Hello, and welcome back to another episode of the Markmas Show, where we talk about the decentralized revolution. Of course, we talk about the way the world is changing, and of course we look at it through the lens of politics, finance, and technology, three driving forces. Of course, we look at the convergence of those three things. And I like to bring you some education, some breaking news, and some interesting guests.
And today I want to cover some of the latest breaking news stories that I saw this week that caught my eye that I think you should be up on, that you should be understanding what's going on. Now, we'll start with the top. I mean, out of the three things, politics, finance, technology, the thing that really drives the world, changes the world more than anything else, is technology. And of course we're witnessing the decentralized revolution and we're witnessing the decentralized technology
at the same time. And of course that is Bitcoin. Now. One of the biggest drawbacks, or I shouldn't say drawbacks, One of the biggest attack vectors by bitcoin's opponents is that it uses is too much energy. It waste energy, they say, and so they suppose it's a big problem. Now,
First of all, it wastes energy. What does that even mean? Well, first of all, the amount of total energy that bitcoin uses is micro in comparison to the amount of energy used in the world, and it's micro compared to the amount of energy used for other things like what like clothes dryers, for example, use way more energy than the bitcoin blockchain does. And do you really need your clothes dried in a machine? Couldn't you just hang them up
on a line in your backyard. The servers that power power YouTube uses more energy than the Bitcoin mind ecosystem, So it waste energy, supposedly, is what they say. But the amount of total amount of energy it uses period is less than lots of other things that I could easily argue would be a waste. But who's to say what is a waste? One's man's trash is another man's treasure.
You might find that you need to go stare out into space for three hours a day, which is a total waste of your time in my opinion, But for you, it's what keeps you mentally sane, for example, And so what is waste? The one thing that I would argue potentially could be waste would be creating something that doesn't get used. So what do I mean by that? If I made a bunch of food and nobody ate it, and then I had to throw the food away, you could argue that might be a waste potentially because I
made it and nobody used it. And so if we look at energy in that way, we could also say the same we look at the total amount of energy being created and then energy being created that's actually not used at all. Now, what do you mean why would energy be created but not used. Well, there's lots of power plants along around the world that create more power than the people drawing on that use and so there's
wasted energy. And that's why places that California have the highest energy prices in the world, because we don't create enough energy for the amount of people using it and we have to import energy, so prices go up supply demand, right. But then there's areas around the country and around the world where they create more energy than it's being used, and so they're trying to sell it for anything they can.
While in California on paying forty cents per kilowatt hour, there's places in the world that have it for self for two or three cents because nobody's buying it. So if we look at the amount of energy being created and not used, I could say that would be a waste. Bitcoin is only using a very small percentage of that energy. It uses the energy that's being created but not used,
so it only uses a very micro amount. But on top of that, we saw that there was a major milestone that was talked about this week in that bitcoin mind is fueled by sustainable energy. As a matter of fact, there was this article that came out Cambridge Center for Alternative Finance study on Bitcoin Environmental impact, and it says that the sustainable energy use is at least fifty two and a half fifty two point six percent of bitcoin's
mining total energy. So it says that if you care about ESG, then you might care that Bitcoin's adoption is all being done on sustainable energy. The Bitcoin Mining Council study found it uses fifty eight point nine percent of sustainable energy, so almost sixty percent. Now, for me, I think it's sort of ridiculous. I think this is the wrong number, wrong data to hone in on. However, for those people that for somehow feel that the amount of energy being used is bad, well then you can throw
out that sixty percent of it is coming from sustainable uses. Now, the other point that I'd like to point out is, like I said, bitcoin doesn't compete for energy. Bitcoin bitcoin mining can't work in California because there's too much competition for energy the price is too high. Bitcoin mining can only work in areas where there's no competition, meaning there's too much power being produced because it needs to have
two three four cent power. And so the amount all of the energy that bitcoin is being is consuming is using is the energy that would go to waste if bitcoin didn't didn't use it. Now, in regards to bitcoin mining, we saw that looking at the bitcoin price. I don't typically like to look at the bitcoin price. I think the price is the least interesting part. With new technology, we will look at the growth of the network and the development on the network. I want to talk about
two of those, both of those things. But the growth of the network would be both the amount of users, you know, the new wallets, the users that are using it, potentially merchants that are accepted in etc. But we'd also look at the growth of the network. And you can measure the growth of the network through the mining capacity, the hash power and so we can see that the bitcoin miners we're talking about with energy use, we can see that the bitcoin miners are actually have been actually
outperforming bitcoin most recently on the price. Part of that's because the bitcoin miners got so oversold, they sold them off so much, and they're bouncing back faster. It's sort of like gold miners versus physical gold. So gold miners typically go up more than physical goal because of the leverage that they employ, and we're seeing sort of the same thing in bitcoin mining. But it's important not so much that it's outperforming bitcoin, but what I see as
important is that the amount of hash rate expansion. So you measure computers by the amount of hash rate they have, and what we can see is that the hash rate has been going up. As a matter of fact, it's up by one hundred and twenty nine percent over the last year, which is pretty amazing. That's a massive growth.
