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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, radio News.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back. I'm Romain Bostik.

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Speaker 3: You are watching Bloomberg Markets, but right now I'm alongside

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Speaker 3: the host of Bloomberg Crypto, Tim Stenovik, for a discussion,

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Speaker 3: a very special discussion about American Bitcoin, which went public

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Speaker 3: earlier this month and is one of the many crypto

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Speaker 3: players that have entered the public markets this year. It

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Speaker 3: is also part of a surge in digital asset treasuries,

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Speaker 3: reaching a market cap of almost seven billion dollars. But uniquely,

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Speaker 3: its chief strategy officer is a son of the President

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Speaker 3: of the United States. Please to say that Eric Trump

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Speaker 3: joins us right now alongside American Bitcoin CEO Mico. Welcome

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Speaker 3: to both of you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you guys very much. It's good for having us guys.

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Speaker 4: No shortage of crypto treasury firms out there, no shortage

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Speaker 4: of bitcoin mining firms out there, Mike. What makes American

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Speaker 4: Bitcoin different from everything else out there?

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Speaker 5: Well, we're the best of all worlds apart from Meeric Trump,

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Speaker 5: apart from America.

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Speaker 2: That's the best part. But we're the best of all worlds.

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Speaker 6: We're not just a bitcoin mining company, We're not just

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Speaker 6: a treasury We're a bitcoin accumulator, and what that means

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Speaker 6: is we use bitcoin mining as just one layer of

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Speaker 6: the strategy. Bitcoin mining is effectively, as of recent allows

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Speaker 6: us to accumulate bitcoin at a fifty percent discount to

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Speaker 6: Spot price. As a publicly listed, actively managed accumulator, we're

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Speaker 6: very different than just buying an ETF. When you buy

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Speaker 6: an ETF, when you buy spot bitcoin, your ownership ratio

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Speaker 6: to bitcoin will only ever be one blessed feast. When

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Speaker 6: you buy an actively managed accumulation company.

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Speaker 2: We use all of our tools, our know how, our.

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Speaker 6: Ability to monetize volatility. As a public stock, we have

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Speaker 6: a very volatile profile given that we track underlying bitcoin

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Speaker 6: and our volatility is higher than bitcoin.

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Speaker 2: So being able to.

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Speaker 6: Issue low cost converts that convert at a premium to

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Speaker 6: wear our share price today to buy moreco Bitcoin is

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Speaker 6: an asset class that has been increasing double digits for

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Speaker 6: the last decade is very highly a creative to our

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Speaker 6: shareholders and increases the metric that is most important, and

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Speaker 6: that is our Bitcoin ownership per share. As an actively

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Speaker 6: managed company, it's using all these tools to increase bitcoin ownership.

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Speaker 4: Sure they're come on in here, because finally show that

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Speaker 4: you own about a seven and a half percent stake

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Speaker 4: of the company. What's your commitment to holding on to

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Speaker 4: this equity?

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Speaker 2: Long?

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Speaker 5: And I've locked myself out for a very long period

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Speaker 5: of time. How long, well over a year, and I

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Speaker 5: think it's going to be beyond that. But we've locked

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Speaker 5: ourselves out, and in fact, the whole board has, and

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Speaker 5: you know, the company has. I'm damn committed to this company.

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Speaker 5: And I'm committed to this company because they did everything

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Speaker 5: they could to try and cancel us. They did everything

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Speaker 5: they could I'm talking about traditional finance to put us

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Speaker 5: out of business. I was the guy that was getting

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Speaker 5: hundreds of letters from the big banks, Capital One, JP Morgan,

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Speaker 5: you know, I mean all of them, Bank America. I

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Speaker 5: saw one hand was just on trying to take away

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Speaker 5: accounts for for golf courses, for hotels, for residential buildings,

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Speaker 5: for doing absolutely nothing wrong. And it drove me into

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Speaker 5: crypto because I realized that there was nothing that couldn't

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Speaker 5: be done in crypto better, faster, cheaper, more transparently. And

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Speaker 5: it's an amazing industry. You know you've covered well, I've heard

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Speaker 5: you talk about this before. The idea that you were

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Speaker 5: de banked and your family was de banked in recent years.

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Speaker 5: I just want to make sure I understand this. Are

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Speaker 5: you saying that the Trump organization was not able to

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Speaker 5: do business with any large financial institution. At one point,

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Speaker 5: I got dozens of letters and I'm talking about the

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Speaker 5: biggest banks anywhere in the world again, Bank of America, right,

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Speaker 5: you know, Capital One, JP Morgan Where for no reason

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Speaker 5: assets we didn't even necessarily own. We managed, right, residential

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Speaker 5: bank account of a residential building. I saw the weaponization

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Speaker 5: we had two point one percent residential mortgage rates.

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Speaker 2: I got via schmuck not to go.

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Speaker 5: Out and you know, get financing We bought a home

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Speaker 5: seeing there saying why why is it every week as

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Speaker 5: a hospitality company, Right, I'm trying to get a wire

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Speaker 5: five o'clock and by way, even if you get out

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Speaker 5: five o'clock, zero chance it's making Therefore, before Monday, you know,

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Speaker 5: when you can transfer five hundred million dollars with bitcoin

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Speaker 5: from an iPhone to an iPhone having a wallet address

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Speaker 5: you know at you know, eleven o'clock on a Sunday night,

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Speaker 5: you know, for no fees, for practically no fees, and

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Speaker 5: that scares the big financial institutions and guys. I've always

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Speaker 5: been a hard asset person. I've always been a builder

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Speaker 5: of big buildings. That's what my families know. One for

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Speaker 5: us and had it not been for the weaponization of

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Speaker 5: the big banks, I would have never found the crypto industry.

