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intersection of those three things. We don't try to talk about those things on their own. We want to give you the context you need now. Of course, as I talk about each and every week, it's technology that changes things more than anything. Technology is what changes the way the world works. And so the technology that's driving change

right now is Bitcoin. Is the decentralized technologists bringing us this decentralized revolution I talk about each and every week, and you know when I talk about bitcoin and the new technology that's that's building off of that, you know, I don't typically talk about the price of bitcoin as I talk about a lot. I think that the price is a distraction when you're looking at brand new technologies. You don't want to look at the price. You want to look at either will both. You want to look

at the growth of the network. You're looking for network effects. You're looking for the growth of the network, and you're looking for development on the network. Those are two things that you want to see and we are seeing that in a really big way. In a couple of ways that you can measure this. I mean, obviously we're looking at users the growth of the network. Can that be the amount of users, so it's the amount of wallets that we have, but it's also the amount of stores

or companies or merchants that accept it. But we also look at the network itself, which is the mining capacity of the network. How many computers are plugged into the network, are helping process transactions, helping to secure the network, and we can see that it has hit a brand new all time high. As a matter of fact, you measure it so in a computer, you would measure it by

the hash rate. That's the power of the computer. And you can look at the total amount of hash rate being put into the Bitcoin network, and we just passed three hundred equa hash. Now I'm not going to break down what that really means, but just know it's a really big number. But more importantly, it took only about one year for the bitcoin mining hash rate to gain one hundred equahsh so to go from two to three hundred, so over a thirty percent increase in the size of

the network in just a year. It's a pretty big deal, really really big deal. Now we can see that part of that was I think really led by China getting rid of a lot of the mind, and a lot of it was the price of bitcoin had gone up so much that a lot of companies took out big loans. But either way, right now we are seeing the network itself getting to new levels that we haven't seen before,

which is pretty cool. And we can see that it's also growing in terms of its reach, of the amount of people using it and even like I said, ors and merchants and even countries. Now we've talked a lot about El Salvador being the first nation to make bitcoin legal tender, which I think is a little bit I mean like kind of like who cares like they made it legal tender. That's cool. I mean, I'm glad they did that. It brings a lot of attention to it.

But anybody can accept bitcoin if they want it doesn't have to be recognized as legal tender for it to be used here in the United States. I hear it's people talking about we need to make it legal tender in the US. It's like, no, we don't. Like anybody, any store or any service provider could just accept bitcoin if they want right now, we don't need to do that. But El Salvador did, and it's worked out pretty well

for them. Now. A lot of people say it won't because the price of the bitcoin isn't as high as when they first bought it, but it's brought them lots of other benefits, including it's brought them massive amounts of tourism, massive amounts of investment, which more than makeup for any potential loss they might have had in some of the

bitcoin they bought. But what we can also see is that while this is happening, and while it's in starting to influence other nations to do the same, remember growth of the network, other nations are starting to do this. The IMF, the International Monetary Fund, the Central Bank above all the central banks does not like this. A matter of fact, they've been threatening El Savador many times. We're not going to give you any more money. We won't give any more loans. We won't bill you out unless

you drop bitcoin. Now we're seeing someone saying the IMF they're trying to scare other countries away from adopting bitcoin as legal tender. Ever since El Salvador established that legal framework, the IMF has been trying to attack it and shut it down. They don't want other countries to do this. But it doesn't matter. It is growing, and as a matter of fact, El Salvadore just grew into the United States. Interesting enough, they're planning to open in embassy in Texas.

Not just an embassy, though, a bitcoin embassy. The central American country. Elsvadare wishes to open a bitcoin embassy in the new ally of Texas, and this will aid the expansion and commercial of economic exchange projects. Now Texas has sort of become the bitcoin capital of the United States,

maybe even the bitcoin capital of the world. Partly because Texas is probably one of the most if not the most pro freedom states in the United States, but also because of the massive amounts of energy that they have, and so bitcoin needs energy. It needs the miners need the power to run off of and so bitcoin has really found its home there in Texas, so it kind of makes sense that they would want to set up an embassy in Texas. Now they're not just doing it

in Texas. As a matter of fact, El Sovada are also agreed to open a similar embassy in Lugano, Switzerland in October, with the aim of encouraging adoption of bitcoin across Europe. You know, it's sort of we have to kind of think about the game theory and how this plays out, right, and so like any new technology, you have the first mover advantage, we'll just say, and El Salvador certainly leading on that, and of course then what will be the next country to adopt it? And that's

the race that we're seeing right now. In another big news, remember we're looking at the growth of the network. We're also looking for development on the network. And another big piece of development to happen on the network with this week we got Bitcoin Ordinals, which brought NFTs. Now, if you love NFTs, like I know a lot of you do, now there's NFTs happening on the bitcoin blockchain. This is real.

