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That, that excites me a lot more than it being locked up and paced in a set of five American labs or, um, you know, two significant governments, um, con- controlling these technologies.

You know, uh, Jack's one of these guys where he, he's, he's always had that cypherpunk ethos, right? You know, whether it's what he's doing with, with BitChat, which is kind of this decentralized, uh, you know, mesh network, uh, or what he's doing with [laughs] with our payment sponsor here, Block-

Mm-hmm

... and, and Square.

Like, there's a great quote from Hannah Arendt where she's talking about the idea of brinkmanship and nuclear holocaust, and that, like, the idea of winning in a nuclear war is, like, so fundamentally insane and is, like, so removed from anything that could ever be called victory historically.

and like that's what we're entering into and like again i want to emphasize like there isn't some like evil wicked dude out there being like i can kill humanity it's like a government out there who's like let's kill those other people who like aren't like us and it's the government's being like well they're gonna do it so we have to do it and this is the whole escalation that like none of them will stop and so the thing that you can do is is but what we can do is we can collectivize ourselves we can actually use our self-sovereign ais and we'll be able to note them up and network them up and allow for them to talk and exchange data and do it in various new innovative ways through things like BitChat or other means.

We're all going to become much more powerful and much more sovereign, can organize ourselves quickly, can have much more fluid and robust conversations, and we can filter out all the noise.

This is unequivocally the most powerful tool that humanity has ever been given.

Here, if you're going to get on an ISP, you got to dial on in.

And it'll be really interesting to see what the world starts to become like.

Because my plan is, like, I'll self-host my model and, like, go walking around San Francisco with a jacket being like, you want to connect to BitChat and buy some insurance? You know? But...

I'll be like, I only got USDC.

We think that's another critical freedom technology.

We're also going to be discussing decentralized social media like Noster, decentralized communications apps like BitChat.

There are so many different freedom technologies emerging right now and we think that this is a way to earn the trust of the american people when it comes to technology is to show how technology can be used not to isolate or atomize but to bring people together and to empower them against corporations and against the state and bitcoin is really the foundation of all that and who's going to lay that out for us then on day two we're going to talk about what does a policy platform for cypherpunk humanism look like.

Data center dividends is going to be a key part of that.

Well, and then, you know, I'm sure there will have to be other points.

My broader point is like, imagine 80% of the internet goes down and you do be able to create bridges locally using something like the first thing that came to my head was BitChat.

Almost as if Jack thought about, maybe he saw the show, thought about this coming.

And then if you have this sort of incentivized

development of

that.

But my point, the more I keep thinking about the mesh stuff, mesh LLM, BitChat, Bitcoin in general is like, what if the good thing that comes out of all this is like we get another shot at the original internet, like the wild west.

Um, you know, obviously of course it'll domesticate over time or whatever, but like, what if there's a new agent? Well, I mean, it could be for agents, humans, whatever, but you have to have stuff like cryptography to be able to prove reputation.

Bigger picture is we're talking trillions of dollars of capital flowing into Bitcoin, so 4% is very significant on the grand scheme.

But as a personal individual, I'd say that's bearish as what? Also in the news, you can now send Bitcoin without internet via billionaire Jack Dorsey's BitChat.

Let me know if you have this app downloaded.

And if you don't, I'd recommend download it right now from the app store.

Global freedom tech is spreading.

So when they take down the power grid, we can still communicate and sign and send Bitcoin transactions.

It's called BitChat.

You can download it for free.

Yeah.

And I think it's also interesting to see like, you know, Jack Dorsey's BitChat projects.

Whenever in a developing country there is, you know, the government has closed off access to the internet or there's a power outage or whatever, people are flocking to BitChat to use that as a messaging tool.

That comes out of a need or an urgency, right? I have to use this product because there is nothing else.

The thing I depended on before doesn't serve me anymore.

It's interesting, though.

For example, I'm curious, like BitChat, why it put that there under wallets.

That seems a little interesting.

The other ones all make sense, though.

I, uh, something like Nostr or Nostr itself will win this, this game.

So J- Jack Dorsey has BitChat as well.

I guess that's not social media.

That's, like, more of a messaging app, right? It's on the Bitcoin-