Sovereignty Through Mathematics - Introduction | Bitcoin Infinity Academy #1

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Hey there everyone and welcome
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Yes, and this is the first episode
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the first episode of the Bitcoin
Sovereignty Through Mathematics course.

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want to play in the all of this.

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Absolutely.

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And so should we, should we dive
right in with the first episode for

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sovereignty through mathematics?

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yeah, absolutely.

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So sovereignty through mathematics
is my first proper book on Bitcoin.

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It was released back in, uh, I believe
may 2019, but it didn't really take

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off until, uh, August that year or
even September when I went to Riga

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with 50 books in my hand luggage,
but I'm getting ahead of myself here.

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So, I started writing about Bitcoin online
in 2017, and I wrote articles on medium.

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which I later turned into a
book, actually, my real first

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book about Bitcoin is this one.

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It's called three minutes.

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Read some Bitcoin.

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And this was like a prototype book.

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So this is just a compilation
of those articles.

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and then I had that.

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I wasn't very happy about it because
it was the only book I had to my name.

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So I decided on New Year's Eve
2018 to write a proper book about

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Bitcoin and that later became
Sovereignty through Mathematics.

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It had a working title that
was Dealing with Bitcoin.

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This is what it looked like.

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The first prototype of
Sovereignty through Mathematics.

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Uh, this one even had little
graphs and stuff in it.

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but I'm very happy I
changed the title later.

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so the, the original book,
uh, looked like this.

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Maybe you've seen that.

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we've just made a re edit
of all of my previous books.

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And this is part of why we're doing this.

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So this is the big relaunch.

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So this is what Sovereignty
Through Mathematics looks like.

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Right now, uh, beautiful
hardcover, black hardcover here,

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and, uh, yeah, the story about the book
is that I, uh, I made myself a New Year's

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resolution on that New Year's Eve, uh,
and that was that I was going to write

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a page a day for the entire year, 2019.

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And as with all New Year's resolutions,
you break them after a while.

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I broke mine after 106 days,
but I managed to write a page

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a day for 106 days at least.

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But after that, I felt
the book was kind of done.

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So that is what became
Sovereignty Through Mathematics.

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and I released it and no one gave a shit,
until a, uh, Bitcoin core developer,

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who shall not be named, uh, , started
helping me with the editing the book.

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So, so he shot me a DM and it's like,
uh, I really like this book, but the

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language could be better or whatnot.

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And he helped me edit it.

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And I had a, uh, a, a lot of help,
so, so I, I re-edited the book a

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bit and then brought 50 books to
Baltic, honey Badger and Riga.

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And this was back when I
had a regular Fiat job.

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I was the HR manager for a shipping
company, and I was visiting a, um,

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merchant Marine Academy in Riga.

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That was the official reason,
reason for me going there.

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But of course, I had the.

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The Baltic honey badger
conference in the back of my mind.

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So, so I hit two birds
with one stroke there.

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I went, went to the conference, um, had
50 of these things in my hand luggage, uh,

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gave 25 away to, um, important Bitcoiners
and sold the 25 of them for either

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cash or over the lightning networks.

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Can you believe that in back
in, uh, September, 2019, uh,

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using the lightning network and.

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As far as I can remember, it worked
very well, and then the book started

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catching some, uh, attention and
starting to get a life of its own.

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Uh, a couple of years later, uh, when
Michael Saylor entered the Bitcoin

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scene, I got a DM from him a couple
of months after he first arrived.

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where he complimented the book and he
wanted to put it on a micro strategies,

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Bitcoin educational website, hope.

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com.

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And it's been there ever since.

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And I'm very proud that this book, did
so much for me and like, um, catapulted

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my, my sort of public Bitcoin or career
here of whatever you can call it.

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Uh, I, I never expected
this to go anywhere really.

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So I'm really happy to be here
and do this stuff with you now.

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And in re editing the book with
Luke, I realized that there's a lot

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in here that are sort of thought
embryos for what to be, what was to

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be more fleshed out ideas in the end.

