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I mean, the conversation we always have a clients is
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just in general with acid allocation, is what do we
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need for in the short term and what do we
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need in the long term? And so Bitcoin to me
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is long term savings. It's not good short term savings
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just given volatility of it. There's debates about whether or
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not the volatility will continue and persist in the future,
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whether or not it won't. I actually I think it
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probably will, and that the difference is that people are
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going to change how they think about prices rather than
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just what their savings looks like.
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Welcome to Navigating Bigcoins, doing, the podcast where we cut
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through the clutter and bring you the clearest insights on
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Bigoin I'm your host Kaine mcgougin, and today I'm joined
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by fellow financial advisor Morgan Roshard. In this episode, we
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be div into bitcoin's role in traditional portfolios, the importance
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of balancing long term and short term investment perspectives, and
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how the principles of faith shape both bitcoin and our
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relationship with money. If you're looking to better understand bitcoin's
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past and its future as a global economic network, you're
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in the right place. So sit back, relax, and let's
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get started. Thanks everybody for joining today. I have with
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me Morgan Rochard. She works at Origin Wealth. She's also
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a fellow financial advisor in wealth management, more importantly, a
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bitcoiner and kind of an advocate in the space. So Morgan,
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I appreciate you joining today and look forward to kind
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of talking to you more about bitcoin, wealth management, how
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those things fit together, as banks and ETFs and central banks,
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and everybody's in now is no longer just kind of
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the retail yo lowing their last hundred bucks. So anyways,
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thanks for coming on, and I want you to give
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us a little introduction.
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Yeah, thanks for having me on the show. So yeah,
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I'm a longtime bitcoiner. I have been advising on bitcoin
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in my practice since twenty sixteen, but I would say
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that the majority of my clients started coming in as
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bitcoiners in twenty twenty, So the first four years of
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me advising on it was just say, you want to
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check out this coin that we that you know, you've
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heard the news, people either wanted to or not. After that,
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like after I started actually marketing myself as somebody who
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would be welcome, very welcoming to people who have bitcoin holdings.
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Thereafter people had noticed that bitcoin isn't a financial plan,
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it's definitely part of a financial plan, and that they
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have subsequent questions after holding bitcoin or doing whatever it
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is that they're doing in their lives, that they actually
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need more than just holding bitcoin. They have specific questions,
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and so that's where my practice is today. I also
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run a consulting practice where I just have like an
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ask me anything style. People can schedule with me and
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ask me anything related to bitcoin and how they hold it,
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an inheritance and those aspects of it, and my consulting
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practice as money owners, and through that I don't give
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any investment advice. So people often say like, oh, I
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want to schedule a twenty minute call with you tell
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me how much bitcoin I should own, And I'm like,
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actually sorry, like I can't do that here, but anything
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else feel free. So yeah, I've been working though on
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finance since two thousand and eight, and I worked for
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like equity options trading firm, and then I worked at
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some of the bigger wirehouses like Merrill Lynch and then
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UBS and then I started my own firm. So that's
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my background.
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Oh yeah, yeah, well I've enjoyed it. We crossed paths
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just a couple of times over the years at bitcoin conferences,
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a real deep relationship. But this past year I came
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to your session, walk by, and you, you know, you're
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kind of talking about planning bitcoin. I was like, okay,
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now it was time to probably just hop on and
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see if we can just have a little chat around it.
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I think, you know, not all of us have a
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superpower like you have with Pierre, but uh, you know
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that's a I bet you guys have some pretty good
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battles at home at night. But I think now that
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you know, bitcoin has been mainstream for a while, but
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I think this cycle, it's hard to argue that it's
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not an asset class that people should probably consider holding
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in their portfolios or think about, or are starting to
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think about, or you're probably getting more of those consulting
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calls are like, yeah, I just want to talk to
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you about bitcoin stuff, but then how much should I allocate?
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about the difference between the traditional side that you work
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in and what separates that from the consulting side, and
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then a little bit about what you're seeing now that
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bitcoin's kind of ratcheting up one hundred K could go higher.
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Are people who had previously clients who had previously been like, yeah, no,
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I don't want to touch that, it's rat poison Are
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they coming around to it? Are they not? What are
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you kind of seeing?
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Yeah? So I would say that people who think it's
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rat poisoning generally continue to think that it's rap poisoning. Unfortunately.
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I think that like we all as pitcoinners like want
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to you know, turn Peter Schiff or something like that.
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You know, like generally, people who are adamantly against it
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are still adamantly against it no matter what the price does. People.
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The people who I've seen change their attitudes the most
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are the people who they weren't that interested, you know,
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they were like we had the conversation and they were like, okay,
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you know, yeah whatever, like whatever, Yeah, I'm not like,
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I don't think it's the devil. I don't think that,
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you know, you know what I mean. I don't think
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it's tulips or vapor or whatever else other people are
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calling it, but like it's just not that interesting. Like
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those people, I feel like when things start to change
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in the environment around them, Like, for instance, what's happening
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right now, we're you know, our next president is saying that,
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like we're going to hold this, and there are companies
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now that are putting it on their bound sheet, they're
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borrowing to put it on their boundtchiet. Right, They're things
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that are changing right now in addition to the price
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obviously probably causing some of the price action, where people
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are thinking like, hey, maybe this is not something I
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should just be some med about, maybe I should learn
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a little bit more about it. So I feel like
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those people who didn't have their mind made up about it, Yes,
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those people are now starting to come around. The people
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who are kind of a hardline know, I think it's
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going to take more unfortunately for them, and generally, actually,
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what I've seen with people who are hardline know is
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that they get involved in like other coins first for
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whatever reason, and then after they get burned multiple times
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over there, then they come around. So for somebody like
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Peter Schiff. Obviously his other coin is gold, so you
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know he's doing his thing in gold, and maybe eventually
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he'll come around.
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traditional side, the traditional client or Wall Street. What they
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naturally understand is the DeFi kind of mame coin some
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sort of yield tied to it in bitcoin, just not
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that it can't have that. It doesn't have that maybe one.
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I mean, you're seeing projects now, they're kind of working
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on those things and mainstreaming it. You see like River
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where it's like, hey, you can put your cash here,
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you can still use your cash, We'll pay you out
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bitcoin interest. But to me, that's just growing ecosystem. I mean,
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I think that helps. I think, and I'd like to
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get your opinion here. I think those people that were
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sort of on the fence, they just didn't want to
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be early adopters, didn't want to be the weird guy
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at the at the you know picnic that nobody wanted
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to talk to. Youre just talking about bitcoin. But as
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soon as they're friends at the club or their other
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parents at the kids' school where said hey I got
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some bitcoin, They're like, oh yeah, I got to go
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get somewhere is the ETF.
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I think there's some of that for sure, And I
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think it's also it's just interests in general, right, Like
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most people aren't just totally interested in the history of
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money and what money is and why you hold it all. Right, So,
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like I think that that's why there's like a core
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group of people who started from the beginning who are like,
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oh wow, this is mind opening, you know, Like how
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imagine like being able to have a trustless money system.
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That's great for the average person.
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They just use their money to like go buy whatever
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it is that they need to go, put their kid
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through school, to make sure they have a little nest
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egg for the future. Right, They're not thinking that complicatedly
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about what their money is. And so I would say
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that there's a lot more of that where people are like,
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you know, and they are excited by like things going
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up in price. Right when Tesla was having this massive
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move to the outside, people were talking about it, when
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Navidia did it, right, same thing you start hearing about
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it from the average person at the playground, and so
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bitcoin obviously the same thing. And when it does these cycles,
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like people were talking about it during the cycle, and
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then when the cycle goes away and it's not as exciting, right,
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then people don't really talk about it, even though if
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you looked at it, like over the past fifteen years,
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you would see that, like bitcoin hasn't gone back to zero,
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obviously it's gone. You know, when it does, it's crashes,
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it generally is crashing higher than it was before the
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previous cycle. And so I think that that's lost though
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on most people. Most people aren't looking at charts and
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charting and deciding whether or not they're going to continue
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to be interested in something. And so yeah, that said though, right, like,
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you don't need somebody to be super interested in the
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history of money and what money it is in order
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to use something like bitcoin and so like. As over time,
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as this becomes something that more and more people are
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using and becoming more mainstream and becoming something that people
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are talking about, then yes, I do think that more
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people are going to get involved and be less apathetic
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about it and probably learn a little bit more about it.
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available to people that will make it a little easier
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to use.
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lot of people. It's just you know, people do naturally
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want to just spend their currency. Right. You go to work,
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you earn some income, and you want to come home,
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spend on your kids, spending on your wife, spend on
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your husband whatever, to go do things. And you know,
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if we're frank, you can't spend bitcoin in many places,
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and you know, if you're moving around between wallets, it
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takes time, and you know there's pains and stuff, and
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it's just easier to like swipe and go right, even
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if you're being debased. But I think post twenty twenty,
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a lot of people sort of that maybe weren't willing
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to look at certain articles or read certain topics or
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follow them. They're like, wait a second, my groceries are
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up twenty five percent year over year and it's been
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that way for three or four years. Now, what's my
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other alternatives? Has that helped on the planning side, just
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those like frank conversations about what are your belief systems
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rooted in, what are your pains at home? What are
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you worried about over the next six months the next
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ten months. Has that helped frame out bitcoin more so
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than the past where you just kind of had to
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pick a narrative and say, look, this is you know,
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bitcoin's an inflation heads or bitcoin is you know, the
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opposite of the S and P, right is non correlated.
