music The Bitcoin Group, the American Original. For over the last ten years, the sharpest Satoshi's, the best Bitcoin's, the hardest cryptocurrency talk. We'd like to welcome our panelists, Victoria Jones from Satoshi's page. Hello, hello, good evening everyone. And I'm Thomas Hunt from the World Crypto Network, moving on to issue one, issue one, knots hard fork. According to leaked text messages shared with the rage, Luke Dash Jr. plans to hard fork knots to quote save Bitcoin. The hard fork would have a quote, trusted multi-sig committee that would retrospectively alter the blockchain to quote, remove illicit content. It looks like the end for knots as they've made their own attention to hard fork. Next messages are right here. It says, not too, he says, not sure if I'll get a chance before November to trying too busy trying to save Bitcoin. And at the bottom it says, trying to come up with migration strategies for the risk CSAM gets mined. So my thought is after a block is identified as having CSAM flag that one and uses EK pour, technically a hard fork, but since it's buried, should be safe. A hard fork for Bitcoin knots. Victoria Jones, what do you think we discussed knots just a few weeks ago went back and forth, but now it looks like they're ready to go their own way with Bitcoin knots. Yeah, I think I said last time I was on that that might end up being the solution because obviously, you know, we're getting to a situation here where, you know, opinions are very, very opposed. And so in those sorts of situations, if you can't reach a compromise, if both people are very entrenched in their positions, then, you know, it's going to go either way. And this was the way in which Bitcoin was designed. So yeah, it looks like we might have another civil war on our hands. I don't think it's going to be a civil war. I think it's going to be over about five minutes. I think this is just this, this, and then I think it's similar to the Bitcoin 2x fork, where all the companies were on one side and all there was on the other side was mad bitcoins and a few other people. And we won and they all went away. And then two weeks later, the code that would have become Bitcoin 2x crashed anyway. So it would have been a disaster for everyone. I think this is the same thing happening in obvious slow motion to begin with. What is this committee? What is this nonsense? Who is going to determine what is what? Who's going to elect this committee? Who's going to trust them? Oh my goodness, we went down a complete organization, rabbit hole, as we often do with libertarian ideas, which usually turn out to be disasters. It's fun to talk about in a laboratory philosophically, but anytime they try to implement anything it ends up like this, there's now a multi-sig committee, Luke Jr.'s magic committee. I don't know what he's doing. I totally agree with this tweet by Callie BTC who's been all over this on Twitter at Callie BTC. He says, now that the knots of mob has realized how much nasty stuff is already stored on their own, holy nodes at home, the narrative now is that there's not so bad CSAM split into multiple transactions and bad CSAM, which fits into a single transaction. She says, this is what anthropology must feel like, including a picture of Jane Goodall with binoculars saying, fascinating behavior. Victoria, what do you think we talked about this a few weeks ago? I mentioned it again. These nodes are already full of garbage. The text is already there. You can combine the text together. You can probably make a nasty image. I don't have time for that. No one else does. The blockchain is not a way to distribute things, even if it becomes that way. It's really not designed for that. It's designed to send money around, which already supports crazy projects that we don't support already. What do you think about Callie's tweet and the idea that, yes, Virginia, there's already bad stuff on your note. What are the two ways to make sure that you're not too much in all the transactions? I thought the tweet was a bit dismissive, really. It only really paints a surface, paradeed view of what's actually going on. I've actually looked into it a bit more since I was lost on. It would appear to be the issue appears to be that when images like this are broken up into small chunks, there's plausible deniability for Bitcoin as running their own nodes. However, if you get to a stage where you can embed a whole image, that becomes a whole different ballgame. I don't think any of these images even split into small sections are a good idea. All things in the universe carry a spiritual energy. Even if you break it down into small pieces on a blockchain, you're inculcating something into the very nature of what it is that we're trying to develop that is antithetical to it. If we're trying to achieve the moral high ground by having a better form of money to contaminate it with that kind of data, whether it's split into small pieces or its actual large images, this feels, people were always going to go after Bitcoin's weaknesses. We've seen this over and over again. Initially they tried to find who Satoshi was because he kept himself anonymous. He wasn't able to. Then they've had hard forks in the past where it was against the miners and the general public. Generally speaking, Bitcoin has been very robust, but all of these cryptocurrencies rely on their narrative. Part of the strength of Bitcoin's narrative is the fact that it's money for the people. If you've got something that's embedding images and data that's fundamentally against the nature of humanity, you're creating a problem there. So yeah, I think it's a problem. Of course, at the moment, it's all very esoteric. People are talking about it as only the software developers. If you're an average Bitcoin, you probably don't really understand what's going on here. So, the tendency is to think, well, these things have happened