Bitcoin is Clean Tech with Mags - Bitcoin Infinity Show #120

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Mags, welcome to the
Freedom Footprint Show.

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Thank you Glad to be here.

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Great to have you here.

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How are you enjoying the conference so

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I love it.

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Oh my God.

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So,

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It's just like everyone the
same on all the podcasts.

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It's like everyone the same at all the
conferences in North America, which is

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great because you make a lot of friends.

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But here it's like there's
people coming from Africa, right?

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Which we don't normally get
the chance to interact with.

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And there's so many exciting mining
projects that are opening up there

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that are like, I think the most
interesting things in mining is the

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places that have no electricity.

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Getting re electrified and
like changing people's lives.

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So being able to interact with those
folks and the folks that really

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need Bitcoin because they don't
have access to bank accounts, right.

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What's happening with a Feddy over there.

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So being able to interact with
those folks is what makes a

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conference like this special.

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Plus like Prague is beautiful.

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So I'm a huge fan of the prodcom.

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and you have roots over here, right?

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Yes, and I get to visit
my grandparents after.

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So another bonus.

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All right.

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Can you give us the TLDR on Mags?

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On mags, Yes.

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Mikena.

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Grov.

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Whoa, very nice.

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Professional.

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know?

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No, that

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No, no,

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it's fine.

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I, I, I, self doxed, which, in retrospect,
maybe it wasn't the best thing.

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My partner's always like,
great, people are going to come

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to our house and murder us.

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No, but you know what I mean?

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It's

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like, what have you brought on us?

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Cause you love attention.

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So, I, the age of five.

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We escaped communism.

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I did when I was a little kid, but
I was, my parents escaped Poland.

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Um, I mean, communism is never great,
but I remember them telling me stories

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about how, you know, you would line up
for five hours, uh, to, like, two days on

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Christmas to get, like, a Christmas ham.

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So, you know, there's stuff like that.

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And I remember growing up to, um, When
I would later visit, uh, and like,

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I would look up the money, right?

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Cause we had a period of
hyperinflation in Poland, right?

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For a little kid, it didn't matter.

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You're like, you see this like
money and you're like, Oh, wow.

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Look at all these zeros.

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Or you're like, Ooh, this is great.

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It's like, no, it's not great.

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You don't understand why it's not great.

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But, um, you know, there's a, there
was a lot of really negative things.

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But, you know, and I think that's
why the reason why I start with

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Poland is it's my story, right?

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It's my Bitcoin story.

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Um, I think everybody
needs to find their story.

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Like, yes, I started because number go up.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's how,

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how some of us get into it.

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But then you you go down that rabbit
hole, and you find those intersections

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of why it really means something to you.

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And why it means something for me is
because my parents packed everything

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they had into In their car, right?

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And we had like a fiat car, as in

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yeah.

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Yeah.

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The, it's in the car, Brad.

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Those, those cars were tiny, so
you can't take a lot of things.

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And the government, the
government messed up.

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They gave everybody a passport.

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Normally, they would give like
one parent and a child, right?

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They would never give
the whole family unit.

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But it was like winning the lottery.

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They gave everybody a passport.

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So we're like, we're going on

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vacation, right?

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So we arrive at the border.

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They've got their, you know, big guns.

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And my parents are like, going
on, you know, like a trip.

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And the lady looks at them and she
like looks in the car and she's like,

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you're not coming back, are you?

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They're like, do we lie?

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Like, no, no, we're not.

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And she's like, just go, just go.

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Right.

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And they're still like worried.

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Are they going to start shooting at us?

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What?

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So, you know, basically everything
that you can, it's not the same as

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like someone running away from a
war, but it's still like, this is

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our life and that's all we can take.

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And maybe it might get
taken at the border.

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So what can you take across the border?

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Right.

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And so looking at that story,

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it's like, that's, that's, that's
Part of like understanding, you know,

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assets that you can move with you.

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And Another,

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important touch point is my grandma, uh,
from my dad's side, she had this beautiful

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garden, beautiful house, like family
legacy that, you know, typically goes

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through generations, that gets passed on.

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But after the war and the borders
fell, uh, Poland's border shifted and,

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you know, government strike of a pen.

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Shifted, and she lost, like she
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it became, Tarnopol became Ukraine,

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and they couldn't, like she couldn't
keep her house, she just lost it,

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right, and they kicked them out,
and so she lost her childhood

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home, There's no way to get back.

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And also like that, like I
said, generational wealth.

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Like, I mean, we didn't have much,
but at least there was house and land.

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And

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typically those are the types of
assets that you can own, right?

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So that, um, again, same thing.

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Can it be confiscated by governments?

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Your wealth?

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Well, sometimes it can.

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Um, traditional assets, right?

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But not Bitcoin.

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No, there were no 12 magic words back

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There was no 12 magic words.

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The words would have been, please,
please, please, please, please,

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please, please, like, yeah.

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cash or something.

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And then the last touch point is on
my, um, my other grandparents side.

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So my grandpa's grandpa, he was an artist
and actually he's a well known artist

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if you look at like Polish art history.

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Um, you know, his paintings are sometimes
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And so my grandpa had some of his
art in their house, but during

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the war, there was bombings.

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So sometimes you had to just leave the
city because it was unsafe, so they

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locked the house, left for several
days or weeks, but when they came back,

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you know, the door had been broken
down, all the paintings were gone.

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And then he would, you know, walk
around the city, like, after that,

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and in, in art galleries, like art
stores, he would see the paintings.

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And it's no different than, like,
During the Holocaust, like, there was

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a lot of stolen property taken from
Jewish people that it's like, this

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is mine, but I don't have it anymore.

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And it's not like it's
on the blockchain, right?

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Like, blockchain is forever.

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It's permanent transaction that you
can see that it changes ownership.

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Like, There is no proof that
this was yours, uh, and you

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can't, you can't get it back.

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Even if you say like, yes, this
was, it's like, who are you, right?

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So it's really sad.

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And sometimes I thought about it,
I was like, oh man, I'd love to

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buy him one, but they're not cheap.

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No, I mean, theft is theft, regardless
of who's, who the perpetrator is.

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I mean, it's still theft.

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Yeah.

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So, you know, that's, that's
what Bitcoin is to me.

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Like those, those meaningful stories
is why, uh, I, one of the reasons I

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participate and, and I think too, you
know, when, when you, when you try to

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bring somebody else into Bitcoin, I
think you have to try to understand them

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a little bit and what's their History,
because there might be these kind of

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touch points that resonate with that
particular person rather than like,

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oh, yes, inflation sucks, doesn't it?

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That might resonate with them too, but
maybe not in the same way as someone

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who had went through hyperinflation,
for example, or someone who, you

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know, whose family escaped somewhere.

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And there's always something,
and it's worth finding out

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their story to do that, I think.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And this is so funny because I'm
sorry your parents picked a country

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that would eventually turn communist.

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And like, but the, but the touch
point here is that my dear friend

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Luke here had to flee Canada for
the same reason that you once fled

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Well, I didn't have to.

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Let's not over dramatize it, but

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Yeah.

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Maybe it's not.

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Maybe I'm over exaggerating.

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It's not actually super comparable,
but there's a touch of truth in it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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damn it.

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I'm, I'm, I am allowed
to go back to Canada.

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Yeah.

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Allow.

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But you don't want to.

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gotta find a third country.

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I better not be communist.

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But I actually live in like the
most communist part of Canada.

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Like we don't even have
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It's that far left

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in

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part will that be?

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I should, I should know

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It's basically like California, right?

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All right.

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All right.

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I've got a bunch of family on Vancouver
Island and, uh, you know, Vancouver

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and everything and it's, yeah, yeah.

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But I mean, I mean, BC is nice.

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It's uh, it's a

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I know, it's so hard to leave.

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Like, I'm, I'm near the ocean.

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There's beautiful

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mountains, like,

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No, it looks, it looks awesome.

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at some point maybe it'll be.

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So we, but we were talking about before,
uh, you know, in the, in the, in the

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car ride over here that, uh, yeah, you,
you've got the dual passport, right?

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Um, your

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B.

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exactly, exactly.

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Well, then that's the whole point, right?

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I mean, hopefully you don't need a
third one eventually, but, uh, yeah,

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But where?

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well, exactly.

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I mean, maybe El Salvador, right.

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But, uh,

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not ready yet.

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I visited El Salvador.

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I don't think, like, they're making
amazing progress, but some of the things,

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like, the, you know, the electricity
grid isn't, like, fully reliable yet.

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But like I said, you know,
they're shoring it up.

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They're using some of the
investment from mining to do that.

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But, like, right now, today,
I don't think it's ready.

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My partner works in tech and, you know,
He, there's a lot of stuff that gets

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shipped to our house, like through
Amazon Prime, for example, or UPS.

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Um, and I was talking to
some of the folks there.

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The logistics is not built up.

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It can take weeks uh, to, to get goods.

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It's, it's just not tenable for

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But, but, uh, Argentinian
passport seems like, uh, one of

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the better options right now.

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I was talking to Luke Mickich
earlier today and uh, apparently

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the, yeah exactly, the rule is
you have to stay there for six

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months for two years in a row.

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uh, like straight two years.

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Oh, oh,

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Six months per year, two years in a row.

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Is it six months per year?

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what he said.

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So, and then you get it
without having to pay, like, a

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million dollars to get it with.

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Right.

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Because it's a bit, is
it three Bitcoin for, no,

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That's uh, Antigua, I

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Bitcoin in El Salvador?

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something

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number of bitcoin.

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Yes.

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and I think it's enough to

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right.

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You're right.

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It's a million

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in the country, yeah, something.

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But the, uh, the payment for the super
duper passport or whatever, Max Keiser

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passport or whatever they call it,
it's like a million dollars, I think.

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We'll say is the meat in Argentina.

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I visited Argentina for the first
time actually this February.

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Uh, oh my God, it is ruined meat.

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Asado, like the barbecue.

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It's just, I, everything is grass fed.

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I was literally eating
butter, like raw butter, like.

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It's so good.

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Grass fed is such a weird
term to anyone but Americans.

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Like because we don't feed
cows anything else but grass.

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What else would they eat?

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And yeah, it's in the US, they feed
them corn, like, yeah, but it's a cow.

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Why the hell would you feed it corn?

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But you know what?

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So I talked to a number of Bitcoiners.

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I went to a Bitcoin meetup.

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They held an Asado in my honor.

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It was so nice.

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Um, but, so, but they were saying, what?

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Why you laugh?

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no, no, it's your laughter
that's contagious.

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So, um, I was talking to the
Bitcoiners and they're saying like

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it's becoming more challenging.

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So I know everyone's very
optimistic about Malay, right?

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Like he's putting in these changes.

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He's cutting government quite a
lot, but it's it, the inflation even

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like between November and February.

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And it will be like, February when
I went there, because he, he got rid

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of all the subsidies, including like,
for example, transportation, right?

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It's a huge country.

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It's like Canada, right?

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So when you're transporting food, once
he got rid of the subsidy, things like,

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for example, rice, it went from 60 cents
to 2 and 50 cents for a kilo of rice.

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Like, Their people make 300 a month.

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It's

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Yeah, but what, what
was he supposed to do?

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Like, uh, he needed to, it was a band
aid and it needed to be ripped off.

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Like, like there's no, there's no
smooth way of, of getting out of that.

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Yeah.

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I get what you're saying.

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But so I worked a decade
in government actually.

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Um, we're just going to go all over.

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So I worked,

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This does not

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I'm a reformed government
worker before Bitcoin.

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All right.

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so, so I worked on, mostly I worked
on low carbon economic transition.

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And, uh, A lot of that is
decarbonizing our energy system.

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I also worked on electricity
and electricity pricing.

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But part of that file was energy
affordability and energy poverty.

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So, so there's like a
certain level of assistance.

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And I do think like, I know
Bitcoiners talk about like,

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Oh, we need to cut everything.

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And I'm like, there are, you
know, there will be people that

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fall through the cracks, right?

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Whether you're disabled or like,
Sometimes you need a little bit of help.

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I'm not talking about the folks that
like just abuse the system, but I

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don't, I do think as a society, we
should take care of some people.

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I think we go a little overboard, but
you know, there is like someone who has

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cancer who, you know, like, like we used
to get letters to the minister, right?

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And some of them like
kind of stick with you.

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They're like, my wife has cancer and
electricity has prices have risen.

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So I'm choosing between.

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Food, and electricity pricing, right, to
feed my wife, because I want to feed her

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quality food so that she can, you know,

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But still, I think the, uh, I, I,
I don't think there's a libertarian

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on earth that doesn't believe that
society should take care of everyone.

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It's just that, like, we're against
the forcing people to do that.

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Like, it should be voluntary.

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But do you think there will be enough
people that volunteer, is I guess

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the question.

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Yeah?

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And absolutely, because I think the
biggest misinterpretation is how much

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the state takes, what it actually costs.

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And people would be shit
rich if it wasn't there.

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Like if we didn't have inflation,
and if we didn't have taxes, everyone

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would be super duper rich pretty soon.

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Like, like, look, look what happened
to Germany just after World War

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Two when they had this libertarian,
uh, finance minister or whatever.

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The title was, um, Unsung Hero, that,
like, made that country make the,

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like, the fastest comeback in history.

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Or, or, uh, Estonia is
a good example, too.