It's done through what's called inscriptions, and so some updates, some upgrades on the Bitcoin network have allowed people to now put this code into there, and right now they're putting JPEGs, they're putting NFT transactions into this. Minors have earned nearly six hundred thousand and two months from these NFT objects, these ordinals that have been on there. And so a lot of people would say, well, what happens to the bitcoin miners when there's no more bitcoin to

be mined? And the answer is always well, transaction fees. So bitcoin miners earn from transaction fees and from receiving new mind coins. If there's no mind coins, then they get transaction fees. And a lot of people say, well, will that be enough? Well, we don't know. We'll find out in a hundred years, but will that be enough? Well, now we see that this is another really big source of revenue for these bitcoin miners. Now there's a lot of controversy about this. Do we really need JPEGs and

NFTs on the bitcoin blockchain? The answer is, we don't know. My opinion is right now sort of like a wait and see, let's see what happens. I think the free market will figure this out. Whatever seems to be the highest and best use case, whatever seems to have the best monetary incentives will probably win. But think beyond what this means for just NFTs and JPEGs. I mean, I don't think JPEGs need to be on there, But what about other types of things like, for example, three D

printed guns schematics. Right, so, as of course every nation wants to get rid of guns so they can put their people into oppression. Most of the world doesn't have them, and now we can print them with three D printers and all you gotta do is download the code. But of course they don't want you to have the code.

They're trying to delete that everywhere. And if I could store that three D printed guns schematic, that code into the Bitcoin blockchain, the only censorship resistant and immutable blockchain, what could that do for the power balance of humanity? I think it'd be pretty big. Now, that's just one example. We don't know. Humans are no good at imagine in the future, so we don't know really where this takes us. What we do know is this is a new building block.

What we do know is we're finding new ways to develop on the Bitcoin blockchain, including ordinals, and so this is exciting. This is just the beginning. But what do you think hit me up on social media at one Mark Moss let me know what you think. I'd love to hear what you think about ordinals, NFTs on the block chain, or what you think could be potentially new use cases. If you're just tuning in, you're listening to the Mark Moss Show talking about the decentralized Revolution. Each

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how this is developing. And one thing that we saw this week was a lot of action coming from the SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States. And it's not surprising, not surprising to me. I've talked about extensively on this show and on my main YouTube channel, Mark Moss, and on lots of other shows, including Fox Business. I've talked extensively about how the SEC, Securities Exchange Commission, and just the US government overall was going to come

and really start clamping down on cryptocurrencies. They have to do this because they look horrible. In my opinion, the SEC should shut down and disgrace their job. There used to be that thing was like you had one job. The SEC's one job is to protect consumers. That's their job, protect consumers. How well have they done? Did they protect them from Celsius? Did they protect them from FTX and the answers? Of course not. Millions and millions of people

lost everything, lost their entire life savings. They did nothing to protect them. They failed at their one job. They should shut down in disgrace and walk away in shame. But of course they're not doing that, and instead, now they have to come back and try to, you know, regain some confidence. And now they're going to come way too heavy handed, of course, right of course. And so here they are with the heavy hand coming after anything and everything that evenly seeming like it has nothing to

do with securities at all. So what am I talking about? Well, the SEC is now slapping lawsuits just left and right. You got one, you got one, you got one right right right, boom boom boom, and they just they win after Kraken and Crack and said, hey, we're not going to fight you. Here's thirty million dollars, you know, just

go away kind of a thing. They came after a company called Paksos, which is a stay coin, so meaning you give me a dollar, I give you a dollar token back, and then you can exchange the token back for a dollar whenever you want. There's lots of stable coins that are out there, and most people have thought this is actually pretty good for the government. It's good for the United States, it's good for the FED. It's

good for the dollar because it makes more people use dollars. So, now, if you're in a country like Nigeria, or in Turkey or in Argentina, and you're in a currency that's losing one hundred percent of its value, losing everything, you need to get out of that currency as fast as you can. And what you get into, well, you can't get dollars, but what you could do is get a US dollar

