We now have Lutes ready to talk to us about central bank digital currencies, about

cryptocurrencies and the rest.

Now, are you there, Lutz?

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

Yep, I'm here.

Okay, good.

All right.

We're there.

Okay, good.

Let's talk a little.

Let's, we got you finally. That's great to have you on.

Let's talk a little bit. Give people kind of a background because a lot of things have happened in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

We've seen problems with exchanges and other things like that. I think a lot of people are looking at this and scratching their head and saying, what's going on? Give us your take as to what's happened in the last month or so about

crypto. Well, it's increased. There is what I call dividing conquer. They are causing

confusion within all of crypto. So what they do is they come in

with all these bullshit coins all this crap and and they confuse all these new investors they

have no idea what the hell's going on and and then they confuse them further by by throwing out

all these features and uh you know uh this is more scalable and

this is you know those nfts but none of that matters if it's not private right uh so so that what

they're doing is if they cannot stop it they're going to slow it down until the point they get their CBDCs out there.

That's right. Yeah, I think that is the key thing. I think they're pushing towards that.

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