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They, like, took Milton
Friedman's playbook, and he's

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not even a true libertarian.

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Mises called him a socialist, but,
like, uh, but still, like, if you

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do sound economics, the country,
like, turns on a dime, and I believe

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that will happen to Argentina, too.

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And having, you know, worked
in government, there is a

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lot of inefficiency, right?

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It's all inefficiency.

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some level, I think,

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You might be understanding
what you're getting into here.

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yeah, there's a nuance, maybe there's
like a nuance or something, or maybe I

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don't fully, okay, okay, okay.

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But what I will, what I will
say is that if you, so, so yes,

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I've seen an efficiency, right?

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And also government is really bad
at picking winners and losers,

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and they should not, right?

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No, who are they to

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and, and also if they're like, oh,
well, these people deserve money.

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It's like, Yeah, but
it's your cronies, right?

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Like we're like, I've seen because the
further up you move in government, the

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more that you see, it's really about a
buying votes and literally at the table.

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One of the reasons like I left,
it was because they were like,

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which policy do we choose?

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That's going to get us reelected.

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Oh, bike lanes.

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People love bikes.

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Like it's just, it's such
an inefficient spending.

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So that's what disgusts me.

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And I'm now, I wasn't a good fit

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No, but that's, uh, that's the thing.

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Like if it's, uh, if it's based on theft.

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Like in the base layer,
it cannot not be corrupt.

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Like you, you cannot not have a
corrupt system that is based on,

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on violence and threats thereof.

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Like, and that's because where do
you draw the line and who's to say

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what's good for another person or not?

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Like from a, a strict autistic
non aggression principle

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perspective, it's all corrupt.

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Like you're not entitled to
tell me what I do with my stuff.

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Like it's, it's that simple.

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Yeah, so I helped put in
cap and trade in Canada,

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or sorry, In Ontario.

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cap and trade,

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carbon pricing, carbon pricing,

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Oh, okay.

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Cap'n, it sounded like,

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tax.

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It's much more of a market based

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mechanism, which is more
efficient than just a

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Crunch, because whenever South Park
makes fun of Canada, there's Cap'n Crunch

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involved, and like, the cereal, you know.

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And so that's like the, the stick,
right, where they take the money.

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But then I was, so initially I
did that, but then I was like the

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carrot, like, where do we reinvest?

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Like, that makes the most sense in terms
of like biggest DHT reductions, except

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of course the politicians are like, but
get us elected versus the highest GDP.

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So anyways, so the point is like, you
know, countries are like we need to,

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you know, lower emissions X amount
so that we can meet targets, but

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those targets keep getting shifted.

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And it's very frustrating because,
you know, I spent a decade there

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and before that, like there was the
Kyoto Protocol and then the Montreal

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Program and it just keeps going.

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So now we're going between like, we're
going to, you know, net zero for a 20.

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2030, then it's 2040, 2050, now we're at
like 2060, um, because the targets shift

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because the politicians are too afraid to
put in the kind of stringent reductions

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that are needed because they're going
to get voted out, so, so it's just kind

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of like, being in that system hold on!

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I am still talking.

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yeah, absolutely.

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I wasn't about

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Oh, you look like you're
jumping in, I'm like, no!

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was, that was me holding back.

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So,

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made, and it's not going to come from
the strict policies, right, and the

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capital, there's trillions of dollars
that need to be reinvested, for example,

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to decarbonize, to, to switch towards
renewable fuels, maybe build out

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nuclear, like, less carbon emitting,
so there's trillions of dollars.

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Private sector hasn't delivered,
the public sector hasn't delivered,

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and their targets get moved.

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Well, I, like, the really crazy cool
intersection and why I love what I'm doing

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now is I'm, I'm at Bitcoin mining, right?

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It's not killing the planet.

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It's actually filling that gap.

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So instead of two pockets, right,
ratepayers, which are the payer, the

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users of the electricity system that
pay into the system, or the taxpayers.

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Usually that's how infrastructure gets
built because for bigger projects like

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nuclear where it's billions of dollars
of investment in a giant nuclear plant.

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So you have ratepayer
and taxpayer dollars.

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In that case, we have a third pocket,
which is Bitcoin mining, right?

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And that is just a Beautiful, elegant
system of market economics that are

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actually causing us to reinvest in
new infrastructure because it's,

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for example, in Africa, right?

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It's a lot.

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Uh, there's, there's, um, stranded power
that's inexpensive and we're helping

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build out the renewable infrastructure.

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We're co locating sites in Texas that
are transmission disconnected and it's

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expensive to build up the infrastructure.

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Uh, the transmission.

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But they're all waiting for that
day where they get connected.

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But in the meantime, they're not
earning because they don't have a big

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load to connect to where you put a
miner next to them and suddenly they're

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getting paid, you know, all every day.

447
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And it's a predictable revenue stream.

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So perhaps for the next project,
they know there's a miner coming.

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They can maybe scale it up a little bit
bigger as the population builds out.

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So we are Funding it effectively from
this third bitcoin pocket, right?

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and.

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so we're building out low
carbon infrastructure.

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And I think that is so beautiful that it's
a market based mechanism and we're doing

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Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's doing the
thing but doing it right which is in

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a profitable way because otherwise
it's just it's just fake It's just a

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charade like and I I mean the goalposts
are moved because they're impossible

457
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Yeah.

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Well, they're not.

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It's just everyone would
like, oh my God, the carbon

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tax is so high.

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They, maybe they're not impossible,
very locally somewhere, but like, have,

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have you seen Constantine Kissing's
talk from uh, um, uh, the Oxford Union

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where he talks about this and, and
like, I mean, there are billions of

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people in the world who don't have a
refrigerator, that don't have a washing

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machine, don't have a dishwasher, like
all tons, like all sorts of stuff that,

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that we have and they are not going to.

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Like de prioritize, they are
going to prioritize getting those

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things above getting to net zero.

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Like you're

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yes, of course.

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It's not fair for them

472
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no, no,

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yeah, they deserve that.

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and I love the, the, the fact that
Bitcoin is actually You know, functioning

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as a suspension mechanism and eating
up the stranded energy and stuff.

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That's, that's beautiful.

477
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But the real kicker is like
the, the real environmental

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thing is quality over quantity.

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It's, it's, it's sound money.

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It's, it's stopping The world from,
from misallocating resources, which

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is what governments do, by, by, by
fucking with the price mechanism.

482
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This is, like, communism didn't fall
and didn't collapse because people

483
00:20:32,918 --> 00:20:34,528
didn't have an incentive to work.

484
00:20:34,538 --> 00:20:37,778
Everyone thinks it's about the incentives,
but everyone had an incentive to work.

485
00:20:37,958 --> 00:20:39,088
They have a gun through their head.

486
00:20:39,338 --> 00:20:40,478
You're going to work, like,

487
00:20:40,963 --> 00:20:42,383
The wrong kind of incentive.

488
00:20:42,658 --> 00:20:45,408
That is an incentive, but
it's the price mechanism.

489
00:20:45,408 --> 00:20:48,608
If you fuck with the price mechanism,
no one knows what to produce and

490
00:20:48,608 --> 00:20:50,188
when and where and in which amount.

491
00:20:50,508 --> 00:20:55,198
So, so, so that is, that is
what is wasting resources.

492
00:20:55,198 --> 00:20:59,438
If you print money, you incentivize
everyone on earth to over consume.

493
00:20:59,788 --> 00:21:03,068
And that is what, that is what
actually kills the planet.

494
00:21:03,368 --> 00:21:06,928
Like consumerism or bullshit consumerism.

495
00:21:06,928 --> 00:21:07,488
More and more.

496
00:21:08,023 --> 00:21:08,903
too, right?

497
00:21:09,183 --> 00:21:13,933
Like I think as us, as Bitcoiners,
like I, and also, you know, as I,

498
00:21:13,933 --> 00:21:17,873
as I've gotten older, I appreciate
buying a quality piece of furniture

499
00:21:17,873 --> 00:21:19,913
or clothing that will last me, right?

500
00:21:19,913 --> 00:21:24,003
Instead of this cheap fashion that just
gets chucked, like, you know, doesn't

501
00:21:24,003 --> 00:21:25,543
like start to fall apart within the year.

502
00:21:25,808 --> 00:21:27,338
Generational furniture.

503
00:23:07,619 --> 00:23:12,019
so, so that's why, you know,
circling back, the coolest projects

504
00:23:12,039 --> 00:23:14,709
that are happening in Africa are
the ones that are electrifying.

505
00:23:14,719 --> 00:23:17,999
Like previously, there's people that
had no power, you know, they couldn't

506
00:23:18,009 --> 00:23:22,004
charge their cell phones, they had to
walk to, um, hours to get water, the,

507
00:23:22,124 --> 00:23:25,814
you know, oh, oh, it's dark, I can't
study, I'm just gonna go to sleep, right?

508
00:23:26,054 --> 00:23:29,724
You're changing, and it's such a simple
thing, but you're changing their lives,

509
00:23:29,724 --> 00:23:34,444
like, now the clinic can stay open, like,
at night, and do an emergency surgery,

510
00:23:34,454 --> 00:23:38,344
not by candlelight, but by light, and I
think, you know, it's so powerful how we

511
00:23:38,344 --> 00:23:44,844
are helping humans become better, like,
like, increase their standard of living,

512
00:23:44,844 --> 00:23:49,889
so I think those are pretty cool, and
then, um, and I also love how Mining is

513
00:23:49,889 --> 00:23:52,299
integrating almost every facet of society.

514
00:23:52,589 --> 00:23:54,639
I call it Darwin's finches, right?

515
00:23:54,959 --> 00:23:59,099
Every miner, I do like, cause
Darwin's finches optimize

516
00:23:59,099 --> 00:24:00,569
for different niches, right?

517
00:24:00,569 --> 00:24:02,259
You have the ones that eat nuts and

518
00:24:02,259 --> 00:24:03,279
their beaks are very different.

519
00:24:03,289 --> 00:24:05,579
from the ones that eat
insects that eat fruits.

520
00:24:05,579 --> 00:24:05,959
yeah.

521
00:24:06,279 --> 00:24:09,029
And so I find that miners are
doing that because there's those

522
00:24:09,039 --> 00:24:12,939
miners that are going, you know,
developing stranded parasites.

523
00:24:13,454 --> 00:24:18,374
Then there's those miners that are
taking, um, methane from landfills, right?

524
00:24:18,374 --> 00:24:21,904
So they're, they're in effect getting
free energy, the methane that a

525
00:24:21,904 --> 00:24:27,414
landfill, uh, produces, capturing
it, and burning it, combusting it.

526
00:24:27,484 --> 00:24:31,564
And the byproduct is it's a positive
externality from an environmental

527
00:24:31,564 --> 00:24:35,109
perspective, because methane is, you
know, 84 times more potent of a greenhouse

528
00:24:35,109 --> 00:24:38,159
gas than CO2 when you burn it.

529
00:24:38,189 --> 00:24:40,719
So there's a positive
environmental aspect.

530
00:24:40,959 --> 00:24:45,099
Um, I advise a company called PRTI
and we take waste tires, which are

531
00:24:45,099 --> 00:24:46,979
normally landfilled in North America.

532
00:24:47,079 --> 00:24:51,249
Um, increasingly though, landfills are
banning tires because they leach toxins

533
00:24:51,289 --> 00:24:56,519
into the ground and also, uh, volatile
organics and, and other, uh, pollutants,

534
00:24:56,889 --> 00:24:57,039
uh,

535
00:24:57,144 --> 00:24:57,934
They're tiresome.

536
00:24:57,939 --> 00:24:58,719
go into the air.

537
00:24:58,989 --> 00:25:01,089
And so we get paid for the tires.

538
00:25:01,149 --> 00:25:01,609
Sorry, what was

539
00:25:01,764 --> 00:25:02,594
They're tiresome.

540
00:25:03,509 --> 00:25:03,779
Oh my God.

541
00:25:06,614 --> 00:25:08,504
This is what you get when,
when you deal with Canote.

542
00:25:08,564 --> 00:25:08,834
Yeah.

543
00:25:10,099 --> 00:25:10,649
You're a dad, right?

544
00:25:10,689 --> 00:25:11,169
Dad jokes?

545
00:25:11,204 --> 00:25:11,844
I am a dad.

546
00:25:11,904 --> 00:25:12,194
Yeah.

547
00:25:12,549 --> 00:25:15,819
Um, so, so we take the
tire, we get paid for it.

548
00:25:15,819 --> 00:25:19,519
We put it in a vertical refinery,
sorry, vertical reactor.

549
00:25:19,519 --> 00:25:23,989
It's kind of, I think of it kind of
like a refinery where we tap off gas,

550
00:25:23,999 --> 00:25:24,924
synthetic gas, which is, which is

551
00:25:27,084 --> 00:25:29,764
There's an oil that we put in
a diesel generator for power.

552
00:25:30,054 --> 00:25:34,174
There's a black carbon type of
product that has BTU content and 25

553
00:25:34,174 --> 00:25:37,224
percent of a tire is steel because
that gives the rigidity to a tire,

554
00:25:37,854 --> 00:25:39,674
you know, when a car is, is riding.

555
00:25:39,964 --> 00:25:43,844
And so, you know, Those are four
products that could be sold, or we

556
00:25:43,844 --> 00:25:45,884
can use the energy to mine Bitcoin.

