0:09Unknown Retards. There are two retards. There's an ignorant retard, like a brand new pleb, and that's what we usually think of as retarded the creature that just expresses its retardedness without awareness of itself. And then there's this wise retard,

0:26Unknown like the Bitcoin OG whose IQ has plummeted after multiple cycles, rug pulls, and much travail. And this wise retard and this ignorant retard are the same retard. They are the same field. The time chain is in the shadow. The only difference is awareness.

0:44Unknown The wise retard has come full circle. It's why OGs and retail noobs can be hard to tell apart. It's why nooblebs have low time preference sometimes, and why OGs often become high time preference again. What about the rest of us in the middle? I hear you say,

1:07Unknown Well, we're the journey. We are that passage. You don't have to wait two or three cycles to be wise. Wisdom isn't dependent on cycles. Wisdom is dependent on trusting yourself. Deep trust. How deeply can you believe in yourself?

1:26Unknown How far can you trust your instincts into the green meadows of clown world? Life is unraveling. It's already complete, even though it's still in the process of unraveling. So can you be both? Can you be both its beginning and its end? Can you be awake in the dream that is the middle? The ancients called life alila,

1:51Unknown a play, means both a theater and a drama. But it also suggests playfulness, and both are needed. I mean, you can't really shitpost

2:04Unknown in the middle. There's so much shit coining. There's so many scams. There's so much spam. It's hard to be playful in the face of most of the shit that goes on in this world. So the playfulness, the retardedness,

2:19Unknown it has to be of an inner awareness rather than an outer always. That's where the dance is. So you can be ringing on the outside, but on the inside, there's still this awareness

2:32Unknown of the play unfolding. It gives you a little distance. You know the ending, but you also don't know how it's going to get there. That's the mystery part. That's the beauty. That is the play.

2:48Unknown Of course, we are watching this play within the play, and we have this rising sense that it's going to turn into a tragedy, a rug pull. And who's watching us, Feds? You know that feeling when the lights go back on, you've been in the theater, and you kinda rub your eyes, and oh, oh, oh, yes, I remember where I am.

3:09Unknown One day, the lights will come on. One day, the retardedness of everything will reawaken to itself. It happens to the individual, and the individual realizes that it's been in an illusion. Then one day,

3:24Unknown it will happen to the n p c's. And in the meantime, we are in the Maya. We are in the Lila, the divine play, the unfolding.

3:35Unknown And as your awareness begins to grow inside, you surrender your attachment to the outcome. You know the grand outcome anyway. You know Bitcoin has already won. So why worry about the dips and turns and drama? It's all the dips and turns of the price discovery

3:56Unknown as it spontaneously explores the cosmic meadows. This is why it's about consensus. Because that's what we're here to transcend. And the awareness, this is our consciousness.

4:11Unknown It's stateless. It's outside consensus. So when it remembers that, it giggles, and then

4:22Unknown falls into silence. What the hell am I going to say? Maybe I better be quiet. Maybe I better just comply. Let the Tao unfold. Let the network go on exploring itself.

4:47Unknown And so you come to deep retardedness, deep surrender. And the game is over, but the play still goes on. What a mystery.

5:01Unknown What a wonder To be retarded. That's the thing. To be retarded. Everything ends the same way. It ends without ending. The mind says, no, no, no, no. There has to be an ending. Everything needs to have an ending at some point. But the heart says, no, no.

5:26Unknown How can there be an ending? There's no such thing as an ending. You see, the eternal is not an area we're very familiar with because the eternal must lie beyond the lower mind. It's the domain of the higher mind, the retard mind. Ultimately, it's the domain of pure, essential

5:47Unknown being. So this is the harmony of the spheres. Even spam, even JPEGs are part of the harmony. It's part of the retardedness.

5:59Unknown Everything is part of the retardedness. Everything is part of everything. So let's just enjoy Bitcoin

6:12Unknown podcasts.

6:13Richard Greaser Welcome to this edition of the Bit Weekly. This is your cohost, Richard Greaser. Joining me today, as usual, is Rod Palmer. Are you embracing being a retard? Are you embracing the mind of being a retard, getting into that state of retard bliss, retard zen? Are you being the individual that disappoints Shinobi, the individual that you are? I,

6:40Rod Palmer I I truly believe that when you lower your time preference enough that it it's it's similar to the mid curve meme where you are on the same like vibe or the same wavelength as the, as the Cervantes and

6:57Rod Palmer I think once you get into that retard mindset, it's a very I was just listening actually to the hell money podcast, the new one, and it was talking about how in in a different word, but like the retard can just trust their their gut. They're very in in, sync with the the kind of thing that astrology or some of these mystic

7:21Rod Palmer religions where it's like this just base layer of, of, of living kind of gets you on the right path. And I think following that and knowing that and being able to know the truth from your experiences is the way of the retard. And I think that's the way to live life. Totally. I mean, the the retard is sure of themselves.

7:43Richard Greaser They're confident in their opinion even if it's retarded. And that's a good portion of life and and success in life is having confidence even if you're wrong. Like, look at, Jerry Calparone. That guy is like he's like the equivalent of Hunter Biden. Like, you get him on an interview, he's completely retarded. You know, he's not that smart. But you've got Neil Jacobs sharing his,

8:06Richard Greaser content on Instagram talking about how smart he is, and he's talking about buying Bitcoin. Complete retard getting invited to speak at the Bitcoin conference, getting invited to the hundred k party. His brother, Brand, even more retarded than he is or may maybe slightly less retarded than he is, but he's got, like, 10 x the the following on Twitter and, you know, used car salesman are learning how to,

8:33Richard Greaser scam people with their used cars, from Brandt. And, these retards are are so successful, so successful. I mean, let let's there's other retards like that. You look like Pom. Pom's retarded.

8:49Richard Greaser I think people starting to realize that Jack Mallard is retarded.

