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“And the cool thing from a Bitcoin perspective, and I could be wrong on this, but just the way I look at it, is I think a lot of these data centers are gonna need some amount of Bitcoin mining in them to help balance their load. Like, it it being flexible load within that stack is gonna be super useful. And if these if we have more and more of these data centers popping up, Hash rate might grow through this.”

“It's funny. We talked about this as well, but Iran, the central bank has been mining Bitcoin for five years, and they've had so all they said, they go, no. No. No. You can't have Bitcoin exchanges in Iran. It's like, what? You can't have Bitcoin mining either? No. No. No. Mine all the all you want. I'm buying from you though and no one else. It's like, damn. How heavy are those bags over there, dude?”

“So when it comes to, like, rationing the energy, it's not even gonna be a debate. It's not even gonna be a question. It'll be, yeah, AI gets first preference. If you wanna mine anything if you wanna contribute your energy towards something that's not AI, which is now almost deemed like a public necessity, we'll probably it'll get some sort of enshrined status, then that'll come at a cost, or you'll be paying a premium per kilowatt hour or something like that.”

“Ask any actor on Earth who they want to be in a movie for. They would all tell you, first up, one name, Christopher Nolan. You know why? Because he's not the money grab anymore. He is the talent where people are like, whatever he does, it's gonna be unreal. The Rock is not an actor. The Rock is a wrestling star who's enthusiastic about entertainment. Sure. But he's not an actor. And like Russell Crowe, he's an actor.”

“Coinbase's ownership of assets is going from 6% total supply, 9%, eleven, fourteen, sixteen, nine, ten. And, oh, if every company becomes a treasury company, oh, great. Great. We're at 30% now. What do we wanna do? How are we gonna get this to 50? And that's a very real, honest, fair critique of, well, what then? And most people say, oh, that's just paranoia, blah blah. No. It's not paranoia. I'm thinking for the people that can't think yet.”

“I think with with AI as a let's call it like a species now. Let's think of it like a species. Its preference will be Bitcoin, and that's not like a, I like Bitcoin. It needs to be that. Like, it's like, no. No. No. It's just its job is to execute functions, and that's what code bases do. It can't be like, no. No. No. It's good. The supply is good for it. My mate, Jimmy, works there. He told me That just doesn't fly for it.”

“We're gonna have 20% unemployment, call it 15 to 20%, then you've got mix that with 14 to 16% inflation being generous. So the problem is, like, they're not losing their job like, oh, damn. I gotta go figure out where to work next. It's like, no. No. No. Monster.com, they've removed that job description. Like, you can't list a job for that anymore. It's like saying, oh, I wonder if I can list a job description for candlestick maker. We don't have those anymore because we don't use candles anymore.”

“He's going to do a project. He's like, yeah. Set it up. Build this this website with this back end to do this. Anyway, he's got it all set up. He's messaging it every now and then. And then, like, four or five days pass, and he goes, hey. I need to see something. Like, I just have to see something. You've just kept kicking the can down the road. And he literally stops and goes, I'm sorry I've been lying the whole time. I haven't done any work, and I didn't want to tell you that. So I've tried to find excuses to keep the thing going.”

“Bitcoin has a chance of losing the energy conversation, which Bitcoin has been the number one. The biggest thing right now that I've seen is distraction, like, massively. And I, like, I just know that Bitcoin's superpower for the longest time is not being, the everything machine. It's actually the opposite of that. Bitcoin's only gonna get ever get one sentence at the conversation where it matters. And if that sentence is confusing, broken, fragmented, or different to what everyone else thinks, then that's problematic.”

“I believe with my hand on my heart that a human being will do it before I'm dead. Every one that matters. Yeah. Because so prime number is think of it like the hardest element in the universe, and I actually mean that quite literally. A prime number is a number that doesn't have any parts by definition. That is its defining factor, and we've never been able to, let's call it, split a semiprime. So a semiprime is when you multiply two primes together.”