1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:03,480 Speaker 1: Everyone, Welcome to another episode of The Mark Moss Show, 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:07,800 Speaker 1: where we cover the decentralized revolution that is happening around 3 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: the world right now. Of course we're talking about bick 4 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: when we're talking about cryptocurrencies, but really we're talking about, 5 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: like I said, the decentralized revolution, the way that it 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 1: is unfolding across the world, and really we're talking about 7 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 1: the intersection of technology, finance, and politics all coming together 8 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: to change the world as we know it today. Now, 9 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 1: the way that the world works, the way that the 10 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:33,960 Speaker 1: world is organized, depends on the way that we use technology. 11 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:36,720 Speaker 1: So as you go back through history hundreds of years, 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 1: even thousands of years, you can see that the world 13 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: works differently. So, for example, we saw in the fifteen 14 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: hundreds in the in the sixteenth century, we saw the 15 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: world really shift into um more of a decentralized phase, 16 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: leaving behind the centralization that was brought between the church 17 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 1: and the state as they ruled things. And what really 18 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: led to that change was seventy year earlier, was the 19 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: printing press. It was a new technology. It was a 20 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: new technology. It was created the printing press that decentralized information. 21 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 1: People were able to get books, people are able to 22 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:12,000 Speaker 1: share information and it led to this decentralization. Over the 23 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,119 Speaker 1: last two hundred fifty years, we've led to more centralization 24 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: because of the industrial revolution that happened. The Industrial revolution 25 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:23,320 Speaker 1: led to US building factories, machines, equipment factories, and then 26 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: it led to big cities and it led the last 27 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: two and fiwo years, we've been centralizing and of course 28 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 1: if you wanted to be successful, we had to move 29 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 1: to the city where the jobs were. But today that 30 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: the Internet has done very similar to what the printing 31 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: press did, which is now decentralizing information and now people 32 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 1: are able to live and work anywhere they want. And 33 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: for the next hundred years we'll see the world continue 34 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,640 Speaker 1: to decentralize out And that's what we're talking about um as, 35 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,720 Speaker 1: this decentralized revolution that we're talking it's going to change 36 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: the world more than most people realize. Now. When we 37 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: talk about bitcoin, we talk about most likely typically today 38 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: we're talking about in thinking about it in terms of 39 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 1: money and what happens is money is kind of the 40 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: killer application of what bitcoin is today, similar as when 41 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: the Internet first came out, how email was the killer application, 42 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 1: and when electricity was first invented light was the killer 43 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: application of electricity. Of course, today electricities used for all 44 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: types of things. And as bitcoin has been coming out 45 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 1: over the last decade or so, about dozen years, a 46 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:24,440 Speaker 1: lot of people still today wonder why why do we 47 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 1: need a bitcoin? What purpose does it serve? And so forth, 48 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: and um, you know, because money is that killer application. 49 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: And as I like to say, as bitcoinners like to say, 50 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 1: if we can fix the money, we can fix the world. 51 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: One of the most apparent use cases for bitcoin has 52 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: been for helping to solve human rights issues all around 53 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,720 Speaker 1: the world. Um, we've seen that it's been protecting humans rights. Um. 54 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 1: Mostly we would see that in third world nations. And 55 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: so when I talk about third world nations, we're talking 56 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 1: about places like Venezuela, for example, where um, the leaders 57 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 1: have inflated the currencies so fast that people can't even 58 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:01,959 Speaker 1: afford to you know, they can't save money, they can't 59 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 1: even afford to buy food. UM. We saw, we've seen that, 60 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: you know, because of that, because these people in Venezuela 61 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 1: are trying to evade the hyper inflation that's completely stealing 62 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: their wealth. Um. And then they have strict financial controls, 63 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 1: they've been able to move towards something like bitcoin to 64 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 1: help them. UM. You know, for example, in Venezuela, where 65 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 1: that currency is losing over inflation per year, it's completely 66 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 1: destroyed their economy. UM. Then the Venezuela regime then cut 67 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: off money coming from abroad. UM. Basically, if anybody wanted 68 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: to help, If I wanted to help from the United 69 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: States and send money down to Venezuela, I don't really 70 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: have a lot of good options. The the regime that 71 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: that controls Venezuela, you know, basically forced everyone to go 72 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: through local banks, disclose how you know, disclose all their information, 73 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: how much money they're getting, who they're getting from, and 74 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 1: how they're going to use that money. If I wanted 75 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: to send a wire transfer from the United States down 76 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 1: to somebody in Venezuela, they would take over half. Over 77 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: half of the money would be taken by the regime. 78 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: And we see this happening all over the world, you know, 79 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: in in places like in Africa, et cetera, where there 80 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: maybe you know, we want to send aid to them, 81 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:19,679 Speaker 1: Typically the dictator or the regime that controls those areas 82 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: would maybe take all of it, if not a good 83 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: percentage of it. And even if they were going to 84 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:27,920 Speaker 1: allow it to flow through, it would get eaten up 85 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 1: by fees through all the different banks and into mediaries 86 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 1: they would have to go through. Of course, like I said, 87 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: if they don't want aid to get to the people, 88 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: then they just stop it all together. Um. One thing 89 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: that we saw, like in Venezuela, is that we could 90 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 1: maybe wire money to Colombia and then people could walk 91 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: across the border get the cash, and then they could 92 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:49,720 Speaker 1: try to come back with the cash. Of course, that's 93 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,039 Speaker 1: very difficult walking and walking across dangerous areas like that 94 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: with cash is always difficult. One getting across the border, 95 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: they could take it from you to obviously rob you know, 96 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: get robbed, to get mug Things like that are happening. 