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Speaker 5: It's one of the greatest things and I am the

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Speaker 5: biggest proponent of Bitcoin. I think it's the greatest asset

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Speaker 5: of our time. You have an asset that's, you know,

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Speaker 5: appreciating seventy percent a year over year for the last

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Speaker 5: ten year period of time. It's global, it's instantly liquid,

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Speaker 5: it's the greatest hedge against real estate, and it's It's

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Speaker 5: been a lot of fun, guests.

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Speaker 3: And I understand your personal experience at helping fuel this,

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Speaker 3: But beyond your personal experience, what is the long term

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Speaker 3: advantage And I'm talking for the broader audience out there,

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Speaker 3: the broader community of folks out there for transacting more

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Speaker 3: in that space, not just necessarily with bitcoin, but using

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Speaker 2: Such a great question.

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Speaker 5: And the reason that's great question is we have the

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Speaker 5: greatest economy in the world.

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Speaker 2: Buy far barn On.

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Speaker 5: We all know this, right, I mean, imagine it's just

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Speaker 5: tig Zimbabwe, right all right, where they had ten thousand

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Speaker 2: Year over year.

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Speaker 5: You go, you work your butt off, right, and all

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Speaker 5: get in you actually have Crypto is going to be

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Speaker 5: the greatest tool to create financial free them throughout the world. Now,

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Speaker 5: all of a sudden, stead of having that money just

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Speaker 5: bad financial policy, or because one hundred other Now, all

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Speaker 5: thing that everybody has, which is, you know, a smart

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Speaker 5: that gives you financial freedom. Now, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 5: an asset that'sppreciating, as I said before, between fifty and

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Speaker 5: seventy percent a year, and you actually have something at

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Speaker 5: tangible at the end of it. Take the other side

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Speaker 5: of crypto, right, you know, take take stable coin.

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Speaker 2: You can invest in the US dollar. You're in Zimbabwe.

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Speaker 5: Instead of having your currency devalue by that ten thousand

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Speaker 5: We're going to onshore trillions and trillions of dollars in

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Speaker 5: gives people financial freedom, and that's a wonderfulingful thing as

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Speaker 4: He might jump on in here because I want to

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Speaker 4: ask a little bit about the relationship that American bitcoin

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Speaker 4: has with bitmin the bitcoin mining equipment provider Representative none

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Speaker 4: of Iowa Republican calling for a federal review of Bitmain,

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Speaker 4: essentially saying that the US could that this could present

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Speaker 4: a national security risk here in the U. Is it

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Speaker 4: a national security risk for you to use this equipment?

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Speaker 2: I don't believe.

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Speaker 6: So it's very proven that these ACIS chips are programmed

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Speaker 6: just for one purpose, and it's for computations on the

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Speaker 6: shot two five to six algorithm, and ben Main has

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Speaker 6: been a leading manufacturer for US. It's really about the

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Speaker 6: merits of the technology, the hardway that we use. We

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Speaker 3: But I am curious just on that point though too, Mike.

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Speaker 3: I mean, is there any risk and I mean this

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Speaker 3: also dovetails with having you know Eric by your side,

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Speaker 3: but is there any risk with regards to teriff and

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Speaker 6: We're really just focused on the silicone that is the

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Speaker 6: when we measure this latest generation of hardware, it is

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Speaker 4: Eric, I'm curious how you view energy sources here because

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Speaker 4: Mother Jones reporting recently that HUT eight buys wind power

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Speaker 4: from a facility in Texas. Your father has made clear

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Speaker 4: he stopped projects on federal lands. Do you disagree with

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Speaker 2: No, I totally agree with it.

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Speaker 5: In fact, the reason we're able to buy wind power

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Speaker 2: That energy to.

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Speaker 4: They were distributed to make before they were selling it

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Speaker 4: to the hot eight they were bitting get to the grid.

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Speaker 2: They were distributed into two.

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Speaker 5: Texas, they didn't really have anywhere to send the power,

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Speaker 5: and it was massively subsidized. Here's the reality with win power.

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Speaker 5: Wind power is a massively subsidized thing. Right, the governments

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Speaker 5: could go over to Europe, go over to the UK

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Speaker 5: where my father is right now, the amount of subsidy

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Speaker 5: you're talking about eighty percent subsidy on wind farms, where

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Speaker 5: the government's paying them, subsidizing the actual creation.

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Speaker 2: Of them, and they're also ruining landscape.

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Speaker 5: Now, America, we have the greatest energy anywhere in the world,

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Speaker 5: and it's untapped. We have energy reserves that every country

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Speaker 5: in the world, including China, would absolutely die to have.

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Speaker 5: It's just we've had that policy where we've never actually

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Speaker 5: I'm beyond excited about the potential of actually leading the

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Speaker 5: Now, I spent a lot of time on crypto. I

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Speaker 5: Where you have something like bitcoin, where if I wanted

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Speaker 5: It's why I always go out and I say, I

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Speaker 3: This gets to the use case though, that I think

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Speaker 6: We see that as all extremely positive when you look

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Speaker 6: That just means that it broadens the on ramps of

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Speaker 3: All right, you have to leave it there. Really appreciate

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Speaker 2: HEK you guys very much.

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Speaker 3: Michae the CEO of American Bitcoin and of course he

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Speaker 3: needs no introduction. Eric Trump as well, and our thanks

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Speaker 3: to Tim Stenovich will be back in a moment. This

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