We got Raphael Laverde impromptu down there at the BSV hackathon straight down there at Austin my man
Good to see you man. How you been? I'm doing pretty good. Thank you for having me. I just want to say hi
I'm doing great man. I I'm with bit coiners
living the life just
being in the middle of the apex of
Development in the entire crypto space like I'm in the mecca man
I asked myself how the heck did I get here man? I honestly like I've just been blessed
I've been blessed to have come into Bitcoin with friends like Daniel Craywitz and a bunch of people and
Yeah, I
There we have devs from all over the space. We have from Zcash a guys from
Like
Ethereum devs
This is this is incredible. There's people here. There's I don't want to dox anyone or anyone's story, but there's people who have left
Okay, I'll I'll tell you the story I guess and maybe actually I'll let that person tell their story
I'm not gonna tell their story for them, but there's just
I'm blown away by the amount of talent here on most of the people at one in the hackathon were people who
are new to
the fullness of Bitcoin they come from other networks, which is awesome and
I
Can't believe that this that this is space is still so young and
I'm just enjoying every moment because I already know what's gonna happen sooner or later. This is gonna be
Yeah, it already is it's a foundation of everything. So it's it's just gonna
Grow into it is supposed to all the way. So yeah, you're you're using like freedom and liberty and just complete just
Freedom like like unlimited freedom from you. That's what's coming off you right now, man
Thanks, man. They're free and you're just to do what you want and with no no strings attached
Like I just feel like that's never never ever never ever ever like
So even even within
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Give their take on the space I
See that everyone in in crypto at large is
You know kind of depressed because
Deep down what's happening in the economy is is that the Fed is not printing any money
So there has been a shrinkage and the money supply and so
This is something that we've never seen that we haven't felt in the economy since like the 1970s
Where the printing press is not just going crazy
So this is unfamiliar territory for all of us and it's okay, but I
Prefer bear markets to bull markets. I really do because bear markets is where you get the real
players come out and
that are that are in it to build cool things and it's it's the time to build and
I'm not saying we're in a bear market now, but it the sentiment does feel bearish and
To see the resilience of
The true Bitcoin community come together Gavin. You should have been here. I was expecting to see three teams
There were 13 teams
What's going on and I heard Brendan leave flew all the way from Australia. It's it's wild like and
and the level of talent that we're seeing is just
What you have talent coupled with?
um
The architecture of bitcoins original design that now has see it's so abundant bitcoins so abundant that
BS we had a hard time like choosing like a
Standards because everyone and their mama had their own way of doing things because you could just do anything really
It's that crazy. You can do anything so
Now that we kind of are finally as an ecosystem like
Coming together around certain
Protocols and ways of doing things the stack is just
It's incredible. People are just building there. I'll give you an example
So about two years ago some guys called me up on Twitter and they're like hey Raph
we want to create a
Prediction this market on Bitcoin. So I'm friends with Paul Storks. Oh
Truth coin on Twitter. He's he's still in BTC. He's I call him one of the last
Big blockers that are holding out on BTC and Storks was like
He was like, yeah anyone in BSC can just grab what I did and a Bitcoin hive mind calm and just try out though
The a prediction market on on BSC or wherever, you know, it's fine, you know, so they did that on Ethereum with auger
um
So these guys tried it out. I have not heard from them for years never heard from
They show up part of me and shivering a little bit because it's a little cold
So they show up and they're either come up to me. Hey, Raph. Do you remember us?
We were the guys that told you I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah
So what happened how'd I go and they were like, well, we tried everything on BTC
We tried arc network, which some BS ears are even invested in that
Didn't work. It's like a BTC second layer didn't work. Nothing works over there
What took them almost a year and a half of work trying to figure out how to make it how to make happen on BTC
Took them 24 hours here. I
Can't make this up dude. You can't make this up. This is wild. This is the level that of of
A speed it's the net so it's like the natural
It's the natural way the organic way to operate
Bitcoin is that is that why and then what they were doing over there was the the boomer way with like Jack Dorsey going on a
Different layer second layer to yeah, it's just pops here
Yeah, there's just a natural the natural organic layer, right? It's just all here
This is this is Usain Bolt. This is Usain Bolt over there. It's a guy. That's paraplegic from the neck down
Yeah, and he has a lot of second layers
He has amazing wheelchairs right electrical wheelchairs and and crutches and people to move them around but that the body is
Hurt, you know, it's a paraplegic
That's BTC
Unfortunately, that's the truth
here you have the original Bitcoin design at scale and
It's a monster, bro. It's Usain Bolt. It's it's it's a monster. So
So it's a it's an it's inevitable man
This is inevitable the business over there on BTC and they were very smart guys you in the prediction market
These guys are loyal that and and you're saying after a year and a half. It's it never worked. They couldn't make it work
Yeah, they're they're actually one of we're one of the winners of the prizes of the hackathon. Wow and
The business what was the what was the idea they had or the proof of concept?
Predictions market like sports betting. What's up?
and
They're the brothers. So if you guys watch the coin geek a recap
Just just the brothers. I forget their names
But yeah, that's those are the guys and they can tell you their story if you ever have them on
Yeah, it's
So it's incredible
Well, what brought you down there? Was there a what were you were you in a team?