before, it's no big deal. All you need is for some tabloid to get hold of the fact that these are the images that can be found on Bitcoin and extract them more easily than they've done in the past. You have that slapped all over the papers. The reputation of Bitcoin will just be completely tanked. It's Bitcoin's reputation that's keeping the money afloat. It's actually a really big deal. It's the software and the way in which the software is designed, that we've been trusting the developers in order to actually do this in an honorable way. We believed it because it started off so well. The fact that it's got to the stage where people have a really big problem with what's happening, and that's not being listened to. So, changes aren't being made. It's having to come down to a hard thought. This is a problem. I think Jed said a couple of weeks ago when he was on about the fact that there is a problem with Bitcoin's governance. The fact that they could introduce this, and it took a number of months for it to reach the stage where this was being properly debated, and people really started to understand the implications of this thing. This is Bitcoin Core 30, isn't meant to be released next week. It's not been resolved. The problem is just getting worse and worse. It's got to the stage now with rather than Bitcoin Core backing down and saying, okay, we can see that 25% of the network has a problem with this because they're running knots. Even if there is a problem with knots, we need to step back and have a conversation. I think to not even do that out of respect for the fact that there are people who are really upset about this and we need to have a compromise. It's not so much the fact that there's a problem. Okay, someone can introduce an idea and it might be a really bad idea or it might be a really good idea. But the whole idea behind Bitcoin was the fact that there would be some collaboration and there would be some discussion. If there were problems, it would be sorted out. From what I can tell, Bitcoin Core has really taken the high road here and refused to listen to anyone else. I think that's really problematic. The fact that they're now being pushed into this situation where it's only one or the other, I think it's not good. I don't think it's good at all. First, I'm not sure that they have 25% of the network. I've heard that one data center in Berlin is running all their nodes and it's similar to the B-cash discussion where they kept pumping up the values of B-cash and they kept saying they had all this stuff. But in the end, they didn't have it. Because horrible as it might sound, Victoria, what do you think of the idea that the core developers think that they're smarter than everyone and in the case of this niche thing of the Bitcoin software, they might be smarter than everyone. So they're not going to change their mind. They're not going to slow down because they don't really care what the 25% or the 5% or whatever percentage it is thinks or cares because they only care about the software. Essentially, they're kind of autistic, they're very singular, focused and that they don't care. What do you think starting from there? I think that's a good idea. It's a communication problem. But it's exactly how they are. They exactly don't care. They're not going to leave this platform. They're going to post here. They're going to post the long message. They're going to use markup language or whatever. They're not going to merge to your platform. They're not going to make a press release. They're not going to figure out how to explain this to the community. They're just going to do it because they think it's the best for the software. That might brush people the wrong way. For making the software, that might be the best way. But the thing is, if they can do it with this, what else are they going to do it with? Certainly, when I bought into Bitcoin, it was about the fact that you can't make changes on the software. It's very hard to make changes on the software. It needs to be, you need consensus in order to make that change. Now, I know someone's commented the fact that it's not a consensus change. When it's affecting people this strongly, it still makes a difference. It's a change that's going to have a material effect. It might only be something that requires a hard thought. But if it's a soft fork, that a number of people disagree with it, even by introducing a filter, it's not going to solve the problem anyway. Even if nots are running their nodes, it's not going to, if Core 30 is introduced and they're allowing that data to be on the network, once the miners have allowed it into the blockchain, it doesn't matter if you run a Bitcoin nots node. That's not going to solve the problem. To have something that's this contentious and to not even discuss it, that's apart from anything else, regardless of this individual issue. It's not really so contentious. It's not going to be easy to upload an image. It's not going to be cheap to upload an image. I don't think it's going to be that easy to download an image. I think that a lot of focus has gotten in on this whole CP thing and you start raving the flag. Now we have C-Sam, I don't know, this is really an acronym. No one even wants to say the words anymore. If we just put that to the side, it's just a small technical change. I don't think people are going to upload images. Again, we're already hosting money for the world. We're already monetarily supporting all kinds of horrible causes. I'm still like the anthropologist, ladies, sitting back here. I'm wearing a pirate hat. I am a pirate. This is a pirate monetary network. We're in a crazy time where Wall Street is adopting it and all these people who hated us in the beginning are all now on board. That's not going to last. The Trojan horses inside the walls, the Greeks are still inside the horse and all the Trojans are like, what a nice horse. Look at