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Has that helped it all?
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Yeah? I would say, I mean the inflation impact that
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people are experiencing has significantly helped the story for bitcoin.
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I mean, there is almost no other story right now
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that I think would actually move people to want to
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use a decentralized system for money where they don't have
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to trust governments, they don't have to worry about being debated,
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they don't have to worry about, you know, their savings
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melting overnight. I think that that is the story right now.
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If governments haven't been hadn't been so irresponsible, I think
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that the average person wouldn't really care. Right, people were
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kind of fine with two percent inflation and didn't really
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affect them or seemed to matter. And it's only when
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you know, they start to see these higher numbers that
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people start to think what is happening over there? And
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even more so when you know the country is as
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divided as it is here and people are you know,
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vehemently disagreeing about how the money is spent, how the
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money is printed, and so forth. Right where you have
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groups of people, let's say, in all the cities around
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the country who agree, let's say, with what the Democratic
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government had been doing over the past four years, and
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then you have basically the rest of the country, as
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we see during the election, say no, like we're not
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okay with that. And so you know, I think that
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like the next administration definitely has their work cut off
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for them because it is very different, difficult to walk
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that back and actually to cause deflation. Right, we're not
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I don't see how we're going to see you know,
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egg prices of four to five years ago in the
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grocery store just because Trump is elected. I think that
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that's going to be really really difficult for him to
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do and probably even unpalatable what they would have to
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do to get there, like what it would the ripple
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effect in the economy. So I think that in that respect,
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people are baby going to be a little upset when
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you know, they don't see what they are hoping to
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see in the grocery store come January. But that said
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though that it is the story, and it's the easiest
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thing to point out to a client because yeah, they
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know what milk costs them a while ago, and they
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know that it's crazy when they go to the store
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now that eggs are ten dollars, Like it's insane, you know.
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at a high flood and grocery store. This is like,
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you know, you go to the average grocery store and
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if you just want to get organic eggs, that's that's
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what it costs.
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you know, get blasted. It's just go to Public's or
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you don't mind buying just absolute garbage in your car,
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then it's fine. But you know, in the average family
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is also trying to make sure that their family is healthy,
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that they have reasonable things in their card and like
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they're not you know so, and that they're not just
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going to eat an ana is all day because they're
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a dollar right. Like, there's a lot of things that
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are factoring into I think what people are seeing in
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stories bitcoin, and that is much more exciting to say, Hell,
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there's like a set monetary policy. It can't be changed.
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Like that's really exciting to me. Maybe you don't think that,
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like it's going to be the next global reserve currency, right,
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I think they each person doesn't necessarily think that, but
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they do like that they have an alternative, and that
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they can opt out in some way by just holding
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some of their savings in it.
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Those are two things I like to hit on because
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they're not really tied to any narrative. They're tied to
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an understanding. Is that one. You know what's different about
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bitcoin relative to gold or land? Those things are perfect
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stores of value. The problems are you can't move. I mean,
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you can move gold, but you can't move land is
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stuck right in land, once you get to a third
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of an acre, you can't really subdivide it any further
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to make it useful, because that's kind of what's required
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for zoning for a house. And you know, tiny houses,
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while they might have been cool, they're not useful if
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you have a family, right, So that makes that hard.
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Gold it's good. You just can't go and shave off
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a little piece, you know, and you only put so
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much in your pocket and you can't spend it into
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the store, but they do store value well, and so
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bitcoin does both of those things. But you can settle
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it instantaneously to a usable currency in an instant and
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so I think, you know, with stocks, even think about stocks. Okay,
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So there were liquid forms of stores of wealth. They
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were relatively volatile compared to Golden Land. But even if
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you wanted to buy something a Walmart and it's Saturday,
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you couldn't sell your Apple shares, right, You would have
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had to have sold them on Friday, and then the
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money wouldn't have settled till Monday, and used to it
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wouldn't have settled till the next Friday. But with bitcoin,
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you could settle it, hit USDC boom, and you're done.
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You're out and bought. So that's what's unique to me,
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And so I try to frame that a little bit like, hey,
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it's not just this funny internet nerd money that is
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going to take down the system and become the next
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global reserve currency, because as a currency is still poor,
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like nothing does it well, like I don't you know,
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nobody likes to admit it, but the dollar network is
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the greatest, furthest reaching, most instant, and it kind of
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taps into all those assets, and yeah, those unique properties
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to give it, you know, use you know, there's a
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lot of other reason why I like it, but I
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feel like that conversation now is a little bit more
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accepted by people that were always kind of with the
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heisman stuff are.
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Yeah, for sure, and I would say like the error
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has definitely changed. So in twenty thirteen, I went to
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Rick Edelman's Digital Assets for Financial Advisor's conference and they
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spoke at it, and maybe I've been hanging out with
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bitcoinners for too long, so I came out the gate
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very hard, you know, with that's that's normal, yeah, because
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they just can't help that. I was like, you know, bitcoins,
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money and this and that and government's intervening and all
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these things. And the look on people's faces of the audience,
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I mean there was just shock, just total shock, and
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some laughter and some just disbelief at what I was saying.
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that came over afterwards and we're like, thank you for
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you know, sharing this, because it's very different than the
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rest of the talks that we were hearing at the thing,
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and it just sounds like, you know, what you were
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saying is truth and what these other advisors they're not
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necessarily talking about, like the reasons why you would necessarily
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want to use bitcoin, and so they really appreciate it.
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I think that the same talk I gave, you know,
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just a year and a half ago that was would
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be seen very differently today by that same community, just
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because of what's happened in the last year and a
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half and so. And we were still in the heights
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of inflation back then, but just because the inflation has
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been prolonged and what governments have been doing is prolonged,
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and it doesn't seem to matter which party gets in office, right,
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we continue to see just governments printing and printing and
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printing because that's what they have. They have to do it.
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They have no other way to actually pay for all
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these things that they want to pay for. And so
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I think it's just it's a it's a much easier
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narrative now as we continue to see it play out.
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And we're still very early, right obviously, like you know,
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not everybody holds bitcoin, not everybody is still doing it.
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There's a lot of you know, the ETF has come out,
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there's other entities now that are starting to get more involved.
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Not every institution has it, right, the banks aren't involved yet,
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Like I feel like that might be a next step
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where even you know, a place like jbmrien you could
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just go and buy your bitcoin right like that, that
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I see as the future where we're headed. And we're
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definitely not there yet. So like to all those people
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out there who think they're not they haven't gone in
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at the right time, because you know, bitcoin has had
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a monumental rise over the last sixteen years or whatever
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it is, that like we're still very very early.
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At some point, the cycles will change a little bit
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because of the supply and and all that's going on.
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of money are coming in. So, you know, I was
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looking the other day at coin market cap, where just
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kind of looking at the market caps. You know, last cycle,
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bitcoin was kind of a trillion. The whole thing was
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at two trillion, The whole ecosystem was at two trillion
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e though I don't even remember what it was, but
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was maybe like six hundred billion or something, and then
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the next few were down there. Well, this cycle, I
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forgot what the total is but Bitcoin's at one point
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nine trillion, and all the other tokens are relatively still
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where they were last cycle. So it's kind of showing
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you that, as you know, swat, this is no longer
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yolo and my hundred bucks or two thousand dollars or
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whatever the number is. It's small. It's you know, air
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quote retail money, air quote down money that was there
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first somehow. Yeah, it's it's big money, it's sophisticated money,
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and that will kind of change things. But I think
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just looking at the market caps of the assets and
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then you say, okay, well, if this thing is doing well,
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and every cycle it does go up and it moons
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and then it crashes, oh my goodness, eighty percent, but
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it's still kind of at the prior high, right, so
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there's still a long way to go to go before
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it gets to zero. And then you start to say, okay, well,
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this technology does what the Internet did to information, but
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now we're doing it to money and all the good
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things that came after that. You know, there was bad
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stuff too, but you start to say, well, what happens
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when we start eating into the S and P and
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real estate and bonds and other asset classes, which as
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basically Sailor's speech in a short nutshell. Does that help
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Do any of your conversations center around that or is
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it just like, Hey, I think now's the time to
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kind of add this to the portfolio. I don't care
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that I didn't get the bottom. I'm okay, I might
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I could stomach sixty percent declines, eighty percent declines, but
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I think I believe in this thing for years to come.
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Yeah, conversation, and we always have a clients is just
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in general with acid allocation, is what do we need
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for in the short term or what do we need
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in the long term? And so Bitcoin to me is
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long term savings. It's not good short term savings just
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given the volatility of it. There's debates about whether or
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not the volatility will continue and persist in the future,
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whether or not it won't. I actually I think it
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probably will, and that that the difference is that people
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are going to change how they think about prices rather
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than they have what their savings looks like. And that's
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and but that's obviously a whole other conversation. But right
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the distinction for clients is do you need it in
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the short term or do you not need the short term?
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I think like our job as financial advisors is always
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to boil it down to the client's level.
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If you have very sophisticated client, and as far as bigcoin
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is concerned, yeah, you could start talking about all the
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little nitty gritty things and the UTXO sets and all
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the other stuff, right, But if you don't, Right, if
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you just have the average person that you want to
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have a good conversation with, you need to boil down
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to the essence of what is important to that client.
