Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to another episode of The Markmas Show,
Speaker 1: where we are talking about the decentralized revolution that we
Speaker 1: are going through right now. We're talking about bitcoin. We're
Speaker 1: talking about the intersection of politics, finance and technology. We're
Speaker 1: talking about the intersection of those three things. That is
Speaker 1: what driving is what's driving the world. If you look
Speaker 1: back through thousands of years of history, as I like
Speaker 1: to do, I love to go back and talk about history, um,
Speaker 1: you'll see that it's always technology that changes the world.
Speaker 1: It's the mega political factors that change the way that
Speaker 1: we communicate, the way that we organize, and as the
Speaker 1: way that we communicate, we organize the way that we
Speaker 1: do business as that changes, the world changes. This isn't
Speaker 1: necessarily about politics per se um, but it seems political
Speaker 1: because it changes the organization structure of the world. Now,
Speaker 1: there's plenty of people online talking about politics all day um,
Speaker 1: and there's plenty of people talking about finance over there
Speaker 1: as well. What I'm trying to do is bring to
Speaker 1: you those three things together so you can understand them
Speaker 1: in context of what's going on in the world today.
Speaker 1: Not just understand what's going on in the world today
Speaker 1: for your own peace of mind or just so for
Speaker 1: you know, for your own curiosity, but so you can
Speaker 1: navigate these things properly to protect yourself, your family, your future,
Speaker 1: your legacy, and so much more. It starts with the money.
Speaker 1: All money start or all a should say, all freedom
Speaker 1: starts with the money. As we we've been finding out
Speaker 1: lately and as we're going to dig into today. It
Speaker 1: starts with the money. That's where your freedom, that's where
Speaker 1: your options come from. Your freedom comes from um, and
Speaker 1: then you can start to build on it from there
Speaker 1: your health, your freedom, your family, et cetera. So we
Speaker 1: got a lot of stuff to cover today. I try
Speaker 1: to bring to you each and every week. I try
Speaker 1: to bring to you some education to build your foundation
Speaker 1: on so you can understand what's going on, so you
Speaker 1: can learn how to navigate this. I want to bring
Speaker 1: to you the latest breaking news of what's going on,
Speaker 1: your up to date so you can see these play
Speaker 1: by play as it's happening. Of course, then I try
Speaker 1: to bring you some of the brightest people in the space, UM,
Speaker 1: so you can hear some other perspectives. Then just for
Speaker 1: me keep it kind of interesting. So you listen to
Speaker 1: the Mark Moa show Um, like I said, talking about
Speaker 1: the intersection of politics, finance, and technology, bringing it all
Speaker 1: into context so you can understand today. And of course
Speaker 1: the intersection of those things is smacking us right in
Speaker 1: the face as we speak. UM. If you've been tuning
Speaker 1: in with me each and every week, UM, First off,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. If you haven't been, then just go
Speaker 1: ahead and take a second, right now, Why don't you
Speaker 1: just pull out your phone. You can put yourself a
Speaker 1: Calibram calendar reminder to join me each and every week
Speaker 1: the same channel at the same time. If you're driving,
Speaker 1: maybe well till you stop up. Otherwise put a reminder
Speaker 1: joined me each and every week. UM. And so if
Speaker 1: you've been joining me, then you know we've been talking about, um,
Speaker 1: some of the stuff that's been going on in Canada
Speaker 1: that's obviously been dominated the news headlines for the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, UM, specifically the truck or convoy that happened.
Speaker 1: And again not talking about politics just for politics sake, UM,
Speaker 1: But it's the intersection of those things. And so what
Speaker 1: we found is that in a democracy, which you know
Speaker 1: Canada as a democracy, which by the way, the US
Speaker 1: is not a democracy. The US is a republic. If
Speaker 1: you grew up saying the Pledge of Allegiance in school,
Speaker 1: then you know that to the republic for which it stands.
Speaker 1: And the difference of a democracy in a republic is
Speaker 1: that in a republic it's a representative government. And so, um,
Speaker 1: that means that we elect representatives. So if you've voted,
Speaker 1: then you know that we have representatives for each state
Speaker 1: and we send those representatives to Washington to represent us there.
Speaker 1: And so it's not democracy. Um. I'm not a big
Speaker 1: fan of democracy, which maybe takes some people by surprise,
Speaker 1: but if you understand, democracy is more like mob rule,
Speaker 1: and so the majority wins. And the problem is when
Speaker 1: the majority want more of your money, for example, that's
Speaker 1: a problem. So it becomes the tyranny of the minority.
Speaker 1: So for example, if there was like five or six
Speaker 1: of us sitting there and uh, you know, you guys
Speaker 1: that you guys made a lot of money. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: a couple of bill that made money, and we voted that.
Speaker 1: The majority of people said you know what, um, we
Speaker 1: think that you should just give us some of your money.
Speaker 1: And the you know, I'm like, wait a minute, I
Speaker 1: earned this money. I worked really hard for it. Well,
Speaker 1: we think you should just give us some and where
Speaker 1: the majority. So that's just how it goes, and so
Speaker 1: you could see really quickly how the minority can be affected.
Speaker 1: But anyway, that's a different story for a different day.
Speaker 1: Back to the democracy that we have in Canada. And
Speaker 1: so in the democracy, the people are supposed to have
Speaker 1: a voice. And one of the ways that people can
Speaker 1: use that voice, obviously there's voting. UM. However, I think
Speaker 1: we're starting to realize that voting doesn't do a whole lot.