the decorations on this Bitcoin. I mean, the Christian, C-Sam, CPAP, anti-people, CP people, they just seem like more of these ridiculous Trojans. They're not really on board with the plan of the Greeks, the Bitcoiners inside. They're going to wreck everything. The network's going to wreck everything. The idea where we just talk about, oh, the dollar losing its global reserve currency and we just pass over that. That wrecks everything. The idea that it wrecks sanctions like that Iran and Russia, wherever you disagree with, can now get around sanctions. That wrecks everything. And I'm sure that it wrecks the, certainly the FBI could track Bitcoin's very open network at this time. But in the future, Bitcoin, the hidden Z-Cash, whatever it's going to be, could fund all kinds of horrible CP things, right? Is actual money, like actual support, like give them a house to abuse people in, right? Actual support is so much worse than hosting an image. But it's not just about the image. It's, you know, are you familiar with the phrase the totalitarian tiptoe? You know, it might just be a small, it might just be a small change. And you might not think that it's a big deal. But the fact that they can do this and go over everyone as head, as you say, in a slightly autistic manner and kind of going, we're going to do this. We don't care about how you, that's more of the issue. You mean, yes, the images are an issue because that's, that has the potential to be a PR disaster for Bitcoin. So it is a problem, regardless of what you think you're religious. But it's already there. It's already there. I mean, the images are already in there. Not in the same way, not in the same way. You know, yes, they're broken down into images, but not one that's as easily retrievable. And that has the potential to be a PR disaster. You know, if you get a tabloid newspaper onto that, you'll just have a ton of people that will turn away from Bitcoin overnight because they feel that strongly about it. That's the whole thing that Bitcoin is pirate money and that all of us, whether they're Wall Street people or Christian people or whoever they are, if you're not a cyberpunk, if you're not a libertarian, if you don't, if you're not okay with everything collapsing around you and Bitcoin rising up because of its superior technology, which is again, now every other technology thing went. We all use the internet. Nobody reads newspapers. There's no card catalogs. MP3 wrecked the music industry, streaming video, video formats, wrecked the video industry. Why aren't we going to wreck banks and wreck stock markets? And when I mean wreck, I mean wreck, like it's not, they're not going to be like, oh, it carries CP. They're going to be like, it's the goose that lays golden eggs. Keep mining it. And people already steal electricity. People already hide out with Bitcoin miners. Is it going to be forced underground? Inevitably, yes. I think that these people with their filters and their committees and their nonsense are in denial of what this project is really about. This is not to say Amir Taki is the leader, but his spirit, the revolutionary spirit of the cyberpunk and the libertarians. It's the core of the project. I think that the core people by going ahead and not really caring what the non-technical people think. I think that's the project. I mean, when the corporate people tried to take it over, that was in the project and the internet shifted it back, right? The internet's going to make the decision on this. The internet's going to rise up and decide. And I don't think the internet's with knots, especially the more complicated it gets with these committees and these single developer guy who seems little radical and out of control. Obviously, there's going to be a, you know, knots to knots cash, knots Satoshi's vision. It's going to keep going. But once they start hard forking, they're just like, they're out of the group. They can go do their thing with their own thing. And I don't think it's going to work. Yeah, I mean, certainly from the snippets that we've been given, I mean, right at the end of that email exchange, Luke just Jr said that, you know, that I think he'd been approached by a journalist and he said, you know, whatever you've heard is complete lies. Even though it was snippets of text messages, you know, those could have been taken out of context. It could just be ideas at the moment. He could just be floating ideas of what to do. The point is he sees a problem as serious enough that something needs doing because he recognises the potential for the P.I. disaster for Bitcoin that that could be. So I'm not saying that he's come up with the perfect solution and it may well, and yeah, I think the idea of a committee to filter out individual transactions. I mean, you know, that's a recipe for disaster because Bitcoin's not meant to be able to work that way. But at the same time, you know, Bitcoin can call being as dictatorial as they're being, you know, that's a problem as well. You know, part of Bitcoin's reputation is the fact that it's this period of technology because it can't be hacked and it has a very clear set of rules. I mean, the thing is if this, if they could do this, who's to say at some point that they couldn't determine that the hard cap needs to increase, which, you know, is a big part of the narrative as to why people buy into Bitcoin. You know, it's, you know, we've already got a problem. The reason why they need to address the issue of images on the blockchain in the first place is because it was a problem that was introduced when they, when they upgraded to taproot because that's what allowed all the ordinals to get into the software. So, you know, we kind of, we're, we're making, we're trying to design a solution for a problem that's all that. That's the technical argument, right? So, they're saying that the ordinals and the runes or whatever, they're getting in