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And for most people, right, it's what are they doing
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short term? And what are they doing long term? And
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how are we making sure that whatever short term things
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that they're looking to do, we are able to fund
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those things. And whenever long term things they're looking to do,
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we are also able to fund those things. And bitcoin
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is a long term savings vehicle and therefore fits into
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the long term bucket of acid allocation. So yeah, from
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that perspective, once you're in that conversation, yeah, you can
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talk about like what Sailor's talking about, where chipping away
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at other asset classes, right, because yeah, stocks would be
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in the long term bucket, right, Like where we're going
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to allocate from bonds for that client or from stocks,
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probably from stocks, just depending on their situation. If we
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don't need any more in the short term bucket, right
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and we otherwise would have put it in the long
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term bucket right now, we're just talking about where in
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the long term bucket that we're putting in. That's how
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we do it for most of our clients. Obviously, like
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risk tolerance does come into play for a lot of people,
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and if they're just not able to stomach that kind
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of volatility, it doesn't really matter how long term the
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acid is. But we do generally try to have more
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of an asset liability matching strategy for all of our clients,
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regardless of risk tolerance, and then overlay risk torrents on
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top of that, because generally once people know what is
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long term, we want to short term and they are
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able to meet those short term obligations. They actually most
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people don't care as much about what's going on in
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their long term bucket over the short term, right. They
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obviously care over the long term what it does, but
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they don't care as much over the short term, and
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so they are able to stomach that short term volatility
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when it's put into when it's framed in that way,
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That though, however, is not how most financial advisors are
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trained to do ASCID allocation. Most advisors are trained to
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do ACID allocation based on risk tolerance first and not
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actually based on clients specific situation. And so I think
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in that regard, what ends up happening, though, is that
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a lot of clients get under allocated in the risk
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bucket that they actually need in order to make sure
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that they meet those long term obligations that they want
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to have, like retirement or funding children's college who are
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now an infant, right, or anything else that falls into that,
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like you know, being able to fund long term care
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or whatever else it is. And over a long period
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of time starting a business in ten years, right, all
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of these things that falls from the long term bucket,
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we're not taking those things into account. They're going to
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be under allocated, and they're probably going to have too
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much risk in their portfolio that they're not actually going
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to be able to meet their goals rather than you know,
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too much risk from the perspective of quote unquote volatility.
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And so that I see is just just a massive
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problem in our industry. In general. And you know, I
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that's not necessarily something that bitcoin specifically fixes, but in
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a way it does, right, because if you've got this
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long term savings vehicle that people are incentivized to save in,
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then therefore, right they might be more able to eat
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meet their long term obligations. Should they include this in
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their plan.
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Yeah, I was gonna say, it's funny how easy money
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in the world of finance becomes when you start with
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cash flow and then move to the balance sheet and
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then move to like, what's our goal. Yeah, it's really
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that simple because in that the piece that you were
509
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talking about at the conference was short term, long term bucket.
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Everybody now is just what is it now? What is
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it next week? You know, hey, I got a nice job,
512
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I got a nice house, but my neighbor got a
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bigger one. I need a bigger one. Yeah, well kind
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of you know what, what's the return of my portfolio
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next year need to be for me to get that
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extra addition, right, And so the principles what I like
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about bitcoin is a you know, I kind of get
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noted as the budget Nazi, and it's not because it's
519
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like pinch pennies whatever. I mean that helps, but spend
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your money where you want to spend it. But if
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you don't know what's coming in, know what's going out,
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like what hits the bank and what's important and needs
523
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to be saved, and you can't determine Okay, I'm pretty
524
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confident I'm gonna have this outflow at around this size
525
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in the next six to twelve months, Then you can't
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do the long term very short term money. And so,
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like what we always do is stick the investments last.
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That's the one thing everybody wants to talk about. They
529
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have an investment problem. I don't really have an investment problem.
530
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You have a cash flow and balance sheet problem. We
531
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fix those. Your investment problem instantly gets better. Yeah I
532
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mean not instantly, but you know what I'm saying, you
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do work.
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And also the other thing that ends up happening to
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people is that if they don't do that work, they
536
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end up needing to keep a lot more short term
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cash around because they have no idea what's going on,
538
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and so something they're like, why do these random things
539
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keep coming up? And I don't have enough cash for
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you know, and then they just keep it ridiculous. That's
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a cash around. It's like because you like take stock wha,
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you're too, Like I get that, Like, obviously things come up, right,
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and there's there's a reason why we hold cash. Life
544
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happens uncertainties right in life. But that said right, like
545
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a lot of these things maybe aren't necessarily uncertainties for
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some people. They're just things that they hadn't that they
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didn't think enough afar ahead to know that that was
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going to come up.
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Yeah, they're like, oh, well, I've got all these Christmas outflows.
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Well I'm like, well kind of comes every year December
551
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twenty fifth, like's not a you know, my kid's birthday
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and you know my wife's birthday, and then it's on
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the same time as spring break. Yeah, those are all
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generally the same month. Yeah, yeah, for sure. But when
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you look at your cash flow and you take an
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inventory every once in a while, then it gives you
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what I've found and maybe found the same or different.
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Is you can allocate responsibly to bitcoin. And I think
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when you understand volatility, and that's the thing is like
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options teaches you it's just pure volatility, then you can
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step into a market, into an asset and know that okay, well,
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from a probability perspective, I might take this kind of
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loss in this sort of window, and you can always
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be right or wrong, but you have the more mental
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freedom to truly become an investor. And so what I
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found through twent thousand and seven through twenty twenty through
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the different markets, everybody's an investor in a bull market.
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I'm an investor buy and hold. I'm an investor for
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the long time. The first ten percent dip or they
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look at their portfolio and they see something with a
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fourteen percent loss and they're like, what is that we
572
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should get rid of that? Well, whin do you own it?
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What's his purpose? Right? Did we buy this thing yesterday
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with the idea that we were an investor in at
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bitcoin or whatever for the next five years and today
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is down fourteen percent because of some headline. The fundamentals
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haven't chained but changed. But you're ready to punt it.
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That's it, you know. I think when you grasp that,
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you can better understand bitcoin. When you do your short
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and long term like you mentioned, you can better understand bitcoin.
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That The other thing from my perspective, I think the
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laws of money, the laws of wealth, which come from
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they're rooted in faith, practices. Does that come up on
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your end? Do you kind of like share that, do you?
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I mean, we try to subtlely do it, some people
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more openly than others. But I think those principles are
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very baked into the code the ethos of bitcoin in
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ways that our current currency is not.
589
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Yeah, for sure. So it depends on the client, I
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would say. For me, so my I'm originally from New York.
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When I first up in my practice, I started in
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New York, so you know, I have a wide variety
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of characters who are in my practice from New York
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with obviously a wide variety of beliefs that that run
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the gamut. And then you know, after I left New York,
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I got an in addition to even being in New York,
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got you know, clients nationally. So it's not just that
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I have this this core client base in New York,
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00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:29.839
but do have clients all over that you know that
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really run the gamut from like you know, outright atheists
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to very religious, who are you know, very much democratic,
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like democratic side, very much on the Republicans. So I write,
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it runs the gamut. And so my job as the
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advisor is not to tell somebody what they're supposed to believe,
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but to help them understand through like with their lens,
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like what it is that we're trying to achieve. But
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that said, right, I do agree with you, and you know,
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as somebody who I am, you know, I'm a devout
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Jewish woman my self. We follow Torah law on our home. Like,
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there's no question to me just from reading, just from
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reading the Torah of the Bible, that that bitcoin is
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a better is a better money, and it's something that
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that not only God created, because like I think that
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God created all things, and he's the creator, he creates
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all things. That's not you know, if if you believe
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in God, that's not something that people dispute. And if
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you don't, obviously you don't think that, but that if
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you know, like but to put that side by side
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of the fact that also if God created bitcoin, we
620
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must also agree that God created feat and all these
621
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other things that have happened, right, and that there are
622
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cycles through history in modern times and also in biblical
623
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history where we see that you know, there's behavior, there's
624
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things that occur, and right, there's a there's the way
625
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that that God basically gives us things have some sort
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of cycle to it. And so for instance, like to me,
627
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fiat is one of these things that we had to
628
00:29:57.400 --> 00:30:01.079
experience in order I appreciate bitcoin.
629
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Yeah, and to like put that, like God created everything
630
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if you believe he's creator, which I do, and he
631
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creates everything for a purpose, right, and so you know,
632
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good or bad. At last, the dollar has been around
633
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for a couple hundred years, so it served a purpose
634
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in some form. Who knows what that purpose was. Maybe
635
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the purpose was delete us to bitcoin, bitcoins, de leade
636
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us to whatever else in a couple hundred years, or
637
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maybe a bitcoin at the end, Like people will debate that.
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We'll all get an argument because we're humans, like we're greedy,
639
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and we debate and we argue, and they're like I'm
640
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on the left and I'm on the right, and you're
641
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on the top, and you know whatever, I'm from this country,
642
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you're from that country. So but I think ye, at.
