The Mark Moss Show - Talking with Ella Moss

right before our very eyes. Lots of things about the world are changing the way that we interact, um, you know, politics, socially, culturally, um censoring you know speech. I mean, everything we know is just changing. Of course, the financial system is changing. And some of the biggest financial experts in the world that I really respect. I mean I'm talking about Ray Dalio. I just been reading his book The Changing New World Order. Uh. It's an amazing book. I highly recommend it. And he

charts history. Of course, if you listen to the show on a regular basis, you know I'm a history buff. He charts the course of history. And these financial markets Zoltan pos Are. If you're in the financial world, you might know who that name is. He's been nailing this transition to this new financial system as well. But what both of them are missing. And I hate to say that because these guys have forgot more information than I'll

probably ever know in my life. Uh. They're both giants, and I recommend that you listen to what they're saying. But glaringly missing is that neither one of them talks about technology. And when we look through thousands of years of history, what we see is that it's technology that changes the world, right, not politics, Uh, not social cultural issues, um, not even the money. Money is a cycle, and Radialio highlights that very well, that it's the cycle that repeats

over and over and over. But it's technology that changes everything. And both of those uh financial giants will call them intellectual giants, completely miss that. And so I'm talking about the intersection of UM technology where it connects to finance and of course political issues, and so when you look at all three of those together, it brings everything into context and what's happening today now, I just got back from one of the largest conferences in the world to

talk about that. Specifically, it was the Bitcoin conference I've been talking about on this channel for the last several weeks. You've probably been hearing me telling you about it. UM to buy your ticket and things like that, and so I want to give you UM an insider's perspective of what happened at the largest bitcoin conference, the largest cryptocurrency conference, maybe one of the largest conferences in the world. There

was about they're expecting about thirty thousand people there. It was pretty massive, and I was a speaker on the main stage, I worked on the news desk. I'm gonna give you all that, but let's just say that I had behind the scenes access to all the biggest events, all the best speakers, all the best parties, and I'm

gonna give you an insider's perspective on that. But before we do that, I wanted to do something else, and so UM one of the things that I found over and over and over at the Bitcoin conference was all these speakers kept talking about we gotta push adoption, we gotta push adoption, we gotta push adoption. And I said, my my unpopular opinion is that we don't. We don't have to push adoption, UM, because we don't need mass adoption. At some point. People will come in when they need it,

but that we don't need to push for that. UM. And so an example of that would be UM in the nineties, there was no such thing as cell phones really, but there was some Wall Street traders and investors that had a lot of money, and they had a lot of money writing on their every move, and so they were able to spend a lot of money to build a mobile phone. And it was like a big old box right at the probably fifty dollars or whatever for this big old box of a phone. And they got

those phones because they needed them. They had an urgent need for that um technology. But we didn't have to push for mainstream adoption for phones. We didn't need the whole world everyone needs a phone. Go, everyone got the phone. We we didn't need to do that. They needed it, there was a need for it, and then buy them.

Pioneering that and spending that money. Then eventually we got phones for um I don't know, forty thousand and thirty thousand and twenty thousand and five thousand, and eventually now they're down to where everybody can afford them. And then everyone in the United States got a phone, which then made them cheap enough, which then people in Africa were able to get phones, and so we don't have to push for adoption. Uh. And there's and That's one of

these why not everybody needs at the beginning. The other reason why is as I kind of made the case when I was working at the event, and I'm gonna get into some of the inside details, some of the juicy details, like I said, of of of an inside of the parties and the speakers and whatnot. But another thing that I was saying is that, um, something like I didn't look it up a forehead, but something like Americans today don't even have four hundred dollars saved up

for an emergency expense. They don't even have that for savings. Those people, they don't need to worry about bitcoin or cryptocurrency. I don't need to push those people to adopt bitcoin or cryptocurrency. They're not even saving, they have nothing. Those people should be focused on making more money. That's what they should be focused on. How can they make more money, How can they cut their expenses, how can they get

to a point where they're saving. And then at that point when they're saving money, then of course, hey, do you understand what's happening to your savings? They're losing value every year. Maybe you should buy bitcoin, cryptocind everything like that. But those people don't need to worry about So My point is we don't need to push for adoption. Um

it's in marketing. We would say that it's much easier to sell food to someone who's starving then to first convince them that they're starving and then try to sell them food. If someone was drowning in a lake and there was a floatation device right next to them, I wouldn't have to convince them why they should grab that flotation device. They would just know the urgency would be so high that they would just grab it. And so again, at some point, everybody will know why they need it.