without paying the miners. So, they're getting in for free. So, they need to have a system where they would be properly charged and they would shift these systems to the new system. Well, regardless, the fact that they were allowed to in the first place. So, under the current system, they can do it, right? They could put ordinals that are pornographic images. They could put really low res, little blocky, nudy images into the things they could combine, multiple runes, multiple ordinals together, right? To make a larger image, be more offensive. Like, it's the same thing. It's still, the offensive data is already there. We're not, the pure, the point I'm making is, the point I'm making is, the fact in time and take out data, they're going to have to go back in time and take out transactions. They're going to have to, it's been monitored the whole world of data. They are the great, you know, commanders of the network. This is a terrible way. I've already said, I don't think not. I've already said that that is not a good solution. But the point I'm making is the fact that core is trying to do an update to correct problems that came with their previous update with Taproot. You know, ordinals were not a problem before then. And the fact that they're trying to correct the ordinal's problem is now allowing for these additional images. And it's about the fact that, you know, each time, and I've heard, I've seen an interview where Michael Saillers made this point, you know, this is the way governments start out. They start off by being, you know, having a great deal, having a number of ideals. But of course, by having control of the money, they're able to dictate which laws kind of come in or which don't. And over time, this kind of gets corrupted. And Bitcoin was meant to be designed in such a way that the design of the software was static. And apart from upgrades to kind of keep it going, it shouldn't really be messed with more than that. And we're reaching a stage where it is being messed with more than that. And it does not bode well for the future that we wanted. I mean, yes, we've got a problem with the Fiat system. But we're going from the frying pan into the fire because not only that, but you've also got a situation where, you know, Bitcoin can carry data. It used to say that it can't also start carrying individual IDs. And that's used as a way of invading people's privacy and monitoring it. You know, the governments have long had a plan for this. Obviously, they were trying to introduce it through their CBDCs. And they're now trying to go after that with stablecoins. But you know, if they can get it on Bitcoin, you know, so much the better because that's the one that's seen as the libertarian option. So. Let's say this about the internet. Didn't they say that the internet was full of porn and that the internet was allowing child trafficking and then all these things were true about the internet. And now we still have the internet. It got the price for years. It's the same thing though. It's not about the images carry data. They carry things. It carries information data. It's going to carry it. So if it carries it as an or nor ruin and it's uncharged and the miners don't make money or if the miners make money, it carries the data either way, right? When Bitcoin was first designed, that wasn't even an issue. It's only become an issue since Taproot was introduced. So and the point I'm making is the fact that they made a change that they didn't think would be a problem. And then then it's had these unintended consequences that they need to correct. You know, the political system works in the same way. You know, they introduce a law and then they need another law to correct the unintended consequences of the previous law that they put in place. You know, and that's part of the madness that we're living in with the Fiat system right now. And you're starting to introduce the same kind of problem into Bitcoin. It's just that Bitcoin is earlier. So it seems like, you know, it's going to be a better solution. And based on, you know, the simple design you had in the first place, it was great. But you know, we've still got the problem that, you know, you need lightning for everyday transactions. Lightning is not straightforward to use. The main Bitcoin, it's where it's straightforward to use, but it's not straightforward to use behind the scenes. It's actually quite complicated. And this issue with Notts and Core has really disrupted a number of people's nose behind the scenes. I mean, certainly the note that I was using the channels have been cancelled so that, you know, people could go onto the new Notts thing. And the thing is when you're novice in these things, it's hard enough to kind of get to square one. And then it's almost like, I'm right back to the beginning and having to manage, you know, all of all of the things I'd learnt so far. I've now got to stop and learn it all again. You know, if Bitcoin's actually going to be a global reserve currency and useful and actually get to the stage where it disrupts the financial system, it needs to be usable. And we were just starting to make progress on that. And then this whole Notts thing has really disrupted that. And it just, it holds things back, you know, these constant changes. The fact that, you know, the additional data is already clogging up people's nose. I mean, these things are actually a problem. And the thing is, you know, so many people are focused on the price and the fact that it's done so well, they're assuming that it's going to continue to do well without realising that actually all of these things happening behind the scenes are undermining what Bitcoin actually is. It's just that not enough people have caught up with what's happening yet for it to really kind of hit the ET. I mean, the ETFs have just about figured out that Bitcoin is this really great thing and they're investing for