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McIntosh: Hey, Pleb Nation. Today is January 7th, and this is episode 150 of Satoshis Plebs. I'm your host, Macintosh, and today's episode is why privacy matters.

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Alright.

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Let's get on into it. I've been having some technical problems.

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Not sure what's going on. I had to turn off all of my effects

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In order not to sound like crap, it just was not working.

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I don't know. I'm in the process of transitioning to the new lap It's not a laptop. The new computer. I've not completed that yet. I have Reaper set up, but I thought I was having problems with that setup of Reaper, but it may actually just Reaper.

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I'm not sure what's going on,

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but we are not gonna let that slow us down, are we? So tonight, you get to hear my raw, unfiltered voice. I know you're excited about that,

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but,

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And, we will drink the Earl Gray, with our honey to help out our throat,

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and we will charge on. Let's do our market update. I am going to do everything in my power tonight to keep this down to about 30 minutes to 45

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at the most. I'm gonna

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Go through this, and then we're gonna jump right into

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tonight's

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topic, why privacy matters.

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I'm gonna talk about some things. Let's do it. Bitcoin price

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closed January 7th, just a few minutes ago. 6th well, no. It's Been almost 2 hour, no,  2 hours and 40 minutes ago.

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I got sidetracked.

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43,948

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Dollars and 71¢,

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which I do believe means we've had another weekly high. Let me double check that.

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No. We did not.

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So we had, I think, 8 weeks in a row,

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and then,

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Green, essentially, and then a down and then an up and then a down and then an up and then a down,

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but it wasn't by much. So,

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overall, we're still in really good shape. We're on top of that ascending try channel

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that we've been sitting on since,

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We got

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we actually entered the channel on December no. Good gracious, alive.

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Back in October,

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On the 23rd, we were in the channel. This is what I was thinking

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of. Until oh, let me go down to daily.

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I'm on the weekly chart.

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Excuse me for just a second.

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I like to be as accurate as possible. We exited that channel on December 2nd, and we have been essentially daily closing above it certainly

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since then.

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We'll be talking about in the news this week with Bitcoin

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ETFs, the so called spot ETFs,

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they are coming.

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We do look it does look like it will be this week that they will be approved,

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Probably Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday. I thought they were gonna slip up and do it Friday, but they did not.

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They held off.

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But all the paperwork,

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at least, is what I understand is in place.

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The stamps are ready to be put down,

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And the companies such as BlackRock are ready to be notified

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that they can start selling

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Spot ETFs in very short order.

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So that's a

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sneak peek

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at the news, but let me stick to my hedge doc notes

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so I don't get off track. Our block height that time we're recording, 824,805

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difficulty adjustment

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It was down or right now, if we had it right now, it'd be down 12.3%.

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So that's pretty impressive,

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drop. We've been going up quite a bit, so it'd be a welcome drop that will happen on January 21st, which, of course, Means we just had 1 a couple of days ago,

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and that difficulty adjustment was up.

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let me see. Come on, time change calendar.

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1.65%

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just a couple days ago.

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So not a huge spike upward,

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but yeah.

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Right now, it's looking like we might have a downward adjustment. I'm hoping for at least half For that, would be nice.

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The fees in MN pool,

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48 sats per vbite right now, which is better than it's been for a while. I've seen it as low as, like, 33. I think that was last night.

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We still have 1.77

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gigabytes of unprocessed

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transactions, which is just

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Nuts.

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Okay. That's it. Market. Not gonna talk about it anymore,

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until we get to the news.

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I will talk about it a little bit more.

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I'll be honest.

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Alright. What are we talking about tonight?

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Why privacy matters?

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You guys know

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this has been stewing around with me for a while.

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This is nothing new, but we're gonna actually spend,

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I think 2 or 3 weeks talking about this. I am not gonna try and cram all this into 1 week. We're gonna kinda do some background today. And in the next episode, which should be Thursday,

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we'll start diving into some Bitcoin

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specific privacy techniques,

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and then we'll see if we need to do a 3rd episode.

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So why privacy matters? Why is privacy

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important? I'm going to talk to you from a

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US centric

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view as I always do because I

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Have lived virtually my entire life in the United States. I have not lived here my entire life, but most of it. The 4th amendment.

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This is an amendment to our constitution,

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which is supposed to be a guarantee

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of the rights of

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the United States

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citizen. The 4th Amendment specifically

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deals with privacy. There's other amendments that do to an Dent, but this is when they talk about the privacy amendment, this is it. The 4th amendment is very short. It's literally

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one sentence. It's a long one, but it's one sentence, and I'm gonna read it.

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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses,

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Papers and effects

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against unreasonable

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searches and seizures

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shall not be violated And no warrant shall issue, but upon probable cause

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supported by oath and affirmation,

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and particularly

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describing the place to be searched And the persons or things to be seized.

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Okay? What does that mean? It means without a warrant, without a court order,

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You cannot go and search someone's house, their papers, their effects, their private

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property

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just because.