557
00:25:45,884 --> 00:25:46,954
And there's optionality, right?

558
00:25:46,994 --> 00:25:49,044
Because during bear markets,
maybe you don't want to do that.

559
00:25:49,284 --> 00:25:54,984
Or the oil, you can further refine it into
a more valuable byproduct, for example,

560
00:25:54,984 --> 00:25:58,764
a cleaning agent, and sell that for 80
per gallon instead of, let's say, four.

561
00:25:59,264 --> 00:25:59,584
Right?

562
00:25:59,594 --> 00:26:00,774
And different markets, too.

563
00:26:00,784 --> 00:26:06,449
Like, if you're on an island, Hawaii,
you know, uh, waste is expensive, right?

564
00:26:06,459 --> 00:26:08,989
Most of it gets, you have limited space.

565
00:26:08,989 --> 00:26:10,079
Maybe you have to incinerate.

566
00:26:10,409 --> 00:26:13,649
And then also energy is expensive because
how do you get energy if you don't have

567
00:26:13,649 --> 00:26:17,139
a natural supply, but maybe you're in
El Salvador and we don't have a volcano.

568
00:26:17,479 --> 00:26:21,049
And so in that case, maybe it makes
sense just to use it for power.

569
00:26:21,299 --> 00:26:24,069
Whereas other places, you know,
where, where electricity is a

570
00:26:24,069 --> 00:26:26,849
lot cheaper, maybe it makes sense
for you to mine Bitcoin directly.

571
00:26:26,849 --> 00:26:28,329
So I think it's a cool project and it's.

572
00:26:28,764 --> 00:26:31,044
Um, everyone's really
focusing on net zero.

573
00:26:31,044 --> 00:26:34,434
There's other projects that have
other environmental or social benefits

574
00:26:34,434 --> 00:26:35,844
that I think too, we should pursue.

575
00:26:36,084 --> 00:26:37,264
So that's like another, right?

576
00:26:37,274 --> 00:26:39,484
Like, so here we are
fitting in another niche.

577
00:26:39,714 --> 00:26:43,114
And then of course there's like the giant
miners, the gigawatt miners, but then

578
00:26:43,114 --> 00:26:46,484
they're shoring up the electricity system,
for example, in the U S where they're

579
00:26:46,484 --> 00:26:48,404
participating in demand response programs.

580
00:26:48,544 --> 00:26:50,574
I said, that's a different
niche that they're filling.

581
00:26:50,714 --> 00:26:50,834
Yeah.

582
00:26:50,864 --> 00:26:54,524
'cause I, I wanted to get your, your
take on the, the miners that, that are

583
00:26:54,524 --> 00:26:58,634
still going off of, uh, non-renewable
energy sources, coal and et cetera.

584
00:26:59,004 --> 00:27:01,074
it's, we've really declined in the use.

585
00:27:01,074 --> 00:27:01,764
Cause here's the thing.

586
00:27:03,839 --> 00:27:07,609
Fossil fuels are expensive,
um, like gas prices, right?

587
00:27:07,639 --> 00:27:08,459
They fluctuate.

588
00:27:08,469 --> 00:27:13,169
You need to have, um, and, and prices
have been rising and it's a continue.

589
00:27:13,209 --> 00:27:17,019
So if you, if you are an operator,
right, you're continuously buying

590
00:27:17,399 --> 00:27:20,109
a commodity that changes in
price and yes, you can hedge it.

591
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,099
But if you have built out a renewable
part of infrastructure, right, there's

592
00:27:25,099 --> 00:27:27,079
no marginal cost of power, right?

593
00:27:27,509 --> 00:27:31,929
So, um, and, and costs have fallen
of renewables versus like coal.

594
00:27:32,099 --> 00:27:34,709
Coal will always like be
still kind of cheaper.

595
00:27:34,709 --> 00:27:38,759
But I have seen like, recent, like in
recent years, we're getting pretty close.

596
00:27:39,314 --> 00:27:44,504
And also, like, I think miners have,
I think we're over 50 percent now in

597
00:27:44,504 --> 00:27:49,464
terms of, like, that are renewable
or non carbon, so the places that are

598
00:27:49,464 --> 00:27:53,784
still using things like coal, like,
there's some elements of China, maybe

599
00:27:53,804 --> 00:27:56,784
Kazakhstan, it's not, it's shifting away

600
00:27:56,784 --> 00:27:57,284
anyways.

601
00:27:57,444 --> 00:28:01,094
so that's the trend in Bitcoin, but
like the overall trend is like coal is

602
00:28:01,434 --> 00:28:04,174
still the fastest growing energy source.

603
00:28:04,444 --> 00:28:07,854
And I mean, the crazy part is like,
they shut down their nuclear plants.

604
00:28:08,154 --> 00:28:10,294
I'm from Ontario, where
50 percent of baseload

605
00:28:10,834 --> 00:28:11,894
originally was like, is,

606
00:28:12,324 --> 00:28:13,254
here's my foot.

607
00:28:13,924 --> 00:28:14,174
yeah.

608
00:28:14,214 --> 00:28:14,540
exactly.

609
00:28:14,794 --> 00:28:15,034
Exactly.

610
00:28:15,324 --> 00:28:16,924
Jesus, bad policy, right?

611
00:28:17,344 --> 00:28:19,364
Like, Like, they overdo it, right?

612
00:28:19,364 --> 00:28:21,584
They're just like, oh
my god, this happened.

613
00:28:22,064 --> 00:28:24,069
And now suddenly, we don't have nuclear

614
00:28:24,194 --> 00:28:24,844
No, no.

615
00:28:25,194 --> 00:28:25,424
years.

616
00:28:25,584 --> 00:28:28,004
I was actually a child
when Chernobyl happened in

617
00:28:28,004 --> 00:28:30,794
my communist Poland, it was
very hard to get iodine.

618
00:28:30,794 --> 00:28:33,374
So my parents, we were like, they
wanted, because I was a little.

619
00:28:33,429 --> 00:28:37,819
A very little child, and they needed to
get iodine for me to make sure that I

620
00:28:37,819 --> 00:28:42,439
didn't get the radiation, so I luckily had
a nurse friend that was able to provide

621
00:28:42,439 --> 00:28:43,819
it for me, but otherwise it was like.

622
00:28:44,189 --> 00:28:45,039
Yeah, yeah, it's horrible.

623
00:28:45,179 --> 00:28:45,889
So, so, so, so,

624
00:28:45,944 --> 00:28:46,274
story.

625
00:28:46,274 --> 00:28:46,574
Yeah.

626
00:28:46,839 --> 00:28:51,229
I, uh, like I've, I've changed back
and forth on nuclear for so many times

627
00:28:51,249 --> 00:28:56,109
because, uh, to me, it's like absolutely
crystal clear that from a physics,

628
00:28:56,189 --> 00:29:00,129
physics perspective, nuclear is like
vastly superior to everything else.

629
00:29:00,369 --> 00:29:01,369
People, people don't know,

630
00:29:01,519 --> 00:29:03,289
matter, if you look at
the energy content per,

631
00:29:04,444 --> 00:29:07,294
But like energy content, like a liter of

632
00:29:08,569 --> 00:29:08,959
Yeah.

633
00:29:09,559 --> 00:29:10,039
Yeah.

634
00:29:10,214 --> 00:29:12,254
5, 000 barrels of oil or something in it.

635
00:29:12,424 --> 00:29:15,044
It's absolutely insanely
much better than everything.

636
00:29:15,564 --> 00:29:18,364
But then we assign
politicians to handle this.

637
00:29:18,364 --> 00:29:22,534
And then like, oh, from a human human
action perspective, this is bullshit.

638
00:29:22,554 --> 00:29:22,874
Because

639
00:29:22,999 --> 00:29:23,999
cared about carbon,

640
00:29:24,009 --> 00:29:29,319
No, no, and it leads to, if not Chernobyl,
it leads to, like, environmentalists

641
00:29:29,319 --> 00:29:33,559
coming and screwing up the party and
turning everything off, so, so, so that

642
00:29:33,559 --> 00:29:37,919
it's just a big cost because it didn't
have its lifespan, because it needs to

643
00:29:37,919 --> 00:29:43,029
run for like 50 years because it's a big
investment, like, so, so that's the, I say

644
00:29:43,029 --> 00:29:48,719
go micro, micronuclear, and like, a flux
capacitor in the basement of every nerd's

645
00:29:48,719 --> 00:29:50,169
home, like, that's, that's the way to

646
00:29:50,364 --> 00:29:52,194
Flux capacitor plus a Bitcoin miner.

647
00:29:52,304 --> 00:29:57,124
Yeah, yeah, so you can, so you can, no,
the flex capacitor is so you can go back

648
00:29:57,124 --> 00:29:58,994
in time and mine on older blocks, like,

649
00:29:59,099 --> 00:30:01,394
I, I use miner like a,
like a, like a unit.

650
00:30:01,394 --> 00:30:06,074
Like, uh, this is coffee, uh, you know,
it's a, a minor is a, it can be used

651
00:30:06,079 --> 00:30:08,564
for a singular or, or a plural That's.

652
00:30:08,589 --> 00:30:09,359
uh, yes,

653
00:30:09,474 --> 00:30:12,444
You should have miners in
your basement, not minors.

654
00:30:12,604 --> 00:30:17,654
Like, that's, that's It can
be misinterpreted, like, I

655
00:30:18,064 --> 00:30:18,914
need to explain that one.

656
00:30:18,914 --> 00:30:20,564
Alright,

657
00:30:23,539 --> 00:30:24,269
shoot, where was I going?

658
00:30:24,269 --> 00:30:24,819
Oh, okay.

659
00:30:24,829 --> 00:30:29,099
So, but, but no, you raised an important
point because so like coal, right?

660
00:30:29,329 --> 00:30:33,809
It's not just GHGs, it's also toxic
air emissions that get released, right?

661
00:30:33,829 --> 00:30:36,069
And so, uh, smog days.

662
00:30:36,424 --> 00:30:41,374
happen and people die from smog, like
the elderly that are more vulnerable.

663
00:30:41,614 --> 00:30:45,134
So there's like multiple,
uh, side effects, uh, right?

664
00:30:45,344 --> 00:30:46,334
From, from coal.

665
00:30:46,334 --> 00:30:49,124
We had acid rain, although actually
the acid rain program was a cap and

666
00:30:49,124 --> 00:30:50,484
trade program and that one worked.

667
00:30:51,104 --> 00:30:52,974
Like, yes, I know.

668
00:30:53,419 --> 00:30:57,249
They put it in, they capped it, and
um, there used to be a lot of acid

669
00:30:57,249 --> 00:31:00,039
rain in, especially kind of around
like Michigan area, because there was

670
00:31:00,039 --> 00:31:03,609
a lot of coal, uh, plants, and also
like industry used a lot of coal.

671
00:31:03,819 --> 00:31:09,279
So it actually worked, because they set
the targets right, and it was lowered, so.

672
00:31:09,349 --> 00:31:11,809
you give a quick explanation of
how the cap and trade thing works?

673
00:31:11,809 --> 00:31:13,379
Because first of all,
Knut definitely doesn't

674
00:31:13,484 --> 00:31:17,164
I don't live in the US, like, or

675
00:31:17,409 --> 00:31:20,059
implemented cap and trade, except
that their targets were not.

676
00:31:21,524 --> 00:31:22,199
She's like, we're going

677
00:31:22,199 --> 00:31:23,129
to go out of business.

678
00:31:23,264 --> 00:31:24,974
here, too, but like, I'm
not into Captain Crunch.

679
00:31:24,975 --> 00:31:27,822
It was

680
00:31:28,029 --> 00:31:29,689
so, basically

681
00:31:29,819 --> 00:31:33,189
there is a cap on the amount of
carbon that can be for, for like

682
00:31:33,249 --> 00:31:37,069
Canada or a country or whatever
unit, um, or for the world.

683
00:31:37,349 --> 00:31:38,109
And so.

684
00:31:40,584 --> 00:31:44,374
The amount of carbon is capped and
everybody, you know, you take a baseline.

685
00:31:44,654 --> 00:31:48,844
So I emit 10, maybe I'm
emitting 5, you're emitting 100.

686
00:31:49,954 --> 00:31:51,094
No, I understand the concept.

687
00:31:51,094 --> 00:31:52,514
Like, what happened to that specific

688
00:31:52,574 --> 00:31:54,104
ratcheting it down, right?

689
00:31:54,114 --> 00:31:55,824
Like, because you're trying to lower.

690
00:31:56,104 --> 00:32:01,269
Um, and so, Either you lower yourself
so you implement some sort of technology

691
00:32:01,269 --> 00:32:06,779
that reduces carbon, but maybe for you it
costs 50, for you it's 1, 000 because it's

692
00:32:06,779 --> 00:32:10,919
really hard, like, the technology's not
there yet, you're, you're very limited,

693
00:32:10,919 --> 00:32:14,799
and you can implement some very cheap
System where you can very easily switch

694
00:32:14,799 --> 00:32:16,189
to maybe biofuels or something, right?

