Valuetainment - August 28, 2020


Bitcoin's Most Hated Man - Craig Wright


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1 hour and 42 minutes

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15,099

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1,197

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Craig Wright, the most hated man in the Bitcoin community, claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto. He's a fraud, a con artist, a thief, a liar, a fraudster, and a thief all at the same time, and he thinks he's the greatest Bitcoiner of all time. We talk about this, and much more, in this episode of Activity.

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00:00:00.000 30 seconds.
00:00:01.800 Did you ever think you would make it?
00:00:04.520 I feel I'm so close I could take sweet victory.
00:00:07.620 I know this life meant for me.
00:00:10.760 Yeah, why would you bet on Goliath when we got Bet David?
00:00:14.580 Valuetainment, giving value is contagious.
00:00:16.420 This world of entrepreneurs, we get no value to haters.
00:00:19.160 How they run, homie? 1.00
00:00:20.120 Look what I become.
00:00:21.420 I'm the one.
00:00:22.400 I'm Patrick Medevi, host of Activity.
00:00:23.960 I'm sitting down with probably the most hated man in the Bitcoin community,
00:00:26.680 Craig Wright, who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
00:00:30.800 Craig, thank you so much for being a guest on Valuetainment.
00:00:33.700 You're welcome.
00:00:35.020 So how much, how much, you know, I call people, I'm not in the Bitcoin world.
00:00:39.400 Obviously, I own Bitcoin, a small percentage of Bitcoin,
00:00:42.580 but I'm not one that follows all the forms.
00:00:44.740 I'm not one that's, you know,
00:00:46.480 because the community is an interesting community of a lot of true believers.
00:00:50.160 There's a community that is fully furious with you
00:00:53.400 and a smaller community that believes in you.
00:00:55.940 Why did you decide one day to wake up and piss off everybody?
00:01:00.020 Well, I didn't really decide that at all.
00:01:02.080 I mean, where people are going wrong is that they seem to think
00:01:05.380 that I'm going to invent a creation
00:01:08.980 and then be happy that everyone twists and makes it into something else.
00:01:13.560 Shortly after I left sort of my pseudonym
00:01:18.200 with the sort of launch of drug markets
00:01:22.080 and whatever else that I didn't really want,
00:01:23.940 we had people like the Electronic Frontier Foundation
00:01:27.740 come out with these comments about Bitcoin,
00:01:31.160 this new censorship-resistant system,
00:01:33.800 talking about how it will stop governments taking your money
00:01:36.720 and all this stuff.
00:01:37.900 Bitcoin doesn't do anything like that.
00:01:40.360 That is all mythology.
00:01:41.960 So these people hate me for the simple fact that I'm ruining their myth.
00:01:48.020 It's basically the case of they've produced a church of Satoshi
00:01:53.400 and I've come back and I'm not what they want.
00:01:57.620 It's the scene in Doskieski where the Christ comes back
00:02:04.420 to actually talk with the Inquisitor
00:02:07.140 and the Inquisitor doesn't want him.
00:02:10.060 He sits there saying,
00:02:11.640 we don't need you anymore.
00:02:12.940 The church is fine.
00:02:15.100 But the church is not fine.
00:02:17.760 And these people,
00:02:19.040 what they're wanting to do is not fine.
00:02:21.420 Bitcoin's designed to be a system
00:02:23.180 that is open and honest.
00:02:24.940 You can't do that by destroying governments.
00:02:27.200 People forget that government is just a word.
00:02:33.780 What government is at the end of the day,
00:02:35.640 whether it's good or bad,
00:02:37.160 it's people.
00:02:39.340 So if we have a good government,
00:02:41.000 it's because we have a system that is managed
00:02:42.800 and controlled by people that care about it.
00:02:47.180 And if we have a bad government,
00:02:48.740 it's because people allow them to have that.
00:02:53.260 Okay.
00:02:53.960 So for the average person,
00:02:55.240 you just went to a crazy different place.
00:02:57.300 You went to a very deep place.
00:02:59.820 But for the average,
00:03:00.760 let me just put some things out there numbers wise.