8:53Rod Palmer I mean, who's more retarded than Peter McCormick? He was the number one Bitcoin. I mean, it took, when did he start that? 2017? I mean, it took eight years almost before Peter McCormick finally understood, you know, how lightning works, how to run your own node and people explained it to him two or three times a week for one to two hours at a time. And it, he still didn't get it. And so when you look at Peter McCormick

9:23Rod Palmer and you think Todd, if that retard can can figure out Bitcoin, so can I? I can do it even if it takes me half a decade, a decade. And it's inspiring and I think that a lot of especially autistic retards they love routine, they love repetition and what is, I mean, what is the key to success? It's practice, it's repetition.

9:47Rod Palmer It's just trying over and over failing over and over and over again and still getting up and being able to try again. And I mean, when I look at my Twitter timeline, especially the past week, it's just full of retards who are just so confident in a choice that they made in a split second based off of a couple of anonymous accounts who also agreed with them

10:14Rod Palmer and no matter how much information is presented to them to persuade them that they might not, you know, they might be missing some nuance

10:28Rod Palmer that would help them have a better holistic understanding of a problem that, you know, some developers want to, solve for and some developers believe there is, you know, that is the wrong solution, but they've made their minds up and they're just going to double down, dig their heels in

10:49Rod Palmer and that is a surefire way for them to succeed. Whoever is the most stubbornly retarded will succeed. I I've seen a ton of uncredentialed opinions

10:60Richard Greaser on Twitter this week from all sides. It's not it's not just one side of of the argument. It it's all the sides. A lot of uncredentialed opinions. A lot of people's strong opinions. People are upset that,

11:15Richard Greaser for example, that that the GitHub, the Bitcoin GitHub isn't a place to ship post like on Twitter. And the memers are not understanding the difference between memeing and and Bitcoin development. And then you got people running around with their pitchforks because they're like, talk to you, Jamieson and and Gloria. We want a shitpost on GitHub.

11:38Richard Greaser We don't need Right. Kids.

11:40Rod Palmer And I there is something, listen, at the end of the day, I do not I think that the core devs should unlock comments on pull requests on GitHub to the broader community.

11:55Rod Palmer However, the memers and the, you know, Noster people and the Nauts runners, they just they need to understand that while this is a free speech community they're going to get If you've never

12:12Rod Palmer commented on GitHub before, if you've never contributed to Bitcoin Core before, you shouldn't be prevented from starting but your first post should not be to call Satoshi a retard.

12:28Rod Palmer That is disrespectful. That is not even really contribution. If you want to act or knack or leave a technical, feedback, that's fine, but don't make your first post calling Satoshi retarded because he wants to change, you know, remove the limits on the op return in the, in the config file for

12:50Rod Palmer the settings for your note. That's just not it's just that is not productive.

12:56Richard Greaser Well, I think it's productive to call Satoshi retarded, but you just don't do it on GitHub. You have to go on Twitter.

13:02Rod Palmer Yeah. Right, right. Exactly. Or a podcast or something. Not GitHub. GitHub is, listen, if you if you spam GitHub with memes about Satoshi being retarded, it is going to

13:17Rod Palmer bottleneck the the Bitcoin development process, the Bitcoin maintenance process. You don't wanna spam GitHub. Spam is for Nostra and and for Twitter. Definitely.

13:31Richard Greaser Well, I know a lot of us are are concerned about Satoshi right now. He he's actively trying to promote the raping of our nodes. And, you know, for

13:45Richard Greaser many of us, we're we're concerned. We don't want our wives and our daughters nodes to be raped. I don't want, my coworkers nodes to be raped. I I I care a lot about Maggie and and Kaylee. I know Kaylee's very upset at the prospect of her node getting raped. And we we we cannot allow Satoshi to be raping people, raping their nodes.

14:10Rod Palmer Yeah. Yeah. It's this is why this is why we we it's so important for you to run the node for your family. For wives to use their husband's notes or their father's notes. Where at their widow's, you know, their father in law's notes or their, you know,

14:28Rod Palmer brother in law's nodes because Bitcoin is an open network and it is an adversarial network and you know right now it is this high risk of somebody like Satoshi raping their wife's node if she runs her own node. And you know, he's

14:48Rod Palmer just showing general unpredictable hostile behavior and he posted today about how, you know, Satoshi's a big supporter of Israel. Satoshi is a big Zionist and he was talking about how we should nuke Iran

15:07Rod Palmer and he was talking a few, you know, a while ago, how we should nuke Gaza on behalf of Israel. And in that mindset, I just if he sees a vulnerable node, he's probably gonna rape it. Yeah.

15:21Richard Greaser Well, as a as a, you know, the man in the family, being a man, it's your job to be the protector. And, you know, if your daughter if your wife gets raped, if her no gets raped, it's your fault in many ways. It's it's your job to prevent, behavior for that. And so you need to act as a shield, and that's why you, uncle Jim, your family,

15:45Richard Greaser and you manage their notes for them. It's your job to listen to 40 HPW. It's your job to know what updates to, to roll and and what updates not to. It's it's your job to always be considering running alternate clients to core even though it's generally a bad idea. But you you could be retarded if you want to. But if you're retarded,

16:10Richard Greaser you still have to protect your family. It's not an excuse not to to leave your wife exposed to getting raped by Satoshi.

16:17Rod Palmer Yeah, and listen, I am a successful journalist, a successful Bitcoin podcaster. I have access to promo codes for, state of the art

16:32Rod Palmer Bitcoin node servers like Start9. So, you know, you can put a JPEG. You can put JPEGs in my mempool. I'm a side for punks. I'm a man that can handle it. But if you try to rape my friends' nodes, you you try to rape my friends wife's or daughter's node, you try to rape the node of some, you know,

16:55Rod Palmer marginalized person in Gaza or in the global South who is running, you know, much less expensive state of the art node technology, we're gonna have a problem.