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Subsequent books.

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So, this is sort of episode 0 of the
Bitcoin Infinity Academy and we'll just

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talk about the book in general, but the
next episode will be, uh, the 1st chapter.

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Everything a trade.

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Yeah.

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Over to you.

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Look,

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Yeah, well, I mean, this, this,
this story is, is, uh, is fantastic.

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I mean, as you say, it's where, where this
all started and I mean, not, not to, to

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put too, too much into like our, uh, the
way we got together, I think, I think.

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Are many of our listeners already know the
story and everything, but, but obviously

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without, without this book and you
starting to do more things in Bitcoin, we

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wouldn't have been working together and,
and, and, uh, taking this all forward.

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So, yeah, it all starts here
and that's just awesome.

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And yeah, this this Academy concept.

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So this first episode, what
we're releasing this with is

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with the preface and the forward.

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So we'll show those here in a moment.

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But yeah, like we started when we
started re editing the book and really

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having the discussions about it.

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That was really cool because, um,
I read these books back in the

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day when I was first getting into
Bitcoin, but it'd been a while and.

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And really what we, what we started
to do is what we almost always do.

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We have, we have these discussions
about anything and everything that's

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going on in the Bitcoin world and what
is our take on this and everything.

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And, uh, that really intensified, of
course, when we started to write Bitcoin,

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the Inverse of Clown World together.

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And, and we, we really fleshed out a lot
of ideas in, in that particular book,

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but then we went back and looked at
Sovereignty to Mathematics, Independence

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Reimagined, everything, a million, of
them have, have, uh, um, idea embryos

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or, or, or something like that, that you,
that you, you call, like, uh, there's,

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there's, there's a lot here in these
books, and so I'm excited that, uh, and

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I, I hope this really Parks discussion
and and even also starts a starts a

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trend of of books and articles and
and all this being being released on.

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Nostra where it's where it's free
and where people can comment and,

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uh, um, give these give these ideas
more, uh, more life because because,

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um, these things aren't aren't.

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Self evident to everyone.

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This is my view on the philosophical
side of Bitcoin in general, which,

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which I think we semi reluctantly
fall into the, the philosophical camp.

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It's not just, it's not just that,
uh, uh, but Bitcoin philosophers is

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kind of the, I think the shorthand
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do with this Bitcoin infinity stuff.

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But the philosophy is
really conviction deep.

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Us digging through these ideas and
trying to, trying to poke holes in them

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and trying to see what a world with
Bitcoin looks like if everything is

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taken to absolutely its furthest extent.

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Um, and it looks pretty great and,
uh, in challenging these ideas and in,

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and in building these ideas, we, we
can steel man our own, uh, arguments

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against Bitcoin so that we're much better
at, at spreading adoption and, and.

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doing our part to make sure Bitcoin
seeds, because even if this is

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inevitable, there are definitely
challenges that can come along the way.

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And, uh, us as Bitcoiners
being more prepared.

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And more able to spread
the word about Bitcoin.

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This is this is what it's all about.

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And it's also a reason why I think
plan B is the perfect partner

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for us here, too, because because
they're all about spreading Bitcoin

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educational content in every language.

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Possible and, uh, we're just a
different layer of that really like

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the conviction deepening for the,
uh, Bitcoin maximalists who are

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already well inducted into the thing.

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But if you are listening to this
and you're fairly new to Bitcoin

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and you haven't dug into these
ideas before, I really hope that

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you get get a lot out of this also.

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absolutely.

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And so we're doing all on 4 books.

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We have all four, all
four of the Bitcoin books.

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So they're all re released and
available from bitcoininfinitystore.

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com.

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This is sovereignty through mathematics.

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After that, like, uh, I think
starting on infinity day,

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we'll, we'll do the next book.

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Right.

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So we'll, we'll do this course.

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This is a 14 episode course, uh, the,
uh, sovereignty through mathematics one.

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Um, we'll have an opening.

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This is the opening episode.

