[00:00:00] If Gippotas doesn't pardon Rodriguez and Burroughs, it will send a clear signal to everyone that writing software in America is a dangerous business.
[00:00:13] Anyone writing and selling services with software they believe is innocuous and perfectly legal will now pause before they deploy something that is beneficial. It will have a chilling effect on bitcoin entrepreneurialism and will indicate to other countries, including China, that America has let its guard down.
[00:00:34] No real American wants this to happen.
[00:00:40] The Best in Bitcoin Made Audible I am Guy Swan and this is Bitcoin Audible.
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[00:01:03] What is up guys? Welcome back to Bitcoin Audible. We've got a good read today. Sorry for the big gap. Holiday season and tons and tons of traveling has made it very difficult to get episodes done. I hope you guys really enjoyed the Ultimate Collateral. Bitcoin the Ultimate Collateral by the Brains Team the only audiobook projects I have left are working with them because I felt like these were essential things to get out. They're really good ideas and they have really fantastic kind of fundamental guides to a bunch of core concepts.
[00:01:34] And they were releasing them for free and I was just like, man, that I should at least. These are. These are simple, like really, really good books.
[00:01:44] And. And they also said I could release them on podcast. So it's like I'm. I get dual use out of them. So those are kind of the last of my quote unquote professional audiobook career until I just kind of stepped back fully from that narration and which again, I still may do lots of other things, but I'm just going to be doing it on my own terms, my own work. Like, I don't consider that a part of my quote unquote job anymore just because it was far and away the largest workload with the lowest pay. And. And so I just had to do what was right for me and what I thought was gonna have the most impact as well. So stay tuned for those things and I hope you enjoyed that for Christmas at least and I got you some content to listen to.
[00:02:32] Have the bitcoin audible over over the last week, even with the low output, but I finally have wrapped up Bitcoin or the American Bitcoin Suicide by Beauty, on which I think is fantastic. And it's about Keone and Burroughs and everything that's going on with the Samurai Wallet. Guys. Beauty on, as usual, does a. Does a really good job. I don't agree with everything in it. I'm not a huge fan of Trump myself.
[00:02:57] I think it's fantastic that he pardoned Ross Ulbricht and I absolutely love the notion, at least that he may be, may do the same for Rodriguez and Burroughs. And I think the appeal to.
[00:03:11] If entrepreneurs are afraid to build the most important concept that he covers in this, and he gets into it really well, the most important concept is that if entrepreneurs are afraid to build, this country dies.
[00:03:22] That simple.
[00:03:24] Just there's no other. There's no if, ands or buts, there's no gray areas. If entrepreneurs are afraid to build new things and to, to actually build alternative systems to the establishment, to the status quo, we never ever, ever solve the status quo problems.
[00:03:41] We never solve the surveillance into everything.
[00:03:44] We never solve the censorship. We never solve our broken and disastrous monetary and banking system. We never solve endlessly increasing prices in mortgages, the mortgaged life of every American citizen infinitely into the future. That gets worse and worse and worse that the average home buyer is now 40 years old. It will be 50 years old and will be 60 years old. And then no one will ever, ever buy a house. They will rent their lives from a giant, from giant corporations and huge banking institutions. And there will no alternative unless entrepreneurs are allowed to build solutions. And when entrepreneurs who have no victims, who have done nothing wrong, who by the very regulators would denote that they have done something wrong, say even them, they say no, they did not fall under this ruling or this category. And they still get made examples of, they still end up in prison.
[00:04:37] There is no way to kill an industry, to kill adaptivity, to kill the evolution of society, to respond to all of the change and insane shifts in the global economy and technological sphere and political sphere. There's no way to kill it faster than that. America has been America because of the entrepreneurial spirit and the entrepreneurial freedom to build new solutions and challenge the status quo. If that is made, if that is criminalized, you kill the country, you kill everyone, everything that made this country great.
[00:05:12] But I'm getting ahead of myself. I'll let Beauty on take the reins to introduce us. And we got a little bit of a guy's take to follow.
