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- August 28, 2020
Bitcoin's Most Hated Man - Craig Wright
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1 hour and 42 minutes
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Word Count
15,099
Sentence Count
1,197
Misogynist Sentences
9
Hate Speech Sentences
26
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30 seconds.
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Did you ever think you would make it?
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I feel I'm so close I could take sweet victory.
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I know this life meant for me.
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Yeah, why would you bet on Goliath when we got Bet David?
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Valuetainment, giving value is contagious.
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This world of entrepreneurs, we get no value to haters.
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How they run, homie?
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Look what I become.
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I'm the one.
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I'm Patrick Medevi, host of Activity.
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I'm sitting down with probably the most hated man in the Bitcoin community,
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Craig Wright, who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Craig, thank you so much for being a guest on Valuetainment.
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You're welcome.
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So how much, how much, you know, I call people, I'm not in the Bitcoin world.
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Obviously, I own Bitcoin, a small percentage of Bitcoin,
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but I'm not one that follows all the forms.
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I'm not one that's, you know,
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because the community is an interesting community of a lot of true believers.
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There's a community that is fully furious with you
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and a smaller community that believes in you.
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Why did you decide one day to wake up and piss off everybody?
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Well, I didn't really decide that at all.
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I mean, where people are going wrong is that they seem to think
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that I'm going to invent a creation
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and then be happy that everyone twists and makes it into something else.
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Shortly after I left sort of my pseudonym
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with the sort of launch of drug markets
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and whatever else that I didn't really want,
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we had people like the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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come out with these comments about Bitcoin,
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this new censorship-resistant system,
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talking about how it will stop governments taking your money
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and all this stuff.
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Bitcoin doesn't do anything like that.
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That is all mythology.
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So these people hate me for the simple fact that I'm ruining their myth.
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It's basically the case of they've produced a church of Satoshi
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and I've come back and I'm not what they want.
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It's the scene in Doskieski where the Christ comes back
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to actually talk with the Inquisitor
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and the Inquisitor doesn't want him.
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He sits there saying,
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we don't need you anymore.
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The church is fine.
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But the church is not fine.
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And these people,
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what they're wanting to do is not fine.
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Bitcoin's designed to be a system
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that is open and honest.
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You can't do that by destroying governments.
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People forget that government is just a word.
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What government is at the end of the day,
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whether it's good or bad,
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it's people.
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So if we have a good government,
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it's because we have a system that is managed
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and controlled by people that care about it.
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And if we have a bad government,
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it's because people allow them to have that.
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Okay.
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So for the average person,
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you just went to a crazy different place.
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You went to a very deep place.
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But for the average,
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let me just put some things out there numbers wise.
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If you are Satoshi Nakamoto,
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if you are Satoshi Nakamoto,
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if you are,
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and when I say if you are,
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you're saying you know you are,
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I'm just saying for the skeptics,
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if you are Satoshi Nakamoto,
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you're essentially worth on paper $8.8 billion.
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Is that pretty accurate?
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I don't actually know.
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I know it's a lot of money.
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I don't sit there watching the price.
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Yes,
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it's a lot of money.
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So that's a lot of money,
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$8.8 billion.
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And I know at the peak of it,
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when Bitcoin had $20,000,
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it was around $20 billion.
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The reality there though,
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is you can't actually sell any of these things
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for that amount.
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So if people say you've got that much money,
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but you don't really,
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because if you try and sell it,
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then it goes down a lot.
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So the actual realizable value is a lot less than that.
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But the reality here is,
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it matters not about how much money you have.
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It matters what you can do,
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what you can actually live in your life.
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And I have enough money to go through university myself still,
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to pay for my kids to go through university,
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to have them educated properly,
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to travel,
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to spend time with my family,
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to do things I want.
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And what more is really important?
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I mean,
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past that,
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who cares?
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Yeah,
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I know.
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But the thing is like,
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you know,
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if you look at Ethereum founder,
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Vitaly,
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he's a pretty public guy.
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It's not like he is hidden.
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You know,
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this is who I am.
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I'm the founder.
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And he does whatever he can to not be that much of a guy.
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That's the control.
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Because the whole thing about crypto is the fact that it's the complete opposite of banking.
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So it's no one figure you look at.
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It's not a hierarchy type of a model.
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But that's actually wrong.
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So this is,
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this is part of what they don't like.
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There are no sort of,
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oh,
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we're out of this.
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Vitaly is the leader.
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He is the issuer of Ethereum.
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When he decided that the DAO didn't work,
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he changed it.
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It wasn't a community or a group.
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None of this is about distributed groups do it.
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That's a lie that's propagated and promoted
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so that these few people in charge can say,
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don't look at me.
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Don't take me to be responsible.
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I didn't do that.
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That's the whole point.
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It is these people who are shirking their responsibility,
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who are basically allowing all sorts of heinous things to be just rife.
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And the truth of the matter is they're making money out of that.
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They're allowing child porn.
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They're allowing drug sales,
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hard drugs.
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And they're sitting there going,
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it's not my fault.
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The community wants it.
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The community doesn't vote on this.
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The consensus mechanism in Bitcoin is the creation of blocks.
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At present in BTC world even,
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there are only 32 nodes.
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Of that,
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three or four control the whole system.
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Now the developer bit,
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they sit there going,
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the community does this.
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The community don't do anything.
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Three people control the GitHub keys.
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In Ethereum,
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two people basically do it.
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Your average company like General Motors
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has more decentralization
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than any cryptocurrency that people are talking about.
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This whole nature of it's about decentralization
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was never about Bitcoin.
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It's people who piled in after I left the scene in 2011
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who've taken up this concept
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and run around going,
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Bitcoin's broken.
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We have to fix it.
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Bitcoin was never designed to be any of those things.
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Bitcoin was...
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Okay, so when you were saying that,
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you were saying Vitalik,
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he's saying,
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I'm just trying to get people to do what they want to do.
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I'm not like the bank leader.
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I'm not the hierarchy leader.
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You're saying the complete opposite.
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So what does that make you
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if you're saying you are Satoshi Nakamoto?
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I'm saying exactly the same things I said online.
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I've never said that this was a decentralized system
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or that it's good for drug sales
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or any of these things.
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I actually said,
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don't invite WikiLeaks.
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And yet that's the opposite of what everyone did.
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I didn't run around going,
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it's an anti-banking system.
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There's no quote you'll find from me
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at any point saying those things.
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I didn't say it replaces banking.
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That's really ignorant when you think about it.
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Banking is not cash.
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Bitcoin is an electronic cash system.
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Now, banking, on the other hand,
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is distribution of capital.
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Bitcoin doesn't take your funds
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and pool them
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and give out home loans.
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It doesn't give out business loans.
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It doesn't manage those sources of funds.
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It's cash.
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And these people are too ignorant to even realize.
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Or if they're not ignorant,
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they're disingenuous.
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And they're sitting there saying
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that we're going to replace banking
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for third world people.
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It's not.
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Third world people
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don't have investment.
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They don't have loans.
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Saying you've got Bitcoin
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isn't going to pull those people
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out of poverty.
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What it does
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is it allows this false narrative
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of a Ponzi
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where people sit there going,
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it's going to keep going up forever.
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Invest now
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because I've already invested
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and I want more money.
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That's the problem here.
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How do these people are building?
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So do you feel,
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it sounds like you're,
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you don't sound optimistic,
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you sound pessimistic.
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So let's just say
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you are the founder of Bitcoin
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and you're the monkey
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of Satoshi Nakamoto.
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If you are,
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do you regret creating Bitcoin?
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No,
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I regret
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not managing things properly.
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I notice you've got a cross
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around your neck
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and
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I used to be a pastor
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and I've actually
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started a Roman Catholic
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and moved over to be Protestant
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because it fit me better.
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And I like actually being married.
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But
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there's a concept of stewardship.
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So
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the whole
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Catholic
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ideal of stewardship
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is important.
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Whether you're Protestant
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or Catholic
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or whatever else,
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this idea of
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having
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long-term investment,
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ownership
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and
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managing
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everything,
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knowing your problems,
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being responsible.
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This is what
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really built
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Western culture.
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Responsibility,
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knowing that you
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are the
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center of your own
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problems and causes.
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And what I regret
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is
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when I left,
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when I
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sort of
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left everything
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happen the way it was,
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I thought I could
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work in the background
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and
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fix things
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without being
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involved.
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But
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I abdicated,
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not
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sort of delegated.
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There's a big difference.
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And
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part of stewardship
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is taking ownership
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of what you
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cause,
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your problems
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and everything
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like that.
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And
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that's what I regret.
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I regret
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not doing that.
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Not
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sort of,
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it was a
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harder choice
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and I should have
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made it back then.
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So if you're saying
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Vitalik is public
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and he's the leader
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of Ethereum,
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but why were you
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not public
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from day one?
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I thought things
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would sort themselves
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out.
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I didn't,
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I mean,
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there was a church
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of Satoshi
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for a while.
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There was a
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whole lot of
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other,
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I mean,
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I did not
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foresee any
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of this.
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The whole
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idea of Bitcoin
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and the protocol
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is that it
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doesn't change.
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None of this,
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we get to keep
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doing soft
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forks or hard
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forks or
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anything.
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The whole
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concept of
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set in stone
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is we have
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a protocol
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that grows
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and miners
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don't vote
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as everyone
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says.
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Miners
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don't choose
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what the
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protocol is.
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think about
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that for a
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moment.
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That is a
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horrible
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scenario.
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That is
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might makes
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right.
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Those with
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the most
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money,
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the most
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power get
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to choose
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what happens
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in our
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monetary
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system.
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That's not
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democratic.
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That's not
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fair.
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Do you
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really want
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to see
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some large
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Russian company
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or large
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Chinese
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company
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dictating
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world
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financial
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policy?
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That's
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what these
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people are
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arguing.
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That
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criminals
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can dictate
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financial
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policy that
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can't be
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changed even
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by government
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or law
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enforcement.
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Really,
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think about
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that for a
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moment.
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We get
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two large
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miners,
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each with
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30%,
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and they
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have joint
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control as
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an oligarchy.
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And they
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can dictate
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to the rest
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of the world
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that child
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pornography is
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good.
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Mr.
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Antonopoulos,
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writer of
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Mastering
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Shitcoin,
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came up
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with this,
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oh well,
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it's not
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my place
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to tell
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people that
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child porn's
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bad.
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I mean,
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if people
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want to do
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that,
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they should
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make their
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own decisions.
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Wrong.
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I don't
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care about
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this Foucaultian
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postmodern
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ideal.
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I still
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believe that
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we have
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sort of
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an overarching
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idea of
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morality.
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This
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pluralist
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system
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Hegelian
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horrible
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world of
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everyone
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having a
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right to
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whatever they
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believe,
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no matter
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how low
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and despicable
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it is,
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is wrong.
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I don't
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really care.
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There is a
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morality that
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is native
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to humanity
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and doing
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the wrong
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things will
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never be
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acceptable.
00:12:58.500
And allowing
00:12:59.100
a small
00:13:00.080
cadre of
00:13:01.260
potentially
00:13:01.920
criminals who
00:13:02.960
are money
00:13:03.340
launderers
00:13:03.820
and want
00:13:04.240
to take
00:13:04.640
money
00:13:05.140
and do
00:13:06.560
all these
00:13:07.760
things that
00:13:08.180
I've already
00:13:08.680
mentioned
00:13:09.120
and get away
00:13:10.380
with it
00:13:10.680
because they
00:13:11.280
have more
00:13:11.940
hash power.
00:13:14.100
That is
00:13:14.940
asinine.
00:13:17.020
So what
00:13:18.020
kind of people
00:13:19.000
has Bitcoin
00:13:19.640
attracted?
00:13:20.300
You've mentioned
00:13:20.740
child porn now
00:13:21.540
twice,
00:13:22.780
drug traffic.
00:13:24.020
What kind of
00:13:24.460
people have been
00:13:25.140
turned on by
00:13:25.800
Bitcoin because
00:13:26.460
they can go
00:13:27.160
and they can
00:13:28.760
break the law
00:13:29.440
and not be
00:13:30.080
found?
00:13:30.440
What kind
00:13:31.180
of community
00:13:31.600
has that
00:13:31.940
attracted?
00:13:33.800
In around
00:13:35.840
June, July
00:13:36.980
2010, there
00:13:38.500
was the first
00:13:39.100
inkling of this
00:13:39.920
which I didn't
00:13:41.300
take too
00:13:41.740
seriously at the
00:13:42.360
time.
00:13:43.000
The first
00:13:43.920
version of
00:13:44.440
what became
00:13:44.880
Silk Road
00:13:45.420
was launched
00:13:46.100
initially selling
00:13:48.080
things like
00:13:49.220
magic mushrooms
00:13:50.180
and whatever
00:13:51.540
else.
00:13:52.320
And then it
00:13:52.700
broke out
00:13:53.780
straight into
00:13:55.200
heroin.
00:13:56.480
I mean, it's
00:13:56.820
one thing if
00:13:57.380
you want to
00:13:57.800
try and allow
00:13:58.620
people to
00:13:59.160
sell
00:13:59.460
pot,
00:14:01.120
especially
00:14:01.520
where it's
00:14:01.920
legal,
00:14:02.860
but they
00:14:03.320
can't get
00:14:03.700
banking.
00:14:04.900
It's another
00:14:05.420
to start
00:14:06.200
saying that,
00:14:07.000
well, heroin's
00:14:07.900
okay too.
00:14:08.560
It's personal
00:14:08.980
choice.
00:14:10.220
It's not.
00:14:11.120
It's incredibly
00:14:12.120
addictive and
00:14:12.800
destructive.
00:14:13.360
The same with
00:14:13.780
meth and ice
00:14:14.480
and all these
00:14:14.880
other things.
00:14:16.220
And a lot
00:14:17.700
of people came
00:14:18.680
as e-gold
00:14:20.320
collapsed.
00:14:21.580
E-gold was
00:14:22.140
taken down
00:14:22.780
around the
00:14:24.020
start of
00:14:24.400
Bitcoin.
00:14:25.600
And then at
00:14:27.000
the end of
00:14:27.480
that period,
00:14:28.580
Liberty Reserve
00:14:29.260
with Liberty
00:14:30.000
Reserve Euro
00:14:30.720
and Liberty
00:14:31.220
Reserve Dollar
00:14:32.100
was also
00:14:33.120
taken down.
00:14:34.280
And all
00:14:34.960
of those
00:14:35.280
people flocked
00:14:36.180
into Bitcoin
00:14:36.760
because the
00:14:37.800
Electronic Frontier
00:14:38.660
Foundation,
00:14:39.600
WikiLeaks,
00:14:40.100
other people
00:14:40.580
were sitting
00:14:40.920
there going,
00:14:41.400
Bitcoin's this
00:14:42.000
system that you
00:14:42.600
can't track,
00:14:43.320
can't trace,
00:14:44.160
that allows you
00:14:45.600
to do anything.
00:14:47.840
We've now
00:14:48.600
seen some of
00:14:49.140
the largest
00:14:49.580
child pornography
00:14:50.400
rings in the
00:14:51.060
world taken
00:14:51.680
down because
00:14:52.700
people attract
00:14:53.400
Bitcoin
00:14:54.040
transactions in
00:14:55.460
and out of
00:14:55.920
them.
00:14:56.940
There are
00:14:57.120
only just
00:14:58.980
recently a
00:14:59.680
couple of
00:15:00.060
those,
00:15:00.320
one in
00:15:00.600
Korea just
00:15:01.240
a little
00:15:01.460
while ago.
00:15:03.220
There have
00:15:03.480
been many
00:15:04.260
drug sites
00:15:05.200
taken down,
00:15:05.820
but the
00:15:06.620
whole thing
00:15:07.060
here is
00:15:07.540
Bitcoin
00:15:08.020
isn't
00:15:08.800
encrypted.
00:15:09.420
It's not
00:15:09.680
really a
00:15:10.280
cryptocurrency.
00:15:11.400
There's no
00:15:11.800
encryption at
00:15:12.460
all in
00:15:12.760
Bitcoin.
00:15:13.560
It's an
00:15:14.060
open ledger.
00:15:15.880
The identity
00:15:16.840
function is
00:15:18.420
firewalled.
00:15:19.760
So if you
00:15:20.220
can imagine
00:15:20.700
this, the
00:15:21.080
way it's
00:15:21.440
written is
00:15:22.000
like having
00:15:22.540
an index.
00:15:23.760
That index
00:15:24.720
links the
00:15:26.180
individual who
00:15:27.480
owns the
00:15:28.620
tokens, but
00:15:29.780
simultaneously, it
00:15:31.920
allows other
00:15:32.640
people not to
00:15:33.320
see who that
00:15:33.860
is.
00:15:34.760
So the way to
00:15:35.460
think about
00:15:35.960
this is
00:15:36.420
pseudonymy
00:15:37.160
means that you
00:15:38.380
can externally
00:15:39.300
link information
00:15:40.380
without actually
00:15:42.080
making it all
00:15:42.660
public.
00:15:43.060
So it doesn't
00:15:43.460
mean you don't
00:15:44.020
have identity.
00:15:45.400
In fact, digital
00:15:46.040
signatures require
00:15:47.220
identity.
00:15:48.240
The definition
00:15:48.700
of a signature
00:15:49.340
means that you
00:15:50.460
can't be
00:15:50.880
anonymous.
00:15:51.220
So all
00:15:52.680
these people
00:15:53.000
saying there's
00:15:53.660
digital signatures
00:15:54.440
in Bitcoin,
00:15:55.080
only if you
00:15:55.740
have identity.
00:15:57.040
If it's
00:15:57.620
anonymous, it's
00:15:58.320
not a
00:15:58.820
signature.
00:16:00.800
So if we
00:16:02.060
take that a
00:16:02.560
little bit
00:16:02.900
further, we
00:16:04.300
start thinking
00:16:04.820
about the
00:16:05.320
fact that we
00:16:05.800
have this
00:16:06.280
record and
00:16:07.640
it's designed
00:16:08.480
to be
00:16:10.900
something like
00:16:11.540
an old
00:16:11.920
bugger like
00:16:12.440
me would
00:16:13.320
understand.
00:16:14.600
I've worked
00:16:15.400
in accounting
00:16:15.940
firms and
00:16:16.800
in the past
00:16:17.580
we used to
00:16:18.960
have paper
00:16:19.940
backed
00:16:20.280
sort of
00:16:21.660
records,
00:16:22.320
ledgers,
00:16:22.760
journals.
00:16:23.900
And they're
00:16:24.460
really difficult
00:16:25.240
to change.
00:16:27.020
They're expensive
00:16:28.040
to try and
00:16:28.840
change.
00:16:30.200
So if you
00:16:31.280
have all that,
00:16:31.940
you can't just
00:16:32.520
scribble out an
00:16:33.700
entry and add it
00:16:34.460
because everything
00:16:35.200
needs to sort
00:16:36.720
of follow and
00:16:38.320
be correct
00:16:39.680
right down
00:16:40.660
a double
00:16:41.800
entry journal.
00:16:42.360
so you
00:16:43.900
can't go
00:16:44.660
somewhere in
00:16:45.220
the past and
00:16:45.820
scribble out a
00:16:46.380
line, but
00:16:47.780
you can fix
00:16:49.580
it because it
00:16:50.200
is visible,
00:16:51.500
because everyone
00:16:52.020
can read it.
00:16:53.420
Think about
00:16:53.840
this.
00:16:54.580
You have all
00:16:55.340
these immutable
00:16:56.460
journals in the
00:16:57.280
past, but
00:16:58.580
people made
00:16:59.380
mistakes.
00:17:00.460
So they still
00:17:01.320
have errata
00:17:02.060
sheets.
00:17:03.020
They still have
00:17:03.720
linked journals
00:17:05.260
where they can
00:17:05.820
change things.
00:17:06.940
None of this
00:17:07.420
having to go
00:17:07.940
back and
00:17:08.380
recalculate all
00:17:09.300
the hashes or
00:17:10.040
any of this
00:17:10.440
stuff.
00:17:11.480
All you need
00:17:11.960
to do is
00:17:13.000
have the
00:17:13.340
miners say,
00:17:14.320
this is what
00:17:15.780
the new
00:17:16.520
entry is.
00:17:17.340
And they can
00:17:17.840
do that
00:17:18.220
following a
00:17:18.780
court order or
00:17:19.460
whatever else.
00:17:21.400
The purpose
00:17:22.420
of nodes is
00:17:24.280
not to have
00:17:25.320
this decentralized
00:17:27.080
finance idea,
00:17:29.140
which actually
00:17:30.020
goes right back
00:17:31.140
to the 1920s.
00:17:34.060
The original
00:17:35.460
sort of concept
00:17:37.000
of having
00:17:38.520
promotion of
00:17:39.300
shares and
00:17:40.080
plugging shares
00:17:40.900
and everything
00:17:41.240
like that that
00:17:41.820
led to the
00:17:42.520
1929 crash.
00:17:44.640
That was
00:17:45.400
really about
00:17:46.680
the term
00:17:47.600
democratizing
00:17:48.580
finance.
00:17:50.100
There were
00:17:50.760
people like
00:17:51.680
they are with
00:17:52.180
Bitcoin right
00:17:52.820
now, sitting
00:17:54.160
there going,
00:17:55.000
buy this,
00:17:55.580
you'll be rich.
00:17:57.000
You don't need
00:17:57.740
to understand
00:17:58.320
it.
00:17:59.060
You don't need
00:17:59.920
to comprehend
00:18:00.500
it.
00:18:01.580
Just buy it.
00:18:03.340
Sit on it.
00:18:04.400
You'll be
00:18:04.740
rich.
00:18:06.020
That was the
00:18:06.820
promise then.
00:18:07.380
That's the
00:18:07.700
promise now with
00:18:08.740
a lot of
00:18:09.220
these people.
00:18:10.960
I'm very
00:18:11.580
positive with
00:18:12.180
Bitcoin.
00:18:14.140
Just not what
00:18:15.040
people say
00:18:16.420
is Bitcoin.
00:18:18.120
So if you
00:18:19.160
were to sell
00:18:19.840
me Bitcoins,
00:18:20.520
because that's
00:18:20.980
how it's being
00:18:21.320
sold, it's an
00:18:21.860
investment, put
00:18:22.560
your money in there,
00:18:23.160
you're going to be
00:18:23.560
rich, it's going
00:18:24.060
to go to 100,000,
00:18:24.900
it's going to go
00:18:25.260
to a million
00:18:25.600
dollars, you
00:18:26.580
know, it's going
00:18:26.880
to go to that.
00:18:27.800
How would you
00:18:28.720
sell me what
00:18:29.620
Bitcoin is?
00:18:30.480
Explain to me,
00:18:31.820
here's what
00:18:32.220
Bitcoin is, dot,
00:18:33.480
dot, dot.
00:18:33.700
What would it be?
00:18:34.880
I wouldn't.
00:18:35.480
I wouldn't
00:18:37.080
create plumbing
00:18:37.840
when a normal
00:18:41.220
person buys a
00:18:42.140
house, unless
00:18:43.880
they're a little
00:18:44.900
bit sort of
00:18:47.960
a perfectionist,
00:18:49.380
I'll say it the
00:18:49.800
nice way, pedantic
00:18:52.740
on certain things,
00:18:54.300
then they're not
00:18:55.160
going to sit there
00:18:55.800
going, well, I need
00:18:56.920
this particular
00:18:57.820
plumbing in this
00:18:58.480
part of the
00:18:58.880
house and these
00:19:00.060
faucets and I need
00:19:01.760
ceramic here and
00:19:03.480
I need copper
00:19:04.540
there and yada,
00:19:05.900
yada, yada.
00:19:06.720
Now, the truth
00:19:08.000
of the matter is
00:19:09.860
you don't care
00:19:11.940
about how your
00:19:13.540
internet connection
00:19:14.540
basically sends
00:19:16.340
packets.
00:19:17.540
You shouldn't care
00:19:18.840
about how your
00:19:19.560
money does it
00:19:20.160
either.
00:19:21.340
I don't want
00:19:22.100
people sitting
00:19:22.640
there and going
00:19:23.300
that they're some
00:19:24.780
super wizard and
00:19:25.900
know this thing.
00:19:27.060
I just want it to
00:19:27.580
be secure plumbing.
00:19:29.020
I want it to sit
00:19:30.880
there in the
00:19:31.220
background so that
00:19:32.580
accountants and
00:19:33.600
fraud analysts can
00:19:35.500
review things and
00:19:36.840
know that it's
00:19:37.300
secure.