I don't need to convince people today why they need it. In Venezuela, where the currency is blowing up by tent literally you have to get paid multiple times a day to go buy your goods because prices are going up so fast, you don't have to convince them why they need to put their money into something else. They already know.

If you were in Canada a couple of weeks ago or a month ago, when people's bank accounts were getting frozen and they're being kicked out of the financial system, you didn't have to go convince them why they should get out of that money. They already knew the urgency wasn't high enough, and so we don't need to push UH for um mass adoption. Everybody will come in at the point when they feel the urgency to do that. You know, I also say that, like, I'm a big

believer in chiropractic. I've gone to chiropractic most of my life. I love it, I believe in it. But even for someone like me who believes it, and I know a lot of you are thinking I'm crazy and you don't believe it, and that's okay, UM, But even for someone like me who does, I typically don't go and tell them in pain. And that's that urgency part that I'm talking about. UM. And so in bitcoin we might say that everybody will buy at the price they deserve, and

so you cannot buy today, and that's fine. I don't need to convince you of that, UM. But at some point you're going to see that sense of urgency. At some point you're gonna realize like, oh shoot, I need to do something, and you'll just have to pay at that price. And some of you will catch on sooner because you're paying attention, UM, because you see opportunities or whatever it may be. UM, and you can get in

at a lower price. UM. And that's just how it is, and it's not it's not mean, it's just the way it is now. Of course, I'm doing my part um here each and every week trying to explain this to you so you don't get left behind, so you can buy in earlier than everybody else. And by the way, if you haven't already, make sure to bookmark this day

and time to join me each and every week. So if you're not driving, pull at your phone, put a calendar reminder to join me on this channel at this time each and every week, so I can explain to you what's going on with bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in this decentral revolution. Because everybody will get in at some point, it's just at what point are you going to get in? And so UM. With investing, we always have to have an edge. If you don't have an edge with investing,

then I'm sorry. If you don't know what your edge is with investing, that means you don't have one. And so if you have information that most people don't have, like if you listen to me each and every week and you have that information, then you'll have an edge. Now to illustrate this, I'm going to UM bring on a special guest, and I want to bring on a special guest, very special guests. I'm talking about my daughter,

La Moss, and she just turned thirteen. She's in middle school, and we're going to find out, UM, what people in middle school have been taught about money, UM, and what they think about bitcoin, and we'll start to see what this urgency is like. UM. So I want to ask her some questions. He's super embarrassed, but everyone's gonna welcome her and give her a good reception. Here in a second. By the way, you're listening to the Mark ma Show.

Of course, we're talking about bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, the decentralized revolution. We're talking about the intersection of politics, finance, and technology, so we can put everything that we're seeing in the world into context today so we can navigate it correctly. Like I said, everyone's going to get in eventually, but at the price they deserve, and I want you to get in earlier. That's why I'm trying to give you the

the information that you need. I'm gonna be back with her, UM, We're gonna talk about that for a couple of minutes, and then we're gonna say it. Like I said, I'm gonna talk to the I'm gonna give you the behind the scenes access to the Bitcoin conference. Um, you can only get it here. Don't go away, I'll bear it back. All right, Welcome back. You're listening to the Mark Mass Show, where we're talking about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies and the decentralized

revolution the world is going through. Talking about the intersection of politics, technology, and finance. You have to understand all three. You can't just focus on politics or just finance because you won't understand the greater context of what's going on and of course how you should navigate through that. I told you before the break that I want to talk to you about what happened at world's largest bitcoin meeting last week in Miami. I'm talking about the Bitcoin Conference.