97 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: And that's not the only place, of course, like I said, 98 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: in Africa, we've seen lots of the same things in 99 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: zimb In Zimbabwe, they've printed so much money it is 100 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: inflated away the savings of the citizens. There's nothing they 101 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 1: could do. Um, so they're trying to move their money 102 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: into into something else. Um. You know, other places throughout Africa, 103 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 1: refugee camps where maybe they don't have access to money, 104 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: they don't have access to banks. We couldn't send them money, 105 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,680 Speaker 1: but if they had an Internet connection, we could send 106 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:29,080 Speaker 1: them bitcoin directly. Now, cash has been one of the 107 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: best ways to exercise free speech. We talked about talk 108 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: about the best way to vote is with your money, 109 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,440 Speaker 1: and when you have something like cash, you can do that. 110 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: But like I said, in the problem of these places, 111 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: they don't even have the cash. And this really leads 112 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 1: to human rights. Right, this leads to human rights. So 113 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: sound money is a human right. When I talk about 114 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: sound money, I'm talking about money that cannot be created 115 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 1: at will, cannot be inflated away. It's money that's not 116 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 1: liable to sudden appreciation or depreciation and value like in 117 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 1: Venezuela or in Zimbabwe where they've printed a lot um. 118 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: So that sound money. Now, human right is a right 119 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: that you would think, you believe that belongs to everybody. Right. 120 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: We're born with those things like freedom of association or 121 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,640 Speaker 1: freedom to acquire property or dispose of that property. And 122 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: so like freedom of association being the right to um 123 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:25,600 Speaker 1: associate with who I want to associate with. Right the 124 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: rather to what we're seeing. You know, in the United States, 125 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: in the First Amendment, we have the right to assemble, 126 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: the right to gather, and then of course the right 127 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,320 Speaker 1: to assemble, the right to gather leads to the right 128 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 1: to protest. Now, if you believe in democracy, then that 129 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: should be the people getting what they want, right, It 130 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: should be listening to the people. Is supposed to be 131 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: a government of the people, by the people, for the people, 132 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: and so the people should be able to voice what 133 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: it is that they want. Right. And with that right, 134 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,400 Speaker 1: individuals should be free to associate with groups, and those 135 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,039 Speaker 1: groups might have goals and then the problem is those 136 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: goals might run counter to what the regime in power wants. Now, typically, 137 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,119 Speaker 1: like I said, we think about this in in dictatorships, 138 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: right in third world countries. You hear about, you know, 139 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: these elections that are are filled with fraud, right, um, 140 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: and maybe this dictator has completely silenced his his opposition 141 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: and he's stolen the vote, and so, um, you typically 142 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: think about it in those terms. And of course they 143 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: control the money. Then they can control what the people do, 144 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: what the people can buy, But but even more they 145 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 1: can control how they can move around the country, how 146 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 1: they may or may not be able to, you know, 147 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: fund the opposition and things like that, um, and so 148 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: it's so important for human rights for us to be 149 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: able to have that sound money have the freedom of association, 150 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: of course, than the freedom to acquire and dispose of property. 151 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: And so I should have the freedom to use my energy, 152 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: to extend my energy to acquire proper so that might 153 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: be food, so I could have food for later. It 154 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 1: could be a house that I could live in, and 155 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: it could be money that's my property that I could 156 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: spend at a later time. I should also have the 157 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:14,720 Speaker 1: right to dispose of my property as I see fit. Right, 158 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 1: my property should be mine. Private property rights underpin every society, 159 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: you have to have private property rights. And so the 160 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:26,160 Speaker 1: central bank shouldn't have the ability to dispose of my 161 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: money by printing more of it. That's exactly what they do, 162 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:33,040 Speaker 1: and they print trillions of dollars, my private property becomes worthless. 163 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 1: And so bitcoin has been one of the tools that's 164 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: been being used for human rights around the world. UM, 165 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 1: it's freedom money. It allows me freedom because it allows 166 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,959 Speaker 1: me to control my money my property in a way 167 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: that that I see fit. It's anti authoritarian and so 168 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: nobody can tell me what I can and can't do 169 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,400 Speaker 1: with my money or my property. UM it's not it's 170 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: not anti anybody or any or even anti government. It's 171 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: just anti authoritarian because it doesn't allow anybody to control 172 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: what I do with my money. Don't go away, I'll 173 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: be back with more in just a second. All right, 174 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:11,680 Speaker 1: welcome back. You are listening to the Mark Moa Show, 175 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 1: and we are talking about the decentralized revolution. We're talking 176 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,680 Speaker 1: about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. We're talking about the changes that 177 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:20,600 Speaker 1: are happening in the world right now, so you can 178 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: understand these things in better context of what's going on now. 179 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: Before the break, we were talking about how the world's 180 