So the growth of the network. The miners not only support the transactions, but they support the security, and so the more miners that are on the bitcoin network, the more security it has, and we see that it is going through the roof, which is a good thing. Now, I also want to talk about the development on the network, because we also want to look at what is being developed on the network. Now. A company that I've been working with, Zion Zion app zio n just launched its
version two, which uses the Bitcoin network. They launched it using what's what Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, calls Web five and so basically Zion is a new social media app. You can download it now. To do it now, get your phone app, download the Zion app, and it uses the Web five standards. So you can have your
own ID. It's called a d IDA Decentralized Online Identity d ID, and basically you can have your own ID that has all of your information, but you want that in a place that can be hacked or shutdown or censored. And so it uses the bitcoin blockchain, Bitcoin time chain to hash or to store that decentralized ID information. You wouldn't want to put that d ID into another blockchain like Ethereum or Cardano that could just change the rules and get censored, and so instead it goes into the
Bitcoin time chain where it's censorship resistance. Now, Zion, like I said, just launched version to check it out. Ad me on there. I have a community. I'm setting up on there right now and there's over sixty thousand people waiting to come on. It's we have funding from Aaron Rodgers from the Green Bay Packers. Tony Robbins is now promoting this. You can see on his Twitter he posted this the day. But basically what this opens up is the ability for you to own your own community by
owning your own ID. So if you've been afraid of you know, YouTube or Twitter or somebody censoring you, with an app like Zion built on top of the bitcoin blockchain, you don't have to worry about that anymore, and you can move messages and bitcoin and money around seamlessly. Check it out Zion, and this is a massive development on the bitcoin blockchain. Remember we're looking at growth of the
network and development on the network. If you're just tune in, you're listening to the Mark Moas Show, we're talking about the latest breaking news stories this week in the decentralized Revolution. I have a whole lot more stories to govern. When we come back, I gotta take a quick break. I'll be right back with more. You don't want to miss it, so I'll be right back, all right, Welcome back. If you're just tune in, you're listening to the Mark Moas Show.