About thirty thousand people were there. I was there as an insider, as a speaker on the main stage. I got access to everything behind the scenes, including the parties and the meetings and so forth. I want to give you the nitty gritty details that only I got access to, but I'm gonna share them with you. Don't worry about that before we do. I got a special guest with me here. I'm talking about my daughter, La Moss. Hey, Ella, so Ell has never been on the radio before. And uh,

she's a little bit of afraid. That's okay, no one's gonna be mean to her. And I just wanted to bring her on. She's here, and uh, just let's get a let's get a middle schoolers perspective. Now. Henry Ford said over a hundred years ago that if the American people knew how the banking system worked, there would be a revolution before the morning. Now there's a reason why nobody knows how the money system works, and that's because they don't want you to know, because there would be

a revolution before the morning. So Ella, first thing I would ask you is, um, do you know what money is? Yes? Okay, So what is money? Money is a way of paying for things, a way to pay for things. So we call money like a medium of exchange. So you're exchanging the money for the good or service that you want. Right. And then if you wanted to sell something, like if you if you had like some old clothes or like your old bicycle, you want to sell what, you would

sell it for money? So you're exchanging that thing for money. So money is a medium of exchange. Have you noticed that the prices of everything seems to be getting very expensive. Everything's going higher and higher and higher. You've noticed that. Of course, you just pay with my credit card, so you don't really notice it, but you see it. Right. Do you know why the prices of everything are going so high? Right now? Um? Yeah? Um? The people running it?

And also what's it called supply and demand? Supply demand? Now she has a little bit of a head start because she's my daughter and she hears me talk about these things sometimes. Of course, every time I try and talk about it at at the kitchen table, she rolls her eyes and says, ah, Dad, I don't want to hear it anymore. Um, supplying demand. So what is supplying demand? It's it's the people that want to buy things and there's not enough, so it goes higher up in price.

I don't think that was not really good explanation. So if you have more people wanting to buy something than there are things available, So if there was ten people trying to buy one house, what would happen? The price would go higher, The price of the house would go higher, why because more people want it? Okay, what if there was ten houses for sale but only one buyer, the prices would go down. The prices would go down. So

that's supply and demand. So you can listen to these economists and they can make this super complex about the financial system and the interest rates and the yield curve controls, and they can talk about the bond rates and all these things, but just know that all prices are always

going to be driven by supply and demand. Okay, So if supply and demand is driving prices and the prices of things are going higher than what's happening, it's going the prices going on there's more demand than there are prices, right or goods, goods and services, so, um, the things that you want to buy, your your new bicycle that we got you, or the food that you went and got earlier this morning, they got more expensive because we have more people wanting to buy those things than there

are of those things available. Right now. We can get we can get complicated. So why are there not enough of those things? Well, there's a bunch of reasons, and so they can say, well, it's about supply chains, that's the problem. They can't get enough goods and services to us. Okay, but but why we used to get enough goods and services. Why not today? Well, that's because we have more demand than we used to have. And why do we have more demand, Well, because they printed a bunch of money.

So back to supply and demand. If they if we have a limited amount of money, that money is has a certain value. But if they print way more money, what happens value? Oh, look at that. See it went down in value. So it's not that prices are getting more expensive. It's that our money is losing value. Even even a thirteen year old got that. So it's not that things are getting more expensive. Is that our money is losing value and that's why it takes more dollars

to buy those things. Now, let me ask you a simple question. Um, you've done a pretty good job of saving money. I think it's in your wallet's stuck stuck in my safe somewhere. Right, would you rather that money that you have saved up? Would you rather that money buy you more goods and services in the future or less? Yeah,

you'd rather to have it more? Right? You don't want less? No, I don't want less, right, And I would think everybody would want their money that they've been working and saving for their whole life, and so at some point you're gonna want to retire on your savings. You would want that to buy you more goods and services. Simple. But if they keep printing more money and the money keeps losing its value, then that money is going to be worth it's going to buy you less goods and services.

That's not what you want right now. Um, there's a couple of guys over in Washington, d C. They decide if they want to print more money, and you don't have any say over it. They just print as much as they want whenever they want, and they put it in their own bank accounts and they get to buy whatever they want with it. Does that seem fair? So these guys can artificial They can just print more money whenever they want. They can go buy whatever stuff they

want with that money they gave themselves. But when they did that, it made all your money that you have saved in my safe buy less goods and services. So they stole you're purchasing power, or they stole money from you, and they bought stuff with the money they stole from you. Does that sound fair? If you could, would you want to change that? What would you want to do? Like make it where they couldn't do that? Yeah, and some money stays the same word. Yeah, and they didn't just