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We see this extend out

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in theory to

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when you're driving down the road, they can't just pull you over and search your vehicle

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because they think that you're a drug dealer because of the way that you look.

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I'm gonna leave it at that.

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I know that's not a complete picture of what's going on, but bear with me. So,

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McIntosh,

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that is the US View. What is the worldwide view? Well, that's going to depend on what country you live in. But I do understand

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I do understand

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There is a document

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called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This was published, I believe in the late 19 forties

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by the United Nations.

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In article 12, a right to privacy

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is expressly stated. What does that mean? Well, that means in theory,

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the UN buys into this idea that people should have privacy.

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We see in various countries around the world various levels of this in more

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Dictatorial

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comp countries,

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countries that are authoritarian,

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we see abuse of this. We see people with a lack of privacy.

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Why is this so important?

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It's important,

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for a lot of reasons, but

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you here's a common when you start talking about privacy, people will be like,

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Well, I'm not doing anything wrong, and I will be the 1st person to tell you to my knowledge,

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I I have to preface that because with,

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say, our tax code

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or our regulations, our laws and regulations

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In the United States that we currently have, I

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could be violating

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a law and not even know it. But to my knowledge, I don't run around

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violating laws. I have nothing to hide, so to speak. I could be one of these people saying that, but I understand

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the importance of privacy.

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And we should not just give that

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up because, quote, you know, we're not doing anything wrong.

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Because there are places, and I have been to

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one of them at least,

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That right is not guaranteed.

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And, subsequently,

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you have a government who's out of control,

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who does everything in his power

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to monitor the populace

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and tie everything to that. And I don't wanna dive into that too deeply,

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But let's just say that that is the case.

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And they will take things that

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you're not harming other people,

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And you're not hurting the government. You're not doing anything except minding your own business, but you're violating

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A rule of theirs, and therefore, they're going to come down on you

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very hard.

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And you may lose

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Financial privileges, you may lose,

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family access. You may be put in prison.

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And this is not a joke.

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So

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these things are important.

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Your employer

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shouldn't be able to see where you spend your paycheck. It's not their business.

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The convenience store that I go to To make a small purchase from,

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maybe

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a Coke

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or candy bar, I know I shouldn't be eating those things, but let's be

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They shouldn't see how much money I have, how much money I control,

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and where else I go to make purchases.

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These are just 2 simple examples.

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My neighbors don't need to know my financial matters.

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My friends don't and I love my friends, but they don't need to know my financial business unless I

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reveal that to them,

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If I choose to do that

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by the way,

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we should probably actually define

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Privacy.

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Privacy is the degree that you have control over access to your information.

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No. I don't want my employer to know my financial business

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outside of they pay me a certain amount of money to work for them a certain amount of time, and and that's it. That is that is the extent of the contract that we have made.

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I don't want the convenience store to know everything that I've ever done.

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That's privacy.

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I can reveal

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that.

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It doesn't mean it's a black hole and you can't ever

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See that. I can choose to allow that to happen,

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but I have the right

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to the privacy,

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to the ability to block that.

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We get this confused, especially in kind of crypto or Bitcoin circles as we talk about here,

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with anonymity.

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Anonymity

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is just

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the lack of a link between a transaction

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and your personal

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identity.

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So I'm anonymous

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if you don't know who I really am. And as y'all know,

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I

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Use a pseudonym,

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Macintosh. That's not my real name. In no part is that my real name. You cannot Google Macintosh and find a picture of me. You find a picture of my ancestor, which I've talked about before.

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He was a Creek Indian chief,

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pretty famous around 18/12.

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Okay?

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He was one of my ancestors, but

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I just chose that name because I knew who he was, I knew what he had done, so on and so forth.

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And it's a way to for me to have anonymous

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actions.

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It's not privacy.

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It's private

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if the

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2 parties who are involved,

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typically,

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are the only people who know about details. That's privacy. I'm giving you 1 Bitcoin.

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You know that I'm giving you that. I I know that I'm giving it to you and so on and so forth. That's it. But nobody else knows,

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Even the government,

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even the state,

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even

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your friends, your family, your Church,

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your employer,

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all of those things. Right?

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Alright.

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So Keep that in mind as we're talking about all this, and we are specifically talking about privacy.

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Anonymity is Often linked with that, but they are 2 slightly different things. I came up with what I call a privacy axiom. What is an axiom? An axiom was something I learned in mister Hollingsworth's

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geometry class.

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Way back in 9th grade, I was not a very good geometry student,

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but they had these Axioms and geometry.

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I don't know. All 3 angles, I think this is an axiom. I hope I'm not wrong. I didn't look it up.

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All 3 angles of a triangle

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have to add up to a 180

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degrees. I think you could call that an axiom.

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It is a provable

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truth.

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It is, in some cases, is what they call a self evident truth.

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That's another way of putting it. It's self evident. If I add up a 100 triangles

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that the inside angles are going to come out,

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to a 180 degrees. I think that's right. 60, 60, 60, 90.

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Yeah. 90, 45, 45.

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Yeah. 180.