Of course, we're talking about the decentralized revolution. We're running through some of the latest breaking news stories and headlines to keep you up to date so you know what the heck is going on out there in the world. You know, I want you to sound like you're really smart and paying attention when you go to those parties over the weekend. And so looking at some of these
news headlines. One story that I've been talking about a lot, and not just me, it's been all over If you look at alternative news sources, you see it being talked about all the time. And that is a CBDC or a central bank digital currency. Now I've been out here pounding the table on it because they're bad. They're very, very bad. But it's not certain. It's not a foregone conclusion that we're going to have CBDCs. So let me explain. A central bank digital currency is very bad because of
what it can do. Now, just real quickly, about eighty percent of all dollar transactions are already done digitally. We already have a digital dollar, in my opinion, meaning we use our debit cards, our credit cards, or Venmo or PayPal or wire transfers, all of those things. It's already digital. We don't really carry cash around or use cash anymore, at least I don't. Some people still depend on a lot of cash, and so we're already doing all our
transactions digitally. A CBDC is no different than the dollar that we have now, meaning it's still a fiat currency, meaning the government can still just create as much as they want, and it's still move digitally, just like we move our dollars digitally today. The reason why it's so bad is because right now today the government can't really they can track it. They can get all the data from this, They can subpoena information from the credit card
companies and Venmo and things like that. But a CBDCs central bank digital currency can be programmed, meaning they can program the set of rules into the money before you even get it. So, for example, they give you stimulus. They want to spend the money to stimulate the economy. So if you don't spend this money by Friday, you lose the money. Like China with a social credit score system, if you say mean things about the government, we take some of your money. If you're not saving enough, we
give you positive interest rate. If you're saving too much, if you're hoarding, we have a negative interest rate. You can't you know, you've you've exceeded your meat allotment or your carbon allotment, and so you cut. You can't buy more meat, you can't buy more gasoline. You only get two plane trips per year, so you can't buy more plane trips, and so it's programmable in that way. Now, China, of course, being a communist country, has already rolled hers out,
and other countries are trying to do the same. However, in the United States, where it seems like it's a foregone conclusion, and people in the United States already playing the victim card, like, oh, what can we do, There's nothing we can do. That's not true. As a matter of fact, there's a lot of pushback. Lots of lawmakers in the United States are pushing back against this. Been lots of legislation that has been proposed, and one of them came this week from good old Congressman Tom Emmer.
He's a Republican from Minnesota, and this guy is on it. He has put a bunch of bills for it to really stop this down and basically the bill would effectively put an end to the debate over the creation of a Federal Reserve issued CBDC. Now, the Federal Reserve can control monetary policy, can control banking policy, but really it's the Treasury the government that has the ability to make money. So the Fed doesn't have the power to issue money.
And Congressman Tom Emma has introduced a bill that would prohibit the Federal Reserve from actually issuing a CBDC directly to anyone. The bills titled the CBDC Anti Surveillance State Act and details that, except as specifically authorized under this Act, a Federal Reserve Bank may not offer products or services directly to an individual, or maintain an account on behalf of that individual, or issue a central bank digital currency
to an individual. And it goes on further to say that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the FMOC Committee may not use any central bank digital currency to implement monetary policy. It's pretty good now, he went on. He tweeted out saying that any digital version of the dollar must uphold our American values of privacy, individual sovereignty, and free market competitiveness. Anything less opens the door to the development of a dangerous surveillance tool. So
he gets it. He gets it. So we still have lots of good people in the government fighting the fight, trying to uphold, as he said, American values of privacy, individual sovereignty, and free market competitiveness. Now, there's been lots of other representatives that are getting on board with this, of course, mostly Republicans. Barry Loudermilk, who's Republican from Georgia, released a statement saying that he was quote proud to
join forces with Rep. Emmer. We also have Rep. Andy Biggs, a Republican from Arizona, on board, explaining that quote unelected bureaucrats are driving us to an authoritarian state that can't happen, and so it is not a foregone conclusion. CBDCs are not here, and there's still a lot that we can do to push back on them. One of them is I know you don't want to hear this. It may seem like a waste of your time, but you can call or write your local lawmakers and tell them what