695
00:32:16,569 --> 00:32:19,909
So you can choose, I'm a business,
do I, do I implement this technology,

696
00:32:19,929 --> 00:32:23,449
because there's a capital cost usually
associated with it, or do I just buy

697
00:32:23,839 --> 00:32:28,869
this credit, like do you, because it's
super expensive for you, so instead

698
00:32:28,869 --> 00:32:34,389
of buying this thousand dollars per
ton, and for you it's fifty, He's, he

699
00:32:34,399 --> 00:32:38,419
sells you a credit and maybe he's only
selling it to you for like a hundred.

700
00:32:38,479 --> 00:32:41,999
So you're like, huh, thousand dollars
or a hundred dollars, I'm going

701
00:32:41,999 --> 00:32:43,689
to buy a credit from him, right?

702
00:32:43,959 --> 00:32:45,749
And so, but that's just two participants.

703
00:32:45,749 --> 00:32:49,499
And you keep adding participants and the
carbon price like is set by a market.

704
00:32:49,769 --> 00:32:53,434
So you decide, you're like, well, it's
costing, like the market says it's A

705
00:32:53,434 --> 00:32:55,544
thousand from me, no brainer, right?

706
00:32:55,904 --> 00:32:58,044
Uh, maybe for me it's like, well, it's 60.

707
00:32:58,044 --> 00:32:59,514
I could be buying, but you know what?

708
00:32:59,514 --> 00:33:03,604
I don't want to keep spending
every year, you know, the 60

709
00:33:03,604 --> 00:33:05,134
or whatever as it ratchets up.

710
00:33:05,324 --> 00:33:07,624
I'm going to do the
capital investment, right?

711
00:33:07,684 --> 00:33:09,994
Uh, and at some point
it'll, it'll pay back.

712
00:33:10,014 --> 00:33:12,104
So that's kind of like the cap
and trade system, how it works.

713
00:33:12,114 --> 00:33:16,394
So anyway, the work for For
acid rain, but also we slowly

714
00:33:16,394 --> 00:33:17,664
started decarbonizing, right?

715
00:33:18,074 --> 00:33:21,054
And so, but, but where I was kind
of going with that is like, no

716
00:33:21,054 --> 00:33:21,474
technology

717
00:33:21,544 --> 00:33:23,504
do you mean by it worked for Acid Rain?

718
00:33:23,804 --> 00:33:27,804
So companies were given like targets
and they had to reduce and they

719
00:33:27,804 --> 00:33:29,634
would either like pay, you know,

720
00:33:29,699 --> 00:33:30,999
Reduce the things that were causing

721
00:33:31,164 --> 00:33:32,364
exactly the word cause.

722
00:33:32,374 --> 00:33:34,084
So maybe they would put in scrubbers.

723
00:33:34,554 --> 00:33:37,184
yeah, yeah, so Acid Rain Disappeared.

724
00:33:38,154 --> 00:33:40,164
Like it used to be quite bad.

725
00:33:40,724 --> 00:33:44,434
Uh, and it's, I don't know, maybe
in some places it's like minor,

726
00:33:44,434 --> 00:33:46,384
but it's not to the same extent

727
00:33:47,084 --> 00:33:49,684
where, like, as it was in like
the eighties and the nineties.

728
00:33:49,704 --> 00:33:52,074
So that's all environmental
policy that worked in the market

729
00:33:52,074 --> 00:33:53,774
based mechanism that worked well.

730
00:33:55,564 --> 00:33:57,404
Well, from a certain perspective, yes.

731
00:33:57,594 --> 00:34:01,444
but for carbon, they like, for, there
was a lot of like fraud too in the, in

732
00:34:01,444 --> 00:34:04,004
the, in the European carbon markets.

733
00:34:04,264 --> 00:34:07,664
Like there was fake credits
being issued and also the targets

734
00:34:07,684 --> 00:34:10,624
just weren't high enough because
again, politicians are too scared.

735
00:34:10,814 --> 00:34:11,644
So it did nothing.

736
00:34:12,929 --> 00:34:17,869
So, so I guess, I guess the thing is, is
something like that, uh, if it works for,

737
00:34:17,979 --> 00:34:21,709
um, say acid rain or what, whatever it is,
but it's, it's still a government coming

738
00:34:21,709 --> 00:34:23,399
in and say, you have to do this, right?

739
00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:27,669
So is, is there a scenario where
the government doesn't come in and

740
00:34:27,679 --> 00:34:29,349
do this, but companies will still,

741
00:34:29,708 --> 00:34:33,588
only if they're like, Oh, I want to be
distinguished myself and I think I will

742
00:34:33,588 --> 00:34:35,838
gain more customers by saying I'm green.

743
00:34:36,158 --> 00:34:40,198
Like there are, like there are
companies, they're like, we are green.

744
00:34:40,208 --> 00:34:42,448
And then you get people that are
more affluent that are willing

745
00:34:42,448 --> 00:34:44,108
to pay more money for that.

746
00:34:44,118 --> 00:34:44,678
Like, right.

747
00:34:44,688 --> 00:34:48,568
Because typically how that works, sorry,
pollution is an externality, right?

748
00:34:48,608 --> 00:34:52,878
Nobody, like it's, it's a flaw in the
market because it hasn't been priced in.

749
00:34:53,118 --> 00:34:56,628
So if I'm polluting, it's because
there's no cost to me to pollute.

750
00:34:56,668 --> 00:34:58,378
But if you attribute, so the reason why.

751
00:34:58,673 --> 00:35:03,083
Usually there's some sort of environmental
cost, whether it's fines or something,

752
00:35:03,083 --> 00:35:08,203
it's to mitigate the behavior, um,
or adjust the behavior of someone

753
00:35:08,203 --> 00:35:09,313
like just polluting in a river.

754
00:35:09,313 --> 00:35:13,803
Why, why doesn't, it's so cheap for me,
I'm in a chemical plant, for me to throw

755
00:35:13,803 --> 00:35:15,873
out these barrels, why don't I do that?

756
00:35:15,933 --> 00:35:20,943
People do, sometimes, because they're
like, There's no, no harm, like

757
00:35:21,053 --> 00:35:23,533
in, in, especially in developing
countries, there's no regulations,

758
00:35:23,533 --> 00:35:27,053
there's maybe no fines or nor,
nor, uh, no enforcement, right?

759
00:35:27,063 --> 00:35:30,443
That's an externality, the pollution
that's being dumped, but in,

760
00:35:30,463 --> 00:35:31,983
typically in Canada or in the U.

761
00:35:31,983 --> 00:35:33,893
S., there is quite a lot of,

762
00:35:33,933 --> 00:35:35,013
like, high fines.

763
00:35:35,013 --> 00:35:35,163
So,

764
00:35:35,183 --> 00:35:36,263
let me, let

765
00:35:36,348 --> 00:35:41,028
no, let me, because I got a very good
point here, because like trying to do

766
00:35:41,058 --> 00:35:47,388
this, solve, solve these problems by, by
introducing like a carbon, um, tax or,

767
00:35:47,388 --> 00:35:53,628
or like a carbon cap, it's sort of like
putting a, uh, a bandaid on cancer because

768
00:35:53,658 --> 00:35:58,248
the thing that makes it profitable to,
you know, throw away all barrels and, and

769
00:35:58,248 --> 00:35:59,988
do this all this destructive behavior.

770
00:36:00,103 --> 00:36:01,073
What is fiat money?

771
00:36:01,453 --> 00:36:05,643
Like if, if money is cheap, that's
why we have over consumerism, like we

772
00:36:05,643 --> 00:36:09,893
talked about before and wasted resources
and all this overproduction of stuff.

773
00:36:10,163 --> 00:36:15,533
So if we don't fix that problem, then
everything else is just like trying to

774
00:36:15,543 --> 00:36:20,343
force people into behaviors that when,
when the, the, the, the bad behavior is

775
00:36:20,353 --> 00:36:25,013
in the base layer, the bad behavior is,
is what's financing the politicians to

776
00:36:25,013 --> 00:36:28,703
solve the problems that is actually caused
by the politicians by printing the money.

777
00:36:29,033 --> 00:36:29,733
So it's like.

778
00:36:30,558 --> 00:36:33,898
Like, fix the money, fix the
world, as the expression goes.

779
00:36:35,158 --> 00:36:41,798
I struggle to see how the, like, how sound
money would stop people polluting though,

780
00:36:42,128 --> 00:36:42,618
I do.

781
00:36:43,568 --> 00:36:49,138
Because, if you know that you have
money that will grow in value over

782
00:36:49,138 --> 00:36:51,428
time, you're less likely to overconsume.

783
00:36:52,608 --> 00:36:54,648
Okay, but that's just
consumption, that doesn't, but,

784
00:36:54,658 --> 00:36:56,408
no, but this is the thing.

785
00:36:57,278 --> 00:37:01,628
My grandfather had a saying, that
which you can do without your own.

786
00:37:02,918 --> 00:37:07,908
Which means, if you can resist the
urge to own something, you own that

787
00:37:07,908 --> 00:37:12,178
thing, because you own the psychology,
like you own your, your urge.

788
00:37:13,068 --> 00:37:18,398
So, and I think in the long run,
having absolutely sound money

789
00:37:18,928 --> 00:37:21,378
leads more people to that insight.

790
00:37:21,518 --> 00:37:26,448
So I think a, more and more people
will become like Jack Mallers or Jack

791
00:37:26,448 --> 00:37:30,968
Dorsey, who choose, who are billionaires,
who choose to live very humble lives.

792
00:37:31,568 --> 00:37:34,408
but I mean, Jack still takes, you
know, he probably still drives a car,

793
00:37:34,408 --> 00:37:38,518
he takes a private jet somewhere,
um, and there's still, so you need

794
00:37:38,578 --> 00:37:42,298
to produce, like, these things
like jets and cars and fuel.

795
00:37:42,538 --> 00:37:44,428
Like, he has a nice house.

796
00:37:44,578 --> 00:37:45,068
Like, there's

797
00:37:45,068 --> 00:37:47,608
still some level of consumption,

798
00:37:47,843 --> 00:37:48,773
examples out of my

799
00:37:49,128 --> 00:37:51,768
No, no, but I'm just saying, like,
people will still consume, so you're

800
00:37:51,798 --> 00:37:54,708
not gonna live on the beach nude, right?

801
00:37:54,718 --> 00:37:59,078
Like, there's still gonna be some
production somewhere, and the companies

802
00:37:59,078 --> 00:38:00,018
are still gonna be incentivized.

803
00:38:00,288 --> 00:38:03,188
Like, it's just so much cheaper for
me to just chuck that over there.

804
00:38:03,648 --> 00:38:07,348
Well, well, I don't think, I don't
think people understand to which

805
00:38:07,358 --> 00:38:10,238
extent fiat is causing these problems.

806
00:38:10,768 --> 00:38:11,088
Like,

807
00:38:11,128 --> 00:38:14,768
The Lemmy combination, devil's
advocate, and address, I think,

808
00:38:15,038 --> 00:38:16,318
the specific point you brought up.

809
00:38:17,248 --> 00:38:18,728
It's in the wrong place.

810
00:38:19,478 --> 00:38:24,278
This is where I actually think we've
got a philosophical thing here, okay?

811
00:38:24,428 --> 00:38:28,268
So, you're talking about the producers.

812
00:38:28,898 --> 00:38:31,908
Usually the pollution
is not at the consumer

813
00:38:32,063 --> 00:38:32,483
not,

814
00:38:32,793 --> 00:38:33,753
It's further upstream than

815
00:38:33,788 --> 00:38:34,518
no, no, no, no, no.

816
00:38:34,518 --> 00:38:36,668
But producers wouldn't produce stuff.

817
00:38:37,083 --> 00:38:38,813
because there's less demand,

818
00:38:38,968 --> 00:38:43,538
reason that producers produce stuff at
all is because consumers want the stuff.

819
00:38:43,643 --> 00:38:44,233
but wait, wait,

820
00:38:44,293 --> 00:38:45,703
have to have food production,

821
00:38:45,708 --> 00:38:48,188
Yes, but we're not always going to have.

822
00:38:48,763 --> 00:38:53,533
aisles in the supermarket where, which
have like 20 times the amount of food

823
00:38:53,533 --> 00:38:57,073
that is actually necessary because
you sell more food if you do like

824
00:38:57,073 --> 00:39:00,893
that will not be the case on a Bitcoin
standard or at least to a lower extent.

825
00:39:01,013 --> 00:39:03,313
But those aren't necessarily
the polluting industries.

826
00:39:03,323 --> 00:39:06,423
Seriously, that, like, this is,
this is, they're just, just, yeah.

827
00:39:06,453 --> 00:39:08,113
So, so, is, is this part of the

828
00:39:08,168 --> 00:39:10,598
Yeah, it's not, so, okay, so
like, to build a house, right?

829
00:39:10,598 --> 00:39:12,838
There's cement and steel
that goes into that, right?

830
00:39:13,128 --> 00:39:17,168
You need metals for, for car, all our
electronics that make our lives, you

831
00:39:17,168 --> 00:39:21,608
know, a little simpler, um, look at AI
where it's growing, like there's mass

832
00:39:21,608 --> 00:39:23,678
production of chips and, and units.

833
00:39:24,188 --> 00:39:27,048
There, those, some of those industry,
like, like if you look at rare earth

834
00:39:27,048 --> 00:39:31,098
metals or, or when you're pulling
out, you know, gold, gold mining is

835
00:39:31,098 --> 00:39:32,868
quite environmentally destructive.