stable coin, which is basically the same thing. And so it all it does is get more people in the world into dollars, now indirectly through a dollar stable coin, but doesn't matter either way. It's the same thing. More people are using dollars than they were before. That should be a good thing. However, the sec one little arm of the government is now coming after stable coins. As a matter of fact, they sued this company called Paxos, which is interesting because Paxos is one of the most

regulated and licensed companies. So not only are they in the United States and regulating license in the US, they're also regulating direct under the New York Department of Financial Services the nyd f S, which is the most the most restrictive, the hardest jurisdiction to get licensed in, and their license there, and they're going after them for this stable coin, which is interesting because they're saying it's a security, but there's no expectation of profit. Like I'm giving you

a dollar, you're giving me a dollar token. When I give you the token back, you give me my dollar back. I don't expect you to give me a dollar twenty five. So I don't even know how it fits under that. I don't really care. I'm not a legal attorney. I'm not going to get into that. But what's interesting is that one it's taking away the dollars dominance again, right, which is strange, And it's interesting because, like I said, they should want that to happen, but they're seemingly taken away.

So at a time we want the dollars to be stronger, would want more people to use the dollar. We think it would be good. The problem is that now that the US government is coming after this so hard. Specifically, really the SEC is coming after it, but even the US government, the US government is attacking Tether, which is the largest stable coin. Seemingly it looks like the government, the SEC, etc. Is trying to choose winners, and it looks like they've picked the winner which they want circle,

which is USDC to reign supreme. That's the one they control. And anything that's not USDC they want to attack. So they're going after Tether. They went after Paxos because of the Binance USD, the b USD, so anything is not Circle they want to attack. But what's interesting about it is that they could be shooting themselves in the foot. As a matter of fact, Binance CEO Binance is the

largest cryptocurrency exchange out there in the world. The CEO cz says that the industry, the crypto industry may start to use stable coins peg to the Euro, the yen, or the Singapore dollar instead of the US dollar. M It says it was probably start using these other currencies in the future, reducing its reliance on the US dollar based stable coins. According to Binan, CEO CZ, they said that they could even start using gold as a standard

of value instead of the US dollar. He says, quote, I think that the given the current pressure and current stances taken by the regulators and the US dollar based stable coins, I think that, as you said, the industry will probably move away to non US dollar based stable coins. So you would think the US would want the stable coins to be used because it puts more of the world into the dollar, which is what they want at a time when you have Russia and China and the

bricks nations trying to d dollarize. We're getting the governments can d dollarize, but the people could get back into dollars when they weren't able to get dollars before and now they can because of the stable coins. That is

what they want. But the problem is is that they're so restrictive, they're so heavy handed, they're kicking so many people out that these cryptocompanies could just say we'll find we won't use the US dollar, now, we'll use the yen, will use the euro, we'll use gold something that you can't censor us from, and so it's interesting. I guess it shouldn't be surprising. It's not surprising to me. That's how the government works, and ultimately that's how all of

this decentralized revolution works. So the more they squeeze to try to retain power, the more they try to censor us because they don't like what we're saying. The more they try to restrict our movement, restrict our movement of money. The more they do that, the more we look for solutions to get around those restrictions, and the more we get around them, the more they squeeze, and the more they squeeze, the more we push back, and the more we push back, the more they squeeze, and it's this

never ending cycle. So they're leading their own demise, they're doing their own marketing for them, and so at a time when you would think they would want more people using the dollar and they're trying to protect their own interest, what they're probably going to do is shoot themselves in

the foot and push more people away. Interesting, if you're just tuning in and you're listening to the Mark Mos Show, we're talking about the decentralized revolution through the lens of course, politics, finance, and technology, talking about the latest breaking news headlines this week. And we got some big ones, some big, big stories coming up that I'm pretty excited to talk about. I'm pretty fired up about it. I was fired up talking about it before we even started recording, so I got

a whole lot to cover when I come back. You do not want to miss what's coming up next, so don't go away. I'm gonna be right back, all right, Welcome back. You are listening to the Mark Moss Show. We talk about the decentralized revolution and how I'm running through the latest breaking news headlines of this week so you know what's going on and you can see this

transition that we're in as we move into this decentralized revolution. Now, something I talked about this week on my main YouTube channel, just Mark Moss on YouTube, which, by the way, if you want to listen to these and watch me at the same time, you can watch me on the Market Disruptors YouTube channel. But something I was talking about this week was this train crash that happened in Ohio. And