643
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The end of the day, though, right, I think like
644
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we don't know obviously, we don't know God's mine, right,
645
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and so we can't possibly understand why it is that
646
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we have had the history that we've had. But what
647
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I will say is that like in our scripture, It
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basically says that we as human beings, are supposed to
649
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elevate the material world. That's why we're here. We're supposed
650
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to bring a spark of God down to earth, and
651
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we have that spark in us, that's our soul in
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Hebrew or a shama, and we use that spark to
653
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elevate the material world. And so that doesn't mean that
654
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we shun the material. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't,
655
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you know, interact with the material. And that doesn't mean
656
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that we should all of a sudden, you know, like
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only try to be these spiritual beings. That's not the
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point of why we're here. If we were, that was
659
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the point, right, we would only be spiritual beings. But
660
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we're not. We're supposed to interact in this material world
661
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and elevate the material world in a way that shows
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basically that God has dominion here on earth. That that
663
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I believe is our role here. And so bitcoin, right
664
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helps you do that.
665
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Yeah, when you die, it brings you back to realize, oh, well,
666
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what's my purpose, what's the purpose of this thing? What
667
00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:50.559
will be the better use, better resource allocation?
668
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Yeah, for sure, And like you, I don't think that
669
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bitcoin helps you shun the material right, because bitcoin obviously
670
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is in the material world. Yeah, but what it does
671
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help you do, right, is that it does help you prioritize, right,
672
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whereas Fiat doesn't help you do that. Fiat really does
673
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take the spark out of the material world. That's what
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I and we see it, right, because everything that's happened
675
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is us going off the gold standard has led us
676
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more and more away from having that holy spark be here.
677
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We don't see it as much as say Argentina or whatever,
678
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but more and more post nineteen seventy one, really post
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nineteen thirty three when they really took us off, like
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we'll give everybody seventy one, but you're encouraged, and that
681
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has sped up exponentially the last couple of decades to
682
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spend your dollars faster and faster and faster. And now
683
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we're kind of in that realm of it. Not as
684
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soon as you get it, but don't let it sit
685
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around on your bank account for too long.
686
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Yeah, for sure, I'd like to use this example because
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and I think that you'd relate to it. I don't
688
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know as much about like how Christmas is celebrator, how
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it was celebrated, let's say in like nineteen fifty five.
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But I do know that Hanaka it used to be
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this thing where it was very material, right. It's literally
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about the story of what happened to the Jewish people
693
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during the time where the Greeks, you know, took over
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our holy temple and they did horrible things to it, right,
695
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and then we had to fight back and get it,
696
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and that's why we have this holiday. Gifts were introduced
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as a result of you know, it's just it's it
698
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wasn't meant to be like this super commercial holiday, right,
699
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And I didn't actually know the history of like how
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Hanuka ended up having gifts, but I imagined I had
701
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somebody to do with Christmas having gifts. But also like
702
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back then, it used to be that, you know, you
703
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got really eight very small gifts every night, and it
704
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was like not a gift, right, it was like food,
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a doughnut, a chocolate, a book.
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Right.
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And then it became oh, actually we give like eight
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small gifts or like one big gift, you know, and
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now it's like we give our kids big gifts every time.
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I'm like, why is this happening? I don't want to
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give my kids, big guests every night, like can we
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go back?
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Get a car?
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You get? And I've seen it with Christmas too, right,
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It's like I've seen the video these kids where it's
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like they it's like they walk downstairs and it's like
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it's magical and there's stuff everywhere, and it's like, is
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that what Christmas is about? Or is it about you know,
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the story and so forth, and.
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So the parents are like, I got the new Black card.
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It's a twenty five thousand dollars limit.
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Let's go, yeah for sure, And so like when I
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see stuff like that, And that's just one example of many, Right,
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there's everyday examples of this going out in people's lives
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where we're just so wrapped up in like the material
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and not why why we are supposed to be interacting
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with the material world, just that we are material and
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we have material, and that we're basically animals with all
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this stuff around us. That's not why I think that
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we're here, and that's not why God said what we're here? Right,
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we are not animals. Otherwise we wouldn't be talking on
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a podcast right now, like you and me, right, we
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would just be living in the forest like the rest
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of the animals, and so I think that we're often
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like you know, it's just because we have a body
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doesn't mean that we're only a body, And just because
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we have a soul doesn't mean we're only a soul.
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And that the whole point is that we need to
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have those two things interact together, and that through having
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less means I guess right, less means to to only
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interact from a body perspective, it really does bring the
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soul back into the picture and will should help people
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actually do what we're here to do, which is make
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the world a better place. And that's what I see
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Bitcoin's world as being.
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Yeah, and I think that's it. I mean, I think
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there's the you know, bitcoin fixes this. It doesn't, but
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it does, right, Bitcoin fixes it once you understand that
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that moral basis and the principles of money and the
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laws that kind of guide us as the soul, as
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you mentioned, and whether you're Christian or Jewish or some
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other religion, at the core, they all have a very
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similar do good, be good, you know, treat people right,
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treat the world right. And Fiat look, Fiat started great,
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started out as gold, just started out as land, and
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those are all good things, but as time went on,
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human greed, which is the animal spirit that we can't
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get rid of, has distorted thing is broken every money
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that we created. And so the opportunity I see and
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the fun part of this, and you know, it's dorky
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looking at history and whatnot, but what the classics teach
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us is kind of getting back to that route. And
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bitcoin is the first thing in a long time that
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really once people go down the rabbit hole and they
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buy whatever the number, they're like, oh, put ten thousand
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dollars in that last year, and you know, five months later,
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it's twenty thousand dollars. They perk up like that's different,
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because you know, unless I got lucky on a stock
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and pallanteer three weeks ago, you know, or coinbase after
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the election, or Tesla, but those are kind of an
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event driven and this thing, it's like, oh, well, I
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put it was twenty and then it went to two,
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and then I turned around two years later and now
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it's forty. Like I've never seen anything do that. So
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that price catches our eye and then we start to
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research it. We figure out all these things. I think
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that or at least I did, you know, I read
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the Bible numerous times, not really until recent years, and
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I didn't find anywhere where it said go sit in
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a cubicle, bang a keyboard all day and stare at
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a screen all day, and you will be hat. You
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will find happiness. Right. It was kind of like the
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opposite of that. And there was more about this kind
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of bitcoin tongue in cheek, opt out right, you know,
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don't you know have nice things like nice things do
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nice things grow, multiply, be good and you'll find well.
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And so that's I think the thing for me that
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Bitcoin brings back because it provides that opportunity in a
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way that FIAT has not. I mean, if you look around,
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I think what the populist and the populism is mad
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about is there's there's actually we have more riches, but
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we have less opportunity. You talk to a twenty eight,
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twenty nine, and thirty two year old and they're like, well,
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I'm never going to be able to own a house
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unless I go get some crazy job at Google and
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make ridiculous money, and then I'll spend it all and
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still in my own house.
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Yeah, for sure, I would say. Also on the faith
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area arena, is that like in the Bible, in Leviticus,
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there's a lot of laws obviously, but one of the
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laws is actually about using scales that are that are
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calibrated correctly. And God doesn't like a cheater, he really doesn't, no,
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And so like that, I think is just such a
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basic tenet of why like this would be money that
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people who you know, who believe in the One in,
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the true Creator, like would want to use this money.
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Is that, like the scales aren't tipped in somebody else's favor,
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and nobody is changing the scales, and nobody is, you know,
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giving you an apple saying it's weighs one pound when
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it really weighs zero point nine to eight, you know.
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And there's a lot of that going on in the
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fiat world that simply just can't happen in the bagcoin world.
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There's actually also I wish I could remember the source
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to this, but it was an interesting talk I heard
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from a rabbi who was talking about what happens at
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end of times. And this is not me saying anytime soon,
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so please don't send me hate mail about that. But
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what I found interesting was that there is in the Tuma,
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there is a quote from rabbis about how during like
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basically during the end times, that the last coin will
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be spent from the purse, and what they initially thought
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on the commentaries about it, what they initially thought was
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actually that people would that there might be poverty, poverty
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or something that there wouldn't be any money left. And
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now what they're thinking, just given what's going on in
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society is actually that it's not that the last coin
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will be spent because of poverty. It's actually at the
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last coin will be something because we won't use coins anymoreah,
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which I found to be really interesting because obviously we're
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not there yet right now people are still using paper
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money and coins and all sorts of things. But that
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could be our futures that we really don't use any
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kind of physical money anymore.
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We're going to be prognosticators. Maybe it's twenty one forty
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and his last bitcoin will be mined. Yeah, no, I
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don't know. Yeah, I agree with I think the beauty
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of classic text is you can look at the parables,
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you can look at life lessons from from biographies, and generally,
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when I say classic, it's stuff pre nineteen thirty when
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there was a lot more sense going on. They teach
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us these things regardless of your stance, Like you can
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be an atheist and you can learn a lot about
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how we humans should, you know, treat each other and
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treat money and go after the world. So I think
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that's that's the beauty of it. So I try not
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to get too tied down. And I mean, I'm pretty
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hard to hit it. But my way is the right way.
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This is the only way that happens a good bit.
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But you know, I wouldn't be a bitcoinner if that
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was not the case.
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Yeah, probably are more disagreeable to you.
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Yeah right, Yeah, like not at all. I'm just joking.
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But the classic texts kind of are eye opening, and
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so you know, to me, I think that's the beauty,
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the hidden secret and bitcoin tom to figure it out.
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So anyways, I think that's a good kind of spot
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to stop. There is there any parting wisdom you want
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to share or let everybody know where they can find
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you or go hunt you down on the internet.
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Yeah, definitely, Please don't send hate mail if you don't agree.