836
00:39:33,218 --> 00:39:34,528
That's still going to be.

837
00:39:35,383 --> 00:39:38,783
And I get it, maybe you're saying
it'll be less, but there will always

838
00:39:38,823 --> 00:39:40,793
be bad actors wherever you are.

839
00:39:40,793 --> 00:39:43,123
And bad actors can include polluters.

840
00:39:43,863 --> 00:39:49,953
And where I'm trying to get at is
externality of pollution somehow

841
00:39:49,953 --> 00:39:53,613
needs to be priced in and usually
it's through regulation, right?

842
00:39:53,643 --> 00:39:56,683
So I don't think there will, like,
there will always be bad actors.

843
00:39:56,683 --> 00:39:59,883
You need an incentive, some kind
of incentive, and I don't know

844
00:39:59,883 --> 00:40:01,723
what that incentive model is.

845
00:40:01,948 --> 00:40:05,118
But government usually attaches
a price to it because without

846
00:40:05,118 --> 00:40:06,658
that price, they'll do it.

847
00:40:07,073 --> 00:40:07,903
Well, okay.

848
00:40:08,093 --> 00:40:13,828
Let me, let me take this argument because
like here's If you look at the smartphone,

849
00:40:14,398 --> 00:40:15,748
you have access to the internet.

850
00:40:15,748 --> 00:40:18,748
You have access to all the world's
media, all the world's books, all

851
00:40:18,748 --> 00:40:21,018
the world's movies from your pocket.

852
00:40:21,788 --> 00:40:26,318
Imagine now for instance, that,
uh, this was, that everyone had the

853
00:40:26,318 --> 00:40:29,808
same access to stuff 30 years ago.

854
00:40:30,108 --> 00:40:34,098
That would require every single
person to own all the DVDs or all

855
00:40:34,098 --> 00:40:37,968
the VHS, and imagine the amount
of resources that would go.

856
00:40:37,998 --> 00:40:41,508
So, so the efficiency of
the smartphone is insanely

857
00:40:41,578 --> 00:40:42,338
Oh, we're getting better.

858
00:40:42,498 --> 00:40:42,918
so.

859
00:40:43,198 --> 00:40:47,148
But now you have like the 2 billion people
that don't even have like power and stuff.

860
00:40:47,148 --> 00:40:47,978
Now suddenly they're all

861
00:40:47,978 --> 00:40:48,658
getting phones

862
00:40:48,888 --> 00:40:54,268
do you know, this was a number I read
in Seyfinin's Principles of Economics.

863
00:40:54,508 --> 00:40:59,998
So do you know, if the earth was an
Olympic sized swimming pool, do you know

864
00:40:59,998 --> 00:41:05,828
how much of that swimming pool is quarries
and mines where they extract metals?

865
00:41:06,168 --> 00:41:06,438
Sorry.

866
00:41:06,438 --> 00:41:07,768
I'm not, I'm confused though.

867
00:41:07,798 --> 00:41:12,658
So, so if you have the entire
earth and the, the part, it's

868
00:41:12,658 --> 00:41:14,318
represented by an Olympic sized

869
00:41:14,338 --> 00:41:16,418
are we talking about, like,
the size of the mine relative

870
00:41:16,418 --> 00:41:17,738
to the size of the earth, or?

871
00:41:18,108 --> 00:41:23,258
the size of quarries and mines, total sum
of quarries and mines on the entire globe.

872
00:41:23,508 --> 00:41:23,928
I don't.

873
00:41:23,938 --> 00:41:26,138
I'm sure it's small, but, but
that's not where I'm getting.

874
00:41:26,138 --> 00:41:27,598
I'm getting at like the pollution.

875
00:41:27,628 --> 00:41:28,798
It's not by size.

876
00:41:28,798 --> 00:41:32,578
It's still like the amount of
metals that get released into.

877
00:41:32,848 --> 00:41:33,558
Yeah, I get it.

878
00:41:33,578 --> 00:41:33,968
that's just one

879
00:41:34,018 --> 00:41:37,648
but, but it's like, it's
three, three deciliters.

880
00:41:38,398 --> 00:41:45,538
So in that pool, so, so, so we're not
running out of resources in any, in

881
00:41:45,538 --> 00:41:52,853
any, uh, like sensible sense of the word
like they aren't rare or scarce like the

882
00:41:52,893 --> 00:41:56,813
ones who sell them want you to believe
that they're extremely scarce and finite

883
00:41:56,853 --> 00:42:00,253
because that drives up the price it's
like oh we're running out of oil and

884
00:42:00,368 --> 00:42:01,398
It's just harder to get.

885
00:42:01,398 --> 00:42:02,568
So there's a bigger cost,

886
00:42:02,568 --> 00:42:02,778
right?

887
00:42:02,788 --> 00:42:04,308
Like you get, you go for the cheapest

888
00:42:04,583 --> 00:42:09,384
free market solves for that like the
price goes up And, uh, and sure there

889
00:42:09,384 --> 00:42:14,014
are extraction methods which are
more damaging to nature than others.

890
00:42:14,084 --> 00:42:14,914
Absolutely.

891
00:42:15,604 --> 00:42:23,494
But the way to fix that is not by fixing,
uh, it's not like the, the, the biggest

892
00:42:23,684 --> 00:42:28,104
consumers of everything, every pollutant
in the world are governments themselves.

893
00:42:28,134 --> 00:42:28,524
Yes.

894
00:42:28,564 --> 00:42:30,074
Look at the military industrial

895
00:42:30,499 --> 00:42:34,499
the military industrial complex,
that's the consensus mechanism of fiat.

896
00:42:35,129 --> 00:42:37,029
It's the greatest polluter ever.

897
00:42:37,069 --> 00:42:39,949
Nothing destroys the earth as world wars.

898
00:42:40,309 --> 00:42:41,279
So that's them.

899
00:42:41,289 --> 00:42:43,009
They're, they're the consumers.

900
00:42:43,059 --> 00:42:45,089
They're the ones who are
destroying the planet,

901
00:42:45,219 --> 00:42:46,759
absolutely nothing productive

902
00:42:46,819 --> 00:42:53,169
So if you, if you remove that, uh, then
like Jack's, Jack whatever's private jet

903
00:42:53,219 --> 00:42:55,719
is not really causing that much damage.

904
00:42:56,104 --> 00:43:00,704
Even if, if, even if the manufacturer
of the airplane is Boeing and it's

905
00:43:01,194 --> 00:43:03,244
crappy at running the factory.

906
00:43:04,499 --> 00:43:09,059
what I mean to say is like, there,
you can't, I, maybe I'm cynical, but

907
00:43:09,059 --> 00:43:12,439
I'm not going to rely on the goodness
out of every producer's heart.

908
00:43:12,469 --> 00:43:16,064
Like, they're not going to all just,
oh, suddenly we're going to, Go to

909
00:43:16,064 --> 00:43:17,684
the highest environmental standard.

910
00:43:17,934 --> 00:43:23,074
Like if there's no regulation, they will,
like, people want to optimize for doing

911
00:43:23,084 --> 00:43:26,804
things like getting the most profit,
whether that's in Bitcoin or in dollars.

912
00:43:27,084 --> 00:43:32,854
So if there is no mechanism, like market
signal, whether it's a cost, like whether

913
00:43:32,854 --> 00:43:36,834
it's enforcement, cause I'm going to jail
if I pollute, or it's a cost because I

914
00:43:36,844 --> 00:43:38,614
have to like achieve a certain standard.

915
00:43:38,644 --> 00:43:42,434
If you eliminate all these, I
do think most people will just.

916
00:43:42,714 --> 00:43:46,414
Chuck things because in the
developing countries they do, right?

917
00:43:46,514 --> 00:43:50,954
Yeah, but in the developing countries,
they have even worse money than in the US.

918
00:43:50,954 --> 00:43:52,894
Yeah,

919
00:43:53,034 --> 00:43:53,974
to compare, but like,

920
00:43:54,454 --> 00:43:54,834
we do.

921
00:43:54,864 --> 00:43:55,404
That is the

922
00:43:55,654 --> 00:43:59,454
to, but there is no utopia and I
don't think we'll ever agree on this.

923
00:43:59,524 --> 00:44:03,234
It's like flat earthers versus
round earthers, because I

924
00:44:03,234 --> 00:44:05,094
really don't think everyone will

925
00:44:05,119 --> 00:44:05,499
Who's the

926
00:44:05,514 --> 00:44:09,084
of the goodness, I think that's,
you know, debatable, but I, I

927
00:44:09,084 --> 00:44:13,389
don't think like, I really don't
agree that people will not pollute.

928
00:44:13,499 --> 00:44:13,779
It's

929
00:44:14,149 --> 00:44:14,569
No, no.

930
00:44:15,179 --> 00:44:15,619
Okay.

931
00:44:15,769 --> 00:44:16,199
So, so

932
00:44:16,369 --> 00:44:17,289
how do you manage it?

933
00:44:17,759 --> 00:44:18,779
another angle then.

934
00:44:18,869 --> 00:44:19,279
Okay.

935
00:44:19,549 --> 00:44:21,369
You say it needs to be managed

936
00:44:21,839 --> 00:44:21,959
Mm

937
00:44:22,399 --> 00:44:23,859
because carbon is bad.

938
00:44:23,909 --> 00:44:24,889
I'm not saying just carbon,

939
00:44:24,889 --> 00:44:25,669
any pollution.

940
00:44:25,729 --> 00:44:26,659
Any pollution is bad.

941
00:44:27,109 --> 00:44:30,619
So who gets to decide
what bad and good means?

942
00:44:30,849 --> 00:44:32,069
government, well, hold on.

943
00:44:32,089 --> 00:44:35,729
If it's killing other people because it's
like toxic air emissions, then that's bad.

944
00:44:35,979 --> 00:44:38,289
If it's leaching into water

945
00:44:38,489 --> 00:44:41,429
and people are drinking it
and animals are dying, like

946
00:44:41,459 --> 00:44:42,049
absolutely.

947
00:44:42,099 --> 00:44:43,849
That, that, I would agree that that's bad.

948
00:44:43,879 --> 00:44:48,249
And most people would, so we don't
have a disagreement there, but, but

949
00:44:48,259 --> 00:44:48,789
I'm good, I'm good.

950
00:44:48,879 --> 00:44:52,019
Here, I'm, I'm jumping in
to, to, uh, calibrate you.

951
00:44:52,364 --> 00:44:56,834
Uh, how would, how would you do it
that, that, that, in, in, literally, our

952
00:44:56,864 --> 00:45:00,664
anarcho capitalist libertarian paradise,
that, that, that someone else has the

953
00:45:00,664 --> 00:45:05,464
externality of, that, that, uh, yeah,
okay, water, let's do water, easy one, how

954
00:45:05,464 --> 00:45:10,804
do you stop company X from dumping stuff
in the water that's gonna hurt the people

955
00:45:10,879 --> 00:45:11,239
yeah,

956
00:45:11,629 --> 00:45:15,579
Well, you, well, you need, there's
clearly a crime there because

957
00:45:15,669 --> 00:45:17,479
it's a property, property rights

958
00:45:17,539 --> 00:45:18,079
mm hmm,

959
00:45:18,289 --> 00:45:23,059
If I, if I pollute the water that,
that you, uh, some other person

960
00:45:23,059 --> 00:45:26,309
is utilizing, that, that's, that's
a property rights violation.

961
00:45:27,059 --> 00:45:27,979
Not a public good.

962
00:45:28,079 --> 00:45:31,669
but, but most, that's the thing,
like, okay, but hold on, so

963
00:45:31,669 --> 00:45:33,069
you're saying you need some laws?

964
00:45:33,909 --> 00:45:34,509
Absolutely.

965
00:45:34,779 --> 00:45:35,209
Laws.

966
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:35,529
Yeah.

967
00:45:36,769 --> 00:45:37,219
No, no, no.

968
00:45:37,219 --> 00:45:41,559
But laws are, are not, uh, do
not necessarily mean public laws.

969
00:45:41,599 --> 00:45:45,919
Like they, they, they don't have to
be enforced by the entity that has the

970
00:45:45,979 --> 00:45:49,539
go shoot you because you killed my,
because you killed my livestock?

971
00:45:49,734 --> 00:45:54,204
No, I can only shoot you if you,
if you shot a friend of mine,

972
00:45:54,839 --> 00:45:55,059
No.

973
00:45:55,059 --> 00:45:55,289
Okay.

974
00:45:55,289 --> 00:45:57,689
But what I'm saying is, so
you're polluting maybe his

975
00:45:57,689 --> 00:45:59,079
private part of the river.

976
00:45:59,079 --> 00:46:01,679
Like, so then like, how do you,
like, you need something that

977
00:46:01,679 --> 00:46:04,454
says, you know, Like usually it's
government that says do not pollute,

978
00:46:04,584 --> 00:46:09,844
there are countless pages of, uh,
legal, uh, libertarian legal theory.

979
00:46:10,314 --> 00:46:14,834
And I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna like,
uh, lay it all out here, but there are,

980
00:46:15,004 --> 00:46:16,724
there are solutions to these problems.

981
00:46:16,724 --> 00:46:20,734
And the first and foremost, I
think that the conclusion that

982
00:46:20,744 --> 00:46:23,324
the only way to do this is by.