Speaker 1: Another way that we can use our voices by assembly.
Speaker 1: In the United States, it's guaranteed to us by the
Speaker 1: First Amendment, the freedom to assemble. UM, and so we
Speaker 1: can assemble. And that's exactly what happened in Canada. UM.
Speaker 1: The truckers were assembling to show their you know, outrage,
Speaker 1: their protest, if you will, UM. And then it's what
Speaker 1: happened after that. And again, not trying to get into
Speaker 1: the political um discussion of what exactly happened in Canada. UM.
Speaker 1: And I don't even want to make a claim whether
Speaker 1: that was good or not. I think, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: what's good is bad to someone else, and bad is
Speaker 1: you know, vice versa, etcetera. But what was interesting about
Speaker 1: it is what we're seeing happen in the world right now.
Speaker 1: And remember, as I said, right, technology drives change in
Speaker 1: the world because the changes the way that we work,
Speaker 1: we organize with, communicate, etcetera. And so what's interesting is
Speaker 1: that we have bitcoin, we have cryptocurrency. UM. As I've
Speaker 1: been talking about. It's a technological revolution. It's different than
Speaker 1: a technology. A technology is a new technology, like the iPhone,
Speaker 1: and you know, the iPhone is cool and it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of improves on the personal computer in
Speaker 1: the phone and kind of merge them together. And so
Speaker 1: that was an improvement and that was great and I
Speaker 1: like it. But a technological revolution is something that changes
Speaker 1: the course of humanity. What do I mean change the
Speaker 1: course of humanity? I mean it changed literally changes the
Speaker 1: direct And so for example, there's been five industrial revolution.
Speaker 1: Um all of humanity. People were worked in farms, and
Speaker 1: now we had cities and factories. And then we had
Speaker 1: steam engines and railways. For all of humanity, we had horses,
Speaker 1: and now we have steam engines moving stuff across railways
Speaker 1: across the continents, um, automobiles, etcetera. I'm not gonna go
Speaker 1: with thre each one, but you understand how those changed
Speaker 1: the course of humanity for all of humanity. People walked
Speaker 1: and rode horses, and then one day we had cars um,
Speaker 1: and so it's really big. And so we're witnessing one today.
Speaker 1: And this is the decentralized revolution that we're talking about.
Speaker 1: And so back to bitcoin, the decentralized revolution in Canada.
Speaker 1: So we have the we have the truckers. They're protesting.
Speaker 1: They wanted an end to the mandates. Um. I think
Speaker 1: you know, one thing you want to be careful of
Speaker 1: is that they're really trying to pin this on you know,
Speaker 1: vaccines and these are deniers and they don't want this,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't really about that. What they want is
Speaker 1: they don't want mandates. What they want is they don't
Speaker 1: want to be told what they can and can't do.
Speaker 1: What they wanted is they wanted to be able to
Speaker 1: work and provide for their family. Imagine that, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: as I study history, you can look back through just
Speaker 1: never ending um stories of basically cycles repeating from freedom
Speaker 1: and then you get oppressions. So then you get revolution,
Speaker 1: and then you get freedom, and then you get depression,
Speaker 1: you get revolution. It repeats over and over um. And
Speaker 1: what they ultimately want is they just want more freedom.
Speaker 1: They want to be left alone. But ultimately, what the
Speaker 1: if you the proverbial straw that breaks the camel back,
Speaker 1: if you will, or the spark that ignites the flame,
Speaker 1: it's always when people can't provide for their family. So
Speaker 1: it's typically around food. If we look at like the
Speaker 1: Arab spring for example, right when prices get too high,
Speaker 1: people can't eat. You know, I could go through a
Speaker 1: lot of pain, but if it's my kids, my family,
Speaker 1: then it's it's a different story. So you know, back
Speaker 1: to these truckers not able to provide for their family.
Speaker 1: But what what happened was is they were protesting and
Speaker 1: then they raised go fund Me. I've talked about this extensively.
Speaker 1: The go fund me account was frozen um. And then
Speaker 1: there was money given through gives Them Go. That money
Speaker 1: was frozen, and then anybody who donated to those campaigns
Speaker 1: also got their accounts frozen. Literally they were unbanked. They
Speaker 1: were banked and now they're unbanked um. And so then
Speaker 1: what comes next, Well, how can we get the money
Speaker 1: that the government's can't freeze? Can't stop. And of course,
Speaker 1: inter stage right, if you will, enter bitcoin, and bitcoin
Speaker 1: popped up and showed that this is a way to
Speaker 1: send value, saying that as even money makes bitcoin sound
Speaker 1: too small as a way to send value, to transfer
Speaker 1: value to somebody in a way that the government couldn't stop. Now,
Speaker 1: if that wasn't interesting enough, now we have the world
Speaker 1: watching for what's happening in the Ukraine and Russia, and
Speaker 1: so we have a war, not a world war at
Speaker 1: this point, but a war. And we are seeing that
Speaker 1: now Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in this decentralized revolution is taking
Speaker 1: center stage. There's a lot to dig into. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about that. I want to talk about how
Speaker 1: finance is being weaponized. I want to talk about how
Speaker 1: that's forcing people to build parallel structures. I want to
Speaker 1: talk about how this affects individual people and not just nations,
Speaker 1: and so much more. You're listening to the Mark Moa
Speaker 1: show talking about the intersection of politics, finance, and technology.
