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Tony.
Hey guys.
Happy new year.
What's up?
Hey, good.
How are you guys?
Good, man.
Good.
How you doing?
Good.
I see your bicep veins are popping.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
That's a good sign.
I was listening and I was like, oh, shit.
Yeah.
I don't even do bicep, man.
I don't even do bicep.
Well, I do pull-ups.
I do pull-ups.
Yep.
Yeah, I'm basically a pull-ups and push-ups guy at this point.
I don't really have too much time to hang out in the gym.
I try to do a little short sprints every once in a while.
But yeah, man.
You're pretty fit, dude.
How's your health these days?
Oh, it's good.
You working out?
Yeah, yeah.
I'm still like, this was the first week because I had some long, long injuries that I've been
dealing with.
So this was the first week, which I've been able to actually do push-ups and pull-ups.
What kind of injuries you got?
Oh, like long time.
Deadlifting.
It's just borrowlifting.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Like really bad.
And I've been doing ice baths, which helped a lot.
So I go in like five minutes.
And if you just feel good, like zero soreness and mentally, like your dopamine goes up to
100%, four to six hours after you do them.
There's so, so many benefits.
So I highly recommend ice baths to people.
And that'll make you mentally resilient like whenever.
Where are you doing that?
You're doing that at your own place or you're like going to a place to do the ice baths?
I used to buy the ice and do it in my ice bath.
In my top.
Oh my God.
Which becomes a nice stuff.
But so in Romania, it's cold, but not, they can't stream water so cold because the pipes
are going to freeze.
And in Florida, it's too warm.
So I go to my gym here and it's pretty much like 40 Fahrenheit, almost to the freezing
point.
So it's really, really cold.
Yeah.
I do the cold, I do the cold shower thing or I always end my shower with like as cold
as it can get.
Oh, it's cold in New York.
So yeah.
Yeah.
I would do the ice baths.
I don't know, but they, I don't know.
I think I do feel great.
Like I love, I love jumping into just like the cold sea in the winter.
I'll do that.
Not on a regular basis, but like once or twice during the season.
I'll try to jump into a frigid, frigid waters.
There's nothing better.
Oh my God.
Exactly.
Right.
But it's different than an ice than going in a shower.
It's totally different.
I guess it's really, really cold.
But if you get into an ice bath, which is almost at a point of freezing,
just mentally and, but it has so many benefits like just mentally and
physically.
And again, like you can work out really hard.
Like this, the world's strongest man.
And then I'll end on my, my little rent on ice baths,
but the world's strongest man.
He does ice baths after every single training.
Bjornsson.
If you know him and then he has zero soreness and Larry wheels
and all these guys.
Yeah.
I can really start doing that, but I've also heard like,
like being things though too, right?
Because it just like, I don't know.
It boosts your adrenaline.
Like it feels great.
Like the feeling is like really from kind of an adrenaline rush,
but is it good to like give yourself those adrenaline rushes on a
daily basis?
I don't know.
I could totally, I could totally get into the whole ice bath.
I know.
I'm always, I'm always down for the adrenaline rush.
But yeah, I don't know.
I guess.
It's like they compared like cocaine and stuff like that.
But it's more like, it's not like a surge and then a huge drop,
like a spike in the drop.
It's more like a sustained.
Yeah.
Andrew Huberman did like two hours just on this alone and
yeah, if you can, I think, I think you'd love it for sure.
And just, you just get out and you just feel so clear
mentally and you feel like unstoppable.
It's crazy.
And the sauna too, obviously is a fantastic thing to try to
incorporate in your life for, you know, especially cleansing
yourself, right?
Of like the heavy metals and stuff.
That's kind of one of the ways you can do it.
But, you know, sweat, sweating it out.
I don't do it.
Yeah.
And especially if you're in this fight with Monero and
for freedom, you've got to be strong physically.
Hey, you do, man.
You do.
You got the, you need the, I go around here.
It's the battle of the frickin' century, man.
For sure.
We are up against some, some very strong, powerful, dark
forces that do not want Monero to succeed.
I mean, I am pretty, I'm pretty convinced of that.
But they also, I don't know, some of them maybe do want
it kind of to succeed because they need something they
can use too, to do their, their sketchy stuff.
We got another tip here.
BRJ tipped 50 cents.