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 1: changing rapidly. We're talking about how the technology that we 181 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: use change the way the world organizes, and how this 182 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 1: new technology, this decentralized technology of bitcoin, is changing the 183 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,400 Speaker 1: way the world works now. Lots of the world lives 184 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: under authoritarian regimes. Um that means that they live you know, 185 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 1: north you think of North Korea for example, right where 186 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,120 Speaker 1: or Cuba right where. You don't have the right to 187 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 1: go start a business and make money. Nope, you have 188 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: to rely on the state to give you rations. Their 189 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: authoritarians they control or they they're over you know, they 190 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:01,960 Speaker 1: have authority over your life. And they basically control every 191 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: aspect of your life, telling you what you can and 192 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:08,440 Speaker 1: can't do. Of course, you might think of Venezuela, you 193 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 1: might think of these really you know, third world countries 194 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:14,199 Speaker 1: in Africa, things like that. When I when I say 195 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: authoritarian regimes, that's typically what you think of North Korea, right, 196 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 1: And Bigcoin has been helping, it's been helping out. Like 197 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 1: I said, I was talking about before the break. You know, 198 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: trying to get money to people in those regimes is 199 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,480 Speaker 1: almost impossible because it goes through the banking system, and 200 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:34,320 Speaker 1: of course the authoritarians control the banking system, and if 201 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 1: they do let the money get through, they'll take some 202 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: more time. Sometimes over half of the money gets taken 203 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:43,280 Speaker 1: by bank fees plus um. They're they're cut um. And 204 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: in a lot of these places, they don't allow the 205 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: money to get through. What they want to do is 206 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,880 Speaker 1: have capital control laws. They want to control the capital. 207 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: They don't want to allow you to get out of 208 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 1: the capital um. They don't want anyone they don't want 209 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: you to be allowed to receive any type of capital 210 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: from anyone else. And of course that's a big problem. 211 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 1: Right some of these places they're literally starving to death. 212 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here in the United States, and you know, 213 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: I'm I'm fortunate, and I have some money, and I 214 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: might want to send some of that money to these 215 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 1: people in these um affected areas, and we're not even 216 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:17,439 Speaker 1: able to do that. This is a human rights issue 217 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: in my opinion. Now, while you typically think of that 218 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 1: happening in these authoritarian regimes like Venezuela or like North Korea, 219 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 1: it's now happening right here in North America. It's a 220 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 1: matter of fact, we're talking about Canada. Canada is trying 221 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 1: to become the next authoritarian nation um as fast as 222 00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:41,200 Speaker 1: they can, and I'm talking about fast. Now, this is 223 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,959 Speaker 1: not the typical authoritarian world that we have kind of 224 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: been used to over the last you know whatever four 225 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: or five decades. I grew up as a kid under 226 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: the Cold War. I remember, you know how that was. 227 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:54,559 Speaker 1: And we've you know, for the last couple of decades, 228 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: we've been seems like, relatively peaceful. But what we're seeing 229 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: is a new form authoritarianism that we haven't seen in 230 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: the past. So in the past, we would see a 231 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,000 Speaker 1: dictator march in with with the military and they would 232 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: have a coup and they would, you know, take over 233 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,200 Speaker 1: a country, maybe lots of people would be would would 234 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: be killed right through that takeover. But today we're seeing 235 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: a new form of authoritarianism, and this time they're smiling 236 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: waving at you. Right, we have Justin Trudeau up there 237 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: in Canada just smiling and waving everybody. And uh, he 238 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: looks so nice and he says nice things and he 239 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: seems so sweet, and he even tells us the right things. 240 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,800 Speaker 1: So I dug up some stuff on Justin Trudeau. We 241 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 1: saw here in May on May two thousand twelve. You 242 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: can check his Twitter profile. Uh, that's one thing about 243 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: the Internet archives everything, and so back in two thousand twelve, 244 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: he tweeted on his own account he said, I'm going 245 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: to read it. Quote when a government starts trying to 246 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: cancel dissent or avoid dissent is when it's rapidly losing 247 00:12:56,480 --> 00:13:01,600 Speaker 1: its moral authority to govern. End quote. I'm gonna say 248 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: that again. When a government starts to cancel dissent or 249 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: avoid dissent, it's when it's losing its moral authority to govern. 250 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: That's his words. When tries to cancel the center void descent, 251 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: what's descent? So that's when people have a different opinion. 252 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: So when the people don't want what the government may want, 253 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,720 Speaker 1: that is dissent. Now, remember, in a democracy, it's supposed 254 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: to be for the people, by the people of the people. 255 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,600 Speaker 1: It's supposed to be what the people want. The people 256 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: are supposed to be able to discuss that. And in 257 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 1: his own words, I'll read it back, it's losing its 258 00:13:34,679 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 1: more moral authority to govern. So in his own words, 259 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 1: if he's if he's canceling descent, which is exactly what 260 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:43,480 Speaker 1: we've been seeing happened in Canada for the last couple 261 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 1: of weeks, he has him, in his own words, lost 262 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,640 Speaker 1: his own moral authority to govern. So they say nice 263 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: things like that in two thousand twelve and then you 264 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: believe um um. Then in March, on March thirty, two twenty, 265 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,640 Speaker 1: he tweeted out, I'll read it quote. While many of 266 00:13:57,679 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 1: us are working from home, there are others who aren't 267 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: able to do that, like the truck drivers who are 268 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: working day and night to make sure our shelves are stocked. 