Speaker 1: We're talking about bitcoin and the decentralized revolution. We're talking
Speaker 1: about how what's going on in the world today is
Speaker 1: really pushing this into the world stage. And you need
Speaker 1: to understand this. So do not go away. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be right back with more in just a second. Everyone,
Speaker 1: welcome back. You are listening to the Mark Ma Show
Speaker 1: and we are talking about what's going on in the
Speaker 1: world today, and I'm trying to bring some context to
Speaker 1: you so you can understand it, and not just understand
Speaker 1: it just so you understand it, but so you can
Speaker 1: understand it so you can navigate it properly. Of course,
Speaker 1: we're talking about bitcoin, the decentralized revolution. We are talking
Speaker 1: about the intersection of politics, finance, and technology. As I
Speaker 1: was making the case before we went on the break,
Speaker 1: that it's technology that is the driving force of change
Speaker 1: in the world that you is the way we communicate, change,
Speaker 1: the way that we interact, change the way that we organize.
Speaker 1: And politics maybe don't like it because it disrupts their
Speaker 1: old ways, their old monopoly and it just creates new ways,
Speaker 1: and it's something to be mad about. It's not about uh,
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be politicized as far as left or right
Speaker 1: or red or blue or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: It's just this technology. So for example, if I wanted
Speaker 1: to listen to Beethoven in the past, I had to
Speaker 1: have a hundred person orchestra, and then it went on
Speaker 1: to a record, and then it went onto a CD.
Speaker 1: And today I just stream it from my phone. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't anything against the orchestra. I mean, those guys
Speaker 1: are great playing those instruments, and I like people playing instruments.
Speaker 1: I play instruments and people should. But today we just
Speaker 1: stream music. And uh. We used to take pictures, and
Speaker 1: we used to have film. I remember having out by
Speaker 1: disposal cameras. We go out for the weekend, take a
Speaker 1: bunch of pictures, I go drop them off, get them developed. Um,
Speaker 1: we had books and books and books of developed photos everywhere,
Speaker 1: mostly in boxes, never never to be looked at again.
Speaker 1: And now we just take digital pictures. And there's nothing
Speaker 1: against code AC or film or pictures. It's just that's
Speaker 1: the way it is. And so today money is being
Speaker 1: digitized and it's not you know, some sides of the
Speaker 1: political ideology don't like it, but it's not anything against them.
Speaker 1: It's just we're just softwares heating the world. That's just
Speaker 1: the way it works. So let's talk about this a
Speaker 1: little bit so so you can understand it. So what
Speaker 1: we obviously we have the rush of Ukraine situation going on.
Speaker 1: That's no surprise unless you've been living under a rock.
Speaker 1: But if you listen to me, then I'm sure you're
Speaker 1: not living under rock. Um. So we have that situation
Speaker 1: going on, and what's interesting is, of course, you know,
Speaker 1: the world condemns it rightfully, So I'm not I'm definitely
Speaker 1: not for that. I'm not for violence of any kind. Um.
Speaker 1: I hate to see violence, oppression, or murder. So I'm
Speaker 1: definitely not trying to speak out for it in any way.
Speaker 1: But what's interesting about it is that the world has,
Speaker 1: like I said, come out and condemned it. And what
Speaker 1: they've really done is they've moved into sanctions. Right. So sanctions,
Speaker 1: so this is where politics and finance come together. And
Speaker 1: so sanctions are a way that they could basically, um,
Speaker 1: you know, try to de escalate the situation or try
Speaker 1: to control the situation without going to war, which is good.
Speaker 1: You know, I prefer to be done diplomatically then going
Speaker 1: to war for sure. Um. And so these sanctions are
Speaker 1: ways where they can, like I said, force people to
Speaker 1: two things. By it's kind of the carrot or the stick,
Speaker 1: if you will. Right, So you have the carrot, which
Speaker 1: is um trying to entice people to do something. And
Speaker 1: the stick is obviously punishment. As humans were very we're
Speaker 1: very simple creatures. Um, if you're if you're in business,
Speaker 1: or if you have studied any type of marketing, then
Speaker 1: you probably know this. But as humans were very basic,
Speaker 1: we're motivated by only two things. And now that you
Speaker 1: know these things, you'll start to notice that as you
Speaker 1: watch like marketing messages. But we're only only motivated by
Speaker 1: two things. One humans we want to we're motivated to
Speaker 1: move towards pleasure. We want things that bring us pleasure. Oh,
Speaker 1: you're gonna look so good. Oh, people are gonna love
Speaker 1: you so much, or you're gonna feel so great. Right,
Speaker 1: that's marketing. And then we're also motivated to move away
Speaker 1: from pain. Um, don't let this happen to you. Watch
Speaker 1: out for this, right. So that's that's the carrot and
Speaker 1: the stick, if you will. And so back to the
Speaker 1: sanctions and so, um, the world has been basically sanctioning
Speaker 1: Russia and the United States, which has the dollar, which
Speaker 1: is the reserve currency of the world, and it controls
Speaker 1: what's known as the swift banking system. And if you've
Speaker 1: ever sent a bank wire before, then you know what
Speaker 1: Swift is. It's the it's the messaging system that sends
Speaker 1: these payments around the world. I think it sends like uh,
Speaker 1: I looked it up the other day. It was like
Speaker 1: fifty billion financial messages a day or something like or
Speaker 1: something like that a lot. And so the money moves
Speaker 1: around through the Swift system. And so what the United
Speaker 1: States can do is they can just say, hey, we'll
Speaker 1: just take away your ability to transfer money. Easy enough, right,
Speaker 1: But the problem is it's it's it's never that easy,
Speaker 1: and it's actually it's actually a very messy problem, and
Speaker 1: it has unintended consequences. Everything in a complex system will
Speaker 1: always have unintended consequences. So complex system like your body,
Speaker 1: for example, your body is very complex and everything hangs
Speaker 1: on a razor then marge in and so unfortunately, what
Speaker 1: most doctors do today is, uh, they you come in
Speaker 1: and say you have heartburn, and they give you a
Speaker 1: prescription for heartburn medication. But they could tell you to
Speaker 1: change your diet and eat eat more vegetables and have
Speaker 1: more alkaline in your body. But instead they'll give you
Speaker 1: a prescription. The problem is that that prescription now has
Speaker 1: unintended consequences. So of course, if you've watched any type
Speaker 1: of pharmaceutical add on TV, at the end they go
Speaker 1: through all the side effects that it could potentially have, right, um,
Speaker 1: and those are unintended consequences. The famous story is the
Speaker 1: is the cobra effect. The cobra effect is interesting. Um,
Speaker 1: it's basically a story. I'll give you the brief version
Speaker 1: from India. And in India they have cobra's right, cobra
Speaker 1: snakes and and those are I've never come face to
Speaker 1: face with unluckily, but they're not a very friendly stake.
