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Learn how to get some non-KYC Bitcoin: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin In this video, I discuss whether Bitcoin was fairly distributed. This is a strange question to ask, since Bitcoin is a voluntary opt-in system, unlike fiat which is enforced at the edge of the sword. Nevertheless, we can conclude that Bitcoin's distribution was fair, if not equal. Bitcoin started off having zero economic value, and so was initially prized most by people who had put in the hard work to understand its construction and properties. Unlike other crypto, Bitcoin experienced a slow and spontaneous monetization, free from unethical premines, pre-sales, and pump and dumps. I run through the thought experiment of a global air-drop of Bitcoin to every single human being on the planet in 2009. Without the block subsidy and any substantial transaction fee market, Bitcoin mining would never have taken off. In addition, most people would have lost or sold their coins early on, not valuing something that they got for free in an air-drop. This is similar to what happened with the voucher privatization program after the fall of the Soviet Union. The most difficult part of Bitcoin is not acquiring it, but hodling it. Hodling requires strong conviction, and there's no way to air-drop strong conviction. Strong conviction can only come from having put in the proof of work over time. Everyone gets Bitcoin at the price that they deserve. If you heard about Bitcoin many years ago and never looked into it, you should blame yourself and not Satoshi. I first heard about Bitcoin in 2011, but did not become a hodler until late 2019, so I blame myself as well for my intellectual laziness and arrogance. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. What it's actually like to hodl: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fzz2mbbejm9j61.jpg Most Salvadorans have already ditched their national bitcoin wallets: https://restofworld.org/2022/el-salvador-chivo-bitcoin-wallet/ Voucher privatization program in Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatization_in_Russia#Voucher_privatization_(1992%E2%80%931994) Ethereum Developer Vitalik Buterin Sold 25% Of His Coins: https://themerkle.com/ethereum-developer-vitalik-buterin-sold-25-of-his-coins/ Crypto premines and presales: https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1358/1*TayypeN1nRVdmikXjuy4hA.png I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #crypto Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Learn to buy anonymous Bitcoin: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin In this video, I discuss the launch of a new radically transparent and permissionless Bitcoin mining pool (Ocean), funded by Jack Dorsey and run by Luke Dashjr. Bitcoin mining rigs are individual machines (ASICs) whose hash rate can be pointed at any mining pool globally. This makes switching costs very low, and helps to keep the mining pool space competitive. Mining pools that attempt to censor Bitcoin transactions may find themselves losing participants. The new Ocean mining pool has a number of interesting features: 1) It's non-custodial. The pool never holds the BTC payout, and so avoids custody and money transmitter license (MTL) issues. Individual miners get paid out directly by the Bitcoin network from the block reward (6.25 BTC plus transaction fees). 2) It's transparent. All operations and payouts are verifiable and auditable. 3) It's permissionless. You don't need permission or KYC to join Ocean. In addition, Ocean will be adding Lightning Network payouts to miners soon (great for LN liquidity and for small miners). Ocean will charge a 0% fee for its first 2 months of operation. Bitcoin just keeps winning and winning and winning. The tools and new companies that have been built during the bear market are incredible. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Ocean mining pool: https://ocean.xyz/ https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/ocean-jack-dorsey-funds-bitcoin-mining-pool Watch Ocean's block template: https://ocean.xyz/blocktemplate Watch Ocean's hash rate: https://ocean.xyz/dashboard BSV hash rate is pathetically low: https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin%20sv-hashrate.html F2Pool Is Likely Filtering OFAC-Sanctioned Transactions: https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/f2pool-is-filtering-transactions-from-ofac-sanctioned-address-report/ F2Pool Disables Transaction Filtering Patch (For Now): https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/f2pool-disables-transaction-filtering-patch/ Bitcoin mining hash rate distribution across pools: https://hashrateindex.com/hashrate/pools Bitcoin Controlled By Two Mining Pools? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPqyusHH850&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #bitcoinmining #crypto Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Learn how to coinjoin your Bitcoin: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin In this video, I discuss how Bitcoin's supply schedule is front-loaded, which means that the majority of original holders were cypherpunks, libertarians, and other free thinkers who were less interested in wealth and more interested in anti-statist ideologies. It's taken 14 years to mine the first 93% of the supply, and it will take 114 years to mine the remainder. The majority of Bitcoin is still being held by fairly ideologically minded people who don't especially like oppressive financial regulatory regimes and totalitarian governments. These Bitcoiners are quite tech-savvy and know how to use Bitcoin in a purely sovereign p2p manner. And these Bitcoiners will continue to want to purchase nice things. Thus, the Bitcoin circular economy is already here. Let's keep this p2p vision going-- you should never sell your BTC for fiat, or it might end up in the BlackRock ETF. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Clarke Moody's Bitcoin Dashboard: https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/ Percent of 21 million mined: https://studio.glassnode.com/workbench/72690f46-bc28-4a25-4f28-51828c993163 Bitcoin daily issuance: https://en.macromicro.me/charts/29069/bitcoin-issuance Solana Billionaire VC's Are Laughing At You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBHH0k8EOHE&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #crypto Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Learn how to buy anonymous Bitcoin: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin In this video, I answer questions and highlight important comments about Bitcoin, crypto, gold, etc from the past week. Gold demonetized wampum and silver; and now gold is in the process of being demonetized by Bitcoin. A digital world needs digital money, not shiny yellow rocks, and Bitcoin has already won the race for the best digital money: 1) It cannot be censored 2) It cannot be debased Bitcoin is neutral, ethical money for 8 billion people. Choose your money carefully. We are currently going through a global monetary reset and your choice is going to impact you and your family for the rest of your lives. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. How To Use Gold To Protect Yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDA_ymIezQ8&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity No Way Out For Ethereum (Tragic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_YtaOGCRkQ&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity Bitcoiners, Please Help (FinCEN, Swan Bitcoin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPYI6Wmu68Q&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity Fed proxy for the price of toilet paper: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU091501235#0 Shorting BTC with leverage? https://twitter.com/HODL_MFER/status/1725316774646763898 Kaspa tweet: https://twitter.com/LChangwe/status/1724575451408933320 Silver 100-year inflation-adjusted chart: https://www.macrotrends.net/1470/historical-silver-prices-100-year-chart Gold/Silver ratio historical chart: https://www.longtermtrends.net/gold-silver-ratio/ Satoshi on boring grey metals: https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/quotes/economics/?order=desc I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #crypto #gold Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Join Bitcoin University Premium: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com In this video, I discuss how you can use gold to protect yourself and your family. While gold is a poor store of value and inflation hedge, gold bars are dense enough to function as effective tools of self-defense. You can also bribe thieves with gold, in an effort to make them go away. As gold continues to be demonetized by Bitcoin, it will become increasingly affordable for almost everyone to own a gold baseball bat that they can use to defend their families. Meanwhile, if you want a good place to store your savings and protect it from confiscation and monetary debasement, I prefer Bitcoin over gold. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Gold is dead money: https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1723426206148628598 I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #gold #inflation Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Join Bitcoin University Premium: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com In this video, I discuss how you can use gold to protect yourself and your family. While gold is a poor store of value and inflation hedge, gold bars are dense enough to function as effective tools of self-defense. You can also bribe thieves with gold, in an effort to make them go away. As gold continues to be demonetized by Bitcoin, it will become increasingly affordable for almost everyone to own a gold baseball bat that they can use to defend their families. Meanwhile, if you want a good place to store your savings and protect it from confiscation and monetary debasement, I prefer Bitcoin over gold. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Gold is dead money: https://twitter.com/saylor/status/1723426206148628598 I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #gold #inflation Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Learn how to buy anonymous Bitcoin: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin In this video, I discuss the best time to take profits on your Bitcoin-- which is never. As Michael Saylor has said: "Trading Bitcoin is a sign of lesser intellect." Once you understand that Bitcoin is the hardest money that the world has ever known-- Once you understand that the fiat exits are being closed-- Once you understand that Bitcoin is the only life boat-- Once you understand that you cannot outperform Bitcoin over the long term by holding or trading other assets including other cryptocurrencies-- You will realize that only a fool would jump in and out of a life boat, after having once found the life boat. The right time to "take profits" on your Bitcoin is never. In fact, the phrase doesn't even make sense: Taking profits= converting the best money that the world has ever seen into a melting ice cube that you then need to immediately reinvest somewhere (and hope you don't make a mistake and lose it all or get rugged) in order to preserve its rapidly dissipating purchasing power. In my opinion, the best time to sell your fiat currencies or other assets for Bitcoin was yesterday. The second best time is today. If you wait too long, even your trading profits could end up trapped on an exchange or in a fiat bank. In that case, you won't have access to your weak money or to Bitcoin either. The investment choices that you make today are going to have a huge impact on your family's finances, freedom, and security in the coming years. Choose Bitcoin. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Michael Saylor on trading Bitcoin: https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1667487250542649345 You're Running Out Of Time (Bitcoin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFQ9bCtlyPA&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #trading #crypto Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Join Bitcoin University Premium: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com In this video, I discuss a scenario where a nation-state attacker has captured 33%-51% or more of the ETH supply and is actively censoring transactions, leading to a Vitalik fork of Ethereum. In this case, all government-regulated entities like Coinbase, BlackRock, and USDC would side with the US government and support its side of the fork, rather than Vitalik's side. If Coinbase, BlackRock, and USDC don't follow the Vitalik fork, there won't be any significant economic activity on the Vitalik fork and it will be functionally dead. When Ethereum transitioned to proof of stake, it effectively castrated itself and ensured future government capture. Dreaming that Vitalik and Joe Lubin would actually fight the government in this kind of situation is also a fantasy. Lubin, a co-founder of Ethereum as well as of ConsenSys which controls node operator Infura and the Metamask wallet, is very pro-CBDC. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. How A BlackRock ETF Could Destroy Ethereum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGwf57XyBX4&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity Consensys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensys Consensys loves CBDCs: https://consensys.net/solutions/payments-and-money/cbdc/ https://insights.consensys.io/central-banks-and-the-future-of-digital-money Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin faces new legal fight over employee equity: https://blockworks.co/news/consensys-lawsuit-joe-lubin I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #ethereum #crypto Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Learn to buy non-KYC Bitcoin: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin In this video, I discuss the risks of issuing an ETF for a proof of stake coin like Ethereum. The biggest risk is that regulated entities that hold and stake the ETH (BlackRock, Coinbase, etc) could be pressured by the government that regulates them to censor transactions at the base layer. If you ruin the censorship-resistance of ETH, there's no good reason for people to use it: -- It's not a good store of value -- Transactions are slower and more expensive than using US fiat banking rails -- It's no better than PayPal or Venmo when it comes to government or corporate censorship and freezing of funds Under proof of stake, owning more coins gives you more control over the network, including the ability to censor wide swathes of transactions. The end game for ALL "successful" proof of stake blockchains is centralization of validators among regulated entities like exchanges, custodians, ETF providers, etc The world is going to have to learn the hard way what makes proof of work so special. And when they learn that, they are going to realize that there is only one proof of work coin that has global recognition, an immaculate conception, and network anti-fragility. And that's Bitcoin. There is no second best. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. iShares Ethereum Trust has just been registered in Delaware: https://twitter.com/SummersThings/status/1722630271013675199 Nasdaq petitioning to be able to trade iShares ETH ETF: https://listingcenter.nasdaq.com/assets/rulebook/nasdaq/filings/SR-NASDAQ-2023-045.pdf Could BlackRock Destroy Bitcoin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KloXHKxmoiA&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #ethereum #blackrock #bitcoin Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Learn to buy non-KYC Bitcoin: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin In this video, I discuss the risks of issuing an ETF for a proof of stake coin like Ethereum. The biggest risk is that regulated entities that hold and stake the ETH (BlackRock, Coinbase, etc) could be pressured by the government that regulates them to censor transactions at the base layer. If you ruin the censorship-resistance of ETH, there's no good reason for people to use it: -- It's not a good store of value -- Transactions are slower and more expensive than using US fiat banking rails -- It's no better than PayPal or Venmo when it comes to government or corporate censorship and freezing of funds Under proof of stake, owning more coins gives you more control over the network, including the ability to censor wide swathes of transactions. The end game for ALL "successful" proof of stake blockchains is centralization of validators among regulated entities like exchanges, custodians, ETF providers, etc The world is going to have to learn the hard way what makes proof of work so special. And when they learn that, they are going to realize that there is only one proof of work coin that has global recognition, an immaculate conception, and network anti-fragility. And that's Bitcoin. There is no second best. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. iShares Ethereum Trust has just been registered in Delaware: https://twitter.com/SummersThings/status/1722630271013675199 Nasdaq petitioning to be able to trade iShares ETH ETF: https://listingcenter.nasdaq.com/assets/rulebook/nasdaq/filings/SR-NASDAQ-2023-045.pdf Could BlackRock Destroy Bitcoin? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KloXHKxmoiA&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #ethereum #blackrock #bitcoin Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Learn how to coinjoin your Bitcoin: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin Please submit a comment on this proposed FinCEN regulation: https://twitter.com/skwp/status/1719025440663261376 In this video, I discuss FinCEN's proposed "Bitcoin mixer" regulation and how you can submit a comment to voice your opposition to this over-reaching proposal that violates the basic human right to privacy, as well as the 1st and 4th Amendments. This is not just an attack on custodial mixers and coinjoins. It's an attack on anyone who wants to send a Bitcoin transaction. Such proposed regulation is a clear violation of basic human rights as recognized by the UN and other institutions. It smears innocent civilians and attributes money laundering intentions where none are present. This regulation is being sold as a way to prevent terrorist financing, but it is actually an attack on basic human freedoms and the fundamental human right to transact