17:10Rod Palmer And I'm gonna stand up for the marginalized node runners because,

17:17Richard Greaser you know, somebody has to. Yeah. It's and and here's the thing to understand. Like, if it's consensual, it's not rape. Right? And and there's many people that that want to be have their mempools, violated by Satoshi and violated by Udi.

17:36Richard Greaser There's some people that like that. Like, you look at a guy like Charlie Spears. Like, he's he's all for it. He's like, come violate my mempool. I'm game for it. You look at,

17:46Rod Palmer Some people have special chairs in their podcast studio to sit and watch

17:51Richard Greaser as Satoshi violates their node. Yeah. But like many but the reality is many our wives and our daughters,

17:58Rod Palmer they're not consenting to it. They're right. They they don't they don't even know how to tell if they've been violated, if their note has been violated. And people like Satoshi and Udi

18:14Rod Palmer and, you know, these others, they these people who do shitcoins on Bitcoin, they are JPEGing our wives and daughters, and our wives and daughters, they don't even have the vocabulary

18:30Rod Palmer to tell us. They don't have the understanding of the thermodynamics to be able to look at these transactions and look at the mempool. Space or look at their own mempool on their node and see that see that they've been JPEGed by Satoshi.

18:46Rod Palmer It's it's it's it the Satoshi is taking advantage of these people. He's Satoshi is JPEGing retards in women and that's that's just not that's that's almost worse than supporting Israel. It means no. It's, you know, and listen, some people are critical of

19:06Rod Palmer of mechanic and Luke and it's like they're comparing it to like making your wife wear hijab, making their wife wear a burka. It's like, they're making, they're putting these severe restrictions and like covering and filtering

19:24Rod Palmer their wives and daughters nodes and it's, you know, some people's daughters, they want to have, they want to expose their node to people like Udi. They want to expose their node to people like Satoshi. I don't want my daughter to do something like that, but like at a certain point, she's her own person and she wants to expose herself

19:47Rod Palmer to these perverts, these node abusers, these mempool pissers. It should make should that be their choice? I don't know how Mechanic and Luke feel about it. I'm sure Luke doesn't give his his wife the choice, but, and if Mechanic wasn't an orange cell, he might be able to have a wife too, but I don't know. Totally. Woah. Well, this is what what is this about, right? This comes down to at least their,

20:16Rod Palmer their excuse or their explanation, the the nots side, is they want to protect the node runners. They want to protect node runners. They want to protect people's mempools, especially their daughters, but they care about other people too. And,

20:33Rod Palmer what they're kind of not understanding is the people who are protecting node runners the most are you got Coinbase, you got LightSpark,

20:46Rod Palmer who is, a big infrastructure, you know, platform for lightning network, which is reducing impact on on chain activity, reducing block space demand, reducing mempool size. You've got BlackRock, and all the other ETF providers. So, you know, some of that goes back to Coinbase for Fidelity. So, there and then you've got Michael Saylor. Those

21:11Rod Palmer handful of entities are disproportionate I mean, 99% of the protection and relief

21:22Rod Palmer that Node Runners are getting right now with the lack of block space demand. He's coming from these entities and it's like everybody talks so much shit on the timeline about these specific BlackRock, Michael Saylor, MacStrategy, and Coinbase.

21:38Richard Greaser They're doing more for Node Runners than anybody else. I wanna, I also wanna add to the list, we can't forget chain analysis, being one of the biggest protectors of the network with all the nodes that we're running.

21:51Rod Palmer Yeah, exactly.

21:58Kailey Welch This is Kayley Welch. I come to you today with solemn news. Bitcoin is being attacked by spammers and scammers. They are trying to rape our nodes, piss in our mempools, and turn our stateless monetary system into a joke. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and that is why I'm forming an elite task force, which I'm calling the time chain police. These individuals will be the elite of the elite. We will hunt down and find these spammers and filter them so they will never have the opportunity to try and rape our nodes ever again. In times like these, we cannot play nice. There is no time for nuanced discussion. Instead, we must respond rapidly in order to fend off the forces of evil. Mistakes will be made. Lives will be taken. There is a cost of war. We cannot allow this one to drag on like the block size wars. We must crush our enemy swiftly and decisively without mercy.

22:45Kailey Welch If we don't, our nodes will be raped. Our men pools will be clogged. Our bright orange future will be spammed away by nihilists who just wanna make a quick buck. If you think you have what it takes and you have heard the call, follow me today to restore order to the time chain. We will destroy our enemies and protect those running their nodes on weak hardware.

23:03Unknown Join the time chain police today. Let's fuck up these little bitches trying to rape our nodes.

23:14Richard Greaser But, yeah, I this is a good topic to roll into. So, there's a question that I've been asking myself, and I think many of us have been asking ourselves, is was there an attempt to scale Bitcoin too quickly?

23:31Richard Greaser Many of the miners are feeling a lot of pain right now. The BitAxers are kinda asking themselves why they're decentralizing the network. Mining profitability continues to fall through the floor. There's no transaction fees.

23:47Richard Greaser Bitcoin has essentially been scaled and as a result of all this paper Bitcoin. So you got Michael Saylor, you've got the ETFs. There's all this emphasis in in discussion on protocols like ARC and and Lightning and you know, whatever else. But I don't really know if we need them because it seems like what needs to happen right now is there needs to be fees of some sort.

24:13Rod Palmer Right. Well, that's a thing where I guess it depends on your perspective because A) the miners

24:25Rod Palmer are, you know, you have my feelings about miners, they're Neanderthals, they don't understand business, They don't know what they're doing half the time. And the hash rate is so high, right? The difficulty is so high right now. And these miners seeing this, the fees right now,

24:42Rod Palmer they keep piling money into expanding, capacity for mining or they just they've been doing it for the past three years. This is not profitable and they are hoarding ASIC chips that could be

24:58Rod Palmer used to build bid access and decentralize the network. So, they are hoarding ASIC chips to centralize the network and make, you know, lose money in the process when they could be these ASIC chips could be going to bid X miners

25:15Rod Palmer to decentralize the network at a much more economic distribution of

25:25Richard Greaser loss. Well, I think one of the things that many of the miners make the mistake of is focusing too much on the economics of it and forgetting the moral case for it.