983
00:46:23,774 --> 00:46:30,184
Forced by forcing people to do this and
that that is like, how are you so sure

984
00:46:30,214 --> 00:46:34,744
that the way we're doing it now is more
efficient than it would have been if

985
00:46:34,954 --> 00:46:36,954
private property rights were the thing?

986
00:46:37,154 --> 00:46:41,664
don't know, but like, I mean, so if
you look at, so Trump came in, right?

987
00:46:41,764 --> 00:46:44,404
And he relaxed a lot of regulation,

988
00:46:45,064 --> 00:46:45,704
No, but he was a

989
00:46:45,864 --> 00:46:46,474
regulists.

990
00:46:46,754 --> 00:46:47,474
No, no, he's a

991
00:46:47,644 --> 00:46:48,074
no, no, but

992
00:46:48,274 --> 00:46:49,174
Stop interrupting.

993
00:46:50,804 --> 00:46:54,154
what I'm saying is like, so there are
parks that you couldn't, you know, do

994
00:46:54,174 --> 00:46:56,734
resource extraction in, for example, and

995
00:46:56,744 --> 00:46:58,954
maybe you disagree, but what
I'm saying is as soon as you

996
00:46:58,954 --> 00:47:04,974
relax things, they come in and, and
they start to pollute on that land.

997
00:47:04,974 --> 00:47:06,424
They start to extract the land.

998
00:47:07,134 --> 00:47:07,554
Okay.

999
00:47:08,324 --> 00:47:09,004
Argentina.

1000
00:47:09,644 --> 00:47:10,094
Right?

1001
00:47:10,914 --> 00:47:15,974
There used to be, like, 50 years ago,
70 percent of forests are now, like,

1002
00:47:15,974 --> 00:47:18,814
5%, and this is, like, public forest.

1003
00:47:19,054 --> 00:47:20,174
I don't think that's good.

1004
00:47:20,234 --> 00:47:25,944
We have lost, we are never gonna
regrow the rainforest because it took,

1005
00:47:26,174 --> 00:47:28,914
like, thousands of years, hundreds of

1006
00:47:28,914 --> 00:47:29,144
years,

1007
00:47:29,164 --> 00:47:32,254
but everything you're describing
is the result of crony

1008
00:47:32,254 --> 00:47:33,924
capitalism, not capitalism.

1009
00:47:34,624 --> 00:47:38,584
Because all of those things
happen because, in the paradigm of

1010
00:47:38,594 --> 00:47:43,214
false money, money that could be
counterfeited at will by the people

1011
00:47:43,214 --> 00:47:48,464
in power, all of these problems happen
because of government intervention,

1012
00:47:48,504 --> 00:47:50,784
interventions, not despite them.

1013
00:47:51,279 --> 00:47:56,409
So, so, so, the government intervening
on certain things that, oh, this wasn't

1014
00:47:56,409 --> 00:48:01,419
very good, that's just like, it's like
letting the pedophile be the babysitter.

1015
00:48:01,709 --> 00:48:05,709
Like, it's like letting the arsonist
be in charge of the fire brigade.

1016
00:48:06,239 --> 00:48:07,169
That's what it is.

1017
00:48:07,314 --> 00:48:07,934
pyros,

1018
00:48:08,839 --> 00:48:08,999
yeah,

1019
00:48:09,064 --> 00:48:11,334
we're all secret pyros, us firefighters, I

1020
00:48:11,399 --> 00:48:12,389
there's fire here.

1021
00:48:12,634 --> 00:48:15,174
maybe, yeah, maybe let's pull
this off this topic because Knut

1022
00:48:15,254 --> 00:48:17,304
is just, he's literally just,
he's going to argue this to

1023
00:48:17,434 --> 00:48:17,934
I know,

1024
00:48:17,964 --> 00:48:18,264
Yeah.

1025
00:48:18,264 --> 00:48:18,834
I'm never going to

1026
00:48:18,914 --> 00:48:21,464
isn't going to make for a good
podcast if he keeps doing that.

1027
00:48:21,464 --> 00:48:23,044
So, um, so,

1028
00:48:23,214 --> 00:48:27,944
So let's bring it to, sorry, Luke,
but let's bring it to, okay, let's

1029
00:48:27,964 --> 00:48:32,914
pretend that I think that reducing
carbon is the, like a priority

1030
00:48:32,914 --> 00:48:34,124
that every person should have.

1031
00:48:34,124 --> 00:48:37,024
And I can, to some, to some
degree agree to that, that I

1032
00:48:37,044 --> 00:48:38,254
have that personal opinion.

1033
00:48:38,734 --> 00:48:40,564
So, so let's just play
pretend there for a while.

1034
00:48:43,944 --> 00:48:44,154
Yeah.

1035
00:48:44,154 --> 00:48:44,684
You had something?

1036
00:48:44,854 --> 00:48:46,834
oh, okay, well, no, I thought
you were going to continue.

1037
00:48:46,949 --> 00:48:51,729
No, no, no, it's gonna like, oh,
if we're gonna level this, so yeah,

1038
00:48:51,729 --> 00:48:55,389
I'm not, I'm not playing for, I
have a tendency to always take the

1039
00:48:55,389 --> 00:48:58,599
devil's advocate position and stuff
also, so like, that's part of it.

1040
00:48:59,069 --> 00:48:59,699
Sorry, Max.

1041
00:48:59,889 --> 00:49:00,599
That's okay.

1042
00:50:00,820 --> 00:50:05,010
Well, okay, so Knut segwayed us into
this, uh, you know, the arsonist and

1043
00:50:05,010 --> 00:50:07,410
the firefighter and we were talking
about it on the ride over here.

1044
00:50:07,410 --> 00:50:08,830
You're actually a firefighter

1045
00:50:09,050 --> 00:50:09,300
I'm a

1046
00:50:09,460 --> 00:50:10,670
Oh, yeah, yeah,

1047
00:50:11,460 --> 00:50:12,220
this is fun.

1048
00:50:12,330 --> 00:50:12,680
Yeah.

1049
00:50:12,700 --> 00:50:17,040
I live in a small town and one of
the ways to like, it's really hard to

1050
00:50:17,550 --> 00:50:22,820
To make a friends or build community
as an adult, I think, like, I don't

1051
00:50:22,820 --> 00:50:25,930
have kids maybe some day, but how
do you meet people as an adult?

1052
00:50:25,950 --> 00:50:28,320
Most people already like
have busy lives, right?

1053
00:50:28,350 --> 00:50:30,020
They have their kids
they're taking care of.

1054
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:32,230
So, and how do you build community?

1055
00:50:32,230 --> 00:50:36,500
And I think an, an easy way to do
that is to join your local volunteer

1056
00:50:36,500 --> 00:50:39,550
fire department and also like
learn some valuable life skills.

1057
00:50:39,550 --> 00:50:44,110
Like I'm, um, I'm licensed as
a emergency management, sorry.

1058
00:50:46,250 --> 00:50:47,480
Yeah, like a first

1059
00:50:47,610 --> 00:50:48,320
First response,

1060
00:50:48,340 --> 00:50:49,530
It's below paramedics.

1061
00:50:49,540 --> 00:50:51,070
So, I mean, I think it's pretty valuable.

1062
00:50:51,070 --> 00:50:54,350
Like, I can, you know, like, you
chop your arm off or something,

1063
00:50:54,350 --> 00:50:55,440
or you have a heart attack.

1064
00:50:55,470 --> 00:50:56,860
Like, I know how to respond to that.

1065
00:50:58,590 --> 00:50:59,800
That's, you know, your family, friends.

1066
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:03,140
It's a, I think it's a, it's a good
skill to have, or you get shot.

1067
00:51:03,170 --> 00:51:05,900
Like, you know, emergency wound packing.

1068
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:07,780
So, that's one.

1069
00:51:07,780 --> 00:51:08,655
But also, like, first responders.

1070
00:51:08,975 --> 00:51:10,375
Fires are fucking cool.

1071
00:51:11,875 --> 00:51:15,395
You make it all sound so fun,
like, oh, you got a gunshot wound!

1072
00:51:15,395 --> 00:51:17,306
Woohoo!

1073
00:51:18,075 --> 00:51:21,175
honestly, I get to play with
big toys, like fire trucks.

1074
00:51:21,425 --> 00:51:24,105
I get to make cars into
convertibles during training.

1075
00:51:24,105 --> 00:51:26,605
I get to break glass, like,
so much fun breaking glass.

1076
00:51:27,415 --> 00:51:30,715
But like chopping cars, like, I don't
know, I have this like destructive streak.

1077
00:51:31,195 --> 00:51:33,265
When you were a kid, didn't
you like break sticks

1078
00:51:33,265 --> 00:51:34,045
or whatever?

1079
00:51:34,045 --> 00:51:36,520
Yeah, like, Yeah, so I get to do that.

1080
00:51:36,540 --> 00:51:37,630
Like a beautiful car.

1081
00:51:37,630 --> 00:51:38,340
Oh, sorry.

1082
00:51:38,370 --> 00:51:39,330
Chop, chop, chop, right?

1083
00:51:39,510 --> 00:51:40,180
It's fun.

1084
00:51:40,420 --> 00:51:44,230
I mean, obviously in the field, it's
not always fun, but like, it's great

1085
00:51:44,230 --> 00:51:45,870
when like someone afterwards thanks you.

1086
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:49,100
Like I had a really, you know,
this is the worst day of my life.

1087
00:51:49,130 --> 00:51:50,090
Thank you very much.

1088
00:51:50,090 --> 00:51:50,470
Right.

1089
00:51:50,790 --> 00:51:54,775
Um, so some pretty cool stories, but
like, Like, yeah, like going in a

1090
00:51:54,785 --> 00:51:58,345
burning building, like, especially
during live fire training or even when

1091
00:51:58,345 --> 00:52:01,935
there's a fire, like you're watching
like the fire just consume this.

1092
00:52:01,955 --> 00:52:03,035
It's just so cool.

1093
00:52:03,305 --> 00:52:05,955
So yes, there's, there's, it's, it's cool.

1094
00:52:06,090 --> 00:52:09,740
Speaking of wasting resources
and being bad for the environment

1095
00:52:09,775 --> 00:52:10,905
funny because I'm like live.

1096
00:52:11,115 --> 00:52:16,605
So I had live fire training last
year in Oliver, British Columbia.

1097
00:52:17,135 --> 00:52:22,175
And my favorite training ever was
this, it's called a liquid fuel fire.

1098
00:52:22,725 --> 00:52:26,345
So they were mixing in a giant pan,
that's probably like the size of

1099
00:52:26,345 --> 00:52:28,505
this room, jet fuel and diesel.

1100
00:52:28,725 --> 00:52:32,205
And the firefighters that were just
pouring these barrels and are just like,

1101
00:52:32,215 --> 00:52:34,075
you, I had a picture of their faces.

1102
00:52:34,075 --> 00:52:34,735
They're like giddy.

1103
00:52:34,735 --> 00:52:40,365
They're like, and then they would light
the sun fire six times an hour, like

1104
00:52:40,365 --> 00:52:42,215
a couple of times, you know, a day.

1105
00:52:42,245 --> 00:52:42,585
And.

1106
00:52:42,925 --> 00:52:46,055
The, the, the black smoke
would go up 10 stories.

1107
00:52:46,625 --> 00:52:48,865
It's just funny because like,
someone who came from Cardin, I'm

1108
00:52:48,865 --> 00:52:50,405
like, that's what we're doing.

1109
00:52:50,405 --> 00:52:53,175
But it is to like, it's training, right?

1110
00:52:53,225 --> 00:52:57,925
Like, sure, you can practice like
a pretend liquid fuel fire, but to

1111
00:52:57,925 --> 00:53:01,805
see what you train in action, how it
actually works, like the techniques

1112
00:53:01,805 --> 00:53:03,155
you use are like something else.

1113
00:53:03,155 --> 00:53:06,105
And also it's pretty freaking cool
to see like this wall of fire.

1114
00:53:07,002 --> 00:53:10,802
There's nothing like the smell of napalm
in the morning, or what's the quote?

1115
00:53:11,252 --> 00:53:12,802
there you go, there you go.

1116
00:53:12,802 --> 00:53:14,402
So yeah, no, I love it.

1117
00:53:14,412 --> 00:53:17,422
It's a way I've built like some
of the closest relationships are

1118
00:53:17,422 --> 00:53:20,832
either like the wives of other
firefighters or firefighters and

1119
00:53:20,912 --> 00:53:22,312
we've had each other's backs, right?

1120
00:53:22,322 --> 00:53:25,512
Like we're there, like
on call, like literally.

1121
00:53:26,692 --> 00:53:28,872
And it's like, Oh, hey, can
you help me move or whatever?

1122
00:53:28,872 --> 00:53:29,842
Yeah, we're there for you.

1123
00:53:30,382 --> 00:53:32,942
So, so it's, uh, and it's
become part of my identity.

1124
00:53:33,072 --> 00:53:33,382
Yeah.

1125
00:53:33,442 --> 00:53:38,272
And actually it's neat too,
because I, um, started, uh, I'm

1126
00:53:38,272 --> 00:53:39,862
part of a proof of workforce.

1127
00:53:39,902 --> 00:53:42,182
Uh, so Dom Bayes started that.

