We need to be mindful that we are coming out of the economic dark ages, basically.

The mantra we often refrain on the show, and this is something I got from Teleb, is that pain is in formation.

It's literally when you touch the hot stove, I don't know, maybe one in ten or one in a hundred actually don't ever touch it to figure it out, but most people end up touching that damn stove before

they learn not to do it again. So as much as we proselytize and evangelize Bitcoin, there's a

paradox here because I think it's actually going to be the state that ends up orange pilling

vastly more people than any of us ever could hope to.

Because the state is the primary inflictor of that pain.

So they're the ones hyperinflating the currency.

They're the ones waging wars.

They're the ones imposing capital controls.

They're the ones implementing social credit score systems, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

They are the inflictor of the pain.

Therefore, they're going to be the primary motivator for people to figure out how to solve these problems that they are creating.

And as we theorize or as we as we reason, Bitcoin is the solution to many of those problems. Thank you. 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 collection 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.

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