25:38Rod Palmer Not Ocean. I mean, Ocean doesn't think about the business case at all. They think only about the moral side, which that is perhaps, a virtuous thing, but a lot of these other miners they they're in debt and they don't have

25:57Rod Palmer the ability to just lose money over for an ideology. If you're, I mean, if you're gonna be a Bitcoin miner, you should come into it thinking I'm gonna lose money on this, but I'm doing it because I care about decentralization. I care about this defeat, separating money from state.

26:16Rod Palmer In the mind, the the public miners, these big giant centralized entities,

26:21Richard Greaser they're they're just greedy. Yeah. Like, you you should be getting into mining because you you care about you you want the status of being a plot miner. You wanna wear the ungovernable hoodie ungovernable misfits hoodie around to, like, Lake Satoshi or the other, events happen in the scene. You want to show up to your meetup and everybody look at you and go, wow.

26:47Richard Greaser This man, this man's a big whiner.

26:49Rod Palmer You want to be able to get on Bitcoin podcast by telling people that you use the heat from your S9 to try, you know, your marijuana leaves or your, you know, your coffee beans, you know, you want to have some kind of cool thing that you're doing with your miner with the heat because you can't afford electricity because, you know,

27:14Richard Greaser if mining is making you go broke. Yeah. I think a lot of these guys, like, they're that are like this, they're a little bit insecure in their identities of who they are. They they want some sort of bragging rights, and, they wanna

27:31Richard Greaser prove they they feel like they have something to prove, like, like as if being a podcast listener isn't enough, isn't a high enough status symbol, so they have to add, Plumbiner onto their their list of things that they are. You know what I mean? And I don't know if that's the case. I mean, I think people should be proud to be Bitcoin podcast listeners.

27:56Rod Palmer Right. That's one of the most noble positions to have. And to get back to the original topic of scaling Bitcoin too early, we just discussed right now about how maybe the miners not getting paid or, you know, the fees to support mining at this, you know, hash rate,

28:19Rod Palmer maybe it's not a problem that there's low block space demand right now. Maybe that isn't a problem. Maybe that's actually a good thing, but most people seem to be in a rough consensus on the fact that miners there needs to be more fees to pay miners. We need more mining. We need more Bitcoin mining. We need a higher hash rate and we need, you know, it's a security budget problem. But if so, if you if you take that approach, the problem right now in Bitcoin is the lack of demand for block space Empty, you know, small blocks, empty blocks

28:55Rod Palmer incredibly low fees, just low demand in general. And if that's a problem, one side their solution is to be more, you know, fix the filters. They wanna censor more transactions. They wanna prevent people from using Bitcoin,

29:12Rod Palmer the open protocol, the way that they want to maybe they wanna anchor data. Maybe they wanna use it as a database. Maybe they want to use it as a replacement for, Dropbox something like that. Maybe they just want to post horoscopes on there. But the other side, their

29:30Rod Palmer solution is there's no demand for block space, there's dwindling demand for block space, so we want to make additional trade offs to the security of the protocol to, accommodate

29:46Rod Palmer more users even though there are they're putting the cart before the horse. There's no demand for block space, but they are trying to add more supply to it. So they I mean, this is like Shinobi, but this is Shinobi's pet, project and Shinobi rejected Austrian economics last year and has been reading communist economics to impress a girl. And this is the result of that. He has totally lost a connection to economic incentives

30:17Rod Palmer and the free market and just, the invisible hand of the market and how it guides it. And he's trying to he's he's crusading to add more supply as demand is decreasing, as demand is already plentiful. So, it's you have the two major sides of Bitcoin right now and that in their philosophy of how we should be developing it and they're

30:41Rod Palmer both of their solutions are definitely butting heads, but they're also both hurting Bitcoin or you know potentially hurting Bitcoin if you agree

30:53Rod Palmer that demand for block space should be high or you know and you don't believe that paper Bitcoin

30:60Richard Greaser is protecting node runners. Well, I think one of the ways that we can fix this problem is, we just need to, we just need to convince all these people that are mining, that are mining, uneconomically to also send Bitcoin transactions uneconomically,

31:14Richard Greaser like, just arbitrarily bump the fee up. And and think of it as like a tip. Like, you're tipping the network. You're tipping the miners. You're you're helping them feel better. You know, if you get enough people to do this, you get the stack chainers out there. Maybe there's something like the the KYC exchanges could add

31:34Richard Greaser as a feature on the withdrawals instead of, subsidizing the withdrawals. They could have, like, a tip function. Like, when you go into a restaurant and it doesn't matter what restaurant it is. It doesn't matter if they actually do anything or not. On on all the old times you swipe your debit card or pay them in USDT, they ask for a tip. And, generally, like, a lot of people don't, give tips about why why can't the KYXG

32:02Richard Greaser exchanges when you're withdrawing just, give the the user an option to leave the miners a tip. In that way, you know, with with people being altruistic and and using Bitcoin in a in a very, what's the word,

32:19Richard Greaser uneconomic and and selfless manner, you can fix the security issues

32:25Rod Palmer around it. I mean, Ocean, Ocean is not making money anyway. And they have, you know, deep pocketed investors, like Jack Dorsey. Why don't why you put your money where your mouth is instead of

32:40Rod Palmer of shitting out of seeing memes on GitHub just overpay and tip the miners, when you use Bitcoin because this will prevent what could potentially