steal it by printing more and going and spending stuff. Right. Do you think if if the average people understood that guys in Washington and Critical print a bunch of money and buy a bunch of things for themselves and that literally stole money out of your safe, they'd be okay with that? They wouldn't, would they? That goes back to the quote, like I said, Henry Ford said, if people understood how it worked, there would be a revolution, Like you'd want to change that? Right? Like do you think

it's crazy that they don't teach you that in school? Yeah? What do they teach you about money in school? Not a lot. Have they hught you anything about money? Not really like anything at all. Have you learned about like the history of money? No, so nothing you can think of. Yeah, well there you heard it. You heard it from a middle school. So this is someone that's growing up in a middle school there, in middle school in junior high

and that's what they know. So that's a little illustration and That kind of goes back to why we're not pushing from mainstream adoption. Most people have no idea they we don't. We have first let them know there's a problem. So back to trying to convince someone they're starving. First, I'd have to first convince Ella that is she's starving. Convince her that there's this massive problem with the financial system. And then maybe if she gets that, then maybe she'd

be willing to find the solution. Right, And that's exactly where right, and that's why we're not trying to push for mainstream adoption. However, you are listening to me right now, so you have this head start and so you're getting this And that is back to what I said earlier. That is your edge. You have a chance to front run Most people like Ella are older than Ella, but have never learned about the financial system. Now, um, hopefully that made sense, and I just wanted to kind of

bring that in. She's here in the studio with me today and coming back from the Bitcoin conference, that was one of the big takeaways that I had. Now coming back, I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna tell you about the parties. I'm gonna tell you about the late night parties. I'm gonna tell you about what happened behind the scenes backstage in the speaker room, who I got to meet, and so much more. Don't go away, I'm gonna be right back, all right, Welcome back. You are listening to

the Mark Moa Show. We're talking about bitcoin. We're talking about cryptocurrencies. We're talking about the decentralized revolution. We're talking about the intersection of politics, finance, and technology, how they all three come together and create this massive change into what we are seeing right now. Before the break, I talked about I was talking about some of this. Just got back from the Bitcoin Conference, the largest bitcoin kind

of cryptocurrency gathering in the world. There was about thirty thousand people that showed up in Miami, Florida. I did broadcast live from there last week with a couple of interviews with some people that I had grabbed from around the conference. Hopefully enjoyed that, UM and I want to give you some of the behind the scenes takes that I had. As I said before the break, I was talking about why they was just everyone was talking about this big push. We have to have this push, push push.

We need mainstream adoption and I said, well, we don't really and one of the reasons why we don't need it is because most people have no idea that why we would even need it. And so I just had my daughter on lamas just to kind of show you what what a junior hire knows about money. And this is someone who who lives in my house and listens to me talk all the time and has read and watched many videos. Um, and that's still where she's at. So just imagine that the rest of the kids probably

sekew a little bit less than that. I guess was my guest. But um, act to the bigcoin conference. So um yeah, the largest crowd, right, like I said, about thirty thousand people. Was was pretty amazing to be there. Now, what's interesting about going there is that, you know, what mainstream media wants to tell us today is that we align on identity identity politics. You're black, you're white, you're Mexican, your woman, your male, your whatever sex you are. Your

preference is this, you're gay, y're straight, whatever? Right, um, your religion, this religion, that whatever, And they wanted to divide us into all these different identities. Identity politics is what we call it, and that's wrong. It's not the way that the world works. It's not the way that we identify. It's not the way that we align. We align on shared values. That's what we align in. Now when we at try to try to divide people by identities,

the problem is is that we're lots of things. So like, um, well, I guess I belong in the Mail group. Um, I also belong in the California group. Can I belong in the mail and the California group at the same time. I'm also a surfer? Do I also align in the surfer group? So now I'm a surfer and I'm a California emin a mail So which one do I belong in? Right? And so we start trying to like break people up, but like I can belong to multiple different identities at

the same time. And so what really happens is we align based off of values. And then values would be things like I value freedom. For example, I value UM, honesty, I value transparency. I value these types of things. Right, I value UM those things. And then the higher those values are, then um, the stronger that alliance can be. So I would consider myself, what I say, a freedom maximalist. I'm maximizing for freedom, and I want to align with

other people that are freedom maximalists. If you're somebody who, um wants to be a little mini authoritarian and you want to tell people what they should do, what they can and can't do, but then you and I probably aren't going to align very well. We're probably not going to have very good conversations. We're not going to agree on things. And so what we see at the Bitcoin conference, we have twenty people there all aligning on shared values.

