Hey everybody. Welcome to The What is Money Show. I am thrilled to have you here joining me on my mission to help shine light on the corruption of money.

Now, if this is your first time listening to The What Is Money Show, I strongly recommend that you go back to episodes one through nine first, which lays a lot of the groundwork for many of the concepts that we explore on the show.

These first nine episodes are my series with Michael Saylor, and thousands of people have told me that this is the best podcast series they've ever heard,

hands down, and that it was instrumental to their understanding of money and Bitcoin.

So if you're looking to start a deep dive into the nature of money, I don't think there's

any place better that you can start other than episode one of this show.

Now, a little bit about this show and how it makes money.

What is Money Show is 100% sponsor-based.

So all of our revenues are derived from direct sponsorships.

And I strive to be very selective about the sponsors that I work with,

specifically only using sponsors that I use personally,

and also choosing sponsors that have

values which are well aligned to the values expressed on this show, such as freedom, education,

self-sovereignty, et cetera. So what I'm going to do now is a few ad reads right at the top of the

show, and then I'll do a few more ad reads in the middle, and I hope you'll take the time to listen to them as again, these are hand-selected sponsors and I think you'll like

what they have to offer. Fernando Nicolich, welcome to the What Is Money Show. Thanks a lot, Robert.

Happy to be here. So good to have you, man. It's been a long time coming and it's great to have you, man. It's been a long time coming, and it's great to have you on the show,

finally. By way of quick introduction, you are the lead of marketing and communications at

Blockstream, which is a well-known Bitcoin infrastructure company. And today, you know,

we've been talking about doing this episode for some time. We were originally going to talk about Javier Malay when he was initially elected.

It's been how long now, four months since he was elected?

Yeah, it was late October.

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