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Vlad is actually from Romania
So, yeah, cool. Yeah, have you ever met him? Have you ever met Vlad? No, you know, I was gonna meet him at the
Palma de Mallorca conference two years ago. Remember when yeah, right, right? That's when I first heard about him
Yeah, so there's quite a couple codes. Let me start to share my screen
Vlad for those who don't know what the beton is talking about Vlad will be the host at Monerotopia
Which we're very excited. He'll be the emcee. Nice. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes
So I thought he was
Good. Yeah, I was gonna say wasn't he a Bitcoin maxi now to I think he was most like a Bitcoin
Yeah, he kind of was but he's he's always been open to different different things. He he was never really anti
Monero, but he was critical of Monero and he was he was a big wasabi guy
So he kind of saw that as the solution wasabi making Bitcoin private
But he's since kind of become disillusioned by that a little bit and he's realized that Monero is
one of the best if not the best way of transacting on
You know in an anonymous private way, so it's it's it's exciting to see him
You know become more and more aligned with Monero
Yeah, he fluffy pony back in the day. There's a great interview that he did
So I recommend people check that out if they want to go down memory lane
But I think he's he's more pro Monero than ever
But he's really one of these guys that's just you know interested in it for the digital cash use case
And that's how he's found his way to Monero. That's awesome. Yeah, especially we shared
Romanian communism, so we both come from the same place
Talks, can you actually put my screen on? Oh, yeah, pull it up. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome
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Now
Let's go into the actual news section
First thing a new all-time high hashrate for Monero now, we actually go on the website. Let's
Go over here
So we're seeing a pretty sustained all-time highs. We have reached 3.5 gigahertz on
Let's see. It was
October 16th now the all-time high is
3.71 gigahertz reached on February 27th
2023 so we're pretty close to all-time highs and
Just crazy like just historically we used to have 11 megahertz and
2020 going to the gigahertz
1.2 to today's what we have pretty sustained levels 3.1 3.4 3.5
We just sit and
We're looking for the
Monerotopia effect, which is gonna be a lot more transactions
Just a lot more usage overall. So
We're looking forward to that
Now talking about Vlad and if you're watching, ciao. Salute
So he said he's really bullish on like going privacy now
Got and web is available on cake wallets
You no longer have to run a full note on the desktop computer to get privacy features
The world is not ready for private swaths from XMR to like going to be later spent at millions of merchants
Supresponded on X
Already see a lot of like going Monero swaps because like one is so easy to acquire with fiat and now you can do that even more privately
Than before pretty damn powerful combo and it is and I did notice Vlad
Vlad's description on X. So he says no more buying Bitcoin until privacy improves
Now outperforming Bitcoin with the freedom gains fund XMR like coins the cash that
name
So
Actually since he mentioned Bitcoin and privacy, let's take it to
to this so Bitcoin if Bitcoin this is Naval on Bitcoin and
Later went out
Retweeted and he says that what he said
Naval said Bitcoin is a privacy nightmare and
Privacy coins are the feature of digital cash, which it is from so many reasons
But I mean people don't know and we discussed on the show Monero is not just about the privacy
But it's about a lot of other things that it has still a mission a lot of stuff. So
Also guys, if you have anything that you want to say in the chat on YouTube, I'm watching that on the side too
So
You can you know, you can even give me links if you'd like and we can go over it live or any questions you have
Now let's watch this video. It's two minutes
If you had a time machine, what would you change about the original software architecture of Bitcoin?
If Bitcoin is going to go mainstream, it is going to have to be adopted by Treadfy
There's no way around it. That said, I think Bitcoin has, you know, it's obviously has the highest hash rate
the most security the OG design the best token distribution and
Probably kind of the best technical architecture from a security perspective the smallest attack surface
So Bitcoin is you know, the OG for digital gold, but there are a couple of things it just hasn't done that well
You know, you can argue about scaling and lightning and it's I think that's less the issue
I think it's more that it's not programmable and from a security perspective that may be a feature not a bug and
It's not private and from an adoption perspective
That might be good in the short to medium term
but I'm thinking the long term that suffers and I think when Bitcoin was originally designed
The hope was that it would be distributed mostly through mining and because of that, you know, it wouldn't be traced
But now because it's all distributed by purchases and you have KYC AML everywhere
It is traced and it's an open blockchain. So it's kind of a privacy nightmare
So I think, you know, if there's one thing that needs to be upgraded in Bitcoin down the road
Is this privacy or it's going to lose a lot of its function of privacy coins
Or it may just be the case that Bitcoin stays public and traceable
So it's more widely adopted and harder steel and get away with it and those kinds of things and people just use privacy coins as pure cash
When they want to transact privately the convert from Bitcoin to a privacy coin
Transact in the privacy coin then maybe go back to Bitcoin or something like that. So not quite sure how it plays out
It's hard to say I would change any part of Bitcoin's design because obviously it has worked and
Why mess with something that works, you know, it's just a fence. It's not to say it's perfect
But who am I to say what parts are imperfect?