1128
00:53:42,192 --> 00:53:44,132
He's a firefighter in Santa Monica.

1129
00:53:44,442 --> 00:53:47,872
And what, well, what our mission is,
is to, well, basically like bring

1130
00:53:47,882 --> 00:53:53,772
Bitcoin to pension funds, unions,
um, especially, so we've have now, I

1131
00:53:53,772 --> 00:53:58,192
believe, four, For firefighter unions,
that self custody, their own bitcoin.

1132
00:53:58,192 --> 00:54:00,852
And I think that's really important
because as a firefighter, you actually

1133
00:54:00,852 --> 00:54:06,262
exposed to a lot of toxins, um, like
carcinogens, even actually the fire, uh,

1134
00:54:06,262 --> 00:54:09,742
fighter gear that we wear because it's
fire retardant, it's touching your skin.

1135
00:54:09,752 --> 00:54:13,742
You're actually getting a dose of
carcinogenic, whatever, chemicals

1136
00:54:13,742 --> 00:54:14,822
every time you wear the suit.

1137
00:54:15,182 --> 00:54:20,482
So there is a high incidence of cancer
among firefighters, uh, above average than

1138
00:54:21,007 --> 00:54:27,017
You guys, uh, as well as, you know, PTSD
and suicide is pretty high, heart attacks.

1139
00:54:27,337 --> 00:54:33,577
So if I am a firefighter and I volunteer,
either volunteering or getting paid

1140
00:54:33,637 --> 00:54:36,277
to do this as a job, I'm a volunteer,
but some people get paid, right?

1141
00:54:36,747 --> 00:54:38,917
And we're putting ourselves in danger.

1142
00:54:39,397 --> 00:54:42,117
I want to make sure, especially if
I'm getting paid, like this is my main

1143
00:54:42,127 --> 00:54:48,572
job, that if I put my life on the line,
that my savings, That are supposed to

1144
00:54:48,572 --> 00:54:52,602
take me through the rest of my life,
provide for my kids, aren't eroded a

1145
00:54:52,602 --> 00:54:57,402
way that I can retire because the worst
thing is, is risking your life, hoping

1146
00:54:57,402 --> 00:55:00,402
that, you know, you're going to have
something there and it just melted away.

1147
00:55:00,682 --> 00:55:05,502
So I think like bringing Bitcoin, whether
it's to the union, who sometimes the

1148
00:55:05,502 --> 00:55:10,182
unions provide like health benefits or and
whatnot to firefighters or for retirement.

1149
00:55:10,362 --> 00:55:10,832
Right?

1150
00:55:10,902 --> 00:55:14,302
They, that's going to be there
when they expect it because they

1151
00:55:14,642 --> 00:55:16,462
undertook higher than average risks.

1152
00:55:16,472 --> 00:55:20,022
So I think like that, for me, that it's
meaningful and why I helped participate

1153
00:55:20,022 --> 00:55:23,112
and some of the cool stuff, like we're,
yes, it's bringing it to firefighters and

1154
00:55:23,122 --> 00:55:24,672
unions, but also like, it was really neat.

1155
00:55:24,672 --> 00:55:26,752
This, this, um, is it in March?

1156
00:55:26,752 --> 00:55:29,182
I think we actually met with
the Schwarzenegger Institute,

1157
00:55:29,592 --> 00:55:31,092
Arnold Schwarzenegger, right?

1158
00:55:31,372 --> 00:55:34,867
Cause we started, we're just Orange
pilling is staff, maybe down the road.

1159
00:55:35,257 --> 00:55:38,357
Arnold, imagine Arnold ever got
into like Bitcoin, that'd be pretty

1160
00:55:38,632 --> 00:55:39,692
Stay humble.

1161
00:55:40,077 --> 00:55:41,547
Yeah, yeah, stocks, sats.

1162
00:55:43,412 --> 00:55:44,312
Sell all your chairs.

1163
00:55:45,527 --> 00:55:48,817
but I think like it's, it's neat,
like the folks that you get to meet

1164
00:55:48,827 --> 00:55:52,927
and, and, uh, you know, in life
and try to, uh, you know, align

1165
00:55:52,927 --> 00:55:57,106
sort of missions because Arnold is
very, like, leaning towards Bitcoin.

1166
00:55:57,467 --> 00:55:58,597
Environmental protection.

1167
00:55:58,607 --> 00:56:00,697
So I think like there's, there's
an alignment, but there's

1168
00:56:00,697 --> 00:56:03,167
always that misunderstanding
that we always try to fight.

1169
00:56:03,842 --> 00:56:04,552
Did you meet him?

1170
00:56:05,057 --> 00:56:08,627
No, we didn't, but we met his staff,
but I did go to his office and I

1171
00:56:08,627 --> 00:56:10,857
got to like, see all his props.

1172
00:56:11,207 --> 00:56:12,777
Um, you know, like it's pretty cool.

1173
00:56:12,777 --> 00:56:15,577
We got to hold his like sword,
like Conan the Barbarian sword,

1174
00:56:15,777 --> 00:56:17,626
his guns from Terminator and stuff.

1175
00:56:17,627 --> 00:56:20,167
So all of us actually proof of work
for us held some of the things.

1176
00:56:20,167 --> 00:56:22,717
We took a picture right in
his office, like in his chair.

1177
00:56:23,177 --> 00:56:23,627
It was awesome.

1178
00:56:23,647 --> 00:56:24,197
It was pretty cool.

1179
00:56:25,462 --> 00:56:25,742
Oh,

1180
00:56:26,122 --> 00:56:27,722
No, sounds like, sounds
like a great story.

1181
00:56:27,722 --> 00:56:30,082
And then, so, and I think we
didn't actually cover how you got

1182
00:56:30,102 --> 00:56:31,722
into Bitcoin mining originally.

1183
00:56:32,017 --> 00:56:35,067
well, I think because I spent a
decade working on low carbon economic

1184
00:56:35,067 --> 00:56:39,377
transition and electricity markets in
government, it's a natural fit, right?

1185
00:56:39,377 --> 00:56:41,387
Because everyone's like, Oh,
Bitcoin's killing the environment.

1186
00:56:41,387 --> 00:56:43,497
I'm like, actually not, it's helping fund.

1187
00:56:43,957 --> 00:56:47,377
Renewable infrastructure, it's
lowering pollution through a

1188
00:56:47,377 --> 00:56:50,007
market based elegant mechanism.

1189
00:56:50,017 --> 00:56:53,037
So I think that's like, it's
still, it very much connects with

1190
00:56:53,302 --> 00:56:53,962
Absolutely.

1191
00:56:54,162 --> 00:56:54,792
Yeah, exactly.

1192
00:56:54,792 --> 00:56:57,132
I think the common thread here
be because I, I mean, yeah,

1193
00:56:57,357 --> 00:56:57,557
You're

1194
00:56:57,672 --> 00:57:01,842
you've, you've walked into Yeah,
a pretty, a pretty on the narco

1195
00:57:01,842 --> 00:57:03,462
capitalist libertarian side.

1196
00:57:03,467 --> 00:57:04,122
This is, this is what

1197
00:57:04,147 --> 00:57:04,957
yeah, yeah, yeah,

1198
00:57:04,967 --> 00:57:05,322
kind of thing.

1199
00:57:05,322 --> 00:57:09,072
But, but I think, I think it's great
to, you know, no, not everyone has

1200
00:57:09,072 --> 00:57:11,292
to be at that level on, on Bitcoin,

1201
00:57:11,367 --> 00:57:11,957
I know, I know.

1202
00:57:11,987 --> 00:57:12,617
I understand.

1203
00:57:12,617 --> 00:57:12,807
Like,

1204
00:57:12,807 --> 00:57:13,537
who will build the roads.

1205
00:57:13,537 --> 00:57:15,437
I can understand roads being
built without government.

1206
00:57:15,437 --> 00:57:16,851
I just don't understand how you.

1207
00:57:16,852 --> 00:57:18,502
Okay, we're not, I'm

1208
00:57:19,262 --> 00:57:19,552
okay.

1209
00:57:19,692 --> 00:57:20,582
not going to get into that.

1210
00:57:20,582 --> 00:57:22,912
I just don't believe that people
out of the goodness of their heart

1211
00:57:22,912 --> 00:57:24,402
are just going to not pull that one.

1212
00:57:24,402 --> 00:57:25,192
I have a harder time.

1213
00:57:25,192 --> 00:57:26,332
Like roads are needed,

1214
00:57:26,677 --> 00:57:27,187
No, no.

1215
00:57:27,187 --> 00:57:28,687
But yeah, and

1216
00:57:28,712 --> 00:57:31,382
But the, but the comment, the common
thread here is that Bitcoin is

1217
00:57:31,382 --> 00:57:33,512
actually doing the thing through
the, the market, the thing.

1218
00:57:33,662 --> 00:57:34,472
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1219
00:57:34,472 --> 00:57:34,473
Yeah.

1220
00:57:34,517 --> 00:57:34,937
yeah.

1221
00:57:34,997 --> 00:57:35,657
Absolutely.

1222
00:57:35,662 --> 00:57:37,277
And, uh, I totally agree there.

1223
00:57:37,282 --> 00:57:40,457
Like I, nothing is better for
the environment than Bitcoin.

1224
00:57:40,817 --> 00:57:43,367
Like I, I, I made a video.

1225
00:57:43,657 --> 00:57:44,567
cleantech.

1226
00:57:45,307 --> 00:57:47,457
No, that's the title of,
working title of my book.

1227
00:57:47,547 --> 00:57:47,837
And,

1228
00:57:48,197 --> 00:57:48,617
it is.

1229
00:57:48,707 --> 00:57:49,097
Oh, yeah.

1230
00:57:49,247 --> 00:57:51,817
and getting back, actually, so you
had a comment about the industrial

1231
00:57:51,817 --> 00:57:54,617
military complex being one of the
most environmentally destructive.

1232
00:57:54,617 --> 00:57:54,657
So

1233
00:57:54,677 --> 00:57:57,657
actually, one of the reasons, so,
there's Bitcoin is cleantech from the

1234
00:57:57,657 --> 00:58:00,997
perspective of it's like, it's helping,
like, clean the environment, you know,

1235
00:58:01,037 --> 00:58:06,517
go, uh, Lower carbon, but actually
circling like further out, Bitcoin is

1236
00:58:06,517 --> 00:58:07,947
clean tech because what is clean tech?

1237
00:58:07,947 --> 00:58:12,357
Clean tech is you using resources more
efficiently, lowering pollution, right?

1238
00:58:12,487 --> 00:58:15,517
Or in like social, improving social life.

1239
00:58:15,527 --> 00:58:22,282
And so when we use Bitcoin as
um, There's, you know, store of

1240
00:58:22,282 --> 00:58:24,572
value or a medium of exchange,

1241
00:58:24,572 --> 00:58:24,932
right?

1242
00:58:25,382 --> 00:58:26,982
So what are we replacing?

1243
00:58:27,042 --> 00:58:29,542
Well, we're replacing the central system.

1244
00:58:29,702 --> 00:58:33,592
We're replacing the, the
industrial military complex, right?

1245
00:58:33,632 --> 00:58:38,952
The whole war machine, Which is very
environmentally destructive, um, to, with

1246
00:58:38,952 --> 00:58:41,262
a new system, uh, that's decentralized.

1247
00:58:41,532 --> 00:58:44,842
But also from the store of value
perspective, traditionally we

1248
00:58:44,842 --> 00:58:48,772
have used gold and that is quite
environmentally also, whether it's.

1249
00:58:48,842 --> 00:58:51,167
Practly, Simetra.

1250
00:58:51,167 --> 00:58:59,432
I don't make excuses, we're replacing
that pollution and plutz, we're

1251
00:58:59,432 --> 00:59:01,082
replacing banking and payments.

1252
00:59:01,382 --> 00:59:07,192
They need the mangas now right?

1253
00:59:07,452 --> 00:59:09,542
So you're replacing the payment system.

1254
00:59:09,542 --> 00:59:11,492
So there's like multiple parts.

1255
00:59:11,902 --> 00:59:14,732
That now don't need to
exist, that aren't polluting.

1256
00:59:14,732 --> 00:59:17,452
So that's why Bitcoin is clean tech,
because it is a clean, just like,

1257
00:59:17,452 --> 00:59:21,672
you know, you're like coal versus
biomass is considered clean tech.

1258
00:59:21,682 --> 00:59:25,582
It's like, no, Bitcoin itself as
a technology is clean tech because

1259
00:59:25,592 --> 00:59:28,962
you eliminate a very polluting
type of money and store of value.

1260
00:59:29,267 --> 00:59:32,577
Absolutely, and the biggest,
the biggest factor is replacing

1261
00:59:32,577 --> 00:59:36,257
the consensus mechanism of fiat
money, which is world wars.

1262
00:59:36,897 --> 00:59:37,767
Proof of bumps.

1263
00:59:37,937 --> 00:59:38,637
It's what it

1264
00:59:38,742 --> 00:59:39,652
I know it's pretty morbid.

1265
00:59:39,767 --> 00:59:42,127
it's, it's, it's absolutely horrible.

1266
00:59:42,187 --> 00:59:44,547
Like, there's no bigger crime than wars.

1267
00:59:44,652 --> 00:59:45,072
Yeah.