I'm not gonna get in all that. If you want to know more about what I think about that train, the train derailment in Ohio and the chemical spill and all that. I just did a video on my main YouTube channel, Go check it out. But um, what I talked about the end really seemed to have have struck a nerve with a lot of people. And what I talked about at the end was I called it the age

of incompetence. And what happens is at the end of an empire, whether it's a typically a tune and fifty year lifespan of an empire or a tuna fifty year lifespan of a democracy, it goes through six or really eight distinct stages from cradle to grave. And we're in this last kind of final stage. And I'm calling it

the age of incompetence. People really like that seemed like anyway, And what am I talking about, Well, you know, when it comes to Southwest Airlines December having the largest outage, having to cancel every single flight, it's never happened before. Then the FAA had to shut down every single flight in the US because of some software problem. Then it happened in I think Canada and Australia. You know, planes can't seem to run on time anymore. Trains can't seem

to run trains or derailing trucks or overturning. You know, we have food processing plants seemingly catching on fire, blowing up all the time, fuel refineries, and it could be an attack. A lot of people think it is a lot of people think it's maybe you know, some environmentalists or maybe even in our own government doing these type of things. Maybe it's another country trying to do these things.

Maybe it's the open border and the five million people that have come across and a few terrorists have come across and their sabotaging or critical infrastructure. If you were going to do that, you would certainly attack high value targets like where the train derailed right now next to a river. So it could be that. How however, it could also just be because of the age of incompetence. And so what do I mean by that? What will

I mean at the end of an empire? You have basically failing infrastructure, those railroads, those locomotives, those the FAA software, the fa towers, like that's old. That's sixty seventy eighty years old technology. We haven't updated that in a long time. The planes they're old. We haven't updated them. And so you know, the fuel refiners, some of these fuel refiners

in the United States are one hundred years old. Like it's not going to work very good after our hundred years, right, And so we have this aged country, this age infrastructure. But on top of that, we also have people who are incompetent. So and and it's caused by any number of reasons we have. Obviously in the train situation, they all tried to walk off the job. The Biden administration

force them back on the job. So maybe they're not happy, they don't feel respected, they don't feel fulfillment in their jobs, so they're disengaged. But it's also because of the way that we raise these kids. I saw this week another another big airline, Lefonsa. They had lots of flights delayed. Germans flagship airline carrier also the same thing because their

internet cables were severed. They're investigating whether this was due to a cyber attack, So it was an attack or was it you know, did the fiber just go bad? We don't know. But back to the point, we're seeing this happening more and more and more, and I think a lot of it has to do with this age of incompetence. And I saw these headlines that really caught my eye and really kind of got me angry, and so I thought I would just talk about them if you want to hear me going on a little bit

of ramp. But basically, I saw this article and it was about Baltimore's failing schools and Baltimore's parent demands action for twenty three schools report no math proficiency. Let me say that again, no math proficiency. It's a systematic failing, is what it says here. This is a really big deal. So they went through all these schools and they looked at all of them, they did the tests or whatever,

and none of the students in past math. Maryland State Department of Educator Educations twenty twenty two state test results indicated the bombshell findings that no students, no students across twenty three schools were proficient in math. Well, let me ask you a question. What are schools supposed to be doing they're supposed to be teaching. What are they supposed to be teaching? Now, I thought they were supposed to teach us how to read and write and do math, math, science,

English history. They should be teaching us those things. But here, no students, no, none, No students across all twenty three schools were proficient in math. So what are they doing? Well? Over here? Do you think that's bad? Over here we have Chicago. Not a single student again, not a single, not one, nobody, not a single student is proficient in

reading or math at fifty five Chicago schools. Not a single student in fifty five schools, not one student met grade level expectations in either math or reading during the twenty one twenty two school year out of six hundred and forty nine schools. What are they supposed to be doing they're supposed to be teaching. Now, we could argue what they're supposed to be teaching, But if you don't think that math and reading or like probably the two of the most important ones at the very top of

the pile, then we don't. We have no conversation math if you can't read and write and perform math like you failed. As a matter of fact, I think most of high school is pretty much pointless. Once you learn how to read and write and do math like you're kind of done. But they can't even teach that. But what are they teaching. Well, they're teaching how to be woke. They're teaching that boys can be girls and girls can be boys. They're teaching that there's no difference in biological sex.

They're teaching that men can get pregnant. They're teaching preschoolers and kindergarteners and elementary kids about transgenderism. Here where I'm at in California, maybe I would say that one or maybe some of the worst school districts, But now that I see this about the Chicago and Baltimore, I'm not so sure. But here in California, in the middle schools, in the middle schools, they're putting tampons in the boys' bathrooms.