[00:05:21] You know, life sometimes throws things at you that are worth spending Bitcoin on. Those things for me are named Rad and Ila. And had it not been for Leaden IO and for the ability to get Bitcoin backed loans, if it had not been established enough, I would have a lot less Bitcoin today than I do because I was able to borrow against it instead of selling it. If you haven't explored the option, you should. And I have a special link that is A great way to help out the show and it actually gets you a discount. Check it out right down in the show notes. Now the only way we get out of this mess is if we build alternatives. And the way to build alternatives is to use the tools that have solved the hard problems like the pub key stack, check out P U B K Y dot app just to look at what can be made to to create a network where you own the content and you own your network, your connections and the provider is just that, the provider. Not the controller, not the owner, just the provider. It's a window in what we could into what we could have Check it out link down in the show notes. Then of course get your health right, get your light health right. And the two best things that I did for getting my light health right, getting my melatonin production at night and my cortisol peaks during the day were the nightshade blue light blocking glasses at night and while I'm working on my screens and then a little bit of sunlight first thing in the morning I got a video on Nostr and Twitter just kind of going out the details and I also have a special discount code Bitcoin audible gets you 10% off with get chroma. And then lastly for the tools and the stories of utter bravery on how to fight back against this and the stories of people up against way, way worse odds and who succeeded. There are few who deserve more thanks than the HRF and the resource they have put together, the Financial Freedom Report, the Oslo Freedom Forum and bringing people together and informing everyone about the tools to fight for financial freedom and autonomy around the world. Check them out, links and details right in the show notes. With that, it's time to get into today's read and it's titled American Bitcoin Suicide by Buteon.
[00:07:39] I am writing this as an appeal to President Donald J. Trump, greatest ever President of the United States.
[00:07:49] Mr. President, two genius software developer entrepreneurs, Keone Rodriguez and William Burroughs. I refuse to use this gentleman's real name as a term of personal endearment as he fastidiously kept it private for all the years I've known about him are the authors of the suite of software known as Samurai Wallet, one of the greatest software tools ever written to help users control Bitcoin keys, the central means of using Bitcoin.
[00:08:17] Bitcoin is as great an innovation as the World Wide Web. America exerts domination of the web through the genius of men like Rodriguez and Burroughs by the unique conditions created by America itself. The freedom to trade with novel techniques and tools and experiment in the market without government interference.
[00:08:39] All other countries on earth failed to win in the race to dominate the Internet and the web precisely because American culture is superior to other cultures.
[00:08:50] All the great and successful companies from Facebook to Google were founded in the USA and grew to global dominance precisely because America nurtures its entrepreneurs by leaving them alone. To succeed or fail, all that is required of them is to not give up and to work hard.
[00:09:10] That is exactly what Rodriguez and Burroughs did with Samurai Wallet.
[00:09:16] Samurai and entrepreneurs like Rodriguez and Burroughs must win for America to win when American entrepreneurs are suppressed. This gives foreigners an advantage and chance to catch up and obtain market share that rightfully would belong to Americans had the government stayed in its place and left Americans to get on with their business.
[00:09:37] No one knows what Bitcoin is What Bitcoin is is being discovered month by month as entrepreneurs build software tools and services, interface with it and consumers.
[00:09:50] Below are just 10 of the uses Bitcoin is being put to provided by ChatGPT and AI that Gippotis has wisely ruled should not be regulated so that entrepreneurs can have a head start while bad jurisdictions like the EU rush to regulate what no one really understands. Watch this woeful news report that I shared in a post on X for an example of how EU anti business Luddism and has crippled the UK.
[00:10:18] Link will be available in the description.
[00:10:20] Here are 10 use cases that leverage Bitcoin's 1. Store of value in unstable local currencies People in countries like Argentina, Venezuela and Lebanon use Bitcoin to protect their income and savings from hyperinflation and currency devaluation.
[00:10:38] 2. Investor Wealth Protection Investors worldwide accumulate Bitcoin to preserve and grow their wealth amid concerns over government debt and potential currency devaluation, especially with the availability of Bitcoin exchange traded products or ETPs. 3. Strategic Government Reserve Governments such as the United States, with its strategic Bitcoin Reserve holding over 200,000 Bitcoin as of March 2025, use Bitcoin as a reserve asset. Several US states have also passed or are debating related legislation.
[00:11:13] 4. Corporate Treasury Companies like Strategy, formerly Microstrategy and Tesla integrate Bitcoin into their balance sheets as a long term hedge against inflation and for growth potential.