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We'll have do all the four, all the
12 chapters and then a closing episode

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where we wrap things up, uh, and then
do a short break and where we do a

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lot of conferencing and stuff, Luke
and I are going to Prague and Calgary

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and, uh, Budapest and Riga and, uh,
and Helsinki first and foremost, which

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is a conference we're co organizing.

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After that, we'll start Independence
Reimagined, which is now

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redesigned and looks like this.

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I have the first version of that here.

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This is, uh, this first version has this
beautiful fractal encrypt sculpture on it.

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This is where I started to,
where I befriended Fractal and

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we started working together.

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The re release has this beautiful
snake with laser eyes on it.

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after that, it's, uh, of course,
everything divided by 21 million,

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which will start some somewhere
around Christmas or something.

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I think that's if we're following our
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of course, Bitcoin, the inverse of clown
world, uh, which I co wrote with Luke.

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And I, I still think this is
the best book I've ever done.

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Uh, much.

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Thanks to Luke.

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So looking forward to all of this, so
this Sovereignty through Mathematics has

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a foreword by Prince Filip of Serbia.

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And, of course, Prince Filip wasn't a
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So this was actually released
for another version of this book.

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Bit of history here.

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So this is Bitcoin
Sovereignty and Independence.

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So I, I released both these books
as one a couple of years back.

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And that's when Prince
Filip wrote the foreword.

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Which I was very happy about.

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I'm like, I have the best
four words in the world.

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Like I have one by Prince Filip,
one by Hodlonoth, one by Jeff

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Booth, one by Raheem Tagisadegan,
and one by Giacomo Socco.

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Like, what, what, what, what is that?

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That's like, name that band if you can.

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That's so good.

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it would be an interesting band.

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yeah.

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So I'm, I'm very happy about all
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the meat of it, so to speak.

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Absolutely.

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And, uh, yeah, again, the, the,
the forwards are are awesome.

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And, uh, just, just a little bit
about kind of how the, the, um, the

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book is, is perceived by others,
which is, which is important.

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So we're, we're releasing,
what we're releasing today is

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both the preface, which is.

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Knut's own explanation of this book
and, and maybe you can, you can talk

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just a little bit about, about this
part as well, and then also the forward.

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So, so everything before chapter
one, we're releasing today, Noster.

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This is sort of a little,
advertisement for the book.

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Sort of.

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Um, and then the, the first episode we're
going to release this upcoming Tuesday.

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Uh, this is, this is a little special.

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We're, we're not, we're not
going to do this every time.

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Usually the, the, uh, these episodes
will be released on Fridays.

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And then, um, our usual Bitcoin
Infinity show episodes will still

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be out on Tuesdays as usual.

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Uh, but, but this week specifically,
we're, we're going to release an episode

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of the Bitcoin Infinity Academy early.

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Um, sorry, it's this upcoming
Monday actually, right?

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I think we agreed it's the Monday.

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So we'll release.

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Episode zero.

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So, so called today, this Friday.

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If you're listening to this March
21st, uh, and then, and then this

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following Monday, the 24th, uh, we're
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everything a trade, uh, and then, and
then, uh, the, the following Friday

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will be the, the second chapter.

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So, uh, this is sort of what,
what are we calling this Bitcoin

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infinity academy week here at.

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Bitcoin Infinity HQ.

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Um, and then we'll be back with our usual
Bitcoin Infinity show episodes after

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that, but we just wanted to basically
give a whole bunch of content right here

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to start and kick this thing off with a
bang and, uh, Well, um, would love for

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you to join in on the conversations.

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We're, we're also gonna be recording these
as close to release time as possible.

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It's, it's a little tricky, but
basically this, this stuff we're

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just, we're just talking about these
books and it's, it's us and, uh, yeah.

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So we're, we're gonna record these pretty
close to the, to the actual release dates.

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And, uh, we'll, we'll be, we'll
be saying when in our, our,

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uh, our group's show here.

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And you can join in.

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You can, uh, you can view the live
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When they're recorded, sorry.

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And then, and then, uh, and
then they'll be released within

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a couple of days, probably.