269 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 1: So when you can, please thank a trucker for everything 270 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: they're doing and help them. However, you can end quote 271 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 1: that was just two years ago. Thank the truckers because 272 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: they're out there risking their lives while we're all hiding 273 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 1: at home. That's what he said. So they say nice 274 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 1: things like that, but if we would go even further back, 275 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 1: maybe we would find out what their real intentions are. 276 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, as I like to say, 277 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: I want to take them at their word, and so 278 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 1: I read their books, I listen to what they say. 279 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, I have a clip 280 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: from Trudeau that I want to play for you right here, 281 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: and in his own words, he's going to tell us 282 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: exactly what he wants. Let's go ahead and play that 283 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: clip about Trudeau. He level of admiration I actually have 284 00:14:52,600 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: for China, um, because they're basic dictatorship is allowing them, 285 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: uh to actually turn their economy around on a dime. 286 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: Hm hmm. So he really likes China because it's a 287 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: dictator Uh. Now, Look, this is not a show about politics. 288 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: There's plenty of shows that you can listen to talk 289 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 1: about politics. We're talking about the decentralized revolution. So what 290 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: does all this have to do with bitcoin and all 291 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,720 Speaker 1: of that. Well, what it has to do with all 292 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: of that is Trudeau wanting to be a dictator has 293 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:29,000 Speaker 1: enacted what he's calling the Emergency's Act, and in this 294 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: Emergency's Act, he wants to take over your money. Not 295 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: only just take over your money, he wants to control 296 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: every aspect of your money. Um. And let's go ahead, 297 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: and I have a clip queued up for that for 298 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 1: this uh, for this emergency at God and play that clip. First. 299 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 1: We are broadening the scope of Canada's anti money laundering, 300 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:53,280 Speaker 1: laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover crowdfunding 301 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 1: platforms and the payments service providers they use. These changes 302 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:08,440 Speaker 1: cover all forms of transactions, including digital assets such as cryptocurrencies. Hm. Hm, 303 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: so um. You know, if you don't go along with 304 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: the party line, then they want to not only seize 305 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: your accounts, seize your bank accounts, take your money, but 306 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: if anybody even tries to offer you money or help you, 307 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: they want to call that terrorism. It sounds like they've 308 00:16:25,600 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: gone a long way away from what he said in 309 00:16:27,760 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: two thousand twelve, which is any government that try tries 310 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: to cancel or avoid dissent has loss or more authority. 311 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 1: And so it's about the money. That's why we say 312 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,720 Speaker 1: if we can fix the money, we can fix the world. 313 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,800 Speaker 1: We need to have freedom in our money. It's a 314 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:47,280 Speaker 1: human rights issue. Now when I talk about it in 315 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: Venezuela or Africa or North Korea, you seem to get it. 316 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:55,080 Speaker 1: But do you get it when it's happening right here 317 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: in Canada Because it's coming really quick, not only to 318 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 1: Canada but also to the United States. I want to 319 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: explain to you what this Emergency Act is. I want 320 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 1: to talk about the terrorist financing. I want to talk 321 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,280 Speaker 1: about what's happening in the United States in regards to this, 322 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 1: and then I want to game plan this out. Where 323 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,639 Speaker 1: does this go? What can they really do? And then 324 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about some privacy coins. Using privacy is 325 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:21,000 Speaker 1: bitcoin private? I have a lot more to cover. You're 326 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,400 Speaker 1: listening to the Markma Show. We're talking about the decentralized 327 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 1: revolution that we are living through right now with bitcoin 328 00:17:26,280 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 1: and cryptocurrencies. We're talking about in context of what is 329 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: going on right now. I'm telling you history books are 330 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:34,879 Speaker 1: gonna be written about this, and so you need to 331 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:38,640 Speaker 1: understand what's going on. I have a lot more to cover, uh, 332 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 1: a lot of ground to cover, a lot more quotes, 333 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 1: So don't go away. You're listening to the Mark Ma Show. 334 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be right back with more. Everyone, Welcome back. 335 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 1: You are listening to The Mark Ma Show. And we 336 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,919 Speaker 1: are talking about the decentralized revolution. We're talking about bitcoin, 337 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,600 Speaker 1: we're talking about cryptocurrencies. A lot of ground to cover, 338 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: a lot of ground to cover right now because the 339 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:00,880 Speaker 1: world is changing so fast, and so I'm with you 340 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:04,199 Speaker 1: each end, every week trying to keep you up to 341 00:18:04,320 --> 00:18:06,960 Speaker 1: date on what is happening, because if you don't understand 342 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,440 Speaker 1: it in the context of what is happening right now, 343 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 1: then you won't be able to understand what's going on now. 344 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 1: This is going to be the biggest shift we'll ever 345 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,199 Speaker 1: see in our lifetime, in multiple lifetimes, and it might 346 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:19,639 Speaker 1: be one of the biggest shifts we've seen in the 347 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: last two and fifty years, maybe five hundred years. And uh, 348 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: I know that sounds pretty big, but that is what 349 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 1: is happening. That's why it's important that you are paying attention, 350 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:31,400 Speaker 1: and that's why you should be tuning into me each 351 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 1: end every week if you're not already, So if you're 352 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 1: not driving your car, you could stop. You can pull 353 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 1: out your phone and you can put on a calendar 354 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:40,720 Speaker 1: reminder to join me. Each end, every week, at this time, 355 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: at this channel. UH, it's the most profitable, it's the 356 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: most important, is the most informative and educational part of 357 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: your week, So don't miss out. Now. Before the break, 358 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,920 Speaker 1: we were talking about UM what's going on. We're talking 359 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:57,919 Speaker 1: about authoritarian regimes