00:19:38.180
I want it so that
00:19:39.560
it's fast, it's
00:19:41.440
better than Visa,
00:19:43.000
that it costs less
00:19:44.120
than PayPal, that
00:19:45.280
people can hold
00:19:46.240
their own cash
00:19:47.100
again, which cash
00:19:49.200
is disappearing.
00:19:50.060
That's a bad
00:19:50.620
thing.
00:19:51.740
I want you to use
00:19:52.820
Bitcoin.
00:19:53.360
I don't want you
00:19:53.820
to hoard it.
00:19:55.860
The whole concept
00:19:56.980
of having hoarded
00:19:58.260
money is a
00:19:59.020
pathology.
00:19:59.640
it's wrong.
00:20:02.100
If you want to
00:20:02.900
save, good.
00:20:04.160
If you want to
00:20:04.660
build, good.
00:20:05.600
If you want to
00:20:05.980
create something.
00:20:07.840
But this
00:20:08.700
pathology about
00:20:09.720
I'm going to get a
00:20:11.260
lump of gold and
00:20:12.140
hope that it goes up
00:20:13.100
in value is wrong.
00:20:14.500
How about actually
00:20:15.940
taking something and
00:20:18.000
building with it?
00:20:19.620
If we think about
00:20:22.160
going into the
00:20:23.640
old parables, the
00:20:26.500
parable of the
00:20:27.300
servant, and I'm
00:20:28.300
going to throw
00:20:28.540
this one in
00:20:29.040
there, the man
00:20:30.660
who had his
00:20:31.940
three servants
00:20:32.480
and he gives
00:20:33.120
each of them
00:20:33.640
some money and
00:20:35.180
one of them
00:20:35.600
buries it under
00:20:36.300
a rock.
00:20:38.420
Well, he still
00:20:39.280
has it at the
00:20:39.900
end, but the
00:20:42.220
one who spent
00:20:42.880
it and did
00:20:43.800
something and
00:20:45.240
planted crops and
00:20:46.520
worked.
00:20:49.480
I mean, that's
00:20:50.520
really what it's
00:20:51.000
about.
00:20:51.940
You don't make
00:20:53.040
anything from
00:20:53.840
having a lump
00:20:54.740
of money sitting
00:20:55.360
there.
00:20:56.700
You make
00:20:57.140
something by
00:20:57.660
building things.
00:20:59.000
Using money is
00:21:00.000
what matters.
00:21:01.160
Creating,
00:21:02.640
investing.
00:21:05.020
So based on
00:21:05.940
what you're
00:21:06.300
saying is
00:21:06.880
Bitcoin is not
00:21:08.100
a method of
00:21:09.660
investment.
00:21:10.720
Bitcoin was
00:21:11.440
built to use
00:21:12.360
to use, meaning
00:21:14.760
to purchase
00:21:15.380
things that's
00:21:16.240
cheaper than
00:21:16.820
PayPal, not
00:21:18.460
necessarily as a
00:21:20.140
method of let me
00:21:20.800
buy a bunch, let
00:21:21.660
it sit, and then
00:21:22.420
five, ten years
00:21:23.020
later I sell it
00:21:23.680
for more, make
00:21:24.220
more money.
00:21:25.300
Exactly.
00:21:26.780
It's really
00:21:27.540
about having a
00:21:29.220
system that
00:21:29.720
allows us to
00:21:30.560
have micropayments
00:21:31.640
more than
00:21:32.060
anything else.
00:21:33.640
So the
00:21:34.740
internet has
00:21:35.480
been crying
00:21:36.860
out for
00:21:37.360
micropayments
00:21:38.240
for years.
00:21:39.420
A decade ago
00:21:40.080
when I launched
00:21:40.600
Bitcoin, people,
00:21:42.320
everyone wanted
00:21:43.120
to solve
00:21:43.500
micropayments.
00:21:44.980
Facebook are
00:21:45.720
on Facebook
00:21:46.420
coin version
00:21:47.640
six now.
00:21:50.240
Everyone's
00:21:50.680
going, Libra,
00:21:51.660
oh, whatever
00:21:52.300
else, except
00:21:52.820
this is version
00:21:53.560
six.
00:21:55.220
It has
00:21:55.620
failed five
00:21:56.980
times already.
00:21:58.840
Amazon coin
00:21:59.560
failed.
00:22:01.300
They've all
00:22:01.960
done these
00:22:02.520
things and
00:22:03.700
they keep
00:22:04.080
trying because
00:22:06.540
it is valuable
00:22:07.660
to get digital
00:22:09.620
money that can
00:22:10.680
be sold in
00:22:11.660
fractions of a
00:22:12.960
cent.
00:22:14.220
If you've got
00:22:15.240
fees that are
00:22:16.320
a dollar or
00:22:17.300
even 20 cents,
00:22:18.360
it doesn't
00:22:19.080
work.
00:22:19.480
you need
00:22:20.580
fees of a
00:22:21.960
tenth,
00:22:22.400
of a
00:22:22.680
hundredth,
00:22:23.060
of a
00:22:23.380
thousandth of
00:22:24.080
a cent
00:22:24.400
of scales.
00:22:25.580
Not this
00:22:26.280
whole concept
00:22:28.040
that we're
00:22:28.360
going to take
00:22:28.720
down the
00:22:29.040
government and
00:22:30.500
replace it
00:22:30.960
with what?
00:22:32.400
It's a
00:22:33.100
concept of
00:22:33.780
how do we
00:22:35.080
no longer
00:22:35.900
have advertising
00:22:37.280
and hate
00:22:38.520
speech rule
00:22:39.620
the internet?
00:22:40.720
How do we
00:22:41.220
move Twitter
00:22:41.980
away from
00:22:42.620
basically
00:22:43.660
incentivizing
00:22:44.460
people from
00:22:45.020
fighting?
00:22:46.020
How do we
00:22:46.560
disincentivize
00:22:48.520
terrorist groups
00:22:50.220
from using
00:22:51.740
these things to
00:22:52.780
find people
00:22:53.700
who they
00:22:54.700
can basically
00:22:56.120
convert?
00:22:56.780
if we
00:22:59.260
don't have
00:23:00.160
people sold,
00:23:03.020
if we
00:23:03.800
don't have
00:23:04.140
their lives
00:23:05.260
as part of
00:23:06.560
this sort
00:23:07.140
of, I
00:23:08.200
guess,
00:23:09.180
well,
00:23:10.340
track where
00:23:10.980
you are,
00:23:11.540
monitor what
00:23:12.020
you do,
00:23:12.540
culture that
00:23:13.140
Google and
00:23:13.880
Facebook have
00:23:14.520
created,
00:23:15.940
then we have
00:23:16.960
a different
00:23:17.360
internet.
00:23:20.660
What do
00:23:21.240
you mean?
00:23:21.680
You just
00:23:22.400
went to
00:23:22.680
Twitter,
00:23:23.520
Facebook.
00:23:24.100
I know you're
00:23:24.380
not a big
00:23:24.800
fan of social
00:23:25.340
media.
00:23:25.780
And by the
00:23:26.000
way, for
00:23:26.260
full disclosure
00:23:26.880
for people to
00:23:27.480
know this,
00:23:28.280
you got a
00:23:28.760
degree in
00:23:29.220
theology.
00:23:30.020
You studied
00:23:30.820
theology coming
00:23:31.820
up, right?
00:23:32.280
I mean,
00:23:32.460
that was one
00:23:33.160
of the things
00:23:33.580
you studied
00:23:34.000
coming up in
00:23:34.540
college.
00:23:35.320
Yeah.
00:23:35.760
And it
00:23:36.980
seems like you
00:23:37.600
have a challenge
00:23:38.160
with Twitter
00:23:38.660
because of what
00:23:39.180
you just said
00:23:39.620
right now with,
00:23:40.380
you know,
00:23:40.560
the way they
00:23:40.960
make their
00:23:41.380
money is pinning
00:23:42.880
people against
00:23:43.480
each other.
00:23:44.120
And I heard
00:23:45.480
you say
00:23:45.920
something about
00:23:46.540
the fact that
00:23:47.940
there's a
00:23:49.600
problem with
00:23:50.340
Twitter,
00:23:50.860
Facebook,
00:23:51.280
all these
00:23:51.660
things being
00:23:52.160
cheap and
00:23:53.780
being free.
00:23:54.680
It shouldn't
00:23:55.460
be free because
00:23:56.420
if it is
00:23:57.320
free,
00:23:57.760
you can use
00:23:58.300
bots to
00:23:58.880
create imaginary
00:23:59.980
issues.
00:24:01.160
Where were you
00:24:01.580
going with that?
00:24:02.160
The problem is
00:24:04.160
it isn't free.
00:24:05.800
They are divisive.
00:24:08.560
They are many
00:24:09.060
other things because
00:24:09.800
they're not free.
00:24:11.460
People think that
00:24:12.380
they're free.
00:24:13.460
They don't see the
00:24:14.260
cost.
00:24:15.120
But whenever you
00:24:15.860
have this free
00:24:16.800
sort of mantra,
00:24:18.560
it is in reality
00:24:20.040
anything but free.
00:24:21.480
we have a
00:24:22.600
system that
00:24:23.500
sells you.
00:24:25.660
You put in
00:24:26.440
your information,
00:24:27.280
you put in
00:24:27.720
your photos and
00:24:29.020
they own it
00:24:29.740
all.
00:24:30.600
They get to
00:24:31.700
use it all.
00:24:32.480
They get
00:24:32.760
copyright over
00:24:33.900
what you're
00:24:34.220
doing.
00:24:34.520
They get access
00:24:35.540
to all you're
00:24:36.320
saying.
00:24:37.480
They get to
00:24:38.560
sell your
00:24:39.280
information,
00:24:40.620
basically to
00:24:41.440
either governments
00:24:42.400
or businesses
00:24:43.160
or whatever else
00:24:43.920
so people can
00:24:44.520
find out where
00:24:45.420
you go,
00:24:46.000
what you do.
00:24:47.400
And then they
00:24:48.180
can do that to
00:24:49.060
promote advertising
00:24:51.060
and sales
00:24:52.600
and whatever
00:24:53.100
else and things
00:24:53.620
you don't need
00:24:54.280
or want
00:24:54.780
and ideas
00:24:56.480
that really
00:24:58.400
shouldn't be
00:24:59.000
there.
00:24:59.820
Why?
00:25:00.480
Because Twitter
00:25:01.680
makes a few
00:25:02.400
cents every
00:25:03.000
time.
00:25:04.400
So rather
00:25:05.220
than having
00:25:05.800
knowledge of
00:25:07.500
what things
00:25:07.900
actually cost,
00:25:08.760
we have a
00:25:09.300
hidden cost.
00:25:10.940
Now,
00:25:11.240
the SEC back
00:25:12.260
in 1999
00:25:13.620
actually took
00:25:15.520
action against
00:25:16.220
a number of
00:25:16.920
decentralized
00:25:17.700
companies who
00:25:18.960
were saying
00:25:19.520
that they
00:25:20.320
were giving
00:25:20.620
out shares
00:25:21.400
and saying
00:25:21.860
that they're
00:25:22.440
not covered
00:25:23.860
because,
00:25:24.520
well,
00:25:25.900
that new
00:25:26.680
technology,
00:25:27.420
they can do
00:25:28.140
web IPOs,
00:25:29.200
which is the
00:25:29.580
modern word,
00:25:30.500
is called an
00:25:31.560
ICO.
00:25:32.660
And they
00:25:34.200
were issuing
00:25:34.800
shares if
00:25:35.880
people signed
00:25:36.520
up on their
00:25:37.000
site.
00:25:38.080
So you put
00:25:38.660
in your name,
00:25:40.120
address,
00:25:40.540
and some
00:25:40.840
personal
00:25:41.200
information,
00:25:42.160
and they
00:25:42.760
gave you
00:25:43.120
shares.
00:25:45.000
And guess
00:25:45.480
what?
00:25:46.860
Every time
00:25:47.840
you put a
00:25:48.500
mere email
00:25:49.140
address,
00:25:49.940
back in
00:25:50.320
1999,
00:25:51.780
when there
00:25:52.180
weren't that
00:25:52.840
many email
00:25:53.400
addresses,
00:25:54.040
when advertising
00:25:55.020
wasn't that
00:25:55.580
big,
00:25:56.960
the SEC
00:25:57.740
analyzed that
00:25:59.680
and still
00:26:00.160
came up
00:26:00.660
back then
00:26:01.440
with your
00:26:02.680
information was
00:26:03.600
worth $11
00:26:04.500
just by doing
00:26:06.460
that little
00:26:06.880
bit.
00:26:08.200
So right
00:26:09.480
now we're in
00:26:10.200
a world where
00:26:10.980
we have much
00:26:12.540
more information
00:26:13.320
where the
00:26:14.840
richness of
00:26:16.220
information about
00:26:17.200
your life,
00:26:18.200
if you have
00:26:18.760
Facebook on
00:26:19.380
your phone,
00:26:20.000
is incredibly
00:26:21.760
deep.
00:26:24.260
And now we're
00:26:25.880
selling all that
00:26:26.560
information and
00:26:27.840
it's not $11
00:26:28.460
anymore.
00:26:31.160
It's not cheap.
00:26:33.020
Now Facebook
00:26:33.480
could make money
00:26:34.520
without doing
00:26:35.140
all this.
00:26:36.660
Imagine if
00:26:38.340
every day they
00:26:39.520
got half a cent
00:26:40.760
from you,
00:26:42.900
they'd still be
00:26:43.540
profitable.
00:26:45.860
Imagine half a
00:26:46.880
cent from all
00:26:47.380
their people.
00:26:47.920
That'd be very
00:26:48.580
profitable.
00:26:49.480
People could even
00:26:50.300
have blog posts
00:26:52.240
and whatever else
00:26:52.820
that they sell,
00:26:53.620
other things that
00:26:54.240
they do online
00:26:55.060
and they could
00:26:56.020
make money
00:26:56.620
without having to
00:26:57.640
have bank
00:26:58.100
accounts set up,
00:26:58.980
all sorts of
00:26:59.440
things.
00:27:00.540
Yet that's not
00:27:01.740
what we're doing
00:27:02.380
because,
00:27:03.680
well,
00:27:04.420
billions of
00:27:04.980
dollars of
00:27:05.360
advertising,
00:27:06.760
most of which
00:27:07.500
is not really
00:27:10.040
what anyone
00:27:10.780
ever wants.
00:27:12.980
If Facebook
00:27:13.920
got a half a
00:27:14.780
cent every day
00:27:15.940
from every
00:27:16.880
user at
00:27:17.620
$2.2
00:27:18.320
billion,
00:27:19.560
that's $330
00:27:20.600
million a month
00:27:21.640
times 12
00:27:22.560
is not a lot
00:27:23.500
of money.
00:27:24.100
It's $4 billion
00:27:24.660
a year.
00:27:25.580
They wouldn't be
00:27:26.260
as profitable
00:27:26.840
as they are
00:27:27.360
today.
00:27:27.820
Now the
00:27:28.340
negative,
00:27:29.600
the negative
00:27:30.240
correction.
00:27:30.560
How much
00:27:31.020
do they get
00:27:31.400
right now?
00:27:32.620
Not in revenue
00:27:33.580
but in profit.
00:27:36.700
It's a lot more
00:27:37.520
than $4 billion.
00:27:40.980
It's a lot more
00:27:41.740
than $4 billion.
00:27:42.400
I mean,
00:27:42.560
I know he lost
00:27:43.140
money,
00:27:43.460
$7 billion last
00:27:44.240
week,
00:27:44.500
but the only
00:27:45.380
reason I'm asking
00:27:45.980
this is because
00:27:46.560
I'm going to
00:27:47.020
business model
00:27:47.640
now.
00:27:47.920
You made me
00:27:48.360
think about
00:27:48.720
business model
00:27:49.300
which is a
00:27:49.680
complete different
00:27:50.180
topic.
00:27:51.040
Can a business
00:27:51.800
model of
00:27:52.420
charging me
00:27:52.980
every day a
00:27:53.620
certain amount
00:27:54.180
really work for
00:27:55.060
others to get
00:27:55.740
in?
00:27:56.260
Can it scale
00:27:57.100
to $2.2
00:27:57.900
billion?
00:27:59.400
I don't know
00:28:00.460
if it can scale
00:28:01.020
to $2.2
00:28:01.680
billion users
00:28:02.460
on Facebook.
00:28:04.060
But going back
00:28:04.920
to crypto,
00:28:07.080
let's stay on
00:28:07.700
that topic
00:28:08.240
for a second
00:28:09.580
because I wanted
00:28:10.620
to follow up
00:28:11.120
with this here.
00:28:12.180
For folks
00:28:13.080
who know
00:28:14.000
Bitcoin,
00:28:14.600
and here's
00:28:14.960
what I've
00:28:15.280
learned from
00:28:15.640
a lot of
00:28:15.940
people that
00:28:16.340
claim they
00:28:17.200
know Bitcoin,
00:28:18.160
99% of
00:28:19.380
Bitcoin folks
00:28:20.240
have no clue
00:28:20.980
how this thing
00:28:21.500
works.
00:28:22.240
Would you
00:28:22.680
agree with
00:28:23.080
that?
00:28:23.780
That majority
00:28:24.800
of people
00:28:25.320
don't really
00:28:25.840
know everything
00:28:26.340
about Bitcoin?
00:28:27.900
I'd even
00:28:29.140
take it
00:28:29.720
further.
00:28:30.620
Make it
00:28:31.400
know something
00:28:34.080
about Bitcoin
00:28:34.880
and who's
00:28:36.140
involved in
00:28:36.680
it, maybe
00:28:37.920
1 in 10,000?
00:28:39.400
Okay, even
00:28:40.080
better.
00:28:40.460
I mean, I agree
00:28:40.980
with you because
00:28:41.560
it's so complex
00:28:42.380
and people try
00:28:43.580
to sound like
00:28:44.120
they're experts
00:28:44.600
and they know
00:28:45.020
what they're
00:28:45.340
doing, but
00:28:45.840
it's a very
00:28:46.580
technical issue.
00:28:47.540
To make it
00:28:48.400
comparable to
00:28:49.140
another thing,
00:28:50.340
I'll ask you
00:28:51.020
and maybe you
00:28:51.480
can help me
00:28:51.940
out with this,
00:28:52.480
is would you
00:28:53.600
be considered,
00:28:54.660
if you are
00:28:55.820
Satoshi Nakamoto,
00:28:56.920
are you comparable
00:28:58.260
to a founder
00:28:59.300
of a company,
00:29:01.000
to a fund
00:29:01.940
manager,
00:29:02.880
to somebody
00:29:03.520
who just
00:29:03.940
happened to
00:29:04.480
find gold
00:29:05.820
mine, who
00:29:07.000
would that be
00:29:07.740
comparable to?
00:29:08.700
If you were
00:29:09.000
to compare the
00:29:10.180
founder to
00:29:10.740
something, what
00:29:11.360
would that be?
00:29:13.940
I'm an
00:29:14.600
issuer, contrary
00:29:15.920
to what people
00:29:16.420
say, whenever
00:29:17.000
you create
00:29:17.520
something, like
00:29:18.180
Bitcoin Core
00:29:19.000
created something,
00:29:21.160
Vitalik created
00:29:22.140
something, and
00:29:22.680
everyone runs
00:29:23.240
around going,
00:29:23.840
there's no
00:29:24.120
issuer.
00:29:24.860
No, there
00:29:25.540
is.
00:29:26.500
I issued
00:29:27.060
Bitcoin with
00:29:28.600
all of the
00:29:29.260
requirements for
00:29:30.100
what that means
00:29:32.040
and all the
00:29:32.660
rest.
00:29:33.520
and Vitalik
00:29:34.940
issued
00:29:35.700
Ethereum
00:29:36.860
and the
00:29:38.740
people in
00:29:39.240
Bitcoin Core
00:29:39.880
issued
00:29:40.640
BTC
00:29:41.360
and other
00:29:43.080
derivatives.
00:29:44.120
So, the
00:29:45.400
end of the
00:29:45.780
day, everyone's
00:29:46.400
running around,
00:29:47.040
the law can't
00:29:47.520
touch us.
00:29:47.980
Of course it
00:29:48.400
can.
00:29:49.020
It's just
00:29:49.340
slow.
00:29:50.620
So, what
00:29:51.200
would I
00:29:51.420
consider myself?
00:29:52.220
I would
00:29:53.240
say an
00:29:53.780
inventor.
00:29:55.100
We've
00:29:55.660
got
00:29:56.000
now, 1,080
00:29:59.620
patents, around
00:30:01.520
400 patent
00:30:02.260
families filed.
00:30:03.800
We have
00:30:04.220
over 1,000 in
00:30:06.100
the backlog for
00:30:07.620
white papers
00:30:08.180
internally at
00:30:09.660
Enchain.
00:30:10.680
By the time I
00:30:11.560
finish with what
00:30:12.100
we've already
00:30:12.480
got, there'll be
00:30:13.600
at least 6,000.
00:30:14.480
So, if you're
00:30:18.300
an issuer, can
00:30:20.860
you also, if
00:30:24.980
you really
00:30:25.520
wanted to, if
00:30:26.120
somebody really
00:30:26.960
pissed you off,
00:30:28.240
let's just say
00:30:28.740
somebody really
00:30:29.520
pissed you off,
00:30:31.080
can you bring
00:30:31.800
down the whole
00:30:32.440
concept of
00:30:33.100
Bitcoin if you
00:30:33.700
wanted to?
00:30:34.740
What is the
00:30:35.420
concept of
00:30:35.960
Bitcoin?
00:30:36.580
Before I can
00:30:37.080
answer that one,
00:30:37.720
I'll need to
00:30:38.220
know what the
00:30:39.580
concept is that
00:30:40.400
I'm bringing
00:30:40.720
down.
00:30:40.980
I mean, I'm
00:30:41.980
talking about
00:30:42.520
all of these
00:30:42.980
folks that have
00:30:43.700
money in
00:30:44.200
Bitcoin, that
00:30:44.780
have bought
00:30:45.180
Bitcoin.
00:30:46.780
Can you
00:30:47.520
essentially make
00:30:49.680
Bitcoin go
00:30:50.740
away where
00:30:51.520
it's non-existent
00:30:52.460
where everybody
00:30:53.060
loses all the
00:30:53.740
value they have
00:30:54.320
in Bitcoin?
00:30:56.680
Well, that
00:30:57.400
depends on what
00:30:58.000
you're considering.
00:30:58.600
So, if you're
00:30:58.900
looking at
00:30:59.260
BTC, then
00:31:01.160
that's already
00:31:02.640
on shaky
00:31:03.100
ground.
00:31:04.980
Long term,
00:31:06.420
there's only
00:31:08.380
going to be
00:31:08.800
one system.
00:31:09.380
Contrary to
00:31:10.660
what people
00:31:11.000
say with
00:31:11.660
this whole
00:31:12.080
everyone will
00:31:12.700
have their
00:31:13.060
own money
00:31:13.620
and whatever
00:31:14.100
else, no,
00:31:14.700
there won't
00:31:15.020
be.
00:31:15.900
It's like,
00:31:17.460
how many
00:31:18.180
different types
00:31:18.960
of internet
00:31:19.460
do you have?
00:31:20.640
I mean, the
00:31:21.000
reality is we're
00:31:22.560
not going to
00:31:23.100
be on 50
00:31:23.940
different networks.
00:31:25.640
Back 30
00:31:26.500
years ago, we
00:31:27.240
had DECnet,
00:31:28.540
DARPAnet,
00:31:30.320
which became
00:31:31.260
internet.
00:31:31.860
We had
00:31:32.320
Vanyan Bynes,
00:31:35.140
Netbuoy,
00:31:38.660
Novell
00:31:39.040
Netware,
00:31:40.060
IPX,
00:31:40.640
many, many
00:31:43.020
different network
00:31:43.660
protocols.
00:31:45.400
The benefit
00:31:46.720
in any
00:31:47.300
system that
00:31:48.340
is networked
00:31:49.320
is connectivity
00:31:50.300
between all
00:31:51.720
the interacting
00:31:53.000
players.
00:31:54.200
And there
00:31:54.820
are still
00:31:55.360
some DECnet
00:31:57.180
networks,
00:31:57.980
there are
00:31:58.200
still some
00:31:58.740
Vanyan Bynes
00:31:59.440
networks globally.
00:32:01.040
They're very
00:32:01.580
small and
00:32:02.260
they're legacy
00:32:03.000
and people
00:32:03.400
can't get rid
00:32:03.980
of them.
00:32:04.580
But the
00:32:04.880
reality is no
00:32:05.600
one cares
00:32:06.200
about them.
00:32:07.780
And that's
00:32:08.380
where we're
00:32:08.860
going to be.