you think about this. Because they do care about getting reelected, they should care what you have to say. And there's lots of people doing a good job. Tell them they're doing a good job. Tell them that they need to get on board with this if that may be the case now. Also other lawmakers pushing this forward is in Wyoming. The Wyoming legislator passed a bill protecting bitcoin private keys
from courts. So with cryptocurrency, there's two keys. There's a public key, which is like your public address, like your bank account. I can give you my bank account right now. You can go deposit money in my bank account. That's my public address. It's like a locker. I give you my locker riders you can go slip an envelope in there. But then there's a private key that allows me to
open that locker and move the contents. And so Wyoming legislator passed a bill protecting the private key from courts. It says that the state of Wyoman has passed a bill that protected citizens from having to disclose their private keys. It just needs to be signed by the governor now, so it's already been approved by the state Senate and the House of Representatives, it's way to be signed by
the governor. So if you're in Wyoming, you should reach out to the governor's office and leave them a bill. But the bill states that no person should be compelled to produce a private key or make a private key known to any other person in any civil, criminal, administrative, legislature, or other proceeding in the state that relates to a
digital asset. Pretty amazing. So, while most of the governments of the world are continuing to try to get you to give up all of your privacy, all of your ability to have any private property control that in Europe, the ECB and the EU Commission, they're trying to pass legislation to make it where you can't have a private key, where you can't hold your private property in a way
that keeps it safe. But here in Wyoming, they're trying to pass a bill that says no government, no state, no court could ever force you to give up your private key. So you can see the difference that we have here. And while I know a lot of you feel that this is a it's a losing battle, that that, like I said, we're all victims here, we're not. It's not over yet. There's still a lot of people fighting
the good fight. A couple other things I saw this week where we saw that Sam Bankman freed from FTX. He got charged with making three hundred illegal political contributions to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. Turns out he got charged with conspiracy. So all your conspiracy theorists, there's actually such a thing as conspiracy. As a matter
of fact, there is a law against it. And now Sam Bankman, freed from FTX, has been charged with even more counts of conspiracy for giving money illegally, twelve counts of conspiracy to making three hundred political contributions. Will be interesting to see if they pull those contributions back from the bankruptcy court. I just tune in. You're listening to the Mark Moss Show. We're talking about the decentralized Revolution.
Talking through some of the latest breaking news headlines this week so you can understand how the world is changing. Now I got a lot more to talk about on a global stage, some big developments you do not want to miss. Somebody be right back with that in a minute, So don't go away. I'll be right back, all right, Welcome back. If you just tune innywhere listening to the
Mark Moss Show. We talk about the decentralized revolution. Of course, talking about how the world is changing, and we look at it through the lens of politics, finance, and technology. And we're running through some of the latest breaking news headlines of the week. And one of the news headlines that we've already been talking about, so it's been going on. It's one of the biggest news stories is the trained develment that happened in Ohio. Now I've talked about it before.
You know, there's a lot of information that continues to come out. We're still trying to figure out what's going on here. There's lots of wild speculation about what's going on, and then we have some sort of facts. I think
it's important to understand. I think I think it was last week I framed it up on the show talking about how really I think a lot of what's going on with train derailments, food processing plans blowing up, fuel refineries blowing up, and things like that, the FAA, you know, shutting down, planes not running on time, a lot of it. You know, it's easy to go conspiratorial here and think
that you know, someone's out to sabotage everything. The government's attacking us or teriffs are attacking it, which which is possible, but it's also possible that a lot of it might just come down to aging infrastructure. And as I was framing up the age of incompetence, and so we're now at a point where I reported last week people in Baltimore, I think twenty six schools nobody could pass math. In Chicago fifty five schools, not one single person could pass
math or reading in a lot of these schools. Today they're at m I saw another report that there really have been no increase in education since the third grade. And so we're at this point where we have this age of incompetence, where people are able to pass high school without being able to read it write, And we're no longer advancing people based off of merit. We're now advancing people based off of identity, which obviously is a problem.