Speaker 1: They're they're a very deadly snake. And so they had
Speaker 1: they had a problem. There was too many of these
Speaker 1: cobras running around, and so the government had a bright idea.
Speaker 1: Government always has a bright idea. They just don't think
Speaker 1: about the unintended consequences. Ah. I'm not a big fan
Speaker 1: of government intervention, if you might notice. I think free
Speaker 1: markets will figure this out. So let's talk about this
Speaker 1: the cobra effect and understand the consequences. So basically, uh,
Speaker 1: India says, hey, we have a big problem. We should
Speaker 1: do something. Right. Here's what we'll do. We're gonna pay
Speaker 1: people to go get a cobra. If they kill it
Speaker 1: and bring the cobra in, we'll pay them, you know
Speaker 1: for that. And that way we'll you know, would let
Speaker 1: everybody go kill all the cobras. We don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about anymore. I'll pay it a little bit of money.
Speaker 1: Everything's good, right, Well not necessarily. So what happens is
Speaker 1: everybody starts going and getting the cobras and bringing them in,
Speaker 1: and they starting to make a lot of money. And then,
Speaker 1: you know, people are smart and they're like, I got
Speaker 1: a better idea. Let's just raise cobras. Now, we can
Speaker 1: bring twenty fifty hundreds of cobras at a time. And
Speaker 1: they did so. Now everybody's raising cobras and they're bringing
Speaker 1: them in and getting getting paid. And the government finally said,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, wait a minute, this is ridiculous, like no, no, now,
Speaker 1: you guys are just raising them this defeat while purpose.
Speaker 1: Let's end the program. So they canceled the program. And
Speaker 1: when they canceled the program, what happened, Well, all those
Speaker 1: people that were raising cobras, that will they're worthless to
Speaker 1: us now and they just let them all go, and
Speaker 1: India ended up with more cobras than they had at
Speaker 1: the beginning. That's unintended consequences, and that's exactly what's happening
Speaker 1: with these Russian sanctions. Back to the story. So the
Speaker 1: Russian sanctions, so, um, they shouldn't be able to transact,
Speaker 1: they shouldn't be able to buy things, they shouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to do all these things. And a couple of
Speaker 1: couple of things to note before we really dig into
Speaker 1: the meat of this and how Bitcoin of the decentralized
Speaker 1: Revolution is really taken off because of this. A couple
Speaker 1: of things is that what you may not know is
Speaker 1: that the world is very dependent on each other, al right,
Speaker 1: not just Russia and the US, but everybody is depending
Speaker 1: on each other. So for example, um, the United States
Speaker 1: is heavily dependent on energy, um oil from Russia. Europe
Speaker 1: is very very heavily dependent on energy from Russia, both
Speaker 1: oil and natural gas. So already you know, the Biden
Speaker 1: administration said, well, we're gonna sanction Russia, but we're not
Speaker 1: gonna sanction energy. Okay, well, what good does that do
Speaker 1: because their main export is energy, So you're gonna you're
Speaker 1: gonna sanction but not their energy. But that's that's what
Speaker 1: they have, so right, off the bat. Sanctions aren't very
Speaker 1: effective because we're not going to do that. But then
Speaker 1: it goes even further. Right, So let's say, for example,
Speaker 1: what Biden did announce is that what we're going to
Speaker 1: do is we're going to sanction UM their technology. That's
Speaker 1: what we'll do. We'll we'll we'll prevent them from getting
Speaker 1: to technology. It's gonna hold them back. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: a big problem. So we're gonna cut them off from
Speaker 1: microchips UM and Taiwan says, yes, we stand with Ukraine
Speaker 1: will also cut them off from microchips. The problem is
Speaker 1: is that we need the elements that come from China
Speaker 1: from Russia to make them. Anyway, I'm gonna dig more
Speaker 1: into that story. I want to tell you the unintended
Speaker 1: consequence of now that Russia has been sanctioned, the new
Speaker 1: parallel market that's opening up with cryptocurrency. This is fascinating
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to talk about, talk about this
Speaker 1: weaponization of finance, and I want to talk to you
Speaker 1: about how the origin of this whole Russia situation came
Speaker 1: into play. A lot to cover. I'm gonna try and
Speaker 1: getrough it pretty quickly. You're listening to the Mark Moss Show,
Speaker 1: talking about Bitcoin, the decentralized revolution, the intersection of these subjects.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I got a lot more to go over,
Speaker 1: so don't go away. I'll be right back. All right,
Speaker 1: Welcome back. You are listening to the Mark Moa Show,
Speaker 1: and we are talking about bitcoin, the decentralized Revolution, and
Speaker 1: we're talking about how it's changing the world, um through politics,