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I I just know that in my life that kind
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of negative. Yeah, but it's okay, No, if you want
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to send hatmil that's fine too, so if you would
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like to do that, you can find me at Morgan
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with an E. Rochard on Twitter. You can also find
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either one of my practices. I have Origin Wealth Advisors,
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which is Origin w A dot com. Money Owners is
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money Owners dot com. My husband Pierre and I I
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am not in fact pairs sister. I am his wife.
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People abused a lot, that's weird. We have a podcast
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as well, it's called Bitcoin for Advisors, and well, I
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mean we're we obviously we you know, make jokes quite
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a lot on there, but we do also sometimes have
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serious content, so if you'd like to check that out.
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We're on all the major podcast outlets, And yeah, thanks
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for having me on. This has been really fun.
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I mean, the conversation we always have a clients is
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just in general with acid allocation, is what do we
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need for in the short term and what do we
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need in the long term? And so Bitcoin to me
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is long term savings. It's not good short term savings
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just given volatility of it. There's debates about whether or
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not the volatility will continue and persist in the future,
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whether or not it won't. I actually I think it
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probably will, and that the difference is that people are
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going to change how they think about prices rather than
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just what their savings looks like.
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through the clutter and bring you the clearest insights on
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Bigoin I'm your host Kaine mcgougin, and today I'm joined
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by fellow financial advisor Morgan Roshard. In this episode, we
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be div into bitcoin's role in traditional portfolios, the importance
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of balancing long term and short term investment perspectives, and
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how the principles of faith shape both bitcoin and our
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relationship with money. If you're looking to better understand bitcoin's
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past and its future as a global economic network, you're
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in the right place. So sit back, relax, and let's
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get started. Thanks everybody for joining today. I have with
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me Morgan Rochard. She works at Origin Wealth. She's also
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a fellow financial advisor in wealth management, more importantly, a
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bitcoiner and kind of an advocate in the space. So Morgan,
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I appreciate you joining today and look forward to kind
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of talking to you more about bitcoin, wealth management, how
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those things fit together, as banks and ETFs and central banks,
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and everybody's in now is no longer just kind of
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the retail yo lowing their last hundred bucks. So anyways,
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thanks for coming on, and I want you to give
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us a little introduction.
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Yeah, thanks for having me on the show. So yeah,
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I'm a longtime bitcoiner. I have been advising on bitcoin
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in my practice since twenty sixteen, but I would say
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that the majority of my clients started coming in as
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bitcoiners in twenty twenty, So the first four years of
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me advising on it was just say, you want to
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check out this coin that we that you know, you've
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heard the news, people either wanted to or not. After that,
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like after I started actually marketing myself as somebody who
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would be welcome, very welcoming to people who have bitcoin holdings.
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Thereafter people had noticed that bitcoin isn't a financial plan,
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it's definitely part of a financial plan, and that they
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have subsequent questions after holding bitcoin or doing whatever it
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is that they're doing in their lives, that they actually
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need more than just holding bitcoin. They have specific questions,
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and so that's where my practice is today. I also
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run a consulting practice where I just have like an
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ask me anything style. People can schedule with me and
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ask me anything related to bitcoin and how they hold it,
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an inheritance and those aspects of it, and my consulting
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practice as money owners, and through that I don't give
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any investment advice. So people often say like, oh, I
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want to schedule a twenty minute call with you tell
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me how much bitcoin I should own, And I'm like,
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actually sorry, like I can't do that here, but anything
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else feel free. So yeah, I've been working though on
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finance since two thousand and eight, and I worked for
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like equity options trading firm, and then I worked at
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some of the bigger wirehouses like Merrill Lynch and then
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UBS and then I started my own firm. So that's
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my background.
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Oh yeah, yeah, well I've enjoyed it. We crossed paths
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just a couple of times over the years at bitcoin conferences,
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a real deep relationship. But this past year I came
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to your session, walk by, and you, you know, you're
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kind of talking about planning bitcoin. I was like, okay,
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now it was time to probably just hop on and
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see if we can just have a little chat around it.
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I think, you know, not all of us have a
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superpower like you have with Pierre, but uh, you know
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that's a I bet you guys have some pretty good
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battles at home at night. But I think now that
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in their portfolios or think about, or are starting to
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think about, or you're probably getting more of those consulting
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calls are like, yeah, I just want to talk to
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you about bitcoin stuff, but then how much should I allocate?
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then a little bit about what you're seeing now that
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bitcoin's kind of ratcheting up one hundred K could go higher.
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they coming around to it? Are they not? What are
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Yeah? So I would say that people who think it's
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rat poisoning generally continue to think that it's rap poisoning. Unfortunately.
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are still adamantly against it no matter what the price does. People.
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are the people who they weren't that interested, you know,
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they were like we had the conversation and they were like, okay,
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you know, yeah whatever, like whatever, Yeah, I'm not like,
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you know, you know what I mean. I don't think
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it's tulips or vapor or whatever else other people are
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calling it, but like it's just not that interesting. Like
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those people, I feel like when things start to change
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in the environment around them, Like, for instance, what's happening
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like we're going to hold this, and there are companies
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now that are putting it on their bound sheet, they're
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borrowing to put it on their boundtchiet. Right, They're things
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that are changing right now in addition to the price
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obviously probably causing some of the price action, where people
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are thinking like, hey, maybe this is not something I
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those people who didn't have their mind made up about it, Yes,
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those people are now starting to come around. The people
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who are kind of a hardline know, I think it's
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going to take more unfortunately for them, and generally, actually,
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what I've seen with people who are hardline know is
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that they get involved in like other coins first for
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whatever reason, and then after they get burned multiple times
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over there, then they come around. So for somebody like
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Peter Schiff. Obviously his other coin is gold, so you
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know he's doing his thing in gold, and maybe eventually
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traditional side, the traditional client or Wall Street. What they
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naturally understand is the DeFi kind of mame coin some
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sort of yield tied to it in bitcoin, just not
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that it can't have that. It doesn't have that maybe one.
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on those things and mainstreaming it. You see like River
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where it's like, hey, you can put your cash here,
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you can still use your cash, We'll pay you out
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bitcoin interest. But to me, that's just growing ecosystem. I mean,
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get your opinion here. I think those people that were
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be early adopters, didn't want to be the weird guy
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at the at the you know picnic that nobody wanted
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to talk to. Youre just talking about bitcoin. But as
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soon as they're friends at the club or their other
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parents at the kids' school where said hey I got
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some bitcoin, They're like, oh yeah, I got to go
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get somewhere is the ETF.
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most people aren't just totally interested in the history of
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money and what money is and why you hold it all. Right, So,
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like I think that that's why there's like a core
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group of people who started from the beginning who are like,
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imagine like being able to have a trustless money system.
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They just use their money to like go buy whatever
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it is that they need to go, put their kid
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through school, to make sure they have a little nest
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egg for the future. Right, They're not thinking that complicatedly
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about what their money is. And so I would say
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that there's a lot more of that where people are like,
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you know, and they are excited by like things going
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up in price. Right when Tesla was having this massive
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move to the outside, people were talking about it, when
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Navidia did it, right, same thing you start hearing about
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it from the average person at the playground, and so
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bitcoin obviously the same thing. And when it does these cycles,
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like people were talking about it during the cycle, and
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then when the cycle goes away and it's not as exciting, right,
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then people don't really talk about it, even though if
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obviously it's gone. You know, when it does, it's crashes,
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it generally is crashing higher than it was before the
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previous cycle. And so I think that that's lost though
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on most people. Most people aren't looking at charts and
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charting and deciding whether or not they're going to continue
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to be interested in something. And so yeah, that said though, right, like,
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you don't need somebody to be super interested in the
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history of money and what money it is in order
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to use something like bitcoin and so like. As over time,
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as this becomes something that more and more people are
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using and becoming more mainstream and becoming something that people
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people are going to get involved and be less apathetic
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about it and probably learn a little bit more about it.
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lot of people. It's just you know, people do naturally
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want to just spend their currency. Right. You go to work,
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you earn some income, and you want to come home,
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spend on your kids, spending on your wife, spend on
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your husband whatever, to go do things. And you know,
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if we're frank, you can't spend bitcoin in many places,
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and you know, if you're moving around between wallets, it
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takes time, and you know there's pains and stuff, and
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it's just easier to like swipe and go right, even
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if you're being debased. But I think post twenty twenty,
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a lot of people sort of that maybe weren't willing
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to look at certain articles or read certain topics or
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follow them. They're like, wait a second, my groceries are
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up twenty five percent year over year and it's been
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that way for three or four years. Now, what's my
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other alternatives? Has that helped on the planning side, just
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those like frank conversations about what are your belief systems
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rooted in, what are your pains at home? What are
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you worried about over the next six months the next
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ten months. Has that helped frame out bitcoin more so
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than the past where you just kind of had to
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pick a narrative and say, look, this is you know,
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opposite of the S and P, right is non correlated.
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people are experiencing has significantly helped the story for bitcoin.
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that I think would actually move people to want to
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use a decentralized system for money where they don't have
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to trust governments, they don't have to worry about being debated,
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they don't have to worry about, you know, their savings
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melting overnight. I think that that is the story right now.