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Right.

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You'd be proud of me, mister Hollingsworth, if you're still alive.

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Anyways,

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I have an axiom that I came up with, and I did make this up. I've never heard this before,

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at least in this form.

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Regardless

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of what amendments, laws, or articles,

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articles like this one about from the UN, are in place about privacy,

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Government surveillance

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will continue

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to increase

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over time.

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Think about that.

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Think about the amount of monitor okay. Just

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right here in the United States,

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just recently,

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It was beyond a shadow of a doubt. This is not a conspiracy theory uncovered that

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Three letter organizations, I believe it was the FBI and maybe the CIA,

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but I don't wanna bet on that.

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We're involved with

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Facebook.

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Facebook? No. Twitter.

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Sorry.

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Or maybe it

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now I'm not even sure. I really should look this up. Regardless, they were monitoring customer traffic right in the building.

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No privacy.

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Now Twitter, you can say, well, that's

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a public service or whatever, but this is the kind of thing I'm talking about. They would have had access to details

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that They should not have,

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and they were kicked out. They were removed. Now did, you know, Washington DC burned down? No.

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I'll give you another example.

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I was just reading about this last night. I think I included this in the show notes.

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So and I'd heard about this before, but there's a case going on. This is crazy. I believe this is kind of a worldwide

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idea, but Here at least here in the United States, we have these things called safety deposit or safe deposit boxes.

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When Maybe I've got some valuable papers, some

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coinage,

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maybe some jewelry, this kind of thing. I don't wanna keep it at my house.

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go to a bank or

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a business whose that's all they do, and it goes into a safe

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deposit box. Now that is

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my property. It is going into this company whose their job is to

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manage That privacy

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for me. There's a company in California. It's true story. I think it's in Los Angeles, but I do know it's in California.

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They went,

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excuse me. The FBI

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went in

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with some

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warrant

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To get at

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the business's

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papers.

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The business was under investigation.

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This is Very important to understand.

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You've got the business. You got the safety deposit boxes of the customers.

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They went in

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and grabbed

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all of the safety deposit boxes

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or safe deposit boxes, took them,

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Open them all up, cataloged everything in there, and then

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literally the things of value in there,

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they took out And they started basically trying to pull into custody

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in order to keep people from getting their stuff back. Now This is a complete invasion

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of privacy.

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I do not see how you

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reconcile that

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with the 4th Amendment, for example,

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And that is being worked out in our court system right now. That's why

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I

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even knew about this.

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But my point is,

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this is a fairly recent I I don't think you would have heard about this even

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20 years ago.

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Now maybe it did happen. Maybe I'm being naive.

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But it certainly become easier for governments to monitor data, for governments to monitor Internet traffic,

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bank transactions, and all this kind of stuff. And the Bank Secrecy Act don't even get me started.

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Y'all have heard me talk about this before.

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What is it? Less than $10,000,

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and

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The bank is basically going to be forced to ask you some questions about what you're doing with your money. With your money.

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Well, I'm sending it to my grandpa because he needs it to stay in the old folks' home. It's none of your business.

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That Started in, I believe the 19 seventies

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in some form.

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I used to I did know at one point the actual time that

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started. But regardless,

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this is just another example of government overreach.

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Where is all this going, Macintosh?

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To me,

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Bitcoin has

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2 primary functions.

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Too.

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Anything else?

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It's

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a store of value,

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which we'll be discussing shortly

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in the news.

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And it's an so it's an investment,

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and it's a currency.

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When I use it

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as either one of those things,

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let's

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flip the tables here for just a second. Let's not talk about Bitcoin.

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Gold

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no longer really uses currency,

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still used by a lot of people

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As a story value.

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If I own a block of gold,

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is it the government's business that I own that block of gold? No. Not really.

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If I choose to take that block of gold and put it into

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some financial

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instrument,

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that's probably going to mean that there's Some level

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of privacy that I lose, but I have the ability to keep that gold all by itself

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in my house in,

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Say, a safe

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under lock and key. I don't have to tell anybody about it,

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and it's my store of value.

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So that's one of Bitcoin's primary functions.

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And I want the ability to have that

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with as much privacy as possible.

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How do you do that? Well, it's no KYC.

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You don't buy it or exchange.

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You don't I don't know.

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Offhand, I I I I could

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that would basically be it. And you will store it in your own self custody on a hardware wallet like a seed sign or this kind of thing.

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So certainly, theoretically and practically, you can do that. It's difficult to buy without kyc. That's

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the snag.

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My suggestion would be to talk to people at your Bitcoin

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meetup.

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You may be able to buy from somebody there.

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You still need to be careful.

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But we're going to be talking about that more over coming weeks. So I don't want to get too deep into that.

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Bitcoin is a currency.

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Again, second use case,

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There are a lot of places

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where

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buying certain things, doing certain things, making certain financial transactions

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Can get you in trouble.

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I will leave it up to you to

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figure out, are these things

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Important for you.

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I'm not going to tell you what you should be doing with your money.