Speaker 1: finance and technology together really the three of those things
Speaker 1: merging at the same time. I've talked a lot about
Speaker 1: the thesis there's three revolutionary cycles, a two fifty year
Speaker 1: political cycle, h fifty year technological revolution cycle, and an
Speaker 1: eighty year financial revolution cycle. That are all three converging
Speaker 1: right now. And that's why the world seems like it's
Speaker 1: going so crazy. You've gotta understand these things. And of
Speaker 1: course we're talking about that right now. Specifically, we're talking
Speaker 1: about what happened in Canada and the and the sanctions
Speaker 1: where um anybody that donated to the Canadians or the
Speaker 1: Canadians were involved, about the bank accounts frozen. And we're
Speaker 1: talking about Russia and obviously they're taking over Ukraine or
Speaker 1: are right invading Ukraine. We'll call it that, UM and
Speaker 1: how now there's all these sanctions imposed against them, and
Speaker 1: you know, so what's happening is is now they said
Speaker 1: they want to UM sanction them. Now a couple of
Speaker 1: a couple of things to talk about here, well sorry,
Speaker 1: not a couple of things. I got a lot of
Speaker 1: things talk about, but UM specifically. The first thing that's
Speaker 1: interesting to understand is you saw in Canada front and
Speaker 1: center that UM the go fund me, the gifts and
Speaker 1: go anybody who donated to those things, anybody that was
Speaker 1: involved in those things got their bank accounts frozen and
Speaker 1: even shut down. And so what that what that showed
Speaker 1: to the world is that your money in your bank
Speaker 1: isn't actually your money. So when we think of things
Speaker 1: in terms of censorship today, we think in things in
Speaker 1: terms of like, you know, my YouTube channel, which if
Speaker 1: you don't watch it, you should go to Mark Moss
Speaker 1: and check it out. But I think about things in
Speaker 1: terms of my YouTube channel, where if I say the
Speaker 1: wrong things, I'll be censored, right if I if I
Speaker 1: post the wrong things on Instagram or Twitter, which by
Speaker 1: the way, you follow me there too, it's at number
Speaker 1: one Mark Moss. But if I post the wrong thing
Speaker 1: on Instagram, or Twitter, I get censored, but you don't
Speaker 1: think about things in terms of censorship in terms of
Speaker 1: your money. And that's exactly what happened in Canada, all right,
Speaker 1: So they censored people. They said, you don't have the
Speaker 1: right to use that money. You don't have the right
Speaker 1: to send it to these people. You can't use it
Speaker 1: in that way. And now in Canada. Now what's interesting
Speaker 1: is Okay, that happened to people in Canada. That happened
Speaker 1: a little old single mothers donated fifty bucks or truckers. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's one thing. But there's three global superpowers in the
Speaker 1: world that have nuclear weapons, United States, Russia, and China.
Speaker 1: All the other countries are like tier two three global
Speaker 1: superpowers with nukes. And we just found out that even
Speaker 1: a global superpower with nukes, talking about Russia, got their
Speaker 1: bank accounts frozen. What I get it. I mean that
Speaker 1: happens to people in Canada, right, Like little old ladies
Speaker 1: are like single people who donated the money, but like
Speaker 1: a sovereign nation with nucle your weapons, we just froze
Speaker 1: their accounts. It's pretty insane, right, And and that's because
Speaker 1: the financial system has been weaponized. What Russia found out
Speaker 1: real quickly. Is the same thing that you should have
Speaker 1: figured out by now as well, that if you don't
Speaker 1: hold the actual asset itself, you don't have in in
Speaker 1: a code word would be root access to the database.
Speaker 1: You don't have control over that, which is pretty insane,
Speaker 1: right um. And of course, like I said, these unintended consequences.
Speaker 1: Then when you kick people out of the financial system,
Speaker 1: they don't just go away and die. They find another
Speaker 1: way to live, into work, and to get along just
Speaker 1: outside of the financial system. And that's exactly what is happening.
Speaker 1: So a couple of things. So One, Russia has been
Speaker 1: ready for this. They've been de dollarizing for a long
Speaker 1: time their dollars, they've been dumping dollars and adding gold reserves.
Speaker 1: So it was about six hundred fifty billion dollars was
Speaker 1: frozen in their bank accounts, but they have another six
Speaker 1: billion in gold sitting in their bank and in their vaults.
Speaker 1: And the US can't do anything, or the Europe or
Speaker 1: whoever wants to sanction, they can't do anything about the gold. Now,
Speaker 1: Russia exports energy, so think natural gas and oil. That's
Speaker 1: also assets. We can't do anything to stop that. And
Speaker 1: China just entered into a thirty year deal to buy
Speaker 1: all their natural gas outside of the dollar, outside of sanctions.