00:32:09.460
If Bitcoin's
00:32:10.060
going to be
00:32:10.700
something,
00:32:11.880
it can't be
00:32:12.720
a promise
00:32:13.620
of a promise.
00:32:15.400
So right
00:32:16.140
now, you
00:32:17.060
have people
00:32:17.500
saying it's
00:32:18.160
going to be
00:32:19.140
valuable because
00:32:19.880
it's going to
00:32:20.460
be more
00:32:20.840
valuable.
00:32:21.980
That doesn't
00:32:23.120
work.
00:32:24.280
If you want
00:32:24.740
Bitcoin to be
00:32:25.440
valuable, it
00:32:26.000
has to be
00:32:26.420
because it's
00:32:26.920
used.
00:32:27.980
Not a
00:32:29.020
promise that
00:32:30.160
in the future
00:32:30.820
we'll solve
00:32:31.380
things, but
00:32:31.900
because it's
00:32:32.500
used, not
00:32:34.260
because it's
00:32:34.960
decentralized.
00:32:36.700
I mean, what
00:32:37.740
does that really
00:32:38.560
even mean?
00:32:40.100
I mean, think
00:32:40.480
about it.
00:32:41.080
There's a
00:32:41.520
way to
00:32:42.060
centralize, but
00:32:42.860
and what
00:32:45.120
do you mean
00:32:45.800
by decentralized?
00:32:48.920
Not that we
00:32:49.820
have everyone
00:32:50.440
voting because
00:32:51.680
you don't do
00:32:52.340
that in Bitcoin.
00:32:53.640
Contrary to the
00:32:54.440
lies people tell
00:32:55.420
you about how
00:32:55.920
everyone gets
00:32:56.520
a say,
00:32:57.540
bull.
00:32:59.200
Everyone
00:32:59.600
doesn't get
00:32:59.960
a say.
00:33:00.300
BTC
00:33:02.040
world, there
00:33:02.840
are three
00:33:03.420
developers who
00:33:04.860
basically sit
00:33:05.620
there and
00:33:06.100
choose what
00:33:06.640
happens.
00:33:08.080
And in a
00:33:09.560
manner, analogous
00:33:10.860
to Stalin, they
00:33:11.960
sit there and
00:33:12.440
go, you can
00:33:13.320
vote for me.
00:33:15.300
I will do
00:33:16.320
everything I
00:33:17.300
promise to
00:33:17.780
do unless I
00:33:18.840
don't.
00:33:21.080
And if you
00:33:21.740
don't like it,
00:33:22.880
you can vote
00:33:23.760
for me again.
00:33:26.980
How much
00:33:27.700
power and
00:33:28.140
control do
00:33:28.840
three have
00:33:29.420
though?
00:33:30.300
If they
00:33:31.000
lose it,
00:33:31.600
they're furious,
00:33:33.000
they're upset
00:33:33.480
with everybody,
00:33:34.220
what's the
00:33:34.640
worst thing
00:33:35.080
they can
00:33:35.380
do?
00:33:36.600
Whatever
00:33:37.060
they want.
00:33:38.140
Which is?
00:33:39.420
Break the
00:33:40.060
network.
00:33:40.920
So you
00:33:41.600
could essentially
00:33:42.160
break the
00:33:42.620
network if
00:33:43.160
you wanted
00:33:43.460
to.
00:33:44.420
The only
00:33:45.560
control here
00:33:46.320
is legal.
00:33:48.240
So this
00:33:49.040
whole anarchist
00:33:49.800
anti-government
00:33:50.460
bit doesn't
00:33:50.940
work.
00:33:51.860
The reason
00:33:52.820
you can't
00:33:53.480
is because
00:33:54.300
it's really
00:33:55.020
a unilateral
00:33:55.720
contract.
00:33:56.740
It's the
00:33:57.120
same as if
00:33:57.620
I put
00:33:58.000
little
00:33:59.720
stickers up
00:34:00.420
saying
00:34:00.680
lost dog,
00:34:02.020
I'll pay
00:34:02.540
you 50
00:34:03.020
pounds if
00:34:04.120
you find
00:34:04.500
my dog.
00:34:05.580
Now,
00:34:07.020
the contract
00:34:07.580
happens when
00:34:08.320
someone decides
00:34:09.500
to look for
00:34:10.520
the dog and
00:34:11.480
if they find
00:34:12.040
the dog,
00:34:13.200
they're owed
00:34:13.700
50 pounds.
00:34:15.300
But if they
00:34:15.720
don't find the
00:34:16.260
dog, I don't
00:34:16.720
owe them
00:34:17.060
anything.
00:34:17.800
And that's
00:34:18.240
the same
00:34:18.680
thing in
00:34:19.000
Bitcoin.
00:34:19.500
So the
00:34:20.360
developers have
00:34:21.700
a unilateral
00:34:22.780
contract,
00:34:23.860
a promise to
00:34:25.040
the miners
00:34:25.560
in the
00:34:25.860
community
00:34:26.320
that they
00:34:26.980
have to
00:34:27.300
maintain.
00:34:28.900
And right
00:34:29.300
now, they
00:34:31.020
change it
00:34:31.460
all the
00:34:31.700
time.
00:34:32.800
So the
00:34:33.320
only real
00:34:34.180
protection is
00:34:35.340
the fact that
00:34:35.980
someone can
00:34:36.920
sue them,
00:34:37.620
someone can
00:34:38.080
actually hold
00:34:38.920
them to
00:34:39.360
account, and
00:34:40.380
a court can
00:34:41.140
actually tell
00:34:41.680
you, no,
00:34:42.300
you can't do
00:34:43.000
that.
00:34:43.880
The same
00:34:44.260
way Microsoft
00:34:45.340
have been
00:34:46.060
forced to
00:34:46.780
change code,
00:34:48.420
Google have
00:34:49.420
been forced
00:34:49.920
to change
00:34:50.380
code, Amazon,
00:34:52.500
Facebook,
00:34:53.100
all these
00:34:54.640
companies,
00:34:55.280
even small
00:34:55.960
companies, get
00:34:56.560
forced by
00:34:57.160
courts to
00:34:57.620
change code
00:34:58.200
all the
00:34:58.700
time.
00:34:59.660
And sitting
00:35:00.020
there going,
00:35:01.000
you can't
00:35:01.740
make us
00:35:02.040
do.
00:35:02.460
Well, of
00:35:02.860
course you
00:35:03.080
can make
00:35:03.460
them do.
00:35:04.900
Really?
00:35:05.900
I mean, what
00:35:06.380
a stupid
00:35:06.900
statement saying
00:35:07.680
you can't
00:35:08.540
stop us.
00:35:09.120
Well, of
00:35:09.480
course you
00:35:09.780
can.
00:35:10.640
Where do
00:35:11.700
you think
00:35:12.000
you're going
00:35:12.420
to put
00:35:13.100
your code?
00:35:14.360
Where do
00:35:14.660
you think
00:35:14.900
you're going
00:35:15.200
to put
00:35:15.540
your servers?
00:35:17.540
This
00:35:17.980
concept, we
00:35:18.680
can just
00:35:19.080
change the
00:35:19.980
code and
00:35:20.400
have new
00:35:21.080
sort of
00:35:22.740
systems and
00:35:23.780
the hash
00:35:24.700
rate we
00:35:25.300
can move.
00:35:26.500
Really?
00:35:27.680
And what?
00:35:29.260
Then a new
00:35:30.640
commercial entity
00:35:31.420
will come in
00:35:32.040
and have
00:35:33.460
their equipment
00:35:34.160
seized?
00:35:37.820
Exchangers
00:35:38.460
need to
00:35:40.980
access
00:35:41.480
banking.
00:35:44.780
Right now,
00:35:46.700
they can be
00:35:48.580
cut off
00:35:49.020
globally.
00:35:49.760
I used
00:35:53.220
to do a
00:35:53.920
lot of
00:35:54.140
work in
00:35:54.840
the gaming
00:35:55.460
industry,
00:35:55.900
gambling.
00:35:56.760
And I
00:35:57.440
helped set
00:35:57.880
up Lasseter's
00:35:58.800
Casino and
00:35:59.500
I helped
00:35:59.880
other ones,
00:36:01.360
licensed ones.
00:36:02.320
That's the
00:36:02.580
difference.
00:36:03.720
And banking
00:36:05.240
is important.
00:36:07.260
You can be
00:36:08.040
basically cut
00:36:09.320
off at the
00:36:10.000
knees instantly
00:36:11.180
if a
00:36:12.860
government
00:36:13.120
decides they're
00:36:13.820
not going to
00:36:14.540
renew your
00:36:15.040
banking
00:36:15.320
license or
00:36:16.760
exchange
00:36:19.420
license or
00:36:20.180
whatever else.
00:36:21.460
So we
00:36:22.980
can do
00:36:23.360
whatever.
00:36:23.900
It's a
00:36:24.480
myth.
00:36:25.500
A myth to
00:36:26.400
sell something
00:36:27.500
so that they
00:36:28.180
can promote
00:36:28.760
value that
00:36:30.340
doesn't exist.
00:36:31.880
It isn't
00:36:32.960
about we're
00:36:33.740
going to have
00:36:34.440
billions of
00:36:35.460
transactions and
00:36:36.420
everyone will
00:36:37.480
actually be able
00:36:38.200
to sell
00:36:38.720
things online.
00:36:40.480
It is no
00:36:41.420
longer any of
00:36:42.620
these promises
00:36:43.260
that everyone
00:36:44.040
said about
00:36:44.520
global money.
00:36:46.080
Money needs
00:36:46.640
to be used.
00:36:49.080
Money isn't
00:36:50.120
just a store
00:36:51.020
of value.
00:36:51.920
Store of value
00:36:52.400
is a secondary
00:36:53.140
part of money.
00:36:54.640
And it
00:36:55.000
doesn't even
00:36:55.500
mean what
00:36:56.060
these people
00:36:56.460
are saying.
00:36:58.140
Store of
00:36:58.780
value means
00:36:59.940
it stays
00:37:01.340
the same
00:37:02.020
value.
00:37:03.800
The ideal
00:37:05.080
value store
00:37:06.600
in the U.S.
00:37:08.460
is the U.S.
00:37:09.180
dollar.
00:37:10.740
Full stop.
00:37:11.340
Because by
00:37:13.020
definition a
00:37:14.180
store of value
00:37:14.820
in economics
00:37:15.580
means something
00:37:16.940
that a year
00:37:18.460
later from
00:37:19.320
now you
00:37:20.320
will pay
00:37:20.900
that with a
00:37:22.780
contract at
00:37:23.600
the same
00:37:23.960
rate.
00:37:25.040
It will be
00:37:25.860
worth the
00:37:26.520
same.
00:37:27.380
Not more,
00:37:28.540
not less.
00:37:30.040
If it is
00:37:30.600
worth a cent
00:37:31.140
more, it
00:37:33.240
is less
00:37:34.100
of a unit
00:37:35.300
of value
00:37:35.720
than if it
00:37:36.580
was the
00:37:38.040
same thing.
00:37:38.720
If it's
00:37:39.120
worth a cent
00:37:39.600
less, the
00:37:40.300
same.
00:37:42.260
The ideal
00:37:43.260
store of
00:37:43.700
value is
00:37:45.980
a dollar
00:37:46.360
when you're
00:37:47.080
in America.
00:37:48.600
The error
00:37:49.460
people are
00:37:49.920
making is
00:37:50.460
thinking that
00:37:51.040
it's about
00:37:51.640
investment
00:37:52.160
value.
00:37:53.160
Store of
00:37:53.460
value by
00:37:53.880
definition
00:37:54.580
isn't
00:37:55.140
anything to
00:37:55.720
do with
00:37:56.000
investment.
00:37:56.600
It's to
00:37:56.880
do with
00:37:57.180
stability.
00:37:59.640
So what
00:38:01.520
percentage of
00:38:02.320
Bitcoin right
00:38:02.940
now is being
00:38:03.340
used to
00:38:03.720
purchase items?
00:38:05.500
Oh, very,
00:38:07.360
very small.
00:38:07.840
there was
00:38:09.840
more monetary
00:38:11.400
value of
00:38:12.300
Bitcoin spent
00:38:13.260
in 2011
00:38:15.200
than there
00:38:15.700
is now.
00:38:18.300
What's
00:38:19.040
causing that?
00:38:19.600
this mantra
00:38:21.960
of gambling
00:38:22.800
that Bitcoin's
00:38:24.800
a way of
00:38:25.660
making money
00:38:26.280
without tax
00:38:27.140
that whatever
00:38:27.760
else.
00:38:28.380
I think
00:38:28.600
majority of
00:38:29.800
sort of sales
00:38:30.920
are onto
00:38:31.960
exchanges for
00:38:32.920
people wanting
00:38:33.560
to make money
00:38:34.180
without being
00:38:35.140
taxed and
00:38:35.680
things like
00:38:35.980
this.
00:38:36.800
And which
00:38:37.760
is really
00:38:38.380
stupid because
00:38:39.200
they're going to
00:38:39.660
find out that
00:38:40.240
they have no
00:38:40.820
money.
00:38:42.200
The requirements
00:38:43.560
are already in
00:38:44.920
place.
00:38:45.180
the laws
00:38:45.720
are already
00:38:46.360
in place.
00:38:47.340
It takes
00:38:47.640
time to
00:38:48.060
kick in.
00:38:49.020
So in
00:38:50.220
18 months
00:38:52.180
from now,
00:38:53.220
the provisions
00:38:54.220
in money
00:38:55.640
laundry
00:38:55.940
directive
00:38:56.360
number five
00:38:57.240
that hits
00:38:57.880
Europe and
00:38:58.440
Britain,
00:38:59.660
and it
00:39:00.560
will be a
00:39:00.940
criminal act
00:39:01.540
to have
00:39:02.060
wallets that
00:39:03.660
don't link
00:39:04.280
to identity
00:39:04.920
and hold
00:39:06.880
more than
00:39:07.240
150 euros
00:39:08.440
worth of
00:39:09.080
value.
00:39:09.920
There's not
00:39:10.500
much money.
00:39:12.440
Craig, let
00:39:13.080
me ask you,
00:39:13.580
right now,
00:39:13.980
Bitcoin, as of
00:39:14.700
right now,
00:39:15.040
I just ran
00:39:15.460
it, it's
00:39:15.720
9,226,
00:39:17.260
okay, right
00:39:18.060
now.
00:39:19.020
Is Bitcoin
00:39:19.860
more likely
00:39:20.740
to go to
00:39:21.500
$100,000
00:39:22.340
or more
00:39:23.020
likely go to
00:39:24.020
$100?
00:39:27.320
BTC is not
00:39:28.260
going to go
00:39:28.780
to $100,000.
00:39:31.020
Full stop.
00:39:32.580
It's not
00:39:33.340
going to go
00:39:33.640
to $100,000.
00:39:35.080
No.
00:39:36.280
If you're
00:39:36.740
somebody that's
00:39:37.420
an analyst and
00:39:38.340
you're making
00:39:38.700
a prediction,
00:39:39.340
are you saying
00:39:39.800
higher or
00:39:40.480
lower?
00:39:41.720
Lower.
00:39:42.620
How much
00:39:43.160
lower?
00:39:43.460
In time,
00:39:45.220
a lot.
00:39:46.300
The problem
00:39:46.800
is, people
00:39:48.020
don't realize,
00:39:49.320
people forget.
00:39:50.800
So, go
00:39:52.800
back 20
00:39:54.160
years.
00:39:55.740
We had
00:39:56.680
digital money.
00:39:57.880
We had
00:39:58.160
industries doing
00:39:58.960
this.
00:40:00.440
Bigger than
00:40:01.180
now.
00:40:02.500
So, we
00:40:03.920
had e-gold,
00:40:05.340
Mnet, a
00:40:06.920
whole lot of
00:40:07.340
peer things that
00:40:08.080
were having
00:40:08.860
people invest
00:40:09.560
money into,
00:40:10.940
Ponzi's once
00:40:11.500
again.
00:40:12.420
And with
00:40:13.480
the stock
00:40:14.680
market crash
00:40:15.460
and all the
00:40:15.840
rest, they
00:40:16.280
went basically
00:40:17.240
bust.
00:40:18.400
They all
00:40:18.740
disappeared.
00:40:19.960
So, just
00:40:20.820
believing things
00:40:21.520
will go up
00:40:21.960
because they'll
00:40:22.400
go up, doesn't
00:40:23.440
work.
00:40:24.880
This is
00:40:25.280
dogfood.com.
00:40:28.400
If you
00:40:29.300
don't have
00:40:29.820
something here
00:40:30.480
that actually
00:40:30.980
makes money,
00:40:32.280
that actually
00:40:32.960
does the
00:40:33.700
work, that
00:40:34.660
is an
00:40:35.100
empty promise,
00:40:36.640
eventually it
00:40:37.240
ends.
00:40:37.540
it means
00:40:40.260
Amazon, not
00:40:42.500
dogfood.com.
00:40:44.820
If you
00:40:45.860
don't have a
00:40:46.400
system that
00:40:47.280
transfers more
00:40:48.500
volume every
00:40:49.600
day at a
00:40:50.580
lower rate,
00:40:51.480
more efficiently,
00:40:53.160
more effectively
00:40:53.820
than, say,
00:40:56.720
Visa and
00:40:58.000
MasterCard and
00:40:59.080
all these other
00:40:59.500
things, if
00:41:00.780
they're not
00:41:01.140
using your
00:41:01.980
system as a
00:41:02.640
transmission
00:41:03.120
system, then
00:41:05.040
eventually someone's
00:41:05.800
going to replace
00:41:06.420
you.
00:41:06.700
sitting there
00:41:07.500
going, we're
00:41:08.000
Bitcoin.
00:41:09.460
No.
00:41:10.600
Sorry.
00:41:11.860
You either
00:41:12.500
build something
00:41:13.440
better or
00:41:14.840
else.
00:41:16.500
That's just the
00:41:17.280
way the world
00:41:17.720
works.
00:41:18.720
You may not
00:41:19.620
like it.
00:41:20.960
Doesn't matter.
00:41:22.260
This is how it
00:41:22.880
is.
00:41:23.360
People are
00:41:23.820
fickle.
00:41:25.240
We want to
00:41:26.440
see you doing
00:41:27.160
things.
00:41:27.500
We want to
00:41:27.980
see you build
00:41:28.500
things.
00:41:29.320
And this
00:41:29.640
concept that
00:41:30.860
there are
00:41:31.260
everyone who
00:41:32.120
will ever get
00:41:32.940
into Bitcoin
00:41:33.720
based on a
00:41:34.920
store of value
00:41:36.120
that goes up
00:41:36.740
on price.
00:41:37.580
The Ponzi
00:41:38.060
scam, they're
00:41:39.460
here.
00:41:40.580
They're no
00:41:41.000
more.
00:41:43.420
They're gone.
00:41:44.540
That's it.
00:41:45.340
The whole
00:41:45.880
everyone you'll
00:41:47.240
be able to
00:41:47.620
scam is right
00:41:48.360
here in
00:41:48.600
Bitcoin.
00:41:50.360
The rest of
00:41:51.200
the people out
00:41:51.720
there don't
00:41:53.060
care.
00:41:54.240
The rest of
00:41:55.040
the people will
00:41:55.560
care when this
00:41:56.780
is digital cash.
00:41:58.880
Not that they
00:41:59.660
make money on,
00:42:00.680
that they use.
00:42:02.740
Until that
00:42:03.380
happens, it's
00:42:05.760
not happening.
00:42:08.220
It's a pretty
00:42:08.780
bold prediction
00:42:09.560
right there to
00:42:10.200
say you are
00:42:11.140
Satoshi Nakamoto
00:42:12.460
and it's
00:42:13.400
$9,226 and
00:42:15.140
it's got more
00:42:15.840
likelihood of
00:42:16.420
going to $100
00:42:17.000
than it does
00:42:17.720
to go to
00:42:18.040
$100,000.
00:42:18.980
I don't
00:42:19.360
consider BTC
00:42:20.140
Bitcoin.
00:42:21.660
I mean,
00:42:22.740
there's no
00:42:23.220
segway in
00:42:23.700
Bitcoin.
00:42:24.420
The concept
00:42:25.220
of what they're
00:42:25.920
selling is not
00:42:26.820
what I created.
00:42:27.620
By the way,
00:42:29.800
how did it
00:42:30.180
become a
00:42:30.780
religion?
00:42:31.380
How did it
00:42:31.760
become such
00:42:32.460
a cult-like
00:42:34.820
following type
00:42:35.640
of a person?
00:42:36.200
Because typically,
00:42:37.280
in order for
00:42:38.100
something to
00:42:38.660
have a cult-like
00:42:39.360
following,
00:42:39.920
there must be
00:42:40.420
a founder
00:42:40.980
that has a
00:42:42.640
cult-like
00:42:43.840
following of
00:42:44.560
a spirit,
00:42:45.340
a.k.a.
00:42:45.960
Steve Jobs,
00:42:47.300
a person who
00:42:49.100
has that
00:42:50.360
aura and
00:42:51.240
that feeling
00:42:51.920
that we're
00:42:52.300
going to
00:42:52.460
take over
00:42:52.880
the world.
00:42:53.700
How did
00:42:54.160
this become
00:42:54.840
that without
00:42:55.300
somebody that
00:42:56.060
was a prophet
00:42:57.300
claiming what
00:42:57.960
this is going
00:42:58.360
to replace?
00:42:59.500
In my
00:43:00.500
absence,
00:43:01.760
people created
00:43:02.840
a mythology.
00:43:05.020
Unfortunately,
00:43:06.780
that's what
00:43:07.480
happened.
00:43:08.380
So,
00:43:09.260
people sit
00:43:10.120
there saying,
00:43:10.840
this is what
00:43:11.480
I meant.
00:43:12.600
No,
00:43:13.140
what I meant
00:43:13.520
was fairly
00:43:14.000
clear.
00:43:14.800
When I
00:43:15.340
argued with
00:43:15.940
people and
00:43:16.460
I said,
00:43:17.320
Bitcoin ends
00:43:18.500
in data
00:43:18.840
centers,
00:43:19.220
I meant
00:43:19.500
Bitcoin ends
00:43:20.380
in data
00:43:20.940
centers.
00:43:21.840
Full stop.
00:43:23.260
I did not
00:43:23.760
mean that
00:43:24.240
everyone sits
00:43:24.780
there at
00:43:25.100
home going,
00:43:26.140
we're going
00:43:26.580
to solve
00:43:27.100
blocks for
00:43:27.560
the sake
00:43:27.880
of it.
00:43:28.880
It's not
00:43:29.480
designed for
00:43:29.980
that.
00:43:30.680
The truth
00:43:31.320
of the matter
00:43:31.720
is that's
00:43:32.500
what people
00:43:32.800
don't want
00:43:33.560
to hear.
00:43:35.080
These people
00:43:35.860
in the whole
00:43:36.920
little cultish
00:43:37.620
version of
00:43:38.060
Bitcoin don't
00:43:38.880
want me to
00:43:39.480
sit there and
00:43:39.900
say the
00:43:40.260
reason for
00:43:40.820
proof of
00:43:41.200
work in
00:43:41.580
Bitcoin is
00:43:43.140
purely and
00:43:43.860
simply to
00:43:44.460
make sure
00:43:44.900
nodes cannot
00:43:45.680
ever be
00:43:47.480
anonymous.
00:43:51.340
The 2016
00:43:53.420
block sort
00:43:55.060
of difficulty
00:43:55.480
adjustment
00:43:55.900
period is
00:43:56.880
so that
00:43:57.200
there can
00:43:57.540
never be
00:43:58.520
more than
00:43:58.860
2,000
00:43:59.380
nodes.
00:44:00.460
In reality,
00:44:01.340
because you
00:44:01.800
have a
00:44:02.120
power law
00:44:02.540
distribution
00:44:03.120
of investment,
00:44:04.860
you never
00:44:05.720
have more
00:44:06.120
than 100.
00:44:08.000
Right now,
00:44:09.040
we have
00:44:09.260
32.
00:44:10.920
From 2011
00:44:12.240
until now,
00:44:13.780
every single
00:44:14.580
node is
00:44:15.100
known.
00:44:17.360
We had
00:44:18.340
98 in that
00:44:19.480
entire period.
00:44:21.480
Nine years,
00:44:22.180
98 nodes.
00:44:24.580
And it's
00:44:24.920
very simple
00:44:25.360
to tell
00:44:25.660
whether you're
00:44:26.080
a node.
00:44:26.680
Have you
00:44:27.040
created a
00:44:27.640
block?
00:44:28.940
Full stop.