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What I do wanna do is make it as private as possible because we do not know what's coming down the road.

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You know, when Russia invaded Ukraine,

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I said and the United States cut off The Russia from the SWIFT network, and make no mistake, that's where it came from. I said that's a bad move. Is Russia wrong to invade

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the Ukraine?

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From my perception,

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absolutely,

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and it still is.

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That has not changed. But

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When you start messing with people's

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money,

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and that's what that was doing,

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that to me is like a sacred

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thing.

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If I'm stopping the average person in Russia who may or may not agree

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with what the Kremlin,

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Is it the I think it's the Kremlin.

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Does. Then

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I

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that's a problem.

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And when we shut off the SWIFT network to Russia, that caused problems for the average Russian

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person.

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What if you go to

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see, I'll think I pick on different

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countries. I don't.

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Let's go to Canada.

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Canada's

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fairly

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safe.

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The truckers strike that happened during COVID. I do not know if you agree with that or not. There's certainly a lot of division about that. Whatever.

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But you had people protesting

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in Ottawa,

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truckers,

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because they felt like they couldn't do their job.

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And what did the government do?

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If they can figure out who they were, they cut off access to their bank accounts.

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That's not right. That's not okay.

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You there's no

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there was no trial. There was no justice. There was no legal process. There was nothing. There was a court order that the

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government managed to get,

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And they shut down their bank account. They froze them.

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That's not okay.

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You may or may not agree with the truckers.

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It's not okay to block access to their money. Money

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is something that everyone needs.

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And before we

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presume

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guilt, which was another

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amendment, I think, it's certainly in the constitution

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in whole,

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You

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you we have a right not to be presumed guilty, essentially. You have to prove somebody does something in order to take their money, to take their property.

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That did not happen in this case. And it does not happen with these random Seizures, just like the FBI thing that I was talking about.

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The people who had

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cash,

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gold,

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jewelry,

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Other things like that in those safe deposit boxes,

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they were not given a trial. They never appeared before a judge. They There was no guilt on their part. This was not about them.

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This was some vacuous

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power grab by the FBI

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because they're trying to,

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as far as I can tell, just grab a bunch of stuff.

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So I want my money to be as private as possible.

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Let's talk about Bitcoin to wrap this up. I'm 30 minutes in. I Promise you I'm gonna be done in 45 minutes.

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In total,

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I'm I'm gonna stick to this this year. 30, 45 minute episodes. I'm gonna tighten it up.

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Bitcoin

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is as private as you want it to be. This is a perception. I wrote this straight off of

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Twitter.

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No. It's not. No. It's not. I've been involved with Bitcoin since 2013.

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When you say something like that, you presume that a person has the knowledge

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to buy it without fiat, Without

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sorry. Without going through an exchange,

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without

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maybe they mine it. Maybe they Buy it from somebody,

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at a Bitcoin,

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meetup.

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But you don't know who that person is, so maybe they're tracking you. I mean, it is Possible,

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and it has happened.

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Bitcoin

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by default is not private. And to be private, to have some level of privacy, and we're gonna be talking about The ways that we can do that over the next couple weeks

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and what I hope our future innovations

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in that,

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It takes technical knowledge at this point. It's not just point, click, tap, doop, bop, bop, and it costs Money

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in

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every case that I know of.

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It's not built,

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for the most part,

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into the protocol level

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of the Bitcoin main chain.

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So when people say things like that, and I copied that Right off the Twitter, Bitcoin is as private as you wanna be. No fiat, no KYC.

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That presumes

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I am a tech smart person

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with access

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to things that the average person

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out there, even in the United States, won't have much less

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A, quote, developing country

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who,

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you know,

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maybe they make $5 a day

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And any kind of fees on top of Bitcoin, if they're even able to do Bitcoin,

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are a no go.

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So one of the most misunderstood benefits of Bitcoin's blockchain, its main chain, is its pseudo anonymity.

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This is because,

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Like I said, we kind of use these terms anonymous and privacy,

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interchangeably.

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That's not really true.

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And it's really important when you're dealing with a Bitcoin transaction.

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Your transaction cannot be anonymous

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if it is linked To your personal identity. If you do anything

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through Coinbase, through Kraken,

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through any of these exchanges

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that you have to key in your personal identification

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or take a picture or whatever to prove that you are you.

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You're now linked to that.

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And it's only private if

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we can

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the 2 parties involved

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are the only people who have access to those details. The amount,

507
00:29:42.929 --> 00:29:46.625
where it came from, where it's going, etcetera. And who's involved?

508
00:29:51.325 --> 00:29:53.585
Because of the nature of a blockchain,

509
00:29:54.840 --> 00:29:56.380
This so called ledger,

510
00:29:57.480 --> 00:29:59.020
this actually counteracts

511
00:29:59.560 --> 00:30:00.060
completely

512
00:30:00.600 --> 00:30:02.540
this concept of privacy.

513
00:30:02.904 --> 00:30:04.524
The ledger is publicly

514
00:30:05.065 --> 00:30:05.565
distributed

515
00:30:06.105 --> 00:30:06.605
data.