Heidi and Tobias crypto tips are constantly giving
shadows to XMR with 224,000 followers.
They might be good people.
Yeah, for sure.
I like messaged with them on Twitter recently.
I said, come on the show.
They were, when they were talking about Monero,
they're like, yeah, but then I don't know,
never happened.
But yeah, it would be better if I went on their
show, right?
Like them coming on my show won't really help Monero.
If I go on their show or, you know,
one of us goes on to their show,
that would be a big help because now we're talking
to their 224,000 followers.
So, yeah, try to, try to make that happen.
Good points.
That's a huge following.
But yeah, let's, let's get into the, the new section.
So let me share my, my screen.
Okay.
And talks are done.
Okay, perfect.
Okay.
And before we start guys, like and share,
this helps a lot obviously.
And then I'm watching the YouTube comments as well.
So if you have any questions, if you want to add
even a link that you guys want us to go through
right now, or if you have any questions about
what we're going through right now, then you
can go ahead and write that in the YouTube chat.
I'm watching that one specifically now.
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Use a code.
2024.
Tux 24.
I tried body.
I forgot body's code.
I don't think it's body 24 body.
No, it should be.
It's not body 21.
I tried.
Hmm.
Body.
Yeah.
But body has a code.
So body if you can write it down for people.
There's lab 24.
One dash 800.
I think.
There's a lot of codes.
So use all of them.
Just use 20, Tony, Tony, Tony for the hour.
Just use that one.
Yeah.
Okay.
So let's talk about the first thing for this week.
Japanese authorities arrested a gang of 18 scammers by
analyzing our transactions.
Now let's actually go into.
The article itself from coin telegraph.
So the group of scammers have been under investigations since
August by Japan's new cyber crime.
Unit.
And essentially what we're going to discover by going through
this is that.
Actually, they didn't mention it, but usually what happens is
that it's not that they cracked Monero and they discovered
the malicious things that they've done with it.
It's usually pure.
Like just the people probably.
Using Monero putting it back on some centralized exchange,
which is tied to their credit card or their card.
And there we go.
And the money goes into their account,
which is identified to them or probably some,
some stupid way like this in which they messed up.
But here's a graph.
And if you're watching on YouTube, you can, you can see it,
but just shows quarter free statistics and graphs on
security incidents by chain.
You see Ethereum, Bitcoin, BSC, Cosmos,
or it's Monero.
I don't see Monero.
That's, that's quite odd.
Well, yeah, that's because you can't, you can track it.
So it's a really short article on this,
but what I can also mention is that the transaction
total about 100 million yen, which is $670,000.
So they actually empty people on the subreddit on the
post mentioned this too.
Whenever some criminals are apprehended and they use Monero
this way or another, the news must always be phrased in a way
that it makes Monero seem easily traceable by authorities.
Well, the truth is always that it's not Monero,
which failed, but the back upset practiced by these criminals.
So if you ever hear stuff like this,
it doesn't mean that the correct Monero just means that
the criminal is just, just did some bad upset because of,
I don't know, they're not, they're just not,
they just didn't care.
I don't know.
Now let's move on.
Let's talk about Sailor.
So pretty much if you're paranoid,
you're paranoid crypto anarchist,
if you hold your own keys and don't trust the government.
That's what he said in this interview.
So let's, let's watch it, but according to Sailor,
just trust your government.
You don't need to call your own keys.
Just use some central exchange or use some bank to hold your Bitcoin
and you're going to be fine.
And she made some good points about what happened to gold in the 20th century.
So let's just watch this video and then we'll comment a bit more.
If there is more Bitcoin,
Bitcoin's held with these third party custodians.
What risk does that pose having greater supply held by fewer large institutions?
Does that increase the risk of seizure and confiscation like we've seen with gold?
And is that not exactly what Bitcoiners don't want to happen?
No, I think it's the opposite.
I think that when the Bitcoin is held by a bunch of crypto anarchists
who aren't regulated entities, who don't acknowledge government
or don't acknowledge taxes or don't acknowledge reporting requirements,
that increases the risk of seizure.
You have an OG crypto community that's very hardcore about it,
but if you look at where all the money is,
99.9% of the money is actually in the traditional economy.
If you consider the Great Depression,
I mean people thought that their gold was safe
and banks until the executive order of 1933.
We're not entirely safe.