What did you have an idea that you wanted to try to try to make bring forward?
What was your yeah, what was your story of coming down there?
First and foremost, I was gonna come down here regardless because I was I this is the
This is the mecca for crypto. It really is most people don't know that I'm blessed to know that
Oh
Didn't you go to people will know that people on the or did you go to school in Austin or yeah, I went to school around here
Yeah, and you know the area. So it is. Oh, yeah, this is this is look my buddies and I in 2013
All downtown Austin over 70 businesses. We on boarded to Bitcoin
Using bit pay bit pay at the time had
a kind of an affiliate program where if you onboarded a business
With Bitcoin
You you had a percentage you earned the percentage for every payment
Process in Bitcoin in perpetuity forever. So we were like heck yeah, let's do it
So we just we all of us just went door to door, you know, like bunch of college kids, you know
Just going door to door
Setting up and we can do that still and we're the only ones that can actually do that and
Well, there's other people that can do that, but I'm just saying we can do it again
So what brought you down?
Well, I mean, I know you came down there just because you were coming anyways because you're free a freedom all about freedom
And you can but what what ended up happening? It sounds like you messing people. Did you did you come up with an idea?
Like what what was your?
So as you guys have heard hodl locker is has been like a sensation in BSV for many years now
And there's eight implementations of hodl locker. It's
You know, it comes it is it is n-lock time
It is the first manifestation of n-lock time the the locking script on the original Bitcoin protocol
that Satoshi gave us and and Bitcoiners saw it as a way for us to
Communicate to cut through the noise of the internet and AI so that we can have honest communication. So
Zero the dev zero he
He
Created a hodl locker Jack who is very influential in in hodl locker relay X was the first to support this locking n-lock time script and
Yeah, we just we it went viral in BSV
It really did in spite of all the BS that BSV has gone through politically. It went viral
There's there's been eight implementations and now I
I
Zero hit me up and he's like ref I kind of want to enter the hackathon
What do you want to enter with me? And I'm like why not I like the technology and I'm like, well
What because they wanted a you a business use case using the stack of Babbage?
And so I'm like, well, you know what this is this is the foundation for anything having to do with proof of funds
Every business out there that needs proof of funds
could use and lock time and
so
having Babbage's identity
options like
cool certs and
Having something now like money the stable coin on
Be a BSV which has is gasless. I'm like, dude, this is a match made in heaven
You you you grab these ingredients and then you can
create apps
That are applicable for any business use case that the requires proof of funds and
Hmm this this is I mean this you can lock in the new stable coin for example
Exactly as a US dollar to show I have the money there. It's a proof of funds right now
Any any business endeavor that requires proof of funds real estate commercial private contracting
mergers in acquisition of
Even a matchmaking and venture capital like you name it. This has a lot of use cases. So
You know Sony anecdote that I told people at the hackathon was that I went to the there was a Tesla dealership
Right next to the the venue and I walk in and I'm talking to the manager. It turns out the guy
He's part of a crypto startup
in Estonia and I go up to him like hey dude
We'll check this out and I have have him downloaded the money wallet, right?
Dude downloads the money wallet and I'm like it check this out and I send him a penny
And he looked at me and he's like
No gas. I'm like, yeah, no gas just like Tesla
You got it. Just like that's not no gas. Yeah
He's calling the other guys showing them and so
Yeah, dude, you I mean just just sat on its own dude the use case of money as
The stable coin that is money M and ee is the Tesla of stable coins. No gas. There you go. I just gave them there
The tagline money is the Tesla the no gas stable. Yeah, it's a Tesla stable coins. No gas. Yeah, no gas, baby
No gas. So yeah, so that happened organically when I said that to him no gas. I didn't even realize
That I was saying it
That's like that's just called inspired bro, and I'm like, yeah, no gas. So so
Yeah, it's uh, it's amazing to be here because of the level of talent and and and watching BSV
finally like
Budding into the amazing
Everything that is gonna be good because it's gonna be everything you can do everything on Bitcoin
and
so I'm just blessed and I'm thankful that I'm here and
I'm grateful for everyone in the space
because
Yeah, dude, there is no stopping this. This is this is
This is gonna this is it man
This is it and and I feel bad for those who are we have like gone off to other things
But I'm here to be your messenger since you may be gone on to other networks to make money because you know
Whatever you need to make money cool
Bitcoin's alive more than ever guys
It's alive more than ever. That's a really great place right now. It's it's freaking amazing, dude. Um, and
Babbage said that he's what he wants to have a hackathon every business quarter Wow
That's beautiful. Do it like like that's exactly what Bitcoin needs because
the speed by at the speed of growth that this network is capable of generating is unlike anything else in the space unbunded block side
I'm bounded block sizes. I'm bounded transaction throughput. I'm bounded scripting
I'm bounded smart contracts. Um, everything is just a faster cheaper more efficient. Wow
dude like
Bitcoin proof of work. It is the Bitcoin Genesis block
fullness of the Bitcoin original protocol at scale
Hmm amazing Terra node ready to run in parallel
Ready for AI to scale. It is there to scale with AI 21 E 8
Have you seen my interview with Mark Wilcox? No. Oh, everybody
Plugging you get to find it. We got it with the vigilante on YouTube. Just
Go watch it now guys Wilcox on 21 E 8. Oh, yeah 21 E 8. Go go go watch it
Mark will watch it when okay
I'll link I'll put a link in here with a card on that people could check it out, man
That sounds awesome. I feel so it's it's it's it's it's yeah
Give us a plug on the interview a quick summary and then you know and yeah, please
All the plug on that interview. Yeah, Bitcoin and AI where Bitcoin AI meet and
The computational data on markets where it all around revolves around using the best infrastructure
To do both Bitcoin and AI at the same time in parallel. So I'll give you an idea my my my
Elevator pitch will be this
What is the big blocker version of the Raspberry Pi?