And they're all different races and sexes and religions and preferences and everything you're gonna imagine, but it doesn't matter. It's not the identities that matter. They're all aligning on shared values of freedom, of monetary independence, on progress, on innovation, things like that, and so, UM, what you get is

this like electricity in the air. I mean, everybody that you meet is just like somebody that you can connect with and like your friends with and like you you can have these deep conversations and it's just like it's just like electricity. I mean, just walking around, it's just awesome and you feel that. Um. And the other thing that we noticed is that with bitcoin specifically, not crypto.

So I say bitcoin here, not crypto. And then then the reason why is because what happens with bitcoin is that, um, it changes you. Anyone who's been around bitcoin long enough knows that bitcoin changes you. And I spent a lot of time talking about this, partically at the at the event last week. Why why does bitcoin change you? How does it change you? Well, I think the biggest thing is is that bitcoin changes your time preference. So you

can have a high time preference or a low time preference. Um, think about it like your long your your long term perspective. So unfortunately, the way most people are in the in the United State dates and maybe even the world today are our high time preference. They want instant gratification. If I don't get rich quick, if I don't see instant results, if I don't get what I want now right, well

have this instant gratification. The problem is that in life, I hate to break it to you, but nothing good comes quickly, nothing good comes easy. All the best things require you to wait, to work hard, and things like that. And so, um, what bitcoin does is it changes that type preference to a low time preference. I mean I don't prefer time that much. It's very low. I have a long term perspective. So now I don't need to get rich by tonight. I just want to make sure

that I have enough money to retire on right. Um, I can eat a healthy diet because I know that it's going to keep me healthy over the long term. I'm not trying to get like some lose weight quick you know scheme or something like that. And so what happens is what you see with bitcoiners is because they have this long term perspective. And the reason why I say that is people get into cryptocurrent see just how rich can I get? How much money? What's the next

hot cryptocurrency? Mark the reason why I'm tuning indio so you can tell me about cryptocurrency to buy. What's the next one? Is? Is it another dog coin or some meme coin. I want to make twenty times my money in two weeks. If I don't make in two weeks, that I'm out right, it's it's a scam. But people don't come into bitcoin for that, right and you understand that like bitcoin is at whatever forty thousand today, it will probably be at a million dollars in the next decade.

That's pretty damn good. The stock markets were turned about eight percent over the last whatever sixty eight years, six or eight percent. So if I can get a thirty X, that's amazing, and I gotta wait ten years, that's pretty dann good. But no crypto guys want to make that in two weeks. And so what happens is most bitcoiners come in, it changes their time preference. And when that

starts to happen, they start to see lots of other things. So, um, it's that, And it's also people that have been able to put enough time in to understand everything they've been told isn't necessarily true or right. And so then they start to question other things like, well, if I've been misled or lied to about money, what else have I been lied and misled to? What about my health? The f d A tells me that I should eat seven servings of grains per day? Is that true? Well you

quickly find out that's not. As a matter of fact, you take the FDA food pyramid. You should actually flip that upside down. You should actually do the opposite of what they tell you. Um, everything the medical system has told me, it's mostly wrong. Um, everything that these relationships people have told me it's mostly wrong, and you start to question everything. It's like cognitive dissidence. Um, if I believe this to be true, then everything else I know

has to change is not true. And so then you have this long term time preference, and so you start thinking about your health. So most of the bitcoiners are really health conscious. A lot of them are carnivores. They just eat meat only, diets. Um. A lot of them think about savings, think about building. A lot of them have very good relationships. And you start start to see this. They're not spending flashy money on Lamborghinis and Ferraris and

all these types of things. They're saving their building, they're growing, they're building farms, they're building food, they're building businesses. They're having a bunch of kids, right, things like that. Um. And then crypto crypto people is a little bit difference. And I'm gonna and the reason why I'm setting that up is because I'm gonna talk about some of these parties that I went to. So I went to a lot of parties. Um. In life, they say, it's not

who you know, it's actually who knows you. And because I'm on the radio and I have a big YouTube channel and whatnot. A lot of people know me and I get invited to all the best parties. I got invited away more parties than I could go to. UM, I don't wanna tell you about some of the parties. I know you wanna know about that. I'm gonna tell you, like I said, about the behind the scenes, some of the people I met, some of the politicians I met, UM, I want to tell you more about the parties and

some of the big announcements that came out. So don't go away. I'm gonna be right back. All right, welcome back. You are listening to the Mark Moa Show. We're talking about bitcoin and cryptocurrency and the decentralized revolution. We're talking about the intersection of politics, technology, and finance all coming together to change the world as we speak. And so I'm talking about the Bitcoin conference. I just got back.