Sho always be the best person for the job. And then on top of that, we're also forcing people to work in areas where maybe they shouldn't work. And so if I really really really want to get this position, like I heard from pilots for example, and so you know, people used to dream of growing up one day and to being a pilot, but now because of affirmative action and other identity politics. We're pushing people to become pilots who don't really want to be, and so that's going
to lead to mistakes and job fatigue and problems. So there's a lot of that, but really I'll chalk up to the age of incompetence. But going back to this the New York Times, which again you should always be very suspect of anything The New York Times the Washington Post puts out because they're going to be very, very very leaning to one side of the aisland, and you should also be very weary, or not weary, but at least think critically about information you get from information on
the other side. I remember always trying to separate the fact from opinion. But the New York Times put out this piece talking about how the Ohio train is it really a Chernobyl two point zero? You know, they're talking about how influencers across the political spectrum have basically overblown how bad this could be. Now, we do know there was a controlled burn of toxic materials. We do know that filled the air. We do see the pictures that is like this giant plume of black smoke. We do
know that it's spread to Canada and New York. So those are fitter facts, right. We do know that water and soil got covered with those chemicals. We do know that lots of animals and fish have died, So we do know that that's all fact. Now how bad is it, Well, that's where we have to kind of go to some speculation. We do know the facts, we won't know a lot of the fact of how bad it is until later. But what the New York Times is saying is, of
course right wing commentators have been particularly critical. Right wing again, what's up with the labels? Some people? How about? How about some people been critical? They've been critical, using the crisis to sow distrust about government agencies and suggest that the damage could be reparable. I would like to say that right wing commentators are not using this to sow distrust about the government. I would say the government sows
its own distrust. So when the government continually lies to you us, when the government continually censors and silences people that want to have information on another side of the aisle, when the government stops all open and honest dialogue and debate, that's what sows distrust. I've used the example many times. If I was laying in bed late at night on texting somebody, and my wife looks over and says, hey, who are you texting? And I was like, oh, nobody, no, nobody,
don't worry about it. Like she would start to have seeds of distrust. Who's he talking about? Who's he talking to? What's going on? Where? If I just gave transparency and I said, oh, it's my mom. She wants to plan a birthday this weekend, she'd like, oh, okay, great. And so the way that you defeat the seeds of distrust is by being transparent, by being truthful, by not lying over and over and over, by admitting when you've made a mistake. That's how you prevent seeds of distrust. It's
not right when commentators that are doing that. It's the fact that we've been continually lied to. Now, we do know that the EPA, Environmental Protecting Agency and state officials have acknowledged the situation is disastrous in many ways. We do know that we do know that the air quality was not safe at some point. The EPA says it is safe from now. But the problem is, like I said, they're the ones that have sowed the seeds of distrust.
Now we can see that people that live in the area are saying that they're getting rashes, they're getting headaches, they're getting other symptoms that could be tied to that. They've you know, some of them have returned to their homes and now they're seeing these these types of things. And so this is true, and we do know that people should be taking this their their health way more seriously than most people have. And so if I live in an area, I maybe wouldn't want to move back home.
We also do know that other places like Cincinnati, for example, has cut off its drinking water from the Ohio River because of the trained development and the contamination. Now they believe it says quote believe that low levels of beautile accrelate seeped into the Ohio River through a small creek about three hundred miles north of Cincinnati, and so they have shut off water. Now, again, are we overblowing this,
We don't know. But if a town has literally cut off their water because as they're afraid of this, well I don't know if we're overblowing that, that's a pretty big deal. Since then IAI's drinking water will be will water intake will will be closed sometime before the contamination is expected to reach the area of the river area. So we do know that they're expecting to travel down
the river and they are going to shut that off. Now, one thing I did learn, and so let me just give you another perspective that maybe the right wing whoever these right wing influences and commodators are. One thing I looked up is that you know, while this train accident appears to be very, very bad, I didn't know, but I'm aware of now that we have lots of train developments every day in the United States. As a matter of fact, we averaged three trained deveilments a day a day.