32:52Rod Palmer boil down to the Bitcoin miners becoming like a cartel, a mafia where, you know, MicroStrategy has invested a lot of money in their brand, their image, and like Michael Saylor loves going on the news. He loves having yacht parties. If you were to just say, you know, every time MicroStrategy

33:13Rod Palmer bought Bitcoin and wanted to move it, you just say, Hey, we're charging you 10 x the, normal fee rate. What are they gonna say? No. They've got billions of dollars in Bitcoin. BlackRock has billions of dollars in Bitcoin. They've got to send a Coinbase. They've got to deposit into their, custodial exchanges. Why not just say, Hey, if you want to move, if you want us to be included in an in a transaction, you've got to pay us more because

33:41Rod Palmer you're more, you know, you can afford it. What's to stop them from doing that? I mean, Bitcoin miners are already, you know, pretty centralized. I'm sure if just, you know, a couple of pools decided they were gonna shake down Michael Saylor, Larry Fink, and then those, you know, El Salvador, they could just charge them more for transactions, especially if, the the the countries that they're charging or these people they're charging

34:08Rod Palmer or taxing them to mine in their country. It'd just be a tit for tat.

34:14Richard Greaser Yeah. That's a very good point. I mean, I think we do need to have a discussion on, getting these wealthy individuals that are using Bitcoin to pay their fair share.

34:23Rod Palmer Exactly. Exactly. That's where I was going with this. It's like you're benefiting, like, the pledge out here are we're DC'ing from Swan and Strike and River and you know we're keeping the lanes open we're support we're like he we're like the backbone of this network every day And you guys are just like batching up these giant transactions and you know, it's

34:50Rod Palmer you're moving them cheaply. You're exploiting BitX miners. Like this is what they say about Amazon. Amazon is exploiting labor. They're exploiting workers, and taking the value of their labor and making themselves rich. It's like Larry Fink, BlackRock, Michael Stratton, Michael Sailor and MicroStrategy. They're exploiting the labor of bid ax miners

35:13Rod Palmer and home miners and just every miner really to increase their, their shareholders and increase their,

35:23Richard Greaser their paper Bitcoin value. I, I think the exploitative nature of this relationship between, the suits and the plebs is very problematic. It's something that needs to be challenged and

35:38Richard Greaser discussed and hopefully we'll see this on stage at the conference discussed. I have yet to see this issue really be talked about in the mainstream because the problem is the plebs, they don't have sponsorship money. They're not out there. They're not sponsoring the conference. They're not, buying the whale passes. They're not bringing the same economic value that,

36:04Richard Greaser that the suits are. And,

36:06Rod Palmer it doesn't mean they shouldn't have a voice, in my opinion. One of the one of the things I really worry about is once once Tether starts to really proliferate on the Lightning Network, they are going to Tapri assets will have to anchor data, anchor these with these UTXOs

36:27Rod Palmer to, basically facilitate the stable coins on the Lightning Network. And once they start bringing in the Global South onto Bitcoin to use Tether,

36:40Rod Palmer I have a I just feel like the community is going to scapegoat marginalized Global South users and be bickering over this anchoring of data on the blockchain when the real problem is the exploitative nature of Wall Street, of soup corners, of these rich

36:59Rod Palmer powerful corporations who are exploiting and pillaging the network and the security budget. And the scapegoat's gonna be made out to the marginalized users

37:10Richard Greaser from the global south trying to use Tether. Yeah. We're not gonna we're not gonna stand from the global south's transactions getting, evicted from the mempool and extradited and deported. We're we're not gonna let them Right. Their their transactions get deported from the mempool and for them to get sent down to El Salvador to use custodial lightning using the Bitcoin Beach wallet. Right. They're blank.

37:35Richard Greaser Right. Exactly. Is that what we're gonna stand for as a community?

37:39Rod Palmer Really? I mean, the people, the people deporting immigrants in The United States right now are Solana shitcoiners. They're using fucking ICE Sodas. When that comes to Bitcoin, I mean that's just gonna make ICE more efficient. It's gonna make it's just gonna be a brutal like

37:59Rod Palmer setting up sending sending Global South users who are just trying to secure, you know, make secure payments, trying to use Tether on lightning in deporting them from transaction, not letting them into your mempool. What are we gonna, are we gonna have a segregated society where you don't let people from the Gullah South, we don't let them into our mempool. It's,

38:21Rod Palmer you know, Oh, bytes only mempool. Is that really what we wanna live in? Do we wanna bring that racism and that intolerance and bigotry from our past? Do we wanna put that on chain?

38:36Richard Greaser I don't. I'm personally not a fan of it. I think it's a problem. And I'm glad that we're discussing it because this is the first step, you know, to fixing all of these problems is is discussing them. And, hopefully, these will these conversations will carry into the Twitter spaces, into, you know, the other realms where these important issues are discussed,

39:01Richard Greaser and there'll be some Yeah.

39:03Rod Palmer I want I just wanna say that there's a lot of people, like you said, a lot of uncredential opinions been flying around lately. If you don't listen to forty hours per week, I don't want to hear your opinion on this. I want you to listen forty hours per week. And I want you to think about

39:23Rod Palmer what your, your position's gonna be before you spot it off. People who don't listen to forty hours, like I just, I'm not saying they can't, I'm not trying to censor them. I'm just saying I'm not listening to them. No, you're just trying to filter them. I want, I will, I want you filter my timeline and filter the opinions I hear, so that it's only people who listen to forty hours, that's getting through. That's the only signal that I I'm hearing anyway.