In a city two cities over from where I'm at, in the schools, they're putting litter boxes in the bathrooms, litter boxes in the bathrooms. Now, why would they put litter boxes? Well, who uses litter boxes? Cats use litter boxes cats, So why would they put litter boxes in the bathrooms. Well, it's for the students that identify as cats, of course. Like what, Hang on a second, Well, hang on a second, this is this is for real, all right,

this is not joke. I'm serious. So students think they're cats, and the teachers oblige this by putting litter boxes in the bathrooms they're supposed to be teaching, Like, how about, no, you're not really a cat, You're actually a human. How about that? How about that would be something we should teach. I mean, when I was at school, biology, I guess was a lot different than it is now. I guess we weren't as woke, but we understood that humans and

animals were different. We were not the same pigs. We we dissected pigs because pigs were supposed to be the closest to humans. Not cats. We're not cats. How about, as a teacher like, hey, sorry, student, you're not a cat. You're just not right. You're you're not a unicorn. Uh, You're you're a person, You're a kid. How about that, your boy, you're a girl, and you should go to the bathroom using a urinal or a a toilet like everybody else.

Maybe we should teach them how to use journals. We're school, we're supposed to teach them, but no, instead of teaching them math, not a single student in Chicago's proficient in reading or math at schools, Not a single One or Baltimore instead of teaching reading and writing and math, or teaching them that they're they're a cat and they should use a litter box. And we're putting it in the bathroom. Oh man, If that doesn't get you mad and fired up, I don't know what will. And this leads to the

age of incompetence. Where does this lead us? Does this lead to more skilled workers in the railroad, in the airline industry? Does this lead to more trains and planes running on time and breaking down? No? This is the age of incompetence. Now. The good news is for you and I all y gotta do is be above average and you could crush it. You don't have to work that hard. If you're tuning to listen to the Mark Moss Show talking about the Decentralized Revolution, how the world

is changing. I'm breaking with the latest breaking news headlines this week. I got them. I think that's big. I got more to come. Don't go away, I'm gonna be right back, all right, welcome back. If you're just tune in, you are listening to the Mark Moss Show, or we talk about the Decentralized Revolution, talking about the way the world is changing as we look at through the lens

of politics, finance, and technology. And I'm running through some of the latest breaking news of this week so you can be caught up on exactly how this is all going down, how this is changing now. I talked about last week, but it's continue to dominate the news headlines. So we're gonna talk about it again a little bit. And that is the balloons, the Chinese balloons that are flying over the United States. What does all of this mean, Well, we don't really know because we can't really get a

straight answer out of anybody. And what happens is when we don't get straight answers out of anybody, then it leads to lots of speculation. Now it would lead to speculation anyway, but in this case, we're getting lots of speculation. And we went from having one balloon, two balloons, to three balloons to four balloons, and I've seen lots of different ports. I've spent a lot of time looking into this,

more than I should have. And it seems like some people say that they were actually very sophisticated spy balloons and that they didn't really get any information from us because as they were flying over they were trying to get pictures of our ballistic missile and nuclear military bases that we have. But as they saw them coming across, they just kind of closed up the doors and they

didn't really see anything. That's I see some and some say maybe they weren't so sophisticated, maybe they weren't doing anything based off of all the data I've been able to gather. I air on more of the side of they were sophisticated, at least some of them were, and they weren't trying to capture this data and we shot them down. But it's interesting for a couple of reasons. One because China first denied them, said wait a minute, this, this wasn't ours um. Then they went on to say, uh,

wait a minute. Now you know we're going to retaliate because you shot him down. You've flown balloons over the United States a bunch of times, I mean over China a bunch of times. And so now they're saying that it's a it's a it's an attack, and now there's gonna be retaliation from it. So there's like this this narrative shift that's happening. And now it seems like as of yesterday, they're trying to you know, there's been a lot of talking about UFOs. The government seems to be

shutting down the UFO thing. But now there's almost like this kind of narrative shift where they're saying, well, maybe it's it's a it's not this, so we don't know, and so that's not what I want to talk about. What I do want to talk about, though, is why

are we all talking about this? We talk about what they want us to talk about, they being U, the people pulling the strings, the governments who control the media, so pretty much all the media mainstream, so CNN and CNBC and MSNBC and ABC and CBS, they all get their same talking points from one group, and whatever they

decide to push is what most people talk about. So the question is why are we talking about balloons and not talking about other things, like, for example, the train development that happened in Ohio, one of the massive chemical spill affecting all the farmlands, some of the best farmland in the United States right on the Ohio River that feeds into the Mississippi River. Like this is a massive ecological problem that could potentially have been an attack. Even

if it's not even if it was an accident. We should probably say that, and we should probably also talk about the damage is gonna happen. We should probably warn people, tell them to put in ninety five on masks. I mean, you had to wear masks for COVID, but you don't have to wear it for this apparently. And so the question is why is no mainstream news talking about that? Now? On Twitter, you see it happening, that's where the people talk. Obviously,