[00:11:25] 5. Legal tender at the national level, countries like El Salvador have adopted Bitcoin as legal tender since 2021 to boost financial inclusion, attract investment and promote tourism as part of their monetary strategy.
[00:11:40] 6. Cross border payments Bitcoin enables quick, low cost money transfers across borders, bypassing high fees from traditional remittance services.
[00:11:51] 7. E Commerce and Retail payments Online merchants such as Overstock and Newegg accept Bitcoin directly or via processors like Bitpay, facilitating peer to peer borderless transactions.
[00:12:05] 8. Micropayments and streaming Money the Lightning network on Bitcoin allows for instant near zero cost micropayments, enabling models like content tipping, pay per article access or real time streaming payments without intermediaries.
[00:12:20] 9. Humanitarian aid nonprofits like the Human Rights foundation accept Bitcoin donations for transparent borderless aid delivery during crises or in regions with restricted banking.
[00:12:34] 10. Monetization of energy Bitcoin mining utilizes surplus renewable energy to stabilize electricity grids, allowing for higher renewable integration without overload risks as miners can dynamically adjust operations.
[00:12:49] When Bitcoin was first released to the public, many of these use cases were not yet discovered. Samurai has contributed to one use case not listed here, the Panem system where their wallet could be used as an infallible way to identify users.
[00:13:04] The market for this alone is global and it solves several serious problems that are widespread on the Internet, including securely identifying users, protecting websites from identity fraud, and anything where a person needs to identify themselves to an online service provider. The Paynim system is innovative because it allows users to be identified without them having to reveal information about themselves that can be leveraged against them. To see the result of a lack of a system like Paynim, you need only
[email protected], the site that collects the details of 17,295,033,626 stolen identities.
[00:13:47] Samurai puts an end to this forever.
[00:13:52] As a rule, judges don't know how technology works. They are completely behind the curve and obviously cannot predict the future.
[00:14:01] More importantly, they are acting ultra vires by picking winners and losers and vindictively prosecuting Americans like Rodriguez and Burroughs, prejudicially asserting that what they were doing with Samurai was wrong when it was nothing of the sort. Bitcoin is a First Amendment protected activity.
[00:14:22] Petulant activist judges are a real threat to American entrepreneurs and Gippotas knows very much about this from first hand. Experience the dangers of activist judges twisting the law to destroy businesses and people they don't like. If Capotas doesn't pardon Rodriguez and Burroughs, it will send a clear signal to everyone that writing software in America is a dangerous business.
[00:14:49] Anyone writing and selling services with software they believe is innocuous and perfectly legal will now pause before they deploy something that is beneficial. It will have a chilling effect on Bitcoin entrepreneurialism and will indicate to other countries, including China, that America has let its guard down.
[00:15:08] China is not interested in bitcoin now, but as Bitcoin grows to embrace the billions of unbanked and underbanked populations and insinuates itself into Wall street, you can be sure that China will quickly start to mimic every American bitcoin company, including samurai, and then use it to try to dominate or counter American dominance. No real American wants this to happen.
[00:15:34] Then there is the expertise loss.
[00:15:37] By taking two of the greatest bitcoin geniuses out of circulation and vindictively and aggressively ruining their business and tools, America is killing the expertise of these two fine men, the influence of which will have a compounding downstream effect that cannot be measured. Genius is a very rare thing. Genius combined with guts is even more rare. Rodriguez and Burroughs are amongst the rarest of the rare Steve Jobs level rare because their aims and integrity are exceptionally high. Ruining their essential spark in this way is the only true criminal act in this sorry and tawdry and un American affairs.
[00:16:16] Samurai did no harm to anyone. They did not steal. They did not defraud. Their crime was an artificial one concocted by people who dislike their speech and manners and business.
[00:16:28] None of which is the affair of anyone save them and their customers who were very happy to be users of Samurai Wallet and its services.
[00:16:37] All intellectually honest Americans know that the law can be abused and twisted to make anything a crime.
[00:16:45] Cutting people's hair for money without a license is illegal in America. This is why it is essential that to balance the overreach and power of activist socialist, anti capitalist judiciary and legislature, the Executive must act boldly to protect the interests of the American Republic by exonerating and protecting and pardoning entrepreneurs.