00:44:33.240
You say
00:44:33.920
for this
00:44:34.280
thing to
00:44:34.600
work,
00:44:35.040
people got
00:44:36.200
to spend
00:44:36.620
the Bitcoin
00:44:37.580
and purchase
00:44:38.100
things.
00:44:38.800
And not a
00:44:39.720
lot of it
00:44:40.060
is being
00:44:40.600
spent.
00:44:41.020
Is it
00:44:41.220
fair to
00:44:41.520
say it's
00:44:41.820
less than
00:44:42.200
1% of
00:44:43.260
Bitcoins
00:44:43.660
being used
00:44:44.160
to purchase
00:44:44.600
items?
00:44:45.020
Is that
00:44:45.220
a fair
00:44:45.460
assessment?
00:44:46.420
It is a
00:44:46.820
fair assessment,
00:44:47.320
yes.
00:44:47.580
Okay,
00:44:48.180
so if
00:44:48.760
you have
00:44:50.760
the monkey
00:44:51.240
or Satoshi
00:44:51.840
Nakamoto
00:44:52.440
and that
00:44:53.660
as of
00:44:54.200
today,
00:44:54.720
give or
00:44:55.000
take,
00:44:55.440
is worth
00:44:55.860
$8.8
00:44:56.560
billion,
00:44:57.540
how come
00:44:58.520
you're not
00:44:58.920
spending that
00:44:59.860
money purchasing
00:45:00.920
items so
00:45:01.620
it's moving?
00:45:02.820
How come
00:45:03.120
you're not
00:45:03.460
doing it?
00:45:04.580
Well,
00:45:05.180
first of
00:45:05.860
all,
00:45:06.060
I do.
00:45:08.200
Second,
00:45:09.120
you can't
00:45:09.920
actually spend
00:45:10.620
that much
00:45:11.100
money in
00:45:13.660
Bitcoin and
00:45:15.360
derivatives like
00:45:16.000
BTC.
00:45:16.400
the liquidity
00:45:18.300
is not
00:45:18.680
there.
00:45:19.880
You can't
00:45:20.620
go out
00:45:20.980
there and
00:45:21.360
spend a
00:45:21.980
billion dollars,
00:45:23.060
full stop.
00:45:24.960
So if you
00:45:26.080
try and move
00:45:26.720
$100 million,
00:45:27.740
the value of
00:45:28.260
Bitcoin is
00:45:28.740
going to go
00:45:29.260
right down.
00:45:30.980
So there
00:45:31.380
isn't $8
00:45:32.420
billion there.
00:45:33.760
That's just
00:45:34.520
an arbitrary
00:45:35.380
sort of
00:45:36.760
artificial thing
00:45:37.780
that people
00:45:38.200
say.
00:45:39.220
The reality
00:45:39.720
is if
00:45:40.860
even without
00:45:42.520
people knowing
00:45:43.160
it was me,
00:45:43.840
if there's a
00:45:44.240
way of doing
00:45:44.720
it,
00:45:45.180
if I could
00:45:45.620
try and
00:45:46.000
spend
00:45:46.240
everything,
00:45:46.820
there might
00:45:47.120
be $50
00:45:47.580
million out
00:45:48.500
of this
00:45:48.920
if I tried
00:45:50.260
to dump
00:45:50.620
it all
00:45:50.860
at once.
00:45:52.500
If I did
00:45:53.200
it over
00:45:53.520
time,
00:45:53.940
I might
00:45:54.200
be able
00:45:54.460
to get
00:45:54.760
five times
00:45:55.520
that and
00:45:56.020
have
00:45:56.420
$250.
00:45:57.780
That would
00:45:58.320
be it.
00:46:00.500
What's the
00:46:01.040
biggest purchase
00:46:01.740
you've made
00:46:02.100
with a
00:46:02.320
Bitcoin?
00:46:11.400
Paid for a
00:46:12.080
number of
00:46:12.380
things.
00:46:12.520
I've had
00:46:13.200
a rather
00:46:14.800
extravagant
00:46:16.140
holiday.
00:46:18.920
I've got
00:46:19.680
a little
00:46:21.220
bit of
00:46:21.460
artwork.
00:46:26.140
Most of my
00:46:26.920
stuff though
00:46:27.340
is boring.
00:46:28.880
My university
00:46:29.600
fees are probably
00:46:30.460
my biggest
00:46:31.080
expense every
00:46:32.120
year.
00:46:33.400
But amount,
00:46:34.420
even if you
00:46:35.360
don't disclose
00:46:35.900
what it is,
00:46:36.620
what is the
00:46:37.200
amount that was
00:46:37.840
the biggest
00:46:38.260
purchase you
00:46:38.860
were able
00:46:39.140
to make
00:46:39.460
with Bitcoin?
00:46:41.220
Oh,
00:46:42.660
the biggest
00:46:43.700
purchase I'd
00:46:44.360
say would
00:46:44.620
be $50,000.
00:46:45.740
$50,000.
00:46:46.280
Do we know
00:46:47.200
what is the
00:46:47.720
biggest purchase
00:46:48.460
ever made
00:46:49.120
with Bitcoin
00:46:49.800
or no?
00:46:50.220
Is that
00:46:50.400
public info?
00:46:51.700
No,
00:46:52.020
it's not
00:46:52.260
really public,
00:46:52.860
no.
00:46:53.500
So no one
00:46:54.120
would know
00:46:54.480
what kind
00:46:54.820
of a purchase
00:46:55.240
has been
00:46:55.580
made.
00:46:55.880
That's the
00:46:56.140
biggest
00:46:56.380
purchase
00:46:56.720
with Bitcoin.
00:46:58.020
Well,
00:46:58.940
no one
00:46:59.720
would know,
00:47:00.540
but it's
00:47:01.000
not public.
00:47:01.580
This is
00:47:01.820
the whole
00:47:02.080
thing.
00:47:02.400
The ledger
00:47:02.700
doesn't say
00:47:03.440
who said
00:47:04.900
what and
00:47:05.900
who got
00:47:06.340
what and
00:47:06.780
where it
00:47:07.120
went.
00:47:07.340
So there's
00:47:08.600
a ledger
00:47:08.960
information
00:47:09.540
there,
00:47:10.200
but that
00:47:11.400
then aligns
00:47:12.640
with individuals
00:47:13.420
and what
00:47:13.800
they have.
00:47:15.600
Who's been
00:47:16.320
the biggest,
00:47:17.120
most credible
00:47:17.940
source of
00:47:18.980
investor that
00:47:20.000
bought the
00:47:20.520
biggest amount
00:47:21.380
of Bitcoin?
00:47:22.080
Is that
00:47:22.340
public info
00:47:23.000
or no?
00:47:24.800
There are
00:47:25.440
a number
00:47:25.800
of those,
00:47:26.400
but I don't
00:47:26.880
know what
00:47:27.320
the biggest
00:47:27.640
would be.
00:47:28.040
I mean,
00:47:28.340
I wouldn't
00:47:28.660
say investor
00:47:29.240
anyway,
00:47:29.620
I'd say
00:47:29.780
mostly gamblers.
00:47:32.160
Investor,
00:47:32.940
don't know.
00:47:34.340
Sorry.
00:47:35.100
Is Peter Thiel
00:47:36.120
one of the
00:47:36.620
bigger proponents
00:47:37.340
of Bitcoin?
00:47:37.980
Would you
00:47:38.160
say he's
00:47:38.480
one of
00:47:38.780
them?
00:47:40.080
I'd be
00:47:40.620
surprised if
00:47:41.160
he is.
00:47:42.080
You'd be
00:47:42.320
surprised if
00:47:42.860
he is.
00:47:43.240
Is there
00:47:43.700
a well-known
00:47:44.600
person that's
00:47:45.420
an analyst,
00:47:46.240
hedge fund,
00:47:46.780
somebody that
00:47:47.320
came out
00:47:47.720
and said,
00:47:48.320
we're going
00:47:49.120
to go buy
00:47:49.540
this much
00:47:50.000
Bitcoin?
00:47:51.160
You're
00:47:51.520
talking to
00:47:51.920
the wrong
00:47:52.160
person on
00:47:52.680
that.
00:47:53.040
Sorry.
00:47:53.700
Interesting.
00:47:54.220
Interesting that
00:47:54.860
why wouldn't
00:47:57.060
you know that
00:47:57.660
though?
00:47:57.860
That doesn't
00:47:58.560
interest you
00:47:59.020
at all
00:47:59.360
with how
00:48:00.660
investors and
00:48:01.440
analysts look
00:48:02.140
at Bitcoin?
00:48:02.800
not really.
00:48:05.240
I don't see
00:48:05.820
them as
00:48:06.140
investors.
00:48:06.740
I see
00:48:06.980
them as
00:48:07.340
gamblers.
00:48:08.220
So I'm
00:48:08.940
not working
00:48:09.640
in the
00:48:10.080
gaming industry
00:48:10.760
anymore and
00:48:11.460
I don't
00:48:11.900
really care
00:48:12.560
about how
00:48:13.660
people gamble
00:48:14.220
their money.
00:48:15.520
At the end
00:48:16.260
of the day,
00:48:17.160
my purpose
00:48:18.080
is to go
00:48:19.260
out there and
00:48:19.720
build things,
00:48:20.400
to create
00:48:22.020
inventions and
00:48:22.780
whatever else.
00:48:23.840
There's a lot
00:48:24.740
that needs to be
00:48:25.380
done before
00:48:25.960
Bitcoin really
00:48:27.380
succeeds where
00:48:29.340
it needs to
00:48:29.780
be.
00:48:31.420
A lot of
00:48:32.220
the things
00:48:32.720
I've been
00:48:33.020
working on
00:48:33.600
such as
00:48:34.180
properly
00:48:34.920
scaled SPV
00:48:35.940
and whatever
00:48:36.380
else all
00:48:37.560
need to be
00:48:38.040
implemented.
00:48:39.160
And that's
00:48:39.720
going to take
00:48:40.100
quite a number
00:48:40.660
of years.
00:48:42.020
And the
00:48:44.160
technology is
00:48:45.080
far more
00:48:45.720
interesting than
00:48:46.520
how people
00:48:47.800
sort of flip
00:48:48.260
their money.
00:48:49.800
Why don't
00:48:50.460
you sell all
00:48:51.000
your Bitcoin?
00:48:51.800
Why don't
00:48:52.200
you sell it
00:48:52.720
and cash out?
00:48:55.880
And do
00:48:56.540
what?
00:48:56.800
Sell all
00:48:58.560
my Bitcoin
00:48:58.980
and cash
00:48:59.400
out.
00:49:01.260
One, I
00:49:01.980
won't get
00:49:02.360
that much
00:49:02.760
money.
00:49:04.060
Even as
00:49:04.680
an OTC
00:49:05.080
trade, I'd
00:49:05.700
get less.
00:49:06.780
And then
00:49:07.600
what?
00:49:08.600
You just
00:49:09.280
said you
00:49:09.560
have a lot
00:49:09.880
of other
00:49:10.140
technology you'd
00:49:10.900
want to go
00:49:11.260
create.
00:49:11.900
You can use
00:49:12.680
that cord of
00:49:13.180
a billion
00:49:13.480
dollars to
00:49:14.060
go build
00:49:15.060
new technology
00:49:16.120
called...
00:49:16.680
We're building
00:49:16.900
new technology
00:49:17.560
now.
00:49:18.540
I mean,
00:49:18.900
we've already
00:49:19.380
got...
00:49:20.060
Nchain's already
00:49:20.720
several hundred
00:49:22.080
people around
00:49:22.680
the world.
00:49:23.640
We've got
00:49:24.240
offices in
00:49:24.800
multiple
00:49:25.080
continents.
00:49:26.800
We've got
00:49:29.480
over a thousand
00:49:30.720
patent filings
00:49:31.520
now.
00:49:31.880
I mean,
00:49:32.640
your assumption
00:49:34.520
is that
00:49:36.160
selling Bitcoin
00:49:38.060
is necessary.
00:49:40.300
But why
00:49:40.720
wouldn't you?
00:49:41.400
I mean,
00:49:41.660
wouldn't it...
00:49:42.560
It's sitting
00:49:44.480
on it.
00:49:45.180
Isn't that hurting
00:49:46.060
the narrative
00:49:46.720
on the fact
00:49:47.400
that this is not
00:49:48.000
being used
00:49:48.480
as a currency?
00:49:50.320
Why not move it?
00:49:51.160
Why not put it
00:49:51.740
elsewhere?
00:49:52.060
I move
00:49:53.520
Bitcoin now.
00:49:55.300
I spend
00:49:55.800
with Bitcoin
00:49:56.300
where I can.
00:49:57.340
So,
00:49:57.920
again,
00:49:58.600
you're thinking
00:49:59.460
that if I've
00:50:01.000
got money
00:50:01.440
in a bank,
00:50:01.900
I don't go
00:50:02.380
out there
00:50:02.740
every day
00:50:03.220
and see
00:50:03.640
what I can
00:50:04.000
spend.
00:50:05.120
Do you
00:50:05.560
make most
00:50:06.120
of your
00:50:06.320
purchases
00:50:06.720
on Bitcoin
00:50:07.240
or is it
00:50:07.960
the combination
00:50:08.560
cash,
00:50:09.320
credit,
00:50:09.740
Bitcoin?
00:50:10.460
Oh,
00:50:10.800
of course not.
00:50:11.420
I mean,
00:50:11.660
if I could
00:50:12.040
make most
00:50:12.480
of my
00:50:12.700
purchases
00:50:13.060
on Bitcoin,
00:50:13.440
I would.
00:50:14.380
The reality
00:50:15.220
here is
00:50:15.800
I can't.
00:50:17.060
There's
00:50:17.380
actually
00:50:17.760
less opportunity
00:50:19.500
than there
00:50:20.320
was in
00:50:20.880
2013,
00:50:21.860
2014.
00:50:23.560
As the
00:50:24.420
BDC price
00:50:25.300
has gone
00:50:25.680
up,
00:50:25.940
many people
00:50:26.660
have just
00:50:27.040
abandoned
00:50:27.600
the whole
00:50:28.240
concept of
00:50:28.820
using Bitcoin
00:50:29.540
as a
00:50:30.080
monetary
00:50:30.340
system
00:50:30.860
and it's
00:50:32.340
left it
00:50:33.280
with the
00:50:33.560
gamblers.
00:50:34.500
So,
00:50:35.400
it's actually
00:50:36.220
harder to
00:50:36.880
spend Bitcoin
00:50:37.360
right now
00:50:37.880
than it
00:50:38.160
was.
00:50:39.360
What's the
00:50:39.880
biggest
00:50:40.200
commercial
00:50:40.780
company
00:50:41.340
that is
00:50:41.840
allowing
00:50:42.360
purchases
00:50:42.880
being made
00:50:43.420
by Bitcoin?
00:50:44.500
A very
00:50:44.920
well-known
00:50:45.420
company
00:50:45.820
that you
00:50:46.140
can go
00:50:46.460
and buy
00:50:46.680
with
00:50:46.880
Bitcoin?
00:50:47.240
I don't
00:50:50.220
know of
00:50:50.520
any.
00:50:51.440
Don't
00:50:51.740
know any.
00:50:52.340
So,
00:50:52.580
if I
00:50:52.740
wanted to
00:50:53.100
go into
00:50:53.400
Apple,
00:50:54.380
Ford,
00:50:55.700
you know,
00:50:56.240
Walmart,
00:50:57.360
and Amazon,
00:50:58.180
I can't
00:50:58.600
make any
00:50:58.960
to purchase
00:50:59.380
with Bitcoin
00:50:59.880
today.
00:51:00.820
No,
00:51:01.340
and that's
00:51:01.680
a problem.
00:51:02.680
Do you
00:51:02.900
think it's
00:51:03.260
used to
00:51:03.840
be Microsoft,
00:51:04.660
but we
00:51:08.080
made things
00:51:08.500
too difficult.
00:51:11.780
Elaborate
00:51:12.280
if you
00:51:12.500
don't mind.
00:51:13.940
Well,
00:51:14.460
people will
00:51:14.920
take Bitcoin
00:51:15.980
when it's
00:51:16.740
cheap and
00:51:17.060
easy.
00:51:18.180
When you
00:51:18.720
have fees
00:51:19.320
that are
00:51:20.080
variable
00:51:20.560
and go
00:51:21.060
up and
00:51:21.380
down
00:51:21.820
and more
00:51:24.040
than a
00:51:24.340
cent,
00:51:24.840
then you
00:51:25.460
don't have
00:51:25.880
an online
00:51:26.240
cash system
00:51:26.860
anymore.
00:51:30.220
Very
00:51:30.720
interesting.
00:51:31.740
You know,
00:51:32.340
when you
00:51:33.060
did the
00:51:33.980
interview
00:51:34.320
with BBC,
00:51:36.660
Wall Street
00:51:37.100
Journal,
00:51:38.000
I want to
00:51:39.000
say 2016
00:51:39.920
or 2017,
00:51:41.040
I don't
00:51:41.260
know the
00:51:41.580
exact timeline,
00:51:42.320
I think it
00:51:42.660
was around
00:51:42.960
2016 when
00:51:43.620
you did
00:51:43.840
the
00:51:43.980
interview,
00:51:45.280
and,
00:51:45.860
you know,
00:51:46.400
the gentleman
00:51:47.400
that's
00:51:47.720
interviewing
00:51:48.120
you is
00:51:50.580
asking,
00:51:51.100
you know,
00:51:51.340
why are you
00:51:51.720
doing this
00:51:52.080
interview?
00:51:52.760
I said,
00:51:53.280
yeah,
00:51:53.560
I'm doing
00:51:53.920
this interview,
00:51:54.940
but that
00:51:55.620
doesn't mean I
00:51:56.080
have to bounce
00:51:56.600
around in TV
00:51:57.260
cameras.
00:51:57.680
I don't want
00:51:58.200
money.
00:51:58.560
I don't want
00:51:58.960
fame.
00:51:59.380
I don't want
00:51:59.760
adoration.
00:52:00.220
I just want
00:52:00.820
to be left
00:52:01.240
alone.
00:52:02.660
Yes.
00:52:03.080
And then
00:52:03.320
you said,
00:52:04.440
the gentleman
00:52:05.280
asked you,
00:52:05.820
says,
00:52:06.060
why now?
00:52:06.720
Why have
00:52:07.160
you decided
00:52:07.680
to identify
00:52:08.200
yourself as
00:52:08.820
Satoshi Nakamoto?
00:52:10.060
You said,
00:52:10.480
I didn't
00:52:10.920
decide.
00:52:11.940
I had
00:52:12.340
people decide
00:52:13.080
this matter
00:52:13.500
for me,
00:52:14.020
and they're
00:52:14.280
making life
00:52:14.900
difficult,
00:52:15.440
not for me,
00:52:15.980
but my
00:52:16.260
friends,
00:52:16.660
family,
00:52:16.960
and staff.
00:52:17.740
They want
00:52:18.280
to be
00:52:18.480
private.
00:52:18.980
I don't
00:52:19.220
want any
00:52:19.640
one of
00:52:19.920
them to be
00:52:20.320
impacted by
00:52:20.900
this.
00:52:21.260
None of
00:52:21.560
it is
00:52:21.820
true.
00:52:22.540
There are
00:52:22.780
a lot of
00:52:23.080
stories out
00:52:23.600
there that
00:52:23.860
are made
00:52:24.180
up.
00:52:24.680
I'm going
00:52:25.160
to do
00:52:25.460
this once
00:52:25.920
and once
00:52:26.320
only.
00:52:26.840
I'm going
00:52:27.120
to come
00:52:27.540
in front
00:52:27.920
of camera
00:52:28.380
once,
00:52:28.900
and I
00:52:29.160
will never
00:52:29.720
ever be
00:52:30.160
seen on
00:52:30.540
camera ever
00:52:30.980
again for
00:52:31.800
any TV
00:52:32.320
station or
00:52:32.920
any media
00:52:33.500
ever.
00:52:34.480
What
00:52:34.760
changed?
00:52:37.420
Those
00:52:38.020
people didn't
00:52:38.600
stop.
00:52:40.300
Those
00:52:40.900
people kept
00:52:41.800
their BS
00:52:43.040
up.
00:52:44.000
People like
00:52:44.460
Mr. Maxwell
00:52:45.080
and others
00:52:45.580
in core
00:52:46.040
have been
00:52:47.580
attacking me
00:52:48.440
for years
00:52:49.840
now.
00:52:50.480
Not
00:52:50.960
2015 when
00:52:52.040
they released
00:52:52.880
a whole lot
00:52:53.280
of fake
00:52:53.620
information,
00:52:54.360
not right
00:52:54.880
now.
00:52:56.120
They were
00:52:57.980
contacted by
00:52:58.760
the tax
00:52:59.400
office in
00:52:59.860
Australia.
00:53:01.700
I'd been,
00:53:02.660
I actually
00:53:03.360
contacted
00:53:03.960
them.
00:53:04.360
I was
00:53:04.540
talking to
00:53:05.020
the tax
00:53:05.380
office.
00:53:06.280
And of
00:53:06.480
course,
00:53:06.680
the tax
00:53:06.960
office decided
00:53:07.900
to verify
00:53:08.440
things,
00:53:09.060
but instead
00:53:09.420
of doing
00:53:09.640
it properly,
00:53:10.500
they talked
00:53:10.980
to people
00:53:11.540
like Mr.
00:53:11.960
Antonopoulos
00:53:12.580
and Greg
00:53:13.120
Maxwell
00:53:13.500
and things
00:53:13.880
like this,
00:53:14.540
who told
00:53:14.940
them,
00:53:15.320
no,
00:53:15.620
that's not
00:53:15.980
how Bitcoin
00:53:16.560
works.
00:53:17.480
You can't
00:53:18.000
tax Bitcoin.
00:53:19.120
It's all
00:53:19.680
hidden.
00:53:21.120
And this
00:53:21.840
guy's scamming
00:53:22.600
you.
00:53:24.500
And of
00:53:25.140
course,
00:53:25.900
none of
00:53:26.460
those people
00:53:27.080
wanted a
00:53:28.800
version of
00:53:29.560
Bitcoin that
00:53:30.040
was honest
00:53:30.560
and worked
00:53:31.400
within the
00:53:31.780
law and
00:53:32.340
the tax
00:53:33.080
officers
00:53:33.480
could manage.
00:53:34.620
So they
00:53:35.100
made up
00:53:35.560
stories about
00:53:36.320
me and
00:53:36.960
they've been
00:53:37.260
doing it
00:53:37.620
ever since.
00:53:38.160
And so
00:53:40.880
you're coming
00:53:41.340
out to
00:53:41.680
defend the
00:53:42.120
position over
00:53:42.820
and over
00:53:43.100
again?
00:53:44.060
Well,
00:53:44.640
I didn't
00:53:44.940
really even
00:53:45.660
come out.
00:53:46.360
I mean,
00:53:46.940
in December
00:53:48.440
2015,
00:53:49.540
this whole
00:53:50.120
fake swatting
00:53:51.320
and raid.
00:53:52.340
I mean,
00:53:52.620
I moved
00:53:53.140
to the
00:53:54.180
UK here
00:53:54.880
in October
00:53:55.780
2015.
00:53:59.200
And then
00:54:00.080
you have
00:54:00.460
these fake
00:54:01.100
media things.
00:54:01.780
does anyone
00:54:03.280
ever ask
00:54:04.040
why there
00:54:05.040
happens to
00:54:05.580
be a
00:54:06.520
secret raid
00:54:07.400
on someone
00:54:08.060
with television
00:54:09.860
cameras just
00:54:10.600
waiting there?
00:54:13.720
I mean,
00:54:14.060
think about it
00:54:14.600
for a moment.
00:54:15.820
In an
00:54:16.720
empty house.
00:54:17.640
So not
00:54:20.280
where I'm
00:54:20.640
living,
00:54:21.620
not in the
00:54:22.360
country I've
00:54:23.020
been living
00:54:23.420
for months,
00:54:25.040
where everyone
00:54:26.620
knew because
00:54:27.380
all my tax
00:54:29.240
things and
00:54:29.560
everything were
00:54:29.940
finalized.
00:54:31.720
Imagine
00:54:32.280
that you've
00:54:33.920
got camera
00:54:34.500
crews sitting
00:54:35.120
outside somewhere.
00:54:36.140
That means
00:54:36.500
someone's told
00:54:37.540
them these
00:54:37.980
things.
00:54:39.100
Camera crews
00:54:39.540
don't randomly
00:54:40.440
just sit there
00:54:41.080
waiting.
00:54:44.040
So
00:54:44.640
think about
00:54:46.220
this.