Speaker 1: I say that because now I want to talk to
Speaker 1: you about cryptocurrency and sanctions. And uh, it's not a mute.
Speaker 1: It's not an exclusive problem to crypto, right if you
Speaker 1: think about it. The usum can censor people to use
Speaker 1: their banking system, but if somebody moves outside of the
Speaker 1: banking system, regardless of what they use out of there,
Speaker 1: they can't censor that. So for example, myself personally, let's
Speaker 1: say the US shuts off my bank accounts, which I
Speaker 1: hope doesn't happen, but they shut off my bank accounts. Um, well,
Speaker 1: I can't transact in dollars now, but if I had cash,
Speaker 1: so I could still transact in dollars if I had cash,
Speaker 1: but I could you know, I could trade you my
Speaker 1: labor for something. I could trade you some item I
Speaker 1: have for another item you have. Right, So they can't
Speaker 1: really stop that per se um. They can just stop
Speaker 1: me from using dollars. And that's exactly what happened. But
Speaker 1: back to these unintended consequences, is it now forces me
Speaker 1: to find a way to live without the dollars. Now
Speaker 1: the dollars the reserve currency of the world, reserve asset
Speaker 1: of the world. UM. But if we it's like if
Speaker 1: I had a party and I started kicking everyone out
Speaker 1: of the party. They're too noisy, they did this wrong,
Speaker 1: and they did that rong, etcetera. Eventually I find myself
Speaker 1: I'm the only one. I'm the only one left at
Speaker 1: the party. I'm by myself, and I have no control
Speaker 1: over anyone because they're not at my party anymore. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fac, they wouldn't started their own party,
Speaker 1: and I have no control. I'm on the outside of
Speaker 1: that party. And that's basically what's happened. But you know,
Speaker 1: back to kind of the big story I want to
Speaker 1: talk about is that Russia has been finding out that cryptocurrency,
Speaker 1: just like Canada found out UM could be a tool
Speaker 1: that they could use UM to get around these types
Speaker 1: of the sanctions, right it UM. And so we're seeing
Speaker 1: UM what I'm calling the rise of the authoritarians and
Speaker 1: the authoritarians what do I mean by that? These are
Speaker 1: people who just want to tell you what to do.
Speaker 1: They always want to tell you what to do, as
Speaker 1: opposed to giving you freedom to to to work on
Speaker 1: your own and so now, um, they're calling for cryptocurrency
Speaker 1: exchanges to quote should be shut down end quote if
Speaker 1: they don't suspend Russian accounts. So we saw, Yeah, who finances?
Speaker 1: Cryptocurrency exchanges should be closed if they do not suspend
Speaker 1: accounts by Russians. Um Routers, the CEO of Hermitage Capital,
Speaker 1: said that cryptocurrency exchanges should face severe repercussions from governments
Speaker 1: worldwide if they continue to reject a blanket freeze of
Speaker 1: Russian accounts. Um, but think about that for a second.
Speaker 1: They want to shut that down. They want to shut
Speaker 1: down people's ability to transact, take away their ability to transact.
Speaker 1: But I don't condone what Russia is doing Ukraine at all.
Speaker 1: I don't condone any type of violence. I made that
Speaker 1: clear already. But I don't hate anybody in Russia. And
Speaker 1: I bet you who the Russian people don't hate people
Speaker 1: in Ukraine either. It's the leaders, it's the government. They're
Speaker 1: the ones that are causing the problem, right the Vladimir
Speaker 1: Putin in Russia, he's bad and he's doing something bad
Speaker 1: to Ukraine. But I doubt that all the Russian people
Speaker 1: want to do that. I doubt the Russian people all
Speaker 1: hate that the United States has been engaged in war
Speaker 1: in the Middle East for twenty years, dropping bombs. I
Speaker 1: don't hate anybody in the Middle East, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: you don't either, see what I'm saying. And so now
Speaker 1: we're gonna penalize all of the people in Russia because
Speaker 1: they live there. So now they can't transact. So the
Speaker 1: Russian ruble, which is their local currency, is crashing. They're
Speaker 1: losing purchasing power, and uh, if you if your if
Speaker 1: your currency is crashing like we've seen happen in Venezuela
Speaker 1: or Argentina or Lebanon, are trying to get out of
Speaker 1: that currency as past you can before it comes worthless
Speaker 1: and you don't have a lot of options. And so
Speaker 1: those people are trying to get out to protect their
Speaker 1: assets so they don't die, so they can still buy
Speaker 1: food for their families later. And so one way to
Speaker 1: do that is with bitcoin or cryptocurrencies. And now they're
Speaker 1: calling to shut that down, suspend the accounts of all
Speaker 1: the Russians, they say, but it really impacts all these
Speaker 1: people that are just trying to um, you know, save
Speaker 1: their own lives, save their family lives, if you will.
Speaker 1: But it's really putting bitcoin and cryptocurrency on their center
Speaker 1: stage and showing that they can do this. But like
Speaker 1: I said, I wanted to just kind of build that
Speaker 1: case up because it's not cryptocurrency that enables this, it's
Speaker 1: anything that's outside the financial system. So if they have gold,
Speaker 1: which they do, they have massive amounts of gold, well,
Speaker 1: that also helps them circumvent And if they now make
Speaker 1: this deal with China which they did to sell natural
Speaker 1: gas um that also circumvent sanctions. So it's not it's
Speaker 1: not bitcoin or cryptocurrency's fault. It's not bitcoin and cryptocurren
Speaker 1: to that enables this. They could sell their oil outside
Speaker 1: of the system. They could sell their natural gas house system.