[00:17:12] Rodriguez and Burroughs could not be a more perfect example of the need for executive override of bad judgments of rogue socialist courts, evil judges and ladder climbing public prosecutors are Luddite enablers and serial mischaracterizers who have wreaked havoc on American entrepreneurs for decades. Here are some examples of the egregious overreach and anti Americanism that has injured American entrepreneurs for decades.
[00:17:42] Former US Attorney Preet Bharara was prominent in early Bitcoin enforcement, particularly leading the prosecution of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, seizing millions in Bitcoin and emphasizing that Bitcoin is treated as an asset in criminal cases. Sending a strong message against using bitcoin. He viewed Bitcoin as a tool for illicit activity similar to cash subject to law enforcement action aiming to deter online criminal enterprises. The Silk Road prosecution as Manhattan U.S. attorney Bharara oversaw the seizure and forfeiture of Bitcoin from the dark web marketplace Silk Road Message to Criminals, he stated that Ulbricht's conviction and the seizure of Bitcoin should deter others from using the web for illegal business, according to a Department of justice statement, Bitcoin as an Asset Bharara clarified that Bitcoin, while a digital currency, incorrectly stated that it was treated like any other asset involved in criminal activity and, as noted by BBC News, not inherently bad.
[00:18:42] Later, he backed down and expressed that cryptocurrency itself isn't inherently wrong, but its use determines its ethical standing, much like cash or other financial tools used for illicit purposes. As seen in a YouTube video link provided Ross Ulbricht was pardoned by President Donald J. Trump because it was obvious to everyone in the world that Ross did nothing wrong by simply running a website.
[00:19:06] This is the same category of mischaracterization fueling the prosecution of Rodriguez and Burroughs, who should not have to suffer and wait for everyone to catch up to the truth about Bitcoin. The entrepreneur Robert Kari, a Las Vegas businessman who paid his employees wages using gold and silver coins reporting only the coin's face value, for example $20 for a gold coin for tax purposes rather than their higher market value, which led to his prosecution for tax evasion and related charges.
[00:19:37] He was convicted on multiple felony counts in 2009, sentenced to 15 years in prison and his appeals were denied in 2013.
[00:19:48] Gold coins from the Federal Mint are legal tender and their face value is the legal tender value. What Khari was doing was completely legal and legitimate, but activist prosecutors thought he was playing a trick by adhering to the letter of the law and they brought the full force of the government down on his head.
[00:20:08] This is exactly what is happening with Rodriguez and Burroughs.
[00:20:12] Brent Beckley Absolute Poker Beckley co owned and handled payment processing for Absolute Poker, an online poker platform that allowed users to gamble over the Internet. In 2012, he was sentenced to 14 months in prison after pleading guilty to to conspiring to violate US Anti Internet gambling laws as well as bank and wire fraud for deceiving banks about transaction processing.
[00:20:37] Online gambling is thriving globally everywhere except the usa. Setting aside the ethics of gambling from this story, the innovations involved in the running of these sites are being accumulated everywhere but America. This is an outrage and and is exactly what is happening with Rodriguez and Burroughs and Samurai Wallet.
[00:20:58] Online poker was prohibited under federal laws like the UIGEA at the time following the 2018 Supreme Court ruling, online poker and gambling have been legalized in numerous states, with platforms like PokerStars and WSOP.com now operating legally. It should never have been legal in the first place, and Brent Beckley should never have faced activist prosecution and for serving the needs of the people who want to play cards with each other.
[00:21:29] Gary Kaplan, Beton Sports Kaplan founded Beton Sports, an early online sports betting platform that allowed users to place wagers over the Internet. In 2009, he was sentenced to 51 months in prison on federal racketeering charges related to operating an illegal gambling business under U.S. law. At the time, online sports betting was largely prohibited in the U.S. until the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Murphy vs. The NCAA, which struck down the federal ban, leading to widespread legalization and adoption across many states through platforms like DraftKings and FanDuel. Once again, the analogy is perfect. Rodriguez and Burroughs are doing nothing wrong, harming no one, and should not need to have their free speech activities licensed by the state in violation of their First Amendment rights. Neither should they be compelled to wait for ignorant Americans to catch up to their groundbreaking and innovative services.
[00:22:28] Peter Sund, the Pirate Bay the founders provided a peer to peer file sharing service via torrents enabling users to share digital content. In 2009 they were convicted of copyright offenses in Sweden, with Sund serving five months in prison after an initial one year sentence was reduced.