I guess I would like to see if it were me personally if I could wave a magic wand with no other trade-offs
And that's hard to say I would want to see
More privacy in Bitcoin. That would be nice or more pride and I would like to see broader distribution
It feels like most of the distribution is done, but most the world hasn't adopted it yet
Ideally it would be distributed much more slowly as the rest of the world is adopting it
Finally would be good if there was a model for funding developers
But I know that's outside of the protocol and you don't want too much development anyway
Now that is such a succinct and such a good way to talk about Bitcoin and its issues and what it's done and
Historically over over the years is moved from so many things
It's a currency as a tool as a means of revolution against tyrannical governments all this stuff
To now not probably, you know, it's not good to be used as a monetary tool necessarily like to spend this cash
So it's with time people realize
What it's good for what it is and who knows where it's gonna be in
Decades from now, especially when things are gonna get worse. What's gonna happen to to Bitcoin?
It's just gonna be
Big organizations owning it and then the people are kind of going to Monero and then JP Morgan all these people that have
Bitcoin they're just going to who knows, maybe dump it on because what's the point of having some
Pokemon car that just you own maybe they want to go into different assets after so who knows what's gonna happen
Unless you know, they make some pretty big changes
Into Bitcoin from privacy to a lot of stuff, but it shouldn't be an addition
The privacy shouldn't be an addition. It should just be yet a protocol level should just be
The base just privacy. You don't you have to think about adding it or things of that nature
So, yeah, that's that's a pretty good way to put it in in two minutes and a half
Now so let's talk about the Slovak government. We had Pavel on
So let's talk about the Slovak government and the mRNA vaccines. This is I actually just just saw this right now
That's long ago
But the Slovak government is considering betting MRM on
mRNA sorry, there was a mistype on the website
Covid vaccines following the publication of a controversial report into the management of the pandemic that helped
We're getting to this too helped prompt the country's health minister to quit. So essentially what happened?
Peter Kotlar a member of the ruling Slovak National Party opposed the vaccination process during the pandemic
He said that it
The job alters human DNA have been inadequately tested and are therefore dangerous. He also claimed
He went on to call the COVID-19 pandemic an act of bioterrorism
To yes, it's all of this we're gonna go into
But this article so after
She heard what's happening Slovak health minister just decided to to quit and it's
It's very interesting. Yeah, so Slovak health minister Susanna Blunkova and as Friday
She's stepping down over government backing for a prominent anti-vaxxer and insufficient prioritization of health care
now
It's very interesting and just notice how they use they really like to use words to
categorize people and put them into
The only corner so for example
Anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist all these things that has a very negative connotation and
Then they portray you in the news outlets as such so that you get attacked. You bring ridicule and all the stuff
Yeah, so so that's that's interesting coming from Slovakia, I I did not expect this
Now also the first couple of stuff that I want to talk about there are mostly within Europe and then we're gonna go into the
Into the US and just kind of wrap it all up nicely, but
now let's talk about Victor Orban, so
this conference not too I think I go two weeks ago or a week ago and
Basically what he said in the 17 minutes
Speech is that everyone will agree with me and not with your left wing lies
Talked about a lot here. Also Ursula
essentially wants to overthrow the Hungarian government and
She wants to put something else in place something else, which means that something that the West wants that
Brussels would want
to be in place of them and he talks about a lot of stuff in in this video
Also
Just hypocrisies
allegedly
By interrogation Indian oil, which is in fact Russian
a lot a lot of stuff now
Let's go into this article North Korea troops in Ukraine were called huge escalation risk, so
NATO just had I think this Monday they had a
exercise for their nuclear weapons
To show off to Russia what NATO has well Russia has their own and they have North Korea and they have China, so
it's
Instead of just showing your your nuclear weapons. You should just
Stop giving the money, which we're gonna get into a little bit
And we're actually gonna go into a little bit of history and geography about Ukraine just to kind of understand
what
What's what's happening, but instead of doing all these stuff, which just threatens the lives of so many people
just go ahead and
End it make a deal
You can just nuke each other to death. That's that's ridiculous
And
We're gonna go into it a little in a little bit. Actually, let's take a quick pause and let's talk about Italy
So Italy shocks crypto community would propose 42% Bitcoin tax USB 26 now it's 42
In case you're thinking about moving to a certain country because they're maybe more