across the world. We're talking about authority 360 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,199 Speaker 1: chian regimes that you might consider like North Korea, UH 361 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 1: or third world countries in Africa or South America, things 362 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: like that, and how getting you know, a humanitarian aid 363 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: to those people has is important, UM. But but getting 364 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,199 Speaker 1: the humanitarian aid to them in traditional UM channels like 365 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: through banks and things like that is very difficult because 366 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:19,000 Speaker 1: a lot of these authoritarian regimes, these dictators UM don't 367 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: want you to send them money. And if you do 368 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: send them money, they're gonna take it or take a 369 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 1: big chunk of it. And even if they don't, the 370 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 1: banks take a big chunk of it. UM. If you 371 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: have a friend or you have a family member, or 372 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 1: you know somebody who's like literally starving in South Korea 373 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,719 Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, North Korea, good luck trying to get 374 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: them money. Right, You can't do that, UM. But if 375 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:43,120 Speaker 1: you have something like bitcoin, you can you can send 376 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: them bitcoin? We can see you know, we've we've talked 377 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: about extensively what's going on down in El Salvador. And 378 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: about thirty percent of the gross domestick product of El 379 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: Salvador comes from remittances. That means people in the United 380 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 1: States sending them money. Now, the nation of El Salvadore 381 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,800 Speaker 1: doesn't block that does and steal it, but put the 382 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 1: fees add up either way. But in some countries, like 383 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: I'm saying, in these authority and regimes, these dictatorships, they 384 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: do take the money. And while that seems somewhat understandable 385 00:20:12,320 --> 00:20:14,920 Speaker 1: and you understand maybe that's actually a pretty good use case, 386 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: right human rights, human aid, etcetera. You don't think about 387 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:23,120 Speaker 1: it happening right here in North America, right here in Canada, 388 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:26,919 Speaker 1: or right here in the United States. But that's exactly 389 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 1: what's happening. Justin Trudeau has put into place the Emergencies Act. 390 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: We talked about in that in the last UM in 391 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:37,680 Speaker 1: the last break before the break, and I played you 392 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:40,360 Speaker 1: a clip of exactly what they said, and they said 393 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: that they want to UM look at anybody who's funding 394 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 1: something they don't like UM dissent, which in his own words, 395 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,560 Speaker 1: and she doesn't twelve. He said that if anyone tries 396 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: to block dissent, they're losing the mora authority to govern. 397 00:20:54,359 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: But now they want to block this descent, and anybody 398 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,720 Speaker 1: that wants to help them UM could be labeled as 399 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: a terrorist. So they've gone a step further. We've seen UM. 400 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police r CMP, Canada's national police force, 401 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:14,120 Speaker 1: has issued an order requiring all fin TRACK regulated organizations 402 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:18,720 Speaker 1: in Canada to stop interacting with thirty four crypto wallets. 403 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 1: So you know, protest. In Trudeau's own words, UM descent 404 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: should be something that is U is morally acceptable. He said, 405 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: it's the loser more authoritary if you try to block 406 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,760 Speaker 1: the cent. In a democracy, the people's voice should matter. 407 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: Of course. UM. Throughout we saw in the United States, 408 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: we saw BLM and Antifa UM march through the United 409 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 1: States lighting cities and towns on fire, and that was acceptable, 410 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,240 Speaker 1: even though the whole world was in a pandemic lockdown. 411 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: You couldn't go to a park with your kid, but 412 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:55,640 Speaker 1: apparently to protest and burn down and loot cities was acceptable. 413 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 1: We saw our leaders like AOC tell us that that 414 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,000 Speaker 1: wasn't acceptable warm and people they said it makes people uncomfortable. 415 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,200 Speaker 1: Innoc's words, she said, it makes people uncomfortable and it 416 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 1: should and that was okay, and BLM was I think 417 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:12,240 Speaker 1: raised sixty million dollars and that's okay. But the Canadians 418 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: that are peaceful and they're just parked and they're dancing 419 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 1: and they're waving Canadian flags are now terrorists even though 420 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 1: they have done no crime. Uh, they have done no 421 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,199 Speaker 1: what would you would consider terrorism? And now to the 422 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 1: point is if you even give them money via crowdfunding platform, 423 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,399 Speaker 1: that would be terrorism. And so now they're saying the 424 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: Radio Canadian mint UM r R c MP are going 425 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:39,560 Speaker 1: to issue orders to stop and regulate all these crypto wallets. 426 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: So what does that mean? So bitcoin, as we talk 427 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: about has been UM. You know, it solves a humanitarian crisis. 428 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 1: It's a way that I can send money to people 429 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: in need without these dictators UM seizing it or stealing it. 430 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,800 Speaker 1: But that's exactly what's happening in Canada. Now can they 431 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,920 Speaker 1: really do that? Um? They say they want to stop 432 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 1: interacting with thirty four crypto wallets. So the way it 433 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,600 Speaker 1: works is, UM, you have a bank account, at Bank 434 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: of America or World's Fargo. And you have a bank 435 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 1: account number, right, and if I wanted to send you 436 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:13,879 Speaker 1: money to your bank account, you can give me your 437 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: bank account um number and I could go to your 438 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 1: bank and deposit in that account number. And so your 439 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 1: crypto is sort of the same. You have a you 440 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: have an account number, you have a wallet address, and 441 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:26,440 Speaker 1: if I if you wanted to send me bitcoin, which 442 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: I would like if you wanted or I want to 443 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 1: send you bitcoin, you just give me your address, your 444 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: wallet address, and I can send you a bitcoin there um. 445 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:35,359 Speaker 1: And so that is public. That is, people know what 446 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: that address is if you've given it to them, and 447 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 1: so they are able to see which addresses are