[00:22:47] The parallels once again are startling. Frederick Nij, also known as Tiamo, Gottfried Svartom, also known as Anaconda and Peter Sunda, also known as Brocap, started the Pirate Bay website that never hosts any copyrighted material itself.
[00:23:07] It hosts tiny files that describe where other files may or may not be hosted on other people's computers.
[00:23:17] Now the Pirate Bay has spawned a political party, the Pirate Party, and they are 100% legitimized. Samurai never received or held money from any of their users and Bitcoin itself is not money.
[00:23:31] Why should Rodriguez and Burroughs have to wait for the Luddites and activists to understand that Bitcoin is not money and to relent and legitimize them when what they are doing is already legitimate? On its face, peer to peer technology and digital content distribution concepts have become mainstream, powering legal streaming services like Spotify, Netflix and YouTube, which revolutionized media consumption. Rodriguez and Burroughs, having built incredible software and business infrastructure, should be praised for doing so, not punished.
[00:24:07] Tommy Chong, Chong's Choice and Nice Dreams Enterprises Chong operated an online business selling glass pipes and bongs which were classified as drug paraphernalia in 2003, he was sentenced to nine months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute drug paraphernalia across state lines. Since then, with the legalization of Cannabis in numerous US states starting around 2012, online sales of smoking accessories and paraphernalia have become mainstream through e commerce platforms and dispensary websites like weed Maps or direct sales from licensed retailers. Do I have to repeat myself? And these are just a sampling of cases where judicial and prosecutor activist Luddism has harmed American entrepreneurs only for attitudes and the people to catch up years later and the tools and innovations unleashed by them becoming mainstream. Rodriguez and Burroughs should not be subjected to this barbarism. Everyone should now know that you don't get a modern society by restricting innovation.
[00:25:10] Everyone should know that fear of the new cannot be the basis for regulation or legislation. Bitcoin is a once in a generation innovation that once it escapes and becomes embedded where it is allowed to grow, cannot be plucked up and transplanted. This is why Silicon Valley will never be supplanted. Americans must not allow this to happen to bitcoin entrepreneurs like Rodriguez and Burroughs.
[00:25:38] No one knows the future, certainly not judges.
[00:25:43] Americans must find out what the future is and in fact build it first through being the best country on earth. And Americans should not allow the Chinese to steal American know how and weaponize it against her. China built a one to one copy of the B2 Spirit bomber because America did all the hard work and innovation first.
[00:26:05] Imagine putting the designers of the B2 in jail because they built an incredible airplane. That's exactly what is happening with Rodriguez and Burroughs. And don't underestimate the power of Bitcoin, which is far more potent than any Air Force bomber. And because it is software and not hardware, infinitely easier to copy once you have a copy of the idea. Rodriguez and Burroughs are victims of a pointless, stupid, vindictive and anti American verdict. And Gippotas would be doing America a great service by immediately pardoning them. Rodriguez and Burroughs are the best of the bitcoiners. They must be released and pardoned because it is the right thing to do. It's the American thing to do and it's the pro American thing to do. And that's all there is to it.
[00:26:57] All right, that wraps up American Bitcoin Suicide by Buteon.
[00:27:04] I just want to point out that we're finding in fact that one guy, I can't remember his name right now. I'll look it up in just a second and drop it. I'll put the name in the comments, but it's like a kid, the guy's like 20 years old or something. I don't know, he looks young. And he's going around, I think, with his dad in Minnesota. And they're just finding fake daycares that, going down this list that have received just enormous millions and millions and millions of dollars in funding, that have listed as having 70 kids, 100 kids, 30 kids capacity. And they're these daycares, the Quality Learning Center.
[00:27:49] And in one day, in one day they went, by the way, for those who don't know the story, they're going to them, knocking on the door, there's nobody there.
[00:27:58] There's nobody there. Or there are, they're all immigrants and they're, they're getting money through some sort of a immigration style program and they're getting state funding. Nobody is checking anything, which is crazy because there's a lot of people who are running daycares and getting some subsidy or something through the government who are talking about like the bending over backwards that they have to do, listing out all of their kids, having people come and inspect and make sure that everything's right and going through these insane hurdles of weeks and weeks of delay and waiting and approval and all this stuff, like literally like the X ray vision of every single stupid thing that you're doing and fighting to get a little bit of money or approval to do this the legitimate way. When in one day, one day they went through a list and they just went to see if these daycares were real. Like, like, I don't, I don't mean like deep serious investigation. They went to the location and knocked on the door to find out if they were actually running a daycare and if actually any kids were there at the time of day when obviously if a daycare was running, it would actually be there, it would be open and it would have kids. And they found $140 million worth of fraud in one day of just checking a list off driving around in a car.