And so when you hear about, oh my gosh, why is there no one talking about this, well, there's three a day. Are they talking about three a day? So then I have to ask myself, well, is it because of social media we just hear about it more often? Obviously we have trained, trained romans. Or is it that we're having more trained romans that are really bad? And to answer that question, I saw this report that says kinetic attacks on US power grids spiked seventy one percent
in twenty twenty two. So what we're seeing is we are having fires and refineries, we are having trains derailed, We are having those things. But those types of things happened quite often. But are we having more trained incidents that have strategic or really bad stuff like we saw another one overturned with coal? So are we seeing more strategic stuff happening? And according to this that seems to be the case. There's been US power grid attacks have
spiked almost doubled in the previous year. Duke Energy of Florida experienced several substation intrusion events in September, sabotaging equipment that resulted in a nine minute long outage. Central organ Daily said one of their substations was attacked on November twenty fourth. In December, vandals attacks ups in More County, North Carolina with gunfire, leaving forty five thousand people without power. Four substations in Washington were attacked on Christmas Day. Seventeen
thousand people lost power. Earlier this month, a Florida man in a Maryland woman we're charged the conspiracy to attack a Maryland power grid. There are at least one hundred and eight human related events were reported during the first eight months of twenty twenty two, and so we can see that it does seem that there are attacks happening this and so we do need to be aware of this, and we should be able to trust our government with more.
If you're just tuning in, you're listening to the Mark Moa Show talking about some of the latest breaking news headlines that happened this week in regards to the decentralized Revolution. I got more stories to run through that you don't want to miss, So I'm gonna be back with more in a minute. Don't go away, I'm gonna be right back.
All right, welcome back. If you just tune in, you were listening to the Mark Moa Show talking about, of course, the decentralized Revolution looking at through the lens of politics, finance, and technology, and we're running through some of the latest breaking news of this week. Now I discovered a story before.
If you just tune and you missed it, but don't worry, you can catch me on the podcast on demand to search The Mark Moss Show and your favorite podcast player, or the Market Disruptors YouTube channel to search Market Disruptors on YouTube. Now, I was talking about the train that derailed in Ohio and of course that's not late breaking news,
but we're talking about the development of that. And I also want to talk about another big story that continues to be developed, and that is this Chinese spy balloons. Now I've talked about this already, like I said before, so it's not breaking news, but I wanted to talk about it because we have more information coming in now. There's a lot of fear mongering and more mongering going on regarding the balloon I had talked about before, and I kind of posed the question before, why do they
want us talking about the balloon? Like what is going on there? What's this intention? What are they trying to get from us? And so if we if we look in this a little bit further, maybe this helps us answer that question, which will come back to you. But what it looks like is that there were four balloons that were shot down, and the first one appears to be a Chinese balloon. And we know that the balloon supposedly lingered over, you know, or flew over a couple
of Air force bases. It flew over our air Force bases that had our intercontinental ballistic missiles. It also passed by some nuclear capable bomber fleets things like that, and they say that this path suggests that China's gathering intelligence for either maybe a first or second strike of America's nuclear weapons. We can also see that, so maybe they're trying to spy on us, but is that really what
they're doing. So we can see that now they're saying that the spy balloon is now beginning of a nuclear fear campaign from China. So they're saying that maybe they're trying to scare us that there's going to be this nuclear attack and they can you know, now they have access to all this information. Now we need to you know, be prepared to go to war with China and things
like that. But if we look at there's a there's some other stuff that shows that maybe that first balloon was China's, maybe it was a weather balloon, maybe it was a spy balloon, but the other three that were shot down were not. And as a matter of fact, the other three that were shot down appeared to not be Chinese and might have even been from the United States itself, and they were just weather balloons. Edward Snowden, who is the you know, kind of infamous whistle blower
NSA whistleblower. He says, the hysteria over these balloons being shot down over America and Canada is a distraction from the story that Seymour or Hirsch broke about the US being responsible for blowing up the nord Stream pipeline. So again, why do they want us focusing on these balloons? One of them might have been a Chinese balloon, maybe it was a spy balloon, maybe it was a weather balloon. We know the other three most likely weren't, and they
might have even been American weather balloons. So why do they want us focused on that? And so it's sort of like this magic trick, you know, slide of hand, look over here while we do something over there. And so what was going on that they don't want us to look at? That's one question to ask, you know. Bloomberg reported the US government has assessed that three unidentified objects down since last Friday were likely for commercial use
and not foreign intelligence gathering. Now, as best as I can tell through the research that I've done trying to make sense of this situation, China has over three hundred satellites in orbit, and with those satellites, they could read the text on a gravestone, they can listen to conversations. They might be listening to me recording this conversation right now. And so if they have three hundred satellites, they're already capable of reading text on a tombstone and listening to conversations.