39:55Richard Greaser Yeah. I mean, it it's pretty obvious when somebody isn't listening to their forty hours a week. You can you can kinda tell just from the the lack of insight they'll that they'll have, the the low signal. Like, Lynn Alden did this to Konza. You remember that? Exactly. Exactly. The

40:11Rod Palmer the ratio of signal to noise in your, your post. And, you know, before we wrap this topic up, I also want to repeat something that, that you said on Spaces last week, which is

40:28Rod Palmer core devs are allowed to have sex. The Bitcoin core devs are not clergy, they're not priests, they're just cypherpunks and cypherpunks

40:40Rod Palmer can have sex. So, any, you know, any any gossip, any any drama that is coming from a a position of jealousy or you just don't like who's having sex with who it's like

40:58Richard Greaser you have to stop. Core devs are allowed to have sex. Yeah. This is kind of one of those strange opinions that seems to be coming from the orange cells, and it's almost like they because they're not having sex, they think that the the, the Bitcoin developers shouldn't either. And it's like it it's almost like a status symbol to them. Involuntary celibacy is a result of,

41:22Richard Greaser being so thoroughly orange pilled, should be extended to the people maintaining the Bitcoin code. And I I think that's just it's a fair or unfair

41:35Richard Greaser expectation to have. It's not like the Bitcoin core devs took a vow to to not have sex. It wasn't a voluntary thing. They never agreed to it and nor do I think it should even be expected. And I think if you're upset about

41:57Richard Greaser your inability to have sex, then that's more of a personal problem than it is like a ethical issue for the court of host. So I would just encourage you to just check your incentives, your own incentives. Check your own,

42:16Richard Greaser stances here. Really, really just think a little bit more carefully about it. And if you're upset about not having sex, like maybe, you should go listen to to True Heather's, podcast and, get some tips from her on how not to be an orange cell. Especially if you're in you're you're you're in Canada.

42:36Rod Palmer Canadians, they cannot be orange cells. Like they have to orange pill their fellow Canadians. They have to meet women. They have to bring women into Bitcoin. They have to have kids that they get orange pill. They need to, they just need more orange pill people in Canada. And you can listen to our last episode of buying the podcast if you wanna,

42:59Rod Palmer get more background on that. But, yeah, orange pills need to be listening to your Heather's podcast. Forty hours per week. Totally.

43:09Richard Greaser I did enjoy that episode of behind the podcast and, it it seems like the consensus of it is that Brad Mills is the potential to has the potential to be Canada's Dennis Porter. Now since that podcast aired, there was a very interesting discussion that that Boomer Boomer kind of initiated on, on Twitter, which was,

43:34Richard Greaser that maybe, Canada doesn't necessarily need Brad Mills to be Dennis Porter. Maybe Canada just needs to become the fifty first state. In that way, Dennis Porter can Canada can have the the benefits of Dennis Porter without needing somebody like Brad Mills, to fill that role. What do you think? Yeah. Yeah. It's,

43:55Rod Palmer Brad Mills is he's got that Dennis Porter phone that that Dennis Porter, I don't know. It's it's the Canadian version of that that charm. And he's got a really cool beard.

44:11Rod Palmer He's an OG. I mean, he likes tether. He likes tether. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. It's one of the things that could really be a, like a stepping stone or a transition period would be bringing tether USDT

44:30Rod Palmer to Canada. The Canadian dollar is it's it's gotta, they gotta be tetherized and I think you get them tetherized. You can get them on the Bitcoin standard more effectively

44:44Rod Palmer but it's it's hard. It's like one of the things that we talked about in the last episode they're just they're really focused on Donald Trump and American politics And they've got to focus more on their own politics because it's, they're neglecting

45:01Rod Palmer their, their own backyard. And it's like, yeah, Trump won here, but that did, that did not help them. They thought it would, but it didn't. Yeah. In the words of,

45:10Richard Greaser the famous Canadian philosopher, Jordan Peterson, you should first make your bed before you ask somebody else to make theirs. Well put. Yeah. As an example of Canada not making their own bed first. I think there's also a problem with

45:23Rod Palmer if I didn't realize how many Canadian citizens are feds. I didn't realize how many of them work for the government. When I found that out, and it makes a little more sense. It's it's hard to get people to vote

45:38Rod Palmer against what they believe is their best in their own self interest they don't want to get laid off they don't especially when your house you know a 1,000 square foot house costs a million Canadian dollars But, you know, if they bought Bitcoin, I mean, they Bitcoin's been over 100 k in Canada for months now. Well, I think one of the problems is, like, we're seeing many of the Canadian,

46:02Richard Greaser Bitcoiners or Feds too. I think one of the problems is they understand the value of Bitcoin, so they don't wanna lose their fiat income because they're worried that they're not gonna be able to amass as much Bitcoin savings, without their jobs. So I think that's one of the, one of the problems as well. But even though trucker protests is what they need.

46:23Rod Palmer The truckers are, the truckers are listening to forty hours per week. We're still pushing hard to orange pill truckers. So they will get another uprising in Canada when more truckers start listening to podcasts. Well,

46:37Richard Greaser anyways, so for everybody that is, you know, wound up about the opportune stuff, I think it's important to remember that Bitcoin is a democracy, and, this is being made very, very clear, by PodCom, by the way that the conference is being ran.

46:56Richard Greaser There's many politicians speaking there, which, you know, if if your vote impacts the conference speaker list, you know, then your vote should impact Bitcoin development policy. And, you know, run your node. Get out to vote. Run your own node. Go, download Umbrel, on your Raspberry Pi and,

47:18Richard Greaser you'll you'll become an active voter in the ecosystem. Like the, you know, downloading the, the entire blockchain is is kind of like getting your voter registration.

47:29Rod Palmer Exactly. And then with Umbrel, you just you just click, you wanna run knots instead of core, and then you set that Umbrel up node up in your basement or your attic and you, you run it and boom, it just runs. And now you are voting in the digital democracy, the most that are more dynamically sound democracy that we've ever, we've ever developed as people. They're voting against Peter Todd,

47:57Richard Greaser raping unsuspecting women out there. On on their nodes. Yeah. Reaping their nodes. Yep. Well, we announced that we're, doing our thing in Vegas. So we're doing a show in Vegas. Would be great if you're going to come out, support us. I'm excited.