involved 448 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: in this crowdfunding or this fundraising, and now they want 449 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 1: to block it. We can see in a quote here 450 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: the entire Provincial Police and Radio Royal Canadian Mounted Police 451 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:54,680 Speaker 1: are currently investigating cryptocurrency donations being collected in relation to 452 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: illegal acts falling under the scope of the Emergency Measures 453 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: Act end quote. Now, in relation to illegal acts, they say, well, 454 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:10,359 Speaker 1: what's what's illegal? Anything the state says is illegal, because, 455 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 1: like you know, the United States has a constitution that 456 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:17,480 Speaker 1: says what's allowed. Canada also has a constitution that says 457 00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 1: what's allowed. But these people are just making any laws 458 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 1: that they want. So, for example, in Ottawa, I think 459 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 1: last weekend it was illegal to hank your horn, Like, 460 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,120 Speaker 1: what is that somewhere written in the constitution? You can't 461 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,760 Speaker 1: hanker horn? Because when you can always hanker horn, Now 462 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,360 Speaker 1: I can't honk horn. That's a law that's illegal. Uh. 463 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,240 Speaker 1: And then they went and seized everyone's gas. Oh, like 464 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,880 Speaker 1: I guess I can't. Now I can't own gas. Gas 465 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,520 Speaker 1: is illegal? Tone, Like, they can't just say anything they 466 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,800 Speaker 1: want is illegal. At some point, the people have a 467 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: voice that should be heard. And so they're saying, um, 468 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,000 Speaker 1: these illegal acts, Well, what's illegal? Honking my horns? Illegal? 469 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,159 Speaker 1: Since when kind of a thing? Right? But back to 470 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: the point, um, what can they do with these thirty 471 00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,640 Speaker 1: four crypto wallets? They said that one wallet contains over 472 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: one million dollars in bitcoin. That's part of this Hong 473 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: Kong cotal effort to support the truckers through cryptocurrencies. After 474 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: more than nine million dollars was um stolen seized from 475 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 1: the go fund means account and so the federal police 476 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: have listed twenty nine bitcoin addresses to a theory maddresses 477 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: and one wallet for each of the cryptocurrencies, cardanal Monaro, 478 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: and light Coin. Each wallet is said to have transacted 479 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: between m zero to one point one million dollars in assets. 480 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 1: The police have have asked for any information about transaction 481 00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 1: or proposed transaction regarding these addresses to be disclosed immediately 482 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:36,560 Speaker 1: to the task force. How does that work? Because I 483 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: thought bitcoin was supposed to be censorship resistant. I thought 484 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,600 Speaker 1: bitcoin is supposed to be somewhat anonymous. So can they 485 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:47,760 Speaker 1: really take it? What can they really do? It's interesting, right, 486 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 1: Well let's talk about that. So you might have heard 487 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 1: that bitcoin is open source. It's anonymous, but not private. 488 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: So what does that mean? Anonymous not private? Well, everybody 489 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 1: has an address, as I explained, but we don't know 490 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:04,040 Speaker 1: who those addresses belong to. Private would be you can't 491 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,360 Speaker 1: see any the transactions. Anonymous means it's open. I can 492 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:08,639 Speaker 1: see them, I just don't know who they belong to. 493 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:12,199 Speaker 1: Now there are some ways to try to start figuring 494 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,080 Speaker 1: that out. Um, So when you typically buy bitcoin or 495 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,240 Speaker 1: you sell bitcoin, you have to buy it on exchange 496 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 1: that's regulated, and you have to do go through something 497 00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 1: called k y C or Know your Customer where you're 498 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: gonna upload your driver's license and your passport and you're 499 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 1: gonna upload a picture of yourself and all these things. 500 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:28,719 Speaker 1: And so what they could do is they can say, well, 501 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:30,480 Speaker 1: you bought it here with your I D and then 502 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:31,760 Speaker 1: you sold it here with your I D. And then 503 00:26:31,760 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: they could use some artificial intelligence software to start to 504 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,960 Speaker 1: try to put all those transactions together. So that's one 505 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 1: that way that could be done. But then we also 506 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,159 Speaker 1: have privacy coins that could also be more private. They 507 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 1: can't see that. There's a lot going on, right you 508 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: listen to the Mark Masha will be back with more 509 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: a second. Don't go away, all right, welcome back. You 510 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 1: are listening to the Mark Ma Show. We're talking about 511 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:57,199 Speaker 1: the decentralized revolution that is happening right now. We're witnessing it, 512 00:26:57,280 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 1: and it is happening at an accelerated pace. Of course, 513 00:26:59,880 --> 00:27:03,640 Speaker 1: I'm talking about bitcoin. I'm talking about the the intersection 514 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,720 Speaker 1: of politics, finance, and technology all wrapped into one. And 515 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 1: it's never been more apparent as to why it might 516 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: be important than it is right now today. Um, you know, 517 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 1: bitcoin is a decentralized protocol. There's no company, there's no president, 518 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:21,959 Speaker 1: there's no marketing department, there's no UM, none of that. 519 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: There's no budget, there's none of that. Um you didn't 520 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 1: see it advertised on the Super Bowl because there's no company. 521 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: Need to pay for it. Um. But the governments are 522 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 1: doing a pretty good daing. They're doing a good dame 523 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,200 Speaker 1: job of doing the doing the promotions for us. They're 524 00:27:35,280 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 1: proving as to why we need it. They're putting a 525 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,280 Speaker 1: lot of focus on that, and it's pretty important. Now 526 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,439 Speaker 1: before the break, I was talking about how, um, you know, 527 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,880 Speaker 1: under this New Emergencies Act that Canada has proposed, they 528 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,199 Speaker 1: want to they want a blacklist like thirty four addresses. 529 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 1: And so if you've they've they've identified these addresses, which 530 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 1: I said, are um you know there there. It's an 531 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,680 Speaker 1: open source network. So while it's anonymous, we don't necessarily 532 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,679 Speaker 1: who owns that address. UM, it is. It is viewable. 