Why do they need to fly a weather balloon? Hm, that'd be a good question. Why would they need to use a weather balloon if they already have everything they need now? There could be maybe it was a test run. Maybe they want to try to put you know, some sort of like an EMP into a weather balloon and detonated or you know, some some chemicals and detonate and let it let it rain down across. I mean, maybe, maybe maybe that's the case. I don't know the answer, But what I do think about is why does the
government all want us thinking about this balloon? So, like I said, Edward Snowden says, maybe to cover up for the story that said that US is responsible for the North Stream pipeline. As a matter of fact, there's more information coming out. I saw a story today saying that I believe it was this Swedeen released report that basically says that they've kind of come to the same conclusion as well. Of course, anybody with a critical rational mind
might draw that conclusion themselves as well. So maybe that was it, or maybe it's because they want us thinking that China is spying on us, that China is trying to attack us, or get ready for an attack, so that they can get the people or the American people sentiment to shift towards China not like China, and so that the government, the US government could then get ready for a war with China, could use that to sanction
more against China. So, for example, we saw more sanctions going through today or this week that could potentially limit all investments into China. And so if you're invested into China, you may have trouble getting your money back out. If you have money in China, I'd probably be pulling that
money out of China. But it also in retaliation. Now China is now sort of financially attacking the United States, and so now they're saying no Chinese corporations can use the Big four accounting firms anymore, which could be billions of dollars of economic loss. And so maybe they're trying to get the American sentiment behind this. So we can get behind that. We don't know. But the question is, why are we shooting down our own balloons? Why are
we making this big deal about this now? Why are we making a big deal about one balloon when they have the satellites to already see everything. Why are we making a big deal about one balloon when they have bought up all our farmland, when they've bought land next to our strategic military bases, when they continue to flood our borders with fentnol, which is a mass casualty attack, Like, why are we worried? Why are we not worried about that? But now all of a sudden, we want to be
worried about a balloon. It's an interesting point to make. And again, we need to be where they want us to be geared up for this war with China, because China is actively attacking the United States. As a matter of fact, they're attacking us from many ways in including with the dollar. And so what we can see is that China has gone around trying to crush the dollars demand they're now using their yuan in trade with Iraq.
The Iraqi Central Bank announced Wednesday that for the first time it plans to allow trade with China to be settled directly in yuan instead of the US dollar. M we know that Chinese currency would boost the balances of Iraqi banks with accounts with Chinese banks. We see that China has also done this with Iran, They've done it with India, they're doing it with Russia, and so we can see that now Russia has now has now basically
moved their foreign reserves to the yuan. I believe seventeen percent of their central bank holdings are now in yuan, and so we can see that there's this attack that's happening,
and it's coming from all sides. They've gone around and made long term strategic buys on all the core commodities, so they've been locked up natural gas and long term contracts, oil and long term contracts, minerals, metals and long term contracts gold, nickel, palladium, etc. And they're basically taking all of this off of the market, cornering the market, if you will, and then working with these countries to take oil and stuff in yuan and then starting to switch
all these other currencies or governments of the world to move into a digital yuan, or not a digital but into a Juan denominated system. Now what comes next is a digital Yuan system or CBDC system that then could bypass the entire FED banking, fedwire and swift monetary system the dollar. The dollar at its core is a payment network,
and they can set up their own payment network. And so maybe, just maybe all of this stuff about the balloon is a big distraction to get not a distraction, but is used to get our sentiment to ready be ready to go to war with But that's just maybe my own assumption. I'd love to hear what you have to say. Hit me up on social media at one Mark Moss. If you just tuned in, you're listening to the Mark Moss Show running through some of the latest
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