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that the average person wouldn't really care. Right, people were
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kind of fine with two percent inflation and didn't really
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affect them or seemed to matter. And it's only when
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people start to think what is happening over there? And
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divided as it is here and people are you know,
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vehemently disagreeing about how the money is spent, how the
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money is printed, and so forth. Right where you have
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groups of people, let's say, in all the cities around
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the country who agree, let's say, with what the Democratic
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government had been doing over the past four years, and
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then you have basically the rest of the country, as
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we see during the election, say no, like we're not
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like the next administration definitely has their work cut off
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for them because it is very different, difficult to walk
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that back and actually to cause deflation. Right, we're not
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egg prices of four to five years ago in the
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grocery store just because Trump is elected. I think that
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that's going to be really really difficult for him to
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do and probably even unpalatable what they would have to
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do to get there, like what it would the ripple
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effect in the economy. So I think that in that respect,
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people are baby going to be a little upset when
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you know, they don't see what they are hoping to
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see in the grocery store come January. But that said
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though that it is the story, and it's the easiest
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thing to point out to a client because yeah, they
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now that eggs are ten dollars, Like it's insane, you know.
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you don't mind buying just absolute garbage in your car,
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then it's fine. But you know, in the average family
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that they have reasonable things in their card and like
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they're not you know so, and that they're not just
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stories bitcoin, and that is much more exciting to say, Hell,
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there's like a set monetary policy. It can't be changed.
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like it's going to be the next global reserve currency, right,
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they do like that they have an alternative, and that
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they can opt out in some way by just holding
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they're not really tied to any narrative. They're tied to
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an understanding. Is that one. You know what's different about
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bitcoin relative to gold or land? Those things are perfect
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stores of value. The problems are you can't move. I mean,
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you can move gold, but you can't move land is
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stuck right in land, once you get to a third
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of an acre, you can't really subdivide it any further
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to make it useful, because that's kind of what's required
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for zoning for a house. And you know, tiny houses,
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while they might have been cool, they're not useful if
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you have a family, right, So that makes that hard.
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a little piece, you know, and you only put so
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much in your pocket and you can't spend it into
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the store, but they do store value well, and so
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bitcoin does both of those things. But you can settle
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it instantaneously to a usable currency in an instant and
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so I think, you know, with stocks, even think about stocks. Okay,
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were relatively volatile compared to Golden Land. But even if
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you wanted to buy something a Walmart and it's Saturday,
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you couldn't sell your Apple shares, right, You would have
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had to have sold them on Friday, and then the
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money wouldn't have settled till Monday, and used to it
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wouldn't have settled till the next Friday. But with bitcoin,
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you could settle it, hit USDC boom, and you're done.
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it's not just this funny internet nerd money that is
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going to take down the system and become the next
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global reserve currency, because as a currency is still poor,
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like nothing does it well, like I don't you know,
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nobody likes to admit it, but the dollar network is
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the greatest, furthest reaching, most instant, and it kind of
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taps into all those assets, and yeah, those unique properties
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to give it, you know, use you know, there's a
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lot of other reason why I like it, but I
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feel like that conversation now is a little bit more
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accepted by people that were always kind of with the
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heisman stuff are.
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Yeah, for sure, and I would say like the error
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has definitely changed. So in twenty thirteen, I went to
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Rick Edelman's Digital Assets for Financial Advisor's conference and they
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spoke at it, and maybe I've been hanging out with
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bitcoinners for too long, so I came out the gate
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very hard, you know, with that's that's normal, yeah, because
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they just can't help that. I was like, you know, bitcoins,
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money and this and that and government's intervening and all
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these things. And the look on people's faces of the audience,
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I mean there was just shock, just total shock, and
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some laughter and some just disbelief at what I was saying.
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And then there were you know, the small group people
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that came over afterwards and we're like, thank you for
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you know, sharing this, because it's very different than the
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rest of the talks that we were hearing at the thing,
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and it just sounds like, you know, what you were
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saying is truth and what these other advisors they're not
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necessarily talking about, like the reasons why you would necessarily
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want to use bitcoin, and so they really appreciate it.
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I think that the same talk I gave, you know,
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just a year and a half ago that was would
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be seen very differently today by that same community, just
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because of what's happened in the last year and a
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half and so. And we were still in the heights
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of inflation back then, but just because the inflation has
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been prolonged and what governments have been doing is prolonged,
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and it doesn't seem to matter which party gets in office, right,
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we continue to see just governments printing and printing and
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printing because that's what they have. They have to do it.
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They have no other way to actually pay for all
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these things that they want to pay for. And so
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I think it's just it's a it's a much easier
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narrative now as we continue to see it play out.
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And we're still very early, right obviously, like you know,
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not everybody holds bitcoin, not everybody is still doing it.
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There's a lot of you know, the ETF has come out,
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there's other entities now that are starting to get more involved.
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Not every institution has it, right, the banks aren't involved yet,
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Like I feel like that might be a next step
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where even you know, a place like jbmrien you could
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just go and buy your bitcoin right like that, that
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I see as the future where we're headed. And we're
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definitely not there yet. So like to all those people
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out there who think they're not they haven't gone in
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at the right time, because you know, bitcoin has had
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a monumental rise over the last sixteen years or whatever
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it is, that like we're still very very early.
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Yeah, yeah, And I mean to that every cycle is similar.
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At some point, the cycles will change a little bit
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because of the supply and and all that's going on.
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And now we're entering that part where real large swaths
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of money are coming in. So, you know, I was
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looking the other day at coin market cap, where just
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kind of looking at the market caps. You know, last cycle,
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bitcoin was kind of a trillion. The whole thing was
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at two trillion, The whole ecosystem was at two trillion
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e though I don't even remember what it was, but
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was maybe like six hundred billion or something, and then
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the next few were down there. Well, this cycle, I
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forgot what the total is but Bitcoin's at one point
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nine trillion, and all the other tokens are relatively still
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where they were last cycle. So it's kind of showing
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you that, as you know, swat, this is no longer
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yolo and my hundred bucks or two thousand dollars or
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whatever the number is. It's small. It's you know, air
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quote retail money, air quote down money that was there
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first somehow. Yeah, it's it's big money, it's sophisticated money,
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and that will kind of change things. But I think
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just looking at the market caps of the assets and
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then you say, okay, well, if this thing is doing well,
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and every cycle it does go up and it moons
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and then it crashes, oh my goodness, eighty percent, but
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it's still kind of at the prior high, right, so
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there's still a long way to go to go before
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it gets to zero. And then you start to say, okay, well,
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this technology does what the Internet did to information, but
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now we're doing it to money and all the good
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things that came after that. You know, there was bad
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stuff too, but you start to say, well, what happens
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when we start eating into the S and P and
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real estate and bonds and other asset classes, which as
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basically Sailor's speech in a short nutshell. Does that help
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Do any of your conversations center around that or is
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it just like, Hey, I think now's the time to
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kind of add this to the portfolio. I don't care
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that I didn't get the bottom. I'm okay, I might
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I could stomach sixty percent declines, eighty percent declines, but
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I think I believe in this thing for years to come.
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Yeah, conversation, and we always have a clients is just
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in general with acid allocation, is what do we need
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for in the short term or what do we need
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in the long term? And so Bitcoin to me is
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long term savings. It's not good short term savings just
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given the volatility of it. There's debates about whether or
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not the volatility will continue and persist in the future,
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whether or not it won't. I actually I think it
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probably will, and that that the difference is that people
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are going to change how they think about prices rather
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than they have what their savings looks like. And that's
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and but that's obviously a whole other conversation. But right
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the distinction for clients is do you need it in
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the short term or do you not need the short term?
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Right?
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I think like our job as financial advisors is always
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to boil it down to the client's level.
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Right.
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If you have very sophisticated client, and as far as bigcoin
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is concerned, yeah, you could start talking about all the
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little nitty gritty things and the UTXO sets and all
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the other stuff, right, But if you don't, Right, if
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you just have the average person that you want to
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have a good conversation with, you need to boil down
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to the essence of what is important to that client.
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And for most people, right, it's what are they doing
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short term? And what are they doing long term? And
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how are we making sure that whatever short term things
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that they're looking to do, we are able to fund
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those things. And whenever long term things they're looking to do,
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we are also able to fund those things. And bitcoin
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is a long term savings vehicle and therefore fits into
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the long term bucket of acid allocation. So yeah, from
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that perspective, once you're in that conversation, yeah, you can
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talk about like what Sailor's talking about, where chipping away
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at other asset classes, right, because yeah, stocks would be
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in the long term bucket, right, Like where we're going
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to allocate from bonds for that client or from stocks,
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probably from stocks, just depending on their situation. If we
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don't need any more in the short term bucket, right
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and we otherwise would have put it in the long
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term bucket right now, we're just talking about where in
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the long term bucket that we're putting in. That's how
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we do it for most of our clients. Obviously, like
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risk tolerance does come into play for a lot of people,
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and if they're just not able to stomach that kind
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of volatility, it doesn't really matter how long term the
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acid is. But we do generally try to have more
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of an asset liability matching strategy for all of our clients,
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regardless of risk tolerance, and then overlay risk torrents on
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top of that, because generally once people know what is
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long term, we want to short term and they are
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able to meet those short term obligations. They actually most
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people don't care as much about what's going on in
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their long term bucket over the short term, right. They
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obviously care over the long term what it does, but
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they don't care as much over the short term, and
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so they are able to stomach that short term volatility
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when it's put into when it's framed in that way,
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That though, however, is not how most financial advisors are
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trained to do ASCID allocation. Most advisors are trained to
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do ACID allocation based on risk tolerance first and not
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actually based on clients specific situation. And so I think
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in that regard, what ends up happening, though, is that
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a lot of clients get under allocated in the risk
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bucket that they actually need in order to make sure
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that they meet those long term obligations that they want
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to have, like retirement or funding children's college who are
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now an infant, right, or anything else that falls into that,
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like you know, being able to fund long term care
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or whatever else it is. And over a long period
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of time starting a business in ten years, right, all
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of these things that falls from the long term bucket,
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we're not taking those things into account. They're going to
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be under allocated, and they're probably going to have too
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much risk in their portfolio that they're not actually going
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to be able to meet their goals rather than you know,
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too much risk from the perspective of quote unquote volatility.