48:18Rod Palmer Yeah. We're gonna be

48:19Richard Greaser live event?

48:21Rod Palmer First live event, Saturize the System. It's on Wednesday, May 28, 7PM to 11PM Pacific.

48:30Rod Palmer It's on Fremont Street. And if you've ever been to Vegas or you've never been to Fremont Street, Fremont Street is like the sit, the pleb citadel, the ungovernable misfit citadel. It's wild out there and the drinks are cheap. The women are a plenty and we're gonna be like, yeah, he said, well, I've announcing a celebrity deathmatch midget wrestling. So we're gonna be,

48:53Rod Palmer you know, non standard sized wrestlers. There's gonna be, you know, a fundraiser for samurai. I believe there's gonna be, some more speakers to be announced, some big speakers. We're gonna have some panels. We might roast some people. We might, we might do all kinds of stuff. It's gonna be crazy. There's gonna be, like arcade games and things like that. So, a lot of you guys like non KYC video games

49:20Rod Palmer this will be a great opportunity to play those as if the the they had a VIP balcony for smoking cigarettes that lets you have like a beautiful view of of, some of the Fremont Street area. So, I mean, this is this is gonna be a great time. So if you're going to Vegas or even if you're you were planning to go to Vegas, you can come to Vegas. I think you'll be surprised to find out how cheap the flights and hotels are,

49:50Rod Palmer on Memorial, you know, around Memorial Day at the end of May. And you don't even have to pay $700 to go to the conference. You can just come, hang out with us on Fremont Street.

49:59Richard Greaser Maybe we'll get a podcast in. Who knows? Yeah. We've got a lot of plans. We're gonna be going to the, the spamming, Vegas event on Tuesday and, then our events on Wednesday. Very, very excited about that. I I plan on

50:15Richard Greaser signing cigarettes. So, bring, pack of Marlboro Reds. I'll I'll sign it for you. We'll be, smoking out on the balcony, having a good time, hanging out with,

50:31Richard Greaser the nonstandard sized people. And, yeah, I'm excited for the event. It's probably gonna be the best thing happening in Vegas. And then after that, I think we're gonna go to the Noster event, which is gonna be a good time as well. I'm also excited for that. And, I've been talking with the folks at that are running that

50:56Richard Greaser about doing that event. But, yeah, we're planning on, recording some podcasts and getting into a bunch of, you know, on the ground. I I know Maggie wants to, run around and and interview people on the ground, and I think that's a that's a great idea to kinda get their takes on what's going on at at the conference. We'll have some merch for sale. So, we don't accept paper Bitcoin. We want to support the fee market.

51:27Richard Greaser So, come ready to to spend Bitcoin. We're not gonna take your MicroStrategy shares. I don't care. We're not gonna take your 21, shares. That shit's gay.

51:41Richard Greaser We support real real Bitcoin usage. So we're not gonna accept liquid. Liquids also gay.

51:53Rod Palmer Yeah. And for more information on and for more, chat about Saturize the System, we're gonna be on a podcast tomorrow. I think that is gonna be the other it's gonna be Rob Hamilton and the guys at, Bitcoin John in Philadelphia. So that'll be cool.

52:13Richard Greaser What's the guy that runs Zeus? What's his name? Evan Kalupis?

52:16Rod Palmer Kalupis. Kalupis. Kalupis. Kalupis. Kalupis? That's right. That's right. The guy from Zeus Waller. So that's,

52:26Richard Greaser Kalupis?

52:28Rod Palmer Kalupis with a d. I think it's the cousin of the guy that runs, the Beatty's account, Love is Love is Bitcoin. They're both Greek.

52:41Richard Greaser They're either cousins or neighbors. Interesting. So do you think there's any relation to yellow? He's also Greek. Is this the Greek mafia he's always talking about?

52:51Rod Palmer I think so. The Columbus brothers? Yeah. The Columbus brothers. That's right. That's what he talked about. Oh, yeah. Evan Columbus.

52:58Richard Greaser He's gonna be on the on the podcast with us. We'll be having a good time. I'll be able to ask him why my, my Lightning, transactions continue to fail the route and what his thoughts on, scaling using, paper Bitcoin are. That's gonna be a fun conversation on Monday, I guess, tomorrow.

53:20Richard Greaser But, yeah, today is May 4 as we're recording this. So, hopefully, by the time you're listening to this, you've already watched, some Star Wars. That's a that's an important thing to do. It's it's much more than a marketing scheme by Disney to to get you to watch their their kind of dead brand that they killed. It is a time of tradition. It's it's a time of remembering Hollywood at its best. When the when the Jews were really on the top of their game, Steven Spielberg, make us pretty solid movies, back in the day and inspiring younger generations

53:56Richard Greaser to believe that, believe in space, believe that space is real.

54:02Rod Palmer Inspiring a lot of younger generations to to join the CIA, go to to Langley, you know? Totally. Well, should we we want to the boost? Well, let's do the boost. The, last week's episode, Trucking Down the Rabbit Hole,

54:20Rod Palmer Bugle weekly episode 57. We met, Randy Winston Hall and Satz for the first time. Randy's gonna be checking in with us again in the future. Let us know some tales from the road. Talk about non KYC hand jobs. Might wanna learn about non KYC hand jobs before we go to Vegas, that's for sure, for some of you. Especially orange sales. But the first boost,

54:45Rod Palmer from the episode last week is from Beliza. 1,010 sats. Boost before even listening. Now that's that's a true fan right there. They boost they they know the signal's coming so hard. They didn't even have to listen before they boost. Yeah. Thank you, Bliza.

55:02Richard Greaser Second beers from Jason c. Great tip, Dick. My neighbor happens to be a trucker, so I just stopped by so I could give so I could buy his wife some lasagna. She was very appreciative. He was suspicious. Feels good. Yeah. Hopefully, you're not hitting on his wife.