516
00:30:06.985 --> 00:30:07.725
The transactions

517
00:30:08.505 --> 00:30:09.005
between

518
00:30:09.760 --> 00:30:10.580
2 or more

519
00:30:11.600 --> 00:30:12.100
parties

520
00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:13.780
with some level

521
00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:15.299
of anonymity.

522
00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:17.220
That anonymity

523
00:30:17.600 --> 00:30:25.195
is what Allows users to maintain some level of privacy while ensuring the ability to audit the 21,000,000

524
00:30:25.575 --> 00:30:30.760
in total Bitcoin. Of course, Not all those have been mined. You could argue they've not all been created,

525
00:30:31.060 --> 00:30:32.120
etcetera. So

526
00:30:33.300 --> 00:30:34.360
that's a problem.

527
00:30:35.225 --> 00:30:38.205
Let's see. We want privacy, at least I do.

528
00:30:38.745 --> 00:30:41.085
And I this is something I will argue about.

529
00:30:41.865 --> 00:30:43.885
But Bitcoin as a blockchain,

530
00:30:44.185 --> 00:30:45.270
as As

531
00:30:45.650 --> 00:30:47.110
a ledger of record

532
00:30:48.290 --> 00:30:57.765
directly opposes that. So how do we how do we get around that? Well, that's what we'll be talking about over the next couple of weeks. How can we do that?

533
00:30:58.625 --> 00:30:59.925
What are some things

534
00:31:00.305 --> 00:31:01.285
that can happen?

535
00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:03.460
Alright.

536
00:31:05.120 --> 00:31:05.620
News.

537
00:31:05.920 --> 00:31:09.140
Not a whole lot, but there were a few things.

538
00:31:09.794 --> 00:31:13.414
I I wanna talk about the ETFs. I'm also gonna talk about

539
00:31:13.955 --> 00:31:18.054
this news came out. I wanna go ahead and throw this out real quick, and then we'll dive into ETFs.

540
00:31:20.840 --> 00:31:23.340
Bitmain is the main number one

541
00:31:25.320 --> 00:31:27.260
immensely larger by volume

542
00:31:27.560 --> 00:31:33.295
Bitcoin miner out there. They're based in mainland China, if I'm not mistaken, in South China.

543
00:31:34.475 --> 00:31:41.030
And they're huge, like, Probably, I don't know, 90 plus percent of the miners out there are Bitmain.

544
00:31:41.970 --> 00:31:44.950
So it turns out and I don't know why this came up,

545
00:31:45.355 --> 00:31:45.935
but it

546
00:31:47.435 --> 00:31:49.295
did. Bring this up real quick.

547
00:31:50.395 --> 00:31:53.135
There was some oh, so Core Scientific

548
00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:57.340
Was a is a hosting company, a mining hosting company. They mine. They also

549
00:31:57.960 --> 00:32:02.355
they also host other people's miners. They're in bankruptcy or

550
00:32:02.895 --> 00:32:04.035
some state of bankruptcy.

551
00:32:04.335 --> 00:32:09.690
And because of that, they're dealing with the court. They had actually received court approval

552
00:32:10.230 --> 00:32:15.610
to purchase, and I heard a guy on a mining podcast this week talking about this. They're purchasing

553
00:32:17.645 --> 00:32:18.145
27,000

554
00:32:19.245 --> 00:32:21.745
s nineteen j x piece from Bitmain,

555
00:32:23.404 --> 00:32:25.510
and, and here's the punchline.

556
00:32:26.370 --> 00:32:29.270
And they're going to host an additional 27,000

557
00:32:30.610 --> 00:32:32.390
s nineteen j x piece

558
00:32:32.845 --> 00:32:34.705
for the Chinese mining

559
00:32:35.085 --> 00:32:35.585
manufacturer.

560
00:32:37.165 --> 00:32:42.225
There's kind of been rumors about this, but this is definitive. This is a legal document.

561
00:32:43.470 --> 00:32:45.330
Core Scientific is hosting

562
00:32:45.710 --> 00:32:46.770
or will host

563
00:32:47.310 --> 00:32:47.810
27,000

564
00:32:48.750 --> 00:32:50.130
of the Bitmain miners

565
00:32:50.475 --> 00:32:52.575
for Bitmain. So Bitmain itself,

566
00:32:53.035 --> 00:32:53.695
the company,

567
00:32:54.235 --> 00:32:55.775
will be mining Bitcoin

568
00:32:56.075 --> 00:32:59.055
if they are not already. What does that mean?

569
00:33:00.590 --> 00:33:08.210
The company that most people purchase miners from is directly competing with the miners. The irony of this is just

570
00:33:08.510 --> 00:33:09.650
fantastic. Now

571
00:33:10.295 --> 00:33:14.875
My miners, they're all bit main. Why are they bit main? Well, they run well.

572
00:33:15.495 --> 00:33:18.075
They are cheaper than, say,

573
00:33:19.490 --> 00:33:21.830
The next one or any of them, really.