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And so that I see is just just a massive
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problem in our industry. In general. And you know, I
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that's not necessarily something that bitcoin specifically fixes, but in
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a way it does, right, because if you've got this
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long term savings vehicle that people are incentivized to save in,
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then therefore, right they might be more able to eat
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meet their long term obligations. Should they include this in
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their plan.
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Yeah, I was gonna say, it's funny how easy money
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in the world of finance becomes when you start with
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cash flow and then move to the balance sheet and
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then move to like, what's our goal. Yeah, it's really
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that simple because in that the piece that you were
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talking about at the conference was short term, long term bucket.
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Everybody now is just what is it now? What is
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it next week? You know, hey, I got a nice job,
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I got a nice house, but my neighbor got a
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bigger one. I need a bigger one. Yeah, well kind
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of you know what, what's the return of my portfolio
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next year need to be for me to get that
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extra addition, right, And so the principles what I like
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about bitcoin is a you know, I kind of get
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noted as the budget Nazi, and it's not because it's
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like pinch pennies whatever. I mean that helps, but spend
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your money where you want to spend it. But if
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you don't know what's coming in, know what's going out,
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like what hits the bank and what's important and needs
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to be saved, and you can't determine Okay, I'm pretty
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confident I'm gonna have this outflow at around this size
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in the next six to twelve months, Then you can't
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do the long term very short term money. And so,
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like what we always do is stick the investments last.
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That's the one thing everybody wants to talk about. They
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have an investment problem. I don't really have an investment problem.
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You have a cash flow and balance sheet problem. We
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fix those. Your investment problem instantly gets better. Yeah I
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mean not instantly, but you know what I'm saying, you
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do work.
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And also the other thing that ends up happening to
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people is that if they don't do that work, they
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end up needing to keep a lot more short term
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cash around because they have no idea what's going on,
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and so something they're like, why do these random things
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keep coming up? And I don't have enough cash for
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you know, and then they just keep it ridiculous. That's
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a cash around. It's like because you like take stock wha,
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you're too, Like I get that, Like, obviously things come up, right,
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and there's there's a reason why we hold cash. Life
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happens uncertainties right in life. But that said right, like
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a lot of these things maybe aren't necessarily uncertainties for
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some people. They're just things that they hadn't that they
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didn't think enough afar ahead to know that that was
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going to come up.
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Yeah, they're like, oh, well, I've got all these Christmas outflows.
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Well I'm like, well kind of comes every year December
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twenty fifth, like's not a you know, my kid's birthday
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and you know my wife's birthday, and then it's on
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the same time as spring break. Yeah, those are all
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generally the same month. Yeah, yeah, for sure. But when
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you look at your cash flow and you take an
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inventory every once in a while, then it gives you
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what I've found and maybe found the same or different.
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Is you can allocate responsibly to bitcoin. And I think
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when you understand volatility, and that's the thing is like
560
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options teaches you it's just pure volatility, then you can
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step into a market, into an asset and know that okay, well,
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from a probability perspective, I might take this kind of
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loss in this sort of window, and you can always
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be right or wrong, but you have the more mental
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freedom to truly become an investor. And so what I
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found through twent thousand and seven through twenty twenty through
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the different markets, everybody's an investor in a bull market.
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I'm an investor buy and hold. I'm an investor for
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the long time. The first ten percent dip or they
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look at their portfolio and they see something with a
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fourteen percent loss and they're like, what is that we
572
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should get rid of that? Well, whin do you own it?
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What's his purpose? Right? Did we buy this thing yesterday
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with the idea that we were an investor in at
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bitcoin or whatever for the next five years and today
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is down fourteen percent because of some headline. The fundamentals
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haven't chained but changed. But you're ready to punt it.
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That's it, you know. I think when you grasp that,
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you can better understand bitcoin. When you do your short
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and long term like you mentioned, you can better understand bitcoin.
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That The other thing from my perspective, I think the
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laws of money, the laws of wealth, which come from
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they're rooted in faith, practices. Does that come up on
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your end? Do you kind of like share that, do you?
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I mean, we try to subtlely do it, some people
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more openly than others. But I think those principles are
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very baked into the code the ethos of bitcoin in
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ways that our current currency is not.
589
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Yeah, for sure. So it depends on the client, I
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would say. For me, so my I'm originally from New York.
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When I first up in my practice, I started in
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New York, so you know, I have a wide variety
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of characters who are in my practice from New York
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with obviously a wide variety of beliefs that that run
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the gamut. And then you know, after I left New York,
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I got an in addition to even being in New York,
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got you know, clients nationally. So it's not just that
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I have this this core client base in New York,
599
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but do have clients all over that you know that
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really run the gamut from like you know, outright atheists
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to very religious, who are you know, very much democratic,
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like democratic side, very much on the Republicans. So I write,
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it runs the gamut. And so my job as the
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advisor is not to tell somebody what they're supposed to believe,
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but to help them understand through like with their lens,
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like what it is that we're trying to achieve. But
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that said, right, I do agree with you, and you know,
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as somebody who I am, you know, I'm a devout
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Jewish woman my self. We follow Torah law on our home. Like,
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there's no question to me just from reading, just from
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reading the Torah of the Bible, that that bitcoin is
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a better is a better money, and it's something that
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that not only God created, because like I think that
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God created all things, and he's the creator, he creates
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all things. That's not you know, if if you believe
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in God, that's not something that people dispute. And if
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you don't, obviously you don't think that, but that if
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you know, like but to put that side by side
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of the fact that also if God created bitcoin, we
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must also agree that God created feat and all these
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other things that have happened, right, and that there are
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cycles through history in modern times and also in biblical
623
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history where we see that you know, there's behavior, there's
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things that occur, and right, there's a there's the way
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that that God basically gives us things have some sort
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of cycle to it. And so for instance, like to me,
627
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fiat is one of these things that we had to
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experience in order I appreciate bitcoin.
629
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Yeah, and to like put that, like God created everything
630
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if you believe he's creator, which I do, and he
631
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creates everything for a purpose, right, and so you know,
632
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good or bad. At last, the dollar has been around
633
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for a couple hundred years, so it served a purpose
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in some form. Who knows what that purpose was. Maybe
635
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the purpose was delete us to bitcoin, bitcoins, de leade
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us to whatever else in a couple hundred years, or
637
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maybe a bitcoin at the end, Like people will debate that.
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We'll all get an argument because we're humans, like we're greedy,
639
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and we debate and we argue, and they're like I'm
640
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on the left and I'm on the right, and you're
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on the top, and you know whatever, I'm from this country,
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you're from that country. So but I think ye, at.
643
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The end of the day, though, right, I think like
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we don't know obviously, we don't know God's mine, right,
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and so we can't possibly understand why it is that
646
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we have had the history that we've had. But what
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I will say is that like in our scripture, It
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basically says that we as human beings, are supposed to
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elevate the material world. That's why we're here. We're supposed
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to bring a spark of God down to earth, and
651
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we have that spark in us, that's our soul in
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Hebrew or a shama, and we use that spark to
653
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elevate the material world. And so that doesn't mean that
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we shun the material. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't,
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you know, interact with the material. And that doesn't mean
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that we should all of a sudden, you know, like
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only try to be these spiritual beings. That's not the
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point of why we're here. If we were, that was
659
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the point, right, we would only be spiritual beings. But
660
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we're not. We're supposed to interact in this material world
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and elevate the material world in a way that shows
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basically that God has dominion here on earth. That that
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I believe is our role here. And so bitcoin, right
664
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helps you do that.
665
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Yeah, when you die, it brings you back to realize, oh, well,
666
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what's my purpose, what's the purpose of this thing? What
667
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will be the better use, better resource allocation?
668
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Yeah, for sure, And like you, I don't think that
669
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bitcoin helps you shun the material right, because bitcoin obviously
670
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is in the material world. Yeah, but what it does
671
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help you do, right, is that it does help you prioritize, right,
672
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whereas Fiat doesn't help you do that. Fiat really does
673
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take the spark out of the material world. That's what
674
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I and we see it, right, because everything that's happened
675
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is us going off the gold standard has led us
676
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more and more away from having that holy spark be here.
677
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We don't see it as much as say Argentina or whatever,
678
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but more and more post nineteen seventy one, really post
679
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nineteen thirty three when they really took us off, like
680
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we'll give everybody seventy one, but you're encouraged, and that
681
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has sped up exponentially the last couple of decades to
682
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spend your dollars faster and faster and faster. And now
683
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we're kind of in that realm of it. Not as
684
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soon as you get it, but don't let it sit
685
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around on your bank account for too long.
