One of the amazing things about what's going on China, I know as an American, as Americans,

we have this caricature of people in China. Oh, the CCP and everyone's brainwashed.

One of the most amazing things about meeting early bitcoins in China was they're not patriotic

about their money. They know the difference between government and country. And immediately, I mean, they've been screwed over

on money a million times. Their country is a currency manipulator. And because they're a currency

manipulator, the people got used to being manipulated, but the money would change overnight

and they had it on. So there was this appetite for something like Bitcoin in the early days.

And I've always said that Bitcoin is the strongest when American normal people and Chinese

normal people and Russian normal people realize what they have in common is this money,

that the money that they have persisted with until now is garbage and in leading all these

misaligned incentives, all of this conflict,

and that when Americans actually have a disadvantage in a way, right, our patriotism in America,

our love of country can get confused with love of government, very often.

Right.

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