55:22Richard Greaser Hopefully, that's not how they're they're taking it. I mean, that's not what I was, advocating for is go hit on the trucker's wife. You wanna support the trucker's wife, not hit on her. You know what I mean? You wanna give your wife lasagna, not your neighbor's wife lasagna. Well, no, I talked about this. I talked about last week, I said, go bring your neighbor's wife lasagna, support them. That's right, that's right. You know, while while, her husband's out there trucking, she's there taking care of the kids on her own. She might she may get tired doing that. You know what I mean? It it is exhausting

55:60Richard Greaser raising your kids by yourself. You know, it takes a village sometimes and, you know, going on and offering some lasagna. Like, maybe maybe the proper way to do it is go send your wife over with the lasagna instead of you doing it because then it might be perceived as you hidden on her work. Right.

56:18Rod Palmer But She's like, yeah. She's like, oh, great. Here comes here comes Jason. He's like, I wanna talk about a Phish concert you went to in 1994. They're gonna be here for twenty minutes, and I just, I don't have, like, I should just make the lasagna myself at this point, but if your wife goes over, you know, it's a lot, it's, it's, she's not gonna try to orange peel her. She's not gonna try to talk about fish. She's gonna give her lasagna and,

56:40Richard Greaser it's gonna make her day. Yeah. But, like, I guess you gotta think through these things, like, pretty thoroughly in the messaging because, like, you can't let your wife drive the Super Groover over there because then then they might think your wife's hitting on her and That's true. She's a lesbian. So you you need her to bring the minivan over, maybe bring the kids next with her. You know, as we know, lesbians can't have kids, at least not

57:06Rod Palmer Not for scissoring.

57:08Richard Greaser Women don't have sperm, as far as we know. Neither of us are biologists. We're we're credentialed journalists, though. Well, awesome job, Jason. Yeah. You should probably do it again, but but figure out a way to to not make them uncomfortable. Next one is from Dan Vacow.

57:28Rod Palmer 500 sets. Truck driver is the perfect profession since they can easily get there forty hours per weekend. That's right. Hey, T. Dan, that's a looks like he really is a cow. I hope Dan the cow is not,

57:45Rod Palmer gonna be gonna be, Texas a victim of Texas slim

57:50Richard Greaser anytime soon. That'd be unfortunate.

57:52Rod Palmer Oh, man. The last one here is from Pye. So I I retweeted Pye's on Noster last week. No. Pye's announced on Noster, it was probably the third or fourth time this year, that he was retiring from forty hours per week he just doesn't he didn't he's just taken up too much of his time and he's just he's trying to go out and touch some grass for me he's probably summer but

58:15Rod Palmer he jumps into days is I'm a fucking junkie I just can't stay away. And he also commented on I'm the last behind the podcast, which we'll read later, but he basically said, you know, he's coming out of retirement for this. So, Pies, if you really wanna retire, man, I wish the best. I hope you can do it, but it just doesn't seem like you really wanna retire.

58:39Rod Palmer You are you just keep coming back for more signal.

58:42Richard Greaser He's like the Rocky Balboa of, the Bitcoin podcast. I mean, how many times did Rocky retire in the movies? Right.

58:51Rod Palmer It's like it's almost like Bellator. Bellator is a place for retired, you know, 50 year old MMA fighters. The fountain is the place for retired Bitcoin podcast listeners. There was the the guy that should have retired and,

59:04Richard Greaser ended up dying fighting Kimbo Slice. What was his name?

59:09Rod Palmer Dada Dada five thousand or something? Did he do that? His heart stopped. Yeah. He was heart stopped in the ring. Yeah. He was not he was not in good cardio. He's pretty fat. He was not he was not tall of fat either. Yeah. I mean,

59:23Richard Greaser I think the way that you prevent that from happening, you know, you you get laid into your Bitcoin podcast listening career, just you you gotta take your supplements more seriously. You you gotta take, take your creatine on a regular basis. And we we can help you out with that. We're we're selling, creatine via alpha protocol. Is that on orange label? Or where where is it? Yeah. It sure is. We got we got creatine. We've got,

59:49Rod Palmer we got multiple supplements on there. So if you are, you know, these supplements are for, like Shatteries, CPR coders but also MMA fighters. If it's I mean, if a supplement is strong enough for Bitcoin

1:00:04Rod Palmer or Dev or a, you know, a Rust Dev it's good enough for an MMA fighter. So, multivitamins, pre 18, there's multiple supplements on there. Check them out. They are real. They are, you know, made in a credentialed supplement lab. So

1:00:23Rod Palmer real shit.

1:00:25Richard Greaser Well, I think that's it. We got anything else to talk about this week? I don't think so. I think the,

1:00:30Rod Palmer we'll be staying up to date on the court of trauma. We'll be staying up to date on the rape of our wives and daughters nodes and preventing that and, we'll stay up to date on, you know,

1:00:45Rod Palmer we'll keep you up to date on everything we're doing in Vegas for the conference if you are coming and you want to hang out, get some signed cigarettes, get some forty hours per week stickers, get some Timmy Tather T shirts, all the above.

1:01:00Richard Greaser Yeah. Hit us hit us up. We'll, we'll discuss, we'll let you know what we're up to. Probably the best way to keep up with with me is on Telegram, but you can message me on Twitter too or I I don't I guess I could look at my Noster DMs, but,

1:01:20Richard Greaser UX isn't the best on there. But, yeah, let let us know what you got going on, and, we'd love to hang out, meet you, and smoke a cigarette together. I'm looking forward to smoking cigarettes, with all my buddies out there.

1:01:37Richard Greaser There's nothing like smoking a cigarette with a listener of your podcast. It's quite a special experience and not very many Bitcoin podcasters really do that with their listener base, but that's something I'm willing and committed to doing, so hit me up.

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