Yeah, they have a bit more mercy that are a bit more nice when it comes to taxes
Portugal used to be a tax haven for a crypto used to have zero and then
We talked about it on the show in the past they introduced 28% a tax last year. So yeah, I guess it's 2023
Yeah, but Denmark 42
Denmark 42 Norway 38 Finland 33%
Taxes
So we are quite an interesting move by by Italy and sometimes maybe it's not that
Italy wants maybe some more European Union push towards really taxing it
So they can get some money from
From your money
Now let's go into
Yeah, it's going to this so I like we talk about
North Korea, Ukraine, Russia, all this ongoing war
We just had some pretty bad hurricanes in Florida tornadoes then obviously there's a lot more things going
in the whole United States
and
You know some money could be used but
Biden administration sent another
425 million
to Ukraine
Instead you should probably go to to Americans
But we are America is 36 trillion dollars in debt and the deficits are running at 2 trillion to 3 trillion per year
This article from New York Times basically saying the same thing president Biden spoke my telephone to the Zelensky of Ukraine
Zelensky and
Yeah, so they just secured another 425 million dollars
Which includes munition armored vehicles and other weapons, which it's just ridiculous that that it keeps going
but obviously they want everybody wants it to
to keep it going because
they they wash off money and
They they can gain
Power of their cover this but Russia is not going to stop especially it's not just Russian outs North Korea other countries
there's nuclear weapons involved and it's
All about Crimea. It's all about also power like Putin doesn't want to be at the mercy of these powers
Which I understand and I made I was not the most benevolent organization as well
but
and then so I'm just gonna go a little bit over
some history on this and I'm gonna go
macro perspective and
Title back into Monero, but that's why we talked about this stuff
We just thought we have to talk about how bad the government is in their decisions to really realize that they don't
They really don't care about you and they just want to imprison you through so many ways
whether it's for information
This that stuff they put in food
So your health is worse. I think we're probably gonna talk about that
in a second too
but
Yeah, let's go to
To this image so for the people watching on Twitter, it's I'm gonna show a couple of historical maps. This is today
This is a Europe of today. So I'm just gonna go over this over quick
You have Romania and then you have above Ukraine you have Moldova
And as you can see Ukraine is quite big, right?
now
um
Let's go to
17
18th century 1700s
you have
This is what used to be Romania used to be three principalities Moldova, Wallachia, Transylvania
Transylvania got taken over by the Kingdom of Hungary. They took it over
Bulgaria above
Who's up below? Who's above? I
Don't say Ukraine and this is what I'm saying right now. It's not against Ukraine
Of course, I don't want anybody to be hurt. It's just
You know about the whole what they should negotiate ultimately to stop this crazy war. You have Poland and
You have the immense Russia over here the never-ending Russia. You have Crimea
one more
Just one more chart
1919
Post World War I treaty over Cy, you're Romanian as you can see right here. Ukraine is very very small
so
It could be wrong but as far as I know they Ukraine is basically like a
stylistic
Creation artificially made to plan from Hungary Romania
Poland and they created what it is today
Yeah, but basically just so we went over this
This history a little bit
They should just negotiate. They should probably just give back Crimea to
Russia and then they can make a deal
will give you Crimea, but you can let Ukraine back in in
in NATO
Stuff like that now, let's go over
Yeah, so basically what why I wanted to go over this is just
It's very important to know history overall not just about this war or but just just in general, it's good to know
Because they're gonna try to take away your rights. They're gonna try to
Misinform me and it is just important to know history not about just this again, but just just in general
Now let's go back to
Let's see
Yes, we kind of covered Europe now, let's go into the US have a couple things about the US
And things are happening in the US too
Guess it's people just like anywhere else in the world
the Defense Department
Has quietly codified its right to deploy a legal force against its own
Citizens so
As you can see here
They wrote I
Kind of made it maybe a bit more
Difficult to to understand but basic so they said assistance in responding with assets with potential for
Defality or any situation which it is reasonably foreseeable that providing the requested assistance may involve the use of force
That is likely to result in lethal force including death or serious bodily injury
It also includes all support to civilian law enforcement officials in situations where a
Confrontation between civilian law enforcement and civilian individuals or groups is reasonably anticipated
so
basically
assisting and responding with assets meaning
weapons
With potential of hurting you killing you if you're against if you do something
You know against what they would like to do and we've seen a UK we talked in the past