Speaker 1: It's basically like I said, if you keep kicking people out,
Speaker 1: you're the only one left. But if you and but
Speaker 1: and the point is like with Russia, as long as
Speaker 1: they have those assets in their custody, they can always
Speaker 1: trade them. And that's the key peaces having assets in
Speaker 1: your custody. We saw in Canada, we see in Russia.
Speaker 1: If you don't have the access, whether you're a sovereign
Speaker 1: nation or an individual, they can take your money from you,
Speaker 1: which is why bitcoin is a revolution because it's the
Speaker 1: first time in history I can hold custody of my
Speaker 1: own asset in a way that nobody can take it
Speaker 1: from me. You're listening to the markma Show. I got
Speaker 1: a lot more coming up. Do not go away, I'll
Speaker 1: be right back, all right, Welcome back. You are listening
Speaker 1: to the Mark Moa Show, and we are talking about
Speaker 1: the intersection of politics, technology and finance, how they're all
Speaker 1: coming together right now in what we're calling the decentralized revolution.
Speaker 1: Of course we're talking about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. We're talking
Speaker 1: about specifically Russia and how you know they're moving on
Speaker 1: you careering has been met with massive amounts of sanctions,
Speaker 1: and the sanctions, Um, it's kind of funny because, like
Speaker 1: I said, the sanctions aren't super effective on Russia because
Speaker 1: we're so dependent on them for energy, I think oil
Speaker 1: and gas. We're so depending on them that we said
Speaker 1: we're not going to sanction those things, um. And so
Speaker 1: really what we're trying to do is kick them out
Speaker 1: of the financial system. But we're really impacting all of
Speaker 1: the people because now what are the people going to do?
Speaker 1: And it's not their fault, um, But this is the
Speaker 1: point that we're trying to I'm trying to make here
Speaker 1: is that if if your if your money is not
Speaker 1: safe in Canada and as a as a sovereign nation
Speaker 1: with nuclear weapons, your your money is not safe, then
Speaker 1: your money whoevers listening to this, your money is not safe.
Speaker 1: If if if Russia with nukes can't keep their money safe
Speaker 1: from the U. S seaz in it, then neither can you.
Speaker 1: And it's not just Russia. We also saw a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago, I mean it actually happened a while ago,
Speaker 1: but we saw that the United States sees Afghanian, the
Speaker 1: Afghanistan central banks money. There's about seven billion dollars in
Speaker 1: the Afghanistan Central Bank and the US just decided to
Speaker 1: take it. We're gonna take all your money now. Um
Speaker 1: that I guess you know that sounds good, right, I mean, uh,
Speaker 1: you know the Taliban, they're they're supporting terrorism and the
Speaker 1: Taliban and you know whatever. But like, if you live
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan and you put your money in the bank,
Speaker 1: that means all your money just got taken from you.
Speaker 1: Just stop and think about that for a second. So,
Speaker 1: whether you're in Canada, or whether you're in Russia, or
Speaker 1: whether you're in Afghanistan, your money was taken out. You
Speaker 1: don't think it happens in the United States. Uh, don't
Speaker 1: do it right now. But when I'm done, go google
Speaker 1: civil asset forfeiture. Just google that for a second and
Speaker 1: just see what happens to people's money here in the US.
Speaker 1: And so, um, what's happening right now is we're witnessing
Speaker 1: this new technology come front and center. And as I
Speaker 1: kind of made the case before, if I start kicking
Speaker 1: so many people out of the party, eventually I'm the
Speaker 1: only one left. And we if we kick enough people
Speaker 1: out of the financial system, eventually we're the only people
Speaker 1: left in this old legacy financial system and they've all
Speaker 1: gone on to make their own new financial system. All right,
Speaker 1: now about sanctions real quickly. Um. I talked about this
Speaker 1: on my YouTube channel, and people like, oh, Mark, you
Speaker 1: must be pro Russia, you must be a Russian asset, right. No, Look,
Speaker 1: sanctions are fine, right. I believe that we vote with
Speaker 1: our money. So if I don't like you or what
Speaker 1: you do or what you stand for, then I would
Speaker 1: choose not to give you my money. Um, And that's
Speaker 1: how I would vote. So if the United States doesn't
Speaker 1: want to do business with Russia anymore. Great, don't buy
Speaker 1: their oil, don't buy their wheat, don't buy what up? Sure,
Speaker 1: no problem, right, that's how we should do it. Um.
Speaker 1: But when you start trying to talk about like limiting
Speaker 1: what they can do, restricting like I said, the people there,
Speaker 1: that's when it starts getting a little bit more dangerous
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, all you're doing
Speaker 1: is going to build this parallel economy. All those people
Speaker 1: that were unbanked in Canada, all the Russians that are
Speaker 1: now unbanked, all the people in Afghanistan, they're unbanked. They're
Speaker 1: just gonna find a new system. And that system is
Speaker 1: going to be bitcoin, and it's gonna be cryptocurrencies, which
Speaker 1: of course the leaders do not like. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, like I said, they were calling for regulations
Speaker 1: on cryptocurrency exchanges. We saw that they're saying that bitcoin
Speaker 1: sanctions could be next. Um apparently, Um again, it's a tool, right,
Speaker 1: Should they also ban gold? Should they also ban oil?