[00:29:30] Nobody's going to prison for this.
[00:29:33] $140 million.
[00:29:37] That is the annual income of almost 2,500American citizens eviscerated in resources. And the legitimate cost of that in society is 2,500 legitimate taxpaying Americans becoming poorer that their contributions to society are destroyed, that are sent to fraudulent endeavors and used for destructive and pointless ends in one day.
[00:30:08] One day.
[00:30:10] And put that up against Rodriguez and, and Burroughs, who never stole anything from anyone. There is no person who is worse off today because of what they did.
[00:30:22] There's no victim, but we have a court system that's so fucked up that it will literally aggressively spend again, our resources, millions of dollars of our money, of our country's wealth, going after entrepreneurs to put them behind bars for shit that doesn't even make sense. While this exact same system is literally, literally rewarding and paying for fraud on purpose. That shit doesn't happen by accident. And we're talking about a kid, a kid on his spare time driving around in a car and knocking on windows can find $140 million by himself in under 24 hours.
[00:31:05] We're literally talking about 25% of society being eaten up by fraud and corruption at a bare minimum. We're talking about easy, back of the napkin intuitive math that the whole fucking system is a rigged bunch of bullshit. But none of this is being punished. None of this is being punished. But people who build simple software, entrepreneurs, people who actually go out into the world and have a little bit of agency and think, I can out figure, fix a fucking problem that everybody else is experiencing that hundreds of millions of people have to deal with, that they eat the cost of, and that they, they have to ask their bank what they're allowed to do with their money and they get their identity stolen 10 times, like every two to three years. And they have to go through and spend hundreds of hours replacing all of their shit with their new cards and trying to deal with fraud and kickbacks and filling out paperwork and talking to banks on the phone. God damn. I can't. I would, I would rather, I would not wish it on my greatest enemy to have to deal with a bank over the phone for weeks and weeks on end to deal with having money stolen from you so that they could get it back. And this is now to the tune of like $30 billion a year.
[00:32:18] But does that get fixed? No, but Rodriguez and Peroes are in prison.
[00:32:22] Really? Where are our priorities?
[00:32:26] What has happened? How have we let this happen?
[00:32:30] And there's, there's, there's not, there's not one example, this is not one example. We're talking about tens of thousands, possibly millions of examples of ex. Of this exact sort of dichotomy where completely com, completely mundane. Completely. Nobody in society is paying any cost for this. Like, this is not a harm, this is not doing anything, any damage. This is literally just an entrepreneur making something or trying to do something. And they are treated as the worst of us. They are treated as criminals for, for the most bizarre. Like, okay, it's like sort of gray area, while explicit Fraud and corruption goes on to the tune of literally trillions of dollars worth of government money, worth of our resources, worth of all the things that would actually make our lives better, which would actually ra standard of living are being sucked up by this black hole of destruction. This literal cancer that just eats and gives nothing back. If you want to know like all the other little like frivolous little tiny bullshit and like city policies and all this crap, all of that has nothing to do with anything. If you want to know why nobody can afford a home, that's where it is. If you want to know why nobody can afford their standard living, why everybody has to have a two way working adult household, that's where it is. If you want to know why nobody can afford their education, that's where it is. All the other stuff is just surface layer ways that this problem is implemented. It's like the difference between a toxin, a toxin being injected in your system versus being eaten. Everybody's like, oh, they're eating too much toxins. Well the problem is the toxin. It's not the, the eating, it's not the mechanism by which it introduces, it's being introduced into the body. It's the toxin itself. And this is what I'm talking about. All of the other stuff, all the, the subsidies for, for schooling that have completely destroyed its actual value and turned it into a giant propaganda machine where you just, they just culturally brainwash a whole bunch of people into believing that the state is the savior of everything. Even though they're the biggest suck of resources and value and the biggest reason why we have all of these giant corporations that cannot be. They just have access to free money because we have a banking system that's entirely socialist. That's just the syringe.