00:03:03.840 If you are Satoshi Nakamoto,
00:03:06.080 if you are Satoshi Nakamoto,
00:03:07.640 if you are,
00:03:08.580 and when I say if you are,
00:03:09.780 you're saying you know you are,
00:03:10.940 I'm just saying for the skeptics,
00:03:12.600 if you are Satoshi Nakamoto,
00:03:14.780 you're essentially worth on paper $8.8 billion.
00:03:18.240 Is that pretty accurate?
00:03:20.940 I don't actually know.
00:03:22.920 I know it's a lot of money.
00:03:23.980 I don't sit there watching the price.
00:03:27.820 Yes,
00:03:28.440 it's a lot of money.
00:03:30.440 So that's a lot of money,
00:03:32.120 $8.8 billion.
00:03:32.940 And I know at the peak of it,
00:03:33.920 when Bitcoin had $20,000,
00:03:35.840 it was around $20 billion.
00:03:37.560 The reality there though,
00:03:38.820 is you can't actually sell any of these things
00:03:40.820 for that amount.
00:03:41.620 So if people say you've got that much money,
00:03:44.020 but you don't really,
00:03:45.180 because if you try and sell it,
00:03:46.860 then it goes down a lot.
00:03:47.900 So the actual realizable value is a lot less than that.
00:03:52.760 But the reality here is,
00:03:54.420 it matters not about how much money you have.
00:03:57.160 It matters what you can do,
00:03:59.260 what you can actually live in your life.
00:04:00.740 And I have enough money to go through university myself still,
00:04:06.580 to pay for my kids to go through university,
00:04:09.680 to have them educated properly,
00:04:11.800 to travel,
00:04:12.800 to spend time with my family,
00:04:14.720 to do things I want.
00:04:17.000 And what more is really important?
00:04:18.840 I mean,
00:04:19.640 past that,
00:04:20.300 who cares?
00:04:21.920 Yeah,
00:04:22.100 I know.
00:04:22.420 But the thing is like,
00:04:23.820 you know,
00:04:24.060 if you look at Ethereum founder,
00:04:25.800 Vitaly,
00:04:26.240 he's a pretty public guy.
00:04:27.340 It's not like he is hidden.
00:04:29.120 You know,
00:04:29.320 this is who I am.
00:04:30.060 I'm the founder.
00:04:30.820 And he does whatever he can to not be that much of a guy.
00:04:33.680 That's the control.
00:04:34.400 Because the whole thing about crypto is the fact that it's the complete opposite of banking.
00:04:39.300 So it's no one figure you look at.
00:04:41.400 It's not a hierarchy type of a model.
00:04:43.220 But that's actually wrong.
00:04:44.760 So this is,
00:04:45.340 this is part of what they don't like.
00:04:46.940 There are no sort of,
00:04:49.820 oh,
00:04:49.860 we're out of this.
00:04:51.560 Vitaly is the leader.
00:04:53.340 He is the issuer of Ethereum.
00:04:56.200 When he decided that the DAO didn't work,
00:05:00.460 he changed it.
00:05:01.740 It wasn't a community or a group.
00:05:05.140 None of this is about distributed groups do it.
00:05:08.420 That's a lie that's propagated and promoted
00:05:11.080 so that these few people in charge can say,
00:05:15.320 don't look at me.
00:05:16.420 Don't take me to be responsible.
00:05:18.920 I didn't do that.
00:05:20.940 That's the whole point.
00:05:22.400 It is these people who are shirking their responsibility,
00:05:25.600 who are basically allowing all sorts of heinous things to be just rife.
00:05:32.920 And the truth of the matter is they're making money out of that.
00:05:37.300 They're allowing child porn.
00:05:38.940 They're allowing drug sales,
00:05:41.200 hard drugs.
00:05:42.360 And they're sitting there going,
00:05:43.640 it's not my fault.
00:05:44.880 The community wants it.
00:05:45.880 The community doesn't vote on this.
00:05:48.480 The consensus mechanism in Bitcoin is the creation of blocks.
00:05:53.380 At present in BTC world even,
00:05:57.320 there are only 32 nodes.
00:06:01.200 Of that,
00:06:02.520 three or four control the whole system.