in a sovereign and private manner. It will not stop terrorists (who prefer to transact using the US dollar anyway), but it will hurt honest private citizens. Rather than targeting custodial mixers, this proposed regulation essentially criminalizes basic Bitcoin transactions such as consolidating UTXOs, or withdrawing Bitcoin from an exchange. The correct response to this proposed regulation is to submit a comment during the 90 day comment period. If that fails, basic civil disobedience may be in order. The incorrect response is to attack fellow Bitcoiners who are on the front lines, like Swan Bitcoin. Swan has zero control over their banks' internal policies. Swan's banking partners appear to be complying with this FinCEN regulation while it is still at the proposal stage-- and hasn't even been implemented yet. This is absolutely disgusting. At the end of the video, I discuss why Monero fixes none of this. Having privacy at the base layer leads to blockchain bloat and the risk of undetected inflation bugs. Simply blinding sender, receiver and amounts does not solve the privacy problem. The Monero circular economy is virtually non-existent. The Monero anonymity set is much smaller than Bitcoin. No one wants to hodl Monero because it has shown itself to be a poor store of value. If you're not going to hodl Monero, you are going to end up with the same privacy problems when you try to convert your Monero to BTC or fiat. There are so many ways to mess up this conversion and leak privacy. So what's the point of even accepting XMR as a merchant if you are going to have to immediately convert it to something else like BTC? You might as well ask to get paid in BTC directly. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights re privacy: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights#:~:text=Article%2012,against%20such%20interference%20or%20attacks. FinCEN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Crimes_Enforcement_Network FinCEN Seeks to Impose Strict Surveillance Requirements onto Broadly Defined Class of 'Bitcoin Mixers': https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/fincen-wants-to-outlaw-certain-bitcoin-on-chain-transactions/ Major Attack On Bitcoin (FinCEN): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCFWhH97Yik&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity An unfair criticism of Swan Bitcoin: https://twitter.com/WimTweets/status/1723178230474052041 Cory Klippsten's response: https://twitter.com/coryklippsten/status/1723487741428793661 Yan's response (must read): https://twitter.com/skwp/status/1723444038932582414 I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #FinCEN #crypto Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Learn how to coinjoin your Bitcoin: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin Please submit a comment on this proposed FinCEN regulation: https://twitter.com/skwp/status/1719025440663261376 In this video, I discuss FinCEN's proposed "Bitcoin mixer" regulation and how you can submit a comment to voice your opposition to this over-reaching proposal that violates the basic human right to privacy, as well as the 1st and 4th Amendments. This is not just an attack on custodial mixers and coinjoins. It's an attack on anyone who wants to send a Bitcoin transaction. Such proposed regulation is a clear violation of basic human rights as recognized by the UN and other institutions. It smears innocent civilians and attributes money laundering intentions where none are present. This regulation is being sold as a way to prevent terrorist financing, but it is actually an attack on basic human freedoms and the fundamental human right to transact in a sovereign and private manner. It will not stop terrorists (who prefer to transact using the US dollar anyway), but it will hurt honest private citizens. Rather than targeting custodial mixers, this proposed regulation essentially criminalizes basic Bitcoin transactions such as consolidating UTXOs, or withdrawing Bitcoin from an exchange. The correct response to this proposed regulation is to submit a comment during the 90 day comment period. If that fails, basic civil disobedience may be in order. The incorrect response is to attack fellow Bitcoiners who are on the front lines, like Swan Bitcoin. Swan has zero control over their banks' internal policies. Swan's banking partners appear to be complying with this FinCEN regulation while it is still at the proposal stage-- and hasn't even been implemented yet. This is absolutely disgusting. At the end of the video, I discuss why Monero fixes none of this. Having privacy at the base layer leads to blockchain bloat and the risk of undetected inflation bugs. Simply blinding sender, receiver and amounts does not solve the privacy problem. The Monero circular economy is virtually non-existent. The Monero anonymity set is much smaller than Bitcoin. No one wants to hodl Monero because it has shown itself to be a poor store of value. If you're not going to hodl Monero, you are going to end up with the same privacy problems when you try to convert your Monero to BTC or fiat. There are so many ways to mess up this conversion and leak privacy. So what's the point of even accepting XMR as a merchant if you are going to have to immediately convert it to something else like BTC? You might as well ask to get paid in BTC directly. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights re privacy: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights#:~:text=Article%2012,against%20such%20interference%20or%20attacks. FinCEN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Crimes_Enforcement_Network FinCEN Seeks to Impose Strict Surveillance Requirements onto Broadly Defined Class of 'Bitcoin Mixers': https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/fincen-wants-to-outlaw-certain-bitcoin-on-chain-transactions/ Major Attack On Bitcoin (FinCEN): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCFWhH97Yik&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity An unfair criticism of Swan Bitcoin: https://twitter.com/WimTweets/status/1723178230474052041 Cory Klippsten's response: https://twitter.com/coryklippsten/status/1723487741428793661 Yan's response (must read): https://twitter.com/skwp/status/1723444038932582414 I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #FinCEN #crypto Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Learn how to buy anonymous Bitcoin: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin In this video, I answer viewer questions and highlight a few interesting comments from the past week, concerning Bitcoin FUD, other crypto, government attacks on BTC, etc. I also point out why you should avoid people who privilege credentialism. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Sell your house for BTC in Canada: https://www.bullbitcoin.com/prime#realestate The big problem with LINK: https://twitter.com/chrisblec/status/1698793083209494537 Bitcoin Is Money For The AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0C3XajSIAg&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #crypto Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Learn how to buy anonymous Bitcoin: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/cou... In this video, I discuss the causes of Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome (BDS), and how it has affected public figures like Paul Krugman, Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett, Peter Zeihan, Peter Schiff, and especially Dave Ramsey. When cryptographic truth collides with fiat lies, there's always a lot of cognitive dissonance. Dave Ramsey combines extreme arrogance with a complete lack of intellectual curiosity, having been telling his viewers that Bitcoin is a scam since 2014 when it was trading at $600. Ramsey has zero understanding of even the basics of how the Bitcoin network works, seeming to believe that the network can be "unplugged." Ultimately, Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome is nothing more than the dinosaur, looking up into the sky, seeing the Bitcoin comet, and realizing that his time is almost up. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Paul Krugman's 10-Year History of Being Wrong About Bitcoin: https://reason.com/2021/06/10/paul-kr... Peter Schiff wrong about Bitcoin: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4L4BYWWO_pg/ma... Bitcoin ‘stupid and evil,’ Berkshire Hathaway vice chair Munger says: https://fortune.com/2022/04/30/bitcoi... Charlie Munger calls bitcoin ‘disgusting and contrary to the interests of civilization’: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/01/charl... America can learn from Communist China, says Berkshire’s Charlie Munger: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/30/invest... SBF hated the Bitcoin network: https://www.ft.com/content/02cad9b8-e... Peter Zeihan wrong about Bitcoin: https://twitter.com/DylanLeClair_/sta... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6p-s... Dave Ramsey calls Bitcoin a scam in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDmHi... Dave Ramsey's latest Bitcoin rant: https://twitter.com/btcSalvation/stat... Cyprus bank bail-in: https://www.reuters.com/article/cypru... Dave Ramsey faces $150 million lawsuit for promoting company accused of fraud: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dave-ram... I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #daveramsey Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Join Bitcoin University Premium: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com In this video, I discuss how the Federal Reserve technically went bankrupt in 2023, as its tangible net equity went negative. The Fed has sought to hide this fact by creating a fake intangible deferred asset called "Earnings remittances due to the US Treasury" which seeks to convert Fed investment losses into an asset that can be used to hide the Fed's insolvency. What this means in practice is that the US Treasury just lost what has been a $100 billion annual source of income for the past decade. It is also a sign how late in the long-term debt cycle we are, where central banks themselves are blowing up. Fortunately for us, we no longer need to hold US Treasuries or US dollars, but are now able to securely hold Bitcoin in a self-sovereign manner. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Swedish central bank goes bankrupt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d2BopwH-CI&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity Federal Reserve balance sheet release dates: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/ Fed's October 25, 2023 balance sheet release: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/20231026/ When the US Treasury stole the Fed's gold: https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/gold-reserve-act US federal government spending by department or agency: https://www.usaspending.gov/agency Federal government interest payments on the debt: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A091RC1Q027SBEA I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Fed #Bitcoin Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Join Bitcoin University Premium: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com (Click the Pay With Bitcoin menu link, if you wish to pay using BTC instead of fiat) In this video, I make the announcement that Bitcoin University will (finally) begin accepting BTC as payment for its premium monthly subscription product. I'm using a software service called Zaprite to make it easy to accept both Bitcoin on-chain and using Lightning. Zaprite makes it easy to keep track and fulfill orders, as well as providing me with an email address that accompanies every payment that I can then use to send login credentials. I also discuss Parker Lewis's new essay "Pay Me In Bitcoin Theory," which asserts that Bitcoin adoption as a global medium of exchange will be driven by the balance sheet decisions of merchants. By earning and spending BTC (or buying spending and replacing BTC), we can all do our part to help to jumpstart the Bitcoin circular economy. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Join Bitcoin University and pay in fiat: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/join Zaprite: https://zaprite.com/ Parker Lewis and Will Cole joining Zaprite: https://blog.zaprite.com/joining-zaprite/ Will Cole: https://twitter.com/willcole Parker Lewis: https://twitter.com/parkeralewis https://twitter.com/parkeralewis/status/1704294686561640541 "Pay Me In Bitcoin Theory": https://graduallythensuddenly.xyz/pay-me-in-bitcoin-theory/ I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #Zaprite Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Join Bitcoin University Premium: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com In this video, I discuss the Swedish central bank (Sveriges Riksbank) blowing itself up through its own incompetence and needing a $7 billion bailout. The Swedish central bank has had a long and fabled history, stealing the economic energy and savings of the people of Sweden for many hundreds of years. It gained the monopoly on money and then failed to control price stability for the country. To add insult to injury, it is now asking for a taxpayer funded bailout. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Sveriges Riksbank (Swedish central bank): https://twitter.com/riksbanken https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/about-the-riksbank/ Riksbank historical timeline: https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/about-the-riksbank/history/historical-timeline/ Gold priced in SEK: https://goldprice.org/gold-price-history.html Paul Krugman's 10-Year History of Being Wrong About Bitcoin: https://reason.com/2021/06/10/paul-krugmans-10-year-history-of-being-wrong-about-bitcoin/ Don’t do it again! The Swedish experience with negative central bank rates in 2015-2019: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/dont-do-it-again-swedish-experience-negative-central-bank-rates-2015-2019 Swedish central bank blows itself up and needs a bailout: https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1717250200933212379 https://news.yahoo.com/sweden-central-bank-needs-more-095704045.html Chart of Swedish 3-month interest rates: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IR3TIB01SEM156N# Highest taxed countries: https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/highest-taxed-countries/#tax-rates-by-country Fed liabilities and capital: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WOLCL I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #banks #Riksbank Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Learn how to coinjoin your Bitcoin: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin In this video, I discuss FinCEN's proposed regulation of "CVC mixing." This regulation is being sold as a way to prevent terrorist financing, but it is actually an attack on basic human freedoms and the fundamental human right to transact in a sovereign and private manner. It will not stop terrorists (who prefer to transact using the US dollar anyway), but it will hurt honest private citizens. Rather than targeting custodial mixers, this proposed regulation essentially criminalizes basic Bitcoin transactions such as consolidating UTXOs, or withdrawing Bitcoin from an exchange. With very high inflation and currency debasement on the way, the US government is incentivized to discourage people from using sovereign BTC and instead to herd them into products like Bitcoin spot ETFs which can be more easily controlled or confiscated. At the end of the day, Bitcoiners may need to resort to civil disobedience. Similar to the civil rights movement and the fight against the drug war, it is morally right to fight against unjust and dehumanizing laws. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Fiat Idiot (Janet Yellen): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN61C70zw3g&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity Title 3 of the Patriot Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_III_of_the_Patriot_Act FinCEN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Crimes_Enforcement_Network Shut The Exits, Boil The Frogs (Financial Repression): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Gvg5iR-pA&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity FinCEN Proposes New Regulation to Enhance Transparency in Convertible Virtual Currency Mixing and Combat Terrorist Financing: https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-proposes-new-regulation-enhance-transparency-convertible-virtual-currency https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/federal_register_notices/2023-10-19/FinCEN_311MixingNPRM_FINAL.pdf?ref=nobsbitcoin.com Executive Order 6102: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 The US Constitution Is A Shipcoin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WFDXuYgT-k&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity Submit a formal comment: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/23/2023-23449/proposal-of-special-measure-regarding-convertible-virtual-currency-mixing-as-a-class-of-transactions I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #USA Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Join Bitcoin University Premium: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com In this video, I cover Janet Yellen's extremely poor track record, as well as her ignorance of basic US economic numbers. Yellen has had a long and illustrious career as a fiat grifter, living off of universities and think tanks, being chair of the Federal Reserve and US Treasury Secretary, and never getting fired even after making one wrong financial prediction after another. It's terrifying to think that the US economic ship is being piloted by incompetents like Janet Yellen and Jerome Powell. Bitcoin remains the best hedge against the kind of fiat stupidity displayed by Yellen and Powell. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Janet Yellen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Yellen Fed's Yellen expects no new financial crisis in 'our lifetimes': https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-yellen/feds-yellen-expects-no-new-financial-crisis-in-our-lifetimes-idUSKBN19I2I5 Boy was she wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2019_events_in_the_U.S._repo_market https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_stock_market_crash Janet Yellen has made at least $7m from speaking fees: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jan/01/janet-yellen-speaking-fees-us-treasury-secretary Yellen ‘Feeling Very Good’ About Soft Landing For US Economy: https://twitter.com/LiveSquawk/status/1700971786366767476 U.S. can ‘certainly’ afford military support to both Israel and Ukraine, Janet Yellen says: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/16/us-can-certainly-afford-military-support-to-both-israel-and-ukraine-janet-yellen-says.html https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1713917340855767369 Janet Yellen doesn't know basic economic numbers: https://twitter.com/stackhodler/status/1714250633291686023 US debt/GDP chart: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S US debt clock: https://www.usdebtclock.org US debt interest costs skyrocketing: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A091RC1Q027SBEA Paul Volcker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Volcker I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #yellen Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Join Bitcoin University Premium: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com In this video, I discuss BitVM, which is a new way to bring Turing-complete computation to Bitcoin without unnecessarily burdening the base layer as Ethereum does with the EVM. Here's the good news about BitVM: BitVM does NOT require a soft fork or any protocol changes. BitVM does NOT bloat the Bitcoin blockchain. BitVM computations are NOT executed on Bitcoin, but merely verified using the Bitcoin network. BitVM is a great example of how setting constraints can foster dev creativity, while still maintaining Bitcoin's core values of security and decentralization. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Does Bitcoin Have Smart Contracts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgZXaS8vaJE&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity BitVM white paper: https://bitvm.org/bitvm.pdf BTC whales buying, ETH whales dumping: https://decrypt.co/201674/bitcoin-ethereum-whale-comparison-glassnode BitVM explained in 4 slides: https://twitter.com/btcillustrated/status/1712440417524810227 Shinobi's articles on BitVM: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/the-big-deal-with-bitvm-arbitrary-computation-now-possible-on-bitcoin-without-a-fork https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitvm-but-can-it-run-doom Stephan Livera podcast on BitVM: https://twitter.com/stephanlivera/status/1712469817595470253 I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #BitVM Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Get my paid Bitcoin course here: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin In this video, I discuss whether SBF and Caroline Ellison conspired to keep Bitcoin's price below $20,000 in the final days of FTX. I demonstrate that the actual context of Caroline's notes are a liquidity crisis at Alameda and the need to procure capital to pay back a loan to Genesis, using FTX customer money. SBF almost certainly gave Caroline that $20,000 sell limit order, not in order to pin BTC below that price (which would actually work against his own interests), but rather to raise a certain amount of capital off of FTX customer BTC deposits that could only be attained if the sell orders were executed at $20,000 or above. Anyone who tries to suppress the price of Bitcoin will eventually get taken away on a stretcher. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Misleading headlines about BTC price manipulation: https://twitter.com/GoingParabolic/status/1712174410960900331 https://twitter.com/WatcherGuru/status/1712145652233249279 https://www.crypto-news-flash.com/breaking-shocking-revelation-ex-girlfriend-of-ftxs-sbf-exposes-plot-to-suppress-bitcoin-below-20000/ https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-price-ellison-sbfs-plot-to-suppress-btc-20k/ Court journalist transcript that these misleading headlines rely on: https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1712130156385444033?s=20 Genesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(cryptocurrency_company) At bankruptcy, FTX no longer had any BTC: https://www.ft.com/content/f05fe9f8-ca0a-48d5-8ef2-7a4d813af558 SBF always bad-mouthing BTC: https://www.ft.com/content/02cad9b8-e2eb-43d4-8c18-2e9d34b443fe My videos on BlackRock and Bitcoin: https://www.youtube.com/@Bitcoin_University/search?query=blackrock I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #FTX #BlackRock Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Get my paid Bitcoin course here: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin Connect with me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1s33sw6y2p8kpz2t8avz5feu2n6yvfr6swykrnm2frletd7spnt5qew252p In this video, I discuss the open communications protocol Nostr (unstoppable free speech) as the natural complement to Bitcoin (unstoppable money). Nostr can be used for many things, but its current most popular use case is as a decentralized Twitter substitute. Because Nostr is decentralized, it is able to route around all the problems with censorship that come with traditional social media platforms. You can access Nostr using many different clients (my favorite is Damus for IOS), and your profile, posts, and followers can follow you wherever you go. Nostr also allows people to verify that posts were actually made by you (or at least by whomever controls your private key). The native currency of Nostr is Bitcoin (sats), which means that Nostr can continue to grow with Bitcoin, and vice versa. When Bitcoiners use Nostr, they become unstoppable at multiple levels. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. What Happens If Big Tech Bans Bitcoin Wallets? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ZA46OgIWA&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity Nostr: https://nostr.com/ Nostr relays: https://nostr.com/relays Nostr zaps: https://nostr.how/en/zaps Nostr clients: https://damus.io/ https://primal.net/home https://plebstr.com/ https://snort.social/trending/notes https://iris.to/ Damus/Apple controversy: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/06/28/damus-finally-receives-apple-app-store-approval-after-two-week-battle/ https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/07/10/apple-may-not-like-it-but-zapple-pay-finds-workaround-for-bitcoin-tipping-on-damus/ Wallet of Satoshi: https://www.walletofsatoshi.com/ Mutiny Wallet: https://www.mutinywallet.com/ I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #Nostr Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Get my paid Bitcoin course here: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin In this video, I discuss Mutiny Wallet as a possible workaround to a future scenario where all Bitcoin Lightning wallets are banned from big tech app stores. As a progressive web app (PWA), Mutiny allows you to run a self-custodial Lightning wallet in any browser on a desktop, laptop, or smartphone-- all without needing to go through a permissioned app store. Mutiny's code is open source, forkable, and may be self-hosted as well. You can also link Mutiny wallet to a Nostr client like Damus and use it to send zaps (sats). Bitcoin truly is unstoppable money. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Big Tech will more likely incorporate BTC rather than banning it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWYuM2inL5Y&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity Mutiny Wallet: https://www.mutinywallet.com/ https://github.com/MutinyWallet/ Self-hosting Mutiny wallet: https://blog.mutinywallet.com/self-hosting-mutiny/ Find me on Nostr: https://primal.net/p/npub1s33sw6y2p8kpz2t8avz5feu2n6yvfr6swykrnm2frletd7spnt5qew252p Damus: https://damus.io/ Sparrow Wallet: https://sparrowwallet.com/download/ I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #wallet Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Get my paid Bitcoin course: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com/courses/76599-the-ultimate-guide-to-bitcoin In this video, I discuss why I believe that all big tech companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google will compete to offer the best Bitcoin wallets and BTC payment services to their customers. Will Big Tech come out with their own coin/cryptocurrency? Absolutely not. Companies cannot issue currencies. That's a power that governments will likely never cede. Instead, big tech and banks will choose to use Bitcoin, which is ethical neutral money that also has the greatest regulatory clarity of any crypto asset or cryptocurrency. This will be one way that Bitcoin will scale. It's not particularly cypher-punky, but Bitcoin is open and permissionless, so we cannot stop people or corporations from building on it. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Facebook fails to issue its own currency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diem_(digital_currency) I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #apple #amazon Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.

Join Bitcoin University Premium: https://www.bitcoinuniversity.com In this video, I discuss a future scenario where governments and central bankers attempt to blame Bitcoiners for the inflation and currency devaluation that was actually caused by the central bank monetizing government deficit spending. As Cory Klippsten likes to say-- We are in a race to avoid the war. Unless we create a lot more new Bitcoiners both inside and outside governments over the next few years, we risk being the targets of government persecution as the fiat system continues to collapse. Not investment advice! Consult a financial advisor. Pacific Bitcoin livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@Swan_Bitcoin/streams Discussion with Phil Champagne , Bob Burnett and Matthew Kratter: https://twitter.com/realmariegagnon/status/1710699136138535246 Falling purchasing power of USD: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Purchasing-Power-of-the-US-Dollar.jpg Money printer go brrr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1hCLBTD5RM&ab_channel=TimvanHelsdingen Justin Trudeau blames the grocery stores for inflation: https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1702426920602714289 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si7p7ss8_tM&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity IMF inflation propaganda: https://twitter.com/profstonge/status/1708966299530035595'' Paul Krugman wrong about Bitcoin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman https://reason.com/2021/06/10/paul-krugmans-10-year-history-of-being-wrong-about-bitcoin/ "I gave gold for iron": https://www.cantonrep.com/story/special/2013/09/21/weimar-truth-about-history-s/43501208007/ Executive Order 6102: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 FDR on gold hoarding: https://fee.org/articles/money-the-great-gold-robbery/#:~:text=Roosevelt%20labeled%20anyone%20who%20did,gold%20being%20in%20the%20%E2%80%9Ccustomary The Race to Avoid the War: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/the-race-to-avoid-the-war/ Ten Million Bitcoiners: The Intransigent Minority: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/ten-million-bitcoiners-the-intransigent-minority/ How Bitcoin FUD Goes Away (Forever): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UEi6qIiOu8&ab_channel=BitcoinUniversity I am not being paid or otherwise compensated by any company or cryptocurrency project that I mention in my videos. My opinion is not for sale. Please do not contact me with any affiliate or advertising deals. #Bitcoin #inflation Disclaimer Neither Bitcoin University, nor any of its directors, officers, shareholders, personnel, representatives, agents, or independent contractors (collectively, the “Operator Parties”) are licensed financial advisors, registered investment advisors, or registered broker-dealers. None of the Operator Parties are providing investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, and nothing in this video, on this YouTube channel, or at www.Trader.University or www.BitcoinUniversity.com (henceforth, “the Sites”) should be construed as such by you. This video, channel, and the Sites should be used as educational tools only and are not replacements for professional investment advice. Trading or investing in new and volatile assets like Bitcoin can be risky.