You want to talk about Bitcoin doing a 180 to somebody. It's definitely me because I was broke, struggling, could never figure out how to beat the Fiat system, and then I opted out of it.

That really is the way that people get it in their bones, I think, rather than just understanding Bitcoin at a conceptual level.

Making people think that they can't ever get access to energy, that's the

easiest way to control someone. This massive ignorance fear complex somehow gives rise to this

pseudo-religious environmentalist nonsense. And the fiat dollar is their mechanism at the moment.

So were you involved in Bitcoin when the China mining ban happened?

On a hot day in Texas when the Urquot grid says, hey, you guys got to shut down.

The entire network goes down by 17%.

To destroy Bitcoin, nation states need to solve the Byzantine General's problem, but the only solution to the Byzantine General's problem is Bitcoin.

This is why I'm a Christian.

This is why I believe in Jesus.

Because ultimately, if I don't understand what's right, that's my ruler.

That's what I like about Bitcoin.

You either play by the rules and you agree with them or it doesn't work.

Yeah. with them or it doesn't work. All right, David, brand scum, aka Rebel in Texas.

Yeah, happy to have you here.

Thanks, man.

I met you in Madeira for the first time.

We had a couple great conversations.

And you have a unique origin story.

Plus, you're also involved in Bitcoin mining and immersion cooling.

So I'm excited to have this conversation.

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