the future based on what's happened in the past without understanding Bitcoin's story, what made it successful and profitable in the past. You know, you've got a number of people in Bitcoin who've been holding it forever because they liked the idea of what it was in the past. But, you know, as these changes take place, you know, you might sniff at the people who are making a fuss about these images. But what if that, if some of the people who are offended are people who've been holding Bitcoin forever and they suddenly go, right, I'm out. So, you know, it does have an impact and it has an impact on the price as well. So yeah, I think it's, I think it's really troublesome what's happening. I really do. I do think that's bound to happen anyway though as Bitcoin falls out of favour and people realised what a rebel currency it really is and Wall Street realises it. I think that all the gains that we've made in the public square will be rolled back and there'll be a dark period of Bitcoin and everyone will say, oh, that's dead. They don't use that at Wall Street anymore. And then five years later, 10 years later, they'll check in. It'll still be there and it'll come back. Let's go to the chat just a little bit and talk to Starship Schrodinger's destiny. He says, right here, we were talking about CSAM. My node may record the fact of one party paying another for a child, sex slave or whatever, but it does not contain the crime itself. Only the record of it. The trouble with the CSAM is that the image is the crime. He says CSAM laws are unlike all other laws. They're like the weeping angels and Doctor Who. An image of the crime itself becomes the crime. So that does sound very bad. There's an additional problem there that as I understand the Lightning Network, the funds do actually pass through like handing a hot dog through a stadium. So in the Lightning Network, it is possible that you would be in the path of paying for the child sex slave. So then you would be presumably an accomplice to the thing. But this all seems like stuff that's going to get worked out digitally because there's going to be so much of this, so many hot dogs being passed around to hold everyone accountable for having a hot dog. It will be ridiculous. And I think in the same way with the blockchain, it'll probably go down to the same way. Everyone will have a copy of it. Everyone will have all the bad data. And everyone will just kind of accept this. And it's I don't think that's true. I think the current internet is that way. I think that current internet is full of bad data and it's full of good data. And we just call it the internet. And we don't get upset about it anymore. No one's leaving the internet. I'm forking the internet and going to internet to where a committee will determine which images are acceptable on my internet to. It's not going to work. But anyway, we got to keep going. We're going to move on to issue two issue two Bitcoin crash wipes 1.7 billion dollars off the board. But analysts still predict a surge to 135,000 dollars a coin. Traitors are named optimistic about the cryptocurrency hitting new records despite a major crash. On Monday, Bitcoin experienced its biggest sell off of the air, wiping out 1.7 billion dollars in bullish bets. Some analysts believe this crash could actually act as a market reset, potentially pushing Bitcoin to 135,000 dollars. Thomas Hunt, what do you think? Well I took a look at this crash like everyone else and I was shocked. But then again, I go back to that whole thing where I watch nothing but politics news and then I think that the politics won't affect us. In a lot of ways, this crash is people selling and getting set up for the potential government shutdown in the United States. It's unfortunate. I don't want to talk about it. But it does seem like the Republican led house, the Republican led senate and the Republican president cannot agree on a budget or a continuing resolution to keep the United States government going. And they might disagree with so many of the things the government does that they're willing to shut it down anyway. And that's going to happen, which of course is going to wreck the stock markets. If you're invested in the stock market, you've got to sell some of your Bitcoin and your other cryptocurrencies so you can cover your stock bets, so on and so forth. Also there does seem to be this kind of thing where the suckers keep getting fleeced. And I'm sorry if you're out there and you're a sucker. But these people who keep saying Bitcoin is dead and then they bet on the Bitcoin short position and then they lose all their money. And then a few weeks later they're very optimistic. And they're like Bitcoin's going to the moon. It's going up forever. And they bet on the long position and then they lose their money. These crazy swings are caused by this swing of optimism. Last week, two weeks ago, everyone loved Bitcoin. This week everybody's not so sure. So it is strange again to see these articles and I've seen them since Bitcoin goes to 20 and it's going to go back to 10, then go to 35. And you say, oh, that's insane. That's just insane. But maybe they're right. Maybe we go down a little and then we come right back up again like it's done so many times. Victoria Jones. What's your favorite topic? What do you think about the price of Bitcoin? It's looking good. It's looking bad actually. I think we could have topped already for this cycle. I mean, certainly timing wise, we're at around that stage. The article obviously that was predicting that we go to 135 was based on the price staying above 117. It's now 109. So yeah, not ideal. And like I say, with Core 30 being introduced just next week, I think more people will be upset about it than you think. So I don't think it's good for, I don't think it's, I don't think this, the whole argument and the way in which Bitcoin Core has responded to the complaints is