I mean, I know that's kind of a wild thing to suggest may happen again,
but history does repeat itself, so Bitcoin wouldn't be entirely safe.
People say that, but mostly it's paranoid crypto anarchists that say that.
Because it's a myth and a trope that goes on over and over again.
But first of all, he didn't really seize the gold.
People voluntarily turned in the gold.
They didn't go and kick in everybody's door,
arrest them, shoot them and take their gold.
That never happened.
Is the United States on the Bitcoin standard?
Maybe we will be safe.
But the point really is we're not.
It's totally not a reasonable comparison.
People have these inflammatory tropes or inflammatory memes that they use.
And it's like I say that because I want you to give me your money.
If you don't trust the bank, then you'll buy my hardware wallet.
If you don't trust this government, you'll move to my country
and you'll buy a passport from me.
That's the kind of fear mongering to get you to give me your money, right?
And I use it to sell you a gun, to sell you a hardware wallet,
to sell you an account, to sell you a financial advisor,
to sell you an insurance.
Or to sell you Bitcoin because what?
God, what is doing with all this?
You guys suck the Charlottes and holy shit.
You guys like a status operative.
Yeah, the most like, oh my God, I know people's blood boil when they hear this.
Like the most annoying part about this is that he's, like Tuck said,
he is clearly the charlatan.
And here he is essentially trying to call the crypto anarchists the charlatans.
He's saying like, oh, they're just spreading these memes out.
They're fear mongering because they want you to use their hardware wallet.
They want you to store your key.
Like that's the scam.
The scammers are the people that are trying to get you to use crypto
correctly and hold your own keys that are trying to scare you
into using crypto peer-to-peer.
Those are the scammers, not Michael Saylor, the billionaire
who has just like, just like, he's basically a snake soil salesman.
He's been from day one.
Yeah, there's like no reason to believe he's not like a Fed op
or just like a big banks bird, you know.
But now he's not like, now he's sitting here and like attacking the crypto.
The tights turn so much like over the course of the sale,
the sailorism of Bitcoin.
At first it started out as like, he was kind of like, yeah,
Bitcoin's going to become, and you stand up, you're going to use it.
And then it turned into, oh, Bitcoin just has to store value.
And now it's like, well, Bitcoin, do you really need to hold your own Bitcoin?
You know, you're paranoid if you're going to hold your own Bitcoin.
It's like crazy.
Insane.
I'll sell you something.
Cake wallet.
It's free.
Yeah, exactly.
Your keys are coins, baby.
He would call you a scammer.
You're trying to scare people out of using the traditional banks.
I'm trying to scam people by using something for free.
Yeah, that's right.
But who's the bigger scammer actually?
Because so he's okay, like say people are actually money on the wallets and stuff like that,
but he's making a lot more money by having billions of dollars invested in Bitcoin
and getting the large institutions to hold a large amount of it,
which drives the price up, which drives his own Bitcoin price up.
So, and she made some very good points.
So yeah, it's, it's, yeah, it's this sailorism like Tuck said, it's crazy.
YouTube comments.
Mr. 1024 waits.
The sailor is anti second amendment.
He's anti freedom.
Paper vigilante, big joke.
That's all of it puts on MSTR.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's insane.
Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure body would, would like to say a comment or two.
Maybe when he comes up and does this price report,
if you want to do that comment on all this.
If this doesn't tell you that Bitcoin is hijacked,
I don't know what was the fact that this guy is like the, the big,
the big Bitcoin person that everyone knows about.
It's amazing though, like there's all these people that are trapped in,
in it though, right?
And they are, they'll just continue to go along with it.
Cause the, you know, this has been the prediction from day one
when we started to see this narrative that the number go up narrative.
And so even if people are sitting there and they're like,
uh, you know, he's, he's, he's kind of wrong.
You know, I should be holding my own.
We'll just go along with it because they want to see the price of Bitcoin go up.
So they're like, yeah, go sail her.
Destroy Bitcoin.
Yep.
They want to maintain followers.
Bitcoin goes up in fiat value where I'm winning.
Yep.
Massive protest outside of the Bitcoin 2025 Las Vegas convention.
Anti sailor protest.
What is this?
This is the Bitcoin conference.
It's in, it's in May next year.
Okay.
Las Vegas is saying to go protest like outside anti sailor.
Maybe we'll have to do the Monerotopia down the block.