574
00:33:22.450 --> 00:33:22.950
And

575
00:33:23.409 --> 00:33:25.269
they're the most convenient to get.

576
00:33:26.289 --> 00:33:34.044
And So 9 tenths probably of the minors out there, like I said, are bit man. There's certainly a significant percentage, well over 50%.

577
00:33:34.825 --> 00:33:36.044
But this same company

578
00:33:37.010 --> 00:33:37.510
is

579
00:33:38.130 --> 00:33:41.669
basically competing against the people that they sell product to.

580
00:33:42.289 --> 00:33:44.070
It's crazy. I hope

581
00:33:44.865 --> 00:33:46.325
This either changes,

582
00:33:46.785 --> 00:33:48.085
I don't think it will,

583
00:33:49.185 --> 00:33:52.510
or people start migrating to other

584
00:33:53.450 --> 00:33:53.950
companies.

585
00:33:54.410 --> 00:33:59.550
I really would like to see more diversity in the Bitcoin mining space in terms of the hardware.

586
00:34:00.545 --> 00:34:04.325
I think we will slowly see that over the next few years, probably

587
00:34:04.625 --> 00:34:06.725
5 plus years, 5 to 10 years.

588
00:34:07.380 --> 00:34:11.640
Anyways, that was some very interesting news for the miners out there.

589
00:34:12.500 --> 00:34:13.800
Let's talk about ETFs.

590
00:34:15.015 --> 00:34:19.915
There was so much news about the ETFs this week. Twitter was was all up and

591
00:34:20.775 --> 00:34:21.994
whatever because

592
00:34:23.255 --> 00:34:23.755
because

593
00:34:24.330 --> 00:34:27.630
They thought that basically the approval was gonna come

594
00:34:28.010 --> 00:34:30.350
in the last couple of days, and it didn't happen.

595
00:34:31.905 --> 00:34:33.845
So I think we're looking at Monday,

596
00:34:34.305 --> 00:34:40.005
Tuesday, Wednesday, kind of the original time frame if y'all remember, 8 January 8 through 10

597
00:34:41.300 --> 00:34:43.080
Based on when the filing started,

598
00:34:44.900 --> 00:34:51.485
to see this, and I do think they'll be approved. And I think when that happens, we will see a lot of money

599
00:34:51.865 --> 00:34:55.965
flow into Bitcoin. I think a decent portion of it will happen immediately.

600
00:34:56.480 --> 00:35:05.300
It would not surprise me. So this is kind of the 2nd part of my market update. I think if that happens this week, we can have 1 or 2 things. If

601
00:35:05.855 --> 00:35:06.595
If the SEC,

602
00:35:07.055 --> 00:35:11.635
for whatever reason, comes out and says this is not happening anytime soon, that's gonna

603
00:35:12.655 --> 00:35:15.475
drop the market. It may drop 5, 10

604
00:35:16.390 --> 00:35:24.010
$1,000 wouldn't surprise me. People are so wound up about these ETFs. It'll bounce back, but I'm just saying it could happen.

605
00:35:25.095 --> 00:35:29.275
If it gets approved and there's in my mind, there's 95%

606
00:35:29.575 --> 00:35:30.714
chance of that happening,

607
00:35:32.030 --> 00:35:32.530
Then

608
00:35:33.070 --> 00:35:34.370
do we break 50,000?

609
00:35:34.750 --> 00:35:38.670
I'm fairly certain we will over the next, say, month. So say

610
00:35:39.915 --> 00:35:41.535
Let's say by the end of February.

611
00:35:41.915 --> 00:35:43.455
Could we break 60,000

612
00:35:43.915 --> 00:35:44.975
by the end of February?

613
00:35:45.675 --> 00:35:46.975
I believe we could.

614
00:35:47.350 --> 00:35:49.370
And I think what I predicted

615
00:35:50.230 --> 00:35:52.010
I'll have to go back and look at my notes.

616
00:35:52.710 --> 00:35:55.050
But I wrote it up in the notes for last episode.

617
00:35:56.025 --> 00:35:56.925
By the happening,

618
00:35:57.865 --> 00:36:00.765
so in April, I think we'll be above all time highs.

619
00:36:02.265 --> 00:36:03.005
I think

620
00:36:03.579 --> 00:36:06.880
Some of it will be the ETFs. Some of it will just be the general

621
00:36:07.180 --> 00:36:11.359
environment and what we see going on in Bitcoin and all this kind of stuff.

622
00:36:11.994 --> 00:36:19.694
I fully expect that. So you heard it first here, probably not, but, yeah, I think that's what's gonna happen. Now

623
00:36:20.080 --> 00:36:22.900
I've said this or I've tweeted this or whatever.

624
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:26.340
Does Bitcoin need these ETFs? Absolutely

625
00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:27.380
not.

626
00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:29.205
We know do not.

627
00:36:30.085 --> 00:36:32.425
We do not 100% need these ETFs.