00:54:46.520
does that
00:54:47.820
sound like
00:54:48.740
it just
00:54:49.100
randomly
00:54:49.640
happens?
00:54:50.080
Like a
00:54:50.400
whole lot
00:54:50.660
of camera
00:54:50.980
crews are
00:54:51.440
just sitting
00:54:51.820
there waiting
00:54:52.440
for a
00:54:53.160
group of
00:54:54.240
police to
00:54:54.800
run and
00:54:55.860
swat a
00:54:56.960
house?
00:54:58.820
And then
00:54:59.520
stories come
00:55:00.280
out about
00:55:00.720
things?
00:55:01.140
I mean,
00:55:02.180
no one
00:55:03.820
seems to
00:55:04.240
think anymore.
00:55:05.980
They don't
00:55:06.260
question things.
00:55:07.560
They just
00:55:08.080
assume what
00:55:08.740
they're being
00:55:09.360
fed by the
00:55:09.880
media must
00:55:10.400
be correct.
00:55:13.400
What was
00:55:14.520
the media
00:55:14.980
feeling about
00:55:15.660
you?
00:55:15.980
Are you
00:55:17.480
saying the
00:55:17.860
media is
00:55:19.160
feeding people
00:55:19.940
that you
00:55:20.420
are not
00:55:20.860
Satoshi
00:55:21.260
Nakamoto?
00:55:21.860
Or what
00:55:22.180
is the
00:55:22.540
media
00:55:22.760
feeding?
00:55:23.840
That was
00:55:24.280
part of
00:55:24.680
it.
00:55:25.820
We had
00:55:26.320
a lot
00:55:26.680
of
00:55:26.920
people
00:55:29.500
wanting
00:55:29.760
to
00:55:30.100
discredit
00:55:30.600
what I'm
00:55:31.040
doing.
00:55:31.940
So
00:55:31.980
this whole
00:55:34.500
concept is
00:55:35.620
whatever I
00:55:36.360
do is
00:55:36.800
bad.
00:55:38.560
So
00:55:38.840
Satoshi
00:55:40.000
would never
00:55:40.660
patent
00:55:41.080
must be
00:55:42.220
Hell Finney.
00:55:43.860
Hell Finney,
00:55:44.560
of course
00:55:44.960
actually
00:55:45.860
had patents
00:55:46.540
and most
00:55:48.380
of the
00:55:48.720
guys in
00:55:49.180
core have
00:55:49.640
patents
00:55:50.080
and most
00:55:51.400
of the
00:55:51.800
other people
00:55:52.580
who hypocritically
00:55:53.780
sit there
00:55:54.220
saying
00:55:54.620
no,
00:55:56.720
can't be
00:55:57.160
Craig because
00:55:57.900
have patents.
00:55:59.960
Just I do
00:56:00.640
it better.
00:56:01.960
So then
00:56:03.240
they sit
00:56:03.620
there saying
00:56:04.240
oh well
00:56:05.120
you copied
00:56:05.560
this except
00:56:06.100
you don't get
00:56:06.700
a patent
00:56:07.080
by copying
00:56:07.660
something.
00:56:08.080
and it's
00:56:09.380
easy to
00:56:09.800
make the
00:56:10.140
claim saying
00:56:10.800
look this
00:56:11.920
is just
00:56:12.600
a Diffie
00:56:13.040
Hellman
00:56:13.320
process.
00:56:14.600
Except
00:56:15.120
if you
00:56:16.080
write a
00:56:16.600
patent
00:56:16.900
well,
00:56:17.960
which we
00:56:18.360
do,
00:56:18.940
you have
00:56:19.480
to actually
00:56:19.840
do this
00:56:20.240
section
00:56:20.540
called
00:56:20.820
prior art.
00:56:22.600
And in
00:56:23.320
prior art
00:56:24.060
you put
00:56:24.460
all the
00:56:24.960
things that
00:56:25.460
already
00:56:26.100
exist and
00:56:27.360
you explain
00:56:27.920
why you're
00:56:30.080
different to
00:56:30.540
them.
00:56:31.740
So if you
00:56:32.500
want to have
00:56:32.860
a really
00:56:33.260
good patent,
00:56:33.840
you sit
00:56:35.680
there and
00:56:36.020
you document
00:56:36.700
how things
00:56:37.720
really are
00:56:38.400
now.
00:56:39.480
This is
00:56:39.940
the existing
00:56:41.060
intellectual
00:56:41.620
property.
00:56:42.400
These are
00:56:42.700
the existing
00:56:43.280
inventions.
00:56:44.800
You know
00:56:45.120
like when
00:56:46.280
you document
00:56:46.840
other people's
00:56:47.480
work in
00:56:48.720
other things
00:56:49.140
and you
00:56:49.840
basically put
00:56:50.940
that there
00:56:51.360
and then you
00:56:51.740
say but
00:56:52.260
this is my
00:56:53.220
invention.
00:56:54.680
And what
00:56:55.260
you actually
00:56:55.840
have patented
00:56:56.460
is your
00:56:57.120
invention not
00:56:57.720
the previous
00:56:58.380
things.
00:56:59.880
But most
00:57:01.840
people have
00:57:02.320
never filed a
00:57:03.040
patent.
00:57:03.840
Most people
00:57:04.340
have never
00:57:04.720
done a
00:57:05.080
thesis.
00:57:06.420
So when
00:57:07.600
people sit
00:57:08.100
there and
00:57:08.800
comment on
00:57:09.560
these things
00:57:09.980
it's without
00:57:10.620
knowledge,
00:57:11.700
without
00:57:12.060
understanding.
00:57:13.340
And it's
00:57:13.640
very easy
00:57:14.420
to sit
00:57:15.520
there on
00:57:15.900
social media
00:57:16.480
these days
00:57:17.060
and this is
00:57:17.460
part of the
00:57:17.860
problem with
00:57:18.280
things like
00:57:18.600
Twitter.
00:57:19.600
You can sit
00:57:20.100
there and
00:57:20.440
say oh
00:57:21.100
isn't that
00:57:21.520
terrible.
00:57:22.900
But you
00:57:23.200
don't care
00:57:23.640
about the
00:57:24.040
truth.
00:57:25.100
You don't
00:57:25.440
care about
00:57:26.020
what's
00:57:26.320
real.
00:57:27.580
Because we
00:57:28.520
have this
00:57:28.920
whole culture
00:57:29.520
now of
00:57:30.280
not doing
00:57:31.020
something.
00:57:32.340
Not actually
00:57:32.900
going out
00:57:33.540
there and
00:57:33.880
making a
00:57:34.500
better world
00:57:35.060
because we
00:57:35.880
don't need
00:57:36.520
to anymore.
00:57:37.520
We can
00:57:37.920
click like.
00:57:40.040
I didn't
00:57:40.880
actually have
00:57:41.480
to go out
00:57:42.000
there and
00:57:42.460
help that
00:57:43.340
person because
00:57:44.180
I liked
00:57:45.720
the video of
00:57:46.580
them suffering.
00:57:47.120
I said that
00:57:49.380
it was really
00:57:50.040
terrible.
00:57:51.100
I saw and
00:57:52.300
I felt and
00:57:52.980
I emoted
00:57:53.700
online and
00:57:54.860
I said I
00:57:56.760
feel so
00:57:57.420
bad.
00:57:58.560
And other
00:57:58.920
people came
00:57:59.600
back to me
00:58:00.100
and said we
00:58:01.460
feel bad for
00:58:02.340
you.
00:58:03.660
That's our
00:58:04.360
world now.
00:58:06.260
If we want
00:58:07.080
to go back
00:58:07.480
to a biblical
00:58:07.960
thing it's
00:58:09.640
the good
00:58:09.920
Samaritan
00:58:10.460
except the
00:58:12.360
good Samaritan
00:58:12.960
is the one
00:58:13.360
who isn't
00:58:13.920
on social
00:58:14.500
media.
00:58:15.740
Everyone
00:58:16.300
else walking
00:58:17.240
along.
00:58:19.120
They're the
00:58:19.800
ones who
00:58:20.160
are on
00:58:20.360
social media.
00:58:21.900
The Pharisees
00:58:22.720
who pass
00:58:23.500
the guy
00:58:23.920
and watch
00:58:24.560
him bleed.
00:58:25.840
But they
00:58:26.160
get back
00:58:26.700
and they
00:58:27.280
tweet about
00:58:27.920
it and
00:58:28.980
they say
00:58:29.360
he was
00:58:30.520
bleeding but
00:58:32.400
I'm really
00:58:33.780
good because
00:58:34.460
I made
00:58:36.020
sure I
00:58:36.500
stayed pure.
00:58:37.160
if I got
00:58:38.540
blood on
00:58:39.060
my hands
00:58:39.720
I wouldn't
00:58:41.020
be able to
00:58:41.920
go to
00:58:43.120
temple on
00:58:43.860
Sabbath.
00:58:45.480
And then
00:58:45.760
the next
00:58:46.320
group come
00:58:46.900
through and
00:58:47.720
they sit
00:58:48.080
there and
00:58:48.440
they say
00:58:48.860
I'm so
00:58:50.160
pure because
00:58:50.860
obviously
00:58:51.700
I'm with
00:58:53.200
other people
00:58:53.780
and we
00:58:54.580
could have
00:58:54.860
been attacked
00:58:55.520
and we
00:58:56.800
want to
00:58:57.100
live in
00:58:57.420
fear don't
00:58:58.220
we?
00:58:58.600
We don't
00:58:58.960
want to do
00:58:59.540
something because
00:59:00.140
poor little
00:59:00.920
me.
00:59:01.980
But it's
00:59:02.860
not just
00:59:03.200
me.
00:59:04.540
What about
00:59:04.900
these people
00:59:05.460
I'm with?
00:59:06.860
What about
00:59:07.280
them?
00:59:08.640
I know
00:59:09.360
there's only
00:59:09.700
probably two
00:59:10.180
attackers and
00:59:10.720
there's like
00:59:11.020
ten of us
00:59:11.600
but what
00:59:14.360
if some of
00:59:15.060
us get
00:59:15.340
hurt?
00:59:17.040
So we
00:59:17.680
walk on.
00:59:20.180
And that's
00:59:20.900
what our
00:59:21.220
world is
00:59:21.600
becoming.
00:59:23.580
We leave
00:59:24.320
the people
00:59:24.700
there.
00:59:25.300
We sit
00:59:25.780
there and
00:59:26.040
we click
00:59:26.480
on people
00:59:27.000
and we
00:59:27.280
say isn't
00:59:28.100
this great
00:59:29.000
because look
00:59:29.700
what I've
00:59:30.060
done.
00:59:30.440
I've helped
00:59:31.140
by clicking
00:59:31.840
like.
00:59:33.460
You haven't.
00:59:34.360
And all
00:59:36.180
these people
00:59:36.540
who think
00:59:36.800
they have
00:59:37.220
you're
00:59:37.720
scum.
00:59:39.560
And if
00:59:39.840
you don't
00:59:40.040
like that
00:59:40.560
get off
00:59:41.380
your freaking
00:59:41.900
ass and
00:59:42.920
do something
00:59:43.520
about it.
00:59:46.000
What part
00:59:47.360
of the
00:59:47.620
question I
00:59:48.060
asked made
00:59:48.520
you want
00:59:48.780
to go
00:59:49.020
there?
00:59:49.660
I asked
00:59:50.280
you a
00:59:50.540
question
00:59:50.780
saying about
00:59:51.480
what the
00:59:51.960
media is
00:59:52.500
saying about
00:59:54.140
you and
00:59:54.860
then you
00:59:55.260
went to
00:59:55.700
that part
00:59:56.260
about the
00:59:56.560
Good Samaritan
00:59:57.120
but what
00:59:58.520
made you
00:59:59.620
want to
01:00:00.340
constantly come
01:00:01.400
out and
01:00:01.680
talk about
01:00:02.200
the fact
01:00:02.620
that you're
01:00:02.940
Satoshi
01:00:03.440
Nakamoto.
01:00:05.000
Who cares
01:00:05.420
what they're
01:00:05.800
saying about
01:00:06.560
you?
01:00:07.660
Who said
01:00:08.020
I did?
01:00:09.320
The media.
01:00:09.980
This is all
01:00:10.520
the media.
01:00:10.920
Facebook.
01:00:11.680
All these
01:00:12.060
other things
01:00:12.440
are media.
01:00:13.520
You're saying
01:00:14.140
that I did.
01:00:14.620
I didn't.
01:00:15.640
You didn't
01:00:16.120
come out
01:00:16.500
and say
01:00:16.860
it?
01:00:18.420
You said
01:00:19.100
constantly.
01:00:20.140
I said I
01:00:20.840
would do
01:00:21.420
something and
01:00:21.940
go away and
01:00:23.160
then no one
01:00:23.800
goes away.
01:00:25.400
So I
01:00:26.440
didn't.
01:00:27.280
All these
01:00:27.820
other people
01:00:28.220
put out other
01:00:28.800
things and
01:00:29.500
whatever else.
01:00:30.720
So I
01:00:31.500
didn't sit
01:00:31.900
there going
01:00:32.340
this is what
01:00:32.900
I'm going
01:00:33.160
to do
01:00:33.480
for you.
01:00:33.860
I'm going
01:00:34.140
to be
01:00:34.380
your great
01:00:34.820
leader.
01:00:35.960
I'm going
01:00:36.480
to lead
01:00:37.400
your revolution.
01:00:38.780
I didn't
01:00:39.200
sit there
01:00:39.580
in 2010
01:00:40.200
coming out
01:00:41.720
and going
01:00:42.000
hey I'm
01:00:42.720
Satoshi
01:00:43.140
I want
01:00:43.440
to give
01:00:43.640
interviews.
01:00:45.840
I didn't
01:00:46.660
do it
01:00:47.120
in 2017
01:00:47.780
even.
01:00:48.360
I didn't
01:00:48.720
want to
01:00:49.200
sit there
01:00:49.620
and say
01:00:49.920
look I
01:00:50.320
am.
01:00:50.600
I was
01:00:50.980
just
01:00:51.180
building.
01:00:52.940
I was
01:00:53.620
building
01:00:54.040
a working
01:00:55.260
version
01:00:55.800
of
01:00:56.360
electronic
01:00:56.800
cash
01:00:57.320
that
01:00:57.900
scales.
01:01:00.020
We're
01:01:00.580
already
01:01:01.060
doing
01:01:02.520
millions
01:01:02.960
of
01:01:03.180
transactions
01:01:03.740
at the
01:01:04.280
moment.
01:01:05.940
Building
01:01:06.580
something
01:01:06.940
that
01:01:07.200
works.
01:01:08.500
But that's
01:01:09.020
what scares
01:01:09.480
people.
01:01:10.820
Because guess
01:01:11.400
what?
01:01:11.820
Something that
01:01:12.460
works kills
01:01:14.340
off all the
01:01:15.140
little false
01:01:15.640
mantras about
01:01:16.940
Ponzi schemes
01:01:18.180
that make you
01:01:18.840
money by doing
01:01:19.820
nothing.
01:01:21.820
So why am I
01:01:23.520
going there?
01:01:23.900
Because this
01:01:24.620
is there.
01:01:26.420
This is what
01:01:27.560
people are
01:01:27.880
doing.
01:01:28.400
The media
01:01:29.520
exists because
01:01:31.220
those people
01:01:32.240
who do
01:01:33.640
nothing,
01:01:34.100
those people
01:01:34.620
who watch,
01:01:35.300
those people
01:01:35.780
who voyeuristically
01:01:36.780
sit there
01:01:37.420
and think that
01:01:38.540
the world
01:01:38.960
is going
01:01:40.820
to move
01:01:42.300
because
01:01:42.720
they watch
01:01:43.660
TV or
01:01:44.580
they watch
01:01:45.000
YouTube or
01:01:45.560
they watch
01:01:46.000
whatever else.
01:01:47.060
That's the
01:01:47.540
problem.
01:01:47.800
So there
01:01:51.940
are a few
01:01:52.840
names involved
01:01:53.720
when it comes
01:01:54.280
down to
01:01:54.580
Satoshi Nakamoto.
01:01:56.460
You're
01:01:56.660
obviously one
01:01:57.320
of them.
01:01:57.640
You mentioned
01:01:58.060
another one,
01:01:59.100
which is
01:01:59.460
Hal Finney,
01:02:00.040
who was also
01:02:00.580
there early
01:02:01.120
at the
01:02:01.400
beginning.
01:02:02.600
And then
01:02:02.880
there's also
01:02:03.380
another one
01:02:04.000
named Dave
01:02:05.700
Kleiman,
01:02:06.960
who I
01:02:07.820
believe Dave
01:02:08.760
sued you
01:02:09.680
for some
01:02:10.140
$5.2
01:02:11.040
billion.
01:02:12.040
Dave's
01:02:12.760
estranged
01:02:13.580
brother.
01:02:15.080
So Dave
01:02:15.500
was my
01:02:15.860
friend.
01:02:16.700
Dave died
01:02:17.300
in 2013.
01:02:22.380
In
01:02:22.900
February
01:02:23.180
2018,
01:02:24.140
the estate,
01:02:24.980
you're
01:02:25.140
right,
01:02:25.360
the estate
01:02:25.740
of Dave
01:02:26.100
Kleiman
01:02:26.480
initiated a
01:02:27.680
lawsuit at
01:02:28.100
the U.S.
01:02:28.480
District
01:02:28.700
Court for
01:02:29.200
Southern
01:02:29.520
District of
01:02:30.040
Florida
01:02:30.360
against
01:02:31.260
right over
01:02:31.840
the rights
01:02:32.300
of $5.118
01:02:33.500
billion worth
01:02:34.360
of Bitcoin
01:02:34.800
claiming that
01:02:35.400
right the
01:02:35.800
frauded
01:02:36.140
climate of
01:02:36.540
Bitcoins
01:02:36.940
and intellectual
01:02:37.880
property
01:02:38.380
rights.
01:02:39.940
Yes,
01:02:40.380
except I
01:02:41.540
won't go
01:02:41.880
into detail
01:02:42.500
on that
01:02:42.820
because it's
01:02:43.180
an ongoing
01:02:43.540
case,
01:02:44.120
but here's
01:02:44.940
the point
01:02:45.200
for you.
01:02:45.820
If you
01:02:46.100
haven't moved
01:02:46.580
it,
01:02:46.780
how have
01:02:47.060
you
01:02:47.180
stolen
01:02:47.440
it?
01:02:48.940
It's
01:02:49.180
like saying,
01:02:50.380
well,
01:02:50.920
here's the
01:02:52.200
bar of gold.
01:02:52.900
It's sitting
01:02:53.260
in the
01:02:53.760
safe deposit
01:02:54.300
box.
01:02:54.860
It has
01:02:55.140
never moved.
01:02:56.480
You must
01:02:57.160
have stolen
01:02:57.540
it because
01:02:57.940
I've lost
01:02:58.340
the keys.
01:03:00.140
You've
01:03:00.640
lost the
01:03:01.000
keys.
01:03:01.640
Not me.
01:03:03.060
They're
01:03:03.520
saying that.
01:03:04.000
They lost
01:03:04.480
the keys,
01:03:05.000
so therefore,
01:03:05.920
you stole
01:03:06.720
it.
01:03:06.920
So they
01:03:08.620
lost the
01:03:09.120
keys to
01:03:09.660
Dave's
01:03:10.040
Bitcoin,
01:03:10.620
but they're
01:03:10.940
saying you
01:03:11.320
stole it.
01:03:12.460
Yes,
01:03:13.780
because it
01:03:14.400
hasn't
01:03:14.660
moved.
01:03:16.040
But do
01:03:16.740
you have
01:03:17.120
the keys
01:03:17.500
to yours
01:03:18.140
or you
01:03:19.000
don't have
01:03:19.580
access to
01:03:20.120
it?
01:03:20.220
Because I
01:03:20.560
know you
01:03:20.780
also told
01:03:21.560
in court
01:03:22.500
testimony
01:03:22.960
last year
01:03:23.740
that you
01:03:23.980
also don't
01:03:24.340
have access
01:03:24.740
to your
01:03:25.200
Bitcoin.
01:03:27.360
That's not
01:03:27.960
exactly what
01:03:28.500
I said
01:03:28.840
and I
01:03:29.960
didn't say
01:03:30.300
they were
01:03:30.500
mine.
01:03:30.840
I said
01:03:31.160
there was
01:03:31.380
a trust.
01:03:33.580
But as
01:03:34.360
I said,
01:03:34.680
I'm not
01:03:34.900
going to
01:03:35.420
go into
01:03:35.960
detail about
01:03:36.680
the court
01:03:37.140
case.
01:03:37.480
It's
01:03:37.580
ongoing.
01:03:38.500
So,
01:03:38.980
okay,
01:03:39.120
let's set
01:03:39.520
the money
01:03:39.940
aside that
01:03:40.520
it's
01:03:40.680
ongoing
01:03:40.960
case,
01:03:41.360
but let's
01:03:41.580
go back
01:03:41.960
to Dave.
01:03:42.420
So yourself,
01:03:43.340
Hal and
01:03:43.700
Dave were
01:03:44.160
involved at
01:03:45.340
the beginning
01:03:45.740
stage with
01:03:46.320
you leading
01:03:46.800
it.
01:03:48.760
Not the
01:03:49.840
way you're
01:03:50.220
making out.
01:03:51.080
There were
01:03:51.320
a few people
01:03:51.780
online.
01:03:53.100
Hal helped
01:03:54.320
in the
01:03:55.180
term.
01:03:56.520
Basically,
01:03:57.120
I sent out
01:03:57.620
code to
01:03:58.660
people that
01:03:59.200
they reviewed.
01:04:00.840
So,
01:04:01.600
was he
01:04:01.880
Satoshi?
01:04:02.460
No.
01:04:03.560
But like
01:04:05.000
many other
01:04:05.400
people,
01:04:05.740
they could
01:04:06.040
have taken
01:04:06.980
an active
01:04:08.120
interest.
01:04:08.640
It was
01:04:08.960
an experimental
01:04:10.340
project at
01:04:11.560
that stage.
01:04:12.800
And if
01:04:13.120
people wanted
01:04:13.560
to be involved,
01:04:14.520
they could
01:04:14.780
have been.
01:04:16.740
So,
01:04:17.340
have you
01:04:17.600
ever met
01:04:18.180
Hal Finney?
01:04:19.580
Not
01:04:20.100
physically,
01:04:20.640
no.
01:04:21.080
Never have.
01:04:22.020
Okay.
01:04:22.420
But Dave
01:04:23.320
was a friend
01:04:23.860
of yours.
01:04:24.700
Yes,
01:04:25.020
Dave was.
01:04:25.820
Okay.
01:04:26.280
Then there's
01:04:26.800
another person
01:04:27.820
that comes
01:04:28.340
out that's
01:04:29.120
Adam Beck.
01:04:30.480
Do you
01:04:30.780
have a
01:04:31.080
relationship
01:04:31.480
with Adam?
01:04:33.660
Only from
01:04:34.480
Twitter and
01:04:34.980
other such
01:04:35.420
things.
01:04:36.500
So,
01:04:36.820
you and
01:04:37.060
Adam have
01:04:37.500
never met
01:04:37.900
each other?
01:04:38.740
Not
01:04:39.140
physically,
01:04:39.640
no.
01:04:40.660
I've
01:04:41.180
jousted
01:04:42.440
with him
01:04:42.760
since 2014
01:04:43.500
online.
01:04:44.800
I spoke
01:04:45.660
with him
01:04:46.480
over email
01:04:47.940
and whatever
01:04:48.340
else in
01:04:48.740
2008.
01:04:50.180
But,
01:04:50.540
no,
01:04:51.220
Adam's not
01:04:53.580
the brightest
01:04:54.460
guy in the
01:04:55.040
bunch.
01:04:55.240
but,
01:04:55.960
unfortunately,
01:04:57.640
he's
01:04:58.240
easily
01:04:58.600
for other
01:04:59.980
people to
01:05:00.400
manipulate,
01:05:01.200
is the best
01:05:01.620
way to put it.
01:05:02.500
Adam's not
01:05:03.200
the brightest
01:05:03.840
guy of the
01:05:04.700
bunch.
01:05:06.120
You're saying
01:05:06.720
Adam is not
01:05:07.480
bright?
01:05:08.160
I mean,
01:05:08.520
you know,
01:05:08.820
listen,
01:05:09.360
when I bring
01:05:10.000
up your name
01:05:10.700
and people
01:05:11.040
talk shit
01:05:11.540
about you,
01:05:12.660
I'm like,
01:05:13.060
listen,
01:05:13.340
you can't
01:05:13.920
say Craig
01:05:14.660
is not
01:05:15.100
brilliant.