good at all. So, yep. So I'm not optimistic in the near future. I'm afraid so. Well, as they said in Hutsucker proxy, volatility allows the more timid investors to exit the market. And I think we're going to see that again. As in that movie, the company Hutsucker rebounded, created many fine products and had no trouble after that. But in the short term, I don't know what's going to happen, but I do know who does the magic Bitcoin eight ball, the source of all truth and knowledge in this universe. Victoria, will the price be higher or lower this week? It sounds like you're saying lower. I think so, yeah. I still think higher, I think we bounce. And if we don't bounce, we go down. And then we bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce. It's all we do. We just correct in bounce. Now, the ball, will the price be higher this time next week? As I see it, yes, as I see it, yes, the ball is optimistic. Moving on to issue three, we don't have the ad for World Crypto Network. Hold on a sec. We need an advertisement being told that we need an advertisement. Check out worldcryptonetwork.com. We've got 4,580 videos. You could watch them for three months, 22 days and 19 hours consecutively without sleeping at worldcryptonetwork.com. 2,3 Trump's administration's $20 billion bailout for Argentina's Malay raises eyebrows. We all remember Argentina taken over by the libertarian Malay who is going to run it with libertarian policies. It turned out that he ran the libertarian country right into the ground. And now they need $20 billion to bail them out. This of course makes no sense after the Trump canceled, Trump administration canceled US AID which helped many countries and many people. And now we're going to give all of our money to Argentina to try to bail the out. As it says here, the president vowed to fix the economy. Then there came a crisis. They slashed inflation and spending all the austerity cutting off Argentina. Meanwhile, crypto adoption surges. So once again, bad for Argentina, bad for the government of Argentina. Bitcoin doesn't care. Victoria Jones, what do you think about Argentina and the Trump administration's plans to bail them out with $20 billion? Well, there's a famous saying that goes charity begins at home. And I don't think the America is in a position to be bailing out other countries when it's got so many of its own issues that need sorting out. So yeah, it seems a bit bonkers to me, but hey, hey. Especially just months ago, all the savings of do's and we're going to fire all these people. They said in the news just yesterday, they're hiring most of them back. Most of the government employers are being hired back. Meanwhile, I don't know if they're going to reopen things like the National Oceans Administration and NOAA that did all the weather reports, the weather satellites, all the rotten food in the barriers. And again, the idea that US AID might have been run poorly, might have had some waste. But the idea was that the United States tried to help the whole world and we spent a lot of money on it. But now we're going to spend all our money just to help Argentina, which is great, great for Argentina. But it seems we would have been more effective helping the entire world, more of a positive thing. Like there's this idea that if you look at a poor person's house and they have a bag full of rice as as US AID on the side, they're like, you know, the United States isn't so bad. They gave me that bag of rice. We should be that country, the country that gives away nice things. Instead, we're just going to bail out Argentina, which I predicted on this show would fail and failed predictably when they tried to put the libertarian ideas into practice and wreck the economy, wreck the peso. They tried to pump up the peso, it didn't work. Meanwhile, Bitcoin behind the scenes, never any problems for Bitcoin, doesn't affect Bitcoin at all. We don't get to choose our friends, whether it's the winners in El Salvador or the losers in Argentina, Bitcoin doesn't care. Victoria, any more on this or the exciting $20 billion that Trump's going to spend, how also we've been taking over companies. We got 10% of Intel. If we think we should get 10% of an Envita, we're taking over TikTok. Well, wasn't that Japan? Isn't that what Japan's strategy when they found that they were overly in debt, they started buying everyone's stocks? That would be one thing. I think we just went in with a gun and took 10%. It's unfortunate because Intel is failing. We took a sinker. We took 10% of a bad company, similar to when they took those percentages of the car companies, General Motors and so forth, which actually turned out they got the money back on that one. It's just a strange climate where on one side, they cut off all the aid and on the other side, this guy who's obviously an ally of the administration, obviously ideologically, libertarian and so forth, gets a huge bailout. Apparently there's nothing we can do. I don't know why this money doesn't go through Congress. We've lost control of what's supposed to happen here in the government and the United States, but that's a much larger issue. Well, especially if they're facing another government shutdown because they can't agree. Exactly. That's going to cause us some fortune. If you have billions of dollars for another country, but you don't have the government shutdown at least to get the Democrats on board, which again are not needed. The Republicans own all three branches of government and the Supreme Court, whatever you want. You can do anything you want. To get the Democrats on board, they want money for healthcare. They don't want people to be kicked off healthcare, which again, this $20 billion could probably do that. I remember when I was mad that they cut $500 million of cancer research because it's for the M-R-N-A vaccines, which they disagree with politically, scientifically. They seem great. But