Speaker 1: And on and on? But one thing I want to
Speaker 1: talk about real quick, that most people haven't really thought
Speaker 1: about this is that when you start asking about what
Speaker 1: shouldn't we be sanctioning people UM. Eric Swalwell, he's one
Speaker 1: of our US leaders representatives. He calls for all Russian
Speaker 1: students to be kicked out of American universities. I mean,
Speaker 1: these Russian students, they didn't have anything to do with this,
Speaker 1: and now we're going to kick them out of universities.
Speaker 1: You can see how now now they're they're actually even
Speaker 1: calling for UM to ban all athletes. Russian and Belarus
Speaker 1: athletes banned, tennis players avoid tour exclusion. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's getting pretty crazy, UM. But let's talk about where
Speaker 1: this all started. Because when you start asking me, should
Speaker 1: we allow sanctions, maybe that's even the wrong conversation to have.
Speaker 1: Maybe we would have never gotten to this point to
Speaker 1: even make this decision if we had done things differently.
Speaker 1: So what do I mean by that? Well, you might
Speaker 1: remember about six years ago, before President Donald Trump took office,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we it was Russia, Russia, Russia,
Speaker 1: Russian collusion, Russia interfering with the UM election, Russia is
Speaker 1: or Donald Trump's an asset of UM, Russia, et cetera. Right,
Speaker 1: We've heard all about this, and it was it was
Speaker 1: started through what was known as the Steele dossier. And
Speaker 1: the Steel dossier is something that the that the Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton campaign came up with and supposedly it was the
Speaker 1: smoking gun, and it proved that Trump was a Russian asset,
Speaker 1: and it proved that Russia was meddling in our democratic process,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of like the U s LS and
Speaker 1: everybody else's um democratic process. But um, what we know
Speaker 1: now is through massive amounts of investigations, we know that
Speaker 1: that was all fake. So here we have a New
Speaker 1: York Times, which I'm no family New York Times. They
Speaker 1: are very um sided to one side, we'll call it that.
Speaker 1: But the New York Times admits that anti Trump steal
Speaker 1: dossier was a fake. So the New York Times was
Speaker 1: a major promoter of the now debunk conspiracy theory that
Speaker 1: President Trump colluded with Russia to win the election. In
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go on to read the whole thing,
Speaker 1: but what happened is because the Clinton campaign and the
Speaker 1: establishment hated Trump so bad, they made up a whole
Speaker 1: fake narrative and they've ran with it for years and
Speaker 1: years and years. Even today they're still running with it.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, just a few days ago, um,
Speaker 1: as I was skimming through the headlines of a lot
Speaker 1: of these night, late night talk shows. That's all you
Speaker 1: hear is a matter of fact. I'm gonna play two
Speaker 1: clips from Jimmy Kimmel. So I think we have one
Speaker 1: clip from Jimmy Kimmel. Qut up, Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: play that first clip. According to a new poll done
Speaker 1: by Harvard University of Americans believe that Russia would not
Speaker 1: have invaded Ukraine if Trump was still president, which kind
Speaker 1: of misses the point. Trump as president was a Russian
Speaker 1: invasion of us. All right, So there you have it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's dominating news as a matter of fact.
Speaker 1: Kimmel went on to talk about Trump and Russia multiple
Speaker 1: times throughout that presentation, but a couple of things. He said.
Speaker 1: There one, Um, people believe that if Trump was still president,
Speaker 1: there would be no Russia Ukraine invasion. I think it's
Speaker 1: pretty interesting. Um that that just proved that Biden has
Speaker 1: just made things worse. But most importantly, he said that
Speaker 1: you don't understand Trump was a Russian invasion. So here
Speaker 1: we are, six years later. Here we are after we
Speaker 1: already know and have proof that it was all made
Speaker 1: up in fake even after New York Times has come
Speaker 1: out and even admitted it. There's still pedaling this. And
Speaker 1: here's the key piece here. This is why I bring
Speaker 1: this up, be because of this fake dossier that Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton put out and the media still running with it
Speaker 1: like today with Jimmy Kimmel. Um, we made Russia the
Speaker 1: bad guy, the demon We demonized them, and the Trump
Speaker 1: administration couldn't have any communication with them, and so that
Speaker 1: that put Russia out in the cold. And so the
Speaker 1: US was trying to work Russia against China, work China
Speaker 1: against Russia. And now for six years we've pushed Russia
Speaker 1: out on their own. We've demonized them and the administration
Speaker 1: could have no contact with them at all, which has
Speaker 1: put them in the cold and now put them on
Speaker 1: the side of China. If we had never done this
Speaker 1: Steel dossier, if the Hillary Clinton campaign never faked that,
Speaker 1: we probably never would have found ourselves in this situation
Speaker 1: in the first place. Um. But you know, being a
Speaker 1: bitcoin advocate and a proponent, I guess the silver lining
Speaker 1: is that at least we have bitcoin out in the
Speaker 1: open um now for a lot of people that don't understand.
Speaker 1: You know, you can buy bitcoin obviously on exchanges and
Speaker 1: you can, um, you can buy it. Typically you have
Speaker 1: to go through this whole k y C process. Now
Speaker 1: I talked about how they want to start regulating these changes. Um,
Speaker 1: they want to start censoring them. Um, these representatives are
Speaker 1: actually calling for these um, these bitcoin exchanges to you know,
Speaker 1: freeze accounts and things like that. You listen to the
Speaker 1: Mark Moss Show talking about bitcoin and the decentralized Revolution.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening.