would really get Trump as the go for Bitcoin is the elimination of capital cans. If we got that, which it's not going to happen, he's more focused on sorry, guys, I think that's something like he's more focused on floating the idea of eliminating capital gains for homeowners, which obviously real estate guy. He's like, I want to keep my base ritual eliminate capital gains on houses. You know, you see the connection there. But man, it's all bad. It's really all bad. This midterm season is going to be interesting to watch in terms of how they're going to be talking or rather, if they will even bring up Bitcoin in the conversation at all, it's going to be crypto scams. And then further to watch whether the Republicans lose the mid

52:14terms, whether they'll lose the house and or maybe the Senate. And if that is the case, then Trump already is a lame dot president. And nothing, nothing, I repeat, nothing will happen for the next two years. Absolutely nothing. What we will see is impeachments and scandals popping up and they're not going to do anything. So I know Trump's been pushing for the clarity act to get past, which for all intents and purposes doesn't really do anything for us again. What have you done for me lately? I'm on the take our own side view here. Look, if you want my vote, do something that benefits my life. Isn't that what everyone's vote? Isn't that what the entire left is doing here? Why do we got to sacrifice everything? I don't know. Hey, look, let's not get too political here, but it's all bad. This is not good. So maybe I don't know who else could drop names who else is going to do a shit coin that's tied

53:18to a presidential family. Maybe Chelsea Clinton will drop a shit. What? Dude, I have a good joke. I have a really good joke here, but I don't think I can say it. And just to leave it, you know, what would her shit coin be named? What's a very interesting scandal that her mother is involved in? I'm not, I didn't say it. Okay, hey, I didn't say it. On that note, let's keep it. Let's go into the wrap up at the show and revisit the liquid hack and the quote unquote white hackers. All right, guys, so I'll be right back. Give me a sec. You secured your Bitcoin, but did you secure your devices too? They're still broadcasting your location and digital footprint GPS Wi-Fi Bluetooth cell 5G EMF. All of it is leaking. Escape zone fixes that their Faraday bags block every signal your device emits. So you decide

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55:30you guys crack me up. I do this for the chat. Yes, it's my job. Yes, it's my livelihood. But I really, before I get into the liquid hack, I might not say it enough and since I have you all here, I am forever grateful for every single one of you guys in the chat. Even the ones that talk shit on me. I love you guys. You guys come in, watch the show. You always want me to do better. But I wouldn't, I wouldn't have the life I currently have if it wasn't for you guys that have watched the show that have clicked on a single video of ours. So, you know, I'm truly grateful. And I'm truly appreciative of every single one of you guys. So I love seeing you guys in the chat. It really makes me feel like I'm back in the trenches. Just watching what you guys say in the chat. Sometimes it spikes my cortisol and I'm like, I want to throw fistocuffs. Because hey, look, I got a big ego, but I try to stay humble and I have a fragile ego.

56:34So anyways, I love you guys. I appreciate you guys on that note. Let's get into this. All right. So we did the Monday show on the liquid hack, you know, just a brief overview of what happened. Apparently there was a vulnerability found with liquid, which is a layer two on Bitcoin. It's a federated sidechain where essentially, you know, there's about, I think it was 13, 12 or 13 people or companies groups that you peg into this new sidechain and then you have to kind of get everyone's approval to do anything on that sidechain. It's kind of a trust me bro situation, but everyone's kind of incentivized to not mess anything up or else they pretty much get kicked out. Anyway, it's liquid layer two had privacy like confidential transactions in it. So it was more private. It was quicker. It was a it was a pretty good experiment. And then we found out on Monday,

57:35or rather, it was Sunday or Saturday, I forget of last week that a new AI frontier model, a new AI agent, we also spec'd it was chat GBT six or a K a Astra was just released. And then these white hat hackers again, supposedly good guys that essentially hacked this project, took the money and said they would return it until it was fixed. And that was over the weekend. We covered it on Monday, 4,000 coins were taken from the liquid L two sidechain, which was about 95% of all of the capital in liquid. And they essentially used op return, you know, messages on the blockchain, you know, some people might call spam to communicate with block stream and say, hey, look, we are white hat hackers. We're the good guys. We did this preemptively so that you didn't lose all your funds to

58:36a black hat hacker, you know, just what you would consider a hacker. And we'll return it once it gets fixed. Well, as I mentioned at the end of the show, you know, we went through all the details, but that's all you really needed to know. So I mentioned at the end of the show, it looked as if the white hat hackers that hack liquid, communicate with block stream and they return 3,400 Bitcoin, not the total 4,000 Bitcoin. And if you watch the Monday show, you saw Nico and I kind of arguing over what actually is going on with that 600 Bitcoin. Well, just to just to do a little Nico, Nico asked stuff. I told you I was I'm indicated. I was right. I was right. You know, Nico's I'll say, like, oh, no, I know for a fact, let me do my ego. I know for a fact, a block stream and the hacker made a deal and that 600 Bitcoin, what's their bounty fee for, you know, finding that bug and making them patch it. Well, surprising enough. Yeah, I think Nico was wrong on that. And I'm like, dude,

59:42I think they are extorting them. I think they chose their own fee on this bounty bug finding fee. Well, guess what guys? That was the Monday story. It's like, you know, Monday, everyone's like, okay, they returned the majority of the coin. So yeah, maybe they're white hackers. Who knows what's going on with that last 600 Bitcoin? Maybe there was an agreement with block stream with the hackers, you know, white hat hackers, the good guys, you know, what I don't know, it's white hat hackers. I feel like it's a tongue twister. Maybe there's agreement between the white hat hackers and block stream and that was their fee for finding that bug and, you know, proactively protecting the funds. We didn't really know because some of the conversation went encrypted in the op return. So after a little bit, we saw the conversation was no longer public. We could all not read it. There was some private communications happening through an encrypted message. Well,

1:00:46it made the entire community start to argue over and you know, we all became bug bounty fee experts and some people are like, how is this extortion? That's their fee for finding the bug. Other people like this is pure extortion. Well, how about the latest message we got this morning. I don't know if it was at 7 a.m. But we got mono mono not he tweets negotiation for the remaining 598.5 Bitcoin are going well. Here's the op return message from the white hat hackers supposedly allegedly specatively. I mean, it's them. All right. And he goes, your dereliction of duty is obvious that you allocated only $1.5 million and maybe even $0 to secure $5 billion of assets. This is a flagrant neglect of security and a sign of complete mismanagement. You shall pay 10% using your own money as bug bounty or you will cause all your holders a 15%

1:01:51loss for your irresponsibility and stinginess. Even companies that participate in bug bounty programs cannot guarantee complete security. Let alone one like yours that remains delusional greedy and arrogant to this very day. Anyways, we are going to publish the private key to crypt our conversation afterwards. So it looks as if that last 600 Bitcoin rounding up is being held not because of an agreement just because the white hat hackers are like this is what we're holding for ourselves. So maybe it's gray hat at this point. You know, at first it's like, oh, white hat hackers. Good guys. Maybe it's gray hat here. It does seem as if they are extorting box tree. They literally said, hey, look, we're either going to hold this 600 Bitcoin, which is 15% of the funds that were in liquid, which would, I don't know, someone do the the math, 15% of the 95% of liquidity in liquid. So I don't know, dude, I can't do that math off

1:03:02top of my head. But this is our fee for finding this bug or you pay us 10% of that 4,000 Bitcoin from block stream funds. And I'm guessing that some of those private encrypted messages that we all saw on the opportunity turn probably are, how do you say it? Not going to look good for block stream here. They're probably going to be a little, what does I bet? They're probably going to be bad. But judging off this reading or this op return here, what did say? Delusional greener. Oh, it's probably going to be a bad look guys. Block stream. Take another L right now.

1:04:04But I mean, hey, look, I like block stream. I like a lot of people have block stream. You know, full disclosure, block stream. What's the sponsor here at the show? We did one of our early Bitcoin wallets was Jade. So I have no ill well towards block stream. But I feel as if when we get those decrypted messages, popcorn sales are going to go up. So kind of crazy ending to that story. You know, it seemed like it ended good. It seemed as if things were going good, you know, the negotiations were going good. Guides did all the right things. And now it seems like they are extorting or withholding the last 600 Bitcoin from the network. So yeah, more gray hat than white hat, I would suppose. Who knows what the conversation is. Maybe block stream was like not willing to give them a good bug bounty fee. Maybe that's where they crashed out over.

1:05:08Maybe they offered them less than 10% or maybe they offered them nothing. We will never know. Well, actually, we will know as of now, we don't know. So that's how that saga is going. It's going really well. Everything's going really well. This is such a fun bear market. No, it's not. Good times. Good times, guys. Hey, Entre Bellden, you know, it is what it is. It is. You know, we were sponsored by cold card and we were sponsored by blockchain. But hey, there has been no problem with block stream, Jade. Okay. We haven't never, I don't think Jade has liquid. So hey, we're not on the line for this one. Okay. We have never endorsed liquid. Though again, as I've said, I have used Aqua. There is like the LBTC swap from lighting. It's kind of cool. But I think I'm only bringing this one. Yeah, I'm going to lose some, bro. Hey,

1:06:14hey, I get me perfect. All right. Look, I'm doing my best here, man. I'm doing my best. I'm only human. What was I going? Oh, yeah, oh, yeah. I really, you know, not only just kind of where we're team zing right now, it's like some gossip, some drama. Really, I really wish Nico was here today. He's busy. I know it even like, dude, you're wrong. They did not agree to anything. You were very confident that they did agree to that. I know, like, I think they're just choosing their own bounty fee here. They're on bug bounty fee. You know, you know, that's why that's why it helps to have 42 IQ. Because you just stay humble. You just say something and you say it in a way where you're like, you know, maybe maybe it's this. I don't know. You know, I could be wrong. It's like,

1:07:16every match, we have like, what's that? You know, like, there's a meme that goes around and it's something on the lines of, uh, give your friend the most diabolical life advice. And then you end it with like, you know, I could be wrong, though. Dude, that's, that's so me, that's so me. Opti Scarl up, bro, left a gift for you. I had the chat. Can I read it though? Let me see. We love you too, Opti, even though we give you a shout out. The deep stag. Thank you. Thank you. $50 cat. Appreciate it, man. I really do appreciate it. Thank you so much. And I know, look, I know, I know, I know, I look, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a good sport about it. All right. I'm a good sport. I'll take all the shit talking. Like, if I've said this before, if, uh, if you know anything about me, I'm a shit talker. So I,

1:08:17I can't, I can't not dish it and not receive it. Like, I, I'm, I'm, oh, I look, I love shit talking. Me and my friends, like, my best friends, we, you would think we hate each other because all we do is just troll each other and make fun of each other. And so like, that's the culture I grew up in. We, I've said this before and I'll say it again, uh, we used to kind of have like an unspoken game where we would just make fun of each other and the first person to actually get mad loses the game. Like, there was no stakes at hand except for why you mad, bro. Like, why you mad? You mad. Oh, I won. I said, like, I, I, I understand. I can totally take it. Um, which is sometimes, you know, sometimes I come in the era, I'm not feeling the best. And, uh, you know, there's, there's like, there's hundreds of you guys watching this show, like, off the, we love you. And then there's that one guy. It's like, you're an idiot. I hate you. I'm like, oh, I know. It's kind of that, uh, there's like a psychological principle. And I'm, I'm gonna wrap up right now. Uh, but I don't know. You guys like

1:09:20when I just riff on stuff other than Bitcoin because I'm losing my mind talking about Bitcoin. Okay. Um, there's that psychological principle that it's like, I think it's called like the Lincoln effect, Abraham Lincoln effect or whatever where like you can be on stage looking at an entire opera or, you know, entire stadium, giving you applause and praise. But you will notice the few people that are mad at you that are scouring at you that are, you know, giving you threatening looks. And it's like a, a psychological mechanism of survival. Uh, I feel like that's what's going on here. You know, there could be literally everyone watching the show could be like, you're the greatest optee. And then you see that one person that just sticks out and says something and you're like, oh my god, I'm the worst person ever. I'm such an idiot. But I think that's what goes on. Anyways, I did, I can take it. It's my job. It's literally my job to take your shit. Well, actually, not necessarily, you know, like my job is in detainee. And if that, if that means

1:10:23you throwing tomatoes at me, I guess that's it's entertaining. All right. Uh, anyways, on that note, I do gotta plug our boys over at Bitcoin. Well, so if you are in the market to buy some Bitcoin, make sure you are buying Bitcoin from the only exchange that never holds your Bitcoin. That's right. It is a self-custody by default platform. That means you need a Bitcoin wallet to buy some Bitcoin. It might not be the best exchange to send, you know, your mother or your grandmother to, unless they are willing to have a conversation and learn about Bitcoin. But for everyone else, for all of us that don't ever want to be in a position that an exchange loses your Bitcoin. Go to BitcoinWell.com. I think it's slash simply BTC. Nico always says simply, it's simply BTC. We love the guys over there. They're good people. They built their platform the hard way,

1:11:27which is it's a lot easier to just take your money, hold on to your Bitcoin, and potentially rug pull you. They did it the hard way, which is luck. You need to understand a Bitcoin wallet so that we can sell you Bitcoin so that we never hold your Bitcoin and we can never lose your Bitcoin. And that's why we love the team over at Bitcoin well. And then to wrap up, of course, I've got to talk about, Keith. As we all know, we are Bitcoiners. Potentially in the future, there will be a day where all of us Bitcoiners are rounded up and taken to the GULUGS. So, therefore, you should probably not be having your DMs held on a company database. You should probably focus on a more privacy focus, instant messenger app. And that's why we love Keith. Everyone thinks Signal is the privacy focus app out there, privacy focus messaging. But we've seen some

1:12:29court cases to disprove that thesis that signals actually private because the company at Signal or the leaders, you know, the leadership at Signal has been subpoenaed. And I'm pretty sure if I'm not mistaken, they have given over those records well with Keith, that is not possible. None of your data, none of your messages go to the corporate cloud. Everything is end to end, peer to peer encrypted. That means the messages go straight to the person you're talking to. It never goes to a company server. No metadata. You're never being tracked. Again, use it as your messaging app. You can do voice calls, video calls, upload your files so you can recall it almost like a cloud. Again, not going to Google. And it's all end to end. Beautiful. So just invite your friends, you know, start the group chat with the boys on key. Then you can say all the crazy stuff you want to do. I know, I know, they might not like that that much, but that's why you got to

1:13:33use it. Scan the QR code, go to keyt.io or keyt.io slash simply Bitcoin. Save me from myself. Go use it. Download it. Please guys, it's free. All right. On that note, you know, I really like Hanika does that. Adry. It's a little better than mine. I'm on that like Tim Dylan. Adry. I don't even watch Tim Dylan, but he's got such good ad reads. All right. You know, I have fun on the simply opti shows. It's just like me chatting with my boys doing an hour monologue. You guys somehow listen to me. So blessed. All right, guys, well, on that note, you already know the deal. If you haven't worked out today, I got my workout in this morning. I'm cooked. My lower spine is cut. Shops out to my boy, Sal. I'm freaking having spinal injuries. The weights get

1:14:34nappy. But if you didn't get a workout in it may be you're too busy, you know, get a little walk in. Make sure you get outside. Get out from under the blue lights. Get a little sun on your face. Should be doing it right when you wake up. But hey, some sun's better than no sun. Of course, we got to focus on relationships here. It's not so much about just calling your mom. But as we can see, there is a very need, very real need for community and connection, whether that is just because social media is even though we're more interconnected, we feel more alone. But really, we got to strengthen the Bitcoin network. So if you are the only Bitcoiner in your neighborhood and you don't have any Bitcoin friends, and this is as much Bitcoin community as you can have or get, I urge you to try to connect with more Bitcoiners. It's going to be fruitful. It's going to be rewarding. Yes, you might have to talk about Bitcoin more than you want to, but you know, you want to talk

1:15:35about it anyways. And then of course, eat some good food, but buy some Bitcoin. We might not be at these prices for that much longer. My friends, we just might not be here for that much longer. On that note, see you later, guys. I'll catch you on tomorrow's show. We will be back tomorrow. We got live Monday through Friday around 1240 PM ish. That's the official start time. Unefficial official start time 1240 PM Monday through Friday. If you want to get more digestible content, of course, go to our channel, go watch Hurley, Rustin, Dante. They're putting out bangers right now. Hurley in particular is putting out bangers. Rustin, hey, if you think I'm too tame, if you want me to go further, go hang out in my boy, Rustin on our channel. All right, guys, have a good rest of your day. I will catch you on tomorrow's show. Peace out. Oh, oh, oh, this episode of Simply Bitcoin Live was brought to you by Letten. Don't sell your Bitcoin,

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