1268
00:59:45,182 --> 00:59:50,182
So, so, and I absolutely love that
and I hear sometimes like, Oh, Bitcoin

1269
00:59:50,192 --> 00:59:55,922
is bad for the environment because it
consumes as much energy as country X.

1270
00:59:56,122 --> 00:59:58,282
It doesn't know if you
include the military complex.

1271
00:59:58,482 --> 01:00:03,072
Well, well, I would say that's a reason
to shut down country X and not Bitcoin

1272
01:00:03,982 --> 01:00:04,212
Yeah.

1273
01:00:04,212 --> 01:00:04,620
Because

1274
01:00:04,782 --> 01:00:08,042
because that's the bigger, that's
the, that's worse for the environment.

1275
01:00:08,422 --> 01:00:10,392
And the comparisons to the
banking system as well.

1276
01:00:10,392 --> 01:00:13,852
No one ever makes the comparison
that Bitcoin, uh, is, is, uh,

1277
01:00:13,852 --> 01:00:17,582
uses X, but the banking system,
the entire banking system uses Y,

1278
01:00:17,802 --> 01:00:18,332
Yeah.

1279
01:00:18,582 --> 01:00:21,812
um, some people have done, there's
been a few studies, I don't know if

1280
01:00:21,812 --> 01:00:24,902
they've ever been published yet in a
peer reviewed article because that's

1281
01:00:24,902 --> 01:00:29,952
what seemingly like the public, like the
New York Times or whatever cares about.

1282
01:00:30,637 --> 01:00:34,327
But if we do like, those are the types
of studies that we actually need, right?

1283
01:00:34,776 --> 01:00:39,196
Yeah, and so, and so the book that
you're going to be writing here is

1284
01:00:39,406 --> 01:00:40,986
going to take us through all of this,

1285
01:00:41,056 --> 01:00:41,446
Yeah.

1286
01:00:41,456 --> 01:00:45,036
So there's like the replacing of that
and the impacts, but then also just going

1287
01:00:45,036 --> 01:00:49,296
through all the different case studies,
like the Darwin Finchon's niches of

1288
01:00:49,296 --> 01:00:53,506
like, here's all the really cool projects
and how they're bettering the world.

1289
01:00:53,734 --> 01:00:55,112
Yeah,

1290
01:00:55,152 --> 01:00:56,722
you're covering mining related, or

1291
01:00:56,857 --> 01:00:58,187
It's no, I want to focus.

1292
01:00:58,187 --> 01:01:00,667
I don't want to be like,
there'll probably be a very short

1293
01:01:00,667 --> 01:01:03,167
description of like what mining is
because there probably should be.

1294
01:01:03,477 --> 01:01:04,337
But that's not the point.

1295
01:01:04,347 --> 01:01:07,567
The point is to like, it's
similar to when people say like,

1296
01:01:07,567 --> 01:01:09,067
oh, Bitcoin is useless, right?

1297
01:01:09,367 --> 01:01:11,422
And then you can talk about
all the different things.

1298
01:01:11,422 --> 01:01:15,302
But like, um, all the different
benefits that maybe Alex Gladstein,

1299
01:01:15,312 --> 01:01:18,762
like, whether it's the human rights or
enabling access, like, he wrote some

1300
01:01:18,762 --> 01:01:22,402
pretty compelling books based on, like,
conversations he's had around the world,

1301
01:01:22,762 --> 01:01:26,892
uh, with people that are like, you know,
everything is fail money is failing.

1302
01:01:27,402 --> 01:01:30,172
And so, so, so like, no, it's not useless.

1303
01:01:30,182 --> 01:01:31,322
Here's all the things, right?

1304
01:01:31,322 --> 01:01:34,717
And he wrote some pretty cool books that
I like to like, oh, Actually, there's this

1305
01:01:34,717 --> 01:01:36,157
book that I would like to direct you to.

1306
01:01:36,397 --> 01:01:38,557
I want the equivalent for mining, right?

1307
01:01:38,567 --> 01:01:42,767
Not the whole like what
mining is and how it works.

1308
01:01:42,787 --> 01:01:45,867
It's like how it like Bitcoin
is clean tech kind of thing.

1309
01:01:48,782 --> 01:01:51,972
what's it called, um, Check
Your Financial Privilege?

1310
01:01:52,172 --> 01:01:53,362
I read that one, it's great.

1311
01:01:53,602 --> 01:01:57,252
It's based on like his articles,
I guess, but it was great.

1312
01:01:57,562 --> 01:02:02,052
And he's written one after that,
but about even more, the IMF and

1313
01:02:02,332 --> 01:02:02,842
yes.

1314
01:02:02,872 --> 01:02:03,082
Yeah.

1315
01:02:03,082 --> 01:02:03,722
That one is excellent.

1316
01:02:03,752 --> 01:02:05,422
So that's exactly like equivalent.

1317
01:02:05,432 --> 01:02:08,662
Like this is like, Oh, you
know, Bitcoin is not useless.

1318
01:02:08,662 --> 01:02:11,982
Here's all the reasons why this is like,
Bitcoin is not bad for the environment.

1319
01:02:11,992 --> 01:02:15,052
For those people that say it is, here's
all the reasons why it's awesome.

1320
01:02:15,642 --> 01:02:19,962
We definitely need way more of this
FUD debunking, basically, all the

1321
01:02:19,962 --> 01:02:21,482
arguments for why Bitcoin is bad,

1322
01:02:21,532 --> 01:02:24,622
But like, I find out like a blog,
people maybe don't take it seriously,

1323
01:02:24,622 --> 01:02:26,462
but like a book, they might.

1324
01:02:27,875 --> 01:02:30,257
Yeah.

1325
01:02:30,672 --> 01:02:31,622
forward to this one, so,

1326
01:02:32,012 --> 01:02:33,252
What was the name of it again?

1327
01:02:33,447 --> 01:02:35,367
The working title is
Bitcoin is clean tech.

1328
01:02:35,407 --> 01:02:36,339
Bitcoin is ClinTech.

1329
01:02:36,344 --> 01:02:36,907
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1330
01:02:37,377 --> 01:02:39,417
It's a little bit controversial
for some people, but

1331
01:02:39,702 --> 01:02:42,632
Well, when it's in the final
form, you'll have to come

1332
01:02:42,632 --> 01:02:43,792
back and tell us all about it,

1333
01:02:43,907 --> 01:02:43,997
Bit.

1334
01:02:43,997 --> 01:02:44,443
Absolutely.

1335
01:02:44,777 --> 01:02:45,057
go.

1336
01:02:45,208 --> 01:02:47,408
is there anything else
you wanted to bring up?

1337
01:02:47,408 --> 01:02:49,698
Anything else you're excited
about or on your mind?

1338
01:02:49,998 --> 01:02:55,438
I mean, I think generally it's just
the reason why some of us work in

1339
01:02:55,438 --> 01:02:58,858
Bitcoin is because we do see it
like leading to a better world.

1340
01:02:58,858 --> 01:03:02,168
It sounds kind of cliche, but
like, that's like, I get passionate

1341
01:03:02,168 --> 01:03:03,338
about it and my eyes light up.

1342
01:03:03,338 --> 01:03:04,608
Like I was working on custody for a

1343
01:03:04,608 --> 01:03:08,918
while too, but I just didn't, my eyes
didn't light up in the same way as

1344
01:03:08,928 --> 01:03:12,298
when I talk about mining, because
I actually, again, I worked in the

1345
01:03:12,298 --> 01:03:14,028
government and it wasn't working.

1346
01:03:14,038 --> 01:03:15,208
And then I actually see.

1347
01:03:15,763 --> 01:03:18,223
What miners are enabling, the
types of things that we were

1348
01:03:18,223 --> 01:03:19,873
trying to enable in government.

1349
01:03:19,873 --> 01:03:21,823
And I'm like, yes, this
is what I want to do.

1350
01:03:21,823 --> 01:03:25,943
And then like, you know, Atlanta did her,
her, her movie, she released her movie.

1351
01:03:25,943 --> 01:03:30,493
And I, and I mean, I was in it, but
I also watched, um, both that she did

1352
01:03:30,493 --> 01:03:32,393
stranded and then, uh, dirty coin.

1353
01:03:32,393 --> 01:03:32,643
Right.

1354
01:03:32,673 --> 01:03:37,593
And, and seeing, so I love when
people video, uh, like have video

1355
01:03:37,593 --> 01:03:42,413
evidence of the good and like, here,
here are kids that now have access

1356
01:03:42,413 --> 01:03:44,173
to electricity, like those stories.

1357
01:03:44,778 --> 01:03:47,258
Being told is incredible, right?

1358
01:03:47,278 --> 01:03:50,668
Or saving gorillas, like, I'm sorry,
you don't want to save gorillas?

1359
01:03:51,728 --> 01:03:55,258
Because, like, the coolest story
out of Africa, I think, is Virnga

1360
01:03:55,258 --> 01:03:59,938
National Park, which, um, would have
probably, so, so they have gorillas

1361
01:03:59,958 --> 01:04:02,868
there, and they have rangers that
protect them because there's poachers,

1362
01:04:03,438 --> 01:04:05,948
and it's not funded by government.

1363
01:04:07,088 --> 01:04:10,178
You're like, see, only 1 percent of
their funding comes from government.

1364
01:04:10,188 --> 01:04:13,543
Most of it is tourism, but during
COVID, like, Tourism died, right?

1365
01:04:13,733 --> 01:04:16,923
And now it's still, even though tourism
could be back, it's a very unsafe

1366
01:04:16,923 --> 01:04:18,233
region because there's gangs there,

1367
01:04:18,553 --> 01:04:22,553
and they will literally shoot you and
murder you like some of the mining workers

1368
01:04:22,553 --> 01:04:23,023
have been.

1369
01:04:23,023 --> 01:04:24,413
Mistake you for a gorilla.

1370
01:04:25,083 --> 01:04:28,673
No, no, they just like, we're going to
try to steal whatever you have, right?

1371
01:04:29,063 --> 01:04:34,893
And so, The park director had the idea
to use the local hydro to mine Bitcoin

1372
01:04:34,963 --> 01:04:40,933
and that is currently providing 150, 000
a month that is being used to pay park

1373
01:04:40,933 --> 01:04:43,163
rangers, right, to protect the gorillas.

1374
01:04:43,163 --> 01:04:45,103
I'm like, how beautiful is

1375
01:04:45,103 --> 01:04:45,433
that?

1376
01:04:45,463 --> 01:04:49,003
It's supporting like the build out
of renewables plus gorillas and then

1377
01:04:49,003 --> 01:04:53,403
they're working on heat recovery for,
um, they're making some chocolate, right?

1378
01:04:53,403 --> 01:04:56,608
They're drying cocoa
beans, uh, in, in, in.

1379
01:04:56,958 --> 01:05:00,868
Like, on, on site from local farmers, I
think it's just like, it's beautiful, like

1380
01:05:00,868 --> 01:05:06,648
heat recovery and, um, and yeah, that's,
that's the stories that I think that we

1381
01:05:06,648 --> 01:05:09,478
need to tell to make normies understand.

1382
01:05:09,648 --> 01:05:11,288
Sorry, normies, that sounds
weird, but you know what I mean?

1383
01:05:11,298 --> 01:05:15,128
Like, you don't tell them about,
like, oh, yes, inflation sucks.

1384
01:05:15,128 --> 01:05:18,448
You're like, no, like, a powerful
story is, like, us saving gorillas.

1385
01:05:18,763 --> 01:05:21,003
Yeah, norm, norm is not condescending.

1386
01:05:21,003 --> 01:05:21,983
It means normal person.

1387
01:05:22,353 --> 01:05:22,683
Yeah.

1388
01:05:23,098 --> 01:05:24,068
None of us are normal.

1389
01:05:24,233 --> 01:05:25,323
No, no,

1390
01:05:25,423 --> 01:05:26,223
have to be a freak

1391
01:05:26,253 --> 01:05:31,443
feel like you almost have to be like, I
think in Bitcoin, because you need that

1392
01:05:31,443 --> 01:05:34,053
hyper focus to go down the rabbit hole.

1393
01:05:34,103 --> 01:05:34,813
laser eyes.

1394
01:05:35,113 --> 01:05:37,143
Laser eyes, yeah.

1395
01:05:37,153 --> 01:05:39,083
Max, fantastic to have you here.

1396
01:05:39,193 --> 01:05:41,383
Is there any way you want
to direct our listeners?

1397
01:05:41,443 --> 01:05:42,313
Like some website?

1398
01:05:42,463 --> 01:05:45,473
I'm technically, not technically,
I'm usually on Twitter,

1399
01:05:45,563 --> 01:05:46,833
crypto underscore mags.

1400
01:05:46,843 --> 01:05:49,923
I'm on Nostr too, but you can get there
through Twitter, it's a lot easier.

1401
01:05:50,623 --> 01:05:51,873
Yeah, get on Nostr, people.

1402
01:05:52,343 --> 01:05:54,473
Like, subscribe and brush
your teeth and get on Nostr.

1403
01:05:55,838 --> 01:05:56,408
Fantastic.

1404
01:05:56,873 --> 01:05:57,663
thank you

1405
01:05:57,708 --> 01:05:58,618
you so much for joining us.

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This has been the Freedom Footprint Show.

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Thanks for listening.

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Thank you.