628
00:36:32.885 --> 00:36:34.345
What this will do, however,

629
00:36:34.725 --> 00:36:41.290
is start to open up the gates to the Wall Great money. It will start pouring in. These are big companies

630
00:36:41.910 --> 00:36:43.690
that we're talking about. BlackRock,

631
00:36:44.550 --> 00:36:45.530
Morgan Stanley,

632
00:36:46.395 --> 00:36:46.895
Fidelity.

633
00:36:47.621 --> 00:36:48.121
Van

634
00:36:48.848 --> 00:36:49.348
Eck.

635
00:36:50.075 --> 00:36:54.975
Van Eck, actually, in in another little bit of news. I thought this was really cool.

636
00:36:55.590 --> 00:37:00.010
And, well, we'll get to the cool part, and then we'll talk about what people are saying.

637
00:37:00.390 --> 00:37:02.330
They're saying that they're gonna donate

638
00:37:03.190 --> 00:37:06.425
a Pretty decent amount. 5 I think it was 5%

639
00:37:06.885 --> 00:37:08.745
of the fees that they collect

640
00:37:09.285 --> 00:37:10.610
to Bitcoin core development.

641
00:37:11.490 --> 00:37:16.950
So, basically, it will help out the Bitcoin court work that goes on that's so necessary.

642
00:37:17.490 --> 00:37:22.045
Now everybody's like, oh, well, they'll be in the pocket of Van Eck and blah blah blah.

643
00:37:22.345 --> 00:37:24.365
I suppose that's theoretically

644
00:37:24.665 --> 00:37:28.125
possible, but honestly, I don't think that's what's gonna happen.

645
00:37:28.640 --> 00:37:30.900
I really don't think that they're gonna sway

646
00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:33.380
any core developer to do something

647
00:37:33.680 --> 00:37:37.984
to benefit an ETF or anything like that. I don't even see how Possible.

648
00:37:39.244 --> 00:37:42.545
But I wouldn't completely write it off, but it

649
00:37:42.845 --> 00:37:44.704
kinda seems like a conspiracy

650
00:37:45.005 --> 00:37:46.880
theory to me. So,

651
00:37:48.220 --> 00:37:49.839
anyways, that was pretty cool.

652
00:37:50.220 --> 00:37:52
But everybody has updated

653
00:37:53.745 --> 00:38:00.885
They did their final documents. I think the vast majority of them have been updated. There's, like, a dozen companies involved at this point,

654
00:38:02.670 --> 00:38:10.530
And it's just about time. So Monday morning, they may approve all this, and you may see the price. I mean, I may barely get this out in time. Now right now,

655
00:38:12.265 --> 00:38:15.005
The Bitcoin price, it looks like it dropped.

656
00:38:16.105 --> 00:38:17.565
It did. Crazy.

657
00:38:17.945 --> 00:38:19.245
While I was recording,

658
00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:21.380
Down to 43,300.

659
00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:25.620
Actually, down to

660
00:38:28.015 --> 00:38:28.515
43154,

661
00:38:29.535 --> 00:38:31.875
which literally was the top

662
00:38:32.735 --> 00:38:34.115
of the ascending triangle.

663
00:38:35.520 --> 00:38:41.220
Ascending channel. That ascending channel is just nuts how well that thing is holding up. It's crazy.

664
00:38:42.694 --> 00:38:43.194
But

665
00:38:43.494 --> 00:38:46.555
we get bad news, it'll break right through that channel.

666
00:38:46.855 --> 00:38:50.320
I I would not be surprised at all to I see 35,000,

667
00:38:50.860 --> 00:38:51.360
33,000,

668
00:38:51.980 --> 00:38:52.480
30,000.

669
00:38:53.900 --> 00:38:58.035
I think once you hit 30, we're gonna see a lot of buying going on.

670
00:38:58.835 --> 00:39:04.694
But, yeah, I mean, it could be bad news and it could really drop, or it could be the exact opposite.

671
00:39:05.290 --> 00:39:05.790
Statistically,

672
00:39:06.170 --> 00:39:13.470
I think at this point, most likely, we're seeing that upward push, and we're certainly set up for it. We have the perfect, beautiful,

673
00:39:14.684 --> 00:39:15.184
Ascending

674
00:39:15.484 --> 00:39:20.065
channel that I've been talking about, we're up above it. We've built a bull flag, actually.

675
00:39:21.405 --> 00:39:23.585
We're kinda ready to rock and roll.

676
00:39:24.470 --> 00:39:25.130
When it

677
00:39:25.670 --> 00:39:27.049
breaks, basically, that 4044a

678
00:39:28.630 --> 00:39:29.450
half, $45,000

679
00:39:30.470 --> 00:39:30.970
level

680
00:39:31.405 --> 00:39:33.345
for the day or longer.

681
00:39:34.045 --> 00:39:39.825
Really, probably even a little longer than that. We're gonna be off to the races, and it won't stop until we at least hit 50,000.

682
00:39:41.020 --> 00:39:44
I definitely could see it going higher, at least temporarily.