Like we did in Miami.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Moving on.
So movie featuring, that's cool.
Movie featuring Monero playing in the San Francisco Bay area this Sunday.
So if you close go,
but also if you come down to Mexico city on November 14th through conference,
they're going to have their Mexican premiere.
Yeah.
We'll be playing it in a theater across the street from the venue.
Super cool.
Thursday evening.
That's badass.
That's awesome.
Now, when I saw this, I, I thought it was a high generated.
I thought it was fake.
I saw it just when I woke up and
I thought it was fake.
But Joe Rogan actually got an interview,
a podcast with Donald Trump.
It's almost three hours.
So I was excited when Elon Musk came, came on.
I think he was only on for an hour, an hour and a half,
maybe more, whatever.
But this one is long.
And without Donald Trump,
I've only listened to about 30 minutes of it so far.
But I'm sure it's packed of stuff.
Yeah.
If you could go to like the 41 minute mark.
Um, you know, this is kind of kind of a little slightly relevant
where he talks about Rogan asked him about like eliminating
income tax.
So I think this is, this is going.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Go ahead and play that.
Is that 41 minute?
I'm not sure.
I've seen that minute clip.
Yeah.
It's like around the 41 minute mark, I think.
Word.
I've said this from the last couple of weeks in the dictionary
today and any is the word tariff.
It's more beautiful than love.
It's more beautiful than it is.
It's the most beautiful word.
This country can become rich with the use,
the proper use of tariffs.
It'll keep just float out the idea of getting rid of income
taxes and replacing it with tariffs.
Well, okay.
We serious about that?
Yeah, sure.
Why not?
Because we ready.
Our country was the richest in the eight relatively in the
1880s and 1890s.
A president who was assassinated named McKinley.
He was the tariff king.
He spoke beautifully of terraces.
His language was really beautiful.
We will not allow the enemy to come in and take our jobs and
take our factories and take our workers and take our
families unless they pay a big price and the big prices
tariffs.
And he'd speak like that, but he was right.
And then around in the early 1900s,
they switched over stupidly to frankly an income tax.
And you know why?
Because countries were putting a lot of pressure on America.
We don't want to pay tariffs.
Please don't.
You know, they believe me, they control our politicians.
If you look at the kind of numbers that these guys make
then and now, but we had a commission meeting in the
eight, I think it was 1887.
Think of this problem.
We were so rich.
We had so much money.
We didn't know what to do.
So they set up a blue ribbon commission on tariffs.
And the sole purpose is what to do with all the money we had.
We were so rich because we were taxing other people for
coming in and taking our jobs and China does it.
That's what China did.
If you want to open a factory and sell cars,
if you build a factory here or have a factory,
they don't take our cars.
They wouldn't take our cars.
But if you build a plant in China, you can do that.
Elon did that.
By the way, Elon is great.
That guy is such a great guy.
I think you're a fan of Elon.
He just goes on and on.
Pretty cool though, right?
That he's doing Joe Rogan.
We'll see if we get Kamala on there.
No way.
She can sustain that.
I think she already declined.
She already declined.
But we got Trump talking about eliminating income tax.
Fucking awesome.
That's crazy.
Flirting, slightly flirting.
Not official rhetoric, slightly flirting.
Yeah, of course.
It's nice to think about.
I don't know if it'll actually end up ever happening,
but it's nice to think about.
And the thing is that people still don't like tariffs, right?
But from a crypto anarchist standpoint,
tariffs is not free market.
But tariffs over income tax gives you way more control
of your money.
Way more control of your money.
Because you can just choose not to buy certain products.
You can choose not to spend your money.
Income tax, it's forcibly taken out of your paycheck
every month.
Exactly.
So there you go.
Tucks for president, 100%.
No.
And meanwhile, you know,
Trump is flirting with eliminating income tax
and Kamala is flirting with implementing
unrealized capital gains.
Sounds like.
Yeah.
Is either one going to happen?
Probably not.
Kamala, I doubt they might start.
They might start with something small
with the unrealized capital gains.
I mean, that's like.
We technically already have that.
I would argue we already have unrealized gains tax,
which is property tax.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There you go.
I like that argument.
So, yeah.
I was listening to the Trump thing,
like the first like 20 minutes or 30 minutes,
I felt like Rogan was just like, bro, come on, man.