533 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:05,720 Speaker 1: So people can see that address, they can see UM 534 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,520 Speaker 1: where it's transacting, right, who it's transacting back and forth with. UM. 535 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: So what can they really do with that? Right? What 536 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,639 Speaker 1: can they really do with that? Well, UM, there's a 537 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 1: couple of things. So you know, a lot of people 538 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 1: might be hearing about, or thinking about, or talking about 539 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 1: things like called privacy coins. So privacy coins would be 540 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,199 Speaker 1: like mon narrow or z cash or pirate coin and 541 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,240 Speaker 1: things like that. And the way that a privacy coin 542 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 1: works is that it's not open source, right, So like 543 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 1: with bitcoin, it's open and so you can see all 544 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 1: the wallets and I could if I had a wallet address, 545 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,200 Speaker 1: I could plug it into like a block explorer, and 546 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 1: I could see that this wallet sent money, you know, 547 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 1: sent coins to this wallet, and this wallet sent coins 548 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 1: to that wallet, and you can kind of follow those 549 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 1: types of types of transactions. It leaves a trail, but 550 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,600 Speaker 1: with privacy coins like mon narrow or z cash, it doesn't, 551 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,719 Speaker 1: and so you can't see all the transactions and it 552 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,280 Speaker 1: doesn't leave a history or a trail. And so a 553 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,520 Speaker 1: lot of people might say, well, if they would only 554 00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: use a privacy coin, then none of this would be 555 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: a problem. But there's a couple of things with this. 556 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 1: So first of all, um, if the government in this 557 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 1: case as these thirty four um known addresses, Um, we 558 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,080 Speaker 1: have to watch those. Well, this is where it gets 559 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 1: kind of funny. I have to have a little chuckle 560 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:23,200 Speaker 1: because technology is going to make the nation state let's 561 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 1: say impotent, let's say irrelevant. So they're gonna say, well, 562 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 1: these thirty four addresses, you know, we can't do, we 563 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: can't do transacted with them. Okay, well I could just 564 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: probably go create a hundred new addresses in the next 565 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,280 Speaker 1: five seconds. So how about I just create a new 566 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,360 Speaker 1: address and I send it over there. So the way 567 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,480 Speaker 1: that a bitcoin transaction works is obviously I'm sure it's 568 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 1: probably a parent unless you're listening for the first time. 569 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 1: By the way, you're listening to the Mark Maas show. 570 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 1: If you're listening for the first time, then maybe you 571 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: don't understand. But you're not really sending a coin, and 572 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 1: there's no such thing as a coin. Bitcoin is just 573 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,840 Speaker 1: is just the network, and it's just code. And so 574 00:29:56,920 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: the code is made up of um let's call it 575 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 1: bits and bites. They're known as u t xos. And 576 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: so when I send a bitcoin transaction, it's made up 577 00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:07,800 Speaker 1: of these ut xos or these bits and bytes that 578 00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 1: go together. And those bits and bytes um they get 579 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 1: mixed together and they get broken apart, and they have 580 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: a history in their bitrail. And so what happens is, 581 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 1: let's say that the government, whichever government, authoritarian government you 582 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 1: want to you want to name, let's say that they say, hey, merchant, 583 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 1: merchant A, you're not allowed to receive any coins that 584 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 1: have the U t xos that are from these blacklisted addresses. 585 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:34,560 Speaker 1: For example. Now, first of all, the network itself, the 586 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,600 Speaker 1: Bitcoin network, it doesn't know any different. It says a network. 587 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:39,959 Speaker 1: It's going to send and receive all the transactions, all 588 00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,680 Speaker 1: the U t XO is the same. Only the merchant 589 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 1: could be forced by a government, UM it's called an 590 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: authoritarian government UM to restrict that transaction. So for example, UM, 591 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: I want to go spend my bitcoin at McDonald's and mcdonald'sys, Nope, 592 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 1: we can't exceive that receive those coins because they were tainted. Now, 593 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 1: the reality of that at this point in time is 594 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 1: um that if I want to send bitcoin to you 595 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 1: or you want to send bitcoin to me, I don't 596 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,800 Speaker 1: have a way to verify that, and you don't have 597 00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: a way to verify that, and McDonald's don't have a 598 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: way to verify that. Now, the banking institutions are that, 599 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,760 Speaker 1: I should say, the crypto exchanges they do so some 600 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 1: of them have that capability and some of them are 601 00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: able to do that, but that's it's highly specialized and 602 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,800 Speaker 1: it's not being done on a wide scale. But the 603 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,320 Speaker 1: other thing is that there's a couple of things I 604 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 1: could do. One, I could use something known as like 605 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: a coin mixing or like a coin joint service, and 606 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,000 Speaker 1: I could basically just obfuse, skate or kind of get 607 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:31,120 Speaker 1: rid of the history of the coin um So that's 608 00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,480 Speaker 1: one option. Or number two, I could just literally, while 609 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,760 Speaker 1: I'm talking to you, create a hundred new addresses, and 610 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 1: I could just send it from address one to two, 611 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: to three, to four to ten to twenty thirty seventy 612 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: And once you go through about six hops, they can't 613 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 1: really they can't really follow it anyway. Six hops of 614 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: meeting and go through six addresses. And so this is 615 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 1: where it kind of gets a little bit funny, where um, 616 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 1: as the nation state continues to try to crack down 617 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 1: on technology, they're going to find themselves more and more 618 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,520 Speaker 1: irrelevant because it's code. You can't stop code. It's sort 619 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:00,320 Speaker 1: back to as I was saying in the six exteenth 620 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: century UM where the Church tried to crack down on 621 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 1: the printing press, and anybody that got a Bible or 622 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,560 Speaker 1: would read about it or talk about it was