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So, um, really looking forward to this.

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Yeah, and, uh, even if you don't join the
course, I urge you all to interact with

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the material and, uh, like and repost and,
and do all the things because this is a

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chance to play around with Noster tools.

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Uh, we're going to play around a bit
ourselves with things like highlighter,

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maybe Alexandria and all this stuff.

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This is this is meant to be devoured
by by Bitcoiners on Nostrad.

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Uh, there's a bit of backstory here.

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Uh, I first met Miljan from Primal,
uh, at a fancy cocktail party on

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Madeira, uh, during Bitcoin Atlantis.

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And he walks up to me and Luke
and he says, you're Knut, right?

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And I answered, yes.

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And then he goes, you
broke my Nostra client.

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And this was because I had just posted
the entirety of Sovereignty Through

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Mathematics as a note on Primal.

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So just the text file, I just copy
pasted the entire book as one note.

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And apparently that broke Nostra.

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So achievement unlocked.

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Uh, but that's sort of the, the
embryo for this thing, right, Luke?

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That's where we, we, uh, started,
uh, talking about, like, maybe,

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maybe we can do something here.

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Maybe we should release stuff for
free over Nostr, and maybe there's

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a, uh, a clever way of doing this
instead of just force feeding everyone

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an entire book, book in one post.

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Yeah, I mean, I, I think, I think the
idea here is that, is that to We, we

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see the value of, of discussing the, the
content again and, uh, yeah, this way we

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can basically, uh, it, it's out there.

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It's available to read.

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I don't even think you could find
that original note anymore just

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because it's, it's, I think they had
to do something to, like, get it off

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of servers or something like that.

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Um, yeah, but this is, we're excited
about this, this initiative and, uh,

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along the way and, uh, let's, let's
have some fun and, uh, spread the

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word and, and hopefully it turns into
something that, that not only because

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we're, we're releasing this on all
platforms at the same time and the goal

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is to drive people to Noster so that
this stuff can, can be, um, So so that

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people can can interact with Nostra
can maybe try it for the first time.

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If you want to support us, there
are, of course, many ways to do that.

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And buying the book is is 1 that gets
you access to our telegram group.

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Of course, if you buy it from
the Bitcoin infinity store.

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And, and you know, if you, if you
wanna just repost, comment, send us a

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zap, whatever, that much appreciated.

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But, but I think we're, we're
here just to spread the word.

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So if, if, if you got some value
from, from this, from us posting

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this material, you know, we're, we,
we appreciate everything, but, but

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that's up, that's up to you and.

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Love to, to see this thing grow
and become as much as it can

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really, I think that's the,

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the, the, the whole point.

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yeah, absolutely.

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Um, well, for those of you that
were worried, we're absolutely

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not stopping the, the regular
Bitcoin infinity show either.

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We're, we're, we have some great, great
guests lined up here this spring, and we

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have made over 150 episodes at this point.

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So I'm, I'm, which is, which
is just mind boggling to me.

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Uh, we started this whole thing
like two and a half years ago, Luke

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and I met and just started doing
more and more things together.

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And this is how all of
these ideas were born.

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So at this point we've written
a book together and recorded

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more than 150 episodes.

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So super excited for this, uh, do
as many of the things as you can.

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If you, if you want to
support us, everything helps.

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Well, and then maybe now we can
just, uh, uh, just a little bit

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more of, if you, if you don't know
who we are, what we're about, check

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out the Bitcoin Infinity show.

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Everything is in our, everything
is in our channels here.

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The Bitcoin Infinity Store,
BitcoinInfinityStore.

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com has everything that we
produce, including the four

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Bitcoin books that Knut showed.

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It has everything to do
with the Academy as well.

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Geyser.

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fund is one place, but also on our store.

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Then we also have some partnerships
with a lot of other great authors.

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Larry Lippard, Seb Bunny, Daz
B. We'll be adding some more

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books over time here for sure.

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And, uh, you can also get and
other things like that, uh,

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from, from the site as well.

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Everything divided is a, is a popular one.