They can just imprison you for what you like what you know political means that are against the government or things like that
And they're changing stuff quietly and they don't talk about they don't talk about this on the news
But they're making all kinds of
Modification
It's kind of like and as free prince wrote on on X
Be warned because once the state moving silence it is because it expects
resistance of course if this was on the news and they put it in a way that people understand then
You know, they would do revolter do something about it, but martial law was always the goal
Now I
I am me I
States can track your phones using I am me I but you can change it and
And in this exposed the guy over Amir goes over
How you can do how you can achieve that
By selling bootloader
Changes tweaks
So it's it's it's very interesting
But you know, obviously there's a lot more that you need to do to be a hundred percent
Untrackable, but this this is a good step in the right direction
I've also heard much may not be true, but that you can have your phones
Next next to each other and then they just communicate their information between each other even if if they're offline
Which again, I'm not sure if this is true or not. That's what I've heard on an interview, but you know, they
They can
Track you very very easily, but again, this is a good step in the right direction
Now let's watch this video it's one minute. This is from the unfriend NYPD video series and
Regional police can survive your phone using geo fences and until I wrote on X
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Did you know the NYPD can spy on you through your phone?
One way police can surveil or spy on you is through something called a geo fence
Geo fences are when police get a warrant to draw a line around an area on a map and collect data on all the phones that pass through
during a certain period of time
Police know where you were based off of apps on your phone that monitor your location
If a judge won't sign off on a warrant police can buy the data from companies that collect and sell data
When police use geo fences lots of innocent people become potential suspects
Including vulnerable communities like undocumented people and people who have been arrested or incarcerated
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So, yeah
Okay, let's see
Okay, so we talked about talked about that a little bit now let's talk about Roger Ver and
So he's being held captive in a country that he does not reside in is not a citizen of does not speak the language off
And that's not belong to because the United States is trying to extradite him
to arrest and charge him with tax evasion and
Let's see I have a video right here
So let's go to this
Aaron day on X said this is what true political leadership looks like watches
Theory bought it exposes the violation of the process and the dramatic overreach of the US in its case against crypto pioneer Roger Ver
He's been announced that
theory about it
I'm saying his name, right
Announced he will file a motion with the European Council to block Roger Ver's extradition to the United States
He also recommended reading hijacking Bitcoin. So
It's two minutes
Let's go ahead and watch this video. Then we have one more and we're gonna wrap it up
Roger Ver is a world-famous crypto pioneer
He's at the moment in Spain. Okay, so
I
Since he's not in I forgot that it's actually not in it just have subtitles and probably some of you can't can't see it, but
So I guess I'm just gonna have to make this and you can watch it on your own
But yeah, this this is what it's about basically filing a motion with the European Council to block Roger Ver's extradition to the United States
and may this ignite an international movement of courageous leaders standing up for freedom and
Justice
Lastly we have
George well George Orwell 1984 which I've read the book. I'm not sure I don't think this is a direct quote, but
Anyway, so the people will not evolve. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what's
Happening which is gonna be more and more the case with
and
Tick-tock and all these social medias are not to blame. It's just that people are being dumbed down by the educational system
and all sorts of weaponry by from the government and
They they don't care much. They don't educate themselves anymore. So they just looked at their screens. The algorithm is just pushing them
stupid videos are senseless and a lot of
Propaganda and yeah, I'm not so
optimistic about
The future, but I guess we'll have to see
But yeah, just just like in the book in 1984 which I recommend everybody to read
I think 1984 was nothing compared to what they can really do. It's gonna be 1994 on
Steroid like a trend
It's gonna be I think it could be really really bad
So
Yeah, that's why I like to go in the new section like to go over politics all this stuff
So you guys see
What's happening in the world? What crazy things are happening in the world and kind of direct the direction which we are going and I
Just wonder how the new section is gonna be in 2030 and what what crazy things we're gonna cover done
Yeah, hopefully I didn't bore you too much of the little bit of
History on Ukraine and all of that just wanted to go over it a little bit
But yeah, so just to end it again guys
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