683
00:39:45.820 --> 00:39:51.345
So there we go. 42 minutes in, we're gonna thank some supporters, and we are gonna shut it down.

684
00:39:52.605 --> 00:39:53.105
Awesome.

685
00:39:54.285 --> 00:40:01.339
You know, it's funny this week. I had one boost. I actually had more streaming than normal, so I I do appreciate that.

686
00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:03.740
We had user 487940

687
00:40:05.545 --> 00:40:06.045
799

688
00:40:06.425 --> 00:40:07.885
sent a 100 sats on

689
00:40:08.505 --> 00:40:09.565
January 1st,

690
00:40:10.185 --> 00:40:15.005
listened to the year end review, and, boosted a 100 sats. Like I said,

691
00:40:15.750 --> 00:40:17.930
And by the way, user 48794799.

692
00:40:19.990 --> 00:40:22.010
I really appreciate that, of course.

693
00:40:23.075 --> 00:40:38.820
But I do wanna mention, we did have some streaming going on as well, and, of course, I appreciate that as well. So A little down, I have not been as regular as I would like to be. Going forth from the in the New Year, I've got to finish this transition over to the new computer,

694
00:40:39.174 --> 00:40:42.474
Figure out things with Reaper. I don't completely have it set up.

695
00:40:43.015 --> 00:40:46.795
I'm not sure completely, but hopefully, in the next few days, I can get that resolved.

696
00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:52.380
And we're gonna talk about privacy for a couple weeks, and then we're gonna roll into some other things. So

697
00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:54.700
we will see how that all goes.

698
00:40:56.234 --> 00:40:58.095
What else do we have to wrap it up?

699
00:40:59.195 --> 00:41:07.780
We're a podcasting 2 point o podcast. Of course, we're a value for value podcast as I talk about all the time. I don't have ads. I don't have sponsorships.

700
00:41:08.080 --> 00:41:09.860
I don't have anything like that.

701
00:41:10.160 --> 00:41:10.660
You,

702
00:41:10.960 --> 00:41:13.575
as the listener, Can support the podcast

703
00:41:13.875 --> 00:41:17.415
because of the value that you receive from this podcast.

704
00:41:18.355 --> 00:41:19.815
That's what I'm looking for.

705
00:41:20.420 --> 00:41:38.375
I do depend on my audience to grow this podcast. I depend on people supporting the show. If you like what you hear, please go out and tell somebody. Go put a review. Go put it on Apple Podcasts. I used to say, don't put it on Apple Podcasts. I'm not an Apple Podcasts fan. The podcast 2.0 stuff,

706
00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:40.820
which is available at podcastapps.com,

707
00:41:42.560 --> 00:41:46.340
is much, much better than the Apple Podcast apps.

708
00:41:46.855 --> 00:41:57.230
But, hey, if you're using Apple Podcasts and you wanna put a review up there, go for it. I would really appreciate that from the bottom of my heart. I don't know where else you can go and put reviews

709
00:41:57.530 --> 00:41:59.870
anywhere that you could. I would appreciate that.

710
00:42:00.410 --> 00:42:01.870
How do you get a hold of me?

711
00:42:02.365 --> 00:42:05.025
Well, one really easy way is just send me a boost.

712
00:42:06.765 --> 00:42:07.505
This user

713
00:42:07.805 --> 00:42:10.225
48 whatever sorry. User 48

714
00:42:10.700 --> 00:42:12.960
blah blah blah. I don't remember the number,

715
00:42:13.260 --> 00:42:18.525
but they could've sent me a boost. They could've said, hey, McIntosh. Great show. They could've said, hey, McIntosh. You suck.

716
00:42:19.885 --> 00:42:20.785
I don't care.

717
00:42:21.484 --> 00:42:30.400
I am always looking for feedback. Hey. Your sound stinks. Well, tonight, maybe It's a little off because I've got all the effects turned off. I really don't know what's going on there,

718
00:42:30.700 --> 00:42:33.200
and I apologize for that. But yeah.

719
00:42:34.145 --> 00:42:34.645
Whatever.

720
00:42:34.945 --> 00:42:38.805
Just give me feedback, good or bad. I can take both. I'm a big boy.

721
00:42:39.265 --> 00:42:43.819
Let me know. That's it. You can reach out to me. I'm on Twitter at McIntoshFintech

722
00:42:44.200 --> 00:42:44.700
Fintech.

723
00:42:45 --> 00:42:49.020
Sorry. Yeah. McintoshFintech. I'm on mastodon at Macintosh

724
00:42:49.395 --> 00:42:51.175
at podcast index dot social.

725
00:42:51.635 --> 00:42:53.655
You can reach me by email at macintosh@satoshisplebs

726
00:42:56.869 --> 00:42:57.369
.com.

727
00:42:57.670 --> 00:42:59.769
And, of course, there's the website satoshis-plebs.com

728
00:43:01.109 --> 00:43:01.769
as well.

729
00:43:02.230 --> 00:43:05.289
That's about it. I'll talk to you guys next Thursday.