labeled 623 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 1: a heretic and they were literally killed, literally, And as 624 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,600 Speaker 1: much as they tried to control that information, as many 625 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 1: people as they killed trying to control that, they couldn't 626 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 1: stop it. There was just no way they could stop it. 627 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 1: And eventually they lost their grip. And that's exactly what's 628 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,720 Speaker 1: happening today. The Nation State will try to control it. 629 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:26,480 Speaker 1: They're gonna try to pass a law that says you 630 00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:30,080 Speaker 1: can't have a three D printed gun for example, really, 631 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 1: because that's just code and I could know the code 632 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,520 Speaker 1: in my head. Are you saying I can't memorize words now? 633 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 1: Is that much you're saying? Um? Like, in order for 634 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: me to secure my bitcoin, I could memorize twelve words, 635 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 1: So like I can't memorize twelve words in my head now? 636 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:45,960 Speaker 1: Is that what the government's saying? I mean, if you 637 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,080 Speaker 1: think about it, Like the government has had a war 638 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 1: on drugs, a pretty strong war on drugs. They spent 639 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,680 Speaker 1: trillions of dollars in the last um about four decades. 640 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 1: And drugs have to be grown right in like Central 641 00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 1: America or South America. They're growing them. It's a crop, right, 642 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: they have to be processed and they have to be 643 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 1: then packaged. They have to be shipped, they have to 644 00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,960 Speaker 1: be smuggled, they have to be distributed. And they can't 645 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 1: even stop that. They can't even stop them from getting 646 00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,040 Speaker 1: into a prison, which is the most secure place. How 647 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:17,200 Speaker 1: are they gonna stop something completely digital, which is code 648 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 1: that I can memorize in there in my head. They can't, 649 00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:24,240 Speaker 1: And and not that they can't, they shouldn't. They shouldn't. 650 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 1: Remember justin Trudeau's quote I read earlier, he said that 651 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,200 Speaker 1: I'll read it again. When the government starts trying to 652 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: cancel the Center avoid descent is when they lose their 653 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: moral authoritary to govern. And so why should they try 654 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,160 Speaker 1: to cancel this O? Why should they cancel Why should 655 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 1: they control what I can and can't do with my money? 656 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:45,120 Speaker 1: It's my money. I earned it. Now, I get it, 657 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,840 Speaker 1: I get it, I get it the argument right, But 658 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 1: some people might do bad things with that money. Sure, 659 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,440 Speaker 1: people do bad things with cars. What about that guy 660 00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,040 Speaker 1: from Waukusha or whatever that he drove his car through 661 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,479 Speaker 1: the Christmas parade and kill Those people should be banned cars. 662 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:01,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I can go to the I can go 663 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,840 Speaker 1: to the hardware store and buy all kinds of things 664 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 1: that I could harm people with. Should we ban all that? Now? 665 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,640 Speaker 1: People could use money to do those bad things. They 666 00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 1: can use lots of things. We can't just ban everything now. 667 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,399 Speaker 1: Those bad things should be illegal, sure, right, that should 668 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,320 Speaker 1: be illegally. Shouldn't be allowed to do those bad things. 669 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 1: But to try to take away people's money is ridiculous. 670 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:24,719 Speaker 1: That's like saying we should just lock everybody in a 671 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,120 Speaker 1: box so they can't do anything wrong. Um, we shouldn't 672 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:32,280 Speaker 1: inconvenience billions of people. We shouldn't take billions of people's 673 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:36,960 Speaker 1: human rights away to try to manage for the couple 674 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,279 Speaker 1: of people that might do something wrong with it. That's 675 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 1: my opinion. Uh, I'd love for you to tell me 676 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,319 Speaker 1: if if you have a different opinion, go ahead and 677 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,040 Speaker 1: hit me on Twitter at number one, Mark Moss at 678 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,319 Speaker 1: number one, Mark Moss, and let me know what you think. Now. 679 00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,280 Speaker 1: I ran a poll on Twitter speaking of Twitter before 680 00:34:54,440 --> 00:35:00,399 Speaker 1: the show, and I asked a question, um, with what's 681 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,080 Speaker 1: going on in in Canada the government trying to crack 682 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 1: down on cryptocurrencies, the Nation States, Canada, the US. Um, 683 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,680 Speaker 1: they're trying to ban it, right, They're trying to say 684 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 1: that you can't transact it. They're trying to say that 685 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: it could you could be a terrorist if you use it. 686 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,799 Speaker 1: So does that make you bullish or bearish? Does this 687 00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,920 Speaker 1: make you more worried that you shouldn't own bitcoin? Or 688 00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,000 Speaker 1: does it make you more in favorite? And uh over 689 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:28,480 Speaker 1: a thousand almost votes um almost said it makes them 690 00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:33,080 Speaker 1: more bullish on bitcoin, and about almost twelve say they 691 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,200 Speaker 1: are bearish. What do you think? Hit me up on 692 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:37,839 Speaker 1: Twitter and let me know. By the way, you're listening 693 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,440 Speaker 1: to the Markmas Show, we're talking about the decentralized revolution. 694 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 1: We're talking about bitcoin. We're talking about the intersection of politics, finance, 695 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 1: and technology all coming together to change the way the 696 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:54,400 Speaker 1: world organizes, operates and works. Hopefully that makes sense to you. 697 00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 1: It is the largest shift that we will ever see, probably, 698 00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:58,600 Speaker 1: like I said, the largest shift we have seen in 699 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,440 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years um, if not five years, 700 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,359 Speaker 1: since the invention of the printing press. It's literally going 701 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,160 Speaker 1: to have that same effect, and it's the nation state 702 00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,680 Speaker 1: is not going to go out with a fight. I know. 703 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,120 Speaker 1: I've called bitcoin the great bait and switch. Most people 704 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,440 Speaker 1: buy it for the price appreciation and they end up 705 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 1: staying for the freedom aspects, the freedom money. That's what's 706 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,520 Speaker 1: happening with the decentralized revolution. You're listening to The Mark 707 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:22,720 Speaker 1: Moa Show. Thanks for listening.