00:06:04.780 Now the developer bit,
00:06:09.880 they sit there going,
00:06:10.700 the community does this.
00:06:11.920 The community don't do anything.
00:06:14.600 Three people control the GitHub keys.
00:06:17.960 In Ethereum,
00:06:19.240 two people basically do it.
00:06:21.280 Your average company like General Motors
00:06:24.780 has more decentralization
00:06:29.500 than any cryptocurrency that people are talking about.
00:06:33.600 This whole nature of it's about decentralization
00:06:36.580 was never about Bitcoin.
00:06:38.640 It's people who piled in after I left the scene in 2011
00:06:42.220 who've taken up this concept
00:06:44.220 and run around going,
00:06:46.320 Bitcoin's broken.
00:06:47.440 We have to fix it.
00:06:48.260 Bitcoin was never designed to be any of those things.
00:06:51.280 Bitcoin was...
00:06:53.380 Okay, so when you were saying that,
00:06:54.720 you were saying Vitalik,
00:06:56.300 he's saying,
00:06:57.380 I'm just trying to get people to do what they want to do.
00:06:59.320 I'm not like the bank leader.
00:07:00.360 I'm not the hierarchy leader.
00:07:01.280 You're saying the complete opposite.
00:07:02.920 So what does that make you
00:07:04.240 if you're saying you are Satoshi Nakamoto?
00:07:07.420 I'm saying exactly the same things I said online.
00:07:11.320 I've never said that this was a decentralized system
00:07:14.420 or that it's good for drug sales
00:07:16.260 or any of these things.
00:07:17.260 I actually said,
00:07:18.380 don't invite WikiLeaks.
00:07:19.720 And yet that's the opposite of what everyone did.
00:07:24.120 I didn't run around going,
00:07:25.620 it's an anti-banking system.
00:07:27.680 There's no quote you'll find from me
00:07:29.620 at any point saying those things.
00:07:32.000 I didn't say it replaces banking.
00:07:34.620 That's really ignorant when you think about it.
00:07:36.920 Banking is not cash.
00:07:39.280 Bitcoin is an electronic cash system.
00:07:42.580 Now, banking, on the other hand,
00:07:44.300 is distribution of capital.
00:07:46.080 Bitcoin doesn't take your funds
00:07:48.660 and pool them
00:07:50.000 and give out home loans.
00:07:52.280 It doesn't give out business loans.
00:07:54.420 It doesn't manage those sources of funds.
00:07:58.400 It's cash.
00:08:00.340 And these people are too ignorant to even realize.
00:08:04.180 Or if they're not ignorant,
00:08:05.480 they're disingenuous.
00:08:06.660 And they're sitting there saying
00:08:08.820 that we're going to replace banking
00:08:10.280 for third world people.
00:08:11.940 It's not.
00:08:13.700 Third world people
00:08:14.520 don't have investment.
00:08:17.240 They don't have loans.
00:08:19.380 Saying you've got Bitcoin
00:08:20.460 isn't going to pull those people
00:08:22.320 out of poverty.
00:08:25.060 What it does
00:08:25.940 is it allows this false narrative
00:08:28.200 of a Ponzi
00:08:28.960 where people sit there going,
00:08:30.920 it's going to keep going up forever.
00:08:33.440 Invest now
00:08:34.200 because I've already invested
00:08:35.600 and I want more money.
00:08:38.540 That's the problem here.
00:08:41.180 How do these people are building?
00:08:43.100 So do you feel,
00:08:44.480 it sounds like you're,
00:08:45.760 you don't sound optimistic,
00:08:47.260 you sound pessimistic.
00:08:48.340 So let's just say
00:08:49.460 you are the founder of Bitcoin
00:08:50.520 and you're the monkey
00:08:51.200 of Satoshi Nakamoto.
00:08:52.720 If you are,
00:08:53.400 do you regret creating Bitcoin?
00:08:55.060 No,
00:08:57.100 I regret
00:08:57.680 not managing things properly.
00:09:01.640 I notice you've got a cross 0.96
00:09:03.500 around your neck
00:09:04.140 and
00:09:04.500 I used to be a pastor
00:09:07.220 and I've actually
00:09:08.720 started a Roman Catholic
00:09:10.000 and moved over to be Protestant
00:09:11.980 because it fit me better.