I was there for eight days in Miami, Florida, and it was it was big, and it was the intersection of those things. Politics. There was lots of politicians there. UM. Some of the more notable ones was Cynthia Loomas, Senator from Wyoming. She was there talking UM. She is a very big proponent of of bitcoin. We but we also had politicians for other countries. So we had dignitaries from El Salvador from Mexico. I gotta even hang out with

Prince Philip, who's the Princess Serbia was there. Um, So we had we had politicians and dignitaries from the United States and all over the world were there. It was pretty cool. I was gonna talk to you about some of these parties I went to. So most of these bitcoin parties are bitcoiners that have these long term perspectives. And so the first night I was there, Um, Lawrence Lepard had had a kind of a big dinner with

a bunch of bitcoiners. He's been on the radio show before, and so, uh, there was fifteen twenty I don't know twenty five people and we ate steak, big little steak. That's what bitcoin is like, That's what I like. I try to eat as much steak as I possibly can. Um. And then the next day we're at investor meetings. All day I was at UH. I'm a senior advisor for a venture capital fund called Trammel Venture Partners t v P, and we only invest into companies that are building on bitcoin,

and that was pretty amazing. UM seeing all the companies that we've been investing in to come and do their product demos. You could not believe the technologies that are being built on bitcoin. If you aren't paying attention. A lot of times people think bitcoin's old technology and all the all the tech is being built on cryptocurrency and all coins, and that's just not true. The stuff that's

being built on bitcoin would blow your mind. One of the biggest most anticipated releases is one called Impervious Um. It's a company that is going to blow your mind. It's a new browser, so like a Google browser for example, like a Google Chrome browser, but it has everything built in. So you have Zoom but without Zoom. What does that mean, Well, I don't have to use a company like Zoom or

a company like Google Meat. I can just go video peer to peer between me and the other person without somebody in the middle trying to stop that block out the prevented or spy on me. We have Chat and I can do chat peer to peer from person to person without having to go through Google servers. I can use Google like it has like a Google Docs built in, except for Google doesn't have access to it. They can't spy on me, they can't watch it. It's my docs, and I can share them directly peer to peer with

another person. It's pretty amazing what Impervious is doing. I think there's gonna be a full score release here in a couple weeks, pretty amazing. A bunch of more technologies that were coming out, that's pretty cool. Then then I got to go to, uh see the ambassador of El Salvador. So a lot of you guys that don't know or you should know by now, that El Salvador was the first country to make bitcoin legal tender. The president of El Salvadore was supposed to be there at the conference.

He didn't end up making it, but the ambassador was there. I got to go to a little private function with with her. I meet her. That was pretty cool. And then um, I Heart Media had a party with Galaxy Digital. And Galaxy Digital is a cryptocurrency fund, not a bitcoin fund, a cryptocurrency fund, and it was amazing to see this glaring difference of going from like this bitcoin venture fund

all day and then going to a crypto fund. And remember, the bitcoiners have this like long term time perspective, so they're they're investing their money. They're building real things, and Crypto was like all flash. And we went to this party and it was like a hundred people were there and they had this DJ that's that played for eighty five thousand people like the week before, and he was here playing for like a hundred people. So they probably

paid all kinds of crazy money. You know, these are the beautiful people wearing their expensive outfits and they probably drove there in their Lamborghinis and whatever. And just what a glaring difference. Like we were eating steak before and here we are there, We're getting like little orders of like lobster bisku or something right, like just like little mouth little bites. Um. And it was just, uh, the glaring difference of having going from one to the other.