01:05:15.400
You can say
01:05:15.920
a lot of
01:05:16.340
things about
01:05:16.740
a lot of
01:05:17.140
people.
01:05:17.420
You can't
01:05:17.820
say Craig
01:05:18.240
is not
01:05:18.540
brilliant.
01:05:19.540
I mean,
01:05:19.800
Adam got
01:05:20.360
his PhD
01:05:21.000
in distributed
01:05:21.660
computing
01:05:22.120
systems,
01:05:23.140
which is a
01:05:23.600
perfect background
01:05:24.240
to build a
01:05:24.760
decentralized
01:05:25.120
computer
01:05:25.580
network.
01:05:26.080
I mean,
01:05:26.320
Adam's...
01:05:27.020
No,
01:05:27.600
actually,
01:05:27.960
that's not...
01:05:29.780
That's what
01:05:30.400
he says
01:05:30.700
now.
01:05:32.840
So,
01:05:33.680
Adam's
01:05:34.180
thing is
01:05:35.580
on a
01:05:36.240
type of
01:05:37.120
parallel
01:05:37.560
code system
01:05:38.540
that has
01:05:38.820
nothing to
01:05:39.520
do with
01:05:39.740
anything like
01:05:40.260
Bitcoin.
01:05:41.220
And Adam
01:05:42.180
didn't invent
01:05:43.420
proof-of-work,
01:05:44.540
contrary to
01:05:44.880
what he says.
01:05:45.700
The system
01:05:46.440
in Bitcoin
01:05:47.140
isn't the
01:05:48.440
system that
01:05:49.080
Adam invented
01:05:49.660
in hash
01:05:50.100
cash.
01:05:50.800
Adam was
01:05:51.260
the only
01:05:52.500
one who
01:05:52.900
answered my
01:05:53.640
emails
01:05:54.040
at the
01:05:54.380
time.
01:05:55.100
The system
01:05:56.000
used in
01:05:56.420
Bitcoin is
01:05:57.200
by Aurora
01:05:58.100
et al.,
01:05:59.040
which was
01:06:00.020
years before
01:06:00.820
Adam's.
01:06:01.860
Now,
01:06:02.320
they actually
01:06:02.740
had exactly
01:06:05.160
analogous,
01:06:05.920
apart from
01:06:06.460
different
01:06:07.160
SHA
01:06:07.700
algorithm,
01:06:08.800
the same
01:06:09.960
sort of
01:06:10.640
methodology of
01:06:11.720
taking the
01:06:12.320
number of
01:06:12.640
zeros and
01:06:13.120
whatever else.
01:06:14.000
Adam,
01:06:14.260
on the other
01:06:14.560
hand,
01:06:15.280
had a
01:06:15.820
proof-of-work
01:06:16.220
system where
01:06:16.680
he matched
01:06:17.020
up words
01:06:17.680
and basically
01:06:20.580
sold tokens
01:06:22.600
individually.
01:06:23.740
It was
01:06:23.940
more along
01:06:24.840
the lines
01:06:25.280
of Tim
01:06:25.660
May's
01:06:26.080
idea of
01:06:26.540
everyone
01:06:26.780
having
01:06:27.060
their
01:06:27.240
own
01:06:27.400
money.
01:06:29.080
That's
01:06:29.660
Adam.
01:06:30.640
Yes.
01:06:32.020
But Adam
01:06:32.640
doesn't admit
01:06:33.500
this.
01:06:34.440
Adam tries
01:06:35.300
to gloss
01:06:36.180
over everything
01:06:36.900
and say,
01:06:37.900
yes,
01:06:38.140
I invented
01:06:38.780
that form
01:06:39.360
of proof-of-work
01:06:40.980
and basically
01:06:42.460
Bitcoin's just
01:06:43.600
hash cash
01:06:44.300
with a couple
01:06:46.100
other enhancements
01:06:47.440
and of
01:06:48.860
course,
01:06:49.480
so therefore
01:06:49.940
it's all
01:06:50.300
mine.
01:06:51.040
So,
01:06:51.920
that's
01:06:52.280
Adam.
01:06:55.000
Okay,
01:06:55.840
so in
01:06:56.600
2016,
01:06:57.660
Financial
01:06:57.940
Times cited
01:06:58.540
back as
01:06:58.980
potential
01:06:59.420
Nakamoto
01:06:59.900
candidate
01:07:00.400
along with
01:07:01.020
Nick Szabo
01:07:01.780
and Hal
01:07:02.800
Finney.
01:07:03.140
No,
01:07:03.740
they didn't.
01:07:04.800
A
01:07:04.960
contributor.
01:07:06.380
So,
01:07:06.640
Financial
01:07:06.940
Times
01:07:07.320
contributor.
01:07:08.660
That's
01:07:09.260
basically like
01:07:09.860
an
01:07:10.140
advertiser.
01:07:11.480
So,
01:07:12.340
an
01:07:12.560
advertiser
01:07:13.400
in
01:07:13.800
Financial
01:07:14.200
Times,
01:07:14.860
not
01:07:15.200
staff,
01:07:16.160
not a
01:07:16.820
writer,
01:07:18.440
see,
01:07:18.680
this is
01:07:18.880
the problem
01:07:19.240
with
01:07:19.440
Forbes
01:07:19.760
and
01:07:19.940
Financial
01:07:20.260
Times
01:07:20.580
and
01:07:20.680
whatever
01:07:20.840
else.
01:07:21.220
They
01:07:21.360
allow
01:07:21.920
people
01:07:22.220
to
01:07:22.420
blog
01:07:22.860
for
01:07:23.160
money
01:07:23.460
on
01:07:24.020
their
01:07:24.220
sites.
01:07:25.640
So,
01:07:26.360
and they
01:07:26.760
sit there
01:07:27.160
calling this,
01:07:28.360
like people
01:07:28.800
say that
01:07:29.320
Financial
01:07:30.020
Times said,
01:07:30.620
no,
01:07:30.800
they didn't.
01:07:31.720
There's
01:07:31.900
little tiny
01:07:32.440
links up
01:07:32.900
the top
01:07:33.180
saying
01:07:33.400
contributors
01:07:33.920
and things
01:07:34.260
like this.
01:07:35.800
No.
01:07:37.580
Contributors
01:07:38.100
are just
01:07:39.520
advertisers.
01:07:40.500
They're just
01:07:40.780
shilling.
01:07:43.620
Then it
01:07:44.260
says,
01:07:44.540
in 2020,
01:07:45.440
a YouTube
01:07:45.860
channel called
01:07:46.740
Barely
01:07:47.260
Sociable
01:07:48.040
claimed that
01:07:49.200
Back
01:07:49.700
was
01:07:50.380
Nakamoto,
01:07:51.120
Back
01:07:51.380
denied it.
01:07:52.900
Craig Wright
01:07:54.080
had sued
01:07:54.880
Back because
01:07:55.580
Back stated
01:07:56.240
that Wright
01:07:56.800
was not
01:07:57.300
Nakamoto,
01:07:58.040
with Wright
01:07:58.540
subsequently
01:07:59.240
dropping to
01:07:59.860
suit.
01:08:00.100
Does that
01:08:00.340
also contribute
01:08:01.020
or did
01:08:01.420
that happen?
01:08:01.900
not exactly
01:08:03.780
the way it
01:08:04.200
was.
01:08:05.780
What actually
01:08:06.540
happened was
01:08:07.180
we couldn't
01:08:08.080
get hold
01:08:08.780
of Back
01:08:09.240
to serve
01:08:09.780
him.
01:08:10.980
I was
01:08:11.800
attempting
01:08:12.400
to sue
01:08:13.740
him for
01:08:13.980
defamation,
01:08:14.860
not because
01:08:15.380
he didn't
01:08:15.940
call me
01:08:16.480
Satoshi
01:08:17.380
or whatever
01:08:17.680
else,
01:08:17.980
which I
01:08:18.220
didn't care.
01:08:21.320
But
01:08:21.880
the same
01:08:23.820
day we
01:08:24.240
couldn't
01:08:25.420
track him
01:08:25.840
down,
01:08:26.800
the same
01:08:27.420
day that
01:08:28.500
we gave
01:08:30.140
up trying
01:08:30.580
to find
01:08:31.100
him and
01:08:32.280
serve him
01:08:33.040
and filed
01:08:34.080
in the
01:08:34.360
court that
01:08:34.720
we were
01:08:35.100
giving up
01:08:36.460
wasting money
01:08:37.620
running after
01:08:38.140
the world
01:08:38.400
trying to
01:08:38.720
get him
01:08:39.080
as he
01:08:39.660
hid.
01:08:40.680
He got
01:08:41.420
served.
01:08:43.480
Ironically,
01:08:44.600
it wasn't
01:08:48.240
quite the
01:08:48.640
way they're
01:08:48.940
making out.
01:08:50.080
Are you
01:08:50.480
saying it's
01:08:50.920
not right
01:08:51.440
about Adam
01:08:51.960
Back that
01:08:52.380
he doesn't
01:08:52.800
have a PhD
01:08:53.340
in distributing
01:08:53.880
computing
01:08:54.300
systems?
01:08:55.100
It's not
01:08:55.760
distributed
01:08:56.180
computing
01:08:56.620
systems,
01:08:57.120
no.
01:08:57.260
it is
01:08:58.160
to do
01:08:58.940
with
01:08:59.200
parallel
01:09:00.160
code.
01:09:01.120
So,
01:09:01.980
no.
01:09:02.700
It's again,
01:09:03.880
take a
01:09:04.340
PhD,
01:09:05.120
yes.
01:09:06.560
Yes,
01:09:07.160
it's a
01:09:07.440
computer
01:09:07.680
science
01:09:08.080
one.
01:09:08.740
No,
01:09:09.420
it's not
01:09:09.820
in this
01:09:10.100
area.
01:09:11.180
No,
01:09:11.700
hashcash
01:09:12.220
is not
01:09:12.720
a distributed
01:09:13.160
computing
01:09:13.560
system.
01:09:14.360
No,
01:09:15.300
hashcash
01:09:15.840
isn't
01:09:16.360
the proof
01:09:17.140
of work
01:09:17.420
system used
01:09:17.960
in Bitcoin.
01:09:19.600
So,
01:09:20.260
did you
01:09:20.580
get a
01:09:20.900
PhD
01:09:21.240
yourself
01:09:21.900
in
01:09:22.420
computing
01:09:24.820
systems
01:09:25.300
or no,
01:09:25.680
yourself?
01:09:26.080
Computer
01:09:27.400
Science
01:09:27.740
and
01:09:27.880
Economics.
01:09:29.100
Okay,
01:09:29.460
because then
01:09:29.940
there's another
01:09:30.480
thing that
01:09:31.000
was sent
01:09:31.400
over to
01:09:31.800
me is
01:09:32.080
the fact
01:09:32.460
that the
01:09:32.940
Wright
01:09:33.800
claimed to
01:09:34.260
have a
01:09:34.480
PhD
01:09:34.760
in
01:09:34.940
computer
01:09:35.180
science
01:09:35.460
from
01:09:35.620
Charles
01:09:35.900
Stewart
01:09:36.100
University
01:09:36.560
on his
01:09:36.920
LinkedIn
01:09:37.120
profiles
01:09:37.560
of
01:09:37.740
2015,
01:09:38.300
but the
01:09:38.500
university
01:09:38.820
told Forbes
01:09:39.420
that it
01:09:39.620
was only
01:09:39.920
awarded...
01:09:40.760
No,
01:09:41.020
no,
01:09:41.200
the university
01:09:41.880
told nobody.
01:09:44.680
Forbes
01:09:45.120
didn't write
01:09:46.500
anything.
01:09:47.500
A
01:09:47.700
contributor
01:09:48.200
using Forbes
01:09:50.100
made for an article.
01:09:52.100
This was also
01:09:53.400
contributor?
01:09:54.720
Yes.
01:09:55.280
Have a look at the
01:09:55.840
top of the thing
01:09:56.360
where it says
01:09:56.760
contributor.
01:09:57.560
People keep
01:09:58.900
saying that
01:09:59.660
these things
01:10:00.220
are real.
01:10:01.220
They don't
01:10:01.560
understand that
01:10:02.400
just because
01:10:02.960
it says
01:10:03.300
Forbes,
01:10:04.260
Forbes are
01:10:04.860
selling their
01:10:05.540
brand now
01:10:06.480
to get money
01:10:07.240
because that's
01:10:08.660
what they do
01:10:09.120
these days.
01:10:09.800
Which,
01:10:10.100
by the way,
01:10:10.460
you are right
01:10:10.960
about that.
01:10:11.540
So,
01:10:11.720
I'm giving you
01:10:12.400
credit.
01:10:12.780
The fact that
01:10:13.220
there are
01:10:13.480
contributors
01:10:13.980
that you can
01:10:14.460
pay $2,000
01:10:15.320
or $4,000
01:10:16.220
to say,
01:10:17.820
I'm a writer
01:10:18.340
for Forbes,
01:10:19.140
but you can
01:10:20.140
write anything
01:10:20.600
you want.
01:10:21.040
There's not
01:10:21.320
really an
01:10:21.660
approval process.
01:10:23.080
It's terrible.
01:10:24.340
Yeah,
01:10:24.560
but then it says
01:10:25.160
the University
01:10:25.580
told Forbes
01:10:26.000
that only
01:10:26.340
awarded two
01:10:26.880
master's degree
01:10:27.560
and not a
01:10:27.960
doctorate.
01:10:28.400
Write PhD
01:10:29.060
from CSU
01:10:29.720
was finally
01:10:30.200
awarded
01:10:30.540
February 2017.
01:10:32.120
Is there
01:10:32.420
accuracy to this
01:10:33.220
or no?
01:10:33.460
Because I know
01:10:33.740
you were saying
01:10:34.100
you're still
01:10:34.400
going to
01:10:34.640
university.
01:10:35.960
One,
01:10:36.540
it was three
01:10:37.040
masters.
01:10:37.640
I had to
01:10:38.040
drop one
01:10:38.720
because other
01:10:40.880
people complained
01:10:41.700
that I was
01:10:42.120
actually enrolled
01:10:42.740
in multiple
01:10:43.220
degrees,
01:10:43.880
which I was.
01:10:44.620
The university
01:10:45.200
did know
01:10:45.820
about it,
01:10:46.440
but the
01:10:47.880
pressure on
01:10:48.400
the university
01:10:48.980
I
01:10:49.760
dropped
01:10:50.900
that one
01:10:51.800
like one
01:10:53.380
and a half
01:10:53.700
courses
01:10:54.080
before I
01:10:54.680
was finished
01:10:55.060
it.
01:10:56.900
The
01:10:57.520
submission
01:11:00.520
of my doctorate
01:11:01.320
for that
01:11:01.580
one was done
01:11:02.200
earlier.
01:11:03.100
What I said
01:11:03.760
was I had a
01:11:04.240
doctorate.
01:11:04.740
My doctorate,
01:11:05.780
the other
01:11:06.060
one,
01:11:06.360
which I
01:11:07.120
wasn't
01:11:07.640
arguing about,
01:11:09.740
which people
01:11:10.280
bitch about
01:11:10.880
because it's
01:11:11.420
not computer
01:11:11.820
science,
01:11:12.340
was theology.
01:11:12.940
I also
01:11:14.540
have many
01:11:15.120
other degrees
01:11:15.840
at the
01:11:16.160
same time.
01:11:17.020
I still
01:11:17.320
study.
01:11:17.960
I'm not
01:11:19.040
out of
01:11:19.400
university
01:11:19.840
yet.
01:11:20.340
I'm still
01:11:20.740
in there.
01:11:22.060
I'm actually
01:11:23.080
writing my
01:11:24.820
thesis in
01:11:25.620
law over
01:11:27.940
here in the
01:11:28.320
UK at the
01:11:28.880
moment.
01:11:30.360
So I have
01:11:32.020
multiple things.
01:11:32.680
You just
01:11:32.880
don't know
01:11:33.340
half of what
01:11:33.820
I had.
01:11:34.940
And I
01:11:35.500
don't actually
01:11:36.040
manage any
01:11:36.900
of my
01:11:37.260
social media
01:11:37.920
other than
01:11:38.520
Slack.
01:11:39.520
So I
01:11:41.200
can't even
01:11:41.600
say what
01:11:42.140
was on
01:11:42.800
anything like
01:11:43.320
that.
01:11:43.600
I don't
01:11:43.840
know.
01:11:44.360
I mean,
01:11:44.560
I don't
01:11:44.860
run
01:11:45.080
LinkedIn.
01:11:45.680
I don't
01:11:46.000
run
01:11:46.200
Facebook.
01:11:47.320
I don't
01:11:47.980
have a
01:11:48.220
Twitter
01:11:48.380
account.
01:11:49.160
So I
01:11:50.400
won't vouch
01:11:51.040
for anything
01:11:51.560
that any of
01:11:52.080
these things
01:11:52.500
say because
01:11:53.460
I don't run
01:11:55.040
social media.
01:11:56.300
I was on
01:11:56.860
Twitter for a
01:11:57.360
while and
01:11:58.500
that's it.
01:11:59.540
Sorry.
01:12:00.360
But by the
01:12:00.720
way, you're
01:12:01.640
obviously very
01:12:02.300
interesting
01:12:02.800
individual.
01:12:04.400
October
01:12:04.760
1970.
01:12:05.620
I'm also an
01:12:06.040
October baby.
01:12:06.720
What day in
01:12:07.440
October were
01:12:07.960
you born?
01:12:09.000
23rd.
01:12:09.920
You're 23rd.
01:12:10.940
Interesting.
01:12:12.400
October 23rd.
01:12:13.660
And yourself?
01:12:14.780
Say that
01:12:15.280
again?
01:12:15.920
And yourself?
01:12:16.740
I'm 18th.
01:12:17.520
I'm five days
01:12:18.140
before you
01:12:18.580
except not
01:12:19.020
70.
01:12:19.520
I'm 78.
01:12:20.220
So we're
01:12:20.500
eight years
01:12:20.900
apart.
01:12:21.960
You are
01:12:22.380
eight years,
01:12:23.380
seven years
01:12:24.220
and 51 weeks
01:12:25.260
older than
01:12:25.720
me.
01:12:26.660
To be exact,
01:12:27.420
I know you're
01:12:27.820
numbers guy.
01:12:28.600
I had to give
01:12:28.960
you the exact
01:12:29.380
numbers so we're
01:12:30.600
accurate there.
01:12:31.540
So going back
01:12:32.380
to this Adam
01:12:32.900
back, it's very
01:12:33.600
interesting when I
01:12:34.340
look at this.
01:12:35.480
You know,
01:12:35.760
here's what
01:12:36.520
I don't think
01:12:40.520
this is a best
01:12:41.600
friend of yours,
01:12:42.340
John McAfee.
01:12:43.160
It is somebody
01:12:43.660
you know of,
01:12:44.360
John McAfee.
01:12:45.440
John is a
01:12:47.040
scamming bastard
01:12:48.040
and there's
01:12:48.580
no nice thing
01:12:49.780
to ever say
01:12:50.460
about John.
01:12:51.060
I mean,
01:12:53.420
John hasn't
01:12:55.420
done anything
01:12:55.940
good in his
01:12:56.540
life that I
01:12:58.000
know of.
01:12:58.820
I mean,
01:12:59.140
he's taken
01:12:59.800
other people's
01:13:00.380
code and
01:13:00.800
bloody McAfee
01:13:02.140
and scammed
01:13:02.760
people out of
01:13:03.300
things there
01:13:03.820
and then he's
01:13:04.320
scamming people
01:13:04.920
again.
01:13:06.180
His whole thing
01:13:06.900
is how do I
01:13:07.500
make money
01:13:08.020
quickly?
01:13:09.700
Here's one
01:13:10.340
thing he did
01:13:10.880
say.
01:13:11.140
By the way,
01:13:11.400
we've had
01:13:11.720
John McAfee
01:13:12.380
on when we
01:13:13.000
went to his
01:13:13.460
place and it's
01:13:14.040
a very
01:13:14.580
interesting
01:13:15.040
interview.
01:13:15.940
It's the only
01:13:17.480
time where
01:13:17.880
somebody knocked
01:13:18.440
on a door
01:13:18.940
and one of
01:13:20.180
his guys ran
01:13:20.820
to the door
01:13:21.220
with a gun
01:13:21.700
in his hand
01:13:22.180
which is quite
01:13:22.880
unique.
01:13:23.500
We've never
01:13:23.780
had that before
01:13:24.360
in the middle
01:13:24.640
of an interview.
01:13:25.620
Here's what he
01:13:26.160
did say.
01:13:26.740
When a guy
01:13:27.140
asked him
01:13:27.720
who is
01:13:28.380
Satoshi Nakamoto,
01:13:30.060
he said in
01:13:30.600
Satoshi's white
01:13:31.440
paper,
01:13:31.880
every word
01:13:32.520
that has
01:13:32.900
dual spellings
01:13:33.740
for American
01:13:34.400
and British
01:13:34.980
English is
01:13:35.780
British.
01:13:36.860
Every sentence
01:13:37.600
is followed
01:13:38.220
by two spaces.
01:13:39.980
There are only
01:13:40.580
two of the
01:13:41.220
Q's that are
01:13:42.060
British and
01:13:43.280
only one of
01:13:44.200
those two
01:13:45.060
has two spaces
01:13:46.440
in every single
01:13:47.600
of his papers.
01:13:48.940
run some
01:13:49.720
authoring
01:13:50.340
software which
01:13:51.660
he's eluding
01:13:52.540
to back
01:13:53.920
being the
01:13:54.800
Satoshi Nakamoto.
01:13:56.620
I mean,
01:13:57.200
because you're
01:13:58.060
from Australia,
01:13:58.820
he's from UK,
01:13:59.680
you know,
01:13:59.840
he's from Britain,
01:14:00.500
so there's a
01:14:01.400
little bit of
01:14:01.880
that when you
01:14:02.280
look at the
01:14:02.780
data on how
01:14:03.400
he wrote
01:14:03.820
code,
01:14:04.300
how it could
01:14:05.240
go back
01:14:05.700
to being
01:14:06.040
him.
01:14:06.400
What are
01:14:06.580
your thoughts
01:14:06.960
on that?
01:14:09.720
Number one,
01:14:11.220
I write
01:14:12.120
with double
01:14:13.280
space or
01:14:13.720
single space
01:14:14.260
depending on
01:14:14.880
what I'm
01:14:15.200
publishing.
01:14:15.560
I write
01:14:17.380
in English,
01:14:18.900
UK English
01:14:20.320
or American
01:14:22.220
English depending
01:14:22.860
on where I'm
01:14:23.340
writing.
01:14:24.760
I am
01:14:26.360
writing with
01:14:28.200
some US
01:14:29.880
universities at
01:14:30.800
the moment
01:14:31.140
and when I
01:14:31.920
do that,
01:14:32.540
I produce in
01:14:33.960
APA 7 at
01:14:34.940
the moment
01:14:35.340
and that
01:14:37.360
is different
01:14:38.120
to the
01:14:39.280
standard I
01:14:40.020
use when I'm
01:14:40.900
writing here
01:14:41.380
in Leicester
01:14:41.880
and Leicester
01:14:43.460
is a
01:14:44.180
British
01:14:44.360
university
01:14:44.920
so that
01:14:46.320
because it's
01:14:47.140
a law
01:14:47.480
degree
01:14:47.900
requires
01:14:48.740
different
01:14:49.380
things.
01:14:49.920
So I write
01:14:50.280
basically on
01:14:51.360
what I have
01:14:52.240
to write.
01:14:53.080
So when I'm
01:14:53.560
publishing in a
01:14:54.200
certain type
01:14:54.740
of paper,
01:14:55.120
I publish
01:14:55.640
a certain
01:14:56.020
way.
01:14:57.460
Now,
01:14:58.080
my choice
01:14:59.280
would have
01:15:00.560
been Australian
01:15:01.120
English at
01:15:01.980
the beginning
01:15:02.380
which is
01:15:03.160
basically British
01:15:03.860
English with
01:15:04.440
a few
01:15:05.120
extra words
01:15:06.320
but in
01:15:09.600
2008,
01:15:11.240
I was
01:15:11.780
completing my
01:15:13.340
Masters of
01:15:14.760
Law at
01:15:15.660
Northumbria in
01:15:16.760
the UK and
01:15:18.320
so most of
01:15:19.860
how I wrote
01:15:20.400
was how I
01:15:21.900
would write
01:15:22.380
when I'm
01:15:23.360
doing law
01:15:23.920
sometimes for
01:15:25.220
accounting
01:15:25.720
purposes.
01:15:27.940
Interesting.