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Um, the, the other things that we're
doing right now is that we're, we're

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right in the middle of getting out
another, another, uh, couple of

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editions of the Bitcoin Times release.

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So you'll be seeing some out
about that, about the original

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editions of the Bitcoin Times.

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That's something we took on.

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At the latter half of last year,
and that we're slowly getting to

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the finish line to produce new
collectible versions of that stuff.

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So, really looking forward to that.

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and then it's the
conference circuit, right?

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Knut, this is, uh, this is what
we're always excited about doing.

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And, uh, you're busier than
me, but I think we've both got

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a pretty busy summer, right?

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yes, we, we, we certainly have and,
uh, you should try using the discount

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code infinity everywhere on the, on the
internet that is Bitcoin related because

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we're, we're, we have, uh, dipped our
toes into all sorts of ponds, uh, here

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and there, uh, conferences is one thing.

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I'm doing the first one now
in May, I'm doing Ireland and

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then we're both doing Prague.

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We're both going to Calgary.

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I'm going to Budapest and you're
probably going to Riga, right, Luke?

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And after that, it's the Helsinki
one, which is one where, uh,

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or co organizing ourselves.

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And we have handpicked a bunch
of our friends as speakers.

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It's going to be great.

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Go to b2chell.

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com to find out more about that.

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Come to Finland.

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And after that, it's a bit of a break,
but then probably Bulgaria, probably,

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uh, uh, Switzerland, the plan plan B,
uh, forum, which is a great conference.

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And hopefully we'll do all the things
there, sign books and play rock and

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roll and do all the other stupid
stuff we do when we get together.

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Exactly.

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And, uh, yeah, I don't know.

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And, uh, I can't say enough
good things about, uh, Prague.

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I mean, that's the, that's the big one.

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Come to, come to Prague if you can.

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Uh, there's, there's always, there's
always lots of awesome stuff there.

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We're, we're going to have a, a big
book booth, uh, And, uh, lots of,

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lots of other authors coming as well.

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Uh, Riga is always, yeah, like I,
I couldn't, I couldn't miss it.

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Uh, we, we always appreciate, uh,
what, what goes on there with Riga.

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They're, they're really the OGs.

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And they, uh, they had, uh, the, the
Surreptitious timing of of putting

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their conference this year on a
date that they never have, but it

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turns out it was a week before the
date that we picked for BTC HEL.

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And so it's it's an amazing chance.

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You can come to both Baltic honey badger
and to BTC HEL one week after the other.

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You can do you can do Budapest as well.

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If you if you like, it will be there.

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That's that's gonna be a
really interesting conference.

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Um, but I'll be in Riga.

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And Riga and Helsinki are
really close to one another.

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So you come, come enjoy a Baltic Nordic,
um, week, basically, uh, and, uh, See

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Riga, see everything that's going on
there and then come up to Helsinki.

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You're having a blast.

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Uh, there's a really great team
involved with, with BTC HEL, tons of

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great speakers and It's a really nice
time of year to come see the Nordics

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and to come to come to see Helsinki.

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It's my home.

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I'm really excited to host a
whole bunch of Bitcoiners here.

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And there's a ton of really exciting
stuff happening where we keep

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getting getting more and more people.

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Locals here are interested in.

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Bitcoin and and I'm really excited
to see what the impact we have is.

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That's really the point of this
conference where where honey badger

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is kind of this O. G. Conference where
everyone gets together and shows the

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exciting things that are going on.

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But it's really for like plebs and people
who are deep in the ecosystem already.

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Helsinki were really trying to
show to our local environment like

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what this thing is all about and
grow adoption, grow awareness.

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Come join us and help spread the word.

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That's, that's basically the, the
pitch plus enjoy going to sauna and,

446
00:25:22,090 --> 00:25:28,300
uh, and, uh, uh, nice long days and,
uh, life by the sea and all this

447
00:25:28,370 --> 00:25:30,710
it's, uh, I'm really excited for this.