It would be
The Raspberry Pi right with the because the limited small blocker, right?
Has a little window called the Raspberry Pi to look into their slow
Blockchain called BTC, right? Yeah, it's a little window, right? Okay, but what would be the big blocker version of the Raspberry Pi?
It has to be a computer that has a shot 256 chip within it that can process Bitcoin transactions
And at the same time can scale in parallel that also allows you to process
Many language models at the same time as many as you want
That is the Mac mini right now. It is the place. So
The Mac the Mac mini bro, it is the Mac mini man
The Mac mini so we're all about Mac minis, baby
Nice bring it home go to 218 and get yourself a Mac mini bro and start hacking away
It's where it's at nice get yourself some Mac minis brother watch my interview with Mark Wilcox
Get yourself some Mac minis
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Take care of themselves financially before everyone else I have see people telling me like
Um, the subscribers of mine come up to me even at this event and they're like wrath like people come up to me
Telling me that they finally realized what you guys told us a month ago about the crypto market
And that's it man. Like the guys that I have the analysts that we have at the crypto vigilante
We're about amongst the first Bitcoiners to chart Bitcoin in the Bitcoin talk forums in 2010
These guys went to every Bitcoin. Oh, gee knows this you guys heard of Bitcoin bull bear
Well, then it went and became bull bear analytics
Hmm. Okay. Well, then that bull bear analytics those that TA
Went on to become the crypto vigilante
Nice. Yeah, so we we we we have the original
Group not all of them because a lot of them, you know, they don't those guys are off to other things
but out of that original group of
Bitcoin analysts the first to chart Bitcoin in the Bitcoin talk forums with the most experience in this
understanding the space from a technical perspective
We got them. So
Yeah, so it's a it's a blessing and we also have Ed Boogles
and you guys need to if you want to understand the Austrian economics perspective on
On the monetary cycle and what's happening with the Fed and everything like
Jeff Berwick and Ed Boogles are
In the top brass when it comes to that science and art
I really look up to them and and and so yeah
All right, nice job, you know, well, I want to say thank you for coming on that last minute man
I'm doing a quick show with me. I really appreciate it's great to see you seriously. I
Best regards. Thanks for the inspiration and all the freedom that just oozes an offer you man
So I appreciate you sharing that that good vibe. So bro, it's it's not it's not a vibe
It's not it's it is our reality. You got to
Embrace it everybody watching this like really
Realized that you're blessed to be watching this show
That if this show caught your attention what we're talking about in scalable Bitcoin BSV Satoshi vision
You have to realize that we are in a world that is resisting change
and
This change is inevitable the change given to us by Satoshi and we're at the point where
Any one of us can unleash hyper Bitcoin is Asian
It can happen any minute now
now
When exactly is it gonna happen? I don't know it could be 10 years. It but it all comes down to
How we take care of ourselves and how we ourselves
Embrace this reality that Bitcoin is and that it's already here and
live it embody it and just
Realize that we've already won that bitcoins already here the
Bitcoin the fullness of Bitcoin has already made a giant
Imprint on in though if you want to get hippie in the quantum field of existence
The Mandala is already there and
Many entities many energies have tried to suppress it keep it down
Because they're scared. They don't want to give away power
But deep down that power structure and those lies and all those psyops is hollow. There's nothing there
What can you do in BTC? Nothing?
It's like that paraplegic again that needs a wheelchair that needs crutches. There's not it's hollow
Right, but yeah with the fullness of Bitcoin, bro
We got everything the all of the scripts micro transactions everything everything Satoshi gave us and so no dude
We're set and
Just live it enjoy the ride guys
Nice. All right, everybody. Yeah, thank you Raphael. I'll I'm gonna end it there
Everybody like comment and subscribe check out crypto vigilante for Raphael's content
I'll plug a link to your show with with what's his name again
Mark Wilcox Mark Wilcox here at the end. Okay, so yeah, right Raphael
I'm gonna club. I'm gonna cut it great to see you
Send my best trip to Brett Banna Fee as well and everybody there at the hackathon, okay?
I'll see you at the top peace man. We're already at the top bro. What are you talking about?
Yep, here we are. No, we're at the top right now at the top of you. What's up view from the top from now on
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