01:15:28.600
Interesting to
01:15:29.220
know that when
01:15:29.800
you're sharing
01:15:30.400
that but again
01:15:30.940
that was that
01:15:31.520
perspective and
01:15:32.140
then I'll give
01:15:32.520
you this last
01:15:32.960
one here and
01:15:33.300
then we'll go
01:15:33.640
into a speed
01:15:34.060
round.
01:15:34.360
is here's
01:15:37.200
about Adam
01:15:37.940
Back.
01:15:38.460
So, you
01:15:39.620
know, Adam
01:15:40.360
has no clue
01:15:41.120
about Bitcoin.
01:15:42.200
I mean, you
01:15:42.780
can waste all
01:15:43.320
the time you
01:15:43.780
want going
01:15:44.240
Adam Back
01:15:45.060
has this,
01:15:45.560
that and
01:15:45.740
the other.
01:15:46.780
Adam Back
01:15:47.240
doesn't have a
01:15:48.600
clue about how
01:15:49.700
Bitcoin works.
01:15:50.360
He has no
01:15:50.980
idea about the
01:15:51.580
economics of
01:15:52.100
the system,
01:15:52.820
the legality
01:15:53.360
of the system.
01:15:54.380
He doesn't
01:15:55.000
have an idea
01:15:55.900
how any of
01:15:56.680
it works.
01:15:58.860
And
01:15:59.100
basically,
01:16:01.240
he didn't
01:16:02.520
even realize
01:16:03.280
that the,
01:16:04.360
proof of
01:16:05.920
work system
01:16:06.480
in Bitcoin
01:16:07.060
isn't like
01:16:08.420
his.
01:16:09.400
So, if
01:16:10.500
he was such
01:16:11.080
an expert
01:16:11.480
in it, why
01:16:12.160
didn't he
01:16:12.560
actually pick
01:16:13.040
up on the
01:16:13.420
differences?
01:16:14.840
So, sorry.
01:16:18.620
No, he's
01:16:19.340
not doing
01:16:19.740
it to hide.
01:16:20.840
He really
01:16:21.500
doesn't even
01:16:22.920
understand the
01:16:23.800
basics of
01:16:24.320
Bitcoin.
01:16:26.220
Yet.
01:16:27.140
He doesn't
01:16:27.760
even understand
01:16:28.600
the basics
01:16:29.220
of Bitcoin.
01:16:30.100
That's a,
01:16:30.640
that's a,
01:16:31.480
that's a pretty
01:16:31.940
strong statement
01:16:32.720
to say
01:16:33.180
that.
01:16:34.360
That's
01:16:34.800
being really
01:16:35.360
nice.
01:16:36.640
This is
01:16:36.960
camera.
01:16:38.560
Really?
01:16:39.120
Like, you're
01:16:39.740
going there
01:16:40.220
without him
01:16:40.660
back.
01:16:42.620
To say he
01:16:43.420
has no clue
01:16:43.880
what he's
01:16:44.160
doing, it
01:16:44.420
comes down
01:16:44.720
to Bitcoin.
01:16:46.280
Adam came
01:16:46.880
into this
01:16:47.420
in 2013
01:16:48.560
and
01:16:50.000
basically,
01:16:51.540
the whole
01:16:51.960
thing was,
01:16:52.840
I got
01:16:53.220
mentioned in
01:16:53.780
the white
01:16:54.080
paper.
01:16:54.520
I'm
01:16:54.640
like,
01:16:54.780
wonderful.
01:16:56.080
And that's
01:16:56.620
all he's
01:16:57.200
ever done.
01:16:57.640
and he
01:17:00.260
does whatever
01:17:01.060
the hell
01:17:01.580
gets him
01:17:02.400
likes.
01:17:03.540
Adam doesn't
01:17:04.340
care about
01:17:04.920
actually creating
01:17:05.780
anything in
01:17:06.240
Bitcoin,
01:17:06.620
building anything.
01:17:07.460
He hasn't.
01:17:08.820
Adam cares
01:17:09.520
that people
01:17:10.260
like what
01:17:11.340
he says.
01:17:12.740
Now,
01:17:13.140
that short
01:17:14.360
term might
01:17:16.220
work,
01:17:17.240
but long
01:17:18.040
term, you
01:17:18.400
don't get
01:17:19.080
anything out
01:17:19.580
of it.
01:17:20.080
So,
01:17:20.380
imagine if
01:17:21.200
you were
01:17:21.640
Thomas Edison.
01:17:22.960
You can
01:17:23.680
actually try
01:17:24.540
and make a
01:17:24.980
better light
01:17:25.400
bulb by
01:17:26.440
trying
01:17:27.480
thousands
01:17:28.560
of experiments
01:17:29.300
and doing
01:17:29.980
things
01:17:30.420
and not
01:17:31.920
being liked.
01:17:33.500
Or,
01:17:34.700
you can
01:17:35.060
sit there
01:17:35.640
and say
01:17:37.020
how wonderful
01:17:37.620
you are
01:17:38.160
and
01:17:39.460
for a little
01:17:40.960
while,
01:17:41.680
people will
01:17:42.200
remember you
01:17:43.020
and they'll
01:17:43.720
say,
01:17:44.220
wow,
01:17:44.520
isn't that
01:17:44.880
great?
01:17:45.220
He looks
01:17:45.600
good.
01:17:46.620
What
01:17:47.060
wonderful
01:17:47.500
flimflam.
01:17:49.080
Except,
01:17:49.760
guess what?
01:17:51.200
You don't
01:17:51.960
build anything.
01:17:54.400
They haven't
01:17:54.940
built
01:17:55.360
anything.
01:17:56.820
Nothing.
01:17:58.800
Some people
01:18:00.280
may say
01:18:00.720
he's
01:18:01.000
Nikola
01:18:01.440
Tesla
01:18:01.860
and you're
01:18:02.500
trying to
01:18:02.920
be Edison,
01:18:03.720
which is
01:18:04.220
Nikola's
01:18:05.240
the one
01:18:05.480
that came
01:18:05.860
up with
01:18:06.120
the idea
01:18:06.600
but Edison
01:18:07.120
took credit
01:18:07.640
for it.
01:18:08.500
Well,
01:18:08.900
actually,
01:18:10.060
that's
01:18:10.800
actually
01:18:11.060
wrong too.
01:18:12.000
I know
01:18:12.220
a lot
01:18:12.460
of people
01:18:12.720
love to
01:18:13.140
say that
01:18:13.500
one recently.
01:18:15.180
The
01:18:15.540
Wikipedia
01:18:15.860
era.
01:18:18.520
Edison
01:18:18.840
wasn't
01:18:19.920
necessarily
01:18:20.560
what you
01:18:21.060
would call
01:18:21.340
a nice
01:18:21.700
guy
01:18:22.020
in any
01:18:24.160
sense of
01:18:24.660
the word,
01:18:25.000
but Tesla
01:18:26.220
wasn't the
01:18:27.320
one who
01:18:27.540
came up
01:18:27.900
with things.
01:18:28.700
Tesla
01:18:28.980
was a
01:18:29.720
very good
01:18:30.240
media man.
01:18:32.900
What Tesla
01:18:33.500
did was
01:18:33.980
every single
01:18:35.120
day he did
01:18:35.940
little shows.
01:18:36.660
He did
01:18:36.880
things with
01:18:37.600
like showing
01:18:39.300
electricity
01:18:39.820
between
01:18:40.560
basically two
01:18:43.220
electrodes
01:18:43.720
and sparks
01:18:44.440
and the
01:18:45.320
media
01:18:45.600
loved him.
01:18:46.700
He was
01:18:47.020
a showman
01:18:47.600
and he
01:18:49.360
worked with
01:18:49.820
other people
01:18:50.380
and he
01:18:52.460
got his
01:18:52.960
name on
01:18:53.800
a lot of
01:18:54.740
patents
01:18:55.080
with other
01:18:55.580
people,
01:18:56.380
some of
01:18:57.500
which ended
01:18:57.880
up suing
01:18:58.360
him.
01:19:00.160
So he
01:19:01.020
wasn't
01:19:01.380
dumb,
01:19:01.960
but he's
01:19:03.880
nowhere near
01:19:04.620
this person
01:19:05.140
the people
01:19:05.500
are making
01:19:05.840
him out
01:19:06.140
to be
01:19:06.380
now.
01:19:07.800
But there's
01:19:09.260
value in
01:19:09.980
creating this
01:19:10.880
mythology
01:19:11.340
about the
01:19:12.020
showman
01:19:12.640
and more
01:19:14.440
than anything
01:19:14.800
else,
01:19:15.160
he was a
01:19:15.600
showman.
01:19:16.740
So you
01:19:17.460
relate more
01:19:18.080
to the
01:19:18.940
asshole
01:19:19.680
Edison
01:19:20.120
than the
01:19:20.680
nice
01:19:20.940
showman
01:19:21.360
Nikola
01:19:21.680
Tesla?
01:19:22.860
Unfortunately,
01:19:23.640
yes.
01:19:24.820
But I
01:19:25.700
work,
01:19:26.420
I work,
01:19:27.080
I get up
01:19:27.520
in the
01:19:27.740
morning,
01:19:28.440
I work,
01:19:29.600
I spend
01:19:30.100
my day
01:19:30.420
working,
01:19:30.900
I study.
01:19:33.200
So,
01:19:34.060
I mean,
01:19:34.680
most people
01:19:35.180
don't realize
01:19:36.020
what it is
01:19:37.140
to really
01:19:37.540
work.
01:19:38.960
At the
01:19:39.640
moment,
01:19:40.740
I'm not
01:19:41.180
doing a
01:19:41.720
PhD.
01:19:42.820
I'm doing
01:19:43.460
a PhD
01:19:43.980
and multiple
01:19:45.300
other degrees
01:19:46.160
simultaneously
01:19:47.180
full-time.
01:19:48.700
And I'm
01:19:49.180
not going
01:19:49.500
to say
01:19:49.720
what they
01:19:50.020
all are
01:19:50.520
because I'll
01:19:51.380
have people
01:19:51.800
bitching,
01:19:52.680
going,
01:19:53.280
you're doing
01:19:53.680
X,
01:19:53.960
Y,
01:19:54.160
and Z.
01:19:54.540
That's not
01:19:54.980
right.
01:19:56.160
And pressuring
01:19:57.760
the unis
01:19:58.240
who already
01:19:58.920
know that I've
01:19:59.500
done some of
01:20:00.000
these things
01:20:00.360
in the past
01:20:00.900
and that I've
01:20:01.640
told.
01:20:02.860
But,
01:20:03.380
yeah,
01:20:04.400
it's just
01:20:04.700
easier not
01:20:05.740
to have to
01:20:06.200
respond.
01:20:06.800
So,
01:20:07.760
not going
01:20:08.100
to say.
01:20:08.360
It's
01:20:10.300
easier not
01:20:11.060
to have
01:20:11.400
to respond.
01:20:12.300
Well,
01:20:12.500
at the end
01:20:12.860
of the
01:20:13.060
day,
01:20:13.920
I'm not
01:20:14.480
going to
01:20:15.020
get any
01:20:15.500
employment
01:20:16.000
opportunities
01:20:16.800
or anything
01:20:17.220
like that
01:20:18.120
ever again
01:20:18.760
because of
01:20:19.520
qualifications
01:20:20.840
or anything.
01:20:21.420
I do this
01:20:21.900
for me.
01:20:23.060
I don't do
01:20:23.620
it because,
01:20:24.640
I mean,
01:20:24.900
I've got,
01:20:25.680
I think,
01:20:26.340
20-something
01:20:27.040
degrees now.
01:20:28.320
And that's
01:20:29.800
actually a
01:20:30.220
negative if
01:20:31.000
you think
01:20:31.340
about it,
01:20:32.140
if you
01:20:32.620
actually put
01:20:33.300
that out
01:20:33.640
there.
01:20:34.320
No one
01:20:34.880
hires me
01:20:36.000
because I
01:20:37.760
have sort
01:20:39.520
of qualifications
01:20:40.260
in art
01:20:42.780
history and
01:20:44.740
music and
01:20:46.480
computer science.
01:20:48.780
No one
01:20:49.260
cares.
01:20:49.720
They actually
01:20:50.000
see that as
01:20:50.440
a negative.
01:20:52.600
But I
01:20:53.380
see it as a
01:20:53.780
positive because,
01:20:54.760
for instance,
01:20:55.420
just yesterday,
01:20:56.860
I put in a
01:20:57.720
white paper to
01:20:58.340
go to be
01:20:59.420
filed as a
01:21:00.000
patent based
01:21:02.820
on some
01:21:03.460
of the
01:21:03.640
things I've
01:21:03.980
been doing
01:21:04.420
in an
01:21:05.020
art history
01:21:05.440
degree,
01:21:06.260
which I'm
01:21:06.660
not going
01:21:06.980
to say
01:21:07.340
because patent
01:21:07.940
hasn't been
01:21:08.360
filed yet,
01:21:09.280
but it's
01:21:10.320
to do with
01:21:10.900
certain types
01:21:12.240
of ancient
01:21:13.600
painting techniques
01:21:14.620
and whatever
01:21:15.000
else and
01:21:17.780
how Sotheby's
01:21:19.460
and others
01:21:19.820
can actually
01:21:20.700
manage and
01:21:22.140
maintain records
01:21:23.560
of artwork.
01:21:26.300
So the
01:21:27.560
reality is by
01:21:29.420
having a
01:21:30.440
diverse mix
01:21:31.900
of knowledge,
01:21:32.820
actually find
01:21:33.900
out more
01:21:34.620
things that I
01:21:35.300
could actually
01:21:35.960
do.
01:21:37.840
Yeah, it's
01:21:39.140
very interesting
01:21:40.440
to obviously
01:21:41.700
this topic of
01:21:42.420
Satoshi Nakamoto.
01:21:43.560
It's so
01:21:44.000
everybody is
01:21:45.080
wanting to
01:21:45.800
find out who
01:21:46.280
it really is.
01:21:47.260
Some are
01:21:47.600
saying you,
01:21:48.180
some are
01:21:48.460
saying other
01:21:48.840
people.
01:21:49.240
I don't
01:21:49.340
think many
01:21:49.720
people in
01:21:50.460
the community,
01:21:52.640
yes, people
01:21:53.140
run around
01:21:53.580
saying all
01:21:54.020
these things
01:21:54.460
not wanting
01:21:54.860
to be me.
01:21:55.580
But the
01:21:55.880
reality is if
01:21:58.680
you don't
01:21:59.300
really, if
01:22:00.880
I'm not going
01:22:01.360
to make
01:22:01.720
money doing
01:22:02.720
the thing,
01:22:03.540
selling myself
01:22:04.860
and prostituting
01:22:06.720
myself into
01:22:07.580
conferences, if
01:22:09.320
I don't take
01:22:09.800
money to
01:22:10.440
present, if
01:22:11.220
I'm not doing
01:22:11.740
any of that,
01:22:12.260
what's it
01:22:12.560
matter?
01:22:13.440
I mean, when
01:22:14.300
I file a
01:22:15.860
patent, when I
01:22:16.440
create something,
01:22:17.240
when I write
01:22:17.760
papers, it's all
01:22:18.740
peer reviewed.
01:22:19.940
So when I have
01:22:21.100
a patent
01:22:21.500
application, I
01:22:23.460
don't go,
01:22:24.180
hey, I'm
01:22:24.540
Satoshi, give
01:22:25.220
me a patent.
01:22:25.700
it goes before
01:22:28.520
examiners and
01:22:30.640
those examiners
01:22:31.260
have no idea
01:22:32.000
who I am.
01:22:33.580
And that's a
01:22:34.280
good thing.
01:22:35.440
This is why
01:22:36.360
it doesn't
01:22:37.840
matter.
01:22:38.880
No one
01:22:39.360
cares.
01:22:40.940
I mean, when
01:22:41.460
I create,
01:22:43.440
when the
01:22:43.960
company creates,
01:22:44.800
when we all
01:22:45.400
sit there and
01:22:46.160
we build
01:22:46.500
things and
01:22:46.940
whatever else
01:22:47.500
and we sell
01:22:49.080
code that's
01:22:50.000
plumbing, most
01:22:51.840
people don't
01:22:52.260
know, they
01:22:52.700
don't care.
01:22:53.880
It works best
01:22:54.760
that way.
01:22:55.360
I mean, I
01:22:56.440
actually like
01:22:57.500
being plumbing.
01:23:00.220
I like the
01:23:01.280
other.
01:23:02.360
I have
01:23:03.540
Asperger's and
01:23:04.600
I find face
01:23:05.940
to face
01:23:06.260
conversations with
01:23:07.100
people difficult.
01:23:08.020
I find
01:23:08.420
interacting with
01:23:09.180
people difficult.
01:23:09.780
That's why most
01:23:10.340
of my degrees
01:23:11.100
have been
01:23:11.400
distanced and
01:23:12.120
now online for
01:23:13.200
most of my
01:23:13.640
life.
01:23:14.260
Why I do
01:23:14.820
these things,
01:23:15.400
why I sort
01:23:16.940
of have unusual
01:23:17.820
work habits and
01:23:18.660
all the rest,
01:23:19.520
because at the
01:23:21.520
end of the
01:23:21.920
day, it's
01:23:23.880
just, it
01:23:24.460
sort of fits
01:23:25.780
with what I
01:23:26.420
am.
01:23:27.100
And this
01:23:28.880
concept of
01:23:29.840
I'm going to
01:23:30.760
go out there
01:23:31.420
and run
01:23:32.480
around and
01:23:33.160
be eccentric
01:23:34.660
and have
01:23:35.280
everyone love
01:23:35.800
me, I
01:23:36.080
don't really
01:23:36.540
care.
01:23:36.900
I don't
01:23:37.100
want that.
01:23:38.800
I'm
01:23:39.280
happiest because
01:23:40.680
I build
01:23:41.740
things.
01:23:42.620
And here's
01:23:43.120
the thing,
01:23:43.500
that everyone
01:23:44.180
can sit
01:23:44.740
there and
01:23:45.020
throw shit
01:23:45.400
at me all
01:23:45.900
you want.
01:23:46.320
in five
01:23:48.560
years time,
01:23:49.340
I'm likely
01:23:50.880
to have
01:23:51.200
my name
01:23:51.740
on maybe
01:23:54.140
three,
01:23:54.560
four thousand
01:23:55.080
patents and
01:23:56.780
I'll still be
01:23:57.480
patenting.
01:24:00.180
The
01:24:00.700
technologies
01:24:01.260
needed to
01:24:01.940
make any
01:24:02.880
blockchain work,
01:24:04.700
well, no
01:24:05.340
one wanted to
01:24:05.780
listen to me.
01:24:07.260
So, as you
01:24:09.640
see them come
01:24:10.240
out, as we
01:24:11.480
show how we
01:24:12.280
scale to
01:24:13.240
millions and
01:24:14.020
billions of
01:24:14.560
transactions a
01:24:15.320
second, then
01:24:17.300
too bad.
01:24:18.780
That's all I
01:24:19.240
have to say.
01:24:19.980
I mean, if
01:24:20.580
you think that
01:24:21.960
I need to
01:24:22.740
have your
01:24:23.360
approbation,
01:24:24.780
that I need
01:24:25.840
your love and
01:24:27.060
your basically
01:24:29.740
worship, then
01:24:32.340
you're insane.
01:24:35.480
I've had an
01:24:36.640
executive on my
01:24:37.380
team who had
01:24:37.740
Asperger's that
01:24:39.120
I work with and
01:24:40.540
we one day
01:24:41.840
were sitting and
01:24:42.480
having a
01:24:42.780
conversation
01:24:43.240
together and
01:24:43.860
the topic of
01:24:44.380
Bill Gates
01:24:44.780
came up.
01:24:45.140
Because Bill
01:24:45.640
Gates also has
01:24:46.360
been claimed to
01:24:46.880
have Asperger's.
01:24:48.680
And there's
01:24:48.960
been a lot of
01:24:49.560
people, by the
01:24:50.160
way, lots of
01:24:50.740
successful people.
01:24:52.580
Why do you
01:24:53.300
think there's a
01:24:53.920
link between
01:24:54.460
Asperger's and
01:24:55.520
genius, meaning
01:24:56.560
they're able to
01:24:57.780
do things and
01:24:58.460
process issues in
01:24:59.420
ways that the
01:24:59.940
average person
01:25:00.480
can't?
01:25:00.880
What is it?
01:25:01.360
I've heard a lot
01:25:01.840
of different
01:25:02.160
theories.
01:25:02.560
I'm curious to
01:25:02.960
know what you
01:25:03.280
say about it.
01:25:04.300
I think there
01:25:04.900
are a couple
01:25:05.440
different areas.
01:25:06.280
One, we
01:25:07.900
don't have the
01:25:09.480
same level of
01:25:10.200
distraction as
01:25:11.640
some other
01:25:12.000
people.
01:25:12.320
I hyper-focus
01:25:15.820
on tasks, which
01:25:18.140
actually annoys
01:25:19.680
many people I
01:25:20.580
know, because
01:25:21.740
you just get
01:25:23.120
into something
01:25:23.740
and they try and
01:25:25.720
talk to you and
01:25:26.200
it's, uh-huh.
01:25:27.680
They say, the
01:25:28.320
house is burning
01:25:28.820
down, uh-huh.
01:25:31.900
Someone's running
01:25:32.560
off with the
01:25:32.980
children, uh-huh.
01:25:33.620
I mean, but
01:25:35.860
you're into it.
01:25:37.560
You're, it's
01:25:38.060
there.
01:25:38.680
And you find
01:25:40.380
something that
01:25:40.940
you obsess about.
01:25:42.780
And not many
01:25:44.660
other people would
01:25:45.580
have done Bitcoin
01:25:47.080
because they
01:25:47.580
didn't obsess.
01:25:49.380
Everyone gave
01:25:50.380
up on Bitcoin, um,
01:25:52.940
as a concept back
01:25:54.420
in about 2001.
01:25:56.520
That's when
01:25:57.200
everything really
01:25:57.840
started falling
01:25:58.420
apart.
01:25:58.840
2003, everything
01:25:59.940
was dead in
01:26:00.620
cryptocurrency
01:26:01.060
space.
01:26:01.680
Everyone told
01:26:02.840
me how stupid
01:26:03.800
I was by
01:26:05.000
actually still
01:26:05.820
thinking about
01:26:06.540
how we do
01:26:07.300
online payments
01:26:08.100
and how you
01:26:08.940
do these
01:26:09.320
things.
01:26:10.080
Um, lots
01:26:10.860
of problems.
01:26:11.520
Lots of
01:26:11.760
people, uh,
01:26:12.960
wanted to pull
01:26:13.540
funding from
01:26:14.080
me and all
01:26:14.500
sorts of
01:26:14.820
things in
01:26:15.460
the past.
01:26:16.440
Um, because
01:26:17.580
it's not
01:26:19.100
solvable.
01:26:19.640
It's not
01:26:20.000
worth it.
01:26:21.520
Find
01:26:22.040
something else.
01:26:23.300
And I
01:26:24.380
kept obsessing.
01:26:25.180
and everyone
01:26:27.200
else is out
01:26:28.240
there going
01:26:29.440
off and
01:26:29.820
finding other
01:26:30.300
things.
01:26:30.740
And, um, I
01:26:32.900
kept obsessing.
01:26:34.340
I tried this, I
01:26:35.820
tried that, and
01:26:36.540
that's the whole
01:26:37.760
thing.
01:26:38.040
So you get
01:26:38.480
certain types of
01:26:39.380
people who, if
01:26:41.980
their focus is on
01:26:43.540
something that needs
01:26:44.280
to be solved, we'll
01:26:46.120
just put everything
01:26:47.100
into it until they
01:26:48.220
solve it.
01:26:48.620
Um, I had a
01:26:50.500
older guy that I
01:26:51.660
knew in Australia
01:26:52.620
who, well, uh,
01:26:56.120
ended up actually
01:26:57.040
doing quite well
01:26:57.720
when he was about
01:26:58.280
80.
01:26:59.200
Uh, but he, he
01:27:01.180
grew orchids and
01:27:03.500
he obsessed over
01:27:04.920
them.
01:27:05.840
And he spent like
01:27:07.140
50 years breeding
01:27:09.320
and doing orchids and
01:27:10.380
everything like that.
01:27:11.480
And, um, now
01:27:12.780
these days, suddenly
01:27:14.280
orchids are being
01:27:14.960
sold everywhere.
01:27:15.660
And, um, he
01:27:17.280
has, um,
01:27:18.280
uh, rights to a
01:27:19.700
number of, um, things
01:27:21.440
that he sold.
01:27:21.900
And everyone thought,
01:27:22.740
I mean, 50 years
01:27:23.640
worth of what
01:27:25.360
everyone thought was
01:27:25.940
wasting time, money,
01:27:27.240
effort, and all the
01:27:27.880
rest.
01:27:28.520
And now that he's 80,
01:27:29.420
he's suddenly getting
01:27:30.340
money in, which is
01:27:31.820
unfortunate because
01:27:32.640
he's that old and, but
01:27:35.220
it helps his family
01:27:36.060
still.
01:27:36.760
But that's the
01:27:37.600
point.
01:27:38.620
If you have someone
01:27:39.940
who obsesses that
01:27:41.180
way, that will try
01:27:42.600
things.
01:27:43.580
I mean, Edison
01:27:44.420
didn't invent the
01:27:45.560
light bulb.
01:27:46.460
People get that
01:27:47.000
wrong.
01:27:48.280
Arc lighting
01:27:49.420
existed, filament
01:27:50.780
lighting existed, but
01:27:52.740
it didn't work
01:27:54.180
because, um, it
01:27:55.380
would burn out
01:27:56.000
after like an
01:27:56.720
hour and having
01:27:58.880
a light bulb, you
01:27:59.700
change every hour.
01:28:01.140
Yeah.
01:28:01.820
No one wants to
01:28:02.720
change light bulbs
01:28:03.500
every hour.
01:28:04.380
So he sat there
01:28:05.940
basically experimenting
01:28:07.880
with every material,
01:28:09.420
every way he could
01:28:10.180
do it until he had
01:28:11.440
one that lasted
01:28:12.200
days and then
01:28:14.420
longer and longer
01:28:15.260
and the sort of
01:28:19.780
obsession that I
01:28:21.140
have for knowledge,
01:28:22.660
for other things.
01:28:24.760
Not many people,
01:28:26.420
it's, I mean, one
01:28:28.260
way of putting it
01:28:28.740
would be, it's a form
01:28:29.760
of insanity.
01:28:31.660
And a lot of people
01:28:32.780
like myself have this
01:28:34.440
form of insanity, but
01:28:35.380
it's a socially
01:28:36.140
acceptable form of
01:28:37.400
insanity.
01:28:37.780
So I will sit
01:28:40.120
there and I will
01:28:40.940
digest knowledge.
01:28:41.980
I will read
01:28:43.620
and learn
01:28:44.720
and everything
01:28:45.900
I can.
01:28:48.040
And that's
01:28:49.400
how I'm happiest.
01:28:50.660
I mean,
01:28:51.180
um, people
01:28:52.080
don't really get
01:28:53.100
this.
01:28:53.420
Um, I think
01:28:55.500
my wife has
01:28:56.280
accepted it, but
01:28:57.000
she doesn't
01:28:57.600
understand it.
01:28:58.520
But like we
01:28:59.380
were, um, a
01:29:00.940
few years ago, um,
01:29:02.960
on a yacht in, um,
01:29:04.540
the Mediterranean
01:29:05.520
and the kids and
01:29:07.140
everything are having
01:29:07.720
fun doing the
01:29:09.040
whole fall off the
01:29:09.920
back into the, the
01:29:11.060
nice blue water bit
01:29:12.040
and all the rest.
01:29:12.620
And I'm sitting up
01:29:13.160
there on the top
01:29:13.900
writing and working
01:29:14.780
and I can see
01:29:18.180
that, but you
01:29:19.220
said two things.
01:29:19.980
So one was, uh,
01:29:21.700
when it comes down
01:29:22.480
to distractions,
01:29:23.120
you're, you're
01:29:23.700
able to stay
01:29:24.200
hyper-focused on
01:29:25.140
tasks that people
01:29:25.880
say, yeah, yeah,
01:29:26.880
yeah.
01:29:27.600
What was this?
01:29:28.280
Is the second one
01:29:29.120
that there's not
01:29:29.860
that much emotions
01:29:30.940
where you're not
01:29:31.520
offended as much
01:29:32.440
as another person
01:29:33.180
is?
01:29:34.580
Um, no, but in
01:29:37.820
a different way.
01:29:39.380
Um, people think
01:29:42.480
that myself and a
01:29:45.300
lot of others
01:29:45.720
don't feel that
01:29:46.760
we don't emote.
01:29:48.060
We don't show
01:29:49.560
it.
01:29:50.780
So, and we
01:29:52.060
don't react.
01:29:53.060
So, um, my
01:29:55.560
wife looks at me
01:29:56.980
strangely because I
01:29:58.100
don't react to pain
01:30:00.040
the normal way.
01:30:01.700
Um, something
01:30:02.540
happens and I have
01:30:03.400
an injury and she
01:30:05.620
sits there going,
01:30:06.280
isn't that really
01:30:07.280
painful?
01:30:07.680
And I go, yes, it
01:30:08.900
is incredibly painful
01:30:09.860
honey.
01:30:10.780
And she goes, um,
01:30:12.980
but you don't look
01:30:13.680
like you're in pain.
01:30:14.480
I went, I am.
01:30:15.680
Um, so that
01:30:19.620
causes people sort
01:30:20.720
of, uh, it
01:30:21.340
doesn't match up
01:30:22.600
right.
01:30:23.400
So, um, uh, I
01:30:25.700
mean, I've done
01:30:26.120
lots of silly
01:30:27.300
things.
01:30:27.540
I used to own a
01:30:28.140
farm and if you
01:30:28.960
want to injure
01:30:29.400
yourself, I
01:30:29.880
actually still own a
01:30:30.700
farm.
01:30:30.860
I just never get
01:30:31.380
back to Australia.
01:30:32.380
Um, but if you
01:30:33.880
want to injure
01:30:34.320
yourself a lot, um,
01:30:35.880
have a ranch, uh,
01:30:40.960
between fencing
01:30:42.200
with barbed wire
01:30:43.240
and, um, heavy
01:30:44.980
equipment and
01:30:45.980
tractors and
01:30:46.840
everything like
01:30:47.200
that, injuries
01:30:48.940
galore.
01:30:51.000
So that was
01:30:51.740
interesting.
01:30:52.200
Very good feedback
01:30:52.940
there.
01:30:53.300
Sensitivity for me
01:30:54.100
from working with
01:30:54.800
Asperger's, they're
01:30:55.480
extremely sensitive to
01:30:56.740
the point where they
01:30:58.280
will do whatever they
01:30:59.160
can to prove you
01:31:00.340
wrong of going out
01:31:01.680
there and doing their
01:31:02.240
research to say, I
01:31:02.980
told you I was
01:31:03.920
right.
01:31:04.560
There's a different
01:31:05.420
kind of, would you
01:31:06.180
agree with that?
01:31:06.720
A little bit of
01:31:07.140
that going on?
01:31:08.540
Uh, am I a pedantic
01:31:10.740
asshole and asshole
01:31:12.660
has to be the word
01:31:13.520
after pedantic?
01:31:14.580
Yes.
01:31:15.500
Um, I actually had
01:31:18.620
an argument with, uh,
01:31:20.160
my psychologist, um,
01:31:22.480
who was discussing
01:31:24.060
the, um, the, the
01:31:26.620
concept of like the
01:31:28.000
word weird, because I
01:31:29.460
was saying, I, I
01:31:30.340
didn't like the use of
01:31:31.440
the word weird in one
01:31:32.420
of the quizzes he'd
01:31:33.560
given me because, um,
01:31:35.420
and, um, the word
01:31:37.200
weird actually is used
01:31:38.720
utterly wrong.
01:31:40.100
I mean, when you talk
01:31:40.860
about the weird sisters
01:31:41.860
in, um, Shakespeare
01:31:43.200
in, um, in
01:31:45.180
Macbeth, the three
01:31:46.900
sisters, it's the
01:31:48.040
fate.
01:31:48.420
So weird actually is
01:31:51.040
the fates, the
01:31:52.500
control, the, um, if
01:31:54.860
you, you think about
01:31:55.760
the, um, uh, the
01:31:57.340
concept from, from
01:31:58.400
Greek and, uh, and
01:32:00.960
then Roman sort of
01:32:02.160
copy of what we see as
01:32:04.300
mythologies as, as
01:32:05.360
fates and how they
01:32:07.060
control our lives, that's
01:32:08.660
what weird is.
01:32:10.160
Uh, we just use it
01:32:11.460
wrong.
01:32:11.780
So I, I get into the
01:32:13.360
etymology of words, which
01:32:14.620
I, I find interesting.
01:32:15.800
I, uh, uh, and yeah,
01:32:19.220
not many people want to
01:32:20.660
be told that they're
01:32:21.420
saying things that are
01:32:22.320
not correct.
01:32:24.660
By the way, what, how
01:32:25.580
old were you when you
01:32:26.300
realized you had
01:32:26.840
Asperger's?
01:32:27.420
How old were you?
01:32:28.120
Did somebody say it to
01:32:29.180
you?
01:32:29.300
Did you go to the
01:32:29.960
doctor?
01:32:30.340
How old were you?
01:32:32.420
Um, um, I know I, I
01:32:36.660
had, um, uh, diagnosed
01:32:38.300
my, my mother had me, um,
01:32:40.840
in front of psychologists
01:32:41.900
when I was in high
01:32:42.540
school.
01:32:43.620
Um, and then they sort
01:32:45.600
of, uh, I ended up going
01:32:47.420
to a Catholic school.
01:32:48.380
I got taken out of a
01:32:49.160
state school and put into a
01:32:50.200
Catholic school and, um, uh,
01:32:52.240
directors and everything
01:32:53.120
like that, um, dealt with
01:32:55.380
me and treated me a little
01:32:56.580
bit differently because of
01:32:57.600
it.
01:32:58.460
Um, so that was actually a
01:33:00.760
good move.
01:33:01.720
Um, interesting, but, um,
01:33:04.680
interesting.
01:33:05.960
So.
01:33:07.440
High school, were you, were
01:33:08.580
you the cool guy in high
01:33:09.400
school?
01:33:09.620
Were you the like the 4.0
01:33:10.840
genius getting everything
01:33:11.960
right or pushing the
01:33:13.320
teachers, challenging the
01:33:14.660
teachers?
01:33:15.000
Who were you in high school?
01:33:16.620
Uh, no, I was the
01:33:17.980
annoying prick.
01:33:19.040
I was the guy who nearly got
01:33:20.300
expelled because, um, I, I, I
01:33:25.140
I had a big argument once
01:33:26.220
with the teacher over the
01:33:27.320
textbook, um, and then
01:33:29.520
demonstrated how the
01:33:30.520
textbook was wrong.
01:33:31.520
And, um, we shouldn't be
01:33:33.840
teaching this crap.
01:33:34.800
And yeah, somehow I see
01:33:38.100
that.
01:33:38.340
I don't know why.
01:33:42.920
Yeah.
01:33:43.140
I didn't have a good, I
01:33:44.720
didn't let it go very well.
01:33:46.300
So they said, sit down,
01:33:48.420
Craig, no, but it's
01:33:49.320
actually wrong.
01:33:50.060
And you just learn it.
01:33:52.960
No.
01:33:53.520
Uh, well, listen, thank
01:33:55.400
you for being transparent
01:33:56.680
and being willing to talk
01:33:57.620
about this.
01:33:58.080
That was very helpful
01:33:58.780
because I do know in the
01:33:59.720
business environment, there's
01:34:01.220
a lot of folks that are
01:34:02.020
working with somebody that
01:34:03.020
has it and they don't have
01:34:03.900
an understanding of it.
01:34:04.800
And sometimes parents have
01:34:05.740
kids that have that.
01:34:07.180
And it's tough to kind of
01:34:07.940
understand where that I
01:34:08.680
and it's tough for the kid
01:34:09.600
because the kid wishes
01:34:10.540
parents knew, listen, man,
01:34:12.100
I don't know what I have,
01:34:13.120
but I'm a little bit
01:34:13.780
different.
01:34:14.160
Please be patient with me.
01:34:15.640
This isn't how I made
01:34:17.140
myself be like this.
01:34:17.980
I was born like this.
01:34:19.100
So that's the problem.
01:34:20.520
We have a educational system
01:34:22.900
now that for the most part
01:34:24.180
just tries to slot people in
01:34:25.700
and do exams and it's not
01:34:29.960
good.
01:34:31.240
I mean, education isn't
01:34:34.000
about training and exams.
01:34:35.380
It's about making people
01:34:37.240
think and be part of society
01:34:39.220
and understand.
01:34:40.660
And kids now actually look
01:34:42.960
at all these other courses
01:34:44.200
like music and English and
01:34:47.900
sit there and go, but why
01:34:49.280
do I need this?
01:34:50.700
It's not what I'm going to
01:34:51.740
get into uni with.
01:34:52.880
It's not where my grades
01:34:54.520
are coming from.
01:34:55.900
Well, because it's education.
01:34:59.580
You don't want just to get
01:35:02.080
a tick box.
01:35:03.360
You want to learn to think.
01:35:06.660
Yeah, I'm with you there.
01:35:08.020
Speed round.
01:35:08.640
I'm going to give you a name.
01:35:09.600
Tell me the first word that
01:35:10.560
comes to mind.
01:35:11.180
I'll give you a name.
01:35:11.780
Just tell me the first word
01:35:12.480
that comes to mind.
01:35:13.740
Gavin and Reason.
01:35:17.900
Very interesting guy and he
01:35:23.820
got too much shit.
01:35:25.700
Jeff Gersick.
01:35:27.740
Yeah.
01:35:28.420
Well, anyway.
01:35:30.180
Gregory Maxwell.
01:35:33.300
Trotsky.
01:35:35.200
Trotsky.
01:35:35.920
Okay.
01:35:36.220
Peter Wolff.
01:35:37.240
Peter Wolff on Blockstream.
01:35:40.200
Oh.
01:35:42.540
Don't waste my time.
01:35:44.940
Okay.
01:35:45.640
Fair enough.
01:35:46.000
Dan Kaminsky.
01:35:47.900
An idiot that has had run-ins
01:35:54.680
with me since 2000 or so that tries
01:35:59.480
to pretend he doesn't and forgets
01:36:00.900
that I've still got papers out
01:36:02.120
there on DNS and things like
01:36:03.700
that.
01:36:04.080
But I'm not the best person to
01:36:08.260
point out when things are wrong.
01:36:10.300
And a lot of people get annoyed
01:36:12.140
when I do, especially in
01:36:13.620
conferences and things like that.
01:36:14.800
Like when you sit there and go,
01:36:17.000
actually, your mathematics is wrong.
01:36:19.220
Your, this process is wrong.
01:36:21.800
You haven't used the right statistic.
01:36:23.540
And I do that to people in conferences
01:36:25.340
when they're presenting things.
01:36:27.160
And I don't endear people.
01:36:29.240
But I'm not actually meaning
01:36:31.480
to be a complete asshole.
01:36:32.920
It's just,
01:36:33.500
when I see things that I want
01:36:36.000
to go into detail,
01:36:37.640
it's for me.
01:36:38.300
It's not actually to be a complete prick.
01:36:40.260
It's just the way I am.
01:36:41.940
Jack Dorsey.
01:36:44.500
No, I'm sorry.
01:36:46.400
You did not spend
01:36:47.980
an hour in your sauna
01:36:49.800
at 110 degrees.
01:36:52.700
Stop bullshitting.
01:36:53.660
Fair enough.
01:36:57.300
How many?
01:36:59.620
A shame that we don't
01:37:00.420
put more money into research
01:37:01.680
into certain medical problems.
01:37:04.940
Vitalik Guterrin.
01:37:12.200
Just admit it's your father.
01:37:14.960
Wow.
01:37:15.740
Okay.
01:37:16.520
Peter Schiff.
01:37:21.160
Don't care.
01:37:22.560
Max Kaiser.
01:37:23.660
Really,
01:37:27.860
find something better to shill.
01:37:31.700
Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhardt.
01:37:34.540
Not going to make any comments
01:37:35.960
about ongoing case stuff,
01:37:37.840
whatever else.
01:37:39.100
John McAfee.
01:37:39.920
I didn't,
01:37:40.300
you did say stuff about him earlier.
01:37:41.680
Do you have anything
01:37:42.080
about John McAfee?
01:37:44.500
Get off the drugs.
01:37:46.480
Ron Paul.
01:37:49.180
Don't actually know him.
01:37:51.200
I think you'd like-
01:37:51.800
Some interesting ideas,
01:37:52.460
but yeah,
01:37:54.680
I think you'd like him.
01:37:57.120
He's an interesting guy.
01:37:58.200
Jamie Dimon.
01:38:01.840
Part of the problem.
01:38:05.100
Mark Zuckerberg.
01:38:07.760
There are solutions
01:38:09.040
to digital cash.
01:38:09.980
You don't need
01:38:10.400
to make it yourself.
01:38:12.800
Just use Bitcoin.
01:38:13.780
Michael Burry.
01:38:17.940
Don't know enough.
01:38:19.340
Don't know enough.
01:38:20.080
David Solomon.
01:38:22.540
I know who it is,
01:38:23.540
but I don't really know enough.
01:38:25.620
Okay.
01:38:26.640
And last but not least,
01:38:28.260
Satoshi Nakamoto.
01:38:29.540
I shouldn't have abdicated.
01:38:36.480
You know,
01:38:36.940
I got to tell you,
01:38:37.400
I said this to you earlier.
01:38:38.260
The more I talked to you,
01:38:39.100
I saw two different people.
01:38:40.180
If Edward Norton
01:38:41.020
and Charlie Sheen
01:38:41.920
were to make a baby together,
01:38:43.640
he would look like Craig Wright.
01:38:45.020
He'd look like you.
01:38:46.100
Ed Norton,
01:38:46.880
Charlie Sheen.
01:38:48.580
I don't even want
01:38:49.780
to imagine that.
01:38:50.920
I really don't want
01:38:51.720
to see Charlie Sheen
01:38:52.560
and Ed Norton
01:38:53.120
making a baby.
01:38:55.620
I mean,
01:38:56.260
it's,
01:38:57.260
I mean,
01:38:57.660
there's no,
01:38:59.440
I mean,
01:38:59.780
Jimmy,
01:39:00.860
who I work with,
01:39:02.600
is gay
01:39:03.940
and I've got lots
01:39:04.540
of gay friends.
01:39:05.400
So that's not the issue.
01:39:06.460
I just,
01:39:07.100
those two together
01:39:07.840
just doesn't do it for me.
01:39:09.300
I'm sorry.
01:39:10.280
Maybe in a future movie
01:39:11.760
coming soon,
01:39:12.640
you know,
01:39:13.060
it's,
01:39:13.600
who knows what's
01:39:14.200
going to be happening.
01:39:14.840
But the way,
01:39:15.640
when you talk,
01:39:16.360
you have angles,
01:39:16.900
you look like
01:39:17.440
Norton,
01:39:17.880
there's angles you talk
01:39:18.740
to look like Charlie Sheen.
01:39:20.340
Craig Wright,
01:39:21.160
what I can tell you
01:39:22.040
is I appreciate you
01:39:22.920
for being a guest
01:39:24.440
on Valuetainment
01:39:25.040
and taking all my questions
01:39:26.200
and you were very classy
01:39:27.700
about some of the topics
01:39:28.620
I brought up.
01:39:29.340
I know some of the topics
01:39:30.880
were pretty directed
01:39:31.920
and pointed,
01:39:32.520
but you took them well
01:39:33.300
and we've had a good time
01:39:34.580
to get here
01:39:35.040
for the last hour
01:39:35.700
and a half,
01:39:36.000
hour and 45 minutes.
01:39:36.960
Again,
01:39:37.220
thank you for your time
01:39:38.160
for being a guest
01:39:38.700
on Valuetainment.
01:39:39.780
You're welcome.
01:39:40.720
I must say,
01:39:41.720
your sort of picture
01:39:43.880
in the background,
01:39:45.500
interesting mix of people
01:39:47.080
there.
01:39:48.580
Yes,
01:39:49.080
it is.
01:39:49.800
I mean,
01:39:50.160
I can pick out most of them.
01:39:51.760
I mean,
01:39:52.160
Lincoln's easy.
01:39:54.540
I mean,
01:39:55.360
Friedman,
01:39:57.140
Einstein,
01:39:58.100
Kennedy,
01:39:58.800
etc.
01:39:59.000
I'm not quite sure
01:40:00.160
who the guy
01:40:00.800
with all the medals is,
01:40:02.260
happens to be.
01:40:03.000
I mean,
01:40:03.500
he could be several people.
01:40:07.840
Which dictator?
01:40:09.000
That's the question.
01:40:10.220
He looks like several.
01:40:12.000
Shav Iran,
01:40:13.000
the former Shav Iran.
01:40:15.000
Ah.
01:40:15.600
He's the Shav Iran
01:40:16.600
and then you got
01:40:17.240
Martin Luther King.
01:40:18.760
Then you got a hip-hop artist.
01:40:20.300
I'm sure you listen
01:40:20.900
to a lot of his music,
01:40:21.900
Tupac.
01:40:24.260
I've got children,
01:40:25.580
so I don't have a choice.
01:40:27.180
And then you got
01:40:30.940
Senna over here
01:40:31.800
and I think
01:40:32.160
what you'll appreciate
01:40:32.820
is they're sitting
01:40:33.520
in a bank vault
01:40:34.340
and they're debating
01:40:35.200
two books.
01:40:36.120
See if you recognize
01:40:37.060
these two books.
01:40:39.940
One has a little
01:40:40.940
dragon
01:40:42.000
that looks like
01:40:43.980
a Bitcoin-y type one.
01:40:45.920
I'm not sure
01:40:46.520
what the other book is.
01:40:47.960
It could be,
01:40:49.280
it could be,
01:40:50.220
looks like Rothbard
01:40:51.140
or something
01:40:51.560
by the cover,
01:40:52.140
but it's thick enough
01:40:54.620
to be Rothbard
01:40:55.620
and the color's right
01:40:58.320
for Rothbard's book.
01:41:00.340
Close.
01:41:01.600
They're debating
01:41:02.360
Communist Manifesto
01:41:03.660
and Atlas Shrug
01:41:04.700
is what they're debating.
01:41:06.740
Ah.
01:41:07.520
Why Iran and Karl Marx
01:41:09.520
had different philosophies
01:41:10.800
and obviously
01:41:11.360
politicians,
01:41:13.140
they're debating
01:41:13.600
those two topics.
01:41:15.220
Although,
01:41:16.620
yeah,
01:41:18.500
the Communist Manifesto
01:41:19.520
is even thinner
01:41:20.300
than that,
01:41:20.740
by the way.
01:41:22.820
Yeah,
01:41:23.120
you're right.
01:41:23.860
It is.
01:41:24.300
I got to contact
01:41:24.920
the painter
01:41:25.300
and say,
01:41:25.640
why'd you add
01:41:26.280
an additional
01:41:26.680
80 pages to it?
01:41:27.960
Exactly.
01:41:31.220
No problem.
01:41:34.100
Is that Marcus Aurelius
01:41:35.060
in the background?
01:41:35.880
Listen,
01:41:36.380
honestly,
01:41:37.100
like how do you know
01:41:37.720
that's Marcus Aurelius?
01:41:38.920
It is Marcus Aurelius.
01:41:40.260
Yes.
01:41:41.400
Aurelius and Aristotle.
01:41:43.560
I try and be
01:41:45.220
a little bit stoic.
01:41:46.240
I really fail,
01:41:47.420
but I would like
01:41:48.820
to be a good stoic.
01:41:49.820
I'm just,
01:41:50.540
it doesn't work.
01:41:51.560
I keep trying
01:41:52.580
and to go
01:41:55.940
into the whole
01:41:56.520
Aristotle bit,
01:41:57.940
you can't actually
01:41:59.660
say someone
01:42:00.320
is happy
01:42:01.200
until the day
01:42:02.080
they die
01:42:02.660
because you never
01:42:04.620
know what will
01:42:05.120
happen tomorrow.
01:42:06.320
So similarly,
01:42:07.400
I'm going to say,
01:42:08.520
I can't say
01:42:09.200
that I'm not a stoic
01:42:10.240
until the day
01:42:10.880
I die.
01:42:12.200
So until then,
01:42:13.240
I'm going to keep
01:42:13.840
trying.
01:42:15.080
It's not an easy
01:42:16.060
thing to do,
01:42:16.540
that's for sure.
01:42:17.980
Very awesome.
01:42:18.740
Especially in this world,
01:42:19.420
yes.
01:42:20.000
Especially in this world,
01:42:21.280
no doubt about it.
01:42:22.640
Craig,
01:42:23.160
thank you.
01:42:23.720
Thank you for your time.
01:42:24.860
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01:42:25.420
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