[00:34:53] That's the mechanism by which the system implements the damage. But the toxin is the debt and the money printing. And this situation is just such a perfect example of the whole thing being upside down.
[00:35:07] Just the whole thing being upside down.
[00:35:10] Good people, people who just take the initiative to do something that's not, not normal.
[00:35:19] Not think, consider this not normal. Not the established way of simply going about and doing what you're told has essentially been, has slowly and incrementally been criminalized.
[00:35:33] And it is getting worse. It is incrementally getting more and more criminal to simply do things out of the norm. This literally includes not getting vaccinated. Oh, all the normies have said that X is good. Well then Y is evil. Why? Because there's some reason for it to be evil. Because There's a victim. No, it's just because it's not X. It's just because it's not the norm, it's not the established decision of the authorities, it's not the perspective of the politicians. And therefore it is dangerous. It takes a really long time to kill a country.
[00:36:08] A country is a very big thing.
[00:36:11] It has a culture, it has an ideological form in a sense, it has a history, it has tradition.
[00:36:20] And it takes a very, very long time to kill it. But there are fewer ways to kill a country that happen, that are faster than preventing the system, than preventing the society and its population from adapting to change, than criminalizing things outside of the established way of operating.
[00:36:43] This is the exact reason, the exact reason why America became the wealthiest nation and the most successful nation on earth is because it embraced individual autonomy, it embraced individual freedom, and it embraced individual choice and the freedom to adapt. The freedom to test things out, to do new things, to.
[00:37:07] To literally defy the established and norm way of doing things.
[00:37:12] That above all else, is why America is the most powerful country on earth and why the American population has historically been the most innovative and the most productive. And if you want to kill the country, that's what you do. You make people afraid of that. You make people want to just stay in the lines. And as the world changes faster and faster, the country will die faster and faster in the face of disallowing adaptation. And there is no greater engine to stopping that than putting more and more decision making in the hands of judges and politicians and legislatures. And we as a population are going to have to make a choice at some point. And I say this as an American, we are already on the road where this dichotomy is blatantly obvious. There are, there are two ways, there are two futures for this country.
[00:38:07] Either we stay prosperous and we adapt to this and we produce and we explode in value and economic resiliency, or our politicians stay powerful. But they cannot exist in the same universe. They cannot happen. They cannot coexist. If the Federal Reserve and the political structure, if politics and finance remain the dominant forces deciding the future of this country and punishing entrepreneurs for breaking the mold, for undermining the status quo. If the status quo is allowed to have full regulatory and political capture, and there is, and we do not rip that power back out from those corrupt, wealth obliterating hands, then this country will become a neutered, impotent child. You can already see it. You can see the section of the country that is this. And if they were not Able to leech off of the productive and those who still hold entrepreneurial and you can just do things, values, they would be dead. They would be in utter abject poverty. There's a whole portion of the economy that survives by complaining the loudest about, about their incapacity to do anything because somehow somebody else is stopping them because they're so weak and pathetic that they have to be able to mooch off of the government and suck the life out of everything that is good and prosperous and growing in this country. There is an ideological, a political and cultural cancer that will destroy the country that will eat this thing alive from the inside out. If the prosperous and productive side is too cowardly to say fuck off, I refuse to pay for you anymore and actually stand up and defend it. Now I fully admit that that's not an easy task, that that is not an easy thing to stand up and defend. And you certainly don't want to do it by yourself because the first guy through the wall is always going to get bloody, probably die or end up in prison. And that's just a historical imperative. That's just how these things happen. But if we do it together, that's a different story. If we build, we out build them. We build around with every single mechanism that we can do, with every single route that we can take and we stand up brazenly against it. Like Burroughs and Rodriguez, like Sunda, like the cypherpunks, the original bitcoiners, like Tim May, like Daniel Bernstein and Phil Zimmerman. And well, here's the funny thing is that you don't have to do anything like revolutionary like create a new encryption algorithm or develop pgp.
[00:40:57] All of those things are actually made.
[00:40:59] We can, there's, we can actually vibe code solutions to this. What we need to do is figure out how to vibe code self hosted versions. We need to figure out how to put all the tools together. We have a thousand tools that are not being properly utilized. We have Lego bricks for every solution to every problem genuinely to redesign the web. We have Synonym and their Pub Key stack, we have the Pair stack, we have nostr, we have Bitcoin, we have Lightning, we have Ark. We have literally hundreds and hundreds of tools at our disposal. We have iro. But you know what? They're not intuitive to use for most people.
