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What's going on, guys? It is Friday, January 24th, and that means it's time for the Friday

5. Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it,

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slash breakdown pod. All right, friends, back with another Friday 5, and this probably has to be maybe our most

active engaged Friday 5 and I don't know how long.

This kind of makes sense, given that it was inauguration week, but boy, did it deliver.

We've got new SEC policy, executive order stuff, political prisoners freed, you name it,

it's here. So without any

further ado, let's dive in. Man, I don't know even where to start. Yesterday, we were like,

what are the top five stories? And every 20 minutes, the chat changed. And I realized this morning

that the Trump and Melania coins weren't even on the list. And we have never discussed those

because it started last Friday night. It's wild. I think, you know, probably if we had

thought about it, we would have anticipated that maybe the first week after inauguration would be a

big one, but it has certainly delivered and then some. And in so many different ways. But let's

start from the beginning, I guess, because I think that this was sort of the first hint that Donald Trump was going to actually deliver on promises for the

crypto and Bitcoin community. As discussed, Ross Albrecht was freeze. Trump Parton's

Imprisoned Silk Road founder Ross Albrecht. Here was his post on truth social. You guys can read it for yourselves. But listen,

this was extremely important to the Bitcoin community. For those who don't remember,

Ross obviously got two life sentences plus 40 years for his involvement in Silk Road.

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