686
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Yeah, for sure, I'd like to use this example because
687
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and I think that you'd relate to it. I don't
688
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know as much about like how Christmas is celebrator, how
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it was celebrated, let's say in like nineteen fifty five.
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But I do know that Hanaka it used to be
691
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this thing where it was very material, right. It's literally
692
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about the story of what happened to the Jewish people
693
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during the time where the Greeks, you know, took over
694
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our holy temple and they did horrible things to it, right,
695
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and then we had to fight back and get it,
696
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and that's why we have this holiday. Gifts were introduced
697
00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:19.039
as a result of you know, it's just it's it
698
00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:22.200
wasn't meant to be like this super commercial holiday, right,
699
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And I didn't actually know the history of like how
700
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Hanuka ended up having gifts, but I imagined I had
701
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somebody to do with Christmas having gifts. But also like
702
00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:31.759
back then, it used to be that, you know, you
703
00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:35.480
got really eight very small gifts every night, and it
704
00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:37.599
was like not a gift, right, it was like food,
705
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a doughnut, a chocolate, a book.
706
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Right.
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And then it became oh, actually we give like eight
708
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small gifts or like one big gift, you know, and
709
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now it's like we give our kids big gifts every time.
710
00:33:48.920 --> 00:33:51.039
I'm like, why is this happening? I don't want to
711
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give my kids, big guests every night, like can we
712
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go back?
713
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Get a car?
714
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You get? And I've seen it with Christmas too, right,
715
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It's like I've seen the video these kids where it's
716
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like they it's like they walk downstairs and it's like
717
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it's magical and there's stuff everywhere, and it's like, is
718
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that what Christmas is about? Or is it about you know,
719
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the story and so forth, and.
720
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So the parents are like, I got the new Black card.
721
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It's a twenty five thousand dollars limit.
722
00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:17.159
Let's go, yeah for sure, And so like when I
723
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see stuff like that, And that's just one example of many, Right,
724
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there's everyday examples of this going out in people's lives
725
00:34:22.320 --> 00:34:25.159
where we're just so wrapped up in like the material
726
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and not why why we are supposed to be interacting
727
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with the material world, just that we are material and
728
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we have material, and that we're basically animals with all
729
00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:35.079
this stuff around us. That's not why I think that
730
00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:37.880
we're here, and that's not why God said what we're here? Right,
731
00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:41.360
we are not animals. Otherwise we wouldn't be talking on
732
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a podcast right now, like you and me, right, we
733
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would just be living in the forest like the rest
734
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of the animals, and so I think that we're often
735
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like you know, it's just because we have a body
736
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doesn't mean that we're only a body, And just because
737
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we have a soul doesn't mean we're only a soul.
738
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And that the whole point is that we need to
739
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have those two things interact together, and that through having
740
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less means I guess right, less means to to only
741
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interact from a body perspective, it really does bring the
742
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soul back into the picture and will should help people
743
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actually do what we're here to do, which is make
744
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the world a better place. And that's what I see
745
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Bitcoin's world as being.
746
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Yeah, and I think that's it. I mean, I think
747
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there's the you know, bitcoin fixes this. It doesn't, but
748
00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:26.119
it does, right, Bitcoin fixes it once you understand that
749
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that moral basis and the principles of money and the
750
00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:30.000
laws that kind of guide us as the soul, as
751
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:33.159
you mentioned, and whether you're Christian or Jewish or some
752
00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:37.320
other religion, at the core, they all have a very
753
00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:40.559
similar do good, be good, you know, treat people right,
754
00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:45.920
treat the world right. And Fiat look, Fiat started great,
755
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:50.960
started out as gold, just started out as land, and
756
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those are all good things, but as time went on,
757
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human greed, which is the animal spirit that we can't
758
00:35:57.159 --> 00:36:00.960
get rid of, has distorted thing is broken every money
759
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that we created. And so the opportunity I see and
760
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the fun part of this, and you know, it's dorky
761
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looking at history and whatnot, but what the classics teach
762
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us is kind of getting back to that route. And
763
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bitcoin is the first thing in a long time that
764
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really once people go down the rabbit hole and they
765
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buy whatever the number, they're like, oh, put ten thousand
766
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dollars in that last year, and you know, five months later,
767
00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:25.320
it's twenty thousand dollars. They perk up like that's different,
768
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because you know, unless I got lucky on a stock
769
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and pallanteer three weeks ago, you know, or coinbase after
770
00:36:32.719 --> 00:36:34.960
the election, or Tesla, but those are kind of an
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event driven and this thing, it's like, oh, well, I
772
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put it was twenty and then it went to two,
773
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and then I turned around two years later and now
774
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it's forty. Like I've never seen anything do that. So
775
00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:52.039
that price catches our eye and then we start to
776
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:54.039
research it. We figure out all these things. I think
777
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that or at least I did, you know, I read
778
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the Bible numerous times, not really until recent years, and
779
00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:05.760
I didn't find anywhere where it said go sit in
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a cubicle, bang a keyboard all day and stare at
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a screen all day, and you will be hat. You
782
00:37:11.119 --> 00:37:14.760
will find happiness. Right. It was kind of like the
783
00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:20.119
opposite of that. And there was more about this kind
784
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of bitcoin tongue in cheek, opt out right, you know,
785
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don't you know have nice things like nice things do
786
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nice things grow, multiply, be good and you'll find well.
787
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And so that's I think the thing for me that
788
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Bitcoin brings back because it provides that opportunity in a
789
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way that FIAT has not. I mean, if you look around,
790
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I think what the populist and the populism is mad
791
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about is there's there's actually we have more riches, but
792
00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:52.239
we have less opportunity. You talk to a twenty eight,
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twenty nine, and thirty two year old and they're like, well,
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I'm never going to be able to own a house
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unless I go get some crazy job at Google and
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make ridiculous money, and then I'll spend it all and
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still in my own house.
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Yeah, for sure, I would say. Also on the faith
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area arena, is that like in the Bible, in Leviticus,
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there's a lot of laws obviously, but one of the
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laws is actually about using scales that are that are
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calibrated correctly. And God doesn't like a cheater, he really doesn't, no,
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And so like that, I think is just such a
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basic tenet of why like this would be money that
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people who you know, who believe in the One in,
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the true Creator, like would want to use this money.
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Is that, like the scales aren't tipped in somebody else's favor,
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and nobody is changing the scales, and nobody is, you know,
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giving you an apple saying it's weighs one pound when
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it really weighs zero point nine to eight, you know.
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And there's a lot of that going on in the
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fiat world that simply just can't happen in the bagcoin world.
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There's actually also I wish I could remember the source
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to this, but it was an interesting talk I heard
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from a rabbi who was talking about what happens at
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end of times. And this is not me saying anytime soon,
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so please don't send me hate mail about that. But
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what I found interesting was that there is in the Tuma,
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there is a quote from rabbis about how during like
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basically during the end times, that the last coin will
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be spent from the purse, and what they initially thought
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on the commentaries about it, what they initially thought was
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actually that people would that there might be poverty, poverty
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or something that there wouldn't be any money left. And
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now what they're thinking, just given what's going on in
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society is actually that it's not that the last coin
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will be spent because of poverty. It's actually at the
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last coin will be something because we won't use coins anymoreah,
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which I found to be really interesting because obviously we're
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not there yet right now people are still using paper
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money and coins and all sorts of things. But that
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could be our futures that we really don't use any
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kind of physical money anymore.
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We're going to be prognosticators. Maybe it's twenty one forty
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and his last bitcoin will be mined. Yeah, no, I
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don't know. Yeah, I agree with I think the beauty
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of classic text is you can look at the parables,
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you can look at life lessons from from biographies, and generally,
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when I say classic, it's stuff pre nineteen thirty when
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there was a lot more sense going on. They teach
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us these things regardless of your stance, Like you can
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be an atheist and you can learn a lot about
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how we humans should, you know, treat each other and
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treat money and go after the world. So I think
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that's that's the beauty of it. So I try not
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to get too tied down. And I mean, I'm pretty
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hard to hit it. But my way is the right way.
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This is the only way that happens a good bit.
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But you know, I wouldn't be a bitcoinner if that
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was not the case.
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Yeah, probably are more disagreeable to you.
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Yeah right, Yeah, like not at all. I'm just joking.
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But the classic texts kind of are eye opening, and
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so you know, to me, I think that's the beauty,
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the hidden secret and bitcoin tom to figure it out.
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So anyways, I think that's a good kind of spot
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to stop. There is there any parting wisdom you want
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to share or let everybody know where they can find
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you or go hunt you down on the internet.
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Yeah, definitely, Please don't send hate mail if you don't agree.
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I I just know that in my life that kind
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of negative. Yeah, but it's okay, No, if you want
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to send hatmil that's fine too, so if you would
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like to do that, you can find me at Morgan
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with an E. Rochard on Twitter. You can also find
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either one of my practices. I have Origin Wealth Advisors,
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which is Origin w A dot com. Money Owners is
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money Owners dot com. My husband Pierre and I I
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am not in fact pairs sister. I am his wife.
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People abused a lot, that's weird. We have a podcast
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as well, it's called Bitcoin for Advisors, and well, I
872
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mean we're we obviously we you know, make jokes quite
873
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a lot on there, but we do also sometimes have
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serious content, so if you'd like to check that out.
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We're on all the major podcast outlets, And yeah, thanks
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for having me on. This has been really fun.