I'm talking about it. I did a whole YouTube video. You can check it out on my main YouTube channel. Just Mark moss I did a video on it. So people are talking about it, But why is mainstream completely silent? Now? Tucker Carlson on Fox to the piece, but no mainstream news. So the question I ask is why do they want us talking about these balloons? And why do they not want us talking about the train? The balloons caused no damage,

It didn't affect anybody. There's no damage. There's no one's house, no one died, no animals are dying, no water was polluted, no form of animals ruined. So why are we talking about balloons? And that's the question that we should be asking. Well, my answer to that is, unfortunately, why do they want us talking about these balloons? Why are they saying they're coming from China? And what is the sentiment they're trying

to get us about China. Well, we're mad at China, We're angry at China, China spying on us, and now they can drum up rhetoric or sentiment to beat the drumbeats of war against China some more. Potentially, they're saying that China has more intercontinental ballistic missiles than the US does, so we should probably give more money to the military

industrial complex so they could build more weapons. I guess now the people, we the people, you and I we're gon we're not gonna be happy giving even more money to the military unless we can think that we're really in a big threat here, if we if we see a big threat, then maybe they could get the people to support giving more money to the military industrial complex.

Now I talk about this because what we're seeing is as we move into this decentralized revolution, as we're going from a unipolar world where the US homogene controls everything to a multipolar world with Russia China, this is going to lead to us not all being friends anymore. This is going to lead go from a place of global cooperation. We were all friends to now competition instead of cooperation. It's competition, and unfortunately, war is one of those things.

And so now it's a competition of who has the most weapons, who has the most determined systems, and all those things. And we can see this in a lot of different areas. We can see this week that apparently the Philippines now China. China apparently attacked the Philippines shining some laser lights in their eyes. There's like this laser report talking about how Chinese boats went after Philippine boats

and shined lasers in the eyes, causing temporary blindness. They did very dangerous maneuvers in the water, blocking the delivery of food and supplies. And this is like a direct attack on the Philippines. So now the Philippines and the United States are going to join together. The US are going to protect Philippines. Now we're carrying out the biggest joint military drills since twenty fifteen. So Washington is redoubling its efforts to go against China and to now ally

with Philippines. So we're allying with the Taiwan we're all applying with Philippines, and you can see what's happening here right as this world is breaking apart. Everybody's scrambling to find out who's on whose team, and maybe some of this is even being done to even build that sentiment even more so. Now supposedly Philippines got attacked by China, and so now the US is going to side. Now the Philippines will come to side with the US. Now

they could have easily gone and sided with China. So we're seeing how all this shakes out, and it's happening in real time. We see that the IMF put out this report this week warning that the world needs to prepare for the unthinkable. They say it needs to be prepared to better handle shocks and the unthinkable. She referenced. Georgina Cristillian, at the head of the IMF, referenced that earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, saying, hey, we we gotta

be ready, we gotta be ready. Who knows what could happen, And so they're preparing us. They're preparing us now. Of course, the IMF is preparing a little bit differently. They want to get ready to play a stabilizing role with the money because they're a banker. When all you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail. And when you're a banker, the whole all you have is money. And it says that they're ready to put in forty to forty eight billion dollars into the Ukraine economy to

prepare for this stabilization. So is it all about money? Is it all about war? Is it all over the dollar? Right now? We have more questions than answers. But what I can tell you is that the world is decentralizing. We are witnessing the decentralized revolution, and each one of these are signs to show us that we are getting further and further down this road and we're not coming back. If you're just tuning in, you're listening to the Mark

Moss Show. We talk about the decentralized revolution each and every week, talking about the way the world is breaking apart as we look at it through the lens of politics, finance, and technology, and of course technology typically we're talking about bitcoin, which is the decentralized technology which has given us what we need. Is the world decentralized? If you missed any of this show. You can catch it on your favorite

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