It was pretty interesting. But she it out to iHeart Media and Galaxy for putting that on. And then let's see what else did we do? Um. Well, one of my good friends, Robert breedlove how to sit down private function with Jordan Peterson. And if you don't know Jordan Peterson, and then I don't know where the heck you've been living in this world? Uh, he's I would have to say, he's probably the smartest intellectual alive today in my opinion, and um, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

I don't know how to quantify that. If you're not listening to Jordan Peterson, you should be check them out on YouTube. But they they sat down and they talked about things from a first principles level, so understanding what we call a priori truth. These are things that are known to be true. And they built on this conversation. It was amazing. Um. And then we hung out and it was like all these bitcoiners there and Robert Breedlove

and Jordan Peterson hanging out. And then I left there and I went to this other party that was put on by Jim and I and it was at this uh at this mansion on this island, and very exclusive island. You have to have a go through a gate just to get on the island. And and again I get there, like a hundred people out the side, and it's like the most beautiful people you've ever seen, like the beautiful girls and guys dressed up. I'm like, oh man, where

the heck am? I And I go in and like these DJ spinning and like all these ice sculptures and bars, and I'm like, where am I at? This is crazy? This is like pure fiat. That's what we call. It's like, it's like pure fiat. And uh, luckily I was able to find some people I knew when we kind of had this little private area. Um. It was a pretty crazy party. But again, just this glaring difference of bitcoin. And I don't want to say the bitcoinners are no fun.

It's just just a different story. Um. But it was an amazing time. I tried to take it easy because like eight days, they're talking to thousands of people, shaking thousands of hands. Um. I did a book launch. Um, so for those you guys that don't know, I launched a book at the Bitcoin conference. Is called the Uncommunist Manifesto. You can check it out at Uncommunist dot com. We got about I think five or six more days left of our kickstarter campaign if you want to check that

out and support it Uncommunist dot com. But at at the Bitcoin Conference a couple two days I did book signings there was pretty awesome. And then I told you I worked the news desk, so I gotta work that with Mr wonderful Kevenal area was pretty awesome. Alex Gladstein, who runs the Human Rights Foundation. We talked about how bitcoin is solving human rights issues around the world, like North Korea, like in Tongo, UM, you know, all throughout Africa, UM, Lebanon,

et cetera. Was pretty amazing. I gotta share the news desk with Andrew Yang, former presidential candidate. UM was pretty amazing. Um man, so much happened there, let's see. Oh and some big announcements. One of the biggest announcements. And again people think that bitcoin is old technology, it's too slow, it can't be used for payments. Um, it's only good for store of value. But again they don't understand what

they're talking about. And so a big announcement was made with Strike and Strike uses what's called Layer two, so it's allows bitcoin to be transferred almost at the speed of light and almost for free, and so you can actually transfer bitcoin faster and cheaper than another cryptocurrency. And they announced that they just made it a partnership with Shopify. So now all Shopify stores, when you go to check out, you can choose credit card like you could choose PayPal,

and now you can choose bitcoin right there. All the Shopify stores that they announce the partnership with that And I was in cr I believe, which is the largest payment processor for stores. So stores use like a POS a point of sale terminal to run your credit card, and this company runs one out of every six payment terminals in the country and they will all now be accepting bitcoin um using this lightning rail. And so that's amazing.

So expect to see that happening very very quickly. About one in six stores will now be accepting bitcoin completely bypassing the entire dollar payment network. Pretty amazing to see that happen. So remember, with the new technology, we're looking at two things, right, We're looking at user growth, the amount of users on the network are they growing and the development that's happening on the network. And so um the Bitcoin conference two years ago or three years ago had,

you know, a few thousand people. Last year was ten thousand people. This year was thirty thousand people. So the rate of users is growing so fast it's hard to even comprehend. And the development happening is so fast that now it was announced that all shopify stores and one in six retail stores with a credit card terminal will now be accepting bitcoin. Not x y Z crypto, not ethereum, not x RP, not Cardano, not fill in the blank, but using bitcoin. Pretty amazing time at the Bitcoin conference.

Hopefully you enjoyed some of that behind the scenes stuff. Um check out my Instagram at one Mark Moss you can see some of my stories and photos and some things like that. And of course said follow me on Twitter as well at one Mark Moss and check out the book Uncommunist dot com. Like I said, we still got a few more days left in the launch if you want to support that. But this space is growing and everyone's gonna get in at the price they deserve.

You can either get in now and front run everybody else, or you can wait until you're starving or drowning like my analogy, and grab it. Then that's what I got here today. Thanks for listening, See you next time.