Robert Barnes
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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And what's fascinating is whenever a problem has arisen, the community will collectively and aggregately get together and try to solve that problem. And it's this constant experiment in human democracy that the Bitcoin universe continues to utilize. And so I think that's one of the benefits of it is its potential.
But its potential can be rerouted and derailed if the central planners have their way.
But it's really interesting. I'm trying to reason my way through this. Money, gold has some inherent value. People like wearing it. Humans, you know, give it a special meaning. Money is a unit of barter. And there are markets of money. We call those currency markets. And it seems to run reasonably well, though those too can go goofy. What's going to happen when there are markets in Bitcoin?
That's sort of what you're implying, that all these different Bitcoins are solving the problem of supercomputing in their own way. Isn't this going to encourage a marketplace and then shorting and then options? And God knows what other sort of instruments will get applied to them.
And Aaron, let's switch over to Roger Ver. What are your feelings about what's going on with him and what's likely to happen? And what are the strategies to get the attention for a pardon?
Define what you mean by that. Define what you mean by central bank digital currency. What does that mean?
Haven't we seen evidence of something at least close to that, if not specifically that, in Canada?
And CBDC, just in case you guys, you know, hold on a second. Central Bank Digital Currency is CBDC. So when you hear Aaron use this shorthand, understand that's what he's talking about. Robert, you were shaking your head vigorously about Canada, now U.S. Tell us your opinion.
Yeah, I mean, Mark Anderson was just talking about it with Joe Rogan, which is that a lot, I mean, I represent other clients that have been debanked that, you know, for political reasons.
I mean, people had made banks hundreds of millions of dollars and then the bank decided to shut them down because they didn't like his politics because a couple of the executives there didn't like his politics because they got caught up in the Michael Brown fever around St. Louis.
Shut him down? What does that mean? Hang on, what does shut him down mean? Not wanting to do business with them? I mean, banks are at their liberty to do that. What do you mean shut him down?
At multiple levels. So essentially he had a wide range of contracts that had tax benefits and triggers and business partners, including banks. They tried to shut down those partnerships. Then they tried to shut down the hotel project that he was working with them on. And they tried to stick him with the whole bill.
And the long and short of it is that the net effect of them excluding him from the financial process that was a critical component of those tax-funded, bank-financed real estate projects is that he went from being worth a lot of money to being at risk of bankruptcy. All because they didn't like his political viewpoints.
And in fact, what Mark Anderson told Joe Rogan is that a bunch of people in the tech space like the people in the crypto space. The Winklevoss twins have been very vocal about this. Others have been targeted by the Biden administration for various forms of political harassment and retaliation. Maybe it's an SEC. Elon Musk has been subject to this all over the place. Maybe it's an SEC inquiry.
Maybe it's an EEOC inquiry. Maybe it's an IRS inquiry. But the IRS is the best one because they have the greatest power of all of them. And that's why they're using the IRS to go after people like Roger Ver.
They want something that will intimidate and shut up critics and dissidents from preventing this rollout of a central bank digital currency for which an independent Bitcoin is the best independent challenge to that central bank digital currency power. That's why they're obsessed with suppressing anybody who's advocating for it.
Aaron, please pick up that baton.
And Andreessen has done a great job of raising awareness about things that a lot of people, including myself, not aware of. His reading list, I go to constantly. And if he reads it, I try to read it. But this conversation, and by the way, this conversation leads me to believe that we have an administration that does not like freedom. Freedom is being, as you say, choked on every front.
But I'll ask this of Aaron. When I hear this conversation today, It makes me want to buy gold. That's sort of where my head goes. Talk me out of that. Should I be buying Bitcoin or some other weird, distant, quiet Bitcoin that people don't know about? I mean, what should an average person do? Protect themselves.
Is that GoldLink coin available yet?
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