[00:41:36] And that's not a tall order that we could build the ways to route around all of this bullshit if we could just make the tools that do that, that solve those problems more intuitive to use. That is a problem that everybody listening to this can help solve that. You don't have to be a cryptography genius. You don't have to think about 10,000 levels of security. You can literally just understand how Bitcoin works and basic security principles and basic software prints like architecture principles. And you can vibe code solutions to this by using all of the really hard, hard work that all of these people have been doing for decades and decades and decades to give us these Lego blocks so that we can build a city. And we need to have the courage to build it, just like Rodriguez and Burroughs. And to say that you will not make us afraid, you will not make us fear solving problems and doing things for ourselves by hurting our brethren, by putting innocent people in prison for simply building tools that other people need, need. We will never solve the KYC problem. We will never solve the disaster of identity theft and privacy and surveillance and censorship. We will solve none of these things by appealing to the courts, better judgments, and by begging politicians to let us have private bank accounts with giant middlemen. It will be by removing them from the structure of, of the system itself, by removing the service, by removing the control from the service of assisting or facilitating the payment, the funds, the hosting, the coordination, the network, the identity, the delivery. Right now we have a world of middlemen who do not simply facilitate those things as a service, but control it and own it during the execution and establishment of the network and the connection itself.
[00:43:36] They own our identities, they own our content, they own the delivery, they control the funds and everywhere they may not have the ability to just blanket control and have insight into everything that we do. They have a money printer to ensure that they can starve all of the rest of the economy actually trying to serve the customer and trying to solve these problems of all of its resources. And it will feed back on itself until this country is dead and the only people who can eat are politicians, bureaucrats and bankers. And everyone else will be so demoralized, dependent and brainwashed that they will beg for more scraps from their elite and be forced to beg through public humiliation rituals for having or even accessing unapproved opinions. And it's not some like weird esoteric like out there future. Everybody, everybody listening to this knows exactly what that looks like. We've all experienced it. Everybody who's not like just completely, utterly brainwashed knows exactly what it feels like and exactly what it looks like. The only question is not, it's not whether or not it exists. It absolutely is out there and happens all the time. The question is how ubiquitous is it? And Is there any way to get outside of it, to live a legitimate free life without being subject to that system? And honestly, I think that's up to the people listening to this podcast, the people who actually care to actually build it, to build the solutions for themselves and for others and then actually use them. Now, there's a lot of reasons I'm on a bitcoin standard and but honestly, it's frustrating. It would be easier for me to do most of my stuff in fiat. There are constantly times that I get paid and then bitcoin dips aggressively and $1,000 that I just got paid turns into $930. And in fact, even though bitcoin goes up most often over time, it actually has sharp short term downward movement more than sharp short term upward movement. But I do it more than anything else out of principle because I want to know that I own and control my funds. I send everything through wasabi because I want to offer up liquidity to everybody else. I do it out of principle because someone should have to ask me what I've been doing with my money before they know it. And I'm willing to take minor inconveniences. That's a small price to pay. That is a small price to pay. I read stories about the old cypherpunks and some of the shit they put up with and the battles that they fought. And I think I could just deal with, you know, a 1% fee or some frustration with this tool or whatever. No big deal. I got it. To be able to set the stage to try to make it easier for other people to know what tools need to be built, to just give feedback to all the tools that I use to make them better for other people, which is such a small but incredibly useful thing that everybody can do. If we're all using these tools and then providing the. This was funky or I did not understand why I was supposed to click on this instead of this. It just makes stuff easier. It just makes stuff simpler. And that alone, that alone helps so many small things that if we are all doing them, we can add up to building a better world. You don't build a whole new world with one person or one team or one tool. You do it with a million people and a million teams and a million different use cases and a million different goals and a million different paths and a million different concerns and cares. And if we don't do it, we won't get it. So that's why we do. So check out our sponsors, Leden Synonym and pub key, HRF and Chroma and go build something. At least that's my two sats.
[00:47:36] The Internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen.
[00:47:46] The Internet is a threat to human civilization.
[00:47:51] Julian Assange, Freedom and the future of the Internet.