448
00:25:30,750 --> 00:25:35,470
So come to Helsinki also come to all
the conferences, but come to Helsinki.

449
00:25:36,310 --> 00:25:37,020
absolutely.

450
00:25:37,070 --> 00:25:39,820
Um, yes, I couldn't be
more excited for this.

451
00:25:40,380 --> 00:25:43,660
This year is going to be a great
year for Bitcoin in general

452
00:25:43,660 --> 00:25:45,220
and Bitcoiners in particular.

453
00:25:46,860 --> 00:25:49,140
That is the same thing, really.

454
00:25:49,450 --> 00:25:52,590
So, uh, looking forward to all of it.

455
00:25:52,690 --> 00:25:55,590
Um, that's what we got
for you today, I think.

456
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:56,820
So, shall we?

457
00:25:57,125 --> 00:26:00,155
I think, I think, let's, uh, let's
say one last, one last word about

458
00:26:00,155 --> 00:26:03,075
our, uh, um, our partners here.

459
00:26:03,195 --> 00:26:05,265
So thanks again to, first of all, Bitbox.

460
00:26:05,295 --> 00:26:05,805
Thank you.

461
00:26:05,805 --> 00:26:08,325
Thanks to them for, uh,
continuing to support us.

462
00:26:08,325 --> 00:26:10,695
They've been a sponsor of the
Bitcoin Infinity Show for,

463
00:26:11,005 --> 00:26:12,455
for quite some time here.

464
00:26:12,455 --> 00:26:14,395
And, uh, we're, we're thrilled about that.

465
00:26:14,395 --> 00:26:18,660
They're, they're our favorite hardware
wallet and we, uh, We recommend for

466
00:26:18,930 --> 00:26:24,420
every kind of of Bitcoin or or new coin
or or whatever, whatever you call it.

467
00:26:24,420 --> 00:26:25,500
So go to bitbox.

468
00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:28,440
swiss slash infinity
and and check that out.

469
00:26:28,710 --> 00:26:32,790
And then, of course, also Plan B Network,
who is who is our our sponsor here for

470
00:26:32,790 --> 00:26:37,790
the Bitcoin Infinity Academy, and they're
they're really enabling us to to do this

471
00:26:37,790 --> 00:26:41,930
and to to put time and energy and focus
into this and release everything for free.

472
00:26:41,930 --> 00:26:43,540
So big shout out to them.

473
00:26:43,860 --> 00:26:44,930
Check out all of their.

474
00:26:45,340 --> 00:26:48,790
All of their resources, their educational
resources at plan B dot network.

475
00:26:48,790 --> 00:26:53,210
We're also going to have versions of
these, these, uh, uh, videos for their

476
00:26:53,220 --> 00:26:56,880
channel that are like a little tighter,
a little more focused, that are, uh,

477
00:26:56,900 --> 00:27:01,910
more usable as educational resources,
as opposed to this kind of semi con

478
00:27:02,110 --> 00:27:04,650
conversational format that we've got here.

479
00:27:04,650 --> 00:27:08,210
So yeah, just really excited
about this partnership.

480
00:27:08,290 --> 00:27:12,590
Uh, great people there, of course,
at plan B network, just spreading

481
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,320
Bitcoin adoption and part of.

482
00:27:19,730 --> 00:27:20,440
Anything else?

483
00:27:21,950 --> 00:27:26,370
No, except, uh, don't forget to like,
subscribe, and polish your shoes.

484
00:27:27,340 --> 00:27:27,700
Perfect.

485
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:28,040
That's the

486
00:27:28,090 --> 00:27:30,690
you use, uh, shoes that are polishable.

487
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:31,970
Otherwise, brush your teeth.

488
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:33,540
Otherwise.

489
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:34,740
But if you can

490
00:27:34,940 --> 00:27:36,770
No, yeah, yeah, you
could, you should do both.

491
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:37,270
Yes.

492
00:27:37,430 --> 00:27:37,960
Oh, okay.

493
00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:40,930
That's a wrap.

494
00:27:40,931 --> 00:27:43,060
Until next time.