00:09:14.940 And I like actually being married.
00:09:18.120 But
00:09:18.580 there's a concept of stewardship.
00:09:21.320 So
00:09:23.460 the whole
00:09:25.220 Catholic
00:09:25.860 ideal of stewardship
00:09:27.600 is important.
00:09:29.800 Whether you're Protestant
00:09:31.080 or Catholic
00:09:31.820 or whatever else,
00:09:33.540 this idea of
00:09:34.860 having
00:09:36.140 long-term investment,
00:09:38.260 ownership
00:09:38.700 and
00:09:39.320 managing
00:09:40.500 everything,
00:09:41.620 knowing your problems,
00:09:43.040 being responsible.
00:09:45.560 This is what
00:09:46.120 really built
00:09:46.780 Western culture.
00:09:48.020 Responsibility,
00:09:48.740 knowing that you
00:09:49.660 are the
00:09:50.680 center of your own
00:09:52.000 problems and causes.
00:09:53.860 And what I regret
00:09:54.580 is
00:09:55.260 when I left,
00:09:56.780 when I
00:09:57.440 sort of
00:09:59.100 left everything
00:09:59.840 happen the way it was,
00:10:00.980 I thought I could
00:10:01.440 work in the background
00:10:02.340 and
00:10:03.040 fix things
00:10:04.340 without being
00:10:05.080 involved.
00:10:06.940 But
00:10:07.500 I abdicated,
00:10:09.280 not
00:10:09.660 sort of delegated.
00:10:11.580 There's a big difference.
00:10:13.060 And
00:10:13.260 part of stewardship
00:10:15.120 is taking ownership
00:10:16.260 of what you
00:10:16.920 cause,
00:10:17.720 your problems
00:10:18.380 and everything
00:10:18.760 like that.
00:10:20.140 And
00:10:20.540 that's what I regret.
00:10:22.020 I regret
00:10:22.420 not doing that.
00:10:23.760 Not
00:10:23.900 sort of,
00:10:25.880 it was a
00:10:26.700 harder choice
00:10:27.940 and I should have
00:10:28.640 made it back then.
00:10:30.260 So if you're saying
00:10:31.580 Vitalik is public
00:10:33.880 and he's the leader
00:10:34.640 of Ethereum,
00:10:35.300 but why were you
00:10:35.980 not public
00:10:36.440 from day one?
00:10:37.700 I thought things
00:10:38.620 would sort themselves
00:10:39.360 out.
00:10:40.360 I didn't,
00:10:41.860 I mean,
00:10:42.720 there was a church
00:10:44.960 of Satoshi
00:10:45.600 for a while.
00:10:46.320 There was a
00:10:47.260 whole lot of
00:10:47.720 other,
00:10:48.000 I mean,
00:10:48.840 I did not
00:10:50.380 foresee any
00:10:51.080 of this.
00:10:52.420 The whole
00:10:53.160 idea of Bitcoin
00:10:53.860 and the protocol
00:10:54.480 is that it
00:10:55.580 doesn't change.
00:10:57.160 None of this,
00:10:57.880 we get to keep
00:10:58.660 doing soft
00:10:59.220 forks or hard
00:10:59.920 forks or
00:11:00.360 anything.
00:11:01.020 The whole
00:11:01.720 concept of
00:11:02.340 set in stone
00:11:02.900 is we have
00:11:03.780 a protocol
00:11:04.540 that grows
00:11:06.340 and miners
00:11:08.120 don't vote
00:11:08.960 as everyone
00:11:09.620 says.
00:11:10.220 Miners
00:11:10.500 don't choose
00:11:13.020 what the
00:11:13.300 protocol is.
00:11:13.960 think about
00:11:15.040 that for a
00:11:15.500 moment.
00:11:16.340 That is a
00:11:16.940 horrible
00:11:17.320 scenario.
00:11:18.500 That is
00:11:18.800 might makes
00:11:19.740 right.