now it's just 10 times that. 20 times that. It just doesn't make sense. I know there's lots of money in foreign affairs and so forth. We don't want the government of Argentina or the economy to collapse. Also it's proposed to be a political loan. The idea that it would help Malay win reelection, which is also just, I thought we could learn something from all the 60s and 70s and all the backing, all the dictators and all the bad dictators. He's a bad dictator, but we back him because he agrees with us. And I was like, that was a lesson. All the CIA and everyone should be reading all those books about those things and the literal banana republics and so forth. Sugar companies taking over countries. But I guess we're going to just do it again. It's funny. But let's move on to issue four, something lighter finally. Pete Davidson and Casey Affleck team up with Doug Lyman on Bitcoin thriller film, Killing Satoshi. As the article from Variety says, Satoshi Nakamoto is a man whose very existence remains hotly debated. Now the Bitcoin creator is getting the big screen treatment. Doug Lyman, the born identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, has signed on to direct Killing Satoshi a conspiracy thriller that looks to unravel one of the most enduring mysteries of the 21st century, the secret identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. And why the answer threatens the global power structure? I don't know about that part. Oscar winner Casey Affleck and Pete Davidson will star in the film. Their character description is being kept under wraps. Victoria Jones, what do you think? Another Bitcoin movie we had the Silk Road on the big screen, which famously showed more of the FBI agent than Ross and kind of made them all out to be criminals. What do you think about this idea here of killing Satoshi? Well, it sounds like it'll be quite an interesting film. I mean, obviously the entire story of Bitcoin is fascinating, which is why it has so many fans. So yeah, I'm sure they can make a really good drama out of it. I'm looking forward to seeing what they come up with. It does sound interesting. I'm not sure about the whole global power structure. I mean, if Satoshi worked for a government agency or if the CIA has all the Bitcoin or what direction they're going to go, but it sounds like a great crew, Doug Lyman has been making wonderful films since go. And much earlier, born identity was good too. I think Pete Davidson could be funny. I'm not sure what he's in there. And Casey Affleck's kind of a serious actor now, I guess. I still remember him in Goodwill hunting. He swallowed a bug. But yeah, it sounds great killing Satoshi, not sure about the title and all the things. Has potential to be kind of stupid. Kind of could be a James Bondy kind of thing like they're chasing Satoshi around and he's hiding and he's running and he's hiding and he's running and he's hiding and there's a lot of running and hiding. But we'll see how it goes. I hope for the best. I think it would be good to imagine what it must have been like to be Satoshi. And to have the whole thing because of course, everyone loves a good mystery. And because we don't actually know the story, I can imagine many people being fascinated by thinking what must have been like to be Satoshi and to now be sitting on a fortune of 64 million and to never have actually touched it. I mean, you know, there has to be quite a remarkable personality. So it'll be interesting to see how they depict that character because there's many directions they could go with it. I'd like to see it as a heist film Satoshi is pro-methious. He works at a government lab for the CIA. They have Bitcoin. They're running it internally. They're testing it. They don't plan to release it. They're probably going to mothball it like any other weapon system. But Satoshi has an idea. What if I could get this and steal it and leak it? And then it's like mission impossible. It's a heist. He has to break into the servers and the clock's going and the download meter. Do do do do do do do. Is he going to get out in time and he's making small talk like Chelsea Manning or whatever pretending he's listening to his headphones and all of that writes itself? So that would be great. And then they chase them around like you say because maybe he releases it and he doesn't know what's going to happen. And then he can't un-release it. Similar to this taproot upgrade. But yeah, it could be fun. I hope it's great. Let us know in the audience what you guys think about killing Satoshi. Let us know in the comments down below if you made it this far into the video. For all you know, it's another one of these books by Bill O'Reilly who wrote killing Kennedy and killing a dozen other things, killing Jesus, I think, in this weird quasi-historical series of books that he wrote. So I assume it's nothing to do with that. I don't think that conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly is attached to write it. But still we'll keep an eye on it. And we're reporting at the very peak of media journalism here with Variety on the Bitcoin group here with the big new movie. That's how big we've gotten in Bitcoin. But we've reached the end of the show. We're going to go to predictions or story of the week. Victoria Jones, you have a prediction or a story of the week? No, I don't. Everything on my website has kind of come to a halt as a result of this whole core and not-s thing. We were working on some educational videos to teach people how to run their own nose. But of course, everything we've worked on so far is now pretty much redundant. So waiting to see how things play out before picking up on it again. But the next thing I'm due to be involved in is I'm speaking at the bitfest conference that's due in Manchester. So yeah, I guess I've got a bit more time to work on that talk. Yeah, I know newsletters or any new videos for the time being. Well, and check out bitfest at bitfest.uk. There's still four days left to get discounted tickets to bitfest. It's going to be cold, but I'm going to be there. And I've got a couple of things. I've got a story of the week. Europe's cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it. The European Commission wants to take a bite out of privacy rules that force websites to run cookie banners as a person who's visited Europe and still has the cookies in his browser and still gets the notices. I'd love for them to get rid of this. This didn't do anything for anyone's privacy. Everyone clicks except cookie. You know, you just know you're being spied on. Well, you can click reject as well. But most of the time it doesn't load or it doesn't work. But still, it's a one more button on every website everywhere. How about a thing where you could just say reject all cookies. And then it could read the cookie and the cookie could say reject all cookies. It's a non technical solution. It's another one of these nanny-ish but kind of well-meaning laws. They're trying to tell you you're being tracked. But in the end, you just get tracked anyway. Surprisingly, Apple has had a lot of success with their do not track button. That Facebook and other companies are very mad about that. It does cut off their source of data. This cookie law doesn't seem to do that. Victoria Jones, you live in the UK near the EU. You certainly had the cookie notices pop up and you have worse now in the UK. The blocking access to pornography and other information, which of course always leads to more blocks. What do you think about the cookie law? Well, I have to say there's banners are particularly annoying. But at the same time, you know, there's always a danger here. They kind of take the pendulum to the other extreme in order to make out that they're protecting your privacy. Of course, now this article is saying, maybe we can make it simpler because by introducing this law, we've created all these problems. So I think the people who advocate for privacy have a valid point. There are dangers in collecting all of our data. But because the solution they implemented created more problems, they get what they want by saying, well, we tried to fix it, but it created 70 problems. You're just going to have to accept it. And that's, you know, it's the way of the world, really. But so few people are bamboozled by that and they don't know how to fight it. That's how they get what they want. So if nothing else, it's worth being aware that that's what's going on. So yeah. I think it was a good thing. It told people they were being tracked, but it was a bad thing because it told you on every website you're being tracked. And most of the time there was nothing you can do. They are saying in the chat, some people run a plug-in to block the cookies all the time. I support that idea to support those things, but not everyone can run that. Not everyone is technically savvy and so forth. Let's check in with the chat just a little bit. Shroudinger's destiny says, but all the Austrian economies, economists were telling me that Argentina was doing amazingly and everyone was happy and prosperous now. Oops. Dipper3R says, in a forum post from 2010, Satoshi did warn against bloating the chain with non-financial data like arbitrary files saying it clogs nodes and invites abuse. So we did get a warning, but as Victoria said, something in the taproot upgrade allowed for ordinals and runes. And now we're well into this discussion, which is continuing and we will talk about again probably next week or in a few more weeks. They say if Satoshi and the RSA and American intelligence can crack most wallets, that could be a problem. Also a good idea for the movie, something about them cracking Bitcoin or Satoshi has the way to crack Bitcoin or if he sold his coins so they have to kill him, something like that would be good. Satoshi says, proceeds of MSTR sale have gone to the builder and work begins on the new bedroom. Sounds like there's a tARDIS theme. I'm excited about that, Dr. Hoofan. And they say they just stalk you. A company should pay attention to the do not track flag. And it's getting better and better. The Apple stuff does actually block people. So it's nice. Also, other story of the week this week is that I've started 3D printing. I got myself a bamboo labs A1 and it's pretty easy to use. I've printed a lot of stuff, mostly toys, a couple of kind of useful things. Mainly add-ons to the 3D printer stuff like a trash can that it puts its stuff into and a safety rail and printing schools for 3D printer or filament. But this is benchy. It's a boat, but it's a 3D model that lets you benchmark your 3D printer so that you know that it's working. You can see things like the circle window on the back, the half circle window, the little chimney on the top, the little flagpole in the back, the square. So it has all these different shapes. So it's a benchmark figure. So it's really neat. And 3D printing is much more affordable and reasonable. It used to be about 500 bucks to get this machine filament depending on how much you want. You need a lot of colors. So I think you're going to spend a lot of money on filament. You get to print things, objects appear out of nowhere. It's amazing. I used to print paper and this is a printing. It's a layer by layer process. Super fascinating. So let me know in the chat if you're into 3D printing what's the best model, what kind of things you like to print. And if you're not, maybe time to give it a try. It seems like a fun hobby. Make some toys. Make some hopefully useful things around the house. We'll see. I'll put Bitcoin models I'd like to get to later on by haven't got to yet. But thanks to everybody for joining us. Please give us a thumbs up and subscribe down below. Say hello in the chat or the comments. We definitely read them all every week. And until next time, bye.