00:11:20.780 Those with
00:11:21.220 the most
00:11:21.720 money,
00:11:22.060 the most
00:11:22.380 power get
00:11:23.080 to choose
00:11:23.600 what happens
00:11:24.180 in our
00:11:24.500 monetary
00:11:24.820 system.
00:11:25.900 That's not
00:11:26.260 democratic.
00:11:26.820 That's not
00:11:27.200 fair.
00:11:28.840 Do you
00:11:29.160 really want
00:11:29.680 to see
00:11:30.060 some large
00:11:31.600 Russian company
00:11:32.360 or large
00:11:33.080 Chinese
00:11:33.680 company
00:11:34.140 dictating
00:11:35.540 world
00:11:36.520 financial
00:11:37.120 policy?
00:11:37.720 That's
00:11:40.480 what these
00:11:40.800 people are
00:11:41.200 arguing.
00:11:42.160 That
00:11:42.320 criminals
00:11:42.900 can dictate
00:11:44.880 financial
00:11:45.840 policy that
00:11:46.900 can't be
00:11:47.460 changed even
00:11:48.400 by government
00:11:49.060 or law
00:11:49.520 enforcement.
00:11:51.300 Really,
00:11:51.960 think about
00:11:52.340 that for a
00:11:52.760 moment.
00:11:54.020 We get
00:11:54.380 two large
00:11:55.060 miners,
00:11:55.520 each with
00:11:55.860 30%,
00:11:56.260 and they
00:11:56.900 have joint
00:11:57.920 control as
00:11:58.660 an oligarchy.
00:11:59.980 And they
00:12:00.480 can dictate
00:12:01.140 to the rest
00:12:01.860 of the world
00:12:02.340 that child
00:12:02.960 pornography is
00:12:03.740 good.
00:12:05.540 Mr.
00:12:05.880 Antonopoulos,
00:12:06.760 writer of
00:12:07.380 Mastering
00:12:08.120 Shitcoin, 1.00
00:12:09.140 came up
00:12:09.920 with this,
00:12:10.880 oh well,
00:12:11.280 it's not
00:12:11.580 my place
00:12:12.280 to tell
00:12:12.880 people that
00:12:14.480 child porn's
00:12:15.140 bad.
00:12:15.980 I mean,
00:12:16.200 if people
00:12:16.580 want to do
00:12:17.020 that,
00:12:17.280 they should
00:12:17.540 make their
00:12:17.920 own decisions.
00:12:19.540 Wrong.
00:12:20.780 I don't
00:12:21.540 care about
00:12:22.120 this Foucaultian
00:12:24.620 postmodern
00:12:25.600 ideal.
00:12:27.800 I still
00:12:28.600 believe that
00:12:29.540 we have
00:12:30.020 sort of
00:12:31.080 an overarching
00:12:32.220 idea of
00:12:32.920 morality.
00:12:34.920 This
00:12:35.220 pluralist
00:12:36.320 system
00:12:36.760 Hegelian 0.97
00:12:38.720 horrible
00:12:40.560 world of
00:12:41.340 everyone
00:12:42.380 having a
00:12:43.440 right to
00:12:43.980 whatever they
00:12:44.420 believe,
00:12:45.160 no matter
00:12:45.500 how low
00:12:46.280 and despicable
00:12:47.560 it is,
00:12:48.040 is wrong.
00:12:50.160 I don't
00:12:50.920 really care.
00:12:51.700 There is a
00:12:52.340 morality that
00:12:53.120 is native
00:12:53.540 to humanity
00:12:54.300 and doing
00:12:55.280 the wrong
00:12:55.780 things will
00:12:56.940 never be
00:12:57.580 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 0.98
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 0.87
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 0.54
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 0.64
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, 0.99
00:30:28.240 let's just say
00:30:28.740 somebody really
00:30:29.520 pissed you off, 0.99
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 0.92
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 0.96
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 1.00
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 0.79
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 0.95
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 0.99
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 0.57
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 0.97
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 1.00
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 0.57
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 0.98
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 0.61
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, 1.00
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. 0.96
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 1.00
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, 0.79
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 1.00
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 0.99
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. 0.53
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. 0.92
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. 0.69
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 1.00
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 0.77
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 You're welcome.
01:42:25.420 Thanks everybody
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